Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 99

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LAROCQUE, Joseph:


Lawyer; born N. Y., April 2, 1831 ; grad- uate of Columbia, 1849; admitted to Bar, 1852; member law firm, Shipman, Lar- ocque & Choate; interested as officer or director in many large corporations, in- cluding Morton Trust Co., Plaza Bank, American Cotton Oil Co., Niagara Falls Power Co., Celluloid Co .; member Metro- poitan Museum of Art, and Museum Nat- ural History ; member of University, Re- form, Riding, Metropolitan, City, Delta Phi, Century, Columbia University Alum- ni, Down Town Clubs. Residence, 6 East


Author! born Chatham, Ont., May 11, 56th St .; office, 42 Wall St., N. Y. City.


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LARREMORE, Wilbur:


Lawyer in N. Y. City, largely engaged in the trial cases as referee; since 1890 has been editor of the N. Y. Law Jorunal, the official legal paper of N. Y. City, which, besides publishing matters of legal infor- mation, reports judicial opinions in impor- tant cases, and discusses editorially topics of legal and professional interest; has de- livered addresses before a number of Bar associations; has been a frequent contrib- utor to the legal periodicals, and has also written on literary and miscellaneous sub- jects for the magazines. Address, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City.


LA SHELLE, Kirke:


Writer; theatrical proprietor and man- ager; born Wyoming, Ill., Sept. 23, 1862; son of James R. and Sarah La Shelle ; educated at public schools, Wyoming, Ill. ; married, 1893, Mazie Elizabeth Nodine : in newspaper work in Chicago, 1876-91. when he became theatrical manager ; clubs : Press (Chicago), Lambs, Knicker- bocker, Athletic, Theatrical Business Men (New York) ; author: The Ameer ; Prin- cess Chic; The Virginian (Plays); short stories, etc. Residence, 472 West End Ave. ; office, 1,402 Broadway, N. Y. City. LATHERS, Richard:


Commission merchant ; born Georgetown, S. C., 1820; educated in South Carolina ; married, N. Y., 1845, Miss A. S. Thurs- ton; conducted store at Georgetown, S. C .; was colonel Thirty-first Regiment, South Carolina Militia, 1841; president Great Western Marine Insurance Co. to 1869; member Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, Ameri- can Geological Society, New England So- ciety, Lotos Club, Authors Guild. Ad- dress, 248 Central Park West, N. Y. City. LATHROP, Francis:


Artist ; born at sea, near Hawaiian Is- lands, June 22, 1849 : son of Dr. George Al- fred and Frances M. Lathrop; educated at Dresden, Germany, 1867-70, afterward in London, under Burne-Jones and Madox Brown; since 1873 has given his atten- tion to portrait painting, mural painting and stained glass windows ; member Mun- icipal Art Society, N. Y. Zoölogical Soci- ety ; Fellow of National Academy Design, Architectural League, Society American Artists, American Fine Arts Society; clubs : Century, Tuxedo, Sons of the Revo- lution.


LATHROP, Rose H .:


Author and artist; born Lenox, Mass., May 20, 1854; she is the youngest child of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the great novel-


ist; studied art in Dresden, Germany, in 1870, and in London; in 1871, she mar- ried, in London, Eng., George P. Lath- rop, the author; her talent for writing has completely outshadowed her talent for painting, although that is of no mean or- der; in 1888 her first book, a collection of poems called Along the Shore, appeared ; Memoirs of Hawthorne (1897) ; also wrote short stories and sketches for the maga- zines and short sketches for the little folks, which are published in Wide Awake and St. Nicholas; has devoted herself since 1896 to conducting a home for destitute cancer sufferers; in 1900, became a Dom- inican Religious, taking the name of Mary Alphonsa ; in 1901, in addition to the home for the destitute cancer patients in Cherry street, that order obtained a second home at the village of Hawthorne, N. Y., where both sexes thus afflicted are nursed. Ad- dress, 426 Cherry St., N. Y. City.


