Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 160

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SUTRO, Florence Clinton:

Promoter of Women's Work in Music; born England, May 14, 1865; daughter of Harry W. and Frances Greenwood Clin- ton. Was graduated from Grand Con- servatory of Music, Mus. Doc. Was grad- uated fronm and was first woman student of law in New York University. Married in St. John's Episcopal Church, 1884, Hon. Theodore Sutro. Founder of Na- tional Federation of Musical Clubs and its first president. Member of Sorosis- Portia Club. Alumnæ Woman's Law Class, Press Club, College Woman's Club. Member of numerous charitable and phil- anthropic and educational institutions. Compiled Book of Husband's Love Let- ters; Milestones on Life's Pathway. Brought out Women's Opera and raised $2,000 for Vassar College. Is a painter of merit and many of her works have been accepted by the National Academy

873 of Art. Address, 320 West 102d St., N. Y. City.

SUTRO, Theodore:

Lawyer; born Aix-la-chapelle, Prussia, 1845. Was prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy, and entering Harvard, was graduated in the class of 1871; studied law at Columbia University, and was ad- mitted to the Bar in 1874; has since prac- ticed in New York; is a Democrat in politics, and in 1895-98 was commissioner of taxes of N. Y. City. In his legal work has conducted successfully many import- ant cases of great variety and incidental- ly has made a specialty of tax cases. Residence, 320 West 102d St .; office, 280 Broadway, N. Y. City.

SUYDAM, Charles Crooke:

Lawyer; born New York, June 15, 1836; son of Henry and Almira Van Nostrand Suydam; was graduated from Columbla, 1856, A. M .; admitted to N. Y. Bar, 1858; married, 1860, Eliza Gracie Halsey, of Elizabeth, N. J .; served in Civil War, retired in 1864 with rank of lieutenant- colonel. Counsel for U. S. Government

before American-Spanish Commission, 1882; associate counsel before court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, 1882- 85. Member Holland Society and Loyal Legion. Residence, Elizabeth, N. J .; office, 206 Broadway, N. Y. City.

SUYDAM, John Howard:

Clergyman of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1832; descended, on the maternal side, from Joris de Rapalle, who came to Fort Orange (Albany) from Holland, in 1623; his first child, Sara, was born there, June 9, 1625, and was the first white child born in New Netherland; on the pa- ternal side he is of the sixth generation from Hendrych Rycken, who came to New Amsterdam from Holland in 1663, whose three sons took the name of "Suy- dam" (variously spelled) at Flatbush, about 1710. He was graduated from Erasmus Hall Academy, Flatbush, L. I., in 1852, from Rutgers College, New Jer- sey, in 1854, from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1857; married (first) Sarah Augusta Von Arsdile, of New Brunswick, N. J., and (second) Mary Frances Ludwig of Philadelphia, Pa. Held pastorates at Fishkill-on-Hud- son, Philadelphia, Pa., Jersey City, N. J., and Rhinebeck-on-Hudson; resigned on account of broken health, Nov. 1, 1903, and is Pastor Emeritus of his last charge. received degrees of A. B., A. M., and

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D. D. from Rutgers College; was presi- dent of General Synod, Syracuse, 1885; is author of The Cruger Family; Cruel Jim; The Wreckmaster; The Emerald Ring; Hendryck Rycken, Progenitor of the Suy- dam Family in America; Two Sermons on the History of the Reformed Dutch Church; The History of the First Re- formed Dutch Church of Philadelphia; The Lord of Hosts; Sermon on the Death of President Garfield, published by citi- zens of Jersey City; also one entitled Consolation, on the death of Lieutenant Spoole of the 7th Regiment, New York, published by the First Presbyterian Church, Newburgh, N. Y .; Christian Patriotism, published by the Washington Grays, Philadelphia, Pa .; Personal Rec- ollections of Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage; also numerous contributions to the religious press, and a number of addresses pub- lished in the Year Book of the Holland Society of New York; was in the service of the Christian Commission in the Civil War. Address, 207 St. Mark's Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

SWEENY, William Montgomery :

