Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 43

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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Consul general; was born at Lowville, Lewis County, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1842; was educated at Fairfield, N. Y., Seminary and Lowville, N. Y., Academy; studied law at Binghamton, N. Y., and was ad- mitted to the bar in Nov., 1865; prac- ticed law in Pennsylvania and New York City and in the Federal Courts in several

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of the States until 1879; has been the editor and proprietor of the Binghamton, N. Y., Daily Republican since 1878; ap- pointed consul general at Constantinople, Turkey, Sept. 17, 1897.

DICKINSON, Dwight, M. D .:

Medical director, U. S. Navy; born Jamestown, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1847; educated Jamestown Academy and University of Buffalo, N. Y., graduating latter insti- tution 1869; entered Navy as assistant surgeon April 21, 1869; Yantic, N. A. Fleet. 1870-1; naval hospital, N. A., 1871-2; promoted to passed assistant surgeon, 1872; naval hospital, Yokohama, 1872-6; S. S. Jamestown, 1876-7; navy yard, Bos- ton, 1877-8; promoted to surgeon, Dec., 1879; Adams, Pacific Station, 1879-82; naval hospital, Mare Island, 1883-5; train- ing ship Portsmouth, 1885-8; naval hos- pital, Mare Island, 1888-9; navy yard, Mare Island, 1890-2; waiting orders, March, 1892, to March, 1893; Miantono- mah, N. A .. Station, March, 1893-4; or- dered to the Minneapolis, Dec., 1894; pro- moted to medical inspector, Sept., 1895; member of retiring board, Feb., 1896; flagship Philadelphia, fleet surgeon, July, 1898, to January, 1899; naval hospital, Washington, D. C., April, 1899, to Dec. 1, 1899; promoted to medical director, Nov., 1899; member medical examining board, Jan., 1900-1901; charge U. S. Naval Hos- pital, Boston, Mass., 1901-1903; member New York Yacht Club and Metropolitan Club, Washington, D. C. Address, Na- val Hospital, Boston, Mass.

DICKINSON, George W .:

Consul; was born in the State of New York in 1843, and educated in the public schools and Auburn Academy, of Au- burn, N. Y .; served two terms in the New York State legislature; appointed consul at Acapulco, Mexico, Jan. 22, 1898.

DICKINSON, Ketcham Platt:

Financier; was born in the old Seventh Ward, New York City, on Oct. 6, 1840; his father was John B. Dickinson, also born in New York City, and his mother was Almira Cocks, daughter of James Cocks, of London, England, and Louisa Henry, of Germany. He was educated at the All Saints' School, and later was graduated from the Mechanics' and Traders' Society school in Broadway, near Grand St., where he received the degree of bachelor of arts; after leaving school he was sent to Wilmington, N. C., to live with his grand-uncle, for whom he was named, and who was president of the Cape Fear Bank and the Wilmington & Manchester and Wilmington & Weldon railroads, besides being interested in the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; returned to New York, where at the age of nineteen, he was placed by his father in the office of Wakeman, Dimon & Co., shipping merchants, at 74 South St. It was to that house that his father brought his San Francisco, Manila,

Oregon, Sandwich Islands and China busi- ness which he had founded years before; the firm then built the famous clipper ships, which included the Young Amer- ica, Flying Dutchman, Uncowah, String- way, Snapdragon, and many others, in- cluding the Tycoon, which was the last ship destroyed by the rebel ship Ala- bama, off the coast of Brazil while bound for San Francisco; was made commo- dore of the fleet built by his father's company to Port Royal, South Carolina, and joined the Dupont and Sherman ex- peditions which captured the Sea Island off Charleston and Savannah, and also the fortifications protecting Charleston. Mr. Dickinson remained in the transport service until the war was over; then the old firm of Wakeman, Gookin & Dickin- son was dissolved, and the elder Dickin- son formed the New York Stock Ex- change firm of Stout & Dickinson, the general partners being Theodore B. Stout and Platt K. Dickinson, and the special partners Andrew V. Stout and John B. Dickinson. After the death of Mr. Theo- dore B. Stout the firm was changed to Dickinson Brothers, then Dickinson, Wal- ler & Co., and then to Dickinson Brothers & Brugiere, who were the brokers for Commodore Vanderbilt, William H. Van- derbilt, Daniel Drew and other big oper- ators of San Francisco and Colorado ;. in 1884 Mr. Dickinson retired from the Stock Exchange commission business, and since then has operated on his own account; he has devoted his time to mining inter- ests, carrying on the operations com- menced by his father in the early days of the gold discovery in California and Nevada. After his first introduction into business Mr. Dickinson operated under a power of attorney for his father, and held the same until the death of the lat- ter; he was with the late Senator George Hearst when the latter bought the Ont- aria mine for $30.000 and the Home- stead mine, Black Hills, for a mere song in comparison with the millions which they have since paid in dividends. Mr. Dickinson was interested with his father and Ben Holliday in the building of the Central and Union Pacific Railroads. Mr. Dickinson has been quite active in the Union League, New York and Lotos clubs of New York City; in 1865 he was mar- ried to Adelaide Eastman, a granddaugh- ter of Herbert Lawrence, who was the builder of the first steamboats for Com- modore Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew; he has two sons, H. Clinton Dickinson, a partner of T. R. Hawley, brother of J. T. Hawley, president of the Royal Bank of Scotland, London, and Walter E. Dickinson, who is connected with the banking house of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. Address, Union League Club, New York, N. Y.

