Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 104

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910; Leonard, John William, 1849-; Mohr, William Frederick, 1870-; Knox, Herman Warren, 1881-; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York : L.R. Hamersly Co.
Number of Pages: 751

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PUFFER, Starkey P .:

Editor of the Rochester Evening Times; graduated A. B. from the University of Rochester. Was advertising manager Ohio Merchant, 1895; Cycling Gazette, 1896; on staff of Buffalo Express, 1896; reportorial staff of Rochester Democrat and Chron- icle, 1897-99; managing editor Rochester Evening Times, 1899 to 1901, and since 1901 editor. Address, 36 State St., Rochester, N. Y.

PUGSLEY, Cornelius Amory:

Banker; born at Peekskill, N. Y .; son of Gilbert T. and Julia B. Meeker Pugsley. Is president of the Westchester County National Bank; twice elected to executive council of the American Bankers' Asso- ciation; representative of the Sixteenth Congressional District of New York, and member of the Banking Currency Com- mittee in the Fifty-seventh Congress; treasurer general and vice-president gen- eral National Society, S. A. R .; member and vice-president Empire State Society, S. A. R .; member of New England So- ciety, Harlem and Patria Clubs and Chamber of Commerce of New York; president trustee of Field Library, Peeks- kill; trustee and treasurer Field Home, Yorktown; trustee and treasurer Peekskill Military Academy. Address, Peekskill, N. Y.

PULITZER, Joseph:

Proprietor of New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch; born in Hungary, April 10, 1847; educated by private tutors. Came to United States in 1864; enlisted in Lincoln Cavalry and served until end of the war for the Union. Went to St. Louis, 1865; in 1868 became reporter on the Westliche Post, a German newspaper edited by Carl Schurz; soon became city editor and later managing editor and part proprietor. In 1878 bought the St. Louis Dispatch and united it with the Post as the Post-Dispatch; studied law and admitted to practice. Was elected member Missouri Legislature in 1869, Mis- souri State Constitutional Convention in 1874; was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880 and a mem- ber of the platform committee for Mis- souri; 1877 contributed political articles to

editorial page of the New York Sun; later wrote a series of European letters for the same paper on the political sit- uation abroad. Bought New York World May 10, 1883; was elected as Representa- tive of the New York Ninth District in Forty-ninth Congress, but resigned after a few months' service; delegate from Mis- souri to Cincinnati Liberal Republican Convention, which nominated Horace Greeley for President; made seventy speeches in sixteen States for Tilden in 1876; strong advocate of nomination of Cleveland in 1884 and 1892; opposed elec- tion of Bryan on the free-silver issue in 1896. In 1889 established ten annual col- legiate scholarships for the poorest, brightest and most deserving boy gradu- ates of New York public schools, giving to winners in open competition $250 an- nually for seven years for preparatory and college course; scholarships awarded to date, 147. Gave to Columbia Univer- sity $100,000 to secure free tuition to prize winners; number now in different col- leges, 64; paid to holders of scholarships (to 1904) $150,000; established three free scholarships in Barnard College. In 1903 gave $1,000,000 to Columbia University to establish and maintain a College of Jour- nalism, to rank with similar professional schools of law, medicine, engineering and architecture; agreed to give $1,000,000 ad- ditional when school has been in success- ful operation three years. Married Kate Davis, of Washington. Member Jekyl Is- land Club, Brunswick, Ga. City residence, 7 East 73d St., New York; summer resi- dence, Chatwold, Bar Harbor, Me .; ad- dress, The World Office, New York.

PUMPELLY, Joslah Collins, A.M., LL.B .:

Lawyer; born Owego, Tioga County, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1839; son of George James and Susan Isabella (Pumpelly) Pumpelly, who were cousins. Was graduated at Rutgers College in 1860 and at the Colum- bia College Law School in 1863, obtaining the degree of A.M. from the former and that of B.L. from the latter. During the Civil War he recruited and drilled men for the Union Army. After some years of travel he settled at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and later at Morristown, N. J .; here he took an active part in establishing the City Improvement Society and State Char- ities Aid Association, and was an active . member in the Sanitary Association, the New Jersey Historical Society and Wash- ington Association of New Jersey; in 1890 he removed to New York, where he has been no less active in patriotic and phil- anthropic work as a founder and secre- tary of the City Improvement Society and as a member of the West End Associa- tion and the standing committee of the Christian Workingmen's Institute. He aided in founding the Huguenot Society of America, the Patriotic League, the Na-

