Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 178

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WINTHROP, Robert Dudley:

Banker and broker; was graduated from Harvard College, 1883. Member of Stock Exchange firm of Robert Winthrop & Co. Member Harvard, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Union, University, Turf and Field, Meadow Brook Hunt, New York Athletic and University Athletic Clubs, and Down Town Association. Residence, Westbury, L. I .; office, 40 Wall St., N. Y. City.

WISE, John Sergeant:

Lawyer; born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (where his father, Henry A. Wise, was United States minister to Brazil), Dec. 27, 1846 ; was educated at his father's home in Virginia and in Virginia Military Institute, 1863-64; left institute, May, 1864; served as second lieutenant in C. S. A. until Lee's surrender; was graduated (B. L.) from University of Virginia, 1867; appointed United States district attorney for Eastern District of Virginia, 1881, by President

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Arthur; elected to Congress from Virginia | Deutscher Sprachverein in Berlin, Deut- at large, 1881, on Republican ticket ; de- feated for governor of Virginia, 1885; moved to New York, 1888. Office, 20 Broad St., N. Y .City.

WISE, Morris S .:

Lawyer; born New York City, 1850; was graduated from Packard's Business College ; studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in New York in 1872, and has con- tinued to practice his profession in New York City since said time. Was appointed honorary representative of the United States Treasury Department to the In- ternational Congress for the protection of industrial property held in connection with the Paris Exposition in 1889; was presi- dent of the Alumni Association of Pack- ard's College three terms; was appointed referee in bankruptcy for the Southern District of New York in 1898, and holds such office at the present time; has been a director of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation since 1877; has been general counsel of the National Cigar Manufacturers' Association since 1881, and is one of the proprietors and senior editor of the Trade-Mark Record. He is also chairman of the law committee of the National Board of Trade; chairman of the executive committee of the Na- tional Association of Referees in Bank- ruptcy, and a member of the Society of Medallists of France. He is an expert authority on trade-mark and bankruptcy law. Residence, 138 West 75th St .; office, 40 Exchange Place, N. Y. City.

WISER, Konrad Wilhelm Chevalier de:

Austro-Hungarian vice-consul ; born Vi- enna, Oct. 24, 1869 ; son of Major-General (retired) Friedrich Ritter von Wiser, of Vienna; studied at the gymnasiums of Brünn (Moravia), Lübeck (Germany) and Baden (Lower Austria), the Consular Academy in Vienna and the University in Vienna. Field artillery lieutenant, Dec., 1890 ; final law examination, Graz (Sty- ria), June 1, 1896 ; 1895-97, judicial prac- tice successively at three courts in Trieste ( Austria) ; appointed consular attaché, Nov. 10, 1896 ; vice-consul, Oct. 30, 1898 ; outward foreign service from April, 1897, until 1900, in Constantinople, Salonica, and as acting consul in Adrianople. Mr. von Wiser was transferred as vice-consul to New York, Nov., 1900; entered these func- tions, April, 1901. Moved to Pittsburg, Pa., as vice-consul, Feb. 28, 1904, then to Philadelphia, Pa., as acting consul, Oct. 19, 1904. Member Imperial Royal Geo- graphical Society in Vienna, Allgemeiner

scher Verein in New York, Country Club in Pittsburg, Pa., and Technischer Verein, of Philadelphia, Pa. Address, 623 Walnut St., and Art Club of Philadelphia, Phila- delphia, Pa.

WITTHAUS, Rudolph August:

Toxicologist; born New York, Aug. 30, 1846; was graduated from Columbia, 1867; was graduated from University of New York, medical department, 1875; studied Sorbonne and Collège de France, Paris; unmarried. Professor chemistry and toxicology, medical department, Cor- nell University; formerly held similar professorships University of New York, University of Vermont and University of Buffalo; member Chemists Societies of Paris, Berlin; fellow A. A. A. S., etc. Toxicologist expert in Carlyle Harris, Buchanan, Mayer, Fleming, Benham, Mollineux and many other cases. Editor, Witthaus and Becker's Medical Juris- prudence (four volumes), in which con- tributed introduction and Volume 4 on Toxicology, 1894. Address, 15 West 32d St., N. Y. City.

