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SNYDER. Nicholas R .:
United States Commereial Agent; born at Pittsburg, Pa., and is forty-two years
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of age; educated in the public schools of that city, and graduated from the Pitts- burg College; previous to his appointinenc was a commercial traveler; appointed commercial agent at Port Antonio, Jamaica, Feb. 25, 189S. Address, Port Antonio, Jamaica.
SNYDER, Simon:
Brigadier General, United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvanie; Second Lieutenant Fifth Infantry, April 26. 1861; First Lieutenant June 25, 1861; Captain July 1, 1863; Major Eleventh In- fantry March 10, 15$3; transferred to Fifth Infantry May 17. 1883; Lieutenent Colonel Tenth Infantry Jan. 2. 1888; Colonel Nineteenth Infantry Sept. 16, 1892; Brigadier General Volunteers May 4, 1898; honorably discharged from volunteers May 12, 1899; Brigadier General United States Army April 16. 1902; Brevet Major Feb. 27, 1890, for gallant service in action against Indians at Bear Paw Mountains, Mont., Sept. 30, 1877; retired May 10, 1902. . Address, 300 N. 5th street, Read- ing, Pa.
SNYDER, W. Frederick:
President of the Northern Trust Com- pany of Philadelphia. Address, 600 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia, Pa.
SNYDER, William Penn:
Manufacturer; born in Hollidaysburg, Pa .; son of Rev. Edmund Bowman Snyder, D. D., a noted Methodist minister, having charge of Christ Methodist Episcopal Church of Pittsburg. and also of the North Avenue M. E. Church of Allegheny, which he was instrumental in having erected, and ho officiated also in churches in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago, Indianapolis, and Jacksonville, Fla .; his mother was Mary McCoy. of Scotch de- scent, her forefathers having settled in Williamsport, Pa., in 1900. The Snyders are German descent, coming to this coun- try in 1726, and settling in the north- eastern part of Pennsylvania. Simon Snyder, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1817, in whose honor Snyder Coun- ty received its name, was one of W. P. Snyder's ancestors. He entered the steel works of Shoenberger & Co. as an office boy, and remained in the employ of that firm until isso, when he formed a partner- ship with an associate employe of Shoen- berger & Co .. John G. A. Leishman, under the firm name of Leishman & Snyder, achieving great success, the firm con-
tinuing to enjoy increasing prosperity un- til 1888, when Mr. Snyder purchased his partner's interest, ard, forming a new partnership under the title of W. P. Sny- der & Co., has ever since continued the successful business originally established. He was in 1894 and 1895 Vice President of the MeClure Coke Company until it was absorbed by the H. C. Frick Coke Com- pany; he is also interested in the Oliver & Snyder Steel Company, the Pittsburg Trust Company, the Shenango Furnace Company and other prosperous corpora- tions. He was married in 1888 to Miss Mary C. Black, and has two children, W. P. Snyder, Jr., and Mary B. Snyder. ITe is connected with several of the lead- ing clubs of Pittsburg. Address, Pitts- burg, Pa.
SNYDER, William Preston:
State Senator from Chester County; born Oct. 7, 1851, in East Vincent Town- ship, Chester County, Pa .; raised on a farm: educated in the common schools, Millersville Normal School and Ursinus College; taught school in his native town- ship during the winter of 1868-1869; was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in March, 1873; he practiced medicine in Spring City, where he now resides, from 1873 to 18S6; from February, 1886, to De- cember 31, 1887, was medical examiner for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Postmaster in Spring City from October, 1883, to 1885; in November, 18\7, he was elected Prothonotary of Chester County, serving until January 4. 1891; in January, 1890, he was elected Chairman of the Re- publican County Committee; resigned on the day he was nominated for Represen- tative; was delegate to State conventions which nominated Governor Hoyt. in 1978. and General Beaver, in 1852. Member of the House of Representatives, session of 1891; elected to Senate in 1592 and 1\96; again re-elected in November, 1900; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the sessions of 1899 and 1901. Ad- dress. Spring City, Pa.
SOISSON, Joseph :
President of the Yough National Bank. Address, Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa.