LATTIMORE, Samuel Allan:


Professor of Chemistry; born Union Co., Ind., May 31, 1828; son of Samuel and Mary Poague Lattimore; graduate of De- Pauw University ; A. B., 1850; A. M., 1853 (Ph. D., LL. D.); professor chem- istry, University of Rochester, since 1867; Fellow A. A. A. S .; member American Chemical Society, chemist to State Board of Health, 1881-83, chemist to State De- partment of Agriculture, 1886; acting president University of Rochester, 1896- 98. Address, 595 University Ave., Ro- chester, N. Y.


LATTING, Charles Percy:


Lawyer; was graduated from Yale, 1873; member of Union, University, Yale and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs; Sons of Revolution, and City Bar Asso- ciation. Residence, 37 E. 49th St. ; office, 34 Pine St., N. Y. City.


LAUGHLIN, Frank C .:


Justice Supreme Court of N. Y. since 1885, serving in Eighth District; term ex- pires, 1909 ; born Newstead, N. Y., July 20. 1859; educated at Lockport (N. Y.) Union School; studied law; married, 1896, Mrs. Martha Taylor Bartlett, of Buffalo; ad- mitted to N. Y. Bar, 1882; assistant city attorney and city attorney, Buffalo, 1886- 91; corporation counsel, Buffalo, 1893; Republican ; club : Manhattan.


Address, Buffalo, N. Y.


LAUX, Augustus:


Artist ; born Rhine Pfalz, Bavaria, Dec. 18, 1847; removed with parents to N. Y. 1863 ; studied at National Academy De- sign ; since 1870, has exhibited at National Academy Design and expositions ; married,


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1876, Emilia Heisterhazen, of Hesse Cas- [ N. Y. Volunteer Infantry, and known as sel, Germany; member Arts, Brooklyn Clubs. Address, 841 Hancock St., Brook- lyn, N. Y.


LAUTERBACH, Edward:


Lawyer; born N. Y. City, August 12, 1844; educated at N. Y. City College ; chairman Republican County Committee, N. Y. delegate at large Constitutional Con- vention, 1894; member of Committee on Laws Delays; chairman Board of Trustees City College; regent of the University of the State of N. Y .; delegate at large to the Republican National Convention and to various other conventions ; married Aman- da Friedman, Jan. 12, 1876. Republican. Address, 22 William St., N. Y. City. LAW, James:


Director State Veterinary College and professor principles and practice of vet- erinary medicine, veterinary sanitary science and veterinary therapeutics, Cor- nell; born Edinburgh, Scotland, Feb. 13, 1838; studied at the veterinary and med- ical schools, Edinburgh; l'Ecole Veteri- naire, Alfort, Paris; l'Ecole Veterinaire, Lyons, France; graduate of Highland and Agricultural Society Veterinary Board, 1857, V. S .; Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, M. R. C. V. S., 1863 ; F. R. C. V. S., 1870; professor anatomy college, 1860-65, and Albert Veterinary College, London, 1865-67 ; since 1868, professor vet- erinary science at Cornell, and since 1896, director of N. Y. State Veterinary College ; consulting veterinarian to the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 1869-96 ; chairman, U. S. Treasury cattle commission, 1882-83 ; author : General and Descriptive Anatomy of Domestic Animals; Farmers' Veteri- nary Adviser; Text Book of Veterinary Medicine, and numerous scientific mono- graphs. Address, The Circle, Ithaca, N. Y. LAWLER, Thomas Bonaventure:


Author ; born Worcester, Mass., July 14, 1864; son of Thomas and Eliza Lawler ; graduate of Holy Cross College, Worces- ter, 1885, A. M., 1893; he married in 1899, Margaret Brennan; member Ameri- can Oriental Society, Archæological Insti- tute of America; member of University, Catholic, Papyrus, and New England So- ciety (Boston) clubs; author: Essentials of American History. Residence, 102 W. 84th St. ; office, 70 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. LAWRENCE, Colonel Abram B .:


Colonel U. S. Volunteers ; born Warsaw, N. Y., of N. E. parentage; public school education ; when Civil War broke out he entered the Union Army, as quartermaster in what was later designated as the 130th


the First N. Y. Dragoons, which became famous under General Sheridan; in 1862, he was placed in detached service in the commissary and quartermaster's depart- ment, Peck's Division, Seventh Army Corps, subsequently assigned to duty in Sheridan's Cavalry Corps as quartermaster of the regular cavalry brigade, etc., pro- moted to captain and assistant quarter- master, U. S. Army, and assigned to the headquarters of Eighteenth Army Corps; later became chief quartermaster with rank of major in the Quartermaster's de- partment, U. S. A., serving the tenth, eigh- teenth and twenty-fifth corps; upon reor- ganization and consolidation of troops of the ninth, tenth and eighteenth corps, con- stituting the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, he was assigned by President Lincoln to duty as chief quartermaster of this and raised to rank of lieutenant-colonel ; during the campaign which ended with the sur- render of General Lee, he was appointed by General Grant, chief quartermaster of the Army of the James; in consequence of his distinguished services he was assigned by order of General Grant to receive the sur- render and make disposition of the prop- erty of the Army of Northern Virginia and to act as chief quartermaster of the U. S. forces at Appomattox Court House, Virginia ; in fall of 1865, was assigned to duty in the vicinity of the Rocky Moun- tains ; in 1866, upon application for muster- out, returned to Warsaw, where he re- ceived honorable discharge with brevet commissions for faithful and meritorious services during the war; one of the organ- izers of the National Guard Association of State of N. Y., and its recording secretary for ten successive years; he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was for several years commander of the Gibbs Post of Warsaw, N. Y., which he organized; is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; honorary member of the Military Service Institution of the U. S., etc., a member of the Ma- sonic Fraternity, and of the higher grades of Masonry; assisted in organizing N. Y. State Agricultural Society and was for several years its president. Address, Warsaw, N. Y.


LAWRENCE, Abraham Riker:


Jurist; born N. Y. City, Sept. 19, 1832; son of Hon. John L. Lawrence, member of Assembly, State Senator, Chargé d'Affairs in Sweden, treasurer of Colum- bia College, comptroller of N. Y. City, etc., and Sarah Augusta Lawrence,


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daughter of General


John (Tangier) Smith; Representative in Congress and United States Senator from the State of New York. Educated at private schools; studied at Ballston Spa Law School, also in the offices of his father and Hon. Jas- per W. Gilbert, justice of the Supreme Court. He was admitted to the Bar in 1853; assistant corporation counsel, 1853- 56, and from 1857-58; member of the Con- stitutional Convention of the State of New York, 1867; Democratic candidate for mayor, 1872. Elected justice of the Su- preme Court, 1873, and re-elected, 1887; served until Dec. 31, 1901, having occu- pied the bench for twenty-eight years. Married Ellza, only daughter of the late Dr. William Miner, cf New York. Au- thor of Compilation of the Tax Laws of the State of New York, with notes of cases. President of the St. Nicholas So- ciety for two terms, 1882-83. Member of the Bar Association of the City of N. Y. and Bar Association of the State of New York, also member of the Union, Man- hattan and Century Clubs of New York, the Society of Colonial Wars and of the St. Nicholas Society. Residence, 285 Lexington Ave .; office, 149 Broadway, N. Y. City.


LAWRENCE, Egbert Charles:


Presbyterian clergyman, writer; born Borodino, N. Y., June 25, 1845; son of Silas Rensselaer and Lucinda Hull Law- rence; was graduated from Union Col- lege, 1869; Princeton Theological Sem- inary, 1875; post-graduate, Auburn The- ological Seminary, 1878; post-graduate course in physical science, Syracuse Uni- versity; Ph. D., National University, Chi- cago, 1889; married, Buffalo, N. Y., 1877, Sarah Jean Burtis, Setauket, N. Y., 1896; Mary Sylvester Dering. Ordained, 1875; corresponding secretary Long Island Bi- ble Society, 1897-1902; director American Bible Society; tutor mathematics Union College, 1870-72; teacher Blair Presby- terian Academy, Blairstown, N. J., 1874; instructor in Latin and mathematics and adjunct professor of history, Union Col- lege, 1878-82. Member Union College Alumni, Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Upsilon. Republican. Director Mohawk and Hud- son River Humane Society, and treasurer Schenectady Department; vice-president Schenectady County Bible Society. As- sisted Dr. James B. Thompson in prepara- tion of his series of text-books on mathe- matics. Author : Historical Recreations ; contributor to church and educational


journals. Address, 36 University Place, Schenectady, N. Y.


