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Kerr a member of Beta Theta Pi, Nu Sigma Nu and Sigma Xi Fraternities. Ameri- can Microscopical Society ; Association of American Anatomists and American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science. Address, 61 Wall Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. KERR, James :
President of Beech Creek Coal and Coke Co .; born Miffin County, Pa., in 1851;
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removed to Clearfield, Pa., as a young man. He took an active part in politics on the side of the Democratic party with which he has always been identified; elected to the Fifty-first U. S. Congress in 1888; Democratic State chairman during the Pattison-Delamater Gubernatorial campaign in Pennsylvania, one of the rare occasions when the State went Dem- ocratic; also a member of the Democratic National Committee at that time; clerk in the U. S. House of Representatives in Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses. He received the vote of the Philadelphia delegation and other scattering votes in the 1902 Democratic Gubernatorial con- vention in Pennsylvania, although not a candidate for the nomination for gov- ernor. Has always been prominently identified with the timber and coal inter- ests of Pennsylvania. Is president of the Beech Creek Coal and Coke Co., the larg- est shipper of bituminous coal on the Pennsylvania division of the New York Central & Hudson River R. R. Co., and was instrumental in organizing same; president of North River Coal and Wharf Co., also of New York Weighing Barge & Coaling Co., also of Clearfield South- ern R. R., the Hooverhurst & Southwest- ern R. R .; director in Beach Creek R. R. Co., and of the Philadelphia Record Pub- lishing Co., and an officer and director of several banks, trust companies and other corporations in the State of Pennsylvania. Married Julia A. Smith, in 1874. Summer residence, Clearfield, Pa .; residence, 107 Central Park West; office, Whitehall Building, Battery Place, N. Y. City.
KERR, Robert Bage:
Stock broker; born, June 18, 1863, N. Y. City; was graduated from Yale College, 1885. Member of New York Stock Ex- change, firm of Kerr & Co. Member of University, Calumet and Racquet and Tennis Clubs and Yale Alumni Associa- tion. Residence, Lakewood, N. J .; office, 74 Broadway, N. Y. City.
KERR, Walter C .:
Mechanical engineer; born St. Peter, Minn., Nov. 8, 1858; educated at public schools of his native place; was graduated from Cornell, B. M. E., 1879; married Lucy Lyon, Ithaca, N. Y .; assistant pro- fessor Cornell, 1880-83; since connected with the Westinghouse companies, being president of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., and first vice-president Westing- house Machine Co .; trustee of Cornell since 1890; a member American Society Mechanical Engineers, Franklin Institute;
Clubs: Engineers, Cornell, Seawanhaka- Corinthian Yacht, the Richmond County Country, and the Duquesne (Pittsburg). Residence, Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y .; office, 10 Bridge St., N. Y. City.
KERSHNER, Edward:
Medical Inspector (retired), U. S. Navy; entered the service of the U. S. as an as- sistant surgeon in the Navy from Md., Sept. 2, 1861; first active service was on the U. S. sloop of war Cumberland, in Hampton Roads, and was on that ship in fight with Merrimac. Later was at the Washington Navy Yard; next on the New Ironsides, which ship was in service at Hampton Roads and in the siege of Charles- ton; on that ship at the first attack on Charleston, April 7, 1863, and the subse- quent operations; ordered to the U. S. monitor Passaic in Feb., 1864; later or- dered to the U. S. S. Choctaw, an Iron- clad ram in the Mississippi Squadron, and remained there until the end of the war in 1865. Attained the rank of passed assistant surgeon; the rank of surgeon was conferred on him in 1872, and that of medical inspector in 1890; served on the U. S. S. Swatara, on the Transit of Venus Expedition to the Indian Ocean and Australia. He acted as assistant photographer, and also made a natural hsitory collection, besides doing the medi- cal and surgical work of the expedition. This collection was sent to the Smith- sonian Institution, and for it he received the thanks of the Institution. Has been professor of Hygiene and emeritus pro- fessor in N. Y. Post-graduate Medical School and Hospital during