Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 70

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work. Address, Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., and 579 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.


GOULD, Howard:


Capitalist; son of Jay Gould and Helen (Miller) Gould; born N. Y. City, 1870; member of N. Y. Stock Exchange and director of various telegraph, railway and financial corporations; married, Oct. 12, 1898, Viola Katherine Clemmons. Residence, Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y .; office, 195 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GOULD, Howard:


Actor; born Minneapolis, March 19, 1863; son of Dr W. H. Gould and Eliza- beth I. Gould; received education in schools of Boston, Mass .; appeared with James O'Neill, Maggie Mitchell, E. H. Sothern; seven years a star under Daniel Frohman, then leading support to Mary Mannering, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, etc .; member of Players and Lambs Clubs. Address, Players Club, N. Y. City.


GOULDEN, Joseph A .:


Congressman; born Pennsylvania, 1844; served in the navy 1864-65; manager of a life insurance company at 180 Broad- way; was a member of the board of managers, State Reformatory at Morgan- za, Pa .; commissioner and trustee in the public schools in N. Y. City for ten years; member of the board of trustees, Soldiers' Home, Bath, N. Y .; was secretary and a member of the Commission that caused the erection of the soldiers' and sailors' monument, in Riverside, Park; elected to the Fifty-eighth and re-elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress. Address, 180


Broadway, N. Y. City.


GOULEY, John William Severin:


Physician; born


New Orleans, La., March 11, 1832; was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., M. D., 1853; 1856, professor of anat- omy at Vermont Medical College; 1859, connected with Bellevue Hospital, as at- tending physician; 1861-64, assistant sur- geon in the army; 1864-66, demonstrator of anatomy and professor of histology and operative surgery in the University of N. Y .; 1866-71, of clinical surgery and genito-urinary diseases; reappointed 1876. Address, 1251 Columbus Ave., N. Y. City. GOW, Geo. C., Mus. Doc .:


Professor of Music, Vassar College; born Groton, Mass., Nov. 27, 1860; edu- cated in Brown University, Newton The- ological Seminary and Berlin, Germany; instructor in Harmony, Smith College, Northampton, Mass .; professor of music, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y .;


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married, June 19, 1900, Grace D. Chester; hon. Mus. Doc. Brown University, 1902; author: Structure of Music; Songs and Part Songs; papers in various edu- cational reviews; Republican. Address, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.


GOWEN, James B .:


Captain, U. S. Army; born N. Y. City, Sept. 25, 1872; entered U. S. Military Academy from N. Y., Jan. 15, 1894; grad- uating April 26, 1898; assigned second lieutenant to Sixteenth Infantry. Took part in Santiago campaign, battle of San Juan Hill, July 1, 2 and 3, 1898; siege of Santiago, including action, July 10, and 11, 1898; with regiment at Montauk Point, Huntsville, Ala., and Fort Crook, Neb., 1898-99; first lieutenant, March 2, 1899; with regiment to Philippine Islands, May, 1899; Philippine Insurrection and establishment of civil government, 1899- 1902, including campaign against San Miguel de Mayumo, Dec., 1899, and actions at Maasin River and San Ideforso, Dec., 1899; captain Tenth Infantry, Oct. 3, 1902; Fort Lawton, Wash., 1903, and Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., 1903. Address, Presidio, San Francisco, Cal. GOWING, B. C .:


Chief engineer, U. S. Navy; was grad- uated July 11, 1861, from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Sept. 21, 1861, re- ceived a warrant as third assistant en- gineer; Oct., 1861, ordered to gunboat Kennebec, then building at Thomaston, Me .; Feb. 12, 1862, sailed from Boston, Mass., for Key West, Fla., thence to Ship Island, Miss., where he joined Ad- miral Farragut's West Gulf Squadron; participated in taking of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, also New Orleans; May, 1863, promoted second assistant engineer; from Jan., 1866, to Dec., 1867, on duty at the U. S. Naval Academy as instructor of steam engineering; Dec., 1867, ordered to the Kearsarge, and made a two and one-half years' cruise in the South Pa- cific Station; commissioned as first as- sistant engineer, Oct. 11, 1886; on the monitor Mahopac, Jan., Feb., and March, 1872; ordered to the flagship Lancaster, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sept., 1872, joined the Wasp at Montevideo, Uruguay; Dec., 1874, ordered to the Yantic, at Hong Kong, China; served on the Asiatic Sta- tion during 1875 and 1876; Navy Yard, N. Y., 1878-81; Brooklyn, South Atlantic Station, 1881-84. Promoted to chief en- gineer, Feb., 15, 1886; Alert, Pacific Sta- tion, 1886-90; Kearsarge, North Atlantic Station, May, 1893, to the time of the


