Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 118

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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SLADE, Mrs. William Gerry:

Philanthropist; born Emma Maleen Hardy, in Lowell, Mass., Jan. 11, 1847; married Feb. 22, 1871, in New York City, to William Gerry Slade. She was the daughter of Walter Hardy and Ruth M. Clark, Samuel Hardy and Samuel Clark, the paternal and maternal grandparents, being both in Lowell, Mass., when it be- came a city-the latter being a town of- ficer and a representative to the Gen- eral Court from Lowell-the former be- ing captain of a militia company. The

lineal ancestors of these were William Clark and Thomas Hardy who came over with Governor Winthrop to Salem in 1630, and were two of the original thirteen sent by him with Winthrop, junior, to settle Ipswich. Mass .. in 1633. Mrs. Slade was the founder and organizer of the National Society of New England Women and its first and fourth president. Was the re- organizer and the president in 1903 for twelve years- of both the National So- ciety of United States Daughters of 1812. of the New York State Division of the same society and its organizer for the New England States. She was instru- mental in securing for that society its: National Incorporation. Was on the board of the Blue Anchor Society and of the J. Hood Wright Hospital, and of the. Ladies' Auxiliary of the Flower Hospital. Was chairman for the National Society of New England Women in its work for the families of the enlisted men during the Spanish-American War-the society having headquarters in the Ninth Regi- ment Armory during that time. Is on the Executive Board of the American Flag Association. is a General Councillor on the Executive Board of the National So- ciety of the Daughters and Founders and Patriots of America. Is a trustee of Post Parliament and founder, president, and originator of the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry. Was a member in the Womans National Relief Association, the Womans Relief Association. Squad- ron A Relief Association. during the last war, also member Clio. Vassar's Student Aid Association. Santa Clara League, Stonv Wolde Association. Rutgers League. George Junior Republic Auxiliary. the Daughters of the Revolution, and the two Sunshine Societies. In 1903. besides the above mentioned. is a member of the Prison Shin Martyrs Association. Wo- mans Luncheon Club. Mary Washington Memorial Association. Floral Emblem So- ciety. Mary Washington Colonial Chap- ter. Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. Old Planters Society of Massachu- setts. New York Genealogical and Bio- graphical Society. Womans Auxiliary to the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A .. Womans Auxiliary of the Ameri- can Scenic and Historic Preservation So- ciety. Ipswich Historical Society. Socie- ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. Amsterdam Whist Club, Little. Mothers Aid Association, New York His- torical Society and the National Socie- tv of the Colonial Dames of America. Womans Club. A charter member of the- George Washington Memorial Association, New England Genealogical Society and National Genealogical Society. Mrs. Slade has one child, a. daughter. Harriet Slade, the wife of William Murray Crombie. Address, 332 West 87th St., New York.

SLAMM, Charles W .:

Pay inspector, U. S. Navy; born in New York; appointed an acting assist- ant paymaster, Nov. 4, 1862; Mississippi

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ing and bridge erection, being engaged in the design and construction of some of the first shops of the Pittsburg and Home- stead rolling mills, on various iron and steel bridges. In 1880 was assistant engi- neer to the contractor and to the chief engineer on the reconstruction of the

famous Niagara suspension railroad bridge; then became successively engineer for the . Delaware Bridge Company on erection of bridges, and in charge of shops for the New Jersey Steel & Iron Company. After three years resigned lat- ter position to be assistant to chief engi- neer of Dominion Bridge Company. Mon- treal. Designed the St. Johns 460-foot railroad cantilever bridge, the third larg- est cantilever in America and the first in Canada; remained there in charge of de- sign until he was made engineer in charge of bridge construction in shops and mills for St. Paul & Northern Pacific Railroad, and built several important bridges for them, one being across the Mississippi River; was assistant engineer on Wash- ington arch bridge, New York City. For several vears has been associate editor of The Engineering Record, specially con- nected with bridge and building work,

contracting, erection and construction work; also practices as consulting and ex- pert constructional engineer on steel work, foundations. erection and contractors' op- erations. Since 1898 has been non-resi- dent lecturer at Cornell University in charge of course in field engineering. and has lectured on same subjects at Yale, Harvard, Columbia. Rensselaer. Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University and Princeton, and other engi- neering colleges, besides delivering popu- lar lectures on great engineering opera- tions and achievements in New York, Boston, Chicago and elsewhere. Is a con- tributor of engineering and semi-technical articles to the Century Magazine, Har- per's Weekly and other periodicals; also to London Engineer, and to different tech- nical societies. Is the author of a series of books on types and details of bridge construction. He is a member of the Am- erican Society of Civil Engineers; honor- arv member of Connecticut Association of Civil Engineers; member of Association of Civil Engineers of Cornell University. Residence, New Brighton, S. I .; office, 114 Liberty St., New York.

