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OWEN, EDWARD
Certified public accountant, ex-Confederate soldier, retired cotton broker; b. Cincinnati, O., April 20, 1838; s. Allison and Caroline (Miller) Owen; distin- gulshed Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry; ed. in public and private schools; m. 1st, New Orleans, 1866, Hattie Bryan; 2d, N. Y. City, 1874, Adelaide B. Dick; one d .: Mary Miller. Entered Confederate service in May, 1861, as sergeant of 1st Co., Washington Art'y of New Orleans, serving in nearly 40 battles, exclusive of Siege of Petersburg and being twice severely wound- ed; was for several months prisoner in old Capitol prison in Washington; received strong personal com- mendations for bravery and efficiency from Gens. Longstreet and Beauregard and from Pres. Davls. At close of war engaged in cotton business In New Or- leans; later removed to N. Y. City and became a mem .. Cotton Exchange. Appt'd by Mayor W. R. Grace, 1885, to position in office of comm'r of accounts, later be- coming chief clerk; appt'd comm'r of accounts, 1893 and 1898; and by Mayor Low, 1901; has been active in local Dem. politics; was largely instrumental In founding the Confederate Veteran Camp of N. Y. Ad- dress: 60 Wall St., N. Y. City.
OWEN, WILLIAM HENRY, JR.
Clergyman; b. N. Y. City, Oct. 11, 1874; s. William Henry and Mary Lavinia (Brook's) Owen; grad. Yale Univ., A.B., 1897; A.M., 1899; Gen. Theol. Sem., N. Y. City, B.D., 1903. Was ass't minister St. Thomas' Ch., N. Y. City, 1901-1906; since, rector Trinity Ch., Mt. Vernon, N. Y .; has traveled extensively in U. S., Eu- rope and Canada. Progressive; Episcopalian. Mem. Sons of Revolution, Soc. Colonial Wars, N. Y. Church- man's Ass'n; Mt. Vernon Ministers' Ass'n; Municipal Art Comm'n City of Mt. Verson, Mt. Vernon B'd of Ed'n; trustee Church Temperance Soc. Recreation: Gen. outdoor sports. Club: Yale. Address: Trinity Rectory, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
OXNARD, HENRY THOMAS
Manufacturer; b. Marseilles, France, June 22, 1860; s. Thomas and Loulse Adeline (Brown) Oxnard; ed. Latin School, Roxbury, Mass., Harvard Coll., A.B., 1882. Has devoted hls efforts to the promotion of the best sugar Industry, in which is very largely inter- ested; v .- p. and dir. Am. Beet Sugar Co .; dir. Oxnard Construction Co. Pres. Beet Sugar Ass'n, protective org'n which represents in Its membership all the beet sugar factories in U. S. Clubs: Unlon, University (N. Y. City). Address: 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
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PACKARD, CHARLES W.
Physician; b. Brunswick, Me., March 7, 1833; s. Charles and Rebecca Prentice (Kent) Packard; cd. Bowdoin Coll., (hon. A.M.); N. Y. Med. Coll., M.D .; also hon. M.D. Dartmouth Coll .; m. N. Y. Clty, Dec.
11, 1872, Elizabeth McLanathan. Engaged in med. practice in N. Y. City since graduation. Consulting physician to St. Luke's Hosp. Mem. various med. so- cictles and Century Ass'n. Address: 445 Park Av., N. Y. City.
PAGE, ALFRED RIDER
Justice Supreme Court; b. Carlinville, Ill., Oct. 7, 1859; s. Charles and Angcline (Rlder) Page; ed. Williams Coll., class of 1881; hon. A.M., 1907; Law Sch., N. Y. Univ., LL.B., 1880; m. Brooklyn, N. Y., April 27, 1886, Elizabeth M. Roe; children: Elizabeth M., b. 1889; Marjorie, b. 1897. Practised law, N. Y. City, until 1910; elected Justice of Supreme Court, Jan. 1910, for terin expiring Dec., 1923. Att'y B'd of Excise, 1895, State Dep't of Excise, 1896-1900; mem. N. Y. State Senate, 1905-1909; Republican County Com. Kings County, 1887-1890; N. Y. County, 1894-1910. Delegate to Nat. Conv., 1908, and to all State Convs., 1894-1908; placed Charles E. Inglies in nomination for gov., 1908. While in Senate, introduced Public Service Conim'n Law, Mortgage Tax Law, Eighty Cent Gas Law (which subsequently defended Con- stitutionallty in U. S. Court), and Eight Hour Child Labor Law. Republican. Mem. Dutch Reformed Ch. Mem. Chi Psi fraternity. Mason. Dir. Oratorio Soc. Clubs: Republican, Harlem Republican, Masonic. Residence: 2202 Loring Pl. Address: County Court House, N. Y. City.
