Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 122

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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STEVENS, Lyndon Hoyt:

Soldier; lawyer; was born in Pulaski, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1842; he graduated from Troy University in 1862, and then pro- ceeded to organize a company in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth New York Vol- unteers. He served in the Civil War part of the time in command of his com- pany and part of the time on staff duty, until incapacitated from further service because of wounds received at the battle of Gettysburg, while serving as aide de camp on General Willard's staff. He then took up his residence in Washington, D. C., where he studied law and was admit- ted to the Washington bar in 1867. He there practiced law until 1880, when he turned his attention to Mexican business enterprises, with which he has been prom- inently connected ever since. He became a partner of Ex-Governor A. R. Shep- herd, and together they developed the famed mining district of Batopilas, Mex- ico. He is president of the International Development Company of New York .and Mexico, general manager of the Batopilas Mining Company, director of the Bonded Warehouse Company of Mexico and Vera Cruz, resident director of the Trinidad Shipping and Trading Company of Glas- gow, and director in various local cor- porations. Residence, Greenwich, Conn .; office, 45 Broadway, N. Y.

STEVENS, William Arnold:

Educator; was born, Granville, O., Feb. 5, 1839, his father, the Rev. John Stevens, D. D., being at that time professor of moral and intellectual philosophy in Gran- ville College, but later a resident of Cin- cinnati. He graduated from Denison Uni- versity, O., in 1862. Subsequently he pur- sued studies in Greek, Hebrew, compara- tive philology, and theology, first in Roch- ester Theological Seminary, then at Har- vard University, afterwards at Leipzig and Berlin in the years 1867, 1868. Until 1877 he was professor of the Greek lan- guage and literature in Denison Univer- sity. Since 1877 he has been the professor of New Testament interpretation in the Rochester Theological Seminary. In 1876 he married Caroline A. Clarke, daughter of Judge Oliver Clarke, of Springfield, O. The year 1882-3 was spent in biblical study abroad, chiefly in Egypt and Syria. He is the author of "Select Orations of Lysias," 1876; "A Commentary on the Epistles to the Thessalonians," 1887; also of many articles on biblical and philolog- ical subjects in the Bibliotheca Sacra, Homiletic Review, and other periodicals. With Ernest D. Burton he is joint author of an "Outline Handbook of the Life of Christ," 1892, and of a "Harmony of the Gospels for Historical Study," 1894. Ad- dress, 259 Alexander St., Rochester, N. Y.

STEVENSON, Frederick Boyd:

Journalist, magazine writer and author; was born in Sandusky, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1869. The family of his father, John Wesley Stevenson, was among the early settlers in the Western Reserve, coming originally from Maryland and West Virginia. His mother, Caroline Converse Mathews Ste- venson, was born in Massachusetts and came from old Revolutionary stock, being a direct descendant from Israel Putnam. Mr. Stevenson was educated for the law, but abandoned his studies for newspaper work, and before he reached his majority held the important position of State cor- respondent of the Cleveland Herald, hav- ing charge of the politics of that paper. He afterwards went to Chicago, becom- ing the city editor of the Morning News and later the Sunday editor of the Chi- cago Tribune. A few years later he came to New York and was political editor of the New York Evening World, and has since done editorial, dramatic and literary work in New York. He has written many short stories, which have appeared in the best magazines, and is the author of several poems. On Septem- ber 10, 1896, he was chosen by the City of Cleveland to write an epic poem de- scriptive of the battle of Lake Erie, which he read, as the guest of the city on Per- ry's Victory Day, on the Centennial an- niversary. Mr. Stevenson married Miss Anna Constable, daughter of the late Colonel Robert A. Constable, of the Sev- enty-fifth Ohio Regiment, of Athens, and

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Martha S. Dana Constable. He has one child-Caroline Fay Stevenson. Resi- dence, New York.

STEVENSON, Holland N .:

Captain, U. S. Navy; appointed from New York; acting third assistant engi- neer, Oct. 10, 1866; graduated from Naval Academy, 1868; third assistant engineer, June 2, 1868; second assistant engineer, June 2, 1869; assistant engineer, Feb. 24, 1874; passed assistant engineer, Dec. 13, 1874; chief engineer, Dec. 14, 1892; Da- kota, Cyane, Saranac, on Pacific Station, 1868-71; Bureau of Steam Engineering, 1871-2; inspection duty, New York, 1872-4; Swatara, with transit of Venus expedition to southern hemisphere, 1874-5; coast sur- vey steamer Gedney, 1875-8; inspection duty, New York, 1878-9; Trenton, Euro- pean Station, 1879-81; Wyoming, Atlantic Station, 1882; coast survey steamer Pat- terson, New York to Alaska, 1883-7; in- spection duty, New York and . Chester, Pa., 1888-91; Alliance, China Station to Norfolk, Va., 1891-4; training station, Newport, R. I., 1894-5; inspection duty, Bath, Me., 1895-7; Monterey, Pacific Sta- tion, August, 1897; Union Iron Works (Bureau Steam Engineering), June 5, 1899; commissioned commander, March 3, 1899; inspector of machinery, Union Iron Works, Aug. 23, 1899, to 1904. Commis- sioned captain Feb. 10, 1903. Address 222 Market St., San Francisco, Cal .; residence and permanent address, Pittsfield, Mass.

