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TITHERINGTON, Richard Handfield:
Managing editor of Munsey's Magazine and secretary of the Frank A. Munsey Company; born in Chester, England, Oct.
2, 1861; son of the late William Tithering- ton, of Dee Hills, Chester. Educated at Winchester College, 1875-80; and Mag- dalen College, Oxford, 1880-84. Came to the United States in Aug., 1884, as tutor to the sons of the late Abram S. Hewitt; with publishing house of Frank A. Mun- sey since 1886. Author of "History of the Spanish-American War" (Appleton, 1900), and many magazine and newspaper articles, etc. Member of National Arts Club. Address, 111 Fifth Ave., New York.
TITUS, Robert C .:
Jurist; born in Eden, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1839; educated at common schools and Oberlin College; studied law in the office of Horace Boies, at Hamburg, N. Y .; admitted to the bar in 1865, and for a year served as special deputy clerk for Erie County. In 1866 he opened an office at Hamburg, N. Y .; but removed to Buf- falo in 1873 and formed partnership with Joel L. Walker. Elected district attor- ney of Erie County in 1877; State Senator in 1881; re-elected in 1883; elected judge of the Superior Court of Buffalo, 1885; made chief judge by his associates in 1891; transferred to Supreme Court, 1896: He was a candidate for judge of Court of Appeals on the Democratic ticket in 1896 and was a candidate in Democratic State Convention for governor of New York in 1898. Address, 702 Seventh St., Buffalo, N. Y.
TOASPERN, Otto:
Artist; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 26, 1863; graduate of Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Bavaria; pupil of N. Gysis and Paul Nauen; formerly instruc- tor at National Academy of Design, New York. Illustrator on Life, Harper's The Century, and various other periodicals in America and Europe. Figure and por- trait painter. Address, 51 West 10th St., New York.
TODD, Adam H .:
Clergyman (retired); graduated from the University of Rochester in 1866; from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1869. Private One Hundred and Eighth New York Volunteers, 1864-65; pastor Baptist Church, Bennington, N. Y., 1869-70; East Cameron and Jasper, N. Y., 1870-75; New- ark Valley, N. Y., 1875-79; Tioga Center, N. Y., 1879-81; Greene, N. Y., 1881-84; Marathon, N. Y., 1884-90; retired, 1890. Address, 26 Ayers St., Binghamton, N. Y.
TODD, Charles Burr:
Author; was born at Redding, Conn., Jan. 9. 1849; he attended the public schools, completing his education under tutors at home. In 1895 he was appoint- ed by Mayor Strong on a commission to print the early records of the City of New York, serving as the secretary of this
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body. Is a member of the New York His- torical Society and the Society of Ameri- can Authors; connected with Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography. Au- thor of "History of the Burr Family," 1879; "Lance. Cross and Canoe Across the Valley of the Mississippi" (in collabora- tion), 1898; "A Brief History of New York," 1899; "The True Aaron Burr," 1902; "The Real Benedict Arnold," 1903. Address, 32 Broadway, New York.
TOLFREE, James Edward:
Rear-admiral, U. S. Navy; born in New York; appointed from New York as act- ing assistant paymaster, Sept. 13, 1862; ordered to U. S. S. Vanderbilt, special service, 1862-65. Appointed assistant pay- master, March 3, 1865; commissioned as paymaster, May 4, 1866; U. S. S. Rich- mond, European Squadron, 1869-71; re- ceiving-ship at New York, 1872-76. Pro- moted ten numbers in grade for meri- torious service at Fort Fisher in Feb., 1875; new commission, dated Jan. 22, 1866; purchasing pay office, Philadelphia, Pa., 1876-77; fleet paymaster, European Squad- ron, 1877-78; charge Naval Depot, Ville- franche-sur-Mer, '1878-79; pay office, Navy Yard, Washington, 1879; fleet paymaster, South Atlantic Station, 1879-82; receiv- ing-ship at New York, 1882-85; pay in- spector, Aug. 10, 1886: fleet paymaster, Asiatic. Station. 1886-89; general store- keeper. Navy Yard, New York, 1889-90; training-shin Minnesota. Dec .. 1890. to Nov .. 1893; Navy Yard, New York. Feb .. 1894. to date; pay director, 1898. Placed on retired list of the Navy with rank of rear-admiral. Aug. 29. 1899. Address, 27 West 49th St .. New York.
