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the professions, charitable and philan- thropic work. Considered the weaker sex for centuries, she has proven herself the peer of the strongest, and during this awful period of devastating war is prov- ing on the battle field, in hospital, in fac- tory, mill, workshop, and field, that even in muscular force she is not unequal to the severest tests. Dr. Baldwin, who since 1892 has practiced medicine in Rochester, is not only a physician of the highest professional class, but is pos- sessed of the womanly graces of mind and character which in combination with her medical skill completes the woman whose aims are unselfish, whose deeds are prompted by the higher motive of sincere interest in and love for humanity. She maintains a beautiful home at No. 4 West avenue, Rochester, also the abode of her widowed mother, and there a charming hospitality is dispensed to their many friends. There Dr. Baldwin also has her professional home and offices from which she dispenses the healing aid she is so well qualified to bestow. Her influence is exerted in behalf of suffering humanity and her worthy life has gone far to break down that unmanly preju- dice, now happily a thing of the past, against the admission of women to the learned professions.
She is a native daughter of New York. born at Wellsville, Allegany county, Sep- tember 29, 1860; her parents, William and Minerva I. (Hamilton) Baldwin. Wil- liam Baldwin spent his early life in Seneca county, New York, was an active business man during his mature years, a merchant and private banker of Hornells- ville and Wellsville. The last year of his life was spent with his daughter, Dr. Baldwin, in Rochester, where he died in 1895, still (1916) survived by his widow. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin were the parents of two children, Herbert E., a druggist of Rochester, and Evelyn, whose career
furnishes the inspiration for this tribute of appreciation.
Evelyn Baldwin completed her pre- paratory education at Rochester High School, later entering Vassar College, pursuing a full course at that famous in- stitution to graduation, receiving her de- gree with the class of "83." Amid the inspiring surroundings of college life, the ambition was formed to become a physi- cian and the high ideals which were then born have been faithfully followed. She prepared at the Woman's Medical Col- lege, New York City, now a department of Cornell University, and in 1892 re- ceived from that institution the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In July following her graduation she located in Rochester, practicing for the first six months in asso- ciation with Dr. Frances F. Hamilton, her aunt. She then opened private offices and has since practiced alone. Her suc- cess has been marked and during her practice of nearly a quarter of a century she had developed a skill in diagnosis and treatment which has brought her profes- sional honor and public esteem. As an obstetrician she has won her greatest reputation and to the complex problems of that branch of the medical profession her special efforts have been directed. Her practice is large, but she meets the demands made upon her for professional service most conscientiously, holding sacred the physician's obligation to answer the calls for assistance no matter at what personal cost. Her life has been both a blessing and an inspiration, and her honorable, upright, ethical profes- sional career has won her the highest re- gard of the medical fraternity.
Dr. Baldwin is a member and an ex- president of the Blackwell Medical Soci- ety of Rochester, organized in 1887, mem- bership limited to women; the Medical Society of the County of Monroe, organ- ized in 1820, open to all regular physi-
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cians; the Rochester Academy of Medi- cine, also open to all physicians, and of the Woman's New York State Medical Society. She keeps in closest touch with modern medical thought and discovery through the medium of these societies, and the medical journals, also by research and investigation, evolving theories of her own, which practice has proven cor- rect. For several years she was con- nected with the City Hospital and in her practice performs a vast amount of work without expectation of fee or reward.
BROWNING, Clarence J., } Attorney-at-Law.
From early days in Monroe county, New York, the name of Browning has been a familiar one, Dr. John Browning locating in the town of Mendon in 1816, coming from Massachusetts, where the family ranked with the ancient and honorable. Clarence J. Browning, a twen- tieth century representative, has since 1882 been a member of the Monroe county bar, practicing in Rochester, where he is ranked among the able mem- bers of a bar noted for its men of strength and eminence.
For half a century, 1816-66, John Browning practiced his healing art in the town of Mendon, passing to his reward at the age of eighty-two years. He was a typical doctor of the old school, giving his life for others, riding and driving the lonely trails and roads in all kinds of weather, practicing medicine, surgery, dentistry, dispensing healing and hope, the friend of all and the Nestor of his community.
