Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 170

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WARDWELL, William Thomas:

Retired capitalist; born Bristol, R. I., Feb. 1, 1827; son William Taylor and Mary Hawes Wardwell; married 1852. Eliza W. Lauterman, 1889, Martha W. Ruff of Rahway, N. J .; identified as of-

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ficer or director with many corporations, Mississippi River, Hamburg & Western including Standard Oil Co., Colonial Ry. Office, 195 Broadway, N. Y. City. WARNER, Charles M .: Trust Co .; president N. Y. Red Cross Hospital; member Metropolitan Museum President Louisiana Improvement Co., Syracuse & Ontario R. R. Co., and War- ren Sugar Refining Co .; director Con- tinental Asphalt Paving Co. Address, 32 Broadway, N. Y. City. Art, N. Y. Zollogical Society, New Eng- land Society, Sons of the American Re- volution, Chamber of Commerce, and Na- tional Arts Club. Residence, 21 W. 58th St .; office, 26 Broadway, N. Y. City.

WARE, William Robert:

Architect; professor architecture Co- lumbia University since 1881; born Cam- bridge, Mass., May 27, 1832; son of Rev. Henry Ware; was graduated from Har- vard, 1852; Lawrence Scientific School, 1856; LL. D., 1896; professor architecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1865-81. Author: Modern Perspective; The American Vignola. Member Munici- pal Art Society, Architectural League, Metropolitan Museum Art, New England Society, Columbia Yacht, City, New York, Century and University Clubs. Address, 419 W. 118th St., N. Y. City.

WARNER, Anna Bartlett ("Amy Lath- rop") :

Author; born N. Y .; of New England ancestry; daughter of Henry Whiting Warner and Anna Marsh (Bartlett) Warner; sister of Susan Warner (Eliza- beth Wetherell), author, who died in 1885. Author: Dollars and Cents; My Brother's Keeper; Caspar; Three Little Spades; Blue Flag and Cloth of Gold; Miss Tiller's Vegetable Garden; Garden- ing by Myself; Melody of the Twenty- third Psalm; The Other Shore; The Fourth Watch; The Shoes of Peace; Tired Church Members; Up and Down the House; What Aileth Thee ?; Jack's Four Lessons; Miss Muff; Little Nurse of Cape Cod; Wayfaring Hymns; Hymns of the Church Militant (a compilation), Bag of Stories; Fresh Air; Cross Corners; Yours and Mine; West Point Colors. Has writ- ten several books in collaboration with her sister : Wych Hazel; Gold of Chickaree; Daisy Plain; Carl Krinken; The King's People ; The Books of Blessing; The Law and the Testimony (a compilation). Ad- dress, Martlaer's Rock, West Point, N. Y.

WARNER, Charles G .:

President and director American Re- frigerator Transit Co., Brinkley, Helena & Indian Bay R. R., Central Branch Ry. Co., Vice-president and director Arkansas Midland R. R., Kansas & Colo- rado Pacific Railway Co., St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Ry. Co. Director Arkansas & Louisiana Ry. Director

WARNER, Lucien Calvin:

Physician, manufacturer, philanthropist; born Cuyler, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1841; was graduated from Oberlin, 1865; A. M., LL. D., N. Y. University Medical College, M. D. Married, 1878, Keren S. Osborne, McGrawville, N. Y .; practiced his pro- fession until 1874; then engaged in busi- ness. Doner of Conservatory of Music and of gymnasium to Oberlin College; on boards of many church philanthropic and charitable institutions. President of Warner Bros. Co., and interested as officer and director in many corporations. Member Chamber Commerce, Metropoli- tan Museum Art, New England Society, Society of Mayflower descendants, Am- erican Museum Natural History, Adiron- dack League, Arts and University Clubs. Residence, Waldorf-Astoria ; office, 634 Broadway, N. Y. City.