Author; born N. Y. City, Aug. 29, 1871; son of late Brigadier-General Thomas W. Sweeny, U. S. Army, and Eugenia Octav- ia Reagan Sweeny; not married; cdu- cated at public and private schools and academies in N. Y. City and Augusta, Ga. He has written for the press and contributed biographical articles to Offic- ers of the Army Who Served in the Civil War (Philadelphia, 1892); History of the Twelfth Regiment, N. G., N. Y. (New York, 1894); Journal of the American- Irish Historical Society (Boston, 1899) ; White's Cyclopedia of Biography (New York, 1901); and Lamb's Biographical Di- rectory of the U. S. (Boston, 19-). Au- thor: Life and Services of Thomas Will- iam Sweeny, Brigadier-General, U. S. Army (in manuscript). Editor: Sweeny's Narrative of Army Service in the Mexican War and on the Plains, (1846-53); mem- ber, and one of the executive committee, Aztec Club of 1847; American-Irish His- torical Society; ex-secretary, New York Association of California Pioneers, Mili- tary Order of Foreign Wars of the U. S .; biography in Biographical Directory of the State of New York (New York, 1900). Address, Astoria, L. I., N. Y. SWEET, Sullivan George:

Instructor in art of singing; born Bos- ton, Mass., Aug. 9, 1854; son of Sullivan and Martha Elizabeth Goodell Sweet; ed- ucated schools Brooklyn and Lawrence,

Mass .; married, New York, 1890, Lulu B. Harper, of Oakland, Cal. Appeared in opera in Berlin in 1877 and afterward in principal cities of continental Europe and America until 1884; since which time he has devoted himself to teaching. Member N. Y. Athletic Club, Sons of Revolution, and N. Y. Society of the Order of Found- ers and Patriots of America. Honorary member, 1876, of the Florentine Phil- harmonic. Address, 489 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

SWEET, George C .:

Lieutenant, U. S. Navy; born in and appointed from N. Y., naval cadet, Sept. 22, 1894. Ensign April 4, 1900. Lieuten- ant, Junior Grade, April 24, 1903. On duty at Bureau of Equipment, Sept. 18, 1903 to 1904. Lieutenant, June 21, 1904. At Asiatic Station since May 24, 1904. Ad- dress, Naval Station, Cavite, P. I.

SWEET, John E .:

Mechanical engineer and president of the Straight Line Engine Co., Syracuse, N. Y .; born Pompey, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1832; son of Horace and Candace Avery Sweet; common school education; carpenter, builder and architect in Alabama until the breaking out of the Civil War. He was in Europe until 1864 as an inventor and draughtsman; married Caroline V. Haw- thorne, Nov. 24, 1870; second, Irene C. Clark, May 9, 1889; professor of practical mechanics at Cornell, 1873 to 1879; pres- ident American Society of Mechanical En- gineers, 1883-84; expert for government and juror at Columbian Exposition, 1893; president Engine Builders Association of the U. S., 1899-1901; contributor to engi- neering publications. President Tech- nology Club of Syracuse, 1903-04. dress, 114 Merriman Ave., Syracuse, Ad- N. Y.

SWIFT, Lewis, F. R. S .:

Astronomer; born Clarkson, N. Y., Feb. 29, 1820; son of General Lewis and Anna Forbes Swift Lewis; at the age of thirteen years he had the misfortune or otherwise to break his left hip bone, from which through defective surgery he has since been lame. In 1854, without a teacher, he took up the subject of prac- tical astronomy in Marathon, N. Y., with a four and one-half inch comet-seeker, with which, there, in Rochester, and Cal- ifornia, he discovered over a dozen new comets, the first at Marathon (on a plat- form he built on the gable of his barn), with a period of 123 years, having or -. bital elements identical with the August

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10th star shower. In 1872 he moved to | New York Bar, 1891. Member Players Club and author of magazine articles and poems; partner of Henry W. Rudd, in firm of Rudd & Sykes. Address, 42 Broadway, N. Y. City.

