Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 189

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Col. commanding 1st Batt. Grenadier

Guards, 1891-95. Owns about 19,200

acres.

Heir:

Marquis Douro, q.v.

Recreations: hunting, shooting. Ad- dress: Apsley House, Piccadilly, W .; Stratfieldsaye House, Mortimer, Berk- shire.

WELLS. H. G., B. Sc. Lond .:

Novelist; born Bromley, Kent, 21 Sept. 1866; son of Joseph Wells, profes- sional cricketer; married Amy Catherine Robbins. Educated: private school, Bromley, Kent; Midhurst Grammar School, and Royal College of Science (First Class Honours, Zoology, B.Sc.). Publications: Select Conversations with an Uncle, 1895; The Time Machine, 1895; The Stolen Bacillus and other stories, 1895; The Wonderful Visit, 1895; The Island of Doctor Moreau, 1896; The Wheels of Chance, 1896; The Plattner Story and others, 1897; Certain Personal Matters (essays), 1897; The Invisible Man, 1897; The War of the Worlds, 1898; When the Sleeper Wakes, 1899; Tales of Space and Time, 1899; Love and Mr. Lewisham, 1900; The First Men in the Moon, 1901; Anticipations, 1901; The Discovery of the Future (lecture to the Royal Institution reprinted as pam- phlet), 1902; The Sea Lady, 1902; Man- kind in the Making, 1903; Twelve Stories and a Dream, 1903; The Food of the

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Gods, 1904; A Modern Utopia, 1905. Ad- daughter of Maj .- Gen. G. Hewish Adams, dress: Spade House, Sandgate, Kent. Clubs: National Liberal, Savile.

WHITE, Sir William Henry, K. C. B .:

Cr. 1895 ; F.R.S. (Lond. and Edin.) LL.D. D.Sc .; born Devonport, 2 Feb. 1845; youngest child of Richard White, Dev- onport, and Jane, daughter of W. Mat- thews, Lostwithiel, Cornwall; married 1st, Alice (died 1886), daughter of late F. Martin, chief constructor R.N .; 2nd, Annie, daughter of late F. C. Marshall, J.P., Tynemouth, 1890. Educated: Royal School of Naval Architecture; holds the Diploma of Fellow (1st class). In the Constructive Depariment of the Admir- alty, 1867-83, rising to the rank of Chief Constructor; Professor of Naval Archi- · tecture at the Royal School of Naval Architecture and the Royal Naval Col- lege, 1870-81; organized and directed the war-ship building department of Arm- strong and Co., Newcastle, 1883-85; Di- rector of Naval Construction and Assis- tant Controller of the Royal Navy, Oct. 1885 to Feb. 1902; during that period responsible designer of all H.M. ships; resigned office in consequence of il health, and awarded a special grant of money by vote of Parliament in recogni- tion of exceptional services to the Navy; President of the Institution of Civil En- gineers; Past Pres. of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Vice-Pres. of Institution of Naval Architects; Past Pres. Institutions of Marine Engineers and Junior Engineers;

Past Master Shipwrights Company of London; For- eign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Sweden; Hon. Member Asso- ciation Technique Maritime, Soc. of En- gineers, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, North-East Coast Institution and Shipbuilders and Engineers; Chairman Board of Studies in Mechanical Engineering, London Uni- versity. Publications: A Manual of Na- val Architecture; A Treatise on Ship- building; numerous professional papers published in the Transactions of the Institutions of Naval Architects, Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Iron and

Steel Institute. Address: Cedarcroft, Putney Heath, S.W. Club: Athenæum.

WINCHESTER, Bishop of, since 1903,

Rt. Rev. Herbert

Edward Ryle,

D. D. (1895) :

Warburton Lecturer 1899-1903; born London, 25 May 1856; 2nd son of the Bishop of Liverpool; married Nea,

late Royal Irish Rifles, 1883. Educated: Eton, the foundation; Newcastle Scholar, 1875; Classical Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 1875 (B.A. 1879); Fellow, 1881. 1st class in Theol. Trip. 1881; Carus Prize (undergrad.), 1875, (B.A.) 1879; Jeremie Prize, 1877; Win-

chester Reading Prize, 1878; Crosse Scholarship, 1880; Hebrew, Evans, and Scholefield Prizes, 1881. Divinity Lec- turer at Emmanuel Coll. Camb. 1881-84; at King's Coll., 1882-86; Deacon, 1882; Priest, 1883; Principal of St. David's Coll. Lampster, 1886-88; Professional Fellow of King's Coll. Camb. 1888; exam- ining chaplain to late Bishop of St. Asaph, 1887-89, and to Bishop of Ripon, 1889; Hon Canon of Ripon, 1895; Chap- lain to the Queen, 1898-1901; Hulsean Professor of Divinity, Camb. Univ., 1887- 1901, and President of Queen's Coll. Camb. 1896-1901; Bishop of Exeter,

