Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 128

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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TREMAIN, Hobart L .:


Lieutenant, U. S. Navy; born in New York; entered Naval Academy, Sept. 30,


1864; graduated, 1868; Pacific Fleet, 1868- 69. Promoted to ensign, 1869; Terror (ironclad), N. A. Fleet, 1869-70; promoted to master, 1870; commissioned as lieuten- ant, 1872; Hartford, flagship. Asiatic Sta- tion, 1873-75; Minnesota (training-ship), 1875-78; Ticonderoga, special service, 1878- 81; Navy Yard New York, 1881-84; train- ing-ship Jamestown, 1884; training-ship Portsmouth, 1884-87; Navy Yard, New York, 1887-90. Navy Yard, New York, ordnance department during war with Spain, 1898. Retired, May 19, 1891. Ad- dress, Monticello, N. Y.


TRENCHARD. Edward:


Artist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 17, 1850; only son of Stephen D. and Ann B. Trenchard; educated in private schools and had decided talent for the fine arts. Entered office of the celebrated architect, Richardson; studied painting at School of Design, Art Students' League, and in Europe; studied painting with Professor Holmes; went to West Indies as admiral's clerk, North Atlantic Squadron, to study the natural scenery. Among his works are "The Passing Schooner," "The Old Wreck," "Sea, Sand and Solitude" (all exhibited at the Academy of Design, New York); "Sunset on the Strand," "The Breaking Waves Dashed High," a "Tropic Beach," "Maine Castle," "Rock Marble. Head." Mr. Trenchard married on June 11, 1878, Mary Cornelia Stafford, daugh- ter of William Bacon Stafford, president of North River Savings Bank, one of founders of Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution; vice-president General Society of 1812; hereditary mem- ber Aztec Society and the Loyal Legion, etc. Received Order of Bolivar (third class) from Venezuela. Address, 50 West 92d St., New York.


TRUAX, Charles H .:


Justice Supreme Court of the State of New York; was born at Durhamville, Oneida County, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1846, and received his education at Vernon Acad- emy, at Oneida Seminary, and finally at Hamilton College; left college in his junior year, but the college afterwards con- ferred on him in 1876 the degree of A. M., and in 1890 that of LL.D. During his period of school life he taught a part of each year-from 1862 to 1868. In the lat- ter year he came to New York, and en- tered the office of his uncle, Chauncey W. Shaffer, for the study of law. He progressed so rapidly in this line of study that he was admitted to the bar before the close of that year, and entered at once into practice, at first in association with his uncle, but in the following year by himself. On Nov. 2, 1880, he was elected judge of the Superior Court-a fourteen-year judgeship, and which he held to the end of his term in 1894. Dur- ing this incumbency many important de- cisions were given by Judge Truax


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among them that in the case of Williams vs. the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany, which affirmed the right of com- panies to consolidate and issue new stock; this decision was appealed from and re- versed by the General Term, but was sub- sequently sustained and reaffirmed by the Court of Appeals. Another decision given by him, of the greatest importance as regards the rights of private real es- tate owners, was that declared May 2, 1887, in the case of Abendroth vs. the New York Elevated Railroad Company; again elected justice of the Supreme Court, Jan., 1896, for full term. Married, first. Nancy C. Stone, Camden, Oneida County, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1871; second, Caro- line Sanders, New York. March 4, 1896. Judge of Superior Court, City of New York, 1881-94; president Holland Society, 1896-97; president Manhattan Club; presi- dent Society of Sons of Oneida; Demo- crat. Residence, 12 East 65th St., New York.


TRUAX, Chauncey S .:


Lawyer; was born March 11, 1854; is one of the most successful lawyers of New York City, and a member of the 1894 constitutional convention of the State of New York. Shortly after his gradua- tion from the Law School of Columbia College he was appointed to a professor- ship in Robert College, Constantinople, an institution founded during the Crimean War, and which has been of much service in adding to the higher educational fa- cilities of that Oriental city. Mr. Truax served there as professor for a year and a half, and took this opportunity to pursue researches in history and an- cient law, in which he was earnestly in- terested. He visited all the classical lo- calities in doing so, and went carefully over the site of Troy while Dr. Schlie- man was making his celebrated excava- tions there. Since his return to this country he has been very actively en- gaged in legal practice, in which he has had great professional success. Mem- ber of Metropolitan, Manhattan and Dem- ocratic Clubs. Address, 7 East 67th St .; office, 115 Broadway, New York.


