Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 71

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GREELEY, William B .:


Lawyer; born Nashua, N. H., Nov. 1, 1859; was graduated from Dartmouth College, 1881, and from Columbian Law School, Washington, D. C., 1887; member of examining corps, U. S. Patent Office, 1884-89; commenced practice of law in N. Y. City, 1889; formed present firm, Red- ding, Kiddle & Greeley, 1895; married, 1891. Sarah N., daughter of the late G. W. Burleigh, of New Hampshire; mem- ber Seventh Regiment Veteran Associa- tion, Engineers Club, Republican Club,


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American Bar Association, and Bar As- others. For many years he was chairman sociation of the City of N. Y. Address, 38 Park Row, N. Y. City. of the Republican County Committee of Broome County, and later was presi- GREEN, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs): dent of the League of Republican Clubs of the entire State, and twice re-elected; in 1887 he was elected


Author; born Brooklyn, Nov. 11, 1846; educated in the public schools of the me- tropolis, and was graduated from the Ripley Female Seminary, Poultney, Vt., with the degree of B. A. Her talent as a writer was developed when a child; she and her associates published a little paper, to which she contributed poems. She has written twenty-five volumes, two of which are in verse; married Charles Rohlfs, and is the mother of three chil- dren-Rosamond, Sterling and Roland. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.


GREEN, Frank Russell:


Artist; born Chicago, April 16, 1859; son of Russell and Caroline Green; educated Chicago public schools; student at Acad- émié Julien, under Boulanger, Lefebvre, Collin and Courtois, Paris; Association Na- tional Academy of Design; clubs: Amer- ica Water Color Society, N. Y. Water Color and Salmagundi. Address, Salma- gundi Club, 14 W. 12th St., N. Y. City. GREEN, George E .:


Merchant; ex-State Senator; born Kirk- wood, Aug. 30, 1858; educated in public schools; about 1877 he entered the em- ployment of Ford & Evans, general coal dealers. He built up an extensive bitu- minious coal trade for the firm, became a member of the firm of Ford & Green on the retirement of Captain Evans, and finally succeeded to the proprietorship of the concern, directly representing the Berwind-White Coal Mining Co., of Philadelphia and New York. For twenty- three years he has represented this firm as exclusive sales agent for N. Y. State and Canada, and is one of the largest wholesale dealers in bituminous coals and coke; is secretary and treasurer of the Yaqui Copper Co., N. Y .; president International Time Recording Co .; presi- dent Doremus Machine Co., Washington, D. C .; vice-president Bundy Manufactur- ing Co .; president Coal Dealers Supply Co., and member of the firm of Berry & Green (Wholesale Flour and Feed), of Bing- hamton, N. Y .; vice-president Hudson Valley Ry. Co .; director of the Guardian Trust Co., the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co., the General Electric Inspection Co., of N. Y., of the Security Mutual Life In- surance Co .; vice-president Binghamton R. R. Co .; director Endicott Land Co., Binghamton Trust Co., and numerous


Alderman of Binghamton, and in 1888 was elected president of the Common Council. In 1889 he was Republican can- didate for mayor of Binghamton; in 1893 he was nominated for the same office, and was elected by an unprecedented ma- jority; mayor of Binghamton for five suc- cessive years; among the clubs and social organizations of which he is a member are the N. Y. Athletic Club, Republican Club, Reform Club, Transportation Club, and Lawyers Club, all of N. Y .; the El- licott Club of Buffalo, Dobson Club, Bing- hamton Club and Albany Club; elected to Senate in 1900 and 1902; in 1903 was a membe of the following Senate committees: Chairman of the Commit- tee on Taxation and Retrenchment; mem- ber Cities, Banks, Public Health and Revision. Address Binghamton, and 170 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GREEN, (Mrs.) Hetty Howland Robin- son :


Financier; born New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 21, 1835. Upon the death of her father, Edward Mott Robinson, in 1865, a large fortune passed into Mrs. Green's hands. She is probably one of the most successful women financiers in the world. Married Edward H. Green, who died 1902. Address, Bellows Falls, Vt.


