USA > New York > New York City > Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed > Part 101
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117 | Part 118 | Part 119 | Part 120 | Part 121 | Part 122 | Part 123 | Part 124 | Part 125 | Part 126 | Part 127 | Part 128 | Part 129 | Part 130 | Part 131 | Part 132 | Part 133 | Part 134 | Part 135 | Part 136 | Part 137 | Part 138 | Part 139 | Part 140 | Part 141 | Part 142 | Part 143 | Part 144
PHILLIPS, Ervin L .:
Captain, U. S. Army; born in Franklin- ville, N. Y .; graduate of the Infantry and Cavalry School, 1895; graduate of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 1891. Promoted to second lieutenant, Sixth Cavalry, Aug. 1, 1891; first lieutenant, Third Cavalry, July 9, 1898; captain, Thirteenth Cavalry, Feb. 2, 1901. Address, Manila, P. I.
PHILLIPS, Jesse S .:
Republican Assemblyman, representing Allegany County; born in the town of In- dependence, Allegany County, May 4, 1871. Boyhood was spent on a farm and in dis- trict schools until his parents removed to Andover, when he was fifteen years of age; after that he was a clerk in a gen- eral country store and spent what time he could in study until he was graduated from the Andover High School. His father had died in the meantime, but through personal effort the young man was able to enter the University of Michi- gan, where he was graduated from the law department in 1893; was admitted to the bar in 1894, and has been attorney for his village, and an active, practicing counselor and successful court lawyer . since that time. In 1898 he was elected supervisor of his town, and re-elected in 1899 for two years; elected to Assembly in 1900, 1901 and 1902. In 1903 appointed a member of the following Assembly com- mittees: Chairman of the committee on Codes; member of Labor and Industries, Excise, and Unfinished Business. Mar- ried Miss Mary Teresa Cannon, of Alle- gany County, Sept. 3, 1902. Address, An- dover, Allegany County N. Y.
PHILLIPS, Morris:
Journalist and magazine writer; born in London, England, May 9, 1834; son of Philip Phillips. His elementary education was begun in Cleveland, O., in the public schools and finished under private tutors in New York; studied law in Buffalo and in New York. Married Elizabeth Rode, in New York, July 5, 1865. Was associated with the poet, N. P. Willis, as editor of the New York Home Journal from Sept., 1854, until the latter's death, 1867; then became chief editor and sole proprietor. Has corresponded with and written for many publications during his travels in
462
WHO'S WHO IN NEW YORK.
this country and his many visits to Europe, acting as special correspondent and writer of travel sketches for leading dailies and magazines. Author of "Abroad and At Home," 1893. Has retired from active business, but continues to write sketches of travel, literary criticism, and articles on many topics for monthly mag- azines and the leading New York dailies; is also special correspondent for a London weekly and a Chicago daily. Address, 25 West 11th St., New York.
PHILLIPS, Raymond George:
Lawyer; prepared at Lina, N. Y., and graduated Ph.B. from University of Rochester; after study of law was admit- ted to bar and has since practiced in Rochester. Address, 713 Wilder Building, Rochester, N. Y.
PHINNEY, Herman K .:
Assistant librarian of University of Rochester; prepared at Rochester, N. Y., and graduated from University of Roches- ter, A. B., 1887; A. M., 1880; teacher of natural sciences at Academic Institute, Le Roy, N. Y., 1877-78; assistant libra- rian of University of Rochester, 1880 to date. Secretary Rochester Baptist Mis- sionary Union, 1886 to date; editor Rochester Baptist Monthly, 1891 to date Fellow of Rochester Academy of Science. Address, 8 Brighton St., Rochester, N. Y.
