Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 124

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A. R. In 1901 he was elected department commander of N. Y. G. A. R .; is at present commander of Chapin Post No. 2, G. A. R., which office he has held for nine terms. He is a prominent member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Royal Arcanum, Foresters,

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of Red Men and Independent Club. Ad- [S. C., and the destruction of the Con- dress. 220 Pioneer Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

OSBON, Bradley Sillick:

Naval officer, journalist; born Rye. N. Y., Aug. 16, 1827; eldest son of Rev. Abiathar Mann Osbon, D. D., and Eliza- beth Esmond Sillick; attended Normal School, Middletown, Conn., and Berk- shire Academy, Sheffield, Mass. Began seafaring life in New York pilot boats, and after being in the Liverpool Packet trade for a time serving as boy on the famous packet-ship Cornelia, Captain Francis M. French, entered the U. S. Navy as ordinary seaman, serving in the U. S. S. North Carolina, Supply and Onkahye. After leaving

the navy shipped in the whale-ship Junior, of New Bedford, Mass., and in her circum- navigated the globe, visiting nearly all of the groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean, spending a summer in the Arctic and Antartic Oceans. Served as super- cargo and ice pilot on board the brig Swallow. and being nipped in the ice wintered at St. Lawrence Bay, in the Arctic Ocean. Went to China and en- tered the Anglo-Chinese navy and served as boat commander, and was engaged in destroying the piratical junks that in- fested the waters near Hong Kong. Re- turned home after an absence of five years and eight months; served in the Argentine Navy as commander, under the late Commodore Coe, and partici- pated in over twenty naval engage- ments, most of them being hand to hand fights; served as fourth, third, second and chief officer in the steamers of the old California Steamer Line between N. Y. and Aspinwall (Colon), and was sec- ond officer of the Panama Railroad Co.'s steamer Guatemala, the first steamer to make the passage from N. Y. to Panama without stopping for coal. Was on the Pacific coast for several years; in Apr., 1861, served as aide to Captain John Faunce on the U. S. S. Harriet Lane, one of the fleet sent to the relief of Fort Sumter, and witnessed the sur- render of that fortification. Was volun- teer aide to Flag Officer S. F. DuPont on the flag ship Wabash at the capture of Port Royal, S. C .; served as fleet sig- nal officer to Flag Officer D. G. Farra- gut, on board the flag ship Hartford, at capture of forts below New Orleans and the city; was specially commended by Farragut for gallant conduct. Aide to Commander John L. Worden, com- manding the iron clad Montauk, in the engagements on the Ogeechee River,

federate privateer Nashville; was slight- ly wounded by splinters on the Hart- ford, and severely injured by flying bolts while in the pilot house of the Montauk. At the close of the Civil War was recommended by Admiral Farragut to Major General Jose M. Carvajal for senior officer of the Mexican Navy with rank of admiral, which was accepted and served for some time on the rivers and coast of Mexico. Served as captain, commodore, rear-admiral (two terms) of the National Association of Naval Veterans; was the founder of the U. S. Veteran Navy and its first commodore. Was commander of Naval Post No. 516, G. A. R., for two terms; chairman of the Associated Commanders and Quarter- masters of the G. A. R. Posts of the City and County of N. Y .; was the senior officer in command of the marine parade on the opening of the Harlem Ship Ca- nal. Served as superintendent of the Guanoco & La Brea Railroad in Vene- zuela, and superintendent of the N. Y. & Bermudez Co.'s asphalt mines in the State of Bermudez, Venezuela; made a survey of the Chaguaramus sulphur inines at Carupano, Venezuela; also of the harbor and bay of Carupano, the chart of which was published by the U. S. Hydrographic Office, Washington, 1). C. Served as acting volunteer naval scout during the late Spanish-American war and was the first to discover the location of Admiral Cervera's fleet off the island of Curacoa and report it to the State Department; for this service was specially commended by the Secre- tary of the Navy. Was decorated by the government of Venezuela with the order of "The Bust of the Liberator" for distinguished services. Married Eli- za Balfour (Balfour of Burleigh), Feb. 15, 1869. Is member of The Survivors of Farragut's Fleet, The Arctic Club. Author of Osbon's Hand Book of the Navy. Compiler of The Register of the U. S. Veteran Navy. Editor of The Nautical Gazette for seventeen years; a . voluminous contributor to the press upon maritime subjects. Lecturer to the series of evening lectures in the public schools of N. Y. City. Address, 132 East 23rd St., N. Y. City.

