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while in New York he studied further with C. Welles, then a well- known architect of New York. He was for some time associated with Mr. Welles. He was a charter member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was a member of the Harmonie and Freundschaft societies, and was a Past Master Mason, having been Past Master of King Solomon's Lodge. He was also Treasurer of the United Association of American Architects. His widow and five children survived him. His son, Walter M. Fernbach, is his successor in business.
FISK, CHARLES JOEL, was born in Jersey City, N. J., in 1858. His father, Harvey Fisk, was a native of Vermont, of English extrac- tion, tracing his ancestry back to 1399. William Fisk, the original American ancestor, settled in Wen- ham, Mass., in 1637, where he and a brother named John were promi- nent residents. Mr. Fisk's father was, in 1848, a clerk in a drygoods store in Trenton, N. J. In 1852 he was employed as assistant teller in the Mechanics' Bank, of New York City, and, ten years later, in 1862, began business for himself, and soon afterward, as the head of the firm of Fisk & Hatch, became a noted financier, and was very prom- inent in Wall Street for many years. Fisk & Hatch were very active during the War of the Re- bellion as agents for the Govern- mert. The firm continued until 1885. It was then dissolved, and CHARLES JOEL FISK. Mr. Fisk associated his sons with him in business, under the firm name of Harvey Fisk & Sons. The father died in 1889. The present members of the firm are Harvey E., Charles J., Pliny, and Alexander G. Fisk, Theodore H. Banks, and Herbert W. Denny. Mr. Fisk's maternal grandfather, A. B. Green, was an active business man, connected with the old Camden and Amboy Railroad. He was a member of the Legislature for two terms during the war. Charles J. Fisk was educated in New York. He went into his father's office when seventeen years of age, and has been consecutively connected with the business since. In 1891 he became a member of the City Council of Plainfield, N. J., where he resides. He was one of the leaders in securing the sewer system for that city. He has been a delegate to different county conventions, and was alter- nate to the St. Louis Convention, which nominated Major MeKinley for President. He served as Chairman of the Campaign Committee of
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Union County, New Jersey, in 1896. He is a member of the Lawyers', Republican, and Wool clubs, of New York, and the Union. County Country Club, of Plainfield, N. J. He married, in 1879, Miss Lillie R. Richey, of Trenton, N. J., daughter of the late Augustus G. Richey. They have five children-Lonisa G., Augustus R., Charles W., Harvey, and Annie G. The family are members of the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, Plainfield, of which church Mr. Fisk is one of the trustees. He was unanimously chosen by his party for the office of Mayor of Plainfield, and was elected at the last municipal election.
CLAFLIN, HORACE BRIGHAM, founder of the wholesale dry- goods house of H. B. Claflin & Company, was born in Milford, Mass., December 18, 1811, and died in Fordham, N. Y., November 14, 1885. He received an academical education, and became a clerk in his father's store in Milford. With his brother and a brother-in-law they succeeded to the business. In 1832 he was in charge of a branch store established at Worcester, Mass. In July, 1843, he removed to New York City, in partnership with William F. Bulkley forming the whole- sale drygoods firm of Bulkley & Claflin. Mr. Bulkley retired in 1851, the firm becoming Claflin, Mellen & Company. Upon the retirement of William H. Mellen, the present style of H. B. Claflin & Company was adopted. Mr. Claflin was a Republican as early as 1850, and in 1872 was a Presidential elector. He was a strong advocate of civil- service reform, and in 1884 supported Grover Cleveland. He was one of the most prominent members of Plymouth Church, of which Henry Ward Beecher was pastor for so many years. He was a supporter of Henry Bergh in his work looking to the prevention of cruelty to animals.
CLAFLIN, JOHN, was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1869, entered the wholesale drygoods establishment established by his father, and succeeded to the latter's interest in 1885. He is now President of the II. B. Claflin Company, and is a director of the National Bank of Commerce, the American Exchange National Bank, the United States Trust Company, the New York Life. and a number of other insurance companies. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Seventy, which nominated Mayor Strong, and is also a member of the Rapid Transit Commission. He is a member of the leading clubs of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 24, 1850, and is the son of the late Horace Brigham Claflin and Agnes, daughter of Calvin Sanger. He descends from Robert (Mac) Claflin, who settled in Wenham, Essex County. Mass., as early as 1661, and from Richard Sanger, who reached Boston in the ship Confidence in 1638. His great-grandfather, John Claflin. was a Revolutionary soldier. His great-grandfather, Samuel Sanger.
