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gued before Governor Grover Cleveland against an objectionable bill. In 1884 he was Chairman of the Cooper Union mass meeting which supported Mr. Roosevelt in his course at Albany, and was a member of its Committee of Fifty-three, and of the sub-committee which did the actual work. He was an active member of a committee which, in 1885, submitted to the Legislature a constitutional amendment sep- arating Municipal and State elections, substantially as embodied in the new constitution of 1891. As one of a Committee of the Repub- lican Club of this city he successfully advocated an increase in the number of delegates to Republican State Conventions before the Republican State Committee in Angust, 1885. He was chosen a member of the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred, at a mass meet- ing in the Academy of Music in 1886, and was a member of its Ex- ecutive Committee. a member of the Committee on Organization, and Chairman of the Committee on General Policy. In the same year he was Chairman of a JJoint Committee of the Republican Club of the City of New York, the City Reform Club, the Young Men's Democratic clubs of both New York and Brooklyn, and three other clubs, to se- cure an affirmative vote of the people on the question of calling a constitutional convention: This committee secured the desired vote at an ensuing election. In 1893 he became Chairman of a Committee of the Republican Club of this city to draft proposed amendments and submit them to the Constitutional Convention of 1894. The document thus submitted was used as a basis by the various commit- tees of the Convention. He was active in support of ballot reform in 1888 and 1889. and was a member of the Joint Committee which pre- pared and submitted the Ballot Act which the Legislature passed in 1894 and Governor Flower vetoed. In 1888 he was appointed a mem- ber of the Committee on Legislation of the Anti-Saloon Republican State Leagne. As Chairman of a Committee of the Republican Club, be prepared, in 1891, a bill for compulsory voting. He drafted the law relating to naturalization which constitutes Chapter 927 of the Laws of 1895 of this State. He suggested and revised the act pro- viding for the registration of inmates of lodging-houses (Chapter 758. Laws of 1895). He suggested many features of the Raines Ballot Act (Chapter 810. Laws of 1895). As a member of a committee of the Republican Club, he appeared before the Greater New York Charter Commission in 1896-97. Mr. Hawes was born in Chatham, Mass .. July 9, 1844, the son of James Hawes and Susannah Taylor. He descends from Edmond Hawes, who, coming from England in 1635. became prominent in the goverment of Plymouth Colony, as also from Stephen Hopkins, one of the original Pilgrim Fathers who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. Mr. Ilawes was graduated from Harvard College at the head of his class in 1866. During the following year he attended the Harvard Law School. while at the same time holding the position of Instructor in Mathematics in Harvard College. Com-
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various corporations. In 1880 and 1881 he was President of the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game. He conducted the tournament of 1881 at Coney Island. He is a member of the American Fisheries Society, the Brooklyn, Accomack, and Fountain Gun clubs, the Brooklyn and State Bar associations, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is a mem- ber of every Masonie order, including the New York Consistory, Mecca Shrine. He was born in Brooklyn, July 6, 1842, and is the son of Samuel Crook and Mary Hanson. He descends from General Crook, of Cromwell's Army.
WARREN, LYMAN EDDY, a younger brother of Ira DeForest Warren, and his partner in the New York law firm of Warren, Mooth- by & Warren, was born in Cort- land County, New York, Septem- ber 4, 1847. He was educated at the academies at Montrose, Pa., and Cortland, N. Y., studied law with Hon. Horatio Ballard, ex-Secretary of State of New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1868. He began the practice of law with his brother, William II. Warren, at Cortland. N. Y., subsequently establishing himself successively at Ithaca and Auburn. His partner at Auburn was ex- Senator William B. Woodin. In 1SSS he removed to New York City. Ile was counsel for the LYMAN EDDY WARREN. estate of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University. He has vis- ited almost every European country to defend the patent rights of his clients, the Lec Arms Company.
FLAMMER, CHARLES A., was educated in the New York public schools, in 1861 was graduated from the College of the City of New York, and since 1866 has been engaged in the practice of law. He was elected to the New York Assembly in 1872. In 1873 he was a School Trustee for the Twenty-second Ward of the city, and the same year was appointed a Police Justice. In 1895 he was appointed by Mayor Strong a City Magistrate. He is the author of " Committing Magis- trate." ITe is a member of the Arion Society, the Liederkranz, the City Bar Association, and the Lutheran and Adirondack League clubs. Ile was born in New York City, June 28, 1845, the son of John G.
