Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 37

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is exalted and secure. Since his re- tirement from public service he has de- voted his leisure hours to literary and educational work chiefly with Princeton College, of whose faculty he is a member; writer of trenchant articles on public af- fairs. Married, in the White House, June 2, 1886, Frances Folsom. Address, Princeton, N. J.


CLEVELAND, Rose Elizabeth:


Author; born Fayettsville, N. Y., 1846; nister of ex-President Grover Cleveland; when she was still a child her father was called as pastor (Presbyterian) of the church at Holland Patent, N. Y .; and he died there in 1854. She was educated at Houghton Seminary, New York; taught for some time, then took charge of a school in Lafayette, Indiana, and afterward in Pennsylvania; when she re- turned to her Alma Mater to lecture on historical subjects. When her brother was elected President of the U. S., she was Mistress of the White House until his marriage, June, 1886. Author: George Eliot's Poetry and Other Studies; The Long Run (novel); numerous magazine articles. Taught in New York several years, since which time she has traveled, making Vienna her headquarters.


CLEWS, Henry :


Banker. He is English by birth, com- ing from an old family of Staffordshire. His father, making a visit to this country, brought with him his son, not yet fifteen, and found young Henry so facinated with the enterprise of the American people that he yielded to his desire to remain and engage in business life in N. Y. City, instead of returning to continue his studies for the ministry as originally de- signed to fit him, as an assistant to his cousin, the Vicar of Wolstanton; a posi- tion as clerk in the importing house of Wilson G. Hunt & Co., was obtained for him, where he remained several years, gradually advancing in position. In 1857 he became a member of the newly-or- ganized banking firm of Stout, Clews & Mason; soon after its organization a change took place in the firm, its name becoming Livermore, Clews & Co .; it was well established and doing a good business at the outbreak of the Civil War, a con- test which proved highly to its advan- tage. Mr. Clews had the highest confi- dence in the ability of the government to suppress the rebellion, was outspoken on the side of the North, and was in con- sequence selected by Secretary Chase ag


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the agent for the sale of U. S. Treasury Notes and bonds issued bythe govern- ment to meet the ordinary expenses of the war; neither the notes or bonds were at first very favorably received by the garded them as very risky securities, owing to their doubts as to final results o fthe war; but Mr. Clews though he knew the treasury was empty, had the utmost faith in the strength and ability of the government and the recuperative power of the North, and not only put all his firm's money in the notes and bonds, but borrowed largely, bringing himself seriously into debt; the task he had un- dertaken was one of magnitude and diffi- culty, and his exertions in its successful prosecution have become a matter of history; in 1864 his firm subscribed to the national loan at the rate of from five to ten millions a day. After the war he made banking his distinctive business. The presnt firm of Henry Clews & Co. was formed in 1877. Its business has since grown so large as to make it one of the great and renound banking houses of the world. Mr. Clews has always taken a deep interest in American politics, but merely to the extent of securing good government, he persistently declining to accept an official position; twice the portfolio of the U. S. Treasury Depart- ment has been tendered him, and as often the Republican nomination for mayor of New York, but business interests have in each case forced him to decline these proffered honors; he


the post of collector of also declined the port of New York, offered him by President Grant, and subsequently conferred upon General Arthur; yet he has not hesitat- ed to act when reform became impera- tive, and to him is due the credit of originating and organizing the famous Committee of Seventy, before whose as- sault the Boss Tweed ring went down. His views on public or business affairs are broad and liberal, his opinions on the latter topic being particularly ex- pressed in his book entitled Twenty- eight Years in Wall Street, a work of great literary merit, which has called out highly favorably comment; he served for many years as treasurer of the Am- erican Geographical Society and the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; was one of the founders of the Union League Club; is one of the oldest members of the Union Club, and is con- nected with many other institutions of the city. Married Miss Lucy Madison Worth-


ington, of Kentucky, grand niece of Presi- dent Madison. Residence, 630 Fifth Ave .; Office, 15 Broad St., N. Y. City.


