Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 20

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ecutive Committee; continued at the head ferred to 14th Infantry March 15, 1869; of this committee ever since. He has re- peatealy been selected as a delegate to county and State Conventions of the Democratic party; in 1896 he was one of the candidates for Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket, being at the time the youngest man ever put forward for that office in this State; in 1898 was ap- pointed assistant district attorney in this county, and in that capacity was promi- nently connected with the Molineaux case, and successfully prosecuted a number of indictments for business frauds secured by the Merchants Protective League. He is a member of numerous charitable and benevolent societies and institutions, as well as the Democratic Club, Progress Club, Young Men's Hebrew Association, Tammany Society, Osceola Club, the Down Town and Merchants Association, Lebanon Hospital, Montefiore Home, and American League. On Jan. 1, 1903, he was appointed deputy attorney general of this State, with offices in N. Y. City; con- tinued in that position until the end of September, when he resigned the same be- cause of the demands made upon his time by his private practice, to which he now devotes his entire attention. Ad- dress, 35 Nassau St., N. Y. City. BLUNT, Albert C .:

Captain, U. S. Army; son of Colonel M. M. Blunt, 16th Infantry, and grandson of the late Professor A. E. Church, U. S. M. A .; born in N. Y., May 25, 1859; appointed from Texas; cadet at the U. S. Military Academy July 1, 1877; was graduated June 11, 1881; actual rank, ad- ditional second lieutenant, 3d U. S. Artil- lery, June 11, 1881; second lieutenant 5th Artillery, Oct. 29, 1881; first lieutenant, Aug. 10, 1887; service, assistant instruc- tor of tactics at Military Academy, July 25 to Aug. 28, 1881; with regiment to June 1, 1884; at artillery school, Fort Monroe, Va., to July 26, 1886; promoted captain, March 2, 1899; adjutant general District of Porto Rico, July 1, 1901, to July 1, 1903. Address, Fort D. A. Rus- sell, Wyo.

BLUNT, Matthew M .:

Brigadier general, U. S. Army; born New York, Aug. 13, 1830; appointed from New York; was graduated from Military Academy July 1, 1853; actual rank, bre- vet second lieutenant, 1st Artillery, July 1, 1853; second lieutenant 2d Artillery, Sept. 30, 1853; first lieutenant March 31, 1855; captain 12th Infantry, May 14, 1861; major 7th Infantry, July 30, 1865; trans-

lieutenant-colonel 25th Infantry Oct. 7, 1874; colonel 16th Infantry July 3, 1883; brevet rank, brevet major, July 1, 1862; for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Malvern Hill, Va .; brevet lieutenant-colonel Dec. 13, 1862, for gal- lant and meritorious services at the bat- tle of Fredericksburg, Va .; brevet colo- nel June 19, 1864, for gallant and meri- torious services in front of Petersburg, Va .; service, in Florida, 1852-55; assist- ant professor Military Academy, 1855- 59; Fort Independence, Mass., 1859-61; at Tortugas and Fort Pickens, 1861-62; in the field, 1862-63; superintendent regular recruiting service, Aug. 1863, to May, 1864; in the field, June-July, 1864; on mus- tering duty in New York and Delaware, Oet., 1864, to Oct., 1865; Florida, Oct., 1865, to Jan., 1866; battles, skirmishes, etc., against the Seminole Indians in Flor- ida, 1852-1855; engaged in the actions of the Virginia Peninsula Campaigns March- Aug., 1862; wounded at the battle of Gaines' Mill, June 27, 1862; engaged in the Northern Virginia Campaign, Aug .- Sept., 1862; at land Campaign, Sept .- Nov., 1862; in the Rappahannock Campaign, Dec., 1862, July, 1863; engaged in the ac- tions of the Richmond Campaign, June- July, 1864; commands held: regiment at battle of Manassas; regiment in Florida, Oct., 1865, to Jan., 1866; degrees of A. B. and A. M. conferred by Colum- bia College, N. Y .; retired Aug. 13, 1894. Address, 17 Annawan St., Hartford, Conn. BOARDMAN, Albert B .:

Lawyer; was graduated from Yale, 1873; formed with Thomas C. Platt, and Benja- min F. Tracy, the firm of Tracy, Board- man & Platt. Now member of law firm of Boardman, I'latt & Soley. Marrled Miss Gertrude Bonner. Clubs: Union League, University, Bar Association, N. Y. Ath- letic, Garden City Golf, Manhattan. Residence, 40 W. 53d St .; office, 35 Wall St., N. Y. City.