OSBORN, Edward C .:

Secretary, treasurer and director, Chattanooga Souther», Railroad, Minne- sota Railway Co.4 Jon Co., and Lookout Fuel Co .; secret .y and director

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Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway Co., Hamilton Bank Note Engraving and Printing Co. Director Albia and Centre- ville Ry. Co. and New Brunswick South- ern Railway Co. and St. Paul and Chi- cago Railway Co. Address, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

OSBORN, Erastus William:

Editorial writer; born Winthrop, Me., Oct. 24, 1860; son Thomas Alden and Maria Frances Kelly Osborn; educated in public schools, Winthrop, Me., Ash- land, Mass., and Auburn, N. Y. Began newspaper work in Auburn, serving on Auburnian, Sunday Dispatch and Bulle- tin in

succession. Joined Evening World staff, N. Y., Jan., 1888; dramatic editor, 1896-98. Editorial writer and literary editor The World since Jan. 6, 1901. Married at Auburn, N. Y., June 12, 1889, Ida Orlean Birdsall. Address, 841 West End Ave., N. Y. City.

OSBORN, Henry Fairfield:

Zoologist and author; born Fairfield, Aug. 8, 1857; son William H. and Vir- ginia R. Sturges Osborn; received his education at Lyon's Collegiate Institute, New York, and College of New Jersey, was graduated from latter place 1877. Subsequently accompanied first and sec- ond Princeton expeditions to the West; during winters of 1878-79 studied anat- omy and histology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., and at Bellevue Hospital Medical School; 1879- 80 studied biology with Balfour and Huxley in England; during 1880 became assistant professor in biology at Col- lege of New Jersey; 1881-1890 professor of comparative anatomy; 1890 to date, Da Costa professor of biology, later of Zoology at Columbia University; also cur- ator of the department of vertebrate palæontology at the American Museum of Natural History, N. Y .; 1891-95 held office of dean of the faculty of pure science, Columbia; since latter year has devoted himself to writing and research and has discovered and restored numer- ous species of fossils. Author of From the Greeks to Darwin (1894), and of a very large number of scientific papers and addresses. President of American Society of Naturalists, 1891; vice-presi- dent zoology section of American Socie- ty for the Advancement of Science, 1892; second vice-president N. Y. Academy of Sciences, 1897; first vice-president 1897- 98 and president 1898-1900; vice-presi- cent of N. Y. Zoological Society, 1897; president American Morphological So- ciety, 1897, and of Marine Biological

Association, 1898-1900; 19010 became

vertebrate palæontologist of Canadian Zoological Survey; also of the U. S. Geo- logical Survey; president of the Palæon- tological Society, 1903; member Society of Colonial Wars, National Academy of Sciences, and numerous societies abroad. Has received the following degrees: Sc. D. from College of New Jersey; LL. D. Trinity College, Hartford, also from Princeton; D. Sc. from Cambridge University, 1904. Foreign member of the Geological Society of London. Sec- ond vice-president American Museum of Natural History. Married Lucretia Thacher, daughter of General Alexander J. Perry, Sept. 29, 1881. Address, Am erican Museum of Natural History,

N. Y. City.

OSBORNE, Charles W .:

Vice-president and director Pough- keepsie and Eastern Railway Co .; secre- tary and director Gold Car Heating & Lighting Co .; director Albia and Centre- ville Railway Co., Chicago & St. Paul Railway, Hastings and Dakota Railway, Lookout Fuel Co., Hamilton Bank Print- ing & Engraving Co., and Minnesota Railway Construction Co .; trustee Sag Harbor Savings Bank. Residence, 785 Carroll St., Brooklyn; office, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

OSBORNE, William Fuller:

Art publisher; born Bridgeport, Conn., Mar. 12, 1858, moving at an early age to Pittsfield, Mass., where he was a resi- dent for a number of years. At the age of twenty-three, May 4, 1881, was ap- pointed postmaster of that city by Pres- ident Garfield, being at that time the youngest Presidential appointee in the Post Office Department. Prominently identified as a Republican with the poli- tics of that party, in Mass., until re- moval to Chicago, Ill., in which city he engaged in manufacturing business; in 1891 moved to New York, taking up a line of trade-newspaper and publishing business. Is president of the W. F. Os- borne Co., publishers of art pictures, and is interested in several mining and electrical companies. Member N. Y. Produce Exchange. Address, 31 Union Square, N. Y. City.

