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panies. Upon the election of Mr. Pugh as First Vice-President on March 24th, 1900, Mr. Hutchinson was advanced with him as Assistant to the First Vice-Presi- dent, and on March 3d, 1911, by a change in the organization, he became Assistant to the Fifth Vice-President. -
When the practice of designating the vice-presidents numerically was discon- tinued on May 8th, 1912, Mr. Hutchin- son was appointed Assistant to the Vice- President in charge of Real Estate, Pur- chases and Insurance. Mr. Hutchinson is also President and Director of the Mu- tual Fire, Marine and Inland Insurance Company; the Girard Point Storage Company ; and a number of water com- panies. Also Director of Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic and Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railway com- panies, and the Merchants Warehouse Company. He is chairman of the Board of Managers of the Washington Ter- minal Company. He is a member of the Metropolitan Club, Country Club, Frank- lin Institute, Academy of Fine Arts of Philadelphia and a number of other as- sociations. His residence is at 1304 Spruce street. Philadelphia.
JAMES FREDERICK FARINESTOCK.
The wide experience gained by nearly thirty years of service in the executive de- partment of transportation companies was of material aid to James Frederick Fahnestock when he was appointed to the treasury department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr. Fahnestock was born in Gettysburg, Pa., October 16th, 1859. He is the son of James F. Fahne- stock, descended from the early German settlers of Pennsylvania, and Sarah Gates Lord, a direct descendant from Elder William Brewster, of "Mayflower" fame, and one of the five signers of the com- pact, and also in direct descent from Gov- ernor Haynes and Governor Willis, two of the earliest Colonial Governors in New England.
Mr. Fahnestock moved to Philadelphia soon after the Battle of Gettysburg and received his education in the public schools. lle was graduated from the Philadelphia High School, in June, 1870. In September, 1870, Mr. Fahnestock
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entered the employ of Peter Wright & Sons, General Agents for the American Line of steamships, and the International Navigation Company, operating the Red Star Line. In July, 1884, upon the acqui- sition of the Inman Line by the Interna- tional Navigation Company, he inaugur- ated their voucher system and was placed in charge of the adjustment of through freights between the ocean carriers and the railroads. In January, 1892, when the International Navigation Company assumed full charge of its own affairs, he was made Assistant Treasurer at Phila- delphia.
In December, 1902, npon the merger of the various steamship lines and the for . mation of the International Mercantile Company, Mr. Fahnestock was appointed Assistant Treasurer and removed to New York. In October, 1907, upon the retire- ment of Mr. James S. Swartz, who had been Treasurer of the International Nav- igation Company and its successors more than thirty years, he succeeded to the Treasurership of the International Mer- cantile Marine Company.
On December 9th, 1908, Mr. Fahne-
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stock was appointed Assistant Treasurer of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and assigned to duty at the New York office. On March 23d, 1900, he was elect- ed Treasurer of The Pennsylvania Rail- road Company, succeeding Mr. Henry Tatnall, who, in turn, succeeded Captain John P. Green, as Vice-President, in charge of Finances.
Mr. Fahnestock is a member of the So- ciety of Mayflower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars, the Orpheus and Meri- on Cricket Clubs and Racquet Club of Philadelphia.
GEORGE F. BER.
