Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 18

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BISHOP, William Darius:

Railroad official; born Bloomfield, N. J .. Sept. 14, 1827; was graduated from Yale, 1849; studied law, but soon engaged in railroad enterprises; 1850-54, railroad con- tractor; 1854, president of Naugatuck R. R. Co .; 1857-59, served term in Congress from Connecticut, and was chairman of Committee on Manufactures; I859-60. Commissioner of Patents; resigned 1860; 1866, elected to Connecticut Legislature, holding important State offices; 1867-69, president New York, New Haven & Hart- ford R. R .; since 1584 president execu- tive committee Eastern Railroad Associa- tion. Residence, New Haven, Conn .; of- fice, Grand Central Station, N. Y. City.

BISPHAM, David:

Musician, whose name is familiar to lovers of music in the Old World as well as in the new; born Philadelphia, 1857, and educated at Haverford College; he be- gan his musical career as an amateur, but he was very soon impelled to devote his life to the study and the service of music; at the age of thirty he sought the advice of the most capable masters and applied himself to the highest as- pects of the art which he felt called to follow; his success, when finally he ap- peared in public, was brilliant and com- plete; it was soon universally recognized that he was not only unexcelled in the music sung upon the concert platform, but that his powers fitted him to com- pete successfully with the best expo- nents of operatic characters: Mr. Bis- pham occupies an undisputed position as the best baritone now to be heard on the operatic stage of England or America. Address, Players Club, N. Y. City. BISPHAM, William:

Merchant; born Detroit, Mich., May 5,

1838; educated at Academy of the Pro- testant Episcopal Church in the City of Philadelphia; president of the Randolph Co., N. Y .; president of the Church Club of New York; secretary of Trinity Church Association, N. Y., treasurer of The Play - ers, of N. Y .; married Laura Wistar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew Wistar of Philadelphia, Oct. 7, 1863; mem- ber of boards of management of the Century Association, the Grolier Club, The Players, the Church Club, Trinity Church Association, Trinity School, etc .; friend and executor of Edwin Booth; Re- publican. Address, 12 W. 18th St., N. Y. City.

BISSEL, James Dougal :

Physician; born July 5, 1864; educated at South Carolina University ('85) and Maryland Medical Department University 'S8: single; Gynecologist to Woman's Hospital, Demilt Dispensary and McDon- ough Hospital and consulting obstetrician to Old Marion Street Maternity Hospital; member of Sons of Revolution, Society of Mayflower Descendants, and Womens Hospital Society. Address, 49 West 38th St., N. Y. City.

BISSELL, George Edwin:

Sculptor; born Feb. 16, 1839, New Pres- ton, Conn .; his father, Hiram Bissell, was engaged in marble quarrying and the monument business. Was educated in the district schools of the village, the North- ville Academy, and at the "Gunnery" at Washington, Conn. Spent spare time of his youth drawing from engravings of statues and making pencil sketches of picturesque scenes. Early accepted posi- tion as clerk in a store in Waterbury, Conn., where he remained until he was of age; shortly after, abandoned mercan- tile life and prepared for Yale College, teaching school at the same time. Be- ginning of the Civil War broke up his college plans, and he enlisted as a pri- vate in the Twenty-third Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, serving a year in the Nineteenth Corps, Department of the Gulf; then received an appointment as acting assistant paymaster in the U. S. Navy, where he remained attached to the South Atlantic Squadron, under Rear Admiral Dahlgren, until the close of the war. Then resigned from the navy and joined his father and brother in marble business at Poughkeepsie. Married at about the same ume to Mary E., daughter of George W. Welton, of Waterbury. Conn. His first successful work was a public monument, with statues, for the

