Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 60

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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GRANNISS, Robert A .:

Vice-president of the Mutual Life In- surance Company of New York; born Brooklyn, N. Y., 1840, his father being George B. Granniss, a well-known and highly respected New York merchant. The son completed his education at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1856, and entered the New York office of the wholesale dry goods house of Kent, Paine & Co., whose business was conducted in Richmond, Va. Lived in Richmond until the Civil War broke out, and then re- turned North and obtained employment

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in the wire manufacturing concern of Nelson & Richmond, 81 John Street, New York. After a year or two of experience in that business he entered the office of the New York Life as a clerk in the re- newal premium register department, where he continued for about a year, when he accepted a position as entry clerk in the wholesale coffee, tea and spice im- porting house of Sturgiss, Bennett & Co., Front Street, New York. After satisfac- torily filling the duties of this position for some months the confinement and long hours proved detrimental to his health. He accepted an offer from the Widows' and Orphans' Benefit Life to become its head bookkeeper and chief clerk, this position resulting in an advancement to assistant secretary and later to the full secretaryship of the company; in 1872 he was appointed secretary of the Metropol- itan Life, and in 1887 elected second vice- president of the Mutual Life, in which position he served eight years, when in 1885 he was elected vice-president of the company; is a director in the United States Mortgage & Trust Company of New York; member of New York Yacht, Sea wanhaka, Corinthian Yacht and Met- ropolitan Clubs. Residence, Morris Plains, N. J .; office, 32 Nassau St., New York.

GRANT, Frederick Dent:

Brigadier-general, U. S. Army; eldest son of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant; born St. Louis, Mo., May 30, 1850; he received his education there and at Galena, Ill., where his father was engaged in business at the outbreak of the war. When Gen- eral Grant first set out from Galena for Quincy, to take command of the regi- ment to which he had been appointed, he had his son, then eleven years of age, with him; but on finding orders for an advance, he sent the boy back home; but two years afterwards he accompanied his father in the Vicksburg campaign, being present at five battles before he was thirteen years of age. He continued with his father and was in every battle of the campaign, till the surrender of Vicks- burg to the Union army; was present on March 9, 1864, at Grant's first interview with President Lincoln, when the famous soldier was made commander-in-chief of the United States armies, with the grade of lieutenant-general. In 1867, then sev- enteen years of age he entered the Unit- ed States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., as the necessary step to his assuming a military career; graduated in 1871, and was assigned to the Fourth Cavalry, with the grade of second lieu- tenant; five years later he was raised to the rank of first lieutenant. In the sum- mer of 1871

was employed on the Union Pacific and Colorado Central Rail- roads as an engineer, and in the latter part of that year he visited Europe, in company with General Sherman, gaining

there much important information in re- gard to the military art. In 1872, after his return to this country, he was placed in command of a cavalry escort to the party making a preliminary survey for the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a protection against hostile Indians; in 1873 he was. made an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Sheridan, with the rank of lieu- tenant-colonel; during the succeeding eight years he was engaged in military duty, taking part in nearly every expedi- tion against the Indians. Within this period, during his father's celebrated jour- ney around the world, he joined him in the Oriental part of this excursion, and continued with him thereafter. He re- signed his commission in 1881, and was constantly with his father during his illness, rendering him essential aid in the preparation of

his "Memoirs," in

verifying statements from the records. After General Grant's death, he entered upon the care of his mother and the estate until 1889, when he was appointed by President Harrison United States min- ister to Austria, and served the country in that capacity until the incoming of the next administration. Served during the Spanish-American War as colonel Four- teenth New York Volunteers; as briga- dier-general of United States Volunteers at Porto Rico and commanding military district at San Juan; transferred to Phil- ippines in 1899. July to Nov., 1899, in command of Second Brigade, First Divis- ion (Lawton's), covering the line south of Manila, fighting numerous skirmishes and two battles, namely, Imus, or Big Bend, Oct. 3d, and Binican, Oct. 6th. Nov. 1st, transferred to command of Second Brig- ade, Second Division (Mac Arthur). In the advance north this brigade fought every engagement in which MacArthur's division was engaged in during this advance. On Dec. 18, 1899, commanded the column invading the provinces of Bataan and Zambales. February, 1899, assigned to command of Fifth Military District Department of Northern Luzon, where many engagements with the insur- gents took place, including the capture of the insurgents' strongholds at Lam- anoa, where 137 rifles captured. At O'Donnell 222 rifles were captured; Balubad, resulting in the destruction of many quartels and large supplies; Buloc and Ipo, destroying a million pounds of rice which the insurgents had accumulat- ed. Secured altogether in this district during the guerrila war 4,800 rifles, thou- sands of rounds of rifle and cannon am- munition and over $1,100 tons of powder. The Fifth District was the first to become settled and come under the civil govern- ment. Transferred Oct., 1901, to Southern Luzon became settled and under civil gov- ate Brigade, where two successful expe- ditions were made in the Province of Sorsogon. When the southern part of

