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NEW YORK STATE'S PROMINENT AND PROGRESSIVE MEN
AN ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF CONTEMPORANEOUS BIOGRAPHY
COMPILED BY MITCHELL C. HARRISON
VOLUME I
NEW YORK TRIBUNE 1900
Copyright, 1900, by THE TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION
THE DE VINNE PRESS
CONTENTS
EDWARD DEAN ADAMS .
1
JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER
3
HENRY B. ANDERSON
5
AVERY DE LANO ANDREWS .
9
CLARENCE DEGRAND ASHLEY
12
JOHN JACOB ASTOR
18
WILLIAM ASTOR .
21
WILLIAM DELAVAN BALDWIN
23
WILLIAM HENRY BALDWIN, JR.
25
AMZI LORENZO BARBER
27
GEORGE CARTER BARRETT
29
JOHN RICHARD BARTLETT
33
HENRY RUTGERS BEEKMAN
35
HENRY BISCHOFF, JR.
37
JAMES ARMSTRONG BLANCHARD
39
EMIL L. BOAS .
44
FRANK STUART BOND
46
HENRY WELLER BOOKSTAVER
48
SIMON BORG .
53
ALONZO NORMAN BURBANK .
58
JUAN MANUEL CEBALLOS .
62
WILLIAM ASTOR CHANLER
67
HUGH JOSEPH CHISHOLM .
70
WILLIAM NATHAN COHEN
74
BIRD SIM COLER
76
WILLIAM NICHOLS COLER, JR.
80
WASHINGTON EVERETT CONNOR
82
HENRY HARVEY COOK
84
PAUL DRENNAN CRAVATH
GEORGE CROCKER
86
CORNELIUS NEWTON BLISS
42
HENRY PROSPER BOOTH
50
ARCHER BROWN
55
SAMUEL ROGER CALLAWAY
60
WILLIAM BOURKE COCKRAN
72
FRANK W. COLER 78
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CONTENTS
JOSEPH FRANCIS DALY
91
ELLIOT DANFORTH
93
JULIEN TAPPAN DAVIES 95
WILLIAM GILBERT DAVIES
97
CHARLES WILLOUGHBY DAYTON .
100
HENRY WHEELER DE FOREST
102
ROBERT WEEKS DE FOREST
104
RICHARD DELAFIELD .
106
CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW
108
THEODORE LOW DE VINNE .
111
FREDERICK WILLIAM DEVOE
113
WATSON BRADLEY DICKERMAN
115
EDWARD NICOLL DICKERSON
117
JAMES B. DILL
119
LOUIS F. DOYLE .
122
SILAS BELDEN DUTCHER
124
AMOS RICHARDS ENO .
126
JOHN H. FLAGLER
128
CHARLES RANLETT FLINT
130
ROSWELL PETTIBONE FLOWER
133
CHARLES A. GARDINER
135
ISAAC EDWIN GATES .
137
EDWARD NATHAN GIBBS
139
THEODORE GILMAN
142
FRANK J. GOULD
144
GEORGE J. GOULD .
147
SANFORD SHORTER GOWDEY
149
JAMES BEN ALI HAGGIN
151
N. WETMORE HALSEY
155
OLIVER HARRIMAN, JR.
157
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN HARVEY
159
CHARLES HATHAWAY .
161
DANIEL ADDISON HEALD
164
ARTHUR PHILIP HEINZE
166
JAMES WILLIAM HINKLEY
170
EDWARD H. HOBBS
172
EUGENE AUGUSTUS HOFFMAN . 174
F. C. HOLLINS . 176
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JOHN HONE .
