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GILLETTE, Walter R .:
Vice-president of the Mutual Life In- surance Company of New York; is a na- tive of the City of Philadelphia. He was graduated from the Madison University, at Hamilton, N. Y., in 1861, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1864. He served two years in the United States Army at the front, as acting assistant surgeon; was for thir- teen years surgeon of the New York Post Office Department, and for fifteen years adjunct professor in the medical depart- ment of the University of New York. He was appointed on the medical staff of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York in 1871, later on becoming medical director until 1890, when he was appointed general manager of the company; is now vice-president of same. In view of his professional services he is still retained as consulting physician at Bellevue, St. Francis, the Maternity and other hos- pitals of New York. He is trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Guaranty Trust Company, and the Lawyers' Surety Company. Residence, 24 West 40th St .; office, 32 Liberty St., New York.
GILLETTE, William:
Actor; born Hartford, Conn., July 24, 1855; studied at University of the City of New York, 1875-76, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1876-77; later adopted the stage as his profession, ap- pearing in the principal cities of the United States; has been most successful in the "Private Secretary" and "Sher- lock Holmes"; is author of "The Profes- sor," "The Private Secretary," "Esmer- alda," "Too Much Johnson," "Secret Ser- vice," " "Sherlock Holmes," and others. Residence, Plaza Hotel; office, Empire Theatre, New York.
GILLIES, Edwin J .:
Merchant; was born in New York City, Feb. 27, 1861; entered Columbia College in 1878, and graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1882; the year following his graduation from Columbia College he started in the tea and coffee business, at 245 Washington Street, in which busi- ness he has been engaged ever since. In addition to his business enterprises, he is interested in many philanthropic and religious institutions; he is a member of the Republican Club, the Columbia Uni- versity Club, an elder in the Fifth Ave- nue Presbyterian Church and superin- tendent of their largest mission Sunday School; he is chairman of the East Side branch of the Y. M. C. A., a member of the finance committee of the American Tract Society, and an ex-president of the New York Bible Society; he is unmarried. Residence, 32 West 51st St., New York.
GILMAN, Theodore:
Banker, author, philanthropist; born in Alton, Ill., Jan. 2, 1841; son of Winthrop S. G., a son of Benjamin Ives G., the son of Hon. Joseph G., who was a member of . Board of War of the State of New Hampshire during the Revolution, and who was appointed by Washington judge of territory northwest of Ohio River, Nov. 7, 1796; graduated from Williams College, 1862 (receiving degree of A. M., 1865); banker on Wall Street for forty years; was married, at New York, Oct. 22, 1863, to Elizabeth Drinker Paxson; he has been chairman, president, treasurer, director and trustee of various railroad and other business and financial corporations, su- perintending construction railroads, managing important litigations, etc .; was treasurer of the New York Bible Society, 1868-69; president of same, 1874-76; treas- urer of New York Sabbath Committee over twenty years. Member board of man- agers, American Bible Society, St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers; president of Y. M. C. A., Yonkers; trustee Y. W. C. A., Yonkers; deacon and elder Presbyterian Church; member Union League Club, N. Y .; Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Anthropo- logical Society, Yonkers; life member New England Society, New York; fellow Na- tional Academy of Design, New York; Sons of American Revolution, Order of Founders and Patriots. Author of "A Graded Banking System," 1898; "Federal Clearing Houses," 1899. Prepared and presented Bill H. R. 3338, Fifty-fourth Congress; 9278, Fifty-fifth Congress; 7950, Fifty-seventh Congress, for the incorpora- tion of clearing houses, and made state- ments before House committee on Bank- ing and Currency in support of same. Wrote, "The Completion of the National Banking System," Banker's Magazine, Sept., 1893; "Heredity versus Evolution," The Monist, Oct., 1893; "The Philosophy of the History of Bank Currency in the United States," Banker's Magazine, Oct., 1895; "The 95th Section of the National Bank Act," The Chicago Banker, April, May, June, 1900; "Reply to M. Des Essars, Statistician of Bank of France," Chicago Banker, June, 1902; address before annual convention Washington State Bankers' Association, July 23, 1903, topic, "Clear- ing House Emergency Circulation; resolu- tion afterwards passed approving same. Residence, Yonkers; office, 55 William St., New York ..
