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GIBSON, Charles Donnel:
Lawyer; born Aug. 29, 1863, at Sun- bury, Pa .; received a college education. and from 1870 to 1873 attended the Epis- copal Academy at Philadelphia; Union College, 1884; studied law, and in 1SS9 was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. Au- thor of "My Lady and Allen Darke." Member of Sigma Phi, Pennsylvania So- ciety of New York. Address, Holmesburg. Philadelphia, Pa.
GIBSON, Isaac:
Clergyman; born in Rappahannock County, Va., 1828, and entered the min- istry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1850; in 1865 entered the Protestant Episcopal Church. and has been Rector of various churches in Virginia, Ken- tucky and Pennsylvania, his last rector . ship having been that of St. John's Church. Norristown, Pa., which contin- ued more than twenty-six years; he re- signed in December. 1898, and was ap- pointed Rector Emeritus, in which ca- pacity he is still active in church work. Author of "Leading Higher Critics on the Origin of the Levitical Law." 1894; "The Pentateuch and Joshua." 1805; "The Holy Communion." and "Reasons for the Higher Criticism of the Hexatouch," 18ST. Address, 17 East Elm St., Norristown, Pa.
GIBSON, Joseph Raff:
Lieutenant Colonel United States Army: born in and appointed from Pennsyl- vania; Assistant Surgeon. April 16. 1862; Major Surgeon. March 13, 1977; Lieuten- ant Colonel. Department Surgeon Ger- eral. June 28. 1894: brevetted Captain and Major. March 13. 1965, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, and Lieutenant Colonel. Sept. 28. 1866, for
meritorious and distinguished services at Harts Isiand, New York Harbor, where cholera prevailed; retired Nov. 15, 1895. Address, 116 South Forty-third St., Phil- adelphia, Pa.
GIRSON. J. T., D. D .:
Born in Jefferson County, Pa., in 1844; was in the Academy at Marion. Pa .. when the War of the Rebellion broke out, and in 1861 enlisted in the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, participating in battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge; was severely wounded in the battle of New Hope Church, near Atlanta. Was graduated from Washington and Jeffer- son College in 1869, and from Western Theological Seminary in 1872; supplied Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., during summer of 1872; pastor of a Baltimore church eight years; Sharps- burg Church. Pa., nine years; served four years as Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church. Edited the Pres- byterian Messenger five years, and was acting pastor of the East Liberty Pres- byterian Church for one year. He re- ceived the degree of D. D. from Wash- ington and Jefferson College, and from Grove City College; is a Director of the Western Theological Seminary and Trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital of Pittsburg and Allegheny and of Grove City College; served as Chaplain of the Union Veteran Legion of Pittsburg and of McPherson Post, G. A. R., and two years as County Superintendent of Indi- ana County. Pa. Married Isabel B. Brown in 1872. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
GIBSON, Milton B .:
Mayor of York, Pa .; born June S. 1860. at Landisburg. Perry County, Pa .: son of Francis F. Gibson and great nephew of the late Chief Justice J. B. Gibson. En saged in the profession of teaching in Perry County for three years prior to 1885, when he moved to York, Pa., being elected first Secretary and later President of the Weaver Organ and Piano Company. He was elected as a member of Select Council for four years in 1998, and on the expiration of his term was elected Ro- publican Mayor of the city of York in 1902, in which capacity he is now serving: was a De mate from the York Board of Trade to the Pan-American Congress. Philadelphia, in 1903. and President of
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Sesque-Centennial, York, Pa., 1599, which promoted the advancement of York con- siderably. Address, York, Pa.