PAGE, ARTHUR W.
Editor, publisher; b. Aberdeen, N. C., Sept. 10, 1883; s. Walter H. and Allce ( Wilson) Page; grad. Harvard Coll., A.B .; m. June 1, 1912, Mollle W. Hall; one d .: Mollie, b. March 17, 1913. Dir. Doubleday, l'age & Co. Mem. N. C. Soc., N. Y. Clubs: Harvard (N. Y.), Cos- mos (Wash.). Residence (summer) : Syosset, L.d., and 138 E. 40th St. Address: Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, L. I., N. Y.
PAGE, CURTIS HIDDEN
Writer, lecturer, teacher; b. Greenwood, Mo., April 4, 1870; s. Benjamin Greely and Martha Frances (Hid- den) Page; ed. Chester Acad., Pinkerton Acad., Derry, N. H .; grad. Phillips Exeter Acad., 1887; Harvard, A.B., 1890, A.M., 1891, Ph.D., 1894 (highest second year honors in classics, highest final honors in modern literature, hon. mention in French, etc., elected mem. of Phl Beta Kappa); at Unlv. of Paris, one year; Inst. of Higher Studies, Florence. Instr. French, Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, O .; Univ. Extension lecturer on English literature; instr. Freneh, Harvard Univ., tutor, lecturer, and prof. Romance languages and literaturcs, Columbla Univ .; prof. of English literature Northwestern Univ .; now prof. of English Language and Literature, Dartmouth Coll. Has traveled exten- sively in Europe and the Orient. Author of verses, essays and stories in the Century, Harper's, Scrib- Ler's, Independent, Bookman, Critic, Poct Lore. Put- nam's, Appleton's, ctc .; Songs and Sonnets of Pierre de Ronsard translated into English in original metres (Houghton, Mifflin), 1903. Editor: Cyrano de Berge- rac's Voyage to the Moon, with life of Cyrano, etc., 1899; The Lives, Heroic Decds and Sayings of Gar- gantua and Ills Son Pantagruel, by Francis Rabelais, with Introductory essay. notes, etc. (Putnam), 1905; British Poets of the Nineteenth Century; Words- worth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Landor. Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne, 1904 (B. H. Sanborn); The Chief American Poets: Bryant, Poc, Emerson, Longfellow, Whlttler, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, Lanier, with notes, reference lists and blog. essays (Houghton, Mifflin), 1905; Mollere; The Affected Misses, Don Juan, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Doctor by Compul- sion, The Miser, The Tradesman Turned Gentleman, The Learned Ladles; a new Translation, the verse plays being for the first time rendered Into English verse (Putnam), 1908: The Golden Treasury of Amer- lean Songs and Lyrics (Macmillan), 1913: formerly asso. editor Poet Lore and asso. editor The Path- finder. co-editor of Putnam's serics of French Classles for English Readers. Mem. Modern Language Ass'n, Delta Upsilon fraternity; Ilfe mem. Harvard Unlon. Trustce Gilmanton (N. H.), Acad .; formerly treas. The Concordance Soc. Clubs: Century, Faculty of Colum- bia Univ., Cliff Dwellers (Chicago), University (Evans- ton), Authors' (London. Eng.). Address: The Century Club, 7 W. 43d St., N. Y. City.
