Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 95

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KING, Edward:

Banker; born Highwood, Weehawken, N. J., 1833 ; was graduated from Harvard ; president and trustee Union Trust Co. since 1873; interested as officer or di- rector of many corporations, including Citizens' Insurance Co., Northern Assur- ance Co. of London, Manhattan Savings Institution ; also treasurer of Board Trus- tees N. Y. Public Library, Astor-Lenox Foundations, and officers of other public institutions. Member N. Y. Stock Ex- change, American Geographical Society, Chamber of Commerce, N. Y. Historical Society, St. Nicholas Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Academy of De- sign. Member of Harvard, University. Century, Dunlap Society, Ardsley, and Riding Clubs. Residence, 1 University Pl. ; office, 80 Broadway, N. Y. City.

KING, Horatio Collins, LL. D .:

Lawyer; eldest son of ex-Postmaster General Horatio King and Anne Collins King; born Portland, Me., Dec. 22, 1837; descendant of Samuel King, son of George King, a descendant of Philip King, 1680,

sergeant and clerk of the Raynham, Mass., Company, and of Joseph Warren Collins (war of 1812), son of Cyrenius Collins, of the Tenth Connecticut Foot. Mr. King re- moved to City of Washington, 1839; was graduated from Dickinson College, Pa., 1858; studied law with Edwin M. Stan- ton; removed to N. Y .; admitted to Bar 1861. He entered the Union Army, 1862, and was honorably discharged Oct., 1865, with brevets of Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel ; awarded Congressional medal of honor for distinguished bravery near Dinwiddie C. H., Va., March 29, 1865 ; re- sumed law practice in N. Y., 1865; was from 1871 to 1876 associate editor of N. Y. Star and publisher of the Christian Union (Beecher, editor) and Christian at Work (Talmage, editor). Resumed prac- tice of law in 1877; admitted to U. S. Su- preme Court, 1890; Major of the Thir- teenth Regiment, N. Y. N. G., 1877 ; Judge Advocate of Eleventh Brigade, 1880, and '83, Judge Advocate General of N. Y., staff of Grover Cleveland; 1883 to 1894, mem- ber of the Brooklyn Board of Education, and resigned to accept trusteeship of the N. Y. State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home ; re-appointed trustee, 1897, and resigned, Feb., 1900; degree of doctor of laws con- ferred by Allegheny College, Pa., June, 1897. President of the Army of the Potomac; director of Brooklyn Phil- harmonic; was Democratic candidate for Secretary of State in 1895, running far ahead of the ticket; delegate to National Convention at Syracuse and Indianapolis, 1896. Author of several publications, fre- uent contributor to newspapers and maga- zines and composer of many musical com- positions; also orator, lecturer, post-pran- dial speaker. Member of Brooklyn, Auxil- iary, and Brooklyn Republican Clubs ; Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Repub- lic, Medal of Honor Legion, Phi Beta Kap- pa Society, Masons, Veteran Masons, Elks, Thirteenth Regiment Veterans, Sons of the American Revolution. He is trustee of Dickinson College ; clerk of Plymouth Church; chairman of Fredericksburg Na- tional Park Association, 1898, and mem4 ber (1902-03) of Commission on Laws, De- lays, Publications. Author of King's Guide to Regimental Courts Martial, 1871; Silver Wedding Anniversary of Plymouth Church, 1873 ; The Great Congregational Council in Plymouth Church, 1876 ; History of Thir- teenth Regiment's Trip to Montreal, 1879 ; Twelve Songs, Ten Songs, Sacred Songs and Glees, History of Dickinson College, 1898; Songs of Dickinson, 1900, etc. Ad- dress, 375 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

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KING, Hugh:

President and director of American and Oriental Export Petroleum Co., Columbia Oil Co., and the Columbia Pipe Line Co .; vice-president and director of American Petroleum Co., Legal Tender Oil and Gas Co., Pennsylvania Oil Co. of Mexico and The Petroleum Developing Co. Residence, 322 W. 14th St .; office, 13 William St., N. Y. City.