TRUDEAU, Edward Livingston:


Physician; born in New York, Oct. 5, 1848; son of Dr. James and Cephise (Berger) Trudeau; was educated at Co- lumbia University; received a degree of M. D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1871; also an honorary de- gree of M.Sc. from Columbia in 1889. Was married on June 29, 1871, to Char- lotte G. Beare. Began practice in New York in 1872, but was obliged, on ac- count of ill-health, to go to the Adiron- dack Mountains, where he has since re- sided. In 1884 he founded the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, for the treatment of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis in working men and women, this being the 1


first institution in America to attempt the cure of incipient tuberculosis by the cli- matic and open-air sanitarium method. The institution is semi-charitable; its benefits are extended only to persons of moderate means, whose lives otherwise would be sacrificed. In 1894 he founded the Saranac Laboratory for the study of tuberculosis, being the first research lab- oratory for the purpose in America; this is an unendowed laboratory, and is sup- ported entirely by voluntary contribu- tions of its friends. Dr. Trudeau has been in charge of both the sanitarium and the laboratory since their incipiency. He has written many articles in medical publi- cations, and is a member of the Century Association. Address, Saranac Lake, N. Y.


TRUESDELL. Mrs. John W .:


President Humane Educational Society, formerly Women's Auxiliary to S. P. C. A., of Syracuse, N. Y. The club was the first to introduce in the schools of that city' the Band of Mercy, which for years numbered over five thousand children. From this spring nature's studies, until some form of humane teaching is always brought before the children. They have each year a booth at the State Fair, where the club distributes about 40,000 leaflets; these are bought by the aux- iliary, and are all advocating kindness to animals. Address, 500 McBride St., Syra- cuse, N. Y.


TRUESDALE, William H .:


Educator; graduated from the Univer- sity of Rochester in 1867 (A. M., 1871); law student, Rochester, N. Y., 1867-69; principal Academy, Nunda, N. Y., 1870- 73; Union School, Olean, N. Y., 1875-79; High School, Jamestown, N. Y., 1879-81; manufacturer, 1882-84; High School, Mo- hawk, N. Y., 1885-90; superintendent of public schools. Geneva, N. Y., 1890-1903. Address, Geneva, N. Y.


TRUESDALE, William H .:


President of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad; was born Dec. 1, 1851; educated in the common schools of Illi- nois. Entered railway service in 1869 as clerk. since which he has been cashier and treasurer; agent of Rockford, Rock- land & St. Louis Railroad; 1872-73, trans- fer agent at same road; 1874-76, with the legal firm of Osborn & Curtis. of Rock Island, Ill., where he had charge of the legal affairs of various railroads. March 1, 1899, to date, president of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Mem- ber of Lawyers, Lotos, Metropolitan and Century Clubs. Address, 26 Exchange Place, New York.


TRYON, Dwight W .:


Artist; born in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 13, 1849; educated at public schools of


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Hartford, and studied art in Paris under Charles F. Daubigny and Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet; 1881, exhibited at the Salon several pictures; returned to New York, and opened a studio in 1881; took medal at Boston, 1882; gold medal at the American Art Association in 1886 for his "Daybreak," and in 1887 a similar medal for his "Moonlight"; awarded the second Hallgarten prize of $200 in 1887; 1889, the Webb prize of $300 at the Society of American Artists' Exhibition: Ellsworth prize of $300 at the Chicago Art Institute Exhibition, and the Palmer prize of $500 at Chicago; awarded gold medal at the Munich International Exhibition, 1891; awarded thirteen medals at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; first prize at the Cleveland Exposition, 1895; 1897, first prize Nashville Centennial Ex- position; first prize, gold medal and $1,500, at Carnegie Institute, 1898; chronological medal Carnegie Art Institute, 1899; gold medal Pan-American Exposition, 1901. Ad- dress, 226 West 59th St., New York.


