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SULLIVAN, Edward J .:
Consul; has been engaged in mercan- tile business in New York; speaker on political topics; contributor to newspa- pers and magazines. Member of the Catholic Club, Society of the Genesee, Army and Navy League, Commercial Travellers Association, and Ninth As- sembly District Republican Club. Ap- pointed U. S. consul at Erzerum, Turkey, in 1903.
SULLIVAN, Joseph :
Democratic Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly district of Queens County; was born in New York about 1860. He attended the public schools of New York City and then learned the trade of a clothing cutter; worked at his trade for a number of years and was promi- nently identified with the Clothing Cut- ters' Union; and is still a member of that organization. About ten years ago he re- moved to Corona, where he now lives. Was elected to Assembly in 1902, and in 1903 was appointed a member of the fol- lowing Assembly committees: Excise and Affairs of Villages. Address, Corona, N. Y.
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SULLIVAN, Timothy D .:
Member of Congress; Democrat, of New York City; was elected to the Fifty- eighth Congress, receiving 26,107 votes, to 10,386 for Montague Lessler, Republi- can, 164 for B. F. Funk, 417 for Robert Downs, 496 for Gustave Theimer, and 74 for Frank Mayo. Previous to his elec- tion to Congress he was for several terms in the New York State Senate and was one of the most active and influential members of that body; he has been since very early manhood prominent in political life; for several years past, one of the leaders of Tammany; he is perhaps the most widely known and certainly one of the most popular politicians in New York. He is interested in theatrical affairs as proprietor of two New York City theatres. Address, 38 East 4th St., New York.
SULLOWAY, Cyrus Adams:
Member of Congress; Republican, of Manchester; was born in Grafton, N. Y., June 8, 1839; received a common-school and academic education; studied law with Austin F. Pike at Franklin, N. H .; was admitted to the bar in 1863 and has prac- ticed law at Manchester since January, 1864; was a member of the New Hamp- shire House of Representatives in 1872- 73 and from 1887 to 1893, inclusive; was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Con- gress. Address, Manchester, N. Y.
SULLY, Daniel S .:
Cotton merchant; born in Providence, R. I .; has been in the cotton business for a number of years. A few years ago he was a buyer for cotton mills at a weekly salary of $75; to-day he is rated as a millionaire, having been extremely suc- cessful in cotton ventures since Oct., 1902. Address, New York City.
SULLY, Thomas R .:
Real estate broker; graduated from Uni- versity of Rochester in 1890; in business at Columbus, Ohio, 1890-92; Canada, 1893. Real estate and investments, 1893 to date. Address, 11 Wall St., New York.
SULZBERGER, Cyrus L .:
Political reformer and philanthropist; he was born of Jewish parents in Phila- delphia in 1858, and came to New York when nineteen years of age; he started to work as a bookkeeper in the dry goods firm in Prince street, of which he is now the head. It is principally in connection with his work in Jewish charitable enter- prises and in Jewish religious organiza- tions that he has been most prominently known, though his work in charitable matters has been more directly identified with the East Side than with any other
part of the city. He is a Democrat in politics, but has always taken a promi- nent and active part in the movements for municipal reform, and in the recent may- oralty election was the candidate of the fusion party for president of the Borough of Manhattan, and made a vigorous cam- paign for the ticket. Residence, 58 West 87th St., New York.
SULZBERGER, Myron:
Democratic Assemblyman, representing the Twenty-sixth district of New York County; was born in the City of New York. After he received his preliminary education in the public schools of . New York City, he entered the Weingart In- stitute and from there the College of the City of New York, taking a two years' course; to study law he entered the New York Law School and was subsequently admitted to practice in the courts of this State. He is a member of the board of managers of the Maimonades Free Li- brary, which controls one of the largest free circulating libraries in New York City, and is librarian of the Temple Beth- El Sunday School. Was elected to As- sembly in 1901 and 1902, and in 1903 was appointed a member of the following As- sembly committees: Judiciary and Public Lands and Forestry. Address, 207 East 72d St., New York.