GIBSON, William :
General Superintenden Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Pittsburg. Pa .; born in Scotland, in the year 1856; his father was William Gibson, an old and highly respected West India merchant, and his mother was Miss Agnes Wilson. His early training was in the Royal High School of Edinburgh, with which institu- tion he remained up to the time of his entrance into the University of Edin- burgh; at the age of twenty he came to the United States. His first business .experience was obtained in the office of the Alabama Great Southern Railway, at Chattanooga. Tenn., and later on the Queen and Crescent system, in both of wnich companies he served in various ca- pacities; he subsequently became Train- master of the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, at Cincinnati; Car Ser- vice Agent of the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railroad, at Colum- bus; Superintendent of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Rail- road, at Cincinnati; Assistant General Superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at Baltimore, and Gen- eral Superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at Pittsburg. He is a Di- rector in the following companies: Pitts- burg and Connellsville Railroad, Pittsburg Junction Railroad. Sharpsburg Railroad, and the Fairport Dock Company. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Caledonian Society of Cincinnati. the Duquesne and Edgewood Golf Clubs of Pittsburg, the Transportation Club of New York, the Railway Club of St. Louis, and Church of the Ascension ( Epis- copal) of Pittsburg; he is a sound money Democratic; to the technical literature of his profession he is a valued contrib- utor, as well as to economic questions. Married in Edinburgh, in 18$6, to Eliza Henderson. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
GIBSON, Wylie W .:
County Auditor; born in Pulaski Town- ship, Lawrence County. Pa .. Sept. 16. 1859; educated in public schools. Mar- ried, Dec. 29 .1897, to Mary J. Arrow of East Brook. Lawrence County, Pa .: is owner of the Riverside Farm: has filled offices as School Director, Township Aud-
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itor, and Supervisor; was elected in fall of 1902 as County Auditor on Democratic ticket. Address, Pulaski, Lawrence Coun- ty, Pa.
GIFFEN, James Edwin:
Minister in the Presbyterian Church; born Aug. 31, 1864, in Mt. Pleasant Town- ship, Westmoreland County, Pa .; edu- cated at Mt. Pleasant Institute and Greensburg Seminary; was graduated at Washington and Jefferson College in 1SS9, and at the Western Theological Semi- nary. Allegheny, Pa., in 1892; was or- dained to the Gospel Ministry May 24, 1892. Married. May 31, 1892. Anna C. Dieffenbacher. Was pastor of Greens- boro, Mt. Moriah and Spring Hill Fur- nace Churches, 1892-1893: Beulah and Madera Churches, 1894-1895; Belle Valley Church. since 1897; formerly a Republi- can, but now a Prohibitionist. Address, R. F. D. No. 5, Erie, Pa.
GILBERT, Calvin:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Eighty-seventh Pennsyl- vania Infantry, Sept. 2. 1861; mustered out, Aug. 16, 1862; Captain and Commis- sary of Subsistence United States Volun- teers. March 2, 1864; honorably mustered out, Oct. 26. 1865; brevetted Major United States Volunteers, Oct. 22, 1865, "for gal- lant and meritorious services." Elected Oct. 14, 1896. Address. care of Recorder of Loyal Legion. 1535 Chestnut St., Phil- adelphia, Pa.
GILBERT, Joseph :
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Ninety-first Pennsylvania Infantry. Aug. 20, 1861; Corporal. Sept. 20. 1861; Sergeant, Dec. 22, 1\62: First Sergeant, June 30, 1864; discharged for promotion, Feb. 23, 1565; Captain Ninety- first Pennsylvania Infantry. Feb. 24. 1865; honorably mustered out, July 10. 1865. Elected May 4. 13st. Address, 620 Chest- nut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
GILBERT, Lyman D .:
Lawyer; born in Harrisburg. Pa .. Aug. 17, 1845; son of a prominent merchant of that city; he was graduated from Yale College in 1865, and at once began the study of law in the office of Hon. John C. Kunkel, then leader of the Dauphin County bar, being admitted to the bar in
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1868. In 1871 he entered into partnership with Hon. Wayne MacVeigh and John B. McPherson, which firm, after the re- moval of Mr. MacVeagh to Philadelphia, became known as Gilbert & McPherson. In March, 1873, he was appointed Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania by the Attorney General, Hon. S. E. Dimmick, and for a number of months after the death of Mr. Dimmick acted as Attorney General; in 1882 he resigned and resumed his private practice, in partnership with John H. Weiss till 1S9S, and afterward alone, he being counsel for the Pennsyl- vania Railroad and other large interests. He is one of the leaders of the Dauphin County bar and is in the front rank of the bar of the State; he was-President of the State Bar Association in 1899 and was elected President of the Dauphin County Bar Association in 1903. Address, Harris- burg, Pa.
