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GREENHUT, BENEDICT JOSEPH
Merchant; b. Chicago, Iil., June 24, 1870; s. Joseph B. and Clara (Wolfner) Greenhut, his father now be- ing pres. Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co. of N. Y .; ed. public schools, Peoria, 111 .; m. 1892, Minnie Gottlieb. Entered employ of father, at that time head of the Whisky Trust. In. 1896 became connected with the Siegel-Cooper Co., of which is now treas., with its business substantially under his immediate and direct supervision; since 1907, also sec. and treas. Greenhut & Co. Also pres. Empire City Safe Deposit Co .; dir. Union Exchange Bank, Fidelity Phenix Fire Ins. Co., and treas. Montefiore Home. Mem. Loyal Legion, Sons of Veterans. Clubs: Lotos, Lamps. Railroad, City Ath- letic, Harmonie, Aldinc, Republican, Criterion, Freund- schaft. Residence: 36 W. 72d St. Address: 6th Av. and 18th St., N. Y. Clty.
GREENLEAF, LEWIS S.
Manufacturer; b. Lenox, Mass., July 26, 1872; s. Dr. R. C. and Adeline E. (Stone) Greenleaf; grad. Mass. Inst. Technology, B.S., 1894; m. Lenox, Mass., Oct. 25, 1898, Margaret Adams; children: Lewis S., Jr., b. Feb. 6, 1901, Marion Constance, b. April 21, 1904. V .- p. and treas. Manning Sand Paper Co., Troy, N. Y. Mem. Am. Inst. Elec. Eng'rs, Soc. of Eng'rs of Eastern, N. Y., Soc. of Arts, Delta Psi fraternity. Clubs: Fort Orange (Albany), Albany Country. Address: 104 Chest- nut St., Albany, N. Y.
4 GREENOUGH, JOHN
Banker (retired) ; s. David Stoddard and Anna Augusta (Parkham) Grecnough; grad. Harvord Univ., B.A., 1865, M.A., 1870; m. Orange, N. J., June 4, 1879, Caroline II. Storey. Was director and financial ag't seve al railways and other corporations, 1884-1898; retired from active business, 1898; mem. Am. Geog. Soc., N. Y. Ass'n for Improving Condition of Poor, N. Y. Kindergarten Ass'n. Recreations: Reading and ex- ercise. Clubs: Century, University, Harvard, Tuxedo (N. Y. City), Eastern Yacht. Manchester Yacht, Essex County, Union (Boston). Address: 38 E. 63d St., N. Y. City.
GREENWOOD, ELIZABETH WARD
Evangelist; b. Brooklyn, Feb. 6, 1850; d. Joseph M. and Cynthia (Ward) Greenwood; ed. Brooklyn Heights Sem., graduating from full college course as vale- dictorian of class. After some post-graduate courses, engaged in preaching and evangelistic work; sup't evangelistic departments of the World's and Nat. Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and evangelist N. Y. State W. C. T. U. Originally Methodist, but later pastor of Congregational Ch. Formerly sup't scientific temperance instr'n, State of N. Y. Has held services in all Brooklyn churches, philanthropics. jails, penitentiary, asylums; seven winters preacher of Mayflower Mission of Plymouth Ch. Prohibition- ist-Republican. llas held services in every State of Union but two, and also in Canada and Great Britain. Address: 35 Monroe St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
GREENWOOD, JOSEPH WILLIAM
Lawyer; b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1854; s. Joseph M. and Cynthia M. (Ward) Greenwood; ed, private schools, Columbia Law School, 1/L .. B., 1874; m. Brook- lyn, Oct. (18, 1887, Loia Alvarez de la Mesa; children: Charles Terry, b. Aprll, 1890, Lola Monica, b. Nov., 1900. Practicing law in Brooklyn since 1874. Repub- lican. Congregationalist. Clubs: Hamilton, Young Republican, Apoilo (dr.). Residence: 10 Brevoort Pl., Brooklyn, N. Y. Office address: 185 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
