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turing Company, treasurer and director in the Winfield Telephone Company, di- rector in the American Wringer Com- pany, of Providence, R. I., and New York City; director in the International Broom Company, and also director and presi- dent of the Imon Petroleum Company; is member of the Hardware Club, of New York City. Address, 296 Broadway, New York.
HENDERSON, Charles R .:
Banker; president Henderson Estate Company and Matteawan Manufacturing Company; director Guaranty Trust Com- pany and Fidelity Bank; trustee Bowery Savings Bank, Mutual Life Insurance Company and Title Guarantee and Trust Company. Address, 24 Nassau St .; resi- dence, 27 East 65th St., New York.
HENDRICK, Michael J .:
Consul; was born at Penn Yan, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1847; was educated in the public schools and at the Penn Yan Academy; from 1871 to 1884 was engaged in mercan- tile pursuits, afterwards until 1893 in the commission business; appointed consul at Belleville, Ontario, in 1893.
HENDRICKS, Francis:
Insurance superintendent of New York; was born at Kingston, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1834; he obtained his education in the public schools and. at the Albany Acad- emy; he established a photograph supply house in Syracuse, N. Y., which is one of the largest in the State; in 1877 he was appointed fire commissioner, and was president of the board two years; he was mayor of Syracuse in 1880 and 1881; he served in the legislature as a member of the assembly in 1884 and 1885, and was elected state senator in 1885, serving three consecutive terms from 1886 to 1891, and was chairman of a special committee ap- pointed to investigate municipal affairs in New York City; he was appointed col- lector of the port of New York in 1891, which position he resigned in 1893; he entered upon the duties of his present position in Feb., 1900. Address, 11 Broad- way, New York
HENDRIX, Joseph Clifford:
Banker; born Fayette, Mo., May 25, 1853; educated at Central College, Fay- ette, Mo .; three years at Cornell; in 1893 organized National Union Bank, which in 1900 was absorbed by National Bank of Commerce; was president National Bank of Commerce, New York, until Oct., 1903; trustee Kings County Trust Co., Brook- lyn (which he organized), Fifth Avenue Trust Co., New York, and of Morton Trust Co., New York; postmaster, Brook- lyn, 1886-90; president Brooklyn board of education six years; trustee New York and Brooklyn Bridge two years; member Congress, 1893-95; president American Bankers' Association; elected Aug., 1897, trustee Cornell, vice-president Cornell
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University Club in New York; president Missouri Society, 1903. Residence, Brook- lyn; office, 31 Nassau St., New York.
HENRY, Edward Lamson:
Artist; born in Charleston, 1841; studied in Philadelphia, New York, Paris and London; elected associate of the Academy of Design, 1869, and academician in 1870; married Frances Livingston Wells, of Johnstown, N. Y., 1875; work genre and American historical; among best known paintings are "City Point, Va.," and "Grant's Headquarters," owned by Union League, New York, "The Dutch Church," now in Albany, and "The First Railway Train in America," in the Metropolitan Museum; has received numerous medals. House, Cragsmoor, N. Y. Address, Cen- tury Club, New York.