GILCHRIST, Alexander, D. D .:
Secretary Board H. M. United Pros. Church; born March 25, 1856, at West . Hebron, N. Y. son of Joseph and Martha J. Gilchrist; from 1865 to 1870 attended the public schools at Waterman, Iil., and later entered college at Monmouth, Ill .; in 1879 he was graduated from the Uni- versity of Wooster from 1879 to 1882 he studied at the Allegheny United Presby- terian Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa .; in 1894 he received degree of D. D. Married Cora Seaton, Oct. 22, 1885. From 1882 to 1899 he was connected with the United Presbyterian Pastorates; Repub- lican in politics. Address. 5242 So. At- lantic Ave .; office, 209 Ninth St., Pitts- burg, Pa.
GILCHRIST, Joseph Johnson:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Allegheny County; born on a farm near Darlington. Beaver County, Pa., Oct. 13. 1871; a year later he removed with his parents to Allegheny. Pa., where he has since resided; edu- cated in the public schools. When fifteen years old he became associated with his brothers in the coal business, in which he is still engaged; has always been an active Republican and served one term . as School Director; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Address. Allegheny, Pa.
GILDER, Wilbur Fisk:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion; private Thirteenth Connecticut Infantry, Feb. 15, 1862; Corporal, March 1. 1863; discharged to accept promotion, Sept. 17, 1863; First Lieutenant Ninety- eighth U. S. Colored Infantry, Sept. 18, 1863; resigned and honorably discharged. July 21, 1864. Elected May 4, 1892. Ad- Gress, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
GILFILLAN, G. A .:
Civil and consulting engineer; born in Allegheny Co. in 1864; educated in public schools and graduated from the Engineer- ing Department of the Western Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 18SS. Engaged in steam railroad engineering, and during 18SS-1859 was Assistant Engineer on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad; in 1890 he superintended the reconstruction of the Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction Company's plant, and has since laid out the routes and superintended the con- struction of several important lines in the Pittsburg vicinity, doing work for the Dubois Traction Company, the Apollo, Vandergrift and Leechburg Company, the Steubenville Traction Company, and dif- ferent traction companies of this city. Member of the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania and of the Acad- emy of Science and Art. Address, Fi- delity Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
GILL, William Andrew:
Lieutenant Commander United States Navy; born in and appointed from Penn- sylvania. Naval Academy, June 21, 1ST5: Midshipman, June 10. 1881; Ensign (junior grade), March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26. 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), June 25. 1891; promoted to Lieutenant, October. 1895: Lieutenant Commander, Oct. 9, 1901; inspection duty, Bureau of Equipment. December, 1903: Inspector of Equipment at William Cramp & Sons' and Neafie & Levy Shipbuilding companies, Philadel- phia; the New York Shipbuilding Com- pany, Camden, N. J., and Harlan & Hol- lingsworth, Wilmington. Del., since Jan- uary, 1904. Address, William Cramp & Sons. Ship and Engine Building Co .. Phil- adelphia, Pa.
