Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 68

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GILLETTE, Walter R .:


Vice-president Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y .; native of Philadelphia; was graduated from Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y., 1861, and from the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y. City, 1863. He served two years in the!


Actor; born Hartford, Conn., July 24, 1855; studied at University of the City of N. Y., 1875-76, and Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, 1876-77; later adopt- ed the stage as his profession; has been most successful in the Private Secretary, and Sherlock Holmes; author: The Pro- fessor; The Private Secretary; Esmer- alda; Too Much Johnson; Secret Service; Sherlock Holmes, and others. Residence, Plaza Hotel; office, Empire Theatre, N. Y. City.


Merchant; born N. Y. City, Feb. 27, 1861; entered Columbia College, 1878; was graduated A. B., 1882; the year following he started in the tea and coffee busness, at 245 Washington St., in which business he has been engaged ever since. In ad- dition to his business enterprises, he is in- terested in many philanthropic and re- Iigious institutions; member of the Re- publican Club, the Columbia University Club, and elder in the Fifth Avenue Pres- byterian Church and superintendent of their largest mission Sunday School; chairman of the East Side branch of the Y. M. C. A .; member of the finance com- mittee of the American Tract Society, and ex-president of the New York Bible Society. Address, 32 West 51st St., N. Y. City.


GILLIS, James Henry :


Commodore U. S. N., retired; born Ridgway, Pa., May 14, 1831; son of James L. and Cecelia A. Gillis; was graduated from Naval Academy, 1854; passed mid- shipman, 1854; master, 1855; lieutenant, 1855; lieutenant commander, 1862; com- mander, 1865; captain, 1876; commodore, 1887 ; married, 1854, Lydia A. Alexander,


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of Allegheny City, Pa .; participated in sinking of


the Confederate privateer Petrel; in Atlantic Blockade; Battle of Jamestown Island; 1862, in command of the Commodore Morris; also at Taylor's Landing, Pamunkey River, 1863; in com- mand of the Milwaukee until sunk in Mo- bile Bay in March, 1865; afterward in command naval battery Spanish Fort, Mo- bile Bay; on South Pacific station ; com- manding Wateree, lost in earthquake, Aug. 15, 1868; in command So. Atlantic station as rear-admiral, 1888-90. Address, Melbourne Beach, Fla.


GILLMORE, Quincy O'M .:


Captain U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York; was graduated from Military Academy and promoted to second lieutenant, June. 1873; served on frontier duty in Indian Territory, 1873, to July, 1874, at Fort Stanton, N. M., 1875 to 1876, and in Texas, 1877 to Feb., 1880; at the Military Academy as assist- ant instructor of tactics, 1880 to June, 1882; promoted to first lieutenant, June 26, 1882; post commissary of subsistence and commanding artillery detachments, June, 1882, to July, 1885; and post quar- termaster and director of gas works, 1884 to 1885; regimental quartermaster, July, 1886, to July 5, 1890; at Fort Meade, Texas; captain, Feb. 20, 1891; retired, May 31, 1896; lieutenant-colonel Fourth New Jersey Infantry, July 14, 1898; colonel, Nov. 4, 1898; honorably mustered out, April 6, 1899. Address, 95 Mercer St., Trenton, N. J.


GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins:


(Formerly Mrs. Stetson), author, lec- turer; born Hartford, Conn., 1860; grand- daughter of Lyman Beecher; married, 1900, G. H. Gilman; lecturer in ethics, economics and sociology; earnest worker for advance of women; member American Academy of Political and Social Science, League for Political Education and Wom- en's Municipal League, New York; lec- tured in England and elsewhere abroad, 1896, 1899; author: Women and Econo- mics; In This Our World (verse); The Yellow Wallpaper; Concerning Children; The Home, Its Works and Influence; Hu- man Work. Address, 179 West 76th St., N. Y. City.


GILMAN, Jeremiah H .:


Colonel, U. S. Army (retired) ; born in and appointed from Maine; cadet at Mili- tary Academy July 1, 1852; second lieu- tenant October 31, 1856; first lieutenant, April 27, 1861; captain 19th Infantry,


[May 14, 1861; captain, commissary of sub- sistence, February 9, 1863; major Novem- ber 9, 1884; lieutenant-colonel, assistant commissary general, October 8, 1894; re- tired, November 11, 1895; colonel, 1904. Address, 43 West 38th St., N. Y. City.


