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BENJAMIN, MARCUS
Editor, U. S. Nat Museum; b. San Franelseo, Callf., Jan. 17. 1857; s. Edmund Burke and Sarah (Mitehell) Benjamin; father was a merchant of high reputation in San Francisco and later in N. Y. City; ed. Coll. City of N. Y., Columbia Univ. (chemical course), Ph.B.,
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1878; honorary degrees of A.M., Lafayette Coll., 1888; V BENKARD, JOHN PHILIP
Ph.D., Univ. of Nashville, 1889; Sc.D., Univ. of Pitts- burgh, 1905; LL.D., St. John's, 1910; m. June 16, 1892, Carolyn, d. of J. Loring Gilbert, of N, Y, City. In business pursuits four years; became editor Amn. Pharmacist, 1882, and later of its successor, the Week- ly Drug News; chemist in the U. S .. Laboratory in Appraiser's Store, N. Y. City, 1883; sanitary eng'r N. Y. City B'd of Health, 1885; lecturer on chemistry, N. Y. Woman's Med. Coll., 1886; wrote articles on min- eral paints in Mineral Resources of the U. S., 1882- 1885; contb'r to Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1883- 1902; on editorial staffs Cyclopedia of Ain. Biography, 1886-1888; Standard Dictionary, 1891-1894; Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia, 1895; Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1896; Am. Educator, 1897; Internat. Year Book, 1899- 1902; New Internat. Encyclopaedia, 1900-1903; New In- ternat. Year Book, since 1907; editor-in-chief Apple- ton's New Practical Cyclopedia (6 vols., 1910). Editor Appleton's Dictionary of N. Y., 1890; Handbook of Winter Resorts, 1890-1896; Handbook of Summer Re- sorts, 1891-1897; Gen. Guide of the U. S., 1891-1902; Canadian Guide Book, 1895-1898; revised edition of Picturesque America, 1894; May Time (a collection of poems), 1899; Some Noted Paintings of Artists of To-day, 1902; Washington During War Time, 1902. Translator of Bertholet's Explosive Materials, 1883. Since 1896, editor of Proceedings, Bulletins and An- nual Reports, U. S. Nat. Museum. Contb'r to Scien- tific Am., Popular Science Monthly, The Chautauquan
and other popular magazines. Author: Braddock's Rock, a Study in Local History, 1899: Memoir of Rear Admiral Francis Asbury Roe, 1903; A Memorial of John Henry Boner, 1905; John Bidwell, Pioneer, a Sketch of His Career, 1906, etc. Mem. Jury of Awards, World's Columbian Exp'n, 1893; Tennessee Centennial Exp'n, 1897; Trans-Mississippi Exp'n, 1898; Pan-Amer- ican Exp'n, 1901; South Carolina Interstate Exp'n, 1902; Louisiana Purchase Exp'n, 1904; Jamestown Exp'n, 1907, Episcopalian. Mem. Council of Wash. (P. E.) Cathedral, 1911; mem. Com. of one hundred on Celebration of Centenary of Anglo-Am. Peacc, at National Capitol, 1912. Mcm. U. S. Assay Comm'n, 1896. 1899, 1904, 1906, 1912. Scc. of Section of Tech- nical Chemistry, Internat. Congress of Arts and Sci- ences, St. Louis. 1904; mem. ITudson-Fulton Celebra- tion Com .; life fellow London Chem. Soc., A. A. A. S. (v .- p. and acting pres., 1899, local sec. Washington meeting, 1903); mein. Am. Chem. Soc., Soc. Chem. In- dustry, Nat. Gcog. Soc .. Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, gov. Soc. Colonial Wars, 1905-1907; pres. Soc. War of 1812. 1898-1908: sec. Sons of the Revolu- tion, 1904-1907, in Dist. of Columbia; prcs. Alumni Ass'n of Columbia Univ. in Dist. of Col .; honorary mem. Ladies' Hermitage Ass'n, and of Wachovia Hist. Soc. of N. C. Clubs: Authors (N. Y. City), Cosmos (Washington, D. C.). Residence: 1703 Q St. Official address: U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C.
