Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 22

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associate editor of The Independent, in charge of that journal's art department. Contributed at various times to The Sun, Herald, Times, Tribune, Journal, World, Evening Post, Commercial Advertiser, The Philadelphia Item, The New Orleans Pica- yune, The Brooklyn Eagle, The Scientific American, Frank Leslie's Popular Month- ly, Literature, The Metropolitan Maga- zine, The Bookman, The Book-Buyer, The Art Interchange, The Journalist, The Ar- tist," of London, and other publications. Author of A Step Across the Guif to Cuba (1899), The Rise of the Book Plate (1901), and James A. McNeill Whistler, the Man and His Work (1901) Con- tributed chapters on book-plates and fancy book-bindings to Appleton's Annu- al Encyclopædia. One of the dramatic critics for The Brooklyn Citizen since 1901. Member of the Long Island His- torical Society; the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, The Writers and the National Arts Clubs. Residence, 200 South Oxford St., Brooklyn; office, edi- torial rooms of The Independent, 130 Ful- ton St., N. Y. City.

BOWEN, Carroll E .:

Cashier Traders' National Bank, Ro- chester; born Hingham, Mass., Feb. 9, 1861; his father was at that time pastor of the First Unitarian Church; at an early age he removed to Rochester, re- ceived his education in the schools of that city and at the age of eighteen years, became connected with the institution of which he is now cashier; actively inter- ested in the organization of the Genesee Valley Trust company of Rochester, of which institution he is a director; 1882 married Miss Adelaide Mann. Address, Rochester, N. Y.

BOWEN, Clarence Winthrop:

Author; born Brooklyn, May 22, 1852; was graduated from Yale, 1873; Ph. D. from Yale, 1882; associated with The In- dependent, 1874, succeeded father, Henry Chandler Bowen, as publisher, 1896; 1889 secretary of committee of arrangements for centennial anniversary of Washing- ton's inauguration, N. Y. City; publica- tions; Boundary Disputes of Connecticut (Boston, 1882); Woodstock, an Historical Sketch (New York, 1SS6), Memorial Vol- ume of Centennial of Washington's Inau- guration (1892). Address, 5 East 63 St., N. Y. City.

BOWEN, Edgar C .:

Captain U. S. Army; born in New York in 1844; appointed from Wis- consin to military academy, July 1, 1861;

was graduated, 1865; actual rank, second lieutenant and first lieutenant, 12th inf., June 23, 1865; transferred to 30th inf., Sept. 21, 1866; captain, 30th inf. Feb. 22, 1869; assigned to 11th inf., Jan. 1, 1871; June 7, 1879, retired from active service tor disability incurred in the line of duty; staff positions occupied, regimentai quar- termaster 12th Infantry, Oct. 16, 1865; A. A. Q. M., A. C. S., Post Treasurer and Ord. Officer, Fort Hamilton, N. Y. H., Oct., 1865, to July, 1866; adjutant 30th in- fantry, Sept. 1, 1868, to Nov. 10, 1SGS; Post adjutant, Fort Columbus, N. Y. H, Nov. 1868, to June, 1869; Post adjutant, A. A. Q. M., Post Treasurer and Ord. Officer, Newport Barracks, Kentucky, June to Oct., 1869; battles, skirmishes, etc., scouting against hostile Sioux In- dians, Colorado and Wyoming, June to Oct., 1867; campaign against hostile Co- manche and Kiowa Indians, Texas, Sept. to Dec., 1871; campaign against hostile Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne In- dians in Texas and Indian Territory, July to Dec., 1874; participated in the pursuit, attack on camp and capture of the No- kone tribe of Comanche Indians, Elk Creek, Indian Territory. Nov., 1874; dis- arming Sioux Indian camps and for the relief of the Indian Mission at Mcken- zie's Point, Missouri River, Dakota, Nov., 1876; campaign againt hostiie Sioux Indians, Black Hills, Dakota, Oct. to Dec., 1877; commands held, troops in the field, Mckenzie's Point, Missouri River, Nov., 1876; professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of Min- nesota, Minnesota, 1881-82; St. Paul's School, Garden City, L. I., N. Y., 1890-95; University of North Dakota, 1899-1902. Address, 710 Dayton Ave., St. Paul, Minn.

