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by him in 1902. Author (in conjunction with N. L. Britton) of Illustrated Flora of the Northern U. S. and Canada (3 vols., 1896-98), which he designed; one of the chief founders, promoters and sci- entific managers of the New York Bo- tanical Garden, whose charter (1891) he drew; president of the Torrey Botanical Club since 1890. Member of the Century Club and the Historical and Geographical and many other scientific societies: his portrait by A. Franzén, procured by the New York Bar, was in 1903 presented to the U. S. District Court. Address, 45 West $9th St., N. Y. City.
BROWN, Archer:
Member of the firm of Rogers, Brown & Co., which has establishments in New York, Chicago and other cities; born Ot- sego Co., N. Y., 1851, and was graduated from Michigan University, 1872; removed to New York from Cincinnati in 1895, and he now resides in East Orange, N. J., being president of the Citizens Union of that City; Mr. Brown is director in a large number of blast-furnace, coal-min- ing and ore-mining companies, and his firm is said to handle about thirty per cent. of the merchant pig iron-foundry. forge and basic-made in the U. S. Ad- dress, 551 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
BROWN, Charles A .:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born Yorktown, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1874; was grad- uated from General Theological Seminary, 1902; B. D., General Theological Semin- ary, 1903; ordained deacon, 1902; priest, 1903, and assistant minister, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, 1903. Ad- dress. 551 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
BROWN, Charles R .:
Banker, broker and philanthropist ; born Simcoe, Ont., Aug. 3, 1869; son of Mark and Jane (Irving) Brown; at the age of twenty, secretary and treasurer of the Norfolk Insurance Co .; in 1892 began real estate and banking operations throughout the northwest; in Sept., 1898, located in N. Y. in the brokerage busi- ness, buying and selling large properties; in 1902 organized the Oppenheimer Insti- tute, of which he is now vice-president and managing director. Address, 170 Broadway, N. Y. City.
BROWN, Elon Rouse:
Lawyer: horn Jefferson County, 1857; was graduated from Brown University 1878; admitted to the Bar. Oct., 1880; has since practiced law at Watertown; was Supervisor of the Third Ward of Water-
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town for four years. Member of Con- | by Scribner); clubs-Onteora, Barnard, stitutional Convention of 1894; in 1897 Meridian, and the Women's University of N. Y. City. Address, 24 West 38th St., N. Y. City. elected State Senator; re-elected in 1898, 1900 and 1902; at the close of the ses- sion of 1904 declined a re-nomination BROWN, Jefferson : and re-election to the Senate. Mr Brown is the author of the Apportionment and Anti-pass Articles in the Constitution and is closely identified with reforms in Finance, Education and Forest legisla- tion. Address, Watertown, N. Y.
BROWN, Francis:
Minister (Presbyterian); born Hanover, N. H., Dec. 26, 1849; was graduated Phil- ips Andover Academy. 1866; Dartmouth College (A. B.), 1870; Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. City, 1877; studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, 1877-79; since 1879 has been connected with Union Theological Seminary; instructor in Bib- lical Philology, 1879-81; associate profess- or of same, 1881-90; professor of Hebrew and the cognate languages since 1890; married Louise Reiss, of Berlin, Ger- many, Aug. 7, 1879; received degrees of A. M. (Dartmouth, 1873); Ph. D. (Hamil- ton, (1884); D. D. (Dartmouth, 1884) ; (Yale, 1894), (Glasgow, 1901); D. Litt, (Oxford, 1901); LL. D. (Dartmouth, 1901). Published: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (with Prof. R. D. Hitchcock), (1884) second edition, (1885) Assyriology, Its Use and Abuse in Old Testament Study, (1885) A Hebrew and English Lex- icon of the Old Testament (with Profs. S. R. Driver and C. A. Briggs), (1891-02) The Christian Point of View (with Profs. G. W. Knox and A. C. McGiffert), (1902) also many articles and pamphlets. Ad- dress, 700 Park Ave., N. Y. City.
BROWN, G. R .:
Second vice-president and general man- ager New York and Pennsylvania road; born Sept. 9, 1840, Southport, N. Y .; he was educated in the common schools and at Waverly Seminary, N. Y .; entered railway service 1864 as operator, Fall Brook Ry., since which he has been train dispatcher, assistant superintendent, and in the spring of 1886, to May 1, 1889, gen- eral superintendent same road. Office ad- dress, Canisteo, N. Y.
