Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 134

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PULSIFER, Nathan Trowbridge:

Manufacturer; born Newton, Mass., Oct. 27, 1851; president of the Oakland Paper Co., Connecticut ; treasurer of the Kaolin Co., Connecticut; treasurer of the Manchester Light & Power Co., Connec- ticut; vice-president of

the Outlook Co., N. Y., and second vice-president of Valentine & Co., N. Y. Member N. Y. Athletic, Suburban Riding and Driving, and Dyker Meadow Golf Links and Hard- man Clubs. Married Almira Houghton Valentine, daughter of Lawson Valen- tine, Oct. 13, 1880; two sons, Law- son Valentine Pulsifer, at Harvard Uni- versity, and Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer, at Storm King Heights School, Cornwall- on-Hudson. Residence, Houghton Farm. Orange County, N. Y .; office, 257 Broad- way, N. Y. City.

PUMPELLY, Josiah Collins, A.M., LL.B .:

Lawyer; born Owego, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1839; son of George James and Susan Isa- bella (Pumpelly) Pumpelly, who were cousins; was graduated from Rutgers Col- lege, 1860, and from the Columbia College Law School in 1863, obtaining the degree of A. M. from the former and that of B. L. from the latter. During the Civil War he recruited and drilled men for the Union Army. After some years of travel

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he settled at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and | of Josiah Harmer, who was one of Wash- later at Morristown, N. J .; here he took ington's generals and for a short period in 1789 commander-in-chief of all the American forces. On her father's side she was the great-granddaughter of Mrs. Thomas Garrick (Mary Sandoz), whose father was a Huguenot refugee and came to New York after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Address, 2881 Broad- way, N. Y. City. an active part in establishing the City Improvement Society and State Charities Aid Association and was an active mem- ber in the Sanitary Association, the New Jersey Historical Society and Washington Association of New Jersey; in 1890 he re- moved to N. Y., where he has been no less active in patriotic and philanthropic work as a founder and secretary of the PURCELL, Henry : City Improvement Society and as a mem- ber of the West End Association and the standing committee of the Christian

Workingmen's Institute. He aided in founding the Huguenot Society of Amer- ica, the Patriotic League, the National Society of the Sons of the American Rev- olution and its New Jersey branch. Is an active member of St. Michael's Epis- copal Church; a veteran member of the Union League Club and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and is secretary of St. Michael's Chapter of the Church Association for the Ad- vancement of the interests of Labor. At the celebration of the tercentenary of the signing of the edict of Nantes, 1898, he read a paper entitled The Huguenot Set- tlers in New Jersey. Among his many other published addresses are Washing- ton, (1888); Fort Stanwix and the Battle of Oriskany, (1888); Our French Allies, (1889); Joseph Warren (1890); Mahlon Dickerson, (1891); Paul Jones, (1892); In- cidents in the Early History of Berk- shire County, Mass., and the Pumpelly, Pixley, Paterson, and Avery Families, (1896); The Jumel Mansion, Its History and Traditions, (1903); has also given much time and literary effort to the dis- cussion in public press of philanthopic and of social economic questions, and many articles have appeared from time to time from his pen in behalf of industrial arbitration and needful reforms in the treatment of our dependent, delinquent and defective classes. He has done much traveling in Asia, Africa, Europe, Great Britain, and in the far North, besides vis- iting almost every section of his own country. Mr. Pumpelly married, at Frankfort, Germany, in 1876, Margaret (Lanier) Winslow, widow of James Wins- low and a descendant of the Huguenot Louis Lanier, who married the aunt of George Washington. Mrs. Pumpelly died in 1890, and on May 20, 1896, he married for his second wife Mary Amelia, daugh- ter of Charles G. Harmer, one of the old N. Y. City merchants and a descendant

