Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 53

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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FOLGER, Mathew H .:

Vice and deputy consul; was born at Cape Vincent, N. Y., March 22, 1842. He is a member of the banking house of Fol- ger Brothers, a director of the Kingston & Pembroke Railroad, and president of the Thousand Islands Steamboat Com- pany; appointed vice and deputy consul, in 1874, at Kingston, Canada.

FOLKS, Homer:

Appointed commissioner of Public Char- ities by Mayor Low, Jan. 1, 1902; was born in Michigan in 1867; he was grad- uated from Albion College, Mich., in 1889, and from Harvard University in 1890, re- ceiving the degree of B. A .; in his studies at Harvard he became greatly interested in practical social reforms. In Aug., 1890, he became general superintendent of the Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania, with headquarters at Philadelphia; in this position he gained an intimate knowledge of the care of destitute, neglected and delinquent children, and especially of the plan of caring for them in families by boarding out or adoption; this subject has remained his special interest and he is probably best known as one of the lead- ing experts in the United States in this field. In Feb., 1893, he resigned this posi- tion to accept the secretaryship of the New York State Charities Aid Association, which position he held till Dec. 31, 1901; the State Charities Aid Association is an unofficial organization working for the improvement in all practical ways of pub- lic charities of all kinds; as secretary and chief executive officer of this association, he took an active, and in, many cases a leading part, in all the organized move- ments for the improvement of public char- itable institutions in the City and State of New York, during the period 1893 to 1902. Among the efforts in which he took an active part were the establishment of the Craig Colony for Epileptics, the transfer of the insane of New York City to the care of the State, the securing of a constitutional amendment recognizing the State Board of Charities and giving it power to control the granting of public aid to private charities, the division of the Department of Charities and Correc- tion of New York City into two separate departments, one of charities and one of

correction, the establishment of a State Hospital for Consumptives, the revision of the charities chapter of the Greater New York Charter in 1897 and 1901, and the creation of a Children's Court in New York City. Through his activity in these lines he gained a good working knowledge of the actual operations of municipal and State administration; his participation in local politics resulted in his election, in 1897, as a member of the first municipal Assembly of Greater New York, from the Twenty-ninth Assembly District on the Citizens' Union ticket, for a term of two years; he resigned from the Munici- pal Assembly in the fall of 1899 to accept the Republican nomination for the As- sembly, Twenty-ninth District; in the winter of. 1899-1900 he was a special agent of the U. S. Commission to the Paris Ex- position, and assisted in securing a com- prehensive exhibit on the subject of American charities.

In April, 1900, at the request of General Leonard Wood, mili- tary governor of Cuba, he spent six weeks in Cuba studying the public relief of that island; he prepared a charities law, which was enacted in July, 1900, creating an In- sular Department of Charities, establish- ing State institutions for destitute and delinquent children, and the insane, and a bureau for placing children in families; this bureau was organized under his per- sonal direction and succeeded within two years in reducing the number of desti- tute children in institutions in Cuba from over 5,000 to less than 2,000. He has been for several years, an assistant editor of the Charities Review, a member of the American Economic Association and of the American Statistical Association; in the National Conference of Charities and Correction he has been chairman of the section on the insane, the section on child-saving work and the section on municipal and county charities; as chair- man of the latter section he submitted, in 1898, a report showing the actual methods of adminstration of charity by each of the seventy largest cities in the United States; in May, 1901, he was elected gen- eral secretary of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. Residence, 19 East 88th St .; office, 105 East 22d St., New York.

FOLWELL, William Watts:

Educator; born Romulus, Seneca Coun- ty, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1833; graduated from Hobart, 1857; assistant professor of mathematics, 1859; 1860, studied philology at Berlin; 1861, enlisted in Fiftieth New York Engineers, continuing throughout the war; 1869, professor of mathematics, Kenyon College, Ohio, becoming, in 1884, president of University of Minnesota; this office resigned, in 1869, for that of li- brarian and chair of political science. Author of "Public Instruction in Minne- sota," 1875; "Lectures on Political Econ- omy." President Minneapolis Society of

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Fine Arts, 1882-92; president Park Com- missioners, Minneapolis, since 1894; mem- ber of State Board of Charities and Cor- rection, 1895-1901; president Minneapolis Improvement League, and vice-president American Economic Association. Address, 1020 Fifth St., S. E. Minneapolis, Minn.

