Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 58

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EVANS, Frank T .:

Lawyer and special surrogate; born

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Trenton, N. Y., May 14, 1852; son of John and Louisa Evans; removed to Carthage, N. Y., 1865; chose legal profession; ad- mitted to the Bar, 1876; elected special surrogate of Jefferson County in 1882; re- elected for seven consecutive terms of three years each; a past grand of Carth- age Lodge, No. 365, I. O. O. F., and past commander of Carthage Tent, No. 238, K. O. T. M. Address, Carthage, N. Y. EVANS, Henry :

President Continental Fire Insurance Co .; born Houston, Tex., April 14, 1860; since 1886 has lived in New York; was educated at public school in Brooklyn, Shelleck School, Norwalk, Conn., Colum- bia College School of Mines, one year; entered office Continental Fire Insurance Co. as a minor clerk in March, 1878; elected secretary, May, 1888; second vice-president, Jan., 1889; first vice-president, Jan., 1892; president, Jan., 1903; director Continental Fire Insurance Co. of N. Y., Central Trust Co. of N. Y., Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line R. R., Brooklyn City Street R. R. of Brooklyn, N. Y., member of Players and Lawyers Clubs, Metropolitan Museum, Mayflower Society, Chamber of Commerce, N. Y. Board of Trade, Merchants Association, and non resident member of Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. Address, Continental Fire Insurance Co., N. Y. City.

EVANS, John C .:

Republican Assemblyman, representing the Third Assembly district of Oneida county in the Assembly; born Remsen, Oneida County, N. Y., July 31, 1872. Son of Thomas J. and Ann Evans. Mr. Evans was reared on a farm and when quite young his parents located in the adjoining town of Steuben, where he lived until manhood. He is Welsh descent and possesses the firm and unyielding quality which is characteristic of the Welsh. He is a graduate of the Holland Patent High School and of the College of Law of Cornell University. While at Cornell he was prominent as a debater and was the representative of the Debating Club, to which he belonged in the Cornell Debate Council. After his admission to the Bar he located in the city of Rome, N. Y., and formed a partnership with the late Judge Isaac J. Evans. After the latter's death he became associated with A. Delos Kneeland until the latter went to N. Y. City to reside, and he is now a member of the firm of Evans & Prescott, Rome, N. Y. ; has been active in Republican politics of Oneida County and has been on the stump

in several campaigns. In Bellville, Jeffer- son County ; married Miss Merle C. Dexter. In 1902 Mr. Evans was unanimously nom- inated for member of Assembly by the Re- publicans of his district, and was elected ; member of Rome Council, No. 150, Royal Arcanum, Marub Lodge, No. 288, K. of P., and of Benjamin D. Smith Camp, Modern Woodmen of America, Dyfed Lodge Ameri- can True Ivorites, and an honorary mem- ber of The Society of the Sons of Oneida of N. Y. City. In 1903 Speaker Nixon ap- pointed Mr. Evans to the following com- mittees : Codes, Claims, Privileges and Elections. As a candidate for the Assem- bly of 1903 Mr. Evans received 4,602 votes. In 1903 Mr. Evans was unanimously re- nominated and elected. Speaker Nixon, in 1904, appointed Mr. Evans to the following Assembly Committees : Codes, Excise, In- ternal Affairs. Address, Rome, N. Y.

EVANS, Thomas Grier:

Lawyer and President of N. Y. Genea- logical and Biographical Society; born, Oct. 22, 1852, Kingston, N. Y .; son of James Sidney Evans and Mary DeWitt Evans; prepared at Phillips Andover Ac- ademy; was graduated from Yale, 1874, and Columbia Law School, 1876; member of Delta Kappa, Delta Beta Xi and Psi Upsilon Fraternities; University, Grolier, Kingston, Staten Island, Twilight and Winnisook Clubs; St. Nicholas, St. An- drews and Dunlap Societies, Sons of Rev- olution, City Bar, and Yale Alumni Asso- ciations. Residence, 48 St. Mark's Place, New Brighton, S. I .; office, 141 Broadway, N. Y. City.

