New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography, Volume II, Part 1

Author: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: [New York] : New York Tribune
Number of Pages: 1094


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NEW YORK STATE'S PROMINENT AND PROGRESSIVE MEN


AN ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF CONTEMPORANEOUS BIOGRAPHY


COMPILED BY MITCHELL C. HARRISON


VOLUME II


NEW YORK TRIBUNE 1900


Copyright, 1900, by THE TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION


THE DE VINNE PRESS


CONTENTS


PAGE


GEORGE CURTIS AUSTIN


1


JULES SEMON BACHE


3


MILO MERRICK BELDING


5


ROBERT DEWEY BENEDICT 7


WILLIAM HENRY BENNETT


9


CHARLES HILDRETH BLAIR


12


H. K. BLOODGOOD


14


HUGO BLUMENTHAL


16


ALFRED P. BOLLER


18


ALBERT C. BOSTWICK


21


ELMER FRANCIS BOTSFORD


24


JOSEPH BENJAMIN BOWDEN


26


MATTHEW P. BREEN .


28


GEORGE ALEXANDER BROWN


30


STEWART BROWNE


32


J. HULL BROWNING 34


CHARLES CORNELIUS BULL 36


38


HENRY L. BURNETT 40


LYMAN SATTERLEE BURNHAM .


42


J. ADRIANCE BUSH .


44


JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN


48


HIRAM CALKINS


51


DELANO CHIPMAN CALVIN


53


JOHN CASTREE


55 57


JAMES SULLIVAN CLARKSON


59


ELMORE FRANK COE .


61


ELMORE HOLLOWAY COE 63


CHARLES A. COLLIN .


66


ROLAND RAY CONKLIN 68


WILLIAM WILSON COOK 71


FREDERICK GLEASON CORNING


73


EDWARD FRANKLIN CRAGIN


75


SILAS CHAPMAN CROFT


77


EDWIN ALLEN CRUIKSHANK


79


JAMES EDGAR BULL


MCCOSKRY BUTT . 46


WARD BRYAN CHAMBERLIN .


CONTENTS


PAGE


CHARLES CURIE


81


ENOCH HENRY CURRIER


83


GEORGE MILTON CURTIS


JOHN DANE, JR .. 86


89


WESTMORELAND D. DAVIS


91


JOHN WATTS DE PEYSTER


93


FREDERIC JEWETT DIETER


101


A. J. DITTENHOEFER .


103


ARTHUR PILLSBURY DODGE


105


ROBERT PARKER DOREMUS


107


ORLANDO PORTER DORMAN


109


J. HAMPDEN DOUGHERTY .


111


JOHN F. DOYLE


114


HORACE E. DRESSER


116


ANDREW DUTCHER .


118


NEWMAN ERB 122


FRANK HARVEY FIELD 124


BENEDICKT FISCHER


126


R. C. FLOWER


128


JOHN FOX .


130


ROBERT MASON FULLER, M. D.


132


LIVINGSTON GIFFORD .


134


HENRY AUGUSTUS GLASSFORD


136


HENRY ALOYSIUS GUMBLETON


138


FRANK LORENZO HALL 140


LEWIS A. HALL .


142


HAMILTON HARRIS


144


EDWIN ALONZO HARTSHORN


146


CHARLES WALDO HASKINS


148


WILLIAM HAUBENNESTEL


150


ARCHIBALD C. HAYNES .


152


JOB ELMER HEDGES


154


JOHN LINDSAY HILL


156


WELCOME GEER HITCHCOCK


158


HECTOR MORISON HITCHINGS .


160


THOMAS DOYLE HOOPER


162


ADOLPH C. HOTTENROTH


164


JOHN WESLEY HOUSTON


166


JESSE HOYT. 168


170


GEORGE BREEDON HULME


172


ALBERT GALLATIN HYDE .