SOLIS, Isane N .:
Lawyer and banker; born in Philadel- phia, Pa .; son of David H. Solis, a prom- inent merchant, and a descendant of
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"dauntless Captain Hays," of the Revo- lutionary War, He was graduated from the Central High School, studied law in the office of Judge F. C. Brewster, and in 1881 obtained admission to the Philadel- phia bar. Leaving Philadelphia a year later, he resided for five years on the Pacific coast, at first in San Francisco and afterward in Portland. He then re- turned to Philadelphia, organized the law firm of Solis & Lowengrund, and resumed practice; his business rapidly grew large and profitable, and became extensive in corporation practice. In 1894 he became associated with Diek Brothers & Co., bankers and brokers, devoting his time and attention to their uptown office, and practicing law only occasionally; he be- came as prominent as a banker as he for- merly was as a lawyer, and socially is held in high regard as a very fine after- dinner speaker and public orator, while he has won distinction in amateur theatri- cals. Address, 2211 Walnut St., Philadel- phia, Pa.
SOLLY, William F .:
Jurist; born in Montgomery County in 1856; received a good education, and fol- lowed his graduation with the study of law, which he had adopted as his life pro- fession; he obtained admission to prae- tice at the bar of Montgomery County in 1879. His knowledge of and skill in the interpretation of the law brought him a good practice, and after twenty-two years of steady labor at the bar he was elected in 1901 to the bench of the Or- phans' Court for the ten years' term end- ing January, 1912. Address, Norristown, Pa.
SOLOMON, Kaskel
Merchant; born in Germany, and when seventeen years of age came to this coun- try; until 1873 he remained in the East. In 1873 he was admitted to the firm of S. Cohen & Co., of Pittsburg, later ac- quired by J. M. Gusky; he still retained his interest in the firm. In 1892 he organ- ized the firm of Solomon & Ruben; in 1903 Mr. Ruben retired and Mr. Jacob Bibro was admitted, the business now being K. Solomon & Co. Residence, 937 Beech Ave., Allegheny, Pa.
SOMMERVILLE, Maxwell:
Professor of Glyptology, University of Pennsylvania; born at Clarksburg, Va .. May 1, 1820, and graduated from the Cen- tral High School, Philadelphia, Pa., 1847. Publisher of Encyclopedia Britannica,
(American reprint) from 1891 to 1900; studied gem archeology, and has spent the greater part of his life in Europe and Asia, devoting more than thirty years to his quest for rare gems, eamcos, intaglios and specimens of the lapidary's art of historical value. Gathered and arranged one of the most celebrated collections in the world, exhibited in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and now in Archeological Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Created and installed In- dian Hindoo Museum, and erected a com- plete Buddhist Temple, both in the Free Museum of Science and Art, Unversity of Pennsylvania. Author of "Engraved Gems" (edition de luxe), 1890; "Siam on the Meinam, or from the Gulf to Ayuthia: Sands of Sahara" (written after recent expedition in Africa); "Popular Edition of Engraved Gems," 1902; "A Wanderer's Legend," 1903; "Joliffe, a Story of Meri- donal France," 1903; monographs on
'The Triumph of Constantine," 1896; "Jupiter Aegiochus," 1898; "Grand Cameo of France," 1900; "Handbook of the Buddhist Temple," 1900; "Handbook of the Buddhist Temple," a new, revised. and enlarged edition, 1904. Residence while abroad, April to October, Grand Hotel du Louvre, Paris, France. Resi- dence, 311 S. Tenth St .; office, 124 N. Seventh St., Philadelphia, Pa.
SOUTHWORTH, Franklin Chester:
President and dean of Meadville Theo- logieal School; born in October, 1863, in North Collins, N. Y .; educated at Alle- gheny College, Meadville, Pa., the Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1887; took high honors in Greek, Latin and Eng- lish; for two years taught Latin and Greek at a boy's school in Worcester and in Adams Academy, Quiney, Mass .; grad- uated from Harvard Divinity School in 1892, receiving degrees of A. M. and Bachelor of Sacred Theology. From 1892 to 1897 was minister of the Unitarian Church in Duluth, Minn .; thence he re- moved to Chicago as minister of the West Side Third Unitarian Church. After sev- eral years' service as one of the Direct- ors of the Western Unitarian Conference, in 1899 he was elected its Secretary; united in marriage, in 1893, with Miss Alice Berry, of Forestville, N. Y. In September, 1902. he became President of the Meadville Theological School and dean of the faculty. Address, Meadville, Pa.
