Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 4

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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PATTERSON, Charles Edward:


Lawyer; born at Corinth, Vt., May 3, 1842. After preparatory study at the Seminary of Castleton, Vt., and the acad- emy at Cambridge, N. Y., he entered Union College, where he was graduated in 1860. He was for some time member of the New York State Association, hav- ing been elected as a Democrat and be- ing speaker in 1882. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, and Manhattan (New York) and Albany Clubs. He resides at Troy. Ad- dress, 25 N. Pearl St., Albany, N. Y.


PROCTOR, Thomas R.,


Bank president; born at Proctorville, Vt., May 25, 1844; at the outbreak of the Civil War entered U. S. Navy. He is president of the Second National Bank of Utica,


and American Hard Wall Plaster Com- pany; trustee of the Utica Savings Bank, Utica Trust Company, and Utica Steam Cotton Mills; is also vice-president of the Utica Daily Press Company. Member of the Sons of the American Revolution, So- ciety of Colonial Wars, and Society of Founders and Patriots, Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Republic, Knights Templar, and numerous other societies and clubs. Residence, 312 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.


PULSIFER, Nathan Trowbridge:


Manufacturer; born at Newton, Mass., Oct. 27, 1851; president of the Oakland Paper Company, Connecticut; treasurer of the Kaolin Company, Connecticut; treas- urer of the Manchester Light & Power Company, Connecticut; vice-president of the Outlook Company, New York; second vice-president of Valentine & Co., New York. Member of New York Athletic, Suburban Riding and Driving, and Dyker Meadow Golf Links and Hardman Clubs. Married Almira Houghton Valentine, daughter of Lawson Valentine, Oct. 13, 1880; two sons, Lawson Valentine Pulsifer, at Harvard University, and Harold Trow- bridge Pulsifer, at Storm King Heights School, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Residence, Houghton Farm, Orange County, N. Y .; office, 257 Broadwav New York.


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REID, Robert:


Artist; born Stockbridge, Mass., July 29, 1863; began his art studies 1880 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, going thence to New York City, where, during 1883-1885, he studied at the Art Students' League; latter year he went to France, studying at the Académie Julien, under Boulanger and Fefebvre. Exhibited his work . at the Paris Salon and at the ex- position of 1889. In the summer of that year he returned to New York' and has continued there ever since. Is instructor of painting at the Art Students' League and Cooper Institute; was engaged in the painting of the frescoes on the domes of Liberal Arts Building, World's Fair, Chi- cago, 1893; also numerous other mural decorations. Some of his work may be seen at the Congressional Library, Wash- ington; Massachusetts State House, Bos- ton; Appellate Court House, New York, etc. Is an associate of the National Academy of Design. Address, 142 East 33d St., New York.


RHODES, Bradford:


Banker; born at Beaver County, Pa., Feb. 25. 1849; near end of Civil War (1864) enlisted as drummer in One Hundred Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel M. S. Quay's regiment and spent some time in Camp Curtin at Harris- burg, but was not allowed to go to the


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front on account of his youthful appear- ance and delicate health; was at one time principal of Darlington (Pa.) Academy, and in 1872, came to New York and en- tered upon journalism; in 1877, started Rhodes' Journal of Banking; 1895, bought the Bankers' Magazine, and merged into it his first journal; was elected to the New York Assembly in 1887, serving for three terms; in 1892 was offered a nomin- ation for Congress, but declined the hon-


or. Is president of the Thirty-fourth Street National Bank of New York; the Union Savings Bank of Westchester County; and the First National Bank of Mamaroneck, N. Y. Member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, Sons of Am- erican Revolution, Union League Club, Larchmont Yacht Club, Republican Club of the City of New York, and other so- cial and business organizations. Resides in Mamaroneck, N. Y .; office, 41 West 34th St., New York.