180
WILLIAM BUTLER HORNBLOWER
182
HENRY ELIAS HOWLAND
184
COLGATE HOYT 186
THOMAS HAMLIN HUBBARD 188
COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON 191
CLARENCE MELVILLE HYDE . 193
FREDERICK ERASTUS HYDE 195
HENRY BALDWIN HYDE 197
F. AUGUSTUS HEINZE 168
HARRY BOWLEY HOLLINS
CONTENTS
DARWIN R. JAMES
WALTER S. JOHNSTON
201
JAMES ROBERT KEENE 203
ELIJAH ROBINSON KENNEDY 206
HENRY SCANLAN KERR 209
211
ROBERT JACKSON KIMBALL
214
WILLIAM F. KING
216
DARWIN PEARL KINGSLEY
218
PERCIVAL KÜHNE
220
JOHN CAMPBELL LATHAM
222
EDWARD LAUTERBACH
224
LYSANDER WALTER LAWRENCE
226
JAMES D. LAYNG
228
J. EDGAR LEAYCRAFT
231
DAVID LEVENTRITT
233
ADOLPH LEWISOHN
235
LEONARD LEWISOHN
237
RICHARD PURDY LOUNSBERY
241
JOHN AUGUSTINE MCCALL
246
JOHN JAMES MCCOOK
248
THOMAS ALEXANDER MCINTYRE
250
JOHN SAVAGE MCKEON
252
CLARENCE HUNGERFORD MACKAY
256
JOHN WILLIAM MACKAY
258
SYLVESTER MALONE
262
WARNER MILLER
266
DARIUS OGDEN MILLS
272
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
275
LEVI PARSONS MORTON
277
ROBERT FRATER MUNRO
279
WALTER D. MUNSON
281
LEWIS NIXON
283
M. J. O'BRIEN
286
DANIEL O'DAY .
289
ALEXANDER ECTOR ORR
291
NORTON PRENTISS OTIS
293
FRANCIS ASBURY PALMER
295
STEPHEN SQUIRES PALMER
297
WILLIAM FREDERICK PIEL, 300
WINSLOW SHELBY PIERCE 302
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GILBERT MOTIER PLYMPTON
306
EDWARD ERIE POOR
HENRY WILLIAM POOR
308
EDWARD VICTOR LOEW
239
EDWARD E. MCCALL
243
EMERSON MCMILLIN 254
WILLIAM MAHL 260
EBENEZER STURGES MASON .
264
JOHN EDWARD PARSONS
199
CONTENTS
HENRY SMALLWOOD REDMOND
310
ISAAC LEOPOLD RICE
312
THOMAS GARDINER RITCH
314
WILLIAM H. ROBERTSON 316
CHARLES FRANCIS ROE .
318
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
320
ELIHU ROOT
323
HARRY GODLEY RUNKLE
326
HENRY WOODWARD SACKETT
328
RUSSELL SAGE 331
WILLIAM SALOMON
334
EDWARD WILLIAM SCOTT
336
JOHN MARSTON SCRIBNER
338
JOHN ENNIS SEARLES
340
HENRY SEIBERT
343
HENRY SELIGMAN
346
ISAAC NEWTON SELIGMAN
349
HENRY FRANCIS SHOEMAKER 354
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT 356
358
DE WITT SMITH . 360
JOHN SABINE SMITH 363
R. A. C. SMITH
365
FREDERICK SMYTH . 367
ELBRIDGE GERRY SNOW
369
GEORGE HENRY SOUTHARD
371
JAMES SPEYER .
373
JOHN WILLIAM STERLING
375
LISPENARD STEWART . 378
WILLIAM RHINELANDER STEWART
380
JAMES STILLMAN . 382
GAGE ELI TARBELL 385
FRANK TILFORD 387
CHARLES WHITNEY TILLINGHAST
389
CHARLES HARRISON TWEED
391
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
393
ALFRED VAN SANTVOORD 396
ALDACE FREEMAN WALKER 400
JOHN HENRY WASHBURN . 402
WILLIAM IVES WASHBURN 404
WILLIAM HENRY WEBB 40€
CHARLES WHITMAN WETMORE
408
CHARLES WHANN 411
CLARENCE WHITMAN . 414
STEWART LYNDON WOODFORD 416
A. M. YOUNG 418
GEORGE WASHINGTON YOUNG 420
CHARLES STEWART SMITH
PREFACE
"THE history of a modern state is chiefly the history of its prominent and progressive men. Ancient history is starred with the names of monarchs, conquerors, great soldiers, daring adventurers. Only a few great names in industry, commerce, and professional life survive. There is some mention, perhaps, of the vastness of the multitude that composed city or nation ; but of those who really leavened the lump there is little. The mer- chant princes, the captains of industry, the practitioners of law, who contributed so largely to the greatness and glory of olden communities, have vanished as completely from the record as have their shops from the forum and their galleys from the sea.