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Flammer and Augusta W., danghter of Karl Kramer. His father was Vice-President of the West Side Bank. His ancestors came from Wurtemberg, Germany.
MOSS, FRANK, has been a resident of New York City since 1867; attended the public schools and the College of the City of New York; studied law with Joseph Fettretch, while also being a member of the first class of graduates from the Chantanqua Literary and Scien- tific Course; was admitted to the bar in 1881; for two years remained with Mr. Fettretch, and since 1883 has been engaged in law practice in New York City on his own account. He is executor of the wills and estates of the late Maltby G. Lane and John Bisco, and coun- sel of the Board of Trustees of Sailors' Snng Harbor. In 1885, as counsel for property-owners on West Twenty-seventh Street, he succeeded in ridding that sec- tion of the " Tenderloin " Dis- triet of disreputable resorts. In this connection he gained his first insight into the corrupt re- Jations between police officials and law-breakers. He gathered evidence, and, in 1887, boldly prosecuted Captain Alexander S. Williams, police commander of the " Tenderloin " District, for neglect of duty. The abili- ties and fearlessness which he displayed in this case led Dr. Howard Crosby to offer him the position of counsel to the Society for the Prevention of Crime, of which that eminent divine was FRANK MOSS. then President. Dr. Parkhurst succeeded Di. Crosby as its Presi- dent. Mr. Moss was soon made a, director of the Society, as well as its counsel, and was one of its Executive Committee of Three -Dr. Parkhurst and Thaddeus D. Kenneson being the other two -- that inaugurated and carried through the campaign against police corruption, which is now a matter of history. As Associate Counsel to the Lexow Senate Investigating Committee, he brought the long campaign to fruition, the mapping out of the course of the investi- gation, the selection of the witnesses for the stand, and the indication of the testimony to be brought out, being in his hands. The political result was the overthrow of Tammany Hall and the election of Mayor
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Strong. Under the reform administration it is well known that the Police Board became evenly divided on questions of policy and etti- ciency of the force, a deadlock resulting which absolutely blocked the most important functions of the Board. In this crisis. upon the resignation of President Theodore Roosevelt from the Board, in April, 1897, Mr. Moss was appointed by Mayor Strong in his place, and by his colleagues was also elected to succeed as President. The deadlock was brought to an end. Mr. Moss made it plain that he had knowledge of corrupt practices, and that this would not be tolerated. Commissioner Frederick D. Grant resigned from the Board, on the ground that he would not be a party to a system of surveillance which did not trust to the honor of the members of the force. and was succeeded by a Commissioner whose views led him to co-operate with the reform -- as distinct from the political --- element in the Board. The Chief of Police resigned, and Chief of Police MeCullagh suc- ceeded lim; the filling of vacant positions, which had been blocked, was resumed, and a work of reorganization, to improve the morale of the force, was successfully inaugurated. This condition of things was only brought to an end by the removal of Chief MeCullagh by the new Board of Police Commissioners appointed by Mayor Van Wyck in 1898. Mr. Moss is Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. He is a trustee of the City Vigilance League, a director of the New York Bible Society, and a member of the Republican and Twilight chibs, the Bar Association of the City, the Law Institute, and the Medico- Legal Society. He was Secretary of the Republican Anti-Saloon League, of which the late Noah Davis was President, and drafted the first temperance plank which fond its way into a Republican platform in this State. ..
LITTLEFIELD, FREDERICK M., attended the high school at Haverhill, Mass., in 1872 was graduated from Yale University, and two years later was graduated from the Columbia College Law School. He has since been engaged in the practice of law in this city. Ile enjoys an extensive estate, corporation, and real estate practice. He is interested in several insurance corporations and real estate im- provement companies. He is a member of the Colonial, Republican, Delta Kappa Epsilon clubs, the Vale Alumni Association, the New England Society, the American Geographical Society, and the City Bar Association. He was born in Kennebunk, Me., November 27. 1849, and is the son of Josiah M. Littlefield and Caroline E., danghter of Samuel Kimball. Ile descends from Edmund Littlefield, who came to Boston in 1635, and died at Wells, Me., in 1661. His ancestors include Captain John Littlefield and Lieutenant Josiah Littlefield. of the colonial wars, and Major John Littlefield, of the Revolution.
