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WILBUR, Charles S .:
Lawver; graduated from University of Rochester in 1878; instructor High School, Troy, N. Y., 1879-80; private secretary to TT. S. Senator Warner Miller; special agent U. S. Treasury Department, 1889-93; State corporation tax commissioner, 1895. Has
since practiced law in New York City. Address, 256 Broadway, New York.
WILBUR, Henry W .:
Editor; born Easton, N. Y., May 15. 1851; son of Humphrey and Ann Pierce
Wilbur. Educated in public schools and high school, Vineland, N. J. Married at Vineland, N. J., Oct. 21, 1880, to Eliza M. Sowle. Began editorial work in 1875. Ed- ited Vineland (N. J.) Independent, 1876- 1884; New York Voice, 1896-98. Been ed- itor of New York Defender since 1899. Was Prohibition candidate for governor of New Jersey in 1895, and Secretary of the State of New York, 1888. Recommended minister Religious Society of Friends. Lecturer on temperance, economic and popular subjects. Residence, 785 Park Ave .; office, 232 West 14th St., New York.
WILCOX, Benjamin Martin:
Republican State Senator, representing the Thirty-ninth Senate district, Cayuga and Seneca Counties; born in Fleming, Cayuga County, June 21, 1854, and was educated in the public schools of Auburn. In 1870 he entered the county clerk's of - fice as messenger and clerk; was so em- ployed for seven years, and then appoint- ed deputy county clerk, which position he held till Jan., 1883, when he was chosen clerk, and remained such till 1891. He has been active in the politics of Cayuga county, and was for several years chair- man of the Republican County Committee. Was elected to the Assembly in 1893, and re-elected in 1894; elected to State Senate in 1895. 1898, 1900 and 1902. Address, Au- burn, N. Y.
WILLCOX, David:
President Delaware and Hudson Com- panv; born Flatbush, Long Island, Dec. 12. 1849; son of Albert Ann Elizabeth (Hamilton) Willcox; graduated from Yale College in 1872 at the head of his class; graduated at Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1874, and has since then practiced law in New York. From 1879 to 1885, held the office of president of the village of New Brighton; has been for many years con- nected with the Delaware & Hudson Company as general counsel, vice-presi- dent and president, to which latter of- fice he was elected in May, 1903, and which he now holds. Unmarried. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Univer- sity, Union. Union League, Century, Rid- ing, Alpha Delta Phi, Whist. Down Town, Lawyers, New York Yacht. New York Atlıletic, St. Nicholas Society and Tuxedo Clubs; also the Richmond County Coun- try Club, Metropiltan Club of Washington, and Fort Orange Club of Albany. Resi- dence. 3 East 60th St .; office, 21 Cort- landt St., New York.
WILCOX, Ella Wheeler:
Author; born (Wheeler) at Jamestown Centre, Wis., in 1855; educated at the University of Wisconsin; married, in 1884, Robert M. Wilcox. Author of "Drops of Water," "Every-Day Thoughts," "Poems of Passion," "Maurine." "Poems of Pleas- ure," "Three Women," "Kingdom of Love
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and Other Poems," "An Erring Woman's Love,' "Men, Women and Emotions," "The Beautiful Land of Nod," "Poems of Power." Residence, The Bungalow, Short Beach, Conn .; business address, 41 Union Square, New York.
WILCOX, Marrion:
Author, editor, lawyer; born Augusta, Ga., April 3, 1858; son of Daniel Hand and Frances L. (Ansley) Wilcox; gradu- ated Yale 1878; studied law and admitted to New York bar; LL.B., Hamilton; spe- cial courses in history and philology at Oxford, Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin Uni- versities. Married, 1885, Eleanor Gertrude Sarchez. Again several years abroad. Instructor at Yale with editorial work on New Englander and Yale Review.
