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AVERY, Robert:
Lieutenant Colonel United States Army; born in Pennsylvania; appointed from New York; Captain 102nd New York In- fantry, Dec. 17, 1861; Lieutenant Colonel, Jan. 1, 1863; honorably mustered out June 27, 1861; Major Veteran Reserve Corps. April 27, 1865; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
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Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Chancellorsville, Va .; Colonel and Briga- dier General Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Lookout Mountain, Tenn .; Major General Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service; hon- orably mustered out, April 17, 1867; First Lieutenant, Forty-fourth Infantry, July 28. 1866; retired, with rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Dec. 31, 1870; Brevet Captain, March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious service in battle of Chancellorsville, Va., and Major, March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Look- out Mountain, Tenn. Address, 98 Second Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
AWL. Francis Asbury, Jr .:
Member Pennsylvania Commandery, Military Order Loyal Legion; nephew of deceased Companion Col. John W. Awl; Second Lieutenant, Sixth United States Infantry, Jan 22, 1900; First Lieutenant, Sept. 24, 1901; elected May 1, 1901. Ad- dress, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
AYER. F. W .:
Advertising agent; born in Lee, Mass., 1848; educated in Western New York schools; started in the advertising busi- ness in 1869 at Philadelphia in associa- tion with his father, under the firm name of N. W. Ayer & Son; upon the death of the latter in 1873, Mr. Ayer became head of the firm, which, under his manage- ment, soon became-and has since re- mained-the leading advertising agency in the world, the yearly aggregate of their payments to publishers now ex- ceeding four million dollars. Mr. Ayer, in addition to conducting this large ad- vertising business, is President of the Merchants' National Bank, one of the largest among the Philadelphia National Banks; he is also senior partner of the firm of Ayer & Mckinney, who have a large stock farm in New York State. Mr. Ayer finds time to act as Superintendent of the Sunday-school connected with the North Baptist Church in Camden, N. J., and is besides a director in large banking and commercial institutions. Home ad- dress, Camden, N. J .: office address, 300 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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AYRES. Chauncey Percival:
Member of Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion;
eldest son of Companion Chief Engineer S. L. P. Ayres; elected May 6, 1891. Ad- dress, 1420 Master St., Philadelphia, Pa.
AYRES, Robert:
Member Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private, United States Engineers, Dec. 20, 1855; Artificer, Dec. 20, 1857; Corporal, Dec. 1, 1859; Sergeant, July 1, 1861; First Sergeant, July 12, 1862; discharged for promotion, Dec. 19, 1862; Second Lieuten- ant, Nineteenth United States Infantry, Nov. 29, 1862; First Lieutenant, Nov. 25. 1863; Captain, July 28, 1866; honorably mustered out, Jan. 1, 1871; brevetted Captain United States Army, Nov. 25, 1863, for gallant and meritorious services at the battles of Chickamauga, Ga., and Mission Ridge, Tenn .; elected Oct. 16, 1899. Address, care of the Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
AYRES, Samuel L. P .:
Chief Engineer United States Navy; born in Connecticut; entered the service from Connecticut as Third Assistant En- gineer, July 21, 1858; frigate Roanoke, flagship Home Squadron, 1858-1860; special duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1860-1861; promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, Jan. 17, 1861; steamer Michigan, Lake Service, 1861: steam sloop Pensacola, West Gulf Squadron, 1861-1863; partici- pated in the engagement with the bat- teries on the passage down the Potomac, the bombardment and passage of Fort Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette bat- teries, and the capture of New Orleans. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, April 21, 1863; gunboat Nipsic, South At- lantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-1866; Juniata, Brazil Station, 1866-1867; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1867-1870; pro- moted to Chief Engineer, March 21. 1870; 1870- Shenandoah, European Station, 1873; Inspector of Machinery, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 1873-1874; member of the Examining Board of Engineers, 1874-1876; Brooklyn, North Atlantic Squadron. 1876; Alliance, European Station, 1877-1879; member of the Examining Board of En- gineers, 1880-1884; Inspector of Machinery for the new cruisers. Chester, Pa., 1885; Fleet Engineer, Asiatic Squadron, 1886- 1889; senior member of the Board of En- gineers for trial of cruiser Baltimore, 1889; member of the Board of Examining Engineers, 1889-1891: Navy Yard, New York, 1831 to 1895; member Naval En-
