Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 115

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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SENNER, Joseph Henry:


Journalist; was born in Austria, Sept. 30, 1846; received early education at the gymnasium at Brunn and was graduated in law from the University of Vienna in 1867; practiced law in Brunn from 1867 to 1880; then came to the United States and engaged as correspondent of German and Austrian newspapers; was on the staff of the New York Staats Zeitung in 1881 and 1882; chief editor of the Milwaukee Her- old in 1882-85; foreign editor of the Staats Zeitung 1885-93; United States commis- sioner of immigration for the port of New York from 1893 to 1897. In 1897 bought and has since conducted the National Pro- visioner, a paper devoted to American meat and allied trades. In 1882 delivered a series of lectures in German on the History of Civilization. He was for five years president of the German Social Scientific Society; four years president of the National Organization of German- American Journalists; president of the Austrian Society; admitted to the New York bar in 1890. Recently purchased and is now conducting, also, Cold Storage, a monthly trade paper. Residence, 348 West 123d St .; office, Produce Exchange, New York.


SERRELL, Edward Wellman:


Engineer; born Nov. 5, 1826; son of William and Anne Terrell; educated at home and at the school of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York and at academic schools; studied chemistry at College of Physicians and Surgeons; entered engi- neering profession with his father, and as- sisted in making the base line for the surveys of the City of New York. As- sistant engineer to the commissioners of the Erie Railroad. On April 6, 1848, mar- ried to Jane Pound, who died in 1896, and Sept. 6, 1900, he married Marion Seaton. He was associated with the engineers in locating the Panama Railroad in 1848-49, and selected the northern terminal at As- pinwall, now Colon; had charge of the surveys for the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire, of the engineering work in the changing of the course of the Merri- mac river, and many other prominent en- gineering projects. His plans for the Niagara River Bridge at Lewiston were


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adopted, and he superintended its con- struction; also superintended the construc- tion of the bridge at St. John, N. B., and planned the bridge over the St. Lawrence at Quebec; projected the first railroads west of the Mississippi, and was promi- nently identified with the construction of the Union Pacific. Among other promi- nent engineering enterprises with which he has been connected was the Hoosac Tunnel, the largest work of the kind in the world when it was made. Served in the civil war at first in organizing volun- teer engineers, and afterward as colonel of an Engineer regiment. Participated in the siege of Charleston, and was wounded before Fort Wagner; promoted succes- sively to chief engineer of the Tenth Army Corps, chief engineer Department of the South, and chief engineer and chief of staff of the Army of the James; invented and directed the construction of the "Swamp Angel," which shelled the city of Charleston. Was brevetted brigadier- general. Address, New Brighton, N. Y.


SETON, Ernest Thompson:


Naturalist, artist, author and lecturer; was born at South Shields, Durham, Eng- land, Aug. 14, 1860; son of Joseph Logan and Alice (Snowdon) Seton Thompson; great-great-grandson of George Seton, last Earl of Winton. The family is an ancient one of Scotch origin; the name Thompson was assumed temporarily by the family, and used by the writer as a nom de plume. He was taken by his par- enis to Canada in early childhood, and after pursuing a classical course at Toron- to Collegiate Institute he, at the age of eighteen, went to London to study art; there he was awarded a scholarship en- titling him to seven years' free tuition at the Royal Academy, but becoming dis- satisfied with the methods of instruction, he left the academy in 1882 and joined a brother who had a farm on the upper Assiniboine River, in Manitoba. Three years -- the decisive period of his life- were spent in that region, and much of the time was devoted to zoological ex- peditions, covering hundreds of miles, and to hunting trips which resulted in the ac- quirement of special renown as a wolf slayer. A series of papers contributed to the various scientific journals in 1883-84- 85, brought his name into public notice, and the volumes that grew out of them, "The Birds of Manitoba" and "The Mam- mals of Manitoba." led to his appoint- ment as government naturalist to the province. The illustrations for these and other papers added to his reputation and in 1885 the Century Company. of New York. invited Mr. Seton, or Seton-Thomp- son. for, so he signed himself for several years, to remove to that citv and aid in illustrating "The Encyclopædic Diction- ary"; more than 1,000 drawings of ani- mals and birds were made by him for this work. At the conclusion of his engage-


