Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 7

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AUSTEN, Peter Townsend:


Chemist; born Clifton, Staten Island, N. Y., Sept. 10. 1852; graduate of Columbia School of Mines, 1871, in analytical and applied chemistry; studied three years with Prof. Hofmann of Univ. of Berlin; Ph. D. from University of Zurich; 1876, in- structor of chemistry, Dartmouth College; 1877, professor of General and Applied Chemistry, Rutgers College; 1882, chemist in Richmond County, N. Y., Health Board; 1885, to Newark, N. J., Health Board; professor of chemistry, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1893; since 1884, president of Union Paint Co., Newark, N. J .; member London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg and other chemical Societies; Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Writer of pa- pers for Berlin Chemical Society and American Chemical Journal; articles in Textile Colorist (Philadelphia) and Drug- gists' Circular (New York); lecturer; Sci- ence-Teaching in School, Scientific Specu- lations; writer on educational and scien- tific topics. Address, 89 Pine St., N. Y. City.


AUSTEN, Willard :


Librarian; educated at Cornell Univer- sity in class of 1891; assistant librarian of Cornell University in charge of the division of use; member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity; American Bibliographical 1


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Society; American Library Association; lyn, N. Y .; educated at New York Uni- New York State Library Association; con- tributor to the Nation, Educational Re- view, Library Journal, Popular Science Monthly; married Jessica Lyler, daughter of Professor Moses Cort Lyler, of Cornell University. Address, Ambleside, Ithaca, N. Y.


AUSTIN, Eugene K .:


Colonel, N. G., N. Y .; born 1872; son of Stephen F. Austin (who was member of the N. Y. Stock Exchange, 1865, also Century Club and named after his uncle, Gen. S. F. Austin, of Austin, Texas; and Cecelia Kelly; grent-grandson 01 Elijah Austin, who served at the Battle of Lexington also of Luke Kip, merchant N. Y. City, prior to Revolution, and whose homestead was site of the old N. Y. Hotel, B'way and Washington Pl .; chose banking profession at age of 17, entering firm of Eugene Kelly & Co., as office boy; cashier 1893; went into business for him- self. 1895; Investment securities :; joined National Guard 1892. Co. B. 7th Regt .- Corporal, First Signal Corps, 1891; Ser- geant 1895. in command of signal detail during Brooklyn Car Riots: - First Lieut. and Adjutant Sth Regt. 1896; Captain and Regt. Adjutant 1896 ;- detailed by Gov. Black, at beginning of Spanish-American War to organize 10Sth Regt , which later consisted of over 600 men; Major 108th Regt .; afterwards Colonel, 1995; at end of war regiment mustered out of State ser- vice; detailed by Major Gen Roe from Supernumerary list. to staff of provisional regiment of Westchester County, serving at Croton Riots, 1900; married, 1897, Mabe] Grant Hatch daughter of Hon. Roswell D. Hatch, former Fire Comissioner under Mayor Havemeyer, also secretary Com- mittee of Seventy to suppress the Tweed Ring; member, Society Colonial Wars. Sons of the Revolution; St. Nicholas Socie- ty, and the Veterans Assn. of the First Signal. Corps of which he was the first president. Address. 13 William St., N. Y. City.


AUSTIN, George Curtis:


Lawyer; born Saluvia. Pa., July 19. 1863; instructor in law of contracts in New York Law School several years; member State Assembly, 1896-97. Author Dwight Method of Legal Education. Res- idence. 265 West 93d St .; office, 132 Broad- way, N. Y. City.


AVERY, Edward H .:


President National Bank of Auburn. Address, 3 Grover St., Auburn, N. Y.


AVERY, Frank Montgomery:


Lawyer; born Nov. 22, 1857, in Brook- 2


versity and Heidelberg University, Ger- many; married; member Montauk Club of Brooklyn, Sons of Revolution, Sons of American Revolution, Society of War of 1812. Society of Colonial Wars, Military Order of Foreign Wars, American Geo- graphical Society. Residence, 108 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn; office, 154 Nassau St., N. Y. City.


