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graphy and a third volume of short stor- ies called "Wayside Courtship"; in 1898, immediately after completing the Grant Life, Mr. Garland went into the Yukon Valley overland. This trip consumed near- ly six months and forms the basis of a volume called "The Trail of the Gold- Seekers"; in 1899 he published "Boy-Life on the Prairie"; in 1900, "The Eagle's Heart"; in 1901, "Her Mountain Lover"; in 1902, "The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop," his latest book is "Hesper"; in 1899 he married Zulime Taft, daughter of Professor Don Carlos Taft (formerly pro- fessor of geology at Illinois State Univer- sity), and sister of Lorado Taft, the sculptor; Mr. Garland is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and of the Players' Club of New York City, which is his winter home. Address, The Players Club, Gramercy Park, New York. GARNSEY, Elmer E .:
Artist and mural painter; born Holm- del, N. J., Jan. 24, 1862; son of John Crosby and Louisa (Fenton) G .; married Laurada, daughter of Tenbroeck Davis, of Red Bank, N. J .; studied at Cooper In- stitute and Art Students' League, pupil of George W. Maynard and Francis Lath- rop; has painted mural decorations in United States capitol and library of Con- gress, Washington, D. C .; Boston Pub- lic Library, Bowdoin College, Yale Uni- versity Memorial Hall, State House, Prov- idence, R. I .; Riggs National Bank and Evening Star Buildings, Washington, D. C .; Prudential Insurance Building, Newark, N. J .; Carnegie Institute, Me- chanics' National Bank, and Farmers' National Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa .; Columbia University Library, Stock Exchange, New York Life Insurance Company, Equitable Life Insurance Company, University Club, Union Club, Yale Club, Bowery Bank, New York Savings Bank, Greenwich Sav- ings Bank, New York City; Electricity Building, Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, New York State Building, at Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, with recom- pense of bronze medal; United States Pa- vilion, Paris Exposition Universelle, 1900, with recompenses of silver and bronze medals; member Century Association, corresponding member American Insti- tute Architects, vice-president National Society of Mural Painters. Address, 489 Fifth Ave., New York City; residence, "White House," White Plains, N. Y.
GARRETSON, Garret, J .:
Jurist; born Newtown, N. Y., 1847; academic education at private schools and Flushing Institute, Long Island, N. Y .; admitted to bar, 1869; school commission- er, Queens County, New York, 1873-1875; offices, school commissioners, 1873-5; sur- rogate, 1880; county judge in Queens County, 1886-96; member of Greater New York Charter Commission; justice Su- preme Court since 1896. Address, Elm- hurst, N. Y.
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GARRIGUES, Henry Jacques:
Physician; born Copenhagen, Denmark, June 6, 1831; son of Jacques Louis G. and Cecilia Olivia, née Duntzfelt; graduated as A.B. from the University of Copenhagen, and studied medicine for four years, when his health broke down; traveled for four years of which he spent one in New York (1856-57), where his parents had settled, 1848; wrote a French gram- mar that had five editions (1868-1881), ob- tained the degree of A.M. by passing on examination the pivotal part of which was French literature and language, an- cient and modern (1863). Was professor of French at the School of Officers, the Danish West Point (1868-74); graduated as M.D. at the University of Copenhagen, 1869, and has since then practiced medi- cine with obstetrics and gynaecology as specialty. Married, 1868, Louise Riemer, daughter of Ferdinand R., lawyer in Halle; came to New York, 1875. Gynaecol- ogist to the German Dispensary, 1879; obstetric surgeon to New York Materni- ty Hospital, 1881; visiting obstetrician to the New York Infant Asylum, 1884; visit- ing gynaecologist German Hospital, 1885; professor of obstetrics in New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital, 1886; visiting gynaecologist St. Mark's Hos- pital, 1890; consulting obstetric surgeon to New York Maternity Hospital, 1892; professor of gynaecology and obstetrics in New York School of Clinical Medi- cine, 1896; consulting physician New York Mothers' Home and Maternity Hospital. Belongs to many local and na- tional societies, twice president of the German Medical Society, 1889, 1890; presi- dent of the German Social Scientific Un- ion, 1893; honorary fellow of the Ameri- can Gynaecological Society 1901; honor- ary fellow Edinburgh Obstetrical Socie- ty, 1902. Has contributed over a hundred articles to American and foreign jour- nals and written the following books or parts of books: "Gastro-Elytrotomy," 1878; "Diagnosis of Ovarian Cysts by Means of Their Contents" (1882); "Prac- tical Guide to Antiseptic Midwifery in Hospital and Private Practice," (1886); "The Development of the Female Geni- tals" and the "Malformation of the Fe- male Genitals" in "System of Gynaeco- logy by American Authors" (Lea Broth- ers. 1887); "Puerperal Infection" and "Diseases of the Breasts" in "Systems of Obstetrics" (Lea Brothers, 1889) ; "Text-book of Diseases of Women," which has had four editions (1894, 1897, 1900. 1904); "Puerperal Infection" in "American Text-book of Obstetrics" (Saunders, 1895, second edition, 1902);
"Science and . Art Obstetrics, 1902; (second edition, 1904) ; "Elements of Gy- naecology (1904) ; he introduced antiseptic midwifery in America (Oct. 1, 1883), by which he directly and indirectly saved the lives of thousands of women. Ad- dress, 184 East 72d St., New York.
