Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 98

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LAMBERT, Alexander:

Physician; born New York, Dec. 15, 1861; son of Edward Wilberforce and Martha Waldron Lambert; was gradu- ated from Yale. 1884; Sheffield Scientific School, Ph. B., 1885; College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), 1888; married, 1895, Ellen W. Cheney, So. Man- chester, Conn. Professor of Clinical Med- icine and instructor in Physical Diagno- sis in Cornell University, Ithaca, and at- tending physician at Bellevue Hospital. Member American Medical Association, N. Y. State and County Medical Asso- ciations, New York Academy of Medi- cine and N. Y. Zoological Society. Mem- ber of Richmond Hill Golf, University, Yale, Century Clubs. Address, 125 E. 36th St., N. Y. City.

LAMBERT, Alexander:

Director New York College of Music since 1888; born Warsaw, Russian Poland, Nov. 1, 1862; son of Henry Lambert; ed- ucation in Poland; studied piano in Vien-

| na Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1878. Made concert tours in the U. S. and Europe. Residence, 122 E. 58th St., N. Y. City.

LAMBERT, Edward W .:

Physician; was graduated A. B. from Yale, 1854; A. M., 1857; M. D. College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1857; interne to Bellevue Hospital, 1857-58; visiting phy- sician St. Luke's Hospital, 1862-72; Nur- sery and Child's Hospital, 1861-64; at- tending physician Demilt Dispensary, 1858-59; medical director Equitable Life Assurance Society since 1859. Member of University and City Clubs. Address, 126 East 39th St .; N. Y. City.

LAMBERT, John S .:

Jurist; born Johnsonville, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1851; educated public schools and Greenwich (N. Y.) Academy; married, 1891, Winnifred Phillips, of Cassadega, N. Y. Admitted to N. Y. Bar, 1877; prac- ticed his profession at Fredonia, N. Y., 1878-89; couty judge Chautauqua Co., 1882-89; justice Supreme Court, N. Y., since Jan. 1, 1890; Republican. Address, Fredonia, N. Y.

LAMBERT, Rev. Louis A .:

Editor ; born Charleroy, Pa., April 13, 1835 ; son William and Lydia Jones Lam- bert; educated St. Vincents College, Pa., and Archdiocesan Seminary, St. Louis, Mo .; LL. D .; was ordained R. C. priest, Diocese Alton, Ill., 1859; served in Civil War, 1861-63 as chaplain to 18th Illinois Volunteers; instructor moral theology and philosophy, Paulist Novitiate, New York; filled pastorates at Cairo, Ill., Seneca Falls and Waterloo, N. Y .; founded the Catholic Times, 1874, and was its editor until 1880 ; editor Philadelphia Catholic Times, and now editor in chief of N. Y. Freeman's Journal. Author: Thesaurus Biblicus, or Hand-Book of Scripture Reference; Notes on Ingersoll; Tactics of Infidels; Reply to Ingersoll's Christmas Sermon; trans- lated; The Christian Father ; Instructions on Gospels of the Sundays of the Year. Edited : Catholic Belief. Member Victoria Institution, of Great Britain. Address, Scottsville, N. Y.

LAMBERT, Marcus Eachman:

Educator; born in Stouts, Pa., Jan. 11, 1862; was graduated from Lafayette Col- lege; professor in Nebraska College, 1882- 83; topographer U. S. Geological Survey. 1889-92; instructor in German in Boys High School, Brooklyn, since 1892. Au- thor of text-books. Address: 252 Madison St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

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LAMBERT, Samuel W .:

Physician ; was graduated from Yale, 1880, Ph.B. 1882; received M. D., Colum- bia, 1885; attended clinics in Berlin, Vien- na, Munich, Frankfort and Paris, 1887-89; interne first medical division Bellevue Hospital, 1885-86; attending physician Midwifery Dispensary, New York City, since 1890 ; clinical assistant, Vanderbilt Clinic since 1889; visiting physician New York Hospital since 1897. Member of Un- versity, City, and Racquet Clubs. Ad- dress : 130 East 35th St., N. Y. City.

