Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 122

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Publication date: 1904-
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc.
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76 ; torpedo station, Newport, R. I., 1877; [ in New York City, he having served pre- commanding receiving-ship Passaic, Wash- ington, D. C., 1877-78; lighthouse inspec- tor, 1878-81; commanding receiving-ship Independence, Mare Island, Cal., 1881-83. Promoted to captain, 1881; commanding Shenandoah, South Pacific, 1883-86 ; mem- ber Board Inspection and Survey, 1886- 89; Norfolk Navy Yard, 1889 to Oct. 1891 ; commanding receiving-ship Vermont, Oct., 1891, to Nov., 1892; member Naval Examing and Retiring Board Nov., 1892, to Dec., 1894. Promoted to commodore, July 31, 1894; Dec. 19, 1894, commanding South Atlantic Station as acting rear-ad- miral, to April, 1896 ; commandant Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., May 23, 1896, to 1898. Promoted to rear-admiral, Dec.,


1897. Retired Aug, 10, 1898, but con- tinued on duty at Navy Department until April 17, 1899. Address, Hackensack, N. J.


NORTON, Harold P .:


Lieutenant commander U. S. Navy ; born and appointed from New York; ca- det engineer, Naval Academy, Oct. 1, 1874; was graduated, June 10, 1879; as- sistant engineer, June 10, 1881; passed assistant engineer, Oct. 12, 1891 ; chief en- gineer, Feb. 10, 1899; rank changed to lieutenant, Mar. 3, 1999; inspection duty, Elswich, England, Sept. 14, 1898; Albany, May 29, 1900 to 1903. Promoted to lieu- tenant commander, Oct. 26, 1901. Ad- dress, care Navy Yard, N. Y. City. NORTON, Lawrence A .:


Bond and bank stock broker; born Springfield, Pa., Dec. 12, 1861; son Oliver W. and Sarah Swezey Norton; manufac- turer of cans (Norton Bros., Chicago), 1883 to 1901; auditor, American Can Co., N. Y., 1901; present business established, 1902. Member Chicago Athletic Associ- ation. Address, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.


NOSTRAND, Peter Elbert:


Civil engineer and city surveyor; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 15. 1856 ; son John Lott Nostrand and Ellen de Bevoise. John Lott Nostrand was one of the earliest surveyors and civil engineers of Brooklyn, and largely through his efforts the Brook- lyn Elevated Railroad was organized and built, he being the first chief engineer of the company. Descended on one side from the original Knickerbocker Dutch and on the other side from the Huguenot French settlers who arrived in this country in 1639 and 1650. One of his Dutch ances- tors was a captain in the Revolutionary War. His grandfather, Peter Nostrand, was the first captain of police appointed


viously on the old night witch. Maternal ancestor, Carel de Beauvais, was the first school master of Brooklyn. Married Dec. 27, 1881, Ella Francis, daughter of Ben- jamin F. Arcularius, of Brooklyn. As assistant engineer he in part designed and supervised the construction of the first elevated railroad in Brooklyn, was the superintending engineer of the work done in 1880, and commenced the construction of the Cape Cod Ship Canal, of Cape Cod, Mass. In 1886 made extensive examina- tions of mining properties in Mexico for foreign capital; 1891 to 1893 was chief engineer of the contractors J. T. & T. E. Cummins during the construction of the Third avenue and Broadway cable rail- roads in New York City ; since 1890 has been the chief engineer of the Ramapo Water Company ; as consulting engineer and city surveyor has advised regarding the foundations and proper form of con- struction or has located many of the larg- est buildings in New York City, among them the Columbia College buildings and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; at the present time is the official surveyor and manager of the department of sur- veys for the Lawyers' Title Insurance Company of New York. Residence, 235 Stuyvesant Avc., Brooklyn; summer resi- dence at Shelter Island, N. Y .; office, 37 Liberty St., N. Y. City. NOTT, Frederick J .:


Physician ; received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from the University of Roch- ester, 1874 and 1877; M. D., New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hos- pital, 1877; trustee New York Homœopath- ic Medical College and Hospital, 1893. Member American Institute of Homœo- pathy, New York State and County Ho- mœopathic Medical Societies and Univer- sity Club. Address, 554 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.


