Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 47

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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1 after went West, where he was inter- ested in various enterprises. In 1886 he married Miss Cary, of Louisville, Ky .; moved his residence to New York, in 1895, again connecting himself with the H. B. Claflin Company. Is also second vice-president of the Merchants' Associa- tion, vice-president of the Associated Merchants' Company, treasurer of the Dry Goods Auxiliary of the Hospital Sat- urday and Sunday Association, trustee of the Grant Monument Association. Mem- ber of the Order of Founders and Pa- triots of America, Englewood Golf Club, Englewood Field Club, County Club of Lakewood, Merchants' Club of New York. Address, H. B. Claflin Company, New York City.

EAMES, Wilberforce:

Librarian; born Newark, N. J., Oct. 12, 1855; educated in common schools of Brooklyn, his home since 1861; engaged for twelve years in book stores; 1885 as- sistant in Lenox Library; 1888 assistant li- brarian; until consolidation in 1895 with the Astor Library and the Tilden Trust as the New York Public Library; 1893, librarian; edited, authorized and revised versions of New Testament. (1882), and volumes xv. to xx. of Labin's dictionary of "Books Relating to America"; has written articles for Pilling's Indian Bibliogra- phies. Author also of "Early New Eng- land Catechisms: a Bibliographical Ac- count of Some Catechisms published be- fore the Year 1800, for Use in New Eng- land" (1898). Address, 890 Fifth Ave .; office, Lenox Library, New York City.

EARLE, Alice Morse:

Author; born in Worcester, Mass .; edu- cated in Worcester and Boston; married in 1874. Author "The Sabbath in Puri- tan New England," "Customs and Fash- ions in Old New England," "China Col- lecting in America," "Life of Margaret Winthrop," "Costume of Colonial Times," "Old Narragansett," "Curious Punish- ments of Bye-Gone Days," "Colonial Dames and Goodwives," "Diary of Anna Green Winslow," "Colonial Days in Old New York," "Home Life in Colonial Days,' "Child Life in Colonial Days," "Stage Coach and Tavern Days," "Old- time Gardens," "Sundials and Roses of Yesterday," "Two Centuries of Costume in America" (2 volumes); member of So- ciety of Colonial Dames, Daughters Am- erican Revolution, American Historical Association, etc., etc. Address, 242 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

EARLE, Mary Tracy:

Author; born in Cobden, Ill., Oct. 21, 1864; was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1885, taking the degree of bachelor of science, and in 1903, the hon- orary degree of master of arts was con- ferred upon her by the same university. About 1892, she turned her attention to

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fiction writing as a profession and since then has written many short stories for the best magazines and two books for young people; two volumes of her short stories have been collected and published in book form, making the list of her books as follows: "The Wonderful Wheel, 1896; "The Man Who Worked for Collister," and other stories, 1898; "Through Old Rose Glasses," 1900; "The Flag on the Hill- top," 1902; most of her stories are of the South, where she has spent much time, but some are of Southern Illinois. Resident of New York.

EASTON, Edward Denison:

Stenographer, lawyer, organizer of the talking-machine business, president of the Columbia Phonograph Company, American Graphophone Company, the Burt Com- pany, and vice-president of the Hacken- sack Trust Company; born in Glouces- ter, Mass., April 10, 1856; son of Denison Mitchell Easton and Mary Lyle Easton. His parents moved to Arcola, N. J., in 1868. and he attended school there and in Paterson; in 1872 studied shorthand and mastered it in three months; became a court reporter, did shorthand work, on as- signment, for the New York papers, and for a year and a half was reporter and assistant editor of the Hackensack Re- publican; at the age of eighteen appointed stenographer United States Lighthouse Board in Washington; and early reached the head of his profession. He earned with his pen the phenomenal sum of $30,000 in a single year; reported the Guiteau trial and the Star Route trials for the govern- ment, and nearly every event of national importance for fifteen years. Studied law in Georgetown University and became a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, making cor- poration law a specialty; with the in- vention of the graphophone he abandoned shorthand and made the development of the talking-machine industry his life work. In 1899 he organized the Columbia Phonograph Company and became its president and when, in 1893, the Am- merican Graphophone Company was reor- ganized, a coalition was formed and he was made president and counsel of both companies. Resides at Arcola, N. J .; his first wife died, leaving a daughter; in 1883, he married Miss Helen Mortimer Jefferis, of Washington, D. C., and by his second marriage he has a son and three daughters. Address, 90 West Broad- way, New York.

