Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 166

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UNDERHILL, John Q .:


Vice-president and treasurer of the Westchester Fire Insurance Co. of N. Y .; born New Rochelle, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1848. At the age of twenty-one he obtained a position as bookkeeper in the Westches- 10, 1881, ter Fire Insurance Co. of N. Y., and in 1898-1902) ; married, Aug. 1876 was appointed superintendent of Marie A. Spurr. Professor of biology, agents. He was elected secretary three years afterward, and vice-president in 1892, retaining the secretaryship until 1897, when he resigned the secretaryship and was elected treasurer. He has like- wise twice served as president of his na- tive village and is active in the public affairs of New Rochelle; he was elected, in 1898, representative in the Congress of the U. S. from the Sixteenth N. Y. dis- trict for the term of 1899-1901. Residence, New Rochelle, N. Y .; office, 100 William St., N. Y. City. Syracuse University, 1883-91; professor of Botany, De Pauw University, 1891-95; professor of biology, Alabama Polytech- nic Institute, 1895-96; professor of bot- any, Columbia University, 1896 ; member board of scientific directors, New York Botanical Garden since 1896 (chairman since 1900); Independent Republican. Author: Descriptive Catalogue of North American Hepaticæe, 1884; Our Native Ferns and Their Allies, first edition, 1880, sixth edition, 1900; Moulds, Mildews and Mushrooms, 1889, and of many contribu- UNDERHILL, William W . tions to botanical periodical literature. Member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi Fraternities. Address, Columbia University, N. Y. City. UNGER, Henry W .:


President of the U. S. Fire Insurance Co. of New York; born N. Y. City, Sept. 13, 1839. He was educated at Burlington (N. J.) College and the University of Pennsylvania; was a clerk in the com- mission business from 1858 to 1862, and entered the service of the U. S. Fire Insurance Co. of New York in 1862, to which he has since been attached. Ad- dress, 46 Pine St., N. Y. City.


UNDERWOOD, Clarence F .:


Artist; born Jamestown, N. Y., 1871; educated Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa .; studied art at Art Students League, New York, and Julien's Academy, Paris, under Constant and Jean Paul Laurens, and Bouguereau. Has executed illustra- tions for Century, Studio, McClure's and other publications in New York and Lon- don. Residence, New Dorp, S. I .; address, Harper & Bros., Franklin Square, N. Y. City.


UNDERWOOD, George F .:


President and director Kenyon Lumber Co., Sandy Hill, N. Y., Underwood Type- writer Co. President, general manager and director St. Maurice Lumber Co., Michigan Pulp Wood Co. Director Am- erican Realty Co., First National Bank, Glen Fall's Paper Co., International Pa- per Co. Manager and director Indian River Co. Residence, 261 Central Park West; office, 30 Broad St., N. Y. City. prominent criminal cases arising in this


UNDERWOOD, Lucien Marcus!


Professor of Botany, Columbia Uni- versity ; born New Woodstock, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1853; was educated at common schools, Cazenovia Seminary, Syracuse University (Class of 1877) ; Ph. D., 1879. Fellow American Association Advance- ment of Science (vice-president Section G, Botany, 1894) ; Fellow New York Academy of Sciences; member Botanical Society of America (president, 1899- 1900); Torrey Botanical Club (editor,


Lawyer; born N. Y. City, July 3, 1863, and was educated in the public schools of the city. At an early age he entered the employ of the law firm of Isaacs & Sanger, remaining until 1883, when he was appointed clerk and stenographer to the Corporation Counsel by pressent Unit- ed States Circuit Court Judge Lacombe; in 1884 he acted as secretary to Mayor Edison. In 1885 he was made official stenographic secretary to the Grand Jury by the late Judge Randolph B. Martine. He was admitted to the Bar in 1884, and entered the firm of Isaacs & Sanger. In 1891 appointed deputy assistant and sec- retary to District Attorney DeLancey Nicoll, and continued as such and in additional capacities under the adminis- trations of Col. John R. Fellows and William M. K. Olcott; promoted to as- sistant district attorney and chief of In- dictment Bureau, 1898, under Col. Gard- iner; frequently served as acting district attorney. Was Democratic candidate for district attorney in 1901 against W. T. Jerome. Is now member of law firm of Levy & Unger, which has appeared as counsel for defendants in many of the


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county. Address, World Building, N. Y. in the New South Wales Volunteer Ar-


City.


