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ology Columbia University ; member American Philological Association, Arch- æological Institute of America; author: An Edition of Euripides' Alcestis; An Edition of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus. Married Ethel Deodata Woodward, New York, 1892. Address, 462 W. 22d St., N. Y. City.
EASTABROOK, Henry Dodge:
Lawyer, orator; born Alden, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1854; son of Experience and Caroline Augusta Maxwell Estabrook; educated Omaha Neb., public schools; graduate of law department, Washington University, 1875; married, Omaha, 1880, Clara Campbell. Practiced Omaha, 1875- 1896; Chicago, 1896-1902, member law firm Lowden, Estabrook & Davis; since 1902 solicitor Western Union Telegraph Co., N. Y .; Republican; member of State and National Bar Associations; Saddle
and Cycle, Law, Twentieth Century, Forty (Chicago); Lawyers, Players, Lo- tos, Metropolitan, Republican (N. Y.) clubs. Residence (summer), Elberon, N. J .; (winter), 301 West 76th St .; office, 195 Broadway, N. Y. City.
EASTMAN, Annis Ford:
Independent minister; born Peoria, Ill., April 24, 1852; educated Peoria public schools ; Oberlin College, 1872-73; mar- ried Rev. Samuel E. Eastman, Peoria, Elmira, N. Y.
EASTMAN, George:
Inventor; born Waterville, N. Y., July 12, 1854; son of George W. and Maria Kilbourne Eastman; educated at Roches- ter, N. Y .; inventor of the kodak; treas- urer and general manager Eastman Ko- dak Co., Rochester, N. Y .; managing di- rector Kodak Co., Ltd., London, Eng .; member Genesee Club. Address, 350 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y.
EASTMAN, William Reed:
Clergyman; N. Y. State inspector of public libraries; born New York, Oct. 19, 1835; son of Ornan and Mary Reed Eastman; graduate of Yale, 1854; Union Theological Seminary, 1862; married, 1867, Laura E. Barnes; Chaplain 72d reg- iment, N. Y. vols., 1863-64; pastor con- gregational churches in Plantsville, and Suffield, Conn., and South Framingham, Mass .; connected with N. Y. State Li- brary since 1892; member of Order of Founders and Patriots of America. Ad- dress, N. Y. State Library, Albany, N. Y. EASTON, Edward Denison:
Stenographer, lawyer; organizer of the talking-machine business; president Col-
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umbia Phonograph Co., American Graph- |in the Light of Modern Thought, ap- ophone Co., the Burt Co., and vice-pres- peared in 1888; Acadian Legends and Ly- rics was published in 1889; The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution, in 1891; Tales of a Garrison Town (1892), and Recol- lections of a Georgia Loyalist (edited), in 1901; In 1890 he compiled and publish- it ed a manual on letter writing; between 1892 and 1900, three successive editions of College Requirements in English, and in 1901, an edition of Pope's Rape of the Lock; has contributed to magazines a great deal of prose and verse; is repre- sented in all recent American collections of poetry; an honorary member of the New Brunswick Historical Society, a cor- responding member of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, and a life member of the Mass. Historical Genealogical Society. Address, 20 East 50th St., N. Y. City. ident of the Hackensack Trust Co .; born Gloucester, Mass., April 10, 1856; son of Denison Mitchell Easton and Mary Lyle Easton; his parents moved to Arcola, N. J., in 1868. and he attended school there and in Paterson; in 1872 studied shorthand and mastered in three months; became a court reporter, did shorthand work, on assignment, for the New York papers, and for a year and a half was reporter and assistant editor of the Hackensack Republican; at the age of eighteen appointed stenographer U. S. Lighthouse Board in Washington; he earned with his pen the phenomenal sum of $30,000 in a single year; reported the Guiteau trial and the Star Route trials for the government, and nearly every event of national importance for fifteen years; studied law in Georgetown EATON, Charles Warren: University and became a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia, making corporation law a specialty; with the invention of the graphophone he abandoned shorthand and made the development of the talk- ing machine industry his life work. In 1889 he organized the Columbia Phon- ograph Co. and became its president, and when, in 1893, the American Graphophone Co. was re-organized, a coalition was formed and he was made president and counsel of both companies. His first wife died, leaving a daughter, in 1883. He mar- ried Miss Helen Mortimer Jefferis, of Washington, D. C., and by his second mar- riage he has a son and three daughters. Residence, Arcola, N. J .; office, 90 West Broadway, N. Y. City.