SULZER, William:
Member of Congress; Democrat, of New York City; was born in Elizabeth, N. J., March 18, 1863; educated in the public schools; admitted to the bar in 1884; was a member of the New York Legislature in 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, and 1894; in 1893 he was speaker of the As- sembly; was a delegate to the Chicago convention, 1896, and to the Kansas City convention, 1900. He was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, receiving 15,451 votes, to 6,088 ror William Blau, Republican; 45 for Ira Babcock, Prohi- bitionist; 1,873 for H. G. Wilshire, So- cialist, and 1,391 for J. T. Hunter. Ad- dress, 232 East 12th St., New York.
SUMMER, Charles R .:
Physician; graduated from University of Rochester, 1874; graduated, New York Homeopathic Medical College, M. D., 1877; physician, Rochester, N. Y., 1877; visiting physician to, and president of staff of, Rochester Homeopathic Hospital since 1889; consulting physician since 1895; was health commissioner of Rochester from 1894 to 1899; president of Rochester Acad- emy of Science. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, New York State Homeopathic Medical Society, and Western New York Homeopathic Medical Society. Address,. 33 Clinton Ave., Rochester, N. Y.
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SUMMERBELL, Martyn:
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Clergyman and educator; born in Na- ples, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1847; son of Rev. Benjamin F. and Elizabeth (Martin) Sum- merbell; married second daughter of William H. and Elizabeth Corwith; was graduated from College of the City of New York, 1871, and received Ph.D. from University of New York and D. D. from Union Christian College, Indiana. Pas- tor of Christian Church of the Evangel, Brooklyn, 1866-80; First Christian Church, Fall River, Mass., 1880-86; St. Paul's Evangelical Church, New York City, 1886-88; Main Street Free Baptist Church, Lewiston, Me., 1888-98; president of Star- key Seminary, Lakemont, N. Y., since 1898; from 1874 to 1901, non-resident pro- fessor of pastoral theology at Christian Biblical Institute, Stanfordville, N. Y .; charter member of Interdenominational Commission of Maine and of New York State Federation of Churches and Chris- tian Workers, and recording secretary of the latter. Author of "Special Services for Christian Ministers," 1885: editor of Digest of General Conference Law (Free Baptist), and part author of "People's Bible History," 1895. Lecturer on edu- cational and general topics; president of the Francis Asbury Palmer Fund of New York City. Contributes freely to the religious press. Address, Lakemont, N. Y.
SUMMERHAYES, John Wyer: :
Major, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York. Private, cor- poral and sergeant Company I. and ser- geant major, Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry, Sept. 9, 1861. to March 14, 1863; second lieutenant, Twentieth Massachu- setts Infantry, March 14, 1863; first lieu- tenant. Sept. 8. 1863; captain, Oct. 10, 1863; brevet major, Volunteers. April 9, 1865, for meritorious service in the cam- paign terminating with the surrender of the insurgent army under General R. E. Lee; honorably mustered out June 6, 1865; second lieutenant, Thirtv-third Infantry, Jan. 22, 1867; transferred to Eighth Infan- try. May 3, 1869; first lieutenant, Dec. 15, 1874; regimental adjutant, Jan. 1 to May 19 1896; regimental quartermaster, May 20, 1886, to March 9, 1889; captain A. Q. M., Feb. 25, 1889; major chief Q. M. Volun- teers, May 12, 1898; honorably discharged from volunteers. Dec. 2, 1898; major Q. M., Nov. 11, 1898; retired, Jan. 6, 1900; brevet first lieutenant, March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Ball's Bluff. Va., and captain, March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Cold Harbor, Va. Address, Nantucket, Mass.