UPJOHN, Richard Russell:


Clergyman of the Episcopal Church; born Brooklyn, N. Y., April 28, 1859; son of Richard Michell and Emma Tyng Up- john; was graduated from Cornel! Univer- sity in 1880; in business as an architect with his father until 1884; was graduated from Nashotah Theological Seminary with the degree of B. D., 1887. Was ordained deacon same year; priest, 1888, curate, Church of the Advent, Boston, 1887-88; curate, Church of the Ascension, Chica- go, 1892; rector, Good Shepherd, Roches- ter, 1894; curate, St. Mary the Virgin, N. Y. City, 1899; curate, Church of the Transfiguration, N. Y. City, 1901-03; rec- tor St. Paul's Church, Pleasant Valley, N. Y. Member New York Catholic Club and Psi Upsilon Club. Address, Pleasant Valley, N. Y.


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VALENTINE, David H .:


President and director Toluca Electric Light & Power Co .; secretary and direc- tor Brooklyn Warehouse & Dry Dock Co. Trustee Brevoort Savings Bank, Long Island Loan & Trust Co .; director Amer- ican Stoker Co., Brooklyn City Safe De- posit Co., Brooklyn Fire Brick Works, Brooklyn Heights R. R. Co., Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban R. R. Co., Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., Brooklyn Safe Deposit, Coney Island & Gravesend Ry. Co., Eagle Warehouse & Storage Co., Mechanics Bank (Brooklyn), Pacific Fire Insurance Co., South Brooklyn Ry., Transit Development Co. Office, 307 Washington St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


VALLENTINE,


Benjamin Bennaton


("Fitznoodle")


Author; born London, England, Sept. 7, 1843; only son of Benjamin Vallentine, merchant, who was a Freeman of the city of London, and was also in business in Birmingham, England; Hobart, Mel- bourne and Sydney, Australia, educated at King Edward the Sixth's School, Bir- mingham, England, having been nomi- nated by Lord Calthrope, lord lieutenant of the county of Warwickshire. When a youth he joined his father in Australia; he began his business career as a clerk in the office of a firm of shipping, com- mission and Eastern produce merchants in Sydney; sent as supercargo of a vessel belonging to the house on a voyage to the East Indies. Served for three years


tillery; was a member of the Sydney Literary Association, and a colleague as a young man of George Houston Reid, now the Right Hon. George H. Reid, formerly Prime Minister of New South Wales, and now head of the government of the commonwealth of Australia. Con- tributed articles to Sydney newspapers, read for the English Bar. Returned to England in 1870 in order to become bar- rister of the Middle Temple, the Franco- Prussian War prevented him from car- rying out his plans. After a visit to Brazil, he came to the U. S. in 1871 and became a partner in a foreign shipping and commission house; after the panic of 1873, withdrew from the business and became a writer for newspapers on dra- matic subjects, contributing to New York Star, American Athenaeum, the late Nym Crinkle's Arcadian, and other papers; ne was one of the founders of Puck in 1877 and originated the Fitznoodle papers in that publication, writing the editorials and inspiring the principal and most effective cartoons which were drawn by the late Joseph Keppler; he left Puck at the end of 1884 and sued the nominal editor, H. C. Bunner, for breach of con- tract, and won the two suits for the full amount claimed. He has traveled ex- tensively in Europe; in Rome in 1889 he had private interview with the late Pope Leo. XIII. He was for a year managing editor of Texas Siftings; also of the