EATON, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton:

Clergyman, author; was born at Kent- ville. N. S., and is the son of the late William Eaton, who was well known in connection with the educational sys- tem of Nova Scotia, and as having held many public positions in that Province, and his wife, Anna Augusta Willoughby Hamilton. He was educated at first

under his father's direction in Nova Sco- tia and afterwards in the United States, where the greater part of his life has been spent; he graduated from Harvard University in 1880, and after a course of theological study and reading, during which he was much engaged in literary work, was ordained to the Episcopal min- istry by the late Bishop Knickerbocker, of Indiana in June, 1884; in April, 1885, he received Priests' Orders from Bishop Potter of New York, and the same spring accepted a call to the parish at Chestnut Hill, Mass. After more than a year there he removed to New York City, where he has since lived; for thirteen years he has been at the head of the Eng- lish Department of the Cutler School, holding a position of influence in the edu- cational world of New York; he is also

widely recognized as a preacher and

writer. His first published work, "The Heart of the Creeds, Historical Religion in the Light of Modern Thought," a statement of Broad Church theology, ap- peared in 1888; "Acadian Legends and Lyrics" was published in 1889; "The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution" in 1891; "Tales of a Garrison Town," a vol- ume of short stories collaborated with C. L. Betts, in 1892; and "Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist" (edited), in 1901. In 1890, he compiled and published a manual on letter writing; between 1892 and 1900 three successive editions of "College Re- quirements in English"; and in 1901, an edition of Pope's "Rape of the Lock"; he has also written several genealogical books and monographs: "The Nova Scotia Eatons," "Eaton of Elmwood," "The Olivestob Hamiltons," "Lieuten-

ant-Colonel Otho Hamilton, his sons John and Otho, and his grandson, Sir Ralph Hamilton," "The Layton, Hill, and Sutherland Families," and the "Cochran and Inglis Families of Nova Scotia"; a great deal of his genealogical work has been done in Edinburgh; has contributed to magazines a great deal of prose and verse. He is an honorary member of the New Brunswick Historical Society, a corresponding member of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, and a life member of the Massachusetts Historical Gen. So- ciety; he is unmarried. Address, 20 East 50th St., New York City.

EATON, Henry W .:

Resident manager in New York of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insur- ance Company. He is a native of Lon- don, England, and entered the service of that company in 1866. He represented it at Bristol, England, in 1876 as resident secretary of the West of England branch, and came to New York in 1878 as assist- ant manager of the New York branch under Mr. Pulsford. Upon the retirement of that gentleman, in 1887, he became resident manager. Mr. Eaton is an asso-

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ciate member of the Institute of Actu- aries of England. In 1897 he was elected president of the National Board of Fire Underwriters of the United States. Resi- dence, Mamaroneck, N. Y .; office, 45 Wil- liam St., New York.

EATON, Rev. Homer, D.D .:

Agent of the Methodist Book Concern, and a member of the Troy Annual Con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is the son of the late Rev. Bennett Eaton, of the same conference, and was born at Enosburg, Franklin County, Vt., Nov. 16, 1834. At about the age of sixteen he began a preparatory course of study for the ministry at the academy in Bakersfield, Vt .; his studies completed here, he entered the Methodist General Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H., where he graduated as D.D. in 1857. In May of the same year he was admitted on trial in the Troy Annual Conference, of which he was chosen first assistant secretary in 1861. This position he continued to hold until 1870, when elected secretary to the conference, an office to which he was re-elected annually for seven consecutive years; in 1872 the conference sent him as a delegate to the Methodist Episcopal General Conference, held in Brooklyn in May of that year. As a part of the pro- ceedings of this meeting he was appointed one of the fraternal delegates to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada. He was elected a reserve delegate to the General Conference of 1876, and in the same year was appointed presiding elder of the Al- bany district; he was thus engaged in pastoral duty until elected to his present position, of book-agent, he being placed, in association with Dr. Hunt, in charge of the great church publishing house so widely known as the Methodist Book Concern. Residence, Madison, N. J .; office 150 Fifth Ave., New York.

