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RAYMOND, John Carrington:
Captain. United States Army; born in New York; appointed from Pennsylvania; cadet Military Academy, June 21. 1893; Additional Second Lieutenant Third Cav- alry, June 11, 1597: Second Lieutenant Sixth Cavalry. May 31. 1998; First Lieu- tenant, Feb. 2, 1901: Captain, March 21, 1904. Address, Manila, P. I.
REA, James:
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Teacher; born at Gap, Lancaster County, Pa., Jan. 31, 1863: educated in the public schools. Coatesville Institute, Parkersburg Academy. Millersville Normal School. and Bryant and Stratton Business College of Philadelphia. For eight years a teacher in the College of Commerce, Philadel- phia; in 1993 accepted a position in Pack- ard Commercial School. New York City. President of New York Commercial Teachers' Association, 1999-1900; associate anthor of
"Packard's Bookkeeping." Member of Pennsylvania Society of New
York, Presbyterian Union of New York, Patria Club, and Madison Square Repub- lican Club. Vice Principal, Director and Secretary-Treasurer of Packard Commer- cial School Company, and a Trustee of the Packard estate. Address, 101 East Twenty-third St., New York, N. Y.
REA, Samuel:
Civil engineer: born in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Sept. 21. 1855; son of James D. and Ruth Rea; educated in common schools and academies; left school at an early age and entered engineering department of the Pennsylvania Railroad; locating and constructing engineer on various branches of the Pennsylvania Railroad; assistant engineer during construction chain suspension bridge, Pittsburg, and also on Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad; chief engineer construction belt line tun- nel. under Baltimore for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; again with Pennsylvania Railroad. 1892-1899, as assistant to Presi- dent. Married, Sept. 11, 1879, Mary M. Black of Pittsburg. Was for a number of years a member of the New York Stock Exchange; member of Institution of Civil Engineers, London; American Society of Civil Engineers. Author of "The Rail- ways Terminating in London." Address, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, Pa.
REACH, Alfred J .:
Manufacturer; born in London, Eng- land. ir 1840. His parents coming to America and settling on Long Island. he attended the public schools there: he be- came a newsboy in his early years, after- ward learning the foundry business. In his spare time he became a baseball player, and developed into one of the mose expert players in his section. In 1862. after the close of his apprentice- ship, he went to Philadelphia with the Eckford Baseball Club to play a series of games with the Quaker City teams, and was persuaded to remain in that city; he continued to play till 1866, when he opened a sporting goods store on Chest- nut above Fourth Street, being the pioneer in this line of business in the country; his business grew large, and in 1550 he took Mr. B. F. Slube as a partner. engag- ing now in both manufacturing and sell- ing. In 1\59 A. J. Reach & Co. sold their retail business to A. G. Spalding & Bros .. since when they have been chiefly en- gaged in the manufacture of sporting gonds, doing a Very large business. Mr. Rach founded the Philadelphia Baseball
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Club, and has since been connected with it as its President. During his earlier years he was one of the most proficient baseball players in the United States. Address, The Normandie, Philadelphia, Pa.
READ, George H .:
Paymaster United States Navy; born in Pennsylvania; clerk to Captain Per- cival Drayton and served on the Pocahon- tas and Pawnee from October, 1861, to August, 1862. Appointed Acting Paymas- ter, Jan. 14, 1865; commissioned as Assist- ant Paymaster, Feb. 27. 1867; Nipsic, 1867; Saginaw, Pacific Fleet, 1868-1871; promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, March 12, 1869; Torpedo Station, 1871- 1874; Intrepid (torpedo-boat), 1874-1875; Swatara, North Atlantic Station, 1875- 1877; Bureau of Provisions. 1877. Com- missioned Paymaster, Aug. 31, 1881; Bu- reau of Provisions and Clothing, 1877- 1879; Fish Commission steamers Fish- hawk and Albatross, 1880-1883; Naval Clothing Factory, 1883-1887; Ossipee, North Atlantic Station, 1887-1889; Assist- ant to General Store Keeper, New York, 1887-1888; Paymaster of Navy Yard, New York, 1888-1890; charge of Naval Clothing Factory, New York, November, 1890, to December, 1892; Marion, Asiatic Station, December, 1892, to 1894; U. S. S. Colum- bia, December, 1894; Navy Yard. New York, June, 1896; retired, March, 1898. Served during the Spanish-American War from start to finish at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., as Paymaster of Yard and Purchasing Officer, and on special duty at Navy Yard, New York. Address, Sheffield, Mass.