Rochester, selecting as an observing place, to avoid street lights, a dark alley; soon after he moved his telescope to the large, flat roof of Walter B. Duffy's cider mill, which cut off all street lights, where in five years he discovered six new comets. The people of Rochester presented him with $12,500, with which he purchased a sixteen-inch Clark refractor, a spectro- scope, and a sidereal clock. Mr. H. H. Warner built him an expensive observa- tory, in which he discovered, in addition to several comets, 900 new nebulae. At Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain, Call- fornia, 3,500 feet above the Pacific, he discovered, before his sight failed him, 342 more nebulae, placing him in point of numbers next to Sir John Herschel, all were measured and described in Astron- omische Nachrichten. For his discover- ics he has recived three gold medals from Austria; the La Land prize, a silver medal, and 540 francs; and five of bronze, one a large one from the Royal Astro- nomical Society of England, or nine in all, being more than any other astron- omer ever received; also $500 from Mr. Warner. Ph. D., was conferred on him by the University of Rochester; elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of England, and by Canada and elected an honorary member of the Astronomical Society of Mexico. Address, Marathon, N. Y.

SYKES, Frederick Henry:

Educator; born Queensville, Ont., Oct. 21, 1863; was graduated from University of Toronto, 1885, A. M., 1886; Fellow Johns Hopkins; Ph. D., 1894; Oxford, Eng., 1899; married, Brockville, Ont., 1899, Louise Lavell Ryckman; professor in var- ious Canadian schools and colleges; lec- turer, English literature, American So- ciety for Extension of University Teach- ing; Johns Hopkins University, Univer- sity of Chicago and Brooklyn Institute; now professor

of English literature, Teachers' College, and director extension department, Columbia University. Au-

thor: French Elements in Middle Eng- lish. Member Modern Language Asso- ciation (Ontario), Modern Language As- sociation of America, and Reform Club. Address, Teachers

College, Columbia University, N. Y.

SYKES, McCready :

Lawyer; born Isleham, Va .; son of Rev. Charles Sykes; was graduated from Princeton College, 1894; admitted to the

SYMONDS, Charles S .:

Banker; president of the Utica City National Bank, Utica, N. Y .; born Water- town, N. Y .; son of Charles Fitch Sym- onds and Sarah Louise (Grannis) Sym- onds; married Mary Ella Fitch, daughter of Thomas Brockway Fitch, a prominent citizen and banker of Syracuse, N. Y .; read law with Brown & Beach, of Water- town, N. Y. He is a director in the fol- lowing companies: Utica Gas & Electric Co., International Heater Co., Utica Trust & Deposit Co., Utica Canning Co., Utica Pipe Foundry Co., Roberts-Wicks Co., and in the Utica, Clinton & Binghamton R. R. Co .; Fort Schuyler Fire Insurance Co .; vice-president and director in Chas. Millar & Son Co .; trustee Utica Art As- sociation; councillor Oneida Historical So- ciety; vice-president Fort Schuyler Club; trustee House of Good Shepherd; was one of the contributors to Johnson's Encyclo- pedia. Member Mayflower Society, Colon- ial Governors, and Colonial Wars. Ad- dress, Utica City National Bank, Utica, N. Y.

SYMONDS, Frederick M .:

Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy; born Water- town, N. Y., May 16, 1847; entered Naval Academy, Sept. 26, 1862, from Congres- sional district including Jefferson Co., N. Y .; attached to U. S. flagship Piscata- qua and U. S. S. Ashuelot, Asiatic Sta- tion, 1867-70; torpedo station, Newport. R. I., 1871-72; U. S. S. Tuscarora, 1872-75; U. S. S. Minnesota, 1875-78; U. S. S. Jamestown, Alaskan waters, 1879-81; U. S. S. New Hampshire, 1882-85; U. S. S. Mohican, Pacific Station, 1885-88; U. S. S. Michigan, Great Lakes, 1889-92; in- spector of ordnance, Mare Island Navy Yard and Union Iron Works, San Fran- cisco, Cal., 1894-96; command of U. S. S. Pinta, Alaskan waters, 1896-97; commend- ed by Secretary of Navy for services in Alaska; command of U. S. S. Marietta, 1897-99. The Marietta, departing from San Jose, Guatemala, joined the U. S. S. Oregon in the Magellan Straits on April 7, 1888, and accompanied her as far as Rio de Janiero, Brazil, when the com- mands separated, the Oregon pushing on to the West Indies and the Marietta di- rected to convoy steamer Nictheroy (now U. S. S. Buffalo) around Cape St. Roque,

