Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 68

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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HILL, Frank Pierce:


Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library; born in Concord, N. H., Aug. 22, 1855; preparatory education in the local public schools; entered Dartmouth College, graduating in 1876; after a few years of business training he was, in 1881, elected librarian of the Lowell, Mass., Public Library; 1885 called to Paterson, N. J., and there organized (under the act of 1884) the first free public library in New Jersey; later inaugurated the Salem, Mass., Public Library, and in 1889 became librarian of the first free public library in Newark, N. J .; here he remained until 1901, when, upon the unanimous request of the trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library, he assumed charge of that in- stitution; served as secretary of the American Library Association for five years, succeeding Melvil Dewey, its first secretary; May 17, 1880, married Annie M., daughter of Robert Wood, of Lowell, Mass. Address, Public Library, Brevoort Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.


HILL, Frederick Trevor:


Lawyer and author; born Brooklyn, N. Y., May 5, 1866; son of Edward and Mary Hill; educated at Brooklyn Poly- technic Academy; graduated from Yale, B. A., class of 1887; from Columbia Law School, LL.B., class of 1889; is a member of New York Bar Association; also of


Players', Ardsley and Downtown Clubs. Author of "Miniatures from Balzac" (with S. P. Griffin), Appleton, 1893; "' "The Case and Exceptions" (short stories), Stokes Company, 1900; "The Care of Estates" (law book), Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1901; "The Minority" (novel), Stokes Company, 1902; "'The Web" (novel), Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903; various contributions to magazines, 1901 to 1903. Residence, 29 Washington Square, West; business address, 82 William St., New York.


HILL, James J .:


Railroad official; was born in Upper Canada in 1838; in his eighteenth year he became clerk in a steamboat office in St. Paul, and he remained in that occupation for nine years, when he was appointed agent for the Northwestern Packet Com- pany; subsequently he established a gen- eral fuel and transportation business on his own account, among other concerns which he founded being the Red River Transportation Company; in 1873, he or- ganized the syndicate which secured con- trol of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad from Dutch owners of the securities, and, after reorganizing the system as the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad, he assumed the leading part in its man- agement; in 1890, it became part of the Great Northern system, of which he has since then been president; member Metro- politan, Larchmont Yacht, New York Yacht, Jeckyl Island Club, and Manhat- tan Club. Address, Great Northern Rail- way Building, St. Paul, Minn.


HILLEGAS, Howard Clemens:


Author, war correspondent and jour- nalist; born Pennsburg, Pa., Dec. 30, 1872; graduated from Perkiomen Semi- nary, class of 1890; from Franklin and Marshall College, class 1894; on staff New York World 1894-1900; war corre- spondent in South Africa 1896 and 1900. Author of "Oom Paul's People," 1899, published by D. Appleton & Co .; "The Boers in War," 1900 (Appleton), and "With the Boer Forces," (Methuen & Co., London), 1900. Address, New Brighton, New York City.


HILLIS, Newell Dwight:


Clergyman; born in Magnolia, Ia., Sept. 2, 1858; studied at Iowa College, McCor -. mick Seminary and Lake Forest Univer- sity. married Miss Annie Louise Pat- rick. of Chicago, on April 14, 1887. First pastorate was Peoria, Ill., then Evanston, Ill. He then became pastor of Central Church, Chicago, succeeding Professor Swing. Received degrees M. A., D. D., from the Northwestern. Became pastor Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1899, succeeding Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott. Books: "A Man's Value to Society," "How the Inner Light Failed," "Investment of Influence," "Great Books as Life Teach- ers " "Foretokens of Immortality," "In-


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fluence of Christ in Modern Life," "Quest of Happiness." Address, 31 Grace Court, Brooklyn, N. Y.