ROBERTSON, Joseph L .:


Banker, broker, and dealer in invest- ments. Was born on the old family es- tate in Montgomery County, Ky., Oct. 4, 1838. The Robertson family were prom- inent among the early settlers of Ken- tucky, and Tennessee. On the maternal side Mr. Robertson's line is derived from old Huguenot nobility of France. His early education was obtained in his na- tive town. Appointed to Military Acad- emy at West Point by the Hon. John C. Mason. His career as a cadet, however, was abruptly cut short by the breaking out of the Civil War, when true to his Southern origin, he entered the Confed- erate service. He was active in recruiting the company mustered in as Company H, of the Fourth Kentucky Volunteers, and became its first lieutenant. He was rap- idly promoted, being soon made adjutant. of the regiment. Subsequently he was appointed assistant adjutant-general of the brigade commanded by General John C. Breckinridge. In 1863 he served on the staff of General Howes, of Kentucky, in the Trans-Mississippi Department, subse- quently on the staff of General Waul, of Texas, and finally with General Magruder, to whose command he was attached until the close of the war. Upon the con- clusion of peace the South offered but meagre opportunity for either desirable or profitable employment. Recognizing that the solution of the problem of the South, was the development of its resources, he identified himself with Southern railroad interests. His first connection was with the Selma, Rome, and Dalton Railroad. Subsequently he joined the Virginia and Tennessee Air Line Railroads. He came to New York in 1877 and established him- self as a broker and dealer in invest- ments and securities. He is a prominent member of the Southern Society and the New York Club. He owns a stock farm, "Meadowland," in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Was married in 1869 to Mary


Webb Pollard, of Montgomery, Ala.,


daughter of William H. Pollard, and niece of Charles T. Pollard, two of the most prominent citizens of that State. He has four children, William Pollard, Benjamin J., Jr., Mary Elizabeth, and Clara Pol- lard. Address, 66 Broadway, New York.


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SPEER, Robert Elliot:


Secretary of Presbyterian Board of For- eign Missions; born at Huntingdon, Pa., Sept. 10, 1867. His father was the Hon. R. Milton Speer, a lawyer, representing his district in the House of Representa- tives for four years; his mother was Martha Ellen McMurtrie, a descendant of the earliest English families in Central Pennsylvania; his grandfather's grand- father was Lieutenant John Speer, on the staff of George Washington, who died at Valley Forge. He was educated at Phil- lips Academy, 1883-85; at Princeton Uni- versity, 1885-89, and at Princeton Theo- logical, 1890-91, receiving an honorary degree of M. A. from Yale University. In the year 1889-90, he was traveling secretary of the Student Volunteer Move- ment for Foreign Missions; in 1891 he became secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Was mar- ried on April 20, 1893, to Emma Doll Bai- ley, at Harrisburg, Pa. During 1896-97 he visited the Christian Mission in Asia. Has written among other books, "The Man, Christ Jesus," "The Man, Paul," "Missions and Politics in Asia," "Mis- sionarv Principles and Practice," "Christ and Life," "The Principles of Jesus," "A Memorial of a True Life," "A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin," "A Young Man's Questions," etc. Residence, En- glewood, N. J .; office, 156 Fifth Ave., New York.


STANTON, John:


Capitalist; born Bristol, England, Feb. 25, 1830; 1835, came to United States with his father,subsequently taking up there the study of engineering; later took charge of iron mines owned by his father at Dover, N. J .; before the war conducted mining operations in copper mines at Maryland, Virginia; now president of several mining companies in the Lake Superior region. Residence, 419 West 23d St .; office, 11 William St., New York.


SUTRO, Theodore:


Lawyer; born at Aix-la-chapelle, Prus- sia, in 1845. Was prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy, and entering Harvard, graduated in the class of 1871; studied law at Columbia University, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1874; has since prac- ticed in New York; is a Democrat in politics, and in 1895-98 was commissioner of taxes of New York City. In his legal work has conducted successfully many important cases of great variety and in-


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cidentally has made a specialty of tax cases. Residence, 320 West 102d St .; of- fice, 280 Broadway, New York.