In New York since 1893; editor or regular contributor to leading magazines, reviews, and encyclopedias. Author of "Real People," 1886; "Senora Villena and Gray," 1888: "Scenes in General Dayton's Garden," 1889; "History of the War with Spain," 1898; "Sketches in Spain, Eng- land and Italy," 1899; Harper's "History of the War in the Philippines," 1900. In 1902-1903 Mr. Wilcox wrote for the North American Review "The Situation in Cuba," "A Prototype of Latin-American Mis- government," and "Colombia's Last Vi- sion of Eldorado"; for the Atlantic Monthly "A Delicate Trial of Strength"; and for the Encyclopedia Americana near- ly the entire series of articles dealing with South and Central America and the West Indies. He visited Cuba twice in 1902, as a student of actual conditions, economic and political, with special ref- erence to the question of reciprocity be- tween that republic and the United States. Advocated in many publications, American and Cuban, the adoption of the Cuban policy which was submitted to Congress by the Roosevelt administration, and accepted by the House of Represen- tatives on Nov. 19, 1903. He is now en- gaged in studying the history of South and Central America, and the problem of our relations with the Latin-American countries. Residence, 67 East 54th St., New York.
WILCOX, Reynold Webb, M.D., LL.D .:
Was born at Madison. Conn., in 1856; his father, Colonel Vincent Meigs Wilcox, commanded the One Hundred and Thirty- second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- teers, during the late war. His mother, Catherine Millicent Webb, traces her an- cestry to Richard Webb, of Stamford, Conn., who emigrated as early as 1626, and was the founder of the well known Connecticut family of that name. Dr. Wilcox was educated at Yale College, by which he was graduated with honors as Bachelor of Arts 1878; 1881 received the degree of Master of Arts from Hobart Col- lege. and in the same year that of Doctor of Medicine from Harvard University; and in 1892 he was honored with the degree of
Doctor of Laws by Maryville College. Dur- ing the period in which he was engaged in the study of medicine at Harvard he served as house physician in the hospitals of Boston. After his graduation in medi- cine he spent fifteen months in medical study at Vienna, Heidelberg, Paris and Edinburgh, gaining there experience of the utmost value, and upon his return took un his residence in New York. In 1884 he was appointed a clinical assistant at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, in 1886 an instruc- tor in the same institution, and in 1889. he was chosen professor of medicine. As a teacher of practicing physicians he is well and favorably known for his ex- tensive practical experience, broad schol- arship, and scientific enthusiasm. His
service at the Northeastern and Demit Dispensaries and in the wards of Belle- vue and St. Mark's Hospitals has been utilized, not only for his personal study, but as well for the instruction of the" profession at large. Dr. Wilcox is a fre- quent speaker at the various medical or- ganizations of which he is a member- the American Academy of Medicine, Med- ical Jurisprudence. American Therapeu- tic, and the Clinical, County, State, Great- er New York and Harvard Medical Socie- ties: of the last two he has been president. He has been a prolific writer upon medi- cal and therapeutical subjects. having published more than two hundred and fifty paners. most of which have been translated into French and German and have been extensively quoted in the Am- erican journals. He is the author of "Materia Medica" "Therapeutics" "Fev- er Nursing." Member of the Societies of the Colonial Wars: Sons of the Revolution. War of 1812. Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and Sons of Veterans; of the last he has been surgeon-general. He is also a member of the Metropolitan and the St. Nicholas Clubs. Address, 679 Madison Ave., New York.
WILCOX, Timothy E .:
Colonel. U. S. Army; born in and ap- ponted from New York; assistant surgeon, Sixth New York Volunteers. Heavy Ar- tillery, Jan. 4 1865; honorably mustered out May 11. 1865; assistant surgeon, U. S. Volunteers. April 25. 1865; honorably mus- tered out June 4. 1866; assistant surgeon, U. S. Army, May 14. 1867; resigned, July 1. 1868; reappointed assistant surgeon on Nov. 10. 1874; captain and assistant sur- geon, Nov. 10. 1879; major and surgeon, Feb. 24. 1891. Served in the Spanish-Am- erican War; lieutenant-colonel. depart- ment surgeon-general. May 7, 1901: colo- nel. 1903. Address, Vancouver Barracks; Wash.
