ADLER, FELIX.-Scholar and philanthropist. Born 1851, in Germany, on the Rhine. Came to New York when five years of age. Educated in the public schools and Columbia Grammar School, and was graduated at Columbia College. In 1870 received degree of Ph. D. at the University of Heidelberg. In 1873 was appointed Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature at Cornell University. In 1876 founded the Society of Ethical Culture in New York City, a religious society, bearing the motto "Diversity in Creed, Unanimity in Deed." In 1878 founded the first free kindergarten for poor children in America. In 1879 inaugurated the first system in New York of district nurses by trained hospital nurses. In 1880 founded the Free School for Manual Training (the Workingman's School at No. 109 West 54th street, accommodating about 400 children). In 1885 formed the Tenement House Building Company, which erected fine tenement houses in Cherry street. In 1890 founded the School of Applied Ethics, which meets annually in the summer at Plymouth, Mass. Has also started ethical societies in Chicago, Ill.; St. Louis, Mo.; Philadelphia, Pa.; London and Cambridge, England; Berlin and all the larger cities of Germany. Member of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Seventy on Tenement House Reforms.

AGNEW, GEORGE BLISS.-Born in New York City, and was graduated from the academic department of Princeton University in the Class of 1891. He has since been engaged in business in New York City. Is a member of the Union League and City Clubs, and during the political campaign of 1894, was identified with Good Government Club" A," serving as an election district captain. He was an active member of Troop A, N. G. S. N. Y., and on January 1, 1895, was appointed Aide-de-Camp on Governor Mortou's Staff with the rank of Colonel.

ALLEN, HENRY.-Merchant. Born in Ireland. Engaged for the past thirty-one years in importing and manufacturing glassware and druggists' sundries. Public School Trustee of the Seventeenth Ward for past fifteen years. Chairman of the New York State Democracy in the Tenth Assembly District.

ANDREWS, AVERY DELANO.-Lawyer. Born April 4, 1864, in Massena, St. Lawrence County, New York. Appointed to West Point in 1882, graduating in Class of 1886. Assigned to Fifth Artillery, at Governor's Island, New York, where he remained on duty for three years, when he was transferred to Washington, D. C., serving as Aide-deCamp on the Staff of Lieutenant-General Schofield, commanding the Army. While in Washington he entered a law school, graduating in 1891. In 1892 he resigned from the Army with rank of First Lieutenant and came to New York, where he was admitted to the Bar and began the practice of law. He is Engineer on the Staff of BrigadierGeneral Louis Fitzgerald, First Brigade, National Guard, S. N. Y.. with rank of Major. On September 27, 1888, at Governor's Island, New York, he married Mary Campbell, only daughter of Lieutenant-General John M. Schofield. In February, 1895, he was appointed a Police Commissioner of the City of New York to succeed John C. Sheehan, removed. He is a Democrat in politics.

ARCHIBALD, JAMES P.-Artisan. Born August 9, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. Educated at St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Academy, Dublin, Ireland. Is an interior decorator. In 1886 organized the United Labor Party, and was its first secretary. In 1890 was one of the organizers of the People's Municipal League and Chairman of its Executive Committee. Member of the Single Tax Club and Recording Secretary of the Central Labor Union of New York. Is a Democrat in politics. Member of the Executive Committee of the Cominittee of Seventy.

ASTOR. JOHN JACOB.-Capitalist. Born July 13, 1864, at Ferncliff, in the township of Rhinebeck, New York, the Astor country seat on the Hudson. He is the son of William Astor, deceased, and through General Armstrong, who was Minister to France and United States Secretary of War, is fifth in descent from Robert Livingston, grandfather of the celebrated Robert Livingston. He was pre pared for college in St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and was graduated from Harvard College in the Class of 1888, taking a scientific degree instead of the classical. In 1891 married, in Philadelphia, Alva, daughter of Edward S. and Alice B. Willing. Is a director of National Park Bank, Mercantile Trust Com

pany, Title Guarantee and Trust Company, and Plaza Bank. Is manager of the William Astor estate. Is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, Knickerbocker, Union, Metropolitan and Tuxedo Clubs; also of the Patriarch Society, New York Yacht Club, Country, Racquet, Tennis, and Riding Clubs and Delta Phi Fraternity. In January, 1895, was appointed Aide-de-Camp on Governor Morton's military Staff, with rank of Colonel.