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was a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety in 1777, while his great-great-grandfather, Richard Sanger, was a mem- ber of the second Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1775. A member of this family, William Claflin, was Governor of Massa- chusetts.
FIELD, WILLIAM ADDISON, in 1868 engaged with the New. York hardware commission house of Joseph H. Adams & Coombs; in 1872 became connected with the First National Bank of Brooklyn as messenger; was made bookkeeper in 1873; in 1883 was promoted to the position of Correspondent Clerk; became Assistant Cashier in 1890, and since 1894 has been Cashier. He is a member of the Bank Clerks' Association and of Fraternity Council, No. 504, Royal Arca- num. He was born in Brooklyn, August 19, 1854, the son of Charles D. Field and Mary M. Randall. His father was born in Charlestown, Mass., and mother in Roxbury, Mass. His parents having removed to St. Paul, Minn., in 1855, and returned to Brooklyn in 1862, he was educated in the public schools of these two cities.
EARLE, HENRY, has long been in business as a rubber merchant in New York City, and is Vice-President and General Manager of the Crude Rubber Company. He resides in Brooklyn, and is Secretary of the Brooklyn Club, and a member of the Marine and Field, Twen- tieth Century, Barnard, and Crescent Athletic clubs, and the Dowu- town Association. He married. in 1874, Alice, daughter of Edwin Morse and Abby M. Clary, of Worcester, Mass., and has living two daughters and a son -- Alexander Morse Earle. Born in Providence. R. I., November 20, 1843, Mr. Earle is the son of Henry Earle and Mary T., daughter of Judge John Pitman and Rhoda Talbot. of Provj- dence; is great-grandson of Hon. Caleb Earle, Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode Island. and descends from Ralph Earle, who arrived at New- port, R. I .. in 1638, and became Captain of a troop of horse. He is sixth in descent from Oliver Earle, who was for some years a mer- chant in this city, engaging in the East India trade.
EARLE, JOSEPH P., well known rubber merchant of this city. where he has been established in business for many years, is a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce and the Union. Union League. Tuxedo, University, New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, and Seawan- haka-Corinthian Yacht clubs; the Downtown Association, and other organizations. He was born in Providence, R. L .. in 1847; was grad- uated from Brown University in 1871, and is a member of the Brown University Alumni Association of this city. He is eighth in descent from Captain Ralph Earle, of Newport, R. L., in 1638, and his wife, Joan Savage: is seventh from Hon. William Earle, who was a Member
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of the General Assembly of Rhode Island in 1704, and again in 1706; is sixth from Oliver Earle, at one time in the East India trade in New York City, and is great-grandson of Lieutenant-Governor Caleb Earle, of Rhode Island.
O'DONOHUE, JOSEPH J., founder and for many years the head of the firm of Joseph J. O'Donohue & Son, tea and coffee importers, is one of the most prominent merchants and citizens of New York. He was one of the founders of the Long Island Ferry Company in 1858. and subsequent to the consolidation of that corporation in 1864 with the Brooklyn Ferry Company became President of the Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company thus created. Greatly improving the service, while at the same time re- ducing the fares, he did much to build up the Eastern District of Brooklyn. While residing in Brooklyn he served for some time as Chairman of the Democratic General Committee of Kings County, and was a frequent dele- gate to State Conventions. Ile refused to permit his nomination as Democratic candidate for Mayor of Brooklyn. After the removal of his residence to New York City in 1867, he was for some time a member of the Gen- eral Committee of Tammany Hall, and served as its Vice- Chairman. In 1871 he refused to JOSEPH J. O'DONOHUE. permit his nomination as Demo- cratic candidate for Mayor of New York. He was Park Commissioner from 1874 to 1876, by ap- pointment of Mayor Wickham. He was a trustee of the New York Coffee Exchange, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. He was a director of the Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue railroads of New York, and a director of the People's Steamship Line, plying between New York City and Albany subsequent to 1880, when he purchased Daniel Drew's interest. He was born in this city, January 8. 1834. his father, the late John O'Donohue. being a well-known merchant. Before reaching his majority he became his father's partner in the wholesale tea and coffee fina of John O'Donohue & Sons, which. after his father's death, became John O'Donohue's Sons. He retired from this firm in 1880. and the same year established a partnership with
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Atherton Fostor for the importation of coffee and tea. Mr. Fostor retiring January 1, 1882, Mr. O'Donohue continued alone for a year, and then received into partnership his eldest son, Joseph J. O'Dono- hue, Jr., under the style of Joseph J. O'Donohue & Son. With the admission of his other son. Thomas J., the firm style changed to Joseph J. O'Donohue & Sons, as at present. He was married, Septem- ber 7, 1858, to Teresa M. J. Riley, of New York City, and in addition to. the two sons mentioned has two daughters living. He is a member of many clubs and societies.
