Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 3

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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JOHNSTON, Samuel:

Inventor; born Shelby, Orleans County, N. Y., Feb. 1835. Specialty, heat engin- eering and its application to useful work. The study of his life has been the perfect- ing and putting at work fuel burning ap- paratus. His inventions relate to the material employed and to the forms of the several parts. By the material used, aided by the forms of the several parts, all descriptions of fuel are burned under atmospheric pressure so completely up to the luminous-radiant rays that the heat product resulting is to the eye of the ob- server and to his nostrils, heat only. The temperatures obtained are those from about the melting point of copper up to the resistance of any refractory material and are under the full and complete con- trol of the user. The heat current may be made reducing or oxidizing and used directly in work or stored for future use. Chimney draft is useful only in carrying out the smoke of first lighting the fire. All kinds of fuel are used and are dried before ignition by the heat radiating through the furnace walls, in this way tan bark, sawdust. baggase and peat that con- tain unusual quantities of water are fit- ted for burning. The material employed for making the furnaces is water and fireproof up to the highest temperatures of the electric furnace and makes a cheap substitute for wood in places where wood is now used. It does not contract or ex- pand appreciably in heat and has an ap- preciable elasticity. He has put it at work for nearly all uses, in recovering metals from their ores and in reheating metals. The losses by oxidation and all the annoyance, of discharging gases into the atmosphere are avoided. Address, 205 Cleveland Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

KAHN, O. H .:

Banker; born Feb. 21, 1867, at Mann- heim, Germany. Parents, Bernhard Kahn and his wife Emma, née Eberstadt. Both parents still living and now residing at Heidelberg, Germany. Father's occupa- tion, banker. After receiving college ed- ucation in Germany, served for one year in the German Army; learned banking in Germany, then went to London to enter the employ of the English branch of the Deutsche Bank in which position he spent five years. Came to this country in Au- gust, 1893, to become connected with the banking house of Speyer & Co .; stayed for two years; spent following year trav-

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eling in Europe. On Jan. 1, 1897, entered the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., as partner, this being his present posi- tion. Married, 1896, Addie Wolff, daugh- ter of Abraham Wolff, of New York. Res- idence, 8 East 68th St., New York; coun- try homes in Morristown, N. J., and Up- per Saranac Lake (Adirondacks), N. Y.

KNAPP, J. Herman:

Physician; born at Dauborn, Prussia, March 17, 1832. Up to his fourteenth year he lived in the country; then he at- tended the academic college at Weilburg, in the former dukedom of Nassau, where he received the certificate of maturity to university studies. He chose medicine, studied four years at the Universities of Munich, Würzberg, Berlin, Leipsic, Zü- rich and Vienna; graduated in 1854; passed his state examination at Weis- baden, 1856; then prepared himself for a university career during the next four years in Paris, London, Berlin, Utrecht and Heidelberg. In 1859 he was appointed lecturer on ophthalmology at the Univer- sity of Heidelberg, and in 1862 professor extraordinary, and opened a dispensary and hospital for eye diseases, partially supported by voluntary contributions; the new clinic being successful, it was incor- porated into the university institution's. În 1867 Dr. Knapp spent his vacation in visiting America; he was so impressed with the grandeur of the country and the walks and energy of the people, that he decided to become a citizen of the United States. He resigned his position at the university and settled in New York, Oct., 1868; the first six months he made himself acquainted with the medical and scientific institutions, visiting hospitals and attending lectures in the medical col- leges and societies. In May, 1869, he converted a suitable house in Twelfth street near Broadway into an eye and ear clinic, regularly organized and incorpor- ated by a board of twenty-one trustees, under the name of the New York Opthal- mic and Aural Institute, intended not only for the treatment of patients, but also for medical teaching and research. At the same time he founded an inter- national journal, the Archives of Ophthal- mology and Otology; first a quarterly, later two monthly magazines, with En- glish and German editions, containing ex- clusively original papers and original re- ports on the progress of ophthalmology and otology in all civilized nations. Later he was appointed professor of ophthal- mology at the medical faculty of the University of New York, and after the death of Dr. Agnew, professor in the medical department of Columbia Univer- sity; he resigned this position in 1901, having reached his seventieth year. The Institute and the Archives have been in uninterrupted operation since their foun- dation, and to them and his private prac- tice he continues to devote his time. Ad- dress, 26 West 49th St., New York.

