Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 150

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SHEPMAN, James Schoolcraft:

Member of Congress, Republican ; born Utica, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1855; received an academic and collegiate education, gradu- ating from Hamilton College in the class of 1878 ; was admitted to the Bar in 1880; is a practising lawyer; also president of the Utica Trust and Deposit Co., and pres- ident of the New Hartford Canning Co. : he has served in these public positions : Mayor of Utica, 1884; delegate to the Re- publican National Convention in 1892 ; chairman of N. Y. State Republican Con- vention in 1895 and again in 1900; was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty- third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and re-elect- ed to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- gress. Address, Utica, N. Y.

SHERMAN, Philemon Tecumseh:

Lawyer; born St. Louis, Jan. 9, 1867; son of Gen. William T. and Ellen Ewing Sherman ; graduate of St. Louis University, 1886 ; Yale, 1888; Columbia Law School, 1890, and admitted to N. Y. Bar; alder- man, New York, 1888-89; author of : In- side the Machine; member of Military Or- der of the Loyal Legion, Bar Association, Ohio Society, Sons of Revolution, N. Y. Athletic, Union League, and Baltimore Golf Clubs. Residence, 130 E. 31st St .; office, 15 William St., N. Y. City.

SHERMAN, William Winslow:

Retired banker; born New York, March 12, 1833 ; son of Jahaziel and Ann Maria King Sherman ; educated at Castleton and Burlington, Vt .; married, 1857, Mrs. Hen- rietta Tyson ; with Bank of Commerce, 1858-99 ; member of New England Society, Riding and Union League Clubs. Resi- dence, 24 E. 55th St .; office, 52 Broadway, N. Y. City.

SHERRY, Peter P .:

Democratic Assemblyman, representing the Seventh Assembly district of N. Y. County ; born N. Y. City, July 26, 1872, of Irish parents; educated at Public School No. 11, West 17th street, and at St. Fran- cis Xavier's - College, New York; he is

SHERWOOD, James R. O .:

President and director of the Manhattan Beach Surf Bathing Co. (Limited) ; direc- tor of The Manhattan Beach Co., Manhat- tan Beach Hotel & Land Co., Marginal R. R. Co., Marine Ry., Nassau County Water Co., Nassau Union Bank, N. Y., Brooklyn & Manhattan Beach R. R., and Rockaway Park Improvement Co. (Limited). Office, 192 Broadway, N. Y. City ; residence, Glen Cove, N. Y.

SHERWOOD, Mary Elizabeth Wilson:

Author; born Keene, N. H., 1830; daughter of James Wilson; married John Sherwood of New York; author: The Sarcasm of Destiny ; A Transplanted Rose ; Home Amusements; Amenities of Home; Manners and Social Usages; Royal Girls and Royal Courts; Sweet Briar; An Epistle to Posterity ; Here and There and Everywhere; The Art of Entertaining, and many short stories. Address, Mott Ave. and 165th St., N. Y. City.

SHERWOOD, Rosina Emmet:

Artist; born New York, Dec. 13, 1854; pupil of Wm. M. Chase for two years; 1884-85, studied in Paris at Academy Julien ; has illustrated Pretty Peggy and Old Fashioned Fairy Tales by Mrs. Bur- ton Harrison as well as other stories, and has made cover designs for Harper & Bros. and other publishers, and many por- traists; member of Society of Am- erican Artists, American Water Color Society, and New York Water Color Club; 1887 Arthur Murray married

Sherwood, of New York, and has five children ; has pictures in the Boston Art Club, and the collections of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. Vanderbilt, Mrs. C. P. Hunt- ington and others; won silver medal at Paris Exposition, 1889 ; medal at Colum- bian Exposition, 1893 ; two medals at Buf- falo Pan-Amercian Exposition ; silver med- al at Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904. Address, 251 Lexington Avenue, N. Y. City.

