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ADLER, FELIX, author, moralist, philosopher, and Oriental scholar, was Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature at Cornell University from 1874 to 1876, and in the latter year founded in New York City the Society of Ethical Culture, before which he has been a weekly lecturer since. His philosophy is stared in his " Creed and Deed," and in frequent contributions to periodical litera- ture. Born in Alzey, Germany, August 13. 1851, he is the son of a Hebrew rabbi, by whom he was early brought to New York. After his graduation from Columbia College in 1870, Professor Adler studied in Germany, at Berlin and Heidelberg, attaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
HOAGLAND, CORNELIUS NEVIUS, long a successful physician and surgeon, was President of the Cleveland Baking Powder Company, and was a director of the Associated Manufacturers' Mutual Fire In- surance Corporation, the People's Trust Company of Brooklyn, the Edi- son Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn, and other corpora-
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tions, and a trustee of the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn. At a cost of $100,000 he erected, in 1887, the Hoagland Laboratory of Brook- lyn, " for the purpose of original research in the higher branches of medical science," at the same time establishing a $50,000 endow- ment fund. He was a Regent of the Long Island Hospital College, was a fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, a life-fellow of the American Geographical Society of New York, and a life-member of both the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. and the Long Island Historical Society. He was a trustee of Syracuse Uni- versity and of Antioch College of Ohio. He was a member of the Cres- cent, Hamilton, and Union League clubs of Brooklyn, and the Ful- ton and Adirondack League clubs. the Downtown Association, and the Ohio Society of New York City. He was born in Hillsborough. Somerset County, N. J., November 23, 1828, and at the age of nine accompanied his father to Miami County, Ohio. Here he prepared for college under private tuition, studied medicine under a promi- nent local physician, attended the Starling Medical College at Colum- bus, Ohio, and in 1852 was gradu- ated from the Medical School of the Western Reserve University. at Cleveland, Ohio. He practiced medicine in Miami County, Ohio. for some time. In 1854 he was elected Auditor of that county, and in 1856 was re-elected. Upon the opening of the Civil War he be- came First Lieutenant of Company II of the Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but in October, 1861. was CORNELIUS NEVIC'S HOAGLAND. appointed Surgeon of the Seventy- first Ohio, and so remained until the close of the war. He campaigned through Tennessee, Georgia. Alabama. and Texas, participating in the battles of Pittsburgh Land- ing, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville. During the battle of Nash- ville he was wounded in the breast. He served on the staff of both Brigade and Division Commanders, and often had complete charge . of the field hospitals. He was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. With his brother. Joseph C. Hoagland, he purchased in 1866 a drugstore at Fort Wayne. Ind .. where they began to sell baking powder by the ounce. This was the beginning of the Royal Baking Powder Company, of which they were the founders. A man- ufactory was established in Chicago, which JJoseph C. Hoagland di- rected, while Dr. Hoagland assumed the business management in
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New York City. In 1876 the latter sold out his interest in the Royal Baking Powder Company, retiring from business. In 1889, however, he became President of the Cleveland Baking Powder Company, hav- ing acquired the corporation from its former owners. He quadrupled its business. On August 10, 1852, he married Eliza E., daughter of the late Judge David HI. Morris, of Ohio, and had three daughters, who survive him. Dr. Hoagland was himself the grandson of Dr. Isaac Hoagland, who became a surgeon in the United States Army in 1796, and was great-grandson of Hon. Christopher Hoagland, a Justice of the Peace of Somerset County, New Jersey; and a Member of the New Jersey Legislature. Through his father he was in the seventh genera- tion from Cristoffel Hoaglandt, who, born in Holland in 1634, and coming to New Amsterdam as a youth, became a successful merchant of New York City, and subsequently acquired a large estate in Som- erset County, New Jersey, where he died in 1684. He married Cather- ine, daughter of Hon. Martin Creiger, one of the " Great Citizens " of New Amsterdam, where he was one of the earliest Burgomasters and a Captain of Militia. Through his mother Dr. Hoagland was in the sixth generation from Dirck Jansen Hoagland, who arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1657. Dr. Hoagland died in 1898.