KNUBEL, Herman:

Pioneer of the oleomargarine industry; born in New York, Dec. 1, 1851; son of Herman Knubel, of New York; received education in the public schools of the metropolis and in the College of the City of New York. At sixteen years of age he entered the pork-packing business with his brother-in-law, who was at that time one of the largest pork packers in the United States; at seventeen was in charge of one of the packing houses. He re- mained in this business until 1870, when he connected himself with the Merchants' Exchange Bank; in 1873 he went to Can- ada and there engaged in the business of manufacturing oleomargarine, in which industry he was the pioneer. He con- structed at Hamilton and Montreal, Can- ada, the first oleomargarine factories ever erected, and met with great success in handling this product; in 1875, disposing of this enterprise, he returned to New . York. In 1884 he undertook the develop- ment of the Harney Peak tin mines, in which he was associated with some of the most prominent capitalists of New York. In 1889 went into the South American shipping business; shortly thereafter he went to Europe, and remained there for four years, with short trips to this coun- try. On his return, early in 1899, he en- gaged in the organization of several suc- cessful companies, including the Empire Coal Mining Company, one of the largest soft coal properties in the United States; was also the organizer of the Adograph Company and is its president; is the president of the Central Western Oil Com- pany, one of the greatest sources of sup- ply to the Standard Oil Company in the West. Address, 25 Broad St., New York.

KOLLE, Frederick S .:

Physician; born in Hanover, Germany, Nov. 22, 1871; coming to the United States, he took up the study of medicine at the Long Island College Hospital, grad- uating in 1893. For a year he was assistant aural physician at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital; 1893-94, interne at Kings County Hospital; also assistant physician Contagious Disease Hospital, Brooklyn. . He has made a specialty of electro-therapeutics, and is one of the most extensive investigators of the Roent- gen ray; has invented several instruments for use in connection with the latter. Was in charge of the electro-therapeutic department of Electrical Engineer Insti- tute, New York, 1896 until 1900; 1897- 1902, was associate editor of The Electrical Age. Address, 210 Stratford Road, Brook- lyn, N. Y.

LAUTERBACH, Edward:

Lawyer; born in New York, Aug. 12, 1844; was a student at the College of the

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City of New York; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1866; is partner in the firm of Hoadly, Lauterbach & John- son. In politics he is a Republican; 1895- 97, was chairman of the Republican Coun- ty Committee; is a director in various street railway companies of New York. Is chairman board of trustees, College of City of New York. Residence, 761 Fifth Ave .; office, 22 William St., New York.

LAWRENCE, Colonel Abram B .:

Colonel United States Volunteers; born at Warsaw, N. Y., of New Eng- land parentage. He received a high school education; at the age of twelve was placed in a bookstore at Warsaw, and at nineteen accepted a responsible position as accountant and cashier in a large pub- lishing house in Buffalo, where he re- mained until 1856, when he removed to Niagara Falls, N. Y., and became proprie- tor of a drug and medicine business. This he sold in 1858, and removed to Warsaw, where he was engaged for a short time in mercantile pursuits, in the meantime projecting the Warsaw Gas Light Works. These. co-operating with others, he built in 1859, and successfully operated, also carrying on a foundry business and ma- chine building business until the Civil War broke out. Then he entered the Union Army, as quartermaster in what was later designated as the 130th New York Volunteer Infantry, and known as the First New York Dragoons, which be- came famous under General Sheridan. In 1862 he was placed in detached service in the commissary and quartermaster's department, Peck's Division, Seventh Army Corps; subsequently assigned to duty in Sheridan's Cavalry Corps as quartermaster of the regular cavalry bri- gade, etc., promoted to captain and as- sistant quartermaster, U. S. Army, and assigned to the headquarters of Eigh- teenth Army Corps; later became chief quartermaster with rank of major in the Quartermaster's Department, U. S. A., serving the tenth, eighteenth and twen- ty-fifth corps. Upon reorganization and consolidation of troops of the ninth, tenth and eighteenth corps, constituting the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, he was as- signed by President Lincoln to duty as chief quartermaster of this and raised to rank of lieutenant-colonel. During the cam- paign which ended with the surrender of General Lee, he was appointed by General Grant, chief quartermaster of the Army of the James. In consequence of his dis- tinguished services he was assigned by order of General Grant to receive the surrender and make disposition of the property of the Army of Northern Virgin- ia and to act as chief quartermaster of the United States forces at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. In fall of 1865 was assigned to duty in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountains. In 1866, upon appli- cation for muster-out, he returned to

