Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 15

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BELMONT, Oliver H. P .:

Legislator and financier; born N. Y. City, Nov. 12, 1858; graduated U. S. Naval Academy, Sept. 30, 1874, subsequently serving in navy and resigning, 1876. Formerly member of August Belmont & Co., bankers. In 1900, member of Nation- al Democratic Convention. In Congress, 1901-03. Member of Union, Knickerbocker, Manhattan, Metropolitan, Racquet, Law- yers, Meadow Brook, Lambs, New York Yacht, Turf and Field, University, New

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York and Metropolitan Club of Washing- ton; married Mrs. Alva (Smith) Vander- bilt, N. Y. City. Residence, 677 5th Ave .; office, 1 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.

BELMONT, Perry :

Eldest son of August Belmont, the re- nowned financier, born N. Y. City, De- cember 28, 1851; was graduated from Harvard 1872, taking special honors In history and political economy. He after- wards entered the University of Berlin for a course in civil law, and on his re- turn to America took a course of law at Columbia Law School, where he was graduated 1576. In 1880, he argued In the important suit of the Pensacola Tele- graph Co. against the Western Telegraph Co., being counsel for the last named corporation in opposition to Senator Charles W. Jones, of Florida, Mr. Bel- Inont gained the case, and secured an opinion from Chief Justice Walte, to the effect that telegraphing comes under the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States. In 1850 he entered the political field as a candidate for Congress, and was elected as representative for the First District of N. Y .; served in Con- gress during four consecutive terms, and during the last four years of his service was chairman of the Committee on I''or- eign Affairs. In Congress he earnestly advocated tariff reform, holding similar views on the question with Carlisle, Mor- rison, Hurd, and other Democratic lead- ers; the bill to Indemnify the Chinese for the massacre at Rock Springs was in- troduced and carried through the house by Mr. Belmont, and he strongly advo- cated on several occasions the strict ob- servance of treaty obligations with the Chinese government; as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee opposed and defeated the effort of the Nicaragua Can- al Co. to secure support from the U. S. Government; the passage of the bill by which the U. S. became one of the first nations to participate in the Paris Ex- position was due to his efforts, and gain- ec him the thanks of the French gov- ernment and the Cross of the Legion of Honor; the abolition of the tariff on works of art was persistently advocated by him; while he secured, by an almost unanimous vote, the passage of the Re- taliation Bill on the fisheries dispute for non-interference with Canada; Mr. Bel- mont resigned his seat in the House to accept the nomination, by President Cleveland, as United States minister to Spain; since his return from this official

service he has resided in N. Y. City, where he is a member of many important clubs and societies, including Metropol- itan, Knickerbocker, University, New York Yacht, Arm and Navy, and Jockey. Address, 580 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

BEMAN, Samuel A .:

Jurist; born Aug. 21,1843; Chateaugay, N. Y .; Captain 27th Separate Co., N. G., N. Y .; member of Board of Education; member of Assembly; County Judge and Surrogate of Franklin County. Address, Malone, N. Y.

BENEDICT, Ellas C .:

Stock broker; president Commercial Acetylene Co. and Marine Engine and Machinery Co .; director Kern Incandes- cent Light Co .; operator in gas securities. Residence, 10 W. 51st St .; office, 80 Broad- way, N. Y. City.

BENEDICT, Henry Harper:

Capitalist; born Oct. 9, 1544, German Mats, N. Y .; prepared at Little Falls Academy and Fairfield Seminary; grad- uated from Hamilton College, 1569; mar- ried, Oct. 10, 1567, Maria Nellis, of Ft. Plain, N. Y .; entered employ of E. Rem- Ington & Sons In 1569; has been a member of firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict since 1852, and Its president since 1895; 19 president of the Remington Typewriter Co .; trustee of Hamilton College and Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraterni- ty, Grolier, Union League, University, Re- publican, Barnard, Lawyers, Hamilton and Rembrandt Clubs, Sons of Oneida, Long Island Historical Society, New Eng- land Society, New York Historical Socie- ty and Chamber of Commerce. Residence, 3 East 75th St .; office, 280 Broadway, N. Y. City.