the past twenty years, and still holds that posi- tion. The flagship New York left N. Y. about Jan. 10, 1895, for a cruise among the Windward Islands,, where yellow fever prevailed. Dr. Kershner was ap- pointed fleet surgeon, while at that port he objected, on sanitary grounds, to the use of the water, for fear of introducing the yellow fever on the ships. This trouble culminated in a report of Meade against Dr. Kershner which resulted in his dismissal; but this action was re- versed by act of Congress, restorng him to his office as medical inspector in the navy. In 1896 he passed the civil ser- vice examination in N. Y. City for gen- eral inspector of hospitals, Charity De- partment, and was placed No. 2, on the eligible list; also civil service examina- tion for medical chief of staff, and re- ceived the appointment as such at In- fants' Hospital, Randall's Island, N. Y.,
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where he had full charge, as superintend- ent, of 1,200 patients, and where his ser- vices were fully satisfactory to the city officials; was afterwards transferred to the Almshouse Hospital, Blackwells Isl- and, as medical chief of staff, 600 patients. Dr. Kershner is and has long been a member of the Union League Club, New York; New York Academy of Medicine, Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Re- public, Masonic Fraternity, and Society of the Nineteenth Army Corps; also New York County Medical Society. Received M. D. from the University of the City of N. Y. in 1861. Address, 503 Potomac Ave., Hagerstown, Md., and 1 E. 39th St., N. Y. City.
KERWIN, Arthur R .:
Captain, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from N. Y .; cadet at Military Academy June 15, 1892 to June 12, 1896; was graduated and promoted additional second lieutenant, Twenty-fifth Infantry; served at Fort Missoula, Mont., from Oct. 1, 1896, to Feb. 7, 1897; promoted to sec- ond lieutenant, Dec. 22, 1896; Feb. 11, 1897 to Feb. 22, 1898, at Fort Douglas, Utah; Chicamauga Park, April 25 to 29, 1898; at Tampa, Fla., May 1 to June 14, 1898; in the campaign at Cuba, June 14 to Aug. 25, 1898; at Fort Douglas, Utah, Oct. 7, 1898 to March 12, 1899; promoted to first lieutenant, Thirteenth Infantry, Jan. 7, 1899; at Manila with Thirteenth Infantry, May 30, to June 3, 1899; on de- tached service, Manila, June 3, 1899; cap- tain, Thirteenth Infantry, Sept. 27, 1901. Address, Angel Island, Cal.
KESTER, Paul:
Dramatist and author: born Delaware, O., Nov. 2, 1870; educated private schools and tutors. Author: Tales of the Real Gypsy; plays: The Countess Roudine, (with Minnie Maddern Fiske); Zamar; The Student of Salamanca; Nell Gwynne; What Dreams May Come; Meg Merriles; Eugene Aram; The Cousin of the King (with Vaughan Kester); Sweet Nell of Old Drury; a dramatization of When Knighthood Was in Flower; Madamoiselle Mars; The Cavalier (in collaboration), etc Address, Woodlawn Mansion, Accotink, Va., and Players Club, N. Y. City.
KETCHAM, John Henry:
Republican Congressman; born Dover, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1832 ; received an academic education ; became interested in agricultur- al pursuits. Was supervisor in his town in 1854 and 1855 ; member of the State As- sembly of New York in 1856 and 1857; was a member of the State Senate of
New York in 1860 and 1861, and a member of the war committee for his Senatorial district. He entered the Union Army as colonel of the One Hundred and fiftieth New York Volunteers in Oct., 1862, and was appointed brigadier-general by bre- vet, afterwards brigadier-general, serv- ing until he resigned, in March, 1865, to take the seat in Congress to which he had been elected; was afterwards ap- pointed major-general by brevet. He was elected to Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses; was often a delegate to Republican State conventions, and was a delegate to the Republican national conventions in 1876 and 1896. He was
commissioner of the District of Columbia from July 3, 1874, until June 30, 1877, when he re- signed, having been elected to the Forty- fifth Congress; was elected to the Forty- sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty- ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-sec- ond Congresses, when, owing to impaired health, he declined a re-nomination; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- gresses. Address, Dover Plains, N. Y.
