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similar institutions, the New England Society, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Municipal Art Society. He was married to Miss Frances J. Thomp- son at Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 5, 1865. Address, 155 West 58th St., N. Y. City. SNOW, Henry Sanger:
Lawyer; born Brooklyn, May 8, 1856; son of Michael and D. Maria Snow ; edu- cated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; was graduated from Columbia College, LL. B., 1880; LL. M., University of N. Y., 1892; LL. D,. Middlebury College, 1900; married, Philadelphia, 1885, Anna Le Conte Brooks; admitted to N. Y. Bar; Treasurer of N. Y. & N. J. Telephone Co .; President Brooklyn Polytechnic In- stitute 1899-1904. Member Bar Associa- tion, Long Island Historical Society, Hamilton (Brooklyn), University (Brook- lyn), Nassau, Country and Down Town Clubs. Residence, 270 Henry St., office, 81 Willoughby St., Brooklyn, N. Y. SNOW, Whiting G .:
President and director Montclair Water Co., Kearney Water Co .; vice-president and director Passaic Water Co. Trustee Bankers' Safe Deposit Co. Director Ac- quackanock Water Co., Director Philip- nine Products Co., Car Trust Investment Co., of N. Y., Essex Title Guaranty Co., Kent Water & Light Co., Massillon Water Supply Co., Quaker Oats Co., Wabash Electric Light Co., Wabash Water Co. Residence, Montclair, N. J .; office, 2 Wall St., N. Y. City.
SNOW. William W .:
President and director Metal Plated Car & Lumber Co .. Mountain Spring Water Co., Standard Equipment Co .; vice-pres- ident and director Ramano Iron Works. Chairman of the Board of Directors Am- erican Brake Shoe & Foundry Co. Di- rector Bloomfield Trust Co., International Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., Rockland Electric Co. Residence, Hillburn, N. Y .; office, 170 Broadway, N. Y. City. SNYDER, Albert Whitcomb:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born Lisbon. N Y., April 8, 1845; son of John H. and Agnes (Ballentine) Snyder; was educated in the public schools and at Racine College, Wisconsin, and Kenyon College. Ohio; was graduated from Nash- otah Theological Seminary, Wisconsin, 1866; ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Kemper in 1866; ordained to the priest- hood by Bishop Whitehouse in 1867; was the founder and first rector of Calvary Church, Chicago, Ill .; subsequently rector
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of Emanuel Church, Rockford, Ill .; chap- lain of Lehigh University, South Bethle- hem, Pa .; rector of St. Paul's Church, Wellsboro; some time editorial writer on the Living Church, Chicago, and on the Churchman, New York. Married in Jan., 1895, Josephine M. Smith, daughter of the late Major Henry Smith, U. S. A. Author: The Living Church Tracts, The Chief Things, (1888, now in its fifth edi- tion); The Chief Days, (1899); The Chief Things, (second series, 1900); also of How is a Man to Know What to Believe? etc .; editorial writer in religious and secular papers. He is now rector of St. Paul's Church, Woodside, Greater New York. Address, Elmhurst, Borough of Queens, N. Y. City.
