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in the United States Supreme Court December 5, 1875, on motion of the late Jeremiah S. Black, ex-Attorney-General of the United States. He is also a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania and of several other States. From the time of his admis- sion to the Bar he has been almost constantly in active practice. His attention was devoted especially to corporation law, in which he was quickly recognized as a leader, and as his large practice as counsel for many large railway and other corporations brought him in contact with prominent capitalists, it was not long before he became interested in the organization and promotion of many enterprises. He was the projector, Vice-President and General Solicitor of the Olean, Bradford & Warren Railroad, now a part of the Western New York and Pennsylvania system; the pro- jector and President of the Pennsylvania, Bradford and Buffalo Railroad, now a part of the Pittsburg and Western system; one of the projectors and the Vice-President and General Solicitor of the Cincinnati and Southeastern Railroad, now a part of the Chesapeake and Ohio system; the General Solicitor and a Director of the Pittsburg and Western Railroad Company; the President of the Norfolk, Albemarle and Atlantic Railroad Company. He organized the American Oxide Company, which was subsequently merged into the National Lead Company; the Shenango Coal and Mining Company ; the Sterling Steel Company, of Pittsburg, of which he is Vice-President and a Director; President of the Franklin Steel Casting Company, one of the finest in the coun- try ; organized and was President of the Columbia Gaslight and Fuel Company, which conducted natural gas successfully a dis- tance of sixty-three miles to Youngstown, Ohio, and which sup- plies Sharon, Mercer, Meadville and other cities with natural gas. He also organized the Franklin Natural Gas Company, of which he was elected President, and is identified with many other impor- tant business enterprises. A more recent and notable enterprise was the incorporation of the American Axe and Tool Company, of which he was President for several years. Mr. Mackey like- wise organized the National Saw Company, the National Lead Trust, the Columbia Spring Company and many other corpora-
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tions of a similar character. In politics he has always been a staunch and pronounced Republican. He has been Mayor of Franklin, City Solicitor for three terms and a member of the City Council for several years. In 1884 and 1886 he was the Republican candidate for Congress for the Twenty-seventh Dis- trict of Pennsylvania, and although he went to the City of Erie on both occasions with the largest majority received by any Republican in that District for many years, he was defeated on both occasions by the unprecedented majority given his opponent in that city. He has been a delegate to the Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania on several different occasions and nominated Charles W. Stone for Lieutenant-Governor. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1888 from the Twenty-seventh District of Pennsylvania. He has taken an active part in every political campaign since 1866, and in the Presiden- tial campaign of 1888 was on the stump in New York and New Jersey for several weeks. He is a member of the New York Club, the Lawyers' Club, a Fellow of the Geographical Society, a member of the United Service Club and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, all of New York City; he is a member of the Grosvenor Club, of London, England, the Duquesne Club of Pitts- burg and the Nursery Club of Franklin. He is Past Commander of Knights Templar and the Grand Army of the Republic, was for many years District Deputy Grand Master of Masons of Pennsylvania and District Deputy Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Masons of that State. He is still a member of the law firm of Mackey, Forbes & Hughes, of Franklin.
On May 9, 1867, he was married to Lauretta Barnes Fay, a daughter of the late Cyrus Paige Fay, of Columbus, Ohio. They have six children : Susan Taylor, Myra Fay, Cyrus Fay, William Chase, Julia Ann and Marion Page. Their eldest daughter, Susan Taylor, was married, in 1889, to Edward Everett Hughes, of Franklin, a junior member of Mr. Mackey's law firm, and the second daughter, Myra Fay, in October, 1893, became the wife of Cyrus Clarke Osborne, one of the Representatives of the Standard Oil Companiy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
MARTIN MALONEY.
0 NE of the most important branches of public improve- ment is that which is found in the development of the illuminating power and its contingent inven- tions. The power of electricity outlined for the motive purpose, for lighting and for heating, seems limitless; and one of the first men to realize this and make use of it was Martin Maloney, President of the Pennsylvania Heat, Light and Power Company, and one of the most energetic and progressive men of the State to-day.