1901-03. Publications: joint-editor (with Dr. M. R. James) The Psalms of Solo- mon, 1891; author, The Canon of the Old Testament, 1892; The Early Narratives of Genesis, 1892; Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 1893; Philo and Holy Scripture, 1895; among other literary work article Apocrypha in Smith's Bible Dictionary, ed. 2, and contributions to Camb. Companion to the Bible, 1893. Address: Farnham Castle, Surrey.

WOLSELEY, Lieut .- Gen. Sir George

Benjamin, K. C. B .:

Cr. 1891; half-pay; born 11 July 1839; 4th son of late Major Garnet J. Wolse- ley, King's Own Borderers, and brother of 1st Viscount Wolseley; married 1867, Louise Esther (died 1902), daughter of late William Andrews of Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Educated: private tuition. Ensign Cheshire Regt. 1857; Lieut. York and Lancaster Regt. 1858; by purchase Capt. North Staffordshire Regt. 1868; Maj. York and Lancaster Regt. 1879; Lieut .- Col. 1879; Col. and A.D.C. to Queen Victoria for Egyptian War, 1882; Maj .- Gen. by selection, 1892; served with 84th Foot in Indian Mutiny (medal); Assist- ant Adj .- Gen. in Afghan campaign (medal and brevet. Lieut .- Col.); Assist- ant Adj. and Quartermaster-Gen. Egyp- tian campaign, including Tel-el-Kebir (medal and bronze star); A.D.C. to Queen Victoria; Assistant Adj. and Quartermaster-Gen. the Nile campaign, and subsequently as Col. on the staff commanding troops at Abu Gus (clasp and C.B.); Brig. Gen. in Burmese cam-

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paign, and commanded expedition which | 1880; The Mission of the Church, 1891; annexed Wunthoo (thanked by the Gov- ernment of India, medal, and K.C.B.); commanded the Forces, Punjah, India, with rank of Lieut .- Gen. 1897-98; Mad- ras Forces, 1898-1903. Publications:

magazine articles. Recreations: tennis,

shooting, cycling. Address: Thatched Cottage, Wateringbury, Kent. Club: United Service.

WOODS PASHA, H. E., Admiral Sir

Henry Felix, K. C. V. O .:

Cr. 1902; Naval A.D.C. to the Sultan; Member of the High Military Commis- sion of Inspection; born 1843. Entered Royal Navy, 1858; served West Coast of Africa; present at operations in the Scarcies River, 1859; navigating lieu- tenant of the "Cormorant," 1866; British delegate to the International Commis- sion for the improvement of navigation in the Black Sea and Bosphorus, 1867; was permitted to enter the naval service of Turkey, 1870, and assisted the late Hobart Pasha in the reorganization of the Turkish fleet; organized the tor- pedo and coast-defense services, and commanded them for several years; sur- veyed and buoyed the Dardanelles and its approaches; Knight Commander of the Order of Saxe-Coburg; Pashay, 1883; Grand Conions of Osmanieh and Med- jidie, and Gold Medal of the Imbaz. Address: 8 Rue Minaret, Constantinople. WORCESTER, Bishop of (since 1902), Rt. Rev. Charles Gore, M. A .:

D.D. and Hon. D.C.L. Oxford; Hon. D.D. Edin .; born 1853; son of Hon. Charles Alexander Gore and daughter of 4th Earl of Bessborough, widow of Earl of Kerry. Educated: Harrow; Balliol Coll. Oxford (Scholar.) Fellow Trin. Coll. Oxford, 1875-95; Vice-Principal of Cuddesdon Coll. 1880-83; Librarian of Pusey Library, Oxford, 1884-93; Vicar of Radley, 1893-94; Canon of Westches- ter, 1894-1902; Hon.

