Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 172

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WELLS, James Simpson Chester:

Educator, metallurgist; born Brooklyn,

Sept. 13, 1851; son of James S. and Eliz- abeth Walker Wells; educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute ; was graduated from School of Mines. Columbia University, 1875: Ph. D., 1877; married, Hackensack, N. J., 1883. Alice Jacobson. Instructor in chemistry, Columbia, since 1875. Ap- pointed adjunct professor in analytical chemistry, March, 1905. Author: Inor-

ganic Qualitative Analysis. Member Chem- ical Society (London), and American Electro-Chemical Society. Address, 252 West 91st St., N. Y. City.

WELSH, Charles:

Publisher. author and editor; born

Ramsgate, Kent. England, Dec. 22, 1850. He is the son of Charles and Susannah Welsh, and was educated at the national schools. Ashford. Kent, England. He

was apprenticed to

a blacksmith at

French at the Society of Arts examina- tions in connection with the Mechanics' Institute while so working. He went to London in 1868. and became reporter on The British Trade Journal. describing machinery at various agricultural exhi- bitious. He became an employe in 1870 of Henry S. King & Co., and in 1877, of Griffith Farran and Co., (publishers) ; and in 1884 he became a partner in the latter house. He came to the U. S. in 1895, and was business manager and as- sistant editor of The Art Amateur; was afterwards editor of the Elizabeth News, and for a short time leader writer on the Elizabeth Daily Journal, Elizabeth, N. J. Author: Publishing a Book, (1900); A Bookseller of the Last Century, (be- ing the life of John Newbery, Gold- smith's friend and publisher, 1885). He compiled and edited: The Uncle Charlie Series of Pleasure Books for the Young He edited The Young Folks Library (20 vols .. 1901); The Right Reading for

Heath's Home and Children. (1902);

School Classics (50 vols., 1900-02). Many Fac-simile Reprints of Popular Children's Books of the Olden Time; Talks about Science, by Thomas Dull- man; Famous Battles of the XIX Cent- ury (4 vols., 1904); Wessels; a new edi- tion of Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son and his Godson, (Crowell, 1904) ; Irish Literature (10 vols., Morris, 1904). He wrote: English History in American Text Books, (Jan., 1900); The Early History of Children's Books in .New England, (New England Magazine, 1900);

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Some Notes on the History of Books for

Children, ( Newbery House Magazine, London. 1890-91; and many other con- tributions to the history of literature for children. Address, The St. Marc, 504 West 112th St., N. Y. City, and Winthrop, Mass.

WEMPLE, William W .:

Republican Assemblyman, representing Schenectady County in the Assembly ; born Duanesburgh. Jan. 19. 1862; at- tended the district school near his father's farm and received the prepara- tion which fitted him for entrance into the Union Classical Institute in Schenec- tady; upon graduating from the insti- tute he entered Union College, where he completed his education After leav- ing college he taught school for several years. and was principal of the village school of Scotia for some time. He then took up the study of law, and in 1883 en- tered the office of Hastings & School- craft. In 1886. was graduated from the Albany Law School, and was admitted to practice the same year; elected dis- trict attorney by the Republican party in 1895. and was re-elected in 1898; was a member for five years of the Thirty- seventh Separate Company of the New York State National Guard; honorably discharged in 1893. In 1894 he was married to Miss M. Adelaide Quaife, of Schenectady. Elected to the Assembly by the Republicans of Schenectady Co. in 1902, and re-elected in 1904; was ap- pointed a member of the following As- sembly committees in 1903: Codes, Pub- lic Education, and Public Institutions. Address, Schenectady, N. Y.

WENDE, Ernest:

Physician; born Mill Grove, N. Y .. July 23, 1853; son of Bernard A. and Susan Wende; was graduated from Uni- versity of Buffalo, medical department. 1878; University of Pennsylvania, M. D., 1884, B. S., 1885; post-graduate work at Berlin and Vienna. He married, 1881, Frances Harriett Cutler. Professor of dermatology, afterward of botany and microscopy, University of Buffalo. For eleven years Health Commissioner of Buffalo. Member of N. Y. State Medical Society, American Microscopical Society, Fellow American Electro-Therapeutic Society, and other associations. Ad- dress, 471 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. WENZELL, Albert Beck:

Illustrator; born Detroit, Mich., 1865; common school education and early training in art in Detroit; continued his

art studies at Munich; later took an ex- tended course at Paris; returned to New York in 1890 and began work as an illustrator. Address, 156 5th Ave., and 40 West End Ave., N. Y. City.

