Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 92

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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MORRIS, Clara:

Actress; born in Toronto, Canada, in 1849; was taken to Cleveland, O., in early childhood and there received her educa- tion. She first appeared on the stage in Cleveland, 1860, in ballet at the Academy of Music, and this entrance was the be- ginning of a successful career. Eight years later became leading lady of Wood's Theatre, Cincinnati, and a year after that joined Augustin Daly's Fifth Avenue Company at New York; has since starred in theatres throughout the United States, playing the leading parts: "Camille," "Alixe," "Mercy Merrick" in "The New Magdalene," and many others. Has also done much writing for the magazines, and is the author of "A Silent Singer," 1899; "Life on the Stage," 1901; "The Paste-Board Crown," 1902; "Stage Con- fidences," 1902, etc. Residence, River- dale-on-Hudson, N. Y.

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MORRIS, Dave Hennen:

Lawyer; attorney for the Browe Gas & Electric Company and Portchester Rail- road, of New York, and manager of Mor- ris Park and Morris Building; was born on April 24, 1872 in New Orleans, La., where his father had large interests; is grandson of Judge Hennen, of Louisiana, and is nephew and namesake of Dave Hennen, author of "Hennen's Digest"; re- ceived his preparatory education from a private tutor, and, with a view of adopt- ing the medical profession, he entered the New York Homeopathic College; but fail- ing health compelled him to suspend his studies and take a tour around the world. Reaching home with restored health he became surgical assistant in Helmuth House, but not long thereafter he made up his mind to cease his medical studies and entered Harvard College, from which he graduated with honor, magna cum laude, and three honorable mentions in English and French literature and music; then graduating from the New York Law School, he was admitted to the bar. Mr. Morris has taken an active interest in politics in the locality in which he makes his home, Westchester County. He mar- ried, while a junior at Harvard College, Miss Alice V. Shepard, of New York City, daughter of Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, former owner of the Mail and Express; they have three children. Mr. Morris is a member of the University, the Metro- politan, the Racquet, County, Automobile, and Harvard Clubs of New York City, and of the Boston Club of New Orleans. The land covered by Morris Park, of which Mr. Morris is manager, embraces 300 acres; the park was completed in 1889, the en- tire cost, $1,750,000, being borne by the father of the subject of this sketch, who died on his Texas ranch on May 26, 1895. Address, 269 West 72d St., New York.

MORRIS, Gouverneur:

Author; was born Feb. 7, 1876; son of Henrietta (Baldwin) and Gouverneur Morris, grandson of Gouverneur Morris, minister to France during the French revolution, drafter of the Constitution of the United States and U. S. Senator; was educated at the Harrington School, West- chester; in Tours, Montreux; St. Mark's School, Southboro, and graduated from Yale in 1898. Has contributed prose and verse to various magazines and is author of "A Bunch of Grapes," 1897; "Tom Beauling," 1901; "Aladdin O'Brien," 1902. Address, The Racquet Club, New York.

MORRIS, Robert Clark:

Lawyer; was born in Connecticut, 1868; son of Dwight and Grace Josephine (Clark) Morris; graduated from Yale law department, 1890; was given the de- gree of master of laws, 1892, and the de- gree of doctor of, civil law, 1893. Married Alice A. Parmelee, June 24, 1890. He was

admitted to bar, Connecticut 1890; stud- ied continental jurisprudence in Europe, 1890-91; practiced in Connecticut until 1894, when he took up practice in New York; lecturer on French law, Yale law department, since 1895; elected president of the Republican County Committee of the County of New York for three suc- cessive terms, from 1901 to 1903; counsel for the United States before the United States and Venezuelan Claims Commis- sion, 1903. Member of the New York Bar Association, International Law As- sociation, Order of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, Loyal Legion; also of Union League, Tuxedo, Metropolitan, Lakewood Country, Yale and Republican Clubs, and Society of Medical Jurispru- dence; senior member of law firm of Mor- ris & Fay, 135 Broadway. Residence, 767 Fifth Ave., New York.

MORRIS, Robert T., M.D .:

Born at Seymour, Conn., May 14, 1857; Cornell University, biological course, class of 1880; honorary A. M., Centre College of Kentucky; M. D., medical department of Columbia College, 1882; professor of sur- gery, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital visiting surgeon to same. Fellow New York Academy of Medicine and American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; member American Medical Association and New York State and County Medical Societies. Author of books and monographs on sur- gical topics. Member Metropolitan, Cor- nell University and Alpha Delta Phi Clubs, Sons of the Revolution, American Geographical Society and Linnean Soci- ety of Natural History. Residence, 58 West 56th St., New York.