CLINEDINST, Benjamin West:


Artist; born Woodstock, Va .; educated at Virginia Military Institute, class of 1881; studied profession at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1881-85, under Cabanel and Bonnat; married Emily G. Waters, Baltimore; came to N. Y. City in 1888; member of the National Academy of De- sign, Society of American Artists, Amer- ican Water Color Society; won Evans prize, American Water Color Society, 1899; medal, Buffalo Exposition; medal, Charleston Exposition, 1902; director, De- partment of Illustration, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, N. Y. School of Applied Design for Women; instructor, Art Stu- dents League; member of the Century and the Fencers Club, N. Y. City. Ad- dress, 1000 Madison Ave., N. Y. City. CLINTON, Charles William:


Architect; born N. Y. City; son of Dr. Alexander Clinton and Adeline Arden, daughter of Alexander James Hamilton; educated in N. Y. City; studied archi- tecture with Richard Upjohn; architect of Mutual Life Insurance Building and Sev- enth Regiment Armory; director, Clinton Apartment Co .; vice-president of New York Chapter, American Institute of Arch- itects; member of Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., anu volunteered three times during Civil War; member of Chamber of Commerce, Architectural League, Mu- nicipal Art Society, Tuxedo and N. Y. Yacht Clubs, and Century Association. Residence, 545 Madison Ave .; office, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.


CLINTON, George:


Lawyer; born Buffalo, N. Y .; was grad- uated from Columbia Law School, 1868; married Jan. 18, 1870, Alice Thornton; member of Assembly, 1884; Park Com- missioner; member of Board of Trunk Sewer Commissioners; member of Buffalo Historical Society and Academy of Natur- al Sciences; president of Merchants Ex- change, 1893. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.


CLINTON, Spencer:


Lawyer; born Buffalo; educated in Buf- falo and Albany; married; president of Buffalo Savings Bank; director, Third National Bank; member of Buffalo and Reform Clubs. Address, 58 Johnson Park, Buffalo, N. Y.


CLOPTON, William C .:


Lawyer; born March 16, 1853, at Holly Springs, Miss .; son of Major John H. Clopton; educated at Universities of Vir-


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ginia and Berlin; member of Dem- [George W. and Isabelle Hoe Coakley; ocratic Club, City Bar Association and Southern Society. Address, Hotel Em- pire, N. Y. City. was graduated from College of City of N. Y., A. B., 1884, A. M., 1887; was grad- uated from University Medical College, CLOSE, Emory P .: 1SS7; interne Bellevue Hospital, 1887-88; professor of laryngology, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Colleges; Fel- low N. Y. Academy of Medicine, Amer- Ican Laryngological Society; member N. Y. College Medical Society; Richmond Hill (L. I.) Golf Club. Author: Diseases of the Nose and Throat. Address, 49 West 58th St., N. Y. City.


Lawyer and United States District At- torney for Northern District of New York; born Dec. 13, 1859, Buffalo, N. Y .; edu- cated in public schools; Assistant Li- brarian, Y. M. C. A., 1894-97; Supreme Court stenographer, 8th Judicial District, 1880-S8; official stenographer, New York Assembly, 1884-87; admitted to the Bar, 1886; United States District Attorney since 1897; married Jan. 7, 1885, Etta S. Cobb. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.


CLOVER, George F .:


Clergyman and superintendent St. Luke's Hospital, N. Y. City; born Massa- chusetts, June 12. 1866; educated at Ho- bart College; married Laura Brand. Louisville, Ky., April 22, 1896; member Kappa Alpha Society. Century Club, etc. Address, Cathedral Heights, N. Y. City.


CLUTE, Willard Nelson:


Publisher; born Painted Post, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1869; son of George N. and Ruth Wright Clute; educated public schools; married, 1897, Carrollton, Miss., Ida Mar- tin; assistant curator, 1897, botanical de- partment, Columbia University; curator N. Y. Botanical Garden, 1898-99; editor and publisher of the Fern Bulletin and the American Botanist; founder of the Lin- nean Fern Chapter; one of the founders and 1st secretary Binghamton Academy of Sciences; author: A Flora of the Upper Susquehanna Valley; Our Ferns in Their Haunts; The Fern Collector's Guide. Ad- dress, 42 Jarvis St., Binghamton, N. Y. CLYDE, Marshall H .:


Agent, Clyde Steamship; was gradu- ated from Harvard University, 1888; member of University, Manhattan, Ards- ley, Racquet, Knickerbocker and Down Town Clubs; married Margery L. Buck- lin. Address, 124 East 37th St., N. Y. City.