WARNICK, Spencer K .:

Republican State Senator; born in the city of Amsterdam,, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1874; son of Middleton and Marion Kellogg Warnick; was graduated from Yale Col- lege with high honors in the class of 1895, at the age of twenty years ; 1895-97, studied law in offices of Nisbet and Hanson, Amsterdam, and was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York Nov. 9, 1897; practiced law at Buffalo with firm of Lewis & Lewis until May, 1898; married Jane M. Greene, daughter of Henry E. Greene, a prominent citizen of Amster- dam, N. Y .; in July, 1898, returned to Amesterdam and engaged in the practice of the law; in 1899 was appointed assist- ant district attorney for Montgomery County; 1902, elected to the State Senate from Twenty-seventh Senatorial district on Republican ticket by largest plurality ever received by a candidate for senator in that district, and youngest member of Senate of 1903 and chairman of committee on Privileges and Elections. Member of committees on Judiciary, Codes, Internal Affairs and Public Education. Prominent in politics since attaining majority and has represented his county in many dis- trict and State political conventions; was re-elected to the Senate in 1904; is a member of Artisan Lodge No. 84, Free

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and Accepted Masons ;

Fort Johnson Lawyers and Larchmont Yacht Clubs. Address, 143 Liberty St., N. Y. City.

Club, Antlers Country Club, Amsterdam Bar Association and Schenectady Gun Club; has two sons, Spencer K., Jr., and Henry Greene Warnick. Address, Ams- terdam, N. Y.

WARREN, Arthur:

Author; journalist ; born Boston,

Mass., July 18, 1860. He was engaged in journalism during the years 1883-97, be- ing editor and contributor to American and English journals; during that time he was seven years the London corres- pondent for the Boston Herald; author of short stories to magazines. From 1897 to 1904, special representative for the en- terprises of George Westinghouse in America and Europe. Now manager of Publicity for Allis-Chalmers Co. He is a member of the Automobile and White- friars Clubs of London, and Lotos and En- gin'eers clubs of New York. Address, 374 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

WARREN, Charles Elliot:

Banker; born Brooklyn, N. Y., April 9, 1864. Educated at Trinity school, N. Y., and St. Paul's Military Academy, Gar- den City, L. I. Major and Ordnance Offi- cer 5th Brigade N. G., N. Y., Cashier Lin- coln National Bank, of the City of N. Y. Director and treasurer Erie & Kalama- ZOO R. R. Co. (Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R. Co., Lessee). Son of George William Warren, Mus. Doc., Pro- fessor Columbia University, N. Y. City; descent from Richard Warren, of Ply- mouth, twelfth signer of the Mayflower Compact, 1620. Married, April 19, 1892, Anna Margaret, only daughter of Hon. Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer, of New Jersey (Member of Congress, Washing- ton, D. C. Member of St Nicholas, Calu- met. Army and Navy, Seawanaka-Co- rinthian Yacht, The Strollers (governor and treasurer), Knollwood Country Club (governor) Member: Veterans of Seventh Regiment, Veterans of Twelfth Regi- ment, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Mayflower Descend .. ants Societies. Residence, 326 W. 89th St .; Summer residence, White Plains; office, Lincoln National Bank, 32 East 42nd St., N. Y. City.

WARREN, Charles Howard:

Railway official; born Carlton, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1856; since 1876 connected with various railway companies; 1888-96 comp- troller or general manager of Great Northern Ry. and its predecessor; since with Central R. R. of New Jersey, be- coming vice-president in 1899. Member

WARREN, Lillie Eginton (Miss) :

Educator; author of work upon defec- tive speech and inventor of the Warren Method of Expression Reading and Nu- merical Cipher. This method is a pat- ented series of pictures of the expres- sions of the facial muscles produced by articulate speech by which it is possible for a deaf person to understand conver- sation by the eyes alone; born Newton- ville, Mass., Jan. 25, 1859, and was edu- cated in Twelfth Street School, N. Y. City, and by private instruction. Prin- cipal of the Warren School of Expres- sion-Reading and Articulation, N. Y., with branches in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington. Also princi-

the Warren pal of Correspondence School. Author: Defective Speech and Deafness (1895). Author: Warren Meth- od Applied to French, German and Ital- ian. General address of European schools, American & Colonial Exchange, Carlton St., Regent St., S. W., London. Address, 124 East 28th tS., N. Y. City.