READ, John R .:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, July 15, 1843; studied law under St. George Tucker Campbell, being admitted to the bar in 1864. In 1872 he formed a law partner- ship with Silas W. Pettit, under the name of Read & Pettit, which has long enjoyed a successful and profitable prac- tice, largely in the interests of railroad .and other corporations. Among the large concerns for which Mr. Read is counsel may be mentioned the Western Union Telegraph Company, the General Electric Company, and the Philadelphia Commer- cial Exchange. He was First Assistant District Attorney of Philadelphia from 1878 to 1880, and was appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by President Cleveland
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in 1888; he was a member of the Consti- tutional Convention of Pennsylvania in 1873, and served on the committee which secured the adoption of the Constitution by the People. In 1894 President Cleve- land appointed Mr. Read to the respon- sible post of Collector of Customs for Philadelphia, in which he gave general satisfaction to the commercial interests of that city. His political record has been confined principally to his serving as a delegate to Democratic national conven- tions. He was a delegate to those held in 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888 and 1892. Address, 3917 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
READER, Francis Smith :
Editor; born at Coal Centre, Pa., Nov. 17, 1842; son of Francis and Eleanor Smith Reader; educated in common schools and Mount Union College, Ohio; his maternal ancestors, the Scotch Elder- slie Wallaces, emigrated to Maryland as early as 1675; his great grandfather, Wil- liam Wallace, was a Revolutionary soldier; minister Methodist Episcopal Church, 1868, retiring on account of voice failure; Sunday School Superintendent twenty- seven years and member of official board thirty-five years. Private Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, Federal, July 10, 1$61; captured June 20, 1864 .; escaped by jump- ing from train with three comrades near Burkesville Junction, Va., July 19; passed through Lee's army, traveling at night, and reached General Meade's lieadquar- ters at Petersburg, July 30, 1864; dis- charged, Aug. 8, 1864; United States Civil Service. 1865-1875. Established the Bea- ver Valley News, a weekly newspaper, at New Brighton, Pa., May 22, 174. and started daily edition Feb. 4, 18$3; Secre- tary Republican County Committee. Bea- ver County, Pa., for several years. In 1881 he prepared and presented to the Legislature of Pennsylvania the first law enacted in the State governing primary elections; President American Porcelain Company, New Brighton. Author of "Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa.," "Life of Moody and Sankey," "His- tory Fifth West Virginia Cavalry." "His- tory New Brighton, Pa.," and "Histori- cal Sketches of the Harmony Society, Economy, Pa., and of Journalism, Beaver County, Pa." Member Pennsylvania So- ciety Sons American Revolution, Grand Army Republic, and Historical Society, Washington County, Pa. Married Mer- ran F. Darling of New England Revo-
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lutionary families, Dec. 24, 1867. Two sons, Frank E. Reader, attorney; Mil- lard S. Reader, journalist. Address, New Brighton, Pa.
READING, John G .:
President of the Susquehanna Trust and Safe Deposit Company. Address, Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pa.