BROWN, Helen Dawes:
Author and lecturer; daughter of Will- iam Dawes and Martha Swan Brown; born Concord, Mass .; educated at Vassar College. Author of Two College Girls; The Petrie Estate; Little Miss Phoebe Gay; Her Sixteenth Year; A Book of Lit- tle Boys (published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.); A Civilian Attaché (published
Chief Engineer U. S. Navy; born in and appointed from New York; third as- sistant engineer, Dec. 17, 1862; second as- sistant engineer, April 8, 1864; past assist- ant engineer, January 1, 1868; chief en- gineer, November 19, 1890; retired, August 2, 1892. Address, 84th St. and Tenth Ave., Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y.
BROWN, John Crosby :
Banker, Brown Bros. & Co .; director Liverpool and London and Globe Insur- ance Co., and Toledo, St. Louis and West- ern R. R. Co .; trustee Bank for Savings and United States Trust Co. Residence, 36 East 37th St .; office, 59 Wall St., N. Y. City.
BROWN, John George:
Artist; born Durham, England, Nov. 11, 1831; early in life began to draw, and a. nine made a portroit of his mother; his boyhood was passed at Newcastle-on- Tyne, where his father was a practising lawyer, and there he was apprenticed to learn the glass-cutting trade; at the age of eighteen he entered the School of De- sign at Newcastle, studying under Robert Scott Lander; after attaining his majority he obtained employment in the Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh, and began to study art in the Royal Academy, where, in 1853, he won a prize for the best draw- ing from the antique; soon went to Lon- don, where he supported himself by drawing for painting on glass; later came to New York, making his home in Brooklyn. He found employment in the Flint Glass Works of William Owen, and went on with his art study at the same time, having the advantage of instruction in the Academy of Design, N. Y. City, under Thomas Cummings. His first suc- cess was in painting children; later on he made a specialty of newsboys and boot- blacks; of equal merit are the canvases on which he has depicted rustic and hum- ble life, in which men and women are the chief and only figures; his works. most of which are in oil, are very numer- ous, and are widely known through re- productions; he was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1862, an academician in 1863, and vice- president in 1899; was made president of the American Water Color Society in 1887, and is now president of the Artists Fund Society; he received honorable
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mention at Paris in 1899 and medals at lantic, Nov. 30, 1874; at Fort Hamilton, San Francisco and Boston.
250 West 42d St .; studio, 51 West 10th St., N. Y. City.
BROWN, Laurence C .:
Captain U. S. Army; born New York, Sept. 14, 1875; appointed from the army a second lieutenant, Sixth Artillery, June 22, 1898; accepted July 7, 1898; transferred to Second Artillery April 4, 1899, to rank from June 22, 1898; first lieutenant, Artillery Corps, Feb. 2, 1901; captain, Artillery Corps, Sept. 23, 1901; previous regular service-Troop E, Sev- enth Cavalry, April 20, 1894, to July 19, 1897; private and corporal, Battery D, Fourth Artillery, Oct. 1, 1897, to July 6, 189S. Present address, Fort Mckinley, Me.
BROWN, Marshall Stewart:
Educator; born Keene, N. H., 1870; son of George A. Brown and Ida Stewart Brown; was graduated from Brown Uni- versity 1892; Fellow in history, Brown l'niversity, 1892-93; received degree of M. A., June, 1893; instructor in history, Uni- versity of Michigan, 1893-94; professor of history and political science at New York University, 1894 to present time; studied in Germany at Heidelberg University, 1895 and 1896; married, 1900, to Margaret, daughter of Professor Henry M. Baird, D. I)., L.L. D., L. H. D., of New York Uni- versity; children: Susan Baldwin Brown and Marshall Stewart Brown, Jr. Author of Epoch Making Papers in U. S. History, Macmillan, 1903; A History of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, privately printed; Amer- ican State Constitutions in Encycloædia Americana, and articles and reviews in periodicals. Member of the Zeta Psi Fra- ternity, of the Phi Beta Kappa Frater- nity, and of the American Historical As- sociation; member of the general com- mittee of the American Historical Asso- ciation, vice-president of History Teach- ers Association Middle States and Mary- land. Address, 219 Palisade Ave., Yonk- ers, N. Y.