TRYON, James Rufus:


Rear-admiral, U. S. Navy (retired) ; born at Coxsackie, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1837; graduated from Union College, 1858 (Ph.D. in 1891; LL.D., 1895). Entered Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, as assistant surgeon, 1863; passed through all grades; appoint- ed surgeon-general U. S. Navy, May, 1893; retired list, 1899. Unmarried. Ad- dress, Coxsackie, N. Y.


TUCK, Henry:


Vice-president of the New York Life Insurance Company; was born in Barn- stable, Mass., May 9, 1842; received his preparatory education at the Boston Pub- lic Latin School, and graduated from Harvard College in 1863. He at once took up the study of medicine, and re- ceived his degree at the Harvard Medi- cal School in 1867. In 1865 he served in the army as assistant surgeon, taking part in the last campaign and being present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. After graduating in medicine he passed some time abroad in the study of his profession, principally in Vienna; from Sept., 1868, until 1877, he practiced in Boston, at the same time serving as medical examiner for the Mutual Life and other insurance companies. In Nov., 1877, he was elected one of the medical directors of the New York Life Insurance Company, and removed to New York; was elected second vice-president in 1883 and vice-president in 1885. Address, 39 East 53d St., New York.


TUCKER, Willis Gaylord:


Analytical chemist and instructor; born in Albany, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1849; son of Luther and Margaret Lucinda (Smith) Tucker; educated at Albany Academy; graduated from Albany Medical College


(M. D.), 1870; has received honorary de- grees of Ph.D., Union, 1882, and Ph.G., Albany College Pharmacy, 1882. Is pro- fessor of chemistry and toxicology at Al- bany Medical College, and registrar of faculty of same, and was one of the founders of the Albany College of Phar- macy, being a trustee, dean of faculty, and professor of chemistry in same; is director of bureau of chemistry of the New York State Department of Health; member of board of governors of Union University. Author of numerous papers upon matters relating to sanitary chem- istry. Member Medical Society State of New York; fellow American Academy of Medicine; fellow Chemical Society (Lon- don); fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of Sig- ma Xi. Married, Sept. 17, 1879, May, daughter of Charles Newman, of Albany. Residence, 166 Washington Ave .; labora- tory. Albany Medical College, Albany, N. Y.


TUCKERMAN, Alfred:


Author; was born in New York, Jan. 15, 1848; son of Lucius and Eliza W. (Gibbs) Tuckerman; graduated from Har- vard College, 1870; Leipzig (Ph.D.) in 1874; assistant in Astor Library. New York, 1876 to 1880. Has compiled and published in the Smithsonian Miscellane- ous Collections an index to "Literature of the Spectroscope" in two volunmes (1888, continued in 1900); index to the "Litera- ture of Thermodynamics," and likewise to the "Bibliography of the Chemical In- fluence of Light." Has been a fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science since 1890; and for several years a member of the New York Academy of Science; is a member of the University, Harvard and Chemists Clubs, New York, and of the Cosmos Club, Wash- ington, D. C. Address, 342 West 57th St., New York.


TUCKERMAN, Gustavus:


Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born in Dorchester, Mass., June 5, 1856; son of Stephen Salisbury and Laura Willis (Bumstead) Tuckerman; was graduated from Harvard University. 1882, and Epis- copal Theological School, 1886; made dea- con, 1886; priest, 1887. After brief min- istry in Massachusetts and curacies in New York and Chicago was for ten years head of St. Stephent's House, St. Louis; now rector Church of the Holy Faith, East 166th St. and Trinity Ave., New York.


