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MERSHON, Ralph Davenport:
Consulting engineer; was born in Zanes- ville, O .; educated in the Zanesville High School and had a year's experience in railroad location and construction be- fore entering college; graduated from the Ohio State University, 1890, with the de- gree of Mechanical Engineer. During his senior year he was assistant in physics, and remained at the University for a year after graduation as assistant in elec- trical engineering. In the fall of 1891 he entered the laboratory of the Westing- house Electric & Manufacturing Com- pany. at Pittsburg; in summer of 1893, represented the Westinghouse Company at the Chicago World's Fair in the tests
of Westinghouse apparatus for awards; in 1896 in the vicinity of Telluride, Colo., making high-voltage experiments measurements on a transmission line, the first of the kind ever made. In the fall 'of 1900 he severed his connection with the Westinghouse Company to take up consulting engineering work. At pres- ent he is acting as consulting engineer for some important electrical enterprises in Canada, among which are the Mon- treal & St. Lawrence Light & Power Company and the Montreal Street Rail- way Company; is vice-president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, Franklin Institute, etc. Address, 29. Broadway, New York.
MERWIN, Milton, H .:
Jurist; was born at Leyden, N. Y., June 16, 1832. Educated at Oneida Con- ference Seminary and Hamilton College, where he was graduated in 1852. Entered the office of Joseph Mullin at Watertown, N. Y., that fall to study law; was admit- ted to the bar in 1853; commenced the practice of law in Watertown. Elected surrogate of Jefferson County in 1859 and served four years. Oct., 1874, was ap- pointed justice of the supreme court and at the following election was elected for a term of fourteen years. He then re- moved to Utica where he has since re- sided. In 1888 was re-elected for a term of fourteen years. Was appointed to general term of Supreme Court, 1888; served till 1895. Appellate division of supreme court, 1895-1901. Address, 56 Rutger St .; office, Mann Building, Utica, N. Y.
METCALFE, Henry:
Captain U. S. Army, retired; was born in New York City Oct. 29, 1847. On the side of his father, the late Doctor John T. Metcalfe, he is descended from a Yorkshire family said to have been among the early colonists of Virginia whence they removed to Kentucky and later to Mississippi and Louisiana. On his mother's side he comes from the Ang- lo-Irish family of Colles. His great- grandfather, John Colles, coming to this country in 1771 with his cousin, Christ- opher Colles, an eminent inventor to whom is attributed the original con- ception of the Erie canal, the introduc- tion of wooden water pipes in New York, and other inventions. Was educated in private schools in Morristown, N. J., and at New Rochelle, N. Y., until his ad- mission to the U. S. Military Acad- emy in Aug., 1863. His stay at West Point was prolonged a year beyond the usual term of four years by illness. He graduated in June, 1862, and was as- signed to duty with the ordnance de-
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partment of the army, serving here until
his retirement in 1893. His most im- portant duties were as Recorder of the Small Arms Board of 1873, a commis- sion that in adopting the Springfield breech-loading rifle developed methods largely used as models for other investi- gations of this nature. The closely an- alytical nature of his report made it for some years an authority on Military
1875 was ordered to small arms .. In
superintend the construction of the build- ing erected by the United States govern- ment at the Centennial exposition, and, at the same time, to construct and main- tain the exhibit made therein by the ordnance department of the army. On the completion of the building he be- came the executive officer of the govern- ment departments exhibiting therein. In the meantime he had been charged with the organization of the inspection of small arms and ammunition being manu- factured in great quantities in New Eng- land for the Imperial Ottoman govern- ment. His office was practically that of arbitrator between the Imperial officers and the contractors in contracts ag- gregating many million dollars. Friction having arisen between himself and the Imperial commissioners he was relieved from this duty at their request but he had the satisfaction of receiving the ap- proval of his own superiors, of seeing all his recommendations carried out by the commissioners, and finally of receiving from the Imperial Ottoman government the decoration of the Osmanie many years after the quality of the arms and am- munition had been tested in the Russian- Turkish war. In his penultimate service as instructor of ordnance and gunnery at West Point he was permitted to repay in part a debt long due his Alma Mater by revising and publishing at considerable expense to himself a course of instruc- tion in ordnance and gunnery-the first complete treatise on the subject for near- ly thirty years. The severity of the ap- plication required to compose and to write this course, while, so to speak, teaching it, impaired his eye-sight so that he was retired in October, 1893 Apart from the two books he is the author of "The Cost of Manufactures and the Administration of Work Shops," pub- licly and privately very generally used and esteemed. Since his retirement as head of the Water Commission he has introduced the water supply of Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., and as president of the school board he has in- interested himself deeply in public edu- cation. Married in April. 1870. Harriet, daughter of John H. Nichols, Washing- ton, D. C. Residence, Cold Spring-on- the-Hudson; office address, 143 Liberty St., New York.