GREER, DAVID HUMMELL
Bishop of Diocese of N Y .; b. Wheeling. W. Va., March 20, 1844; grad. Washington Coll., Pa .. 1862; sub- sequentiy studied at P. E. Theol. Sem., Gambier, O. (D.D., Brown Univ., Kenyon Coll., Univ. of the South; S.T.D., Columbia, LL.D., Washington and Jefferson Coll.); m. Caroline A. Keith. Ordered deacon, 1866;
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ordained priest, 1868; rector Christ Church, Clarks- burgh, W. Va., 1866-1868; Trinity Ch., Covington, Ky., 1568-1871, Grace Ch., Providence, R. I., 1871-1888; St. Bartholomew's Ch., N. Y. City, 1888-1901; elected bishop coadjutor of Diocese of N. Y., Sept., 1903, suc- ceedIng to bishopric on death of Bishop Potter, July 21, 1908. Author: The Historic Christ; From Things to God; The Preacher and His Place (Yale lectures), Visions. Address: 416 Lafayette St., N. Y. City. GREGG, CLIFFORD STIMSON
Clergyman; b. Ripley, O., June 8, 1870; s. Samuel and Martha Jane (McCracken) Gregg; grad. Harvard, 1896, Cambridge Theol. Sem., 1899. Traveled and studied In Europe and Orient, 1899-1902; curate Ch. of the Ascen- slon, Boston, Mass., 1902-1903; curate St. Bartholomew's Ch., N. Y. City, 1903-1905; since 1905, rector Ch. of the Holy Faith ( Protestant-Episcopal), N. Y. City. Mem. Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Club: Ilarvard. Address: 698 East 166th st., N. Y. City.
GREGG, EARL LAMONT
Educator; b. Springborough, Ohio, May 6, 1878; s. Jonah R. and Ella S. Gregg; grad. Univ. of Mich., A.B., 1904. Instr. physles and chemistry, Racine Coll., 1899- 1904; headmaster Grammar Sch., Racine Coll., 1904- 1909; headmaster Nat. Cathedral Sch. for Boys, Wash- ington, D. C., since 1909. Recording sec. Washington Branch, Archæol. Inst. of America; mem. Nat. Geog. Soc. Clubs: Cosmos, University. Address: Nat. Cathc- dral Sch. for Boys, Washington, D. C.
GREGORY, ELIOT
Author, artist; b. N. Y. City, Oct. 13, 1856; ed. abroad and at Yale, class of 1880; painting at Paris under Carolus 'Duran, received gold medal at Paris Salon, 1889, for a painting called Coquetterie; painted many well-known portraits, including Ada Rehan for Daly, August Belmont, Gen, Cullum, now In the Cul- lum Memorial, West Point. Author (under pen name "An Idler") of the Idler Papers, which appeared in the N. Y. Evening Post; also books: Worldly Ways and Byways; The Ways of Men. Chevalier Legion d'. Honeur. Dir. Metropolitan Opera
House. Club: Knickerbocker (N. Y. Clty), Address: 1122. Broadway, N. Y. City.
NGREGORY, HENRY ELSWORTH
Lawyer; b. N. Y. City; ed. private schs. in N. Y. Clty and at Stockbridge, Mass .; grad. Columbia Coll., A.B., 1878; Columbia Coli. Law Sch., LL.B. 1880, A.M. 1883; treas. and sec, Comm'rs of State Reservation at Niag- ara, 1888-1899; pres. Civic League of Westchester Co., 1907. Mem. Am. Bar Ass'n, N. Y. Clty Bar Ass'n, N. Y. Hist. Soc., Am. Soc. Internat. Law, Phi Beta Kappa; dir. N. Y. Juvenile Asylum, Soc. for Italian Immigrants; trustee Am. Scenic and Historic Preservation Soc., Hud- son-Fulton Celebration Comm'n; mem. Exec. Com. N. Y. Prison Ass'n; pres. Barnard Literary Ass'n of Columbla Coll., 1877-1878; pres. Columbia Chapter Phi Beta Kappa Soc., 1888-1891. Has written newspaper articles and essays, and delivered addresses on varlous subjects. Mem. St. Nicholas Soc. Clubs: Century, University. Residence: Irvington, N. Y. Address: 27 Cedar St., N. Y. City.
