Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 138

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Manufacturer and merchant; member of firm of G. W. Richardson & Son; born N. Y. City, Dec. 24, 1862; was graduated from Trinity College as Bachelor of Arts, 1884; Master of Arts, 1887; member of Phi Beta Kappa Society and Alpha Delta Phi Fra- ternity. Corresponding secretary Cayuga County Historical Society, 1886-1902; vice- president of the same, 1902-trustee and member of the executive committee of George Junior Republic, 1897; president

member of Board of Education, Au- burn, N. Y., 1899-all of which offices he has held up to the present time; presi- dent of the board, 1901-02; formerly presi- dent of the Board of Trade, Young Men's Christian Association, and of the Kinder- garten Association of Auburn; governor and secretary of Owasco Country Club; original member of the National Arts Club; also member of the University, Players, and Century Clubs, the Trinity Alumni Association, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, all of N. Y. City; director in the Auburn & Northern R. R. Permanent address, 138 South St., Auburn, N. Y.

RICHARDSON, Leander:

Journalist, author; born Cincinnati, Feb. 28, 1856 ; educated common schools : has written as correspondent and staff member for nearly all leading newspa- ners; on editorial staff New York Morn- ing Telegraph. 1896-1900; editor Dramatic News, 1891-98. Author: The Dark City, (sketches of London life); Lord Dunmer- sey, (novel) ; As Ye Sow, (novel). Adapt- er of French operettas and plays; Oli- vette ; The Snake Charmer; Anselma ; The Nominee, etc. Author (plays): The Mil- lionaire; Under the City Lamps, etc. Ad- dress, 109 West 42d St., N. Y. City.

RICHARDSON, Ransom L .:

Lawyer; born Angelica, N. Y., Jan. 25, 1873 ; son of David P. Richardson, who is still practicing law there. Received the degree of LL. B. from Cornell in 1895. Was admitted to the Bar in 1894, and has practiced law in Fillmore since 1895. Ad- dress, Fillmore, N. Y.

RICHMAN, Julia:

Educator, writer, and communal work- er; born New York, Oct. 12, 1855; edu- cated at Union School, Huntington, L. I., 1861-66; public school 50 and Normal Col- lege, New York, 1866-72; School of Ped- agogy, New York University, 1897-98; appointed teacher in 1872, principal of public school 77 in 1884, and district superintendent of schools in 1903; pioncer in many reform educational movements, including introduction of manual training. mothers' meetings in public schools, spe- cial instruction for deficient children, the abolition of written examination tests for promotion, music recitals in schools, etc. Only woman chosen as district su- perintendent of schools in Manhattan; writer of articles in The Outlook, the Educational Review, School Work and other educational papers; founder and

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editor of Helpful Thoughts (1896), a mag- azine for Jewish children. Member of the educational council of the Jewish Chau- tauqua Society; active worker on lower east side, 1885-1904, as director of He- brew Free School Association; one of the organizers and most active members of the Educational Alliance; charter member of the Council of Jewish Women and chairman of its committee on religious school work, 1893-1899; first president of the Young Women's Hebrew Association, 1886-90. Address, Public School 2, N. Y. City.

RICHMOND, George Chalmers:

Protestant Episcopal clergyman and au- thor; born Springfield, Mass., April 10, 1870; prepared for college at Williston Seminary; was graduated from Yale Col- lege, 1895, and from the Hartford The- ological Seminary, 1898; pastor of the Union Congregational Church in Somers- ville, Conn., 1898-1900, and of the First Congregational Church in Prescott, Mass., 1900-1901. In Sept., 1901, entered the

Episcopal Church. Ordained deacon, 1902; priest, 1903, by the Right Reverend F. D. Huntington, D. D., Bishop of Cen- tral New York. Assistant minister to Bishop Huntington at Syracuse, N. Y., 1901-03; pastor of the Church of St. John the Divine, Syracuse, N. Y., 1903. As- sistant minister, Church of the Holy Trinity, N. Y. City, 1904. Author of ser- mons: The Glory of Life; Spiritual Dis- crimination; The Progress of Life; In- spirations of Life. Lectures: Concio ad Clerum; The Pulpit in the New Century; The Authority of the Preacher; Memorial Discourse on Life and Service of Bishop Huntington. Address, 335 East 87th St., N. Y. City.

