Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 9

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New Security and and the York


Trust Co., January, 1884 appointed by Governor Cleveland commissioner in charge of the construction of the new ('roton Aqueduct; took active part in cam- paign of General Hancock for the Pres- idency, and after Hancock's defeat called meeting at the Brunswick Hotel, at which a committee of one hundred was ap- pointed and the County Democracy or- ganized; although he has voted with Tam- many Hall, he has opposed its methods; has shown no ambition for political po- sition, and has several times refused nominations for city offices and for Con- gress; married Miss Roman, of Hagers- town, Maryland, who died; he is now vice- president of the Manhattan Club and con- nected with other social and political in- stitutions of the city. Address, 43 Worth St., N. Y. City.


BALDWIN, Edwin:


Imwyer; born March 23, 1847, Jersey City, N. J .; educated at Hamilton Col- lege; member of Psi Upsilon Frater- nity, University and Reform Clubs, City Bar Association, American Geographical Society, Fine Arts Association and Metro- politan Museum of Art. Residence, 253 WVest 42d St .; office, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City.


BALDWIN, Elbert Francis:


Editor; born Cleveland, O., March 10. 1857; son of Elbert Irving and Jeannette (Sterling) Baldwin; graduate of Williams College, 1884, A. M., 1887; post-graduate studies University Berlin; married, Nov. 23, 1892, Mary, daughter U. S. Senator Washburn, Minneapolis; was connected with The Independent, N. Y., Mail &


Lawyer; born Jan. 23. 1838, N. Y. City; was graduated from Rutgers College, 1856, and Columbia Law School, 1860; Trustee of New York Society Library; member of Delta Phi Fraternity, Univer- sity and Union Clubs, City Bar Asso- ciation, New York Historical and St. Nicholas Societies, Grolier Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Down Town, Century, and Rut- gers College Alumni Associations. Res- idence, 15 East 4Sth St .; office, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.


BALDWIN, Helen :


Physician; born Canterbury, Conn., Nov. 14. 1865; graduate of Wellesley Col- loge, 18SS, Women's Medical College of the N. Y. City Infirmary, 1892; is attend- ing physician to the N. Y. City Infirmary. for Women and Children. Address, 53 Fast 20th St., N. Y. City.


BALDWIN, Henry de Forest:


Lawyer; born Nov. 7, 1862; son of Sim- eon and Mary S. (Marvin) Baldwin; was graduated from Yale, 1885, and Columbia Law School, 1887; married in 1890, to Jes- sie Pinney. Address, 49 Wall St., N. Y. City.


BALDWIN, James:


Author and educator; born Hamilton County, Indiana, Dec. 15, 1841; had few school advantages, but was chicfly self- taught through observation and reading; began teaching at 21, and served an ad- vantageous apprenticeship in the country schools of his native county; for eight- een years served as superintendent of graded school systems in four Indiana cities; in 1887, accepted position with Harper & Brothers, New York, as ed- itor of school books in their educational department; from 1890 to 1893 was assis- tant editor of Ilarper's periodicals; in 1894 became connected with the editorial department of the American Book Com- pany, where he still remain; in 1882, he wrote An Introduction to the Study of English Literature (2 vols.), in recogni-


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tion of which he received the degree of uate of Lafayette College, 185S. A. M., Ph. D. from De Pauw University, Indi- 1851; Med. Dopt. Yale University, 1861; ana; he has since written many books, married Blanche Chandler Bellem, of among which the following niny be men- Halifax, N. S., Bro iklyn, Sept 1, 1877; Sur- goon U. S. vols., 1 62-5; then began pri- vote practice tioned: The Story of Siegfried, The Stery of Roland, The Book Lover, A Story of in Brooklyn; Inspector Health Dept., Brooklyn, 1870-71; Repub- lienn, Medical Superintendant Sanita- rium, 1800-00; Fellow American Academy of Medicine singe 1575; member G. A. R. Republican League; has written various articles on hygienic subjects. Address, 21 Third St., Brooklyn, N. Y. the Golden Age, The Horde Fair, Guide to Systematic Readings in the Encyclo- pedia Britannica, Old Greck Stories, Fairy Stories and Fables, Fifty Famous Stories, Old Stories of the East, Four Great Amer- Icans, Barnes's Elementary History of the United States, Discovery of the Old Northwest, Conquest of the Old North- BALDWIN, William Delavan: west, Harper's Readers (5 vols. ), Har- President of the Otis Electric Co. ; and vier president of the First National per's School Speakers (2 vols.). Bald- win's Readers (S vols), Industrial Pri- Bank of Yonkers, Otis Elevating Ry. Co .. mary Arithmetic, Six Centuries of En- glish Poetry, The Book of Elgies, The Cet kill and Tannersville R. R. Co. and N. J. Galvanizing Co .; member of Calu- Wonder Book of Horses, Abriham Lin- met, Union League, Lawyers, Engineers. coln: a True Life (1904; Hero Tales told N. Y. Athletic, Racquet and Tennis, Ful in School, etc .; Mr. Baldwin has edited ton and Adirondack League Clubs, Ards- or otherwise assisted in the making of luy Casino, Aldine Association, Cham fully half of the school readers now used her of Commerce and New York Geo- in the United States. Address, 100 Wash- ington Square, N. Y. City.