LAMONT, Daniel Scott:

Capitalist ; born Cortland County, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1851; educated at Union College. In 1870 he was appointed a deputy clerk in the New York State Assembly, and was subsequently chief clerk in the Secretary of State's department. In 1877 bought an interest in the Albany Argus and became managing editor of that paper; was ap- pointed military secretary to Governor Cleveland with title of colonel ; afterward became Grover Cleveland's private secre- tary; was private secretary to the Presi- dent of the United States from 1885 to 1889, and Secretary of War, 1893 to 1897. At the close of the Cleveland administra- tion he formed important business rela- tions in New York. He is president of the Northern Pacific Express Company ; vice- president of the Crosstown Street Railway Company, Northern Pacific Railway Com- pany, and Rocky Ford Coal Company ; di- rector Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, Manhattan Trust Company, and Northern Securities Company. Member Union, Uni- versity, Manhattan, Metropolitan, Lotos, Riding, and Lawyers Clubs. Residence : 2 West 53d St. Office: 49 Wall 'St., N. Y. City.

LAMONT, Hammond:

Editor ; born Monticello, Sullivan Co., N. Y., Jan. 19, 1864 ; son of Rev. Thomas and Caroline Deuel Jayne Lamont ; was gradu- ated from Harvard, 1886; married, Ny- ack, N. Y., 1891, Lillian Mann; in newspa- per work at Albany, N. Y., 1887-90; in Seattle, Wash., 1890-92; instructor Eng- lish, Harvard, 1892-95 ; associate professor rhetoric, Brown, 1895-98 ; professor rhet- oric, Brown, 1898-1900, when he became managing editor N. Y. Evening Post. Ed- itor: Specimens of Exposition; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America. Clubs : Harvard, Brown University, and City. Address, The Evening Post, N. Y. City.

LAMONT, Thomas William:

Co .; born Claverack, Sept. 30, 1870; son of Rev. Thomas Lamont and Caroline D. Jayne; prepared for college at the Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H., 1884-88; Harvard, A. B., 1892. Assistant city ed- itor N. Y. Tribune to Nov. 9, 1894; secre- tary, later president, Cushman Bros. Co. to 1901; president (inactive after March, 1903) Lamont, Corliss & Co., exporters and importers, 1901. Married, Oct. 31, 1895, Florence Haskell Corliss. Member Harvard, Players, City, Metropolitan and Englewood Golf Clubs. Residence, Erigle- wood, N. J. ; office, 7 Wall St., N. Y. City. LAMPTON, William J .:

Journalist ; born Lawrence Co., O .; son of William H. Lampton; educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Marietta (O.) College; (honorary A. M., Marrietta Col- lege); editor of Republican paper in Ken- tucky, 1877-78; on staff of Cincinnati Times, Steubenville Herald, Louisville Courier-Journal, Merchant Traveller, Cin- cinnati ; Critic and Evening Star, Washing- ton, and Detroit Free Press; also special correspondent on N. Y. Sun and N. Y. Herald, and contributor to magazines. Author : Yawps and Other Things. Resi- dence, 330 West 51st St .; office, The Sun, N. Y. City.

LANDERS, Charles H .:

Vice-president and director of Amora Consolidated Mining Co., treasurer and director of Haselemere Mining and Milling Co., Myrtle Gold Mines, and San Dand Aurora Extension Co., secretary and di- rector of El Capitan Copper Co., and Iron King Extension Mining Co. Address, 431 Riverside Drive, N. Y. City.

LANDON, Francis G .:

Republican ex-member of Assembly; born New York City, Aug. 20, 1859; County; born N. Y. City, Aug. 20, 1859; son of Charles Griswold Landon and Susan H. Landon. Among his ancestors were Sir John Leverett, governor of the Colony of Massachusetts from 1673 to 1679, and Cap- tain David Landon, of the Army of the Revolution. Received his èducation at several schools, and finally was graduated from the John C. Green School of Science, of Princeton University, in the class of 1881. Member of the Seventh Regiment of N. Y. City, and for four years was adju- tant of that regiment; in 1895 he became captain of Company I. In 1889, in com- pany with an associate officer, Captain Landon went to England to represent the Seventh Regiment and National Guard of the State; he resigned and received full

Second vice-president Bankers Trust and honorable discharge in 1902. He is a

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member of the American Geographical So- ciety and of the Metropolitan, University, Princeton, N. Y. Athletic, N. Y. Yacht and Racquet Clubs. Married Mary Horner Toel, 1897. Was elected to Assembly in 1900, upon Republican ticket; re-elected in 1901 and 1902; in 1903 appointed a member of the following Assembly committees : chair- man of the committee on Public Education, and member of Ways and Means. and Ca- nals. Address, Mansewood, Staatsburg-on- Hudson, N. Y.