HENSLEY Mrs. Sophia Almon:
Author; born Nova Scotia, 1866; daugh- ter Rev. Henry Pryor Almon and Sarah Frances de Wolfe, descendant of Cotton Mather through Rev. Mather Byles; mar- ried Hubert Arthur Hensley in 1889; has three children; was educated by gover- nesses, then at St. Denys' School, War- minster, Wilts, England; also in Paris, France; studied literature under Professor Charles G. D. Roberts; came to New York in 1900; lecturer on literary topics; also on social and moral topics before women's clubs; is identified with the re- cent organization of mothers, and helped organize the New York City Mothers' Club, of which she has been vice-president for many years; is in sympathy with all movements that are progressive; is a radical and fearless speaker and thinker; Douglas Sladen, in his "Younger Amer- ican Poets," makes special mention of her poem, "There is No God," in his in- troduction; is president of the Society for the Study of Life, of this city, an organization designed to instruct young women in their duties as wives and moth- ers, and to study the laws regarding the origin and maintenance of life; she be- lieves that the political enfranchisement of women will follow their social en- franchisement. Author of "A Woman's Love-Letters," poems; "Love and Com- pany, Limited," novelette; has a novel, "The Lost Sard," ready for publication; also a work on social and moral prob- lems to be published this winter. Ad- dress, Hotel Balmoral, 70 Lenox Ave., New York City
HERBEN, Stephen Joseph:
Journalist; born London, England, May 11, 1861; received his preparatory edu- cation in the public schools of Jersey City, N. J., and Academy of Northwest- ern University, Evanston, Ill .; graduated from Northwestern University, 1889; en- tered Garrett Biblical Institute, Evans- ton, Ill., graduating 1891; member of Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Beta Kappa; ordained
to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1889; assistant editor of the Epworth Herald, Chicago, 1890 to 1895; assistant editor of the Christian Advocate, New York, 1895 to date; received the degree of Litt.D. from Syracuse University in 1897. Address, 150 Fifth Ave., New York.
HERBERMANN, Charles George:
Professor of Latin language and litera- ture at College of City of New York. Born Dec. 8, 1840, at Saerbeck in Westphalia; the son of George H. and Elizabeth Stipp. Was twice married; first to Mary Theresa Dieker; second to Elizabeth Schoeb. Has three sons and four daughters. His fa- ther came to the United States in 1851, where he proved a successful merchant. Charles George began his studies in Ger- many. completed them in the College of St. Francis Xavier, in 1858; was in- structor in English, Latin, and Philosophy at his Alma Mater until 1869. Appointed professor of the Latin language and liter- ature at the College of the City of New York, on Oct., 1869, which chair he holds now. Librarian of the college in 1873. Was president of the Catholic Club 1874; first president of the Alumni Association of College of Xavier (1878); president of the United States Catholic Historical Society since 1898, and editor of its "His- torical Records and Studies." Published "Business Life in Ancient Rome," "Sal- lust's Jurgurthine War," "Sallust's Bel- Ium Catilina." "Torfaeus' History of Vinland" (translated), papers on educa- tion in Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, and Greece; also "The Origins of Geog- raphy." "Hrotritha of Sandersheim." "The Norse Discovery of America," "Th" First Map with the Name of America." etc. He also edited for the Catholic Historical Society, "Unpublished Letters of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,". "Forty Years in the United States of America." by Rev. A. J. Thebaud, S. J.
HERING, Rudolph:
Hydraulic and sanitary engineer; born in Philadelphia in 1847, his father being an eminent physician of German birth who long practiced in that city; his early education was acquired in this country, but he soon took up professional studies; he was sent to Germany; he graduated in 1867 from the Dresden Polytechnic In- stitute; on returning to the United States, found an engagement on the corps of engineers which the late C. C. Martin organized for the work at the Prospect Park, in Brooklyn. In 1868 he went to the Fairmount Park work in Philadelphia, on which he remained for about three years; in 1871 astronomer of the first ex- pedition sent out by the government to lay out the Yellowstone National Park; he later spent seven years as assistant city engineer of Philadelphia in special charge of design and construction of bridges and sewers. He received an in-
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vitation in 1880 to visit the leading cities of Europe and report to the National Board of Health on the sewerage systems with which they were provided; his re- port was published by the National Board; on returning to the United States from this visit, he opened an office for consulting practice in water and sewer- age specialties; was soon retained to investigate an additional water supply for the city of Philadelphia, receiving this engagement from General Ludlow. On the completion of this work, three years later, he was appointed chief en- gineer of the Chicago Drainage and Water Supply Commission, and made the orig- inal report and plans for the large Drain- age Canal since constructed; on the com- pletion of this investigation, 1887, he re- turned to New York and undertook an exhaustive examination of certain feat- ures of the sewerage of that city; was also appointed to make important inves- tigations and designs for sewerage works at Washington. D. C .. New Orleans, La., Baltimore, Md., and the Passaic valley district in New Jersey; the water supply investigations at New Orleans, Washing- ton, Philadelphia and New York; in ad- dition to these commissions has been re- tained to design or to approve the plans for the water or sewerage works in a great many American and Canadian cities, was one of the engineers for the muni- cipal improvement of Santos, Brazil, and designed the sewerage works of Hono- lulu; has also given careful attention the technical side of quarantine duties and the disposal of the garbage and other wastes of cities, examinations of fur- naces abroad and in this country and studying the so-called reduction system from a scientific rather than commercial basis; a few years ago entered into a partnership with George W. Fuller, whose work is along allied lines with his ownl. Residence, Montclair, N. J .; office, 170 Broadway, New York.
