Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 27

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BULKLEY, Justus Lawrence:

Merchant; born 1840, N. Y. City; mar- ried, 1871, Laura E. Caldwell; member of Union, Metropolitan, Riding, Adirondack League Clubs, Holland and New England Societies. Residence, 787 Madison Ave .; office, 84 Gold St., N. Y. City. BULKLEY, L. Duncan:

Physician; born N. Y. City, Jan. 12, 1845; his father was Henry D. Bulkley,

a well known practitioner in N. Y. City, and mother was Juliana Barnes, a daugh- ter of Squire Wheeler Barnes, of Rome, N. Y .; was graduated from Yale College in 1866, receiving also the degree of A. M. 1869, in which year he also was gradu- ated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y. City. After serving as house physician at the New York Hos- pital he went abroad and studied der- matology in Vienna, Paris and London. Married, 1872, Katherine La Rue Mel- lick, at Bergen Point, N. J., and has six children. A short time after his arrival he published a translation of Neumann on Diseases of the Skin, with notes; he soon started the Archives of Dermatol- ogy and edited the same for eight years. He is attending physician to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, consult- ing physician to the New York Hospital, consulting dermatologist to the Randall's Island hospitals, to the Hospital for Rup- tured and Crippled, and to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital; member of many city, State and national medical societies, also of the Union League, Yale and Quill Clubs. Address, 531 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.

BULL, Charles Stedman:

Physician; born N. Y. City; eldest son of Henry King and Eliza Ludlow Bull; received his early education at the French School of Professor Elie Charlier; en- tered academic department Columbia Uni- versity; was graduated A. B., in 1864; en- tered College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical department of Columbia Uni- versity in 1864; was graduated M. D. in 1868; degree of A. M. in 1867. He served in Bellevue Hospital as house physician and surgeon; studied in Europe for two years in Universities of Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Heidelberg and Utrecht, and in the hospitals of London, devoting his at- tention mainly to ophthalmology, surgery and pathology; was appointed clinical as- sistant in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1871, and assistant surgeon in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital in 1871; appointed assistant surgeon to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1873, and surgeon to the same in 1876. Director of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1880; secretary of board of directors of the Eye Infirmary; consult- ing surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital for Children; consulting ophthalmic surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital. He is a member of the Amer- ican Medical Association, American Oph-

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thalmological Society, New York Acad- tal for Ruptured and Crippled; New York emy of Medicine, County Medical Asso- State Emigrants Hospital; demonstrator of anatomy, Columbia, 1879 to 1880; pro- fessor of practice of surgery at Columbia since 1889. Author of various articles in medical journals, and a member of the Grolier, Racquet and New York Univer- sity Clubs. Address, 35 West 35th St., N. Y. City. ciation, New York Ophthalmological So- ciety, New York State Medical Associa- tion, and the Practitioners' Society; pres- ident of the American Ophthalmological Society; president of the Practitioners Society; also member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, of the So- ciety of Colonial Wars and of the Hugue- BULLARD, D. A .: not Society of America; member of the Manufacturer and banker; born Oct. 16, 1869, Schuylerville, N. Y .; educated in Phillips Exeter Academy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; married; treasurer and manager Schuylerville Paper Co .; vice-president Fort Miller Pulp and Pa- per Co .; director Adirondack Trust Co., Saratoga Springs; vice-president Liberty Wall Paper Co. Address, Schuylerville, N. Y. Century and University Clubs. Editor of the American Edition of J. Soelberg Wells on Diseases of the Eye; one of the trans- lators of Stellwag von Carion on Diseases of the Eye. Author of numerous articles on diseases of the eye. Adjunct profes- sor of ophthalmology in the Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College from 1887 to 1890; professor of ophthalmology in the New York University Medical College from 1890 BUMPUS, Hermon Carey : till 1899; professor of ophthalmology in the medical department of Cornell Uni- versity since 1899. Address, 47 West 36th St., N. Y. City.