HINDS, William Alfred:


Author; born in Enfield, Mass., Feb. 2, 1833; graduated from Yale College Scien- tific School, 1870; became a member of the Oneida Community in 1849, and for thirty years was associated with its noted founder, John H .- Noyes, as stenographer, writer and editor; after the reorganiza- tion of the Oneida Community into a joint stock company in 1880, he became one if its business superintendents, and was for eighteen years a director; in 1903 he succeeded Dr. Theodore. Noyes, deceased, as its president; in 1878 after making a tour of the communistic so- cieties of the United States he published his work on "American Communities." A revised and greatly enlarged edition of this work, now recognized as authorita- tive, was published in 1902. Address, Kenwood, Madison County, N. Y.


HINKLEY, James William:


Editor, publisher, financier; born at Port Jackson, Clinton County, N. Y., of Puritan stock; educated at the Smith & Converse Academy, near his birthplace, and then was appointed a cadet at the West Point Military Academy; on leav- ing school he entered the newspaper profession, becoming editor and owner of the News Press of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and afterwards editor and owner of the Daily Graphic of New York City; active in political field as a Democrat; chosen chairman of the State committee to suc- ceed Edward Murphy, Jr., United States Senator; is president of the Poughkeepsie City and Wappingers Falls Railway Com- pany, and has various other railroad in- terests; was president of the Walker Elec- tric Company, which has recently been consolidated with the Westinghouse Elec- tric Company; is interested in other busi- ness and manufacturing enterprises; was a close personal and political friend of the late ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower, and was associated with him in many of his great financial undertakings; connect- ed with the United States Casualty Com- pany of New York, first as chairman of the executive committee of its board of directors, then as president of the com- pany, which office he still holds; he is a director in the National Bank of North America, the Poughkeepsie Trust Com- pany and other financial institutions. Member of the Army and Navy, the Man- hattan, the Downtown Business Men's, the Lawyers', the Underwriters', and oth- er New York clubs, and is a member of the American Geographical Society; is one of the governors of the Duchess Club, president of the Winnisook Club; is a member of the Cuttyhunk and other coun- try clubs, and a life member of the West Point "Army Officers' Athletic Associa- tion." Residence, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.


HIRSCHBERG, Michael H .:


Jurist; born April 12, 1847, Newburgh, N. Y .; studied Newburgh Free Academy, graduating from same; admitted to bar, 1868; held office of special county judge, Orange County, 1872, and of district at- torney, 1889; State delegate to Constitu- tional Convention, 1894; elected justice Supreme Court, New York, 1896; assigned to Appellate division Second Department, Brooklyn, 1900; appointed pr- jus- -- tice Jan. 1904; term expiring, 1910; mem- ber Powelton. Republican, Manhattan, Hamilton, Brooklyn and other clubs. Ad- dress, Newburgh, N. Y.


HIRTH, Friedrich:


Head of Chinese Department of Colum- bia University since 1902; was born in the neighborhood of Gotha, Germany, in 1845; received his first Latin education at the College in Gotha, and studied classical philology under F. Ritschl and M. Haupt; in 1870 he was appointed to the Chinese Customs Service under Sir Robert Hart; being, during the first five years, sta- tioned at Canton, he began his Chinese studies by the local dialect of that prov- ince, but soon turned to the court idiom and the written language; in 1872 he pub- lished a map of Kuang-Tung, with sev- eral geographical papers connected with that province, some of which appeared in the China Review; in 1875 he was trans- ferred to Amoy, and was placed in charge of that port in 1877; the end of that year saw him at Shanghai, where he was kept in a leading position in the statistical de- partment of the inspectorate general of customs, with the interruption of two years' leave spent in Germany, till the spring of 1888; being an active member of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, he followed Professor H. A. Giles as president, and edited the Society's Journal during several years; 1888-90 on leave in Berlin: having returned to China for another term of five years (1890-5), he lived as commissioner of customs in Tam- sui (Formosa), Chinkiang, Ichang, and Chungking (1893-95); being entitled to two years' leave again in 1895 he settled down in Munich (Germany), and resigned the service without returning to China in 1897; Professor Hirth was invited by the Russian Academy to come to St. Petersburg in order to prepare a cata- logue of the large collection of Chinese books and manuscripts kept at the Asi- atic Museum; his name had been ad- vanced by the late Dr. Bretschneider, as that of a specialist in Chinese biblio- graphy, in connection with a report on the imperial library of Mukden (said to have been captured by the Russians in the autumn of 1900), published in the St. Petersburg Gazette and the Allgemeine Zeitung, (Beilage, April 19, 1901); Dr. Hirth has, however, asked for leave to postpone the work referred to, in order to be able to commence work in New