BENEDICT, James S .:

Commercial agent, born Aurelius, Cay- uga County, N. Y., March 5, 1856; re- ceived a common school education, with an additional year's schooling in the higher branches; was employed four years in an architect's office at Washington, D. C., as draftsman and clerk; then re- ceived a temporary appointment in the Engineer's Office of the War Department; appointed consular agent at Stratford, Ontario, March, 1879, and acted in that capacity until appointed commercial agent at Moncton, New Brunswick, Sept. 10, 1887; transferred from said place to the commercial agency at Campbellton, Jan. 25, 1897. Address, Campbellton, N. B. BENEDICT, Legrand Lockwood:

Business man; born Aug. 24, 1855, in

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N. Y. City; educated at Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute; married in 1881, Sarah Collier Blaine; member of Union and

Rockaway Hunt Clubs. Address, 223 Fifth Ave .; office, 27 William St., N. Y. City.

BENEDICT, Robert Dewey :

Lawyer; born Burlington, Vt., Oct. 3, 1828; son of George Wyllys and Eliza Benedict; graduate of University of Vermont, 1848 (B. A., A. M .; LL. D.); married, Winooski Falls, Vt., 1854, Fran- ces A. Weaver; admitted to Bar, 1851; Republican; member Society Colonial Wars, Military Order Foreign Wars; (1st vice-president) Order Settlers and Defenders of America; clubs: Hamilton, Congregational (Brooklyn), Long Island Historical Society; author: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Dis- trict Courts of the United States Within the Second Circuit (10 vols.), editor; Ben- edict's Admiralty (3d edition), Resi- dence, 363 Adelphi St., Brooklyn; office, 68 Wall St., N. Y. City.

BENHAM, A. E. K .:

Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy; born N. Y. City, 1832; appointed from N. Y. City, Nov. 24, 1847; attached to sloop Plymouth, East Indian Squadron, 1847-48; brig Dol- phin, East Indian Squadron, 1849-50, and assisted in capture of a piratical Chinese junk near Macao, China, by a party under command of Acting Lieutenant (late Rear-Admiral) John L. Davis, and in boarding received a slight pike wound in the right thigh; sloop Plymouth, 1850- 51; steam frigate Saranac, Home Squad- ron, 1851-52; Naval Academy, 1852-53; promoted to passed midshipman, June 10, 1853; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1853-57; commissioned as lieutenant, Sept. 16, 1855; coast survey, 1857-58; steamer Westernport, Brazil Squadron and Para- guay Expedition, 1858-59; steamer Cru- sader, Home Squadron, 1860-61; steamer Bienville, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-62; battle of Port Royal, 1861; steamship Sacremento, 1863; com- missioned as lieutenant-commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam gunboat Pe- nobscot, Western Gulf Blockading Squad- ron, 1863-65, and during this time block- aded the coast of Texas for a period of thirteen months without going into port; temporary duty, Navy Yard, New York. 1866; steamer Susquehanna, special ser- vice, 1867; commissioned as commander, July, 1866; Navy Yard, New York, 1868- 69; lighthouse inspector, 1870-71 com- manding Canonicus (iron clad), North

Atlantic Station, 1871-72; commanding Saugus (iron clad), North Atlantic Sta- tion, 1872-73; lighthouse inspector, 1874- 78; commissioned as captain, March 12, 1875; commanding Richmond, Asiatic Station, 1878-81; Navy Yard, Portmouth, N. H., 1882-84; lighthouse inspector, 1885- 86; promoted to commodore, Oct., 1885; president of board, League Island, 1888; commanding Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1889-91; promoted to rear-admiral, Feb., 1890; commanding South Atlantic Station, 1892; transferred his flag from Newark to San Francisco after Naval Review, and took command North Atlantic Sta- tion; in Dec., 1893. ordered to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the protection of American interests, a rebellion being at that time in progress; by his firm stand, he effectually stopped the insurgents' practice of interfering with neutral mer- chant ships on their way to their moor- ings; retired, April 10, 1894; member of Board of Awards, Washington, D. C. Address, 1315 Twentieth St., Washington, D. C.