BENJAMIN, PARK
Patent lawyer, author; b. N. Y. City, May 11, 1849; s. Park Benjamin (poet), and Mary (Western) Ben- jamin; grad. Trinity Sch., N. Y. City, 1862; U. S. Naval Acad., 1868; m. Yonkers, N. Y., 1891, Ida E. Crane. Made several cruises; was with Adm'l Farragut, Eu- ropean station, 1868; promoted cnsign, 1868, and re- signed, 1869. Grad. Albany Law Sch., LL.B., 1870; admitted to bar same year; Ph.D., Union Coll., 1877. Asso. editor _Scientific American, 1872-1878; is scien- tific expert and counsel in patent matters. Editor-in- chief Appleton's Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics, 1878-1891. Asso. mem. Soc. Naval Architects and Ma- rine Eng'rs; foreign mem. British Chartered Inst. of Patent Agents, mem. Am. Inst. Elec. Eng'rs. Author numerous books and magazinc contributions. Was first to advocate U. S. Naval Reserve. Collected with R. M. Thompson and E. J. Berwind, valuable library of rare works relating to electricity, and presented it to U. S. Naval Acad. Has been counsel to leading in- ventors and corp'ns in various proceedings and litiga- tions. Residence: 270 W. 73d St., and Barnacle, West Hampton Beach, L. I. Office: 165 Broadway, N. Y. City.
BENJAMIN, WALTER ROMEYN
Publisher; b. Guilford, Conn., Sept. 24, 1854; s. Park and Mary Brower ( Western) Benjamin; grad. Union Coll., A.B, 1874; A.M., 1877; m. N. Y. City, Nov. 1, 1899, Rachele Maria Carolina Toussaint de Saint Seigne, Baroness de Saint Seigne; children: Park, b. 1900; Ottavia, Clelia, Maria Victoria. Journalist in Schenectady and Saratoga; 11 years on N. Y. Sun. pub- lisher and editor of The Collector; collector of his- torical documents since 1887. Republican; formerly mem. Rep. Co. Com. N. Y. City. Catholic. Formerly historian S. A. R .: mem. National Union. Address: 225 Fifth Av., N. Y. City.
Banker; b. Paris, France, Oct. 30, 1872; s. James and Fanny G. (Horton) Benkard; grad. St. Mark's Sch., Columbia Univ., A.B., 1894; m. N. Y. City, Dec. 12, 1902, Julia Olin; children: Phyllis, b. 1903; Elsic, b. 1905. Senior partner in firm J. P. Benkard & Co. Capt. 12th N. Y. Vols., in War with Spain. Capt. o1 Gov's staff, N. Y., 1905-1907. Episcopalian. Mem. Delta Phi fraternity. Clubs: Knickerbocker, Tuxedo. Residence: 43 E. 31st St. Address: 80 Broadway, N. Y. City.
V BENNET, WILLIAM S.
Lawyer; b. Port Jervis, N. Y., Nov. 9, 1870; s. James and Alice Leonora (Stiles) Bennet; grad. Albany Law Sch., LL.B., (honor man), 1892; m. Gertrude Witschief; children: Augustus W. Sarah A., Mary Florence, Edna Grace. Official reporter Orange Co. (N. Y.) B'd of Supervisors, 1892-1893; mem. Assembly, 1901-1902; inunicipal court judge, N. Y. City, 1903; representative 59th and 60th Congresses from 17th Dist., N. Y., 1905- 1909, and re-elected to 61st Congress in 1908. Mcm. Immigration Comm'n. Republican; Presby'n. Mem. State Bar Ass'n, Medico-Legal Soc. Clubs: Republi- can. City, Delta Chi. Address: 60 Wall St., N. Y. City.