LAWRENCE, Frank Richard:


Lawyer; born New York, 1845; son of Benjamin and Marianne Lawrence; edu- cated public schools New York; studied law; married, 1876, Eva Annette Reed, (died 1901). Admitted to Bar, 1869. Member of Lotos, Manhattan, Lawyers, American Yacht, New York Yacht Clubs, and Dunlap Society. Residence, 534 Mad- ison Ave .; office, 120 Broadway, N. Y. City.


LAWRENCE, Isaac:


Lawyer; son of the late William Beach Lawrence, governor of Rhode Island; born in London, 1828, where his father was minister at the Court of St. James; stu- dent under Abram S. Hewitt at Columbia College Grammar School, and was grad- uated from Columbia in 1847; student at Harvard Law School under Greenleaf and Parsons. He was presented to Queen' Victoria and Napoleon III. in 1852. Mem- ber of National Democratic Convention, 1864; U. S. consular agent at Coburg, 1862 and at Port Hope, Canada, 1872- 1876. Editor of Democratic Review. Au- thor of Life of Hon. William B. Law- rence. In 1878 was Democratic candi- date for governor of Rhode Island. President National Association of Anti- Imperialist Clubs. Address, 15 East 90th St., N. Y. City.


LAWRENCE, William Van Duzer:


Manufacturer. Three sons of William Lawrence, the friend of Milton, came to the American Colonies, first settling in New England, and later came to New Netherland and became landowners, men of wealth and influence in the Province. The eldest of the three brothers, William Lawrence, was the head of the paten- tees of Flushing, L. I., in 1645, and a magistrate under the Dutch administra- tion, and was an ancestor of Lieutenant Nathaniel Lawrence, who distinguished himself in the Revolutionary period, as well as of Captain James Lawrence, U. S. Navy, commander of the frigate Ches- apeake in its memorable action with the British ship Shannon, in 1813. Of the branch of the old Flushing settler the subject of this sketch is a lineal descend- ant. William Van Duzer Lawrence is the son of Robert D. Lawrence. His mother's maiden name was Catherine Van Duzer, of Holland Dutch ancestry, and descendant of a family of prominence and influence in Orange County, N. Y.


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Born near Elmira, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1842; his parents thence moved westward; was educated in Michigan, but when nineteen years of age he returned to the East, settled down in N. Y. City, and accept- ed employment in the wholesale drug store of S. R. Van Duzer & Co., and there remained for a period of five years. In 1866 he went to Canada, whither he went to establish a branch house representing several American medicine manufactur- ers, among which were Perry Davis & Son, of Providence, R. I. For a period of twenty-two years he devoted himself to the promotion of the business, after- wards merged into the Davis & Lawrence Co., Limited. which has now been a prominent house in Montreal for over twenty-one years. In 1895 the Davis & Lawrence Co., of Montreal, bought out and absorbed the long-established busi- ness of Perry Davis & Son, of Provi- dence, R. I., who retired from business, the new corporation purchasing all its proprietary interests. A branch cor- poration known as the Davis & Law- rence Co. of New York was organized in N. Y. City, where the head office was located in 1900. Mr. Lawrence is presi- dent of both the Davis & Lawrence Co., of New York, and the Davis & Law- rence Co., Limited, of Montreal, Canada, and also of the Fellows Manufacturing Co., of Montreal and New York, and of the Waverly Realty Co., of New York. He has virtually retired from the activi- ties of the several companies of which he holds the presidency; he has also been devoting his time and energies to the development of a magnificent property, of which he is the owner, in Bronxville, Westchester County, N.Y., known as Lawrence Park. He is a member of the Union League Club of N. Y. City and of the St. James Club of Montreal, Can. He married, in 1867, Miss Sarah, daughter of Alfred G. Bates, of Monroe, Mich., and they have two sons and two daugh- ters. Address, 969 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.