OSGOOD, Herbert Levi:

Educator; born Canton, Me., Apr. 9, 1855. Fitted for college at Wilton Academy, Franklin County, Me. Was graduated from Amherst College, 1877. Taught in Worcester Academy, Worces- ter, Mass., 1877-79. Taught at intervals

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and pursued graduate study in history and political science at Amherst, Yale and Berlin, Germany, 1879-1882. Teach- er of history in the Boys' High School, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1882-89. Student of early American history in British Mu- seum and Public Record office, London, 1889-1890. Adjunct professor of history in Columbia University, 1890-95. Pro- fessor of history in Columbia, 1895 to present time. Holds degree of A. M. (Amherst, 1880) and Ph.D. (Columbia, 1889). Author of various important papers on economic subjects and sub- jects connected with American colon- lal history. Published in the Political Service Quarterly, the American His- torical Review and the Annual Reports of the American Historical Association. Of special importance is the report on the public archives of the State and City of New York in Reports of American Historical Association (1901). Was one of the contributors to Larned's Litera- ture of American History. Has edited numerous monographs on American colonial history which have appeared in the Columbia University studies in His- tory, Economics and Public Law, or which have been separately published by the Macmillan Co. Is now preparing a constitutional history of the American colonies, two volumes of which were published in 1904. Address, Columbia University, N. Y. City.

OSWALD, John Clyde:

Editor, publisher and printer; born at Fort Recovery, Ohio, July 11, 1872. Ed- itor The Business World and The Amer- ican Printer. President Business Pub- lishing Co. and Oswald Publishing Co. Proprietor Oswald Press. Address, 25 City Hall Place, N. Y. City.

OTIS, Elwell Stephen:

Major-general, U. S. Army, retired; born Frederick City, Md., Mar. 25, 1838; son William and Mary A. C. Otis. He was graduated form the University of Rochester in 1858, and received the de- gree of LL.D. from the same institution in 1900; was graduated from the law OTIS, William K., M. D .: school of Harvard with the degree of LL.B. in 1861. He entered the Army as a captain in the One Hundred and For- tieth New York Volunteers Sept. 13, 1862; promoted to lieutenant-colonel 1863, and later to colonel. Incapacitated on account of wounds, and mustered out Jan. 24, 1865, having been brevetted brigadier-general for gallantry and dis- tinguished services. Appointed lieuten- ant-colonel in the regular army, Mar. 2, | dress, 5 West 50th St., N. Y. City.

1867; promoted colonel Twentieth In- fantry, Feb. 8, 1880; brigadier-general Nov. 28, 1893; major-general U. S. Vol- unteers, May 4, 1898; major-general U. S. Army June 16, 1900. Assigned to duty in San Francisco May 19, 1898, mobilizing and shipping troops to Phil- ippines. Departed for Philippines July 15, 1898, and relieved Major-General Merritt as commanding-general U. S. Philippine forces and governor of is- lands, Aug. 29, 1898. Conducted oper- ations against insurgents and performed duties of military governor until May 5, 1900. Member of U. S. Philippines Commission, 1899. Subsequently as- signed to the command of the Depart- ment of the Lakes, and to the tempor- ary command of the Department of Da- kota, which position he occupied until Mar. 25, 1902, when, having reached the age limit prescribed by law, he was hon- orably retired. Address, Rochester, N.Y.

