Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 90

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of the Advisory Council of the Public Ed- educated at Lawrenceville and at Yale, ucation Association ; the Union League class, 1900 ; married, May 25, 1901, Mary Galt Stockly, Lakewood, N. J .; founder and first editor Lawrenceville Literary Magazine and chairman of Yale Literary Magazine for class of 1900. Author of Arrows of the Almighty, a novel, pub- lished by Macmillan, 1901, and of: In the Name of Liberty, published by Century Co., 1905. Address, 327 Lexington Ave., N. Y. City. Club; the Lawyers Club; the New Eng- land Society, Colonial Wars, and Sons of the American Revolution ; discovered, in company with Rev. Samuel Jessup, the now famous Hittite inscriptions at Hamat in Northern Syria and wrote first account of same in 1870; is an occasional contrib- utor to magazine and newspaper press. Residence, N. Y. City ; office, 43 Cedar St., N. Y. City.

JOHNSON, Joseph French:

Educator ; born Hardwick, Mass., Aug. 24, 1853; graduate of Harvard in 1878; spent one year in Germany in study of political economy and history ; first con- nected with Springfield Republican and subsequently was financial editor on the Chicago Tribune; 1890 began the Spokes- man (Spokane, Wash.), which was sold in 1893. Was professor of practical fin- ance at University of Pennsylvania, 1893- 1901, also conducted a course in journal- ism on lines which have since been fol- lowed by other institutions in this country and in Europe. Lecturer on Finance at Columbian University, 1900-03 ; professor of Political Economy at New York Uni- versity since 1901; Jan., 1903, Dean of New York University School of Commerce. Author of Silver Craze in the United States; London Economic Journal, Dec., 1895; Syllabus of Lectures on Money and Banking, 1896 ; Proposed Reforms of Mon- etary System, Annals of American Acad- emy, March, 1898; is Civil Service Reform in Peril? North American Review, Nov., 1899; Foreign Trade and Prosperity ; North American Review, Nov., 1899;

Commercial Supremacy f the United States, Bankers Monthly, March, 1903; The Currency Act of March 14, 1900; Po- litical Science Quarterly, Sept., 1900; A New Theory of Prices, Political Science Quarterly, Sept., 1903; Money and Cur- rency, Ginn & Co., 1905. Address, 32 Waverly Place, N. Y. City.

JOHNSON, Margaret:

Author, illustrator; born Boston, April 5, 1860; daughter Rev. Edwin and Sarah K. Bartlett Johnson; educated private schools; Art Student at Cooper Institute and Art Students' League, New York. Author of: The Procession of the Zodiac; What Did the Black Cat Do? Address, 1662 Washington Ave., N. Y. City. JOHNSON, Owen:

Author; born N. Y. City, Aug. 27, 1878 ; father, Robert Underwood Johnson ;

mother, Katherine McMahon Johnson ;

JOHNSON, Robert Underwood:

Associate editor of Century Magazine; born on Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C., Jan. 12, 1853; his father, the late Hon. Nimrod H. Johnson, was an able lawyer and jurist. After an ordinary high school education at Centreville, Ind., he matric- ulated at Earlham College, an institu- tion of the Society of Friends at Rich- mond, Ind., in 1867; in 1871, at the age of eighteen, he was graduated from that institution as Bachelor of Science, to which the college, in 1886, added the honorary degree of Ph. D .; he went immediately into business as clerk in the Western agency of the Scribner Educational Books, Chicago, 1873, became connected with the editorial staff of the Century Magazine (then Scribner's Monthly), a connection which still exists. On the death of the editor-in-cheif, Dr. J. G. Holland, in 1881, R. W. Gilder became the editor and Robert Johnson succeeded him as the associate editor; this position he now occupies. His literary work, in ad- dition to his daily and exacting editorial duties has been confined to editorial and critical articles, and to verse. In 1883 Mr. Gilder entrusted to Mr. Johnson and Mr. C. C. Buel, the assistant editor, the conduct of the well known Century War Series, and they also had charge of it in the enlarged and revised publication in four volumes; Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. The series added one hundred thousand to the circulation of the Cen- tury. In Dec., 1892, published a volume entitled The Winter Hour and Other Poems, including contributions to the At- lantic Monthly, The Century, Harper's Monthly, St. Nicholas. The Christian Union, The Independent, The Tribune, and other periodicals, and

also the hymn, Praise to Thee, O God of

Freedom, sung to Haydn's music of the dedication of the Washington Arch, N. Y. City, in 1890; in 1897, ap- peared his second volume, Songs of Liberty and Other Poems; this included lan Apostrophe to Greece, a long poem,