Alfred P. Browning, son of Dr. John Browning, was born in the town of Men- don in 1821, there passed his life and died December 5, 1906. He pursued the quiet, peaceful life of a farmer, was one of the substantial men of his town, and was
highly esteemed as a man of integrity and character. He married Delia Stearns, whose forbears came to Monroe county in 1816. She died in 1891, the mother of two children, Clara M., wife of William F. Woolston, of Pittsford. Monroe county, New York, and Clarence J., of Rochester.
Clarence J. Browning was born at the homestead in the town of Mendon, Mon- roe county, New York, March 27, 1856. After exhausting the advantages of the public schools of his district, he entered Lima Seminary, there pursuing advanced studies until graduation with the class of 1877. He later began the study of law under the preceptorship of John Van Voorhis, the eminent lawyer of Roches- ter, and continued his study until suc- cessfully passing the examining board in 1882, when he gained admission to the Monroe county bar. He continued in the Van Voorhis law offices after his admis- sion and was associated with that firm until 1888, then began the private prac- tice of his profession. The years have brought their reward, many important cases have been entrusted to his care and brought to successful issue, and the hopes of the young lawyer have ended in fruition. Since 1899 he has practiced alone, the details of a large practice hold- ing his undivided attention. He is mas- ter of the art of presentation and his briefs are models of clearness and dic- tion. His knowledge of the law is deep and comprehensive, his speech eloquent and pleasing. He is a member of the Rochester Bar and other legal societies of the district, and in all State and Fed- eral courts his appearance is frequent. In political faith he is a Republican, but the law is to him a jealous mistress and he owns allegiance to no other.
Mr. Browning married, March 6, 1883, Harriet S. Hastings, of Lima, New York, daughter of George Hastings, of Men- don, New York.
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TOOKE, Charles Wesley, Lawyer, Author.
Charles Wesley Tooke, junior partner of the law firm of Northup, Tooke, Lynch & Carlson, of Syracuse, was born in the town of Onondaga, November 21, 1870. The family is of Scotch-Irish origin, and was founded in America by the great- grandfather of Mr. Tooke, who came to the New World during the latter part of the year 1798 and settled in the town of Eaton, Madison county, New York, on what is still known at the Tooke home- stead. Wesley Fletcher Tooke, father of Charles W. Tooke, was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, who served as pastor in the Oneida conference and later labored earnestly in connection with the churches in Northern New York. He died in the year 1907. His wife, Adelia Elizabeth (Ney) Tooke, was a daughter of Charles Ney, of Vernon, Oneida coun- ty, New York, and a representative of an old New England family of French lineage. Most of this family removed from Connecticut to New York and the mother is now living with Mr. Tooke in Syracuse.
While spending his boyhood in the home of his parents, Charles Wesley Tooke acquired a common school educa- tion and later pursued a preparatory course in Franklin Academy at Malone, New York. In 1887 he matriculated in Syracuse University and was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1891, receiving the key for the scholarship Phi Beta Kappa. He also became a member of the Psi Upsilon. Following his gradu- ation Mr. Tooke engaged in teaching for one year as principal of the schools of Westernville, New York, and the follow- ing year accepted the professorship of mathematics in Genesee Wesleyan Acad- emy at Lima, New York, where he re- mained for a year. The following year
was devoted to post-graduate work in Cornell University, and in 1894-95 he was a fellow in administrative law at Colum- bia University in New York City. From 1895 until 1902 he was connected with the University of Illinois at Urbana, first as Professor of Political Science and afterward as Professor of Law. The Master of Arts degree was conferred upon him at Syracuse University in 1893, and the Bachelor of Laws by the Univer- sity of Illinois in 1898.
In 1902 Mr. Tooke entered upon the active practice of his profession in Syra- cuse and associated with Judge Northrup in general practice with a large and dis- tinctively representative clientage. The present firm, with the addition of Francis J. Lynch and Alexander S. Carlson, is known as Northup, Tooke, Lynch & Carlson. Mr. Tooke is regarded as a capable educator in legal lines and is the author of numerous brochures, including "Translations of the Constitution of Chile," "Uniformity in Municipal Fi- nance" and "Constitutional Limitations of Municipal Indebtedness." Aside from his professional interests, Mr. Tooke is connected with the Oswego Falls Pulp and Paper Company of Fulton, New York, as treasurer and director, and also with the Skaneateles Paper Company as secretary, and is a director in several other large corporations. He is a trustee of Syracuse University and of the First Methodist Church of Syracuse. He be- longs to the Masonic fraternity, to the Citizens' Club and to the University Club, and is also a member of the Amer- ican Economic Association, the American Statistical Association and the Ameri- can Society of International Law. The development of his native talents through wide study and close application have gained him distinction as a sound and able representative of the bar.