MORRISON, Willlam:

Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born near Gartan, Ireland, Oct. 5, 1863; gradu- ated from Princeton Theological Sem- inary, 1887; was missionary in Portland, Ore., 1887-91; assistant minister in St. Paul's, Washington, D. C., 1891-92, and in St. Andrew's, New York, 1892-93; rector of All Saint's Church, Brooklyn, since 1893; B. D., Mh. Alison College, New Brunswick. Country home, Belmar, N. J .; Residence, 15 Polhemus Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.

MORROW, Prince A .:

Physician; born Mt. Vernon, Clunstian Co., Ky .; began liberal studies in Cum- berland College, Ky., and completed his University training at Princeton, Ky., receiving the degree of. M. A. from the University of the City of New York in 1880. From boyhood he had a decided inclination for medical studies and in the carrying out of this idea took a course at the University Medical College, New York City, from which latter institution

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he obtained the degree of M. D. in 1873. Before graduating Dr. Morrow went abroad where he remained fifteen months pursuing special studies in the hospitals of London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. It was in 1874, at the age of 28, that Dr. Morrow entered upon his professional career in the metropolis. Eight years later he was given a place on the faculty of the University Medical College, the Medical department of the University of the City of New York, holding the post of clinical lecturer on dermatology in 1882 and 1883, and becoming clinical pro- fessor of genito-urinary diseases in 1884. He is now emeritus professor in the Uni- versity and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Dr. Morrow has been visiting surgeon to Charity Hospital since 1883, and from 1884 to 1892 was consulting sur- geon to Bellevue Hospital out door de- partment. Since 1891 he has been attend- ing physician to the New York Hospital, skin and genito-urinary department and consulting dermatologist to St. Vincent's Hospital. Is member of New York Coun- ty Medical Society, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Physicians Mutual Aid Association, American Academies of Medicine, New York Dermatological So- ciety, American Dermatological Asso- ciation, of which he was president in 1889; American Association of Geni- to-Urinary Surgeons; corresponding mem- ber of La Academia de Medecina de Me- jico, La Societie de. Dermatologie et de Syphilographie, Paris, and Die Wiener Dermatologische Gessellschaft, Berlin. Dr. Morrow was secretary for America of the First and Second International Con- gresses of Dermatology and Syphologra- phy at Paris, 1890, and at Vienna, 1893; vice-president of the dermatological sec- tion of the Pan-American Medical Con- gress and was the president of the board of the City Hospital in 1888 and 1895. The Southern Society of New York City has long counted Dr. Morrow among its members. During the ten years from 1882 to 1892 he was the editor of the Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-Urinary Diseases. His latest work, published Dec., 1903, is entitled "Social Diseases and Marriage." The production of books, how- ever, represents only a fraction of the literary activity of his indefatigable writ- ings and investigations. Naturally in these current productions he has confined himself to his specialty, his contributions to the leading medical journals comprising more than fifty papers and monographs on skin and genito-urinary diseases. While all of these less pretentious efforts possessed exceptional importance and value some were more notable than others. In this smaller class of articles may be mentioned "Excision of the Chancre as a Means of Aborting Syphil- is"; "Idiosyncracy as Affecting The Spe- cific Treatment of Syphilis"; "Duration of the Syphilogenic Capacity in Relation

to Marriage"; "The Mechanico-Surgical Treatment of Skin Disease"; "Notes on a New Method of Skin Grafting," an original method; "On the Incidental Ef- fects of Vaccination." While pursuing various inquiries Dr. Morrow became much interested in the subject of leprosy, which was assuming a practical phase with the appearance in the United States of this long dreaded plague of the East. In the winter of 1888-89 with this pur- pose in view he visited the Southern States, Mexico, California, and the Ha- waiian Islands. The results of his stud- ies in this wide field of observation were given to the world in "Matters of Derma- tological Interest in the Sandwich Is- lands." Address, 66 West 40th St., New York.