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York early in October, 1902. Is Royal Professor in Prussia, comdr. Order of St. Stanislas and chevalier of the orders of Francis Joseph, of Baden and Coburg- Gotha; foreign member Imperial Acad- emy Sciences, St. Petersburg, and Royal Academies, Munich and Budapest; hon- orary and corresponding member Ori- ental Society in Munich and China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai, also the late Oriental Society of Peking; Geographical Societies of Mu- nich, Dresden, Leipzig. Bremen, Oporto and Anthropological Society, Berlin. Author: "Text-book of Documentary Chinese," two volumes 1885-88; Shanghai, China and the Roman Orient, 1885; notes on the Chinese Documentary Style, 1885; Ancient Porcelain, 1888; Chinesische Stu- dien, 1890; Ueber fremde Einflüsse in der Chinesischen Kunst, 1896 (Leipzig, Har- rassowitz). Contributor to European and Chinese journals. Address (June to Sept.), 29 Ainmiller St., München, Germany; (Oct. to June), Columbia University, or 501 West 113th St., New York.


HISCOCK, Frank:


Lawyer; born in Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y., in 1834; educated at Pom- pey Academy and admitted to the bar in 1855; began practice in Pompey and was district attorney for Onondaga 1860-63; represented his district in the forty-fifth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth and forty- ninth congresses, 1877-87; elected a sena- tor in 1887-93; he engaged in the prac- tice of law in Syracuse; he became a di- rector of the State Bank of Syracuse, Sy- racuse Savings Bank, and the Trust and Deposit Company of Onondaga; was a member of the Union League and Repub- lican Clubs of New York City and of the Syracuse Club. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.


HITCHCOCK, Edward Jr .:


Professor of physical culture and hy- giene; born in Stratford, Conn., Sept. 1, 1854; son of Edward Hitchcock, of Am- herst, Mass., and Mary Lewis (Judson), of Stratford; graduated at Amherst Col- lege, A.B., 1878; took medical course at Dartmouth Medical School and Bellevue, N. Y .; took his medical degree in 1881; took master's degree at Amherst in the same year; practiced medicine at Am- herst. Mass., from 1881 until 1884, during which time he was instructed in the de- partment of oratory at Amherst College and studied physical training under his father; in 1884 was called to Cornell Uni- versity as acting professor of physical culture; three years later became profes- sor of physical culture and hygiene; mem- ber of local medical societies wherever he has been and has contributed somewhat to their literary productions; married to Sarah Demetria Fuertes, Ithaca, June 22, 1888; vice-president of the Society of Gymnasium Directors; was also secretary ~~ the American Association for the ad-


vancement of Physical Education; con- tributor to various magazines and a writer of monographs on matters per- taining to physical culture. Address, Ith- aca, N. Y.


HOBART, George Vere:


Humorist, author and playwright; born in Nova Scotia, Jan. 16, 1867; became a telegraph operator when but twelve years old; worked in this profession in many places until 1895; then became managing editor of The Sunday Scimitar, of Cum- berland, Md .; a year later went to Bal- timore first on Morning Herald; then as special humorous writer on the Baltimore American: originated the "Dinkelspiel" papers on Baltimore News; since 1899 has written "Dinkelspiel" exclusively for the New York American and the other Hearst papers in Chicago and San Francisco. Author of the "John Henry" series of humorous books in slang, published by G. W. Dillingham Co., which appeared in the following order: "John Henry," 1901; "Down the Line," 1901; "It's Up to You," 1902; "Back to the Woods," 1903; "Out for the Coin," 1903. Author of "Li'l Ver- ses for Li'l Fellers," a book of children's poems published by Harper & Brothers, 1903; as a playwright, author of many Broadway successes: "Broadway to To- kio" (with Louis Harrison); "After Of- fice Hours," "Supper at Sherry's," "Sal- ly in our Alley," "The Man from Mis- souri,' (with Edward E. Rose); "The Sleepy King," "Morning Glory" and nu- merous others. Married in Baltimore, Md., to Sarah H. DeVries, July 14, 1897; member of the Lambs' Club. Address, 301 West 109th St., New York.