ment, in 1890, he sailed for Europe, and became a pupil of Henry Mosler, in Paris. Within a year he had painted his first pic- ture, the subject being a sleeping wolf, and this being sent to the Salon was hung on the line; to subsequent salons he con- tributed paintings and drawings of wolves, to the number of eighteen, and out of his predelection for this animal grew the nickname of "Wolf." He re- turned to America in 1892 and at the Co- lumbian Exposition, 1893, exhibited a large canvas, entitled "Awaited in Vain," which represented a wolf triumph over man. During 1893 he visited New Mexi- co, and there distinguished himself by killing a famous wolf which for years had thwarted the effort of other hunters to take his head. A story based on this experience and entitled "Lobo" appeared in Scribner's Magazine in 1894, and was pronounced by leading journals to be one of the best wolf stories ever written. In 1894 he returned to Paris; studied under Gerome, Bourgereau and Ferrier, and also completed a work on the anatomy of animals from the art- ist's point of view; this represented four years' serious labor and was published in 1896 with the title "Art Anatomy of Ani- mals," and was highly praised by such artists as Lord Leighton and Gerome. Since 1896 he has resided in New York City, engaged in literary work, but from. time to time he has appeared on the lec- ture platform in all parts of the United States with unusual success. Since 1901 has conducted a Boy's Department in the Ladies Home Journal. His books have had great influence in popular- izing the study of natural history, while exciting universal admiration for their purely literary and artistic qual- ity and their fresh and sympathetic treatment of animal life. "Wild Animals I Have Known." 1898. the most popular of these, was followed by "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag," 1899; "Biography of a Grizzly," 1900; "Wild Animal Play for Children," 1900; "Pictures of Wild Ani- mals," 1901; "Lives the Hunted," 1901; "Two Little Savages," 1903; "Wood- myth and Fable," 1904. He was married in New York. June 1. 1896, to Grace, daughter of Albert Gallatin, of San Francisco, herself an artist and author. Residences, "Wyndygoul," Cos Cob. Conn., and 80 West 40th St., New York.


SETON, Grace Gallatin:


Author, bookmaker; was born at


Sacramento. Cal.,; daughter of Albert Gallatin and Nemie Rhodes. Left Cal- fornia at age of seven and was edu- cated in Detroit, Chicago (Chicago Female College) and Brooklyn (Packer Collegiate


Institute); moved to New York in 1888, where she has since resided with the ex- ception of intervals spent abroad. Dur- ing one of these, 1894-96, she began writ-


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ing for periodicals in London, Paris and New York, appearing in Quartier Latin, Paris; Ladies' Pictorial. Home Notes, and others, London. In America she was a regular contributor to the San Francisco Call and the Chronicle, often using the pen name of Dorothy Dodge; also writing for Demorest's Magazine, The Delineator, Our Animal Friends, and the New Maga- zine. In 1901-02 she contributed a series entitled "A. B. C. Zoo Sketches" to the Truth Magazine; also has written several children's stories, syndicated; in 1900 the book "A Woman Tenderfoot" was pub- lished, which previously appeared serial- ly in The Puritan, it being the result of several long trips in the Rocky Moun- tains in company with Mr. Ernest Thomp- son Seton, to whom she was married on June 1, 1896. Earliest publication ap- peared in The Mountain Echo in 1889; in 1902 a song entitled "If You were I and I were You, Sweetheart," was published by G. Schirmer, Jr., Boston, Mass. (music by Randegger). Mrs. Seton's earliest work in designing was in costumes for the stage, 1892, and the first cover design published was for The Art Anatomy of Animals, 1896. A list of books for which she has done the designs for cover, title page, make-up and general supervision, in which she has followed original meth- ods and been successful in a field hitherto undeveloped, are as follows: "Art Anat- omy of Animals," "Wild Animals I Have Known," "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag," "Biography of a Grizzly," "The Wild Animal Play," "A Woman Tenderfoot," "Lives of the Hunted," "Pictures of Wild Animals," "Two Little Savages," "Woodmyth and Fable." Since 1900 she has given readings and talks on animals and book subjects She is president of the Pen and Brush, a club composed of women writers, painters and sculptors, 1899-01, 1902-04; New York delegate of the League of American Pen Women, 1902-1904; member of the Women's Press Club of New York City, the Wednesday Afternoon Club, the National Arts Club; also member of the advisory board of the School of Applied Design for Women; of the governing board Connecticut council of the Sequoya League; the Edwina Free Kindergarten; the National Arts Theatre; director of the Woman's Traveling Ex- change. Residences, "Wyndygoul," Cos Cob. Conn., and 80 West 40th St., New York.


