Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 86

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HUNTER, John:

Widely known as one of the leaders of the turf in America; born Hunter's Is- land, Westchester County, N. Y., Feb. 27, 1833, his place of birth being the es- tate and mansion of his grandfather, who was one of the leading men in the State politics of N. Y. and a member of the State Senate. His father was Elias Des- brosses Hunter, and his mother was Ann Munro, a daughter of Peter J. Munro, sec- retary of legation for John Jay when he went to Spain as U. S. minister in 1780. He received his education for the most part from private tutors, the only excep- tion to this being six months of study in the grammar school of Columbia College; after completing his schooling he made no effort to engage in business, professional or public life; the heir to a valuable es- tate, he had no desire or occasion to engage in avocations of this character, and found the care of the property con- fided to his charge sufficient employment

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to keep him engaged; public life has HUNTINGTON, Daniel.

never had any attractions for him. Demo- cratic in his political views, he has avoid- ed any marked activity in political affairs or aspiration for office, the only position to which he was ever elected by the peo- ple being that of presidential elector in 1884 for New York State in the election of Grover Cleveland; outside of his per- sonal property and business interests his chief occupation has been in connection with the turf, with the progress of which in America he has been identified since 1856, and has done much towards the de- velopment of the Amercan thoroughbred horse and aided in freeing the race- course from the evils which early sur- rounded it; he succeeded August Belmont as president of the Jockey Club; this po- sition he resigned in Dec., 1894, and was succeeded in it by August Belmont, Jr .; was also chairman of the Board of Control until it went out of existence; married Miss Annie Middleton, daughter of Henry A. Middleton, of South Caro- lina, and has had a family of eight chil- dren. Address, 308 West 125th St., N. Y. City.

HUNTER, Robert:

Sociologist ; born Terre Haute, Indiana, 1874; was graduated from the University of Indiana, A. B., 1896. In Chicago, Mr. Hunter was chairman of the Tenement In- quiry Committee, superintendent Municipal Lodging, resident of Hull-House, etc. In N. Y., Headworker University Settlement. chairman Child Labor Committee, presi- dent Social Reform Club, etc. Married Caroline M. Phelps Stokes, May 23, 1903. Author: Tenement Conditions in Chicago ; Charity Organization and Social Settle- ments; Child Labor; Poverty. Address, Highland Farm, Noroton, Conn .; 88 Grove St., N. Y. City.

HUNTINGTON, Archer Milton.

Author; born New York, March 10, 1870; educated in New York and Spain ; honorary A. M., Yale University. Author : A Note Book in Northern Spain. Editor: Index Librorum Reprobatorum; The Poem of the Cid. Member Chamber of Com- merce, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amer- ican Museum Natural History, N. Y. Zo- ölogical Society, N. Y. Botanical Gardens, American Geological Society, American Numismatic and Archæological Society and the New York Yacht, New York Ath- letic, Automobile Club of America, Grolier, Players, National Arts, Authors, City, Yale Clubs. Address, Pleasance, Bay - chester, N. Y.

Artist; born New York, Oct. 14, 1816; educated Hamilton College; studied under Samuel F. B. Morse. Academician since 1840; president of National Academy of Design, with exception of seven years, 1862-91. His work comprises besides a number of historical paintings and land- scapes the portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Van Buren, Albert Gallatin; Gen- erals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Ad- miral Dupont, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Harri- son, Louis Agassiz, John Sherman, Wil- liam Cullen Bryant; vice-president of Metropolitan Museum of Art. Academi- cian of National Academy of Design; member N. Y. Historical Society, N. Y. Public Library, American Geological So- ciety, and the Century Club. Address, 49 East 20th St., N. Y. City.

HUNTINGTON, Emily:

Educator, writer; born Lebanon, Conn., Jan. 3, 1841; daughter Dan and Emily Wilson Huntington. In 1872 in charge of Wilson Industrial School for girls, N. Y. City; was first to organize Boys' Club, kitchen garden and centres for teaching cookery to the children in the U. S. Author: Kitchen Garden, Child's Kitchen Garden Primer, Introductory Cooking Lessons, Cooking Garden, Little House- keeper, How to Teach Kitchen Garden. Address, United Charities Building, N. Y. City.