Warsaw, where he received honorable dis- charge with brevet commissions for faith- ful and meritorious services during the war. Soon after he became engaged with Buffalo capitalists in developing extensive slate interests in the province of Quebec. Later entered into the lumber and plan- ing-mill business at Buffalo, returning thence after a few years to Warsaw to engage in the furniture trade. In 1876 was commissioned commandant of the Letchworth Rifles, then organized, serv- ing for six years. Was one of the or- ganizers of the National Guard Associa- tion of the State of New York, and its recording secretary for ten successive years. He is member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was for several years commander of the Gibbs Post of Warsaw, N. Y., which he organized. Has been a vice-department commander of New York; several years a member of the Council of Administration. Is a mem- ber of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; honorary member of the Military Service Institution of the United States, etc., a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the higher grades of Masonry. As- sisted in organizing New York State Ag- ricultural Society and was several years its president. Address, Warsaw, N. Y.

LAWRENCE, William Van Duzer:

Manufacturer; the earliest ancestor of the Lawrence family of whom there is an authentic record was Sir Robert Law- rence, of Ashton Hall, Lancaster, Eng- land, who accompanied King Richard Cœur de Lion to Palestine, and was the first to plant his standard on the walls of Acre in 1191; the family was one of the first of distinction to send its representa- tives from England to the New World. Three sons of William Lawrence, the friend of Milton, came to the American Colonies, first settling in New England, and later came to New Netherland and became landowners, men of wealth and influence in the Province. The eldest of the three brothers, William Lawrence, was the head of the patentees of Flushing, L. I., in 1645, and a magistrate under the Dutch administration, and was an ances- tor of Lieutenant Nathaniel Lawrence, who distinguished himself in the Revolu- tionary period, as well as of Captain James Lawrence, U. S. Navy, comman- der of the frigate Chesapeake in its mem- orable action with the British ship Shan- non, in 1813. Of the branch of the old Flushing settler the subject of this sketch is a lineal descendant. William Van Du- zer Lawrence is the son of Robert D. Lawrence. His mother's maiden name was Catherine Van Duzer, of Holland Dutch ancestry, and descendant of a fam- ily of prominence and influence in Or- ange County, N. Y. He was born near El- mira, N. Y., Feb. 12 1842; his parents thence moved westward; was educated

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in Michigan, but when nineteen years o" age he returned to the East, settled down in New York City. and accepted employ- ment in the wholesale drug store of S. R. Van Duzer & Co., and there remained for a period of five years. In 1866 he went to Canada, whither he went to establish a branch house representing several Am- crican medicine manufacturers, among which were Perry Davis & Son, of Provi- dence, R. I. For a period of twenty-two years he devoted himself to the promotion of the business, afterwards merged into the Davis & Lawrence Company, Limited, which has now been a prominent house in Montreal for over twenty-one years. In 1895 the Davis & Lawrence Company, of Montreal, bought out and absorbed the long-established business of Perry Davis & Son, of Providence, R. I., who retired from business, the new corporation pur- chasing all its proprietary interests. A branch corporation known as the Davis & Lawrence Company of New York was organized in New York City, where the head office was located in 1900. Mr. Law- rence is president of both the Davis & Lawrence Company, of New York, and the Davis & Lawrence Company, Limited, of Montreal, Canada, and also of the Fel- lows Manufacturing Company, of Montreal and New York, and of the Waverly Real- ty Company, of New York. He has virtu- ally retired from the activities of the several companies of which he holds the presidency; he has also been devoting his time and energies to the development of a magnificnt property, of which he is the owner, in Bronxville, Westchester County, New York, known as Lawrence Park. His summer home is "Kelp Rock," formerly the residence of the poet, Edmund Clar- ence Stedman, at New Castle, N. H. He is a member of the Union League Club, of New York City, and of the St. James Club, of Montreal. He was married, in 1867, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Alfred G. Bates, of Monroe, Mich., and they have two sons and two daughters. Address, 969 Fifth Ave., New York.