SLADE, Mrs. William Gerry:

war, also member Clio. Vassar's Student Aid Association. Santa Clara League, Stony Wolde Association. Rutgers League. George Junior Republic Auxiliary. the Daughters of the Revolution. and the two Sunshine Societies. In 1903. besides the above mentioned. is a member of the Prison Shin Martyrs Association. Wo- mans Luncheon Club. Mary Washington Memorial Association. Floral Emblem So- ciety. Mary Washington Colonial Chap- ter. Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. Old Planters Societ- of Massachu- setts. New York Genealogical and Bio -. graphical Society. Womans Auxiliary to. the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A., Womans Auxiliary of the Ameri- can Scenic and Historic Preservation So- ciety. Ipswich Historical Society. Socie- ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. Amsterdam Whist Club, Little- Mothers Aid Association, New York His- torical Society and the National Socie- tv of the Colonial Dames of America. Womans Club. A charter member of the George Washington Memorial Association. New England Genealogical Society and National Genealogical Society. Mrs. Slade has one child, a. daughter. Harriet Slade, the wife of William Murray Crombie. Address, 332 West 87th St., New York.

SLAMM, Charles W .:

Pay inspector, U. S. Navy; born in New York; appointed an acting assist- ant paymaster, Nov. 4, 1862; Mississippi

Squadron, 1864-65. Commissioneu as passed assistant paymaster, March 22,

1867; bureau of provisions, 1869; S. S. Frolic, 1869-70; Canandaigua, North At- lantic Station. 1872; leave in Europe, 1873-74; Ashuelot Asiatic Station, 1876- 78. Commissioned as paymaster, 1877; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1878-81; Kearsarge, European Station, 1884-86; special duty, New York, 1887; receiving-ship Minne- sota, 1887; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 1888, to Nov., 1891; waiting orders, Nov., 1891, to Jan., 1892; Charleston, special service squadron, Jan., 1892-95; leave of ab- sence, April 1895; U. S. receiving-ship Wabash, Oct., 1895, to May .1898. Pro- moted pay inspector, March 15, 1898; re- tired April 22, 1899. Address, 3215 Mount Vernon St., Philadelphia, Pa.

SLEICHER, John A .:

Editor-in-chief of Leslie's Weekly, the. oldest illustrated newspaper in the United States, published by the Judge Company, in the Parker Building, 225 Fourth Ave- nue, New York City. Mr. Sleicher is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Judge Company He was born in Troy, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1848, and is the son of the late William Sleicher. He was educated at the Troy High School and was married in 1873 to Miss Ella S. Peckham of Troy. He was successive- ly city editor of the Troy Whig, Troy Press, and Troy Times; part proprietor of the Troy Times; agent at New York of the New York State Associated Press; proprietor of the Schenectady Union; ed- itor-in-chief and part owner of the Al- bany Evening Journal; and editor-in-chief of the New York Mail and Express. He was for several years a member of the State Civil Service Commission. Resi- dence, Holland House, New York.

SLICHTER, Walter Irvine:

Electrical engineer: born at St. Paul Minn .. 1873. Educated in the public schools of New York City, College of the City of New York. After spending two years. in travel and study abroad, en. tered Columbia . University School O

Mines in the Electrical Engineering course and graduated as E. E. in 1896 Entered the employ of the Genera Electric Company at Schenectady, served one year in the shops and then as assist- ant to Professor C. P. Steinmetz; spent six years in the design and development of alternating current apparatus particu- larly in its application to railway work. Associate of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers since 1899, and full member 1903. Junior member of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers, 1902. Contributed papers to these societies and to the technical press. Member of Columbia University and Theta Delta Chi Graduate Clubs of New York, and president General Electric En- gineering Society, 1903. Address, Schen- ectady N. Y. 19

SLOANE, John:

Carpet merchant; president W. & J. Sloane; director Bigelow Carpet Com- pany, Second National Bank, Equitable Life Assurance Society, Hudson Trust Company, Morton Trust Company, Bank of Manhattan, and East River Gas Com- pany. Member of Metropolitan, Union League, Aldine, and New York Yacht Clubs. Address, 884 Broadway; residence, 883 Fifth Ave.