MORSE, Waldo Grant:

Lawyer; born in Rochester, N. Y., March 13, 1859; son of Adolphus Morse and Mary F. (Grant) Morse; is of old New England ancestry. The paternal ancestor, Samuel, came to this country in 1635, and settled in Dedham, Mass .; on the ma- ternal side the descent is from Christo- pher Grant, who was one of the founders of Watertown, Mass. He entered the Uni- versity of Rochester, but on account of illness was compelled to leave; spent two years traveling abroad. He then studied law in the office of Martindale & Oliver, and was admitted to the bar in Buffalo in 1884; four years later opened offices in New York. Took an especial interest in the preservation of the Palisades, and was appointed a Palisades commissioner by Governor Morton; drew the Palisades National Reservation bills which the Leg- islatures of New York and New Jersey passed, and also a Congressional bill. He was the second president of the Morse Society, incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, and is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Bar Associ- ation, the New York State Bar Associa- tion, of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and of the West- chester County Bar Association. He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, and of the Law- yers, ' Quill, Reform, Amackassin, Seagkill Golf, and other clubs. He is vice-presi- dent and director of the State Bank of Seneca Falls, secretary and director of the Darien & Western Railroad Company, and director of the United States Sav- ings and Loan Bank. Married Adelaide P. Cook, daughter of Albert Cook, of Seneca Falls, N. Y. Residence. Yonkers; N. Y .; office, 10 Wall St., New York.

MORTON, Levi Parsons:

Former Vice-President, and former gov- ernor of the State of New York; was born in Shoreham, Addison . County, Vt .. "May 16,: 1824; youngest son of the Rev. Danie! !

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Oliver Morton. He is a direct descendant of George Morton, of Bawtry, Yorkshire, England, one of the Pilgrim Fathers who

landed at Plymouth, Mass., from the ship Ann in 1623. Mr. Morton was educated at the Academy in his native town, and then chose a mercantile career. When

twenty years old he began business at

Hanover, N. H., remaining there about

five years; in 1849 he became connected

with the house of James M. Beebe & Co.,

in Boston, as a clerk, and was admitted to partnership at the same time that Mr. Morgan, the successor of George Pea-

body & Co., of London, joined the firm; five years later he went to New York, and

established the dry goods commission house of Morton & Grinnell; in 1863 he went into the banking business, estab- lishing the well-known house of Morton, Bliss & Co., and in connection with Sir John Rose, who was at one time finan- cial minister to Canada, he founded the house of Morton, Rose & Co., of London, England. Mr. Morton was a careful stu- dent of the financial transactions of the government, and his firm was one of the syndicates which so successfully assisted in funding the national debt and making the resumption of specie payment pos-

sible at a fixed rate. The London house were the first fiscal agents of the United States government from 1873 until 1884, and were re-appointed in 1889. In the negotiation of the United States bonds and the payment of the Geneva award of fifteen millions five hundred thousand dollars and the Halifax fishery award of five million five hundred thousand dollars, Mr. Morton's firm were especially active; the firm of Morton, Bliss & Co. was dis- solved on Oct. 1, 1899, and was succeeded by the Morton Trust Company, of which Mr. Morton was elected president, and he still fills that position. In 1878, President Hayes appointed Mr. Morton honorary commissioner of the United States to the Paris Exhibition, and in that same year he was elected to the Forty-sixth Con- gress from the Eleventh District in New York, defeating his opponent, a Tammany Democrat, by seven thousand votes; he was returned in 1880 by a largely in- creased vote. He represented in Congress the wealthiest district in the United States, and in the conscientious attention to the interests of his constituency, as well as those of the State at large, found himself a very busy man; his experience in finance made him naturally a leader in this branch of legislation, and he was promptly accorded a prominent place among his associates at the national capi- tal. He strongly opposed the unlimited coinage of silver in 1879, and character- ized the measure then before the House as a "bill for the relief of owners of silver mines and silver bullion in the United States and Europe; was always deeply interested in international politics and the relations of the United States with other

countries, and served as a member of the committee on Foreign Affairs in the For- ty-sixth Congress. The nomination for

the Vice-Presidency was informally ten-

dered Mr. Morton at Chicago in 1880, but

he declined it. preferring to remain in

Congress; subsequently he was given his choice between a place in the Cabinet as the Secretary of State, Secretary of the

Navy, and the French Mission, and he chose the last named. His creden-

tials were presented to the French gov-

ernment on Aug. 1, 1881, and the man-

ner in which he filled that important posi-

tion won for him the good opinion of the people of both that country and this; was

able to secure the removal of the restric-

tions upon the importation of American

pork to France, and was able to bring about also the recognition of American corporations in that country. Mr. Morton drove the first rivet in the Bartholdi Statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," and had the honor of accepting it

for his government. He represented the United States at the Paris Electrical Exposition and the Sub-Marine Cable

Convention; in 1885, after the inaugura- tion of President Cleveland, he resigned

his mission and returned home. At the Republican National Convention in Chi- cago, in 1888, Mr. Morton was nominated for the Vice-Presidency, and was inaug-

urated in March of the following year.