AVERY, Samuel Putnam, Jr .:


AArtist; art galleries, 368 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City; born Oct. 7, 1847, in Brooklyn, N. Y .; educated in New York; single; member of Grolier, Union League, Sal- magundi, Sketch, City, New York Athletic, Strollers and Arts Clubs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sons of the Revolution, National Sculpture Society, Folk Lore Club of Chicago, Municipal Art Society, Society of Colonial Wars, Lake Champlain Yacht Club. Inglewood Club of Canada, and New York Botanical, Numismatic and Zoological Soceties. Address, 4 East 3sth St., N. Y. City.


AYER, Frederick Fanning:


Lawyer; For Lowell, Mass., Sept 12, 1651; son of James Cook Ayer and Jose- phine Mellen (Southwick) Ayer; not mar- tied; educated in public and private schools, graduate of Harvard College, class of 1573, studied at Harvard Law School; Mulmitted to Mass. Bar, 1875; since his fa- ther's death. 1878, has managed the great properties of the Ayer estate; presented Aver Memorial Library, costing $40,000, to town of Ayer, Mass .; director the Lake Superior Ship Canal. Ry. and Iron Co. the Portage Lake and River Improvement Co., Lowell & Andover R. R., and J. C. Ayer Co; large stockholder in the New York Tribune Ass'n., the Tremont and Suffolk Mills, etc .; his grandfather was Royal Southwick of Lowell and Boston, Mass .; his grandmother a sister of H. B. Claflin. Address, Mills, Bldg., N. Y. City.


AYERS, Edward August, M. D .:


Physician. professor of Obstetrics New York Polyclinic; member of the Patho- logical Society. New York County Medical Society, Academy of Medicine, and phy- sican in chief of Mothers' and Babies' Hospital. Address, 127 West 58th St., N. Y. City.


AYERS, Philip W .:


Leader in charity organization work. Born Winterset, Ia., May 26, 1861; was graduated from Cornell, 1884, from 1888 engaged in charity organization work; 1889-95 general secretary of Associated Charities at Cincinnati; 1895-97, general secretary of Bureau of Associated Chari-


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Chicago; 1897-1900, assistant | Mercantile Schedule. Office address, 38 Pine St., N. Y. City. secretary of the Charity Organization So- ciety, New York; 1897 to date, superin- BABBITT, Dean Richmond: tendent of summer school in philanthropic work; member of the National Confer- ence of Charites and Correctons; is in- terested in subject of forestry in New Hampshire. Address, 105 E. 22d St., N. Y. City.


AYRES, Charles Greenlief :


Major U. S. Army; born Amsterdam, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1854; son of Gen. R. B. Ayres, U. S. A .; mother was great-grand- daughter of Major General Henry Dear- born, U. S. A .; married Mary Elizabeth Fairfax, of Virginia, daughter of Col .- John W. Fairfax; on staff of Gen. Longstreet during Civil War; appointed to the 25th Inf., Oct. 31, 1874, and after transferred to the 10th Cav., Sept., 1875; took con- spicious part in campaigns against In- dians; promoted to Captaincy, Jan. 1, 1892; took part in Spanish-American War; commended for conspicuous gallantry; re- ceiving thanks of President and Lieuten- ant General; in 1899 put down riots in Laredo, Tex .; thanked for same by citi- zens; recommended three times for medal of honor. Address, Jefferson Barracks, Mo.


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BABB, George W .:


Manager of the Eastern and Southern departments of the Northern Assurance Company of London, and general attor- ney for the company in the U. S .; born Boston, Mass., 1847; was employed in the dry goods jobbing business from 1865 to 1870; from the latter year to 1875 he was clerk in a Boston fire in- surance local agency, and from 1876 to 1880 was a local agent in the same city; was afterwards general agent for the Commerce Insurance Company of Al- bany, special agent of the Northern Assurance Company, manager of the New England department of the Northern, and in 1889 went to New York as the manager of the New York department of that company; in 1894 he was also ap- pointed financial agent of the Northern in the United States, and on Jan. 1, 1896, became manager of the New Eng- land department of the Northern on its consolidation with the New York depart- ment; he was one of the principal organ- izers and first chairman of the New Eng- land Bureau of United Inspection, and was a member of the original committee of four which prepared the Universal