METCHEL. Frederick Augustus:
Author; born. 1839, at Cincinnati. O. Graduated from Brown University 1860.
During Civil War served on staff of
Major General O. M. Metchel; also on staff of Brigadier General J. M. Brannan. Author of "Ormesby Mcknight Metchel," "Astronomer and General, "Chatta- nooga," "Chicamauga," ‘ " "Sweet Revenge," and "Confessions of an Aide de Camp," romances of the Civil War, and vari- ous short stories. Residence, East Or- ange, New Jersey.
METCALFE, James Stetson:
Dramatic critic of Life; born in Buffalo, N. Y .. June 27, 1858; son of James H. Metcalfe. Graduated from Yale, 1879. Editor and publisher of The Modern Age, 1883-84; editorial writer Buffalo Express, 1884-85; editor People's Pictorial Press, 1886; manager American Newspaper Association, 1886-89; dramatic editor of Life, 1889; literary editor of Life, 1890- 95; managing editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1895. Democratic candidate for Assembly, 1903; corresponding secre- tary National Art Theatre Society, 1904. Address, 17 West 31st St., New York.
MEYERS, James Cowden:
Lawyer; was born at Columbia, Pa., Aug. 30, 1869. Graduated from Prince- ton University, 1891; from New York Law School, 1893; M. Princeton,
1894. Elected Alderman Thirty-fourth District, New York City, 1901; re-elected, 1903. Member of Association of the Bar, Phi Betta Kappa and Princeton Club of New York. Address, 290 Broadway, New York.
MILBURN, John G .:
Lawyer; was born in Sunderland, Eng- land, Dec. 14, 1851. At age of eighteen he went to Batavia, N. Y., where he studied law in the office of Messrs. Wake- man & Watson. In 1879, called by a business engagement to Buffalo, he made the acquaintance of Messrs. Sprague, a celebrated law firm of that city and sub- sequently became a member of that firm, then known as Sprague, Milburn & Sprague. In 1882 he had occasion to visit Denver. Colorado, and he retired from partnership. After absence of one year he again took up his residence in Buffalo and became junior member of the law firm of Rogers, Locke & Milburn. Al- ways a warm personal friend and ad- mirer of President Mckinley, it was to his mansion that lamented victim of the assassin's pistol was conveyed when shot and there he spent his last hours. He has always been conspicuous in public- spirited movements, and has rendered the city of Buffalo much valuable service as a member of the Charter Revision Com- mission. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.
MILLER, Alexander M., Jr .:
Captain U. S. Army; was born in New York and appointed from Tennessee.
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At the Academy, June, 1892, graduated and promoted in the army to second lieu- tenant of cavalry, June, 1896. At Fort Assinniboine, Mont., with regiment from Sept:, 1896, to April, 1898; went to Cuba and served throughout the campaign against Santiago-de-Cuba and at Las Guasimas. Recommended for brevet first lieutenant for gallantry at Las Guas- imas, June 24, 1898 and for brevet cap- tain, July 1, 1898 for gallantry in action at Santiago, Cuba. Promoted first lieu- tenant, Nov. 7, 1899; at Fort Bliss, Texas, Feb., 1899, captain Eighth Cavalry, June 20, 1902. Address Fort Walla Walla, Wash.
MILLER, Charles Armand:
Clergyman; was born in Shepherds- town, W. Va., March 7, 1864; son of Rev. J. I. Miller and Lida (Hulls); gradu- ated from Roanoke College, 1887, and Lutheran Theological Seminary at Phila- delphia, 1889; ordained, 1889; pastor of College Church, Salem, Va., 1888-1896; pastor of Church of the Holy Trinity (Lutheran), New York City, since 1896. Member of Southern Society, and the Virginians. Author of "The Way of the Cross," "The Perfect Prayer," and tracts and articles in Church Review, Lutheran Cyclopædia, etc. Address, 3 West 65th St., New York.