MARTIN MALONEY was born at Ballangarry, Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland, November 1I, 1848. His father was John Maloney and his mother, Catharine Pollard Maloney, who were highly respected members of their community. He received a common school education and began work at a very early age. His career is one of those which points out the successful issue of practical hard work, and Mr. Maloney is a self-made man. Mr. Maloney's life has been a very active one, for he has never ceased his efforts since he first began work. On August 5, 1868, he made his first real start in life through his entrance into a busi- ness occupation. The story of his career may be told by about the following roster of enterprises. Plumbing, gas-fitting and the stove business occupied his attention for a number of years, and he met with considerable success therein. He settled in Scranton where he soon forged to the front as a progressive business man, becoming the owner of the Hyde Park Gas Company. He was also at the head of the Maloney Manufacturing and Gas Company. A number of other enterprises claimed his attention as well, among them being the Pennsylvania Globe Gas Light Company, the
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Elkins Manufacturing and Gas Company and the United Gas Improvement Company, the latter being one of the best known organizations of its kind in the country and one which owes con- siderable of its success to Mr. Maloney's connection with it. In Philadelphia he has attained prominence in the business commun- ity through his connection with the Philadelphia Gas Improvement Company, the United States Electric Light Company, the Penn- sylvania Iron Works Company and the Pennsylvania Heat, Light and Power Company. Mr. Maloney closely adhered to his original line of business through all his connections. The utility of gas and electric power for illumination and the various developments thereof interested him for years, and he made a thorough and com- plete study of the possibilities of these and various combinations.
The Pennsylvania Heat, Light and Power Company is one of the most notable concerns of the kind in the country, and recently it has taken a step forward in the march of progress which puts it well in advance in its own line of trade. Its handsome building on Tenth and Sansom streets, Philadelphia, is fitted out in the most complete fashion with all the appurtenances of the business, and it attracts great admiration. Martin Maloney, as President of the company, unites in his individual capacity all the qualities which are necessary for the establishment of success. He is enter- prising, studious, energetic and thoroughly ambitious, while he is also fully wide-awake to all the possibilities presented in a con- tinually progressing community. In the administration of the Pennsylvania Heat, Light and Power Company's affairs, Mr. Maloney, as President, has exercised his remarkable business judg- ment and his technical knowledge to their fullest scope, and the success of the corporation is largely due to him. In private life Mr. Maloney is popular for the same reasons that he has been successful in business affairs, and the same qualities which mark the conduct of his many enterprises endear him to his friends and make him a recognized factor in the progress of the community.
He was married December 31, 1868, to Margaret A. Hewitt- son. Three children have blessed the union, Margaret F., Kitty, and Helen. Mr. Maloney is interested in a number of manufac-
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turing, electric light, water and gas companies throughout the United States, and in this branch of public improvement he is one of the best known men in the country. His identification with such enterprises has been a great factor in their development. He is a Director, at present, in the Pennsylvania Iron Works, Penn- sylvania Globe Gas Light Company, United States Electric Lighting Company, United Gas Improvement Company and the Maloney Oil and Manufacturing Company. His chief interest, however, is centered in the Pennsylvania Heat, Light and Power Company. Mr. Maloney is also interested in the Siemens and Halske Company of America, and all through the State of Penn- sylvania, wherever there is room for enterprise and where the opportunity is offered for development Mr. Maloney is known as a promoter. Few men in Pennsylvania can point to a more active and honorable career than he, and few have won a more lasting success.
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JOHN MANEELY.