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SOWDEN, William H .:
Lawyer; born in Allentown, Pa., about 1844; educated in the public schools of that city, in Allentown Academy, and Allentown Seminary (now Muhlenberg College). He studied law in the office of Robert E. Wright of Allentown, spending one year at Harvard Law School, and in 1864 was admitted to the Lehigh County bar. He then resumed his studies at Harvard and was graduated there in 1865. He had previously taken part in the Civil War as a Corporal in the 128th Pennsylvania Regiment, and had been wounded at the battle of Antietam. After engaging in practice, he was active in Democratic political movements, and in 1871 was elected District Attorney on his party ticket. After three years' service he was City Solicitor of Allentown for two years, and in 1885 became a member of the United States House of Represen- tatives, in which he served for four years. He has been a delegate to numerous State conventions of his party and was a dele- gate to the Democratic National Conven- tions of 1880, 1SS4 and 1900. Address, Allentown, Pa.
SPAETH, (Philip Friederich) Adolph (Theodor) :
Clergyman; Professor in Lutheran The- ological Seminary since 1873, and pastor of St. Johannis German Lutheran Church since 1867; born in Esslingen, Germany, Oct. 29, 1839; graduated from the Uni- versity of Tübingen, 1861, and received the degrees of D. D., University of Penn- sylvania, 1875, and LL. D., Mühlenberg College, Pennsylvania. Tutor in family of Duke of Argyle, Scotland, 1863; called to Zion's Church, Philadelphia, 1864; Presi- dent General Council Evangelical Luther- an Church in North America, 1880-1888; President Ministerium of Pennsylvania, 1892-1895; President General Conference of Lutheran Mother-houses of Deaconess- es in United States, 1896. Author of "Liederlust," "Saatkörner," "Biography of Dr. W. J. Mann," "Biography of Dr. Charles Porterfield Krauth," 1898; "Com- mentary on the Gospel of St. John," 1896; editor of German Church Book and Ger- man Sunday School Book of the General Council, co-editor of "Documentary His- tory, Ministerium of Pennsylvania." Con- tributor to "Lutheran Encyclopedia," 1899 and the Lutheran Church Review. Twice married, first, to Marie Dorothea Duncan, in 1865, and in 1880, to Har-
riet R. Krauth. Address, 7300 Boyer St., Philadelphia, Pa.
SPEAR, Roscoe:
Lieutenant United States Navy; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; Na- val Cadet, May 23, 1890; Ensign, July 1. 1896; Lieutenant (junior grade), July 1. 1899; Lieutenant, March 5. 1902; Isla de Cuba, Feb. 26, 1901, to May, 1904. Ad- dress, Norristown, Pa.
SPALDING, Rev. Franklin Spencer:
Born in Erie, Pa., 1865; was graduated from Princeton College in 1887, and at the General Theological Seminary, New York City, 1891. Head master Jarvis Hall Military Academy, Denver, Col., 1892-1896; rector St. Paul's Church, Erie, Pa., 1896. Address, Erie, Pa.
SPANGLER, Henry T .:
President Ursinus College; born at My- erstown. Pa., Nov. 14, 1853; son of Cyrus C. and Sarah Winter Spangler; degrees of A. B., Ursinus College, 1873; A. M., 1876; D. D., Heidelberg University, 1894; stu- dent in theology and instructor, Ursinus College, 1873-1875; licensed minister, Re- formed Church in the United States, 1875. Married, June 22, 1876, Marion E., daughter of Rev. J. H. A. Bamburger, D. D., LL. D. President of Ursinus Col- lege, 1870-1890; associate editor Christian World, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1875-1877; pas- tor, 1877-1890; Professor of Psychology. Ursinus College, 1891-1893; was elected President of Ursinus College, 1893. Mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Historical Socie- ty, Pennsylvania German Society. Ad- dress, Collegeville, Pa.
