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WINSLOW Eugene H .:
President of Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance Company of New York; was born in Bookiyn, N. Y., in March, 1856. He received his education in that city. and entered the office of John G. Schu- maker for the study and practice of law; in Feb .. 1874. he was Induced by Mr. Harteau, then organizing the Metropoli- tan Plate Glass Insurance Company. to engage in the business of plate glass in- surance. Mr. Winslow began as a clerk. being the first man employed in any ca- pacity by that company; has been in con- tinuous service with the Metropolitan ever since, and worked his way up through the various steps to the position of secretary in 1887. and president in 1895. Address. 47 Cedar St., New York.
WINTERBURN, Florence Hull:
Author: was born in Chicago. Ill., June 8. 1858; daughter of Captain Stephen Chester Hull and Laura (Beil) Hull, and great-granddaughter of, Major General Wil- ilam Huil. Educated in private schools
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and by private tutor in Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D. C., afterwards took the two years' course at the College of Elocution and Acting, graduating B. E. A .; devoted the subsequent twelve years to the study of psychology, heredity and the theory of education, in which she is recognized as an expert; became asso- ciate editor of Childhood Magazine, in 1892; assistant editor Godey's Magazine, in 1893; assistant editor Home and Coun- try Magazine, in 1895; for the past ten years special contributor of articles on sociological subjects to the Woman's Home Companion, Harper's Bazar, Inde- pendent, Outlook, and other magazines and periodicals. Author of the following works, published by Baker & Taylor Com- pany, New York: "Nursery Ethics," 1895; "From the Child's Standpoint," 1899;
"Southern Hearts," (short stories), 1901; "The Children's Health," 1901. Married, 1893, Dr. G. W. Winterburn, of New York. Spent the year 1903 and 1901 in European travel, mainly in France. Address, 7 West 108th St., New York.
WINTERBURN, George William:
Editor, physician; born in New York, Sept. 19, 1845; son of the Rev. Charies Winterburn, M. D., and Katherine Gard- ner (Boss) Winterburn; graduated at Hughes High School, Cincinnati. 1862; took one year course in Cincinnati Law School, 1863; took four year course in medicine, in Ohio Medicai College, Cin- cinnati, University Medical College, New York, Homeopathic Medical College, New York, and graduated (M.D.) at the Eclec- tic Medicai Coliege, New York, 1875, and at the United States- Medical College (Phar. D.) in 1881. Was in journalism with the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1862- 66; New York correspondent for various western journals, 1867-69; editorial writer New York Evening Post. 1869-70; editor Congregationai Review, 1870-71; musicai critic New York Daily Witness. 1871-72; musical critic New York Public School Journal, 1873-74; editor American Homeo- pathist, 1882-87;
editor Homeopathic Journal of Obstetrics, 1889-93; editor Childhood: A Magazine for Parents and Teachers, 1892-94; is an extensive con- tributor to medical journals and literary' imagazines and reviews, 1873-97. Author of the following volumes, published by Boericke & Tafel. Philadelphia, and A. L. Chatterton & Co., New York: "Ameri- can Vegetable Remedies," 1878; "Cin- chona. Historically, Physically and Ther- apeutically Considered," 1880; "The Value of Vaccination," 1884; "Purpura: Includ- ing a Materia Medica of Thirty-two Rem- edies and a Repertory." 1885; "A Pocket Repertory." 1886, and the following mono- graphs: "Musical Precocity." 1875; "One Hundred Consecutive Cases of Diph- theria," 1887; "A Seductive Drug," 1883; "Commonplace Midwifery.' 1889; "Homeo- pathy in Midwifery.' 1891; "The Better Way," 1892; "The Perineum in Labor,"
1873, and various others. Was professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Eclectic Medical College, New York, 1878- 82; professor Materia Medica and Thera- peutics, United States Medical College, 1883-84; clinical lecturer and physician- in-chief, Manhattan Hospital, 1878-84; president American Obstetrical Society, . 1885-92; secretary of same, 1893-99; presi- dent Alumni Association Eclectic Medical College, New York, 1881-82; Censor West Side Medical Society, 1881-S2; Censor
Homeopathic County Medical Society, New York, 1884-85; member of County, State and National Homeopathic Medi- cal Societies; honorary member, Michi- gan Homeopathic Medical Society. Re- publican in politics and active as a speak- er and writer for many years. Married, first, Nov. 30, 1871, Charlotte Van Duser Hutchings, daughter of William Hutch- ings, Esq., of New York; second, Jan. 25, 1893, Florence May Hull, daughter of Captain S. C. Hull, of Washington, D. C. Address, 7 West 108th St., New York.
