Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 42

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COSGRAVE, John O'Hara:

Editor of Everybody's Magazine; born Melbourne, Australia, July 11, 1866; edu- cated Auckland, New Zealand, and came to San Francisco 1886; was engaged on the San Francisco Call for three years; began publication of The Wave in 1899 and continued as editor and manager un- til 1900; became managing editor of Ev- erybody's Magazine, 1901; editor, in 1903. Address, 31 East 17th St., N. Y. City.

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COSTELLO, Thomas M .:

Real estate dealer, ex-Assemblyman; born Prince Edward's Island, June 1, 1845; educated in public schools; tanner and currier by trade; came to Woburn, Mass., in 1864, and to N. Y. State in 1869; engaged in mercantile business and man- ufacturing lumber for many years, and is now engaged in the real estate business; in 1899 introduced and passed sweat shop bill and also bill putting all labor laws of the State under the Factory Inspector's care; has held many offices, viz .: school trustee, village clerk, trustee for three years and president for nine years of the village of Sand Bank, now Altmar; super- visor of the town of Albion in the years 1887 and 1888, and county clerk of Os- wego County, 1889, '90, '91; elected to As- sembly, 1895, '96, '97, '98, '99, '00, '01, '02; appointed member of following Assembly committees: Chairman of Labor and In- dustries, member of Ways and Means and Railroads. Address, Sand Bank, Oswego County, N. Y.

COSTELLO, P. C .:

Born 1829; from the common schools he went into his father's tannery; he became an operator in the art of leather making on his own account in 1848 at Camden; N. Y .; mecame president of N. Y. City in 1873, and is a director of the U. S. Leather Co. and the Leather Down Town Club. Address, 41 Park Row, N. Y. City. COTTMAN, Vincendon L .:

Concord, 1891-94; Marion, 1894; Navy Yard, N. Y., Oct., 1894-96; Monterey, Dec., 1896-98; U. S. S. Alert, Feb. to April, 1898; command Brutus, 1898-99; towed Mon- terey to Manila, and engaged in landing party Samoa; established nautical school in Manila, P. I., 1899, and was the first superintendent of that school; hydro- graphic office, bureau of equipment, 1899; bureau of navigation, March 7, 1900-02; in command Wyoming since 1902; aid to President Roosevelt during his visit to San Francisco, Cal., 1903. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.

COUDERT, (Mrs.) Amalia Kussner:

Miniature painter; born Terre Haute, Ind., March 26, 1873; began artistic ca- reer in New York in 1892 and afterwards went to London; painted King Edward, then Prince of Wales, and most of the highest aristocracy of England; in 1892 she was sumoned to Russia to paint the Czar and Czarina and the Grand Duchess Vladimer and the Grand Duchess Ellen; in the autumn of 1899 went to South Afri- ca to paint Cecil Rhodes; on July 3, 1900, she married Charles du Point Coudert. Address, 53 West 48th St., N. Y. City.

COURTNEY, Charles Edward:

Oarsman; born Nov. 13, 1849, Union Springs, N. Y .; educated at Friends Acad- emy and learned the carpenter's trade; began rowing on Cayuga Lake when a boy, and first began to attract attention as an oarsman in Sept., 1868, when he won a race on the lake at Aurora over several competitors, in a boat which he built himself; this was the first time he prize; after practicing some time, he de- feated several competitors in June, 1873, on Onondaga Lake, at Syracuse; after this victories came fast; he never lost an amateur race, although he rowed 89 sin- gle scull races and 15 or 16 doubles before he rowed a profesional race; he has rowed in all 134 races and only lost 7; his friends since 1883 he has been coach of the Cor- nell University Navy, and has taught its crews the "Courtney stroke" by which it has won many notable victories over dered and well built; married. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.