HOBSON, Richmond Pearson:


Naval constructor; born in Greensboro, Ala .. Aug. 17. 1870; studied at Southern University, 1882-85; naval cadet, May 21, 1885; graduated from U. S. Naval Acad- emy, 1889; assistant naval constructor, July 1, 1891; naval constructor, June 23, 1898. Served as constructor of the North Atlantic Squadron during the Spanish- American War; was on the flagship New York in blockade duty in the bombard- ment of Mantanzas. also in the expedi- tion against San Juan de Puerto Rico; June 2, 1898, offered his services to sink the collier Merrimac at the mouth of Santiago Harbor, and thus prevent the escape of the Spanish fleet; with eight men executed the maneuver; the follow- ing day was taken prisoner at Santiago, but three days later was returned to his fleet. After the battle of July 3, result- ing in the destruction of the Spanish fleet. was placed in charge of operations to inspect the wrecks and see what could be saved; saved the Teresa. 1899-1900, at Hong-Kong directing the reconstruction of three Spanish gunboats wrecked in the battle of Manila, May 1. 1898; subse-


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quently in charge of the construction de- partment at Cavite, P. I .; superintendent of naval construction, Crescent Shipyard, Elizabeth, N. J., May to June, 1902; re- signed from the navy in Feb., 1903. Resi- dence, Greensboro, Ala .; New York ad- dress, Army and Navy Club, 16 West 31st St., New York.


HODGE, J. Aspinwall:


Lawyer; born Philadelphia, March 9, 1861; son of Rev. Dr. J. Aspinwall and Charlotte (Morse) H .; married in 1888 daughter of Professor William S. Karr, Hartford Theological Seminary; gradu- ated Princeton A. B., 1883, taking his- torical fellowship; degree of A. M., Prince- ton 1886; graduated Columbia Law School, 1887, and the same year was admitted to the New York bar; instructor of mathe- matics and master of athletics at the Lawrenceville school, 1884. Author of magazine articles; a Democrat in politics, he has taken active part in the Democrat- ic anti-Tammany movements in New York City; was counsel in the litigation against the United States Steel Corpora- tion, which sought to prevent the con- summation of the conversion syndicate plan in 1902; is a member of the Uni- versity, Reform, Tilden and Princeton Clubs of New York, and of the Bar Asso- ciation. Address, 316 West 108th St., New York.


HODGE, Richard Morse:


Teacher; clergyman; born Mauch Chunk, Pa., 1864; son of J. Aspinwall Hodge, D. D., and Charlotte Gebhard (Morse) . A. B. Princeton University, 1886 and A. M., 1888; student at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1886-1890; D. D., University of Nashville, 1901; married Alice Austen. Glencoe, Md .; pastor at Milwaukee, Wis., and Riverton, N. J., 1890-95; instructor in biblical literature and pedagogy in Missionary Training School, Fredericksburg, Va., 1895-98, and in the Bible Institute, Nashville, Tenn., 1898-1901. Since 1901 director of exten- sion courses for lay students in Union Theological Seminary and lecturer at Teachers' College of Columbia University in biblical literature and religious educa- tion; member of Society of Biblical Lit- erature and Exegesis; author of Historical Atlas of the Life of Christ. Residence, 567 West 113th St .; office, 700 Park Ave., New York.