WARREN, Moses Allen:

Lawyer; born Chicago, Nov. 1, 1876, being the only son of the late Moses Warren, a well-known publisher of the city. He is of New England ancestry, the Warren family for many generations having resided in Massachusetts and Connecticut and he is the sixth Moses Warren in a line which began with an officer of that name who served in the Revolutionary army. He was graduated from Yale University in the . class of 1899, and later from the New York Law School, and has been engaged in the practice of the law since his admission to the Bar. He is now a member of the firm of Thompson & Warren. He is a member of the Yale, D. K. E., and Cres- cent Athletic Clubs, and has identified himself with the Republican organiza- tion in this city. Address, 49

Wall St., N. Y. City.

WARREN, Richard Henry:

Composer; organist; conductor; born Albany, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1859; son of George William Warren (Mus. Doc.) and Mary Elizabeth Pease Warren; pupil of his father and of P. S. Schnecker, George Wiegand, John White and others; stu- died in Europe, 1880 and 1886; married Helen Corbin Hurd. Organist and di- rector music in N. Y., in Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1877-79; Reformed Episcopal Church, 1879-89 ; All Souls (An-

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thon Memorial) Church, 1880-86 ; St. Bar- tholomew's Church since 1886; conductor Church Choral Society and of various smaller organizationsJ

Compositions:

services and anthems for the church; operettas : Igala (1880) ; All on a Sum- mer's Day (1882) ; Magnolia (1896) ; ro- mantic opera, Phyllis (1897) (produced at Waldorf - Astoria Theatre, May 7-21,

1900); string quartette. Ticonderoga ; cantata for chorus, baritone solo and orchestra; songs, etc. Address, 16 East 44th Street, N. Y. City.

WARREN, Samuel Prowse:

Musician, solo and church organist; born Montreal, Canada, Feb. 18, 1841 ; son of Samuel R. Warren, organ builder. He studied music in Berlin, Germany, in 1861- 64. Returned to Montreal 1864-65, after which he removed to N. Y. Organist at All Souls (Unitarian) Church, 1866 to 1868; Grace (Episcopal) Church, 1868-74. Holy Trinity ( Episcopal) Church, 1874-76 ;

then returning to Grace Church until 1894. Since 1895 he has been organist at Munn Ave. (Presbyterian) Church, East Orange, N. J. He was conductor of the New York Vocal Union from 1880 to 1888. Is the composer of anthems part songs, songs, organ and piano solos and transcriptions. Address, 112 West 40th St .. N. Y. City.

WARRING, Charles Bartlett:

Educator; born Charlton. N. Y .. Jan. 15, 1825; son of Jeremiah and Sarah Bartlett Warring; was graduated from Union College. 1845; Ph. D., University City of New York; 1849 married Cather- ine Lent; professor Latin and Greek. 1846-47; mathematics and natural sci- ence, 1848-52; principal Collegiate School 1857-62, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Established 1863. Poughkeepsie Military Institute ; re- tired. 1891. Has published many arti- cles on scientific and theologico-scientific subjects, Member of N. Y. Academy of Science. Honorary Correspondent Victoria Institute, London. Author: The Mosaic Account of Creation, the Miracle of The dav (1877) ; Genesis I. and Modern Sci- ence (1892); Miracle. Law. and Evolu- tion; Rationale of the Bicycle; On the Geological Climate; Gyroscopic Bodies an Experimental Study of. etc., etc. Address, 288 Mill St .. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

WASHBURN, Edward A .:

Lawyer; born Randolph. Vt .. 1868; re . sided in Batavia, N. Y., since 1877; lawyer; referee in bankruptcy, 1898-1900; director of First National Bank of Ba-

tavia since 1898; elected County Judge and Surrogate of Genesee County, 1900. Address, Batavia, N. Y.

