Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 121

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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STANTON, William:

Lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Army; born in New York, Oct. 13, 1843; he was ap- pointed from Michigan; in turn private, corporal and sergeant, Company G, For- ty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from Sept. 3, 1862, to March 11, 1863; second lieutenant, Second United States Artil- lery, Sept. 3. 1867; accepted, Sept. 9, 1867; first lieutenant. Nov. 16, 1874; transferred to Sixth Cavalry, Feb. 9. 1877; captain, May 21, 1886: major, Eighth Cavalry, June 9. 1899; served in Spanish-American War; lieutenant-colonel, Eleventh Cav- alry, Sept. 13. 1902. Address, Manila, P. I.

STANTON, William S .:

Lieutenant-colonel of engineers, U. S. Army; born in New York, Sept. 9, 1842; appointed from New York; cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1861; graduated, June 23, 1865; captain, Feb. 14, 1871; major, March 19, 1884; lieutenant- colonel, Feb. 7. 1900. Address, 25 Pember- ton Square, Boston, Mass.

STARIN, John Henry:

Merchant; was born August 27, 1825. in Sammonsville. Montgomery (now Fulton) County. New York; he was educated at the Esperance Academy in Schoharie County, and subsequently studied medi- cine; he did not, however, care to pursue the medical profession, and entered his brother's drug store in Fultonville as a clerk, remaining there till 1856, when he removed to New York and ventured in business for himself in the line of medi- cine and toilet articles. He was early successful, building up a profitable busi- ness, but was not long so engaged before an onening for larger enterprise declared itself. The transportation of goods, which his business affairs required him to con- sider, was not at that time very fully de- veloped. and the idea occurred to him of establishing a general freight agency in this city, as likely to prove for the con- venience of shippers. He unfolded his plan to a railroad officer, who encouraged him to proceed with it, offering him the patronage of his road, one of the great trunk lines; he closed the contract, sold out his drug business, and entered upon the work of his new enterprise. The Civil War, which broke out shortly afterwards,

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proved serviceable to him in the estab- lishment of his business, which he quick- ly developed to such an extent that he was enabled to serve the government essentially, providing it with transporta- tion for troops and war material at less cost and quicker dispatch than it was able to do with its own means of car- riage. By the end of the war he had built un an extensive system of railroad and steamboat connection of the greatest value to mercantile shippers, while his reputation as a reliable business man was high; his trade connections since that period have grown to an enormous ex- tent. he having freight lines on the North and East rivers, fleets of tugs and pro- pellers, lighters and car boats, excursion and pleasure boats, grain boats and float- ing elevators, while his freight connec- tions extend to all the railroads that come to the rivers surrounding New York, and his dry-docks, freighting de- pots, and offices are widely distributed along the wharf region of the city. Po- litically he has always been an earnest Republican and has frequently held public positions; from 1848 to 1852. during his early residence at Fultonville, he was postmaster of that place; in 1876 he ran for Congress as representative from the Twentieth District of New York, and was elected; in 1878 he ran again ,and was re- turned by a large plurality vote; at the end of this term a third nomination was offered him but he declined to run again, saying that he favored rotation in office, and saw no reason why he should hold the office continually to the detriment of others equally deserving of it. He has been a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce since 1874, and in 1880 was made president, upon the death of Hora- tio Seymour. of the Saratoga Monument Association to provide a fitting memorial of the battle that practically decided the result of the war of the Rebellion; in this enterprise he worked energetically, secured for it an appropriation of $30,000 from Congress. added a liberal donation of his own, and induced others to sub- scribe; as a result of his efforts the memorial has been erected; he belongs to many clubs and societies, and is a trustee of Union College. Address, 9 West 38th St., New York.

STARR, Charles S., M. D.

Graduated from University of Roches- ter, 1865; physician at Rochester, N. Y., 1869-75; student in hospitals of Vienna, Heidelberg and London, 1875-76; physi- cian, Rochester, N. Y., 1876 to date; physician to jail, Monroe Co .. N. Y., 1879- 80; coroner's physician, Monroe Co., 1880-1884; member New York State Med- ical Society; ex-member American Medi- cal Association; president Pathological Society, 1878; New York Medical Associa- tion, 1883; Monroe County Medical So- ciety, 1899. Address, 95 North St., Roch- ester, N. Y.