WILCOX. Walter F .:
Professor of political economy and sta- tistics at Cornell University; born in Reading, Middlesex County, Mass., March 22, 1861. After finishing a course in the
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Reading High School in 1877 he went to Phillips Academy, Andover, where he graduated from the classical department in 1880 with the valedictory; thence went to Amherst College, where he graduated with honors in 1884; during a part of the following year he was instructor in Latin at his Alma Mater, but resigned at the close to pursue his studies in other fields. Between 1885 and 1887 he worked in the schools of law and political science at Columbia College; during the second year he held there the Seligman fellow- ship in political science, and at the end of the time he received the degree of LL.B. and was admitted to the New York Bar. Preferring teaching to the practice of his profession he returned to Amherst as lecturer on law and instruc- tor in philosophy. Thence he went to Yale for a year of graduate work in the- ology and philosophy and ended his course. as a matriculated student with a year in the University of Berlin. His doctor's thesis, "The Divorce Problem, a Study in Statistics," was presented to the facul- ty of political science of Columbia Col- lege soon after his return and published under their supervision in 1891. In the spring of 1891 he was appointed instructor in philosophy in Cornell University; in 1892 was made assistant professor of so- cial science and statistics, and in 1894 as- sociate professor, and in 1898 full profes- sor of these subjects. In 1901 the title of his chair was changed to that of political economy and statistics, and in 1902 he was made dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. Between 1899 and 1901 he was stationed at Washington on a two years' leave of absence as chief statistician in charge of the division of methods and re- sults in the United States Census Office, and since his return to Ithaca, in 1901, he has kept up his connection with the Cen- sus Office, completing a report upon the work of his division. In the summer of 1903 he was a delegate representing the United States government at the Eleventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, held at Brussels, and also a delegate at the ninth meeting of the International Statistical Institute held at Berlin. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.
WILD, Frederick S .:
Captain, U. S. Army; was born in New York; appointed from the army; private, corporal and sergeant Company B, Sev- enteenth U. S. Infantry, from Feb. 21, 1887, to Jan. 30, 1890; second lieutenant, Seventeenth Infantry, Dec. 17, 1889; ac- cepted, Jan. 31, 1890; transferred to the Twelfth Infantry, May 7, 1897. Served in the Spanish-American War; captain, Thirteenth Infantry. Oct. 11, 1899. Ad- dress, Fort McDowell, Cal.
WILDER, George:
Bank official; graduated from Univer- sity of Rochester in 1885; clerk in Trad-
ers National Bank, Rochester, N. Y., 1886-88; cashier Central Bank, Rochester, N. Y., since 1888; vice-president of the Central Bank since 1902. Address, Cen- tral Bank, Rochester, N. Y.
WILDER, George Warren:
President of The Butterick Company; was born in Sterling, Mass., on March 29, 1866; son of Jones Warren Wilder and Jane E. Raymore, both of old New Eng- land families. The father was one of the founders and the head of The Butterick Publishing Company, Ltd., makers of the famous Butterick Patterns and publish- ers of The Delineator. George Warren Wilder was educated at Worcester, Mass., and in Amherst College; studied law at Columbia Law School, and admitted to practice at the New York bar in May, 1891. He abandoned the profession for a business career with The Butterick Publishing Company, Ltd., and promoted Tle Butterick Company, of which he is president. This company has $12,000,000 capital and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He is a director in sev- eral other business companies and of the New Amsterdam National Bank. Mar- ried Miss Gertrude Chapin Stowe, of Fitchburg, Mass. Business address, 7 West 15th St., New York.