CLYDE, William P .:


Merchant; born Nov., 1839; son of the founder of the Clyde Line of coast steam- ers; was graduated from Trinity College, beginning business life in the office of his father; he is a member of the Union League, Down Town, Riding, St. An- thony, Racquet, N. Y. Yacht, and Trinity Alumni Clubs. Address, 19 State St., and 1 West 50th St., N. Y. City.


COAKLEY, Cornelius Godfrey :


Physician, throat and nose specialist; born Brooklyn, Aug. 14, 1862; son of


COAN, Titus Munson :


Physician, author, critic; born Hilo, Ha- waiian Islands, Sept. 27, 1836; received private education, also prepared for col- lege at the Royal School in Honolulu and at the Punahou Academy; 1856, went to Yale, following year to Williams, gradu- ating 1859; studied medicine at N. Y. College of Physicians and Surgeons, re- ceiving M. D., 1861; practiced two years in city hospitals, and 1863-65 in U. S. Navy as assistant surgeon, serving in the West Gulf (Admiral Farragut's Squad- ron), and the Brazil Squadron; resigned at close of war, coming to live in N. Y. City; 1550, founded New York Bureau of Revision, and is now director of it: be- sides many contributions in periodicals, has published Ounces of Prevention, (1885); Universal Gazetteer, as supplement to Webster's International Dictionary, (1885); edited also Topics of the Time; Dictionary of Proper Names in the Stand- ard Dictionary, etc. Address, 70 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.


COATES, Edwin Morton:


Brigadier General U. S. Army; born N. Y. City, Jan. 29, 1836; first lieutenant 11th N. Y. infantry "Fire Zouves," Col. E. E. Ellsworth, commanding, April 20, 1861; resigned Aug. 4, 1861; second lieutenant, Se ond regiment cavalry, Aug. 5, 1861; transferred to 12th regiment infantry Sept. 20, 1861; first lieutenant Oct. 24, 1861; captain April 11, 1865; transferred to 30th regiment infantry Sept. 21, 1866; transferred to 4th regiment Infantry March 23, 1869; major 19th regiment in- fantry July 14, 1890; lieutenant-colonel, 16th regiment infantry, Nov. 23, 1893; colonel, 7th regiment infantry July 23, 1898; retired, age limit, Jan. 29, 1900; brevetted captain and major for gallant services in the battle of the Wilderness, and during the Campaign before Rich- mond, Va. Address, Hamilton Court, 39th and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.


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COBB, George H .:


District Attorney of Jefferson County; born Hounsfield, Oct. 10, 1864; educated at common schools and Potsdam State Normal School, graduating in 1886; prin- cipal of graded schools in 1887-88; cus- toms officer, 1889 and 1900; admitted to Bar, Nov., 1891; deputy county clerk Jef- ferson County from March, 1892, to Jan. 1, 1893; recorder City of Watertown from Jan. 1, 1893, to Jan. 1, 1897; elected dis- trict attorney of Jefferson County in fall of 1898, and re-elected in fall of 1901, term expiring Dec. 31, 1904; elected State Senator for Thirty-fifth District of State of New York, November 8, 1904. Address, Watertown, N. Y.


COBB, Henry Nitchie:


Clergyman; born New York, 1834; son of Sanford and Sophia Lewis Nitchie Cobb; was graduated from Yale, 1855; one year at Union Theological Seminary, N. Y .; D. D., Rutgers, 1878; married Ma- tilda E. Van Zandt, Tarrytown, N. Y .; ordained to Presbyterian ministry, 1860; missionary to Persia, 1860-62; pastor Re- formed Church in America, 1866-81, and since corresponding secretary Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in America; member American Oriental So- ciety, Reformed Church Union, Phi Beta Kappa; author: Far Hence-A Budget of Letters from Our Mission; Fields in Asia. Residence, E. Orange, N. J .; office, 25 E. 22d St., N. Y. City.