BULL, Oliver Prince:

Lawyer; born Jan. 22, 1838, N. Y. City; was graduated from Williams College, 1859; admitted to the Bar, 1861; married, 1871; Josephine McDougall; director and general counsel of the U. S. Life Insur- ance Co. since 1878; director United States Fire Insurance Co .; member of City Bar Association, Reformed Hardware Clubs and Vice Pres. of Catholic Club. President of Democratic Club and member of Board of Education. Address, Yonkers, N. Y. BULL, William Lanman:

Broker; born N. Y. City, Aug. 23, 1844; educated University City of N. I .; mar- ried Miss Worthington; interested as officer and director of large railroad and mining corporations; trustee Metropolitan Trust Co .; member firm Edward Sweet & Co., brokers; member N. Y. Stock Ex- change, (president 1888-90); Chamber of Commerce; New England, American Fine Arts, Mayflower, Dunlap Societies, S. A. R., Metropolitan Museum of Art; clubs: N. Y. Yacht, Metropolitan, Grolier, Uni- versity, Union, Players, Century. Res- idence, 805 5th Ave .; office, 38 Broad St., N. Y. City.

BULL, William Tillinghast, M. D .:

Educator; born Buckfield, Me., May 5, 1862; son of Laurin A. and Abbie Ann (Eaton) Bumpus, was graduated from Brown University, 1884; Ph. D., Clark University, 1890; married 1886, L. Ella Nightingale; Professor biology, Olivet College, 1886-89; Fellow of Clark Univer- sity, 1889-90; assistant professor of

zoology, then associate professor of zoo- logy, and later professor of comparative anatomy, Brown University, 1890-1901; assistant director Marine Biological Lab- oratory, 1893-95; director Biological Lab- oratory of U. S. Fish Commission, Woods Hole, 1898-01; assistant to presi- dent and curator of department of in- vertebrates and subsequently director American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. City, 1901. Author: A Laboratory

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articles on biological subjects; member: Century, Linnalan Society of N. Y .; Fel- low N. Y. Academy of Sciences, N. Y. Botanical Garden, Zoological Society, Brown University Alumni. Address, American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. City.

BUNCE, J. Oscar:

Architect, sculptor; born N. Y. City, July, 1867; studied National Academy of Design and Art Students League; his work in sculpture include busts of Edward Moran and Dr. Charles Lotin Hildreth; since fire of 1902 largely interested in re- storation of Patterson, N. J. Residence, Ridgewood, N. J .; studio, St. James Bldg., 1133 Broadway, N. Y. City.

Born Newport, R. I., May 18, 1849, was graduated from Harvard, 1869; visiting surgeon to Chambers Street Hospital, 1876 to 1888; St. Luke's Hospital, 1880 to 1883, and consulting surgeon since 1883; BUNNELL, A. O .: visiting surgeon to New York Hospital Editor; born Lima, N. Y., March 10, since 1883; consulting Surgeon to Hospi- 1836, of New England parentage; entered

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a printing office in Sept., 1852; in 1860 established the Dansville Advertiser, which he has since published and edited. He has been secretary and treasurer of the New York Press Association since 1868; secretary and treasurer of the Re- publican Editorial Association of New York State since its organiazation in 1894; secretary and treasurer of the National Republican Editorial Association since its organization in 1900; president of the Na- tional Editorial Association, 1894-96; was grand master of the I. O. O. F. of the State of New York, 1884-85. He has never held political office and never been a can- didate for one, but has held responsible positions in local historical, literary and other associations and societies and bus- iness organizations. Address, Dansville, N. Y.

BURCHELL, George W .:

Vice-president of the Queen Insurance Co. of America; born, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 31, 1850, when but fourteen years of age, in 1864, he entered the office of the Niagara Fire Insurance Co. as a clerk, and continued there until 1896; he was in the mercantile business two years, and then with the Phenix Insurance Co. of Brooklyn from 1871 to 1881, being special agent in the Eastern and Mid- dle States the last eight years; in 1881 he went into the service of the Queen

Insurance Co. of Liverpool, traveling for it as general agent in the Middle States until 1889, when he became deputy man- ager of the U. S. branch; when the Queen Insurance Co. of America was organ- ized under the laws of the State of New York to take the business of the Liver- pool Co., Mr. Burchell was appointed secretary; he was elected vice-president in April, 1900. Office address, 43 Cedar St., N. Y. City.

