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FOLWELL, William Watts:
Educator; born Romulus, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1833; was graduated from Hobart, 1857; assistant professor of mathematics, 1859; 1860, studied philology at Berlin; 1861, enlisted in Fiftieth N. Y. Engineers, continuing throughout the war; 1869, pro- fessor of mathematics, Kenyon College, Ohio, becoming, in the same year, president of University of Minnesota; this office he resigned, in 1884, to accept office of li- brarian and chair of political science; author of Public Instruction in Minnesota (1875); Lectures on Political Economy; president Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1882-92; president Park Commis- sioners, Minneapolis, since 1894; member of State Board of Charities and Correc- tion, 1895-01; president Minneapolis Im- provement League, and vice-president American Economic Association. Ad- dress, 1,020 Fifth St., S. E. Minneapolis, Minn.
FOORD, John:
Journalist; engaged in editorial work on newspapers and periodicals in N. Y. for the last thirty-one years; during fourteen years of this time he was connected with the N. Y. Times as editorial writer and editor-in-chief; at present one of the edi- torial writers of the Journal of Com-
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merce and Commercial Bulletin, and sec- retary of the American Asiatic Associa- tion, of which he was one of the found- ers. Office address, Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, N. Y. City.
FOOTE, Edward Bliss:
Physician, author; born Cleveland, O., Feb. 20, 1829; author: Medical Common Sense; Plain Home Talk; Science in Story, and Dr. Foote's Home Cyclopaedia of Medical and Social Science. Address, 120 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City. FOOTE, Edward Bond:
Physician, author and editor; born E. Cleveland, O., Aug. 15, 1854; son Edward Bliss Foote, M. D .; educated Charlier Institute and Columbia College; was grad- uated from College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1876; member Sons of Revolution, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N. Y. Eclectic Medical Society. Ad- dress, 120 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City. FOOTE, Edward Milton:
Physician and surgeon; born Syracuse, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1866; was graduated from University of Rochester, 1886; Harvard Medical School, 1890; in practice in N. Y. City since 1894; married, 1899, Caroline B. Cauldwell; at present instructor in sur- gery, Columbia University; visiting sur- geon, N. Y. City Hospital, etc .; mem- ber N. Y. Academy of Medicine, Har- vard Medical Society, American Medical Association ; author of various articles on surgical subjects. Address, 136 West 48th St., N. Y. City.
FORBES, Allen B .:
Banker; born Cleveland, O .; removed New York in 1901; was graduated from the law schools of Northwestern Uni- versity and Yale University; partner in the banking house of N. W. Harris & Co .; member of Lawyers, Mid-day, City, Yale, Englewood Clubs and Ohio Society and Union League Club, Chicago. Ad- dress, Pine and William Sts., N. Y. City. FORBES, Gerrit Angelo:
Jurist; born Clockville, N. Y., May 30, 1836; son Isaac J. and Abigail Sayles Forbes; educated at public schools; mar- ried Ellen Brooks, of Clockville, N. Y., 1862; admitted to Bar, 1863; district attorney, Madison Co., 1871-74; 1888, elect- ed Judge of Supreme Court of New York, Sixth Judicial district, present term ex- piring 1906; Republican ; member of N. Y. State and Madison Co. Bar Associations; club: Century (Syracuse). Address, Can- astota, N. Y.
FORD, Darius Reynolds, D. D .:
Clergyman, educator; born 1824, Bel-
fast, N. Y .; was graduated from Brown University, 1852; professor of Greek in Alfred University, 1852 -- 63; professor of Physical Sciences in Elmira Female Col- lege since 1863; teacher in evening school of Elmira Reformatory six years; made a tour of the world, 1869-70; member of Elmira Academy of Sciences and Amer- ican Associations of Microscopists. Died Nov. 25, 1904, at Belfast, N. Y.
FORD, James Lauren:
Journalist, author; born St. Louis, Mo., July 25, 1854; author: The Literary Shop; Hypnotic Tales; Bohemia Invaded; Dolly Dillenbeck; Cupid and the Foot- lights; The Brazen Calf; Story of Du Barry; Juvenile Tales; Dr. Dodds' School; The Third Alarm. Address, 111 Fifth Av., N. Y. City.