BENNETT, CHARLES EDWIN
Prof. Latin, Cornell Univ .; b. Providence, R. I., April 6, 1858; s. James L. and Lucia (Dyer) Bennett; grad. Brown Univ., A.B., 1878; grad. student Harvard Univ., 1881-1882; Leipzig, Berlin, Heidelberg, .1882-1884 (Litt.D., Brown, 1904); m. Lineoln, Neb., June 29, 1886, Margaret Gale Hitchcock; children: Margaret, b. 1887: Lawrence, b. 1888; Harold, b. 1891: Helen, b. 1894. Principal publie sch., Milton, Fla., 1878-1879; classi- cal master, Sing Sing, N. Y., 1879-1881; licad prep. dep't, Univ. of Neb., 1884-1889; prof. Latin, Univ. of Wis., 1889-1891; prof. classical philology, Brown Univ .. 1891-1892; prof. Latin, Cornell Univ., from 1892. Dem- ocrat. Mem. Am. Philol. Ass'n, Delta Upsilon. Edited: Xenophon's Hellenica, 1892; Tacitus Dialogus de Ora- toribus. 1894; Ciccro, De Senectute, 1897; De Amicitia, 1897; The Characters of Theophrastus, 1902; Caesar. De Bello Gallico, 1903; Cicero, Selected Orations, 1904; The Eneid of Virgil, 1905. Author: Bennett's Latin Grammar, 1895, and Appendix, 1895; Latin Composi- tion, 1896; The Foundations of Latin, 1898; Critique of Some Recent Subjunctive, Theories, 1898; The Quan- titative Reading of Latin Poetry, 1899: The Teach- ing of Greek and Latin in Secondary Schools, 1900; Sounds and Inflections of the Cyprian Dialect, 1888; Latin Lessons, 1901: Preparatory Latin Writer, 1905; Latin Language, 1906; Latin Grammar, revised edi- tion, 1908; Syntax of Early Latin, 1911. Editor Cor-
nell Studies in Classical Philology. Pres. (1909) Am. Philol. Ass'n. Address: Ithaca, N. Y.
BENNETT, CHARLES EMMETT
Banker; b. Ticonderoga, N. Y., June 1, 1844; s. Charles H. and Betsey L. (Bailey) Bennett; ed. Ti- conderoga Aead .; m. N. Y. City, Oct. 1908, Mrs. Carrie Parker. Taught sch. until 1870; druggist until 1882; in mercantile business until 1884. One of organizers and pres. since 1884, First Nat. Bank. Sup't Municipal Water Supply until 1890. Republican; Congregation- alist. Mason. Dir. Moses Hosp. Recreations: Boat- ing, driving. Address: Ticonderoga, N. Y.
BENNETT, CHARLES GOODWIN
Born Dee. 11, 1863, and has always resided in old Bennett homestead, 1090 Gates Av., Brooklyn; cd. in Brooklyn schs, LL.B., Univ. of State of N. Y. Mem. law firm Daniels & Bennett, Bennett Bldg., N. Y. City. Trustee Kings Co. Savings Inst., Chm'n B'd Broadway and Gates Branch of the Mcehanics Bank of Brooklyn. Was pres. People's Bridge Ass'n, which succeeded in having the great Williamsburg Bridge built by City of N. Y. Always a Republican; was unsuccessful can- didate in 5th N. Y. Dist. for 53d Congress; elected to 54th and 55th Congresses, serving on the Com. Inter-state and Foreign Commerce; unsuccessful can- didate for 56th Congress; sec. U. S. Senate, 1909- 1913. Clubs: Metropolitan, Chevy Chase ( Washing- ton, D. C.), Union League (Brooklyn). Residence: 1090 Gates Av., Brooklyn, N. Y.
BENNETT, CHARLES H.