TORREY, Morris W .:
Actuary of the Manhattan Life Insur- ance Company of New York; was born in that city Nov. 20, 1870, of Revolution- ary stock on both sides of his family. In 1887 he entered the office of D. P. Fackler, the actuary, and in 1891 became his managing clerk. He resigned in 1893 to enter the actuarial department of the Union Central Fire Insurance Company of Ohio, of which he became assistant actuary in 1895; three years later he re- ceived his present appointment. Address, 66 Broadway, New York.
TOWNE, Charles Arnette:
Lawyer, politician. financier; born in , Oakland County, Mich., Nov. 28. 1858; son of Charles J. and Laura A. F. Towne. He received his preparatory education in the public schools of his locality. and then entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Ph.D. in 1881. In the same year became chief clerk of the Department of Public In- struction, at Lansing, Mich., and subse-
quently held a like position in the Treas- ury Department of the State. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Michigan in 1885, beginning his practice at Marquette. In 1889 he changed his location to Chicago, and a year later to Duluth, Minn .; in 1894 was elected to Congress on the Re- publican ticket, and at once assumed an ardent advocacy of bimetalism. At the National Republican Convention in St. Louis in .1896 he left the party and in the same year was defeated for Congress as the independent candidate of the Dem- ocrats and Populists. In 1897 he became chairman of the Silver Republican Na- tional Committee; in 1900 was nominated for the office of Vice-President by the People's Party, and endorsed by the Sil- ver Republicans; the latter he declined as not being in accord with his Demo- cratic sympathies. In Dec., 1900, he was chosen by the governor of Minnesota to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate, where his most notable action was his determined opposition to the ad- ministration's Philippine policy. In 1901 his important business connections neces- sitated his removal to New York, where his location promises to be permanent. He is president of the Central Asphalt & Refining Company, president of the Ex- port Oil & Pine Line Company of Texas, president of the Charles A. Towne & Co., incorporated, and member of the board of directors of the California King Gold Mines Company, and of the Rio Del Monte Gold Mining Company. Mr. Towne was married in 1887 to Maude Irene Wil- dey. Address, 63 Wall St., New York.
TOWNSEND, Charles C .:
Clergyman; graduated from the Univer- sity of Rochester in 1877; professor in State Normal School. Potsdam, N. Y., 1877-82: pastor of the Methodist Episco- nal Church at Buck's Bridge. N. Y., 1883- 84; Watertown N. Y., 1885-87; Lowville, N. Y., 1888-92; Malone, N. Y., 1893-97; Fulton, N. Y .. 1898-1902; Camden, N. Y., 1903 to date. Address, Camden, N. Y.
TOWNSEND, Charles John:
Stock broker; graduated from Univer- sity of Rochester in 1879 (A. M., 1888); member New York Stock Exchange, and' head of the firm of Townsend & Shera, New York City; endowed the Townsend scholarship in political and constitutional law. University of Rochester, 1899. . Ad- dress. 33 West 84th St .; office, 6 Wall St., New York.
TOWNSEND, Curtis McD .:
Major, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York; cadet at. U. S. Military Academy. July 1, 1875; gradu- ated. June 13. 1879. Additional second lieutenant of Engineers. June 13. 1879; second lieutenant. June 30, 1879; first
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lieutenant, June 15, 1882. Served in the Spanish-American War; captain, Oct. 5, 1898; major, Jan. 29, 1900. Address, Ma- nila, P. I.