VAN PELT, DANIEL, clergyman of the Dutch Reformed Church and historical writer, was born in Holland in 1853, and when about twelve years of age was brought to New York City by his parents. In 1874 he was graduated from the College of the City of New York, while, in 1877, he was graduated from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, re- ceiving the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was pastor of several churches, but has since given up pastoral work to devote him- self to literature. He has especially distin- guished himself as a historical student and writer, and in connection with the history of New York City. Much original investi- gation was done during several years' resi- dence at The Hague as Secretary of the American Legation. Upon him devolved the burden of the actual editorial work in the preparation of the notable Memorial History of the City of New York, while he DANIEL VAN PELT. was the author of many of the historical monographs which it contained, to some of which his name was at- tached. He is the author of Volumes I. and HI. of the present work. IIe is a member of the editorial corps of the " History of New York : the Empire State in Three Centuries," now being compiled.
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WALL, WILLIAM. founder, in 1830, of the extensive cordage man- ufactory of Brooklyn which has since been conducted under his name or that of his sons and grandsons, was also prominent in public life. While he resided in New York City in his later years, during an earlier period his residence was in Williamsburgh. He held such positions during the corporate history of Williamsburgh as Trustee, Commissioner of Highways, Supervisor, Member of the Board of Fi- nance, Commissioner of Waterworks, and Mayor, being elected to the latter office in 1853. He refused a nomination as Mayor of Brooklyn. after the incorporation of Williamsburgh with Brooklyn, but in 1860 was elected to Congress. In 1866 he was a Delegate to the Loyalists' Convention. He was an Incorporator of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, and long its President; was an Incorporator of the Williams- burgh City Bank. now the First National of Williamsburgh, and a founder of the Williamsburgh Dispensary. For seven years he was a Water Commissioner of Brooklyn. He was born in Philadelphia. March 20. 1800, the son of a ship's officer, who died when he was an infant. Learning ropemaking, with his mother's brother, he came to New York, worked at his trade for a while, and in 1830 established himself in the business in Brooklyn. His oldest son becoming his part- ner, the firm style of William Wall & Son was adopted, followed by that of William Wall & Sons, when the second son was admitted. Al- though Mr. Wall's death did not occur until April 22, 1872, he retired in 1856, leaving the business in the hands of his sons-Charles, Will- iam, Jr., Michael W., and Frank T., all of whom eventually became partners.
WALL, CHARLES, eldest son of the late Hon. William Wall. and his successor as head of the firm of William Wall & Sons, was born in Brooklyn in 1828. He attended the Brooklyn public schools. Swinburne's Academy. White Plains, N. Y., and for two years studied in Europe. In 1850, at the age of twenty-two, he became his father's partner under the style of William Wall & Son, which became Will- iam Wall & Sons when his brother, William, Jr., entered the firm. Upon the retirement of his father in 1856 the firm style was changed again to William Wall's Sons, and of this firm he remained the head until his death in 1879. IIe invented considerable machinery now used in the manufacture of cordage. He married Eliza, daughter of the late Evander Berry, of Brooklyn. E. Berry Wall, of New York City, is their son.
WALL, MICHAEL W .. in 1879 succeeded his brother Charles as head of the firm of William Wall's Sons, cordage manufacturers. Ile was the third son of the late Hon. William Wall. the second son. William Wall. Jr., having died prior to 1879. Michael W. was born in Brooklyn in 1839. and entered the employ of his brothers as clerk
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in 1856, subsequently becoming a partner. A Lieutenant in the Eighth New York National Guard, he went to the front with his regiment during the Civil War, and was promoted to the rank of Captain. He had large real estate interests in Brooklyn, and was long an officer of the New York and Brooklyn Ferry Company. He resided in New York.