WASHBURN, Francis:

Protestant Episcopal Clergyman; born July 9, 1843 ; son of Rev. Jacob C. Wash- burn and Margaret Goury; ordained to priesthood, Protestant Episcopal Church, 1880; rector at Waldon, N. Y., from 1879 to 1882, at Rondout, New York, from 1882 to 1892 and later at other places; now honorary assistant minister at Newburgh, N. Y .; secretary for four years of Dis- trict Conference N. Y. M. E. church New York City, also National Local Preachers association ; corresponding secretary one vear; later secretary archdeaconry of Or- ange Protestant Episcopal Diocese of N. Y. from 1888 to 1892. Author of several books, booklets and pamphlets. Member of Historical society of New York. Empire States Society, Son of the American Revolution and other orders and societies married in 1869 at St. Martins in the Fields, London, England, to Elizabeth Floy Davis of New York City, father of Margaret Floy Davis, Ph. D. Vassar College. Ad- dress, Newburgh, N. Y.

WASHBURN, John H .:

Ex-president of Home Insurance Co., born Amherst, Mass .. Oct. 27. 1828, and was educated at Amherst College. He early entered the insurance field and rose step by step until he had reached the presidency of his company. He is a director of the Chatham National Bank, the New York Savings and Loan As- sociation. Mr. Washburn is a member of the Lotos. City. Congregational, and Clubs. Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of Co- lonial Wars, Amherst College Alumni, Met- ropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Nat- ural History and New England Society. Mr. Washburn is a widower. Address, 39 West Forty-seventh St., N. Y. City.

WASHINGTON, Allen C .:

President Iron Steamboat Co .. Wash- ington Mining Co. and Horn Silver Min- ing Co .; treasurer New York and Coney Island R. R. and Prospect Park and South Brooklyn R. R. Member Metro- politan. New York Yacht. New York National Arts and Larchmont Yacht Clubs. Address, 28 East 62d St., N. Y. City.

WASHINGTON, William D. H .:

President and director Armour Villa Park Co., N. Y. Model Dwellings Co. Vice-president and director Church Rol-

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ler Bearing Co., N. Y. & N. J. Water patch, International Text Book Co., Los Co. Director Grand Conservatory of Music of the City of N. Y., New York & Philadelphia Co., Twin City Union Ry's. Co., U. S. Traction Co. of Louisville; member Calumet Club and Southern So- ciety. Office, 26 Broadway, N. Y. City.

WATERBURY, John I .:

Banker; born Stamford, Conn .; was graduated College City of N. Y. 1870; president and director Manhattan Trust Co., Trustee, Alliance Assurance of Lon- don in U. S .; director American Tele- phone & Telegraph Co .; director The Audit Co. of N. Y., the Chase National Bank; the Commercial Cable Co., Interna- tional Merchantile Marine Co .; Louis- ville & Nashville R. R. Co .; Trustee, The Mackay Companies; director Public Service Corporation. Member Chamber Commerce, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Botanical Gardens, N. Y. Zoological Society, National Geographical Society. Delegate of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, to the London Chamber of Commerce, London, 1901. Delegate on the part of the U. S. to the International Preliminary Conference on Wireless Telegraphy, Berlin, 1903. Mem- ber of Metropolitan, University, N. Y. Yacht, New York .; Somerset, Boston; Philadelphia, Phila .; Metropolitan, Wash- ington, D. C .; Chicago, Chicago; Jekyl Island, Ga., Clubs. Residence, Fairfield House, Morristown, N. J .; office, 20 Wall St., N. Y. City.