WOLF, Henry:

Artist and engraver; born Eckwers- heim, Alsace, Aug. 3, 1852; son of Simon and Pauline (Ettinger) Wolf. At age of fifteen began an apprenticeship as me- chanic, but soon abandoned this to take up engraving; 1867-71, studied in the atelier of Jacques Lévy, an artist en- graver. In 1871, came to the United States; worked for some time in Albany, N. Y., drawing and engraving on wood; attended the life classes at the Cooper

Union, N. Y. City, and continued studies in wood engraving under Freder- ick Juengling and in the art department of Harper & Brothers; in 1877, began work on his own account, and has since then contributed to the Century Maga- zine, Harper's Magazine and other publi- cations; has engraved many of the works of Gérome, Jules Breton, Dagnan-Bouver- et, Benjamin-Constant, Israels, Cecilia Beaux, W. M. Chase, John S. Sargent, John W. Alexander, Alexander Harrison, Wins- lof Homer, Abbott H. Thayer, Jean Charles Cazin, George Inness, Whistler, Corot, Homer D. Martin, Diaz and others. His principal works are the illustrations for American Series and Gilbert Stuart Ser- ies of Women, in Century Magazine; The Evening Star, a landscape, 1897; orig- inal engraving, The Morning Star (orig- inal engraving, 1903); also a fine plate of Thomas Jefferson from the painting by

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Chas. Wilson Peale in Independence Hall, WOOD, Arthur King:

1901; a "Portrait of Thomas Carlyle" after Whistler, 1904. Engaged at present since two years engraving a series of ladies for Harpers Magazine. Has for some years contributed to Pennsylvania Acad- emy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia; to the annual Salon in Munich, Germany, and to Paris Salon of the Société des Artistes Francais, from which he received a gold medal, 1895, and honorable mention, 1888; honorable mention, Paris Exposi- tion, 1889 ; medal at World's Fair, Chica- go, 1893; silver medal, Paris Exposition, 1900, and medal at Fine Arts Exposition, Rouen, France, 1903. Was member of the jury for Paris Expositions 1889 and 1900; of the jury of admission and awards, Pan-American, Buffalo, 1901; member of the advisory committee for St. Louis Exposition of 1904; member of the International Jury of Awards for Groups IX and X, St. Louis Exposition, 1904; awarded by the Superior Jury of Awards a special diploma and grand medal of honor for distinguished ser- vices in promoting the art of wood en- graving, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Married to Rose, daughter of Herman Massée, Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 25, 1875. Address, 152 East 86th St., N. Y. City.

WOLF, John:

Democratic Assemblyman, represent- ing the Nineteenth Assembly District of Kings County; born May 11, 1859, Plums- burgh, Penn. His parents moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., when he was four years old, and he has lived in that place ever since. He attended the parochial school of St. Nicholas Church for several years, and was finally graduated from the col- lege attached to Annunciation Church of Brooklyn. He followed the trade of a merchant tailor for eleven years, and finally opened a hotel in Brooklyn. In polities he has always been a Democrat. He has lived in the Eighteenth Ward of the county of Kings for the last thirty years; he became leader of the organiza- tion of the Democratic party in his dis- trict about twelve years ago, and still holds that position. Elected to the As- sembly by the Democratic party in 1901 and re-elected in 1902 and 1904; in 1903, was appointed a member of the following Assembly committees: Canals and Fish and Game. Address, 251 Powers St., Brooklyn, N. Y,

Banker; born Sept. 2, 1875; real estate business, 1893-99; manager estate of Hamilton Fish, 1899-1902; assistant sec- retary Van Norden Trust Co., 1902; secre- tary and treasurer, Van Norden Trust Co., 1903. Married Marguerite Richardson, 1902. Residence, Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y.

WOOD, Benjamin F .:

Chief engineer, U. S. Navy; born State of New York. Appointed a third assist- ant engineer, July 1, 1861; U. S. S. Lan- caster, Pacific Squadron, 1861-62; special duty, New York, 1862 ; U. S. monitor Le- high, 1863; U. S. S. Sassacus, North At- lantic Squadron, 1863-64; U. S. S. Ma- hongo, Pacific squadron, 1864-67; Mound City Station, Ill., 1867-68. Promoted to second assistant engineer, April, 1863. Promoted to passed assistant engineer, Oct., 1866; U. S. monitor Dictator, North Atlantic Squadron, 1869-70; Navy Yard, New York, 1871-72; U. S. S. Juniata, 1873; China Station, 1873-76; Navy Yard, New York, 1877-80 ; U. S. S. Trenton, European Squadron, 1880-81; Morgan Iron Works, New York, 1882-84; promot- ed to chief engineer, Dec., 1833; special duty, Chester, Pa., 1884-85; U. S. S. Kearsarge, European Squadron, 1885-86 ; U. S. S. Ossipee, North Atlantic Squad- ron, 1887-88; Continental Iron Works, Brooklyn, 1888-92. Retired, Oct. 6, 1892 Address, 213 N. Fulton St., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