FORD, John:
Lawyer; born Knowlesville, N. Y., 1862; until twenty-four years of age worked as a farm laborer and stone dresser; having educated himself for col- lege, he gained a State scholarship which entitled him to free tuition in Cornell Uni- versity; entered in 1886, and won a Uni- versity scholarship, which insured him an annual income of two hundred dol- lars for four years; was graduated 1890; admitted to the Bar in 1893, and was a member of the N. Y. State Senate from 1896 till 1900 inclusive; he originated and passed many measures of great im- portance, including the Ford Franchise Tax Law and the Amsterdam Avenue Anti-Grab Law. Residence, 210 West 94th St .; office, 350 Broadway, N. Y. City. FORD, Simeon:
Proprietor of the Grand Union Hotel, N. Y. City, and one of the most success- ful men in his line of business; he is known to everybody in New York and to nearly everybody out of New York, as the wittiest after-dinner speaker in Man- hattan. Address, Grand Union Hotel, N. Y. City.
FORD, Worthington Chauncey:
Chief of the Department of Manu- scripts, Library of Congress, Washing- ton, D. C .; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 16, 1858; son of Gordon Lester and Emily Ellsworth Ford; married Eliza- beth Fillmore Quin, of Washington, D. C. Historian and economist; Chief of Bureau of Statistics, U. S. Department of State, 1885-89; and of U. S. Treasury Department, 1893-98; Boston Public Li- brary, 1898-1902. Publications: Life of George Washington; American Citizen's Manual; edited Writings of George
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Washington, and many historical works. Clubs: Century, Grolier, New York; Met- ropolitan, Chevy Chase, Washington. Address, Library of Congress, Washing- ton, D. C.
FORDYCE, John Addison, M. D .:
Physician, born Guernsey Co., O., Feb. 16, 1858; was graduated A. B. from Adrian College, Mich., 1878; M. A., 1889; Ph. D., 1901; M. D., Chicago Medical College, 1881; interne Cook County Hospital, Chicago, until 1883; practiced Hot Springs, Ark., until 1886; married, in 1886, Alice Dean Smith, of N. Y. City; studied in Vienna and Berlin, 1886, '87 and '88; graduate, M. D., University of Berlin, 1888; prac- ticing N. Y. City, since latter year; member of the American Medical As- sociation, American Academy of Med- icine, N. Y. Academy of Medicine,
American Dermatological Association, American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, N. Y .. State Medical Associa- tion, N. Y. State Medical Society, N. Y. Dermatological Society, etc .; professor of dermatology and syphilology, medical de- partment, N. Y. University; visiting der- matologist, City Hospital, etc .; author of numerous monographs on subjects per- taining to dermatology and genito-urinary diseases. Address, 80 W. 40th St., N. Y. City.
FORMAN, Allan:
Editor The Journalist; born Mattituck, L. I., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1860; educated at private school and tutors in Brooklyn, and at Williams College; married Xesia Carlstedt ; dramatic critic and contributor to current periodicals; established The Journalist in 1884 and has since conducted it; member Long Island Historical Society, Uuderwriters Club. Residence, 10 E. 16th St .; office, 41 Liberty St., N. Y. City.
FORNES, Charles Vincent:
President of the Board of Aldermen of Greater Uew York, and senior mem- ber of the firm of C. V. Fornes & Co .; born Erie County, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1847; devoted his spare time to study, and paid his own way through Lockport Union Academy, where he completed the academic and commercial courses in 1864; entered the employ of Dahlman & Co., wholesale woolen merchants, and remained for eight years, when he em- barked in the same line of business on his own account under the firm name of Dahlman & Fornes, his partner being a nephew of his former employer; in 1877, the firm removed to a wider field of activity, N. Y. City, where two
| years later the firm assumed its pres- ent form of C. V. Fornes & Co.,; in Nov., 1901, he was elected to the posi- tion of president of the Board of Alder- men; re-elected in 1903; member of the
Colonial Club and Columbian Yacht Club of N. Y. City; trustee and incor- porator of the Emigrants' Industrial Bank, trustee and incorporator of the City Trust Co., and, since 1896, has been treasurer of the Catholic Protectory in N. Y. City; president of the Champlain Club, of Plattsburg, N. Y., was a mem- ber of the Committee of One Hundred on the Columbian Celebration in the Metropolis in 1893, and was one of the committee for the erection of the famous Catholic Seminary at Dunwoodie, N. Y .; married on Nov. 11, 1898, Dora, daugh- ter of Benjamin Lyde, of the firm of C. V. Fornes & Co. Address, 425 Broome St., N. Y. City.
