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His son, Edward R. Stettinius, was brought up in Saint Louis, attending schools there and completing his education at the Saint Louis University. He entered active business in 1883, and after spending about nine years in Saint Louis, the last five years of which was spent in the stock brokerage business, he removed to Chicago.
In 1892 Mr. Stettinius was elected to the office of treasurer of The Stir- ling Company, manufacturers of machinery, water-tube boilers and various other devices, connected with the generation of steam, and he continued his connection with that company until it was consolidated, in 1906, with the Babcock & Wilcox Company, of which he is a director and vice president.
Mr. Stettinius was elected, in 1904, a director of the Diamond Match Company, which is the leading corporation engaged in the manufacture of matches in this country, and in 1906 he was elected vice president of that company, so continuing until May, 1909, when he was elected to the head of the company with the offices of president and treasurer.
Mr. Stettinius has gained an excellent reputation for his financial and organizing ability and in the executive management of the large corporations with which he has been identified, he has displayed abilities which have earned him a place among the most able and enterprising men connected with the creation and management of large industrial corporations. Both in Chicago and New York he has been recognized as an important member of the group of men who have in recent years demonstrated the advantages of the modern methods of consolidation of industries in place of the expensive and destructive methods of the former era, when small concerns with restricted resources were engaged in destructive competition. He has done much constructive work in placing the enterprises under his direction upon the basis of perfect industrial and financial organization, conducive alike to economy and efficiency of admin- istration.
Mr. Stettinius is a member of several of the leading clubs in New York and Chicago, including the Chicago Club, Chicago Athletic Club and Midday Club, of Chicago; the Engineers', Lotos, Railroad, and Lawyers' Clubs, of New York City; the Automobile Club of America, and the Richmond County Country Club. He has his office in the Trinity Building, at III Broadway, and his residence at Dongan Hills, Staten Island.
He married, in Richmond, Virginia, October 18, 1894, Judith Carring- ton, and has four children: William, Isabel, Edward, Jr., and Betty.
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W ILLIAM H. TAYLOR, was born in Paterson, N. J., September 30, 1859, the son of William H. and Catharine G. (Deeths) Taylor. His paternal ancestry was English and of great antiquity, the name in its original form being Taillerfer and brought to England by one of the Norman barons who accompanied William, the Conqueror. It was immortal- ized by Sir Edwin Bulwer-Lytton in The Last of the Saxon Kings, who tells of Taillerfer, a warrior of gigantic stature, who led his followers in the battle of Hastings and who slew many of the foe before he fell at the hands of Leofi- vine, a brother of the Saxon king.
The Heralds' College attests the right of the Tay- lor family to bear arms by the registry of its crest-a dexter arm embossed in armor, the hand in a gaunt- let, grasping a javelin, with the motto Consequitor Quo- dounque petit-"He accom- plishes what he undertakes."
Large landed estates in Kent, England, were re- ceived from the Conqueror and these descended in 1256 to Hanger Taylerfer, from whom the American Taylors claim descent. The foun- dation of the family in America was in 1692, when WILLIAM H. TAYLOR Edward Taylor "of Briggs House, County of York, England, residing in London" came and settled in this country.
The family has contributed many eminent men in all walks of life and never, so far as known, in its history has the name been smirched by an un- worthy act. Major Richard Cox, whose mother was a Taylor, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, while Elisha Taylor was an officer in the War of 1812. John Taylor, of New York, was a member of Congress uninterrupt-
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edly from 1813 to 1833 and was twice speaker of the House. Other mem- bers of the family were: President Zachary Taylor, Bayard Taylor, author and poet ; Brook Taylor, the "water poet," and Tom Taylor, once editor of the unique "London Punch." Its ecclesiastical history includes Rev. Jeremy Taylor and the late Bishop Frederick W. Taylor, of Illinois.
In the American family was William H. Taylor, grandfather of him of the same name to whom this narrative principally relates. He was a native of Birmingham, England, the son of a silversmith, and came to the United States and located in Paterson, New Jersey. He brought with him consid- erable means and lived in pleasant retirement. He married Mary White, and to them were born children: William H., James, John, George, Charles, Joseph, Emma, Sarah and Mary.
