Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 112

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post-graduate student in chemistry and until prostrated by yellow fever after physics. These studies were pursued for the surrender of Santiago. Started the Burr McIntosh Photographic Studio in N. Y., 1900, and the Burr McIntosh Monthly, April, 1903; organized the Burr McIntosh Publishing Co., Oct., 1903. Author, The Little I Saw of Cuba, and several successful one-act plays. Ad- dress, 20 West 33rd St., N. Y. City. two years, during which the degrees of master of arts and doctor of philosophy were conferred upon him; during the last year of these post-graduate studies he also occupied the position of honorary as- sistant in assaying. In 1894 he became as- sociated with Louls C. Tiffany in his artistic productions in glass, enamels, MCINTYRE, John F .: metals and pottery, and in 1900 a silver Lawyer; born N. Y. City, 1855; son of John B. McIntyre, an architect of N. Y. City, and Frances Virginia Esquiral, a grand-daughter of Jean medal and a bronze medal were con- ferred upon him, at the Paris Exposition, for his work as a collaborator with Mr. 'Tiffany; 1834, was appointed assistant in metallurgy in Columbia University, and this position he held until 1900. Married, Nov. 5, 1895, Clarissa Ann Walker, of N. Y .; 1898, opened a laboratory for general analytical and consulting work in chem- istry in N. Y., Leffert Lefferts being as- many important cases tried during sociated with him in the work until 1901. He has made a speclal study of the chem- istry of fats and oils and the allied branches; in 1900 was appolnted by the Department of Agriculture of N. Y. State to make a special report upon linseed oil and its adulterants. Has contributed ar- tlcles to various scientific journals. Ad - dress, 145 E. 23d St., N. Y. City.


MCILWAINE, Archibald G., Jr .:


United States manager of the London & Lancashire Insurance Co .; born Pe- tersburg, Va., Sept. 5, 1859; educated public schools and University School of Petersburg; in youth entered service of Petersburg Saving and Insurance Co., from which he went to the N. Y. Under- writer's Agency, to be its special agent in the South. Subsequently for several years was general agent for London & Lancashire Insurance Co. at Atlanta; 1893 was called to New York to take position of assistant manager. He suc- ceeded Jeffrey Beavan as manager, 1894. Member: Calumet, Down Town, N. Y. Yacht and Ardsley Clubs, and Southern Society. Address, 7 East 32nd St., N. Y. City.


MCINTOSH, Burr:


Author, photographer, and publisher; born Wellsville, O., Aug. 31, 1862; at- tended Lafayette and Princeton Col- leges, class, 1884; clerk in N. Y. & C. G. Coal Co., Pittsburg, Pa., of which his father was president, 1883-84; reporter for Philadelphia News, and Press, 1884- 85. Made first appearance on the stage in Bartley Campbell's play, Paquita, Aug. 31, 1885, in N. Y .; correspondent of Leslie's Weekly during war in Cuba 20


Esquiral, a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, who came here with Lafayette; educated in College of St. Francis Xavier,; was graduated from the law department of the University of the City of New York, 1877. Has been counsel in


many years last past; has been a member of the Legislature of the State of N. Y .; counsel to the comptroller, and for many years chief assistant district attorney serving under DeLancy Nicoll, John R. Fellows and Asa Bird Gardiner. Most of the important criminal cases during the last twelve years have been prosecuted by him, and many of the more important convictions were ob- tained by him. London by the Irish-American Societies In 1897 was sent to to defend Edward J Ivory, charged by the British government with the crime of treason, and succeeded in acquitting Ivory. Member of many clubs, includ- ing the Manhattan, Algonquin and the Democratic Club of N. Y. Address, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.


