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FARQUHAR, PERCIVAL, has been engaged in the practice of the law in New York City since his admission to the bar in 1SS6, and is an officer of several important corporations. In 1887 he was President of the Columbus and Hocking Valley Coal and Iron Company, and at the present time is Vice-President and Secretary of the McManus Construction Company; Treasurer and Secretary of the Atlantic Coast Realty Company, and a director of the New York and Staten Island Land Company. He has been Vice-President of the last mentioned corporation. He is a member of the firm of A. B. Farquhar & Company, of this city, and a member of the Board of Managers of the A. B. Farquhar Company, of York, Pa. Ho was an unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly from the Third City District in 1889, but was elected by 2,000 majority in 1890, and re-elected in 1891 and 1892. He was a prominent figure in the Leg- islature, and, in addition to measures relative to the National Guard and the revision of the penal code, was active in connection with ballot reform, introducing and taking charge of the New York City inspection bill, the personal registration bill, the ballot reform amendments, and the bill providing for codification of the laws re- lating to the ballot. He entered the Seventh Regiment in 1887, be- came, in 18SS, Second Lieutenant in the Second Battery, and subse-
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quently First Lieutenant. He is a member of the United Service, Tuxedo, Calumet, Reform, Manhattan, Riding, Lawyers', Democratic, and University Athletic clubs; the Southern Society, the Seventh Regiment Veteran Association, and the Yale Alumni. He was born in York, Pa .; was graduated from Yale in 1884, and from the Colum- bia Law School in 1886. His father, Arthur B. Farquhar, is the founder and head of the A. B. Farquhar Company, extensive manu- facturers of agricultural implements, and is a well-known writer on political economy. He was a Commissioner of the World's Colum- bian Exposition, and President of the National Organization of Ex- ecutive Commissioners. He married Elizabeth N., daughter of Ed- ward Jessop, head of Jessop & Fulton, of Baltimore, and President of the Short Mountain Coal Company and the Tunnelton Coal Com- pany. Percival Farquhar's great-grand- father, Amos Farquhar, was a cotton manu- facturer of Pennsylvania, who subsequently returned to his native Maryland and had charge of a seminary at Fair Hill. Two gen- erations farther back, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, William Far- quhar emigrated from Scotland to Frederick County, Maryland, his ancestors having been chieftains of the Scottish clan of Farquhar. Through his mother, Mr. Farquhar descends PERCIVAL FARQUHAR. from Robert Brook, a cadet of the house of Warwick, who was born in London in 1602; in 1635 married Mary Baker, daughter of Roger Mainwaring, Dean of Worcester, and in 1650 emigrated to Charles County, Maryland. He commanded the troops of his county and was President of the Council of Maryland.
MCCULLOUGHI, JOHN GRIFFITH, following a successful profes- sional career in San Francisco, in 1873 established himself in the practice of law in New York City, devoting himself to railroad, com- mercial, and banking business. From 1873 to 1883 he was Vice- President and General Manager of the Panama Railroad Company, while from 1883 to ISSS he was its President. He became a director of the Erie Railroad Company in 1884, aud since 1888 he has been Chairman of its Executive Committee. He has been President of the Chicago and Erie Railroad Company since its organization in 1890. He is President of the Bennington and Rutland Railway Com- pany, and is President of the First National Bank of North Benning- ton, Vt. He is a trustee of the New York Security and Trust Com- pany, is a director of the Fidelity and Casualty Company, is a trustee of the Buffalo Creek Railroad Company, and is a director of the Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad Company. He is a member of the
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Metropolitan, Union League, Tuxedo, University, Lawyers', Farm, and Turf and Field clubs, and the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is of Scotch and Welsh descent. and was born near Newark, Del. He was graduated from Delaware College, and studied law with St. George Tucker Campbell, of Philadelphia, at the same time attending the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1859. On account of his health he estab- lished himself in law practice in Mariposa County, California. He co-operated with General Sumner in the successful effort to prevent secession in California. He was elected to the Assembly of that State in 1861, and to the Senate the following year. In 1863 he was the successful Republican candidate for Attorney-General of the State. Retiring from this office in 1867, he became head of a law firm in San Francisco, which rapidly acquired a reputation. In 1871, he married Eliza Hall, daughter of Trenor W. Park, and granddaughter of Gov- ernor Hiland Hall, of Vermont.