COBB, Levi Henry:


Clergyman; born Cornish, N. H., June 30, 1827; son of Levi and Calista S. Cobb; educated Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Sen.inary, D. D., 1881; mar- ried, Malone, N. Y., 1858, Harriet J. Herrick; since 1882, editor of Church Building Quarterly, and secretary of Con- gregational Church Building Society (was secretary emeritus) ; member New England Society, Congregational Min- isters Union. Residence, Maynard, Mass .; office, 287 4th Ave., N. Y. City.


COBB, Sanford Hoadley :


Presbyterian clergyman; born New York, Feb. 4, 1838; son of Sanford and Sophia (Nitchie) Cobb; was graduated from Yale, 1858; taught for a year; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1862; married Nov. 9, 1865, Mary Elizabeth Capon, Dorchester, Mass .; ordained to ministry, 1864; held pastorates at Scho- harie, N. Y., 1864-71; Saugerties, N. Y., 1871-83; spent a year in travel, and on his return in 1885 accepted pastorate at Grand Rapids, Mich., where he remained


until 1894; Greenwich, Conn., 1900-01; author: The Story of the Palatines; The Rise of Religious Liberty in America; contributor to religious reviews. Address, Richfield Springs, N. Y.


COBLENTZ, Virgil:


Professor of chemistry in College of Pharmacy of the City of New York; analytical chemist and scientist; born Springfield, O., March, 1862; educated at Wittenberg College, Springfield, O .; was graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1882, and was subse- quently made honorary master of phar- macy of that college; studied the natural sciences in the Universities of Göttingen, Strassburg, Wurzburg and Munich; was made a doctor of philosophy in Berlin in 1891; has been a constant worker and a devotee to science; was professor of materia medica and toxicology to the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy from 1884 to 1887; president of the Ohio Pharma- ceutical Society in 1885; professor of chemistry and physics in the N. Y. Col- lege of Pharmacy since 1891; chairman of the N. Y. Section of the Society of Chemical Industry of Great Britain; Fel- low of the London Chemical Industry of Great Britain, of the German Chemical Society, and of the American Pharma- ceutical Association; has been a volum- inous writer and is author of Manual of Chemistry; The Newer Remedies; Hand- book of Pharmacy; joint author of Phar- maceutical and Medical Chemistry (Sadt- ler and Coblentz) ; sub-chairman of Com- mittee for Revision of Pharmacopoeia in 1883; married Anna Beuel, of Strassburg, Alsace, Germany. Residence, Mt. Vernon, N. Y .; office, 115 W. 68th St., N. Y. City. COBURN, Edward Bernard:


Physician-ophthalmologist and otologist; born Troy, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1868; received degrees of A. B., A. M., and M. D. from Union University, and studied in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London; was for one and one-half years Interne at Albany Homoe- opathic Hospital; clinical assistant and as- sistant surgeon for nine years at N. Y. Ophthalmic and Aural Institute; clinical assistant, seven years at Vanderbilt Clin- ic, College of Physicians and Surgeons; instructor, two years, New York Poly- clinic; clinical assistant at Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital; assistant surgeon and pathologist to New Amsterdam Eye and Ear Hospital; clinical assistant, Cor- nell University Medical College; collabor- ator to La Revue Hospital Generale d'Ophthalmologie; member N. Y. Acad-


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emy of Medicine, County Medical Society, Sons of American Revolution; Republican in politics. Address, 63 W. 56th St., N. Y. City.


COCHEU, Frank S .:


Captain, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York; cadet Military Academy, Sept. 1, 1885; second lieutenant. Twelfth Infantry, June 12, 1894; first lieutenant, April 26, 1898; captain, Twelfth Infantry, Feb. 2, 1901. Present address, Manila, P. I.


