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INGALLS, Charles Russell:
Jurist; born at Greenwich, N. Y., in 1819; studied law at Greenwich under the instruction of his father; he was ad- mitted to practice in the Supreme Court in 1844 and formed a partnership with his father; in 1860 he moved to Troy and be- came a partner with David L. Seymour under the name of Seymour and In- galls; in 1863 he was elected as jus- tice of the Supreme Court in the third judicial district; in 1870 became a mem- ber of the Court of Appeals; 1871, was elected for justice of Supreme Court and held that office for fourteen years without opposition; 1885, again nominated and elected for a term of fourteen years; re- tired from the bench Jan. 1, 1890. Ad- dress, Troy, N. Y.
INGERSOLL, Edward Payson:
Clergyman; was born at Lee, Berkshire County. Mass., May 6, 1834; son of Wil-
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liam and semantha (Bassett) Ingersoll, and a descendant of John Ingersoll, who emigrated from England to Salem, Mass., in 1629. The line runs through his son Thomas, his son David, his son William and his son David, the grandfather of Edward P. He is also descended through his daughter, Sarah, and her daughter, Sarah (the wife of David and the grand- mother of Edward), from Jonathan Ed- wards, the senior. Edward P. Ingersoll was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, and at Williams College, Massachusetts, being graduated at Williams College in 1855; three years later received the de- gree of A. M. from Williams, and in 1859 an LL.B. from the Ohio State and Union Law College, and D. D. from Williams College in 1877. From 1859 to 1862 he practiced law with William J. Boardman in Cleveland. In the latter year he was licensed to preach by the Cleveland con- ference of the Congregational Church, and afterward pursued his studies at the The- ological Seminary, in Andover, Mass .; in Dec., 1863, he received full ordination as pastor of the Congregational Church of Sandusky, O .; in 1867 went to Indianapo- lis and became pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, serving there un- til Jan., 1870, when he was called to the Middle Reformed Church of Brooklyn, N. Y .; after thirteen years became pastor of the Puritan Congregational Church in the same city, where he remained for nine years and then accepted a call to the Park Congregational Church, St. Paul, Minn .; in 1897 returned to Brooklyn and assumed the pastorate of the Immanuel Congrega- tional Church, which was formed under his leadership by the union of the Roches- ter Avenue and Patchen Avenue churches in 1898. For many years before he re- moved to St. Paul and since his return he had been identified with the work of the American Bible Society upon one of its largest committees; in 1901 he was elected corresponding secretary; in 1882, while still pastor of the Middle Reformed Church in Brooklyn he was chosen presi- dent of the General Synod of the Re- formed Church in America, which con- vened at Schenectady. He is a member of the New England Society of New York and of Brooklyn; of the Sons of the Revo- lution; of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the Union League Club of Brook- lyn. While residing in St. Paul he was appointed chaplain upon the governor's staff with the rank of colonel. Married, Sept. 11. 1860, to Julia, daughter of Tracy R. De Forest, of Cleveland, O., and on Oct. 25. 1866, to Helen Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Henry W. Abbot, of Andover, Mass. He has two daughters, both the children of his first wife. Address, American Bible Society, Astor Place, New York.