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ernment, was transferred to the command of the Sixth Separate Brigade, which in- Luzon, in command of the Fourth Separ- cluded Samar and Leyte, and brought about the surrender of all the insurgents of Samar, April 27, 1902. Everything be- ing settled in the Philippines, was trans- ferred to the command of the Department of Texas Nov. 1, 1902; on Jan. 15, 1904, to the command of the Department of the Lakes. Is a member of the Loyal Legion, Society of Colonial Wars, Union League, Sons of Revolution, Badminton, Foreign Wars, and United States Army Clubs. Address, Chicago, Illinois ..

GRANT, Gabriel, M. D .:

Born Newark, N. J .; Williams, A. B., 1846; A. M., 1886; M. D., College Physi- cians and Surgeons, 1851; health conimis- sioner, Newark, 1854; in Panama, New Granada, 1852; organized American Hos- pital Surgeon Second New Jersey Volun- teers, 1861; brigade and division sur- geon, 1861; in first and second battles of Bull Run. Fair Oaks, Gaines Mills, Mal- vern Hill, Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg and Saratia, and honor- ably mentioned for gallantry; 1863, medi- cal director Evansville Hospital; sur- geon in charge Madison U. S. Army Gen- eral Hospital. Congressional medal of honor for distinguished gallantry; sur- geon general Medal of Honor Legion; member Loyal Legion and Century Club. Address, 22 East 49th St., New York.

GRANT, Hugh John:

Former mayor of New York; born in New York, 1833; studied at Manhattan College and Columbia College Law School. Member New York Board of Aldermen, 1883 and 1884; held office of sheriff, 1886- 88. Elected mayor, 1887, for term 1888- 90; was subsequently offered the leader- ship of Tammany Hall, but declined to accept the office. Residence, 20 East 72d St .; office, 54 Wall St., New York.

GRANT, Madison: .

Lawyer; born New York, 1865; son of G. and Caroline (Manice) Grant; educated abroad and in private schools in New York; graduated from Yale University, 1887; Columbia Law School, 1890; admitted to New York bar, 1889; secretary New York Zoological Society; member Union and University Clubs. Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Society of Colonial Wars, Association of the Bar, etc. Writ- er on zoology, etc . Residence, 22 East 49th St .; office, 11 Wall St., New York.

GRANT, Percy Stickney:

Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born in Boston, May 13, 1860; son of Stephen Mason and Annie Stickney Grant; edu- cated in Boston public schools and Rox- bury Latin School; graduated from Har-

vard, 1883, and from Episcopal Theologi- cal School, Cambridge, 1886; M. A., Har- vard, 1886; B. D., Theological School, 1886; ordained deacon in 1886; priest in 1887; assistant minister, Church of the Ascension, Fall River, 1886; minister of St. Mark's Church, Fall River, 1887; also rector Christ Church, Swansea, Mass., 1890; Fall River School committee, 1890- 93; founded Young Men's Christian As- sociation and other philanthropic institu- tions in that city; rector, Church of the Ascension, New York, 1893. Appointed honorary secretary to committee on "Re- lation of Protestant Episcopal Church to our new possessions," 1899; in that capaci- ty visited Honolulu, Japan, China, Philip- pines, India, etc., in company with Right Rev. H. C. Potter, D. D., bishop of New York, 1899-1900; director of American So- ciety Prevention Cruelty to Animals, trustee Good Samaritan Dispensary, etc. Published papers: "Land Question in the Philippines," "Church Missions in Asia," "Marriage and Divorce," "Monologues of Robert Browning," etc. Address, 7 West 10th St., New York.