OTIS, Norton P .:

Ex member of Congress; born March 18, 1840, Halifax, Vt .; was educated in public schools at Albany and Yonkers, N. Y. At the age of eighteen he entered his father's elevator works, and has since been connected with the business in various capacities, as treasurer, vice- president, president, and is now chair- man of the board of directors of the Otis Elevator Co. Republican, in 1880 was elected mayor of Yonkers, N. Y .; in 1883, was elected to the New York State Assembly, and was a member of the committee on cities, of which Presi- dent Roosevelt was then chairman. Was president of the N. Y. State Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900, which received several grand prizes for N. Y. State exhibits. Is now president of St. John's Riverside Hospital, of Yonkers. He was defeated for Congress in 1900 by Cornelius A. Pugsley, but was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Married Lizzie A. Fahs, of New York, 1877. Res- idence, Yonkers, N. Y .; office, 71 Broad- way, N. Y. City.

Born N. Y. City, Sept, 1860; A. B. Col- umbia, 1883; M. D. Physicians and Sur- geons, 1885; clinical professor at Col- lege Physicians and Surgeons; consult- ing surgeon to Charity Hospital, 1873 to date; consulting surgeon Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital; attending sur- geon St. Mark's Hospital, Skin and Can- cer Hospital and Throat and Nose Hos- pital. Member of many societies. Ad-

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OUTCAULT, Richard F .:

Comic artist; born Lancaster, O., Jan. 14, 1863; since he began his career as a comic artist, 1895, has become widely known for his comis series appearing in the colored section of New York papers. He originated Hogan's Alley, which ran in the N. Y. World through 1895; the Yellow Kid, in N. Y. Journal, 1896-97; since 1900 has been connected with the N. Y. Herald in which, beside minor series have appeared Nixie (1900) ; Pore Li'l Mose, (1901), and Buster Brown since 1902. All of these series have been published in book form and dram- atized and are well known and exten- sively read. Residence, Flushing, Long Island, N. Y .; office, Herald Building, N. Y. City.

OUTERBRIDGE, Paul:

Physician; born Bermuda, Dec. 14, 1859; educated by private tutors, was graduated from University of Vermont, 1884, and also studied in Europe; mar- ried, Nov. 20, 1891, Rose Roberts. An alumnus of the New York and Woman's Hospital; member attending staff of the General Memorial Woman's and old Ma- rian Street Hospitals and Demilt Dis- pensary for a number of years. Mem- ber of American Geographical Society, N. Y. Zoological Society. Clubs; Calu- met, Ardsley, Ardsley-on-Hudson, At- lantic Yacht, N. Y. Athletic. Address, 27 West 74th St., N. Y. City.

OUTTERSON, James A .:

Ex-member of Assembly; born Bing- hamton, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1858; son Col. J. T. Outterson, a captain of the One Hun- dred and Eighty-fourth N. Y. Volunteers in the Civil War; has always followed paper manufacturing as a business; he is at present interested in paper and pulp mills, situated in the counties of St. Lawrence, Lewis and Jefferson. Is president of the Cartharge Machine Co., manufacturers of paper and pulp mill machinery, with sulphite mill machinery a specialty. Became a resident of the village of Carthage in 1896, and has served as president of that village for three terms. Elected a member of the board of supervisors of Jefferson Co. in 1899, and resigned the office in the fall of 1900. Is a member of numerous fraternal associations. Elected to As- sembly 1901 and 1902. In 1903, ap- pointed member of the following As- sembly Committees: Railroads, Public Education, and Trades and Manufac- tures. Address, Carthage, Jefferson County, N. Y.

OVERTON, Daniel Hawkins:

Presbyterian clergyman; born July 28, 1862, at Yaphank, L. I., N. Y .; was graduated from Lafayette College, class 1888; entered Union Theological Sem- inary in 1888; was graduated, 1891; 1888-91 pastor in charge of Good Will Chapel of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (during seminary course) ; 1891-95 pastor of Emmanuel Chapel of University Place Presbyterian Church; since 1895 pastor Greene Avenue Pres- byterian Church Brooklyn, N. Y .; mem- ber Delta Kappa Epsilon. Address, 965 Green Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

OVERTON, Frank:

Author; born Dec. 29, 1867, Bellport, L. I., N. Y .; received A. B. degree from Lafayette College, 1890, and M. D. from Columbia University, 1893. Address, Patchogue, L. I., N. Y.

