Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 55

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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American Revolution; he married, in 1870, Miss Margaret L. Blanche; they have three children-the eldest, LeRoy Frost, being a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and also a member of the firm of W. S. Gurnee, Jr., & Co., and Fred J. Frost and Blanche Frost. Address, 80 Broadway, New York.

FROTHINGHAM, Washington:

Clergyman and author; born Fonda, N. Y., Feb. 28, 1822; after his education, be- came clerk in New York, later engaging in wholesale business for himself; this he abandoned, studying for ministry at Princeton, and being ordained in Pres- byterian Church, 1855; founder of West Side Presbyterian Church, Albany, N. Y .; is the originator of the present system of New York correspondence to the principal inland cities, including Troy, Hartford, Rochester, Cincinnati and Chicago, and has been thus engaged more than forty years. Author of "Atheos, or Tragedies of Unbelief," 1863; "The Martel Papers: Life Scenes in the Reign of Terror," 1865, also of a collection of miscellany entitled "Rambles of a Journalist." Address, Fonda. N. Y.

FULLAM, William Freeland:

Lieutenant-commander, U. S. Navy; born in New York State, 1855; entered Naval Academy, Sept. 24, 1873; graduated, No. 1 in his class, June, 1877; Marion and Trenton, European Station, 1877-79; final graduation, June, 1879; midshipman, 1879- 80; Swatara, China Station, 1879-82; pro- moted ensign, March 13, 1880; Naval Academy, department of applied mathe- matics, and in charge Battalion of Infan- try, 1883 to 1887; practice ship Dale, 1883 and 1884; practice ship Constellation, 1886; promoted lieutenant (junior grade), Oct. 7, 1886; Boston, 1887-89; Vesuvius, 1889; Yorktown, Squadron of Evolution, 1889-90; Chicago, Squadron of Evolution, 1890; Naval Academy, department of ord- nance and gunnery, and in charge Bat- talion of Infantry, 1891-94; promoted lieu- tenant, May 28, 1892; Raleigh, North At- lantic Squadron of Evolution, 1894-97; Amphitrite, North Atlantic Station, 1897; Naval Academy, departments of physics and discipline, 1897-98; U. S. S. New Or- leans, May, 1898 (Admiral Sampson's fleet, blockade of Cuba and Porto Rico); bom- bardment of Santiago, May . and June, 1898; blockade and occupation of San Juan, July to September; Naval Academy, Department of Ordnance, Oct., 1898; U. S. S. Lancaster, July 1, 1899, to June, 1902; promoted to lieutenant-commander, Dec. 29, 1899; Naval Academy, Annapo- lis, Md., Aug., 1902-03; head of Depart- ment of Ordnance, April, 1903. Address, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.

FULLER, Edward Laton:

Capitalist; was born at Hanley, near Scranton, Pa., Oct. 10, 1851; he is the

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son of Edward Charles and Ellen (Ruth- ven) Fuller, the father being a prosperous wholesale druggist of Hanley. The boy was educated at the public schools and at the Scranton High School; when only seven- teen years of age he became a partner in the hardware firm of Hunt Bros. & Co., of Scranton; he remained there for eight years, and then he went into the anthra- cite coal business in and around Scranton. In quick succession he became connected with the Old Forge Coal Company, the Newton Coal Company, the Girard Coal Company, and many others; he also went into the salt business, and became identi- fied with many coal railroads; subsequent- ly took offices in New York City; he is in- terested in many corporations and com- panies, being president of the Avery Rock Salt Company; president of the Interna- tional Salt Company; president of the Carbondale Gas Company; director of the Delaware Valley & Kingston Railway; president and treasurer of the Genesee and Wyoming Railroads; president and treasurer of the Greigsville & Pearl Creek Railroads; president and director of the Utica Street Railway; president and treasurer of the Livonia & Lake Conesus Railroad. Was married to Miss Helen M. Silkman, of Scranton, having one son, Mortimer B., who is with his father in business; he belongs to many prominent clubs and social organizations, among them the Union League, Lawyers', and Transportation, of New York City; the Maryland, of Baltimore, and the Scranton City and Country Clubs. Address, 170 Broadway, New York.