HOE, Robert:


Manufacturer, inventor; born in New York March 10, 1839; has invented many improvements on the printing press and is the head of large firms in New York City and London, England; has always resided in New York; possesses one of the finest private libraries in the United States, owns a model stock farm at West- chester, where he has his summer resi- dence; he is one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Address,


11 East 86th St .; office, 504 Grand St., New York.


HOFF, John Van Rensselaer:


Lieutenant colonel, U. S. Army; born at Mount Morris, N. Y., April 11, 1848; son of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alex. H. Hoff, Medical Department, United States Army, and Ann Eliza Van Rensselaer; married Lavinia, daughter of Brevet Brigadier General Hannibal Day, United States Army; A. B., A. M., M. D., Union University, New York; M. D., Columbia University, N. Y .; matriculant Univer- sity of Vienna; appointed first lieutenant assistant surgeon, United States Army, Nov. 10, 1874; captain, 1879; major sur- geon, 1891; lieutenant colonel, deputy sur- geon general, 1901; organized first ae- tachment of hospital corps in the United States Army at Fort Reno, I. T., 1887, and first company of instruction, hospital corps, at Fort Riley, Kan., 1891; chief surgeon of first autumn maneuvers in United States Army, held in Oklahoma in 1888, and those at Chillocco, O., 1889, and at Fort Riley, 1902; recommended for brevet and medal of honor in Sioux cam- paign of 1890-91; chief surgeon Third Corps, Spanish-American War, 1898; chief surgeon in Porto Rico, 1898-1900; organ- izer and president of the Superior Board of Health and Board of Charities, Porto Rico. In charge of hurricane relief work following disaster of Aug., 1899; instruct- or in ophthalmology, etc., University of California, 1885; professor Army Medical School, 1901-2; instructor in military hy- giene, General Service and Staff College, 1903-4. Author of "The Most Practicable


Organization for the Medical Department, U. S. A., in Actual Service"; "Outline of the Military Sanitary Organizations of Some of the Great Armies of the World": "Military Sanitary Organization on the Lines of Communication and at the Base"; "A Scheme of Military Sanitary Organization"; "Some Suggestions for the Organization and Interior Economy of a State Medical Military Sub-Depot in War Time," etc .; president of the Association Military Surgeons, United States, 1901-2; member of New York Academy of Medi- cine; Society War 1812, New York; Loyal Legion, United States; Society of the Dragon; Sons of the Revolution, Colonial Wars, etc. Address, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.


HOFFMAN, Frank Sargent:


Educator; born Sheboygan Falls, Wis., Feb. 9, 1852; early life spent mostly on farm near village of Hopkinton, N. H .; educated in the district school of the lat- ter place until sixteen years of age, when his parents moved to Galesburg, Ill .; there entered Knox College, where Eu- gene Field, the poet, was a close friend and classmate; remained here two years, teaching subsequently in the public schools, and after three years going to Amherst College, where he graduated in


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1876; in 1880 graduated from Yale Divin- ity School and was appointed Hooker fel- low; on this fellowship studied in Berlin and Heidelberg until 1883, when he re- turned to become instructor in philosophy at Wesleyan University; 1885 appointed professor of philosophy in Union College, which position he continues to hold; mar- ried, first, Jessie B. Lathrop, who died Dec. 18, 1893; second, Rebecca Russell Lowell (daughter of R. T. S. Lowell and niece of James Russell Lowell), April 25, 1900. Author of "The Sphere of the State" (third edition, 1902); "The Sphere of Sci- ence" (1898); "Psychology and Common Life" (1903); is also a contributor to the North American Review, the Outlook, and similar periodicals; member of American Philosophical Association, American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science, etc. Address, Schenectady, N. Y.


