Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 40

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Brooklyn Bridge, and also designed and | Flushing, N. Y .; son of Luke Connorton constructed the Sixth Avenue Elevated structure; he was married, in 1871, to Emma J. Pyle. Address, 100 Broadway, N. Y. City.

CONNELLY, Celia Logan:

Author, playwright; born Philadelphia, 1837; daughter of Cornelius Ambrosius and Eliza (Ackley) (sister Olive Logan) ; educated at schools and Academy of Sa- cred Heart in Cincinnati, O .; married M. K. Kellogg, American painter (now de- ceased). Began literary career in London as a protege of Charles Reade. Married, 1872, James H. Connelly (died 1903). Au- thor of Sarz, a Story of the Stage; An American Marriage (drama) ; Gaston Cadol; also contributes to magazines. Address, 838 E. 167th St., N. Y. City.

CONNERY, Thomas Bernard Joseph:

Editor, author; born Ireland, ct. 13, 1835; was graduated from St. John's Col- lege, N. Y., 1853, (A. M.); graduated Co- lumbia College Law School; on editorial staff of N. Y. Herald, 1856-84; secretary U. S. legation and chargé d'affaires to Mexico, 1866-68; also on editorial staff of N. Y. Truth, Once a Week, and Collier's Weekly; since 1902 member of Board of education. Author of Black Friday; That Noble Mexican; All the Dog's Fault; History of American Comic Journalism;

My Trip to Mars; Violet Bland; Character Marks Autorial; Essays om Literary Women of England. Mem- ber of Authors Club and Authors Guild. Address, 103 W. 58tah St., N. Y. City. CONNOR, Washington E .:

Broker; born N. Y. City, Dec. 15, 1849; educated in the College of the City of N. Y .; showed financial ability of the highest order from the time he entered business, and his rise was rapid and sure; when Jay Gould was conducting his heaviest deals, was made Gould's agent in matters requiring integrity, quickness and natural financial aptitude; he met every situation with generalship and won the approbation of his client and the ad- miration of those whose business it is to

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Member of the Union League, Republic, Lotos, Lawyers, New York Athletic, Am- erican Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, Geo- graphical Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and American Society of Natural History. Residence, 532 Madison Ave .; office, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

CONNORTON, Luke J .:

City magistrate; born Nov. 21, 1853,

and Hannah Curley Connorton; was grad- uated from Flushing Institute, 1872; ad- mitted to the Bar, 1877; married Kate E. O'Brien of Flushing; town clerk, 1878-90; Justice of the Peace since 1889; village clerk fifteen years; Democrat; city magis- trate of Greater N. Y. since 1898. Res- idence, Flushing, N. Y.

CONSTANT, Samuel Victor:

Lawyer; a descendant from an old New England family conspicuous during the Colonial and Revolutionary times; he is a direct descendant of John Tuttle, who came from Hertfordshire in 1635; born N. Y. City, Sept. 9, 1857; educated at the Charlier Institute and by private tutors; was graduated from the school of arts, Columbia College, 1880; entered a law office in 1880; admitted to the Bar in Oct., 1882; afterward entered Columbia Law School and received his degree of LL. B. in 1886; has engaged in historical and literary work and is connected with var- ious societies, literary, scientific, histor- ical, etc., among which are the Ameri- can Oriental Society, Royal Asiatic So- ciety of Great Britain, the American Academy of Sciences, the American His- torical Association, the New York His- torical Society, the New York Biograph- ical and Genealogical Society, and Vir- ginia Historical Society; he is a member of and solicitor for the U. S. of the Mer- cantile Marine Service Association; in 1876 he joined the Seventh Regiment, and at the expiration of his time became a member of the Veteran Association of this regiment; a member of the Republi- can Club, St. David's Society and the Psi Upsilon Club. Residence, 420 West 23d St .; office, 120 Broadway, N. Y. City.

CONVERSE, Edmund C .:

Capitalist; born Boston, Mass., Nov. 7, 1849; president Liberty National Bank; president of Bankers' Trust Co .; director National Tube Co., American Bank Note Co., U. S. Steel Corporation, Illinois Steel Co. and Minnesota Iron Co .; member of Metropolitan, Union League, New York Athletic and Country Clubs. Residence, Greenwich, Conn .; business address, 139 Broadway, N. Y. City.