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tional Society of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution and its New Jersey branch. Is an active member of St. Michael's Episcopal Church; a veteran member of the Union League Club and the New York Genealogical and Biograph- ical Society, and is secretary of St. Mich- ael's Chapter of the Church Association for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor. At the celebration of the tercen- tenary of the signing of the Edict of Nantes. 1898, he read a paper entitled "The Huguenot Settlers in New Jersey." Among his many other published address- es are "Washington," 1888; "Fort Stan- wix and the Battle of Oriskany," 1888; "Our French Allies," 1889; "Joseph War- ren," 1890; "Mahlon Dickerson," 1891; "Paul Jones," 1892; "Incidents in the Early History of Berkshire County, Mass., and the Pumpelly, Pixley, Paterson, and Avery Families," 1896. The "Jumel Man- sion; Its History and Traditions," 1903; has also given much time and literary ef- fort to the discussion in the public press of philanthropic and social economic ques- tions, and many articles have appeared from time to time from his pen in behalf of industrial arbitration and needful re- forms in the treatment of our de- pendent, delinquent and defective class- es. He has done much traveling in Asia, Africa, Europe, Great Britain, and in the far North, besides visit- ing almost every section of his own coun- try. Mr. Pumpelly was married at Frankfort, Germany, in 1876, to Margaret (Lanier) Winslow, widow of James Wins- low and a descendant of the Huguenot Louis Lanier, who married the aunt of George Washington. Mrs. Pumpelly died in 1890, and on May 20, 1896, he married for his second wife Mary Amelia, daugh- ter of Charles G. Harmer, one of the old New York merchants and a descendant of Josiah Harmer, who was one of Wash- ington's generals and for a short period in 1789 commander-in-chief of all the Am- erican forces. On her father's side she was the great-granddaughter of Mrs. Thomas Garrick (Mary Sandoz), whose father was a Huguenot refugee and came to New York after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Address, 2881 Broadway and 42 West 23d St., New York.

PURCELL, Henry:

Lawyer; was born at Wilna, Jefferson County, N. Y., Oct. 13. 1848; primary education at High School of Watertown, and Antwerp Academy; studied law with the late Judge McCartin, and was admit- ted to practice in 1876, having in the meantime been elected to the office of school commissioner of Jefferson Coun- ty, which position he filled for the term of three years. He was elected recorder of the City of Watertown, N. Y., in 1881, and served the full term of four years; later occupied the position of city at-

torney for two years; after the death of. Judge McCartin, in 1892, he filled, by ap- pointment of Governor Roswell P. Flower, the unexpired term of the deceased, as county judge. Is now vice-president of the New York Bar Association, also of the National Bank and Loan Company of Watertown; trustee of the Jefferson Coun- ty Savings Bank, and local counsel for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company. Jan. 10, 1878, mar- ried Miss Cecilia R. Neary, at Water- town, N. Y. Is a member of the Trans- portation Club, of New York City, and of the Union Club, of Watertown. Ad- dress, Watertown, N. Y.

PURDY, Thomas C .:

Railway official; born at Sunbury, Pa., 1846; became connected with the New York & Oswego Midland Railway, 1869, rising to office of paymaster; was super- intendent of Montclair Railway, 1874 to 1876; in the four years following held the same office in New York & Oswego Mid- land Railroad; 1881, became general man- ager of the Mutual Union Telegraph Com- pany; 1882, general manager and vice- president of the Mexican National Rail- way; 1885, became president of Mann's Boudoir Car Company; 1889, railway con- tractor, until he assumed the offices of vice-president and general manager of the Missouri, Ramos & Texas Railway Com- pany; held these offices until 1897; follow- ing year became vice-president of New York Air Brake Company. Address, 66 Broadway, New York.

