Who's who in New York City and State, 1909, pt 2, Part 165

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910; Leonard, John William, 1849-; Mohr, William Frederick, 1870-; Knox, Herman Warren, 1881-; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York : L.R. Hamersly Co.
Number of Pages: 1430


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Mem. Am. Hist. A.'D. N.l. Bronx Soc. Arts and Sciences, Ohio Smy of N. Y. Trustee Determin Iniv., Ivolim; comm'r of ed'n N. Y. Civ. since 19). Clubs : Fordhim. Residence : BU3 Kingsbridge Av. Address: 69 West St., N. Y. City.


WILSHIRE, Gaylord:


Editor; b. Cincinnati, Ohio, June 7, 1501: s. George and Clara ( Clemons) Wilshire: ed.


vard Cui .: i. N. Y. City, Feb. Pot. M.rx MacReynolds; one soon, Logan Gaylord Wil- shire: b. Aug. 29, 1: 3. Engaged in mercan- tile banking and mining pursuits, 1 -- 1-1905; editor and publisher of Wilshire's Magazine since 1900. Active in Socialist party: can- didate for Congress as Socialist at Los An- geles, Calif., 1900, for English Parliament at Manchester, 1894, for Canadian Parliament, 1902, for Congress in N. Y. City, 190% and several other times as nominee of Socialist party. President British Guiana Gold C .; v .- p. Beaver Nat. Bank of N. Y. City. in- thor: Socialism Inevitable; Wilshire's Edi- torials; and many articles in magazines and newspapers. Recreations: Golf, lawn te ... nis, polo. Club: Harvard. Residence: S.a. :- ley Court, $01 W. W.6th St. Address: 200 Wil- liam St. N. Y. City.


WILSON, Andrew Chalmers:


Clergyman: b. Ottawa, Canada; s. John Chalmers Wilson: ed. Trinity Coll., Toronto, Canada. Ordained in ministry of the lipis- copal Church, now assistant rector of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. Recreations: Equestrian. Clubs: The Players. Metropoli- tan. Address: 145 W. 40th St., N. Y. City. WILSON, Eugene Herschel:


Lawyer; b. in Cumberland Co., N. J., Mar. 25. 154: s. James L. and Harriet Fisler ( Porch ) Wilson: ed. in N. J .: State Univ. of Iowa. B.A., LL.B., 1937: m. N. Y. City. April 17. 15, Emma Bermas Miller, of Philadel- plia; one daughter, Eugenia M. b. 19.6. Has made a specialty of mining and mining corporation law for 15 years and spent about half of the time in the West, and also in looking after mining interests: has been i. many of most-important mising suits triol in that time. Admitted to bar of the Su. preme Court of the U. S. and the State and Federal Courts of the State of X. Y., I ....


Miss., Kan., Colo., Calif .: has practised ex- tensively in New Mexico and Ariz. Territory. at same time having been interested in mini !. of gold, silver, copper. quick liver in the Southwest and Calif. Pres. and treas. V .. . eny Mining and Willing to .; see. and tes. Ready Pay Reduction Co .: onicer, director and counsel in many others. Mason 32; Noble of the Mystic shrine (life m'm. ). Club: N. Y. Athletic. AAddress: 100 Bro. d- way, N. Y. City.


WILSON, Floyd Biker:


Lawyer. Mexican mine owner: b. Water- vliet. Albany Co., N. Y .: S. Wiliii and Iv !yn ( Weaver) Wilson: grad. l .iv. Low Gov Adelbert Call, (Hd). 1 .....


Choseland. 0., 171. Lather M. d. Horace (. O veland: children: D'al Caveland, (.A. B.


Mando linu.


Central and S. America.


Is in old and copper mine in Hry. Pres. Ruby Gold and Copper Co., Somr ..


Ind., Chileali Mex .. pres Century Mining Co. of Ourgy, Col. Republican: active is si cher ia Presidential omargens. Author: Pris to Power; Man Linnaless; Through Si. 1355


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lence to Realization; The Discovery of the Soul; translated (Spanish to English ) La


Coja y el Encojido. Lecturer and writer on


advanced thought and psychic subjects.