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Fire Department of Poughkeepsie, a commission won in competition with oth- ers. After executing several commissions for statues, he went abroad for a part of the years 1875-76, studying in Paris, Florence and Rome, and in 1883 located in Paris. There modeled statues for Sol- diers' Monument at Waterbury, Conn .; statue of Colonel Chatfield for the same city; the statue of Colonel Abraham de Puyster in Bowling Green, N. Y. City; statue of Lincoln and slave at Edin- burgh, Scotland, on monument to Scot- tish-American soldiers who served in the Northern army; also a panel to complete the Burns monument at Ayr, Scotland; the subject of his work was; The Part- ing of Burns and Highland Mary. Spent about six years in Paris; modeled the statues of Chancellor John Watts, in Trinity Churchyard, N. Y. City; Chan- cellor James Kent, in the Congressional Library, Washington; General Horatio Gates, Lycurgus, on Appellate Court House, New York; the statue of Presi- dent Arthur in Madison Square; two groups for the Liberal Arts Building, St. Louis Exposition; also statues of General Sherman and Admiral Farragut; also for the exposition for the Iowa State Build- ing; is a member of the National Sculp- ture Society, the Architectural League, the Municipal Art Society. and the Na- tional Arts Club. Address, Mount Ver- non, N. Y.

BISSELL, Herbert P .:

Lawyer; born New London, Conn., 1856; graduate of Harvard College; he was one of the original directors of the Pan- American exposition; he is vice-president of the Niagara Gorge R. R. Co. and director and counsel of many other cor- porations; he has been a resident of Buffalo since 1880; he studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1883; he has been active in politics since 1885, when he was the Democratic candidate for State senator; in 1892 he was the Dem- ocratic candidate for district attorney, and for mayor in 1901; he is now senior member of the firm of Bissell & Met- calf. Residence, 549 Linwood Ave .; office, 714 Elliott Sq, Buffalo, N Y.

BISSELL, Wilson Shannon:

Ex-postmaster general U. S .; born New London, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1847; removed to Buffalo in childhood; was graduated from Yale, 1869 (L.L. D., 1893); formed law partnership with Lyman K. Bass, 1872, the afterward witlı Grover Cleveland; present firm Bissell, Carey & Cooke; Presidential Y. City.

elector 1888; member commission to pro- pose amendment to the judiciary articles constitution of New York, 1890; postmas- ter-general of U. S., 1893-95; Democrat; Chancellor University of Buffalo, 1902. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

BISSINGER, Phillip:

President and trustee of the German Savings Bank; director of the German- American Bank, Holmes Electric Pro- tective Co., and Manhattan Life Insur- ance Co .; member N. Y. Club, Down Town Association, Liederkranz, Metro- politan Museum of Art, American Mus- eum of Natural History and American Geographical Society. Residence, 19 East 34th St .; office, 14 John St., N. Y.

BIXBY, James Thompson:

Clergyman; born Barre, Mass .. July 30, 1843; father was Clark Smith Bixby and mother was Elizabeth (Clark); prepared for college in the Cambridge High School, Cambridge, Mass .; was graduated from Harvard University as B. A. in 1864, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1870; married, Sept. 1, 1870, Emma Amy J. Gibson, of Boston, who died in Forest Glen. Maryland, March 20, 1902, leaving a daughter, Irma Bixby; was settled as in pastor of the Unitarian Church Watertown, Mass., from 1870 to 1874; from 1875 to 1879 was pastor of the Unitarian Church in Belfast, Me .; from 1879 to 1883 was professor of religious philosophy in the Meadville Theologi- cal school, Meadville. Pa .; from 1883 to 1885, studied at the Universities of Jena and Leipzig, Germany, and received the degree of doctor of philospohy from Leipzig University; from 1887 to 1901

has been pastor of the Unitarian Church in Yonkers; is member of the Authors Club and the National Arts of New York. and a member of the board of managers of the Society of American Authors. Author of Religion and Science as Allies, (Boston, 1825); The Ethics of Evolution, (Boston, 1900), and The New World and the New Thought (T. Whittaker, New York, 1902). Address, 150 Woodworth Ave,. Yonkers, N. Y

BIXBY, Robert F .:

Lawyer: born Augusta, Georgia, in 1850; was graduated from Trinity College, and Columbia Law School; his father left him a large property, and he owns the Casino Theatre, and the ground on which stands

Union League Club; member of many clubs. Address, 452 Fifth Ave., N.