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Mr. Tooke was married in 1902 to Sarah L. Weeks, a daughter of the late Forest G. Weeks, of Skaneateles, New York. Mrs. Tooke died in 1914. He has one son, Charles, born May 29, 1906.
WHITE, Andrew D., Educator, Historian, Diplomat.
Andrew Dickson White was born in Homer, Cortland county, November 7, 1832; elder of two sons of Horace and Clara (Dickson) White ; grandson of Asa and Clara (Keep) White and of Andrew and Ruth (Hall) Dickson. Always of studious disposition, he attended the ele- mentary department of the famous Cort- land Academy at Homer, of which his maternal grandfather was one of the founders. In 1839 his parents removed to Syracuse, where his father became its foremost banker, railway promoter and capitalist-a man of extraordinary execu- tive ability, who died in 1860. There Andrew continued his preliminary educa- tion in the Syracuse Academy and select schools, entering Hobart College in the fall of 1849, wherein he was a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity, (before which he de- livered the address at its summer conven- tion at University of Vermont in 1860) ; but transferred to Yale, where he was affiliated with the Psi Upsilon (junior society ) and "322" or Skull and Bones (senior), being graduated in 1853, especially distinguished in history and belles lettres, being an editor of the "Yale Literary Magazine" and tak- ing the first Clark prize for English dis- putation and the De Forest gold medal, for the best English composition united with the best declamation, esteemed the most shining award the college can bestow, his subject being the "Diplomatic History of Modern Times," possibly in- dicative of the conspicuous figure therein that he was later to assume ; and all these
in the "star class" of the institution, con- sidering the large proportion of its mem- bers who became eminent in public life.
Dr. White pursued post-graduate studies at the Sorbonne, the College de France and the University of Berlin (1853-54) and was attaché of the United States Legation at the Russian court (1854-55). Returning to America he prosecuted ad- vanced courses at Yale, from which he received his Master's degree in 1856 and membership in the Phi Beta Kappa soci- ety, (whose orator he was at Vermont University in 1860, at Yale in 1862, at Brown in 1876, and at Dartmouth in 1906), and an invitation to an art profes- sorship in his Alma Mater; but, declin- ing this, he accepted a call to the chair of History and English Literature in the University of Michigan in 1857, which he occupied until 1863, inspiring enthu- siasm by his magnetic drawing, and a cordial affection for himself among his classes, and aiding in the advancement of the University, as well as fortify- ing his faith in the "New Education," of which Michigan was, even then, a shining ensample, at the instance of Chan- cellor Tappan, and which Professor White was to vindicate splendidly at Cornell. He was lecturer on history at Michigan, and also at the universities of Pennsylva- nia, Leland Stanford, Jr., and Tulane (1863-67).
In 1859, he married Mary A., daughter of Peter Outwater, lawyer and banker, one of the fairest maidens of Syracuse, a gracious help-meet to her husband in the lettered, political and courtly circles in which he moved "from high to higher, a cultured gentlewoman and charming hostess. She died at Ithaca in 1887. Early in 1863 Dr. White resigned his chair in Michigan University, regained his legal residence in Syracuse and made an extended tour in Europe, publishing,
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while in England, a timely and patriotic pamphlet entitled, "A Word from the Northwest-A Letter to William Howard Russell," the renowned war correspondent, who in his "Diary," with marked sympa- thy for the cause of the Confederacy, had made gross misrepresentations of the intelligence and lettered foundations of the North, as contrasted with those of the South. The "Northwest," a crushing refutation of the ill-informed and ill- disposed correspondent, was extensively circulated, did much to remove false im- pressions and brought its author into national and even international repute. He had even before this made his mark in the magazines, having contributed to the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1862, "The Statesmanship of Richelien," and "Jef- ferson and Slavery."