As a presiding officer of the Senate he discharged his duties in a most able and impartial way. On July 14, 1881, Dart- mouth College conferred upon him the

degree of doctor of laws, and in the fol- lowing year Middleburg College remem- bered him with a similar honor. Mr. Morton is president and director of the Morton Trust Company, president and trustee of the Fifth Avenue Trust, trustee. of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Com-

pany, director in the Guaranty Trust Company, director in the Home Insur-

ance Company, director in the Panama Coal Company, and director in the Wash- ington Life Insurance Company. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Union League, Lawyers, Republican and Tuxedo Clubs, the Century Association, the New England Society, the Sons of the American Revolution, and the Ameri- can Geographical Society. He has been

married twice; his first wife was Lucy Kimball; she died in 1871. His second wife, whom he married in 1873, is a daughter of William L. Street; she is descended from several of the old Man-

hattan families; her grandfather was General Randall S. Street, and her grand- mother, Cornelia Livingston, a grand- daughter of Robert Livingston and Alida (Schuyler) Van Rensselaer. Mr. Morton

has had five children by his second wife. His eldest daughter, Edith Livingston, was married to William Corcoran Eustis, April 30, 1900; his daughter Helen was married to Count De Perigord, now Duke

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De Valencery, in London, in Oct., 1901, and his daughter Alice was married to Winthrop Rutherford, in Feb., 1902. Coun- try home, "Ellerslie," Rhinebeck-on-the- Hudson; residence, 681 Fifth Ave., New York.

MOSS, Frank:

Lawyer; was born in Cold Spring, N. Y., March 16th, 1860; son of John R. Moss and Eliza (Wood). President of police board 1897. Prominent in reform move- ments. Associate counsel in Lexow In- vestigation; senior counsel in Mazet In- vestigation. Counsel to Society for the Prevention of Crime. Member of Union League, Republican, Harlem-Republican Clubs and of Bar Association, Law Insti- tute and of various social and religious societies. Professor of Medical Juris- prudence in New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. Author of the "American Metropolis." Writer and speaker on political, municipal, reform and religious topics. Address, 93 Nassau St., New York.

MOTTET, Henry:

Clergyman of Protestant Episcopal church; born Stuttgart, Germany, 1845. Educated in public schools of New York and graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1869. Studied at General Theological Seminary, New York; 1873 became curate of the Church of the Holy Communion, New York, and in 1879 pastor, filling the latter position to the present date; is member of Phi Beta Kap- pa. Is trustee of the St. Luke's Hospital Corporation and president of the Society of St Johnland. Received the degree of D.D. from Hobart College, 1892. Address, 47 West 20th St., New York.

MULLALY, John, LL.D .:

Journalist, author and inventor. Born in Belfast, Ireland. Commenced and learned his profession as journalist on the New York Tribune, then under the man- agement of its founder, Horace Greeley. City reporter on Evening Post. Six years on the New York Herald and its special correspondent on the expeditions to lay the submarine cable across the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the first three expedi- tions of 1857-58 to lay the Atlantic tele- graph cable. Fourteen years proprietor and editor of the Metropolitan Record. Commissioner of Health one term and member of the Board of Assessors two terms. Member of the New York Press Club. Originator of the new system of parks beyond the Harlem and active par- ticipator in the seven years' movement by which its area of nearly 4,000 acres was acquired by the City. Inventor of Aluminography, which is superseding Lithography in the United States and Europe and which is being applied through appropriate machinery to print-

ing without movable type. President of the U. S. Aluminum Printing Plate Com- pany. President of the Aluminum Press Company. Author of the "Milk Trade of New York City"-exposing its adultera- tions, "More Public Parks-Lungs for the Metropolis," "Report to the Legislature of 1884" of the Commission to select the sites for the six new parks and three new parkways in the new Borough of the Bronx (217 pages), "History of the Sev- en Years' Contest" to acquire said parks, "Trip to Newfoundland to lay the Gulf of St. Lawrence Cable," "The Laying of the Cable or the Ocean Telegraph," "Alum- inography, a Radical Revolution in Print- ing." Address Times Building, New York.