PHYTHIAN, Robert L .:
Commodore, U. S. Navy; born in New York; appointed from New York, Jan. 28, 1852; Naval Academy, 1852-56; attached to frigate St. Lawrence, Brazil Squadron, 1857-59. Promoted to master, 1859; sloop Jamestown, 1861. Commissioned as lieu- tenant, 1861; Naval Academy, 1862-63. Commissioned as lieutenant-commander, July 16, 1862; ironclad Lehigh, South At- lantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-65; iron- clad New Ironsides, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1865-66; Naval Academy, 1866-69. Commissioned as com- mander, July 13, 1870; chief-of-staff, Pa- cific Squadron, 1870-72; Navy Yard, Bos- ton, 1873-74; commanding nautical school- ship St. Mary's, 1875-78; special duty, 1879. Promoted to captain, Nov., 1881; Navy Yard, Boston, 1882-83; command- ing Trenton, Asiatic Station, 1883-86; su- perintendent Naval Observatory, 1886 to June, 1890; superintendent Naval Acad- emy, June, 1890, to Oct., 1894. Commis- sioned as commodore, Sept. 7, 1894; su- perintendent Naval Observatory, Nov. 21. 1894, to 1897. Retired, 1898. Address, 6 Maryland Ave., Annapolis, Md.
PIATTI, Attilio:
U. S. vice-consul; was born in New York City; graduate of the College of the City of New York. Served on several oc-
casions as British pro-consul and as act- ing British vice-consul; appointed vice- consul at Nice, France, Jan. 6, 1898.
PIERCE, Daniel Thompson:
Editor Public Opinion since 1895; born in Washington, D. C., March 22, 1874; ed- ucated in the public schools of Wash- ington and Columbian University. Ad- mitted to bar, 1894. Writer on political and social subjects for newspapers and magazines; member of City and other clubs of New York. Residence, 239 West 103d St .; office, 32 Waverly Place, New York.
PIERCE, Ray Vaughn:
Physician; born in Starke, Herkimer County, N. Y., Aug. 6, 1840; his primary education was received in the public and private schools, and he was graduated as a physician in 1862. After practicing for four years in Titusville, Pa., he moved to Buffalo, N. Y., where he has since been engaged in the manufacture and sale of proprietary medicines. He established in that city the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institution. Was a State Senator in 1877- 79, and was elected to Congress on the Republican ticket in 1879, serving one term. He is the author of several medical works, the most important of which is "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser." Address, 663 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.
PIERCE, Samuel C .:
Educator; graduated University of Roch- ester, 1860; senior associate principal Rochester Military School, 1860-61; first lieutenant and adjutant, Third New York Volunteer Cavalry, 1861-62; captain Com- pany K, Third New York Cavalry, 1862- 64; lieutenant colonel, Third New York Cavalry, 1864-65. In business, Rochester, N. Y., 1866; seregant-at-arms of New York Constitutional Convention, 1867-68; of New York Assembly, 1869; in San Do- mingo, 1869-71; principal Grammar School No. 17, Rochester, N. Y., 1873-74; No. 4, 1874 to date. Member New York State Teachers' Association; Association of Grammar School Principals, and Roches- ter Academy of Science. Senior vice- commander Geo. H. Thomas Post, No. 4, Department of New York, G. A. R .; mem- ber New York Commandery, Military Or- der Loyal Legion. Address, 49 Greig St., Rochester, N. Y.
PIEZ, Richard Keller:
Teacher of psychology, history of edu- cation, form and drawing in Oswego State Normal and Training School; graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 1887; instructor in same institution from 1887 to 1891; supervisor of drawing and manual training in Bay City, Mich., 1891 to 1893. Organized Manual Training School, Bay City; member of faculty of Oswego Normal School from 1893 to pres-
463
WHO'S WHO IN NEW YORK.
ent time. Received degree of Pd.D. from New York University, 1900. Is a contrib- utor to educational journals. Address, Oswego, N. Y.
PIFFARD, Henry Granger:
Physician; born Sept. 10, 1842, at Pif- fard, N. Y .; son of David and Ann Ma- tilda (Haight) ,Piffard; graduated from New York University, 1862; College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1864. Emeritus professor of dermatology New York Uni- versity; consulting surgeon City Hospital; fellow New York Academy of Science. Author of several treatises on diseases of the skin and kindred topics. Has re- ceived degrees of A. B., 1862; M. D., 1864; A. M., 1865; LL.D., 1899. Present address, 256 West 57th St., New York.