WOOD, Dean R .:

Consul; born Oswego, N. Y., July 25. 1868, and has been connected with the Waltham Watch Co., Chicago, Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Ry., Oswe- go. N. Y., and the N. Y. Central and Hudson River Ry., New York, and with mercantile firms in Cuba and Mexico: appointed vice-consul at Madrid, Dec. 11, 1900; appointed consul at Ceiba, Hon- luras, 1903. Address, Ceiba, Honduras WOOD, John Seymour:

Attorney-at-law ; born Utica, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1853; son of George W. and Har- riet C. Wood; was graduated from Phil lips Academy, Andover, 1870; Yale, 1874: in law, Columbia College, 1876. Married, Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 15, 1880, Mary B. Harris. Member University, New York Athletic, Authors, Apawamis, Rye, N. Y., Larchmont Yacht and Yale Clubs; editor Bachelor of Arts Magazine, 1896- 98; Democrat. Author: Gramercy Park (1892); A Daughter of Venice; Yale

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Yarns; A Coign of Vantage; College WOOD, William H. S .:

Days; Old Beau, etc. Residence, 131 E. 19th St .; office, 20 Broad St., N. Y. City. WOOD, Joseph:

Lawyer; born Riverhead, L. I., Aug. 12, 1862; son of John and Matilda Vail Wood; was graduated from Yale, A. B., 1884, and Columbia, LL.B. and A. M., 18$6; admitted to the Bar of New York, 1886, and of New Jersey, 1887. Married Ellen Purves Tybout, daughter of George Z. and Elizabeth Maxwell Tybout, of New Castle County, Del., March 4, 1891. Democratic candidate for county judge of Suffolk County, 1902. Member of the University Club and the Association of the Bar of N. Y. City. Residence, Say- ville, N. Y .; office, 141 Broadway, N. Y. City.

WOOD, Spencer Shepard:

Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1861, but his parents soon removed to N. Y. City, where he spent the first eleven years of his life; attended school at the Flushing Institute. In May, 1878 after a competi- tive examination was appointed to the va- cancy from the First Congressional Dis- trict of New York at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md .; Hon. J. W. Covert gave him the appointment, and he became a cadet midshipman in June, 1878 ; he gradu- ated No. 2 in his class in 1882, and went directly from Academy to Vandalia, then lying at Hampton Roads, Va .; May, 1884, Cadet Wood passed his examination at Annapolis, Md., for final graduation, re- maining No. 2 in his class, and in July of that year he received his commission as an ensign, and was ordered to duty at the Naval Experimental Battery at Annapolis, Md .; April, 1894, received his commission as a lieutenant (junior grade) ; May, 1895, married Miss Mary Margaretta Fryer, of New York; com- missioned as a lieutenant, September, 1897; served throughout the Spanish- American War in command of torpedo boat Du Pont; promoted lieutenant com- mander, 1903; aide to the Admiral of the Navy, also duty in connection with Gen- eral Board. Address, 1819 M St. N. W., Washington, D. C.

WOOD, Walter H .:

Lawyer; was graduated from Univer- sity of Rochester in 1889; subsequently from Columbia Law School; has since his admittance to the Bar practiced in N. Y. City. Address, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

