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W. C. Lyne, after graduating in 1870 with honor in classics and sciences at Bethany College, West Virginia, engaged in educational work for fifteen years, serving with marked efficiency and success as principal of the Classical Academy at Burgettstown, Pa., Normal School, Claysville, Pa .; principal of the Washington, Pa., high school, and for five years as principal of Park School in Pittsburgh; and lecturer for several years on litera- ture and history in a normal college. His reputation for scholarly work brought him the offer of the chair of Latin and Greek at Bethany College, the chair of Belles Letters from another honored institution of learning, the presidency of a normal college in Ohio and of a State normal college in Pennsylvania. Declining these, he accepted the position of manager for Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia of National Life of Vermont, in which field his executive ability, unswerving integrity and business initiative made him conspicuously successful. He was recognized by the Governor of the State as one of the foremost underwriters of Pennsylvania. His services were sought by other larger corporations, and he accepted the general management in Pittsburgh and adjoining terri-
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tory of the Union Central-the largest financial institution in Ohio, and one of the lead- ing great life insurance companies. He was one of the organizers of the Pittsburgh Life Underwriters, served twice as chairman of the Executive Committee and once as presi- dent. His writings and discussions of life insurance attracted wide attention and were favorably noticed by the European press; and his address before Alumni College Associa- tion and State convention were scholarly and forcible.
He was one of the three Pennsylvania underwriters appointed to secure anti-rebate legislation at Harrisburg, and the successful passage of this bill was followed by similar statutes in over forty States.
Mr. Lyne has been identified with civic and public interests, serving on the director- ate of a national bank, trust company and insurance company, and as trustee of the Pitts- burgh Art Society, the Mozart Musical Society, board of directors of Bethany College, Sons of American Revolution, and as a member of the Academy of Science and Art, His- torical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce and the Duquesne Club.
Mr. Lyne's children are: Wickliffe Bull, of Princeton, 1901; Robert Addison, Sarah Harman and Virginia Brown. His wife, Mary Winters, deceased, was a Colonial Dame by direct descent of Governors Henry Bull, Wm. Hutchison and John Coggeshall, Colonial executives of Rhode Island and founders of Portsmouth and Newport.
Arthur Arton Hamerschlag, educator and engi- neer, was born in Nebraska in 1867, the son of William
ARTHUR and Frances Hamerschlag. He was edu-
ARTON cated in the public schools of Omaha HAMER- and New York and by private tutors; and received the honorary degree of SCHLAG. Sc.D. from Lehigh University and West- ern University of Pennsylvania, and LL.D. from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He married, December 23, 1901, Miss Elizabeth Ann Tollast. He was superin- tendent of St. George's Evening Trade School, New York, 1892-1903; and has been director of the Carne- gie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, since 1903. He is a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Western Society of Engi- neers, Pittsburgh City Planning Commission and Chamber of Commerce, and of the Duquesne Club.
Clifford Brown Connelley, M. A., Sc.D., is a son of George and Elizabeth Brown Connelley, and was born CLIFFORD in Monongahela City, Pa., March 18, BROWN 1863. He is head of the School of Applied Industries of the Carnegie In- CONNELLEY.
stitute of Technology and a member of the Board of Public Education of Pittsburgh; a mem- ber of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and other scientific organizations. He is president of the Manual Arts Association of Allegheny County, a member of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association and Americus Republican Club. He is author of numerous papers on industrial education. His past service as an educator includes his work as principal of the Fifth Ward Manual Training School, North Side, Pittsburgh ; superintendent of mechanical department, Western University of Pennsylvania; supervisor of industrial schools, old Allegheny and Pittsburgh.
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S. B. McCORMICK.
Chancellor Samuel Black McCor- mick, head of the University of Pitts- burgh, was born May 6, 1858, in Irwin, Westmoreland county, the son of Dr. James Irwin McCormick and Rachel Long Black McCormick. He was grad- uated in 1880 from Washington & Jef- ferson College with the degree of Bach- elor of Arts. In 1883 that institution conferred upon him the degree of Mas- ter of Arts; in 1897, Doctor of Divinity, and in 1902, Doctor of Laws. He read law with H. H. McCormick, Esq., from 1878 to 1882, and was admitted to the Allegheny county bar in July, 1882. He practiced in Pittsburgh during 1882 and 1883 and in Denver, Colorado, from 1883 to 1887. He was graduated from the Western Theological Seminary in May, 1890; served as pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of Allegheny city from 1890 to 1894; from then until 1897 pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Omaha, Nebraska; president of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 1897 until 1904, when he became chancellor of the University of Pitts- burgh.