TURK, Milton Haight:


Educator, author; was born in Norwalk, Conn., June 28, 1866; son of the late Jacob Turk and Esther Cornwall (Street) Turk; graduate of Columbia University in the class of 1886; student in the Universities of Strassburg, Berlin and Leipzig, 1886-89


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(A. M., Ph.D .. Leipzig, 1889). Married, July 30, 1895 Margaret Soutter Bell, sec- ond daughter of Dr. Alexander Taylor Bell, of Baltimore. Was adjunct profes- sor of English, Hobart College, 1890-91; Horace White professor of English, Ho- bart College, since 1891; secretary of the faculty since 1890 and registrar since 1903. Member of Phi Beta Kappa since 1886 (secretary of the Hobart Chapter); also member Modern Language Association and American Philological Association. Author of "Syllabus of English Litera- ture," 1893 (University of the State of New York). Editor The Legal Code of Alfred the Great, with an introduction, 1893, Ginn & Co .; DeQuincey's Flight of a Tartar Tribe, with an introduction and notes, 1897, Houghton, Mifflin & Co .; Se- lections from DeQuincey, with an intro- duction and notes, Athehaeum Press Se- ries, 1902. Ginn & Co. Address, 678 South Main St., Geneva, N. Y.


TURNER, Reuben B .:


Major, U. S. Army; born in Fort Ed- ward, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1857; appointed from New York; graduated from Military Acad- emy, class of 1881. Second lieutenant, Sixth Infantry June 11, 1881; first lieu- tenant, Jan. 25, 1889; served at Fort Douglas, Utah. Fort Sheridan, Ill., and at Newport Barracks; captain, July 31, 1894. Served in Spanish-American War; major, Feb. 28," 1901.


Address, Des Moines, Ia.


TUTTLE, Dell Leland:


Sales agent, Buffalo district,. Philadel- phia & Reading Coal and Iron Company; born at East Otto, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1855; educated at Dunkirk, N. Y., completing academic course in 1874. Engaged in mercantile business, Little Valley. N. Y., as member of firm of S. A. Tuttle & Sons until 1885; . during residence in Little Valley was corporation clerk for several years-serving as presi- dent of Little Valley, 1884-85. In 1885 entered railroad service as private secre- tary to general superintendent of Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway, Buffalo- successively promoted to chief clerk and traveling car agent; 1890, superintendent transportation of Cincinnati. Saginaw & Mackinaw Railroad, Saginaw, Mich .; 1892, with Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company. Buffalo N. Y., in various capacities; 1898 appointed sales agent of Buffalo district, covering territory em- braced in States of Ohio. Michigan and Indiana, also Northern Kentucky, New York State west of and including Buffalo, and Western Pennsylvania. Director of Central Dock & Terminal Railway Com- pany, Buffalo, and of the Citizens' Na- tional Bank, of Springville, N. Y .; chair- man of the Union Terminal Railroad Dept. Y. M. C. A .; president Genesee Con- ference Epworth League-lay delegate to


General Conference of M. E. Church, meeting at Los Angeles, Cal., in 1904. Member of Ellicott, Transportation and Equality Clubs. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.


TUTTLE Ezra B .:


Merchant; born in New York City; removed to Brooklyn at an early age, and engaged in the coal business with his father, under the firm name of S. Tuttle & Son; the firm was established in 1846, being the oldest in that line of business in the Borough of Brooklyn. Is a mem- ber of the Sons of the Revolution; vice- president of the Williamsburg Savings Bank; director in the Nassau Trust Com- pany, also in the Kings County Fire In- surance Company; vice-president of the Brooklyn Church Society; a member of the board of managers of the American Bible Society; also of the Missionary So- ciety of the M. E. Church, and trustee of Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J. Address, 40 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. Y.