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VAN RENSSELAER, Howard:


Physician; born Albany, N. Y., 1858; graduated from Yale in 1881, subsequently spending three years at the College of Physicians and Surgeons; upon his grad- uation in 1884, became interne New York Hospital, where he remained a year and a half; spent several years of study in the hospitals of Europe and upon his return, opened a practice in Albany. Is visiting physician in St. Peter's Hospital and Child' Hospital (dispensary); since 1889 has been connected with Albany Medical College in following capacities: Instruc- tor on diseases of chest, 1899; lecturer on materia medica, 1890; associate professor on same, 1892. Address, 13 State St., Al- bany, N. Y.


VARNUM, James M .:


Lawyer; born in New York City, in 1848; was graduated at Yale in 1868, sub- sequently entering the law school of Co- lumbia University, where he graduated in 1871. Was admitted to the bar the same year; a Republican in politics; was elected to the New York Assembly in 1878; re-elected, 1879; is chairman of the Republican State Committee. Was ap- pointed senior aide de camp on the staff of Governor Alonzo B. Cornell, in 1880, with rank of colonel; paymaster-general of New York, with rank of brigadier-gen- eral during Levi Morton's administration, being later made surrogate of New York County by Theodore Roosevelt. Address, 30 East 52d St., New York.


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WELLMAN, Francis L .:


Lawyer; born Brookline, Mass., in 1854. He entered Harvard College in 1872, and taking an academic course graduated in 1876; began course of study at Har- vard Law School, graduating after two years. He was admitted to the bar in New York State, 1883; during the years 1883-1890, was assistant corporation coun- sel of New York, the latter year becom- ing assistant district attorney. He is senior partner of the firm Wellman and Gooch, counsellors-at-law, New York. Married in 1894, Mme. Emma- Juch, the well-known operatic singer. Residence, 123 East 37th St .; office, 15 Wall St., New Yorl.


WEST, Charles W .:


Lawyer; entered Williams College and graduated therefrom in 1867. Upon fin-


ishing academic course entered the law school of Columbia College, graduating in 1869. Since then has continuously prac- ticed law in New York City and in the Borough of Brooklyn. Member of the following clubs in the Borough of Man- hattan: Century Association, University Club, Down Town Association and Men- delssohn Glee Club. In the Borough of Brooklyn: Brooklyn Club, Excelsior Club, and Crescent Athletic Club; the Parmach- enee Club in Maine, and the Laurentian Club in Canada. Residence, 56 Living- ston St., Brooklyn; office, 32 Nassau St., New York


WILCOX, Franklin A .:


Lawyer; born January 30, 1837, at Ash- land, Greene Co., New York. Son of Oliv- er and Cynthia (Beebe) Wilcox. Educat- ed at Hedding Literary Institute, Ashland, New York,, Woods School, Middletown, New York, and New York University. Admitted to the bar 1859. Member of law firm of Wilcox & Greene, formerly Wilcox, Adams & Greene. Married Annie L. Arm- itage, October 15, 1867; he has three child- ren, Frank Armitage, Caroline and Grace Armitage. Member of Bar Association from its foundation, 1869. Director of Le- gal Aid Society, President of New York & Mount Vernon Dock Company, member of City, Down Town and Republican Clubs; honorary member Mount Vernon Board of Trade. Residence 933 Madison Avenue; office, 1 Broadway, New York.


WILDMAN, Edwin:


Journalist; born at Corning, N. Y., May 9, 1897; was prepared for college at El- mira High School, General Wesleyan Sem- inary at Lima, and Phillips Exeter Acad- emy; took short course at Harvard Uni- versity. After a journalistic career in connection with several journals he bought the Elmira Echoes, which he edit- ed for some time. Has held positions un- der the government of vice-consul gener- al and deputy consul general at Hong Kong. Since 1898 has been connected with newspapers controlled by William Randolph Hearst, being appointed special war correspondent with troops in the Philippines, 1898, and after serving in this capacity for two years was appointed chief of Asiatic staff and special commis- sioner with the allied troops in China. Address, 320 Central Park West, New York.