SETON, Henry:


Major, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York. Captain, Fifty- fourth New York Infantry, April 16, 1864; honorably mustered out. April 14. 18 second lieutenant, Fourth Infantry, May 11, 1866; first lieutenant, May 17. 1872; captain, Jan. 3, 1885; major, Twelfth In- fantry. Dec. 23, 1898; retired, Oct. 10, 1899. Address, Phoenix, Ariz.


SEVER, George Francis:


Electrical engineer; born in Cambridge, Mass., July 30, 1866; he was educated at private schools in Cambridge and at the High School of that city; later took the electrical course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the class of 1887. In 1887 he became connected with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, at Lynn, Mass., from which, after two years' service, he was transferred to the Thomson Electric Welding Company; dur- ing the year 1890 he returned to the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, and afterwards became assistant superinten- dent of the Germania Electric Company, of Marlboro, Mass. In 1892 he was en- gaged in installation and construction work in the railway department of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and the General Electric Company, and from 1893 to 1900 he was instructor in electrical engineering at Columbia University. In April, 1898, he established the Montauk Point Coast Signal Station, and remained there until Aug., 1898; he was honorably discharged from the United States Navy on Aug. 1, 1899; in Aug., 1902, he was made consulting electrical engineer of the department of water supply, gas and electricity of New York City, which posi- tion he still holds. He was superinten-


dent of the department of electrical ex- hibits of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo during 1900 and 1901; he is pres- ident of the electrical section of the American Institute of the City of New York, vice-president of the American In- stitute of Electrical Engineers, member of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, and adjunct profes- sor in electrical engineering of Columbia University, New York City. He has writ- ten a number of papers on electric power, among these "Break Down Tests on Rail- way Line Material," "The Comparative Value of the Rheostat and Series-Parallel Method of Control," "The Compound Dynamo," "The Use of Electric Power in the Working and Welding of Metals," "The Design of Dynamos," "Effect of Temperature on Insulating Materials," "Power Consumption of the Lenox Ave- nue Conduit Electric Road of New York City," "The Work of the United States Coast Signal-Service During the War with Spain," "Operative Cost of Electric and Horse Delivery Service in New York City," and "Power Consumption of Ele- ' vators Operated by Alternating and Di- rect Current Motors." Address, 13 Park Row, New York.


SEVERANCE, Frank Hayward:


Writer, secretary, Buffalo Historical So- ciety, lecturer on history. Born Manches- ter, Mass., Nov. 28, 1856; son of Lucius Warren and Maria Lucretia (Hayward) Severance; attended Union School, State Normal School, Whitewater, Wis .; learned the printer's trade; Knox College, Gales-


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burg, Ill. (one year); graduated (degree of Bachelor of Science) Cornell Univer- sity, 1879. Reporter and city editor, Ga- zette, Erie, Pa., 1879-81; reporter and city editor, Buffalo Express, 1881-85; managing editor Illustrated Buffalo Ex- press, 1886-1902; editor of volumes IV., V. and VI, Buffalo Historical Society Publi- cations; editor and author, "Gilbert Fam- ily Captivity," and other narratives of Indian Warfare, 1904; author "Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier," first edition, 1899; second edition, 1902. Contributor to American Library Association's An- notated Bibliography of American His- tory. 1901; to the Encyclopedia Ameri- cana, 1903-04; author of "Bibliography of the Niagara Region," 1902-03. Has trav- eled extensively; around the world, 1890- 91. Married at Isle la Motte, Vt., Aug. 19, 1885, Lena Lilian Hill. Has three children. Residence, 150 Jewett Ave .; of- fice, Historical Building, Delaware Park, Buffalo, N. Y.


SEWARD, Frederick W .:


Lawyer; born at Auburn, N. Y., July 8. 1830; son of Hon. William H. and Fran- ces A. (Miller) Seward; educated at the public schools of Auburn, and Union Col- lege, Schenectady, where he was gradu- ated in 1849; studied law with Judges Kent and Davies in New York; admitted to bar, 1851; became associate editor and later one of the proprietors of the Albany Evening Journal. In 1861 he was sent from Washington to Philadelphia to warn President Lincoln of a plot to assassinate him in Baltimore; was appointed Assist- ant Secretary of State, and held that of fice during the administrations of Presi- dents Lincoln and Johnson. Was attacked and nearly murdered on the night of April 14, 1865, when Booth murdered President Lincoln. His chief diplomatic work during Johnson's administration was aiding purchase of Alaska; new treaty with China, and the Panama Canal; retired from office, 1869; 1874, was elected to the New York Legislature and had charge of the bill for the first ele- vated railroad in New York City; 1881, was one of the commissioners in behalf of the State to participate in the York- town Centennial. In 1891 he published a biography of W. H. Seward in three volumes; 1894, "Journal of a West India Cruise." .President of Sagaponack Realty Company, of Union College Alumni Asso- ciation (1900); and the Society of the Cay- ugas (1902). Member of International Ar- bitration Conference at Washington, Jan., 1904. Address, Montrose, N. Y.