LANDON, George Isaac:

Broker; born Charleston, S. C .; son of James George Landon and Emma Lewis. He received his education in the schools of N. Y. City, where his parents removed when he was quite young, and his first in- troduction into the business world was in the Metropolitan Bank of N. Y. City, where he served in minor positions until he earned a clerkship, which he held until the beginning of the war, when he was ap- pointed loan clerk in the U. S. Sub-Treas- ury in N. Y. City. He held that position during the war and until 1868, when he entered Wall Street as a broker. He is prominent in both the Atlantic Yacht Club and the N. Y. Athletic Club. In 1875 mar- ried Florence Avinoff, daughter of G. W. Wright, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Residence, 45 West 73d St .; office, 20 Broad St., N. Y City.

LANDON, Judson Stuart:

Jurist, lecturer ; born Salisbury, Conn., Dec. 16, 1832; A. M. Union College, 1855; Rutgers, LL. D., practicing his profession of the law at Schenectady, N. Y., until 1873, when he became justiec Supreme Court, N. Y. City, 1873-1901 ; lecturer on Constitutional law, Albany Law School. Author: The Constitutional History and Government of the U. S. Member Union Alumni. Address, Schenectady, N. Y.

LANDON, Melville D .:

Humorist; born Eaton, N. Y., 1840; passed the sophomore year at Madison University, and was graduated from Union College in 1861. After graduating was ap- pointed to an office in the U. S. Treasury ; assisted in organizing and served in the Clay Battalion; served in Civil War on staff of Gen. A. L. Chetlain at Memphis. In 1864 he resigned from the army and en- gaged in cotton planting in the States of Arkansas and Louisiana. In 1867 he went abroad, traveling over Europe and into Russia, and was chosen by General Cassius M. Clay, then minister to Russia, as secre- tary of Legation to St. Petersburg. On re- turning to America, in 1870, his first public

writing was a history of the Franco-Prus- sian War. His humorous writings in the Commercial Advertiser, N. Y. Sun and Graphic, in 1872, made his fame world- wide. Under the name of Eli Perkins he has published several books, among them A Biography of Artemus Ward, and Thirty Years of Wit. Is a member of the Colonial Club. Address, 304 West 85th St., N. Y City.

LANDRETE, Olin Henry :

Consulting engineer, educator; born Ad- dison, N. Y., July 21, 1852 ; son of the Rev. James and Adelia Comstock Landreth; was graduated from Union College, C. E. 1876; A. B., 1877; A. M., 1881; married, 1879, Eliza Taylor, Canisteo, N. Y .; assist- ant astronomer Dudley Observatory, Al- bany, N. Y., 1877-79 ; professor engineer- ing, Vanderbilt University, 1879-94; also dean of Eng'ng. Dept. from 1886 to 1894, after which he became professor of engi- neering of Union College; consulting engi- neer N. Y. State Board of Health; mem- ber of N. Y. State Water Storage Commis- sion of 1902 ; member of State N. Y. Pol- lution Commission of 1892 ; member Amer- ican Society Civil Engineers, American Society Mechanical Engineers, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education ; fellow A. A. A. S. Author Metric Tables ; contributing to scientific journals. Ad- dress, Schenectady, N. Y.

LANDSTREET, Fairfax S .:

President and director of Dans Coal and Coke Co., and Tucker County Bank of Par- sons, W. Va .; vice-president and di- rector of West Virginia Central and Pitts- burg Railway Co .; director of Leadville Mining Co., and Small Hopes Mining Co. Residence, 771 Madison Ave .; office, 1 Broadway, N. Y. City.

LANE, Gertrude Battles:

Editor; born Saco, Me .; daughter of Eustace and Ella (Battles) Lane; was graduated from Thornton Academy in her native city ; was assistant editor of the Biographical Dictionary of the U. S. (seven volumes, 1896-03), meanwhile contributing occasionally to periodical literature and doing editorial work of various kinds. Since August, 1903, the household editor of the Woman's Home Companion. Address, care of Woman's Home Companion, 35 West 21st St., N. Y. City.

LANE, Smith Edward:

Lawyer; born N. Y. City, July 22, 1829. On his paternal side George Lane, from whom he is fifth in descent, was the first known ancestor. He came from England, and resided at Rye, County of Westches-

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ter, from 1666 to 1716; was graduated from University of City of N. Y., 1848, A. B., later receiving A. M. Admitted to the N. Y. City Bar 1852, and has since prac ticed in N. Y. City. Is a member of Tam- many Hall, and for thirty years a member of general committee. A commissioer of parks, N. Y. City, 1878-83 ; was member of the Board of Bridge Commissioners of Williamsburg Bridge. Is member of N. Y. Historical Society, Union Club, Delta Phi Club, both of N. Y. City; Society of the Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Saint Nicholas Society, Society of Tammany or Columbian Order, and other kindred institutions.