GREENBAUM, Samuel:


Jurist; born London, Jan. 23, 1854; was graduated from College of City of N. Y. 1872, and Columbia Law School, 1875; taught in public schools of N. Y., 1872- 77; admitted to the Bar, 1875; married, N. Y., March 13, 1888, Selina Ullman; Jan. 1. 1902. became Justice Supreme Court of the State of N. Y .; term expires Dec. 31, 1915; member Association of the Bar of the City of N. Y., N. Y. State Bar Asso- ciation, Society Medical Jurisprudence, Civil Service Reform Association, Frce Trade League, and Jewish Historical So- ciety; former president of the Young Men's Hebrew Association; one of the founders of the Aguilar Free Library So- ciety, and president until its merger with the N. Y. Public Library; one of the founders and first vice-president Educa- tional Alliance; trustee of N. Y. Public Library and the Jewish Theological Sem- inary of America; member of Lawyers, Manhattan City and Reform Clubs. Resi-


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dence, 2 E. 94th St .; office, County Court | U. S. Navy, May 23, 1861; second as- House, N. Y. City.


GREENE, Clay Meredith:


Dramatic author; born San Francisco, Calif., March 12, 1850; educated at Santa Clara College, Ph.D., 1901; and University of California; married, San Francisco, 1873, Alice R. Wheeler; member Dramatic Authors Society, Naval Order of the U. S., Actors Order of Friendship; clubs: Lambs, Green Room (N. Y.); Bohemian (San Francisco); also Larchmont, Man- hassett Bay and Bayside Yacht. Author: Plays-M'Liss, Chispa, Sharps and Flats, The Golden Giant, Last Days of Pompeii, An International Match, Forgiven, Sybil, The New South, Struck Oil, Nazareth, Passion Play; also operas-Blue Beard, The Maid of Plymouth, The Little Troop- er, The Conspirators, Napoleon pro tem, The Wandering Minstrel. Residence, Bay- side, L. I., N. Y .; office, 70 W. 36th St., N. Y. City.


GREENE, Charles T .:


Major, U. S. Army (retired) ; born Maryland; appointed from N. Y .; private, Co. G., 22d N. Y. State Militia, May 28, 1862; discharged August 8, 1862; second lieutenant, 60th N. Y. Infantry, August 21, 1862; first lieutenant, August 10, 1863; captain assistant adjutant general, Sep- tember, 4, 1863; brevet major, March 13, 1865; honorably mustered out, September 19, 1865; captain, 42d Infantry, July 28, 1866; retired with rank of captain, De- cember 15, 1870; major, 1904. Address, 101 West 42nd St., N. Y. City.


GREENE, David J .:


Civil and mechanical engineer; born N. Y. City, July 21, 1873; educated in public schoole, College of City of N. Y., Colum- bia and Cornell Universities. President of the Cambridge Delivery Co., and Empire Wood Co .; vice-president of Elk Wood Co., and Milford Silver Co .; director of Cambridge Delivery Co., Ches- ter Water Co., Elk Wood Co., Empire Wood Co., Greene Manufacturing Co .. Guilford Water Co., Milford Ice Co., Mil- ford Water Co., and Pascoag Water Co. Residence, 300 Oakland St .; office, 385 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.


GREENE, David M .:


Consulting engineer; director, 1879- 1891, of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- tute, Troy, N. Y .; was graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Aug. 29, 1851; assistant engineer Erie Canal Enlargement and on railroads, 1852-1855; professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- tute, 1855-1861; third assistant engineer,


sistant engineer, Oct. 28, 1862; first as- sistant engineer, Jan. 1, 1865; resigned Sept. 16, 1869; assistant professor U. S. Naval Academy, 1862-1865; assistant to engineer-in-chief, U. S. Navy, Navy De- partment, Washington, 1865-1868; private practice, 1869-1874; division engineer, eastern division, Erie Canal, 1874; deputy State Engineer, N. Y., 1874-1878; elected director Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, September, 1878; resigned, 1891; member American Society of Civil Engineers; So- ciety Naval Architects and Marine En- gineers, American Society Naval Engi- neers, New England Society of Naval En- gineers, Society of Founders and Patriots, Sons of American Revolution, Military Or- der of the Loyal Legion of the U. S., Na- val Order of the U. S. Address, Troy, N. Y.