STEVENSON, John James:

Professor of geology, New York Uni- versity; son of Rev. Dr. Andrew and Ann Mary (Willson) Stevenson; was born in New York, Oct. 10, 1841; was graduated at New York University, A. B., in 1863, and Ph.D., in 1867; received LL.D. from Princeton University in 1893 and from Washington and Jefferson College in 1902. Married in 1865 Mary A. Macgowan (died in 1871); in 1879 Mary C. Ewing. Was engaged in mining operations during 1867- 68; professor of chemistry and natural history in West Virginia University, 1869- 71; professor of geology in New York University since 1871; was special assist- ant on Ohio Geological Survey in 1871-2; geologist on United States explorations west of the one hundredth meridian, 1873- 74, 1878-79, 1880; geologist of Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 1875-78, 1881-82. Mem- "ber of American Philosophical Society, Geological Society of America (president, 1898), New York Academy of Sciences (president, 1896-8), American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice- president, 1891); correspondent of geo- logical societies of Hungary, Russia, Ed- inburgh, Belgium, etc .; of the Leop-Carol. Akademie; and of many others in Amer- ica and Europe. Author of four volumes in 8vo. on the geology of Pennsylvania, of two volumes in quarto on the geology of Colorado and New Mexico, a mono-

graph upon the "Carboniferous of the Ap- palachian Basin" (in course of publica- tion) and about one hundred memoirs in scientific journals. Address, University Heights, New York city.

STEVENSON, Richard W .:

Lawyer; graduated from New York Uni- versity in 1875. He is a member of the University, Down Town, Racquet, Law- yers, Rockaway Hunt, and South Side Clubs, and the Sons of the Revolution. Address, 32 Nassau St., New York.

STEWARDSON, Langdon Cheves:

President Hobart College; born in Ma- rietta, Ga., Nov. 10, 1850; A. B. Kenyon College, Ohio, 1873; graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in West Philadelphia, 1876; ordained deacon by Bishop Stevens in chapel of Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, 1877; ordained priest by Bishop Jaggar in Christ Church, Cincin- nati, 1878; first charge, Church of the Reconciliation, Webster, Mass., 1880-1884; graduate student in Leipzig, Tubingen and Berlin, Germany, 1884-1887. Rector of St. Mark's Church, Worcester, 1888-1898; chaplain and professor of philosophy in the Lehigh University, 1898-1903; presi- dent of Hobart College, Geneva, New York, April 8, 1903; LL.D. Kenyon, June, 1903. Address, Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.

STEWART, Edwin:

Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy. Born in New York City, May 5, 1837.He is a grad- uate of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and of Williams College, from which institution he has received the de- grees of B. A. and M. A. Had it not been for the war he would have followed a profession; in fact, had already com- menced the study of law, when, in Sept., 1861, he was appointed an assistant pay- master in the navy. His first duty was on board the gun-boat Pembina, then fit- ting out at New York. The Pembina joined the expedition against Port Royal, and on November 7, 1861, took part in the bombardment and capture of the forts of that place. April, 1862, Assistant Paymaster Stewart was promoted to grade of paymaster, ordered to the Rich- mond, West Gulf Squadron. The Rich- mond, in company with the Hartford, participated in that series of brilliant naval engagements which made the name of Farragut famous. Paymaster Stewart was attached to the Richmond during the three most eventful years of her career, and saw memorable service, both on. the blockade and in the battles in which she was engaged, notably at Port Hudson and at the passage and capture of the forts in Mobile Bay. At the close of the war he was assigned to duty on the Lakes, being attached to the steamer Michigan from 1865 to 1868. Much the duty of the Michigan during those years consisted in watching and en-