GRANT, Robert Parks:

President of the Dairy State Board of Trade; was born in Neversink, May 8, 1844; he attended the district school and served two winters' tuition at the high school; he then learned the tanner's trade at which he was employed when, in 1863, he recruited Company C, Ninety-second Regiment, N. G., S. N. Y. He was elected captain and drill master of the regiment; in 1865 was promoted to the colonelcy, although he was the youngest commis- sioned officer in the command. Return- ing, in 1865, from military service, he ac- quired a third interest in a tannery and devoted himself to the business. A year later he engaged in farming and merchan- dise at Neversink, N. Y .; in 1869 went to Hawkinsville, N. Y., and conducted a tannery store; a year later removed to Lycoming County, Penn., and carried on a store in the lumber and tannery sec- tion of the State. At the end of another year he went to Cameron County, Penn., and bought the bark on a 10,000 acre tract, on which he also built a tannery, selling out in 1873 and removing to Fort Madison, Ia., where he started the Farm- ers' and Mechanics' Bank; in 1876 re- turned to New York State, and soon after- ward, with A. F. Barker, he founded the Bank of Clayton. In 1880 the institution was changed into a State bank under the same name. In 1884, in association with fifty others, he bought out the Barker in- terest and organized the Exchange Bank, which became, on Jan. 1, 1898, the Na- tional Exchange Bank of Clayton. Colo- nel Grant is cashier and general mana- ger; is interested in manufacture and sale of cheese, and through his efforts was formed the State Dairy Board of Trade,

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of which he was elected president; is president of the Watertown Produce Ex- change. Address, Clayton, N. Y.

GRATACAP, Louis Pope:

Naturalist; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1850; is a graduate of the College of the City of New York (1869) and of Co- lumbia School of Mines (1876); later be- came assistant curator in paleontology and mineralogy in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City; has long been chemist for Metropolitan Gas- light Company of New York. Author of "The Ice Age," "Gas and Gas-Making," and other series of papers in archeology and scientific magazines; "Geology of the City of New York," 1901; "The Certainty of a Future Life in Man" (fiction), 1903; also "Philosophy of Ritualism," "Analyt- ics of a Belief in a Future Life," "PO- litical Mission of Tammany Hall," "Pro- tection, a Reasonable Doctrine," "Vade Mecum Guide to Minerals." West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y.

GRAY, John Clinton:

Jurist; born in New York, 1843; studied at University of Berlin, Prussia, graduat- ing in 1864; received degree of A. M. from University of the City of New York; in 1866 graduated from Harvard Law School; judge, New York Court of Appeals, 1888 until 1916. Address, Albany, N. Y.

GREATSINGER, Jacob Lowman:

President of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran. sit Company; was born July 1, 1849, at Elmira, N. Y .; educated in New York State; son of John S. and Aurelia C. Greatsinger; was educated primarily in the district schools of Chemung Coun- ty, and later he attended the Elmira Free Academy. He began his career as a clerk in an Elmira hardware store, where he worked while he was still at- tending school; subsequently entered the wholesale and retail coal business in El- mira. and there took up railroad work. Began his study of the locomotive by fir- ing the wood-burner locomotive, a 6-ft. gauge Erie engine used in the coal yard. Subsequently he sold all his interests in the coal and agricultural implement busi- ness in Elmira and became a fireman on the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira Railroad. Was machinist, train dispatcher, station agent, road master, locomotive engineer, master mechanic and superintendent successive- ly. Under his supervision the road pros- pered and increased, and when he left, in 1886. it comprised five lines, including the Elmira, Cortland, Northern. all of which are now merged with the Lehigh Valley system. Then he became master mechan- ic on the Chicago & East Illinois Railroad; in 1888 he severed his connection with the C. & F. I. R. R. and became master mechanic of the Duluth & Iron Range

Railroad, and in 1891 he was elected presi- dent and general manager of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad. March 20, 1901, having been relieved of the presidency of the Duluth Railroad, he was called back to his native State to become president · of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad and of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. He has been president of the Minnesota Iron Company and a director of the First National Bank of Duluth. In 1872 he mar- ried Catherine F. Dailey, who died in 1882. He is a member of the Crescent Athletic and the Marine and Field Clubs, Brooklyn and Hamilton; he is also affili- ated with the Technical Club of Chicago, the Kitchi-Gammi of Duluth, and the Minnesota Club of St. Paul. Address, Brooklyn, N. Y.

GREELEY, William B .:

Lawyer; born Nashua, N. H., Nov. 1, 1859; son of E. H. Greeley, D. D., and Louisa M. Greeley; graduated from Dart- mouth College, 1881, and from Columbia University Law School, Washington, D. C., 1887; member of examining corps United States Patent Office, 1884-89; com- menced practice of law in New York City, 1889; formed present firm, Redding, Kiddle & Greeley, 1895; married, 1891, Sarah B., daughter of the late G. W. Burleigh, of New Hampshire; member Psi Upsilon Club, Seventh Regiment Veteran Associa- tion, Engineers' Club, and Bar Associa- tion. Address, 38 Park Row, New York.

