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1900; has published sermons and articles in the Universalist Leader and other pe- riodicals; received degree of Ph. D. from St. Lawrence University in 1835; that of S. T. D. from Tufts College in 1896; is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and Vice President of the Pennsylvania Peace Society. He was married in 1889 to Helena Crumett, of Hyde Park, Mass. Address, 1832 N. Bouvier St., Phladel- phia, Pa.
LEE. William II .:
Lawyer; born Jan. 1, 1849, at Clinton, Wayne County, Pa., of English ancestors; educated at Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin. New York. Taught in the common and graded schools seven years. Read law with Hon. Samuel E. Dimmick, and Wallers & Bentley. Admitted to the bar in 1874, opened an office in Hones- dale, Pa .; admitted to courts of adjoin- ing counties, Superior and Supreme Courts of the State, United States Dis- trict and Circuit Courts. Counsel for the borough of Honesdale eleven years; Dep- uy Treasurer of the county three years. Chairman of the County Committee five years. Married, June 19, 1878, Louise E. Wentz, of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Repub- lican in politics. Address, Honesdale, Pa.
LEEDOM, Joseph:
Lawyer; born at Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, Pa., on the 23d day of August, 1853; son of Edwin C. Leedom. a noted medical writer and scientist, hav- ing designed the first orrery. Mr. Lee- dom's mother was a daughter of Peter Lukens, a direct descendant of Jan Luckin, one of the earliest settlers of Germantown. The Leedom family is identified with the earliest settlement of the country, antedating the year 1700, and the earliest records of deeds in Phila- delphia show numerous conveyances to and from Richard Leedom, his great- grandfather. During the Revolutionary War the militia of Bucks County as- sembled and drilled at Richard Leedom's place at the Bear, and the Supreme Ex- ecutive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by patent in 1786 granted Richard Leedom lands in Westmoreland County for his services in the cause of independence. He was a student in the publie schools of Philadelphia, and grad- unted from the Central High School with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1571; read law with David Webster, of Phila - delphia; attended the law school of the
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University of Pennsylvania, receiving de- gree of Bachelor of Laws, and was ad- mitted to the bar in September, 1874; 1576, admitted to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and shortly thereafter in the United States Courts. He was re- tained as one of the counsel of the Chestnut and Walnut Streets Passenger Railway Company, and Assistant Solicitor of the Adams Express Company and tried for that company its case against Morrell: was retained in important cases outside of the State, particularly in New Jersey. Ohio and Virginia. Republican in poli- tics. He was Chairman of the Senatorial convention which first nominated the Hon. Boies Penrose as Senator and made the nomination speech in the Controllers' convention on behalf of Gen. James S. Stewart, the candidate for that office. He is an honorary member of the Re- publican Invincibles; a member of the Union League, of Philadelphia, and of the Law Association, and a Mason: Presi- dent of the Philadelphia and Tonawanda Land Company; late a Director in the Ken- ilworth Inn Company of Biltmore, N. C .; formerly Director of the Tradesmen's Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and one of the original stockholders of the Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust Company. Is married and has a son, Ed- win Conover Leedom, now a student in the department of arts of the University of Pennsylvania. Address, 25 North Juniper St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEGGETT, Benjamin F .:
Educator; was born in Chestertown. Warren County, N. Y., in 1834. Graduat- ed from the Troy University in 1862, and from the Wesleyan University in 1863. Married Sarah Shaw, of Troy. N. Y., in 1863. Traveled in Europe in
1875-1876. and studied at Heidelberg University. Has taught in seminaries and collegiate institutes in Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Rhode Island. The last sixteen years of his educational work was in Ward Academy, Ward, Pa., of which institution he was principal and proprietor. He has written and published the following books: "A Tramp Through Switzerland." "A Sheaf of Song." "An Idyl of Lake George. and Other Poems," and "The City of Doom." He has contributed more or less to the leading literary journals of the day both in prose and verse. Address. Ward, 'Delaware County, Pa.