BOWEN, Herbert Walcott:

Consul and author; son of Henry Chan- dier Bowen, founder of the Independent; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 29, 1856; education received at Paris, Berlin and at Yale, from which he was graduated, 1818; studied law at Columbia and admit- ted to Bar; 1890, U. S. consul at Barcelo- na, Spain; 1894, consul general at same city; 1899, minister to Persia; published, Verses (Boston, 1884); In Divers' Tones (1890); Losing Ground; Sonnets on Inter- national Law (N. Y., 1896). Address, Ca- racas, Venezuela.

BOWERS, John Myer:

Lawyer; born Cooperstown, N. Y. Nov. 27, 1849; married Susan Dandridge, since 1871 has resided in N. Y. City. Director Corn Exchange Bank, Coney

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Island Jockey Club, New York Publish- Music of Carl Frederich Weitzmann, Ber- ing Co .; trustee, Tennis Building Asso- ciation, and New York Institution for the Blind. Member Union, Metropolitan, Man- hattan, Riding and Whist Clubs; Down Town Association, Sons of Revolution and Socttiety of Colonial Wars. Address, 7 West 21st St., N. Y. City.

BOWKER, Richard Rogers:

Author and editor; born Salem, Mass., 1848; educated in New York public schools; was graduated from the College of City of New York, 1868; editor of Pub- lishers' Weekly, Library Journal, Amer- ican Catalogue, etc .; 1880-82 in London, representative for Harper and Brothers; from 1890 to 1899, first vice-president and executive of the Edison Electric Illumin- ating Co., of N. Y. City; now vice-presi- dent of De Laval Steam Turbine Co. and De Laval Separator Co .; author: Work and Wealth (1883); The Economic Fact Book and Free Traders' Guide (1885); Primer for Political Education (1886) ; Copyright; its Law and its Literature (1886) Economics for the People (1886, 5th ed. 1896); The Arts of Life (1900); Of Education (1903), etc., and numerous magazine articles; in politics is an Inde- pendent; 1879 originated independent Re- publican movement in N. Y. City; active in promoting passing of the first civil ser- vice reform bill in New York legislature; was member of the New York Free Trade Club, and one of incorporators and on original Board of Trustees of the Reform Club; is vice president of American Copy- right League. Trustee of Brooklyn Public Library and of Brooklyn Institute; has been member of Council of American Li- brary Association, Authors Club, City Club, University Settlement Society. Ad- dress, 298 Broadway, N. Y. City.

BOWMAN, Edward Morris:

Musician; third son of Joseph and Asen- ath (Burroughs) Bowman; descendant, on paternal side, of Nathaniel Bowman, who emigrated from England with John Win- throp in 1630, and on maternal side of Richard Warren and Sarah Tilley, of the Mayflower Pilgrims; born Barnard, Vt., July 18, 1848; was graduated from St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y .; pupil in piano playing of Dr. William Mason, New York, and Franz Bendel, Berlin; in organ playing of John P. Morgan, New York; Edward Rohde and August Haupt, Berlin; Edward Batiste and Alexander Guilmant, Paris; Sir Frederick Bridge, Westminister Abbey, London; theory of

lin; Sir George A. Macfarren and Dr. E. H. Turpin, London, and John P Morgan, New York; organist of Old Trinity Church, N. Y. City, 1866-67; teacher and conductor St. Louis, 1867-88; organist and director of music, Union M. E. Church, Second Presbyterian Church, Second Baptist Church, St. Louis; Peddie Memoral Church, Newark, N. J., 1887- 94; founder and drector of the Cecilian Choir; director of Newark Harmonic So- ciety; founder and director of the Temple Choir and Temple Orchestra, 200 mem- bers; Baptist Temple, Brooklyn, since 1895; teacher and conductor, New York, since 1887; member of the Royal College of Organists, London, and the American Guild of Organists; founder and Fellow (president eight terms) of the American College of Musicians; president (four terms) of Music Teachers' National As- sociation; professor and director of music, Vassar College, 1891-95; member execu- tive board, Brooklyn Y. M. C. A .; men- ber executive board department of music, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; director of Music in Ely School, N. Y., Author of Bowman's Weitzmann's Man- ual of Harmony and Counterpoint, (1876); contributor to musical journals. Resi- dence, 281 Sterling Place, Brooklyn; stu- uio, Steinway Hall, N. Y. City.