WERNER, William E .:

Jurist; born Buffalo, N. Y., in 1855; was clerk of the Municipal Court, Rochester, N. Y., 1879; special county judge, 1884-89; county judge, 1889-94. Elected justice of Supreme Court, 1895; since 1900 judge of the Court of Appeals. Address, 399 Oxford St., Rochester, N. Y. WESSELLS, Henry Walton, Jr .:

Brigadier General, U. S. Army; born Madison Barracks, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1846; enlisted March 1, 1865; appointed second lieutenant, Seventh Infantry, July 21, 1865, and promoted first lieutenant, Sev- enth Infantry, same date; transferred to Third Cavalry, Jan. 1, 1871; promoted captain Third Cavalry, Dec. 20, 1872 ; pro- moted major, Third Cavalry, Aug. 16, 1892 ; promoted lieutenant-colonel Third Cavalry, May, 1899 ; promoted colonel of cavalry, Feb. 2, 1901, and retired Feb. 19, 1901. Engaged in Indian, Spanish and Philippine Wars: wounded in engagement with Cheyenne Indians at Hot Creek, Neb., Jan. 22, 1879, and again near Santiago, Cuba, July 1, 1898. Promoted Brigadier General, April 23, 1904. Address, 2453 18th St .. N. W., Washington, D. C. WEST, Charles W .:

Lawyer; entered Williams College and was graduated therefrom 1867. Upon fin- ishing academic course entered the law school of Columbia College, graduating in 1869. Since then has continuously practiced law in N. Y. City and in the Borough of Brooklyn. Member of the following clubs in the Borough of Man- hattan: Century Association, University Club, Down Town Association and Men- delssohn Glee Club. In the Borough of Brooklyn: Brooklyn Club, Excelsior Club and Crescent Athletic Club; the Par- machenec Club in Maine, and the Lau- rentian Club in Canada. Residence, 56 Livingston St., Brooklyn; office, 32 Nas- sau St., N. Y. City.

WEST, Clifford Hardy:

Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy; born Clin- ton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y .; early edu- cation, Columbia College Grammar School. As a lad of sixteen, saw service in Army of Potomac; 1863, entered Co- lumbia College, and same year appointed to U. S. Naval Academy; was graduated, 1867; 1867-70, on European Station, fri- gate Minnesota; storeship Guard; steam-

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sloop Ticonderoga; frigate Franklin, Ad- [ Department of Commerce and Labor, miral Farragut; steam-sloop Plymouth ; ensign, 1868; 1870-71, duty in Navy De- June, 1904; born Nov. 11, 1870, at St. Cloud, Minn .; was educated chiefly in the public schools of Minneapolis, Minne- apolis Academy, the University of Min- nesota, (B. S., 1890) ; Columbia Univer- sity, (A. M., 1892; Ph. D., 1893), and the University of Chicago; also heard courses of lectures at the Catholic Uni- versity of America, and the Columbian University. At the age of sixteen he began putting in his college vacations as a newspaper reporter in Minneapolis, and upon graduating in 1890, immedi- ately entered the newspaper profession regularly as a reporter for the Minneapo- lis Tribune, for which he corresponded also while a graduate student at Co- lumbia University in 1891-92; was awarded the University Fellowship in