MCINTYRE, Thomas Alexander:


Banker; born N. Y. City, Oct. 19, 1855; educated in local schools of N. Y. City; began business career in a clerkship in grain and produce house of David Bing- ham; afterward entered the employment of David Dows, in same line, 1878; en- gaged in grain business on his own ac- count, as head of firm of McIntyre & Bingham. May 1, 1879, formed partner- ship with Henry L. Wardwell, under firm name of McIntyre & Wardwell, which firm has been for years reputed to be the largest dealers in grain in the U. S., having long purchased all the grain used by Hecker-Jones-Jewell Mill- ing Co. of N. Y. He is the organizer of that company, and a director of the Inter- national Elevating Co .; member commit- tee of


management Royal Insurance


Co. He owns a large tract of pine for-


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est in North Carolina, where he has es- | School, 1887, LL. B., A. M .; admitted to tablished besides his mills and other Bar, 1888; married, 1887, Mary C. Mat- tocks, Cleveland. Author: Principles of Common Law Pleading; Handbook of the Law of Evidence. Member Bar As- sociation, New England Society, Ohio Society, Lawyers and Ardsley Clubs. Residence, Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y .; office, 66 Broadway, N. Y. City works, a winter home; has held no po- litical office, but has long taken a keen interest in public affairs. Generally he has been identified with the Demo- cratic party, but in the National cam- paign of 1896 he supported the Republi- can ticket on the Sound Money issue. Is one of the foremost members of the Produce Exchange, and of the Chamber McKELWAY, St. Clair: of Commerce. Clubs: Metropolitan, Man- hattan, Colonial,


Reform, Lawyers, Down Town, N. Y. Athletic, N. Y. Yacht, Suburban Riding and Driving, and other clubs. Married, 1902, Mrs. Lucie Vera Mitchell, granddaughter of Colonel Wil- liam Watson. Address, 304 W. 75th St., N. Y. City.


MCINTYRE, W. H .:


Fourth vice-president of the Equita- ble Life Assurance Society of N. Y .; born N. Y. City, Jan. 7, 1865; received his education in the public schools of that city, and since leaving school has devoted his time to the Equitable Life Assurance Co. Address, 120 Broadway, N. Y. City.


MCKAY, John Angus:


Publisher; born Ogdensburg, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1864; was educated at public schools in Canada and Oswego County, N. Y .; at an early age spent school va- cations in studying the printer's art in Oswego and Fulton, N. Y .; when nine- teen bought the Fulton Times, which he edited and published for two years; sell- ing the Fulton Times in 1885, accepted a position on the reportorial staff of the N. Y. Sun; later did special writing for the N. Y. Herald; then served two years on the editorial staff of the Brooklyn Eagle; in 1890, in connection with Mr. F. M. Munroe, established Brooklyn Life and was president of the company for fourteen years. In 1900 was instru- mental in organizing The Stuyvesant Company and purchasing The Home Journal, which name was soon changed to Town and Country; now president and publisher of The Town and Coun- try. Address, 289 4th Ave., N. Y. City. MCKEAN, John B .:


Justice of the Criminal Court of N. Y .; term expires, 1909. Address, Crim- inal Court Bldg., Centre St., N. Y. City. MCKELVEY, John Jay:


Lawyer, writer; born Sandusky, O., 1863; son of John and Jane (Hunting- ton) McKelvey; was graduated from Oberlin College, 1884; and Harvard Law


Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle; born in Columbia, Missouri, March 15, 1845; 1853, his parents removed to New Jersey; edu- cated Blackwood Academy and by private tutors; 1863, became city editor of the Trenton Monitor; 1864, began the study of law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1866; 1867, became assistant editor of the N. Y. World; 1869, became associate editor of the Brooklyn Eagle; 1878, be- came chief editor of the Albany Argus; 1885, was called to the same position on the Brooklyn Eagle; was elected as Re- gent of the State University in 1883. He has given many public addresses, among which are The Press and the Pulpit; Need of Reform in' Expert Testimony; The Lawyer and the Times, and Plea for Old-Fashioned Preaching. Member Long Island Historical Society, Suffolk Coun- ty Historical Society, Society of Medical Jurisprudence, and of the Board of Re- gents of the State of N. Y. He has been honored with doctorates from Princeton, Union, Syracuse, and St. Lawrence Uni- versities. Residence, 21 Monroe Place; office, Eagle Office, Brooklyn, N. Y.