HERMON, Atkins MacNeil:
Sculptor and teacher; of Scotch Puritan stock; studied in Massachusetts Normal Art School; Julien Academy and Ecole de Beaux Art, Paris, and Roman Rinehart scholarship for four years; taught at Art Institute, Chicago, Cornell University, Ithaca; is now teacher at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and Art Students' League, New York; has done important decorative work at Paris Exposition. 1900, spandrils on United States building; Pan-American Exposition, 1901, group "'Despotism" and tympanum of Ethnological Building; St. Louis Exposition, 1904, main cascade; works located at Art Institute, Chicago; Peabody Institute, Baltimore; Cornell University, .Ithaca; Portland, Ore., Chi- cago, Ill .; Montclair, N. J .; member of National Arts Society, Society of Amer- ican Artists, National Sculptors' Society, Architectural League, Municipal Art So- ciety; designers' medal at Chicago, sil- ver medal Paris, 1900, and Charleston
Exposition, 1902; gold medal Pan-Amer- ican Exposition, 1901. Residence at Col- lege Point, Long Island; studio, 145 West 55th St., New York.
- HERRICK, Clinton B .:
Surgeon specialist; born Troy, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1859; married Minnie Slavin, March 19, 1903; graduated from Albany Medical College, 1880; matriculated at Royal University, Vienna, Austria, 1887; has been professor of railway surgery at Albany Medical College; is attending sur- geon to Troy Hospital, consulting surgeon to Leonard Hospital; surgeon to House of the Good Shepherd, Troy; surgeon to New York Central, Boston and Maine and Rutland railroads; member of New York State Medical Society, New York State Association of Railroad Surgeons, and other medical societies. Author "Railway Surgery.". 1 vol .. several monographs. Member Society War of 1812. Address, 40 State St., Troy. N. Y.
HERRICK, D. Cady:
Jurist; born in Esperance, Schoharie County, N. Y., April, 1846; educated in public schools of Albany and Anthomy Classical Institute, afterward entered the law office of Tremain & Peckham, then became a student at Albany Law School, from which he was graduated in 1868 and admitted to the bar; elected district at- torney of Albany County, 1880 and 1883; in 1886 appointed corporation counsel of the city of Albany; 1891 elected one of the judges of the supreme court of the State of New York; 1894 appointed asso- ciate justice of the appellate division of the supreme court of the State of New York. Address, 151 Washington Ave., Al- bany, N. Y.