GILMORE, James Roberts:
Author; born Boston, Mass., Sept. 10, 1823; early entered business and at twen- ty-five became head of cotton and ship- ping firm in New York; retired from this at breaking out of Civil War, and devoted himself to literature, his novels of South- ern life precipitating the emancipating of slaves. In 1862, established Continen- tal Monthly, an abolitionist magazine,
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slaves; in 1864 was sent with Colonel Ja- quess to arrange terms of peace with Jef- ferson Davis; mission was unsuccessful, thus destroying the peace party of the North; 1873-1883 engaged in business, owing to loss of fortune during the war. Under nom de plume Edmund Kirke, has published "Among the Pines," "My
Southern Friends," "Down in Tennessee," "Among the Guerillas," "Adrift in Dixie," "On the Border," "Patriot Boys," "Life of Garfield," "A Mountain White Hero- ine," "Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," and other works. Address, Lake George, N. Y.
GILMORE, Joseph Henry:
Educator; born Boston, Mass .; son of Joseph Albue G., late governor of New Hampshire; graduated from Brown Uni- versity, 1858, after studying theology at Newton; 1861 instructor of Hebrew at Newton; 1862-64 had charge of the Fish- erville (N. H.) Baptist Church; 1864-5 private secretary to father and editor of Concord Daily Monitor; then, until 1867, was pastor of Second Baptist Church of Rochester, N. Y., and in the latter year professor of rhetoric at University of Rochester. Author of "Art of Expres- sion," 1876; "Outlines of Logic," 1879; "Outlines of Rhetoric," 1891, and other text-books and religious works; he is au- thor also of the hymn, "He Leadeth Me; Oh Blessed Thought!" Address, Rocn- ester, N. Y.
GILMORE, Quincy O'M .:
Captain U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York; graduated from Military Academy and promoted to sec- ond lieutenant, June 1873; served on frontier duty in Indian Territory, 1873, to July 1874, at Fort Stanton, N. M., 1875 to 1876, and in Texas, 1877 to Feb., 1880: at the Military Academy as assistant in- structor of tactics, 1880 to June, 1882; pro- moted to first lieutenant, June 26, 1882; post commissary of subsistence and com- manding artillery detachments, June, 1882, to July, 1885; and post quartermaster and director of gas works, 1884 to 1885; regi- mental quartermaster, July, 1886, to July 5, 1890; at Fort Meade, Texas; captain, Feb. 20, 1891; retired, May 31, 1896; lieu- tenant-colonel Fourth New Jersey Infan- try, July 14, 1898; colonel, Nov. 4, 1898; honorably mustered out, April 6, 1899. Address, Trenton, N. J.
GLADDING, Albert F .:
Jurist; was born in Pharsalia, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1843; educated in the district school fitted himself to be a teacher; later became a student in Norwich Academy; in 1866, he entered the law office of Hon. David L. Follett; admitted to bar in May, 1869, and at once entered upon the prac- tice of his profession in Norwich. Was soon after elected justice of the peace,
but a large and increasing practice pre- vented his giving much time to the du- ties of the office; after eight years of practice he was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. He has had in charge many cases of great importance and has proven himself a safe counsellor. In 1883, Judge Gladding was first nominated to the office of coun- ty judge and surrogate by the Republican party, but was defeated; elected to that office in 1889; in 1895 he was re-elected, being endorsed by all the parties; in 1901 was again endorsed by all parties and re-elected for a third term. Married, in 1881, Grace V. E. (Randall) Owen, daugh- ter of I. H. Owen ,of Auburn, N. Y. He is a director of the Chenango National Bank, of which he was one of the or- ganizers in 1883; he also organized and incorporated, with a number of busi- ness associates, the Norwich Water Works Company, and has been a trustee in the corporation since; in 1889, he was an organizer and promoter of the Nor- wich Furniture Company. Address, Nor- wich, N. Y.
