Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 72

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GRIFFIN, Eugene:

Soldier; electrical engineer; born Ell- worth, Me., Oct. 13, 1855; son of George K. and Harriet J. G .; was graduated from West Point, 1875; married, Governor's Island, N. Y., 1889, Allie Hancock; served second lieutenant, first lieutenant and captain corps of engineers, 1875-89; re- signed Oct. 5, 1889; colonel First U. S. Vol. Engrs., May 24, 1898, brigadier-gen- cral volunteers, Jan. 21, 1899; in regular army, served on various surveys until 1883; was assistant professor civil and military engineering and the art of war, West Point, 1883-85; aide-de-camp staff of Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock, 1885-86; chief engineer division Atlantic and department of the East, 1885-86; as- sistant engineer commander District of Columbia, 1886-88; in volunteer service, organized First Regiment U. S. Volun- teers, engineers, serving with it in Porto Rico, 1898-99; general manager railway department, and second vice-president Thomson-Houston Electric Co., 1888-91; first vice-president General Electric Co. since 1892; president Thomson-Houston

International Electric Co. since 1893; since 1893 director British-Thomson- Houston Co., and of the Cie Francais pour l'Exploitation des Procedes Thom-

son-Houston, Paris. Clubs: Union, Rac- quet and Tennis, University, Army and Navy, Engineers, Ardsley, U. S. Military Academy Alumni, New England So- ciety, Society Naval Arch, and Marine Engineers, Foreign Wars, Spanish-Am- erican War, The Pilgrims of the U. S., Metropolitan (Washington), Somerset (Boston), Fort Orange (Albany), City Liberal (London). Member Institution Civil Engineers, American Society of Electrical Engineers and American So- ciety Mechanical Engineers. Address, 44 Broad St., N. Y. City.

GRIFFIN, Martin Luther :..

Expert technical chemist, pulp and paper; born May 21, 1859, Northampton, Mass .; son of John and Naomi Estabrook Griffin; married Ada Riggs of Albany, N. Y., March 28, 1894; educated in the high school, Holyoke, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst College, 1883, B. A .; also received degree M. A., Am- herst, 1886; professional chemist in Holy- oke, Mass., 1883 to 1892; since then resi- dent in Albany and Mechanicsville, N. Y, as an expert chemist in all matters pertaining to paper and paper stock, both processes and products from same; chem- ist to the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., 309 Broadway, N. Y. City, the Fort Orange Paper Co., Casleton, N. Y., the Holyoke Belting Co., Holyoke, Mass .; member of the American Chemical So- ciety, Society of Chemical Industry, London, the Franklin Institute, the Am- erican Institute of Mining Engineers and the Chemists Club of N. Y. City; winner of prize money (1901) from the Scottish Paper Makers Association, Edinburgh. Author of various technical papers pub- lished in the transactions of scientific societies; Republican. Address, Me- chanicville, N. Y.

GRIFFIS, William Elliot, D. D., L. H. D .:

Preacher, author, lecturer; born Phil- adelphia, Pa., Sept. 17, 1843; educated in common schools and Central High School in Philadelphia; in the jewelry business five years; enlisted in the Forty-fourth Pennsylvania Regiment Volunteers and served in the Gettysburg campaign; stud- ied at Rutgers College, 1865-69; took five prizes in science and English composition; traveled in Europe. 1869; under the "Char- ter Oath" of the Mikado of Japan of 1868, was the first foreigner called from out- side countries to assist in restoring the foundations of the empire and arrived in Japan, Dec. 29, 1870, and in Fukui, Echizen, lived one year, seeing the feudal system in operation, being the only

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surviving man of the Caucasian race who The Story of the Indian; Pawnee Hero from a daimio's capitol saw this form of Stories and Folk Tales; Jack, the Young Ranchman; Jack Among the Indians; Jack in the Rockies; American Duck- shooting, and the Punishment of the Stingy; he has also collaborated with President Theodore Roosevelt, writing several popular books on outdoor life, among them being: American Big political society in action; had audience of the Emperor; special student of the Dutch origins of American freedom and institutions; has visited the Netherlands six times; witnessed the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina; was graduated from Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1877; same year called to First Reformed Church at Schenectady, N. Y .; 1886, to take charge of Shawmut Congregational Church, Boston. Pastor of the First Con- gregational Church, Ithaca, 1893-1903.