HUNTINGTON, Frederic Dan:

Bishop; born Massachusetts, 1819; edu- cated at Hopkins Academy and Amherst College, where he was graduated as vale- dictorian in 1839; he then studied in the divinity school of Harvard University, and in 1842 became pastor of the South Con- gregational Church of Boston; in March, 1860, he was confirmed in the Episcopal Church, at Cambridge, and ordained dea- con in Sept .; called to Emanuel Parish, where he was in charge for nine years; elected bishop by the diocese of Central New York, 1868; consecrated in Boston, 1869; has written many pamphlets, ser- mons, orations and addresses. His most important writings are: Sermons for the People, Christ in the Christian Year, the Grahame Lectures, Brooklyn, the Bohlen Lectures, Philadelphia, Personal Relig- ious Life in the Ministry, and Helps to a Holy Lent. He holds the degrees of S. T. D. and LL. D. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.

HUNTINGTON, H. E .:

President Pacific Electric Ry. Co., Los Angeles Ry. Co, and Los Angeles Inter- Urban Ry: Co .; director of Newport News

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Shipbuilding & D. D. Co., Newport News and was graduated from Cornell Univer- Light & Water Co .; Old Dominion Land sity, B. S., 1872. Early in life engaged in Co., International Banking Corporation, Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, Pacific Steel the lumber business. He was a member of the Assembly, 1878-81. Republican. Member of State Committee. Member of Buffalo and University Clubs and Library Association. Thirty-second De- gree Mason. Member of Merchants and Builders Exchanges. Director, Lancaster Brick Yard Co. Residence, Elma, N. Y .; office, Buffalo, N. Y. & Wire Co., Minneapolis & St. Louis Ry. Co., Iowa Central Ry. Co., Toledo, St. Louis & Western Ry. Co., International Banking Corporation, Farmer and Merch- ants' National Bank of Los Angeles, Cal., Occidental and Oriental Steamship Co., Colorado & Southern Ry., and about forty other corporations. Member of the Union HURD, Matthew: League, Metropolitan, Mid-day and City Clubs. Residence, Oneonta, N. Y. ; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City.

HUNTINGTON, William Reed, D.D .:

Clergyman; born Lowell, Mass., Sept. 20, 1838; son of Elisha Huntington, M. D .; was graduated from Harvard College, 1859; rector of All Saints' Church, Wor- cester, Mass .. 1862-83; since then rector of Grace Church. Address, 804 Broad- way, N. Y. City.

HUNTLEY, Charles R .:

Second vice-president and general man- ager Buffalo General Electric Co .; born West Winfield, N. Y., Oct. 12, 1853; edu- cated in public schools of Utica, N. Y .; entered business in the employ of the Standard Oil Co. In Dec., 1877, at Brad- ford, Pa .; member of School Board three terms, 1881; member of city government, two terms, 1882; entered the brokerage business, 1883; left Bradford. 1888; ac- cepted position with Brush Electric Co. at that time; it consolidated in 1893 and is now known as the Buffalo General Elec- tric Co., of which he is vice-president and general manager. Vice-president and general manager of the Cataract Power and Conduit Co., an organization which has the distribution of Niagara Falls power; member of park board. City of Buffalo, one term; vice-president Peo- ples Bank; treasurer Buffalo & Niagara Falls Electric Light & Power Co., and of the International Acheson Graphite Co .; vice-president of the Western N. Y. Water Co. President National Electric Light Association. He is a member of Buffa - lo Press, Country, Park and Ellicott Clubs; in politics was a Democrat until 1896, since which time Republican; mar- ried Miss Ida L. Richardson, 1878. Ad- dress, Buffalo, N. Y. .

HURD, Harvey Jetson:

Vice-president of Buffalo Planing Mill Co. President of Lumber Exchange of Buffalo. Director of Buffalo Loan, Trust and Safe Deposit Co .; born Feb. 28, 1849, Elma, N. Y .; prepared at Buffalo Academy

Republican Assemblyman, representing Rockland County; born Stony Point, N. Y .; was educated in the public schools and in Paine's Business College. Early in life Mr. Hurd became connected with the mercan- tile business of Stony Point and has been identified with it ever since. He has been active in county and town politics all his life, having been honored with various offi- clal positions in his home town, particular -. ly that of town clerk for four successive terms. Nominated for the Assembly by the Republican party in 1903, after a vig- orous campaign in a Democratic strong- hold. In 1904 Mr. Hurd was a member of the following Assembly Committees : Elec- tricity, Gas and Water Supply, Soldiers' Home, and Trades and Manufactures ; re- nominated to the Assembly in 1904. Ad- dress, Stony Point, N. Y.