BISSELL, ARTHUR F., who has been engaged in manufacturing in New York City since 1863, and is now Treasurer of the Stamford Manufacturing Company, was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1848, and from that date until 1863 successfully practiced medicine at Toledo, Ohio. He was born in Geneseo, N. Y., in June, 1826, and is the son of the late Edward Bis- sell, and seventh in descent from John Bissell, a French Huguenot, who arrived in Plymouth in 1628, and subsequently became one of the founders of Windsor, Conn. He is also descended from Henry Wolcott, who settled in Windsor, Conn., in 1630, and is the ancestor of Hon. Roger Wolcott, Hon. Oliver Wolcott, and Hon. Oliver Wol- cott, Jr., all governors of Connecticut. Mr. Bissell's father was a notable manufacturer and merchant of Lockport, N. Y., where he had several mills, while, in 1832, he removed to Toledo, Ohio, where he was one of the founders of that city and the constructor of its first rail- road, the Toledo and Kalamazoo. In 1851, Dr. Bissell married Anna E., daughter of Judge Nehemiah Browne, of Rye, N. Y., and descended from Thomas Browne, who, in 1664, imposed the name of Rye upon the Westchester County village, in honor of his native place of that name in Sussex, England. Through him she descends from Sir An- thony Browne, standard bearer of England in the time of Henry VII.
SOPER, ARTHUR WILLIAM, having been engaged as a railroad executive from 1858 to 1881, in the latter year established himself in business in New York City, managing interests in connection with railroads which rapidly grew to large proportions. In 1887 he or- ganized the Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company of New York City, and has since been its President. He is also President of the Pintsch Compressing Company, and a director of the American Air Power Company, the Standard Coupler Company. the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company, the Sackett Wall Board Company, and the American Mutoscope Company. He is a member of the Union League, New York, City, Lotus, Engineers', Republican, Lawyers', New York Yacht, and Atlantic Yacht clubs. He married, in 1871. Hettie M., daughter of Samuel Wardwell, of Rome, N. Y., and has a daughter. He was himself born in Rome, N. Y., July 16, 1838, the son of Albert Soper and Esther Farquharson, of English and Scotch de- scent. The Soper family has been seated at Huntington, L. I., for two centuries and a half. Philander Soper, grandfather of Mr. Soper,
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emigrated from Long Island to Rome, N. Y., in 1809. Mr. Soper's father built the first planning mill at Rome, and established a large lumber business. Removing to Chicago, he organized the Soper Lum- ber Company, with mills in Michigan, and established a trade reach- ing from Massachusetts to Colorado. Arthur William Soper, the eldest son, attended the Rome Academy, and entered his father's office. In April, 1858, he became clerk in the freight department of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens- burgh Railroad. At the end of three years he became Superintend- ent's Clerk, two years later became passenger conductor, the next year was made Chief Clerk'in the Gen- eral Superintendent's office, and three years later becoming Assist- ant Superintendent, held this office for four years. The Superin- tendent, Addison Day, having become Superintendent of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railway, he invited Mr. Soper to become Assistant Superintendent of that road. He accepted, removing to St. Louis. At the end of a year Mr. Day resigned on account of ill ARTHUR WILLIAM SOPER. health. Mr. Soper succeeded him as General Superintendent, sub- sequently becoming General Manager of the road. This position he resigned in 1881 and established himself in New York.
PETERS, AUGUSTUS WINNIETT, born in St. John, N. B., June 10, 1844, came to New York in 1866 and entered the banking and brokerage firm of Ralph King Hollock. He became a member of the Gold Exchange, and was elected its secretary. Subsequently he be -. came a member of the Mining Exchange, and in 1872 was elected its chairman, being annually re-elected until 1897, when he resigned to accept the position of President of the Borough of Manhattan. New York City. to which he was elected for a term of four years in the fall of 1897. Ile served until his death, in January, 1899. . For five years he had been Chairman of the General Committee of Tam- many Hall and Sachem in the Columbian Order in the Tammany Society. He was a member of the Old Guard of New York and the Military, New York Athletic, Democratie, and Algonquin clubs. He was educated in the grammar school of St. John. N. B., and prior to coming to New York was in the office of the Comptroller of Customs of that city, was in mercantile life, and was Clerk in the
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Bank of New Brunswick. He was the son of Benjamin Lester Peters and Mary Anne Winniett, his ancestors having been among the loyal- ists of the Revolutionary period who retired to New Brunswick and founded the city of St. John. His father was Mayor of that city and a city magistrate.