The latter-day record is more just. Men of thought and men of action win their places as surely and as securely as those who are born to theirs. The truth of Emerson's saying is more and more becoming recognized, that "the true test of civilization is not the census, nor the crops; no, but the kind of man the country turns out." It is quality, not merely quantity or num- bers, that counts. There are to-day plenty of men of political or other distinction, or of vast wealth, known to the world for the reason of those conditions. There is in this closing year of the nineteenth century being taken in the United States a census which will impressively display the aggregated greatness, in numbers and in wealth, of the nation. But "the kind of man the nation turns out "- not the kind of President, or General, or millionaire only, but the kind of average, every-day man in busi-
PREFACE
ness, commercial, industrial, or professional life - is to be shown through other mediums than mere statistics. He is to be shown in the story of his life.
It is the aim of the present work, in this and the succeeding volumes, to set forth the life-records of a considerable and repre- sentative number of the prominent and progressive men of the Empire State of the American Union. They are chosen from ail honorable walks of life, public and private. They represent all political parties, all departments of industry and trade, and the various learned professions which fill so large a place in the social economy of the modern community. Some of them are in afflu- ent and some in moderate financial circumstances. Some of them have finished or are finishing their life-works, and some of them are, seemingly, only upon the thresholds of their careers. There is no intention nor attempt to choose or to compose a class, save as native ability and achieved leadership in affairs may be the characteristics of a class. There are names on the roll that will command instant recognition ; and there are others that may have in these pages their first introduction to the gen- eral public. The one qualification required, which will be found a characteristic of all, is that of such achievement as gives fair title to prominence or to a repute for progress.
A work of this kind is of necessity much like a daily newspaper in at least one respect. It deals with things as they are at the moment of publication, and as they have been down to that time. The next day may materially alter them. Before these pages are all read by those who shall read them, new items may be added to many a record which will be missing from the book. The biographer cannot forecast the future. He can do nothing more than to make his story as complete as possible down to the time when he lays down his pen, and as accurate as possible, with all research and consultation with the subjects of his sketches.
Edward @ Adams
EDWARD DEAN ADAMS
E IDWARD DEAN ADAMS, as his name might indicate, comes of Puritan ancestry, and was born in Boston, on April 9, 1846. He was educated at Chauncey Hall, Boston, and Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, being graduated from the latter in 1864. After two years of travel, chiefly in Europe, he entered the banking business, and has since devoted his life largely to financial enterprises.
His first engagement was, from 1866 to 1870, as bookkeeper and cashier for a firm of bankers and brokers in Boston. In 1870 he assisted in organizing the firm of Richardson, Hill & Co. of Boston, and remained a partner in it until 1878. Then he came to New York and became a partner in the old and honored banking house of Winslow, Lanier & Co. For fifteen years he was a member of that house, and with it participated in many of the most important government, railway, and muni- cipal financial negotiations of the active business period from 1878 to 1893. In the last-named year he retired from the firm to devote his attention to various large properties in which he had become individually interested.
While in the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co., Mr. Adams paid especial attention to railroad construction and reorganization enterprises. Thus he organized, in 1882-83, the Northern Pacific Terminal Company, and became its president. In 1883 he organized the St. Paul and Northern Pacific Railway Company, provided its capital, and served as vice-president. In 1885 he organized and constructed the New Jersey Junction Railroad, and planned the reorganization of the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway, the New York, Ontario and Western Railway, and the West Shore and Ontario Terminal Company, and in the
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following year his plans were exactly executed. In 1887 he res- cued the New Jersey Central Railroad from a receivership, and in 1888 marketed the new issue of bonds of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. The American Cotton Oil Trust was rescued from bankruptcy by him in 1890, and in that same year he be- came president of the Cataract Construction Company, at Niagara Falls. Finally, in 1893, he became chairman of the reorganiza- tion committee of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He is now a prominent officer of the American Cotton Oil Company, the Cataract Construction Company, the Central and South Ameri- can Telegraph Company, the West Shore Railroad, and the New Jersey Central Railroad.