PUTNAM, Edgar Pierpont:

Soldier and merchant; born in Stockton, Chautauqua County, N. Y., May 4, 1844. Enlisted in Ninth New York Cavalry, Oct. 11, 1861; re-enlisted same regiment, Jan. 2, 1864, for the war; served in Sheridan's Cavalry, Army of the Potomac. Pro- moted to corporal, sergeant, first lieuten- ant, captain and major by brevet; wound- ed in battle of Travilian Station, Va., June 11, 1864; wounded again in battle of Five Forks, Va., April 1, 1865. Re- ceived Congressional Medal of Honor "for gallant and distinguished conduct in ac- tion," May 27, 1864; mustered out of U. S. service, July 17, 1865, after close of the war. United States surveyor in Minneso- ta, 1866 to 1875; in drug and book business in Jamestown, N. Y., 1876 to 1889; post- master of Jamestown, N. Y., 1884-85; clerk of Chautauqua County, 1889 to 1892; five years chairman of Republican Committee of Chautauqua County; seven years mem- ber Fire Department, Jamestown, N. Y. Is director of Chautauqua County Trust Company, Jamestown, N. Y .; Bank of Jamestown, N. Y .; Home Telephone Com- pany, Jamestown, N. Y .; Jamestown & Warren Trolley Lines. Member of New York Army and Navy Club, New York

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.Commandery [ Loyal Legion of the United States, Medal of Honor Legion, Union Veteran Legion, Grand Army of the Re- public, Empire State Society Sons of American Revolution; Mount - Moriah Lodge, F. A. M., " Masons, Western Sun Chapter Masons; Knights Templar, Jamestown Commandery, and the Young Men's Christian Association, Jamestown, N. Y. Address, 347 East 4th, St., James- town, N. Y.

PUTNAM, Mrs, Emily James:

Born in Canandaigua, N. Y., April 15, ' 1865; daughter of James C. Smith, justice of the Supreme Court of New York; grad- uated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889; student at Girton College, Cambridge, England, 1889-90. Taught Greek at Pack- er Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, 1891-93; fellow in Greek in the University of Chi- cago, 1893-94; first dean of Barnard Col- lege, 1894-1900; resigned, Feb. 1, 1900. President of League for Political Educa- tion, 1901-1904; lecturer on Greek politics at the League for Political Education, 1901-04. Author of "Selections from Lu- cian," published by Harper Bros., 1891. Married, at Canandaigua, N. Y., April 27, 1899, to George Haven Putnam. Address, 335 West 86th St., New York.

PUTNAM, George Haven:

Publisher, head of G. P. Putnam's Sons; born in London, England, April 2, 1844 ;; educated at Columbia Grammar School, New York, College of the Sorbonne, Paris, and University of Göttingen (A. M., Bow- doin College; Litt.D., Western Pennsyl- vania). Left Göttingen without graduat- ing to enter One Hundred and Seventy-' sixth New York Volunteers, Aug., 1862; served, private to major, until June, 1865; prisoner at Libby and Danville, Va., win- ter of 1864-65. Married, July 1, 1869, Re- becca Kettell Shepard, Boston (died July, 1895); April 2, 1899, Emily James Smith, of Canandaigua (dean of Barnard College, New York). Led in reorganizing, 1887, the American Copyright League, original- ly organized by late G. P. Putnam, 1851; became its secretary during contest for international copyright, resulting in the copyright bill of March, 1891. Received cross of the Legion of Honor from France, 1891; chairman Citizens' Union of his district; has served in Citizens' Com- mittee, Free Trade League, Honest Mon- ey organizations; member of Century, City, Authors Clubs of New York; Savile of London; Loyal Legion of Paris. Au- thor of "Authors and Publishers," 1883; "Question of Copyright," 1891; "Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times," 1893; "The Artificial Mother," 1894; "Books and. Their Makers in the Middle Ages," 1896; article, "Literary Property," in Mason & Lalor's Political Encyclopedia, and arti- cles on copyright in International Ency- clopædia and Encyclopedia Britannica. Address, 27 West 23d St., New York.

PYE, George Washington:

Educator; graduated from University of Rochester, A. B .; A .: M., 1882; principal Union School, Dryden, N. Y., 1880-81; as- sociate principal Boys' Preparatory School of Brooklyn, N. Y., 1881-86; principal Union School, Bath-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1886-87; principal, Sandy Hill, N. Y., 1887- 90;, Geneva, N. Y., 1890-91; Palmyra, N. Y., 1891-95; Deposit, N. Y., 1895 to date. Address, Deposit, N. Y.

