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Clergyman; b. West Charlton, N. Y., Oct. 12, 1843; s. Alexander F. and Margaret (Bunyan) Alexander; grad. Union Coll., 1866 (D.D., 1884); grad. Princeton Theol. Sem., 1870. . Pastor East Av. Presby'n_Ch., Schenectady, N. Y., 1870-1883; Presbyterian Ch. on Univ. Place, N. Y. City since 1884. Chaplain of St. Andrew's Soc. of the State of N. Y. Pres. of council of New York Univ., B'd of Foreign Missions of the Presbyte- rian Ch., B'd of Dir. New York Coll. of Dentistry, American and Foreign Christian Union; trustee of Union Coll .; pres. 1907-1909; dir. Princeton Theol. Sem. Address: 47 University Place, N. Y. City.
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ALEXANDER, JAMES WADDEL
Former pres. Equitable Life Assurance Soc. of the U. S .;. b. Princeton, N. J., July 19, 1839; s. Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander, pastor 5th Avenue Presby'n Ch .; grad. Princeton, A.B., 1860 (A.M.); m. Elizabeth, N. J., Nov. 24, 1862, Elizabeth Beasley Williamson. Admit- ted to N. Y. Bar, 1862; practised law until 1866; after that in Equitable Life Assurance Soc., becoming pres. on death of Henry B. Hyde, until 1905. Trustee Princeton Univ .; formerly pres. Soc. of the Virginians. Author: Princeton, Old and New, 1898. Clubs: Univer- sity (was pres. 8 years), Metropolitan, Princeton (was pres. 6 years), Century. Address: 24 Broad St., N. Y. City.
ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE
Artist; b. Allegheny City, Pa., Oct. 7, 1856; s. John and Frances (Smith) Alexander; student of Royal Acad. of Fine Arts, Munich; (A.M., 'Princeton, 1892. Litt.D., 1909); m. Nov. 2, 1887, Elizabeth Alexander; one son, James W., , Jr. Awarded gold medal Phila. Acad. Fine Arts, 1897; gold medal of honor. 1904; also at Paris Exp'n, 1900, and Pan-Am., Buffalo, 1901; Lippincott prize, Philadelphia; first prize, Wash- ington, D. C., Art Soc .; first Carnegie prize, Soc. Am. Artists; medal, Munich Acad .; gold medal La. Purchase Exp'n, 1904; represented in Luxembourg, Paris, gal- lery at St. Petersburg; private galleries, London and Edinburgh, Scotland; Carnegie Inst., Pittsburgh; Phil- adelphia Acad. Fine Arts; Willstach collection, Fair- mount Park, and Elkins collection, Philadelphia; Bos- ton Museum Fine Arts; Met. Museum, N. Y .; Cincin-
nati Fine Arts Inst .; Princeton Univ .; Harvard Univ .; R. I. Sch. of Design; Congressional Library, Wash- ington, D. C .; Chamber of Commerce, and Cooper Union, N. Y .; State House, Trenton, N. J .; City Hall, Albany, N. Y., and in many private collections. Painted a portrait of President Loubet, which hangs in the Elysée Palace, Paris; Chevalier Légion d'honneur, 1901; academician Nat. Acad. Design, 1902; mem. Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris; Soc. Am. Artists, Nat. Soc. Mural Painters Architectural League, Nat. Inst. Arts and Letters, Société Nouvelle de Paris, Internat. Soc. London; honorary mem. of Soc. of Austrian Painters, and of The Secession of Munich. Clubs: Century, Metropolitan. Union. Resi- dence: 116 E. 65th St. Studio: 123 E. 63d St., N. Y. City.
ALEXANDER, LAWRENCE D.