Chaplain to the Queen, 1898-1900; Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, 1900-01; Chaplain in Or- dinary to the King, 1901; editor of Lux Mundi. Publications: The Holy Spirit, and Inspiration in Lux Mundi, 1890; The Church and the Ministry, 1889; Roman Catholic Claims, 1889; Leo the Great,

Bampton Lectures, 1891; Dissertations, 1895; The Creed of the Christian, 1895; The Sermon on the Mount, 1896; Ro- mance Thoughts on Religion (edited), 1894; The Epistle to the Ephesians, 1898; Essays on Church Reform, 1878 (edited) ; Prayer and the Lord's Prayer, 1898; Epistle to the Romans, 1899; Good Cit- izenship, 1899; The Body of Christ, 1901. Address: Bishop's House, Worcester.

YARMOUTH, Earl of Francis Seymour George Alexander, J. P., D. L .:

Born 20 Oct. 1871; eldest son of 6th Marquess of Hertford; Lieut. 3d Batt. Black Watch, 1894-96; married, 1903,. Alice Thaw, of Pittsburg.

ZANGWILL, Israel:

Man of letters; born London, 1864; married 1903, Edith, daughter of Prof. W. E. Ayrton, q. v. Educated: elementary schools; practically self-educated. B.A. (Honours) London. Teacher, then jour- nalist; edited Ariel; has written novels, essays poems, and plays; has lectured in Great Britain and Ireland. Jerusalem, Holland, and the United States, and addressed public meetings on behalf of Zionism and the application to its ob- jects of the Hirsch millions. Publi- cations: The Premier and the Painter, 1888; The Bachelor's Club, 1891; The Big Bow Mystery, 1892; The Old Maids' Club, 1892; Children of the Ghetto, 1892; Merely Mary Ann, 1893; Ghetto Trag- edies, 1893; The King of Schnorrers, 1894; The Master, 1895; Without Preju- dice, 1896; Dreamers of the Ghetto, 1898; They that Walk in Darkness, 1899; The Mantle of Elijah, 1900; The Grey Wig, 1903; Blind Children £

(verse), 1903. Plays: Six Persons (Haymarket), 1892; Children of the Ghetto (Adelphi, and Herald Square Theatre, New York), 1899; The Moment of Death (Wallack's Theatre, New York), 1900; The Revolted Daughter (Comedy), 1901; Merely Mary Ann, 1903; The Serio-Comic Governess, 1904. Address: 3 Hare Court Temple, E.C.

EMINENT AMERICANS.

One hundred and ten sketches of eminent Americans, not residents of New York, who are at the present time conspicuously before the public either because of their high official positions, the great business enterprises they are directing, or by recent tri- umphs in science, literature or art.

ADAMS, Charles Francis:

Historical writer and publicist; born Boston, Mass., May 27, 1835; son of diplomat of same name; married, 1865, Mary Ogden, of Newport, R. I. Educat- ed: Was graduated from Harvard, 1856; LL.D., 1895; Barr., 1858. Served in Civil War, becoming colonel of cavalry, and Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. Army; Board of R. R. Commissioners of Mass. 1869-79; Commissioner to Vienna Expo- sition, 1872; R. R. arbitrator, 1879-83 ; President, Union Pacific R. R. 1884-90; President, Mass. Hist. Society, 1895; Chairman, Mass. Metropolitan Park Commission, 1892-95. Publications: Chap- ters of Erie and other Essays, 1871; Railroad Accidents, 1879; Railroads, their Origin and Problems, 1880; A College Fe- tich, 1884; Richard Henry Dana, a Biog- raphy, 1890; Three Episodes of Mass. History, 1893; Massachusetts, its Histor- ians and its History, 1893; Life of Charles Francis Adams, 1900; Lee at Appomattox, and other papers, 1902; etc. Recrea- tions: forestry, horseback. Address: 23 Court St., Boston, Mass; South Lincoln, Mass., U. S. A. Clubs: Somerset, Bos- ton, Knickerbocker, New York; Metropol- itan, Washington.

AGASSIZ, Alexander:

Born Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 17 Dec. 1835; son of Louis Agassiz; went to Unit- ed States, 1846. Educated: Harvard (Fel- low, 1878); Lawrence Scientific School. Assistant United States Coast Survey, 1859; Superintendent Calumet and Hecla Copper Mines, Lake Superior, 1866-69; surveyed Lake Titicaca, Peru, 1875; Cur- ator and Director of the Museum of Comp. Zoology at Harvard, 1875; Assist.