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and then to proceed to Key West, where she arrived June 3, 1898, and at once took station on Havana blockade; in twenty- two months the Marietta steamed forty- four thousand miles; work of Marietta commended by Secretary of Navy for services during Spanish-American War, and later by Secretary of State and Secre- tary of Navy for services at Bluefields, Nicaragua. He was light-house inspector, Chicago, Ill., 1899-1902; War College, 1902; ensign, Dec. 18, 1868; master, March 21, 1870; lieutenant, March 21, 1871; lieuten- ant commander, July 31, 1890; command- er, June 19, 1897; captain, March 18, 1902; retired, rear admiral, Dec. 1, 1902. Duty in connection with 9th inspection district, Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C., also inspector 6th steamboat inspection district at Louis- ville, Ky. Address, Navy Department, Washington, D. C.

SYMONS, Thomas William:

Major, corps of engineers, and colonel, U. S. Army; born Keesville, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1849; received common school edu- cation in Flint, Mich., and was appointed from that place as a cadet at West Point in 1870, graduating in 1874 at the head of his class; he was assigned to the corps of engineers, and has been on duty as an officer of the corps ever since; on duty torpedo station, Willets Point, 1874-76; western surveys, 1876-79, operating in Utah, Nevada, Oregon, California and Washington; chief engineer, Department Columbia, 1879-82; at this time he made extensive surveys of and wrote a book on the Columbia River; investigated and settled a threatened uprising of the Ska- git and Sauk Indians; 1882 to 1883, in charge of works for improving the Miss- issippi River; 1883, made an examination of the Mexican boundray line under orders of the Secretary of State, and for it re- ceived the formal thanks of the State Department; 1883 to 1889, in Washington on duty improving water supply of the city and iu the District Government in charge of water supply, sewerage, pave- ments, as well as streets, roads, bridges, lighting, steam and street car railroads, etc. In 1885 he made an examination of Hot Springs, Ark., for the Interior De- partment; 1889 to 1895, in charge of river and harbor works in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana; made surveys, plans and estimates for ship canal north of Seattle connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington; one of the

originators and chief engineer of private ship canal from Seattle Harbor to Lake Washington; 1895 to 1903, at Buffalo, in charge of river and harbor works on Lake Erie, Niagara River, Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River, and engineer Tenth Lighthouse District, embracing Lakes Erie and Ontario and Detroit, Niagara, and St. Lawrence Rivers. He planned and built a very exposed and elaborate lighthouse and fog signal sta- tion in Lake Erie near Toledo; 1895-96-97, made an exhaustive study and report on the subject of canals from the Great Lakes to the sea at N. Y. City, in which he outlined and proposed the plan for a barge canal, for the construction of which the State Legislature has made an ap- propriation of $1,01,000,000, and which has now been ratified by the people of the State at the polls. In 1899 he served as a member of the Canal Advisory Board appointed by Governor (now President) Roosevelt; during 1900 he assisted the State engineer in making surveys, plans and estimates for the barge canals across the State. In 1902, in connection with A. E. Blackmer, he drew an act passed by the Legislature providing for the barge canal and its construction; 1900-01, mem- ber of board of directors and of executive committee of the Pan-American Exposi- tion; at Buffalo, built the longest break- water in the world. He has written sev- eral important papers on harbor improve- ments and canals, and for several years was a lecturer on engineering at Corneil University; on duty in charge of public buildings and grounds of Washington, D. C., and military aid to the President, with the rank of colonel. Appointed March, 1904, by Governor Odell a member of the Advisory Board of Consulting En- gineers on the construction of the barge canals, and accepted same by authority of a special act of Congress permitting same. Member American Society of Civil Engineers, and an honorary member of the Society of Civil Engineers of Western New York; honorary member Buffalo and Ellicott Clubs; member

Country and Thursday Clubs of Buffalo, and of the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, and an honorary member Buffalo and Erie, Pa., Yacht Clubs; mem- ber Fort Orange Club, Albany, N. Y .; promoted to captain in 1884 and major in 1896; married In 1884, Letitia V. Robin- son, of Pittsburg, Pa. Residence, 20 La- fayette Square, Washington, D. C .; official

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address, Lemon Building, Washington, D. C.