EVERETT, Peter J .:

Democratic Assemblyman, represent- ing the Thirty-fifth Assembly District of New York; born June 29, 1873, N. Y. City; early education obtained in the pub- lic schools of the City of N. Y .; after graduating from college he served as a clerk in the office of John H. V. Arnold, surrogate of N. Y., and read law with him; he was admitted to the bar from Judge Arnold's office, and is now engaged in the practice of law; he is a member of the Democratic Club, the Schnorrer Club, of Morrisania; president of the Young Men's Democratic Club of the Borough of the Bronx, and is also a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity and of the Penn- sylvania Club; elected to Assembly in 1902, and re-elected in 1904; in 1903 ap- pointed a member of the following Assem- bly Committees: General Laws, and Privi- leges and Elections. Address, 4 Warren St., N. Y. City.

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EVERHART, James :

Brewer;' born in Dublin, Ireland, Au- gust, 1829. He passed his early years in printing, stereotyping and mason work. Enlisted in the Mexican War, and served on the N. Y. City police force. Became a contractor, and fulfilled contracts for the Post Office and for paving and grading. In 1876 he bought the Whitney brewery, and in 1894 built a new one. In 1890 he built the Turkish baths. Is a Director of the Fifth National Bank. Address, 12 E. 123rd St., N. Y. Ciy.

EWEN, Clarence:

Major U. S. Army; born and appointed from N. Y. City; civil life; actual rank, assistant surgeon Fifty-third New York Infantry, Sept. 8, 1862; honorably mus- tered out, Sept. 13, 1862; assistant surgeon One Hundred and Eighty-second New York Infantry, Dec. 13, 1862; resigned, Oct. 27, 1863,; assistant surgeon Twenty- ninth U. S. Corps Infantry, Nov. 2, 1864; honorably mustered out Nov. 6, 1865; as- sistant surgeon, Nov. 16, 1868; captain and assistant surgeon, Dec. 23, 1869; major and surgeon, April 15, 1899; service in the field during the Civil War; A. A. surgeon at Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va., 1864; post surgeon, Fort Ellis, Mont., from 1868 to 1870; in the field with Companies F, G, and H, Second Cavalry, Montana, 1869; post surgeon, Camp Baker, Mont., to Sept., 1872; leave of absence, Oct. 1872, to March, 1873; post surgeon, Little Rock, Ark., to June, 1873; post surgeon, Baton Rouge, La., to April, 1876; at Fort Hamil- ton New York, June to Oct., 1876; post surgeon Madison Barracks, N. Y., to May, 1879; post surgeon, Fort Elliot, Texas, to Oct., 1881; sick leave to Oct., 1882; post surgeon, Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, from Oct., 1882, to April, 1884; post surgeon, Fort Sidney, Nebraska, July 1884, to May, 1888; on leave to Nov., 1888; post surgeon, Madison Barracks, N. Y., to Dec., 1889; post surgeon, Willett's Point, from Jan. 1, 1890, to date; Battles, skir- mishes, etc .: Battle of Deserted House, Va., Jan., 1863; skirmish near Franklin, Va., 1863; siege of Suffolk, Va., 1863; Hatcher's Run, Five Forks, Petersburg and Appomattox, Va., 1865 ; Conroy's Mountain, M. T., 1869; Marias (Piegan campaign) Jan., 1879; Pryer's Fork (Ba- ker's Battlefield), July, 1872; retired, Jan. 26, 1897. Address, 127 Avenue D, N. Y. City.

EWERS, Ezra P .:

army; actual rank, private, sergeant and first sergeant Company E, First Batta- lion, Nineteenth Infantry, Jan. 18, 1862, to Dec. 4, 1863; second lieutenant, Nine- teenth Infantry, Oct. 31, 1863; accepted, Dec. 4, 1863; first lieutenant, March 16, 1864; transferred to Thirty-seventh In- fantry, Sept. 21 1866; captain, Sept. 12, 1866; transferred to Fifth Infantry, May 19, 1869. Brevet rank, brevet first lieu- tenant, June 26, 1863, for gallant services in action at Hoover's Gap, Tenn .; brevet captain, Nov. 25, 1863, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Chattanooga, Tenn .; major, Ninth Infan- try. March 7, 1893; lieutenant-colonel. May 16, 1899; retired, April 13, 1901. Ad- dress, the St. James, St. James Court, Louisville, Ky.