HERVEY, Walter Lowrie:
Examiner, writer and lecturer on edu- cation; born Mt. Vernon, Sept. 28, 1862; son of the Rev. Dwight B. and Mary E. (Reeder); married Antoinette Bryant, 1887; was graduated from Prince- ton College, 1886; honorary Ph.D., Prince- ton University, 1892; taught in secondary schools 1886-89; dean and professor of the history and institutes of education in New York College for the Training of Teachers. 1889-91; acting president. 1891- 92; president Teachers' College, 1892-97; dean of the Chautauqua School of Peda- gogy, 1893-98. Author of "Picture Work," 1896; of "The Preparation of the Teacher" in Principles of Religious Education, 1900; and of articles on education in the New International Encyclopedia, 1903 (Dodd, Mead & Company); member Na- tional Council of Education, 1898; member Sunday School Commission of the Dio- cese of New York since 1898; member committee of management and chairman educational committee of .West Side Young Men's Christian Association since 1901; member executive committee Relig-
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ious Education Association since 1903; lecturer on religious education since 1900; member New York Board of Examiners since 1898. Residence, 351 West 114th St .; office, Hall of Board of Education, Park Ave. and 59th St., New York.
HERZOG, Felix Benedict, A.M., LL.B., Ph.D .:
Inventor, electrical engineer, patent-at- torney, painter; born in New York; son of Philip and Henrietta (Benedict) H .; graduated Columbia University 1881-83; wrote for press and "The Railroad Trans- portation Problem"; president Herzog Teleseme Company; director in other fi- nancial corporations; inventor of many well known electrical devices, including telephonic adjuncts, automatic switch- boards, the teleseme, police call systems, elevator signals, and chemical annuncia- tor, receiving for same medals at Paris and Buffalo Expositions; also inventor of other devices in general use; member Am- erican Institute Electrical Engineers (five years in Council); Electro-Chemical So- ciety, American Association Advance- ment of Science; delegate Electrical Con- gress; fellow Geographical Society; iden- tified with other societies of public activ- ity; delegate to several local Republican conventions; active in art matters, painter (pupil of Rondel and one of earliest mem- bers of Art Students' League); governor National Arts Club; trustee and former treasurer Municipal Art Society; member of other art organizations. Address, 51 West 24th St .; studio, Carnegie Hall, New York.
HERZOG, Paul M .:
Lawyer; born New York, Aug. 24, 1874; son of Dr. Max and Louise (Bluen) H .; New York Law School B.A .; admitted to bar Oct., 1895; practiced his profession; trustee Association Improved Instruction of Deaf-Mutes; member Bar Association, Century Country, Criterion Clubs. Ad- dress, 22 William St., New York.
HESS, Henry E .:
Manager of the New York Fire Insur- ance Exchange; was born at Detroit, Mich., in 1851; entered fire insurance of- fice in Indianapolis at the age of sixteen, and has ever since maintained a connec- tion with the business; in 1881 he took up field work as special agent for the merchants of New Jersey, in the middle department, and in 1882 and 1883, served the Royal Insurance Company of North America, and Pennsylvania Fire as spe- cial agent in New York State, under Man- ager C. R. Knowles; in 1884 was appoint- ed to the position of special agent for the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, with headquarters at Boston; elected president of the New England Fire Ex- change in 1887, and served as vice-presi- dent of that organization in 1896 and 1897;
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in June, 1899, elected to his present po- sition and moved to New York. Address, 32 Nassau St., New York.
HETHERINGTON, John Edwin:
Apiculturist; was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., June 7, 1840; he enlisted in First Regiment of United States Sharp Shooters, Oct. 12, 1861; promoted to captain after Battle of Gettysburg for gallant services; discharged Sept. 20, 1864, on account of serious wounds; be- gan wee-culture as a boy and is now rec- ognized as the most extensive bee-keep- er in the world, owning about 3,000 col- onies of bees; was one of the founders of the Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Associa- tion (now New York State Association). Address, Cherry Valley, N. Y.
HEYDECKER, Edward L .:
Lawyer; born New York, June 12, 1863; graduated from Columbia University, 1883, and from the Law School, 1885; has since practiced legal profession in New York, except three years spent in Philadelphia; for past three years has been giving at- tention to life insurance, in connection with the Northwestern Mutual Life In- surance Company, of Milwaukee, Wis., of which he is an accredited agent. Author and editor of various legal works. Resi- dence, 137 Franklin Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y .; office, 220 Broadway, New York.