OVERTON, Gilbert Edmond:

Major, U. S. Army; born N. Y. City, Mar. 18, 1845; son Gilbert Davis Overton and Julia Frances Westcott. At the breaking out of the Civil War he entered the service as second lieutenant of the Fourth N. Y. Cavalry. Being at the time (Sept. 26, 1861) but sixteen years old, he was one of the youngest officers of the service. At the close of the war he was honorably mustered out, July 1, 1865. Was appointed to the regular army as second lieutenant of the Sixth U. S. Cavalry on Oct. 2, 1867; was pro- moted to first lieutenant May 22, 1872; captain, Dec. 30, 1881. Was for over .twenty-four years on active duty on plains of the Southwest and during that period operated against most of the powerful savage tribes of that section. He was brevetted captain, Feb. 27, 1890, for gallantry in action against hostile Indians. On Feb. 20, 1873, married, in Detroit, Mich., Jane Dyson Watkins, daughter of Leonard Bissell Watkins. In Feb., 1891, was retired from active service in consequence of "permanent disability contracted in the line of duty;" promoted major, 1904. In 1893, after four years spent in Europe and Washington, D. C., he removed to Los Angeles, Cal., with his family, where he established a permanent home; member Military Order Loyal Legion, U. S. Ad- dress, 208 Pine St., San Francisco, Cal. OVERTON, Winfield Scott:

Captain, U. S. Army; born Port Jeffer- son, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1875; cadet at Mili- tary Academy, from Whitestone, N. Y., June 21, 1893. Was graduated and pro- moted : additional second lieutenant,

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First Artillery, June 11, 1897; second PADDOCK, Robert Lewis:

lieutenant Third

Artillery, Mar. 8, 1898; first lieutenant, Seventh Artillery, Mar. 15, 1899; captain Artillery Corps, Aug. 22, 1901. Address, Fort Preble, Me.

OVINGTON, Irene Helen:

President Training School for Nurses, Brooklyn, N. Y .; born N. Y. City, Dec. 21, 1836; received an academic educa- tion. Author: Compile of Comforting Thoughts from H. W. Beecher; Helps to Home Nursing (1890 K1). Inventor of conveniences for invalids. Address, 53 Orange St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

OXFORD, Harry E .:

Ex-member of Assembly; born in Eng- land, 1866; was brought to this country when a child. Educated public schools of New York and then entered into the real estate business, in which he is still engaged. Member Tammany Hall and one of the leaders of the Democratic party in his Assembly district; elected to Assembly 1901 and 1902. In 1903, appointed a member of the following Assembly committees: Electricity, Gas and Water Supply, and Military Af- fairs. Address, N. Y. City.

OXNARD, Henry Thomas:

Beet sugar manufacturer; born Mar- seiles, France, June 22, 1860; prepar- atory education Roxbury ( Mass.) Latin School; was graduated from Harvard, 1882. Has devoted himself to establish- ing beet sugar industry of U. S .; presi- dent American Beet Sugar Co .; presi- dent American Beet Sugar Association, comprising all the factories in the U. S .; Republican. Residence, Oxnard, Cali- fornia; office, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

PACKARD, Edwin:

Vice-president and director, Federal Mining & Smelting Co .; director, The Trenton Potteries Co .; trustee, Franklin Safe Deposit Co. and Franklin Trust Co. Residence, 241 Henry St., Brooklyn; of- fice, 32 Broadway, N. Y. City.

PACKARD, Ralph Gooding:

Civil engineer ; born Niagara Falls N. Y., 1840 ; graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1864; civil engineer in U. S. navy yards, 1864-69 ; later engineer in re- moval of Hell Gate reefs, construction of Raritan River and Poughkeepsie bridges, and other important undertakings; presi- dent of R. G. Packard Co. Residence, 84 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn; office, 130 Pearl St., N. Y. City.

