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Schlessinger; children: Cecil P., b. April 9, 1887; Hazel H., b. Oct. 14, 1888. Resided in New Mexico, 1876- 1903. Appt'd 1905, Am. consul to Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; engaged in ice machine business, Omaha, one year previous to apptm't. Republican, Mason, 33'. Address: Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
HOTCHKIN, WALTER BRYANT
Banker, broker; b. Auburn, N. Y., July 30, 1865; s. William H. and Julia P. (Cook) Hotchkin; ed. com- mon sch., Watertown, N. Y .; m. N. Y. City, April 15, 1903, Mabel Lord Hall. Mem. firm Stoppani Hotchkin. Private 39th Separate Co., Nov. 6, 1882; 2nd lieut. Co. E, 22d Reg't, Jan. 23, 1889; 1st lieut., 1894; Capt., 1895; major, 1898; lt .- col., 1905; Colonel, 1906; Colonel Corps of Eng'rs, 1906; Brevet brig .- gen., 1907. Served In War with Spain as major 22d N. Y. Vols., May to Nov., 1898; and ist lieut. and capt. 12th N. Y. Vols., Dec., 1898, to April, 1899; with army of occupation in Cuba, 1899. Democrat; Episcopalian. Mem. Japan Soc., N. Y. Zool. Soc., N. Y. Hist. Soc., Order Founders and Patriots of America, Soc. Colo- nlal Wars, Sons of Revolution, Soc. War of 1812 (N. Y. & Pa.), Sons of Veterans (comd'r of camp), Soc. Foreign Wars, Am. Wars, Naval and Military Order, Spanish Am. War, ,United Spanish War Veterans Soc., Soc. Am. Officers; v .- p. Military Service Inst., Pres. Military Athletic League of America; mem. B'd of Govs. Amateur Athletic Ass'n, U. S. America. Clubs: Engineers, Army and Navy (N. Y.), Army and Navy (Wasl., D. C.), Governors Island, N. Y. Athletic, Ford- ham, Brooklyn, Machinery. Residence: 202 Riverside Drive. Address: 66 Broadway, N. Y. City.
HOTCHKISS, CHARLES E.
Lawyer; b. Brooklyn, Dec. 2, 1861; s. Jeremia and Caroline E. (Darrow) Hotchkiss; grad. Trinity Coll., Hartford, Conn., A.B., 1882; A.M., 1886; Columbia Coll. Law Sch., LL.B., 1888; m. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 28, 1892, Edith L. Parks; one d. Ellzabeth N., b. 1896. Mem. law firm Davies, Auerbach & Cornell. Demo- crat. Interested in Domestic and Foreign Missionary Soc. of the P. E. Ch., and other charitable org'ns, I. K. A. fraternity. Clubs: Marine and Field, Laurentian. Address: 34 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
JHOTCHKISS, HENRY DE WITT
Jurist; b. Albany, N. Y., July 2, 1856; s. Thomas W. and Emma (Burrell) Hotchkiss. Mem. N. Y. Legis- lature, 1886; mem. N. Y. Constitutional Conv., 1894; elected justice Supreme Court, 1911; appt'd to Appel- late Div., Supreme Court, 1st Dept., 1913. Democrat. Mem. Sons of Revolution, N. E. Soc. Clubs: Metrop- olitan, Riding, Manhattan, Greenwich Country. Resi- dence: 315 W. 75th St. Address: 27 Madison Av., N. Y. City.