COCHNOWER, James K .:


Born Cincinnati, O., Nov. 29, 1841; en- listed in Union Army under first call for 75,000 troops, April 15, 1861, for ninety days, in the Sixth Regiment, Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry; re-enlisted June 18, 1861, in the same regiment for three years under the first call for 200,000 troops; served through the West Virginia cam- paign under General George B. McClel- lan; with his regiment joined the Army of the Ohio under General Don Carlos Bull at Louisville, Ky., in Dec., 1861; promoted to a first lieutenant Co. K Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Dec. 21, 1861; with his regiment joined the Army of the Cumberland at Nashville, Tenn., Feb., 1862, serving as adjutant and regimental quartermas- ter till Dec., 1862, when hy an order of General W. S. Rosecrans. he was de- tailed for duty with the Engineer Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and served with that corps till March 1, 1865, when he was mustered out of service at Nashville, Tenn., on account of expira- tion of term of service; up to 1879 he was engaged in various commercial en- terprises; in that year he entered the government service, custom house depart- ment, and is still connected with it. Ad- dress, 286 St. Nicholas Ave., N. Y. City.


COCHRAN, David Henry :


Educator; born Springfield, N. Y., July 5, 1828; graduate of Hamilton, 1850; pro- fessor of natural sciences. 1850-51, at Clin- ton Liberal Institute; 1852-54, principal of Fredonia Academy; 1854-55, occupied chair of natural sciences, State Normal School, Albany; 1855-64, its president; 1864, president of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, reorganizing the courses of study; has travelled much abroad, visit- ing educational institutions of Europe and the mining regions of America; is trustee of Hamilton College, which con- ferred upon him degree of LL. D., 1869. Address, 301 Cleremont Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.


COCHRANE, A. V. S .:


Justice of the Supreme Court, N. Y .; Born Coxsackie, N. Y., March 14, 1858; was graduated from Yale, 1879; admitted to Bar, 1881; district attorney of Col- umbia County, 1889, until 1892; in Con- gress, 1897, until 1901; the latter year be- ing elected to Supreme Court. Address, Hudson, N. Y.


COCHRAN, W. Bourke:


Orator, lawyer, congressman; elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress and re-elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the Twelfth District of New York by a plur- allty of 9,867; born Ireland, Feb. 28, 1854; active in State and national policies; member of Congress, 1891-95. 1902-01; added materially to his reputation for ability as a public speaker in the can- paign of 1904, when. in spite of the Re- publican landslide, he was re-elected to Congress; member of Metropolitan, Man- hattan, Larchmont Yacht, Strollers, Cath- olic and other clubs. Residence, 763 Fifth Ave .; office, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City. COE, Edward Benton:


Clergyman; born Milford, Conn., June 11, 1842; fitted for college in N. Y. City, and graduated from Yale in 1862; con- tinued studies at Union Theological Sem- inary, N. Y. City (1862-63), and in France and Germany (1864-67); was Street pro- fessor of modern languages in Yale from 1864 to 1879, when he resigned in order to enter the ministry; 1877, was licensed to preach by the Manhattan Congrega- tional Association, and Oct. 2, 1879, was ordained to the ministry by the Classis of New York (Reformed Church in Amer- ica) and installed as one of the ministers of the (Collegiate) Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York; he at once became pastor of the church, corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth street and served in this position until Jan., 1899, when he was made senior minister of the Collegiate Church, with general administrative duties, but with- out charge of any particular congrega- tion; received from Yale the degree of S.T.D. in 1885, and from Rutgers Col- lege, New Brunswick, N. J., the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. in 1881 and 1893 re- spectively; is a trustee of Rutgers, also of Columbia University, and of Robert College, Constantinople; a trustee of the Leake and Watts Orphan House; was president of the general synod of the Re- formed Church in America in 1898; is a member of the boards of superintendents of both the Eastern and Western Theo-


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logical Seminaries


Church, and is a member of the Yale and Barnard Clubs and of the Century As- sociation; has published a volume of ser- mons entitled Life Indeed (New York, the F. H. Revell Co., 1889), and a number of sermons and addresses. Residence, 42 West 52d St .; office, 156 5th Ave., N. Y. City.