EATON, J. Shirley:

Railway specialist; born Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 1, 1868; educated Washing- ton and Dartmouth, N. H., and Mari- etta, Ohio, colleges. Author "Railroad Operations; How to Know Them from Study of Their Accounts and Statistics," also of monograph published by U. S. Bureau of Education, "Educational Train- ing of Railway Men"; traveling auditor Southern Railway, statistician Lehigh Valley Railroad; at present associate ed- itor Wall Street Journal; lecturer domes- tic commerce and transportation, New York University; non-resident lecturer Tuck School, Dartmouth College; mem- ber Transportation and Republican Clubs, New York. Address, Wall Street Jour- nal, Wall St., New York.

EATON, William C .:

Commander U. S. Navy; born in Ham- ilton, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1851; graduated, Col-

gate University, 1869 (A. B., 1869, A. M., 1872, Ph.D., 1881); appointed cadet en- gineer from New York, Oct. 1, 1872; grad- uated, U. S. Naval Academy, June, 1874; assistant engineer, March 26, 1875; passed assistant engineer, March 4, 1881; chief engineer, June 1, 1895; lieutenant com- mander, March 3, 1899; fleet engineer of the Pacific Squadron, 1889-1900; Feb., 1903, ordered as inspector of engineering mater- ial, Pittsburg, Pa .; promoted commander Aug. 11, 1903; detailed as head of depart- ment of engineering, Colgate University, 1888-89-90; appointed by Viceroy Li Hung Chang examiner of naval engineering graduates, Imperial University, Tientsin, China, 1892. Address, Homestead Steel Works, Munhall, Pa.

EBERHARD, Ernst G., Mus. D .:

Musician; is the founder of the Grand Conservatory of Music in New York City, which was organized in 1874, and incor- porated by special act of Legislature passed in 1884, Laws of 1884, chapter 352, empowering the institution to confer the regular university degrees in music and the kindred arts, viz: bachelor of music, master of music, and doctor of music. This institution has its headquar- ters in New York City, at 68 West 83d St .; owing to its growth and popularity branches at extension centers have been established in nine different States; it is expected that in a few years extension centres will be found in each State of the Union. Dr. Eberhard is the author of the "Method for the Piano" (two books), "Course of Studies for the Piano" (twelve books), and "Course of Technics" (three books), making all in all the most com- plete system for piano study in existence; he has also written many instructive pi- ano pieces and songs; "Harmony and Counterpoint Simplified." He was mar- ried in 1876 to Caroline Louise Bogert; has three daughters and one son; two of his daughters are married (Mrs. Ed. Lan- sing and Mrs. Howard Hyde); his young- est daughter Beatrice is the famous vio- lin virtuoso, well known throughout the States and Canada. Dr. Eberhard re- ceived his musical education in Europe, where he studied with leading artists; he is known for his great versatility, being first organist; played at St. Ann's Brooklyn, Paulist church and First Bap- tist church, New York City; he is an equally fine pianist and conductor; con- ducted the Newark Philharmonic Society for many years, and several orchestral and choral societies, and is still director of the parlor opera and students' companies. He was a favorite soprano singer when a boy. and after growing up to manhood a baritone of considerable popularity; he is one of the leading singing teachers, and accompanists, owing to his thorough knowledge of the voice and fine musi- cianship; was in former years New York newspaper correspondent of the "Presto,"

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Chicago, and "American Israelite," in Cincinnati, and is still devoting some of his time to newspaper work. Address, Grand Conservatory of Music, 68 West 83d St., New York.

ECCLES, Robert Gibson, M. D., Phar. D .:

Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, Jan. 1, 1848; he came with his parents to the United States in 1862, and has been a resident of the State and City of New York since 1876; he graduated in Medicine at Long Island College Hospital in 1882, received the honorary degree of graduate in pharmacy from the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy in 1891, and the honorary degree of doctor in pharmacy from Scio College, in 1903. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science; member of the American Chemical Society, of the American Ana- tomic Association, of the American Phar- maceutical Association, of the Torrey Bo- tanical Club, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association, of the Medi- cal Society of the County of Kings, etc .; he is an honorary member of the Cali- fornia College of Pharmacy, of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association, of the Greater New York Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation and of the Manhattan Liberal Club. He represented the Food and Drug Interests of the State of New York in the Pure Food and Drug Congresses, held at Washington, D. C., in 1899 and 1900; he served on the Committee of Revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia from 1890 to 1900, and during that time was chairman of the sub-committee on Active Principles of Drugs, in which position he wrote all the descriptive text of the Phar- macopoeia bearing on alkaloids, alkaloid- al salts, ferments, etc. The pepsin tests of both the Pharmacopoeia and the Na- tional Formulary were produced by him and the test of the British Pharmaco- poeia was afterwards modelled from his work. From 1901 to 1903, he has served as chairman of the American Pharmaceuti- cal Association's Committee of Revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia; he has served as dean of the Brooklyn Col- lege of Pharmacy, as professor of Organ- ic Chemistry in the same institution, as president of the Department of Chemistry of the Brooklyn Institute, as vice-presi- dent of the Department of Botany in the same institute, as president of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association, as chairman of the Section on Education of the American Pharmaceutical Associa- tion, as vice-president of the Brooklyn Ethical Association, as secretary and treasurer of the Brooklyn Pathological Association, as member of the executive committee of the American Medical As- sociation, as chemist of