Mem. Nat. Geog. Soc. Mem. Am. Insti- tute for Scientific Research. Mason (Scot- tish Rite ) and Mystic Shriner. Recre- ations: Summer on his farm, Valley View, Farmington, Me. Clubs: Lotos, Lawyers, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Residence: 101 W. 85th St. Address: 68 William St., N. Y. City. WILSON, Francis:


Actor, mg'r, author; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 7, 1854; s. Charles E. and Emily Vox Edon (Craveroft ) Wilson; ed. public schools; m. Mira M. Barrie; children: Adelaide, b. 1886; Francis, b. 1887. Has starred in Cousin Billy, season 1901-05; The Mountain Climber, and the one-act play, The Little Father of the Wilderness, season 1905-03; When Knights Were Bold, season 1907-08. Recreation : Golf. Club: Players : Address : The Orchard, New Rochelle, N. Y.


WILSON, Frank E .:


Physician, ex-mem. of Congress; b. Rox- bury, N. Y., 1557; s. Robert F. Wilson; lived at Roxbury until he was 12 years old, when parents moved to Poughkeepsie, N. Y .; ed. Poughkeepsie Mil. Acad., Jefferson Med. Coll., Philadelphia, M.D., 1882, and practised in Dutchess Co. until 1889, when he removed to present home in Brooklyn. Mem. Kings Co. Med. Soc. and of staff of the Bushwick Hosp., affiliated with Ridgewood Lodge, F. and A. M., and all bodies of the Scottish Rite and Mystic Shrine, Kismet Temple; was foremost in the organization of Bushwick Council, Royal Arcanum, and assisted in the organiza- tion of Court Bushwick, Foresters of Am., of which has since been medical examiner; also mem. Bushwick Club, Empire Democratic Club and Horatio Seymour Democratic Club of 28th Ward. Elected to the 58th Congress, and reelected to the 56th, 57th and 58th Con- gresses. Address: 1242 Bushwick Av., Brook- lyn, N. Y.


WILSON, Frederic Hart:


Physician; b. Brooklyn, N. Y., March IS, 1882; s. Henry A. and Bessie B. (Hawkins) Wilson: ed. Brooklyn Polytechnic Inst., Aca- demic Dep't, Coll. Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia I'niv .. M.D., 1904. Associate sur- geon, Bushwick Hosp., Brooklyn, N. Y .: clinical ass't in surgery, Presby'n and Belleview Hosps., Out Patient Dep't; clinical surgical work in Berlin, Vienna, Berne and Milan. Mem. Kings County Med. Soc., N. Y. State Med. Soc., Anglo-American Med. Ass'n of Berlin and Vienna. Clinical Soc. Presby'n Hosp. Dispensary, Sons of Revolu- tion, Epsilon Chi fraternity. Lecturer for Soc, for Instruction in First Aid, N. Y. ; di- rector, Camp Wyonce, for boys, Long Lake. Harrison, Maine. Recreations: Golf, tennis. Address: 400 Manhattan Av., N. Y. City.


WILSON, Frederick William:


Publisher, editor: b. Brighton, England. Oct. 8, 1809: s. Ilenry (stat surgeon, Royal Navy) and Sarah Jane (Cleaver) Wilson : ed. private preparatory school and Kings Coll .. London; left school before graduating and came to America with family, where his edu- cation was completed. Successful in business career and as journalist; contributor to trade


and political publications: assumed manare. ment of the Newburgh Daily News in his 21st year and made it one of the most pros- perous newspapers of the State. Active in politics; delegate to the Republican Sat. Convention from Newburgh, 1002. 1992, a .d 1506; warm supporter of ex.Gov. Odell. Served six years in the Tenth Separate Co., N. G. N. Y .; honorably discharged. 1:95. Pres. and treas. Newburgh News Printing and Publishing Co .; treas. The S. Grover Graham Co. Prominent in the work of the Business Men's Ass'n of Newburgh, and clim'n of committee appt'd to arrange for Newburgh's part in the Hudson-Fulton Ter- centenary Celebration, to be held in Sep :.. 1909. Mem. Jerusalem Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar; N. Y. Consistory, Scottish Rite. 32 : Mecca Temple (Mystic Shrine) ; past exalted ruler, B. P. O. Elks: pres. Wilbur H. Weston Shriners' Ass'n of Newburgh. Recreations: Automobiling, trap shooting. out-door sports. Clubs: Republican of City of N. Y .: pres. (N. Y. City ) ; Newburgh City, Powelion Conn- try, Newburgh Wheelmen, Newburgh Automo- bile (pres. ), Old Orchard (Middletown). Address: 268 Liberty St., Newburgh, N. Y. WILSON, George T .:


Second v .- p. Equitable Life Assurance Soc. : b. N. Y. City, Sept 23. 1:39; while at Coll. City of N. Y. in 1875 saw a newspaper adver- tisement for an office boy in office of Equit- able Life Assurance Soc .; applied for posi- tion, received it, and went to work for com- pany. Later became general utility man in company's offices, and known to all callers ou business. Rise was rapid: successively 2d ass't sec., ass't sec., 4th r .. p .. 3d v .- p., was elected second v .- p., March, 1907. Trus- tee Equitable Trust Co .: director Equitable Life Assur. Soc., Union Exchange Bank. Clubs: Union League, Princeton, Calume ;. N. Y. Athletic, N. Y. Yacht. Residence: 115 W. 58th St. Address: 120 Broadway, N. Y. City.


WILSON, James Grant :


Author, editor; b. Edinburgh, April 2S. 1802: s. William and Jane ( Sibbald) Wilson : ed. College Hill, Poughkeepsie. N. Y .. and private tutors. Traveled in Europe and in 1:57 established The Chicago Record. a liter- ary journal, which was discontinued in Ict. Entered Union Army as major Ich Ill. C.v., serving in the Vicksburg and other campaigns. until July, 1505, when resigned with rank of brig.gen .; m. 1:69. Miss Cogswell (died IN1: m. 1907. Mrs. Mary H. Nicholson. Since 19 engaged in literary pursuits in N. Y. Chy. Edited Memorial History of the City of New York. Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Bi- ography, the Great Commanders Series. . 1a. thor of various works, including The Life of General Grant, Bryant and His Friends. Thackeray in the United States, as well as many other books on histories!, literary and biographical subjects and articles in mig- zines. Lecturer and public speaker. Pres. Amu. Ethnological soc., v .p. Sop. for Prov n- tion of Cruelty to Animals: mem. Mit. Order Loyal Legion, Athenaeum Club of London. etc. Address: 152 W. ich St., N. Y. City. WILSON, John Clark:


Capt. I. S. N .: b. Brooklyn, N. Y .: s. Joseph and Eliza (Newell) Wilson; ed. pub-


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lic schools and Naval Acad., grad. 1969; un- married. Promoted to ensign 1 .; 0, master 1st1; lieut., 1975, lieut .- comd'r. lses. comd'r Dec. 29, 1$99; capt. Feb. 12, 19.5. Served on Sabine and Franklin, European Station, 1cc9-71; Iroquois, Monocacy.


Saco and Ashuelot. Asiatic Station, Is 2-75; Omaha, Pa- cific Station, 1975-76; Tennessee, N. Atlantic Station, 1579-52; Vandalia, Pacific Station, 1850-89; Atlanta, Monongahela and Vesuvius, N. Atlantic Station, Is92-95: exec. officer Miantonomah, 1599: comd's the U. S. S. Vik- ing on the blockade, north coast of Cuba, 1809; comd'g U. S. S. Vixen, 1:00-1900; U. S. S. Indiana, 1900; comd'g Panther, N. Atlan- tic fleet, 1902-03; volunteered for a second cruise on the Vandalia in 1ss9, when difficul- ties with Germany over Samoan affairs were threatened; was wrecked on Vandalia, in harbor of Apia, Samoan Isiands; in hurricane of Mar. 15 and 16, les9, when three U. S. and three German men-of-war were wrecked and 150 lives lost; rescued from wreck of Van- dalia by Fuji Hochitra, captain's steward on U. S. S. Trenton, who was awarded a life- saving medal of first class for heroism in making the rescue: was sent by comd'r-in. chief to Auckland. New Zealand, and Sydney. Australia, to cable news of disaster and to charter a steamer to bring survivors to U. S. Shore Stations-Navy Yard. Washington, Navy Yard, New York. Naval Observatory, Washington, Navy Yard, Norfolk. Board of Inspectors San Francisco; insp., of ordnance, Midvale Steel Works, Phila .. Pa .: insp. 11th Lighthouse Dist., 19.0-01: insp. of 8th Lighthouse Dist., New Orleans. La., 1903; Navy Yard. Boston. 10.4. Retired from active service ( for causes incident to service ) as Captain. 1907. Address: Navy Department, Washington, D. C.