FUREY, Colonel John V .:

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army; born in New York; appointed from New York, private to Company C, Fourteenth New York Militia (afterwards Eighty-fourth New York Volunteers), April 18, 1861; participated in the battle of Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, and bat- tle of Antietam; discharged from mili- tary service to accept a civil appointment in the quartermaster's department, Sept. 28, 1862; served in a civil capacity in the quartermaster's department at headquar- ters of the Army of the Potomac and Third Army Corps, from Sept. 29, 1862, to April 6, 1864. Appointed captain and as- sistant quartermaster of Volunteers, April 7, 1864; assigned to duty at Washington, D. C., in the inspection branch of the quartermaster general's office, June 1, 1864; relieved, Feb. 1, 1867, and ordered to Macon, Ga., as chief quartermaster, district of the Chattahoochie; relieved, March 31, 1867, and ordered to duty in the Department of Dakota, and assigned to duty in the department as post and dis- trict quartermaster of the middle district, and in charge of the construction of Fort Stevenson, D. T., July, 1867. Relieved at Fort Stevenson, May, 1868, and ordered to Fort Totten, D. T., to superintend the construction of that post, and also general

supervision of the transportation of sup- plies between Forts Totten and Steven- son; Dec. 1, 1868, was assigned to duty at St. Paul; Sept. 4, 1869, ordered to Fort Abercrombie for duty as post quarter- master; March 24, 1870, assigned to duty at Sioux City, Iowa; Nov. 17, 1871, ordered to duty in the military division of the Pacific and assigned to duty in the De- partment of Arizona as depot quarter- master and commissary at Tucson, A. T .; also post quartermaster and in charge of the construction of Fort Lowell, A. T .; Jan. 10, 1874, ordered to Fort Adams, R. I., for duty as post quartermaster; June 28, 1875, assigned to duty in the quarter- master general's office; March 16, 1876, ordered for duty at Omaha, Neb .; in the field as chief quartermaster and ordnance officer of the Big Horn and Yellowstone expedition, under command of Brigadier- General George Crook, also chief quarter- master of the Powder River expedition ;. assigned, May 8, 1877, to duty at Omaha, Neb., as depot quartermaster; Oct. 11, 1883, ordered to Santa Fe, N. M., as chief and depot quartermaster, district of New Mexico; July 1, 1884, ordered to Chicago, Ill., as disbursing and purchasing officer; May 11, 1886, ordered to Schuylkill Arsenal for duty; Dec. 4, 1890, ordered to St. Paul, Minn., as chief quartermaster, Depart- ment of Dakota; Feb. 1, 1896, ordered to Philadelphia, Pa., to assume charge of the general depot of the quartermaster's de- partment. Brevetted major, March 13, 1865, for meritorious services in the quar- termaster's department; retired, 1903, with rank of brigadier-general. Address, 10 Eighth St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

GAFFNEY, Fannie H .:

Author; born Lockport, N. Y .; daughter of John Marston and Elizabeth R. Smith; studied at Bay View Institute and New York University; traveled extensively in Europe and America; representative from the United States at the Inter- national Congress of Women, which was held in London in June, 1899; president National Council of Women, 1889-1902; has long been interested in matters per- taining to the advancement and higher education of women, on which she has written for some of the leading English and American periodicals; since 1899 has been president of the National Council of Women of the United States; married, first, Jay Humphreys, second, T. St. J. Gaffney; member Professional Women's League, American Authors, and Municipal Art Society. Address, 41 Riverside Drive, New York.

GAGE, Lyman J .:

Ex-Secretary of the Treasury; was born in De Ruyter, Madison County, N. Y., June 28, 1836; he was educated in the

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common schools, and in the Rome (N. Y.) Academy; entered the banking business at the age of eighteen, and obtained the position of bookkeeper in 1858 in the Mer- chants' Loan & Trust Company, of Chi- cago; in 1868 he was cashier of the in- stitution, but resigned to accept the place of cashier of the First National Bank of Chicago; the bank was re-organized in 1882 with a capital of $3,000,000, and he was made vice-president and general manager; in 1891 he was made its presi- dent; appointed by President Mckinley Secretary of the Treasury, serving from 1897 to 1902; since April, 1902, he has been president of the U. S. Trust Company, New York. Residence, 14 East 60th St., New York; office, 45 Wall St., New York.

