Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 133

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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WARREN, Aldice G .:

Lawyer; graduated from University of Rochester in 1883; practiced law at Roch- ester, N. Y., 1885-97; president Mutual Life Association, New York City. Ad- dress, 129 West 125th St .. New York.

WARREN, Arthur:

Author, journalist; was born in Boston, Mass .. July 18, 1860. He was engaged in journalism during the years 1883-97, be- ing editor and contributor to American and English journals; during that time he was seven years the London corres- pondent for the Boston Herald; author of short stories to magazines. Since 1897 special correspondent for the enterprises of George Westinghouse in America and Europe. He is a member of the Auto- mobile and Whitefriars Clubs of London and Engineers and Lawyers . Clubs of New York. Address, 10 Bridge St., New York.

WARREN, Lillie Eginton (Miss) :

Educator; author of work upon defect- ive speech and inventor of the "Warren Method of Expression Reading and Numer- ical Cipher." This method is a patented series of pictures of the expressions of the facial muscles produced by articulate speech by which it is possible for a deaf person to understand conversation by the eyes alone; was born in Newtonville, Mass., Jan. 25, 1859, and was educated in Twelfth Street School, New York City, and by private instruction. Principal of the Warren School of Expression-Reading and Articulation, New York, with branch- es in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington. Also principal of the War- ren Correspondence School. Author "De- fective Speech and Deafness," 1895. Ad- dress, 124 East 28th St., New York.

WARREN, Moses Allen:

Lawyer; was born in Chicago, Nov. 1, 1876, being the only son of the late Moses Warren, a well-known publisher of the city. He is of New England ancestry, the Warren family for many generations hav- ing resided in Massachusetts and Con- necticut, and he is the sixth Moses War- ren in a line which began with an officer of that name who served in the Revolu- tionary army. His early schooling was received at the Lake Forest Academy, Lake Forest, Ill. He was graduated from Yale University in the class of 1899, and later from the New York Law School, and has been engaged in the active practice of the law since his admission to the bar.

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He is now a member of the firm of Thompson & Warren. He is a member of the Yale, D. K. E., and Crescent Ath- letic Clubs, and has identified himself with the Republican organization in this city. Address, 49 Wall St., New York City.

WARREN, Samuel Prowse:

Musician, solo and church organist; born in Montreal, Canada, Feb. 18, 1841; son of Samuel R. Warren. He studied music in Berlin, Germany, in 1861-64, shortly after which date he removed to New York and became the organist of All Souls' ( Unitarian) Church; was later engaged in the same capacity at Grace (Episcopal) Church, and afterward at Holy Trinity, but finally returned to Grace Church, where he remained until 1894. Since 1895 he has been organist at Munn Ave. (Presbyterian) Church, East Orange, N. J. He was conductor of the . New York Vocal Union from 1880 to 1888. Is the composer of anthems, part songs, songs, organ and piano solos and tran- scriptions. Address, 112 West 40th St., New York.

WARRING, Charles Bartlett:

Educator; born Charlton, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1825; son or Jeremiah and Sarah Bart- lett Warring; graduated, Union College, 1845, Ph.D., University City of New York; 1849 married Catherine Lent; professor Latin and Greek, 1846-47; mathematics and natural science, 1848-52; principal Col- legiate School 1857-62, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Established 1863 Poughkeepsie Mili- tary Institute; retired, 1891. Has pub- lished many articles on scientific and the- ologico-scientific subjects. Member New York Academy of Science,' Honorary Cor- respondent Victoria Institute, London. Author of "The Mosaic Account of Crea- tion, the Miracle of To-day," 1877; "Gen- esis I and Modern Science," 1892; "Mir- acle. Law, and Evolution," "Rationale of the Bicycle," "On the Geological Climate," Gyroscopic Bodies an Experimental Study of, etc .. etc. Address, 288 Mill St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

WASHBURN, Edward A .:

Born Randolph. Vt., 1868; resided in Batavia, N. Y., since 1877; lawyer; ref- eree in bankruptcy. 1898-1900: director of First National Bank of Batavia since 1898: elected County Judge and Surrogate of Genesee County, 1900. Address, Ba- tavia, N. Y.

WASHBURN, John M .:

President of Home Insurance Company; born in Amherst, Mass., Oct. 27. 1828, and was educated at Amherst College. He early entered the insurance field and rose step by step until he has reached his present high position; his offices are at 56 Cedar Street. He is a director of the

Chatham National Bank, the New York Savings and Loan Association. Mr. Washburn is a member of the Lotos, City, Congregational, and National Arts Clubs, Order of the Founders and Patri- ots of America, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Mayflower Descendants, So- ciety of Colonial Wars, Amherst College Alumni, Metropolitan Museum of Art and New England Society. He is a widower, and his city residence is at No. 39 West Forty-seventh St. Address, 56 Cedar St., New York, N. Y.