NOTTINGHAM, William:


Lawyer; graduate of Syracuse Uni- versity (A. M., Ph. D.); member law firm of Goodelle, Nottingham Bros. & An- drews. Since 1902 regent University State of N. Y. Address, 313 S. A. &. K. Building, Syracuse, N. Y.


NOURSE, Charles J., Jr .:


Secretary, treasurer and director of Alverez Land & Timber Co., Fresnillo Mining Co., Mexican Lead Co., Mexican Mineral Ry. Co., Montezuma Lead Co., Potosi & Rio Verde Railway Co., and Somberete Mining Co. Member of Cen- tury, Church and Down Town Clubs. Mar-


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ried Miss Julia E. Peabody. Residence, [ Tilden and Cleveland school. Active in all matters of public interest. Residence, Au- burn, N. Y.


245 Lexington Ave .; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.


NOYES, Alexander Dana:


Financial editor of New York Evening Post ; born Dec. 14, 1862, in Montclair, N. J .; son of Charles H. and Jane R. (Dana) Noves ; graduated from Amherst College, 1883 : on staff of New York Tribune. 1884- 85; New York Commercial Advertiser, 1885-91; New York Evening Post, 1891 to date; financial editor, editorial writer, and member board of trustees. Editorial contributor New York Financial Chronicle. The Forum (on finance), London Money Market Review. Paris Marché Financier Author of Thirty Years of American FI- nance. published by Putnams. 189S. also of various monographs in Political Science Quarterly, and of the Evening Post's Free Coinage Catechism in 1896. Resi - dence, 2 West 94th St; office, The Even- ing Post, N. Y. City.


NOYES. Theodore Richards:


President Oneida Community, Ltd .; born at Putnev, Vt., July 25, 1841 : edu- cated in Oneida Community: graduated from Yale Medical School, 1867 ; member Oneida Community all his life until age of forty ; one of those instrumental in its con- version to an ordinary joint stock com- panv in 1880: since 1895 its president. Address, Kenwood, Madison County, N. Y. NUGENT. Paul Cook:


Professor civil engineering at Syracuse University ; born New Orleans, La .. Jan. 4, 1871 ; son of Perry Nugent and Amanda Cook Nugent : graduated Roanoke College A. B., 1889 ; A. M., 1894, and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute C. E., 1892 : married Mary Louise Logan at Salem, Va., Sept. 12, 1899 : civil engineer since 1892 and teaching civil engineering since 1896 ; now professor of civil engineering Syracuse University. Author: Plane Surveying, New York. John Wiley & Sons, 1902. Ad- dress, 417 University Place, Syracuse, N. Y.


NYE, George H .:


NYE, Olin T .:


Ex-member of Assembly; born near Beaver Dams, Schuyler County, March 13, 1874 ; son of E. M. W. Nye, a prominent Republican and for more than a quarter of a century a justice of the peace of the town of Dix. Educated in the common schools and the Dundee Preparatory School, and in 1893 was appointed clerk of the Schuyler County Surrogate's Court ; graduated from the law department of the Union University at Albany in 1896, was admitted to the bar, and in the au- tumn of the same year was elected dis- trict attorney of Schuyler County ; 1899, unsuccessful candidate for Assembly ; elected in 1900, being re-elected 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904. Chairman Public Health; member Railroad Committee Public Edu- cation Committee. Prominent in Frater- nal circles, being a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias; an active member of Canadesaga Lodge 1196, I. O. O. F. and the present great prophet of New York State of the Improved Order of Red Men. In the Assemblies of 1901, 1902 and 1903. he was a prominent member of the commit- tees on Judiciary and Public Health; in 1903 was appointed a member of the fol- lowing Assembly committees: Chairman of the Committee on Public Health and member of Judiciary, Public Printing and Public Institutions. Address, Watkins, Schuyler County, N. Y.