McKIM, Alexander Rice:


Practicing and expert architect; born Boston, 1863; son of Judge John W. Mc- Kim, of Massachusetts, and great-great grandson of Major James McKim of the Scotch Highlanders, who came to Am- erica for the French and Indian War; and son of Margaretta Fisher Pretty- man, daughter of the Rev. William Prettyman, of Delaware, and a descend- ant of the Fishers and Barretts of Dela- ware and Maryland; graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1886; studied two years at the Tech- nische Hochschule of Berlin, and re- ceived an A. M. from Columbia Univer- sity; president of the Technology Club, a governor of the Arts Club, one of the executive committee of the Architectu- ral League, and a member of the Uni- versity, Strollers, and the American So- ciety of Civil Engineers. Address, 36 F. 28th St., N. Y. City.


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McKIM, Charles Follen:


Architect; born Chester Co., Pa., Aug. 24, 1817; was graduated from Harvard Scientific School, 1868; studied Ecole des Beaux Arts. Member of firm of Mc- Kim, Mead & White, architects of nu- merous notable buildings; awarded the royal gold medal by King Edward for promotion of architecture, 1903; de- signed University Club; also recent al- terations to White House. Member Mu- nicipal Art Society, American Institute of Architects, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Fine Arts Society, Penn- sylvania Society, Architectural League, Clubs: University, Racquet, Lambs, City, of N. Y., Somerset ard St. Botolph, of Boston. Residence, 9 E. 35th St .; office, 160 5th Ave., N. Y. City.


McKIM, Robert Vanderburgh:


Brigade surgeon, N. Y. National Guard born Rhinebeck, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1841; son of Robert McKim, of Baltimore, Md., and Charlotte (Vanderburgh) McKim, daughter of Dr. Federal Vanderburg, of N. Y .; was educated in Baltimore and N. Y .; graduate (M. D.) of the N. Y. Medical College. Married, Dec. 28, 1858, Mary Schroeder Albert, daughter of


Jacob Albert, of Baltimore, Md .; was commissioned assistant surgeon, Fifty- seventh Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, in Oct., 1861; promoted to be surgeon, with in rank of Major, Feb., 1862; served Army of the Potomac; in action at Fair Oaks and through campaign of the Pen- insula, at second battle of Bull Run and at Antietam, later acting brigade sur- geon in charge of division hospital at Harper's Ferry, Va .; March 5, 1883, was commissioned brigade surgeon, with the rank of Major, N. G., N. Y .; on staff of General Louis Fitzgerald and served nearly fifteen years; resigned and hon- orably discharged, Jan., 1898. Member of Union and Metropolitan Clubs, Mili- tary Order of the Loyal Legion and Col- onial Order. Address, 32 W. 58th St., N. Y. City.


MCKINSTRY, Willard D .:


Journalist; born Oct. 1, 1850, Fre- donia, N. Y .; attended Academy and State Normal School at Fredonia; mar- ried, April 25, 1895, Mary A. Lawyer, of Watertown; editor and publisher of the Dunkirk Journal, 1872-85; news editor, 1886-87, and associate editor, 1887-92: and editor-in-chief Watertown Daily Times since 1892; State Civil Service commission, 1892-95. Republican, Epis-


copal, Odd Fellow; president Y. M. C. A. Address, Watertown, N. Y.


MCKNIGHT, George Hamilton, D. D .:


Protestant Episcopal clergyman; was graduate of General Theological Semin- ary, N. Y. City, 1849; ordained in P. E. ministry, 1849; rector and missionary in Western N. Y., Massachusetts, Indiana and Central N. Y. diocese. Rector Trin- ity Church, Elmira, since 1869; trustee General Theological Seminary and El- mira College; received honorary degree of A. M. from Hobart College, 1850, and S. T. D., Hamilton College, 1873. Ad- dress, Elmira, N. Y.


McLANE, James W., M. D .:


Born Brooklyn; received the degree of A. B. from Yale, 1861; M. D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1864; dean and professor of obstetrics at College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1879-99; Con- sulting physician Sloane Maternity Hos- pital, N. Y. Hospital, and Nursery and Child's Hospital. President of the


Roosevelt Hospital. Member Academy of Medicine, Medical and Surgical So- cieties, and Union League Club. Ad- dress, 51 W. 38th St., N. Y. City.


