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ROCKWELL, James Jr .:
Major, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed to military academy, from New York; was graduated from West Point and promoted in the army to second lieu- tenant First Cavalry July 15. 1870; at Fort Lanwai. Idaho. on frontier duty Oct., 1870 to July, 1871; Gila Bend, Ari- zona. July to Oct., 1871; at Benicia Bar- racks, Cal., in garrison, Oct .. 1871. to Sent .. 1874; adjutant general. Modoc Ex . pedition, Jan .- May, 1873; assistant profes . sor of military tactics at the military academy, Oct. 12 to Dec. 5, 1874; promoted to first lieutenant ordnance, Nov. 1, 1874;
assistant ordnance officer at Sheffield Ar- mory, Mass., Jan., 1875, to Oct., 1876; at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., Nov., 1876, to- Aug., 1878; assistant instructor of ord- nance and gunnery at the Military Acad- emy, Aug., 1878, to Aug., 1881; command- ing Fort Abraham Lincoln, Ordnance Depot, Dakota, Sept., 1881, to July, 1886; promoted captain ordnance, Dec. 4, 1882; assistant at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., July, 1886 to 1890; at Benicia Ar- senal, Cal., 1890 to 1892; Watervliet Ar- senal, N. Y., 1892-94; Springfield Armory Massachusetts, 1894 to 1898; promoted to lieutenant-colonel, July 18, 1898; in com- mand San Juan Ordnance Depot, Puerto Rico, Oct., 1898; honorably mustered out, May 12, 1899. Promoted to major ord- nance, May 5, 1901; commanding Colum- bia Arsenal, Tenn., July, 1899 to Feb., 1902. Address, Frankford Arsenal, Pa.
ROCKWOOD, George Gardner:
Photographer, writer, inventor, and lec- turer; was born in Troy, N. Y., April 12, 1832; he was educated in the schools of Troy and at the University of Chicago, receiving the degree of Ph. D. He was married to Arminta Bouton in Troy in 1853. He engaged in photography in 1855, and was the first to introduce into the art the carte de visite; he has introduced many improvements in photography, and has earned distinction for his art studies of children. He is the author of the scientific hoax, "Brain Pictures." Mem- ber of the Sons of the Revolution. Resi- dence. 259 W. 88th St .; office, 39th St. and Broadway. New York.
RODENBECK, Adolph J .:
Jurist; graduated from University of Rochester in 1885; was a law student, Rochester, N. Y .. 1885-87. Resided in New York City, 1887; Europe, 1888; law- yer, Rochester, N. Y., 1888; second assist- ant city attorney, 1892; first assistant, 1892-94; city attorney, 1894-98. Member New York State Assembly, second dis- trict, Monroe County, 1899-1901; mayor, City of Rochester, 1902-03: judge, Court of Claims, State of New York, since 1903. Address, 739 Powers Building, Rochester, N. Y.
RODENBOUGH, Theoph's F .:
Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. Army. Born Pennsylvania, 1838; ap- pointed from Pennsylvania .- Civil life. Actual rank, second lieutenant, Second United States Dragoons. March 27, 1861; first lieutenant, May 14. 1861; captain. Second Cavalry, July 17. 1862; colonel Eighteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cav- alry, April 29. 1865; honorably mustered out Oct. 31, 1865; major. Forty-second United States Infantry. July 28, 1866; un- assigned March 15, 1869; retired with rank of colonel, Dec. 15, 1870, for loss of right arm from wound in line of duty. Editor Journal Military Service Institu-
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tion, 1880-90 and 1899; Assistant Inspec- tor General, State New York, 1879-82; Chief Bureau Elections, New York City, 1890-99. Brevet rank, Brevet major Sept. 19, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Trevillian Station and Ope- quan, Va .; lieutenant-colonel March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war; colonel March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Todd's Tavern, Va .; brigadier- general March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Cold Harbor, Va .; brigadier-general Volunteers April 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war. Adjutant and A. A. Q. M .. Carlisle Barracks, 1861-62; on staff of Major-general Dodge and A. I. G., in Kansas and the Territories, Dec., 1865, to May, 1866. Service, at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., to Jan., 1862; in the defense of Washington, and commanding company in the Peninsular campaign, being cap- tured near Centreville, Va., and paroled and exchanged one week after; organizing company, from Oct., 1862, to Jan., 1863 performing picket duty, winter of 1862 and 1863, and in Sheridan's Cavalry campaign, 1864; on general recruiting service, Phila- delphia, Nov., 1864, to April, 1865. Mem- ber of board to examine breech-loading arms, Springfield Armory, Massachusetts, Jan., 1865; assigned to duty according to his brevet rank. and commanding brigade. District of Clarksburg, June to Nov., 1865; with regiment and president of board of examination, to May, 1867; at Condy's Post, Plattsburg, N. Y., and Madison Bar- racks, from May, 1867, to 1869; unas- signed, March 15, 1869. Engaged at the battle of Beverly Ford, action of Upper- ville, battle of Gettysburg, actions of Williamsport, Boonsboro, Funkstown, Falling Waters, Manassas Gap and Bran- dy Station; battle of Todd's Tavern, ac- tions of Culpepper Court House. Old Church; battles of Trevillian Station (wounded), Cold Harbor; and actions of Winchester (wounded and lost right arm). Address. Hotel Carlton, 203 West 54th St., New York.
