Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 17

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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BINGHAM, Judson D .:

Brigadier General U. S. Army; born Massena, St. Lawrence County, New York, May 16, 1831; in 1850 appointed

cadet at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., from the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana on the recommendation of Hon. A. J. Harlan, Representative in Congress

from that district; served as cadet at the Military Academy from July 1st, 1850, to June 30, 1854; promoted to Sec- ond Lieutenant, Second United States Ar- tillery, July 1st, 1854; served as Assistant Instructor of Artillery Tactics at the United States Military Academy from July 1, 1854, to Aug. 28, 1854; served in garrison at Fort Wood, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor, Nov. and Dec., 1854, and at Barrancas Barracks, Fla., from Jan., 1855, to March 22. 1856; promoted to First Lieutenant, Second Artillery, March 12, 1856; on duty in U. S. Coast Survey Service from March 22, 1856, to June 12, 1857; in garrison at Fort Mon- roe, Va. (Artillery School of Practice), 1857 to 1860; on expedition to Harper's Ferry, Va., to suppress John Brown's raid, 1859; on frontier duty at Fort Ridge- ly, Minn., from May, 1860, to April, 1861, and on expedition to the Yellow Medicine, Minn., in summer of 1860; in garrison at Fort McHenry, Md., May and June, 1861; appointed Captain and Assistant Quarter- master, United States Army, May 13, 1861; served during the Rebellion of the seceding States; in charge of trains and supplies of General Bank's Command, in the field, in Maryland from Aug., 1861, to Feb. 12, 1862, and in charge of Quar- termaster's depot, at Nashville, Tenn., from March, 1862, to March, 1863; served as Chief Quartermaster of the Seven- teenth Army Corps (Lieutenant Colonel ex-officio) from Jan. 1, 1863, to April 23,

1863, when General Grant appointed him Chief Quartermaster of the Department and Army of Tennessee; he continued on duty, in the field, as Chief Quartermaster of that Army from that date during the time it was commanded by Generals Grant, Sherman and McPherson, up to the date the latter was killed in battle, and subsequently by Generals Logan and Howard, to the end of the siege of At- lanta, Ga., Aug. 25, 1864; was present as Chief Quartermaster of the Seventeenth Army Corps at Lake Providence and Mil- liken's Bend, La., April 9th to 23rd, 1863; was present as Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Tennessee at the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., from April 23 to July 4, 1863; was present at the surren- der of the city and during its occupation from July 4 to October, 1863; was at Memphis and Chattanooga, Tenn., and at Bridgeport and Scottsboro, Ala., until last of Dec., 1863; joined General Sherman at Cairo, Ill., Jan. 1, 1864, and under his direction arranged for transporting troops from Memphis to Vicksburg for the expedition to Meridian, Miss .; as Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Ten- nessee accompanied General Sherman on the march with the Sixteenth and Sev- enteenth Army Corps from Vicksburg to Meridian and return, Feb. and March, 1864; was present as Chief Quartermaster at headquarters Army of the Tennessee, Huntsville, Alabama, March to June, 1864; and in the invasion of Georgia, including siege of Atlanta, June to Aug. 25, 1864; was appointed Inspector of the Quarter- master's Department (Colonel ex-officio), Aug. 2, 1864, and served as such from Aug. 25, 1864, to Dec. 31, 1866, being en- gaged in making investigations at Boston, Mass .; New York City, Elmira, Syracuse and Ogdensburg, N. Y .; Trenton, N. J .; Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn .; Louis- ville and Camp Nelson, Ky .; Fort Snell- ing, Minn .; and Fort Riley, Kas .; on duty in the Quartermaster General's office, Washington, D. C., at various times from September, 1864, to December, 1865; from Dec., 1865, to Jan., 1867, was on duty with General Sherman at St. Louis, Mo., as Inspector of the Quartermaster's Depart- ment; was on duty as Chief Quartermas- ter Department of the Lakes, at Detroit, Mich., from January 8, 1867, to March 31, 1870; in February, March and April, 1869, made inspections at Forts Richardson, Griffin, Concho, Stockton, Davis, Mc- Kavitt and San Antonio, Tex .; served as Assistant in the office of the Quartermas- ter General at Washington, D. C., from April 4, 1870, to October, 1879, and in charge of the Bureau from Oct. 25, 1873, to Jan. 19, 1874, and from Jan. 28 to Feb. 20, 1875; served as Commissioner to audit Kansas War Accounts, under Act of Con- gress approved Feb. 2, 1871, from March 8 to April 5, 1871; served as Chief Quar- termaster Department of the Missouri, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., from Oct. 1879, to Nov., 1883; served as Chief Quarter- master, Division of the Pacific and De- partment of California, Presido of San

