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WHITMORE, BENJAMIN THOMAS-Physician, 90 Maiden lane, New York City; residence Hotel Ren- aissance. Born in Charles County, Md., 1851. Educa- ted at Cote Brillante College, St. Louis, Mo., and at Louisville School of Medicine (M.D.). Received de- gree of LL.D. from Manhattan College for his ser- vices to medicine. Connected with the scientific de- partment of Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit, New York and London. Was a member of the surgical staff of the Mullanphy Hospital in St. Louis for nine years, and held the chair of physiology for four years in Cote Brillante College. Has been a frequent contribu- tor to medical literature. Member Drug Trade and Lotos Clubs, Chicago Medical Society and Mississipi Valley Medical, Physicians' Mutual Aid and American Medical Associations.
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WHITMORE, WALTER G .- Engineer, 44 Broad street, New York City; residence 79th street and First avenue, Bay Ridge. Born in Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 21, 1865. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ( Married.) Connected with the General Electric Co. Member New York Electrical Society, Institute of Electrical Engineers (associate), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Asso- ciation.
WHITMYRE, C. L .- Manufacturer, 12 Washington avenue, Schenectady; residence 707 Union street. Born in Germany, May 2, 1838. Educated in Germany. (Single.) Sole owner of the firm of C. Whitmyre & Co. Director Schenectady Bank. Member Mohawk Club.
WHITNEY, ALFRED R. - Manufacturer, 71 Broadway, New York City; residence "Glimpswood Manor," Morristown, N. J. Born in Boston, Mass. (Married.) Senior member of the firm of A. R. Whit- ney & Co., manufacturers of iron and steel. Member Union League Club, New England Society, Metropoli- tan Museuni of Art, National Academy of Design and American Museum of Natural History.
WHITNEY, ALFRED R., JR .- Manufacturer, 71 Broadway, New York City; residence 44 West 44th street. Born in New York City. Educated at Stevens Institute of Technology ('90). (Single.) Connected with the firm of A. R. Whitney & Co., manufacturers of iron and steel. Member University, Union League, New York Yacht and Baltusrol Golf Clubs, New Eng- land Society and Squadron "A," N. G. N. Y.
WHITNEY, CASPAR-Editor, 331 Pearl street, New York City: residence 136 Madison avenue. Born in Baltimore, Md., Sept. 2, 1861. Educated at St. Math- ew's College in California. (Married Cora Chase, 1897.) Associated with the firm of Harper & Brothers, as editor of "Outing" and sporting editor of "Harper's Weekly." Member Larchmont Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, University Athletic, New York Canoe, Oriental Snow Shoe, and Boone and Crockett Clubs.
WHITNEY, CHARLES C. - Life Insurance, 346 Broadway, New York City; residence 260 Garfield place, Brooklyn. Educated at Williams College. Sec- retary New York Life Insurance Co. Member Will- iams College Alumni Association and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WHITNEY, CHARLES S .- Life Insurance, 11 Broadway, New York City; residence 57 West 75th street. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1855. Edu- cated at Lockwood Academy, Brooklyn. (Married.) First vice-president American Union Life Insurance Co. Ex-president Maritime Association of New York City, and Cantata Singing Society of Brooklyn. Mem- ber Union League (president) and Oxford Clubs of Brooklyn, Colonial Club and Colonia Country Club.
WHITNEY, CHARLES W .- Banker and Broker, 331 Madison avenue, New York City; residence 65 South Oxford street, Brooklyn. Born in Brooklyn, Dec. 2, 1869. Educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. (Single.) Manager for Kissam, Whitney & Co. Member Racquet and Tennis and Strollers' Clubs, Nassau Country Club of Glen Cove, L. I., Crescent Athletic and Dyker Meadow Golf Clubs of Brooklyn, Society of Colonial Wars and Sons of the Revolution.
WHITNEY, DRAKE-Retired Civil and Mining Engineer, 335 Buffalo avenue, Niagara Falls. Born in Niagara Falls, Aug. 23, 1843. (Son of Major Solon M. H. Whitney.) Educated at Porter's Academy, Walnut Hill School of Geneva, N. Y., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at University of Göttingen and Freiberg Mining Academy, Germany, and Ecole des Mines, Paris, France. (Married.) Was in Europe, 1865-9; in California, 1870, and in business in Niagara Falls, 1871; retired in 1892. Formerly resident engineer Canada Southern R. R. Co. and assistant engineer Niagara Falls and Clifton Suspension Bridge Co. Member Civic, Veteran and Niagara Frontier Game and Fish Clubs, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Mayflower Descendants, Theta Delta Chi Grad- uates' Club of New York City, and Knights Templar.