WINTERS, Joseph E., M.D .:
Born at Minnisink, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1850; M. D., New York University, 1872. Tutor of anatomy at New York University, 1872 to 1873; demonstrator of anatomy at New York University, 1873-85; house surgeon, Bellevue Hospital, 1873-74; house phy- sician, Bellevue Hospital, 1874-75; assist- ant curator at Bellevue Hospital. 1875 to 1879; lecturer on "Diseases of Children" at New York University. 1881 to 1884; clinical professor of diseases of children, 1884 to 1891; professor of diseases of chil- dren, 1891 to 1898; professor of diseases of children at Cornell University Medical College, 1898 to present; visiting physician to Demilt Dispensary since 1882. Mem- ber of Academy of Medicine, County Med- ical Society and New York Clinical So- ciety. Author of many works on diph- theria. croup and children's diseases. He is also a member of City and Riding Clubs. Address, 25 West 37th St., New York.
WISE, Morris S .:
Lawyer; born in New York City in 1850; graduated from Packard's Business Col- lege; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1872, and has con- tinued to practice his profession in New York City since said time. Was appoint- ed honorary representative of the United States Treasury Department to the In- ternational Congress for the protection of industrial property held in connection with the Paris Exposition in 1889; was presi- dent of the Alumni Association of Pack- ard's College three terms; was appointed referee in bankruptcy for the Southern district of New York in 1898, and holds such office at the present time; has been a director of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation since 1877; has been general counsel of the National Cigar Manufacturers' Association since
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1851, and is one of the proprietors and senior editor of the Trade-Mark Record. He is also chairman of the law committee of the National Board of Trade; chairman of the executive committee of the Na- tional Association of Referees in Bank- ruptcy, and a member of the Society of Medailists of France. He is an expert authority on trade-mark and bankruptcy law Address 40 Exchange Place, New York.
WISER, Konrad Wilhelm Chevalier de:
Austro-Hungarian vice-consul in New York; was born in Vienna, Oct. 24. 1869; son of Major-General (retired) Friedrich Ritter von Wiser, of Vienna; studied at the gymnasiums of Brünn (Moravia). Lübeck (Germany) and Baden (Lower Austria), the Consuiar Academy in Vien- na and the University in Vienna. Fieid artillery floutenant. Dec., 1890; final law examination. Graz (Styria). June 1. 1596; 1895-97. judicial practice successively at three courts in Trieste (Austria) ; ap- pointed consular attaché. Nov. 10. 1896: vice-consul. Oct. 30. 1898: outward foreign service from April. 1897, until 1900. In Constantinople. Saionica, and as acting consui in Adrianopie. Mr. von Wiser was transferred as vice-consui to New York. Nov., 1900; entered these functions. April, 1901. Member Imperial Royal Geographi- cai Society in Vienna. Calumet Club in New York, Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprach- verein In Berlin. New York Press Club in New York, and Deutscher Verein in New York. Address, 33 Broadway and 63 W. 52d St., New York.