FORSSLUND, or FOSTER, Miss (Mary) Louise:
Writer of novels and short stories, chiefly of Long Island life; titles of books: The Story of Sarah (Brentano's) ; The Ship of Dreams (Harper's); born Sayville, L. I., N. Y .; educated at Say- ville Public School, the Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y .; also studied with private tutor; worked at fiction from early childhood, made a special study of the baymen of the Great South Bay and of the Dutch people of Long Island; first serial published in the La- dies Home Journal 1904: Dutchtown Stories, the original Dutchtown is West Sayville, Long Island. Address, Sayville, L. I., N. Y.
FOSDICK, Charles Austin:
(Harry Castlemon); author of juvenile stories; born Randolph, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1842; educated Central High School, Buf- falo; when the war broke out, enlisted in the Mississippi Squadron; served as landsman on the magazine ship Illinois, and store ship Sovereign, and made a trip down the river to provision the iron- clads that were blockaded by low water at St. Helena; served as paymaster's steward on board the gunboat St. Clair, on Cumberland river, and during the Ya- zoo Pass Expedition and other opera- tions which ended in the surrender of Vicksburg; was on the Choctaw as cap- tain's clerk during the Red River Ex- pedition under Lieutenant Commander Ramsay (now admiral), and was ordered to Mound City to accept promotion; was receiver and superintendent of coal when
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the war closed; in the navy and militia |tant surgeon, U. S. Army, 1865; since in he had served eight years and four active practice in New York; co-author Illustrated Encyclopedia Medical Diction- ary; clubs: Century, Aldine. Address, 66 W. Broadway, N. Y. City. months; is a prominent member of G. A. R .; 1873, married Sarah Elizabeth, daugh- ter of John Stoddard, a West Point grad- uate, who, at the time of his death, was FOSTER, Fred W .: chief engineer of the Brooklyn Water Works; he commenced writing at the age of fifteen; the books that are the best known are the Gunboat Series and the War Series. Address, Westfield, N. Y.
FOSDICK, James William:
Artist, author; born Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 13, 1858; educated Boston public schools; studied art at School Bos- ton Museum of Fine Arts, and in Paris under Boulanger, Lefevbre and Colin; married, Richmond, Va., 1890, Gertrude, daughter of Judge Joseph Christian; founder of art of fire etching in America; his most notable work in this line being The Glorification of Joan of Arc; and in Mural decorations those at the Penn- sylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the St. Louis Museum, and in private residences, including those of
the Havemeyers, Goulds, Lewisohns; member of National
Society Mural Painters, Architectural League of New York; member of Lotos (New York), National Arts Club, (New York), Copley Society (Boston) Clubs ; author: The Honor of the Braxtons, and stories, travels, and art articles in maga- zines. Address and studio, 29 West 67th St., N. Y. City.
FOSTER, Benjamin:
Artist; born North Anson, Me., July 31, 1852; studied in N. Y. City and Paris, and is represented in the public collections of the Montreal Art Association, Boston Art Club, Corcoran Art Gallery, Brooklyn Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Luxembourg Gallery of Paris; received a medal at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago; bronze medal at the Paris Exposition; silver medal at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo; silver medal at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1900, and the Webb Prize, Society of American Artists, 1901; member of the N. Y. W. C. Club Society of American Artists, the Century Asso- ciation and the Lotos Club, and the Na- tional Academy of Design. Address, 253 W. 42d St., N. Y. City.