WENDELL. JACOB, began his mercantile career in Portsmouth, . N. H., where he was born, July 24. 1826; subsequently became a mem- ber of the Boston commission firm of J. C. Howe & Company, in 1863 came to New York City as partner of J. C. Howe & Company, while the firm style became, successively, Wendell, Hutchinson & Com- pany, and Jacob Wendell & Company, of both of which companies he was head. In addition to the woolen commission business he be- came active in connection with real estate, being Vice-President of the New York Real Estate Association, Vice-President of the Manhattan Real Estate Association, and a director of the Central Real Estate As- sociation, the Continental Insurance Company, the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company of New York, and the Merchants' Na- tional Bank, of Brooklyn. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, Century, and Wool clubs; the Holland Society, the New England Society, and the New York Historical Society. He married, in 1854, Mary Bertodi, daughter of N. A. Barrett, of Boston, and has four sons -- Professor Barrett Wendell. of Harvard Univer- sity; Gordon Wendell. in business with his father in this city; Evert Jansen Wendell. and Jacob Wendell. Jr. The son of Jacob Wendell, a merchant. of Portsmouth, N. H., and Mehetabel Rindge, daughter of Mark Rogers, Mr. Wendell descends from Evert Jansen Wendell. who was born in Embden. East Friesland, in 1615, immigrated to New Amsterdam in 1640, and married Susanna, daughter of Philip Du Trieux and Susanna de Scheene.
WICKES, EDWARD ALLEN, is President of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company, Vice-President of the Cataract Construction Company, Second Vice-President of the Niagara June- tion Railway Company, and a director of the Toledo, Canada Southern and Detroit Railway Company, the Michigan, Midland, Canada Rail- road Company, the Canada Southern Bridge Company, the Niagara Development Company, and the Niagara Grand Island Bridge Com- pany. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, and Uni- versity clubs, the New England Society, and the Downtown Associa- tion, as well as of the Williams College Alumni Association. He is the son of Rev. Thomas Scudder Wickes, and was born at Ballston Spa, N. Y., April 10, 1843. He entered Williams College at sixteen. leaving to accept a commission as Captain in the One Hundred and Fiftieth New York Volunteers, October 11, 1862. He was detailed to staff duty, accompanied Sherman in the " March to the Sea," and
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was mustered out as Brevet Major. His grandfather, Eliphalet Wiekes, was a prominent lawyer of Queens County, New York, and served several terms in Congress. His great-grandfather, Thomas Wickes, held the rank of Major in the Revolution, and was a member of the State Legislature. Mr. Wickes lineally descends from Thomas Weekes, who immigrated to America in 1635, while on his mother's side he descends from Governor William Bradford, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620.