WOLF, Henry:
Artist and engraver: born at Eckwers- heim. Alsace, Aug. 3. 1852: son of Simon and Pauline (Ettinger) Woif. At age of fifteen began an apprenticeship as me- chanic. but soon abandoned this to take up engraving: 1867-71. studied in the atelier of Jacques Lévy, an artist en- graver. In 171. came to the United States; worked for some time in Albany, N. Y .. drawing and engraving on wood; attended the life classes at the Cooper Union, New York City, and continued studies in wood engraving under Freder- ick Juengiing and in the art department of Harper & Brothers; in 1877. began work on his own account, and has since then contributed to the Century Maga- zine. Harper's Magazine and other publi- cations: has engraved many of the works of Gérôme, Jules Breton. Dagnan-Bouver- et. Benjamin-Constant, Isracis, Cecilia Beaux. W. M. Chase. John S. Sargent, Alexander Harrison, Winslow Homer. Ab- bott H. Thayer. Jean Charles Cozin. George Inness, Whistier, Corot, Homer D. Martin, Diaz and others. His principal works are the illustrations for "American Artist Series" and "Gilbert Stuart Ser- ies of Women." in Century Magazine; "The Evening Star." a landscape, 1897;
original engraving. "The Morning Star." original engraving just finished (1903); aiso a fine piate of Thomas Jefferson from the painting by Chas. Wliison Penie in Independence Hall, 1901. Has for some years contributed to Pennsylvania Acad- emy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia; to the annual Salon in Munich, Germany, and to Paris Salon of the Société des Artistes Francais, from which he received a gold medai. 1895, and honorable mention, 18SS; honorable mention, Paris Exposition, 1889; medal at World's Fair, Chicago, 1893: silver medal. Paris Exposition, 1900, and medai at Fine Arts Exposition, Rouen. France. 1903 Was member of the jury for Paris Expositions 1889 and 1900; of the jury of admission and awards, Pan- American. Buffalo. 1901: member of the advisory committee for St. Louis Exposi- tion of 1901. Married to Rose, daughter of Herman Massée, Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 25. 1875. Address 152 East 86th St., New York.
WOLF, John:
Democratic Assemblyman, representing the Nineteenth Assembly District of Kings County: born on May 11, 1859, at Piumsburgh, Penn. His parents moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., when he was four years old, and he has lived in that piace ever since. He attended the parochial school of St. Nicholas Church for several years, and was finally graduated from the college attached to Annunciation Church of Brooklyn. He followed the trade of a merchant tailor for eleven years, and finally opened n hotel in Brooklyn. In politics he has always been a Democrat. He has lived in the Eighteenth Ward of the county of Kings for the last thirty years; he became leader of the organiza- tion of the Democratic party in fris dis- trict about twelve years ago, and still holds that position. Elected to the As- sembly by the Democratic party in 1901 and re-elected in 1902; in 1903, was ap- pointed a member of the following Assem- biy committees, Canais and Fish and Game. Address, 251 Powers St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
WOOD, Arthur King:
Banker: born Sept. 2, 1875; real estate business, 1893-99; manager estate of Ham- iiton Fish, 1899-1902; assistant secretary Von Norden Trust Company, 1902; secre- tary and treasurer, Van Norden Trust Company, 1903. Married Marguerite Rich- ardson, 1902. Residence, Irvington-on- Hudson, N. Y.
WOOD, Benjamin F .:
Chief engineer, U. S. Navy; born in the State of New York. Appointed a third assistant engineer, July 1. 1861; U. S. S. Lancaster. Pacific Squadron, 1861-62; spec- ial duty, New York. 1862; U. S. monitor Lehigh, 1863; U. S. S. Sassacus, North Atlantic Squadron, 1863-64: U. S. S. Ma-
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hongo. Pacific quadron, 1864-67; Mound City Station, Ill., 1867-68. Promoted to second assistant engineer, April, 1863. Promoted to passed assistant engineer, Oct., 1866; U. S. monitor Dictator, North Atlantic Squadron, 1869-70; Navy Yard, New York, 1871-72; U. S. S. Juniata, 1873; China Station, 1873-76; Navy Yard, New York, 1877-80; U. S. S. Trenton, European Squadron, 1880-81; Morgan Iron Works, New York, 1882-84. Promoted to chief en- gineer, Dec., 1883; special duty, Chester, Pa., 1884-85; U. S. S. Kearsarge, Euro- pean Squadron, 1885-86; U. S. S. Ossipee, North Atlantic Squadron, 1887-88; Conti- nental Iron Works, Brooklyn, 1888-92. Re- tired, Oct. 6, 1892. Address, 213 N. Fulton St., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
WOOD, Dean R .:
Consul; was born at Oswego, N. Y., July 25, 1868, and has been connected with the Waltham Watch Company, Chicago, Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Rail- way, Oswego. N. Y., and the New York Central and Hudson River Railway, New York, and with mercantile firms in Cuba and Mexico; appointed vice-consul at Madrid, Dec. 11, 1900; appointed con- sul at Ceiba, Honduras, in 1903.