EATON, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton:
Clergyman, author, poet; born Kent- ville, N. S .; educated at first under his father's direction in Nova Scotia and af- terwards in the U. S .; was graduated from Harvard, 1880, and after a course of theological study and reading, during which he was much engaged in literary work, was ordained to the Episcopal min- istry by the late Bishop Knickerbocker, of Indiana, in June, 1884; in April, 1885, he received Priests' Orders from Bishop Potter of N. Y., and accepted a call to the parish at Chestnut Hill, Mass .; after more than a year there he removed to N. Y. City, where he has since lived; for fourteen years he has been at the head of the English Department of the Cutler School; his first published work, The Heart of the Creeds; Historical Religion
Artist; born Albany, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1857; son of Daniel Oliver and Mary Bounds Eaton; studied at National Acad- emy of Design and Art Students' League of New York; exhibited Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery, London, Paris Exposition, 1900 (hon. mention), Pan- American Exposition (hon. mention) ; Charleston Exposition (silver medal) ; also at Salmagundi exhibitions awarded Proctor Prize, 1901; Inness prize, 1902, and Shaw prize, 1903, Associate Na- tional Academy; gold medal Philadelphia Art Club, 1903 ; Inness gold medal, Na- tional Academy of Design, 1904; silver medal, St. Louis Exposition, 1904 ; repre- sented in Permanent Collections in Brook- lyn Art Institute and Boston Art Clubs ; exhibited at Paris Salons, 1903-04, also at Lille, France, and at Antwerp Trien- nial Exhibition, 1904; member American Water Color Society, New York Water Color Club, Fine Arts Federation; clubs: Salmagundi and Lotos. Residence, Bloom- field, N. J .; studio, 318 W. 57th St., N. Y. City.
EATON, Henry W .:
N. Y. manager of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co .; born London, Eng .; entered the service of Liv- erpool, London & Globe Co. in 1866; he represented it at Bristol, England; in 1876 as resident secretary of the West of England branch, and came to N. Y. in 1878 as assistant manager of the N. Y. branch; 1887, became resident manager; Mr. Eaton is an associate member of the Institute of Actuaries of England; in 1897 he was elected president of the Na-
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tional Board of Fire Underwriters of [ton, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1851; was graduated the U. S. Residence, Mamaroneck, N. Y .; office, 45 William St., N. Y. City. EATON, Rev. Homer, D. D .:
Agent of the Methodist Book Concern; born Enosburg, Vt., Nov. 16, 1834; at about the age of sixteen he began a pre- paratory course of study for the minis- try at the academy in Bakersfield, Vt .; entered the Methodist General Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H., where he was graduated in 1857; in May of the same year he was admitted on trial in the Troy Annual Conference, of which he was chosen first assistant secretary in 1861; this position he continued to hold until 1870, when elected secretary to the conference, an office to which he was re-elected annually for seven consecutive years; in 1872 the conference sent him as a delegate to the Methodist Episcopal General Conference, held in Brooklyn in May of that year; as a part of the pro- ceedings of this meeting he was ap- pointed one of the fraternal delegates to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in Canada; he was elected a reserve delegate to the Gen- eral Conference of 1876, and a delegate to the General Conferences of 1880, '84, '88, '92, '96, 1900 and '04; in 1876 he was appointed presiding elder of the Albany District, and subsequently to the Cam- bridge District; engaged in pastoral duty until Feb., 1889, when he was elected Publishing Agent, in association with Dr. Hunt, in charge of the great church pub- lishing house widely known as
the Methodist Book Concern; Dr. Eaton is treasurer of the Missionary Society of his church and a member of its most important boards. Address, 150 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
EATON, J. Shirley:
Railway specialist; born Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 1, 1868; educated Washing- ton and Dartmouth and Marietta, Ohio, colleges; author: Railroad Operations; How to Know Them from Study of Their Accounts and Statistics, also of Educa- tional Training of the Railway Men; traveling auditor Southern Ry .; statisti- cian Lehigh Valley R. R .; associate ed- itor Wall Street Journal; lecturer on do- mestic commerce and transportation, N. Y. University; non-resident lecturer Tuck School, Dartmouth College; mem- ber Transportation and Republican Clubs, N. Y. Address, N. Y. City.