While some men have gained prominence and fortune as "rail- road-wreckers," and as the destroyers of other enterprises for their selfish gain, it has been Mr. Adams's happier distinction to save industrial enterprises from wreck, and to restore them to prosperity. Thus he saved the American Cotton Oil Company from what seemed certainly impending bankruptcy, and played a leading part in reorganizing the West Shore Railroad Company, so as to rescue it from danger and make it the substantial concern it now is. His services to the New Jersey Central Railroad Com- pany were of the highest order, involving the taking it out of a receiver's hands and putting it upon its present solvent and profitable basis. To the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, and to more than a few others, he has rendered valu- able services on similar lines. It has been his business mission to build rather than to tear down, to create rather than to de- stroy. This admirable feature of his career has on several occa- sions been formally recognized by his associates and by those whose interests he has benefited.
Mr. Adams was married, in 1872, to Miss Fannie A. Gutter- son of Boston, and has a son and a daughter. He is promi- nently connected with the National Academy of Design, Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Fine Arts Society, and American Society of Civil Engineers, and is a member of the Union League, Metropolitan, City, Players', Lawyers', Tuxedo, Riding, and Grolier clubs, and the New England Society, of New York, and the Chicago Club of Chicago.
JamesWallerandin
JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER
F OR many years one of the foremost preachers, teachers, and writers of the Presbyterian Church in the United States was the Rev. Dr. James Waddel Alexander, who was pastor of leading churches in New York city and elsewhere, a professor in Princeton College, editor of the "Presbyterian," and author of more than thirty religious books. He was a son of the Rev. Dr. Archibald Alexander of Princeton College, and, on his mother's side, a grandson of the "blind preacher," James Wad- del, who was made famous by William Wirt. Dr. Alexander married Miss Elizabeth C. Cabell, a member of the historic Virginia family of that name, of English origin. His own family was of Scotch-Irish origin, and was first settled in this country in Virginia.
James Waddel Alexander, the second of the name, was born to the fore-mentioned couple at Princeton, New Jersey, on July 19, 1839, his father being at that time professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres at the college there. He was educated at home and in various preparatory schools, and finally at Princeton Col- lege, being in the third generation of his family identified with that institution. On the completion of his academic course he adopted the law as his profession, and, after due study, was ad- mitted to the New York bar and entered upon practice in this city. He was a partner in the firm of Cummins, Alexander & Green.
In the year 1866 Mr. Alexander became actively identified with the vast business of life-insurance. He had already paid much attention to it in a professional way, and was particularly attracted to it through the fact that his uncle, William C. Alex- ander, was president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of
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New York, one of the foremost institutions of the kind in the world. In 1866, then, he became secretary of the Equitable, and thereafter gave to that great corporation a large share of his labor and thought, with mutually profitable results. His aptitude for the business showed itself, and was recognized presently in his promotion to the office of second vice-president. From that place he was again promoted to the office of vice-president, which he still occupies with eminent satisfaction. To his earnest labors and far-seeing and judicious policy, in conjunction with those of his associates, is largely due the unsurpassed prosperity of the Equitable.
But Mr. Alexander has not permitted even that great corpo- ration to monopolize his attention. He has found time and strength to look after various other business affairs, some of them of the highest importance. He is thus a director of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, of the Mercantile Trust Company, and of the Western National Bank, of this city.
Mr. Alexander has held no political office, and has not figured conspicuously in party management. He has long taken, how- ever, a deep interest in the welfare of State and nation, as a citizen loyally and intelligently fulfilling the duties of citizen- ship. He has ever been a loyal son of his Alma Mater, the great university with which his father and his grandfather were so conspicuously identified, and has given to Princeton ungrudg- ingly, and to excellent purpose, his time, his labor, his means, and his influence.