Author: The Mikado's Empire, (1876) ; Japanese Fairyworld (1880); Corea The Hermit Nation, (1882); Corea, Without and Within, (1885); Matthew Calbraith Perry, (1887); Japan: In History, Folk- lore and Art, (1892); Brave Little Hol- land and What She Taught Us, (1894); The Religions of Japan, (1895); Romance of Discovery, (1897); Romance of Am- erican Colonization, (1898); Romance of Conquest, (1899); The Pilgrims in Their Three Homes, (1898); The American in Holland, (1899); Verbeck of Japan, (1900); The Pathfinders of the Revolution, (1900) ; In the Mikado's Service, (1901); A Maker of the New Orient, (1902); Sunny Memor- ies of Three Pastorates, (1903); Dux Christus, An Outline Study of Japan, (1904); and other books; chairman of the Department of History of Religion in Congress of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, 1904. Married to Frances King, June 28, 1900. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.

GRIGGS, Herbert L .:

President of Bank of New York; direc- tor of Atlantic and Charlotte Air Line R. R. Co. and Bank of New York; trustee of Bank for Savings in New York, At- lantic Mutual Insurance Co., and U. S. trustee in U. S. for the Sun Insurance Co. of London, England. Married Miss Emily F. Thompson. Residence, 291 Madison Ave .; office, 48 Wall St., N. Y. City. GRINNELL, George Bird:

Author and editor; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1849; early education re- ceived at Churchill's Military School, Ossining, Westchester County, N. Y .; was graduated from Yale 1870 with A. B., and subsequently took the degree Ph. D .; in 1874 he became assistant in osteology and vertebrate paleontology at the Pea- body Museum of Yalc. In 1880 failing health obliged him to leave New Haven, and he accepted position of president and editorial manager the

of Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Author: The In- dians of Today; Blackfoot Lodge Tales;

Game Hunting; Hunting in Many Lands, and Trail and Camp Fire; and edited the book, American Big Game in Its Haunts; he is regarded as one of our first authorities on the Indian of the

Plains and the West generally. Mr.

Grinnell is president of the Bosworth Machine Co., vice-president and di-

rector of the Lansing Investment Co., director of the Campbell-Bosworth Ma- chine Co .; director of the Milford Land Co., and president of the Forest and Stream Publishing Co .; he is a member of the Century Association, the Union and the University Clubs, the Mayflower So- ciety, the Colonial War Society, N. Y. 'Zoological Society, and a number of scientific organizations; he is one of the board of managers of the New York Zoological Society, and of the New York Aquarium; in 1894, Mr. Grin- nell took an active part in the political upheaval in favor of reform in N. Y. City, inaugurated by the Committee of Seventy, of which he was a member; married, in 1902 to Elizabeth K., daugh- ter of Colonel F. D. Curtis, of Saratoga County, N. Y. Address, Audubon Park, GRISCOM, Clement Acton, Jr .:

Capitalist; born June 20, 1868; was graduated from University of Pennsyl- vania, 1887; general manager American Line-Red Star Line, of the International Mercantile Marine Co .; director Empire Trust Co., and is connected in similar capacity with other corporations; is mem- ber of American Museum of Natural His- tory, Sons of the American Revolution, Chamber of Commerce, Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc .; also member of Lawyers, Metropolitan, University, and other clubs of New York, and of Somer- set Hills Country Club, Morristown, N. J. Address. Whitehall Building, N. Y. City. GRISWOLD, Casimir Clayton:

Artist; born Delaware, Ohio, 1843; son of Ezra Griswold; studied wood-engrav- ing, also painting, under his brother; 1850, came to New York and first ex- hibited at National Academy of Design in 1857, later became associate and mem- ber; 1859, associated in founding of the Artists Fund Society. He made his home

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at Rome, 1872, returning to New York, | Residence, 1233 Pacific St .; office, 1886. Paintings: December; Winter Morning; The Last of the Ice; August Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Day, Newport; Early Spring; Purgatory Point, Newport; Lago de Nenie; Monte Spinnelli, Unitria, and Mar Albano. Ad- dress, 262 West 12th St., N. Y. City.