BURDEN, James Abercrombie :

Iron-master; son of Henry Burden, in- ventor; born Troy, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1833; educated under tutor at New Haven, at- tending lectures in Yale Scientific School, also at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Became practical engineer and millwright, later foreman of a department of Bur- den Iron Works, finally president of Bur- den Iron Co .; some time president of Hud- son River Ore and Iron Co .; has made many inventions, obtaining large income from manufacture of iron shoes and snow-and-mud shoes

for horses and mules; 1880 and 1888, Presidential elector. Member of the American Institute of Min- ing Engineers and several times its vice-

president, also member of Civil Engi- neers' Society, Society of Mechanical En- gineers, and many foreign scientific so- cieties; also of Union League and other New York Clubs; married daughter of Richard Irvin, of N. Y. City. Address, Union Club, N. Y. City.

BURDETT, Cyril Herbert:

Lawyer; born Boston, Mass, Oct. 3, 1865; was graduated from Quincy Acad- emy in 1884 and from Harvard University in 1888; practiced law in Boston for two years; became a member -of the New York Bar and was, for ten years, asso- ciated with the Title Guarantee and Trust Co. of N. Y. City; in 1902, upon the or- ganization of the Title Insurance Co. of N. Y. City, he was elected secretary of that company, as well as of the New York Mortgage and Security Co., two allied corporations; prominently identified with the Unitarian movement in this section of the country; president of the Liberal Club of Brooklyn and president of the New York Unitarian Sunday School Union; actively interested in all civic matters and movements for the improvement of the social and industrial conditions of his fellow citizens. Address, 149 Broad- way, N. Y. City.

BURDGE, Franklin:

Lawyer; born Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1835; educated at Brown University (A. M.) and Albany Law School (LL. B.). Married Ella Jackson, Sept. 10, 1891, at Manasquan, N. J .; has written the lives of John Brougham, Henry Wisner, John Haring, Simon Boerum, and others. He is a member of Brown University and Theta Delta Chi Clubs; also Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Natural His- tory, and the New York Historical, Nu- mismatic and Geographical Societies, and has been for about twenty years a trustee of St. John's Guild. Address, 325 West 57th St., N. Y. City.

BURDICK, Francis Marion:

Lawyer; born De Ruyter, N. Y., Aug. 1, 1845; parents were Capt. Albert G. Burdick (descended from Robert Bur- dick, of Newport, R. I., a member of the Colonial Assembly for several terms) and Eunetia. Wheeler Burdick (descendant of Dr. John Wheeler, of Rehoboth, Mass.) ; he prepared for college at De Ruyter In- stitute and at Cazenovia Seminary; was graduated from Hamilton College, 1869, and from Hamilton College Law School, 1872; before entering upon the study of law was connected with editorial staff of the Utica Morning Herald for a year or

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more; practiced at Bar, Utica, from 1872 Botany; Studies in the History and Vari- to 1883, alone and as a member of the ations of Asters; member of Century Association, Hamilton Alumni, Johns Hopkins Alumni, B. K. Alumni, Torrey Botanical, N. Y. Historical Society, American Scientific Society. Address, 11 W. SSth St., N. Y. City. firms of Beardsley, Cookinham & Burdick, and of Beardsley, Burdick & Beardsley; married Sarah Underhill Kellogg in Utica, June 8, 1875 ; has four children, Anna Van Eps, Katherine, Charles Kellogg, Flora Margaret; Mayor of Utica, 1889-93; mem - BURGESS, Frederick, D. D .: ber of U. S. Assay Commission, 1889; professor of law at Hamilton College, 1882-1887, at Cornell University 1887-1891, and at Columbia, 1891, to date; received the degree of LL.D. from Hamilton Col- lege, 1895; member of Phi Beta Kappa, American Bar Association and various New York Clubs. Author of several legal works. Residence, 633 West 115th St .; office, Rooms 302-3 Library Building, Co- lumbia University. N. Y. City.

BURDICK, Joel Wakeman:

Railway official; since 1885; born Al- mond, N. Y., June 20, 1853; educated at public schools; married Jan., 1878, Ella Pixley Bartlett; entered employ of Del- aware and Hudson R. R. Co., 1868 as telegraph operator, he has remained with the company and in 1885 became general passenger agent; president, Albany Cham- ber of Commerce, 1899-1901; member New England Society, (New York). Clubs: Ft. Orange, Albany Country. Address, 58 N. Pearl St., Albany, N. Y.