LEHMAN, Ambrose Edwin:
Civil and mining engineer; born at Leb- anon. Pa., May 23, 1851; son of Benja- min Bringhurst Lehman, of Germantown. Philadelphia; was educated in common schools, by private - tutors and abroad; mainly in Paris, France. Married in Phil- adelphia, February, 1SS0, to S. Virginia Maull, daughter of Jas. Maull, and again in Montbeliand, France, Jan. 28, 1892, to Emilie Yvonne Koehler, daughter of Capt. M. Koehler, of the Army of France. Matriculant of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1883; 1870-1873, employed as assistant and division engineer on Osage Valley & Southern Kansas Ry .; Jefferson City. Lebanon & Southwestern Ry., Missouri, (now Missouri Pacific Sys- tem) ; Maintenance of Way, New Or- leans & Mobile Ry .; Texas & Pacific Ry., 1873; 1874, entered service of Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and until 1SS6 in charge of topographic and geological surveys of the South Mountains in Penn- sylvania; 1881, in Mexico, in the location of the Interoceanic Railway; 18$2 to 1891 chief engineer location and construction Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railroad; the Brooklyn, Bath & Coney Island Ry., New York, 1886-1893; 1889 to 1893 consulting engineer, Great Falls Waterpower Co .. North Carolina; 1895-1898, member of Civil Service Board of Examiners, De- partment of Municipal Engineering, Phil- adelphia; 1899 to 1901. Engineer in Charge of location of the Washington, Westmin- ster & Gettysburg Railway. At present in general engineering practice, as con- sulting engineer and special expert for various railway and mining corporations. including the Sterling Iron & Railway Co., Rockhill Iron & Coal Co., Pennsyl- vania Steel Co., Maryland Steel Co., Iron Mountain & Greenbriar Ry. Co., etc., etc. Surveyed and constructed topographic and geological map of South Mountains of Pennsylvania. published by the State, 1885. Author of "Topographical Models, Their Construction and I'ses." with illus- trations; topography of battle field of Gettysburg. Century Magazine. 1887. "Explorations of the Source and Upper Waters of the St. Louis River, Minneso- ta," 1893. "A case of Jurisdiction in Land Surveying," 1895. "Iron Ore Beds of Potts Valley, Virginia." and various other published and private geological and mining reports and papers, in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Member of Engineers' Club of Philadel-
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phia, American Philosophical Society, Unitarian Club, Lebanon County His- torical Society and Art Club of Phila- delphia. Address. 20S South 13rd St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEIBERT, J. M .:
President of the First National Bank of Bethlehem. Address, Bethlehem, Pa.
LEIDY, Joseph, Jr., M. D .:
Physician; born April 11. 1806, at Phila- delphia; was educated at private schools. Central High School, University of Penn- sylvania A. B., 1584; M. D., ISST; A. M., 1SS9; honorman and prizeman of his class; 1887, resident physician Hospital University of Pennsylvania, 1SS7-1SS9; Pennsylvania Hospital for Insane, 1889; Pennsylvania General Hospital, Pine St .. 1889-1891. Visiting Physician Odd Fel- lows Home and Orphanage, 1888. One of Assistant Surgeons. Genito-Urinary De- partment University of Pennsylvania. 1891; surgeon pro tem. Howard Hospital, 1891; surgeon to Hamilton and Philadel- phia Dispensary. Physician to Medical Clinic, Pennsylvania Hospital; Assistant Surgeon Third Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania, First Brigade, 1889. Physician to St. Clement's Hospital for Epilepties. Assistant Demonstrator of Pathological Anatomy and Morbia His- tology, University of Pennsylvania, 1891 to 1892. Assistant Demonstrator of An- atomy. University of Pennsylvania 1891, Author of various papers in scientific and literary journals. Fellow of the College of Physicians, Academy of Na- tural Sciences, Philadelphia; officially represented the United States Govern- ment as Juror on Hygiene to the Faris Exposition, 1900. The Government of France conferred upon Dr. Leidy, the decoration of Officer l'Instruction Pub- lique? in recognition of his services. He was the official delegate from the United States to the International Congress of Hygiene and Demographie, 1900; also In- ternational Medical Congress. 1590-1900. Member of Loyal Legion. by inheritance; American Huguenot Society, Pennsylva- nia Historical Society, Sons of Revolu- tion. Sons of War of 1912, Sons of For- eign Wars, and various medical and sei- entifie societies; son of Dr. Philip Leidy, and Penelope Fontaine-Maury Polk. He married Heb no Carter, daughter of Will- inm T. Carter, Philadelphia. Address. 1319 Loons: St., Philadel hit, P' ..