RODGERS, John Isaac:
Brigadier-general, U. S. Army; born in Fayette County, Pa., April 18. 1839. Son of John and Eliza Saffel Rodgers; gradu- ated at Waynesburg College, Pa., 1855, West Point May 6, 1861. Married, Sept. 25, 1872, Esther F. Rogers, Astoria, Ore. Commissioned second lieutenant, Second Artillery. May 6, 1861; first lieutenant, May 14, 1861; captain, June 11, 1864; major First Artillery. Oct. 2, 1883; lieutenant- colonel Second Artillery, Oct. 25, 1894; colonel Fifth Artillery, June 1. 1897; brig- adier-general of volunteers, May 4, 1898; brigadier-general, U. S. Army. Oct. 14, 1902; retired, Oct. 15, 1902. Served during Civil War; with General Patterson's army in Shenandoah Valley, 1861; commanded battery at Fort Pickens, and light bat- tery in Louisiana; was in General Bank's
Expeditions and battles on the Red River Campaigns 1863-64, and Siege of Port Hudson. Instructor of mathematics, West Point, Oct., 1864, to June, 1865; served with regiment 1865-1889 (including rail- road riot service in Maryland and West Virginia, 1877, and Mexican border trou- ble, 1877-81; served as artillery inspector, 1889-98, except part of 1895-96, commander of Fort Schuyler, N. Y .; as brigadier- general of volunteers, 1898, and chief of artillery of the army in the field; mus- tered out of volunteer service at end of war, Nov. 30, 1898, and resumed command of his regiment at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. Has prepared range tables, coast artillery drill regulations, and other papers on ar- tillery subjects, published by the War Department. Address, Washington, Pa.
