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daughter of late H. G. Eastman, at one time mayor of Poughkeepsie. Residence, 94 Eighth Ave .; office, Eighth Ave. and 18th St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
WOODS, William T .:
President of the Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Co. of New York; born in that city July 20, 1851, and received his edu- cation in the public schools. He went into an insurance broker's office when seventeen years old and was in the brok- erage business until 1879, when he be- came interested in the plate glass un- derwriting. He was the first secretary of the Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Co. He became president in 1893. Ad- dress, 63 William St., N. Y. City.
WOODWARD, Benjamin Duryea:
Professor of the Romance Languages and Literatures, Columbia College; brevet d'Instituteur, Académie de Paris, 1885; B. ès S., University of Paris, 1885; A.B., Columbia College, 1888; A.M., Col- umbia College, 1889; B. ès L., University of Paris, 1891; Ph.D., Columbia College, 1891; Prize Fellow in Columbia College, 1888-90; instructor in German, Barnard College, 1890-91; tutor in the Romance Languages and Literatures, Columbia College, 1890-94; instructor in the Ro- mance Languages and Literature, Bar- nard College, 1891-98, and Columbia Uni- versity, 1894-98; member of the Modern Language Association of America, the American Philological Association, etc .; nominated in 1898 by the late President McKinley, Assistant Commissioner-General of the United States to the Paris Exhibi- tion in 1900. At the age of seventeen years received his first degree in science at the Sorbonne; his diplomas for letters and philosophy were obtained respectively in 1886 and 1891. Mr. Woodward is since 1901 a professor of languages at the Columbia University; it was he who was instru- mental in inducing Mr. Brunetière to ac- cept the invitation of several American Universities to give a series of lectures in the United States. Address, University Club, N. Y. City.
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teen years; later transferred to Appel- late Department of Second Division. Residence, Jamestown, N. Y .; office, Court House, Brooklyn, N. Y.
WOODWARD, Robert B .:
Broker; second vice-president and trustee, Bowery Savings Bank; trustee, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn; Institute of Arts and Sciences, Franklin Safe Deposit Co., Franklin Trust Co., Svea Fire & Life Insurance Co .; director, Home Life Insurance Co., Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Co., Nassau National Bank, Thompson-Starrett Co. Address, 118 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
WOODWARD, Robert Simpson, M. D .:
Head of the Carnegie Institute, has been dean of the School of Pure Science at Columbia University since 1895, and professor of mechanics and mathemati- cal physics since 1893. Born Rochester, Mich., July 21, 1849, and was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1872. He held numerous places in the astron- omical and geodetic survey service and was the author of several technical pub- lications under the Smithsonian Institu- tion before he took a professorship. Address, Carnegie Institute, N. Y. City. WOOLVERTON, William H .:
President and director, American Ry. Supply Co., National Ry. Publication Co., N. Y. Transfer Co., vice-president and trustee Gamewell Fire Alarm Tel- egraph Co., Police Telephone and Sig- nal Co .; treasurer, Iron Steamboat Co .; director, American Ry. Guide Co., Cum- berland Telephone Telegraph Co., Elliott Fisher Co., Manhattan Fire Alarm Co., N. Y. & Pennsylvania Telephone & Tel- egraph Co., N. Y. Telephone Co., Ry. Equipment and Publication Co., Union Transfer Co. of Pennsylvania. Resi- dence, 180 Central Park S .; office, 1354 Broadway, N. Y. City.
WORK, James:
Clergyman; was graduated from Uni- versity of Rochester in 1860; Rochester Theological Seminary in 1863; mission- ary in Orkney, 1863-66; pastor Lerwick, Shetland, 1866-68; Kirkwell, Orkney, 1868-70; Caithness, 1870-76; Kelso, 1876- 80. Address, 271 Hoyt St., Buffalo, N. Y.
WORMAN, James Henry:
U. S. Consul at Three Rivers, Canada, since Sept. 23, 1905, was transferred from the more important post of U. S. Con- sul-General at Munich, Germany, held since July 1, 1902 ; previously consul from Feb. 10, 1899, to July 1, 1902, appointed
commercial agent at Cognac, Aug. 15,
1898, because he desired to be near his family and estates on Lake Champlain ; born Berlin, Germany, Feb. 28, 1845;
was educated at Berlin University
and The Sorbonne, Paris ; A. M.