GILMAN, Theodore:


Banker, author, philanthropist; born Alton, Ill., Jan. 2, 1841; was graduated from Williams College, 1862, A. M., 1865; banker on Wall Street for forty years; married, New York, Oct. 22, 1863, Eliza- beth Drinker Paxson; has been chairman, president, treasurer, director and trustee of various railroad and other business and financial corporations, superintend- ing construction of railroads, managing important litigations, etc .; member Union League Club, N. Y .; Kappa Alpha Fra- ternity, Anthropological Society, Yonkers; life member New England Society, N. Y .; Fellow National Academy of Design, N. Y .; Sons of American Revolution, Order of Founders and Patriots. Author: A Graded Banking System, (1898); Federal Clearing Houses, (1899). Prepared and presented bill in Congress, for the in- corporation of clearing houses, and made statements before House Committee on Banking and Currency in support of same; wrote: The Completion of the National Banking System; Banker's Magazine, (Sept., 1893); Heredity versus Evolution; The Monist, (Oct., 1893); The Philosophy of the History of Bank Currency in the United States, (Banker's Magazine, Oct., 1895); The 95th Section of the National Bank Act, (The Chicago Banker, April, May, June, 1900); "Reply to M. Des Es- sars, Statistician of Bank of France, (Chicago Banker, June, 1902); address before annual convention Washington State Bankers' Association, July 23, 1903, topic, Clearing House Emergency Circu- lation; resolution afterwards passed ap- proving same; The Clearing House Sys- tem, (in Journal of Political Economy, March, 1904), and Our Democratic Bank- ing System and its Natural Ally, the Clearing House, (in Bankers' Monthly, New York, June, 1904). Residence, Yonk- ers; office, 55 William St., N. Y. City. GILMORE, Joseph Henry :


Educator; born Boston, Mass .; was graduated from Brown University, 1858, after studying theology at Newton; 1861 instructor of Hebrew at Newton; 1862-64 had charge of the Fisherville (N. H.) Baptist Church; 1864-65 private secretary to father and editor of Concord Daily


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Monitor; then, until 1867, was pastor of charge many cases of great importance Second Baptist Church of Rochester, N. Y., and in the latter year professor of rhetoric at University of Rochester. Au- thor: Art of Expression, (1876); Outlines of Logic, (1879); Outlines of Rhetoric, (1891), and other text-books and religi- ous works; he is author also of the hymn, He Leadeth Me; Oh Blessed Thought! Address, Rochester, N. Y.


GILMORE, William E .:


President of the Bates Manufacturing Co., and The Pyro Electric Co .; vice- president and general manager of the Edison Manufacturing Co .; director of the Edison Storage Battery Co., Edison Phonograph Works, and the National Phonograph Co. Residence, Orange, N. J .; office, 83 Chambers St., N. Y. City. GILPIN, C. Monteith:


Lawyer; vice-president of the Christian Democracy Co .; treasurer of General Corporation Co., and International Se- curities Co .; director of Blue Ridge Min- ing and Milling Co., Faywood Lead Co., General Concentrates Co., General Cor- poration Co., Gold Nugget Mining Co., Hidden Canyon Gold Mines, Imon Pe- troleum Co., Ohio and Kentucky Oil Co., and the Shamrock Copper Co. Member, Sons of Revolution, Columbia University Club, Underwriters Club of Maryland and Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. Residence, 2030 Broadway; office, 68 William St., N. Y. City.