INGERSOLL, ERNEST:
Author, naturalist and lecturer; born in Monroe, Mich .; educated at Oberlin Col- lege and Lawrence Scientific School, Har-
vard University; has resided in New Haven, Conn .; at Montreal, where, dur- ing 1887 and 1888, he was editor of pub- lications of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way; since 1889 in New York City; after leaving school was associated with the United States Geological Survey and other scientific departments in Washington; in this capacity and subsequently in the ser- vice of railway companies and Harper's, The Century, and other Eastern maga- zines. He traveled extensively in the Rocky Mountains and on the Pacific Coast and wrote much in regard to the scenery, natural history and industrial progress of that part of the country; he was one of the first to visit and describe the cliff-ruins of the Southwest; lately has devoted himself to writing and lec- turing (for a time as a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago) on zoological topics. From 1901 to 1904 he had charge of and largely prepared the biological department of the New Interna- tional Encyclopedia; previously he had served as one of the editors of the Stan- dard Dictionary. He is the author of the following books: "Nests and Eggs of Am- erican Birds," (1880-81) ; "Oyster Indus- tries of the United States; Tenth Cen- sus." (1881) ; "Birds'-Nesting." (1882);
"Friends Worth Knowing," (1882) ;
"Knocking 'Round the Rockies," (1883) ;
"The Ice Queen." (1884); "Country Cous- ins," (1884); "The Crest of the Conti- nent," (1884) ; "Down-East Latchstrings," (1887); "The Silver Caves." (1890) ; "A Week in New York," (1892) ; "Western
Canada," (1895) ; "Wild Neighbors," (1897); "The Book of the Ocean," (1898); "Nature's Calendar," (1900); "Wild Life of Orchard and Field," (1902). and of Guides to the Hudson Valley, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, the New England States, the South-eastern States, etc .; he is a member of the Authors Club, and of various scientific societies. Address, Authors Club, New York.
INGRAHAM, George L .:
Jurist; born New York, 1847; graduated from Columbia Law School, 1869, and was admitted to the bar; married to Miss Georgiana Lent; was judge of the Supe- rior Court of the City of New York, Jan., 1883; judge of the Supreme Court, May. 1891; judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court since Jan .. 1896; mem- ber of Century. Manhattan, Metropolitan, St. Nicholas. New York Yacht, Tuxedo and Garden City Golf Clubs. Address, 13 W. 9th St., New York.
INNESS, George, Jr .:
Artist. painter; born of American par- ents in Paris. France, Jan. 5, 1854; son of George and Elizabeth (Hart) Inness. He studied with his father at Rome, Italy, 1870 to 1874. and with Bonnat at Paris, 1875; lived in Boston, 1876 to 1878, when
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he came to New York. Married Julia Roswell Smith, 1879, and resided at Mont- clair, N. J., till 1894. Was made asso- ciate of National Academy in 1894; 1894 to 1899, resided in Paris, and exhibited in Salon each year; received honorable mention in Paris Salon in 1898; was awarded gold medal in Paris Salon of 1899; elected academician, New York, 1899. Is a member of Society of American Art- ists; elected in Paris, 1902, "Officier d'- Académie"; exhibits yearly at Academy of Design. Residence, Cragsmoor, Ulster County, N. Y .; studio, 51 South Washing- ton Square, New York.
IRVINE, Frank:
Lawyer and educator; born Sept. 15, 1858, at Sharon Pa; graduated (B. S.), Cornell, 1880; received degree of LL.B., National University, 1883; admitted to bar of District of Columbia, 1883; assis- tant to United States attorney, District of Columbia. 1883-84; practiced law, Oma- ha, Neb., 1884-91; member of firm Esta- brook, Irvine & Clapp; was judge Fourth Judicial District of Nebraska, 1891-93; Supreme Court commissioner, 1893-99; practiced law, Lincoln, Neb., 1899-1901; lecturer, University of Nebraska College of Law, 1892-1900; professor of practice and procedure, Cornell University, Col- lege of Law, 1901 to date; 1887, married Clara Christy. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.
IRWIN, Dudley M .:
Grain merchant; born Fulton, N. Y., June 10, 1860; graduated (1881) Lafayette College, Easton, Pa .; received degree of M. A., 1896; after leaving college, en- gaged in cattle ranching in Montana; subsequently became member of the firm of Irwin & Sloan, grain merchants, Os- wego, N. Y .; president Oswego Board of Trade, 1891-1896; trustee Oswego City Savings Bank, 1894, until he left Oswego, 1896; is now engaged in grain business, 71 Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo, N. Y .; member Grolier Club, New York; also University, Buffalo and Country Clubs, Buffalo. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.