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published in The Independent, N. Y. City, vious volumes, besides the Italian Rhap- in 1896, and a translation of part of it in- sody, and many other pieces. Address, Century Magazine, Union Square, N. Y. JOHNSON, Robert W .: cluded in the Greek record of the Olym- pian Games of that year; also two blank verse odes. The Voice of Webster and President and director of Brunswick Pharmacal Co., Johnson & Johnson ; vice- president Neverslip Mfg. Co., Lister Sur- gical Co., director of New Brunswick Re- frigerating Co., and New Brunswick Trust Co. Residence, New Brunswick, N. J .; office, 100 William St., N. Y. City. Hands Across Sea, and a series of metri- cal paraphrases from the Servian after literal translations by Nikola Tesla, the electrical inventor. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and of the Authors Club, the Century Club, and The Players, of N. Y. City; member of the JOHNSON, Rossiter: executive committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Association ; mem- ber of the American Forestry Associa- tion ; member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, of which he is also sec- retary. Since 1883 has been actively con- nected with the International copyright movement, having been for several years treasurer of the American Copyright League, and a member of its executive committee of five; in 1889 he exchanged the treasurership for the more responsi- ble work of secretary of the league, be- coming by this office also secretary of the joint executive committee of authors, publishers and printers in charge of the campaign for the Copyright Bill. His

Author and editor; born Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1840; son of Reuben and Almira Alexander Johnson; was gradu- ated at the University of Rochester in 1863 ; associate editor Rochester Democrat, 1864-68 : editor of Concord, N. H., States- man, 1869-72 ; associate editor of Ameri- can Cyclopedia, 1873-77 ; managing editor of Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1886-88 ; associate editor of Standard Dic- tionary, 1892-94 ; editor of Authorized His- tory of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1896 ; editor of Appleton's Annual Cyclo- pædia, 1883-1902 ; editor of The Literary Querist in the Lamp (formerly Book- Buyer). 1SSS-1904, editor of Universal Cyclopædia and Atlas, since 1901 : super- vising editor of revised editions of Veláz- quez' Spanish Dictionary, and Adler's German Dictionary, 1901-03. He devised and edited the series of Little Classics, and also Liber Scriptorum, the book of the Authors Club; edited Works of the British Poets, with Biographical sketches ; Play-day Poems, Famous Single and Fu- gitive Poems, (with Charles A. Dana) Fifty Perfect Poems, The World's Great Books; Cyclopædia of Notable Americans and The Great Events by Great Histor- ians. His original books are Phaeton Rogers, The End a Rainbow, History of the War of 1812, History of the French War, History of the War of Se- cession, Idler and Poet, (poems) ; The Hero of Manila, Morning Lights and Ev- ening Shadows, (poems); The Alphabet of Rhetoric; Frankfort Boys; also wrote the Whispering-Gallery series in the Overland Monthly. He has been presi- dent of the Quill Club, the New York Association of Phi Beta Kappa, the So- ciety of the Genesee, the University Ex- tension Society, and the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, and successively secretary,

services in the fight for International Copyright were widely recognized ; by de- cree of March 11, 1891, the French gov- ernment conferred upon him the Cross of the Legion of Honor (Chevalier), and on June 17, 1895, King Humbert conferred upon him the Cross of the Crown of Italy (Cavaliere), that country having accepted the International Copyright Law by re- ciprocity in 1994; in 1891 he was a recipient of the honorary degree of Mas- ter of Arts from Yale University, and of pieces of silver plate from American pub- of lishers and from the Incorporated Society of Authors of London. Has been much interested in the subject of forestry re- form and in public parks. He originated and, in conjunction with John Muir, took the leading part in securing the creation of the Yosemite National Park (1890), and devoted much attention to the move- ment in favor of securing a better super- vision of the Yosemite Valley, which he visited in June, 1889; 1892, was made hon- orary member of the Sierra Club of San Francisco; was a member of the execu- tive committee of the Mohonk Con- ference for Arbitration, 1896. Mar- chairman and treasurer of the Authors ried. in 1876, Miss Katharine McMahon of Washington, D. C. In 1902, under the title of Poems, appeared a volume of his collected verse, including the two pre- Club; member of the Century Associa- tion. He lectures frequently on historical subjects. Address, 436 Fifth Ave .; and Amagansett, Long Island, N. Y.