Dickinson; Ph.D., Asbury, now De Pauw; LL. D., Mount Union. Married, 1866, Emma Parker Davis (died Jan., 1896) ; married again April 4, 189S, Mary A. Payne, of Wadhams, Mills, New York; was editorial writer for secular and re- ligious papers at one time; associate ed- itor National Repository; senior profes- sor Chautauqua, from foundation till 1885; he was the head Southern Chau- tauqua; Round Lake Summer School, etc. Professor Adelphi College from 1877 to 1882; Vanderbilt University from 1882 to 1885. Editor Chenango Telegraph, 1875 to 1876. Editor Saratogian, from 1885 to 1887; editor-in-chief Outing, from 1887 to 1899. Mr. Worman is the author of the Complete Grammar of the German Language; Elementary German Grammar: L'Echo de Paris; the Chautauqua Lan- guage Series in French, German and Spanish; also other text-books for the study of modern languages. Edited Mc- Clintock & Strong's Cyclopædia; is also a large contributor to other Cyclopædias, etc. He has a beautiful stock farm at Westport on Lake Champlain, New York. Mr. Worman has undertaken the sup- pression of an illegal traffic in American Academic honors in Germany and has al- ready suceeded in bringing to justice at home and abroad many of the criminals involved in this shameful business.
Legislation that was intended to forbid all American degrees in Germany he has stayed by his efforts. Mr. Worman has also the honor of having suggested an international commission of chemical ex- perts for the regulation of all traffic be- tween the United States of America and Germany in goods requiring chemical treatment for export from either coun- try. Summer home, Westport, N. Y.
WRIGHT, Benjamin:
Lawyer; born Flushing, L. I., 1843. His father, for whom he was named, was Benjamin Wright, and his mother was Eliza Miller Wright, both descended from old Quaker stock. He attended the common schools of Flushing, took a course in the Flushing Institute, and completed his education at the Jamaica Academy; afterwards removed to New York and began the study of law. He was admitted to the Bar in 1868, from
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which time forward his success has been steady; while yet a comparatively young man he was chosen as counsel of the well-known Dry Dock Savings Institu- tion, and a number of prominent corpor- ations, among them the Stuyvesant In- surance Co., with which Mr. Wright has served acceptably as counsel for more than fifteen years; has also been select- ed as counsel by the board of directors of the New York and New Jersey Bridge Co., and in this capacity much of the preliminary work in connection with the structure has come under his immediate supervision. Was married in New York in 1868 and has a son and a daughter. Address, 76 William St., N. Y. City.
WRIGHT, Carroll D .:
Author, economic; born New Hamp- shire, 1840, and was educated at acad- emies in that State and Vermont. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1862 as a private in the Fourteenth New Hamp- shire Volunteers, and rose eventually to the command of that regiment. In 1872- 73 he was a member of the Massachu- setts Senate, and from 1873 to 1888 he served as chief of the Massachusetts Bu- reau of Statistics of Labor. Since 1885 he has been United States Commissioner of Labor. From 1893 to 1897 he was en- gaged in completing the Eleventh United States Census. He is honorary professor of social economics in the Catholic Uni- versity of America, professor of statis- tics and social economics in the school of Comparative Jurisprudence and Diplom- acy in Columbian University and lec- turer on wage statistics in Harvard Uni- versity, and is now president of Clark College, Worcester, Mass. He is the author of a large number of works on his special subject, including: The Fac- tory System of the United States; The Relation of Political Economy to the Labor Question; The Industrial Evolu- tion of the United States; History and Growth of the United States Census, etc. Address, 1249 New York Ave., Washing- ton, D. C.
WRIGHT, Ebenezer Kellogg:
Banker; born Rome, N. Y., July 28, 1837; sparce education; stayed at fath- ser's farm ; messenger in Utica City Bank, 185;
cashier, 1876; director, 1878; second vice- president, May, 1888; first vice-president, 1888; president, June, 1890; member Chamber of Commerce and the Society Sons of the Revolution, American Geo- graphical Society, Oneida Historical So- ciety. Member Union, Riding, and West- minster Kennel Clubs. Address, 10 West 53d St., N. Y. City.
