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UNDERHILL, John Q .:
Vice-president and treasurer of the Westchester Fire Insurance Company of New York; was born in New Rochelle, N. Y .. Feb. 19. 1848. At the age of twen- ty-one he obtained a position as book- keeper in the Westchester Fire Insurance Company of New York. and in 1876 was appointed superintendent of agents. He was elected secretary three years after- ward, and vice-president in 1892. retain- ing the secretaryship until 1897, when he resigned the secretaryship and was
elected treasurer. He has likewise twice served as president of his native village, and is active in the public affairs of New Rochelle; he was elected, in 1898, repre- sentative in the Congress of the United States from the Sixteenth New York dis- trict for the term of 1899-1901. Residence, New Rochelle. N. Y .; office. 66 Wall St., New York.
UNDERHILL, William W .:
President of the United States Fire In- surance Company of New York; was born in that city sept. 13, 1839. He was edu- cated at Burlington (N. J.) College and the University of Pennsylvania; was a clerk in the commission business from 1858 to 1862, and entered the service of the United States Fire Insurance Com- pany of New York in 1862, to which he has since been attached. He was as- sistant secretary in 1862, secretary in 1865, and was elected president in 1882. Ad- dress, 46 Pine St., New York.
UNGER, Henry W .:
Lawyer; was born in New York City, July 3, 1863, and was educated in the public schools of the city. At an early age he entered the employ of the law firm of Isaacs & Sanger, remaining until 1883, when he was appointed clerk and sten- ographer to the Corporation Counsel; in 1884 he acted as secretary to Mayor Edi- son. In 1885 he was made official sten- ographic secretary to the Grand Jury, an office created by the Legislature. He was admitted to the bar in 1884, and entered the firm of Isaacs & Sanger. In 1886 he again entered the district attorney's of- fice, taking the position of a clerk in the bond department, and in a short peri- od was promoted to its head. He was appointed by District Attorney Fellows a deputy district attorney, and frequently served as acting district attorney. He held a similar position under District At- torney Gardiner. Address. World Build- ing, New York.
UPJOHN, Richard Russell:
Clergyman of the Episcopal Church; born in Brooklyn. N. Y., April 28, 1859; son of Richard Michell and Emma Tyng Upjohn; graduated from Cornell Univer- sity in 1880; in business as an architect with his father until 1884; graduated at Nashotah Theological Seminary with the degree of B. D., 1887. Was ordained dea- con same year; priest, 1888; curate, Church of the Advent, Boston, 1887-88; curate, Church of the Ascension, , Chica- go, 1892; rector, Good Shepherd, Roches- ter, 1894; curate, St. Mary the Virgin, New York City, 1899; curate, Church of the Transfiguration, New York City, 1901- 03; rector St. Paul's Church, Pleasant Valley, N. Y. Member of the New York Catholic Club and Psi Upsilon: Club. Ad- dress, Pleasant Valley N. Y.