Stockbroker; b. in Meade Co., Ky .; s. Junius B. and Lucy Fitzhugh (Dade) Alexander; ed. Washington Univ., St. Louis, and Jefferson Coil., Pa., A.B., 1864; m. Madison Sq. Presby'n Ch., June 12, 1866, Orline St. John; children: St. John, Orline, Lucy, Lawrence D. Jr. Engaged in banking and Stock Exchange business since 1866. Independent in politics. Presby'n. Mem. Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Club: Century. Residence: New Canaan, Conn. Address: 20 Broad St., N. Y. City.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM
Sec. Equitable Life Assurance Soc of U. S .; s. Rev. James W. (D.D.) and Elizabeth (Cabell) Alexander: ed. in Univ. of Va .; m. Frances Gordon Paddock: one d., Mrs. Frances A. Wellman. Mem. Ass'n for Protec- tion of the Adirondacks, Charities Organization Soc .. Southern Soc. Clubs: Century, Union, University. Lawyers, The Virginians, Ausable. Address: 165 Broadway, N. Y. City.
ALEXANDRE, J. HENRY
Broker; s. J. Henry Alexandre; grad. Harvard Univ .. class of 1907; m. Anne Loomis Dyar. Mem. N. Y. Stock Exchange. Clubs: Riding, Racquet and Tennis, Squadron A. Address. 7 Wall St., N. Y. City.
VALGER, GEORGE WILLIAM
Lawyer; b. Burlington, Vt .; s. Charles J. and Harriot S. (Murdoch) Alger; ed. Univ. of Vt., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), 1892; N. Y. Univ. Law Sch., 1895; m. Boston, 1903, Grace E. Drew. Engaged in practise of law in N. Y. City since 1895; now mem. law firm of Alger & Simpson. Mem. N. Y. State Bar Ass'n, N. Y., County Lawyers' Ass'n, N. Y. Law inst., Phi Delta Phi frater- nity. Interested in reform of laws relating to chiid labor, and drafted present Employers' Liability Act of State of N. Y., and many of the State laws relating to child labor in factories and stores. Author: Alger and Slater on the New York Employers' Liability Act (2d edition) 1907; Moral Overstrain, 1906, The Old Law and the New Order (Houghton, Mifflin) 1913; also va- rious contb'ns to magazines. Clubs: City. Economic, Phi Delta Phi (ex-pres.). Residence: 451 West End Av. Address: 27 William St., N. Y. City.
ALLEN, ADDISON
Lawyer; b. N. Y. City, Feb. 28, 1865; s. John and Mary (Hill) Allen; descendant Gen. Ethan Allen, Lord Cadwalader Blayney, and Hon. Joseph Addison; ed. Leonard Acad., 1872-1875; Essex County Grammar Sch., N. J., 1875-1879; N. Y. Sch. of Languages, Amherst Coil., Columbia Univ., A.M., LL.B., Ph.D .; m. June 26, 1901, Sarah Edith Kutz of Reading, Pa. Admitted to bar, N. Y. City, 1889, in practice since 1891. Traveled in Europe and Western Asia, 1889-1890. Contb'r to Educator, Sag Harbor Express, and various articles on European Travel, and lectured for N. Y. B'd of Ed'n. Republican; Episcopalian. Mem. A. A. A. S., Columbia Coll. Alumni Ass'n, Dwight Alumni Ass'n. S. A. R. Clubs: Alpha Delta Phi, Quill, University. Address: 165 Broadway, N. Y. City.
ALLEN, AUGUSTUS FRANKLIN
Postmaster, Jamestown, N. Y .; b. Jamestown, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1873; s. Alfred D. and Virginia (Mahen) Allen; ed. The Gunnery, Washington, Conn .; Berkeley Sch., N. Y. City; Phillips Exeter Acad .; Harvard A.B., 1896; Buffalo Law Sch., 1896-1898. Enlisted at Buffalo, N. Y., July 27, 1898, in 202d N. Y. Vol. Inf .; app't sera't Aug. 5, 1898; comm'd 2d lieut. Oct. 3. 1898; served four months in Cuba; discharged at Savannah, Ga., April 15, 1899; since then engaged in real estate business at Jamestown, N. Y. Elected superviser from Jamestown, N. Y., to the Chautauqua County B'd of Supervisors April 5, 1905; elected mem. Assembly from Chautauqua County in 1906 and 1907, re-elected 1910; clim'n Com. on Federal Relations of Gen. Assembly 190S-1910. appt'd Postmaster, Jamestown N. Y .. Feb. 3. 1911. Republican. Mem. Phi Deita Phi (iaw fraternity), Fra- ternai Order of Eagles, Aerie 816. Address: James- town, N. Y.
