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GREENE, Henry A .:
Lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Army; born in and appointed from New York; was graduated from the Military Academy re- ceiving rank of second lieutenant, June, 1879; was on frontier duty at Fort Clark. Tex., 1880 to Jan., 1881, and at Fort Ring- gold, Tex., to Oct., 1881; in garrison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., 1881 to 1885; promoted to first lieutenant, July, 1886; on frontier duty at Fort Assinniboine, Mont., and regimental adjutant, Oct., 1886; captain, Oct. 14, 1891; major, Four- teenth Infantry, May 31, 1900; lieutenant- colonel. 1903. Address, War Department, Washington, D. C.
GREENE, Lewis Douglass:
Captain, U. S. Army, retired; son of J. Norton Greene, C. E., and Ann E. Douglass, of Chautauqua County, N. Y .; born May 23, 1856, at Medina, Orleans Co., N. Y .; cadet, July 1, 1874; second lieuten- ant, Seventh Infantry, June 14, 1878; pro- moted first lieutenant, Seventh Infantry, Dec. 16, 1888; captain, April 26, 1898, and retired. A. D. C. to General George Crook, Oct. 8, 1887, to June 1, 1889; regimental quartermaster, Seventh Infantry, June 13, 1889, to July 1, 1893; quartermaster, Army and Navy General Hospital. Hot Springs, Ark., March 10, 1894, to Aug. 23, 1898; at Fort Snelling, Minn., Oct. 1. 1878, to Oct., 1879; with regiment, Ute Expedition. White River, Colo., Oct. 1, 1879, to June
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20, 1880; at Fort Buford, D. T., to Aug., 1882; present with command at surrender of Sitting Bull and his bands, Feb. to May, 1881; at Fort Fred Steele, Wyo., Nov., 1882, to Dec., 1885; at Camp Pilot, Butte (Rock Springs, Wyo.), to July, 1887, by reason of anti-Chinese roits; at Fort Laramie, July, 1887, to Oct., 1887; Omaha (a. d. c.), to May, 1888, and Chicago (H. Q. Div., Mo.), to June 1, 1889; Fort Laramie, to Dec., 1889; Fort Logan, Colo., to March, 1894; in field at Cheyenne River, S. D., Sioux outbreak, Dec., 1890, to Feb., 1891; Hot Springs, Ark., to Aug., 1898; with troops in Porto Rico (unofficial), Sept. to last of Nov., 1898. Special duty in management of U. S. Transport service centering on Puget Sound during 1900. Shipping and brokerage, Seattle to May, 1902; since with Pittsburgh Coal Co. Address, Fish- er Building, Chicago, Ill.
GREENE, Oliver D .:
Brigadier-general, United States Army; was born in New York, Jan. 25, 1833; appointed from New York; cadet at U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1849; graduated, July 1, 1854; brevet second lieutenant, Third Artillery, July 1, 1854; second lieu- tenant, Second Artillery, Nov. 25, 1854; first lieutenant, April 25, 1861; captain, A. A. G., Aug. 3, 1861; accepted, Aug. 18, 1861; major, A. A. G., July 17, 1862; lieutenant-colonel, A. A. G. Volunteers, Aug. 20, 1862; captain, Second Artillery, Oct. 1, 1863; lieutenant-colonel, A. A. G., U. S. Army, Feb. 28, 1887; brevet captain, U. S. Army, July 21, 1861, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Bull Run, Va .; brevet lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Army, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Crampton's Gap, Md .; brevet colonel, U. S. Army, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of An- tietam, Md .; brevet brigadier-general, U. S. Army, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war; colonel assistant adjutant general, July 9, 1892; retired, Jan. 25, 1897. Address, Pa- cific Union Club, San Francisco, Cal.