REAMEY, Lazarus Lowrey:
Commander United States Navy; born in Hollidaysburg. Pa., Feb. 15, 1849; en- tered the United States Naval Academy as a Midshipman, July 25, 1866; was grad- uated June 7, 1870; promoted to Ensign July 13, 1871; Master, July 23, 1874; Lieu- tenant, February 2, 1881; Lieutenant Com- mander, March 3, 1899; retired on his own application with the rank of Commander, June 30, 1900. Served as Signal Officer, North Atlantic Station, 1872-1874; on Asiatic Station, 1874-1878; on U. S. S. Constellation and U. S. S. Constitution (Paris Exhibition), 1878-1879; on duty in the Hydrographic Office, Navy De- partment, Washington, D. C., 1879-1881; European Station, 1881-1884; Flag Lieuten- ant, 1882-1883. Was present when the English fleet in 1882 bombarded Alexan- dria, Egypt; also when the Lancaster was sent to Cronstadt, Russia, to represent the United States at the coronation of the Czar of Russia, May 27, 1SS3; at United States Naval Observatory, Wash- ington, D. C., 1884-1SS7; on flag-ship Trenton, 1887-1889; on Asiatic Station as Flag Secretary, 1889-1892; Secretary of the Board of Inspection and Survey (Navy Department), 1892-1894; Naval Aid to Secretary of the Navy, 1894-1895; on Asiatic Station as Flag Lieutenant, 1895; commanded the United States Monitor Montauk and U. S. S. Boston, 1898; Bureau of Yards and Docks and Navy Yard. Washington, D. C., 1898-1900; on U. S. battleship Texas, North Atlantic Station, as executive officer, 1900. He married, Nov. 10. 1886, Mary Roget Brewster of New York city, descendant of Elder William Brewster and of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620; has one child, a son, Brewster Reaney, born Sept. 9, 18SS. Address, 1746 N St., N. W., Wash- ington, D. C.
REBER, James T .:
President of the Reading National Bank; was born on April 29. 1534, at Sinking Spring, Pa .; educated in the pub-
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lic schools and in private academies: worked on his father's farm, taught school two terms, and then removed to Reading in 1853 to enter the hardware store of George de B. Keim & Co. Three years later he formed a co-portner- ship with Adam Bard in the hardware business, in which he continued over forty years. With his son he then or- ganized the Acme Manufacturing Com- pany for the manufacture of bicycles. etc., the operations of which were suc- cessfully conducted until the establish- ment was absorbed by the American Bi- cycle Company. He served one term in Common Council as a Democrat, and was a Prison Inspector three years; he has held various offices in the Reformed de- nomination and as Trustee of Synod. Trustee of Palatinate College, Trustee of Bethany Orphans' Home, and member of the Board of Publication. Was married to Sarah Potteiger in 1854. Address, Reading, Pa.
REBER, Louis Ehrhart:
Mechanical engineer; born in Nittany, Pa., Feb. 27, 1855; professor mechanical engineering since 1SS7; dean School of Engineering, 1895, Pennsylvania State College; was graduated from Pennsyl- vania State College, 1880, M. S .; grad- uate student Institute Technology, 1883. Married Helen Jackson in 1SSS. Commis- sioner Paris Exposition, 1889; Pennsyl- vania Assistant Executive Commissioner in charge of mines, mining and machin- ery, World's Fair, Chicago. 1891-1893; judge of awards World's Fair, 1893; in charge of Pennsylvania mining exhibit, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis. Mo., 1903-1904. Member American So- ciety of Mechanical Engineers, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Society Naval Ar- chitects and Marine Engineers, Society Promotion Engineering Education, and American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Address, State College. Pennsylvania.
RECH, Jacob:
President of the National Security Bank of Philadelphia. Address, Franklin and Girard Aves., Philadelphia, Pa.
RECK, J. D. W .:
Oil producer; descended from the Von Reck family which came to the Colony of Virgina from Germany in 1732; son of John and Sebilla Auer Reck; was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1844. When
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but a small boy he removed with his par- ents to Allegheny and subsequently to. Tionesta; was educated in the Tionesta public schools. His father, Judge Reck, being a lumberman, he also began the life of a lumberman upon leaving school. He became interested in the production of oil in 1885 and at present has extensive interests in Mckean, Clarion and War- ren Counties. In March, 1873. he married Miss Alma Neal of Erie County. Mr Reck is a member of the Masonic order and of the I. O. O. F. Address, Tionesta, Pa.
