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eled extensively for the Times, through | July 1, 1878; passed assistant engineer nearly every State in the Union, for po- Dec. 1, 1887; Ranger, Asiatic Station, 1877-79; European Station 1880-83; specia: duty, Wilmington, 1884-87; coast survey steamer McArthur 1887-88; Thetis, North Pacific Station, 1889-91; Union Iron litical, special and general information and in attendance upon conventions of different States; has repeatedly toured "doubtful" States to ascertain probabili- ties of success for rival candidates; in- Works, San Francisco, 1891; U. S. S. Olympia, Feb., 1895, to 1897; promoted to chief engineer July, 1897; U. S. S. Mon- adnock March, 1898, to June, 1898; re- tired Oct. 29, 1898. Address, 530 Cali- fornia St., San Francisco, Cal. cidentally traveled with President Ar- thur in Florida, in 1883, and through the Yellowstone Park country with him in the same year; at the beginning of the Fifty-third Congress he was elected a member of the standing committee of DUNWELL, Charles Tappan: Press Correspondents at Washington, and was chosen by the committee as its chairman, and was re-elected member and chairman of that committee for the Fifty-fourth, fifth and sixth Congresses; since 1902 has been engaged in occasion- al newspaper, magazine and other liter- ary work; is an original member of the Gridiron Club, of Washington. Address, 124 West 94th St., N. Y. City. DUNNING, Samuel W .:
Major U. S. Army; born in and appoint- ed from N. Y .; cadet at U. S. Military Academy, June 14, 1876; was graduated June 12, actual
1880; rank second lieutenant Sixteenth Infantry, June 12, 1880; on frontier duty in Indian Terri- tory, 1880, Texas, 1881; served on expe- dition to explore and survey country west of Fort Concho, Texas, and Pacific R. R. and head of Red River; on scouting duty, 1881 to July, 1884; at Fort Davis, 1885 captain, April 26, 1898; major, 1903; instructor U. S. M. A., 1891-95; served through Santiago Campaign, wounded, July 1, 1898, in P. I., 1899 and 1902. Ad- dress, Military Secretary's Department. Headquarters Department of Cal., San Francisco, Cal.
DUNNING, William Archibald:
Professor of history, Columbia Univer- sity; editor; born Plainfield, N. J .: son John H. and Catherine D. Dunning; was graduated from Columbia College, A. M., Ph. D .; managing editor of Political Sci- ence Quarterly since 1894; member Acad- emy of Political Science, American His- torical Asociation, National Sculpture So- ciety, Century Club, Columbia Universi- ty Alumni. Author: Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction, History of Po- litical Theories, frequent contributor to various magazines. Address, 256 West 57th St., N. Y. City.
DUNNING, William B .:
Lieutenant U. S. Navy; born in N. Y. City; appointed from N. Y .; cadet en- gineer Oct. 1, 1873; assistant engineer
Insurance; ex-U. S. Congressman; born Newark, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1852; educated at Lyons Union School; entered Cornell University in the class of 1873; at the close of his junior year entered Columbia College Law School, where he was graduated in 1874 with the degree of L.L.B .; admitted to the Bar of N. Y. State in May, 1874; practiced law for many years in N. Y. City; became gen- eral agent for the N. Y. Life Insurance Co. in 1889; was unanimously nominated for comptroller of the City of Brooklyn by the Republican City Convention in 1890; member of the N. Y. Republican State Committee, 1891-92; elected to 58th. Congress in Republican district; re-elected: to 59th Congress; married April 22, 1880. Emma B. Williams, Pittsburg, Pa. Resi- dence, 207 Hart St., Brooklyn; office, 52 William St., N. Y. City.
DUNWELL, James W .:
Jurist; born Newark, N. Y., Dec. 19. 1$49; student Cornell University 1869-71; studied law and was admitted to the Bar 1873; was counsel for N. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R. Co .; Jan. 1, 1896, became justice of the Supreme Court; term expires Dec. 31, 1909. Address, Lyons, N. Y.