GASTON, George H .:
Second vice-president of the Metropoli- tan Life Insurance Company of New York; was born at Newark, N. J., April 11, 1858. After a public school educa- tion he entered, at the age of sixteen, the service of the Prudential of Newark, where he learned the industrial system of life insurance. He became identified with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as office clerk in 1879; was promoted to head clerk; elected secretary in Jan., 1891; was elected a director at the annual meeting of the stockholders, April 12, 1892, and at the next regular meeting of the board of directors, on April 26, 1892, was elected second vice- president, holding the offices of secretary and second vice-president until May 17, 1894; he then resigned the secretaryship, and has since continued as second vice- president. Address, 1 Madison Ave., New York.
GATES, Eleanor (Mrs. Richard Walton Tully) :
Author; born Shakopee, Minn., Sept. 26, 1875; was student at Stanford Uni- versity, 1894-95; continued education at the University of California, graduating there, 1899-1901; married Richard Walton Tully; playwright employed on staffs of Examiner, Chronicle and (San Francisco) and Enquirer (Oakland) while Call, pursuing studies; held a Phoebe A. Hearst scholarship while at University of California; member of the Pacific Coast Woman's Press . Association. Author of "The Biography of a Prairie Girl," pub- lished in Sept., 1902. Century Co. Resi- dence, Hotel Severance, Broadway at 94th St .. New York City. Permanent address, care of McClure, Phillips & Co., 141 East 25th St., New York.
GATES, Francis H .:
State senator; born July 30, 1839, on the farm known as the Gates Homestead, near village of Chittenango, Madison County, where he now resides; he re- ceived a common school education,
then attended the Yates Polytechnic Institute in the village of Chittenango, and later spent one winter at the Fort Plain Seminary, and later still, two terms at the Clinton beral Insti- tute; he was elected supervisor of his town for five consecutive terms; later, for several terms, he was a member of the Town Auditing Board; he was a delegate to the National Convention in 1900, held at Philadelphia; in 1899 Gov. Roosevelt. appointed him one of the managers of the Western House of Refuge for Women at Albion. He has been for twenty years president of the Madison Ononda- ga Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and he still holds that position; he is one of the directors of the Syracuse Casket Company
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and its vice-president; Mr. Gates is presi- dent of the Central New York Pottery Company, located at Chittenango, and is principal owner and one of the directors of the Salt Springs National Bank of Syracuse; 1902 was elected as State sen- ator; Thomas A. Mckay, received 9,127 votes; at the beginning of the session of 1903 received the following committee ap- pointments: chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, member of Taxation and Retrenchment, Canals, Commerce and Navigation, and Agriculture. Address, Chittenango, Madison County, N. Y.
GAY, Edward:
Artist; · born Ireland, 1837; began art study in Albany, N. Y., with James Hart; studied in Germany, 1862-67, under Schirmer at Carlsruhe, and Lessing at Düsseldorf; 1867 opened studio in New York City; 1870 elected to National Academy of Design; and also member of American Water Color Club, N. Y .; paint- ings, "Mountain Stream" (1860); "Swa- lian Home" (1869); "Late Afternoon, near Albany" (1870); "Ready for Reapers" (1875); "A Quiet Hour" (1876); "The Slopes of the Mohawk" (1877); "East- chester, N. Y.," (1878); "The Last Load, Harvest Time" (1878); "Gathering the Leaves" (1880) ; "Old Estates" (1881) ; "Banks of the Thames" (1882); "On the Sogue Fjord, Norway" (1883); "Norweg- ian Scene" (1884); water-colors, "Fog- gy Morning by the Lake" (1876) ; "A Spring Morning" (1877) ; "Waving Grain" (1884); "Riverside" (1884) ; "Haymaking" (1884); "Rye Fields in Early June" (1885); "Hill-side" (1885); "Oyster Beds in Pelham Bay" (1885); Salt Marshes" (1885); took Metropolitan prize of $2,000 in 1887 for the picture "Broad Acres," presented to the Metropolitan Museum; member of various art societies and life member of the Lotus Club for his achieve- ments in art in 1901. Address, Mount Vernon, N. Y.