HUSON, Calvin J .:

Lawyer; born Jan. 30, 1855, Barring- ton, N. Y .; educated at Dundee and Penn Yan Academes; admitted to the Bar, 1876. Chairman of Democratic County Committee. Member of Assembly, 1890. Journal Clerk of Assembly, 1891.

Deputy State Comptroller, 1892-94. Address, Penn Yan., N. Y.

HUSTON, Joseph F .:

Colonel. U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York; was graduated from the Military Academy and promoted to second lieutenant. June, 1873; on front- ier duty at Fort Ripley, Minn., 1873 to 1877; at Fort Brown, Tex., 1877 to June, 1881; promoted first lieutenant, June 28, 1878; was on frontier duty in Kansas, 1882; at Fort Reno, I. T., 1883; at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to May, 1885, and at Fort Assinniboine, Mont., 1885; captain, July 15, 1890; major Nineteenth Infantry, May 5, 1899; lieutenant-colonel, First In- fantry, April 15, 1902; transferred to Nine- teenth Infantry, June 26, 1902; colonel. Nineteenth Infantry, 1903. Address, Van- couver Barracks, Wash.

HUTCHINSON, John Irwin:

Educator; graduate of Bates College,

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A. B., 1889, and Chicago University, Ph. | Sixty-second New York Infantry, Jan. 3, D., 1896. Member of Sigma Xi Fraternity; associate editor of Transactions of the American Mathematical Society ; married ; assistant professor of mathematics in Cor- nell University. Residence, Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N. Y.

HUTTON, Frederick Remsen:

Professor mechanical engineering, Co- lumbia; born New York, May 28, 1853; was graduated from Columbia, 1873; E. M., 1876; Ph. D., 1882 ; Sc. D., 1904 ; mar- ried 1878, Grace Lefferts ; prepared census monographs for government, 1880-82 ; ed- itor Engineering Magazinc, 1892; John- son's Encyclopedia, 1893. Author : Me- chanical Engineering of Power Plants ; Heat and Heat Engines ; The Gas Engine, 1904; Machine Tools (U. S. Census, 1880). Member: American Society Mechanical Engineers, (secretary), American Insti- tute Mining Engineers, National Geologi- cal Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Museum of Natural History. Clubs: Century, Engineers. Ad- dress, 319 W. 107th St., N. Y. City.

HUTTON, Mancius Holmes, D. D .:

Clergyman of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America; son of the late Man- cius Smedes Hutton, D. D., and Gertrude (Holmes) Hutton; born New York, 1837; educated in the private school of Profes- sor Robert M. Brown; graduated at the University of the City of N. Y., 1857; studied theology in the theological sem- inaries of the city and at New Bruns- wick, N. J .; first settlement was in the Reformed Church of Mount Vernon. N. Y., thence was called to the pastorate of the Second Reformed Church at New Brunswick, N. J., which he has now served for about twenty-five years; was president of the General Synod, 1886, and has been president of its board of foreign missions the last nine years; is also chap- lain of the N. Y. State Society of the Cin- cinnati and one of the chaplains-general of the general Society of the Cincinnati; Author: many contributions to theological reviews and other periodicals. Residence, 26 Union St., New Brunswick, N. J .; office, 25 East 22d St., N. Y. City.

HUXFORD, William P .:

Major, U. S. Army; born New York; appointed from New York, civil life; re- tired; private and corporal, Company D, Fourth Michigan Infantry, June 10, 1861, to Aug. 15, 1862; private Company B, and sergeant major, One Hundred and Sixty- second New York Infantry, Sept. 6, 1862. to Jan. 3, 1863; captain, One Hundred and

1863; honorably mustered out, Oct. 12, 1865; captain, Forty-second U. S. Infan- try, July 28, 1866; retired, Sept. 10, 1868. disability resulting from wound in line of duty; brevet rank, brevet major, March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious ser- vice in the assault on Port Huron, La .; he has been for many years recorder of the District of Columbia Commandery of the Loyal Legion. Address, 204 W. Fayette St., Baltimore, Md.