KING, Joseph E .:

Educator; born Laurens, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1823; was graduated from Wesleyan University (1847) ; Ph.D. from Regents ; D. D. from Union University ; member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa Frater- nities ; president of Fort Edward Collegiate Institute for 50 years; trustee of Wesleyan University for 56 years; president First National Bank of Fort Edward several years; was three times delegate to the General Conference of his Church. Re- publican. Address, Fort Edward, N. Y. KING, William F .:

Merchant; born N. Y., Dec. 27, 1850 ; was educated in the public schools and in 1866 entered the employ of Cahoun, Rob- bins & Co., and now is a partner. Four years he was president of the Merchants' Association. In 1883 married Miss Dan- olds; he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, N. Y. Board of Trade, Con- solidated Exchange, St. John's Guild, and other clubs and corporations. Residence, 871 Madison Ave. ; office, 410 Broadway, N. Y. City.

KINGSBURY, Benjamin Freeman:

Educator; was graduated from Buchtel College, A. B., 1893 ; and Cornell Univer- sity, M. S., 1894, and Ph.D., 1895; assist- ant professor physiology Cornell Univer- sity ; married. Member of Phi Delta Theta, Nu Sigma Nu and Sigma Xi Fra- ternities, Gamma Alpha Society. Resi- dence, 404 Oak Ave., Ithaca, N. Y.

KINGSBURY, Mary M .:

Head worker of the Greenwich House; born Chestnut Hill, Mass., Sept. S, 1867; graduate of Newton High School, Boston University, A. B., in 1890; graduate work at Radcliffe, Berlin, Germany, and Co- lumbia. Head worker at College Settle- ment, 1898-99 ; head worker at Friendly Aid House, 1899-1903 ; also head worker of Greenwich House, 1903 to date. Has con- tributed various articles on settlement and allied work. Married to Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, Jan. 7, 1899. Address, 26 Jones St., N. Y. City.

KINGSLEY, Darwin Pearl:

May 5, 1857 ; was graduated from the Uni- versity of Vermont, 1881. Delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1884; State Auditor and Superintendent of In- surance, Colorado, 1887-88 ; superintendent of Agencies, N. Y. Life Insurance Co., 1892 to 1898; since the later date trustee and vice-president ; is a trustee of the Univer- sity of Vermont and member of finance committee; director of L. & N. R. R .; Author of The First Business of the World, chiefly addresses and papers on life insur- ance; trustee Citizens Central National Bank, N. Y .; member of University, Union League, Merchants, St. Andrews and Ards- ley Clubs. Married (first) Mary M. Mitch- ell, June 19, 1884; (second) Josephine I. McCall, Dec. 3, 1895. Residence, Riverdale -on-Hudson, N. Y .; offices, 346 Broadway and 5 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

KINGSLEY, (Mrs.) Florence Morse:

Author; born near Medina, O., July 14, 1859; daughter of Jonathan Bradley and Eleanor Ecob Morse; educated at Whites- town Seminary and Wellesley College; married to Charles Rawson Kingsley, July 12, 1882. Author of Titus, A Comrade of the Cross (1894) ; Stephen, a Soldier of the Cross (1896) ; Paul, a Herald of the Cross (1897) ; Prisoners of the Sea (1898) ; The Cross Triumphant (1899) ; The Transfiguration of Miss Philura

(1901) ; The Needle's Eye (1902) ; Wings and Fetters (1902) ; Under the Stars (1903); The Singular Miss Smith (1904). Address, Westerleigh, Staten Island, N. Y.

KINGSLEY, Norman William:

Dentist, author, artist; born St. Law- rence Co., N. Y., Oct. 26, 1829. Descended from Ranulph de Kingslea, a Saxon, keep- er of the forest of Delamere in 1166, through John Kingsley, who emigrated to New England in 1634; was educated at Troy Academy until sixteen years of age; was three years clerk in a store in Elmira, N. Y., where in odd moments he picked up copper plate engraving and achieved con- siderable distinction for his skill. Studied dentistry with his uncle, Dr. A. W. Kings- ley, Elizabeth, N. J., and began practice in Owego, N. Y., in 1850. Received the de- gree of D.D.S. from the Baltimore Dental College and M.D.S. from N. Y. State Uni- versity. Began practice in N. Y. City in 1852 as partner of Dr. Solyman Brown on Washington Square. At the Crystal Palace World's Fair in N. Y., in 1853, was award- ed highest prize for the best imitation of natural teeth in porcelain carving and again at the Paris Exposition in 1855. In

Life underwriter; born Alburgh, Vt., vented in 1859 an artificial palate for cur-

