Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 41

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charge of the construction and erection of the St. Louis arch bridge over the Mississippi River; 1875-76, superintendent Delaware Bridge Works; 1876, assistant general manager and superintendent Key- stone Bridge Co .; 1877-78, after the dis- aster of the Ashtabula Bridge, made crit- ical examination of the bridges over many of the principal railroads; 1879, opened an office as consulting engineer in N. Y. City; Mr. Cooper has designed numerous bridges and other structures during the intervening years for railroads, towns, cities and private concerns; he has acted as consulting engineer for many of the most important railroads in the U. S., Mexico, Japan, etc .; New York Elevated R. R .; Rapid Transit Commissions of N. Y. City and Boston; Washington Bridge, N. Y. City; member of the board of ex- perts appointed by President Cleveland on Hudson River Bridge, and by Mayor Low on Manhattan Bridge; 1903, is con- sulting engineer for all structural work of New York Public Library and for the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River with a span of 1,800 feet, the long- est span in the world. He is the author of Cooper's Specifications for the super- structure of railroad and highway bridges and for bridge foundations; has published many papers on engineering subjects and has twice received the Norman medal from the American Society of Civil En- gineers. He is a member of the Ameri- can Society of Civil Engineers, Loyal Legion, N. Y. Historical Society, Century Association; life member Naval Institute, Navy League, Society of Fine Arts, Am- erican Museum of Natural History, N. Y., Botanical Garden; honorary member American Institute of Architects. Resi- dence, 12 West 44th St .; office, 45 Broad- way, N. Y. City.


COOPER, William Albert:


Photographer; born London, Canada, Aug. 27, 1843; educated in the Union School, London ; studied photography; practicing in various parts of Ontario, including Toronto, and finished his Can- adian career in St. Thomas, Ont .; studied the carbon process in London, England, and assisted Lambert to introduce it into America in 1876; studied photo-mechani- cal printing with Obernetter, at Munich, and introduced the Artotype process in the U. S .; studied with Guillaume at Paris; in 1889 brought the half-tone pro- cess to America; in 1892 took up the study


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of reproducing paintings with Color-Val- ues and in 1894 opened a studio perman- ently in N. Y. City; has also taken up the work of interior photography and has photographed many of the finest homes; honorary president London Old Boys As -. sociation of Greater New York, and a member of the Canadians Camp and Can- adians Club of New York. Address, 106 East 23d St., N. Y. City.


COPELAND, Henry Clay :


President of Riverside Bank; born May 23, 1844, at Middletown, Vt .; son of Lu- cius Copeland; educated at Union College, class of 1866; cashier of First National Bank of Brandon, Vt., 1870-83; founder and cashier of Sprague National Bank of Brooklyn, 1883-85; founded Minehaha Na- tional Bank at Sioux Falls, Dak., 1885; founder of Riverside Bank of N. Y. City in 1887 and was its cashier, 1887-94, and its president; from 1894 to 1902 retired member of Union College Alumni Asso- ciation. Address, N. Y. City.


COPPINGER, John J .:


Brigadier general, U. S. Army; born Ireland; appointed from New York; cap- tain, Fourteenth Infantry, Sept. 30, 1861; colonel, Fifteenth New York Cavalry, Jan. 27, 1865; major, Tenth Infantry, March 20, 1879; lieutenant colonel, Eighteenth Infantry, Oct. 31, 1883; colonel, Twenty- third Infantry, Jan. 15, 1891; brigadier general, April 25, 1895; major general, U. S. Volunteers, May 4, 1898; retired, Oct. 11, 1898. Present address, Metropolitan Club, Washington, D. C.


CORBIN, Austin:


Capitalist; born 1873, Brooklyn, N. Y .; was graduated from Harvard College, 1896; president of Real Estate Mortgage Co. and Rockaway Park Improvement ('o .; vice-president of Manhattan Beach Co., Manhattan Beach Hotel and Land ('o., New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach R. R. Co. and Sunny Side Co .; director, Marginal R. R. Co. and Coal & Iron National Bank; member of Lawyers, University, Lambs, and N. Y. Athletic Clubs and Soberset Club of Boston. Res- idence, 76 Park Ave .; office, 192 Broad- way, N. Y. City.