WHITNEY, EDWARD B .- Lawyer, 59 Wall street, New York City; residence 351 West 114th street. Born in New Haven. Conn., Aug. 16, 1857. Educated at Yale
('78). (Married.) Member of the firm of Goodrich, Whitney & Hagen. Ex-Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. Member Lawyers', Democratic and Reform Clubs, Century Association and Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
WHITNEY, ELMAR HALE-Insurance, 402 Elli- cott square, Buffalo; residence 147 Lexington avenue. (Married.) Member Buffalo Republican and Buffalo Clubs, Sons of the American Revolution and Buffalo Historical Society.
WHITNEY, HARRY PAYNE -Capitalist, 346 Broadway, New York City; residence 2 West 57th street. (Son of Hon. William Collins Whitney.) Edu- cated at Yale ('94). (Married Gertrude, daughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt.) Commissioner of the Bureau of Municipal Statistics. Director Defender Fire Extinguisher Co., Illinois Electric Vehicle Trans- portation Co., Metropolitan Street R. R. Co., Mount Morris Bank, New York Electric Transportation Co., Plaza Bank and Second Avenue R. R. Co .; trustee Guaranty Trust Co. Member University, Knicker- bocker, New York Yacht, Riding, Racquet and Ten- nis, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Westchester Country and Meadow Brook Hunt Clubs and Metro- politan Museum of Art.
WHITNEY, HENRY M .- Banker and Broker, 35 Wall street, New York City; residence 65 South Ox- ford street, Brooklyn. Born in New York City. Mem- ber of the firm of Kissam, Whitney & Co. and of the New York Stock Exchange. Director Hamilton Trust Co. of Brooklyn, Preferred Accident Insurance Co., and Schermerhorn Bank of Brooklyn; trustee Colonial Trust Co. Member Oxford and Hamilton Clubs of Brooklyn.
WHITNEY, HORACE P .- 66 Beaver street, New York City; residence Yonkers. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1866. Educated at Columbia. (Single.) Member Palisade Boat Club and Columbia University Alumni Association.
WHITNEY, JAMES A .- Lawyer, 256 Broadway, New York City; residence Maryland, Otsego County. Born in Rochester, N. Y., June 30, 1839. (Son of Ama- ziah and Margaret [Taylor] Whitney.) Educated in common schools. Received degree of A.M. from Union College in 1870 and LL.D. from Iowa College in 1880. (Married the only daughter of John W. Copley of Harpersfield, N. Y., 1876.) Served with 39th Regiment, New York Volunteers, during Civil War and advanced to the rank of captain; editor of the "American Arti- san," 1868-72; professor of agricultural chemistry in the American Institute, 1869-72. Established as a pat- ent solicitor in 1872 and was admitted to practice in the United States Circuit Courts in 1876. Author of "The Relations of the Patent Laws to the Develop- ment of Agriculture," "The Chinese and the Chinese Question" and others.
WHITNEY, ROBERT E .- Life Insurance, 100 Broadway, New York City; residence 23 Prospect street, Stamford. Conn. Born in Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 9, 1865. (Married.) General manager Seaboard Department of the New York Life Insurance Co. Member Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, Aurora Grata Consistory, De Witt Clinton Commandery, Kis- met Temple Mystic Shrine and Officers' Veteran As- sociation of the 23d Regiment, N. G. N. Y.
WHITNEY, S. V .- Farmer and Surveyor, Wood- bury. Born March 11. 1821. (Married.) Vice-presi- dent Glen Cove Mutual Insurance Co .; director Hamil- ton Fire Insurance Co. Formerly inspector of elec- tions, assessor and supervisor of the town of Oyster Bay.
WHITNEY, WILLIAM B .- Lawyer, 96 Broadway, New York City; residence 256 West 100th street. Born in New Hampshire, Jan. 10, 1866. Educated at Am- herst College and at Harvard Law School. (Single.) Member Harvard and University Clubs and Associa- tion of the Bar of the City of New York.
