Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 23

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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BROWN, Addison:


Lawyer, jurist, and author; was born West Newbury, Mass., Feb. 2, 1830; son of Addison and Catharine (Griffin) B .; fitted for college under Benjamin Green- leaf, the mathematician; entered at Am- herst College in 1849; at Harvard in 1849, whence he graduated in 1852, and from the Harvard Law School in 1854; admit- ted to the bar of New York in 1855, where he had a large and lucrative practice in the firnis of Bogardus & Brown, Stanley, Longdell & Brown and Stanley, Brown & Clarke; appointed by President Garfield June 2, 1881, to be United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, during a recess of the Senate, and again by President Arthur Oct. 14, 1881, which office he held until his resignation in Sept., 1901. His published opinions, up- wards of 1700 in number, chiefly in bank- ruptcy, shipping and admiralty, are most- ly in vols. 8 to 115 of the Federal Re- porter; digest and index of his decisions were published by him in 1902. Author (in conjunction with N. L. Britton) of the "Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada" (3 vols., 1896- 98), which he designed and published; one of the chief founders, promoters and scientific managers of the New York Botanical Garden, whose charter (1891) he drew; president of the Torrey Botani- cal Club since 1890; member of the Cen- tury Club and the Historical and Geo- graphical and many other scientific socie- ties; his portrait by A. Frauzen, procured by the New York bar, was in 1903 pre- sented to the United States District Court. A. B., LL. D., Harvard, 1902. Address, 45 West 89th St., New York, N. Y.


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BROWN, Allan D .:


Commander U. S. Navy; son of Hon. Joshua L. Brown and Diana Osborne; born at Batavia, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1843; ap- pointed to the Naval Academy Sept. 20, 1860; graduated, and appointed ensign, May 28, 1863; master, Nov. 10, 1865; lieu- tenant, Nov. 10, 1866; lieutenant com- mander, March 12, 1868; commander, Feb. 9, 1880; retired, June 24, 1891, from dis- ability caused by exposure to Panama fever; ordained as deacon in the Protest- ant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Vermont, Nov. 30, 1892; ordained priest June 8, 1895; inaugurated as president of Norwich University, Northfield, Vt., Dec. 6, 1896, which is present address.


BROWN, Archer:


Member of the firm of Rogers, Brown & Co., which has establishments in New York, Chicago and a number of other leading cities, was born in Otsego Co., New York, in 1851, and graduated at Michigan University in 1872; he removed to New York from Cincinnati in 1895, and he now resides in East Orange, New Jer- sey, being president of the Citizens' Union of that city; Mr. Brown is director in a large number of blast-furnace, coal-min- ing and ore-mining companies, and his firm is said to handle about thirty per cent. of the merchant pig iron-foundry, forge and basic-made in the United States. Address, 71 Broadway, New York.


BROWN, Charles A .: .


Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born Yorktown, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1874; was grad- uated from General Theological Seminary, 1902; B. D., General Theological Semin- ary, 1903; ordered deacon, 1902; priest, 1903, and assistant minister, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, 1903. Ad- dress, 175 Ninth Ave., New York, N. Y.


BROWN, Charles R .:


Banker, broker and philanthropist; born Sincoe, Ont., Aug. 3, 1869; son of Mark and Jane (Irving) Brown; at the age of twenty, secretary and treasurer of the Norfolk Insurance Company; in 1892 began real estate and banking oper- ations throughout the Northwest; in Sept., 1898, located in New York in the brokerage business, buying and selling large properties; in 1902 organized the Oppenheimer Institute, of which he is now vice-president and managing direc- tor. Address, 170 Broadway, New York, N. Y.


BROWN, Elon Rouse:


Republican State Senator, representing the Thirty-fifth Senate district, Jefferson and Lewis Counties; born Jefferson Coun- ty, 1857; graduated at Brown University, 1878; admitted to the bar Oct., 1880; has since practiced law at Watertown; was supervisor of the Third Ward of Water- town for four years; member of Consti- tutional Convention of 1894; in 1897 elect-


ed State Senator; re-elected in 1898, 1900 and 1902; in 1903 was appointed chairman of the Committee on Forest, Fish and Game, and member of Railroads, Judi- ciary and Roads and Bridges Committees; member of Sons of the Revolution, Uni- versity Club, New York, and Fort Orange Club, Albany. Address, Watertown, N. Y.