GREIN, ALBERT LOUIS
Clergyman; b. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1866; s. Henry and Matilda (Kranlchfelt) Grein; grad. Oberlin Coll., Ph.B. 1891, A.M. 1894; Yale Divinity Sch., B.D., 1894; un- married. Pastor Plymouth Cong'l Ch., Buffalo, 1894- 1898; Pilgrim Cong'l Ch., same clty, since 1898; pres. N. Y. State Yalc Divinity Alumni Ass'n, 1904-1905; dele- gate to Nat. Council, 1898 and 1907. Moderator N. Y. State Ass'n Cong'l Churches, 1908-1909. Republican. Mem. Buffalo Ministers' Meeting, Phi Kappa Pi fra- ternity; chaplain Hlram Lodge 105, F. and A. M .; grand chaplaln, F. and A. M., State of N. Y., 1905-1906; meni. Buffalo Consistory, S. P. R. S. Address: 593 Brecken- ridge St., Buffalo, N. Y.
GRIBBEL, JOHN
Capitalist; b. Hudson City, N. J., March 29, 1858; s. James and Anna (Simmons) Gribbel; ed. public sch., N. Y .; Coll. City of N. Y., Wesleyan Univ., A.M .; m. N. Y., Jan. 8, 1880, Elizabeth B. Wood. Sole surviving partner John J. Griffin & Co .; pres. Fairmount Savings Trust Co., Phila .; Tampa Gas Co., Fla .; Helena Gas & Electric Co., Ark .; Athens Gas & Fuel Co., Ga .; Royal Electro- type Co., Phlla .; v .- p. Brooklyn Borough Gas Co., Pub- lic Ledger Co .; 2d v .- p. Curtis Publishing Co .; dir. Gir- ard Nat. Bank, Real Estate Trust Co., United Gas & Elec. Corp'n, N. Y. Trustee Wesleyan Univ., Middle- town, Conn. Clubs: Union League (dir.), Lotos. Resl- dence: Wyncote, Pa. Address: 1513 Race St., Philadel- phia, Pa.
GRIFFIN, ANTHONY J.
Lawyer, State Senator; b. N. Y. City; s. James H. and Mary A. (Zeluiff) Griffin; ed. public sch., N. Y. City
Coll., Cooper Union and N. Y. Univ., B.S., LL.B .; In. Oct. 23, 1895, Katharyn L. Byrne. Cap't Co. F, 69th N. Y. Vols., in war with Spain. State Senator, 1911. 1912, 1913, 1914. Democrat. Residence: 891 Cauldwell Av. Address: 41 Park Row, N. Y. City.
N GRIFFIN, DANIEL J.
Lawyer, mem. Congress; b. Brooklyn, N. Y., March 26, 1880; ed. publle schs., St. Laurent Coll., Can., St. Peter's Coll., Jersey City, A.B.,; N. Y. Law Sch. Ad- mitted to bar, Nov., 1902; was comm'r of licenses, Bor- ough of Brooklyn, and in charge of administration and guardianship dep'ts of surrogate's court of County of King's; elceted to 63d Congress, Nov., 1912. Address: 44 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
GRIFFIN, NELSON FAULKNER
Born N. Y. City, Jan. 23, 1870; s. Edward Payson and Fanny (Benedict) Griffin; ed. public sch., followed by two years' attendance at the Coll. of the City of N. Y .; unmarried. Pres. and dir. Fort George Realty Co .; v .- p. and dir. The Harsen Co .; trustee The Bronx Savings Bank; mg's Branch office Lincoln Trust Co., 72d St. and Broadway. Republican. Presby'n. Clubs: N. Y. Athletie, Richmond County Country Club. Address: Broadway and 72d St., N. Y. City.