Cleryman; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1869; attended Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; 1881, went to Washington Terri- tory, where his father, twenty-six years rector of St. Peter's Church, Brooklyn, was appointed Bishop; 1888-90, attended St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H .; was gradu- ated from Trinity Collge, Hartford, Conn., 1894 ; ordained deacon at Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., 1897, was traveling secretary of the Church Stu- dents' Missionary Association, and assist- ant minister at St. Paul's Church, Cleve- land until Nov., 1898; in that year became vicar of the Pro-Cathedral, at 130 Stan- ton St., N. Y. City. Was active in exposing corruption in the police and other departments, which resulted in the overthrow of the Croker-Van-Wyck-Dev- ery ring. Became rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, Jan. 1, 1902. Ad- dress, 36) W. 28th St., N. Y. City.

PADDOCK, Willard D .:

Artist; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1873; educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y. and in France; instructor in clay-modeling, drawing, anatomy, in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y .; married, Miss C. E. Smith, 1902. Address, Salma- gundi Club, 14 W. 12th St., N. Y. City. PAGE, Curtis Hidden:

Educator and author: born Greenwood, Missouri, April 4, 1870 ; son of Benjamin Greely Page (Dartmouth, 1861, Andover Theological Seminary, 1864), and Martha Frances Hidden Page (graduate of Mount Holyoke, and teacher there) ; was edu- cated in the common schools at Friend, Neb., Millis, Mass., and Chester, N. H .; Chester Academy, Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N. H .; Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating with the class of 1887; Har- vard University (College three years, Graduate School three years) ; Univer- sity of Paris; Institute of Higher Studies, Florence. Has received the followinig de- grees: Harvard, A. B., 1890; A. M., 1891; Ph.D. (in Germanic languages and literatures ; special subject, English lit- erature). In 1891 visited Belgium,

France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Germany. In 1894-95 traveled in Eng- land, the South of France, and Central Italy, and spent the academic year at the University of Paris. In 1900 lived about six months in Italy, mostly at Flor- ence. Has been instructor in French, Western Reserve University ; lecturer on English literature, Cleveland Society for University Extension (four courses); in-

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structor in French, Harvard University; } Y., 1893 to date; municipal civil service tutor and lecturer in Romance languages commissioner, 1896 to 1901. Address, 317 E. and B. Building, Rochester, N. Y. and literature, Columbia University. For the past three years has partially given PAGE, Walter H .: up teaching and devoted most of his time to writing; has also taken up lecturing and is giving lectures on American Poetry of To-day, French Poetry of the Renais- sance, The Greater American Poets, The

Poetry of Browning, etc. Publications : verse, essays, and stories in the Century, Harper's, The Bookman, the Independent, the Critic, etc. Translations from Gau- tier, in Putnam's Little French Master- pieces series; Cyrano de Bergerac's Voy- age to the Moon, with life of Cyrano, etc. (Doubleday, 1899) ; Songs and Sonnets of Ronsard, selected and translated into English verse (Houghton & Mifflin, 1903). Co-editor with Prof. Adolph Cohen, of Columbia University of Putnam's series of French Classics for English Readers; and editor of British poets of the Nine- teenth Century (Sanborn & Co., 1904). Address, Columbia University, N. Y. City. PAGE, George K .:

Banker; born June 12, 1866; prepared at Perry, N. Y. ; was graduated A. B. from University of Rochester; assistant cashier of First National Bank of Perry, Perry, N. Y., 1888 to 1904; president Silver Lake Salt Co., 1895-99. Address, Perry, N. Y. PAGE, J. Seaver:

Merchant; born N. Y. City; was edu- cated at the College of the City of New York, after passing the ordinary prelim- inary course of instruction, and gradu- ated with a creditable record. For many years he served as public school trustee in the district of N. Y., of which he was a resident, and continues to take an act- ive interest in the development and prog- ress of the public schools. He entered into business life shortly after his graduation from college, and is now vice-president of the F. W. Devoe and C. T. Reynolds Co. Was at one time secretary of the Union League, having been elected as an oppo- sition candidate, and later elected on the regular ticket. Member of Country Club, Larchmont Yacht, and the Westminster Kennel Club; also the Union League, St. Nicholas, Fulton, Reform, Republican, N. Y. Athletic, and Liederkranz Clubs, and of the St. Nicholas Society by right of descent on the maternal side. Address, 101 Fulton St., N. Y. City.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 124

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