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ALLEN, BENJAMIN LEACH
Banker; b. Manchester. Mass .; s. John and Evelyn
(Hooper) Allen; m. Louie Sutherland; children: Catharine, Evelyn, Benjamin, Louis. V .- p. Columbia- Knickerbocker Trust Co .; v .- p. and dir. Knickerbocker Safe Deposit Co .; dir. Tanana Valley R. R. Co., Globe Lithographing Co., U. S. News Co., Brunswick Site Co., Hotel Holding Co., Hotel Securities Co., N. Y. Title Ins. Co., Santa Cecilia Sugar Co., Trustee Rosedale and Linden Cemetery Ass'n. Episcopalian. Address: 60 Broadway, N. Y. City.
ALLEN, CHARLES DEXTER
Author; b. Windsor Locks, Conn., May, 1865; s. B. Rowland and Annie Pierson (Dexter) Allen; ed. pri- vate, common and high schs., Hartford, Conn .; m. Hart- ford, Conn., 1890, Frances Louise Clark. Banker 20 years; writer, editorial critic, etc., 15 years. Author: American Book Plates (New York and London, 1894), and several other books on book plates. Contb'r to magazines, papers, encyclopedias, etc. Mem. Internat. Jury of Award, Louisiana Purchase Exp'n, 1904 (Dept. of Books, Bindings, etc.). Clubs: Authors, Arts (N. Y. City). Recreations: Golf, walking. Address: 30 Gates Ave., Montclair, N. J.
ALLEN, CHARLES HERBERT
Banker; b. Lowell, Mass., April 15, 1848; s. Otis and Louise (Bixby) Allen; grad. Amherst Coll., 1869, A.M., LL.D., 1900; m. Nov. 10, 1870, Harriet Coleman Dean; two daughters. Was lumber merchant at Lowell; mem. Mass. General Court, 1881-82; Mass. State Senate, 1883; elected mem. of Congress, 1884 (two terms), holding important place on the coms. on Indian Affair's and Post Offices; Republican candidate for governor of Mass., 1891, but defeated by a small majority by Gov- ernor Russell; succeeded Theodore Roosevelt as ass't sec. of the Navy, 1898, and served during the war with Spain; was, in 1900, made first civil governor of Porto Rico under American authority, and organized the new gov't; for these services was offered by President Mc- Kinley the choice of several dipolmatic appointments. Since 1902 pres. Appleton Nat. Bank at Lowell; dir. Nat. Bank of Commerce, Anı. Surety Co., Guaranty Trust Co., N. Y .; Union Exchange Nat. Bank, N. Y .; Appleton Nat. Bank, Electric Properties Co., N. Y., and pres., dir. Am. Sugar Refining Co. Trustee Amherst Coll., Smith Coll. Clubs: Union (Boston). Metropoli- tan (Washington), Yorick, Vesper (Lowell), Metro- politan, University (New York). Residence: 131 E. 66th St. Address: 117 Wall St., N. Y. City.