CONVERSE, Florence :

Author; born New Orleans, April 30, 1871; daughter of George T. and Caroline (Edwards) Converse; was graduated from Wellesley, B. S., 1893; lived several years in San Francisco and now lives in Boston; on editorial staff of Churchman since | Jan., 1900; author: Diana Victrix (novel,

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1897); The Burden of Christopher (1900); [the best critics; married Dec. 2S, 1893, Inng Will (12); also stories in magazines. Alice W. Randall. Address, Ithaca, N. Y. CONWAY, William: Office, 47 Lafayette Place, N. Y. City.

CONWAY, James L .:

Merchant; born Jersey City, Aug. 1863; graduate of Mt. St. Mary's College, Em- mettsburg, Md .; his business is dry goods, at 113 Worth St .; he married Miss Anna McGauran in 1893. Address, 113 Worth St., N. Y. City.

CONWAY, Moncure Daniel:

Author; born Middleton. Virginia. Mar. 17, 1832; educated at Dickinson College. Carlisle, and Harvard Divinity School. 1854 ; minister at Unitarian Church, Wash- ington, and First Unitarian Church. Cin- cinnati; afterwards (1861) at South Place Chapel. Finsbury, London. Eng .; married Ellen Davis Dana. of Cincinnati, 1858; au- thor: Tracts for To-day, (1857); The Re- jected Stone, (1861); The Golden Hour, (1862); Testimonies Concerning Slavery, (1864); The Earthward Pilgrimage, (1870); Republican Superstitutions, (1872); Idols and Ideals, (1877); Demonology and Devil Lore, (1878); A Necklace of Stories, (1880); The Wandering Jew, (1881); Thomas Carlyle. (1881); Travels In South Kensington. (1882); Emerson, at Home and Abroad. (1SS3); Farewell Discourses, (1884); Pine and Palm, (1884); Life of Edmund Randolph, (1SSS); Life of Na- thaniel Hawthorne, (1990); Prisons of Air, (1891); Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahannock, (1892); Life of Thomas Paine, (1892); Solomon and the Solomon- ic Literature (1899); Thomas Paine et la Révolution dans les Deux Mondes, (Paris, 1900); Autobiography (1904). Address, 22 Eas t10th St., N. Y. City.

CONWAY, Patrick:

Band leader: born July 4. 1865, Bus- kirk's Bridge, near Troy, N. Y .· educated at Homer Academy: organized and be- came leader of the Ithaca Band, and In- structor in Band Music in the Ithaca Conservatory in Jan., 1895, and later in Cornell University; under his instruction the Ithaca band has become one of the most famous in the U. S .. having won the State Prize in competition, and having filled engagements at the Pan-American Exposition and for the past two years at the famous Willow Grove Park in Phila- delphia, where at the close of his last sea- son. he was presented with a handsome silver loving cup by his admirers in Phil- adelphia; his band was offered an en- gagement at Louisiana Purchase Expos- ition, but declined; it is conceded to be one of the finest bands in the U. S. by

Major, U. S. Army; born and appointed from New York; first lieutenant Seventy- fourth New York Infantry, June 27, 1861; captain, January 14, 1863; honorably mus- tered out, June 19, 1864; second lieutenant Sixteenth Infantry, March 22, 1866; first lieutenant, April 4, 1867; assigned to Twenty-second Infantry, April 6, 1870; captain, July 4, 1879; retired, June 6, 1894; major, 1901. Address, 321 Lafayette Ave .. Brooklyn, N. Y.

