Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 30

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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CHASE, William Merritt:

Artist; born Franklin, Indiana, Nov. 1, 1849; studied art in Indianapolis, 1868, under B. F. Hays, portrait painter; 1869 at National Academy, New York City, and with J. O. Eaton; 1872, continued work in Europe at Munich Academy under Wagner and Piloty; spent one year at Venice, studying particularly works of Tintoretto; returned to United States, 1878; received honorable mention at Paris Salon, 1882; his studio is in New York City; works, portraits of the five children of Piloty; "Venetian Fish Mar- ket": ""The Dowager" (1875) ; "Boy

Finding a Cockatoo"; "Broken Jug”

(1877); "Ready for a Ride"; "The Appren- tice" (1878); "Interior of St. Mark's in Venice": "Court Jester"; "Interior of An Artist's Studio" (1883) ; "The Co- quette" (1884); also portraits of Duven- eck (1879), General Webb (1880), and Peter Cooper (1882). Residence, 234 E. 15th St .; office, 303 5th Ave., New York.

CHEESMAN, Timothy Mattach, Jr., M.D .: Bacteriologist; born in New York; A. B. Columbia, 1874; A. M., 1877; M. D., 1878; assistant in Bacteriology, Colum- bia; house surgeon, Bellevue, 1879; assis- tant professor College of Physicians. Ad- dress, 105 East 18th St., New York.

CHENEY, Charles Edward:

Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church; born Canandaigua, N. Y., Feb., 1836; graduated at Hobart, 1857; then be- ginning study for ministry of Protestant

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Episcopal Church; ordained and made rec- tor of Christ Church, Chicago; instrumen- tal in organizing Reformed Episcopal Church, 1873, and consecrated missionary bishop of Northwest, Dec. 14, of that year; 1878, made bishop of Chicago; member of Sons of the American Revolution; of Art Institute and Citizens' League, Chicago; also of University and Chicago Literary Clubs. Address, 2409 Michigan Ave., Chi- cago, Ill.

CHENEY, William H .:

One of the secretaries of the Home In- surance Company of New York; born at Glens Falls, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1850; his early education was gained in the schools of his native town and the Alexander Mili- tary Institute, White Plains, N. Y .; he was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873, with the intention of following the profession of a civil engineer; after a brief experience on railroad surveys, mainly in Oho, he entered the employ of the Glens Falls Insurance Company, where he remained until April, 1881, re- signing to become assistant state agent of the Home Insurance Company in New York state; he was appointed one of the assistant secretaries of the Home in April, 1898, and was promoted to his present position in Oct., 1900. Office ad- dress, 56 Cedar St., New York, N. Y.

CHENOWETH, Alexander Crawford:

Civil engineer and contractor; born Bal- timore City, June 5, 1849; son of Rev. George Davenport Chenoweth and Fran- ces Ann Crawford of Virginia; graduated at Dickinson College, 1868, received de- gree of A.M .; pursued a course of en- gineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute, Troy, N. Y .; served as an en- gineer on Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1871; assistant engineer Brunswick & Western R. R., Georgia. 1873; assist. engineer of Public Works, Washington, D. C., 1874-5; engaged in mining works in United States of Colombia, 1882; consulting engineer to General Mariano Y. Prado, president of Peru, 1884; prepared the foundations for the statue of Liberty, Bedloe's Island; engaged in engineering work on new

Croton aqueduct, 1889, ap- pointed resident engineer in charge of Croton aqueduct; in 1895, engaged in a general engineering and contracting business; a member

of the Zeta Psi college fraternity, a member of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of New York, Society of Colonial Wars, War of 1812, a veteran of the 7th Regi- ment of New York; awarded the John Scott bronze medal by the City of Phila- delphia in 1889 for improvements relating to placing electrical conductors under- ground; awarded the Edward Longstreth silver medal bv the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, for improvements in con- structing concrete drainage conduits in 1890; received an award for plans to re- claim land under water in the City of Newark, N. J., by the Board of Water

and Street Commissioners, after a pub- lic competition; devoting much time to archaeological investigation in North and South America, made a collection of In- dian remains which he discovered on Man- hattan Island, Inwood, New York City, the only one in existence, now in the Museum of Natural History; elected a member of the Academy of Science; married Cath- arine Richardson Wood, daughter of the late Hon. Fernando Wood. Address, 7 East 31st St., New York.

