Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 135

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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WHEELER Jerome Byron:

Capitalist; born in Troy, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1841; son of Daniel B. and Mary J. Wheel- er. Received his education at the public schools of Waterford, N. Y. At an early age he entered a factory at Waterford, but at the breaking out of the Civil War was enlisted in the Sixth New York Cav- alry, remaining with the regiment throughout the entire war, and leaving the service as brevet major. In 1870 he was married to Harriet Macy Valentine. He became a bookkeeper in Troy, and later a clerk and partner in the commis- sion house of Holt & Co. In 1879 he be- came associated with Charles B. Webster in the purchase of the entire business of R. H. Macy & Co., with which house he had for several years previous been con- nected. In 1882 he became largely inter- ested in mining, smelting, banking and real estate interests in the West, and or- ganized at Aspen, Colo., the Aspen Smelt- ing Company, and also the J. B. Wheeler Banking Company, at Manitou, Colo .; president The Croesus Gold Mining and Milling Company, owning mines in Sierra County, Cal. Mr. Wheeler is a member of the Union League, Goethe, Manhattan, Lawyers and Commonwealth Clubs, and of the New England Society. Address, Broad Exchange Building, New York.

WHEELER, William Egbert:

Capitalist; born Portville, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1843; graduated Yale, 1866. Engaged in the business of tanning leather and man- ufacturing lumber in Pennsylvania and New York. Member of the New York State Legislature in years 1892, 1893 and 1900; vice-president of the First National Bank of Olean, N. Y .; president of the Acme Milling Company, Olean, N. Y .; president of the village of Portville, N. Y., and president of the school board; press- dent of the Chicago Lumbering Company, of Michigan; mills and main office at Manistique, Mich. Address, Portville, N. Y.

WHEELER, William Morton:

Zoologist; born in Milwaukee, Wis., March 19,' 1865; graduated from German- American College, 1884; became curator at Milwaukee Public Museum, 1887, three years later becoming fellow and assistant in morphology at Clark University, Wor- cester, Mass., from which he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1892. In that year he left Clark University to become instruc- tor in embryology at the University of Chicago and in 1897 assistant professor. In 1899 he was called to the chair of zoöl- ogy at University of Texas, where he re- mained till 1903, being in that year given charge of the department of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Nat- ural History at New York. Is a member of American Morphological Society and So-

ciety of American, Naturalists; fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. He is a writer on zoological subjects. Residence, Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y .; address, Ameri- can Museum of Natural History, New York.

WHEELOCK, Edwin Dwight:

Investment securities; born in Bedford, O., Feb. 15, 1853; son of Bloomfield J. and Adeline C. Wheelock; educated in com- mon and high school of Bedford, and at- tended for a time the Hanover College of Indiana. Married, March 15, 1876, Harriet C. Sheldon. He began his busi- ness life in a chair factory, and was suc- cessively a manufacturer, country mer- chant, railroad auditor, real estate dealer, and is now a dealer in industrial. secu- rities. He is a Christian Socialist, and an occasional writer on sociological themes. He organized in Chicago in 1893 and is now president of the Christan Socialst League of America, formerly the National Christian Citizenship League. Address, 10 Wall St., New York.

WHEELOCK, William Almy:

Banker; was born in Providence, R. I., March 23, 1825; son of Joseph and Amelia Ames Wheelock; was educated at the New York University, and in 1850 was inarried, in Buffalo, to Harriet Efner. He is a director of the Central National Bank, the American Surety Company, the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, and is prominently connected with other fin- ancial institutions. He is a member of the American Fine Arts Society, the New England Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and of the American Museum of Natural History; also a mem- ber of the Union League and of the Law- yers Clubs. Residence, foot of West 58th St .; office, 100 Broadway, New York.

WHICHER, George Meason:

Teacher; born in Muscatine, Iowa, July 29, 1860; son of Stephen Emerson and Anna Meason Whicher; educated at pub- lic schools and Iowa College, Grinnell, Ia .; A. B., 1882; A. M., 1885; student at Johns Hopkins University. 1884-85;

teacher of mathematics and German, Muscatine High School, 1882-83; professor of Greek and German, Hastings College, Neb., 1883-88; principal of preparatory de- partment, Iowa College, 1888-89; classical master, Lawrenceville School, N. J., 1889- 92; professor of Latin and Greek, Packer Institute, Brooklyn. 1892-99; Normal Col- lege. New York City, 1899. Editor of Latin texts for beginners and author of minor poems and essays in current maga- zines. Address, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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WHINERY, Samuel:

Civil engineer; born near Salem, O.,

Nov. 20, 1845, of Quaker parentage. Moved to Jennings County, Indiana, in 1853, and grew up on his father's farm; educated in the common schools, followed by two terms in Indiana University; taught school three years beginning at age of eighteen. Obtained employment in 1868 in engineering corps locating Indian- apolis and Vincennes road, and becoming interested in the work, adopted civil en- gineering as a vocation; promoted to resident engineer in charge of construct- ing thirteen miles of the road. In 1869 was appointed resident engineer on the Indianapolis & St. Louis road at Terre Haute, Ind., in charge of construction, and later built the railroad shops at Mattoon, Ill., and other buildings on the road. First assistant engineer for two years on the location and construction of the Cincinnati, Rockport & Southwestern Railroad in southern Indiana; 1873 to 1878, connected with the location and con- struction of the Cincinnati Southern Rail- road, first as topographer on surveys, then as resident engineer on construction, and later as division engineer in charge of the Chattanooga division; 1878 to 1880, U. S. assistant engineer in charge of im- proving upper division of Mussel Shoals, Tennessee River. From 1880 to 1884 had charge of locating and constructing north- ern division New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad, acting also as superintendent during first year of operation; then en- gaged in private engineering practice until 1887; among other things, completed the first incline railroad up Lookout Moun- tain, at Chattanooga, Tenn; the road rises 1,200 feet in about three-quarters of a mile. From 1887 to 1901, connected with the Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Company, one year as assistant manager, twelve years as vice-president and gen- eral manager and six months as president, until the company was merged into the Asphalt Trust; during that time engaged also in engineering practice as consulting engineer. Member of engineer commis- sion to report on new water works for Cincinnati, O .; president water commis- sion and manager of the water works of Wyoming, a suburb of Cincinnati. Since March, 1901, engaged in practice as con- sulting engineer in New York City; mem- ber board of expert engineers on Manhat- tan terminal of Brooklyn Bridge, report- ing in October, 1901; chairman of com- mittee on engineering and sanitation. Merchants' Association of New York, on transportation problems of city, report published Aug., 1903; reported to Commis- sioner of Docks on extension of pierhead line, North River, Manhattan, Oct., 1903. Member, director for four years, and vice- president for two years of the American Society of Civil Engineers; member of the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers, American Institute of Mining Engineers, and Engineers Club, of New

York. Author of "Municipal Public Works" (Macmillan, 1903), and of num- erous papers and discussions in Transac- tions of Societies and in the Technical Press. _ Lectured before engineering de- partment, University of Cincinnati, Uni- versity of Illinois and Cornell University. Married, 1875, Elizabeth Crawford, of Somerset, Ky. Residence, East Orange, N. J .; office, 97 Liberty St., New York.

WHIPPLE, Charles Henry:

Lieutenant-colonel U. S. Army; born in New York. June 12, 1849; appointed from Minnesota. Major, P. M., Feb. 12, 1881; lieutenant-colonel, department pay- master-general May 3, 1901. Served in Spanish-American War. Address, Pay- master General's Office, Washington, D. C.

WHIPPLE, Charles William:

Major, U. S. Army; born in Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 28, 1846; son of Major Gen- eral A. W. Whipple and Eleanor Sher- burne Whipple. Appointed to West Point by President Lincoln, July 1, 1864; grad- uated June 15, 1868; assigned to Battery D, Third Artillery, stationed at Newport, R. I .; transferred in Feb., 1869, with head- quarters and Batteries B and D by steamer to Key West, Fla .; joined Light Battery C at Light Artillery School, Fort Riley, Kan., Sept. 1, 1870; transferred with battery to Charleston, S. C., April, 1871; reported at West Point, Aug. 28, 1871, as instructor in drawing. Relieved at West Point the following year upon his own application; joined Battery F of his regiment at Fort Jefferson. Dry Tortugas, Sept. 1, 1872; transferred in February with battery to Oswego, N. Y., and to the Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., as student officer, May 1, 1873; graduated, May 1, 1874, and reported for duty at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor. From July, 1874, to Dec., 1875, on duty with the Wheeler Survey in charge of parties working through southwestern Colorado, northern New Mexico and Southern Cali- fornia. Transferred to ordnance depart- ment as a first lieutenant, July 19, 1875, and in December assigned to duty at the Government Building, Centennial Expo- sition; Feb .. 1877, inspector at the West Point Foundry at Cold Spring, N. Y. From 1883 to 1887 in charge of the U. S. Proving Ground, Sandy Hook. N. J .; cap- tain, May 9, 1885; ordered to Fort Leaven- worth, Kan., April, 1887, as chief ord- nance officer, Department of the Missouri; Nov. 6, 1890, member of board of officers in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition: July 19, 1892, on duty in office of the chief of ordnance, Washington. D. C .; Sept. 3, 1895, assigned to duty at Springfield Armory Mass .; May 30. 1898; ordered as chief ordnance officer of the expedition to the Philippine Islands; June 22, 1898, appointed inspector general of

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volunteers, with rank of lieutenant cono- nel. Retired on account of disability, Feb. 2, 1901. Address, 181 Madison Ave., New York.