LAWTON, George Perkins:


Lawyer; born Albany, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1847; educated in Troy schools, Vermont Episcopal Institute; was graduated from Williams College, 1868. Member of Chi Psi and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities; was admitted to the Bar, Troy, N. Y., 1869; retired, 1888. Judge advocate, rank lieutenant-colonel, Third Division, New York State National Guard, 1880; re- signed, 1889. Member Society of Colonial


Wars, etc. Married Jeannie Wilson,


daughter of Daniel S. Lathrop, 1885. Ad- dress, 65 West 45th St., N. Y. City.


LAWTON, Louis B .:


Major. U. S. Army, educator; born March 13, 1872, at Independence, Ia .; son of Albert W. and Mary (Vorhis) Lawton. Lived and was educated at Auburn, N. Y .; entered West Point, competitive ap- pointment, 1889; was graduated, 1893; second lieutenant, Ninth Infantry, sta- tion, Madison Barracks, N. Y., June 12, 1893; first lieutenant, April 26, 1898; cap- tain, Twenty-sixth Infantry, Feb. 2, 1901; major and retired, Jan., 1903. Served in Chicago riots, 1894; campaign and battle of Santiago, 1898; campaigns and numer- ous battles in Philippines, 1899-1900; Chinese campaign and battle of Tientsin, July 13, 1900; wounded and recommended by British and American commanders. Promoted to major; retired for wounds; given medal of honor by Congress through the President "for most distinguished gallantry in battle in carrying a mes- sage and guiding reinforcemnts across a wide and fire-swept space, during which he was thrice wounded. Commandant of cadets at Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn., 1901 since. Address, Faribault, Minn.


LAWTON, William Cranston:


Professor Greek language and litera- ture, Adelphi College, since 1895; born New Bedford, Mass., May 22, 1853 ; son of James Madison and Sarah Greene Crans- ton Lawton; married, 1884, Alida Allen Beattie, New Bedford, Mass. Member Assos expedition, 1881; 1890-94, secretary Archæological Institute of America; au- thor: Three Dramas of Euripides; Folia Dispersa (verse); Art and Humanity in Homer; New England Poets; Successors of Homer; Pope's Homer; Introduction to American Literature; Introduction to Greek Literature; Introduction to Latin Literature, Ideals in Greek Literature. Mr. Lawton is a regular lecturer at Brooklyn Institute. Address, Adelphi College, Brooklyn, N. Y.


LAYNG, James D .:


Railway official; born Columbia, Pa., Aug. 30, 1833; was graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania, 1849. He was rodman to assistant engi- neer of construction, O. & Pa. R. R., 1849-51; resident engineer construction of Steubenville & Indiana R. R., 1851-53; of Cleveland & Mahoning R. R., 1853-54; chief engineer and superintendent, 1854- 65, of Steubenville & Indiana R. R .; su- perintendent of Eastern division Pitts-


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burg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago R. R., 1865- sick children of N. Y. City were daily 71; assistant general manager, 1871-74; general manager, 1874-81, Pennsylvania Co.'s lines; general superintendent of Chicago & Northwestern Ry., 1881-83; president of Cleveland, Columbus, Cin- cinnati & Indianapolis Ry., 1887-90; vice- president Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R., 1890 to date; second vice-president West Shore R. R. since 1884. Address, 931 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.


LEACH, Abby :


Professor of Greek, Vassar College; born North Bridgewater, now Brockton, Mass. Student at Harvard Annex, now Radcliffe College, and at Leipzig Uni- versity. Has studied and traveled in Greece and given lectures before clubs and societies and addresses on various occasions. Has held the office of presi- dent in the American Philological As- sociation and in the Association of Col- legiate Alumna. Is member of the


Archæological


Association


and


on


the


managing committee of the school at Athens. Has contributed articles to papers and journals, Boston Evening


Transcript, American Journal of Phi- lology and others. Address, Poughkeep- sie, N. Y.