H. W. CRAVER.
Harrison Warwick Craver, libra- rian of the Carnegie Library of Pitts- burgh, was born in Owaneco, Illinois, August 10, 1875, the son of Harrison Eugene and Caroline E. (Weirauch) Craver. His early experience was as an expert chemist. In 1900 and 1901 he was technology librarian in Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh; during 1902, as- sistant superintendent of the Allegheny Iron & Steel Company; from 1903 to 1908, he was again technology librarian in Carnegie Library, and from 1908 to date, has been the librarian in that in- stitution in Pittsburgh. He is a coun- cilor and a member of the Executive Board of the American Library Associa- tion ; and a member of the Pennsylvania Free Library Commission ; and in 1908- 09 was president of the Keystone State Library Association. Mr. Craver is a member of the following clubs: Uni- versity, Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh Golf; Automobile, Pittsburgh; American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science; American Chemical Society; the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, and the American Li- brary Association. June 17, 1902, he married Adelaide Nevins Martin.
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James Anderson Kelso, president of the Western Theological Seminary, was born at Rawal Pindi, India,
JAMES June 6, 1873. His parents were Alex- ander P. Kelso and Louisa M. (nee Bol- ANDERSON ton) Kelso. He graduated from Wash- KELSO. ington and Jefferson College in 1892; from the Western Theological Seminay in 1896; was a student in the University of Berlin for two years; re- ceived the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Leipzig, summa cum lauda, in 1900. Dr. Kelso was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1898, and ever since has been connected with the Western Theological Seminary as professor, acting president and president. Among the organizations to which he belongs are the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis and the Archælogical Institute of Amer- ica. He is an author of note. His wife was Miss Wel- helmina Wise.
To be known as a good teacher is glory enough in the estimation of Edmund Thomas Overend, president and director of the Reno Business Col- EDMUND lege, of Pittsburgh. Mr. Overend was THOMAS OVEREND. born in Peel county, Ontario, Canada, the son of James and Elizabeth Warren Overend. In his early youth he attended the country public schools of Canada, graduating later from the high school of Caledonia, Ontario, and from the Ot- tawa (Ontario) Normal School. Mr. Overend says that his best teaching equipment was obtained in the "College of Hard Knocks."
He spent his early years on a farm and taught about three years in the public schools. Since that time he has devoted his energies and time to teaching in private business schools, the most of this twenty- year period having been spent in Pittsburgh.
W. Wallace Miller was born in Pittsburgh June 13, 1858, the son of William George Miller and Mary (nee Boyd) Miller. He was educated
W. WALLACE
MILLER. in the Pittsburgh public schools, and at the age of 15 went to work for Arbuth- not, Shannon & Company, now the Arbuthnot-Stephen- son Company. Promoted rapidly, in 1904 he was elected president of the company. In 1909 he resigned and retired from active business life. He is vice-presi- dent of the Standard Life Insurance Company and the American Sparkler Company, both of Pittsburgh; treasurer of the Pittsburgh Tile Manufacturing Com- pany, and treasurer of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. Since retirement, Mr. Miller has devoted his time to the work of the United Presbyterian Men's Movement and Brotherhood. He belongs to the Du- quesne Club and the Ben Avon Country Club.
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R. A. HUTCHISON.
Robert Alden Hutchison, teacher, divine and author, is one of the most prominent ministers in the United Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania. Born in Claysville, Washington county, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1862, a son of James and Mary Robison Hutchison, he attended Monmouth College, Mon- mouth, Ill., was graduated in 1888, and took up his theology at Xenia Theo- logical Seminary, Xenia, O., completing his studies in 1891. He began the work of a new congregation in Altoona, Pa., and remained there until 1907, when he was elected by the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church as na- tional secretary of the Board of Home Mission, which position he still holds. In 1907 he received the honorary degree of doctor of divinity from Grove City College, Muskingum College and Mon- mouth College. He was elected presi- dent of Muskingum College, Ohio, in 1904, but declined. He was moderator of the Pittsburgh Synod of the United Presbyterian Church in 1901.
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WILLIAM J. HOLLAND.
