Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 136

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RAYMOND, Robert R .:

Captain, U. S. Army; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Mar. 5, 1871; educated at Dorches- ter High School, Mass .; Washington High School, Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., the U. S. Military Academy and Engineer School, at Willetts Point. Promoted to second lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, June 12, 1893; promoted to first lieutenant, July 5, 1898; served in the construc- tion of fortifications in New York, Boston and Pensacola Harbors; also improvement of Pensacola, Choctawhat- chee and Apalacchicola Harbors and Coosa, Alabama, Chattahoochee and other rivers; defenses of New York and Boston by sub- marine mines; member of board to pre- pare specifications for electric plants in coast defenses ; promoted to captain, Feb. 20, 1903. Address, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

RAYMOND, Rossiter Worthington, Ph. D .:

Lawyer, mining engineer and mettallur-

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gist ; born Cincinnati, Apr. 27, 1840; son [ tles, and A Glance at the Marvels of This Robert R. and Mary Ann Raymond; was Great Century. Member Pennsylvania Society of N. Y., Presbyterian Union, Pa- tria and Madison Square Republican Clubs. He holds the positions of vice-principal of the Packard Commercial School, direc- tor and secretary-treasurer of the Packard Commercial School Co., and a trustee of the Packard Estate. Address, 101 East 23rd St., N. Y. City. graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1858 ; studied at the Universi- ties of Munich and Heidelberg, and at the Mining Academy of Freiburg, Saxony. Married Sarah M. Dwight, 1863; served in the Union Army for three years during the Civil War as aide-de-camp; from 1864 to 1868 was engaged in New York as con- sulting engineer ; was U. S. commissioner READ, George R .: of mining statistics from 1868 to 1876; President and director Down Town Realty Co., George R. Read & Co., Mutual Trust Co. of Westchester Co., Realty Fi- nance Co., Roxton Realty Co., Walling- ford Realty Co .; director Alliance Realty Co., Casualty Co. of America, Rye Nation- al Bank, Standard Safe Deposit Bank ; member Union, Metropolitan, Down Town, City, Midday, Riding, American Yacht and Lawyers Clubs. Residence, Rye, N. Y .; office, 60 Liberty St., N. Y. City. lecturer on economic geology at Lafayette College, 1870-82 ; editor of the American Journal of Mining, 1867-68 ; editor and special contributor Engineering and Min- ing Journal for many years. Dr. Ray- mond was one of the original members of the American Institute of Mining Engi- neers, of which he was successively vice- president, president, and has been since 1884 secretary. He is an honorary mem- ber of the Society of Civil Engineers of France and other kindred societies ; U. S. READ, William A .: commissioner to the Vienna Exposition. 1873; N. Y. State commission of electric subways for Brooklyn, 1885; lecturer on mining law at Columbia University, 1903. Author : Mineral Resources of the U. S., West of the Rocky Mountains (8 vols.) ; Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms; Die Leibgarde (German) ; Brave Hearts; The Man in the Moon; Two Ghosts; The Life of Alex. L. Holley ; Life of Peter Cooper ; technical works and pa- pers especially on mining law. Residence, 123 Henry St., Brooklyn ; office, 99 John St., N. Y. City.

REA, James:

Vice-principal of the Packard School ; born Gap, Penn., Jan. 31, 1863 ; educated in the public schools, Coatesville Institute, Parkesburg Academy, Millersville Normal School, and Bryant & Stratton Business College, Philadelphia; was graduated from the last-named institution as valedictorian and class president. He was associated for a time with John W. Francis, expert accountant, and for eight years was a teacher in the College of Commerce, Phil- adelphia. In 1893 he accepted a position in the Packard Commercial School of N. Y. City. Associate author Packard's Book- keeping and Packard's Business Practice, and was president of the New York Commercial Teachers' Association, 1899- 1900; has contributed to educational journals, and is the author of the follow- ing articles in Success Magazine: Why Many Fail to Obtain and Hold Good Po- sitions; 'Tis Preparation That Wins Bat-