As the directing head of the Reading Railway System, George F. Baer has shown an ability that ranks him with the great railroad managers of the country, despite the fact that he did not become af- filiated with transportation matters until 1870 and then only in a legal capacity. Mr. Baer was born near the village of Levansville, Somerset County, Pennsyl- vania, September 26, 1842, the son of Major Solomon and Anna Maria (.Baker) Baer, who were of Ger- man ancestry. Ile was educated at Somerset Academy and Franklin and Marshall College, being honored by the A. M. and 1.1. D. degrees and the presi- dency of the Board of Trustees of the college in 1804. Mr. Baer enlisted in the Union Army during the battle of Bull Rum and participated in that and in many of the other notable battles of the Re- bellion up to and including Chancellors- ville, at which time he had risen to the rank of Adjutant General of the Second Brigade. After retiring from the army he studied law and took up active prac- tice at Reading, Pa., in 1868. Two years later he was made comsel of the Phila- delphia and Reading Railroad Company and had charge of much important litiga- tion. lle was subsequently elected to the Board of Directors of the company but retired from that position during the McLeod administration. In 1803 he be- came affiliated with J. Pierpont Morgan in the re-organization of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. In 1901 he was elected president of the Reading Company, the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway Company, The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and the Central Railroad Company of New Jer- sey. Under his able management the business of these companies has been greatly improved and their earnings largely increased. In addition to these connections, Mr. Baer is president of the Perkiomen Railroad Company, the Cata- saqua and Fogelsville Railroad Company, the East Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany, the Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewis- burg Railway Company, the Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad Com- pany, the Atlantic City Railroad Com- pany, the Reading Paper Mills and the Keystone Coal Company. He is a di- rector in the Reading Company, Philadel- phia and Reading Railway Company, Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, Keystone Coal Company, Reading Paper Mills, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Company, Allentown Ter-
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minal Railway Company, Pennsylvania Steel Company, Cambria Steel Company, Cambria Iron Company, Allentown Iron Company, Pennsylvania Company for In- surance on Lives and Granting Annui- ties, Reading Trust Company and chair- man and Director of the Reading Iron Company. Mr. Baer is a member and former president of the Pennsylvania German Society and is a member of the Reading Park Commission and was active in the establishment of the Reading Pub- lic Library. . He is deeply interested in literature and historical research and is the author of several papers on the carly history of Pennsylvania Germans.
CHARLES 11. BURR.
As legal adviser of many large cor- porations, as an author of National repu- tation and a political speaker of great force, the many phases of Charles H. Burr's versatile qualities are aptly shown. Mr. Burr who is deeply interested in Na- tional and local politics, was born in Philadelphia, September 28, 1869, and
was educated at the Penn Charter School, Haverford College and the University Law School. He graduated from Hav- erford College in the Class of '89 with the degree of M. A., and was the recipient of the LL. B. degree upon his gradua- tion from the University. He afterwards filled a professorship in the Law School of the last named institution for three years but relinquished the position to en- ter upon the active practice of his pro- fession. After admission to the Bar he was for some time associated with Thom- as Leaming in the practice of law for a period of nine years, but subsequently organized the legal firm of Burr, Brown and Lloyd. His private practice growing to large proportions he severed his part - nership connections and has since prac- ticed alone. Mr. Burr is possibly one of the busiest men in the city engaged in corporation work. His extensive prac- tice is nation wide and makes his ab- sence from Philadelphia very frequent. His scholarly attainments are attested by his work along literary lines. The Amer- ican Philosophical Society awarded him $2,000 for a prize essay entitled "The Treaty Making Powers of the United States and the Methods of Its Enforce- ment as Affecting the Police Power of the States." Mr. Burr is of Colonial an- cestry, one of his forebears being Wil- liam Paca, a member of the Congress from Maryland, in pre-Revolutionary days, who was one of the original sign- ers of the Declaration of Independence. Hle married May 27, 1899, Miss Anna Robeson Brown, a daughter of Henry Armitt Brown, the famous orator who was considered one of the most finished and forceful speakers of his time, and they have two daughters, Dorothy and Pamela. Mrs. Burr, who inherits many of the traits of her illustrious father, is the author of "The Autobiography," a com- prehensive work dealing with the lives of famous characters and has also written several novels which have established her ability in the realm of fiction. Mr. Burr is a member of the Beta Kappa frater- nity, of Haverford College, The Law- yers' Club, University Club, Philadelphia Country Club, Huntingdon Valley Coun- try Club and the Virginia Club.
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THOMAS DOLAN.
After a life of unusual activity and success, Thomas Dolan recently retired from the presidency of The United Gas Improvement Company, which his ef- forts had helped to make one of the most important corporations in the country.