Address, Union Club, N. Y. City.

LANE, Wolcott Griswold:

Lawyer; born 1866, Sandusky, Ohio; prepared at St. Paul's school, Concord, N. H., and was graduated from Yale Col- lege, 1888, and Columbia Law school, 1891. Mr. Lane is director of Alabama & Great Southern R. R .; member of firm of Tracy & Lane. Member of University and Nine- teenth Century Clubs and N. Y. City Bar and Yale Alumni Associations. Residence, 353 West 84th St .; office, 32 Liberty St., N. Y. City.

LANE, William B .:

Second vice-president of the Manhattan Life Insurance Co .; born New Jersey. April 10, 1839,; was graduated from Princeton College in 1861, and Bellevue Hospital in 1864. For several years he served as surgeon in the U. S. army, after which he practiced medicine until 1872. In that year he became connected with the Manhattan Life, and was for many years suprintendent of agencies; in 1901 he was elected second vice-president. Address, 66 Broadway, N. Y. City.

LANE, William C .:

President and director of Standard Safe Deposit Co., and The Standard Trust Co., treasurer and director of Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stock Yards Co., di- rector of Lincoln Trust Co., director of Erie R. R., director of Hudson companies, trustee of Union Dime Savings Institu- tion. Residence, Hotel Royalton ; office, 25 Broad St., N. Y. City. LANGDON, Andrew:

Descended from John Langdon of Dover, N. Y. ; Lieutenant in 4th Regiment. Dutchess Co., N. Y., 1775; born New Marl- boro, Mass., April 2, 1835; has been mer- chant and banker in Buffalo since 1881, and member of Buffalo's Board of Park Commissioners. Is now (1904) president of the Buffalo Historical Society, to which

office he has been elected annually since 1893. It was very largely due to his efforts that the society now owns the handsome $200,000 marble building in Delaware Park, Buffalo, which was the N. Y. State building for the Pan-American Exposition, (1901); erected with joint funds of the State, City of Buffalo and Historical Society; it is the finest histori- cal society building in America. He is

also director of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, the Commonwealth Trust Co., the General Railway Signal Co., the Buffalo Foundry Co., the Frontier Tel- ephone Co .. the Inter-Ocean Telephone Co., the Sons of the American Revolution, and the Society of Colonial Wars. Mem- ber Grade Crossing Commission, City of Buffalo. President Allegany Society of Buffalo. Married, Aug. 27, 1866. Alice Blunt Woodward, (died 1896), of Bedford, Mass., great grand-daughter of Dr. Elea- zur Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth Col- lege ; and Nov. 26, 1903, Harriet C. Stude- baker. Address, 175 North St., Buffalo, N. Y.

LANGDON, Charles Jervis:

Coal; born Aug. 13, 1849, Elmira, N. Y .; received a thorough education and then made a tour of the world; became à mem- ber of the firm of J. Langdon & Co., min- ers, handlers and forwarders of anthracite coal; major 110th Battalion, N. G. N. Y .; commissary general, military staff of Goy. Cornell, 1880-82 ; police commissioner. Married, Oct. 12, 1870, Ida B. Clark. Ad- dress, Elmira, N. Y.

LANGDON, Edwin:

President and director of The Central National Bank; director of The American Tube and Stamping Co., Gold and Stock Telegraph Co., Hudson Valley Ry. Co., the Iowa Central Ry. Co., Merchants Trust Co., Minneapolis and St. Louis Rail- road Co., and U. S. Life Insurance Co. Residence, Upper Montclair, N. J .; office, 320 Broadway, N. Y. City.

LANGDON, Loomis L .:

Colonel U. S. Army ; born N. Y., Oct. 25, 1830; appointed from N. Y. ; cadet at U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1850 ; was grad- uated, July 1, 1854; brevet second lieu- tenant, Fourth Artillery, July 1, 1854; second lieutenant, First Artillery, Aug. 21, 1854; first lieutenant, July 13, 1860 ; cap- tain, Aug. 28, 1861; major, Second Artil- lery, March 20, 1879; lieutenant colonel, Dec. 1, 1883 ; colonel, First Artillery, Jan. 25, 1889. Brevet rank-brevet major, U. S. Army, Feb. 20, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Olus-