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recting the speech of hare-lip people, which gave him a world-wide reputation and has never been superseded. For this invention the American Dental Convention at Sara- toga, in 1863, awarded him a gold medal, also a gold medal was given him by the Odontographic Society of Pennsylvania. In 1864 went to London, where honors were accorded him by the various surgical and medical societies and also by the French Academy of Medicine. Founded the N. Y. College of Dentistry in 1865 and became dean of the Faculty and first pro- fessor of Dental Art and Mechanism. Was president of the N. Y. State Dental Society two terms; president of the State Board of Censors, 16 years; member of the Interna- tional Medical Congress in London, 1881, and member of numerous dental associa- tions in U. S. and Europe. As an artist, took up sculpture as an avocation simul- taneously with his practice of dentistry, and has executed several works in marble and bronze, portraits and ideal, busts and relief; the most important ideal being a head of the Saviour in marble (1868), which was engraved on steel for the front- ispiece of Dr. Howard Crosby's Life of

Christ. Most important portraits in bronze, Rev. Dr. A. D. Smith (1863), Presi- dent of Dartmouth College, and Hon. Whitelaw Reid (1884). Other artistic work includes over forty drawings in Burnt Sepia of Rembrandts. Author: A Treatise on Oral Deformities, 600 pages, published by the Appletons; monographs, Civilization in Its Relation to Decay of the Teeth; Treatment of Cleft-Palate; Mechanism of Articulate Speech; Causes of Irregularities of the Teeth, and on nu- merous other subjects. Address, 115 Mad- ison Ave., N. Y. City.

KINNEY, Francis Sherwood:

Manufacturer; born New Brighton, Staten Island, Oct. 16, 1839; was gradu- ated from public schools. Went to sea and rose to be mate, but tiring of a sail- or's life, became interested in railroads. In 1869 he began to manufacture tobacco, founding the firm of Kinney Bros. He has invented valuable mechanical appli- ances. Residence, Butler, N. J .; office, 125 Broadway, N. Y. City.

KINNEY, Margaret West:

Illustrator; studied in Art Students' League, N. Y., under F. V. Dumond ; then abroad four years under instruction of Collin, Mercon, Lefebvre and Fleury; he opened studio in Chicago (1896) ; painted portraits and landscapes. Married (1900), Troy Kinney, with whom she has since

worked in collaboration over signature "The Kinneys." Among other books illus- trated : The Thrall of Leif the Lucky ; The Ward of King Canute; When Wilderness Was King (McClurg) ; A Ladder of Swords (Harper) ; Barlasch of the Guard (McClure & Phillips), and The Lodestar (Macmillan) ; also short stories in Har- per's Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, etc. Since marriage has also collabor- ated with husband on mural decorations. Among others, Proscenium Arch and several panels for Grand Opera House, Chicago. Address, 115 E. 23d St., N. Y. City.

KINNEY, Troy :

Artist; born 1871; was graduated from Yale College, A. B., 1896 ; illustrator of many well known books and designer of mural decorations in N. Y. and Chicago ; member of Yale Club. Residence and stu- dio, 115 E. 23d St., N. Y. City.

KINSMAN, Frederick Joseph:

Clergyman of the Episcopal Church; born 1869, Warren, Ohio; was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H .; Keble College, Oxford, England; rector of St. Martin's Church, New Bedford, Mass., 1897-1900; professor of Church History, Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., 1900-03 ; professor of Church His- tory, Theological Seminary of N. Y., 1903. Address, 5 Chelsea Square, N. Y. City.

KIP, Leonard:

Author; born N. Y., Sept. 13, 1826 ; was graduated from Trinity College, 1846; L. H. D., Trinity, 1893; LL.D., Hobart, 1893; admitted to Bar; practiced his pro- fession a number of years. Author of California Sketches; Volcano Diggings; Aenone; The Dead Marquis; Hannibal's Man; Under the Bells; Nestlenook; Thaloë; Three Pines; The Puntacooset Colony; A Tale of the Incredible. Clubs: Trininty College Alumni, Authors, Al- bany Society (N. Y.), Fort Orange, Al- bany (Albany), California Pioneers. Address, Albany, N. Y.