LEALE, Charles A .:


Physician; born New York, March 26, 1842; son of Captain W. P. and A. M. Leale. Matriculated in medicine, 1860; M. D., Bellevue, Feb., 1865; post-gradu- ate studies in Europe, 1866. Medical ca- det, U. S. Army; assistant surgeon, brevet captain, U. S. Volunteers; surgeon in charge commissioned officers' ward, March, 1865; executive officer, U. S. Army General Hospital, Armory Square, Wash- ington, D. C. He was first surgeon to reach President Lincoln after the assas- sination; placed in charge by Mrs. Lin- coln, remained continuously with the President and was the means of pro- LEALE, Medwin : longing life; held the martyr's right Physician and surgeon; born N. city, 1873; son of C. A. and Rebecca Med- win Leale. He married Matilda Howard Marvin, daughter of the late Tasker Howard Marvin, educator and philanthro- pist. Received preparatory training in private schools of N. Y. City; was grad- uated from Columbia College, receiving the degree of A. B .; took a post-graduate course in philosophy; received the degree of M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y. City, in 1896. After system competitive examination was appointed hand and received his last sign of part- ing. Was consulting physician at last illness of President Garfield; investigated Asiatic cholera in Europe and America; devoted life to poor in epidemic, 1866; studied epidemics, cerebro-spinal menin- gitis, 1864, and many epidemics and causes of typhoid fever in Brooklyn and New York City; examined sources of water supply for City of New York and means for purest increase; originated a whereby, during mid-summer, thousands of mothers and Interne, Roosevelt Hospital N. Y. City;


given salt water baths on trips of the Floating Hospital to waters of Atlantic Ocean; conceived the idea and urged the construction of recreation piers in N. Y. City; suggested and planned summer hospitals for children on the superstruc- ture of the wharves; urged doubling the area of Bellevue Hospital and its entire reconstruction in 1895. He devoted fif- teen of his summer vacations to the gratuitous care of the poor mothers with sick children of N. Y. City; organized staff and managed corps of physicians to visit them in their abodes of misery; has contributed to the literature of the country. Author: Chronic Diseases Among the Children of N. Y. City; Pre- natal Diseases; Surgery of the Lungs; Sunstroke of Infants; Observations in Asiatic Cholera. Member of many medi- cal, scientific and art associations; often delegate to State, National and Inter- national Congresses. Made following speeches at London International Con- gress: Paralysis Following Diphtheria; Gout as it Appears in America; When to perform Tracheotomy in Diphtheria.


Has been active and continuous in prac- tice of profession in N. Y. City since 1866; married, 1867, Miss Rebecca Med- win Copcutt. Was president of the Alum- ni Association, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1875; New York County Medi- cal Association, 1885-87; New York So- ciety for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, 1895-98; St. John's Guild, 1891-93; member of council International Medical Congress, 1887; Grand Army of the Republic; original companion, first class, Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion of the U. S. He is consulting phy- sician to Bellevue Hospital and New York Institution for Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. Address, 604 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.


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was for two years attending physician of Kansas, 1885; took part in Alliance of the floating hospital for children of Campaign, 1890, resulting in retirement of Senator John J. Ingalls; president State Board of Charities, Kan; at World's Columbian Exposition, orator on Kansas day; representative to National Confer- ences of Charities and Corrections and to World's Peace Congress at Chicago, 1893. Author: The Problem of Civiliza - tion Solved. Is a lecturer on literary, political and economic subjects. Ad- dress, 80 E. 121st St., N. Y. City. St. John's Guild. First lieutenant and assistant surgeon, Squadron A, N. G., N. Y .; surgeon to the New York Volun- teer Cavalry at Camp Black, Camp Al- ger, Newport News and in Puerto Rico; also surgeon to U. S. Cavalry at Ponce, Puerto Rico, and attending physician to General Nelson A. Miles' headquarters in Puerto Rico, Spanish-American War. Hospitals abroad in year of 1899. Captain Surgeon, Squadron A, N. G., N. Y., 1899


to 1903. Member of Examining Board for Surgeons of organizations attached to headquarters, N. G. N. Y., 1902-03.




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