FOORD, John:

Journalist; he has been engaged in editorial work on newspapers and peri- odicals in New York for the last thirty- one years; during fourteen years of this time he was connected with the New York Times as editorial writer and editor-in- chief; he is at present one of the editorial writers of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, and is secretary of the American Asiatic Association, of which he was one of the founders. The de- clared purpose of this association, whose membership includes the leading firms and corporations throughout the country interested in trade with the Far East, is "to foster and safeguard the trade and commercial interests of the citizens of the United States, and others associated therewith in the Empires of China, Japan and Korea, and in the Philippine Islands, and elsewhere in Asia or Oceanica." Two affiliated organizations have been formed, the American Association of China, at Shanghai, and the American Asiatic As- sociation of Japan, at Yokohama and Kobé, to co-operate with the association here in watching over American interests in Eastern Asia. Office address, Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, New York.

FOOTE, Edward Milton:

Physician and surgeon; born Syracuse, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1866; was graduated from University of Rochester, 1886; Harvard Medical School, 1890; in practice in New York City since 1894; married, 1899, Caro- line B. Cauldwell; at present instructor in surgery, Columbia University; visiting surgeon, New York City Hospital, etc .; member New York Academy of Medicine, Harvard Medical Society, American Med- ical Association, New York County Medi- cal Society. Author of "Minor Surgery," and various articles on surgical subjects. Address, 67 West 48th St., New York.

FORBES, Allen B .:

Banker; born Cleveland, O .; removed to Chicago in 1881, and to New York in 1901; was graduated from the law schools of Northwestern University and Yale Uni- versity; practiced law in Chicago for sev- eral years, now partner in the banking house of N. W. Harris & Co .; member of Lawyers', Mid-day, Yale, Englewood Clubs and Ohio Society and Union League Club, Chicago. Address, Pine and Wil- liam Sts., New York.

FORD, John:

Lawyer; is of Irish parentage, and was born at Knowlesville, Orleans County, N.

Y., in 1862; until he was twenty-four years of age, he worked as a farm laborer and stone dresser; having educated him- self for college, he gained a State schol- arship which entitled him to free tuition in Cornell University; he entered Cornell in 1886, and won a University scholarship, which insured him an annual income of two hundred dollars for four years; he graduated in 1890; he was admitted to the bar in 1893, and he was a member of the New York State Senate from 1896 till 1900 inclusive; he originated and passed many measures of great importance, including the Ford Franchise Tax Law and the Amsterdam Avenue Anti-Grab Law. Residence, 210 West 94th St .; office, 346 Broadway, New York.

FORDYCE, John Addison, M. D .:

Born in Guernsey County, O., Feb. 16, 1858; son of John and Mary A. Fordyce; graduated with degree of A. B., Adrian College, Mich., 1878; M. A., 1889; Ph.D., 1901; M.D. Chicago Medical College, 1881; interne Cook County Hospital, Chicago, until 1883; practiced medicine in Hot Springs, Ark., until 1886; married, in 1886, Alice Dean Smith, of New York City; studied medicine in Vienna and Berlin, 1886, 1887 and 1888; graduated, M. D., University of Berlin, 1888; practicing phy- sician, New York City, since latter year; member of the American Medical Associ- ation, American Academy of Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine, Ameri- can Dermatological Association, American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, New York State Medical Association, New York State Medical Society, New York Dermatological Society, etc .; professor of dermatology and syphilology, medical de- partment, New York University; visit- ing dermatologist, City Hospital, etc. Author of numerous monographs on sub- jects pertaining to dermatology and geni- to-urinary diseases. Address, 64 Park Ave., New York.

FORNES, Charles Vincent:

President of the Board of Aldermen of Greater New York, and senior member of the firm of C. V. Fornes & Co .; was born in Erie County, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1847; the early death of his father' compelled him to go to work, but he devoted his spare time to study; he also paid his own way through Lockport Union Academy, where he completed the aca- demic and commercial courses in 1864. In the year he received a call to teach in a country district school in Erie County, and then, at the request of the superin- tendent of public schools of Buffalo, he assumed the principalship of a public school. Next he entered the employ of Dahlman & Co., wholesale woolen mer- chants, and there remained for a period of eight years, when he embarked in the same line of business on his own ac- count under the firm name of Dahlman &