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BIXBY, Willard G .:

Treasurer of S. M. Bixby & Co .;

born July 13, 1868, Salem, Mass .; educated in public schools of Salem and at Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, Boston; married; member Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Society. Residence, 2411 Creston Ave., N. Y. City; office, 194 Hester St., N. Y. City. BJERREGAARD, Carl Henry Andrew:

Librarian, author and lecturer; born Fredericia, Denmark, May 24, 1845; son of Janus Bagge, Früs Bjerregaard, Ph. D., etc., president of Fredericia College; stud- led Fredericia College; was graduate from Copenhagen University, 1963; volunteer scout in German-Danish War, 1863-64; graduated as officer, Royal Military Acad- emy. 1866; married, 1868; was for a time connected with Danish Legation to court of Russia; professor in Fredericia College and journalist; came. for politieni rea- sons, to America, 1873; teacher and lec- turer till Oct., 1879; since then in the Astor Library; author of Lectures on Mysticism; Lectures on Mysticism and Nature-Worship; A Suff Interpretation of Omar Khayam and Fitzgerald; numer- ous magazine articles and signed arti- cles in encyclopedias; engaged on The Standard Dictionary of the English Lan- guage; at this writing engaged in com- piling a work on Mystecism and Occult- ism, in 12 vols., soon to be issued; member of the Society of American Authors, and associate editor of Mind (New York). from 1st of January. 1905. Address, the Astor Library, N. Y. City.

BLACK, Alexander:

Author, artist; born N. Y. City, 1859; at fifteen became a reporter on the Brook- lyn Times; afterward literary and art critic and editorial writer on that paper; at nineteen, toured Europe for three months, mostly afoot. at a total outlay, including fares in the steerage, of $185; at twenty-two. appointed official steno- grapher in the Brooklyn courts, studied art at National Academy and Art Stu- dents' League; his interest in photography resulted in contributions to the Century, Scribner's and other magazines, in a book, Photography Indoors and Out. and in his invention of the Picture Plays. The picture plays, a combination of mon- ologue and stereopticon-"a play on a white sheet"-the pictures being from photographs of living groups by Mr. Black, include Miss Jerry-the first suc- cess; A Capital Courtship: Miss America; and The Girl and the Guardsman, and

have been presented by the author in neary every State in the Union; the "plays" afterward appeared as novelettes in book form; Mr. Black's other books are: The Story of Ohio (1SSS) ; Modern Daughters (1599), and his first long novel, Richard Gordon (1902); married in 1SS1. Elizabeth Helmle. Residence, 25 Vernon Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. City.

BLACK, E. Martin;

Publisher; born Aug. 21, 1854, N. Y. City; educated at Franklin College; mar- ried; editor and publisher of Wall Street Daily News; member N. Y. Press and Democratie Clubs, and Freundschaft So- ciety. Residence, 25 West 90th St., N. Y. City; office, 60 Broadway, N. Y. City.

BLACK, Frank S .;

Jurist and ex-governor of New York; born Livingston, Me., March 8, 1853; re- ceived early education at the Limerick and Lebanon Academies during the win- ters, earning his tuition by hard work in the summer; in 1875 he had saved enough to enter Dartmouth College, from which institution he was graduated, and then devoted himself to study of law, his ex- penses were earned as reporter, first on the Johnstown Herald, in N. Y., and later In the office of the Troy Whig; he was admitted to the Bar in 1879, and his pro- fessional and political successes may be said to have dated from that period; his prosecution of the election frauds in Troy and his efforts through legislation to secure the safety of voters and the purity of the ballot are all familiar events to the student of political history; was member of Congress. 1895-97; held office of governor of New York. 1897-99; married Miss Lois Hamilton, daughter of Dr. Hamilton, of Provincetown, Mass. Ad- dress, Troy, N. Y.