SUTER, Charles R .:
Colonel of engineers. U. S. Army; born in New York, May 5, 1842; appointed from New York; graduated from Military Acad- emy, class of 1862; second lieutenant of
engineers, June 17, 1862; first lieutenant, March 3, 1863; captain, June 17, 1864; ma- jor, Oct., 10, 1871; lieutenant-colonel, Jan. 10, 1887; colonel, Feb. 5, 1897; served in Spanish-American War. Brevet rank- Brevet captain, July 18, 1863, gallant and meritorious services during the siege of Morris Island, S. C .; brevet major, March 13, 1865, faithful and meritorious services during the war. Address, Army Building, New York.
SUTHERLAND, Ward Taylor, D. D .:
Clergyman; graduated from University of Rochester, 1878; teacher, Western New York Institution for Deaf Mutes, Roches- ter, N. Y., 1878-84; student, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., 1884-87; pas- tor, First Congregational Church, Ash- land, Wis., 1887-89; pastor, Park Avenue Church. Meadville, Pa., 1889-94; Congre- gational Church, Oxford, N. Y., 1894 to 1903. Congregational Church, Wellsville, N. Y., 1903, to date. Address, Wellsville, N. Y.
SUTHERLAND, William A .:
Lawyer; born in Hopewell, N. Y., May 30, 1849, and is a son of Rev. Andrew and Mary (McLean) Sutherland; his father was for many years a member of the Gen- esee and East Genesee Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the State of New York. He was educated at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Col- lege, at Lima, N. Y., and afterwards read law in the office of Hon. Edwin A. Nash, (now a justice of the Supreme Court), then practicing law at Lima, N. Y. He was admitted to practice April, 1874, and has been in active practice of his profes- sion ever since, first in Livingston Coun- ty and then at Rochester, N. Y. In the latter city he formed a partnership with the late ex-Surrogate W. Dean Shuart in 1884, which continued until the death of Judge Shuart in 1900; in 1898 he was pres- ident of the Rochester Bar Association, and in 1902-03 was corporation counsel for the City of Rochester. He has been active in the councils of the Republican party, first appearing as a delegate to the State convention in 1881, and being a delegate to nearly every Republican State convention since that time; he was tempo- rary chairman of the State convention in April, 1892, at Albany, and has been chair- man of its important committees many times; he was a delegate to the Republi- can National convention in 1896, and was the New York State member of the Re- publican National Committee from 1892 to 1896; he was counsel for the Republican party in the State Senatorial election cases in 1891 and in the re-apportionment cases of 1892, and was the Republican nominee for attorney general in 1891. He was Grand Master of Masons in the State of New York in 1897 to 1899 and in 1900 was honored with unanimous election to honorary membership in the grand lodge
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of Canada with the honorary rank of grand master, with all the rights and privileges thereto appertaining; he is a member of the Psi Upsilon Greek letter fraternity of the Pi Chapter of Syracuse University. He was married, March 6, 1878, to Inez L. Jackson; he has been a prominent campaign speaker for his party and platform speaker in much demand; the Grand Lodge of New York paid him the unprecedented honor of publishing his Masonic addresses and distributing the same to all the grand lodges and Masonic libraries of the world. Residence, 2 Ar- nold Park; office, 911-914 Wilder Build- ing, Rochester. N. Y.
SWEENY, William Montgomery:
Author; born New York City, Aug. 29, 1871; son of late Brigadier-General Thom- as W. Sweeny U. S. Army, and Eugenia Octavia (Reagan) Sweeny; not married; educated at public and private schools and academies in New York City and Augusta, Ga. He has written for the press and contributed biographical articles to "Offi- cers of the Army Who Served in the Civil War" (Philadelphia, 1892) ; "History of the Twelfth Regiment, N. G. N. Y. (New York, 1894); Journal of the American- Irish Historical Society (Boston, 1899) ; "White's Cyclopedia of Biography" (New York, 1901) ; and "Lamb's Biograph- ical Directory of the United States" (Bos- ton. 19-). Author of "Life and Services of Thomas William Sweeny, Brigadier- General, United States Army" (in manu- script). Editor of "Sweeny's Narrative of Army Service in the Mexican War and on the Plains, 1846-1853"; member, and one of the executive committee, Aztec Club of 1847, American-Irish Historical Society; ex-secretary, New York Association of California Pioneers, Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States; biog- raphy in "Biographical Directory of the State of New York" (New York, 1900). Residence, Astoria, L. I., N. Y.