GILROY, Thomas F .:


Builder and real estate; born Ireland, June 3, 1840; came to U. S. 1847; edu- cated New York public schools; clerk of Supreme Court; 1885-88, clerk City and County of New York; under-sheriff, 1888- 98; commissioner public works, 1889-92; mayor of New York, 1893-95; member Tammany Society; clubs: Manhattan, Riders and Drivers. Residence, 7 West 121st St .; office, 17 Park Row, N. Y. City. GLADDING, Albert F .:


Jurist; born Pharsalia, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1843; educated in district schools, fitted himself to be a teacher; later became a student in Norwich Academy; in 1866, he entered the law office of Hon. David L. Follett; admitted to Bar in May, 1869, and began practice in Norwich. Was soon after elected justice of the peace, but a large and increasing practice pre- vented his giving much time to the du- ties of the office; after eight years of practice he was admitted to the Bar of the U. S. Supreme Court. He has had in


and has proven himself a safe counsellor. In 1883, Judge Gladding was first nomin- ated to the office of county judge and surrogate by the Republican party, but was defeated; elected to that office in 1889; in 1895 he was re-elected, being en- dorsed by all parties; in 1901 was again endorsed by all parties and re-elected for a third term. Married, in 1881, Grace V. E. (Randall) Owen, daughter of I. H. Owen, of Auburn, N. Y. He is a direc- tor of the Chenango National Bank, of which he was one of the organizers in- 1883; he also organized and incorporated, with a number of business associates, the Norwich Water Works Co., in 1889, he was an organizer and promoter of the Norwich Furniture Co. Address, Nor- wich, N. Y.


GLADWIN, Ellis W .:


Secretary of the Home Life Insurance Co. of N. Y .; born 1858, Middletown, Conn .; educated at the Polytechnic In- stitute, Brooklyn, and in Europe; en- gaged in the banking and brokerage bus- iness in Wall Street from 1879 to 1892, being connected with the firm of Glad- win & Co., members of the N. Y. Stock Exchange; appointed secretary of the Home Life Insurance Co. in 1892. Ad- dress. 256 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GLAZIER, Williard:


Soldier, author, explorer; born Fowler, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1841; son of Ward Glazier and Mehitable Bolton, wife; worked on farm summers, attended district school winters; at 15 a trapper in the Adiron- dacks earning means for higher educa- tion; two years at Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary; later at State Normal College, Albany, teaching school at intervals in St. Lawrence and Rensselaer counties; served in Union Army, Civil War, 1861- 65 in Harris Light-Second New York- and Twenty-sixth New York Cavalry; entered service as private and was suc- cessively promoted to corporal, quarter- master-sergeant, first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant and brevet captain; took part in over sixty battles and engagements; including Falmouth Heights, Cedar Mountain, Brandy Sta- tion, Manassas, Second Bull Run, Chan- tilly, Fredericksburg, Second Brandy Sta- tion, Aldie, Middleburg, Upperville, Get- tysburg, Monterey, Hagerstown, Falling Waters, Third Brandy Station, Culpepper, Liberty Mills, Fourth Brandy Station, and New Baltimore; was twice wounded and three horses were killed from under


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him; captured in cavalry action Northern Virginia, 1863; fourteen months in Con- federate prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, and Colum- bia; escaped in Nov., 1864; was recap- tured and after trial as spy at Springfield, Georgia, again escaped and reached Fed- eral lines near Savannah; was commis- sioned first lieutenant, Twenty-sixth New York Cavalry after escape from Southern prisons with which regiment he served until close of war; breveted captain for meritorious service 1867; married Harriet Ayers, Cincinnati, 1868; toured U. S., 1865 to 1875, obtaining material for his work on American cities. Rode horseback from Boston to San Francisco 1876; was cap- tured and escaped from Indians in Wy- oming during journey. Led expedition to Headquarters of Mississippi 1881 and located its true source in a lake beyond Itasea now known as Lake Glazier; then descended river in canoes from source to Gulf of Mexico. Led second expedition to source of Mississippi, 1891 and con- firmed his claim to the discovery of its primal reservoir. Organized and was commissioned colonel of an Illinois pro- visional regiment for Spanish War, 1898. Visited Southern States and West Indies, 1899. Explored coasts and interior of the Labrador Peninsula, 1902-03, and located many bays, lakes, rivers and mountains not previously chartered including one of the grandest and most picturesque water- courses of North America which was named for him by his party-Glazier River. Lecturer; contributor to maga- zines and newspapers. Member G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans; American Authors Association ; Canadian Camp; Historian Harris Light Cavalry. Author: Cap- ture, Prison-Pen and Escape, (1865); Three Years in the Federal Cavalry, (1871); Battles for the Union, (1874) ; Heroes of Three Wars (1878) ; Peculiari- ties of American Cities, (1883); Down the Great River, (1887); Headwaters of the Mississippi, (1892); Ocean to Ocean on Horseback, (1896). See Sword and Pen-Story of his life-by John Algernon Owens, (Philadelphia, 1880). Address, 111 Lake Ave., Albany, N. Y.