SHIELDS, G. O. (Coquina) :

Formerly editor and manager of Rec-

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the instructions there received is self-edu- | gundi and Century Clubs. cated; entered the Union army in 1863, and served to the end of the Civil war; he SHOBER, Francis E .: was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, Harpers' Weekly, Chicago Tribune, Inter- Ocean, and many other newspapers and periodicals from 1866 to 1894; organized the League of American Sportsmen in 1898 and was president of the same from 1898 to 1905; organized the Camp Fire Club in 1897, and was its president six years; he has devoted his whole life to the protection of song birds, game and game fishes ; he is the author of The Big Game of North America; Cruisings . in the Cascades ; American Game Fishes; Hunting in the Great West; The American Book of the Dog; Camping and Camp Outfits; The Battle of the Big Hole. Address, 1269 Broadway, N. Y. City.

SHINN, Everett:

Artist ; born Woodstown, N. J. ; married Florence Scovel ; studied art at the Penn- sylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadel- phia ; has held exhibitions annually at the galleries of Bonssod, Valadon & Co., New York, from 1900 to 1902, and at M. Knoed- ler & Co., in 1903; went abroad in 1901 to make pictures of Paris and London street scenes, and held exhibition on re- turn; received bronze medal at the South Carolina, Interstate and West Indian Ex- hibition, 1901; exhibits at the following galleries : Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Boston Art Club, Chicago Art In- stitute, St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, Cincinnati Museum Association, Art Club, Kansas City, etc. Address, 112 Waverly Place, N. Y. City.

SHINN, Florence Scovel:

Illustrator; born Camden, N. J., 1874 ; daughter of Alden Cortlandt and Emily Hopkinson Scovel; general education at Friends' Central School, Philadelphia ; art at Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts ; married, Philadelphia, 1898. Mr. Everett Shinn ; illustrated Miss Gilder's Autobiog- raphy of a Tomboy; Miss Rice's Lovey Mary and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, etc. Address, 112 Waverly Pl., N. Y. City.

SHIRLAW, Walter:

Artist; born Paisley, Scotland, Aug. 6, 1838 ; came to the U. S. when very young ; art education in Chicago, New York and Munich, Germany; academician National Academy of Design, New York, and Chi- cago Academy of Design; member of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Society of American Artists (founder), and Salma-

Address, 160 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

Ex-member of Congress; born Salis- bury, N. C., Oct. 24, 1860; his father, after whom he was named, was a member of the Forty-first and Forty- second Congresses from that State; was graduated from St. Stephen's College, at Annandale, N. Y., in 1880, and received the degree of M. A. in 1883; engaged in ministerial and educational work in Dutchess County, N. Y., for some years, and afterwards became a newspaper man ; was a reporter on the News-Press of Poughkeepsie; editor of the Rockaway Journal at Far Rockaway, N. Y., and for ten years has been a member of the edi- torial staff of the N. Y. World ; he is mas- ter of Alma Lodge No. 728, Free and Ac- cepted Masons ; was elected to the Fifty- eighth Congress. Address, 2152 Seventh Ave., N. Y. City.

SHOEMAKER, Henry F .:

Capitalist ;. born Schuylkill County, Pa., March 28, 1845; son of John W. and Mary Brock Shoemaker; married Blanche, daughter of Hon. James W. Quiggle, of Philadelphia; educated at the Genesee Seminary, Lima, N. Y .; first lieutenant, Twenty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, in 1863; in 1868 he became in- terested in the mining of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania, and later in bituminous coal mining in West Virginia and Ohio; he was elected secretary and treasurer of the Central R. R. of Minnesota in 1878; president of the Mineral Range R. R. in 1887; president of the Cincinnati, Dayton & Ironton R. R. in 1889; chair- man of the executive committee of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Ry. in 1890; president of the Dayton & Union R. R. in 1890 ; vice-president of the Indi- ana, Decatur & Western Ry. in 1893; chairman of the board of directors of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Ry. in 1899 ; vice-president of the Cincin- nati, Indianapolis & Western Ry. in 1902; chairman board of directors of the Cincin- nati, Hamilton & Dayton Ry. in 1903; is a director of the North American Trust Co., Van Norden Trust Co., Trust Co. of America, the Chatham National Bank, the Century Realty Co. of New York, Westfield Trust Co. of New Jersey, the Superior Coal Co. of Ohio, and a trustee of the Good Samaritan Dispensary; he is a member of the Metropolitan, the Union League, the Riding, the Lawyers,