HOTCKISS, HENRY STUART
Manufacturer; b. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 1, 1878; s. Henry L. and Jane ( Trowbridge) Hotchkiss; ed. Taft Sch., Watertown, Conn .;
Andover Acad .; grad. Scientific Sch., Yale Univ., Ph.B., 1900; m. Wessyng- ton, Tenn., Oct. 9, 1907 Elizabeth Wyndham Wash- ington; children: Henry Hotchkiss, b. Junc 6, 1909; Mary Bolling Washington, b. July 21, 1911; Stuart Trowbridge, b. July 16, 1913. Receiver of Nat, Wire Corp'n, and Nat. Steel Foundry Co., 1906-1908. Trav- eled extensively in N., Central and S. America. V .- p. treas, and dir. L. Candce & Co., New Haven, Conn .; trcas. and dir. Naugatuck Chemical Co., Naugatuck, Conn .; dir. Gen. Rubber Co., N. Y. City, New Haven Gas Light Co., Chatham & Phenix Nat. Bank, N. Y. City; Nat. New Haven Bank; Union & New Haven Trust Co. Served as Alderman In New Haven, Conn., also as private in Conn. Naval Reserves. Mem. Delta Psi fraternity; Am. Geog. Soc., Soc. of Colonial Wars. Clubs: University, Yale (N. Y. City), Graduates, Quinnipiac, New Haven Country, New Haven Lawn, New Haven. Residence: 55 Hillhouse Av., New Haven, Conn.
HOTCHKISS, HORACE LESLIE
Banker, broker; b. Auburn, N. Y., March 27, 1842; S. Clark B. and Caroline (Bennett) Hotchkiss; ed. Auburn (N. Y.) Acad .; m. Stamford, Conn., June 26, 1867, Clara Taylor; children: H. L., Jr., b. 1868, Mrs. Clara Hitchkiss NIles, b. 1871, Alrs. Josephine Hotch- kiss Williams, b. 1873. Aided in the organization of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Co., and was treas. of the co., 1867-1871; organized the Am. Dist. Tele- graph Co., 1871-1872; became mem. N. Y. Stock Ex- change in 1874; retired from business in 1903. Served a short period during Civil War as capt.'s clerk, U. S. Navy; was mem. syndicate which secured concession in 1887 from Nicaragua for bld'g interoceanic canal across the Isthmus; was treas. Nicaragua Canal Con- struction Co .; dir. and pres. Standard Assets Corp'n; dir. Exchange Telegraph Co., Lt'd., of London, Eng.
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Clubs: Union League, N. Y. Yacht, Am. Yacht, Apa- wamis. Residence: Greenacres, Rye, N. Y. Address: 27 William St., N. Y. City.
~ HOTCHKISS, HORACE LESLIE, JR.
Stockbroker; b. Stamford, Conn., Dec. 10, 1868; s. Horace L. and Clara (Taylor) Hotchkiss; ed. St. Paul's Sch., Concord, N. H .; Columbia Coll., N. Y. City; m. Jersey City, April 11, 15944, Dora A. Toffey; children: Horace Leslie, 3d, b. 1895, Adeline, b. 1896, Dora, b. 1903. Has been a mem. N. Y. Stock Exchange since 1890; mem. Co. I, 7th Reg't N.G.N.Y., 1887-1892. Republican. Mem. Sons of Vets. Ass'n, 7th Reg't Vet. Ass'n. Clubs: Jersey City, Carterct, Apawamis Golf, Am. Yacht. Residence: "Adorace," Rye, Westchester Co., N. Y. Address: 27 William St., N. Y. City.
HOTCHKISS, JEAN JEWELL
Dramatic reader, writer, editor; born near Utica, N. Y., May 24, 1837; d. Darius and Margaret (Halley) Jewell; ed. Buffalo Scni. (Collegiate Dept.), studied technique of dramatic and elocutionary art with J. E. Frobisher, prof. at Coll. City N. Y .; also voice cul- ture with Prof. Parkinson, of Boston, who trained Prof. Monroe, of Boston Sch. of Oratory, and Shake- speare with a pupil of Lemuel G. White, of Philadel- phia; m. Buffalo, Dec. 3, 1863, Thomas W. Hotchkiss, of New Haven, Conn .; children: Thomas Woodward, Jeanie Elizabeth (both editors). Made debut as dram- ~ HOTTENROTH, FREDERICK W.
atic reader at age of 18 in Buffalo; first reader now living to have given Hiawatha and Enoch Arden to public audiences; after marrlage, appeared only at rare intervals for a number of years; lived for some years at Ottawa, Ont., where her husband was Am. consul-gen. During past five years has resumed her dramatic readings, lecture recitals and magazine writing. Most notable cssay being: Dramatic Readers, Past and Present; The Spoken Word; The Air We Breathe; No Age in Life. Episcopalian. Residence: 71 Highland Av., Northport, L. I. Address: 2.109 Grand Av., University Ileights, N. Y. City.
