Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 21

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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BOYLE, John J .:

Sculptor; born in New York City, Jan. 12, 1851; son of Samuel and Catharine (McAuley) Boyle; educated public school; learned the trade of Stone Carving; stud- ied drawing at Franklin Institute (1873- 74), Philadelphia; attended other private schools; student private class under Doc- tor Keen for dissecting; student at Acad- emy of Fine Arts, *1875-76; Ecole des Beaux Arts 1877-80; first big work, Indian Group, Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1884; spent three more years in Europe, 1884-1887; be- gan and finished Stone Age; received hon- orable mention for same at Solon, Paris, 1886; placed in Fairmont Park, 1888. Among his works are Bacon & Plato Stat- ues in Rotunda Congressional Library, Washington; Benjamin Franklin, in front of post office, Philadelphia, numerous busts, medallions, etc .; medals received: Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Chicago, Buffalo; member (and for eight years one of executive council) National Sculp- ture Society, Architectural League, N. Y .; T Square Club, Philadelphia, National Arts, New York; married Elizabeth Car- roll of Philadelphia, 1882. Address, 251 West 51st, New York City.

BOYLE, William Henry:

Lieutenant-colonel, Nineteenth U. S. In- fantry; volunteer service-second lieuten- ant Fifth New York Artillery, Jan. 19, 1862; first lieutenant, Dec. 27, 1864; was mustered out March 9, 1865; captain Fifth New York Artillery, March 25, 1865, and major, May 20, 1865; served in Union Army during entire period of Civil War; battles, skirmishes, etc .- Harper's Ferry, Va., Sept. 13, 14 and 15, 1862; Piedmont, Va., June 5, 1864; Lexington, Va., June 12, 1864; Buchanan, Va., June 14, 1864; Lynchburg, Va., June 17, 1864; Salem, Va.,

June 21, 1864; Snicker's Gap, Va., July 17, 1864; Winchester, Va., July 24, 1864; Martinsburg, Va., July 25, 1864; Cedar Creek, Va., Aug. 12, 1864; Charleston, Va., Aug. 21, 1864; regular service, U. S. Army -second lieutenant Second U. S. Infan- try, May 10, 1866; first lieutenant, Aug. 16, 1867; captain, Twenty-first U. S. In- fantry, April 23, 1877; major Ninth U. S. Infantry, March 25, 1898; lieutenant- colonel Nineteenth U. S. Infantry, May 5, 1899; detailed as acting inspector gen- eral, Department of the Colorado and the Missouri, from Jan. 6, 1900, to Nov. 13, 1900; station, Denver, Colo .; retired from active service, Nov. 13, 1900; battles, skir- mishes, etc., Sycamore Canon, Ariz., May 30, 1872; was recommended by General Crook, department commander, for a brevet for distinguished service; bat- tles of the Lava Beds (Modoc Indian campaign) from Nov. 29, 1872, to June 1, 1873; was recommended by General Jeff. C. Davis, department commander, for a brevet for distinguished service; engage- ment with hostile Bannocks and Pi-Ute Indians at Umatilla Indian Agency, Ore- gon, July 13, 1878; San Juan Hill, Cuba, July 1, 1898, to the surrender, July 17, 1898; was recommended for brevet for distinguished service; Guadalalupe Ridge and Zapato Bridge, Louson Island, P. I., June 11 and 13, 1899; was recommended for brevet for distinguished service. Ad- dress, 36 Cloon Hill Place, Montclair, N. J.

BOYNTON, Frank David:

Superintendent of schools, Ithaca, N. Y., since 1900; born in Potsdam, St. Law- rence County, N. Y., April 29, 1863; grad- uated from the Potsdam State Normal School, classical course, 1887; from Mid- dlebury, Vt., college, classical course, 1891; A. M. Hamilton College, 1893; D. Pd., Syracuse University, 1903; married Flora E. White, of Nicholville, N. Y., June 23, 1886; four children, Frank D., Jr., Barbara, Paul, and Beatrice; prin- cipal of Union school and academy, Web- ster, Monroe County, N. Y., 1891-92; principal Ithaca high school since 1893; director in Ithaca Conservatory of Music; chairman of the committee from the Associated Academic Principals of New York State having in charge the revision of the 1900 edition of the regents' sylla- bus; re-elected chairman by acclamation for the 1905 revision; was appointed by the chancellor of the University New York chairman of a committee to ar- range a suggested course of study for the high schools of New York State; member Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, National Herbart Society, National Edu- cational Association, American Social Sci- ence Association, New York State Coun- cil of Superintendents, Academic Princi- pals' Council, State Teachers' Associa- tion; contributor to educational maga- zines; editor of New York State Teacher; author of text-book on plane and solid geometry, 1900; Syllabus of Civics, 1901; Manual of Civics, 1902; A School Civics, 1904. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.