wreck of that ship on Roncador Reef, Caribbean Sea ,Feb. 2, 1894; Machias, Sept., 1894; U. S. Naval Hospital, Brook- lyn, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1894, to Feb. 2, 1895; retired Jan. 28, 1895, for physical disa- bility received in line of duty. Address, Tully, Onondaga County, N. Y.


GRABAU, Amadeus William:


Adjunct professor palæontology, Colum- bia University; born Cedarburgh, Wis., Jan 3, 1870; son of Prof. Wm. Grabau; was graduated from Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, S. B., 1896; Harvard, S. M., 1898, S. D., 1900; married Boston, 1902, Mary Antin; Fellow Geological So- ciety of America, and New York Academy of Sciences; member Boston Society of Natural History, Buffalo Society of Na- tural Sciences; American Association for the Advancement of Science; professor of geology in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mr. Grabau edited Guide to localities illustrating the geology, mar- ine zoology of Boston; author: Geology and Palæontology of Eighteen Mile Creek and the Lake Shore of Erie Co., N. Y., (Buffalo Society of Natural Sci- ences); Guide to the Geology and Palæon- tology of Niagara Falls; University State N. Y. Museum Bull, (1901). Guide to the Geology and Palæontology of the Scho- harie region in eastern New York; Uni- versity State N. Y. Museum Bull, (1905). Address, 527 West 124th St., N. Y. City.


GRACE, Joseph P .:


Vive-president of W. R. Grace & Co .; was graduated from Columbia in 1894; vice-president of the Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co .; trustee of the Emigrant In- dustrial Savings Bank, Lincoln National Bank, Lincoln Safe Deposit Co., Terminal Warehouse Co., Kings County Trust Co .; director of the New York and Pacific Steamship Co., Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co., and W. R. Grace & Co .; member of the University, Racquet, Meadow Brook, Alpha Delta Phi and Catholic Clubs. Res- idence, 31 East 79th St .; office, 1 Hanover Square, N. Y. City.


GRADY, Thomas F .:


State Senator, representing the Four- teenth Senate District: born N. Y. City, Nov. 29, 1853, and educated at De La Salle Institute and St. James' Church Parochial School; received A. M. from Manhattan College 1880; member of the Assembly in 1877, 1878, and 1879; State senator 1882, 1883, and 1889; then ap- pointed police justice; held that position from 1891 to 1895; for many years has been a prominent member of the Tam-


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many Society; member of Senate since ber N. Y. State Medical Society, Con- 1896, and leader of the Democratic minori- ty since 1899; has been a prominent del- egate to many Democratic State and na- tional Convention; has been chief speaker spicuous figure at the Democratic Na- tional conventions; in 1884 he was a con- for Tammany Hall at many State con- Society, Medico-Surgical Society, and ventions. Address, 74 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GRAHAM, Benjamin:


Banker; president of the Bank of Mont- clair; vice-president of the Fidelity Land Co. and Western Securities Co .; director of the Bank of Montclair, Corn Products Co., Essex Title Guaranty Co., Ironde- quoit Park R. R., Rochester Ry. Co., Securities Co. and Victoria Fire Insur- ance Co. of New York; member of the Down Town and Union Clubs. Resi- dence, Montclair, N. J .; office, 44 Pine St., N. Y. City.