REDFIELD, Edward Willis:
Artist; born at Bridgeville, Del., in 1868; pupil of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and under Bouguereau and Fleury, Paris. He received the goid medal from the Art Club of Philadelphia in 1896, and bronze medals from the Paris Exposition, 1900; Buffalo Exposition, 1901: Temple gold medal, Pennsylvania Acad- emy Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903. Mem- ber Society American Artists and of the Art and Sketch Clubs of Philadelphia. Address, Centre Bridge, Bucks County, P2.
REED, Boardman, M. D .:
Born April 30, 1842, in Scottsville, N. Y. Lived during childhood and youth in Lan- caster, Wis .; served in the War of the Rebellion, first as a private soldier and afterward as Captain of Company I, Fif- tieth Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers; edu- cated at Beloit College, Wisconsin. and the Department of Arts of the University of Pennsylvania; was graduated in medi- cine from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1878. Mar- ried, June 22, 1871, to Gertrude R. Phelps. Practiced medicine, 1878-1897. in Atlantic City, N. J., and was for three years Pres- ident of the Board of Health: President of the Atlantic County Medical Society one year. Attending physician for sev- eral years at the Mercer Memorial House for Invalid Women, and also consulting physician to the Jewish Seaside Home, Atlantic City. Since 1896 practiced in special lines in Philadelphia. Author of "Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines," and for five years editor of International Medical Magazine. Professor of diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract, hygiene and climatology, Department of Medicine, Temple College. Member of leading medi- cal societies, city, State and national, in- cluding the American Climatological As- sociation, American Academy of Medicine,
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etc., Order of the Loyal Legion of Amer- ica. - Order of Veterans of Indian Wars. Union. League Club, the Penn Club of Philadelphia, and Merion Cricket Club of Haverford. Address, 1831 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
REED, George Edward:
President of Dickinson College since 1889; born in Brownville, Mo., March 28, 1846; son of Rev. George and Ann (Hell- yer) Reed; was graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1869; re- ceived degree of D. D. from Wesleyan Iniversity in 1SS4 and degree of LL. D. from Lafayette, 1889; student Boston School of Theology. Married in 1870 to Ella Frances Lefiingwell of Norwich, Conn. Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Willimantic, Conn., 1870-1872; St. Paul's Fall River, Mass., 1872-1875; Han- son Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1875-1878; Stamford, Conn., 1878-81; Nostrand Ave- nue, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1881-1884; Hanson Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1884-1887; Trinity, New Haven, 1887-1889. State Librarian of Pennsylvania, 1899-1903. Widely known as preacher, platform orator and edu- cator. Address, Carlisle, Pa.
REED, Irvin A .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Schuylkill Coun- ty; born on a farm in Wayne Township, Schuylkill County, Pa. Sept. 18, 1872; was graduated from the Kutztown Normal School in 1894; taught school in his na- tive township for three years, and after graduating was principal of the Ellwood schools for three years. He studied law in the office of Nicholas Heblich, Potts- ville, Pa., and was admitted to the Schuylkill County bar in January, 1899; was a Delegate to the Democratic State Convention at Erie in 1902; elected to the House of Representatives in November. 1902. Address. Pottsville, Pa.
REED, James H .:
Lawyer; born Sept. 10, 1853. in Alle- gheny City. Pa .; son of Joseph A. and Eliza J. (Hay) Reed; in 1872 he was graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania; was admitted to the Allegheny County bar, July 17, 1875. He was commissioned United States District Judge for the Western District of Penn- sylvania by President Benjamin Harri- son, February 20. 1891; served until Jan. 15, 1899, when he resigned to resume | practice. He has been prominently iden-
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tified with the Carnegie interests and is at present a Director of the United States Steel Company. Republican in politics. Member of the Union, Univer- sity, and Crucible Clubs of Pittsburg. Address, Carnegie Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
REED, John W .:
Jurist; born in Clarion County, Pa .; studied law in the office of Hon. James Campbell and was admitted to the Clar- ion County bar in 1875. He began prac- tice in Brookville in partnership with Hon. A. O. White, but after two years returned to Clarion and became a member of the firm of Wilson, Jenks & Reed; he
subsequently went West, settling at Grand Forks, N. D., but returned to
Pennsylvania in 1884 and practiced at Clarion until 1895. Gaining reputation as a learned and skillful lawyer, he was appointed by Governor Hastings in 1895 President of the judicial district of Jeffer- son County, and in November of that year was elected to this position; he has since presided over . the county courts. Address, Brookville, Pa.