GLADWIN, Ellis W .:
Secretary of the Home Life Insurance Company of New York; born in 1858 at Middletown, Conn., and was educated at the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, and in Europe. He was engaged in the banking and brokerage business in Wall Street from 1879 to 1892, being connect- ed with the firm of Gladwin & Co., mem- bers of the New York Stock Exchange. He was appointed secretary of the Home Life Insurance Company in 1892. Ad- dress, 256 Broadway, New York.
GLENNAN, Arthur Henry:
Assistant surgeon general, United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Ser- vice, Washington, D. C .; born in Roch- ester, Monroe County, New York, July 28, 1853; son of Surgeon P. Glennan, United States Volunteers (Civil War), and Margaret Denver (O'Donnell); degree bachelor of science, St. John's College; graduate in medicine, Medical Depart- ment, University City of New York. Ap- pointed assistant surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital Service, June 6, 1883; passed assistant surgeon, Sept. 7, 1886; commissioned surgeon, Aug. 10, 1898, and detailed as assistant surgeon general, June 10, 1903. In charge of Divi- sion of Domestic Quarantine under act of Congress approved July 1, 1902; in com- mand of United States Marine Hospitals and Quarantine Stations various points from 1883 to 1897; served in the epidemic of yellow fever in the South, 1897-98; sanitary expert and inspector, west coast of Florida, during General Shafter's expedition to Cuba; detailed to organize the quarantine service in the Island of Porto Rico, 1899, and appointed
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member of the Superior Board of Health of that island by General George W. Davis, military governor. Due to the ef- fective quarantine system established in 1899, not a case of yellow fever has ap- peared upon the island of Porto Rico since that time; during the epidemic of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba, was de- tailed July 15, 1900, under order of Presi-
dent Mckinley, as chief quarantine of- ficer of the island of Cuba, upon the staff of Major General Leonard Wood, governor-general, and served until the departure of the American forces (and the establishment of the Cuban Republic), May 19, 1902. The modern methods of quarantine and sanitation introduced and successfully established in the Island of Cuba, are well known in the stamping out and exclusion of epidemic disease; during the winter of 1902, and spring of 1903, was detailed upon a sanitary mis- sion to the State of California in co- operation with the governor and State health officials. Address, U. S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, Washington, D. C.
GLOSE, Adolph:
Concert pianist and teacher of music; born 1854, Boston, Mass .; came to New York 1878, where he has since resided; has undertaken many concert tours with well- known artists, meeting with success; also has large class of pupils; has a daughter Augusta Glosé, who has been successful on the stage. Residence, 347 West 23d St., New York.
GODDARD, Martin:
Merchant and philanthropist; born in New York City. Upon graduating from Harvard entered the employ of his father in the dry goods firm of J. W. Goddard & Sons, which he only now represents. In 1897 removed to the "East Side" of New York City, and has since spent his time in bettering the condition of the tenement classes. Organized the East Side Republi- can Club; has long been influential in the
Civic Club. Upon the election of Theo- dore Roosevelt as governor of New York, he was appointed a member of his staff with rank of captain. Was appointed a member of the Tenement House Commis- sion in 1900 and has done much in be- half of the people among whom he lives. Address, 100 Bleecker St., New York.