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and Lotos Clubs, New York Yacht Club; [ chester, N. Y .; publisher Victor Herald, Sons of the Revolution, Lafayette Post, G. A. R., and Pennsylvania Society in New York. Residences, 26 West 53d St., New York, and Riverside, Conn .; office, 24 Broad St., N. Y. City.

SHOEMAKER, Henry Wharton:

Author, diplomatist, banker; born Feb. 24, 1880, son Henry F. and Blanche (Quiggle) Shoemaker; of distinguished Pennsylvania ancestry; educated Dr. E. D. Lyon's school and Columbia College, New York, class 1901; secretary Ameri- can Legation, Lisbon, 1903; 3d secretary American Embassy, Berlin, 1904; member banking firm Shoemaker & Bates, New York, 1905. Author: Immaterial Verses, (1898); Random Thoughts, (1899); Wild Life in Western Pennsylvania, (1903); contributor to newspapers and magazines; member Riding, Republican, City and Lawyers Clubs of New York. Residence, 26 West 53d St., N. Y. City; country seat, "Kresheim," McElhattan, Pa .; office, 24 Broad St., N. Y. City.

SHOEMAKER, James Monroe:

Born July 31, 1842; educated at Elmira Academy, Elmira, N. Y .; first sergeant, 148th Regiment, N. Y. Vols. in Civil war; first lieutenant, 110th Battalion, N. G., N. Y .; removed to Elmira, N. Y., in 1874, and purchased an oil refinery, which business he greatly developed and has stations in Elmira, Ithaca and neighboring cities; married, Sept. 11, 1862, Delia M. Benedict, of Starkey, N. Y .; president board of trade; chairman Woodlawn Cemetery As- sociation. Address, Elmira, N. Y.

SHOEMAKER, Michael Myers:

Writer of travels; born Covington, Ky., June 26, 1853; son of Robert Myers and Mary Colegate Steiner Shoemaker; entered Cornell University, remaining two years; author: Eastward to the Land of the Morning; Trans-Caspia; Kingdom of the White Woman; Sealed Provinces of the Tsar; Island of the Southern Seas; Quaint Corners of Ancient Empires; Palaces and Prisons of Mary Queen of Scots; The Great Siberian Railway ; member of Soci- ety of War of 1812, Sons of the Revolu- tion, and Union Club (N. Y.), Metropoli- tan (Washington), Colonial War (Ohio), and Queen City (Cincinnati). Residence, Cincinnati, Ohio; address, Union Club, N. Y. City.

SHORT, Louis Daniel:

Purchasing agent for Eastman Kodak Co .; he was graduated from Univer-

sity of Rochester in 1888; reporter

for the Democrat and Chronicle, Ro-

Victor, N. Y .; manager Rochester office, Commercial Publishing Co., 1889-95 ; news editor, Rochester Herald, 1895-99; pur- chasing agent for Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y., 1899 to date. Address, 6 Merriman St., Rochester, N. Y.

SHRADY, George F., M. D .:

Born N. Y. City, Jan. 14, 1837 ; attended the College of the City of New York, 1851- 53; A. M., Yale, 1869; M. D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1858 ; acting as- sistant surgeon, U. S. Army, 1861 to 1865; editor-in-chief and editorial founder of Medical Record, 1866 to 1904; surgeon to Presbyterian Hospital, St. Francis, Colum- bus, Memorial and Red Cross Hospitals, 1877 to 1900; president of New York Pathological Society, 1883 to 1885; was the distinguished surgeon in attendance upon ex-President U. S. Grant, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Ardsley and Jekyl Island Club. Address, Ards- ley-on-Hudson, N. Y.