Clergyman; b. Troy, N. Y., July 2, 1879: S. Herman C. and Phoebe ( Hetherton) Bennett; grad. Schuyler- ville High Sch., 1899: Syracuse Univ., A.B .. (Phi Beta Kappa), 1904; Drew Theol, Sem., BD .. 1906; m. Pitts- town, N. Y., Sept. 28. 1904, Nellie C. Rose. Ordained to the ministry and has served as pastor M. E. churches at Marion, N. Y., 1903-1904; E. Moriches, N. Y., 1904-1905: Garnerville. N. Y., 1905-1906: North Creek, N. Y., 1906-1908; Long Lake, N. Y., 1908-1911: Still- water, N. Y., since 1911. Prohibitionist. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa Soc. (Kappa Chapter, Syracuse Univ. ). Address: Stillwater, N. Y.
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BENNETT, COURTENAY WALTER
Consul general of Great Britain; b. Plymouth, Eng., May 11, 1855; s. John Nicholas Bennett, of Ford Park, Plymouth. Appointed vice-consul at Panama, Oct. 4, 1876, and was acting consul there at intervals from 1876 to 1882; appt'd consul at Guatemala, Feb. 13, 1883; acting consul-general there during 1884; appt'd consul at Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Jan. 10, 1885, and to Reunion, March 1, 1890. Employed on public service at Paris concerning Indian Coolie Immigration; made a Companion of the Indian Empire, June 21, 1900, and transferred as consul at Bilboa, Spain, June 9, 1900. Promoted to consul general at San Francisco, Nov. 11, 1901; remained there until May, 1907, going through the earthquake and fire of 1906; transferred June 5, 1907, to New York, where is now serving as consul general of Great Britain. Received Coronation Medal 1911. Fellow Royal Colonial Inst. Clubs: Calumet, Down Town. Address: British Consulate General, 17 State St., N. Y. City.
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BENNETT, JAMES ALBERT
Corp'n official; b. Sterling, N. Y., about 1S43; s. James and Emily Andrus (Douglass) Bennett; ed. common schs., Va., 1863; Eastman's Business Coll., Poughkeepsie, N. Y .; N. Y. Home. Med. Coll., M.D., 1871; m. N. Y. City, 1876, Matilda Booraem Wilmurt; children: James Albert, Jr., (deccased) ; Emily B. (Mrs. Robert M. Rogers); Matilda (Mrs. Leo C. Stern) ; Wil- murt A., Stanley R. Moved to N. Y. City, 1864, and entered employ Manhattan Gas Light Co. Later ass't chief clerk, then chief clerk; on consolidation of Gas Companies in 1SS4, appt'd ass't supt., later supt. of Branch 2, Consolidated Gas Co. of N. Y .; promoted ass't sec., 1901; treas., 1903, which office still holds. Also treas. Astoria Light, Heat & Power Co .; v .- p. and dir. Andrew J. Robinson Co., bld'rs; mg'r Am. Tract Soc .; trustee Harlem Savings Bank; dir. U. S. Fire Ins. Co., and Ball Electric Illuminating Co. Inde- pendent Republican; Baptist. Mem. N. Y. County Home. Med. Soc., Cayuga Co., N. Y. Soc., Bapt. Social Union, Nat. Goog. Soc .; senior mem. Am. Inst. of Homo- opathy; life mem. Masons, and N. E. Soc. Dir. Y.M.C.A., N. Y. City, Jennie Clarkson Home for Chil- dren. Valhalla, N. Y .; dir. and treas. N. Y. City Baptist Mission Soc .; pres. B'd Trustees Southern N. Y. Baptist Ass'n. Residence: 2101 Fifth Av. Address: 4 Irving Pl., N. Y. City.