GREENE, Francis Vinton:


Major-general, U. S. Volunteers; ex- police commissioner of N. Y. City; born Providence, R. I., June 25, 1850. Was graduated from West Point in 1870, at the head of a class of fifty-eight cadets; assigned to the artillery service; trans- ferred, 1872, to the Corps of Engineers; 1887 was detailed as military attache to the U. S. Legation at St. Petersburg, his special duty being to make a study of the military operations during the war between Russia and Turkey. He accom- panied the Russian army throughout its celebrated campaign; from the Czar of Russia received the decorations of St. Vladimir and St. Anne and the campaign medal, and from the Prince of Roumania the Star of Roumania and the Roumania Cross; July, 1885, instructor of practical military engineering, U. S. Military Acad- emy. Married Belle Eugenie Chevalie Feb. 25, 1879; Jan., 1886, resigned from the Army and became vice-president of the Barber Asphalt Paving Co .; soon after he was advanced to presidency of the same corporation, which he resigned to join the U. S. Army in the Philippines; in 1889, joined the National Guard of the State of N. Y., being commissioned as major and engineer of the First Brigade; 1892, was elected colonel of the Seventy-first Regiment, and held that position until the breaking out of the Spanish-American War; ordered to Cuba; afterwards trans- ferred to Manila; promoted to rank of brigadier-general May 27, 1898, for gal- lant and distinguished service, promoted major-general in the Philippines, Aug. 13, 1898; appointed police commissioner of N. Y. City, Jan., 1903; resigned, Jan. 1, 1904.


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He has contributed much to military tenant, Seventh Infantry, Dec. 16, 1888; literature; his official report upon the Turkey-Russian War was published in two volumes for the U. S. government in 1879, under the title: The Russian Army and Its Campaigns in Turkey, 1877-78; author: Army Life in Russia; The Missis- sippi, which treats of the campaigns of the Cival War, and of a biography of Nathaniel Greene; member of the Cent- ury, University, Metropolitan, Lawyers, and N. Y. Yacht Clubs; Buffalo Club and University Club, Buffalo; and of the Metropolitan Club of Washington. Ad- dress, 303 North St., Buffalo, N. Y.


GREENE, George Sears, Jr .:


Civil engineer; born Nov. 26, 1837, Lex- ington, Ky .; entered Harvard College in 1856, but left before graduation and stud- ied civil engineering. Practiced his pro- fession in the Croton Aqueduct Depart- ment of N. Y. City, railroads in Cuba, copper mines on Lake Superior and made extensive and accurate topographical sur- veys in vicinity of N. Y. City; appointed engineer-in-chief of the Department of Docks, N. Y. City, July 16, 1875, and designed and successfully erected river walls, wharves and piers in very difficult situations; since 1898 consulting engineer, N. Y. City; member and past vice-presi- dent of the American Society of Civil Engineers; honorary member of the Am- erican Institute of Architects; member of the Century Asociation, Harvard Club, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, So- ciety of Colonial Wars; married, April 23, 1862, Susan Moody, daughter of Hon. James Dana, of Charlestown, Mass .; she died June 18, 1881. Address, 534 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.


GREENE, Henry A .:


Lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Army; born in and appointed from New York; was graduated from the Military Academy re- ceiving rank of second lieutenant, June, 1879; was on frontier duty at Fort Clark, Tex., 1880 to Jan., 1881, and at Fort Ring- gold, Tex., to Oct., 1881; in garrison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., 1881 to 1885; promoted to first lieutenant, July, 1886; on frontier duty at Fort Assinniboine, Mont., and regimental adjutant, Oct., 1886; captain, Oct. 14, 1891; major, Four- teenth Infantry, May 31, 1900; lieutenant- colonel, 1903. Address, Oklahoma City, Okla.