WOOD, Frederick E .:
Republican Assemblman representing the Twenty-first Assembly District of New York; was born in Manchester, Eng- land, Oct., 21, 1848; was graduated from the Manchester Commercial High School, and at the age of seventeen came to New York and obtained employment in the storage warehouse business, subsequently becoming proprietor of the same. He be- came identified with the Republican party in the old Ninth ward of New York in 1870, and has always taken an active part in its affairs: was chairman of the Repub- lican campaign committee in the Twenty- first Assembly District during the years 1900 and 1901, when phenomenal majori- ties were given to the Presidential and mayoralty candidates of the Republican party. He is a member of the Riverside and West Side Republican Clubs; at the present time is a member of the firm of Windolph & Wood. real estate and insu- rance Was elected in 1902 member of the Assembly. In 1903, appointed a member of the following Assembly committees: Electricity. Gas and Water Supply. Mili- tary Affairs, and Trades and Manufac- tures. Address, 176 Broadway, New York.
WOOD, John Seymour:
Attorney-at-law; born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1853; son of George W. and Har- riet C. Wood; graduated Phillips Acade- my, Andover, 1870: Yale, 1874; in law. Co- lumbia College 1876. Married. Brattleboro, Vt., Sent. 15. 1880. Mary B. Harris. Mem- ber University, New York Athletic. Au- thors. Apawamis. Rye, N. Y., Larchmont Yacht and Yale Clubs: editor Bachelor of Arts Magazine, 1896-98; Democrat. Au-
thor of "Gramercy Park," 1892; "A Daughter of Venice," "Yale Yarns,'
Coign of Vantage," "College Days," "Old Beau," etc. Residence, 131 East 19th St .; office, 20 Broad St., New York.
WOOD, Joseph:
Lawyer; born in Riverhead, L. I., Aug. 12, 1862; son of John and Matilda (Vail) Wood graduated from Yale, A. B., 1884, and Columbia, LL.B. and A. M., 1886; ad- mitted to the bar of New York, 1886, and of New Jersey, 1887. Married Ellen Purves Tybout, daughter of George Z. and Elizabeth (Maxwell) Tybout, of New Cas- tle County, Del., March 4, 1891. Demo- cratic candidate for county judge of Suf folk County, 1902. Member of the Uni- versity Club and the Association of the Bar of New York City. Residence, Say- ville, N. Y .; office, 141 Broadway, New York.