MCLAUGHLIN, Chester B .:


Jurist; born Moriah, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1857; was graduated from the Univer- sity of Vermont, 1879; LL. D., Middle- bury College, 1901; admitted to the Bar, 1881; county judge and surro- gate, Essex County, N. Y., 1891-95; jus- tice of the Supreme Court N. Y., 1896-98, when he was appointed associate justice Supreme Court, Appellate Division, first department, Jan. 1, 1898; term expires 1909; Republican. Member University of Vermont Alumni Association. Mar- ried, Port Henry, N. Y., Lucy Warner, in 1866. Member University, Century, Lotos, West Side Republican, Manhattan Clubs. Residence, 393 West End Ave. and 25th St., N. Y. City.


MCLAUGHLIN, George:


Lawyer; born Roscoe, O., March 27, 1841; was educated Willoughby Insti- tute, Ohio and Allegheny College, Penn- sylvania, graduating from the latter in 1864; afterwards taught school and then took up the study of law. Married, 1870, Miss Alice E. Brown, of Winterton, N. Y .; 1873, began the practice of law at Monticello; became active in politics, and was chairman of the Republican County Committee of Sullivan for sev- eral years; was elected to the Assembly of 1897, and served on the following


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committees: Codes, Insurance and Fed- | writer and metaphysician. At present eral Relations; was re-elected to the As- general agent of the N. Y. Life Insur- ance Co. Residence and office, The Stanley, 124 W. 47th St., N. Y. City. sembly in 1898, and served during that session on the following committees: Judiciary, Public Lands and Forestry, McLEAN Thomas Chalmers: and was chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Election. On Jan. 1, 1899 was elected secretary of the N. Y. State Commission of Prisons, which position he still holds. He is also Secretary of the New York State Conference of Charities and Correction, and a member of the American Academy of political and social science. Address, Capitol, Albany, N. Y. McLEAN, Andrew:


Editor-in-Chief Brooklyn Daily Citi- zen since 1898; writer; born Scotland, Aug. 7, 1848; son of Andrew and Mary McLean; was educated in Scotland and Brooklyn; married, 1876, Ida L. Thom- son. Formerly editor-in-chief Brooklyn Eagle. Democrat. Residence, 284 Carl- ton Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.


McLEAN, Charles Donald:


Educator; born Nov. 7, 1834, County Antrim, Ireland; came to America at an early age and settled at Preston, Can -; ada; was educated at Clarkson Acad- emy; graduate of Brockport Collegiate Institute; attended Rochester Univer- sity; was graduated from Albany Law School. Admitted to the Bar; teacher, 1865-67; vice-principal, 1867-69, Princi- pal State Normal School, Brockport, N. Y., since 1869; A. M., Rochester Univer- sity, 1868. Married (fir'st) 1858, Wealthy Paine; (second) 1882, Martha Bross. Address, Brockport, N. Y.


McLEAN, Emily Nelson Ritchie (Mrs. Donald McLean) :


Regent N. Y. City Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution; lecturer; born Prospect Hall, Frederick, Md., Jan. 28, 1859; daughter of Judge John and Betty Ritchie; graduate of Frederick Seminary (now Woman's College), June, 1873; post-graduate courses, language, history and mathematics; married, 1883, Donald McLean, of Frederick, Md. Address, 186 Lenox Ave., N. Y. City. McLEAN, John Emery :


Late associate editor of The Arena and chief editor of Mind; born Alton, Ontario, Can., 1865. Early apprenticed to printer; subsequently removed to the U. S .; became head proofreader Ameri- can Bible Society, N. Y .; later associate editor N. Y. Financier; afterward man- aging editor of The Metaphysical Maga- zine for two and one-half years. Mar- ried, 1898, the Countess Norraikow, a