Banker, author and publisher; born City of New York, 1840. He is a birth- right member of the Orthodox Religious Society of Friends; he was educated at Haverford College; in 1863 he was taken into partnership in the publishing house of his father, William Wood, who was a leading member of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. William Wood died several years later, and the subject of this sketch became the head of the firm, which still exists in the hands of the fourth generation from the founder, Samuel Wood, grandfather of Mr. Wood. Soon after leaving college he was elected a director of the Y. M. C. A., in this city, serving in that capacity for seven years; for twelve years he was a mana- ger of the American Bible Society; he is a life member of the New York His- torical Society and of the American Pom- ological Society; Fellow of the American Geographical Society; life member of New York Horticultural Society; bene- factor of the New York Academy of Medicine; member of the St. Nicholas Society; incorporator of the New York Botanical Society and of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice; member of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, of the Grolier, Union League, of the Seawanhaka Yacht, Indian Harbor Yacht Clubs, New York Academy of Sciences, New York Zoologi- cal Society, Clinton Hall Association, and many others. He is the founder and proprietor of the Medical Record, a weekly journal of Medicine and Surgery. He was elected a trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank in 1870, and its president in Jan., 1903. He has written several books on horticultural subjects and con- tributed many papers on that topic. Ad- dress, Bowery Savings Bank, N. Y. City.

WOODBURY, John Mac Gaw, M.D .:

Commissioner of street cleaning de- partment of New York; born N. Y. City about 1855; was graduated from Prince- ton College, 1879. He was appointed by Mayor Low in Jan., 1902, and has man- aged the affairs of his department so successfully that he remains in office with the gratification of all the citizens of New York under the administration of Mayor Mcclellan. Member of Union, University, New York Yacht, Racquet, Larchmont Yacht Clubs and Sons of Rev- olution. Residence, 120 Fifth Ave .; of- fice, 13 Park Row, N. Y. City.

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WOODFORD, Stewart L .:

Lawyer and diplomat; born City of New York, Sept. 3, 1835; son of Josiah Curtis and Susan Terry Woodford. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1854; has received the degrees of A. M. from Yale and Columbia Colleges, LL. D. from Trinity College and D. C. L. from the University of Syracuse. He married, first, in 1857, Julia E .. Capen, of New York; second, Isabel Hanson, of New York, in 1900. He was admitted to the Bar in 1857, and began his prac- tice in the City of New York. In 1861 Mr. Woodford was appointed to the po- sition of assistant United States At- torney for the Southern District of New York, but he resigned this office and en- listed as a private in Company H of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regi- ment, New York Volunteers. He was subsequently advanced to the captaincy of his company, and afterwards was made lieutenant colonel of the regiment. He served in the Army of the Potomac, and in the Department of the South, filling the positions of judge advocate general, provost marshal general, and later chief of staff to Major General Gilmore, commanding Department of the South. He was afterwards military governor of Charleston, S. C., and of Sav- annah, Ga. Then, resuming duty as chief of staff to department, he was promoted to colonel and breveted brig- adier-general. 4

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civil war having closed, Mr. Woodford resigned from the army in August, 1865, and resumed practice of the law in N. Y City; he was offered the Republican nomination for judge of the Court of Common Pleas of N. Y. City, but declined the honor. In 1866, however, he was elected lieuten- ant governor of the State. During the years 1897-98, just before the Cuban War, General Woodford was U. S. min- ister to Spain, where his services were recognized as being of the highest order. Mr. Woodford is a member of the law firm of Rich,

Woodford, Bovee &

Butcher. He is also director and gen- eral counsel for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., trustee of the Franklin Trust Co., and of the City Savings Bank of Brooklyn. He was at one time president of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, and also of the New England Society of New York, and is resident American Trustee of Svea, Life and Fire Insurance Co. of Sweden. He is mem- ber in the University and Lawyers Clubs

of New York and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. Address, 18 Wall St., N. Y. City.

WOODHULL, John Francis:

Educator; occupation since leaving col- lege, teacher in high school, Bloomfield, N. J., 1880-82, principal of high schools, Chicopee, Mass., 1882-85; student in sum- mer school, Harvard University, chem- istry and physics, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1892; student in chemistry and physics, Johns- Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1885-86 ; teacher of science in State Nor- mal School, New Paltz, N. Y., 1886-88 ; professor of physical science, Columbia University, 1888 to present time. Lec- turer National Summer School, 1888-91; Martha's Vineyard Summer School, 1890; Chautauqua Summer School, 1894. De- grees received: A. B., Yale, 1880; Ph.D., Columbia University, 1899; professional or political honors or positions of re- sponsibility ; professor of physical sci- ence, Columbia University; chairman of division of science, Teachers' College, Columbia University; member of the Col- umbia University Council; Fellow of American Association for the Advance- ment of Science; Fellow of New York Academy of Sciences; international ex- aminer, Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation; acting president, Teachers' Col- lege, Columbia University, April to July, 1894; chairman of faculty of Teachers' College, Columbia University, Sept. to Jan., 1897; associate editor Nature Study Review, 1905. Publications, books, papers and lectures: Home-made Apparatus; Popular Science Monthly (1889) ; Simple Experiments in Chemistry (E. L. Kel- logg & Co., 1889); Academic Syllabus for Physics and Chemistry (Regents Bulletins, Nos. 5, 8); Selection and Use of Apparatus (Regents Bulletin, No. 6, part iii, 1891); Object Lessons with David Salmon (Longmans, Green & Co., 1892); First Course in Science (Henry Holt & Co., 1893); Educational Value of Natural Science (Educational Review,