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OAKMAN, Walter G .:


President of Guaranty Trust Co .; was graduated from University of Pennsyl- vania in 1864; married Miss E. Conkling; vice-president and director Galveston City Ry., Hudson and Manhattan R. R. Co., Jefferson and Clearfield Coal and Iron Co., New York and Jersey R. R. Co., Rapid Transit Subway Construction Co., and Subway Realty Co .; director of Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co., American Car and Foundry Co., Brooklyn Heights R. R. Co., Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts- burgh Ry. Co., Fairmont Coal Co., Inter- borough Rapid Transit Co., Kings Coun- ty and Fulton Elevated R. R. Co., The Long Island R. R. Co., Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co., Morristown Trust Co., Morton Trust Co., Mutual Trust Co. of Westchester County, New York


Manufacturer and banker; born in Au- burn, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1854; educated in academies at Burlington, N. J., Aurora, N. Y., and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H .; president of The Nye & Wait Car- pet Co .; vice-president and treasurer of the American Axminster Industry ; president of the Cayuga County National Bank; trustee of Auburn Savings Bank, and in- terested in many other corporations. Mar- ried Mollie A. Wilson. For many years active in politics as a Democrat of the Dock Co., Richmond Light and R. R.


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Co., Somerset Coal Co., and Sloss-Shef- field Steel and Iron Co .; member of Union, Riding, Midday, Garden City Golf, Metropolitan, University, Century, and Down Town Clubs. Residence, 12 E. 53d St .; office, 65 Cedar St., N. Y. City.


O'BRIEN, Dennis:


Jurist; born Ogdensburg, N. Y., March 13, 1837 ; studied law at Ogdensburg, and was admitted to the Bar in May, 1861; in the fall of that year he moved to Water- town, and at once began practice; he was elected an alderman of his city in 1869, serving in that capacity four suc- cessive terms and was afterward elected mayor; in 1880 he succeeded the late James F. Starbuck as a member of the State Democratic Committee, holding that position four years; at the general election held in November, 1883, was elected attorney general of the State of N. Y., and was re-elected at the end of his term of office; in 1889 he was ten- dered the Democratic nomination for judge of the Court of Appeals, having been nominated with remarkable una- nimity, and the nomination being ratified by the people at the ensuing election by a large majority; on Jan. 1, 1890, he took his seat in that court for the constitu- tional term of fourteen years, and at the end of his term was re-elected, having been nominated unanimously by both par- ties in September, 1903. Address, Water- town, N. Y.


O'BRIEN, Edward C .:


Merchant; born Fort Edward, N. Y .; received his primary education in the public schools of that place, and con- tinued his studies in the Granville Mil- itary Academy, graduating from there in 1880; resided in Plattsburgh, N. Y., for a number of years, engaging there in the commission flour trade; it was at this time that he became interested in ship- ping and transportation problems; has for many years been prominent in all important public movements in favor of developments of deep-water commerce, and for many years a persistent advo- cate of a large barge canal connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River at Albany; was chairman of the Interna- tional Deep Waterways Convention, held at Cleveland, O., in Sept., 1896; in 1889, President Harrison appointed him U. S. commissioner of navigation; this office he resigned in March, 1893, but his re- signation was not accepted until the fol- lowing December; he then became asso- ciated with the Davis Coal & Coke Co.


of West Virginia, of which the Hon. Stephen B. Elkins is president, and sub- sequently became one of its directors; Governor Morton, shortly after his elec- tion, tendered him the position of Com- missary-General of Subsistence, with the rank of brigadier-general, which office was accepted; but three months later he resigned to accept the office of Commis- sioner of Docks of the City of N. Y., to which Mayor Strong had appointed him; on the reorganization of the board, he was elected president, and twice re- elected; it was during his administration that the great improvement in the water front of the North River was undertaken, and the six well known recreation piers constructed; at the close of his adminis- tration, the shipping and commercial men of the city tendered him a banquet at the Waldorf Hotel, which was attend- ed by over two hundred of the leading merchants of the city; he later organized the International Express Co. and the Cuban & Pan-American Express Co., and is now president and general manager of both companies; is a member of the Un- ion League, Republican, Lotos, Lawyers, and Ardsley Country Clubs; also of the Maritime Association, and the Board of Trade and Transportation, and most of the commercial bodies of the city. Ad- dress, Manhattan Hotel, N. Y. City.