WATERS, William Everett:

Professor of Greek, N. Y. University, since 1902; born Winthrop, Me., Dec. 20, 1856; was graduated from Yale, 1878; Ph. D., 1887; New York University, Ph. D., 1902; Clark and Larned Fellow, Yale, 1878-80; married, 1888, Alma F. Oyler, of Cincinnati; tutor in classics, Yale Uni- versity. 1883-87; professor Greek and comparative philology at University of Cincinnati, 1890-94; president and pro- fessor of Greek and comparative philol- ogy at Wells College, 1894-1900. Au- thor: Town Life in Ancient Italy; Cena Trimalchionas of Petronius; and with Wm. R. Harper, Inductive Greek Method. Address, 604 West 115th St., N. Y. City. WATKINS, Thomas H .:

Agent, president and director Durango Development Co. Vice-president and di- rector Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co. Director Alamagorda Lumber Co., Au- tomatic Electric Co. of Chicago, Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co., Durango Central R. R, Co., Farmer's Dairy Des-

Angeles Ice & Cold Storage Co., New Mexico Ry. & Coal Co., Scranton Board of Trade Real Estate Co., Scranton Lace Co., Spring Brook Water Supply Co., Third National Bank of Scranton, Pa., Title Guaranty and Trust Co. Office, 68 William St., N. Y. City.

WATROUS, Harry W .:

Artist ; son of Charles Watrous of New London, a Forty-niner, a delegate to the convention that first named Lincoln for President and Ruth A. Will- son Watrous. Born San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 17, 1857. Was fitted for college at private schools, but never entered; went abroad in 1880 and did considerable work in Southern Spain and North Africa. Went to Paris in 1881, study- ing at the Atelier Bonnat and Academie Julien. Returned to America in 1886; married, Elizabeth, daughter of W. S. Nichols of New York, in 1887. Went abroad again in same year and worked in Munich. Florence, and Paris. Set- tlet in New York in 1888. Won Clark prize in 1894. Elected associate of Na- tional Academy of Academician in 1895, and has been secre- Design in 1894. tary since 1898. Chairman Committee on Art for N. Y. State for the Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition, 1904. Is best known as a genre painter. and has pictures in the collections of Hon. W. C. Whitney, C. P. Huntington. E. W. Bliss, Henry S. Wilson, and others in New York, and in many collections n Europe. Member

Metropolitan. Century, Union League, and Lotos Clubs. Present address, 58 West 57th St., N. Y. City. WATROUS, Jerome A .:

Lieutenant colonel, U. S. Army; born Conklin, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1840. Educated at common schools. Served in Sixth Wisconsin, from July 16, 1861, to May 15. 1865; first as private then sergeant- major and adjutant and was brevetted captain; acting adjutant general of the Iron Brigade; ordnance sergeant of the Iron Brigade and later of the First Di- vision, First Army Corps; in battles of Gainesville, Second Bull

Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilder- ness, and Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, siege of Petersburg, Weldon R. R., Hatcher's Run and Gravelly Run ; chief paymaster Department of Columbia, June 24, 1899, to June 20, 1900; chief paymaster Department of the Visayas in 1901, and of the Department

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of South Philippines in 1902; served six he resigned from the army about Oct., years as colonel and four years as brig- adier-general in the Wisconsin Nation- al Guard. Was county school superin- tendent in 1866. Member of Assembly in 1867, and collector of customs for Mil- waukee, Wis., 1889 to 1893. Promoted major, paymaster, June 15, 1898, and lieutenant colonel, retired, Sept. 6, 1904. Address, Milwaukee, Wis.