novelist Irving Bacheller's newspaper syndicate; joined the staff of Albert Pul- itzer's Morning Journal and then became an editorial writer on the Mail and Ex- press; he subsequently was made finan- cial editor of the Evening Telegram and wrote special articles for that paper; was afterwards a dramatic critic of New York Herald; also for some time one of edi- tors of the Sunday edition, having special charge of comic department; other posi- tions occupied by him on the Herald were assistant foreign editor, special writer, and art editor. With the late Rev. Dr. Hepworth and Mr. William Walsh, he was appointed by James Gor- don Bennett one of the judges of the novels, short stories and epic poems for the New York Herald's $25,000.00 com- petition in 1897, in which Mr. Julian Hawthorne won the $10,000 prize. Mr. Vallentine was compiler and author of the dramatic biographies in Johnson's Encyclopædia, published by D. Appleton & Co .; also revising and bringing up to


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date those articles written by William Winter in a former edition; associate and biographical editor of the banker- poet Edmund Clarence Stedman's History of the New York Stock Exchange; was secretary of committee of American Dra- matists Club appointed to present to the publie a project for a National American endowed theatre; Augustus Thomas, Will- iam Gillette and Joseph I. C. Clarke (the latter now Sunday editor of the Herald) were also on the committee. He has written many short stories and maga- zine articles; also several plays produced in New York and other cities; they in- clude: A Southern Romance; In Paradise; Fitznoodle; Fritz in New York; Madame Saccard (authorized version of Emile Zola's drama of Renee), version of Dau- det's Sapho; A Parisian Mystery, etc. At the request of W. R. Hearst in 1902 he wrote a new series of Lord Fitznoodle interviews, illustrated by F. Opper, which appeared simultaneously in Mr. Hearst's New York American, Chicago American and San Francisco Examiner. Director of American Dramatists Club. He is the editor of The New York Realty Journal which is designated by the mayor, comp- troller and corporation counsel to publish official city announcements. Address, Lotos Club, N. Y. City ; office, 220 Broad- way, N. Y. City.


VAN BRUNT, Charles H .:


Jurist; born Fort Hamilton, N. Y., 1835; was graduated from the College of the City of N. Y .; admitted to the Bar in 1858 and began practice in N. Y. City; was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, city and county of New York, 1869-83; since 1883 has been justice of the Su- preme Court of New York; 1886, ap- pointed presiding justice of the general term, first department, and of the appel- late division, first department, 1895. Ad- dress, 10 East 46th St., N. Y. City.


VAN BUREN, James H., D.D .:


Missionary bishop of Porto Rico; born western New York; was graduated from Yale University with the degree of B. A. in 1873, and was ordained by the late Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, as dea- con in 1876 and as priest in 1877. His charges were successively at Milford and Seymour, Conn., Englewood, N. J., and Newburyport, Mass., in which latter city he was rector of St. Paul's Church from 1884 till 1890. In 1890 became rector of St. Stephen's Church, Lynn, Mass. In the year 1901 he was appointed mission- ary to Porto Rico with residence at San


Juan and at the special meeting of the House of Bishops, at Cincinnati, in April, 1902, was chosen missionary bishop of that jurisdiction. He was consecrated in St. Stephen's Church, Lynn, Mass., on St. John Baptist's Day, June 24, 1902, the Bishop of West Virginia being the consecrator, assisted by the Bishops of Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connect- icut and Western Massachusetts. Ad- dress, San Juan, Porto Rico.


VAN BUREN, John D .:


Civil engineer; born N. Y. City, Aug. 18, 1838; son of John D. and Elvira L. Van Buren; was a student in Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, and was graduated C. E. from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1860; married, in 1875, Elizabeth Ludlow Jones. He was assistant engineer on the Croton Aque- duct under Alfred Craven in 1860-61; en- tered the Engineer Corps, U. S. Navy (regular), and served in the Gulf of Mex- ico and also in the Bureau of Steam En- gineering, Washington. He took part in the Peninsula and James River cam- paigns in 1862, and was on duty at the Naval Academy at Annapolis as assistant professor for four years; was commis- sioned first assistant engineer (lieutenant) Jan. 1, 1865. He resigned from the navy in 1868, and was for several years under General George B. McClellan in the De- partment of Docks in New York. He was one of the commissioners appointed by Governor Tilden to investigate the canals in 1875, and was State Engineer and Sur- veyor of New York in 1876-77. He is the author of numerous technical papers, and member of the N. Y. Bar, the American Society of Civil Engineers, American So- ciety of Naval Engineers, the Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Loyal Legion, the Holland Society, and the St. Nicholas Society. Address, New Brighton. N. Y.