KETCHUM, Alexander Phoenix:
Lawyer; born New Haven, Conn., May 11, 1839; son of Edgar and Elizabeth (Phoenix) Ketchum; was graduated with honors from the College of the City of N. Y. in 1858, serving as tutor there for a year afterwards, and in 1860 was graduated from the Albany Law School and admitted to the Bar. The Civil War breaking out, he became connected with the department of the South, and as a staff officer of the mliitary governor of South Carolina, General Rufus Saxton, was active in the conduct of affairs on the Southern coast; transferred to the staff of Major-General Oliver O. How- ard, in 1865, he served as acting assist- ant adjutant-general in Charleston, and later in Washington, resigning from the army in Sept., 1867, with the rank of brevet-colonel. In 1869 he was appointed by President Grant assessor of internal revenue for the Ninth District of New York, and later became collector of that district; in 1874 he was transferred to the customs service as general appraiser of the port of New York, and in 1883 ap- pointed by President Arthur chief ap- praiser, relinquishing the office in 1885 upon the accession of President Cleve- land. He has since devoted himself to the practice of law, having a luerative
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business in connection wth estates and in every leading theatre in Brooklyn; also general practice, besides conducting im- at Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York; made a tour of the British provinces, 1901; leading woman; One Night in June Co., 1902; Harrison-Adams Theatre Co .. 1903; Savoy Theatre, Atlantic City, N. J., 1904. Has played in every leading theatre in Middle, Western and Southern States; unmarried. Residence, 383 Macon St., Brooklyn; P. O. Address, Box, 574 N. Y. City. portant suits in the U. S. Courts. Mr. Ketchum has been actve in the develop- ment of upper N. Y. City; was one of the founders and first president of the Mt. Morris Bank; two years president of Presbyterian Union of New York, and has been prominent in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association, and various benevolent and educational projects. He was for four years a mem- KETCHUM, John B .: ber of the Board of Educaton; is presi- dent of the City College Club; and a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, State Bar Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Republican and Alpha Delta Phi Clubs and the New York and Atlantic Yacht Clubs. Residence, 32 Mt. Morris Park, West; office, 17 Battery Place, N. Y. City.
KETCHUM, Edgar:
Lawyer; born N. Y., July 15, 1840; great-grandson of Daniel Phoenix, first, and for twenty years, city treasurer and chamberlain of N. Y., also member of first chamber of commerce. He was graduated with degree of A. B. from the College of the City of N. Y. in 1860; stud- ied law at Columbia College Law School, and graduating in 1862 was admitted to practice; served in Union Army durng Civil War; member Seventh Regiment; appointed officer in Signal Corps by the President; served on staff of General A. H. Terry and C. P. Paine; honorably discharged, Aug., 1865. Resumed posi- tion in Seventh Regiment; engineer with rank of major; First Brigade First Di- vision, New York National Guard; re- signed three years later; practiced law in New York, giving special attention to searching titles. Member Military Order Loyal Legion, War Veterans, Seventh Regiment and Grand Army Republic, also Army of the Potomac. Married Angelica S. Anderson, 1870. Address, 140 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
KETCHUM, Edytha:
American actress and leading-woman; born township of Ramapo, Rockland Co., N. Y., April 15, 1881; daughter of John B. Ketchum, q. v .; made her first appear- ance on the amateur stage at Criterion Theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y., as Mrs. Major Phobbz, in Lend Me Five Shillings, when only fourteen years old, receiving most favorable notices from the dramatic crit- ics; made her first professional appear- ance at the Park Theatre. Brooklyn, in Nell Gwynne, December, 1300; has played
Journalist and writer; born N. Y. City, July 11, 1837; descended from two old Co- lonial families, that of the Ketchum's on Long Island, 1651, and that of the Requa's at Tarrytown, N. Y., 1700; son of David C. Ketchum, hat manufacturer, Bridgeport, Conn., and Ann Greene Requa. Conspicu- ous during the Civil War in the fitting out and care of New York State troops. Member staff of Governor Reuben E. Fen- ton, 1864; member U. S. Sanitary Com- mission; corresponding and active mem- ber Army Aid Association of Washngton, D. C., 1861. He has been active for more than forty years in efforts to promote the moral welfare of U. S. troops; made two voyages to Europe for the purpose of observing the moralé of European armies. Author of numerous pamphlets and mis- cellaneous pieces, and has lectured on war topics. Well known in Western and Cen- tral New York State. Married Miss Rachelle A. Terhune, 1858. Member Sons of the American Revolution and other pa- triotic societies. Residence, 383 Macon St., Brooklyn, N. Y .; office, 23 Park Row, N. Y. City.