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gineer Examining Board, august, 1895; President Naval Engineer Examining Board, June, 1896, to date of retirement, July, 1897, Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Address, 1420 Master St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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BABBITT, James A., M. D .:
Born in Waitsfield, Vt., Oct. 22, 1.869: educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass .; Yale University, degree B. A., 1893; Haverford College, degree A. M., 1896: University of Pennsylvania, medical de- partment, degree M. D., 1898; Secretary of Society of College Gymnasium Direct- ors; Physical Director and Associate Pro- fessor of Physiology, Haverford Coliege, Haverford, Pa .; Clinical Assistant Nose and Throat Department Polyclinic Hospi- tal, Philadelphia, and Ear Clinic, Out- Patient Department of Pennsylvania Hos- pital; member Philadelphia Medical Club, Philadelphia Medical Alumni Society, Philadelphia County Medical Society, Wil- liam Pepper Medical Society, American Society for Research in Physical Educa- tion, Chautauqua County Medical Society. Member University Club, Merion Club. Address, 112 South 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BABCOCK, Charles A .:
Author; born in Petersburg, N. Y .; was graduated from Hamilton College, in the class of 1874; received degrees of A. M. and LL. B .; studied school systems in Germany; held chair of Science in Fre- donia New York Normal School; Superin - tendent of Schools in Oil City. Pa .; estab- lished Bird Day in the schools; member of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, the British Astron- omical Association, London; National Ed- ucational Association, etc .; published & monograph on "Literature in the Schools;" "The Essence of Supervision," and "Bird Day in the Schools." Mar- ried Emma Francis Whitcomb, of Adams. N: Y .; had department in the New York Evening Post, five years. Author "House- hold Hints." "The Domestic Club." "What One Woman Said to Another," "When Birds in the Dooryard Sang." Address. Oil City, Pa.
BABP. R. I .:
President Second National Bank of Nazareth. Address, Nazareth, Northamp- ton, Pa.
BACHE. Franklin:
Mining Engineer; born in Philadelphia in 1869, being on his father's side a de- scendant of Benjamin Franklin; entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1885, and was graduated as Mining Engineer in 1890, when he became employed on the United States Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey; in 1891 he became engineer of the Signa Iron Company of Cuba, and from 1892 to 1896 was manager and engineer of several mining companies in Virginia; he then became engineer of the Berwind- White Coal Mining Company of Pennsyl- vania, and in 1898-1899 was President of the Kala-Inla and the McAllister Coal Companies of the Indian Territory, and has also served as Treasurer of a gold mining company at Sonora, Mexico; at present he is in practice as a mining en- gineer in Philadelphia; he is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engin- eers, the University and Markham Clubs, the Franklin Institute, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Address, 2101 De Lancey Place, Philadel- phia, Pa.
BACHE, Rene:
Magazine and newspaper writer; born in Philadelphia; son of R. Meade Bache; educated at Harvard and Yale Colleges, but was not graduated; since 1889 has been working on journalism and litera- ture. Address, 1823 Q St., Washington, D. C.
BACHMAN, Charles W., M. D .:
Born in Reading, Pa., in 1856; educated in the public schools, graduating from the High School in the class of 1873; then attended the Northwestern College at Napierville, Ill., graduating from that institution in 1876; commenced the study of medicine, and was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1880-1881; commenced the practice of his profession in Reading and is still in active practice in that city; had a post- graduate course in nervous diseases at the Philadelphia Polyclinic in 1889; was Secretary for several years of the Read- ing Medical Association and of the Med- ical Society of the County of Berks, and served a term as President of both or- ganizations at different periods. Is also a member of the Pennsylvania State Med- ical Society and American Medical Asso- clation. Address, Reading, Pa.