TOWNSEND, Edwin F .:
Colonel, U. S. Army; born in New York, July 14, 1833; appointed from Wisconsin; cadet at U. S. Military Academy, Sept. 1, 1850; graduated, July 1, 1854. Brevet second lieutenant, Third Artillery, July 1, 1854; second lieutenant, Jan. 31, 1855; re- signed March 11, 1856; appointed first lieutenant, Fourteenth Infantry, May 14, 1861; accepted. July 1, 1861; captain, Six- teenth Infantry, May 14, 1861; transferred to Twenty-fifth Infantry, Sept. 21, 1866; major, Twenty-seventh Infantry, June 22, 1868; transferred to Ninth Infantry, March 15, 1869; lieutenant-colonel, Eleventh In- fantry, March 20, 1879; colonel, Twelfth Infantry, Oct. 13. 1886. Brevet rank, bre- vet major, April 7, 1862, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Shi- loh, Tenn .; brevet lieutenant-colonel, March 13, 1865, for continued and faith- ful services in the ordnance department. Retired, Oct. 1, 1895. Address, 2021 Kalorama Ave., N. W. Washington, D. C. .
TOWNSEND, Mrs. Geo. W .:
President of Women's Educational and Industrial Union, of Buffalo, N. Y. The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Buffalo is an entirely non-sec- tarian organization; Protestant, Catholic and Hebrew women are serving on its board of directors. Its object is to pro- mote mutual co-operation and fellowship among women. By its protective com- mittee it extends sympathy and counsel to women, who often lose, through ig- norance and weakness, the rights con- ceded them by law. Its educational de- partment provides equal opportunities for intellectual improvements to all classes; the emnloyment bureau assists women to find occupations best suited to develop individual talent, and seeks in every way to help them become self-dependent; the classes in physical culture and home nursing are an important branch of the work; a committee on practical philan- thropy ministers to the sick and the poor. In its new building, the union has estab- lished a school of domestic science. Ad- dress, Buffalo, N. Y.
TOWNSEND, Henry Clark:
Electrician; is well known to the pro- fessional world and among electricians and scientists. Born in Cambridge in 1850, he went to Washington in 1862, where his father had been ordered on public business. His classical education began at the Rittenhouse Academy and was completed at Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1871; in college he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa,
Honorary Society, and of other well known organizations. Graduated from the Columbian University Law School in Washington, D. C. Admitted to bar; was principal examiner in the United States Patent Office in the class of electricians, which position he held for four years; resigned to accept a lucrative practice in New York; while in control of the division of electricity many of the great inventions which marked the beginning of the present era of inventions and in- dustrial activity, in matters electrical, passed his approval. Has connections with the American Union Telegraph Com- pany, the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company, and in numerous prominent electric light and electric manufacturing corporations, including the American Electric Company of New Britain, suc- ceeded by the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, and the Lorimer Telephone Company, with which he is connected in numerous and important contests. He is a direct descendant (on his mother's side) of the Bacon family of Bedford, Mass., his ancestors settling there in 1640. The Ba- con homestead was built in the seven- teenth century. and is still standing. Six generations of them were born or lived in this fainous house; some of his ancestors were heroes in King Philip's War, and all were noted for their courage and integ- rity. The great-greatgrandfather of Mr. Townsend, Jonathan Bacon was the 'principal inhabitant" and "selectman" appointed to assemble the people in the first town meeting of Bedford. Jona- than's brother and sons were in the Concord fight and it is a matter of his- tory that of the twenty-six minute men from Concord, six of them were Bacons. Upon his father's side he is descended from Thomas Wilder (or Wyellder) and Robert Townsend of Lancaster, Mass. The Wilders settled there in 1639, coming from Lancaster, England. They were noted for their learning. Thev and the Townsends inter-married, the Wilder homestead coming at last into posses- sion of the Townsend family. Address, 354 West 123d St., New York.
TOWNSEND, Katharine Goodall:
Physician; daughter of John K. Goodall and Marian (Le Petit) ; born in Wash- ington, D. C .; educated at public and pri- vate schools. Was the first woman to be appointed to a government clerkship in the Department of State according to the civil service rules, in 1874; was the first woman to be appointed as teacher of music in the county schools of Washing- ton in 1871; was educated as a musician and singer; sang in many leading choirs in Washington and New York; was mem- ber of several literary and musical clubs. In 1879 married to Henry Clark Town- send, a lawyer and solicitor of patents. In 1888 entered as a student the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women; graduated in 1901. Has been in
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active practice since, making diseases of women and children her special study. Has been actively connected with dis- pensaries and clinics. and devoted one year to clinical work in Paris. She has contributed to newspapers and magazines for years, and is the author of many homeopathic medical papers. Member of County Medical Society and New York State Homeopathic Society; was president
of the Alumni Association of the Woman's Medical College; also a member of Sorosis, the Quid Nunc Club, the Shakespeare Club, and is an active mem- ber of Holy Trinity Church (Episcopal). Address, 354 West 123d St., New York.