Banker; trustee Alliance Assurance Co., Central Trust Co., Helvetia Swiss Fire In- surance Co., Imperial Insurance Co. (Lim- ited), North American Trust Co. ; direc- tor Alliance Realty Co., Allis, Chalmers Co., Bank of N. Y. (N. B. A.), Broad Ex- change Co., Chicago Great Western Railway Co., Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railway Co., Continental Insur- ance Co., Eagle Fire Co. of N. Y., Inter- borough Rapid Transit Co., International Banking Corporation, Pope Manufacturing Co., Rapid Transit Subway Construction Co., Safety Car Heating and Lighting Co., Sixty Wall Street, Subway Realty Co., Twin City Rapid Transit Co., United Shoe Machinery Co .; chairman board of direc- tors Toledo, St. Louis & Western R. R. Co .; member Union, Century, Players. Grolier, Down Town, Metropolitan, N. Y. Yacht and Riding Clubs. Residence, 4 East 62nd St .; office, 16 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

REDDALL, Frederic:

Teacher ; author; dramatist and lectur- er on music and musicians in New York since 1880 ; born in London, Eng., 1856 ; lecturer to Board of Education ; sometime director of music at Adelphi College. Writings include miscellaneous stories and sketches; novels, Hepsie Follett ; The Other Man; A Crucible of Gold ; Figs from Thistles; A Transaction in Rubies; The Heart o' Vanity and A Manila Madness; reference books, Fact, Fancy and Fable; and A Dictionary of Music and Musicians; two plays, The Other Man and Loyal Foes.

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Address, The Pouch Gallery, 345 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

REDFERN, Frederick C .:

Clergyman; graduated from the Uni- versity of Rochester in 1898, and from the: Rochester Theological Seminary in 1901; pastor of the First Baptist Church, Wal- worth, N. Y., 1888-91; Alabama, N. Y., 1891-94; Plymouth Avenue Baptist Church, Rochester, N. Y., 1894-99. Delivered six memorial addresses before the Sons of Veterans, Rochester, N. Y., 1894-99 ; chap- lain of Monroe County Almshouse and Hospital, 1897-1902 ; addressed the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Rochester, N. Y., 1901. Life member New York Bap- tist Union for Ministerial Education since 1896. Author of a number of sermons, ad- dresses and articles on current topics, both in religious papers and secular press. Pastor of First Baptist Church at Wells- ton, Ohio, since July 1, 1904. Address, Wellston, Ohio.

REDFIELD, Henry Stephen:

Professor of law, Columbia University, since 1901; born at Corning, N. Y., July 31, 1851 ; son of Jared A. and Mary Hayt Redfield, both of New England descent. Early education in the public schools ; was graduated from the Elmira Academy in 1867. Engaged in business for about five years, after which he prepared for college and entered Amherst, from which he was graduated in 1877, with the degree of A.B .; the degree of A. M. was subsequently re- ceived from the same institution, and in 1901 it confered upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. After graduation he studied law with George M. Diven, of El- mira, N. Y .; was admitted to the Bar in 1879, and at once formed a partnership with Mr. Diven, which continued until Mr. Redfield's retirement from the firm in 1898 to accept a position at Cornell Uni- versity. The practice of the firm was largely of a corporate character, among the corporations which they represented being the Northern Central Railway Com- pany and the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. Professor of practice and pro- cedure, College of Law, Cornell Univer- sity, Aug., 1898, to July, 1901; profes- sor of law, School of Law, Columbia Uni- versity, New York, since July, 1901. Mem- ber Century Association, Phi Beta Kappa Psi Upsilon Fraternity, Amherst Associa- tion of New York, American Bar Associa- tion, New York State Bar Association. Author: Cases on Code Pleading and Prac- tice, (1903) ; contributor to legal journals. Married, 1880, to Susan Woods Curtis, of

Canandaigua, N. Y. Address, Columbia University, New York; Residence, 567 West 113th St., N. Y. City.