the United States Department of Indian Affairs, as editor of the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin, as editor of Merck's Archives of

Materia Medica, as editor of Popular Sci- ence News, etc. He conducted the first extensive series of researches on the ef- fects of drugs upon digestion made in this country, made the first analyses of caly- canthus, conducted researches on the sol- ubilities, melting points, etc., of alkoloids for the pharmacopoeia, and is the discov- erer of several new alkaloids and other organic bodies. His work on the alkaloid calycanthine was followed up by Prof. H. W. Wiley, of the Department of Agri- culture, and is now being continued by Prof. Gordon of North-Western Univer- sity, Chicago; after his discovery of the alkaloid calycanthine, Dr. Wiley read a paper upon it at the Buffalo meeting of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. Dr. Eccles has traveled quite extensively in North Amer- ica and Europe, having visited nearly every point of great interest, to tourists and men of science, in these continents. Address, 191 Dean St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

ECKERSON, Theodore John:

Major United States Army; born in New York City, Jan. 21, 1821; grand- son of Abraham Voorhees of New Jer- sey. who served with Continental troops in Revolutionary War and also served in 1841 and 1842 in Gen. Worth's Seminole Campaigns, and in Mexican War, partici- pating in battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, Vera Cruz( Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Cherubisco, Chapulte- pec, Gurila de Belen, and capture of City of Mexico. Commanded Vancouver Arsenal, W. T., during the Civil War, 1861 until 1865, with detachment fabri- cating and preparing ammunition for Union Troops; appointed captain, acting quartermaster, U. S. Army, March 21, 1865; major quartermaster department, Jan. 24, 1881; retired Jan. 22, 1885. Ad- dress, 575 Couch St., Portland, Oregon.

ECKERT, Thomas Thompson:

Telegrapher; born St. Clairsville, O., April 23, 1825; postmaster of Wooster, O., 1849, also telegrapher; 1852, in charge of telegraph line construction, Pittsburg to Chicago; 1859-61, superintendent of busi- ness of gold mining concern, Montgomery, N. C .; 1861, head of military telegraph office, General Mcclellan's headquarters; 1862, superintendent of military telegraph in Department of Potomac, holding rank of captain and assistant quartermaster; Sept., 1862, made major and given charge of establishment of telegraph headquart- ers for war department; 1864, lieutenant colonel, later brigadier general; also ap- pointed (1864) assistant secretary of war; 1866 resigned, becoming superintendent of east section of Western Union Tele- graph Company; 1875, president of Atlan- tic and Pacific, 1880, of American Union Telegraph Company; 1881, these compan- ies consolidating with Western Union, be-

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came vice-president of latter, then presi- dent in 1892. Member of Union League and Riding Clubs. Address, 549 Fifth Ave .; office, 195 Broadway, New York.

EDEBOHLS, George M .:

Surgeon; born in New York City; A.B., 1871; A.M., 1886; and LL.D., 1903, St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y; M.D., Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department Columbia University, New York. House physician and surgeon, St. Francis Hospital, New York, 1875 to 1879; gynecologist, St. Francis Hospital, New York, 1887 to 1903; professor of diseases of women, New York Post Graduate Medi- cal School and Hospital (appointment, 1893); consulting surgeon, St. Francis Hospital, N. Y .; consulting gynecologist, St. John's Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y .; con- sulting gynecologist, Nyack Hospital, Ny- ack, N. Y. Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine and American Gynecological So- ciety; honorary fellow, Société de Chir- urgie de Bucarest; permanent member Medical Society of the State of New York; and member of various other medical so- cieties. Author of numerous contribu- tions to current medical literature, among which may be mentioned: "Movable Kid- ney," "Shortening the Round Ligaments," "Movable Kidney and Appendicitis," "The History and Literature of Appendicitis," "The Cure of Chronic Bright's Disease by Operation," "Renal Decapsulation for Chronic Bright's Disease," "Renal De- capsulation for Puerperal Eclampsia," etc. Address, 59 West 49th St., New York.