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Fornes, his partner being a nephew of his former employer. In 1877, the firm re- moved to a wider field of activity, New York City, where two years later, by the retirement of Mr. Dahlman, the firm as- sumed its present form of C. V. Fornes & Co. In Nov., 1901, he was elected to the. position of president of the Board of Ald- ermen; re-elected in 1903; he is a member of the Colonial Club and Columbian Yacht Club, of New York City; he is a trustee and incorporator of the Emigrants' In- dustrial Bank, a trustee and incorporator of the City Trust Company and, since 1896, has been treasurer of the Catholic Protectory in New York City; he is also president of the Champlain Club, of Plattsburg, N. Y., was a member of the Committee of One Hundred on the Co- lumbian Celebration in the Metropolis in 1893, and was one of the committee for the erection of the famous Catholic Sem- inary at Dunwoodie, N. Y .; he was mar- ried on Nov. 11, 1898, to Dora, daughter of Benjamin Lyde, of the firm of C. V. Fornes & Co., a descendant of Dutch Colonial stock. Address, City Hall, New York.

FORSSLUND, or FOSTER, Miss (Mary) Louise:

Writer of novels and short stories of Long Island life chiefly; titles of books: "The Story of Sarah" (Brentano's), "The Ship of Dreams" (Harper's) ; born at Say- ville, L. I; parents, A. D. Forsslund, or Foster, of Upsala, Sweden, and Ann Eliza Brown of an old Long Island fam- ily; educated at Sayville public school; the Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y .; also studied with private tutor; worked at fiction always, or from early childhood; made a special study of the baymen of the Great South Bay and of the Dutch settlers of Long Island; first serial running through the Ladies' Home Journal this year (1904); "Dutchtown Stories" to be published by McClure, Phillips & Co. in book form; the original "Dutchtown" is West Sayville, Long Is- land. Address, Sayville, L. I.

FOSDICK, Charles Austin:

(Harry Castlemon) ; author of juvenile stories, was born at Randolph, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1842; educated at the Central High School, Buffalo; and when the war broke out enlisted in the Mississippi Squadron; he served as landsman on the magazine ship Illinois, and store ship Sovereign, and made a trip down the river to provi- sion the ironclads that were blockaded by low water at St. Helena; served as paymaster's steward on board the gun- boat St. Clair, on Cumberland river, and during the Yazoo Pass Expedition and other operations which ended in the sur- render of Vicksburg; was on the Choctaw as captain's clerk during the Red River Expedition under Lieutenant Commander Ramsay (now admiral), and was ordered

to Mound City to accept promotion; was receiver and superintendent of coal when the war closed; in the navy and militia he had served the old flag eight years and four months; is a prominent member of G. A. R .; in 1873 he married Sarah Eliza- beth, the daughter of John Stoddard, a West Point graduate, who, at the time of his death, was chief engineer of the Brooklyn Water Works; he commenced writing at the age of fifteen; the books that are the best known are the Gunboat Series and the War Series. Address, .

Westfield, N. Y.

FOSTER, Benjamin:

Artist; born North Anson, Me., July 31, 1852; studied in New York and Paris, and is represented in the public collections of the Montreal Art Association, Boston Art Club, Corcoran Art Gallery, Brooklyn Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Luxembourg Gallery of Paris; received a. medal at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago; bronze medal at the Paris Exposition, 1900; sil- ver medal at the Pan-American Exposi- tion, Buffalo; silver medal at the Carne- gie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1900, and the Webb Prize, Society of American Artists, 1901. Member of the N. Y. W. C. Club So- ciety of American Artists, and associate of the National Academy of Design. Address, 253 W. 42d St., New York.

FOSTER, Fred W .:

Captain U. S. Army; born in Pennsyl- vania, and appointed from New York; graduated from the Military Academy and promoted to second lieutenant June, 1877; served on frontier duty at Camp Brown, Wyoming, 1877, to May, 1878; at Fort Mc- Kinney, Wyoming, 1878, to Aug., 1879; on leave of absence Aug. 1879, to Nov. 25, 1879; at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, May to July, 1880; at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, 1880, to April, 1883; at Fort Niobrara, Ne- braska, to May, 1885; promoted to first lieutenant, April 1, 1885; at Fort Reno, Indian Territory, 1886; captain, June 1, 1897. Address, Fort Apache, Arizona.