WHITNEY, WILLIAM COLLINS-Lawyer and Capitalist, 100 Broadway, New York City; residence 871 Fifth avenue, and Old Westbury, L. I. Born in Conway, Franklin Co., Mass., July 15, 1841. (Son of James S. Whitney.) Educated at Yale (A.B., '63, and LL.D., '88) and at Harvard Law School (LL.B., '65).
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Was admitted to the Bar and engaged in practice in New York City. (Widower.) Inspector of schools in New York City, 1872; corporation counsel, 1875-82; Sec- retary of the Navy of the United States in the Cabinet of President Cleveland, 1885-9. Director Christopher and Tenth Streets R. R. Co., Morton Trust Co., Na- tional Union Bank, Central Cross Town R. R. Co., Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co., Nassau County Bank of Mineola, National Horse Show Asso- ciation, New York Loan and Improvement Co., Sec- ond Avenue R. R. Co. and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; trustee Fifth Avenue Trust Co., Consolidated Gas Co., Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, and Peabody Museum of Boston, Mass. Member Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker, Manhat- tan, Democratic, Lawyers', Meadow Brook Hunt, Turf and Field, University, Riding, Racquet and Tennis, South Side Sportsmen's and New York Yacht Clubs, Country Club of Westchester, Yale Alumni, Century and Down Town Associations, New York Zoological (founder), Musical Arts and New England Societies, Society of Mayflower Descendants, American Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
WHITNEY, WILLIAM MINOTT-Dry Goods Mer- chant, 41 North Pearl street, Albany; residence 156 Washington avenue. Born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 12, 1826. Educated in New York City. (Married.) Mem- ber Sons of the Revolution and Society of Colonial Wars.
WHITON, JAMES MORRIS-Editor and Author, 287 Fourth avenue, New York City. Born in Boston, Mass., April 11, 1833. Educated at Yale (A.B., '53, and Ph.D., '61). (Married Mary E., daughter of William Bartlett of Portland, Me., 1855.) Rector of Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven, Conn., 1854-64; held various Congregational pastorates, 1865-91; principal of Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 1876-8; professor of ethics at Meadville (Pa.) Theological School, 1893-4. On editorial staff of "The Outlook" since 1896. Author of numerous educational and relig- ious works.
WHITON, JOHN M .- Fire Insurance, 32 Pine street, New York City; residence Plainfield, N. J. Born in Massachusetts, 1845. (Married.) Metropoli- tan manager St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Fireman's Insurance Co. of Newark, Security Insur- ance Co. of Connecticut, Concordia Insurance Co. and Wisconsin Fire Insurance Co. of Milwaukee, German Insurance Co. of Freeport, and Prussian National In- surance Co. Member Lawyers' Club.
WHITON, LOUIS CLAUDE-Lawyer, 149 Broad- way, New York City; residence 114 West 76th street. Born in Jersey City, N. J. Educated at New York University ('78) and at Columbia Law School ('80). (Married.) Trustee St. Paul's Institute of Tarsus, Asia Minor. Member West Side Republican Club, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Academy of Sciences and Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
WHITRIDGE, FREDERICK W .- Lawyer, 59 Wall street, New York City; residence 16 East 11th street. Educated at Amherst College ('74) and at Co- lumbia Law School. Member of the firm of Cary & Whitridge. Director Cataract Construction Co., Chi- cago Railway Terminal Elevator Co., Cleveland, Akron and Columbus R. R. Co., Knoxville, Cumber- land Gap and Louisville Ry. Co., Lake Erie and West- ern R. R. Co., Niagara Development Co. and Niagara
Falls Power Co. Member Metropolitan, Knicker- bocker, University, Reform, City, Players' and Church Clubs, Country Club of Westchester, Amherst College Alumni, Columbia Alumni, Down Town and Century Associations, American Fine Arts and New England Societies, Liederkranz and Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
WHITTAKER, JOHN BARNARD-Artist and Professor, Lafayette avenue and St. James place, Brooklyn. Born in Ireland. Educated in Brooklyn public schools. Studied painting and drawing at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and at the National Academy of Design. Established an art school in Brooklyn, and was made art instructor in the Adelphi Academy in 1888, which position he now holds. Member of numerous art societies.