KIRBY, William Maurice:

Soldier ; born Bridgeport, Seneca Co., N. Y., Dec. 25, 1842 ; was educated in the pub- lic schools, Buffalo. Served in Civil War, private Third N. Y. Volunteer Artillery, Jan. 1, 1862 ; second lieutenant, March 10, 1862; Captain, Feb. 17, 1865; honorably discharged, July 8, 1865. Lieutenant Colo- nel Third regiment, N. Y. Volunteer In- fantry, May 17 to Dec. 10, 1898, in Span- ish-American War. In National Guard N. Y., First Lieutenant, and adjutant Forty- ninth Regiment, Nov. 29, 1876; Lieutenant

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Colonel, February 10, 1880; supernumer- ary, Aug. 28, 1880 ; Captain, Second Sep- arate company, May 11, 1881; breveted lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 10, 1881; general inspector rifle practice S. N. Y. brigadier- general, Jan. 1, 1897; inspector small arms practice and ordnance officer on staff major-general commanding National Guard of grade of major, Dec. 31, 1898, and breveted brigadier-general senior vice- commander Association of Spanish-Amer- ican War Veterans; married Miss Sophia E. Miller, June 26, 1867. Address, Auburn, N. Y.

KIRCHHOFF Chalres William Henry

("C. Kirchhoff") :

Editor ; born San Francisco, March 28, 1853 ; was graduated from Royal School of Mines, Clausthal, Germany, 1874; chemist Delaware Lead Refinery, Philadelphia, 1874-77; was on the editorial staff of the Metallurgical Review, 1877-78; The Iron Age, 1878-81; Engineering and Min- ing Journal, 1881-84, when he returned to The Iron Age, becoming in 1889 editor- in-chief; since 1883, on United States Geological Survey collecting data of lead, copper and zinc production. Au- thor: Notes on Some European Iron Dis- tricts. Member Society Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; American Insti- tute of Mining Engineers; Iron and Steel Institute, Great Britain; American So- ciety Mechanical Engineers ; Verein Deut- scher Eisenhuettenleute; Franklin Inst. (Phila.); member of Engineers, Cen- tury, Deutscher Verein, Hardware Clubs. Residence, 349 W. 85th St .; office, 232 William St., N. Y. City.

KIRCHWEY, George Washington:

Dean of School of Law since 1901; born Detroit, July 3, 1855; was educated at public schools of Chicago and Albany, N. Y .; was graduated from Yale, 1879 ; stu- died law in New Haven and Albany; ad- mitted to Bar, 1881; practiced law in Al- bany ten years; editor of Historical Man- uscripts, State of N. Y., 1887-89; profes- sor law, Union University, and dean, Al- bany Law School 1889-91; Kent pro- fessor law, Columbia, and dean of School of Law; author of Readings in the Law of Real Property ; Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Mortgage, and articles on law in current journals; ed- itor department of law, New International Encyclopedia ; member : Bar Association, City of N. Y. ; clubs : Century, Yale. Ad- Iress, 908 St. Nicholas Ave., N. Y. City. KIRKUS, William:

Protestant Episcopal Clergyman; born

Hull, Yorkshire, England, May 9, 1830; was graduated from University of London, LL. B., with honors in jurisprudence, 1850; M. A., 1871; minister of St. Thomas's Square Congregational Chapel, Hackney, London, for sixteen years; ordained dea- con by the bishop of Manchester, 1871; priest by the bishop of N. Y., 1874; as- sistant minister of Grace church, N. Y., for twenty months; rector of St. Michael and All Angels, Baltimore, Md., for 16 years. Editor of The American Literary Churchman since 1892.

Author of Christianity, Theoretical and Practical (1854); Frederick Rivers, Independent Parson, under name Florence William- son, (1864); Miscellaneous Essays, Criti- cal, and Theological (1863), and sec- ond series (1869); Orthodoxy, Scripture and Reason (1865); Only to be Married, a Novel (Florence Williamson), (1867); Religion a Revelation and a Rule of Life (1886). Address, 201 Hart St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

KISSEL, Gustav Edward:

Merchant; born, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1854; educated in the schools of Charliar, and Morse, N. Y. City; Lausanne, Switzer- land, and Heidelberg University; director of Brearley School, Commercial Trust Co., Morristown Trust Co., State Steel Trust Co., of Boston, Mass .; U. S. Casualty Co., and U. S. Mortgage and Trust Co .; mem- ber of Union, Century, Knickerbocker, Racquet, Down Town, and City Clubs; married Miss Caroline Thorn. Residence, 15 W. 16th St .; office, 32 Liberty St., N. Y. City.