William J. Holland, Director of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, is a world famous zoologist. He was born in Jamaica, West Indies, August 16, 1848, of American parentage, son of F. R. and Eliza Augusta (Wolle) Holland. He is a graduate of Moravian College and Theological Seminary, Bethlehem, Pa., Amherst College, Princeton Theological Seminary and has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees. Dr. Hol- land married Miss Carrie T. Moorhead of Pittsburgh, January 23, 1879. After a distinguished ministerial career in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh he became Chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania. He was naturalist of the U. S. Eclipse Expedition to Japan in 1887 and to West Africa in 1889. He is recognized as an authority in zoology and paleontology, and has contributed largely to the literature of these sci- ences. Dr. Holland has been decorated by many European monarchs, and is an honorary member of many scientific so- cieties both at home and abroad.
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Charles Newell Boyd, teacher of piano music, organ music and musical theory, was born at Pleasant
CHARLES
Unity, Pa., December 2, 1875. His pa-
NEWELL rents were the Rev. A. Fulton Boyd and
Mrs. Anna (nee Paul) Boyd. Mr. Boyd
BOYD. attended Poland Union Seminary, at Poland, O., and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with the class of '94.
Few Pittsburghers have attained greater achieve- ments in the field of music than Mr. Boyd. Following a number of successful years as a private teacher of music, he became instructor in church music in the Western Theological Seminary on the North Side in 1903, a position which he still holds. He has been organist and musical director of the North Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church since 1894. Mr. Boyd's business address is 6025 Jenkins Arcade, Pittsburgh.
J. H. Gittings, distinguished pianist, and contributor to musical publications, is best known, perhaps, as the
J. H. author of his pamphlet, "A New Musical GITTINGS. tific management of all parts of the hu- Truth," in which is discussed the "scien- man mechanism evolved in the development of a piano technique." Few Pittsburghers have achieved greater fame in the musical world than Mr. Gittings, and his home, at 5535 Ellsworth avenue, is a meeting place for the great musicians of the country. Among the many noted musicians, who have commented favorably upon "A New Musical Truth," are Fred W. Taylor, Philadelphia ; Moritz Rosenthal, Germany; Asa Yohe Borchard, Paris, France; L. Von Kunitz, Vienna, Austria; Arthur Hart- man, New York; Leopold Godowsky, Vienna; Myrtle El- wyn and Henrietta A. Cammeyer, New York; Tura Ler- ner, Berlin; Earl Mitchell, Alfred Calzen, Chicago; Drake School of Music; Peter C. Kennedy, Walter Kirschbaum, Toronto, Canada; Katharine Wilson Schauffler, Seal Har- bor, Me .; Mary Ray Ure, Pittsburgh.
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Morris Stephens, the voice teacher of Pittsburgh, was born at Dowlais, Wales, and began singing in pub-
MORRIS lic at the age of six, winning a prize. STEPHENS. He won over fifty prizes before he was fifteen. At thirteen he led a juvenile choir to success in a large Eisteddfod, and received two diplomas from the Curwen School of Music, London. In 1882 he came to Pittsburgh and successfully directed the Cambrian Male Chorus and the Schubert Male Chorus. After further study in Europe, in 1891 he became tenor soloist at the Shadyside Presbyterian Church, and one of the faculty of the Duquesne Con- servatory of Music. Later he was associated with many leading churches as tenor and director. For many years he has been considered one of the leading voice teachers and singers of Pittsburgh.
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R. B. SAVAGE.
Ralph Butler Savage, teacher of vocal music, was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, September 16, 1870. His pa- rents were William Henry Savage and Georgiana (nee Butler) Savage. Even while a pupil in the public school Mr. Savage showed unusual musical talent. Parents, relatives and teachers all agreed that the lad had a voice worth cultivating. So after four years' study in Boston with Hubbard, Winch and Coolidge as instructors he went abroad. In Paris he studied under Sbriglia and De Lamarque until the natural quality and volume of his voice were under per- fect control and trained to express ac- curately and with feeling the most diffi- cult musical compositions. During the last 18 years Mr. Savage has been re- markably successful in developing and cultivating the human voice and in pre- paring repertoires in various schools and languages. Mr. Savage has a pleas- ing personality with highly developed musical talent and innate skill as a teacher. He resides in Pittsburgh.