Lawyer; born Wilna, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1848; primary education at High School of Watertown, and Antwerp Academy; studied law with the late Judge McCartin, and was admitted to practice in 1876, hav- ing in the meantime been elected to the office of school commissioner of Jefferson County, which position he filled for the term of three years. He was elected re- corder of the City of Watertown, N. Y., in 1881, and served the full term of four years; later occupied the position of city attorney for two years; after the death of Judge McCartin, in 1892, he filled, by ap- pointment of Governor Roswell P. Flower, the unexpired term of the deceased, as county judge. Is now vice-president of the New York Bar Association, also of the National Bank and Loan Co. of Wa- tertown; trustee of the Jefferson County Savings Bank, and local counsel for the New York Central and Hudson River R. R. Co. Jan. 10, 1878, married Miss Cecelia R. Neary, at Watertown, N. Y. Is a member of the Transportation Club of N. Y. City, and of the Union Club, of Watertown. Address, Watertown, N. Y. PURDY, John Henry: H

Lawyer; was graduated from Columbia University, A. B., 1875, and LL. B., 1878. Member of firm of W. M. & J. H. Purdy. Member Delta Psi Fraternity, University, St. Anthony, Grolier, and N. Y. Yacht and Metropolitan Clubs and Columbia Univer- sity Alumni Association. Residence, 121 Madison Ave .; office, 302 Broadway, N. Y. City.

PURDY, Lawson:

Lawyer; secretary N. Y. Tax Reform Association; born Hyde Park, Dutchess Co., N. Y., Sept. 13, 1863; educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., 1876-80; was graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1884, A. M., 1887; mar- ried, 1885, Mary J. McCrackan. Address, 535 West 152d St., N. Y. City.

PURDY, Thomas C .:

Railway official; born Sunbury, Pa., 1846; became connected with the New York & Oswego Midland Ry., 1869, rising

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to office of paymaster ; was superintend- or Legion, Union Veteran Legion, Grand ent of Montclair Ry., 1874-76; in the four Army of the Republic, Empire State So- ciety, Sons of years following held the same office in American Revolution, Mount Moriah Lodge, F. A. M., Masons, Western Sun Chapter Masons; Knights Templar, Jamestown Commandery, and the Young Men's Christian Association, Jamestown, N. Y. Address, 347 East 4th St., Jamestown, N. Y. New York & Oswego Midland R. R .; 1881, became general manager of the Mutual Union Telgraph Co .; 1882, general man- ager and vice-president of the Mexican National Ry .; 1885, became president of Mann's Boudoir Car Co .; 1889, railway contractor, until he assumed the offices of PUTNAM, Mrs. Emily James: vice-president and general manager of the Missouri, Ramos & Texas Ry. Co .; held these offices until 1897; following year became vice-president of New York Air Brake Co. Address, 66 Broadway, N. Y. City.

PURRINGTON, William Archer:

Lawyer; born 1852, Washington, D. C .; was graduated from Harvard University, A. B., 1873; Columbian Law School, Washington, D. C., 1878, and New York University Law School, 1880. Formerly consular clerk in Rome and secretary of legation to Brazil. Lecturer in Univer- sity Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Member Lawyers, University, Harvard and Richmond Hill Golf Clubs. Southern Society, City and State Bar Association. Residence, 43 West 11th St .; office, 78 Wall St., N. Y. City.

PUTNAM, Edgar Pierpont:

Soldier and merchant; born Stockton, N. Y., May 4, 1844. Enlisted in Ninth New York Cavalry, Oct. 11, 1861; re- enlisted same regiment, Jan. 2, 1864, for the war; served in Sheridan's Cav- alry, Army of the Potomac. Promoted to corporal, sergeant, first lieutenant, cap- tain and major by brevet; wounded in battle of Travilian Station, Va., June 11, 1864; wounded again in battle of Five

Forks,

Va., April

1865.

Received

a Congressional Medal of Honor "for gallant and distinguished conduct in action," May 27, 1864; mustered out of U S. service July 17, 1865, after close of the war. U. S. surveyor in Minnesota, 1866-75; in drug and book business in Jamestown, N. Y., 1876-89; postmaster of Jamestown, N. Y., 1884-85; clerk of Chau- tauqua County, 1889-92; five years chair- man of Republican Committee of Chau- tauqua County; seven years member Fire Department, Jamestown, N. Y. Is di- rector of Chautauqua County Trust Co., Jamestown, N. Y .; Bank of Jamestown, N. Y .; Home Telephone Co., Jamestown, N. Y .; Jamestown & Warren Trolley Lines. Member of N. Y. Army and Navy Club, New York Commandery Loyal Legion of the U. S., Medal of Hon-

