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On the expiration of his congressional term Mr. Lockwood resumed the practice of his profession. associated in partnership with Judge Humphrey, but did not cease his active participation in what has always seemed an allied branch of the law - civic affairs. He was too good a manager, too wise a
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counselor, too willing a worker, to be relieved from public service. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Cincinnati, which nominated General Hancock for President. In the same year Grover Cleveland was elected mayor of Buffalo, and Mr. Lockwood made the nominating speech. Two years later, as a delegate to the Democratic state convention, Mr. Lockwood placed Grover Cleveland in nomination for the office of governor. In 1884, at the Democratic national con- vention in Chicago, Mr. Lockwood pre- sented the name of the same man for the Presidency of the United States.
Having been appointed by President Cleveland United States district attorney for northern New York, Mr. Lockwood brought to the office the same legal acumen that characterized his private practice. After holding the position for three years, he resigned in 1889. In the following year he was elected to congress again, and in 1892 he was re-elected. In both congresses Mr. Lockwood served on important committees, and repeated his earlier success in that body. He cared for the interests of his constituents with fidelity and unflagging zeal. He drafted an immigration bill that was regarded by many authorities as affording the best pro- tection to American labor ever devised.
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY - Daniel Newton Lockwood was born at Hamburg, N. Y., June 1, 1844; gradu- ated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1865 ; was admitted to the bar in May, 1866 ; married Sarah B. Brown of Buffalo October 18, 1870; was district attorney for Erie county, 1815-17 ; was a delegate to Democratic national conventions in 1880 and 1884 ; was United States district attorney for the northern district of New York, 1886-89 ; was a mem- ber of the 45th, 52d, and 53d congresses (1877-79 and 1891-95) ; was nominated for lieutenant governor of New York state in September, 1894.
Willard Francis Mallalien has carried the gospel over a larger part of the world than most living clergymen. He has journeyed from north to south, zigzagged from Norway to Mexico, and belted the globe, tending the scattered flocks of the Methodist fold. He is the embodiment of physical and mental vigor consecrated to religious work. These qualities he comes by honestly, inheriting on
his father's side the blood of the Huguenots exiled from France, and on his mother's side that of a Puritan family who helped to found Salem. Bishop Mallalieu's youth was favored with the superior edu- cational opportunities of the oldest section of the country, and he was thus enabled to enter the minis-
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try the same year in which he graduated from col- lege, excellently equipped for the grave responsibil- ity of that profession. He quickly rose to influential prominence in the important Massachusetts stations to which he was assigned. In 1867 he proved his devotion to pastoral work by declining the presi- dency of Central Tennessee College, to which he had been elected. In 1875 he visited Europe for the purpose of studying certain phases of social, relig- ious, and educational life. In 1876 he was elected assistant secretary of the Freedman's Aid Society, but declined the position. He was repeatedly sent by the New England Conference as delegate to the Gen- eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and to the Conference of 1884 he was elected by the
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largest vote ever given to a delegate. This Confer- ence proved memorable in Mr. Mallalieu's career, as it placed him on the exalted roll of Methodist bishops. He was thus removed from the presiding eldership that he had filled during the two preceding years ; but he added a solid pillar to the Methodist episcopate.
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From this time Bishop Mallalieu's work took on a quickly expanding character. His episcopal resi- dence was in the South, where he chose New Orleans for his home. It is not farfetched in this connection to point to the wonderful growth in recent years of the Methodist Episcopal church in the South. Be- cause of its abolitionism, this church was not toler- ated in that part of the country a quarter of a cen- tury ago ; but there are now over a half million members of the Methodist church south of the old line. During his eight years' residence in New Or- leans, Bishop Mallalien held Conferences from Dela- ware to Texas, and spared no effort to further the conversion and education of the freedmen.