WILSON, John Grosvenor:


Edtor Wall St. Daily News: b. London, England, April 29, 1556: s. Edward J. and Amelia (Biggs) Wilson: ed. private schools. London, Eng., Chicago, Ill .: m. Chicago. III., Dec. 1s, 1576, Lillah MeLandburgh: children : Elaine, b. IST7, Henry MeLandburch, b. Is,9. V .- p. Stock Exchange Historical Co. Author plays: Mauprat (with William Young) ; Nor- deck; A Royal Guard: Silver Are: A Society Fad: novel, the Monarch of Millions (pub- lished first as serial in Evening World. N. Y.); poems. Lyrics of Life. On stump for Bryan. 1900. Democrat. Recreation: Chess. Address: 62 New St., N. Y. City.


WILSON, Robert III .:


Credit expert and statistician; b. Newport. R. I .: s. Robert II. and Caroline T. (Tilley) Wilson; ed. Newport schools, graduating at head of class; m. Kansas City, July 1. ] ;; one son, Robert IV, b. 1:3. Manufacturer of ink, Newport. R. I., 1-2-3: in book and stationery business. Newport, R. I., 1-Sp ...: with Bradstreet's Mercantile Loney. Issi mi. in various parts of West: with R G. Dui Co., N. Y. City, IL 1: travel 1 m Euroje 1900: on return organized The Credit and Andit Company of America, of which is v .. p. and gen, me'r: also gen. me'r N. Y. Commer- cial Agency: N. Y. Mdg Jewelers' B'dl of Trade of Providence, R I .: Am as't Mer. cantile Credit Ageney, London, I'neland, and Glasgow, Scotland : Trers, Consolidated (val and Oil Co, of Wyoming. Well known as


credit expert and statistician. Democrat. Episcopalian. Mem. N. Y. Branch Nat. A > n Credit Men. and other similar organizations. Mason: mem. Exec. Com. of .1. 1. S. R. Masons, Valley of N. Y .: junior warden, Chapter of Rose Croix of N. Y. City, etc .: past deputy supreme regent. Royal Arranum. Recreation: Farming. Address: 102 Nassau St., N. Y. City.


WILSON, Rufus Rockwell:


Journalist: author; b. Troy, Bradford Co., Pa., Mar. 14. Isto; s. Hiram H. and Mary (Rockwell) Wilson; ed. common schools and by private tutors: unmarried. Engaged in newspaper work at Pittsburgh, Washington and N. Y. City, 15-3-91; conth'r to magazines. 1531-1905: now attached to Brooklyn Eagle. Author: Rambles in Colonial Days: Washing- ton. the Capital City: New York. Oid and New: Historic Long Island: New England in Letters: Lincoln in Caricature: The Ses Rov- ers; New York in Literature; Annais of the New York Stage. Demoverat. Roman Catho- lic. Address: 344 Hancock St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


WILSON, Walter Sibbald:


Banker: b. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aus. 9. 1844; s. William and Jane ( Sibbald ) Wilson ; ed. College Hill, Poughkeepsie. N. Y .: m. N. Y. City, April 2s. 158, Josephine Bristed Fales. Ten years with the publishing houses of D. Appleton & Co., Scribner, Welford & Co .; sec. Brooklyn Elevated R. R., seven years from day of its inception until road was carrying passengers: for past eleven years with the Mercantile Trust Co. Director . and ass't sec. Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Co .; trustee Bronx Sar- ings Bank. and Bronx Safe Deposit Co., N. Y. City. Served in Co. A. (Ellsworth Grays) Twenty-First Rez't, N. Y. S. Militia, Iso; joined Co. B. Seventh Rez' :. N. G. S. N. Y .. March 5. 1SS: passed through grades of corporal and sergeant, and on Jan. s. lo-u. was elected Is: iieut., Co. E .. same reg t .: was also the first battalion adj., appointed in the reg't: resigned his comm'n. Novem- ber, 1-95. after nearly thirty-one years con- tinuous service. Was ass't editor Memorial History of City of New York (four voi- umes) : contributed articles on statues and monuments and on Staten Island in same: editor of dialectical, obsolete and words in new Standard Dictionary, Author : History of the Seventh Regiment N. G., s. N. Y., (in Am. Magazine. Oet. ... ). Re- publican. Episcopalian. Mem. Duchess Co. Sor. Received gold hadze from N. Y. Siate. for twenty-five years military service: mohl eross of honor (set with diamonds), iren Seventh Res't. N. G. N. Y .. for twenty- five years service. Clubs: N. Y. Athleur. Nassau Boat. Residence: 19 W. deth St. Address: 120 Broadway, N. Y. City.