GLEASON, Rachel Brooks, M. D .:


Born Winhall, Vt., Nov. 27, 1820; mar- ried July 3, 1844, Dr. Silas O. Gleason; studied medicine with her husband; was graduated 1851; first woman in the world to enter medical college after doors were thrown open to women; practiced three years in Glen Haven, N. Y .; one year


Ithaca, N. Y .; founded with her husband, The Gleason Health Resort, Elmira, N. Y., 1852 ; author : Talks to My Patients, which has had a large circulation ; has written largely on health and several topics ; woman suffragist, and early anti-slavery worker; assisted many women through medical colleges ; parlor talks and lectures have been celebrated. Address, Gleason Health Resort, Elmira, N. Y.


GLEESON, Joseph Michael:


Artist, illustrator; born Dracut, Mass., Jan. 8, 1861; studied art at Munich, France and Italy; specialty animal life; married, N. Y. City, 1902, Florence Helene Stebbins. Address, 45 East 59th St., N. Y. City.


GLENN, WILLIAM J .:


Journalist; born July 2, 1862, Dansville, N. Y .; educated Wellsville Academy; has been one of the proprietors and editors of the Cuba Patriot since 1883; Postmaster of Cuba, 1889-94; doorkeeper of U. S. House of Representatives, 1895 and 1897; Republican; married Dec. 31 1882, Jessie A. Goodrich of Wellsville. Address, Cuba, N. Y.


GLENNAN, Arthur Henry:


Assistant surgeon general, U. S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, Washington, D. C .; born Rochester, N. Y., July 28, 1853; son of Surgeon P. Glennan, U. S. Volunteers, commissioned by Pres- ident Lincoln, and Margaret Denver (O'Donnell); degree B. Sc., St. John's College; graduate in medicine, Medical Department, University City of N. Y. Appointed assistant surgeon in the U. S. Marine Hospital Service, June 6, 1883; passed assistant surgeon, Sept. 7, 1886; commissioned surgeon, Aug. 10, 1898, and detailed as assistant surgeon general, June 10, 1903; in command of U. S. Marine Hospitals and Quarantine Sta- tions at various points from 1883 to 1897; served in the epidemic of yellow fever in the South, 1897-98; sanitary ex- pert and inspector, west coast of Florida, during General Shafter's expedition to Cuba; detailed to organize the quarantine service in the Island of Porto Rico, 1899, and appointed member of the Superior Board of Health of that island by Gen- eral George W. Davis, military governor; during the epidemie of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba, was detailed July 15, 1900, upon the staff of Major General Leonard Wood, as chief quarantine officer of the is- land of Cuba, and served until the departure of the American forces; detailed upon a sanitary mission to the State of Cali-


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fornia in co-operation with the governor member of Metropolitan, Union League and State health officials; member of the and Southampton Clubs. Address, 611 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. Association of Military Surgeons; the Loyal Legion, University Club, etc. Ad- GODWIN, Harold: dress, U. S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, Washington, D. C.


GODDARD, Morrill:


Editor N. Y. Sunday American and Journal; born Portland, Me., Oct. 7, 1866; son of Judge Charles W. Goddard and Rowena C. (Morrill) Goddard; was grad- uated from Dartmouth 1885; from 1885 to 1894 was successively city editor, Wash- ington correspondent, Sunday editor and managing editor of the N. Y. World; 1895, editor of the Sunday edition of the N. Y. American and Journal; has also been war correspondent, traveler, maga- zine writer; married, 1899, Jessamine Rugg, of Hot Springs, Ark .; member At- lanta Yacht Club, Dartmouth Club, Maine Society, American Social Science Associa- tion, University Settlement Society, Na- tional Mosquito Extermination Society. Residence, 204 East 16th St .; office, Am- erican and Journal, Park Row, N. Y. City.