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Lecturer and author; born Canandaigua, N. Y., April 15, 1865; daughter of James C. Smith, justice of the Supreme Court of New York; was graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889; student at Girton College, Cambridge, England, 1889-90. Taught Greek at Packer Collegiate Insti- tute, Brooklyn, 1891- 93; Fellow in Greek in the University of Chicago, 1893-94; first dean of Barnard College, 1894-1900; re- signed, Feb. 1, 1900. President of League for Political Education, 1901-04; lecturer on Greek politics at the League for Politi- cal Education, 1901-04. Author. Selec- tions from Lucian, (published by Harper & Bros., 1891). Married. at Canandaigua, N. Y., April 27, 1899, George Haven Put- nam. Address, 325 West 86th St., N. Y. City.

PUTNAM, George Haven:

Publisher, head of G. P. Putnam's Sons; born, London, Eng., April 2, 1844; edu- cated at Columbia Grammar School, N. Y., College of the Sorbonne, Paris, and University of Göttingen (A. M., Bowdoin College; Litt. D., Western Pennsylvania). Left Göttingen without graduating to enter One Hundred and Seventy-sixth New York Volunteers, Aug., 1862; served, private to major, until June, 1865; pris- oner at Libby and Danville, Va., winter of 1864-65. Married, July 1, 1869, Rebecca Kettell Shepard, Boston (died July, 1895) ; April 2, 1899, Emily James Smith, of Canandaigua (dean of Barnard College, N. Y.) Led in reorganizing, 1887, the American Copyright League, originally organized by late G. P. Putnam, 1851; became its secretary during contest for international copyright, resulting in the copyright bill of March, 1891. Received cross of the Legion of Honor from France, 1891; chairman Citizens' Union of his district; has served in Citizens' Com- mittee, Free Trade League, Honest Mon- ey organizations; member Century, City, Authors Clubs of New York; Savile of London; Loyal Legion of Paris. Author: Authors and Publishers, (1883); Question of Copyright, (1891); Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times, (1893); The

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Artificial Mother, (1894); Books and Their [ Loan & Trust Co., the Lackawanna Steel Makers in the Middle Ages, (1896); article, Literary Property, in Mason & Lalor's Political Encyclopædia, and articles on copyright in International Encyclopædia and Encyclopædia Britannica; Fiscal Questions in the United States in 1904. Address, 27 West 23d St., N. Y. City. PUTNAM, Harrington:

Lawyer; born June 29, 1851, Shrews- bury, Mass .; attended Colby University and was graduated from Columbia Law School, 1876. Member of firm of Wing, Putnam and Burlingham. Member Ham- ilton and Barnard Clubs, Brooklyn, and Down Town and City Bar Associa- tions. Residence, 404 Washington Ave., Brooklyn; office, 27 William St., N. Y. City.

FUTNAM, Robert Myers Shoemaker:

Lawyer; Cornell University, 1891. Member Zeta Psi Fraternity, Saratoga County Society, New York Yacht, Colum- bia Yacht, West Side Republican Clubs, Zoological Association, Albany Society of N. Y. City, City Bar Association. Resi- dence, 318 West 84th St .; office, 31 Nas- sau St., N. Y. City.

PUTNAM, Tarrant:

Lawyer; was graduated from Columbia Law School, 1875. Member Calumet, Manhattan, New York Yacht and Larch- mont Yacht Clubs and City Bar Asso- ciation. Residence, Shelter Island; office, 41 Park Row, N. Y. City.

PYE, George Washington:

Educator; was graduated from Univer- sity of Rochester, A. B .; A. M., 1882; principal Union School, Dryden, N. Y., 1880-81; associate principal Boys' Pre- paratory School of Brooklyn, N. Y., 1881- 86; principal Union School, Bath-on-Hud- son, N. Y., 1886-87; principal, Sandy Hill, N. Y., 1887-90; Geneva, N. Y., 1890-91; Palmyra, N. Y., 1891-95; Deposit, N. Y., 1895 to date. Address, Deposit, N. Y. PYNE, M. Taylor:

Lawyer, trustee; born New York, Dec. 21, 1855; son of Percy Rivington and Albertina (Taylor) Pyne. Received de- gree of A. B., Princeton University, 1877; A. M., 1880; LL. B., Columbia University, 1879; honorary L.H.D., 1903. Married, June 2, 1880, Margaretta Stockton. Ad- mitted to Bar, 1880; general solicitor Del- aware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co. for eleven years; president Warren R. R. Co. and Cayuga & Susquehanna R. R. Co .; vice-president Princeton Inn Co. and University Power Co .; director of the National City Bank, the Farmers'

Co., the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Co., the Consolidated Gas Co., The New Jer- sey Zinc Co, the Princeton Bank, the Commercial Trust Co. of Jersey City, the United Railroads of New Jersey, the Del- aware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co., the Newark & Bloomfield R. R. Co., the Morris & Essex R. R. Co., the Sussex, the Utica, Chenango & Susquehanna Val- ley, the Syracuse, Binghamton & New York R. R. Cos., The Valley R. R. Co., The Harvey Steel Co., The New York, Lackawanna & Western Railway Co., The Passaic & Delaware Railroad Co. The East River Gas Co., etc., etc .; trus- tee and chairman finance committee of Princeton University; trustee of Lawrenceville School, New Jersey, and Pomfret School, Conn .; trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York, and St. Luke's Hospital, New York; councillor of the American Geographical Society. Member New Jer- sey State Public Library Commission; chairman Princeton Township. Address, Drumthwacket, Princeton, N. J.

Q QUACKENBOS, John Duncan, M. D .:

Son of George Payn Quackenbos, LL.D., the educational author and a direct descendant of Pieter van Quaakenbosch, who came from Holland to New Amster- dam about 1660. Born April 22, 1848, N. Y. City. Educated at the Collegiate School, New York, of which his father was rector. Entered Columbia College at age of 16; was graduated with the first honor in 1868. Received the de- gree of A. M. in 1871, and in the same year was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, with the degree of M. D. In 1870 Dr. Quackenbos was appointed tutor in rhet- oric at Columbia College; in 1884 he was made adjunct professor of the English language and literature, and in 1891 he was elected professor of rhetoric in Co- lumbia University and in Barnard Col- lege for women. In 1894 he retired from active service at the University, retain- ing his connection as an emeritus pro- fessor. He has since devoted himself to the practice of his profession in N. Y. City, specializing in nervous and mental diseases, and in psychotherapy. He is also well known as a lecturer on scientific and literary subjects, and is to be cred- ited with having brought to public no-

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tice the presence of a fourth charr in New | chief of the New York Press. Was a Republican member of Congress, 1893-99. Chairman of Republican committee of New York, 1896-1900. Since his retire- ment from Congress he has been actively engaged in business and in promoting the interests of his party in city and state. Residence, 435 West End Ave .; office, 32 Liberty St., N. Y. City.

England waters, viz .: the so-called Sun- apee lake trout, or American saibling. This valuable foodfish, through his efforts, has been planted in Lake George. Mem- ber London Society for Psychical Re- search; Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; member New York Acad- my of Sciences; Fellow of the New Hamp- shire Medical Society; member New York Medical Association ; member of the Am- erican Medical Association; and of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Address, 331 West 28th St., N. Y. City.

QUALTROUGH, E. F .:

Commander U. S. Navy. Born Roch- ester, N. Y., 1850. Appointed to Naval Academy from New York, Sept. 21, 1867; midshipman, June 6, 1871; ensign, July 14, 1872; master, July 1, 1878; lieutenant, Nov. 24, 1883 ; flagship, Wabash, European Station 1871-74; Wachusett, West Indies, in 1874, during the Cuban trouble; Des- patch, special service in Europe, 1875-76; Marion, European Station, 1877; flagship Trenton, European Station, 1877-78; Nav- al observatory, 1879-82; Hartford, Pacific Station, 1882-85; during this cruise he was for three weeks on a small coral island in charge of the naval portion of an astronomical expedition to make ob- servations of the total solar eclipse in May, 1883 ; while on this island he made an accurate survey of it, and sent a chart to the Department; the chart was afterwards issued by the Hydrographic Office; Mare Island Navy Yard, 1886-89, most of the time in charge of the Ord- nance Department; Charleston, Pacific Station, 1890. Author: The Boat-Sailor's Manual and The Sailor's Handy Book. At the office of Naval Intelligence, May, 1893-95; Mohican, March, 1895, to Jan., 1896; U. S. S. Marion, Jan. 1898; U. S. S. Terror; inspection duty under Bureau Equipment, Nov. 10, 1898, to 1900. Pro- moted to lieutenant-commander, March 3, 1899; Chicago, June 16, 1900, to April, 1902; commander, Feb. 9, 1902. Supervisor of harbor N. Y. City, April 30, 1902, to 1903. Commanding U. S. S. Atlanta. Address, care Navy Department, Wash- ington, D. C.