WILSON. William De Laucey:


Wlerzyman: May 21. 1-37: . WMn Pover and Sasan Whipple (Trowiri_o) Wilson el. Walter Hill Sin. ( ornell Univ .. A.B., 11! Hobart A.M .. i. I. S. T. D., 1: 0; m. New Brighton. S. I. M. 7. 1.20. Ilenmietin Georgia Harlow : chiaren : Mary Harlow, Wilham Dexter. Tutor Bar- lington Coll .. N. Panis Sch .. Rochester, N. Y .; iustr. St. Andrew's Dir.


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Sch., lecturer Kebb Sch., Syracuse, N. Y., | M. (Williams) Winans (both deceased) : ed. Rector Episcopal Church, Guilford, N. Y., 1.75-80; Clinton, 1se0-87; St. Mark's, Syra-


ense, since 1:94. Rural dean 4th dist., diocese Central N. Y., and examining chap- lain, mem. of Standing Com. Author: Ques- tions on Prayer Book; Questions on Miis- sions; Parochial Organization; and various tracts. Editor of Questions for Written Answers for Sunday Schools. Republican. Trustee St. John's School, Manlius, N. Y .; director Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and of Associated Charities, Syracuse. N. Y. Mem. Chi Phi fraternity. Clubs: University, Syracuse, Syracuse Cleri- cal. Address: St. Mark's Rectory, Syracuse, N. Y.


WILSTACH, Paul:


Author: b. La Fayette, Ind., July 1, 1870; s. John Augustine and Elbra Cecilia ( Patti) Wilstach; grad. St. Viateur's Coll., Kan- kakee, Ill., A.B. For ten years preceding and until Richard Mansfield's death, was his business manager and literary adviser. Contributor to magazines: playwright and author. Plays: Bridget; Bluff; A Gay De- ceiver; A Partial Eclipse; A Capitol Comedy ; Polly Primrose ( all produced ). Author


( books) : Solitaire (fifty Games of Patience ) ; Life of Richard Mansfield, (Scribners 190>). Club : The Players. Ad- dress : The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park, N. Y. City.


WILTSIE, Charles H .:


Lawyer: b. Pittsford, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1859; s. James Martin and Emily Ward ( Hastings) Wiltsie; of old Dutch colonial ancestry; ed. Brockport State Normal Sch .; grad. Univ. of Rochester, A.B., 1550, later A.M .; studied at Universities of Göttingen and Berlin, les9- §1; m. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1-93, Harriet Potter Hart: oue daughter: Mary Emily, b. 1:97. Admitted to the bar at Rochester, N. Y., 193, where he has since practised. Traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and Africa, 1>>9-90, and made trip around the world 1:92-93. AAuthor of a standard treatise (2 vols.) on the Law of Mortgage Fore- closures, les9. Republican. Presbyterian. Mem. Rochester Hist. Soc., S. A. R., Delta Psi fraternity. 'Trustee Rochester Athen- aeum and Mechanics' Inst. Recreations: Travel, books and horses. Clubs: Genesee Valley. AAddress: 123 Plymouth Av., Roch- ester, N. Y.


WINANS, Frederick N .:


Physician and surgeon; b. Bangall, Dutch- ess Co., N. Y., May 28, 1851; s. Rev. Dr. William S. and Susan A. (Barringer) Winans: ed. Andes Collegiate Inst., Fergu- sonville Acad., Coll. Physicians and Surgeons ( Med Dep't Columbia) N. Y. City; m. Franklin, N. Y., March 1, 1976, Emma .A. Jackson; one son: . Ernest Jackson, D. D.S. ( died April 30, 1903). Health officer, since 1-2, for town and incorporate village of Franklin, N. Y. Director and gen. mar, Delaware and Otsego Light and Power Co. Republican. Presbyterian .. Trustee Dela- ware Lit. Inst., and Franklin Union Free Sch. and Acad. Masonic, Maccabees. Ad- dress: Franklin, Delaware Co., N. Y.