SHRADY, Henry Merwin:

Sculptor; born New York, Oct. 24, 1871; son of Dr. George F. and Mary Lewis Shrady ; graduate of Columbia, 1894; was successful competitor in design of eques- trian statue for Brooklyn, and Grant Me- morial for Washington, D. C .; member of National Sculpture Society, Columbia Uni- versity Alumni, Architectural League, and National Arts Club. Married, 1896, Harrie E. Moore. Address, Tarrytown, N. Y. SHUBERT, Lee:

Theatrical manager; born March 15, 1875, Syracuse, N. . Y. ; educated at public schools, Syracuse, N. Y. Address, Lyric Theatre, N. Y. City.

SHUBERT, Sam S .:

Theatrical manager; born Aug. 27, 1878, Syracuse, N. Y .; educated at public schools, Syracuse, N. Y .; unmarried ; Re- publican. Address, Lyric Theatre, N. Y. City.

SHULL, George Harrison:

Botanist; born April 15, 1874, Pike Township, Clarke Co., Ohio; educated in public schools, 1880-1892, and at Antioch College, 1896-1901. University of Chica- go, 1901-1904; in charge of the botanical investigations at the Station for Experi- mental Evolution of the Carnegie Insti- tution of Washington; student assistant, U. S. Bureau of Forestry, 1901; botanical assistant, U. S. National Museum, 1902; botanical expert, U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry, 1902-04; assistant in plant physiology, University of Chicago, 1903- 04; appointed to present position, Jan.,

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1904; was graduated from Antioch College with degree of B. S., June, 1901; received Ph. D., with honors at University of Chicago, March, 1904; published papers on plant morphology, plant geography and plant variations; Fellow A. A. A. S .; member of the following societies; Sigma Xi, American Breeders Associa-

Botanical tion, Torrey Club, Boston Society of Natural History; Royal Horti- cultural Society of England, Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft of Germany. Address, Station for Experimental Evo- lutlon, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y.

SHURTLEFF, Roswell Morse:

Artist ; born Rindge, N. H., June 14, 1838; son of Asahel Dewey and Eliza Morse Shurtleff ; graduate of Dartmouth College, B. S., 1857; art education at Lowell Institute, Boston, and National Academy of Design, in architects office and lithographing ; served in Civil war ; re- tired with rank of lieutenant and adju- tant ; married, 1867, Clara E., daughter of Joseph B. and Eleanor Halliday, of Hartford, Conn; member of Dartmouth College Alumni, National Academy of De- sign, N. Y. Zoological Society, Sons of the Revolution, American Water Color So- ciety, Lotos and Salmagundi Clubs. Ad- dress, 44 W. 22d St., N. Y. Cityn.

SICKLES, Daniel E .:

Major-general, U. S. Army; born N. Y. City, Oct. 20, 1823 ; educated at the University of the City of N. Y., but left to learn the printer's trade, which he fol- lowed for several years; then studied law, was admitted to the Bar in 1884, and be- gan practice in N. Y. City; in 1847 he was elected to the Legislature, in which body he took rank as a leader of the Democrats; in 1853 was appointed Corporation Coun- sel of N. Y. City, and on July 30 of the same year he was commissioned as Secre- tary of Legation at London, and accom- panied James Buchanan to England; he returned in 1855, was elected, after an en- ergetic canvass, to the N. Y. State Senate in the autumn, and a year later was chosen a member of Congress, taking his seat on Dec. 7, 1857; was elected for a second term, and served till March 3, 1861; at the beginning of the Civil war he raised the Excelsior Brigade of U. S. Volunteers in N. Y. City, and was commissioned by the President as colonel of one of the five regiments; on Sept. 3, 1861, the President nominated him brigadier-general, and he was subsequently confirmed by the Senate ; he commanded a brigade under General March 20, 1873, and resumed his residence