WATSON, Benjamin Frank:

Born Warner, N. H., April 30, 1826. Admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1850, and subsequently to that of the Supreme Court of the U. S. He was the counsel in the leading case against the U. S. for the burning of Columbia and Camden, S C., by General Sherman, and as counsel for the owner, he success- fully prosecuted the petition, under the Fugitive Slave Law, for the return to slavery of the slave Betty before Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw at Boston, with John A. Andrew as counsel opposing on behalf of the excited populace. He was editor and proprietor of the Lawrence (Massachusetts) Sentinel; Postmaster,

City Solicitor, and Delegate to the fa- mous Democratic National Convention at Charleston, S. C., and Baltimore in 1860. As major, he offered the resolution passed by the colonel and officers of the Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Mili- tia, Jan. 19, 1861, tendering, through Governor John A. Andrew, to President Elect Abraham Lincoln, its services in case of need, thus distinguishing "the Old 6th" as the first regiment to volun- teer in the War of the Rebellion, as it was the first in the field, and the first to shed its blood, and to force a way for the loyal troops through Baltimore to Washington. He, as major in command of one of the separated detachments of the regiment in Baltimore on the 19th of April, 1861, ordered the shedding of- the first blood in the conflict of the Great Rebellion. His ancestors fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill and were

in the War of 1812. Shortly after the affair of Baltimore, he was chosen lieu- tenant colonel of "the Old 6th" by the commissioned officers, and took command thereof upon the promotion of the colonel, and he was subsequently promoted to be brevet colonel, U. S. V., after declining the command of another regiment. He

was appointed

and served as pay-

master, U. S. V., and became dis- abled in the service, and declining ap- pointment to the Veteran Reserve Corps,

1864. He was president of the Massa- chusetts Minute Men of 1861, and of the Old 6th Regiment Association and was, by the latter, appointed to write the history of its Baltimore campaign, which was adopted as the correct his- tory and ordered to be printed and placed in the principal libraries of the country. Colonel Watson was active in the prac- tice of his profession in N. Y. City, from 1867 to 1900, when he retired and has since devoted much of his time to benevolent work, mostly among working boys and young men, and especially in connection with the Church Temperance Legion of which he was president and one of the founders. Member Lafayette Post, G. A. R., and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of other so- cieties. Address, 445 Park Ave., N. Y City.

WATSON, Henry Chapman:

Editor, and writer on financial and in- dustrial subjects ; born Port Chester, N. Y., Dec. 6, 1870 ; son of Willam W. and Jane Bircham Watson. Moving to New York at an early age became associated with newspaper work, writing chiefly on financial and business topics. He has been connected with Dun's Review ever since that publication was started, and succeeded WV. M. Grosvenor as its editor on the latter's death. The statistics of failures, prices of commodities and rec- ords of securities, etc., prepared by him have been adopted as the standard by the government at Washington and by such unofficial publications as the al- manacs and year books, and his work on financial and industrial subjects in general is considered of great value. His compilation known as Dun's Index Number, showing variations in the cost of living, attracted much attention in the Department of Sociology at the St. Louis Exposition. As a member of the staff of the New York Tribune, he pre- pares for that journal each Monday the editorial entitled: Money and Business. Contributor to various publications, such as Prosperity and the Cost of Living, (Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post) ; The Industrial Outlook, (New York Com- mercial Advertiser), etc. £ Has given much attention to the work of the Na- tional Civic Federation, serving on its conciliation committee. Takes great in- terest in athletics and indoor and out- door games; member American Academy of Political and Social Science, National

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Geographic Society, Englewood Golf Club, Lawyers Club. President of the Engle- wood Field Club, and a governor of the Englewood club; competitor in whist and billiard tournaments. Married Gwendolen Reid, at Englewood, N. J., May 10, 1901. Residence, Englewood, N. J .; office, 290 Broadway, N. Y. Cty.