In pursuance of the duties of his office Bishop Mal- lalien went to Europe in 1888, and presided over Conferences from Naples to Throndheim in Norway, and from Switzerland to the Black Sea. In the fol- lowing year he went to Mexico, to inspect missions and hold Conferences. In 1892 he undertook :1 world-encircling episcopal itinerary in behalf of the foreign missions of his charch. Sailing from San Francisco by way of Honolulu, he traveled in Japan, Korea, and China, visiting Peking and adjacent cities. He went to Shanghai next, and up the Yangtse-Kiang river to Kew Kiang and the heart of the empire. . Returning, he visited the city of Foochow and many other localities in the Fuhkien province. Singapore, Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta were then visited in turn. He next went up the Ganges fifteen hundred miles, inspecting mission work in many of the great cities, and crossed the country via Delhi to Bombay. He returned by way of the Red Sea and Egypt, with occasional stops at points in southern Europe.
Action has been the keynote of Bishop Mallalieu's successful ministry. Ever alert, quick in thought and sympathy. and remarkably affable in manner, his work both as pastor and bishop has endeared him to all. While in the pulpit, Bishop Mallalieu was in constant demand in the lecture field ; and he has been a frequent contributor to both the religious and the secular press. In 1874 he received the degree of D. D. from East Tennessee Wesleyan University, and in 1892 the degree of LL. D. from New Orleans University.
PERSONAL, CHRONOLOGY-Willard Fran- cis Mallalieu was born at Sutton, Mass., December 11, 1828 : was educated at various preparatory schools and at Wesleyan University, Middletoron, Conn., whence he graduated in August, 1857 ; married Eliza F. Atkins of Sandwich, Mass., October 13, 1858 ; had pastorates of the Methodist Episcopal church succes- sively at Grafton, Chelsea. Lynn, Charlestoron, Bos- ton, and Worcester ( all in Massachusetts) ; was ap- pointed presiding elder of the Boston district of the New England Conference in April, 1882 ; was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church in 188 ; lived in New Orleans from 1884 until 1892, when he moved to Buffalo.
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Edwin G. S. Miller represents a class of men that are called in the West by the name, mean- ingful to Americans at least, of "hustlers." Some men seem born with activity and enterprise sufficient for two, and cover as much in a brief span of life as others in twice the number of years. Modern life accomplishes more in a day than was even possible before the age of stenographers, typewriters, and in- proved facilities of communication and transporta- tion. This undoubtedly accounts in part for the vast volume of business that certain men perform to- day ; but nevertheless the personal element is still a large factor as regards both the quantity and the quality of the work done.
Mr. Miller's forty-odd years have been spent en- tirely in Buffalo, where he was born and educated, in which his business training was begun, and in which his commercial successes have been achieved. After a common- school education (the equipment of most American boys) Mr. Miller took up the occupation of bookkeeper -one of the best forms of discipline for anyone en- tering upon a mercantile career - and became an employee in the office of George Urban & Son, proprietors of the Roller Flour Mills. His capacity for business and his demonstrated worth to the firm were soon recognized, and in 1874 he was admitted into the partner- ship. He then extended his business relations, and in the year 1884 became manager of the Gerhard Lang Brewery. His conduct of this establishment has been highly successful, and the output from the malt house has steadily increased. In December, 1895, Mr. Miller added yet another enterprise to his various projects by purchasing an important in- terest in the Buffalo Enquirer. Most men would be taxed to the utmost with the cares of so much business, but Mr. Miller is blessed with a splendid physique, executive ability, and untiring industry. He is at one or the other of his offices early and late, keeping longer hours than most men in positions like his.
In financial circles Mr. Miller is an active and yet conservative force, seeking lines of investment and development that have a permanent future. He is a director in the People's Bank, the German-American Bank, the Buf- falo Loan, Trust & Safe Deposit Co., and the Buffalo Savings Bank. When a movement for. increased
street-car facilities was set on foot, and capital began seriously to examine the field, Mr. Miller was among the foremost in giving his influence and support to the scheme ; and when finally a company was or- ganized to build a new railway line, he became the first president.
Despite this busy career, Mr. Miller has found time for those political duties too often neglected by men of affairs. While never a candidate for office - for he would have no time to perform its functions -his counsel and spare hours have always been at the ser- vice of his party. He is a Democrat in political belief, and was chosen by the Democratic state con- vention of 1892 to be one of the presidential elec- tors : and he helped cast the vote of the state for Mr. Cleveland.
