Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 140

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RODGERS, John Isaac:

Brigadier-general U. S. Army; born Fayette County, Pa., April 18, 1839; son of John and Eliza Saffel Rodgers; was graduated from Waynesburg College, Pa., 1855, West Point, May 6, 1861. Married, Sept. 25. 1872, Esther F. Rogers, Astoria, Ore. Commissioned second lieutenant, Second Artillery, May 6, 1861; first lieu- tenant, May 14, 1861; captain, June 11, 1864; major First Artillery, Oct. 2, 1883 ; lieutenant-colonel, Second Artillery, Oct. 25, 1894; colonel Fifth Artillery, June 1, 1897 ; brigadier-general of volunteers, May 4, 1898 ; brigadier-general, U. S. Army, Oct. 14, 1902 ; retired, Oct. 15, 1902. Served dur- ing Civil War; with General Patterson's army in Shenandoah Valley, 1861; com-

manded battery at Fort Pickens, and light battery in Louisiana; was in General Bank's Expedition and battles on the Red River Campaigns 1863-64, and Siege of Port Hudson. Instructor of mathematics, West Point, Oct., 1864, to June, 1865; served with regiment 1865-89 (including railroad riot service in Maryland and West Virginia, 1877, and Mexican border trouble, 1877-81); served as artillery in- spector, 1889-98, except part of 1895-96, commander of Fort Schuyler, N. Y .; as brigadier-general of volunteers, 1898, and chief of artillery of the army in the field; mustered out of volunteer service at end of war, Nov. 30, 1898, and resumed com- mand of his regiment at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. Has prepared range tables, coast artillery drill regulations, and other pa- pers on artillery subjects, published by the War Department. Address, 133 Rem- sen St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

RODGERS, Thomas Slidell:

Lieutenant-commander U. S. Navy; born N. Y. City. Entered Naval Academy Sept. 24. 1874; was graduated, June 4, 1880; Galena, 1880. Promoted Ensign, Dec. 1, 1881; Lancaster, 1880-83; Juniata, 1886-89; inspector ordnance department, Navy Yard, Washington, 1889, to June, 1892. Promoted lieutenant (junior grade), March 26, 1889; Chicago, N. A. Station, June, 1892. Promoted to lieutenant, Oct. 1, 1893 ; June, 1893, U. S. S. Bennington ; U. S. S. Ranger, to June, 1895; leave of absence, June, 1895, to Aug., 1895; Navy Yard, Washington, Aug., 1895, to May, 1897; U. S. S. Baltimore (staff), May, 1897, to April, 1898; flag lieutenant, U. S. S. Bennington, April, 1898; Navy Yard, Washington, Nov. 3, 1898. Promoted to

22, lieutenant-commander, Nov. 1900. Member board of inspection and survey, Jan. 28. 1901, to Dec., 1902; U. S. S. Maine since Dec., 1902. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.

ROE, Charles F .:

Brigadier-general U. S. Volunteers and Major-general National Guard of N. Y. State; born in and appointed to Military Academy from N. Y. City; was graduated from West Point and promoted in the army to second lieutenant, First Cavalry, June 15, 1868. Served on frontier duty at Fort Vancouver, Wash., Oct. to Dec., 1868; Camps Warner and Harney, Ore., Dec., 1868, to May, 1870; on frontier duty Omaha Barracks, Neb., March to Sept., 1872; Fort Ellis, Mont., Oct., 1872, to April 1, 1876; on leave of absence, Nov. 17, 1876, to Jan. 17, 1877; at Fort Custer, Mont.,