GODDARD, Morrill:
Editor of New York Sunday American and Journal; born Portland, Me., Oct. 7, 1866; son of Judge Charles W. Goddard and Rowena C. (Morrill) Goddard; entered Bowdoin College 1881, but graduated from Dartmouth 1885; from 1885 to 1894 was successively city editor, Washington cor- respondent, Sunday editor and managing editor of the New York World; 1895, be- came Sunday editor New York American
and Journal; has also been war corres- pondent, traveler, magazine writer; mar- ried 1899 Jessamine Rugg, of Hot Springs, Ark .; is member Atlanta Yacht Club, Dartmouth Club, Maine Society, American Social Science Association, University Settlement Society. Residence, 204 East 16th St .; office, American and Journal, Park Row, New York.
GODFREY, Charles H .:
Retired banker; born Bangor, Me., Jan. 27, 1840; resident for twenty-six years of Philadelphia and since 1883 of New York; formerly partner in firm of Drexel, Mor- gan & Co .; retired January 1, 1884; latter- ly associated with various railroad direc- torates and reorganizations and now is a director in the Mercantile Trust Co .; member of Metropolitan, Union League and Southampton clubs. Address, 611 Fifth Ave., New York.
GODWIN, Parke:
Editor; born Paterson, N. J., Feb. 25, 1816; graduated at Princeton, 1834; was admitted to bar, but did not practice; 1837 until 1853 was connected with the New York Evening Post; for short time during 1843 published Pathfinder; sub- sequently edited Putnam's Monthly, and in 1868 again attached to Evening Post. Deputy collector of New York, during presidency of Polk; has published "Popu- lar View of the Doctrines of Charles Fournier," "Constructive Democracy," "Vala, a Mythological Tale," "Cyclopedia of Biography," and other writings; mar- ried to eldest daughter of William Cul- len Bryant. Member of Century, Play- ers' and City Clubs. Address, 19 East 37th St., New York.
GOELET, Augustin H., M.D .:
Born near Wilmington, N. C., April 1, 1854. University of Virginia, 1873. M.D. Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1874. Professor of Gynecology in the New York School of Clinical Medicine. Gyne- cological Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital for Women and Children. Gyne- cologist to the West Side German Dis- pensary; fellow of the New York Acad- emy of Medicine of the American Med- ical Association, the New York State Medical Association and the New York County Medical Association. Author of the Electro-Therapeutics of Gynecology and of the "Gynecological Electro-Thera- peutic course of the International Cor- respondence Schools of Scranton, Pa.," and author of "The Technic of Surgical Gynecology." Ex-president of American Electro-Therapeutic Association. Address, 2030 Broadway, New York.
GOETHALS, George W .:
Major U. S. Army; born in and appoint- ed from New York; graduated from the Military Academy and promoted to sec-
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ond lieutenant, June, 1880; served on special duty at the Military Academy, July 5, to Aug. 28, 1880; at Willet's Point, New York, with battalion of engineers, Nov., 1880, to Nov., 1882. Promoted to first lieutenant, June, 1882; engineer of- ficer, 1882 to 1884; as assistant to Lieu- tenant-Colonel Merrill, 1884 to 1885; as assistant professor of civil and military engineering at the Military Academy, 1885 to 1888, and principal assistant professor, 1888 to 1889; assistant to Lieutenant-Colo- nel Merrill, Sept. to Oct., 1889; to Lieu- tenant-Colonel Barlow since Oct., 1889; captain, Dec. 14, 1891; major, Feb. 7, 1900. Address, 22 Jackson Place, Washington, D. C.
GOFFE, J. Riddle, M.D .:
Born Kenosha, Wis., 1851; M.D. Belle- vue, 1881; professor gynecology New York Polyclinic; assistant physician New York Skin and Cancer Hospital; visiting gynecologist to Randall's Island Hospital; gynecologist to New York Dispensary. Member County Medical Society, Academy Society of Medicine, Obstetrical Society, Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, American Gynecological Society. Ad- dress, 29 West 46th St., New York.
