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CRONE, Wesley F .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Schuylkill County: born in Hegins Township, Schuylkill County, Pa., May 2S, 1863; worked in the breaker and coal mines when a boy; edu - cated in the Donaldson public schools. and taught school for ten years in Don- aldson; was transcribing clerk in the County Commissioner's office of Schuyl- kill County for five years, which posi- tion he held when elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Ad- dress. Donaldson, Pa.
CROSKEY, John Welsh, M. D .:
Physician: born on the 26th day of January, 1858, in the family residence on historic Rittenhouse Square; son of Henry Croskey; educated at Dr. Faires' Insti- tution, and Eastburn Academy, and Medi- co-Chirurgical College, in Philadelphia. 1SS9, and on graduation was elected Chief of the Surgical Clinic of the Medico- Chirurgical, and later in the Adjunct Faculty as lecturer on Minor and Opera- tive Surgery and Demonstrator in band- aging: 1897 succeeded Dr. P. D. Keyser. attending surgeon at the famous Will's Eye Hospital; 1901 elected Ophthalmic surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital (Blockley). 1902 elected Ophthalmic sur- geon to Samaritan Hospital, also to the chair of Ophthalmology, Laryngology and Otology in Temple College Medical De-
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partment. Member Masonic Order, the St. George Society, Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia County Medical So- ciety, Medico-Chirurgical Society and the American Medical Association. Editor of the Medico-Chirurgical Journal. Married on the 15th day of December, 1SS0, to Elizabeth Estes Browning. Address, 3325 Powelton Ave., W. Philadelphia, Pa.
CROSSAN, KENNEDY:
Railroad engineer; born in Chester County, Pa., in 1851; studied in the pub- lic schools; apprenticed to a blacksmith at fourteen; left it at seventeen and began a series of travels, working his way. He became a laborer at Aledo, Ill., worked in a sawmill at Humboldt, Kan .; then on a railroad. in a hardware store, at Inde- pendence, Kan .; stage driver at Leaven- worth, cattle drover in Texas. etc. Re- turning to Philadelphia in his twenty-first year, he became employed by Besh & Keller, railroad contractors, and was soon put in charge of their construction work, including the Machinery Hall of the Cen- tennial Exposition. As an independent contractor, his first work was on the Schuylkill Valley Railroad. Subsequent- ly he became active as a railroad con- tractor, and in connection with Filbert & Porter executed the difficult work of low- ering the North Penn Junction. Mr. Crossman was concerned in building the first pier at Atlantic City and was Presi- dent of the pier company. He also be- came President of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, which position other interests compelled him to resign. He is a Director of the Fox Chase National Bank, and a member of the Turf Club. Address, Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pa.
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CROUCH, John Fletcher:
Clergyman; born in Dover, Del., Dec. 20. 1535; educated at the Academy of Dover; took a medical course in Hahnemann Col- lege, Philadelphia: entered the ministry in the Philadelphia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1859; has served nine charges in Philadelphia as pastor, and one in Lancaster, Allen- town. Mauch Chunk, and Chester. Mem- ber of the General Conference in New York, 1SSS; President of the Philadelphia Conference. Tract Society, member and Vice President of the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church; married to Mary Frances Metz- ger, of Dauphin County, Pa .. April 22.
1362. Republican; present pastor of the Mt. Pleasant Avenue Church, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. Address, Mt. Airy, Phila- delphia, Pa.
CROW. Alexander Jr .:
Accounting Warden of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Redemption; born and educated in Philadelphia; has been a delegate to many of the conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Philadelphia; served for one term as Sheriff of Philadelphia County. Address, Twenty-second and Callowhill Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
CROW, Dallas:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion; private Ninety-seventh Pennsyl- vania Infantry Aug. 30, 1861; Corporal June 1, 1862; Sergeant Dec. 10, 1863; Regi- mental Commissary Sergeant Sept. 1, 1864; discharged for promotion March 1, 1865; First Lieutenant Ninety-seventh Pennsyl- vania Infantry March 1. 1865; Captain March 2, 1865; honorably mustered out Aug. 25, 1865. Elected Oct. 10, 1894. Ad- dress, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
CROWELL. John Franklin:
Author; son of Daniel and Sarah Crow- ell: born Nov. 1, 1857, in York. Pa. In 1SS3 graduated from Yale, receiving degree of Ph. D. at Columbia, and degree of Litt. D. at the University of North Carolina; studied at the University of Berlin. From 1883 to 18$4 was principal. of the Schuyl- kill Seminary at Fredericksburg, Pa .. held same office from 1SS6 to 1SS7: President of Trinity College. N. C., from 1SS7 to 1894: also head of the department of economics and sociology at Smith College. Mass .. from 1995 to 1897. In 199S traveled and studied in Europe; engaged in writing and lecturing on economics and sociology from 1898 to 1899: 1900-1901. expert agent to United States Industrial Commission. Now expert on Internal Commerce at the Bureau of Statistics. Department of Com- merce and Labor, Washington. In 1203 and 1904 he lectured on International Trade and Commercial Geography, at Columbian University: Secretary of Eco- nemic and Social Science Section of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Married, first. Laura K. Gotz. Reading, 1887. die 1985; second. Carrie H. Paseoe. Philadelphia, 1891. Au-
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thor of "The True Function of the Ameri- can College"; "A Program of Progress"; "Taxation in American Colonies"; "The Logical Process of Social Development"; "The Distribution of Farm Products in the United States"; "The Iron and Steel Trade of the United States"; "The Lum- ber Trade of the United States"; . Com- mercial Advisability of Deepening the Mississippi From St. Louis to Cairo," etc. Address, 2144 P St., N. W., Washington; office, Department of Commerce and La- bor, Bureau of Statistics.