BENNETT, JAMES GORDON
Journalist; b. N. Y. City, May 10, 1841; s. James Gordon and Henrietta Agnes (Crean) Bennett; edu- cated by private tutors; unmarried. Carefully trained in journalism, and on death of father, 1872, succeeded to proprietorship and mg'mt of the Herald, which has since continued. Fitted out, at personal expense, the Jeannette Polar Exploring Exp'n; sent Henry M. Stan- ley to Africa to find Livingston; for a time conducted BENSON, CHARLES B. a London edition, and for years has conducted and still conducts a Paris edition; inaugurated in England the plan of publishing storm warnings telegraphed from the United States. Joined John W. Mackey, in 1883, in the organization of the Commercial Cable Co., which laid an entirely new cable between America and Europe (the Mackey-Bennett cables), greatly in- creasing the volume and reducing the cost of trans- atlantic communication between the Old and the New Worlds. Recreation: Yachting: won an international yacht race from Sandy Hook to the Needles, Isle of Wight, against two competitors, with his schooner yacht the Henrietta, 1866, and sailed a similar race, 1870, from Queenstown to N. Y. Harbor, but was beaten by the English Yacht Cambria. Resides the greater part of the time in Paris. Address: 120 Champs Elysées, Paris, France, and 37 W. 47th St., N. Y. City. BENTLEY, EDWARD M.
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BENNETT, JAMES L.
Lawyer; b. Durhamville, Oneida Co., N. Y., April 8, 1849; s. William H. and Elizabeth A. (Thompson) Ben- nett; grad. Hamilton Coll., A.B., m. June 25, 1885, Emma May Wilson; one son, Dwight H., b. Feb. 25, 1891; U. S. dist. att'y, Eastern District, N. Y., 1893- 1897, during administration of Grover Cleveland; now mem, law firm Bennett & Crim; Pres. Guaranteed Mortgage Co., of New York; Fabrica de Cuba Cigarros Co .; v .- p. Bandotype Co .; dir. Manhattan Mortgage Co. Democrat: Unitarian. Mem. N. Y. County Law- vers' Ass'n. Clubs: Union League (Brooklyn), Alplia Delta Phi (Hamilton Coll.). Brooklyn Democratic. Residence: 1265 Dean St., Brooklyn.' Address: 30 Broad St., N. Y. City.
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Lawyer; b. Nashville, Tenn., July 11, 1869, of North- ern parentage; grad. Oberlin Coll., A.B., 1890; A.M .. 1895. Dir. Fruit Auction Co., and Englewood Realty lumbia Law Sch., subject of quasi-contracts, Spring of 1895, during illness of one of the professors. Mem.
law firm of MeElheny, Bennett & Sicher, since Nov. 1, 1895, Dir. Fruit Auction Co., and Englewood Realty Co., mem. Ass'n Bar City of N. Y. Gen. Assembly State of N. Y., serving in session of 1908, 1900, 1910. Club: West Side Republican. Residence: 225 Central Park W. Address: 15 William St., N. Y. City.
BENSEL, JOHN ANDERSON
Civil eng'r; b. N. Y. City, Aug. 16, 1863; s. Brownlee and Mary Maclay (Hogg) Densel; grad. Stevens Inst. of Technology, M.E., 1884; m. 1896, Ella Louise Day; children: Louise Day, John A., Jr .; Evelyn Adelaide. Dag'r for Pa. R. R. Co .; consulting eng'r City of Philadelphia, and for the Girard Estate in improve- ment along Delaware River, Philadelphia. Eng'r-In- chiet Dep't of Docks, and doek comin'r N. Y. City. Comm'r B'd of Water Supply, 1908. Appt'd N. Y. State Eng'r and Surveyor, 1910. Mem. Am. Soc. Civil Eng'rs, Inst'n Civil Eng'rs (Great Britain), Chamber of Com- merce, N. Y. City. Clubs: University, Union, Engi- neers, City, Midday, Somerset County, Country. Resi- dence: Marie Antoinette Hotel, 67th St. and Broad- way, N. Y. City. Address; Albany, N. Y.