partment, with chief signal officer; mas- ter, 1870; 1871-73, steam-sloop Wyoming in West Indies, complications with Spain as to Virginius, etc .; made running sur- vey east coast of Mexico; lieutenant, 1871; 1873-75, ordnance duty, Navy Yard, N. Y .; 1875-77, navigator Frolic, east coast South America; 1877-79, ordnance duty, Navy Yard, N. Y .; 1879-83, steam- sloop Alliance, North Atlantic; survey of Great Bank of Newfoundland and search for Lieutenant DeLong, Greenland, Ice- land and Spitzbergen; 1883-85, lighthouse duty, N. Y .; 1885-86, commanding Ma- drono; 1886-90, Asiatic Station, on staffs of Rear Admirals Chandler and Belknap, on board Brooklyn, Omaha, Marion and Monocacy; 1888, lieutenant commander; 1890, ordnance duty, Navy Yard, N. Y .; 1890-92, lighthouse duty, N. Y .; 1892-93, commanding Columbine; 1893-95, light- house duty, N. Y .; 1896, Naval War Col- lege; 1896, commander; 1896, aide to Ad- miral Sicard, Navy Yard, N. Y .; 1897-98, flagship New York; chief of staff to Ad- miral Sicard prior to war with Spain; 1898, commanding

cruiser Princeton, Spanish-American War, in West Indies; 1899, commanding Princeton in Philip- pine insurrection; 1899-1902, aide to Ad- mirals Philip and Barker, Navy Yard, N. Y .; captain, 1901; 1902, retired as rear admiral, after long and faithful service. Residence, 576 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

WEST, Frank:

Lieutenant colonel, U. S. Army; born N. Y. City; appointed from N. Y .; was graduated from Military Academy, class of 1872; second lieutenant, Sixth Cavalry, June 14, 1872; first lieutenant, May 17, 1876; captain, Oct. 19, 1887; transferred to Ninth Cavalry, April 10, 1900. Served in

Spanish-American War; major, Sixth Cavalry, Feb. 2, 1901; lieutenant-colonel, 1903. Address, Inspector-General's De- partment, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. WEST, Kenyon :

Author and critic; born Lockport, N. Y .; lived also in Toronto, Canada, and Rochester, N. Y .; since 1895 in N. Y. City. Address, 1372 Dean St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

WEST, Max:

Chief of the Bureau of Internal Rev- enue in the Treasury Department of Porto Rico, 1903-04; appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Corporations,

Finance at Columbia for 1892-93; after receiving the doctor's degree at Colum- bia was made Honorary Fellow in Po- litical Economy at the University of Chicago for 1893-94, and the following year was appointed Docent in Sociology and in Municipal Institutions; while in Chicago resided at Hull-House, the Uni- versity of Chicago Settlement, where hc was the first resident, and Chicago Commons; during the railroad strike of 1894 served as correspondent for the Chi- cago Herald at Grand Crossing, and the following year wrote editorials and spe- cial articles for the Chicago Record. Married Miss Mary Mills, a college class- mate, Oct. 6, 1894. Lectured at Colum- bia University on Taxation and Finance in 1895-96, during the absence of Pro- fessor Seligman in Europe, and on Prac- tical Political Economy in 1902, after the death of Professor Mayo-Smith, also teaching economic history at Barnard College; lectured at the Columbian Uni- versity in 1901-02, as Associate Profess- or of Economics. Took a civil service examination in 1895, and served in the Division of Statistics of the U. S. De- partment of Agriculture from February, 1896, to December, 1900; also as expert agent of the U. S. Industrial Commis- sion from the latter date until reap- pointed lecturer at Columbia University in 1902; was appointed assistant Regis- trar of the newly organized Tenement House Department of N. Y. City, in charge of the Brooklyn office of the Bu- reau of Records, in May, 1902, as the result of a competitive civil service ex- amination. He resigned at the end of the year, and spent several months writ-

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ing editorials, etc., for the N. Y. Mail , and and Express and other journals, and in

of the National Hamilton Bank and a special mission for the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor investigating the revival of American handicrafts, until called to his post in Porto Rico, which he assumed in July, 1903. His doctor's dissertation entitled The Inheritance Tax, has been translated into French, and is regarded as the leading authority on the subject; a revised edition is about to be published ( The Macmillan Co.). He has contributed many articles on fiscal, municipal, and other social questions of the day to leading periodicals. He is a councillor of

the American Economic Association, and a member of various scientific so- cieties. While residing in Washington, he served as secretary of the Civic Cen- ter of that city, and had charge of the Civic Center lectures

in co-operation with the Board of School Trustees. He was projector and secretary of the Na- tional Conference on Comparative Leg- islation, which met at Washington in December, 1902, and which resulted in the organization of the American Politi- cal Science Association. Washington residence, 3610 Morgan Ave .; office, Wil- lard Building, Washington, D. C .; Home address, Richmond Hill, N. Y. City. WEST, Paul Clarendon :