BLACK, H. S .:

President of the George A. Fuller Co .; succeeded to the presidency of this con- cern upon the death of the founder of the company, the late George A. Fuller; he has had an extensive experience in many occupations and many quarters of the American Continent since his birth, Aug. 25, 1863, in Coburg, Canada; he is an active member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Lawyers and Larchmont Yacht Clubs, of New York, and the Chicago Club, of Chicago; in 1895 mar- ried Miss Allon Mae Fuller, daughter of the late George A. Fuller, of New York; he is the son of the late paymaster of the Sixty-sixth Regiment, British Army, Capt. Thomas Black, who settled in Can-

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ada in 1834; his ancestors lived in Bel- | of American Writing Machine Co., N. Y .; fast. Ireland; entered the George A. of Biological School, Cold Spring. N. Y .; vice-president Union Typewriter Co., and Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Address, 725 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Fuller Co. as vice-president in 1896; he has been the active and financial head of the company since, as Mr. Fuller's ill- health necessitated his entire withdrawal from active business; was the projector BLACKMAR, Abel Edward: of the big twenty-million-dollar building Lawyer; born Aug. 21. 1852, Newark, N. J .; was graduated from Hamilton Col- lege, 1874, Columbia Law School, 1878; married; member of the firm of Baldwin & Blackmar; counsel to N. Y. Produce Exchange; member Union League Club of Brooklyn, and Association of N. Y. Bar. Residence, 1072 Bergen St., Brook- lyn, N. Y .; office, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City. trust; after receiving an academic educa- tion in the schools of his native town. he started his business career in the gen- eral store conducted by his brother; early joined a surveying party that ex- nlored the Northwest to the Pacific Coast; in 1882 he located in Chicago and entered the employ of a wholesale woolen house; for ten years he worked as a commercial traveler on Pacific Coast; af- BLACKWELL, Antoinette Louisa Brown: ter a long experience as a drummer, he Author, reformer and minister; born Henrietta, N. Y., May 20, 1825; taught school at sixteen and preparing at Mon- roe County Academy, entered Oberlin. from which she graduated, 1847; vaca- tions spent in teaching and studying Greek and Hebrew; after graduating, en- tered upon course of theological study at Oberlin until the year 1850; was re- fused application for license to preach, hut preached on her own responsibility; following four years given to study, preaching and lecturing on literary top- ics. abolition of slavery, and temperance; has been prominent in advocating wo- man's rights since her address at Wo- man's Rights Convention, Worcester, Mass .. 1860; 1853, ordained pastor of Con- gregational Church of South Butler and Savannah, Wayne County. N. Y .; 1855, resigned, owing to ill health and doc- trinal doubts; 1855, studied vice and its causes in N. Y. City, publishing results in series of sketches entitled. Shadows of Our Social System; 1856, married Sam- 11el C. Blackwell, brother of Elizabeth Blackwell; has become Unitarian, but stiil preaches occasional sermons: publica- tions: Studies in General Science (New entered the banking business, establish- ing two concerns in the State of Wash- ington; subsequently he branched out and became a partner in the firm of Black & Bell, merchants of Menominee, Mich .; the firm established a profitable branch store of Tekoe, Washington; the possi- bilities of tall buildings appealed to him. and to-day he is the head of the great- est tall building company in the world: during President Black's career as a builder he financiered the Broad Ex- change whereby $7,400.000 in securities were placed on the market: has succeeded in capitalizing the George A. Fuller Com- pany, otherwise known as the "Sky- scraper Trust," to $20.000.000: he is also interested in conjunction with President James Stillman, of the First National Bank, former Mayor Hugh J. Grant, and Henry Morganthan, in the Realty Bond and Trust Co., the National City Bank. the Century Realty Co .. and the North American Trust Co .; he is a director and a very important factor in all these im- portant enterprises. Residence, 667 Madi- son Ave .; office, 135 Broadway, N. Y. City.