GREEN, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs) :

Author of "The Leavenworth Case," and other celebrated works of high-class fiction; daughter of James Wilson Green, a lawyer of prominence in New York City; was born in Brooklyn, Nov. 11, 1846; ed- ucated in the public schools of the me- tropolis, and was graduated from the Rip- ley Female Seminary, at Poultney, Vt., with the degree of B. A., at which insti- tution, while president of the M. Y. O. B. Society, she initiated Ralph Waldo Emer- son into membership. Her talent as a writer was developed when a young child; she and her associates published a little paper, to which she contributed poems. She eventually wrote a novel which has won for her much praise. "The Leaven- worth Case," which was the title of her first book, and some of her later works have been translated into all modern lan- guages. She has written twenty-five vol- umes. two of which are in verse. Mar- ried Charles Rohlfs, and is the mother of three children-Rosamond, Sterling and Roland. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

GREEN, George E .:

Republican State Senator, representing the Thirty-eighth Senate District; was born in the town of Kirkwood, Broome

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County, Aug. 30, 1858; he was educated at the public schools; about 1877 he entered the employment of Ford & Evans, gen- eral coal dealers. He built up an exten- sive bituminous coal trade for the firm, became a member of the firm of Ford & Green 'on the retirement of Captain Evans, and finally succeeded to the pro- prietorship of the concern, directly rep- resenting the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company of Philadelphia and New York. For twenty-three years he has represented this firm as exclusive sales agent for this State and Canada, and is one of the largest wholesale dealers in' bituminous coals and coke; he is also connected with a large number of other enterprises; is secretary and treasurer of the Yaqui Copper Company, New York; president International Time Recording Company; president New York Casualty Company of New York; president Doremus Machine Company, Washington, D. C .; president Bundy Manufacturing Company; presi- dent Coal Dealers' Supply Company, and member of the firm of Berry & Green (Wholesale Flour & Feed), of Bingham- ton, N. Y .; vice-president Hudson Valley Railway Company; treasurer of the Con- solidated Booksellers of New York; treas- urer and director of the Harris Safety Company; director of the Guardian Trust Company; director of the Iron Clad Man- ufacturing Company; director of the Gen- eral Electric Inspection Company of New York; director of the Donnelly-Dunham Coal Mining Company of Buffalo; director of the Security Mutual Life Insurance Company; director of the Binghamton Railroad Company; also director Endicott Land Company, Binghamton Trust Com- pany, and numerous others of a like na- ture. For many years he was chairman of the Republican County Committee of Broome County, and later was president of the League of Republican Clubs of the entire State, and twice re-elected; in 1887 he was elected Alderman of the Third Ward of Binghamton, and in 1888 was elected president of the Common Council. In 1889 he was Republican can- didate for mayor of Binghamton, but was defeated; in 1893 he was nominated by the Republican party for the same of- fice, and was elected by an unprecedented majority, and thereafter, by re-election. He was mayor of Binghamton for five con- secutive years; among the clubs and social organizations of which he is a member may be mentioned the New York Ath- letic Club, Republican Club, Reform Club, Transportation Club and Lawyers' Club. all of New York; the Ellicott Club of Buffalo, Dobson Club. Binghamton Club, Albany Club. Yaqui Club, etc. Elected to Senate in 1900 and 1902; is a member of following Senate committees: Chairman of the committee on Taxation and Re- trenchment, member of Cities, Banks, Public Health. and Revision. Address, Binghamton, N. Y.

GREEN, (Mrs.) Hetty Howland Robinson:

Financier; born New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 21, 1835. Upon the death of her father, Edward Mott Robinson in 1865, a large fortune passed into Mrs. Green's hands. This she has since used in enter- prises all over the world under her per- sonal management. She is probably one of the most successful women financiers in the world. Married Edward H. Green, who died 1902. Address, Bellows Falls, Vt.

GREENBAUM, Samuel:

Jurist; born London, Jan. 23, 1854; son of Louis and Rachel Deborah (Schlesin- ger) G .; brought to New York, 1857 graduated from College of City of New York, 1872, and Columbia College Law School, 1875; taught in public schools of New York, 1872-77; admitted to the bar and practiced his profession until 1884; became partner with Daniel P. Hays, 1884; married, New York, March 13, 1888, Selina Ullman; practiced alone, May, 1901; on Jan. 1, 1902, became justice Supreme Court of the State of New York; term expires Dec. 31, 1915; member Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State Bar Association, Society Medical Jurisprudence, Civil Service Re- form Association, Free Trade League, and Jewish Historical Society; former president of the Young Men's Hebrew Association; one of the founders of the Aguilar Free Library Society, and presi- dent until its merger with the New York Public Library; one of the founders and first vice-president Educational Alliance; trustee of New York Public Library and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; member of Lawyers', Manhattan and Reform Clubs. Residence, 2 East 94th St .; office, County Court House, New York.