GREENE, Richard Gleason:
Congregational minister, ordained, 1854; in pastoral service till 1890; editor-in- chief since 1880 of three cyclopædias, viz .: "Library of Universal Knowledge" (16 volumes) ; "International Cyclopædia" (first edition, 16 volumes), declining be- cause of other engagements the editor- ship of the second edition; "Columbian Cyclopedia" (including Dictionary; 32 volumes), now enlarged and known as the "Imperial Cyclopedia and Dictionary." He was born at East Haddam. Conn .. June 29, 1829; son of Richard William and Charlotte (Gleason) Greene; educated in Philadelphia, Pa .; entered Yale Universi- ty, 1845, leaving because of father's death;
engaged in teaching in . Philadelphia, and in Brooklyn, N. Y .; later received honorary A. M. from Yale; after full course in Andover Theological Seminary, Mass., he graduated, 1853. He married Augusta Ostrander in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1856. By election by the legisla- ture of Massachusetts, during his pastor- ate of the North Congregational Church, Springfield, he preached the 243d, in the line of annual "election sermons," in Bos- ton, before the governor and legislature- title, "Christianity a National Law"; he has written many reviews of books for various weekly magazines. Address, 826 Temple Court, 5 Beekman St., New York.
GREENE, Richard Thurston:
Lawyer; born Port Henry, N. Y., June 29, 1867; son of James and Helen (Rice) Greene; parents moved to Rochester, 1868; Elizabeth, N. J., 1884, graduated from Rochester Free Academy, 1885; Rutgers College, with degree of B. S., 1889; Albany Law School, with honors, 1891; refused a clerkship, opened own office; now one of the most prominent younger lawyers in New York; one of the examining counsel of Lawyer's Title Insurance Company; counsel for East River Savings Institution, Western Electric Company, etc .; director and stockholder of several corporations; president West Side Republican Club; considered for Supreme Court justice; member Bar Associations of New York City and State, New England Society, New York Geographical and Biographical Societies, Kane Lodge, 457, F. A. M .; president D. K. E. Council, 1901; married Charlotte L. Berry, Elizabeth, N. J., 1896. Address, Times Building, New York.
GREENE, Robert Holmes:
Surgeon; born Brunswick, Me., April 27, 1861; son of Benjamin and Susan Towne Greene; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1881, with degree of A. B .; receiving A. M. in 1884; graduated from Harvard Medical School, 1886, with degree of M. D .; in New York City since 1886; surgeon to City and French Hospitals. Author of "Healthful Exercise," and numerous medical ar- ticles. Residence, 47 West 38th St .; and Dunderberg Ledge, Central Valley, New York.
GREENE, Thomas Lyman:
Author, editor, certified public account- ant and student of financial and business problems; born Albany, N. Y .; educated at the Albany Academy; son of Thomas L. Greene, one of the pioneer managers of what is now the Boston & Albany Rail- road system; began as clerk in his father's office at Albany, afterwards district man- ager of the West Shore Railroad when in- dependent; coming to New York in 1885 was specialist in transportation and cor- poration matters for various firms and companies; was editorial writer on finan-
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cial and corporation subjects on the New York Evening Post, 1889 to 1895; was con- nected with the Manhattan Trust Com- pany of New York City, 1895 to 1897; was chosen vice-president and general man- ager of The Audit Company of New York at its formation in 1897; has written much for magazines, periodicals and newspa- pers. Is the author of "Corporation Fi- nance," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1897. Has had extensive experi- ence in business matters from both the theoretical and the practical points of view; is a member of various economic and patriotic societies and also of the Century Club, New York. Residence, 49 West 68th St .; office, 43 Cedar St., New York.