HYATT, Abram M .:

Director of Lincoln Trust Co., Madison Safe Deposit Co., Standard Gas Co., N. Y. and Queens Electric Light and Power Co., The Securities Co., Strong Machinery and Supply Co., United Gas and Electric Co. Address, 208 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

HYDE, James H:

Vice-president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States ; son of Henry B. Hyde, the founder and late president of the society; born New York, June 6, 1876; he is a graduate of Harvard University of the class of 1898; on Nov. 2, 1898, he was elected second vice-president of the society, and on May 10, 1899, elected vice-president. Is pres- ident of the Alliance Francais; gave $30,- 000 to the Cercle Francaise of Harvard for the promotion of study of French lit- erature, and the French government has recognized liis munificence by conferring on him the cross of the Legion of Honor ; vice-president Mercantile Safe Deposit Co., National Bank of Commerce, Coney Island & Brooklyn R. R. Co., and an officer in many other companies. Member of Union, University, Metropolitan, Har- vard, Coaching, and other clubs. Res- idence, 9 East 40th St .; office, 120 Broad- way, N. Y. City.

HYDE, John McE .:

Brigadier-general, U. S. Army; born New York, Nov. 1, 1841; appointed from New York, civil life; private, Company A, Seventy-first N. Y. S. M., June 16, 1861; discharged. July 30, 1861; second lieuten- ant, Thirty-eighth New York Infantry, Jan. 11. 1862; first lieutenant, Nov. 1, 1862; honorably mustered out Jan. 22, 1863; first lieutenant, Thirty-eighth N. Y.

Infantry, June 29, 1863; honorably mus- tered out, Oct. 14, 1863; first lieu-

Thirty-ninth N . Y. Infantry, tenant

Dec. 22, 1863; lieutenant colonel, Jan.

27, 1865; honorably mustered out, May 15. 1865; second lieutenant, Thirty- third Infantry, Sept. 3, 1867; transferred to Eighth Infantry, May 3, 1869; first

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lieutenant, March 26, 1878; captain and trustee of Onondaga County Savings Bank ; assistant quartermaster, Oct., 1889; re- president Associated Charities of the City of Syracuse; was the first commissioner of jurors appointed for Onondaga County ; is a member of the governing board of the State Normal School at Cortland; owner of extensive library, including many rare and early editions. Address, Syracuse, N. Y .; summer residence, Skaneateles, N. Y. HYDE, Walter Woodburn: signed jine commission, Dec. 16, 1889. Brevet rank, brevet lieutenant colonel Volunteers for gallant and meritorious services at battle of Cold Harbor, Va., colonel Volunteers for gallant and merit- orious services in front of Petersburg, Va., engaged in the first battle of Bull Run, Va., (wounded); engaged at the siege of Yorktown, second battle of Bull Educator and archæologist; born May 14, 1870, Ithaca, N. Y .; was graduated from Ithaca High School, 1888, and Cor- nell University, A. B., 1893; he then at- tended American School of Classical Stud- ies at Athens, Greece, 1898-99; sub-master 1895-98, and Head Master, 1899-1900, Run (wounded) ; Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; engaged in the action of Morton's Ford, battles of the Wilder- ness, action of Po River, battles of Spott- sylvania Court House, North Anna, Tolo- potomy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Farmville, and capitulation of Appomattox Court House, Va .; major quartermaster, July 13, 1899; lieutenant colonel, 1903. Brigadier General July 9. 1904. Retired after 40 years service, July 10, 1904. Address, The Judson, Washing- ton Square, N. Y. City.

HYDE, Miles Goodyear:

Physician, author; born Cortland, N. Y .; son of Frederick and Elvira (Goodyear) Hyde; after preparing for college at Cort- land Academy entered Yale in 1861, grad- uating 1865; in charge of the academy at Moravia, N. Y., 1866-67; was graduated from Geneva Medical College in 1868, and received A. M. from Yale the same year; began medical practice in Cortland; married at Solon, N. Y., June 30. 1870, Julia Elizabeth Boyd; demonstrator of anatomy, 1872-74; professor of internal anatomy, 1874-78 in College of Medicine, Syracuse University; president of Cort- land County Medical Society in 1875; re- elected in 1876; delegate to American Medical Association, 1876; for a number of years, surgeon to Elmira, Cortland & Northern R. R .; removed to N. Y. City in 1888. Author of numerous stories and articles contributed to current literature; also of the novel, Mary Markham, pub- lished in New York, 1903. Address, 68 West 107th St., N. Y. City.