WATSON, Henry M .:

President of the Bell Telephone Co. of Buffalo. When he removed from Albany to Buffalo in 1868 he was elected secre- tary and treasurer of the Buffalo Street R. R. Co. Three years later he became secretary and treasurer of the Buffalo East Side Ry. Co., and upon the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer Watson in 1881, he was elected president of the Buffalo Street R. R. Co. Both systems

N. Y. In 1865 he was promoted to a second lieutenantcy. He served as an active member and officer for seven

years, and is still an honorary member of the Old Guard. On Jan. 1, 1880, he was appointed aide-de-camp, with the rank of Colonel, on the staff of Governor Alonzo B. Cornell. He served in this capacity throughout the Cornell Admin- istration. Is a trustee of the Erie Coun- ty Savings Bank and of the Union Fire Insurance Co. He is a director and a member of the Executive Committee of the Fidelity Trust Co .; member Saturn and Buffalo Clubs, Fort Orange Club, Albany, Genesee Valley Club of Roches- ter, life member of the Buffalo Library ; member of the Buffalo Historical So- ciety and a vestryman of Trinity

were afterward consolidated with the Buffalo Ry. Co. In Nov., 1890, the Buf- Church. Since the organization of the Bell Telephone Co., of Buffalo, in 1879, Colonel Watson has been its president. Address, Office of Bell Telephone Co., Buffalo, N. Y. falo Street R. R., the Buffalo East Side Ry. and Buffalo West Side Street R. R. were consolidated into the Buffalo Ry. Co., and Mr. Watson was elected presi- WATSON, William Henry : dent. In 1900 he resigned from the Physician; Regent University State N. Y. Born Providence, R. I., Nov. 8, 1829; son of Hon. William Robinson and Mary Ann Earle Watson; was graduated from Brown, 1852; M. A., 1855; Univer- sity State of N. Y., M. D., 1878, LL. D .; married, 1854, Sarah T. Carlile, of Prov- idence (died, 1881); 1891, Mrs. Julia M. Williams, of Utica, N. Y. U. S. pension examining surgeon, 1875-81; surgeon- presidency and although he no longer fills an executive position in the street traffic world, he retains holdings in, and is still a director of the International Ry. Co., which, with headquarters at Buffalo, connects that city with various points in Canada. When Colonel Wat- son assumed executive direction of the street railway system the component companies were not models of adequate general, State of N. Y., with rank of brigadier-genral, 1880; representative of University of State of N. Y. at Abol Fest of Royal University of Christiania, and at tercentenary of Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1902. Member Society of May- flower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars, Brown University Alumni, Found- ers and Patriots of America, and Fort Schuyler (Utica) Club. Address, 270 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y. service, nor were they in a prosperous condition. He surrounded himself by capable coadjutors, and inaugurated a policy of liberality which was soon ap- preciated by the public. It is conceded that no city in the U. S. now possesses a better street railway system than Buffalo. In 1882 he was instrumental in founding the American Street Ry. Asso- ciation, which embraces the U. S. and Canada, and was elected president at WATT, Alexander: the convention held in 1890. He had been Clergyman; was graduated from Uni- versity of Rochester in 1884; from Roch- ester Theological Seminary in 1887; pas- tor Baptist Church, Forestville, N. Y., 1888-89; Hamburg, N. Y., 1889-91; Buffa- lo, N. Y., 1891-93; missionary, 1893-98; pastor Anti-saloon Baptist Church, Find- ley Lake, N. Y., since 1898. elected previously (1885) to the presi- dency of the Street Ry. Association of the State of New York. Born Unadilla, N. Y., and in 1857 went to Albany, where for ten years, he was engaged in the banking business. From 1865 to 1867 he was general passenger agent of the Al- Address, Findley Lake, N. Y. bany and Susquehanna R. R., now part of the Delaware and Hudson System WATTS, Robert, M. D .: Then followed his removal to Buffalo. Born Woodstock, Vt., May 6, 1837; M. D., Physicians and Surgeons, 1861. Member County Medical Society; surgeon While residing in Albany, Colonel Wat- son was one of the founders, in 1861, of Company A, Tenth Regiment, N. G., One Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment,

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 170

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