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Sept., 1877, to April, 1878 ; on leave of ab- [dence, New Rochelle, N. Y .; office, 141 sence, May, 1878, to May, 1879; on fron- Broadway, N. Y. City. tier duty at Fort Keogh, Mont., May, 1879, ROGERS, Cornelia H. B., Ph. D .: to June, 1880; at headquarters of the De- Educator; born Waterbury, Conn., Jan. 21, 1862; educated at Wellesley College, A. B., 1884; Yale University, Ph. D., 1894; instructor in French and Spanish, Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, 1891-96; instructor in French and Italian, Vassar College, 1896-02; associate professor of Romance Languages, Vassar College, 1902 to date. Occasional translator for the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Member American Phil- ological Association. Address, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. partment of Dakota, Aug. to Oct., 1880; regimental adjutant, Dec., 1880, to May 1, 1886; promoted to first lieutenant of cav- alry, Dec. 20, 1880; at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., Nov., 1883, to Dec. 1, 1887. Re- signed Jan. 31, 1888; captain, New York State Militia, April 3, 1889; on duty at Buffalo, N. Y .. 1892, during switchmen's strike, and at Brooklyn, N. Y., 1895, dur- ing motormen's strike; major, National Guard, State of New York, Feb. 18, 1895; major-general National Guard, State of New York, Feb. 9, 1898; brigadier-general ROGERS, G. Tracy: United States Volunteers, June 10, 1898; honorably discharged from volunteer ser- vice, Sept. 10, 1898. Dealer in real estate. Address, 35 E. 37th St., N. Y. City.

ROEBLING, Ferdinand W .:

President and director Tabulating Ma- chine Co., Trenton Brass and Machine Co., Union Mills Paper Manufacturing Co .; secretary and director John A. Roeb- ling's Sons Co., of N. Y .; director Inter- state Ry.'s Co.,

Mechanics' National Bank, Trenton, N. J., New Jersey Wire Cloth Co., Otis Elevator Co., Public Ser- vice Corporation, Trenton Potteries Co., Trenton Street Ry. Co., Wilkesbarre & Hazleton R. R. Member Union League, Engineer's Clubs. Residence, Trenton, N. J. Office, 117 Liberty St., N. Y. City. ROGERS, Archibald :

Mechanical engineer; born Feb. 22, 1852, Jersey City, N. J .; was graduated from Yale University, 1873; trustee American Museum of Natural History. Member University, Knickerbocker. Metropolitan, Racquet and Tennis, N. Y. Yacht, Yale and Church Clubs, Society of Colonial Wars, Society of War of 1812, American Geographical Society, Sons of Revolution and Century Association. Address, Hyde Park, N. Y.

ROGERS, Charles Butler:

President of First National Bank of Utica; born Utica, N. Y .; son of Publius V. Rogers; was graduated from Harvard University, 1888. Member University and Harvard Club of N. Y. City, Society of Colonial Wars and Sons of American Revolution. Residence, Utica, N. Y. ROGERS, Clarence De Witt:

Lawyer; born May 26, 1871, N. Y. City; educated at College of City of New York and Columbia Law School. Member Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa Fraterni- ties, and City Bar Association. Resi-

President of the Street Railway Asso- ciation of the State of New York; born July 9 1854, Chenango Forks, N. Y. He resided at Chenango Forks until 1861, when his family removed to Binghamton. His education, consisting of a common school course, was completed at the Bing- hamton High School, from which he graduated at an early age, accepting a position in the First National Bank of Binghamton, N. Y., where he remained eight years. In 1889 he became identified with the street railway company of Bing- hamton. His first connection with that line of business was the purchase of the Washington Street Asylum and Park R. R. Not long thereafter he acquired additional existing street railway compa- nies which were merged into the Bing- hamton Street R. R. Co., of which he was elected president; also in 1894 all the re- maining street railroads of the city were purchased by him and merged into a new corporation known as the Binghamton R. R. Co., of which he was elected president. In 1893 he was elected president Street Ry. Association State of New York, which position he retained until 1903. He is also identified with many other busi- ness interests. He is president of the En- dicott Land Co. of Endicott, N. Y., which is engaged in developing a new industrial vilage in close proximity to Binghamton; is also the president of the Binghamton Industrial Exposition of Binghamton; vice president of Elmira Short Line R. R .; and a director in the New York and Jersey R. R. Co., Binghamton Trust Co., and the Hudson Valley R. R. Co. of Giens Falls, N. Y. Address, Binghamton, N. Y. ROGERS, Henry A .:

President of the Board of Education, N. Y. City; has been connected with the Board of Education for a number of years

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and chairman of some of the most im- ) portant committees; is now president of the board. Address, Park Ave. and 59th St., N. Y. City.