KEYES, Edward Lawrence:
Surgeon ; born Fort Moultrie, Charles- ton Harbor, S. C., Aug. 28, 1843; was graduated from Yale University, 1863; medical department University of N. Y., 1866; (A. M., M. D., LL. D.); special courses in France; lecturer, 1871-72, and afterward professor genito-urinary sur- gery, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1872-90 and since consulting surgeon to Bellevue Hospital. Vice-president Acade- my of Medicine, Membre de l'Association d'Urologie, France; president at various times of a number of medical societies and associations, local and national. Author of Tonic Treatment of Syphillis; Venereal Diseases, Surgery of the Kidneys, the Bladder and the Genitalia in the Male. Member of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Century, Catholic, Meadow Golf- (South- hampton), Shinnecock Golf, and Yale clubs. Married Sarah M. Loughborough of
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Georgetown, D. C. Residence, 1 East 74th Ireland in 1858. He attended the district St .; office, 109 East 34th St., N. Y. City. school, afterwards Warrensburg Academy, KILBOURNE, Henry S .: at Warrensburg, N. Y .; the Yates Union Lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Army; born New York. Aug., 1840; appointed from Wisconsin-civil life; assistant surgeon, June 26, 1875; captain assistant surgeon, June 26, 1880; major surgeon, Feb. 22, 1894; lieutenant-colonel, Medical Depart- ment 1903; retired in 1904. Address, 357 W. 115th St., N. Y. City. Free School, Chittenango, N. Y., and fi- nally took a course and was graduated from the Cazenovia Seminary in June, 1883; studied law with D. W. Cameron; was admitted to practice at the Bar, April 26, 1886, before the special term of the Supreme Court at Utica, N. Y .; Re- publican; was elected district attorney of KILBURN, Frederick D .: Madison County the fall of 1895; re-elect- ed the fall of 1898, and again re-elected to the same office the fall of 1901; he married Miss Chloe Celia Sterling, of Herkimer County, N. Y., Nov. 1887, and has three children. Address, Cazenovia, Madison County, N. Y.
Superintendent of the Banking Depart- ment; born Clinton County, N. Y., July 25, 1850; his parents took him to Frank- lin County when he was nine years old and he has since lived at Malone in that County. He was educated at the Frank- lin Academy, Malone, and afterwards was graduated from the Albany Law School; practiced law, but since 1885 his chief business has been that of the man- agement of the People's National Bank of Malone. He has been clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Franklin County, and treasurer also of that county. In 1893 he was elected a Senator on the Re- publican ticket for the Twenty-first Sen- ate district, which then held territory contaning the counties of Franklin, Ful- ton, Hamilton, Essex, Clinton, Washing- ton and Warren, in the northeastern angle of the State. In the Senate of 1894 and 1895, was chairman of the Senate committee on Miscellaneous Corporations, of the committee on Poor Laws, and of the committe on Grievances, and was also a member of the committee on Finance, of the committee on General Laws, and of the committee on Agriculture. As a member of the Senate he especially con- cerned himself with bills relating to the State Forest Preserve in the Adirondacks; one of his bills prohibited the sale of State lands outside of the preserve to a greater extent than 1,000 acres; another appropriated $50,000 for the purchase of a block of forest land in Essex County; also brought about compromise between claimants of alleged State lands and the State. In Jan., 1896 Governor Morton ap- pointed Mr. Kilburn as superintendent of the Banking Department in place of Charles M. Preston, who had resigned his office; a little later, in the same year, was appointed for a full term of three years. Address, Albany, N. Y.