GREENE, David M .:

President of the Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y .; third assistant engineer, U. S. Navy, May 23, 1861; second assistant engineer, Oct. 28, 1862; first assistant en- gineer, Jan. 1, 1865; resigned, Sept. 16, 1869, to accept position on the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. Member Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion. Address, Troy, N. Y.

GREENE, Francis Vinton:

Major-general, U. S. Volunteers; police commissioner of New York; descended from early colonial ancestors, residents of Rhode Island, one of them being Gen. Nathaniel Greene, the Revolutionary pa- triot, Washington's trusted friend; quart- ermaster-general of the Continental army and commander of the Army of the South, who compelled the British forces to aban- don South Carolina. Was born in Provi-

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dence, R. I., June 25, 1850. Was gradu- ated from West Point in 1870, at the head of a class of fifty-eight cadets; as signed first to the artillery service; transferred, in 1872, to the Corps of Engineers; for four years was detailed for service with the joint commission that had in charge the survey of the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, being as- sistant astronomer and surveyor; during the year 1876 was in the office of the Secretary of War in Washington, and in 1887 was detailed as military attaché to the United States Legation at St. Peters- burg, his special duty being to make a study of the military operations during the war between Russia and Turkey. He accompanied the Russian army through- out its celebrated campaign; from the Czar of Russia received the decorations of St. Vladimir and St. Anne and the cam- paign medal, and from the Prince of Rou- mania the Star of Roumania and the Rou- mania Cross. Returned to the United States in Jan., 1879; the same year he was assigned to duty as assistant to the engineering commisioner in Washington, D. C., and had charge of the engineering work upon the streets, roads and bridges in the District of Columbia; after six years of this service he was sent, in July, 1885, to the Military Academy at West Point, as instructor of practical military engineering Married Belle Eugenie Che- valié. Feb. 25, 1879;' Jan., 1886,+ resigned from the army and became vice-president of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company; soon after he was advanced to presidency of the same corporation, which he resigned to join the United States army in the Philippines; in 1889 he joined the National Guard of the State of New York, being commissioned as major and engineer of the First Brigade; in Feb., 1892, he was elected colonel of the Seventy-first Regi- ment, and held that position until the breaking out of the Spanish-American War. He was ordered to Cuba at the time of the invasion, and afterwards transferred to Manila; promoted to rank of brigadier-general for gallant and dis- tinguished service the Philippines; promoted major-general. Aug. 13. 1898; appointed police commissioner of New York City Jan., 1903. He has contributed much to military literature; his official report upon the Turkey-Russian War was published in two volumes for the United States government in 1879. under the title of "The Russian Army and Its Cam- paigns in Turkey, 1877-78"; he is also the author of "Army Life in Russia," "The Mississippi." which treats of the campaigns of the Civil War, and of a biography of Nathaniel Greene. Is a member of the Century. University. Union League. Metropolitan, Lawyers' and New York Yacht Clubs, and the Metropol-

itan Club of Washington. Address, 33 East 30th St., New York.

GREENE, George Sears, Jr .:

Civil engineer; eldest son of the late Major-General George Sears Greene, of Warwick, Rhode Island and New York; was born Nov. 26, 1837, at Lexington, Ky .; entered Harvard College in 1856, but left before graduation and studied civil engi- neering in the office of his father. Prac- ticed his profession in the Croton Aque- duct Department of New York City, rail- roads in Cuba, copper mines on Lake Superior and made extensive and accurate topographical surveys in vicinity of New York City. Was appointed engineer-in- chief of the Department of Docks. New York City, July 16, 1875, and designed and successfully executed river walls, wharves and piers in very difficult situa- tions; since 1898 consulting engineer, New York City; is member and past vice- president of the American Society of Civil Engineers; honorary member of the American Institute of Architects; member of the Century Association, Harvard Club, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Society of Colonial' Wars; married, April 23, 1862, Susan Moody, daughter of Hon. James Dana, of Charlestown, Mass; she died June 18, 1881. Address, 534 Fifth Ave., New York.

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 60

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