1895); Manual of Home-made Apparatus (E. L. Kellogg & Co., 1895) ; Systematic Work in Nature Study (Regent's Bulle- tin, No. 36, 1896); The Proper Use of Laboratory, Library and Lecture in

Teaching Physical Science in Secondary

Schools (Regents Bulletin, No. 42, 1897) ; Physics (New York Teachers' Mono- graph, 1898); Chemical Experiments, A

Laboratory Manual (with M. 3. Van Arsdale, Henry Holt & Co., 1899); Phy- sics-A Text-Book (with C. Hanford

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Henderson, D. Appleton & Co., 1900); 6, 1869; promoted captain Second Artil- Physical Experiments-A Laboratory Manual (with M. B. Van Arsdale, D. Ap- pleton & Co., 1900); Suggestions to Teachers (D. Appleton Co., 1902); Chem- istry and Physics in the Horace Mann High School Teachers' College Record, vol. iii, No. 2, (Columbia University Press, 1902) ; Simple Experiments in Physics (E. L. Kellogg & Co., 1905; Elementary Phy- sical Science (American Book Co., 1905) ; Enrichment of the High School Course in Physics; Report of Eastern Association of Physics Teachers, 1905. Married, April 2, 1886, at Chicopee, Mass., to Minnie Ellen Hinkley. Address, Columbia Uni- versity, N. Y. City.

WOODHULL, William W .:

Pay inspector, U. S. Navy; born New York; appointed acting assistant pay- master, May 13, 1863; U. S. steamer Del- aware, North Atlantic Blockading Squad- ron, 1863-65. Commissioned passed as- sistant paymaster, July 23, 1866; Naval Academy, practice cruise, 1866; Yantic, special service, 1867-68; paymasters' ex- amining board, Philadelphia, 1868-69 ; Miantonomah, special cruise, 1869-70, Peabody funeral. Commisioned paymas- ter, Feb. 10, 1870; Shenandoah European Station, 1870-73; navy yard, Boston, 1873- 76; in charge of naval depot, Nagasaki, Japan, 1877-79; inspector of provisions and clothing, League Island Navy Yard, 1880-81; Lackawanna, Pacific Station, 1881-84; inspector provisions and cloth- ing, League Island Navy Yard, 1884-86; general storekeeper, League Island Navy Yard, 1887-88; receiving ship Min- nesota, New York, 1888-89; assistant to general storekeeper, navy yard, New York, 1889-90; Baltimore, European Sta- tion, Aug., 1890, to Sept., 1893; general storekeeper, navy yard, League Island, Sept., 1893, to 1895. Commissioned pay- inspector, March, 1895; general store- keeper, Mare Island, May, 1885; Naval Home, Philadelphia, paymaster, League Island and receiving ship Richmond, Feb., 1897, to 1898. Retired, June 15, 1898; paymaster of yard, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H. Address, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H.

WOODRUFF, Carle A .:

Brigadier general, U. S. Army; born N. Y., Aug. 8, 1841. Appointed from District of Columbia, civil life; second lieutenant Second Artillery, Oct. 22, 1861; first lieutenant, July 24, 1862; cap- tain Twelfth Infantry, July 28, 1866 (declined) ; captain second artillery, May

lery, May 6, 1869; major, Second Artil- lery, March 8, 1894; lieutenant colonel, Seventh Artillery, Feb. 13, 1899; colonel Artillery Corps, May 8, 1901; brigadier general, Aug. 10, 1903; retired on his own application after over 41 years of active service, Aug. 11, 1903; brevet rank, brevet captain, July 3, 1863, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa .; major, June 11, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Trevillian Sta- tion, Va .; lieutenant colonel, March 13, 1865, for good conduct and gallant ser- vices during the war. Medal of honor for distinguished gallantry at Newby's Cross Roads, Va., July 24, 1863. Ad- dress, Raleigh, N. C.