FOSTER, Frank P .:
Physician; editor; born Concord, N. H., Nov. 26, 1841; educated Concord High School; was graduated from College Phy- sicians & Surgeons, 1862; married Miss Georgiana Molleson, N. Y .; acting assis- jed a special reception at their Council
Major U. S. Army; born Pennsylvania; appointed from New York; was graduated from the Military Academy and pro- moted to second lieutenant June, 1877; served on frontier duty at Camp Brown, Wyoming, 1877, to May, 1878; at Fort McKinney, Wyoming, 1878, to Aug., 1879; at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, May to
July 1880; at Fort Laramie, Wyo-
ming, 1880, to April, 1883; at Fort Nio- brara, Nebraska, to May, 1885; promoted to first lieutenant, April 1, 1885; at Fort Reno, Indian Territory, 1886; captain, June 1, 1897; major, July 8, 1904. Ad- dress, Whipple Barracks, Ariz.
FOSTER, George Everett:
Author and journalist; born Aug. 27, 1849, Milford, N. H .; educated at the Literary and Scientific Institution, New London, N. H., and Cornell University, 1870-73; teacher; founder of Milford, N. H., Enterprise, which he successfully conducted thirteen years; established Wil- ton, N. H., Journal; removed to Ithaca, N. Y., 1887; writer for the Ithaca Jour- nal and Democrat, being for several years editor and manager of the latter; special correspondent for Herald, Tran- script, and Globe, of Boston, Chi- cago Times and Mail, Yankee Blade, New York World, Times, Tribune and Sun; contributor to Leslie's Monthly, Century Magazine, Greenbag, Womans' Magazine, Magazine of American His- tory and other periodicals; as author, he has devoted much time to the ameliora- tion of the North American Indian, es- pecially the Cherokees, the Council of that tribe passing a vote of thanks for his efforts in showing to the American people that there could be something good and great in the North American Indian, the paper being stamped by the seal of the Cherokee Nation and trans- mitted to Mr. Foster by Chief Bushyhead; his leading published works are Se- quo-yah, the American Cadmus and Mod- ern Moses; The Story of an Indian
Tribe; Cherokee Literature and Bibliog- raphy; The Story of the Cherokee Bible; Through Cherokee Lands; also a serial story, John Ridge, which is an histori- cal Cherokee romance. During a visit to the Cherokee Nation he was tender-
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House. Mr. Foster is a contributor to [ dence, 332 W. 72d St .; office, 395 Canal a syndicate press, one of his serials be- St., N. Y. City. ing Ned, the Farmer Boy; he also de- FOSTER, Theodosia Maria Toll: votes some time to genealogy, being au- thor of a Foster Genealogy; The Priest Family in America, and smaller works on the Lords, Burritt and Farleys ; mar- ried. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.
FOSTER, James Peers:
Lawyer; born Flushing, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1848; was
graduated from Columbia Law School, LL. B., 1873; LL. D., Ber- lin University, 1877; married, 1873, Sara M. Haight; suggested organization, and 1888, became first president Republican League of U. S. Clubs: Union League, Society Medical Jurisprudence, Republi- can. Office, 47 Broadway, N. Y. City. FOSTER, Pell W .:
President Power Specialty Co .; born N. Y. City, April 26, 1862; entered school of Mines, Columbia College, 1879; Clerk in Brown Bros. & Co., bankers, 1883-87; with Retsof Mining Co., 1887-95; presi- dent of Power Specialty Co., since 1895. Address, 126 Liberty St., N. Y. City.
FOSTER, Roger:
Lawyer, legal writer; born Worcester, Mass., 1857; educated Boston Latin School, Marburg University, Germany, was graduated from Yale, 1878, A. M., 1881; was graduated from Columbia Col- lege Law School, 1880; and same year ad- mitted to New York Bar; tenement house commissioner, 1894; special counsel board of health, N. Y. City, 1896. Author: A Treatise on the Federal Judiciary Acts of 1875 and 1887; A Treatise on Federal Practice, 1890, 1892; Commentaries on the Constitution, vol. 1, 1895; A Treatise on the Income Tax of 1894, 1895; contribu- tor of numerous pamphlets and articles in periodicals; Democrat. Clubs: Bar Association, Manhattan, Reform, N. Y. Athletic, Yale, Twilight, and Metropolitan of Washington. Residence, 69 W. 55th St. ; 35 Wall St., N. Y. City.