GROSVENOR, James B. M .:

President Grosvenor-Dale Co. and Fire Proofine Co .; graduate of Brown Uni- versity, 1862; director U. S. Casualty Co., Greenwich Savings Bank, and U. S. Rapid-Fire Gun and Powder Co .; member of Union, Racquet, Ardsley, Strollers, Jekyl Island, Down Town, N. Y. Yacht, Riding Clubs. Residence, 723 Fifth Ave .; office, 66 Beaver St., N. Y. City.

GROTHJEAN, (Miss) Francesco, C. R .:

Artist; born near Hamburg, Germany; studied art under Gustave Courtois, Gi - rard Girardot, L. A., Paul, J. Blanc, P. Purvis de Chavannes, Pierre Fritel, and others; has exhibited her works in all the important exhibitions in Europe and America. Address, 939 Eighth Ave., N. Y. City.

GROUT, Abel Joel:

Born Newfane, Vt., March 24, 1867; son of Joel and Martha J. Grout; was graduated from University of Vermont, Pl. B., 1890; Ph. D., Columbia, 1897; married, 1893, Grace E. Preston; instruc- tor in Botany, Boys' High School, Brook- lyn, since 1899; editor Bryologist; author: Mosses with a Hand-Lens, and Mosses with Hand-Lens and Microscope. Ad- dress, 360 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.

GROUT, Edward M .:

Comptroller of N. Y. City; born New York, 1861; was graduated from Colgate University; admitted to the Bar, 1885. Democratic candidate for mayor of Brook- lyn, 1895;

was elected president of Borough of Brooklyn, 1897; elected comp- troller of N. Y. City on Fusion ticket, 1901, and on Tammany ticket, 1903. Resi- dence, 860 Carroll St. Brooklyn, N. Y.

GROUT, Paul:

Banker and lawyer; born New York, Dec. 20, 1866; prepared Colgate Academy, Hamilton, N. Y .; New York University, LL. B., 1894; quartermaster sergeant Troop C, U. S. Volunteers, Porto Rico Ex- pedition, Spanish-American War, 1898; second lieutenant Troop C, National Guard, N. Y., 1899; Captain Troop 6. Squadron C, N. G., N. Y., 1905; member Crescent Athletic Club, Brooklyn Club; director Sprague National Bank, U. S. Title Guarantee and Indemnity Co .; married, Nov. 3, 1897, Lily M. Moran.

189 GROWOLL, Adolph:

Editor; born New York, 1850; managing editor Publishers' Weekly; author: The Bookseller's Library and How to Use It; James Thompson: a Biographical and Bib- liographical Sketch; The Profession of Bookselling: Handbook of Practical Hintg for the Apprentice and Bookseller (2 vols.); Publishers' and other Book Ex- hibits at the World's Columbian Expos- ition; American Book Clubs, Their Be- ginnings and History and Bibliography of their publications; Book-trade Biblio-

graphy in the U. S. in

the XIXth

Century; Frederick Leypoldt: a Biographi- cal Sketch; Henry Harrisse: a Biograph- ical Sketch; Three Centuries of English Book-trade Bibliography. Address, 298 Broadway, N. Y. City.

GRUEBER, Abraham:

Lawyer; born N. Y., March 12, 1861; his father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother a Jewess. He attended Gram- mar School No. 15. At the age of thirteen, he entered a lawyer's office, and served until nineteen; then spent three years in the collection department of a dry goods house, studying law in the evenings; was admitted to the Bar three months after he came of age without having been to college or the law school. In 1883, he married Mrs. Krause, a widow with two children; he is a leader in the Republican party, and was in- fluential in measures for civic reform. Address, 152 West 95th St., N. Y. City. GUDEMAN, Alfred :

Educator; was graduated from Colum- bia University, A. B., 1883, and Universi- ty of Berlin, Ph. D., 1888 (magna cum laude). Member of Phi Beta Kappa; assistant professor of Latin in Correll University. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.

GUENTHER, Francis L .:

Brigadier General, U. S. Army (re- tired); born in and appointed from N. Y. Cadet Military Academy, July 1, 1854; brevet second lieutenant, July 1, 1859; second lieutenant, 4th Artillery, Novem- ber 2, 1859; first lieutenant, 5th Arillery, May 14, 1861; captain, July 2, 1863; major, 2d Artillery, June 26, 1882; lieutenant- colonel, 5th Artillery, July 1, 1891; colonel, 4th Artillery, June 6, 1896; brigadier- general, February 13, 1902; retired, Feb. 22, 1902. Address, 5 East 124th St., N. Y. City.