DICKSON, Robert:

United States manager for the Corpora- tion of the Royal Exchange Assurance; was born in Scotland in 1845; in 1866 he arrived in San Francisco, and entered the

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service of Cross & Co .; in 1874 they were appointed Pacific Coast agents of the Lon- don Assurance, and the management of its affairs was entrusted to Mr. Dickson, who was then their chief clerk; in 1877 he was appointed manager for the Im- perial, Northern and Queen, in association with the British Consul, now Sir William Lane Booker; the following year the Lon- don Assurance was added; Mr. Booker be- ing appointed consul-general for New York in 1882, the sole management of the companies devolved upon Mr. Dickson; in 1891 he was appointed Pacific Coast man- ager, and a few months later, United States manager for the Royal Exchange, causing his removal to New York in 1898. Address, 92 William St., New York.

DIELMAN, Frederick:

Artist; was born in Hanover, Germany, Dec. 25, 1847; came to America in child- -

hood; was graduated from Calvert Col- lege, Maryland; served as draughtsman and topographer in the United States Engineer offices at Fort Monroe and Bal- timore from 1866 to 1872; resigned to study art and spent four years as a stu- dent in the Royal Academy of Munich; has practiced his profession in New York City since 1876, devoting himself to il- lustration and etching, and to genre historical and mural painting; examples of his work in the latter department are, the two mosaic panels "Law" and "His- tory" in the new Congressional Library; a series of seven mural paintings in the new building of the Washington "Even- ing Star," and the large decoration in mosaic, called "Thrift," in the Albany Savings Bank; he was one of the found- ers of the Society of American Artists; elected National Academician in 1883; has been president of the National Academy of Design since 1899; member and vice- president of the Art Commission of New York City 1901-1903; appointed professor of descriptive geometry and drawing in the College of the City of New York in 1903; member of the Century Association; married in 1883, Lilla Marion Benham, daughter of Major-General H. W. Ben- ham, U. S. Engineers. Address, 51 West 10th St., New York, N. Y.

DIKE, Norman S .:

Lawyer; born Brooklyn, N. Y .; son of Camden C. and Jeannie S. Dike; educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; in 1885 graduated from Brown University with the degree of Ph.B., and in 1887 from the Columbia Law School, with the degree of LL.D., in which year he was admitted to the bar; in 1894 elected su- pervisor of the County of Kings, for two years; in 1895 appointed assistant to the judge advocate general by Governor Mor- ton with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, in the N. G. N. Y., and in 1901 appointed by Governor Odell one of the trustees of the Adirondack Hospital for Consump- tives; in 1902 appointed by Governor Odell sheriff of Kings County, during a

grave political disturbance, for the un- expired year; a member of University Club, of New York, Hamilton, Brooklyn and many others; residing still in the borough of Brooklyn, where he has iden- tified himself with many institutions. Ad- dress, 194 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y.

DILL, James Brooks:

Lawyer; born in Spencerport, Monroe County, N. Y., July 25, 1854; son of the late Rev. James Horton Dill and Cathe- rine Brooks Dill; 1858 his parents moved to Chicago, where they remained till the death of the Rev. Mr. Dill in 1862; the boy then removed to New Haven, Conn .; four years later with his mother he went to Oberlin, Ohio, where he spent three years in a preparatory course, en- tering the freshman class of Oberlin Col- lege in 1871; the following year he left Oberlin, and, entering the freshman class of Yale University, was graduated in 1876; for a year he taught in a private school in Philadelphia, at the same time studying law with E. Cope Mitchell, a noted equity lawyer. He came to New York in 1877, was an instructor in Latin and mathematics in the Stevens Insti- tute, and at the same time entered the senior class in the University Law School, from which he was graduated as salu- tatorian of his class in 1878; he was ad- mitted to the bar in the same year and at once took up the practice of his profes- sion; Mr. Dill early began a special study of corporation law, the branch in which he has made his great reputation; in New Jersey as well as in New York he has been prominent in corporation matters; in the former State in 1892, in connec- tion with former Governor Leon Abbet, Henry C. Kelsey, secretary of state at that time, Allan McDermott and Henry S. White, the United States District At- torney, he organized the Corporation Trust Company of New Jersey, and from that time on has. drawn, or passed on, laws governing corporations under the general laws of that State. In 1896 he was appointed on the committee for the re- vision of the corporation laws of New Jersey; in 1898 he was appointed chair- man of the committee to revise the finan- cial laws of the State; since 1896 he has compiled the laws of New Jersey re- specting corporations under the author- ity of the secretary of State. Mr. Dill is a director and one of the counsel of the National Steel Company, of the Ameri- can Tin Plate Company and the Carne- gie Company; he is a director and one of the counsel of the North American Trust Company of New York, is counsel to the Merchants' Association of New York, a director of the Ninth National Bank of New York, and is counsel of the Peo- ple's Bank of East Orange, the Savings, Investment and Trust Company; member of the Yale, the University, the Lawyers' and the Merchants' Clubs of New York; he was a member the Roosevelt

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committee for revising the laws of New York last year, and was counsel to the committee for revising the laws of Can- ada, the only time on record that a for- eign government has called in American counsel; his collection of over 9,000 vol- umes of law books is said to be the finest private law library in the State; he has written several books, "Dill on New Jersey Corporations" being a stand- ard text-book, and he has also contrib- uted a number of articles to magazines and other publications. Address, 27 Pine St., New York.

DILLENBACK, John W .:

Major, United States Army; born in New York, May 9, 1842; appointed from New York-civil life; actual rank, private and corporal, Company G, 10th New York heavy artillery, Aug. 7, 1862, to Aug. 21, 1863; captain fourth United States C. Infantry, Aug. 22, 1863; honorably mus- tered out, April 11, 1866; second lieutenant first artillery, Feb. 23, 1866; accepted April 12, 1866; first lieutenant May 1, 1866; captain, June 30, 1882; brevet rank, brevet major volunteers and brevet lieu- tenant colonel volunteers, March 13, '65; for gallant and meritorious services dur- ing the war; staff positions occupied: A. A. Q. M. first artillery, March 1, '75, to June 30, '82; major second artillery, March 8, 1898; retired, March 31, 1899; chief of artillery, fifth army corps during the Santiago campaign, June and July, 1898. Address, 4 Sherman St., Water- town, N. Y.

DILLINGHAM, Frederick Henry:

Physician; born Bangor Maine, April 7, 1857; on his mother's side descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens and on father's of Edward Dillingham, who came from England to Lynn, Mass., in 1630; received degree A.B., 1877, A.M., 1880 from Bowdoin College and M.D., 1880 from College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City; married, first, Helen Alexandra Ganson, of New York City, Nov. 15, 1893, who died Jan. 20, 1894; sec- ond Susy Maria Ferguson, Nov. 3, 1897; interne St. Francis Hospital, 1880-2; ap- pointed on Board of Health, New York City; as inspector in 1882; held various positions until 1893, when he was ap- pointed assistant sanitary superintendent which position he resigned in 1903; clini- cal assistant Diseases of Children, New York Post-Graduate College, 1884-5; as- sistant physician diseases of heart and lungs Demilt Dispensary, 1885-7; attend- ing physician New York Free Dispensary for Children, 1884-6; adjunct professor of dermatology, New York Polyclinic since 1895; member Academy of Medicine, New York County. Medical Society, Medical As- sociation of the Greater City of New York, Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, So- ciety Relief Widows and Orphans of Med- ical Men; member Maine Society, Psi Upsilon and Democratic Clubs; secretary Bowdoin Alumni Association since 1886.

Author articles on smallpox, rubella, etc. Address, 76 West 85th St., New York, N. Y.