CROWNOVER. J. C .:
Cashier of the Merchants and Farmers' National Bank; President of the Safe De- posit and Trust Company of Greensburg. Address, Greensburg, Pa.
CROXTON, John George:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Fifty-first Ohio Infantry Sept. 7, 1561; Regimental Commissary Sergeant Oct. 28. 1861; discharged for pro- motion Feb. 24, 1863; Second Lieutenant Fifty-first Ohio Infantry Feb. 24, 1363; First Lieutenant July 24, 1864; First Lieu- tenant and Adjutant June 1, 1865; honor- ably mustered out Oct. 3. 1865. Elected Feb. 2, 1887. Address, 3904 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
CROZER, Samuel Aldrich:
Cotton manufacturer, capitalist, philan- thropist; born in Aston Township, Dela- ware County. Pa., Dec. 25. 1825; son of John P. Crozer; entered his father's business, the Crozer Mills, at seventeen, He owns controlling interest in the Croz- er Steel and Iron Co., of Roanoke, Va., the Upland Coal Co .; his real estate holdings include thousands of acres of productive coal fields in Virginia and much of the Borough of Upland, Pa. For fifty years President of National Baptist Council for Missionary Purposes; Presi- dent of Baptist Publication Society, Penn- sylvania Training
School for Feeble Minded Children at Elwyn, and of Cro- zer Theological Seminary since its insti- tution, 1865; manager of Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Philadelphia;
for more than
thirty years President of Upland Borough Council. At his personal cost he has erected many Baptist Churches in Dela- ware County, Emanuel Church in Chester being a memorial to his wife. In 1896 he presented a large tract of land to the city of Chester, known as Crozer Park,
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contributing liberally for its improvement. In 1864 married Abigail Cheney, of Lowell, Mass. Address, Upland, Pa.
CRUICE, JJohn Mulchinock:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; eldest son of deceased Companion First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon Robert B. Cruice; elected Nov. 2, 1898; first class in succession Sept. 14, 1899. Address, 114 North Eighteenth St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
CRUMRINE, Boyd:
Lawyer; was graduated from Washing- ton and Jefferson College in 1860; ad- mitted to the Washington County bar, Pennsylvania, in August, 1861, and to the Allegheny bar Sept. 7, 1872. Author of "The Courts of Justice, Bench and Bar of Washington County, Pennsylvania," and other valuable historical works; was State Reporter of Supreme Court de- cisions, Pennsylvania; reported 116 to 146, inclusive of the volumes of the State re- ports; is now in practice at 432 Diamond St., Pittsburg, Pa.
CRYER, Matthew Henry:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Second Lieutenant Sixth Ohio Cavalry Oct. 16, 1863; First Lieutenant Dec. 23, 1863; Captain Nov. 12. 1864; Major April 8, 1865; resigned and honor- ably discharged June 3. 1865; elected Feb. 3, 1892. Address, 504 Crozier Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
CULIN, Stewart:
Author; born July 13, 1858, at Philadel- phia; educated at Nazareth Hall, Pa. Is prominent as anthropologist and author of numerous works and papers relating to anthropological subjects. Since 1890 a Fel- low of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is author of "Korean Games," 1996; "Chess and Play- ing Cards," 1896. Address. 260 South Thirty-eighth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
CULTON, William D .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Northumberland County; born in Shamokin, Northumber- land County, Pa., Dec. 11, 1566; attended the public schools of Shamokin until fif- teen years old, when he began work in the mines, which occupation he has since followed; has been an active Republican
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for years; was elected to the Borough Council twice; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Ad- dress. Shamokin, Pa.
