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In 1896 he became the head of the well-known law firm of Lawrence & Hughes, his partners being his brother Malcolm R. Lawrence and Gordon T. Hughes, with offices in the Equitable Building. He has been counsel for many railroad, industrial, and other corporations, estates, and men of business. He is a director in the Chatham National Bank, the City Trust Company, the Garfield Safe Deposit Company, and the American Surety Com- pany.
Mr. Lawrence was married, in 1876, to Miss Eva Reed, who died in 1901, and has four children, the eldest of whom, Frank Lawrence, is also a lawyer.
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SAMUEL LLOYD
I THE Lloyd family, or at least that part of it to which the present subject belongs, is of Welsh ancestry, and of the Quaker faith. They originally settled in this country, in Phila- delphia. Dr. Lloyd's father, Gardiner Potts Lloyd, president of the American Coal Company, married Miss Emma Disbrow, and to them Samuel Lloyd was born, at Jersey City, New Jersey, on August 4, 1860. He was educated at Princeton Uni- versity, in the John C. Green School of Science, and was graduated in the class of 1882. Then he studied medicine at the University of Vermont, being graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1884; he continued his study in the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and was graduated from that institution in 1885.
Dr. Lloyd's first professional service was done on the house staff of St. Luke's Hospital, New York, in 1883-84. Thereafter for three years he was house surgeon and assistant secretary to the faculty at the New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital.
In 1886 Dr. Lloyd became instructor in clinical and operative surgery in the New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital, and filled that place with success until 1891. In the latter year he resigned from the department of operative sur- gery, but remained an instructor in clinical surgery until 1898, when he became attending surgeon of the babies' wards, which place lie still occupies. Meantime he was from 1892 to 1896 visiting surgeon in the hospitals on Randalls Island, from 1893 to 1895 surgeon-in-chief in the Lebanon Hospital, and in 1898-99 adjunct professor of surgery. At the present time he
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is professor of surgery and attending surgeon in the New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital.
In addition to the manifold duties attached to these various places, Dr. Lloyd has busied himself as a writer on professional subjects. He has contributed to current medical and surgical literature many monographs on surgical topics, and editorial articles in the " Annals of Surgery " and the " American Medico- surgical Bulletin."
He is a member of the New York County Medical Society, a permanent member of the New York State Medical Society, and a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, the Lenox Medical and Surgical Society, and the Princeton Club. In these various or- ganizations he is an active and influential member, participating frequently and to good purpose in their deliberations and doing much to promote their professional and social welfare.
Dr. Lloyd was married, in Brooklyn, to Miss Adele Ferrier Peck, a daughter of the Rev. Francis Peck. They have three children : Elisabeth Armstrong Lloyd, Adele Augustine Lloyd, and Samuel Raymond Lloyd.
Walter S. Logans
WALTER SETH LOGAN
I THIE families of Logan and Hollister, both of which have at- tained prominence in American affairs, are of Scottish origin. One of the Logans was in the Council of State of Queen Mary of Scotland, and he and his family were conspicuous in Scottish politics in those days. The name of Hollister is a corruption of that of MacAlister, the latter being borne by one of the famous Highland clans. Representatives of both of these families came to North America in or about the year 1630, and helped to found the town of Wethersfield, Connectient, some years later. It was at Wethersfield that one of the Hollisters, a preacher, was tried for heresy for denying the "real presence" in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and was excommunicated from the church. At a later date the two families removed to Stratford, Connecticut, and thence to Woodbury, Connecticut, of which latter place the present town of Washington was a part.
In the last generation Seth S. Logan of Washington, Connec- ticut, was a prominent man in Connecticut politics, being for many years a member of one branch or the other of the State Legislature or a State officer. He married Miss Serene Hol- lister, and to them, at Washington, on April 15, 1847, the sub- jeet of this sketch, Walter Seth Logan, was born. The boy received a careful education, at first at the famous "Gunnery School " in his native town, then at Fort Edward Institute, New York, then at the Connecticut Literary Institution, at Suffield, and finally at Yale College, where he was graduated in 1870. From Yale he went to Harvard, entered the Law School, and there spent a profitable year. Thenee he came to New York city, where he entered the office of James C. Carter, and at the same time continued his studies in the Law School of Columbia
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College. He received his diploma from Columbia, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1872.