WHISTLER, Garland N .:

Major, U. S. Army; born in New York; appointed from New York. Second lieu- tenant, Fifth Artillery, Oct. 9, 1867; first lieutenant, Oct. 7. 1874: captain, First Ar- tillery, March 8. 1898; transferred to Fifth Artillery, May 7, 1898; served in Spanish- American War; major, Artillery Corps, Aug. 22, 1901. Address, Fort Wadsworth, N. Y.

WHITBECK, John F. W., M.D .:

Graduated from University of Roches- ter, 1867; student of medicine at Universi- ties of Berlin, Vienna, Heidelberg, Bres- lau, and London, 1870-73; physician, Roch- ester, N. Y., since 1873; health commis- sioner, Rochester. N. Y., member State board of health, 1993. Member of Amer- ican Medical Association, New York State Medical Society, American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Central New York Medical Society, Monroe Coun- ty Medical Society; surgical staff, Roches- ter City Hospital. Address, 322 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y.

WHITE, Andrew D .:

First president of Cornell University; born in Homer, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1832; edu- cated at Hobart College and Yale Univer- · sity, graduating from the latter in 1853. Traveled in Europe and studied at Univer- sities of Berlin and Paris, 1853-56; re- turned to America in 1857 and became professor of English literature and his- tory at University of Michigan; resigned from the university in 1862; elected to the Senate of the State of New York in 1863; president of Cornell, 1867-85; delegate to National Republican convention, 1872; chairman of a jury of public instruction at Philadelphia Centennial, 1876; honorary commissioner to the Paris Exposition, 1878; United States minister to Germany, 1879; American minister to Russia, 1892- 94; member of Venezuelan Commission, 1896-97; ambassador to Germany, 1897- 1902; appointed member of Peace Commis- sion at the Hague. Feb. 6, 1890. Is a re- gent of the Smithsonian Institution and officer of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.

WHITE, Arthur H .:

Deputy consul general; was born in Hudson, N. Y., Jan. 2, 1873. Since leav- ing school he has been a bookkeeper and accountant; appointed deputy consul gen- eral at Shanghai, China, 1897.

WHITE, Erskine Norman:

Corresponding secretary of the Presby- terian Board of the Church Erection Fund; born in New York, May 31, 1833,

son of Norman and Mary A. White. He was graduated from Yale in 1854, receiv- ing the degree of A. M. in 1857, and the degree of S. T. D. from the University of the City of New York in 1874. He was married to Eliza T. Nelson in 1859. He was ordained a minister in 1859, and his pastorates were Richmond, N. Y., 1859-62; New Rochelle. 1862-68; Buffalo, 1868-74; New York, 1874-86, since which time he has been the corresponding secretary of the Board of Church Erection. He was chaplain of the 22d New York Volunteers for a time during the civil war. He is the author of "The Personal Influence of Abraham Lincoln," 1865; "History of the West Twenty-third Presbyterian Church," 1876; "Why Infants Are Baptised." 1900, and is the author of many magazine ar- ticles and reviews. Residence, 550 Park Ave .; office, 156 Fifth Ave., New York.

WHITE, Henry:

Social economist and lecturer; was born in Baltimore, Md., May 21, 1866; educated in the public schools of New York, and studied law; learned the business of cloth- ing cutter, and in 1893 became the busi- ness agent of the Clothing Cutters' Union of New York; assisted in the organization of the United Garment Workers of Ameri- ca, and was elected general auditor, serv- ing until 1896, when he was elected gen- eral secretary. Editor of "The Garment Worker,' afterward merged into the "Weekly Bulletin of Clothing Trades," of which he is the present editor. He is a member of the National Civic Federa- tion, and trustee of the People's Institute. He represented the State of New York at the Chicago Trust Conference in 1899, having been appointed by Governor Roosevelt. Served on executive commit- tee of the Citizens Union, and is a mem- ber of the Society of Ethical Culture, and of the Social Reform Club. Is a lec- turer and a contributor to magazines on social and economical topics. Address, Bible House, New York.