BROWN, Mary Belle, M. D .:
Physician, dean New York Medical Col- lege and Hospital for Women. Address, 30 West 51st St., N. Y. City.
BROWN, Paul R .:
Surgeon, major, U. S. Army; born N. Y., Nov. 4, 1846; appointed from New York-civil life. Actual rank-first lieu- tenant and assistant surgeon, Nov. 10, 1874; accepted, Nov. 13, 1874; captain and assistant surgeon, Nov. 10, 1879; service- ordered to Military Division of the At-
Residence, N. Y., to July, 1875; ordered to Depart- ment of Dakota, July 20, 1875; post sur- geon, Fort Shaw, Mont., to May, 1879; in the field with battalion Second Cavalry from April to Oct., 1877; post surgeon, Fort Bennett, Dak., to Sept., 1879; on leave of absence to March, 1880; ordered to Department of the East, March 2, 1880; at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., to Oct., 18§1; ordered to Department of Texas, Oct. 24, 1881; post surgeon, Fort Davis, Texas, to May, 1SS2; on sick leave to Nov., 1883; ordered to Department of Arizona, Nov. 28, 1883; post surgeon, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., from Jan., 1884, to Nov., 1887; post surgeon at Fort Niag- ara, N. Y., Dec., 1887, to Sept., 1888; post surgeon, Sidney Barracks, Neb., Sept., to Nov., 1888; post surgeon, Fort D. A. Rus- sel, Wyo., Nov., 1888, to May, 1889; on sick leave to Dec., 1889. At Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., from Dec., 1899, to April, 1890; post surgeon at Little Rock Barracks, Ark., from April 1890, to October, 1890; post surgeon at Fort Supply, Ind. Ter., from October.
1890, to July, 1893; promoted Major and surgeon, Dec. 3. 1891; post surgeon at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. harbor, from July, 1893, to October, 1897; retired, October, 1, 1897. Member Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Holland Socie- ty, N. Y., Huguenot Society of America, Huguenot Society of South Carolina. Ad- dress, Tulsa, Indian Territory.
BROWN, Ray:
Illustrator; born Groton, Conn., July 16, 1865; son of Rev. Samuel W. and Marianna (Ward) Brown; educated in private school, South Hadley (Mass.) High School, and Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute; married, Morrison, Ill., 1893, Gertrude Foster. Successively on staff of Chicago Times, Chicago Times-Herald, New York Evening Jour- nal, and New York Morning Journal. Il- lustrator: Book of Child's Songs; Stage Lyrics; American Merchant Ships and Sailors. At present Art Director of Everybody's Magazine. Office 31 E. 17th St., Union Sq., N. Y. City.
BROWN, Roscoe C. E .:
Editorial writer New York Tribune since 1895; born in Scottsville, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1867; son of D. D. S. Brown, some time proprietor of Rochester Democrat, now Rochester Democrat and Chronicle; was graduated from the University of Rochester in 1889; M. A., 1904; Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa; married, Feb
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11, 1897, Bertha, daughter of Truman J. schools; 1886, entered employ of L. Pruyn Backus, LL. D., president of Packer Col- legiate Institute, Brooklyn. Director of the People's University Extension Socie- ty and member of the committee on pub- lication and executive committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Associa- tion. Member of the Union League Club of New York and of the Alpha Delta Phi Club. House address, No. 164 Hicks St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
BROWN, Samuel Q .:
Financier; born Pleasantville, Pa .; edu- cated Allegheny College; A. M. Princeton, 1871; merchant, banker, oil producer, com- missioner of Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for fifteen years; one of the organizers of the Tide Water Pipe & Oil Company; now president of Tide Water Pipe Co .. Tide Water Oil Co., Associat- ed Producers Co .; member of Union League of New York, Pennsylvania So- ciety of New York, Natural Arts Club. Address, 11 Broadway, N. Y. City. BROWN, Vernon H .:
Agent, Cunard Steamships; director Fanama Railroad Co., Northern Insur- ance Co. and Hanover National Bank; trustee Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. and Colonial Trust Co., and member of Union, New York Yacht and Richmond County Country Clubs; Residence, 95 Madison Ave .; office, 29 Broadway, N. Y. Ctiy.