GREENE, Lewis Douglass:


Captain, U. S. Army, retired; born May 23, 1856, Medina, N. Y .; cadet, July 1, 1874; second lieutenant, Seventh In- fantry, June 14, 1878; promoted first lieu-


retired, captain, April 26, 1898; A. D. C. to General George Crook, Oct. 8, 1887, to June 1, 1889; regimental quartermaster, Seventh Infantry, June 13, 1889, to July 1, 1893; retired as captain, "disability in line of duty," April 28, 1898; quartermaster, Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., March 10, 1894, to Aug. 23, 1898; with regiment, Ute Expedition, White River, Colo., Oct. 1, 1879, to June, 1880; at Fort Buford, D. T., to Aug., 1882; present with command at surrender of Sitting Bull and his bands, Feb. to May, 1881; at Fort Fred Steele, Wyo., Nov., 1882, to Dec., 1885; at Camp Pilot, Butte, to July, 1887, by reason of anti-Chinese . riots; at Fort Laramie, July, 1887, to Oct., 1887; Omaha, to May, 1888, and Chicago, to June 1, 1889; Fort Laramie, to Dec., 1889; Fort Logan, Colo., to March, 1894; in field at Cheyenne River, S. D., Sioux outbreak, Dec., 1890, to Feb., 1891; Hot Springs, Ark., to Aug., 1898; with troops in Porto Rico, Sept. to Nov., 1898. Spe- cial duty in management of U. S. Trans- port service centering on Puget Sound during 1900. Shipping and brokerage, Seattle to May, 1902; since with Pitts- burgh Coal Co. Address, Railway Ex- change, Chicago, Ill.


GREENE, Richard Gleason:


Congregational minister, ordained, 1854; in pastoral service till 1890; editor-in- chief since 1880 of three cyclopedias: Li- brary of Universal Knowledge (16 vol- umes); International Cyclopedia (first edi- tion, 16 volumes), declining because of other engagements the editorship of the second edition: Columbian Cyclopedia,


(including Dictionary; 32 volumes), now enlarged and its name changed to the Dictionary Cyclopedia; born East Had- dam, Conn., June 29, 1829; educated in Philadelphia, Pa .; entered Yale, 1845, leaving because of his father's death; taught, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn, N. Y .; later received honorary A. M. from Yale; after full course in Andover Theo- logical Seminary, Mass., was graduated, 1853. He served as pastor of congega- tional churches near Boston, and in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Orange, N. J .; mar- ried Augusta Ostranda, Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1856. By election by the legisla- ture of Mass., during his pastorate of the North Congregational Church, Springfield, he preached the 243rd annual elec- tion sermon in Boston, before the gover- nor and legislature-title: Christianity a National Law; he has written many reviews of books for weekly magazines.


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GREENE, Richard Thurston:


Lawyer; born Port Henry, N. Y., June 29, 1867; was graduated from Rochester Free Academy, 1885; Rutgers College, B. S., 1889; Albany Law School, 1891; ex- amining counsel of Lawyer's Title In- surance Co .; counsel for East River Sav- ings Institution, and Western Electric Co .; director and stockholder of several coroprations; president West Side Re- publican Club; member Bar Associations of N. Y. City and State, New England Society, N. Y. Geographical and Bio- graphical Societies, Kane Lodge, 457, F. A. M .; president D. K E. Council, 1901; married Charlotte L. Berry, Elizabeth, N. J., 1896. Address, Times Building, N. Y. City.


GREENE, Robert Holmes :


Surgeon; born Brunswick, Me., April 27. 1861; was graduated from Bowdoin Col- lege, 1881, A. B., receiving A. M., 1884; was graduated from Harvard Medical School, 1886, M. D .; in N. Y. City since 1886; surgeon to City and French Hos- · itals. Author: Healthful Exercise, and numerous medical articles. Address, 47 West 38th St., and Dunderberg Ledge, Central Valley, N. Y.


GREENE, Walter D., M. D .:


Health commissioner, Buffalo; born Starksboro, Vt., April 20, 1853; entered the medical department of the University of Buffalo; was graduaed, 1876; clinical professor of genito-urinary diseases in the University of Buffalo, medical de- partment, and surgeon to the Erie County Hospital and the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity; has held several prom- inent municipal offices; from 1882 to 1889, was district physician for the poor; in the latter year was appointed health phy- sician for Buffalo, which position he held until 1891; at the organization of the present health department in 1896, was appointed deputy health commissioner; in 1901 succeeded to the position of health commissioner. Dr. Greene is a thirty- third degree Mason, and is potentate of Ismailia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; is also past president of the Acacia Club; member of the Independent and Buffalo Clubs, Buffalo Historical So- ciety, Buffalo Medical Society, of which he was a censor in 1888, and an associate in the State and County Medical Socie- ties; he is also second vice-president of the Masonic Life Association of Western N. Y .; married, Nov. 28, 1878, Miss Mary