It was Mr. Logan's auspicious fortune to begin his career at the bar in direct association with some of its most eminent prac- titioners. As already stated, he was a student in the office of James C. Carter, one of the foremost lawyers of his generation. His first legal work, after completing his studies and being ad- mitted to the bar, was done under that same distinguished preceptor. This was in one of the most famous pieces of litiga- tion of the time, the Jumel will case, in which that other dis- tinguished leader of the American bar, the Hon. Charles O'Conor, was also concerned.
In his subsequent career Mr. Logan has fulfilled and enlarged upon the professional promise implied in the manner of his entry to the bar. He has been engaged in a considerable number of suits of more than ordinary interest and importance. Among these may be mentioned the Austin will case, the David insurance cases, soap-cutting machine patent cases, the Chese- brough case, the Wirt and Waterman fountain-pen cases, the Davis will case of Montana, the water-rights litigations in Ari- zona and California, the Phelps estate cases, Underhill vs. Her- nandez, and the Van Ingen libel suits.
The Phelps estate cases were important from a professional point of view, and they also had the interesting effect of leading Mr. Logan to add literary authorship to the catalogue of his successful achievements. These eases concerned the will and estate of Bethuel Phelps, who at the time of his death was heavily interested in property in Mexico. In the conduct of the ensuing litigation it became necessary for Mr. Logan not merely to visit Mexico, but to spend much time in that country. He was much interested in Mexico, and studied its institutions and customs closely, with the result that he has ever since been re- garded as a leading authority upon the subject, and has written a number of books concerning it. Among these may be men- tioned " The Siege of Cuautla," "Peonage in Mexico," and " A Mexican Law Suit," besides "Nationalism," " An Argument for an Eight-Hour Law," and "Needed Modifications of the Patent Law."
Mr. Logan has paid considerable attention to public affairs,
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as the titles of some of his works indicate. In 1887-89 he was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Ballot Reform As- sociation of New York State, and in that capacity aided con- spicuously in obtaining the fifty thousand signatures attached to the monster petition filed in the State Library.
He has been president of the New York State Bar Association, and now represents the State of New York on the Governing Council of the American Bar Association. He is also president- general of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
PIERRE LORILLARD
"THE name of Lorillard, which for several generations has been prominently identified in this country with business enterprise, great wealth, social leadership, sportsmanship, and various public benefactions, is of French-Huguenot origin. The family which bears it was formerly settled in Montpelier, France. Religious persecution drove it from France to Holland, and thence a branch of it came to America. The pioneer in this country was Peter or Pierre Lorillard, who lived at Hacken- sack, New Jersey, and who was killed by Hessian soldiers in the Revolutionary War. His wife was Catherine Moore of New Jersey, and she bore him, among other children, three sons named Peter A., George, and Jacob. The first-named married Maria Dorothea Schultz, daughter of Major Schultz of the Revolutionary army, and had four daughters and one son, the latter named Peter after his father and grandfather.
Peter A. Lorillard and his brother George engaged in the tobacco- and snuff-manufacturing business, and developed it to great proportions. They established huge factories in Jersey City and elsewhere, which are now the property of the P. Loril- lard Tobacco Company. Another noteworthy factory, devoted to the manufacture of snuff, was established on the banks of the Bronx River in Westchester County, New York, and is now in- cluded in Bronx Park as an interesting and picturesque ruin. The Lorillards also in that generation became the owners of much real estate in New York city and elsewhere.
The third Peter Lorillard, son of Peter A. Lorillard, married Catherine Griswold, a descendant of the famous Griswold and Wolcott families of Connecticut, whose members played con- spienous parts in colonial and Revolutionary times and are still
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among the foremost citizens of New England. They had a number of children, who married members of prominent New York families. Mr. Lorillard was himself a man of great public spirit and was one of the foremost leaders of society. He had a fine country estate at Saratoga, where he died in 1867.