COOK, Ernest Herman:

Banker; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1874; was graduated from Public School No. 39, N. Y. City, June. 1889, entering the office of the Mount Morris Bank of the City of N. Y. the same month; rose to the position of bookkeeper, resigning in Jan., 1892, to enter the Plaza Bank of New York as bookkeeper; appointed pay- ing teller, Jan., 1896, and assistant cash- ier, July, 1901; treasurer of the People's Choral Union, of New York, from 1895-97: treasurer of Alexander Hamilton Chapter of the American Institute of Bank Clerks, 1902-93; elected president, May, 1903; a delegate to the First National Convention of Bank Clerks of the U. S., held at Celveland, O., Sept., 1903; member of the Arion Society of New York and the Long- wood Club. Address, 753 5th Ave., N. Y. City

COOK, Henry F .:

Treasurer and secretary of the Fahys Watch Case Co .; born Brooklyn, N. Y., 1855. Upon the completion of his stud- les. his first business association was with Joseph Fahys, in 1873., in the manu- facture of watch cases, in N. Y. City; admitted as a partner in 1880, since which time he has been the active business man of the firm; in the following year the business was incorporated with Jos- eph Fahys as president, and Henry F. Cook as treasurer and secretary, and within a few years the new corporation absorbed several of the leading concerns of the country: president of the Sag Har- bor Real Estate Co .; president of the Sag Harbor Water Works Co .; vice-president of the Peconic Bank of Sag Harbor; sec- retary and treasurer of the Sag Harbor Heating and Lighting Co .; trustee of the Sag Harbor Savings Bank, and of the Presbyterian Church; member of the Sons of the Revolution, the Brooklyn In- stitute of Arts and Sciences, the Union League Club of N. Y. City, Society of

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Colonial Wars, Apawanus Golf Club, the Minneapolis, the houses of Andrew Carne- Down Town Association, and of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Address, 9 East 82d St., N. Y. City.

COOK, Joseph Tottenham, M. D .:

President of the medical and surgical staff of the Buffalo Homeopathic Hos- pital; son of the Rev. Philos G. and Clar- issa (Tottingham) Cook; born Ludlowville, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1885; educated at the Buf- falo Classical School, where he was pre- pared for Yale College; he also attended the Homeopathic Hospital College at Cleveland, O., graduating in 1881, with the degree of M. D .; he later spent a year in study under Drs. Samuel Ten- wick and Ernest Sansom at the London Hospital, London, England, and also at- tended the Royal Imperial General Hos- pital, at Vienna, Austria; is an interested and active member of the Niagara Fron- tier Landmarks Association, being a del- egate thereto from the Society of the War of 1812; he is attending physician to the Buffalo Homeopathic Hospital, having served in turn as president and as secre- tary of the medical and surgical staff; an enthusiastic and successful practition- er of homeopathy; married on Aug. 1, 1888, to Anna Poole, Buffalo, N. Y .; is a member of the Saturn Club of Buffalo, the Buffalo Historical Society, the New York State Historical Association, the New York State Society, Sons of the Revolution, the Pennsylvania Society of the War of 1812; president of the Buffalo Association Sons of the Revolution, the Sons of Veterans of the Civil War, the Buffalo Society of Vermonters; also a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the New York State Home- opathic Medical Society, the Western New York Homeopathic Medical Society, the Erie County Homeopathic Medical Society, and the Clinical Club of Buffalo. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

COOK, Walter:

Architect; born N. Y. City 1846; was graduated from Harvard College in 1869; studied his profession abroad, spending about three years at the Royal Polytech- nic School in Munich, and a somewhat longer time at the School of Fine Arts in Paris; returning to N. Y. City, has since practiced his profession in this city, being a member of the firm of Babb, Cook & Willard; among the buildings designed by the firm are the De Vinne Press Build- ing, the buildings of the N. Y. Life In- surance Co. in Montreal, St. Paul and

gie, in N. Y. City, and F. B. Pratt, in Brooklyn, and a number of the branch libraries in N. Y. City built by the New York Public Library; was the American member of the international jury which judged the Phoebe Hearst competition for the University of California, and has been a member of the jury for many other competitions, among them those for the New York Public Library, Washing- ton University at St. Louis, and the scheme for the remodelling of West Point; past president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and of the Society of Beaux-Arts Archi- tects, and a director of the American Institute of Architects. Residence, 135 East 37th St .; office, 3 West 29th St., N. Y. City.