Joseph Hooker, and gained distinction at Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, and Malvern Hill ; his brigade saw very severe service in the Seven Days' fight before Richmond and in the Maryland campaign, and bore a conspicuous part at Antietam; he suc- ceeded General Hooker in the command of the division, and was engaged at Freder- icksburg; on the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac, he was assigned to the command of the Third Army Corps, and was appointed major-general March 7, 1863, his commission dating from Nov. 29, 1862 ; at Chancellorsville he displayed gal- lantry and energy, gaining the first success of the day by cutting off an ammunition train of the enemy, arresting a general panic by rallying the retreating artillery and withstanding the force of Stonewall Jackson's attack with determination after the line was formed; at Gettysburg his corps was posted between Cemetery Hill and Little Round Top; he advanced to an elevation which he thought desirable to hold, and in this position was assailed by General James Longstreet's column, while General John B. Hood endeavored to gain the unoccupied slope of Little Round-Top ; in the desperate struggle that followed, the Third Corps effectively aided in preserv- ing that important position from the ene- my, but was scattered by the onset of overwhelming numbers ; after the line was broken, General Ambrose P. Hill followed the Confederate advantage with an attack on Sickles's right, during which General Sickles lost a leg; he continued in active service till the beginning of 1865, and was then sent on a confidential mission to Colombia and other South American coun- tries ; on July 28, 1866, he joined the reg- ular army as colonel of the Forty-second infantry ; on March 2, 1867, was brevetted brigadier-general for bravery at Freder- icksburg, and major-general for gallant and meritorious service at Gettysburg ; he commanded the Military District of the Carolinas in 1865-67, and carried out the work of reconstruction so energetically that President Johnson relieved him from his command after first offering him the mission to the Netherlands, which he de- clined ; he was mustered out of the volun- teer service on Jan. 1, 1868, and on April 14, 1869, was placed on the retired list of the U. S. Army, with the full rank of major-general ; he was active in promoting General Grant for the Presidency, and on May 15, 1869, he was appointed Minister to Spain, but relinquished this post on

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In N. Y. City; he has been president of N. 1859; Naval academy, 1859-63; promoted Y. State Board of Civil Commissioners for several years; sheriff of New York, 1890 ; in Nov., 1892, he was elected a mem- ber of Congress, serving one term. Ad- dress, 23 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

SICKELS, David Banks:

Banker, author; born New York, Feb. 8, 1837 ; son of John and Hester Ann Ells- worth Sickels ; educated by tutors and at Kennett Square Institute, Pennsylvania ; war corespondent during Civil war, and aide-de-camp (rank of lieutenant-colonel) on staff of Governor of Arkansas, 1870; Minister to Siam, 1876-81; vice-president and treasurer of American Surety Co .; Interested as officer or director in other banking institutions, including Universal Trust Co., Dime Savings Institution ; au- thor of: Leaves of the Lotos; Land of the Lotos, or, Life and Scenes in the Far East ; member of Chamber of Commerce, Authors' Guild, Holland Society, Society American Authors, and Authors' Club. Residence, 49 W. 119th St .; office, 100 Broadway, N. Y. City.