SPANGLER, Henry W .:
Mechanical engineer; Professor of Me- chanieal Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania; born in Carlisle, Pa., 1858. Entered Naval Academy at An- napolis, 1874, as a Cadet Engineer, and was graduated in 1878; served on U. S. S. Richmond, Ranger. Pensacola, Tennessee; instructor at University of Pennsylvania in marine engineering and naval archi- tecture, 1881-1884 and 1887-1890; detailed at International Electrical Exhibition. 1884-1885, held by the Franklin Institute: 1890, President of Engineers' Club of Philadelphia. He resigned from the Navy as a Passed Assistant Engineer in 1\01. and was elected professor in charge of the Department of Dynamical Engineer-
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ing at the University of Pennsylvania. Married, in 1881, Nannie J. Foreman, of Carlisle, Pa. Entered the Navy as a Chief Engineer during the Spanish-American War. Author of "Valve Gears." "Notes on Thermodynamics," and, in part, "Ele- ments of Steam Engineering" (John Wi- ley's Sons, New York ), and of numerous technical papers. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Ainer .. ican Society of Naval Engineers, Ameri- can Society Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Franklin Insti- tute, and Engineers' Club of Philade :- phia. Address, University of Pennsyl- vania, Philadelphia, Pa.
SPATZ, Charles B .:
Publisher; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 25, 1866; removed in 1872 with his par- ents to Boyertown, where he has since resided; educated in the public schools and also in the Kallynean Academy and Mt. Pleasant Seminary, Boyertown. He learned the printing business with his father, who was publishing a weekly newspaper. the Boyertown Democrat. He became the editor and publisher of this paper upon the death of his father in
1SS4. After having been several times a delegate to State and National con- ventions he was elected to membership in the Pennsylvania House of Represen- tatives in 1896, and was, re-elected in 1898; he served a term of enlistment in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. Member of Reading Press Club; Stands high in the Masonic Order. Address, Boyertown, Pa.
SPEAR, John Crawford:
Medical Inspector United States Navy; member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Assistant Surgeon (Master) United States Navy. May 9, 1861; Passed Assistant Surgeon (Lientenant), Oet. 26, 1863: Surgeon (Lieutenant Commander), June 23. 1864; Medical Inspector (Com- mander), Oct. 6, 1>7> retired (Comman- der), Sept. 14, 1858. Elected, Oet. 16, 1889. Address. Marine Recruiting Ren- dezvous, Philadelphia, Pa.
SPEAR, Nathaniel:
Merchant; President of Spear & Co., Pittsburg; born in Ohio; educated in a country school in Richland County, Ohio, and completed, when eighteen years of age, at the Cincinnati High School. Here-
ceived a clerkship in a furniture house; in 1892 he opened a store on Wood street; last year he opened a store in New York, and later extended his business to Cin- cinnati. He was elected Secretary of the Merchants' Association of Allegheny County, composed of twenty-five of the largest furniture concerns in Western Pennsylvania. Address, 90S Penn Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
SPEARMAN, John J .:
President of the First National Bank of Sharon. Address, Sharon, Mercer County, Pa.
SPEEL, John N .:
Pay Director United States Navy; born in Pennsylvania; appointed from Minnesota; Rio Bravo, July, 1875. to April, 1877; Bureau Provisions and Cloth- ing, June to October, 1877; Saratoga, October, 1877, to October, 1879; Naval Station, New London, October, 1879. to April, 1880; Bureau Provisions and Cloth- ing, Kearsarge, 1880-1SS1; 1882-1884; Navy Department, 1884-1886; Coast Sur- vey, December, 1886, to November. 1SS9; Petrel, 1889 to 1891. Commissioned Pay- master, November, 1891: Navy Yard, League Island, February, 1892, to Janu- ary, 1893; receiving-ship St. Louis, Jan- uary to September, 1893; Navy Yard, Norfolk, January, 1894; Michigan, June, 1894; Amphitrite, April, 1895-1898: May, 1898; Naval Home, Philadelphia: General Storekeeper, Navy Yard, League Island, 1899 to 1903. Fleet Paymaster European Squadron from April, 1902, to April, 1903; General Storekeeper. Navy Yard, New York, since July, 1903. Address, Navy Yard, New York, N. Y.