VANCE, Arthur Turner:


Editor-in-chief of the Woman's Home Companion; born Scranton, Pa., Oct. 10, 1872; son of Jules C. and Marietta Southworth Vance. He was educated in the public schools of Binghamton, N. Y., and began his journalistic career as reporter on the Binghamton Leader. In 1896 he became editor of the Home Magazine, resigning this position to ac- cept the associate editorship of the New England Magazine. Since 1901 he has been editor-in-chief of


the Woman's Home Companion. He is a contributor to various publications; lecturer on journal-


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an Trust Co., Fifth Avenue Estates,


Van Norden Safe Deposit Co., Century


Realty Co., Standard Milling Co., New York Mortgage & Security Co., American Surety Co., Remington Construction Co., Scarsdale Estates, D. Appleton & Co., American Tract Society. Member of the Chamber of Commerce, N. Y. Historical Society, Museum of Natural History. Metropolitan Museum of Art; president board of trustees of Presbytery of New York; member board of foreign missions


of Presbyterian Church; ex-president Holland Society; member Metropolitan. TTnion League. Lawyers, Riding. Holland Society. Residence. 8 East 62d St. ; office, 786 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.


VAN NOSTRAND, Charles B .:


Broker; president and director Van Nostrand Co. Vice-president, treasurer and director United Mines Co., N. Y. & Richmond Gas Co. Treasurer and direc- tor Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, White Knob Copner Co .: direc- tor Acker Merrill & Condit Co., Crimora Manganese Co .. Louisville. Henderson & St. Paul Rv. Co. Member Racquet, Rid- ing. City Midday, Down Town, Tuxedo. Hamilton of Brooklyn Clubs, St. Nicholas Society, Holland Society. Residence, 2 East 45th St .; office, 36 Wall St., N. Y. City.


VAN ORSDALE, John T .:


Colonel. U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from N. Y .; was graduated from Military Academy, class of 1872; second lieutenant. Seventh Infantry, June 14, 1872; first lieutenant. Aug. 20, 1872; cap- tain. Nov. 30, 1889; major. April 1, 1899; lieutenant colonel. Eighth Infantry, April 14, 1902; transferred to Seventh Infantry, May 15, 1902; colonel. Seventeenth In- fantry, Aug. 14, 1903. Address, Manila, P. I.


VAN PELT, John Vredenburgh:


Architect; born New Orleans, Feb. 24. 1874; entered the Ecole des Baux Arts in 1890, receiving the diploma in 1895, and being the first American to secure the necessary values for the degree of Archi- tecte Diplome par le Governement Français and one of the three Ameri- cans who first received this degree. After two years of graduate work in the school he came to Cornell University Col- lege of Architecture as assistant pro- fessor in charge of planning and design, where he remained for three years, at the expiration of which he resigned for the purpose of continuing his studies abroad. After two years of study and travel he


was recalled (in 1902) as professor in charge of the College of Architecture at Cornell University. He was given special leave of absence for the fall term of 1903- 04 to pursue further studies in Paris; returned to Cornell for the remainder of the year at which time he resigned in order to practice architecture, and has onened offices at 501 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. City. During his stay at the Ecole des Beaux Arts he was awarded a first medal in plan. two first second medals in plan. two medals in sketch design. a medal in modelling the 1.000 franc Prix St. Agnan Boucher. was placed first in the Concours Labarre was for two suc- cessive years Laureat of the Societe des Architects Diplomes par le Gouverne- ment and was awarded the medal of the Societe Central des Architects Français. He has exhibited both as architect and nainter in the Paris Salons. In 1902 he published a work on composition under the title of A Discussion of Composition. Especially as Applied to Architecture. ( Macmillan). Member Societe des Archi- tects Diplomes. Paris, and Society of Beaux Arts of New York; also the Am- erican Institute of Architects. Architec- tural League of New York. the Municipal Art Society, the Cornell University Club, the Republican Club of New York, the National Arts Club, the Country Club of Ithaca, and the Kanpa Alpha Society. He is critic in the Atelier, Blair-Van Pelt, which has been recognized as one of the three exterior studios in connection with the new architectural course of Columbia TTniversitv. He has been appointed archi- tect of the new athletic field at Cornell University. Addresses, Cavuga Heights, Ithaca, N. Y., and 501 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.