-JHOTCHKISS, LUCIUS WALES
Physician; b. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 1859; s. Wales and Frances Augusta Hotchkiss; Columbia, A.B., 1881, Coll. Phys. and Surg., N. Y., M.D., 1884; m. 1891, Alice HH. Greene; Surgeon Bellevue and Roosevelt Hosps .; prof. clinical surgery, Coll. Phys. and Surgeons, N. Y. City. Club: University. Address: 59 W. 48th St., N. Y. City.
HOTCHKISS, THOMAS WOODWARD
Editor, magazine writer, encyclopedist; b. Elmira, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1867; s. Thomas Woodward and Jane (Jewell) Hotchkiss; ed. Public Sch. No. 4, Elmira, N. Y .; prep, ed. at Elmira Free Acad .; grad. Princeton, 1889 (1vy Orator) ; student Columbia Law Sch .; M.S., Princeton, 1899 (mech. drawings left at Princeton exhibited at the World's Columbian and Paris Exp'ns by Univ.); m. N. Y. City, 1911, Amy Warner Quacken- bush. Admitted to N. Y. Bar, 1892; in law office of Humphrey, Lockwood & Hoyt, Buffalo, 1892-1894; on editorial staff Am. and Eng. Encyclopedia of Law, Northport, L. I., 1895-1897; mg'r St. Bartholomew's Employment Bureau, N. Y. City, under Dr. (now Bishop) Greer, 1897-1903;' ass't editor and editor "Town and Country" 1903-1908. Contb'r to various magazines and encyclopædias. Collaborated in draft- ing the law governing employment agencies in N. Y. State, 1904. Collaborated in original research for an Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1912-1913. Recrea- tions: Tennis, rowing, swimming, walking. Address: 2409 'Grand Av., University Heights, N. Y, City.
HOTCHKISS, WILLIAM HORACE
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Lawyer; b. Whitehall, Washington County, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1864; s. Mason K. and Rachel Amanda (Mer- riam) Hotchkiss; grad. Hamilton Coll., A.B., 1886, A.M., 1889; m. April 25, 1895, Buffalo, N. Y., Katherine Tremaine Bush; children: Katherine, b. 1900; Emily, b. 1903. Admitted to bar in 1888; prac- tised at Auburn. N. Y., until 1890, in Buffalo until 1912, and in N. Y. City since 1912; was mem. firm of Teller & Hotchkiss at Auburn; in Buffalo, succes- sively of Parker & Hotchkiss, Parker, Hotchkiss, Miller & Templeton, Hotchkiss & Templeton and Hotchkiss & Bush. Cierk of Surrogate's Court of Cayuga County N. Y., 1887-1889; referee in brank- ruptcy for Erie County, 1898-1909. Active in primary reform movement in 1897-1898, and assisted in draft- ing first N. Y. Primary Law; active in movements for amendments to Bankruptcy Law and assisted inf drafting amendatory bill of 1903, active in movements for better regulation of automobiles while on public highways, and assisted in drafting the N. Y. Motor Vehicle Law of 1904. Served as comni'r for the pro- motion of uniformity in legislation of State of N. Y., 1907-1908; sup't of 1ns. of N. Y., 1909-1912. Pro- gressive; first N. Y. State chm'n of Nat. Progressive
Party, 1912; signer of call for formation of Progres- sive Party, Chicago, 1912. Ex-pres. Erie County Bar Ass'n, ex-pres. Nat. Ass'n of Referees in Bankruptcy, ex-pres. Am. Automobilc Ass'n and N. Y. State Auto. mobile Ass'n. Mem. S. A. R., Am. Bar Ass'n, Chi Pal fraternity. Author: Collier on Bankruptcy (4th edition). Lecturer on bankruptcy at N. Y. Law Sch. and Cornell Law Sch. Clubs: Lawyers of Buffalo (ex-pres.), University (Buffalo); Fort Orange (Al-
bany), Lawyers, City (N. Y. City). Address: 55 Liberty St., N. Y. City.