WILLETS, Gilson:
Author, journalist and traveler; born at Willets Point, Long Island, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1870, of Quaker parentage; son of Gil- son Willets, author; privately educated in New York and London. Managing editor Yonkers (N. Y.) Daily Herald, 1890; edi- tor Current Literature Magazine, 1892-93; editor Romance Magazine, 1894-95; pub- lisher of Romance Magazine, 1896-97. He went to Cuba after the Maine disaster for Collier's Weekly, Leslie's, McClure's, etc .; special correspondent for Collier's, etc., during Spanish-American War; journeyed through Cuba from Havana to Santiago after the war. In 1900 went to India to investigate the great famine as general correspondent for American Press; jour- neyed through Arabia and Egypt in same year. In 1903 he visited all the principal European countries as special correspond- ent commissioned to investigate the Am- erican commercial invasion of Europe; made a two months' journey during win- ter in sleds across northern Russia, Fin- land, Sweden and Norway. Married, 1896, Daisy Vanderveer, daughter of John R. Vanderveer, of New York. Author of the following novels, histories and general works: "His Neighbor's Wife," 1897; "Anita, The Cuban Sov " 1898; "The Tri- umph of Yankee Doodle," 1898; "The Loves of Twenty and One." 1899; "The Rulers of the World," 1900; "The Bull Fighter," 1900. "Travels in India," 1901; "The Jewels of the Maharanee," 1901; "The Adventures of a Free Lance," "The Workers of the Nation," 1903; and "The
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Commercial Invasion of Europe," 1903; also numerous magazine articles and stor- ies. Address, care Collier's Weekly, New York.
WILLIAMS, Gardner Stewart:
Civil engineer; born in Saginaw City, Mich., 1866; son of Stewart B. Williams and grandson of Gardner D. Williams, founder and first mayor of that city. De- scended from Robert Williams, freeman, Roxbury, Mass. He was educated in Saginaw public schools, graduating from the High School in 1884 and from the en- gineering department of the University of Michigan in 1889. Married Jessie B. Wright, of Saginaw, in 1893. Was as- sistant engineer on waterworks construc- tion at Bismarck, Dak., in 1887; resident engineer on waterworks construction at Greenville, Mich., 1888, and engineer in charge of water works construction at Owosso, Mich., 1889; draughtsman and engineer for Russel Wheel and Foundry Company, of Detroit, from 1890 to 1893; civil engineer to Board of Water Com- missioners of Detroit from 1893 to 1898; engineer in charge of hydraulic labora- tory, and professor of experimental hy- draulics at Cornell University, 1898. to date. Received advanced degree of C. E. from University of Michigan in 1899, and Norman medal from American Society of Civil Engineers in 1902, and was appoint- ed a representative of the United States upon the International Lake Level Com- mission by President Roosevelt in 1903. Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, New England Water Works Association. Detroit Engineering Society, Michigan Engineering Society, and hon- orary member of Engineering Society of the University of Michigan. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.
WILE, Ira S., M.D .:
Physician; graduated from the Univer- sity of Rochester in 1898. Bacteriologist at Infants' Summer Hospital, Charlotte, N. Y., 1899; acting hospital steward in Spanish War; graduated from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1902. Member of Rochester Academy of Science. Address, 140 West 104th St., New York.
WILE, Isaac A .:
Lawyer; graduated from University of Rochester in 1872; law student at Roch- ester, N. Y., 1872-74; practiced law in Rochester. N. Y., 1875-81; mercantile pur- suits, 1883-98; resumed law practice in Rochester. N. Y .. 1898. Address, 1012 Granite Building, Rochester, N. Y.
WILES, Lemuel Maynard:
Artist, educator; born in Perry, N. Y .. Oct. 21, 1826; son of Daniel and Nancy (Richards) Wiles. His great-grandfather was a merchant in the city of Berne, Switzerland, and spelled his name Wildt,
but, after migrating to this country, his descendants were induced to change the orthography to Wiles. The subject of this sketch was graduated from the New York State Normal College in 1847; degree of A. M. was conferred by Ingham University. He taught in the public schools of the State for several years, and, subsequently, studied art in New York City. He then taught drawing in Albany Academy for three years, and in the public schools of Utica for seven years; then for ten years was director of the College of Fine Arts, Ingham University, Le Roy, N. Y., and afterwards director of the art department of the University of Nashville, Tenn .; now has a studio in New York City. In 1854 he married Miss Rachel Ramsay. of Albany, and has one son, Irving R. Wiles, a professional artist, now in New York. Residence, 101 West 55th St .; studio, 106 West 55th St., New York.