In the fall of 1863, he was elected, as a Republican, from the twenty-second (Onondaga) district to the State Senate and was reelected in 1865. In that body, he took a leading place, addressing it, from time to time, on various matters of import, being especially able and service- able as chairman of the Committee on Education. Contracting a warm friend- ship with Ezra Cornell, a fellow senator, and sympathizing deeply with him in his purpose to establish an institution of higher learning in Central New York, Senator White was notably persuasive in securing legislation proper and competent to that end. The story goes that White endeavored, in the first instance, to have the intended university erected in Syra- cuse and pledged, in that event, half his very considerable fortune to its endow- ment, in addition to the princely benefi- cences of Cornell, if the latter would con- sent to change the plan from that pro- posed, viz., to locate it in Ithaca, his home town, saying that he (White) would increase Cornell's gifts by the
amount indicated, but it was located as originally designed by Cornell. But, so impressed was Cornell by White's admin- istrative, as well as scholarly, capacity, that he was tendered the presidency of the University; and thus Andrew D. White became, in 1866, its organizer and head, while Ezra Cornell remained its founder and chief benefactor.
Dr. White was president of Cornell University from 1866 until 1885, contin- uing, after his resignation, a trustee and as such engaged actively in its adminis- tration. His presidency is celebrated in the annals of American education, involv- ing, as it did so much of creative ken, as well as scholarly equipment and execu- tive capacity. Within a decade of its establishment, Cornell ranked among the foremost universities in the land-with its commanding site, its foundation in the voluntary system, its scope absolutely un- denominational, its free scholarships, its distinguished faculties and non-resident lectureships, the broadened courses of "the New Education," the endowed col- leges and noble buildings, the laboratories and the workshops and the library rich in assemblage and richer in promise. And of all this, the president, with due recog- nition of the great educators and liberal- handed donors, besides the founder, with whom he conferred, must be esteemed the chief architect. His personal gifts to the institution, during his tenure, totalled $300,000 ; and, coincident with his retire- ment, he founded the School of History . and Political Science that bears his name, presenting it also with his own historical library of over 30,000 volumes and 10,000 pamphlets and manuscripts.
Throughout, he held courses at Cornell and his literary output in addresses, peri- odicals and pamphlets, upon various themes was of as high quality, as it was copious. A partial list of these herewith
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follows: Address on "Agricultural Edu- cation," New York State Agricultural Society (1869) ; "Outlines of a Course of Lectures on History," Cornell University (1870) ; "Manual Labor and School Work Combined" (1870) ; "Scientific and Indus- trial Education in the United States" (1874); "The Relations of the National and State Governments to Advanced Edu- cation" (1874) : "Paper Money Inflation in France, How it Came, What it Brought and How it Ended" (1876)-a timely and enlightening pamphlet, of nation-wide cir- culation, mightily persuasive in subduing "the Greenback craze"-reprinted in 1896; "The Battlefields of Science" (1876), ap- pearing first serially in the "Science Monthly," revised, enlarged and entitled "History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Chrisendom" (1895-97), and translated into French, Italian, Portugese and German, his most philosophical and elaborate work, a marvel of research; "Education in Political Science" (1879) ; Memorial Address on James Abram Gar- field (Ithaca, 1881); "On the Plan of Western Reserve University" and on "The Education of Freedmen"-two ad- dresses at Cleveland (1882) ; "The New Germany" (1882), reprinted in German ; "The Message of the Nineteenth Cen- tury to the Twentieth," address before the Class of '53 (Yale, 1883) ; on "Studies in General History and the History of Civilization" (American Historical Asso- ciation Papers. 1884) ; Memorial Address on Edward Lasker (1884); "What Pro- fession Shall I Choose" (1884) ; "Benjamin Silliman," oration at the unveiling of his statue (1885).