N GRIFFING, TIMOTHY M.
Lawyer; b. Riverhead, Suffolk Co., N. Y., Nov. 22, 1842; s. Hubbard and Pofly' (Miller) Griffing; ed. Phil- lips Acad., Andover, Mass .; Yale, A.B. 1864, A.M. 1867; AAlbany Law Sch., LL B., 1866; m. Riverhead, N. Y., June 16, 1869, Caroline A. Perkins; children: Frederick Lap- ham, Grace, Angeline Perkins, Mabel, Robert Perkins. Admitted to bar, 1866, and engaged in practise of law; appt'd by Gov. Higgins, May 4, 1906, County Judge of Suffolk Co., N. Y .; elected to same office Nov., 1906. Dir. and att'y Riverhead Savings Bank; pres. Suffolk County Co. Nat. Bank; treas. Riverhead Water Co., pres. Riverhead Electric Light Co., Amityville Water Co., Amityville Electrie Light Co. Republican. Con- gregationalist. Mem. Phi Beta' Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi. Recreation: Horticulture; received bronze medal at Paris Exp'n for views of grounds and park at which he resides, known as Grangebel Park. Address: Riverhead, Suffolk Co., N. Y.
GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT
Clergyman, author, lecturer; b. Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1843; s. John Limeburner and Anna Maria (Hess) Griffis; ed. Philadelphia publie schs. and high sch., Rutgers Coll., Union Theol. Sem., N. Y. City (D.D., Union Coll., 1883; L.H.D., Rutgers Coll., 1899); m. 1s:, 1877, Katharine Lyra Stanton; 2d, 1900, Frances King; children: Lillian Eyre, b. 1884 (now Mrs. Newton Fas- sett of Spokane, Wash.); Stanton, b. 1887; John, b. 1903. Engaged in business with mfg jewelry firm at Phila- delphia, 1859-1865; in coll., 1865-1869, in Japan, 1870- 1874 ;< pastor Knox Memorial Ch., N. Y. City, 1868-1869; Reforned Ch., Schenectady, N. Y., 1877-1886; Shawmut Cong'l Ch., Boston, Mass., 1886-1893; Cong'l Ch., Ithaca, N. Y., 1893-1903. Resigned active pastorate in 1903 to engage in research, writing and leeturing. Has been nine times in Europe for historical travel and investi- gation. Lecturer or preacher in many univs. Wrote lilst. sketch of Mass. at World's Columbian Exp'n, Chi- cago; has served frequently as orator or chaplain at civic gatherings. Served in 44th Reg't Pa. militia dur- ing Lee's Invasion as color corporal and sec. of Co. H. Represented Am. Ilist. Ass'n at Congress of Diplomatic History at The Hague, 1898; the Nation and Outlook at Queen Wilhelmina's Inauguration and enthronement, and Boston Congregationalist at unveiling of the Deli's- haven, Memorial at Rotterdam, and the Rembrandt Tercentenary festivities in Ilolland, 1906. Hymnist for Provincetown (Mass.) cornerstone exercises, in honor of the Pilgrims, Aug. 20, 1907. Collected the money and in Summer of 1909 had charge of the erection of five bronze historical tablets in the Netherlands, at Utrecht, AAmsterdam, Nijkerk, Leeuwarden and Leyden, and at Middelburg, Zierick Zee, Rotterdam and The Hague, 1913. Has had erected in Ithaca, N. Y., five bronze hist. tablets. Organizer of public schs. in Japan, 1870- 1874; under hls instr'n and personal eare were trained many of the now, leading men of Japan; only white man living who, in the far interior of Japan In a dai- mio's castle, saw the working of the feudal system and its burial; was first man enlled out from a foreign country under the Imperial onth of 1868 to serve the Japanese and help to begin their new civilization: re- ecived decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun from the Emperor of Japan, May 4, 190S. Anthor: 28 books on Asiatic, Dutch and American subjects, his main pur- pose being to help the Oriental and Occidental men un- derstand each other; many of contb'ns and books have been translated into Dutch, Japanese and Korean, etc. Contb'r to N. Am. Review. Outlook. Nation and leading periodicals. Founder, 1869, of the Targum, the Rutgers Coll. weekly newspaper. Honorary mem. Mel Roku Sha (Japan's oldest edn'l soc.), Frisian, Zealand and
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Leiden Literary and Scientific Soes. in the Netherlands, Asiatic Socs. of Japan and Korea, Am. Hist. Ass'n, U. S. Naval Inst. Pres. De Witt Hist. Soc. of Tompkins Co., N. Y. Recreation: Pedestrianism, collecting rare Dutch and Japanese books, prints and pictures. Address: Ithaca, N. Y.