HICKOX, Charles Ralph:
Lawyer; born Bay Ridge, Long Island, Jan. 11, 1873; son of Charles Ralph and Helen B. (Church); graduated Yale Uni- versity, 1893, Harvard Law School, 1896; admitted to the bar, 1897; served with Troop A, New York Volunteer Cavalry, and also as second lieutenant Second United States Infantry during Spanish- American war; resigned commission after the war and has since been practicing law in New York; one of the founders of the Yale Club; member also Squadron A, Association of the Bar. and the Adiron- dack League Club. Address, 5 Beekman St., New York.
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HIGBEE, John Henry:
Lieutenant colonel U. S. Marine Corps; born New York City; appointed from New York; commissioned as second lieutenant, March 9, 1861; marine barracks, head- quarters, Washington, D. C., 1861; sloop Vincennes, West Gulf Blockading Squad- ron, 1861-2; commissioned as first lieu- tenant Sept. 1, 1861; Blackwater river ex- pedition, 1861; fiag-ship Hartford, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; bat- tles of Vicksburg, Warrenton, Port Hud- son and Grand Gulf March 14, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 28, 1863, bombardment of Port Hudson, May 27, 1863; brevetted captain for gallantry in battle, May 25, 1863; marine barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1864; commissioned as captain June 10, 1864; receiving ship North Carolina, 1864; ma- rine barracks, Norfolk. Va., 1865; flag-
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ship New Hampshire, 1865-6; marine bar- racks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1866; marine re- cruiting rendezvous, New York, 1866-8; marine barracks, Philadelphia, Pa., 1869; fleet marine officer, Pacific Station, 1870- 73; marine barracks, Mare Island, Cal., 1871; marine barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1873-8; fleet marine officer, Asiatic Station, 1878-81; marine barracks, Boston, 1881-2; marine barracks, navy yard, Washington, D. C., 1883-6; commanded Second Battal- ion of Marines on Isthmus of Panama, April, 1885; marine barracks, Norfolk, Va., 1886; marine barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1888-90; commissioned as major, Aug. 18, 1889; commissioned lieutenant colonel, July 11, 1891; commanding marine bar- racks, Portsmouth, 1889-95; marine bar- racks, navy yard, New York, Oct., 1895- 98; retired, June 1, 1889. Address, Bat- tery Park Hotel, Asheville, N. C.
HIGGINS, Frank Wayland:
Lientenant-governor of New. York State; born at Rushford, Allegany Coun- ty, N. Y., Aug. 18, 1856; son of the late Orrin T. Higgins; received his education at the Rushford Academy and at the Re- view Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, this being supplemented by a course of commercial college business education; in. 1875 engaged in mercantile business on his own account at Stanton, Mich., which he conducted successfully for three years; in 1879 removed to Olean and assumed the management of the extensive grocery business of Higgins, Blodgett & Co., and succeeded to the ownershir in 1886; is one of the largest stockholders and a director in the Exchange National Bank; but, for the past ten years has given most of his attention to timber and iron properties in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minn- esota and on the Pacific Coast; has been for years a trustee of the Western New York Home for Friendless and De- pendent Children, a trustee of the Chau- tauqua Assembly, and connected with various other benevolent and charitable enterprises in western New York; 1903, he was unanimously nominated for State senator of the Fiftieth district, and was elected by a large plurality; re- elected for three successive terms, 1896, 1898, and 1900; he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chi- cago in 1888, and has on a number of oc- casions served his city, country, and dis- trict in a representative capacity; elected lieutenant-governor on Republican ticket in 1902. Address, Olean, N. Y.