REDFIELD, J. Bayard:

Pay director, U. S. Navy; born Sacket's Harbor, N. Y., 1842; paymaster's clerk, U. S. S. Circassian, 1862-64 ; acting assist- ant paymaster, Jan. 16, 1865; Mound City Naval Station, 1865. Commissioned as- sistant paymaster, Feb. 21, 1867 ; practice- ship Dale, 1867. Promoted to passed as- sistant paymaster, June 11, 1868; Mohi- can, Pacific Fleet, 1869-72; Monocacy, Asiatic Fleet, 1873-75 ; coast survey steam- er Hassler, 1875-78. Promoted to pay- master, March 8,

1879; receiving-ship Franklin, 1880-83; Navy Yard, Mare Is- land, 1883-86 ; Monocacy, A. S., 1886-89 ; receiving-ship Independence, 1890-93 ; At- lanta, North Atlantic Station, 1894-95; Minneapolis, European Station, 1895-97; League Island, Nave Yard; receiving-ship Richmond and Reserve Fleet, Sept., 1897- 99. Promoted to pay inspector ; genera storekeeper, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1899 ; fleet paymaster, European Station, 1900- 1902. Promoted to pay director, April 10, 1902; Naval Home, June, 1902-03; pay officer and general storekeeper, Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. retired. Married, Feb. 25, 1873, at Lockport, N. Y., to Martha E. Abercrombie, daughter of Rev. Dr.

James Abercrombie. Address, Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.

REED, Frederic H .:

Vice-President and Director of J. G. White & Co .; Secretary, Treasurer and Di- rector Manila Electric R. R. & Light Co., Manila Electric R. R. & Lighting Corpor- ation, San Juan & Rio Piedras R. R. Co., San Juan Light & Transit Co .; member of Lawyers Club, Pilgrims Society; as- sociate member American Institute of Electrical Engineers and Sons of Revo- lution. Residence, 120 Riverside Drive; office, 43 Exchange Place, N. Y. City.

REED, Henry A .:

Major, U. S. Army ; born in New York ; appointed from Wisconsin; cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, Sept. 1, 1866 ; graduated, June 10, 1870. Private, ser- geant and first sergeant Company J, 24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, from Aug. 14, 1862, to Feb. 19, 1865; first lieutenant, Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteer In- fantry, Feb. 19, 1865 ; honorably mustered out, June 10, 1865 ; second lieutenant, Sec- ond U. S. Artillery, June 15, 1870 ; first lieutenant, May 21, 1875;" captain, Fifth Artillery, March 8, 1898 ; major, Artillery Corps, Aug. 22, 1901. Served in the War

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of the Rebellion, 1862-65, continuously, [ served with Eighth New York Volunteer until he was mustered out at the close of Infantry, May 18, 1898, to Nov. 3, 1898, served in Spanish-American War, 1898, being engaged in the campaigns on Marin- duque Island and Island of Samar; 1901 and 1902, served under Generals Hughes, Smith and Grant. Graduate of Infantry and Cavalry School U. S. A., Fort Leaven- worth, Class of 1904. Address, Fort Brady, Michigan. the war, June 10, 1865; promoted through the different grades of non-commissioned officer to first lieutenant; entered U. S Military Academy, 1866 ; graduated, 1870 ; served with regiment in California, Vir- ginia and Maryland, and with First Caval- ry in Nevada, performing both line anc staff duties, 1870-73 ; graduated in artil- lery course for officers at Fort Monroe, REES, John Krom: Va., 1874, and at signal service school at Fort Whipple, Va., 1875 ; in signal service till ordered to U. S. M. A., Aug. 28, 1876, where had two tours as assistant profes- sor, 1876-80, and 1883-88; served with reg- iment in Maryland, Louisiana, Georgia. New York,and Virginia; with Light Bat- tery F at school of application for infan- try and cavalry, Fort Leavenworth, Kan .; also instructor in artillery, tactics and to- pography, 1890. Engaged in battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chattanooga cam- paign; Chickamaugua ; defense of Chatta- nooga, Missionary Ridge; East Tennessee and Atlanta campaigns, and Nashville. In Adjt. General's Dept., Washington, 1897- 98; in Spanish-American War in Porto Rico commanding field battery, 1898-90; commanding Artillery District of San Juan, 1901-04 with one year intermission at Fort Moultrie, S. C .. Since May 27, 1904, commanding Fort Caswell, N. C. REESE, William Willis: Address, Fort Caswell, N. C.