ROM the digging of the ore to the completion of the article into which the metal is wrought, Penn- sylvania has long been foremost in the iron trade. The miners, the smelters and the founders have given the name of the Keystone State a world-wide fame, but in this development of what has become one of the greatest of Pennsylvania's resources, the seller, the man who has scattered the products of factory and forge to the ends of the earth, deserves an ample recognition, for it is his capable work, his keen knowledge of trade requirements, his enterprising efforts that have made possible the immense traffic that has been built up. The city of Philadelphia has long been the great distributing point for the products of the State, and many of the agents and brokers engaged in placing the products of Pennsylvania's manufacturers have occupied prominent places in the city's com- mercial circles. In the wholesale iron trade, few names are better known than that of John Maneely, the subject of this sketch, who for twenty years has been a prominent figure in the city's mer- cantile life. His whole energies have been thrown into his busi- ness, and he has long occupied an important position among the city's merchants.
JOHN MANEELY is a native of Ireland, born in 1836. He is one of the many sons of Erin who have left a land where oppor- tunities are few and advancement is slow, and have sought and found the fickle goddess of fortune in foreign lands. Mr. Maneely acquired a substantial education in the national schools of Ireland, in which he displayed such eminent ability and acquired such a thorough mastery of the studies of his course, that he was able to
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obtain a place, at once, as a teacher in the schools. He did not remain in this position long, however, but turned his eyes to that land where so many of his countrymen had settled. Accordingly he came to America and secured employment at his old profession of pedagogy, teaching a public school in Berks County, Pennsyl- vania. In October, 1859, he entered the employment of Seyfert, McManus & Company, and remained connected with them until May, 1877. His entrance into the business world on his own account was in May, 1877, when he established himself at his present location, Nos. 309-11-13 Arch Street, Philadelphia, where he then, as now, engaged in the sale of wrought iron pipe, boiler tubes, brass and iron valves and cocks, wrought, cast and malle- able iron fittings. He handles, and has handled exclusively the wrought iron piping manufactured by A. M. Byers & Company, and the malleable iron fittings and sundry other goods of a similar nature made by Thomas Devlin & Company, of this city. In both of these cases Mr. Maneely acts as the agent of the manufacturers. His business has grown to such enormous proportions that he has been compelled to use Pittsburg, as well as Philadelphia, as a basis of supplies, and ships carload lots of his goods all over the country, his trade being general and not confined to the local market. One of the most striking features of Mr. Maneely's suc- cess is the fact that his business has grown solely upon its merits, and that so far he has never employed a salesman. He has many customers with him to-day who began to deal with him the first month that he began business on his own account-a tacit but powerful commendation of his commercial character.
Mr. Maneely came from a people of strong constitution and long life. It was during his career as a teacher in the public schools of Ireland that he acquired those habits of accuracy and thoroughness in all commercial transactions that have ever since been characteristic features of his business endeavors and which have brought him such success.
Mr. Maneely has taken no active part in any interests outside of the strict line of his business, the only office which he has ever held being that of Vice-President of the Iron and Steel Manufac-
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turers' Mutual Insurance Company of Philadelphia. He is the father of twelve children, seven of whom are living.
In the commercial circles of the Quaker City, few merchants have won wider success than the subject of this biography. Coming to this country when but a young man, he has, by his determined and aggressive character and his strict business integ- rity, conquered respect and won recognition, and with heart un- daunted by temporary troubles, has pushed forward with energy and success.
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JOSEPH H. MANN.
URING the past score of years the industry of paper making has been greatly extended in Pennsyl- vania and one of the most prominent concerns in this trade is the William Mann Company, which was incorporated in April, 1888. The house was founded, in 1848, by William Mann. His son, Joseph H. Mann, the subject of this biography, is now President of the company, and in this office has been instrumental in bringing about many notable improvements in the manufacturing of paper. Not only as a representative manufacturer is Mr. Mann prominent, but as a business man of great integrity and high standing in the com- munity. The affairs of Philadelphia are of much interest to him and his participation in the management of municipal matters has marked him as a public spirited citizen.