SNYDER, Carl:
Author; born Iowa; son of C. W. Sny- der, a well known Iowa editor, and Fanny Knott Snyder, first woman principal of public schools in the West. Educated at the State University, and later in Paris. An occasional contributor to reviews; au- thor: New Conceptions in Science, (Har- per & Bros., 1903), etc. Has resided abroad much of the time since 1898. Ad- dress, 41 Great Russell St., W. C., Lon- don, England, and 452 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
SNYDER. Valentine P .:
President and director National Bank of Commerce in N. Y. Trustee Ameri- can Surety Co., Equitable Trust Co., Fifth Ave. Trust Co., Mercantile Safe Deposit Co. Director Audit Co. of N. Y., Casualty Co. of America, Coney Island & Brooklyn R. R. Co., Equitable Life As- surance Society of the U. S., Essex Coun- ty 'Trust Co., East Orange, N. J., Mer- cantile Electric Co., N. Y. Mercantile Trust Co., Merchants Safe Deposit Co., National Exhibition Co., N. Y. & Queens Co. Ry. Co., O'Rourke Engineering Con- struction Co., Union Co. Trust Co. of Elizabeth, N. J., Union Exchange Bank, Union National Bank, Newark, Varick Bank of N. Y. Residence, 11 East 56th St .; office, 15 Nassau St., N. Y. City. SOLEY, James Russell:
Lawyer, author; born Boston, Mass., Oct. 1, 1850; is a graduate of Harvard College (1870) and of the Law School of Columbia University; appointed profes- sor of mathematics, U. S. Navy, Aug. 18, 1876; resigned July 16, 1890, to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy, which office he filled for three years; removed to New York in 1893 and became a mem- ber of the New York Bar. He is a mem-
ber of the firm of Boardman, Platt and Soley; he married Miss Mary Howland; member Union, University, and City Mid- day Clubs. Author: History of the Naval Academy; Rescue of Greely (in colla- boration with Rear-Admiral Winfield S. Schley); Life of Admiral Porter, (1903), etc. Residence, 49 East 80th St .; office, Mills Building, N. Y. City.
SOLLEY, Fred P .:
Physician; born Newark, N. J., Oct. 10, 1866; was graduated from Yale University, academic department, 1888, and from Sheffield Scientific School, 1889; received degree of M. D. from College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, medical department of Columbia University, 1892; served on house staff of St. Luke's Hospital, New York, for two years, 1893-94; studied abroad for one year (1895) in universi- ties of Heidelberg, Vienna and Paris, Married Mary Houston, daughter of Rob- ert Folger Westcott, the founder of the Westcott Express Co. Member Universi- ty Club, New York Academy of Medi- cine, County Medical Society, Medical Association of the Greater New York, Physicians Mutual Aid Association, So- ciety of the Alumni of St. Luke's Hos- pital; at present tutor in medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, med- ical department of Columbia University; assistant in clinical pathology, Presby- terian Hospital; assistant physician to Roosevelt Hospital, out-patient depart- ment. Engaged in general practice of medicine at 33 West 53d St., in winter and at East Hampton, L. I., in summer.
SOMERVILLE, Henderson Middleton:
Chairman National Board Customs Ap- praisers, 1890-1904; now member of this Board; was graduated from University of Alabama, 1856; A. M., 1859, LL.D., 1887, University of Alabama; LL. D., Georgetown, Ky., College, 1886; and
1887; Southwestern University, Tenn., was graduated from Cumberland Law School, 1859; editor Memphis, Tenn., Ap- peal, 1859-62; member Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee, 1872- 80; founded Law School, University of Alabama, 1873; lecturer constitutional, statutory and common law, University of Alabama, 1873-80; trustee Alabama In- sane Hospital, 1874-92; associate justice Supreme Court, Alabama, 1880-90; pres- ident New York Medico-Legal Society, 1892-93; member Phi Beta Kappa, 1856; New York Southern Society and Alpha Delta Phi Society. Residence, 265 Central
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Park West; office, 641 Washington St., and Elizabeth Trinkhaus Sousa; began N. Y. City. conducting at age of seventeen; first vio- SOMMERS, Henry C .: lin in Jacques Offenbach's orchestra; band Lawyer; editor The Insurance Record; born N. Y. City, Nov. 22, 1861; educated Cornell University and Columbia Law School. Republican. Address, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City. leader U. S. Marine Corps, 1880-92; since 1892 conductor of Sousa's Band, which has toured the U. S., and in 1900, 1901, 1903 and 1905 the principal cities of Europe. His compositions include be- sides marches, waltzes and songs, the operettas El Capitan, The Charlatan, Chris or the Wonderful Lamp and Bride Elect. Also wrote the novel The Fifth String. Is officier d'Academie and L'In- struction Publique of Academie Fran- caise; member of Victorian Order, Metro- politan Museum of Art and Manuscript Club. Address, Astor Court Building, N. Y. City.