Commander, U. S. Navy; born Donalds- ville, La., Feb. 13, 1852; received primary education, preparatory department, Mt. St. Mary's, Emmittsburg, Md., and at Manhattanville, N. Y .; appointed by Hon. James Brooks, Seventh District, N. Y. City; entered Naval Academy, Sept. 21, 1868; graduated, June 1, 1872; ensign, July 15, 1873; master, May 9, 1878; Heu- tenant, Jan. 8, 1885; lieutenant-comman- der, March 3, 1899; commander, June 3, 1902; Tuscarora, 1872-75; deep-sea sound- ing in Pacific; landing-party, Panama, 1873; landing-party, Honolulu, 1874; Sa- moa with Steinberger, Latrobe, etc., 1875; Colorado, receiving-ship, New York, 1875- 76; Supply, training squadron, 1876; Al- liance, European station, 1877-80; receiv- COUTANT, Charles F .: ing ship, Colorado, 1880-81; Richmond, Republican Assemblyman; born Rifton. New Jersey, June 2, 1848; educated in the common schools; was repeatedly elected justice of the peace followed by his election as justice of sessions; repre- sented his town in the board of supervi- sors of his county and served for six con- Asiatic Station, 1881-82; Monocacy, Asia- tic station, 1882-84; Richmond, Asiatic station, 1884; branch hydrographic office, New York, 1885-89; New York nautical schoolship St. Mary's. as senior in- structor and navigator, 1889; secretary Internotional Marine Conference, 1889-90; | secutive years; he has also served six

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years as coroner of the county; elected | 1847; son of Patrick Henry Cowen and to Asembly 1902, 1903 and 1904; appoint- ed member of the following Assembly committees: Commerce and Navigation, Fish and Game, and Public Lands and Forestry. Address, Kingston, N. Y.

COVILLE, Frederick Vernon:

Botanist; born Preston, N. Y., March 23, 1867; prepared at Oxford Academy; was graduated from Cornell, 1887; instruc- tor of botany, Cornell, 1888, assistant bot- anist in U. S. department of agriculture; 1893, chief botanist and curator of U. S. national herbarium in national museum; leader of expedition to Death Valley, 1890- 91; Fellow of American Association of Advancement of Science; author of Bot- any of the Death Valley Expedition (Washington, 1893). Address, 1836 Cali- fornia Ave., Washington, D. C.

COVILLE, Luzerne :

Physician; born Preston, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1865; was graduated from Oxford Academy, 1882; Cornell University, B. S., in Natural History, 1886, and College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y. City, 1889; Interne, Bellevue Hospital, 1889 and 1891, and St. aMry's Hospital, Brooklyn, 1890; practiced in Brooklyn, 1891-95; Ox- ford, N. Y., 1895-96, and Ithaca, since 1896; secretary of Cornell University Medical College at Ithaca, 1898-00; lec- turer in aatomy, 1898-00, lecturer o sur- gery, 1900-03; author of Work-Book in Surgery, 1901 and 1903; president Tomp- kins County Medical Society, 1897-99; member of State Medical Society since State Civil Service Commission. Demo- crat; member of Theta Delta Chi, Nu Sigma Nu and Sigma Xi Fraternities, and of Theta Delta Chi Club and Colum- bia University Club, in N. Y. City; mem- ber of Town and Gown Club; married, June 23, 1896, Alice Perkins. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.

COWAN, James A. R .:

Banker; born May 22, 1858; 1891, elected president of National Bank of Hobart, which position he still holds; in 1889, 1890 and 1891 he was supervisor of the town of Stamford, and the last year men- tioned was chairman of the board; in 1891 he was elected member of Assembly from Delaware County and re-elected to Assembly 1901 and 1902; appointed mem- ber following Assembly committees: Banks, General Laws, Public Lands and Forestry, Public Institutions. Address, Hobart, N. Y.

COWEN, Sidney J .:

Lawyer; born Albany N. Y., Feb. 1st,

Louise Beach. Comes of distinguished Revolutionary and legal stock. His father was a noted lawyer of Northern New York, who served his country in the Civil War, first as captain and later as major of the 115th Regiment, N. Y. State Volunteers, part of which time while a prisoner on parol, he was made provost marshal of the City of Chicago and surrounding camps. After the war, Major Cowen became president of his native village, Saratoga Springs, super- visor of the town of Saratoga and held other important offices. Mr. Sidney Cow- en's cousin was Supreme Court Judge Miles Beach; one of his uncles, Supreme Court Judge Enoch H. Rosekrans, and an- other uncle, the distinguished advocate, William A. Beach. His grandfather on his father's side was Vice-Chancellor and Su- preme Court Judge Esek Cowen; his great-grandfather on his mother's side was Captain John Warren, who fought in the War of the Revolution; his great- grandfather on his father's side was Col- onel Sidney Berry, who was aide-de-camp to General Washington at the battle of Monmouth. Mr. Cowen was graduated from Union College, class of 1867, taking an honor and the degree of A. B., and subsequently, the honorary degree of A. M .; resided four years in France and Ger- many, acquiring the languages of those countries and completing his education; graduate of Albany Law School, Class of 1872, taking the degree of LL.B., and from the law office of U. S. Senator Ira Harris of Albany. Mr. Cowen compiled a treatise on the law of warrants and attachments known as Cowen on Warrants and At- tachments, after which he became a resi- dent of N. Y. City, where he has since been actively engaged in the successful practice of the law, frequently appearing before the courts in actions of great im- portance and of diversified character, in- volving large sums, and, in a large num- ber of cases, being designated by the courts as a referee to hear and determine controversies of magnitude. He served as assistant corporation counsel of N. Y. City from 1889 to 1896; member of the Union College Alumni Association, the Sigma Phi Fraternity, Polar Star Lodge F. and A. M., the Tammany Society or Columbia Order, the Sons of the Revo- lution and member of the Board of Gover- nors of the Saratoga County Society in New York. Address, 302 Broadway, N. Y. City.

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COWLES, Alfred A .:

President Ansonia Brass & Copper Co., Ansonia Clock Co., Birmingham Water Power Co., Pebbledale Phosphate Co., Terra-Ceia Estates, Inc .; Vice-President the American Brass Co .; member Union League and Larchmont Yacht, Fulton, Knollwood and County Clubs. Address, care Union League Club, N. Y. City.

COWLES, Augustus Woodruff :

Educator, born Reading, N. Y., July 12, 1819; was graduated from Union Col- lege, 1841; taught an academy, Scho- harie County, also in Schenectady; studied theology in Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. City; also taught art in Jacob Ab- bot's School, and painted miniature por- traits; was stated supply and pastor of Presbyterian Church in Brockport from 1846 to 1856; was inaugurated as the first president of Elmira College, Aug. 7, 1856; received D. D. from Ingham University and from Union College, and LL. D. from Hamilton College; introduced regular study of art-history and criticism into curriculum of Elmira College, 1856; con- tinued president for thirty-three years; was acting president for one and a half years; became President Emeritus, and professor of art criticism and Biblical literature, and still continues the full work of his professorship in his eighty- sixth year (1905). Address, Elmira, N. Y.

COWLES, William Sheffield:

Captain, U. S. Navy; born Farmington, Conn .; appointed to Naval Academy, July 21, 1863; graduated, 1867; Minnesota in Mediterranean squadron, 1867-68; Pen- sacola and Saginaw in North Pacific squadron, 1868-70; promoted to ensign, 1869, and master in 1870; naval observa- tory, Washington, D. C., 1870; torpedo station, Newport, R. I., 1871; promoted to lieutenant in 1871; practice gunnery ship Constellation, 1872; Alaska, Mediterran- ean, West Indies, 1873; Alaska, coast of Africa, 1874-05-06; Tennessee and Monoca- cy, China station, 1877-78-79 and 80; Navy Yard, N. Y., 1881-82; flag-lieutenant, North Atlantic squadron, 1882-03-04; secretary board of inspection merchant ships, N. Y. City (during this detail served three weeks on Isthmus of Panama, guarding the transit across the Isthmus, and prop- erty of Panama R. R. Co., and property of American citizens on the Isthmus), 1884-85-86; in command of Despatch, 1887- 88-89 and 1890-91; naval aide to Secretary of Navy, and in charge of Naval Militia, 1891-92; promoted to lieutenant-comman- der, 1892; naval attache, U. S. Embassy,

London, 1893-97; commanding Fern, North Atlantic squadron, April, 1897, to April, 1898; commanding Topeka, April, 1898; commanding Topeka, April, 1898, to 1899; promoted commander June 5, 1899; assis- tant to bureau of navigation, Sept. 30, 1899-03; promoted captain, Nov. 2, 1902; Dec., 1903-04, in command of battleship Missouri. Address, Navy Department, Washington, D. C.