PILCHER, James Evelyn:
Military surgeon; was born in Adrian, Mich., March 18, 1857; son of Elijah Holmes. Pilcher; was graduated A. B. from Michigan University in 1879, and M. D. from the Long Island College Hospital in 1880; received the degrees of A. M. and Ph.D. from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1887, and L.H.D. from Allegheny Col- lege in 1902. Immediately upon his grad- uation in medicine he became managing editor of the Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, of Brooklyn, N. Y., which posi- tion he retained until 1883, when he en- tered the medical department of the U. S. Army as an assistant surgeon, and passing through the grades of lieutenant and captain in the regular service and major and brigade surgeon in the volun- teer service, was retired for disability in- curred in the line of duty in 1900. Dur- ing this period he experienced consider- able active service in the field against the Sioux, Crow and Cheyenne Indians and against Mexican insurrectos; was the au- thor of the first system of drill for the United States Army Hospital Corps, pub- lished in the United States, and his work on "First Aid in Illness and Injury," the first edition of which was issued in 1892, has maintained its position as the prin- cipal text-book for instruction of the hos- pital corps from its publication to the present time. In 1896 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, becoming secretary and editor in 1897-a position which, with an interval of two years. he has held to the present time; established the journal of the Associa- tion of Military Surgeons of the United States as a quarterly in 1901, and as a monthly in 1902; was surgeon of one of the first regiments of the army to be ordered South at the opening of the Spanish-Am- erican War, and served in that capacity at Mobile and at Tampa, going thence to Jacksonville as chief surgeon of the forces under Major-General Lawton. When these forces were formed into the Seventh Army Corps, under the command of Major
General Fitzhugh Lee, he remained with them in the capacity of executive and medical supply officer until the fall of 1899, when he was detached and placed in command of the Army Medical Supply Depot established at Savannah, Ga.,-a duty which occupied his attention until failing health required him to relinquish active service. In addition to this service as military surgeon, he from time to time occupied the chairs of military sur- gery in the Ohio Medical University, Starling Medical College and Creighton Medical College; also for a time acted as professor of sociology and political econ- omy in Dickinson College and also as pro- fessor of medical jurisprudence in Dick- inson School of Law. Besides his book on "First Aid in Illness and Injury," which has passed through numerous edi- tions, he is the author of the "Life and Labors of Elijah H. Pilcher," the "Colum- bus Book of Military Surgeons," the "Seal and Arms of Pennsylvania," and "The Surgeon Generals of the U. S. Army," in addition to many articles in the medical and general press, among which may be noted an illustrated article in Scribner's Magazine entitled "A New Field of Hon- or," articles on the "Transportation of the Disabled," published by the Military Service Institution and in the Reference Handbook of Medical Science, the "Building of the Soldier" and "The Place of Physical Training in the Military Ser- vice"; valuable. articles relating to the history of surgery-the "Annals and
Achievements of American Surgery," "Chauliac and Mondeville," "Mundinus and the Anatomy of the Middle Ages," and a number of popular articles, among which may be mentioned "Outlawry on the Mexican Border," "One Sioux Dance," etc. Address, Carlisle, Pa.
PILCHER, Lewis Stephen:
Surgeon; was born in Adrian, Mich., July 28, 1845; son of the Rev. Elijah H. and Phebe (Fisk) Pilcher; was graduated . from the University of Michigan in 1862, and from the medical department of the same in 1866: received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Michigan, and from Dickinson College of Pennsylvania in 1900. He was married, June 22, 1870, to Martha S. Phillips, of Brooklyn; was a hospital steward in the U. S. Army in 1864-65; assistant surgeon U. S. Navy, 1867-72; adjunct professor of anatomy in Long Island College Hospital, 1879-83; professor of surgery New York Post- graduate School, 1885-95; surgeon to the M. E. Hospital since 1887; surgeon to German Hospital, Brooklyn, since 1900. He is a fellow of the American Surgical Association, an honorary member of the New York Surgical Society, member of the Brooklyn Surgical Society, and of the Medical Society of the State of New York; is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Editor of the Annals
464
WHO'S WHO IN NEW YORK.