175


EDWARD CLARENCE JONES


177


EDWARD K. JONES . 179


JOHN ADOLPHUS KAMPING 181


GEORGE ALEXANDER KESSLER 183


ALEXANDER PHOENIX KETCHUM . 185


EDGAR KETCHUM


187


CHARLES I. HUDSON


CHARLES PHILIP EASTON 120


CONTENTS


CAMILLUS GEORGE KIDDER


PAGE


ALFRED WATTS KIDDLE


191


J. PARKER KIRLIN


HENRY KNOX 193


195


GEORGE ISAAC LANDON


197


ALFRED PALMER LASHER


199


NEWBURY DAVENPORT LAWTON


201


THEODORE EDWARD LEEDS


203


CLARENCE LEXOW


207


THOMAS M. LOGAN


209


HENRY D. MCCORD


211


ABNER MCKINLEY


213


THOMAS MANNING


217


PHILIP MAURO .


219


HENRY JAMES MAYER


221


HENRY MELVILLE


223


MAURICE B. MENDHAM


225


ISRAEL JOHN MERRITT


227


LEWIS HENRY MEYER


229


FRANK EBENEZER MILLER


232


JOHN MURRAY MITCHELL .


235


FRANCIS JOSEPH MOLLOY


237


ROBERT CLARK MORRIS


239


WALDO GRANT MORSE .


241


CHARLES COLEMAN NADAL


244


HAROLD NATHAN


246


JAMES SCOTT NEGLEY


248


HENRY NEWMAN .


251


LUDWIG NISSEN


257


SILAS SADLER PACKARD


259


ALBRECHT PAGENSTECHER


263


ANDREW J. PERRY


265


EDWIN MAIN POST


267


AUGUSTUS PRENTICE


271


ANTON ADOLPH RAVEN


274


CHARLES H. RAYMOND


276


BRADFORD RHODES


278


JOHN LAWRENCE RIKER


280


SETH BANISTER ROBINSON


285


EDWARD LEIGHTON ROGERS


287


WILLIAM H. ROWE


289


WILLIAM H. ROWE, JR.


292


JACOB RUPPERT


295


WILLIAM WATSON NILES


254


WILLIAM CHURCH OSBORN


261


FRANK D. PAVEY


269


WILLIAM AUGUSTUS REDDING


189


FRANKLIN LEONARD


205


CHARLES WILLIAM MACKEY


215


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CONTENTS


PAGE


JACOB RUPPERT, JR. .


297


LEWIS ALBERT SAYRE


299


ALFRED FREDERICK SELIGSBERG


302


FREDERICK SEYMOUR . 304


NEWTON MELMAN SHAFFER 306


WILLIAM F. SHEEHAN 310


HENRY SIEGEL


312


ALEXANDER J. C. SKENE .


314


AUGUSTUS KELLOGG SLOAN


316


FRANK SULLIVAN SMITH 318


ST. CLAIR SMITH 320


THOMAS GUILFORD SMITH


322


HERBERT CROMMELIN SMYTH


325


ARTHUR WILLIAM SOPER 327


ALBERT GOODWILL SPALDING .


331


CHARLES HERMANN STEINWAY 333


335


THOMAS STURGIS


337


EDWARD ARTHUR SUMNER


340


EDWARD THOMPSON


342


JOHN QUINCY UNDERHILL 344


346


ARTHUR EDOUARD VALOIS


348


CHARLES HENRY VAN BUREN


350


JOHN RUFUS VAN WORMER


352


EGBERT L. VIELE


354


WILLIAM BELL WAIT


356


ALEXANDER WALKER


359


ALBERT H. WALKER


361


HENRY CLAY WARD


363


THOMAS LISTER WATT


365


EDWIN HENRY WEATHERBEE


369


FRANCIS LEWIS WELLMAN


371


CHARLES HAIN WERNER .


373


THOMAS PARMELEE WICKES


375


RAMON O. WILLIAMS


377


CHARLES T. WILLS


381


FRANCIS H. WILSON


383


JOHN SERGEANT WISE


385


PETER MANUEL WISE


387


BENJAMIN WRIGHT


389


CHARLES CRAWFORD STEVENSON


GEORGE URBAN, JR.


konge B. Austin.