LEACH, Abby:

Professor of Greek, Vassar College; born in North Bridgewater, now Brock- ton, Mass. Student at Harvard Annex, now Radcliffe College, and at Leipzig University. Has studied and traveled in Greece and given lectures before clubs and societies and addresses on various occasions. Has held the office of presi- dent in the American Philological As- sociation and in the Association of Col- legiate Alumna. Is a member of the

Archeological Association and on the managing committee of the school at Athens. Has contributed articles to papers and journals, Boston Evening Transcript, American Journal of Phil- ology and others. Address, Poughkeep- sie, N. Y.

McDOWELL, Willlam O .:

President of the Cuban-American League; born Bedminster Township, Som- erset County, N. J., April 10, 1848. Had a common school education, but is a per- sistent life student. Late in the Civil War he tried to enter the Volunteer Army but was refused on account of his youth. He then entered into business. Subsequently became connected with sev- eral railroads, reorganizing the Mont- clair Ry., New York, Ontario & Western, etc. Was president of the New York and Sea Beach Ry., bringing it up to its former standing. He was the organizer of the Sons of American Revolution and Daughters of American Revolution, and other bodies. Started the subscription to complete fund for the pedestal of the Bartholdi statue of Liberty. Was one of organizers of the Cuban-American League of which he became president at its foun- dation and continues to hold that office. Originator World White Bordered Flag of Universal Liberty and Peace. Author of "The Bible of Liberty." Residence, 447 Summer Ave., Newark, N. J .; office, 51 Liberty St., New York.

MANIERRE, Alfred Lee:

Lawyer, firm of Manierre & Manierre, New York; born in New York City, May 4, 1861; son of Benjamin F. Manierre and Caroline (Flynn) Manierre; gradu- ated from Columbia College, class of 1883. Member of Alpha Delta Phi Fra- ternity and Phi Beta Kappa, City Club. Alpha Delta Phi Club, Columbia Alumni Association, Bar Association of the City of New York; trustee of the New York Red Cross Hospital; member board of managers National Temperance Society; elder Scarborough Presbyterian Church; Prohibition Party candidate for mayor of New York City, 1901, and for governor of New York State, 1902. Residence, 330 West 76th St .; office, 31 Nassau St., New York.

MASON, Mary A .:

Author; was born at Windsor, N. Y., and educated in the Academy at her native town and in Binghamton College. Contributes numerous articles, both prose and poetry to the leading periodicals. She is the adopted daughter of Consul-General Charles M. Dickinson, with whom she is now living. Address, Constantinople, Tur- key.

MORRISON, David Mitchell:

President the Washington Trust Company of New York City since its organization in June, 1889; is also a trustee of the Greenwich Savings Bank and a director of the North River Insur- ance Company and the Preferred Acci- dent Insurance Company. Born in New

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York in 1841; attended private schools and College of the City of New York; after a year with the New York banking house of Drexel, Winthrop & Co., estab- lished in 1864 the banking firm of Morri- son & Putnam, associating with him his brother-in-law, A. E. Putnam; this firm continued its successful course until 1884, when he retired from active busi- ness. Member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, Union League, Merchants, Metropolitan and Chi Psi Clubs of New York and St. Andrews Society; life mem- ber of the New York Historical Society, with which his father, the late James M. Morrison, was so prominently iden- tified. Married in 1877 Abby, daughter of the late Captain Nathaniel Putnam, of Brooklyn, and has four children. Mr. Morrison's grandfather was born in Scot- land; came in 1790 to America, and be- came an extensive planter in Louisiana and a well known author; his wife was the granddaughter of a magistrate of Aberdeen, Scotland, and great grand- daughter of the Lord Provost of Aber- deen; his son was born in New Orleans; when the bov was five years of age his father died and he was taken to Aber- deen by his mother and there educated. When twenty four years of age he came to New York City and became prominent as a banker; he was for many years president of the famous Manhattan Com- pany's Bank, the second oldest bank in New York City, and was holding that position at the time of his death in Dec .. 1880. David M. Morrison was away with the Seventeenth Regiment, New York, in 1863, in United States service. Office, 280 Broadway, New York.

MORSE, Richard C .:

Clergyman Presbyterian Church; born at Hudson, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1841; graduated at Yale College in 1862, subse- quently studying theology at Princeton and Union Theological Seminaries; or- dained to ministry in 1869; in that year he was appointed general secretary to the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations, and has been identified with its work ever since. Ad- dress, 3 West 29th St., New York.