WOODRUFF, Edward C .:

Lieutenant colonel, U. S. Army ; born New York, Jan. 6, 1839; appointed from New Jersey civil life. Drum major and hospital steward Second New Jersey In- fantry, May 2, 1861, to July 31, 1861; first lieutenant Fifth New York Cavalry, Oct. 31, 1861; honorably mustered out, April 6, 1862; second lieutenant, Seventh Infantry, March 24, 1862; first lieuten- ant, Sept. 10, 1863; captain, Dec. 30, 1864; assigned to Twelfth Infantry, July 14, 1869; major Fifth Infantry, Jan. 2, 1888; lieutenant colonel, Eleventh In- fantry, April 22, 1892; retired, May 4, 1892. Brevet rank, brevetted first lieu- tenant, July 2, 1863, and brevetted ma- jor, March 13, 1865, for gallant and mer- itorious services in the battle of Gettys- burg, Pa. Address, Glen Ridge, N. J.

WOODRUFF, Edwin Hamlin:

Professor of law; born Ithaca, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1862; educated in the common schools until 1878, when he entered Cor- nell and remained until 1880. Was grad- uated from the Cornell Law School in 1888. He held positions in the Astor and Cornell University libraries from 1883 until 1887. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1888; was instruc- tor of English in the Cornell University 1888-90; librarian Leland Stanford, Jun- ior, University of California, 1891-96, and acting professor of law in the same in 1893-96. Since 1896 he has been profes- sor of law in the Cornell University Col- lege of Law. He is the author of the following works: Cases on Domestic Re- lations (1897); Introduction to the Study of Law (1898); Cases on Insurance (1900); joint editor of American Cases on Contracts (1894); Chancery in Mas-

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sachusetts; Digest of the Law of Tort | Brooklyn. Married Miss Cora Eastman, (in Law Student's Helper, 1899-1900). Residence, 401 North Aurora St., Ithaca, N. Y.

WOODRUFF, Ernest H .:

Lawyer; born Oct. 29, 1874; married, June 27, 1899, Grace E. Hall, daughter of Silas C. Hall, who died May 25, 1901. Married Minnie D. Twomley, Jan. 11, 1903. Spent two years in Colgate Uni- versity. Held the office of justice of the peace for four years, from Jan. 1, 1897. In the meantime admitted to practice law which he is now doing. In- terested in church and Young Men's Christian Association work. Address, N. Y. City.

WOODRUFF, Timothy L .:

Ex-lieutenant governor of N. Y. State; born 1858; son of John Woodruff, a member of Congress, representing the New Haven, Conn., district at the time his son was born. When he was but ten years of age his parents died; he was sent through

Phillips' Exeter Academy, and was graduated from Yale in 1879. Then he took a brief course in Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, before beginning his business career. In 1881 he entered the firm of Nash, Whiton & Co., now the Worcester Salt Co. of which he still remains the treasurer; is president of the Smith Premier Type- writer Co., also a director of the Ham- ilton Trust Co., of the Merchants' Ex- change Bank. In 1889 he became one of the proprietors of a famous malt- food preparation. In the Brooklyn May- oralty campaign of 1881, and also in 1883, he was a member of the executive committee of the Young Republican Club, an organization which enthusias- tically supported Seth Low and helped materially to elect him Mayor of Brook- lyn. In 1885 was a delegate to the Re- publican State Convention, and in 1888 he sat in the Convention which nom- inated Benjamin Harrison for the Pres- idency. In the following year he became a member of the Republican State Com- mittee. In 1896 he accepted the park commissionership of Brooklyn; 1896, WOODWARD, John: nominated and elected lieutenant gov- Jurist; born Chautauqua, N. Y., 1859; was graduated from Fredonia (N. Y.) State Normal School, 1878; studied law at the University of the City of New York, graduating, 1881; was admitted to the Bar and practiced at Jamestown, N. Y .; elected justice of the Supreme Court ernor of N. Y. State on the Republican ticket that carried Frank S. Black for governor; 1898, on the ticket of Theo- dore Roosevelt, and in 1900, on the ticket with Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. He is also greatly interested in educational affairs, and is president of Adelphi College of lof N. Y. State, 1896, for term of four-

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 178

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