BURGESS, Edward G .:

President International Elevating Com- pany, and treasurer, Pan-American Rub- ber Co .; director Consolidated Nation- al Bank, Pan-American Steamship Co., and U. S. Fire Insurance Co. Residence, Montclair, N. J .; office, Produce Ex- change, N. Y. City.

BURGESS, Edward Sandford:

Botanist, educator; born Little Valley, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1855; was graduated from Fredonia Normal School, 1875; Hamilton College, 1879 (A. M., 1882) ; fellow Johns Hopkins, 1880-81; Ph. D., Columbia Uni- versity, 1899; Sc.D., Hamilton College, 1904; married, 1884, Irene S. Hamilton, Fredonia, N. Y .; taught botany in Wash- ington and Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute, 1882-95; Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, 1885; since 1895 professor of natural science in the Normal College of N. Y. City. Author: The Chautauqua Flora; Botanical General Tribes and Families in Century Dictionary, M to Z; The Asters of the Northern U. S. (in Britton & Brown's Illustrated Flora- with Dr. N. L. Britton) ; The Asters of the Southern U. S. (in small Southeast- ern Flora); History of the Pre-Clusian

Bishop of Long Island; born Provi- dence, R. I., Oct. 6, 1853; was graduated from Brown University, 1873; attended the General Theological Seminary in N. Y. City; studied a year in Oxford; was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of New Hampshire, 1876, and Priest by the late Bishop Clark, 1877; he served his diacon- ate in charge of St. Mark's Mission, Mendham, N. J., and was successively rector of five parishes: Grace, Amherst, Mass .; Christ, Pomfret, Conn .; St. Asaph, Bala, Pa .; Christ, Detroit, Mich .; and Grace, Brooklyn Heights, N. Y. He came to Brooklyn in 1898, and the following year received the degree of doctor of divinity from Brown University; at a special convention in Nov., 1901, after the death of Bishop Littlejohn, he was elected Bishop of Long Island; was con- secrated in Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights, Jan. 15, 1902, the Bishop of New York being consecrator, assisted by the Bishops of Albany and Michigan; the pre- centors were the Bishops of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Residence, Sea House, Garden City, N. Y .; office Dio- cesan House, 170 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

BURGESS, John William:

Educator, writer on historical, legal & political subjects; born Conersville, Tenn., Aug. 26, 1844; early education in Tennes- see; was graduated from Amherst, 1867 (Ph. D .; LL. D.); married Sept. 2, 1885, Ruth Payne Jewett, Montpelier, Vt. Ad- mitted to Mass. Bar, Springfield, 1869; professor English literature and political economy, Knox College, 1869-71; went abroad for. two years studying at Göt- tengen Leipsig and Merlin, returning in 1873, professor of political science at his Alma Mater, 1873-76; professor political science and constitutional law since 1876, dean faculty of political science since 1890, Columbia University. Author: Polit- ical Science and Comparative Constitu- tional Law (2 vols.); The Middle Period; The Civil War and the Constitution (2 vols.), Reconstruction and the Constitu- tion; member: Barnard Club, Amherst College Association, American Geographi- cal Society, National Arts Society. Ad-

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dress, 323 West 57th St., N. Y. City. BURKE, John Edmund:

Clergyman; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1852; educated at St. Francis Xavier College, N. Y. City; for priesthood, at Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Emmets- burg, Md., and American College in Rome; ordained priest Aug. 4, 1878; returned to U. S., becoming pastor of the Epiphany, N. Y. City; interested in colored Roman Catholics; 1878, resigned pastorate to de- vote himself to these; 1883, became pas- tor of Church of St. Benedict the Moor. Address, 264 West 53d St., N. Y. City. BURKE, Thomas Martin Aloysius:

Roman Catholic bishop; born Ireland, Jan. 10, 1840; began studies in St. Mich- ael's College, Toronto, Canada, 1855; at St. Charles College, Md., 1856, teaching in meantime; was graduated from St. Mary' Theological Seminary, Baltimore, 1864, with degrees M. A. and B. T .; or- dained to priesthood, June 30, 1864; con- nected with St. John's Church, Albany, 1864-65; with St. Joseph's, 1864-94; theo- logian of third plenary council, 1884; sub- sequently in turn vicar-general of Albany, administrator of diocese and bishop of Albany, 1894; is Knight of Holy Sepul- chre and of the Grand Cross. Address, Albany, N. Y.