Mr. Alexander is at the present time president of the Univer- sity Club, and a member of the Century, Metropolitan, University, Athletic, Lawyers', and Princeton clubs, of New York. He was married, in 1864, to Elizabeth Beasley of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a daughter of Benjamin Williamson, formerly Chancellor of the State of New Jersey. They have three children, as follows: ,Elizabeth, wife of John W. Alexander, the well-known artist, now resident in Paris, France; Henry Martyn Alexander, Jr., a prominent lawyer, of the firm of Alexander & Colby, of New York ; and Frederick Beasley Alexander, who is at this time (1900) an undergraduate at Princeton University, in the fourth genera- tion of his family in that venerable seat of learning.
Henry B. anderson.
HENRY B. ANDERSON
T THE name of Anderson is evidently derived from Andrew's son, or the son of Andrew, and as St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, we may expect to find those who bear this name to be of Scottish ancestry. Such, at any rate, is the fact concerning Henry Burrall Anderson. His line is to be traced centuries back, among the men who made Scotland the sturdy, enlightened, and liberty-loving land it is. In colonial days some of its members came to this country and established themselves in New England, where they contributed no small measure to the growth of the colonies and their ultimate development into States and members of this nation.
The branch of the family with which we are now concerned was settled several generations ago in Maine. Two generations ago the Rev. Rufus Anderson was one of the foremost divines of that commonwealth. His home was at North Yarmouth. He was an alumnus of Dartmouth College, and a man of rare scholarship and culture. For thirty-four years he was secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and for a much longer period than that he was noted as a trav- eler, writer, lecturer, and preacher. He died in 1880, as full of honors as of years.
A son of the Rev. Rufus Anderson was Henry Hill Anderson. He was born in the city of Boston in 1827. He was educated at Williams College, and was graduated there in the class of 1848. Selecting the law as his profession, he came to New York city to study it and afterward to engage in the practice of it. For many years he was one of the foremost members of the New York bar, and was prominent in other business matters and in social affairs. He was one of the founders, and for nine years
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the first president, of the University Club of New York. He married Miss Sarah B. Burrall, a daughter of William P. Burrall of Hartford, Connecticut, and made his home in Gramercy Park, New York city. He died at York Harbor, Maine, in 1896.
The eldest son of Henry Hill Anderson was born in this city in 1863, and was named, after his parents, Henry Burrall Ander- son. After a careful preparation he was sent to Yale University, and was graduated there in the class of 1885. Following the example of his father, he turned his attention to the legal pro- fession, and came to this city to study for it. In due time he was admitted to the bar, and became a member of the firm of Anderson, Howland & Murray, of which his father was the head. His attention has since been given with marked earnestness to the practice of his profession, and in it he has already achieved marked success, with ample promise of succeeding to his father's conspicuous rank.
Mr. Anderson has not yet held political office of any kind, though he takes an earnest interest in all that should concern a loyal citizen. He is a member of the University Club, of which his father was first president, and also of the New York and City clubs. He is married to Marie, daughter of Joseph La- rocque, the eminent New York lawyer.
Leaving the old family home on Gramercy Park, he has moved up-town to East Fifty-seventh Street, and there founded a new home of his own. His summer residence is in the delightful suburb of Great Neck, Long Island.
It may be added that his two younger brothers, William Burrall Anderson and Chandler P. Anderson, followed him at Yale, in the classes of 1886 and 1887 respectively, and then came on to New York and engaged likewise in the practice of law. They are both members of the University Club, perpetuating in that organization the name and memory of its first president, and the elder of them abides at the old home on Gramercy Park.