GUERBER, Helene A .:

Teacher; author. Has written: Myths of Greece and Rome; Myths of Northern

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Lands; Legends of the Rhine; Legends | Supreme Court at Washington. He was of Switzerland; Legends of the Middle Ages; Legends of the Virgin and Christ; Stories of the Wagner Operas; Stories of Famous Operas; Stories of Popu- lar Operas; Stories of the Chosen People; Story of the Greeks; Story of the Romans; Story of the English; Story of the Thirteen Colonies; Story of the Great Republic; Contes et Légendes (a method for learning French), Märchen und Erzahlungen (a method for learning German); The Empresses of France; Yourself, (a text book on physiology), and sundry French and German Texts. Address, 150 Piermont Ave., Nyack, N. Y. GUERIN, Jules:

Artist; born St. Louis, Mo., 1886; studied under Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul- Laurens. Awarded Yerkes prize medal; exhibited Paris Exposition, 1900; member American Water Color Society. Ad- dress, 139 West 55th St., N. Y. City. GUERLAC, Othon Goepp:

Educator; was graduated as Licencié ès lettres, 1893, and Licencié endroit, 1897, University Paris; instructor 1900- 04, and assistant professor of Romance Languages in Cornell University; Ameri- can correspondent of Le Temps, Paris. Address, 730 University Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.

GUERNSEY, Egbert, M. D., LL. D .:

Born Littlefield, Conn., July 8, 1823", M. D. N. Y. University, 1846; LL. D. St. Francis Xavier, 1899; city physician, Williamsburg, till 1858; professor materia medica and practical medicine in N. Y. Homeopthic Medical College; organized Western Dispensary, 1870; consulting phy- sician Hahnemann Hospital; trustee and vice-president Middletown Insane Asylum, N. Y .; was president County Medical and State Medical Society; surgeon to Sixth Regiment, National Guard, N. Y., 1864- 68; organized and edited Brooklyn Daily Times, 1840-50, and Medical Times, New York, 1872; president Metropolitan Hos- pital, Department of Public Charities. Address, 180 West 59th St., N. Y. City. GUERNSEY, Rocelus Sheridan:

Author and lawyer; born Westford, N. Y., April 10, 1836; educated in rural GUGGENHEIM, Simon: public district schools and in after years Capitalist; born Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1867; married, New York, Nov. 24, 1898, Olga Hirsh; engaged in mining and smelt- ing in the U. S. and in Mexico; now di- rector and member of the executive com- mittee of American Smelting & Refining Co .; managing director of Guggenheim Exploration Co .; director and member of by private instructors. At age of six- teen entered a newspaper printing office and followed the trade of printer until 1857; studied law from 1853 to 1857 out- side of working hours and in 1858 in a law office in Buffalo; was admitted to Bar in N. Y. City in June, 1859; in 1863, he was admitted to the Bar of the U. S. executive committee of United Lead Co .;

office attorney for the Western Union Telegraph Co. for three years; 1880-83, located in N. Y. City, more particularly in connection with the taxes and reports which were required of telegraph com- panies by law in the several states. From 1873 to 1883, he was literary editor of the N. Y. Daily Register, as the official law journal was then called, and wrote more than four hundred reviews of law books published during that time. Among his published books are Mechanic's Lien Laws (relating to N. Y. and Kings Co.), (1873); Key to Story's Equity Jurispru- dence, (1875); N. Y. City and Vicinity During the War of 1812-15, two volumes, (1889-1895); Taxation and Its Relation to Capital and Labor, (1897); Utilitarian Principles of Taxation, (1901-02); Eccle- siactical Law in Hamlet, (1885); Religious Liberty in Colonial N. Y., and many pamphlets on legal, scientific, historical and literary subjects. Has read many papers before various soeietics, and has contributed many articles to magazines and journals. Is chairman of N. Y. State Taxpayers Protective Association, and is coresponding secretary of Taxpayers Alliance of Bronx Borough; during 1881- 2 he was editor of the Journal of the Telegraph, and contributed several notable articles on telegraph matters. For nine years, 1886-94, he was attorney and counsel for the Postal-Telegraph- Cable Co., and superintendent of the bureau of Taxation of that company, and as general counsel had charge of every case in every state where that com- pany was a party. Resigining in June, 1894, he resumed private practice of the law with some attention to public mat- ters. Address, 56 Pine St., N. Y. City.