IRWIN, May (Miss) :
Actress; born Whitby, Ont., 1862; made her début at Adelphi Theatre, Buffalo, 1876, and has since been member of theat- rical companies of Tony Pastor, Augus- tin Daly, Charles Frohman and Rich & Harris; has starred in "The Widow Jones," "Kate Kip-Buyer," "Attorney," and other comedies. Address, Bijou Theatre, New York.
ISAACS, David:
Owner and director of the Prospect House, Niagara Falls; he is a native of New York City. Enlisted at the age of thirteen, and during the war served in the Union army as a bugler in the Fifth
New York Cavalry; began his business career with the Erie Railway at Niagara Falls; a few years later he was placed in charge of the company's general ticket office in Buffalo, N. Y; resigned his posi- tion and shortly afterwards opened the Prospect House at Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. When the Prospect House on the Canadian side was taken by the government for the Niagara Falls Park in 1887, Mr. Isaacs built on the American side, still retaining the name of Prospect House; is president and general manager of the Cataract and International Ho- tels Company, all at Niagara Falls; was railroad contractor, having built several miles of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the Rocky Mountains, and many miles of the Grand Trunk Railway in Muskoka; ex-president of the First National Bank, Niagara Falls, N. Y .; is correspondent for several prominent newspapers; he is an expert, all-around sportsman; is vice- president of the New York Hotel Associa- tion; is a director of the Board of Colo- nial and Foreign Governors of the Hotel and Restaurant Protective Society of England. Member of the Adirondack Shooting Club, North Channel Shooting Club, Toronto Shooting Club, Long Point, Canada; Winnipeg Gun Club, Manitoba; member of Knights Templar, Mystic Shrine, and Knights of Pythias; he is also a member of the Buffalo Volunteer Firemen's Association, having served sev- en years as an active member and trus- tee of Eagle Hose No. 2, which was con- sidered the crack company in the efficient Buffalo Fire Department, and during that time he won from this company a gold badge of merit; is also junior vice-com- mander Department of New York, G. A. R., with rank of general; is a companion in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; president of the Fifth New York Veteran Volunteer Cav- alry Association, and honorable member of the Veterans' Association of the Forty- second Separate Company, N. G. N. Y .; and ex-harbor commissioner of Niagara Falls. Address, Niagara Falls, N. Y.
ISAACS, Myer Samuel:
Lawyer; born New York, 1841; gradu- ated from New York University, 1859; admitted to the bar, 1862; is founder and officer of numerous educational and char- itable organizations; 1880, justice of the Marine Court; president of the Baron de Hirsch Fund and the Woodbine Law and Improvement Company, and is trustee of Columbia Bank, Lawyers' Mortgage Com- pany, Borough Homes Company. Member of New York State Bar Association, New York City Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Academy of Social and Political Sciences, Civil Service Re- form Association, etc; also of Republican and City Clubs of New York. Residence, 110 East 73d St .; office, 54 William St., New York.
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ISELIN, Adrian:
Retired dry goods importer and banker; president New Rochelle Water Company; vice-president Metropolitan Opera House and Real Estate Company; trustee Man- hattan Storage & Warehouse Company; director Rochester & Pittsburg Coal & Iron Company. Residence, 23 East 26th st .; office, 36 Wall St., New York.
ISELIN, Charles Oliver:
'Banker and Yachtsman; was graduated from Columbia University, 1877; was own- er of the racing yacht Vigilant and man- aging owner of the Columbia, and other cup defenders in recent races; member of banking firm, A. Iselin & Co .; member of Union, Country, Knickerbocker, Larch- mont Yacht, New York Yacht, New York Athletic and other clubs. Residence, New Rochelle, N. Y .; office, 36 Wall St., New York.