RIKER, SAMUEL, admitted to the bar in 1853, was engaged in the practice of law in New York City continuously from that date until his retirement, January 1, 1893. During his forty years of practice he occupied a prominent place among the real estate lawyers of New York. He is Treasurer of the Good Samaritan Dispensary, and is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association. He was born in Newtown, Queens Connty, N. Y., April 10, 1832, of Dutch and English ancestry. His great-grandfather, Samuel Riker, was a Revolutionary soldier, while he is fifth in descent from Abra- ham Rycken, who emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1638. ITis father, the late John Lawrence Riker, and his uncle. SAMUEL RIKER. Richard Riker, were both well- known lawyers, the latter especially so, being District Attorney of New York County from 1801 to 1813, and Recorder of the City of New York from 1815 to 1838. Mr. Riker's mother was Lavinia Smith.
ALLING, ASA ALLING, member of the law firm of Kenneson, Crain & Alling, was born in this city, May 4, 1862, and is the son of the late J. Sackett Alling, a merchant of New York, and Anna E.
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Bertine. He was graduated from Cornell University in 1883, being one of the orators of his class, and having taken the Woodford prize for oratory, and in ISS5 was graduated from the Columbia College Law School and admitted to the bar. He has been active in Demo- cratic polities. He is a director of the American University Magazine Publishing Company, and has been a governor of the Democratic Club. He is also a member of the Metropolitan, University, Manhat- tan, Reform, Cornell University, and Dutchess County clubs, the Bar Association of the city, and various societies. He is a grandson of Judge Asa Alling, of Dutchess County, New York, and lineally de- scended from Roger Alling, one of the prominent founders of New Haven Colony in 1639, its treasurer, and subsequently a judge. Through his mother he descends from Pierre Bertine, a Huguenot of gentle blood, who fled from France to South Carolina as a religious refugee, and subsequently settled in Westchester County, New York. In 1894 Mr. Alling married Louise Floyd-Smith, of distinguished an- cestry.
BOOTHBY, JOHN WILLIAM, attended the high school of Pitts- field, Ill .; in 1873 was graduated from Cornell University; in 1877 was graduated from Columbia College Law School; began law practice in the office of Hon. Martin J. Keogh at New Rochelle; in 1879 forined a partnership at Port Chester, N. Y .; in 1SS1 became a member of the firm of Keogh & Boothby, of this city, and has been a member of other firms. From the retirement from the bench, in 1890, of Hon. Ilenry A. Gildersleeve until bis election to the Superior Court Bench in 1891, he was a member of the firm of Gildersleeve, Palmer & Boothby. He is now a member of the firm of Warren, Boothby & Warren. For four years he was a director and counsel of the New York Press. In Gildersleeve rs. Lester et al., he secured the imposition of a fine of $69,000 on one of the defendants, the largest ever imposed in the State, at the same time establishing in the Court of Appeals the right of one trustee to maintain action against the others and compel resti- tution of property to the corporation. In 1894 he was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the City Bar Association and the Cornell University and Church clubs, and is a vestryman of Trinity Church, New Rochelle, where he has a country-seat. He married, in 1884, Lilla, daughter of James A. Mc- Dougall, United States Senator from California. He was himself born in Rawdon, Yorkshire, England, July 21, 1848, the son of John Booth- by and Eliza E. Eastwood. When he was two years of age his parents emigrated to Pike County, Ill., where his father became a farmer and business man, and was president of an insurance company.
MILLER, ISAAC NEWTON. was graduated from Hamilton Col- lege in 1873, from its law school the following year, and having also taken a post-graduate course at the Columbia College Law School,
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began practice in New York City. He likewise maintains an office in JJersey City. He was the only attorney to recover damages from the Providence and Stonington Steamship Company for the loss of life in the Narragansett disaster, this victory being won after eight years of litigation. He was counsel in Ledyard rs. Bull, in which the administrators of the late Asa Worthington, United States Min- ister to Peru, sought an accounting from II. W. Worthington. The verdict of $50,000 which he secured in the case of Buchanan rs. Foster is the largest amount ever awarded a woman in an action against another woman for alieuation of a husband's affections. He has also conducted important cases in the English courts, one of which, now pending in the British Court of Appeals, involves $2,000,000. Mr. Miller was born in Augusta, Oneida County, N. Y., October 22, 1851, the son of Isaac C. Miller and Elizabeth Wood. His grandfather, Isaac Miller, a native of Connecticut, was the first white settler in Oneida County, New York, where he acquired large tracts of land. A cousin of Mr. Miller, Hon. W. H. H. Miller, was Attorney-General in the Cabinet of President Benjamin Harrison, whose law partner he had previously been.