Captain U. S. Navy; born N. Y .; ap- pointed midshipman, Sept. 21, 1864; was graduated from Naval Academy, June, 1868, taking the prize flag for the best drilled company in the battalion; Tusca- rora, South Pacific and West Indies, 1868-69; promoted to ensign, April, 1869; Benicia and Idaho, Asiatic Fleet, 1869- 72; promoted to master, July, 1870; com- manded the sailor infantry of the Beni- cia in the Corean Expedition, and was commended for gallant conduct in the assault on Fort du Coude, having the left of the line next to the company of Lieutenant McKee, in memory of whom the fort was renamed by the captors. Ordnance duty, Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, 1872; also at experimental battery, Annapolis, 1873-74; flagship


Tennessee, Asiatic Station, 1875; ord-


nance duty, Torpedo Station, 1876-77;


also at the Washington Navy Yard, 1878; inspector of ordnance in charge of Experimental Battery, 1879; flagship Trenton, European Station, 1879-81; was a member of the U. S. Government dele- gation to the International Electrical Congress and of the Commission to the Electrical Exhibition, Paris, 1881; was elected secretary to a section of the Congress; vice-president of the jury of awards, Group V., instruments of pre- cision, etc., at the exhibition; special duty in Germany, France, Russia and England; naval attaché, Vienna, 1883, and government representative at Vien- na Electrical Exhibition; ordnance duty, Torpedo Station, 1884; steamer Brook- lyn, 1885; navigating officer, Dolphin, 1885-88; ordnance duty, Torpedo Sta- tion, 1889, to March, 1893; executive offi- cer of the Detroit, 1893; promoted to lieutenant commander, Oct., 1893; ex- ecutive officer, flagship San Francisco, 1894-96; detail officer, Bureau of Navi- gation, 1896; inspector of ordnance, in charge Torpedo Station, 1897 to 1899; promoted commander, March 3, 1899; commanding the Don Juan de Austria and the Castine, in the Philippines and China, 1900-1901; commanding the Cin- cinnati, 1902, taking part in the official reception of Prince Henry at N. Y .; as- sisting in Martinique after the Mont Peleé disaster; protecting American in- terests during revolutions in San Domin-


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go, Hayti, Venezuela and Panama. Re- Higher Mathematics. ceived the thanks of the British Govern- ment for effecting release of a British McMAHON, James: subject held in military service by in- surgents in Venezuela. In Sept., 1902, landed sailors and battalion of marines, removed obstructions from Panama Ry. tracks, prevented fighting on the line of transit, and safeguarded world's traffic across the Isthmus. Promoted to Cap- tain, Sept. 23, 1903; Captain of Navy Yard, League Island, Pa .; captain of the U. S. S. Pennsylvania. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.


McLENNAN, Peter Baillie:


Jurist; born Lyndon, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., 1850; was graduated from Alfred University, 1873; after study of law, was admitted to the Bar in 1876; elected justice of the Supreme Court, N. Y., 1892 ; as- signed to Appellate Division, 1898 ; desig- nated as presiding justice by Governor Odell in 1903. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.


McLOUTH, Lawrence Amos:


Educator ; born Ontonagon, Mich., Jan. 19. 1863 ; son of Dr. Lewis McLouth and Sarah Doty McLouth; his education was received at home and in the public schools of Ypsilanti, Mich., where his


father was professor of natural and physi- cal sciences in the State Normal School ; prepared for college in this school; was graduated from University of Michigan with the degree of A. B. in June. 1887; then became principal of the Danville, Ill .. high school; later studied Germanic phil- ology and literature at the Universties of Leipsic, Heidelberg and Munich. He was instructor in German at the University of Michigan for three years, and then was called to the chair of Germanic languages and literatures at N. Y. Univerity, which position he has held since 1895; 1888, mar- ried Martha Linne Robinson ; was chair- man of the section for philology. and a member of the council of the N. Y. Acad- emy of Sciences. Member of the Modern Language Association of America, also of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. Address, Univer- sity Heights, N. Y. City.


McMAHON, James:


Educator, mathematician; born Armagh Co., Ireland. April 22, 1856; son Robert and Mary Hewitt McMahon; was gradu- ated from University of Dublin, 1881; resident graduate until 1882; and 1800, married. Ithaca, N. Y., Katherine A. Crane. At Cornell University, since 1883, as instructor, assistant professor, and now professor of mathematics. Joint au- thor of: Cornell Mathematical Series;


Address, 7 Centrai Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.