COE, Henry Clark, M. D .:


Born Cincinnati, O., Feb. 21, 1856; was graduated from Yale, A. B., 1878; A. M., 1881; Harvard, M. D., 1881, and Cal. Phy- sicians and Surgeons, N. Y. 1882; M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. P., London, 1884; Pro- fessor Gynecology, University and Belle- vue Hospital Medical College, New York Polyclinic, 1889-97; Editor Clinical Gyne- cology, 1893, etc .; Gynecologist, Bellevue and General Memorial Hospitals; Former- ly Consulting Gynecologist, Manhattan and Foundling Hospitals, Consulting Ob- stetrician Maternity and Foundling Hos- pitals, and Assistant Surgeon Woman's Hospital; member N. Y. State Medical Society, New York Academy of Medicine, Obstetrical Society, Clinical Society, Am- erican Gynecology Society and others. Address, 8 West 76th St., N. Y. City. . COFFEY, Michael J .:


Contractor; born 1842, Ireland; came to America when a child; educated in Brook- lyn; alderman of Brooklyn, 1867-72, and 1886-93; president of the Board of Al- dermen, 1892-93; member of Assembly, 1873-76, and 1884-85; State Senator, 1894- 1900. Address, 46 Fourth Place, Brook- lyn, N. Y.


COFFIN, Charles Albert:


Financier, manufacturer; born Somerset County, Maine, 1844; he was educated in the public schools and at the academy at Bloomfield, Maine. Engaged in manu- facturing business in Massachusetts and in 1881 formed one of the number who bought the Thomson-Houston Electric Co. This in 1892 was merged into the General Electric Co. together with the Edison General Electric Co. Was elected president of the General Electric Co. and continues to hold that office; is director in many financial and other institutions; is a member of Union League, Lawyers, National Arts, Barnard. Midday, and other clubs of New York and Boston. Was married to Caroline L. Russell, daughter of Rev. E. Russell. D. D., of Holbrook, Mass, in 1872. Address, 165 West 58th St., N. Y. City.


COGGESHALL, Henry James:


of the Reformed [ 28, 1845; son of Dr. James Stirling and Deiadama Rurey Coggeshall; educated Waterville Seminary, admitted to Bar, 1866; married Waterville, N. Y., 1867, Lillian Alene Terry; member N. Y. Assembly, 1873; clerk Oneida County, 1880-3; State Senator, 1884-1901; re- elected to State Senate, 1904; for many years member of Board of Education, Waterville, N. Y .; Republican. Residence, Waterville, N. Y .; office, 136 Liberty St., N. Y. City.


COGHLAN, Joseph Bullock:


Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy; born Ken- tucky; appointed from Illinois to the Naval Academy Sept. 27, 1860; was graduated in 1863 and promoted to ensign, May 28, 1863; actively employed the last two years of the Civil War, serving on the S. S. Sacramento; lieutenant, 1866; lieutenant commander, 1868; commander, 1882; cap- tain, 1896; commanding Raleigh Asiatic Station, 1897-99 took part in the battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898; commanded expedition for capture and destruction of batteries entrance to Manila Bay, May 2 and 3, 1898; commanded expedition for capture of Isle . Grande, Subig Bay, July 7, 1898; commanding Puget Sound Naval Station July 3, 1899; Naval War College, June 1, 1901; promoted to rear-admiral, April 11, 1902; commanding Caribbean Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet, from June 2, 1902 to 1904; commandant Navy Yard, N. Y. City at present. Address, Navy Yard, N. Y.


COGSWELL, Cullen Van Rensselaer:


Born September 5, 1869, at New Brunswick, N. J .; son of Andrew K Cogswell and Jane Endora, daughter of Gen. J. Cullen Van Rensselaer; educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H .; married in 1896, A. Eugenia, daughter of Albert W. Nickerson, president of Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe R. R. Co .; director and treasurer of Exploration Co. of N. Y. City and Guanajunto Con- solidated Mining and Milling Co .; member of Union, City and Seventh Regiment Veterans Clubs, Sons of Revolution and Society of Colonial Wars. Residence, 23 West 11th St .; office, 15 Broad St., N. Y. City.




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