EYTINGE, Rose :

Actress; born Philadelphia, Pa., Sept., 1835; began career as amateur, Brooklyn, 1852; connected with Hough's Dramatic Company, and Green Street Theatre, Al- bany; 1862 played first time in N. Y. City, at Olympia Theatre; also associated with Edwin Booth; 1868-69 leading lady in Wal- lack's Company, in parts of Nancy Sykes, Lady Gay Spanker, Beatrice, etc .; besides other leading roles, has played as Rose Michel, as Gervaise in Drink, and in Felicia, at the Union Square Theatre, N. Y. City; 1880, played in Europe; 1884, through U. S .; married, first to David Barnes, second, George H. Butler, United States Consul-general to Egypt; third, Cyril Searle. Author of It Happened This Way (novel), Golden Chains (play), and many dramatizations of standard works. Address, 214 W. 83d St., N. Y. City.

FABER, John Eberhard:

Merchant and manufacturer; born New York, March 14, 1859; was educated at School of Mines, Columbia College, also in Nuremberg, Germany, and Paris, France; entered employ of his father, lead pencil and rubber manufacturer and stationer, with factories at Newark and Brooklyn, and mill at Cedar Keys, Fla .; took charge of the business in America in 1879; the firm of Eberhard & Faber now consists of himself and brother; clubs: N. Y. Athletic, Richmond Co., Country, Arkwright, Staten Island, Whist (Brooklyn). Address, 545 Pearl St., N. Y. City.

FACKLER, David Parks:

Brigadier-General U. S. Army; born N. Consulting actuary; born Va., April 4, Y. City, April 13, 1837; appointed from the | 1841; was graduated, 1859, from the Col-

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lege of the City of N. Y. (A. M.); pro- FAIRCHILD, Charles Stebbins:

posed, 1862, the method of dividing sur- plus now used by all U. S. life insurance companies; 1872, asked by twenty com- panies (N. Y. Life, Equitable, etc.), for an opinion; 1877, appointed actuary to commission of policy holders examining Equitable Life Assurance Society; 1889, brought about the formation of the Ac- tuarial Society; 1900, employed as its con- sulting actuary by one of the depart- ments of the U. S. Government; member Actuarial Society of America (second president, 1891 to 1893); corresponding member Institute of Actuaries, England; Institute of Actuaries, France. Resi- dence, 157 W. 73d St .; office, 35 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

FAHNESTOCK, Harris C .:

President and director East Jersey Water Co .; vice-president and director First National Bank of N. Y. City, trustee of Bankers' Safe Deposit Co., and director in American Cotton Oil Co., Central R. R. of New Jersey, Montclair Water Co., Southern Ry. Co. and other companies. Address, 2 Wall St., N. Y. City.

FAHYS, Joseph:

Manufacturer of watch cases; born May 23, 1832, Belport, France; was edu- cated there; came to N. Y. in 1857, and started making watch cases; later estab- lished a factory in N. J. and one in Brooklyn; and at Sag Harbor in 1881, which is the present location. The firm is The Fahys Watch Case Co; is a di- rector of the Brooklyn Watch Co., Mon- tauk Steamboat Co., and Third National Bank of New York; trustee of the Laf- ayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, and Homeopathic Hospital in Brooklyn; mar- ried Miss Payne of Sag Harbor, 1856. Winter residence, Brooklyn; Summer, Sag Harbor. Business address, 54 Maid- en Lane, N. Y. City.

FAIRCHILD, Benjamin Lewis:

Lawyer; born Sweden, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1863; son Benjamin and Calista Schaeffer Fairchild; removed to Washington, D. C., where he attended the public schools un- til thirteen years of age, when he became draughtsman at the Patent Office for one year, and clerk in Treasury Department, 1877-85, meantime studying law at Col- umbia; member of Congress, 1895-97; married, 1893, Anna E. Crumbie; member of Republican, N. Y. Athletic, Lawyers, Pelham County Clubs. Residence, Pel- ham Heights, N. Y .; office, 155 Broadway, N. Y. City.

Banker; born Cazenovia, N. Y., April 30, 1842; graduate of Howard, 1863; ad- mitted to Bar, 1865; 1874, deputy at- torney-general of N. Y .; 1876, attorney- general; 1880-85, practiced in N. Y. City; 1885, assistant secretary of treasury, sub- sequently becoming acting secretary; April 1, 1887, appointed Secretary of Treasury by President Cleveland; is presi- dent of N. Y. Security Co .; director of Lincoln Trust Co., National City Bank, and N. Y. Life Insurance Co. Residence, 10 W. 8th St .; office, 46 Wall St., N. Y. City.