GRAHAM, George Edward:


Journalist; born . Albany, N. Y., Nov., 15, 1866; son of George Little and Eliza- beth Graham; educated public schools; war correspondent Associated Press on flagship Brooklyn during Spanish-Ameri- can War; on bridge during destruction of Cervera's fleet, July 3, 1898; married Albany, N. Y., 1900, Lavina E. Griffin; member Legislative Correspondents As- sociation ; member of N. Y. Press, Albany, Aurania Clubs; author of Schley and San- tiago, (with personal narrative by Rear- Admiral Schley); Fighting with Schley. Assistant general manager Proctor's Thea- ters. Address, 62 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.


GRAHAM, William T .:


President of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co., and American Tin Plate Co .; director of the American Can Co., American Sheet and Tin Plate Co., Amer- ican Sheet Steel Co., and the Mckeesport Terminal R. R. Co. Address, 21 State St., N. Y. City.


GRANDIN, Egbert H .:


Physician; born Trenton, N. J., 1855; son of Egbert H. and Amanda (Pratt) Grandin; B. A., Harvard, 1876; M. D., Harvard, 1880; has practiced in New York since 1881; now limits his practice to abdominal surgery, gynecology and con- sulting obstetrics; ex-president Medical Society of the County of N. Y .; ex-vice- president of N. Y. Academy of Medicine; ex-president N. Y. Obstetrical Society; late attending and consulting obstetrician, N. Y. Maternity Hospital; late attending obstetrician, N. Y. Infant Asylum; mem-


gress of American Physicians and Sur- geons, American Gynecological Society, American Urological Society, N. Y. Acad- emy of Medicine, N. Y. Obstetrical So- ciety, County Medical Society, Society of Medical Jurisprudence, Harvard Medical Medical Association of Greater N. Y. Is consulting gynecologist to the French Hospital; gynecologist to the Columbus


Hospital; member of Kane Lodge No. 454 of the New York Consistory, A. A. S. R .; Mecca Temple (Mystic Shrine) ; and Contsitutional Chapter No. 230; has written extensively on his specialties, the articles appearing chiefly in the Ameri- can Journal of Obstetrics and the Medical Record; has published: The Cyclopedia of Obstetrics and Gynecology (12 vols., Wm. Wood & Co); Electricity in Gynecology ( Wm. Wood & Co.); Practical Obstetrics (three editions, F. A. Davis Co.); mar- ried, July, 1880, Fannie Throckmorton, of Jersey City. Address, 116 West 76th St., N. Y. City.


GRANNISS, Robert A .:


Vice-president Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y .; born Brooklyn, N. Y., at 1840; completed his education the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1856; 1872, was appointed secretary of the Metropolitan Life, and in 1887 elected second vice-president of the Mutual Life; 1885, elected vice-president of the com- pany; director in the U. S. Mortgage & Trust Co. of N. Y .; member New York Yacht, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht and Metropolitan Clubs. Residence. Morris Plains, N. J .; office, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.


GRANT, De Forest:


Manufacturer ; born N. Y. City ; was ed- ucated at Yale University, class '91; or- ganizer, president and general manager of the Atlantic Terra Cotta Co .; Inde- pendent Republican. Residence, 22 East 49th St. ; office, 287 Fourth Ave., N. Y. City.


GRANT, Frederick Dent:


Brigadier-General, U. S. Army; eldest son of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant; born St. Louis, Mo., May 30, 1850; received his education there and at Galena, Ill., where his father was engaged in business at the outbreak of the war. When Gen. Grant first set out from Galena for Quincy, to take command of the regiment to which he had been appointed, he had his son, then eleven years of age, with him; but on finding orders for an advance, he sent


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the boy back home; but two years after- wards he accompanied his father in the Vicksburg campaign, being present at five battles before he was thirteen years of age. He continued with his father and was in every battle of the campaign, till the surrender of Vicksburg to the Union Army; was present on March 9, 1864, at Grant's first interview with President Lincoln, when the famous soldier was made commander-in-chief of the U. S. Armies, with the grade of lieutenant- general. In 1867, then seventeen years of age, he entered the U. S. Military Acad- my at West Point, as the necessary step to his assuming a military career; was graduated in 1871, and assigned to the Fourth Cavalry, with the grade of second lieutenant; five years later he was raised to the rank of first lieutenant. In the summer of 1871 was employed on the Union Pacific and Colorado Central Rail- roads as an engineer, and in the latter part of that year he visited Europe, in company with General Sherman, gaining there much information in regard to the military art. In 1872, after his return to this country, he was placed in com- mand of a cavalry escort to the party making a preliminary survey for the Southern Pacific R. R., as a protection against hostile Indians; in 1873 he was made an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Sheridan, with the rank of lieu-