BALDWIN, James Dixon Roman:


Lawyer; graduate of Harvard College, 1591; member of Harvard, Knlekerbocker, and Meadow Brook Hunt Clubs, and Col- umbia University Alumni Association. Residence, 149 West 57th St .; office, 11 Broadway, N. Y. City.


BALDWIN, Leroy W .:


President and director of Empire State Trust Co., Rutland and Wood tock R. R. Co., New York Mail and New paper Transportation Co .; born Rutland, Ver- mont, Oct. 31st, 1865; educated in priblic and private schools in Vermont; son of Mr. and Mrs. Warner H. Baldwin, of Rut- land, Vt .; married to Ettie Lucile Field, of N. Y. City; director of Manhattan In- troduction Co .; director of the National Automatic Weighing Machine Co., man- aging director of American Automatic Weighing Machine Co. (limited), of En- gland; director of Corporate Securities Co., Florida Palmetto Co., Hall Signal Co., New Amsterdam Casaulty Co., N. J. & Staten Island Junction R. R., Oppen- heimer Institute, Phenix National Bank, TT. S. Title Guarantee and Indemnity Co., and director Altra Indemnity Co., Tubular Despatch Co., American Finance & Securities Co. Address, 42 Broadway, N. Y. City.


BALDWIN, Neilson Abeel:


Physician; born Brooklyn, Feb. 28, 1839; son . of Rev. John Abeel and Elizabeth Elmendorf (Van Kleeck) Baldwin; grad-


graphical Society. Residence, 14 W. 6Sth St .; office, 17 Battery Place, N. Y. City. BALDWIN, William Henry, Jr .:


Rtallroad President; born Boston, Feb. 5, 1563; his father is Willlam Hen- ry Baldwin, well known for thirty-five years past as president of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union; after :L preparatory course in the Boston public schools and the Roxbury Latin School, he enter d Harvard University, from which he was graduated in 1995; he spent one year at Harvard Law School and in IS 6 went West beginning his career in prac- tical railroading as a clerk in the Union Pacific Railroad office at Omaha, Neb .; prior to June 1, 1SS8, he was division freight agent of the Union Pacific Ry. at Butte, Mont .; June 1558, to Feb., ISSO, assistant general freight agent same road at Omaha, Neb .; in Feb., 1889


he became manager of


the Leaven- worth division of the Union Pacific at Leavenworth, Kan .; he then filled the office of general manager of the Montana Union Ry. and was for a short time president; until June, 1891, he was assistant vice-president Union Pacific Ry. Omaha, Neb. ; 1891 to


1834, general manager of the Flint


& Pere Marquette R. R .; of the Southern Ry, was third vice-president 1894 to 1895, becoming its second vice- president in 1896; on Oct. 1, 1896, he was elected president of the Long Island R. R. Co., an office which he still holds; he . is connected with the following


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companies as


director: Long Island [ EALL, George Harvey :


R. R. Co. and its associated lines:


The Interburban Street Ry. Co., the Metropolitan Securities Co., Corn Ex- change Bank, American


Surety Cơ., the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island R. R. Co., and trustee and member of the Finance Committee of the Equita- ble Life; his clubs are the University, Harvard, Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, and Lawyers; he is trustee of Smith Col- lege, and is interested in Southern educa- tional institutions, being a trustee of the Tuskogee Normal and Industrial Institute and the Southern Educational Board; and chairman of


the General


Education Board; Mr. Baldwin married at Spring- field, Mass., Oct. 30, 1889, Miss Ruth Standish Bowles, daughter of the late Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican. Address, 85 Cedar St., N. Y. City.