SOOYSMITH, Charles:
Consulting civil engineer; inventor; born Buffalo, N. Y., July 20, 1856; son of Gen. William and Elizabeth Haven Sooy- smith; graduated at Rensselaer Polytech- nic Institute (Troy, N. Y.) C. E., 1876; special courses at Polytechnicum, Dres- den, and elsewhere abroad; married, 1887, Pauline Olmsted, of Hartford, Conn .; pres- ident Sooysmith & Co .; patentee of many processes for excavating, tunneling, etc .; expert in underground works, piers, bridg- es, and other constructions. Member of Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Society Civil Engineers, N. Y. Botanical Garden, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (Troy), University, Century and N. Y. Yacht Clubs. Summer residence, Green's Farms, Conn .; office, 71 Broadway, N. Y. City.
SOTHERAN, Alice Hyneman :
Author; magazine writer; born Phila- delphia, Jan. 31, 1840 ; daughter Leon and Sarah Gumpert Hyneman; married, 1893, Charles Sotheran (died, 1902). Author of Niagara Park, Descriptions, Poems and Adventures; Neither Genius nor Martyr; Woman in Industry; Work in America. Member of Society of American Authors. Address, Barnett Bros., Columbus Ave. and 74th St., N. Y. City.
SOTHERN, Edward H .:
Actor; born in London, England ; son of Edward A. Sothern, the well known com- edian; educated at the School of Dun- church, in Warwickshire; made his debut with his father in Abbey's Park Theatre, New York, 1879 ; played the role of Cap- tain Gregory with Helen Dauvray in One of Our Girls, 1886 ; appeared as Jack Ham- merton under the management of Daniel Frohnian in The Highest Bidder in 1887; has since starred under the management of Daniel Frohman in Lord Chumley, The Master of Woodbarrow, The Prisoner of Zenda, Under the Red Robe, The Three Musketeers, and Hamlet. Married, Vir- ginia Harned, 1896. Address, 34 West 69th St., N. Y. City.
SOUSA, John Philip:
Musician, composer, novelist; born Washington, Nov. 6, 1856; son of Antonio
SOUTHARD, George Henry:
President Franklin Trust Company ; spent his boyhood in Boston, graduating In 1856 from the English High School of that city ; entering at graduation upon a business life, he received his early and excellent training in his father's office in Boston; in 1861, about the commence- ment of the war, when twenty years of age he entered into the lumber business there with James & Pope, who supplied the Navy Department with lumber for ship- building during the war. In 1865 he re- moved to Newburgh, N. Y., continuing in the same business there; in 1874 he re- moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., and established the lumber firm of Southard & Co., in New York City; after having maintained for over twenty years a successful station in mercantile affairs, he, in 1887, took the important step which identified him with finance by participating in the organization of the National Bank of Deposit, of which he became cashier, and in 1888, in the or- ganization of the Franklin Trust Company of Brooklyn, of which he became the first secretary and second vice-president; in 1892 he became the president of the Frank- lin Trust Company and continues at the present time to occupy that office, and to witness the substantial growth and pros- perity of the institution. His political affil- iations have been with the Republican. party, while his influence has made itself strongly felt on the side of good govern -. ment; he was one of the organizers of the. New England Society of Newburgh, and. was its first secretary and afterwards a. director ; he is a member of the Hamilton. Club, Rembrandt Club, New England So- ciety of Brooklyn, the Union League Club, the Down Town Association, the New Eng-
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land Society of New York, and the Cham- | ber of Commerce of New York; in 1880 he became a director of the Maritime Ex- change and a member of its finance com- mittee; in philanthropic and ecclesiastical affairs he has rendered unostentatious and substantial service as a trustee of the Brooklyn Hospital, a member of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, a member and officer of the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, a trus- tee of the Brooklyn Presbytery and a di- rector of the Union Theological Seminary of New York. Address, Montague and Clinton Sts., Brooklyn, N. Y.