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BRACKETT, Edgar Truman:

Republican State Senator, representing Twenty-eighth Senate district; born Em- erson's Corners, Town of Wilton, Saratoga County, N. Y., July 30, 1853; parents early removed to Mount Vernon, Linn County, Iowa; in 1872 graduated from classical course of Cornell College, Mount Vernon; September of same year came to Saratoga Springs and began study of law in office of Pond & French: was ad- mitted to bar at Elmira General Term in June, 1875; same year received degree of M. A. from his Alma Mater, LL.D. in 1898; in spring of 1876 became member of law firm Pond, French & Brackett, later head of firm Brackett, Butler & Bancus; is now practicing alone; elected to State Senate, 1895; re-elected in 1898, 1900 and 1902; in 1903 appointed to fol- lowing Senate committees: Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, member of Codes, Public Education, Privileges and Elections, and Trades and Manufactures. Address, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

BRACQ, J. Charlemagne:

Professor of the Romance Languages in Vassar College since 1891; he was born in France and received his elementary education in that country, but his higher studies were pursued on this side of the ocean; he graduated from McGill Univer- sity, Montreal, in 1881, and for two years he attended the Newton Theological Sem- inary; Professor Bracq has written on French Protestantism, on the Anglo- French relations, and on the Colonial ex- pansior of France; in 1898, he delivered a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute, Boston, on Contemporary French Litera- ture. Address, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

BRADFIELD, J. P .:

Agent and operator L. S. & M. S. Rail- way, 1878-1881; dispatcher Wallkill Val- ley Railroad, 1881 to 1883; train dis- patcher Hudson River Division, West Shore R. R., 1883 to 1885; superintendent, same division, 1885 to 1891; superinten- dent Buffalo Division, same road, 1891 to 1893; general superintendent N. Y. O. & W. R. R., 1893 to 1895; superintendent, Western Division, N. Y. C & H. R. R., 1895 to Jan. 1, 1903; assistant general su- perintendent, same road, Jan. 1, 1903, to July 1, 1903, since which date have been general superintendent. Address, Grand Central Station, New York.

BRADFORD, Edward Anthony:

Financial editor; born New York City, Nov. 5, 1851; descendent of Governor Wil- liam Bradford, first governor of Massa- chusetts; graduated Yale University, 1873, with B. A. degree; received LL.B. from University of New York, 1876; has been. contributor to Harper's Monthly, Harper's Weekly, Yale Law Review and others; twenty-five years American correspondent of London Standard; connected with New York Times since 1870; now financial ed-

itor; in early life reporter and legislative correspondent at Albany; married Susan Coit Packer, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; member of Yale University Alumni, Crescent Ath- letic, Marine and Field Clubs. Residence, 175 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y.

BRADFORD, John Henry, Sr .:

Treasurer of Coney Island Jockey Club; member of Union Club, New York. Ad- dress, 276 Lexington Ave., New York.

BRADY, Anthony N .:

Capitalist; born in Lille, France, in 1843; is a conspicuous exponent of the success which has crowned great careers in business organization in the United States, to which he came as a boy with his parents; Mr. Brady became interested in the gas and traction companies of Albany and Troy, came to New York and rebuilt the Union Railway Company's lines, foresaw the supplanting of all other systems of surface traction by electricity, planned the consolidation of the traction lines of Brooklyn and of New York and their equipment with electricity, and in- troduced into their management, as well as that of the gas and electric-lighting companies of New York, the community of interest idea; he has been a moving spirit in similar combinations in Wash- ington, Philadelphia and other cities, is vice-president of the People's Gas Light and Coke Company, and a director in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and the Equitable Gas Light Company; Mr. Brady is a practical electrician, as well as one of the foremost capitalists of the day. Address, 54 Wall St., New York.