WILLIAMS, Charles Miller:
. Lawyer; graduated from University of Rochester in 1871; law student, Roches- ter. N. Y., 1872-75; attended Albany Law School in 1874; has practiced law at Roch- ester, N. Y., since 1875; school commis- sioner, Rochester, N. Y., 1879-81; trustee University of Rochester since 1888; secre- tary and treasurer, 1891-98; secretary and attorney, 1898 to date; president of Roch- ester Bar Association, 1902. Address, 710 Wilder Building, Rochester, N. Y.
WILLIAMS, Francis C .:
Lawyer; graduated from the University of Rochester in 1888. Is at present prac- ticing law at Corning, N. Y., continuing practice of his father, Francis A. Wil- liams, deceased. Address, Corning, N. Y.
WILLIAMS, Henry R .:
Lieutenant, U. S. Army; born in New York; retired; appointed from New York, civil life; private and corporal Company D, Eighty-fourth New York Infantry, May 18, 1861, to Oct. 1. 1862; second lieuten- ant, Eighty-fourth New York Infantry, Oct. 1, 1862; first lieutenant, Aug. 18, 1863; honorably mustered out April 25, 1864; private, general sergeant, June 16, 1864; discharged, Jan. 8, 1865; second lieutenant, Veteran Reserve Coros, Jan. 5, 1865; hon- orably mustered out Jan. 17, 1867; sec- ond lieutenant, Forty-fifth U. S. Infantry, July 28, 1866; first lieutenant, Dec. 12, 1868; unassigned, July 22, 1869; retired, Dec. 15, 1870, wounds in line of duty. He was brevetted first lieutenant of Volun- teers, Nov. 7, 1865, for gallant and meri- torious services. Address, 443 First St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
WILLIAMS, Henry Smith, M.D .:
Was born in Durand, Ill., March 4, 1863, but parents removed to Charles City, Ia., when he was seven years old; was edu- cated at the Charles City High School, the State University of Iowa at Iowa
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City, and the Chicago Medical College in Chicago, subsequently spending four years in research work at the various univer- sities, libraries, and scientific institutions of Europe. Received the degree of B.Sc. from the State University of Iowa, the degree of M. D. from the Chicago Medical College, and the honorary degree of LL.D. from the Western Reserve University. Married, Nov. 9, 1899, Florence Whitney, of Independence, Ia. Was assistant phy- sician and pathologist of the State Hos- pital for Insane, at Independence, Ia., in 1887; assistant physician at the Manhat- tan State Hospital on Blackwell's Island, 1888; second assistant physician at the Bloomingdale Asylum, 1889-92; medical superintendent of Randall's Island Hos- pital, 1892; lecturer at the Harvard School of Sociology. 1892-93, and has lectured elsewhere on various scientfic and soci- ological topics. He has written numerous articles for the American Journal of In- sanity, the Medical Record. the North American Review, Harper's Weekly, Har- per's Monthly, and numerous literary and scientific journals. Author of "The Story of Nineteenth Century Science," 1900; "The History of the Art of Writing," four volumes, 1902-03. He has edited a History of the World in twenty-five vol- umes, which is just passing through the press. Practice in nervous and mental diseases only. Residence 105 East 19th St .; office, 41 East 29th St., New York.
WILLIAMS, Herbert Upham:
Physician; was born Nov. 28, 1866, at Buffalo, N. Y .; studied, literary depart- ment, University of Michigan; graduated in medicine from the University of Buf- falo, 1889; University of Pennsylvania, 1891. Professor of pathology and bacteri- ology in medical department, University of Buffalo. Member of American Asso- ciation of Pathologists and Bacteriolo- gists, Association of American Physicians, and the Association of American Natu- ralists. Author of "A Manual of Bacteri- ology," P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Phila- delphia. Residence. 221 North St .; office, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y.