GEORGE CURTIS AUSTIN


"THE State of Pennsylvania was largely settled by the so- called Scotch-Irish from Ulster, and by Germans, and many families of the present day are blendings of these two strains. Such is the case with George Curtis Austin, who was born at Saluvia, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, on July 19, 1863. His father, Rowland Austin, was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, his forefathers having come from Ulster, and his mother, Elizabeth Bohn Austin, was of German extraction.


The subject of this sketch was prepared for college at local schools, and then was sent to Lafayette College, at Easton, Penn- sylvania, where he was graduated with the class of 1885. Then he came to New York and entered the Law School of Columbia University, where he was graduated in 1887.


Soon after receiving his degree at Columbia, Mr. Austin was admitted to the practice of his chosen profession at the bar of New York, and entered the office of Turner, Lee & McClure. There he remained until 1893, when he became a member of the firm of Seward, Gutherie, Morawetz & Steele. For the last few years he has been practising law alone.


His natural ability and his careful college training made Mr. Austin from the first a notable figure at the bar, and placed him by the side of many men of more years and wider experience. He has been engaged as counsel in various important cases, and is now the counsel for the Manhattan State Hospital. He has also been an instructor in the law of contracts at the New York Law School.


A few years ago he became actively interested in politics, as a Republican, and in 1895 was nominated for Assemblyman from a city district. He made a vigorous campaign, and was elected


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over his Tammany Hall opponent by more than fifteen hun- dred majority. In the ensuing session of the Legislature he was made chairman of the committee on the affairs of cities, and in that place did valuable service. He was also a member of the claims committee.


With such a record in campaign and Legislature, Mr. Austin was naturally a candidate for reelection in the fall of 1896. He was successful by a majority of more than four thousand. With such indorsement from his constituents he went to Albany at the beginning of 1897 prepared to take a more conspicuous part in legislation than before. As was fitting, he paid his chief atten- tion to matters affecting the welfare of New York city, framing and introducing many bills for the promotion of its welfare and securing the enactment of some of them into laws. Thus it was he who introduced the bill providing a new charter for the con- solidated city comprising the former New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Staten Island, and other communities. He also in- troduced the bills providing for the extension of Riverside Drive northward, for the new Hall of Records, for a court-house for the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, for the incorpora- tion of the New York Law School, for the foundation of the New York Public Library, for the appropriation of ten million dollars for public schools, and twenty-five hundred thousand dollars for high schools, the Reform School Bill, the Special Jury Law, and appropriations for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amer- ican Museum of Natural History, New York Botanical Society, and New York Zoological Society.


In college Mr. Austin was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsi- lon Fraternity and the Washington Literary Society. He is now a member of the Bar Association, the Republican Club of New York, and the Colonial, Lawyers', Delta Kappa Epsilon, and West Side Republican clubs.


He was married on October 8, 1889, at Watkins, New York, to Miss Harriet J. Newman of that place, and they have one child, a daughter, named Wilhelmine.


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JULES SEMON BACHE


MONG the soldiers in Napoleon's Grand Army, which made the disastrous retreat from Moscow, was a Hebrew named Joel Bach, who survived the horrors of the campaign, though with feet so frozen that amputation was necessary. He was a native of Fürth, Bavaria, and there his son, Semon Bach, be- came a prosperous manufacturer. In 1843 he came to this country, and ultimately became the head of one of the largest houses in the country dealing in mirrors and glass of all kinds. On the advice of an uncle he added a final e to his name, put- ting it into its present form. He died in 1891, leaving several children, one of his sons continuing in the glass business and another becoming a banker and broker. It is with the latter we are now concerned.


Jules Semon Bache was born in this city on May 9, 1861, and was educated at first at the well-known Charlier Institute, in this city, and afterward at Frankfort, Germany. His first busi- ness experience was acquired in his father's office, where he got valuable training and was well grounded in sound principles. He remained there from 1876 to 1879. Then he decided to en- gage in the business of a banker and broker, and for that purpose secured a place in the office of Leopold Cohn & Co., on Wall Street. There he remained year after year, steadily rising in im- portance to the house, until, on January 1, 1892, the firm was reorganized under the style of Jules S. Bache & Co., with Mr. Cohn as special partner.