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JOHNSON, Thomas:

Artist, engraver; born London, Eng .; pupil of F. Williams. Medal World's Co- lumbian Exposition, 1893. Member So- ciety of American Wood Engravers ; member of Century and Grolier Clubs. Address, 6 Sylvan Terrace, N. Y. City.

JOHNSON, Wallace Clyde:

Consulting civil engineer; born Gran- ville, Mass., May 21, 1859 ; educated pub- lic and high schools, Williams College; graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Insti- tute, 1884; he married, Holyoke, Mass., 1803, Eloise Gertrude Murlless. Chief en- gineer, the

Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Co., 1886-1900; now consulting engineer and chief engi- neer Shawinigen Water & Power Co., Mon- treal; member River Improvement Com- mission State of New York, American So- ciety of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Engineers' So- ciety of Western New York; associate member American Institution Electrical Engineers, Society of Arts, London. Ad- dress, Niagara Falls, N. Y.

JOHNSON, William Everett:

Protestant Episcopal clergyman ; born Little Falls, April 6, 1857; was gradu- ated from Union College, 1878, and from Berkeley Divinity School, 1882; ordained deacon, 1882, and priest, 1883 ; rector Trin- ity Church, Bristol, Conn., 1883; rector Church of Our Saviour, Plainville, Conn., 1887. Assistant minister Trinity Parish, New York, 1889; rector of the Church of the Redeemer, N. Y. City, since Dec. 8, 1892. Residence, at the rectory, 142 West 137th St., N. Y. City.

JOHNSON, Willis Fletcher, A.M., L.H.D .:

Journalist ; is the son of William John- son, of Kingston-on-Hull, England, and Alathea Augusta Coles Johnson, the lat- ter a member of the Coles and Fletcher families of Long Island and New Eng- land; born N. Y. City on Oct. 7, 1857; educated at Pennington Seminary, Pen- nington, N. J., and New York University,' class of 1879; after leaving the university he was for a time principal of a public school in New Jersey, and he has ever since been a frequent lecturer at schools, colleges and educational conventions. Since 1880 he has been a member of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune. He was the biographical editor of the two volumes on New York University in the Universities and their Sons series, (The Herndon Co., Boston, 1903), and is the author of A Century of Expansion, ( Mac- millans, 1903), and editor of Men of

Mark in New York (The Johnson Wynne Co., Washington, 1905). He has received the degree of Litt. M. from N. Y. Univer- sity and those of A.M. and L.H.D. from Dickinson College. He is a member of the Council of New York University, the American Geographical Society, the Amer- ican Scenic and Historic Preserva- tion Society, the National Civil Service Reform Association, the American Insti- tute of Civics, the National Arts Club, the Quill Club, and the Psi Upsilon Club. He is married, his wife having been Miss Sue Rockhill, of Tuckertown, N. J. Ad- dress, 394 Fourth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. JOHNSTON, Charles:

Author ; born Ballykilbeg, County Down, Ireland, Feb. 17, 1867 ; educated in Derby, Eng., and Dublin University ; passed final examination for Bengal Civil Service, Agu., 1888, visiting Bombay, Madras, Cal- cutta and Allahabad; invalided two years later; come to U. S., 1896. Translator : (Upanishads) Archaic Sanskirt, What is Art? (Tolstoi) ; Julian, the Apostate (Mereshkovski) ; The System of Vedanta, (Prof. Paul Deussen) ). Author of: The Memory of Past Births; Kela Bai; Ire- land, Historic and Picturesque; articles on Oriental history, and literary subjects. Address, Flushing, N. Y.

JOHNSTON, Henry Phelps:

Educator ; born 1842; graduate of Yale, 1862; in Union army, 1862-65; professor of History, College City of N. Y .; author of : The Campaigns of 1776 Around New York; Battle of Harlem Heights; The Yorktown Campaign ; Yale and Her Honor Roll in the American Revolution ; Obser- vations on Judge Jones' Tory History ; The Storming of Stony Point on the Hud- son, July 15, 1779. Address, 221 W. 49th St., N. Y. City.