TOWNSEND, Wisner R .:
Physician; born in Staten Island, N. Y., Aug. 5, 1856; A. B., Columbia, 1877; A. M., 1880; M. D., 1880; is associate surgeon at Ruptured and Crippled Hospital; con- sulting surgeon Bayonne Hospital; or- thopedic surgeon to French Hospital; pro- fessor orthopedic surgery at New York Polyclinic. Member of board of trustees New York Polyclinic Medical School; was president American Orthopedic Associa- tion, 1899; member New York Academy of Medicine, etc. Address, 125 West . 58th St., New York.
TOWNSLEY, Clarence P .:
Captain, U. S. Army; born in De Kalb, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1855; appointed from Iowa; graduated at Military Academy in class of 1881; graduated at Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., class of 1884; graduated at Torpedo School, Willet's Point, N. Y., July 1, 1885. Additional second lieutenant, Fourth Artillery, June 11, 1881; second lieutenant, Oct. 21, 1881; first lieutenant, Jan. 16, 1888. Service, with regiment at the Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 30, 1881; in the field in Arizona, Oct. 3 to Oct. 26, 1881; Apache troubles, no engagements, to Nov. 4, 1881; at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., to Nov. 30, 1881; at Madison Barracks, N. Y., to Dec. 7, 1881; at Fort Preble, Me., to April 20, 1882; at Artillery School, Fort Mon- roe, Va., to May 1. 1884; at Fort Warren, Mass., to Dec. 26, 1884; detached at Wil- let's Point, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1885, to July 1, 1885 (completed the course at Torpedo School); with regiment at Fort. Warren, Mass., to July 29, 1885; on leave to Aug. 28, 1885; detached at U. S. Military Acad- emy as instructor of drawing, to Oct. 26, 1888; with regiment at Fort Trumbull, Conn., to Nov. 2, 1888; at Fort Warren, Mass., to May 13, 1889; at Jackson Bar- racks, La., to Oct. 9, 1889; at Fort Adams, R. I., Light Battery B, Fourth Artillery, to Feb. 26, 1891; Fort McPherson, .Ga., to May 3, 1893; Washington Barracks, D. C., to May 30, 1898; Tampa, Fla., to Aug. 20, 1898; Washington D. C., to Oct., 1898; Huntsville, Ala., to Jan., 1899; Havana, Cuba, to March 30, 1899; Fort Monroe,
Va., to date; also major, charge ordnance office, U. S. Volunteers, July 27, 1898, to May 12, 1899; captain, March 2, 1899. Address, Fort Monroe, Va.
TRACY, Benjamin F .:
Lawyer; born in Owego, N. Y., April 26, 1830; educated at the Owego Acad- emy; studied in a law office in native town, and was admitted to bar in 1851. Was elected by the Whigs district at- torney for Tioga County, 1853; was in State Legislature, 1862. He recruited two regiments, One Hundred and Ninth and One Hundred and Thirty-seventh, be- coming colonel of the former, 1862; or- dered to Washington, D. C .; joined Ninth Army Corps of Army of the Potomac, 1864; took part in battle of the Wilder- ness, but left active service as his health failed; assigned to the command, Elmira, N. Y., prison camp; breveted brigadier- general of Volunteers, 1865, for gallant services during the war; resigned, 1865. District attorney for Eastern district of New York, 1866-73. He drew up an in- ternal revenue bill which trebled the revenue of the United States; appointed associate justice of the State Court of Appeals, 1881. He resumed the practice of law in 1883; appointed Secretary of the Navy, 1889, and urged vigorously the increase of naval force. Address, 71 Broadway, New York.