BROWN, Waldron Post:
Banker; born New York; son of James M. and Julia E. Brown; graduate of Col- umbia College, 1864; married, New York, 1870, Miss Isabella M. Wright; member firm of Brown Bros. Co., bankers; officer and director of various corporations, in- cluding Atlantic Mutual Ins. Co .; member N. Y. Stock Exchange, Chamber of Com- merce, N. Y. Botanical Gardens, Down Town Association, Metropolitan and Rid- ing Clubs. Residence, 32 E. 35th St .; of- fice, 59 Wall St., N. Y. City.
BROWN, Walston Hill:
Contractor and banker; born Cincinnati, 1842; was graduated from Columbia; ad- mitted to the Bar in 1868; he and his father founded the firm of Augustus J. Brown & Co .; he became a contractor for building railroads; married Miss In- gersoll of New York. Residence, Dobbs Ferry ; office, 40 Wall St., N. Y. City. BROWN, Walter L .:
Republican State Senator, representing the Thirty-third Senate District (Otsego and Herkimer counties); born Carlisle, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1846; educated in common
& Son, Albany, N. Y., continuing there until 1872; that year located at Oneonta and has since then engaged in hardware business and farming; prominent in lat- ter, being one of organizers of Central New York Agricultural Society of One- onta (1874), and its president most of the time since; many years member of local board of Oneonta State Normal School; went into politics, 1878, as Republican, and has been active ever since; for seven years represented his town in board of supervisors, serving as member of com- mittee on equalization, etc .; in 1888, elect- ed member of Assembly from Otsego County and served for five years; trustee of village of Oneonta one year; first elect- ed to State Senate, 1895; re-elected, 1902; 1903, appointed to following Senate com- mittees: Chairman of Engrossed Bills; member of Finance, Internal Affairs, Pub- lic Health, and Forest, Fish and Game. Address, Oneonta, N. Y.
BROWN, William Adams:
Clergyman (Presbyterian) and profes- sor; born New York, Dec. 29, 1865; son of John Crosby Brown and Mary E. (Adams) Brown; studied at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire; was graduated from Yale, 1886 and from Union Theological Seminary, 1890; A. M. (Yale, 1887), Ph.D (Yale, 1901), D. D. (Union, 1902); married, St. Paul, Minn., 1892, Helen Gilman Noyes; teacher of theology in Union Theological Seminary since 1892; since 1898, Roosevelt professor of systematic theology; member of Socie- ty Biblical Exegesis; patron Metropolitan Museum of Art; Clubs: Century, Univer- sity, Yale, American Alpine; author of Musical Instruments and Their Homes (1888); The Essence of Christianity (1902); Articles: Salvation; Millennium, etc., in Hastings Dictionary of the Bible; article: State Control of Industry in the Fourth Centruy: Political Science Quar- terly (Sept., 1887); Christ, the Vitalizing Principle of Christian Theology (Inaug- ural address, 1898). Address, 700 Park Ave., N. Y. City.
BROWN, William Lee:
Part owner of N. Y. Daily News; born Vermont, Dec. 25, 1840; educated at pub- lic schools of Ohio; served in 85th and 115th Ohio Vol. infantry during Civil War; rank of aide de camp on staff of Gov. William Allen, Ohio; served as chief clerk territorial legislature, Montana; set- tled in Youngstown, O .; founded Youngs- town Vindicator and served as Senator,
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1875; removed to New York, 1877, and French Art Classic and Contemporary bought interest in the Daily News; served two terms as N. Y. State Senator (5th Dist.). Summer home, Locustwood, Great Barrington, Mass. Address, 42 West. 72d St., N. Y. City.
BROWNE, Grant Hugh:
Financier; B. A., University of Roches- ter, 1885; born May 31, 1864, Almond, N. Y .; son of Hugh W. Browne, Evangelist; 1885 to 1888, mathematician Department of Statistics, New York Life Insurance Co .; 1888 to 1891, mathematician Depart- ment of Statistics, Mutual Life Insurance Co .: 1892-95, consulting actuary in New York and Chicago; 1895-01, financier and broker, London, England; during Span- ish-American War aided the government in purchasing ships and war material abroad; since 1901, with Thomas F. Ryan at the Morton Trust Co .; vice-president and director, United Lead Co .; treasurer and director, Royal Typewriter Co .; vice- president and director, Pine Products Co., director, Chadwick-Boston Lead Co .; married Oct. 12, 1893, at Chicago, Laura Fish (died Bournemouth, Eng., Oct. 30, 1897); Oct. 6, 1899, at London, Alice Al- len; has two daughters. Residence, The Chatsworth; office, 38 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
BROWNE, Irving :
Lawyer and author; born Marshall, N. Y., in 1835; educated Nashua, N. H., and Norwich, Conn .; was graduated from Al- bany Law School, 1857; has published a number of works, legal and humorous, and is a lecturer in Law Schools; is cus- todian of the State Law Library at Buf- falo; 1858, married Miss Clark, and after her death in 1834 he married Miss Ferris, of Buffalo. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.