BRADY, Cyrus Townsend:

Clergyman (Protestant Episcopal Church), author; born Allegheny, Pa., Dec. 20, 1861; son of Jasper Ewing Brady and Harriet Cora (Townsend) B .; mar- ried, first, Clarissa Sidney Guthrie (died, 1890); second, Mary Barrett; graduated at the U. S. Naval Academy in 1883; ser- vice with the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads for six years; studied theology under Bishop Worthington of Nebraska; ordained deacon, 1889; priest, 1890; successively missionary and rector of Protestant Episcopal churches in Mis- souri and Colorado, and archdeacon of Kansas until 1895; archdeacon of Penn- sylvania until 1899; rector of St. Paul's Church, Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pa., 1899-1901. Since then, while retaining his clerical status, nas given up parochial work for occasional and special preaching and for literary work; chaplain First Pennsylvania U. S. Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War; received degree of LL.D. (causa honoris), in 1902, from St. John's College, Annapolis, Md .; mem- ber Society of the Sons of the Revolu- tion, Military Order of Foreign Wars, Naval and Military Order Spanish-Ameri- can War, University Club of Philadelphia, the Author's Club of New York, Ameri- can Academy of Social and Political Sci-

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ence, etc. Author of the following: (bi-

ographies), "Stephen Decatur," "Com- modore Paul Jones," "The True Andrew

Jackson; (histories), "The Conquest of the Southwest," "American Fights and Fighters," "Border Fights and Fighters," "Colonial Fights and Fighters;" (fiction), "For Love of Country," "For the Free- dom of the Sea," " "The Grip of Honor."

"When Blades are out and Love's Afield," "The Quiberon Touch," "Hohen-

zellern," "Woven with the Ship," "The

Southerners," "The Bishop," "A Doctor

Henry Morgan, of Philosophy," "Sir

Buccaneer, A. Little Traitor to the South," "A Corner in Coffee," "Tittlebat

Titmouse" (abridged and edited from

Warren's "Ten Thousand a Year.");

(juvenile), "Reuben James." "In the Wasp's Nest," "In the War with Mexi- co; (autobiographical), "Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West," "Under Top's'l's and Tents," etc. Address, 455

E. 17th St., Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.

BRADY, James F .:

Captain, U. S. Army: born Victor, Ontario County, N. Y., July 13, 1874; moved to Canandaigua, same county, when quite young, and spent youth there; educated in the public schools; entered West Point, June 21, 1893, grad- uating, June 11, 1897, as additional second lieutenant Thirteenth Infantry; promoted to second lieutenant Nineteenth Infantry, Jan. 16, 1898; transferred to Seventh Ar- tillery, April 2, 1898; served in Porto Rican campaign, Aug., 1898; promoted to first lieutenant Seventh Artillery, Aug. 28, 1899; to captain, Artillery Corps, Aug. 22, 1901. Address, Fort McHenry, Md.

BRADLEY, Alfred E .:

Major U. S. Army; born Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1864; appointed from New York, civil life; actual rank, first lieuten- ant and assistant surgeon, Oct. 29, 1888; accepted, Nov. 3, 1888; service, at David's Island, N. Y., from date of appointment to Oct. 25, 1889; at Fort Omaha, Neb .; promoted captain, Oct. 29, 1893; major, Jan. 1, 1902. Present address, Manila, P. I.

BRADLEY, George Beckwith:

Lawyer; born Town of Greene, Chenan- go County, State of New York, Feb. 5, 1825; has since then resided in State of New York; admitted to the bar at Os- wego, N. Y., in May, 1848; married Han- nah E. Lattimer, July, 1850; practiced the legal profession until 1884; was member of the Constitutional Commission of 1872- 73; was elected to State Senate in 1873 and 1875; was elected justice of Supreme Court, in 1883, for term of fourteen years; within which term was member of Court of Appeals, second division, about four years, 1889-92; degree of LL.D. by University of Rochester; was mem- ber of Appellate Division of Supreme Court in Second Judicial Department, 1896-97. Residence, Corning, N. Y.