tenant-colonel; during the succeeding eight years he was engaged in military duty, taking part in nearly every expedi- tion against the Indians. Within this pe- riod, during his father's celebrated jour- ney around the world, he joined him in the Orient part of this excursion, and continued with him thereafter. He re- signed his commission in 1881, and was constantly with his father during his ill- ness, rendering him essential aid in the preparation of his "Memoirs," in verify- ing statements from the records. After General Grant's death he entered upon the care of his mother and the estate until 1889, when he was appointed by President Harrison U. S. Minister to Austria, and served in the country in that capacity until the incoming of the next administration. Served during the Span- ish-American War as colonel Fourteenth N. Y. Volunteers; as brigadier-general of U. S. Volunteers at Porto Rico and com- manding military district at San Juan; transferred to Philadelphia in 1899; July to Nov., 1899, in command of Second Brigade, First Division (Lawton's), cov-


¡ering the line south of Manila, fighting numerous skirmishes and two battles, namely, Imus, or Big Bend, Oct. 3d, and Benican, Oct. 6th; Nov. 1st, transferred to command of Second Brigade, Second Division (Mac Arthur); in the advance north this brigade fought every engage- ment in which MacArthur's division was engaged in during this advance. On Dec. 18, 1899, commanded the column invading the provinces of Bataan and Zambales. February, 1899, assigned to command of Fifth Military District Department of Northern Luzon, where many engage- ments with the insurgents took place, in- cluding the capture of the insurgents' strongholds at Lamanoa, where 137


rifles were captured; at O'Donnell 222 rifles were captured; Balubad resulting in the destruction of many quartels and large supplies; Buloc and Ipo, destroying a million pounds of rice which the in- surgents had accumulated, secured alto- gether in this district during the guerrilla war 4,800 rifles, thousands of rounds of rifle and cannon ammunition and over eleven tons of powder. The Fifth District was the first to become settled and come under the civil government; transferred, Oct., 1901, to Southern Luzon, where sev- eral expeditions were made; when it be- came settled and under civil government was transferred to the command Sixth Separate Brigrade in Samar and Leyte, and brought about the surrender of all the insurgents of Samar, April 27, 1902. Everything being settled in the Philip- pines, was transferred to the command of the Department of Texas Nov. 1, 1902; on Jan. 15, 1904, to the command of the Department of the Lakes; on Sept. 28, 1904, to command of the Department of the East. Is a member of the Loyal Legion, Society of Colonial Wars, Union League, Sons of Revolution, Badminton, Foreign Wars, and U. S. Army Clubs. Address, Governor's Island, N. Y. City.


GRANT, Gabriel, M. D .:


Born Newark, N. J .; was graduated from Williams, A. B., 1846; A. M., 1886; M. D., College Physicians and Surgeons, 1851; health commissioner, Newark, 1854; in Panama, New Granada, 1852, organ- ized American Hospital; Surgeon Second New Jersey Volunteers, 1861; brigade and division surgeon, 1861; in first and second battles of Bull Run, Fair Oaks, Gaines Mills, Malvern Hill, Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg and Sarbatia, and honorably mentioned for gallantry; 1863, medical director Evansville Hospi-


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tals; surgeon in charge Madison U. S. GRANT, Robert Parks:


Army General Hospital. Congressional medal of honor for distinguished gal- lantry; surgeon general Medal of Honor Legion; member Delta Upsilon, Medico Legal, Loyal Legion and Century Club. Address, 22 E. 49th St., N. Y. City.