SIEGEL, Henry :

Merchant; born Eubigheim, Germany, March 17, 1852 ; son of Lazarus (burgo- master) and Zerlina Koch Siegel ; educated in Germany; married, first, 1885, Julia Ro- senbaum (died 1886) ; second, 1898, Marie Vaughan Wilde, widow of George M. Wilde and daughter of Judge J. G. Vaug- han and Isabelle Oliver Peters; came to the U. S. in 1867 ; his first business exper- ience was gained in Washington, D. C., Parkersburg, Va., and Lawrenceburg, Pa .; he established the firm of Siegel, Harts- field & Co. in Chicago in 1876; ten years later established the department store of Siegel, Cooper & Co., Chicago; in 1896, established Siegel, Cooper & Co. in N. Y. City ; purchased Simpson-Crawford Co. in Jan., 1902 ; opened the Fourteenth Street Store, April, 1904, and will open Henry Siegel & Co., Boston, in 1905; controls four of the largest department stores in the world ; he is a director in several banks, street railways and various corporations ; a Fellow of the Geographical Society, and member of the N. Y. Historical Society, the Westchester Hunt Club and the Metro- politan Art Museum. Residences, 26 East 82d St., N. Y. City, and Driftwood, Mam- aroneck, Westchester County, N. Y. Ad- dress, care Simpson-Crawford Co., N. Y. City.

SIGSBEE, Charles D .:

Rear-admiral, U. S. Navy; born New York; appointed from New York, Sept. 27,

to ensign, Oct. 1, 1863 ; attached to steam sloop Monongahela, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-64; Brooklyn, West Gulf Squadron, 1864; battle of Mobile, Aug. 5, 1864; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1865; both attacks on Fort Fisher, and final assault on the same; steam sloop Wyoming, Asiatic Squadron, 1865-67 ; pro- moted to master, May 10, 1866; commis- sioned as lieutenant, Feb. 21, 1867; steam- er Ashuelot, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-68 ; commissioned as lieutenant-commander, March 12, 1868 ; on duty at Naval Acad- emy, 1869-71; Severn and Worcester, flagships, N. A. Station, 1871-72; Canan- daigua, 1872-73 ; hydrographic office, 1873- 74; coast survey, 1874-75 ; commanding coast survey steamer Blake, 1875-78 ; hy- drographic office, 1878-82 ; promoted to commander, May 11, 1882; Naval acad- emy, 1882-85; commanding practice-ship Dale, summers of 1883-84; commanding Kearsarge, European Station, 1885-86 ; special duty, Navy Department, Sept., 1887; member examining and retiring board, 1887; Naval Academy, 1887-90; commanding the practice-ship Constella- tion, part of summer of 1889 ; commanding training-ship Portsmouth, 1891-92 ; hydro- graphic, Navy Department, 1893-97; com- missioned as captain, March 21, 1897; commanding battle ship Maine, April, 1897, and until this splendid vessel was destroyed, Feb. 15, 1898, in Havana Har- bor, by an act of dastardly treachery ; commanding auxiliary cruiser St. Paul, from April, 1898, to Jan., 1900; chief in- telligence officer, Jan. 26, 1900, to May 1, 1903 ; rear-admiral, 1903 ; on U. S. S. New- ark in command of Carribean Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.

SIHLER, Ernest Gottlieb:

Professor of the Latin language and literature, N. Y. University, 1892 to date ; born Jan. 2, 1853, Fort Wayne, Ind .; after the classical course of Concordia College there, and a course in Lutheran Divinity at St. Louis, studied Classical Philology at Berlin and Leipzig for five semesters 1872-75; gained a Fellowship in Greek in the Johns Hopkins at its inception, and held it 1876-79 ; Ph.D. in Greek, 1878 ; clas- sical instructor N. Y. City, 1879-91; pro- fessor classics, Concordia, Milwaukee, 1891-92, whence he was called to his pres- ent post; was member of the Greek Club of New York, 1879, to its end in 1897 ; member of the American Philological As3_ sociation since 1876 ; his monographs hann.,

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been published by the latter and in the elected; a third was offered him, but he American Journal of Philology, Classical Review, London, and elsewhere; dealing with Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Thucy- dides, Aristophanes, Strabo, Dionys, of Hal. Plato; also with St. Paul and the Roman Law, Virgil, Tiberius, Cicero, Lu- cretius, etc. ; edited Cicero's 2 Phil., Plato's Protagoras, prepared a Concordance of Cæsar's Gallic War; is urgent to give voice and pen a wider sphere in American classicism instead of fruitless refining on the subjunctive; the methods of the Hu- manist should be in a measure resuscitat- ed. Address, University Heights, N. Y. City.