SEWARD, George Frederick:


Insurance president; was born in Flori- da, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1840; educated at Sew- ard Institute and Union College. Married Kate Sherman. daughter of Isaac Sher- man, of Ohio and California, and has one


son and three daughters. Consul at Shanghai, 1861-1863; consul-general, 1863- 76; minister to Corea, 1869; minister to China, 1876-80; special mission to Siam, 1867; president North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1865-67; since 1893 president of The Fidelity and Casulty Company, of New York; vice-president Willson Aluminum Company, of New York. Member American Geographical Society, American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Institute of Civics, American Electro-Chemical So- ciety, American Scenic and Historic Pres- ervation Society, American Peace Society, Authors Club of New York, Chamber of Commerce . (chairman of committee on taxation), Civil Service Reform Associa- tion, New England Society of Orange, N. J., Historical Society of New Jersey, Na- tional Municipal League, Lawyers Club of New York, Patria Club of New York, Re- form Club of New York, Sons of the Rev- olution, Union College Alumni Associa- tion of New York; trustee of Union Col- lege; LL.D. of Union College; holds decor- ation of Danish government (Commander of Danebrog) and of French government (Commander of the Dragon of Annam). Author of "Chinese Immigration in Its Social and Economic Aspects" (Scribner's, 1881); "Digest of Taxation System of New York,' and of various papers on economic, social and political topics. Ad- dress, 99 Cedar St., New York.


SEWARD, William:


Colonel and brevet brigadier-general, National Guard New York (retired); born in New Hackensack, Dutchess County, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1837; son of William Sew- ard and Catharine Charlock; educated at public and high schools; came to New York City, 1856, and entered into mercan- tile business. Joined Company E, Sev- enth Regiment, as private, Oct., 1858; commissioned first lieutenant while in service of United States, 1862; served in Civil War during years of 1861-62-63; ap- pointed adjutant, Ninth Regiment, 1866; elected major, Ninth Regiment, 1868; ap- pointed assistant adjutant-general, Third Brigade, April, 1870; colonel by brevet, Jan., 1879; colonel, Ninth Regiment, April, 1882; brigadier-general by brevet, May, 1898. Retired at own request after thirty- eight and one-half years' service, May, 1898. Member of Lafayette Post, G. A. R., No. 140, since 1882. Address, 150 Nassau St., New York.


SEWARD, William H .:


Soldier and banker; was born June 18, 1839, at Auburn, N. Y., in the homestead erected in 1816 by his maternal grand- father, Judge Elijah Miller, now known as the "Seward Mansion." He was the third and youngest son of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and of Frances A. Seward. In 1857, desiring to support him-


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self and gain a business knowledge, he secured a clerkship in a large hardware store in Albany, where he remained two years. In 1859 he relinquished his clerk- ship to become the private secretary of his father, then a United States Senator in Washington; here he made the personal acquaintance of many of the most dis- tinguished public men of that day. In June, 1869, married Miss Janet M. Wat- son, and to them have been born three children, Cornelia, wife of Frederick I. Allen, attorney and counsellor-at-law, and now U. S. commissioner of patents; Wil- liam H Seward, Jr., attorney of the firm of Underwood, Storke & Seward, and Miss Frances Janet. During this year, in connection with his early friend, Clinton D. MacDougall, he projected and organ- ized, in Auburn, N. Y., the banking house of William H. Seward & Co. Early in 1862 he was appointed by Governor Mor- gan one of the war committee of his Con- gressional district, of which committee he was made secretary; during this sum- mer he was engaged in enlisting and for- warding troops. In August. leaving his business interests in trustworthy hands, he accepted the appointment of lieuten- ant-colonel of the regiment then organiz- ing, the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth N. Y. Volunteers, soon afterward changed to Ninth N. Y. Heavy Artillery; in Sept., 1862, his regiment was first assigned to duty in Haskins' division, Twenty-second Army Corps, defences of Washington, where, under the direction of the engi- neers department. Lieutenant-Colonel Seward took an active part in the con- struction of several of the large forts north of the Potomac; among them, and the most important, was Fort Foote, at Rosier's Bluff, where he mounted and used the largest land ordnance then known to the service. . This fort is one of the few of these historic land marks of the Rebellion still standing. In the spring of 1863, Lieutenant-Colonel Seward was sent by President Lincoln, under the di- rection of the War Department, on a deli- cate secret mission to New Orleans and to General Banks, then operating on the Bayou Teche in Louisiana; this service was satisfactorily accomplished, but not without much danger and hardship. In May, 1864, the Ninth Artillery, under Colonel Seward's command, he having been promoted to colonel, joined the Army of the Potomac at Hanover Court House and became a part of the Second Brigade, Rickett's Third Division, Wright's Sixth Army Corps, under General Grant. From this time forward he participated in many of the engagements around Petersburg and Richmond, among which was the battle of Cold Harbor, where he led in person a successful assault on the rebel earthworks in front of his command with a loss to his regiment of 142 killed and wounded; for gallant service in this en- gagement General Rickett's division re-