GREENBAUM, SAMUEL. member of the law firm of Hays & Greenbaum, and a director of the Park Hill Company and C. Gra- ham & Sons' Company, was born in London, England, January 23, 1854, the son of Lewis Greenbaum and Rachel Schlesinger. Brought to New York when two years of age, he attended the public schools of this city, and in 1872 was graduated from the College of the City of New York. During the next five years he was a teacher in the public schools, at the same time reading law in the offices of Van Sielen, Gil- dersleeve & Baldwin, and attending the Columbia College Law School. In 1875 he was graduated from the latter, and admitted to the bar. From 1875 to 1877 he was associated with the firm of Van Siclen, Gil- dersleeve & Baldwin, for several years subsequent to 1877 was en- gaged in practice alone, and since 1884 has been in partnership with Daniel P. Hays under the firm style which still continues. This firm were counsel for General Daniel E. Sickles, in the investigation of the abuses in the Sheriff's office, after his appointment to succeed Sheriff Flack, in this city. Mr. Greenbaum is President of the Aguilar Free Library. is First Vice-President of the Educational Alliance, having been active in the erection of new buildings for the latter, and for several years was President of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, of New York City. Ile is a member of the Reform and Democratic clubs, the State Bar Association, the Bar Association of the City of New York, the Jurisprudence and State Medical Association, the Legal Aid Society. the Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Orphan Asy- lum, and the Hebrew Technical Institute. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In March, 1888, he married Se-
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lina, daughter of Israel Ullman, of New York City, and has two sons- Lawrence S. and Edward S. Greenbaum, and two danghters-Grace and Isabel.
WARREN, IRA DEFOREST, has been engaged in the practice of law in New York City since 1852. He was associated with Edward Sandford from 1852 until Mr. Sandford's death in 1854; from 1854 to 1861 practiced alone, was the partner of William Z. Larned, under the style of Larned & Warren from 1861 to 1897, and since the latter date has been a member of the firm of Warren, Boothby & Warren, his partners being his brother, Lyman E. Warren and John W. Boothby. He was for many years a director of the New York Real Estate Ex- change, and is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, the State Bar Association, and the Manhattan and Lawyers' clubs. He was born in Albany, N. Y., December 31, 1831, attended the public schools of that city and the academy at Cazenovia, N. Y .. taught school between the ages of seventeen and twenty, studied law with Hon. Horatio Bullard 1. Cortland, of Cortland County, New York, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1852. He is the son IRA DEFOREST WARREN. of Rev. Ira D. Warren and Eliza Caldwell, his father being a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, well known throughout the State of New York. His paternal ancestors were seated in Roxbury. Mass., previous to 1740.
HUNT, JAMES MONROE, was admitted to the bar in 1882, and since that time has been engaged in the practice of his profession in New York City. He has been counsel for the Elevated Railroad companies of both New York and Brooklyn in the trial of important cases, as he has also for the Third Avenue Railroad Company, and the Tradesmen's Insurance Company of New York. Since 1892 he has+ likewise been Corporation Counsel for the city of Yonkers, and has been remarkably successful with cases carried into the Court of Ap- peals. Ile is a member of the City and Alpha Delta Phi chibs of New York City, the Palisade Boat Club of Yonkers, and the Rochester University Alumni. He was born in East Clarence. Erie County. N. Y .. April 6. 1858, the son of Rey. Harrison P. Hunt and Caroline
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Holmes. On the paternal side his ancestors were originally from Bennington, Vt., while on the maternal side they were among the early settlers of Oswego County, New York. He attended the public schools, the Brockport State Normal School, and in 1880 was grad- nated from the University of Rochester, from which he subsequently received the degree of Master of Arts. He studied law in New York City, with the firms of Deane & Chamberlain and Fraser & Minor, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1982. On June 5 of the same year he married Normie L., daughter of Abram M. Fanning, of New York City.