GAGE, Simon Henry, B. S .:

Teacher of biology; born in Otsego County, N. Y., May 20, 1851; educated in the schools of New York State and in Cornell University, graduating from the latter in 1877; instructor and professor in Cornell University since 1878; fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, and chairman of its section of microscopy and histology in 1885, of its section of biology in 1892, and, of the section of zoology in 1899; president of the American Microscopical Society in 1895, and of the New York State Science Teachers' Association in 1896; member of the Washington Academy of Sciences; of the Association of American Anatomists; associate member of the American Medical Association; honorary member of the New York State Veterin- ary Medical Association; one of the seven editors of the American Journal of Anat- omy. Author of "The Microscope" (now in its 9th edition) ; author of many papers in the proceedings of learned societies; contributor to encyclopædias and diction- aries; joint author with Prof. B. G. Wil- der "The Anatomical Technology." Member of the Delta Upsilon College Fra- ternity, and honorary member the Omega Upsilon Phi Medical Fraternity; at present professor of histology and embryology in Cornell University. Resi- dence, 4 South Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.

GAGE, Susanna Phelps, Ph.B .:

Investigator in biology; born in Morris- ville, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1857; educated at Cazenovia Seminary and at Cornell Uni- versity, graduating in 1880; married Simon Henry Gage, 1881; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence; member of the American Society of Zoologists, of the Association of Ameri- can Anatomists, of the American Micro- scopical Society; member of the Sigma Xi, honorary scientific society; associate member of the Alpha Epsilon Iota, medi- cal sorority; recording secretary of the George Washington Memorial Association. Author of papers on histological, embryo- logical and educational subjects. Resi- dence, 4 South Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.

GAINES, Charles Kelsey:

The author of "Gorgo, a Romance of Old Athens"; born Niagara County, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1854, of old Colonial ances- try on both sides; his father was for many years president of St. Lawrence Univer- sity. At the age of sixteen he went to Canton, N. Y., where he completed his preparation for college and graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1876, in this college he first met Irving Bachel- ler. Immediately after graduation he was called to the chair of Greek in his alma mater, and soon became a notable factor in the life of the college; he was one of the founders of the college paper "The Laurentian," and is the author of the college song, "Scarlet and Brown." Two years after graduation married Campbel- lina Pendleton Woods, also a graduate of St. Lawrence, a cousin of John K. Cowen, former president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; they have one son, Clarence Hurd Gaines. Professor Gaines is a mem- ber of the Beta Theta Pi college frater- nity, of Phi Beta Kappa, and of the Am- erican Philological Association; in 1892 received the degree of Ph.D. from Lom- bard University; during the same year he spent six months in foreign travel, Greece and Egypt being the points of prime in- terest. From 1895 to 1900 he was associ- ated with his friend, Irving Bacheller, in the Bacheller Newspaper Syndicate in . New York City, and while so engaged published a number of short stories and several poems, most of which appeared in the Pocket Magazine; among the stor- ies may be mentioned "The Sickle of Fire," "Jack, Where Be Ye?," and "The Eye of Ammon Ra," and among the poems "The Dirge," "The Second Death," and "In Evidence." In 1900 he returned to his professorship in St. Lawrence, where "Gorgo," treating of a period with which he has a lifelong familiarity, was written in the intervals of his college duties. Ad- dress, St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y.

GALBRAITH, Anna Mary:

Practicing physician; was born at Carl- isle, Pa. Received her education in the public schools of Cumberland County and Vassar College; graduated from the Wo- man's Medical College, of Pennsylvania, in 1884; the two years following was spent in post-graduate work in Vienna and Munich. In 1886 was appointed gyneco- logical clinician and assistant to the gy- necological staff of the Woman's Hos- pital, of Philadelphia. On her removal to New York for the practice of her profes- sion in 1889 she was appointed attending clinician and instructor in clinical medi- cine at the New York Infirmary, and at- tending physician to the neurological de- partment of the New York Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital, which position she still holds. Was president of the New York branch of Vassar Students' Aid

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Society, 1892-93; president of the Alum- næ Association Woman's Medical College, Pennsylvania, 1897-99. Member Woman's Medical Association, New York; New York County Medical Society; fellow,New York Academy of Medicine. Writer of numer- ous journal articles; 1895, published "Hy- giene and Physical Culture for Women": in 1901 published "The Four Epochs of Woman's Life." Address, 15 West 91st St., New York.