WINANS, John Herbert:


Lawyer and real estate dealer; b. Rahway. N. J., May 19, 1s68; s. John and Josephine 13SS


Iligh Sch., Asbury Park, N. J., and private tutor; Columbia Univ., LL.B., 199; Univ. v° Michigan, LL.M. (honorary) 1:50; m. N. Y. City, March 11, 1892, Virginia Lee Norris! children : Herbert, b. 1593, Winslow Charlton. b. 1997. Alethea (deceased.). Instr. Univ. of Michigan Law Soli., 159 .92; corpora ion counsel of Harbrouck Heights, N. J., 1 :-: pres. B'd of Health, 1-95.96; mem. State and Federal Bar, New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Washington State. Retired fro:n practice of law in 1992 to give attention !» real estate interests in Westchester Co .. ). Y., Puget Sound region, Wash., and various corporations in which he is interested. Pres. Sound Shore Realty and Title Co., John H. Winans Realty Co .. Transit Anunciator Co .: director Standard Cash Register Co., N. J.), Lee-Ross MIf'g Co .; treas. Caloeis King


Furnace Co. ( Brooklyn ). White-Myl.n Furnace Co. (N. J.). Oficer in varias political organizations, in N. J. and N. Y. till 1902; campaign speaker during same period, candidate Dem. ticket for Assembly, 1893, in 3d Assembly Dist. Union Co .. N. J. Democrat. Roman Catholic. Formerly mem. Bar Ass'n; mem. Theta Delta Chi fraternity Recreations: Yachting. Inmiting and auty mobiles. Clubs: Columbia University, Bro - lyn, New Rochelle Yacht, .Rod and Gun. Newnan (Ga.). Residence: Bretton Hall. Broadway and 86th St. Address: 32 Broad- way, N. Y. City.


WINDMULLER, Louis:


Merchant; b. in Westphalia, 1535; ed. gymnasium at Münster: emigrated to C. s. in 1:53; since then resident of N. Y. City. where soon became a successinl merchan'. Has been associated with, and took part 1: founding the Title Guarantee and Trust do .. the German-Am. Ins. Co., Hide and Leatifr Nat. Bank. the German Alliance Ins. C ... Maiden Lane Savings Bank, Maiden Lane Safe Deposit Co., Bond and Mort .... Guarantee Co .; and of the S. Manhattan Realty Co .; and is still director of most of these: is pres. Maiden Lane Savings Bank. One of founders and since Is 9 treas. Reform Club of N. Y. As mem. Gorman-Am. 1 .... form Club, and as one of its Exre. Ca. took part in election of William L. Stron as reform mayor City of N. Y. Indefatical .... in advocacy of a sound enrreney and tarif. and civil service reform. Mn'y director B d Trade and Transportation: mem. Chamber of Commerce, was chu'n Com. on Inter. Trade and Improvements, and the Exec. Com for the improvement of the State canals. As a mem. of which agitated sieress tully for the amendment of the Constitu tion which authorizes the Legislature to make the necessary appropriations: was auditor of the Business Men's Relief Com. and mem. in number of charitable insut .. tions, notably in the Local And Sin., which furnishes gratuitous help to the wrist . poor, of which is trous, and director: was also treas, of a fund for the creation of the monument of tinelle and v.p. H.imp Monument Soc. Occasional colther to me: azines and newspapers on various subjects of interest and literary topies. Mom Ger- manistic Soc. Met Museum of Art, N. Y. Hist. Soc. (life mem.). Arion Sar., German Sov., Am. Scenie and Historic Preservation


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Society. Clubs: Merchants, Lotos, Under- writers, N. Y. AAth .... Residence: Wood-


side, Borough of Queens. Address: 20 Reade St., N. Y. City.