BALDWIN, William James (St. John) :


Mechanical Engineer, editor; born June 14, 1844, on shipboard; birth recorded at Waterford, Ireland; son of Capt. John and Joanna Cathrina (San Giovanni) Bald- win; educated at Boston and Charlottes- town, P. E. I .; education directed to arch- itecture and engineering; engaged in na- val construction during Civil War; mem- ber American Society Civil Engineers, Am. Society Mechanical Engineers; asso- ciated member American Institute Arch- itects; associated editor Engineering Re- cord, 1881-90; clubs: Union League, Brook- lyn. Author: Steam Heating for Build- ings, Hot Water Heating and Fitting, Baldwin on Heating, Data for Heating and Ventilation, An Outline of Ventilat- ing and Warming, The Ventilation of the School Room. Residence, 151 Halsey St., Brooklyn; office, 107 W. 17th St., N. Y. City.


BALL, A. Brayton, M. D .:


Born New York, Feb. 10, 1840; A. B., Yale, 1860; M. D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., 1863; house staff, New York Hospital, 1863-65; lecturer at College of Physicians and Surgeons,. 1870- 76; visiting physician, Bellevue Hospital, 1885-88; attending physician, New York llospital, 1888 to present; consulting phy- sician to St. Luke's and General Mem- orial Hospitals; professor of clinical med- icine at Columbia; member Academy of Medicine, County Medical Society and Medical and Surgical Society; honorary member of Association of American Phy- sicians. Address, 42 W. 36th St., N. Y. City.


President Keuka College; born Sher- brooke, P. Q., Canada, Dec. 7, 1819; he is of old New England ancestry; edu- cation received at Farmington Academy and Grand River Institute, Ohio; ecclesi- astical education at Cobb Divinity School, Lewiston, Me .; 1848-50, in charge of Geauga Seminary, Ohio; 1850-55, pastor of Hudson Street Baptist Church, Buffalo; 1855-57 of Roger Williams Church, Provi- dence, R. I .; 1857-71, pastor at Buffalo; 1871-1877, edited Baptist Union, in N. Y. City; 1892, founded Keuka College, and has since been president; the present status of the college is about as follows: Over fifty dwelling houses have been erected; a fine college settlement formed; an electric railway from Penn Yan to Branchport, a distance of eight miles, running through the college settlement. built; a telephone company organized; a steamboat dock constructed; a system of water works planted; a money order post office established; an endowment of over $150,000 raised; an excellent library and good supply of apparatus gathered; a most excellent college faculty engaged; and, best of all, hundreds of young peo- ple educated and sent forth; president of the Ball International Union, Author of Guide to the Lord's Supper, The Story of Jesus, Christian Baptism, Bible Syl- labus. Address, Keuka Park, N. Y.


BALL, Howard, J .:


General eastern passenger agent for Delaware, Lackawanna and Western R. R .; office at Buffalo, N. Y .; born May 23, 1852, at Philadelphia; entered railway service, 1863, as office boy with Cattawis- sa R. R., since which time he has been consecutively, 1873 to 1886, traveling pas- senger agent for New York, Lake Erie and Western R. R. at Philadelphia, Penr ..; 1886 to 1887, division passenger agent same road Elmira, N. Y .; 1887 to 1889, general western passenger agent for Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western R. R., office at Buffalo, N. Y .; Aug. 1, 1889, to date, general eastern passenger agent same road at New York. Office address, 429 Broadway, N. Y. Clty.


