Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 113

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MCMILLIN, Emerson:

Banker; born Ewington. O., April 16, 1844; served in the Union army during the Civil War; subsequently became con- nected with a firm building gas works at Ironton, O., and after the completion of these, was made their manager. After a residence of thirteen years at Columbus, O., went to N. Y. City, where he estab- lished the banking firm of Emerson Mc- Millin & Co .; is president and director of the Binghamton (N. Y.) Gas Works, Consolidated Gas Co. (New Jersey) ; De- troit City Gas Works, Southern Light & Traction Co .; is also director of the Trust Co. of America and numerous gas companies throughout the U. S. He is a member of the Lotos, Union League, Lawyers, Army and Navy, and Engineers Clubs of N. Y. City. Residence, 320 Riv- erside Ave .; office, 40 Wall St., N. Y. City.

McMURRAY, Frank Morton:

Educator; born Crawfordsville, Ind., 1862; son of F. M. and Charlotte Under- wood McMurry; graduate Ph. D. of Uni- versity at Jena, Germany, 1889. Mar- ried, 1894, Elizabeth Lindley, of Freder- icktown, O .; professor of Theory and Practice of Teaching, Teachers' College, Columbia University. Address, Park Hill, Yonkers, N. Y.

McMURTRIE, William:

Consulting chemist; born Belvidere, N. J., March 10, 1851; son of Abram and Almira McMurtrie; was graduated from Lafayette College, E. M., 1871; M. S., 1874; Ph. D., 1875. Married, 1876, Helen M. Douglass. Chemist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1872-77; superintendent in charge, U. S. Agricultural Products and representative of U. S. Department of Agriculture, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878. Special agent, U. S. Department of Agriculture in Agricultural Technology, 1879-82; professor of chemistry University of Illinois, 1882-88; decorated Chevalier du Merite Agricole, 1883; consulting chemist, New York Tartar Co .. 1888-99, and to Royal Baking Powder Co., 1899 to date; chairman committee on awards for wools, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; vice- president. American Association for the Advancement of Science for Section C, (chemistry) 1895; president of the Amer- ican Chemical Society, 1900. Delegate from U. S. Department of Agriculture to Fifth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, Berlin, 1903. Consulting pro- fessor of general technical chemistry, Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.,

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1905. Author: Culture of the Sugar Beet Jan. 26, 1903; assistant, Field Artillery and Manufacture of Sugar Therefrom; School, Fort Riley, Kan., Feb. 3, 1903, to date. Captain Artillery Corps, Aug. 1, 1901. Address, Fort Riley, Kan. Wools and Other Animal Fibres; Wools of the World's Fair, 1903; Records of Progress in Applied Chemistry, 1896-1900. McNEIL, Nelson A .: Fellow American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. Member American Chemical Society, Society of Chemical Industry, Versin Deutscher Chemiker, Chemists Club. Residence. 144 W. 49th St .; office. 135 William St., N. Y. City. McNAIR, Eben O .:

Banker; born 1850; entered banking house of Jay Cooke & Co., Washington, D. C., in 1865; became cashier of Bank of Warsaw. Warsaw, N. Y., in 1872, and afterwards president; removed to Buf- falo. N. Y., in 1898, and engaged in pri- vate banking. Became president of the Commonwealth Trust Co., Buffalo, upon its organization in 1903. Member So- ciety Colonial Wars; vice-president Buf- falo Chapter Sons of American Revolu- tion; president Independent Club; mem- ber Buffalo Historical Society, National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C., and Buffalo and other local clubs. Ad- dress, Commonwealth Trust Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

McNAUGHT, James:

Lawyer; born Lexington, Ill., Sept. 9, 1842; son of George and Nancy McNaught; was graduated from Illinois Wesleyan l'niversity, 1863: married, Seattle. Wash., 1871, Agnes Hyde. Admitted to Bar, 1864. Member of law firm of McNaught & Searle; interested as officer or director in various corporations, including Great Northern Ry. of Canada. Clubs: Law- yers. New York. Lotos, Reform. Colonial, Marine and Field. Residence. 855 West End Ave .; office, 35 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

McNEIL, Clarence H .:

Captain U. S. Army; born and ap- pointed from N. Y. City. Cadet at the Military Academy, June, 1892; graduated and promoted in the army to additional second lieutenant artillery. June, 1896. Served on garrison duty at Fort Slocum, N. Y., Sept. to Oct., 1896; Oct., 1896 to June. 1897, at Key West Barracks, Fla .; promoted second lieutenant April, 1897; at Fort Hamilton. N. Y., June, 1897 to Feb., 1898; in Florida, April to Aug., 1898; at Washington Barracks, D. C., Aug., 1998, to May, 1899; promoted to first lieutenant, March, 1899; at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, May to Aug., 1899; instructor of mathematics at the Military Academy, West Point, Aug. 21, 1899, to

Fire underwriter; born Salisbury, Conn., July 9, 1852. His education up to his fourteenth year was received in the dis- trict schools, after which he was given a clerkship in a mining office. He engaged as a local agent in the insurance busi- ness in 1874. and at one time had agen- cies at Bridgeport, New Haven, and Lime Rock, which latter he still retains. He was for three years special agent of the Washington and Fire Marine of Bos- ton, and six years of the Niagara Fire. He is assistant U. S. manager of the Cale- donian Insurance Co., of Scotland, and vice-president of the Caledonian Ameri- can Insurance Co., of N. Y. City. Ad- dres, 50 Pine St., N. Y. City.

McNEIR, George:

Vice-president and director of Bank of the Metropolis; director American Seed- ing Machine Co., McCleary, Wallin & Crouse. The Nairn Linoleum Co., The Oldham Mills, Ossining National Bank and Public Accountants Corporation; trustee The Bowery Savings Bank. Resi- dence. Briarcliff Manor, N. Y .; office, 884 Broadway, N. Y. City.

McQUAID, Bernard John:

First Roman Catholic Bishop of Ro- chester; born N. Y. City, Dec. 15, 1823; educated at Chambly College, near Mon- treal, Can., and St. John's, College, Ford- ham, N. Y .; ordained priest, Jan. 16, 1848; founder of Seton Hall College and Seminary .. and was its president for sev- eral years; rector of Newark Cathedral; consecrated Bishop, 186S. Address, 70 Frank St., Rochester, N. Y.

McSPADDEN, Joseph Walker:

Editor and author; born Knoxville, Tenn., May 13. 1874. Son of Walker L. and Margaret J. (Porter) McSpadden. He was graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1897. and came to N. Y. City the following year to engage in lit- erary work. Since then he has written Shaksperian Synopses; Stories of Robin Hood; Synopses of Dickens's Novels; and Stories from Wagner; all published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co .; has edited Dumas's Works and Aesop's

Fables, published by the same firm, and Balzac's Works, published by John D. Avil & Co., of Philadelphia. He also served as associate editor, under Thomas B. Reed, in the compilation of

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Modern Eloquence, published by John D. [ Member of the Alumni Associations of Morris & Co., of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Southern Society, and the Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Gamma Delta Fraternities, and resident secretary of the University of Tennessee Club. Resi- dence, 40 Bay 26th St., Bensonhurst, L. I .; office, 426 West Broadway, N. Y. City. McTIGUE, Andrew:

Real estate and insurance agent; born Far Rockaway, N. Y., March 19, 1863; identified with the opening and develop- ing of Wave Crest and Cedarhurst sec- tions. Trustee of Far Rockaway Free School, trustee and president of the Vil- lage of Far Rockaway prior to incorpora- tion. Director Bank of L. I. Postmas- ter of Far Rockaway from 1894 to 1898. Address, Far Rockaway, N. Y.

McVICKAR, Edward:

Real estate broker and operator; presi- dent of the Real Estate Security Co., and The McVickar Co .; born Boston, Mass., 1869; preparatory education at boarding school; one year at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, as president of class of 1891; then entered Yale and was grad- uated as engineer from scientific depart- ment in 1892. But shortly after gradua- tion became intersted in stock farming at his country place, The Vickarage Stock Farm in Lewis Co., N. Y .; in 1898 he turned his attention to real estate operations and in 1901 organized the Real Estate Security Co. of N. Y .; in 1902 The McVickar Co., and in 1904, with others, The Shippan Point Land Co .; he is large- ly interested in country developments near New York as well as a general real estate business in town. He has several other corporate interests. Mr. McVickar is a member of the Union Club, the Delta Phi, the Calumet, the City Midday, and the Larchmont Yacht Clubs. He married in 1900 Miss Edith Lawrence Speyers, daughter of Albert George Pigot Speyers of N. Y. City. Residence, 112 E. 56th St .; office, 27 Pine St., N. Y. City.