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Francisco, Cal., from Nov., 1883, to about May 30, 1886; served as Chief Quarter- master, Division of the Missouri, Chica- go, Ill., June 4, 1886, to Dec., 1894; promotions, to Quartermaster with the rank of Major, July 29, 1866; to Deputy Quartermaster General, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, March 3, 1875; to As- sistant Quartermaster General with the rank of Colonel, July 2, 1883; brevets, Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritor- ious services during the war; Brigadier General, April 9, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services in the field during the war; retired from active service, May 16, 1895; member of the Society of the Army of the Potomac; of the Army of the Cumberland; of the Army of the Tennes- see; Commander of the Society of Vet- erans of Indian Wars of the United States since its organization, April 23, 1896; com- panion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and as ex- Senior Vice-Commander of the Comman- dery of the State of Illinois, a member of the Commandery-in-Chief; member of Manhattan Club of New York; of Union League of Philadelphia, and Osceola Club of Pensacola, Fla; also member of Asso- ciation of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. Address, Army and Navy Club, New York.

BINGHAM, Theodore Alfred:

Major engineer, U. S. Army; born An- dover, Tolland County, Conn., May 14, 1858; appointed to United States Military Academy, graduating 1879; June, 1879, second lieutenant of engineers; June, 1881, first lieutenant; July, 1889, captain; July, 1898, major of engineer corps; 1890- 92, was military attaché to United States legation, Berlin, and 1892-94 at Rome; on duty in charge Tennessee river improve- ment, 1895; received M. A. from Yale, 1896; March, 1897, to May, 1903; ' superinten- dent (rank colonel) over public buildings and parks, Washington; military aide to the President, May, 1903, to present time, of engineering district of Lakes Ontario and Erie; also connected as engineer with Tenth Lighthouse District; meniber of Metropolitan of Washington; Buffalo and Ellicott Clubs, of Buffalo, Buffalo Yacht Club; also Chester Yacht Club (Chester, N. S.); married Dec., 1881, Lucile Ruther- ford, of St. Louis. Address, Federal Building, Buffalo, N. Y.

BINNS, Charles Fergus:

Director New York State School of Clay-working and Ceramics since 1900; born Worcester, England, Oct. 4, 1857; son Richard William and Elizabeth Fran- ces (Ferrar) B .; married 1882 at Lembeg, Ireland, Mary Howard. daughter of Rev. William Hugh and Elizabeth (Banks) Ferrar; educated Worcester Cathedral King's School, King's Scholar; entered Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester, 1872; chemist in charge of laboratory, 1878;

superintended successively departments of decoration, London sales, clay-working; removed to United States Oct., 1897; principal of Technical and Art School, Trenton, N. J., 1898-1900; assisted several Trenton manufactories meanwhile. Au- thor "The Story of the Potter," "Cera- mic Technology," and numerous magazine articles. Address, Alfred University, Al- fred, N. Y.

BIRDSEYE, Clarence F .:

Lawyer; author; born Brooklyn, June 6, 1854; son of Hon. Lucien (formerly judge of New York Supreme Court, Sec- ond District) and Catherine (Baker) B .: fitted for college at Brooklyn Polytechnic and Collegiate Institute; graduated from Amherst College in 1874, and from Colum- bia Law School in 1877; admitted to bar February 15, 1877; married at Tolland, Conn., March 27, 1877, Ada J. Underwood; member of firm of Birdseye, Cloyd & Bayliss from January 1, 1878 to 1893; sub- sequently in practice with his father un- der the firm name of Birdseye & Birds- eye; after 1896 alone; in 1879 commenced preparation of complete compilation of the Revised Statutes, Codes, and General Laws of New York State, of which there had been no complete revision since 1830; in connection with this work, prepared other books, some of which were pub- lished in whole or in part. Author of the following works: Birdseye's Revised Statutes, Codes and General Laws of the State of New York, three editions in 1889, 1896 and 1901, and supplement in 1897; Chronological Table of the Statutes of the State of New York, 1887; Supplement in 1894; Greater New York Charter, 1897; Analytical Index of New York Code of Civil Procedure, 1899; Abbott's Clerks' and Conveyancers' As- sistant, 1899, and other works. Address, 25 Broad St., New York City.

BIRGE, George K .:

Director and member of the executive committee of the Pan-American Expo- sition Company, but chiefly known in con- nection with the Exposition as one of the sub-committees . on buildings and grounds; he was born in Buffalo; attended the public schools and won a scholarship at Cornell University, having also had the distinction of being of the first class which that institution sent out in 1872; since leaving college he has been associa- ted with his father and brother in the manufacture of wall paper, and at his father's death became the president of the M. H. Birge & Sons' Co .; he is a di- rector of the National Wall Paper Com- pany, a director of the George N. Pierce Company, a director of the Buffalo Club and president of the Buffalo Country Club.

BIRKMIRE, WIIllam H .:

Architect and engineer; born Falls of Schuylkill, Philadelphia, June 25, 1860; studied architecture with Samuel Sloan,

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Philadelphia, Pa., and several other prom- inent architects of the country; connect- ed with Pencoyd Steel Works and Rolling Mills, Philadelphia; 1885, in charge of con- struction department of Jackson Archi- tectural Iron Works, New York; 1892, in charge of the J. B. and J. M. Cornell Iron Works; made practical steel details for large commercial buildings and the Astor Hotels; in 1894 and 1898 he was architect and engineer for John T. Wil- liams, in Silk Exchange, Lord's Court Building and other buildings for Mr. Wil- liams. Author of "The Planning and Construction of High Office Buildings," "Architectural Iron and Steel," "The Planning and Construction of American Theatres" and other such works. Ad- dress, 396 Broadway, New York.

BIRMINGHAM, Henry P .:

Major, U. S. Army; born New York; ap- pointed from Minnesota civil life; actual rank, assistant surgeon, Feb. 18, 1881; ac- cepted March 8, 1881; captain and assist- ant surgeon, Feb. 18, 1886; served in Spanish-American War; major surgeon Dec. 15, 1898. Address, Washington, D. C.

BISCHOFF, Henry, Jr .:

Jurist; born New York, 1852; graduated Columbia College Law School 1871; ad- mitted to bar 1813; judge court of Com- mon Pleas, N. Y., 1890-95; justice of Su- preme Court since 1896; member of Man- hattan, Lotus and other clubs. Office, County Court House, New York.

BISHOP, Irving Prescott:

Educator; born Burlington Flats, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1849; educated at New Berlin, N. Y., Academy and Cornell University (S. M., Alfred University, 1901); married, Nov. 24, 1875, to Julia W. Allen; principal New Berlin, N. Y., Academy, 1875-76; Perry, N. Y., Union School, 1878-85; Chatham, N. Y., Free Academy, 1885-88; teacher of science, Round Lake Summer Schools, 1886-87; Princ. Teachers' Retreat, Silver Lake Assembly, 1891-92; teacher of science, Erie (Pa.) Summer School, 1893, and in charge of science work State Sum- mer Institute, Chautauqua, N. Y., since 1896; teacher of science, State Normal School, Buffalo, since 1888; president N. Y. State Science Teachers' Association, 1903; lecturer at teachers' institutes. Has published "Salt Fields of Western New York," "Geology of Erie County, New York," "Petroleum and Natural Gas in Western New York," "Red Book of Ni- agara," "Methods and Outlines for Teach- ing Physiology," "Economic Geology of Western New York" (in press). Resi- dence, 344 West Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

BISHOP, Joseph Bucklin:

Journalist; born in East Providence, R. I., Sept. 5, 1847; was graduated from Brown University with degree of A. B. in 1870; went in the fall of that year into the service of the New York Trib- une, beginning as a reporter and becom-

ing a few months later a member of the editorial staff, holding that position till the summer of 1883, when he became an editorial writer on the staff of the New York Evening Post, remaining there till the end of 1900; since 1900 he has been chief of the editorial staff of the New York Commercial Advertiser; published in 1892 a volume called "Cheap Money Experiments" (Century Company); is a frequent contributor to magazines and reviews; married in 1872 Harriet Hart- well, Providence, R. I., and has two sons and a daughter; member of University and Round Table Clubs. Address, 187 Broadway, New York.

BISHOP, Louls Faugeres, M. D .:

Physician; born New Brunswick, N. J., March 14, 1864; son of James Bishop and Mary (Ellis) F .; attended' St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H .; was graduated from Rutgers College 1885 and College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia Uni- versity) 1889; resident physician St. Luke's Hospital 1889-1892; is now corresponding secretary New York Academy of Medi- cine; visiting physician to the Lincoln Hospital. Author of numerous papers on clinical medicine; "Early Circulatory In- dications of Chronic Bright's Disease," "The Care of Chronic Cardiac Disease," etc .; chiefly occupied in general family and consulting practice. Address, 54 West 55th St., New York.

BISHOP William Darius:

Railroad official; born Bloomfield, N. J., Sept. 14, 1827; graduated Yale 1849; stud- ied law, but engaged, rather, in railroad enterprises; 1850-54, railroad contractor; 1854, president of Naugatuck Railroad Company; 1857-59, served term in Con- gress from Connecticut, and was chair- man of Committee on Manufactures; 1859-60, Commissioner of Patents; re- signed 1860; 1866, elected to Connecticut Legislature, holding important State of- fices; 1867-69, president New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; since 1884 president executive committee Eastern Railroad Association. Residence, New Haven, Conn .; office, Grand Central Sta- tion, New York.

BISPHAM, David:

Musician, whose name is familiar to lovers of music in the Old World as well as in the new; was born in Philadelphia in 1857 and educated at Harvard Col- lege; he began his musical career as an amateur, but he was very soon im- pelled to devote his life to the study and the service of music; at the age of thirty he sought the advice of the most capable masters and applied himself to the high- est aspects of the art which he felt called to follow; his success, when finally he ap- peared in public, was brilliant and com- plete; it was soon universally recognized that he was not only unexcelled in the music sung upon the concert platform, but that his powers fitted him to com-

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pete successfully with the best exponents of operatic characters; Mr. Bispham oc- cupies an undisputed position as the best baritone now to be heard on the operatic stage of England or America. Address, Carnegie Hall, New York.

BISSELL, George Edwin:

Sculptor; born Feb. 16, 1839, among the marble quarries of New Preston, Conn., where his father, Hiram Bissell, was en- gaged in marble quarrying and the mon- umental business; was educated in the district schools of the village, the North- ville Academy, and at the "Gunnery" at Washington, Conn., spent spare time of his youth drawing from engravings of statues and making pencil sketches of picturesque scenes; early accepted posi- tion as clerk in a store in Waterbury, Conn., where he remained until he was of age; shortly after abandoned mercan- tile life and prepared for Yale Col- lege, teaching school at the same time; beginning of the Civil War broke up his college plans, and he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-third Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, serving a year in the Nineteenth Corps, Department of the Gulf; then received an appointment as acting assistant paymaster in the U. S. Navy, where he remained, attached to the South Atlantic Squadron, under Rear Admiral Dahlgren, until the close of the war; then resigned from the navy and joined father and brother in the mar- ble business at Poughkeepsie; married at about the same time to Mary E., daugh- ter of George W. Welton, of Waterbury, Conn .; his first successful work was a public monument with statues for the Fire Department of Poughkeepsie, a commission won in competition with oth- ers; after executing several commissions for statues, he went abroad for a part of the years 1875-76, studying in Paris, Florence and Rome, and in 1883 located in Paris; there modeled statues for Sol- diers' Monument at Waterbury, Conn; statue of Colonel Chatfield for the same city; the statue of Colonel Abraham de Puyster in Bowling Green, New York; statue of Lincoln and slave at Edin- burgh, Scotland, on monument to Scot- tish-American soldiers who served in the Northern army; also a panel to complete the Burns monument at Ayr, Scotland; the subject of his work was "The Parting of Burns and Highland Mary; spent about six years in Paris; modeled the statues of Chancellor John Watts, in Trinity church-yard, New York; Chancellor James Kent, in the Congres- sional Library, Washington; General Ho- ratio Gates, Lycurgus, on Appellate Court House, New York; the statue of Presi- dent Arthur, in Madison Square; two groups for the Liberal Arts Building, St. Louis Exposition; also statues of General Sherman and Admiral Farragut; also for the exposition for the Iowa State Build- ing; is a member of the National Sculp- ture Society, the Architectural League,