WHITE, Horace:

Editor; son of Horace White, M. D., and Elizabeth McClary (Moore) White; born at Colebrook, N. H., Aug. 10, 1834. In 1837 the family removed to that part of Wisconsin territory where the city of Beloit now stands-at that time unoccu- pied. Horace entered Beloit College in 1849, and was graduated in 1853; in 1854 he went to Chicago and secured a position on the staff of the Evening Journal of that city; in 1855 was appointed agent of the New York Associated Press in Chica- go. In 1856 the Kansas war broke out and Mr. White was appointed assistant secretary of the National Kansas Com- mittee, whose headquarters were in Chi- cago. In 1857 he decided to settle in Kansas, and went thither and filed a claim for 160 acres of land, which, how- ever, he did not perfect, since, upon his

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return to Chicago to close up his business affairs, he received an advantageous of- fer of a position as editorial writer on the Chicago Tribune, the chief editor of which was Dr. Charles H. Ray. In 1858, while holding this position, he was desig- nated as staff correspondent to accom- pany Abraham Lincoln in his political campaigns against Stephen A. Douglas for the office of Senator of the United States. The notable features of this cam- paign were given to the public chiefly through his letters to the Chicago Trib- une, and were subsequently written out by him, at the instance of William H. Herndon, and published in the latter's "Life of Lincoln." In 1861 Mr. White was sent to Washington as correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, and while there he filled successively the places of clerk of the Senate committee on Military Af- fairs and clerk in the War Department. In the latter capacity he was assigned to the special service of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. In 1865 he became part owner and chief editor of the Chi- cago Tribune, which place he filled until Sept ... 1874. when he resigned and was succeeded by Mr. Joseph Medill; he spent the year 1875 in Europe. In 1877 he re- moved to New York and became associat- ed with Henry Villard in the latter's rail- road enterprises, especially that of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, of which he was the treasurer for the next few years. In 1881 he joined with Mr. Villard in the purchase of the New York Evening Post, of which he became the president and one of the editors, in con- junction with Carl Schurz and Edwin L. Godkin. Mr. Schurz retired in 1844, Mr. Godkin in 1899, and Mr. White in 1893; he remains president of the corporation. Mr. White is best known by his contri- butions to the various campaigns for Sound Money that have been fought in the political arena since the close of the Civil War. In addition to his editorial work he has been a frequent contributor to the magazines and pamphlet literature of that period. In 1895 he wrote a book entitled "Money and Banking Illustrated by American History." with the special object of sunnlying information and argu- ment for the Presidential campaign of 1896. This work was immediately adopt- ed as a text-book in many colleges and universities and was in large demand by political committees and public speakers. A second and revised edition was pub- lished in 1902 and a third in 1903. Mr. White is a member of the Greek Club of New York. In 1899 he published a translation of the "Roman History of Ap- pian of Alexandria" in two volumes, upon which he had bestowed the labor of some years in the intervals of his editorial work. He has also edited the Sophismes Economiques of Frederic Bastiot and the Scienza delle Finance of Luigi Cossa. Mr. White has been twice married: first, in 1859, to Martha Hale Root, daughter of

Rev. David Root, of New Haven, Conn. (died in 1873); second, in 1875 to Amelia J. MacDougall. daughter of James A. MacDougall, of Joliet, Ill. (died in 1885). Three daughters by the second marriage live with Mr. White at his residence, 18 West 69th St., New York.

WHITE, Horace:

Republican State Senator from the Thirty-sixth Senate District, Onondaga County; born October 7, 1865, in the city of Buffalo; is the son of Horace K. White, of Syracuse, and a nephew of Andrew D. White, ex-president of Cornell University, ex-ambassador to Russia and ambassador to Germany. He went to Syracuse with his parents in 1869, and has resided there ever since; there he attended the public schools and the High School, and thence entered Cornell University, graduating with honors in 1887. After studying law two years in ex-Senator Hiscock's office, he took the law course at Columbia Law School; was admitted to the bar in May, 1890, and then studied for another year in Mr. Hiscock's office; then formed a part- nership with Harry F. King, on whose death in Feb., 1893, he formed a partner- ship with Jerome L. Cheney, which still continues. Mr. White was elected Sena- tor in 1895; re-elected in 1898, 1900 and 1902. In 1903 he was appointed a member of the following Senate committees: Chairman of the committees on Cities, member of Canals, Public Education, and Indian Affairs. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.

WHITE, J. Blake, M.D .:

Born in Charleston, S. C., Oct. 9, 1850; A. B., Harvard, 1873; M. D., College Phy- sicians and Surgeons, 1874; visiting phy- sician, City Hospital; consulting physi- cian, House of Refuge; lecturer, Post Graduate Medical College. Member of County Medical, Manhattan Medical, and Surgical Societies, Delta Kappa Epsilon Society. Address, 1013 Madison Ave., New York.