BURRILL, MIDDLETON SHOOLBRED, since 1884 has been a member of the law firm of Burrill, Zabriskie & Burrill, of which his father, the late John Ebenezer Burrill, was long the head. He was born in New York City, October 16, 1858; prepared for college under tutors and at a private school; in 1879 was graduated from Harvard, and in 1881 was admitted to the bar, having studied in a law office and attended the Columbia College Law School. He is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, and Rockaway Hunt clubs, the Downtown Association, the Bar Association of the city, and the Sons of the Revo- lution. He married, in 1885, Emilie Neilson, daughter of William Hude and Caroline Neilson.
GARDEN, HUGH RICHARDSON, lawyer, was born at Sumter, S. C., July 9, 1810. His paternal great-grandfathers were Chancellor de Saussure and Chief Justice Gibbes, of South Carolina, the former of Huguenot the latter of English descent. The grandfather of Mr. Garden, Wilmot S. Gibbes, was a South Carolina planter, one of seven brothers, two of whom removed to New York. His mother's family, prior to the Revolution, was of Virginia. Her grandfather, General Buford, served with distinction under General Greene. Her grand- father, William Richardson, a descendant of William Richardson, of Jamestown, Va., was a member of the South Carolina Provisional Congress and Council of Safety and Captain in the Continental Army. The name, Garden, was inherited from Major Alexander Garden, who married the sister of Wilmot S. Gibbes. Major Garden was the grand- son of the Rev. Alexander Garden, head of the Church of England in the Carolinas for years prior to the Revolution. Major Garden's two children died without issue, and Mr. Hugh R. Garden's father, Alester Garden Gibbes, by special Act of the Legislature, assumed the name of Alester Garden. The latter was graduated from South Carolina College in 1830, married Elizabeth Richardson, and prac- tired law at Sumter and Columbia. Hugh R. Garden was graduated from the South Carolina College in 1860. The Civil War breaking out, he entered the service of his State, and from Sumter to Appomat- tox saw active service in the field. He was anthorized by the Con-
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federate Government to raise and equip an artillery company, to be named the " Palmetto Battery." In the campaigns from Second Man- assas to Appomattox this battery performed an important part. After the war he studied at the law school of the University of Virginia. He commenced the practice of law with his great-unele, Hon. W. F. de Saussure, at Columbia, S. C. Unable to endure the misrule of reconstruction, he moved to Virginia, and resided for fifteen years at Warrenton, where he practiced in the State and Federal courts. He married Lucy Gordon Robertson, daughter of the Hon. William J. Robertson, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir- ginia. fle was counsel in the Virginia Midland Railroad reorganiza- tion. In 1883 he removed to New York. The settlement of the Vir- ginia State Debt has engrossed much of his time. This problem had for twenty-five years perplexed the ablest financiers and statesmen of this country and England, but at last, through the admirable work of a committee, at once a peace commission and a council of equity, confidence was restored and a basis of settlement carried into effect. Mr. Garden was for two years President of the New York Southern Society, and donated to it a Southern historical library. In 1892 the University of the South conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws. In counection with the New York Columbian Celebration in October, 1892. Mr. Garden was appointed, by the Mayor of New York, Chairman of the Special Reception Committee, to receive and entertain the guests of the city. He is a Democrat in politics.
GRIFFITH, JOIN S .. was educated at Whitestown Seminary, N.Y .; Hamilton College, and Columbia College Law School; also read law at Utica. N. Y., and there was admitted to the bar in 1883. In 1879 he took the first prize for oratory at the Ilion Opera House in a competition open to all undergraduates in the State. He has for many years been engaged in the practice of law in Brooklyn, and is a member of the Democratic County Committee of Kings County. IIc has published poems which have attracted considerable attention. including " Margaret Lee," which has been republished in England. He was born in New York Mills, N. Y .. September 8, 1861, and is the son of Lewis Griffith and Ellen Williams and the grandson of Hugh Griffith. His father was a prominent resident of Oneida County, New York. for more than forty years, engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods. Ilis unele, Samuel Williams, successively was editor of the Utica Herald, the Albany Journal, and the San Francisco Bulletin.