BLACKFORD. Eugene Gilbert:

Pisciculturist: born Morristown, N. J .. Ang. 8. 1839; educated in public schools; entered business at age of fourteen: when twenty-five became fish-dealer in Fulton Market; Improved on methods of freez- ing. storing and shipping fish; 1878. one of four Commissioners of Fish and Fish- eries for N. Y. State: brought about es- tablishment of hatching station for fish at Cold Spring Harbor: investigated de- crease of oysters in New York waters and published numerous papers on fish- cries; president Bedford Bank, Brooklyn;

York, 1869); The Market Woman; The Island Neighbors (1871); The Sexes Throughont Nature (1875) : The Physical Basis of Immortality (1876): The Phil- osophy of Individuality, or the One and the Many (1883); Sea Drift (poem, 1903) : author of the theory that each individual is jointly conditioned. both mind and mat- ter. hence is constitutionally immortal. Address. Elizabeth, N. J.

BLACKWELL, George Engs :

Lawyer; born Feb. 19, 1860. Astoria, N. Y .; was graduated Columbia, A. B., 1SS0, and Law School, LL. B., 1882, mar-

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ried; member of the firm of Blackwell surance Co. and The Securities Co. Off- Bros .; member of Reform and Delta ice, 33 Wall St., N. Y. City.

Kappa Epsilon Clubs; Down Town As- BLAKE, Joseph Augustus, M. D .:

sociation, Association of N. Y. Bar, and Columbia College Alumni Association. Residence, Long Island City, N. Y .; office, 63 Wall St., N. Y. City.

BLACKWELL, Francis Ogden:

Electrical engineer: born June 23. 1868. N. Y. City; was graduated from Princeton '87; married; engineer: member University and Princeton Clubs of N. Y. City, Amer- ican Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining Engineers, and Am- erican Institute of Electrical Engineers Residence, Englewood, N. J .; office, 43 Wall St., N. Y. City.

BLAIKIE, William:

Lawyer and author: born York, N. Y., May 24, 1843; was graduated from Har- vard 1866 and Harvard Law School 1868; next year went to England with Harvard crew as secretary and treasurer. Spent one year in attorney-general's office at Washington and two years assistant in United States Attorney's office in New York. Practiced law in N. Y. City 1873, For eight years Commissioner of U. S. Court of Claims. Has always taken a deep interest in athletics, having written and lectured on that subject. Published: How to Get Strong and How to Stay So (New York, 1879), Sound Bodies for Our Boys and Girls (1SS4). Address, 35 Nas- sau St., N. Y. City.

BLAIR, Charles Hildreth:

Lawyer; born Zanesville, Ohio; at- tended Kenyon College. 1868-70; was graduated from Cornell University, A. B .. 1872; A. M., 1876. Lawyer; Republican Candidate for Member of Congress, from a N. Y. City District, against Roswell P. Ifc School 6. in 1894, and organized the

Flower, 1890; Lieutenant Colonel, New York Militia, 1560; secretary of Geneva, Ithaca and Athens R. R., 1872-'75; presi- dent of Ithaca Calendar Clock Co., 1892- 99; member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity: Knight Templar: married Emma P. Cor- nell, daughter of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University. Residence, "Llen- roc." Ithaca, N. Y. and Union League Club, N. Y. City.

BLAIR, DeWitt C .:

Banker; director Lackawanna Steel Co., St. Louis and Hannibal Ry. Co. and Sil- ver Peak Mining Co. Residence. 6 E. 61st St .; office, 33 Wall St., N. Y. City. BLAIR, James A .:

Banker; director Cleveland. Lorain and Wheeling Ry. Co .. St. Louis and San Francisco R. R. Co., New York Life In- 4

Physician; born San Francisco, Cal .. Aug. 31, 1864; studied Yale University; received degrees of B. A. from Yale, 1885; Ph. B., 1886; was graduated from College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia I'niversity, 1959. Formerly attending sur- geon to St. Luke's and Harlem Hospitals. Member of American Surgical Associa- tion, American Society of Clinical Sur- gery, American Medical Association, New York Surgical Society, Association of American Anatomists, New York Acad- omy of Medicine, County Medical Society, New York Academy of Sciences, County Medical Association, Medical Association of the Greater City of N. Y., Yale, Riding and University Clubs; at present surgeon to the Roosevelt Hospital and professor of surgery at Columbia University. Ad- dress, 601 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.