MILLER, Crosby P .:
Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. Army; was born in Pomfret, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1843. Appointed from Vermont; graduated from Military Academy, class of 1867, and from artillery school, class of 1874. Corporal Co. G, Sixteenth Vermont Infantry, Sep. 4, 1862; aischarged March 12, 1863; sec- ond lieutenant Fourth Artillery June 17, 1867; first lieutenant Dec. 1, 1869; captain and acting quartermaster Nov. 21, 1887. Major, quartermaster, Feb. 4, 1890; lieu- tenant-colonel October 2. 1902. Address, Quartermaster's Department, War De- parment, Washington, D. C.
MILLER, Edmund Howd:
Chemist; was born at Fairfield, Conn., Sept. 12, 1869; son of George Mason Mill- er and Bertha Stevens Osgood. Mar- ried Mary McWhorter June 11, 1898 at Nanuet, N. Y. Graduated in the course of analytical anđ applied chemistry, School of Mines, in June, 1891. Master of Arts in 1892 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1894, both from Columbia University. Has held the following positions in Columbia University: Assistant in assay- ing 1891-94; tutor in analytical chemistry and assaying 1894-97; instructor in same, 1897-1901; adjunct professor, 1901 to date. Member of the American Chemical So- ciety and of the executive committee of the New York section 1901, vice- chairman ( 1902-03, Chairman 1903-04. Fellow of the Chemical Society (London) and of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. Member of the Society of Chemical Industry, the Ameri- can Institute of Mining Engineers, the Alumni Association of the Schools of Science, Columbia Univerity, the Colum- bia Univerity Club the Chemists' Club. Author of "Notes on Assaying" (with P. deP. Ricketts), Wiley & Son, 1887; "The Calculations of Analytical Chemis- try.' The Macmillan Co., 1900, and of numerous articles on chemistry in the Journal of the American Chemical So- ciety, the School of Mines Quarterly, the Tran of the American Institute of Min- ing Engineers, the Chemical News of London, the Zeitschrift für Anorgan- ische Chemie, the Mineral Industry, etc. Address, Columbia University, New York.
MILLER, J. W.
Captain, commanding New York Naval. Reserve .; was born in Morristown, N. J.,. June 1, 1847; son of Honorable J. W. Miller, United States Senator from that state. Entered the Naval Academy Sep., 1863, graduated June, 1867. Lived the ordinary routine life of junior officer un- til 1872, serving on the European, Pacific, and West Indian stations; was appointed .. to special service in connection with the Nicaragua Inter-Oceanic Canal sur- vey in 1872; surveyed portion of the West- ern Divide and had charge of the hydro- graphic work on the San Juan River. He returned to Nicaragua in the autumn of 1873 as secretary to the commission ap- pointed by the United States government to determine which was the best route for a ship canal across the isthmus; after completing this work he was engaged in Washington in writing the report on the Nicaragua canal. In 1875 he was ordered to the European squadron and. served in the Mediterranean on board the Franklin. During the winter of 1877 and 1878 he was on board the Vandalia when- General Grant visited the Levant in the course of his celebrated trip around the- world. Having completed his three years- of sea service in European waters he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy as instructor of ordnance and gunnery, where he remained until 1881; in that year he was ordered once more to sea, and made his last cruise in the U. S. S. Jamestown as her navigator from San. Francisco to New York, when that vessel came to the Atlantic under sail. After- returning from this voyage he left the Navy and went to Kansas, where he be- came identified with railroad interests, and was made vice-president and gen- eral manager of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad. He remained with this and other corporations in the West until May, 1886. when he was tendered and accepted the position of general man- ager of the Providence & Stonington Steamship Company, and of the New York. Providence and Boston Railroad. In May, 1889, he was elected president.
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of the Providence & Stonington Steam- ship Company. He is also president of the Nicaragua Company and the New- port & Wickford Railroad & Steamboat Company, and has other marine and railroad interests. He took an active part in the development of the Naval Militia of this State; was the first com- mander of the New York Naval Battalion at its organization in 1891, and is now captain of the Naval Militia of the State. He entered the Navy in 1898 during the Spanish-American War as lieutenant coinmander and had command of the Third District Auxiliary Naval Force. In 1894 he was a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce Committee on Docks and for several years has been on the Committee on Schoolship "St Marys." He is a member of the fol- lowing clubs: The University, on the council of which club he served for many years; of the Century, and Seawanhaka; one of the council of the Naval Alumni Association of New Order of the United States, and a member of the Societies of Foreign Wars, and of the Spanish-Amer- ican War; also member of several char- itable organizations, and served on committees for the reception of for- eign visitors, including that to the Prin- cess Eulalie and Prince Henry. Address, 113 East 30th St., New York.