KITCHELL, Joseph Gray:

Writer, artist ; born Cincinnati, O., April 25, 1862; son of Joseph S. Kitchell; ed- ucated in Cincinnati and New York; mar- ried Caroline Lincoln Jacobs, in Madison, WVis., Oct. 20, 1890 ; newspaper and maga- zine work; in 1900, produced the Kitchell Composite Madonna, a photographic blend of the most celebrated Madonnas painted by the old masters during the 300 years when the subject in art attained its highest development ; this picture attracted great attention in America and Europe, and is regarded as, perhaps, the most famous photograph ever made, calling forth hun- dreds of autographic letters from the most notable men and women in various parts of the world; a painting from it was sub- sequently made by Elliott Daingerfield (A. A.) : author: American Supremacy (1901). President of The Ethridge Co., N. Y .; member N. Y. Press Club, Municipal Art Society, Society of American Authors,

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N. Y. Athletic Club, Sphinx Club, etc. out, June 27, 1901, at the Presidio, Cal .; Residence, 71 Irving Place ; office, 33 Union Square, N. Y. City.

KITTELLE, Sumner Ely Wetmore:

Lieutenant U. S. Navy; born Peekskill- on-Hudson ; descendant in the eighth gen- eration of Joachim von Ketel, of Ketels- hagen, a Pomeranian noble who settled at present site of Albany, 1642; appointed from New York; naval cadet, May 19, 1SS5; ensign, July 1, 1891; lieutenant (junior grade), Aug. 10, 1898; lieutenant, March 3, 1899; Chicago, 1889; Benning- ton, 1891 ; Chicago again, 1893-94 ; office of Naval Intelligence, 1894; Dolphin, 1896- 98; office of Naval Intelligence, 1899-01; Lancaster, Dec., 1901, to 1903; U. S. train- ing ship Yankee; married, 1897, Miss Anna Lockwood, daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, U. S. Navy ; member of N. Y. Yacht Club, Fort Monroe Club, and the Sons of American Revolution. Address, care Navy Department, Washing- ton, D. C.

KITTREDGE, Abbott E .:

Clergyman; born Roxbury, Mass., July 20, 1834; was graduated from Williams College ; married Jennie H. Hoge; pastor Third Presbyterian church, Chicago; now of Madison Avenue Reformed Church, N. Y .; president of general synod of Re- formed Churches in America, 1903; mem- ber New England Society, S. A. R .; mem- ber of Union League and University clubs, Williams Association, Presbyter- ian, Reformed Church.

Address, 711 Park Ave., N. Y. City.

KITTS, William Penn:

Lieutenant, U. S. Army ; born July 27, 1875, Jersey City, N. J .; is graduate of Bryant Military Academy, Roslyn, L. I .; private, Co. D, Twenty-second N. Y. Vol- unteer Infantry, May 24 to July 1, 1898; corporal, July 1 to Nov. 23, 1898 ; served at Camp Black, L. I., Willets Point, N. Y., Fort Slocum, N. Y .; mustered out of service, Nov. 23, 1898 ; appointed second lieutenant, Forty-second U. S. Volunteer Infantry, Aug. 17, 1899, and assigned to Co. L; he served with regiment in Phil- ippine Islands, taking part in a number of engagements, skirmishes and expeditions ; officially commended by Col. J. Milton Thompson, commanding Forty-second In- fantry, for efficient and gallant services while a part of Lieutenant Webster's com- mand, in the capture of the headquarters of the "Morong Insurgent Battalion" and was mentioned in orders for service in the field ; was adjutant and quartermaster at Calocan six months in 1900-01; mustered

commissioned second lieutenant, Twenty- first Infantry; first lieutenant, 21st In- fantry, April 20,

1903; constructing quartermaster at Fort Lincoln, N. D., building new post. Present address, Manila, P. I.