McWILLIAMS: Clarence Arthur:

Physician; born Brooklyn. N. Y .; was graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic In- stitute, Princeton University, 1892, and of the College of Physicians and surgeons, Columbia University, N. Y. City, 1895. Then resident surgeon Presbyterian Hos- pital, N. Y. City. At present instructor in surgery, Columbia University, N. Y. City; asistant visiting surgeon Presby- terian Hospital; surgeon to Trinity Hos- pita, and chief of surgical clinic, out-pa- tient department, Presbyterian Hospital.

Presbyterian & Sloane Maternity Hospi- tals. Member N. Y. Academy of Medi- cine, Lenox Medical Society, County Medical Society, Hospital Graduates Club. Member University and Princeton Clubs of N. Y. City. Acted as assistant sur- geon on U. S. Army hospital ship Relief, during Spanish War. Address, 50 East 53d St., N. Y. City.

MEAD, Howard J .:

Jurist; born Candor, N. Y .; prepared at the Ithaca Academy and was graduated from Albany Law School, 1873; District Attorney, 1882-88, and County Judge and Surrogate of Tioga County since 1888; married Miss Gardner, of Ithaca. Re- publican. Address, Oswego, N. Y.

MEAD, William Rutherford:

Architect; born Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 20, 1846; was graduated from Amherst College, 1867, LL. D., 1902. Studied architecture with Russell Sturgis, Jr., N. Y. City; after studying abroad be- came member of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, N. Y. City. Firm are architects of Columbia University, Uni- versity, City of N. Y., University of Vir- ginia, Boston Public Library, Metropoli- tan, University and Century Clubs, pri- vate houses of Henry Villard, H. McK. Twombly, Frederic W. Vanderbilt and L. C. Tiffany; office buildings of N. Y. Life Insurance Co., at N. Y. City, Kansas City and Omaha; N. Y. City Herald Build- ing, Madison Square Garden, R. I. State Capitol; the Agricultural and N. Y. State buildings, World's Columbian Exposition, Bank of Montreal, etc. Address, 160 5th Ave., N. Y. City.

MEADE, Richard Worsam:

Born Cold Spring, New York, Feb- ruary the 7th, 1870; son of Rear-Admiral Richard Worsam Meade, U. S. Navy, and Rebecca Paulding. In 1889 entered rail- road business as a clerk in the office of president, St. Paul & Duluth R. R. Co., N. Y. City; 1891, secretary to general manager, N. Y. and Northern Ry. Co .; 1894 secretary to general man- ager, N. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R. Co .; 1898, enlisted in U. S. Navy for war with Spain as boatswain's mate, U. S. S. Yankee, and served through the war on south coast of Cuba; 1899, general foreman of freight terminals of the N. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R. Co., N. Y. City; 1902, assistant to president, Metro- politan Street Ry. Co., N. Y. City, 1904. President and General Manager, N. Y. Transportation Co. (which operates elec-

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tric vehicle service in N. Y. City and World. Author or adapter of the follow- Newport, R. I.) Also President and Di- rector of Fifth Avenue Coach Co., Park Carriage Co. and Metropolitan Ex- press Co .; also vice-president and di- rector of

Metropolitan Securities Co., and director of the Bridge Operating Co., Metropolitan Street Ry. Co., Third Avenue Ry. Co., and other subsidiary companies of the Metropolitan system. Member of Union Club, N. Y. R. R. Club, Transportation Club; Society of Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Address, 8th Ave. and 49th St., N. Y. City.

MEARS, (Miss) Mary Martha:

Author; born Oshkosh, Wis., Jan. 2, 1874; daughter of Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears and John Hall Mears. Her mother had attained some reputation before her marriage as a writer of plays and ro- mances, writing under the name of "Nel- lie Wildwood." Educated in the State Normal College. Oshkosh, Wis., and went for a short period abroad; since 1891 has resided in N. Y. City. In 1896 her novel. Emma Lou-Her Book, was published by Henry Holt & Co .; has written since 1896 for Harper's, McClure's, and other magazines. Address, 131 West 23d St., N. Y. City.