BENSEL, WALTER
Physician, city official; b. N. Y. City, Jan. 22, 1869; s. Brownlee and Mary Maclay (Hogg) Bensel; ed. private schs. of N. Y. City, Coll. Phys. and Surg., M.D. 1890 (with honors and a prize) ; m. Newport, R. I., June 19, 1894, Alice Cooper, grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, the author; one d., Mary Cooper, b. 1896. Entered Belle- vue Hosp. an interne, immediately after graduation; served 11/2 years as junior ass't, senior ass't and house surgeon; served 3 months in Sloane Maternity Hosp .; ass't surgeon, Vanderbilt Clinic, 5 years; clinical ass't, irstr. and lecturer on surgery, N. Y. Polyclinic Med. School and Hosp., 5 years; in private practice since graduation in 1890. Appt'd med. insp. Dept. of Health, N. Y. City, 1892; served through various grades until 1903, when appt'd ass't sanitary sup't of the dept .: promoted sanitary sup't of dept. July 1, 1907; resigned July 8, 1907, and appt'd Comm'r of Street Cleaning of N. Y. City same date; resigned as Comm'r of Street Cleaning Nov. 25, 1907, and reappointed sanitary sup't of Dept. of Health; retired on half pay Oct. 1, 1913. Asso. in llygiene and Preventive Medicine Coll. Phys. and Surg., Columbia Univ. First lieut. Med. Reserve Corps, U.S.A., surgeon 1st Batallion Naval Militia. Unitarian. Mem. Nat. Geog. Soc., N. Y. Hist. Soc., Ass'n Military Surgeons, N. Y. Co. Med. Soc., N. Y. State Med. Soc., Anı. Med. Ass'n, Soc. Alumni of Bellevue Hosp., Alumni Soc. Sloane Maternity Hosp., Alumni Ass'n Coll. Phys. and Surg., Med. Ass'n Greater City of N. Y., Physicians' Mutual Aid Ass'n, St. Andrew's Soc. Clubs: N. Y. Athletic, Army and Navy (Wash., D. C.), N. Y. Press. Country home: Great South Bay, Amityville, L. I. Address: 353 W. S4th St., N. Y. City.
Lawyer; b. Valatie, N. Y., July 11, 1866; s. George E. and Sarah E. (Best) Benson; grad. Rutgers Coll., 1889: m. Hudson, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1901, Maude S. Mesick; children: Charles B., b. April 11, 1903; John Mesick, b. Aug. 10, 1905. Republican. Mem. Reformed (Dutch) Ch. Author: Van Deusen Genealogy, under pen name of "Mustapha Ben, S. E.": A Lark in Ancient Gardens (Knickerbocker Press), The Family of Best in Amer- ica, of Holland Descent. Mem. N. Y. Gencal. and Biog. Soc., N. Y. ITist. Soc., Nat. Goog. Soc. and -1m. Scenic and Hist. Preservation Soc ... V .- p. Rutgers Coll. Ass'n of Eastern N. Y. Recreations: Automobiling, golf. Clubs: Reform, Nat. Arts, St. Elmo, Rutgers (N. Y. City), Hudson ( Indson). Residence: 306 Warren St., Hudson, N. Y. Address: 12 S. 4th St., Hudson, N. Y.
Lawyer, eng'r; b. Ellenville, N. Y., July 31, 1858; s. Edward W. and Emily (Humphrey) Bentley; grad. Williston Sem., 1876; Yale, 1880; m. Washington, D. C., 1888, Mary H. Merrill; one son, Edward S., b. 1893. Mem. law firm of Sheffield, Bentley & Betts. Mem. Am. Ass'n Elec. Eng'rs. Clubs: Century, Lawyers, Yale, Rockaway Hunt. Address: 52 William St., N. Y. City.
BENTLEY, WALTER E.