COX, Charles Fimey :

President American Safe Deposit Co., Canada & Michigan Bridge & Tunnel Co., and Canada Southern Ry. Co .; director New York & Putnam R. R. Co. and twen- ty-five other railroad corporations; mem- ber of Union League, Century and other clubs. Residence, 54 E. 67th St .; office, 501 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

COX, Kenyon:

Painter; born Warren, O., Oct., 1856; studied art at Cincinnati and Philadelphia; 1877-82 at Paris under Carolus Duran and Gerome; 1882, returned to N. Y. City; member of Society of American Artists, National Academy of Design and others; has painted landscapes, portraits and ideal figure subjects; has decorative paint- ings in the Library of Congress, in the court room of the Appellate Court of New York, and in other public buildings; is a writer of articles on art subjects contrib- uted to the leading periodicals. Address, 75 West 55th St., N. Y. City.

COX, Louise:

Painter; maiden name, King; born San Francisco, 1865; studied art at National Academy of Design and Art Students' League, of New York, mainly under Ken- yon Cox, whom she married, 1892; mem- ber of Society of American Artists and associate of National Academy of De- sign; paints portraits and figure sub- jects; received third Hallgarten prize at National Academy of Design, 1896; bronze medal, Paris Universal Exposition. 1900; silver medal, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1902; Julia A. Shaw memorial prize, Society of American Artists, 1903. Address. 75 West 55th St., N. Y. City.

COX, Palmer:

Artist and author; born Granby, Que- bec, April 28th, 1840; was graduated from Granby Academy; in 1860 lived in Spring- field, Mass., for six months; in Lucknow, Ont., two years; San Francisco, from 1863 to 1875, contributing to Golden Era, Alta California, and other papers; since 1875 has lived in New York; specialty, orig- inal humorous pictures illustrating own works; he is author of Squibs of Califor-

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nia, or Every Day Life (illustrated, 1875) ; | peared at Niblo's Garden, N. Y. City, afterwards rewritten and published as 1864, making a reputation in Little Nell and the Marchioness; thereafter popular in comedy parts, having performed as Topsy, Sam Willoughby, Firefly, Musette, Zip, Bob, The Little Detective, and Ni- touche. Address, 59 W. 51st St., N. Y. City. Comic Yarns (1889); Hans Von Pelter's Trip to Gotham (1876); How Columbus Found America (1877); That Stanley (1878); The Brownies, Their Book (1887) ; Queer People (1888); Queer People with Wings and Strings (1888); Queer People with Paws and Claws (1888); Another CRAFT, David: Brownie Book (1890); The Brownies at Home (1893); The Brownies Around the World (1894); The Brownies Through the

The Brownies Abroad

Union (1895) ; (1899); The Brownies in Fairyland (can- tata in 2 acts for children, 1895) ; Palmer Cox's Brownies (spectacular play in 3 acts, 1895); The Brownies in the Phil-

ippines (1903) ; designer of toys and games, The Brownie Blocks, Brownie Scroll Puzzles, Brownie Nine Pins, Brownie Portrait Gallery, Brownie Cal- endar, or Year Book. etc. Address, 134 W. 23d St .. N. Y. City.

COX, Robert Lynn:

Lawyer; born Illinois, Nov. 27, 1865; came to Buffalo, 1885, and began work as shipping clerk in large manufacturing concern, afterwards superintendent; es- tablished business for himself at twen- ty-four years of age; fitted himself by night study to enter the legal profession; having passed preliminary regents' exam- ination he attended the University of Buf- falo in the law department, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL. B .; began practice of law alone, but afterward formed a law partnership with Maulsby Kimball; in 1901 the firm was enlarged under the firm name of Cox, Kernan & Kimball; member of Phi Delta Phi Fraternity; member of Ellicot Club since its organization, and of the Buffalo Club; elected to Assembly, 1902, 1903 and 1904. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.

COXE, Alfred C .:

Justice of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals since June, 1902; admitted to the Bar in 1868; was United States District Judge, northern district of New York, from 1882 to 1902; received degrec of 11_ D. from Columbia University in June, 1904. Is the nephew of Senator Roscoc Conkling and Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe. Address, Utica, N. Y.