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WOODFORD, STEWART LYNDON, United States Minister to Spain, was graduated from Yale in 1854 and from Columbia College Law School in 1857, and since the latter date has been actively en- gaged in legal practice in New York City when not engaged in the public service. He served in the Civil War from 1852 to 1865, rising to the rank of Brigadier-General. He took the Lincoln vote to Washington in 1860 as the messenger of the New York Electoral College. The following year he was Assistant United States Attorney at New York. In 1866 he was the successful Republican candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York. The Republican candidate for Governor in 1870, he was defeated by John T. Hoff- man; but before his death the notorious Tweed confessed that Hoffman had been fraudulently counted in. Elected to Congress in 1872, the same year Mr. Woodford was a Re- publican Elector-at-large and Presi- dent of the New York Electoral Col- lege. From 1876 to 1883 he was United States District Attorney. In 1896 Governor Morton appointed him a member of the commission to. draft a charter for the consoli- dated City of New York. In 1897 President Mckinley appointed him United States Minister to Spain. His skillful and prudent conduet of the exceedingly delicate negotiations preceding the Spanish-American war is a matter of recent history. lle is a director and General Counsel of the Metropolitan Life GENERAL STEWART L. WOODFORD. Insurance Company, a director of the Webster Piano Company and the Louisiana and Northwest Rail- road, and a trustee of the Franklin Trust Company of Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He is President of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, as he is also of the New England Society of New York City and that of Brooklyn. His clubs likewise include the University and Lawyers', of New York, and the Hamilton and Montauk, of Brooklyn. He has received the degrees of LL.D. and D.C.L., and, since 1866, has been a trustee of Cornell University. He married, in 1857, Julia Evelyn Capen. Of their four children, a daughter survives. Born in New York City, September 3, 1835, Mr. Woodford is the son of the late Josiah Curtis Woodford and Susan Terry, his father being a merchant. He descends from Thomas Woodford, who came from Boston, England, to Plymouth. in 1634; was made a freeman at Dorchester in 1635; was a member of the original Colony of Hartford, and subsequently became a proprietor of Northampton, Mass.
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MAYER, WILLIAM EDWIN COX, was educated in the public schools of New York, in 1881 being graduated from the College of the City of New York; studied law with Judge William J. Gaynor; was admitted to the bar in 1889, and is now a member of the Brooklyn law firm of Grout, Jenks, Mayer & Hyde. He was prominently identified with the prosecution of John Y. MeKane in the Gravesend election cases. He is a member of the Bar associations of Brooklyn and of the State of New York. In 1883 he joined the Seventh Regiment, National Guard of New York, and has seen active military service, at Buffalo and Fire Island in 1892, as Captain in the Thirteenth Regi- ment, and in the trolley strike in Brooklyn in 1895. He is now Major and Inspector in the Second Brigade. He was born in New York City, January 28, 1863, the son of Augustus C. Mayer and Deborah T., daughter of William Cox. He is related to General Jacob D. Cox, commander of the Twenty-third Corps in the Civil War, and subse- quently Governor of Ohio. His ancestry on the paternal side is Swiss, Dutch, and French. His maternal ancestors were long estab- lished in Connecticut.
CLEMENT, NATHANIEL HOLMES, well-known jurist of Brook- lyn, was graduated from the high school of Portsmouth, N. H., in 1859; was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1863; studied law with Hon. Calvin E. Pratt, of Brooklyn, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He has practiced in Brooklyn since, when not upon the bench. He was Judge of the City Court of Brooklyn from 1883 to 1887, and its Chief JJudge from the latter date to 1896. From January 1, 1896, to December 31, 1896, he was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Ile is a director of the Kings County Trust Com- pany and a member of the Brooklyn, Carleton, and the Marine and Field clubs. He is Treasurer of the Brooklyn Central Dispensary and a trustee of the Brooklyn Law Library. He was born in Tilton, N. H., March 23, 1844, and is the son of Zenas Clement and Catherine Holmes. Ile is in the eighth generation in descent from Robert Clement, one of the founders of Haverhill, Mass. His grandfather, Jesse Clement, and his great-grandfathers, Nathaniel Holmes and Jotham Hoar, were all Revolutionary soldiers.
MAREAN, JOSIAH T., lawyer and jurist of Brooklyn, studied law with Emerson, Goodrich & Knowlton, was admitted to the bar in 1866, and has since practiced in Brooklyn. He has served two terms as President of the Brooklyn Bar Association. He was a candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court on the Democratic ticket in 1895, but was defeated. In 1897 he was elected District Attorney of Kings County, and in this capacity prosecuted frands in the City Works Department. In 1898 he was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court. Ile has been for several years President of the Brooklyn Chess Club.