WASHINGTON, Allen C .:

President Iron Steamboat Company, Washington Mining Company and Horn Silver Mining Company; treasurer New York and Coney Island Railroad and Pros- pect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad. Member of Metropolitan, New York Yacht, New York National Arts and Larchmont Yacht Clubs. Address, 28 East 62nd St., New York.

WATROUS. Harry W .:

Artist; son of Charles Watrous of New London, a "Forty-niner," a delegate to the convention that first named Lincoln for President and Ruth A. (Willson) Wat- rous. Born in San Francisco, Cal., on Sept. 17, 1857. Was fitted for college at private schools, but never entered; went abroad in 1880 and did considerable work in Southern Spain and North Africa. Went to Paris in 1881, studying at the Atelier Bonnat and Academie Julien. Re- turned to America in 1886; married Eliza- beth, daughter of W. S. Nichols of New York in 1887. Went abroad again in same year and worked in Munich, Florence, and Paris. Settled in New York in 1888. Won Clark prize in 1894. Elected asso- ciate of National Academy of Design in 1894. Academician in 1895, and has been secretary since 1898. Is best known as a genre painter. and has pictures in the collections of Hon. W. C. Whitney, C. P. Huntington. E. W. Bliss, Henry S. Wilson, and others in New York, and in many col- lections in Europe. Is member of Metro- politan, Centurv. Union League. and Lotos Clubs. Present address, 58 West 57th St., New York.

WATROUS, Jerome A .:

Major, U. S. Army; born at Conklin, Broome County. N. Y., Sept. 6, 1840. Ed- ucated at common schools. Served in Sixth Wisconsin, from July 16, 1861 to May 15, 1865; first as private then ser- geant-major and adjutant and was bre- vetted captain: acting adjutant general of the Iron Brigade; ordnance sergeant of the Iron Brigade and later of the First Division. First Army Corps; in battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericks- burg. Chancellorsville. second battle of Bull Run. Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Laurel Hill; chief paymaster Department of Columbia, June 24, 1889, to June 20,

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1900; chief paymaster Department of the Visayas in 1901, and of the Department of South Philippines in 1902; served six years as colonel and four years as bri- gadier-general in the Wisconsin National Guard. Was county school superintendent in 1866. Member of Assembly in 1867, and collector of customs for Milwaukee, Wis., 1889 to 1893. Promoted major, paymaster, June 15, 1898. Address, Omaha, Neb.

WATSON, Benjamin Frank:

Lawyer; born in Warner, N. H., April 30, 1836, where he received his education. He studied law, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1850. He was for a time editor and proprietor of the Law- rence Sentinel, and was postmaster of Lawrence. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the service as major of the 6th Massachusetts Volunteers, which was the first regiment to respond to the call for troops by President Lincoln; he rendered distinguished services with his regiment, eventually becoming its colonel. Mr. Watson was active in the practice of his profession in New York from 1867 until a short time ago, when he retired, and has since given much of his time to benevolent work. He is a member of the Loval Legion. Address, 445 Park Ave., New York.

WATSON, Henry Chapman:

Editor, and writer on financial and in- dustrial subjects; born in Port Chester, N. Y., Dec. 6 1870; son of William W. and Jane Watson. Moving to New York at an early age became associated with newspaper work, writing chiefly on finan- cial and business topics. He has been con- nected with Dun's Review ever since that publication was started, and succeeded W. M. Grosvenor as its editor on the latter's death. The statistics of failures, prices of commodities and records of securities. etc. prepared by him have been adopted as the standard by the government at Washington and bv such unofficial publi- cations as the almanacs and vear books. and his work on financial and industrial subjects in general is considered of great value. As a member of the staff of the New York Tribune, he prepares for that journal each week the article entitled "Money and Business." Contributor to various publications. such as "Prosperity and the Cost of Living." Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. "The Industrial Outlook." New York Commercial Adver- tiser. etc. Has given much attention to the work of the National Civic Federa- tion, serving on its conciliation commit- tee. Takes great interest in athletics and in indoor and outdoor games; member of the National Lawn Tennis Association, treasurer of the Englewood Field Club, and a governor of the Englewood Club; competitor in whist and billiard tourna- ments. Married Gwendolen Reid, at Eng-

lewood, N. J., May 10, 1901. Resi- dence, Englewood, N. J .; office, 290 Broadway New York.

