Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 120

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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SOMERVILLE. Henderson Middleton:


Chairman national board customs ap- praisers since 1890; graduated University of Alabama, 1856; A. M. 1859, LL.D. 1887, University of Alabama; LL.D. George- town. Ky .. College, 1886; and Southwest- ern University, Tenn., 1887; graduated Cumberland Law School. 1859; editor Memphis, Tenn., Appeal, 1859-62; member Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee, 1872-80; founded Law School, University of Alabama, 1873; lecturer constitutional, statutory and common law, University of Alabama, 1873-80; trustee Alabama Insane Hospital. 1874-92; asso- ciate justice Supreme Court. Alabama, 1880-90; president New York Medico- Legal Society, 1892-93; member Phi Beta Kappa. 1856; New York Southern So- ciety and Alpha Delta Phi Society. Res- idence, 265 Central Park West; office, 641 Washington St., New York.


SONNAKOLB. Franklin Schuyler:


Composer, concert pianist, musical es- sayist and founder of Sonnakolb system of pianoforte employing the masterworks as a means of acquiring a finished tech- nique prefaced with invention of his own; antecedents, Amsterdam, Holland; born in Saxe-Weimer, Germany, Aug. 2. 1864; educated, private tutors, Oxford; A. B., Heidelberg; studied under Rubin- stein, von Bulow, Joseffy, Brahms and Jan Pychowsky, pupil of Chopin and


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Schmitt, pupil of Mendelsohn. Widower


since 1887. Has son, Franklin de Sansey Sonnakolb. Began concertising in ninth year and composed Romance op. I at fourteenth year. Concert tour in Europe, Australia, Canada and United States. So- loist of Camilla Urso Company, etc. Now engaged under contract with Aeolian Com- pany making interpretation of the mas- ter works by means of the "Metrostyle" for the pianola. Wrote essay entitled "The Relation of Literature to Music"; "Poe and Chopin": "Philosophy in Music." As musical editor of N. Y. Teach- ers' Magazine; has given subscription pi- ano recitals and concerts at, Steinway Hall, Carnegie Hall, Waldorf, Sherry's, Hotel Majestic, Sonnakolb Trio Club and per- sonal piano recitals at W. C. Whitney's at Bar Harbor. Mr. Vanderbilt Sloan's and Geo. Vanderbilt's at Lenox, Newport, etc., Mms. de Barrios', Wm. C. Schermerhorn's and other prominent society leaders. Com- positions reach one hundred and seventy- nine, among which are notably roman- tic lyrics for pianoforte to poems of Shakespeare, Burns, Anacreon, Heine, Goethe, Stedman, etc .; "March Hero- ique," "King Lear" for orchestra, F


minor; "Concerto," C minor; "Concert


Study in Octaves." D flat, dedicated to


Joseffy; "Fantasie Espagnole"; "Scotch


Air," , etc. Contributor to press. Resi- dence. Royalton, 44 West 44th St., New York.


SOTHERN, Edward H .:


Actor; born in London, England; son of Edward A. Sothern, the well known comedian; educated at the School of Dun- church, in Warwickshire; made his début with his father in Abbey's Park Theatre, New York, 1879; played the role of "Cap- tain Gregory" with Helen Dauvray in "One of Our Girls," 1886; appeared as Jack Hammerton under the manage- ment of Daniel Frohman in "The Highest Bidder" in 1887; has since starred under the management of Daniel Frohman in "Lord Chumley." "The Master of Wood- barrow," "The Prisoner of Zenda," "Un- der the Red Robe," "The Three Mus- keteers," and "Hamlet." He was mar- ried to Virginia Harned in 1896. Resi- dence, 34 West 69th St., New York.