BALL, Thomas:


Sculptor; born Charlestown, Mass., June 3, 1819; educated, Mayhew School, Bos- ton; received honorary degree of A. M., Dartmouth, 1860; married, Oct. 10. 1854, Ellen Louisa Wild; devoted himself to painting, 1840-52, then exclusively to sculpture; most notable works are Wash- ington in Boston; statue of Daniel Web-


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ster, Central Park; Washington, Methuen, ident of P. Ballantine & Sons; vice- Mass., which were executed in Florence, Italy, where he resided for many years; Honorable Fellow National Sculptors' So- ciety; member Society of American Au- thors, Dartmouth Association; author: My Three Score Years and Ten, an Au- tobiography. Residence, Montclair, N. J .; studio, 207 E. 17th St., N. Y. City. BALL, Walter: president Howard Savings Institution; director Farmers' Loan and Trust Co .: member Union League Club, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht, New York Yacht, Es- sex County Country and Morris Clubs, American Fine Arts and New York Zo- blogleal Socletles, Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History. Residence, Newark, J .; N. office, 134 Cedar St., N. Y. City.


Lieutenant, U. S. Navy; born in and appointed from New York; naval cadet, Sept. 6, 1888; second lieutenant Marine Corps, July 1, 1594; transferred to Engi- neer Corps and commissioned as assistant engineer, Feb. 25, 1595; passed assistant engineer, Oct. 12, 1895; rank changed to lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1899; lieutenant, Nov. 29, 1900; Baltimore, 1892; Marine Barracks, 1894; New York, 1895- 98; Navy Yard, New York, 1895; Marietta, Monterey and Wilmington, 1599 to 1902; Inspection duty (Bureau of Steam Engi- neering), Oct., 1902-03; U. S. S. Des Moines. Address care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.


BALL, William G .:


Banker; born Aug. 29, 1839, Phila- delphia; married; educated In public schools; captain U. S. V., 1861-65; town clerk of Milton, Saratoga Co., N. Y .. 1869-70; member of Franklin Lodge No. 90, F. & A. M., William H. McKittrick Post No. 40, G. A. R .; vice-president and director Ballston Spa National Bank; member of Board of Education, 1890-95. Address, Ballston Spa, N. Y.


BALLANTINE, James Nack:


Assistant secretary ; born March 4. 1865; was graduated from Columbla Uni- versity in 1886; was assistant secretary of the Provident Savings Life Insurance Co .; member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, and Omega Association of New York. Residonce, 331 W. 87th St .; office, 346 Broadway, N. Y. City.


BALLANTINE, John Herbert:


Brewer; born Newark, N. J .; was grad- uated from Cornell University in 1891; married, in 1891, Lois, daughter of John Wilgus of Ithaca, N. Y .; member of firm of P. Ballantine & Sons; director Essex County National Bank; member of Chi Phl Fraternity and Knickerbocker Ath- letic Club. Residence, Newark, N. J .; office, 134 Cedar St., N. Y. City.


BALLANTINE, Robert F .:


Brewer; born Jan. 3, 1836, Albany, N. Y .; son of P. Ballantine; married; pres-


BALLARD, Addison:


('lergyman and educator; born Framing- hum, Mass., Oct. 18, 1822; prepared at Frauningham and Bennington, Vt .; grad- uate of Williams, 1842; subsequently taught at Hadley, Mass., at Williams and at Grand Rapids, Mich .; became Con- gregational minister, being pastor in Grand River Valley, Mich .; 1847-54, in- structor of Latin and mathematics, Ohio University, 1854, professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres, Williams; 1555, professor mathematics, natural philosophy and as- tronomy, Marietta College; 1857, pastor Fırat Congregational Church, Williams- town, Muss .; 1866, pastor First Congre- pational Church, Detroit, Mich .; 1874, chair of Christian Greek and Latin, Laf- nyette College, Easton, Pa .; 1876, chair of morni philosophy and rhetoric of same; also instructor of political economy, But- ler's Analogy, evidences of Christianity and U. S. Constitution; author of Ar- rows, or The True Method in Teaching and Study (1590), Introduction to Dr. March's Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History; Professor of Logic in New York Uni- Versity, 1594-1901; author of From Talk To Text; or, A Likely Story! Likely Enough; honorary member of London So- cioty of Science, Letters and Art. Ad- dress, Pittsfield, Mass.


BALLARD, Sumner:


Editor; member of Lawyers, Union League, New York and Calumet Clubs and Ardsley Club of Ardsley-on-Hudson. Residence, 61 W. 83d St .; office, 19 Leaver St., N. Y. City.