BOARDMAN, William Henry :

Editor; born Dixon, Ill., Aug. 3, 1846; he is by direct descent eleven generations from William Boreman (1525), of Ban- bury, Oxfordshire, England; and seven generations from Samuel Boreman, who landed in Massachusetts from the ship New Supply in 1638; he was graduated from Michigan University with the de- gree of B. A. in 1868, and civil engineer in 1869; he served as an engineer in the U. S. Coast Survey until he began jour- nalistic work as part owner and publish-

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er of the Dixon Telegraph; at the time Board of Trade and Transportation Marl- of the Chicago fire, In Oct . 1871, he was time Association, German Society and different charitable societies, etc .; mem- ber American Geographical Society, Am- erican Statistical Society. American assistant editor of the Railroad Gazette, which has since become the most Import- ant railroad engineering publication in the world; is Its present editor, and presi- dent of the corporation; married, Rut- land, Vt., 1874, Henrietta Frances Hall; was for many years president of the Board of Education and of the township committee at Nutley, N. J ; his club mem- berships are:

Century. Adirondack League (past president), Ard ley. He is a student of woodcraft and has written many stories of out door life, fish culture. etc. Author of Lovers of the Woods: published In 1201. Address. 131 East 45th St .: office, 83 Fulton St., N. Y. City.

BOAS, Emil Leopold :

General manager of the Hamburg-Am- erican Line: born Goerlitz, Germany. Nov. 15, 1854; became a student at the Royal Frederick William Gymnasium. Breslau and Sophia Gymnasium, at Ber- lin; was graduated from latter in 1872: became connected with the Hamburg- American Line in 1873 and In the same year came to the U. S : since 1892 gen- eral manager of the above steamship line: has taken a prominent puirt in all efforts to improve transportation facilities by water; was on the committee for exten- sion of pierhead line; also on committee before Congress to secure appropriation for a new channel to the sen (Ambrose Channel): also was very active in ob- taining the Improvement of the Erie Canal. being treasurer and chairman of the finance committee of the Greater New York Canal Association; member of the committee of 100 to meet Prince Henry of Prussia. N. Y. City. 1902: deco- rated by Emporer of Germany. Knight of the Order of the Royal Prussian Crown, also of the Order of the Red Eagle: by King of Italy, Chevaller of the Order of St. Mauritius and St. Lazarus: by King of Sweden and Norway. Knight of the First Class of the Order of St. Olaf: by Sultan of Turkey. Commander of the Order of Osmanich. also Com- mander of the Order of Medjidie: by King of Greece, Officer of the Order of the Redeemer: by President of Venez- uela. Commander of the Order of Boll- var. Member N. Y. Produce Exchange and member of its Arbitration and Canal Committees; trustee of the Legal Aid So- ciety: treasurer of the Germanistic So- ciety of America. Member Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York,

erican Ethnological Society, American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, Society Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers. New York Zoological Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art. American Museum of Natural History. American Scente and Historic Preservaton Society, etc. Clubs: N. Y. Yacht. N. Y. Athletic. Fairfield County. Golf. Lotos, Richmond County Country, National Arts, Deutscher Ver In, Lawyers, I'nitarlan, Liederkranz. St. Maurice Fish an! Game Club, etc Has published See- macht: married. New York, March 20, Isse, Harriet B. Sternfeld, who is mem- her of Sorosis, also on board of managers of the National Society of New England Women: vice president for the Middle States of the National Society of Unita- rlan Women; on board of managers of Women's Auxillary of the American Scen- Ic and Historic Preservation Society; on board of managers of Children's Charitable Union: on executive board of City His- tory Club City residence, 128 West 71th St .: country residence, Bonniecrest, Greenwich, Conn .; office, 37 Broadway, N. Y. City.