the Municipal Art Society, and the Na- tional Arts Club. Address, Mount Ver- non, N. Y.

BISSELL, Herbert P .:

Lawyer; is one of the most successful of the young and virile school of legal practitioners in Buffalo, as well as being an active business man; he was one of the original directors of the Pan American exposition, and was a most valuable mem- ber of the present board, having done & great deal for the enhancement of the project in various ways; he was chair- man of the law and insurance committee and of the committee on labor registra- tion; he is vice-president of the Niagara Gorge Railroad Company and director and counsel of many other corporations; he has been a resident of Buffalo since 1880, when he came here at the age of twenty- four, immediately upon graduation from Harvard College; his birthplace was Nvew London; he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1883; he has been active in politics since 1885, when he was the Dem- ocratic candidate for State senator; in 1892 he was the Democratic candidate for district attorney, and for mayor in 1901; he is now senior member of the firm of Bissell & Metcalf. Residence, 549 Lin- wood Ave .; office, 714 Elliott Sq., Buffalo, N. Y.

BIXBY, James Thompson:

Clergyman; was born Barre, Worces- ter Co., Mass., July 30, 1843; father was Clark Smith Bixby and mother was Eliz- abeth (Clark); prepared for college in the Cambridge High School, Cambridge, Mass .; graduated at Harvard University as B. A. in 1864, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1870; was settled as pastor of the Unitarian Church in Water- town, Mass., from 1870 to 1874; from 1875 to 1879 was pastor of the Unitarian Church in Belfast, Me .; from 1879 to 1883 was professor of religious philosophy in the Meadville Theological School, Mead- ville, Pa .; from 1883 to 1885, studied at the Universities of Zena and Leipzig, Germany, and received the degree of doctor of philosophy from Leipzig Uni- versity; from 1887 to date has been pas- tor of the Unitarian Church in Yonkers; is member of the Authors' Club and the Reform Club of New York, and a mem- ber of the board of managers of the Society of American Authors. Author of "Religion and Science as Allies," Boston, 1895; "The Ethics of Evolution." Boston, 1900, and "The New World and the New Thought" (T. Whittaker, New York, 1902. Address, 150 Woodworth Ave., Yonkers, N. Y.

BJERREGAARD, Carl Henry Andrew:

Librarian, author and lecturer; born Fredericia, Denmark, May 24, 1845; son of Janus Bagge, Frus B., Ph. D., etc., president of Fredericia College; studied Fredericia College; graduated Copenhagen University 1863; volunteer scout in Ger-

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man-Danish War, 1863-64; graduated as officer, Royal Military Academy, 1866; married, 1868; was for a time connected with Danish legation to court of Russia; professor in Fredericia College and jour- nalist; came, for political reasons, to America, 1873; teacher and lecturer till Oct., 1879; since then in the Astor Li- brary; author of "Lectures on Mysticism," "Lectures on Mysticism and Nature-Wor- ship," "A Sufi Interpretation of Omar Khaygam and Fitzgerald": numerous magazine articles and signed articles in encyclopedias; engaged on "The Standard Dictionary of the English Language"; at this writing engaged in compiling a work on "Mysticism and Occultism" in 12 vols., soon to be issued; member of the Society of American Authors. Address, the As- tor Library, New York City.