QUIGG, Lemuel E .:

Lawyer; born Cecil County, Maryland, Feb. 13, 1863. Received common school education, at completion of which he re- moved to New York and engaged in jour- nalism; was for ten years a writer on the New York Tribune, later editor-in-

QUINBY, Ira .:

Lieuteant-Colonel, U. S. Army; born New York, March 13, 1835. Appointed from Colorado-civil life. First sergeant, Co. D, Second Colorado Volunteer In- fantry, Sept. 5, 1861; discharged June 5, 1862; second lieutenant, First Colorado Volunteer Cavalry, June 5, 1562; first lieutenant, May 7, 1864; honorably mus- tered out Nov. 18, 1865; second lieutenant Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, Feb. 23, 1866; first lieutenant, March 28, 1866; trans- ferred to Twenty-fourth Infantry, Sept. 21, 1866; transferred to Eleventh Infan- try, April 25, 1869; captain, Dec. 21, 1880; major First Infantry, June 30, 1898; re- tired, March 13, 1899. Promoted Lieu- tenant-Colonel, April 23, 1904 .· Address, Morris, Otsego Co., N. Y.

QUINBY, John Gardner:

Lieutenant-commander, U. S. Navy;

born New York. Entered Naval Acad- emy, June 12, 1874; was graduated June 20, 1878; cadet midshipman, U. S. S. Rich- mond, Dec., 1878, to April, 1880; final graduation, June, 1880; appointed mid- shipman U. S. S. Minnesota, Nov., 1880; Aug., 1881, U. S. S. Lancaster, flagship European Squadron; Aug., 1881, to Aug., 1884, present at bombardment of Alex- andria, Egypt, by British squadron under Admiral Seymour. Promoted ensign, Feb., 1882; Naval Academy, Nov., 1884, to

Aug., 1886; training-ship Jamestown, Aug., 1886, to Oct., 1889; during ten months of this cruise was attached to Constellation while Jamestown was un- dergoing repairs; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1889, to 1890; R. S. Franklin, 1890 to 1891; Lancaster, flagship Asiatic Squadron, March, 1891, to June, 1894; during ten months of this cruise was attached to U. S. S. Petrel, Norfolk Navy ard, July, 1894, to Oct., 1894; charge branch Hydro- graphic Office, Norfolk, Oct., 1894, to Jan., 1897 ; U. S. S. Vesuvius, Jan., 1897, to Sept., 1898; U. S. S. Nashville, Sept., 1898, to Jan., 1900; U. S. S. Solace, Jan., 1900, to March, 1900; Navy Yard, Norfolk, April, 1900, to July, 1900; N. N. S. and D. D. Co., inspector of ordnance, Aug., 1900, to 1902. Promoted to lieutenant-

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commander, Dec., 11, 1901. U. S. S. burgh Title Co. Address, 203 Montague Texas, 1903. U. S. R. S. Franklin and St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Richmond. Address, Navy Yard, Norfolk, RAFALSKY, Mark: Va.

QUINN, Charles J .:

Democratic Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly district of Erie County; born Buffalo, N. Y., July 12, 1865. Was educated in the public schools of Buffalo, and after completing a course in mechanical drawing he learned the trade of a ship carpenter. After spending some years at his trade he became a member of the Buffalo Fire Department, serving three years. When he resigned it was to enter the hotel business in which bus- iness he is still engaged. Mr. Quinn never held public office prior to his elec- tion to the Legislature, though he is a member of the Erie County Democratic General Committee, representing the Nineteenth ward in that body. In the election of 1903, he received 5,797 votes. Speaker Nixon, in 1904, appointed Mr. Quinn a member of the following Assem- bly Committees: Canals, and Claims; re- elected in 1904. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