FOSTER, W. Bert:

Author; born Providence, R. I., Nov. 3, 1869; began to write juvenile fiction, 1886; adult fiction nine years later; came to New York, 1899; magazine writer. Books: "The Lost Galleon," 1901; "With Wash- ington at Valley Forge," "The Treasure of Southlake Farm," 1902; "With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga," "In Alaskan Wa- ters," 1903; "On the Eve of War," "The Lost Expedition," 1904. Address, P. O. Box 66, Madison Square, New York, N. Y.

FOWLER, Bishop Charles Henry, D. D .: LL.D .:

Was born in Burford, Ont .. Can., Aug. 11, 1837; his father, Horatio Fowler, was born in Troy, N. Y., of English-Scotch

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ancestry; his mother, Harriet Ryan, was born in Vermont, daughter of Henry Ryan, who for thirty years was presid- ing elder and planted Methodism in Ver- mont and in the wilds of Canada; he married a Miss Patterson, a cousin of Noah Webster. Young Fowler made his way with little aid through both college and a theological school, working as a farm hand during the summer vacations; he graduated from Genesee College in 1859, and from Garrett Biblical Institute in 1861; in 1868 he was married to Myra A., daughter of the Rev. Dr. Luke Hitch- cock, of Chicago. Bishop Fowler was pas- tor of Chicago churches for eleven years; president of Northwestern University, 1872-6; sent to General Conference in 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884; presented to Rock River Conference plan to pool interests of churches after Chicago fire, 1871. Ap- pointed by governor of Illinois to deliver oration at Centennial Exposition, Phila- delphia, 1876; elected editor New York Christian Advocate, 1876; elected corres- ponding secretary of the Missionary So- ciety. 1880; elected bishop, May, 1884; vis- ited South America, 1885; resumed work in United States in 1886; visited Japan, Korea, and China in 1880; organized Pekin University, Nankin University, Central China; organized First Methodist Epis- copai Church, St. Petersburg, Russia; made trip around the world, visiting missions in Malaysia and India, and hold- ing conferences in Europe; worked eight years on the Pacific Coast; establishing Maclay College of Theology in Southern California; assisted in founding Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln. Bishop Fowler was the author of the movement to raise $20,000,000 as a twentieth cen- tury thank offering from the Methodist Episcopal Church; he introduced it into the meeting of the Board of Bishops and secured its adoption; he wrote the ap- peals sent out by the commissions ap- pointed to manage the movement; the movement was a success. Over $21,000,- 000 were raised; he was also the originator of the Open Door Emergency Commission, which culminated in the great Cleveland Convention, where $235,000 were raised in one evening. His address at Cleveland on "Our Opportunities" and at the great Philadelphian Convention on "Missions and World Movements" were master- pieces, attracting national attention. Bis- hop Fowler occupies a unique position in the lecture field; his lecture on Abraham Lincoln has never been surpassed; he also lectures on Grant, Mckinley, Great Deeds of Great Men, Muscle versus Brain, and the Bible the Prophet of Science, all of which have been widely heard; he was fraternal delegate from the general con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church to the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Great Britain in 1898; he made an ad- dress before that body which was widely commended as an international document. It is as a preacher of the Gospel that

Bishop Fowler is most remarkable; his words are simple and direct, being of Saxon origin; he handles the greatest themes and speaks out of conviction and is full of illustrations enriching with his- toric examples and with facts from sci- ence and nature. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

FOWLER, Charles S .:

Chief examiner, New York State Civil Service Commission; born at Gouverneur, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1866; graduated from Cor- nell University, 1888; admitted to bar of New York State, 1897; instructor in Mathematics, Cornell University, 1889-95; chief examiner, New York State Civil 1 Service Commission, 1896. Address, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y.

FOWLER, Edward Payson, M. D .:

Born at Cohocton, Steuben County, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1834, being the youngest son of Judge Horace and Mary Fowler; he is descended from old Puritan stock, being the sixth lineal descendant of Wil- liam Fowler, who came to Massachusetts in 1630; his grandfather, Eliphalet Fowler, entered the Revolutionary army as a pri- vate, and retired with the rank of major; his mother was the grandniece of Mary Phillipse, the first love of George Wash- ington, whom her parents took to Europe to break off the attentions of the young Virginian, then unknown to fame; he en- tered the New York Medical College in 1851, and graduated in 1855 as first prize man. He immediately entered into part -. nership witn Drs. Gray and Hull, who had then perhaps the most extensive and lucrative practice in New York City; in consequence, his practice became unusual- ly large almost from its commencement; in addition to the "Old School" system of medicine, he studied homeopathy, and practiced it in connection with the former, looking upon the two systems as com- ponent parts of a unit. He was always distinctly in opposition to sectarianism in medicine, declaring that medicine