JARVIS, SAMUEL MILLER, is a director and Vice-President of the North American Trust Company, and at present is its manager in Cuba; is President of the United States Land Company; is Vice- President of the Northeast Electric Railway Company, and is a direc- tor of the Augusta Railway and Electric Company, the Ottawa Wa- terworks and Light Company, the Bear River Irrigation and Ogden Waterworks Company, the Colo- nial Telegraph and Cable Com- pany, and the West Indies Tele- phone and Telegraph Company. He is a member of the Colonial and Lawyers' clubs of New York and the United States Club of Havana, Cuba. The North American Trust Company having been made the fis- cal agent and depositary of the United States Government at San- tiago de Cuba, in July, 1898, Mr. Jarvis established in that city a branch of the Trust Company, this SAMUEL MILLER JARVIS. being the first American banking Institution in Cuba. Immediately following the assembling of the United States Evacuation Commis- sion at Havana, he also established a branch of the North American Trust Company in that city. He was recently prominent in the or- ganization of the Chamber of Commerce of Havana, and was elected its first Vice-President. In connection with Miss Clara Barton, he was active in the Red Cross work at Santiago and Havana. He was born in MeDonough County, Illinois, January 31, 1853, the son of James Jarvis, merchant and farmer. His paternal great-grandfather was the owner of a large plantation in Virginia in the last century. At the age of twenty Mr. Jarvis settled at Winfield. Kan., where he taught school and studied law. In 1876 he began law practice with Hon. A. J. Pyburn. He soon became financial agent in Kansas for several insurance companies. and in 1878 formed the firm of Jarvis, Conklin
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& Company. In 1881 this firm removed to Kansas City. Mr. Jarvis organized the Farmers' and Drovers' Bank at Kingman, Kan., in 1884, becoming its President. He also helped organize the Bank of Colum- bus, Kan., becoming its Vice-President. He was one of the incor- porators of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of Kansas City. Hle was one of the organizers of the Land Title Guarantee Company of the same city, and was its President. He has been a director of the New England Safe Deposit and Trust Company. In 1871 he married Miss Priscilla Wear, and has two daughters and a son-IIugh Samuel Jarvis.
PARSONS, HOSMER BUCKINGHAM, is President of the Ameri- can Railway and Lumber Company, is President of the Jalapa Rail- way and Power Company. is Vice-President of the American Mining Company. is Vice-President of the Anaconda Copper Mining Com- pany, is Treasurer of the Batopilas Mining Company, is Assistant Secretary of Wells, Fargo & Company, and is a director, Secretary, and Cashier of Wells, Fargo & Company's Bank. He is a trustee of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, a trustee of the Berkeley Institute of Brooklyn, and a member of the Montauk Club, of Brook- lyn. and the Lawyers' Club, of New York. the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars. From 1860 to 1863 he hekl mer- cantile and banking clerkships in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri. Since 1861 he has been successively with Butterfield's Overland Dis- patch Company, Ben Holladay, Holladay's Overland Mail Company. and with Wells. Fargo & Company, engaged in overland stage trans- portation. express business, and banking business in Kansas. Utah. Montana. and New York City. He was born in Heuvelton. St. Law- rence County, N. Y .. January 6, 1846. and was educated at Ripon Col- lege. Wisconsin. He is of English descent, the son of Rev. Benjamin Booth Parsons. D.D .. LL.D .. and Arabella. daughter of Hosmer Buck- ingham and Lily Snow, and grandson of Plyn Parsons and Tryphosa Booth. His father was a distinguished clergyman, as was also his uncle, Rev. Charles Benjamin Parsons, D.D., LL.D. The latter was an eminent tragedian who subsequently became a Bishop of the M. E. Church. South.
RANKINE, WILLIAM BIRCH, is President of the Niagara Falls Water Works Company, President of the Lewiston Connecting Bridge Company, Vice-President of the Vulcanized Fibre Company, Vice- President of the Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge Railway Com- pans, Secretary and Treasurer of the Niagara Development Com- pany, Secretary and Treasurer of the Cataract Construction Company, Secretary and Treasurer of the Niagara Junction Railway Company, Secretary and a director of the Nikola Tesla Company, and a director
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of the Interstate Casualty Company. He was one of the incorpora- tors of the Cataract Construction Company. He is a member of the Metropolitan, University, Reform, Church, Alpha Delta Phi, and Law- yers' clubs, the City Bar Association, St. Andrew's Society, and the Union College Alumni. He is also a member of the Buffalo Club of Buffalo, and the Todenac Club of Toronto. He attended Canandaigua Academy, Hobart College, and Union College; was graduated from the latter in 1877, and now holds the degree of A.M. from both Union and Hobart. In 1880 he was admitted to the New York bar; from 1880 to 1884 was clerk with the law firm of Vanderpoel, Green & Heu- ning, of this city; from 1884 to 1890 was a member of the firm of Hawkesworth & Rankine, and in 1892 withdrew from general prac- tice, becoming attorney for the Niagara Falls Power Company and the allied corporations engaged in developing the power of Niagara Falls. Born in Owego, N. Y., January 4, 1858, he is the son of the late eminent Rev. James Rankine, D.D., LL.D., who was successively Professor in Trinity College, Hartford; President of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., and Rector of the De Lancey Divinity School, Geneva. His mother was Fanny, daughter of Charles B. Meek, of Canandaigua, N. Y., who came to the United States from Staffordshire, England, in 1836. His paternal grandfather, John Rankine, of Canandaigua, came from Ayr, Scotland, in 1835, being the son of a Scottish laird. He also descends from the house of Cochrane, through Grizel, daughter of Sir John Cochrane, of Ochiltree, the second son of the first Earl of Dundonald.