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ALLEN, CHARLES KISSAM
Lawyer; b. St. Louis, Me., Dec. 3, 1875; s. Gen. Charles J. Allen (U. S. Army, retired) and Elizabeth Walbridge (Cleveland) Allen; ed. Columbian Univ. Law Sch. (now George Washington Univ.), LL.M., and D. C.L., 1899, 1000; Nat. Univ. Law Sch., LL.B., 1897, LL.M., 1898; m. Litchfield, Conn., April 24, 1909, Ethel Whit- ney, of Oakland, Cal., and Washington, D. C .; chil- dren: Charles Kissam, Jr., b. 1910; George Whitney, b. 1911. Mem. Ass'n Bar City of N. Y., N. Y. Co. Lawyers' Ass'n. Residence: Ridgewood, N. J. Ad- dress: 2 Rettor St., N. Y. City. .
ALLEN, EDWIN STEVENS
Publisher: b. Bordentown, N. J., Jan. 5, 1860; s. Col. Joseph Warner (9th N. J. Vols.) and Sarah B. (Norcross) Allen; grad. Princeton, A.B., 1880; m. N. Y. City, June 2, 1890, Julia Hawk's Oakley (died 1909) ; children: Sara Burns, Marjorie Hawks, Doris Harwood, Olive Trowbridge. Entered service of Nat. R'y Pub- lication Co., 1881, as clerk; made as's't editor Official R'y Guide, 1890; ass't mg'r Nat. R'y Publication Co., 1906; sec. and treas. Knickerbocker Guide Co. since 1883; sec. and treas. R'y Equipment and Publication Co., since 1897. Sec. Manhattan Fire Alarm Co. Vet- eran 7th Reg't, N. Y. (Co. B); sec. B'd of Health, So. Orange, N. J .; elected trustee, same village, Nov. 1905, 1911 and 1913. Republican. Episcopalian. Vestryman Ch. of the Holy Communion, So. Orange, N. J. Clubs: Underwriters, Transportation. Address: 24 Park Place, N. Y. City.
ALLEN, EDWARD LISLE
Editor Jamestown Morning Post; b. Moscow, Liv- ingston Co., N. Y., Aug. 14, 1868; s. Elias and Rosetta (Sheldon) Allen; ed. in dist. sch., S. Bristol, N. Y., and public schs. of Rochester, N. Y .; grad. Rochester Free Acad., 1887; m. Canandaigua, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1895, Mar- tha C. Van De Vyver; children: Marjorie, b. 1897; Ed- ward Robert, b. 1899; Elizabeth, b. 1901. Reporter Rochester Herald, 1887-1891, Rochester Union and Ad- vertiser, 1891-1892; asso. editor Rochester Herald, 1892-1895; cashier Rochester post-office. 1895-1897; editorial writer Buffalo Enquirer, 1897, Buffalo Courier, 1897-1901; interested Jamestown capitalists in estab- lishment of Morning Post, 1901, and has been editor since its first issue, Sept. 2, 1901; sec. Post Publishing
Co., Jamestown, N. Y. Mem. Jamestown Charter Re- vision Comm'n, 1906-1907, Jamestown Board of Health, 1910-1913; sec. Chautauqua Co. Direct Primary Ass'n; mem. Advisory Council of State Direct Primaries Ass'n, Executive Council of local Anti-Tuberculosis Con. Presby'n. Mem. Alpha Zeta fraternity, Nat. Civic Fed- eration, State Press Ass'n. Club: University (James- town). Address: Morning Post, Jamestown, N. Y.
VALLEN, ELMER A.
Lawyer; b. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y., Nov. 26, 1844; s. John T. and Mary (Soulé) Allen; ed. Dutch- ess Co. Acad., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Cornell Coll., Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and four years' course Union Coll., Schenectady, N. Y., A.B., 1865, and elected mem. Phi Beta Kappa; also one of two speakers at closing ex- ercises of Philomathean Lit. Soc .; m. N. Y. City, Oct. 25, 1876, Mary Eleanor Devoe; one d., Ethel D. Allen, b. 1878. Admitted to bar 1876, at N. Y. City, where has since been engaged in general practice of law. Mem. Ass'n Bar City of N. Y. As mem. of Good Government Club, and later of Citizens' Union, engaged for sev- eral years in work for better municipal gov't; trustee of the common schools 14 years, in the 24th Ward of N. Y. City. Episcopalian. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Ass'n, Union Coll. Alumni Ass'n, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Civil Service Reform Ass'n, Dutchess County Sec. Address: 42 Broadway, N. Y. City.