BOAS, Franz:

Anthropologist: born Minden. West- phalia. July 9, 1858; attended universities of Heidelberg. Bonn and Kiel, 1877-82 (Ph. D., Klel, 1881); made voyage to Baffin's Land. 18$3-84: assistant Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin, and do- cent of geography. University of Berlin, 1885-86; assistant editor Science, 1886-88; docent of anthropology Clark University, 1$$8-92: chief assistant of the department of anthropology. World's Columbian Ex- position, 1892-91; lecturer anthropology, Columbia University since 1996; assistant chrator, then curator, department anthro- pology. American Museum Natural Hig- torv since 1896. Directed operations and publications. Jesup North Pacific expedi- tion; member National Academy of Sci- ences. Fellow A. A. A. S., corresponding member Anthropological Societies of Ber- lin. Stockholm, Moscow, Paris, Rome. Vienna, Washington; of Anthropological Institute Great Britain and Ireland, and of American Antiquity and Numismatic Society. Author: Baffin Land; The Cen- tral Eskimo (6th Annual Report Bureau

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of Ethnology); Chinook Texts; Indian- [ York; assistant engineer construction of ische Sagen von der Nordwestküste Am- erikas (Berlin), Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians; Kathlamet Texts; The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay; Kwakiutl Texts; Tsimshian Texts; reports to British As- sociation Advancement of Science; Amer- ican Museum Natural History. Address, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, N. Y. City.

BODMAN, Edward C .:

Commission merchant ; born Charle- mont, Mass., March, 1840; was graduated from Williston Seminary, then entered business life and came to New York in 1885. He married Miss Burden, a niece of Chief Justice Waite. Address, 402 Pro- duce Exchange, N. Y. City.

BODY, Charles William Edmund:

Episcopal clergyman; educator; born Clapham, Eng., Oct. 4, 1851; son of Rev. E. E. Body; educated St. John's College, Cambridge, Eng., 1875, M. A .; D. C. L., Trinity University, Toronto; D. D. Ho- bart's College; D. D. Bishop's College, Lennoxville, P. O. Can. Married Frances Mary Perry, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, Eng., 1881 Tyrrwhit Hebrew scholar of University Cambridge, 1878; Fel-

low St. John's College, Cambridge, 1877-81; Provost and Vice-Chancellor, Trinity University, Toronto, Can., 1881- 94, and since professor Old Testament Literature and Interpretation General Theological Seminary, N. Y: City. Mem- ber American Theological, Philosophical and Oriental Societies. Author: The Permanent Value of Genesis (Paddock Lectures for 1894). Address, 4 Chelsea Square, N. Y.

BOEHM, Peter M .:

Major, U. S. Army; born N. Y. and appointed from Montana; 2d lieutenant 15th N. Y. cavalry, March 1, 1865; hon- orably mustered out, Oct. 4, 1865; 2d lieutenant 4th cavalry, May 1, 1866; 1st lieutenant, Sept. 27, 1866; captain, May 1, 1873; retired, March 1, 1878. Address, Monroeville, Huron Co., Ohio.

BOGART, John:

Consulting engineer; born Albany, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1837; son of John Henry and Eliza (Hermans) Bogart; his family was among the earliest settlers of Albany, N. Y., going there in 1641; graduate of Al- bany Academy; Rutgers College, 1853 (M. A.). Married, Nov. 2, 1870, Emma Cher- ington Jefferis, West Chester, Pa .; engi- neer with New York Central R. R .; on enlargement Erie Canal for State of New

Central Park, N. Y. City. From Dec., 1861, till July, 1866, in engineer service with U. S. Army, stationed at Fort Mon- roe and in charge of construction of fort at the Rip Raps, Va., also in service at other points; 1866, engineer in charge of construction, and, 1870, chief engineer Park Commission of Brooklyn; 1872-77, chief engineer Department of Public Parks, N. Y. City. Since 1877 engaged as engineer for many important enterprises, among them were municipal works at New Orleans, Chicago, Nashville and Baltimore; designed the parks of Albany, N. Y .; the public State Grounds at Nashville; west side parks of Chicago; park system of Essex County, N. J .; con- structing engineer of Washington Bridge, New York; consulting engineer Niagara Falls Power Co., St. Lawrence Power Co., Cascade (British Columbia) Power Co., Atlantic Electric and Water Power Co. and the Rapid Transit commission, New York State Board of Health, N. Y .; 1886-88, deputy state engineer; 1888-91, state engineer State of New York; for some time treasurer, also secretary and ed- itor of the publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers; consulting ad- visory or expert engineer for a number of railways and in various cases before the courts. Member various boards; dele- gate of U. S. Government to Congress of Navigation, Germany, 1902, and member of permanent board for U. S. Internation- al Navigation Congresses; lieutenant colonel and chief engineer National Guard of New York. Member American Socie- ty of Civil Engineers; member Institution of Civil Engineers, London. Member