PAGE, EDWARD DAY
Retired merchant; b. Haverhill, Mass., May 10, 1856; 8. Henry A. and Maria (Clarke) Page; grad. Sheffield Speclal partner Holbrook, Corcy & Co., 1912. Couneil- Orange, N. J., 1883, Cornelia Lee; children: 1.cigh, b. 1884: Allen Starr, b. 1888; Phyllls, b. 1893. Partner Faulkner, Page & Co., 1SS4, senior partner from 1900
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until retirement Dec. 31, 1911 (firm established 1834). Special partner Holbrook, Corey & Co., 1912. Council- man Borough of Oakland, Bergen Co., N. J., 1902- 1908; mayor, 1910-1911; recorder, 1912. Pres. South Orange & Maplewood Traction Co .; treas. Montrose Reaity & Improvement Co., Vygeberg Co. Independent Democrat; mem. Dem. County Com. Bergen Co., N. J. Fellow Royal Statistical Soc., of G. B .; mem. Société d'Economie Sociale of Paris, N. Y. Hist. Soc., Amn. Economic Ass'n, Am. Social Science Ass'n, A.A.A.S., Acad. of Polit. Science; Am. Sociol. Ass'n; pres. Mer- chants' Protective Ass'n; dir. 1898-1913, Merchants' Club; v .- p. Nat. Soc. of Craftsmen; dir. Merchants' Ass'n of N. Y., and chm'n of its Com. on Commercial law; dir. People's Inst .; mem. Chamber of Commerce, Gov. Hughes Comm'n on Speculation in Commodities and Securities, 1909, of the N. J. State Comm'n on the care of Mental Defectives, 1913. Lecturer on the Ethics of Business, Sheffield Scientific Sch., 1908-1911. Recreations: Farming, canoeing, walking, forestry,' fishing, writing, studying, art and sociology. Clubs: Merchants, National Arts (gov.), Century, City, North Woods, (trustec). Residence: Oakland, N. J. Address: 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
PAGE, PARKER WEBSTER
Lawyer; b. Washington, D. C., April 25, 1856; s. Charles Grafton and Priscilla Sewall (Webster) Page; grad. Harvard Univ., A.B., 1877; National Univ., LL.B., 1880; m. Summit, N. J., Nov. 20, 1889, Nellie Augusta Hayes; children: Helen Cecii, b. Aug. 29, 1890; Lois Lee, b. July 26, 1895. Mem. firm Kerr, Page, Cooper & Hayward; counsel in patent litigation for Westing- house Cos., Gen. Electric Co., Motion Picture Patent Co., Nat. Cash Register Co., Tesla Co., Union Carbide Co. and many others. Has heid local and state offices in N. J. Independent; Episcopalian. Trustee Con- valescent Home, Summit, N. J. Recreations: Golf, hunting, sailing. Clubs: Metropolitan (Washington, D. C.), Harvard (N. Y. and N. J.), Harvard (Boston), Baltusrol Golf, Canoe Brook Country, numerous hunt- ing and fishing clubs. Residence: 21 Edgewood Road, Summit, N. J. Address: 149 Broadway, N. Y. City.
PAGE, WALTER HINES
Editor, publisher, diplomat; b. Cary, N. C., Aug. 15, 1855; s. A. F. Page; grad. Randolph-Macon Coll .; fel- low Johns Hopkins Univ .; m. Alice Wilson, of Michl- gan; 3 sons, 1 daughter. Editor of Forum (N. Y.), 1890-1895; Atlantic Monthly, 1896-1899; of The World's Work, 1900-1913. Mem. firm Doubleday, Page & Co., publishers. U. S. Ambassador to Court of St. James's since 1913. Author: The Rebuilding of Old Common -. wealths; The Southerner. Clubs: University, Nat. Arts, Authors. Address: Am. Embassy, London, Eng- land.
PAGE, WILLIAM HARLAN
Life assurance; b. Branford, Conn., April 27, 1836; s. Andrew S. and Mary (Hobart) Page; ed. public schs. and East Windsor Hill Acad., Conn .; prepared for Yale Coll., but did not enter on account of failing health: m. Springfield, Mass., Oct. 2, 1860, Josephine A. Upson; children: Mary Adele (wife of Prof. Gerard Hallock, prop'r and principal Haliock Sch., Great Barrington, Mass.), Augusta Louise. Student and clerk in phar. macy, 1852-1859; conducted a retail store in Brooklyn, 1859-1862; gen'l ag't, afterward mg'r Kings Co., N. Y .. for Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. of Newark, 1862-1865 Since 1865 gen. agent Equitable Life Assurance Soc. of U. S., having served in N. Y. City nearly 50 years; dean of agency forces, mg'r Met. Dist. and mem. B'd of mg'rs. Mem. N. E. Soc., Life Underwriters Ass'n of N. Y., Brooklyn League. Ruling elder in Classon Av. Presby'n Ch., Brooklyn (one of founders). Club: Canadian. Residence: 397 Grand Av., Brooklyn. Ad- dress: 149 Broadway, N. Y. City.