SWEET, John E .:
Mechanical engineer and president of the Straight Line Engine Company, Syra- cuse, N. Y .; born in Pompey, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1832; son of Horace and Candace Avery Sweet; common school education; carpenter, builder and architect in Ala- bama until the breaking out of the Civil War. He was in Europe until 1864 as an inventor and draughtsman; married Caro- line V. Hawthorne, Nov. 24, 1870; second, Irene C. Clark, May 9, 1889; professor of practical mechanics at Cornell, 1873 to 1879; president American Society of Me- chanical Engineers, 1883-84; expert for government and juror at Columbian Ex- position, 1893; president Engine Builders' Association of the United States, 1899- 1901; contributor to engineering publica- tions. Residence, 114 Merriman Ave., Syracuse, N. Y.
SWIFT, Lewis:
Astronomer; born in Clarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y., Feb. 29, 1820; son of General Lewis and Anna Forbes (Swift) Lewis; at the age of thirteen years he had the mis- fortune or otherwise to break his left hip bone, from which through defective surgery he has since been lame. In 1854, without a teacher, he took up the subject of practical astronomy in Marathon, N.Y., with a four and one-half-inch comet- seeker, with which, there, in Rochester, and California, he discovered over a dozen new comets, the first at Marathon (on a platform he built on the gable of his barn), with a period of 123 years, having orbital elements identical with the August 10th star shower. In 1872 he moved to Rochester, selecting as an observing place, to avoid street lights, a dark alley; soon after he moved his telescope to the large flat roof of Walter B. Duffy's cider mill, which cut off all street lights, where in five years he discovered six new comets. The people of Rochester presented him with $12,500, with which he purchased a sixteen-inch Clark reflector, a spectro- scope, and a sidereal clock. Mr. H. H. Warner built him an expensive observa- tory, in which he discovered, in addition to several comets, 900 new nebulae. At Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain, California, 3,500 feet above the Pacific, he discovered, before his sight failed him, 342 more neb- ulae, placing him in point of numbers next to Sir John Herschel; for his dis- coveries he has received three gold med- als from Austria,; the La Land prize, a silver medal, and 540 francs; and five of bronze, one a large one from the Royal Astronomical Society of England, or nine in all, being more than any other astron- omer. ever received; also $500 from Mr. Warner. Ph.D., was conferred on him by the University of Rochester; elected a fel- low of the Royal Astronomical Society of England, and by Canada and Mexico. Ad- Gress, Marathon, N. Y.
SYKES, MCCREADY:
Lawyer; born in Isleham, Mathews Co., Va .; son of Rev. Charles Sykes; graduated from Princeton College, 1894; admitted to the New York bar, 1891. Member of Play- ers Club and author of magazine articles and poems; partner of Henry W. Rudd, in firm of Rudd & Sykes. Address Broad Exchange, New York.
SYMONDS, Charles S .:
Banker; president of the Utica City Na- tional Bank, Utica, N. Y .; born in Water- town, Jefferson Co., N. Y .; son of Charles Fitch Symonds and Sarah Louise (Gran- nis) Symonds; married Mary Ella Fitch, daughter of Thomas Brockway Fitch, a prominent citizen and banker of Syracuse, N. Y .; read law with Brown & Beach, of Watertown, N. Y. He is a director in the following companies: Utica Gas & Elec- tric Company, International Heater Com-
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pany, Utica Trust & Deposit Company, Utica Canning Company, Utica Pipe Foundry Company, Roberts-Wicks Com- pany, and in the Utica, Clinton & Bing- hamton Railroad Company; vice-president and director in Chas. Millar & Son Com- pany; trustee Utica Art Association; pres- ident Oneida Historical Society; vice-pres- ident Fort Schuyler Club; trustee House of Good Shepherd; was one of the con- tributors to Johnson's Encyclopedia. Member of the Mayflower Society, Colon- ial Governors, and Colonial Wars. Ad- dress, Utica City National Bank, Utica, N. Y.