GAYLEY, James:
First vice-president U. S. Steel Com- pany since 1901; born Lock Haven, Oct. 11, 1855; graduated Lafayette College, M. E., 1876; chemist Catasauqua, 1877-80; superintendent furnaces, St. Louis and Birdsboro, 1880-85; since 1885 superin- tendent Edgar Thomson Blast Furnaces, where in 1887 and again in 1890 he ob- tained maximum yield of iron on record; has written papers in Proc. Amer. Inst. Mining Eng. Address, 71 Broadway, New York.
GAYNOR, William Jay:
Jurist; born Whitestown, Oneida Coun- ty, N. Y., in 1851; from Boston, where he completed his academic education, he went to Brooklyn in 1873 and engaged in journalistic work while pursuing the study of the law; in 1875 he was admit-
ted to the bar and soon took a prominent place among the leaders of his profession, appearing before the courts in a number of important cases. He became known and feared as a relentless foe of corruption in public life, and gained a national reputa- tion by his effective work in breaking up "rings" within the Democratic party, of which party he was himself an adher- ent, and by the part he took in securing the conviction of a notorious and power- ful Democratic "boss" for election frauds; was elected justice of the Supreme Court of New York in 1893 on the nomination of the Republicans and Independent Dem- ocrats; writer on legal subjects. Ad- dress, 20 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
GELERT, Johannes Sophus:
Sculptor; born at Nybel, Schleswig, Denmark (now Prussia), Dec. 10, 1852; son of Ludwig Christian Friedrich and Constance A. F. (Pedersen) Gelert. In 1866 the family moved to Copenhagen, where he was apprenticed to a wood carver; in 1870 he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, graduating with honor in 1875. In 1877 he made a tour through Germany, subsequently spend- ing fifteen months in Paris, where he executed his colossal group, the Norse god, Thor, combatting a bull, exhibited at the Salon of 1878. In the following year went to Berlin, where he worked three years on large monumental works. In 1882, having executed a number of decorative statues for a theatre in Copen- hagen, was awarded a scholarship by the Danish government, upon which he went to Rome to continue his studies. After nine months he returned to Copenhagen, and in 1887 came to this country, where he spent his first eleven years working at his art in Chicago; in 1898 removed to New York and opened a studio. Mem- ber of National Sculpture Society and Architectural League. Became a citizen, Nov., 1892. Among his works are the Haymarket, Chicago, monument, com- memorating the heroism of the policemen at the anarchistic riot of 1886; the statue of General Grant at Galena, Ill .; statue of Hans Christian Andersen and heroic bust of Beethoven, in Lincoln Park, Chicago; the colossal group of laborers, "The Struggle for Work," at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; the "Ascension of the Soul." Awarded gold medal, Phila- delphia Art Club, Nov. 7, 1899, for his group of two children called the "Little Atheletes," sold at Paris Exposition, 1900. Residence, 2435 Walton Ave., Fordham; studio, 11 East 14th St., New York.
GEORGE, William R .:
Founder of the Junior Republic, was born in West Dryden, Tompkins County, N. Y., June 4, 1866; his family removed to New York City in 1880; while engaged in business in New York City, he became very much interested in work for boys
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and girls, and in 1890 took a group of children to Freeville for the summer, and for five years thereafter different groups were taken each summer for an outing. In studying children and the work being done for them he came to the conclusion that giving the children every- thing they needed free, tended to in- crease pauperism among them. While thinking over a remedy for this he con- ceived the idea of starting a junior re- public modeled after the United States Government and in 1895 put his ideas into operation. The plan worked so well and so much general interest was aroused that the work was at once incorporated and placed on a permanent basis. The summer feature was abandoned and a permanent institution which is now ex- citing wide interest was established. Ad- dress, Freeville, N. Y.