RODGERS, Thomas Slidell:
Lieutenant-commander U. Navy; born in New York. Entered Naval Acad- s. emy, Sept. 24, 1874; graduated, June 4, 1880; Galena, 1880. Promoted Ensign, Dec. 1, 1881; Lancaster, 1880-83; Juniata, 1886-89; inspector ordnance department, Navy Yard, Washington, 1889, to June, 1892. Promoted lieutenant (junior grade), March 26, 1889; Chicago, N. A. Station, June, 1892. Promoted to lieutenant, Oct. 1, 1893; June, 1893; U. S. S. Benning- ton; U. S. S. Ranger, to June, 1895; leave of absence, June, 1895, to Aug. 1895; Navy Yard, Washington, Aug., 1895, to May, 1897; U. S. S. Baltimore (staff), May, 1897, to April, 1898; flag lieutenant, U. S. S. Bennington, April, 1898; Navy Yard, Washington, Nov. 3, 1898. Pro- moted to lieutenant-commander, Nov. 22, 1900. Member board of inspection and survey, Jan. 28, 1901, to Dec., 1902; U. S. S. Maine, to Dec., 1902-1903. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
ROE, Charles F .:
Brigadier-general U. S. Volunteers and Major-general, National Guard of N. Y. State; born in and appointed to Military. Academy from New York; graduated from West Point, and promoted in the army to second lieutenant, First Cavalry, June 15, 1868. Served on frontier duty at Fort Vancouver, Wash., Oct. to Dec., 1868; Camps Warner, and Harney, Ore., Dec., 1868, to May 1870; on frontier duty Oma- ha Barracks. Neb., March to Sept., 1872; Fort Ellis, Mont., Oct., 1872 to April 1, 1876; on leave of absence, Nov. 17, 1876, to Jan. 17, 1877; at Fort Custer, Mont,. Sept., 1877, to April, 1878; on leave of ab- sence, May. 1878, to May. 1879; on fron- tier duty at Fort Keogh, Mont., May, 1879, to June, 1880; at headquarters of the De- partment of Dakota, Aug. to Oct .. 1880; regimental adjutant, Dec., 1880, to May 1, 1886; promoted to first lieutenant of cav- alry, Dec. 20, 1880; at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., Nov., 1883, to Dec. 1, 1887. Re- signed, Jan. 31, 1888; captain, New York State Militia, April 3. 1889; on duty at Buffalo, N. Y .. 1892. during switchmen's
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strike, and at Brooklyn, N. Y., 1895, dur- ing motormen's strike; major, National Guard, State of New York Feb. 18, 1895; major-general, National Guard, State of New York, Feb. 9, 1898; brigadier-general, United States Volunteers, June 10, 1898; honorably discharged from volunteer ser- vice, Sept. 10, 1898. Dealer in real estate. Address, 35 E. 37th St., New York.
ROGER, Henry H .:
Capitalist; born Fairhaven, Mass. Pres- ident Amalgamated Copper Company, Na- tional Transit Company and New York Transit Company; vice-president Stan- dard Oil Company, Anaconda Copper Min- ing Company, Brooklyn Union Gas Com- pany, and United Metals Selling Com- pany; director Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, Guaranty Trust Company, United States Steel Corpora- tion, and Union Pacific Railroad Com- pany. Member American Fine Arts So- ciety, New England Society, American Museum Natural History Club, Union League, Engineers, Metropolitan, New York Yacht, Lotos. Address, 26 E. 57th St .; office, 26 Broadway, New York.
ROGERS, G. Tracy:
President of the Street Railway Asso- ciation of the State of New York; was born on the 9th of July, 1854, at Chenan- go Forks, in Broome County, New York, He resided at Chenango Forks until 1861, when his family removed to Binghamton. His education, consisting of a common school course, was completed at the Bing- hamton High School, from which he grad- uated at an early age, accepting a posi- tion in the First National Bank of Bing- hamton, New York, where he remained eight years. In 1889, he became identified with the street railway company of Bing- hamton. His first connection with that line of business was the purchase of the Washington Street Asylum and Park Railroad. Not long thereafter he ac- quired additional existing street railway companies, which were merged into the Binghamton Street Railroad Company, of which he was elected president; also in 1894 all the remaining street railroads of the city were purchased by him and merged into a new corporation known as the Binghamton Railroad Company, of which he was elected president. In 1893, he was elected president Street Railway Association State of New York, which position he retained until 1903. He is also identified with many other business interests. He is the president of the En- dicott Land Company of Endicott, New York, which is engaged in developing a new industrial village in close proximity to Binghamton; is also the president of the Binghamton Industrial Exposition of Binghamton; vice-president of the New York Casualty Company, and a director in the New York and Jersey Railroad
Company, Binghamton Trust Company,. and the Hudson Valley Railroad Com- pany of Glens Falls, New York. In Jan., 1900, he entered the firm of Ellingwood & Cunningham, bankers and brokers, 41 Wall street, New York City, as special partner. Address, Binghamton, N. Y.
ROGERS, Henry A .:
President of the Board of Education, New York City; has been connected with the Board of Education for a number of years and chairman of some of the most important committees; is now president of the board. Address, Park Ave. and. 59th St., New York.