CHENOWETH, Mrs. Catharine Richard- son:

Founder of Society of Daughters of Hol- land Dames, descendants of old New York families; born New York; daughter of the late Hon. Fernando Wood (mayor, congressman, etc. ) and Ann Richardson, daughter of Judge Richardson of the Su- preme Court of New York; educated at the French School, New York, married, Alexander Crawford Chenoweth; has trav- eled in countries of Europe, especially

Holland, studying its history and seeking for historical material relating to the Dutch period of New York's history; col- lected funds for the Hospital Ship Maine for Wounded English and Boer soldiers in the South African War; member of the Red Cross Society appointed by London committee. Address, 7 East 31st St., New York.

CHESTER, Albert Huntington:

Chemist and mineralogist; born Sarato- ga Springs, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1843; spent two years at Union College; graduated at Columbia School of Mines, 1868, with E. M. degree; 1871, called to chair of Chem- istry, Mineralogy and Metallurgy, Hamil- ton College; 1875-80, explored iron de- posits of Vermillion district of Minne- sota; 1882, chemist to New York State Board of Health, practicing also mine engineering; since 1891, professor of chemistry and mineralogy Rutgers Col- lege. Author of "Catalogue of Minerals, with Chemical Compositions and Syno- nyms" (N. Y., 1886); a "Dictionary of Names of Minerals" (1896); also "Elev- enth Annual Report of the Geology of Minnesota"; has received Ph.D. from school of mines, 1878, Sc.D. from Hamil- ton College, 1891; married, 1869, Miss Alethea S. Rudd, of New York City. Ad- dress, New Brunswick, N. J.

CHESTER, Alden:

Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; was born in Westford, Otsego County, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1848, being the youngest son of the late Alden and Susan G. (Draper) Chester; both his father and his mother were of New England ances- try, his father's ancestor, Samuel Chester, having come from England to Boston about the middle of the seventeenth century, and settled in New London, Conn., in 1663, and his mother's ancestor, James Draper having come from York-

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shire, England, and settled in Roxbury, Mass., probably in the year 1647; he is also a descendant of Elder William Brew- ster, one of the Mayflower Pilgrims; his grandfather, John Chester, on his father's side, and his grandfather, Joshua Drap- er, on his mother's side, were both Revo- lutionary soldiers, the latter being at the battle of Bunker Hill. Judge Chester's father died when he was only about eight years old, leaving him largely to his own resources; his early education was received in the district school in his native place and at the Westford Liter- ary Institute there; before reaching his majority he served as a clerk in a whole- sale commission house in New York and also in a country store in his native vil- lage, as well as a telegraph operator on the old Albany and Susquehanna Rail- road; in this capacity he was at East Worcester for two years; he also edited a newspaper for a time in Otsego County and served as a clerk in an insurance office in Boston for a year; while in the latter place he began the study of law; in 1869 he entered the Columbia College Law School, in New York City, taking the full course while that school was un- der the charge of Judge Theodore W. Dwight and Dr. Francis Lieber. Upon graduation from the institution in 1871 he took the prize of $75 in the depart- ment of political science, this being one of only five prizes given to a gradu- ating class of ninety-nine members; he was admitted to the bar at the general term in New York City in May, 1871, and immediately commenced the practice of law at Albany in partnership with his cousin, Andrew S. Draper, now president of the University of Illinois; he continued in practice with him for sixteen years; after Mr. Draper's retirement he prac- ticed alone until his election to the bench; in 1874 and 1876 he was deputy clerk of the New York Assembly; from 1881 to 1884 he was a member of the board of public instruction in the City of Albany, serving the last year as president of the Board. From 1883 to 1885 he was assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of New York under the Hon. Martin I. Townsend, and in this capacity tried many important cases for the Gov- ernment in different parts of the State; he resigned this office on the appointment of his partner by President Arthur as Judge of the Court of Alabama Claims at Washington; he was assistant corpora- tion counsel of the City of Albany in 1894 and 1895; in the latter year he was ap- pointed by Governor Morton a member of the commission, of which Judge Earl was chairman, to prepare a uniform charter for cities of the second class, and in Nov., 1895, he resigned from the Commission on being elected a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the Third Judicial District; he was the first Republican elected to that office in that district in over thirty years, and had a majority of nearly five thousand; from his location at the capital of the State he