DUNSCOMB, Samuel Whitney, Jr .:
Lawyer; writer on legal and economical subjects; born N. Y., Jan. 11, 1868; son Rev. Samuel W. and Mary M. Dunscomb; graduate of College of City of N. Y., 1888; Columbia University, A. M., 1891 L.L.B., Ph. D., 1893; admitted to Bar Nov., 1893; member: Bar Association, American Academy of Political and So- cial Science, American Numismatic and Archæol. Society, American Geographical Society, Torrey Botanical Club, Scientific Alliance of N. Y., Metropolitan Museum of Art, N. Y. Botanical Garden, Americar Scenic and Historic Preservation Society Association for Protection of Adiron- dacks, Columbia College Alumni, City University Alumni, University Glee Club.
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Author: Bankruptcy, A Study in Com- parative Legislation. Residence, 28 W. 128th St .; office, 132 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
DUQUESNE, Frits Joubert:
Captain, South African Republican
forces during Anglo-Boer War; born East London, Cape Colony, South Af- rica, Dec. 21, 1879; studied in Calcutta, India, Melbourne, Australia, Paris, France; was graduated from South African Col- lege, A. B., Cape Town, Cape Colony, S. A .; before the Boer
War was known as a hunter of big game in Mo- zambique, and the owner of a large cattle and ostrich ranch in Namaqua Land, S. A .; lieutenant and captain in the South African Republican forces, Anglo-Boer War; captured in Portu- guese South Africa and exiled by the Fortuguese to Europe; there was attaché to Africander Legations, acted as secre- tary to Commandant de Wet in his Pro- Boer propaganda in European cities; carried despatches between seat of war and European legations; betrayed and captured in Somerset House, Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa; sen- tenced to death; sentence commuted to life imprisonment; escaped from Bermuda and reached N. Y. City; went to Paris, France, and was a journalist on the staff of Le Petit Bleu; sent to Russia, Macedon- ia and Morocco as war correspondent; received prize for fencing with sabre, foil and rapier at International Tourna- ment in Brussels; author: Perdu (play) written in French, acted in Brussels; Cossack Life, published in Le Petit Bleu; The Spectacles of War; Lost the Bush (novel), published in South Africa; The Yankee Amazon, a play written in English, copyrighted in the U. S .; exiled from British territory, and now settled in N. Y. City. Present address, Union Square Hotel.
DURAND, Elias Judah:
Educator; was graduated from Cornell University, A. B., 1893, and D. Sc., 1895; instructor in botany in Cornell University; Fellow of the American Asociation for The Advancement of Science; member of Sigma Xi and Quill and Dagger Fra- ternities. Address, 120 Oak Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.
DURAND, George R .:
Commander U. S. Navy; born Connecti- cut; appointed from Rhode Island; mate, October 28, 1861; acting master, April 14, 1862; acting volunteer lieutenant, June 27, 1866. Master, March 12, 1868; lieu-
| tenant, December 18, 1868; lieutenant-
commander, November 25, 1877. Com- mander, March 26, 1889. Retired, June 21, 1894. Address, 133 Lexington Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
DURAND, John Stewart:
Lawyer; born Oct. 30, 1859, Cincinnati, Ohio .; graduate of Yale College 1881, and Columbia Law School 1883; married; formerly member of firm of Tyler & Du- rand, Psi Upsilon Fraternity, Yale, Re- publican, University, Automobile of Amer- ica and West Side Republican Clubs; Ohio Society; State and City Bar Associations. Medical Jurisprudence, The New York Geneological and Biographical Society; American Geographical Society; The Am- erican Historical Association, and the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society. Residence, 126 W. 79th St .; office, 81 Fulton St., N. Y. City.
DURFEE, William Pitt:
Dean Hobart College; born Livonia, Mich, Feb. 5, 1855; was graduated from University of Michigan 1876; teacher at Berkeley, Cal., 1876-80; Ph.D. Johns Hop- kins University, 1883; professor of mathematics, Hobart College, 1883; dean Hobart College since 1888; acting presi- dent Hobart College, 1901-03. Author: Elements of Trigonometry. Address ,Ho- bart College, Geneva, N. Y.