GOLDFOGLE, Henry M .:
Congressman; born New York City, 1856; educated in the public schools; ad- mitted to the bar after having passed the examination at the head of his class; was elected justice of the fifth district court of New York in 1887, and re-elected in 1893 without opposition; became one of the judges of the municipal court of New York; retired from the bench on January 1, 1900, to resume the practice of law. During twelve years of judicial ser- vice he enjoyed the creditable record of having been reversed in but two cases; drafted and secured the enactment of a law by the State legislature which al- lows an execution against the body to is- sue against a delinquent debtor on a judgment in favor of a working woman for services performed by her; is the au- thor of the present law in that State, providing for an expeditious remedy to collect judgments obtained by laborers, mechanics, and other wage-earners for wages earned or labor performed. Served several terms as grand president of dis- trict number of the Independent Order B'nai B'rith, and is one of the judges of the court of appeals of that order. He is prominently identified with many of the leading fraternal organiza- tions, clubs, and societies in his city and with several financial institutions; he was for years a governor of the Home for the Aged and Infirm at Yon- kers; director of the infant asylum; one of the advisory committee of the educa- tional alliance; has been delegate to al- most every State convention since he
attained his majority; in 1892 was an alternate to the national Democratic con- vention, and in 1896 a delegate to the national Democratic convention; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Address, 271 Broadway, New York.
GOLDMAN, Henry J .:
Captain U. S. Army; born in Germany, and appointed from New York; graduated from the Military Academy and promoted to second lieutenant, June, 1877; served on frontier duty in Wyoming, 1877 to 1879, and on scouting duty in Colorado to April, 1880; at Camp Sheridan, Nebraska, and Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 1880 to 1885; at Fort Riley, Kansas, May to July, 1885; on scouting duty and at Fort Sup- ply, Indian Territory, to March, 1886; promoted to first lieutenant, April 24, 1886; at Fort Reno, Indian Territory, 1886 to 1890; captain, June 1, 1897. Ad- dress, Fort Huachua, Ariz.
GOLDSCHMIDT, Samuel A .:
President Columbia Chemical Works; born New York, Sept. 17, 1848; was grad- uated from College City of New York, 1868, and School of Mines, Columbia Col- lege, 1871; assistant Ohio Geological Sur- vey, 1871; chemist and assistant inspector of fertilizers, Savannah, Ga., 1871-75; in- spector in charge of offensive trades, New York, 1879-1888; treasurer Columbia Chemical Works, 1880-91; president Co- lumbia Chemical Works, 1891 to date; as- sistant editor American Chemist, 1870-77; married, New York, Oct. 23, 1879, Ellen C. Chesebrough; member of Chamber of Commerce, London and American Chem- ical Society, Museum of Natural History, Union League, Grolier, Down Town, Chemist, Apawamis, Woodstock Country Clubs. Residence, 71 Central Park, West, New York; office, 43 Sedgwick St., Brook- lyn.
GOODNOW, Frank J .:
Professor of administrative law and mu- nicipal science, Columbia University; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 18, 1859; son of Abel F. Goodnow and Jane M. Root Good- now; was prepared for college at private schools, graduating at Amherst College in 1879; subsequently studied law at Co- lumbia University, graduating from the law school with the degree of LL.B. in 1882; continued his study in Europe, studying at the Ecole Libre de Science Politique, Paris, and the University of Berlin. Is now professor of administra- tive law and municipal science in Colum+ bia University, where he has been at work since 1883. Has published following books: "Comparative Administrative Law," 1893 (G. P. Putnam's Sons) ; "Mu- nicipal Home Rule." 1895 (Columbia Uni- versity Press): "Municipal Problems," 1897 (same publishers); "Politics and Ad-
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ministration," 1900 (Macmillan Co.). Is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, the American Economic Association, and also of the Century, Uni- versity, City, Barnard and Ardsley Clubs; was appointed by Governor Roosevelt, of the State of New York, a member of the commission to revise the charter of the City of New York, which made its report in 1900. In 1886 married Elizabeth Lyall. Received from Amherst degrees of A. M., 1887, and LL.D., 1897. Address, 49 River- side Drive, New York.