O'DONOHUE. JOSEPH J., JR., member of the well-known coffee . importing firm of Joseph J. O'Donohue & Sons, and the eldest son of its head and founder, is an officer of several important corporations. He succeeded his father as President of the Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company, is Vice-President of the Agatine Shoe Hook and Eye- let Company, and is a director of the New Jersey Steamboat Com- pany, the Eighth Avenue Railroad, the Ninth Avenue Railroad, and the Evergreen Cemetery. He is a member of the Downtown Asso- ciation, and the Colonial, Catholic, and New York Athletic clubs.
FALCONER, WILLIAM HENRY, long engaged in extensive real estate operations in this city, has more recently restricted himself to the care of his estate. He is a member of the Union League Club and the St. Nicholas Society. He married Margaret Culbertson McLean, of Fayetteville, Pa., and has two daughters and a son --- Bruce McLean Falconer. With his family he has traveled exten- sively, including all sections of the United States and Alaska, with Mexico, Europe, the Nile, India, China, and Japan. They were pre- sented to Queen Victoria, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Pope Leo XIII., the Sultan of Turkey, the King of Greece, the Khedive of Egypt, and the Empress of Japan. Mr. Falconer was born in this city in 1830, the son of David Falconer, of New York, grandson of Rodger Falconer, of White Plains, and great-grandson of Captain John Falconer, of White Plains, who fought as Captain and Aid to Washington in the battle near White Plains, while his mansion was the headquarters of the Duc de Lauzan. He is lineally descended from Pierre Fauconier, a Huguenot of Tours, who was naturalized in London in 1685, and with his wife, Magdalene Pasquereau. emi- grated to New York in 1702, became a prominent merchant, and was Collector of Customs and Receiver-General of the province.
BOORALEM, ROBERT ELMER, consulting mining engineer and a director of a number of mining enterprises in the West which he owns or helped to develop, is a son of the late eminent New York mer- chant, Henry A. Booraem, and was born in Jersey City, March 28,
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1856. He studied in Germany, attended Dr. Anthon's School, was graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia College, and taking post-graduate courses received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer of Mines. In 1878 he engaged in assay work at Lead- ville, Col., and eventually became manager of the noted Evening Star Mine. Subsequently engaging with the Morning Star Mining Com- pany, he was manager of the Farwell Gold Mine at Independence, Col. In 1886 he became President of the Blue Bird Mining Company of Montana, and realized a large fortune for himself and others. He owns silver mines at Aspen, Col., has large real estate interests in Salt Lake City, and has a ranch on the Salina River, Kansas. In 1894 he was appointed to represent the Alumni of the School of Mines in connection with the removal of Columbia University to Morning- side Heights, and is Class Treasurer of the Alumni Memorial Hall Fund. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engi- neers, the Calumet, Badminton, and American Yacht clubs, the St. Nicholas Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the Revolution.
CLARK, JOHN MITCHELL, the New York head of the Boston and New York firm of Naylor & Company, iron merchants, was born in Boston, July 23, 1847, and was graduated from Brown University in 1865. He entered the iron business with Naylor & Company, of Bos- ton, and has long been at the head of their business in this city. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Racquet, and Law- yers' clubs, and the Downtown Association. He is the son of the late Rev. Thomas March Clark, D.D., LL.D., and Caroline, daughter of Benjamin Howard, of Boston, and is the grandson of Captain Thomas March Clark, of Newburyport, Mass., and Rebecca Wheelwright. He is lineally descended from Nathaniel Clark, one of those who left Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, and founded Newbury, Mass., and is also descended from Rev. John Wheelwright, pastor of the church at Sal- isbury, Mass., a graduate of Sydney College, Cambridge, and son of Robert Wheelwright, of Saleby, Lincolnshire, England. Mr. Clark's father was a graduate of Yale, and successively rector of Grace Church, Boston; St. Andrew's, Philadelphia; Grace Church, Provi- dence, and Bishop of Rhode Island. Mr. Clark's grandfather defended Newburyport against the British in the War of 1812, and was a mem- ber of the committees which received President Monroe in 1817, and Lafayette in 1824.