President and trustee Emigrant Indus- trial Savings Bank; trustee The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Irish Ini - grant Society, London and Lancashire Fire Insurance, and the People's Trust Co .; director National Surety Co., New Amsterdam National Bank and New Am- sterdam Safe Deposit Co. Address, 49 Chamber St., N. Y. City.


McMAHON, John Robert:


Novelist and dramatist; horn 1875, Roy Bareilly, India; son of the late Rev. J. T. McMahon, presiding elder Kumaon dis- trict, India. Married Margherita Arlina Hamm. Educated at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y., from 1SS4 until 1890; afterwards self-taught. News- paper work in New York City after type-setting two years. Private Com- pany D. 202nd Regiment, New York vol- unteers, in Spanish-American war, 1898. three months in Cuba. Contributed short stories to magazines. Recreations: piano playing, agriculture. Address, 29 Willow St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


McMAHON, Martin T .:


Jurist and brevet major general, U. S. Volunteers; born Canada, 1838; was grad- uated from St. John's College, Fordham. N. Y., at the age of seventeen; subse- quently received from the same college the degree of LL. D .; studied law in Buf- falo in the office of Hon. Eli Cook, at that time mayor of the city. While still under age he was appointed to succeed his elder brother as corresponding clerk in the appointment office of the Post Office Department at Washington, and in the last year of Buchanan's administration he was sent as special agent of the post office department for the Pacific coast to California, where he remained until the outbreak of the war. Upon the first call for troops he entered the service and was elected captain of the first company of cavalry organized on the Pacific coast. He was not mustered in, however, as orders had been received from Wash- ington to retain the California volunteers within that State to relieve the regular troops on duty there. He thereupon re- signed his command, and shortly after- wards was appointed captain in the U. S. Army and additional aide-de-camp on the staff of Major-General George B. McClellan, at Washington; served with the Army of the Potomac, and was pres- ent in every engagement in which that


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army took part. During the Seven Days fight on Peninsular was assigned to the staff of Major-General Wiliiam B. Franklin, commanding the Sixth Army Corps; was subsequently promoted to be major and aide-de-camp, and afterwards lieutenant-colonel and assistant adjutant- general of the Left Grand Division, Army of the Potomac. When that division was discontinued after Burnside's failure at Fredericksburg he was re-assigned as ad- jutant-general to the Sixth Army Corps, and served as chief of staff to General Sedgewick until that officer's death at Spottsylvania; was continued in the same capacity under General Wright until the end of 1864, when he was assigned to temporary duty in N. Y., on the staff of Major-General Dix, commanding the De- partment of the East. Has held several important positions in civil life; was cor- poration attorney of the City of N. Y. in 1866-67, U. S. minister to Paraguay dur- ing President Johnson's administration, and for many years receiver of taxes in the City of N. Y .; was U. S. marshal for the Southern District of New York dur- ing President Cleveland's administration; was elected to the Assembly as a Demo- crat in 1890; elected to the State Senate, and was chairman of the committee on General Laws, and that on Military Af- fairs. He received the Congressional medal of honor for "distinguished bravery at the battle of White Oak Swamp." General McMahon is a lawyer in good practice in the City of N. Y .; is also one of the managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and was four times elected by Congress to that important position, 1880, 1886, 1892 and 1898; judge of the Court of General Ses- sions, New York County, Jan. 1, 1896; term expires, Dec. 3, 1909. Residence, Grosvenor Hotel; office, Criminal Court Building, N. Y. City.


McMASTER, Alexander:


Banker; born Oct. 10, 1842, Fort Erie, Ontario; educated in public schools and learned machinist trade, 1858-62. Mar- ried, May 3, 1862, Malinda Cripps, of Buffalo; was in employ of King Iron Works, 1862-72, and Commercial Line of steamers, 1872-83; U. S. Local Inspector of Boilers, 1883; U. S. Supervising In- spector of Steam Vessels, 1889. Presi- dent of Union Bank since 1893. Republi- can. Presbyterian. Member of Acacia Club and Mason. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.




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