SOUTHARD. George Henry:


President Franklin Trust Company; spent his boyhood in Boston, graduating in 1856 from the English High School of that city; entering at graduation upon a business life, he received his early and excellent training in his father's of- fice in Boston; in 1861, about the com- mencement of the war, when twenty years of age, he entered into the lumber business there with James & Pope, who supplied the Navy Department with lumber for shipbuilding during the war. In 1865 he removed to Newburgh, N. Y., continuing in the same business there as


a member of the firm of J. Bigler & Co .; in 1874 he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and established the lumber firm of South- ard & Co., in New York City; after having maintained for over twenty years a suc- cessful station in mercantile affairs, he, in 1887, took the important step which identified him with finance by participat- ing in the organization of the National Bank of Deposit, of which he became cashier, and in 1888, in the organization of the Franklin Trust Company of Brook- lyn, of which he became the first secre- tary and second vice-president; in 1892 he became the president of the Franklin Trust Company and continues at the present time to occupy that office, and to witness the substantial growth and prosperity of the institution. His political amhations have been with the Republican party, while his influence has made itself strongly felt on the side of good govern- ment; he was one of the organizers of the New England Society of Newburgh, and was its first secretary and after- wards a director; he is a member of the Hamilton Club, Rembrant Club, New Eng- land Society of Brooklyn, the Union League Club, the Down Town Association, the New England Society of New York, and the Chamber of Commerce of New York; in 1880 he became a director of the Maritime Exchange and a member of its finance committee; in philanthropic and ecclesiastical affairs he has rendered unostentatious and substantial service as a trustee of the Brooklyn Hospital, a member of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, a member and officer of the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, a trustee of the Brooklyn Presbytery and a director of the Union Theological Seminary of New York. Address, Montague and Clinton Sts., Brooklyn, N. Y.


SOUTHWICK. Albert Plympton:


Author; was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 11, 1855; son of John S. and Louisa R. Southwick. He was graduated from the seminary at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and spent two years at col- lege and two years at the U. S. Naval Academy. Has been engaged as an edu- cator and in literary work since 1873; has published several of his works himself under the style of the Mine Publishing Company. Is the author of the "Dime Series of Question Books" (twenty num- bers), 1880-83; "Short Studies in Litera- ture," 1883; Quizzism and Its Key," in 1884; "Handy Helps," 1886; "Quiz Man- ual of Teaching," .1886; "Wisps of Wit and Wisdom," 1892; of fiction, "Bijou,". 1889; "The Catherwood Mystery," 1892; "A Fact in Fiction," 1893; "Brown, the Lawyer," 1893. Is a contributor of short stories to magazines, and has written and composed many songs. Has written a play entitled "A Man of Honor," and a comic opera, "The Shepherd Girl." Has


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done much editorial work on educational journals and the daily press. Address, 48 Madison St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


SOUTHWICK, George N .:


Member of Congress; Republican, of Albany; was born at 55 Ten Broeck street, Albany. N. Y., his present resi- dence, March 7, 1863; his parents were Henry C. and Margaret J. Southwick; his early education was acquired at the pri- vate school of Mrs. Marvin, on Clinton avenue, Albany, and later at Public School No. 6, on Second street, in that city; entered the Albany High School in 1875. whence he was graduated in 1879; although fitted for a collegiate experi- ence, he passed a year in business affairs with his father at Chicago, and his brother at Joliet, Ill .; in the fall of 1880 he entered Williams College, whence he was graduated in 1884; at the commence- ment exercises of that year his oratorical ability was recognized by his classmates in his selection as pipe orator, and by the faculty in being chosen as one of the Graves prize orators; he entered the Al- bany Law School, but financial reverses compelled him to seek active business life, and early in 1885 he entered the ser- vice of the Albany Morning Express, in both an editorial and a reportorial ca- pacity; he also represented the Associated Press as reporter of preceedings in the Senate and Assembly during the legisla- tive sessions of 1886, 1887 and 1888; in the last-mentioned year he became man- aging editor of the Morning Express, and early in 1889 of the Albany Evening Journal. His literary activity has ex- tended beyond the field of the daily pa- pers, with which he has been connected as editor, reporter, or correspondent; he has been an occasional contributor to the columns of the magazines, among others the North American Review. He is un- married. His political career began in the campaign of 1884, with voluntary con- tributions of editorial articles to the Albany Morning Express in the interest of James G. Blaine and the Republican and American system of protection to American labor and American industry; in 1888 he stumped Albany County for Benjamin Harrison and Republican prin- ciples, and since that year his voice has been heard on the stump throughout the State of New York at every recurring election in the interest of the Republican party; in 1892 he sought the Republican. nomination for Congress in the Albany district, but was deterred by factious dir- ferences which existed within party lines; in 1894 he secured the Congressional nom- ination after a hard fight, and won at the election, defeating Charles Tracey by a majority of 1,640; in 1896 was re-elected to Congress, defeating Thomas F. Wil- kinson by a majority of 4,705; in March, 1896, he presided as permanent chairman over the stormy scenes of the Republican State Convention in the city of New