CUMING, John K .:
President of the Tenth National Bank of Philadelphia. Address. 1807 North Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.
CUMINGS, Charles Andrews:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; eldest son of Companion Captain Henry W. Cumings; private Fifteenth Pennsylvania Infantry May 11, 1898; mus- tered out Jan. 31, 1899; First Lieutenant Forty-first United States Volunteer In- fantry Aug. 17, 1899; honorably mustered out July 3, 1901. Elected Feb. 7, 1900. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Le- gion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
CUMINGS. Frank P .:
Attorney-at-law; born in Lycoming County Oct. 31, 1854; was educated in public and normal schools; taught school from 1876 to 1881. Admitted to the bar in Lycoming County April 3. 1884, con- tinued in active practice since to the " present; is member of the Superior and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania. and the District and Circuit Courts of the United States; Adjutant of Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, from 1882 to 1888: was elected City Solicitor of the City of . Williamsport, Pa .. April 14, 1902, for a term of three years. Address. Wil- liamsport, Pa.
CUMINGS, Henry Harrison:
State Senator from Warren County; was born at Monmouth, Ill., Dec. 1, 1840; removed in August. 1852. to Madison, Lake County, Ohio, which remained his home until the autumn of 1665; educated at Oberlin College, Ohio; grad- uated in 1862; enlisted in the summer of 1862, in the 105th Ohio Volunteer In- fantry; served in the Fourteenth Army Corps, participating in all its campaigns and most of its battles; discharged at the close of the war as a Captain; settled soon after in Tidioute, Pa., where he has since resided; actively engaged in the oil business, farming. lumbering. manufac- turing and banking; is and has been for many years President of Tidioute School Board; was elected delegate to the Re- publican National Convention of ISS8;
was Commander Department of Pennsyl- vania Grand Army of the Republic 1895-6; was elected to the Senate in November, 1898; re-elected in November, 1902. Ad- dress, Tidioute, Pa.
CUNNINGHAM. Thomas Davis:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Fifty-Sixth Pennsylvania Infantry Sept. 25, 1861; Sergeant Nov. 1. 1861; First Sergeant May 20, 1862; dis- charged for promotion Oct. 14, 1862. Second Lieutenant Pennsylvania Infantry Oct. 15, 1862; First Lieutenant March 4, 1863; honorably discharged Nov. 3. 1863, for disability from wounds. Elected Feb. 6. 1889. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
CURE. John W .: .
President of the First National Bank of Jermyn. Address, Jermyn, Pa.
CURRY, John :
Banker; born in Londonderry, Ireland; educated in township public schools. Married Emma J. Penfield. He made a success at lumber manufacturing; now President of Ridgway National Bank; is a Republican in politics. Address, Ridg- way, Pa.
CURRY. Richard:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Philadelphia; was born in that city Aug. 7, 1864; educated in the public schools; is engaged in the general contracting business, being su- perintendent of Keystone Paving and Construction Company; was copyist in the Navy Department under President Harrison; has always taken an active part in politics, having been a member of the Republican Executive Committee of the Eighth Ward for the past sixteen years, and is Recording Secretary of the same; was elected to the House of Rep- resentatives on February 19. 1901. to fill vacancy caused by death on Dec. 1, 1900, of Hon. William F. Stewart; re-elected in November, 1902. Address, 146 East Al- len St., Philadelphia, Pa.