has repeatedly been called upon to de- termine many controversies of great im- portance; among these are what is known as the Ice Trust, the Coal Trust and the Beef Trust cases which attracted much attention throughout the country; he has also presided over a large number of murder trials, prominent among which was that of the three Van Wormer broth- ers at Hudson for killing their uncle, Peter A. Hallenbeck, on Christmas Eve, 1901, and which resulted in the conviction of all three of murder in the first degree, and their subsequent execution; in Nov., 1902, he was designated by Governor Odell to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department of the State, and since that time has been serving as a member of that court; he is a trustee of the Albany Medical College, the Albany Female Academy, of Graceland Cemetery, and of the Albany Exchange Savings Bank; special lecturer on the Federal Judicial System in Albany Law School of Union University, and is an elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Albany; he married, Oct. 5, 1871, Lina Thurber, daughter of the late Ezra R. Thurber, of East Worcester, N. Y., and has one daughter, Mrs. Amy Chester Mer- rick, the wife of Charles Van Merrick, an architect in New York City. Residence, 139 Lake Ave .; office, County Building, Albany, N. Y.

CHILDS, Hon. Henry A .:

Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; born Gaines, Orleans County, N. Y., July 17, 1836; son of Levi L. and Ann M. Wright Childs; married Nov. 16, 1859, to Julia B. Freeman, of Onondaga, N. Y .; at age of twenty-one began to study law with Judge B. F. Besack, of Albion, N. Y .; admitted to bar four years later; has since been actively engaged in his pro- fession; in politics became affiliated with the Republican party; 1865 elected dis- trict attorney, serving three terms; 1874 formed partnership with Senator Pitts; elected one of the Supreme Justices in Western District of New York; 1887, the degree of LL.D. conferred upon him by Williams College; 1897 unanimously re- elected to the Supreme Court, having been regularly nominated by both Democratic and Republican parties, and is now en- gaged in the performance of the duties of that position. Address, Medina, N. Y.

CHILDS, John Lewis:

Well-known florist and seedsman of Floral Park, Long Island; born at North Jay, Franklin County, Me., May 13, 1856, his father, Stephen Childs, being a farm- er of that district; he left home at sev- enteen and succeeded in obtaining em- ployment with a florist at Queens, Long Island; leaving his employer at the end of a year he set out boldly for himself, leas- ing about forty acres of poor soil and renting a small room over a store; he at once went to work diligently to improve his small estate, and after years of ardent

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labor it was transformed into the bloom- ing Floral Park of to-day; by ceaseless activity and tireless industry he has built up a flourishing business which is known in floricultural circles throughout the world, while the estate which he has de- veloped is unsurpassed in beauty; his business has grown until it is now one of the greatest nursery, seed and flower industries of the world, while Floral Park, as he has named his attractive village of residences and business structures, in- cludes acres of forcing-houses, a large storage warehouse, various packing- houses, and a large number of cozy villa residences erected by him for his em- ployes, and which are richly adorned with flowers and foliage; in their midst is a church and a school house, most of the money for which has been contributed by Mr. Childs, while their support depends mainly on his generosity. In addition to his annual catalogue he publishes a monthly magazine, The Mayflower, which has a circulation of over three hundred thousand copies among floriculturists, horticulturists and farmers; he personal- ly attends to the details of his large bus- iness, going so far as to sow and gather the rarer seeds with his own hand, as too precious to trust to less intelligent labor; he is married, his wife being Carrie Goldsmith, of Washingtonville, N. Y., a lady of rare culture, and one who, while a skilled housewife, is an artist and writer of ability. In 1890 the political friends of Mr. Childs nominated him as Republican candidate for Congress, to represent Queens, Sunolk and Richmond Counties; though he failed to be elected, he considerably reduced the Democratic majority; he ran again in 1892, with the same result, his defeat being fully ex- pected in view of the dominance of the opposite party in that Congressional dis- trict, while the degree to which he ran ahead of his ticket gave ample evidence of his high personal popularity; in 1893 he was nominated for State Senator in the same district, and was elected; he served two years as Senator from the first dis- trict with credit; retiring from politics in 1897, he has pushed his seed and bulb growing business until now his gardens at Floral Park occupy over 300 acres. Ad- dress, Floral Park, Long Island.