York, which selected delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention in favor of the nomination of Levi P. Morton; in 1898 he was again a candidate for Con- gress, but was defeated by Martin H. Glynn by a majority of 551; in 1900 Mr. Southwick and Mr. Glynn were again the contestants, the former winning, be- ing elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress. Address, 55 Ten Broeck St., Albany, N. Y.


SPENCER, Andrew:


Teacher and lawyer; born in Milford, N. Y .. Dec. 10. 1863; married Minerva E. Bowe, 1884. Preliminary education at Cooperstown High School and Hartwick Seminary; graduated at Cornell Univer- sity, 1888; vice-president of graduating class: received $1,200 in prizes during col- lege course; elected member of Phi Beta Kappa Society; principal New York State Schools at Maryland, 1889; Sharon Springs, 1890; Hamburg, 1891 and 1892; elected superintendent of schools at Sala- manca, 1892; superintendent of schools, U. S. Indian Service, at Eastern Chero- kee, N. C., 1893; at Mt. Pleasant Michi- gan, 1894 to 1897, inclusive; attended Al- bany Law School, 1898. Practiced law at Milford, N. Y., 1899 to date; president Bryan Club of Milford, 1902; clerk of board of supervisors of Otsego County, 1902 to date. Address, Milford, N. Y.


SPENCER, Creighton:


Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born in Tarrytown, N. Y .; graduated, Colum- bia College, 1884; General Theological Seminary, 1887; ordained, 1887. Married Joanna Livingston Mesier, daughter of Henry Mesier. Formerly rector of St. George's Church. Hempstead, L. I .; at present rector of Christ Church, Tarry- town, N. Y. Address, Christ Church, Tarrytown, N. Y.


SPENCER, Samuel:


Capitalist; president Southern Railway Co., Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co., Cin- cinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company, Alabama Great South- ern Railroad Company, and other compan- ies in Southern Railway system. Director Erie, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and Northern Pacific Railway Companies, and in Standard Trust Company of New York, Western Union Telegraph Company. Address. 80 Broadway, New York.


SPERRY, Charles Stillman:


Captain, U. S. Navy; born in New York; entered Naval Academy Sept. 27, 1862; U. S. S. Sacramento. 1866-67; pro- moted to ensign, April, 1868; ordnance duty, Boston, 1868; Kearsarge, Pacific Fleet, 1868-70; promoted to master, March 26, 1869; commissioned as lieutenant, March 21. 1870; Worcester, flagship, North Atlantic Fleet, 1871-74; Naval Academy, 1874-78; Richmond, Astatic Station, 1878-81; Naval Academy, 1881-84;


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Quinnebaug, European Station, 1884-87; promoted to lieutenant commander, March. 1885; Naval Academy, 1887 to July, 1891; Chicago, Squadron of Evolu- tion and South American Station, July, 1891, to May, 1893; bureau of ordnance, May, 1893, to July, 1895; promoted to commander, July. 1894; New York Navy Yard, July, 1895, to Nov., 1898; command- ing Yorktown Nov. 21, 1898, to June, 1900; promoted to captain, July 1, 1900; commanding New Orleans, Feb. 4, 1901, to 1903; president Naval War College, June 2. 1903. Address, Naval War Col- lege, Narragansett Bay, R. I.