U. S. Fisk Com. 1891; assisted Sir Wy- ville Thomson in examination and classi- fication of the collections of the "Challen- ger"; took part in three dredging expe- ditions of steamer "Blake" of United States Coast Survey, 1877-80; Explora- tions of the Coral Reef of the Hawaiian Islands, 1899 ; the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, 1898; the Fiji Islands, 1897 (in the steamers "Croydon" and "Yaralla"); Deep Sea Explorations of the Panamic Region, 1891 (Albatross); Expedition in "Albatross" to the Tropical Pacific, 1900; Explorations of the Florida Reef, 1876, 1882, 1896; of the Bahamas, 1893; of the Bermudas, 1894; of Cuba, Jamaica, and other West Indian Islands, 1876 and 1896; Dir. of University Museum, Harvard; For. Mem. R. S., London and Edinburgh; Foreign Associate Institut de France, Paris; Pres. National Academy of Sci- ences, Washington; Officer Legion d'Hon- neur; Chev. Ordre pour les Mérite; For. and Cor. Mem. of Academy, Berlin, Vien- na, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Munich,

Rome. Publications: (with Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, his father's wife) Seaside Studies in Natural History, 1865; Marine Animals in Massachusetts Bay, 1871; Re- vision of the Echini, 1872-74; Echini of the "Challenger," 1883; Steamer "Blake," Reports, 1888. Also numerous reports on above-named explorations, and a number of memoirs on Coral Reefs, Worms, Fishes, etc. Address: Cambridge, Mass. AGNUS, Felix:

Editor and publisher Baltimore Amer- ican; born Lyons, France, July 4, 1839; was educated Coll. Jolie Clair, nr. Paris; 1852-56, traveled around the world. Came to U. S., 1860; enlisted, 1861, in Duryea's 5th N. Y. Zouaves; saved the life of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick at Big Bethel; pro-

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moted 2d It .; aided in raising 165th N. Y. vols., becoming capt .; took part in siege of Port Hudson, La., 1862; promoted maj .; served in Tex., becoming It .- col. Later served in 19th corps, under Sheridan, and in Dept. of the South; was brevetted brig .- gen. vols., March 13, 1865. Soon after became business mgr., and later editor and publisher, Baltimore Ameri- can. Prominent in Republican politics. Address: Baltimore, Md.

ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey :

Author; born Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 11, 1836 ; passed part of boyhood in La .; returned to Portsmouth, 1850, and pre- pared for Harvard (A. M., 1883, L. H. D., 1901, Yale; A. M., Harvard, 1896). Em- ployed in an uncle's banking house New York, 1852-55; he occupied editorial posi- tions on New York Evening Mirror, N. P. Willis's Home Journal, and The Illus- trated News until 1865; conducted Every Saturday, Boston, 1865-74; editor The Atlantic Monthly 1881-90 .. Author: The Story of a Bad Boy; Cloth of Gold; Flower and Thorn; Mercedes, and Later Lyrics; Prudence Palfry; The Queen of Sheba; The Stillwater Tragedy; From Ponkapog to Psth; Wyndham Towers (poem); The Sisters' Tragedy; An Old Town by the Sea; Two Bites at a Cherry and Other Tales ; Unguarded Gates ; Judith and Hol- ofernes ; The Ballad of Baby Bell and Other Poems; Majorie Daw and Other People; A Sea Turn and Other Matters, 1902. Address: Care Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.

ALLEN, James Lane:

Author; born in Ky., 1849; grad. Tran- sylvania Univ .; taught in Ky. Univ .; later prof. Latin and higher English, Bethany, W. Va., Coll., since 1886 given entire attention to literature. Author of: John Gray; The Reign of Law; Flute and Violin; The Blue Grass Region and Other Sketches of Kentucky; The Kentucky Cardinal; Aftermath; A Summer in Ar- cady; The Choir Invisible. Address: Care Macmillan Co., N. Y. City.

ALLISON, William Boyd:

Senator; born at Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829; educated at the Western Reserve College, Ohio; studied law and practiced in Ohio until he removed to Iowa in 1857; served on the staff of governor of Iowa and aided in organizing volunteers in the beginning of the war for the suppression of the rebellion ; was elected a Represen- tative in the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses, and was elected to the U. S. Senate, to suc-

ceed James Harlan, Republican; took his seat March 4, 1873, and was reelected in 1878, 1884, 1890, 1896, and 1902. His term of service will expire March 3, 1909. Ad- dress, Washington, D. C.