BROWN, Francis:


Minister (Presbyterian) ; born Hanover, N. H., Dec. 26, 1849; graduated Phil- lips Andover Academy, 1866; Dartmouth College (A. B.), 1870; Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1877; studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, 1877-79; since 1879 has been connected with Union Theological Seminary; in- structor in Biblical Philology, 1879-81; associate professor of same, 1881-90; pro- fessor of Hebrew and the foreign lan- guages since 1890; married, Aug. 7, 1879, Louise Reiss, "of Berlin, Germany; re- ceived the degrees of A. M. (Dartmouth, 1873), Ph.D. (Hamilton, 1884), D. D. (Dartmouth, 1884; Yale, 1894; Glasgow, 1901), D.Litt. (Oxford, 1901), LL.D. (Dart- mouth, 1901). Has published "The Teach- ing of the Twelve Apostles" (with Prof. R. D. Hitchcock), 1884, second edition, 1885; "Assyriology, Its Use and Abuse in Old Testament Study," 1885; "A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testa- ment" (with Profs. S. R. Diver and C. A. Briggs), 1891-1902; "The Christian Point of View" (with Profs. G. W. Knox and A. C. McGiffert), 1902; also many articles and pamphlets. Address, 700 Park Ave., New York.


BROWN, G. R .:


Second vice-president and general man- ager New York and Pennsylvania road; born Sept. 9, 1840, at Southport, N. Y .; he was educated in the common schools and at Waverly Seminary, New York; entered railway service 1864 as operator Fall Brook Railway, since which he has been train dispatcher, assistant superin- tendent, and in the spring of 1886 to May 1, 1899, general superintendent same road. Office address, Canisteo, N. Y.


BROWN, Helen Dawes:


Author and lecturer; daughter of Wil- liam Dawes and Martha Swan Brown; born Concord, Mass .; educated at Vassar College. Author of "Two College Girls," "The Petrie Estate," "Little Miss Phoebe Gay," "Her Sixteenth Year," "A Book of Little Boys" (published by Scribner); clubs-Ontiora, Barnard, Meridian, and the Women's University Club of New York. Address, 24 West 38th St., New York.


BROWN, Hubert L .:


Lawyer; born at Preston, Chenango County, New York, May 15, 1870; son of W. Lorenzo and Emily L. Brown; re- ceived education at Oxford Academy, Ox- ford, N. Y., and graduated from that in-


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stitution in June, 1891, having been elected president of his class; chose law for his profession, and was admitted to the bar Feb. 17, 1895; began the practice of his profession at Norwich, N. Y., the county seat of Chenango County, and soon es- tablished a reputation as an able trial lawyer, both in civil and criminal cases; in 1901, six years after his admission to the bar, he was elected district attorney of Chenango County; he is a prominent member of the bar of his county. Ad- dress, Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y.


BROWN, John Crosby:


Banker, Brown Bros. & Co .; director Liverpool and London and Globe Insur- ance Company, and Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad Company; trustee Bank for Savings and United States Trust Com- pany. Residence, 36 E. 37th St., New York; office, 59 Wall St.


BROWN, John George:


Artist; was born at Durham, England, Nov. 11, 1831; very early in life he began to draw, and at the age of nine years made a portrait of his mother; his boy- hood was passed at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where his father was a practicing lawyer, and there he was apprenticed to learn the glass-cutting trade; at the age of eighteen he entered the School of Design at Newcastle, studying under Robert Scott Lander; after attaining his majori- ty he obtained employment in the Holy- rood Glass Work, in Edinburgh, and be- gan to study art in the Royal Academy, where, in 1853, he won a prize for the best drawing from the antique; soon went to London, where he supported him- self by drawing for painting on glass; later came to New York, making his home in Brooklyn. He found employment in the Flint Glass Works of William Owen, and went on with his art study at the same time, having the advantage of instruction in the Academy of Design, New York City, under Thomas Cum- mings. His first success was in painting children; later on he made a specialty of newsboys and bootblacks; of equal merit are the canvases on which he has depicted rustic and humble life, in which men and women are the chief and only figures; his works, most of which are in oil, are very numerous, and are wide- ly known through reproductions; he was elected an associate of the National Acad- emy of Design in 1862, an academician in 1863, and vice-president in 1899; was made president of the American Water Color Society in 1887, and is now president of the Artists' Fund Society; he received honorable mention at Paris in 1899 and medals at San Francisco and Boston. Residence, 250 West 42d St .; studio, 51 West 10th St., New York.


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BROWN, Laurence C .:


Captain United States Army; born, New York; appointed from the army a sec- ond lieutenant, Sixth Artillery, June 22, 1898; accepted July 7, 1898; transferred to


Second Artillery April 4, 1899, to rank from June 22, 1898; first lieutenant, Ar- tillery Corps, Feb. 2, 1901; captain, Artil- lery Corps, Sept. 23, 1901; previous regu- lar service-Troop E, Seventh Cavalry, April 20, 1894, to July 19, 1897; private and corporal, Battery D, Fourth Artillery, Oct. 1, 1897, to July 6, 1898. Present address, Fort Washington, Md.


BROWN, Dr. Lucy Hall:


Physician, New York City, N. Y .; rec- ognized as among the first women in the profession of medicine; is native of New England and of Puritan ancestry; received education at Milton College, Wisconsin, and at Dearborn Seminary, Chicago; med- ical studies pursued in department of medicine and surgery of the University of Michigan, from which institution she graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1878; after experience in hospitals of New York City, visited Europe; in London at- tended the clinics of Sir Spencer Wells, and under Drs. Ord and Bristowe was first woman entered to clinics of St. Thomas' Hospital, London; at Dresden served as medical interne at the Royal Lying-in and Gynecological Hospital of Professor Fred Winckel. Soon after re- turn to United States was appointed resi- dent physician of the State Reformatory of Women at Sherborn, Mass .; subse- quently appointed superintendent, but de- clined; from 1884 to 1887, professor of physiology and hygiene and resident phy- sician at Vassar College; first vice-pres- ident of the Alumni Association of the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Michigan; fellow of New York Academy of Medicine; member of the Kings County Medical Society; Brook- lyn Pathological Society; American Eles- tro-Therapeutic Association; vice-presi- dent American Social Science Association; former treasurer of the New York Medi- co-Legal Society; member of the council of the National Red Cross Society, etc .; member of various social, literary and philanthropic societies; inventor of num- erous electrical devices, many of which have been formally adopted by Electro- Therapeutic Association as standards;


frequent contributor to standard publi- cations upon subjects of health, hygiene, etc .; 1887, delegate with Clara Barton to International Conference of the Red Cross at Carlsruhe, Germany; 1897, again dele- gate to the conference of the Red Cross in Vienna; 1900, delegate of the Kings County Medical Society to the Interna- tional Congress of Medicine and to the International Congress of Electro-Thera- peutics in Paris; also delegate of the United States government to International Congress of Hygiene, the International Congress of Secondary Education and the International Congress of Physiology; Sept., 1891, married to R. G. Brown, of New York City, well known electrical en- gineer, officier de l'academie of France. Address, 158 Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


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BROWN, Marshall Stewart:


Educator; born Keene, N. H., 1870; son of George A. Brown and Ida Stewart Brown; graduated Brown University, 1892; fellow in history, Brown University, 1892-3; receive degree of M. A., June, 1893; instructor in history, University of Michigan, 1893-4; professor of history and political science at New York University, 1894 to present time; studied in Germany at Heidelberg University, 1895 and 1896; married, 1900, to Margaret, daughter of Professor Henry M. Baird, D. D., L.L.D., L.H.D., of New York University; daugh- ter, Susan Baldwin Brown. Author of "Epoch Making Papers in United States History," MacMillan, 1903; "A History of the Zeta Psi Fraternity," privately print- ed, and articles and reviews in periodi- cals; member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, and of the American Historical Association; member of the general committee of the American Historical Association. Ad- dress, 219 Palisade Ave., Yonkers, N. Y.