GALLANT, A. Ernest, M.D .:

Physician; son of the Rev. Walter and Sarah Gallant; born in Sudbury, England, on June 27, 1861; when ten years of age his father emigrated to Honesdale, Pa., and later moved to Paterson, N. J., where the boy obtained his education; after special preparation he entered the medical department of Columbia University (P. & S.), New York, and graduated in 1890; served as interne in the St. Joseph's Hos- pital, Paterson, N. J .; the Sloane Matern- ity Hospital, 1891; and the New York Cancer Hospital, 1892; then began private practice Jan. 1, 1893; since that time has been instructor in surgery in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, 1894- 96, and in the same capacity in the New York Polyclinic, 1897-99; was assistant surgeon Lebanon Hospital, 1894-95, and attending gynaecologist to the Metropol- itan Hospital and Dispensary, and Mc- Donough Memorial Hospital, 1900-02; and the Northern Dispensary, 1893-1903, and the Mothers' and Babies' Hospital, 1900. At the present time is vice-president and treasurer and professor of gynaecology in the New York School of Clinical Medicine; gynaecologist, Side German Dispensary, and assisting gynaecologist, Roosevelt Hospital (O. P D.), since 1893; 1893-5 was lecturer to the Society for Instruction in First Aid to the Injured and examiner since the latter date; in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, under the di- rection of Miss Helen Gould, was medi- cal director of the Women's National War Relief Association, and held the same office in the Soldiers' Comfort Committee of the Board of Trade and Transportation of New York. Married, Jan. 1, 1895, to Eudora Elliot Burkett, formerly of Port Townsend, Wash .; is member of the fol- lowing organizations: New York Academy of Medicine, American Medical Associa- tion, New York State & County Associa- tion; Harlem Medical Association, Great- er New York Medical Association, New York County Medical Society, Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, Society Medical Jurisprudence, Society Alumni Sloane Maternity Hospital, American Urological Association; has contributed numerous articles to medical literature. Address, 60 West 56th St., New York.

GALLAUDET, Bernard B., M. D .:

Born New York City, Feb. 11, 1860; Trinity A.D., 1880; A.M., 1883; M.D., 1884; College Physicians and Surgeons, In-

terne, New York Hospital, 1884-86; stud- ent Vienna General Hospital, 1886-87; as- sistant dermatologist of anatomy, physi- ology and science, 1887-90; chief surgeon division, Vanderbilt Clinic, 1889-90; sur- geon to Bellevue Hospital, 1889 to present; member New York Surgical Society, New York, Physicians' Mutual Aid Associa- tion, and Association American Anatom- ists. Author of quiz book on surgery; editor Gray's Anatomy. Address, 60 West 50th St., New York.

GAMAGE, Frederick Luther:

Educator; was born in Hopkinton, Mass., June 19, 1860; he is a son of Henry Richard and Abbie (Lackey) Gamage; prepared for college in the high school, Westboro, Mass .; graduated from Brown University in 1882, with degree of A.B .; received degree of A.M. from Brown in 1885, and D. C. L. from Hobart College in 1898; he was instructor in Greek at Delaware Academy, Delhi, N. Y., from 1882-1885; principal of the Oxford Acad- emy, Oxford, N. Y., from 1885 to 1893; appointed inspector of academies and ex- aminer in English by the regents of the University of the State of New York, in 1893; resigned this position; appointed head master of St. Paul's School, Garden City, N. Y., in 1893, which position he now holds; he married Isabella Horner, of Delhi, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1886; he is a member of the Sons of the Revolution and of the University Club of New York. Address, St. Paul's School, Garden City, N. Y.

GANS, Howard S .:

Lawyer; born in New York, in 1872; he entered Harvard in 1889 and was gradu- ated, cum laude, in 1892; after a course in the New York Law School, he was ad- mitted to the bar in 1894, but it was not till 1898 that he began the practice of his profession on his own account. In 1900, Mr. Philbin appointed him deputy- assistant district attorney; and in the fol- lowing year he was directed to make a special study of the law affecting the po- lice and their duties, and assigned to as- sist George W. Schurman, who was then in charge of police prosecutions. The police work of the office was subse- quently entrusted to Mr. Gans, who pre- pared the cases against Bissert, Herlihy, and Diamond, and had general supervi- sion over cases pending against other of- ficers; he represented the district-attor- ney's office in its cooperation in the work of the Committee of Fifteen; when Mr. Jerome became district-attorney, he ap- pointed Mr. Gans one of his assistants and placed him in charge of the appellate work of the office. Address New York City.