MILLER, Nathan L .:
State comptroller; born in the town of Solon, Cortland County, Oct. 10, 1868, his father being a farmer. When he was four years old his parents removed their home to Groton, Tompkins County, and there he lived until he was thirteen years of age; attended the Groton school and then was graduated from the Cortland Normal School in 1877; after graduation from the normal school he taught school for one year. In Jan., 1890, he began the study of law with one of the leading law firms of Cortland County, that of Smith & Dickinson. Judge Smith, the head of the firm, was county judge and surrogate of Cortland County, and a Republican leader in the county. In 1893 he was admitted to practice as a lawyer; he then may be said to have entered political life, for he was elected in 1893 a school commissioner for the first commissioner district of Cortland County, and was re-elected in 1896; declined a renomination, his prac- tice of law engaging his attention. Soon after being admitted to bar he formed a law partnership with James Dougher- ty, under the firm name of Dougherty & Miller; and this firm is still in existence; Republican; in 1898 was elected chairman of the Republican County Committee of Cortland County; became corporation counsel of the city of Cortland, and be- came comptroller of the State by the ap- pointment of Governor Odell, on Dec. 30, 1901. In this office he has personally cared for the numerous corporation hear-
ings which have come before the depart- ment and has also directed the various proceedings, suits and compromises which grow out of the operation of the Trans- fer Tax Act. Married, on Nov. 4, 1896, Miss Elizabeth Daveran, of Marathon, Cortland County. Address, Cortland, N.Y.
MILLER, Warner:
Manufacturer; born in Oswego County, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1838; educated in Union College. In 1860 at beginning of war en- listed in the Fifth New York Cavalry; was promoted to lieutenant, but captured by the Confederates at battle of Winchester. Was soon honorably discharged and went abroad. After his return he engaged in paper manufacturing in Herkimer, N. Y. He was elected to the State legis- lature of 1874-75 and to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh congresses. In 1881 he was elected to the U. S. Senate seving until 1887; in 1882 was instrumental in . passing a bill known as the "head-money bill" which relieved the State of New York from an annual tax of $200,000. In 1885 he caused to be passed in the Senate the "Alien Contract Labor Bill," which is still the law. Invented machines for the manufacture of wood pulp. Was in- terested in the great national enterprise of constructing a ship canal across the isthmus to connect the two oceans; now engaged extensively in gold and copper mining in United States and British Co- lumbia. Member of Lawyers, Union League, Sons of Revolution, Republican Clubs. Address 25 Broad St., New York.
MILLS, Albert Leopold:
Colonel U. S. Army; superintendent of the United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. Fifth son of Abiel Buckman and Anne Warford Mills; born on Washington Heights, New York City, May 7, 1854. On the side of his father, who was born in Old Hadley, Mass., his ancestors were among the earliest colo- nists of New England, while his mother is a descendant of Long Island colonists, her immediate ancestors moving, before the Revolution, to Hunterdon County, N. J. He attended school in New York City until entering the Military Academy at West Point. After graduation he was assigned to the cavalry arm of the ser- vice. His first duty as an officer was in the Department of Tactics at the Military Academy, after which he served with his regiment on the Indian frontier in Ore- gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Dako- ta, Wyoming and Arizona, participating in the Crow Indian campaign of 1887, the Sioux campaign of 1890, and other Indian disturbances. His regimental ser- vice was broken by a tour of duty as Professor of military science and tactics at the South Carolina Military Academy at Charleston, and as instructor in the departments of strategy, cavalry and
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tactics at the U. S. Infantry and Cavalry Officers' School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Was on duty at the latter school when war with Spain was declared. Participated in the Santiago campaign and was engaged in the battles of Las Guasimas and Santiago de Cuba, being commended for gallantry in the former and very seriously wounded in the lat- ter. In 1883 was married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., to Alada Thurston Paddock, eldest daughter of the Rt. Rev. John Adams Paddock, D. D. He has two children, Gertrude Warford, born in 1884, and Chester Paddock, born in 1887. He was appointed cadet at the United States Military Academy from New York. July 1. 1874; graduated and commissioned sec- ond lieutenant First Regiment of Cavalry, June 13, 1879; promoted first lieutenant First Cavalry. Jan. 23, 1889; adjutant First Cavalry, Oct. 1890 to Oct. 1, 1894; appointed captain and assistant adju- tant general U. S. Volunteers, May 12, 1898; assigned as adjutant general to the Second Brigade, Cavalry Division, Fifth Army Corps, June 10, 1898; ap- pointed superintendant U. S. Military Academy, Aug. 22, 1898; promoted cap- tain Sixth U. S. Cavalry, Oct. 24, 1898; nominated by the President for brevet appointment of major and lieutenant- colonel for gallantry in the battles of Las Guasimas and Santiago de Cuba. Awarded Congressional medal of honor for most distinguished gallantry in action near Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898. Address, Military Academy, West Point, N. Y.