LESTPER, Edward F .:
Lieutenant Commander United States Navy; born in and appointed from Penn- sylvania. Naval Academy, June 25, 1875; Midshipman. June 22, 1882; Ensign (jun- for grade), March 3, 1SS3; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), Feb. 25. 1803; Coast Survey steamer Arago, 1883-18$4; Dolphin, special service. 1856- 1889; special duty Electric Lights, De- cember. 1589, to June, 1893; Concord, Asi- atic Station. June, 1893. to 1895; Monte- rey. January, 1895-1896. Promoted to Lieutenant, November, 1896; ordered to Naval Academy, August. 1896-1898; train- ing-ship Essex, April 16, 1898, to 1901; Navy Yard, League Island, Aug. 31, 1901, to 1902; Lieutenant Commander Oct. 1, 1902. Detroit since Sept. 22, 1903. Ad- dress, care Navy Department, Washing- ton. D. C.
LEISHMAN, John M .:
American Minister at Constantinople; born in Pittsburg, on March 28, 1857, where he has always resided; entered the office of Shoenberger & Co., iron manu- facturers, at an early age; embarked in the iron and steel brokerage business under the name Leishman & Snyder in 1881 and a few years later entered the firm of Carnegie Bros. & Co., as Vice President; afterward becoming the President of the combined organization known as the Car- negie Steel Co., which office he held un- til June, 1897, when he resigned in order to accept the post as American Minister to Switzerland, where he remained until 1901, at which time he was trans- ferred to his present post as American Minister at Constantinople. Married, in isso. to Miss Julia Crawford. Address, American Legation, Constantinople, Tur- key.
LENAHAN, John T .:
Lawyer; born at Port Griffith, Luzerne County, Pa .. Nov. 15. 1852; educated at Villanova College, Delaware County, Pa .. graduating in 1870. In 1897 this insti- tution conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He subsequently stud- jed law in Wilkesbarre and the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. and was admitted to the bar of Luzerne County in 1973. es- tablishing an office at Wilkesharre: he quickly became known as one of the ableet members of the profession in his section of the State, bring especially sie- cessful as a jury lawyer in the Quarter
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Sessions Court. Aside from the law, he was earnestly interested in Democratic politics and has several times been a delegate to Democratic National Con- ventions, and also to State Conventions. He has always declined, however, to be a candidate for office. the demands of his extensive practice being too exacting to admit of his taking on himself official duties. He is a Director in the Wyoming Valley Trust Company and a member of the Columbia Club of Wilkesbarre. Ad- dress, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
LENNIG, Thompson :
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion: private Sixth Pennsylvania Cav- alry Sept. 13. 1862: discharged for pro- motion Nov. 20, 1862; Second Lieutenant Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry Nov. 1, 1862; First Lieutenant April 18. 1863; resigned and honorably discharged April 11, 1864. Elected April 7, 1869. Address, Harris- burg. Pa.
LEONARD, Frederick C .:
United States Marshal; born in North- ern Pennsylvania: studied the law and was admitted to the bar of Tioga County in 1885 and of Potter County in 1887. In 1892 he entered into partnership with W. I. Lewis, the firm enjoying a good prac- tice till 1894. when a contest for the Con- gressional nomination began between Mr. Lewis and Hon. Horace B. Parker. In the end both withdrew and Mr. Leonard was nominated and elected. About a year later the firm of Lewis & Leonard was dissolved, and after the end of his Con- gressional term Mr. Lconard was appoint- ed United States Marshal for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, a position which he still holds. Address, Coudersport, Pa.