GODDARD, Norton:


Merchant and philanthropist; born N. Y. City. Upon graduating from Harvard entered the employ of his father in the dry goods firm of J. W. Goddard & Sons, which he alone now represents. In 1897 removed to the "East Side," and has since spent his time in bettering the con- dition of the tenement classes, and in the suppressing of "policy" which had worked such evil effects in that locality. On account of his success in this undertak- ing he is recognized as one of the ablest workers for good government and for the betterment of the condtion of the labor- ing classes. Organized the East Side Republican Club; has long been influ- ential in the Civic Club. Upon the elec- tion of Theodore Roosevelt as governor of New York, he was appointed a member of his staff with rank of captain. Was ap- pointed a member of the Tenement House Commission in 1900 and has done much in behalf of the people among whom he lives. Address, 100 Bleecker St., N. Y. City.


GODFREY, Charles H .:


Retired banker; born Bangor, Me., Jan. 27, 1840; resident for twenty-six years of Philadelphia and since 1883 of New York; formerly partner in firm of Drexel, Mor- gan & Co .; retired January 1, 1884; latter- ly associated with various railroad direc- torates and reorganizations and now is a director in the Mercantile Trust Co .;


Editor; born May 21, 1857; was grad- uated from Princeton, 1879; and after- ward Fellow in history; on staff of N. Y. Evening Post, art critic for N. Y. Mail and Express and N. Y. Commercial Ad- vertiser; in 1890 became financially in- terested in and editor of Current Litera- ture; member Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seawanhaka, Corinthian Yacht, Princeton and University Clubs. Ad- dress, 34 West 26th St., N. Y. City.


GOELET, Augustin H., M.D .:


Surgeon; born near Wilmington, N. C., April 1, 1854. University of Virginia, 1873, M. D. Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1874; Professor of Gynecology in the N. Y. School of Clinical Medicine. Gynecological Surgeon to the Metropoli- tan Hospital for Women and Children. Gynecologist to the West Side German Dispensary; Fellow of the N. Y. Acad- emy of Medicine; of the American Med- ical Association, the N. Y. State Med- ical Association and the N. Y. County Medical Association, and American Uro- logical Association. Author : Electro- Therapeutics of Gynecology and Gynec- ological Electro-Therapeutic course of the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pa., and The Technic of Sur- gical Gynecology. Ex-president of Am- erican Electro-Therapeutic Association. Address, 2030 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GOETHALS, George W .:


Major U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York; graduated from the Military Academy and promoted to second lieutenant, June, 1880; served on special duty at the Military Academy, July 5, to Aug. 28, 1880; at Willet's Point, N. Y., with battalion of engineers, Nov., 1880, to Nov., 1882; promoted to first lieu- tenant, June, 1882; engineer officer, 1882 to 1884; as assistant to Lieutenant-Colo- nel Merrill, 1884 to 1885; as assistant pro- fessor of civil and military engineering at the Military Academy, 1885 to 1888, and principal assistant professor, 1888 to 1889; assistant to Lieutenant-Colonel Mer- rill, Sept. to Oct., 1889; to Lieutenant- Colonel Barlow since Oct., 1889; captain, Dec. 14, 1891; major, Feb. 7, 1900. Ad- dress, 22 Jackson Place, Washington, D. C.


GOFFE, J. Riddle, M. D .:


Consulting physician and surgeon ; born Kenosha, Wis., 1851; M. D. Bellevue,


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1881; professor gynecology, N. Y. Poly- 1899; on recruiting service at Albany, clinic; visiting gynecologist, N. Y. Skin N. Y., to Nov., 1901; at Fort Apache, Arizona, to June, 1902; station command- er at Angeles, Pampanga, Philippine Isl- ands, to Dec., 1902; at the camp near Mabalaccat, P. I., to Sept., 1903; at Fort Logan, Colo., Nov., 1903; marched over- land from Fort Logan to Fort Apache, Arizona, in March, April and May, 1904. Address, Fort Apache, Arizona. and Cancer Hospital; visiting gynecolo- gist to City (Charity) Hospital; consult- ing gynecologist, Mt. Vernon Hospital, and St. Joseph's Hospital, Yonkers ; member of County and State Medical Association, Academy of Medicine, Obstetrical Society, Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, Am- erican Gynecological Society. Address, GOLDSCHMIDT, Samuel A .: 29 W. 46th St., N. Y. City.