William H. Taylor, eldest son of William H. and Mary (White) Taylor, was born in Birmingham, England, in 1826, and was six years old when his parents came to the United States. In 1851 he married Catherine G. Deeths, daughter of Nicholas and Ann Deeths, and to them were born three chil- dren: Emma G., Cassie G., and William H.
The present William H. Taylor was educated in Paterson, New Jersey, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, and pursued advanced studies in Dickinson Seminary, but left that institution to assist in the management of his father's machinery and supply business, William H. Taylor & Company, Allentown, Pennsylvania. He gained a complete knowledge of the business and upon the death of his father, in 1880, he assumed control. In 1884 he established a branch at Scranton, Pa., the Scranton Supply and Machinery Company, and in 1889 another branch, the Hazleton (Pa.) Machinery & Supply Company.
Becoming interested in coal mining, Mr. Taylor has become one of the largest individual anthracite coal operators in Pennsylvania. He was coun- sellor for The St. Clair Coal Company, of which he is president, in the Anthra- cite Strike Commission, and is president of the Franklin Coal Company; also the Goodwin Car Company. He is also a director of The Coal and Iron Na- tional Bank and a member of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, besides being actively interested in numerous other financial and com- mercial enterprises. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Scranton Club of Scran- ton, Pa., the National Geographic Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Institute of Mining Engineers; he is a thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City.
In 1886 he married Miss Nellie Grace Barker, daughter of Samuel Gunn and Susan Kidder Barker, of Scranton, Pa., and to them have been born four children: Nellie Grace (deceased), Alice Marion, William H., and John D. Higgins Taylor.
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JOHN ROBERT STANTON
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JOHN ROBERT STANTON
JOHN ROBERT STANTON, capitalist and mining engineer, was born J in New York City, September 25, 1858, being the son of John and Elizabeth Romaine (McMillan) Stanton. His father, who was a native of Bristol, England, was a mining engineer of marked ability and distinction.
Mr. Stanton began his education in the public schools of New York City, and took a partial course in the School of Mines of Columbia University.
In 1879 he began his successful career as a mining engineer in connec- tion with the Atlantic Mining Company and the Central Mining Company, both of Michigan, and since then has continued to be interested in mining cor- ยท porations in that State, becoming secretary, treasurer and a director, in 1890, of the Wolverine Copper Mining Company, and in 1898 treasurer of the Mo- hawk Mining Company. He is also president and director of the Phoenix Consolidated Copper Company of Michigan; secretary, treasurer and a director of the Central Mining Company of Michigan; treasurer and director of the Atlantic Mining Company, and a director of the Trimountain Mining Com- pany, the Michigan Smelting Company, and the Pneumatic Wheel Company.
He is an engineer of marked ability and a business man of executive and administrative skill, and is a member of the leading professional and scientific societies, including the American Institute of Mining Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, Lake Superior Mining Institute, the Franklin In- stitute of Philadelphia, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Geographic Society, American Forestry Association, New York Bo- tanical Gardens, New York Zoological Society, New York Horticultural So- ciety, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; also of the Sons of the Revo- lution, St. George's Society, St. Andrew's Society, Robert Burns Society, Huguenot Society, Municipal Art Society, the Thomas Hunter Association, and the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Animals.
Mr. Stanton joined the historic Seventh Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York in September, 1876, and served ten years, receiving his honorable discharge in November, 1886, and has since served six years as lieutenant and four years as captain and is life member of Company A, Seventh Regiment Veteran Association; member of Seventh Regiment Veteran and Active League, Active and Veteran Comrades of Company A, the Old Boys of Company A, and the Washington Continental Guards.
He is fond of yachting and of aquatic sports in general, and is a member of the New York Yacht Club, Columbia Yacht Club of New York, and Oni- gaming Yacht Club of Michigan; also of the Union League, Lotos, Engineers', Republican, Twilight and Dunwoody Country Clubs of New York; Chicago Athletic Club, and the Miscowabik and Onigaming Clubs of Michigan.
Mr. Stanton married, September 4, 1899, Helen Maud, daughter of Ira Kilmer, of Galesville, Wisconsin.