STARR, M. Allen :

Physician. professor, author; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 16, 1854; son of Eg- bert Starr and C. Augusta (Allen) Starr; was graduated from Princeton College, 1876; College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1880; resident physician, Belle- vue Hospital, 1880-82; studied in Heidel- berg, Vienna and Paris, 1882-84; ap- pointed professor of nervous diseases, New York Polyclinic, 1887, and professor of diseases of the mind and nervous sys- tem, College of Physicians and Surgeons, medical department of Columbia Univer- sity,1889; is consulting physician to the Presbyterian, St. Vincent's and St. Mary's Hospitals, and to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Sciences, of the New York Academy of Sciences; is ex- president of the American Neurological Association; of the New York Neurologi- cal Society; is vice-president of the New York Academy of Medicine; is corre- sponding member of the Societe de Neu- rologie of Paris and of the Neurological Society of London. Author of "Familiar Forms of Nervous Disease," 1891; "Brain Surgery." 1893; "Atlas of Nerve Cells," 1896; "Organic Nervous Diseases," 1903; and of numerous articles upon neurologi- cal subjects. He is a member of the University, Century, Princeton and Tux- edo Clubs; married to Alice Dunning (1898); has one son; honorary degrees, Ph.D., Princeton, 1889; LL.D., Princeton, 1900; residence, 5 West 54th St., New York.

STAUFFER. David McNeely:

Editor and part proprietor of the En- gineering News since 1882; was born in Lancaster, Pa., March 24, 1845; son of Jacob Stauffer. He began a course at Franklin and Marshall College, but left before graduation, to enter the Union army. Received the degree of Litt. D. from this college at its last commence- ment. Married Florence Scribner. Served in the U. S. Navy during the civil war, and was in command of the U. S. S. Alex- andria, in the Mississippi fleet in 1865. After the war he began work as a civil engineer in railroad work, bridge and tun- nel building; member of the Palisades In- terstate Park Commission, New York and New Jersey, member of the American So- ciety of Civil Engineers, the American In- stitute of Mining Engineers, the Institu- tion of Civil Engineers of London, Sons of the American Revolution, the Loyal Legion, the Naval Order of the United States, the Grolier Club, and the Century Association of New York. Residence, El Roncador, Yonkers, N. Y .; office, St. Paul Building, New York.

STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence:

Poet, editor, critic; was born in Hart- ford, Conn .. Oct. 8, 1833; son of Major

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Edmund and Elizabeth C. Stedman. He entered Yale in his sixteenth year, where he distinguished himself in Greek and English composition, and in 1851 received the first prize for a poem on Westmin- ster Abbey. He was prevented from graduation on account of some breach of discipline, the same university, however, conferring on him in 1871 the degree of A. M., and subsequently that of LL.D .; he has also received the degree of L.H.D. from Columbia. At the age of nineteen he became the editor of the Norwich Tri- bune, and two years later of the Win- sted Herald. In 1856 he went to New York, where contributed to Vanity Fair, Putnam's and Harper's Magazines, and to the New York World and the Tribune. His success was not marked, however, until he attracted public attention by his poems of "The Diamond Wedding," a satire; "The Ballad of Lager Beer," and "How Old John Brown Took Harper's Ferry," the fame of which latter secured him a position on the regular staff of the Tribune. His poems were published in 1860 in a volume entitled "Poems Ly- rical and Idyllic." During the first two years of the war he was the Washington correspondent of the New York World, but failing health compelled him to ac- cept a less onerous position in the office of Attorney General Bates, which he 're- signed in 1864 and returned to New York. He entered mercantile business, and be- came a member of the Stock Exchange in 1869, retaining his seat until 1900. During his business life, Mr. Stedman continued to produce literary work of a high grade. publishing at intervals "Alice of Monmouth; an Idyl of the Late War, and Other Poems," "The Blame- less Prince, and Other Poems," and in 1873 a collective edition of his "Poetical Works. More recently has devoted his time largely to literary criticism, produc- ing articles on Tennyson, Theocritus, and the Victorian poets, which led directly to his critical volumes, "Victorian Poets" and "Poets of America, and to his Vic- torian and American Anthologies." In 1888 he took part in editing "The Li- brary of American Literature," and in 1889 he gave at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity a course of lectures on the "Nature and Elements of Poetry," which has since been repeated in other institutions of learning, and published in book form. He was president of the New England So- ciety in 1902-03, and vice-president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for the same period. He is a member of the Century Association, and of the Players and Authors Clubs. He was vice- president under Mr. Lowell of the Ameri- can Copyright League, and afterwards its president. The passage by Congress of the Copyright Law was largely due to his efforts. He has gained a position in the front rank of balladists and poetical critics. Residence, Bronxville, N. Y .; of- fice, 20 Broad St., New York.