SPEYERS, Arthur Bayard:


Commander, U. S. Navy; born in New York; entered Naval Academy, June 23, 1863; graduated, 1868; North Atlantic Fleet, 1868-69; promoted to ensign, 1869; Benicia, Asiatic Station, 1869-72; pro- moted to master, 1870; Kansas, North Atlantic Station. 1873-74; commissioned as lieutenant. 1874; Richmond, Southern Pacific Station. 1874-77; Naval Academy, 1877-81: training-ship Saratoga, 1881-84; Navy Yard, New York. 1884-86; Chicago, special service, 1886-87; Galena, North Atlantic Station, 1887-90; training-ship Minnesota. Oct., 1890, to July, 1893; York- town, Pacific Station, July, 1893, to 1894; waiting orders. June, 1894; receiving-ship Richmond, Oct .. 1894; Bennington, May, 1895; commissioned as lieutenant-com- mander, Dec .. 1895; Monterey. Jan., 1897; waiting orders, July. 1897: Navy Yard, New York, Aug .. 1897. to May, 1898: or- dered to the U. S. S. Kingston, May, 1898; Navy Yard. New York. Dec. 13, 1898. to 1900. Promoted to commander, March 3. 1899; Naval Station, Cavite. June, 1901, to 1903. Address, Navy Yard, New York.


SPEYER, James:


Banker; born in New York in. 1861. After receiving his education at Frank- fort-on-Main, began business career in his father's banking house in Frankfort. He then went to Paris and London and in 1885 returned to New York. He is now the senior partner of the New York house. as well as a partner in the Frankfort House and its European branches. In Nov., 1897, he married Ellin L. Prince (Mrs. John A. Lowery). daughter of the late John Dyneley Prince and Mary Trav- ers. Mrs. Speyer is treasurer of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association; president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the University Set- tlement Society, and a member of the Board of Managers of the Loomis Sani- tarium for Consumptives. Mr. Speyer has taken a prominent part in philanthropic work; is a trustee of Teachers College; treasurer and one of the founders of the Provident Loan Society. and treasurer of the University Settlement Society. Is a, trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and a director in many promi-


nent financial institutions. He is a mem- ber of the City. Manhattan, Players, Lotos. Racquet, Reform, Lawyers, Whist, City, Midday, and New York Yacht Clubs, and of the Deutscher Verein. Address, 257 Madison Ave., New York.


SPIER, Charles L .:


Engineer; born at Jersey City Heights, N. J., 1866. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers, New York Railroad Club, Richmond County Country Club, Staten Island Chamber of Com- merce; president of Staten Island Midland Railroad Company. New York Improve- ment and Investment Company; vice- president of New Jersey and Staten Island Ferry Company, West End and Long Branch Railway Company; secre- tary and treasurer of Richmond Light and Railroad Company, Richmond Bor- ough Company, Asbury Park and Sea Girt Railroad Company. Seashore Electric Railway Company; director of Southfield Beach Railroad Company, Richmond County Power Company, Manilla Anchor Brewing Company. Address, Jersey City, N. J.


SPIES, Albert:


Editor; born in New York in 1862; re- ceived degree of mechanical engineer from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1881; since then closely identified with advanced technical journalism, both as editor and contributor of numerous pa- pers on engineering topics. Since 1893,


editor of Cassier's Magazine of illus- trated engineering: under his editorial supervision also were published "The Life and Inventions of Edison." and "The Harnessing of Niagara." Member of the Reform Club. the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. and the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Address, 3 West 29th St .. New York.


SPRAGUE, Charles Ezra:


Linguist. accountant, banker; born in Nassau, N. Y .. Oct, 9, 1842: son of Ezra and Elisabeth B. Sprague. He was grad- uated from Union College in 1860. with the degrees of A. M. and Ph.D. On April 2, 1866. was married to Ray Ellison. Served in the Union army during the civil war, receiving the brevet of colonel, being wounded and disabled at the battle of Get- tysburg. Is a certified public accountant under the law of 1896; was president of the board of examiners for public ac- countants; connected for thirty years with and now president of the Union Dime Savings Institution of New York; pro- fessor of the theory of accounts, New York University, 1900; president Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, 1901-03; has invent- ed numerous devices and systems for use in savings banks and in bookkeeping. Au- thor of "Handbook of Volapük," 1888, and also of many articles on language and


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bookkeeping. He was the first American advocate of Volapük. Residence, 116 W. 75th St .; office, 54 W. 32d St., New York.