FAIRCHILD, Herman Le Roy :

Professor of Geology, University of Rochester, since 1888; born Montrose, Pa., April 29, 1850; up to nineteen years of age his life was spent on a farm in Brooklyn, Pa .; after one year in a rail- road clerkship in Scranton, Pa., he en- tered Cornell; was graduated in 1874 with degree of B. Sc .; 1875-76, filled the chair of natural science in Wyoming Seminary, at Kingston, Pa .; then removed to N. Y. City, where for eleven years he engaged in scientific work in the private schools of the city and in Cooper Union; has held following offices: Secretary of the N. Y. Academy of Sciences, 1885-88, and editor of the transactions; president, Rochester Academy of Sciences, 1889-1902; secretary Geological Society of America since 1890; local secretary American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1888 and 1892; secretary of the Council, 1893; gen- eral secretary, 1894, and vice-president and chairman of section E (geology), 1898; has published about one hundred papers on geological and biological sub- jects, especially on the Glacial Geology of Western N. Y .; History of the N. Y. Ac- ademy of Sciences; Revision of LeConte's Elements of Geology, (1903). Address, Rochester, N. Y.

FAIRCHILD, Julian D .:

President Kings County Trust Co .; born Stratford, Conn., April 17, 1850; at- tended public schools in Stratford and New Haven; May, 1893, president Kings County Trust Co., in which institution he has been interested since its inception; director of the Bedford Bank, Edison Electric Illuminating Co., of Brooklyn, and president of the Union Ferry Co. In 1896 Mr. Fairchild was offered the Democratic nomination for mayor of Brooklyn, but did not accept it; appoint- ed by Mayor Van Wyck, one of the com-

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missioners from Brooklyn of the new East River Bridge; regent of the Long Island College Hospital, president of the Brook- lyn Central Dispensary, a trustee of the Brooklyn and Montauk Clubs, and also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Carleton and Dyker Meadow Clubs. Address, 845 Carroll St., Brook- lyn, N. Y.

FAIRCHILD, (Mary) Salome Cutler:

Librarian ; vice-director N. Y. State Li- brary School; born Dalton, Mass., June 21, 1855; graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, 1875; B. L. S., University of the State of N. Y., 1891; married, 1897, Rev. Edwin Milton Fairchild; at Columbia College Li- brary School as cataloguer and instruct- or, 1884-89, since which time she has done important work for the Library school for the American Library Association; was chairman of committee in charge of Library Exhibit, World's Columbian Ex- position. Author: Children's Home Li- braries, Scientific Study of Philanthrophy, Function of the Library. Residence, 29 S. Pine Ave .; office, State Library, Al- bany, N. Y.

FAIRFAX, Albert Kirby:

Twelfth Baron; baronetcy created 1627. Thomas Fairfax, son of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton and Nunappleton; knighted before Rouen, 1594; created Baron Fairfax of Cameron, 1627; the Second Baron was Parliamentary General of the Northern Forces, also M.P. for Yorkshire; he held chief command at Marston Moor, where his son, afterwards Third Baron, commanded one wing of the army; the Third Baron was, later, General-in-Chief of the Parliamentary Forces, and gained the victory of Nase- by; the Sixth Baron inherited nearly 6,000,000 acres of land in Virginia from his mother; he settled in the American Colonies, and was the friend and patron of George Washington. His descend- ants still live in the United States; born June 23, 1870; son of Eleventh Baron, and Mary, daughter of Colonel Edmund Kirby, U. S. A. Protestant. Heir: brother, Charles Edmund Fairfax, born, April 29, 1876. Club: Union, N. Y. City. Address, 59 Wall St., N. Y. City; North- ampton, Prince George's County., Mary- land.

FAIRLAMB, James Remington :

Organist and composer; born Philadel- phia, Pa., Jan. 23, 1838; began study of organ with Charles Boyer; organist of

Western Methodist Church, Philadelphia; at twenty, went to Paris, studying piano under Prudent and Marmontel, voice cul- ture under Michael Masset and harmony under Danhauser; later at Florence under Mabellini ; four years consul at Zurich ; 1867, returned to U. S., becoming organist and musical director, Washington, D. C., subsequently called to N. Y. City, filling similar position in churches of the Ascen- sion, St. Ignatius, Rutgers-Riverside Presbyterian and Messiah; composer of various songs, oratorios and operas; re- ceived from King Karl of Würtemburg great gold medal for art and science; member of Manuscript Society; Council of American Guild of Organists; married, 1866, Marion Kerr Higgins, of Washington, D. C .; second, Melusina Therese Muller. Address, 207 W. 107th St., N. Y. City.