REED, Herbert Griffin:

Educator ; graduated from University of Rochester in 1880; teacher, Holly, N. Y., 1890-93; on Rochester Herald, 1894-95; school commissioner of Genesee County for some time; principal Union School, Charlotte, N. Y., 1899-1903. Address, Char- lotte, N. Y.

REED, Sylvanus Albert:

Manager ; born April 8, 1854, in Albany, N. Y .; was graduated from Columbia 1874, and attended Universities of Wurz- burg and Berlin. Member of Delta Psi Fraternity, University, St. Anthony, and Westchester Country Clubs, Columbia Alumni Association and American Insti- tute of Mining Engineers. Residence, 661 Fifth Ave .; office, 17 Battery Place, N. Y. City.

REED, William Lewis:

First lieutenant, U. S. Army ; born in Orange, N. J., Oct. 18, 1874 ; educated at College of the City of New York; entered Military Academy, July, 1893 ; appointed second lieutenant of Infantry, April 5, 1899; promoted to first lieutenant and bat- talion adjutant of Infantry, Feb. 2, 1901;

Prof. astronomy, Columbia, since 1892; born New York, Oct. 27, 1851; graduated from Columbia, 1872; Columbia School of Mines, E. M., 1875 (A. M., 1875 ; Ph. D., 1895, Columbia) ; assistant in mathemat- ics, School of Mines, 1873-76 ; professor of mathematics and astronomy, Washington University, St. Louis, 1876-81. Since then at Columbia as director of the observa- tory ; instructor geodesy and practical as- tronomy, 1881-82; president New York Academy of Sciences, 1894-96; secretary American Metrological Society, 1882-96, vice-president since 1896; secretary Uni- versity Council of Columbia University, 1892-98; fellow Royal Astronomical So- ciety, London; member Astronomische Gesellschaft. Received from French gov- ernment decoration of Chevalier de la Le- gion d'Honneur, Jan., 1901. Address, 1 West 72d St., N. Y. City.

Real estate broker; born Dec. 20, 1868, West Philadelphia, Pa .; prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and grad- uate of Columbia University, A. B., 1890, and E. E., 1892. Member of firm of Post & Reese; Trustee, East Side Home Settle- ment. Member of Delta Psi Fraternity, and University and St. Anthony Clubs. Address, 16 East 60th St., N. Y. City.

REEVE, Benjamin H .:

Jurist; born March 11, 1857, in Matti- tuck, N. Y .; graduate of Cornell Univer- sity, 1881; formerly District Attorney, County Judge of Suffolk County ; Director and Attorney, First National Bank of Greenport and Queens and Suffolk Insur- ance Company. Trustee and Attorney, Southold Savings Bank, Director, Eastern Union Telegraph Company, Union Wharf Company, Greenport Water Company, and Greenport Oyster Company. Member of Sterling Athletic and Peace and Good Will Clubs of Greenport, Cornell University Club of N. Y. City, a Mason and an Odd Fellow. Address, Greenport, L. I., N. Y. REEVE, Willis A .:

Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly district of Suffolk County; born

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Aquebogue, Suffolk County, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1860. At seven years of age, his parents moved to Riverhead, in the same county; received a common school education; studied dentistry, graduating from the N. Y. College of Dentistry in 1882. He opened an office in Port Jefferson, N. Y., but his health failing, he went to Cali- fornia, remaining there a year; returning in 1883, located at Goshen, N. Y., with Dr. W. S. Elliott. Thence he went to Patchogue, N. Y., where he has since prac- ticed dentistry. He has traveled extens- ively. Was a member of the Dr. Cook Arctic Expedition-steamship Miranda, of 1894. The steamer was lost, but the pas- sengers and crew were saved. In 1900 he took an exploring expedition of five In- dians and three French Canadians into Labrador, east of Hudson Bay, 300 miles farther than any white man ever went be- fore. In 1901 elected to Assembly; re- elected in 1902 and 1904. April 9, 1902, married Mary J., daughter of Hon. Edwin Bailey, of Suffolk County. Address, Patchogue, N. Y.