REEDER, Frank:
Lawyer; born in Easton, Pa., May 22, 1845; son of Andrew H. Reeder (who was the first Governor of Kansas) and Amelia H. Reeder; was graduated from Princeton in 1863; Albany, N. Y., Univer- sity, LL. B., 1868. Served in the Union Army in the Civil War from September, 1862, to June, 1866, as Adjutant 174th
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and Captain to Colonel, Nineteenth Pennsyl- vania Cavalry; Collector Internal Revenue, Eleventh District of Pennsylvania, 1873; Brigadier General National Guard Penn- sylvania, 1874; Secretary of State of Pennsylvania, 1895; was Commissioner of Banking, Pennsylvania, Pa., 1900. Ad- dress, Easton, Pa.
REEDER. Wilbur F .:
Lawyer; born at Catawissa, Pa., Jan. 7, 1855; educated in the public schools and at Dickinson Seminary of Williams- port, receiving the degree of B. A. Mar- ried, Dec. 19, 1878, Lillie S. Gotwalt, a lineal descendant of Muhlenberg and Weiser. He studied law with Bush. Yo- cum & Hastings, Bellefonte; admitted to the bar of Centre County, Pa., in 1877; in 1SS1 hẹ formed a partnership with Daniel II. Hastings: in 1897-1899 he was Deputy Attorney General of Pennsyl- vania. Member of Supreme and Superior
Courts of Pennsylvania; Republican in politics; delegate to Republican National Convention, 1904. For six years he was First Lieutenant of Company B, Fifth Regiment; in 1895-1899 he was Assistant Adjutant General of Pennsylvania on the staff of the Governor, with rank of Lieu- tenant Colonel. Member of Pennsylvania German Society, Sons of the Revolution, and Union League of Philadelphia; is also a thirty-second degree Mason and is Past Master, Past H. P., and Past E. C. in his lodge, chapter and commandery respectively. Address, Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa.
REES, William Tecumseh:
Accountant; born in Pittsburg, Pa., July 28, 1872, son of Xenophon S. and Annie J. Rees; entered the employ of a drygoods house as errand boy, advancing successively to stock-keeper, shipper, cashier and assistant bookkeeper, at- tending a public night school, 1893-1900, and is now with a locomotive building company. Enlisted in Battery B, Nation- al Guard of Pennsylvania, as a private, June 9, 1890; promoted to Corporal, 1893; Sergeant and Quartermaster Sergeant, 1895; enlisted as Sergeant Battery B, Pennsylvania Volunteer Light Artillery, 1898, and remained with it throughout its service, including the Puerto Rican Expedition. Honorably discharged Nov. 28, 1898, at muster out of command. Assisted in re-organizing Battery B, in the Nation- al Guard Pennsylvania; First Sergeant 1898; Second Lieutenant, 1899; First Lieu- tenant, 1901, and Captain, 1902. On June 18, 1903, married Matilda Louise, daugh- ter of the late Charles Sennes Frick. Member of the Military Service Institu- tion of the United States, Society of the Puerto Rican expedition: Hampton Bat- tery Veteran Association, Knights of Pythias and Junior Order of United Amer- ican Mechanics: First Adjutant General of the Department of Pennsylvania Ser- Vice Men of the Spanish War. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
REESE. Charles Lee:
Chemist; born in Baltimore. Nov. 4, 1862; was graduated from the University of Virginia, 1884; (Ph. D., Heidelberg. 1886); assistant in chemistry, Johns Hop- kins, 1886-1888: Professor of Chemistry, Wake Forest College, ISSS: South Caro- lina Military Academy, ISS8-1896; in- structor of Johns Hopkins University. 1896-1900; chemist New Jersey Zinc Com-
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pany. 1900-1902; appointed chief chemist and Director of Eastern laboratory Re- pauno Chemical Company, June 1, 1902; married, 1901, Harriet S. Bent. Member American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, Chemists' Club, New York; American Chemical Society, Ger- man Chemical Society, Society Chemical Industry. Contributor to chemical jour- nals. Address, Eastern Laboratory, Ches- ter, Pa.