DURHAM, Charles Love:
Assistant Professor of Latin, Cornell University; author and writer; born Jan. 2, 1872, Shelby, North Carolina; prepared at Greenville (S. C.) Military Institute and was graduated from Furman Uni- versity, M. A., 1891, and Cornell Uni- versity, Ph. D., 1899; married, March 4, 1903, Jean Lyddell Glendinning; in- structor in Greek and mathematics, Furman University, 1891-96; Fellow in Latin and Greek, Cornell University, 1896-97; instructor in Latin, 1897-91, and assistant professor of Latin in Cornell University since 1901. Residence, 70 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.
DURYEA, Hiram:
President of the National Starch Com- pany; born at Manhasset, L. I., April 12, 1834; he received a good education in pub- lic and private schools, and at the age of twenty-one became a partner of his father in the starch manufacturing busi- ness; the process of manking starch origi- nated with him; he was the vice-presi- dent and president of the Glen Cove Starch Manufacturing Co., for many years, and afterwards became president of the National Starch Co., which suc-
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ceeded the Glen Cove Co .; 1885, commis- sioned by Governor Myron Clark first lieu- tenant of artillery in the Forty-eighth Regiment of the State Militia, a com- mission which he held for several years. A the beginning of the Civil War he promptly tendered his services to the state, and on April 25, 1861, was com- missioned captain in the Fifth New York Infantry (Duryea Zouaves), and on Aug. 15, 1861, was commissioned major in the same regiment, and on Sept. 3, lieutenant colonel; after the siege of Yorktown he commanded the regiment in the Penin- sula and Maryland campaigns; in the Seven Days' Battles, and in the opera- tions before Richmond, his regiment was specially mentioned for its gallantry and efficient services, being one of the most famous New York commands in the war, and he was several times commended, in official reports, for distinguished service. He was appointed colonel of the same regiment, Oct. 29, 1862, and on May 26, 1866, was commissioned by the President of the U. S. brevet brigadier-general of Volunteers "for distinguished conduct at the battle of Gaines Mills, Va .; " he re- tired from the service, Dec., 1862. in consequence of many injuries received in the field, and which incapacitated him for further duty. He is now president of the Veterans' Association; was married, in 1868, to Laura D. Burnell, daughter of Leander Burnell and Anna Noble (Dewey) Burnell; his children are Henry H., Chester B., Anna E., and Millicent S. Duryea; is a member of the Veteran As- sociation of the regiment which he com- manded during the war, of the Society of the Fifth Army Corps, of the United Service Club, and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Address, 80 Madi- son Ave., N. Y. City.
DURYEE, Joseph R.
Founder and pastor of the congrega- tion called Grace Reformed in N. Y. City; born Newark, N. J., Nov. 22, 1853; his father was a director in many corpora- tions; was graduated from Rutgers Col- lege in 1874, and read law with Charles Green, of Trenton, but entered the Theo- logical Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J .. graduating in 1870; is an advocate of civic reform; member of Century Asso- ciation, Historical, Holland and Huguenot Societies. Address, 139 E. 36th St., N. Y. City.
DUTCHER, John B .:
President N. Y. State Bankers' Asso- ciation; born Dover, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1836; member of the State Assembly,
| 1861-62; State Senator, 1864-65; delegate to the National Convention which re- nominated Lincoln, 1864; became director of the N. Y. & Harlem R. R. in 1864, and has continued on the board ever since; in 1865 assumed charge of the depart- ment of live stock transportation on the N. Y. C. & H. R. and N. Y. & Harlem R. Rs .; a director in several other roads; was one of the incorporators, and is now president, of the Union Stock Yards & Market Co. of N. Y .; president of the National Bank of Pawling, director of the American Safe Deposit Co. and of the Fifth Ave. Bank, member of the Cham- ber of Commerce and Produce Exchange, Transportation Club, and St. Nicholas Society of N. Y. City; married, 1860, Christina Dodge, of Pawling. Address, Pawling. N. Y.
DUTCHER, Silas Belden:
Capitalist; born Springfield, N. Y., July 12, 1829; son Parcefor C. and Johanna Low Frink Dutcher; educated in public schools and Cazenovia Seminary; mar- ried, N. Y., 1859, Rebecca J. Alwaise; appraiser of merchandise, port of N. Y., 1877-SO; president Hamilton Trust Co., and interested as officer or director in many corporations; Republican. Member Brooklyn, Hamilton (Brooklyn) Clubs. Residence, 496 3d St .; office, 191 Montague St., Brooklyn.