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and is also a member of the Brooklyn, Hamilton, and Crescent Ath- letic clubs. Ile was born in Maine, Broome County, N. Y., April 30, 1842, and is the son of Chester Marean and the grandson of Henry Marean. His mother was Arvilla, danghter of Josiah Taylor. Judge Marean received his early education in the common schools, the Bing- hamton Academy, the Susquehanna Seminary, and the Albany State Normal School.
FITCH, JOSEPH, has been engaged in the practice of law in New York City since 1882, and has been active in public life in Queens County, New York, where he resides. He was elected - to the New York Assem- bly as a Democrat in the fall of 1885 from the First Assembly District of Queens County, and was re-elected the following year. In 1894 he received the Democratic nomina- tion for Congress from the First New York Dis- friet, but was defeated by the Republican tidal wave of that year. In 1893 he had been appointed a member of the Board of Education of Flushing, L. I., to complete an nn- expired term, and in 1894 was elected to succeed himself for the term ex- piring in 1899. He was born in Flushing, August 27, 1857, the son of Jo- seph Fitch and Avis J., JOSEPH FITCH. daughter of Thomas H. Leggett. Through his mother he descends from Gabriel Leggett, one of the early settlers of Westchester County, New York, where he had au estate of several thousand acres. On the paternal side he descends from Thomas Fitch and Anna Pew (married in 1611), of Bocking. near Braintree, Essex, England, five of whose sous permanently set- tled in Connectient. Another son, the ancestor of Mr. Fitch, also came over, but subsequently returned to England. Eliphalet Fitch, of England, was the great-grandfather of Mr. Fitch, while his grand- father, Joseph Fitch, was Governor-General of the Island of Jamaica
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during the first decade of the present century. Mr. Fitch's father, also Joseph Fitch, was born in 1811 at Bayside, L. I., while the Gov. ernor and his wife were there on a visit. Mr. Fitch attended Flushing Institute; in 1879 was graduated from Swarthmore College, Penn- sylvania; studied law with Charles W. Pleasants, of New York City, at the same time attending the Columbia College Law School, and, in February, 1882, was admitted to the bar. He has been counsel to the Board of Health of Flushing since it was organized in 1891. He is a Mason and a member of various social clubs. From 1880 to 1887 he was Second Lieutenant of the Seventeenth Separate Company of the National Guard of the State of New York. In 1886 he married Anne L., danghter of Levi P. Rose, one of the most prominent citizens of Yonkers, N. Y.
COURTNEY, JOHN, was educated in Brooklyn, N. Y., originally learned the trade of a compositor, and then studied law. Hle was a Justice of Peace in Brooklyn from 1879 to 1890. From 1890 to 1894 he was Sheriff of Kings County. Since 1898 he has been a Justice of the Special Sessions Court. He is President of the Brooklyn Volun- teer Firemen's Association, is a trustee of the Firemen's Home at Hudson, N. Y., and is a member of the Columbian, Constitution, and Carleton clubs, the Royal Arcamim, and the Catholic Benevolent Legion.
DAVENPORT, WILLIAM BATES, was graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1862, and from Yale College in 1867, subsequently receiving from the latter the degree of Master of Arts. He was cashier of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1867 and 1868, studied law, and in 1870 was admitted to the bar. He has practiced in Brooklyn since, giving special attention to matters relat- ing to corporations and estates. Hle has been Public Administrator of Kings County since February 20, 1889. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1894, serving on the Committee on Cities and Corporations. He is President of the Kings County Jeffersonian Building Association, is a trustee of the People's Trust Company of Brooklyn, and is a director of the American District Telegraph Com- pany. Hoyis also President of the Board of Trustees of the Polhemus Memorial Clinic, he having, in behalf of his client, Mrs. Caroline H. Polhemus, evolved the idea of this institution as a memorial to her husband, the late Henry D. Polhemns. He is President of the New England Society in Brooklyn, and is a trustee of the Brooklyn Insti- tute of Arts and Sciences. He has been President of the Brooklyn Yale Alumni Association, as he has been of the Polytechnic Alumni Association. He is a member of the University and Yale clubs of Manhattan Borough, as he is of the Hamilton, Crescent, and Athletic clubs of Brooklyn. the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the
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Revolution, the Wolf's Head, and the Senior Secret Society of Yale. Born in New York City, March 10, 1847, he is the son of Julius Day- enport and Mary, daughter of William Bates. He descends from John Davenport, born in Coventry, England, in 1597, educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, who was Vicar of St. Stephen's in Coleman Street, London, and coming to America became the founder of the New Haven Colony in 1638. He also descends from Thomas Benedict, Lieutenant in the Colonial Army in 1665, a member of the first English Colonial Assembly in New York, and several times a member of the Connecticut Colonial Assembly.