JOSEPH H. MANN was born in Washington, D. C., in 1841, his father being William Mann. When Joseph was six years of age he removed, with his father's family, to Philadelphia, in which city he has ever since resided. He attended the public schools here for eight years, and then, for the purpose of learning the business of his father's establishment, he entered his employ in a modest position. The William Mann Company was founded in 1848, and has always been one of the leading houses in the paper manufacturing, blank book, stationery and printing industries. When Joseph H. Mann commenced at the lowest round of the ladder, the business was a very moderate one, but as he advanced in the establishment in various managerial positions, he intro- duced such improvements that the business the firm was then transacting was considerably increased, and Mr. Mann's ability as
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an executive amply demonstrated. In 1881 William Mann died, and the sons, Joseph H., Charles H. and Benjamin Mann, partici- pated in the management as executors, Joseph H. Mann having been manager of his father's business many years before his death. He had reached this post by his own actual merit and was entirely fitted to supervise the affairs of the establishment in every detail. In April, 1888, the firm was incorporated under the title of the William Mann Company, Joseph H. Mann becoming the President.
In less than ten years which have passed since that time Mr. Mann has succeeded in extending the operations of his com- pany in such a degree that it is now one of the most widely known in the United States, while its establishment is complete in every particular. The productions of the William Mann Com- pany are largely used by mercantile and manufacturing concerns, financial and railway corporations throughout this country and abroad as well, some of the products going as far away as Japan and India. Year after year the business has grown until it has been necessary to operate three large buildings to successfully meet the demand. Besides the spacious five-story building at 529 Market Street, occupied as salesrooms and warehouse, the printing and blank book factory is established in the large eight-story structure at Fifth and Commerce streets, recently erected and both of modern construction, with all the latest improved machinery, the company owns and operates a paper mill at Lambertville, New Jersey. The Philadelphia structures are completely equipped in every respect, and the plant at Lambertville covers more than two acres, and is thoroughly modern in its machinery and appliances. There superior grades of copying paper are manufactured by the Mann Company, the output aggregating 1,500,000 pounds annually. The company, under the management of Mr. Mann, has made a specialty of copying papers and railroad copying books, known throughout the commercial world, and the output embraces the best class of mercantile, bank and corporation printing and blank books.
The prominence of this well known commercial and manufactur-
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ing house is largely attributable to the energy and ability of its President, who labors earnestly for the welfare of the organization. In the commercial life of Philadelphia Mr. Mann is a prominent figure, not alone as President of such a representative manufac- turing company, but is identified with several of the leading trade and business organizations and leagues. Mr. Mann is a Director of the Department of Charities and Corrections, in which capacity he has rendered efficient and valuable service to his city. He is also one of the prominent members of the Union League, and in both social and business circles is known and admired for his progressive tendencies and his thoroughness. Mr. Mann was married, thirty-six years ago, to Miss Comly. They have three daughters living, all of them married, and they have four grand- children, all boys. His one son, William, died at the age of seventeen. In the formation of the commission to take charge of the interests of Philadelphia at the Tennessee Centennial Exposi- tion, the heads of several of the leading concerns of the city were appropriately selected, and Mr. Mann was chosen to represent the paper manufacturing and stationery industry.
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WILLIAM D. MARKS.
S TUDY and work. Those are the words which sym- bolize the whole life of Professor William Dennis Marks, President of the American Electrical Meter Company of Philadelphia, and a scientist of inter- national reputation. He is a man who, as he him- self puts it, knew but little boyhood; whose mind has ever been at work with mighty problems in dynamics, with the wonders of the powers of steam and electricity; and while there has been little of the glamour of romanticism, as it is generally known, in his life, there has been the nobler poetry of
"The heart that longeth ever nor will look on the deed that is won."
WILLIAM DENNIS MARKS was born in St. Louis, Missouri, February 26, 1849, his father having been Dennis Marks, of St. Louis, who was of French descent, and his mother, Amira Bacon, of Granville, Massachusetts, whose ancestry was English. His childhood was spent for the most part in the country, and, in 1866, he went to school in New Haven, working during the summer as an apprentice in the New Haven Steam Engine Works. From his earliest reasoning days, Professor Marks gave every evidence of possessing a mind of a decidedly scientific turn. In 1867 he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, where he received the education which so successfully started him on his journey of life. In 1871 he graduated from the Sheffield School with honors, obtaining the degree of Bachelor of Science and Civil and Mechanical Engineer. The latter part of the year he spent in England and on the Continent, making a special study of stone bridges and arches, though he never afterward built any.