CORBIN, Anstin :


Banker; born July, 1827, Newport, N. II .; died June 4, 1896; was graduated from Harvard Law School; he was the first man in the U. S. to begin banking under the Federal Law; in 1874 he turned his attetion to the Long Island R. R .. and promoted travel by developing the at-


tractions at Coney Island and other beaches; he was president Reading R. R., etc.


CORBIN, John:


Author; born Chicago, Ill., May 2, 1870; B. A., Harvard, 1892, M. A., 1893; 1894-95 at Balliol College, Oxford; has contrbuted much on literary and other subjects to perodicals; 1897 until 1900, was assistant editor of Harper's Magazine; 1899 until 1900, dramatic critic of Harper's Weekly; on editorial staff of Encyclopædia Britan- nica during 1900-02; dramatic critic of New York Times, 1902-05; from 1905, dramatic critic of New York Sun. Has published: The Elizebethan Hamlet (1895); School-Boy Life in England-An American View, (1898); An American at Oxford, (1902); A New Portrait of Shake- speare, and The First Loves of Perilla, (1903). Address, 128 West 11th St., N. Y. City.


CORBIN, William H .:


Lawyer; born McDonough, N. Y., July 12, 1851; son of Eli Lyon Corbin and Abi- gail (Taintor); Cornell University, 1869- 70; Columbia College Law School, 1872; admitted to New York Bar, Binghamton, Sept., 1872; New Jersey Bar, 1874; prac- ticed law in Jersey City; school commis- sioner, Elizabeth, 1876-81; member of New Jersey Legislature, 1885-86-87; New Jersey State commissioner to erect Get- tysburg monuments, 1886-90; councilman of Elizabeth, 1890-95; published: New Jer- sey Corporation Act, (1881), and annual editions since; Corbin's Forms, (1882). Commissioner to revise New Jersey cor- poration and other laws, 1896-99; married Clementine Kellogg, Elizabeth, 1878; mem- ber Union League and Lawyers Clubs, New York; Town and Country Club, Eliz- abeth; Carteret Club, Jersey City; first vice-president New Jersey Title Guaran- tee Trust Co., Jersey City; director First National Bank, Jersey City; United Elec- tric Co., etc. Address, Jersey City, N. J.


CORBUSIER, William Henry :


Surgeon and ethnologist; born N. Y. City; son of William Morrison Corbusier and Mahala Myers; graduate of Bellevue Medical College, N. Y. City; served as acting assistant surgeon, U. S. Army dur- ing the War of the Rebellion, May 30, 1864, to June 14, 1865; acting assistant surgeon, U. S. Army, Aug. 19, 1867, to Dec. 16. 1868, and July 17, 1869. to May 30, 1875; surgeon, Rio-Verde Indian Agen- ey, Ariz., Sept. 12, 1873, to Feb. 27, 1875; first lieutenant and assistant surgeon


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United States Army, Aug. 5, 1876; cap- tain, Ang. 5, 1881; major and surgeon, Oct. 17, 1895, and served at many frontier posts, inspector of annuities, Rio-Verde Indian Agency, Ariz., Feb., 1874; Pine- Ridge Indian Agency, Dakota Territory, Nov. 23, 1577, to April 27, 1850, and at Fort Washakie, Wyo. Ter., Oct., 1SS0; in the field against hostile Apache tribes at various times in 1874, 1875 and 1SS5; acting medical purveyor of the expedition to the Philippine Islands, May 17, 1595. to April 30, 1900; chief surgeon, Depart- ment of Mindanao with station at Zam- boanga, Mindanao, P. I., from Sept. 11. 1903; lieutenant-colonel and deputy sur- geon general, April 26, 1904; has made a study of the sign language of the North American Indians; of the dialects of the Mojave, the Apache-Yuma and Apache- Mojave Indians, and discovered several Winter-Counts-or calendars-among the Dakota Indians; the results of his labors have been published in the annual reports of the bureau of ethnology, 1979-60, 1852- 83 and 1888-83; the Zeitschrift fur Ethno- logie, Berlin, ISS3 and 1892, and the Amer- ican Antiquarian, Sept. and Nov., 1886; member Empire State Society Sons of the American Revolution, Society of the War of ISIZ of Pennsylvania, Society of Colo- nial Wars in the State of New York, Na- tional Society of the Army of the Philip- pines and the American Flag Asociation. Address, Manila, P. I.


