Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 36

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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CORNELL, Alonzo B .:

Governor of New York from 1880 to 1883; born Ithaca, in that State, Jan. 22, 1832; he received an education in an academy at his native place, and early in life engaged in the business of telegra- phy, entering an office at Troy, N. Y .; his father, Ezra Cornell, founder of · Cornell University, had been associated with Pro- fessor Morse in the building of the first telegraph line, and in 1854 took a promi- nent part in the formation of the Western Union Telegraph Company, by the consoli- dation of several of the early companies; the son entered actively into the spirit of his father's business, becoming succes- sively operator, manager, superintendent, and director in the original companies and in the Western Union, and eventually vice-president and president of the latter organization. In 1869 President Grant ap- pointed Mr. Cornell surveyor of customs for the port of New York, an office whose duties he performed so satisfactorily that in the subsequent year he was nominated by the President assistant treasurer of the United States at New York. He declined this nomination, however, preferring to retain his post in the customs; in 1872 he was nominated and elected to the New York State Legislature, which he re- signed his official position to accept; he had had no previous experience in parlia- mentary proceedings and the Legislature

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contained numerous men of great legis- lative experience, yet Mr. Cornell was paid the unprecedented compliment to a new member of an unanimous choice for the office of speaker by the action of the Republican caucus; there could have been no higher testimonial of the estimate which was placed on his intelligence and political ability by the members of his party, and he justified the confidence placed in him by a successful discharge of his duty as presiding officer. At the close of his term of office he declined a re- nomination, though an election would have been certain to follow, preferring to resume the duties of his position as vice- president of the Western Union Telegraph Company; in the year 1875 he served as acting president of the company, during the long absence in Europe of its presi- dent, William Orton; near the close of 1876 President Grant appointed him naval officer of customs for the port of New York, a position which he held till July, 1878, when, through factional opposition, based on political motives exclusively, he and Collector Arthur were suspended from their positions by President Hayes. The feeling of the people concerning this sus- pension was demonstrated at the en- suing election, when Mr. Cornell was elected Governor of the State New York and General Arthur Vice-President of the United States; Governor Cornell took his seat Jan. 1, 1880, and served three years with great popular satisfaction, his administration being distinguished for economy, freedom from official scandal, and general excellence in its appoint- ments; he vetoed a number of prominent bills, in every case with public approval; among these measures were the code of criminal procedure passed by the 1880 Legislature, the Croton aqueduct bill, the appropriation bill for the new capitol building, the general street railway bill of 1882, and many others, all of them con- taining features which rendered them ob- noxious to his idea of the public good; his uncompromising vetoes of the supply bills were cordially approved by the peo- ple as remedies urgently needed for the correction of extravagant and scandalous legislation. While thus opposing all acts likely to be detrimental to the public ser- vice, Governor Cornell sustained all legis- lation of a salutary and useful character; the act making women eligible as school- electors and school-officers was recom- mended and approved by him; in 1882 he recommended an amendment to the usury laws which has proved to be a financial measure of the highest importance, and one which has gone further towards mak- ing New York City the chief monetary centre of the world than any legislative act; the state railway commission was strongly urged by him, and various other important measures were advanced or

sustained. His final annual message was an admirable document in its exposition of the affairs of the State; Governor Cor- nell was a candidate for renomination in 1882, but was set aside by the politicians

of the party, who did not approve of his course; the dissatisfaction caused by this action resulted in a large Republican sup- port of the Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland, who was elected by nearly two hundred thousand majority; Mr. Cornell has not since entered political life, but has been occupied with business interests. Residence, Ithaca, N. Y .; office, 17 Park Row, New York.

CORNWALL, Andrew C .:

Merchant; was born at Pultneyville, Wayne County, N. Y., Jan. 2, 1844; he is the son of Andrew and Mary (Calhoun) Cornwall, of Alexandria Bay; the Corn- walls are descended from an old English family that came to this country in 1670 and settled in Connecticut, moving to Pultneyville, Wayne County, in 1800; his father owned nearly all the Thousand Islands in American waters, between Clayton and Morristown; he made a for- tune by selling the timber on the islands, and he ultimately sold them cheap or gave them away for residential purposes and summer resorts; he was one of the greatest developers and benefactors of the St. Lawrence River. The subject of this sketch is the eldest of four sons of An- drew Cornwall, Sr .; was educated at the Alexandria Bay District School, the Wa- tertown High School, and Eastman's Mer- cantile College, Rochester, N. Y .; his first business occupation was as a clerk in his father's store; in 1877 he succeeded to the great mercantile business, which has been in the family for over fifty years; the partners in the new firm which was then formed were the four sons of Andrew Cornwall, Sr .: Andrew C., Charles W., John I. and Harvey A., under the name of Cornwall Bros., and it flourishes at the present time; he, as the head of the house, is the most prominent citizen of Alexandria Bay, where he resided. He has been supervisor of the town of Alexandria for four years and he is connected with most of its financial institutions, being president of Cornwall Bros., director of the National Bank & Loan Company, of Watertown, and president of the First National Bank of the Thousand Islands, at Alexandria Bay; on July 1, 1869, mar- ried Miss Julia Fuller, of Alexandria Bay, and he has a family of five children- Bertha, Bessie C., Fuller F., Andrew Ray- mond and Mary. Address, Alexandria, N. Y.

CORNWELL, Charles Carpenter:

Captain, U. S. Navy; born New York; appointed as acting midshipman at Naval Academy, Sept. 24, 1864; graduated, 1868; European Station, 1868-69; promoted to ensign, 1869; torpedo duty, 1870; promoted to master, 1879; Tennessee (second rate), special service, 1880-81; Wachusett, Euro- pean Station, 1871-72; European Squad- ron, 1873-74; commissioned as lieutenant, 1872; North Atlantic Station, 1874-77; Palos, Asiatic Station, 1877-78; S. S.

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Blake, 1881-82; Powhatan, special service, 1882-84; Naval Observatory, 1884-85; su- perintendent of compasses, 1885-87; Quin- nebaug, European Station, 1887-89; nauti- cal schoolship St. Mary's, 1888-90; leave of absence, Dec., 1890, to July, 1893; pro- moted to lieutenant-commander, Feb. 7, 1893; Newark, S. A. Station, July, 1893-96; receiving-ship Wabash, Oct., 1896; sick leave, Oct., 1897; inspector of Light-house District, Pensacola, Feb., 1898; promoted to commander, ,Dec. 25, 1898; commanding Petrel, Dec., 1898; commandant Naval Station, Cavite, P. I., Dec., 1899, to June, 1900; Naval Home, March 2, 1901-02; com- missioned captain, Jan. 10, 1903; com- manding Chicago, April 4, 1903. Address,

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CORNWELL, William C .:

President of the City National Bank, Buffalo, N. Y .; when a boy he began as a messenger in the banking house of H. N. Smith & Co., of Buffalo; at the age of twenty-six years he became cashier of the Bank of Buffalo, which position he held for fifteen years; he is a close, care- ful student of the finances, and his earn- est efforts have been to secure for the country a better banking and currency system that will disconnect the United State Treasury from the entanglement of banking operations; he has become an authority on financial subjects through his addresses and publications during the past ten years, which have created much interest throughout the United States; he was one of the founders of the New York State Bankers' Association in 1894, and was its first vice-president. He has served as vice-president and member of the executive council of the American Bankers' Association, and is now chair- man of the committee on education; this committee has been at work for several years and has recently undertaken the establishment of an Institute of Bank Clerks; in addition to his interests in banking and financial subjects, he is a student of art and a writer on art sub- jects; he was president of the Buffalo Society of Artists during 1894-96, and has long been connected with the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, and is chairman of the fund commissioners of that institution. Address, City National Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.

CORSON, Hiram:

Educator; born Philadelphia, Nov. 6, 1828; private tutor and assist. instructor in Treemont seminary, Morristown, Pa .; associated with Congressional Library and Smithsonian Institute 1849; instructor 1856; instructor and lecturer on English. literature Philadelphia, 1859; professor of history and rhetoric, Girard College. 1865- 66, when appointed professor of rhetoric and English literature in St. John's Col- lege, Annapolis, 1870; since 1870 profes- sor of English language and literature,

rhetoric and oratory Cornell; published "An Elocutionary Manual," "Handbook of Anglo-Saxon and Early English" (1871), also volume, edited by him, of "Canterbury Tales," "Piers, Ploughman," "Wycliffe's Bible," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Spencer and Chapman's "Hom- er." Address, Ithaca, N. Y.