SOUTHWICK, Albert Plympton:
Author ; born, Charlestown, Mass., May 11, 1855 ; son of John S. and Louisa Rich- ardson Southwick; was graduated from the public and high schools, the seminary at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and spent two years at college and two years at the U. S. Naval Academy. His first writings consisted of about 200 short stories. Has been engaged as an educator and in liter- ary work since 1873 ; has published several of his works himself under the style of the Mine Publishing Company. Is the author of the Dime Series of Question Books (twenty numbers), (1880-83) ; Short Stud- ies in Literature, (1883) ; Quizzism and Its Key (1884) ; Handy Helps, (1886) ; Quiz Manual of Teaching (1886) ; Wisps of Wit and Wisdom, (1892) ; of fiction, Bijou, (1889) ; The Catherwood Mystery, (1892) ; A Fact in Fiction, (1893) ; Brown, the Lawyer, (1893). Is a contributor to mag- azines, and has written and composed many songs. His latest song is entitled "The Sweetest Voice I Ever Knew." Has written a play entitled A Man of Honor, and a comic opera, The Shepherd Girl. Has done much editorial work on educational journals and maga- zines, press associations, and the dally press. Address, 51 West 28th St., N. Y. City.
SOUTHWICK, Edmund Bronk:
Entomologist; born New Baltimore, N. Y., April 28, 1848. Spent early part of his life on a farm, near the village, where he studied with some system, the mammals, birds, insects, fish and plants, and made quite a collection of mounted specimens; was educated in the public schools, spent three years in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he studied entomology, bot- any, art and music, besides collecting in that State specimens in paleontology, en- tomology, ornithology, botany and the and a reportorial capacity; he also rep-
lower froms of cryptogamic plant life, in- cluding fungi. In Feb., 1883, was appoint- ed economic entomologist to the Park De- partment of N. Y. City, which position he still holds, doing all the entomological work and attending to all natural history correspondence for that department. In 1884 organized, and has been ever since president of the West Side Natural His- tory Society of N. Y. City, which meets twice a month for ten months of the year. In 1885 organized in his office the N. Y. State Forestry Association, and is still its secretary. For four years was secretary of the West Side Improvement Society of N. Y. City, 1888-92. From 1890-93 was trustee, and a part of the time secretary of the Board of Trustees of Rutgers Fe- male College of the City of N. Y. Re- ceived in 1891 the degree of Ph. D. from Rutgers Female College. Has written many papers on economic entomology and the care of trees, and for the destruction of noxious insects, and on village im- provement societies; also studied art, en- tomology and botany in N. Y. City; has lectured a great many times on forestry, economic entomological work and botany in relation to entomology and crypto- gramic, parasite plants destructive to the flora and sylva of parks and private places. Address, 206 West 83rd St., N. Y. City.
SOUTHWICK, George N .:
Member of Congress; Republican of Al- bany; born 55 Ten Broeck Street, Albany, N. Y., his present residence, March 7, 1863; his parents were Henry C. and Margaret J. Southwick; his early educa- tion was acquired at the private school of Mrs. Marvin, on Clinton Avenue, Alba- ny, and later at Public School No. 6, on Second Street, in that city; entered the Albany High School in 1875, whence he was graduated in 1879; although fitted for a collegiate experience, he passed a year in business affairs with his father at Chi- cago, and his brother at Joliet, Ill .; in the fall of 1880 he entered Williams Col- lege, whence he was graduated in 1884; at the commencement exercises of that year his oratorical ability was recognized by his classmates in his selection as pipe orator, and by the faculty in being chosen as one of the Graves prize ora- tors; he entered the Albany Law School, but financial reverses compelled him to seek active business life, and early in 1885 he entered the service of the Albany Morning Express, in both an editorial
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resented the Associated Press as reporter of proceedings in the Senate and Assem- bly during the legislative sessions of 1886, 1887 and 1888; in the last-mentioned year he became managing editor of the Morning Express, and early in 1889 of the Albany Evening Journal. His liter- ary activity has extended beyond the field of the daily papers, with which he has been connected as editor, reporter, or correspondent; he has been an occa- sional contributor to the columns of the magazines, among others the North Am- erican Review. He is unmarried. His political career began in the campaign of 1884, with voluntary contributions of editorial articles to the Albany Morning Express, in the interest of James G. Blaine and the Republican and American system of protection to American labor and American industry; in 1888 he stumped Albany County for Benjamin Harrison and Republican principles, and since that year his voice has been heard on the stump throughout the State of New York at every recurring election in the interest of the Republican party; in 1892 he sought the Republican nomina- tion for Congress in the Albany district, but was deterred by factious differences which existed within party lines; in 1894 he secured the Congressional nomination after a hard fight, and won at the election. In 1896 was re-elected to Con- gress; in March, 1896, he presided as permanent chairman over the stormy scenes of the Republican State Conven- tion in N. Y. City, which selected dele- gates-at-large to the St. Louis conven- tion in favor of the nomination of Levi P. Morton; in 1898 he was again a candi- date for Congress, but was defeated by Martin H. Glynn; in 1900 Mr. South- wick and Mr. Glynn were again the con- testants, the former winning, being elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. Address, 55 Ten Broeck St., Albany, N. Y.