Under Mr. Bache's headship this firm has achieved great suc- cess. It now has branches in Albany, Troy, Philadelphia, Balti- more, Washington, New Orleans, Montreal, and Liverpool. Its standing and reputation are therefore not merely national but


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international. Mr. Bache is vice-president of the American Spirits Manufacturing Company, which was reorganized in 1895 with thirty-five million dollars capital stock and two million dollars in bonds; president of the Chicago Electric Traction Company ; director of the Spirits Distributing Company ; vice- president of the Central Traction of St. Louis; vice-president of the Economy Gas Lamp Company of Kansas City ; director and chairman of the board of the Detroit and Northern Railway Company; director of the Anniston City Land Company ; and director and chairman of the finance committee of the American Union Life Insurance Company. In 1896 he was a member of the reorganization committee of the Oregon Improvement Com- pany. His firm was largely instrumental in the reorganization of the Glucose Sugar Refining Company, which was effected in 1897, with a capital stock of forty million dollars.


Mr. Bache is a member of the New York Club, the Suburban Riding and Driving Club, the Liederkranz Society, the Trans- portation Club, the Merchants' Association, and the New York Stock, Produce, Cotton, and Coffee Exchanges, the Philadelphia and Chicago Stock Exchanges, and the New Orleans and Liver- pool Cotton Exchanges.


He was married, in 1892, to Miss Florence Scheftel, daughter of Adolph Scheftel, one of the foremost leather merchants of this city, and has two daughters, named Hazel and Kathryn. He has a handsome house at No. 8 East Sixty-seventh Street, in this city, and a country-seat in the beautiful suburban village of Tarrytown, on the Hudson, called Ardsdale Manor. In the Adi- rondacks he has, on the shore of Saranac Lake, a fine place called Camp Winona. He is a prominent member of the Saranac As- sociation, which has done a great work in the improvement of that part of the Adirondacks.


MILO MERRICK BELDING


THE Belding family is an old New England one, which was planted at Wethersfield, Connecticut, about 1640, by William Belding of Baylden Court, Yorkshire, England. His descendants settled the Connecticut River valley, in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and some of them in time found their way up into the Berkshire Hills of the latter State. Among these were Samuel Belding, who settled in the Berkshires long before the Revolution. His son, John Belding, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and the latter's son, Hiram Belding, was a prosperous farmer, merchant, and school-teacher at Ashfield, Massachusetts. Upon his farm was built the first house in Ash- field, which venerable edifice is still in existence.


Milo Merrick Belding is the son of Hiram Belding, and was born in the old homestead at Ashfield, on April 3, 1833. He worked on the farm, when he became old enough to do so, and attended the local district school. Later he attended the Shel- burne Falls Academy, and there completed his schooling. At the age of seventeen he went into business, and was until 1858 in the employ of a firm at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Then he opened an establishment on his own account.


His father and two brothers removed to Michigan, in 1858, and Mr. Belding's first independent business was sending them in- voices of silks. That was the beginning of the great silk busi- ness which now extends all over the continent and with which Mr. Belding's name is identified as the head. In five years he established a silk-house in Chicago. Two years later a house was opened in New York city. In 1866 a silk-mill was built at Rockville, Connecticut, and in 1874 a larger one at Northampton, Massachusetts. Then the town of Belding, Michigan, was


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founded by Mr. Belding and his brothers, and another mill was built there. At present the firm has five mills in different parts of the country, and offices in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, St. Paul, and San Francisco. The firm employs more than three thousand people, with an output of two thousand five hundred pounds of finished silk per day, and its town of Belding, Michigan, has more than five thousand inhabitants.


Great as this silk business is, it has by no means monopo- lized Mr. Belding's attention. He is president of the Livonia Salt and Mining Company, and of the St. Lawrence Marble Company of Gouveneur, New York. He has large timber and mining interests in North Carolina and Tennessee, and an extensive ranch in Montana. He was one of the organizers and first president of the Commonwealth Fire Insurance Com- pany, and is president of the American Union Life Insurance Company. He is also very largely interested in the Betry Salt Mining Company, the largest salt-mine in the country.


Mr. Belding is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, the American Geographical Society, the Order of the Sons of the Revolution, the Order of Patriots and Founders of America, the Silk Association, and the Colo- nial and Merchants' Central clubs of New York.