KILEY, Michael Henry :
Attorney and counsellor-at-law; born Horicon, N. Y., Aug. 2, 1861; son of Will- iam and Mary Kiley, who emigrated from
KILIANI, Otto George Theobald:
Surgeon; born Munich, Germany, Sept. 5, 1863; son of Judge Hermann, of Su- preme Court, and Carola (Faulstich) Kil- iani. Was graduated from Munich, 1886; Halle, 1888; Doctor of Medicine, Leipzig, 1888; marreid, Aug. 12, 1887, Miss Lillian Bayard Taylor. Surgeon to Third Royal Bavarian Artillery Regiment, 1890; New York State examination, 1891; in practice as surgeon in New York since 1891; sur- geon to German Hospital, New York. Member New York Academy of Medicine, New York County Medical Society, Ger- man Medical Society, Medico-Surgical So- ciety Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, New York Surgical Society, Surgical So- ciety of Berlin (Germany); surgeon to Imperial German Consulate-General. Au- thor of a number of surgical papers; con- tributor to Ashhurst's Encyclopædia of Surgery and Twentieth Century Practice of Medicine. Received the Order of St. Michael (Bavaria). Address, 116 East 57th St., N. Y. City.
KILLIKELLY, Sarah Hutchins:
Author; daughter of Rev. Bryan B. Kil- likelly, D. D., and Mary Brown Killikelly; born Vincennes, Indiana, Jan. 1, 1860; unmarried. Was graduated from Eden Hall Seminary, Pennsylvania; in piano and organ under the late Professor Karl Merz; life Fellow of Society of Science, Letiers and Art, London, G. B., which awarded to her the gold crown prize for Papers on the Victorian Era, 1897; mem- ber the Society of American Authors, N. Y. City, Society of Indiana Authors, the League of American Pen Women, the American Historical Association, the Archaeological Institute of America, the Daughters of the American Revolution; life member of the Twentieth Century
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Womens Club, and the Womens Press Club of Pittsburg; contributor to Great Men and Famous Women; to the Press at large. Author: Curious Questions in History; Literature and Art, (3 vols.); now editing the Nineteenth History of Pittsburgh. Address, 171 W. 95th. St., N. Y. City, or South Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
KILNER, Samuel E .:
Managing trustee of the Estate of Frederick Billings; president and di- rector of Minnesota and Montana Land and Improvement Co., Tacoma Land and Improvement Co., and South Superior Land Co .; director of Central Vermont Ry. Co., Woodstock National Bank and Woodstock Ry. Co. Member of the Union League and Lawyers Clubs. Mar- ried Miss Kate Saunders. Residence, 335 West 78th St .; office, 120 Broadway, N. Y. City.
KIMBALL, Amos S .:
Brigadier-general, U. S. Army; born N. Y., July 14, 1840; appointed from N. Y .- civil life. Actual rank-first lieutenant, Ninety-eighth N. Y. Infantry, Nov. 27, 1861; honorably mustered out, May 1, 1864; captain, A. Q. M., April 7, 1864; brevet major, Feb. 1, 1866; vacated, Dec. 7, 1866; captain, A. Q. M., Nov. 19, 1866; major, Q. M., Oct. 11, 1883. Brevet rank-brevet major, Volunteers, Feb. 1, 1866, for faith- ful and efficient services in the quarter- master's department; lieutenant-colonel, deputy quartermaster general, Dec. 31, 1894; colonel, Nov. 13, 1898; brigadier- general, Oct. 1, 1902; retired, Oct. 2, 1902. Address, War Department, Washington, D. C.
KIMBALL, Amos W .:
Captain and Quartermaster U. S. Army ; born Fort Corington, N. Y., July 27, 1862; cadet at Military Academy, Sept. 1, 1881 ; was graduated from Yale College; first lieutenant and quartermaster, Seventh California Infantry, May 9, 1898 ; Captain and quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, May 28, 1898; Captain and quartermaster, U. S. Army, Feb. 2, 1901. Address, Manila, P. I.