CORDES, August W .:


Architect; born, 1850, in Hamburg, Ger- many; received his first training at the Technical School of Hamburg, combined with courses in practical work and model- ing; continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Berlin, here interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, in which he participated; resumed his studies at Ber- lin where he was a pupil of Gropius & Schmieden, and, in 1$73, studied under Theoplule Ritter von Hansen at the Vi- enna Royal Academy and finished his studies by traveling ten months through Italy and Sicily; came to New York, in 1880, and formed partnership with Mr. Theodore W. E. DeLemos in 1SS4, under the firm name of DeLamos & Cordes; were the architects of Arion Club House, 59th street and Park avenue, Siegel-Coop- er department store, Adams department store, Macy department store, office build- ing for Messrs Speyer & Co., No. 24-26 Pine street; office building for the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. in Mexico City, and many other well known office,


public and business buildings; Mr. Cordes is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and member of the Architec- tural League of New York. Address, 634 West 15Sth St., N. Y. City.


CORLISS, George Wilhelm:


Insurance journalist; born New York, May 8, 1836; educated in the common schools of Connecticut; prepared for col- lege at the Lancasterian School, New Ha- ven; early manhood passed principally as an accountant and in teaching; in 1861 recruited, at his own expense, a company of the Fifth Connecticut Volunteer In- fantry, which he commanded from May, 1561, to Jan., 1863; he was severely wounded at the battle of Cedar Moun- thin, Va., Aug. 9, 1862 and was brevetted major for "conspicuous bravery" while advancing in a charge upon the enemy under a terrific fire of musketry and ar- tillery. He was taken prisoner at this battle and confined during several months in the notorious "Libby Prison" at Rich- mond, Va .; Aug. 12, 1837, Major Corliss was awarded "a Congressional medal of honor" for most "distinguished gallantry in action" at this battle; after partial ro- covery from physical disabilities, in 1864, he entered the Veteran Reserve Corps, U. S. Volunteers, and served until his dis- charge in 1869; from 1870 to 1875 he was general insurance agent and broker; In the latter year he joined The Insurance Critic, which he afterwards purchased and removed from Chicago to New York; Major Corliss is a thirty-second degree Mason, prominent in Masonic and Grand Army affairs, and has been a member of the Old Guard of New York since Feb., 18$4. Address, 80 William St., N. Y. City.


CORNELL, Charles Ezra :


Secretary and Clerk of N. Y. State Veterinary College, Cornell University; born Dec. 29, 1855, N. Y. City; son of Gov. Alonzo B. Cornell, and grandson of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell Univer- sity; was graduated from Columbia Col- lege, 1879, and Albany Law School, 1880; admitted to the Bar, 1SS0; married Kath- arine Lawyer Bouck, daughter of Charles Bouck, son of Gov. William Christian Bouck; delegate to National Republican Convention, 1880, and was one of the 306 who voted for Gen. U. S. Grant; served in U. S. Treasury Department, and in pri- vate corporations; president of Cornell Transfer Co., Life Trustee of Cornell Uni- versity, and Cornell Free Library; member of Town and Gown Club and Life Mem- ber State Agricultural Society; past re-


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gent and supreme representative, Royal | drew C., Charles W., John I., and Harvey Arcanum. Address, 508 Stewart Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. A., under the name of Cornwall Bros .; he, as the head of the house, is the most CORNELL, Franklin Cuthbert: prominent citizen of Alexandria Bay, where he resides; he has been supervi- sor of the town of Alexandria for five years and is connected with most of its financial institutions, being president of Cornwall Bros., director of the National Bank & Loan Co., of Watertown, and president of the First National Bank of the Thousand Islands, at Alexandria Bay; on July 1, 1869, married Miss Julia Ful- ler, of Alexandria Bay. Address, Alex- andria, N. Y.