MELENEY, Clarence E .:

Associate city superintendent of schools; born Salem, Mass., and was graduated from Colby University with scholastic de- grees of A. B., A. M., LL. D. He has been principal of academies and schools in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. Superintendent of schools in Paterson, N. J., and Somerville, Mass. He came to N. Y. City as professor in Teachers College and member of the Faculty of Philosophy of Columbia Uni- versity. He was one of the founders of the N. J. Council of Education. Is mem- ber of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. President of the Graduates Club of N. Y. City. Ad- dress, Hall of the Board of Education, 59th St., and Park Ave., N. Y. City.

MELTZER, Charles Henry :

Journalist and playwright; born Lon- don. Eng .; educated in London and Paris, where he subsequently became corre- spondent of the Chicago Tribune; later traveled in Europe and Egypt as corre- spondent for the N. Y. Herald; 1888, re- organized the dramatic and musical de- partments of the later newspaper and was its dramatic critic for four seasons; 1893-96, was dramatic reviewer of N. Y.

ing plays: Hannele (Gerhardt Haupt- mann); The Story of Rodion, the Stu- dent; Mme. Sans-Gêne (Sardou and another); L'Arlésienne (Alphonse Dau- det); The Sunken Bell (Gerhart Haupt- man), 1899; Manon Lescaut, 1900; The First Duchess of Marlborough, (1901). Was appointed (1903) secretary to Mr. Heinrich Conreid and house librettist of the Metropolitan Opera House, N. Y. City. Address, 138 West 97th St., N. Y. City.

MELVILLE, Henry :

Lawyer; born Nelson, N. H., Aug. 25, 1858; son of Josiah H. and Nancy (Nes- mith) Melville; was graduated from Dartmouth, 1879; A. M. and LL. B., cum laude, Harvard, 1884; admitted to N. Y. City Bar, 1885. He was for a number of years an officer in the Eighth Regiment, N. G., N. Y. Captain of Company A, Eighth Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, dur- ing war with Spain; Captain Jas. M. Jarvis command, Spanish War Veterans; member of Board of Managers of N. Y. State Reformatory at Elmira; secretary of Republican Club of N. Y. Author of The Ancestry of John Whitney. Address, 120 Broadway, N. Y. City.

MENDES, Frederick de Sola :

Jewish clergyman; born Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, July 8, 1850; pre- paratory education at Northwick Col- lege, London, University College School, London; was graduated from University of London, 1869; studied University of Breslau, Germany, (Ph. D. University of Jena); studied Jewish Theological Sem- inary, Breslau. Appointed preacher Great St. Helen's Synagogue, London, 1873; ar- rived in America, Dec., 1873; Rabbi Shaaray Fifilkah (now West End Syna- gogue) congregation since Jan. 1, 1874. Married, N. Y. City, Feb. 14, 1877, Isabel Frances Cohen, of Charleston, S. C. Founded American Hebrew (newspaper), Nov., 1879, editor until 1885. Revising editor and chief translation bureau, until Sept., 1902, Jewish Encyclopedia, F.3, as- sociate editor (with Dr. M. Jastrow and Dr. K. Kohler) of New Bible Transla- tion, H 25, 12. Author of Jewish School Books; Child's First Bible; Outlines of Scripture History; A Hebrew's Reply to the Missionaries. Wrote article, Jews, Johnson's Encyclopedia; in Defense of Jehovah; Field-Ingersoll Controversy, North American Review, July, 1888. Country residence, Rockaway, N. J .; ad- dress, 154 W. 82nd St., N. Y. City.

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MENKEN, S. Stanwood:

Lawyer; was graduated from Cornell University in the class of 1890, taking the degree of bachelor of letters; after a post- graduate course for a year, went to Co- lumbia Law School, and was graduated in the class of 1894, taking the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. On leaving the law school entered the office of Judge Henry R. Beekman. In 1896 started the Hall of Records Association, an organization of about four thousand citizens, with the purpose of securing proper housing for public records of N. Y. City; after about a year and a half succeeded in this, with the result that the city appropriated $8,000,000 therefor. In 1897 was nomin- ated for judge of the City Court on the Citizens' Union ticket, headed by Mr. Low, and on the People's ticket, headed by Mr. Henry George, receiving the larg- est vote of any of the candidates on the County ticket. Since then has practiced law, and has devoted himself to the in- terests of the

Philbin, Beekman and Menken firm, of which he has been a member since 1895. In 1899 married Gretchen, daughter of Arthur Von Brie- sen, of N. Y. City. Is a member of the Manhattan, City, Lawyers, Cornell and Century Country Clubs, and of the Bar Association and the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution. Address, 52 William St., N. Y. City.