ROGERS, Henry H .:

Capitalist; born Fairhaven, Mass. Presi- dent Amalgamated Copper Co., National Transit Co. and New York Transit Co .; vice-president Standard Oil Co., Anacon- da Copper Mining Co., Brooklyn Un- ion Gas Co., and United Metals Sell-

ing Co; director Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co., Guaranty Trust Co., United States Steel Corporation and Un- nion Pacific R. R. Co. Member American Fine Arts Society, New England Society, American Museum of Natural History. Member Union League, Engineers, Metro- politan, N. Y. Yacht, Lotos Clubs. Resi- dence, 26 E. 57th St .; office, 26 Broadway, N. Y. City.

ROGERS, Irvin Henry :

Educator; was graduated from Univer- sity of Rochester in 1880 ; principal Frank- lin Academy, Plattsburg, N. Y., 1880-81; Union School, Belfast, N. Y., 1882-84; chief clerk Lehigh Valley R. R. freight office, Rochester, N. Y. Address, 12 Ed- monds St., Rochester, N. Y. ROGERS, James T .:

Republican Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly district of Broome County; born in Owego, April 18, 1864; educated at Whitneys Point, at Newark Valley, and finally at the Owego Free Academy. Entering upon

business life he acted as assistant postmaster of Owego for six years; then studied law with Howard J. Mead, county judge of Tioga County, and was clerk of his Surrogate's Court for several years; was also clerk of the village of Owego; he concluded his studies at the Cornell Law School in 1893, and was graduated by it as a Bachelor of Laws; was ad- mitted to the Bar in Sept., 1892, at the close of his junior year. He entered the law office of White & Cheney in 1893 at Syracuse, and remained with that firm until early in 1894, when he located in Binghamton, and formed a law partner- ship with S. Mack Smith, under the firm name of Smith & Rogers. That firm continued in existence until Oct., 1898, when it was dissolved when Mr. Smith was elected recorder of Binghamton. In Dec., 1898, he formed a law partnership with J. H. Roberts and Theodore R. Tuthill, under the firm name of Roberts, Tuthill & Rogers. In 1895 he was ap- pointed attorney for the police depart-

ment of Binghamton, and held that posi- tion until March, 1898; elected to Assem- bly 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, and 1904. He became the Republican leader in the Assembly in 1903 and was appoint- ed chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means. Thus the supervision of the State's expenses became one of his duties, and also the leadership of the Republican Assemblymen on party matters; is also a member of the Committee on Rules. Ad- dress, Binghamton, N. Y.

ROGERS, Noah Cornwell:

Lawyer; born, 1859, East Berlin, Conn .; was graduated from Amherst College, 1880, and attended Columbia Law School. In 1883 received the degree of A. M. Member of firm of Merrill & Rogers. Di- rector William E. Peck & Co. Trustee U. S. Savings Bank. Member Lawyers, Quill, Union League, University, Barnard and Congregational Clubs, New England Society and City Bar and Amherst Alum- ni Associations. Member of the Chamber of Commerce and director in Union Mort- gage and Realty Co. Residence, 147 West 81st St .; office, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

ROGERS, WATSON M .:

Justice of the Supreme Court of N. Y. Term expires December 31, 1914. Ad- dress, Watertown, N. Y.

ROGERS, William Arthur:

Iron manufacturer, Buffalo, N. Y. Born Berkshire, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1851. Resided for the first thirty-nine years at Cincin- nati, Ohio; was graduated from Yale Col- lege (Sheffield Scientific Department) in 1874. Entered in December of that year as clerk in the house of L. R. Hull & Co., pig iron merchants. Three years later admitted to the firm as junior partner; later formed the firm of Rogers & Trivett, in the same line of business, which, through the death of Mr. Trivett, soon after, and his place being taken by Mr. Archer Brown, became Rogers, Brown & Co. In 1890, removed to Buffalo to take charge of the Buffalo branch of Rogers, Brown & Co., and of the Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co., near Buffalo. At present senior partner of Rogers, Brown & Co., president of the Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co., of North Tonawanda, N. Y., presi- dent of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., president of the Punxsutawney Iron Co. of Punxsutawney, Pa., President of the Niagara Iron Mining Co., and the Rogers Iron Mining Co. of Michigan and Minnesota, and vice-presi- dent of the Iroquis Iron Co. of Chicago, Ill. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

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ROKENBAUGH, Henry Scott:

Lawyer; born Feb. 16, 1852, N. Y. City; was graduated from Rutgers College, 1872, and Columbia Law School, 1874. Member Lawyers, St. Nicholas, Players, Manhattan, New York Yacht, New York Athletic, Larchmont Yacht, Church and Delta Phi Clubs and St. Nicholas Society. Residence, 9 East 39th St .; office, 100 Broadway, N. Y. City.