HOLBROOK, Richard Thayer:


Educator and author; born in Windsor Locks, Conn., Dec. 13, 1870, of New Eng- land stock; 1889, graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and in 1893, with degree of A. B., from Yale; then went abroad to study the romance lan- guages; spent the winters of 1893-4 and 1895-6 in Paris; summer of 1894 in Italy; winter of 1894-5 in Berlin; summer of 1895 in France, Holland and England; in the autumn of 1896 became tutor in ro- mance languages at University, where he remained until 1901, taking a trip through Spain in 1900 to study Span- ish life and the Castilian dialect; in 1901 resigned in order to study at Columbia and write there his dissertation on "Dan- te and the Animal Kingdom" (Macmillan, 1902); has contributed to critical reviews and popular magazines; has written a novel called "Boys and Men," a study of Yale life (Scribners, 1900), and "A Bach- elor of Arts," a short story dealing with Yale life (Lippincott, 1901); 1903 was con- nected as an editor with New Interna- tional Encyclopedia, to which he contrib- uted articles on the romance literatures, on English and American literature, on realism, etc. Residence, Yonkers, New York; office, Columbia University, New York.


HOLDEN, Alexander M .:


Banker; born Mendon, N. Y., Oct. 11, 1848; son of Tmothy H. Holden and Min- erva J. Martin; sixth in descent from Richard Holden, of Watertown, Mass., 1634, and of Minerva J. Martin, daughter of Alexander Martin; prepared for college at Rochester High School, 1865, and since then has been in mercantile and banking business, establishing a bank at Honeoye Falls in 1870, of which he has since been proprietor; married in 1870 Eleanor L. Warner. of Lima, N. Y .; has one son, Raleigh W. Holden; he is a member of the Am. Bankers' Association, also New York State Bankers' Association, and has been secretary, treasurer and chairman of group 2 of this organization; one of the


original proprietors ọf the Rochester Southern Railroad, a part of the Lehigh Valley system, of which he has been a director for fifteen years; stockholder and director in many local enterprises, and interested in educational matters, in the organizing of the Union School at Honeoye Falls; has been trustee and treasurer of the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima since 1887; he was lay delegate from Genesee Conference to the General Con- ference of the M. E. Church held at Cleveland, O., in 1896: member of Empire State Society, Sons of Am. Revolution, Genesee Valley Club, of Rochester; Roch- ester Historical Society and other civic societies. Address, Honeoye Falls, N. Y.


HOLDEN, Edward S .:


Librarian and astronomer; born in and appointed from Missouri; cadet U. S. Military Academy, 1866; graduated and appointed second lieutenant, Fourth Ar- tillery, June 15, 1870; transferred to En- gineers, June 10, 1872; resigned, March 28, 1873; appointed professor of mathe- matics, U. S. Navy, 1873, serving as as- tronomer U. S. Naval Observatory, Wash- ington, till 1881, when he was made direc- tor of the Washburn Observatory, Wis .; 1885-88 president of University of Cali- fornia; 1888-98, director of Lick Observa- tory; 1901 to date, librarian of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. Mem- ber of numerous scientific societies at home and abroad. Sc.D., LL.D .; Knight- Commander Ernestine Order (Saxony) ; Knight Danebrog Order (Denmark), etc. Author of a large number of books and papers on astronomical and other sub- jects. Address, West Point, N. Y., and Century Club, New York City.


HOLCOMBE, William Frederic, M.D .:


Physician; born Sterling, Mass., April 2, 1827; son of Captain Augustine and Lucy (Bush) Holcombe; in 1881 delivered centennial address of Sterling, Mass; in 1869 became one of the nine founders of the New York Genealogical and Bio- graphical Society; member and physician . of New England Society of New York; of International Medical Society (elected in Paris); the New York Society of Foun- ders and Patriots of America (members dating anterior to 1650 by ancestry of Grandfather Holcombe). Has compiled "Genealogy of the Bush Family of Water- town, Marlboro and Boylston, Mass.," and of the "Holcombe Family of England and America from 1590"; was oculist and aurist to New York Demilt Dispensary for seventeen years from 1852; lecturer on ophthalmoscope in New York Univer- sity Medical College, 1862; elected profes- sor (first similar chair in America) to New York Medical College in 1862; pro- fessor of eye and ear diseases in the New York Medical College in 1862; pro- fessor New York Ophthalmic College and Hospital, 1863; professor of eye and ear diseases in New York College for Women,




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