TUTTLE, George Montgomery:


Physician; born in Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1856; son of Rev. James H. Tut- tle, D. D., and Harriet Merriman. Pre- paratory education in Dresden, Germany, and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass .; graduated from Yale University in 1877, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (medical department of Colum- bia University), 1880. Interne at New York Hospital, 1880-81; physician-in- chief at New York State Emigrant Hos- pital, 1881-83; attending physician to Bellevue Hospital, 1885-89; professor of gynecology, College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), since 1885; attending gynecologist to Roosevelt Hospital since 1888. Member of New York Academy of Medicine, New York County Medical Society, New York Medi- cal and surgical Society, New York Clin- ical Society, Society of Alumni of New York Hospital, Society of American Wars; also member of University, Century As- sociation, Yale, and Barnard Clubs. Re- publican; unmarried. Contributor to Am- erican Text-Book of Gynecology, New York Medical Record, and New York Medical Journal. Address, 38 West 52d St., New York.


TUTTLE, Russell M .:


Editor; graduated (A. B.) from Univer- sity of Rochester in 1862 (A. M., 1865). First sergeant New York Volunteers, 1862-63; second lieutenant, 1863-64; first lieutenant, 1864-65; brevet captain, U. S. Volunteers, 1865. Has been engaged in literary pursuits since 1865; editor Horn- ellsville Times, 1867-79; president of Horn- ellsville village, 1869; member Assembly, State of New York, 1880-82; editor Morn- ing Times, Hornellsville, N. Y., 1882 to date (1904). Address, Hornellsville, N. Y.


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TWEED, Charles H .:


Banker; director of the Southern Pa- cific Company. He is a partner in the banking house of Speyer Bros. & Co. since Jan. 1, 1903. Member of Century, University, Harvard, Players, Metropoli- tan, Riding, Down Town, Corinthian Yacht and Royal Clyde Yacht Clubs. Ad- dress. 12 East 36th St .; office, 24 Pine St., New York.


TWOMBLY, Hamilton Mckown:


Capitalist; graduated from Harvard College, 1871; married to Florence Adele Vanderbilt, daughter of W. K. Vander- bilt, New York, 1877. He is a director of Chicago & Northwestern Railroad; Chi- cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad; C., C., C. & St. Louis Rail- road; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad; New York Central & Hudson River Railroad; New York Central Rail- road: Niagara River Railroad; New York Junction Railroad; West Shore and On- tario Terminal Railway Companies; also of the National Union Bank; New York Mutual Gas Light Company; Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company, and other such enterprises. Member of the Union League, Lawyers, Union, Metropolitan, and other New York clubs. Residence, 684 Fifth Ave .; office, 15 Broad St., New York.


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TYLER, James Gale:


Marine artist; was born Feb. 15, 1855, at Oswego. N. Y .; son of Major R. D. S. Tyler and Mary J. Hubbell; educated in public schools in Oswego until 1870, then came to New York and studied short time with A. Cary Smith, the celebrated naval architect of to-day, but an artist for many years. Married. in 1885, at Goshen, N. Y., Ida M. Jourdan. His most important paintings are: "Abandoning the Jean- nette," painted to order for James Gor- don Bennett. Esq .; "The Raging Main," sold to late Vice-President Hobart; "The Fortunes of War," "The Flying Dutch- man," "Do not Abandon Me," "Flying from the Alabama." "The Mad Atlantic," "First American Ship-Wreck," "The New World," and "Breasting the Seas." Cop- ies of his pictures have been produced by L. Prang, Harper's, Century. Truth, and other magazines. Member of Salmagundi Club, Artists' Fund Society, etc. Address, 510 West 156th St., New York.


TYLER, Mason W .:


Soldier and lawyer; born at Amherst, Mass., June 17, 1840; son of Professor William S. and Amelia (Whiting) Tyler; educated at public schools and Amherst College, where he was graduated in 1862. After graduation he enlisted in the Thir- ty-seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- unteer Infantry, Company F. He organ- ized and became second lieutenant of this company, and was afterwards promoted to the rank of colonel; was with Sheri-


dan in the Shenandoah Valley, partici- pating in all the engagements of his regi- ment until March, 1865, when he was dis- abled by wounds. At the close of the war he took a course at the Columbia Law School, after which he entered the office of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, of New York. In 1869 he became a partner with General H. E. Tremain; in 1894 the firm dissolved, and he became a member of the firm of Tyler & Durand. In 1903 he organized his present firm of Tyler & Tyler, doing business at No. 32 Liberty St., N. Y. Member of the Lawyers and Psi Upsilon Clubs. Residence, Plainfield, N. J.