DUTTON, Edward Payson:
President of the corporation of E. P. Dutton & Co., publishers; born Keene, N. H., 1831; removed to Boston, Mass., 1833; educated at public schools and Latin School; entered the book business Oct. 1, 1852, as partner in the firm of Ide & Dutton; 1858, bought out his part- ner's interest; 1864 bought out the real estate business of Ticknor & Fields and carried on the famous "Old Corner
Bookstore" for several years; in 1869 removed to N. Y., where the firm had had a branch store for some years; in 1882 the firm moved to 23d St., where they have since remained. Address. 31 W. 23d St., N. Y. City.
DUTTON, Samuel T .:
Educator; born Hillsboro Bridge, N. H., Oct. 16, 1849; was graduated from Yale, 1873; M. A., 1900; superintendent of schools, New Haven, Conn., 1882-90; Brookline, Mass., 1890-1900; professor of school administration and superintend- ent of Teachers' College Schools in Col- umbia; member American Historical As- sociation; chairman educational section of American Social Science Association.
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Author: Social Phases of Education in to become judge of the northern district the Home and the School, the Morse of N. Y., and also to the Fifty-eighth Congress; re-elected 1904. Address, Dry- den, N. Y. Speller, and a book on School Manage- ment; editor of a series of historical readers. Address, Teachers' College, N. DWIGHT, Jonathan, Jr .: Y. City.
DUVAL, Horace Clark:
Vice-president of Brooklyn Rapid Tran- sit Co .; born July 4, 1851, in Brooklyn, N. Y .; son William Duval and Caroline N. Clark Duval; director and vice-presi- dent Brooklyn Heights R. R. Co., Brook- 1 Warehouse and Storage Co; vice- president Mechanics' Bank; Kings County Elevated R. R. Co; Sea View R. R. Co .; Kings Co. Light, Heat & Power Co .; and Edison Electric Illuminating Co .; first Lieutenant, Seventh Regiment, N. G., N. Y .; member Union League, Calumet, Lotos, Excelsior, New York Yacht, Dyker Meadow Golf, Riding and Driv-
ing, Crescent Athletic and Brooklyn
Clubs, Sons of Revolution, Sons American Revolution and New Eng- land Society. Address, 709 Madison ave., N. Y. City.
DUVAL, H. Rieman:
Late president of the South Bound R. R. Co., & Florida Central & Peninsular R. R. Co .; born Baltimore, Oct. 17, 1843; son of John Rawlings and Elizabeth War- field Duval of Maryland; educated at St. Timothy's Hall and Springfield Hall, Md .; married Anne Gordon, daughter of John Hanson Thomas of Baltimore; served in the Confederate Army through and to the end of the war, under General Lee; chair- man of the Board of Directors, the Am- erican Beet Sugar Co .; director Ameri- can Car and Foundry Co., The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Co., The Santa Fe Pacific R. R. Co., The Sonora R. R. Co .; vestryman, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Islip, L. I. Member of the Cin- cinnati and Huguenot Societies, Union, Metropolitan, South Side Sportsmen's, Tuxedo and City Midday Club. Address, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
DWIGHT, Frederick:
Lawyer; was graduated from Yale Col- lege, 1894; member of Yale, Reform and Hamilton Clubs and National Academy of Design. Residence, 51 Remsen St., Brooklyn; office, 15 William St., N. Y. City.
DWIGHT, John Wilbur:
Republican Member of Congress from the Thirtieth District; born May 24, 1859; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Hon. G. W. Ray
Physician; ornithologist; born N. Y., City, Dcc. 8, 1858; was graduated from Harvard University, A. B., 1880; M. D., from Columbia, 1893; assistant surgeon, department of laryngology, Vanderbilt Clinic, N. Y .; member County Medical Society, N. Y .; Linnaean Society, Ameri- can Museum Natural History, American Geographical Society, Scientific Alliance, N. Y. Academy of Science; clubs: Har- vard. Address, 2 East 34th St., N. Y. City.