WOOD, Spencer Shepard:
Lieutenant commander, U. S. Navy; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1861, but his parents soon removed to New York City, where he spent the first eleven years of his life. Then he accompanied his grandparents to Flushing, N. Y., where he attended school at the Flushing Institute. In June, 1877, he applied to enter a competitive examination for ap- pointment to West Point, but was in- formed that he was too young; the fol- lowing year, however, he was admitted to a competitive examination and was the successful candidate for appointment to the vacancy from the First Congres- sional District of New York at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md .; Hon. J. W. Covert gave him the appointment, and he successfully passed the entrance ex- amination and became a cadet midship- man in June, 1878; he graduated No. 2 in his class after the course of four years at the Naval Academy, and went directly from the Academy to the Vandalia, then lying at Hampton Roads, Va .; serving on board this vessel for about a year, he was then transferred to the Tennessee for duty as an aide on the staff of rear-ad- miral G. H. Cooper, U. S. N .; while on this duty he accompanied the admiral to Caracas, Venezuela, on the occasion of the unveiling of the statue of General Washington, in one of the plazas of that city. In May, 1884, Cadet Wood passed his examination at Annapolis, Md., for final graduation, remaining No. 2 in his class, and in July of that year he received his commission as an ensign, and was ordered to duty at the Naval Experi- mental Battery at Annapolis, Md., in con- nection with the development of the new guns and powders for the Navy; in May of the following year, he reported on board of the Iroquois, at Panama, United States of Colombia, and cruised on the west coast of South America until the fall of 1887, when the Iroquois proceeded to San Francisco, Cal .. and was put out
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of commission early in 1SSS; Ensign Wood then jolned the Coast Survey steamer Patterson, and performed survey work in Southeastern Alaska until Oct., 1888; during tiris season he took part In the survey of the Portland Canal; In No- vember, 1SS8, he was one of a party of four officers ordered to Mexico and Cen- tral America for astronomical observa- tions for the determination of the longi- tudes of Coatzacoalcos, Sallna Cruz, La Libertad and San Juan Del Sur; these ob- servations being completed, the party re- turned to Washington for the computa- tlon of the data obtained. In September, 1889. Ensign Wood applied for sea duty. and was ordered to the Aslatie Squadron; there he served on the Omaha, Monocacy. and on the Palos, as executive officer and navigator; the last year of his cruise he served on the staff of Rear Admiral G. E. Belknap, U. S. N., as flag lieutenant. and accompanied the adnural home early in 1892; for about two months Ensign Wood awaited orders at his home in Flushing. N. Y., and then reported for duty in the office of the assistant secretary of the navy. In March, 1893, fre was appointed naval aide to the secretary of the navy. and performed this duty for over a year! during this period he had charge of many of the details connected with the invited guests at the naval review in New York. accompanying the secretary on the Dol- phin to the naval review, and was the officer designated to meet the President at Jersey City to accompany him to his hotel, and the following day to accom- pany him to and from the Dolphin for the review .. At Ensign Wood's request he was relleved from duty as naval aide to permit him to accompany Admiral Wal- ker. U. S. N. as his flag secretary to Honolulu when he took command of the Pacific Station in the spring of 1594; In April of this year he received his commis- sion as a lieutenant (junlor grade). He served on board the Philadelphia in Hon- ofulu, was present at the first meeting of the Constitutional Convention, and on July 4. 1894, was present when that con- stitution was proclaimed to be the law of the land: Lieutenant Wood returned to the United States with Admiral Walker in Sept., 1994. and was then ordered as flag secretary to Rear Admiral R. W. Meade. U. S. N .: he served on board the New York with Admiral Meade until the admiral retired from active service. when he joined the Vermont at the New York Navy Yard. In June of this year he married Miss Mary Margaretta Fryer, of New York. In Sept. he took the course In torpedo Instruction at the Torpedo Sta- tion at Newport, and In Oct. was ordered to Bristol. R. I .. as assistant Inspector of torpedo boats Nos. 6 and 7 (the Porter and Dupont), to be built by the Herres- hoff Manufacturing Company at that place: he was present during the entire construction of these boats and on all of their trials; upon the detachment of Com- mander Converse, U. S. N., the general