BAER, George F .:

President Philadelphia & Reading R. R .; born Somerset County, Pa., Sept. 26, 1842; was educated at Somerset Academy and Franklin and Marshall College. At the age of thirteen with the Somerset Demo- crat, for two years; joined the Union Army at the Battle of Bull Run, partici- pated in all the engagements up to and including Chancellorsville, when he was the Adjutant-General of the Second Bri- gade. Resumed legal studies, and ad- mitted to the Bar in 1864. In 1868 an active practitioner at the Berks County Bar; in 1870 Counsel for the Philadelphia & Reading R. R .; confidential legal ad- viser of Mr. Morgan in Pennsylvania; prominent in the reorganization of the Philadelphia & Reading R. R., 1893. Elect- ed President of the Reading Companies, and of the Central R. R. of New Jersey, in 1901. Address, 1718 Spruce St., Phila- delphia, Pa.

BAILEY, Joseph Weldon:

Democratic U. S. Senator of Gaines- ville; born Copiah County, Miss., Oct. 6, 1863; was admitted to the Bar in 1883; served as a district elector on the Cleve- land and Hendricks ticket in 1884; re- moved to Texas in 1885 and located at his present home; served as elector for the State at large on the Democratic ticket in 1888; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses; on the organiza- tion of the Fifty-fifth Congress, March 15 1897. he was the Democratic nominee for Speaker of the House of Representatives; was chosen U. S. Senator January 23, 1901, to succeed Senator Horace Chilton, and took his seat March 4. His term of office will expire March 3, 1907. Address. Gainesville, Ohio.

BEAUX, Cecelia :

Artist; daughter of John Adolphe and Cecelia Kent Beaux; born Philadelphia, Pa .; at the Julien and the Lazar Schools, Paris, she was a pupil of William Sartain; at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts she was awarded the Mary Smith prize four times; also the Art Club gold medal, the Dodge prize at the National Academy of Design, bronze and gold medals at the Carnegie Institute, a gold

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medal of honor, and the Temple gold | W. Longyear; on December 23, 1890, was medal of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine appointed Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court, to succeed Justice Samuel F. Miller; was unanimously confirmed December 29, and took the oath of office January 5, 1891; received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Michigan in 1887 and from Yale University in 1891. Address, Washington, D. C. Arts; in 1900 she received a gold medal at the Paris Exposition; since 1902 she has been a member of the National Academy of Design, the American Artists Society, also member of Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. Address, 4305 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.

EREWER, David Josiah:

Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; born Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 1837 ; is the son of Rev. Josiah Brewer and Emilia A. Field, sister of David Dud- ley, Cyrus W., and Justice Stephen J. Field; his father was an early missionary to Turkey; was graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1856 and from the Albany Law School in 1858; established himself in his profession at Leavenworth, Kans., in 1859, where he resided until he removed to Washington. to enter upon his present duties; in 1861 was appointed U. S. com- missioner ; during 1863 and 1864 was judge of the probate and criminal courts of Leavenworth County; from January, 1865, to January, 1869, was judge of the district court; in 1869 and 1870 was county attor- ney of Leavenworth; in 1870 was elected a justice of the Supreme Court of his State, and reelected in 1876 and 1882; in 1884 was appointed judge of the circuit court of the U. S., for the Eighth district; was appointed to his present position to succeed Justice Stanley Matthews, de- ceased, in December, 1889, and was com- missioned December 18, 1889. Address, Washington, D. C.

BROWN, Henry Billings:

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S .; born South Lee, Mass., March 2, 1836; was graduated from Yale College in 1856; studied law for some time in a private office; attended lectures both at Yale and Harvard law schools, and was admitted to the Bar of Wayne County, Mich., in July, 1860; in the spring of 1861, upon the election of Mr. Lincoln, was ap- pointed deputy marshal of the U. S., and subsequently assistant U. S. attorney for the eastern district of Michigan, a posi- tion he held until 1868, when he was ap- pointed judge of the State circuit court of Wayne County, to fill a vacancy; held this office but a few months, and then re- turned to active practice in partnership with John S. Newberry and Ashley Hand, of Detroit, which continued until 1875, when he was appointed by President Grant district judge for the eastern dis- trict of Michigan, to succeed Hon. John'

BRYAN, William Jennings:

Lawyer, editor and proprietor of The Commoner; born Salem, Illinois, March 19, 1860; Presbyterian; married Mary E. Baird, of Perry, Ill., 1884. Educated at Illinois College; Union College of Law, Chicago. Practiced at Jacksonville, Ill., 1883-87; afterwards at Lincoln, Neb .; ed- itor Omaha World-Herald, 1894-96; Dele- gate to National Democratic Convention, 1896; nominated for President, 1896 and 1900; advocated free coinage of silver, and opposed Trusts and Imperialism. Publi- cations: The First Battle; many articles in magazines and newspaper. Address, Lincoln, Nebraska.