ROGERS, Irvin Henry:
Educator; graduated from University of Rochester in 1880; principal Franklin Academy, Plattsburg, Y., 1880-81; Union School, Belfast, N. Y., 1882-84; chief clerk, Lehigh Valley R. R. freight office, Rochester, N. Y. Address, 12 Edmonds St., Rochester. N. Y.
ROGERS, James T .:
Republican Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly district of Broome County; was born in Owego, Tioga Coun- ty, April 18, 1864; educated at Whitneys Point, at Newark Valley, and finally at the Owego Free Academy. Entering upon business life he acted as assistant post- master of Owego for six years; then studied law with Howard J. Mead, county judge of Tioga County, and was clerk of his Surrogate's Court for several years; was also clerk of the village of Owego; he concluded his studies at the Cornell Law School in 1893, and was graduated by it as a Bachelor of Laws; was ad- mitted to the bar in Sept., 1892, at the close of his junior year. He entered the law office of White & Cheney in 1893 at Syracuse, and remained with that firm until early in 1894, when he located in Binghamton. and formed a law partner- ship with S. Mack Smith, under the firm name of Smith & Rogers. That firm continued in existence until Oct., 1898, when it was dissolved when Mr. Smith was elected recorder of Binghaniton. In Dec., 1898, he formed a law partnership. with J. H. Roberts and Theodore R. Tuthill, under the firm name of Roberts, Tuthill & Rogers. In 1895 he was ap- pointed attorney for the police depart- ment of Binghamton and held that posi- tion until March, 1898; elected to As- sembly 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902. He became the Republican leader in the As- sembly in 1903. and was appointed chair- man of the committee on Ways and Means. Thus the supervision of the State's expenses became one of his duties, and also the leadership of the Republican As- semblymen on party matters; was also a member of the Committee on Rules. Ad- dress, Binghamton, N. Y.
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ROGERS, William Arthur:
Iron manufacturer, Buffalo, N. Y. Born in Berkshire, Tioga County, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1851. Resided for the first thirty-nine years at Cincinnati, Ohio; graduated from Yale College (Sheffield Scientific Depart- ment) in 1874 Entered in December of that year as clerk in the house of L. R. Hull & Co., pig iron merchants. Three years later admitted to the firm as junior partner; later formed the firm of Rogers & Trivett, in the same line of business, which, through the death of Mr. Trivett. soon after and his place being taken by Mr. Archer Brown, became Rogers, Brown & Co. In 1890, removed to Buffalo to take charge of the Buffalo branch of Rogers, Brown & Co., and of the Tona- wanda Iron & Steel Company, near Buf- falo. At present senior partner of Rogers, Brown & Co., president of the Tonawanda Iron & Steel Company, of North Tona- wanda, N. Y., president of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron Company, of Buffalo, N. Y., president of the Punxsutawney Iron Company. of Punxsutawney, Pa., President of the Niagara Iron Mining Company, and the Rogers Iron Mining Company, of Michigan and Minnesota, and vice-president of the Iroquois Iron Company, of Chicago, Ill. Address, Buf- falo, N. Y.
ROLLINS, Edward A .:
Banker and stock broker; born New York, April 16, 1845; son of Gustavus A. Rollins, and Isabella G. (Fanshaw) daughter of Daniel Fanshaw, New York. Member of New York Stock Exchange, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colo- nial Wars, Society of Cincinnati, Mon- tauk Club. Residence, 754 Carroll St., Brooklyn, New York.
ROLLINS, Jordan Jackson:
Lawyer; born in Portland, Me .. Dec. 20, 1869. Graduated Dartmouth College, 1892, with degree of A. B. Entered Harvard Law School. Came to New York; studied law with Hon. D. G. Rollins; admitted to bar. 1894. Formed partnership. Rollins & Rollins. Counsel for various financial and other corporations. Director Acker Merrill & Condit Co., Windsor Trust Co., Casualty Company of America, New York, and Queens County Railroad Co., Guaya- quil & Quito Railroad Co. Member of University. Harvard, Manhattan, Racquet and Tennis, New York Athletic Clubs, New York Bar Association, Union League, Liederkranz Clubs. Secretary New York Law Institute. Address, 32 Nassau St., New York.