WHITE, James Gilbert:

Electrical engineer and contractor; born in Milroy, Pa., Aug. 29, 1861; son of Rev. John W. and Mary (Beaver) White; was graduated from Pennsylvania State Col- lege in 1882, and from Cornell University (Ph.D.) in 1885; instructor in physics, University of Nebraska, 1885-87; president of the Western Engineering Company, 1887-90; with Edison United Manufactur- ing Company, New York, during 1890; from 1890 to date, contracting and prac- ticing profession in the United States, and from 1899 to date, abroad also. Mem- ber of University, New York Athletic, Engineers, Lawyers and Cornell Clubs, New York; Maryland and Merchants Club, Baltimore; Ranelagh Club, London. Residence, 440 West End Ave .; offices,

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President, J. G. White & Co., Inc., Wall Exchange Building, 43-49 Exchange Place, New York, and Chairman, J. G. White & Co., Ltd., 22A College Hill, London, E. C.

WHITE, James Terry:

Author, editor and publisher; was born in Newburyport, Mass., July 3, 1845. Af- ter receiving an education in his native town, he removed to San Francisco at the age of seventeen, where he entered the employ of H. H. Bancroft & Co., book- sellers and stationers, as a porter, but within six months he became the head of the book department. After ten years' service he resigned, and in 1873 estab- lished the publishing house of James T. White & Co., which became general agents and managers for D. Appleton & Co. for the Pacific coast. The success of the business made it necessary to trans- fer its headquarters to New York City, where it has been established since 1886, and of which Mr. White is still the head. In 1844 he invented White's physiological manikin, which has had a sale of over 50.000 to schools and physicians. In 1889 he conceived the plan of publishing "The National Cyclopedia of American Biog- raphy," assuming the chief editorial man- agement. He is the author of "Flowers from Arcady" and "Captive Memories," besides contributing to the current maga- zines. On Jan. 28, 1869, he married Flor- ence C. Derby. a niece of his employers, and has four children, the eldest, George Derby, being the junior partner in the publishing house. Residence, 235 West 102d St .; office, 7 East 16th St., New York.

WHITE, Matthew, Jr .:

Author, editor; born in New York Sept. 21, 1857; son of Matthew and Sybella White. He received an academic educa- tion and for two years studied in France and Germany. He was for several years engaged in authorship and editorial work and is dramatic editor of Munsey's Maga- zine. Since 1889 he has been editor of "The Argosy," He is unmarried. Author of "One of the Profession," 1893, "The Affair at Islington," 1897. "A Born Aristo- crat." 1898. Address, Hotel Algonquin, 59 West 44th St .; office, 111 Fifth Ave., New York.

WHITE, Stanford:

Architect; born in New York, Nov. 9, 1853: educated, University of New York, A. M .; architectural training with Charles D. Gambrill and H. H. Richardson; chief assistant of the latter in construction of Trinity Church, Boston; traveled and studied in Europe, 1878-80: since 1881, of firm of McKim, Mead & White. Designed Villard's (now Whitelaw Reid's) house, Madison Square Garden. Century and Metropolitan Clubs, University of New York, Washington Arch, University of Virginia, pedestals for principal statues of Saint Gaudens (q. v.), etc. Fellow Amer-

ican Institute of Architects, etc. Resi- dence, Gramercy Park, New York, and St. James, Long Island; office, 160 Fifth Ave., New York.

WHITE, Stephen V .:

Stock broker; born in Chatham County, N. C., Aug. 1, 1831; son of Hiram and Julia White. He moved to Illinois in his infancy, and was graduated from Knox College in 1854. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1856, practicing for ten years at Des Moines, Ia. He was married in 1857 to Eliza M. Chandlers. He moved to New York, and became a stock broker, joining the Open Board of Brokers in 1865, and the Stock Exchange in 1869, as a member of the firm of Marvin & White. He afterwards operated alone until 1882, when he organized the firm of Stephen V. White & Co. In 1891 he failed for over one million dollars, but upon an arrangement with his creditors resumed business with a capital of $200,000 and subsequently paid every dollar of his ob- ligations. He was for a time park com- missioner of Brooklyn; was elected to Congress in 1887; has been treasurer of Plymouth Church Brooklyn, since 1869; familiarly called "Deacon" White because . of his activity and prominence in that organization; has been first president of the American Astronomical Association since 1865. Address, Brooklyn; office, 7 Wall St., New York ..

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 135

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