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VALLENTINE, Benjamin Bennaton
("Fitznoodle") :
Author; born in London, England, Sept. 7, 1843; only son of Benjamin Vallentine, merchant, who was a Freeman of the city of London and was also in business in Birmingham, England; Hobart, Mel- bourne and Sydney, Australia; educated at King Edward the Sixth's School, Bir- mingham, England, having been nomin- ated by Lord Calthorpe, lord lieuten- ant of the county of Warwickshire. When a youth he joined his father in Australia; he began his business career as a clerk in the office of a firm of ship- ping, commission and Eastern produce merchants in Sydney; sent as supercargo of a vessel belonging to the house on a voyage to the East Indies. Served for three years in the New South Wales Vol- unteer Artillery; was a member of the Sydney Literary Association, and a col- league as a young man of George Hous- ton Reid, now the Right Hon. George H. Reid, formerly Prime Minister of New South Wales, and now the leader of the opposition in House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Australia. Contrib- uted articles to Sydney newspapers, read for the English bar. Returned to England in 1870 in order to become a barrister of the Middle Temple; the Franco-Prussian War prevented him from carrying out his plans. After a visit to Brazil, he came to the United States in 1871 and became a partner in a foreign shipping and com- mission house; after the panic of 1873, withdrew from the business and became a writer for newspapers on dramatic sub- jects, contributing to New York Star, American Athenaeum, the late "Nym Crinkle's" Arcadian, and other papers; he was one of the founders of Puck in 1877 and originated the Fitznoodle papers in that publication, writing the editorials and inspiring the principal and most effec- tive cartoons which were drawn by the late Joseph Keppler; he left Puck at the end of 1884 and sued the nominal editor, H. C. Bunner, for breach of contract, and won the two suits for the full amount claimed. He has travelled extensively in Europe; in Rome in 1889 he had private interview with the late Pope Leo XIII. He was for a year managing editor of Texas Siftings; also of the novelist Irving Bacheller's newspaper syndicate; joined the staff of Albert Pulitzer's Morning Journal and then became an editorial writer on the Mail and Express; he sub- sequently was made financial editor of the Evening Telegram and wrote special ar- ticles for that paper; was afterwards a dramatic critic of New York Herald; also for some time one of editors of the Sun- day edition, having special charge of com- ic department; other positions occupied by him on the Herald were assistant foreign editor, special writer, and art editor.
With the late Rev. Dr. Hepworth and Mr. William Walsh, he was appointed by James Gordon Bennett one of the judges of the novels, short stories and epic poems for the New York Herald's $25,000.00 competition in 1897, in which Mr. Julian Hawthorne won the $10,000 prize. Mr. Vallentine was compiler and author of the dramatic biographies in Johnson's Encyclopedia, published by D. Appleton & Co .; also revising and bring- ing up to date those articles written by William Winter in a former edition; asso- ciate and biographical editor of the bank- er-poet Edmund Clarence Stedman's "His- tory of the New York Stock Exchange"; was secretary of committee of American Dramatists' Club appointed to present to the public a project for a National Am- erican endowed theatre; Augustus Thom- as, William Gillette and Joseph I. C. Clarke (the latter now Sunday editor of the Herald) were also on the commit- tee. He has written many short stories and magazine articles; also several plays produced in New York and other cities; they include "A Southern Romance," "In Paradise," Fitznoodle," "Fritz in New York," "Madame Saccard" (authorized version of Emile Zola's drama of "Renée"), version of Daudet's "Sapho," etc. At the request of W. R. Hearst in 1902 he wrote a new series of Lord Fitznoodle interviews, illustrated by F. Opper, which appeared simultaneously in Mr. Hearst's New York American, Chicago American and San Francisco Examiner. Member of the American Dramatists Club. He is one of the founders and the editor of The New York Realty Journal, one of the publications designated by the mayor, comptroller and corporation counsel to publish official city announcements. Of- fice address, 59 Wall St., New York.
VAN BRUNT, Charles H .:
Jurist; born in Fort Hamilton, N. Y., in 1835; graduated from the College of the City of New York; admitted to the bar in 1858 and began practice in New York City; was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, city and county of New York, 1869-83; since 1883 has been justice of the Supreme Court of New York; 1886, appointed pre- siding justice of the general term, first de- partment, and of the appellate division, first department, 1895. Address, 10 East 46th St., New York.
VAN BUREN. James H., D.D .:
Missionary bishop of Porto Rico; born in western New York; was graduated from Yale University with the degree of B. A. in 1873. and was ordained by the late Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, as deacon in 1876 and as priest in 1877. His changes were successively at Milford and East Seymour. Conn., Englewood, N. J and Newburyport, Mass., in which latter city he was rector of St. Paul's Church
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from 1880 till 1900. In the year 1900 he was appointed missionary to Porto Rico, with residence at San Juan and at the special meeting of the House of Bishops, at Cincinnati, in April, 1902, was chosen missionary bishop of that jurisdiction. He was consecrated in St. Stephen's Church, Lynn. Mass., on St. John Bap- tist's Day, June 24, the Bishop of West Virginia being the consecrator, assisted by the Bishops of Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and western Mass- achusetts. Address, San Juan, Porto Rico.