SLOANE, John J .:

Democratic Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly district of Westches-

iment he participated in the siege of infantry. With his reg-

Yorktown, march up the peninsula, battle

of Gaines Mills, June 27, 1862, retreat to

the James river, and engagements at White Oak Swamp, the Charles City

Cross-roads, and also the battle of Mal-

vern Hill. Retreating from the peninsu- la he took part in the second battle of Bull Run and battles of South Mountain and Antietam; also Fredericksburg. Ow- ing to sickness he was not present with

his regiment at Chancellorsville and Get-

draft riots in New York, and again pro- tysburg, but joined it at the time of the

ceeded to the field and took part in the

campaign of Mine Run.' He was ap- pointed Division Inspector, First Division, Fifth Army Corps, bv General Charles Griffin in April, 1864, and took part in the battle of the Wilderness during which

he was wounded by a shell carrying off

his right foot, causing amputation of the leg below the knee. Recruiting service in New York City and mustering and disbur- sing service in Washington, D. C., until Aug., 1865, when he joined his regiment at

Hart Island, New York, and in Oct., 1865, proceeded to San Francisco with it. De- cember, 1865, appointed inspector-general of the Department of California on the staff of General Irvin McDowell.

May 26, 1866, aide-de-camp of the mili- tary division of the Pacific on the staff of Major-General H. W. Halleck, and af- terwards acting assistant adjutant-gen- eral on the staff of Major-General George H. Thomas and aide-de-camp to Major

Jolın M. Schofield until Dec., 18:0, when

he was retired from active service with the rank of captain, mounted. After re- tirement he entered into the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and afterwards of that of C. Adolph Low & Co., until 1881, when he entered upon the business of fire insurance, in which he has continued ever since. Col. Smedberg became a member of the National Guard of California in Sept., 1874, when he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel and di- vision inspector on the staff of Major- General D. W. C. Thompson. Jan. 19, 1876, he was appointed brigade inspector on the staff of Brigadier-General John McComb, Second brigade, N. G. C. Oct., 1876, elected colonel of the Second In- fantry, N. G. C., and successively re- elected in 1880 and 1884. resigning as colonel of the Second Artillery. N. G. C .. Oct., 1885. He was appointed adjutant- general of the Department of California, Grand Army of the Republic, in Feb .. 1885, and was elected department com- mander of California, G. A. R .. Feb. 19, 1886. Upon the organization of the Com- mandery of California Military Order of the Loyal Legion, U. S., May. 1871, he was elected Recorder and has been re-elected every year since and is now (Oct., 1903) in his thirty-third year of service as Re- corder. Address. 1611 Larkin St., San Francisco. Cal.

to accept the commission as first lieuten- ant in the Fourteenth United States In- fantry, with rank from May 14, 1861. He joined the regiment at Fort Trumbull, Conn., and assisted in the organization of the first battalion; moved with it to Perryville, Md .. in Oct., 1861, during which period he was adjutant of the bat- talion; promoted captain Fourteenth United States Infantry, Oct. 25, 1861; he organized his company at Perryville, Md., and in March, 1862, with it joined Sykes' division of the Army of the Potomac at Washington, D. C., and soon afterwards proceeded to Fortress Monroe with the di-

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SMITH, Addison P .:

Republican Assemblyman, representing the county of Wayne; was born in Otisco, Onondaga County, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1855, and moved with his parents, Dr. W. G. Smith and wife, to Savannah, Wayne County, N. Y., when eight years of age. He received his education at Savannah; and at the age of twenty-one years he en- gaged in the mercantile business, in which he still continues. He is secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Sa- vannah Creamery Company, with its sev- eral tributary stations, and has satis- factorily filled this position for six years. He has represented the town of Savannah in the Wayne County board of. super- visors for the last past ten consecutive years, and has held the position of chair- man of the board for the last five years. Was elected to the Assembly in 1902, and in 1903 he was appointed a member of the following Assembly committees: Internal Affairs, Affairs of Villages, and Trades and Manufactures. Address, Savannah, Wayne County, N. Y.