GRANT, Hugh John:


Capitalist and former mayor of N. Y. City; born N. Y., 1833; studied at Man- hattan College and Columbia Law School; member N. Y. Board of Aldermen, 1883 and 1884; held office of sheriff, 1886-88; elected mayor, 1887, for term 1888-90; was subsequently offered the leadership of Tammany Hall, but declined to accept the office. Residence, 20 E. 72d St .; office, 54 Wall St .. N. Y. City.


GRANT, Madison:


Lawyer; born N. Y., 1865; educated abroad and in private schools in N. Y .; was graduated from Yale University, 1887; Columbia Law School, 1890; admit- ted to N. Y. Bar, 1889; secretary N. Y. Zoological Society; member Union and University Clubs, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Society of Colonial Wars, Association of the Bar, etc. Writer on zoology, etc. Residence, 22 E. 49th St .; office, 11 Wall St., N. Y. City.


GRANT, Percy Stickney :


Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born Boston, May 13, 1860; son of Stephen Mason and Annie Stickney Grant; edu- cated in Boston public schools and Rox- bury Latin School; was graduated from Harvard, 1883, and from Episcopal Theo- logical School, Cambridge, 1886; M. A., Harvard, 1886; B. D., Theological School, 1886; ordained deacon in 1886; priest in 1887; assistant minister, Church of the Ascension, Fall River, 1886; minister of St. Mark's Church, Fall River, 1887; also rector Christ Church, Swansea, Mass., 1890; Fall River School committee, 1890- 93; founded Young Men's Christian As- sociation and other philanthropic institu- tions in that city; rector, Church of the Ascension, N. Y. City, 1893. Appointed honorary secretary to committee on Re- lation of Protestant Episcopal Church to our new possessions, 1899; in that capac- ity visited Honolulu, Japan, China, Philip- pines, India, etc., in company with Right Rev. H. C. Potter, D. D., bishop of New York, 1899-1900; trustee Berea College; published papers: Land Questions in the Philippines; Church Missions in Asia; Marriage and Divorce; Monologues of Robert Browning. Address, 7 W. 10th St., N. Y. City.


President Dairy State Board of Trade; born Neversink, May 8, 1844; attended the district school and two winters at the high school; he then learned the tanner's trade at which he was employed when, in 1863, he recruited Company C, Ninety- second Regiment, N. G., S. N. Y .; was elected captain and drill master of the regiment; in 1865 was promoted to the colonelcy, although he was the youngest commissioned officer in the command; re- tiring from military service, he engaged actively in commercial and banking af- fairs and, in 1876, with A. F. Barker, founded the Bank of Clayton. In 1880 the institution was changed into a State bank under the same name. In 1884, in association with fifty others, he bought out the Barker interest and organized the Exchange Bank, which became, on Jan. 1, 1898, the National Exchange Bank of Clayton. Colonel Grant is cashier and general manager; he is interested in the manufacture and sale of cheese, and through his efforts the State Dairy Board of Trade was formed; he is also presi- dent of the Watertown Produce Ex- change. Address, Clayton, N. Y.


GRANT, R. Suydam:


Broker; director of the American Coal Co., Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley R. R., Hudson River Ore and Iron Co., Lanston Monotype Machine Co., N. Y. and Canada R. R. Co., and the Pennsyl- vania Iron Works Co., Residence, 11 Gramercy Park; office, 71 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GRATACAP, Louis Fope:


Naturalist and author; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1850; graduate of tlie Col- lege of the City of N. Y. (1869) and of the Columbia School of Mines (1876) ; later became assistant curator in paleon- tology and mineralogy in the American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. City; has long been chemist for Metropolitan Gas Light Co. of N. Y. Author: The Ice Age, Gas and Gas Making, and other series of papers in archæology and scien- tific magazines; Geology of the City of N. Y. (1901); The Certainty of a Future Life in Man (fiction), 1903; also Philo- sophy of Ritualism, Analytics of a Belief in a Future Life, Political Mission of Tammany Hall, Protection, A Reasonable Doctrine, Vade Mecum Guide to Minerals. Address, West New Brighton, Staten Isl- and, N. Y.