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D ANIEL GUGGENHEIM, president and chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Smelting and Refining Company, was born in 1856; and is one of seven brothers who have become prominent in the industrial and financial world. His father, Meyer Guggenheim, came to this country from Langnau, Switzerland, in 1848.
In 1881 Meyer Guggenheim organized the manufacturing firm of M. Gug- genheim & Sons; and in a few years acquired large mining and smelting inter- ests. In January, 1901, M. Guggenheim & Sons ob- tained control of the Amer- ican Smelting and Refining Company by a merger. At this time the Smelting and Refining Company was in bad financial straits, but by careful and progressive management Daniel Gug- genheim and his brothers have made it the most suc- cessful organization of its kind in the world.
Mr. Guggenheim is also president and director of the American Smelters' Securi- ties Company ; president and director of the Guggenheim Exploration Company; vice president and director of the Federal Lead Company ; and a director in the following companies : American Smel- DANIEL GUGGENHEIM ters' Steamship Company, Continental Rubber Com- pany of America, Esperanza Mining Company, Gimbel Brothers, Incorporated, Morton Trust Company, National Bank of Commerce, National Lead Com- pany, and the Nevada Northern Railway Company. He is a trustee of the Temple Emanu-El and has been active in many charities.
Daniel Guggenheim was married to Miss Florence Schloss, July 22, 1884. They have two sons and one daughter.
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WILLIAM BUTLER HORNBLOWER
W ILLIAM BUTLER HORNBLOWER was born in Paterson, New Jersey, May 13, 1851, son of Rev. William Henry Hornblower, D.D., a distinguished Presbyterian divine and theologian, and of Matilda (Butler) Hornblower. His great-grandfather, Josiah Hornblower, who came from England to New Jersey in 1753, was an engineer who built the first steam engine in America, a member of the Continental Congress, and a judge in New Jersey. His grand- father, Joseph Coerten Hornblower, was chief jus- tice of that State.
Mr. Hornblower was graduated from Princeton in 1871, and from Colum- bia Law School in 1875, and received his A.M. in 1874, and LL.D. in 1895, from Princeton. He was admit- ted to the bar in 1875, soon taking a prominent place in the profession, and is now head of the law firm of Hornblower, Miller & Pot- ter.
He served on the Legislative Commission ap- pointed in 1890, to propose amendments to the Judi- ciary Article of the State Constitution, and was ap- pointed by President Cleve- land a justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1893, but was not confirmed because of the political op- WILLIAM BUTLER HORNBLOWER position of Senators Hill and Murphy. He is a member of the American, New York State and City Bar Associations, Sons of the Revolution, and the University, Century, Metro- politan, Manhattan, City, Reform, Riding, and Princeton Clubs, of New York.
He married, in 1882, Susan C. Sanford, who died in 1886, and, second, in 1894, Emily S. (Sanford) Nelson. He has two sons, Lewis W. and George S. Hornblower.
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MORTIMER F. ELLIOTT
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MORTIMER F. ELLIOTT
M ORTIMER F. ELLIOTT, general solicitor of the Standard Oil Company, is a native of Tioga County, Pennsylvania, where his father was engaged in farming, and in his boyhood he divided his time between work on the paternal farm and the studies of the neighboring district school, and afterward attended Alfred University, in Allegany County, New York. He left before graduation and took up the study of law in the offices of Hon. James Lowry and Hon. Steven S. Wilson, at Wellsboro, the county seat of Tioga County, his preceptors being among the leading members of the Tioga County bar at that time. He supported himself at various kinds of work, while engaged in his legal studies, until he was sufficiently proficient to secure admission to the bar and engage in the practice of law.
He soon built up a good practice, studied his cases thoroughly and was successful, and after a few years was nominated by his party as Demo- cratic candidate for the office of president judge of Tioga County, and though defeated ran far ahead of his ticket. A year later he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania and bore a prominent and influential part in the deliberations of that body and in the reformulation of the organic law of his native State. He was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, but after serving that term returned to the practice of law. Meanwhile the oil business had become the principal interest in his section of Pennsylvania, and he became known throughout that region as an expert in all law questions pertaining to oil wells and all kinds of oil matters, and finally his learning and success led to an offer of the Standard Oil Company to Mr. Elliott to become a member of its legal force.