MOSER, William:

Physician; born in New York City, Aug. 2, 1868; attended public school and Pack- ard's Business College in New York City; then studied medicine, graduating from New York University in 1888. Studied abroad, first at University of Heidelberg, then at the University of Berlin, from which he received the M. D. degree in 1902. At present physician to the German Hospital and physician to St. Catharine's Hospital Dispensary. Was formerly pa- thologist to St. Catharine's St. Mary's, German, and the Brooklyn Throat Hos- pital (now the Williamsburg Hospital). Has recently been appointed pathologist to Deaconesses Hospital of New York; was expert pathologist for the State in

the Place murder case in New York. Member of the German Medical Society of New York. Has contributed numerous short articles to current medical litera- ature, chief of which is the "Motility of the Red Blood Cells," published in differ- ent articles in the New York Medical Record. Has always claimed originality and priority for this physiological dis- covery. "Anomalous Lobulations of the Liver" is published in the same journal of original researches in anatomy. Other publications of miscellaneous subjects are Case of Epigastric-Diaphrogmatic Hernia," published in the Philadelphia Medical Journal, "Reptilian Delusions," "A Case of Lead Osteo-Periostitis," "On a Certain Form of Xanthoma," "On the Local Effects of Aurantia, and their Treatment," published in the New York Medical Journal. "On Nitric Acid, Car- bolic Acid and Mercury Poisoning," pub- lished in Brooklyn Medical Journal. "On Seminal Cells and Crystalls," "The Ana- tomical Changes in Arsenical Poisoning," Most of these contributions have been en- tirely original and these claims will be sustained by the editors of the respective journals. Address, 573 Decatur St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

NICHOLS, Ernest Fox:

Professor of experimental physics in Co- lumbia University, New York; born in Leavenworth, Kan., June 1, 1869; gradu- ated from Kansas Agricultural College in 1888; M. Sc. and D. Sc., Cornell Uni- versity, 1893 and 1897; honorary D. Sc., Dartmouth College, 1903. Professor of physics in Colgate University, 1892-98; Dartmouth College, 1898-1903. Member of a number of scientific societies, vice-pres- ident of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1903, and a col- laborator on the editorial staff of the Astrophysical Journal. Author of numer- ous papers, published in America and abroad, dealing with investigations and discoveries mainly in the field of radia- tion. Address, Columbia University, New York.

NIEHAUS, Mrs. Charles Henry (Regina Armstrong.) :

Author: born in Virginia; has contrib- uted much poetry and prose to current literature, the latter including stories, critical articles on art, etc. Address, 17 West 35th St., New York.

O'DAY, Daniel:

Capitalist; born in Ireland, in 1844; was early brought to this country and re- ceived his education in the public schools of Buffalo; about 1865 he entered the oil

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business, being later engaged in the transportation of oil, laying (in 1873-76) a large system of pipes. Is vice-president of the National Transit Company, and president of several other corporations. Residence, 128 West 72d St .; office, 26 Broadway, New York.

O'HARA, Edward H .:

General manager Syracuse Herald. Born at Skaneateles, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1853. Ed- ucated in the common schools of that town; learned printing business in office of Skaneateles Democrat, and afterward took special course Syracuse University. Since spent life in all capacities. on Sy- racuse newspapers except brief residence in California. Married, and has three children. Succeeded Arthur Jenkins, founder and publisher of The Herald, on Mr. Jenkins' death, which occurred in West Baden, Ind., Nov. 8, 1903. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.

PALMER, Mrs. George Archibald:

Author; born Feb. 3, 1854, Elmira, N. Y. Maiden name, Anna Campbell; married, Sept. 28, 1880, to George Archibald Palm- er of Elmira; pseudonym, Mrs. George Archibald, to which she has lately added last name of her husband; educated in Elmira and Ithaca, N. Y .; taught school previous to marriage. Has written the following books: "The Summerville

Prize," "A Little Brown Seed," Eaton & Mains, New York, publishers; "Lady Gay," "Lady Gay and Her Sister," "A Dozen Good Times," Lothrop Company, Boston; "Joel Dorman Steele," biography, A. S. Barnes & Co., New York. Has held editorial positions on -Elmira Evening Star. Elmira Advertiser, and contributed · much verse and prose to various papers and magazines. At present editor The Key Note, a magazine of music, art and society, published in Elmira. Address, Elmira, N. Y.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 3

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