BROWNE. Thomas Nicoll:
Vice-consul; born New London, Conn .. Aug. 10, 1840, and educated in the gram- mar schools and at the Farmington and Lyme Academies; is a lawyer by profes- sion; has held several elective offices and was in the customs service in San Fran- cisco and New York for a number of years; appointed vice and deputy consul at Lyon, France, Sept. 6, 1893. Address, Lyon, France.
BROWNELL. William Crary :
Editor, author and critic; born N. Y., Aug. 30, 1851; was graduated from Am- herst College, 1871, L. H. D., 1896; mar- ried Jan. 3, 1878, Virginia S. Swinburne, at Newport, R. I .; since 1888 with Charles Scribner's Sons; author: French Traits; An Essay in Comparative Criticism;
Painting and Sculpture; Victorian Prose Masters-Thackeray, Carlyle, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin, George Mere- dith; also contributor on literary and art to magazines; member Century, N. Y. Athletic, Barnard Clubs, Amherst College Association, Municipal Art Society. Res- idence, 58 W. 59th St .; office, 153-57 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
BROWNING, John Hull:
Merchant; born Orange, N. J., Dec. 25, 1841; parents came to New York, 1843; educated College City of New York; in clothing trade with brothers as clerk; later partner; remained twenty years; di- rector Aetna Indemnity Co; Northern New Jersey R. R. Co .; on the death of fa- ther-in-law, became president, 1875; treas- urer New York and Hackensack R. R., East and West R. R. Co. of Alabama; treasurer Cherokee Iron Co. of Georgia; director, 1877, president, 1884, Richmond County Gas Light Co., director Staten Is- land Dyeing Establishment, West Indies Co., Citizens' National Bank of Englewood, N. J .; Republican in politics; president Ber- gen County League; presidential elector for New Jersey, 1892, 1896; vice-president Christ Hospital, Jersey City; treasurer American Church Missionary Society; married Eva, daughter Charles G. Sisson. Address, Tenafly, N. J.
BROWNING, William:
Physician; born Connecticut, of Pilgrim ancestry, July 7, 1855; received Ph. B. from Yale, 1876; diploma in anatomy from University of Pennsylvania, 1878; M. D. from University of Leipsic, Ger- many, 1881; instructor in the natural sci- ences at Philadelphia in 1876 and 1877; house surgeon at the German Hospital, New York, 1881-82; connected with the Brooklyn Central Dispensary, 1883-84, and with the Long Island until 1893; editorial staff of Annals of Surgery, 1885-91; from 1887 to 1900, lecturer, and since then pro- fessor of diseases of the mind and nervous system at the Long Island College Hospi- tal; from 1891 to 1901 was in charge of the Medical Society's Library, and from 1897 to 1900 secretary of its executive building committee; at present, attending or consulting neurologist to the Kings County, Long Island State, Long Island College, Norwegian, St. John's, Brooklyn, St. Christopher's, German, Bushwick, and Eastern District Hospitals; ex-president of the Associated Physicians of Long Island, of the Brooklyn Society for Neur- ology, and of the Medical Society of the
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County of Kings; member of the Amer- ican Neurological, the Association of American Anatomists, Association of Medical Librarians, and locally of the Brooklyn Institute, Long Island Historial Society, County Medical Socety, Medical Club, Union League Club, Brooklyn Lea- gue, Kings County Alumni and Staff As- sociations, Verein Deutscher Aertze von Brooklyn, and is a State examiner in lun-
acy. Author of Veins of the Brain, (1884); The Epileptic Interval, 1893; Cir- culation in the Central Nervous System, (1897);' also of Vessels of the Brain in Buck's Reference Hand-book; Vascular Diseases of the Brain in Sajou's Cyclo- pædia, and of some fifty articles from 1879 to the present time on subjects con- nected with neurology, medical history, etc., besides annual reports, critical re- views, etc. Address, 54 Lefferts Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