ALLEN, FREDERICK HOBBES
Lawyer; b. Honolulu, Hawaiian Isiands; s. Hon. Elisha Hunt Allen, M.C. (also chief justice Hawaiian Islands and minister plenipotentiary to U. S.), and Mary Harrod (Hobbes) Allen; grad. A.B., 1880 (A.M.), LL.B., 1883, Harvard Univ .; m. N. Y. City, 1892, Adele Livingston Stevens; children: Frederic Stevens, Mary Dorothy Adele, Barbara Frances Gallatin, Joan Liv- ingston, Julian Broome Livingston, Priscilla Alden Sampson. Studied law in office of Holmes & Adams; admitted to bar, 1884; became mn'g clerk Miller, Peck- ham & Dixon; later practised alone; in 1894 formed firm of Adams & Allen, and on death of senior part- ner, 1900, formed firm of Allen & Cammann. Sec. Hawaiian Legation, 1882, charge d'affaires; resigned 1883; has been corp'n counsel, also pres. Village of Pelham Manor. Chm'n Dem. Co. Com., Westchester County, N. Y .; has been delegate at various State convs .; delegate to Dem. Nat. Conv. at Denver, 1908, twice mem. Exec. Com. of Dem. State Com. of N. Y. (in last campaign mem. Gen. Finance Com. of Demo- cratic Nat. Com.). Mem. Permanent Am. Comm'n that went abroad to study agr'l finance, production, dis- tribution and rural life. Mem. Sons of Revolution, Soc. Colonial Wars. Recreations: Hunting, polo. Clubs: Knickerbocker, Union, Manhattan, City. Resi- dence: Bolton Priory, Pelham Manor, N. Y. Address: 63 Wall St., N. Y. City.
ALLEN, FRED HOVEY
Clergyman, author, lecturer; b. Lyme, N. H., Oct. 1, 1845; s. Philander and Rhoda Lord (Hovey) Allen; ed. Deerfield Acad., Boston Univ., Hartford Theol. Sem .; studied at Univ. of Paris, also in Vienna (honorary LL.D.); m. Auburn, Me., 1881, M. Cora Bumpus, noted singer and musician. After leaving Deerfield Acad. learned printer's trade; in company with H. A. Wads- worth, published weekly edition of the Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle; founded and edited Lawrence Daily Eagle; purchased and edited Suffolk Co. Journal, Bos- ton, two years. Ordained to ministry, 1874; acting pastor Cong'l Ch., W. Brookfield, Mass., 18 months; pastor E. St. Cong'l Ch., S. Boston, and Olivet Ch. Boston, about three years; acting pastor Cong'i Ch., Abington, 14 months; pastor 1st Cong'l Ch., Rockland, Mass., 7 years. World-wide traveler; visited over 500 studios in great art centers. In 1883 brought to Amer- ica first successful process of photogravure plates; made the first Am. plates and first book ever issued in America from American-made plates. Author: Master- pieces of Modern German Art (2 vols.), Recent Ger- man Art. Modern German Masters (10 vols.), Great Cathedrals of the World (2 vols.), Famous Paintings (2 vols.), Grand Modern Paintings (2 vols.), Bowdoin Art Collection, History of the Reformation, Parisian Art and Artists, Gerome (brochure), Dore (brochure), Edited: Lalla Rookh, Columbus, Cortez. Pizarro. Amer- ican Scenery, European Scenery, The Heart of Europe, Mountain, Lake and River; Art expert, and commis- sionaire in fine paintings. Republican. Mem. Nor- folk Ass'n of Cong'l Ministers, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sciences, Nat. Geog. Soc., Soc. Graphic Arts, Vienna Art Soc. of Munich; Auditor Home for Crippled Children, Boston. Royal Arch Mason, Knight Tempiar. Club: City. Address: Hotel San Remo, 146 Central Park W., N. Y. City.