SPEER, Alexander Morrow, M. D .:
Physician; born in Pittsburg; Oct. 28, 1830; son of James Ramsey Speer, M. D., and Hetty Morrow Speer: after his pre- liminary studies at the Western Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, he was graduated at the Jefferson Medieal College of Phil- adelphia, March, 1853, and settled in Pittsburg. Surgeon to West Penn Hos- pital in 1854; Surgeon and Superinten- dent of United States Marine Hospital at Pittsburg, February, 1857-1861; Sur- geon Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry, April-August, 1861: September. 1861-1863, Surgeon and Major of Seventh Pennsyl- vania Cavalry; Surgeon United States Volunteers, June 13, 1863-1865; brevetted Lieutenant Colonel United States Volun-
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teers, October, 1865. During service in the field was Medical Director on the staffs of General R. H. G. Minty. com- manding brigade of Cavalry; of General J. B. Turchin, commanding Second Di- vision of Cavalry: of Major General D. S. Stanley, commanding cavalry corps of the Army of the Cumberland; also Sur- geon in charge of United States Army General Hospitals in Covington, Ky .; of Hospital No. 9, Louisville, Ky .. and of United States Army Eye and Ear Hos- pital in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1$66 and 1867 pursued his studies in ophthalmology in Europe and then returned to Pitts- burg. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, Department of Pennsylvania; Duquesne Post, G. A. R., No. 259. of Pittsburg, Pa .; Medical Society of Alle- gheny County, Pa .; American Medical Association of the United States. Mar- ried, in 1872. Ellen Caroline Bissell, daughter of the late John Bissell of Pittsburg. Address, First National Bank Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
SPEER, Charles E .:
President of the First National Bank of Pittsburg. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
SPEER, James Postlethwaite:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Captain Fortieth Pennsylvania Infantry (Eleventh Reserve), June 8, 1861; Major. May 28, 1863; resigned and hon- orably discharged, Aug. 27, 1863, for disa- bility from wounds: brevetted Lieuten- ant Colonel United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant conduct at the battle of Gettysburg, Pa. Elected, Oct. 16, 1869. Address, 424 Fourth Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
SPEER, William Finley:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Independent Company Pennsylvania Cavalry, Oct. 22. 1862; dis- charged for promotion, Oct. 4, 1862: Sec- ond Lieutenant Independent Company, Pennsylvania Cavalry. Oct. 25. 1862; transferred to Twenty-second Pennsyl- vania Cavalry, Feb. 22. 1864; Captain, Sept. 7. 1864; transferred to Third Pro- visional Pennsylvania Cavalry, June 24, 1865; honorably mustered out. Oct. 31. 1865. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St .. Philadelphia, Pa.
SPENCER, George Karr:
Captain United States Army; born in Beaver County. Pa., Feb. 25, 1842; moved with his parents to Moline. Ill., in 1855, and to Davenport, Iowa, in 1858. He enlisted as a private and was mustered into the United States service, May 27, 1861, as a member of Company B. Second Iowa Infantry Volunteers; was promoted to Captain Thirty-fifth Towa Infantry Volunteers, July, 1863; honorably mus- tered out of Volunteer service, Aug. 10, 1865; participated in all of the actions in which the regiment was engaged in the campaigns; appointed Second Lieu- tenant Nineteenth United States Infan- try, 1867; First Lieutenant. by brevet, 1878, and retired on account of disability incurred in the line of duty. as Captain, by brevet, Feb. 20. 1891. Address, 632 Everett Ave., Kansas City, Kan.
SPENCER, William :
President of the First National Bank of Erie; born June 14, 1848; educated at Princeton; married Mary R. Dupuy. Ad- dress, Erie, Erie County, P'a.