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deavoring to frustrate the persistent and repeated efforts of the Fenians to effect a landing in Canada. The Michigan fin- ally succeeded in capturing the whole party as they were making their way across the Niagara River. In 1869. Pay- master Stewart was ordered to Washing- ton, where for three years he was in charge of the Purchasing Pay-Office. In the spring of 1872 he was appointed a member of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy. In the fall of 1872 he was ordered to the Hartford as fleet- paymaster on the Asiatic Station. The Hartford went to China by way of the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal, stop- ping at various places of interest en route. The cruise lasted three years, a large portion of the time being spent in the seaport cities of China and Japan. When homeward bound in 1875 the Hart- ford received at Messina telegraphic or- ders to go to Tripoli and settle a diffi- culty growing out of an alleged indig- nity offered to the United States consul. On her arrival at Tripoli she found the Congress already there under similar or- ders. An apology for the indignity was demanded from the Pasha and forty- eight hours named as the time within which it must be made. The two ships steamed into position before the city, and in this menacing attitude awaited the Pasha's reply. It came within the time specified. A full and satisfactory apology was made, and the Hartford steamed away on her homeward voyage. He was commissioned pay-inspector. March 8, 1880. and for three years was on duty as inspector at the navy yard. New York. In 1882 he was ordered to the Lancaster, and for nearly three years was fleet-pay- master on the European Station, visit- ing during the cruise most of the seaport cities of Europe from St. Petersburg to Alexandria and Palestine. An interest- ing feature of this cruise was the visit to Russia, the Lancaster having been or- dered to Cronstadt to represent the United States on the occasion of the coro- nation of the Czar. . In 1886, Pay-Inspect- or Stewart was assigned to the important position of purchasing pay-officer in New York City. on which duty he was continued until May 16. 1890. when he was made naymaster-general of the navy. He was selected for this position while he was still a pay-inspector. with thir- teen pay-directors senior to him on the list. Promoted pay director, Sept. 12, 1891. Reappointed paymaster general of the Navy, May 16, 1894; again re-appoint- ed paymaster general of the Navy, May 16. 1898. Retired, May 5. 1899. with rank of rear-admiral; received degree of LL. D. from Williams College. June, 1898. Admiral Stewart is a member of the Loyal Legion, of the University Club and Atlantic Yacht Club in New York, and of -

the Metropolitan and Army and Navy Clubs in Washington. Address, South Or- ange, N. J.

STEWART, George Black:

President and professor of practical theology, Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y., since 1899; born in Columbus, O., Feb. 28, 1854; son of Alexander Adams and Louisa Susannah (Black) Stewart; graduated from Princeton, 1876 (A. B.), and from Auburn Theological Seminary, 1879; degrees, A. M. (Princeton), D. D., LL.D. (Washington and Jefferson Col- lege). Married Mary Adeline Thompson, June 18, 1879. Pastor of Calvary Pres- byterian Church, Auburn, N. Y., 1878-1884, pastor of Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, Pa., 1884-1899; foun- der and for five years president of the Pennsylvania Chautauqua, president of Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Union for two years; trustee of Wilson College 1884-1900; trustee of Princeton since 1887; trustee of the United Society of Chris- tian Endeavor; president of the Sunday- school department of the Religious Edu- cation Association since 1902. Author of "Life of Jesus for Juniors," 1896; also a writer for the religious press. Address,

182 North St., Auburn, N. Y.

STEWART, George Taylor:

Physician, surgeon; born New Milford, Conn., Nov. 25, 1855; son of Thomas Ell- iott and Harriette Allen (Taylor) Stew- art; attended the Gunnery School, Wash- ington, Conn., from 1865-7; Charlier Insti- tute, New York City, 1867-70; Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn., 1870-73; Yale, 1873-74; was graduated by Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., B. A., 1878; A. M. 1881; Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa., M. D., 1882; Montreal (Canada) College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1896. Married in San Fran- cisco, Cal., June 15, 1887, May A. Fargo, of San Francisco; chief of staff of Metro- politan Hospital, New York City, 1890- 1900; general superintendent of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, New York City, 1900-2; superintendent of hospitals, de- partment of health, New York City; lec- turer to the New York Homeopathic Med- ical College on pathology and bacteriol- .ogy 1900-02; attending physician to Met- ropolitan Hospital. Member of the Amer- ican Institute of Homeopathy and the County Societies, of the Alumni of the Ward's Island Metropolitan Hospital, Clin- ical, Unanimous, and Pathological So- cieties. Clubs, Alpha Delta Phi, Yale, and. Democratic. Contributor to journals. Res- idence and office, 14 East 60th St., New York.