Protestant Episcopal clergyman, au- thor and lecturer; born Warren Co., Ohio; son of Hathaway Benjamin and Margaretta Bailey Babbitt; was grad- uated from Harvard College, A. B., 1886; and from Law School of Cincinnati Uni- versity, LL.B .; from Cambridge Episco- pal Theological School, B. D., 1886; was given the degree of LL.D. by University of Wisconsin, 1880; was ordained deacon by Bishop Henry C. Potter in 1884, and priest, July 4, 1886, by the same; studied law, previous to entering the ministry, with Hon. Stanley Matthews, of Cincin- nati, afterward on U. S. Supreme Bench; was connected, for some time after ad- mission to the Bar, with Hon. Alphonso Taft, of Cincinnati, and then practiced law at Cincinnati for three years, later removing to New York City for the same purpose; after ordination to priesthood was rector of St. John's Church, Mil- waukee, 1886-90; rector of St. John's Church, Saginaw, 1890-93; rector of Trinity Church of Tacoma, 1893-95; dean of All Saints Cathedral, Spokane, 1895- 98; went to Christ Church, Newark, for purpose of clearing it from debt of $5,000, which he accomplished in one year; was solicited by Bishop Littlejohn, 1899, to save the $100,000 Church of the Epiph- any, Brooklyn, which was imperiled by a mortgage debt of $34,000; became rector of same, Nov. 6, 1899, and cleared the debt by Jan. 1, 1903, after a noted con- test which proved of wide interest to the press and people of New York City and State, in which he was helped by all de- nominations; has been a special student, lecturer and writer on mobs, lynchings and the race problem, and author of ser- mons and doctrinal and practical pam- phlets; he is a great nephew of the late Dean Richmond, president of the New York Central R. R., the noted Dem- ocratic politician; also nephew of late Gamaliel Bailey, abolitionist and editor of the ante-bellum National Era at Wash- ington, D. C., which first published Un- cle Tom's Cabin; his pulpit in Brooklyn commands wide attention. Author of: Mistakes, Not Failure in Missions, The Church on the Pacific Coast, American Mobs and Lynchings. He is a direct lineal descendant of Thomas Rogers, the eighteenth member aboard the May- flower to sign the Compact; was member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese


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of Milwaukee; president of the Standing | tury, Grolier, University, Alpha Delta Committee of the Missionary Jurisdic- | Phi, City, Montauk and Nassau Coun- tion of Spokane, and examining chap- try; children's names are Mary R. Bab- hott, Frank L. Babbott, Jr., Lydia P. Babbott and Helen L. Babbott. Address, 149 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. lain; he raised $16,000 towards the en- dowment of a church hospital; laid out the plans for the Arch-deaconry of Northern Michigan, the first step in mak- BABCOCK, Charles H .: ing the Diocese of Marquette, and raised Coal agent, D. L. & W. R. R. Co .; mem- ber of firm of H. H. Babcock & Co., and president Commercial Bank. Address, 5 Main St., Rochester, N. Y. a large amount to carry on the archdea- con's work; appointed, Nov. 12, 1903, pres- ident of commission to study the race problem, to co-operate with U. S. com- EABCOCK, Eugene Jeffrey : mission of enquiry, and to aid in getting passed a national aid education bill by Congress. Address, Church of the Epiph- any, McDonough St. and Tompkins Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.


BABBITT, Edwin B .:


Major U. S. Army; born New York; ap- pointed from D. C. cadet at U. S. Mil- itary Academy, July 1, 18S0; graduated, June 15, 1884; actual rank, second lieu- tenant Fifth U. S. Artillery, June 15. 1884; first lieutenant of ordinance, April 15, 1889; promoted captain, June 15, 1898; Major, August 25, 1904. Address, Manila, P. I.


BABBITT, Eugene Howard:


Educator; born May 8, 1859, in Bridge- port, Conn .; prepared at State Normal School, 1880, and Phillips Andover Acad- emy, 1883, and was graduated from Har- vard College, 1886; attended Berlin, Co- penhagen and Paris Universities; instruc- tor in German, Harvard University, 1885- 86, and 1887-89; instructor in Massachu- setts Institute of Technology; instructor In Germanic Languages and Literature in Columbia University since 1900; member of Modern Language Association of America, and American Dialect Society. Address, Tarrytown, N. Y.