CORTHELL, Elmer Lawrence:

Civil engineer; born at South Abington, Massachusetts, in 1840; he was two years in Brown University, Providence, R. I., before the Civil War; served in the Civil War, Union Army, in the First Regiment of Rhode Island Light Artillery, from private to captain of a battery; nearly all the time in active service in Virginia and North Carolina; after the war he re-entered Brown University, and was graduated in 1867 with degree of B. A .; the following year the degree of M. A. was conferred upon him; is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; upon leaving the university he entered a gen- eral engineering office in Providence en- gaged on railroad, hydraulic, and city work. In 1868 he was assistant engineer in charge of construction of the Hannibal and Naples Railroad, Illinois; in 1869, in charge of location and construction, as division engineer, of forty-five miles of the Hannibal and Central Missouri Rail- road, Missouri; in 1870-71, chief engineer, constructing the bridge over the Missis- sippi River at Hannibal, Mo .; in 1871-74, chief engineer of the Sny Island Levee, fifty-one miles in length, on the east bank of the Mississippi River, in Illinois; in 1873-74 he was chief engineer of the construction of the bridge over the Miss- issippi River at Louisiana, Missouri, for the Chicago and Alton Railway, with a draw 444 feet long, the longest in the world at that time; from 1875 to 1880 he was in charge of construction of Missis- sippi River jetties. In the winter of 1880 went on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mex., to make surveys for the Ship Rail- way, associated with Mr. Eads; he made a survey of the mouth of the Coatzacoal- cos River, on the Gulf of Mexico, and an examination of the Pacific Coast, for harbors for the Ship Railway; in 1881-84 was chief engineer on the construction of the New York, West Shore & Buffalo, and the New York, Ontario & Western Railways, and their terminals at New York City; he was in charge at the same time as chief engineer of the extensive surveys of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec for the Ship Railway. From 1885 to 1887 he gave nearly his entire attention to this important project and the inter-oceanic question, studying and writing upon its engineering and commercial features; in 1887-88 he was associated in an engineer- ing partnership in New York and Chi- cago. engaged in the design and construc- tion of railroads, bridges, harbor works, and water works; during this partnership there were constructed the Cairo Bridge,

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over the Ohio River for the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad, the longest steel bridge in the world; Nebraska City Bridge, over the Missouri River, for the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy Railway; the Sioux City Bridge, over the Missouri River, for the Chicago & North Western Railway; two bridges in Oregon; water works at Bis- marck, Dakota; he was also consulting engineer of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad, an outer belt railroad at Chi- cago, 100 miles long, designing and erect- ing bridges, shops, etc. He has made sev- eral expert examinations of railroad prop- erties for bankers in London and New York; since 1888 has continued in profes- sion work as a consulting and construct- ing engineer, with offices in Chicago and New York City; he was chief engineer of the construction of the St. Louis Mer- chants' Bridge over the Mississippi River; chief engineer of the improvements at the mouth of the Brazos River, Texas; in 1890-93, in charge, as consulting engi- neer, of important railroad constructions in Chicago for the Illinois Central and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railways; in 1889 he was consulting engineer for the six railroads centering at New Orleans, in reference to a belt railroad, union pas- senger station and a bridge over the Miss- issippi River; in 1889 he made examina- tions, plans and report, on the proposed improvement of the harbor at Tampico, Mex., for the Mexican Central Railroad, and had charge of the construction of the jetties as chief engineer during 1890, 1891 and 1892. In 1891 he visited Europe; he examined six of the leading universities and technical schools of Europe to ob- tain information for Chicago University in carrying out his purpose of establish- ing in connection with it a great school of engineering and architecture; member of a committee of the Western Society of Engineers, engaged in solving the diffi- cult railroad problem of Chicago. He ex- amined in Europe thirty-five railroad terminals and complicated situations; he also examined twenty-six harbors of Europe to get special information to use in connection with his work at Tampico, Mex., and elsewhere; he particularly de- voted himself to explaining to engineers everywhere the proposed International Engineering Congress and headquarters at the exposition to be held at Chicago and obtained the approval and enlisted the support of societies and individual engineers. In 1892 elected president of the Southwest Pass Improvement Company; his addresses and professional papers upon this important subject have done much to prepare the way for the con- struction of the jetties; in 1892, under a contract with the Mexican Government, he was engaged with two associates on the completion of the National Railroad of Tehuantepec, Mex .; in 1892-93 he de- signed and took charge of the construc- tion of some ornamental park bridges in Chicago and a railroad bridge over the