RICKARD, Richard D .:

Secretary and treasurer New York, On- tario and Western road; born June, 1856, Michigan; educated at Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute. Entered railway ser- vice, Nov., 1878, since which he has been division clerk, middle division New York, Ontario and Western road at Middletown, N. Y .; 1881, secretary to general super- intendent; Feb., 1887, purchasing agent and paymaster; April, 1889, to date, secre- tary and treasurer, same road. Address, 56 Beaver St., N. Y. City.

RIDDER, Herman:

Journalist; born N. Y. City, of German parentage, March 5, 1851, and has lived here all his life. When he was eleven years old he went to work as an errand boy in a hat store. Later he became a

[ messenger in a Wall Street broker's

office. In his thirteenth year he entered the employ of a fire insurance company, and at the age of twenty he was an in- surance agent. When he was twenty- seven he had made up his mind to enter the newspaper business. In 1878 he established the Katholisches Volksblatt, a German Catholic weekly, and eight years later he started the Catholic News, which in a very short time was recog- nized as the leading Catholic paper in the country. Mr. Ridder in 1890 became a stockholder in the New Yorker Staats- Zeitung, and was elected trustee, treas- urer and manager. He has held these offices ever since. Mr. Ridder has taken an active part in politics as an Independ - ent Democrat. He was a prominent par- ticipant in the Cleveland campaigns and in the Reform movements. In the Ger- man-American Reform Union he has been especially active. Besides being a trus- tee of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank and of the German Hospital. he is a director of the Associated Press and treas- urer of the New York Publishers' Asso- ciation. Member Chamber of Commerce, and of the Manhattan, Liederkranz, Arion, Catholic, Reform, Democratic, City,

Press, German Press and Hardware clubs. Mr. Ridder has devoted much time to charitable work. Member Charity Organization Society, the Isabella Heim- ath, the German Society, the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the Legal Aid Society, and a large number of other such bodies. He was married in 1880, and has three sons. Address, The Staats-Zeitung, N. Y. City.

RIDEAL, Charles Frederick:

Author and playwright; born England, June 10, 1858; educated Cowley School, Lancashire; studied medicine, but aban- doned it because of ill health; entered upon literature and journalism; was ed- itor Life, London. also Magazine and Book Review; established and edited the Nursing Record, the Nursing News and the Medical Review, and took a promi- nent part in securing a charter for the incorporation and enrollment of the hos- pital trained nurses of England as the Royal British Nurses Association; found- ed the Medical Defense Union, (England). Writer and lecturer on works of Charles Dickens; has written, compiled or edited 25 volumes in various branches of liter- ature. Author: (under the pen name of Freeman Morris) of plays: Little Nell; Cassock and Crown; Our Girls; Lady

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Betty's Bracelet; The Chief Officer; Under | Co .; director Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern R. R. Co .; Shawmut Coal & Coke Co. Residence, 138 West 61st St .; office, 45 Wall St., N. Y. City.

the Clock; the Schoolmaster, etc., etc .; elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Eng., 1887; for some years was a member of the council of the Lecturer Institute of Great Britain; president and treasurer of the Dryden Press and Print Shop, New York. Member Sea Cliff Yacht, and also the Playgoers and Vaga- bonds Clubs, London. Address, 1204 Broadway, N. Y. City.

RIDER, Ira Edgar:

Ex-member of Congress; born Nov. 17, 1868, Jersey City, N. J .; was educated at the public schools, City of N. Y., the College of the City of N. Y., and is a graduate of St. Lawrence University; is associated with the firm of Lexow, Mac- Kellar, Guy & Wells, attorneys; was secretary of the borough of Manhattan from 1898 to 1902; married, June 30, 1898, Sophia R. Funke; was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Address, 1297 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City.

RIDER, Wheelock, M. D .:

Was graduated from University of Rochester in 1883; Syracuse University, 1885; ophthalmic surgeon to Rochester City Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, Roch- ester, N. Y., New York State Sailors and Soldiers Home, Bath, N. Y .; consulting surgeon Craig Colony for Epileptics, Sonyea, N. Y .; president Monroe County Medical Society; ex-president Hospital, Medical and Rochester Pathological Socie- ties; secretary National Association U. S. Pension Examining Surgeons. Member American Ophthalmological Society, Am- erican Otological Society; Fellow Ameri- can Academy of Medicine. Address, 53 South Fitzhugh St., Rochester, N. Y.