EATON, William C .:
Commander U. S. Navy; born Hamil-
from Colgate University, 1869; A. B., 1869; A. M., 1872; Ph. D., 1881; appointed cadet engineer from New York, Oct 1, 1872; graduated, U. S. Naval Academy, June, 1874; assistant engineer, March 26, 1875; passed assistant engineer, March 4, 1881; chief engineer, June 1, 1895; lieu- tenant commander, March 3, 1899; fleet engineer of the Pacific Squadron, 1889- 1900; he was promoted commander, Au- gust 11, 1903; detailed as head of depart- ment of engineering, Colgate University, 1888-90; appointed by Viceroy Li Hung Chang examiner of naval engineering graduates, Imperial University, Tientsin. China, 1892. Address, Navy Yard, Pensa- cola, Fla. (Head Department of Steam- ship engineering).
EBERHARD, Ernst G., Mus. D .:
Musician; founder of the Grand Con- servatory of Music in N. Y. City, which was incorporated in 1884, empowering the institution to confer the regular uni- versity degrees in music and the kindred arts, viz: bachelor of music, master of music and doctor of music; owing to its growth and popularity, branches at ex- tension centres have been established in nine different States; it is expected that in a few years extension centres will be found in each State of the Union. Dr. Eberhard is the author of the Method for the Piano (two books); Course of Studies for the Piano (twelve books), and Course of Technics (three books), making all in all the most complete system for piano study in existence; he has also written many instructive piano pieces and songs: Harmony and Counterpart Simplified; married, 1876, Caroline Louise Bogert; Dr. Eberhard received his musical edu- cation in Europe, where he studied with leading artists; played at St. Ann's Brooklyn, Paulist church and First Bap- tist church, N. Y. City; is an equally fine pianist and conductor; is one of the leading singing teachers and accompan- ists, owing to his thorough knowledge of the voice and fine musicianship; was in former years New York newspaper cor- respondent of the Presto, Chicago, and American Israelite, in Cincinnati, and is still devoting some of his time to news- paper work; owing to the growth and increasing number of extension centres, a paper has been started, called The Con- servatory, to serve as a means of com- munication between the various centres with the Home office of the Grand Con- servatory of Music and to publish Dr.
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Eberhard's lectures on the history and science of music. Address, Grand Con- servatory of Music, 68 West 83d St., N. Y. City.