GREENE, Walter D., M.D .:
Health commissioner of the City of Buf- falo; was born in Starksboro, Addison County, Vt., April 20, 1853; son of Stephen Greene and Lydia Chase Greene; descendant of Samuel Green who came from England, 1651, and settled in Boston; prepared himself for Oakwood Sem- inary, Union Springs, N. Y .; was for a while school teacher, abandoning this vocation for a position as telegraph op- erator on the Dutchess & Columbia Rail- way; subsequently entered the medical department of the University of Buffalo; was graduated with the highest honors in 1876, and soon thereafter passed a com- petitive examination for the position of interne in the Buffalo General Hospital; prior to his acceptance of this post he had been tendered the position of
junior assistant physician and surgeon in the Rochester City Hospital. In 1877 he located in Mendon, N. Y., where he built up a large practice, and where he remained until 1880, when he removed to Buffalo; he was appointed professor of hygiene in the medical department of Niagara University, and, later, professor of genito-urinary diseases in the same in- stitution; at present he is clinical profes- sor of genito-urinary diseases in the Uni- versity of Buffalo, medical department, and surgeon to the Erie County Hospital and the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity. In connection with his profes- sion, he has held several prominent muni- cipal offices; from 1882 to 1889 he was district physician for the poor; in the lat- ter year he was appointed health phy- sician for the City of Buffalo, which posi- tion he held until 1891; at the organization of the present health department in 1896, he was appointed deputy health com- missioner; in 1901 he succeeded to the position of health commissioner, which he now holds. He is a thirty-third degree Mason, and is potentate of Ismailia Tem- ple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; he is also a past president of the Acacia Club, a member of the Independent and Buffa- lo Clubs, Buffalo Historical Society, Buf- falo Medical Society, of which he was a
censor in 1888, and an associate in the State and County Medical Societies; he is also second vice-president of the Masonic Life Association of Western New York; was married, Nov. 28, 1878, to Miss Mary E. Pursel, of Buffalo, and has one son, Clayton W. Greene, who is a student at Princeton University. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.
GREENER, Richard T .:
Commercial agent; was born at Phila- delphia, Jan. 29, 1844; educated in the grammar schools of Cambridge, Mass., Oberlin College preparatory school, Ohio, and graduated from Phillips Academy and Harvard College; was professor of meta- physics and logic in the University of South Carolina at Columbia from 1873 to 1877; graduated from the law school of the University of South Carolina; has served in a clerical capacity in the Post Office and Treasury Departments at Washington, D. C .; was dean of the law department of the Howard University, at Washington, from 1879 to 1881; appointed commercial agent at Vladivostok, Siberia, July 21, 1898.
GREENHUT, Benedict Joseph:
Treasurer of the Siegel Cooper Com- pany, of New York; born in Chicago, Ill., June 24, 1870; son of Joseph B. and Clara (Wolfner) Greenhut, his father being president of the Siegel Cooper Company of New York. He was educated at the public schools at Peoria, Ill., entered em- ploy of his father, at that time the head of the Great Western Distillery; private secretary to his father when at the head of the Whisky Trust. In 1896 became connected with the Siegel Cooper Com- pany; is now treasurer of the concern, with its business substantially under his immediate and direct supervision. Was married, in 1892, to Miss Minnie Gottlieb, and has two daughters and one son. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, Sons of Veterans, Progress, Aldine, Republican and Freundschaft Clubs of New York City. Address, 6th Ave. and 18th St., New York.
GREER, David Hummell:
Clergyman, rector of St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, since 1888; born Wheeling, W. Va., March 20, 1844; graduated from Washington Col- lege, Pa., 1862; subsequently studied at P. E. Theological Seminary, at Gambier, O .; ordained deacon, 1866; ordained priest, 1868; rector Christ Church, Clarksburg, W. Va., 1866-68; Trinity Church, Coving- ton, Ky., 1868-71; Grace Church, Provi- dence, R. I., 1871-88. Has written "The Historic Christ," "From Things to God," "The Preacher and His Place" (Yale lec- tures), "Visions." Elected bishop coadju- tor of the Diocese of New York, Sept., 1903; has received the degree of D. D. from Brown University, Kenyon College,
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University of the South; of LL.D. from Washington & Jefferson College. Ad- dress, 342 Madison Ave., New York.