ISHERWOOD, Benjamin F .:
Chief Engineer U. S. Navy; born in and appointed from New York, May 23, 1844; entered the service as first assistant engineer; stationed at Navy Yard, Pen- sacola, 1844-5; attached to steamer Gen- eral Taylor, Pensacola, 1846-47; promoted to chief engineer, Oct. 31, 1848; special duty, 1848-50; special duty, Navy Depart- ment, 1852-53; steam frigate San Jacinto, East India Squadron, 1854-58; special duty, 1859-60; appointed engineer-in-chief, 1861, which position he retained until 1869; Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., 1870- 71; sick leave, 1873; special duty, 1874; retired, June 6, 1884. Address, 111 East 36th St., New York.
ISRAELS, Charles Henry:
Architect; born New York City, Dec. 31, 1865; son of Lehman Israels, a New York journalist, and nephew of Josef Israels, the well known painter; gradu- ated, Irving Institute, Tarrytown, N. Y., 1881; served in offices of Charles B. At- wood and numerous others and began active practice in New York in 1890, after a year's study in Paris; member of the firm of Israels & Harder. Principal works: Hahnemann Monument, Washing- ton, D. C., and numerous apartment hotels in New York City; awarded two prizes and one honorable mention in com- petition for model tenements held by the Charity Organization Society, the re- sults of which led up to present Tene- ment House Law; interested in social work on East Side, tenement house re- form; active in Republican and Citizens' Union politics; member of Architectural League of New York; New York Chap- ter. American Institute of Architects; Municipal. Art Society; Loyal Legion; Republican Club of the city of New York; West Side Republican Club; Inde- pendent Club; West Side Committee of One Hundred; Hebrew Technical School,
and Educational Alliance. Address, 179 West 97th St., New York.
IVES, Brayton:
President Metropolitan Trust Company of New York; is a graduate of Yale Uni- versity, 1861; married to Eleanor A. Bis- sell; served in Civil War, being honor- ably mustered out, 1865, with rank of brevet brigadier general; has been vice- president and president of the New York Stock Exchange, is director of several banking and railroad corporations; mem- ber of Union League, Metropolitan, Cen- tury, Lawyers, and other clubs; also of Loyal Legion. Address, 83 Irving Place, New York.
IVES, Edward B .:
Captain U. S. Army; cadet U. S. Mili- tary Academy, 1874-78; second lieutenant Nineteenth Infantry, June, 1878; first lieu- tenant of Nineteenth Infantry, 1886; re- signed, Dec. 3, 1889; practiced engineer- ing from 1889 to outbreak of Spanish War; chief engineer Electric Traction Company of Philadelphia, 1893; later of Hilmesburg, Frankford and Tacony, Pa .; of Pennsyl- vania Heat, Light and Power Company, Philadelphia; of Fairmont Park Transpor- tation Company, Philadelphia, and of State of Arizona Improvement Company, 1898; from 1890 to. 1897 in the New York National Guard as private and officer, rising to rank of major. At beginning of Spanish-American War in 1898 he en- listed in United States Volunteers as cap- tain; participated in campaign of Porto Pico; promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1898; honorably mustered out, 1899; ap- pointed captain in regular army of the United States and served in Cuba and the Philippines. Address, Signal Office, War Department, Washington, D. C
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JACKSON, Allan H .:
Lieut-col. U. S. Army; born New York, Jan. 24, 1835. Appointed from New York; captain, Ninety-first New York Volun- teer Infantry Dec. 18, 1861; lieutenant- colonel, 134th New York Volunteer Infan- try, April 3, 1863; honorably mustered out, June 10, 1865; second lieutenant, Sev- enth United States Infantry, May 11, 1866; first lieutenant, Jan. 1, 1871; cap- tain, Nov. 14, 1885; major, Nov. 17, 1896. Brevet rank-Brevet first lieutenant, March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritori- ous services in the battle of Chancellors- ville, Va .; captain, March 2, 1867 for gal- lant and meritorious services in the bat- tle of Gettysburg, Pa .; major, March 2, 1867. for gallant and meritorious ser- vices in the battle of Chattanooga, Tenn .; lieutenant-colonel, Feb. 27, 1870 for gal- lant and meritorious services in action
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against Indians at the Big Hole, Mont., Aug. 9, 1879; retired, Oct. 29, 1898. Ad- dress, Schenectady, N. Y.