WHITTELSEY, THEODORE-Instructor, Cornell University, Ithaca; residence 115 Cook street. Degrees of A.B. and Ph.D. Instructor in chemistry, Cornell University.
WHITTEMORE, R. B .- Broker, 35 Broad street, New York City; residence 16 East 53d street. Born and educated in New York City. (Widower.) Mem- ber of the firm of Whittemore & Co., and of the New York Stock Exchange. Member New York Athletic Club.
WHITTEMORE, WILLIAM J .- Artist, 318 West 57th street, New York City. Born in New York City, 1860. (Married.) Member New York Water Color and Salmagundi Clubs, National Academy of Design (asso- ciate), American Water Color Society and American Society of Miniature Painters.
WHITTIC, LIEBER E .- Lawyer, 126 The Bastable, Syracuse; residence 313 Almond street. Born in Syr- acuse, Feb. 9, 1872. Educated at Syracuse University and Law School. (Single.) Member Citizens' Club and Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Delta Phi Fraternities.
WHITTREDGE, WORTHINGTON - Artist, 51 West Tenth street, New York City; residence Summit, N. J. Born in Clark County, Ohio, May 22, 1820. Edu- cated in Springfield, Ohio, public schools. (Married.) President of the National Academy of Design, 1875-6. Member Lotos Club, Century Association, National Academy of Design, Artists' Fund Society and Metro- politan Museum of Art.
WIARD, WILLIAM W .- Manufacturer, Syracuse; residence 112 Holland street. Born in Oakfield, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1865. Educated in Syracuse. (Married.) As- sistant secretary Syracuse Chilled Plow Co. Member Citizens' and Syracuse Clubs and Royal Arcanum.
WIARDA, JOHN C .- Manufacturing Chemist, Greene avenue, Provost and Freeman streets, Brook- lyn; residence 137 Hooper street. Born in New York City, March 11, 1860. Educated in Hanover, Ger- many, and in Brooklyn. (Married.) President, treas- urer, manager and director John C. Wiarda & Co .; president and treasurer L. A. Eberhardt & Co. Mem- ber Society of Chemical Industry, Brooklyn League, Board of Trade of the Seventeenth Ward, Manufac- turers' Association and James McLear Camp Sons of Veterans.
.WICKER, CASSIUS M. - Railroad President, 15 Wall street, New York City; residence 599 West End avenue. President and director Zanesville and Ohio River Ry. Co. and North Shore Traction Co .; vice- president and director Chicago Union Traction Co .; Colorado Eastern R. R. Co. and Fort Worth and Rio Grande Ry. Co .; director Bankers' Money Order Asso- ciation, National Ship Copper Plating Co. and Worces- ter Traction Co. Member Colonial, Lawyers', Union League, Atlantic Yacht and Church Clubs, Union League Club of Chicago, Ill., American Geographical and New England Societies, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Society of Mayflower De- scendants, America's Founders and Defenders and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WICKERSHAM, GEORGE WOODWARD-Law- yer, 40 Wall street, New York City; residence 42 West 47th street. Educated at the University of Pennsylva- nia. Director Lawyers' Surety Co. Member City, Grolier, Metropolitan and Players' Clubs, University of Pennsylvania Alumni, Down Town and Century As- sociations and Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
WICKES, EDWARD A .- Vice-President, 15 Broad street, New York City; residence 14 West 57th street. Born in Ballston, N. Y., April 10, 1843. Educated at Williams College. (Married.) Was captain in 150th Regiment, New York Volunteers, 1862; brevet major, 1865; commissary of musters, 20th Army Corps; re- tained in service (by order of President Lincoln), and mustered out in October, 1865. President and director Broadway and Seventh Avenue R. R. Co .; first vice- president and director Niagara Falls Power Co., and allied companies; vice-president and director Canada Southern Ry. Co. and allied companies. Member Met- ropolitan and University Clubs, New England Society, Williams College Alumni and Down Town Associa- tions, American Museum of Natural History and Met- ropolitan Museum of Art.
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WICKES. H. VAN WYCK-Merchant, 1 West 34th street, New York City; residence 25 East 28th street. Born in Deep River, Conn., May 2, 1564. Educated in Rochester, N. Y. (Single. ) Treasurer, secretary and director Hayden Co. Member St. Nicholas and Marine and Field Clubs, and Genesee Valley Club of Roch- ester.