O'BRIEN, John F .:


Secretary of State of State of N. Y .; born Ft. Edward, N. Y .; son of James O'Brien; educated at Ft. Edward Insti- tute; teacher; in business of wholesale commission flour merchant, 1888-97; be- came one of the firm known as the Dock and Coal Co., which conducts the largest and most extensive wholesale coal, flour, feed, and grain business in Northern New York; large shipper of country produce; Republican; member of Assembly, 1901-02; Secretary of State since 1902. Address, Plattsburg, N. Y. O'BRIEN, John H .:


Appointed Secretary to Mayor McClel- lan; was born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1871; was for some time the Buffalo corres- pondent for a New York newspaper; has since been doing reportorial work on the same in N. Y. City; is a Democrat in politics. Address, City Hall, N. Y. City.


O'BRIEN, Miles M .:


Banker; born Ireland, 1852; educated at private school and Model School, Lim- erick, Ireland; L.L. D., St. John's Col- lege; married Thomasine Leahy; presi- dent National Broadway Bank; mem-


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ber Board Education 22 years; president board of the Greater City, 2 terms; es- tablished High School of Commerce,


course of free lectures for the working people, and free baths in the public schools; season of 1902 showed attend- ance of over 800,000 at free lecture course; was president board trustees College City of New York; also president board trustees Normal College to Jan., 1902; clubs: Lotos, Wool, Hardware, Su- burban Riding and Driving, Catholic, Democratic. Residence, 320 W. 89th St .; office, 237 Broadway, N. Y. City. O'BRIEN, Morgan J .:


Justice of the Supreme Court; born City of N. Y., April 28, 1852, where he has continuously resided; he studied in the public schools and subsequently at from Fordham College, which latter place he was graduated in 1872 with the degree of A. B .; in the following year entered the College of St. Francis Xavier, N. Y. City; passed an examina- tion and attained the degree of A. M .; he thereafter entered the Law School of Columbia College, from which in two years he was graduated with the degree of L.L. B .; thereupon he opened an office for the practice of law and for some years was actively engaged in this, but notwithstanding the engrossing nature of his private practice, his interest in education led him to accept a position of trustee in public schools of the city, which office he held for many years until, being unable, on account of the amount of his legal work, to give it the neces- sary attention, he resigned; in addition to ordinary law practice a great part of his time was taken up in litigation af- fecting the corporate interests of the City of N. Y., such as the docks and water fronts, and matters before the Sinking Fund Commissioners; the knowl edge thus acquired of these corporate rights led to his selection as corporation counsel to the city, which office he occu- pied when he was elected, in 1887, a jus- tice of the Supreme Court; it was after his election to the latter office that he received from St. Johns College, Ford- ham, the degree of L.L. D .; his first three years as Supreme Court Justice were taken up with trial work and dur- ing this time he was elected to sit with a Republican Justice in the trial of elec- tion cases at Syracuse, which at the time attracted wide-spread attention, and which duty he performed with sig- nal success; he was selected by Govern- or Hill to be a member of the General


Term of the Supreme Court, before which body all appeals were heard, and subsequently on the formation of the


Appellate Division of the Supreme


Court under


the new constitution of 1895 he was appointed by Governor Mor- ton for five years a member of the Ap- pellate Division of the First Department; upon the termination of that period, Dec. 31, 1900, he was redesignated to the same court by Governor Odell; the fact that Justice O'Brien was renominated by both parties testifies to the high posi- tion which he holds in the great City of N. Y .; he was unanimously re-elected a justice of the Supreme Court in the fall of 1901 and subsequently re-ap- pointed by Governor Odell to sit in the Appellate Division of the First Depart- ment; he is a trustee of the N. Y. Public Library; married Miss Rose M. Crim- mins; member of the Century Associa- tion, Lotos Club, Manhattan Club, Demo- cratic Club, Catholic Club, N. Y. Athletic Club, and a member of Golf Clubs, etc. Address, 729 Park Ave., N. Y. City. OBRIG, Adolph:


Stock broker; born Eberfeld, Germany, April 7, 1845; was graduated from Me- chanics' Society School, N. Y., 1858; clerk in importing house, 1859; in dry goods commission business about 1865; Wall Street stocks and bonds, 1837; pur- chased seat in Stock Exchange, 1871; founded firm of A. Obrig & Co .; dissolved partnership in 1879; is a director of D. B. Crockett Co., Empire Trust Co .; mem- ber Salmagundi and National Arts clubs; married Clara Beales. Address, 1 W. 72d St., N. Y. City.