GREENE, William C .:


Copper miner, ranch owner; born New York; was successively government con- tractor, prospector, rancher and cattle- man; bought Los Cancaneo Mines in Mexico, 45 miles south of border line of Arizona, to operate which he formed Greene Consolidated Copper Co. During Apache troubles of early 'SOs organized and led several volunteer forces against hostile Indians. Residence, Waldorf- Astoria Hotel; office, 377 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GREENER, Richard T .:


U. S. Consul; born Philadelphia; edu- cated in the grammar schools of Cam- bridge, Mass., Oberlin College preparatory school, Ohio, and was graduated from Phillips Academy and Harvard College; was professor of metaphysics and logic in the University of South Carolina at Columbia from 1873 to 1877; was grad- uated from the law school of the Uni- versity of South Carolina; was law clerk to the First Comptroller, U. S. Treasury Department at Washington, D. C .; was dean of he law department of the Howard University, at Washington, from 1879 to 1881; secretary of the Grant Monument Association, N. Y. City, 1885-1892; consul at Bombay, Jan. 14, 1898, afterwards transferred to Vladivostok, Siberia.


GREENHUT, Benedict Joseph:


Treasurer of the Siegel-Cooper Co., of N. Y .; born Chicago, Ill., June 24, 1870; son of Joseph B. and Clara (Wolf- ner) Greenhut, his father being president of the Siegel-Cooper Co. of N. Y .; edu- cated in the public schools, Peoria, Ill., entered employ of his father, at that time the head of the Great Western Distillery; private secretary to his father when at the head of the Whisky Trust. In 1896 became connected with the Siegel-Cooper Co .; is now treasurer of the concern, with its business substantially under his im- mediate and direct supervision; married, 1892, Miss Minnie Gottlieb. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, Sons of Veterans, Progress, Aldine, Republican Criterion and Freundschaft Clubs of N. Y. City. Address, 6th Ave. and 18th St., N. Y. City.


GREENOUGH, John:


Vice-president of the United Zinc and Chemical Co .; director of D. & M. Chaun- cey Real Estate Co., Iron Silver Mining Co., Richmond Light and R. R. Co., Unit- ed Zinc and Chemical Co., Realty Asso-


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ciates and Westchester Heights Co. Ad- [1886-90, on ranch in Minnesota; 1890-94, dress, 59 Wall St., N. Y. City. managing editor of the Standard Diction- GREER, David Hummell: ary; 1895-1903, editor of the Homiletic Re- Clergyman, rector of St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, since 1888; born Wheeling, W. Va., March 20, 1844; was graduated from Washing- ton College, Pa., 1862; subsequently stud- ied at P. E. Theological Seminary, at Gambier, O .; ordained deacon, 1866; or- dained priest, 1868; rector Christ Church, Clarksburg, W. Va., 1866-68; Trinity view; 1904, general secretary of the Amer- ican Bible League. Author: Christian Ethics, (1875); Why Four Gospels, (1877) ; Practical Logic, (1881); Christ's Trumpet Call to the Ministry, (1896); The Crime of Christendom, (1900). Received from Princeton University, A. M. in 1860, and D. D. in 1874, and from the University of Wooster, LL.D. in 1895. Address, 463 West 153d St., N. Y. City.


Church, Covington, Ky., 1868-71; Grace Church, Providence, R. I., 1871-88. Has written: The Historic Christ; From Things to God; The Preacher and His Place (Yale lectures); Visions. Elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of New York, Sept., 1903; has received the de- gree of D. D. from Brown University, Kenyon College, University of the South; of LL.D. from Washington & Jefferson College. Address, 342 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.