Century, University, Engineers, Delta Phi and Down Town Clubs, Holland and St. Nicholas Societies. Address, 30 Central Park South; offices, 40 Wall St., N. Y. City, and 20 Great George St., London, Eng.

BOGERT, Edward Strong:

Medical director U. S. Navy (retired) ; born Geneva, N. Y .; was graduated in Medicine from University of City of N. Y., March, 1860; house surgeon Bellevue Hospital, 1861; appointed assistant sur- geon U. S. Navy, June 10, 1861; served on board frigate Congress, 1861; U. S. gunboat Cayuga, 1862, in Mississippi river and at capture of New Orleans; U. S. Naval Hospital, N. Y., 1863; on board U. S. S. Niagara, European Station, 1864, 1865; Naval Hospital, N. Y., 1866; pro- moted to surgeon April 6, 1866; Naval

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Hospital, Norfolk, 1866; U. S. Naval dent Society Chemical Industry (Eng- Laboratory, New York, 1867 to 1870; U. S. land) from 1902; one of founders Chem- ists Club of New York. Member N. Y. State Teachers' Association. Columbia College Alumni Association, Alumni As- soclation Schools of Science of Columbia University: Deutsche Chemische Gesell- schaft Verein Deutscher Chemiker; Soci- eté Chimique de Paris, Chemistry Teach- ers' Club. Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Phl, and others. Member at large from the Particular Synod of N. Y .; on board of superintendents of Theological Seminary of Reformed Church at New Brunswick. Board of Foreign Missions of Reformed Church. Address, 430 West 154th St .. N. Y. City. S. Congress, 1870 to 1873; Marine Bar- racks, N. Y. navy yard, 1873 to 1876; U. S. S. Monongahela, Aslatic Squadron, 1877 to 1879; Marine Barracks. N. Y., and navy yard, Norfolk, 1880 to 1883; Medical Inspector, Sept. 10, 18$2; U. S. Flagship Trenton, Aslatic Station, 1883 to 1986; Navy yard, N. Y., 1886-89; Medical Director November 28, 1889; president Naval Examining Board, 1889 to 1892; in charge of Naval Hospital, N. Y., and special duty, 1892 to 1900: U. S. Navy Yard, Boston, Mass., 1901. Recruit- ing duty and special duty New York to present date. Address, Hotel San Remo, N. Y.

BOGERT, Edward Strong, Jr .:

Surgeon, U. S. Navy; born In and ap- pointed from N. Y .: assistant surgeon. April 16, 1890: passed assistant surgeon, April 16. 1893; surgeon, Der. 15, 1900; Naval Laboratory, 1892; T. C. S. Alba- tross, 1893; Navy Yard, N. Y. City, 1896; Marine Rendezvous. Lancaster. 1899; Naval Recruiting Rendezvous, Buf- falo. March, 1902-03. Address, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.

BOGERT, George H .:

Artist; born New York, 1864; son of Henry and Helen Anderson Evans Bog- ert ; studied under Thomas Eakins, N. Y., and Raphael Collins. Anne Morst and Pu- vis de Chavannes (Paris) ; married, 1892. Margaret Merryman, of Baltimore; hon- orable mention, Pennsylvania Academy. 1892; Webb Prize Society of American Artists, 1898; First Hallgarten Prize Academy of Design, 1899; bronze medal, Paris Exposition, 1900; silver medal, Buf- falo, 1901; silver medal, St. Louis, 1904; member Society of American Artists, As- siciate National Academy of Design; member Society of Landscape Painters, N. Y .; clubs: Lotos, Salmagundi. Colonial. Barnard. Address and studio, 204 West 55th St., N. Y. City.