Avery D Andrene
AVERY DE LANO ANDREWS
H "ANNIBAL ANDREWS, merchant, of St. Lawrence County, New York, was of English stock, first settled in this country in Vermont. His wife, Harriet De Lano, was, as her name indicates, of French descent, her first American ancestor having been Philip de la Noye, who landed in New England in 1621, and Captain Jonathan De Lano of New Bed- ford, Massachusetts, having been her grandfather. To them was born at Massena, St. Lawrence County, New York, on April 4, 1864, a son, to whom they gave the name of Avery De Lano Andrews. They sent him to the local Union Free School for a time, and then he became clerk in a village store. Next he was, while under sixteen years of age, sole proprietor of a small job printing-office, the only one within a radius of ten miles. In 1881-82 he attended Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, Massa- chusetts, and then (1882) secured an appointment to a cadet- ship at West Point by passing a competitive examination at Ogdensburg, ordered by the Hon. Amasa X. Parker.
Mr. Andrews was graduated at West Point in 1886, as No. 14 in a class of seventy-seven members, and on July 1 of that year was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of United States Artillery. He served in that capacity until September, 1889, when he was ordered to Washington as an aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Schofield, commanding the United States army, and filled that place until shortly before November, 1893, when he resigned his commission and returned to civil life. He had been made first lieutenant on November 28, 1892. While stationed at Washington he found time to pur- sue an evening law course at the Columbian University there, and then, in 1891-93, at the New York Law School in this city,
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in which latter school he was a prize tutor in 1892-94. After resigning from the army he entered upon the practice of the legal profession in this city, in the firm of Wells & Andrews, with which he is still connected. He is general counsel for the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, the National Contracting Company, and several other large corporations.
Mr. Andrews was, when only thirty years of age, appointed by Mayor Strong a police commissioner of New York city, and served in that office from February 13, 1895, to January 1, 1898, being treasurer of the department while Colonel Roosevelt was president. His performance of the duties of the commissioner- ship was of the most admirable character, entitling him to the gratitude of the city.
Mr. Andrews's military career did not end with his resignation from the United States army. He was appointed, on November 10, 1893, major and engineer on the staff of General Fitzgerald of the First Brigade, National Guard of New York, and served until February 2, 1898. On March 21, 1898, he became com- mander of Squadron A, N. G. N. Y., the famous cavalry organi- zation of New York city. On the outbreak of the war with Spain his services were tendered to the national government, and from May 9, 1898, he was lieutenant-colonel of United States Volunteers. On January 1, 1899, he became adjutant-general of the State of New York and chief of staff to Governor Roose- velt, with the rank of brigadier-general.
Mr. Andrews is a member of the Century, University, Law- yers', Reform, and Church clubs, and the Bar Association of New York, the Army and Navy Club of Washington, and the Fort Orange Club of Albany. He was married, on Governor's Island, New York, on September 27, 1888, to Miss Mary Camp- bell Schofield, only daughter of Lieutenant-General Schofield, U. S. A. They have now two children, Schofield Andrews, aged nine years, and De Lano Andrews, aged five.
Clarence D. Ashley
CLARENCE DEGRAND ASHLEY
TN scarcely any respect is New York city more the metropolis of the nation than in that of law. Hither flock aspiring practitioners from all parts of the land, hoping to win distinction in practice in the courts, as well as fortune in profitable practice. Nowhere is the competition keener, nowhere are the require- ments of success greater, and nowhere is the success to be attained more marked than here. To this city, too, come hosts of young men to study law and gain admission to the bar. They find here several great schools of world-wide reputation, besides the opportunities of private study in innumerable offices. Of these schools none is more widely or more favorably known than that of New York University. This institution was planned in 1836 by the Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, Attorney-General of the United States, though its full organization was delayed until 1859. Associated with it as professors and lecturers have been many of the most eminent lawyers of the last half-century, and from its halls have emerged, diploma in hand, a veritable army of practitioners, including a goodly share of those now most dis- tinguished at the bar of this and other States.
The present head of the university faculty of law is a man well worthy of his distinguished predecessors. He comes of Puritan ancestry. His forefathers on both sides of the family came from England and settled in Massachusetts soon after the foundation of the latter colony, and were through many genera- tions conspicuously and honorably identified with the develop- ment of the New England States. At the middle of the present century there were living in the ancient Puritan city of Boston one Ossian Doolittle Ashley and Harriet Amelia Ashley, his wife. Mr. Ashley is well known as a successful financier and as
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