The eldest son of the third Peter Lorillard and Catherine Griswold also bore the name of Peter, but used it always in the old French form, Pierre. He was the head of the Lorillard Tobacco Company, but was still better known as a social leader and sportsman, and as the head of several unique enterprises of his own. Thus he was the founder of the well-known country colony Tuxedo Park, which, indeed, was built upon a portion of his own vast estate on the border-line between New York and New Jersey, among the Ramapo Mountains. He was at one time one of the foremost landowners at Newport, Rhode Island, having there the fine place known as "Ochre Point," which he sold to Cornelius Vanderbilt. In New York city he had a splen- did mansion at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street, which in its day was one of the wonders of the town, and which con- tained the first large private ball-room ever built in New York. Later in his life he made his home in one of the fine old man- sions on the north side of Washington Square, though most of his time was spent abroad. He took much interest in horse- racing and yachting. For the promotion of the former sport he es- tablished a magnificent stock-farm called "Raneocas " near Jobs- town, New Jersey. He was one of the chief patrons of the old Jerome Park when it was the foremost track in America, and he was the first American to win the famous Derby race in Eng- land, doing so with his horse Iroquois in 1881. His horse Parole also made a great reputation as a race-winner in England. In late years most of his racing was done in England, in part- nership with Lord William Beresford. He owned the yacht Vesta, and personally sailed her in the famous ocean race from Sandy Hook to Cowes. He also owned the steam-yacht Radha. He joined the French government in fitting out the two Charnay expeditions to Yucatan which resulted in invaluable discoveries of ancient cities, etc., and by way of recognition for this service he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He died in 1901.
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Pierre Lorillard married Miss Emily Taylor, daughter of Dr. Isaac E. Taylor, one of the founders of Bellevue Hospital Medi- cal College, and had three children: Mrs. William Kent, Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer, and Pierre Lorillard, Jr. The last-named, the fifth of that name in this country, was born in New York city on January 28, 1860, and married, in 1881, Miss Caroline J. Hamilton, daughter of George Hamilton of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Lorillard have two sons, Pierre and Griswold, and make their home at Keewaydin, Tuxedo Park. Mr. Lorillard is one of the principal owners of the Lorillard Tobacco Company, and is a prominent figure in New York society and in sporting affairs. He is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, Fencers', Riding, and Westminster Kennel clubs of New York, and of the Metro- politan Club of Washington, D. C. He has adopted on the turf the colors made famous by his father, and is expected to keep the name of Lorillard foremost, as of old, in the racing world.
PHINEAS C. LOUNSBURY
THERE are few as well-known names in the western part of Connectieut and the adjacent part of Westchester County, New York, as that of Lounsbury, and of the numerous family which bears it there is no better known member than the subject of this sketeh, who has won distinction as a statesman, a financier, and a good citizen.
Phineas Chapman Lounsbury is the son of Nathan and Delia (Schofield) Lounsbury, the grandson of a Revolutionary soldier, and in the sixth generation of direct descent from the first American Lounsbury, who came from England in 1651 and set- tled at Stamford, Connecticut. His father and grandfather were both farmers at Stamford. He was born in the beautiful town of Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, on January 10, 1841, and received a good academic education in various Connecticut schools, and was noted as a fine scholar, especially excelling in mathematics, the classies, oratory, and debating.
At the outbreak of the Civil War Mr. Lounsbury enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers. The failure of his health prevented him, however, from perform- ing much active service in the war, and he presently returned home and engaged in business affairs. A pension was offered to him, but he declined it. He has since taken a most earnest interest in the welfare of veteran soldiers of the war, and has on several occasions been the orator at important reunions and dedieations.
Mr. Lounsbury cast his first vote in 1862, as a Republican, and has been an earnest member of that party ever since. In 1874 he represented Ridgefield in the Legislature, and was one of the most influential members of that party. It was largely
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through his efforts that the local option law of Connecticut was adopted. In the Presidential campaign of 1884 he was conspicuous as a popular speaker, and two years later he was handsomely elected Governor of the State. It was the universal testimony, even of the political opponents, that he was one of the very best governors Connectient has ever had.