HYDE, .Salem:

Merchant and bibliophile; born near Westbury, N. Y., June 22, 1846; son of Elisha H. and Ellen Botsford Hyde; de- scendant of Captain Ebenezer Botsford, of Connecticut Volunteers in the Revolution- IDE, Mrs. Fannie Ogden ("Ruth Og- den") : ary War. Married Anne Cheney, daughter of Timothy C. Cheney, one of the early Author : born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1853; daughter of Jonathan Ogden; is of colonial descent; educated at George C. Brackett's School, Brooklyn ; was a pioneers and builders of Syracuse; came to Syracuse in 1864. Jan. 1, 1879, became member of the firm of Sperry, Neal and Hyde, wholesale dry goods merchants ; was | contributor of poems and prose to maga- I

Northampton High School, Mass .; at- tended Universities of Göttingen, Frie- burg and Halle-Wittenberg in Germany, and University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1900-02, taking his degrees of A. M., and Ph. D. at Halle in 1902; member of Am- erican Archæological Institute, American Philological Association and Head Mas- ters Club of Western Mass .; author of De Olympionicarum Statius a Pausania Commemoratis, Halle, 1903. Address,

Ithaca, N. Y.

HYDE, William Henry:

Artist, painter; born New York, Jan. 29, 1858; son of John James Hyde; was graduated from Columbia College, 1877; studied painting in Paris under Boul- anger, Lefebvre, Doucet and Harrison; married New York, 1894, Mary Potter; member Society of American Artists; As- sociate National Academy of Design. Address, 105 East 61st St., N. Y. City.

HYSLOP, James Hervey.

Professor logic and ethics, Columbia; born Xenia, O., Aug. 18, 1854; son of Rob- ert Hyslop; was graduated from Wooster, O., University, 1877; Ph. D., Johns Hop- kins. 1887; married, 1891, Mary Fry Hall, Philadelphia. Author: Elements of Logic; Ethics of Hume; Elements of Ethics; De- mocracy; Logic and Argument; Syllabus of Psychology; also publications in the Proceedings of Society for Psychical Re- search. Address, 519 W. 149th St., N. Y. City.

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zines previous to the publication of her IHLSENG, Magnus C .:

first book; married Charles W. Ide in 1875 ; is a writer of juvenile stories. Au- thor of His Little Royal Highness (1887) ; A Loyal Little Red Coat (1890) ; Courage (1894) : Little Homespun (1896) ; A Lit- tle Queen of Hearts (1898); Tattine (1900) ; Loyal Hearts and True (1900) ; Friendship (1903). Address, 43 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

IDE, George E .:

President of the Home Life Insurance Company of New York; born Brooklyn, N. Y., May 10, 1860; educated at the Col- legiate and Polytechnic Institute of that city and Yale University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1881; was with the large banking house of Dominick & Dickerman, of New York, from the time of leaving college until 1890, when he was appointed secretary of the Home Life; two years later was elected vice-president, and on May 1, 1894, succeeded to the presi- dency of the company ; is a director of the Colonial Trust Co., Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, the Corn Exchange Bank, Grand Central Branch; President and Director of the Larchmont National Bank; also a member of the University, New York Yacht, Yale, Larchmont Yacht Clubs and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. Address, Larchmont Manor, N. Y.

IDE, George Elmore:

Rear-Admiral U. S. Navy ; born Zanes- ville, O .; sent to Naval Academy in 1861; in the summers of 1862 and 1864, while a midshipman, cruised after Confederate steamers Tallahassee and Florida; in 1870 went to Greenland on Juniata in search of Polaris survivors, and the same year took Virginius filibusterers from Santiago, Cuba, to New York; served on various ships, including the Kenosha, which, in 1871, escorted the English battleship Mon- arch to Portland, Me., carrying remains of George Peabody, philanthropist ; com- manded the U. S. steamer Justin off Santi- ago, during Spanish War; took U. S. steamer Yosemite to Guam in 1899, carry- ing governor of island, and surveyed the harbor in view of making it a cable and coaling station ; in 1900 commanded U. S. steamship New Orleans on Manila sta- tion; thence to Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., as Captain of Yard until retired as Rear-Admiral, on Sept. 26, 1901, after forty years service. Member of Metropoli- tan, City, N. Y. Athletic and N. Y. Yacht Clubs, and the Sons of the American Revo- lution. Address, 1128 Madison Ave., N. Y. City,

Mechanical engineer; born Christiana, Norway, May 2, 1852; came to U. S. in childhood ; received early education in pre- paratory schools of New York; was gradu- ated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1872 ; School of Mines, Columbia Col- lege, in 1875, degrees C. E., E. M., Ph.D .; was professor of engineering, School of Mines, at Golden, Colo .; Dean School of Mines, Pennsylvania State College; at present at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; member American Institute of Mining En- gineers. Author of Manual of Mining; is a contributor to engineering journals. Ad- dress, 12 Hampton Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.