FOSTER, Scott:
President People's Bank; born near Newburgh, N. Y., May 19, 1837; son of Dr. John L. and Harriet Scott Foster; married 1867, Emeline Hegeman, Potters- ville, N. J .; dry goods clerk and merchant, 1853-82, when he became vice-president and in 1884 president People's Bank; member, Chamber of Commerce, N. Y. Historical Society, N. Y. Zoological So- ciety; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Am- erican Museum Natural History, N. Y. Bo- tanical Garden, Presbyterian Union ; Clubs : Union League and Quill. Resi-
(Faye Huntington), educator, writer; born Verona, N. Y., 1838; was graduated from Oneida Seminary, 1861; married, 1869, James H. Foster (died, 1872); prin- cipal of Home School at Verona, N. Y. for some years; has since devoted her time to writing; author: In Earnest; Through Patience; Kitty Farnham; Al- lan Phillips; Fred Roberts; Mr. McKen- zie's Answer; Ripley Parsonage; Echo- ing and Re-echoing; Mrs. Deane's Way; Millerton People; What Fide Remembers; Competitive Workmen; St. Paul's Prob- lem; The Boynton Neighborhood; Modern Exodus; His First Charge; Lewis Elmore, Crusader; A Break in Schedule Time; Op- portunity Circle; president of Women's Christian Temperance Union, Oneida Co. Address, Verona, N. Y.
FOSTER, W. Bert:
Author; born Providence, R. I., Nov. 3, 1869; began to write juvenile fiction, 1886; adult fiction nine years later; came to New York, 1899 ; magazine writer ; author : The Lost Galleon (1901); With Washing- ton at Valley Forge; The Treasure of Southlake Farm (1902); With Ethan Al- len at Ticonderoga; In Alaskan Waters (1903); On the Eve of War; The Lost Expedition (1904). Address, N. Y. City. FOURNIER, Alexis :
Artist; born 1865; educated in public schools ; studied in Julian School with Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Canstant, in Paris; member American Art Association, Paris, and Society of Western Artists; founder Minneapolis Art League; repre- sented in permanent collection, Minneapo- lis Society of Fine Arts, St. Paul Public Library, Roycroft Art Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn .; Minneapo- lis Club, etc .; art director of The Roy- croft Shop. Address, East Aurora, N. Y. FOWLER, Charles Henry, D. D., LL. D .:
Bishop; born Burford, Ont., Can., Aug. 11, 1837; made his way with little aid through both college and theological school, working as a farm hand during the summer vacations; was graduated from Genesee College 1859, and from Garrett Biblical Institute 1861; 1868 mar- ried Myra A., daughter of the Rev. Dr. Luke Hitchcock, of Chicago; Bishop Fow- ler was pastor of Chicago churches for eleven years; president of Northwestern University, 1872-76; sent to General Con- ference in 1872, '76, '80, '84; presented to Rock River Conference plan to pool
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interests of churches after Chicago fire, [in this direction were shared by the
1871; appointed by governor of Illinois to deliver oration at Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1876; elected editor New York Christian Advocate, 1876; corres- ponding secretary of the Missionary So- ciety, 1880; bishop, May, 1884; organized Pekin University, Nankin University, Central China; organized First Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Petersburg, Rus- sia; established Marclay College of The- ology in Southern California; assisted in founding Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln; Bishop Fowler was the author of the movement to raise $20,000,000 as a twentieth century thank offering from the Methodist Episcopal Church; the movement was a success; over $21,- 000,000 was raised; he was also the orig- inator of the Open Door Emergency Com- mission, which culminated in the great Cleveland Convention, where $235,000 was raised in one evening; he occupies a unique position in the lecture field; his lecture on Abraham Lincoln has never been surpassed; he also lectures on Grant, McKinley, Great Deeds of Great Men, Muscle versus Brain, and the Bible the Prophet of Science; was Fraternal dele- gate from the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church to the Wes- leyan Methodist Church of Great Britain in 1898; he made an address before that body which was widely commended as an international document. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.