PYNE, M. Taylor:

Lawyer, trustee; born in New York, 'Dec. 21, 1855; son of Percy Rivington and Albertina (Taylor) Pyne. Received de- gree of A. B., Princeton University, 1877; A. M., 1880; LL.B., Columbia University, 1879; honorary L.H.D., 1903. Married, June 2, 1880, Margaretta Stockton. Ad- mitted to bar, 1880; general solicitor Del- aware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company for eleven years; president War- ren Railroad Company and Cayuga & Sus- quehanna Railroad Company; vice-presi- dent Princeton Inn Company and Uni- versity Power Company; director of the National City Bank, the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, the Lackawanna Steel Company, the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company, the Consolidated Gas Company, the Princeton Bank, the Commercial Trust Company of Jersey City, the United Railroads of New Jersey, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail- road Company, the Newark & Bloomfield Railroad Company, the Morris & Essex Railroad Company, the Sussex, the Utica, Chenango & Susquehanna Valley, the Syracuse, Binghamton & New York Rail- road Companies, etc., etc .; trustee and chairman finance committee of Princeton University; trustee of Lawrenceville School, New Jersey, and Pomfret School, Conn .; trustee of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association of New York, and St. Luke's Hospital, New York; councillor of the American Geographical Society. Member New Jersey Public Library Com- mission. Residence, "Drumthwacket," Princeton, N. J.

QUACKENBOS, John Duncan M. D .: Son of George Payn Quackenbos, LL.D., the educational author and a di- rect descendant of Pieter van Quaaken- bosch who came from Holland to New Amsterdam about 1660. Born April 22, 1848; in New York City. Educated at the Collegiate School, New York, of which his father was rector. Entered Columbia College at age of 16; was graduated with the first honor in 1868. Received the de- gree of A. M. in 1871, and in the same year was graduated from the College of

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Physicians and Surgeons in New York with the degree of M. D. In 1870 Dr. Quackenbos was appointed tutor in rhet- oric at Columbia College; in 1884 he was made adjunct .professor of the English language and literature and in 1891 he was elected professor of rhetoric in Co- lumbia University and in Barnard College for women. In 1894 he retired from

active service the University, re- taining his connection as an emeritus professor. He has since devoted himself to the practice of his profession in New York City and in New Hampshire, spe- cializing in nervous and mental. diseases. His estate at Lake Sunapee is a widely known and popular health resort. He is known to the world as an advanced psy- cho-therapist; his experiments with. hyp- notic suggestion along physical, "mental, moral and inspirational lines have trans- cended all that was expected of this in- strumentality here and abroad, and have opened up a field of speculative inquiry that is apparently without bounds. This work he has prosecuted fearlessly. He is the author of many standard works: A "History of the World," 1876; a "His- tory of Ancient Literature," 1878; "Ap- pleton's Geographies,". 1880-81; a "His- tory of the English Language," 1884;" a "Physical Geography," > 1887; a "Text- book on Physics, on a New Basis," 1891; a "Practical Rhetoric," 1896; "Enemies and Evidences of Christianity," 1899. - His medical works. include monographs on "Tuberculosis," "Typhoid Fever,": "Neu- rasthenia," "State Care of the Insane," "Adulterations in Food Stuffs and Medi -. cines," "Emergencies," "Standing For- ests in their Relation to the Public Health," "Post Hypnotic Suggestion in the Treatment of Sexual Perversions," "Hypnotism in Mental and Moral Cul- ture," "Hypno-Suggestion in Trained

Nursing." "The Reciprocal Influence in Hypnotism and its Bearing on Telepathic and Spiritistic Theories," . "Hypnotic Sug- gestion in the Treatment of Dipsomania." He is also well known as a lecturer on scientific and literary subjects, and is to be credited with having brought to pub- lic notice the presence of a fourth charr in New England waters, viz .: the so- called Sunapee lake trout, or American saibling. This valuable foodfish, through his efforts, has been planted in Lake George. He is a member of. the London Society for Psychical Research; Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; Member of the New York Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the New Hampshire Medical Society; Member of the American Medical Association; Member of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Address, 331 West 28th St., New York. ",

QUALTROUGH, E. F .:

Commander U. S. Navy. Born in Roch- ester, N. Y., 1850. Appointed to Naval

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Academy from New York, Sept. 21, 1867; midshipman, June. 6, 1871; ensign, July 14, 1872; master, July 1, 1878; lieutenant, Nov. 24, 1883; flagship, Wabash, European. Station, 1871-4; Wachusett,, West Indies, in 1874, during the Cuban trouble; Des- patch, special service, in Europe, 1875-76; Marion, European Station, 1877; flagship" Trenton, European Station, 1877-78; Nav- al observatory, 1879-82; Hartford, Pacific Station, 1882-85; during this cruise he was for three weeks on a small coral island in charge of the naval portion of an astronomical expedition to make ob- servations of the total solar eclipse in : May, 1883; while on this island he made "an accurate survey of it, and sent a chart to the Department; the chart was afterwards issued by the Hydrographic Office, Mare Island Navy Yard, 1886-89, most of the time in charge of the Ord- nance i Department; Charleston, Pacific Station, 1890. Author of "The Boat-Sail- or's Manual," and "The Sailor's Handy Book.", Office of Naval Intelligence, May, 1893-95; Mohican, March, 1895, to Jan., :1896; U. S. S. Marion, Jan., 1898; U. S. S." Terror; inspection duty under Bureau Equipment, Nov. 10, 1898 to 1900, Pro- moted to lieutenant-commander, March 3, 1899; Chicago, June 16, 1900 to April, 1902; commander, Feb. 9, 1902. Supervisor of harbor, New York City, April 30, 1902 to 1903. Address, Army Building, 39 Whitehall St., New York.

QUINBY, Ira .:

Major U. S. Army; born in New York, March 13, 1835. Appointed from Colorado -- civil life. First sergeant, Co. D. Second Colorado Volunteer Infantry, Sept. 5, 1861; discharged June 5, 1862; second lieu- tenant, First Colorado Volunteer Cavalry, June 5, 1862; first lieutenant, May 7, 1864; honorably mustered out. Nov. 18, 1865; second lieutenant Fifteenth U. S. Infan- try Feb. 23, 1866; first lieutenant, March 28, 1866; transferred to Twenty-fourth Infantry Sept. 21, 1866; transferred to Eleventh. Infantry April 25, 1869; captain Dec. 21, 1880; major First Infantry June 30, 1898; retired March 13, 1899. Address, Morris, Otsego Co., N. Y.

QUINBY, John Gardner:

Lieutenant-commander U. S. Navy; born in New York. Entered Naval Acad- emy, June 12, 1874; graduated June 20, 1878; cadet midshipman, U. S. S. Rich- mond, Dec. 1878, to April, 1880; final graduation, June, 1880; appointed mid- shipman, U. S. S. Minnesota, Nov., 1880; Aug., 1881, U. S. S. Lancaster, flagship European Squadron; Aug., 1881, to Aug., 1884, present at bombardment of Alex- andria, Egypt, by British squadron under Admiral Seymour. Promoted ensign, Feb., 1854; Naval Academy, Nov., 1884, to Aug., 1886; training-ship Jamestown, Aug., 1886, to Oct., 1889; during ten months of this cruise was attached to Constellation

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while Jamestown was undergoing repairs; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1889, to 1890; R. S. Franklin, 1890 to 1891; Lancaster, flagship Asiatic Squadron, March, 1891, to June, 1894; during ten months of this cruise was attached to U. S. S. Petrel, Norfolk Navy Yard July, 1894 to Oct., 1894; charge branch Hydrographic Office, Nor- folk, Oct., 1894, to Jan., 1897; U. S. S. Vesuvius. Jan., 1897, to Sept., 1898; U. S. S. Nashville, Sept., 1898, to Jan. 1900; U. S. S. Solace Jan., 1900, to March, 1900; Navy Yard, Norfolk, April, 1900, to July, 1900; N. N. S. and D. D. Co., inspector of ordnance, Aug., 1900 to 1902. Promoted to lieutenant-commander, Dec., 11, 1901. U. S. S. Texas, 1903. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.

QUIGG, Lemuel E .:

Journalist; born Cecil County, Md. Feb., 13, 1863. Received common school education, at completion of which he re- moved to New York and engaged in journalism; was for ten years a writer on the New York Tribune, later editor-in- chief of the New York Press. Was a Republican member of Congress, 1893-99. Chairman of Republican committee of New York, 1896-1900. Since his retire- ment from Congress he has been actively engaged in business and in promoting the interests of his party in city and state. Address 435 West End Ave., New York.