COOKE, William V .:

Lawyer; born Albany, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1877; attended public schools and Albany High School; entered the law office of Rosendale & Hessberg in fall of 1897; and was graduated from the Albany Law School with the class of 1900; admitted to the Bar shortly after; established an office for the practice of law in the fali of 1900 in Albany, where he is now prac- ticing; elected to the Assembly, 1902; member of the following Assembly com- mittees; General Laws and Internal Af- fairs. Address, 1206 Broadway; office, 57 State St., Albany, N. Y.

COOK, William Wilson:

LL. D., lawyer, writer; born Hillsdale, Mich., April 16, 1858; son of John Potter and Martha Wolford Cook: was gradu- ated from University of Michigan, 1880; law department, 1882; admitted to New York Bar 1883; now one of the trustees of the Mackay Cos. and general counsel for Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., Com- mercial Cable Co .. Commercial Pacific Cable Co., and Federal Sugar Refining Co .; member Bar Association of Union League and Lawyers Clubs; author: Cook on Corporations (5 edits.); Cook on Stock and Stockholders. Residence, 55 West 47th St .; office, 44 Wall St., N. Y. City. COOKE, William Gates:

Lawyer; born June 6, 1851, Kingston, N. Y .; son of Erastus Cooke and Lu- cretia Root; admitted to the Bar, 1872; practiced in N. Y. City until 1879, when he removed to Brooklyn; counsel to Kings County Board of Supervisors, 1884-85; As- sistant Corporation Counsel of City of Brooklyn, 1896-97. Address, Brooklyn, N. Y.

COOKINGHAM, Henry J .:

WHO'S WIIO IN NEW YORK. 217 as school commissioner of Jefferson County; twenty years as special county judge, to which office he has been re- elected; married, 1872, to Frances M. Whittey. Address, Adams Centre, N. Y. COOLEY, Le Roy Clark:

Lawyer; born Prospect, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1843; son of John D. and Diantha L. Cookinham; graduate of classical course, Whitestown, N. Y., Seminary in 1865; studied Latin, Greek and French under a private teacher, was graduated from law department of Hamilton College in 1867; married, at New Hartford, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1872, Mary Louise, daughter of Gen- eral R. U. Sherman; admitted to Bar in 1867; has since practiced in Utica; spec- lal surrogate of Oneida County in 1873; for many years one of the trustees of Whitestown Seminary; member of New York Assembly in 1880; candidate for Congress in 1884; delegate to New York Constitutional Convention in 1894; was a member of the following committees: Judiciary, Suffrage and Privileges and Elections, and chairman of committee to draft address to the people explanatory of new constitution; director of United Glass Co .; Utica Industrial Co .; Troy Public Works Co .; director and secretary of New Hartford Canning Co .; one of the com- missioners for erection of a new court- house in Utica for Oneida County, and chairman of the executive and finance committees; for many years a director of the Y. M. C. A .; member of the Society of Sons of the Revolution, and statutory charter member of American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society; member of State Bar Association of New York, Bar Association of City of N. Y., Oneida County Bar Association (several years president) and of Republican Club, City of N. Y; engaged in many important suits in the U. S. Courts; retained by the To- bacco Combination to argue in the U. S. Supreme Court the case of U. S. against Rothschilds, involving important duties upon leaf tobacco; Republican; author: Truly Rescued (1881); Memorial of Pres- ident James A. Garfield (1881); Recol- lections of the Oneida County Bar, (pub- lished by the Oneida Historical Society). Address, Utica, N. Y.

COCLEY, Alphonso E .:

Born Ellisburg, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1839; a son of John and Fanny (Toul) Cooley; re- ceived academic and collegiate education; graduate of the National Law School; studied law with Judge Conklin; though a lawyer by profession, he has done con- siderable literary work; entered the army at breaking out of Civil War and served about three years as captain in Ninety- fourth New York Volunteers and on Gen- eral Heintzleman's staff; served six years

Educator; born Point Peninsula, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1833; son of James and Sally Cool- ey, who came from Wales to Massachu- setts about 1725; he was graduated from N. Y. State Normal College, 1855, and of Union College, 1858; was professor of natural science in New York State Nor- mal College, 1861-74; professor of physics and chemistry in Vassar College, 1874-95, and of physics, 1895, to the present time (1903); received the degree of Ph. D. from Union College in 1870; is a Fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science and a member of the National Educational Association; of the N. Y. State Science Teachers Asso- ciation, a member from its beginning; chairman of its "Committee of Nine" to investigate the condition, and suggest im- proved methods, of science teaching in secondary schools, and its president in 1899; has contributed many papers to ed- ucational and scientific journals and con- ventions; author of text-books in physics and chemistry. Address, 2 Reservoir Square, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