SYNNOTT, Stephen H .:

Clergyman ; born St. Johns, New Bruns- wick : prepared at Grammar School of Gagetown, N. B., and was graduated from the University of New Brunswick, 1854, and General Theological Seminary in N. Y. City, 1857 ; ordained as deacon, 1857, and priest. 1858, by Bishop Horatio Potter of P. E. Church; assistant at St. Peter's Church in N. Y. City, 1857-58 ; director of Christ Church, Cooperstown, N. Y., 1858- 66, of St. Paul's Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1866-85, and of St. John's Church, Ithaca, N. Y., 1885-1904 ; librarian of Cor- nell Free Library and ex-officio trutsee of Cornell University, 1891-1904; received degree of D. D. from Hobart College and that of LL. D. from his Alma Mater in 1900 ; married Miss Huntington of Coop- erstown. Address, Cooperstown, N. Y.

TABOR, Francis Hebard:

Born at Horsmonden. Vent. Eng .; edu- cated at Univeristy College, London, and Christ's College. Cambridge; associate of the College of Preceptors. London, 1888; assistant master at Parmiter's Founda- tion School. London. 1890-1893. Head- master of Hormonden School, Vent. 1893- 97. Superintendent of The Boys Club of Tompkins Square, N. Y .. City, 1897-1904. Also principal of Summer School, No. 1, N. Y. City, 1897 and director of out-door athletics at The Educational Alliance, N. Y. City, 1897-1904. Address, Tomp- kins Square, N. Y. City.

TAG, Casimir:

President and director German-Ameri- can Bank. President and trustee German Savings Bank. Vice-president and direc- tor Wallabout Bank. Secretary and trus- tee N. Y. Improved Real Estate Co. Di- rector Consolidated Coal Co. of Wyoming. Germania Fire Insurance Co., Title In- surance Co. of N. Y., U. S. Casualty Co. German Life Insurance Co., Trustee Peo- ple's Trust Co. Residence, Brooklyn ; of- fice, 23 Broad St., N. Y. City.

TAGGART, Marion Ames :

Author; born Haverhill. Mass .; is the daughter of Alfred Gilchrist Taggart and Sarah Porter Ames; descended on the paternal side from pure Scotch ancestry, the patronymic was originally Mactag- gart; her ancestors settled in New Hamp- shire in Colonial days. On the mother's side is descended from old New England

Colonial stock, her grandfather being the Captain Ames, who fought at Bunker Hill. She never went to school, the ex- ceeding delicacy of her health necessitating education at home ; born in a household of book lovers. her education was largely reading. from her fifth year, of the older English poets and classics. An only child, excitable and imaginative, she spent most of her childhood and youth apart from comrades of her own age, and this doubt- less fostered the strong bent of her mind toward verse and prose writing. She be- gan contributing to magazines in her fourteenth year. and has continued doing so to the present date. Of late her work has been chiefly for children, the branch of literary work in which she has always been most interested. She has produced may books, seven of which were published by Benziger Bros., New York : The Wynd- ham Girls (was published by the Century Co. in 1902); Miss Lochinvar (by Apple- ton in the same year); At Aunt Anna's (hy Appleton in 1903). She will bring out The Little Grey House (through McClure. Phillips & Company, and she is to publish several other books, already planned and placed. Marion Ames Tag- gart's home was Boston in her early childhood until she removed to Plainfield. N. J .. for her mother's health, and her home has been in N. Y. City for the past nine years, where her most important work has been done and her reputation made: she owns a summer home at Para- dise Valley, Pa., in the Pocono Mountains. Contributor to Youth's Companion, St. Nicholas, the Catholic World. and to the Independent. Author: Asa the Shepherd. which has been translated into Italian and republished in Italy. Address, 102 Waverly Place, N. Y. City.