GERARD, James Watson:
Lawyer; born in Geneseo, N. Y., in 1867; he is the son of the late James W. Gerard, a well-known attorney who was a State Senator and a prominent mem- ber of the Board of Education as well as an author of law books which are ac- cepted as standard authority, among them "Gerard's Title to Real Estate." Educated at Wilson and Kellogg's School, New York City, St. Paul's School, Garden City, and at Columbia College, from which institution he was graduated in 1890; took a special course in political science and in 1891 gained the degree of Master of Arts; a year later he was grad- uated from the New York Law School, entering the office of Bowers & Sands soon afterwards. His services at the bar were continued in conjunction with that firm until 1899, when he was admitted into partnership; he is an advocate of many large corporations and financial in- stitutions; has been successful in a num- ber of celebrated cases, among them, Gusthal versus William M. Strong, may- or, involving the validity of the King's Bridge franchise granted to the Third Avenue Road. He was one of counsel for the Press Publishing Company in the suit of that corporation against the
Ramapo Water Company, in which the complainant sought to restrain the issu- ance of a franchise to the corporation respondent; associated with the Hon. William Hornblower, he was also re- cently retained by the Rice Institute and by Captain James A. Baker, of Texas, against Albert T. Patrick, who claimed part of the estate of the late William Marsh Rice under alleged bills of sale and negotiable paper. He entered the National Guard of New York State as second lieutenant of Company F, Twelfth Infantry, and in 1892 he attained his captaincy; with that rank he served as an aide on the staff of General Mc- Coskry Butt during the Spanish-Ameri- can War; in June, 1900, he was appoint-
ed quartermaster with the rank of major of the First Brigade; at end of war he was mustered out and resumed the prac- tice of his profession. He is a member of the Union, Tuxedo, Country, University, New York Athletic, Riding, Fencers' and Democratic Clubs, as well as of the Bar Association and the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution; he is also president of the Lawyers' Advertising Company, a corporation which publishes legal notices and advertisements required by law. Residence, 725 Fifth Ave., New York.
GERHARD, William Paul:
Civil engineer, consulting engineer for hydraulic and sanitary works; born in Hamburg, Germany, July 30, 1854; par- ents: Bernard and Mathilde (Huehn) ; educated at Italian College at Alexan- dria, Egypt; Latin School at Kiel, Ger- many; studied and graduated at Tech- nical University at Karlsruhe, Baden, 1871-75; 1875-76 served in the Prussian Railroad Regiment (of the Guards) in Berlin as "volunteer." Civil engineer in Hamburg, 1876-77; came to the United States in 1877, settling in St. Louis, Mo .; May 10, 1881, married to Selma Weis- kirch, of Milwaukee, Wis., who died Nov. 27, 1901. Assistant engineer to the president of Board of Public Works, St. Louis, Mo., 1877-79; in Captain James B. Eads' office, St. Louis, 1879-1880; chief assistant to Colonel George E. Waring, Jr., at Newport, R. I., 1881 to 1883; since then lived in New York; chief engineer Durham House Drainage Company, New York, 1883 to 1884; 1885 to 1886 editor of Building, an architectural weekly; since 1884 in practice as consulting engineer for hydraulic and sanitary works, gas service and fire protection, chiefly for buildings, but also for towns and cities; from 1892 to 1899 inclusive, on the staff of the state architect of New York State as sanitary engineer. Author of the fol- lowing works: "House Drainage and Sanitary Plumbing," ten editions; "Re- cent Practice in the Sanitary Drainage of Buildings," "The Disposal of House- hold Wastes," two editions; "Gas Light- ing and Gas Fitting," three editions; "Sanitary House Inspection," three edi- tions; "The Prevention of Fire," two editions; "Theatre Fires and Panics, their Causes and their Prevention," "Fire Pro- tection, Comfort and Sanitation in The- atres," "Sanitary Engineering," "Sani- tary Engineering of Buildings," volume one; volume two in preparation; author of three German works; contributor of about seventy articles to the Dictionary of Architecture. Member of American
Public Health Association, Technical Society of New York, Brooklyn Engi- neers' Club, New England Water Works Association, American Forestry Associa- tion, American Geographical Society, Na- tional Geographic Society, Brooklyn In- stitute of Arts and Sciences; member
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Germanic Museum of Harvard College, Cambridge, etc .; corresponding member American Institute of Architects; corres- ponding member British Fire Prevention Committee; consulting engineer to Health Department of the City of Brooklyn, 1895- 97. Residence, 39 Strong Place, Brook- lyn; office, 33 Union Square, New York.