GREER, Lawrence:


Lawyer; was graduated from Yale in 1893; married Miss Georgiana Oakes; di- rector of Central Branch Ry. Co., Coal and Iron R. R. Co .. Davis Coal and Coke Co., Kansas City Southern Ry. Co., New Orleans & Northwestern R. R., St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co., Union Pacific Coal Co., Union Pacific Land Co., West Vir- ginia Central and Pittsburg Ry. Co., and Western Maryland R. R .; member of the Metropolitan and University Clubs. Res- idence, 126 East 56th St .; office, 120 Broadway, N. Y. City. GREGG, James G .:


Lawyer, secretary of the Delaware Registration and Trust Co., Faulhaber Chemical Co., Faulhaber Stable Co., Red Dragon Seltzer Co. and Robert Simmon & Co .; director of Empress Manufacturing Co., Faulhaber Stable Co., Faulhaber Chemical Co., and Red Dragon Seltzer Co. Residence, 119 West 45th St .; office, 141 Broadway, N. Y. City.


GREGORY, Daniel Seely:


Educator, preacher and writer; born Carmel, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1832; was grad- uated from Princeton University, 1857; during 1859-60 student of theology in Princeton Seminary and instructor in rhetoric and English in the University; 1860-71, pastor at Galena, Ill .; at Troy, N. Y .; at New Haven, Conn., and at South Salem, N. Y .; 1871-78, professor of logic and metaphysics, and from 1875 of mental science and English literature, in the University of Wooster, O .; 1878-86, president of Lake Forest University, Ill .;


GREGORY, Eliot:


Author, artist; born N. Y. City, Oct. 13, 1856; educated abroad and at Yale; studied sculpture with Rinaldi in Rome; exhibited statue Corinne, in Paris Salon; Duran; received gold medal at Paris Salon, 1889, for a painting called Coquet- terie; painted many well known portraits, including Ada Rehan for Daly, August Belmont, General Cullum, now in the Cullum Memorial, West Point; pen name, An Idler; author of the Idler Papers, which appeared in the N. Y. Evening Post; also of two volumes of essays and social satire: Worldly Ways and Byways, and The Ways of Men. Member of the Knickerbocker and numerous other clubs; director of the Metropolitan Opera House. Address, 1122 Broadway, N. Y. City. GREIG, Alexander:


Banker; born near Montrose, Scotland, April 12, 1861; he received a good educa- tion, and when twenty-one years of age came to America; in 1882 obtained a position as a clerk in the auditor's office of the Grand Trunk Ry. of Canada; in studied painting in Paris with Carolus 1883 he became a clerk in the office of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. at Omaha, Neb., and in three years was made traveling auditor. In 1893 he was appointed special agent for the National Surety Co. at Kansas City, Mo., and in four years he was superintendent of the same corporation, first in Chicago and then in New York; in 1900, he was made second vice-president. In 1901 he became interested in the Security Warehousing Co. and was made president; on March 31, 1902, resigned from the vice-presi- dency of the National Surety Co. and became vice-president and director of the Trust Co. of the Republic. He holds the last two offices at the present time. Address, 178 West 81st St., N. Y. City. GRIDLEY, Abraham:


Lawyer; born Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1851; is a descendant of Jonathan Ed- wards and of Richard Baxter; alumnus


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of Cornell University and of the Universi- ty of Michigan; admitted to Bar, 1882, practicing at Penn Yan, N. Y .; married Mary Sherman, daughter of George Sher- man. Address, Penn Yan, N. Y.


GRIDLEY, John Thomas:


Lawyer, jurist; born West Candor, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1867; studied at Cornell Uni- versity; was graduated from Columbia College Law School, 1892; is an able lawyer and jurist; received degrees of LL. B. from Columbia College and LL. D. from Nashville College. Address, Candor, N. Y.


GRIER, William A. M .:


Born Danville, Pa., Dec. 9, 1833; was graduated from Lafayette College, 1856; cashier First National Bank of Danville, 1862-67; partner, Pardee Markle & Grier, Bankers, Hazleton, Pa., 1867-81; delegate from Pennsylvania to Republican National Convention of 1880, and became noted from having been the first to present the name of Gen. Garfield to the Convention and persistently voted for him, singly and alone on most of the thirty-six ballots; declined appointment by President Gar- field of Assistant Postmaster-General; en- tered into business in New York in 1881. Address, 76 St. James Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.




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