BABBOTT, Frank L .:


Educator; was graduated from Am- herst College in 1878 with degree of A.B .; graduate of Columbia College Law School in 1889 with the degree of LL.B; received the honorary degree of M. A. from Amherst College in 1903; a member of the Brooklyn Board of Education from 1895 to 1902; vice-president of the New York Board of Education, 1902-04; trustee of the Packer Collegiate Institute; hon- orary vice-president of the Brooklyn Free Kindergarten Society; trustee of the Young Womens Christian Association of Brooklyn; trustee of the Brooklyn Pub- lic Library; trustee of the Brooklyn Sav- ings Bank; member of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church; club memberships in the Cen-


Clergyman, Episcopal Church; eldest son of Buel H. and Crissey (Decker . Babcock; born. Painted Post. N. Y., April 2, 1850; in early life entered upon mer - cantile pursuits; graduated from Union College, 1876, B.A .: General Theological Seminary, 1879, S.T.B .; made deacon, Aug. 3, 1879; ordained priest, Aug. 15, 1880, at Grand Rapids, Mich .; married Anna Rebecca. second daughter James Wilson, Geneva, N. Y .. Oct. 7, 1SS0; min- ister-in-charge, Grand Rapids; rector,


Whitehall, Mich. ; General Missionary Diocese Western Michigan; rector at Can- andaigua, N. Y., Council Bluffs, Iowa, Youngstown, N. Y. Address, Lockport, N. Y.


BABCOCK, George Henry :


Manufacturer and financier; born Watertown. N. Y .. Oct. 25, 1852; he is the son of Henry H. and Eliza ( Wheel- er) Babcock; his father founded the great manufacturing business of the H. H. Babcock Company; the Babcocks came from an old English Puritan fan- ily, whose pioneer, James Babcock, came from Essex County, England, in 1623, settling first in Dorchester Mass., then at Portsmouth, R. I., at Westerly, in 1660. and Stonington, Conn. in 1732; for two centuries and half the family has given distinguished lawyers, divines, merchants and soldiers to America, and Henry Babcock, of Stonington, fought in the War of the Revolution; the subject of this sketch was educated in the pub- lic schools of Watertown, and he first went into business as a bank clerk: when he became of age he was admitted as a partner in the general manufac- turing business, in Watertown, of which his father was the founder; he soon rose through the various offices until at the present time he is president and man- ager of the H. H. Babcock Company; has lived in Watertown all his life. and he is connected with some of the large financial institutions of that city; he is a trustee of the Watertown Savings


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Bank and also of the City Hospital of | lic schools of Brooklyn; was graduated Watertown; he is a charter member, and has been president of the Union Club of Watertown; married, on Oct. 14, 1874, Miss Alice L. Webster, of St. Albans, Vt. Address, 21 Mullin St., Watertown, N. Y.


BABCOCK, Henry Denison:


Banker; graduated at Columbia Col- lege, 1868; member of firm of Hollister & Babcock, bankers and brokers; mem- ber of University, Metropolitan, Union League, Riding, Rockaway Hunting and Union, City, Midday, Delta Phi, City and Suburban, New York Yacht Clubs, New England Society, Sons of Revolution, Chamber of Commerce, Military Order of Foreign Wars, and Columbia Uni- versity Alumni Association. Residence, 20 East 52d St .; office, 17 Broad St., N. Y. City.


BABCOCK, Isaac H .:


Banker; born Sept. 20, 1830, in Albany Co., N. Y .; educated at Wilson Collegiate Institute; President of Farmers and Me- chanics Savings Bank; President, Ameri- can District Steam Co .; member of As- sembly, 1872-73. Address, Lockport, N. Y. BABCOCK, Jared S .:


Publisher; born May 2. 1838, in New- ark, N. J .; educated at College of City of New York, 1857; married; member of Harlem Club, Martha's Vineyard Roque Club, and Delta Kappa Epsilon Frater- nity. Residence, 2083 Fifth Ave .; office, 56 Pine St., N. Y. City.


BABCOCK, Jerome:


Business man; born July 21, 1835, in Busti, N. Y .; engaged in lumber and oil business in Pennsylvania; married Jan. 1. 1863, Celia O. Smith; Supervisor of Busti, 1873-75. and 1887-88; member of Assembly, 1885 and 1895; Alderman of City of Jamestown, 1895-97. Address, Jamestown, N. Y.