GILAI .. William B .:
Telegraph Superintendent: born in Phil- adelphia, Dec. 27, 1847; entered the ser- vice of the Inland Telegraph Company when quite young, and in 1866 became an employee of the Western Union Tele- graph Company; he was soon made As-
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sistant Cashier in the Philadelphia office, and in 1875 became Chief Clerk to James Merrihew, Superintendent. After he had served for a time as Assistant Superin- tendent Mr. Merrihew was transferred to New York and Mr. Gill was made Su- perintendent of the Sixthi District, a posi- tion of great importance and which he held till 1SS1, when he engaged in the construction of the Bankers' and Mer- chants' and the American Rapid Tele- graph lines: he was also connected with other companies, but in 1883 again took his superintendency in
the Western Union, retaining it until within recent years, He was also President and Gen- eral Manager of the Philadelphia Local Telegraph Company and a Director in other companies. and from 1SSS to 1895 was Vice President of the Bell Telephone Company. He was a member of the .ward of Education, 1SS9-1893, and in 1890 was appointed on the Board of Pub- lic Charities. Address, Cheltenham, Pa.
GILLAM, Alexander B .:
President of the First National Bank of Mount Union. Address, Mount Union, Pa.
GILLESPIE. David L .:
Merchant; born in Pittsburg. Oct. 20, 185S; son of James and Diana Gillespie; educated in public schools, and in 1871 became a telegraph messenger boy. In 1874 he entered the firm of Lewis, Oliver & Phillips; in 1887 he formed the D. L. Gillespie Lumber Company, becoming the senior member of the firm: in addition to this business he is interested in the Pittsburg Reduction Company, the Pitts- burg and Honduras Company, the Com- mercial Sash and Door Company, and a number of other enterprises. Member of the Dequesne and Americus Clubs; Re- publican in politics. Married, in Wil- mington, Del., Oct. 20, 18$5. to Anna R. Darlington. Address, 541 Wood St., Pitts- burg, Pa.
GILLESPIE. Thomas .:
Contractor: born in Pittsburg. Pa .. July 1, 1852; son of James and Diana Gil- lespie; his father was a lumber merchant; his ancestors were from the north of Ire- land and Scotland; his early education was received in the schools of Pittsburg. and his first occupation was that of a clerk in the Pittsburg Gas Company. where he remained but a few months
when, in August, 1868, he entered the office of Lloyd & Black, iron manufactur- ers; in April, 1871. he resigned to accept a position with Messrs. Lewis, Oliver & Phillips, in the same line of business; he remained with this concern for eight years in the capacity of Traveling Agent. Thoroughly skilled and equipped for ven- tures on his own account, he then decided to embark in business for himself, and from 1879 to 1884 engaged in the manu- facture of iron bolts and kindred articles. In 1884 he joined George Westinghouse, Jr., in the development of the great nat- ural gas industry; in this business his efforts were met with unqualified success, and he continued therein until 1890, when he became a contractor on a large scale, with headquarters in the Westinghouse Building. Pittsburg, and in the Have- meyer Building, No. 26 Cortlandt Street, New York. Gillespie & Company have laid over five hundred miles of pipe line; for the Philadelphia Company they laid 91,000 feet of thirty-six-inch steel pipe for the conducting of natural gas; these contractors also laid the pipes of the East Jersey Water Company, which sup- plies Paterson and Newark, N. J. In ad- dition to his office as President of the T. A. Gillespie Company, Mr. Gillespie is also engaged in many other large inter- ests, prominent among which are his directorships in the Iron City National Bank of Pittsburg, and the Liberty Na- tional Bank of New York; he was Vice President of the Central Traction Com- pany of Pittsburg up to the time of the consolidation of that city's various trac- tion systems; was a member of the Select Council of Pittsburg for ten years. He is a member of the Duquesne Club of Pittsburg and the Lotus and Lawyers' Clubs of New York. He was married in Pittsburg on Jan. 7, 1875, and has four children living, Thomas H., Henry L., Jean, and James P. Gillespie. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