SMITH, Allen Macy:

Major, U. S. Army; born in and appoint- ed from New York. Assistant surgeon, June 6. 1890; major surgeon, Forty-first U. S. Volunteer Infantry Aug. 17, 1899; . honorably discharged from volunteers, June 30, 1901; major surgeon, U. S. Army, Nov. 23, 1902. Address, Fort Douglas, Utah.

SMITH, Andrew H., M.D .:

Born at Charlton, N. Y., in 1837; M. D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1858. Was assistant surgeon in Forty-third N. Y. Volunteers, 1862; attending physician to the Post-Graduate Hospital; consulting physician to St. Luke's, St. Mark's and Woman's Hospitals. Member of the Med- ical Society, Academy of Medicine and Academy of Sciences Societies; also a member of the Century, Loyal Legion, Sons of the Revolution and University Clubs. Address, 18 East 46th St., New York.

SMITH, Arthur L. J .:

Insurance journalist and publisher; born in Charleston, S. C., May 31, 1860; son of William Wragg Smith and grandson of William Loughton Smith, a representative from South Carolina in the first five Con- gresses of the United States, 1789-99. Mr. Smith received his High School edu- cation at Astoria, N. Y., and, after ser- vice as court reporter on the New York daily papers, entered the office of the Spectator Company in Sept., 1877, when seventeen years old; for the nine years following he had charge of the statistical work of that journal, being sub-editor the latter part of that period; in 1888 he. became one of the proprietors of the Spec- tator Company and its business manager

and associate editor. He is a member of the Riding and Driving and Crescent Athletic Clubs of Brooklyn, and the Un- derwriters Club and the Society of Amer- ican Authors of New York City. Resi- dence, 110 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn; office, 95 William St., New York.

SMITH, Benjamin Eli:

Editor; born in Beirut, Syria, Feb. 7, 1857; son of the Rev. Eli Smith, translator of the Bible into Arabic; was graduated from Amherst College in 1877; received the degrees of A. M. and L. H. D. On Oct. 13, 1883 he married Cora Shelton Cheeseman. He translated Schwegler's "History of Philosophy" in 1879; was the managing editor, 1889-1891, and editor since 1894 of the Century Dictionary; ed- itor of Century Cyclopedia of Names, 1894; editor of Century Atlas, 1897; trans- lated Cicero's "De Amicitia" (Lælius), 1897; edited Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac," 1893; "Selections from Marcus Aurelius," 1899; "Selections from Epicte- tus," 1899, and from Pascal, 1892. He is a member of the Century Club. Resi- dence, New Rochelle, N. Y .; office, The Century Company, New York.

SMITH, Charles B .:

Editor; born Erie County, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1870; became a reporter for the Buffa- lo Courier, 1899, holding position for one year; 1891 to 1893 legislative correspon- dent for the Buffalo Times; 1895, man- aging editor of Buffalo Times; 1897 be- came editor of Buffalo Courier and 1898 of the Enquirer, both of which positions he holds to present time. Residence, 392 Porter Ave .; office, 250 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.

SMITH, Charles Edward:

Clergyman; graduated University of Rochester, 1860; graduated Rochester Theological Seminary, 1863; pastor First Baptist Church, Pawtucket, R. I., 1863- 68; Mount Auburn Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1868-70; supply Fulton Baptist

Church, Fulton, N. Y., 1870-71; pastor

Calvary Baptist Church, New Haven,

Conn .. 1871-75; pastor First Baptist Church, Syracuse, N. Y., 1875-81; in busi- ness, 1881-85; pastor Fredonia, N. Y., 1885 to date. Author of "The Baptism in Fire" (1883); "The World Lighted" (1890). Address, Fredonia, N. Y.