JOLINE. ADRIAN HOFFMAN, has been engaged in the practice of law in New York City since 1872. From 1873 to 1876 he was the partner of ex-Judge William H. Leonard, became connected with the firm of Butler, Stillman & Hub- bard in 1876, in 1881 becoming a member of the firm, and is now a member of the firm of Butler, Not- man, Joline & Mynderse. In recent years he has been chiefly engaged in cases relating to railroads and other large corporations. He has had charge of most of the railroad litigations of the Central Trust Company of New York since 1888. He has been counsel in the reorgan- izations of the East Tennessee, Vir- ginia and Georgia, the Nickel Plate, the Rio Grande Western, the Scioto Valley, the Houston and Texas Central, the St. Louis and Chicago, the Minneapolis and St. Louis, the ADRIAN HOFFMAN JOLINE. Louisville, New Albany and Chicago, the Chicago Gas, and the Brook- lyn Elevated. He has frequently appeared in the Federal courts in large forcelosure suits of railway mortgages. He is a director of the Lawyers' Surety Company and the American Foreign and Ma- rine Insurance Company. He was elected President of the Prince- ton Club of New York in 1894, and is a member of the University, Cen- tmry, Grolier, and Delta Phi clubs, and the Downtown Association. Ile is also a member of the New York Historical Society. He was an active member of the committee to increase the endowment of Princeton University, and in connection with that institution he; in 1890. established the C. O. Joline prize in American political history. Mr. Joline was born in Sing Sing, N. Y., June 30, 1850. His grand- father, John Joline, was an influential citizen of Princeton, N. J. His
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father, Charles Oliver Joline, was a soldier in both the Mexican and Civil wars. His mother was a sister of the late John T. Hoffman, Gov- ernor of New York, and the daughter of Dr. Adrian Kissam Hoffman. She was the great-granddaughter of Martinus Hoffman, of Red Hook, Dutchess County, N. Y., and Alida, daughter of Philip Livings- ton, and granddaughter of Robert Livingston, Lord of Livingston Manor. At the age of thirteen, Mr. Joline acted as clerk to a mili- tary commission at Norfolk, Va., to try Dr. Wright for the murder of Lieutenant Sanborn. In 1864, he served as Clerk to the Military Com- mission to try political prisoners at Fort Lafayette. In 1866 and 1867, he was Clerk in the offices of Street Commissioner and Mayor of New York City. He was prepared for college at Mount Pleasant Academy, and in 1870 was graduated from Princeton College, where he had distinguished himself. He was junior orator, won the prize for essay of the Cliosophie Society, won the prize for essay offered by the Nassau Literary Magazine, and wrote the class ode and delivered the literary oration at commencement. He studied law in New York City in the office of Brown, Hall & Vanderpoel, also attending the Columbia College Law School, and was graduated from the latter, and admitted to the bar. in 1872. Ile was married, in 1876, to Mary E., daughter of Hon. Francis Larkin, the distinguished leader of the Westchester bar.
DUTCHER, ANDREW, educated in public and private schools, was admitted to the bar at Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1845. In 1851 was admitted to the New Jersey bar, and began practice at Trenton; from 1868 to 1876 followed his profession at Elizabeth, N. J., and since the latter date has practiced in New York City. He was a member of the New Jersey Legislature for three terms, and in 1857 was Speaker of the House. From 1856 to 1865 he was a law reporter, while from 1862 to 1869 he was Clerk of the United States Cirenit Court. He is a brother of Silas B. Dutcher, of Brooklyn, and was born in Spring- field, Otsego County, N. Y., August 29, 1822. He is the son of Parcefor Carr Dutcher and Johannah Low Frink. His great-grandfather on his mother's side was a captain in the Revolution. Among his ancestors, the Dutchers, Knickerbockers, and Ten Eseks were from Holland, the Lows and Beardsleys from England, and the Frinks from Rhode Island.
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