Financier; son of Ezra Cornell, found- er of Cornell University; born Aug. 28, 1837, Ithaca, N. Y .; president of Ithaca Trust Co. since its organization, in 1891; commission of education several years; trustee of Cornell University several years; married Jan. 16, 1862, Susan Pet- tigrove, of Owego, N. Y .; member of Protective Fire Police; trustee of Cornell Free Library; director Lehigh Valley R. R .; large real estate owner in and near Ithaca; Republican. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.


CORNELL, John M .:


Iron manufacturer; born April 27, 1846, in N. Y. City; son of John Black Cornell; educated at Mount Washington Collegiate Institute; married in 1873, Sarah Keen; he became a partner with his father at age of 21 and upon his father's death, in 1887, became' the head of the firm of J. B. & J. M. Cornell; di- rector New York Real Estate Associa- tion, and Dear Hill Co .; member of


Sketch and Building Trades Clubs. Ad- dress, 29 East 37th St., N. Y. City.


CORNELL, Samuel Douglas :


Born Glenville, Conn., Dec. 2, 1839 ; was graduated from Hobart College, 1860; agent for examination of gold mines in Colorado, 1862-64 ; engaged in his father's business 1860-62, and 1864-S8 ; Colonel N. G. N. Y .; member of Buffalo, United Ser- vice, Army and Navy and Reform Clubs of N. Y. City, and Theta Delta Chi Fra- ternity. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.


CORNWALL, Andrew C .:


Merchant; born Pultneyville, N. Y., Jan. 2, 1844; son of Andrew and Mary Calhoun Cornwall, of Alexandria Bay; his father owned nearly all the Thousand Islands in American waters, between Clayton and Morristown and made a for- tune by selling the timber on the islands; he ultimately sold them cheap or gave them away for residential purposes and summer resorts; he was one of the greatest developers of the St. Lawrence river; educated at the Alexandria Bay District School; the Watertown High School, and Eastman's Mercantile Col- lege, Rochester, N. Y .; his first busi- ness occupation was clerk in his father's store; in 1877 he succeeded to the great mercantile business; the partners in the new firm which was then formed were the four sons of Andrew Cornwall: An-


CORNWALLIS, Kinahan:


Lawyer; editor; born London England, Dec. 24, 1839. Entered British Colonial civil service; two years in Melbourne Australia; came to New York in 1860; on editorial staff of N. Y. Herald until 1869; accompanied the Prince of Wales while in the U. S. as Herald correspond- ent; purchased and edited the Knicker- bocker Magazine and the Albion; and in IS86 the Wall Street Daily Investigator, of which he is still proprietor and editor; admitted to the New York Bar, 1863, and has since practiced in N. Y. City. Au- thor: Yarra Yarra; Howard Plunkett; An Australia Poem; Pilgrims of Fashion, or British Columbia; Two Journeys to Ja- pan; A Panorama of the New World; Wreck and Ruin, or Modern Society; My Life and Adventures, an Autobiography; The Crossticks, a Medley Performance; also. Royalty in the New World. The New El Dorado; Adrift With a Vengeance; A Marvelous Coincidence; Historical Po- ems; The Song of America and Columbus; The Conquest of Mexico and Peru; The War for the Union, or the Duel between North and South; The Gold Room and the New York Stock Exchange and Clearing House; International Law, a treatise, and The History of Constructive Contempt of Court : member American Social Science Association, and St. George's Society of New York; associate member National Institute Arts and Letters. Residence, 16 East 22d St .; office, 95 Nassau St., N. Y. City.