VAN BUREN, John D .:
Civil engineer; born in New York City, Aug. 18, 1838; son of John D. and Elvira L. Van Buren; was a student in Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, and was graduated C. E. from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1860; married, in 1875, Elizabeth Ludlow Jones. He was assistant engineer on the Croton Aque- duct under Alfred Craven in 1860-61; en- tered the Engineer Corps, U. S. Navy (regular), and served in the Gulf of Mex- ico and also in the Bureau of Steam En- gineering in Washington. He took part in the Peninsula and James River cam- paigns in 1862, and was on duty at the Naval Academy at Annapolis as assistant professor for four years; was commis- sioned first assistant engineer (lieutenant) Jan. 1, 1865. He resigned from the navy in 1868, and was for several years under General George B. McClellan in the De- partment of Docks in New York. He was one of the commissioners appointed by Governor Tilden to investigate the canals in 1875, and was State Engineer and Sur- veyor of New York in 1876-77. He is the author of numerous technical papers, and a member of: The New York Bar, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Loyal Legion, the Holland Society, and the St. Nicholas Society. Address, New Brighton, N. Y.
VAN CISE, Joel G .:
Actuary of the Equitable Life Assur- ance Society; was born Feb. 8, 1844, and went to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in Oct., 1857. He learned the trade of printer, entering an office in 1860, and worked at the case until 1863; he taught school one winter, and in 1864 went to the front with the Forty-fifth Regiment of Iowa Infantry, being then twenty years old; after his return home, he was a bookkeeper until 1867, when he went East and joined the office force of the Equitable Life. In 1872 he was appointed assistant actuary, and on November 2, 1898, was elected actuary to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. G. W. Phillips. He is a member of the Actuarial Society of Am- erica and of the Lawyers Club of New
York City; he is very much interested in temperance work. Address, 120 Broad- way, New York.
VAN COTT, Cornelius:
Postmaster New York; born in the city of New York, Feb. 12, 1838; was educated in the public schools of the city, and at an early age entered the business of car- riage making, but soon left it to engage in the insurance business, evincing an ability that in a few years secured him the position of vice-president of the Aetna Insurance Company. He was a deputy collector of internal revenue in 1869; from 1873 to 1875 and from 1879 to 1885, he was a member of the Board of Fire Underwriters, during a great part of the time being president of the board. In 1887 he was elected to the State Senate, but in May, 1889, resigned to enter upon the duties of postmaster of New York, having been appointed by President Har- . rison, and again reappointed by President McKinley, which position he still holds. Mr. Van Cott is president of the Lin- coln Club, president of the West Side Savings Bank, and also of the Great East- ern Indemnity Company. Address, Post Office, New York.
VANDERBILT, Aaron:
Vice-president Wheeler Condenser and Engineering Co .; born Staten Island, Jan. 29, 1844; son of Isaac Simonson and Sarah (Seguine) Vanderbilt; educated at public and private schools; married to Lillie L. Wheeler, 1869; has two daughters, Lilian and Edith. He was an officer of the United States Navy during the Civil War; in various ships and on staff of Admiral David D. Porter; at the battles of Fort Fisher and various engagements with the fortifications on the Cape Fear River and North Carolina coast; at the taking of Wilmington. N. C., campaign of the Ap- pomattox and James River and the siege of Petersburg and Richmond; an escort to President Lincoln at the fall of Rich- mond. After the war he was identified with the shipping interests of the country; manager of the New York & Cuba Mail S. S. Co. (Ward Line). He promoted the establishment of the Naval
Militia forces of the country, also the es- tablishment of the Mail Subvention Act of 1891 for the merchant marine; chief of ordnance of the Naval Militia, New York; senior officer in command of the naval forces of the State during Spanish- American War; now lieutenant-comman- der (retired), N. M. S. N. Y. Selected by chairman Senate Committee of Commerce as member the committee on Mercantile Marine; chairman of committee on Ocean Transportation, Board of Trade and Transportation; member Army and Navy Clu. Washington; Naval Order United States. Naval Institute, Annapolis; Mili- tary Order of the Loyal Legion; also Grand Army Republic, Society of the
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Army of the Potomac, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; vice- president Wheeler Condenser & Engineer- ing Company and vice-president Cuba & Pan-American Express Company. Ad- dress, 120 Liberty St., New York.