GERRY, Elbridge Thomas:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Dec. 25, 1837, is the son of Thomas R. Gerry, a naval officer, and grandson of Elbridge Gerry, a man of the highest note in the early history of the United States, having been one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, governor of Massachu- setts, and vice-president of the United States. The father of this distinguished American, Thomas Gerry, the first of the family in this country, came to America in 1730, and lived as a merchant in Mar- blehead, Mass. Educated at Columbia University, graduating in 1857; subse- quently studied law in the office of Wil- liam Curtis Noyes, was admitted to the bar in 1866, and immediately afterwards was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. Shortly after his admission he formed a leg- al partnership with his former pre- ceptor, Mr. Noyes, and upon the death of the latter entered into partnership with Hon. William F. Allen, judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Benjamin V. Abbott, a well-known legal author. Eventually Judge Allen withdrew, and the firm was afterwards continued under the name of Abbott & Gerry. Has ob- tained an extensive practice, and taken part in many important cases, both civil and criminal; aided in defending McFar- land, on trial for homicide, conducted some notable will cases, and was con- cerned in other trials of leading import- ance; in 1867 was elected a member of the constitutional convention of New York State, and was on its committee on the pardoning power; has since then been very active in humane work, into which he entered in connection with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, after its formation by Henry Bergh; co-operated with Mr. Bergh in the work of this society and to his efforts most of the legislation affect- ing animals in New York law is chiefly due. On the subsequent formation of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1874, the result of his efforts, he entered into its work, and since 1879 has acted as its president, and has won a national reputation through his in- cessant efforts in its behalf. During the existence of this society it has in- vestigated the cases of more than two hundred thousand children, and rescued more than forty thousand from neglect and destitution, or from vicious surround- ings, and placed them in moral and com- fortable homes. Through the example and
encouragement of the New York Society nearly two hundred similar associations have been formed in the United States and a large number in foreign countries. In 1886 was appointed by the State Sen- ate, in association with Hon. Matthew Hale and Dr. A. P. Southwick, to con- sider the most humane and effective method of executing criminals sentenced to death; as a consequence of the report of this commission, the State of New York adopted its present system of elec- trical execution in place of the old sys- tem of hanging. Since 1885 has been a governor of the New York Hospital; in 1889 served as chairman of the execu- tive committee of the centennial celebra- tion, and in 1892 was chairman of the commission to consider the best method of caring for the insane of New York City; he is trustee of the Protestant Episcopal General Theological Seminary, and from 1885 to 1892 acted as commo- dore of the New York Yacht Club; was married in 1867 to Louisa M. Livingston, granddaughter of Morgan Lewis, former Governor of New York and Grand Mas- ter of the Masonic fraternity; chairman New York City Commission on Insanity; director Fifth Avenue Trust Company since 1897; Newport Trust Company, 1901; Industrial Trust Company, Providence, since 1902. member New York Yacht, Turf and Field, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, and numerous other clubs. Residence, Newport, R. I .; office, 261 Broadway, New York.
GERSTER, Arpad Geyza, M. D .:
Born Kassa, Hungary, Dec. 22, 1848; Gymnasium at Kassa, 1866; M. D., Ch.D. and O. M., Vienna University, Austria, 1872; visiting surgeon German Hospital, New York, 1878; visiting surgeon Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, 1879; profes- sor of surgery New York Polyclinic, 1882- 94; member American Surgical Associa- tion, German Surgical Association, New York Surgical Society, New York County and State Medical Societies, New York Academy of Medicine. Address, 34 East 75th St., New York.
GETTY, Robert N .:
Major, U. S. Army; born and appointed froin New York; son of Major General George W. Getty, of the class of 1840; graduated from the Military Academy, June, 1878, and promoted to second lieu- tenant; served in garrison at Fort Wayne, Mich., 1878 to 1879; was on frontier duty in Texas, 1879 to 1882, and at Fort Gar- land, Colo., 1882 to 1883; on frontier duty at Fort Lewis, Colo., where he was en- gaged in a skirmish with the Ute Indians, 1884 to 1888; promoted to first lieuten- ant, Dec., 1886; at Fort Keogh, Montana, Aug., 1888; captain Twenty-second In- fantry, March 17, 1896; transferred to First Infantry, Jan. 23, 1899; major, July 23, 1901. Address, Fort Brady, Mich.
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GIBBS, Edward Nathan:
Treasurer of the New York Life Insur- ance Company; was born Jan., 1841, in Blandford Mass .; educated in public schools; at the age of sixteen entered business life as a clerk in the office of the Berkshire division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway Com- pany; he left this position to accept that of accountant in large dry goods house in Pittsfield. Mass .; after three years be- came discount clerk in the Thames Na- tional Bank, of Norwich, Conn .; here he subsequently became vice-president, and later. in 1890, president. When, in 1892, the office of treasurer was created in the New York Life Insurance Com- pany, he was asked . to assume the re- sponsibilities attached to this office, and in this capacity, as chairman of the finance committee, he has the oversight of $120,000,000; he is also president of the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Com- pany, of Adams, Mass .; is a member of the Metropolitan, University and Players' Clubs; he married. in 1867, Miss Sarah Barker, daughter of General George P. Barker, ex-attorney general of New York State; the degree of M. A. was conferred upon him by Amherst College in 1892. Office, 346 Broadway, New York.
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