J HOTTENROTH, ADOLPH C.
Lawyer; b. N. Y. City, 1869; s. Christian C. and Catharine S. Hottenroth; ed. public schools; grad. Coll. City of N. Y. and N. Y. Univ .; studied law and admitted to practice; m. N. Y. City, 1900, Mamie A. Schmidt. Became mem. firm Gumbleton & Hotten- roth, since dissolved, present firm being A. C. & F. W. Hottenroth. Mem. Constitutional Convention, 1894; mem. City Council from Borough of Bronx, 1897-1901. Elected pres. of Taxpayers' Alliance, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909; treas. and dir. Sandrock Realty Co., U. S. Award and Assessment Co., Map and Abstract Co., Allendorf Realty Co. and others. Residence: 69 Kingsbridge Rd. Address: 261 Broad- way, N. Y. City.
Lawyer; b. N. Y. City, Sept. 10, 1879; s. Christian C. and Catharine (Sandrock) Hottenroth; ed. public schs .; grad. Coll. City of N. Y., B.A., 1898; N. Y. Law Sch., LL.B., 1900: m. N. Y. City, April 15, 1903, Mar- gucrite Liebertz; children: Helen K., b. 1904; Con- stance M., b. 1905; WFrederick W. Jr., b. 1906; Vivian M., b. 1910. Successtul real estate Iltigator, espe- cially in public condemnation proceedings and real cstate assessments. Dir. Henry F. A. Wolf Co., Bronx County Mortgage Co .; sec. Sandrock Realty Co .; treas Granconcourse Co., Allendorf Realty Co., Union St. Realty Co. Democrat. Mem. Bronx Art and Science League, North Side B'd of Trade, Bronx Bar Ass'n, Taxpayers' Alliance, 'Twenty-third Ward Property Owners' Ass'n. Clubs: Schnorer, Jefferson, Tam- many. Address: 2429 Grand Boul. & Concourse, Bronx Borough, N. Y. City.
HOUGH, CHARLES MERRILL
Jurist; b. Philadelphia, May 18, 1858; S. Alfred Lacey and Mary (Merrill) H .; ed. Kimball Union Acad., Meridian, N. 11., Dartmouth Coll., A.B., 1879; m. N. Y. City, Nov. 21, 1903, Ethel Powers. 'Taught school after graduation, studled law and admitted to the bar at Philadelphia, 1883, practising there a few years; removed to N. Y. City, where practised law until appt'd by Pres. Roosevelt, June 27, 1906, to present office as United States district judge for the Southern Dist. of N. Y. Served six years in N. Y. Naval Militia, Mem. N. Y. State Bar Asy'n, Ass'n Bar City of N. Y. Club: University. Residence: 550 'Park Av. Address: Post-office Bld'g, N. Y. City.