REGAN, James S .:

Assistant commissioner of public works ; born Brooklyn, N. Y .; received his early education in Public School No. 17. He en- gaged in the lumber business while still a very young man, and later established an office on Broadway, Manhattan, for the' sale and handling of lumber for the ex- port trade. In 1889 he entered the contest for the leadership of the Democratic or- ganization in the Sixteenth Assembly dis- trict and won; has been a leader of the district ever since. In 1901 he was made chief clerk in the County Court ; remained in that position for a year and a half; later was appointed clerk of the Third Dis- trict Magistrate's Court, at Myrtle and Vanderbilt Avenues. Under the direction and active leadership of Mr. Regan the Jefferson Club of the Sixteenth Assembly district has become one of the strongest district Democratic clubs in the borough of Manhattan. Address, 121 Front St., N. Y. City.

REGAN, Thomas J .:

Vice-president Second Ave. R. R. Co. of N. Y .; born Boston, Mass., Jan. 22, 1873 ; early life there and Woonsocket, R. I .; was graduated from De La Salle Institute, N. Y. City, 1891, and from the N. Y. Uni- versity, 1899, with degree of LL.B. Began business life as private secretary to Hon. W. C. Whitney; connected with many commercial enterprises and actively with following corporations : Central Cross-

town Railway Co., N. Y. City, secretary and treasurer and director; Columbia & Electric Vehicle Co., director and execu- tive committee ; Columbia Automobile Co., director ; Eighth & Columbus Avenues Con- necting Railway Co., N. Y., president and director ; Electric Storage Battery Co., di- rector Forty-second Street, Manhattan & St. Nicholas Avenue Railroad Co., director; also governor N. Y. Athletic Club, N. Y. Address, 871 Fifth Ave. ; business address, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

REHAN, Ada:

Actress ; born Limerick, Ireland, April 22, 1860; came with parents to the U. S. 1865 ; was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y .; made her first appear- ance on the stage at Newark, N. J., 1874; for the next four years was a member, successively, of the companies of Edwin Booth, Adelaide Neilson, Mrs. D. P. Bow- ers and Lawrence Barrett; 1878, became leading lady in the companies of Edwin Booth and Augustin Daly ; made her first appearance at Daly's Theatre, 1879, in Love's Young Dream; later she appeared in Divorce. Her most brilliant successes have been as Rosalind in As You Like It; Katherine in Taming of the Shrew, Coun- tess Vera in The Last Word, Viola in Twelfth Night, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, etc. Address, 164 West 93d St., N. Y. City.

REHN, Frank Knox Morton:

Artist ; born Philadelphia, April 12, 1848 ; studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ; painter of marines, landscapes and portraits; married, 1881, Margaret Selby, daughter of George C. Bower, of Philadelphia. Has received prizes at va- rious exhibitions. Member National Acad- emy of Design; American Water Color So- ciety; member also of Society of Ameri- can Artists and Water Color Club. Ad- dress, The Chelsea, W. 23d St., N. Y. City. REICHHELM, Edward Paul:

Manufacturer and inventor; born Strie- gau, Province of Silesia, Prussia, Ger- many, Nov. 1843,; father took part in German Revolution, 1848; refugee to this country; naturalized citizen; chaplain Eighty-second Illinois Regiment during Civil War. Edward Paul Reichhelm was educated at Dulon's Academy and Cooper Institute, N. Y. City; became machinist's apprentice. He ran away and enlisted in the Third Missouri Regiment, July, 1861, and served in armies of the South West; the Tennessee and Gulf Department; hon- orably discharged, 1866. Formed the firm of Gesswein & Reichhelm, dealers in me-

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chanic's tools, 1873; firm dissolved, 1876; School; superintendent of Home Depart- established firm of E. P. Reichhelm & Co., ment Union of Ithaca, superintendent of Eastlawn Sunday School. Author : A Course in Mechanical Drawing (1897) ; Mechanical Drawing and Elementary Ma- chine Design, with D. Reid (1899). Ad- dress, Ithaca, N. Y. specialists metal workers tools. He in- vented the Gas Blast Furnace; the Pres- sure Blower (1892); and perfected me- chanical heating processes. President of American Gas Furnace Co .; awarded Scott medal by Franklin Institute. His REID, Robert: system used by U. S. Mints and largest factories; president of American-Swiss File & Tool Company. Member Military Order of the Loyal Legion, G. A. R., and Masonic Order. He married Catharine Shaefer, of Jersey City, 1868; married, second time, Mrs. Carrie Helmuth Sin- clair, June 15, 1893. Address, 23 John St., N. Y. City.