ROLLINS, Edward A .:

Banker and stock broker; born New York, April 16, 1845; son of Gustavus A. Rollins, and Isabella G. (Fanshaw), daughter of Daniel Fanshaw, New York. Member New

York Stock Exchange, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colo- nial Wars, Society of Cincinnati, Montauk Club. Address, 754 Carroll St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

ROLLINS, Jordan Jackson:

Lawyer; born Portland, Me., Dec. 20, 1869. Was graduated from Dartmouth College, 1892, with degree of A. B. En- tered Harvard Law School. Came to New York; studied law with Hon. D. G. Rol- lins; admitted to Bar, 1894. Formed part- nership Rollins & Rollins. Counsel for various financial and other corporations. Director Acker, Merrill & Condit Co., Windsor Trust Co., Casualty Co. Amer- ica, New York and Queens County R. R. Co., Guayaquil & Quito R. R. Co. Mem- ber University, Harvard, Manhattan, Racquet and Tennis, New York Athletic Clubs, New York Bar Association, Union League, Liederkranz Clubs. Secretary New York Law Institute. Address, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

ROLLINS, Philip Ashton:

Lawyer; was graduated from Princeton University, 1889. Member of firm of Rollins & Rollins. Member University, Princeton, Union League, Grolier Clubs and New England Society. Residence, 28 East 78th St .; office, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

ROLLINS, Warren F .:

Banker and broker; born Jan. 1, 1877, Staten Island, N. Y .; educated at Brook- lyn Polytechnic Institute. Single. Mem- ber of firm of Rollins & Co., members of New York Stock Exchange. Member Nautilus Boat Club of Brooklyn, Sons of Revolution and 23d Regiment, N. G., N. Y. Residence, 754 Carroll St., Brook- lyn; office, 52 Braodway, N. Y. City. ROMEYN, Henry :

Major U. S. Army ; born Wayne County, N. Y., June 1, 1833. His military service began Aug. 15, 1862, and was in grades

of private, corporal, and sergeant, Com- pany G, One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry; as such served in Kentucky and Tennessee to Nov. 15, 1863, when ap- pointed captain Fourteenth U. S. Colored Infantry. Served as chief of scouts at Gallatin, Tenn., from Jan. to June, 1863. Recommended for commission as captain therefor. Engaged in recruiting for For- ty-second and Forty-fourth U. S. colored troops, March and April, 1864. With regiment till July, 1865. Provost marshal at Knoxville, Tenn., July to Dec., 1865. Brevetted major for services at battle of Nashville, March 2, 1865. Mustered out of volunteer service, March 29, 1866.

First lieutenant Thirty-seventh U. S. Infantry to date from Jan. 22, 1867. Commanding K. Company, Thirty-seventh Infantry from May, 1867, to May, 1869. Post quartermaster, post commissary and post adjutant, Fort Larned, Kan., May to Aug., 1867. Issuing commissary for Ute and Apache Indians at Commarron Agency, N. M., Feb. to May, 1869. As- signed to Fifth Infantry, Aug., 1869. Post adjutant, post quartermaster, post com- missary, ordnance and signal officer, post S. E., Kan., Oct., 1871, to May, 1873. Post quartermaster, post commissary at Fort Gibson, I. T., May, 1873 to Dec., 1874. In field against Indians, July, 1874, to April, 1875. In action with Indians, Chey- enne Agency, I. T., April 6, 1875. With regiment to Montana, Aug., 1876, to Oct., 1877. Post adjutant cantonment Tongue River, Montana, July and Aug., 1877. Wounded by shot through lungs (sup- posed at time, mortally) in action with Nez Percé Indians, Sept. 30, 1877, while in command of G Company, Fifth In- fantry, and two troops of Seventh Caval- ry, which had lost all officers, killed or wounded. Received brevet as major and awarded medal of honor for conduct in that action. On duty at Hampton In- stitute, Va., March, 1878, to Oct., 1881. At Fort Keogh, Mont., April to Oct., 1882. Fort Brown, Texas, Nov., 1882, to Nov., 1883; Fort Keogh, Mont., April, 1884, to June, 1888; captain Fifth Infantry, June 10, 1885. In action at Crow Agency, Mont., Nov. 12, 1887; at Fort Ringgold, Texas, Mt. Vernon Barracks, Ala., Jack- son Barracks, New Orleans, La., and Fort McPherson, Ga., Aug., 1888, to June 1, 1897, when retired "by operation of law." Period of active service, thirty- five years, less three months; number of brevets, three. Recommendations for promotion by superior officers, six. Sixth