Editor; song writer; born Boston, Jan. 26, 1871; was educated at Boston Latin School; was graduated from Peekskill Military Academy, 1888. Married, 1895, Jane V. Carrigan, of N. Y. City. Jour- nalist for N. Y. World. Address, 930 West End Ave., N. Y. City.

WEST, Stuart Pullman:

Editor; born Providence, R. I., Dec. 18, 1876; son of George West and Helen A. Pullman; was graduated with A. B. degree from Harvard University in 1897; appointed second secretary to U. S. em- bassy at Berlin, but subsequently re- signed the position. In Oct., 1897, be- came the financial editor of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, continuing in this capacity up to the present time; also in charge of the financial department of the Street Railway Journal; contributed articles on financial and economic sub- jects to the magazines. Married, Jan. 3, 1902, Eliza von Bretton di Zerega, daughter of Francis A. di Zerega and Mary E. Berry. Address, 51 East 58th St., N. Y. City.

WEST, William Mott:

Banker; born Hamilton, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1858; educated in local schools

Colgate University. Is president

treasurer of Colgate University; presi- dent of local board of water and light commissioners since its organization; has filled all positions in bank from office boy up. In politics, a Democrat; never candidate for public office, but has been several times chairman of Demo- cratic county committee, a member of the State committee, presided over many conventions, etc., and was quartermaster general on staff of Governor Flower, with rank of brigadier; parents: David Belford and Eliza (Mott) West. Married Alice Gray in 1882; they have one son, David Belford West. Executor, admin- istrator, trustee, etc., of number of es- tates, and treasurer of numerous organi- zations. Is a Mason, Knight Templar, Noble of Mystic Shrine, etc. Address, Hamilton, N. Y.

WESTCOTT, Frank Nash:

Protestant Episcopal clergyman; au- thor; born Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1858; son of Amos and Harriet Nash Westcott; was graduated from Syracuse University, 1879, Ph. B .; rector St. James Church, Skaneateles, N. Y. Author: Philosophy of a Change in the Name of the Church; Catholic Principles. Con- tributor to church papers. Address, Skaneateles, N. Y.

WESTINGHOUSE, George:

Engineer, inventor and manufacturer; born Central Bridge, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1846; son of George Westinghouse, manufac- turer of agricultural machinery; married. Educated public and high schools and Union College (Ph. D., 1890). Served in U. S. Vounteers (12th N. Y. National Guard and 16th N. Y. Cavalry), June, 1863 to Nov., 1864; and as assistant en- gineer in U. S. Navy, Dec., 1864 to Aug., 1865; invented a device for replacing de- railed steam cars, 1865; patented his in- vention of the air brake, 1868; applied pneumatic devices to switching and sig- nalling, greatly increasing efficiency; also utilized electricity in this connection; through this became interested in de- velopment of electric machinery; intro- duced and developed in America alter- nating-current machinery, which is now used for all large installations; backed Tesla financially and with shop facilities in developing the induction motor, which made possible the utilization of alternat- ing current for power purposes; built the first ten great dynamos at Niagara, and recently the immense dynamos (largest

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in the world) for the elevated and sub- | Member Metropolitan Museum of Art, way roads in N. Y. City; and is now N. Y. Society of Civil Engineers, Ameri- can Institute of Architects, N. Y. Academy of Science, Yale and Century Clubs. Residence, 14 W. 48th St .; office, Century Club, 7 W. 43rd St., N. Y. City. building the power house and machinery (5.500 K. W. units) for the Metropolitan (underground) Ry. of London; has also taken a foremost part in developing gas engines, and in adapting steam turbines WETMORE, Charles W .: to electric driving; has founded great