CURTIN, Roland Gideon, M. D .:
Born at Bellefonte on Oct. 29, 1$39. He is the son of Dr. Constance Curtin, of Dysart. County Clare, Ireland, who died in April, 1842. His mother was Mary
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Ann Kinne, who was lineally descended from Thomas Welles, the third Governor of Connecticut. Dr. Curtin received his early education in the Bellefonte public schools. At sixteen he entered the Scien- tific Department of Williston Academy, at Easthampton, Mass., from which he graduated in 1859. He then, for some time, engaged in the iron business in Philadelphia. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed United States Naval Storekeeper at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. After the war he entered the Department of Medicine of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1866. After serving a term of eighteen months as resident physician in the Phil- adelphia Hospital, and three months as resident in the Insane Department of the same institution, he spent some time in visiting the hospitals of Great Britain and the Continent. Returning to Amer- ica, he was appointed United States Ge- ologist under Prof. F. V. Hayden. Dr. Curtin was Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the Wagner Free Institute 1871-1873; assistant physician to the Phil- adelphia Lying-In Charity 1871-18$2; Chief of the Medical Dispensary of the Hos- pital of the University of Pennsylvania for ten years; assistant to the Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Penn- sylvania 1879-1887; L'ecturer on Physical Diagnosis and physician to the University Hospital since 1887; physician to the Throat and Chest Department of the Howard Hospital 1876-1882; visiting phy- sician to the Maternity Hospital, Phila- delphia, for seven years; visiting physi- cian to the Presbyterian Hospital since 1887; member of the Medical Staff of the Philadelphia Hospital (Blockley) since 1SS0; consulting physician to the Rush Hospital for Consumptives, St. Timothy's Hospital, and the Douglass Memorial Hos- pital. He was President of the Alumni Association of the Auxiliary Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Alumni of the Medical Department, University of Pennsylvania; First Presi- dent of the Alumni Association of Phila- delphia Graduates of the Medical De- partment. University of Pennsylvania; President of the Medical Board of the Philadelphia Hospital since 1990: Presi- dent of the Association of Hospital Sur- geons and Physicians of Philadelphia; honorary Vice President of the Section on Climatology and Demography of the In- ternational Medical Congress, Washing-
ton, 1SST: honorary President of the Med- ico-Climatology Division of the World's Congress; Auxiliary to the World's Co- lumbian Exposition, and delivered the ad- dress of welcome to the foreign delegates, Chicago, 1893; President of the Grand Chapter of the Alpha Mu Pi Omega Med- ical Fraternity; Assistant Medical-Direc- tor of the Centennial Exhibition of 1876; member of the Committee of Arrange- ments of the International Medical Con- gress, Philadelphia, 1876; member of the First and Second Pan-American Medical Congresses, Washington, D. C., 1893, and the City of Mexico. 1896; delegate from the American Medical Association to the British Medical Association, London. 1895. Dr. Curtin is a Fellow of the College of Physicians, member of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society, Pathological Society, American Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County Medical Society, American Climatological Association (Vice President, 1886-1887; President, 1872-1893), and a member of its Council for many years; Associate member of the Institute of Art, Science and Letters; member of the American Social Science Association; Past Master of the Masonic fraternity, Knight Templar, member of the Scottish Rite, Thirty-second Degree; member of the Fairmont Park Association. Geneal- ogical Society of Pennsylvania, New Eng- land Society. Grand Army of the Repub- lic. Pennsylvania Forestry Association. and a life member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. The de- gree of Ph. D. was conferred upon him by the University of Pennsylvania in 1871, and the honorary degree of A. M. by La- fayette College in 18$3. On March 21, 1SS2, he married Julia Robinson, a daugh- ter of the late Edwin Taylor, of Hart- ford. Conn. President of the Alumni So- ciety of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. 1903-1904; Commander of Philadelphia Naval Veter- ans. 1903-1901: Vice President of Medical Club of Philadelphia, 1903-1904. Address, 22 South 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
CURTIN, Roland I .:
Lieutenant United States Navy; was born in Bellefonte, Pa., 1874; entered Naval Academy at Annapolis Sept. 6. 1892; was graduated in 1896; promoted to Ensign 1899; Junior Lieutenant 1901, and to Lieutenant April 28. 1903: made first cruise after graduating on the Brooklyn. Served during the Spanish-American War
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as navigating officer of the Wasp, at- tached to Rear Admiral Sampson's fleet; at the end of the war was ordered to the battleship Massachusetts; transferred from her to the Machias, and after a year was ordered to the flagship New York: after a few months on that vessel was given command of the torpedo boat Foote, which he retained for several months, until he was ordered as Inspector of the Neafie and Levy shipyards in Philadelphia, where he remained, one year; was then ordered to the Scorpion, North Atlantic Squadron, as navigating officer: transferred from her to the tor- pedo boat destroyer Lawrence, which is his present duty. Lieutenant Curtin re- ceived a highly commendatory letter from Secretary Moody for the bravery and coolness displayed by him during the fire on the Lawrence, Nov. 13, 1903. He is a son of General Curtin. of Bellefonte, and a great nephew of Gov. Andrew G. Cur- tin. Address, Bellefonte, Pa.
CURTIS, Cyrus :
Publisher; born in New England June 18, 1850: received a public school educa- tion and subsequently went to Philadel- phia. where he engaged in the newspaper publishing business. establishing the Trib- une and Farmer. He followed this en- terprise with the Ladies' Home Journal, which achieved a phenomenal success and has attained an almost unequalled circu- lation. To this, as head of the Curtis Publishing Company, he added the Satur- day Evening Post, an old paper, claiming to be a direct continuation of the Penn- sylvania Gazette, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1729. This journal has also been handled with striking ability, and has a very large circulation. Office. 425 Arch St., Philadelphia; residence, Wyn- cote, Pa.