BRADLEY, John H .:

Democratic Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly district of Erie Coun- ty; born Buffalo, 1850; educated in its public schools; forced early to work to earn a living; for thirty-two years past has worked for different gas companies of Buffalo in various capacities; lately has had charge of inspection work for the Buffalo Gas Co .; entered political life, 1888, being elected Alderman in Buffalo; re-elected in 1889; elected Assemblyman, 1899; appointed member of the following Assembly committees: State Prisons and Commerce and Navigation; re-elected in 1900; member of the following commit- tees: Cities, Federal Relations, and Pub- lic Institutions; also in 1901; appointed a member of following Assembly commit- tees: Cities, Public Education, and Pub- lic Institutions; again in 1902; appointed member of following Assembly commit- tees: Affairs of Cities and Railroads. Ad- dress, Bu falo, N. Y.

BRADLEY, Thomas W .:

Member of Congress; born April 6, 1844; is a retired manufacturer; entered the Union Army as a private soldier, and, passing through all intermediate grades, became a captain in the One Hundred and twenty-fourth New York Volunteers; was aid-de-camp to Major-General Mott, Third Division, Second Army Corps; was awarded the Congressional medal of honor "for gallantry at Chancellorsville;" was brevetted major of U. S. Volunteers "for meritorious service during the cam- paign terminating at Appomattox;" was seriously wounded at Gettysburg, again wounded at the Wilderness, and again before Petersburg; was a member of As- sembly in 1876-chairman of the commit- tee on military affairs, and assistant in- spector-general of the National Guard; was a delegate to the national Republi- can conventions of 1892, 1896 and 1900, voting at each convention for William Mckinley; is a member of the New York, Chattanooga and Gettysburg Battlefields Commission; is a companion of the first class in the military order of the Loyal Legion, a member of the City Club, of Newburgh, N. Y., and of the Army and Navy Club, of New York City; was elected as a Republican to the Forty- eighth Congress, receiving 19,747 votes, to 14,874 for Theodore H. Babcock.

BRAINARD, Albert E .:

General agent passenger department N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R., Boston and Albany and West Shore Roads; born Oct. 2, 1866; educated in the grammar and high schools at Albany; entered railway service Dec. 1, 1887, as stenographer for the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. and West Shore Road, since which he has been chief clerk, traveling passenger agent, district passenger agent, and general

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agent passenger department; under en- tire service with the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. and West Shore Road since- Dec. 1, 1887. Address, Union Station, Albany, N. Y.

BRAINARD, David L .:

Major, commissary, U. S. Army; born Norway, Herkimer County, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1856; after attending the State Nor- mal School at Cortland, N. Y., entered U. S. Army as a private on Sept. 18, 1876; promoted to sergeant, and partici- pated in the Sioux, Bannock and Nez Perce Indian campaigns under Gen. N. A. Miles, 1877-78; wounded in the fight with Sioux Indians at Little Muddy Creek, Mont., May 7, 1877; with Howgate Arctic Exploring Expedition, 1880; 1881, joined Lady Franklin Bay Arctic Expedi- tion, serving with expedition for three

years; associated with the late Lieut. Lockwood in exploration of interior of Grinnell Land and Northwest coast of Greenland; May 13, 1882, reached the then highest point north ever attained, viz .: 83 degrees, 24 minutes, 30 seconds north latitude; 40 degrees, 46 minutes, 30 seconds west longitude; shared in ter- rible privations of the expedition; was one of the seven survivors rescued by Lieut. Commander W. S. Schley, June 22, 1884; transferred to Signal Service and later commissioned second lieutenant of Second United States Cavalry "for distinguished and meritorious services

in connection with the Arctic ex- pedition, 1881-84;"' promoted first lieu-

tenant, Aug., 1893; captain, Subsis- tence Department, Oct., 1896; Dec., 1897, detailed for duty on Alaska Relief Expedi- tion for destitute miners at Dawson City; lieutenant-colonel, Subsistence Depart- ment, U. S. Volunteers, May, 1898; ordered to Philippine Islands as chief commissary of all military forces, serving on the staff of Major-General Merritt, and later on that of Major-General Otis; pro- moted to colonel, chief commissary, U. S. Volunteers, Nov., 1878; promoted to Major, Subsistence Department, U. S. A., Feb. 12, 1900; fellow of the American Geographical Society; awarded the back grant of the Royal Geographical Society for 1885 "for special services in connec- tion with his work of exploration in the Arctic regions." Address, Army Build- ing, New York City.