of Surgery. Author of "Treatment of Wounds," 1883; part author of "American Text-Book of Surgery," 1890; "Dennis' System of Surgery," 1895; "International Text-Book of Surgery," 1900. Was presi- dent of the Medical Society of the State of New York, 1891-92; vice-president of the American Surgical Association, 1893; president of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, 1900; honorary chair- man of the section on anatomy in Pan- American Medical Congress in 1893; an- niversary orator New York Academy of Medicine, 1899; is consulting surgeon to Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, the Methodist Episcopal Home for the Aged, and the Bethany Deaconess' Home. Dr. Pilcher retired from general practice in 1890, and has since devoted himself to surgery alone. Address, 386 Grand Ave., Brook- lyn, N. Y.
PINKERTON, Robert A .:
With his brother, William A. Pinker- ton, of Chicago, are the principals of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, founded by their father, Allan Pinker- ton; born in Dundee, Ill., in 1848. Edu- cated at Notre Dame University, Indi- ana. Served in the United States Se- cret service, Department of the Gulf from 1864 until the close of the Civil War. Has been established in the detective business in New for thirty-five years. Address, 57 Broadway, New York City; residence, 71 Eighth Ave., Brook- lyn, N. Y.
PLANK, Charles S .:
Republican Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly District of St. Law- rence County; born in Rodman, Jefferson County, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1863; son of Sey- mour S. Plank and Rosina (Mattoon) Plank; graduated from the classical course of Ives Seminary in 1884, and from the Potsdam Normal School in 1887. Served three years as principal of the Wadding- ton Union School and six years as school commissioner of the Second District of St. Lawrence County; has also served as trustee of the village of Waddington, justice of the peace of his town for eight years, and supervisor continuously since 1898. Studied law with Azro B. Shepard, of Waddington; Watson M. Rogers, of Watertown, and Charles A. Kellogg, of Ogdensburg, and was duly admitted to the bar. He was elected to Assembly in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902. In 1903 was ap- pointed a member of the following com- mittees: Chairman of the committee on Excise, and a member of Judiciary, and of Canals; re-elected in 1903. In 1904 ap- pointed chairman of Excise, and member of Ways and Means and Internal Affairs. Gives special attention to education, good roads, taxation and agriculture. Address, Waddington, St. Lawrence County, N. Y.
PLANTEN, John Rutger:
Consul-general of Netherlands at New York; born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov. 30, 1835; primary education was ob- tained in his native city; parents moved to New York, 1846, where he passed through the schools of Columbia Univer- sity and finished his education under private tuition. Was appointed vice-con- sul of the Netherlands in 1874, and since 1884 has been consul-general of the Neth- erlands at New York, and in charge of the Legation of the Netherlands when its diplomatic officials are absent. Mr. Planten is commander of the order of Orange Nassau, officer of the order of the Oaken Crown, and knight of the order of Bolivar; honorary member of the Histori- cal Society at Utrecht, Frisian Society of History and Languages at Leenwaar- den, and the Historical Society at Heid- dleburg Zeeland. Life member of the New York Geographical Society, of the Genealogical and Biographical Society of New York, and New York Historical So- ciety, and other kindred bodies in United States; also life member of Museum of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y .; hon- orary vice-president of the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce and member of the Netherlands Club, New York. Address, 224 William St., New York.
PLATT, Frank C .:
Republican Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly District of Steuben County; born in the village of Painted Post, Jan. 23, 1866; son of Cephas F. Platt and Mary E. Platt; received a pub- lic school education, and upon the death of his father in 1883, engaged in farming. Was elected supervisor of the town of Erwin in 1896, and held the office for four years. He was elected to Assembly in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902. In 1903 appoint- ed a member of the following Assembly committees: Chairman of the committee on Soldiers' Home, and member of Ways and Means, Banks, and Privileges and Elections. Address, Erwin, Steuben County, N. Y.