BLACK, Alexander:

Author, artist; born in New York City, 1859; at fifteen became a reporter on the Brooklyn Times; afterward literary and art critic and editorial writer on that paper; at nineteen toured Europe for three months, mostly afoot, at a total outlay, including fares in the steerage, of $185; at twenty-two appointed official stenographer in the Brooklyn courts; studied art at National Academy and Art Students' League; his interest in photography resulted in contributions to the Century, Scribner's and other maga- zines, in a book "Photography Indoors and Out,"' and in his invention of the "Picture Plays." The picture plays, a combination of monologue and stereopti- con-"a play on a white sheet"-the pic- tures being from photographs of living groups by Mr. Black, include "Miss Jer- ry"-the first success, "A Capital Court- ship," "Miss America," and "The Girl and the Guardsman," and have been pre- sented by the author in nearly every state in the Union; the "plays" afterward ap- peared as novelettes in book form; Mr. Black's other books are: "The Story of Ohio." (1888) ; "Modern Daughters," (1899), and his first long novel, "Richard Gordon," (1902); married in 1881, Eliza- beth Helmle. Residence, 25 Vernon Ave., Brooklyn.

BLACK, Frank S .:

Jurist and ex-governor of New York State; born in Livingston, in Southwest- ern Maine, March 8, 1853; received his early education at the Limerick and Lebanon Academies during the winters, earning his tuition by hard work in the summer; in 1875 he had saved enough to enter Dartmouth College, from which in- stitution he graduated, and then devoted himself to the study of law; his expenses were earned as a reporter, first on the Johnstown Herald, in this state, and later in the office of the Troy Whig; he was admitted to the bar in 1879, and his pro- fessional and political successes may be said to have dated from that period; his

prosecution of the election frauds in Troy and his efforts through legislation to secure the safety of voters and the purity of the ballot are all familiar events to the student of political history; was mem- ber of Congress, 1895-97; held office of governor of New York, 1897-99; married Miss Lois Hamilton, daughter of Dr. Hamilton, of Provincetown, Mass .; they have a son, Arthur, nineteen years of age, who is a student at Harvard. Address, Troy, N. Y.

BLACK, H. S .:

President of the George A. Fuller Com- pany; succeeded to the presidency of this concern upon the death of the founder of the company, the late George A. Fuller; he has had an extensive experience in many occupations and many quarters of the American Continent since his birth, Aug. 25, 1863, in Coburg, Ontario, Canada; he is an active member of the Metro- politan, Manhattan, Lawyers' and Larch- mont Yacht Clubs, of New York, and the Chicago Club, of Chicago; in 1895 mar- ried Miss Allon Mae Fuller, daughter of the late George A. Fuller, of New York; he is the son of the late paymaster of the Sixty-sixth Regiment, British Army, Capt. Thomas Black, who settled in Cana- da in 1834; his ancestors lived in Belfast, Ireland; entered the George A. Fuller Company as vice-president in 1896; he has been the active and financial head of the company since, as Mr. Fuller's ill-health necessitated his entire withdrawal from active business; was the projector of the big twenty-million-dollar building trust; after receiving an academic education in the schools of his native town, he started his business career in the general store conducted by his brother; early joined a surveying party that explored the North- west to the Pacific Coast; in 1882 he lo- cated in Chicago and entered the employ of a wholesale woolen house; for ten years he worked as a commercial traveler on Pacific Coast; after a long experience as a drummer, he entered the banking business, establishing two concerns in the State of Washington; subsequently he branched out and became a partner in the firm of Black & Bell, merchants of Me- nominee, Mich .; the firm established a profitable branch store in Tekoe, Wash- ington; the possibilities of tall buildings appealed to him, and to-day he is the head of the greatest tall building com- pany in the world; during President Black's career as a builder he financiered the Broad Exchange whereby $7,400,000 in securities were placed on the market; has succeeded in capitalizing the George A. Fuller Company, otherwise known as the "Sky-scraper Trust," to $20,000,000; he is also interested in conjunction with President James Stillman, of the First National Bank, former Mayor Hugh J. Grant and Henry Morganthau, in the Realty Bond and Trust Company, the National City Bank, the Century Realty Company, and the North American Trust

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 17

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