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in line of descent from Klaas Romeyn, quently, Mr. Rooney wrote much verse lieutenant of army of Holland, also from which was published in all the leading periodicals and newspapers. During the Spanish-American War, he wrote many ballads relating to the incidents of the war, the mos't noted of which was The Men Behind the Guns, published in the first days of the war and which was the first use of this since celebrated phrase. He also wrote the song for the 250th Anniversary of the discovery of Manhattan Island, which was sung in all the public schools of Greater New York by the children; the song-Right Makes Might. He is a director of the Catholic Club of New York, president of the Pleiades Club; former secretary of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick; presi- dent of the Irish Club of New York; a director of the Society of American Au- thors, and a member of many other or- ganizations. Married Miss Marie Collins, of Washington, D. C. Address, 66 Beaver St., N. Y. City. Hendrick Hendrickse Schoonmacker, lieu- tenant of Noble Guard of Governor Stuy- vesant, seventh in descent from Jan Van Kampe, captain in navy of Holland, and from Nicholas Du Puy, Huguenot, immigrant, A. D. 1662. Grandson of Colonel and Judge Abraham Romeyn, a soldier of Revolutionary Army, and ed- itor of The Johnstown Advertiser, Johns- town, N. Y., (1796-98), and of The West- ern Oracle, at Sherburne, N. Y., (1804), when there were no papers printed between that point and the Pacific. Great grandson of Rev. Thomas Romeyn, located at Fonda, N. Y., A. D. 1772, with no Pro- testant clergyman between that point and the Pacific coast, at the close of the Revolutionary War. Was with army at Santiago, Cuba, as correspondent. Mem- ber Grand Army of the Republic (senior vice-commander, Department of Montana, 1888), medal of Honor Legion, and of Mili- tary Order of the Loyal Legion, Com- ROOSA, Daniel B. St. John, M. D .: mandery of District of Columbia. Ad- dress, 1606 Seventeenth St., N. W., Wash- ington, D. C.

ROOME, William J .:

Banker and real estate; born June 20, 1857, N. Y. City; educated at New York University. President of Excelsior Sav- ings Bank. Member Psi Upsilon Fra- ternity and Club. Residence, 101 East 57th St .; office, 11 West 34th St., N. Y. City.

ROONEY, John Jerome:

Lawyer, verse writer; born, March 19, 1866, Binghamton, N. Y .; father, John J. Rooney; mother, Ellen Teresa (Shanahan) Rooney. Removed to Philadelphia, Pa., in childhood. Was graduated from Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md., 1884; head of class, taking the class honors, and special medals. Degree A. B. and A. M. Immediately after grad- uation became connected with the Phil- adelphia Record and for five years did active newspaper work. 1889, removed to New York and entered the Custom House Brokerage and Forwarding busi- ness of a leading firm, three years later entering the firm. In 1896, organized the Custom House Brokerage & For- warding firm of Rooney & Spence, 66 Beaver St., N. Y. City, doing a general shipping business and Customs Revenue practice. Several years later became a member of the New York Bar, practicing chiefly Revenue cases and Estates Law. During the newspaper work and subse-

Physician; born Bethel, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1838; A. M., Yale, 1867; M. D., New York University, 1860; house surgeon, New York Hospital, Aug., 1861, to April, 1862; asistant surgeon Fifth New York Volunteers, April, 1862, to 1863; surgeon Twelfth Regiment, 1863; assistant sur- geon Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1863 to 1865; surgeon Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital since 1868; to Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital since 1869; president New York Opthalmic Society in 1871; vice-president Medical Society State of New York; pro- fessor diseases of the eye and ear in the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. Member of City and Union League Clubs, Holland Society, and St. Nicholas So- ciety. Address, 20 E. 30th St., N. Y. City. ROOSEVELT, John E .:

Lawyer; born New York; son of Robert B. Roosevelt and Elizabeth T., née El- lis; has three children, Anita, Gladys, and Jean. Prominent lawyer and senior mem- ber firm of Roosevelt & Kobbé, attorneys, 46 Wall Street. Is president of Elkhorn Valley Coal Land Co. Secretary of Broadway Improvement Co., and an officer and director in numerous other companies; is Commodore of South Side Yacht Club and a member of the Metro- politan, Riding, Down Town, St. Anthony, Delta Psi, Garden City Golf, West Brook Golf and various other clubs. Member of the Consolidated Exchange; designed and built a flying proa, the first success- ful modernized attempt in this direction.

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Residence, 676 Madison Ave .; office, 46 ] in the founding of the Committee of Sev- Wall St., N. Y. City.

ROOSEVELT, Robert B .:

Author and statesman; born N. Y. City, Aug. 7, 1829; received a collegiate edu- cation, and after graduation'entered upon the study of law, being admitted to the New York Bar on reaching his majority. His profesional life was quickly supple- mented by an activity in literature and in political affairs which brought him prominently into attention and turned his life. interests aside from legal practice. His literary taste developed early, and was accompanied by powers of imagina- tion and of reasoning and by a lucid style that have made him popular as a maga- zine writer and as an author of more ambitious works. Mr. Roosevelt has long been a devotee of sport, but his enthusi- asm in this direction has been tempered with a measure of good sense that impel- led him to make a vigorous onslaught on the indiscriminate slaughter of game in which so many so-called sportsmen in- dulge; to overcome this he devoted much time and energy to the organization of clubs for the preservation of game and to the obtaining of legislative restriction on the vandalism that threatened the com- plete extermination of the food tenants of woods and waters. In 1867, he suc- ceeded in founding the New York Fishery Commission, and was appointed one of the State commissioners; his labors in this direction were active and incessant, and continued until 1088, when his ap- pointment as United States Minister to the Netherlands interfered with his im- mediate supervision; he wrote at that time an elaborate report, detailing the results of the twenty-one years of labor of the commission. Mr. Roosevelt served as president of the Fish Culture Associa- tion for a number of years, and also of the Association for the Protection of Game, and of the International Associa- tion for the same purpose. His work in this direction was not confined to la- bors in organizations, but took the form of literature, in his published volumes; he Game Fish of North America; The Game Birds of the North; Superior Fish- ing, and Fish Hatching and Fish Catch- ing. Politically he has been an active member of the Democratic party, work- ing in its interests during the Civil War, at which time he took part in the forma- tion of several political associations. His greatest and most useful activity in mu- nicipal politics, however, was his share

enty, whose work was directed against the outrages of the Tweed Ring; he was also the first vice-president of the Re- form Club, and one of the editors of the Citizen, a paper devoted to the policy of this club; subsequently took entire

charge of this paper, and worked en- ergetically through its columns for the overthrow of the Tweed ascendency. In 1870, Mr. Roosevelt was elected a member of the Forty-second Con- gress, being supported by both wings of the New York Democracy; aside from his political relations, he was ac- tively interested in New York affairs, taking an earnest part in the formation of paid fire and health departments in the city, and acting as a commissioner of the Brooklyn Bridge; was the president of the Holland Trust Com- pany, and took part in the founding of the Lotos Club. Mr. Roosevelt's practice as a lawyer continued for about twenty years after his admission to the Bar, but was afterwards abandoned in consequence of the pressure of political and other in- terests. He became actively engaged in financial affairs, was president or director in a number of insurance, railroad, and other corporations, and was offered by President Cleveland, during his first term, the position of United States Sub-Treas- urer at New York; this he declined in consequence of the labor involved; was frequently offered other public positions, and served, as has been said, as minister to the Netherlands. He edited The Polit- ical Works of Charles G. Halpine, and was the author of Five Acres too Much, a clever satire suggested by Edmund Morris's Ten Acres Enough, also of Pro- gressive Petticoats, a humorous illustra- tion of medical habits; Game Fish of North America; Game Birds; Superior Fishing; Fish Hatching and Fish Catch- ing; Florida and the Game Water Birds, Love and Luck, etc .; these are his best known writings, aside from his magazine

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 140

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