FOWLER, Charles S .:
Chief examiner, N. Y. State Civil Ser- vice Commission; born Gouverneur, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1866; was graduated from Cornell University, 1888; admitted to Bar, 1897; instructor in mathematics, Cornell University, 1889-95; chief examiner, N. Y. State Civil Service Commission, 1896. Address, Albany, N. Y.
FOWLER, Edward Payson, M. D .:
Physician and author; born Coshocton, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1834 ; entered N. Y. Med- ical College in 1851; was graduated in 1855 as first prize man; his practice be- came unusually large almost from its commencement. In addition to the Old School system of medicine, he studied Homoeopathy, and practiced it in con- nection with the former, looking upon the two systems as component parts of a unit; he was always distinctly in op- position to sectarianism in medicine, de- claring that medicine was a unit, and should be dealt with as such; his views
thinking part of the Old School, which in 1878 adopted those rules for N. Y. State, known as the New Code; under this the only qualification demanded for a physician is the legally required med- ical education, and the Old School became practically the Comprehensive School. He served in the Ward's Island and Hahne- mann Hospitals, and in 1877 received the honorary degree of M. D. from the Board of Regents of the State of N. Y., and the appointment of Examiner in Anatomy in "the first board of N. Y. State Exam- iners for conferring medical degrees"; he was one of the founders of the New York Medico-Chirurgical Society, and served as its president; is member of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, the N. Y. Neurological Society, the Medical Society of the County of N. Y., and other soci- eties; his attention has been devoted assiduously to his profession, but he is unusually well versed in business affairs; politically he is an ardent Republican, and is a member of the Union League Cub; married, 1873, Miss M. Louise Mum- ford, now deceased; in 1896 to Miss Mildred Russell; is author of valuable medical works, including: Ætiology and General History of Scarlet Fever; Pseu- do-Typhoid Fever; Certain Maladies of the Heart; Abnormalities of the Cerebral Convolutions, etc .; he has also translated from the French and German such works as Charcot's Localization in Diseases of the Brain; Richert's Physiology and His- tology of the Cerebral Convolutions, and Benedikt's Anatomical Study of the Brains of Criminals; he has in addition delivered many lectures before medical bodies. Address, 38 West 40th St., N. Y. City.
FOWLER, Frank:
Portrait and figure painter; born Brook- lyn, July 12, 1852; educated by private tutors and Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn; studied art under the late Edwin White at Florence, at Ecole des Beaux Arts and under Carolus Duran, Paris; married, 1878, Mary B. Odenheimer, daughter late bishop of N. J., Established in New York, 1880; his most notable portraits are those in the Executive Chamber at Albany, N. Y., of Governors Tilden and Flower; also of late Governor Greenhalge of Massachu- setts; Mme. Modjeska, Charles A. Dana, Archbishop Corrigan, President Hadley, of Yale; William Dean Howells, many Professors of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., and General McDowell,
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in Memorial Hall, West Point, etc., au- uable works on medical and surgical sub- thor of Oil Painting; Drawing in Char- coal and Crayon; Portrait and Figure Painting, and frequent writer on art topics in the current magazines ; member of Cen- tury and Lotos Clubs, Fine Arts Feder- ation, National Academy of Design, Am- erican Fine Arts Society, Society Ameri- can Artists. Address, 105 West 55th St., N. Y. City.
FOWLER, George Little:
Consulting mechanical engineer; born Cherry Valley, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1855; son of Jonathan A. and Eliza O. Fowler; was graduated from Amherst College, 1877; married, 1882, Harriet F. Goldie, Saginaw, Mich .; after several years ex- perience in railway service, U. S. Com- missioner to Railway Exposition, Paris, 1887; in private practice in New York as mechanical engineer since 1889; writer for engineering magazines and other period- icals; member American Society Mechan- ical Engineers, American Railway Mas- ter Mechanics' Association, Master Car Builders' Association. Residence, 247 W. 135th St .; office, 53 Broadway, N. Y. City. FOWLER, George Ryerson, M. D .:
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