LEONARD, J. R .:
President of the Beaver Trust Compa- ny. Address. Beaver, Pa.
LEONHARDT, Arno:
Lithographer: born in the Fifth Ward of Philadelphia, Oct. 21. 1850: parents came to Philadelphia in 1818; in 1851 his father established himself as a lithograph- er: attended Cousins' Quaker Schoool and a German School. also Beck's School. At the age of fifteen entered his father's business and in 1974, at the age of twen- ty-four years, became his father's part- nor. Continued in the business and has had sole control and management of the
concern since the death of his father. Is interested in German societies. Presi- dent of the Junger Maennerchor since 1853. Was the President of the United Singers in 1892, and President of the Eighteenth National- Sangerfest held in Philadelphia in 1897. Life member of Ger- man Hospital life member of the German Society, Fairmount Park Art Association, Vice President of the German American Alliance, Vice President German The- atre Society, member of the Rifle Club, Philadelphia Turngemeinde . Canstatter Verein and other German clubs and so- cieties. Secretary of the Columbia Real Estate Company of Atlantic City. Is a member of Apollo Lodge No. 386, Free and Accepted Masons; Keystone Chapter No. 175, a thirty-second degree Mason of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, a member of the Veteran Association of Masons and on the Library Committee of the Temple. Is a life member of the Zoological Society, also member of Phila- delphia Lodge No. 2, B. P. of Elks, a board member of the Samaritan Shelter. Member of the Civil Service Examining Board of the City of Philadelphia, and a Director in the German-American Title and Trust Co. Address, 125 South Fifth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEOPOLD. S. T .:
Clergyman; born Feb. 15, 1851, near Al- lentown, Lehigh County, Pa: educated Kutztown Normal School and Womelsdorf Academy. East Pennsylvania Conference Theological Course. Minister of the Gos- pel for thirty years. Prior to this. school teacher in Berks and Carbon Counties, Pa. Married Emma Horn. of Weissport. Carbon County. Dec. 24. 1872. Licensed to preach. 1875: advanced to Deacon's or- ders. 1876: Elder's orders. 1878: served Hellertown, Uniontown, Mahony City, Tamaqua, Germantown. Norristown. Al- lentown. Bethlehem. St. John. Reading, Ebenezer and Christ Church at present. Been serving as one of the conference Secretaries since 1890 continuously and editor and publisher of the Conference Journal Annual from 1996 to 1902. Also on the board of examiners in conference a number of years. Address, 1039 Robe- son St., Reading, Pa.
LERCH, Charles H .:
School principal; born noar Easton. May 21. 1901: was graduated from Lafayette College in 1\\2: studied at Union Theo- logical Seminary and Johns Hopkins Uni-
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Versity from 18$3 to 18$5. Founded Lerch's Preparatory School, in Easton, in 1885, and has been principal to the present time. Married Ella Laufer, a graduate of Wilson College. in 1991. Address, 315 High St., Easton, Pa.
LESLEY, Robert W .:
Cement manufacturer and lawyer; was born in Philadelphia, July 5. 1333; entered University of Pennsylvania class of 1871; left college in 1868 and went into the em- ployment of the Public Ledger in Phila- delphia, remaining until 1579 as reporter and associate editor; studied law; was Assistant State Reporter of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and admitted to cement firm of Leslie & Trinkie: was connected with D. O. Saylor in the up- building of the first successful America Portland Cement Co., and since that date identfied with the Portland cement indus- try of the United States. which has grown from an annual production of 50,000 bar- rels in 1885 to nearly 20,000.000 in 1303. In 1883, made numerous inventions in the industry and founded American Cement Company with six works Egypt, Pa. From 1883 contributed numerous papers and articles before the Franklin Institute, American Society of Civil En- gineers, Association of Testing Materials. and kindred societies and to publications in leading engineering journals in Ameri- ca and Europe. President of American Cement Company, President of Lesley & Trinkle Company of Philadelphia and United Building Material Company of New York and Boston, past President As- sociation of Portland Cement Manufactur- ers, Vice President American Society for Testing Materials, and member of In- ternational Association for Testing Ma- terials, Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, American Chemical Society, and Associ- ate American Society of Civil Engineers. Address, 22 South 15th St., Philadelphia.