KLAW, Marc:

Theatrical manager ; born Paducah, Ky., May 29, 1858 ; was educated in public and high schools, Louisville, Ky .; studied law and was admitted to Bar; since 1881, theatrical manager; Member of Demo- cratic club; Married Antoinette M. Mor- ris, of Boston (now deceased). Resi- dence, New Rochelle, N. Y .; office, New Amsterdam Theatre Building, N. Y. City. KLEPPER, Max F .:

Artist, illustrator ; born Zeitz, Germany, 1861; came to the U. S. with his parents in 1876 ; traveled for a while with his father on a lecture tour and was later apprenticed to a Chicago firm of lithographers; after having a studio with a friend in Logans- port, Ind., for a year, came to New York in 1879 and opened an office doing litho- graphic work for the trade, attending night classes of Art Students' League ; he earned enough in a few years to enable him to go to Munich to study in 1887, attending the Royal Academy and the Veterinary Col- lege, being particularly

interested in horses; returning to New York he did il- lustrating for Harper's, Collier's, the Cen- tury, and other magazines and weeklies, his specialty being horses, figures, and any- thing connected with horses, as coaching, fox hunting, polo and war subjects ; paint- ed some pictures of a sporting character, one of them, The Good Times Coach, leav- ing the Waldorf-Astoria, which is hanging in the corridor of the hotel named; mar- ried, 1882, Miss Emily Von Rhein. Ad- dress, 70 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.

KLINE, William Fair:

Artist; born Columbia, S. C., May 3, 1870 ; son of Theodore David and Ida Eu- genia (Holst) Kline; studied art at the National Academy of Design, N. Y., at which he won traveling scholarship in 1889 ; went to Paris where he studied with Bougereau at the Académie Julian; re- turning in 1892 was assistant to Will H. Low, afteryards assistant to F. D. Millet at World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; in class under John La Farge was awarded the Lazarus traveling scholarship, under auspices of Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1894, upon which he studied and traveled in France and Italy ; exhibited in the Paris Salon, 1896 ; returned to New York, 1897;

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was awarded T. B. Clark's prize, 1901; [ committee on Literature and Public Educa- second Hallgarten prize, 1903, Academy of Design; awarded silver medal at Pan- American Exposition, Buffalo ; member of National Academy of Design, National So- ciety of Mural Painters of New York; most important work: Her Tribute (woman making flag) ; The Flight into Egypt; Leda the Swan; Happy Days; In Times of Peace, also large window of the Ascension for the Second Presbyterian church, Chi- cago. Address, 244 West 14th St., N. Y. City.

KLOPSCH, Louis:

Journalist ; born Germany, March 26, 1852 ; proprietor Daily Reporter, N. Y., 1877-90; of Pictorial Associated Press, 1884-90; of Talmage Sermon Syndicate since 1885, and The Christian Herald since 1892 ; through The Christian Herald has raised and distributed over $2,000,000 in international charities; rendered substan- tial and valuable services in the Russian famine of 1892 and India famine of 1896; 1898, was appointed by President McKin- ley one of three U. S. commissioners in charge of the relief of the starving re- concentradoes in Cuba, for which purpose he raised nearly $200,000; in spring of 1900 he visited the famine and cholera fields of India, and to relieve the distress raised through The Christian Herald in six months, nearly $700,000, and has guaran- teed until Jan., 1905, the support of 5,000 famine orphans in India; in 1901, in re- sponse to appeal by cable from Li Hung Chang, raised and sent $80,000 for the starving people in Province of Shensi, Chi- na; in 1903, went to Finland and Sweden to visit the famine-stricken districts, for relief of which he had cabled nearly $100,- 000; at the conclusion of his journey, was received in audience by the King and Queen of Sweden, the Dowager Empress of Russia, the Queen of England, and King Christian of Denmark. Address, care of Christian Herald, Bible House, N. Y. City. KNAPP, Charles Luman:

Republican congressman; born Harris- burg, N. Y., July 4, 1847; was educated at Lowville Academy and Rutgers College, N. J., graduating from the latter in 1869; studied law and was admitted to the Bar, and began the practice of his profession in Lowville in 1873; Republican ; in 1885 was elected to the State Senate from the dis- trict consisting of Lewis, St. Lawrence and Franklin counties; served in the Senate during 1886 and 1887 on the committees on Judiciary, Railroads, and Miscellaneous Corporations, and was chairman of the

tion ; in 1889 was appointed by President Harrison consul-general to Montreal, and served during Harrison's term and until Sept., 1893, when he returned to Lowville and resumed the practice of his profes- sion ; was married, June 26, 1887, to Sarah Dorrance, daughter of Hon. Daniel G. Dor- rance, of Oneida Castle, N. Y. ; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, Nov. 5, 1901, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. A. D. Shaw, and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- gresses. Address, Lowville, N. Y.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 95

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