BROWNSON, Willard Herbert:
Captain, U. S. Navy; born New York; appointed acting midshipman at Naval Academy, Nov. 29, 1861; was graduated, 1865; Rhode Island (second rate), West India Station, 1865-67; promoted to en- sign, Dec. 1, 1866; Susquehanna (second rate), North Atlantic Station, 1867-68; promoted to master, March 12, 1868; Da- cotah (third rate), Pacific Fleet, 1869-70; commissioned as lieutenant, March 26, 1869; Mohican (third rate), Pacific Fleet, 1870-71; Ossipee, 1871; . torpedo service, 1872; Naval Academy, 1872-75; Kearsarge (third rate), Asiatic Station, 1875-76; Ten- nessee (second rate). Asiatic Station, 1876-78; Naval Academy, 1878-81; promot- ed to lieutenant-commander, Dec., 1880; commanding C. S. S. Gedney, 1881; com- manding C. S. S. Blake, 1881-84; Powha- tan, North Atlantic Station, 1884-85; hy- drographic inspector, Coast Survey, 1885- 89; commanding Petrel, North Atlantic Station, 1889 to Oct., 1891; promoted com- mander, May, 1891; general inspector Cruiser No. 10, Oct., 1891, to March, 1892, and July, 1893; commanding Detroit, July, 1893-94; Naval Academy, Nov., 1894-95; leave o absence, Nov., 1895; member board inspection and survey, Dec., 1896- 98; commanding the U. S. S. Yankee, March, 1898, to September, 1898; promot- ed captain, March 3, 1899; general in- spector, Alabama, May 1, 1899; command- ing Alabama. Oct. 16, 1900, to 1902; Nov., 1902, superintendent Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Nov. 6, 1902-03. Address, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
BRUCE, Dwight Hall:
Postmaster, Syracuse; born Lenox, N. Y., 1834. Received his education in the schools of his native town and was gradu- ated from Jordan Academy. Was made postmaster of Syracuse in 1872, hold- ing the office for five years. In the sub- sequent years was engaged in journalism until reappointed postmaster in 1897. Au- thor of Syracuse, Onondaga County's Centennial, 2 vols .; The Empire State in Three Centuries, 3 vols. Is identified with business affairs and humanitarian work and is a member of several clubs. Ad- dress, 720 James St., Syracuse, N. Y.
BRUCE, Matthew Lini: .
Lieutenant governor of State of New York. Republican. President of Repub- lican Club of N. Y. City. Residence, 523 W. 150th St., N. Y. City ; office, State Cap- itol, Albany, N. Y.
BRUCE, Wallace:
Author and lecturer; born, Hillsdale, Columbia County, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1844; was graduated from Yale, 1867; delivered lectures on literary subjects, particularly on Shakespeare, Scott, Burns, Irving and Bryant, 1889-93, United States Consul at Edinburgh, Scotland; prominent speaker at Chautauqua meetings. President Flor- ida Chautauqua (De Funiak Springs) since 1893; numerous publications: Land of Burns (1878); Yosemite (1879); The Hudson (1881); From the Hudson to the Yosemite (1884); Old Homestead Poems (1887); In Clover and Heather (1889); Here's a Hand (1893); Hudson by Day- light (1894); The Hudson Panorama (1894); Wayside Poems (1894). Address, 267 Stuyvesant Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
BRUNDAGE, Albert Harrison:
Physician, lecturer, toxicologist; born Candor, N. Y., March 3, 1862; son of Amos H. Brundage, M. D., and Sarah Mervina (Dimmick) Brundage; grandson of Parments Brundage; educated in the public schools of Candor and Cohoes, N. Y., and Newark. N. J .; was graduat- ed (M. D.) from N. Y. University Medi- cal College, 1885; took post-graduate course, New York University Medical Col- lege, 1891-92, and Long Island College Hospital, 1890-91; was graduated (Ph. G.) Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, Phar. D. from Brooklyn College of Phar- 1892; macy, 1897; received A. M. from Univer- sity of Nashville, 1898; married Sarah Alice Holt, daughter of Rev. Kilburn Holt, of Amherst, Mass., Sept. 26, 1888. President of the Board of Pharmacy of
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