DWIGHT, Stanley :
President of C. &. C. Electric Co .; was graduated from Yale College 1876; single; director Tennis Building Association; member Delta Kappa Epsilon and Scroll and Key Fraternities, Country and Uni- versity Clubs, Yale Alumni Association and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resi- dence, University Club; office, 143 Liberty St., N. Y. City.
DWIGHT, William Buck:
Geologist, educator; born Constantin- ople, Turkey, May 22, 1833; came to U. S. at sixteen; was graduated from Yale, 1854, A. B .; also Union Theological Sem- inary 1857; Yale Scientific School, Ph. B., 1859; opened boarding school for girls at Englewood, N. J., 1859, continuing there until 1865; from 1865 until 1867 ex- amined mines; 1867-70 principal of Offi- cers' Family School, West Point, N. Y .; 1870-78, associate principal and instructor of science, Connecticut State Normal School; 1872-75, edited Connecticut School Journal; 1878-90, professor of zoology, Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute, Cottage City, Mass .; 1878, professor of natural science, Vassar College, and di- rector of its museum; 1894, State exam- iner in geology; has made many strati- graphical and paleontological investiga- tions in the Cambrian & Ordovician of Southern N. Y., and has discovered many new fossils; has invented a scientific rock-slicing machine of precision, in use in Yale University, Vassar College, etc .; editor of department of geology of Stand- ard Dictionary, 1893-94, and of its sup- plement (1903). Author of many geologi- cal papers; one of the original Fellows of Geological Society of America; Fellow of American Society for the Advancement of Science; member of American Society of Naturaists; director of the Mine La
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Motte Lead and Smelting Co., and presi- dent of the Mine La Motte Development Co., of N. Y .; married Eliza Howe Schneider, Nov. 17, 1859, at Englewood, N. J. Address, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. DWYER, Charles:
Editor of The Delineator; born Rich- mond, Surrey, Eng., March 3, 1859; was educated at private schools; newspaper work, London, 1878-81; came to N. Y. in latter year and was assistant editor of The Delineator until appointed editor in 1885; member of Players, N. Y. Athletic and Barnard Clubs, Society of American authors. Office, The Butterick Building, N. Y. City.
DWYER, Eugene J .:
Lawyer; born Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1873; attended the University of Rochester and the N. Y. Law School, and was admitted to the Bar in March, 1894; in June of the same year he was appointed second assistant corporation counsel of Rochester, and the following year was promoted to the office of first assistant corporation counsel; retired from the corporation counsel's office in June, 1898, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession; elected to assembly of 1903 and was appointed a member of the following committees: Charitable and Religious Societies, Elec- tricity, Gas and Water Supply, and Pub- lic Health. Address, Rochester, N. Y. DYER, Elisha, Jr .:
Banker; was graduated from Brown University, 1883, and Columbia Law School 1885; admitted to Bar, 1885; presi- dent and director Popp Compressed Air and Electric Power Co .; director Sea Side and Brooklyn Bridge Elevated R. R. Co .; member of Fencers, Knicker- bocker, Brooklyn, and Baltimore Clubs, and Brown University Alumni Associa- tion. Residence, 37 W. 56th St.
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EAMES, Francis L .:
Retired broker; born Fall River, Mass., Jan. 29, 1844; entered stock broker's of- fice in New York, 1863; joined the N. Y. Stock Exchange, 1866; elected member of the governing committee, 1879; devised and put in operation the Clearing House of the N. Y. Stock Exchange, 1892; pre- sented by the members of the Stock Ex- change with a service of silver, in rec- ognition of the value of the Clearing House, 1893; elected president of the Stock Exchange, 1894, '95, '96, and '97; formed firm of Eames & Moore, 1869; re-
tired, 1903; author of a history of the N. Y. Stock Exchange, 1894; trustee of Brooklyn Savings Bank, Brooklyn Hos- pital, Long Island Historical Society, N. Y. Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, N. Y. Stock Exchange Building Co .; member of N. Y. Stock Exchange Gov- erning Committee. Address, 125 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
EAMES, John C .:
Second vice-president and general man- ager of the H. B. Claflin Co .; born New York, 1860; educated at St. John's Mili- tary Academy at Sing Sing, N. Y., and was graduated from there with high hon- ors in 1887; immediately entered the great concern with which he is now as- sociated, but soon went West, where he was interested in various enterprises; in 1886 he married Miss Cary, of Louisville, Ky .; moved his residence to New York in 1895, again connecting himself with the H. B. Claflin Co .; second vice-pres- ident of the Merchants' Association, vice-president of the Associated Mer- chants' Co., treasurer of the Dry Goods Auxiliary of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association, trustee of the Grant Monument Association; member of the or- der of Founders and Patriots of America, New England Society, Englewood Golf and Englewood Field Clubs, County Club of Lakewood, Merchants' Club of New York. Address, H. B. Claflin Co., N. Y. City.