BOWMAN, George A .:

Division freight agent, Erie road; born May 23, 1864, Rochester Free Academy in 1879; entered railway service, Sept., 1879, as clerk in the freight office New York Central & Hudson River R. R., at Roches- ter, an .. was there until Aug. 1, 1887; 1887 to 1889, traffic freight agent, Erie road; 1889, to May 1, 1895, agent same lines at Rochester; May 1, 1891, to date, division freight agent, Rochester and Buf- talo divisions, Erie road, at the same place. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

BOWMAN, Henry Hopper:

Lawyer; born May 9, 1861, in Patterson, N. J .; attended Cornell University, 1871-72, and New York University, and was grad- uated from Columbia Law School, 1875; lecturer on Commercial Law in Packard's Business College; in 1877 began practice in N. Y. City; president and treasurer of Peter Adams Co. and Adams & Bishop Co., manufacturers of high-grade paper; held same offices in Passaic Quarry Co .; member of Aldine Club, and Montauk Club of Brooklyn. Address, 38 Park Row, N. Y. City.

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BOWNE, Samuel W .:

Of the firm of Scott & Bowne: director in Purity Milk Co. and J. B. & J M. Cornell Co .; member of Whist, Union League, Knollwood, and Republican Clubs. Address, 35 West 57th St., N. Y. City. BOYD, Charles S .:

Superintendent of Public Works of State of New York; born July 9, 1857. Boston; son of Samuel L. Boyd; prepared at Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, and was graduated from School of Mines. Colum- bia University, M. E., 1877; president of Rowing Association of American Col- leges. 1875-77; wholesale dry goods mer- chant in New Orleans for several years; banker, and engaged in important com- mercial enterprises in N. Y. City since 1885; superintendent of Public Works since Dec. 20. 1901: member of Calumet Club of N. Y. City and Fort Orange Club of Albany. Address, Capitol Building, Albany, N. Y.

BOYD, Ellen Wright:

Principal St. Agnes School, Albany, for 27 years; born Winsted, Conn., Sept. 8. 1833; educated private schools; Ipswich Seminary and the Collegiate Institute. New Haven; supplemented by scientific and art courses in U. S. and abroad; author: Outlines of Religious Instruction; English Cathedrals: Famous Art Galler- ies. Address, St. Agnes School, Albany, N. Y.

BOYESEN, Hjalmar Hjorth 2nd:

Ieditor, author, attorney associated with Sullivan & Cromwell, 49 Wall St., N. Y. City; born Ithaca, N. Y. July 7, 1879; son of Prof. Hjalmar Hjorth and Elizabeth (Keen) Boyesen; was graduated from Columbia College. A. B. 1900; LL. B 1904; managing editor Cosmopolitan Mag- azine 1900-1903: Democrat. Address, Irv- ington-on-Hudson, N. Y.

BOYLE, John J .:

Seulptor, born N. Y. City, Jan. 12. 1851; son of Samual and Catherine (McAuley) Boyle; educated publie schools; learned the trade of Stone Carving; studied draw- ing at Franklin Institute (1873-74), Phila- delphia; attended other private schools; student private class under Doctor Keen for dissecting; student at Academy of Fine Arts. 1875-76; Ecole des Beaux Arts 1877-80; first big work. Indian Group, Lincoln Park. Chicago, 1884; spent three more years in Europe, 1884-1887; began and finished Stone Age; received honor- able mention for same at Solon, Paris, 1886; placed in Fairmont Park, 1888. Among his works are Bacon & Plato

Statues in Rotunda Congressional Library, Washington; Benjamin Franklin, in front of post office. Philadelphia, numerous busts, medallions, etc ; medals received; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Chicago, Buf- falo; member (and for eight years one of the executive council) National Sculpture Society. Architectural League, N. Y .: T Square Club, Philadelphia, National Arts. New York; married Elizabeth Carroll of Philadelphia, 1852. Address. 251 West 51st St . N. Y. City.

BOYLE, William Henry:

Colonel, U. S. A. (Retired); horn Nov. 13. 1$36. Bay Ridge, L. I., N. Y .; edu- cated in Abby's Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y. and University of Louisville, Ky. ; lieu- tenant-colonel, 19th U. S. Infantry; volun - teer service second lieutenant Fifth New York Artillery. Jan. 19, 1562; first lieuten- ant. Dec. 27. 1864; was mustered out March 9. 1865: captain Fifth New York Artillery, March 25, 1965, and major May 20. 1865: served In Union Army during entire period of Civil War; battles, skir- mishes, etc .- Harper's Ferry, Va., Sept. 13, 14, and 15, 1862; Piedmont, Va., June 5. 1961: Ixington, Va., June 12. 1861: Buchanan. Va., June 11. 1861; Lynchburg. Va. June 17 1864: Salem, Va., June 21. 1864: Sulcker's Gap, Va. July 17, 1864; Winchester, Va., July 25, 1861; Cedar Creek, Va., Aug. 12. 1964: Charleston, Va., Aug. 21. 1864; regular service, U. S. Army -second lieutenant Second U. S. Infan- try, May 10, 1866; first Heutenant, Aug. 16, 1867: captain, Twenty-first U. S. Infantry, April 23. 1877; major Ninth U. S. Infantry, March 25. 1998; Heutenant-colonel Nine- teenth U. S. Infantry, May 5, 1899; colonel U S. Army (retired April 23. 1001): detail- ed as acting inspector general, Depart- ment of the Colorado and the Missouri, from Jan. 6. 1900. to Nov. 13. 1900: station. Denver. Colo .; retired from active serv- ice. Nov. 13. 1900: battles, skirmishes, etc., Sycamore Canon, Ariz .. May 30. 1872; was recommended by General Crook, de- partment commander, for a brevet for distinguished service; battles of the Lava Beds (Modoc Indian campaign) from Nov. 29. 1872. to June 1. 1873: was recommend- ed by General Jeff. C. Davis, department commander for a brevet for distinguished service: engagement with hostile Ban- nocks and Piute Indians at Umatilla Indian Agency, Oregon. July 13. 1878; San Juan Hill, Cuba, July 1. 1898, to the sur- render, July 17, 1898; was recommended for brevet for distinguished service; Guad- alupe Ridge and Zapato Bridge, Luson

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Island, P. I., June 11 and 13, 1899; was re- | Mary's Hospital in Hoboken, and con- commended for brevet for distinguished service; detailed professor of Military Sci- ence and Tactics at Montclair Military Academy, Feb. 27, 1902. Address, 69

Christopher St., Montclair, N. J.

BOYNTON, Frank David:

Superintendent of schools, Ithaca, N. Y., since 1900; born Potsdam, N. Y., April 29, 1863; was graduated from Potsdam State Normal School, classical course, 1887; from Middlebury, Vt., college, classical course, 1891; A. M. Hamilton College, 1893, D. Pd., Syracuse University, 1903; married Flora E. White, of Nicholville, N. Y., June 23, 1866; four children, Frank D., Jr., Barbara, Paul, and Beatrice; prin- cipal of Union school and academy, Web- ster, N. Y., 1891-92; principal Ithaca high school since 1893; director in Ithaca Con- servatory of Music; chairman of the com- mittee from the Associated Academic Principals of New York State having in charge the revision of the 1900 edition of the regents' syllabus; reelected chairman by acclamation for the 1905 revision; was appointed by the chancellor of the Univer- sity of State of N. Y. chairman of a com- mittee to arrange a suggested course of study for the high schools of N. Y. State; member Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; National Herbart Society, National Edu- cational Association; American Social Sci- ence Association; New York State Council of Superintendents; Academic Principals' Council; life member of N. Y. State Teachers Association, president 1904-05; contributor to educational magazines; editor of N. Y. State Teacher, 1903, 1904; author of text-book on plane and solid geometry (1900); Syllabus of Civics (1901); Manual of Civics (1902); A School Civics (1904). Address, Ithaca, N. Y.

BOZEMAN, Nathan Gross, M. D .:

sulting Gynecologist to Bayonne City Hos- pital; contributor to medical journals; member of State Medical Society, County Medical Association, County Medical So- ciety, Womans Hospital Medical Society, and Physicians Mutual Aid Association; married in 1889, Marion McHenry, of Madison, Ga. Residence, 162 E. 71st St., N. Y. City.

BRACKETT, Anna Callender:

Teacher, writer; born Boston, May 21. 1836; daughter of Samuel E. and Caro- line S. Brackett; educated in public and private schools, Boston; graduate of State Normal School, Framingham, Mass., 1856; taught in E. Brookeld, Mass., and Framingham Normal School; vice-princi- pal Girls High and Normal School, Char- leston, S. C .; assistant high school, Cam- bridge, Mass .; principal Normal School, St. Louis; principal girls private school N. Y. City; author: Education of Amer- ican Girls; Poetry for Home and School (collection) ; Technique of Rest ; Woman and the Higher Education; translated (from the German), Rosenkranz's Philos- ophy of Education. Address, 65 W. 51st St., N. Y. City.