VALLEN, FREDERICK INNES
U. S. Comm'r of Patents; b. Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 19 1859; s. William Allen; ed. Auburn High Sch., Phillips
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Acad., Andover, Mass., Yale (Sheffield Scientific Sch.). B.S., 1879 (received the class prize in mineralogy) ; m. Auburn, N. Y., June 3, 1884, Cornelia Margaret, d. Gen. William H. Seward. After graduation studied law; admitted to bar, 1882; practised patent law at Auburn until appt'd, March, 1901, U. S. Comm'r of Patents. Lecturer on patent law, George Washington Univ .; represented U. S. at the Congress of the Internat. Ass'n for the Protection of Industrial Property, at Berlin and Berne. Residence: Auburn, N. Y. Address: 2 Rector St., N. Y. City.
ALLEN, HERBERT E.
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Merchant, mem. of Assembly; b. Mexico, Oswego Co., N. Y., Dec. 13, 1874. Moved to Clinton, N. Y., 1884, and attended Clinton Grammar Sch., 1884-1889. Now engaged in hardware business. Mem. Republican County Com. of Oneida County from town of Kirk- land, 1908-1910; chm'n of Town Com., 1906 and 1907. Mem. of Assembly from Oneida Co., 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913. Clubs: Masonic, Arcanum (Utica), Shenandoah (Clinton), Sangerfield' Country (Sangerfield), Albany (Albany). Address: Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y.
ALLEN, J. WILFORD
Physician; b. N. Y. City; s. Samuel F. and Narcissa Jane (Stutsman) Allen; grad. N. Y. Homeopathic Med. Coll. and Hosp., M.D., 1895; special course N. Y. Post- Grad. Sch., 1899; m. N. Y. City, 1896, Bertha Brush; one d. Eliazbeth Hoadley, b. 1903. Lecturer on physi- ology, 1897-1901; lecturer on practice, 1903-1904; prof. materia medica, N. Y. Homeo. Med. Coll. Visiting Physician to Hahnemann Hosp .; on staff of Laura Franklin Free Hosp. for Children, 1897-1902. Mem. Am. Inst. of Homeopathy, N. Y. State Homeo. Med. Soc., N. Y., Co. Homeo. Med. Soc., N. Y. Homeo. Materia Medica. Soc., Alumni Ass'n of N. Y. Homeo. Med. Coll. and Hosp. Progressive. Presbyterian. Club: Dun- ham. Address: 117 W. 12th St., N. Y. City.
ALLEN, JAMES A.
Lawyer; b. Chenault, Ky., June 1, 1871; s. A. S. and Lettie E. (Gilliland) Allen; grad. Kentucky Univ., Lexington, A.B., A.M., LL.B .; Yale Univ., M.L., D.C.L .; m. Covington, Ky., Oct. 31, 1900, Lula Pearl Jeffers. Has practised law in N. Y. City since 1898. Mem. N. Y. Assembly of 1902. Formerly Republican, now of Independence League. .. Mem. Christian Ch. (Disci- ples). Mem. Bar Ass'n City of N. Y., N. Y. State Bar Ass'n, Am. Bar Ass'n, Soc. Med. Jurisprudence, West Side Tax Payers' Ass'n, Kentucky Soc., Southern Soc. Club: National Arts. Address: 35 Wall St., N. Y. City.