CABLE, George Washington:

Author; born New Orleans, La., Oct. 12, 1844; son of George W. Cable, a Vir- ginian, and Rebecca Boardman, Indiana; married Louise S. Bartlett, 1869; was edu- cated at New Orleans Public School. A. M. (honorary) Yale University; Doctor in Letters (honorary) Yale University; Doc- tor in Letters (honorary) Washington

and Lee Univeristy (Virginia). At the age of fourteen was required, by the death of his father, to assist in the sup- port of the family; went into commercial employment; at nineteen (1863) he en- tered the Confederate Army in Gen. Wirt Adams' Brigade, 4th Mississippi Cavalry, where he served until the close of the Civil War, 1865; he returned to New Or- leans, reentered counting-room employ- ment, and with the exception of one sum- mer spent with a State surveying party, and one season's work on the reportorial staff of the New Orleans Picayune, re- mained in it continuously for fourteen years. serving as accountant and cashier of a firm of cotton factors, and acting at the same time as secretary of the Finance Committee of the New Orleans Cotton Ex- change; he was writing in the meantime, and in 1879 formally entered upon a liter- ary career; in 1884 removed to New Eng- land. Publications: Old Creole Days, (1879); The Grandissimes, (1880); Madame Delphine, (1881); The Creoles of Louisi-

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ana, (1883); Dr. Sevier, (1884); The Silent | was twice severely wounded, was present South, (1884); Bonaventure, (1888); The at the battle of Gettysburg and at most Negro Question, (1888); Strange True Stories of Louisiana, (1888); John March, (1894); Strong Hearts, (1899); The Cava- lier, (1901); Bylow Hill, (1902). Recrea- tions: care of a small piece of woods ad- joining dwelling; chief interest outside of profession, the supervision of the Home- Culture Clubs- a system of small fireside clubs founded by him in 1801, and de- signed to promote more cordial relations between divergent ranks of society. Ad- dress, Tarryawhile, Northampton, Mass. of the important actions of Sheridan's raid and the affairs which led up to Ap- promattox, and received two brevets dur- ing that war. Just before the end of the Civil War he was promoted to first lieu- tenant, and two years later to captain. After the Civil War his life was still in the field, being brevetted for gallantry for an engagement with Comanche Indi- ans in 1868, and serving in the Miles cam- paign against Cheyenne Indians in 1874- 75, in the campaign against White Moun- CANNON, Joseph G .: tain Indians in 1881, and in an engage- Speaker of the House of Representa- tives; born Guilford, N. C., May 7, 1836; is a lawyer; was State's attorney in Illi- nois, March, 1861, to December, 1868; was elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty- first, Fifty-third. Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congress. Address, Wash- ington, D. C. ment with White Mountain Indians in 1882 (where he was commended in de- partment orders and again brevetted), and finally in Crook's campaign in Mexi- co in 1883. In 1888 he was promoted to major, and in 1897 to lieutenant-colonel. He has served in all the grades of rank, even in the staff positions of regimental adjutant and quartermaster, and has risen from the lowest to the highest, always efficient in every position he has occupied, and winning the confidence and CASSATT, Alexander Johnston: praise of his superiors. At the outbreak of the Spanish War he was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers, and in July, 1898, a major-general of volunteers. His work at Santiago again won him glo- rious tributes from all sides, especially from the army. After the close of the Spanish War, General Chaffee was pro- moted to colonel in the regular army. Meanwhile he had been again brigadier general of volunteers, but was pro- moted to major-general of volunteers in 1900 and placed in command of the China expedition for the relief of the ministers in Peking, where he did excellent service For the next two years he was in the Philippines, accomplishing to the satis- faction of the Administration, the War Department and the Army all that was required of him, with honor and credit. He was appointed a brigadier-general in the regular service and later a major-gen- eral, and is now chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, with Headquarters at Wash- ington.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 189

Author: Publication date: 1904- Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc. Number of Pages: 1100

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Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc.
Number of Pages: 1100