REID, Daniel Gray :

Banker, manufacturer and railroad of- ficial; born Richmond, Ind., Aug. 1, 1858, and educated in the public schools of his native city. Began business career as a clerk in the Second National Bank of Richmond and later became a director and vice-president thereof ; became interested in the manufacture of tin plate in 1892, and was made president of the American Tin Plate Co. in 1898 and removed to Chicago ; assisted in the organization of the U. S. Steel Corporation and removed to the City of N. Y. in 1900; is now a director and member of the executive committee of that corporation ; became intersted in the C. R. I. & P. Railway Co. in 1900, and is now chairman of the board of directors and actively engaged in promoting the interests of that company ; also the vice-president of two national banks and a director in several others. Residence, 875 Fifth Ave .; office, 71 Broadway, N. Y. City.

REID, John S .:

Instructor of mechanical drawing and designing, Cornell University, born Kil- marnock, Ayreshire, Scotland, March 25, 1856 ; son of David Reid and Sarah Crigh- ton Simpson ; received common school edu- cation at Nuphill, Kilmarnock, Ardrossan and Irvine, studying subsequently at Ir- vine Academy and for some time in en- gineering shops in Kilmarnock, Glasgow, Scotland, and in Boston, Mass., Schenec- tady, N. Y., and Rome, N. Y. Married Elavira Lee Vandermark, at Rome, Dec. 18, 1884. General secretary of Young Men's Association at New Brighton, Pa., 1890. Instructor in machine design in Cornell University since 1891. Member American Society Mechanical Engineers, N. Y. R. R. Club, president Young Men's Christian Association, superintendent of Presbyterian Home Department of Sunday

Artist ; born Stockbridge, Mass., July 29, 1863; began his art studies 1880 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, going thence to N. Y. City, where, during 1883-1885, he studied at the Art Students' League; latter year he went to France, studying at the Académie Julien, under Boulanger and Fefebvre. Exhibited his work at the Paris Salon and at the Exposition of 1889. In the summer of that year he returned to N. Y. and has continued there ever since. Is instructor of painting at the Art Stu- dents' League and Cooper Institute; was engaged in the painting of the frescoes on the domes of Liberal Arts Building, World's Fair, Chicago, 1893 ; also numerous other mural decorations. Some of his work may be seen at the Congressional Library, at Washington; Massachusetts State House, Boston ; Appellate Court House, N. Y., etc. Is an associate of the National Academy of Design. Address, 142 E. 33d St., N. Y. City.

REID, Sydney (Robert Charles Fornerl) :

Author; son of Henry and Marion Reid ; born Toronto, Can., Sept. 5, 1857; was educated in the common and grammar schools of Uxbridge and Belleville, Canada. Printer in Canada from 1871 to 1880; re- porter Brooklyn Union Argus, 1883-84; on Brooklyn Eagle, 1884-90, and 1892-95; N. Y. World, 1891-2. In 1888, by means of the Brooklyn Eagle, attacked and de- stroyed the Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn, on charge of causing many deaths by reck- less and improper operations. Won subse- quent suit for libel, proving all charges. By means of the N. Y. Herald and with the assistance of all judges of criminal courts, conducted agitation which led to the establishment of a State Reformatory for women. Appointed agent of Long Is- land Historical Society to gather data for Early History of Brooklyn (1897), under chapter 457 of N. Y. Laws of 1897, which work still continues. Author: Josey and the Chipmunk (St. Nicholas Magazine and the Century Publishing Co.) ; Songs (words and music) ; and contributor of poems, essays, short stories, etc., to the leading magazines. Lecturer on early lo- cal history, Henry Hudson ; Dutch Days in America, etc. Address, Independent, 130