Mr. Dolan was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1834, and received his education in the public schools of that county. His first employ- ment was in a retail dry goods store in Philadelphia, and he remained in that po- sition until 1856, when he formed a con- nection with a large importing commis- sion house that handled English hosiery and Germantown knit goods. He was given charge of the latter line, and soon built up a large business. The firm failed during the depression incident to the Civil War, and Mr. Dolan determined to start in business for himself. He arranged with one of the creditors of his former employers for a small but completely equipped plant, which he called the Key- stone Knitting Mills. Despite the pre- carious state of trade at that time, he trebled the business in three years, but keen competition and general stagna- tion caused him to discontinue the manu- facture of knit goods in 1867, and he turned his attention to shawls, which were in large demand at that time. The new venture was successful, but change in fashion gradually lessened the demand, and in 1872 he installed machinery for the manufacture of worsted suitings. The name of the firm at this time was Thomas Dolan & Company, and the business grew to such proportions that when he retired in 1897 to devote his time to other inter- ests he had 4,000 employees.
Mr. Dolan was one of the organizers of the Brush Electric Companies of Phil- adelphia, New York and Baltimore, and was the first to install an electric plant in a factory. The city of Philadelphia at that time was badly lighted, and he was the pioneer in the introduction of elec- tricity for that purpose. There was much opposition when he offered to light Chestnut street from river to river, but when he guaranteed to take down the poles at the end of a year if the service was not satisfactory, he was allowed to carry out his project. In 1892 he was
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offered and accepted the presidency of The United Gas Improvement Company, and in 1807 he secured the lease of the Philadelphia Gas Works. Under munici- pal control the works had an annual defi- cit of nearly $400,000, but under the man- agement of the lessees the city receives a revenue of nearly $2,000,000. Mr. Do- lan is a pronounced Republican in poli- tics, but has never held office. In 1888 he organized an advisory committee under the Republican National Commit- tee, and acting as its chairman aided largely in the election of Presidents Har- rison and Mckinley.
Mr. Dolan has been President of the National Association of Manufacturers and was one of the organizers and the first President of the Manufacturers' Club. He was also one of the first mem- bers of the Union League, and was vice- president for several years. He is a di- rector in The United Gas Improvement Company, the Philadelphia Electric Com- pany, the Fidelity Trust Company and the Finance Company of Pennsylvania, and is a Trustee of the School of Indus- trial Art.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR BODINE.
Samuel T. Bodine, President of The United Gas Improvement Company, was born in Philadelphia, August 23, 1854. the son of Samuel Tucker and Louisa Wylie ( Millikin) Bodine. He is de- scended from the old French family of LeBaudain, prominent in Cambray, France, in the twelfth century, Ilis forebears removed to England in 1645. The American branch of the family was founded by Francis Bodine, who had an- glicized the name, and who settled on Staten Island in the Eighteenth century, Ile subsequently removed to Middlesex County, New Jersey, and was the father of two sons, Francis and John, the lat- ter, grandfather of Samuel T. Bodine. served with distinction in the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War. Samuel Tucker Bodine, father of Sanmel Taylor Bodine, was an important figure in the early history of Philadelphia and was Mayor of Kensington, previous to the consolidation. Mr. Bodine was edu- cated at the Germantown Academy and subsequently entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the Class of '73, and being honored with the de-
gree of Master of Arts in 1876. His first business connection was as shipping clerk with the Royersford (Pa.) Iron Foundry where he remained two years and then accepted a similar position with the Cohansey Glass Company, of Bridgeton, New Jersey. In 1876 he be- came associated with the shipping firm of Peter Wright & Sons, and was placed in charge of the commercial work of the Engineering Department and repair shops of the American and Red Star steamship lines. Ile remained in this capacity until 1882, severing his connection to become Secretary and Treasurer of The United Gas Improvement Company, which had just been organized. This corporation furnished Mr. Bodine with an excellent field for the exercise of his abilities and in 1888 he had risen to the General Man- agership of the company. In February, 1802, he was made Second Vice-Presi- dent and was advanced to the First Vice- Presidency in 1904, continuing to act also as General Manager. When Thomas Dolan resigned the Presidency in March, 1912, Mr. Bodine was elected his succes- sor and has since directed the affairs of that important corporation along lines that are constantly increasing its useful- ness to the public. In addition to his du- ties as executive head of The United Gas Improvement Company he is a Director in the Franklin National Bank, the Com- mercial Trust Company, the Pennsyl- vania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, and the Western Saving Fund Society, He is a Trustee of the Estate of William G. Warden and the Academy of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Frank- lin Institute, the Rittenhouse and Uni- versity Clubs of Philadelphia, the Uni- versity Club of New York City, the Ger- mantown Cricket and the Merion Cricket Clubs and the Essex County Club of Manchester, Mass. Mr. Bodine's inter- est in education generally, and his Alma Mater particularly, is shown by his gift of the "Bodine Dormitory" to the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. Ile married in Philadelphia, November 15, 1883. Miss Eleanor G., daughter of the late William G. Warden, who was a well known mer- chant.