works at Wilmerding, East Pittsburg, Swissvile, and Trafford, Pa., U. S. A.,

and

Manchester,

England; Havre,

France; and Hanover, Germany; the works of the British Westinghouse Elec- tric and Manufacturing Co. at Manches- ter are a reproduction, nearly as large, of the great works at East Pittsburg; they represent the carrying out of Amer- ican methods by British managers and workmen; they employ about 6,000 hands; is president of nearly a score of corpora- tions, with an aggregate capital of about one hundred millions of dollars, and giv- ing work to about 25,000 employees; has decorations of Legion of Honor; Royal Crown of Italy, and Leopold of Belgium; honorary member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers; and is one of the two honorary members of American Association for Advancement of Science. Address, Westinghouse Electric and Man- ufacturing Co., Pittsburg, Pa.

WESTON, John Burns:

Educator ; born Madison, Me., July

6, 1821; son of Stephen and Re- becca Watson ; was graduated from Antioch College, Ohio, A. B., 1857; A. M., 1860; D. D., 1884; D. D., Union Curis- tian College, 1884. Married, 1849, Nancy M. McDonald; 1860, Achsah E. Waite, of Chicago, III .; pastor in West Newbury, Mass., 1843; on faculty of Antioch Col- lege, 1857-81; acting president, 1862-65; and since president and professor of Biblical literature, theology, psychology and ethics, Christian Biblical Institute; organizer of American Philological As- sociation. Address, Stanfordville, N. Y.

WESTON, Theodore:

Civil engineer; born Sandy Hill. N. Y., Oct. 9, 1832; son of Frederick and Eliza- beth Hart Weston; was graduated from Yale College, 1853. Married, Sarah Chauncey Winthrop (died 1864); Catha- rine Boudinot Stimson. Engineer in charge sewage and drainage, City of N.

Y., 1861-70; engineer and architect Equitable Life Assurance Society, 1870- 82; architect of Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1884-90. Author: Report upon Wa- ter Supply for Brooklyn. Wrote: Water Works of Rome, The Crayon, New York.

President and director Butts Electric & Power Co., Detroit Edison Co .. Lac- lede Gas Light Co., North American Co .; vice-president and director, Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Light & Traction Co., Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co., Union Electric Light & Power Co. (St. Louis, Mo.); was graduated from Harvard College, 1875. Member Down Town and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Clubs. Residence, 14 W. 10th St .; office, 30 Broad St., N. Y. City.

WETMORE, Edmund:

Lawyer; born Utica, N. Y .; son of Ed- mund A. Wetmore, a lawyer holding many offices of trust in that city, an early partner of Judge Denio, of the N. Y. Supreme Court, and active in works for the public good. Edmund Wetmore was for four years at Harvard, where he graduated high in a class noted for ability. He studied law in the City of N. Y., in the office of Mr. Charles P. Kirkland, and afterwards at the Co- lumbia College Law School, under Pro- fessor Theodore W. Dwight, where he carried off the highest honors. He first entered the office of Spring & Russel in the City of N. Y., composed of Gardiner Spring, Jr., a son of the Rev. Dr. Gar- diner Spring, and Mr. William C. Russel, who subsequently became acting presi- dent of Cornell University. On the retirement of Mr. Russell the firm became Spring & Wetmore, to which suc- ceeded. on the death of Mr. Spring, the firm of Wetmore & Jenner. Mr. Wet- more soon gained a high position at the Bar. He has been successful in gen- eral practice, but has been most widely engaged in practice in the Federal Courts and in Equity and Patent causes. He has appeared in a large number of the patent cases which have come before the courts, especially in the litigation be- tween the great electrical companies,

and has acted as special counsel in similar cases for the City of N.

Y. and the U. S. Government; has taken an active interest in politics and was president of the Republican Club of the City of N. Y. during the State and city campaign of 1894, but has always refused nomination to public

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office and devoted himself assiduously to his profession; was one of the orig- inal members of the Bar Association of the City of N. Y., and its vice-presi- dent, and has done frequent service on its committees. He has manifested much interest in the cause of legal and gen- oral education, and has been for many years one of the Overseers of Harvard University. Married Miss Helen Howland, daughter of the late B. J. Howland, of N. Y. City. Address, 34 Pine St., N. Y. City.