A. A. LAMBING.
A unique figure is the Rev. Father Andrew Arnold Lambing, a priest of the Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh, and a historian and writer of wide reputa- tion. He was born in Manorville, Penn- sylvania, February 1, 1842, being the son of Michael Anthony and Anne Shields Lambing. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Domenec, August 4, 1869, then went to St. Francis College, Loretto, and taught. January 5, 1870, he was appointed pas- tor of St. Patrick's church, at Cameron Bottom, Indiana county. April 21 that year he was transferred to St. Mary's church, Kittanning. January 17, 1873, he was appointed to St. Mary's church, Freeport. July 8 of that year he was named chaplain of St. Paul's Orphan Asylum, Pittsburgh. January 7, 1874, he was appointed to the Church of Our Lady of Consolation, Pittsburgh. He had a remarkably successful career there, being president of the Catholic Institute. His writings have been man- ifold, his histories particularly notable.
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DR. F. M. SCHRACK.
Frank M. Schrack, physician and banker, was born February 9, 1879, in Confluence, Pennsylvania. His parents were Singleton Schrack and Elizabeth Schrack. After finishing a course of study in the grammar schools and in the high school near his home, Dr. Schrack entered the Western University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the medical department in 1903. Since then he has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Pittsburgh.
Dr. Schrack is actively interested in all projects for the civic betterment and improvement of Pittsburgh. For four years he was school director in the old Sixteenth ward of the city. He is president of the Polithania State Bank, on the South Side of Pittsburgh; be- longs to the American Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the Allegheny County Medical So- ciety. His present address is 2417 Car- son street, Pittsburgh.
JAMES B. CLARK.
James B. Clark was born in Pitts- burgh February 17, 1871, the son of James L. Clark and Laura M. Clark. He was educated in the public schools of Pittsburgh and Indiana, Pa., and in the State Normal School at Indiana. He is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of motion picture films and the operation of motion picture and other theatres, and is a leading real es- tate dealer in Pittsburgh. He is treas- urer and director of the Pittsburgh Calcium Light and Film Company; a director of the Independent Film Com- pany; director of the Pittsburgh Photo- play Company; treasurer and director of the Feature Film and Calcium Light Company ; president and director of the Cameraphone Company of Pittsburgh; treasurer and director of the General Amusement Enterprises ; president and director of the Arsenal Theatre Com- pany, and president and director of the Oakland Theatre Company, and actively connected with other amusement enter- prises. Mr. Clark is a Mason.
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HERMAN WILLIAM HECKELMAN.
Herman William Heckelman, distinguished army surgeon and specialist in dis- eases of the eye and ear, was born August 10, 1848, in Lindau, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany. His parents were Martin Heckelman and Katharine (nee Von Fritzhie) Heckelman.
When a small boy Dr. Heckelman was brought to Allegheny, now the North Side of Pittsburgh, by his pa- rents. For a short time Dr. Heckelman attended the primary schools of his na- tive land. Following this he was a pupil in the public schools of the old Third ward of Allegheny. Then he studied in a German academy for a few years, fol- lowing which he entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine in 1869. Not content with a medical education which most men would consider sufficient to fit them for the practice of their pro- fession, Dr. Heckelman spent the next three years in special medical research at Munich, Vienna and Preolia.
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Dr. Heckelman was surgeon in the German army during the Franco-Prus- sian War in 1870 and 1871. He saw much hard service and was often in great personal danger. The army sur- geon usually stays in the hospital tent well to the rear of the army and out of range of hostile bullets. Sometimes, however, in the bloody conflict between the French and Ger- mans the ebb and flow of the battle would bring the hospitals within range of the enemy's guns, and sometimes hostile shells would tear through the rooms where the wounded lay, carrying danger and death to physicians, nurses and injured alike. Dr. Heckelman was given an iron cross of the second class by the German government for this service.
For 25 years Dr. Heckelman was a professor in the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, now the Medical Department of the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught the diseases of the eye and ear. There are few men in Pennsylvania, or the entire United States for that matter, who know more about this subject than Dr. Heckelman. He received a bronze medal for an exhibit of anatomical preparations and specimens illus- trating the diseases of the eye and ear, which was shown at the Philadelphia World's Fair in 1876.
Dr. Heckelman was the first and only chairman of the Civil Service Commission of the former city of Allegheny, under Mayor Charles F. Kirschler, and vice-president of the first Civil Service Commission of Pittsburgh, under Mayor George W. Guthrie. He was a member of the Sinking Fund Commission of old Allegheny, and of Pittsburgh from 1907 until 1913. Dr. Heckelman is a member of many medical organizations. He is expert examiner of the Bureau of United States Examining Surgeons. He belongs to the Allegheny County Medical Association, Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the National Medical Association. Ever since the completion of the medical course in Jeffer- son College, Dr. Heckelman has been busily engaged in original research work and in the practice of his profession.