MULLANY, John F .:

Roman Catholic clergyman; born in Deerfield, N. Y., July 29, 1853, and made his studies under the Christian Brothers at Utica and at Manhattan College, New York, from which institution he gradu- ated in 1875. The following year he en- tered St. Joseph's Provincial Seminary, Troy. N. Y., and was ordained to the priesthood in 1880. For a little less than three years acted as assistant in St. John's Church, Utica, and Sacred Heart Church, Albany. In 1883 he was appoint- ed by the Rt. Rev. Francis McNeirney, Bishop of Albany, to organize parishes in the suburbs of Utica. In less than five years erected two churches in Whitesboro and New Hartford, and in Holland Patent. In 1887 the Albany diocese was divided and the Rt. Rev. P. A. Ludden, D. D., as- sumed charge of the new diocese of Syra- cuse soon after selecting Father Mullany to fill the vacancy in the pastorate of St. John the Baptist's Church. Since coming to the City of Syracuse he has erected two churches in the territory adjoining his large city parish. In his city parish he has an academy chartered under the Re- gents of the State of New York. He was closely identified with the Catholic Sum- mer School movement from the beginning. Has also been identified with the work of the Young Men's National Union and the spread of the Reading Circle movement. Founded the Winter School at New Or- leans, La., in 1895, which has proven a stimulus and inspiration to the Catholics of the South. Has translated books, con- tributed articles to reviews and maga- zines, and prepared papers for historical socities, convocations, literary clubs and reading circles. Author of many volumes and of the series "Our True Position," now running in Donahoe's Magazine. Ad- dress, Syracuse, N. Y.

MULLER, Carl C .:

Teacher of harmony, counterpoint and composition; he was born July 3, 1831, at Meiningen, Germany. Studied music in his native town; piano, under W. F. Pfeifer and his son, Heinrich; harmony,

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with A. Zöllner and Organ with Court Organist Butzert. Came to this country 1854 and took' position in a piano factory. Was leader of the orchestra in old Bar- num Museum. After a professional tour through the States, 1862-64, he settled in New York City. Some of his compo- sitions having attracted attention he was induced to give instruction in har- mony. Finding the then existing text- books inadequate he translated Simon Sechter's celebrated "Correct Order of Fundamental Harmonies" which reached its tenth edition. This was followed by his "Tables for the Writing of Harmonic Exercises" in three series and a sup- plement, all of which enjoy great popu- larity. Published songs, male quartettes, "Morceaux and Children's pieces for Pia- no," instructive and entertaining pieces for the violin and cello, a sonata for vio- lin and piano, a string-quartette and three sonatas for organ. His chief com- position (unpublished), a symphony in D minor, was played from the score by no less an artist than Dr. Franz Liszt, who manifested great interest for it. It was performed by Theodore Thomas' orches- tra together with other compositions. Has composed, also unpublished, a suite, two overtures, instrumental solos, an idyl for orchestra, some of which were performed by Theo. Thomas and Seidl orchestras at the Harvard Concert, Bos- ton, and at the Peabody Concert, Balti- more, a cantata founded on Schiller's poem, "Die Kraniche des Ibicus," for solo, mixed chorus and orchestra, two an- thems, a second string quartette, instru- mental solos and a dramatic solo for ten- or, founded on an excerpt from "Tenny- son's "Maud." He is a member of the German Liederkranz, Manuscript Society, Aschenbroedel Verein, Mus. Mut. Prot. Society and New York State Music Teach- ers' Association. Continues to teach har- mony and all its associate branches. Studio, 1291 Lexington Ave, New York.

MULLIGAN, Richard Thomas:

Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, June 5, 1871; graduated, June 20, 1876; Powhatan, 1877-78. Promoted Ensign, January 2, 1880; Trenton, 1879- 81; Navy Yard, New York, 1881-82; Ten- nessee." 1882-86. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), May 23, 1886; Signal Of- fice, 1886-87; Enterprise, 1887-90; Des- patch, special service, Dec., 1890, to Nov., 1891; Bureau of Navigation, Dec., 1891- 96; U. S. S. New York, June, 1896. Pro- moted to Lieutenant, Dec. 16, 1891; Navy Yard, New York, June 20, 1899; Office of Naval Intelligence, Nov. 3, 1899. Pro- moted to Lieutenant-Commander, Oct. 10, 1899; training ship Alliance, April 22, 1901; U. S. S. Francisco, April, 1901, to 1903. Address, care Navy Department, Wash- ington, D. C.

MUNDY, Ezekiel Wilson:

Librarian; son of Luther Bloomfield Mundy and Frances Eliza Martin; born June 16, 1833 in Metuchen, New Jersey; was graduated at the University of Ro- chester in 1860. Graduated at Rochester Theological Seminary in 1863. Made

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Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 92

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

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