WATSON, Henry M .:

President of the Bell Telephone Com- pany of Buffalo. When he removed from Albany to Buffalo in 1868 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the Buffalo Street Railroad Company. Three years later he became secretary and treasurer of the Buffalo East Side Railway Com- pany, and upon the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer Watson in 1881, he was elect- ed president of the Buffalo Street Rail- road Company. Both systems were after- ward consolidated with the Buffalo Rail- way Company. In Nov., 1890, the Buf- falo Street Railroad, the Buffalo East Side Railway and the Buffalo West Side Street Railroad were consolidated into the Buffalo Railway Company, and Mr. Watson was elected president. In 1900. he resigned from the presidency and al- though he no longer fills an executive po- sition in the street traffic world, he re- tains holdings in, and is still a director of the International Railway Company, which, with headquarters at Buffalo, con- nects that city with various points in Canada. When Colonel Watson assumed executive direction of the street railway system the component companies were not models of adequate service, nor were they in a prosperous condition. He sur- rounded himself by capable coadjutors, and inaugurated a policy of liberality which was soon appreciated by the public. It is conceded that no city in the United States now posseses a better street railway system than Buffalo. In 1882 he was instrumen- tal in founding the American Street Rail- way Association, which embraces the United States and Canada, and was elect- ed president at the convention held in 1890. He had been elected previously (1885) to the presidency of the Street Railway Association of the State of New York. Was born in Unadilla, Otsego County, N. Y., and in 1857 went to Al- bany, where for ten years, he was engaged in the banking business. From 1865 to 1867 he was general passenger agent of the Albany and Susquehanna . Railroad now part of the Delaware and Hudson System. Then followed his re- moval to Buffalo. While residing in Al- bany, Colonel Watson was one of the founders, in 1861, of Company A, Tenth Regiment, N. G. N. Y. In 1865 he was promoted to a second lieutenantcy. He served as an active member and officer for seven years, and is still an honorary member of the Old Guard. On Jan. 1, 1880, he was appointed aide-de-camp. with the rank of Colonel, on the staff of Govern- or Alonzo B. Cornell. He served in this capacity throughout the Cornell Admin- istration. Is a trustee of the Erie Coun- ty Savings Bank and of the Union Fire Insurance Company. He is a director and a member of the Executive Commit-

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tee of the Fidelity Trust Company, mem- ber of the Saturn and Buffalo Clubs, the Fort Orange Club, Albany, the Genesee Valley Club. of Rochester, life member of the Buffalo Library, member of the Buf- falo Historical Society and a vestryman of Trinity Church. Since the organiza- tion of the Bell Telephone Company, of Buffalo, in 1879, Colonel Watson has been its president. Address, Office of Bell Telephone Company, Buffalo, N. Y.

WATT, Alexander:

Clergyman; graduated from University of Rochester in 1884; from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1887; pastor Bap- ist Church. Forestville, N. Y., 1888-89; Hamburg, N. Y., 1889-91; Buffalo, N. Y., 1891-93; missionary, 1893-98; pastor An- ti-saloon Baptist Church, Findley Lake, N. Y., since 1898. Address Findley Lake, N. Y.

WATTS, Robert, M. D .:

Born at Woodstock, Vt., May 6, 1837; M. D. Physicians and Surgeons, 1861. Member County Medical Society; sur- geon One Hundred and thirty-third Regi- ment, New York Volunteers, 1862-65. Consulting gynecologist, Roosevelt Hos- pital; consulting physician to City and to St. Mary's Hospitals. Member of Cen- tury and Army and Navy Clubs and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Ad- dress, 45 West 36th St., New York.

WATTS, William:

Lieutenant, U. S. Navy; born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, April 10, 1862; graduated, 1866; Iroquois, Asiatic Station, 1866-69. Promoted to ensign, April, 1868; practice-ship Macedonian, 1869. Promoted to master. March 26, 1869; Congress (second rate), North At- lantic Fleet. 1870-71. Commissioned as lieutenant, March 21. 1870; torpedo ser- vice, 1872-73; Brooklyn. flagship, South Atlantic Fleet, 1874-75; Monongahela, South Atlantic Station, 1876; ordnance dutv, New York Navy Yard, 1877-78; Alert 1879-80. Retired. Jan. 31. 1883. Address, 48 Hill St., Morristown, N. J.