GREGORY, Daniel . Seeley:
Educator, preacher and writer; born in Carmel, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1832; graduated from Princeton University, 1857; during 1859-60 student of theology in Princeton Seminary and instructor in rhetoric and English in the University; 1860-71, pastor at Galena, Ill .; at Troy, N. Y .; at New Haven, Conn., and at South Salem, N. Y .; 1871-78, professor of logic and metaphy- sics, and from 1875 of mental science and English literature, in the University of Wooster, O .; 1878-86, president of Lake Forest University, Ill .; 1886-90, on ranch in Minnesota; 1890-94, managing editor of the Standard Dictionary; 1895-1903, ed- itor of The Homiletic Review; 1904-, general secretary of The American Bible League. Author of "Christian Ethics," 1875; "Why Four Gospels," 1877; "Practi- cal Logic," 1881; "Christ's Trumpet Call to the Ministry," 1896; "The Crime of Christendom," 1900. Received from Princeton University, A. M. in 1860, and D. D. in 1874, and from the University of Wooster, LL.D. in 1895. Address, 463 West 153d St., New York.
GREGORY, Eliot:
Author, artist; born New York City, Oct. 13, 1856; educated abroad and at Yale University; studied sculpture with Rinal- di in Rome; exhibited statue of "Corinne" in Paris Salon; studied painting in Paris with Carolus Duran; received gold medal at Paris Salon, 1889, for a painting called "Coquetterie"; painted many well known portraits, including Ada Rehan for Daily, August Belmont, General Cullum, now in the Cullum Memorial, West Point; pen name, "An Idler." Author of the "Idler Papers," which appeared in the New York Evening Post; also of two volumes of essays and social satire, "Worldly Ways and Byways," and "The Ways of Men." Member of the Knickerbocker and numer- ous other clubs; director of the Metropoli- tan Opera, New York. Address, 1122 Broadway, New York.
GREIG, Alexander:
Banker; was born near Montrose, Scot- land, April 12, 1861; he received a good education, and when twenty-one years of age came to America; in 1882 obtained a position as clerk in the auditor's office of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada; in 1883 he became a clerk in the office of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- road at Omaha, Neb., and in three years was made traveling auditor. In 1893 he was appointed special agent for the Na- tional Surety Company at Kansas City, Mo., and in four years he was superin- tendent of the same corporation, first in Chicago and then in New York; in 1900
he was made second vice-president. In 1901 he became interested in the Security Warehousing Company and was made president; on March 31, 1902, resigned from the vice-presidency of the National Surety Company and became vice-presi- dent and director of the Trust Company of the Republic at New York. He holds the last two offices at the present time. Address, 178 West 81st St., New York.
GRIDLEY, Abraham:
Lawyer; born Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1851; is a descendant of Jonathan Ed- wards and of Richard Baxter; alumnus of Cornell University and of the Univer- sity of Michigan; admitted to bar, 1882, practicing at Penn Yan, N. Y .; married Mary Sherman, . daughter of George Sherman. Address, Penn Yan, N. Y.
GRIDLEY, John Thomas:
Lawyer, jurist; born West Candor, Tioga County, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1867; studied at Cornell University; was graduated from the Columbia College Law School, 1892; is an able, lawyer and jurist; received de- grees of L.L.B. from Columbia College and L.L.D. from Nashville College. Ad- dress, Candor, N. Y.
GRIER, William M., A.M .:
Born in Danville, Pa., Dec. 9, 1833; graduated from Lafayette College; cash- ier First National Bank of Danville, 1862- 67; partner Pardee, Markle & Grier, bank- ers, Hazleton, Pa., 1867-81; declined ap- pointment by President Garfield of as- sistant postmaster general in 1881. Ad- dress, 76 St. James Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
GRIFFIN, John Henry:
Secretary of the Manhattan Life In- surance Company; born in the City of New York, July 2, 1848. He was educated in the public schools of that city and was one year in the College of the City of New York. After leaving college was connected with the Niagara Fire Insur- ance Company for a short time, then with C. C. Warren & Co., wholesale boot and shoe dealers, and later with S. H. Ben- oist & Co., a banking and brokerage firm in Wall Street. He joined the Manhattan Life Insurance Company in 1866, and in 1890 was appointed assistant secretary, and in 1900 secretary of the company. Is one of the trustees of Enoch Morgan's Sons Co., New York City. Address, 66 Broadway, New York.