TYLER, William W .:


Captain, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York, civil life; pri- vate and sergeant Company E, Ninety- fourth New York Infantry, Oct. 14, 1861, to May 19, 1862; first lieutenant, Ninety- fourth New York Infantry. May 20, 1862; captain, March 2. 1863; honorably mus- tered out March 17, 1863; first lieutenant V. R. C., June 6, 1863; captain, Dec. 10, 1863; honorably mustered out Sept. 30, 1867; second lieutenant, Ninth Cavalry, Aug. 13, 1867; first lieutenant, Dec. 9, 1871; transferred to Thirteenth Infantry, Aug. 1, 1881. Retired with rank of Cap- tain, Feb. 24, 1891. Address, Sacketts Harbor, N. 1.


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UCHIDA, S .:


Consul-general of Japan; born in Ko- kura, Japan, Jan. 17, 1865; graduated from the Department of Law, Imperial University of Tokio, in 1889. Appointed in the same year attache to the Depart- ment of Foreign Affairs, Imperial govern- ment, ' Tokio; vice-consul at Shanghai, China, 1890-93; consul at Seoul, Korea, 1893-96; consul at New York, 1896-1901, and promoted to consul-general, Jan., 1902. Recently decorated by the Em- peror of Japan with the Fourth Order of Sacred Treasure. Member of the Cen- tury Association and Lawyers Club, of New York. Address, 99 Nassau St., New York.


ULMANN, Leo Ph .:


Democratic Assemblyman, representing the Twenty-fourth district of New York; born in New York; educated in public schools and College of the City of New York. Finished his legal studies under the law firm of Benjamin F. Einstein and Langbein Bros. In 1888 entered political career, starting in the sheriff's office, where he served successively under' all the sheriffs from Grant to Tamsen. He embarked in building construction in 1898, which he has continued successive-


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ly up to the present time. For twenty years he has been affiliated with Tam- many Hall; in 1900 was elected Assembly- man in his district; re-elected in 1901 and 1902. In 1903 he was appointed a member of the following Assembly com- mittees: Canals, and Electricty, Gas and Supply. Address, New York City.


ULRICH, Frank J .:


Democratic Assemblyman, representing the Sixth Assembly district of Kings County in the Assembly; born in Brook- lyn, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1867; received his education in public schools. He is a cigar-packer by trade, and was one of the organizers of Cigar-Packers' Inter- national Union of America in 1887. of which he is still a member. In the years of 1891, 1892 and 1893, he represented his union as a delegate to the State branch of the American Federation of Labor. He is also a member of the Sixth Assembly District Democratic Club, president of the Gerard Club, president of the De Kalb Bowling Club; also standard bearer of the Frank J. Ulrich Association and Frank J. Ulrich Democratic Battery of the Sixth Assembly District, Brooklyn. Has been a delegate to the Kings County Democratic General Committee for the past ten years, and in 1892 was appointed as tax clerk in the office of the county treasurer, under the late Harry Adams, a position he held until Aug. 6, 1894. On Feb. 1, 1898, he was appointed secretary of the Department of Water Supply, hold- ing this position until the advent of the present Fusion administration, and leav- ing the office Feb. 1, 1902. Elected to the Assembly in 1902. and in 1903 was ap- pointed a member of the following As- sembly committees: Taxation and Re- trenchment and Military Affairs. Resi- dence, 1022 De Kalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.


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UNDERHILL, John Garrett:


Author; born in Brooklyn. N. Y., Jan. 10, 1876; A. B., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1894; Columbia University, A. M., 1896, and Ph.D., 1899. Was assist- ant in comparative literature in Columbia University, 1899-1901. Published "Span- ish Literature in the England of the Tu- dors." Macmillan, New York, 1899. Ad- dress, Hotel St. George, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y.




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