STEWART, John Alkman:

Formerly assistant treasurer of the Uni- ted States at New York, and for many years president of the United States Trust Company of that city, was born in New York, Aug. 22, 1822. His father was of Scottish birth emigrating to this country while quite young and settling in New-

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York, where he was for many years a ward assessor and afterwards receiver of taxes. Mr. Stewart was educated at first in a public school of New York, and after- wards entered Columbia College, where he graduated in 1840, having taken the literary and scientific course of study in that institution. In 1842, being then twen- ty years of age, he was appointed clerk of the Board of Education, a position which he retained until 1850, when he became actuary of the United States Life Insurance Company. In 1853, the United States Trust Company of New York was chartered by the State legislature, mainly in consequence of his efforts, and he re- signed his former position to accept that of secretary of this new financial institu- tion. He remained in this position until 1864, gaining sucn confidence and respect for his ability in finance, that in June of the latter year a pressing request was tendered him by President Lincoln and Mr. Fessenaen, Secretary of the Treasury, to accept the post of Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York. This office had previously been tendered him by Secretary Chase, and declined. But, now that the war was at its height and the national finances in a state of jeop- ardy, while public confidence was waver- ing, he accepted, though at much personal sacrifice, and continued to discharge the onerous and responsible duties of the po- sition with much satisfaction to the gov- ernment until the end of the war. At this period Mr. Lawrence, president of the United States Trust Company, resigned his position, and Mr. Stewart was unani- mously elected to succeed him. He ac- cordingly withdrew from the assistant treasurership, which no longer so strong- ly needed his services, and accepted the presidency offered him. For many years since that date Mr. Stewart continued to discharge the duties of his responsible position in a manner which proved highly profitable to the company and acceptable to its board of directors. Under his con- trol the company became the largest of its kind in America. He is prominently iden- tified with many institutions of the city, being a director in the Merchants' Nation- al Bank, the Bank of New Amsterdam, the Greenwich Savings Bank, the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and the Liverpool and London Globe Insurance Company. He is also a director in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, a trustee of the John F. Slater Fund, and an active trustee of Princeton College, which posi- tion he has held for many years. He belongs to the Metropolitan and the Union League Clubs, his membership in the lat- ter indicating his political affiliation with the Republicans. Originally he was Dem- ocratic in views, but during the civil war he warmly supported President Lincoln's administration, and has since, though not an extreme high-tariff man, remained a believer in the leading principles of the Republican party. He married, in 1845,

Miss Sarah Y. Johnson, of New York. who died in 1886. In 1890 he married Mary O. Capron, of Baltimore. In 1902 Mr. Stewart resigned the presidency of the company, much to the regret of his associates; is still in the board of direct- ors. Address, 125 East 37th St .; office, 45 Wall St., New York.

STEWART, Merch Bradt:

Captain, U. S. Army; was born in Vir- ginia; appointed from New York. Cadet at Military Academy, June 24, 1892; ad- ditional second lieutenant, Eleventh In- fantry, June 12. 1896; second lieutenant, Eighth Infantry, Aug. 27, 1896; first lieu- tenant, Oct. 12. 1898; captain, June 12, 1901. Address, Fort Columbus, N. Y.

STILES, Lewis H .:

Republican Assemblyman, representing Lewis County in the Assembly; was born in the town of Martinsburg, Lewis Coun- ty, N. Y., April 7, 1847, being the only son of Jared Stiles, Jr., a' prosperous farmer, He attended the district school until the age of seventeen, when he entered Low- ville Academv· in 1867 took a commercial course in Eastman's Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and since then has engaged in farming. He held the offie of assessor in his native town for thirteen consecutive years, when he was elec supervisor, and served in that position nine years; has always been a Republican. Was elected to Assembly in 1901. and 1902, and in 1903 was appointed a member of the following Assembly committees: Pub- lic Education, Agriculture, and Public Lands and Forestry. Address, Martins- bur~ Lewis County. N. Y.

STILLMAN, James:

President of the National City Bank of New York; was born June 9, 1850, in Brownsville, Tex., where his parents were residing temporarily. He comes of an old English family, which emigrated to America and settled at Hadley, Mass. The family was prominent in the Revolution- ary War, two of his great-grandfathers having been officers in the Continental Army. His father, Charles Stillman, was a shipping merchant in the early days of New York's commercial life. His par- ents returned from the South to Hartford. Conn., shortly after his birth, and in that city he was brought up. He was edu- cated principally at Churchill's School, in Sing Sing, N. Y. When he attained his majority, he entered the firm of Smith, Woodward & Stillman, cotton merchants, of New York, and has maintained an un- broken connection with that house up to the present time, becoming a partner, in : 1873, of the firm of Woodward & Stillman. which succeeded the earlier firm. He married Miss Elizabeth Rumrill, and has five children: Elsie, who married William G. Rockefeller; James A., Isabel Good- rich, Charles Chauncey, and Ernest Good-