BLAKE, Katherine D. Umsted:

Educator, writer; is the daughter of Frank Geoffrey Quay Umsted and Lillie Devereux. afterwards Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake: born N. Y. City, July 10, 1858; she is the direct descendant of the Rev. Samuel Johnson, the first President of King's College, and of the Judge William Samuel Johnson, the first President after the nane was changed from King's to Columbia College, and of Jonathan Ed- wards, the famous divine and President of Princeton College. She was educated In Miss Walker's School and St. Mary's school and was graduated from the Nor- mal College in 1876, and studied at the School of Pedagogy of New York Unt- versity in 1887-88 the principal of pub-

first Evening High School for Women in N. Y. City in 1897; she was the Chair- man of the Committee of Teachers and principals that framed and presented to Mayor Grace the monster petition asking for the appointment of women on the Board of Education, which resulted in the appointemnt of Miss Dodge and Mrs. Agnew as Commissioners of Edu- cation; she called together the committee of women teachers and principals who made the first effort to secure adequate salaries for the teaching force of the city; her Plain Statement of the Facts about Teachers' Salaries, comparing them with the salaries of other wage-earners, was widely copied; her verses have appeared from time to time in various periodicals; she is the president of the Association of

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Women Principals of N. Y. City, a mem- | the N. Y. City Mothers Club; she has ber of the Special N. Y. City Committee of the National Educational Association, a charter member for the Society of Pol- itical Study and a member of the Exe- cutive Committee of the Normal College Alumnæ. Address, 100 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City.

BLAKE, Lillie Devereux:

Born Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 12, 1835; her father, George Pollok Devereux, was des- cended from William Devereux, who came from France with William the Conqueror and whose grand-children were Earls of Essex, and from Sir Thomas Pollok of Balgræ, a Scotch baron; her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Johnson, was descended from Rev. Samuel Johnson, first presi- dent of King's, now Columbia College and from Hon. William Samuel Johnson, his son, one of the first two Senators from Connecticut and later President of Columbia College; both her parents were descended from the famous divine Jon- athan Edwards, D. D., President of Princeton College. After her father's early death she went with her mother to New Haven where she was educated at Miss Apthorp's school and later took a Yale College course with a private tutor; she was a noted belle until her marriage in 1855 to Frank G. Q. Umsted, a lawyer of Philadelphia, who died in 1859; she made her home in New York and in 1866 married Grenfill Blake who died in 1896; in 1870 she became interested in the ad- vancement and enfranchisement of wo- men and has since devoted the best ener- gies of her life to securing legislation for the benefit of her sex; she was largely instrumental in obtaining the admission of women to the civil service and to the Bar, their employment as census enu- merators, the establishment of police matrons, and the granting of pensions to war nurses; in N. Y. State she secured statutes giving school suffrage to women; providing that there shall be seats for sales-women, making mother and father joint guardians of their children, and other refornis of importance; she was the first person to ask the admission of wo- men to Columbia College; she was eleven years President of the New York Woman Suffrage Association, and fourteen years President of the city branch, founder and honorary President of the Society for Political Study; President of the Na- tional Legislative League since its foun- dation in 1900 and of the New York branch; Vice-President of Optima and of

travelled all over the U. S. speaking in behalf of the advancement of women and addressed Committees of both branches of Congress and of the Legislatures of New York, Connecticut and North Car- olina; she has written many stories, articles and sketches for leadng periodi- cals and published several books, South- wold (1859); Rockford (1863); Fettered for Life, (1873); Woman's Place To-day, (1883); and A Daring Experiment, (1894). Address, 100 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City. BLAKE, William Phipps:

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 18

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