CHIPMAN, Richard Harrison:

Member of the Sons of the Revolution; son of Rev. Richard Manning and Mary Ann (Harrison) Chipman; born in Har- winton, Litchfield County, Conn., Jan. 19, 1837; educated at private schools and at Williston Seminary; appointed paymas- ter's clerk in the United States Navy, June 15, 1862, and assigned to the bark Roebuck; engaged in the blockade ser- vice in the Gulf of Mexico; continued in this position until Oct. 16, 1863; then re- turned home and was for some time on duty on the gunboat Hendrick Hudson, stationed at the Charlestown navy yard;

June, 1864, commissioned A. A. Paymas- ter, U. S. N., serving until the close of the war; first assigned to U. S. S. Iso- nomia, as paymaster in the North At- lantic Squadron, off Fort Fisher, N. C .; ordered thence to the East Gulf Squadron, with headquarters at Key West, Fla., was soon after transferred to headquarters of Admiral Theodorus Bailey; while here, discharged duties of paymaster on sloop- of-war Dale, steamer Nita, Marigold, schooner Beauregard and the famous Wanderer, used as guard ship; on Oct. 20, 1865, he retired; then engaged in the rail- road business; was five years chief clerk of transportation of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad; then terminal freight agent of the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad; later, gen- eral freight agent, passenger agent and purchasing agent of the New Jersey Mid- land Railroad Company; Jan., 1878, he en- gaged in wholesale coal business; in 1887 he became general manager of the Coal- dale Mining Company, successor to his

own firm, later becoming president of company; is member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, United States; is past master of Lodge of the Temple, Free and Accepted Masons, of Jersey City; past district deputy grand master of Seventh Masonic District of New Jersey; was R. and S. C. of Enterprise Chapter, No. 1, R. A. M., of Jersey City; captain-general of Hugh de Payen's Commandery, and has advanced to the eighteenth degree in the Scottish Rite; married, Oct. 10, 1857, to Fannie Ellen Brooks, of Guilford, Conn. Address, 31 Broadway, New York.

CHISHOLM, Hugh J .:

Capitalist; born in Canada in 1847, of Scottish descent; settled in Portland and became interested in the manufacture of paper; recognizing the value of the water power at Rumford Falls on the Andro- scoggin river, planned and started the town of Rumford Falls, organizing a power company; the town now has two large paper mills and a paper bag mill, besides other industries; its population is 7,000, and one development of Mr. Chis- holm's interest in the town has been the establishment in one section, of Strath- glass Park, where he has erected several score of model dwellings for mill oper- atives; aside from his large interests at Rumford Falls, Mr. Chisholm controls the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway and the Rumford Falls and Rangeley Lakes Railway; Mr. Chisholm was a prime mov- er in the organization of the International Paper Company in 1898, and is now its president. Residence, 813 Fifth Ave .; of- fice, 30 Broad St., New York.

CHITTENDEN, Hiram M .:

Captain, United States Army; born in and appointed from New York; cadet at the Military Academy July 1, 1880; second lieutenant engineer June 15, 1884; first lieutenant Dec. 31, 1886; captain Oct. 21, 1895; . volunteer service lieutenant col-

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onel chief engineer May 9, 1898; honor- ably mustered out Feb. 25, 1899. Present address, Custom House, Sioux City, Iowa.

CHOATE, Joseph H .:

United States ambassador to England since 1899; born at Salem, Mass., on Jan. 24, 1832; he is a descendant of one of the oldest and most respected of New Eng- land families, many of his relatives and ancestors having gained distinction in various fields of effort, and particularly at the bar. Mr. Choate entered Harvard when sixteen years of age, and graduated in 1852; thence he passed to the Dane Law School, having decided to enter the pro- fession so honorable in the family records, and graduated in 1854, after two years of close application; he was admitted to practice at the Massachusetts bar in 1855; in 1856 Mr. Choate came to New York, to whose bar he obtained admission; from that date to this he has been engaged in the practice of the law in New York City with brilliant success and with a repu- tation as a lawyer equal to that of the finest advocates in this country. Among the cases in which he has been engaged are many famous ones, in most of which he has borne a leading part, and gained applause for his forensic ability and deep and thorough knowledge of the law; to describe all the cases in which he has thus been prominent would be far beyond the space at our disposal, and be almost equivalent to writing a legal history of New York for more than a quarter of a century past. Mr. Choate's distinction as one of the leaders of the bar of New York is not his only legal claim to considera- tion; he is as popular as he is able, and may be considered as decidedly the lead- ing lawyer of the city in this regard; his popularity is not confined to his clientage and to the people at large, but extends to the profession as well, it being doubt- ful if any other lawyer in the city has as many professional friends and well-wish- ers as Joseph H. Choate; this popularity is due, in large measure, to his personal gifts of courtesy and geniality, which are so marked as to win him friends wher- ever he goes. Among the most celebrated cases in which he has been engaged may be named that of General Fitz-John Por- ter, whom he served as counsel in his protracted suit for reinstatement in his military rank, and the rights of which he had been deprived by sentence of a court-martial; the origin of this celebrated case must be familiar to all students of the civil war; General Porter was charged by General Pope with disobedience of orders during the second battle of Bull Run, in failure to bring his troops into the engagement, although his corps was "within sight and sound of the battle," thus imperilling the army and being the principal cause of the defeat of the Union forces; the court-martial convened at General Pope's instance sustained these charges, and General Porter was cash- iered and dismissed from the service in Jan., 1863; he continued under the ban of