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In 1872 he obtained a position on the Morris and Essex Railroad as assistant to the Engineer, and, in 1873, he worked as transit man on the Escanaba and Menominee branch of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The same year he was engaged in build- ing the Laclede Gas Works, of St. Louis, serving also as confi- dential bookkeeper for the contracting syndicate. A year later he engaged in business for himself as part owner of some small shops in Tennessee, where he built blast furnaces, repaired locomotives and engines for cotton gins, river boats and rolling mills. On account of the depression in iron, the business died out, and the hustling young engineer started out for other fields. His scien- tific education here came in good stead, for, in 1876, he was made Instructor in Mechanical Engineering in Lehigh University, and, in 1877, advanced on to a similar post in the University of Penn- sylvania. During the summer of this year he made a survey of Montauk for A. W. Benson. In 1878 he was made Whitney Professor of Dynamical Engineering in the University of Pennsyl- vania, and during vacation made surveys or did any sort of engi- neering work he could obtain. At this time Professor Marks began his most serious special studies in electricity.
In a period of twenty-four years he was never occupied with anything but engineering or something appertaining to it, and every year showed progress. He advanced step by step, always learning, always bettering himself. His greatest step until 1884 was taken in that year, when he was made Superintendent of the great International Electrical Exhibition, retaining his professorship on leave from the University. In 1887 his practical knowledge was put to good use by his appointment to the important position of Supervising Engineer of the Edison Company of Philadelphia and General Manager, on leave from the University of Pennsyl- vania. Two years later he was made Engineer-in-Chief of the Edison General Company, of New York, returning to Philadelphia in 1890. He became President of the Edison Electric Light Com- pany in 1892, and here his business tact and judgment as well as his scientific knowledge and technical skill came into play. When Professor Marks took the helm of the Company it was non-
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dividend paying and had been so for four years. But his superior tact brought it forward in such a way that for the four years following, or, until 1896, it paid the stockholders a dividend of seventeen per cent. per annum and sold fifty per cent. above par. In 1896 Professor Marks accepted the Presidency of the American Electric Meter Company, which office he now holds.
In 1885 Professor Marks was made an Honorary Life Member of the Franklin Institute for distinguished services as Chairman of the Executive Committee on making experimental determina- tions in electricity and magnetism for the Institute, which still remains unapproached for thoroughness and extent, and which are used as standards. He is a member of the American Philosoph- ical Society and of the American Society of Electrical Engineers, and, what to him is the highest honor of all, he has become a close friend of Thomas A. Edison, the prince of electricians.
In 1874 Professor Marks was married to Jeannette Holmes Calwell, of Tennessee, who died in 1894. Two daughters were the result of this union-Augusta and Mabel Marks. Scientific research is Professor Marks' leisure occupation, and among the results of these are such publications as "The Relative Propor- tions of the Steam Engine," a standard in which the thermo- dynamic theory of the steam engine is practically completed by the discovery and application of the law of condensation of steam in cylinders. Besides this, he has written many papers on mechanical subjects and electricity, and the "Appendix on Elec- tricity," for the American reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
WILLIAM A. MARR.
N the days when the common school system of Pennsylvania had not attained its present state of perfection, the country schoolmaster was one of the most important factors in bringing about the progress and prosperity of the people. Not only was it his office to train the minds of the rising generations, but, in many instances, while so doing, he was developing in him- self talents and traits of character which were destined, in years to come, to place him in a position allowing wider scope for the range of his abilities. Both as scholar and teacher, William A. Marr, who is now one of the best known members of the legal profession in Western Pennsylvania, has demonstrated his worth and capability. He worked his way through school and college, and, when he had once decided to enter the profession of law, he taught school that he might pay his way while studying for the Bar.
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