was a unit, and should be dealt with as such; his views in this direction were shared by the thinking part of the "Old School," which in 1878 adopted those rules, for New York State, known as the "New Code"; under this the only qualification demanded for a physician is the legally required medical education, and the "Old School" became practically the Comprehensive School. This action was not endorsed by the homeopathists, and consequently he withdrew from his former connection and joined the compre- hensive school of medicine-not as indi- cating a change in his views, but a con- sistent agreement with his long expressed doctrine of the unity of medical practice. He served in the Ward's Island and Hahnemann Hospitals, and in 1887 re- ceived the honorary degree of M. D. from the Board of Regents of the State of New York, and the appointment of examiner

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in anatomy in "the first board of New York State Examiners for conferring medical degrees." He was one of the founders of the New York Medico-Chir- urgical Society, and served as its presi- dent; he is also a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Neurological Society, the Medical Society of the County of New York, and other societies; his attention has been de- voted assiduously to his profession, but he is unusually well versed in business affairs; politically he is an ardent Repub- lican, and is a member of the Union League Club; was married, in 1873, to Miss M. Louise Mumford, now deceased, and has two children-Edward Mumford Fowler and Louise . Mumford Fowler- surviving; author of valuable medical works, including "Ætiology and General History of Scarlet Fever," "Pseudo-Ty- phoid Fever," "Certain Maladies of the Heart," "Abnormalities of the Cerebral Convolutions," etc .; he has also translated from the French and German such works as Charcot's "Localization in Diseases of the Brain," Richert's "Physiology and Histology of the Cerebral Convolutions," and Benedikt's "Anatomical Study of the Brains of Criminals." He has in addition delivered many lectures before medical bodies. Address, 38 West 40th St., New York.

FOWLER, George Ryerson, M. D .:

Son of Thomas W. and Sarah Jane Fowler; was born in New York City, Dec. 25, 1848; after receiving a preparatory education he graduated in 1871 from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He at once entered upon the practice of his profession in Brooklyn, and was appoint- ed on the staff of the Central Dispensary; he was commissioned one of the medi- cal officers of the Fourteenth Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York on the staff of Colonel James McLeer, and soon thereafter became the founder of the Brooklyn Anatomical So- ciety, of which he became the president. He has since served as examiner in sur- gery, Medical Examining Board of the Regents of the University of the State of New York; surgeon to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital; surgeon-in-chief to the Brooklyn Hospital; senior surgeon to the German Hospital; consulting surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, the Relief Hos- pital (Eastern District), and the Nor- wegian Hospital. During a trip to Europe in 1884, he was present at a meeting for the distribution of ambulance certificates, at a watering place on the Lancashire Coast. He when formed the resolution of establishing classes for instruction în first aid to the injured in the United States, and in 1885 his first classes were established at the New York State Camp at Peekskill; instruction was afterward given in the armories, and by military order imparted to all the National Guard organizations, it being regarded as a part

of a soldier's duty to possess such know- ledge; the movement was quickly followed by an order from the adjutant general's office, in Washington, ordering similar instruction to be given at all military posts in the United States; in 1890 he or- ganized the Red Cross Society of Brook- lyn, and became its president. During the Cuban War he was requested to serve as surgeon to the Third Division of the Seventh Army Corps, with General Fitzhugh Lee, and later acted as consult- ing surgeon and chief operating staff of the Seventh Army Corps, accompanying General Lee to Havana. To Dr. Fowler is due the credit of organizing a perfect system of hospitals for the use of disabled soldiers, which patriotic service was high- ly commended. He is the author of many valuable works on medical and surgical subjects, which have obtained wide pub- licity, especially his work on "Appendi- citis," a second edition of which work has recently appeared, also a translation into German. He is a member of the leading scientific societies of New York and Brooklyn; is a fellow of the New York Surgical Society; fellow of the American Surgical Association, and its treasurer; fellow of the New York Academy of Med- icine; was president of the Medical So- ciety of the County of Kings; and presi- dent of the Brooklyn Surgical Society; he is a member also of the Nassau Coun- ty and Montauk Clubs. Was married, in 1873, to Miss Louise R. Wells, of Norris- town, Pa. Residence, 302 Washington Ave .; office, 301 De Kalb Ave., Brooklyn.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 53

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