"AN PETTEN. John Bullock:


Clergyman : educator: soldier; son of Peter Van Petten and Lydia Bullock; horn Sterling. N. Y .. June 19, 1827; was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1850; received from it the degree of M. A. in 1853, and in 1889 from Syracuse Uni- versity the degree of Ph. D .; was prin- cipa of Red Creek Union Academy in 1850-52; joined the Black River Con- ference of the M. E. Church; was or- dained deacon in 1854 and elder in 1866. Was pastor of the M. E. Church at Cape Vincent. N. Y., in 1853-54; was professor of Greek in Fairfield Seminary in 1854- 55; was principal of Fairfield Seminary in 1855-61, 1866-70 and 1885-86; engaged in the Civil War as chaplain of the Thirty-


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fourth New York Volunteers, June 15, 1861; served in Stone's Corps of Observa- tion in 1861 and in the battle of Balls Bluff and Edwards Ferry; in 1862 at the siege of Yorktown and the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Allens Farm. Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Mal- vern Hill and Second Bull Run. Was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 160th New York Volunteers and appoint- ed to the command of Camp Seward at Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1862; in Dec., 1862, went with his regiment to the De- partment of the Gulf on the Banks Expe- dition and was assigned to the second brigade of the first division of the Nine- teenth Army Corps, and stationed at Morgan City, La .; was in the battle of the Cotton in Jan., 1863; thereafter was the permanent commander of the regi- ment until promoted therefrom Jan. 25, 1865; commanded it in the battle of Lis- lan, of Port Hudson, May 27, 1863; the brigade in the battle of Port Hudson of the 14th of June, 1863, and thence the first battalion of the Forlorn Hope until the surrender of Port Hudson. In


the winter of 1863-64 was president of the U. S. Relief Commission of New Orleans, in the spring of 1864 on the Red River Expedition in command of the 160th New York Volunteers at Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill, Marksville, and Cane


in the summer and autumn of River;


1864, with the Nineteenth Corps, he served on the upper Potomac and in the Shenandoah Valley; was severely wound- ed in the battle of Opequan, Sept. 19, and complimented in general orders by General Sheridan for conspicuous gallantry and good conduct. In Nov., 1864, he was appointed by Governor Fenton commis- sary general of subsistence of New York, but did not accept it, prefering to remain in the field to the end of the war; he ac- cepted the colonelcy of the One Hundred and Ninety-third New York Volunteers; was again made commander of Camp Seward, and early in 1865, with the or- ganization complete and numbering thir- teen hundred, joined the provisional divis- ion at Summit Point, Va .; was commis- sioned Brevet Brigadier General, and commanded the District of Cumberland, W. Va., until 1866. In 1866 was a trustee of the National Cemetery at Antietam; in 1868-69 represented the Twentieth Dis- triet in the New York Senate; was chair- man of the committees on Internal Af- fairs and of Militia and a member of the committees on Education and Engrossed


Bills, and received the thanks with an^ engrossed resolution of the Citizens As- sociation of New York for work in the in- terest of the taxpayers. Later in Mis- souri, was president of the Sedalia Sem- inary and school commissioner, and active in the election of Gratz Brown governor and in the adoption of an amended con- stitution. Returned to New York, and in 1886-98 was professor of Latin history in the Hudson River Institute. Member Holland Society of New York, Chi Psi Fraternity, and G. A. R. Address, Alex- andria Bay, N. Y.