RIDGWAY, Erman Jesse:

Publisher; born Muskingum County, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1867. Was graduated from Yale University, 1892. Salesman for Na- tional Folding Box and Paper Co., 1892 to 1894. General manager for Frank A. Munsey, 1894 to 1903. April. 1903, pres- ident of The Ridgway-Thayer Co., pub- lishers of Everybody's Magazine. Mem- ber Yale Club, Lotos Club, Ohio Society, Delta Upsilon Club, Sphinx Club, Aldine Association, Periodical Publishers Asso- ciation; treasurer of International Ad- vertising Association. Address, Every- body's Magazine, Union Square, N. Y. RIDGWAY, Frederic H .:

Secretary and director American Con- struction Co .; secretary, treasurer and di- rector Colonial Promotion Co .; treasurer and director Cuban Land and Steamship

RIDGWAY, Thomas:

Captain, U. S. Army Artillery; born New York. Cadet at U. S. Military Acad- emy, July 1, 1879; was graduated, June 13, 1883; second lieutenant Fifth U. S. Artil- lery, June 13, 1883; first lieutenant, Fourth Artillery, Feb. 12, 1891; trans- ferred to Fifth Artillery, May 23, 1891; transferred to Sixth Artillery, March 8, 1898, and to Fifth Artillery, April 29, 1898. Captain, March 18, 1899. Served in Spanish-American War and in China Relief Expedition, 1900-1901. On duty at Fort Snelling, Minn., with Tenth Battery. Address, Fort Snelling, Minn.

RIEGEL, John S .:

Treasurer, manager and director War- ren Mfg. Co .; director Consolidated Bag Co., H. D. Smith & Co., Plantsville, Conn., Phillipsburg National Bank, Riegel Sack Co., Walkley, Riegel Barnes & Co., Phil- adelphia, Pa., Warren Foundry & Ma- chine Co. Residence, The Ansonia; office, 150 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

RIELLY, Thomas P .:

Democratic Assemblyman, representing the Third Assembly district of Kings County; born Ireland, 1850, but when only six months old was brought to this country by his parents. Mr. Reilly re- ceived his education in a public school and at Brown's Business School. He was employed in Robinson's Stores for thirty- five years. He has always beeen an act- ive Democrat. Nominated for Assem- blyman by the Democratic party in 1903, he received 4,285 votes. In 1904 Mr. Reilly was appointed a member of the following Assembly Committees: Public Education, and Agriculture; re-elected in 1904. Address, Cheever Place, N. Y.

RIIS, Jacob August:

Journalist; born Ribe, Denmark, May 3, 1849; emigrated to America in 1870; married Elisabeth Nielsen, of Ribe, Den- mark, 1876. Reporter on New York Tribune and Evening Sun. Reformer, lec- turer and author of many articles and books on tenement house and poverty conditions; executive officer Good Gov- ernment Clubs, 1896-97; secretary of Small Parks Committee, etc. Books: How the Other Half Lives; The Children of the Poor; The Battle with the Slum; The Making of an American; Children of the Tenements; Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen; Is there a Santa Claus, Address,

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524 Beech St., Richmond Hill, Long Isl- graduated from Cornell University, B. and, N. Y. M. E., 1881. Married, 1891. Perie Clapp. RIKER, John L .: Inventor of the famous Rites governor for steam engines. Alderman of City of Ithaca, 1900-04. Address, 516 Univer- sity Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.

Commission drug merchant; vice-presi- dent Atlantic Trust Co. Bank of New York, and Fifth Avenue Safe Deposit Co .; trustee Greenwich Savings Bank and At- lantic Mutual Insurance Co .; director Continental Insurance Co., New Jersey Zinc Co. and Second National Bank. Member Union League, Metropolitan Riding, Down Town, New York Yacht, City Clubs and Holland Society. Address, 19 West 57th St., N. Y. City.