CRABTREE, Lotta:

Actress; born N. Y. City, Nov. 7, 1847; went to California, 1854; 1855, first ap- peared on stage in amateur theatricals; 1858, played Gertrude at Petaluma in Loan of a Lover; became, with mother, member of variety company, 1860; ap-

Presbyterian minister; born Carmel, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1832; Presbyterian Theo- logical Seminary, 1858-60; pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Wyalusing from 1861 to 1891 and at Lawrenceville, 1891, 1898, and at Angelica, 1899;

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chaplain One Hundred and Forty- first Pennsylvania Volunteers; deliv- ered historical address, 1879, at dedica- tion of monument at Elmira, also at Waterloo, Genesee and Aurora, N. Y., commemorating 100th aniversary of Sul- livan's expedition, pubilshed State of New York (1888); author of Wyalusing, History of Bradford Co., History of the Sullivan Expedition against the Indians, and History of One Hundred and Forty- first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; Grand Chaplain I. O. O. F. of Pennsyl- vania; chaplain of 141st Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry Militia and mem- ber M. O. L. L. Address, Angelica, N. Y.

CRAGIN, Edwin Bradford, M. D .:

Obstetrician and gynecologist; born Oct. 23, 1859, Colchester, Conn .; educated at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn .; A. B., Yale, 1882; M. D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., 1886; professor of obstetrics and gynecology, College Phy- sicians and Surgeons, N. Y .; attending physician Sloane Maternity Hospital;

consulting obstetric surgeon City Ma- ternity Hospital, and N. Y. Infant Asylum; consulting gynecologist, N.

Y. Infirmary for Women and Child- ren and Fairhaven Sanitarium; member of N. Y. Academy of Medicine, N. Y. Obstetrical Society, American Gynecologi- cal Society, N. Y. County Medical Socie- ty, Medical Association of Greater New York, etc .; married Mary Willard, May 23, 1889; assistant gynecologist to Roose- velt Hospital, 1889-99; secretary of Col- lege Physicians and Surgeons, 1895-99; professor of obstetrics College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons since 1899; pro- fessor of gynecology since 1903; Repub- lican. Address, 10 West 50th St., N. Y. City.

CRAIG, James M .:

Actuary of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Co. of New York; born of Scotch

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parentage at Philadelphia, April 5, 1848; education obtained in the public schools and at the Cooper Institute, N. Y. City; entered the life insurance business as clerk in the office of the National Life Insurance Co. in New York in 1866; he immediately began the study of the math- ematics underlying the life insurance sys- tem, and was called to the service of the Metropolitan Life in May, 1872; has since become the company's actuary. Address, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., N. Y. City.

CRAIG, John:

Educator; born April 27, 1864, Lake- field, Canada; prepared at Montreal High School; attended McGill College, and was graduated from Iowa State College, 1887, and Cornell University, M. S., in Aug., 1899; married, 1894, Mrs. Florence Au- gusta Slater Currier; horticulturist, Do- minion Experimental Farms, 1890-7; pro- fessor of horticulture and forestry, Iowa State College, 1899-00; professor of Ex- tension Teaching in Cornell University, 1900-02; professor of Horticulture in Cor- nell University since 1903; horticultural writer; secretary of American Associa- tion, 1902; editor National Nurseryman, 1904; juror at World's Fairs, 1893 and 1904; Republican. Address, 3 East Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.

CRAIG, Joseph Edgar:

Captain, U. S. Navy; born New York; appointed acting midshipman at Naval Academy, Nov. 29, 1861; title changed to midshipman July 16, 1862; graduated, 1865; Monongahela, West India squad- ron, Nov., 1865, to July, 1868; promoted to ensign Dec. 1. 1866; promoted to mas- ter, March 12, 1868; Portsmouth, South Atlantic fleet, Jan., 1869 to Oct., 1871; promoted to lieutenant March 26, 1869; Naval Academy Dec., 1871, to June, 1874 (Constellation, summer practice cruise, June to Sept., 1873); Naval Observatory, special duty as astronomer, North Pacific survey, Nov., 1874, to Aug., 1875; hydro- graphic office, special duty in connection with Narragansett's survey, Aug., 1875, to Oct., 1877; Alaska, Pacific station, April, 1878, to April, 1881; promoted to lieuten- ant-commander, March 13, 1885; Naval Academy, June, 1881, to Sept. 1885 (com- manding Mayflower, summer practice cruise, 1882) ; Vandalia, Pacific Station, Feb., 1886, to April, 1887; commanding Palos, Asiatic station, June, 1887, to March, 1890; promoted to commander, Jan. 3, 1890; Naval Academy, June, 1890, to Dec., 1894, when took command of U.