ROMEYN, Henry:
Captain and brevet major, U. S. Army; born in Wayne County, N. Y., June 1, 1833. His military service began Aug. 15, 1862, and was in grades of private, corporal, and sergeant, Company G, One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry; as
such served in Kentucky and Tennessee to November 15, 1863, when appointed captain Fourteenth United States Col- ored Infantry. Served as chief of scouts at Gallatin, Tenn., from Jan. to June, 1863. Recommended for commission as captain therefor. Engaged in recruiting for Forty-second and Forty-fourth U. S. colored troops, March and April, 1864. With regiment till July, 1865. Provost
marshal at Knoxville, Tenn., July to Dec., 1865. Brevetted major for services at battle of Nashville, March 2, 1865. Mustered out of volunteer service, March 29, 1866. First lieutenant Thirty-seventh U. S. Infantry to date from Jan. 22, 1867. Commanding K Company, Thirty-seventh Infantry from May, 1867, to May. 1869. Post quartermaster, post commissary and post adjutant, Fort Larned, Kan., May to Aug., 1867. Issuing commissary for Ute and Apache Indians at Commarron Agency, N. M., Feb. to May, 1869. As- signed to Fifth Infantry, Aug., 1869. Post adjutant, post quartermaster, post com- missary, ordnance and signal officer, post S. E., Kan., Oct., 1871, to May, 1873. Post quartermaster, post commissary at Fort Gibson, I. T., May, 1873 to Dec., 1874. In field against Indians, July, 1874 to. April, 1875. In action with Indians, Chey- enne Agency, I. T., April 6, 1875. With regiment in Montana, Aug., 1876 to Oct., 1877. Post adiutant cantonment Tongue River, Montana, July and Aug., 1877. Wounded by shot through lungs (sup- posed at time. mortally) in action with Nez Perce Indians, Sept. 30, 1877, while in command of G Company, Fifth In- fantry, and two troops of Seventh Caval- ry, which had lost all officers, killed or wounded. Received brevet as major and awarded medal of honor for conduct in that action. On duty at Hampton In- stitute, Va., March, 1878 to Oct., 1881. At. Fort Keogh, Mont., April to Oct., 1882. Fort Brown, Texas, Nov., 1882 to Nov.,. 1883; Fort Keogh, Mont., April, 1884. to June, 1888; cantain Fifth Infantry, June 10. 1885. In action at Crow Agency, Mont., Nov. 12, 1887; at Fort Ringgold, Texas, Mt. Vernon Barracks, Ala., Jack- son Barracks. New Orleans, La., and Fort McPherson, Ga., Aug .. 1888, to June 1. 1897, when retired "bv operation of law." Period of active service, thirty- five years, less three months; number of brevets, three. Recommendations for promotion by superior officers, six. Was with army at Santiago, Cuba, as cor- respondent. Member of Grand Army of the Republic (senior vice-commander Department of Montana, 1888) and of Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Commandery of District of Columbia. Residence, 1606 Seventeenth St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
ROOSA, Daniel B. St. John, M. D .:
Physician; born at Bethel, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1838; A. M. Yale, 1867; M. D., New York University, 1860; house surgeon, New York Hospital, Aug., 1861, to April,
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1862; assistant surgeon Fifth New York Volunteers, April, 1862, to 1863; surgeon Twelfth Regiment, 1863; assistant sur- geon Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1863 to 1865; surgeon Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital since 1868; to Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital since 1869; president New York Opthalmic Society in 1871; vice-president Medical Society State of New York; pro- fessor diseases of the eye and ear in the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. Member of City and Union League Clubs, Holland Society, and St. Nicholas Society. Address, 20 E. 3th St., New York.
ROOSEVELT, John E .:
Lawyer; born in New York; son of Rob- ert B. Roosevelt and Elizabeth T., nee El- lis; has three children, Anita, Gladys, and Jean. Prominent lawyer and senior mem- ber firm of Roosevelt & Kobbé, attorneys, 46 Wall street. Is president of Elkhorn Valley Coal Land Company. Secretary of Broadway Improvement Company, and an officer and director in numerous other companies; is Commodore of South Side Yacht Club and a member of the Metro- politan, Riding, Down Town, St. Anthony, Delta Psi, Garden City Golf, West Brook Golf and various other clubs. Member of the Consolidated Exchange; designed and built a flying proa, the first success- ful modernized attempt in this direction. Residence, 676. Madison Ave .; 46 Wall St., New York.