MILLS, Arthur:
Railway official; was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 17, 1850. Graduated from Harvard University 1872. Since then connected with railroads in various of- ficial capacities; now vice-president and general manager and a director of the Merchants' Despatch Transportation Company. Member of University and Harvard clubs and Military Order Loyal Legion (Boston Commandery). Address, 291 Broadway, New York.
MILLS, Darius Ogden:
Financier; was born in Westchester County, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1825, being the fifth son of James Mills. Received edu- cation in the North Salem Academy and afterwards in the Mount Pleasant Acad- emy at Sing Sing. At the age of seven- teen secured a clerkship in New York. In 1847, went to Buffalo, where he entered into partnership with his cousin, E. J. Townsend, and was appointed cashier of the Merchants' Bank, of Erie County. Went to San Francisco, 1849; engaged in trade with the various mining districts. Later settled in Sacramento, and engaged in general mercantile business, while also buying gold-dust and dealing in exchange on New York. In Nov., 1849, closed out
his business and returned to Buffalo, where he disposed of all his interests in the East, returning to Sacramento again, and founding there the house of D. O. Mills & Co., which quickly became the leading bank of interior California, a po- sition which it holds to this day. In
1864 he was elected president the Bank of California, a new institution which began business that year with a capital of $2,000,000. He remained con- nected with it till 1873, when he re- signed the presidency and retired from business. After it was wrecked by his successor he was summoned again to the bank and resumed the presidency, sub- scribed personally to the bank capital $1,000,000, raised in all nearly $7,000,000, and within six weeks enabled it to re- sume payment. In three years he again left it, after having firmly re-established its financial standing. He subsequently came East, where he became a resident of New York City, and erected there the great "Mills Building" in Broad Street His interests are now divided between New York and California. On leaving California he endowed with $75,000, since raised to $150,000, the Mills Professorship of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy in the University of California, and donated to the State the handsome group of mar- ble statuary "Columbus before Queen Isa- bella." He became also a trustee of the Lick estate and the Lick astronomical ob- servatory. Residence, 634, Fifth Ave .; office, 15 Broad St .. New York.
MITCHELL, Richard H .:
Lawyer, member of Morgan & Mitchell, Potter Building, New York City; was born in Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1870. He is the younger son of Dr. James B. Mitchell and Emma Henry Mitchell; a descendent of Irish and German ances- tors, his grandfather, James Henry, hav- ing been a native of the town of Cole- rain, County of Londonderry, Ireland, and he is also related to the Eckfeldt family of whom Adam Eckfeldt was an ap- pointee of President Washington in the United States Mint. He was educated in public schools, at the College of the City of New York, class of 1888, and at Colum- bia University Law School, 1890 and 1891, and in June of the latter year was ad- mitted to the bar. He associated him- self with Morgan & Ives, a well-known law firm of New York City and soon after became a member of the firm with Rollin M. Morgan with whom he has since con- tinued in partnership, the firm now being Morgan & Mitchell. He is well-known as a Democrat in the Borough of the Bronx. In 1897 was elected member of Assembly from the Thirty-fifth District by a ma- jority of 1,462 votes and the following year, 1898, he was elected Senator by a majority of 6,606. Remained in the Senate during the years 1899 and 1900, serving during that time on the Judiciary
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Committee and the Committee on Privi- leges and Elections. He is now a mem- ber of the Bar Association of the City of New York, Democratic Club, New York Yacht Club, Larchmont Yacht Club, Fordham Club, Schnorer Club, Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Kane Lodge No. 454 F. & A. M. Jerusalem Chapter, Coeur de Lion Commandery, Washington Club. Pawnee Club, League of American Wheelmen, Bar Association of Borough of the Bronx, Taxpayers' Alliance, Alum- ni Association of College of City of New York and the Bronx West Side Associa- tion. Residence at 1,216 Washington Ave., Borough of the bronx, New York City.
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