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Fulton St., Manhattan; home, 217 Carlton | him as editor-in-chief, and also became Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

REID, Whitelaw:

the principal owner of the paper; as such he has made the Tribune a leading ex-

ponent of the principles of the Republican party, and it has remained from that time to this one of the most vigorous and in-

Editor and diplomat; born Oct. 27, 1837, near Xenia, O., of which town his father, a strict Covenanter, was one of the foun- ders. Mr. Reid was educated at the fluential organs of the party. His Me- morial of Horace Greeley, an interesting biographical sketch of his late friend and chief, was published in 1873. In 1878 Mr. Reid was chosen by the Legislature of the State regent for life of the University of New York; was subsequently twice offered the post of minister to Germany- by President Hayes and afterwards by President Garfield-but in both instances he declined; later, in President Harrison's administration, he accepted the French embassy, a post which he filled with honor and dignity, the public appreciation of his services abroad being expressed in dinners by the Chamber of Commerce, the Ohio Society, the Lotos Club, and other organizations on his return home. The Chamber of Commerce elected him an honorary member, a mark of respect which had been bestowed on only fifteen other men during the century of the chamber's existence. Shortly afterwards he was chosen as chairman of the Re- publican State Convention, held to elect delegates to the Republican National Con- vention of 1892; this convention, after nominating General Harrison as its candi- date for the Presidency, asked the New York delegation to name a candidate for Vice-President. Mr. Reid was named, and was accepted by a unanimous vote of the convention; his letter of accept- ance, and the several speeches which he afterwards made, were among the most effective contributions to the literature of the campaign. Was special ambassador of the U. S. to Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 1897; member peace commission to Paris for negotiation of Peace Treaty with Spain, securing Porto Rico, Guam and Philippines, 1898; special ambassador to coronation of Edward VII., 1902; Chan- cellor of University of the State of New York, 1904. In March, 1905, Mr. Reid was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James. Author: After the War, (1867); Ohio in the War, (1868); Newspaper Tendencies, (1874); Town Hall Suggestions, (1881); Our New Duties, (1899); Our New Inter- ests 1900); Problems of Expansion (1900); The Monroe Doctrine, the Polk Doctrine and Anarchism, (1903); The Thing to Do, a Phi Beta Kappa address, Miami University, which he was gradu- ated from in 1855. He very early in his career entered into political and newspa- per life, making speeches for the Repub- lican party in the Frémont campaign, when not yet twenty years of age, and becoming editor of the Xenia News; soon after became widely known as a ready and able writer, by his brilliant letters to the Cincinnati Gazette, signed "Agate." He was thus engaged at the opening of the Civil War, his letters attracting at- tention alike from their vigorous style and their trustworthy information; took part in the war as a volunteer aide-de- camp to General Morris, and afterwards to General Rosecrans in the West Virginia campaign of 1861; later he served as war correspondent with the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of the Poto- mac, and was present at the battles of Shiloh and Gettysburg. In 1863 he re- ceived the appointment as librarian of the House of Representatives at Wash- ington, in which he remained until 1866, contributing meanwhile Washington cor- respondence to the Cincinnati Gazette, of which he had become one of the proprietors; after the war he made a journey through the South, and for some time tried cotton planting in Louisiana and Alabama. The results of his obser- vations while thus engaged were em- bodied in a book entitled After the War, which was published in 1866. For two years he was engaged in writing a book entitled Ohio in the War; this was pub- lished in 1868, and is esteemed as of much historical value. Mr. Reid's connection with the Tribune began in 1868, in which year he was invited by Horace Greeley to come to N. Y. City and accept an editorial position upon that paper. His ability in this field soon made itself so manifest that he was quickly advanced to the post of managing editor, in which he showed much skill and activity in gathering news, and came into such favor with Mr. Gree- ley that, when in 1872 he accepted the nomination for the Presidency, he put the whole control of the paper in Mr. Reid's hands; it has remained there ever since. On the death of Mr. Greeley, which took place immediately after the 1872 Presidential election, Mr. Reid succeeded | etc. Residence, 451 Madison Ave., N. Y .

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 136

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