WICKES, THOMAS P .- Lawyer, 100 Broadway, New York City; residence 34 West 70th street. Born in Albany, N. Y., April 17, 1853. Educated at Phillips Andover Academy, Yale ('74) and at Columbia Law School ('76). (Married.) Member of the firm of Hatch & Wickes. Member University, Lawyers', New York Athletic, Mendelssohn Glee and Psi Upsilon Clubs and Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
WICKHAM, DELOS O .- 1 Broadway, New York City; residence 225 South 39th street, Philadelphia, Pa. Born in Sag Harbor, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1840. Educated at Oberlin College. (Married.) Formerly treasurer Bar- ber Asphalt Paving Co. Member Lawyers', Union League and Republican Clubs, Ohio and New Eng- land Societies, Lafayette Post, G. A. R., Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History.
WICKHAM, W. HULL-Wholesale Drugs and Chemicals, 91 Fulton street, New York City: residence 10 East 56th street. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1546. Educated at Princeton ('66). (Married.) Member of the firm of Mckesson & Robbins. Vice-president New York Dispensary. Member University. Metropolitan. Princeton. Union League, Monmouth Beach Golf and Fulton Clubs, Delta Phi and St. Nicholas Societies, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Chamber of Com- merce.
WIEGAND, KARL MCKAY-Instructor, Cornen University, Ithaca: residence 212 Hazen street. De- grees of B.S. and D.Sc. Instructor in botany and as- sistant curator of the phanerogamic herbarium, Cor- nell University.
WIGGIN, FREDERICK II .- Physician and Sur- geon, 55 West 36th street, New York City. Born in
England, Dec. 26, 1853. Educated at Phillips Andover Academy, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College (M.D., '77). (Mar- ried Abbie Fiske Merriam of Greenfield, Conn., 1STS.) Practiced medicine in Litchfield, Conn., 1680-90; since then, in New York City. Makes a specialty of gyne- cology and is visiting gynecologist to St. Elizabeth's and City Hospitals. Member Union League and Man- hattan Clubs, New York County Medical (president), New York State Medical, American Medical. Connec- ticut Medical and Litchfield County (Conn.) Medical Associations, Academy of Medicine and other organi- zations, both American and foreign.
WIGHT, CHARLES H .- Insurance, 120 Broadway, New York City; residence 140 St. John's place. Brook- lyn. Born in Woburn, Mass., April 30, 1845. Educated at Harvard. (Married Amelia Claflin Daniels.) Mem- ber Montauk Club of Brooklyn, Sons of the American Revolution and Society of Mayflower Descendants.
WILBER, DAVID F .- Farmer, Oneonta. Born in Milford, Otsego Co .. N. Y .. Dec. 7. 1859, Son of David Wilber.) Educated at Cazenovia Seminary. Largely interested in farming and stock breeding. Repre- sentel the Twenty-first New York District in Con- gress, 1895-9. President and director Holstein-Fries- ian Association of America and of the American Chey- iot Sheep Association of the United States and Cana- da.
WILCOX. ALBERT 1 .- Lawyer, 20 Platt street, New York City: residence 444 Ellison street. Paterson. N. J. Born in Haverstraw, N. Y., May 14, 1557. Edu- vated by private tutors. (Married.) Treasurer and director Riverside Soap Cc. and H. S. Little Land Co. : assistant treasurer and director Bloomingdale Soft Rubber Works; secretary and director Paterson Ry. Co .; director Cedar Lawn Cemetery Co., Totowa Silk Co. and West Milford Water Storage Co. Was re- rHiver of The John Stephenson Co. (Ltd.), and execu- tor and trustee of the estate of Vice-President Gar- ret A. Hobart. Member Lawyers' Club of New York City, and North Jersey Country and Hamilton Clubs of Paterson, N. J.
WILCOX, ANSLEY-Lawyer, 816 Ellicott square, Buffalo; residence 641 Delaware avenue. Born near Augusta, Ga., Jan. 27, 1856, Educated in New Haven, Conn., school, at Yale ('74) and one year at Oxford, England. Senior member of the firm of Wilcox & Miner. Trustee and chairman of executive committee Charity Organization Society of Buffalo: trustee Buf- falo General Hospital. Professor of medical jurispru- dence, University of Buffalo, Medical Department. Member Buffalo, Saturn, Country, University and Lib- eral Clubs, and University and Reform Clubs of New York City.