GUGGENHEIM, Daniel:

Smelter; president of Guggenheim Ex- ploration Co .; vice-president of the Fed- eral Lead Co .; director of National Bank of Commerce, Federal Lead Co. and Gug- genheim Exploration Co. Residence, 12 West 54th St .; office, 71 Broadway, N. Y. City.

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member of Lawyers and Harmonie Clubs,

New York; Progress, Denver; Pueblo Club, Pueblo; Alta Club, Salt Lake City; went to Pueblo, Colo., 1899, with his brothers; retains citizenship in Colorado and votes there regularly; Republican; nominated for lieutenant-governor by Silver-Republicans of Colo .; declined nomination, although ticket was elected; nominated by same party for governor of Colo., 1898, and endorsed by People's party, but withdrew from ticket. Resi- dence, 14 W. 54th St .; office, 71 Broad- way, N. Y. City.

GUGGENHEIMER, Randolph:

Lawyer; born Lynchburg, Va., July 20, 1848; entered law school of N. Y. Uni- versity, graduating in 1869; in 1882, he formed a partnership with his half- brothers, Isaac and Samuel Untermyer, which, by the accession of Louis Mar- shall in 1893, became Guggenheimer, Un- termyer & Marshall; this firm sprang into prominence in 1893, by negotiating for the English syndicate that consoli- dated many of the largest breweries in the U. S., and brought over $100,000,000 of foreign capital into the country; 1885, appointed a commissioner to the common schools; served nine years in this office; by his efforts caused erection of large numbers of school buildings in the city; he urged forward the plan of having a sufficient number of schools thrown open in the evening; was chairman of the

Normal College committee; . caused the establishing of the free lectures for the working people now annually delivered to 1,000,000 persons. As chairman of the committee on legislation made frequent visits to Albany both for the purpose of preventing the passage of laws calculated to injure the school system, and to pro- he mote measures which and other friends of education believed would be of benefit; among the legislative enactments due to him was the special grant of $20,- 000 for the purpose of fitting up a gym- nasium for the students of the Normal College; was the pioneer in introducing large office buildings on Broadway; he bought the site of the old New York Hotel, and erected upon it the New York Commercial Building, the largest struc- ture of its kind in the U. S. In politics he has always been a Democrat; in 1897 he was nominated for the office of Pres- ident of the Municipal Council and was elected by a large majority; during Mayor Van Wyck's temporary absences during four summers was acting mayor of

the Arion and Liederkranz Societies, of the Manhattan Club, the Lotos Club, the Democratic Club, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and about fifteen other or- ganizations of a kindred nature; married, June 16, 1875, Eliza, daughter of Ex- Commissioner Katzenberg. Address, 923 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

GUILFORD, Nathan:

Traffic manager N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R .; born Feb. 7, 1841, Cincinnati, Ohio; en- tered railway service 1859, since which he has been clerk in the freight department, scretary to president; general freight agent; and in 1881 vice-president New York and Manhattan Ry .; Oct. 1, 1887, to date traffic manager N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Address, Grand Central Station, 4th Ave. and 42d St., N. Y. City; resi- dence, Yonkers, N. 1.

GUITERAS, Daniel M .:

Surgeon U. S. N .; born Cuba; appoint- ed from Pennsylvania; assistant surgeon, June 3, 1879; passed assistant surgeon, June 3, 1882; surgeon, May 28, 1895; re- tired, October 13, 1896. Address, 108 W. 103d St., N. Y. City.

GULICK, Luther Halsey:

Director of physical training of the public schools of Greater New York; born Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, Dec. 4, 1865; preparatory work, Oberlin College, Ohio; he was graduated from Medical Depart- ment of the N. Y. University, 1889; phy- sical training, normal course, Harvard, 1885-86; physical director Y. M. C. A., Jackson, Mich., 1886; superintendent De- partment of Physical Training, Y. M. C. A. Training School, Springfield, Mass., 1SS7-1900; secretary Physical Training De- partment International Committee, Y. M. C. A., 1886-1903; editor Physical Educa- tion, 1891-96; editor Association Outlook, 1897-1900; secretary American Association for the Advancement of Physical Edu- cation, 1892-1893; principal high school of Pratt Institute, 1900-1903; director of phy- sical training of the public schools of Greater New York, 1903; editor Physical Education Review, 1901-1903; president American Physical Education Association, 1903; vice-president Y. M. C. A. Athletic League, North America, 1903; chairman Basket Ball Committee, Amateur Athletic Union of the U. S., 1895; chairman of Physical Training Committee at World's Fair, St. Louis; lecturer on Education and Physical Training. Address, 59th St. and Park Ave., N. Y. City.