[S. S. Concord, to May, 1896; Navy Yard, N. Y., July 1, 1896;6oetaoin shrdlu cmfwy of navigation, April 19, 1897; promoted captain, March 3, 1899; commanding Albany, May 29, 1900, to Oct., 1902; cap- tain of yard, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., since Dec. 30. 1902. Address, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va.

CRANDALL, Arthur Fitz-James:

News editor of the N. Y. Evening Post born Easton, N. Y., August 11, 1854; prepared for college, Greenwich, N. Y., and entered the school of architecture of Cornell University in the class of 1877; two years later was given leave of absence from Cornell to pursue art study in N. Y. City; Chester A. Arthur, then collector of the Port of New York, appointed him to a clerkship in the Cus- tom House, where he remained about five years, when he resigned his office to re- sume art study at the Art Students' League; after about two years of study he took up newspaper work for a liveli- hood, his first employment being upon the staff of the Commercial Advertiser; when that paper was sold to John Cockerill, of the World, he was invited to join the staff of the Evening Post, where he has since remained; married, Jan. 1, 1892, Marion Stevens, of Orwell, Vt .; is one of the original members of the Cornell Uni- versity Club; in politics he is an inde- pendent Republican. Address, The Even- ing Post, 206 Broadway, N. Y. City.

CRANDALL, Floyd Milford:

Physician and editor; born Belfast, N. Y., May 2, 1858; son of Charles Milford Crandall, M. D., and Deborah J. (Wood) Crandall; graduate of Geneseo Normal College, 188.0; University Medical College of New York, 1884; interne Bellevue Hos- pital, 1884-85; attending physician, Belle- vue Dispensary, 1886-89; attending physi- cian Northwestern Dispensary, 1889-90; surgeon New York Skin and Cancer Hos- pital, 1890-95; visiting physician Children's Hospital, 1895-98; visiting physician In- fants' Hospital, 1895-98; visiting physician Minturn Hospital, 1897-99; consulting physician Infants' and Children's Hospi- tals since 1898; lecturer, Diseases of Child- ren, New York Polytechnic, 1889-93; ad- junct professor New York Polyclinic since 1893; on editorial staff N. Y. Medical Journal, 1889-93; managing editor Gal- liard's Medical Journal, 1893-95; editor Archives of Pediatrics, 1895-01; president West End Medical Society, 1895; presi- dent Section on Pediatrics, N. Y. Acad- emy of Medicine, 1895; member of Amer-

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ican Pediatric Society, Pan-American Medical Association, N. Y. County Medi- cal Society, Alumni Society of Bellevue Hospital; author of How to Keep Well (1903), and about sixty medical mono- graphs and papers. Address, 113 West 95th St., N. Y. City.

CRANDALL, William H .:

Banker and manager; born Almond, N. Y .; parents removed to Alfred, N. Y., when he was three years old; he was engaged in the mercantile business in Al- fred for some years, under the firm name of A. E. & W. H. Crandall, and was one of three to organize the University Bank, of which he was vice-president for eleven years; upon the incoporation of the bank | caise; La Société Francaise au Dix-Sep-

as a State institution in 1894, he was made president; one of the organizers of the Alfred Mutual Loan Association in 1884; director and treasurer, and in 1897 was elected its president, which office he still holds; in 1879 was elected treasurer of Alfred University; is also a trustee of the University; in Oct., 1889, he was ap- pointed agent for the Equitable Life As- surance Society, and in Jan., 1892, became its district manager; in 1897 he was prom- inent in the organizing of the Alfred Telephone and Telegraph Co., and was made its secretary and treasurer; Mr. Crandall is not only a busy citizen, but an energetic and progressive one, to whom his community is indebted greatly for its thrift and the possession of the great modern conveniences. Address, Al- fred, N. Y.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 42

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