LUDLAM. EDWIN, in 1858 entered the employ of Abernethy. Collins & Company, importers of woolens in New York City. and in 1864 became a member of the firm of Taylor & Lundlam, in the same business. In 1872 he was elected President of the People's Gas Light Company, of Brooklyn. He subsequently was President of the
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Wallabout Bank, of Brooklyn, of which he is still a Director. He has been President of the Flushing Union Gas Company, and Vice- President of the Newtown Gas Company, and since 1896 has been Secretary of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company. He is likewise President of the Veteran Association of the Fiftieth Regiment, N. G. N. Y .; is President of the Veteran Association of the Brooklyn City Guard (Company G, Twenty-third Regiment, N. G. N. Y.) ; is a trus- tee of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, of Brooklyn, and is a member of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the So- ciety of Old Brooklynites, the Brooklyn, Crescent Athletic, and Ox- ford clubs, and the St. Nicholas Society. He was born in New York. City, November 28. 1841, and was educated in Professor B. W. Dwight's High School in Brooklyn. He is the son of Silas Ludlam and Elizabeth F., daughter of John Clem, and is the grandson of Stephen Ludlam, of New York City, from whom the direct line goes back through Thomas Ludlam, Joseph Ludlam, Jr., and Joseph Lud- lam, Sr., to William Ludlam, who came to this country in 1656. Mr. Ludlam's father was a well-known surveyor, who laid out a large portion of the present Borough of Brooklyn.
EDSON, FRANKLIN, was born in Chester, Vt., April 5, 1832, the son of Opher Edson and -Soviah Williams. He descends from Roger Williams and from Deacon Samuel Edson, who settled in Salem, Mass., in 1638. He received an academic education, and taught school in his early years. In 1852 he engaged in the distilling business in Albany. He was a member of the Albany Board of Trade, a director of the New York State Bank, a Vestryman of St. Paul's Epis- copal Church, and President of the Young Men's Association of Albany. In 1866 he became head of the Albany produce commission firm of Edson, Orr & Chamberlain. This firm soon removed to New York City. Three years later the firm of Franklin Edson & Company was formed. In 1871, Mr. Edson became a member of the New York Produce Exchange. He was Chairman of its Committee on Grain and of its Building Committee, while, in 1873 and 1874, he was Prosi- dent of the Exchange. In 1882 he was elected Mayor of New York City. During his administration the new Croton Aqueduct was laid out and the contracts for its construction awarded, the Brooklyn Bridge was completed, and the new parks acquired by the city. For many years Mr. Edson has been Chairman of the committee to erect a memorial to Peter Cooper. Judge Dykman appointed him one of the commissioners to appraise the property condemned for the JJerome Park Reservoir. He is President of the Genesce Fruit Company. He married, in 1856, Fanny C., daughter of Benjamin Wood, of Bath, N. Y., and granddaughter of Jethro Wood, inventor of the cast-iron plow, and has five sons and two daughters. The eldest, Dr. Cyrus Edson, was long President of the Board of Health of New York City.
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WINDMUELLER, LOUIS, head of the prominent importing and commission house of Windmueller & Roelker, which he organized in 1865, is one of the most eminent German-Americans in the city. At present he is a director of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, the New York and New Jersey Bridge Company, the German-Ameri- can Insurance Company, the German Alliance Insurance Company, and the Forum Publishing Company. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He founded the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, and for four years was its Treasurer. He was also one-of the founders of the German-American Insur- ance Company in 1872, the Bond . and Mortgage Guarantee Com- pany, and the Hide and. Leather National Bank. He was Chair- man of the Committee on Arrange- ments of the German Department in the Centennial celebration of 1889. He subscribed $10,000 to the guaranty fund to bring the World's Fair to New York. He organized the German-American Cleveland Association in 1892. As Treasurer of the Reform Club, he has been active in collecting its fund of $300,000 for a new club- LOUIS WINDMUELLER. house. Ile was born about 1836 in Muenster, Westphalia, attended the Catholic College of that place, and, leaving before graduation, came to New York in 1853. He was married in 1860, and has a son and two daughters.