GREENWOOD, ISAAC JOHN. a director of the Ball and Wood Company, was one of the original members of the American Numis- matic and Archeological Society in 1859, was one of its Incorpora- tors in 1864, and became its first Vice-President. The son of the late Dr. Isaac John Greenwood, and grandson of Dr. John Greenwood. both eminent physicians of this city, he was born here November 15. 1833; was graduated from Columbia College in 1853, subsequently receiving the degree of A.M .. and studied chemistry under Professor Robert Ogden Doremus, and attended lectures in the New York Medi- cal College. He married. in 1866. Mary Agnes, daughter of Joseph Rudd and Eliza E. Barnes, and has a son -- Isaac John Greenwood. . Ir. Hle is a member of the Colonial Club, the Columbia Alumni Associa- · tion, the Dunlap Society, the New York Zoological and Botanical Gar- den societies, the New York and Long Island Historical societies. the American Geographical Society. the Linnaeus Society. the Sons of the Revolution, the Prince Society of Boston. and other organizations, in- cluding the Buffalo Historical, and the New England Historical and Genealogical societies. of both of which he is Corresponding Member. He is a member of the Grand Consistory of the Dutch Collegiate Church.
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WHEELER, JEROME BYRON, after a brilliant record as a volun- teer during the Civil War, obtained a clerical position in New York City in the grain business, and subsequently was clerk with Holt & Company, flour and commission merchants. He was rapidly pro- moted until he became a partner in this firm. This association con- tinued until 1878. In 1879 he became executor of the estate of his brother-in-law, R. M. Valentine, thus becoming connected with the well-known drygoods house of R. II. Macy & Company. He joined the senior partner, Charles B. Webster, in the purchase of the entire business. In 1888 he retired from this firm, having interested himself in mining enterprises. A visit to Aspen, Colo., in 1882, led him to organize the Aspen Mining and Smelting Company, of which he is President. He is also President of the Croesus Gold Mining and Milling Company. In 1SS4 he bought coal lands at Jerome Park, Colo., opened a coal mine, and built the most elaborate coke ovens in Colorado. He acquired interests in the Aspen, Emma, Spar, Vallejo, and Hidden Treasure mines, to- gether with many others. In 1886 he induced the Colorado Midland Railway Company to extend its line to Aspen, and became First Vice- President of the company. He or- ganized the Grand River Coal and Coke Company, owning 5,000 acres of coal lands, and became its Presi- dent. He established the J. B. Wheeler Banking Company of Aspen, and the J. B. Wheeler Bank- ing Company of Manitou. JEROME BYRON WHEELER. erected au opera house.at Aspen, aided in developing the Glenwood hot springs as a resort, and has been active in real estate operations at Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Ogden, and Salt Lake City. He maintains an office in New York City, and is a member of the Union League, Commonwealth, Manhattan, Goethe, and Lawyers' clubs, and the New England Society. He married, in 1870, Harriet Macy Valentine, of Nantucket, Mass., and has living two daughters. He was himself born in Troy, N. Y., September 3, 1841, the son of Daniel Barker Wheeler and Mary J. Emerson. His ancestors, long established in New England, were originally from England. His mother belonged to the same branch of the Emerson family as did Ralph Waldo Emerson. The family having moved to Waterford, near Troy, Mr. Wheeler was educated in the schools of Waterford, clerked in a village store and worked in a factory. On
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