BENJAMIN, Park:

Attorney at law and expert counsel in patents; born N. Y. City, 1849; graduate of Trinity School, N. Y. City, 1862; ap- pointed to U. S. Naval Academy, 1863; was graduated, 1867; U. S. S. Franklin (Admiral Farragut's flagship European Station) until Nov., 1868; Ensign, U. S. N., Dec., 1868; U. S. S. Portsmouth, South Atlantic Station; resigned, 1869; Albany Law School, was graduated with degree of LL. B. and admitted to Bar, 1870; associ- ate editor Scientific American, 1872-78; editor in chief, Appleton's Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics, 1878 and 1891; re- ceived degree of Ph. D. from Union Col- lege, 1877; member Institute of Naval Architects and of British Institute of Patent Agents; past member American Institute of Mechanical Engineers and American Institute of Electrical Engi- neers. Author (books) Shakings: Etch- ings from the Naval Academy (Lce & Shepard 1867); The Age of Electricity (Scribner's 1886); The Voltaic Cell (Wil- ey's 1892); The History of Electricity (Wiley's 1895); The History of the U. S. Naval Academy (Putnam's 1900); also of The End of New York (Scribner's Amer- ican Authors), The Story of the Telegust (Evening Post, N. Y.); The Sting of the Wasp (Independent) and others; has con- tributed many essays to Torum, Harper's, Review of Reviews, and an extended series of articles on the navy to the

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Independent; has written largely on naval R. I., April 6, 1858; son of James L. and subjects and was the first (1872) publicly Lucia E. (Dyer) Bennett; graduate of Brown University, 1878; graduate student in the classics at Harvard, 1881-82; Leip- sig, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1882-84; principal of Santa Rosa County Free Public School, Milton, Fla., 1878-79; classical master, Sing Sing, N. Y., 1879-81; head prepara- tory department, University of Nebraska, 1 51-59; professor of Latin, University of Wisconsin, 1889-91; professor of classical philology, Brown University, 1891-92; edi- tor, Xenophon's Hellenica, books v-vii, to advocate a United States Naval Re- serve; collected one of the most complete libraries in the world of rare works re- lating to electricity and presented same (jointly with R. M. Thompson and E. J. Berwind) to U. S. Naval Academy, as a permanent memorial of the classes of '67, '68 and '69. Has practiced as expert patent counsel since 1578; was leading expert for the defendants in the telephone cases, and for the U. S., Vickers Sons & Maxim (Ltd.), the North British Rubber Co., Siemens & Co. (Ltd.), Aktie Bolaget De Lavals, Angturbin and others in var- lous proceedings and litigations; makes a specialty of practice before the patent Ouice, and the preparation of patent specifications for difficult and complex in- ventions, and is constantly called upon to testify as an expert in mechanics and electricity before the U. S. Courts; presi- dent Naval Architect's Association of N. Y,; member of University Club, New York, Metropolitan Club, Washington, D. C .; married, 1891, Ida E. Crane, daughter of Henry C. Crane, Esq., of Yonkers, N. Y. Permanent address, 270 W. 73d St., N. Y. City, and The Barnacle, West Hampton Beach, L. I.

BENJAMIN, Raphael:

Rabbi, Keap Street Temple, Brooklyn, since 1902; born London, England, June 19, 1846; son of Elias and Mary (Lazarus) Benjamin; educated at the Jew's Free School, London, 1851-71; was graduated B. A., University of London, 1871; and M. A., University of Melbourne, 1879; studied divinity Jew's Free School; examined and ordained Rabbi and Beth Din (doctor of Jewish Law) by chief Rabbi, Dr. N. M. Adier, 1874; certified teacher under Brit- ish Government; member Tonic Sol-Fa College, London; minister, Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, 1874; Mound St. Temple, Cincinnati, 1SS2; Fifteenth St. Temple, N. Y. City, 1SS); executive board Central Conference of American Rabbis; secretary Ninth District Charity Organi- zation Society. N. Y. City; Fellow of American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science; member Metropol- itan Museum of Art, N. Y. City, and of National Geographical Society, Washing- ton; secretary New York Board of Jew- ish Ministers. Address, Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, N. Y.