PAGE, WILLIAM HUSSEY
Lawyer; b. Paris, France, Jan. 2, 1861; s. William Hussey and Nancy Hills (Jenkins) Page; ed. Boston Latin Sch., Boston, Mass., Harvard Coll., A.B., 1883, Columbia Law Sch., LL.B., 1886; m. N. Y. City, Jan. 2, 188S, Blanche Page; children: Richard Marshall, b. 1888; William Kingman, b. 1890; Douglas Jenkins, b. 1894; Donald Ormsby, b. 1895; Blanche, b. 1898; John Harvard, b. 1908. Engaged in practise of law in N. Y. City. Mem. Ass'n Bar City of N. Y. Clubs: Harvard, Nat. Democratic, Lawyers, Automobile of America, Somerset Hills Country, Aero Club of America. N. Y. Athletic (pres.). Residence: 47 W. 74th St., N. Y. City; (summer) : Far Hills, N. J. Address; 32 Liberty St., N. Y. City.
PAIGE, ALLAN WALLACE
Lawyer; b. Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 28, 1854; s. John O. Paige; ed. Russels Mil. Acad., Yale Law Sch., LL.B.,
1881; m. Shelton, Conn., Dec, 15, 1888, Lizzie D. Dudiey; children: Marian D., b. 1892; Aline E., b. 1897. Ad- mitted to Conn. Bar, 1881; later to N. Y. Bar; always resident of Connecticut; for several years practised in N. Y. City and Bridgeport. Pres. Security Cement & Lime Co., Derby Rubber Co., Nazareth Cement Co .; dir. Automatic Refrigerating Co., Am. Gas and Eiec. Co., Conn. R'y and Lighting Co., Internat. Banking Corp'n, Internat. Bank, Pequonnock Nat. Bank, Rock- ville Gas and Elec. Co. Several times elected mem. Conn. House of Representatives ( speaker 1891); elected to Conn. Senate and was chm'n Judiciary Com. of the Assembly, 1905. Republican; Congregationalist. Club: Union League (N. Y. City). Residence: Bridge- port, Conn. Address: 60 Wall St., N. Y. City.
PAIGE, DOUGLAS WARNER
Lawyer; b. Schenectady, N. Y., April 11, 1880; s. John Keyes and Janet McCielland (Franchot) Paige; grad. Union Coll., A.B., Albany Law Sch., LL.B. Episcopa- lian. Mem. Sigma Phi fraternity. Recreations: Tennis, golf, music, all outdoor sports (on Varsity football, bascbail, track and basketball teams at coll.). Clubs: Racquet & Tennis, St. Nicholas, Rockaway Hunting, Turf and Field. Residence: 7 W. 44th St. Address: 49 Wall St., N. Y. City.
PAINE, ARTHUR RICHARDS
Physician; b. Holden, Mass., 1846; s. Rev. William Pomeroy and Sarah (Mack) Paine; ed. public schools, Poly. Inst., Brooklyn, N. Y .; grad. Williston Sem., East Hampton, Mass., Amherst Coll., A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874; Coll. Phys. and Surg., Columbia, N. Y., M.D., 1875; m. Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1883, Carrie P. Ashmead; one son: Arthur Preston, b. Aug. 20, 1886. House physician and surgeon, Brooklyn Hosp., 1874-1875; attending surgeon, Brooklyn Orthopedic Infirmary; attending physician, Hciping Iland Dispensary; attending phy- sician, Atlantic Av. Dispensary, 1874-1880, Brook- lyn Hosp., since 1879, and pres. professional staff; mem. council and consulting physician, L. 1. Coll. Hosp. Re- publican. Mcm. and trustee Clinton Av. Cong'l Ch., Brooklyn. Mem. Kings Co. Med. Soc., N. Y. State Med. Ass'n, Am. Med. Acad., Physicians' Mutual Aid Ass'n, Brooklyn Pathol. Soc. Club: Brooklyn University (founder, charter mem. and mem. council since foundation). Address: 379 Washington Av., Brook- lyn, N. Y.
PAINE, AUGUSTUS G.