BURLINGAME, Edward Livermore:

Editor; born Boston, Mass., May 30, 1848; son of Anson Burlingame, diplomat, for some years minister to China; en- tered Harvard University but left to go to China as private secretary to his fath- er; took long trips through China and Japan; 1867, left for Heidelberg, Ger- many, where, after two years' study, ob- tained Ph. D. degree. Later studied at Berlin. Spent some time traveling in Europe; 1871, on editorial staff of New York Tribune; 1872-76, associate in re- vision of Appleton's American Cyclopædia; has contributed to magazines and re- views; 1879, associated with Charles Scribner's Sons publishing house; since 1886 editor of Scribner's Magazine; hon- orary degree of A. M. from Harvard, 1901; translated and edited Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner (N. Y., 1875); edited Current Discussion; a col- lection from the Chief English Essays on Questions of the Time (1878), etc. Ad- dress, 47 East 83d St., N. Y. City. BURLINGHAM, Charles C .:

President Department of Education. Ad- dress, Park Ave. and 59th St., N. Y. City.

BURNETT, Henry Lawrence :

Lawyer; entered Union Army, 1863, as captain of Second Ohio Cavalry; advanced to rank of brigadier-general; resigned from army, 1865; practiced law first in Cincinnati and afterwards in New York; is now United States District Attorney of southern district of New York. Resi- dence, 7 East 12th St., N. Y. City.

BURNETT, Jean La Rue:

Republican Assemblyman, representing Ontario County; born Canandaigua, N. Y .; educated in public schools and acad- emy of that village, and subsequently was graduated from University of Michigan; while at the last-named institution in- strumental in organization of the Ameri- can Collegiate Republican League, having membership of over 60,000; has taken act- ive part in every State and National cam- paign since 1892; has been for years con- tributor to leading periodicals; since ad- mission to the Bar has been engaged in practice of his profession; in Assembly, 1899, during which was member of com- mittees of General Laws, Affairs of Cities and Public Health; has represented On- tario Co. in lower house ever since; in 1900, 1901 and 1902, chairman of the Com- mittee on General Laws and as a mem- ber of the Committees on Excise and Affairs of Cities; re-elected to Assembly in 1902; member of following Assembly committees: Chairman of the Committees on Affairs of Cities; member of Banks, and Federal Relations. Address, Canan- daigua, N. Y.

BURNETT, Levi F .:

Major U. S. Army; born N. Y. City; appointed from N. Y. City-civil life; private Company A, Eighty-fourth New York Volunteer Infantry, Aug. 16, 1862; transferred to Company A, Veteran Re- serve Corps, Aug. 15, 1863; discharged, May 23, 1864; second lieutenant Veteran Reserve Corps, May 12, 1864; staff posi- tions occupied-adjutant Twenty-first Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, May, 1864; A. A. A. G. in the office of the acting assistant provost-marshal-general, disbursing officer and superintendent of volunteer recruiting service, Wheeling, W. Va., Aug., 1864, to May, 1865; adjutant post of Trenton, N. J., to Jan., 1866; bureau duty, Louisville, Ky., March, 1866; adjutant Seventh U. S. Infantry from Nov. 5, 1874, to Oct. 1, 1880; battles, skirmishes, etc .- engaged in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, Md. (severely wounded), Sept. 15 and 17, 1862; retired,