COOLIDGE, Clarence Edwin:

Educator and author; was graduated from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale Uni- versity, Ph. B., 1895; he was engaged in practice eight years; instructor in me- chanical engineering, Worcester Polytech- nic Institute three years; adjunct pro- fessor of drawing, University of Georgia; assistant professor of machine design, Cornell University since 1900; married. Address, 402 Oak Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.

COOMBS, William Jerome:

Merchant, banker; born Jordan, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1833; his parents were Charles Coombs, a soldier in the War of 1812, and Mary Wooleaver; educated at Jordan Academy; 1847, having been refused ad- mission to Union College on account of his age, turned his attention to business; 1850 came to N. Y. City in charge of a wholesale dry goods house; in 1856 began the business of exporter of American manufactured goods, in which he contin- ued until elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses; on his retirement from Congress was appointed by Presi- dent Cleveland government director of the Union Pacific R. R., with special com- mission to devise method to collect the

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debts of over $124,000,000 due the govern- [the great prosperity which attended the ment from the various roads; continued . in office by President Mckinley and suc- ceeded in collecting them in full; was president of the Manufacturers' Trust Co. from its organization, until it was consolidated with the Title Guarantee & Trust Co .; also chairman of Advisory Board of the Title Guarantee and Trust Co .; elected in October, 1904, president of the South Brooklyn Savings Institution to succeed A. E. Orr, who resigned; the South Brooklyn Savings Institution is

one of the oldest savings banks in Brook- lyn, having been established in 1850; its career has been as honorable as it has been long, and it is looked upon to-day as one of the strongest and most reliable financial institutions of Brooklyn; mem- ber Reform, Commonwealth and Hamil- ton Clubs. Residence, 63 South Portland Ave .; office, 160 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

COON, Daniel Wells:

venture was an ample justification of that important change in the conduct of affairs in the collar manufacturing industry; the connection was continued for ten years, the firm being known as the largest shirt, collar and cuff manufacturers in the world. He devoted special attention to the superintending of its New York office, making his home at Mount Vernon, N. Y .; about eight and a half years ago he re- tired from the firm; after a short period of inactivity he joined interests with the International Shirt and Collar Co., of which he is now vice-president; he is regarded everywhere as one of the strong- est and most sagacious men identified with the great collar industry; he is a man of rare judgment in dealing with business problems, and has a genius for big things. It was he who proposed the successful collar combine, and the result revealed the soundness of his judgment; in addition to his connection with the In- ternational Shirt and Collar Co., he is a director in the Mount Vernon Trust Co., and in the Peerless Shoe Machinery Co .; he is a member of the Troy Club, the Al- dine Association, New York, the Siwanoy Country Club, and the Republican Club of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Address, Mount Vernon, N. Y.