LAUTERBACH, EDWARD, a member of the New York law firm of Morrison, Lauterbach & Spingarn, from his admission to the bar iu 1854 until the death of Mr. Spingarn, has been a member of that of Hoadly, Lauterbach & Johnson since 1SS7, when ex-Governor lloadly, of Ohio, established himself in law practice in this city. Mr. Lanter-
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bach has been conspicuous in large corporation cases, and especially in those involving the affairs of railroads. He is at present a director and Vice-President of the Maurice Grau Opera Company, and a diree- tor of the Third Avenue Railroad Company, the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company, the Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad Company, the Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway, the Consolidated Telegraph and Electric Subway Company, the Empire City Traction Company, the Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company. the O'Donnell Steel Truck Company and Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau. He has successfully promoted several notable enterprises. He secured the incorporation of the new East River Bridge Company, the charter of which provides for the erection of two bridges from a single point in New York to different points in Brooklyn, with a crosstown ele- vated road from the New York ter- minus to the Hudson River. He ** + 4 was active in effecting the consoli- dation of the Union and Brooklyn Elevated roads, and secured im- portant legislation favorable to the Consolidated Telegraph and Elec- trie Subway Company. He was active in the reorganization of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail- road Company. He was instru- mental in obtaining government subsidies for the Pacifie Mail Steamship Company. He was a member of the Committee of Thirty for the reorganization of the Re- publican Organization in the Coun- ty of New York, and soon after be- EDWARD LAUTERBACH. came Chairman of the Republican County Committee. In the Constitutional Convention of 1894 he was one of three delegates-at-large from New York City, and was made Chairman of the Committee on Publie Charities. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Republican State Committee. He was Delegate-at-large from the State of New York in the Republican National Convention of 1896, was member for Nes York on the Com- mittee on Resolutions, and was one of the sub-committee of five appointed to draft a platform, being especially active in connection with the forming of the financial plank which furnished the issue of the campaign on which President Me Kinley was elected. Mr. Lanter- bach was born in this city, in old Greenwich village, August 12, 1844, was educated in the New York public schools, and was gradnated with honors from the College of the City of New York, of which institution he is now the Vice-President.
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CLEMENT, GEORGE ANSEL, born in New York City. February 22, 1851, attended the public schools and Dr. Quackenbos's Collegiate School, and studied law with the late famous Charles O'Conor and Benjamin F. Dunning. Admitted to the bar in 1872, during the next two years he practiced law in Orange County, New York, while also editor of the Port Jervis Gasette. He then returned to this city, where he has continuously practiced since. He was for some time a partner of Horatio C. King until the latter removed to Brooklyn. He assisted in compiling the earlier editions of Bliss's Annotated Code, edited an edition of " Court Rules," and is the author of the " Fire Insurance Digest." He has been the successful counsel in many important mer- cantile and fire insurance cases, and is a member of the Bar Asso- ciation of the city, the Law Institute, and the State Bar Association. He was an officer of the Ninth Regiment, on the staff of Colonel Sew- ard. The son of William J. Clement, his ancestors on his father's side were among the first settlers of Haverhill, Mass., and were prominent in public affairs.
CLEPHANE, JOHN OGILVIE, patent solicitor and promoter, is President of the Locke Steel Belt Company, President of the Horton Basket Machine Company, Secretary of the National Typographic Company, and a director of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, the New York Stenographic Company, and the Voelker Light Com- pany. He was born in Washington, D. C., February 21, 1842, of Scotch parentage. He early learned stenography, became proficient, and reported nearly all the important court trials in Washington at one time. He was one of the first in the country to use the typewriter, and aided its inventor to improve the first Remington machines. Be- ginning to assist inventors in taking out patents, he encouraged Ott- mar to perfect his typesetting machine. In 1892 he was elected Presi- dent of the Linotype Reporting and Printing Company. He was also active in developing the Graphophone, while at his suggestion was devised the Fowler & Henkle press, which enables presswork to be done directly from the Linotype without the necessity of stereotyping.
KELLOGG, LUTHER LAFLIN, head of the New York law firm of Kellogg, Rose & Smith, was born in Malden, Ulster County. N. Y., July 1, 1849. His ancestors were English. . He descends from Daniel Kellogg, who settled in Norwalk, Conn., in 1635. His father was graduated from the Troy Polytechnic Institute, was a merchant, and : was President of the Bigelow Bluestone Company. His grandfather, Luther Laffin, established notable works for the manufacture of powder. Mr. Kellogg was graduated from Rutgers College in 1870. Two years later he was graduated from the Columbia College Law School. He was also a student in the office of Hon. James Emott, at one time Indge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York,
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