Clergyman; nat. scc. Actors' Ch. Alliance; b. Eng- land, 1864; coming to U. S., entered business, and after some time 1,ccame an actor, appearing mainly in Shakespearean and other classic rôles; being brought under influence of Phillips Brooks, studied for the church, and was ordained by Bishop Huntington, 1891: served several years as rector in Diocese of Central N. Y., and in 1897 became associated with Rev. Dr. Rylance as vicar of St. Mark's Ch., N. Y. City: later served Rev. R. Heber Newton in same capacity: now organizer and nat. sec. Actors' Ch. Alliance, of which is practically the founder. Address: Actors' Ch. Al- liance, 129 Kent St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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BENTON, GEORGE ALDEN
Jurist; b. Tolland, Conn., May 7, 1848; s. Azariah L. and Louisa W. (Alden) Benton; (mother descended from John Alden of Mayflower); grad. Cornell Univ. B.A., 1871 (Phi Beta Kappa); Columbia Coll. Law Sch., LL.B., 1874; m. Batavia, N. Y., July 8, 1892, Catharine S. Westerdeck; children: Ethel, b. 1896; George, Jr., b. 1897; Alice, b. 1900; Helen, b. 1903. Dist. att'y Monroe Co., 1886-1892; surrogate Monroe Co., 1896-1905; county judge Monroe Co., 1906; Justice Supreme Court since Jan. 1, 1907. Campaign speaker; capt. Lincoln Guards,
1884. Republican. Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner (33'); honorary life pres. Rochester Masonic Temple. Club: Lincoln, of Monroe County (active and hon. comd'r since org'n, 1880.). Residence: Spen- cerport, N. Y. Address: Rochester, N. Y.
BENTON, STEPHEN OLIN
Methodist Episcopal. clergyman; b. Middletown, Conn., April 30, 1849; s. Rev. Josiah T. and Maria E. (Granniss) Benton; ed. public schools In Providence, R. I .; East Greenwich (R. I.) Acad. honorary alumnus; Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, Conn. (A.M., D.D.); m. Stafford Springs, Conn., 1869, Ellen M. Taft; one daughter, Eva IM. Entered ministry in Providence Conference, 1870; served in several important pastor- ates of conference; presiding elder Providence Dist., 1890-1896; New Bedford Dist., 1901-1902; since 1902 recording sec. Board of Foreign Missions of M. E. Ch. Was mem. 1888, and mem. and scc. Gen. Conference, M. E. Ch., 1892, 1896, 1900, 1904 and 1908; sec. New England Southern (formerly Providence) Conference, 1884-1903. Residence: Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Address: 150 Fifth Av., N. Y. City.
BENZIGER, AUGUST
Artist, portrait painter; b. Einsledeln, Switzerland, 1867; s. Adelrich (head of firm Benziger Bros., pub- llshers, Einsiedeln, Switzerland; New York, Cincinnati and St. Louis) and Marie Koch; ed. Downside Coll., England; Brussels, Geneva, Munich, Vienna, Academic Julien, and Beaux Arts, Paris; m. St. Patrick's Ca- thedral, N. Y. City, July 5, 1898, Gertrude Lytton; children: Marie, b. 1899; Hélene, b. 1900; Marguerite, b. 1902. Painted portraits of Pope Leo XIII, Sir Stuart Knill, Lord Mayor of London; Leon Bourgeois, Prime Minister of France; Pres. Mckinley, Richard Croker, of N. Y., Pres. Roosevelt, Pres. Taft, Pres. Diaz, of Mexico; Pres'ts of Switzerland, Hauser, Forrer and Deucher; Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore; Senator Shelby M. Cullom, for Capitol, Washington, D. C .; Robert S. Brookings, for Washington Univ., St. Louis; J. Pierpont Morgan, Princess Duleep Singh, of London; Duchess d'Aosta, and many others. Catholic, Commd'r de l'Ordre du Christ and officer de l'Ordre St. Jacque. Mem. Union Artistique (Paris). Club: Manhattan. Summer residence: Villa Gutenberg, Brunnen, Swit- zerland. Address: 8 rue Eugene Flachat, Paris, and 140 W. 57th St., N. Y. City.