WEBB, Alexander Stewart:

Late president of the College of the City of New York; born in New York Feb. 15, 1835; son of Gen. James Watson and Helen Lispenard Webb. He was gradu- ated from the West Point Military Acade- my in 1855. and was appointed a second lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery. With- in six months from his graduation he was on active service with his regiment in Florida in quelling the uprisings of the Seminole Indians. He was for three years immediately preceding the civil war principal assistant professor of mathe- matics and principal assistant professor of geography, history and ethics at the same institution for several vears after the war.

During the civil war his services were of the most active and valuable nature. He participated in seventeen different actions and battles, among them Mechanicsville, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania. He was brevetted major and awarded a medal of honor "for distinguished personal gal- lantry in the battle of Gettysburg." He also received the brevets of lieutenant- colonel, colonel, brigadier-general, and major-general for distinguished services. He was in command of the Second divis- ion of the Second Army Corps in several important engagements. He was severely wounded at Gettysburg in 1863, and again at Spottsylvania in 1864. He served in various positions after the war, until De- cember 31, 1870, when he was honorably discharged from the army at his own re- quest. He was president of the College of the City of New York from 1869 to 1903, and the justice and wisdom of his admin- istration of this great institution of learn- ing won for him the esteem and admira- tion of its officers and teachers. He is commander-general of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and is the author of "The Peninsula: Mcclellan's Campaign of 1862." Address, 17 Lexington Ave., New York.

WEBB, Seward William:

Capitalist; son of General James Wat- son Webb; was born in New York, Jan. 31, 1851. His grandfather, General Samuel B. Webb, was a Revolutionary officer of distinction, commanding a regiment at Bunker Hill, and afterwards serving on the staffs of Putnam and Washington. He was an intimate friend of General Washington. Seward William Webb was educated by private tutors, and after- wards spent five years in the military school of Colonel Churchill at Sing Sing. The succeeding two years were spent at Columbia College. He had early shown a strong predilection for medical study, and after the completion of his college course determined to make medicine his profession. He accordingly entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, graduating in 1875, and after- wards spent two years in study in the medical schools of Vienna. In 1881 he married Lila Osgood Vanderbilt, daugh- ter of the railroad magnate, William H. Vanderbilt, and soon after an abundant channel for his energies was opened in connection with the Vanderbilt railroad system. He possessed an excellent natur- al business faculty which quickly became manifest in his management of the Wag- ner Palace Car Company, of which he was president for many years. Another interest, of a different kind, which fell into his hands. was the construction of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Rail- road, 'a line which extends through the Adirondack wilderness from Herkimer, N. Y., to the St. Lawrence River, a dis- tance of two hundred and thirty-three

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miles. This undertaking was solely man- aged by him, and since 1891 he has been president of the company His interests now extend to a considerable number of railroad and other corporations, in each of which he is director or holds other of- ficial position. his business connections being very diversified. For three years he held the position of president-general in the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution,-an organization which differs essentially in the character of its membership from the similarly named "Sons of the Revolution." He is vice-president of the Vermont Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. To his Shelburne Farms estate in Ver- mont he adds a large preserve in the Adirondacks, which is known by the title of Ne-ha-sa-ne Park. It is made up of forest. hill, and lake, its woods being well stocked with game, its waters with fish. Politically he is a strong supporter of the principles of the Republican party. Member of the Metropolitan, Riding, Uni- versity, Church, Turf and Field, and New York Yacht Clubs. Address, 680 Fifth Ave .; office, 51 East 44th St., New York.

WEBB, William Watson:

Lawyer; graduated from University of Rochester in 1871; law student, Rochester, N. Y., 1871-74; has practiced law at Rochester, N. Y .. since 1874; assistant district attorney of Monroe County, N. Y., 1878-79; Corporation Counsel, 1904. Mem- ber of Genesee Valley and County Clubs. Address, Rochester, N. Y.

WEBER, Adna Ferrin:

Statistician; born Concord, Erie County, N. Y., July 14, 1870; prepared for college in the public schools of Salamanca, N. Y. Entered Cornell University in 1890 and was graduated in 1894, with degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, in history and political science. Won a State scholar- ship (yielding free tuition) and the Mc- Graw scholarship (mathematics) in com- petitive examinations. Met other college expenses by writing for Ithaca and New York daily papers. In senior year was appointed private secretary to President Schurman. Chosen senior class president. Elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa for excellence of scholarship; at gradua- tion received special mention in political science. After graduation remained at Cornell one year as private secretary to the president and continued studies in politics and social economics. In 1895 re- ceived the appointment of Fellow in Po- litical Economy and Finance, and by spe- cial vote of the faculty and trustees of Cornell University was permitted to study in Europe. Spent a year at German Uni- versities, principally Berlin: at same time gathered material in the library of the Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau for a work on "The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century," which was later ac- cepted by Columbia University in partial

fulfillment of requirements for degree of Doctor in Philosophy (conferred in 1899). The dissertation in 1900 received the award of the Grant Squires prize for sociolog- ical research (given by Columbia Uni- versity once in five years). In 1899, through Governor Roosevelt's influence, was appointed deputy commissioner of the New York State bureau of labor statis- tics, and in 1901, upon the consolidation of that bureau with the department of factory inspection and board of mediation and arbitration, was appointed chief sta- tistician of the department of labor. Has since done the editorial work on the de- partment's regular publications, including the annual reports and quarterly bul- letins, and has prepared numerous spe- cial reports. Assisted the United States Census office, division of manufactures, in the preparation of its bulletin on New York industries at the twelfth census. Is now a member of a permanent com- mitteee of three established by the As- sociation of Officials of Bureau of Labor Statistics of America for the purpose of harmonizing the statistical methods of the various State bureaus and the Federal census office. Is American correspondent of the International Association for the Protection of Labor (office at Basle, Swit- zerland). Member of American Statistical Association, American Economic Associa- tion, etc. University Club, of Albany. He has written and lectured on economic questions, especially city problems, labor legislation, etc. Contributed to North American Review, International Quarter- ly, Political Science Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Social Science, Chautauquan, Municipal Affairs, Outlook, etc. Essay on "Trade Unionism" (1900) reprinted as a tract by the Church Association for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor (New York City). Ad- dress, 302 Washington Ave., Albany,

N. Y.

WEBER, Gustavus C .:

Assemblyman, Republican, representing the Sixteenth Assembly district of Kings County; born in New York City on Feb. 16, 1859; is a contractor and builder; elect- ed to the Assembly by the Republican party in 1900; re-elected in 1901 and 1902. In 1903, was appointed a member of the following Assembly committees: Affairs of Cities, Insurance, and Military Affairs. Address, 15 East 86th St., New York.

WEBER, John B .:

Author on immigration and social sub- jects; born Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1842; at outbreak of the civil war enlisted as private in the Forty-fourth New York Volunteer Infantry (Ellsworth Avengers) ; rose rapidly until on Sept. 19, 1863, he was appointed colonel of the Eighty-ninth U. S. Colored Infantry, and as such served in the Department of the Gulf. In 1870 appointed assistant postmaster of Buffalo, serving three years; was nomi-

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nated sheriff of Erie County by the Re- publican party, but was defeated by Gro- ver Cleveland on Democratic ticket; sub- sequently was elected to succeed him; was in Congress during the years 1885-89; appointed by President Harrison commis- sioner of immigration for the port of New York; has made official investigations on the immigration question, visiting the various countries of Europe. Has written much for current literature on this and kin dred subjects. Residence, West Sen- cca, N. Y.

WEBSTER, Roy Cook:

Lawyer; graduated from University of Rochester in 1878; studied law, 1878-80; has practiced law, Rochester, N. Y., since 1880. Member board of education, Roch- ester, N. Y., 1892-93; civil service com- missioner, 1896-99. Address, 303 Powers Block, Rochester, N. Y.

WEEKS, Bartow Sumter:

Lawyer; born at Round Hill, Conn., April 25, 1861; son of Colonel Henry Astor and Alethea Hyde Weeks. His early ed- ucation was in the public schools of New York, and he was graduated from the Col- lege of the City of New York in 1879, and from the law department of the Colum- bian University in 1883. He was com- mander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans, U. S. A., 1891-92; president of the Amateur Athletic Union 1898. He held the office of assistant district attorney of New York for seven years; was the Democratic nominee for State Senator, Fifteenth Dis- trict, in 1898, but was unsuccessful. He is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi, and of the Manhattan, Democratic, New York Athletic, Larchmont Yacht and Atlantic Yacht Clubs. Residence, 240 West 73d St., office, 170 Broadway, New York.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 133

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910; Leonard, John William, 1849-; Mohr, William Frederick, 1870-; Knox, Herman Warren, 1881-; Holmes, Frank R Publication date: 1904 Publisher: New York : L.R. Hamersly Co. Number of Pages: 751

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910; Leonard, John William, 1849-; Mohr, William Frederick, 1870-; Knox, Herman Warren, 1881-; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York : L.R. Hamersly Co.
Number of Pages: 751