GUMBLETON, Henry A .:

Lawyer and former county clerk; born N. Y. City; he is a prominent member of N. Y. City Sept. 14, 1846; educated in

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the public schools, and the Free Acad- of various mines, 1869-74; stock-broker, emy, graduating in 1863, at which time it received its present name of the Col- lege of the City of N. Y .; was admitted to the Bar in 1869; he was for years a clerk in the office of the clerk of N. Y. County, and in 1876 he was nominated by the Democratic party and elected to that office; has also served as deputy commissioner of Public Works; member of the Board of Assessors, acting as chairman of the latter; he is a member of the Tammany Society. Address, 271 Broadway, N. Y. City.

GUNNISON, Almon, D. D., LL. D .:

President St. Lawrence University, Can- ton, N. Y .; son of Rev. Nathaniel G. and Ann Louise Gunnison. He was gradu- ated from St. Lawrence University, 1868. Ordained to Universalist ministry, 1868; pastor All Souls' Universalist Church, Brooklyn, 1868-88; of First Universalist Church, Worcester, Mass., 1888-98; presi- dent of St. Lawrence University, 1898 to date. Editorial writer on Christian Lead- er; lecturer; author: Rambles Overland, (1886); Wayside and Fireside Rambles, (1890). Married, at Canton, N. Y., 1868, Ella I. Everest. Address, Canton, N. Y.

GUNNISON, Herbert F .:

Business manager of Brooklyn Eagle; born Halifax, N. S., where his father, the Rev. Nathaniel Gunnison. was U. S. con- sul. Is a graduate of St. Lawrence Un- iversity, Canton, N. Y. After experience at school teaching in Northern N. Y., he came to Brooklyn and entered the office of the Brooklyn Times; subsequently he became Albany correspondent for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, serving in that capacity for three years and going into the business office of that publication, where he has since remained. He is a director in the company and its business manager. Was one of the founders of the Hanover Club, in the Eastern District, and was its first secretary; one of the or- ganizers of the Twenty-Sixth Ward Bank. Director Nassau Trust Co., of Brooklyn, Eagle Warehouse and Storage Co .; di- rector University Club and Hanover Club, of Brooklyn. Member of Brooklyn Union League and Hamilton Clubs. Residence, 1123 Albemarle Road; office, Eagle Build- ing, Brooklyn, N. Y.

GUNTER, Archibald Clavering :

Author, playwright, publisher; born Liverpool, England, Oct. 25, 1847; came with his father, a noted theatrical man- ager, to the U. S. in 1852; educated high school and university; chemist in charge

San Francisco, 1875-86; in New York since 1877; married Nov. 8, 1886, Esther Lisbeth Burns; author of Mr. Barnes of New York; Mr. Potter of Texas; That Frenchman; Miss Nobody of Nowhere; Miss Dividends; Baron Montez of Pana- ma; A Princess of Paris and King's Stock- broker; The First of the English; Ladies' Juggernaut; Her Senator; Don Belasco of Key West; Bob Covington; Ballyho Bey; Susan Turnbull; Billy Hamilton; Jack Curzon; M. S. Bradford Special; The Fighting Troubadour; Tangled Flags; Adrienne de Portalis; Princess of Copper; The Surprises of an Empty Hotel; The Spy Company; The Conscience of A King; Phil Conway; The Man Behind the Door, etc., thirty novels in all-H22. His most successful plays are: Prince Karl; Two Nights in Rome; Fresh, The Amer- ican; The Deacon's Daughter; Mr. Barnes of New York; Mr. Potter of Texas, and My Official Wife. Summer residence, Narragansett Pier, R. I. Address, 3 E. 14th St., N. Y. City.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 72

Author: Publication date: 1904- Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc. Number of Pages: 1100

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Publication date: 1904-
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc.
Number of Pages: 1100