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BEAMAN, CHARLES COTESWORTH.-Lawyer. Houlton, Maine, May 7, 1840, son of Rev. Chas. C. Beaman, Congregational minister and Mary A. Stacy. Entered Harvard in 1857, graduating in 1861. Taught school for three years at Marblehead, Mass. Entered Harvard Law School, remaining two years. He then became private secretary to Charles Sumner, also Clerk of Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. In 1867 he came to New York and began the practice of law. He then formed a partnership with Edward N. Dickerson, the famous patent lawyer, under firm name of Dickerson & Beaman. In 1874 married a daughter of Wm. M. Evarts and in 1879 dissolved partnership with Mr. Dickerson and became a member of the firm of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, in 1884, the firm name being changed to Evarts, Choate & Beaman. While with Mr. Sumner, he made an exhaustive study of the Alabama Claims controversy, and in 1871 published a book entitled "The National and Private Alabama Claims and their Final and Amicable Settlement." In 1872 he was appointed by President Grant Solicitor for the United States, before the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration. In 1887 he was chosen one of the overseers of Harvard College, to serve six years, and has recently been re-elected. From 1883 to 1886, he was Presi dent of the Harvard Club, in New York City. He is a member of the Union, Century, University, Metropolitan, Players' and Union League Clubs, vice-president of the New England Society and of the University Club.

BEEKMAN, HENRY RUTGERS.-Lawyer. Born New York City, December 8, 1845. He is a member of the old Beekman family, the most prominent of whom, Gerardus Beekman, was Colonial Governor of New York, about 1710, and was afterward a member of Hunters' Council until his death. Graduated from Columbia College in 1865, when he entered the Law School. Graduating in 1867, thereupon admitted to the Bar, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession in New York City. In 1884 he was appointed a school trustee for the Eighteenth Ward of the city of New York. In 1885 Mayor Grace appointed him a Park Commissioner. In 1886 he was elected President of the Board of Aldermen, and upon the expiration of his term, he was appointed by Mayor Hewitt Corporation Counsel. In 1890 he was appointed by Governor Hill a Commissioner for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States, a movement which is supported by some twentytwo States through the appointment of similar commissions. At the first conference of these commissions, he was selected as chairman, and has since continued to act in that capacity. In 1894 he was chairman of the New York State Democracy for the Twelfth Assembly District. In 1894 he was elected to the office of Judge of the Superior Court of the city of New York, receiving on the Reform Ticket 151,155 votes against 111,136 cast for C. H. Truax, Tammany-9,733 scattering.

BERNHEIM, ABRAM C.-Banker. Born February 1, 1866, New York City Educated in the public schools and Columbia College, graduating with the degrees of LL.B. and Ph.D. He is also a graduate of the Columbia School of Law and School of Political Science. He went abroad and took a course of instruction at Berlin University. Mr. Bernheim is a lecturer at Columbia College on the History of New York State and City, being appointed as prize lecturer in 1886, for two terms of three years each, and in 1894 he was made permanent lecturer. He devotes a large amount of his time to charitable work. Is a trustee of the Tenement House Building Company, owning model tenements in Cherry street, New York City; is a trustee of the Aguilar Free Library, and Treasurer and one of the founders of the University Settlement Society. He is a member of the Vaudeville, Aldine, Grolier and City Clubs and several college societies. He was one of the original members of the City Reform Club. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Seventy, and during the campaign was Chairman of its Press Committee.

BLANCHARD, JAMES ARMSTRONG.-Lawyer. Born in Jefferson County, New York, in 1845, and is the youngest child of Philip and Catharine [Drummond] Blanchard. On his paternal side his ancestry runs back to the Huguenots, and on his maternal he is descended from excellent Scottish stock. When nine years of age his parents moved to Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, and settled on a farm, which he assisted in working until the age of fifteen. He enlisted in the Second Regiment of Wisconsin Cavalry Volunteers, serving until the close of the war. He subsequently entered Ripon College, from which institute he was graduated in the Class of 1871. Mr. Blanchard's legal training was gained in Columbia College Law School, from which he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in the Class of 1873. He immediately hegan the practice of law. He is the senior counsel of the firm of Blanchard, Gay & Phelps. In politics Mr. Blanchard is a Republican. He was president of the Republican Club. He was one of five members of this club who, in the spring of 1887, were appointed a committee for the purpose of organizing the National Convention of Republican Clubs, which was held in Chickering Hall, New York, in December of the same year. Fifteen hundred delegates, representing more than 1,000 clubs from twenty-eight States in the Union, were present at this convention, which eventually ripened into the Republican League of the United States. Mr. Blauchard was its vice-president for the State of New York in 1888 and 1889, has since been its executive member for the State and chairman of its Sub-Executive Committee. For some years he represented the Twenty-first Assembly District in the Executive Committee of the Republican County Committee. He is a member of the Bar Association, Lafayette Post, G. A. R., the Republican and Union League Clubs and the Geographical Society, and was a member of the "Committee of Thirty" that lately reorganized the Republican party in New York County, and is a member of the Committee of Seventy.