7 GRIFFITH, EDWARD
Capitalist; b. N. Y. City, Sept. 20, 1874; s. Frederick W. and Lucy (Tate) Griffith; ed. public schs., N. Y. City. Pres. and dir. Arrow Realty Co .; mg'r Fidelity & Casualty Co .; mem. firm E. E. Clapp & Co .; dir. Church-Ward Internat. Steel Co., Gross & Gross Co. Republican; Episcopalian. Mem. Am. Peace Soc., St. David's Soc., Am. Museum of Natural History, Met. Museum of Art, Chamber of Commerce. Clubs: Re- publican, Down Town, Economic, Columbia Yacht, Lambs, Sleepy Hollow Country, Larchmont Yacht. Residence: Hotel Plaza. Address: 90 William St., N. Y. City.
GRIFFITH, ELBERT .W.
Sup't of Schools; b. Pike, N. Y., 1851; s. Samuel C. and Maria (Bowman) Griffith; grad. classical course Geneseo (N. Y.) State Normal School; Illinois Wes- leyan Univ., Ph.B, later upon examination A.M., Ph.D .; also A.M., from Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, Conn .; m. Whitesville, N. Y., Aug. 1880, Adele Parker; chil- dren: Mildred A., b. 1881, Ruth M., b. 1888. After serving as principal of schools several years in west- ern N. Y. was unanimously appt'd sup't of public schools at Norwich, N. Y., 1888-1898; sup't of schools at Glens Fails, N. Y., which position still holds. Repub- lican; Methodist; trustee Christ Methodist Church; trustee Crandall Free Library. Mem. Warren County Teachers' Ass'n, N. Y. State Council of Senool Supt's, Nat. Edn. Ass'n, Glens Falls Business Ass'n, Senate Lodge of Masons, Washington Commandery, K. T. Club: Giens Falls. Address: Glens Falls, N. Y.
GRIFFITH, FRANK CARLOS
Theatrical mg'r; b. Dixfield, Me., Dec. 30, 1851; s. Amos Wormell and Azubah F. (Stockbridge) Griffith; ed. Boston public schools; m. N. Y. City, May 8, 1884, Mary Catherine Lee. Acting mg'r of Mrs. Langtry, in America, London, and provinces, 1888-1890; mg'r Margaret Mather, 1892; only American acting mg'r ever taken to England by an English star; acting mg'r Minnie Maddern Fiske, since 1897. Author: Maine's Hall of Fame (privately published) ; The Man from Maine (C. M. Clark Pub. Co.), Mrs. Fiske, a biography ( The Neale Pub. Co.); dramatization The Golden Butterfly (Walter H. Baker Co.); also serial and short storles, Mexican and other travels. Li- brarian twelve years Poland Spring Library; art dir., Poland Spring Art Exb'n and editor-in-chief, The Hill-Top, a hotel magazine, also for twelve years, at Poland Spring, Mc. Republican. Mem. S. A. R., The Actors' Fund, and State of Maine Club. Address: 12 W. 40th St., N. Y. City.