SYMONDS, Frederick M .:
Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy; born in Wa- tertown, N. Y., May 16, 1847; entered Na- val Academy, Sept. 26, 1862, from ยท Con- gressional district including Jefferson Co., N. Y .; attached to United States flagship Piscataqua and U. S. S. Ashuelot, Asiatic Station, 1867-70; torpedo station, Newport, R. I., 1871-72; U. S. S. Tuscarora, 1872-75; U. S. S. Minnesota, 1875-78; U. S. S.James- town, Alaskan waters, 1879-81; U. S. S. New Hampshire, 1882-85; U. S. S. Mohi- can, Pacific Station, 1885-88; U. S. S. Mich- igan, Great Lakes, 1889-92; inspector of ordnance, Mare Island Navy Yard and Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal., 1894-96; command of U. S. S. Pinta, Alas- kan waters, 1896-97; commended by Secre- tary of Navy for services in Alaska; com- mand of U. S. S. Marietta, 1897-99. The Marietta, departing from San Jose, Guate- mala, joined the U. S. S. Oregon in the Magellan Straits on April 7, 1888, and ac- companied her as far as Rio de Janiero, Brazil, when, the commands separated, the Oregon pushing on to the West In- dies and the Marietta directed to convoy steamer Nictheroy (now U. S. S. Buffalo) around Cape St. Roque, and then to pro- ceed to Key West, where she arrived June 3, 1898, and at once took station on Havana blockade; in twenty-two months the Marietta steamed forty-four thousand miles; work of Marietta commended by Secretary of Navy for services during Spanish-American War, and later by Sec- retary of State and Secretary of Navy for services at Bluefields, Nicaragua. He was light-house inspector, Chicago, Ill., 1899- 1902; War College, 1902; ensign, Dec. 18, 1868; master, March 21, 1870; lieutenant,; March 21, 1871; lieutenant commander, July 31, 1890; commander, June 19, 1897; captain, March 18, 1902; retired, rear ad- miral, Dec. 1. 1902. Address, 99 Caroline St., Ogdensburg, N. Y.
SYMONS, Thomas William:
Major, corps of engineers, and colonel, U. S. Army; born in Keesville, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1849; received common school edu- cation in Flint, Mich., and was appointed from that place as a cadet at West Point in 1870, graduating in 1874 at the head of his class; he was assigned to the corps of
engineers, and has been on duty as an officer of the corps ever since; on duty torpedo station, Willets Point, 1874-76; western surveys, 1876-79; operating in Utah, Nevada, Oregon, California and Washington; chief engineer, Department Columbia, 1879-82; at this time he made extensive surveys of and wrote a book on the Columbia River; investigated and set- tled a threatened uprising of the Skagit and Sauk Indians; 1882 to 1883, in charge of works for improving the Mississippi River; 1883, made an examination of the Mexican boundary line under orders of the Secretary of State, and for it received the formal thanks of the State Depart- ment; 1883 to 1889, in Washington on duty improving water supply of the city and in the District Government in charge of wa- ter supply, sewerage, pavements, as well as streets, roads, bridges, lighting, steam and street car railroads, etc. In 1885 he made an examination of Hot Springs, Ark., for the Interior Department; 1889 to 1895, in charge of river and harbor works in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana; made surveys, plans and esti- mates for ship canal north of Seattle con- necting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington; one of the originators and chief engineer of private ship canal from Seattle Harbor to Lake Washington; 1895 to 1903, at Buffalo, in charge of river and harbor works on Lake Erie, Niagara River, Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River, and engineer Tenth Lighthouse District, embracing Lakes Erie and On- tario and Detroit, Niagara, and St. Law- rence Rivers. He planned and built a very exposed and elaborate lighthouse and fog signal station in Lake Erie near To- ledo; 1895-96-97, made an exhaustive study and report on the subject of canals from the Great Lakes to the sea at New York City, in which he outlined and proposed the plan for a barge canal, for the con- struction of which the State Legislature has made an appropriation of $101,000,000, and which has now been ratified by the people of the State at the polls. In 1899 he served as a member of the Canal Ad- visory