GRAY, Arthur Irving:


Journalist, author; born Madison, Wis.,


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May 26, 1859, where he was educated; married, 1899, Ardelia W. Brown, Brook- lyn; assistant editor: Tobacco in Song and Story; The Witchery of Sleep; au- thor: Bath Robes and Bachelors; Over the Black Coffee. Residence, 653 Bed- ford Ave., Brooklyn; office, 265 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GRAY, George R .:


President of T. B. Peddie & Co .; first vice-president of the Essex and Hudson Gas Co .; director of the East Newark Gas Co., Firemen's Insurance Co., Her- ring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co., Public Ser- vice Corporation and the Union National Bank of Newark. Residence, Newark, N. J .; office. 368 Broadway, N. Y. City. GRAY, John Clinton:


Jurist; born N. Y., 1843; studied at Uni- versity of Berlin, Prussia, graduating in 1864; received A. M. from the University of the City of N. Y .; in 1886 graduate of Harvard Law School; judge, N. Y. Court of Appeals, since 1888. Address, Albany, N. Y.


GREATSINGER, Jacob Lowman:


President of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran- sit Co .; born July 1, 1849, Elmira, N. Y .; district schools of Chemung County, and Elmira Free Academy; began his study of the locomotive by firing the wood- burner locomotive, a 6-ft. gauge Erie en- gine; became a fireman on the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira R. R .; was machinist, train dispatcher, station agent, road master, locomotive engineer, master me- chanic and superintendent successively; under his supervision the road prospered and when he left, in 1886, it comprised five lines, including the Elmira, Cortland, and Northern, and which are now merged with the Lehigh Valley System; then he became master mechanic on the Chicago & East Illinois R. R .; in 1888 he severed his connection with the C. & E. I. R. R. and became master mechanic of the Du- luth & Iron Range R. R .; 1891, elected president and general manager of the Duluth & Iron Range R. R .; March 20, 1891, having been relieved of the presidency of the Duluth R. R., he was called March 20, 1901, back to his native State to become president of Brooklyn Heights R. R. and of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co .; he has been president of the Minnesota Iron Co., and a director of the First National Bank of Duluth. In 1872 he married Catherine F. Dailey, who died in 1882; member of the Metropolitan, Crescent Athletic and the Marine and Field Clubs, Brooklyn, Hamilton, Riding and Driving;


he is also affiliated with the Chicago and Technical Club of Chicago, the Kitchi- Gammi of Duluth, and the Minnesota Club of St. Paul. Address, 97 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y.


GREBLE, Edwin St. John:


Major U. S. Army; born West Point, N. Y., June 24, 1859; entered U. S. Mili- tary Academy, 1877; graduated, 1881, and assigned as second lieutenant to the Second Artillery; first lieutenant, Second Artillery, May 2, 1887; captain, Second Artillery; March 2, 1899; in Volunteer ser .. vice, captain and assistant adjutant-gen- eral, May 12, 1898; major and assistant ad- jutant-general, Sept. 5, 1899; on duty as aide-de-camp to General commanding Department Platte, Division of Pacific, and Division of Atlantic, 1886 to 1889; honor graduate Artillery School, 1892; on duty Sandy Hook Proving Ground, 1893; regimental adjutant, Second Artillery, 1893-97; adjutant-general Second Division Seventh Army Corps, from its organiza- tion until after its arrival in Cuba, Dec., 1898; appointed assistant adjutant-general on staff of Brigadier-General Wm. Lud- low, military governor Department of Havana, Dec. 18, 1898, and in charge of receiving barrack, forts and other public buildings, from Spanish troops and of the police of the City of Havana until its evacuation by the Spanish troops, Jan. 1, 1899; in charge of distribution of ra- tions and relief of destitute, Department of Havana until June, 1899; appointed adjutant-general, Departments Matanzas and Santa Clara, on staff Major-General James H. Wilson, Sept. 19, 1899; appoint- ed superintendent, Department of Char- ities and Corrections, Island of Cuba, on staff Major-General Leonard Wood, mili- tary governor, Feb. 15, 1900; duty at West Point, N. Y., as senior instructor in ar- tillery at U. S. M. A., June, 1901, to 1904. Acting Inspector-General, Atlantic Divi- sion, July, 1904. Address, Governor's Island, N. Y.




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