STEDMAN, George W .:

Lawyer; graduated from University of Rochester (B. S.), 1885; M. S 1887; LL.B. from Albany Law School, 1887; has since practiced law in Albany. Trustee of Col- gate University. 1893; Albany Academy, 1897; New York Baptist Union for min- isterial education, 1898. Member of As- sembly of State of New York, 1898. Ad- dress, 445 Broadway, Albany, N. Y.

STEELE, Esther Baker:

Author; born at Lysander, N. Y., in 1835; daughter the Rev. Gardner Baker; educated at 'the Mexico Academy and Falley Seminary, Fulton, N. Y .; (Litt. D. Syracuse University, 1892). In 1857 Miss Baker was called as music teacher to Mexico Academy, and in 1859 she married Professor Joel Dorman Steele, who died in 1886. In 1871 Professor Steel began the issue of the Barnes series of school histories, so well known throughout the United States, and in their preparation he received valuable aid from his wife, she having entire charge of the sections on civilization and.of the biographical and other notes. These publications were, "United States," 1871; "France," '1875; "Centenary History of United States," 1875; "Ancient Peoples," 1881; "Mediæval and Modern Peoples," 1883; "General His- tory," 1883; "Greece, with Selected Read- ings," 1884; "Rome, with Selected Read- ings," 1885; "Revised United States," 1885. Since her husband's death she has pre- pared new editions of these joint works and also of her husband's science books ("Hygienic Physiology," enlarged edition, 1888, and "General History," 1893). Mrs. Steele in 1899 made a gift to the city of Elmira of the "Steele Memorial Library," and in the same year was erected the "Esther Baker Steele Hall of Science," on the Syracuse University campus. She also maintains the "Joel Dorman Steele Professorship of Physics," at the Syracuse University. Address, Elmira, N. Y.

STERLING, John W .:

Lawyer; was born at Stratford, Conn., in May, 1844. He was fitted for college at Stratford Academy, entered Yale and was graduated in 1864. He next entered Columbia Law School, in New York City, and was graduated in 1867. Being admit- ted to the bar, he became a clerk in the office of David Dudley Field. In May, 1868, he became the managing clerk in another office, but returned in Dec. to became a partner of Mr. Field under the firm name of Field & Shearman. In Sept., 1873, Mr. Field retired, the firm name be- coming Shearman & Sterling. One of the notable cases in which the new firm was . engaged was the defence of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Other important suits in which they were retained as counsel in 1876, were the outcome of the Black Friday gold panic, in 1869. For

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a number of years he has been person- ally concerned in the formation, fore- closure and reorganization of great rail- road companies, including the Interna- tional & Great Northern, the South Caro- lina; Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Cen- tral; Canadian Pacific; Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg; Great Northern; Duluth & Winnipeg. He aided in organizing the New York and Texas Land Company, in 1880. He is counsel for many trust es- tates and for many British corporations and investors. He is a director of the Bond & Mortgage Guarantee Company; Duluth, South Shore & Atlanta Railway Company; Evansville & Indianapolis R. R .; Evansville & Richmond R. R .; Evans- ville & Terre Haute R. R .; Evansville Belt Railway; National City Bank; direc- tor and first vice-president Pennsylvania Coal Company, and a trustee of the New York Security & Trust Company. He is a member of the New England, Fine Arts, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Delta Phi societies, the Down Town Association, Tuxedo, Union League, University, Law- yers, Yale, Union, Metropolitan and Rid- ing clubs. The degree of LL.D. was con- ferred upon him by Yale in 1893. Ad- dress, 912 Fifth Ave .; office, 44 Wall St., New York.

STERN, Louis:

Merchant; born in Germany, Feb. 22, 1847; son of M. A. and Sophia Stern; edu- cated at Albany, N. Y. Married to Miss L. Strupp, July 30, 1879. Member of the firm of Stern Brothers; director of the Bank of New Amsterdam, the Mutual Alliance Trust Company, Lincoln Trust Company, Madison Safe Deposit Company, and the New Amsterdam Life Deposit Company of New York; president of the Library Square Realty Company; Repub- lican candidate for president borough of Manhattan 1897; United States Commis- sioner to the Paris Exposition 1900; chair- man of the executive committee of the New York State commission to the Lou- isiana Purchase Exposition 1904; member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Aldine Association, the American Geo- graphical Society, and member and presi- dent of the Albany Society, and Republi- can Club of City of New York, and mem- ber of Lotos and Patria Clubs. Resi- dence, 993 Fifth Ave .; office, 32 West 23d St., New York.