SPALDING, George Burley:
Clergyman; born Montpelier, Vermont, was educated at Vermont University, Union and Andover Theological Semin- aries. Member of the Constitutional Convention of the N. H. legislature. President of the N. H. Normal School. Trustee of Hamilton College and of An- dover Theological Seminary. Married Sarah Livingston Olmstead, Aug. 6, 1861. Editor of the Watchman and Reflector, Boston. Founder and editor of the New
Hampshire Journal. Writer for the New York World and Times. Republican from the birth of the party. Received title of D. D., from Dartmouth College, and Vt. University and of LL. D., from Syracuse University. Now pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Syracuse, N. Y. Address, 207 Townsend St., Syracuse, N. Y.
SPEARS, John Randolph:
Author, journalist; born Ohio, 1850; son of Richard C. and Louisa Spears. Author: The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; The Port of Missing Ships, and Other Stories of the Sea; The History of Our Navy; Our Navy in the War with Spain; The Fugitive; History of the American Slave Trade; History of the Mississippi Valley Period of Foreign Control. The Life of Anthony Wayne; the article on "Yachting" in the Interna- tional Encyclopaedia; edited reprint of Narrative of Robert Eastburn. Address, Northwood, Herkimer Co., N. Y.
SPEARE, Lewis R .:
President, treasurer and director Alden Speare's Son's Co .; president and direc- tor Ashland Emery & Corundum Co., Diamond Mills Emery Co., The Harbor Beach Huron Milling Co., Michigan Jackson Mills Emery Co., Levant Emery Co., Walpole Emery Mills; treasurer and director Blue Corundum Mining Co. Of- fice, 100 William St., N. Y. City.
SPEER, Robert Elliott:
Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; born Huntingdon, Pa., Sept. 10, 1867. His father was the Hon. R. Milton Speer, a lawyer, representing his district in the House of Representa- tives for four years; his mother was Martha Ellen McMurtrie, a descendant of the earliest English families in Cen- tral Pennsylvania; his grandfather's grandfather was Lieutenant John Speer, on the staff of George Washington, who died at Valley Forge. Was educated at Phillips Academy, 1883-85; at Princeton University, 1885-89, and at Princeton Theological, 1890-91, receiving an honor- ary degree of M. A. from Yale Univer- sity; in the year 1889-90, he was travel- ing secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions; in 1891 he became secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Married, April 20, 1893, Emma Doll Balley, at Harrisburg, Pa. During 1896-97 he vis- ited the Christian Mission in Asia. Has written among other books "The Man, Christ Jesus; The Man, Paul; Missions
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and Politics in Asia; Missionary Prin- ciples and Practice; Christ and Life; The Principles of Jesus; A Memorial of a True Life; A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin; A Young Man's Questions, etc. Residence, Englewood, N. J .; office. 156 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
SPEIR, Louis Dean:
Lawyer, member of the firm of Smith & Martin, secretary and director Lans- ing Investment Co., Milford Land Co., Newtown Creek Land Co., Putnam Sew- ing Co .; director Newtown Creek Termi- nal Co., Rocky Mountain Paper Co. Resi- dence, South Orange, N. J .; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.