JOHNSTON, James Wesley:

Clergyman, author. Entered Methodist ministry ; held pastorates in Portland, Me. ; Boston and Worcester, Mass. ; Newark, N. J .; Jersey City; 61st St. Church, Manhattan; St. John's, Brooklyn ; 1st M. E. Church, Meriden, Conn .; since 1902 of John St. Church, N. Y. City. In 1904, received degree of Litt. D. from Syracuse University. Contributes to N .. Y. Christian Advocate (Stylus). Author- of: The Baptism of Fire; Dwellers in Gotham; The Creed and the Prayer; The House that Jack Built; Philip Yoakley ; The Riddle of Life; The Mystery of Miriam. Address, 44 John St., N. Y. City. JOHNSTON, Howard Agnew, D. D .:

Minister; native of Ohio; has had

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charges in Cincinnati, Des Moines and | heat current reducing or oxydizing, fuel Chicago. In 1899 was offered the Madi- son Avenue Presbyterian Church. The congregation give freely of their money to the East Side work. He preached in be- half of the movement to drive Tammany out of power. Address, Madison Ave. and 73d St., N. Y. City.

JOHNSTON, Rufus P .:

Minister ; born Macon, Mo .; his father was a farmer, and was killed at the bat- tle of Vicksburg. He resided with his uncle on a farm, and worked his way through Jewell College at Liberty, Mo. Took a course at the Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Ky .; has had pastorates in St. Louis and St. Joseph. At present pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church of N. Y. City ; was married to Miss Coldwell in 1893. Address, 2 West 46th St., N. Y.

JOHNSTON, Russell M .:

Lawyer; born Albany, N. Y., 1864; was graduated from Hobart College, B. S., 1884 ; from Albany Law School, LL. B., 1887; admitted to Bar same year. Mem- ber Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society ; Chamber of Commerce, Al- bany ; also member of Fort Orange, Uni- versity, Country, Burns (Albany), Re- form (N. Y. City) Clubs. Residence, 20 Elk St. ; office, Tweddle Building, Albany, N. Y. City.

JOHNSTON, Samuel:

Inventor and manufacturer; born Shel- by, Orleans Co., N. B., 1835 ; married Ar- sula S. Vaughan, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. Invented: The Johnston system of har- vesting machinery; metal rolling mills ; metal roller forging machines; a fire and water-proof builder's cement, which makes a remarkably perfect substitute for brick, stone and wood. Re-discoveries of lost arts: the lost art of mixing re- fractory materials or mixtures in which fuel burns to high temperature without injury to the apparatus; lost art of burn- ing fuel to complete combustion and high temperature; lost art of making perma- nent moulds, in which all methods may be formed to duplicates, and a core material that is so free from gas when the metal comes in contact that the core may be surrounded by metal ; also the art of melting rustless bronzes. These bronzes are the cheapest and the strongest, and tarnish slowly. By the re-discovery of the art of burning fuel to complete combus- tion and high temperature, and, by adding the features of storing and making the

burning is reduced to a science; through this discovery all the arts in which the character of the heat and the temperature play an important part have been reduced to a science. His system that he is now engaged in installing is a heat storage system, the fuel is burned for all it is worth, and stored in refractory material that is completely insulated; the heat is drawn out in the exact quantity to give the exact desired temperature. Neither heat nor flue gases are discharged into the air. Address, 205 Cleveland Ave., Buf- falo, N. Y.

JOHNSTON, William Andrew:

Journalist; born Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 26, 1871; son of William Andrew and Agnes Johnson; received the degree or A. B. from the Western University of Penn- sylvania in 1871; travelled in Europe. Married, Feb. 22, 1896, Hazel Minnette Williams, of Hampshire, Eng. He pub- lished at Wilkinsburg, Pa., The Inde- pendent, 1892-93; reporter on New York Journal and New York Press ; on editorial staff of New York Herald, and since 1901 on editorial staff of New York World, Author of: History Up To Date (A. S. Barnes & Co.) ; Solomon Sloan's Advice, etc. Residence, 40 West 20th St. ; office, Pulitzer Building, Park Row, N. Y. City. JOHNSTONE, Edward Robert:

Managing editor N. Y. Commercial Ad- vertiser, since 1903; born Utica, N. Y. April 30, 1849; graduate of Dickinson College, 1870 ; served in Indian campaigns 1877 and 1880-81; editorial staff of St. Paul Pioneer Press, 1882-92; city and country assessor, St. Paul, Minn., 1892-95; with Associated Press, 1897-98, in N. Y. City ; in charge fleet of dispatch boats, Spanish-American War, at Key West, in Havana and Santiago blockades, and in Porto Rico. Editor Minneapolis Times, 1898-1903 ; member Phi Beta Kappa So- ciety, S. A. R., American Social Science Association, Society Porto Rican Expe- dition. Married, 1887, Ida Louise Abell, Boston. Address, 7 Dey St., N. Y. City.

JOLINE, Adrian Hoffman:

Lawyer; born June 30, 1850, at Sing Sing, N. Y .; son of Colonel Charles O. Joline and Mary Hoffman Joline; attend- ed Mt. Pleasant Academy ; was graduated from Princeton in 1870, and from Colum- bia Law School in 1872. He was admitted to the Bar in May, 1872, and married in 1876, Mary E., daughter of Mr. Francis Larkin. Member of the law firm of But-

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ler, Stillman & Hubbard, 1881-96, and of Butler, Notman, Joline & Mynderse, 1896 to 1905; Joline, Larken & Rathbone, 1905; member of the Century, University, Grolier, Princeton, Delta Phi, Barnard and Morristown Clubs, and Caxton Club of Chicago; Down Town Association, New York Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, American Bar Associa- tion, N. Y., New Jersey, Virginia and American Historical Societies; LL. D., Princeton. Published Meditations of an Autograph Collector (1902) and Diversions of a Book Lover (1903). Address, 54 Wall St., N. Y. City.

JONES, Charles Henry :

Editor, author; born Talbotton, Ga., March 7, 1848; married, first, Eliza Cow- perthwaite, of Philadelphia; second, Lily E. Parsons, of Washington, D. C. He came to N. Y. City in 1865, where he en- gaged in general literary and magazine work. Edited Eclectic Magazine from 1870-75, and was associate editor of Ap- pleton's Journal from 1879-81; removed to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1881, and founded Florida Times-Union; removed to St.

Louis, Mo., in 1888; and was editor of St. Louis Republic from 1888-93; removed to N. Y. City in 1893 and was editor of New York World from 1893-95; returned to St. Louis and was editor of St. Louis Post- Dispatch from 1895-97; lived in Florence, Italy, from 1900-03. His History of Afri- can Exploration and Adventure was pub- lished in 1879; Recent Art and Society, (1880); Macaulay, a Critical and Bio- graphical Study, (1880); Popular Life of Charles Dickens, (1880); Popular Life of Gladstone, (1881). He was chairman of committee on Platform Resolutions in Democratic National Convention of 1892, and wrote the platform. He also wrote the Chicago Platform (Democratic) of 1896, and the Kansas City Platform (Democratic) of 1900. Address, 150 Nas- sau St., N. Y. City.

JONES, Dwight Arven :

Lawyer; born Utica, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1854; son J. Wyman Jones and Harriet Dwight Dana; was graduated at Yale Uni- versity, 1875, and at the Columbia Law School in 1877. Married, 1879, Emily Lefferts, daughter of Marshal Lefferts. Practiced law in N. Y. City, devoting himself mainly to corporation work and legal authorship. Published several edi- tions of a work on Business Corporations, and also treatises on Construction of Con- tracts and Negligence of Municipal Cor- porations. Now President of the St. Jo-

seph Lead Co., the Doe Run Lead Co., and the Mississippi River & Bone Terre Ry. Address, 34 West 51st St., N. Y. City.