WRIGHT, Frank Ayres:
Architect ; born Liberty, N. Y., Nov. 19, 1854; instructor Cornell University, 1876. Bachelor Architecture, Cornell, 1879; architect, firm of Rossiter & Wright; one of the founders of the Architectural League. Author: Modern House Paint- ing; Architectural Perspective for Be- ginners. Married, 1885, Elizabeth Han- ford, daughter R. G. Hanford, Columbus, O. Address, 95 Liberty St., N. Y. City.
WRIGHT, Maurice L .:
Justice of the N. Y. State Supreme Court; born Scriba, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1845. He is a descendant of Samuel Wright, who emigrated from England with the Winthrop Colony to Massachusetts in 1630. His great-grandfather, Caleb Wright, was in the battle of Bennington and supplied himself with bullets by melting the weights of his eight-day clock. On his mother's side, Justice Wright is descended from Walter Wood- worth, a native of Kent, England, who settled in Massachusetts prior to 1835. In this line is Captain William Wood- worth, who served under General Wash- ington and commanded the troops in Westchester County, N. Y. His son, Major Lott Woodworth, was in the War of 1812 and commanded his regiment at the battle of Plattsburg. Justice Wright was educated at Mexico Academy and at Falley Seminary, New York. In 1864 he enlisted in the U. S. Navy. He was as- signed to the gunboat Valley City, of the North Atlantic Squadron, command- ed by Admiral Porter. He was in the Roanoke Expedition following the sink- ing of the ram Albemarle by Cushing and saw much hard service. After the war he finished his education and studied law in the office of Congressman John C. Churchill, of Oswego, N. Y. Later he entered the Columbia Law School in N. Y. City. He was graduated from the Columbian College Law School at Wash- ington, D. C., in 1870. He was then ad- mitted to the Bar of the District of Co- lumbia. In 1872 'he was admitted to the Bar of N. Y. State and formed a law
promoted to teller ; re- signed, 1859; came to New York; assis- tant teller Park Bank which became Na- tional Bank, 1865; New York agent Banks United States, Canada, Mexico, and South America; receiving teller, 1866; paying teller four months later; partnership with Hon. T. W. Skinner, at
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Mexico, N. Y. For twenty years he prac- | Bellevue Medical College, 1873; assistant ticed law there successfully. In 1879 he demonstrator anatomy, 1873; prosector to the chair of anatomy, 1874. Author : Handbook of Medical and Surgical Ref- erence (1875); Essay on Dextral Prefer- ence in Man (1875) ; Monograph on Mi- was elected president of the village and served two terms. In 1883 he was elect- ed County Judge of Oswego County by the Republican party. He was re-elected in 1889. Governor Hill appointed him a member of the constitutional commission of 1890, to revise the judiciary article of the State constitution. In 1891 he was elected justice of the N. Y. Supreme Court, which office he now holds. On Nov. 3, 1869, he married Miss Mary Grace Skinner, daughter of Judge Avery Skinner, of Union Square, N. Y. Since 1893, Justice Wright has made his home at Oswego, N. Y.
WRIGHT, Walter K .:
Major, U. S. Army; born New York; ap- pointed from New York; cadet at U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1879; was graduated June 13, 1883; second lieuten- ant Sixteenth Infantry, June 13, 1893; first lieutenant, Oct. 1, 1888; captain, Seventh Infantry, April 26, 1898. Served in Spanish-American War; major, 1903. Address, Manila, P. I.
WRIGLEY, Charles F. J .:
Protestant Episcopal Clergyman; B. A. Hobart College, 1879; M. A., 1882; S. T. B. General Theological Seminary, N. Y. City, in 1885; received the degree of D. D. in 1900 from Hobart College; as- sistant in Christ Church, Rochester, N. Y., in 1882; rector St. Marys-on-the-Hill, Buffalo, from 1883-1902; rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights, N. Y. City, 1902. Also Archdeacon of the Southern Archdeaconry of Brooklyn, in 1903. Ad- dress, 53 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N. Y. WYCKOFF, Edward G .:
President and director, Brush Swan Electric Light Co., Cornell Incubator Co., E. G. Wyckoff Co., Ithaca Street Ry. Co., Ithaca Wall Paper Mills, Wyckoff Phonographic Institute Co .; vice-presi- dent and director, Remington Typewriter Co., Wyckoff Seaman's & Benedict. Res- idence, Ithaca, N. Y .; office, 321 Green- wich St., N. Y. City.