Since then Mr. Elliott has been an attorney for the Standard Oil Com- pany, and since nearly two years before the death of Samuel C. T. Dodd, the former general solicitor of the Standard Oil Company, he has filled that position and has been at the head of the legal department of the greatest corporation in the world. In conserving the vast resources, and defending the complex interests, of that great corporation, the services of the highest legal ability are constantly required, and Mr. Elliott has fully justified the wisdom of placing him at the head of the company's legal department.
Mr. Elliott is an authority upon all that relates to the law as it affects the oil business, has great ability as an advocate as well as a counselor, and is a thoroughly equipped lawyer in every respect. Besides deep learning, he has a keen sense of humor, is a judge of men as well as of legal questions, and has a place with those at the head of the American bar.
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GENERAL EDWARD P. MEANY
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GENERAL EDWARD P. MEANY
G ENERAL EDWARD P. MEANY, counselor at law and one of the most distinguished of American lawyers, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, May 13, 1854, the son of Edward A. and Maria Lavinia (Shan- non) Meany, and he is of English and Irish ancestry. His father was for a number of years conspicuously identified with the jurisprudence of the South, not only occupying an honored place upon the bench, but also having a career of exceptional brilliancy at the bar as well. Commodore Barry and Captain John Meany, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were members of his father's family. His maternal grandfather was Henry Gould Shannon, who settled, in 1810, at Louisville, of which he was a prominent and respected citizen.
General Meany was educated in the schools of his native State of Ken- tucky and at Saint Louis, Missouri, and he was prepared for the practice of his profession in the most careful and thorough manner by his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1878. Being a close student and possessed of a judi- cial mind and much forensic ability, he soon attained prominence at the bar.
He was for many years counsel for the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company, and held several positions of prominence and confidence in that corporation and in many of its associate companies. Besides a thorough knowledge of the law and of legal practice and procedure, General Meany developed marked ability along executive and administrative lines, and he has been called to duty as officer and director of several important railway, finan- cial and other corporations. He was elected, in 1884, to the office of vice president of the New Mexico Central and Southern Railway Company, and represented that company in Mexico and Europe, rendering to that corporation especially valuable service by obtaining from the Mexican government the concession under which it operated in the Republic of Mexico. He is vice president and a director of The Trust Company of New Jersey, and a director of The Colonial Life Insurance Company of America, The National Iron Bank of Morristown, New Jersey, and several business corporations.
Since 1893 he has been judge advocate general of New Jersey with the rank of brigadier general. In 1894 he was one of the Palisades commissioners of the State of New Jersey, and he has been a trustee and treasurer of the Newark Free Public Library. General Meany is a Democrat in politics. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the National Democratic Conventions of 1896 and 1900, and at both conventions he earnestly supported the principles advocated by the Old Line Democracy, and vigorously protested against the abandonment by the party of these principles.
He is a member of the Lawyers' Club, the Morris County Golf Club, Mor- ris County Country Club, The Whippany River and Morristown Clubs.
General Meany married Rosalie, daughter of Peter Behr, of Saint Louis, Missouri, and has one son, Shannon Lord Meany.
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FERDINAND SULZBERGER
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FERDINAND SULZBERGER
F ERDINAND SULZBERGER, president of the Sulzberger & Sons Company ( formerly Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company), was born in Baden, Germany, and represents the oldest of the four American branches of the distinguished Sulzberger family, which derived its origin from the town of Sulzberg, in Bavaria. The other American branches of the family also in- clude men of distinction, among whom is Hon. Mayer Sulzberger, president judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.
Mr. Sulzberger was a farmer's son, spending his early life upon the farm. He attended the German High School, came to the United States when twenty years old, and entered the slaughtering business in New York City. Later, with a partner, he established the firm of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company. That company, the oldest of the packing concerns of the United States, was among the pioneers in the business of shipping refrigerator beef from the West, having its own equipment of refrigerator cars.
The Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company was merged in the Sulzberger & Sons Company when the latter corporation acquired the whole of the out- standing capital stock of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company, and Mr. Fer- dinand Sulzberger continues at the head of the business as president of the Sulzberger & Sons Company. No man has done more to bring to its present high state of development the dressed-beef industry, or to bring about the mod- ern methods of handling the product. The Sulzberger & Sons Company has enormous plants in New York City, Chicago and Kansas City, and has another, now in course of construction, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Chicago plant of this company is said to be the most modern in equipment of any in the world devoted to the packing industry, having the very latest improved ma- chinery and facilities for the slaughtering of cattle and handling of the prod- ucts, from the time of killing to the manufacture of the vast quantities of by- products derived from cattle.
So extended are their operations that there is scarcely a town that is not reached by the branch houses, distributing points and sales agencies of Sulz- berger & Sons Company throughout the United States and at many European points. To create the great and effective industrial and commercial enterprise represented by the plants, transportation facilities and system of distribution of the Sulzberger & Sons Company has required a remarkable genius for organ- ization.
Mr. Sulzberger, in addition to his position at the head of this company, is also president of the Cold Blast Transportation Company, the Lackawanna Live Stock Transportation Company, John Reardon & Sons Company of Bos- ton, and several other large enterprises. He has given much time and numer- ous liberal donations to various charitable institutions in New York City and elsewhere, and has for years served as a director of the Montefiore Home.
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GEORGE DEVEREUX MACKAY
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GEORGE DEVEREUX MACKAY
G EORGE DEVEREUX MACKAY, banker and railway official, is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and son of John Sutherland and Mary (Devereux) Mackay. He is of English and Scotch descent, but on both sides, of old American families, from John Devereux, who came to America in 1640, and John Mackay, who also came to America in 1760, the Devereux family having been especially prominent and its interesting story has been put into book form under the title, From Kingdom to Colony, by Mary Devereux. Mr. Mackay's father was a banker and Mr. Mackay him- self was educated in the Brooklyn public schools and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute until 1870, when he became a clerk in the banking house of Vermilye & Company, and in 1875 became a member of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1880 he became partner of the late firm of Vermilye & Company, with which he continued for twenty-five years, and he was afterward with the firm of Mackay & Co. until 1908, when, having accumulated extensive interests in various corporations, he retired from active banking business in order to de- vote his attention to the care of his investments and his duties in connection with the companies in which he is an officer or director. He is a director of the Kanawha and Michigan Railway Company; vice president of the Tri- City Railway and Light Company; treasurer of the Georgia Coast and Pied- mont Railroad Company; president and director of the Acme Ball Bearing Company ; director of the Alabama Marble Company, the Barnes Real Estate Association, and the Mount Vernon Trust Company.
He has always supported Republican candidates except when the candidacy of Grover Cleveland for President was endorsed by the Independent Republicans in 1884. He was appointed by Governor Odell on the Visiting Board of State Hospital for the Insane for New York district, serving from 1905 to 1907. He is the manager of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of New York.
Mr. Mackay went to Europe, the Holy Land, and Egypt, in 1892, ac- companying Mr. Dwight L. Moody on his trip to the Holy Land, and the notes which were made by Mr. Mackay on that memorable journey, being the only record of Mr. Moody's daily life in the Holy Land, were extensively used in the various biographies of Mr. Moody which were published after his death. Mr. Mackay is a member of the Metropolitan, Republican, and the Railway Clubs of New York City, and of the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Mackay married, in Brooklyn, New York, February 5, 1880, Annie R. Barnes, daughter of A. S. Barnes, the well-known publisher of school books, and they have six children: Madeline, who married Avent Childress, and has three daughters; Donald Mackay, II, Hugh J. Mackay, Alfred B. Mackay, Lois Mackay, who married Roland F. Elliman, and has one son; and George D. Mackay, Jr. Hugh J. Mackay married Gertrude Bovee, daughter of C. N. Bovee, a prominent lawyer and partner of General Stewart L. Woodford.
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CHALMERS DALE
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CHALMERS DALE
C HALMERS DALE is one of the younger members of the New York Stock Exchange who has, during the past few years, made for himself a record of financial and organizing ability and attained a notable measure of success. He is a native of the City of New York, where he was born February 2, 1882, being the son of Chalmers and Carrie Reed (Lyon) Dale. His parents on both sides are members of families which have been long established upon American soil, but which were originally of English origin and ancestry.
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