BENNETT, Charles Edwin:

Professor of Latin in Cornell Univer- sity from 1892 to date; born Providence,

1892; Tacitus Dialogus De Oratoribus 1594; Cicero De Senectute, 1897; Cicero, De Amicitia, 1897; Horace, Odes and Epodes, 1901; Cæsar, Gallic War, books i-iv., 1903; Cicero, Select Orations, 1904. Virgil, Aeneld, books i-vi, 1904. Author: A Latin Grammar, (1895); Appendix to Bennett's Latin Grammar, (1895); A Latin Composition, (1596); The Foun- dations of Latin, (1898); Critique of Some Recent Subjunctive Theories (vol. Ix In Cornell Studies in Classical Phil- ology, 1898); The Quantitative Reading of Latin Poetry, (1899); The Teaching of Latin and Greek in Secondary Schools (with G. P. Bristol), (1900); Latin Les- sons, (1901); Characters of Theophrastus (translation and introduction), with W. A. Hammond, (1902); also many articles in educational and philological periodicals; editor of Cornell Studies in Classical Philology (sixteen volumes); Allyn & Bacon's College Latin Series (with J. C. life), (1895-1903); member American l'hilological Association. Address, 1 Grove Place, Ithaca, N. Y.

BENNETT, Charles Goodwin:

Secretary of the U. S. Senate; born and has always resided in the old Bennett homestead in the City of Brooklyn, N. Y .; is a lawyer by profession, having received the degree of LL. B. from the University of the State of New York; Was an incorporator and has since been a director as well as having held the office of chairman of the executive com- mittee of the People's Bank of that city; has always been a Republican, and was the unsuccessful candidate in the Fifth New York Congressional district for the Fifty-third Congress; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and re-elected to the Fifty- fifth Congresses, serving on the Com- mittee on Inter-State and Foreign Com- merce; was an unsuccessful candidate for the Fifty-sixth Congress, and was elected secretary of the U. S. Senate January 29, 1900. Address, U. S. Senate,

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Washington, D. C.

BENNETT, Henry Silliman:

Lawyer; born Oct. 7, 1833, N. Y. City; was graduated from Yale College, 1853; was admitted to the Bar in 1856; mem- ber of the Manhattan, Yale and Alpha Delta Phi Clubs, and Yale Alumni Asso- ciation. Residence, 37 West 9th St., office, 45 Broadway, N. Y. City.

BENNETT, James Gordon:

Proprietor of New York Herald; the only son, and successor in his journalistic career, of James Gordon Bennett, the founder of the New York Herald, was born N. Y. City, May 10, 1841. His mother, Henrietta Agnes Crean, had in her early days been an accomplished music teacher of N. Y. City; she died in Italy; shortly after the death of her husband; on the death of the elder Ben- nett, in June, 1872, his son, who had been carefully educated, and had been thoroughly trained of in the requisites journalism, became his successor in proprietorship and management of the Herald, which has since that time remained under his care; as manager of this influential sheet he has been re- markably enterprising, hesitating at no expense which would be likely to bring the Herald to public notice and quite distancing competitors in the brilliancy and daring of his journalistic feats; sev- eral of the more striking of these may be named; the celebrated Jeannette Polar Exploring Expedition was fitted up and sent out at his expense, as a Herald en- terprise; the unfortunate finale of this expedition-for which Mr. Bennett was not in the slighest sense responsible- brought it most vividly to public atten- tion, and did much to arouse renewed interest in the problem of the polar seas; a still more notable expedition-a stroke of genius, as we may fairly call it, on the part of the Herald management-was the sending of Henry M. Stanley to Af- rica on his famous expedition in search of the great explorer Livingston; the success of Stanley in this quest was one of the most important events in the his- tory of the latter half of this century, Champs Elysees, Paris, France; New York Herald, N. Y. City. and the starting point in that succession of expeditions by Stanley which have BENNETT, William M .: gone so far towards opening the "Dark Lawyer; born July 7, 1869, Nashville, Tenn .; was graduated from Oberlin Col- Continent," which had so long lain under a cloud of mystery; the inception of this |lege, 1890, and Columbia Law School, great work we owe to the happy thought | 1893; member of firm of McElheny & and brilliant enterprise of Mr. Bennett, and to his keen judgment of men in the choice of the born explorer Stanley; a Bennett; president of Baily & Fairchild Co .; member of City, Republican, and West Side Republican Clubs, and City