JACKSON, Franklin P .:
Lieutenant, U. S. Army; born Schenec- tady, N. Y., July 21, 1876; studied at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y .; served as corporal, Company E, Twelfth New York Volunteer Infantry during Spanish- American War; post adjutant, Pasig, Lu- zon, P. I., May, 1900, to April, 1901, with Forty-second Infantry; second lieutenant, Twenty-ninth U. S. Infantry, Feb. 2, 1901. Address, Manila, P. I.
JACKSON, George Thomas:
Physician; born New York, Dec. 19, 1852; studied at the College of the City of New York; 1878, graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co- lumbia University; was professor of der- matology at Woman's Medical College of New York Infirmary, 1890-99, and in the medical department of the Univer- sity of Vermont, 1895-1900. He is at pres- ent instructor of dermatology at Colum- bia University; consulting dermatologist in Presbyterian Hospital, New York, and New York Infirmary for Women and Chil- dren. Address, 14 East 31st St., New York.
JACKSON, Joseph Cooke:
Lawyer and soldier; is of colonial and Revolutionary ancestry. His father, the late John P. Jackson, of Newark, N. J., was of a Scotch-Irish family who settled in Orange County, New York, early in the eighteenth century, his ancestors be- ing of the Brinckerhoff and Schuyler fam- ilies; among the earliest settlers in the State of New York in the years 1638 and 1650. His mother's name was Elizabeth Wolcott; her grandfather. General Oliver Wolcott (who participated in the expedi- tion against Louisburg in the French War), was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; her great-grandfather, General Jabez Huntington, was in com- mand of the Connecticut militia, and was appointed in 1777 by the General Assem- bly of Connecticut to be the first major- general of militia. Jonathan Trumbull be- ing governor and commander-in-chief of the State; these families settled in Con- necticut respectively in 1630 and 1633. He was born at Newark, N. J., Aug. 5. 1835; studied at the famous old academy of his native town, later at Phillips, An- dover, and was graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1857. He then entered on the study of law at the Harvard Law School (where he was class orator) and the Uni- versity of the City of New York. In 1860 he was admitted to the bar in New York, and began practice, but at the outbreak of the war volunteered his services and
was at once ordered to report as aide to Brigadier-General Robert Anderson; subsequently he was commissioned sec- ond lieutenant of the First New Jersey Regiment, and appointed aide to General Phil. Kearny; soon after he was offered the colonelcy of the Sixty-first New York Regiment, but declined. At the close of 1861 he was transferred to the staff of General William B. Franklin, and the summer following was promoted captain for gallant conduct during the Seven Days' fight before Richmond, and as- signed to the Sixth Corps of the Army of the Potomac; a year later he was ap- pointed lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth New Jersey Volunteers, and only a few weeks after brevetted colonel for "meri- torious conduct at the battle of Freder- icksburg"; on March 13, 1865, he was bre- vetted brigadier-general of volunteers, after having participated in twenty-one battles. including the Seven Days' battles, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Freder- icksburg. General Jackson was appointed by the War Department a commissioner of United States naval credits. In 1865 General Jackson resumed the practice of law in New York, and in 1870 was ap- pointed assistant United States district attorney for the Southern District of New York. He has always been an active Republican and interested in many public and philanthropic associations; he was for many years vice-president of the De- milt Dispensary of New York and of the Yale Alumni Association; he is a mem- ber of George Washington Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and the Sons of the Revolution; he is also a member of the Union League Club, the Bar Associa- tion, and the Law Institute. He married Miss Katherine Perkins Day, daughter of the late Calvin Day, of Hartford, Conn. Address, 138 East 34th St., New York.