SPRAGUE, Frank J .:


Electrical engineer and inventor; born in Millford, Conn., July 25, 1857; edu- cated at North Adams, Mass., and United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, from which he was graduted in 1878; was then ordered to the U. S. man-of-war Rich- mond, flagship, in Chinese waters; during the voyage pursued electrical studies that had been begun some years before; 1880, was ordered home, promoted, and carried on electrical work at the Brook- lyn Navy Yord; 1881, ordered to the Med- iterranean in the Lancaster. The follow- ing year the government detailed him for duty at the Crystal palace electrical exhibition, and he was made secretary of the station; he resigned from the Navy and entered the employ of Thomas A. Edison; exhibited the Sprague motors for the first time at the Philadelphia electri- cal exhibition; he then set to work upon the difficulties of elevated railway trac- tion and made some striking demonstra- tions in New York; he made an interest- ing exhibition of railway inventions at the Paris Exposition in 1889; in 1892 was elected president of the American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers; member of University, City, New York, and National Arts Clubs. Address, 20 Broad St., New York.


SPRING, Alfred:


Jurist; he was born in Franklinville, N. Y., Feb 19, 1851; son of Samuel S. Spring, a lawyer of prominence and coun- ty judge of Cattaraugus County at the time of his death in 1875. He attended the. Ten Broeck Free Academy, graduat- ing in 1870, and was in the literary de- partment of Michigan University for two years; he read law in his father's office for three years, and during that time taught district school for two winters; he was admitted to practice in October, 1875 and at once opened an office in his native village, where he has since resided. He was elected supervisor of Franklinville in 1876; was elected surrogate of Cattarau- gus County in 1879 and re-elected in 1885, holding the office twelve years; in Jan., 1895, he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court by Governor Morton, and was elected in the fall of that year; in Jan., 1899, he was transferred to the Ap- pellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth department, and is still sitting in that court; he received the degree of LL.D. from Michigan University in 1901; he was married in 1877 and has three children. Address, Franklinville, N. Y.


SQUIERS, H. G.


Envoy extraordinary and minister plen- ipotentiary; educated in public school,


Canandaigua Academy, Minnesota Mili- tary Academy, Maryland Agricultural College, U. S. Artillery School; second lieutenant First Infantry, Oct. 12, 1877; expired by constitutional limitation Dec. 3, 1877; reappointed Jan. 26, 1878, with rank from Oct. 12, 1877; transferred to Seventh Cavalry, Aug. 31, 1880; first lieu- tenant of cavalry (1st), Dec. 17, 1890; transferred to Seventh Cavalry, Feb. 27, 1891; resigned. Nov. 28, 1891; graduate of Artillery School, class 1880. Chief of staff to Sir Claude MacDonald during the siege of Pekin, 1900-01; appointed second secretary of the embassy at Berlin, Nov. 15, 1894; retired, May, 1897; appointed secretary of the legation at Pekin, Jan. 10, 1898; appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Havana, Cuba, May 20, 1902.


SQUIRES, M. S.


President Dalton & Alaculsy Railroad Company; was born in Otsego County, N. Y., 1857; after finishing school, became interested in the lumber business, which occupation he has always followed; in 1897 he organized the Lestershire Lumber & Box Company, of which he is now and has always been president; in 19v1, with others, he organized the Alaculsy Lumber Company, of Dalton, Ga., of which he is now the president; a year later with others he organized the Dalton and Ala- culsy Railroad Company, of which he is the president, which railroad is now build- ing; in 1901 he organized the Endicott Lumber & Box Company, of which he is also the president. He served two terms as president of the village of Lestershire, in which place he resides. Address, Bing- hamton, N. Y.