FAIRLEY, William:

Educator; Reformed Episcopal clergy- man; born Hexham, England, 1857; son Rev. Samuel and Elizabeth Anna Barrett Fairley; educated in Philadelphia and Wellfleet, Mass .; was graduated from Amherst College 1878; D. D., from Beloit College; Ph. D., University of Pennsyl- vania; married, 1888, Sherah R. Spike. For ten years rector of Christ Church, Peoria, Ill .; professor church history, R. E. Theological Seminary, Philadelphia 1894-98; head of history department, Brooklyn Commercial High School, 1900; member American Historical Association and University Club, Brooklyn. Edited Monumentum Ancyranum, or Deeds of Au- gustus; Notitia Dignitatum, or Register of Dignitaries of Roman Empire; edited and revised, Seignobos' History of the Roman People. Address, Commercial High School, Brooklyn, N. Y.

FANCHER, Albert T .:

Republican State Senator, representing the Fiftieth Senatorial District; born Leon, N. Y., Jan. 18, 1859; educated Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, N. Y .: his present business is that of farming and the production of oil; president and manager of the National Oil & Gas Co., whose operations are largely in the Ohio and Indiana oil fields; elected supervisor of Leon, 1881; held office four years; elected county clerk, 1885, and held that office three years; in 1898 was elected Assemblyman from the Second Assembly District, Cattaraugus County; 1902, elect- ed State Senator; re-elected in 1904; ap- pointed member of the following com- mittees of the Senate: Chairman of the

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Committee on Indian Affairs; member of |Woman's South African League. For sev- Railroads, Insurance and Internal Affairs. Address, Salamanca, N. Y.

FANCIULLI, Francesco:

Bandmaster, composer; born Port St. Stephen, Tuscany, 1853; educated Flor- ence, where he conducted orchestra for grand opera; came to the U. S. 1876, as teacher and organist; succeeded Sousa as conductor of Marine Band, Washington; Jan. 1, 1898, was appointed bandmaster 71st Regt. N. G., N. Y .; January 1, 1904, resigned with his band from the 71st reg- iment, U. S., N. Y., and his organization is now known as Fanciulli's Concert Band. Address, 219 W. 104th St., N. Y. City.

FANNING, William Joseph:

Lawyer; born Crescent, N. Y., July 12, 1850, where he received his preliminary training; 1870 entered office of James F. Crawford, of Cohoes, N. Y .; later attended law school of University of the City of N. Y .; was graduated in 1873; 1880 re- moved to N. Y. City, and has since been practicing there; his practice is largely devoted to corporation law. He was prominent in organizing, is counsel for and director in the Electrical Co. of America, and several of its sub-compa- nies; assisted in the incorporation of nearly all the electric vehicle companies of N. Y. City; is attorney for the Consoli- dated Ry. Electric Lighting and Equip- ment Co., and counsel and director in many electrical companies; organized and director in the Waldorf Importation Co., and counsel for the Hotel Association of the City and State of N. Y. He was school trustee of the Eighteenth Ward of N. Y. City, 1887. Address, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

FANTON, Mary Annable:

Editor; born N. Y. City, Jan. 1, 1871, daughter W. H. Fanton and Isabel Agnes Annable Fanton; educated at Albany Fe- male Academy; was successively special writer for Sun, Herald, Tribune, Journal, and on editorial staff of Demorest Mag- azine, New Idea Woman's Magazine, Twentieth Century House; now of Wo- man's Home Companion and writer for current magazines. Club : Pen and Brush. Address, Woman's Home Companion, 35 W. 21st St., N. Y. City.

FARA, Jessie Quintara:

Actress; born New Orleans, La .; with an early love of the stage, came to N. Y. City, and became a member of Charles Frohman's Empire Stock Company; mem- ber National Art Theatre Society, Cen- tury Theatre Society; secretary of the

cral years has contributed articles on philanthropy and needed reforms to news- papers and magazines. Address, Verdi Studio, 54 E. 59th St., N. Y. City.

FARGO, James Congdel:

Transportation manager; born Pompey, N. Y., May 5, 1829; 1844-48, employed in firm of Wells & Co., Buffalo; 1848 trans- ferred to Detroit; subsequently to Chi- cago, becoming agent and manager of American Express Co .; 1866-81, general superintendent of that company in N. Y. City; 1881, president; also president of Merchants' Despatch and Transportation and director of other railroad and express companies. Address, 56 Park Ave., N. Y. City.