BLOOMINGDALE, EMANUEL W.-Born November 25, 1852, in Rome, N. Y. He was educated in New York City and graduated from Columbia College School of Law in the Class of 77. Practiced his profession at the New York Bar until 1883 when, on account of ill-health, he abandoned a lucrative practice and entered mercantile life. He is now a member of the firm of Bloomingdale Brothers, retail dry goods merchants, employing upward of 2,000 people. Mr. Bloomingdale has been a member and foreman of many Grand Juries, among others the Grand Jury that indicted Rollin M. Squire, Commissioner of Public Works; Maurice B. Flynn, Sheriff James A. Flack, Joseph Koch, and the other Excise Commissioners. Mr. Bloomingdale drew the presentment which was submitted to the Constitutional Convention to abolish the office of Coroner. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Republican Club. Married the daughter of Herman Bernheimer, an old time New York merchant. He is a member of the Committee of Seventy.

BLUMBERG, JULIUS.-Publisher. Born in 1866, in Sheffield, England, he came to New York when six months of age. Educated in the public schools. Organized and was made President of the East Side Ballot Reform League, of the Fourth Assembly District, in 1889. Assisted in organizing Good Government Club X," and was elected its first president. Was the candidate for Alderman of Good Government Club "X," the Republican and New York State Democracy parties and indorsed by the Anti-Tammany (O'Brien) faction. He is a member of several societies and Social Clubs.

BRADLEY, DANIEL.-State Senator, Fifth Senatorial District. Independent Democrat. Born March 17, 1833, at Londonderry, Ireland; came to America in 1849 and located in the Fifth Ward of Brooklyn. Was educated in the parochial school. Engaged in real estate and insurance. Served in the New York Assembly in 1875-6 and 1877, being twice elected as an independent Democrat and once unanimously. He was nominated for the State Senate by the Republicans, as an independent Democrat. The district is usually Democratic by about 7,000. Received 16,837 votes, defeating the regular Democratic candidate, William Van Slooten, by 311 plurality. Was a member of the Lexow Committee.

BRADY, JOHN J.-Lawyer. Born August 30, 1853, in New York City. Educated at St. John's College, Fordham, New York. He is President of the Fordham Club, Treasurer of the Fordham Club Building and Land Association, Counsel for the Twentieth Ward Co-operative Building and Loan Association and Chairman of the New York State Democracy Organization in the Thirtieth Assembly District.

BRUCE, CHARLES ELI, M. D.-Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 15, 1851, son of Eli F. Bruce and Mary Ann

Timson of Windham County, Vermont. Was educated in public schools and New York College. Graduated in medicine from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1873; House Physician, Epileptic and Paralytic Hospital B. I, 1872-73: Surgeon to Schoolship Mercury, 1873-74; Visiting Physician Workhouse and Almshouse Hospital President of Medical Board of same, 1893-94-95; member of Medical Society of County of New York; member of Medical Society of State of New York; Chairman of Committee of Hygiene, 1894-95; Fellow of New York Academy of Medicine, Trustee of Physicians' Mutual Aid Society of New York; member of Pathological Society of New York; Surgeon of Eighth Regiment N. G. S. N. Y. from April 28, 1879; is a Director of the Society for the Prevention of Crime.

BRIESEN, ARTHUR VON.-Lawyer. Born July 11, 1843, at Borkendorf, in West Prussia. Educated in Prussian Gymnasiums at Hohenstein and Braunsberg, and graduate of the Law School of the University of the City of New York. He was employed with J. H. Giles and Calvert Vaux. New York architects, as draughtsman, from 1859 to 1861, when he joined the army, becoming a member of the First New York Volunteer Engineers, serving in South Carolina in Gen. W. T. Sherman's, afterward Gen. Hunter's Tenth Army Corps. He returned to New York in 1863, and was employed in the office of the Scientific American as Examiner of Inventions, from 1864 to 187, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law During his career in the army he participated in the taking of Port Royal, South Carolina, by Admiral Dupont, at the boibardment and taking of Fort Pulaski, at battles of Secessionville, near Charleston, and battle of Pocotaligo. In he voted the Republican ticket until 1884, when, because of the tariff issue, he became a Democrat. In 1892 was a member of the Executive Committee of the German-American Cleveland Union, opposing Maynard's election, which position he occupied until August, 1894, when he was succeeded by Mr. Gustav H. Schwab. He is a member of the City Club, Reform Club, German Club, Good Government Club “A," the Bar Association, Presi dent of the German Legal Aid Society, and a member of the Committee of Seventy.