RILEY, Lewis A .:

President and director Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., Lehigh & Hudson River Ry. Co .; director American Gas Co., Hunt- ingdon & Broad Top Mountain R. R. & Coal Co., Tradesmen's National Bank, Philadelphia, Westmoreland Coal Co. Address, 143 Liberty St., N. Y. City. RINKER, Archie T., Ph.B .:

Educator; was graduated from the University of Rochester, 1897; principal High School, Victor, N. Y., 1897-99; Ak- ron, N. Y., 1899-03; member Rochester Academy of Science. Address, Akron, N. Y.

RIONDA, Manuel:

Director Francisco Sugar Co .; secre- tary and director Rosario Sugar Co .; di- rector Cuban-American Sugar and Land Co., Feliz Sugar Co., Tuinuco Sugar Co., Vincente G. Abreu Co. Residence, 141 West 93d St .; office, 112 Wall St., N. Y. RIORDAN, Daniel J .:

Democratic State Senator, representing the Tenth Senate District; born N. Y. City, 1872; attended public schools and in 1890 was graduated from Manhattan College; then became partner with his father in real estate business; elected member of 56th Congress from the Eighth Congress District in 1898; elected State Senator, 1902; re-elected in 1904; in 1903 appointed member of following commit- tees : Insurance and Military Affairs. Ad- dress, 8 Roosevelt St., N. Y. City.

RIPTON, Benjamin Henry :

Professor of History and dean of Union College; born Johnstown, N. Y., March 21, 1858; educated Johnstown Academy and Union College. Member Board of Education, City of Schenectady. Married Miss Francena Nare, of Johns- town. N. Y., June 2, 1880; Independent. Address, 38 Union Ave., Schenectady, N. Y.

RITES, Francis Marion:

Inventor; born Chester, N. Y .; was

RITTERSHAUS, John A .:

Vice and deputy consul, U. S. of Amer- ica; born Barmen, April 27, 1839; emi- grated to the U. S. in 1859; was natur- alized in 1864; was engaged in business in New York for thirty years; appointed vice and deputy consul at Barmen, Ger- many, Dec. 1, 1899. Address, Barmen, Germany.

BIVES, Amelie (Princess Pierre Trou. betzkoy) :

Author; born Virginia, and is a grand- daughter of William Cabell Rives, who was well known in American public life half a century ago, having been twice United States Minister to France, and a United States Senator for a number of years. Her first production in literature was a series of stories entitled A Brother to Dragons, (which was published in 1888.) That was soon followed by The Quick or the Dead, which brought her into prominence. Her later writings in- clude: Virginia of Virginia; The Witness of the Sun; According to St. John; Bar- bara Dering; Athelwold; Tanis, and Herod and Mariamne, a tragedy in blank verse. In 1896 she married

Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy. Address, Castle Hill, Cob- ham, Albemarle County, Va.

RIVES, George L .:

Lawyer; born New York, May 1, 1849; was graduated from Columbia College, in 1868, and from Trinity College, Cam- bridge, England, in 1872. Returning to America, he entered the Columbia Law School, in 1873. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1874, and has continued to practice in the city since then. 1900 was chosen president of the com- In mission to revise the Greater New York Charter. The work which as president of that commission he carried out result- ed in the present new charter for N. Y. City. Assistant Secretary of State of the U. S., 1887-89. Trustee Columbia College, 1882, and chairman of the board, 1902; trustee Astor Library, 1883-88; trustee Lenox Library, 1893-95; trustee New York Public Library since 1895; member New York Rapid Transit R. R. Commission from 1896 to Dec. 31, 1901; president com- mittee to revise charter of Greater New York, 1900; corporation counsel, New York, 1902-03. Address, 14 West 38th St .;

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office, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

RIVES, Hallie Erminie:

Author; born Christian County, Ky., 1878; on her father's side descended from Sir John Ryves, of Damory Court, Dor- setshire, England, and on her mother's side is descended from John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury ; is a cousin of Amelie, Princess Troubetskoi. Author: A Furnace of Earth; Smoking Flax; Hearts Courageous; The Castaway; Tales From Dickens, etc. Address, Care Bobbs- Merrill Co., Temple Court, N. Y. City.