KIMBALL, Charles E .:
Railway President; born Bristol, R. I., 1857; was graduated from Brown Univer- sity, 1877 ; married, N. Y., 1887, Miss Male Bennett; President of Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Ry. Co., Alton Terminal Ry. Co .; interested as officer or director in other corporations; member of Univer- sity, Brown University, Baltusrol Golf Clubs, and Adirondack League. Resi-
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KIMBALL, Dexter Simpson:
Educator; graduate of Leland Stanford University, A. B., in Mechanical Engineer- ing, 1896; designer of machine tools and mining machinery in the Union Iron Works, San Francisco; designing engi- neer Anaconda Mining Co .; assistant pro- fessor of machine design in Cornell Uni- versity, 1898-1901; works manager Stan- ley Electric Manufacturing Co., Pitts- field, Mass., 1901-04; professor of me- chanic arts and machine construction in Cornell University since 1904; married. Residence, 309 Eddy St., Ithaca, N. Y.
KIMBALL, James Putnam:
Geologist and mining engineer ; born Salem, Mass., 1836 ; was educated at Law-' rence Scientific School of Harvard Univer- sity, Universities of Berlin and Göttingen, and Mining Academy of Freiberg, Saxony ; was graduated from the University of George Augusta, Göttingen, in 1857, with the degrees of A. M. and Ph.D. Geologist on State Geological Survey of Wisconsin and Illinois, 1859-60. Appointed by Presi- dent Lincoln Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers with the rank of Captain, and assigned as Chief of Staff to General Mar- sena R. Patrick, Army of Rappahanock; took part in the numerous battles of that army and its successive reorganizations, notably those of South Mountain, An- tietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Groveton, Chantilly and Gettysburg. Re- signed from the Army at the close of the campaign of 1863, and resumed his pro- fessional practice in N. Y. Received brevet of Major, 1865. Accepted, 1874, the hon- orary professorship of economic geology at Lehigh University, while continuing his professional relations at N. Y. Appointed by President Cleveland director of the Mint, 1885; resigned, 1899. Contributor to American and foreign scientific and liter- ary periodicals, and author of official re- ports of the Bureau of the Mint, including anuual reports on the production of the metals of the U. S. Has ranch interests with his sons in Wyoming. Member of the Century and Union Clubs, N. Y., and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U. S. Address, Century Association, 7 W. 43d St., N. Y. City.
KIMBER, Arthur Clifford:
Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church; born Nov. 5, 1844, at New Ham- burg, N. Y .; son of Arthur C. and Eliza- beth C. Kimber, both of England; was graduated from St. Stephen's College, 1866,
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primus; tutor in that college, 1866 and 1867; acting professor of mathematics, 1869; was graduated from the General Theological Seminary, N. Y., 1871; made deacon, 1871; served diaconate at Trinity Church, N. Y .; made priest, 1872 ; vicar of St. Augustine's Chapel, Trinity Parish, since 1872. First editor of Church Sunday School Teacher's Weekly, 1878; B.D., 1879; S.T.D., 1886, both from St. Stephen's. President of St. Stephen's College Alumni Association, 1895-99 ; member for N. Y. of committee on Uniform Sunday School Les- sons, of the National Arts and Brooklyn University Clubs, and trustee of General Theological Seminary Alumni Association and of St. Stephen's College. Address, 105 East Houston St., N. Y. City ; home, 464 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
KING, David Bennett:
Lawyer, writer; born Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa., June 20, 1848 ; was graduated from Lafayette, 1871; suc- cessively tutor, adjunct professor and pro- fessor of Latin, Lafayette College, 1871-86, and since in the practice of the law in N. Y. City, having been admited to the Bar in 1883. Author of Latin and Pronuncia- tion ; The Irish Question; also contribu- tions to periodicals. Member of Authors, Lawyers, Bar Association, University, Union League, Grolier, Pennsylvania So- ciety, Lafayette Alumni, and Presby- terian Clubs. Residence, 67 W. 49th St .; office, 170 Broadway, N. Y. City.
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