BACON, Albert Williamson:
Pay Director United States Navy; born in Philadelphia, appointed from Pennsyl-
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vanta; Captain's Clerk in the Navy, 1861- 163: attached to the Third Division of Porter's mortar fleet, Farragut's Squad- ron, and in the different engagements on the Mississippi River, from the capture of the forts below New Orleans to the at- tack on Vicksburg; appointed an Acting Assistant Paymaster Nov. 7, 1863; steam- er Galatea, 1863-1865, West India Squad- ron; steamers Marblehead and Yantic, 1\66-1867; commissioned Assistant Pay- master July 23, 1866, and rassed Assist- ant Paymaster Aug. 1, 1866: Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1868; on the Portsmouth, South Atlantic Squadron, 1869-1872; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1872; Naval Storekeeper at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1873-1876; commis- sioned as Paymaster, Oct. 25, 1874; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. 1876- 1877; Paymaster Navy Yard, Washing- ton, 1877-1878; Naval Storekeeper at Rio de Janeiro, 1879-1880; Bureau of Pro- visions and Clothing. 1881; Naval Store- keeper, Nice, 1881-1882; Omaha, 1883; At- lanta, 1884-1888; Paymaster,, Navy Yard, wasnington, 1889-1893; General Store- keeper, Navy Yard, Mare Island, Feb. 1, 1893, to Feb. 28, 1895; Fleet Paymaster, Asiatic Station, flagship Olympia, March 1, 1895, to Jan. 11, 1897; promoted to Pay Inspector, Feb. 12, 1898; promoted to Pay Director, July 10, 1900; on duty as Gen- eral Storekeeper, Navy Yard, Mare Island, from Feb. 5, 1897, to 1901; retired Jan. 5, 1903; member of Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal - Legion. Address, Santa Barbara, Cal.
BAER, George F .:
President Philadelphia & Reading R. R .; born in Somerset County, Pa., Sept. 26, 1842; educated Somerset Academy and Franklin and Marshall College. At the age of thirteen with the Somerset Demo- crat, for two years; joined the Union Army at the battle of Bull Run, partici- pated in all the engagements up to and Including Chancellorsville, when he was the Adjutant-General of the Second Bri- gade. Resumed legal studies. and ad- mitted to the bar in 1864. In 1868 an act- ive practitioner at the Berks County Bar; in 1870 Counsel for the Philadelphia and Reading Rallroad; confidential legal ad- viser of Mr. Morgan in Pennsylvania; prominent in the reorganization of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 1893. Elected President of the Reading Compan- ies, and of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, in 1901. Address, 1718 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BAER, William J .:
Jurist; born in Berlin, Somerset County, Pa., Jan. 20, 1826. In his youthful days he worked on his father's farm, and for two years was clerk in a country store. He then became a student at Marshall's College, Mercersburg, and later studied law under Hon. F. M. Kimmel, being ad- mitted to the Somerset County bar in 1849. He became a partner with his pre- ceptor, continuing till the latter was made Judge, after which he practiced alone. As a lawyer he proved able and successful, and as a Democrat he was sent as a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1872, rendering valuable service in that body. He received the Democratic nomination for President Judge in 1881, and though the district was very strongly Republican, and he had a strong opponent in Hon. John Cessera. he won the election. As a Judge he did excellent service. Since the close of his term, in 1892, he has continued his pri- vate practice. Judge Baer has been very active in business enterprises in Somerset County, organizing a number of coal, iron and mineral land companies; and also dealing largely in real estate. He has served as President of the Somerset and Mineral Point Railroad Company. Address, Somerset, Pa.
BAHN, W. D .:
President of First National Bank of Newcastle. Address, Newcastle, Law- rence County, Pa.