VANDERBILT, Alfred G .:
Capitalist; born in New York, Oct. 20, 1877; graduated from Yale, 1899; is a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society and other corporations. Mem- ber of Riding, Metropolitan, New York Yacht, Knickerbocker, Turf and Field, and Ardsley Clubs. Residence, Oakland, Newport, R. I .; office, Grand Central Sta- tion, New York.
VANDERBILT, Cornelius (third) :
Capitalist, engineer; was born in New York City, Sept. 5, 1873; son of Cornelius and Alice Vanderbilt. He was graduated from Yale in 1895 with the degree of B. A., and the same university subse- quently conferred upon him the degrees of Ph.B. and M. E., on the completion of his course in the Sheffield Scientific School. Upon the conclusion of his studies he set to work to master the business in all its details; in this he succeeded in a manner that reflects the highest credit upon his intelligence and industry. Much of his time for the past three years has been spent in the motive power and civil engi- neering department of the New York Central Railroad; and his mechanical in- ventions, principally a locomotive fire-box, of improved pattern, attest his ability as a mechanic and engineer. Mr. Vanderbilt was married to Miss Grace Wilson, in Aug., 1896. He is a director of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, the United States Mortgage and Trust Company, Windsor Trust Company. Mu- tual Life Insurance Company, National Park Bank, Mutual Bank. Yorkville Bank, Marine National Bank of Buffalo, Illinois Central Railway Company, Allis-Chalmers Company, Lackawanna Steel Company, U. S. Realty and Construction Company, Rapid Transit Subway Construction Com- pany, and the Subway Realty Company. Address, 100 Broadway, New York.
VANDERBILT. Frederick W .:
Capitalist; was born about 1855. He was educated in private schools and at the Sheffield School, Yale College, where he was graduated in 1876. He obtained business education in his father's office, going through every department in the railroad service, mastering the general details of the whole business; owner of the finest steam-yacht in the world, the Conqueror, built in 1889 by Russell & Co., of Port Glasgow. Member of Knicker- bocker, University, Metropolitan, Larch- mont Yacht, New York Yacht, Seawan- haka-Corinthian Yacht, and other clubs. Residence, 459 Fifth Ave., New York.
VANDERBILT, George W .:
Capitalist; born in New Dorp, Staten Island, Nov. 14, 1862; son of William Henry and Maria Louisa (Kissam) Van- derbilt; he has donated much toward phi- lanthropic objects, having founded and built the Thirteenth street branch of New York Free Circulating Library; having given the ground on which has been built the New York College for the Training of Teachers, and the Vanderbilt collection of the American Fine Arts Society of New York. He is a trustee of the New York College for the Training of Teachers and member of numerous social clubs. Sum- mer residence, Bar Harbor, Me .; address, Biltmore, N. C., and 640 Fifth Ave., New York.
VANDERBILT, William K .:
Capitalist; second son of William Henry and Maria Louisa (Kissam) Vanderbilt; was born in Staten Island, N. Y., Dec.