GRIFFIN, Martin Luther:
Expert technical chemist, pulp and pa- per; born May 21, 1859, Northampton, Mass .; son of John and Naomi Easta- brook Griffin; married Ada Riggs, of Al- bany, N. Y., March 28, 1894; two sons; educated in the High School, Holyoke Mass., and graduated from Amherst Col-
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lege, 1883; received the degree of M. A., Amherst, 1886; professional chemist in Holyoke, Mass., 1883 to 1892; since then resident in Albany and Mechanicsville, N. Y., as an expert chemist in all matters pertaining to paper and paper stock, both processes and products from same; chem- ist to the Duncan Company, Mechanics- ville, N. Y., the John A. Manning Paper Company, Troy, and the Fort Orange Pa- per Company, Castleton, N. Y. Member of the American Chemical Society, So- ciety of Chemical Industry, London, the Franklin Institute, the American Institute of Mining Engineers and, the Chemists' Club of New York; winner of prize money (1901) from the Scottish Paper Makers'. Association, Edinburgh. Author of vari- ous technical papers published in the transactions of scientific societies; Re- publican. Address, Mechanicsville, N. Y.
GRIFFIN, Walter T .:
Commercial agent; born Kingston, Ul- ster County, N. Y., during the fifties; he was educated by a tutor and prepared for Rutgers College; graduated in 1875; entered the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, from - whence he was gradu- ated in 1878; was pastor of the Central Avenue Church, Jersey City Heights, and the Bedford Reformed Church, Brooklyn, N. Y .; he was appointed, commercial agent of the United States at Limoges, France, in Nov., 1887.
GRIFFIS, William Elliot, D.D., L.H.D .:
Preacher, author; born in Philedelphia, Pa., Sept. 17, 1843; educated in common schools and Central High School in Phila- delphia; the jewelry business five years; enlisted in the Forty-fourth Penn- sylvania Regiment Volunteers and served in the Gettysburg campaign; studied at Rutgers College, 1865-69, New Brunswick, N. J .; took five prizes in science and Eng- lish composition; traveled in Europe, 1869, under the "Charter Oath" of the Mikado of Japan of 1868, was the first foreigner called from outside countries to assist in restoring the foundations of the empire and arrived in Japan, Dec. 29, 1870, and in Fukui, Echizen, lived one year, seeing the feudal system in opera- tion, being the only surviving man of the Caucasian race who from a daimios capitol saw this form of political society in action; had audience of the Emperor; special student of the Dutch origins of American freedom and institutions; has visited the Netherlands six times; wit- nessed the inauguration of Queen Wil- helmina; graduated from Union Theo- logical Seminary, New York, 1877; same year called to First Reformed Church at Schenectady, N. Y .; 1886, to take charge of Shawmut Congregational Church, Bos- ton. Pastor of
First Congregational Church; Ithaca, 1893-1903. Author of
"The Mikado's
Empire,"
1876;
"Jap -
anese Fairy World;" 1880; "Corea The
Hermit Nation," 1882; "Corea, Without and Within," 1885; "Matthew Calbraith Perry," 1887; "Japan: In Histoy, Folk- lore and Art," 1892; "Brave Little Hol- land and What She Taught Us," 1894; "The Religions of Japan," 1895; "Ro-
mance of Discovery," 1897; "Romance of American Colonization," 1898; "RO- mance of Conquest," 1899; "The Pil- grims in Their Three Homes," 1898; "The American in Holland," 1899; "Verbeck of Japan," 1900; "The Pathfinders of the Revolution," 1900; "In the Mikado's Ser- vice." 1901; "A Maker of the New Ori- ent," 1902 "Sunny Memories of Three Pastorates," 1903, and other books. Mar- ried to Frances King, June 28, 1900. Ad- dress, Ithaca, N. Y.