DILLON, John Forrest:

Jurist; born Northampton, Montgomery County, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1831; removed with parents to Davenport, Ia., 1838; studied medicine at seventeen, beginning practice at twenty, but soon took up study of law and was admitted to bar 1852; same year prosecuting attorney; 1858 judge of seventh judicial district, Iowa, being re-elected later; 1863 and 1869 elected judge of Supreme Court; chief justice of court; nominated circuit judge of eighth circuit district by Presi- dent Grant; 1879 professor of real estate and equity jurisprudence, Columbia Col- lege Law School, New York City, also general counsel of Union Pacific R. R. Co .; 1882 resigned professorship and re- sumed practice of law. Author of numer- ous legal works, and lecturer on legal subjects; member of third annual confer- ence of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Laws of Nations, Hague, 1875; also member of l'Institute de Droit International; married, 1853, daughter of Hiram Price of Iowa. Ad- dress, Far Hills, N. J.

DIMOCK, Henry F .:

Vice-president and treasurer Metropol- itan Steamship Company; director Bos- ton and Maine Railroad Company, Do- minion Coal Company, Dominion Iron & Steel Company, National Bank of North America, New York Loan & Improvement Company, Knickerbocker Trust Company, and Cuba Railroad Company; member of University, Manhattan, Metropolitan, Down-town, Barnard, Lawyers' and May- flower Descendants' Clubs. Address, Pier 11, North River; residence, 25 East 60th St., New York.

DITTENHOEFER, Abram Jesse:

Lawyer; born in the City of Charles- ton, S. C .; his parents, both German, ar- rived in the City of Baltimore in 1834; from there they removed to Charleston, where the judge was born; from Charles- ton they removed to the City of New York; after receiving a public school education he entered Columbia College Grammar School and subsequently Co- lumbia College; at twenty-one he was admitted to the bar; at the age of twenty- two he was selected by the Republican party as its candidate for justice of the City Court, and some years thereafter was appointed a judge by Governor Fen- ton; upon the expiration of his term he declined a renomination; while on the bench he gave his entire salary to the widow of his predecessor, who had been left in destitute circumstances. In 1856 he married a lady of Cleveland, Ohio; his family consists of a son, Irving Mead, who is his partner, and daughters; in 1860 he was a Republican elector and cast his

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vote in the Electoral College for Abraham Lincoln, who offered him the position of United States Judge for the district of South Carolina, his native State, which he declined; he was delegate to the Re- publican convention that nominated Pres- ident Hayes; though a Southerner by birth, Judge Dittenhoefer identified him- self with the Republican party and served as chairman of the German Republican Central Committee for twelve successive councils of the party. As a lawyer the councils of the party; as a lawyer the judge has gained a high reputation; while his services have been required in every branch of the legal profession, he has been conspicuous in litigations re- lating to the law of the stage, and is recognized as an authority in that branch of the law; he has also been prominent in other branches of the law, and has been counsel in many important commer- cial and corporation suits; is one of the counsel for the Lincoln National Bank and other institutions; he has been retained in important criminal cases that have attracted public attention; he was counsel for the New York excise commis- sioners when they were indicted for an infraction of the law, and succeeded in obtaining a -verdict of acquittal. Some years ago he was counsel for the bankers and newspaper men who were indicted in Washington for refusing to answer the questions put to them by the committee of the United States Senate appointed to investigate the sugar scandal; recently he has been counsel in the criminal pros- ecution of the parties indicted in the im- portation of Japanese silks, and gained conspicuous success in defeating the ap- plication made by the heirs of Richard Wagner to enjoin the Metropolitan Opera House from producing Parsifal. Address, 96 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

DIX, William Frederick:

Editor and writer of prose and verse; born in Newark, N. J., Nov. 18, 1867; son of John Edwin and Mary Fisher Joy Dix, and is of New England ancestry and a descendant of John Dix, who settled in Waterbury, Mass., 1635; on maternal side, is direct descendant of Thomas Joy, who settled in Hingham, 1630, and built the first statehouse of Massachusetts; edu- cated at Berkeley school, New York and Princeton University (1889), receiving honors in literature and being managing editor Nassau Literary Magazine; has traveled extensively in Europe, North Af- rica, Asia Minor, India, Burma, Cochin China, China, Japan and the West; in 1892 was literary editor The Churchman, New York, and in 1900 became editor of the Home Journal, founded in 1846 by N. P. Willis, and which, in 1901, changed its name to Town and Country; has de- livered lectures on India and on "Litera- ture from an Editor's Standpoint": is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and the Reform Club, New York; resi- dence, 123 Harrison St., East Orange, N. J .; office, 289 Fourth Ave., New York

City; on June 2, 1900, married Mary Alice Tennille, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Tennille, formerly of New York and now of East Orange; a son, Tennille Dix, was born Nov. 21, 1902. Address, 289 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y.