SPICER, Robert Barclay:
Educator; born near Pleasantville, Har- ford County, Md., March 4, 1869: son of Simeon and Addie (Guyton) Spicer; was graduated from Swarthmore College, 1890; took post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins. 1892-1893; Breslau University, Germany, 1894; Leipzig, 1894-1895: Mead- Ville Theological School, 1902; University of Pennsylvania, 1903. Married, in 1900, Margaret Jones. He was instructor of Latin, University of Cincinnati, 1895- 1898: resident worker in Cincinnati So- cial Settlement, 1896-1998; President of Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, 1900-1902; student and instructor New Testament Greek, Meadville Theological School, 1902: associate editor Friends' In- telligence, Philadelphia, 1903. Address, 140 North Fifteenth St., Philadelphia; residence, Darby, Pa.
SPIEKER, George Frederick:
Clergyman; born in Howard County, Md., Nov. 17, 1844: son of Herman H. and Margaret E. Spieker: Professor of Church History, Old Testament Theology and Introduction. Lutheran Theological Seminary, since 1891; educated at Balti- more City College and in Lutheran The- ological Seminaries of Gettysburg and Philadelphia; was graduated from latter,
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1867; D. D., Roanoke College, Va. Mar- ried, in 1869, Hannah Hoch. Acting Pro- fessor German Language and Literature, Pennsylvania College, 1864-1866; profes- sor, Keystone Normal School, Kutztown, Pa., 1867-1868; was Professor of Hebrew at Mühlenberg College, Pa., 1887-1894. Lutheran pastor, Kutztown, 1867-1883, and Allentown, 1883-1894; associate ed- itor Lutheran Church Review. Author of "Commentary on Second Corinthians"; monographs on "The Evangelical Luth- eran Church," "Questions on Luther's Small Catechisin"; translator of "Wilden- hahn's Martin Luther" and "Hutter's Compend of Lutheran Theology." Ad- dress, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa.
SPRAGUE. William:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, May 29, 1860, to March 3, 1863; United States Senator, March 4, 1863, to March 4, 1875. Elected, Nov. 1, 1865. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
SPROULL, Theodore:
President of the Equitable Trust Com- pany. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
SPROUL, William Cameron:
State Senator from Delaware County; born at Octoraro, Lancaster County, Sept. 16, 1870; educated in private schools at Negaunee, Lake Superior. Mich .; he returned to Pennsylvania in 1882, and prepared for college in Chester City schools, graduating from high school in 1887; from Swarthmore College in class of 1891. In 1892 he bought half interest in Chester Times; in 1896 he was elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania and re- elected in 1900; in 1903 he was elected President pro tempore of the Senate, and in 1904 was renominated unanimously by the Republicans for re-election. In 1900 he organized the Seaboard Steel Casting Company, located at Chester, Pa., of which he is President. He is a Trustee of Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble Minded Chil- dren, and is a member of Union League, University Club and Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia, and Manhattan and Engineers' Clubs of New York. Married. January 21, 1892. Emeline W., daughter of John B. Roach of Chester. Residence, Chester, Pa.
SPROULL, William O .:
Professor of Philology, author; born in Allegheny, Pa., May 8, 1848; son of Rev. Thomas Sproull, D. D., LL. D .; graduated from Washington and Jeffer- son College in 1869 with degree of B. A .; Ph. D. and A. M., University of Leipzig, 1877; LL. D., Wooster University, 1890; L. H. D., Miami University, 1895; in- structor in Zencker Institution, Jena. Germany, 1875-1876; Professor of Latin and Arabic, University of Cincinnati, 1880-1900; Dean of the University of Cin- cinnati, 1892-1893; Professor of Latin, Bay View Summer School, 1895-1896; in- troduced university extension into Ohio. Member of German Orient Society, Amer- ican Orient Society, American Philologi- cal Society, Dialect Society; President of the Cincinnati Teachers' Club for three terms; member Union Board of High Schools; Director of the Associated Char- ities; member of the Cincinnati Literary Club and Pittsburg University Club. Ed- itor and translator of "An Extract from Ibn Kutaiba's Adab-al-Katib," an Ara- bic manuscript found in the Imperial Court Library in Vienna; contributor to various philological and educational jour- nals; author of numerous monographs on philological and educational subjects. At present General Agent of the New York Life Insurance Company, Pittsburg, Pa. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
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