WYETH, John Allan:
Surgeon; born Marshall County, Ala., May 26, 1845; son of Judge Louis and Euphemia Allan Wyeth. Educated La Grange Military Academy, Alabama; LL. D. University of Alabama; married, 1886, Florence N., daughter of Dr. J. Marion Sims, private in Russell's Regi- ment Fourth Alabama Cavalry, Confed- erate States of America; M. D., Univer- sity of Louisville, 1869; also, ad eundem,
nor Surgery (1876) ; Bellevue Alumni prize essay on Amputation at the Ankle Joint (1876); American Medical Asso- ciation prize essay on the Surgical Anat- omy and Surgery of the Carotid Arteries (1878); second prize, same association, essay on the Surgical Anotomy and Sur- gery of the Innominate and Subclavian Arteries; essay on the Obturator Ar- teries (1879) ; a pamphlet on Supra-pubic Cystomy, with a Report of Sixty Cases (1880); author of Text-Book on Surgery (1886) ; Bloodless Amputation of the Hip Joint and at the Shoulder Joint; The Treatment of Vascular Tumors by the Injection of Boiling Water (1890); Cold Cheer at Camp Morton, a narrative of prison life from Oct., 1863 to Feb., 1865, (Century Magazine, April, 1891) ; an historical sketch in Harper's Magazine, 1892, entitled, The Struggle for Oregon (in Harper's Weekly, 1898) ; General Wheeler's Leap (a sketch of the battle of Shelbyville, June 27, 1863; Harper's Magazine, 1899) ; General Forrest at Fort Donelson; Capture of Colonel A. D. Straight and his entire command; The Storming of Fort Pillow; General For- rest at Brice's Cross Roads. In the Con- federate Veteran, Nov., 1900, a Narrative of a Scouting Expedition in 1863; The Life of Lieutenant General Nathan Bed- ford Forrest (Harper & Bros., 1899) ; sur- geon Mt. Sinai Hospital, 1880; St. Eliz- abeth's Hospital, 1880; in 1882 founded the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, the first post-graduate medical institution in the United States. Senior professor of surgery and presi- dent of the Medical Faculty; president, New York Pathological Society, 1885 and 1886; president N. Y. State Medical Association, 1901; president American Medical Association, 1902. Address, 19 West 35th St., N. Y. City.
WYGANT, Henry:
Colonel, U. S. Army; born New York; appointed from Arkansas; cadet at U. S. Military Academy, Sept. 1, 1868; was graduated June 14, 1872; second lieuten- ant Twenty-fourth Infantry, June 14, 1872; first lieutenant, June 28, 1878; captain, May 15, 1888; major, March 2, 1899; served in SpanishAmerican War; lieutenant colonel Sixth Infantry, Nov.
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8, 1891. Transferred to Twenty-second [ Hospital 1882 and still on duty. Vice- Infantry. Colonel, August 11, 1903. Ad- dress, Manilla, P. I. president British Gynecological Society, three years. Married Fanny Damon of WYKES, Hunter: Northampton, Mass., 1877. After three years hospital training, practiced as gen- eral practicioner till 1882, then became a ' specialist in surgical diseases of women and abdominal surgery. Doing public work in Bellevue or visiting gynecologist. Residence, 28 West 40th St .; office, 215 West 43d St., N. Y. City.
President and director Citizens Gas & Fuel Co. (of Dunkirk); vice-president and director, Citizens Gas Co. of Kanka- kee, Realty Investment Corporation of N. Y .; director, Beaver Dam Water Co., City Water Co. (of Chillicothe, Mo.), City Water Co. (of Newark), Greenville Water Co., Huntington Gas Co., Santa Fe Water & Light Co., Sharon Ry., Suf- folk Gas & Electric Light Co. He is a member N. Y. Yacht, Lawyers, and Lambs Clubs. Residence, 150 W. 47th St .; office, 44 Wall St., N. Y. City.