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DIX, Rev. Morgan, D.D.

Rector of Trinity Parish; born in New York, Nov. 1, 1827; the son of General John A. Dix, ex-governor of New York, a sketch of whose life we have elsewhere given; from 1830 to 1842 the family re- sided at Albany, after which they trav- eled abroad, and it was not until young Dix was seventeen years of age that he was able to begin active preparations for a university education; in 1845 he entered Columbia College, from which he gradu- ated three years afterwards; he then be- gan the study of the law, but not in re- sponse to his own inclinations, which turned towards the ministry; he soon, in consequence of this predilection, gave up his legal studies and entered the Gen- eral Theological Seminary of New York, in which he took the regular course, graduating in 1852. He was ordained dur- ing the same year in St. John's Chapel, New York, by Bishop Chase, of New Hampshire, and in 1854 was admitted to the priesthood by Bishop Alonzo Potter, in St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia; here he remained for some time, as an as- sistant to the rector, Rev. Joseph Wilmer, who was afterwards Bishop of Louisiana; he then went to Europe, where he spent a year and a half in travel and study; on his return to New York he was elected assistant rector of Trinity Parish. Dr. Berrian, the rector, died Nov. 7, 1862, and on Nov. 10, Dr. Dix was elected his suc- cessor, and was installed on the follow- ing day, in accordance with a pre-revo- lutionary form of induction which is only observed in Trinity Parish; he was instituted on the 29th of the same month in the presence of a large congregation; during his incumbency as rector Dr. Dix has done much for the advancement of the parish, which in the interval has grown by the addition of five chapels, with many other buildings needed in the parish work. The old rectory has been converted into a parish hospital, and greatly enlarged for that purpose; and a complete system of parochial schools has been established, including day and night schools, kindergartens, manual training, cooking, and house schools; for these a number of schoolhouses have been erected, and in addition there have been built several parish and other buildings for the extended needs of the parish work: Dr. Dix has been active in promot- ing the growth of sisterhoods, and was pastor of the Order of St. Mary at its origin; he has taken great interest in church music. and has been very success- ful in its improvement; he was a member of the choral society under Dr. Hodges, and took part in the first choral service ever held in New York; as rector he has

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had under his immediate direction seven churches and eighteen clergymen, and yet has found time to fill many other im- portant positions; among these he acted as delegate to seven general conventions, in five of which he was president of the House of Deputies; since 1869 he has been president of the standing committee of the diocese of New York, and is also trustee of Columbia College, Sailors' Snug Harbor, Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum, etc .; he is vice-president of the Protestant Episcopal Public School of New York and of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; in the midst of these multifarious duties Dr. Dix has been able to do no small amount of literary labor. His productions in- clude "Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans," "Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians and Colossians," "Lecture on Pantheism," "Lecture on the Two Estates: the Wedded in the Lord and the Single for the Lord's Sake," "Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical," "Me- moirs of John A. Dix," "History of Trinity Parish," etc. As a preacher Dr. Dix is forcible, earnest and coura- geous; he does not hesitate to denounce any social evil in the plainest and most vigorous language; few ministers or men are more respected; it may be said in conclusion that he has been an ardent collector of rare books, manuscripts, etc., and that his library contains many high- ly valuable examples of medieval literary treasures, together with an extensive col- lection of Americana. Residence, 27 West 25th St .; office, 187 Fulton St., New York City.

DIXEY, Henry Edward:

Actor; born Boston, Mass., Jan. 6, 1859; began at eight years to play children's parts at Howard Athenæum; 1875-1880 en- gaged under Edwin E. Rice; has ap- peared in varied roles in "Evangeline," "Reouls," "Babes in the Woods," "The

Mascot," "Patience," ", "Pinafore." "Iolan- the," "The Sorcerer," "Bill Taylor," "The Merry Duchess," etc .; also in "Confu- sion," "Romany Rye," "Paunce and Leo," "The Duke's Motto," and the extremely popular "Adonis"; 1894-95 member of Au- gust Daly's stock company; has played numerous comedy parts both in United States and England. Address, Lambs' Club, New York.

DOANE, George W .:

Vice-president and general manager of the New Amsterdam Gas Company and president of the Northern Union Gas Com- pany: born Dec. 14, 1853; direct descend- ant of Deacon John Doane, who settled in the Plymouth Colony in 1623; has been identified in an official capacity with the gas interests of New York City since 1873, first as secretary and treasurer of the New York Gas Light Company, after- wards as treasurer of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York. Address, 66 West 46th St., New York, N. Y.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 43

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