GOLDFOGLE, Henry M .:


Democratic Congressman; born N. Y. City, 1856 ; educated in the public schools ; admitted to the Bar; elected justice of the Fifth District Court of N. Y., 1887, and re-elected in 1893, without opposition; be- came one of the judges of the municipal court of N. Y; retired from the bench, 1900; drafted and secured the enactment of a law by the State legislature which allows an execution against the body to issue against a delinquent debtor on a judgment in favor of a working woman for services performed by her; author of the law providing for an expeditious rem- edy to collect judgments obtained by la- borers, mechanics, and other wage earn- ers for wages or labor performed; promi- nently identified with many of the lead- ing fraternal organizations, clubs, and so- cieites, and with several financial insti- tutions; was for years a governor of the Home for the Aged and Infirm at Yonk- ers; director of the infant asylum; one of the advisory committee of the educa- tional alliance; delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1896; was elect- ed to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses and re-elected to the Fifty- ninth Congress. Address, 271 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GOLDMAN, Henry J .:


Captain U. S. Army; born Germany, appointed from N. Y .; graduated from the Military Academy and promoted to second lieutenant, June, 1877; served on frontier duty in Wyoming, 1877 to 1879, and on scouting duty in Colorado to April, 1880; at Camp Sheridan,, Nebraska, and Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 1880 to 1885; at Fort Riley, Kansas, May to July, 1885; on scouting duty and at Fort Supply, Indian Territory, to March, 1886; promoted to first lieutenant, April 24, 1886; at Fort Reno Indian Territory, 1886 to 1890; captain, June 1, 1897; Fort Brown, Texas, to January, 1896; San An- tonio Texas, to May, 1898; during Span- ish War established and commanded the Post of San German, Porto Rico, to Dec.,


President Columbia Chemical Works; born N. Y., Sept. 17, 1848; was graduated from College City of N. Y., 1868, and School of Mines, Columbia College, 1871; assistant Ohio Geological Survey, 1871; chemist and assistant inspector of fer- tilizers, Savannah, Ga., 1871-75; inspector in charge of offensive trades,, N. Y., 1879-1888; treasurer Columbia Chemical Works, 1880-91; president Columbia Chemical Works, 1891 to date; assistant editor American Chemist, 1870-77; mar- ried, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1879, Ellen C. Chese- brough; member of Chamber of Com- merce, London and American Chemical Societies, Museum of Natural History, Union League, Grolier, Down Town, City, Columbia University, Chemist, Apawamis and Woodstock Country Clubs. Resi- dence, 71 Central Park, W., N. Y. City; office, 43 Sedgwick St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


GOLDSTEIN, Jacob:


Journalist; educator and preacher; born London, Eng., Nov. 3, 1858 ; son of Lewis Isaac Goldstein, minister of Congrega- tional Sh'arith' Yisrael, Melbourne, Aus- tralia. When four years old accompanied his father to Melbourne, where he was educated at the Hebrew School; in 1874 he was appointed instructor in the Mel- bourne Hebrew School; 1877, entered the Department of Education, Victoria; 1881, removed to South Australia and held a similar position in the Educational De- partment of that colony; 1885, appointed principal of the East Melbourne Hebrew School; 1888, became secretary of the Charity Organization Society of Mel- bourne, which position he resigned in 1893 to accept the secretaryship of the Free Trade Council of New South Wales. In conjunction with Greville Tregarthen, founded The Australisian Hebrew, of which he became editor (1895-96); contributed a number of articles on literary and so- ciological topics to the Melbourne Argus, and was appointed commissioner by the Premier of N. S. W. to study and report on the charitable systems and institutions of England and France (1896-98) for




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