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In social life Mr. Miller is essentially a home man. though a member of the Buffalo Club and of the Ellicott Club. He is a member of St. Louis Church, and is identified with its philanthropic work.
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Courteous in his demeanor, reliable in business, and cordial in his hospitality, he stands among the foremost of Buffalo's active and progressive men of to-day.
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY- Edwin G. S. Miller was born at Buffalo March 9, 1854 ; was educated in common schools ; married Annie E. Lang
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of Buffalo in June, 1884 ; was a Democratic presi- dential elector in 1892 ; has been a partner in the firm of Urban & Co. (roller flour mills ) since 1874, manager of the Gerhard Lang Brewery since 1884, and part owner of the Buffalo " Enquirer" since De- cember, 1895.
Edward b. Abortus is a student, a lawyer, and a man of affairs. He is known as one of the foremost professional men of Buffalo, and as a thorough, painstaking, and capable worker in what- ever he undertakes. To these traits of character he owes his great success. Though born in Michigan, Mr. Movius has practically been a Buffalonian all his
life. His early scholastic training was obtained in various private schools in Buffalo, at Russell's Mili- tary Academy, New Haven, Conn., and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. Shortly after finishing his studies at Exeter in 1867, he went to Europe and took a course at the famous University of Heidel- berg, Germany, from which he graduated in 1869, with the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts. After- ward he determined to adopt the law as his profession, and took a course in the law school connected with Hamilton College at Clinton, N. Y., receiving there the degree of LL. B.
He began at once the active practice of his profession, and has continued the same with unbroken success up to the present time. He read law in the offices of those masters, E. Carleton Sprague and Delavan F. Clark, both now dead, and brought to his life-work a mind well grounded in the principles of the law and thoroughly trained in the application of those principles to intricate problems: The firm names of Crowley & Movius, of Allen, Movius & Wilcox, and of Movius & Wilcox have been prominent in many matters of much legal im- portance. Since the dissolution of the last-named firm in 1893, Mr. Movius has practiced alone.
When the West Shore railway was projected from New York to Buffalo, paralleling the lines of the New York Central, Mr. Movius was appointed one of the attorneys of the company, and as such rendered service of the utmost value. This company bought millions of dollars' worth of property, and Mr. Movius passed on the greater part of the titles of land purchased in Erie and Genesee counties. He con- tinued as the attorney of the West Shore road until about the time of its reorganization and lease to the Central. He was also one of the attorneys for the commissioners of the state reservation at Niagara in their condemnation of valuable lands taken by the state " for the purpose of restoring the scenery of the great Falls to its natural condition," and of estal,- lishing there a park that should be free to all man- kind for all time. In that capacity Mr. Movius passed on the titles of all land taken by the state.
From 1887 to 1889 Mr. Movius served in the very trying position of receiver of the First National Bank of Buffalo, which had been wrecked by its
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president. Here he displayed in a marked degree unusual ability as a lawyer and as a man of business. To his efforts was largely due the satisfactory closing of the affairs of that unfortunate institution.
When President Cleveland was looking about for the right kind of material to compose the board of United States mineral-land commissioners he picked out Mr. Movius as one of the three members for the Helena (Mont. ) land district. Theirs was a most difficult and delicate task. How well they are dis- charging their duties is evidenced in the Montana papers, one of which, the Helena Independent, said on August 23, 1895: "Starting out inexperienced and unfamiliar with their duties, with natural prejudice against them because they were strangers in a strange land, the mineral-land commissioners, one and all, have discharged their duties with fidelity, earnestness, and impartiality. They have done a great work, and have won deserving and lasting gratitude from all parties interested."
The social side of Mr. Movius's nature is highly developed, and he is a welcome visitor at the many clubs and societies of which he is a member. Among these are the University Club of New York, the University Club of Buffalo, the Buffalo Club, of which he has been vice pres- ident, and the Montana Club of Helena, Mont.