HIGLEY, Warren:
Lawyer; third son of Chester and Pru- dence Miller Higley, and a direct descen- dant of Captain John Higley, who came from Frimley, England, and settled at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1666; was born in Cayuga County, near Auburn, N. Y., and there received the early training of the common school and district library; at the age of eighteen he taught his first
common school and "boarded around" ac- cording to the custom then prevailing; prepared for college at the Auburn Acad- emy and entered the freshman class of Hamilton College in the summer of 1858; was graduated with honor in July, 1862; in Nov., 1861, while a senior in college, he was appointed by Governor Morgan school commissioner for the second dis- trict of Cayuga County, which position he filled until the summer of 1863, when he was chosen principal of Cayuga Lake Academy, at Aurora, N. Y .; he contin- ued in this position for three years, then resigned to assume the duties of superin- tendent of the public schools and prini- cipal of the high school of the city of Auburn; after two years' service he re- turned to the principalship of Cayuga Lake Academy; two years later became principal of the West High School, Cleve- land, O., and thereafter superintendent of the public schools of Dayton., O .; in the fall of 1874 he was admitted to the Ohio Bar; was elected Judge of the City Court, Cincinnati, O., 1881; removed to New York City in 1884, where he is still en- gaged in the practice of his profession; in 1882 he was foremost in the organiza- tion of the American Forestry Congress, since changed to "Association," has been twice its president, and is still an officer; one of the founders of the Ohio State Forestry Association and its president, until removal to New York in 1884; a founder of the Ohio Society of New York; of the Patria Club; member of the Alpha Delta Phi Club; president of the Adiron- dack League Club; member Empire State Society Sons of the American Revolution; Hamilton College Alumni Association; State Bar Association; American Associ- ation for the Advancement of Science; Larchmont Yacht Club; Republican Club of the City of New York; Aurora Grata Consistory, and Kismet Temple; founder and first vice-president of the Associa tion for the Protection of the Adiron- dacks; member of the Society of the Cay- ugas; married July, 1891, Christina J. Haley. Residence, 68 West 40th St .; office, 45 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
HILL, David B .:
Lawyer; born Havana, N. Y., Aug. 29, 1843, of old New England ancestry; edu- cated at the academy in his native town; 1862 went to Elmira to study law; 1864 admitted to the bar and the same year appointed city attorney; took active part in politics; 1868 was delegate to Demo- cratic State convention; 1870 elected mem- ber of the assembly; re-elected in 1871; in the legislature of 1872 elected one of the managers of the prosecution before senate of the ring judges in the scandals exposed at that time in New York City; 1875 appointed by Governor Tilden mem- ber of commission to provide uniform charter for the cities of the State; 1877 and 1881 chairman of Democratic State Convention; 1880 and 1881 alderman of
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Elmira; 1882 mayor; Nov., 1882, elected lieutenant-governor, and in 1884 succeeded Cleveland in governorship he had left to become President of the United States; 1885 elected governor; re-elected 1888; 1891 elected United States Senator, serv- ing until 1897; member of the New York State Bar Association. Address, Albany, N. Y.
HILL, David Jayne:
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Envoy extraordinary and minister plen- ipotentiary to Switzerland since Jan. 7, 1903; born in Plainfield, N. J., June 10, 1850; was graduated from Bucknell Uni- versity, Pennsylvania, in 1874, with the degree of A. B., and in 1877 with the de- gree of A. M .; received the degree of LL.D. from Colgate University; studied at the Universities of Berlin and Paris; president of Bucknell University 1879-88, and of the University of Rochester, N. Y., 1888-96, which latter position he resigned to pursue the study of public law in Eu- rope; was appointed assistant secretary of State Oct. 2, 1898, and entered upon his duties on Oct. 25; is the author of a campaign life of General Grant, biogra- phies of Irving and Bryant, text-books on rhetoric, logic, psychology, and works on economics, sociology, and philosophy; in 1896 he wrote a primer of finance for campaign use; he is a member of the Authors' Club of New York, the Sons of the American Revolution, and many liter- ary and scientific societies. Address, Uni- ted States Legation, Berne, Switzerland.
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