EDGAR, Charles Henry:

Lawyer; born in New York City, Jan. 4, 1857; but spent his early youth at Eliza- beth, N. J., where he attended the Rev. John F. Pingry's School, and later was for one year at St. Paul's School, at Concord, N. H .; he then entered Lafay- ette College and graduated in the class of 1877, and subsequently was graduated from Columbia Law School in the class of 1879. He was admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor-at-law by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, May 29, 1879; he is the son of James A. Edgar and Mary E. Coe .; his father was a merchant, and died April 1, 1867; James A. Edgar's father was Matthias B. Edgar, who was descended from one, Thomas Edgar, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Oct. 19, 1681, and who came to America between 1715

the and 1718. He is a member of New York State Bar Association, and Association of the Bar of the State of New York; he is also a member of the Hamilton Club, of Brooklyn, and Dwight Alumni Association, of New York; on Nov. 15, 1883, he was married to Miss El- len L. Husted, of Brooklyn. Address, 43 Cedar St., New York.

EDGAR, James Clifton, M. D .:

Son of James Alexander Edgar, was born in New York City, June 14, 1859; he studied five years at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H .. graduated at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, with Ph.B. de- gree in 1882, and A.M. in 1886; he also graduated from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, M. D., in 1885, and had secured the Post Graduate degree from the Univerity Frauen Klinik at Munich, Bavaria. Dr. Edgar was formerly professor of obstet- rics in the University and Bellevue Hospi- tal Medical College, attending physician to the Society of the Lying-in Hospital, and is now professor of obstetrics and clinical midwifery in Cornell University College, and physician to Maternity and Mothers' and Babies' Hospitals. He is a member of the University Club, Century Association, New York Academy of Medi- cine, American Gynecological Society, and Medical Society of the County of New York. Address, 50 E. 34th St., New York.

EDISON, Thomas A .:

Electrician and inventor; was born in Milan, O., in 1847; his educational op- portunities were limited in the extreme; his mother gave to his instruction such time as she could spare, and he supple- mented her teaching by the reading of books which were accessible to him. At the age of twelve he began the work of life as a news-boy on the Grand Trunk Railway, and devoted much of his spare time to the study of telegraphy. He very soon became an expert operator, in which capacity he was employed at various places in the United States and Canada. At Adrian, Michigan, he fitted up a small shop for repairing telegraph instruments and for the making of new machinery; thence he went to Indianapolis and Cin- cinnati, and eventually he came to the East with established reputation as a successful inventor, locating his work- shop at Newark, N. J. In 1876, he de- termined to give his entire time to re- search and invention, and removed to Menlo Park and, later, to West Orange in the same State. Mr. Edison's inven- tions are to be numbered by the scores; they include machines for quadruplex and sextuplex telegraphic transmission, the carbon telegraph transmitter, the micro- tasimeter (for detecting small changes in temperature), the megaphone, the phono- graph, the aërophone, the incandescent lamp and light system, the kinetoscope, etc. In recognition of his services to the world, the French Government made him Chevalier, officer and afterwards com- mandant, of the Legion of Honor. Resi- dence, West Orange, N. J.

EDSON, Andrew W .:

Associate city superintendent of schools; born in Montello, Wis., Dec. 26, 1851; edu- cated in the common schools of Wis-

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consin, and Vermont; graduated at the Randolph (Vt.) State Normal School in 1870; at Montpelier (Vt.) Seminary in 1874; and at Dartmouth College A.B. in 1878; A.M. in 1881; principal of high school, West Randolph, Vt., 1878-79; prin- cipal of the Randolph (Vt.) State Normal School, 1879-84; superintendent of schools, Attleboro, Mass., 1884-85; superintendent of schools, Jersey City, 1885-87; assistant state superintendent of schools, Massa- chusetts, 1887-97; assistant superintend- ent of schools, New York City, 1897-1902; associate city superintendent of schools, 1902 to date; instructor in summer schools in Vermont, Washington, and Indiana, 1880-90; manager of the school of meth- ods and instructor in school management at the Martha's Vineyard Summer In- stitute, 1888-98; instructor in school man- agement and school supervision, Colum- bia University Summer School, 1902-03. Address, Park Ave and 59th St., New York.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 47

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