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tee, Fla. ; lieutenant colonel U. S. Army, Sept. 29, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services in the attack on Fort Gilmer, Va .; in command of Ft. McHenry, Md., 1885; in command of St. Francis barracks and Ft. Marion, St. Augustine, Fla., 1886 ; in command of Barrancon barracks and Ft. Pickens, Fla., 1887-88; in command of the Presidio, San Francisco, Cal., 1889-90, and in command of Ft. Hamilton, N. Y. harbor, 1890-94 ; retired from active service, Oct. 25, 1894; member of the hospital com- mittee of St. John's Hospital, and a direc- tor in the Brevoort Savings Bank of Brooklyn; member of several clubs and patriotic societies in N. Y. and Brooklyn ; student at the National Academy in Lon- don in 1903, and occasional correspondent for the newspaper press. Address, 545 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, Cal.

LANGDON, Russell Creamer:

Captain U. S. Army ; born Brooklyn, N. Y., June 20, 1872; appointed to the U. S. Military Academy from Second Con- gressional District, N. Y .; was graduated from U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., June 12, 1896, and appointed addi- tional second lieutenant of Eighth Infan- try; promoted to captain, Ninth Infantry, Dec. 5, 1901; member Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba ; secretary and treasurer of the California branch of that society at its organization in July, 1902 ; member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U. S .; member of the Soci- ety of the Army of the Philippines, and the Society of the Carabao of the Phil- ippines; also member of the Columbus Club, Columbus, O. Address, Fort Egbert, Alaska.

LANGDON, Woodbury:

Dry goods merchant; born Portsmouth, N. H., Oct. 22, 1836; son of Woodbury and Frances C. Langdon; educated at Portsmouth High School; married Miss Elizabeth Langdon Elwyn, 1898; member firm Joy, Langdon & Co. since 1868; in- terested as officer or director in banking and other corporations, including Cannel- ton Coal Co., N. Y. Life Insurance Co., Title Guarantee & Trust Co., Central Na- tional Bank, National Bank of Commerce, German Alliance Insurance Co., German- American Insurance Co. ; member Chamber of Commerce, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Geological Society, New England Society, N. Y. Botanical Gardens ; member of Merchants, Union League, City, Law- yers, Riding, N. Y. Athletic Clubs. Resi- dence, Cor. W. 181st St. and Boulevard

| Lafayette; office, 108 Worth St., N. Y. City.

LANGENBECK, Karl:

Factory engineer; specialist in clay prod- ucts; student at Zurich under Victor Meyer, and at Berlin under Carl Lieb- ermann; originator of Rookwood faience and aventurine pottery glazes; man- ager The Mosaic Tile Co., Zanesville, O., and Matawan, N. J., and Laboratory for Ceramics at Elizabeth, N. J .; author : Chemistry of Pottery ; member American Chemical Society; Fellow A. A. A. S .; clubs : Chemists (New York), Town and Country (Elizabeth). Residence, 464 Mor- ris Ave., Elizabeth, N. J .; office, 508 Broome St. N. Y. City.

LANGTON, Daniel Webster:

Landscape architect; born Kemper Co., Miss., May 5, 1864; graduate of Univer- sity of Alabama, 1882; Ph. D., 1891; on the geological survey of Alabama, 1883-89, when he became consulting geologist of Chesapeake Ohio

Ry., resigning in 1893; Fellow Geological So- ciety of America, 1889; American Society Landscape, 1899; member Architectural League; author : Report on the Geology of Southeast Alabama, State Geological Survey, also geological papers, Silliman's Journal, Bulletin Geological Society, Amer- ica ; married, 1896, Berenice Francis, New Haven, Conn. Residence, 18 E. 28th St .; office, Fuller Building, N. Y. City.

LANIER, Charles :

Banker; Head of the firm of Win- slow, Lanier & Co .; born Indiana ; educated at New Haven ;

president Massillon & Cleveland R. R. Co., and Pitts- burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Ry. Co .; di- rector American Cotton Oil Co., Cleveland & Pittsburg R. R. Co., and Western Union Telegraph Co .; director and vice-president Central & South American Telegraph Co .; director National Bank of Commerce in N. Y., Central Trust Co., Southern Ry. Co., Mutuai Life Insurance Co .; treasurer American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospi- tal; member Union League, Jekyl Island, Century, Metropolitan, New York, Yacht, Tuxedo, Union, Knickerbocker and Law- yers clubs. Residence, 30 E. 37th St .; office, 59 Cedar St., N. Y. City. LANNING, Edward:

Vice-president of the Continental Insur- ance Co. of N. Y .; born Trenton, N. J., Nov. 3, 1858, and was educated in the Boston public schools; entered the insur- ance business as a junior when eighteen

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years of age, and has devoted himself to [ 1836, of American parents; son of Henry it; appointed secretary of the Continental in 1891, having been some years preceding, it's assistant secretary ; elected vice-pres- ident in 1903. Address, 44 Cedar St., N. Y. City.