GRIFFITH, George, Ph.D .:
Educator; born Trenton, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1853; son of Griffith D. Griffith who was born in Wales, and came to this country in early life, settling as a pioneer in Northern Oneida County, in this State; his mother, Catharine F. Dopp, was of a so-called "Mohawk Dutch" fam- ily, belonging to the Society of Friends or Quakers; was educated in the country schools, Whitestown Seminary, and Ham- ilton College; from the latter graduated in 1877, with the degree of A.B., and with historical and Phi Beta Kappa hon- ors; as a result of four years of non- resident study and examinations, and an accepted thesis, was granted the degree of Ph.D. by Illinois Wesleyan University in 1893; has been twice married; first in 1880, to Mary C. Hill, now deceased, and second, in 1886, to Elizabeth A. Sta- cey. His educational career has been in brief as follows: Teacher in country and village schools to get means to complete his education; principal at New Berlin, N. Y., 1877-78, and 1881-83; county com- missioner of schools, Oneida County, N. Y., 1878-81; superintendent of schools, Lockport, N. Y., 1883-86; teacher in State Normal School at New Paltz, N. Y., 1886- 92; superintendent of schools in Utica, N. Y., 1892. to the present; has been pres- ident of several county associations of teachers; secretary, and later (1886), president of the New York State Teach- ers' Association; also president, 1901, of the New York State Council of School Superintendents; is member of several local organizations. Address, 40 Jewett Pl., Utica, N. Y.
GRISCOM, Clement Acton Jr .:
Capitalist; was born June 20, 1868; his parents being Clement A. Griscom and Frances Canby Biddle Griscom; he de- scended from early Pennsylvania settlers; graduated from University of Pennsyl- vania. 1887; general manager American Line-Red Star Line, of the International Mercantile Marine Company; director Em- pire Trust Company, and is connected in
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similar capacity with other corporations; is member of American Museum of Nat- ural History, Sons of the American Revo- lution. Chamber of Commerce, Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, etc .; also member of Lawyers', Metropolitan, University, and other clubs of New York, and of Somerset Hills Country Club, Morristown, N. J. Address. Whitehall Building, Battery Place, New York.
GRISWOLD, Casimir Clayton:
Artist; born Delaware, Ohio, 1834; son of Ezra Griswold; studied wood-engrav- ing, also painting, under his brother; 1850, came to New York and first exhibited at National Academy of Design in 1857, later becoming associate and member; 1859, associated in founding of the Art- ists' Fund Society. He made his home at Rome, 1872, returning to New York, 1886. Paintings: "December," "Winter Morning," ." "The Last of the Ice," "Aug- ust Day, Newport," "Early Spring," "Purgatory Point, Newport." "Lago de Nenie," "Monte Spinnelli, Unitria," and "Mar Albano." Address. 262 West 12th St., New York.
GROSVENOR, James B. M .:
President Grosvenor-Dale Company and Fire Proofine Company; graduated Brown University, 1862; director United States Casualty Company, Greenwich Savings Bank, and United States Rapid-Fire Gun and Powder Company; member of Union, Racquet, Ardsley, Strollers, Jekyl Island, Down Town, New York Yacht, Riding Clubs. Residence, 723 Fifth Ave .; office, 66 Beaver St., New York.
GROTHJEAN, (Miss) Francesco, C. R .:
Artist; born near Hamburg, Germany, studied art under Courtois, Girard, Paul J. Blanc, P. Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre Fritel, and others; has exhibited her works in Europe and America. Address, 939 Eighth Ave., New York.
GROUT, Edward M .:
Comptroller of New York City; born in New York, 1861. Is a graduate of Col- gate University; was admitted to the bar, 1885. Democratic candidate for mayor of Brooklyn, 1895; was elected president of Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, 1897; elected comptroller of New York City on Fusion ticket, 1901, and on Tam- many ticket. Nov., 1903. Residence, 860 Carroll St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
GROUT, Paul:
Banker; born New York. Dec. 20, 1866; son Edward and Frances (Marshall) Grout; prepared Colgate Academy, Ham- ilton, N. Y .; New York University LL.B., 1894; quartermaster sergeant Troop C, United States Volunteer Porto Rico Ex- pedition. Spanish-American War. 1898; second lieutenant Troop C, National
Guard, New York, 1899; Crescent Athletic Club, Brooklyn Club; director Sprague National Bank; trustee Eagle Savings and Loan Company; governor Crescent Ath- letic Club; married, Nov. 3, 1897, Lilly M. Moran; lawyer. Residence, 1233 Pacific St .; office, 189 Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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