He was married, in 1858, to Miss Emily C. Leonard, daughter of William Leonard of Ashfield, Massachusetts, a descendant of Noadiah Leonard, who fought at Bunker Hill and was a captain in the Revolutionary army. Mrs. Belding's mother was Almira A. Day, a member of an old New England family. Mr. and Mrs. Belding have one son, Milo M. Belding, Jr., who mar- ried Miss Anne Kirk, daughter of Daniel Kirk of Belfast, Ire- land, and is now in business with his father.


The New York home of the Beldings is in West Seventy- second Street, near Central Park, and their summer home is on the old farm at Ashfield, Massachusetts.


ROBERT DEWEY BENEDICT


"THE names of Benedict and Dewey are both well known in American history, in both early and later times. At this day there is perhaps none more potent to conjure with than that of Dewey of Vermont. Wherefore, a man who bears the family name of Dewey, and who is a native of the Green Mountain State, becomes on that account alone, if for no other, worthy of more than passing notice. We shall find, however, that there are other circumstances which commend him to our attention.


"In the good old colony days " there came to this country from the storied land of Nottinghamshire, England, one Thomas Benedict. He settled here in 1638, and his descendants were well identified with the growth of the New England colonies. In the seventh generation of direct descent from him was George Wyllys Benedict, who was for many years a member of the faculty of the University of Vermont at Burlington, and after- ward editor of the "Burlington Free Press," perhaps the fore- most newspaper in that State.


Five years before Thomas Benedict arrived, Thomas Dewey came over, also from England, and settled at Dorchester, Mas- sachusetts. For a time he and his descendants were identified with the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Later they migrated westward to Vermont, which was then not an independent colony, but claimed partly by New York and partly by Massa- chusetts. Like the Benedicts, the Deweys contributed much to the growth of Vermont, and to its development into a sovereign State. In the seventh generation from the original Thomas Dewey was Eliza Dewey, who became the wife of Professor George Wyllys Benedict, already mentioned.


To this couple was born, at Burlington, on October 3, 1828, a


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son,- their third,- to whom, in anticipation of his possession of the sterling qualities of both branches of the family, they gave the name of Robert Dewey Benedict, and then set out to make him, by education and training, worthy of the names. He was well instructed at home and in the best schools, and was finally graduated from the University of Vermont in the class of 1848.


Mr. Benedict then came to the metropolis, and was a school- teacher in Brooklyn for two years. He also studied law in the office of his uncle, Erastus C. Benedict, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He became his uncle's partner, and practised law with him until the latter's death in 1880, since which time he has continued the business, giving special attention to admiralty law. He is considered to-day to be the foremost authority in the United States on admiralty cases, he having edited the third edition of "Benedict's Admiralty," the former editions having been the work of his uncle. He was connected with the "New York Times" as law reporter and editorial writer from its foundation to the death of Henry J. Raymond. For five years he was president of the Board of Elections in Brooklyn. He is a director of the Lawyers' Surety Company ; president of the Gates Avenue Homeopathic Dispensary, Brook- lyn; a trustee of the Adelphi College and Academy since 1869, and of the Central Congregational Church since 1882; a prize commissioner of the port of New York since 1885; a member of the Hamilton Club; a member of the college fraternity of Sigma Phi, and president of its incorporated society ; a member of the New England Society of Brooklyn, and its president in 1893-94, and a director since 1890; president of the Brooklyn Society of Vermonters in 1891-92, and president of the Republican League of Brooklyn in 1896. He received the degree of M. A. in 1851, and that of LL. D. in 1891, from the University of Vermont. Mr. Benedict was married, on March 2, 1854, to Frances A. Weaver of Winooski Falls, Vermont, and has two sons and a daughter.


WILLIAM HENRY BENNETT


THE legendary "British lion" has well been said to have his realization in the metaphorical "dogs of Devon." The latter phrase has long been historic. The strength of the mastiff and the unyielding courage and persistence of the bulldog are typical of the spirit of Devonshire men, who, in many a crucial encounter, have proved themselves a bulwark of the British throne and of the Anglo-Saxon race. It was "men of Bide- ford in Devon" who, when assailed by overwhelming numbers of foemen,


. . shook 'em off as a dog that shakes his ears When he leaps from the water to the land.