ALLEN, JAMES FREDERICK
Banker; b. Warrenton, Ga., Aug. 9, 1875; s. Jacob Aaron and Mary Will (Cody) Allen; descendant of James Allen of Eng., who settled in Ga. (since the residence of the Allen family), 1786; ed, Warrenton High Sch .; grad. Emory Coll., Oxford, Ga., A.B., 1895; m. Atlanta, Ga., June 14, 1897, Minnie A. Battle. En- tered employ Western Nat. Bank, now Nat. Bank of Commerce, N. Y. City, 1902, as ass't to pres. With Seaboard Nat. Bank, until 1909, when organized bank- ing firm of J. F. Allen & Co., of which he is head. Also dir. Piedmont Wagon & Mfg Co., Hickory, N. C. Democrat; Methodist. Mem. Am. Bankers' Ass'n, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, Southern Soc. of N. Y .; ex-pres. Ga. Soc. of N. Y. Recreations: Golf, motoring. Ciubs: Lotos, Lawyers', N. Y. Athletic, Baltusrol Golf, Englewood Golf, Atlantic Yacht (trustee). Residence: 116 Riverside Drive. Address: 111 Broadway, N. Y. City.
ALLEN, JAMES LANE
Author; b. near Lexington, Ky., 1849; s. Richard and Helen (Foster) Allen; ed. Transylvania Univ., A.B., A.M. At father's death, 1870, began teaching in public schools; became a private tutor; taught Latin and higher English in Bethany Coll., W. Va., for two years; since then engaged in literature. Author; Flute and Violin and Other Kentucky Tales and Ro- mances: The Blue Grass Regions of Kentucky and Other Kentucky Articles; John Gray, a Kentucky Tale of the Olden Time; A Kentucky Cardinal; A Summer in Arcady; The Choir Invisible (dramatized, 1899); The Increasing Purpose; Aftermath (Second Part of a Kentucky Cardinal) ; The Mettle of the Pas- ture; The Reign of Law; Bride of the Mistletoe; The Doctor's Christmas Eve; The Heroine in Bronze. Ad- dress: 66 5th Av., N. Y. City.
J ALLEN, JOEL ASAPH
Naturalist; b. Springfield, Mass., July 19, 1838; s. Joel and Harriet (Trumbull) Allen; ed. Wilbraham Acad. and Lawrence - Scientific Sch., Harvard, 1862- 1867, specializing in zoology under Agassiz; Hum- boldt scholar, same, 1871 (Ph.D., Ind. Univ.); m. 1st Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 6, 1874, Mary Manning Cleve-
land (died April 17, 1879); 2d, Cornwall-on-Hudson, April 27, 1886, Susie Augusta Taft; one son: Cleve- land, b. June 25, 1878. Ass't to Prof. Agassiz on scientific expedition to Brazil, 1865; made scientific researches in Florida, 1869; chief of scientific staff, Gov't Expd'n, Northern Pacific R. R. Survey, 1873; special collaborator U. S. Geol. Survey, Rocky Moun- tain Region (Hayden), 1878-1883. Ass't ornithology, Museum Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 1871-1885; curator mammalogy and ornithology, Am. Museum Natural History, N. Y. City, since 1885. Editor Bul- letin Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1876-1883; editor The Auk. ornith. quarterly, 1884-1912; Bulletin and Memoirs, Am. Museum Natural History, since 1887. Has writ- ten a large number of monographs, reviews and con- tributions relating to mammalogy and ornithology, . more especially on geographical zoology, North Am. Rodentia and Pinnipedia, Mammals of Patagonia, Mammals of Nicaragua, Mammals and Birds of North- eastern Siberia and of Columbia, and on the genus Didelphys. Fellow American Ornithologists' Union (pres. 1883-1891); mem. National Academy Sciences since 1876; hon. mem. British Ornithologists' Union Zool. Soc., London; Deutsche Ornithologische Gesell- schaft and N. Y. Zool. Soc .; mem. Am. Soc. Natural- ists, Am. Geog. Ass'n, Am. Acad. Arts and Sciences, Am. Philos. Soc., N. Y. Acad. Sciences (v .- p. 1891), Linnaean Soc. Natural History of N. Y. (pres. 1890- 1897), Washington Acad. Sciences, Biol. Soc. Washing- ton; Am. Ass'n Museums, Internat. Comm'n on Zool. Nomenclature; dir. Nat. Ass'n Audubon Socs., N. Y. State Audubon Soc. Awarded Walker Grand Prize of Boston Soc. Natural History, 1903. Address: Amer- ican Museum of Natural History, N. Y. City.