STERRETT, John Robert Sitlington:

Professor of Greek, Cornell University; was born near Lexington, Va., March 4, 1851. His parents were Robert Dunlap Sterrett and Nancy Snyder Sitlington, both of Scotch-Irish descent. He was educated at the University of Virginia, then at the Universities of Leipzig, Berlin, Athens, and Munich, and at the Polytech- nicum of Aachen. Ph.D. of Munich, 1880;

LL.D. of Aberdeen, 1902. He made sev- eral journeys in Asia Minor, the results of which are deposited in his "Inscrip- tions of Sebaste," 1884; "Inscriptions of Tralleis," 1885; "Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor," 1888; "Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor," 1888. He was also a mem- ber of the Assos Expedition and pub- lished the "Inscriptions of Assos," 1885; also a member of the Wolfe Expedition to Assyria and Babylonia, and published "Inscriptions of Palmyra and the Desert" (in Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor). His doctor's dissertation was on the "Homeric Hymns," 1881. Wrote "Leaflets from Notebook of a Traveling Archaeologist," 1889; "Troglodytes of Cappadocia," in Century Magazine, 1900; "Glimpses of Asia Minor" in Chautauquan, 1901; has con- tributed niany articles and reviews to The Nation and The Independent and other periodicals; wrote the articles on Greek mythology for Johnson's Cyclopedia. He is a corresponding member of the Imperial German Archæological Institute; member of the American Philological Association; of the American Archaeological Institute; of the National Geographical Society; of the board of managers of the American School. of Classical Studies in Athens; as- sociate editor of the American Journal of Archæology and of the Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; member of advisory council of Oriental Exploration Fund of the University of Chicago. He has in press a school edition of the Iliad of Hom- er (American Book Company); has in prepartion the Historical Geography of the New Testament (Macmillan Com- pany). He was professor of Greek at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), 1886-88; at the University of Texas (Austin, Tex- as,) 1888-92; at Amherst College (Am- herst, Mass.,) 1892-1901; at Cornell Uni- versity since 1901. He married Josephine Moseley Quarrier of Charleston, West Virginia, March 1, 1892. Address, 74 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, N. Y.

STETSON, Thomas Drew:

Mechanical expert and patent solicitor; Industrial lecturer; born Kingston, Mass., in 1827; educated at public schools and Pierce Academy. Learned trade of nail and tack maker; served under instructions in the machine shop of the Taunton Locomotive Works. He was editor on Appleton's Engineers' Journal, the New York Tribune (industrial and scientific department), Railroad Advocate, Rail- road Journal. Iron Age. Part author Freedley's treatise on Business and Mone's American Engineering. Aided to & Esser's patent and make prominent Fairbank's weighing scales, Keuffel mathematical instruments, Babcock & Wilcox boilers, Corliss engines, Bristol's valve rollers, Hotchkiss guns and pro- jectiles, Buckley's condensers, Young's clothes wringers Brown's corn planters and Morgan Sons' Sapolio. Took for

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Chas. H. Hall twenty-nine patents on one subject, pulsometer pumps. Close niechanical questions were canvassed with his aid as expert in First Circuit, Doherty v. Haines, table tray, function of form; Metropolitan v. Prov. Tool Co., clothes wringer, usefulness; in Second Circuit. White v. Allen, pistol, effect of obscure foreign description; Schermer- horn v. New York City, seats, equiva- lents; Westlake v. Skilton, stove plat- form, article of manufacture; Conde v. Bean, shirt, design decorative; Oil Well Co. v. Eaton, packing, possibilities; in Third Circuit, Mowlds v. Paine, domes- tic press, magnitude of improvement; Mattock v. Equitable, couplings, double use; Fourth Circuit, Dubois v. R. R. Co., bridge piers, completeness of invention; Seventh Circuit, Case v. Brown, corn planter, identity of principle. Aids to settle questions out of court; president New York Branch Christian Brother- hood. Was active in uniting Trinity

with Epiphany Baptist church 1897. Promotes schools for the mature, Me- chanics' Institute; drawing and model- ing, Cooper Union, Y. M. C. A. Is presi- dent Polytechnic Branch American In- stitute devoted to discussions on useful arts. With George Bartlett, in 1845, walked to adjointing town and joined Sons of Temperance and aided to or- ganize Pacific division in their own town. His brief speech in reversing his vote in the Free Soil Caucus in the Adams House parlors in 1850 turned the current of responses in forming the coalition which sent Charles Sumner to the Senate the first time with its momentous train of consequences. With F. W. Bartlett found- ed the Old Colony Reporter, a free-soil organ in North Bridgewater, now Brock- ton in Horace Mann's district, Mass., since merged in the Old Colony memorial. Obtained the aid of large employers and induced a proclamation by the Mayor of the right to defend property to the death which ended the Riot Week in New York, in July 1863. Ran 800 ahead of ticket as Prohibition candidate for Con- troller in 1899. Address, 108 Fulton St., New York.