JACKSON, Samuel Macauley: ·
Editor, student of church history and co-operator in organized philanthropy; born New York. June 19, 1851; son of George T. and Letitia Jane (Aikin) Ma- cauley; was educated in a private school from 1858-63; in Ward School No. 35 from 1863-65; entered introductory class of New York Free Academy in 1865; the name was changed in 1866 to College of the City of New York, and from that institu- tion he was graduated in 1870; that year he entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., and the next passed to Union Theological Seminary in this city, whence he was graduated in 1873; the next two years were sent in study and travel abroad. From 1876 to 1880 he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Norwood, . N. J. His life as a literary worker began in 1878, when he assisted the late Philip Schaff upon the Bible Dic- tionary which bears Schaff's name; from 1880 to 1884 he was associate and manag- ing editor of the Schaff-Herzog Encyclo-
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pedia; in 1891 he brought out the Con- cise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge; in 1898 the first volume of a biographical series entitled, "Heroes of the Reforma- tion," to embrace ten volumes, and to it he contributed the biography of Hul- dreich Zwingli (1901, second edition 1903) ; in 1898 also inaugurated the "Hand- Book for Practical Workers in Church and Philanthropy" (eight volumes); his help has been given upon various general encyclopedias and dictionaries; in 1903 he began the revision of the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia. Much of his time has been gratuitously given to the public in other ways. Since 1887 he has been on the council and executive committee of the Charity Organization Society, and on the executive committee of the Prison Asso- ciation since 1890; in 1900 he brought out as chairman of the publication committee of the Huguenot Society its volume com- memorative of the tercentenary of the Edict of Nantes, and in 1903 another vol- ume of publications. He has been profes- sor of church history in the New York University since 1895. He belongs to the Aldine and Century Associations and var- ious other organizations. In 1893 he re- ceived from Washington and Lee Univer- sity the degree of LL.D., and the next year from the New York University that of D. D. Address, 692 West End Ave., New York.
JACOBI, Abraham:
Physician; born in Hartum, May 6, 1830; M. D., 1851, at University of Bonn; pro- fessor diseases of children in New York Medical College, 1860; in the medical de- partment, University City of New York, 1865; in College of Physicians and Sur- geons since 1870; physician to German Dispensary and Hospital since 1857; to Roosevelt Hospital, 1899; consulting phy- sician to Women's Infirmary, Bellevue, Babies', Orthopedic and other hospi- tals; ex-president of New York Obstet- rical and New York Pathological So- cieties, president of Medical Society of County of New York, of State of New York; also of New York Academy of Med- icine, etc. Member of City, Century and Barnard Clubs. Address, 19 East 47th St., New York.
JACOBS, Mrs. Drew:
Regent, Long Island Society Daughters of the Revolution; this society was or- ganized in 1891 and numbers 101 mem- bers; its purposes and aims are to do good patriotic work, such as helping our suffering soldiers in the government hos-' pitals, clothing and helping educate or- phan children of deceased army officers, sending books, games and magazines to the soldiers in the Philippines, etc., giving patriotic pictures to the public schools, contributing yearly a certain amount to the public playgrounds, helping in the
erection of monuments to dead heroes, etc. Address, 143 Amity St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
JACOBS, Joseph:
Author, journalist; born Sydney, New South Wales, Aug. 29, 1854; educated Syd- ney Grammar School and University St. John's College, Cambridge, England (sen- ior moralist, 1876). Resided and worked in England until early in 1900, when he removed to America to take part in the editing of Funk & Wagnalls' Jewish En- cyclopedia; visited Spain for historical purposes, 1888; United States, on lec- turing tour, 1896. Corresponding member Royal Academy of History, Madrid, and Brooklyn Institute; was for some time editor of Folk-Lore; secretary Russo- Jewish committee; president Jewish His- torical Society of England; one of the leading contributors to London Athe- naeum; leading authority in England on fairy tales, of which he has published a great many collections, and on the Mi- gration of Fables. Author of "Jewish
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