WYLIE, Laura Johnson:
Professor of English in Vassar College since 1897. Born Milton, Pa., Dec. 1, 1855; daughter of Wm. Theodore Wylie (Rev.) and Sarah Murray Johnson. Degrees, Vas- sar College, A. B., 1877; Yale University, Ph. D., 1894. Member Modern Language Association, Phi Beta Kappa. Author: Studies in the Evolution of English Criti- cism (1897i (Ginn & Co., Boston, Mass.); The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator, edited for school use (1900); (Globe School Book Co., N. Y.); Studies in the Evolution of English Criticism was presented as a thesis to the philosophical faculty of Yale University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and was printed by the authority and at the expense of the University. Residence, 50 Montgomery St .; office, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
WYLIE, Robert H., M.D.
Born Chester, S. C., March 25, 1863; Ph. B., Yale, 1883; M. D., New York Uni- versity, 1885. At general hospital, Vienna, and hospitals in Paris and Berlin, 1887. Attending physician Bellevue Hospital Dispensary, diseases of women, since 1886; assisting visiting physician Bellevue Hos- pital since 1888; consulting physician, Hackensack, N. J., Hospital, 1891. Mem- ber University, Southern Society, Ards- ley and Garden City Golf Clubs. Also professor of gynecology, New York Poly- clinic. Address, 31 West 35th St., N. Y. City.
WYLIE, W. Gill:
Physician and surgeon; born 1848, Sept. 2, Chester, S. C .; educated University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C., and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Interne Bellevue Hospital, 1870-72. and Womans Hospital State N. Y., 1872 to 1875; visiting gynecologist to Bellevue
WYNNE, Marvin W .:
Lawyer; was graduated from the Uni- versity of Rochester, 1894; studied law with Hubbell & McGuire, Rochester, N. Y., 1895-97; managing clerk for W. J. Lardner, N. Y. City, 1898-99; assistant solicitor for the Metropolitan Street Ry. Co., and Interburban Street Ry. Co., N. Y. City, 1899 to date. Address, 621 Broad- way, N. Y. City.
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YALE, John R .:
Republican Assemblyman respresenting Putnam County; born Patterson, N. Y., May 8, 1856; has for the past ten years been employed as a real estate expert in N. Y. City in condemnation proceedings of the city; for two years, 1900 and 1901, was an assessor; in 1901 and 1902 elected to Assembly ; was re-elected in 1904; in 1903 was appointed member of the following Assembly committees : Railroads, Public Printing and Industries. Address, Brew- ster, N. Y.
YALE, Leroy Milton:
Physician; born Holmes Hole (now Vineyard Haven), Mass., Feb. 12, 1841; con of Dr. Leroy Milton and Maria Allen (Luce) Yale; fitted for college at Kim- ball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., 1855-58; was graduated from Columbia in 1862; Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1866; has since practiced in New York. Married, Dec. 6, 1881, Julia Meriam Stet- son, of New Bedford, Mass. Was lecturer on obstetrics, University of Vermont, 1870; held several lectureships in Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College; was surgeon to. Charity (now City) Hospital, 1871-77; to Bellevue Hospital, 1877-82; to Presbyterian Hospital, 1880-85. Editor of the Medical Gazette, 1867-68; medical editor of Baby- hood since 1884.
Is interested in drawing and sketching; in 1877 was one of the organizers of the New York Etching Club, and its president in 1877-79. Author: The Century Book for Mother, (1901, Cen- tury Co.); Nursery Problems (two edi-
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tions, 1893-97) ; also various magazine articles (some republished in Out-Door- Library, Scribner's). Contributor to med- ical magazines and formerly did a great deal of editing and unsigned writing for them. Address, 432 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.
YATES, Arthur Gould:
Merchant and railway official; born East Waverly, N. Y., 1843; in 1865 became connected with the Anthracite Coal Asso- ciation at Rochester, and after two years in the employ of this company began a coal business of his own; in 1876 estab- lished the coal mining company of Bell, Lewis & Yates; twenty years later, 1896, sold out to the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts- burgh Ry., of which in 1890 he became president. Residence, 120 South Fitzhugh St., Rochester, N. Y .; office, 36 Wall St., N. Y. City.