. 12, 1849; received thorough academic ed- ucation, later studying at Geneva, Switz- erland, for several years. He entered office of C. C. Clarke, treasurer of the Hudson River Railroad as bookkeeper, and passed through various grades until in 1877 he became second vice-president of the New York Central & Hudson River. Railroad; since 1882 has been president of the New York Chicago & St. Louis Railroad; 1883, chairman of the board of directors of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. One of the organizers of the Metropolitan Club and one of the founders of the Vanderbilt Clinic. Mem- ber of Knickerbocker, Union, New York Yacht, Metropolitan, Players, Turf and' Field, City and other clubs. Residence, 660 Fifth Ave., New York.
VANDERBURGH, Frederick A .:
Clergyman; graduated from University of Rochester in 1876; from Rochester The- ological Seminary in 1879. Pastor, Bap- tist Church, Murray, N. Y., 1880-83; stu- dent, Union Theological Seminary and as- sistant pastor Berean Baptist Church, New York City, 1883-87; pastor, Whitesville, N. Y., 1887-89; student, University of Ber- lin, Germany, 1889-90; assistant to the Rev. Edward Judson, D. D., in Memorial Baptist Church, New York City, 1892 to. date. Address, 53 Washington Square, New York.
VANDERLIP, Frank Arthur:
Banker; born in Aurora, Ill., Nov. 17, 1864; lived on farm in boyhood; later worked in machine shop in Aurora; edu- cated in public schools, University of Illinois, and University of Chicago; finan- cial editor Chicago Tribune; became private secretary to Secretary Gage, March 4, 1897, and on June 1, 1897, Assis- tant Secretary of the Treasury; Republi- can; resigned, Feb. 26, 1901, to become. vice-president of the National City Bank,.
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New York. Married, Chicago, May 19,
1903, to Narcissa Cox, daughter of Charles Epperson Cox, of that city. Au- thor of "Chicago Street Railways," "The American Commercial Invasion of Eu- rope." Address, 14 East 60th St., New York.
VANDERPOEL, Isaac:
Chief examiner for the insurance de- partment of the State of New York; is a native of Albany, and obtained employ- ment in the State department of insur- ance, where he has served over twenty years. He was appointed deputy super- intendent of insurance in Feb., 1895, when Mr. Payn became superintendent, in 1897, he appointed Mr. Vanderpoel chief ex- aminer of the department. Address, Al- bany, N. Y.
VANDERPOEL, S. O., M.D .:
Medical director New York Life Insur- ance Company; born Aug. 27, 1853, in Albany, N. Y .; A. B., Rutgers, 1873; A. M., 1876; M. D., Columbia College, 1876; Hon- oris causa, Albany, 1881; at University of Heidelberg, 1879; Vienna, 1880; adjunct professor, of theology and practitioner of medicine, Albany, N. Y., Medical College, 1880-83; visiting physician, Charity Hos- pital, New York City, 1885-89; assistant surgeon, Bellevue Hospital and Manhat- tan Eye and Ear Hospital (throat depart- ment), since 1886; assistant physician, Vanderbilt Clinic, since 1887. Address, 63. East 55th St., New York.
VAN DE WATER, George R .:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born in Flushing, L. I., in the year 1854; graduated at Cornell in 1874, studying theology at the General Theological Sem- inary at New York, and graduating thence in 1879: the same year he became rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Oyster Bay. L. I .; 1880, had charge of St. Luke's Church of Brooklyn; was the organizer of St. Bartholomew's Church, and active in organization of the Parochi- al Mission Society; 1888, became rector of St. Andrew's Church, New York, and con- tinues to fill the rectorship to present date. He was chaplain of Seventy-first Regiment of New York Volunteers; also of Fifth Army Corps in Cuba during Span- ish-American War; has been chaplain of Columbia since 1892. Address, 7 West 122d St., New York.