WILSON, George:


Statistician; is a native of New York City, where he has always resided. En- tered the Chamber of Commerce in 1858, Elected its Secretary in 1868 and has. held that position since. Address, 65. Liberty St., New York.


ERRATA.


In sketch of Rear Admiral A. E. K. Benham, page 51; Rear Admiral John A. Howell, page 313, and Lieutenant Henry E. Rhoades, page 491, respectively, Navy should be substituted for Army immediately after their titles.


In sketch of Dr. Thomas Darlington, page 168, should be added "appointed by Mayor McClellan January I, 1904, Commissioner of Health of the City of New York."


The name of Mitchell Mason, on page 401, should be transposed to read Mason Mitchell.


In sketch of Maurice L. Wright, on page 653, the words "Justice of the Supreme Court" should follow "elected 1891."


In sketch of Walter Schurmann, page 522, the name should be Walter Schumann.


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ABARBANELL, Jacob R .:


Editor, author and playwright; born in the City of New York, Dec. 6, 1852; was educated in private and public schools, passing through the College of City of New York,, receiving the degrees of A. B. and B. S. in 1872; then studied law at Columbia University, receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1874; while


at Columbia he was also a teacher in both the day and night public schools in New York City; after his admission to the bar practiced law for a number of years; after the publication of several short stories he wrote his first play entitled "The Rogues of New York," which was first successfully produced at the then Old Bowery Theatre in 1872, before the author had completed his twentieth year; in the next year his first novel, "On Land and Sea," was published in serial form, under his nom de plume of "Ralph Royal," in the columns of The New York Family Story Paper, for which paper he has writ- ten most of his serials and of which he has been for many years and still is the editor; he is also the editor of Golden Hours, both of these papers having been founded by the late Norman L. Munro; has written about thirty novels and hun- dreds of short stories; he has also trans- lated many novels from the French and German; was the first in this country to translate Alphonse Daudet's "Nouma Roumestan" and "Sappho," and many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories. Among his original novels published in book form are: "Flirtation" (1884, Bea- dle and Adams), "Monte Cristo and His Wife" (1885, George Munro), "Ma" (1888, Norman L. Munro), and "The Rector's Secret" (1892, J. S. Ogilvie). he is also the author of a four-act spec- tacular play entitled "Haidee, Countess of Monte Cristo," which had a success- ful production at Blaney's Theatre, New- ark, N. J., during Christmas week, 1902; is the present archivist of the famous Thirteen Club and has been its chief ruler; he is also a member of the Press, Manhattan, Single Tax and Pleiades Clubs, and of the Medico-Legal Society; he was married June 30, 1892, to Cornelia L. Eaton, and has one child, Ralph Royal Abarbanell, born Sept. 10, 1903. Address, 24 Vanderwater St., New York.


ABBAT, Frederic V .:


Major Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army; born Massachusetts; appointed from New York Military. Academy, West Point, July 1, 1875; graduated No. 1 in class, June 13, 1879; second lieutenant engineers, June 13, 1879; first lieutenant engineers, June 17, 1881; captain, engineers, July 22, 1888; major, engineers, July 5, 1898; services: In charge various works, river and harbor improvements, and as assist- ant to officers in charge of such works, in North and South Carolina, 1890; in charge torpedo material, Charleston, S. C., 1890, to Sept. 15, 1897; engineer Sixth District for lighthouses, extending from Cape Fear River, N. C., to Jupiter In- let, Fla., from Dec. 31, 1895, to Oct. 9, 1897; in charge river improvements, Wis- consin and Minnesota, Sept., 1887, to 1900; member of mixed Civil and Military Board on Brunswick Harbor, Ga., Nov. 13, 1894, to June 3, 1896; in office of chief of engineers, 1900, to 1903, and this is his present address.