Merchant; m. Charlotte M. Bedell; one son: Augustus G., Jr. Mcm. firm A. G. Paine & Co .; pres, and dir. N. Y. & Pa. Co .; pres., nig'r and dir. McDonald Electro- lytic Co .; trcas, and dir. Yaryan Co .; v .- p. and dir. Co- lumbia-Knickerbocker Trust Co .; trustee N. Y. Life Ins. Co .; pres. Armstrong Real Estate Improvement Co., Johnsonburg Nat. Bank. Hanover Land and Dock Co., Highland Paper Co. Clubs: Union League, Mer- chants, N. Y. Athletic. Address: 200 Fifth Av., N. Y. City.
PAINE, AUGUSTUS G., JR.
Capitalist; b. N. Y. City, Oct. 19, 1866; s. Augustus G. and Charlotte M. Paine; ed. in N. Y. and Europe; m. Philadelphia, 1890, Maud Eustis Potts. V .- p., gen. mg'r and dir. N. Y. & Pa. Co .; pres. and dir. Highland Paper Co .; v .- p. and dir. McDonald Electrolytic Co .; dir. Armstrong Real Estate Improvement Co., Consumers' Gas & Heat Co., Johnsonburg Water Co .; mem. A. G. Paine & Co. Address: 200 Fifth Av., N. Y. City.
PAINE, WILLIS SEAVER
Banker; b. Rochester, N. Y .; s. Nicholas E. and Abby M. (Sprague) Paine; attended Rochester Collegiate Inst. (valedictorian), 1864; Williams Coli., Rochester Univ., A.B., 1868; LL.D., Manhattan Coil., 1SS6; George Washington Univ., 1908; m. 1st, N. Y. City, April 6. 1888, Ruby S., d. Henry A. Tilden (she died Dec. 20, 1896) ; 2nd, Fall River, Mass., July 18, 1900, Virginia C .. d. Eliphaict S. Brown. Studied law in office of Sanford E. Church (afterward chief justice of Court of Ap- pcals), and admitted to bar 1869; appt'd 1874, and re- appt'd 1875, one of trust company examiners of State of N. Y, with result of closing three in N. Y. City whose debts to depositors aggregated over $6,000.000; receiver of Bond St. (formerly Atlantic) Savings Bank, 1876, whose failure was, with three exceptions, largest of its kind in this country. Succeeded in paying gen. creditors 86 per cent, and the preferred creditors in full: at the end of the trust, received the thanks of Court and was presented with engrossed complimen- tary resolutions by permanent com. of depositors. Appt'd with William Dowd, 1SS0, comm'r to comply and revise banking laws of N. Y., which revision wag enacted. 1882, and received for same, in 1883, first vote of thanks given by N. Y. Legislature since Civil War. The commi'n expended less than one-half the sum ap-
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propriated by Legislature for the work, and balance is now to 'eredit of .comm'rs In State Treasury; the comm'ry served without pay. Sup't Banking Dep't State of N. Y., 1883-1889, resigning to beeome pres. The State 'Co .; resigned to travel around the world. Ten- dered in 1885, by Pres. Cleveland, position of sub-treas. at N. Y., but declined; was also pres. The Trust Co. of N. Y., and Merehants' Safe Deposit Co. Was pres. Con- solidatcd Nat, Bank of N. Y .. City, which position re- signed and took second tour around world. V .- p. U. S. Fire Ins. Co .; trustee Met. Savings Bank, and . other oorp'ns. Author: Paine's Banking Laws (six editions) ; Palne's Building and Loan Associations; Summary of Failed Savings Banks (two editions). Served as col. on staff of Gov. Flower. One of organizers Trust Co. section of Am. Bankers' Ass'n; one of two originators of Savings Bank section of same ass'n, and served as mem. exec. com .; addressed convs. of ass'ns on three different occasions, taking .as subjects "The Currency Question," "The Examination of Financial Institu- tions," and "Falled Savings Banks." Mem. Am. Bar Ass'n, N. Y. State Bar Ass'n, N. Y. County Bar Ass'n, Ass'n Bar Clty of N. Y., Soc. Mayflower Descendants, Phl . Beta Kappa Soe., Chamber of Commerce; pres. Graduate . Ass'n Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Clubs: Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Lawyers, Nat. Arts and N. Y. Sculpture. Residence: Plaza Hotel. Address: 334 Fifth Av., N. Y. City.
.PALEN, FRANK A.
' 'Mfr; b. Kingston, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1866; s. Henry W. and Anna M. (Plne) Palen; ed. publie schs. of King- ston, N. Y., and Eastman's Business Coll .; m. April 14, .. 1887, Florence L. Humphrey; one son, Henry W., b. 1893. Pres. H. W. Palen's Sons. Republican; Method- ist. Mem. Holland Soc., S.A.R., Masonic fraternities. Club: Kingston. Address: 464 Riverside Drive, N. Y. City.