BRAMAN, Benjamin:

Microscopist; born Norton, Mass., Nov. 23, 1831; Brown graduate of 1854; gradu- ate of Andover Theological Seminary, 1859; acting pastor at Shutesbury, Mass .; 1862-63, principal of Academy at West- port, Mass .; 1863-64, taught in Astoria and later at Cooper Union and other places; skilful microscopist and editor of Journal of New York Microscopical Soci- ety, of which he has been sometime pres- ident. Address, 12 College Place, New York.

BRAMAN, Waters W .:

Vice-Consul; born Watervliet, N. Y., July 31, 1866; received his early education in the public schools of his native town and graduated at the Troy Academy, Troy, N. Y .; has been employed in the office of the St. Maurice Lumber Com- pany, at Three Rivers, for over fifteen years; was appointed vice-consul, at Three Rivers, Canada, Sept. 4, 1891. Ad- dress, Three Rivers, Canada.

BRANNAN, John Winters, M. D .:

Born Cincinnati, O., Feb. 14, 1853; at the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1877- 78; Paris, Vienna and Strasburg, 1879; practiced in Boston, Colorado Springs and finally in New York City; consulting phy- sician Bellevue Hospital and attending physician to Hospitals of Health Depart- ment; member New York County Medi- cal Society, Pathology Society, Harvard Medical Society, Society of Medical Juris- prudence and Academy of Medicine. Ad- dress, 11 W. 12th St., New York City.

BRANN, Henry A .:

Clergyman (Roman Catholic) and au- thor; born Parkstown, County Meath, Ire- land, Aug. 15, 1837; came to the United States in 1849; educated at. St. Mary's College, Wilmington, Del., and St Fran- cis Xavier's New York City; studied for priesthood at St. Sulpice, Paris, and the American College at Rome; ordained to priesthood, 1862; vice-president of Seton Hall College, 1862-64; director of Wheel- ing (W. Va.) Seminary, 1868-70; from 1890 to date, rector of St. Agnes Church, East 43d St., New York City. Has published "Essay on the Popes," "The Age of Un- reason," "Immortality of the Soul," and other works. Address, 141 East 43d St., New York.

BRANT, Louls P .:

Captain, U. S. Army; born Ohio; ap- pointed from N. Y. cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1869; gradu- ated, June 13, 1873; actual rank, second lieutenant Twenty-first U. S. Infantry, June 13, 1873; resigned, March 31, 1876; appointed second lieutenant First Infan- try, Aug. 7, 1879; accepted, Aug. 19, 1879; first lieutenant, Feb. 20, 1884; pro- moted captain, Feb. 6, 1897; retired, Jan. 7, 1899. Address, Cosmos Club, San Fran- cisco, Cal.

BRATTON, John W .:

Composer; born Wilmington, Del., Jan. 21, 1869; came to New York in 1894 and became musical director of several operas and musical comedies; published over two hundred and fifty compositions, among them being "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley," "I Love You in the Same Old Way," "Only Me," "The Trilby Waltzes," "Belle of the Season Marches," "When You Are Near," "Your Own," "My Pansy Blossom Blue," "My Little Belle of Ja- pan," and "Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fair

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Lady," "Dream Days of Seville," "In a Cosey Corner," "Barrymore Waltzes," (the latter dedicated to Miss Ethel Barry- More); member of the Greenroom Club. Address, 103 West 54th St., New York.