HOUGH, DAVID LEAVITT
Engineering contractor; b. Fort Wayne, Ind., 1865; s. John and Sarah (Dawkins-Burgess) Hough; ed. public schools and private tutor; grad. Yale Univ., Ph. B., 1885; m. N. Y. City, 1903, Oféloise Beekman. Learned trade of machinist and boiler maker; was chicf eng'r in structural dep't of R. D. Wood & Co., Phila .; chicf eng'r and gen. mg'r East River Gas Co .; gen. mg'r Nat. Contracting Co .; pres. United Eng'ring and Contracting Co., N. Y. Tunnel Co., Hough-Wickersham Realty Co. The Cuban Eng'ring and Contracting Co. Mem. (capt.) Ist Reg't U. S. Vol. Eng'rs, (capt.) 71st Reg't, N.G.N.Y., Naval and Mil. Order Spanish-Am. War, Am. Soc. Civil Eng'rs, Am. Soc. of Mech. Eng'rs, Am. Gas Inst., Theta Xi Ass'n. Clubs: University, Engineers, Yale, Turf and Field, City Lunch, University (Phila.), Graduates (New Haven, Conn.), Am. Yacht, Vedado Tennis (Hlavana, Cuba), British (Moscow, Russia). Address: 17 W. 42d St., N. Y. City.
HOUGH, ROMEYN BECK
Author, publisher; b. Albany, N. Y., Mar. 30, 1857; s. Dr. Franklin Benjamin and Marlah Ellen (Kilhain) Hough; grad. Lowville Acad., in the class of '76, and Cornell Univ., '$1, B.A. Also attended one course in the Coll. of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y .; m. Low- ville, Jan. 19, 1892, Anna Maria Galloway; children: Gertrude Helen, b. Feb. 19, 1893; Romeyn Beck, Jr., b. Mar. 14, 1895; Marjorie Galloway, b. Oct. 3, 1896; Winifred Doten, b. April 11, 1898: Edith Dora, b. Nov. 7, 1899. Devised a machine and process of seet:on- ing woods for scientific purposes. With it sections are made (1) from 1,50 to 1|200 in. thick, on re- spectively transverse, radial and tangential planes, and used for purpose of illustrating the various species in a work entitled American Woods; (2)
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from 1|400 to 1|600 in. thick, for mounting in stere- optieon slide form for projection with the stere- opticon, and (3) 1|1200 in. thick for mounts for study with the microscope.' Author and publisher of: American Woods, illustrated by actual specimens, with copious text. Large Svo. The Work, in a series of 15 vols., is designed to cover ali of the important timber trees of the U. S and Canada; 12 vols. have been issued and others are in preparation, Hand- book of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada, photo-descriptive. In this work the characteristic leaves, fruits and leafless branchlets and barks of each species are shown in carefully made photo- graphic illustrations and the distributions are shown by individual maps. The characteristic wood struc- tures of at least one species of each genus are indi- cated by a series of photomicrographs. The value and importance of the above work is attested by the fact that their author has been awarded, through the Franklin Inst. of Philadelphia, the sp'l Elliot Cresson gold medal on account of their production. Besides the above have been awarded grand prize or gold medal at Paris Exp'n, Columbian, Pan. Amer- Ican, Louisana Purchase and Alaska-Yukon Exp'ns. Republican. Mem. A. A. A. S .; ' Am. Ornithologists' Union, Nat. Geog Soc., Washington Acad of Sciences, Torrey Botanical. Recreations: Nature Study, boat- Ing, bicycling, gardening. Address: Lowville, N. Y.
HOUGHTON, CLARENCE SHERRILL
Lawyer; b. Piermont, N. Y., April 28, 1864; s. Mat- thew Ilenry and Sarah Seymour Houghton; grad. Phillips Andover Acad., 1884, Amherst Coll., A.B., 1888; attended Columbia Law Sch .; m. 1895, Mary S. Clark, of Louisville, Ky .; children: Evelyn Clare, b. 1897; Edwina Sherrill, b. 1900. Admitted to N. Y. Bar, 1891; partner with Augustus S. Houghton, a relative, in firm of Houghton & Houghton, 1893-1898; ass't U. S. att'y Southern Dist. of N. Y., April, 1898-March 1, 1907. Mem. Chi Psi fraternity. Residence: Red Bank, N. J. Address: 111 Broadway, N. Y. City.