TAGGART, William Rush:

Jawyer; born Smithville, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1849. Son of William Wirt Taggart, M. D .. and of Margaret M. His ancestry was Scotch-Irish. Mr. Taggart was graduated from the University of Wooster in 1871. He studied law with the Hon. Martin Welker. and Charles M. Yocum, and was graduated from the Law School of the University of Michigan in March, 1875. In 1887 he came to the City of N. Y .. and connected himself with the law firm of Dillon and Swayne. In 1891 he was appointed solicitor of the Western Union Telegraph Co. He was counsel in the celebrated Laidlaw-Sage law suit, and was at one time in the U. S. Geological

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Survey. Residence, 319 West 75th St .; office, 195 Broadway, N. Y. City.

TALMADGE, Henry P .:

President and director Haviland Lum- ber Co., Southern Pine Co. Director Al- bany & Northern Ry. Co .. Empire State Trust Co., National Bank of Brunswick, Ga., Phenix National Bank. Third Na- tional Bank. Albany, Ga .; member Union, University, Whist. Reform Clubs. Resi- dence. Netherwood, N. J .; office, 50 Pine St., N. Y. City.

TANNER, John Henry:

Professor of mathematics in Cornell University, at Ithaca. N. Y .; horn March 1. 1861, near Fort Plain. N. Y .; son of Charles Frederick and Minnie Lenz Tan- ner; educated in the public schools of Fort Plain, the Clinton Liberal Institute. Cornell University and the University of Göttingen. Germany. Instructor in mathematics at Cornell. 1891-94; assist- ant professor. 1894-1904; professor. 1904; life member of the American Mathemati- cal Society, and member of its council : life member and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence. Member Association of Teachers of Mathematics of the Middle States and Maryland; member Society of the Sigma Xi, and also of various clubs. Author: Analytic Geometry (Tanner and Allen) and an Elementary Algebra, (both pub- lished by the American Book Co.) Mar- ried Miss Clara Martha Williams at Ithaca, N. Y .. June 20. 1893. Address, Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N. Y.

TANNER, Zera L .:

Commander U. S. Navy; born Warsaw. N. Y. Dec. 5. 1835. His father died in 1836. He worked on a farm and attended a public school whenever it was possible to do so; 1852 to 1855 was employed in a foundry. making a business trip to Eng- land in 1855; in 1856 made a vovage to the East Indies on board the Culloden. After making two voyages in this vessel he de- cided to follow the sea as a profession; returned to New York in 1859 as boat- swain of the American packet ship Bridgewater: second officer of the Game Cock. from New York to China and Japan. 1859-61: joined the Kingfisher in Jan., 1861. and second officer from Hong Kong to San Francisco; July 1. 1861. promoted first officer and sailed for Boston. He sailed from Boston to the Gulf of Mexico on board the Kingfisher as government transport, carrying troops and horses for the U. S. Government. March, 1862, joined

the Western Empire government trans- port and carried troops and horses to Gulf of Mexico, returning to New York. He volunteered for service in the navy and in 1862 was appointed acting ensign; received a commission in the regular navy, March 12. 1868. Promoted master, Dec. 18, 1868; lieutenant March 21. 1870; cruised in the Pacific Ocean until 1873. when he went to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and remained there until 1874. From 1874 to 1878 commanded the steam- shins Colon and City of Pekin. Pacific mail steamers; 1879. commanded the U. S. steamship Speedwell on special service in deep sea explorations: 1880 to 1882 commissioned Fish Commissiner, steamer Tish Hawk : 1882 took command of the fish commission steamer Albatross and for more than five years was actively engaged in the scientific ex- nloration of the Gulf of Mexico, the Car- ibbean Sea. and along the coast of the U. S .; Nov .. 1887, made a scientific vov- age to the west coast of America, going via the Straits of Magellan. and reached San Francisco. May, 1888. From 1888 to 1894. engaged in deep sea exploration. Mav. 1894. detached from the Albatross at his own request; Jan. 1. 1895. ordered to special dutv under the U. S. Fish Com- mission in Washington. D. C .; on duty at Navy Department, 1898; promoted to lieutenant-commander. Feb. 22. 1883; pro- moted to commander. Feb. 7, 1893; special dutv. U. S. Fish Commission, Washington. D. C .. 1895-96: Hydrographic Office. Wash- ington. D. C .. 1896-97. Retired. Dec. 5. 1897. On special duty during the Spanish War; 1904 and 1905, special duty under Department of Commerce and Labor. Ad- dress, 2204 R St., Washington, D. C.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 160

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