PALLACE, JOHN
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""Lawyer; b. Brockport, N. Y., 1878; s. John and Eliza- beth Pallaee; ed. public schools; grad. Brockport Nor- mal . Sch., Albany Law Sch., LL.B., 1901; unmarried. Since 1901 engaged in active practice of law, partner- ship with Hon. Henry Morgan, at Brockport, N. Y .; active Democrat; elected chm'n Dem. Co. Com. of Mon- roe County, 1901; eleeted mem. Assembly from 4th As- sembly Dist. of Monroe Co., 1902; re-elected in 1903 by increased plurality, being first Demoerat who ever suc- ceeded himself in State Legislature from that dist .; nominated by Dem. State Conv. at Saratoga, 1904, for Sec. of State, but defeated with rest of State ticket; nominated to State Senate by Gov. John A. Dix, 1911, for appm't as State Sup't of Elections, and elected. Residence: Brockport, N. Y. Address: 501 Cutler Bid'g, -Rochester, N. Y.
PALMER, ABRAHAM J.
Clergyman, State Senator; b. Frenchtown, N. J., Jan. 18, 1847; s. Rev. Abraham M. and Mary E. (Baldwin) Palmer. Entered Civil War at age of 14 and served as private, Co. D, 48th N. Y. Reg't for over three years, eonfined in Confederate prisons nine months; grad. Wesleyan . Univ., D.D., Middletown, class of 1870, and entered . Methodist ministry; m. 1874, Emma T. Lacy; ehildren: Agnes, Helen, Dudley, Gerald, John L. Was presiding elder N. Y., Newburgh and Poughkeepsie dists. Built the First Ch., Yonkers, N. Y., Park Av. Ch. and St. Paul's Ch., N. Y. City. Missionary sec. M. E. Ch. having special charge of missions in China, 4 years; hon. sec. Evangelieal Alliance of U. S., 4 years; chm'n 2 gen. conf. comm'ns, Omaha, Neb., 1892, and Cleveland, O., 1896; see. com. at gen. conf. N. Y., 1888. Editor World Wide Missions. Author: History of the 48th N. Y. Reg't. Practically retired from ministry, 1907, and devoted time to fruit culture. Eleeted State Senator from 27th Senatorial Dlst., 1912. Rep. Nat. Progressive. Chin'n Andersonville Dedication Comm'n. Address: Milton, N. Y.
PALMER, ALBERT ROBERT
"Lawyer; b. East Orange, N. J., April 15, 1880; s. Albert W. and Susan L. (Hansell) Palmer; grad. Yale Coll., B.A., 1901; N. Y. Law Sch .; m. E. Orange, N. J., Oct. 5, 1904, Florence M. Decker. Admitted to bar of N. Y., 1903; since that time engaged in practice of law in firm of Palmer & Series. Dir. Commonwealth Trust Co. of N. Y. Republican. Mem. Hope Lodge 124, F. and A. M. (of E. Orange), Orange Chapter 23 R. A. M. (of Orange, N. J.), Jersey Commandery 19, K. T. (of East Orange). Recreation: Fishing. Clubs: Yale (N. Y. City); Republican (East Orange), Graduates Ass'n (New Haven, Conn.). ; Residence: Orange, N. J. Ad- dress: 46 Cedar St., N. Y, City.
PALMER, ANNA CAMPBELL (MRS. GEORGE ARCHIBALD)
Author; b. Elmira, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1854; d. James Bar- bour and Sally l'eek (Carpenter) Campbell; cd. public and private schools In Elinira and Ithaca, N. Y .; m. Dimira, N. Y., September 28, 1880, George Archibald Palmer; two daughters. Has held editorial positions on Elmira Telegram and Elmira Advertiser; was edi- tor Young Men's Journal (Y. M. C. A. magazine), and Key-Note, a musieal and social magazine; has done large amount of work for newspapers of all sorts, and contributed to Judge, The Youth's Campanion, Harper's Bazar, Ladies' Home Journal, Delineator and other publications. Use the pen-name "Mrs. George Archibald," but later added husband's surname. Au- thor: The Summerville Prize, 1890; A Little Brown Seed, 1891; Lady Gay, 1891; Lady Gay and Her Sister, 1892; A Dozen Good Times, 1893; Three Times Three . (in collaboration); Joel Dorman Steele (biography), 1900. Methodist. Has been allied to various elubs and philanthropies in Elmira. Address: Elmira, N. Y.