LESSIG. George B .:
President of the Citizens' National National Bank of Pottstown. Address. Pottstown, Pa.
LESSIG, William Henry:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion: captain Ninety-sixth Pennsylva- nia Infantry Sept. 23. 1461; Major Oct. 1. 1942; Lieutenant Colonel Dec. 31. 1962: Colonel (a. w. m.) March 19. 1\$3: hon- orably mustered out Oct. 21, 1964. Elect-
ed May 1, 1867. Address, care of Re- corder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEURA, James R., Ph. D .:
Professor of Psychology and Education at Bryn Mawr College, Pa. Member of the American Psychological Association and of the American Philosophical Asso- ciaton, collaborating editor of the Année Psychologique, the Psychological Review Bulletin and the American Journal of Re- ligious Psychology; born April 9, 1868, at Neuchatel, Switzerland. Studied at the University of that town and received Bachelor's degree in 18$6. Came to the United States the same year and taught the French and German languages at St. Mark's Academy, Southboro, Mass. Was appointed scholar in Philosophy at Clark University, Worcester, Mass, in 1892; Fel- in 1893 and 1894. Received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Clark University in 1895. Appointed Associate in Psychol- ogy and Education in charge of the Psy- chological Laboratory at Bryn Mawr Col- lege in 1897, with a leave of absence of a year spent in study in Germany and Paris (1897-1898). Married in New York in 1896. Acquired the American citizen- ship by naturalization at Worcester, Mass., in 1897. Author of many contribu- tions to experimental psychology, to
ethics and particularly to the psychology of religious life, published chiefly in the American Journal of Psychology, the Psychological Review, the Monist, the Re- vue Philosophique and the International Journal of Ethics, Address. Bryn Mawr, Pa.
LEVAN. Jeremiah R .:
Physician; born in Berks County, Pa .. the descendant of a French-Huguenot family which emigrated to America in 1682, settling in New York and removing to Pennsylvania in 1712. There the de- scendants of the family have since resid- ed. as farmers, manufacturers, or mem- bers of the professions. After attending public school he studied in a military academy at Reading from 1$51 to 1855. and afterward taught school for several years. Selecting the profession of medi- cine, he studied for a time under a Kutz- town doctor, and then in the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1961. Opening an office in Leesport, Pa., he practiced medicine there for ten years. und afterward removed to Titusville dur- ing the petroleum excitement at that
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place. In 1875 he entered upon the prac- tice of medicine in Philadelphia, where in 1STS he aided in organizing the Fidel- ity Mutual Life Insurance Company, whose Medical Director he has since been. In 1SS5 he published a treatise on "Medi- cal Examinations for Life Insurance," which has had a large sale. He is a member of several medical societies, and his one survivng son, George F., has taken up his father's profession. Ad- dress, 733 North Forty-first St., Philadel- phia, Pa.
LEVAN, John P .:
President of the Second National Bank of Altoona. Address, Altoona, Pa.