BROWN, Paul R .:


Surgeon, major, United States Army; born New York, Nov. 4, 1846; retiring year 1910; appointed from New York-civil life. Actual rank-first. lieutenant and assistant surgeon, Nov. 10, 1874; accepted, Nov. 13. 1874; captain and assistant sur- geon, Nov. 10, 1879; service-ordered to Military Division of the Atlantic, Nov. 30, 1874; at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., to July, 1875; ordered to Department of Da- kota, July 20, 1875; post surgeon, Fort Shaw, Mont., to May, 1879; in the field with battalion Second Cavalry from April to Oct., 1877; post surgeon, Fort Bennett, Dak., to Sept., 1879; on leave of absence to March, 1880; ordered to Department of the East. March 2, 1880; at Fort Hamil- ton, N. Y., to Oct., 1881; ordered to De- partment of Texas, Oct. 24, 1881; post surgeon, Fort Davis, Tex., to May, 1882; on sick leave to Nov., 1883; ordered to Department of Arizona, Nov. 28, 1883; post surgeon, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., from Jan., 1884, to Nov., 1887; post surgeon at Fort Niagara, N. Y., Dec., 1887, to Sept., 1888; post surgeon, Sidney Barracks, Neb., Sept. to Nov., 1888; post surgeon, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., Nov., 1888, to May, 1889; on sick leave to Dec .. 1889; at Army and Navy Hospital from Dec., 1889; pro- moted major-surgeon, Dec. 3, 1891; re- tired, Oct. 1, 1897. Address, Guthrie, Okla.


BROWN, Samuel Holmes:


Lawyer; born in the town North East, near Millerton, Dutchess Coun- ty, N. Y., and spent his boyhood days at his birth-place on a farm owned by his father, Milton Brown; records fully justify the claim that on the father's side he is a descendant of Peter Brown, who was one of the members of the party who came to this country in the Mayflower; his mother was Phebe Holmes. a daughter of Ruben Holmes, a de-


scendant of Francis Holmes, who came from Beverley. York, England, to Stam- ford, Conn; attended the local schools in and near his home, and also attended Amenia Seminary, Cazenovia Seminary, Troy Business College and the Albany State Normal School. After leaving the farm he spent a short time as clerk in a store in his native village and afterwards was a bookkeeper for J. B. Enos & Co., who conducted a whole- sale flouring mill at Waterford, N. Y .; he also spent a year and a half in teaching in a business college in Newark, N. J .; it was while teaching in New Jersey that he perfected himself in stenography, and did some court work, not only there, but afterwards at Poughkeepsie. Immediately after the death of his father, which oc- curred in 1881, he took up the study of law in the office of Hon. Milton A. Fow- ler, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and on Sept. 14, 1883, was duly admitted as an attorney and counsellor at law; he then opened a law office in the City of Poughkeepsie, and also a branch office in his native vil- lage, Millerton; his practice of law has been somewhat varied, including both civil and criminal. On the death of his father he came into possession of the homestead farm, which he conducted for several years, besides conducting other farms on which he was quite extensively engaged in the production of milk and the raising of horses, cattle and sheep; later on he disposed of his farm interests and has devoted his entire attention to his pro- fession; he was among the first to agi- tate and assist in the organization of the Millerton National Bank and became a member of its first board of directors; he afterwards became director of the Far- mers' and Manufacturers' National Bank of Poughkeepsie, in which capacity he served for some years. In politics he is a Republican; in 1893 he was made the nresident of the Republican Lincoln League Club of Poughkeepsie, N. Y .; he has also been in the board of supervisors several years, and later on was chosen by the board of aldermen of the City of Poughkeepsie as recorder to fill out the term made vacant by the resignation of Casper L. Odell, Esq .; he is a member of the Amrita Club, Triune Lodge No. 782, F. & A. M., of Poughkeepsie, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks No. 275, having been the presiding officer of said latter named lodge for two years, 1901-1903: un to 1886 his home was at Mil- lerton, N. Y., at which time his family, consisting of his mother, who is still liv- ing, and his wife, came to Poughkeepsie, where they have lived ever since; his wife is Clara Lefferts Duryee, daughter of John Wyckoff Duryee and Elizabeth Taylor Duryee, of Mattituck, Long Island. Address, New York.