LANSING, James:

Jurist; born May 9, 1834, Decatur, N. Y .; graduate of Albany Law School, 1864 ; married, July 4, 1857, Sarah A. Richard- son, of Poultney, Vt .; Surrogate of Rens- selaer Co., 1890-95; professor in Albany Law School. Residence, Troy, N. Y.

LAPHAM, Lewis H .:

Banker; vice-president, treasurer and director of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co .; The Texas Co., and The U. S. Leather Co. Residence, 15 W. 56th St .; office, 8 Bridge St., N. Y. City.

LARKIN, Adrian:

Lawyer; was graduated from Princeton in 1887; married Miss Katherine B. Sat- terthwait; secretary and director of West- ern Steel Car and Foundry Co., and Pressed Steel Car Co .; director of Co- lonial Sugars Co .; Crimora Manganese Co., Davis Creek Coal & Coke Co., Lans- ton Monotype Machine Co., Lookout Fuel Co., Sloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co., and Texas Transport & Terminal Co .; mem- ber of Down Town, and Garden City Golf Clubs. Residence, Nutley, N. J .; office, 54 Wall St., N. Y. City.

LARNED, Charles W .:

Colonel U. S. Army ; professor U. S. Mil- itary Academy; born March 9, 1850, N. Y. City ; was graduated from U. S. Military Academy, June 15, 1870, and second lieu- tenant, Third Cavalry, same date; trans- ferred to Seventh Cavalry; first lieuten- ant, June 25, 1876 ; lieutenant-colonel and professor, U. S. Military Academy, July 25, 1876; served with regiment in Kan- sas, 1870; on reconstruction duty in the South-Kentucky and Tennessee-with regiment, 1871-73; with regiment under Custer in Stanley expedition against Sioux Indians, Dakota and Montana, 1873 ; ac- tion of Little Big Horn, Aug. 14, 1873, with Sioux under Sitting Bull; contrib- utor to magazines and periodicals on var- ious subjects connected with religion, mil- itary matters, and art; compiler of The Great Discourse, published in 1890; mem- ber of Century Association, Union League Club of N. Y., Architectural League, So- ciety of American Wars, Seventh Cavalry Mess, West Point Army Mess. Address, West Point, N. Y.

LARNED, Josephus Nelson:

Sherwood Larned and Mary A. Nelson Larned; educated in the public schools of Buffalo; assistant editor of the Buffalo Express, 1859-69 ; editor, 1869-72 ; agent of the U. S. Treasury Department to report on trade with Canada, 1869; superintend- ent of education in Buffalo, N. Y., 1872-73; superintendent of the Buffalo Library, 1877-97; president of the American Li- brary Association, 1893-94; author: Talks About Labor (1877) ; History for Ready Reference (1895); Talk about Books (1897) ; History of England for Schools (1900) ; Primer of Right and Wrong (1902) ; History of the U. S. for Second- ary Schools (1903) ; Seventy Centuries (1905) ; editor of A Multitude of Coun- sellors (1901) ; The Literature of Amer- ican History (1902). Address, 35 Johnson Park, Buffalo, N. Y.

LARNED, (Mrs.) Linda Hull:

Born Little Falls, N. Y .; daughter of David H. and Mary Schemerhorn Hull; was educated in Syracuse at the Keble School; married Samuel B. Larned, of Syracuse; she is a speaker and writer upon all subjects pertaining to the house- hold; is president of the National House- hold Economic Association; author: The Hostess of To-day, and regular contributor to newspapers and magazines; is consid- ered an expert upon the subject of home economics and as such has addressed many audiences of club women in this country, as well as special ones in London, Paris, Dresden, Holland and Canada; has ac- cepted invitations to speak at the biennials of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, at many State federations and other large organizations of women; now well known as an authority on domestic science, home economics and all matters pertaining to home making. Address, 309 W. Genesee St., Syracuse, N. Y.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 98

Author: Publication date: 1904- Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc. Number of Pages: 1100

Author:
Publication date: 1904-
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc.
Number of Pages: 1100