BABCOCK, Paul:


Capitalist; born 1841, N. Y. City; edu- cated N. Y. City; soldier in Civil War; President Liebig Manufacturing Co. and Soule and Fleming Manufacturing Co .; Director, Standard Oil Co., of New Jer- soy, and British Columbia Copper Co .; member of Atlantic Yacht and Mont- elair Clubs, and New England Society. Residence, Montelair, N. J .; office, 26 Broadway. N. Y. City.


BABCOCK, Washington Irving:


President Chicago Ship Building Co., 1900-02: born Stonington, Conn., Sept. 21. 1858; son Capt. David S. and Char- lotte A. (Noyes) Babcock; educated pub-


from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute., B. S., 1876; and Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute., Troy, N. Y., C. E., 1878; when he entered the employ of Roach's ship yard, Chester, Pa., remaining until 1885; next two years with Providence & Ston- ington S. S. Co., when he became super- intendent of Union Dry Dock Co., Buf- ralo, N. Y .; and in 1889 began his con- nection with the Chicago Ship Bldg. Co., of which he was manager ten years, and president in 1900. Married in New Or- leans, Jan. 1, 1890, Grace W., daughter of Hon. H. P. Kernochan of La. Mem- ber of N. Y. Yacht Club, American So- ciety Mechanical Engineers, Society Na- val Architects and Marine Engineers, American Society Naval Engineers, U. S. Naval Institution, Western Society En- gineers, Institution Naval Architects, London, England. Residence, 374 5th Ave .; office, 8 Bridge St., N. Y. City.


BABCOCK, Winnifred Eaton:


("Onoto Watanna"), author; born Na- gasaki, Japan, 1879; daughter of Edward and Grace (Trepesis) Eaton; left Japan when two years old and was educated at the public schools of Montreal and Toron- to, Canada, supplemented by a course in English at Columbia; married New York, July 16, 1901. B. W. Babcock. Author: The Old Jinriksha; Miss Nume of Japan; A Japanese Nightingale, (dramatized) ; Wooing of Wistaria. Address, 2445 Grand Ave., Fordham Heights, N. Y. City. BACHE, Jules Semon:


Banker; born Nov. 9, 1861, N. Y. City; educated Charlier Institute; married 1892, Florence R. Scheftel; director Interna- tional Banking Corporation, chairman Finance Committee, .New Amsterdam Casualty Co .; treasurer Chicago Electric Traction Co .; director, Houston Oil Co. of Texas; director Aniston City Land Co. Member Board of Managers, New York Coffee Exchange; member of New York, Lawyers, Automobile, and Riding and Driving Clubs of N. Y. City, the Atlantic Club of London, and Polo Club of Paris. Residence, 8 East 67th St .; office, 30 New St .. N. Y. City.


BACHER, Otto H .:


Painter, etcher and illustrator; born, Cleveland, Ohio, 1856; studied with Willis S. Adams. 1877-79, then went to Munich, where he studied under Duveneck, 1879- 80, going with him to Florence and Venice, where he remained from 1880 to 1883; in Paris in 1885-86 he worked un- der Boulanger and Lefebvre; had his


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studio in New York, 1887-97; while in Venice was associated also with Whist- ler; member of Painters-Etchers Society, London; Society of American Artists, N. Y., and Society of Illustrators; author of a set of 24 etchings, On the Danube; set of 36 etchings of Venice; large etch- ing of Interior of St. Marks, Venice; paintings to be found in numerous Amer- ican private collections. Address, Law- rence Park, Bronxville, N. Y.


BACKUS, Foster L .:


Lawyer; born Oct. 6, 1849, Russell, St., Lawrence Co., N. Y .; educated at St. Lawrence University; married; Dis- trict Attorney of Kings County; trustee of St. Lawrence University; member of Marine and Field, and Parkway Driving Clubs, L. A. W., and Royal Arcanum. Residence, 13 Lincoln Road; office, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


BACKUS, Henry Clinton:


Lawyer; born May 31. 1848, Utica, N. Y .; prepared at Phillips Exeter Acad- emy, and was graduated from Harvard College, 1871, and Columbia Law School, 1873; married in 1890, Hattie I. Davis; member of the Bar Association of the City of N. Y., State Bar Association, Dwight Alumni Association. Republican and Harvard Clubs, American Numis- matic and Archæological Society, Amer- ican Academy of Political and So- Company A, Major and Lieutenant-


cial Science and Biographical So- Colonel of the 23d Regiment, Na- ican Geographical Society, and hon- Fellow of Amer- ciety of America; tional Guard, New York, and colonel of Second Provisional Regiment ; his legal orary member of Railway Conductors Club of North America; member of the Blue Pencil Club of the State of New York, associate member of the University Glee Club of N. Y. City; member of the Alumni Association of Columbia Univer- sity Law School. Residence, 489 West 22d St .; office, 71 Broadway, N. Y. City. BACKUS, James Bayard: practice is wide and important; he is specially strong before a jury, and has been called to assist in trials in many States, in London and Tokyo; his travels have been wide, and his lectures and writ- ings on travel and military, social, relig- ious, political and Masonic subjects have been numerous ; he is also one of the most eloquent and entertaining after-dinner Lawyer, born Sept. 20, 1853, Schenec- tady, N. Y. Was graduated from Union College, 1874 ; married, in 1877, Cornelia V. Price; member of New England and American Geographical Societies, Union College Alumni Association, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Society of Colonial Wars and Mayflower Descendants; he was one of the founders of University Athletic Club. Residence, 171 West 73d St .; office, 120 Broadway, N. Y. City. speakers : he was a member of the As- sembly in 1887 and chairman of the Ba- con Investigating Committee; he led the forces that invaded John Y. McKane's balliwick on election day, 1893; and was one of the most potent factors in Mc- Kane's downfall and conviction ; his ser- vices are much sought on the stump and platform at home and abroad; he is con- nected with various clubs and enter- prises. Address, 101 Rugby Road, Brook- lyn ; office, 37 Liberty St., N. Y. City.


BACKUS, Truman Jay:


Educator; born Milan, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1842; son of Rev. Jay S. Backus, (D. D.); was graduated from University of Ro- chester, 1864, receiving degree of A. M.,


1867 and LL. D., 1883; married 1st, 1866, Sarah C. Glass; 2d, Helen C. Hiscock, Syracuse; on Brooklyn Civil Service Com- mission for two terms; president board of managers of State care of the insane. President, of Headmasters Association. Clubs: Century, City (New York) ; Ham- ilton (Brooklyn); University, Rochester University Alumni, Long Island Histori- cal Society. Author: Great


English Writers; Outlines of English Literature; Reviser of Shaw's History of English Literature. Residence, 57 Livingston St .; office, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brook- lyn, N. Y.


BACON, Alexander S .:


Lawyer; born Jackson, Mich., Nov. 20, 1853; graduated in 1876 from the National Military Academy at West Point, with both academic and military honors; after graduation was retained as instructor in Artillery Tactics and Practical Astron- omy; entered the regular army as lieuten- ant and served at various posts on the frontier and in the East until 1878, when he resigned and studied law; admitted to Bar, 1979; began practice in N. Y. City in 1881, his home is in Prospect Park South. Brooklyn; he married Miss Harriet Whittelsey Schroter in Denver in 1SS6. and has two daughters; in military matters he has been captain of


BACON, Edgar Mayhew:


Author; born Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, June 5, 1855; son of John R. Bacon, U. S. Consul; attended private


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schools, Tarrytown, N. Y .; took up study of art, but subsequently became editorial writer on periodicals; 16&5-69. 1590 trav- cled in West Indies: published: The Nymph, Madonna with the Auburn Hair. Halcyon Days. Residence, East Orange, N. J .: studio, Sherwood Building, West 57th St., N. Y. City.


BACON. Edward R .:


lawyer: director Baltimore anil Ohio R. R. Co., Knickerbocker Apartment l'o .. Farmers Loin & Trust Co. Consolidated Coal Co. ; vice-president and director of Baltimore and Ohio Southwestr R R Co. Address, 2 Wall St. N.Y. City.


BACON, Leland Carey :


Treasurer of Pan-Americin Swine \ chine Co, born ISGJ, Contraporland Da Was educated Cooper Instante ast T Eclectic Medical College: be Duonled in 1$$9. Carrie Beatrice Camp, of Comeine P . U. S. Cment at Smoms, SIN Dv- mingo, 1852-53 ; director Pelham Poo donc3 City Llund Street Ry Cunpaste thist-




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