BAILIE, William Lamdin:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion: Third Assistant Engineer (Mid- shipman) U. S. Navy Jan. 1, 1863; Second Assistant Engineer (Master) May 28, 1864: First Assistant Engineer (Lieuten- ant) Jan. 31, 1874; Passed Assistant En- gineer (Lieutenant) Feb. 24, 1874; retired June 30. 1885. Elected Feb. 7, 1894. Ad- dress, "The Normandie," Philadelphia, Pa.
BAILEY. Charles Justin:
Captain United States Army; born in Pennsylvania; appointed from New York. Cadet at the Military Academy Sept. 1. 1876 (S); Second Lieutenant First Artil- lery, June 12, 1580; First Lieutenant Jan. 14, 18SS: Captain Seventh Artillery March 2, 1899; Artillery Corps Feb. 2, 1901. Ad- dress, Fort Totten, New York.
BAILEY. Edward:
Banker; born Oct. 19, 1861. Harrisburg. Pa .; educated at Phillips Academy, Ando- ver, Mass., and Yale College, New Haven,
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Conn. President of Harrisburg National Bank, Harrisburg Trust Company, Har- risburg Traction Company, Central Iron and Steel Company. Republican. Ad- dress, Harrisburg, Pa.
BAILEY, Frank H .:
Lieutenant Commander U. S. Navy; born in Pennsylvania. Cadet Engineer, Oct. 1, 1873; Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1877; Passed Assistant, Oct. 7, 1884; Alert, Asiatic Station, 1877-1878; Trenton, Euro- pean Station, 1879-1881; Iroquois, Pacif- ic Station, 1882-1SS5; special duty, Cor- nell University, 1SS5-1888; Chicago, Squad- ron of Evolution, 1889-1891; Bureau of Steam Engineering, 1891-1896. Promoted to Chief Engineer, June, 1896; Baltimore, August, 1890, to 1899. Promoted to Lieu- tenant Commander, March 3, 1899; Bureau Steam Engineering, Oct. 13, 1899, to 1903. Brooklyn (fleet Engineer), June, 1903, which is present station. Address, care Navy Department.
BAILEY, John M .:
Jurist; born in Dillsburg, York County, Pa., July 11, 1839; educated in the public schools and Tuscarora Academy, and in 1860 began the study of law in the office of Scott & Brown, Huntingdon, Pa., and was admitted to the bar of Huntingdon County in 1862. Soon after he began practice he associated himself with his former preceptors under the firm name of Scott, Brown & Bailey. This continued till 1869, when Mr. Scott was elected United States Senator, the firm name then becoming Brown & Bailey, and in 1862, Brown, Bailey & Brown, a son of Mr. Brown entering it. The firm enjoyed a large and profitable practice, and Mr. Bailey was called upon to perform various public duties. As a member of the Con- stitutional Convention of 1872-1873, he served on the committees of revenue, taxation, and finance, commissions, offices. oaths of office, and incompatibilities of office. In 1895 he was elected Judge of the Forty-ninth Judicial District. to suc- ceed Judge A. O. Furst. Address, Hunt- ingdon, Pa.
BAILY, Elisha Ingram:
Colonel United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; Assist- ant Surgeon Feb. 16, 1847; Major Surgeon May 15, 1861; Lieutenant Colonel Surgeon June 26, 1876; Colonel Surgeon, Jan. 30. 18$3; retired Nov. 14. 1558; brevetted Lieutenant Colonel March 13, 1965. for faithful and meritorious service. Address. 158 Capp St., San Francisco, Cal.