MENOCAL, Aniceto G .:

Civil engineer United States Navy; born Island of Cuba, Sept. 1, 1836; edu- cated in schools at Havana; was gradu- ated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- tute (C. E.), 1862; sub-chief engineer Ha- vana water works, 1863-69; engineer de- partment of public works, N. Y. City, 1870-72. Has been chief engineer of all U. S. Government surveys for establish- ing practicability of a ship canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific at Nicaragua and Panama, and of the Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua; has made final plans and estimates of cost for a ship canal through Nicaragua. Appointed by Presi- dent Hayes delegate to Paris Canal Con- gress, 1879; decorated by President Grevy, Chevalier Legion of Honor. Has pub- lished several official reports on Nicara- gua Canal, etc. Member American So- ciety of Civil Engineers, and many scien- tific and geographical societies. Member commission to select sites for principal naval station in Philippine Islands, 1900- 01; member of board to prepare plans and estimates of cost for naval station at Ol-

ongapo, Subig Bay, P. I., 1901-02; in 1902 directed by Navy department to select site for coaling station on coast of Li- beria, Africa. Address, 251 W. 81st St., N. Y. City.

MERRELL, John Porter:

Captain U. S. Navy; born N. Y. City; entered Naval Academy, July 20, 1863; was graduated, 1867; Ticonderoga and Franklin. European Fleet, 1867-68; pro- moted to ensign, 1868; Plymouth, Euro- pean Fleet, Dec., 1868 to April 26, 1870; signal duty, Washington, May 16, 1870 to July 22, 1870; Guard fishing banks and Darien Expedition, July 22, 1870 to Aug., 1871; torpedo duty, Jan. 25, 1872 to Sept. 13, 1875; Swatara, North Atlantic Fleet, Sept. 13, 1875 to Aug. 24, 1877; in charge of naval ordnance proving grounds, Sept. 24, 1877 to Feb. 6, 1879; Marion, North Atlantic and South Atlantic Fleets, Feb. 6, 1879 to Oct. 18, 1881; Shenandoah, South Atlantic Fleet, Oct. 18, 1881 to May 22, 1882; Naval Academy, Sept. 1, 1882, to Aug., 1887; flagships Pensacola and Quin- nebaug and Lancaster, European Station (staff of commander-in-chief), Aug. 24, 1887 to June 24, 1889; Naval Academy, Aug. 12, 1889 to June, 1893; promoted to master, March, 1870; lieutenant, March 1871; lieutenant-commander, May, 1888; Baltimore, Asiatic Station, June, 1893, to Nov. 17, 1895; Oct. 1, 1895 to March 5, 1896, special duty as member of a com- mission sent by State department to Chengtu, Province of Szechuan, China, to investigate anti-foreign riots in that pro- vince; Olympia, Asiatic Station, Nov. 18, 1895 to March 20, 1896; special duty, staff of commander-in-chief, Dec. 21, 1895 to March 20, 1896. Promoted to commander, Nov. 1, 1896; lighthouse inspector, 1897; Naval War College, Newport, R. I., 1838; equipment officer, Navy Yard, N. Y. City, Nov. 10, 1898; commanding Montgomery, April 1, 1899 to Sept., 1900; equipment of- ficer, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Oct. 15, 1900. Promoted to captain, Sept. 26, 1901; com- mandant, Naval Station, New Orleans, La., Nov. 15, 1901; commanding U. S. S. Oregon. Address, care of Navy Depart- ment, Washington, D. C.

MERRIAM, Henry G .:

Merchant; born March 5, 1837, Goshen, N. Y .; prepared at Farmers Hall Acade- my at Goshen; was graduated from Brown University, 1857. Principal of Leicester Academy, Mass., 1861-65. He then re- moved to Waverly, N.Y., and engaged in the hardware business. President of the Board of Education since 1877; president

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of the Waverly Gas Light Co. Married, in 1867, Fanny W. White, of Worcester, Mass. Address, Waverly, N. Y.