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY -- Edward Hallam Movius was born at Ypsilanti, Mich., October 19, 1848 ; was educated in various preparatory schools in this country, and graduated from the Uni- versity of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1869 with the degrees of Ph. D. and M. A. ; graduated from Hamilton College law school, Clinton, N. Y., in 1878 ; married Mary Lovering Rumsey of Buffalo Sep- tember 26, 1877 ; was appointed receiver of the First National Bank of Buffalo in 1887 ; was appointed by President Cleve- land one of the board of three United States mineral-tand commissioners in the Helena ( Mont. ) land district in April, 1895. -
Matbaniel Valillis Morton is one of the best known of the younger members of the bar of Erie county. Coming to Buffalo fresh from his law studies, a comparative stranger in the city, he never- theless, by reason of natural ability and untiring diligence, soon attained a practice that was the envy of many new disciples of Kent and Blackstone.
The excellent common-school system of Maine afforded young Norton his first knowledge of books. When nineteen years old he entered Nichols Latin School at Lewiston in his native state, and there de- voted himself industriously to a course of study that would adequately fit him for college. Mr. Norton spent his freshman year at Bates College ; but Dart- mouth was more to his liking, and he entered the sophomore class of that institution in 1875. Three years of hard study at Hanover brought him to that epochal time in the lives of all college men - gradu- ation day. His duties at Dartmouth had been dis- charged with fidelity, and the bachelor's degree was conferred upon him in due course.
Immediately after leaving college Mr. Norton was elected principal of the high school at Ware, Mass. This appointment was very creditable to the young
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graduate, and might easily have encouraged him to adopt teaching as his profession. But it was no part of Mr. Norton's scheme of life to remain a school- teacher ; he had other aims, and the law was his
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ambition. He taught school for one year only, there- fore, and devoted all his spare time to the study of the fundamental principles of law. At the end of that period he entered the Albany Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in May, 1880. His admission to the bar, at Albany, followed at once.
Mr. Norton came to Buffalo the same year, believ- ing that the place was a thriving, growing, bustling city, where the legal profession was not overcrowded at the top -and the top was the place that Mr. Norton determined to reach, if intelligence, industry, and a mastery of his profession could put him there. How well he has succeeded the record of the past fifteen years amply demonstrates. For the first five years Mr. Norton practiced law alone, bat in April. 1885, his brother, Rosewell M., joined him ; and in January, 1895, a second brother, Herbert F. J., was admitted to the firm.
While thoroughly devoted to his profession, Mi. Norton has identified himself with the general con- cerns of the community, and many enterprises and organizations of a public and semi-public nature have received the benefit of his support, his counsel, and his example. He is a member of the Buffalo Histor- ical Society, the Buffalo Library, the German Young Men's Association, and the Merchants' Exchange. He is a trustee of the Buffalo Orphan Asylum. He is also a prominent member of the Buffalo, Saturn, and University clubs. He has long been an ardent believer in the principles of the Republican party, and is a leading member of the Buffalo Republican League. At the same time he does not believe that party advantage should be placed before public good : and honest politics, as the phrase is, finds in him a hearty advocate. His party services were rewarded by an appointment as assistant United States district attorney under Colonel D. S. Alexander, who was appointed by President Harrison. Mr. Norton ably filled this position for a year and a half during 1889 and 1890, when the demands of his private practice compelled his resignation. This is the only public office he has held.
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY- Nathaniel Willis Vorton was born at Porter, Me., March 3, -1853 ; spent one year at Bates College, but graduated from Dartmouth College, in 1878; was principal of Ware ( Mass. ) High School, 1878-19 ; married Mary Estella Miner of Buffalo June 30, 1880; was assistant United States district attorney, 1889-90 ; has practiced law in Buffalo since 1880.