GRIFFITH, FREDERIC
Surgeon; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 17, 1873; S. David Reese and Sarah Jane (Richardson) Griffith; (lineal descendant of Samuel Richardson, first Coun- cillor of colony of Pa., and friend of Wm. Penn); ed. Friends' School in Camden, N. J., and Philadelphia, Pa., 1883-1892. Nautical Schi., 1892; Univ. of Pa., M.D., 1897. During years 1894-1897 attended school of Aux- iliary Medicine Univ. of Pa., obtalned certificate of proficiency in medical jurisprudence; m. N. Y. City, Dec. 12, 1900, Lucile Andrews Menken. For varying terms engaged in Univ. Hosp., Pa. Hosp., Phila. Poly- clinic, N. Y. Hosp., House of Relief, St. Vincent's Hosp., N. Y. Polyclinic, Vanderbilt Clinic, Bellevue Hosp. Traveled extensively in United States, Canada, South America, Europe, West Indies, Azore Islands, Madeira Islands, Bermuda Islands, West Coast of Africa. Published one hundred and fifty articles in professional and scientific journals. Produced num-
erous medical, surgical and sanitary inventions. Author: Text-book on Surgery, 1904; revised 2d edl- tion Stoney's Bacteriology and Surgical Technic for Nurses, 1905; also monographs upon surgery in In -. ternat. Clinics, 1902-1906. Lectured upon practised surgery under direction of N. Y. City B'd of Ed'n, 1904-1905, Acting ass't surgeon, 3d Reg't N. G. of Pa., 1897-1898. Mem. Soc. of Friends, Universal Peace Soc., Alumni Soc. Univ. of Pa .; fellow N. Y. Acad. Medicine. Recreations: Horseback riding, sailing, walking trips, Club: Baltusrol Country. Residence: (summer), Belmar, N. J. Address: 228 W. 38th St., N. Y. City.
GRIFFITH, FREDERICK WINTER
Mfr; b. Phelps, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1858; s. John Watson and Charlotte (Malette) Griffith; grad. Hamilton Coll., A.B., (Phi Beta Kappa), 1886; m. Phelps, Oct. I, 1889, Mary E. Adams; children: Frederick A., b. 1894, Hen- ry W., b. 1896. Treas, and v .- p. Garlock Packing Co.
(large corp'n doing business throughout U. S. and In foreign countries) ; has traveled extensively abroad; elected trustee Hamilton Coll., 1907; mein. State As- sembly, 1900-1902, State Senator, 1910, 1911, 1912; Presidential elector on Rep. ticket. 1894; has held many civil and polit. offices; pres. Palmyra Printing Co. Presby'n; Mason, mem. Zenobia Commandery K. T., Palmyra, N. Y. Address: Palmyra, N. Y. -
GRIFFITH, PERCY TATE
Retired; b. N. Y. City, Oct. 25, 1875; s. Frederick William and Lucy (Tate) Griffith; ed. public schs .; m. N. Y., 1900; children: Edward T., b. 1901, Herbert b. 1907. Lately mem. firm E. E. Clapp & Co., mg'rs of Accident & Health Dep't Fidelity and Casualty Co., for N. Y., N. J., Mass. and R. I. Mem. Chamber of Commerce, Am. Anthropol. Ass'n, Am. Chem. Soc., . Acad. of Polit. Science, Peace Soc., St. David's Soc., Civic Federation, Met. Museum Art, Children's Aid Soc., N. Y. Kindergarten Ass'n, Museum Natural His- tory. Clubs: Down Town Ass'n, West Side Tennis, Stamford, Suburban, Stamford Yacht. Residence: Hartford, Conn. Address: 90 William St., N. Y. City. GRIFFITH, WILLIAM MORTON