CORNWELL, William C .:


President of the City National Bank. Buffalo, N. Y .; began as messenger in the banking house of H. N. Smith & Co., of Buffalo; at twenty-six he became cash- ier of the Bank of Buffalo; is a careful student of finance, and his earnest ef- forts have been to secure for the country a better banking and currency system


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that will disconnect the United States Treasury from the entanglement of bank- ing operations; is authority on financial subjects through his addresses and pub- lications during the past ten years, which have created much interest throughout the United States; was one of the found- ers of the New York State Bankers' As- sociation in 1894, and its first vice-presi- dent. He has served as vice-president and member of the executive council of the American Bankers' Association, and is now chairman of the committee on education; in addition to his Interests in banking and financial subjects, he is a student of art and a writer on art sub- jects; he was president of the Buffalo Society of Artists during 1894-96, and has long been connected with the Buf- falo Fine Arts Academy, and is chairman of the fund commissioners of that Insti- tutlon. Address, City National Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.


CORSON, Hiram:


Educator; born Philadelphia, Nov. 6. 1828; private tutor and assistant instruc- tor in Tremont seminary, Morristown, Pa .; associated with Congressional Li- brary and Smithsonian Institution, 1849; instructor, 1856; instructor and lecturer on English literature, Philadelphia, 1859; professor of history and rhetoric, Girard College, 1865-66, when appointed profes- sor of rhetoric and English literature in St. John's College, Annapolis, 1870; since 1870 professor of English language and literature, rhetoric and oratory, Cornell; published An Elocutionary Manual; Hand- book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English (1871), also volume, edited by him, of Canterbury Tales; Pier's Ploughman; Wycliffe's Bible; Gower's Confessio Am- antis; Spencer and Chapman's Homer. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.


CORTELYOU, George Bruce:


First Secretary of Commerce and La- bor; born in N. Y. City, July 26, 1862; was at educated


public and pri- vate schools; was graduated at Hemp- stead (L. I.) Institute and State Normal School, Westfield, Mass .; received the de- gree of L.L. B. from Georgetown and that of LL. M. from Columbian Univer- sity, and on June 10. 1903, the degree of LL. D. from the former university; in 1883 was a general law and verbatim re- porter in New York; was principal of preparatory schools in New York from 1885 to 1889; in the latter year entered the public service, and has been pri- vate secretary to various public officials,


among them the post office inspector in charge at New York, the surveyor of the port of New York, and the fourth as- sistant postmaster-general; Nov., 1895, was appointed stenographer to President Cleveland; Feb., 1896, executive clerk; to July 1, 1898, assistant secretary President MeKinley, April 13, 1900, sec- rotary to the President; reappointed March 15, 1901, and on Sept. 16, 1901, re- appointed by President Roosevelt; was appointed Secretary of the newly estab- lished Department of Commerce and La- bor, Feb. 18, 1903, and was confirmed the same day. Resigned June 30. 1904, to accept chairmanship of Republican Na- tional Committee, which conducted one of the most triumphant campaigns in our history, resulting in the election of Pres- ident Roosevelt. On March 5, 1905, he was appointed by President Roosevelt Postmaster General, and was confirmed by the Senate at the special session. Home Hempstead N. Y .; address 2111 Bancroft Pl., Washington, D. C.


CORTHELL, Elmer Lawrence:


Civil engineer; born South Abington (now Whitman), Mass., Sept. 30. 1810; prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. N. H .; matriculated at Brown University, Class of 1863; left the Uni- versity In 1861 to enlist as a private in the Ist Rhode Isand Light Artillery, ser- ving through the various grades up to captain of Battery D; being mustered out in 1865, Captain Corthell resumed his studies at Brown, and A B. 1867, A. M. 1868; was graduated civil engaged, as engineer, in railroad hydraulic and city work 1867-68; as assistant en- gineer in charge of railroad construc- tion in Illinois and Missouri, east and west of Hannibal. 1868-70; as chief as- sistant engineer in construction of the bridge over the Mississippi river at that point, 1870-71; from 1875-80 was resident engineer in charge of construction of the Jetties at the mouth of the South Pass. Mississippi river; from 1881-84, was chief engineer of the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Ry., building a double track railroad between N. Y. City and Buffalo, N. Y .; during two years, 1887-89, engaged in civil engineering work, in designing and building great steel railway bridges over the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, and other rivers, from Portland, Ore., to Jacksonville, Fla .; in 1888-94 chief engi- neer constructing Jetties at the mouth of the Brazos river, Tex .; building the Merchants bridge over the Mississipppi at