JONES, Edward Franc:

Scale manufacturer; born Utica, N. Y., June 3, 1828; received his education in Leicester, Mass. He served in the Civil War first as colonel of Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, the first regiment to enter the field, 1861; were at- tacked in Baltimore, and reached Wash- ington in time to save the Capitol from falling into the hands of the Confeder- ates; Oct., 1861, colonel of Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers; brevetted brigadier-general of U. S. Volunteers. At the close of the war he established the Jones Scale Works of Binghamton, N. Y., and has conducted same to present day; has also held several public offices in Massachusetts and N. Y. State, filling that of lieutenant governor of New York State, 1886-92. Member of G. A R., Loyal Le- gion, Sons of the American Revolution, and Founders and Patriots; also of United Service Club, of N. Y. City, and of Army and Navy Club, of Washington. Author of Richard Baxter; Uncle Jerry; The Ori- gin of the Flag; also of the expression Jones, He Pays the Freight. Address,

Binghamton, N. Y.

JONES, Edward K:

Lawyer; member of law firm Jones & Govin; member Down Town Association, Association Bar City of N. Y., Municipal Aid Society; member of Union, Manhat- tan, Metropolitan, N. Y. Yacht, Suburban Riding and Driving, Whist Clubs. Resj- dence, 165 W. 58th St .; office, 49 Wall St., N. Y. City.

JONES, Eugene:

Miller; born Fairfield, Conn., July 1842; he began business life in his father's mills in this city, and he and his brother suc- ceeded to the business, under the name of Jones & Co. In 1892 he formed a new organization, The Hecker-Jones- Jewell Milling Co.

In 1888 married Miss Julie Dix, of Elizabeth, N. J. Ad- dress, 205 Produce Exchange, N. Y. City. JONES, Francis Bacon:

Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; First Lieutenant 149th Pennsylvania Infantry, Aug. 30, 1862; Captain, March 25, 1863; honorably mustered out April 6, 1865; Lieutenant-Colonel 215th Pennsylvania Infantry, April 16, 1865; honorably mus- tered out July 31, 1865;"Second Lieutenant Nineteenth Infantry, May 11, 1866; trans- ferred to Thirty-seventh Infantry Sept. 21, 1866; First Lieutenant, July 21, 1868;

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Regimental Quartermaster, Dec. 31, 1868 to Aug. 11, 1869; transferred to Third In- fantry Aug. 11, 1869; Regimental Quar- termaster, Aug. 11, 1869, to April 16, 1885 ; Captain Assistant Quartermaster, April 16, 1885; Major Quartermaster, Oct. 15, 1897; Lieutenant Colonel Chief Quarter- master Volunteers, May 9, 1898; honora- bly discharged from Volunteers, May 18, 1899; retired, Oct. 26, 1901; Lieutenant- Colonel, retired, under act; appointed April 23, 1904. Address, 244 West 99th St. N. Y. City.

JONES, Francis Coates:

Artist; born Baltimore, July 25, 1857; student at Ecole des Beaux Arts under Yvon, Lehmann, Boulanger and Lefebvre; returned to N. Y. City 1882; awarded Clarke prize, National Academy of De- sign, 1885; silver medal at Pan-American Exposition, 1901 ; member National Acad- my Design, Society American Artists, American Water Color Society, Architec- tural League and Mural Painters, Ameri- can Fine Arts Society, Municipal Aid So- ciety, Fine Arts Federation, Club: Cen- tury. Addres, 253 W. 42d St.

JONES, Forrest Robert:

Mechanical and electrical engineer, edu- cator; born Cincinnati, Dec. 12, 1861; son of Martin Ryan and Susan Hageman Jones; graduate of Cornell University, M. E., 1888 ; married at Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 17, 1892, Miss Johnnie House Fletcher. Apprentice with Niles Tool Works, Ham- ilton, Ohio, 1881-84; inspector of fire and burglar-proof vault construction for the First National Bank of Hamilton, Ohio, 1886 ; designer and experimenter Edison's Laboratory, Orange, N. J., and North American Phonograph Co. of same place, 1888 ; commercial engineering with West- ern Engineering Co. and Edison General Co. installing electric railways and light- ing plants, also engaged in other practical engineering work, 1888-90 ; superintendent Mechanic Arts Department, 1890-91. Pro- fessor mechanical arts, 1891-92, University of Tennessee; professor machine design, University of Wisconsin, 1892-99 ; profes- sor drawing and machine design, Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute, 1899-1903 ; profes- sor machine design, Sibley College, CornelI University, 1903. Designed and put into use electrical machines and apparatus for putting high resistance electric insulation on wires, and other devices. Visited the principal technical schools and many of the commercial manufacturing establish- ments in England and on the continent to study their methods, 1902-03. Member

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 90

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