GANTREY, Harrison E .:

President Consolidated Gas Company, East River Gas Company, and United

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Electric Light and Power Company; di- rector Astor National Bank, and Lincoln Trust Company. Residence, 18 West 11th St .; office, 4 Irving Place, New York.

GARDENER, Helen Hamilton:

Author; born near Winchester, Va., June 21, 1853; daughter of Rev. Al- fred Griffith and Katherine A. (Pell) Chenoweth; is of old colonial ancestry; educated in Washington, D. C., where her parents early moved; began writing books in 1885. Author of "Men, Women and Gods" (1885); "By Divine Right," "Is this Your Son, my Lord?" (1891); "Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?" (1892) ; "Facts and Fictions of Life" (1893); "An Unofficial Patriot" (1898); "Rev. Griffith Davenport" (1899) ; besides numerous stories; is a writer of much strength, and her works have been translated into Ger- man, French, Russian, and other lan- guages. Married, 1901, Colonel G. S. Day, U. S. Army. Home, 338 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, Cal .; New York address, care R. F. Fenno & Co., 9 East 16th St.

GARDINER, Asa Bird:

Lawyer and major, U. S. Army; born New York, Sept. 30, 1839; retired; appoint- ed from New York; civil life, first lieuten- ant Thirty-first New York Volunteer In- fantry, May 27, 1861; honorably mustered out Aug. 7, 1861; captain Twenty-second New York State Militia May 31, 1862; honorably mustered out, Sept. 5, 1862; captain Twenty-second N. Y. State Militia, June 18, 1863; honorably mustered out July 24, 1863; first lieutenant Veteran R. C., Feb. 11, 1865; accepted May 16, 1865; honorably mustered out Aug. 13, 1866; second lieutenant Ninth United States Infantry July 20, 1866; accepted Aug. 13, 1866; first lieutenant Feb. 14, 1868; trans- fered to First Artillery April 3, 1869; ma- jor and judge advocate Aug. 18, 1873; ac- cepted Aug. 19, 1873; retired Dec. 8, 1888, for disability in line of duty; brevet captain volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war; staff positions occupied, adjutant Seventh V. R. C. from May 29, 1865, to Aug. 13, 1866; acting judge advocate de- partment of the East from July 5, 1871, to Nov. 1, 1872; acting signal officer depart- ment of the East from March 14, 1872, to Dec. 5, 1872; A. D. C. Oct. 4, 1872, to Aug. 19, 1873; acting judge advocate division of the South from May 1, 1873, to Aug. 19, 1873; A. A. A. General Division of the South from May 9, 1873, to July 11, 1873; professor of law at United States Military Academy July 29, 1874, to Aug. 28, 1878; service, in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65; served with regiment in the field in Virginia, 1861; on regimental recruiting service at New York City, July 30, 1861; resigned from that duty Aug. 7, 1861, and resumed the practice of law; under subse- quent proclamation of the President call- ing for troops, raised a company (Twenty-

second New York State Volunteers), and served with regiment in Eighth Corps in Maryland and Shenandoah Valley from May 31, to Sept. 5, 1862; out of service to June 18, 1863, when, as captain of same regiment, under call of the President for troops, served in the field successively in the Army of the Susquehanna and in the Sixth Corps Army of the Potomac, in Pennsylvania and Maryland to the close of the campaign at Williamsport, Md .; during this period had charge of the erection of a two-gun field work at Bridgeport, Pa., June 26-9, to protect the great railroad bridge at that point over the Susquehanna, threatened by the van- guard of the Second Confederate Army Corps under General Ewell, whose head- quarters were at Carlisle; medal of honor for distinguished services performed dur- ing the Civil War; district attorney of New York County, 1897-1900; secretary of General Society of Cincinnati since 1884; president R. I. State Soc. of Cin- cinnati since 1899; member Military Order of Loyal Legion, S.A. R., etc .; also mem- ber of Union, Metropolitan, West Point, Manhattan and other clubs. Address, Garden City, Long Island, N. Y.