BRACKETT, Edgar Truman:

Republican State Senator, representing Twenty-eight Senate district; born Wil- ton. N. Y., July 30, 1853; parents early removed to Mount Vernon. Iowa; in 1872 graduated from classical course of Cornell College, Mount Vernon; Septem- ber of same year came to Saratoga Springs and began study of law in office of Pond & French; was admitted to Bar at Elmira General Term in June, 1875; same year received degree of M. A. from his Alma Mater, LL. D. In 1898; in spring of 1876 became member of law firm Pond. French & Brackett. later head of firm Brackett. Butler & Bancus; is now prac- ticing alone; elected to State Senate, 1895; re-elected in 1898, 1900 and 1902; in 1903 appointed to following Senate committees: Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, member of Codes, Public Ed- ucation, Privileges and Elections, and Trades and Manufactures. Address, Sar- atoga, N. Y.

Physician; born Feb. 13, 1856, Mont- gomery, Ala .; attended Manhattan Col- lege, and Seton Hall College, and be- tween 1873 and '77, schools in Coburg, Germany, and Vevay, Switzerland; was graduated from University of Virginia, A. B., 1877, and Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, 1882, and College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons, N. Y. City, 1885; he was one of the house staff of Womans BRACQ, J. Charlemagne: Hospital, and last year of his term was Professor of the Romance Languages in Vassar College since 1891; born France and received his elementary education in that country, but his higher studies were pursued on this side of the ocean; was graduated from McGill University, Mon- House Surgeon; assistant attending sur- geon to Womans Hospital. 1888; outdoor visiting physician to French Hospital and Institution in Post Graduate Medical School; now visiting Gynecologist to St. Francis Hospital in Jersey City, and St. | treal, in 1881, and for two years he at-

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tended the Newton Theological Seminary; being In command from Sept .. 1838, to has written on French Protestantism, on Sept., 1893, serving in waters of Cuba. Porto Rico and Philippines: chlef surgeon Department Dakota, St. Paul, Minn., to Nov. 1899: Fort Snelling, Minn .. to March. 1902: Philippine Islands to date. Present address, Manlla, P. I. the Anglo-French relations, and on the Colonial expansion of France; In 1898, he delivered a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute. Boston. on Contempo- rary French Literature. Address, Pough- keepsie, N. Y. BRADLEY, Frank E .:

BRADFIELD, J. P .:

Agent and operator I. S & M S Ry .. 1878-81: dispatcher Wallkill Valley R. R., 1881 to 1883: train dispatcher Hudson River Division, West Shore R. R., 1883 to 1855: superintendent, same division. 1885 to 1821; superintendent Buffalo DI- vision, same road. 1821 to 1893; general superintendent N. Y. O. & W. R. R. 1893 to 1895; superintendent, Western Divis- Jon. N. Y. C. & H. R. R, 1895 to Jan. 1. 1903; assistant general superintendent. same road. Jan 1. 1903. to July 1. 1203. since which date has been general sup- erintendent. Address, Grand Central Sta- tion, N. Y. City.

BRADFORD Edward Anthony :

Financial editor: horn N. Y. City. Nov. 5. 1851; descendent of Governor Willlain Bradford, first governor of Massachu- setts; graduated from Yale University. 1873, with B. A. degree; received LL. B. from University of New York, 1876: has been contributor to Harper's Monthly. Harper's Weekly Yale Review and others: twenty-five years American correspondent of London Standard: connected with New York Times since 1870; now financial ed- Itor: in early life reporter and legisla- tive correspondent at Albany: married Su- san Colt Packer, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Residence. 175 Columbia Heights, Brook- lyn. N. Y.

BRADFORD, John Henry, Sr .:

Treasurer of Coney Island Jockey Club; member of Union Club, New York. Ad- dress, 276 Lexington ave., N. Y. City. BRADLEY, Alfred E .:

Major U. S. Army; born Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1864: appointed from New York civil life; actual rank, first lieu- tenant and assistant surgeon. Oct. 29. 1888; captain. Oct. 29, 1893: major brigade surgeon, U. S. Vols .. June 4. 1598; major surgeon. U. S. Army, Jan. 1. 1902; ser- vice: David's Island. N. Y. Harbor. to Oct., 1889; Fort Omaha, Neb., to Nov., 1890: Omaha, Neb., to Dec., 1892: Fort Sully, South Dakota, to Nov .. 1894; Fort Custer, Montana to July, 1895; Fort Yel- lowstone. Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming. to June, 1898; during war with Lpain on U. S. Army hospital ship Relief,

Lawyer: born June 17. 1866, Colchester. Conn .: was graduated from Yale Col- lege. 1520. and attended Yale Law School; married: second vice-president of New York Commercial Co. member of Yale Club. Residence Montclair. N. J .: office. 200 Broadway, N. Y. City.

