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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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