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rich Stillman. Mr. Stillman's office is at No. 54 Wall St. He is trustee of the American Surety Company, president and director of the National City Bank, of the American Veterinary College, of the Bow- ery Savings Bank, of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York, and of the Fifth Avenue Safe Deposit Company. He is director of the Audit Company of New York, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Cen- tral Realty, Bond and Trust Company, Deer Hill Company, Northern Pacific Rail- way Company, Queen Insurance Com- pany, Southern Pine Company, Terminal Warehouse Company, Western Union Tel- egraph Company, of the Second National Bank, member of the executive committee of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail- road Company and also trustee; director of the Delaware and Lackawanna Rail- road Company, and of the Deer (Limit- ed), director of the Hanover National Bank, the Mobile Street Railway, and member of the executive committee and trustee of the United States Trust Com- pany, and he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Cotton Exchange. His clubs include the Century, Metropolitan, Union, Union League, Reform, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht, Eastern Yacht, St. Augustine Yacht, Jekyl Island, Storm King, Tuxedo, Rid- ing, and Lawyers. Address, 9 East 72d St., New York.

STILLWELL, Lewis Buckley:

Electrical engineer; was born in Scran- ton, Pa., March 12, 1863; son of Richard and Margaret (Snyder) Stillwell and a di- rect descendant in the eighth generation from Nicholas Stillwell, who came from Amsterdam, Holland, to New Amsterdam in 1638, and was a soldier in the early In- dian wars both in New York and in Vir- ginia following the second Virgina mas- sacre. His father, born Dec. 16, 1824, was a soldier in the Civil War, serving as captain in the One Hundred and Thirty- second Pennsylvania Volunteers, receiv- ing a severe wound in the attack of French's Division upon the Confederate position on Marie's Heights at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. His mother was a granddaughter of General Peter Kich- lein (1722-1789), member of the Committee of Safety of the Colonies, 1774-76, and hero of the battle of Long Island, who was taken prisoner by the British after he had, at the cost of half his regiment of Pennsylvania Riflemen, made a way for the safe retreat of the rest of Wash- ington's army. In his own generation, the military record of his family is main- tained by his younger brother, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick W. Stillwell, of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, who served with distinction during the Span- ish War. He was graduated at the Scran- ton high school, matriculated at Wesley- an University, and after two years' work there took up the study of electrical en-

gineering at Lehigh University, where he completed the electrical course in 1885, taking a post-graduate course at Lehigh in mechanical engineering 1885-6. In Oct., 1886, he accepted the position of assistant electrician of the Westinghouse Electric Company, Pittsburg, Pa., where he was associated with O. B. Shallenberger, Wil- liam Stanley and Nikola Tesla, particular- ly in the commercial development of the alternating current systems of lighting and power distribution. In April, 1890, he was promoted to chief electrical engineer, and in April, 1895, the chief electrical en- gineer and assistant manager. While

holding the latter position he developed and applied the system of standardizing apparatus adopted, and afterward used by the company. In March, 1897, he re- signed to become electrical director of the Cataract Construction Company and Ni- agara Falls Power Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y., having while with the West- inghouse Company directed the prepara- tion of the plans for the electrical util- ization of Niagara which. were finally adopted by the Cataract Construction Company. At Niagara, he became re- sponsible not only for the work of elec- trical construction in connection with the extensions of the installation but also of the operation of the plant as completed. During his residence at Niagara, many of the problems encountered in electric- ally transmitting and distributing power at high potential and in great amount for industrial purposes as well as for lighting and for the operation of street railways were met and solved. In March, 1899, he accepted the position of consulting elec- trical engineer to the Manhattan Rail- way Company, of New York City, taking charge of the equipment of the elevated lines with electrical power, resigning his position with the Cataract Construction Company and Niagara Falls Power Com- pany, in Sept., 1900, to give his entire time to the Manhattan railway Company, and to practice as consulting engineer in New York City. In Nov., 1900, he became electrical director of the Interborough Rapid Transit . Company, in addition to his other official and professional duties. He received from the president of the Cataract Construction Company the Ni- agara medal, designed by MacMonnies and engraved by Paulin Tasset, the only electricians who are holders of the medal being Lord Kelvin and himself. He has patented a number of important inven- tions having to do with the practical ap- plication and use of electricity in power transmission and railway · practice. He was elected member of the American Phi- losophical Society; the American Society of Civil Engineers; the American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers; the British Institution of Electrical Engineers; the Society of Arts of Great Britain; the American Society for the Advancement of Science. His scientific papers include: "Electrical Transmission of Power from

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 122

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