QUINTARD, George W .:

Iron manufacturer; born Stamford, Conn., April 22, 1822; educated in com- mon schools. Removed to New York when a lad of fifteen; engaged in a mer- cantile business. In 1847 became one of the firm of T. F. Secor & Co., American Iron Works in New York; two years later became co-partner with Charles Morgan; 1852 assumed control of iron works of which he was sole manager, except for an interval of two years, until 1867; 1867 re- tired from the Morgan Iron Works to be- come principal owner of New York and Charleston Steamship Co. In 1869, be- came connected with Quintard Iron Works. Director Lorillard and Adriatic Fire Insurance Co., Metropolitan Savings Bank, Southern Steamship Co. and But- chers' and Drovers' Bank; trustee East- ern Dispensary; vice-president Eleventh Ward Bank. Address, 66 Broadway, N. Y. City.

RAE, William P .:

President, manager and director of The William P. Rae Co .; president and director of the New Utrecht Improve- ment Co .; secretary, treasurer and di- rector of The Sea Gate Improvement Co .; secretary and director of the Norton Point Land Co .; director of the Williams-

President and director of the Constant Battery Co., S. Levyn, Buffalo; treasurer and director of The Richard Realty Co., Willet Realty Co., Huron Realty Co .; secretary and director of the Imperial Realty Co. Residence, 254 West 82d St .; office, 170 Broadway, N. Y. City. RAINES, George:

Educator; was graduated A. B. from University of Rochester in 1866; A. M., 1873; teacher, Rochester, N. Y., 1867; lawyer, Rochester, N. Y., 1868; district attorney, Monroe County, N. Y., 1871-78; State Senator, 1878-80. Delivered semi- centennial oration, City

of Rochester, 1884; oration on Samuel J. Tiden before State Legislature, 1887; New York State delegate to National Democratic Con- vention at St. Louis, Mo., 1888; commis- sioner Niagara State Resrevation, 1894; trustee Rochester State Hospital, 1891. Address, Rochester, N. Y.

RAINES, John:

State Senator; Republican, representing the Forty-second Senate district, which covers the counties of Ontario and Wayne. His father, of the same name, was a prominent Methodist clergyman, well known in the western part of the State; the father had several sons who had dis- tinguished public careers: Thomas Raines, who was State treasurer two terms; George Raines, who was Senator from the Monroe district in 1878-79, and the sub- ject of this sketch, who was successively Assemblyman, Senator, Congressman and Senator. John Raines was educated in the common schools, and was graduated from the law department of the Union University; his present business is that of an insurance agent and lawyer. Mr. Raines began the practice of law in Gen- eva soon after graduating, but in the fall of 1861 he raised a company of volunteers and was commissioned captain of Com- pany G, of the Eighty-fifth Regiment of New York Volunteers; served in the Army of the Potomac and in North Carolina until July, 1863, when he returned to Geneva and resumed the practice of law. In 1867 he removed to Canandaigua and opened a law office and insurance agency there. He early joined the Republican party and has continued to be one of its members ; in 1880 was elected an Assemblyman and in 1881 he was a member of the Assem- bly committees on General Laws, Internal Affairs, and State Charitable Institutions ;

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reelected in 1881, he was a member in ( RAINSFORD, William Stephen:

1882 of the committees on Insurance and State Prisons ; in 1885 he was chairman of the committee on Militia and a member of the committee on General Laws and of a special committee on Code Revision of the Statutes. Mr. Raines was a member of the Assembly until 1886, when he be- came a member of the State Senate, and continued a member of that body until 1890. While a member of the Senate he was elected to the Fifty-first Congress and was also elected to the Fifty-second

Congress. In December, 1894, he was elected a State Senator from the Twenty- sixth district to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles T. Saxton, who had been elected lieutenant-gover- nor; he was re-elected to the Senate in 1895, receiving 11,584 votes. J. Henry Met- calf, his Democratic opponent, received 8,093; Enoch O. Marsh, the Phohibition candidate, received 590 votes, and Herbert G. Randall, Populist, 208. Mr. Raines, in 1896, 1897 and 1898, was chairman of the committee on Railroads, and also a member of the Finance, Insurance, and Rules committees, and holds the same positions in the present Senate. His

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 134

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