TRACY, Elmer C., M.D .:
Graduated from the University of Roch- ester, N. Y., in 1882; studied medicine at Columbia University, receiving M. D. in 1885. Physician, New York City, 1885- 86; assistant surgeon in the U. S. Navy for some time; now physician and sur- geon, New York. Member of Medical So- ciety of the County of New York. Address, 27 East 126th St., New York.
TRAFTON, William Henry:
Statistician, journalist; born in Brook- lyn, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1857; studied at Mili- tary Academy at Jamaica, N. Y., and at home under private tutor. He has been statistician and correspondent since 1875; has been commercial editor of New York Produce Exchange Reporter; also of the New York World, New York Commercial, Mail and Express, and Evening Post; spe- cial correspondent and contributor to Am- erican and foreign papers and magazines. Member and treasurer of American Insti- tute of Civics, West Side Republican Club, and New York Produce Exchange. Ad- dress, 21 Beaver St., New York.
TRAIN, George Francis:
Author and financier; born in Boston, Mass., March 24, 1829. His father removed to New Orleans, La., in 1832, where all the family except George Francis died of yellow fever. He went north alone
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at age of four and was reared by his grandmother; educated at public schools of Waltham, Mass .; 1844, entered count- ing house of Enoch Train & Co., of Bos- ton; admitted to partnership in 1853; 1858, went to London and promoted the build- ing of the Atlantic & Great Western Rail- road; 1868, was an independent candidate for the Presidency of the United States and made an electioneering tour of the country. He has made four trips around the world, and holds the record for hav- ing arrived in New York ahead of his schedule time. Author of "An American Merchant in Europe, Asia and Australia," 1857; "Young America in Wall Street," 1858; "Every Man His Own Autocrat," 1859; "Observations on Street Railways,"
1860; "Train's Union Speeches," 1862; "Downfall of England," 1865; "Champion- ship of Women," 1868; . "My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands," 1902. Ad- dress, Mills Hotel, 160 Bleecker St., New York.
TRASK, Spencer:
Banker; born'in Brooklyn, 1844; received his early education in the Polytechnic In- stitute of that city, whence he passed to Princeton College, from which institu- tion he graduated in 1866. Seeking a business outlet for his energies, he chose the field of finance in the City of New York. His banking house was estab- lished in 1869, and in April of the fol- lowing year he became a member of the Stock Exchange, the firm name being Trask & Stone, and in 1881 Spencer Trask & Co., under which title the house is still known. He became largely interested in various Edison Electric enterprises, or- ganizing the Brooklyn & New York Il- luminating Company, being president of the latter. He is a director and officer in a number of railroads, etc., in which his firm is interested; is president of Broad- way Realty Company, Morningside Realty Company; president of the board of trus- tees, Teachers College; trustee of General Theological Seminary, and interested as trustee in number of educational and philanthropic societies. He reorganized and bought the New York Times in 1897. Married, in Brooklyn, in 1874, to Katrina, daughter of George L. Nichols. He is a member of the
Metropolitan, Union League, Reform, City, Lawyers, and Na- tional Arts Clubs. Address, Saratoga, N. Y .; office, 54 William St., New York. .
TRAUB, Peter E .:
Captain, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York; cadet at U. S. Military Academy, Sept. 1, 1882; gradu- ated, July 1, 1886. Second lieutenant, First Cavalry, July 1, 1886; first lieuten- ant, Fifth Cavalry, Dec. 12, 1892; trans- ferred to First Cavalry, Dec. 27, 1892. Served in Spanish-American War; cap- tain, Fifth Cavalry, Feb. 2. 1901. Ad- dress, West Point, N. Y.
TREADWELL, George A .:
Geologist, metallurgist and miner; born in Maine; was educated in the public schools, followed by a course in geology and metallurgy at Yale. In 1867 he was- made superintendent of the famous Vul- ture Mine in Arizona, and built the then largest stamp mill in the world, working successfully the lowest grade ore that had ever been worked. He spent a long time in Europe, and was for several
years lecturer on assaying and metallurgy in the Dexter School of Mines of London .. Returning to Arizona, he began a series of investigations into the great copper deposits in the Verde Copper Belt, and subsequently becoming president of the George A. Treadwell Mining Company, a position he still holds. Address, Waldorf- Astoria Hotel; office, 27 William St., New York.