GOODRICH, Alfred John:
Author and educator, was born at Chilo, Ohio, May 8, 1847; son of Luther Alfred and Dolly Healy Goodrich and nephew of Dr. O. A. Brownson, John P. Healy, and Salmon P. Chase; lecturer and teach- er of piano, singing, theory, counter- point, composiiton and orchestration; has published books and essays of radical and scholarly nature, the important products o1 research and individuality. Principal published works: "Music as a Language," (John Church Company) ; "Analytical (Schirmer); "Complete Music Analysis," Harmony," (John Church Company) ;
"Theory of Interpretation, (Presser) ; "New Method of Memorizing," (Hatch Company) ; "Synthetic Counterpoint," (By subscription) ; "Art of Song," "Piano Manual," (without mechanical exercises), etc. Has contributed many articles of value to the leading musical magazines and newspapers. Address, Carvel Court, 80 St. Nicholas Ave., New York.
GOODRICH, William W .:
Jurist; born New York, Aug., 1833; studied at Amherst College LL.D., and Albany Law School LL.B .; admitted to bar, 1854; president Republican General Committee, 1886-87; justice Appellate Division Supreme Court, New York, since 1896; married Frances A. Wickes, Sept., 1857. Address, 924 President St., Brook- lyn, N. Y.
GOODRICH, Thomas F .:
Vice-president of National Surety Com- pany; born Albion, Orleans County, N. Y .; at the age of twenty entered an insur- ance agency in Rochester, N. Y .; two years later became teller in the old "Rochester City Bank"; three years later removed to Iowa City, Iowa, engaging in banking and insurance, organizing First National Bank of Iowa City, and cashier until called to New York by the Home Fire Insurance Company, re- maining with it nine years; in 1873, was appointed secretary of the German-Amer- ican Fire Insurance Company of New York; in 1880, was elected secretary of the Niagara Fire Insurance Company; four years later vice-president, and in March, 1893, was elected president, serv- ing the company sixteen years; in 1897, was elected vice-president of the Na-
tional Surety Company of New York. later president. Address, 346 Broadway, New York.
GOODRICH, Thomas P .:
President of New York Life Underwrit- ers' Association; born at Newton, N. H., Feb., 1844; education was cut short by the opening of the Civil War in 1862. At the age of eighteen enlisted in the Sixth New Hampshire and served until the surren- der of Lee at Richmond; was engaged in very nearly all the important battles on the Peninsula, receiving honorable men- tion by his superior officers. After the war again took up his studies and en- gaged in teaching for a short time; after- wards was in the employ of Anderson, Heath & Co., of Boston, but about twenty years ago moved to New York and be- came connected with the Provident Life and Trust Company, which he has repre- sented in that city ever since. He has been a member of the New York Life Underwriters' Association practically since it started, has always manifested an interest in its work, but declined to accept office until 1896, when he was made secretary. The following year was elected chairman of the executive committee, and in Feb., 1898, president. Address, 149 Broadway, New York.
GOODSELL, Louis F .:
Republican State senator representing the Twenty-third Senate district; was born Jan. 30, 1847; he received his edu- cation at Tracy's (now Holbrook's) Mili- tary Academy, at Sing Sing, N. Y., and also took a course at business college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He commenced his business life in 1867, in Highland Falls, as a clerk; in the fall of 1867 he went to Omaha, Neb .; returned East in 1869, and, settling in Newburgh, 1878, went to Sa- vannah, Ga., where he resided five years; in 1885 he proceeded to Chicago and en- gaged in the oil business, and in Ottum- wa, Ia., the lumber business; in 1887 he sold his interest in the business in both places to his partners and returned to his native place; when only seventeen years of age, Mr. Goodsell enlisted, while at school, in Company F, Forty-seventh New York Volunteers, and went to the war; he was mustered out with the regi- ment on Aug. 30, 1865; he then re-entered
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