Board appointed by Governor (now President) Roosevelt; during 1900 he as- sisted the State engineer in making sur- veys. plans and estimates for the barge canals across the State. In 1902, in con- nection with A. E. Blackmer, he drew an act passed by the Legislature providing for the barge canal and its construction; 1900-01, member of board of directors and of executive committee of the Pan-Ameri- can Exposition; at Buffalo, built the long- est breakwater in the world. He has writ- ten several important papers on harbor improvements and canals, and for several. years was a lecturer on engineering at Cornell University; at present is on duty in charge of public buildings and grounds of Washington, D. C., and military aid to the President, with the rank of colonel. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and an honorary mem-
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ber of the Society of Civil Engineers of Western New York; honorary member of Buffalo and Ellicott Clubs; member of Country and Thursday Clubs of Buffalo, and of the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, and an honorary member of Buffalo and Erie, Pa., Yacht Clubs; promoted to captain in 1884 and major in 1896; married in 1884 to Letitia V. Robinson, of Pittsburg, Pa. Resi- dence, 20 Lafayette Square, Washing- ton, D. C .; official address, Lemon Build- ing, same city.
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TAGGART, Marion Ames:
Author; born in Haverhill, Mass .; is the daughter of Alfred Gilchrist Taggart and Sarah Porter Ames; descended on the paternal side from pure Scotch ancestry, the patronymic was originally Mactag- gart; her ancestors settled in New Hamp- shire in Colonial days. On the mother's side is descended from old New England Colonial stock, her grand father being the Captain Ames, who fought at Bunker Hill. She never went to school, the exceeding delicacy of her health ne- cessitating education at home; born in a household of book lovers, her education was largely reading, from her fifth year, of the older English poets and classics. An only child, excitable and imaginative, she spent most of her childhood and youth apart from comrades of her own age, and this doubtless fostered the strong bent of her mind toward verse and prose writing. She began contributing to magazines in her fourteenth year, and has continued doing so to the present date. Of late her work has been chiefly for children, the branch of literary work in which she has always been most interested. She has produced many books, seven of which were published by Berziger Bros., New York; "The Wyndham Girls" was pub- lished by the Century Company in 1902; "Miss Lochinvar" by Appleton in the same year; "At Aunt Anna's" by Apple- ton in 1903. She will bring out "The Lit- tle Grey House" through McClure, Phil- lips & Co. in 1904, and is to publish sev- eral other books, already planned and placed. Marion Ames Taggart's home was Boston in her early childhood until she removed to Plainfield, N. J., for her mother's health, and her home has been in New York City for the past nine years, where her most important work has been done and her reputation made; she owns a summer home at Paradise Valley, Pa., in the Pocono Mountains. Contributor to Youth's Companion, St. Nicholas, the Catholic World, and to the Independent. Author of "Asa the Shepherd," which has been translated into Italian and re- published in Italy. Address, 102 Waverly Place, New York.
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TAGGART, William Rush:
Lawyer; born in Smithville, Wayne County. Ohio, Sept. 4. 1849, Son of Wil- liam Wirt Taggart, M. D., and of Mar- garet M. His ancestry was Scotch-Irish. Mr. Taggart was graduated from the University of Wooster in 1871. He stud- ied law with the Hon. Martin Welker, and Charles M. Yocum, and was gradu- ated from the Law School of the Uni- versity of Michigan in March, 1875. In 1887 he came to the City of New York and connected himself with the law firm of Dillon and Swayne. In 1891 he was appointed solicitor of the Western Union Telegraph Company. He was counsel in the celebrated Laidlaw-Sage law suit, and was at one time in the United States Geological Survey. Address. 319 West 75th St .; office, 195 Broadway New York.
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