CURTIS. Edwin E .:
Presbyterian minister; born in Oil City, Pa., May 20, 1872; educated at Chamber- lain Institute. Randolph, N. Y .: York Collegiate Institute, York, Pa .; was grad- uated from Princeton University in 1899; took Master's degree from Princeton in 1901: was graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary 1902. Was married to Harriet Stewart Jeffers, of York, Pa., on June 17. 1902. Republican. Pastor of the Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church at Chestnut Level, Pa. Address, Chest- nut Level, Pa.
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CURTIS. J. G .:
Postmaster; born November, 1529. in Newton, Conn .; educated at same place until he was sixteen years old, when he learned the machinist trade; Postmaster at Ludlow. Married 1868, to Mary A. Chambers. Built a tannery at Curtis, Steuben County, N. Y .. in 1854, in con- nection with J. D. Hamilton, and at Em- porium, Pa., in 1866. Moved to Ludlow and built a tannery and a saw mill in 1868. Republican. Address, Ludlow, Mc- Kean County, Pa.
CUSHING. G. M .:
President of the Clarion County Na- tional Bank of Knox. Address, Knox, Pa.
CUSHING. William Channing:
Chief engineer of maintenance of way, Southwest System, Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg; born at St. John, New Brunswick; was graduated B. A. in 1SS4, and M. A. in 1886, from the University of New Brunswick, and B. S. in 1887 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy. Entered railway service of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg in 1SS7, and was connected with different divisions in various capacities until as- suming his present position Jan. 1, 1903. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Railway En- gineering and Maintenance of Way As- sociation. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
CUSHMAN. Danford Rockwell:
Attorney-at-Law; born in Stafford Springs. Tolland County, Conn., April ", 1544; moved with his parents to Erie County. Pa .. in April, 1861; educated at the Edinboro, Erie County, State Normal School; admitted to the bar of Erie County in 1874. Practiced law from 1874 to the present time at North East, Pa. Address, North East, Pa.
CUSHMAN, Ernest T .:
Instructor in mathematics, Pennsyl- Vania Military College. Chester, Pa .; born in the town of Paris, Oxford County, Me .. Nov. 17. 1876. Prepared for college at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary. Kent's Hill, Maine, and Hebron Academy. He- bron. Me. Entered Colby College, Water- ville, and graduated with the class of 1900. Principal of the high school at Co- Jumbia Falls, Me., one year, and instruct- or of mathematics at the Rockland Mili- tary Academy, Nyack, N. Y., two years. Address, Chester, Pa.
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CUTHBERT, Mayland:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Third Assistant Engineer United States Navy Aug. 24. 1861; Second As- sistant Engineer ( Ensign) April 21, 1863; resigned and honorably discharged Aug. 22, 1864. Elected Feb. 6, 1889. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
CUYLER, Thomas De Witt:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Sept. 28, 1854. In 1874 was graduated from Yale. Married Frances Lewis May 3, 1881. In 1876 was admitted to the bar; was Judge Advocate General to National Guard of Pennsylvania, also Director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Equitable Life Assurance Society, and other financial institutions. Member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Also a member of clubs, among which are the Philadelphia, Rittenhouse (Philadelphia), Century, University. Union (New York). Address, 1830 Spruce St .; office, 701 Arcade Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
CARNEGIE, Andrew:
Manufacturer and philanthropist; born Dunfermline, Scotland, Nov. 25, 1835; came to the United States with fami- ly, 1845. settling in Pittsburg; 1847, given work attending small stationary en- gine. but soon became telegraph mes- senger for Atlantic and Ohio com- pany; later operator and clerk in of- fice of superintendent and manager of telegraph lines. Pennsylvania R. R., Pitts- burg; joined Mr. Woodruff, inventor of sleeping car; was successfully engaged with Pennsylvania Railroad, Edgar Thom- son Steel Works, Pittsburg Bessemer Steel Works, Lucy Furnaces, Union Iron Mills, Keystone Bridge Works, Hartman Steel Works, Frick Coke Company, Sco- tia Ore Mines, etc .; founded Pittsburg In- stitute and has given large sums of money for libraries and other philanthropic works in various cities; has published ar- ticles on labor question: also "An Ameri- can Four-in-Hand in Britain," New York: "Round the World." "Fifty Years' March of the Republic." Member of the Union League, Authors', Engineers', Lotus. and other clubs: married Miss Louise Whit- field. Address, 2 E. 91st St., New York.
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