STAMFORD, Henry Worden:


Captain, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York. Private and corporal Company A, Fourth Artillery, Sept. 13, 1881, to Sept. 12, 1886; private Company D, Twenty-third Infantry, Sept. 16, 1886, to March 2, 1889; private and sergeant, Signal Corps, Aug. 28, 1891, to June 13, 1898; second lieutenant, Signal Corps Volunteers, June 2, 1898; first lieu- tenant, June 8, 1900; honorably discharged on June 30, 1901; first lieutenant, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, Feb. 2, 1901; captain, Signal Corps, March 2, 1903. Address, Manila, P. I.


STAMPER, Willson Y .:


Captain, U. S. Army; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 18. 1856; appointed from New York; second lieutenant Twenty-first U. S. Infantry, Nov. 21, 1883; first lieu- tenant, Aug. 7, 1890; captain, Eighth In- fantry, April 26, 1898; served in Spanish- American War. Address, Fort Columbus, N. Y.


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STANDEN, Wm. T .:


Actuary of the United States Life In- surance Company of New York; was born in London, England, June 7, 1852, com- ing to the United States immediately after the completion of his education; he entered the office of D. Parks Fackler, and there studied the science of life in- surance mathematics; he has been actu- ary of the United States Life since 1886, and has been and still is consulting ac- tuary for several American and Canadian companies. Some years ago he was the unanimous choice of the Canadian com- panies for the position of superintendent of insurance of the Dominion, now held by Hon. Wm. Fitzgerald. Mr. Standen is a charter member of the Actuarial Society of America, but is best known through his many contributions to cur- rent insurance literature, among such con- tributions being his essay on "The Ef- fect of Occupation and Habits on Life Insurance Risk," delivered at the World's Fair Auxiliary Congress in Chicago in 1893. and "The Training and Functions of an Actuary," an address made at a ban- quet of the Actuarial Society Address, 273 Broadway, New York.


STANLAWS, Penrhyn Adamson:


Illustrator and dramatist; born in Dun- dee, Scotland, March 19, 1876; artist on Chicago Record. 1892-94; sub-editor un- der Jerome K. Jerome, London, England, 1894-96; illustrated for Truth. Life, Judge, 1896-98; on staff of Judge, 1399; Princeton University, 1899-01, class of 1901; associ- ate editor The Princeton Tiger; on staff of Judge 1901-03. Member of the Canon Club, Princeton University; the Savage Club, London, England. Author of "Col- lege Girls," "The End of the Hunting," "The Derelict. Address, Princeton Club, New York.


STANTON, Robert Brewster:


Consulting civil and mining engineer; born Woodville Miss., Aug. 5. 1846; son of Rev. Robert Livingston Stanton. D. D., and Anna Maria Stone; lineal descendant of Thomas Stanton. who came to America in 1635. and of Elder Wm. Brewster, of the Mayflower. 1620; graduated at Miami University (A. B.), 1871; (A. M.), 1878; married, Dec. 1 ,1881, Jean Oliver Moore, Denver. Col .; assistant engineer, Atlantic and Pacific Railway, 1871; resident en- gineer. Cincinnati Southern Railway, 1874-80; division engineer, Union Pacific Railway. 1880-84; constructed the famous "Loop Line," Georgetown, Col., 1881-82; made survey as chief engineer of railway line from Grand Junction, Col., to the Gulf of California through the Grand Canon of the Colorado River, 1889-90; etc; now consulting engineer United Mining and Development Company of America. Member of American Society Civil Engineers; the Institution of Civil Engineers, London; American Institute


of Mining Engineers; American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science; The Franklin Institute, etc. Author of "The Canons of the Colorado River of the West for Railway Purposes," 1892; "The Great Land Slides on the Canadian Pacific Rail- way in British Columbia," 1898; lecturer and writer of monographs on the "Grand Canon of the Colorado River"; "The Pre- historic Races of the South-West"; "The Mormon Church and the Mormon People of To-day." Address, 66 Broadway, New York.




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