VAN RENSSELAER, Howard:


Physician; born Albany, N. Y., 1858; 3 was graduated from Yale in 1881, subse- - quently spending three years at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons; upon his graduation in 1884, became interne New York Hospital, where he remained a year and a half; spent several years of study in the hospitals of Europe and upon his return, opened a practice in Albany. Is visiting physician in St. Peter's Hos- pital and Child's Hospital (dispensary) ; since 1889 has been connected with Al- bany Medical College in following capaci- ties: Instructor on diseases of chest, 1899; lecturer on materia medica, 1890; associate professor on same, 1892. Ad- dress, 13 State St., Albany, N. Y.


VAN RENSSELAER, Mrs. Schuyler (Ma- riance) :


Is an American author and art critic, whose name is familiar to the readers of the leading magazines, in which con- tributions from her accomplished pen fre- quently appear. Among her best known works are: Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works, English Cathedrals; One Man Who Was Content, and Art Out of Doors. Address, 9 West 9th St., N. Y. City.


van SANTVOORD, Seymour:


Lawyer, manufacturer, banker, author; born Troy, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1858; son of George van Santvoord (lawyer and au- thor) and Elizabeth Van Schaack; was graduated from Union College, 1878; Al- bany Law School and admitted to Bar, 1880. President and treasurer of Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Co., 1896-05: one of the organizers of the Security Trust Co., and of Security Safe Deposit Co. of Troy, in 1902, and presi- dent of each; director Troy Public Li- brary, Emma Willard Seminary and Samaritan Hospital, trustee of Union Col- lege, and vice-president of Albany Law School. Member of Holland Society of New


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York, St. Nicholas Society and University, of Dryden, N. Y. Office and Residence, Reform and National Arts Clubs. Au- Brooklyn, N. Y. thor: The House of Cæsar and The Im- VAN VOAST, James: perial Disease. Married a daughter of Captain Hamilton LeRoy Shields, U. S. A., of Virginia. Address, Troy, N. Y.


VAN SCHAICK. Eugene:


Lawyer ; president and director Knicker- bocker Oil & Gas Co. General counsel and director Life Association of America, Union Surety & Guaranty Co., American Flag Gold Mining Co., American Petro- leum Properties. Treasurer and director Alabama Dredging & Jetty Co. Director Essex ·Copper Co., Gramercy Realty Cor- poration. Manhattan Life Insurance Co., Patent Title & Guarantee Co .; member Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht, Union, Manhattan, Zeta Psi, Strollers, N. Y. Yacht Clubs and Holland Society; was graduated from Columbia College, 1887. Residence, 20 East 27th St .; office 100 Broadway, N. Y. City.


VAN VALZAH, William Ward:


Physician; born Buffalo Cross Roads, Pa., Dec. 11, 1849; was graduated from Princeton, 1873, A. M .; Jefferson Medical College, 1876; unmarried. Formerly demonstrator clinical medicine, Jefferson Medical College, later professor diseases of the digestive tube, New York Poly- clinic Hospital and College. Member American Academy of Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine, N. Y. County Medical Society, etc. Author: Diseases of the Digestive Tube; joint author, Dis- eases of the Stomach (Van Valzah and Nisbet). Address, 10 East 43d St., N. Y. City.


VAN VLEET, De Forest:


Lawyer; born Aug. 10, 1855, Fenton, Broome County, N. Y .; prepared at Waverly Academy, and was graduated from Cornell University, B. S., 1877; ad- mitted to the Bar in 1880 and settled in Ithaca, where he practiced successfully until his recent removal to Brooklyn, N. Y .; corporation counsel, 1881-84 and · 1889-91; police justice, 1886-87; chair- man of Tompkins County Democratic Committee seven years and candidate for member of Assembly, 1890 ; eloquent po- litical speaker ; secretary of Ithaca Board of Trade; attorney for and director in Ithaca Street Railway Company for sev- eral years; trustee of Cornell University; State Civil Service Commissioner, 1893- 95 ; member of Chi Psi College Fraternity and Holland Society; Knight Templar. Married, Oct. 19, 1880, Ada Belle Lacy,




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