BALLIET, Thomas M .:


Educator; dean of the faculty and pro- fessor of the science of education in the School of Pedagogy, New York Universi- ty; born 1852, and educated at Franklin and Marshall College and at Yale; subse- quently he studied a year at Leipsic; af- ter serving as principal of a high school and later as teacher in a normal school, he took up school supervision and served for seventeen years as superintendent of


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schools at Springfield, Mass. Address, N. Y. University, Washington Square, N. Y. City.


BALLIN, William:


Manufacturer; born Oldenburg, Ger- many, 1852; educated at gymnasium at that place; came to this country at fif- teen; spent early youth in Mississippi; later in Memphis, Tenn., with Rice, Stix & Co., now the leading dry goods house of St. Louis; came to New York in 1880, establishing at that time the present bus- iness; largely interested in the importa- tion of silk from Japan; now connected with many silk mills in Paterson, N. J .; has been a director in the Broadway Na- tional Bank, which has been merged into the Mercantile National Bank and is now one of its directors; also a director in Prometheus Electrical Co., and a director of the People's Security Co., and president of the Suburban Realty Co .; member of the Progress and Freund- schaft Societies; past master and is at present treasurer of Adelphi Lodge No. 23, F. A. M., a thirty-third degree Mason, and a member of the Masonic Veterans; also a member of all the Hebrew Chari- ties and a patron of the Montefiore Home. Address, 1 West 92d St .; office, 515-517 Broadway, N. Y. City.


BALLOU, George William:


Capitalist; president of two business corporations; member Union League Club, New England Society and Metro- politan Museum of Art. Residence, Middletown, N. Y .; office, 402 Produce Exchange, N. Y. City.


BANCROFT, Wilder Dwight:


Chemist, educator; born Middletown, R. I., Oct. 1, 1867; son of John Chandler and Louisa Mills (Denny) Bancroft; graduate of Harvard, A. B., 18SS; post graduate courses at Harvard, Strassburg, Leipzig (Ph. D., 1892), Berlin and Am- sterdam; married, June 19, 1895, Katherine Meech Bott, Middlebury, Vt .; assistant professor physical chemistry, Cornell Un- iversity, 1895-03; professor since 1903; ed- itor Journal of Physical Chemistry since 1896; member American Chemists Society, American Physical Society, American Electro-chemical Society, Washington Academy Sciences, Deutsche Bunsen Ge- sellschaft; author: The Phase Rule; con- tributor to scientific journals. Address, East Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.


BANDELIER, Adolph Francis Alphonse:


Archæologist; born Berne, Switzerland, Aug. 6, 1840; attended schools only till eighth year; came to United States, and


I took up work in archæology under Arch- æological Institute of America; 1880-85; examined ruins of Pueblos and studied Indians in New Mexico; 1881, in Central America; 1883-84, in Northern Mexico and Arizona; published Art of War and Mode of Warfare (1877), Tenure of Lands and Inheritances of Ancient Mexicans (1878), Social Organization and Government of Ancient Mexicans (1878), An Archæolog- ical Tour into Mexico (1880), also num- erous papers in Journal of American As- sociation for Advancement of Science and of the Archæological Institute of America, Address, care American Museum of Nat- ural History, N. Y. City. BANGS, Charles Wesley:


Lawyer; born Sept. 27, 1841, N. Y. City; prepared N. Y. University Gram- mar school and College Hill, Pough- keepsie; was graduated from Colum- bia Law school, 1862. Member of firm of Stetson, Jennings & Russell. Member


of Lawyers, Tuxedo, Twilight and Union League clubs, Hamiiton Club of Brook- lyn, Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and City Bar Association. Residence, 11 Monroe Pl., Brooklyn; office, 15 Broad St., N. Y. City.


BANGS, Francis Sedgwick:


Banker; graduate of Columbia College, A. B., 1878, and Law School LL. B., 1880; trustee Columbia College; vestryman Cor- poration of Trinity Church; chairman National Underwriters; member of Metro- politan, University, Century and Union League Clubs; Down Town Association; Association of . the Bar of the City of N. Y .; member house of Kingsley, Ma- bon & Co. Address, N. Y. City.