EAMES, Wilberforce:
Librarian ; born Newark, N. J., Oct. 12, 1855; educated in schools . of Brooklyn, N. Y., his home since 1861; engaged for twelve years in book stores; 1885, assist- ant in Lenox Library; 1892, assistant- librarian; 1893, librarian ; since consoli- dation in 1895 of the Lenox Library with Astor Library and Tilden Trust as the New York Public Library he has title "Lenox Librarian"; compiled : Sabin's
Dictionary of Books relating to America, vols XV to XX (1885-92) ; Bibliographic Notes on Eliot's Indian Bible, Washing- ton, 1890; Early New England Cate- chisms, Worcester, 1898; and extensive bibliography in Growoll's Three Centuries of English Booktrade Bibliography, New York, 1903. Contributed largely to all of Pilling's Indian bibliographies. Edited : Letter of Columbus on the Discovery of America, New York, 1903; facsimile of The Bay Psalm Book (1640) ; New York, 1903 ; John Eliot's Logic Primer (1672), Cleveland, 1904. Received honorary A. M. (Harvard), 1896. Has systematically
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gathered a private library of about 18,000 [ and since then professor classical phil- volumes on history, travels, philology, re- ligious, bibliography, archæology and eth- nology of all parts of the world, being the largest private library of its kind ever made in America. Residence, Brooklyn, N. Y .; office, 895 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
EARLE, Alice Morse:
Author; born Worcester, Mass .; edu- cated Worcester and Boston; married, 1874; author: The Sabbath in Puritan New England; Customs and Fashions in Old New England; China Collecting in America; Life of Margaret Winthrop; Costumes of Colonial Times; Old Narra- gansett; Curious Punishments of Bye- Gone Days; Colonial Dames and Good- wives; Diary of Anna Green Winslow; Colonial Days in Old New York; Home Life in Colonial Days; Child Life in Co- lonial Days; Stage Coach and Tavern Days; Old-time Gardens; Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday; Two Centuries of Costume in America; member of Society of Colonial Dames, Daughters Amer- ican Revolution, American Historical As- sociation, etc. Address, 242 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
EARLE, Mary Tracy:
Author; born Cobden, Ill .. Oct. 21, 1864; was graduated from the University of Illinois 1885, taking the degree of B. S., and in 1903 the honorary degree of A. M. was conferred upon her by the same university; about 1892, she turned her attention to fiction writing as a pro- fession and since then has written many short stories for the best magazines and two books for young people; two volumes of her short stories have been collected and published in book form, making the list of her books as follows: The Wonderful Wheel (1896); The Man Who Worked for Collister, and other stories (1898); Through Old Rose Glasses (1900); The Flag on the Hilltop (1902) ; most of her stories are of the South, where she has spent much time, but some are of Southern Illinois. Address, 105 Waverley Place, N. Y. City.
EARLE, Mortimer Lamson:
Educator, writer; born New York, Oct. 14, 1864; son of Mortimer Lent and Jo- sephine Mercy Allen Earle; was grad- uated from Columbia College, 1886; stu- dent American Schools of
Classical Studies, Athens; M. A., 1887; Ph. D., 1889; instructor Greek, Barnard College, New York, 1889-95; associate professor Greek and Latin, Bryn Mawr College, Pa., 1895-98 ; lecturer in Greek, 1898-1900,
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