GILLESPIE. William Kountze:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion: private Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry. Aug. 21. 1562; discharged to ac- cent promotion, May 3. 1865: Captain Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry, May 3. 1865; honorably mustered out. July 1. 1865. Elected May 5, 1897. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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. GILLETT, Alfred S .:
Insurance agent: born in Hebron, Conn., March 17, 1818; after serving in his broth- er's counting houses he became book- keeper in a Georgia mercantile house, and in 1840 he went to Texas with a con- signment of goods, which he sold at a large profit. His subsequent operations were as Postmaster in a Georgia office, and in the mercantile business at Chico- pee, Mass .; in 1847 he engaged in the business of his after life, that of insur- ance, and was one of the first to start the system of general insurance agency. He soon became agent for a number of com- panies, advertised largely, and in 1850 established the Insurance Advocate and Journal, the earliest of the insurance newspapers in America; in the same year he went to Philadelphia, as offering bet- ter opportunities, and there began the business of underwriting; he scon gained strong financial backing, and founded in 1853 the Girard Fire and Marine Insur- ance Company, With a capital of $200,000, since increased to over $2.000.000 in capi- tal and assets. His later history was largely that of the Girard Company and the general development of insurance in Philadelphia, in which he has taken an active part. Address, Girard Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
GILLIFORD, R. H., M. D .:
Born in Tarentum, Allegheny County. Pa .: educated at Tarentum School and Academy. Westminster College, and the University of Michigan; is City Poor Phy- sician of Allegheny, Surgeon on staff of Allegheny General Hospital; member of Select Council, Allegheny. Pa .; President of Bank of Secured Savings, Allegheny; President of Allegheny Fire Insurance Company. Married Allce Laughlin, of East Liverpool, Ohio. Address, Alle- gheny, Pa.
GILLINGHAM, Albert Jenks:
Railway official: born in Philadelphia. Aug. 23. 1817, where he has ever since resided: he comes from English Quaker stock; educated in common schools of the city, Central High School, and State Col- lege, near Bellefonte. In 1865 he entered the counting house of Peter Wright & Sons, in the shipping department, which formed the nucleus of the American Red Star Line and International Steamship Company; in 1969 he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
serving successively as Chief Clerk. Traveling Auditor and Assistant Audi- tor, until called to his present position as Auditor of Passenger Receipts, Nov. 1. 1899. Member of Association of Amer- ican Railway Accounting Officers since its organization. Address, Broad Street Sta- tion, Philadelphia, Pa.
GILLINGHAM. Frank Clemens:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Second Lieutenant 119th Pennsyl- vania Infantry, Aug. 7, 1862; First Lieu- tenant, Sept. 30, 1862; honorably dis- charged, June 4, 1863. Elected May 6. 1891. Address, East Norris, corner Rich- mond St., Philadelphia, Pa.
GILLINGHAM, Frank Morris:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; eldest son of Companion First Lieutenant Frank C. Gillingham. Elected May 2. 1894. Address, Clarkson Ave., near Stenton Ave., Germantown, Pa.