Manufacturer; vice-president of the In- ternational Shirt and Collar Co., Troy, N. Y .; born Gloversville, N. Y., June 10, 1843; his place of birth has long been famous for the manufacture of gloves, and at an early age he manifested an in- clination to follow that occupation in life; at the age of eighteen, however, he was invited by his brother, John H. Coon, COONEY, Michael: then in partnership with Mr. Van Volken- Brigadier General U. S. Army; born Ireland; appointed from New York; pri- vate, corporal and sergeant Company A, First Cavalry, Dec. 4, 1856, to Dec., 1861; private and first sergeant Company M, Dec. 18, 1861, to Dec. 30, 1864; captain, Fifth U. S. Cavalry, Jan. 1, 1865; hon- orably mustered out, March 16, 1866; first lieutenant, Ninth Cavalry, July 28, 1866; captain, Jan. 1, 1868; major, Dec. 10, 1888; lieutenant colonel, Seventh Cavalry, June 21, 1897; colonel, Fourth Cavalry, June 9, 1899; retired, Sept. 14, 1899. Pres- ent address, 500 T St., N. W., Washing- ton, D. C. burg in the manufacture of collars at Troy, N. Y., to visit that city, and the re- sult was that he became interested in the collar business, and devoted himself for a period of three years to a thorough study of its details. So arduous, indeed, were his efforts in that direction that his health became impaired, and he was com- pelled to seek rest and change in the West; this he found in Minneapolis, Minn., where, with the coming of renewed health, he established a woolen business; after an expereince of five years in the West, he came again to the East, located in Philadelphia, and established the house COOPER, Charles L .: of Coon, Reynolds & Co., destined to be Brigadier general, U. S. Army; born Pennsylvania; appointed from New York; private, Company B, Seventy-first N. Y. State Militia, June 27, 1863; discharged, Sept. 2, 1862; private, Company A, N. Y. State Militia, June 27, 1863; discharged Aug. 6, 1863; second lieutenant, U. S. In- fantry, Sept. 5, 1864; first lieutenant, March 5, 1865; honorably mustered out, Oct. 20, 1865; second lieutenant, Thirty- ninth Infantry, July 28, 1866; first lieu- a great factor in the collar business of the U. S .; he then visited N. Y. City and established a branch of the business there, under the firm name of Coon & Co., and formed a like organization in Chicago. Soon after he returned to Troy, N. Y., where, in 1888, was organized the firm of Cluett, Coon & Co., by the consolida- tion of the two concerns of George B. Cluett Bros. & Co. and Coon & Co., which union was a complete success, and | tenant, Oct. 5, 1867; assigned to Tenth

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Cavalry, Jan. 1, 1871; captain, Sept. 15, | life; 1872-75, with Capt. Jas. B. Eads in 1883; major, Fifth Cavalry, July 5, 1898; lieutenant colonel, Feb. 17, 1901; later colonel and brigadier-general; transferred to Fourteenth Cavalry, March 7, 1901; retired, 1903. Axldress, State Capitol, Dever, Col.

COOPER, Edward:

Merchant; son of Peter Cooper, philan- thropist; born N. Y. City, Oct. 26, 1824; received public school education, enter- ing Columbia, but leaving non-graduated; after tour abroad, returned to U. S., form- ing partnership with Abram S. Hewitt in firm Cooper, Hewitt & Co .; soon as- sisted father in managing of his affairs, with successful results, particularly in iron and steel works in N. J .; Mayor of N. Y. City, 1879-81; member of "Commit- tee of Seventy," of Charleston national convention, 1860, and St. Louis conven- tion, 1876; member, also, of several bus- iness firms; trustee of Cooper Union; hon- orary A. M. from Columbia, 1845. Ad- dress, 12 Washington Square, North, N. Y. City.

COOPER, Henry Dodge:

Importer, manufacturer; born Wantage, N. J .; was graduated from College. 1872; captain Seventh Regiment. N. G. S. N.Y .; resigned, 1890; married Rosalie Martin- dale Purdy, daughter of Alfred Seaman Purdy, M. D., of N. Y .; member Uni- versity Club, and various other clubs and associations. Residence, 29 W. 70th St., N. Y. City.

COOPER, Theodore:

Consulting engineer; born Cooper's Plains, N. Y., Jan. 12, 1839; son of John and Elizabeth (Evans) Cooper; graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., 1858; assistant engineer, Troy and Greenfield R. R., 1861; entered U. S. Navy as assistant engineer, 1861, U. S. S. Cho- cura; at Hampton Roads second appear- ance of the Confederate iron-clad Merri- mack; siege of Yorktown; battle of West Point, York River; at White House, Pamunkey River, during Chickahominy campaign; on blockade off Forts Caswell and Fisher, 1863; Texas Blockade, 1864-65; June, 1865, ordered for duty as assistant professor at U. S. Naval Academy, steam engineering and chemistry; also in charge of construction of new buildings and the sea-wall; 1868, ordered to U. S. S. Nyack, South Pacific Squadron; 1870, again, or- dered to the Naval Academy; after a short service, was granted furlough of one year, preparatory to entering civil

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 40

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