EBSTEIN, Fred. H. E .:
Major, U. S. Army; retired ; born in Germany, 21,
April 1847 ; came to this country in 1857; was educated at the Riverside Military Academy, Poughkeepsie; served in Civil War in Company H, Fourth U. S. Infantry, pro- moted to second lieutenant, 18th Infan- try; served in campaigns against In- dians; captain, 1885; took part in San- tiago attack during Spanish War; pro- moted major; after thirty-five years' service retired and took up residence in Brooklyn; professor of Military Sci- ence, De La Salle Institute, N. Y .; ap- pointed by Mayor Low second assistant Police Commissioner, and put in charge of police matters in the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Address, 16 Smith St .; residence, 1244 Pacific St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
ECCLES, Robert Gibson, M. D., Phar. D .:
Born Ayrshire, Scotland, Jan. 1, 1848; came to the U. S., 1862, and has been a resident of the State and City of N. Y. since 1876; was graduated in Medicine from Long Island College Hospital, 1882; honorary degree of Phar. D. from Scio College, 1903; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the American Chemi- cal Society, American Anatomic Asso- ciation, American Pharmaceutical As- sociation, Torrey Botanical Club, Brook- lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, N. Y. State Pharmaceutical Association, Medi- cal Society of the County of Kings, hon- vrary member of the California College of Pharmacy, N. J. Pharmaceutical As- sociation, Greater N. Y. Pharmaceutical Association and the Manhattan Liberal Club. He represented the Food and Drug Interests of the State of N. Y. in the Pure Food and Drug Congresses, held at Washington, D. C., in 1899 and 1900; served on the Committee of Revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia from 1890 to 1900. From 1901 to 1903 served as chairman of the American Pharma- ceutical Association's Committee of Re- vision of the United States Pharmaco- pœia; served as dean of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, as professor of Organic Chemistry, as president of the Department of Chemistry of the Brook- lyn Institute, as vice-president of the Department of Botany in the same in-
stitute, as president of the N. Y. State Pharmaceutical Association, as editor of Popular Science News, and in many other equally important positions. He conducted the first extensive series of researches on the effects of drugs upon digestion made in this country, made the first analysis of calycanthus, conducted researches on the solubilities, melting points, etc., of alkaloids for the pharma- copœia, and is the discoverer of several new alkaloids and other organic bodies. Address, 191 Dean St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
ECKERSON, Theodore John:
Lieutenant colonel U. S. Army; born N. Y. City, Jan. 22, 1821; grandson of Abraham Voorhees of New Jersey, who served with Continental troops in Revo- lutionary War; colonel Eckerson served in 1841 and 1842 in General Worth's Florida Seminole campaigns, and served throughout the Mexican War, partici- pating in battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo (storming party ), Contreras,
Churubusco (sorming party), Chapulte- pec, Garitade Belen (Belen Gate) and capture of City of Mexico; commanded Vancouver Arsenal, W. T., during Civil War, 1861-65 inclusive, with ordnance detachment, fabricating and preparing ammunition for the Union troops; was appointed captain, assistant quarter- master, U. S. Army, March 21, 1865; major. quartermaster, U. S. Army, Jan. 24, 1881; breveted major U. S. Army, March 21, 1865, for faithful and meri- torious services; retired Jan. 22, 1885; April 6, 1904, was given by Congress a promotion of lieutenant colonel on re- tired list, after more than sixty-six years from his entrance into the service; mem- ber of the Oregon chapter of Sons of the Revolution, and the Oregon Commandery of the Loyal Legion; also Society of For- eign Wars and the Grand Army of the Republic; elected, in 1888, as an honorary member of Indian War Veterans of Ore- gon, and afterward elected an officer in same company, all in consideration of his action regarding arms and ammuni- tion of the government, furnished to the people of Oregon and Washington in their Indian troubles previous to the Establishment of telegraphic communi- cation. Address, 575 Louch St., Portand, Oregon.
ECKERT, Thomas Thompson:
Telegrapher; born St. Clairsville, O., April 23, 1822 ; postmaster of Wooster, O., 1849, also telegrapher; 1852, in charge of telegraph line construction, Pittsburg to
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Chicago; 1861, head of military telegraph | Hospital, N. Y. City; consulting gyne- office, General Mcclellan's headquarters; 1862, superintendent of military telegraph in Department of Potomac, holding rank of captain and assistant quartermaster; Sept., 1862, made major and given charge of establishment of telegraph headquart- ers for war department; 1864, lieutenant colonel, later brigadier general; also ap- pointed (1864) assistant secretary of war; 1866 resigned, becoming superintendent of east section of Western Union Tele- graph Company; 1875, president of Atlan- tic and Pacific, 1880, of American Union Telegraph Co .; 1881, these companies consolidating with Western Union, be- came vice-president of latter, then presi- dent in 1892; member of Union League and Riding Clubs. Address, 549 Fifth Ave .; office, 195 Broadway, N. Y. City.