ABBATT, Agnes Dean:


Artist; born New York City, June 23, 1847; parents, William D. and Agnes A. (Dean) Abbatt; inherited artistic tastes, many members of family having de- cided ability as amateurs; in England and America; student of Cooper Union,


Woman's Art School in 1873; also of evening prospective class in 1874-75; Schools of Academy of Design, 1874-75; pupil, N. Swain Gifford, N. A., and James D. Smillie, N. A .; member American Wa- ter Color Society since 1880; paints land- scapes and flowers, oil and water colors, and black and white; has painted much on New England coast, preferring strong and rugged subjects; in flowers has painted many large compositions, chrys- anthemums being a favorite subject; has taught much; late years has painted mostly for private orders, including much black and white work for illustrations; is represented in Botanical Museum of New York and Natural History Museum of Pittsfield by groups of fruit and flow- ers and plants in artistic wax modeling. Address, Westchester, New York City.


ABBATT, Willlam:


Author; born New York City, Nov. 16, 1851; formerly editor and assistant editor of insurance journals, and occasional con-


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tributor to the press. Author of "Crisis


of the Revolution," "Battle of Pell's Point;" editor of Sargent's "Life of Ma- jor André," "Memoirs of General William Heath," Winfield's "Block-House by Bull's Ferry," Codman's "Arnold's Expedition to Quebec," and Mrs. E. F. Ellet's "Wo- men of the American Revolution." Mem- ber and former secretary of Quill Club. Address, 281 4th Ave., New York.


ABBE, Cleveland:


Meteorologist; born New York, Dec. 3, 1838; son of George Waldo Abbe and Charlotte Colgate; graduated at the Col- lege of the City of New York, A. B., 1857, A. M., 1860; after graduation he taught for a year in the Trinity Church gram- mar school, but since then has confined himself to work in astronomy and mete- orology; as director of the Cincinnati Astronomical Obesrvatory, 1868-1873, he established a system of daily weather telegrams and a daily weather map for the whole country, with forecasts of the weather for Cincinnati; this was done by co-operation with the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, the members of which united with the similar chamber of Milwaukee in urging upon the United States Congress the importance of a simi- lar work for the benefit of the whole country; the national service was origin- ally, in 1870, entrusted to Gen. Albert J. Myer, as chief signal officer of the Army, but was transferred to the department of agriculture in 1891, and is now known as the U. S. Weather Bureau; his interest in this meteorological work was to a con- siderable extent the outcome of circum- stances peculiar to his boyhood in New York City, where the lectures of James P. Espy, Elias Loomis and R. Ogden Doremus, the writings of William H. Red- field and the publication of long-range forecasts by . Merriam, "The Sage of Brooklyn Heights," and especially the daily weather tables published by the telegraph companies as items of news, all conspired to arouse a great interest in the subject and convince many citizens that daily weather predictions would soon be feasible; in connection with his work in Cincinnati, Prof. Abbe published in the New York papers, during the winter of 1869-70, as also in the Chicago papers, letters showing his great hope that tele- graphic weather work would be a benefit to the country, and would thereby gain the right to ask that the study of mete- orology as a science be heartily supported by the universities; after the successful career of the weather bureau for over thirty years, he has still to regret that in his native city, whose commercial in- terests depend so much upon the weather, there has not yet been established a pro- fssorship of meteorology, either in the City College or Columbia University. Ad- dress, 2017 I St., N. W., Washington, D. C.


ABBE, Robert, M. D .:


Surgeon; studied medicine at the Col- lege City of New York in 1870; College Physicians and Surgeons, 1874; curator Roosevelt Hospital and Museum of An- atomy, Columbia College, 1876-1880; clinic assistant to clinic professor of diseases of the skin; professor surgeon Post Gradu -. ate Medical School; attending surgeon St. Luke's Hospital and of Babies Wards Post Graduate Hospital; consulting sur- geon Ruptured and Crippled Hospital and of Babies Hospital. Address, 13 W. 50th St.