TREMAIN, Henry Edwin:
Lawyer; was born in New York City, Nov. 14, 1840; son of Edwin R. Tremain, and a member of a fighting family, be- ing the brother of Lieutenant Walter R. Tremain, who died in the service, and the cousin of Colonel Frank W. and Major Frederick L. Tremain, both slain in battle near the end of the war. He received his education at the College of the City of New York, graduating in 1860, and at once beginning a course of legal study at Columbia College Law
School. While he was thus engaged the war broke out, and he immediately (April 17, 1861) enlisted as a private in the New York Seventh Regiment, served with it during its first brief campaign, and soon after, in association with his brother, re- cruited a company in New York, and went to the front as first lieutenant in the Second Regiment of Fire Zouaves (Seventy-third New York Volunteers), which was attached to the famous Ex- celsior Brigade. He served in the line and as adjutant of this regiment till April, 1862, when, at the siege of York- town, he was promoted to the staff of General Nelson Taylor, then command- ing the Excelsior Brigade, and as such served during the Peninsular campaign and subsequently under General Pope; taking part in all the principal engage- ments before Richmond and in the battles of Pope's campaign, ending with the un- fortunate second Bull Run. During the last named battle, while participating in a charge, he was taken prisoner, and was forced for a time to endure the inhos- pitalities of Libby Prison; being one of a number held there as hostages to be ex- ecuted by lot in case General Pope con- tinued the destruction of Virginia prop- erty. Fortunately the cartel for the ex- change of prisoners was just then agreed upon, and after a few weeks' confinement Lieutenant Tremain was released on parole, and subsequently exchanged, pro- moted captain. and returned to duty as
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assistant inspector-general on the staff of General Sickles, now in command of his old division (Second Division of the Third Army Corps). Lieutenant Tremain re- ceived high commendation for his ser- vices in several of the Peninsular engage- ments, and his gallantry at the second Bull Run battle was warmly praised by his commander. He served in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, in the latter as major (his commission dat- ing April 25, 1863), his gallantry at Chan- cellorsville being so notable that he was specially recommended for a brevet; at Gettysburg he, as chief staff officer of the Third Army Corps, gained great dis- tinction; in 1864 he served as aide to General Butterfield at Chattanooga, took part in the engagements around Dalton and at Resaca, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for "dis- tinguished conduct" in the latter battle. Later in that year he was, at his special request, assigned to duty with the caval- ry corps of the Army of the Potomac, served as aide to Generals Gregg and Crook, and took part in all the cavalry engagements of the Petersburg campaign till the end of the war; was commended by General Crook for gallantry during this campaign, brevetted lieutenant-colonel, on General Sheridan's recommendation, at its termination, afterwards brevetted colonel. On Nov. 30, 1865, he was pro- moted brevet brigadier-general of volun- teers, and sent on duty to South Carolina, where he, in April, 1866, resigned from the service, returned to New York, and entered upon the practice of the law. He graduated at Columbia Law School in 1867, having already gained a promising legal business. In 1869 he formed with Colonel Mason W. Tyler the well known legal firm of Tremain & Tyler, now more than twenty-five years in active business. He was nominated for judge of the Com- mon Pleas in 1870, but defeated at the polls, his party being in the minority; in 1881 was repeatedly voted for by many members of the Legislature in joint con- vention for the United States senator- ship. In his law business he has fre- quently been employed by the United States government, and has practiced much in the United States Supreme Court. General Tremain has been active as a Republican in every Presidential contest since the war. He has contribut- ed considerably to the press, and was one of the founders and editors of the Daily Law Journal; was one of the founders of the Grand Army of the Re- public in New York, and served for a number of years as president of the Alumni of the College of the City of New York, and in 1901 was president of the Republican Club of the City of New York. Address, 32 Liberty St., New York.
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