BENZINGER, FREDERIC
Journalist b. Susquehanna, Pa., April 10, 1858; ed. in public schs. Began in printing office, 1873; estab- lished Horaclisville (N. Y.) Daily News at 19; sub- sequently prop'r of newspapers at Cedar Rapids and Des Moines, Ia., and Omaha and Lincoln, Neb .; since 1892 on staff of Omaha Bee, Chicago Inter Ocean, and Chicago Record Herald; transferred from financial editorshlp latter paper to Washington at outbreak of Spanish-Am. war; correspondent at Parls, 1899- 1900; N. Y. correspondent since 1902. Address: Herald Bld'g, N. Y. City.
BERAN, THEODORE
Manager Gen. Elec. Co .; b. Springfield, Mass., Sept. 16, 1862: s. Joseph and Kate Beran; ed. Public Sch. No. 40, N. Y. City; Coll. City of N. Y., A.B., 1881. Began business career, 1881; engaged in various occupations in N. Y. City and the West, 1881-1889; since then with Gen. Elec, Co. and its predecessors in various capaci- ties; since 1903, mg'r Gen. Electric Co. Asso. mem. Am. Inst. Elec. Eng'rs; past pres. N. Y. Elec. Soc. Clubs: Engineers, Railroad of N. Y. Address: 30 Church St., N. Y. City.
BERGEN, TUNIS G.
Lawyer; b. Brooklyn. N. Y., May. 1848: s. Garret G. and Mary (Hubbard) Bergen; ed, Brooklyn Poly. Inst., Rutgers Coll., A.B., 1867; Univ. of Heidelberg, Dr. in Public Law. 1871; Columbia, LL.B., 1874; also Univs. Berlin and Paris; m. Brooklyn, 1881, Caroline McPhail. Attached to headquarters German Crown Prince in Franco-Prussian War, 1870. Engaged In practise of law in State and U. S. courts, and In S. Am. railroads and enterprises. Mem. Brooklyn B'd of Ed'n 12 years (pres. 1881-1886); N. Y. State Comm'r of Charities, 1895-1900. Pres. The Bogota City R'y Co. of South America, The Chapinero Co. of South America, The Brigantine Co., College Heights Land Co. of Niagara
Falls; dır. N. Y. & S. Brooklyn Ferry Co, Republican. Mem. Reformed (Dutch) Ch. Ex-pres. Holland Soc. of N. Y., and St. Nicholas Soc. of Nassau; pres. trustees of Brooklyn Heights Sem .; trustce Rutgers Coll .; dir. L. I. Hist. Soc .; trustee Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com .; chm'n Com. on Hudson Dedication. Identified with historical addresses and work on early American (New Netherlands) history. Recreations: Outdoor sports, axwork, forestry. Clubs: Hamilton, Brooklyn, Crescent Athletic (Brooklyn), Lawyers. Delta Phi (N. Y. City), Onteora. Address: 160 Broadway, N. Y. City.
BERGHOLZ, LEO ALLEN
Consul-gen .; b. Burlington, Vt., 1857; attended pub- lic schs., 1872-1876; studied at Gymnasium, Hildesheim, Germany; Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, Conn., 1878- 1882, leaving one month before graduation to accept position of private sec. to late John Russell Young, then U. S. minister to China; remained at legation at Pekin, 1882-1887, with exception of about 2 years and a half, when was vicc-consul in charge of consulate at Chin-kiang, and at same time acting consul for Japan; returned to U. S., 1887; held various positions, sec. of a railroad company, an electric company, deputy sheriff, and ag't of Colorado Humane Soc. at Cripple Creek, Colo., etc., 1888-1896. Appt'd consul to Erzerum, April 25, 1896; to Prescott, Can., 1903; consul- gen. at Beirut, Syria, and later consul-gen., Canton, China; appt'd consul-gen. at Dresden, Germany, Sept., 1913. Address: American Consulate-General, Dresden, Germany.
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