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RANDAL MORGAN.
Randal Morgan was born in Philadel- phia, October 18, 1853. His father was Charles Eldridge Morgan, of Black- woodtown, New Jersey, and his mother was Jane Bowen Buck, of Bridgeton, New Jersey. In 1844 his parents came to Philadelphia, where his father entered the wholesale dry goods business. They re- sided in Germantown, and it was at the
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Germantown Academy that he received his early education, and prepared for the University of Pennsylvania, which he en- tered in 1869, being a member of the Class of '73.
After the regular four years' course. he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Upon graduating he spent one year in the Lancaster Iron Works, Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, returning to Phila- delphia in 1874. to take up the study of law in the office of his elder bather.
Charles E. Morgan, Jr. Three years later, in 1877, he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, later becoming a mem- ber of his brother's firm, Morgan & Lewis. As a lawyer he devoted his at- tention chiefly to corporation law, and when, in 1882, the legal business of The United Gas Improvement Company re- quired the undivided attention of one man, he was selected to fill the position. Since that time he has been connected with The United Gas Improvement Com- pany, first as Counsel, and later as Gen- eral Counsel. In 1892 he was chosen Third Vice-President and General Com- sel; in 1904 he became Second Vice- President, and in 1912 First Vice-Presi- dent.
While he has always guided and close- ly followed the operations of the Legal Department of The United Gas Imprvoe- ment Company, his attention has not been entirely confined to the legal features of the business. On the contrary, his field has gradually been extended, and he has assumed a leading part in the financial affairs of that corporation.
Mr. Morgan was elected a Director of the Girard Trust Company in 1901 ; the First National Bank of Philadelphia in 1004; of the Western Savings Fund in 1905 : and of the Philadelphia National Bank in 1905. In 1896 he was elected a Trustee of the University of Pennsyl- vania, and he now is chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance and Property of that institution.
Mr. Morgan was married June 17, 1880, to Anna Shapleigh, daughter of Marshall Spring Shapleigh. She died in July, 1905. and in 1910 Mr. Morgan married Frances Biddle Williams, daugh- ter of Charles Williams. He has two children living. Marshall Shapleigh Mor- gan and Jane Morgan Vavasseur-Fisher.
Mr. Morgan resides at Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he has a comfortable home and country place.
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WALTON CLARK.
The devotion of his entire business life to one line of endeavor has brought to Walton Clark the invariable reward of application and adaptability, for he has risen, by his own efforts, from a posi- tion of comparative obscurity in the lighting and general utility field to a, place of honor in the scientific world and to the Second Vice-Presidency of The United Gas Improvement Company.