WILCOX, CLERMONT H -Broker, 66 Broadway, New York City; residence 115 West 75th street. Born in New York City, Nov 7. 1>49, Educated at Anthon Grammar School. (Married.) Member of the New York Stock Exchange. President and director New York Insulated Wire Co .: director Bowery Bank; trus- tee Union Dime Savings Institution. Member New York Athletic and Colonial Clubs.
WILCOX, FRANKLIN A .- Lawyer, 1 Broadway, New York City; residence 933 Madison avenue. Born in Ashland, Greene Co., N. Y., June 30, 1837. Educated at HIedding Institute and New York University. (Married.) Member of the firm of Wilcox, Adams & Green. Member City Club, Legal Aid Society (direc- tor), Law Institute, Down Town Association and As- sociation of the Bar of the City of New York.
WILCOX. MARRION-Author, 75 East 54th street, New York City. Born in Augusta, Ga., April 3. 1858. Educated at Yale (A.B., ">) at Ilamilton College (LL.B.) and in Europe. (Married Eleanor Gertrude Sanchez. 18\5.) Studied law in the office of Grover Cleveland and was admitted to the New York Bar. Resident of New York City since 1893, and is a regu- lar contributor to periodicals and magazines. Author of "A Short History of the War with Spain," "Para- dise in Ilyde Park," "A War Cloud," "\ Prisoner of Venice" and others.
WILCOX, PAUL-Lawyer. 220 Broadway, New York City; residence Montelair, N. J. Born in Roche- port, Mo .. Oct. 3, 1556. Educated at Depauw Univer- sity, in Berlin, Germany, and at Columbia. ( Married.) Member of the firm of Wilcox & Brodek. President New York National Land Association. Member Hard- ward Club and Montelair Athletic, Montelair (ex- president), Montclair Golf (ex-president) and Outlook (ex-president) Clubs.
WILCOX, REYNOLD WEBB-Physician and Au- thor, 749 Madison avenue, New York City. Born in Connecticut, March 29. 1856, Educated at Yale ('TS) and Harvard OSD. (Married.) Professor of medicine and therapeutics at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital: physician at St. Mark's Hospital. Formerly therapeutic editor "American Journal of the Medical Sciences": president Harvard Medical Society; surgeon-general Sons of Veterans. Co-author ( White-Wilcox) "Materia Medica and Ther- apeutics." Author of "The Descendants of William Wilcoxson, Vincent Meigs and Richard Webb." Mem- ber Metropolitan, Harvard and Suburban Riding and Driving Clubs, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Co- lonial Wars. Military Order of the Loyal Legion. So- cie ty of the War of 1912 and Lafayette Camp Sons of Veterans.
WILDER. BURT GREEN-Professor, Cornell Uni- versity, Ithaca: residence 60 Cascadilla place. Born in Boston, Mass .. Aus 11, 1541. Educated at Harvard (B.S., '62, and M.D .. '66). (Married Sarah C. Nichols. INES.) Served in a surgical capacity during Civil War. Professor of neurology, vertebrate zoology and physiology at Cornell University since 186S. President of the American Neurological Association, 1885; vice- president of the American Association for the Ad- voncement of Science, 1885: president of the Associa- tion of American Anatomists, 1595-9. Member Amuri- can Philosophical Society.
WILDER. ENOS-Merchant, 81 Beaver street, and President. 142 Broadway, New York City; residence Madison, N. J. Educated at Harvard ('65). President and director Franklin-Lee Bank Note Co. Member University and Harvard Clubs and Down Town Asso- ciation.
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WILDER, MARSHALL P .- Humorist, 55 West 33d street, New York City. Born in Geneva, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1859. Educated in New York City. (Single.) Was file boy in Bradstreet's Agency for a time; went to England; began a series of free entertainments which became very popular, and through the influence of the Prince of Wales his reputation as an entertainer be- came strongly established. Has resided in New York City for several years with his father. Author of "The People I've Smiled With." Member New York Press and Lambs' Clubs.
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