Since his resignation as President of Cornell, Dr. White has contributed many articles to magazines, delivered many addresses and published two works, at least, of enduring value. These latter are the "Autobiography of Andrew Dickson
White" (1905) and "The Warfare of Hu- manity with Unreason," including essays on Sarpi, Grotius, Thomasius, Turgot and Caxour (Scientific Monthly 1903-07), re- vised and published with additional chap- ters on Stein and Bismarck, as "Seven Great Statesmeu in the Warfare of Hu- manity with Unreason" (1911). The auto- biography is one of the finest specimens of a most difficult species of composition in which many have failed, from either ina- bility or unwillingness to express prop- erly the gnothi scauthon. Dr. White's narrative is fascinating, as well as illumi- nating, from start to finish, frankly, yet modestly, revealing his own aspirations and achievements and vivid in its delinea- tion of the notable persons of two conti- nents with whom it has been his privilege to associate. Reviews of it has been uni- formly applausive and it has wide circula- tion. The "Warfare of Humanity and Unreason" is a ripe and intensive study of the character and service rendered the State and humanity by certain illustrious European statesmen and publicists, each happily selected from among the repre- sentative men of four centuries; and, although necessarily condensed, is among the most authoritative historical publica- tions of the day in accurate statement, sound estimate and sinewy rhetoric. His standing as a scholar is attested by the many honorary degrees bestowed upon him by leading universities of America and Great Britain, viz .: Doctor of Laws, Michigan (1867), Cornell (1886), Yale (1887), St. Andrews (1902), Johns Hop- kins (1902), Dartmouth (1906), Hobart (1911) and trustee thereof (1866-77) ; Doc- tor of Letters, Columbia (1887) ; Doctor of Philosophy, Jena, Germany (1889) ; and D. C. L., Oxford (1902). Dr. White has been and still is interested actively in the affairs of many learned and philanthropic bodies. He has, for many years, been a
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Regent of the Smithsonian Institution ; is a trustee of the Carnegie Institute for Research, and of the Carnegie Peace Endowment; he was the first president and has always been prominent in the councils of the American Historical Asso- ciation, has been president of the Amer- ican Social Science Association, is a mem- ber of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Philo- sophical Association and an Elector in the Hall of Fame. He is an officer of the Legion of Honor of France, and holder of the royal gold medal of Prussia for Arts and Sciences.
Coincidently with his educational serv- ice, Andrew D. White has had a highly honorable political career, which must be sketched briefly. Known in his college days as an Abolitionist and crossing swords with the Southern students, of whom there was a considerable number at Yale, he identified himself with the Republican party at its birth, and has ever been an earnest and consistent cham- pion of its principles. His senatorial tenure has been noticed previously. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1864, advocating the re- nomination of Lincoln; of 1872, favoring the renomination of Grant; and of 1884, desiring the nomination of Edmunds, but faithfully supporting Blaine in the can- vass. He was chairman of the Republi- can State Convention at Syracuse in 1871 and a presidential elector in 1872; a com- missioner to Santo Domingo in 1871, ap- proving President Grant's scheme for its annexation to the United States ; member of the jury of public instruction at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 at Philadel- phia and honorary commissioner at the Paris Exposition of 1878. He was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary to Germany, 1879-81, succeeding Bayard Taylor, taking his place in that
distinguished group of American authors, embracing Irving, Bancroft, Motley, Low- ell, Taylor and Bigelow, in whose diplo- matic appointments various Presidents have shown their courtesy to letters. President Harrison commissioned him as minister plenipotentiary to Russia in 1892, which he resigned 1894; and Presi- dent Mckinley in 1897 made him ambas- sador to Germany, regarded as the second most honorable distinction in the diplo- matic service, in the gift of the govern- ment. Therein he remained for the ensu- ing six years, rendering valuable service, especially in arranging satisfactorily the commercial relations of the two govern- ments, with the friendliest association with the embassies of other nations, with statesmen and savants and with signal imperial recognition. Devoted to the cause of international amity he was presi- dent of the American delegation to the first peace congress at the Hague in 1879 and has, since his retirement from official life, through his membership in the Car- negie Endowment, the Mohonk Lake Conference, and in addresses and articles. continued this work, sadly disappointed at its interruption by the horrors of war on European soil.
In 1890, Dr. White married Helen daughter of Dr. Edward Hicks Magill, president of Swarthmore College, Penn- sylvania, herself well known as an accom- plished classical scholar and educator, having taken degrees at Swarthmore Col- lege (A. B. 1873) and at the Boston Uni- versity (Ph. D. 1877), and completed her preparation for the profession of teaching by taking the full course in classical honors of Cambridge University, Eng- land (classical tripos 1881). She was en- gaged in teaching for some years before her marriage, having organized the How- ard Seminary at West Bridgewater, Mas- sachusetts, in 1883, at which time she
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