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June 8, 1894; honorably mustered out, [ of Tammany Hall; elected to Assembly, June 9, 1867; second lieutenant Thirty- 1900; appointed member of following com- mittees: Commerce and Navigation, In- dian Affairs; re-elected, 1901; appointed member of following Assembly commit- tees: Banks, Public Institutions, and Soldiers' Home; again elected in 1902; member of following Assembly commit- tees: Electricity, Gas and Water Supply, and Public Institutions. Address, N. Y. City. sixth U. S. Infantry, May 25, 1867; trans- ferred to Seventh U. S. Infantry, May 19, 1869; first lieutenant, May 10, 1889; brevet rank-brevet first lieutenant, May 25, 1867, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Antietam, Md .; captain, May 25, 1867, for gallant and meritorious services during the war; captain Vol., March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritor- ious services in the battles of South BURR, George Lincoln: Mountain and Antietam, Md .; service- in the field during the War of the Re- bellion, 1861-65; with the Army of the Potomac in the Md. campaign, Sept., 1862; at Wheeling, W. Va. on staff duty, to Jan., 1866; at Louisville, Ky., on bureau duty from Feb., 1866, to April, 1869; on recruiting service, Oct. 1, 1880, to Oct. 6, 1882; in Dept. of Platte from 1882 to 1890; promoted to major U. S. Army; retired, April 23, 1904. Address, La Casa Grande Pasadena, Cal.

BURNHAM, David R .:

Major U. S. Army; born Pennsylvania; appointed from New York; first lieuten- ant, Aug. 28, 1861; captain. Jan. 7, 1864; honorably mustered out, Sept. 15, 1864; second lieutenant Thirty-fifth Infantry, June 18, 1867; first lieutenant, Jan. 1, 1875; captain, Oct. 31, 1884; retired, June 15, 1891; major, 1904. Address, Pasa- dena, Cal.

BURNS, James Irving:

Lawyer; born Aug. 10, 1840, Biddeford, Me .; attended Hamilton College, and was graduated from Union College, A. B., and Columbian Law School, LL. B., and received the honorary degree of A. M. from Colgate University; secretary and treasurer of Rutgers Female College sev- eral years; superintendent of the Bonded Warehouses of the Port of New York un- der President Arthur; member of Repub- lican County Committee, N. Y. City and Yonkers; officer in many public and pri- vate institutions; Alderman of City of Yonkers two years; school trustee; mem- ber of Assembly, 1887-88, 1890 and 1895; State Senator, 1898-1900; candidate for Congress, 1898. Married Mary C. Russell, Sept. 30, 1868. Address, Yonkers, N. Y. BURNS, William H .:

Democratic Assemblyman, representing Fourth Assembly district of New York; born N. Y. City, March 9, 1871; educated in the public and parochial schools of New York, of which latter he is a grad- vate; has been engaged in various pur- suits; is now agent and collector; member

Professor medieval history, Cornell; born Oramel, N. Y., Jan. 30, 1857; was graduated from Cornell, 1881; librarian, White Historical library, since 1878; studied at Leipzig, at the Sorbonne and Ecole des Chartes, Paris, and at Zurich, 1×84-86 and 1887-88; LL. D. University of Wisconsin, 1901; entered Cornell facul- ty. 1888; has written especially on history of superstition and persecution; histori- cal expert, Venezuelan Boundary Com- mission, 1896-97; author: The Literature of Witchcraft; The Fate of Dietrich Flade, etc. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.

BURR. Joseph A .:

Jurist ; appointed by Gov. Odell to take place on Supreme Court Bench of Edgar M. Cullen; sworn in Dec. 27, 1904. Ad- dress, 97 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y.

BURR, William Hubert:

Engineer; born Watertown, Conn., July 14, 1851; studied at Academy in Water- town and also prepared in private for en- trance in Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- tute, Troy, from which he was graduated as Civil Engineer (C. E.) in 1872. Mar- ried first to Caroline Kirt Serlye, died in 1894; second to Gertrude Gold Ship- man in 1900; 1872-75, employed in sub- ordinate positions in building of wrought iron bridges and the water works of Newark, N. J .; 1875, member of faculty in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 1876-84, professor of rational and tech- nical mechanics, while practising civil engineering; 1884, assistant to chief en- gineer of Phoenix Bridge Co., later gen- eral manager; 1891, vice-president of Sooysmith & Co .; 1892-93, professor of engineering at Harvard; following year to present time professor of same at Columbia; 1894, appointed by President Cleveland member of board of engineers to investigate crossing of Hudson, at N. Y. City, with one span bridge; also one of the sub-committee of "Committee of 70" for considering improvement of city front, and member of expert com-

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 27

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