Illinois River; the honorary degree of doctor of science was conferred on him by Brown University, Providence, R. I., June, 1894; in the spring of 1898, the Sec- retary of State, Mr. Sherman, commis- sioned him as delegate to the Seventh International Congress of Navigation held at Brussels in July of that year. He was elected vice-president of the Congress, and placed upon the bureau of the Con- gress to arrange for a permanent organi- Zation to be adopted at its meeting at Paris in 1900; upon his return to the United States was engaged as expert on several important works in the United States and Mexico; he was the consult- ing engineer of the Union Station Rail- way Company, of Buffalo, N. Y., which proposed to build a union railroad station there costing $6,000,000; he had also in hand, with associates, a project for a union station at Atlanta, Ga .; he is as- sociate chief engineer of the Boston, Cape Cod & New York Canal Company, which is now preparing to build a first class ship canal across the Isthmus of Cape Cod to shorten the distance between points south and points north of that peninsula, around which now passes an- nually over 14,000,000 tons of freight; in 1899 the Argentine government requested harbors of that country. He was recom- mend an engineer of large experience upon river and harbor works who would undertake to act as its consulting engi- neer for a year upon the important prob- lems connected with the great rivers and harbors of that country; he was recom- mended by the United States government for this position, the contract for which was signed in New York on March 23, 1900, and on the 26th of the same month he left for Buenos Aires, where he now is, engaged on the works contemplated; the Argentine government reserved in the contract the option to extend the con- tract six months or twelve months; be- fore the expiration of the year a decree was issued extending the time twelve months longer, or until April, 1902; since his arrival in Argentine he has, by re- quest of the National government, stud- ied and reported upon the important question of the channels of access to the Port of Buenos Aires and the govern- ment has by a decree approved his recom- mendations. He has in hand other im- portant commercial and constructive work referred to him by the Argentine govern- ment; he was member of a board to ex- amine into matters' connected with the "Palacio del Congreso" now under con- struction; the report of the board was approved by the minister of public works and the President of the Republic; he is a member and chairman of a board to draw up standard specifications for Port- land cement; he has examined the irriga- tion works of Mendoza 'and other pro- vinces; he is engaged upon the plans for amplifying the Port of Buenos Aires and is studying the projects for several deep

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water ports along the coasts of the River Plate and the ocean; he is mem- ber of the board for deciding upon the plans for the Port of Rosario and is study- ing the important questions pertaining to the channels of the River Plate and rivers which discharge into it. He is a member of the following societies: Amer- ican Society of Civil Engineers, the Cana- dian Society of Civil Engineers, the In- stitution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain, the Society of Arts of Great Brit- ain, the French Society of Civil Engineers and corresponding member of that soci- ety, the Mexican Association of Civil En- gineers and Architects; honorary mem- ber of the Geographical and Statistical Society of Mexico; member of the Ameri- can Geographical Society, the National Geographical Society, of Washington, D. C., the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, the Engineering Association of the South, the Western Society of Engineers, Chi- cago; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; second vice-president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1888, first vice-presi- dent in 1893 and 1894; president of the Western Society of Engineers in 1889; honorary member of the Engineering So- ciety of Portugal and of the Institution of Engineers of the River Plate; he is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and of the Sigma Xi; also a member of several military and patriotic associations, Grand Army of the Republic, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, New England Society, Soci- ety of the Army of the Potomac, and of academical and university societies and clubs. Address, 1 Nassau St., New York.

CORTISSOZ, Royal:

Journalist; born in New York; the foundations of his artistic education were laid in the architectural " office of Mc- Kim, Mead & White, and his studies have been further pursued in Europe, especially in France and Italy; he is now the literary editor and art critic of the New York Tribune; has contributed many essays on literary and artistic subjects to the leading magazines. Address, 154 Nassau St., New York.