Daniel O'Day is an example of what pluck, energy, and perseverance, coupled with ability, all properly directed, will do for a man. Starting with
no advantages, without influential friends to back him, with nothing in fact but native talent, a deter- mination to succeed, and a willingness to work hard at whatever he could find to do, this man early in life reached a position of affluence and influence. Some people might say that Mr. O'Day had oppor- tunities that come to but few men. This may be so, but he worked for those openings for advancement, seized them when they came within his reach, and had previously qualified himself, by untiring energy, to make the most of them. No obstacle ever came iu Daniel O'Day's pathway that he was not ready and willing to overcome by hard work and persist- ent effort. This is the secret of his business success. He is, furthermore, a public-spirited citizen, engaged in many enterprises of a public or a private nature. His friends are numbered by the thousand, for he is a popular man, personally, socially, and politically. He is a member of various social organizations in both Buffalo and New York. Though an ardent Democrat and a liberal contributor to his party's funds, he has never held political office, except as a presidential elector.
Born in Ireland, Mr. O'Day was brought to this country when a small child. His early life was passed on a farm in Cattaraugus county, New York. Here he spent his days as do most boys brought up in like conditions. His education, acquired in the broad field of the world, had its foundation in the public schools. Farming was not at all to his liking, and when he was eighteen years old he moved to Buffalo to begin his struggle with the world. His first employment was found with the New York Cen- tral railroad as a messenger. In this humble position his faithful application and his natural capacity and intelligence were displayed so far as opportunity offered. They were rewarded, too, by successive pro- motions, until, after a lapse of three years, young O'Day attained the position of shipping clerk.
Though the main business of his life was to con- cern transportation interests, Mr. O'Day did not find railroading so congenial that he was satisfied to continue in that line. In 1865 the oil excitement in the rapidly developing fields of Pennsylvania perme- ated every part of the East, and in Buffalo, so near the scene of operations, the excitement was natur- ally intense. The shipping clerk became infected, resigned his position, packed his few belongings, and soon was in the thick of the fight. Perhaps because of his railroad training, perhaps by chance, his atten- tion was early directed to the transportation of oil. It was a great problem in those days. Railroads were few and hard to reach, and teaming was expen- sive and a vexation to the soul. Pipe-lines had been
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projected, some of which had proved failures, while others had shown that the method could be economic- ally and successfully applied. Mr. ('Day early be- came connected with one of the pioneer lines, the Empire Transportation Company. So active was he in furthering its interests, so shrewd was his counsel, that he soon held an important position in the company.
Mr. O'Day's connection with the Standard Oil Company dates from 1870. It is largely to him that this great com- pany owes its wonderful system of pipe- lines, which have their beginning at thousands of wells scattered over thou- sands of acres of land, and which end at the seaboard. It was some years after pipe-lines were successfully used to convey oil from the wells to refineries located in the oil country, that it was deemed pos- sible to transport this product over long distances by the same method. Daniel ()' Day was one of the first to suggest that this might be done. He saw no reason why the company should not send its petroleum from the fields to the seaboard through pipes, using pumps of great force as the motive power. This idea eventually resulted in the con- struction of the line that now extends from Olean, N. Y., to Bayonne, N. J. Mr. O'Day is the virtual head of the mammoth pipe-line interests of the Standard Oil Company. He is vice president of the United Pipe-Lines Com- pany, and of the National Transit Company.
Though Mr. O'Day, long a Buffalonian, has moved to New York since the death of his first wife in 1890, he has still large interests in the Queen City, and may be seen there frequently. He is president of the People's Bank, of the General Electric Company, and of the Buffalo Natural Gas Fuel Company. He is also interested in other concerns, and is a large owner of Buffalo real estate.
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY-Daniel O' Day was born at Kililysart, Ireland, February 6, 1844; was brought to this country carly in life, and lived at Ellicottville, N. Y., until 1862 : was with the New York Central railroad, 1862-65 ; went to Pennsyl- vania oil fields in 1865, and ultimately became man- ager of the Standard Oil Company's pipe-lines : mar- ried Louise Newell of Boston in 1870 and Mary Page of Nova Scotia in 1892.
Roswell Dark, though only forty-three years old, is one of the most distinguished of the men whose names appear upon the annals of medicine in western New York ; and this is no slight distinction, when the statement concerns a locality that has been the home of such teachers and practitioners of
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national reputation as Austin Flint, Frank Hastings Hamilton, James P. White, and Julius F. Miner.
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