ILES, George:

Author; born Gibraltar, June 20, 1852; was educated in common schools of Mon- treal ; twelve years has advocated "the ap- praisal of literature," by engaging the most trustworthy authorities to choose the best books and say about each the word of description and criticism most helpful to readers and students; edited (with R. R. Bowker), The Readers' Guide on Econ- omic, Social and Political Science, and (with Mrs. Augusta H. Leypoldt), a list of books for girls and women and their clubs ; gave ten thousand dollars to Ameri- can Library Association for cost guide to American History, 4,100 words chosen and appraised by forty critics; edited Little Masterpieces of Science (6 vols.) Address, Park Ave. Hotel, N. Y. City.

INGALLS, Charles Russell:

Jurist; born Greenwich, N. Y., 1819; studied law at Greenwich under the in- struction of his father; was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court in 1844 and formed a partnership with his father; in 1860 he moved to Troy and became a part- ner with David L. Seymour under the name of Seymour and Ingalls. In 1863 was elected as justice of the Supreme Court in the third judicial district ; 1870, became a member of the Court of Appeals ; in 1871 Mr. Ingalls was elected Justice of Supreme Court and held that office for fourteen years without opposition ; 1885, again nominated and elected for a term of fourteen years; retired from the bench Jan. 1, 1890. Address, Troy, N. Y.

INGALLS, Roscoe K .:

Lawyer; secretary and director Read- ing, Lancaster & Baltimore R. R. Co. (consolidated) ; counsel director Allston Foundry Co., Composite Pulley and Clutch Co .; director Asbestalitte Manufacturing Co., National Brake Shoe Co. Residence,

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Englewood, N. J .; office, 29 Broadway, N. dress, American Bible Society, Astor Pl., N. Y. City.

Y. City.

INGERSOLL, Edward Payson:

Clergyman; born Lee, Mass., May 6, 1834; son of William and Samantha (Bas- sett) Ingersoll, and a descendant of John Ingersoll, who emigrated from England to Salem, Mass., in 1629; was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio and at Williams College, Massachusetts, being graduated at Williams' College in 1855 ; three years later received the degree of A. M. from Williams, and in 1859 an LL.B. from the Ohio State and Union Law College, and D. D. from Williams College in 1877. From 1859 to 1862 practiced law with William J. Boardman in Cleveland. In the latter year he was licensed to preach by the Cleveland Conference of the Con- gregational Church, and afterwards pur- sued his studies at the Theological Semin- ary, in Andover, Mass .; in Dec., 1863, he received full ordination as pastor of the Congregational Church of Sandusky, O .; in 1867 went to Indianapolis and became pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, serving there until Jan., 1870, when he was called to the Middle Re- formed Church of Brooklyn, N. Y .; after thirteen years became pastor of the Puri- tan Congregational Church in the same city, where he remained for nine years and then accepted a call to the Park Congre- gational Church, St. Paul, Minn .; in 1897 returned to Brooklyn and assumed the pastorate of the Immanuel Congregational Church, which was formed under his lead- ership by the union of the Rochester Ave- nue and Patchen Avenue Churches in 1898. For many years before he removed to St. Paul and since his return he has been identified with the work of the American Bible Society upon one of its largest com- mittees. In 1901 was elected correspond- ing secretary ; in 1882, while still pastor of the Middle Reformed Church in Brooklyn, was chosen president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, which convened at Schenectady; member of the New England Society of N. Y. and of Brooklyn; of the Sons of the Revolution ; of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Union League of Brooklyn. While residing in St. Paul he was appointed chaplain upon the Governor's staff with the rank of Colo- nel; he married, Sept. 11, 1860, Julia, daughter of Tracy R. De Forest, of Cleve- land, O., and on Oct. 25, 1866, Helen Elizabeth, daughter of Henry W. Abbot, of Andover, Mass. He has two daughters, both the children of his first wife. Ad-

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 86

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