BAILY, Joel J .:
Merchant and reformer; born at London Grove, Chester County, Pa., October 29, 1826. At the age of seventeen he went to Philadelphia, and entered the estab- lishment of M. Morris Marple, a dealer in notions. Three years later, when only twenty years old, he bought out his em- ployer and began business on his own ac- count. The business was then quite small but it grew rapidly under his energetic management. In 1852 he closed the re- tail, and confined his business to the wholesale trade, taking in two of his clerks as partners, under the firm name of Joel J. Baily & Co. The steady growth of the business needed many changes of location, the final one being to the large double store, 719-21 Market St., in 1873, where the sales rose to $3,000,000 annu- ally. In 1900 the business was sold out to the department store firm of Lit Broth- ers. Mr. Bailey became a member and director of the Union League in 1863, and later became a strong opponent of corrup- tion in municipal affairs. When the Com- mittee of One Hundred was formed in 1880 he became its treasurer, and worked act- ively in the cause of reform till the com- mittee ceased to exist in 1886. He was a member of the Board of Finance of the Centennial Exposition; in 1SS2 was chair- man of the Finance Committee of the Bi- Centennial Celebration of the founding of Philadelphia; in 1886 became chairman of the Citizens' Municipal Association, served also as a director of the Pennsyl- vania Society for the Prevention of Chil- dren from Cruelty; Vice President of tife Fairmount Park Art Association and of the Pennsylvania Humane Society, mem- ber of the Board of Trade, and director of the Delaware Mutual Fire Insurance and Bell Telephone Companies. Address, 1528 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BAILY, Joshua L .:
Merchant; born in Philadelphia, June 27, 1526: father was Joshua Baily, Jr .; mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lloyd. Entered dry goods store at the age of sixteen. now the senior member of the house of Joshua L. Bailey & Co., Phila- delphia and New York. President of "The Philadelphia Society for the Em- ployment and Instruction of the Poor"; also President of the Philadelphia Fount- ain Society: an original member of "The Committee of One Hundred"-or- panized in 1979; member of the National Relief Commission during the Spanish-
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American War; Vice President Ameriean Traet Society, etc. Wrote pamphlet-"A Plea for the Old Soldiers of the National Homes." Married. in 1856, Theodate. daughter of John D. Lang, of Vassalboro, Maine. Residence, Ardmore, Pa .; offiee address, Philadelphia, Pa.
BAIRD, Absalom:
Brigadier General United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Military Academy July 1, 1845 (9); brevetted Seeond Lieutenant Second Ar- tillery July 1, 1849; Seeond Lieutenant April 1, 1850; First Lieutenant Dec. 24, 1853; Brevet Captain, Assistant Adjutant General May 11, 1861; Captain Assistant Adjutant General Aug. 3. 1861; Major Acting Inspector General Nov. 12, 1861; Brigadier General Volunteers April 28, 1862; honorably mustered out of Volun- teer service Sept. 1, 1866; Lieutenant Col- onel, Aeting Inspector General, June 13, 1867; Colonel, Inspector General, Mareh 11, 1885; Brigadier General, Inspector General, Sept. 22, 1855; brevetted Lieu- tenant Colonel Sept. 20, 1863, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Chickamauga, Ga .; Colonel Nov. 24, 1863, for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Chattanooga, Tenn .; Brigadier General March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious serviee in the eapture of At- lanta, Ga .; Major General March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service in the field during the war and Major. General volunteers Sept. 1, 1864, for faithful serv- iee and distinguished conduet during the Atlanta campaign and particularly,, in the battles of Resaca and Jonesboro, and for general good conduct in the command of his division against Savannah. Award- ed medal of honor April 22, 1896, for most distinguished gallantry in action at Jones- boro, Ga., Sept. 1, 1864, voluntarily lead- ing a detached brigade in an assault upon the enemy's works while serving as Brigadier General of Volunteers com- manding a division; retired Aug. 20, 18SS. Address, Catonsville, Baltimore Co., Md.