Banker; b. Racine, Wis., Oct. 31, 1859; s. Owen and Jane (Owen) Griffith; grad. Hamilton Coll., B.A., with oratorical honor, 1880; m. Utica, N. Y., April 23, 1884, Julia Josephine Maynard; one son, William Morrison, b. 1888. Was engaged in journalism; connected with various papers as editor and correspondent at Albany and Washington; sec. to the late Hon. James S. Sher- man; private sec. to Gov. Frank S. Black; sec. to the N. Y. State Comm'n to the Paris Exp'n of 1900. Former pres. now a dir. Queens County Trust Co .; chm'n Exec. Com. Long Island Bond and Mortgage Co .; dir., treas. and ing'r Queens Borough Development Corporation; dir. and treas. Sea Coast Realty . Co., Merrick Bay Co. Itepublican; Presby'n. One of
mg'rs of Long Island Real. Estate Exchange and Queens Borough Real Estate Exchange. Trustee and treas. Qucens Borough Library. Clubs: Republican (N. Y. City), University (Brooklyn), Jamalca (Ja- maica). Residence: Jamaica, (L. I.) N. Y. Address: 1328 Broadway, N. Y. City,
GRIFFITHS, H. WILLARD
Lawyer; b. Utica, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1873; s. David G. and Elizabeth ( Watkins) Griffiths; ed. public schools, Utica, N. Y. Prep. Sch., N. Y. Law Sch .; m. Sept. 22, 1896, Ella May Parsons; children: Dorothy May, Ger- trude Ione, Ross, Irma Elizabeth and Minerva. Pres. and dir. Nassau Cottage and Realty Co., Nassau-by- the-Sea; Foster Deep Sea; sec. and dir. Transporta- tion Co. Republican; Baptist. Recreations: Sailing,
hunting. Clubs: Nassau Rod and Gun, Nassau Re- publican. Residence, (winter): Hempstead, N. Y .; (summer), Nassau-by-the-Sea. Long Beach, Address; 53 Main St., Hempstead, L. I., N. Y.
GRIGGS, EDWARD HOWARD
Author, lecturer; b. Owatonna, Mirn., Jan. 9, 1868; s. Joseph Emerson and Mary Ellen (Little) Griggs; grad. Indiana Univ., A.B., 1889, A.M., 1890, studied Univ. of Berlin, L.H.D., and Univ. of Maine, 1905; m. 1st, . 1889, Jennie Taylor Fry (died 1896), 2nd, 1898, Mary Pratt Little (dled 1906); six chidren. Instr. English and prof. literature, Indiana Univ., 3 years, prof. ethics, Leland Stanford, Jr. Univ., 5 years;
since 1899, publle lecturer and author. Author: The New Humanism, 1900; A Book of Meditations, 1902; Moral Education, 1904; The Use of the Margin, 1906; Human Equipment. 1910; The Philosophy of Art, 1913, and numerous handbooks 10 courses of lectures. Pres. Dep't of Pirilosophy, Brooklyn Inst. of Arts and Sciences; mem. Am. Acad. Polit. & Social Science, and several other learned socs. Clubs: City (N. Y.), University (Philadelphia). Address: "Vredeoord,"
Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y. City.
GRIGGS, HERBERT LEBAU
Banker; b. Newton, Mass., 1855; grad. English High Sch., Boston, Mass .; m. N. Y. City, Emily Thompson; one son, Arthur, b. 1891. Received early business ed'n with Kidder, Peabody & Co., in Boston and later in N. Y. City; admitted as partner in ISSG; retired from succeeding N. Y. firm (Baring, Magoun & Co.), 1900; pres. Bank of New York, N. B. A., since 1901. Also dlr. Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line R. R .; trustec in U. S. of Sun Ins. Office, London, England; trustee At- lantic Mutual Ins. Co: was treas, and trustee the Boys' Club, Av. A, several years. Clubs: Metropolitan, Down Town, Ardsley. Residence: I E. Soth St. Ad- dress: 48 Wall St., N. Y. City.