BOGERT, Marston Taylor:

Educator: born Flushing. N. Y .. April 18. 1868; prepared for college at Flush- ing Institute; was graduated from Co- lumbia, 1890; studied chemistry in Colum- bia University School of Mines, 1890-94; adjunct professor organic chemistry, Co- lumbia, 1901-04; professor. 1904; delegate to Council New York Scientific Alliance, 1900-03. Counselor-at-large of American Chemical Society: Fellow American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science, of Chemical Society, London; vice-presi-

BOLDT, George C .:

Capitalist, president of the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel Co. and of the Bellevue- Stafford hotels. Philadelphia; Director of the Lincoln Trust Co .; Trust Co. of America: Trust Co. of the Republic, and other financial Institutions; widower: member of Suburban. Riding and Driving Clubs, and American Fine Arts Society and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ad- dress. 6 West 34th St .. N. Y. City.

BOLDT, Hermann J., M. D .:

Professor of gynecology of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and inventor of valuable gyne- cological instruments; born June 24, 1856. near Berlin, at "Neuentempel," the es- tate of his father, Hermann Boldt, a very prominent German agriculturist; was but a child when his parents came to this country, and his preparatory education was obtained from private tutors and in the public grammar and high schools; he studied and practiced pharmacy until he had saved the required money, when he entered the University of New York, and was graduated from the Medical School with the class of 1879; he was offered and accepted the position of assistant to Pro- fessor Pallen of the University. Twelve years thereafter he devoted himself ab- solutely to gynecology; he was the first physician to investigate the physiological action of cocaine; was among the first to remove fibromyomatous uteri in toto, and is among the strongest advocates of vagi- nal hysterectomy for cancer; has invented number of gynecological instruments, and also an operating table for abdominal sur- gery, now almost universally used, and which received a medal at the Paris Ex- position ; has written numerous papers re- lating to his professional work, which are quoted by most authorities of the period;

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he has also held important positions in BOND, Edward A .:

the medical world from the commence- ment of his medical career; at present it professor of gynecology at the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital; he is also gynecologist to the German Poli- klinik and St. Mark's Hospital, and con- sulting gynecologist to Beth-Israel Hos- pital and St. Vincent's Hospital; was formerly chairman of the section of the New York Academy of Medicine,

which is devoted to his specialty, and ex-president of the New York Ob- stetrical Society; president of the Ger- man Medical Society; is a member of the American Gynecological, the Internation- al Gynecological, the British Gynecologi- cal, the New York Obstetrical and Patho- logical Societies and the Academy of Medicine; in 1891 married, Hedwig Kru- ger, daughter of a publisher of Berlin. Address, 39 East 61st St., N. Y. City. BOLLER, Alfred Pancoast:

Civil engineer; born Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 23, 1840; was graduated from Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1858, and Rens- selaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., 1861; assistant engineer of Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., 1862; Philadelphia and Erie R. R., 1864; Atlantic and Great Western R. R., 1866; chief en- gineer Hudson River R. R., 1866, West- side and Yonkers R. R., 1880. Yonkers Rapid Transit Commission, 1881, Manhat- tan "L" R. R. Co., 1882; Albany and Greenbush Bridge Co., 1882; consulting engineer to Zaza R. R., Cuba, 1877; to Department of Public Parks, New York, 1883, and many other such works; has been business contractor especially of bridge construction; has built double track bridge over Hudson at Albany, 8th Avenue and Madison Avenue bridge over Harlem at N. Y., Croton Lake bridge, Central Avenue bridge, Newark, N. J., great gas-holder tanks of Bay State Gas Co., Boston, tunnel under lighthouse grounds, Staten Island, and all locomo- tive turn-tables of West Shore R. R .; most important work as Consulting En- gineer Wabash R. R. entrance into Pitts- burg, Pa .; 1864 married Miss Katherine Newhold, of Philadelphia. Member of American Institute of Civil Engineers and Mining Engineers. Member of Insti- tute of Civil Engineers, London. Member of Orange Athletic Club; author of vari- ous reports on bridge building; also of a Practical Treatise on the Construction of Iron Highway Bridges (N. Y., 1877). Ad- dress, 1 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