YEAMAN, George Helm:
Jurist and congressman; born Hardin County, Ky., Nov. 1, 1829; son of Stephen M. and Lucretia Yeaman. He received his education at the local schools, and at an early age began the study of law. After his admission to the Bar he settled in Owensboro, Ky., where he was elect- ed judge of the County Court of Daviess County in 1854. He was elected to the Legislature in 1861 and to Congress in 1862 and in 1865; he voted for the consti- tutional amendment abolishing slavery, which act caused his defeat for re-elec- tion. In 1865 he was made minister resi- dent at Copenhagen, where he spent five years, and, under the direction of Mr. Seward, negotiated a treaty with Den- mark for the purchase of the islands of St. Thomas and Santa Cruz, which failed of ratification. In 1870 he resigned and settled in N. Y., where he has since practiced his profession. Author: The Study of Government, (1870), and of arti- cles and pamphlets on various subjects, among them: Allegiance and Naturaliza- tion. (1866); Privateering, (1867); The Alabama Question, (1868); Labor and Money, (an attack on fiat money,, 1879); A Currency Primer, (advocating the gold standard, 1896); The Silver Standard, (1896). He was for several years a lect- urer on constitutional law in Columbia College Law School; and in a report adopted by the Bar Association of the City of N. Y., outlined the abolition of the Superior Court and Court of Common Pleas of N. Y. City, proposing to merge them in the Supreme Court, many years before the adoption of that reform in the
constitution of 1894. Mr. Yeaman mar- ried in 1855, Lelia Pegram, the daughter of Robert Triplett, of Owensboro, Ky. Residence, Madison, N. J .; office, 44 Wall St., N. Y. City.
YERKES, Charles Tyson :
Capitalist, railway promoter; born Phil- adelphia, June 25, 1837; son of Charles and Elizabeth L. Yerkes. He is of Quaker origin and attended the Quaker schools of Philadelphia, and afterward the high school. He began his business career as a clerk in the commission house of J. P. Perot & Brother. At twenty-one opened a stock broker's office in Philadelphia, three years later purchasing a banking house and dealing exclusively in first- class Government and other bonds. He failed in 1871 for a large amount, the City of Philadelphia, as a depositor, be- ing one of his creditors. Being sued by the city, he was convicted of mis- appropriating public funds, a decision which was subsequently pronounced il- legal. He immediately resumed business and through his great energy and suc- cessful investments in the West he in a few years regained a large part of his fortune. He became prominent in street railway operations in Philadelphia, and subsequently in Chicago, of which city he was for some time a resident, and where he finally became the head of the north and west side surface railroads, and of several suburban and elevated railway corporations. He is at present largely in- terested in the construction of the system of underground railways in London. Mr. Yerkes gave the Chicago University a telescope costing $400,000, and said to be the finest instrument of its kind in the world. His private art gallery in his residence at New York is one of the most complete in existence, and is valued at more than $2,000,000. He married Mary Adelaide Moore, of Philadelphia. Resi- dence, 864 Fifth Ave .; office, 54 Wall St., N. Y. City.
YOST. Joseph Warren:
Architect; born near Clarington, O., June 15, 1847; educated in public school and Harlem and Mt. Union Colleges; taught until 1868; studied architecture, mechanics, and civil engineering, earning support as mechanic in day time, and reading and drawing at night; practiced as architect since; practiced Columbus, O., 1882-99; since then in New York. Fel- low American Institute Architects. Is a member of the firm of D. Onch & Yost. Address, 289 4th Ave., N. Y. City.
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YOUNG, Alden M .:
President and director Connecticut Ry. & Lighting Co., New England Engineer- ing Co. Vice-president and director Al- bany & Hudson R. R. Co., Edison Electric Illuminating Co. (of Brooklyn), Kings Co. Electric Light & Power Co., Meriden, Southington & Compounce Tramway Co., Utica & Mohawk Valley Ry. Co. Secre- tary, treasurer and director Norwich Gas & Electric Light Co .; treasurer and di- rector New London Gas & Electric Co. Director American Mail Steamship Co., Automatic Vending Co., Corning Gas & Electric Co., National Carbon Co., West- chester Lighting Co .; office, 100 Broad- way, N. Y. City.
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