BAIRD, Henry Carey:
Publisher and political economist; son of Capt. Thomas J. Baird, of Third Unit- ed States Artillery; born Sept. 10, 1825, at the United States Arsenal Bridesburg. Pa .; received an academic education. In 1850 married Elizabeth Davis Penington, who died in 1901. Has written on econ- omic questions; protectionist. Greenback- er, and silver man. Was nominated by
the Greenbackers for State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, but declined the nomina- tion. Was candidate for Mayor of Phila- delphia. supported by the Greenbackers. Has been a publisher and bookseller sinee 1845, and was first publisher in the United States to make a specialty of industrial literature. He is thought to be the oldest living publisher of books in the United States now in business. He has written many artieles, among which are: "Banks," "Money," and "Political Econ- omy," which may be found in Appleton's American Cyclopedia. He appeared as an economic specialist before the Com- mittee on Ways and Means, and United States Monetary Commission on silver in 1876; in 1878 before House Committee on Banking and Currency; his testimony in each of these eases being printed. He is an honorary member of the Manufactur- ers' Club, at Philadelphia, and an active member of the American Philosophical So- eiety. Address, 810 Walnut St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
BAIRD, MINon I .:
President of Guardian Trust Company of Pittsburg. Address, Pittsburg, Alle- gheny County, Pa.
BAIRD, William:
Captain U. S. Army (retired); is the son of General Absalom Baird (retired), for- meriy Inspector General United States Army, and the great grandson of Sur- geon Absalom Baird, of the Army of the Revolution; born in Pennsylvania; ap- pointed at large to a Cadetship at the Military Academy Sept. 1, 1870; was grad- uated and appointed Second Lieutenant Sixth Cavalry, June 16, 1875: First Lieu- tenant Feb. 15. 1881; Captain Feb. 24, 1891; retired Dec. 3. 1897; active service with Sixth United States Cavalry in Ari- zona, New Mexico, Old Mexico, California and Wyoming, participating in the Chi- rieahua, Chimhuevi, Victoria, and Geron- imo campaigns under General Crook and General Miles: explorations and surveys for wagon routes in the Tonto Basin, Arizona. In campaigns against the White Mountain Apaches, Tontos, Chiricahuas. and Navajos 1875-1878. In command of Indian scouts at Fort Verde, Ariz., and after in command of troops detailed to guard the United States mail route from Preseott to California, 1879. On duty with General Wilcox in an extended explora- tion of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. During the Chimhuevi campaign along the
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Colorado River and in Southern Califor- nia in 1880, performed the duties of Chief Quartermaster, and received the thanks of the Department Commander; graduate School of Military Signaling and Teleg- raphy, Fort Myer, Va., 1881. Adjutant Sixth Cavalry 1884-1886; garrison duty at Fort Myer, Va., 1891; frontier duty Fort Washakie, and inspector of supplies for Arapahoes and Shoshones, Wyoming, 1891 to 1894; garrison duty at Fort Leaven- worth, Kan .; Infantry and Cavalry School, 1894; retired 1897 ("Disability in line of duty"); Professor of Military Science and Tactics, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, Sept. 1, 1900, to Feb. 15, 1904; staff duty with Governor of Maryland in con- nection with organized Militia of the State, Feb. 18, 1904. Member of Regular Army and Navy Union, Loyal Legion, Sons of Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, National Geographical Society, Metropolitan Club, Washington, D. C .; Technology Club, Boston, Mass .; Naval Academy Club, Annapolis, Md. Address, Annapolis, Md.
BAKER, A. George, M. D .:
Born in Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 2, 1857, son of the late Dr. Jacob and Mary Catherine (Platt) Baker; attended public schools; was graduated from Western University in 1879; entered Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia and was graduated as M. D. in 1887; speaks all the modern lan- guages of Europe; also Arabic and Chi- nese; physician of the Chinese Medical Dispensary in Philadelphia. In 1882 mar- ried Rebecca A. Comly, daughter of the late Allen Comly. Republican in politics; active surgeon of the Pennsylvania Naval Reserves in the Cuban War; President of the Cooper Literary Institute of Phila- delphia. Author of "The History of the Germans in America," 1891; "History of the Knights of St. John of Malta," "Ger- man American Christianity and the Prot- estant Episcopal Church," "The Phoneu- doscope and Its Practical Application" (medical), 1808. Address, 404 Susquehan- na Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
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