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St. Louis; consulting engineer examining projected waterways and railways and railway properties. After a severe illness in Europe, he undertook in 1897-99 a still more extensive examination, of almost every variety of engineering work in Eu- rope, from the north of Scotland to Rus- sia, Hungary and Italy, giving the re- sults of his work to the Engineering Magazine and to Societies of Engineers; 1898; appointed a delegate by the U. S. Government to the International Con- gress of Navigation held at Brussels, and made a report-215 pages and 115 illus- trations-to the Secretary of State, which was published by U. S. Senate resolution and widely distributed in


the United States and other countries. He was elect- cd a vice-president of that Congress and placed on the committee to permanently organize the Congress; is


تح member of the International Council representing the U. S .; during this period. 1897-99, he made another examination of Technical schools of Europe, and presented a report to President Harper of the University of Chicago, of which he was a trustee, upon Engineering Education. In 1899 Mr. Corthell was selected by the U. S. Gov- ernment for recommendation to the Ar- gentine Government as consulting engi- neer; spent the years 1900-1902 in Ar- gentine in that capacity engaged on the public works of that country, and on his return to the United States, gave a ser- ies of lectures on Argentine in many cities of the United States and Mexico at the request of the Argentine Government; 1894, received the degree Dr. Sc. from Brown University-the first engineer to receive this degree from that University. Member of two college societies, the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and of many leading engineering and scientific societies in the U. S., Canada, Mexico, Argentine, Great Britain, France and Portugal; al- so Army and patriotic societies. com- mercial bodies and clubs, thirty-eight in all; his literary works are numerous and well known; presented to the Committee of International Engineering Congress, held at St. Louis, Oct. 3. 1904, an illus- trated paper on large passenger termi- nals of the world; is now investigating the important question of pressures on deep foundations for a paper to be pre- sented to the Institution of Civil Engi- neers, London, and is preparing by cor- respondence with the engineers of 350 ports of the world and over one hundred steamship companies, a paper on ports


and maritime commerce, to be pre- sented to the International Navigation Congress, which convenes at Milan, Italy, in Sept., 1905. He was married in 1867, to Emilie Theodate, daughter of William S. and Betsy A. Wood Davis, of Provi- dence R. I., and they have two children, Alice E. and Howard L .; Mrs. Corthell died in 1884. Mr. Corthell was married the second time April 23, 1900, at Berne, Switzerland, to Marie, daughter of Pas- tor Frederick W. and Pauline Krebs Knechler of that city. Address, 1 Nas- sau St., N. Y. City.


CORTISSOZ, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson :


Writer; born New York; married Royal Cortissoz; author: Songs and Lyrics; ed- itor (with E. C. Stedman). The Library of American Literature. Address, 31 W. 10th St., N. Y. City.


CORTISSOZ, Royal:


Journalist; born N. Y. City; the foun- dations of his artistic education were laid in the architectural office of Mc- Kim, Mead & White; his studies have been further pursued in Europe, espec- ially in France and Italy; is now the lit- erary editor and art critic of the N. Y. Tribune; has contributed many essays on literary and artistic subjects to the leading magazines. Address, 154 Nassau St., N. Y. City.


CORWIN, Charles Edward:


Clergyman of the Reformed Church and author; born Millstone, N. J., Sept. 7, 1868; A. B., Rutgers College, 1892; Theo- logical seminary, New Brunswick, N. J., 1895; B. D., Rutgers College, 1895; mar- ried Ellen Gibb Kingsley, 1898; member Phi Beta Kappa, Hudson River Minister- ial Association; pastor Reformed Church. Cuddeback, N. Y., 1895-97; Reformed Church, Greenport, N. Y., 1897; author: Onesimus; Christ's Freedman; A Tale of the Pauline Epistles (Revell Co., 1900); King Solomon's Riddle (a serial, 1903); numerous contributions to the religious reviews and papers. Address, Greendale. N. Y.




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