Civil engineer, born Dexter, Mich., April 22, 1849; educated in public schools of Michigan and business college, Utica, N. Y .; chief engineer of several rail- roads; State engineer and surveyor State of N. Y., Jan. 1, 1899, to May 1, 1904; then assigned to accept position of chairman of Advisory Board of Consulting En- gineers for Barge Canal, S. N. Y., chap- ter 147, laws 1903, S. N. Y .; married (1st) Gertrude Hollenbeck, Nov. 11, 1873; (2d) Clara Estelle Ellis, Nov. 10, 1904; as State engineer developed system of im- provement of highways under State aid. chapter 115, laws of 1898, S. N. Y., and made complete survey for enlarged Erie Canal, chapter 411, laws of 1900; Repub- lican. Address, State Hall, Albany, N. Y.

BOND, Frank Stuart:

Railway official; born Sturbridge, Mass., Feb. 1, 1830 : educated Norwich Acad- emy and Hopkinton High School. En- tered railway service, 1849 as clerk with N. & W. R. R. Co; vice-president of M., K. & T. R. R. and Texas Pacific, and successively as president of Phila- delphia & Reading and other roads; vice- president. Chicago, Milwaukee St.

& Paul R. R. Co. since 1886. Member Loyal Legion, S. A. R., Army of Cumberland, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum Natural History, National Acad- emy Design, etc., and Metropolitan, Union League and Century Clubs. Address, Union Club. N. Y. City ; office, 30 Broad St .. N. Y. City.

BONNER, Hugh:

Ex-chief N. Y. Fire Department; mem- ber of the fire department, 1860-99; be- coming chief in 1SS9; retired May 1, 1899. Address, 636 West End Ave., N. Y. City. BONSAL, Stephen:

Journalist; born Maryland, March, 1865; he was educated at St. Paul's School Concord, N. H., and at Göttingen and Heidelberg in Germany; he served as special correspondent for the New York Herald in the Bulgarian-Servian War, also in Macedonia, Morocco, and in Cuba and in China during the Japanese War and the Boxer uprising; Mr. Bonsal has had experience in the U. S. diplomatic service as secretary of legation and charge d'affaires in Pekin, Madrid, Tokio, and Korea. Address, Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y.

BONSTEEL, Jay Allan :

Educator; was graduated from Cornell University, B. S., 1896; assistant in Ge-

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ology at Cornell, 1896-98. Was graduated BOORAEM, John Van Vorst:

from Johns Hopkins University, Ph. D., 1901. Member of Cornell Greenland Ex- pedition, 1896. Assistant on Maryland Geological Survey in summer of 1898 and 1899. In May, 1900, received an appoint- ment in the Bureau of Solls of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and in 1903 was appointed Professor of Soil Investi- gation in the College of Agriculture, Cor- nell University, being detailed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture; marrled. Address, 406 Oak Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. BOODY, David Augustus:

Banker; born Jackson, Me., Aug. 13, 1837 ; educated in public schools and Phil- lips-Andover Academy ; married Alice H. Trett, Frankfort, Me .; member Congress, 1889-92 ; mayor, Brooklyn, 1892-94, officer of several philanthropic institutions of Brooklyn and interested as officer or di- rector In various corporations. Member N. Y. Stock Exchange and of Montauk. Carleton, Brooklyn, Marine and Field, New England Society, Riding and Driv- ing (Brooklyn), Clubs. Residence, 206 Berkeley Pl., Brooklyn; office. 57 Broad- way, N. Y. City.

BOOKSTAVER, Henry W .:

Lawyer; born Montgomery, Orange County, N. Y .; prepared at Montgomery Academy and was graduated from Rut- gers College, 1859 (A. M., 1862, LL. D., 18SS); admitted to the practice of law; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas In 1885; transferred to the Supreme Court under the new Constitution in 1895; held office until 1900, when he returned to the practice of his profession at No. 256 Broad- way, N. Y. City, and is now counselor and referee; is member of International Arts Club, and N. Y. Archæological So- ciety of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Natural History Society, the His- torical Society and Manhattan, Lotos and other clubs of N. Y. and Newport, R. I. Address, 24 East 64th St., N. Y. City.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 20

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