PALMER, ARCHIE EMERSON
Secretary B'd of Ed'n, City of N. Y .; b. Winterton, Sullivan Co., N. Y., 1853; s. Danlel W. and Miriam (Buchanan) Palmer; grad. Wesleyan' Univ., A.B., 1874, A.M .; married; one d .: Mary L. Connected with N. Y. Tribune as reporter and editor, 1874-1898; ass't editor New Princeton Review and North American Review, 1888-1892; elected see. B'd of Ed'n of Greater N. Y., Feb., 1898. Author: The New York Public School, a history of public education in the City (Macmillan), 1904. Contb'r of prose and verse to magazines and journals. Mem. Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Resi- denee (country) : Winterton, N. Y. Address: 68 Mon- tague St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
PALMER, FREDERICK
Journalist; b. Pleasantville, Pa., Jan. 29, 1873; 8. Amos F. and Amy C. Palmer; ed. Allegheny Coll., Pa .; m. London, England, 1896, Elsie M. Wilbor. Engaged in newspaper work and represented N. Y. papers as correspondent; went to Greek War in 1897, thence to Alaska and to the Phillppines in 1898, returning with Admiral Dewey in 1899; went baek to the Philippines as correspondent, and from there with the Allied Forces on expd'n for relief of Peking, 1900; returned via Trans-Siberian R'y, in 1901, and later returned to East as correspondent of Collier's Weekly with Ku- roki's Army. Author: Going to War with Greeee; In , the Klondike; The Ways of Service; Tlie Vagabond (novel) ; With Kuroki in Manehuria; Luey of the Stars. Address: 224 W. 52d St., N. Y. City.
PALMER, FREDERICK WILLIAM
Clergyman; b. Victor, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1858; s. Jededlah William (M D.) and Mary Mulford (Osborne) Palmer; ed. Broekport Normal Sch., one year in Rochester Univ .; grad. Hamilton Coll., 1881, D.D., 1902; grad. Au- burn Theol. Sem., 1888; m. Fulton, N. Y., 1897. Anna Mae Bristol; children: Almon Bristol. b. 1901, Freder- ick Wright, b. 1906. Teacher In Penn Yan Acad., 1881- 1883; prin. Franklin Acad., Prattsburg, N. Y., 1883-1885; pastor Reformned Ch., Interlaken, N. Y., 1888-1893; Con- tral Presby'n Ch., Auburn, N. Y., since 1893. Progres- sive Republican. Mem. Emerson Literary Soc .. Ham- ilton Coll. Oceasional contb'ns to periodicals. Author: With the Sorrowing, 1905 (F. H. Revcli Co.). Recrea- tions: Summer cottage and golf. Club: Owasco Coun- try. Address: Auburn, N. Y.
PALMER, J. CULBERT
Lawyer; b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1859; s. Lucius N. and Anna (Culbert) Palmier; grad. Adelphi Acad., 1878; Yale, A.B., 1882; Columbia, B.L., 1884; m. Dec. 4. 1889, Mary Eagle; ehildren: William Eagle, b. 1891, J. Cul- bert, Jr., b. 1897. Mem. firm Lindsay, Kallsh & Palmer. Republican; Presby'n. Mem. Ass'n Bar City of N. Y., Sons of Revolution. Clubs: University, Yale, Ardsley, Graduates (New Haven). Residenee: 840 Park Av. Address: 27 William St., N. Y. City.
PALMER. JOHN
Retired merchant, philanthropist; b. Liverpool, Eng- land, April 25, 1858; s. Martin and Augusta Palmer; ed. in private and public schools, and Coll. City of N. Y., A.B. Mem. Allied Real Estate B'd; mem. Masonic fraternity, Chapter, and 32° Seottish Rite. Was mem. 'Medico-Legal Inst., Hon, sec. Children's Sanitarium; Second lieut. with the Nat. Vol. Emergency Service Mcd. Corps; mem. Society of Science, Letters and Art, London, England; devotee of literature and has ex- tensive library. Mem. of many charitable org'ns. Address: 312 W. 102d St., N. Y. City.
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