HOUGHTON, EDWARD RITTENHOUSE
Publisher; b. Norristown, Pa., March 13, 1870; James Clay and Grace Rittenhouse (Blackwell) Houghton; ed. Phillips Andover Acad., 1889; A.B., Amherst Coll., 1893. Mem. Houghton, Mifflin & Co .; dir. and mg'r The Riverside Press. Republican; Episcopalian. Clubs: University (Boston), Coloniai (Cambridge). Residence: 5 Waterhouse St. Ad- dress: The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., and 16 E. 40th St., N. Y. City.
HOUGHTON, GEORGE CLARKE
Clergyman; b. N. Y. City, Dec. 17, 1850; grad. St. Stephen's Coll., Annandale, 1867, A.M., 1870, B.D., 1893, D.D., 1895; grad. Gen. Theoi. Sem., 1870. Ordalned priest in Episcopal Church, 1871, by Bishop Potter; curate Trinity Parish, N. Y., 9 years, and rector of Trinity Ch., Hoboken, N. J., also rector St. John's, W. Hoboken, Grace Ch., Town of Union, N. J., and Ch. of Transfiguration, Pine-Hill-in-the-Catskill, 18 years, until 1897, when called as rector to Ch. of the Transfiguration, N. Y. (Little Church Around the Corner). Mem. Hist. Soc., Geographical Soc., Munic- ipal Art Soc., Sons of Revolution, Soc. Colonial Wars. Clubs: Calumet, National Arts, The Players, Salma- gundi, Graduates. Address: 1 E. 29th St., N. Y. City.
HOUGHTON, LOUISE SEYMOUR
Editor, author; b. Picrmont, Rockiand Co., N. Y., d. Hezekiah Cook and Mary (Sherrill) Seymour; ed. at home and Utica Female Sem .; m. Piermont, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1856, Elihu Reed Houghton; children: Mary Seymour, Daisy, Elihu Russell, Augustus Seymour, Henry. Ten years editorial writer Frank Leslic's Weekly; three years dep't writer Lippincott's Maga- zine; five years ass't editor Am. Tract Soc .; 14 years literary, and editor-in-chief The Evangelist, 3 years; two years asso. editor Christian Work and The Evan- gelist; editor Am. McAll Reand since 1888; has trav- eled and lived in France, Germany and Italy, traveled In Syria, Palestine and Egypt, and extensively in the United States. Author of many books and translator of several German and French works. Dir. Am. Mc- All Ass'n and Brotherhood of the Kingdom. Pro- gressive; Episcopalian. Club: Meridian. Address: Marlborough-on-Hudson, N. Y.
HOUSTON, DAVID FRANKLIN
Seeretary of Agriculture; b. Monroe, N. C., Feb. 17, 1866; s. William Henry and Cornelia Anne (Stevens) Houston; grad., A.B., S. C. Coll., 1887; A.M., Harvard Univ., 1892 (Il .. D., Tulane, 1903, Univ. of Wis., 1906, Yale Univ., 1913); m. Austin, Texas, Dec. 11, 1895, Helen Beall; grad. student and tutor in ancient lan- guages S. C. Coll., 1887-1888; sup't Spartanburg (S. C.) city schs., 1888-1891; grad. student poilt. science, Har- vard, 1891-1891; adjunct prof., 1894-1897; asso. prof.,
1897-1900; prof. polit. science, 1900-1902, and dean of faculty, 1899-1902, Univ. of Texas; pres. Agr'l and Mech. Coll. of Texas, 1902-1905; pres. Univ. of Texas, 1905-1908; chancellor Wash. Univ., St. Louis, since 1908; appt'd sec. of agr. March 6, 1913. Author: . L Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina, Mem. Rockefeller Sanitary Comm'n, Southern Edn'l B'd, Am. Ieconomic Ass'n; trustee John F. Siater Fund; fellow Texas State Hist. Soc. Club: Harvard Graduate (pres., 1893-1894). Address: Washington, D. C.