ABBEY, Henry:


Poet; born Rondout, N. Y., July 11, 1842; father was Stephen Abbey and mother, Caroline Vail; father's grandmother was Lucy Knox, a lineal descendant of John Knox, the famous Scotch reformer; Caro- line Vail was a daughter of Elias Vail, of Masonville, Delaware County, and was a descendant from one of two brothers Vail, who came over in the time of May- flower, and is said to have married a daughter of Massasoit; subject of sketch was sent to school when six years old


and for several years was a stu-


dent at Kingston Academy, at the


Hedding Institute in Greene County, at the Delaware Institute in Delaware County, and at the Hudson River Insti- tute in Columbia County; owing to fa- ther's financial reverses in 1860, was obliged to give up intention to be a college graduate. Published first book, "May Dreams," in 1862, and in 1865 mar- ried Mary L. DuBois, of Kingston (she died in 1889); soon after publication of first work became assistant editor of The Rondout Courier, but soon removed to New York; subsequently became editor of The Orange (N. J.) Spectator; 1864, teller of the Bank of Rondout; 1866-1900, in flour and grain business at Rondout; is mem- ber of Authors Club; also director of the State of New York National Bank; has been (until 1900) member of New York Produce Exchange; has contributed many poems to Galaxy, Harper's Monthly, Har- per's Weekly and other well known peri- odicals. Author of "Ralph and Other Poems" (1866); "Stories in Prose" (1869) ; "Ballads of Good Deeds and Other Poems;"' besides other volumes of poems published in 1879, 1895 and 1903. Ad- dress, 11 Linderman Ave., Kingston, N. Y.


ABBOTT, Lyman:


Clergyman, author, and editor-in-chief of The Outlook; born Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 18, 1835, and is one of the four sons of Jacob Abbott, well known in his time as the author of the Rollo Books; Dr. Abbott began life as a lawyer, was in successful practice with two of his brothers in New York City, and is still a member of the New York bar; he was ordained as a Congregational minister in


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1860, and his first pastorate was in Terre Haute, Ind., from which place he came to the New England Church in New York; in 1865-68 he was secretary of the Ameri- can Freedman's Commission; he resigned his pastorate in 1869 to devote himself to literature, and became associate editor with Henry Ward Beecher of The Chris- tian Union, finally succeeding him as editor-in-chief; The Christian Union be- came The Outlook in 1893; he succeeded Mr. Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, May, 1888, and re- signed in Nov., 1898, since which time he has been engaged entirely in editorial and literary work, preaching from time to time in various places and acting as uni- versity preacher to Harvard, Cornell and Chicago Universities; he is the author of a number of books. Address, The Out- look Company, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City.


ABRAHAM, Abraham:


Merchant; born New York City, March 9, 1843; first was clerk in dry goods house, later engaged in father's wholesale dry goods store; 1865 became member of Wechsler & Abraham, Brooklyn, now firm of Abraham & Straus; is president of Temple Israel and Jewish Hospital; direc- tor of Brooklyn Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children; also of Kings County Trust Company; member of Chamber of Commerce, New York. Residence, 800 St. Mark's Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.


ABRAMS, Lewis A .:


Assemblyman, representing the Thirty- first Assembly District of New York County; born New York, March 5, 1872; attended the public schools; leaving school, he took position with large mer- cantile concern, and remained in com- mercial circles until 1894, when appointed stamp clerk in the New York post-office under Postmaster Chas. W. Dayton; studied law at night, and was admitted to bar, June, 1897, and since has built up successful practice; admitted to practice in the United States District Court and United States Circuit Court in 1899; mem- ber of several organizations, including Jefferson Club, the Harlem Democratic Club, the Columbia Club, the Polo Ath- letic Club, the United Brethren Benefit Society, the Wendell Phillips Lodge, Knights of Pythias, etc .; 1902, elected Assemblyman on Democratic ticket. Ad- dress, New York City.




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