this decision for many years; in 1870 he appealed without effect to President Grant for a reversal of the decision of the court- martial; the struggle to obtain this re- versal continued for years, and brought into play all Mr. Choate's legal powers; it was finally successful, its success being largely due to the ability of the plaintiff's counsel, and in 1886 General Porter was finally restored to the army with all dis- abilities removed. Another almost equally celebrated case in which Mr. Choate acted as premier counsel was the notable Ces- nola case, in which also he was success- ful; these are but the most famous of the many important legal struggles in which he has been engaged; politically Mr. Choate is a member of the Republican party, and a very active one, taking a prominent part alike in national, State, and municipal politics, and exerting his powers particularly in the work of re- form; he was one of the original Commit- tee of Seventy, that earnest body of re- formers which came into being during the political dominance of Tweed and his in- famous ring, and which crushed the dis- dainful "Boss" and for the time being purified the political atmosphere of New York City; in bringing about this highly desirable result Mr. Choate and his friend and associate Charles O'Conor were very largely instrumental; Mr Choate took the leading part in the formation of the re- cently formed Constitution of New York. In social circles Mr. Choate is highly es- teemed; he is ready as an after dinner speaker, rivaling Chauncey Depew in this social art, in which he is noted for his unguent wit, and if necessary can be caustic and sarcastic; he is a member of the Union League, Harvard and other clubs, and the New England Society, in both of which organizations he has served as president. Address, 1 Carlton Terrace, London, S. W., England.

CHOATE, William Gardner:

Lawyer; born in Massachusetts, 1830; brother of Joseph Hodges Choate; grad- uated Harvard, 1852, and Dane Law School, 1854; United States judge of southern district of New York; resigned and continued law practice, New York City. Residence, 40 Central Park, South; office, 40 Wall St., New York.

CHRISTY, Howard Chandler:

Artist; born Morgan County, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1873; is an illustrator for leading books and periodicals; has traveled much abroad and accompanied the "Rough Riders" during the campaign in Cuba; instructor of illustrating at Cooper Institute. Resi- dence, The Warwick Arms, 101 West 80th St. Address, The Players' Club, 16 Gram- ercy Park, New York.

CHURCH, Francis Pharcellus:

Editor; born Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1839; son of the Rev. Dr. Pharcellus and Clara Emily (Conant); educated at Chas. Anthon's Grammar School, New York;

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graduated from Columbia College, 1859; member of the Phi Beta Kappa; associ- ated with his brother, William C., in the foundation of the Army and Navy Jour- nal and of the Galaxy Magazine, of which latter he was the editor; for the last twenty-five years a leading editorial wri- ter on the New York Sun; member of the Century Club, New York, since 1868; of the Sons of the Revolution; married, 1871, at Philadelphia, Elizabeth Wickham. Residence, 46 East 30th St., New York.

CHURCH, Frederick Stuart:

Painter and illustrator; born Grand Rapids, Mich., 1842; art education in Na- tional Academy and Chicago Academy; illustrates books and periodicals; painter of figures and animals; member of Na- tional Academy 1885; member American Water Color Society and Society of Amer- ican Artists; works, "Sea Princess," 'Back from the Beach," 1879; "Muskrat's Nest," 1880; "Foggy Day," 1881; "A Will- ing Captive," 1883; "Retaliation," 1884; "Peacocks in the Snow," 1885; "The Sor- ceress;" "Pegasus Captured," 1886. Ad- dress, 1512 Broadway, New York.

CHURCH, John Adams:

Mining engineer; born Rochester, N. Y., April 5, 1843; graduated Columbia School of Mines, 1867; studied abroad, 1868-70, becoming on return substitute professor of mineralogy and metallurgy; 1872-74, edited Engineering and Mining Journal; 1878, on United States Geographical and Geological Survey, west of 100th meridian; his private report of Comstock lode caused his election to chair of mining and metallurgy in Ohio State University; su- perintendent of Tombstone Mill Mining Company, Arizona, 1881; has now long been practicing as mining engineer. Au- thor of"The Mining Schools of the United States," 1871; "Report upon the Striking of Artesian Water, Sulphur Spring Valley, Arizona," 1883, and various other reports. Address 11 William St., New York.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 30

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