Mr. Clark was born in Utica, New York, April 15, 1856, the son of Erastus and Frances O. ( Beardsley ) Clark. The family is of English ancestry, the Ameri- can branch being founded in 1645, at which period and subsequently, both of Mr. Clark's paternal and maternal fore- bears were prominent in Colonial af- fairs. Ile was educated in the public schools of Utica, and at the age of sev- enteen years became associated with a gas producing company in New Or- leans, La., going to Chicago in 1887, where he was engaged in the same line of work, and to Kansas City in 1888. The same year he removed to Philadel- phia to accept a position with the United Gas Improvement Company and it was with this corporation that his broad ex- perience and knowledge won recogni- tion. Mr. Clark's' education was not completed by his Utica training, and for years following this period and after his entry into commercial life, he was an ardent student and devoted much time to scientific research with the result that the Stevens Institute of Technology hon- ored him with the M. E. degree in 1904 and the University of Pennsylvania con- ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Science in 1911. His close application to study and the resultant knowledge brought speedy advancement after he became connected with The United Gas Improvement Company and he was ad- vanced to the assistant general superin- tendency, shortly afterwards being made general superintendent, then to the Third Vice-Presidency and eventually Second Vice-President, which position he still fills. His labors along the line of scien- tific research have brought him in touch with the eminent men of the country who are engaged in the various lines of engineering and led to his selection as
president of the Franklin Institute, an honor that is appreciated by scientists all over the world. In addition to these connections Mr. Clark is president and director of the Equitable Illuminating Company ; vice-president and director of the Welsbach Company and director of the United Lighting and Heating Com-
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pany and many other corporations. He was at one time president of the Ameri- can Gas Institute of which he is still an active member and also holds member- ship in the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Society of Mining Engineers and other scientific bodies. Ile is a member of the Board of Trustees of several educational institutions and his interest in the vast army of employes of The United Gas Improvement Company is attested by his energetic work in aiding in the organi- zation of the Free Correspondence School for Gas Works Employees, of which he is chairman of the Board of Trustees. His clubs are the Union League, University, Racquet, Engineers,
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Merion Cricket, Philadelphia Cricket, White Marsh Valley Country and White Marsh Valley Hunt of Philadelphia, and Engineers of New York City. He is also a member of the Society of the Cin- cinnati. Mr. Clark has been twice mar- ried. His first wife to whom he was united in 1880 was Alice M. Shaw, since deceased. His second wife was Miss Louise Beauvais, whom he married in 1885. He has five children : Frank Shaw Clark, Walton Clark, Jr., Thobald For- stall Clark, Beauvais Clark and Dartheta Clark.
HENRY BEATES, JR., M. D.
Dr. Henry Beates, Jr., was born in Philadelphia, December 20, 1857. He was educated in the public schools, at the Eastburn Academy, the West Philadel- phia and the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania from which he graduated as a physician in 1879. He acted as clinical assistant to Professors D. Hayes Agnew, William Pepper, John Ashurst and William Goodell and his as- sociation with these eminent men was of inestimable value to him. In January, 1894. Governor Pattison appointed him a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners and he has been re-appointed by every Governor since. Dr. Beates is a member of the Philadelphia Medical Club, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, the Northern Medical Society and is a Fellow of the College of Physicians. He is also a member of the Union League, the Academy of Natural Science and the Ma- sonic fraternity. In recognition of his high attainments in his profession, Wash- ington and Jefferson College honored him with the degree of Master of Science in 1000, and Sc. D. in 1911.
LEWIS LILLIE.
Among the able men who have made The United Gas Improvement Company one of the most active and useful organi- zations operating public utilities is Lewis Lillie, its Third Vice-President and Treasurer.
He was born in Troy, N. Y., October . 13, 1863, the son of Lewis Converse Lillie. Among his early ancestors were Lieutenant Edward Morris, pioneer set- tler and land owner ( 1652) of Roxbury, Mass., and Isaac Morris who took part in the Battle of Germantown and win- tered at Valley Forge. Samuel Lillie (great grandfather), farmer and mer- chant, and Brigadier-General of the Ver- mont Militia, represented the town of Bethel in the General Assembly of Ver- mont from 1815 to 1819. Lewis Lillie & Son (grandfather and father) were large manufacturers of the "Lillie Chill- ed Iron Safes," prominently known forty years ago.
Mr. Lillie began his business career at the age of sixteen as a clerk in the legal department of the Northern Pacific Rail- road, New York City. In 1887 he re- moved to Philadelphia to take a position as auditor of The United Gas Improve- ment Company. After six years of ser- vice he was made assistant treasurer ; in 1894 comptroller; in 1900 secretary and treasurer : in 1905 fourth vice-president, and in 1912 third vice-president.
Ile is a member of the Merion Cricket, Racquet, Bachelors' Barge, Whitemarsh Country and other clubs, New England Society, Pennsylvania Society of the Or- der of Founders and Patriots of Ameri- ca, etc. He is an enthusiastic golfer.
Mr. Lillie married, in 1800, Miss Em- lv Murray, of Philadelphia, and has two daughters. . The only son, Lewis, died in 1000. Tlis home is in Haverford, Pa.
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