QUINTARD, George W .:

Iron manufacturer; born Stamford, Conn., April 22, 1822; educated in com- mon schools. Removed to New York when a lad of fifteen; engaged in a mer- cantile business. In 1847 became one of the firm of T. F. Secor & Co. American Iron Works in New York; two years later became co-partner with Charles Morgan; 1852 assumed control of iron works of which he was sole manager, except for an interval of two years, until 1867; 1867 re- tired from the Morgan Iron Works to be- come principal owner of New York and Charleston Steamship Company. In 1869, became connected with Quintard Iron Works. Director Lorillard and Adriatic Fire Insurance Company, Metropolitan Savings Bank, Southern Steamship Com- pany and Butchers' and Drovers' Bank; trustee Eastern Dispensary; vice-presi- dent Eleventh Ward Bank. Address, 66 Broadway, New York.

RAINES, George:

Educator; graduated A. B. from Uni- versity of Rochester in 1866; A. M., 1873; teacher, Rochester, N. Y., 1867; lawyer, Rochester, N. Y., 1868; district attorney, Monroe County, N. Y., 1871-78; State Sen- ator, 1878-80. Delivered semi-centennial oration, City of Rochester, 1884; oration

on Samuel J. Tilden before State Legisla- ture, 1887; New York State delegate to National Democratic Convention at St. Louis, Mo., 1888; commissioner Niagara State Reservation, 1894; trustee Rochester State Hospital, 1891. Address, Rochester, N. Y.

RAINES, John:

President pro tem. of the Senate; Re- publican, representing the Forty-second Senate district, which covers the coun- ties of Ontario and Wayne. His father, of the same name, was a prominent Methodist clergyman, well known in the western part of the State; the father had several sons who had distinguished public careers: Thomas Raines, who was State treasurer two terms; George Raines, who was Senator from the Monroe district in 1878-9, and the subject of this sketch, who was successively Assemblyman, Senator, Congressman and Senator. John Raines was educated in the common schools, and was graduated from the law department of the Union University; his present busi- ness is that of an insurance agent and lawyer. Mr. Raines began the practice of law in Geneva soon after graduating, but in the fall of 1861 he raised a company of volunteers and was commissioned cap- tain of Company G, of the Eighty-fifth Regiment of New York Volunteers; served in the Army of the Potomac and in North Carolina until July, 1863, when he re- turned to Geneva and resumed the prac- tice of law. In 1867 he removed to Can- andaigua and opened a law office and in- surance agency there. He early joined the Republican party and has continued to be one of its members; in 1880 was elected an Assemblyman and in 1881 he was a member of the Assembly committees on General Laws, Internal Affairs, and State Charitable Institutions; re-elected in 1881 he was a member in 1882 of the commit- tees on Insurance and State Prisons; in 1885 he was chairman of the committee on Militia and a member of the com- mittee on General Laws and of a special committee on Code Revision of the Stat- utes. Mr. Raines was a member of the Assembly until 1886, when he became a member of the State Senate, and contin- ued a member of that body until 1890. While a member of the Senate he was elected to the Fifty-first Congress and was also elected to the Fifty-second Con- gress. In December, 1894, he was elected a State Senator from the Twenty-sixth district to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles T. Saxton, who had been elected lieutenant-gover- nor; he was re-elected to the Senate in 1895, receiving 11,584 votes. J. Henry Metcalf, his Democratic opponent, re- ceived 8,093; Enoch O. Marsh, the Prohi- bition candidate, received 590 votes, and Herbert G. Randall, Populist, 208. Mr. Raines, in 1896, 1897 and 1898, was chair- man of the committee on Railroads, and

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 104

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910; Leonard, John William, 1849-; Mohr, William Frederick, 1870-; Knox, Herman Warren, 1881-; Holmes, Frank R Publication date: 1904 Publisher: New York : L.R. Hamersly Co. Number of Pages: 751

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910; Leonard, John William, 1849-; Mohr, William Frederick, 1870-; Knox, Herman Warren, 1881-; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York : L.R. Hamersly Co.
Number of Pages: 751