FARLEY, Harriet (Mrs. Donlevy) :

Author; born Claremont, N. H., 1817; cd- itor of the Lowell Offering, 1840-48; con- tributor of New England Offering, 1841, another of its contributors being Lucy Larcom; subsequently became editor, fi- nally proprietor of paper; published: Shells from the Strand of the Sea of Genius (184S); Mind Among the Spindles (1849); Fancy's Frolics, or Christmas Stories Told in a Happy Home in New England (1880) ; married John Intagilo Donlevy, inventor (died 1872). Address, Borough Park, Brooklyn, N. Y.

FARLEY, John Murphy:

Roman Catholic archbishop; born New- town, Ireland, April 3, 1842; studied St. Macartan's College, Monaghan. St. John's College, Fordham, St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, and at American College, Rome; ordained priest at Rome, June, 1870; assis- tant rector of St. Peter's Church, New Brighton, 1870; secretary to Archbishop McCloskey, 1872-84; private chamberlain (Monsignor) to Pope, 1884; vicar-general of New York Archdiocese, 1892; prothonot- ary apostle, 1895; auxiliary bishop of N. Y., 1895; bishop (of Zeugma), 1895; ap- pointed by administration of N. Y., Sept. 15, 1902; archbishop of N. Y., 1903; author: Life of Cardinal McCloskey, also wrote Neither Generous or Just; Why Church Property Should Not be Taxed. Address, 452 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.

FARLEY, Philip H .:

President of the National Association of Life Underwriters; born N. Y. City; was graduated from Ward School No. 35, and entered the

of College the City of New York; afterwards en- tered the service of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, April. 1889, as an executive special agent ; appointed

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Inspector of Agencies, January, 1895, and | Along the Nile with Gen. Grant, published in August of same year, superintendent of 1904 by The Grafton Press; married; first, Dec. 24, 1855, Lois P. Parker, second, Oct. 8, 1883, Adelaide Frisbie. Address, War- saw, N. Y. the executive special agency department ; was president of the Life Underwriters' Association of New York in 1900, and in September, 1902, elected president of the FARMER, Leslie P .: National Association of Life Underwriters; had long experience with the National Guard of the State of N. Y., resigning as first lieutenant in the Twenty-second reg- iment in 1880. Address, 425 West End Ave., N. Y. City.

FARLEY, Joseph Pearson:

Brigadier General U. S. Army, com- manding Watervliet Arsenal; born Wash- ington, D. C., March 2, 1839; was graduat- ed from West Point, 1861; married, Phila- delphia, 1864, Miss F. E. Brinley; served through Civil War, brevet captain, 1865; major, 1876; lieutenant colonel, 1889; colo- nel, 1898; brigadier general, 1903; served on ordnance, gun-testing boards, etc; writer on arms and explosives; member various statutory boards, ordnance boards, gun-testing boards; has commanded var- ious arsenals; member Loyal Legion, West Point Club and West Point Alumni As- sociation. Address, Hotel Chamberlin, Fort Monroe, Va.

FARMAN, Elbert Eli:

Jurist; born New Haven, N. Y., April 23, 1831; prepared at Lima, N. Y .; was graduated from Amherst, 1855; studied law at Warsaw, N. Y., admitted to Bar, 1858, to the U. S. Courts, 1862; one of the proprietors and publishers of Western New Yorker, 1859-61; traveled abroad 1865-67; district attorney Wyom- ing County, N. Y., 1867-75; delegate Republican National Convention, 1872; U. S. Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt, 1876-81; one of commis- sioners to revise International Judicial Codes of Egypt for use of Mixed Tribu- nals, 1880-81; judge of mixed Tribunals of Egypt, 1881-84, also 1883-84, mem- ber of the International Commission to determine amounts to be paid inhabitants of Alexandria for losses arising from bom- bardment and burning of city in 1882, over $20,000,000 being awarded; secured for N. Y. City gift of obelisk; made large collections of coins and Egyptian antiqui- ties now in Metropolitan Museum of Art, N. Y. City; decorated by the Khedive, grand officer of the Imperial Order of the Medjidieh; A. M. Amherst, 1858, LL. D., same, 1882; member of Union League Club and Sons of Revolution, N. Y. City; Re- publican; delivered political addresses in Presidential campaigns, 1856-88; author:

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 58

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