BROWN, Samuel Q .:


Financier; born in Pleasantville, Pa .; educated at Allegheny College; degree A.M. from Princeton University, 1871;


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merchant, banker, oil producer, commis- sioner of Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for fifteen years; one of the organizers of the Tide Water Pipe & Oil Company; now president of Tide Water Pipe Company, Tide Water Oil Company, Associated Producers Company; member of Union League of New York, Pennsyl- vania Society of New York, Natural Arts Club. Address, 11 Broadway, New York.


BROWN, Vernon H .:


Agent, Cunard steamships; director Panama Railroad Company, Northern Insurance Company, and Hanover Na- tional Bank; trustee Atlantic Mutual In- surance Company and Colonial Trust Company, and member of Union, New York Yacht and Richmond County Coun- try Clubs. Residence, 95 Madison Ave .; office, 29 Broadway, New York.


BROWN, Walter L .:


Republican State Senator, representing the Thirty-third Senate District (Otsego and Herkimer counties); born in Car- lisle, Schoharie County, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1846; educated in common schools; in 1866 entered employ of L. Pruyn & Son, Albany, N. Y., continuing there until 1872; that year located at Oneonta and has since then engaged in hardware busi- ness and farming; prominent in latter, be- ing one of organizers of Central New York Agricultural Society at Oneonta (1874) and its president most of the time since; many years member of local board of On- eonta State Normal School; went into politics, 1878, as Republican and has been active ever since; for seven years rep- resented his town in board of supervisors, serving as member of committee on equal- ization, etc .; in 1888 elected member of As- sembly from Otsego County and served for five years; trustee of village of On- eonta one year; first elected to State Senate, 1895; re-elected, 1902; in 1903 ap- pointed to following Senate committees: Chairman of Engrossed Bills; member of Finance, Internal Affairs, Public Health, and Forest, Fish and Game. Address, Oneonta, N. Y.


BROWNE, Thomas Nicoll:


Vice-consul; born, New London, Conn., Aug. 10, 1840, and educated in the gram- mar schools and at the Farmington and Lyme Academies; is a lawyer by profes- sion; has held several elective offices and was in the customs service in San Fran- cisco and New York for a number of years; appointed vice and deputy consul at Lyon, France, Sept. 6, 1893. Address, Lyon, France.


BROWNING, John Hull:


Merchant; born Orange, N. J., Dec. 25, 1841; parents came to New York, 1843; educated College City of New York; in clothing trade with brothers as clerk; later partner; remained twenty years; director


Northern New Jersey Railroad Company; death of father-in-law, became president, 1885, treasurer New York and Hacken- sack Railroad, East and West Railroad Company of Alabama; treasurer Cherokee Iron Company of Georgia; director, 1877, president, 1884, Richmond County Gas Light Company; director Staten Island Dyeing Establishment, West Indies Com- pany, Citizens' National Bank of En- glewood, N. J .; Republican in politics; president Bergen County League; presi- dential elector for New Jersey, 1892, 1896; vice-president Christ Hospital, Jersey City; treasurer American Church Mis- sionary Society; trustee Hahnemann Hos- pital; married Eva, daughter Charles G. Sisson. Address, Tenafly, N. J.