WINFIELD, James MacFarlane:


Physician; b. Vister Park, Ulster Co., N. Y .; s. John Van Akin and Margaret M. (Deyo) Winfield: ed. Starr's Mil. Inst. Kingston, N. Y. grad. Bellevue Hosp. Med. Coll., M.D., 18 2: in. Brooklyn, N. Y., June 15, 1898, Mabel Danni ::: children : Margaret, b. 1599, James Maciariane, Jr., b. 1900. Prof. of diseases of the skin. Long Island Coll. Hosp. since isiting physician to Kings Co. Hosp .. Long Island Coll. Hosp., ete. Has traveled and studied in Europe. Sup't of Dep't of Stores, Brooklyn B'd of Health, 1895-98. Independent in politics. Episcopalian. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n. Am. Dermatological Ass'n, N. Y. State Med. Soc., Kings Co. Med. Ses. Idirector and librarian, 1900-06). N. Y. Dermatological Soc., (pres. 1901-02) ; Associated Physicians of L. I. (pres. 1898-1901), A. A. 1. S .; mem. Masonic fra- ternity. Clubs: City. (New York), Cres- cent Athletic, Masonic (Brooklyn). Sum- mer residence: Shoreham. L. I. Address: 47 Halsey St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


WING, Frank Luman:


Manufacturer: b. N. Y. City, Aug. 28, 1850; s. Luman B. and Charlotte S. ( Peters ) Wing; grad. Coll of City of N. Y., A.B. 1869: m. Salem, Mass .. Lanra Lewis Savory; children : Richard P .. b. 1985, Helen S., 1. 1Sal, Dorothy, b. 19i. Luman B., b. 1893. Kathryn, b. 1895. Priscilla. b. 189S, Thorn- dyke, b. 1900. Mem. of Wing & Son, in- corporated, piano inf'rs. Democrat. Recrea- tions: Fishing, billiards, yachting. automo- biling. Clubs: Alpha Delta Phi. Manasquan River Yacht. Atlantic Yacht, and Lac Trav- Ferse Canada. Address: Wing Building, 9th "Av., Hudson and 13:1 St., N. Y. City.


WING, Henry Hiram:


Educator; b. N. Y. City, Nov. 29, 1839; S. Phineas Rice and Mary (Sands) Wing; grad. Cornell Univ .. B. Agr., Iss1, M.S. in Agr., 1891; m. Clyde. N. Y., July 16, 1555, Lilian Watson: children: Lois Watson, b. Ang. 24, IsST, Paul Wilson. b. April 16, 1892, Ellen Watson, b. Mar. 22, 1904. Ass't di- rector N. Y. Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion 1882-84 adjunet prof. agriculture, Univ. of Neb., Is84-85: deputy director and sec. Cor- nell Univ. Agr'l Experiment Station, Isss. 94; ass't prof. animal industry and dairy husbandry, Cornell l'hiv .. 1991-1993, since 1903


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husbandry,


Cornell Univ.


Editor Nebraska Forster, I>>S. Member


Ithaca Conneil since 1: 3. Republican. Con- gregationalist. Pres. Tompkins Co. Fair Grounds Ass'n since 196. Mem. Sigma Xi Soc .; fellow A. J. A. S. ; life mem. . V. Y. State Agricultural Sic., N. Y. State


Dairymen's Ass'n. Nebraska Dairymen's Ass'n. Anthor: Milk and Its Prodnets, 197 ( Macmillan & Co.), Cols: Town and Gown (Ithaca). Address: 3 Reservoir Av., Ithaca, N. Y.


WINGATE, Charles Frederick:


Sanitary ong'r: b. N. Y. City. Mar. 5. 1817; s. Charles and Mary Phelps ( Robinson ) Wingate: ed. in N. Y. City public schools and Cooper Iist .; r. N. Y. City. 1St. Florence A. Dimond: ose son, Carl (electric. Grant Post. and Old Gnard. Clubs :


al eng'r). Was 6 years in ship brokerage Insiness, 12 years in journalism. 26 years in sanitary eng ring; founded the Twilight Ciui, in 1-$3 and Twilight Park in the Catskills in 1:87. Muzwump. Unitarian. Sec. Twi- light Club since its foundation. Author: Views and Interviews on Journalism: An Episode in Municipal Government; What Shall Our Boys Do for a Living, and nu- merons articles in periodicals and magazines. Recreations : Landscape gardening and walk- ing. Address: Twilight Park, N. Y.




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