third item of Herald enterprise, of which mention may fitly be made,, was the pub- lication in England of storm warnings telegraphed from the U. S., a movement which attracted the favorable attention of meteorologists in general and added to the fame and circulation of the en- terprising journal. For many years Mr. Bennett has made Paris his principal place of residence, his time being chiefly given to superintending the collection of foreign news for the pages of the Herald. In 1883 he became associated with Mr. John W. Mackey in an important enter- prise, that of organizing the Commercial Cable Co., with the purpose of laying a new cable between America and Europe to compete with the combined English and French lines; the completion of this enterprise had the effect of greatly de- creasing the cost of ocean telegraphy. Mr. Bennett's life has been far from ex- clusively devoted to business; on the con- trary, he has taken a great interest in sport, especially in yachting, of which for years he was an enthusiastic devotee; in this field he has been as enterprising and as novel in method as in journalism; in 1866 he took part in a memorable yacht race, which had the wide Atlantic for its course, its terminal points being Sandy Hook and the Needles, Isle of Wight; this transatlantic race was won by his schooner yacht, the Henrietta, against two competitors, in thirteen days, twenty-one hours, and fifty-five minutes; in 1870 he sailed in a similiar race across the ocean, from Queenstown to New York; in this case his yacht, the Daunt- less, was beaten by the English yacht Cambria, though only by the short lead of two hours; it will suffice to say in con- clusion that the journal made successful by the father's enterprise and activity has been kept on the rising tide of suc- cess and fortune by the son, and that the new building of the Herald, with the in- teresting public display of its press work, is one of the notabilities of the metropo- lis; member of leading clubs of New York, London and Paris. Address, 120

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Bar Association. Residence, The Cum- in conjunction with the city engineer, and berland, 22d St. and Fifth Ave .; office, 15 William St., N. Y. City.

BENNET, William S .:

Lawyer; born Port Jervis, N. Y .; educat- ed Deerfield Academy, Port Jervis, and Al- bany Law School; lawyer; Assemblyman, 1901-02; Municipal Court Justice, N. Y. City, 1903; elected representative in Con- gress, 1904; official

reporter, Orange County, N. Y., Board of Supervisors, 1892- 93; married Gertrude Witschief, June 30, 1896; Republican. Address, 170 Broadway, N. Y. City.

BENOIT, Leon J .:

Lawyer; born Jan. 15, 1869, N. Y. City; educated at New York College ('89) and Columbia Law School ('91) ; single; member Association of N. Y. Bar and Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. Residence, 37 East 21st St., N. Y. City; office, 56 New Street, N. Y. City.

BENSEL, John Anderson:

Engineer-in-chief of the Department of Docks and Ferries, N. Y. City; son of Brownlee and Mary (Maclay) Bensel, was born N. Y. City, Aug. 16, 1863; he is of Holland Dutch-Scotch ancestry; after an attendance at the public and private preparatory schools of N. Y. City, he entered the Stevens Institute of Technol- ogy, of Hoboken, N. J., and was graduated from there in 1884; deviating somewhat from the line of his education, he first secured employment under the Aqueduct Commission, and was assigned to work in the field on the surveys for the new Croton River dams; in the latter part of 1884 he entered the service of the Penn- sylvania R. R. Co., in 1885 and 1886, as rodman, subsequently, in 1887, as assist- ant engineer, and afterwards, and until 1889, as assistant supervisor of the New York Division; in 1889 he accepted the position of assistant engineer in the De- partment of Docks, N. Y. City, in which service he remained for six years, when he determined to enter upon private practice, in which field of action he won success. Through his duties with the Pennsylvania R. R. Co. and the Depart- ment of Docks, he became known as an expert in water-front problems; as con- sulting engineer for the city of Newburgh in a tax suit brought against the Penn- sylvania Coal Co., the Supreme Court ac- cepted the valuation as made by Mr. Bensel without change; as engineer for the Girard Estate, of Philadelphia, he de- signed and superintended the improve- ment of the Delaware River water-front,

in connection with other improvements of the Delaware River for the public interests appeared as engineer for many private property improvements; in Jan., 1899, he accepted the appointment of engineer-in-chief of the Department of Docks and Ferries, N. Y. City; member of the American Society of Civil Engin- eers, and the Engineers Club of N. Y. City, also of the University Club and City Midday Club; married, in 1896, Miss Ella L. daughter of Henry Day. Ad- dress, 2020 Broadway, N. Y. City.

BENT, Francis H .:

Architect; born June 18, 186S, Boston, Mass; educated in Boston; studied in Rome, Paris and London; married; mem- ber of Middlebrook Country Club. Res- idence, Bound Brook, N. J .; office, 95 Liberty St., N. Y. City.

BENTLEY, H. W .:

Lawyer; born Sept. 30, 1838, De Ruyter, N. Y .; educated in Morrisville, Chittin- ango and Berkshire schools; married; vice-president and director First Na- tional Bank; member of the Fifty-sec- ond Congress; Surrogate of Oneida Coun- ty, 1894, and president of Village of Boonville in 1874, 89, 90, 91 and 99; is a Thirty-second degree Mason. Address, Boonville, N. Y.

BENTLEY, Isaac Madison:

E'ducator; prepareu for college at Adel- phi Academy, Brooklyn; was graduated from University of Nebraska, B. S., 1895, and Cornell University, Ph. D., 1898; mar- ried; member of Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi Fraternities. As- sistant Professor of Psychology in Cor- nell University. Residence, 139 Casca- dilla Place., Ithaca, N. Y.

BENTLEY, Rev. Walter E .:

National secretary and organizer of the Actors' Church Alliance; born England, 1864; coming to this country entered busl- ness, and after some time became a mem- ber of the dramatic profession, appearing mainly in Shakespearian and other clas- sic roles; being brought under the influ- ence of Phillips Brooks, he studied for the church and was ordained by Bishop Huntington in 1891; he served several years as rector in the Diocese of Central New York, and in 1897 became associated with Rev. Dr. Rylance as vicar of St. Mark's Church in N. Y. City; later he served the Rev. R. Heber Newton in the same capacity and now is devoting him- self to the extension throughout the country, of the Actors' Church Alliance,

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of which he is practically the founder. Address, care Actors' Church Alliance, Manhattan Theater Building, N. Y City. BENTON, Joel:

Critic and poet; born Amenia, N. Y., May 29, 1832; attended famous seminary in his native town and early became the principal for one season of a classical and mathematical school; was also an editor and joint founder of the Amenia Times at the age of nineteen; often act- ive in politics; 1862, became supervisor of his town and has had delegations to nom- inate him for Legislature without his request; he is represented in many books of poetry, but has not collected his own poems; has done much work as a critic and essayist and is frequently heard from on political and civic topics; has writ- ten; Emerson as a Poet (now in its sec- ond edition); The Truth About Protec- tion; Greeley on Lincoln; and In the Poe Circle; has lectured on many occasions, and was one of the Concord lecturers at the Emerson centennial in 1903, his topic being Emerson with Nature. Address, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 15

Author: Publication date: 1904- Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc. Number of Pages: 1100

Author:
Publication date: 1904-
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc.
Number of Pages: 1100