HOVEY, EDMUND OTIS
Geologist; b. New Haven, Conn., Sept. 15, 1862; s. Horace Carter and Helen L. (Blatchley) Hovey; ed. public schools, Peoria, Ill., Kansas City, Mo., New Haven, Conn .; grad. Yale Univ., A.B., 1884, Ph.D., 1889; studied at Heidelberg, Germany, 1890-1891; m. New Haven, Conn., Sept. 13, 1888, Esther A. Lancraft. Prin. schools, Janesville, Minn., 1884-1885; Elk River, Minn., 1885-1886; ass't Mineral Laboratory, Sheffield Scien- tific Sch., Yale, 1886-1887; ass't prin. Waterbury (Conn.) High Sch., 188S-1891; prin. same, 1891-1892; sup't Mo. Mineral exhibit, Columbian Exp'n, 1892-1893; ass't U. S. Geol. Survey, 1890, 1901-1906; ass't curator geol. dep't, Am. Museum of Natural History, 1894 1900; asso. curator, 1901-1909; curator since 1910. Has traveled in Russia, including Russian Armenia; Les- ser Antilles for sp'i study of eruptions of Mt. Pelée and Soufriere, in 1902-1903; in Mexico and in other re- gions. Corr. mem. Sociedad Cientifico Antonio Aizate, Mexico. Fellow of A.A.A.S. (sec. section E, 1903, 1904-1908), Geol. Soc. of America (sec. since 1907), Ass'n Am. Geog., Am. Inst. of Mining Eng'rs; fellow N. Y. Acad. of Science (v .- p., 1905-1906; recording sec. since 1907, editor 1908) ; mem. Nat. Geog. Soc., N. Y. Mincralogical Club (pres. 1906) ; delegate to Internat. Geol. Cong., 1897, 1903, 1906, 1913. Is particularly in- terested in vuicanology and gen. geology. Author of many papers on geol. subjects. Clubs: Century, Ex- plorers. Address: American Museum of Natural His- tory, N. Y. City,
HOVING, JOHANNES (WALTER WILHELM)
Physician; b. Wiborg, Finland, April 17, 1868; s. Walter and Bertha (Boldt) Hoving; ed. in classical Lyceum and Gymnasium of Wiborg and Helsingfors Univ., Ph.M., 1890; Ph.D. Univs. of Berlin and Lund (Sweden); grad. Royal Karolinska Medico-Chirurg. Inst., Stockholm, M.D., 1898; m. June 17, 1894, Helga Adamsen-Rundberg, of Stockholm; children: Hannes, b. 1895; Waiter, b. 1897; Greta, b. 1899. Studied chem- istry, etc., in Helsingfors, 1886-1890; anatomy, odon- tology, etc., Berlin, Sept., 1890-May, 1891; anatomy, physiology, medicine, surgery, etc., at Stockholm, 1891- 1898; hydrotherapy, meehanotherapy, inhalation treat- ment, etc., in almost all baths in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Swe- den and Finiand, 1898; chief physician and sup't at Baths of Marlchamn, Aland, Finland, 189S-1903, and at his mechanotherapeutle inst. at Helsingfors until Oct., 1903; came to N. Y. City, Nov., 1903, because of polit. troubles with Russian Gov't at that time in Fin- land. Author of several professional and other es- says in Swedish, German, Finnish and English, and lecturer in Swedish for Nat. Ass'n for Prevention of Tuberculosis: translator into Swedish and Finnish for B'd of Health and Nat. Ass'n for Prevention of Tuberculosis; late attending physician Sydenham Hosp. Life mem. Swedish Med. Soc., Stockholm; mnem. Swedish Lutheran Gustavus Adolphus Ch. of N. Y .; mem. Finnish Med. Soc of Helsingfors, Nat. Ass'n for Prevention of Tuberculosis, Union of Old German Students, Ass'n of German Authors in America, A.A. A.S .; trustee Am. Scandinavian Soe. and chm'n of its Social Com .; Swedish Hist. Soe. of America; was mem. Med. Ass'n of St. Mark's, German and Yorkville Hosps. Knight of Grand Lodge of Freemasons in Stockholm, and lecturer of Freemasonry in several lodges in N. Y. Odd Fellow; hon. mem. Swedish Gymnastic Soc. of N. Y., Am. Soc. of Swedish Eng'rs: delegate United German Socs. of N. Y., Physicians' Mutual Aid Ass'n of N. Y., Swedish Aid Soc. of N. Y .: v .- p. United Swed- ish Soe. of N. Y .: life mem. Swedish Home for Aged People Ass'n; mem. exec. com of the Scandinavian Technical Seh. of N. Y .; established private hosp., 1911. Address: 233 Lenox Av. (After April 1, 1914) : 1089 Madison Av., N. Y. City. and 3 Victoria St .. Bad Nauheim, Germany (as specialist of Internal diseases).