CORWIN, Charles Edward:

Clergyman of the Reformed Church and author; born Millstone, N. J., Sept. 7, 1868; son of Edward T. and Mary Esther (Kipp); A. B. Rutgers College 1892; Theo- logical seminary, New Brunswick, N. J., 1895; B. D. Rutgers College, 1895; mar- ried Ellen Gibb Kingsley 1898; member Phi Beta Kappa, Hudson River Minister- ial Association; pastor Reformed Church, Cuddeback, N. Y., 1895-97; Reformed Church, Greenport, N. Y., 1897. Author, "Onesimus," "Christ's Freedman," "A Tale of the Pauline Epistles," Revell Co., 1900; "King Solomon's Riddle," a serial, 1903; numerous contributions to the re- ligious reviews and papers. Address, Greendale, N. Y.

COSTELLO, Thomas M .:

Republican Assemblyman representing the Second Assembly District of Oswego County; born on Prince Edward's Island, June 1, 1845; educated in public schools; tanner and currier by trade; came to Woburn, Mass., in 1864, and to New York State in 1869; settling at Sand Bank, Os- wego County in 1870, he worked at his trade ten years; has been engaged in mercantile business and manufacturing lumber for many years, and is now en- gaged in the real estate business; in 1899 introduced and passed sweat shop bill and also bill putting all labor laws of the State under the Factory Inspector's care; has held many offices, viz., school trustee, village clerk, trustee for three years and president for nine years of the village of Sand Bank, now Altmar; sup- ervisor of the town of Albion in the years 1887 and 1888, and county clerk of Oswego County 1889, 1890, 1891; elected to As- sembly 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902; appointed member of following Assembly committees: Chairman of Labor and Industries, member of Ways and Means and Railroads. Address, Sand Bank, Oswego County, N. Y.

COTTMAN, Vincendon L .:

Commander, U. S. Navy; born Donalds- ville, La., Feb. 13, 1852; received primary education, preparatory department, Mt. St. Mary's Emmittsburg, Md., and at Manhattanville, N. Y .; appointed by Hon. James Brooks, Seventh District, New York City; entered Naval Academy, Sep- tember 21, 1868; graduated, June 1, 1872; ensign, July 15, 1873; master, May 9, 1878; lieutenant, Jan. 8, 1885; lieutenant-

commander, March 3, 1899; commander, June 3, 1902; Tuscarora, 1872-75; deep- sea sounding in Pacific; landing-party, Panama, 1813; landing-party, .Honolulu, 1874; Samoa with Steinberger, Latrobe, etc., 1875; Colorado, receiving-ship, New York, 1875-76; Supply, training squadron, 1876; Alliance, European station, 1877-80; receiving-ship Colorado 1880-81; Rich-

mond, Asiatic Station, 1881-82; Monocacy, Asiatic station, 1882-84; Richmond, Asiat-

ic Station, 1884; branch hydrographic office, New York, 1885-89; in charge New York nautical schoolship St. Mary's, as senior instructor and navigator, 1889; secretary International Marine Confer- ence, 1899-90; Concord, 1891-94; Marion, 1894; Navy Yard, New York, October, 1894-96; Monterey, December, 1896-98; U. S. S. Alert, February to April, 1898; com- mand Brutus, 1898-99; towed Monterey to Manila and engaged in landing party Samoa; established nautical school in Manila, P. I., 1899, and was the first sup- erintendent of that school; hydrographic office, bureau of equipment, 1899; bureau of navigation, March 7, 1900-02; in com- mand Wyoming 1902-03; aid to President Roosevelt during his visit to San Fran- cisco, Cal., 1903. Address, Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal.

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COUDERT, (Mrs.) Amalia Küssner:

Miniature painter; born Terre Haute, Ind., March 26, 1873; began artistic ca- reer in New York in 1892 and afterwards went to London; painted the King, then Prince of Wales, and most of the highest aristocracy of England; in 1892 she was summoned to Russia to paint the Czar and Czarina and the Grand Duchess Wladimer and the Grand Duchess Ellen; in the autumn of 1899 went to South Afri- ca to paint Cecil Rhodes; on July 3, 1900, she married Charles du Pont Coudert. Address, 53 West 48th St., New York.

COUGHLIN, Jere:

Publisher; born Athens, Ont., 1854; came to United States, 1865; educated in public schools and private tutors; taught school at 18; learned printer's trade; be- came editor 1876; publisher of the "Wa- tertown Herald" 1886; school commission- er, city of Watertown, 1897-1899; super- intendent city schools 1900; superintend- ent St. Patrick's Sunday school number of years; lectured on books and travels; prominent in Knights of Columbus; dele- gate to several Republican conventions. Address, 53 West 48th St., New York.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 36

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