ROACH, George H .:

Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army, Infan- try; born New York. Appointed from New York, civil life. Private Company F, Twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteer In- fantry, Feb. 27, 1864; discharged, July 20, 1865; second lieutenant, Seventeenth U. S. Infantry, Oct. 1, 1873; first lieutenant, June 28, 1878; captain, Feb. 4, 1893; served in Spanish-American War; major, Twen- ty-eighth Infantry, Feb. 2, 1901. Lieu- tenant Colonel, 20th Infantry, March 29, 1904. Address, 109 Bastable Building, Syracuse, N. Y.

ROBE, Charles F .:

Brigadier-general, U. S. Army; born N. Y., Nov. 23, 1841. Appointed from Michigan-civil life.

First lieutenant One Hundred and Forty-seventh New York Volunteer Infantry, Sept. 11, 1862; captain, Nov. 10, 1863; honorably must- ered out, March 11, 1864; captain Veteran Reserve Corps, March 5, 1864; honorably mustered out Sept. 7, 1866; first lieuten- ant, Twenty-ninth U. S. Infantry, July 28, 1866; assigned to Twenty-fifth Infan- try, Jan. 31, 1870; Captain, Jan. 25, 1882; major Fourteenth Infantry, July 5, 1895; lieutenant-colonel Seventeenth Infantry, Sept. 16, 1898; served in Spanish-Ameri- can War; colonel, Ninth Infantry, July 13, 1900. Brigadier-general, retired, Aug. 1, 1903. Address, First and Juniper Sts., San Diego, Cal.

ROBERTS, Charles George Douglas:

Author; born Douglas, New Brunswick, Jan. 10, 1860; was graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1879, and received the degree of A. M. in 1880. He was married, in 1880, to Mary I. Fene- ty. Was head master of the Chatham Grammar School, 1879-81, and of the York Street School, Fredericton, 1881-83 ; editor of The Week, Toronto, 1883-84; professor of English and French literature King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1881-88; professor of English and economics in the same institution, 1888-95; associate editor | a charter member of the old Franklin

Illustrated American, New York, 1897-98. Author: Orion and Other Poems; In Di- vers Tones; Ave: An Ode for the Shelley Centenary; Songs of the Common Day; The Book of the Native; New York Noc- turnes; The Book of the Rose; The Can- adians of Old; Earth's Enigmas; The Raid from Beauséjour; A History of Canada ; The Forge in the Forest; Around the Camp Fire; Reube Dare's Shad Boat; A Sister to Evangeline, (1898); Apple- ton's Canadian Guide Book, (1890); By the Marshes of Minas, (1900); The Heart of the Ancient Wood, (1900); Poems, Col- lective edition, (1901); The Kindred of the Wild, (1902); and Barbara Ladd, (1902). Editor : The Alastor and Adonais of Shel- ley (with introduction and notes), 1902. The Watchers of the Trails, (1904); The Prisoner of Mademoiselle, (1904). Ad- dress, 22 West 9th St., N. Y. City.

ROBERTS, Ellis H .:

Treasurer of the U. S .; born Utica, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1827; was graduated from Yale in 1850; received degree of LL.D. from Hamilton College in 1869, and from Yale College in 1884. Was (1850-51) prin- cipal of Utica Free Academy, and teach- er of Latin in Utica Female Academy, and (1850-89) editor of the Utica Morn- ing Herald. Member New York Assem- bly, 1867; representative in Congress, 1871-75; assistant treasurer of the U. S. at New York, 1889-93; treasurer of the U. S. since 1897. Author: Government Revenue, and History of New York, and of addresses on financial topics before American Bankers Association and other organizations, and of articles in financial publications. Address, 1313 Massachu- setts Ave., Washington, D. C.

ROBERTS, George H., Jr .:

Postmaster of Brooklyn, N. Y .; born Rochester, N. Y., 1852; at the age of ten he went with his family to St. Louis and there received his early education. When fourteen years old he removed to Brook- lyn, where, with the exception of a year spent in study in Germany, at Dresden, he has ever since resided; before going to Germany he pursued a course of study at the Polytechnic Institute. Returning to Brooklyn in 1873 he entered into the employ of Roberts & Collin, flour merch- ants of New York, and years ago suc- ceeded his uncle, George H. Roberts, as a member of the firm. For a number of years Mr. Roberts has been a member of the New York Produce Exchange; is a trustee of the Emmanuel Baptist Church,

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Literary Society, and is prominently identified with Union League Club and Marine and Field Club. Was married in