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ceived especial commendation from Gen- eral Meade. On July 6, with one battalion, four companies of his regiment, Colonel Seward was hurriedly sent, with part of Rickett's division, to Frederick, Md., to oppose General Early, who was advancing upon Baltimore and Washington. At the battle of Monocacy, which took place July 9, and proved to be one of the most obstinately contested battles of the war, lasting most of the day, he was wounded in the arm and sustained a broken leg by the fall of his horse, shot under him on the final charge. General Lew Wallace, in command of the Union forces, in a dis- patch to Washington, reported Colonel Seward "as having acted with rare gal- lantry." Soon after his services were emphasized by an autograph letter from Secretary of War Stanton, inclosing his appointment as brigadier-general of Vol- · unteers for "gallant and meritorious ser -. vices." As soon as his wounds permitted he was sent to Martinsburgh in command of the First Brigade, Third Division, De- partment of West Virginia, then operat- ing in the Shenandoah Valley, and for a short time, after the capture of General Crook, he was in command of the same division at Harper's Ferry. His military service ended with his resignation at the close of the war, when he resumed the place at the head of his banking house, which, through his energy and foresight, is now, after a prosperous existence of more than forty years, recognized as one of the strongest institutions of the kind in Western New York. General Seward has been for many years and still is con- nected with many business and charitable institutions in Auburn and elsewhere; was one of the promoters and builders of the Southern Central Railroad. now a part of the Lehigh Valley Railroad system, and acted as its financial officer for sev- eral years. He is an active director of the American Express Company; presi- dent of the Cayuga County Historical Society; was president of the City Club of Auburn for many years; president of the Auburn City Hospital, and president of the Cayuga County Savings Bank; vice-president of Wells College, at Aurora, N. Y .; member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Loyal Legion; and of the Union League Club; also of the Trans- portation Club of New York; of the United States Service Club and of the Sons of the Revolution, by descent from Colonel John Seward; he is also a fellow in the American Geographical So- ciety. Several years ago General Seward established in Auburn, and has since con- ducted at his own expense, Free Reading Rooms for Workingmen, which have rap- idly grown in popularity, until the aver- age attendance each season reached forty thousand. In politics General Seward has always been an active, enthusiastic and generous adherent of the Republican party. While frequently mentioned by


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his friends for political honors, he has usually declined, preferring a business life to the perplexities and obligations of a political career; in 1884, was a promi- nent candidate for governor at the Sara- toga Convention and was earnestly pressed for that position by his party associates and friends. He has twice been nominated an elector-at-large on the Re- publican State Presidential ticket, and was made president of the Electoral Col- lege at its session in Albany in 1889 by the unanimous choice of his associates. Address, Auburn, N. Y.


SEXTON, Pliny Titus:


Lawyer and banker; born at Palmyra, N. Y., June 12, 1840; son of Pliny and Hannah Sexton; educated in private schools, Palmyra Classical Union School, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., and graduated at the State and National Law School, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1859, with the degree of LL.B .; admitted to the bar of New York in 1861, and to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1882. President of the First National Bank of Palmyra since 1876; president of the Village of Pal- myra, 1879-83, and of its board of educa- tion. 1883-89; Republican candidate for treasurer of the State of New York in 1883; elected regent (for life) of the Uni- versity of the State of New York in 1890; honorary chancellor of Union University, Schenectady, N. Y., and- received degree of LL.D. in 1893. Member of American Library Association, New York State Bar Association and American Bar Associa- tion. Address, Palmyra, N. Y.




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