HOWARD, EDWARD PERCY
Editor (writes under pen name Percy Lindon How- ard); b. Liverpool, Eng., Jan. 4, 1869; s. Thomas Lister Ogden and Harrict Margaret (Broadhurst) Howard; grad. Rugby, with honors; in. Fort Wayne, Ind., 1895, Emmie Josephine Parker; one son: Frederick Percy, b. 1897. Originally engaged in the theatrical profes- sion; prop'r of five theatricai cos., and three theatres in England; began newspaper career on N. Y. Morning Journal, under Albert Pulitzer; telegraph editor
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Morning Advertiser; ass't mn'g editor Daily News; managing editor Morning Telegraph; pres. and editor- in-chief Central News and Press Exchange; now news editor N. Y. Press; has traveled extensively in U. S., Australia, India, England, France and Ireland, study- Ing labor problems. Independent in politics. Mem. Masonle order P. D. D. G. M. 8th Dist. N. Y. (R. A. M., past high priest), Knight Templar. Author: Mr. Dev- ery, stories in the vernacular. Reereations: Yachting, shooting. Address: N. Y. Press Club, N. Y. City.
J HOWARD, JOHN RAYMOND
Publisher, book editor; b. Brooklyn, N. Y., May 25, 1837; grad. from Univ. of Rochester, 1857, A.B., 1860, A.M .; m. 1871, Susan R. Merriam, of Springfield, Mass. Traveled in America, 1858; instr. Brooklyn Polytech- nie Inst., 1859; traveled and studied in Europe, 1859- 1861; served during Civil War as capt. and aide-de- camp, U. S. Vols., Aug., 1861, to Feb., 1865; editor of reports with Adelberg and Raymond mining eng'rs, 1865; editorial writer, N. Y. Times and N. Y. Examiner and Chronicle, 1866-1867; sinee Dec., 1867, in publish- ing business (J. B. Ford & Co. and Fords, Howard & Hulbert); since 1903 retired from business, busied as book edltor. Author: Henry Ward Beecher-A Study; eyelopedla work, divers lectures and many articles, chiefly in the Outlook. Editor: Patriotic Addresses, Bible Studies, Evolution and Religion, and Sermon Briefs, by H. W. Beecher; Educational Nuggets; Patri- otic Nuggets; Historieal Nuggets; A Treasury of Il- lustration, by H. W. Beecher (with T. J. Ellinwood) ; revised and enlarged edition Bryant's Library of Poetry and Song; as mn'g editor (with Bliss Carman and others), The World's Best Poetry; Hundred Best American Poems; Prose You Ought to Know; Best American Essays; Best American Orations; Poems of Friendship; Poems of Nature, and other works. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa Soc., Nat. Geog. Soc., Mil. Order of Loyal Leglon of U. S .; pres. B'd Ed'n, B'd Trustees 1st Cong. Ch .; mem. B'd Trustees Free Pub. Library. Clubs: Montclair (pres.), Outlook (pres.), Tariff Re- form (pres.). Address: Montclair, N. J.
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