SILSBEE, George C .:

Editor and publisher, bank president, postmaster; born Oct. 30, 1857, Avoca, N. Y., graduate of a public school, four terms as postmaster, a Republican, promi- nent in politics in county and State ; edi- tor and publisher of the Avoca Advance, a local paper. Residence, Avoca, N. Y.

SIMMONS, Charles H .:

President and director of the Essex Foundry (Newark, N. J.), John Simmons Co., and Simmons Realty & Construction Co., Simmons Pipe Bending Works, New- ark, N. J .; treasurer and director Pow- hatan Brass & Iron Works; director of the General Electric Inspection Co., and Northern National Bank. Residence, 113 E. 38th St .; office, 110 Centre St., N. Y. City.

SIMMONS, Edward:

Artist; born Concord, Mass .. Oct. 27, 1852; son of George Frederick Simmons ; graduate of Harvard, 1874; studied under Lefebvre and Boulanger, Paris, France ; member of The Lambs and Players' Clubs. Address, 16 Gramercy Park, N. Y. City.

SIMMONS, J. Edward:

Banker; born Troy, New York, 1841; received his elementary education in Troy, and in 1858 entered Williams College, where he was graduated in 1862; he then entered upon the study of law in the Al- bany Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1863, and in the same year was admitted to the Bar; he immediately began legal practice in Troy, remaining there until 1867, when he re- moved to N. Y. City, and engaged there in the business of banking and brokerage; he continued actively engaged in business, and on June 2, 1884, was elected presi- dent of the Stock Exchange; he was elect- ^d by an unusually large majority, and the Allowing year he was unanimously re- he

declined renomination; he has several times declined nomination to other impor- tant officers where election was sure, among them that of mayor of New York; politically Mr. Simmons is a Democrat, but is in no sense a local partican or a follower of Tammany ; he has rendered his party important assistance in Presidential and other leading contests, and in 1895, after the election of Cleveland to the Pres- idency, his name was proposed by Samuel J. Tilden and other party leaders, without consulting him, for the position of collec- tor of the port of New York; on learning what was afoot, he immediately declined the honor, and so decisively that the effort for his nomination was dropped; having thus refused to accept a post carrying large patronage and emoluments, he cheer- fully accepted one without salary, that of president of the Board of Education, to which he was elected in 1886, on his re- turn from Europe; he had been appointed commissioner of the board in 1881, and served as its president for five years ; many beneficial changes were made in the school system during his incumbency; in 1888, mainly through his influence, the leg- islature passed a bill conferring collegiate rank and powers on the N. Y. Normal College, and he took the deepest interest in the College of New York, working suc- cessfully for its development; during his absence in Europe his name was strongly advocated by the business men of the city for the office of mayor, an honor which he declined ; in 1888 he was made president of the Fourth National Bank, despite the fact that he owned no stock in the bank, and had no personal acquaintance with any of its directors; he served also as receiver of the American Loan and Trust Co. of New York, a responsible duty which he discharged to the satisfaction of all con- cerned ; was president of the Clearing House in 1898; he has for the past ten years been president of the Panama R. R. Co., and is now vice-president of the N. Y. Chamber of Commerce; he has rendered efficient service in the charitable work of the city, having been president for several years of the N. Y. Infant Asylum, and a governor of the N. Y. Hospital ; he is now serving his Alma Mater, Williams College, as a trustee; is of high rank in the Ma- sonic Order, and is a member of numerous clubs and societies of New York; in 1888 he was given the degree of LL.D. by the University of Norwich Vt. Address, 28 West 52d St., N. Y. City.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 150

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