BREARLEY, William H .:

Author and journalist; born 18th July, 1846, at Plymouth, Mich .; son of Joseph and Hannah Brearley; attended Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich., 1859-61; enlisted, Aug. 15, 1862, in a company of students recruited in the Normal School, which be- came Company E, in the Seventeenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry; served until the close of the Civil War, participating in nearly all the engagements of the Army of the Potomac, from Antietam to Appo- mattox; married Miss Lina DeLand, of Saginaw, Mich., on the 27th of Aug., 1868; removing to Kansas in 1870, became con- nected with the Leavenworth Times; or- ganized a state advertising agency, at De- troit, Mich., in 1871; manager of adver- tising department of the Detroit Tribune, 1871-73; on the 23d of Aug., 1873, assisted in the establishment of the Detroit News, and managed its advertising department for fourteen years, or until 1887, when the Detroit Journal was purchased, which was conducted for five years, until 1892; in 1893, became manager of the Chicago Weekly Inter-Ocean; on Sept. 1, 1894, be- gan the publication of "The Spirit of '76" in New York City; in 1898 was connected with the Rowell Advertising Agency; from April, 1899 to 1901, was secretary of the New York City Baptist Mission So- ciety; organized the Detroit Museum of Art, in 1883; the American Newspaper Publisher's Association, in 1887, and the Chamber of Commerce, in 1892. Author of "Recollections of the East Tennessee Campaign," "Wanted, a Copyist," "Lead- ing Events of the American Revolution," and "King Washington" (a collaboration, with Miss Adelaide Skeel). Present resi- dence, 86 Cedar Ave., New York City.

BREEN, Matthew P .:

Ex-member of the Legislature and member of the New York bar; has been for many years an active politician and a lawyer in large practice; was born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1845, and was educated in the Queens, now the Royal, University of Ireland; he came to New York in 1866, and studied law in the office of Hamilton W. Robinson, late chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas; in 1882 he entered the State Legislature, where he was instrumental in passing many useful measures, conspicuously those which led to the formation of the splendid streets and parks which adorn that portion of the greater city now known as the Borough of the Bronx, in which Mr. Breen and his family reside. Author of "Thirty Years of New York Politics." Address, Borough of the Bronx, New York.

BRENDEL, Henry W .:

Lawyer, and U. S. collector of customs; is one of the leading members of the Erie County bar, and one of the most promi- nent of the German-Americans of that city; was born in Buffalo, Dec. 10, 1857, of German descent; his education was obtained in the public schools; he en- tered the law office of Hawkins & Fisher, where he remained, however, for but a year, completing his studies in the office of Delavan F. Clark. After his success- ful passage of the examinations and his admission to the bar, he formed a co- partnership with General James C. Strong, in the fall of 1879; this combina- tion of youth and experience, ability and activity, proved successful, and a large practice was built up. Many cases of the greatest importance were won by this firm, and their standing in legal circles was assured; in 1891 the firm was dis- solved by mutual consent, and he con- tinued the practice alone; in 1898, col- lector of customs for the Port of Buffalo, a position he now holds; he is a member of the Hungari, Teutonia Maennerchor, and other singing societies; also has been a member of the National Guard of the State of New York since 1878; at the out- break of the Spanish War he went to the front as captain of Company I, Sixty- fifth Regiment, and remained in the vol- unteer service until Nov. 17, 1898, when the regiment was mustered out of the ser- vice. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

BRENEMAN, Abram A .:

Analytical and consulting chemist;

born Lancaster, Pa., April 28, 1847: early training at private schools; entered, May, 1864. as sophomore in Pennsylvania State College; was graduated, 1866, with degree of B. S .; tutor in chemistry in the same institution, 1867; acting profes- sor, 1868; professor of chemistry and physics, 1869-72; assistant professor of analytical chemistry in Cornell Univer- sity, 1875-79; professor of industrial chemistry. 1880-82; consulting chemist and expert, New York City, 1883 to 1903; specialist in water analysis and water supply; president of the Board of Judges on mineral waters, Chicago Exposition, 1893; vice-president of American Chemi- cal Society, 1889-92; director in same, 1885 to 1897; member of council in same, 1889-1900, 1902-03; editor of "Journal of the American Chemical Society," 1884- 92. Author (with G. C. Caldwell) of "In- troductory Laboratory Practice;" author of "Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen," and of many chemical papers and general articles. Inventor of a patented process for rendering iron non-corrodible. Ad- dress, 97 Water St., New York.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 21

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