BANGS, John Kendrick:


Author; born Yonkers, N. Y., May 27, 1862; was graduated from Columbia Col- lege (Ph. B.) 1883, and took course of one year at the law school; 1884, associate editor of Life; 1888, editor of the Drawer in Harper's Magazine; July, 1898, wrote Literary Notes in same magazine; Jan., 1899, editor of Literature, published by Harper & Bros., N. Y. City .; 1903, editor of Metropolitan Magazine; president of Halstead School, Yonkers, N. Y .; Demo- cratic candidate for mayor, Yonkers, 1894, vice-president of Board of Education of city, 1896-97; president of Amackassin Club; trustee of Yonkers Library; mem- ber of Lotos and University Clubs, Cen- tury Association of N. Y. City; Psi Upsilon Fraternity and many other or- ganizations; married Miss Agnes Law-


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son, March 3, 1886. Address, Yunkers, July, 1 75; he then came to New York N. Y.


BANGS, Lemuel Bolton, M. D .:


Born Aug. 9, 1542, N. Y. City, physician and surgeon, New York, 1ST2; whiting surgeon City Hospital since 10; viit- ing surgeon St. Luke's Himpital since 1885; consulting surgeon since 1855; visit- ing surgeon Bellevue Hospital since 1598; consulting surgeon since 1301; withur of various articles in medical journals, editor of text book on Gentto-Urinary und Ve- nereal Diseuses; member Stale Medlen1 Society, Pathologieal Society; formerly professor of genito-urimary surgery in the University and Bellevue Hopital Medieal School, 1595. Address, 99 1. 724 St, N. Y. City.


BANKS, A. Bleecker:


Publisher; born March 7, 197. In N. Y City; educated at Columbia Colles; inun- ager of Albany branch of the Hanks law book publishing house since 1998; number of Assembly, 1862; State Senator. 1568- 71; Mayor of Albany, 1 76-71, And 1804-5; delegate to Constitutional Conventidu 1594; delegate to National Dumoerotid Convention, 1SS4. Address, 3.7 State St., Albany, N. Y.


BANKS, Charles:


Capitalist ; born New York, April, 153h, was educated in private school and. afterwards, devoted himself tu real retute investments. Address, 14 W. 49th St. N. Y. City.


BANKS, John Henry :


Mining engineer und chemist; burn Nov. 28, 1561, in N. Y. City; was gradi- ated from School of Mines, Columbia University, 1583. Member of the firm of Ricketts and Banks. Member of American Institute of Mining Engineers, I''ulton Club, and Columbia University Alumni Association. Residence, Boon- ton, N. J .; office, 104 John St., N. Y. City.


BANNIN, Michael Eugene:


Dry goods merchant; born Feb. 19, 1S46, In Glens Falls, N. Y .; his father was Eu- gene Bannin, a dealer in dressed stone; the subject of this sketch was educated In the Glens Falls Academy, and he was graduated from Eastman's Business Col- lege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1868; early became the private secretary to Abraham Wing, a prominent banker of Glens Falls. and remained in this capacity up to the time of the death of his employer, in 1872; he read law in the office of ex-Judge Stephen Brown and Sheldon's law office, in Glens Falls, and remained there until


and Direndiately assumed charge of the Credits of the imperting and jobbing house hf More, Tingud & Co., and remained in their cooploy until their success, due Larsvly to life efforts, enabled them to re- the in 1ss6; he was immediately placed in charge of the credits of Converse, Stan- Ion & Callen, dry goods commission mer- chants, and became a partner in the firm 10 1995, was the first president of the New York Credit Men's Association, and he was the Oret man to hold the office of vice-president of the National Credit Mon's Association, ef which association he Je sull a member serving on the board of moroccocot, he is member of the firm of Canverae, Stanton & Co., 83-85 Worth FL, N. Y. City; Lindon & Bannin, 6th Ave, N. Y. City; director of the Mer- chants Trust Co. Broadway, N. Y. City; Emlerant Industrial Savings Bank, N Y. City; Columbian National Life In- wurinte Co., Boston, Maxx .; Amer- Jean Investment Securities Co., Port- land. Me ; member of the Merchants Club, N. Y. CHly; Catholic Club, N. Y. City; Champlain Club, Lake Champlain; Mon- thuk Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., Brooklyn Arts and Science Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y .; June 5, 1 7%. married Miss Ellie M. Mulrr, W N. Y. City. Address, 55 Montgomery PL. Brooklyn, N. Y.




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