EDDY, Clarence :
Concert organist; born Greenfield,
Mass., June 23, 1851; son of George Sanger and Silence Cheney Eddy; musi- cal studies under Dudley Buck and in Berlin, Germany, under Loeschhorn and August Haupt; organist in Chicago churches for some twenty years; mar- ried, 1877, Sara Hershey; has given re- citals in principal American and Euro- pean cities. Author of organ works: The Church and Concert Organist (2 vols.); The Organ in Church, and Con- cert Pieces for the Organ. Member Manuscript Club. N. Y. address, care Low's Exchange, 1123 Broadway; Paris address, care Munroe & Co., 7 Rue Scribe.
EDDY, Henry Brevoort:
Artist; born N. Y. City, Sept. 16, 1872; educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H .; was graduated from Harvard, 1894; engaged as newspaper artist since 1898; now on staff of N. Y. Journal; member of Harvard, American and Yacht Clubs. Residence, 501 Fifth Ave. ; office, 15 Spruce St., N. Y. City.
EDEBOHLS, George M .:
Surgeon; born New York City; A. B., 1871; A. M., 1886; and LL. D., 1903, St. John's College, Fordham, N.Y .; M.D., Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department Columbia University, New York. House physician and surgeon, St. Francis Hospital, N. Y. City, 1875-79; gynecologist, St. Francis Hospital, N. Y. City, 1887-1903; professor of diseases of women, New York Post Graduate Medi- cal School and Hospital (appointment, 1893); consulting surgeon, St. Francis
cologist, St. John's Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y .; consulting gynecologist, Nyack Hospital, Nyack, N. Y. Fellow New York Academy of Medicine and Ameri- can Gynecological Society; honorary fel- low, Societe de Chirurgie de Bucarest; permanent member Medical Society of the State of N. Y., and member of va- rious other medical societies; author of The Surgical Treatment of Bright's Dis- case and of numerous contributions to current medical literature, among which may be mentioned: Movable Kidney; Shortening the Round Ligaments; Mov- able Kidney and Appendicitis ; The His- tory and Literature of Appendicitis; The Cure of Chronic Bright's Disease by Op- eration; Renal Decapsulation for Chronic Bright's Disease; Renal Decapsulation for Puerperal Eclampsia, etc. Address, 59 W. 49th St., N. Y. City.
EDGAR, Charles Henry:
Lawyer; born N. Y. City, Jan. 4, 1857; attended the Rev. John F. Pin- gry's School, Elizabeth, N. J., and later was for one year at St. Paul's School, at Concord, N. H .; was graduated from Lafayette College, 1877, and from Colum- bia Law School, 1879; admitted to prac- tice, May 29, 1879; member of the N. Y. State Bar Association, and Association of the Bar of the State of N. Y., Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, and Dwight Alumni Association of N. Y. City; Nov. 15, 1883, married Miss Ellen L. Husted of Brook- lyn. Address, 43 Cedar St., N. Y. City.
EDGAR, James Clifton, M. D .:
Physician; born N. Y. City, June 14, 1859; studied five years at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H .; was graduated from Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, with Ph. B., 1SS2, and A. M., 1886; he also was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of the City of N. Y., M. D., 1885, and had secured the Post Graduate degree from the Uni- versity Frauen Klinik at Munich, Ba- varia. Dr. Edgar was formerly pro- fessor of obstetrics in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, at- tending physician to the Society of the Lying-in Hospital, and is now professor of obstetrics and clinical midwifery in Cornell, and physician to Maternity and Mothers' and Babies' Hospitals; member of the University Club, Century Asso- ciation, N. Y. Academy of Medicine, American Gynecological Society, and Medical Society of the County of N. Y. Address, 50 E. 34th St., City.