WILLIAMS, James F .:
Republican Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly district of Onondaga County in the Assembly; was born near the village of Baldwinsville, in the town of Van Buren Jan. 20, 1860; lived in the town of Van Buren until 1872. when his family moved to Meridian. Cayuga Coun- ty, N. Y., where he lived on a farm for six years; in Feb .. 1878 entered the employ- ment of Abel West & Son, of Meridian, N. Y., dealers in general merchandise, where he remained four years. In April, 1882, he moved to Baldwinsville, N. Y., and entered the employment of W. H. Downer & Son, dealers in general mer- chandise, where he remained three years; in Feb., 1885 bought a one-half interest in the hardware business with Charles K.
Hall, formerly the firm of Hall & Wil- liams, and on Jan. 11, 1900, bought his parner's interest in the business. He was elected supervisor of the town of Lysan- der, Onondaga County, in 1896, and has since been re-elected twice; his last term expired on Dec. 31. 1901. On Nov. 5, 1901, he was elected member of Assembly in the first district of Onondaga County, and was re-elected in 1902. In 1903 he was ap- pointed a member of the following As- sembly committees: Taxation and Re- trenchment. Internal Affairs, and Indian Affairs. Address. Baldwinsville, Onon- daga County, N. Y.
WILLIAMS, John R .:
Major, U. S Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York; cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1872; grad- uated, June 15 1876. Second lieutenant, Third U. S. Artillery, June 15, 1876; first lieutenant, March 15. 1881; captain, Sev- enth Artillery, March 8, 1898. Served In the Spanish-American War; major, Artil- lery Corps, June 18, 1902. Address, Ad- jutant General's Department, San Fran- cisco, Cal.
WILLIAMS, Oscar F .:
Consul general; was born near Livonia, N. Y., June 29, 1843; educated in the com- mon schools, at the Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y., and graduated at Cornell University in 1869. From 1869 to 1889 he was a teacher, lecturer, and author of text-books. Appointed consul at Havre. Oct. 9, 1889; retired, April, 1893; appointed consul at Manila, Oct. 19, 1897; retired, July 1, 1899; served in varied capacities in Manila for the departments of State. Navy, War. and Treasury during war with Spain; appointed consul general at Singapore, Jan. 10, 1901.
WILLIAMS, Pardue C .:
Jurist; born at Ellisburgh, N. Y., in 1842; prepared at Union Academy, Belle- ville, N. Y .; entered St. Lawrence Uni- versity; upon completion of law studies in 1863 was admitted to the bar, and estab- lished a practice in Watertown, N. Y. In 1885 he was elected justice of the Supreme Court; 1896-97. in Appellate Division. New York City. Since Jan. 1, 1900. in Appel- late Division, Rochester, N. Y. Address, Rochester, N. Y.
WILLIAMS, Walter Long:
Veterinary surgeon; born in Argenta, Ill., Feb. 26, 1856; son of Jackson Wil- liams. He was educated in the common schools 1860-72; attended Mt. Zion, Ill., Seminary, 1870-71; the University of Illi- nois 1875-77, and was graduated from the Montreal Veterinary College in 1879. He was married 1886 to Mary E. Wilkinson. He was the assistant State veterinarian of Illinois 1874-91; president of the Illi- nois State Veterinary Medical Association,
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1888-91; associate editor of the American Veterinary Review since 1890; professor of Veterinary Science of the Purdue Uni- versity 1891-93; vice-president 1890-92, and president 1893 of the American Veterinary Medical Association; professor of veter- inary science Montana Agricultural Col- lege 1893-96; professor of Veterinary Sur- gery, obstetrics, zoötechnics and jurispru- dence New York State Veterinary College, Cornell University, since 1896. Member of the American and New York State and honorary member of the Iowa Veterinary Medical Associations; member of the Sig- ma Xi. He is an extensive contributor to various veterinary publications. Address, 115 Valentine Place, Ithaca, N. Y.
WILLIAMS, William Robert, M.D.
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