BROWNING, William:


Physician; born in Connecticut, of Pil- grim ancestry, July 7, 1855; received Ph. B. from Yale, 1876; diploma in an- atomy from University of Pennsylvania, 1878; M. D. from University of Leipsic, Germany, 1881; instructor in the natural sciences at Philadelphia in 1876 and 1877; house surgeon at the German Hospital, New York, 1881-82; connected with the Brooklyn Central Dispensary, 1883-84, and with the Long Island until 1893; editorial staff Annals of Surgery, 1885-91; from 1887 to 1900 lecturer, and since then professor of diseases of the mind and nervous system at the Long Island Col- lege Hospital. From 1891 to 1901 was in charge of brary and from 1097 to the Medical Society's Li- 1900 secretary of its executive building committee; at present, attending or consulting neurol- ogist to the Kings County, Long Island State, Long Island College, Norwegian, St. John's, Brooklyn, St. Christopher's, German, Bushwick, and Eastern District Hospitals; ex-president of the Associated Physicians of Long Island, of the Brook- lyn Society for Neurology, and of the Medical Society of the County of Kings; member of the American Neurological, the Association of American Anatomists, Association of Medical Librarians, and locally of the Brooklyn Institute, Long Is- land Historical Society, County Medical Society, Medical Club, Union League Club, Brooklyn League, Kings County Alumni and Staff Associations, Verein Deutscher Aertze von Brooklyn, and is a state ex- aminer in lunacy. Author of "Veins of the Brain," 1884; "The Epileptic Inter- val," 1893; "Circulation in the Central Nervous System," 1897; also of "Vessels of the Brain" in Buck's Reference Hand- book, of "Vascular Diseases of the Brain" in Sajou's Cyclopædia, and of over forty articles from 1879 to the present time on subjects connected with neurology, medi- cal history, etc., besides annual reports, critical reviews, etc. Address, 54 Lefferts Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.


BROWNING, William S.


Lieutenant, United States Army; born, Brooklyn, N. Y., July 5, 1877; appointed


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second lieutenant, A. C., Feb. 2, 1901; ap- pointed to United States Military Acad- emy from New York, June 15, 1896; grad- uated and appointed second lieutenant, Feb. 18, to rank from Feb. 2, 1901; ser- vices-garrison duty, Fort Banks, Mass .; Fort Riley, Kan .; garrison duty, prison officer, Fort Columbus, N. Y. Present ad- dress, Fort Riley, Kan.


BROWNSON, Willard Herbert:


Captain, United States Navy; born, New York; appointed acting midshipman at Naval Academy, Nov. 29, 1861; graduated, 1865; Rhode Island (second rate), West India Station, 1865-67; promoted to en- sign, Dec. 1, 1866; Susquehanna (second rate), North Atlantic Station, 1867-68; pro- moted to master, March 12, 1868; Dacotah (third rate), Pacific Fleet, 1869-70; com- missioned as lieutenant, March 26, 1869; Mohican (third rate) Pacific Fleet, 1870- 71; St. Mary's, Pacific Fleet, 1870-71; Os- sipee, 1871; torpedo service, 1872; Naval Academy, 1872-5; Kearsarge (third rate), Asiatic Station, 1875-76; Tennessee (sec- ond rate), Asiatic Station, 1876-8; Naval Academy, 1878-81; promoted to lieutenant- commander, Dec., 1880; commanding C. S. S. Gedney, 1881; commanding C. S. S. Blake, 1881-84; Powhatan, North Atlantic Station, 1884-85; hydrographic inspector, Coast Survey, 1885-89; commanding Petrel, North Atlantic Station, 1889 to October, 1891; promoted commander, May, 1891; general inspector Cruiser No. 10, Oct., 1891, to March, 1892, and July, 1893; com- manding Detroit, July, 1893-94; Naval Academy, Nov., 1894-95; leave of absence, Nov., 1895; member board inspection and survey, Dec., ' 1896-98; commanding the U. S. S. Yankee, March, 1898, to Septem- ber, 1898; promoted captain, March 3, 1899; general inspector, Alabama, May 1, 1899; commanding Alabama, Oct 16, 1900, to 1902; Nov., 1902, superintendent Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Nov. 6, 1902-03. Address, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapo- lis, Md.




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