WETMORE, Elizabeth:

Writer; journalist; born Texas. 1862; née Bisland. Author : Flying Trip Around the World ; Old Greenwich. Address, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y.

WETZLER, Joseph:

Electrical and mechanical engineer; born Hoboken, N. J., Dec. 6, 1863; son of Albert and Anna Neumann Wetzler; was graduated from Stevens Institute Technology, 1882. Married, N. Y., 1895, Pauline Gerson. President of Electrical Engineer Institute of Correspondence In- struction. Member of American Associa- tion for Advancement of Science, Amer- ican Society of Electrical Engineers. Res- idence: 257 \V. 104th St .; office, 240 W. 23d St., N. Y. City.

WHARTON, Edith:

Novelist; born New York, 1862; daugh- ter of George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander; was educated at home; married, 1885, Edward Wharton of Boston. Author of: The Great Incli- nation, 1889 ; A Gift from the Grave; Cru- cial Instances, 1901; The Valley of Deci- sion, 1902; Sanctuary, 1903; The Descent of Man, 1904. Address: Care of Charles Scribner's Sons, Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

WHEATLEY, Richard:

Clergyman; born near York, England, July 14, 1831 ; ordained to Methodist Epis- copal ministry. Married, 1858, Laura, daughter of John Hawk, Hancock. N. Y. On editorial staff of Methodist Review and other Methodist periodicals. Au- thor: Life and Letters of Mrs. Phoebe Palmer; Cathedrals and Abbeys in Great Britain and Ireland; Biographic Ency- clopaedia of the New England States in the XIXth Century; History of the World from the Creation to the Close of the Middle Ages, etc .; Centennial His- tory of the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and His- tory of the Churches Composing the New York Conference. Address: Cold Spring, N. Y.

WHEELER, Candace Thurber:

Author; artist; born Delhi, N. Y .; daughter of Abner G. and Lucy Dun- ham Thurber; was educated at Delaware Academy. Married, Delhi, N. Y., 1846, Thomas M. Wheeler. Founder of sys- tems and first society of Decorative Arts; founder of the Associated Artists. Mem- ber advisory committee of Cooper Insti- tute; director Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, 1903; chairwoman Woman's Art Committee. Exposition Congress, 1893. Author: Double Darling and Other Fairy Tales; Household Art; Content in a Garden; Decorators and Decorating; Domestic Weavings. Con- tributor on art and stories to magazines. Address, 115 E. 23rd St., N. Y. City.

WHEELER, Edward Jewitt:

Editor of the Literary Digest since 1895; born Cleveland, O., March 11, 1859; son of Alfred and Lydia Priscilla Curtis Wheeler; was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, 1879; assist- ant editor Pittsburg Christian Advocate, 1879-83; managing editor The Voice and The New Voice, 1884-97. Editorial man- ager of Funk & Wagnalls Co .; president Westerleigh (Staten Island) Building and Loan Association ; vice-president Pneumat- ic Mattress & Cushion Co., 1901-03 ; presi- dent Westerleigh Collegiate Institute, 1896- 1900 ; chairman Citizens' Union, Richmond Borough; degree of A. M., Ohio Wes- leyan University, 1903. Married Jennie L. Fleming, Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 23, 1887. Author: Stories in Rhyme for Holi- day Time; Prohibition : the Principle, the Policy,, the Party; The Dutchman (poem). Consulting editor The Jewish Encyclopedia; £ managing editor The Homiletic Review (1904). Residence, Westerleigh, Staten Island; office, 44 E. 23rd St., N. Y. City.

WHEELER, Everett P .:

Lawyer; born N. Y. City, March 10, 1840; was educated in public schools of N. Y. City; was graduated from the Col- lege of the City of New York in 1856; the Harvard Law School in 1859; admitted to the Bar in 1861, and has been in active practice in the City of N. Y. since that time. He was a member of the Board of Education from 1877 to 1879; he was one of the founders of the N. Y. Bar Association, and served as a member of its executive committee and as vice- president; he was for five years president of the N. Y. Free Trade Club, and was one of the first to take an active part in the renewal in 1880 of the move-

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 172

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