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EDISON, Thomas A .:
Electrician and inventor; born Milan, O., in 1847; his educational opportunities were limited; his mother gave to his in- struction such time as she could spare, and he supplemented her teaching by the reading of books which were acces- sible to him. At twelve he began the work of life as a news-boy on the Grand Trunk Railway, and devoted his spare time to the study of telegraphy; became an expert operator, in which capacity he was employed at various places in the U. S. and Canada. At Adrian, Mich., he fitted up a small shop for repairing telegraph instruments and for the mak- ing of new machinery; thence he went to Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and even- tually he came to the East with es- tablished reputation as a successful in- ventor, locating his workshop at Newark, N. J .; in 1876, he determined to give his entire time to research and invention, and removed to Menlo Park, and later, to West Orange in the same State. Mr. Edison has received patents for more than 700 inventions, they include ma- chines for quadruplex and sextuplex telegraphic transmission, the carbon tele- phone transmitter, the microtasimeter (for detecting small changes in tem- perature), the megaphone, the phono- graph, the aërophone, the incandescent lamp and light system, the kinetescope, etc. In recognition of his services to the world, the French Government made him Chevalier, officer and afterwards commandant of the Legion of Honor. Was married to Mina M. Miller; member of Essex Co. Country Club. Residence, "Glenmoat," Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. J.
EDMONDSON, Thomas William:
Educator; born Skipton-in-Craven. Yorkshire, England, June 26, 1869; was graduated from London University, B. A., 1888; Cambridge, England, B. A., 1891; Clark University, Worcester, Mass., Ph. D., 1896; married, Perth, Ontario, 1897, Minnie Ramsden; from 1896 to 1903 as- sistant professor, and since 1903 associate professor of physics N. Y. University; member American Mathematical Society, American Physical Society. Author: Worked Examples in Co-ordinate Ge- ometry; Mensuration and Spherical Ge- ometry (with W. Briggs); and other mathematical text-books; wrote, on the Disruptive Discharge in Air, and Liquid Dielectrics; Physical Review, Feb., 1898. Address, Bedford Park, N. Y. City.
EDSON, Andrew W .:
Associate city superintendent of schools ; born Montello, Wis., Dec. 26, 1851; edu- cated in the common schools of Wiscon- sin, and Vermont was graduated from Randolph, (Vt.) State Normal School 1870; Montpelier (Vt.) Seminary 1874; and Dartmouth, A.B., 1878; A.M., 1881; principal of high school, West Ran- dolph, Vt., 1878-79; of the Randolph (Vt.) State Normal School, 1879-84; su- perintendent of schools, Attleboro, Mass., 1884-85; superintendent Jersey City,
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1885-87; assistant State superintendent Mass., 1887-97; assistant superintendent, N. Y. City, 1897-1902; associate city su- perintendent of schools, 1902 to date; instructor in summer schools in Ver- mont, Washington, and Indiana, 1880-90; manager of the school of methods and instructor in school management at the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute, 1888-98; instructor in school manage- ment and school supervision, Columbia University Summer School, 1902-03. Ad- dress, Park Ave. and 59th St., N. Y. City.
EDSON, Cyrus, M. D .:
Physician; born Albany, N. Y .; edu- cated Albany Academy, military school at Throgg's Neck, and Columbia ;; 1882, became connected with the Health De. partment of N. Y. City. His duties were connected with the suppression of the epi- demic of smallpox which then prevailed. His services in this capacity proved so valuable that, in testimony of their ap- preciation by the authorities, he was placed on the permanent staff of the de-
partment and was subsequently pro- moted until he reached the position of medical commissioner of the State Board of Health in 1893. In addition to his able services in this field of duty, he has given much attention to the suppression of food adulteration and of the sale of bad drugs and poisonous confectionery. Dr. Edson has written numerous articles on hygiene and other important subjects for the North American Review; mem- ber of many medical societies, surgeon, with the rank of colonel, in the N. Y. State Militia, visiting physician to the Charity Hospital, secretary of the Com- mittee on Hygiene, president of Board of Pharmacy, etc., has been twice the W. married; first, Virginia C. Page; second, Mrs. Mary E. Quick. Address, 56 50 th St., N. Y. City.
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