OCHS, Adolph S .:


Publisher of N. Y. Times, Chattanooga Times. The Chattanooga Tradesman, and Philadelphia Public Ledger; born Cincin- nati, Ohio, March 12, 1858; upon the close of the Civil War, his father, an officer in the Union Army, was mustered out and the family moved to Knoxville, Tenn .; there, in 1869, the boy was placed in the office of the Knoxville Chronicle; 1876, he was assistant to the foreman of the composing room on the Daily Tri- bune, Knoxville, Tenn., very soon after becoming assistant business manager of same; then prepared with Colonel J. E. McGowan, a writer on the Tribune, to start a daily in Chattanooga, but was anticipated by Franc M. Paul, who, on May, 1877, began the Chattanooga Dis- patch; was offered and accepted position of general utility man on this paper; 1878, severed his connection with the


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Dispatch and began publication of a | Jan., 1901). Residence, 146 Frank St .; Chattanooga city directory, a venture Office, Post-Express Office, Rochester N. Y. which proved a financial success; in the meantime, having been made receiver for O'DAY, Daniel: the Dispatch, which had just failed, he took charge, paying off its entire indebt- edness; July 1, 1878, bought the Chat- tanooga Times, and soon made this enter- prise a great success; in 1896 he came to N. Y. City and was placed at the in head of a company which had bought the N. Y. Times, and acquired controll- ing ownership; here the usual success followed his efforts; in May, 1901, pur- chased the Philadelphia Times, placing his brother, George W. Ochs, in charge of it; July 22, 1902, purchased the Phil- adelphia Public Ledger, consolidating it with The Times, 1903-04, erected Times Building ; all of these papers are inde- pendent in politics and stand for the best in journalism. Address, 481 West End Ave .; office, Times, N. Y. City. ODELL, Benjamin B., Jr .:


O'CONNOR, Edmund:


Lawyer; born Nov. 26, 1848, in County Cork, Ireland; came to America in 1851; was admitted to the Bar, 1870; married, Nov. 17, 1880, Bridget Murphy, of Deposit, N. Y .; State Senator, 1890-96; Republican. Address, Binghamton, N. Y.


O'CONNOR, Evangeline M .:


Author; born Rochester, N. Y., and ed- ucated at the Free Academy of her na- tive town; married Joseph O'Connor, 1877; has written Index to Hawthorne's Works, and Index to Works of Shake- speare. besides translating several books from the German. Address, 146 Frank St., Rochester, N. Y.


O'CONNOR, Joseph:


Editor; born Tribes Hill, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1841; was graduated from the University of Rochester, 1863; was admitted to the Bar in 1869; was for some time instruc- tor of languages in Rochester Free Academy; 1870-73, connected with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, first as reporter, later editor; then took edi- torship of Indianapolis Sentinel; 1875, came to New York, becoming an edi- torial writer on The World; occupied this position till 1878; a year later became editor of the Buffalo Courier; 1886, ed- itor of Rochester Post-Express; member Authors Club, etc .; read the poem for New York Day, Sept., 1893, World's Col- umbian Exposition; author of Poems, (1895); introduction to Don Quixote and Great English Plays in World's Great Books (1898-1900); also wrote Through Dry Places Seeking Rest (Blackwood,


Capitalist ; born in Ireland, in 1844; was early brought to this country and re- ceived his education in the public schools of Buffalo; about 1865 he entered the oil business, being later engaged the transportation of oil, laying (in 1873-76) a large system of pipes. Is vice-president of the National Transit Co., president and director Atlantic Coast Realty Co., Buf- falo General Electric Co., Buffalo Natural Gas Co. Trustee N. Y. Produce Exchange Safe Deposit & Storage Co., Colonial Trust Co., and director in Cataract Power & Conduit Co., International Railway Co., N. Y. Transit Co. and many other corpor- ations. Residence, 128 West 72d St .; of- fice, 26 Broadway, N. Y. Cny.