VAN DUZER, Louis Sayre:
Lieutenant commander, U. S. Navy; ap- pointed from New York; Naval Academy, Sept. 22, 1876; midshipman, June 22, 1882; ensign (junior grade), March 3, 1883; en- sign, June 26, 1884; lieutenant (junior grade), June 10, 1893; on leave, 1884; Coast Survey schooner Eagre, 1888-89; Hydro- graphic Office, August, 1889, to March, 1892; Miantonomah, North Atlantic Sta-
tion, March, 1892, to Sept., 1893; Yantic, South Atlantic Station, Sept .. 1893, to March, 1895; Office of Naval Intelligence, June 1 to Sept., 1895; Linsley Institute, Wheeling, W. Va., Sept. 7, 1895, to June, 1897. Promoted to lieutenant, Jan. 5, 1897; Petrel, June 28, 1897, to 1901; Indi- an, May 16, 1901; Naval Academy, Aug. 26, 1901, to 1902. Promoted lieutenant commander, Nov. 2, 1902; Newport, May 20, 1902; U. S. S. Olympia, 1903. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
VAN DYKE, Henry:
Author and clergyman; born in German- town, Pa., Nov. 10, 1852; son of Rev. Henry Van Dyke; educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Princeton College, Princeton Seminary, and University of Berlin; received the degree of A. B. from Princeton College, 1873. Pastor of the United Congregational Church, Newport, R. I., 1878-82; in latter year accepted a call to Presbyterian Church at Fifth ave- nue and Thirty-seventh street, New York, which position he filled from 1883 to 1900. He has been university preacher at Am- herst, Cornell and Princeton; delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures' on preaching at Yale in 1896; received the degree of D. D. from Princeton, 1884; from Harvard in 1894, and from Yale in 1896; delivered the ode at the sesqui-centennial celebration of Princeton University in 1896; since 1900 he has been professor of English literature at Princeton. Author of "The Reality of Religion," 1884; "The Story of the Psalms," 1887; "God and Little Chil- dren," 1890; "Straight Sermons," 1893; "The Gospel of an Age of Doubt," 1896; "The Builders and Other Poems," 1897; "Fisherman's Luck," 1889; "The Toiling of Felix," 1900; "The Ruling Passion," 1901; "The Blue Flower," 1902. Married to Miss Ellen Reid. Member of City, University, National Arts, Authors, and City Clubs of New York, the Holland So- ciety, Sons of Revolution, and St. Nicho- las Society. Address, Avalon, Princeton, N. J.
VAN EVERY, John B .:
Vice-president of Western Union Tele- graph Company; born in Rochester, N. Y., July 30, 1839; there entered employ of Western Union Telegraph Company in 1864; of that company became auditor in 1872 and a vice-president since 1879. Di- rector in Western Union Telegraph Com- pany, New York Telephone Company, the Stock Quotation Company, International Ocean Telegraph Company, Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, and a number of other similar companies. Address, 195 Broadway, New York.
VAN HOESEN, George M .:
Jurist; was born in New York, and re- ceived his education at the College of the City of New York. On the completion
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of his collegiate course he began the study of law, and was graduated from the State National Law School at Poughkeep- sie. He became an instructor in this institution, and after being admitted to the «bar went to Iowa and for several years en- gaged in newspaper work on the Iowa State Democrat, and also practiced his profession. In 1861 he entered the army, after organizing a company for the Thir- teenth Iowa Infantry, and served in Mis- souri. He joined General Grant's army, and was promoted to the rank of major for distinguished services at the battle of Shiloh; was afterward acting provost mar- shal general of the armies in the field in the military division of the Mississippi. After leaving the army he came to New York and resumed the practice of law; was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1875, in which capacity he served for fourteen years. He has been president of the Holland Society, president of the Association of the Alumni of the Univer- sity of the City of New York, and for three terms was chairman of the Memori- al Committee of the Grand Army posts of the City of New York. He was one of the first to urge the building of the elevated railroad, and drafted the first bill intro- duced in the Legislature for the incorpora .- tion and building of an elevated railroad. He has been chairman of the Tammany Hall General Committee for several years. Is a member of the Democratic, Union, the Manhattan. the St. Nicholas and the Lieder Kranz Clubs. He is also a member of the Bar Association of New York and the State Bar Association. Address, New York City.
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