Mr. Lounsbury's first business enterprise was that of a manufacturer at New Haven, where he established the house of Lounsbury Bros. Afterward he became a member of the firm of Lounsbury, Mathewson & Co., at South Norwalk. In 1889 he was elected president of the Merchants' Exchange National Bank of New York city, one of the foremost finaneial institutions of the financial capital of the country, and he has since that date been a conspienons figure in the business world of New York. Besides his bank presidency he is a trustee of the American Bank Note Company, and a director of various other corporations.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a delegate to the General Conference of 1886. He is trustee of Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Connecticut, and received from it in 1887 the degree of LL. D. He is a member of the Colonial, Republiean, and other clubs of New York, a Free- mason, a Knight Templar, and a Noble of the Mystie Shrine.
Mr. Lounsbury was married, in 1867, to Miss Jennie Wright, daughter of Neziah Wright, one of the founders of the American Bank Note Company. He has probably the finest residence in Ridgefield, Connecticut, a town of palatial homes, a house in New York city, and a summer lodge on Raquette Lake, in the Adirondaeks.
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John Pro Bulagh
JOHN McCULLAGH
THE finest in the world" is the description once made of the police force of New York city. Beyond doubt the force has in more than one respect deserved the tribute. It has contained many men and officers who would well serve and honor any force in the world. And conspicuous among these and among those who gave the New York police force whatever worth and effi- cieney it has, a place in the front rank must be given to John MeCullagh.
His name indicates a Scottish origin. He was, in fact, born in Ireland, on September 29, 1845. But his father, Robert McCul- lagh, a farmer, and his mother, whose maiden name was Jane Hunter, were both of Scotch ancestry, their forefathers having been among those thrifty Scotch colonists who made the north of Ireland so prosperous a region. He was educated in the pub- lie schools of Ireland, and spent his boyhood on his father's farm, with no extraordinary ineidents to make it notable. At the age of seventeen he came to the United States, and here found em- ployment on a stock farm. He became a naturalized citizen, and sought to identify himself in every way with America and American institutions.
Mr. MeCullagh was scarcely twenty-five when, on March 30, 1870, he was appointed a patrolman on the New York police force. On February 28, 1873, he was promoted to be a rounds- man, and on July 19, 1876, to be a sergeant. A captainey came to him on July 20, 1883, and then, in charge of the Elizabeth Street Station, he made a noteworthy record. It was he who broke up the notorious " Whyo Gang " of professional criminals, sending some of its members to prison. He did nmeh to purify what had been one of the worst quarters of New York, and did
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admirable work also in various other precinets to which he was at times assigned. in May, 1895, Captain MeCullagh was made an acting inspector. His promotion to the full rank of inspector was delayed for two years through political chicanery. Finally, on August 25, 1897, he was made Chief of Police. When the consolidation of the city took effect, on January 1, 1898, he was made the first Chief of Police of the enlarged city, and he performed the task of reorganizing and consolidating the police forces of the various boroughs. Unfortunately for the service and the city, his political affiliations were not with the political party which then came into control of the city government, and on May 21, 1898, he was retired from active service on a pension of three thousand dollars a year.
His services were not, however, to be altogether lost to the public. On July 19, 1898, Governor Black appointed him to the newly made office of State Superintendent of Elections for the Metropolitan Elections District on a salary of five thousand dollars a year. Again, on December 12, 1898, on request of General Greene, approved by President MeKinley, he was sent to Cuba to organize a new police force in the city of Havana. This task he performed successfully, and returned to the United States on March 10, 1899, and resumed his duties as State Superintendent of Elections.
Mr. MeCullagh is a Republican in politics, but has taken no active part in political matters beyond that of a citizen, serupu- lously keeping his political predilections apart from his official duties. He is a member of the Masonic Order, the Mystic Shrine, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, the Republican Club, and the West Side Republican Club.
He was married, on August 20, 1879, at Long Branch, New Jersey, to Miss Maria Hamill, daughter of the late James Taylor Hamill of New York. They have no children.
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JOHN B. McDONALD
E IVEN in these days of huge enterprises, no other municipality has ever undertaken a work of such magnitude as the con- struction, equipment, and operation of the Rapid Transit Rail- road in the city of New York. Of this project the responsible head is John B. MeDonald, who was born in County Cork in 1844, and three years later was brought to this country by his relatives. His father and uncle had already preceded him, and had begun their career on this side of the water in the upper part of Manhattan Island. His boyhood years were spent in the neighborhood of Jerome Park, where later he was destined to become the builder of one of the largest storage reservoirs in the world, and also about Fort Washington, where in 1900 Mr. MeDonald saw the breaking of ground for the first real excava- tion for the Rapid Transit Subway. These places were the scene of his school-days, and here his early career was spent.