PLATT, Henry Clay:
Lawyer; born in New York, Oct. 22, 1840: graduated from Princeton, 1858; ad- mitted to New York bar, 1862, and since in continuous practice in State and Fed- eral Courts. Married Jennie Dusenberry, granddaughter of Judge Munson, of Con- necticut. Member New York State Leg- islature for two terms, 1864-1866; assist- ant U. S. attorney, 1886-94; U. S. attorney for Southern District of New York, 1894; assistant U. S. attorney since 1895. City residence, 150 West 47th St .; country res- idence, "Meadow lawn," Huntington, L. I .; office, 50 Post Office Building, New York.
465
WHO'S WHO IN NEW YORK.
PLATT, Isaac Hull:
Physician; born in Brooklyn, May 18, 1853; son of Frederick A. and Augusta (Hull) Platt; educated at Polytechnic In- stitute, Brooklyn; Columbia Law School and Long Island College Hospital. Prac- ticed medicine in Brooklyn and Lakewood, N. J., 1886-97; since then being mostly in New York. Member of American Cli- matological Association, New York Acad- emy of Medicine, Society of the Cincin- nati, sons of Revolution, Society of War of 1812, New York Genealogical and Bio- graphical Society, the Players, National Arts Club, New York, and Art Club, Phil- adelphia. Married Emma Haviland, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1886. Address, Wallingford, Pa., or "The Players," 16 Gramercy Park, N. Y.
PLATT, Thomas Collier:
U. S. Senator, Republican, of Owego; was born in Owego, N. Y., July 15, 1833; prepared for college at the Owego Acad- emy; was a member of the class of 1853 of Yale College, but was compelled to give up the course in that institution on ac-) count of ill health; received the honorary degree of M. A. from that college in 1876. Entered mercantile life soon after leaving school, and has been in active business since; was president of the Tioga National Bank at its organization; be- came largely interested in the lumbering business in Michigan; was county clerk of the County of Tioga in 1859, 1860 and 1861; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses; was elected U. S. Senator Jan. 18, 1881, and resigned that office May 16, of the same year; was chosen secretary and director of the United States Express Company in 1879, and in 1880 was elected president of the company; was a member and president of the board of quarantine commissioners of New York from 1880 till 1888; was dele- gate to the national Republican conven- tions of 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896 and 1900; has been a member of the Na- tional Republican Committee; was elected United States Senator in 1896, and took his seat, March 4, 1897; was re-elected in 1903. His term of service will expire March 3, 1909. Address, 49 Broadway, New York.
PLUMB, William T .:
Lawyer; graduated from University of Rochester; received Townsend scholar- ship; studied law and has since practiced in Rochester; secretary Rochester Civil Service Commission, 1895; alderman, 1900- 1903. Address. 612 Wilder Building Roch- ester, N. Y.
PLUNKITT, George W .:
Democratic State Senator, representing the Seventeenth Senate District in the Senate; born Nov. 17, 1842, in New York City, in a place called the "Negro Vil-
lage," now a part of the Central Park, of Irish parentage; attended the public schools of. New York City until eleven years of age, when he was compelled to leave and begin to work; after various employments he apprenticed himself to the trade of butcher, finally starting in business for himself in Washington Mar- ket, where he remained for twenty-one years; 1876, sold out his business and em- barked in the harbor transportation and general contracting business, in which he is still engaged. He is active in politics; in 1866 was elected to Assembly as an independent candidate; re-elected as Democrat in 1868 and 1869; was a mem- ber of the Board of Aldermen of New York in 1870, 1871, 1872 and a part of 1873; also served two years as acting po- lice magistrate. In 1883 elected to State Senate; served as Senator during the years 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1892 and 1893. During his Senatorial career was chair- man on several important Senate commit- tees and introduced many important bills, among them being these: Providing for day labor in all the departments of New York City, and that $2 per day of eight hours be the lowest rate of wages paid for such work. In the defense of school teachers' salaries. In defense of the Museum of Art in Central Park. Estab- lishing the Bureau of Factory Inspectors to protect the factory operatives. Estab- lishing the Eighth Avenue grade from Fifty-ninth Street to One Hundred and Fortieth Street. Building of the viaduct at Eighth Avenue and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street. Providing for the ex- tension of the Ninth Avenue Railroad. Providing for the construction of Wash- ington Bridge. Establishing public parks in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards. Establishing a public park at Seventy-second Street and Boulevard. Appropriating $400,000 for the Museum of Natural History in Central Park. Estab- lishing the Harlem River Speedway. Re- turned to the Senate in 1899, having been nominated by the Democrats of the Sev- enteenth District; re-elected in 1900 and 1902. In 1903 Senator Plunkitt was made a member of the following Senate com- mittees: Railroads, Public Printing, and Indian Affairs. Address, New York City.