GILLINGHAM, Joseph E .:
Lumber merchant; born in Philadel- phia, July 6, 1830; educated in the public schools; entered the mercantile business in a country store in Ohio; returned to Philadelphia in 1852 and engaged with his father in running saw-mill; this came into his hands on his father's death in 1854. In 1855 the firm of Gillingham & Garrison was formed, and later that of Gillingham, Garrison & Co., Limited, of which Mr. Gillingham is President; the business became large and prosperous, a mill in Camden was added, and the firmi went largely into the lumber business. buying large tracts of timber in the wooded districts of Pennsylvania, and also dealing largely with the timber of Michigan and other States. He was made President of the Seventeenth Street and Nineteenth Street Railway Company in 1861, and held the position for twenty years; he was also closely connected with the Twelfth and Sixteenth Street Rail- way Company and the West Philadelphia Railway Company, and for many years was President of the Chesapeake and Del- aware Canal Company; he has been President or Director in several finacial institutions; Director in the American Fire' Insurance Company and the Bell Telephone Company, the Lancaster Ave- nue Improvement Company, and Presi- dent of the Veterinary Department of the
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University of Pennsylvania. Member of the Union League, Art Club, Historical Society. and many charitable societies. He has a large estate at Villanova, Mont- gomery County, Pa., where much of his time is spent. Address, 400 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
GILLIS, James H .:
Commodore United States Navy; born in Elk County, Pa., May 4, 1831; ances- tors on both sides were Revolutionary soldiers, and his father served through the War of 1812-1815; educated in public schools and United States Naval Acad- emy. After a brief period at the Naval Academy (1848), ordered to the United States frigate Raritan; afterward to the sloop of war Dale, on the coast of Africa. Returning in 1853 to the Naval Academy, he passed his examination, and was pro- moted to Passed Midshipman in 1854; in 1855 Master; then Lieutenant, and en- gaged on coast survey duty until 1857; in 1SS9, Commander-in-Chief of the South Atlantic Station. He was presented with a magnificent medal of steel, bound with gold, and surmounted by a life-buoy in white enamel and a setting sun of gold, the rays set with diamonds, for rescue of crew in the harbor of Montevideo, Ar- gentina. During Civil War he was first attached to the frigate St. Lawrence, and took part in the sinking of the rebel pri- vateer Petrel in July, 1861; while in com- mand of the E. B. Hale in 1862 he was ambushed at Slamm's Bluff; after the capture of a rebel battery at the junc- tion of the Dawho and Edisto Rivers he drove them off and received a letter of commendation from the Secretary of the Navy; he took an active part in the battle of Secessionville, James Island, N. C. Promoted to
Lieutenant Commander, 1862: 1864, transferred to West Gulf Blockading Squadron, commanding at various times the Elk, Monongahela. Oc- torara, Seotia, and Milwaukee; the latter. while engaged with Spanish Fort, Mobile Bay, 1865, was almost instantly sunk by a rebel torpedo; after the destruction of his vessel he commanded a naval battery on shore under General Canby, partici- pating in the siege and the capture of the fort. Promoted to Commander, July, 1866. and in May, 18mi, ordered to com- mand the Wateree, Pacific Station. On Aug. 13, 1$68, while lying off Arica, Peru, that city was completely destroyed by an earthquake, and the Waterer was car- ried a half mile inland by the tidal wave.
and left there, high and dry, the only vessel escaping destruction. Promoted to Captain. Sept. 30, 1876; to Commodore, Jan. 29, 1887; and retired on account of age, May 14, 1893; Democrat in politics. Married. Sept. 21. 1854, Lydia A. Alexan- der, Allegheny City, Pa. Address, Mel- bourne Beach, Fla.
GILMAN, Nicholas Paine:
Professor of Sociology and Ethics in Meadville Theological Sschool since 1895; born in Quincy, Ill., Dec. 21, 1849: son of Charles Gilman (lawyer, and reporter to Supreme Court of the State, and author of Gilman's Reports in five volumes) and Annette Maria (Dearborn) Gilman. Mar- ried, June 20, 1895, Mary Sherwood Stubbs of Concord, N. H. Academic education in Maine and New Hampshire: graduate of Harvard Divinity School, 1871. In charge of Unitarian churches in Scituate, Bolton, Wayland and Sud- bury, Mass., 1872-1884; Professor and Preacher in Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1878-1881. Contributor to Literary World of Boston since 1876; edi- tor, 1SSS-1895; assistant editor, Unitar- ian Review, 1886-1892; managing editor of The New World, quarterly review, 1892-1900. Author of "Profit Sharing be- tween Employer and Employee," 1889 (awarded gold medal at Paris Exposition. 1SS9) ; "The Laws of Daily Conduct," 1891; "Socialism and the American Spirit," 1893; "A Dividend to Labor," 1899 (gold medal at Paris Exposition of 1900); "Methods of Industrial Peace." 1904. Address, Meadville, Pa.
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