When young MeDonald arrived in this country, his father, Bartholomew MeDonald, had already established himself as a local contractor. He was a well-known figure in the upper part of the city, had become a political leader of note there, and for some years represented his distriet in the Board of Aldermen.
Mr. McDonald grew up to follow his father's business, and for some time was associated with him in it. When he decided to start out for himself, his first engagement was that of clerk, or timekeeper, at forty-five dollars a month, in construction of the great storage reservoir connected with the Croton water system at Boyd's Corners, Putnam County, New York. In that place he spent four years, working hard during long hours, giving his employers full satisfaction, and, more important still, thoroughly familiarizing himself with all departments of construction work.
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His experience and knowledge of this work secured him his next engagement. The great railroad improvements for the New York Central on Fourth Avenue, New York, were begun soon after the Boyd's Corners reservoir was finished, and Mr. McDonald was appointed chief inspector of masonry thereon. Subsequently he became interested in subcontracts with Dillon, Clyde & Co. for the building of that part of the tunnel between Ninetieth and One Hundredth streets.
This work was accomplished not only with profit to himself, but with satisfaction to the authorities. With Smith & Ripley, successors of the firm of Dillon, Clyde & Co., he carried out various contracts for railroad and other work, including the construction of the Boston, Hoosie Tunnel & Western, with a bridge over the Hudson, the Georgian Bay Branch of the Cana- dian Pacific, and important subcontracts on the extension of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad from Bingham- ton to Buffalo. After severing his connection with this firm, he was interested in other important contracts, including a large section of the West Shore Railroad, the extension of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad from Baltimore to Philadelphia, the extension of the Illinois Central Railroad from Elgin, Illinois, to Dodgeville, Wisconsin, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, a contract amounting to four million dollars, the Trenton "cut- off" for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the building of the Potomac Valley Railroad from Cherry Run to Williamsport. Pennsylvania.
Important as these various achievements were, they were not to be compared, in difficulty of construction, in value, or in importance, to the enormous task of building the Baltimore Belt Railroad, which carried the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad directly under the city of Baltimore, under street and subsurface struc- tures, under houses and massive buildings of all sorts. In many respects there is not a more intricate or difficult piece of railroad- building in the United States, and the credit for its successful construction belongs largely to Mr. McDonald. Together with John K. Cowen, now president of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road, and Samuel Rea, now vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. McDonald was the author of this enterprise, and to carry it through these gentlemen organized the Maryland
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Construction Company, of which Mr. MeDonald was president. On this tunnel fifteen hundred men were employed. During Mr. MeDonald's residence in Baltimore he became president of the South Baltimore Car Works, and president of the Eastern Ohio Railroad. He was also prominently identified with many of the leading business interests of that city.
Soon after this gigantie task, Mr. MeDonald became the sue- cessful bidder for the work of transforming Jerome Park into a storage reservoir, a contract involving six millions of dollars and employing several thousand men. While Mr. McDonald was prosecuting the Jerome Park work, he made the greatest contract of his career for the construction, equipment, and oper- ation of the Rapid Transit Railroad. He had for years been studying the rapid-transit question and familiarizing himself with its varied and important phases, and it was his ambition to give to the people of New York real rapid transit from one end of the city to the other. In January. 1900, the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners awarded to him, for the sum of thirty-five millions of dollars, with two millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars additional for terminals, the contract for the construction of the Rapid Transit Subway. In February of the same year, August Belmont, whose father, the late August Belmont, was the first chairman of the Rapid Transit Commis- sion, organized and had incorporated the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company, with a capital of six million dollars, to guarantee and aid Mr. McDonald in this enterprise, among the directors being some of the best-known business men and capi- talists of this eity. Under these auspices, and fortified by a long and varied experience, Mr. McDonald has begun, and is now vigorously pushing at numerous points, the construction of the railroad which, within four and one half years, will give to the people of New York real rapid transit.
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