GARDINER, Charles A .:

Lawyer; born Canada, Sept. 2, 1855; at- tended public schools in Franklin and Jefferson Counties, N. Y .; graduated from Hamilton College, 1880; Columbia Law School, 1884; has since received degree of A. M. from Hamilton, Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and LL.D. from New York University; admitted to bar, 1885; attorney for Elevated Railway Com- panies of New York City; counsel and di- rector various other railway and financial corporations; trustee New York Univer- sity, 1898; Hamilton College, 1900; regent of the University of the State of New York, 1903; member Phi Beta Kappa, Al- pha Delta Phi, Bar Association of New York City, State Bar Association; mem- ber Metropolitan, Riding, and Ardsley Clubs. Author of "Race Problem in the United States," 1881; "National Aid to Education," 1882; "Proposed Anglo-Amer- ican Alliance," 1898; "Our Right to Ac- quire and Hold Foreign Territory," 1899; "The Constitution and our New Posses- sions," 1900; "A Constitutional and Ed- ucational Solution of the Negro Prob- lem," 1903. Married Alice May Driggs, June, 1890. Residence, 581 Fifth Ave .; office, Western Union Building, New York.

GARDNER, John C. F .:

Lawyer; born at Nantucket, Mass., Jan. 31, 1856; son of Judge Edward Mooers Gardner and Lucy (Russell); married Feb. 6, 1893, Jane Hatch, daughter of Alfred- eric S. Hatch, former member of the firm of Fisk and Hatch, and former president of the New York Stock Exchange; gradu- ated from Columbia College in 1877; mem- ber of the Calumet Club, and Associa-

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tion of Bar; has been engaged large- ly in railroad litigation and representing in the courts holders of defaulted rail- road bonds; was associated as counsel with Charles O'Conor and Ex-Governor Hoadly in the Tennessee Railroad Bond litigation involving many millions; repre- sented Toledo and Wabash Equipment Bondholders in their proceeding against the Wabash Railroad; acted as counsel for receiver Carolina, Cumberland Gap & Charleston Railroad and other railroad companies and English holders of defaulted securities in many litiga- tions. Address, 31 Nassau St., New York.

GARLAND, Hamlin:

Author; born in 1860, near the present site of West Salem, Wis .; son of Richard H. and Isabelle C. (McClintock) Garland; in 1868 the family emigrated to Winne- shik County, Ia .; a year later they moved out on the prairie of Mitchell County, Ia .; he attended district school in winter and worked on the farm during the summer. When about sixteen he became a pupil at Cedar Valley Seminary at Osage, though working as usual on the farm during six months of each year; he graduated in 1881 from this school and for two years tramped through the Eastern States. In 1883 took up a claim in McPherson Coun- ty, Dakota, where he lived for a year on the unsurveyed land; fall of 1884 sold his claim and returned to the East, to Bos- ton, intending to further qualify himself for teaching. He became a pupil and a little later on an instructor in the Boston School of Oratory, and during 1885-6-7-8 and 9, taught private classes in English and American Literature, lecturing in and about Boston on Browning, Shake- speare, The Drama, etc., writing and studying in the public library. In 1887 he revisited his family and friends in Da- kota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. He regards this trip as one marking an epoch in his life for he began to write his Mississippi Valley stories at once; he produced many poems, stories of the prairies and the "Coolly County" in the winter of 1887-8. In 1890 he published "Main Traveled Roads"; in 1891, "Jason Edwards"; 1892, "A Member of the Third House," and "A Spoil of Office"; 1893, "Prairie Songs"; in 1891 he made a series of trips into the West and in 1892 gave up his home in Boston, and came to New York City for the winter. In 1893 he made his literary headquarters in Chicago, purchased a house in his native village, which has been his summer home ever since. His parents returned to West Salem to live with him; in the spring of 1894 published a volume of essays called "Crumbling Idols." In 1895 he completed "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly," and entered upon the writing of a "Life of General Grant"; this work consumed two year's time and de- manded much travel and personal re- search; in 1898 he published this biog-

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 55

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