SMITH, Charles S .:

Merchant; born at Exeter, N. H., March 2, 1832. He received a good education, of an elementary character, in the schools of his native town, but was withdrawn from school when fifteen years of age to begin his business life. He came to New York at this age in search of employment, which he found in a dry goods jobbing establishment. At twenty-one years of age he joined, as a partner, the house of S. B. Chittenden & Co., a prominent

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house of that period. For several years he served this firm as European buyer. Later he became member and senior partner of the dry goods commission firm of Smith, Hogg & Gardner, whose busi- ness grew to be very extensive, and which for years occupied a prominent position in the dry goods business interests of New York and Boston. He remained con- necied with it as an active member until 1887, when he withdrew. For seven years he held the position of president of the Chamber of Commerce. Politically has avoided office-holding, declining offers of nomination to the mayoralty and other posts, yet he has been warmly interested in public affairs. His attention has been particularly directed to the great problem of municipal transit and to the relation of the railroads to New York commercial needs. On this subject he has written papers and delivered addresses. His re- tirement from business in 1887 was in no sense a withdrawal from activity, but rather that he might devote more of his attention to the philanthropic, public and other movements in which his interest was enlisted, and to which he has con- tinued to give much of his time, taking a leading part in the affairs of many prominent financial institutions. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The clubs of which he is a member include the Union League, Grolier, Law- yers, Players, Merchants, and Metropoli- tan. The University of the City of New York has conferred upon him the honor- ary degree of LL. D. in recognition of his efforts in municipal reform. Address, 25 West 47th St .; office, 320 Broadway, New York.

SMITH, Charles W .:

Educator; graduated from University of Rochester, 1881; superintendent of schools for Orleans County, New York. 1884-90; teacher, department of mathematics, State Normal School, Brockport, N. Y., 1890 to date. Address, Brockport, N. Y.

SMITH, Clarence W .:

Republican Assemblyman, representing the Assembly district composed of the counties of Fulton and Hamilton, the only district in the State embracing more than one county. He was born in the town of Jay, Essex County, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1855, and was educated in the common schools and the academy at Elizabethtown, N. Y .; taught school several terms; in 1877 en- tered the. law department of Michigan University and graduated in 1879 with the degree of LL.B. He returned to his home in Jay. and in the spring of 1882 settled . at Wells, Hamilton County, N. Y. He was admitted to the bar of this State in 1883, and soon after, as the Republican candi- date, was elected county judge of Hamil- ton County, when the county was strong- ly Democratic, and served in that office for six years. In Jan., 1890, he removed to Johnstown, Fulton County, N. Y., and

commenced the practice of law there; he has remained there in the active practice of law since that time. He has always been an active Republican, and has been chairman of the Republican district com- mittee. Was elected to the Assembly in 1901 and 1902, and in 1903 was appointed a member of the following Assembly com- mittees: Codes, Fish and Game, and Re- vision. Address, Johnstown, Fulton Coun- ty, N. Y.

SMITH, Ernest Ellsworth:

Physician and chemist; born New Haven, Conn., December 20, 1867; son of Henry Ellsworth and Ellen Louise (Shares); married Lillian Irene Church, of Middletown, Conn. Educated in his native city at the Eaton Grammar and High Schools and graduated in 1888 from the course in biology of the Sheffield Sci- entific School of Yale. Till 1891 was as- sistant in physiological chemistry at Yale, publishing in conjunction with Professor R. H. Chittenden monographs on the physiological action of alcohol and the proteolysis of a vegetable proteid. In 1891 received the degree Ph. D., Yale. Till 1895 was engaged in research in chemical pathology in the private labora- tories of Dr. C. A. Herter, New York City. publishing with Dr. Herter mono- graphs on Uric Acid, Epilepsy, Intestinal Toxaemias and kindred subjects. In 1898 graduated as doctor of medicine from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College and has since practiced medicine as a special- ist in clinical pathology. Is a member of the Chemists and Yale Clubs, of the New York Academy of Medicine (secre- tary of section on medicine). American Chemical Society (councillor and director) and of other American and foreign medi- cal and scientific organizations. Is pa- thologist to St. John's Riverside Hospital (Yonkers), Trinity Hospital. and con- sulting pathologist to Somerset Hospital (Somerville. N. J.). Has appeared as a medical and chemical expert in many civil and criminal court cases. Labora- tory and residence 26 East 29th St., New York.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 118

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