1878 and has two children, a son, a sophomore at Yale, and a daughter, who was graduated from Vassar. In politics he has always been a Republican; was a delegate to the St. Louis and Philadel- phia Conventions which nominated Mc- Kinley, and before going on that fatal visit to Buffalo, the martyred President had promised, not only on the score of party service, but also on that of per- sonal friendship, to appoint Mr. Roberts to the postmastership. He was appointed by President Roosevelt and his nomina- tion readily confirmed by the Senate in Dec., 1901. At the time of his appoint- ment Mr. Roberts was chairman of the Republican City Committee of the Great- er New York, a position which he has since resigned. Address, Post Office, Brooklyn, N. Y.

ROBERTS, James A .:

President and director American Indus- trials Co .; vice-president and director Buffalo Loan, Trust & Safe Deposit Co., Medina Quarry Co., National Electrolytic Co .; director American Strawboard Co., Buffalo Realty Co., International Time Recording Co., Knickerbocker Pulp and Paper Co., National News Board Co., Na- tional Sugar Manufacturing Co., Paper Products Co., Standard Milling Co .; Chair- man of the Board of Directors, United Box Board and Paper Co. Residence, The Mar- tinique ; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.

ROBERTS, James H .:

Lawyer; born June 24, 1860, Mt. Pleas- ant, Cal .; attended Hamilton College, class of 1886. Admitted to the Bar, 1887. Married July 1, 1890, Jennie K. Howland, of Sherburne, N. Y. Recorder of City, 1894. Republican. Residence, Bingham- ton, N. Y.

ROBERTSON, Andrew James:

Lawyer; born March 30, 1851, Andes, N. Y. He attended Cornell University, 1871-72. Admitted to the Bar, 1876. Mar- ried, Dec. 19, 1878, Martha Hayt Thomp- son, of Elmira, N. Y .; practiced at Delhi, 1876-77, Elmira, 1877-93, and Buffalo since 1893. Republican. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

ROBERTSON, Fred. Y .:

Vice-president, treasurer and director. American Cotton Co .; director Alabama Cotton Products Co .; Arkansas Cotton Products Co., Louisiana Cotton Products Co., Oklahoma Cotton Products Co., Ten- nessee Cotton Products Co., Texas Cotton May 27, 1894.

Products Co. Residence, Hotel Welling- ton ; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.

ROBERTSON, Joseph L .:

Banker, broker and dealer in invest- ments; born on the old family estate in Montgomery County, Ky., Oct. 4, 1838. The Robertson family were prominent among the early settlers of Kentucky and Tennessee. On the maternal side Mr. Robertson's line is derived from old Huguenot nobility of France. His early education was obtained in his native town. Appointed to Military Academy at West Point by the Hon. John C. Mason. His career as cadet, however, was abruptly cut short by the breaking out of the Civil War, when, true to his Southern origin, he entered the Confederate ser- vice. He was active in recruiting the company mustered in as Company H, of the Fourth Kentucky Volunteers, and be- came its first lieutenant. He was rapidly promoted, being soon made adjutant of the regiment. Subsequently he was appoint- ed assistant adjutant-general of the bri- gade commanded by General John C. Breckinridge. In 1863 he served on the staff of General Howes, of Kentucky, in the Trans-Mississippi Department, subse- quently on the staff of General Waul, of Texas, and finally with General Magruder, to whose command he was attached until the close of the war. Upon the con- clusion of peace the South offered but meagre opportunity for either desirable or profitable employment. Recognizing that the solution of the problem of the South was the development of its resources, he identified himself with Southern railroad interests. His first connection was with the Selma, Rome and Dalton R. R. Subsequently he joined the Virginia and Tennessee Air Line R. R. He came to N. Y. City in 1877, and established him- self as a broker and dealer in invest- ments and securities. He is a prominent member of the Southern Society and the New York Club. He owns a stock farm, "Meadowland," in Monmouth County, N. J. Married, in 1869, Mary Webb Pollard, of Montgomery, Ala., daughter of Wil- liam H. Pollard, and niece of Charles T. Pollard, two of the most prominent citi- zens of that State. He has four children, William Pollard, Benjamin J., Jr., Mary Elizabeth and Clara Pollard. Address, 66 Broadway, N. Y. City.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 138

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