BRADLEY, George Beckwith:

Lawyer born Greene:, N. Y .. Feb. 5. 1825: admitted to the Bar, May, 1848; mar- ried Hannah E. Lattimer. July. 1850; prac- tieed the legal profession until 1884: was member of the Constitutional Commis- slon of 1872-73: was elected to State Sen- ate In 1873 and 1875: was elected justice of Supreme Court. In 18$3. for term of fourteen years; within which term was member of Court of Appeals, second di- vision, about four years. 1889-92: degree of I.I. D. by University Rochester; was member of Appellate Division of Supreme Court In Second Judicial Department, 1896-97. Address, Corning, N. Y.

BRADLEY, Thomas W .:

Member of Congress: horn April 6. 1844. is a retired manufacturer: entered the Union Army as a private soldier, and. passing through all Intermediate grades. became a captain in the One Hundred and twenty-fourth New York Volunteers: was aid-de-camp to Major-General Mott. Third Division. Second Army Corps; was awarded the Congressional medal of hon- or "for gallantry at Chancellorsville;" was brevetted major of IT. S. Volunteers "for meritorious service during the cam- palgn terminating at Appomattox;" was seriously wounded at Gettysburg. again wounded at the Wilderness, and again before Petersburg: was a member of As- sembly in 1876-chairman of the commit- tee on military affairs, and assistant in- spector-general of the National Guard; was a delegate to the national Republi- can conventions of 1892. 1896 and 1900, voting at each convention for William Mckinley: is a member of the New York, Chattanooga and Gettysburg Battlefields Commission: is a companion of the first class in the military order of the Loyal Legion. a member of the City Club, of Newburgh. N. Y .. and of the Army and Navy Club, of N. Y. City; was elected

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as a Republican to the fifty-eighth and Naval and Military Order Spanish-Am- fifty-ninth Congresses; from the Twen- tieth District of New York. Address, Walden, N. Y.

BRADY, Anthony N .:

Capitalist; born Lille, France. 1843; is a conspicuous exponent of the success which has crowned great careers in bus- iness organization in the United States, to which he came as a boy with his parents; he became interested in the gas and traction companies of Albany and Troy, came to New York and rebuilt the Union Railway Company's lines. fore- saw the supplanting of all other systems of surface traction by electricity, planned the consolidation of the traction lines of Brooklyn and of New York and their equipment with electricity, and intro- duced into their management. as well as that of the gas and electric-lighting companies of New York, the community of interest idea; he has been a moving spirit in similar combinations in Wash- Ington, Philadelphia and other cities, is vice-president of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co., and a director in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., and the Equitable Gas Light Co .; Mr. Brady is a practical electrician, as well as one of the foremost capitalists of the day. Ad- dress, 54 Wall St., N. Y. City.

BRADY, Rev. Cyrus Townsend. LL. D .:

Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, author; horn Allegheny. Pa. Dec. 20, 1861; son of Jasper Ewing Brady and Harriet Cora (Townsend) Brady: married. first, Clarissa Sidney Guthrie (died. 1890); second, Mary Barrett; grad- nated from the U. S. Naval Academy 1883; service with the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific R. R's for six years; studied theology under Bishop Worthing- ton of Nebraska; ordained deacon. 1889: priest, 1890: successively missionary and rector of Protestant Episcopal churches In Missouri and Colorado, and archdea- con of Kansas until 1895: archdeacon of Pennsylvania until 1899; rector of St. Paul's Church, Overbrook. Philadelphia. Pa., 1899-1901. Since then, while retain- ing his clerical status, has given up pa- rochial work for occasional and special preaching and for literary work: chap- lain First Pennsylvania U. S .Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War: re- ceived degree of LL. D. (causa honoris), in 1902. from St. John's College. An- napolis. Md .; member Society of Colonial Wars. Society of the Sons of the Revolu- tion, Military Order of Foreign Wars,

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 22

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

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