MERRILL, Abner H .:

Colonel, U. S. Army; born and appoint- ed from N. Y. City; cadet at Military Academy, Sept. 1, 1862; graduated and promoted second lieutenant, First Artil- lery, June 18, 1866; first lieutenant, May 1, 1870; captain, Aug. 14, 1887; major of artillery, Feb. 23, 1899; lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 1, 1901; colonel, Artillery Corps. April 14, 1903. Served at various stations on the Atlantic coast from 1866 to 1880; three years, 1872-75, on college detail, Amherst, Mass .; 1880-90, on the Pacific coast, one year at Vancouver Barracks, three years at Island, Alcatraz six months at Presidio of San Francisco, and balance of time at mouth of Columbia River; 1890-96, posts in N. Y. Harbor; 1896-99, Key West Barracks; Nov., 1899, to Nov., 1901, Philippine Islands; Nov. 1901 to May, 1903, Alcatraz Island and Fort Baker, Cal. Address, Fort Schuyler, N. Y.

MERRILL, Edward Bagley:

Lawyer; born New Bedford, Mass., Jan. 25, 1835; second son of Edward and Mary Converse Merrill, both natives of Maine and of early Colonial ancestry; a descendant in the direct line from Na- thaniel Merrill, of West Newbury, Essex County, Mass .; his great-grandfathers were both soldiers in the Revolution. Prepared for college at the Phillips Exe- ter Academy, 1853; was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1857; A. B. and A. M .; Harvard Law School, 1859, and ad- mitted to N. Y. Bar in 1860. Has con- tributed somewhat to the newspaper press and magazines, and has delivered public addresses which were well received. Member of the University Club. Married Sept. 12, 1861, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander and Mary Gibbs, of New Bedford, and have one child, Edward Gibbs Merrill, a graduate of Columbia University, 1897. Residence, 147 West 12th St .; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City. MERRILL, Frederick J. H .:

Director of N. Y. State Museum and State geologist; born N. Y. City, April 30, 1861; son of Hamilton Wilcox Merrill ard Louisa Kauffman; was graduated from Columbia School of Mines, Ph. B., 1885 (Ph. D., Columbia, 1890); Sept. 1, 1887, married Winifred Edgerton. From 1885 to 1887 was assistant on the geological survey of New Jersey and in 1886 was appointed Fellow in geology in Columbia

College, which position he held until 1890; Oct., 1890, to June, 1893, was assistant State geologist of N. Y. City; in Dec., 1890, was appointed assistant director of the New York State Museum, and during 1892 and 1893 was director of the scien- tific exhibits of the State of New York at the World's Columbian Exposition; in June, 1894, was made director of the New York State Museum, and in Dec., 1898, received the additional appointment of State geologist. During 1900 and 1901 was director of the scientific exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-Am- erican Exposition at Buffalo. Is a Fellow of the following scientific societies: Am- erican Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society of America; member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, American Society of Naturalists, National Geographical Socie- ty, New England Historic Genealogical Society, and of the following clubs: Uni- versity, N. Y. Athletic, N. Y., Fort Or- ange, University, Country (Albany). Au- thor of numerous bulletins of State Mu- seum and many scientific articles. Resi- dence, Altamont; office, Geological Hall, Albany County, N. Y.

MERRILL, George Edmands:

President Colgate University since 1899; born Charlestown, Mass., Dec 19, 1846; was graduated from Harvard, 1869; A. M., 1872; Newton Theological Institute, 1872, D. D., 1895, Colby University; LL. D., Rochester University, 1901; pastor Bap- tist churches, Springfield, Mass., 1872-77; Salem, Mass., 1877-85; Colorado Springs, Colo., 1885-87; Immanuel Church, New- ton, Mass., 1890-99. Author: The Story of the Manuscripts; Crusaders and Cap- tives; The Reasonable Christ; The Parch- ments of the Faith. Address, Hamilton, N. Y.

MERRILL, Jason Parker:

Cartoonist; born May 29, 1846, Caroline, N. Y .; educated at Lancasterian School ard Ithaca Academy; became the first D. L. & W. R. R. telegrapher in Ithaca and afterwards was engaged for several years in the same business in N. Y. City; he began his artistic career very young, and his sketches and cartoons have attracted attention throughout the country; he has been for several years the regular cartoonist for the Elmira Sunday Telegram; has also made car- toons for the Ithaca Daily News, Ithaca Democrat, and other papers, and was offered a position as cortoonist on the New York World, but declined; Justice

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 113

Author: Publication date: 1904- Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc. Number of Pages: 1100

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Publication date: 1904-
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc.
Number of Pages: 1100