VALLEN, JOHN JOHNSON
Lawyer; b. Utica, N. Y., Aug. 4, 1843; s. Joseph Dana (C. E. Norwich, Univ. chief eng'r Erie Canal, consulting eng'r Erie R. R., Chicago and North West- ern R. R., etc.), and Eliza R. (d. John Johnson, Sur- veyor General, Vt.); descendant Samuel Allen, deputy of Plymouth Colony, and Miles Standish; grad. Univ. of Vt., A.B., 1862; A.M., 1865; LL.B., 1866, Columbia Univ .; m. June 30, 1870, Louise A., d. Judge Charles Shaler, Pittsburgh, Pa .; children: M. Shaler (A.B. Univ. Vt., LL.B., N. Y. Law Sch.), Elizabeth (A.B., A.M., Columbia Univ.), Marguerite L. Admitted to N. Y. Bar 1866 and subsequently engaged in extensive practice; counsel to corp'ns; served as acting U. S. provost marshal 1865; ass't U. S. dist. att'y, 1866- 1873; mem. N. Y. Assembly, 1874; chief U. S. super- visor of elections. 1874-1893: U. S. comm'r and master in chancery U. S. Court, Eastern Dist., N. Y .; mem. Soc. Colonial Wars, N. E. Soc., N. Y., Champlain Ass'n, Brooklyn Soc. Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa Alumni, N. Y .; Nat. Geog. Soc .; pres. N. Y. Alumni Univ. of Vt .; pres. N. Y. Sigma Phi fra- ternity, Soc. of Vermonters (pres.). Clubs: Ethan Allen (Vt.), Brooklyn Republican (pres.), Union League. Residence: Hotel St. George, Brooklyn; (summer), Burlington, Vt. Address: 189 Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
ALLEN, KENNETH
Civil eng'r; b. New Bedford, Mass., April 6, 1857; s. Edward A. H. and Eugenia S. (Teulon) Alien; at- tended Friends Acad., New Bedford, Mass .; West Newton English and Classical Sch. (Mass.); Rens- selaer Polytechnic Inst., 1879; C.E .; m. Rose Switzer; children: Edward Switzer, b. Dec. 12, 1887; Haroid Ames, b. Feb. 3, 1889; Russell, b. May 27, 1895 (died March, 1896); Frances Eleanor, b. Apr. 15, 1898. En- gaged in railroad work in West until 1883; in Phila- delphia Water Dep't, 1883-1886; in private practice, Kansas City, Mo., until 1890, in charge topog. sur- veys and water supply investigation, H. C. Frick Coke Co., Pa., until 1893, with comm'r of public works, Yonkers, N. Y., until 1895; eng'r in charge investigation sewerage com., Baltimore, until 1899; in private practice, Baltimore, until 1902; supt Water Dep't, Atlantic City, N. J., until 1906; dir. eng'r Baiti- more Sewerage Com. until 1908; since then eng'r Metropolitan Sewerage Com. of N. Y. Mem. firm Breithaupt & Allen, civil eng'rs, Kansas City, 1896- 1899; Hill, Quick && Allen, consulting eng'rs, Balti- more and N. Y., 1900-1902. Democrat; Unitarian. Mem. Am. Soc. of Civil Eng'rs, N. E. Water Works Ass'n, Rensselaer Soc. of Eng'rs, Municipal Eng'rs of the City of N. Y., Soc. of the Sigma Xi. Author: Sewage Sludge (McGraw-Hiil Book Co., 1912). Resi- dence: 593 Riverside Drive, N. Y. City.
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