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Lorenzo Watson Swope, practicing general surgeon of Pittsburgh, was born in Fulton county, Pa., May 10,
1862, the son of William and Lydia (Hock- LORENZO ensmith) Swope. He received his early WATSON SWOPE. education in the public and normal schools, and his degree of medicine at the Western University of Pennsylvania; served as interne of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital and became associated with Dr. Thomas McCann. He succeeded Dr. McCann at his death, in 1903, as general surgeon to the Western Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Swope is also surgeon to the Passavant Hospital, consulting surgeon to the South Side Hospital, the Mckees Rocks Hospital, the City Hospital of Washington, Pa .; chief surgeon to the Wabash, Wheel- ing & Lake Erie Railways. He is a member of county and state medical societies, and others; of the Duquesne, Uni- versity, Country and Press Clubs of Pittsburgh, the Pitts- burgh Athletic Association and the Masonic order. Dr. Swope was married to Miss Sara Forsythe in 1889.
Doctor George Clyde Kneedler, of Pittsburgh, was born February 22, 1868, in Indiana county, Pennsyl- vania. He is the son of John A. Kneed-
GEORGE CLYDE ler and Sarah C. (Ritew) Kneedler. KNEEDLER. He attended the public schools of In- diana county and later the Indiana State Normal School. He was graduated from the University of Valparaiso with the degrees of bachelor of science and civil engineer. He later attended the Western University of Pennsylvania, and from that institution was graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine in 1892. The doctor is also prominent in the business world, being vice-president of the Manchester Savings Bank & Trust Company. He is also a writer, being the editor of the ear, nose and throat department of the Pittsburgh Medical Journal.
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Alfred William Duff, of the Allegheny county bar, was born in Manordale, Westmoreland county, Penn-
ALFRED sylvania, June 6, 1858, a son of Dr. WILLIAM James H. Duff and Sue T. Duff. He was educated in Laird Institute, Murrys-
DUFF. ville, and later he took the collegiate course at the University of Pittsburgh, after which he was admitted to the bar of Allegheny county. He was married to Miss Mary Boyd, a daughter of William and Louise Boyd, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., and has two chil- dren, William Boyd Duff and Louise Duff. His resi- dence is at 1200 Center street, Wilkinsburg. The firm of Duff & Carmack, with offices in the Berger building, Pittsburgh, is well and favorably known. Mr. Duff is the senior member, and the firm during past and recent years has figured in many prominent legal cases.
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ELGIE LA VERNZE WASSON.
Elgie La Vernze Wasson, famous surgeon and business man, was born in New Cas- tle, July 12, 1874. His parents were William J. Wasson and Samantha Jane (nee Run- baugh) Wasson. His father is an archi- tect and contractor doing business in Butler, New Castle and Grove City.
Dr. Wasson obtained his early edu- cation in the public schools of Butler county, later attending Sunbury Acade- my. After graduation from the acade- my he taught school for three years. Dr. Wasson then entered Baltimore Medical College, from which he gradu- ated with the degree of doctor of medi- cine in 1898. He afterward entered the University of Johns Hopkins, finishing from that institution in 1902.
The first field he chose for practice was Callery, Butler county, where he en- gaged in general medical practice. In 1904 he went to Butler, where he be- came a specialist in surgery and gyne- cology. During his residence in Butler he was connected with the Butler Coun- ty General Hospital, of which he is now head surgeon. Dr. Wasson has taken several post-graduate courses in his specialties. He is a wide reader and has kept fully abreast with modern theories and discoveries.
Dr. Wasson is a member of the county, state and national medical societies. He has held the presidential chair in the county organization. His fame for skill has spread throughout the surrounding districts. His practice has been unusually large owing to the prominent position he holds in the surgical profession.
He is company surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company for Butler district.
Dr. Wasson has risen to prominence in politics. In 1908 he was elected representa- tive to the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1910. During his four years of service he was a member of many important committees, including the Health and Sanitation com- mittee, of which he was chairman during his second term. Other committees to which he belonged are: Banks and Banking, Mines and Mining, Good Roads, Educational, Mili- tary Affairs, Fish and Game, and Congressional Apportionments.
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