PLYMPTON, Glibert Motler:
Banker; was born at Fort Wood, Bed- loe's Island, New York Harbor, Jan. 15, 1835; son of Joseph and Eliza Matilda (Livingston) Plympton. His father was a soldier who served in the war of 1812 as lieutenant; in the Seminole War, Flor- ida, as major, and in the Mexican War as lieutenant-colonel, receiving the brevet of colonel for gallant service at the battle of Cerro Gordo. Mr. Plympton's education was begun at Fort Snelling, Minn., under the chaplain of the post, and continued in a private school at Sackett's Harbor. During his father's absence in Mexico he
466
WHO'S WHO IN NEW YORK.
was sent to the house of his uncle, Gerard W. Livingston, in New Jersey, and stud- ied there, entering Shurtleff College, Ill., upon his father's return and appointment to Jefferson Barracks, Mo .; subsequently he studied for a time at John Sedgwick's School, New York City, and after reading law was admitted to practice in Nov., 1860; entered the law department of the University of New York, and was gradu- ated in 1863. Beginning with a general practice, he was soon engaged in many of the important litigations of the time, principally in the Federal Courts. In 1889, having earned an independent fortune, and finding his health impaired by over- work. He was abroad for some time; upon his return he retired from active practice; in 1892 he organized, with his present partners, the well known banking house of Redmond, Kerr & Co., which now has branch offices in several other cities. Mr. Plympton has declined many official positions, though he has been and is a di- rector in a number of corporations. He was a founder and vice-president of the St. Nicholas Club, and is a member of the Union, Metropolitan Riding, Westchester, County and New York Yacht Clubs; Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mu- seum of Natural History, Chamber of Commerce, St. Nicholas. New York His- torical, Zoological, Botanical, American Historical, and St. Andrew's Society, and other prominent societies. He has been a frequent contributor to periodicals and is author the of several pamphlets, among them a monograph on the life of his father and a sketch of the Plympton family. Mr. Plympton was married, in 1863, to Mary A., daughter of Linus W. Stevens, a well known merchant of New York City, and the first colonel of the Seventh Regiment. They have one daugh- ter, Mary Livingston Plympton. now the wife of Robert M. Tarleton, Esq. City residence, 30 West 52d St., New York; country place. "Wyndtryst," Great, Neck, Long Island, N. Y.
PLYMPTON, George Washington:
Civil engineer and teacher of science. Born in Waltham, Mass., Nov. 18, 1827; son of Thomas Ruggles and Elizabeth Holden Plympton. Graduated from Wal- tham high school in 1848, and from Rens- selaer Institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1847, with the degree of civil engineer. Learned machinist's trade between March, 1844, and March, 1847. Married Delia M., daughter of Colonel Thomas Bussey, Troy, N. Y., 1855 (died 1858). Married July, 1861, Helen M. Bussey, sister of first wife. Practiced engineering, 1847- 50. Instructor in geodesy at Troy Poly- technic, 1850; professor engineering and architecture, Cleveland University, Ohio, 1851-52; professor of mathematics, New York State Normal School, Albany, 1853 to 1856; built iron bridges, 1856-57, in Pennsylvania; professor physics and en-
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.