Governor, merchant; born Newburg, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1854; son of Benjamin B. Odell; married, 1877, Estelle Criste, and in 1891 to Mrs. Linda C. Traphagen, sister of his first wife; he received his early education at Bethany College, West Virginia, and took a partial course in Columbia College, N. Y., leaving that in- stitution to engage with his father in business' at Newburg; he subsequently became interested in various other en- terprises, becoming president of the Newburg Electric Light Co., and treas- urer of the Central Hudson Steamboat Co .; he early took an active part in pol- itics, but in his first nomination, that of State senator, was defeated; in 1894 he was elected to Congress, and in 1896 was re-elected, declining a nomination for the third term; for a number of years he was on the Republican State Committee, and for a time its chairman; elected governor of N. Y. State, 1900, being inaugurated on Jan. 1, 1901, and for his second term on Jan. 1, 1903; he was a member of the National Guard for eight years, holding the rank of sergeant at the date of his discharge; he has held prominent positions in the Masonic and Odd Fellows Fraternities. Address, Al- bany, N. Y.


O'DONOHUE, Joseph J., Jr .:


President and director of Agatine Shoe Hook and Eyelet Co., Brooklyn Ferry Co., General Realty Co., and Tenth and Twenty-third Street Ferry Co., director Eighth Avenue R. R. Co., The Evergreen Cemetery, Ninth Avenue R. R. Co., North American Trust Co., and Twelfth Ward


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Bank; member of N. Y. Athletic, Down Residence, 771 Madison Ave .; office, 784 Town, Colonial, and Catholic Clubs. Res- Broadway, N. Y. City. idence, Lakewood, N. J .; office, 101 Ful- OGDEN, Rollo : ton St., N. Y. City.


O'DONOVAN, William Rudolf:


Sculptor; born Preston Co., Va., March 28, 1884; self-taught in art; served in Confederate Army; established studio in New York after war; associate Nation- al Academy since 1878; Society of Amer- ican Artists, Architectural League, Na- tional Sculpture Society; has executed many important portrait busts and bas- reliefs, statues of Washington for Cara- cas, Venezuela, for monument commemo- rating the Peace at Newburgh, N. Y .; equestrian statues of Lincoln and Grant for Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch, Prospect Park, Brooklyn; reliefs for Oriskany bat- tle monument; statue of Archbishop Hughes, St. John's College, Fordham; memorial tablet to Bayard Taylor, Cor- nell University. Address, 31 St. Nicholas Building, N. Y. City.


OELRICHS, Hermann :


Steamship agent; born Baltimore, Md., June 8, 1850; received education in U. S. and Germany; entered office, 1871, be- came partner, 1875, and senior member, 1877, Oelrichs & Co., American agents North-German Lloyd Steamship Co .; prominent in amateur athletics; has been member National Democratic Committee. Residence, 1 E. 57th St .; office, Bowling Green. N. Y. City.


OGDEN, Robert Curtis:


Merchant, member of the firm of John Wanamaker since 1885; born Philadel- phia, June 20, 1836; son of Jonathan Og- den; is president board of trustees of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va .; direc- tor Union Theological Seminary, N. Y .; trustee Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee. Ala .; president Conference for Education in the South; president Southern Educa- tion Board and General Education Board; president Pennsylvania Society N. Y .; Republican; honorary member Clio Society, Princeton; following honorary degrees: Yale, 1902, A. M .; Tulane, 1903, LL. D .; author of the booklets Samuel Chapman Armstrong (Founder's Day Address, Hampton, Va.) 1904; Pew Rents and the New Testament, Can They be Reconciled ? (1892) ; Sunday School Teaching (1894); also of the articles Getting and Keeping a Business Posi- tion (Saturday Evening Post, Nov., 1899); The Ethics of Modern Retailing (same, Oct., 1900); married Ellen Eliza- beth Lewis, of Brooklyn, March 1, 1860.




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