LEGGETT, FRANCIS HOWARD, received an academic education, and in 1856 became clerk in a New York commission house. In 1862 he formed a partnership with an elder brother. In 1870 he withdrew, and, with a younger brother, founded the present firm of Francis II. Leggett & Company, wholesale grocers. In 1880 they erected the building occupied by this firm. They have canning factories at Bur- lington, N. J. Mr. Leggett is a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, the Produce Exchange, and the Cotton Exchange. He · is a trustee of the Greenwich Savings Bank and a director of the Home Insurance Company. For twelve years he was a director of the National Park Bank. He is one of the council of the Charity Organi- zation Society, and is a member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and the Union League, Merchants', and other clubs. He was born in New York City, March 27. 1840, the son of Abraham Leggett and Sarah, danghter of Richard Lee. Ilis father was a wholesale grocer in New York, and one of the founders of the Market Bank.
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He descends from Gabriel Leggett, an early settler of Westchester County, New York, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Rich- ardson, proprietor of several thousand acres in Westchester County under a patent dated April 25, 1666.
ENGLIS, JOHN, who was born November 25, 1808, and died in Brooklyn, October 25, 1888, was the son of a Scotchman who came to America in 1795. He was educated in the public schools, and then entered the shipyard of Smith & Dimond. Subsequently he became foreman with Bishop & Simonson. In 1837 he built two steamboats on Lake Erie. Returning to New York City he established his own ship- yard, where he constructed some eighty-nine steam vessels for river, sound, and ocean traffic. In 1861 he built for the Federal Govern- ment the gunboat Unadilla in forty-eight days. He became a large owner and an officer of the People's Line, between New York and Albany, and was a director of the International Line, the Maine Steam- ship Company, the Charleston Line, the Knickerbocker Steamship Company, the New York Ferry Company, the Union Ferry Company, the Metropolitan Ferry Company, and the Brighton Pier Company. He was a member of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen and of other organizations.
ENGLIS, CHARLES MORTIMER, at the head of the shipyards established by his father, is also President of the Wallabout Bank of Brooklyn, and a director of the Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company, the Union Ferry Company, the New Jersey Steamboat Company. the Maine Steamship Company, the Portland Steamship Company, the Norwalk and New York Steamboat Company, and the Victoria Fire Insurance Company. He is the builder of all the steam- ers of the People's Line to Albany and the Citizens' Line to Troy. For these lines he built the Adirondack, the Drew, the Dean Richmond, the St. John, the City of Troy, and the Saratoga. For the New York harbor traffic he built the Columbia and the Grand Republic. He built the New Haven steamer, C. H. Northam; the Cuba steamers. Villa Clara, Trimdad, and Gloria, and the Chinese steamers, Fire Cracker, Fire Queen, and Kian-lo. He is a member of the Metropol- itan, Union League, and Military clubs, of Manhattan Borough; the St. Nicholas Society, the Downtown Association, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Mechanics' and Traders' Society, of New York, and the Hamilton, Oxford, Crescent Athletic, and Riding and Driving clubs, of Brooklyn. He was born in Ravenswood, L. I., December 14, 1856, and was educated in the New York University. He is the son of John Englis and Jeannette A. Carrick, the grandson of John Englis and Jeannette Magowan, and the great-grandson of John Englis and Ann Cartwright.
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VAN DEN TOORN, WILLEM HENDRIK, general agent of the Netherlands-American Steam Navigation Company, was born in Rot- terdam, Holland, June 24, 1856, and was educated in that city. He entered the service of the Holland-American Line in April, 1881, as chief clerk of the freight department at Rotterdam. In March, 1882, he was appointed general agent at Amsterdam, while, since Septem- ber, 1884, he has been general agent at New York City. He is a mem- ber of the New York Chamber of Commerce and the New York Produce Exchange.
BUTTERFIELD, DANIEL, a merchant in New York City prior to the Civil War, rose to the rank of Major-General of Volunteers and brevet Brigadier-General of the United States Army " for gallant and meritorious conduct " during that struggle; for some time was United States Sub-Treasurer at New York, and is now President of the Albany and Troy Steamboat Company, President of the Cold Spring National Bank, President of the Apartment Hotel Com- pany, and a director of the Citizens' Savings Bank. The son of John Butterfield, he was born in Utica, N. Y., October 31, 1831, was graduated from Union Col- lege in 1849, and engaged in mer- cantile pursuits in this city. Being Colonel of the Twelfth New York Militia when the war began. he GENERAL DANIEL BUTTERFIELD. accompanied his regiment to
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