Whether in martial guise bound "Westward ho!" from Bide- ford, or from Plymouth seeking "freedom to worship God," the men of Devon have unerringly reached their goal and made their mark.


It was in Devonshire that the Bennett family had its rise, and that it long dwelt and developed the characteristics that made for high success in every lawful undertaking. Thence some of its members removed to Scotland, to be imbued with the sturdy virtues of that land of freedom. Another removal took them to the north of Ireland, where, amid the heroic traditions of Lon- donderry, so masterful a race has been evolved, and one that has given so much to the upbuilding of the American republic. Finally, about a hundred years ago, it was transplanted to these shores. The first comers made their home in the upper part of the Hudson valley in Albany, Rensselaer, and Schoharie coun- ties in New York State. There the Bennett family soon became fully acclimated, socially and politically, and became even more intimately incorporated into the commonwealth through inter-


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marriages with the families of Ross, Stewart, Cooper, Douglass, Smith, and others already settled there.


In the last generation Thomas Bennett was a prominent caterer and hotel manager of this city. To him and his wife, Susan S. Bennett, the subject of this sketch, William Henry Bennett, was born on April 17, 1852. Their home, his birth- place, was in what is now known as the "lower East Side," to wit, Forsyth Street, then a fine and attractive neighborhood. The boy was sent to the public schools, where he showed a studious disposition and ranked as an admirable scholar. From these he was in due time graduated to the institution then known as the Free Academy, and now as the College of the City of New York. In the latter he acquired thorough instruction in the classics, modern languages, and sciences, and the general culture and discipline of a college man. Finally he turned his attention to maritime affairs, and received instruction in various naval schools in foreign lands.


Mr. Bennett's first business engagement was with the Western Union Telegraph Company. On leaving that company, he went to the West, and spent some time steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Next he traveled through Texas and various Territories, speculating in the cattle trade. When the mining fever broke out in the Black Hills, in 1874, he hastened thither and took part in that famous "boom." His checkered career next took him to San Francisco, whence he sailed to foreign climes aboard a British clipper-ship. Three years later he had command of a steamer in foreign service. Most of his time was spent in China and Japan, but he was soon called thence by the war between Russia and Turkey, in which he volunteered as a naval officer. From that struggle he came back to the western hemisphere, and took part in various conflicts in the South American states. He secured, in this wandering career, the highest certificates in the American, British, and other mercan- tile marines, as well as a number of naval commissions, and acquired probably a wider reputation abroad than at home.


Since 1884 Mr. Bennett has been settled in his native country and city, prosperously engaged in the business of a steamship agent and broker, which is, of course, particularly congenial to his tastes, and for which he has a particularly complete equip-


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ment. He is at this time senior partner of the firm of Bennett, Walsh & Co. He confidently claims to have made more con- tracts for building or time-chartering steamships than any man in this country, and to have made not a single failure. His firm has at the present moment between two hundred and three hundred steamships under time charter alone, and boasts that it has never lost a dollar for a client, nor borrowed nor owed a man a dollar.


Such a career has surely been sufficiently varied, adventurous, and picturesque for any son of old Devonshire. It involved the making and spending of several handsome fortunes, and innu- merable experiences on land and sea that would fill a volume in their telling, and would sound more like tales of romantic fiction than the plain record of a practical nineteenth-century man of affairs. Throughout it all Mr. Bennett has maintained the sturdy independence and unfailing integrity which we are wont to associate with the race from which he is sprung. At the present time, in full success, his work is apparently by no means near its ending, but gives promise of still further achievements of profit to himself and of benefit to the community of which he is a part.


Mr. Bennett is now a stock-holder in various steamship lines. He is also actively interested, in both proprietary and managerial capacities, in the fruit trade, he having been prominent in bring- ing the fruit importers of this country together in the United Fruit Company. He has had no time to take any active interest in political affairs, though his services as a naval officer materi- ally affected the politics of more than one foreign land.




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