SPENCER, Anna Carlin:
Teacher, lecturer, author; born, 1851, Attleboro, Mass .; was educated at Provi- dence, R. I., private study and public schools. Author since 1870; public speaker since 1871; associated in ministerial work since 1876; married Rev. William H. Spencer, August, 1878; ordained as minister of Independent Society 1891.
Member Board of Judges, Columbian Ex- position, 1893; speaker at World's Par- liament of Religions,
1893. Moved to N. Y. City in 1902. Appointed director Winter School of Philanthropy, 1903. Elected assistant leader of the Society of Ethical Culture, 1904. Formerly on Board of Control State Home School for Chil- dren, R. I .; chairman Section on Child- Saving, International Conference Charities and Correction; director of many local and national educational and philanthrop- ic societies; resident minister of Bell St. Chapel, Providence, R. I., for fourtecn years. At present associate director of the School of Philanthropy conducted by the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York; also associate leader of the Society for Ethical Culture of New York City. Address, 105 East 22nd St., and 33 Central Park West, N. Y. City.
SPENCER, Andrew:
Teacher and lawyer; born Milford, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1863; married Minerva E. Bowe, 1884. Preliminary education at Cooperstown High School and Hartwick Seminary; was graduated from Cornell University, 1888; vice-president of gradu- ating class; received $1,200 in prizes during college course; elected member of Phi Beta Kappa Society; principal N. Y. State Schools at Maryland, 1889; Sharon Springs, 1890; Hamburg, 1891 and 1892; elected superintendent
of schools at Salamanca, 1892; superintendent of
schools, U. S. Indian Service, at Eastern Cherokee, N. C., 1893; at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 1894 to 1897, inclusive; attend- ed Albany Law School, 1898. Practiced law at Milford, N. Y., 1899 to date; presi- dent Bryan Club of Milford, 1902; clerk of Board of Supervisors of Otsego Co., 1902 to date. Address, Milford, N. Y.
SPENCER, Anna Garlin:
Independent preacher; born Attleboro, Mass., April 17, 1851; is daughter of Francis W. and Nancy Mason Carpenter Garlin; married, Providence, R. I., 1878, Rev. William H. Spencer. Journalistic work on Providence papers and teaching until 1878; assisted her husband in his work as pastor at Haverhill, and Florence, Mass., and Troy, N. Y. Ordained, 1891, and until 1903 minister to Religious So- ciety of Bell Street Chapel, Providence. Author: Biography of James Eddy, with Memorial Address; The Care of Depend- ent. Neglected and Wayward Children. Order of Service for Public Worship; Bell Street Chapel Discourses; History of Bell Street Chapel Movement. Address, 33 Central Park West.
SPENCER, Creighton:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born Tarrytown, N. Y .; was graduated from Columbia College, 1884; General Theo- logical Seminary, 1887; ordained, 1887. Married Joanna Livingston Mesier, daughter of Henry Mesier. Formerly rector of St. George's Church, Hemp- stead, L. I .; at present rector of Christ Church, Tarrytown. Member of Univer- sity, The Players Clubs, of N. Y. City, and Authors Club, of London. Address, Christ Church, Tarrytown, N. Y.
SPENCER, Edgar A .:
Jurist; born Cherry Valley, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1847; son of Wiliam D. and Mahitable P. Glazier Spencer; was educated at Cooperstown Seminary, N. Y. Mar- ried, Gloversville, N. Y., Sept., 1879, Frances B. Hosmer. Admitted to N. Y. Bar 1875; was City Clerk and City Attor- ney of Gloversville; served on various commissions. Justice of N. Y. Supreme Court Fourth Judicial District; his term will expire 1915. Member of Sons of the American Revolution, Empire State So- ciety, and Eccentric Club. Address
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