STEVENS, Charles J .:

Captain, U. S. Army; born in New York; appointed from New York; cadet at U. S. Military Academy July 1, 1877; graduated June 13, 1882; second lieuten- ant Ninth Cavalry, June 13, 1882; first lieutenant July 16, 1888; captain March 2, 1899; served in Spanish-American War. Address, Manila, P. I.

STEVENS, George Thomas, M. D., Ph. D.

Physician; was born in Essex County, State of New York, July 25, 1832. His father was Reverend Chauncy Coe Ste- vens, a Congregational clergyman long well known in northern New York, and

his mother was Lucinda (Hoadley) Ste- vens. Both were descended from the early settlers of New England; both were children of fathers who served through- out the Revolutionary War as soldiers. Dr. Stevens received the degree of Ph.D. from Union College, and that of M. D. from Castleton Medical College in 1857. Commenced the practice of his profession in northern New York, and was married in 1861 to Harriet W., daughter of Wil- liam I. Wadhams, of Wadhams Mills, N. Y. In 1861 he was commissioned as- sistant surgeon of the Seventy-seventh New York Volunteers, and was soon pro- moted to surgeon. He became operating surgeon of his division, a position which he held two and one-half years, and for some time acted as medical inspector of the Sixth Corps. As a member of the famous Sixth Corps he served in all the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac and in the Shenandoah valley during the campaign under Sheridan. He returned to private practice in Albany, N. Y., in 1865; was professor of physiology and of the diseases of the eye in Union Univer- sity 1870 to 1876, and surgeon to the Albany Hospital. In 1880 he removed to New York, where he has continued the practice of his profession. In 1883 he re- ceived the highest prize from the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium for his treatise on "Functional Diseases of the Nervous System" in a competition which was open to the world and which was participated in by some of the world's most distinguished neurologists. He has published many essays on diseases of the nervous system and on affections of the eyes which have had important influence on his profession. He has devised many instruments for surgical, philosophical, and optical purposes which are standard in America and Europe. His researches on the anomalies of the ocular muscles are known among oculists in all countries and his system, classification and meth- ods are standard. He is an honorary member of learned societies abroad; has been a member of several scientific con- gresses in Europe, in which he has been an active participant, and is a member of many scientific societies in his own country. For several years he was the American editor of Annales d'Oculistique, during a part of which time he published an edition in English. He is censor of `the Medico-Chirurigical College of Phila- delphia, and a member of the Union Col- lege Alumni. He is the author of "Three Years in the Sixth Corps," 1866; "The Flora of the Adirondacks," 1868; "Mala- dies des Centres Nerveux," 1883; "Func- tional Nervous Diseases," 1884; "Coaching in North Wales," 1895; "Les Muscles Moteurs de l'Oeil et l'Expression du Vis- age," 1892, and of many articles on oph- thalmological subjects. He is a member of the Order of the Loyal Legion and of the American Medical Association, of the American Ophthalmological Society and

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of several clubs and societies in New York. Address, 22 East 46th St., New York.

STEVENS, Halbert D .:

Republican Assemblyman, representing Franklin County in the Assembly; was born in Moira. Franklin County, Feb. 23, 1862, of New England parentage, and re- moved to Malone in 1875, where he re- ceived his education and has since resided. He graduated from Franklin Academy in 1881, taught school and studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1885, having graduated from the Albany Law School the same year. In 1886 he was an em- ployee of the Assembly in the engrossing room and was promoted to Assistant Journal Clerk in 1887, holding that place one year. In 1889 he purchased The Ma- lone Farmer, and changed its policy from Independent to Republican, and has since conducted it successfully as a Republican journal. He is the only brother of the late Hon. William C. Stevens, who repre- sented Franklin County for three terms in the Assembly, and afterward filled the position of Financial Clerk of that body for a number of years. Was elected to Assembly in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902, and in 1903 was annointed a member of the following Assembly committees: Chair- man of the committee on the Affairs of Villages. member of Ways and Means, In- dian Affairs, and Federal Relations. Ad- aress, Malone, Franklin County, N. Y.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 121

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