REESER, Howard S., M. D .:
Physician; born in Reading, Pa., May 27. 1546; educated in the public schools and was graduated from the Reading High School in the class of 1864; was graduated from Jefferson Medical Col- lege in 1867. After practicing medicine in Mexatauny Township one year, he located in his native city, where he still is en- gaged in the practice of his profession. Married Jennie Rauch, daughter of Capt. E. H. Rauch, of Mauch Chunk, Pa. Ad- dress, Reading, Pa.
REEVES. Francis Brewster:
Merchant; son of Johnson and Eliza- beth (Riley) Reeves; born at Bridgeton, N. J .. Oct. 10, 1836: became partner in the firm of N. B. Thompson & Company, wholesale grocers of Philadelphia, in 1559; since 1$65 widely known as Reeves, Parvin & Company; 1851-1898 Director of the Girard National Bank; 1896 Vice President; 1899 President; President of Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad; First Vice President of Philadelphia Bourse; Director of Philadelphia Mortgage and Trust Company, Bell Telephone Company of Philadelphia, Delaware Insurance Com- pany, Audit and Appraisement Company of America, and Lake Superior Corpor- ation: Treasurer of Wholesale Grocers' Association of Philadelphia. New Jersey and Delaware; Manager of Merchants' Fund and the Mercantile Beneficial As- sociation, and of the Germantown Say- ings Fund Society; member of advis- ory board of the Germantown Trust Company, a Trustee of the General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, and of the Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work: IS81-18$3 Chair- man of the Executive Committee of the noted municipal reform "Committee of One Hundred" of Philadelphia; 18SS on Board of Public Education: 1859 appointed a member of Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee of Philadelphia on the occa-
sion of the Johnstown Flood, and Chair- man of Committee on Annuities to Johns- town Flood Orphans of the State Relief Committee. In 1892 he was commis- sioned to visit Russia to deliver and dis- tribute a cargo of food supplies sent on the Conemaugh, for relief of famine suf- ferers, and the Emperor, Alexander III., recognized Mr. Reeves's personal service by the presentation to him of a costly silver and gold punch set of seven pieces. Address, Girard National Bank, Philadelphia, Pa.
REEVES, John:
President of the First National Bank of Beaver Falls. Address, Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pa.
REGER, George F .:
Vice President of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia; born in that city, Aug. 20, 1$39, and received his education in the public schools. He was in mercantile pursuits until the out- break of the Civil War, when he went to the front as a Lieutenant of the Phila- delphia Fire Zouaves. Soon after his return to civil life he connected himself with the fire insurance business in his native city, and in 1870 was City Inspect- or for the Franklin Fire, to which com- pany he has ever since been attached. He was successively its special agent in New York, associate general agent for the New York and New England, Manager for the agency department of the home office and Second Vice President, and is now the Vice President of the company. Office address. 421 Walnut St .; residence. 1504 North Eighth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
REGISTER, Henry V .:
Member of the firm of I. L. Register & Son, the oldest agency of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. He was born in 1871, and was graduated from Cornell University in 1892. He is a member of Markham and the Merion Cricket Clubs. Address, 238 Drexel Building. Philadel- phia, Pa.
REGISTER, I. Layton:
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