LEVIS, Paul Lajus:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Seventy-second Pennsyl- vania Infantry Sept. 27, 1861; Corporal Oct. 31, 1561; discharged April 9, 1862; Second Lieutenant First Battalion Penn- sylvania Infantry July 9, 1863; honorably mustered out Oct. 3, 1863. Elected Feb. 7, 1900. Address, 160S Christian St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEVY, Louis Edward:
Inventor; born Oct. 12, 1846, in Stein- owitz (now part of the city of Pilsen), Bohemia, where the family settled in the middle of the sixteenth century; son of Leopold and Wilhelmina (Fischer) Levy; educated in public school in Detroit; field work and study with M. Thelen; topo- graphical surveyor, Detroit, 1860-1861; took special course in mathematics, Uni- Versity of Michigan, - 1866-1667; meteoro- logical observer for daily publication, 1863-1868, in Detroit, and 1868-1871 in Mil- waukee; pblished new method of micro- photography (Scientific American, 1869); invented new photo-engraving method (Leyy type process) at Baltimore, 1873; removed to Philadelphia, 1877. Married, at baltimore, January, 1SS1, Pauline Dal- sheimer. Invented Levy line screen, 1887, now universally in use for producing half- tone engraving (John Scott legacy medal and premium for same, Franklin Insti- tute, 1897). Invented new process of in- taglio engraving ("photo mezzotint"), 1$59; medal and diploma Columbian Ex- position, Chicago. 1893, for work "based on original researches in the field of photo-mechanical reproductive arts"; di- ploma and decorative medal Imperial Rus- sian Photographie Society, Moscow, 1596,
for same; invented new method of etch- ing. "Levy Acid Blast," 1896; Camera Obscura, Amsterdam, 1899 and 1900; El- liott Cresson gold medal Franklin Insti- tute, 1899; diploma of gold medal Paris Exposition, 1900, for invention of acid blast; managing editor of English edition of Brockhaus's "Bilder Atlas," published seven volumes, 1866-1893; part owner and chief editor Philadelphia Evening Herald, 1887-1890, and Philadelphia Sunday Mer- cury, 1SS7-1891; edited and published "Cuba and the Cubans," 1896; collaborated with Cabrera in publication of "Cuba y America (New York, 1897-1899, now pub- lished in Havana). Author and publisher, 1896, "Business, Money and Credit." Edi- tor and publisher Wolf's "American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citzen," 1895; au- thor and publisher of the Jewish Year. Address, 1221 Spring Garden St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
LEVY, Max:
Inventor; born in Detroit March 9, 1857; son of Leopold and Wilhelmina Levy; received education in the public schools of Detroit, where he also studied ar- chitecture and designing. In New York, on Sept. 22, 1885, married Diana Frank- lin of Baltimore. Engaged in photo-en- graving in 1890. Assisted by his brother Louis invented engraved screen, which made the introduction of the half-tone process an assured commercial possibil- ity. Prominent in the development of the theory of half-tone process. Received John Scott Medal, Franklin Institute: Royal Cornwall Polytechnic silver medal, and gold medals in Chicago, 1893; Paris, 1900, and Buffalo, 1901. Contributed to the Photographic Society of Philadelphia in 1896, Paper and Press in 1891, 1895 and 1896, and from time to time articles for photo-engravers' annuals in this country and England. Address, Wayne Junction, Philadelphia, Pa.
LEWIS, David Oldham:
Medical Inspector United States Navy; born in England; appointed from Penn- sylvania; Assistant Surgeon, April S. 1574; Passed Assistant Surgeon, Nov. 22. 1878; promoted to Surgeon. Jan. 22, 1891; was attached to the Hartford in the operations against Santiago de Cuba dur- ing the Spanish-American War; appoint- ed Medical Inspector, Jan. 4, 1903; New York. Fleet Surgeon of the Pacific Squad- ron, since September, 1903. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
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LEWIS, Francis Albert:
Lawyer; born at Philadelphia Oct. 1, 1$57; son of Francis A. and Anna (Reed) Lewis; received his preparatory educa- tion at the Episcopal Academy, Philadel- phia, 1867-1873; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1877, re- ceiving the degrees of A. M., LL. B .. 1880. Married Blanche Mcclelland at Philadelphia in 1SS3. He was admitted to the bar in 1880. Republican in politics. Author of "Law of the Stock Exchange," 1880; notes to eighth edition "Smith's Leading Cases," 1882. Address. 2207 St. James Place; office, 512 Walnut St., Phil- adelphia, Pa.
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