Inspector, from the duty In charge of the Torpedo Station, Lieutenant Wood re- malned in charge of the work on No. 7. and In Sept., 1597, was ordered to assume command of the Dupont at Newport. R. I. In this month he received his commission as a fleutenant; the Dupont, under the command of Lieutenant Wood, In com- pany with the other boats of the 'Torpedo Flotilla, visited most of the ports between Hampton Roads and Key West. arriving at the latter place on Dec. 31, 1597; while at this port she was employed in dispatch and patrol duty until April 22, when she accompanied the fleet to Cuba: performed blockade duty off Matanzas until May i. when she returned to Key West; on May 6 she was fired on by one of the large guns at the fort at the western entrance to the harbor; she returned the fire on two smaller forts or posts; on May 16 carried dispatches to Admiral Sampson from Key West to the Old Bahama Chan- nel. and on the 20th left Key West with dispatches for Commodore Schley, then at Cienfuegos; arrived at the latter port on the 22d and left on May 24 for Key W'est; sent to Mobile for docking and in June accompanied the vessels conveying the army to the southern side of Cuba; remained in that vicinity carrying dis- patches and patroling off the entrance to Santiago until Aug- 3, when she was sent to New York. On July 3 the Dupont car- rled Admiral Sampson's dispatch an- rounding the victory of the fleet over the Spanish ships from the Tarquina River, where the Colon grounded, to SI- boney, where it was transmitted to the United States. When the Dupont was turned over to the Torpedo Station in the fall of 1898, Lieutenant Wood was trans- ferred to the Massachusetts, where he remained until Oct. 12. 1999, when he joined the Brooklyn just before she sailed for Manila, P. I .; arrived in Ma- nila in Dec . 1599, and on Feb. 11 reported for duty as flag secretary to 'Admiral Watson: on April is was transferred to the Baltimore and returned to the United States in that vessel; relleved from duty as fing secretary on AprH 30, 1900: trans- ferred from the Baltimore to duty as as- sistant to the lighthouse inspector of the Third District on Sept. 26. 1900: Chicago. Jan. 20. 1902. Promoted lieutenant com- mander, 1903: U. S. S. Columbia, 1903. Address, care Navy Department, Wash- Ington, D. C.
WOOD, Waiter H .:
Lawyer; graduated from University of Rochester in 1889; subsequently from Co- lumbia Law School; has since his ad- mittance to the bar practiced in New York City. Address 31 Nassau St., New York.
WOOD, William H. S .:
Banker, author and publisher: was horn in the City of New York in 1840. He is
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a birthright member of the Orthodox Re- ligious Society of Friends; he was edu- cated at Haverford College. In 1863 he was taken into partnership in the publishing house of his father, William Wood, who was a leading member of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. William Wood died several years later, and the subject of this sketch became the head of the firm, which still exists in the hands of the fourth generation from the founder, Samuel Wood, grandfather of Mr. Wood. Soon after leaving college he was elected a director of the Y. M. C. A., in this city, serving in that capacity for seven years; for twelve years he was a manager of the American Bible Society; he is a life member of the New York Historical Society and of the American Pomological Society; fellow of the American Geograph- ical Society; life member of New York Horticultural Society; benefactor of the New York Academy of Medicine; mem- ber of the St. Nicholas Society; incorpor- ator of the New York Botanical Society and of the New York Society for the Sup- pression of Vice; member of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, of the Grolier Club, of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club, Indian Harbor Yacht Club, New York Academy of Sciences, New York Zoological Society, Clinton Hall As- sociation, and many others. He is the founder and proprietor of the Medical Record, a weekly journal of Medicine and Surgery. He was elected a trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank in 1870, and its president in Jan., 1903. He has written several books on horticultural subjects and contributed many papers on that topic. Address, Bowery Savings Bank, New York.
WOODBERRY. George Edward:
Teacher, author, editor; born in Beverly, Mass., May 12, 1885; educated Phillips Ex- eter Academy. 1872; Harvard College, 1877: professor of English, University of Nebraska, 1877; attached to the Nation, New York. 1878; professor of English, University of Nebraska. 1880-82; unat- tached writer, 1882-91; professor of com- parative literature. Columbia University, 1891. Author of "History of Wood-En- graving." "Edgar Allan Poe," "The North Shore Watch and other Poems," "Studies in Letters and Life." "Heart of Man," "Wild Eden." "Makers of Literature," "Nathaniel Hawthorne."; editor of Shel- ley's Poetical Works, Poe's Works (with E. C. Stedman), Lamb's Essays, Aubrey de Vere's Poems, National Studies in American Literature, Columbia University Studies in Comporative Literature, etc .; editor of the journal of Comparative Lit- erature; trustee of Beverly Public Li- brary; president Beverly Historical So- ciety. Member of Harvard, Players, Cen- tury Clubs, National Institute of Arts and Letters. Address, Columbia Univer- sity, New York.
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