ROOSEVELT, Robert B .:
Author and statesman; was born in New York City, Aug. 7, 1829; received a collegiate education, and after graduation entered upon the study of law, being ad- mitted to the New York bar on reaching his majority. His professional life was quickly supplemented by an activity in literature and in political affairs which brought him prominently into attention and turned his life interests aside from legal practice. His literary taste devel- oped early, and was accompanied by pow- ers of imagination and of reasoning and by a lucid style that have made him pop- ular as a magazine writer and as an au- thor of more ambitious works. Mr. Roose- velt has long been a devotee of sport. but his enthusiasm in this direction has been tempered with a measure of good sense that impelled him to make a vigorous on- slaught on the indiscriminate slaughter of game in which so many so-called sportsmen indulge; to overcome this he devoted much time and energy to the or- ganization of clubs for the preservation of game and to the obtaining of legis- lative restriction on the vandalism that threatened the complete extermination of the food tenants of woods and waters In 1867 he succeeded in founding the New York Fishery Commission, and was ap- pointed one of the State commissioners; his labors in this direction were active and incessant, and continued until 1888,
when his appointment as United States minister to the Netherlands interfered with his immediate supervision; he wrote at that time an elaborate report, detail- ing the results of the twenty-one years of labor of the commission. Mr. Roosevelt served as president of the Fish Culture Association for a number of years, and also of the Association for the Protection of Game, and of the International Asso- ciation for the same purpose. His work in this direction was not confined to la- bors in organizations, but took the form of literature, in his published volumes "The Game Fish of North America," "The Game Birds of the North," "Superior Fishing," and "Fish Hatching and Fish Catching." Politically he has been an ac- tive member of the Democratic party, working in its interest during the Civil War, at which time he took part in the formation of several political associations. His greatest and most useful activity in municipal politics, however, was his share in the founding of the Committee of Sev- enty, whose work was directed against the outrages of the Tweed Ring; he was also the first vice-president of the Reform Club, and one of the editors of the Citi- zen, a paper devoted to the policy of this club; subsequently took entire charge of this paper, and worked energetically through its columns for the overthrow of the Tweed ascendency. In 1870 Mr. Roosevelt was elected a member of the Forty-second Congress, being supported by both wings of the New York Democra- cy; aside from his political relations he was actively interested in New York af- fairs, taking an earnest part in the for- mation of paid fire and health depart- ments in the city, and acting as a com- missioner on the Brooklyn Bridge; was the president of the Holland Trust Com- pany, and took part in the founding of the Lotos Club. Mr. Roosevelt's practice as a lawyer continued for about twenty years after his admission to the bar, but was afterwards abandoned in consequence of the pressure of political and other in- terests. He became actively engaged in financial affairs, was president or director in a number of insurance, railroad, and other corporations, and was offered by President Cleveland, during his first term, the position of United' States sub-treas- urer at New York; this he declined in consequence of the labor involved; was frequently offered other public positions, and served, as has been said, as minister to the Netherlands. He edited The Politi- cal Works of Charles G. Halpine, and was the author of "Five Acres too Much,"
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a clever satire suggested by Edmund Morris's "Ten Acres Enough," also of Progressive Petticoats," a humorous il- lustration of medical habits; "Game Fish of North America," "Game Birds," "Su- perior Fishing " "Fish Hatching and Fish Catching," "Florida and the Game Water Birds," "Love and Luck," etc .; these are
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his best known writings, aside from his magazine essays, which have been nu- merous. Mr. Roosevelt was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee at the time of Cleveland's second election; president Sons of the American Revolu- tion; chairman of committee for Protec- tion of the Soldiers during the war with Spain; delegate to many Democratic con- ventions; on all the committees to aid the Boers in their war with England; was a former president of Holland Society, and of the Founders and Patriots; member and officer of many clubs, societies, etc. Uncle of President Roosevelt. Address, Sayville. N. Y.
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