GRIGGS, JOHN WILLIAM
Lawyer, ex-governor; b. Newton, N. J., July 10, 1849; s. Daniel and Emeline (Johnson) Griggs; ed. Lafayette Coll., A.B., 1868, LL.D. Yale and Princeton; m. L. Elizabeth Price. Admitted to N. J. Bar, 1871;
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practised at Paterson, N. J .; mem. N. J. Assembly, 15:0-1877, State senator, N. J., 1883-1889 (pres. Senate 1556); gov of N. J., 1896-1898, resigning to enter Cabinet of Pres. Mckinley as att'y-gen., serving until 1961. Mem. of Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague; now head of law firm of Griggs, Bald- slu & Baldwin, N. Y. City. Pres. and dir. Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America; dir. Corp'n Trust Co., N. Y., and N. Y. Telephone Co. Republican; Presby'n. Mem. Soc. of Cincinnati, Mil. Order Loyal Legion. Club: Union League, N. Y. City. Residence: Paterson, N. J. Address: 27 Pinc St., N. Y. City.
GRIGGS, MAITLAND FULLER
lawyer; b. Granby, Conn., Feb. 12, 1872; s. Joseph Fuller and Helen M. (Bagg) Griggs; ed. Hartford High Sch., Yale Coll., A.B., N. Y. Law Sch., LL.B .; m. N. Y. City, Nov. 9, 1898, Carolyn C. Lee; children; Dorothy M. L., b. 1899; Maitland L., b. 1902; Northam L, b. 1905. Republican; Presby'n. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa Soc., Skull & Bones ( Yale), Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Dir. N. Y. Juvenile Asylum. Clubs: Uni- versity, Ardsley. Down Town Ass'n. Residence: Ardaley-on-Hudson, N. Y. Address: 27 Cedar St., N. Y. City.
GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD
Pres. business corp'ns, author, ethnologist; b. Brook- lyn, Sept. 20, 1849; s. George Blake and Helen (Lan- aing) Grinnell; ed. Churchill's Mil. Sch., Ossining, N. Y., Yale, A.B., 1870, Ph.D., 1880; m. N. Y. City, Aug. 21, 1902, Elizabeth K., d. Col. F. D. Curtis. Ass't in osteology, Peabody Museum, New Haven, Conn., 1874- 1580; 1880-1911 pres. and editorial mg'r Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Pres. Bosworth Machine Co., Lansing Co .; dir. Milford Land Co., Campbell-Bos- worth Machine Co. Collaborated with Ex-pres. Theodore Roosevelt in writing American Blg Game Hunting; Hunting in Many Lands; Trail and Camp Fire; edited American Big Game in Its Haunts; Hunt- Ing at High Altitudes. As ethnologist regarded as authority on history and habits of the Indians of the Plains and West generally. Author: Indians of To- day; Blackfoot Lodge Tales; The Story of the In- dian; Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales; Jack, the Young Ranchman; Jack Among the Indians; Jack in the Rockics; Jack, the Young Canoeman; Jack, the Young Trapper: Jack, the Young Explorer: American Duckshooting; American Game Bird Shooting; Punish- ment of the Stingy; Brief History of the Boonc and Crockett Club; Trails of the Pathfinders; Jack, the Young Cowboy; Blackfeet Indian Storics; Beyond the Old Frontier. Fellow A. A. A. S., Am. Ethnol. Soc., Am. Ornithol. Union, N. Y. Zool. Soc., Am. Muscum Nat. History, Am. Geog. Soc .; mem. Am. Folklore Soc., Washington Anthropol. Soc., Blol. Soc. Washington, N. Y. Acad. Sciences, N. Y. Zooi. Soc. (mem. B'd Mg'rs), N. Y. Aquarium (mem. B'd Mg'rs). Mem. Com. of 70, and took active part in reform movement of 1894. Mem. Soc. Colonial Wars, Soc. Mayflower Descendants. Clubs: Union, University, Century. Ad- dress: 238 E. 15th St., N. Y. City.
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