BROOKFIELD, WILLIAM.-Born at Greenbank, N. J., May 24, 1844. In 1862 he engaged in the manufacture of glass in Brooklyn, and is President of the Bushwick Glass Works, and has been President of the National Association of Glass Manufacturers. He has always been actively interested in politics, and since he became prominent in the Twenty-first District many years ago, he has held a leading position in Republican politics in New York City. He is President of the Republican Club and also belongs to the Union League and Lawyers' Clubs, the Down-Town Association, the Fulton Club, the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade and Transportation, the Consolidated and the Produce Exchanges. He is a director in several insurance companies and other business corporations, and a prominent member of Dr. Hall's congregation. He was Chairman of the Republican State Committee in the years 1892, 1893 and 1894, and was succeeded by Charles W. Hackett, of Utica. He also served as President of the Republican County Committee. After the election of 1893, when the Union League Club reorganized the Republican County Committee, Mr. Brookfield was made a member of the Committee of Thirty, which had charge of the reorganization. In January, 1895, he was appointed Commissioner of Public Works for the city of New York, by Mayor Strong.

BROWN, JOHN CROSBY.-Banker. Member of the banking firm Brown Brothers & Co. He is one of the vicepre idents of the Committee of Seventy, and is a member of the Metropolitan, City, Union, University, Century Down-Town and Riding Clubs, of the Columbia College Alumni Association, of the National Academy of Design, American Museum of Natural History, Essex County Country Club, and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club.

BURR, WILLIAM H., who had charge of the Department of Engineering in Harvard University previous to his assuming the chair of civil engineering in Columbia College, was graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Class of 1872, and during the following three years occupied positions with a wrought-iron bridge company in New York City, and on the water supply and sewerage system of Newark, N. J. He was then called to the faculty of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as assistant in "Rational and Technical Mechanics," which position he held for one year and was then made the head of that cepartment. He filled that chair for eight years. While teaching at Troy, he also acted as consulting engineer at various times to the Northern Railroad Department of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and the water works and sewerage system of Lansingburg, N. Y., and on other similar works. In the spring of 1884, when the

formation of the Union Bridge Company caused the organization of the Phoenix Bridge Company, he accepted the position of engineer of construction of the latter, and subsequently became general manager. It was under his immediate supervision that the large bridge structures of that company (among them the Chesapeake and Ohio bridge at Cincinnati, the Red Rock Cantilever, the Pecos Viaduct, etc.) were designed and executed. In April, 1891, he became vice-president of Sooysmith & Co. He is a member of the Sub-committee of the Committee of Seventy on the Improvement of the Water Front.

BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY.-Born in 1862, at Elizabeth, N. J. His education began in the public schools of Paterson, N. J., where his father was for many years President of the Board of Education, and was continued in Columbia College, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1882, and the following year, 1883, the degree of Master of Arts. In 1884 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the same institution, and visited Europe the same year, pursuing his studies at the universities of Berlin and Paris. Returning to America, he became instructor in philosophy and education at his Alma Mater in 1886, continuing his work until 1888, when he became the adjunct professor, a position which he held until 1890, when he was made a full professor of philosophy and education, becoming the dean of the university faculty of philosophy. Meanwhile, in 1887, he had organized the New York Teachers' College, taking the presidency of the same. This position he held for four years, bringing the new institution into the front rank of the normal schools, establishing an advanced course for college graduates that resorted to his college for the work of preparation for teaching. The institution has become a part of the Columbia University itself, and is now on a permanent foundation. He planned and organized as editor The Educational Review, in 1891, and became also editor of "The Great Educators series. In 1894 he became University Examiner in Education for the State of New York. The same year he was elected President of the National Educational Association. He is a member of the subcommittee of the Committee of Seventy on Public Schools.

CALLANAN, LAWRENCE J.- Born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland, about fifty-eight years ago; his father carried on the largest bakery and grocery business in the town in which he was born; the boy had a slight quarrel with his father and ran away, believing that he could make his way in the new world. He arrived in New York in the early part of the year 1854, and after some time he went to work at the grocery business in Brooklyn. He tried New Orleans for a short time; not being satisfied there, he came back to Brooklyn in 1856, to his old place. In 1857 he again made a change, going to work in the store of Mr. Peter Lynch, at 41 Vesey street; after working for him for a short time, he started in the grocery and meat business, occupying two stores in Rector street, near West street, where he remained about five years; he sold out his two stores, and moved to 79 Baxter street, where he transacted a large grocery business; in connection with it he had the agency of a large estate, both of which he gave up when he accepted the partnership in the firm of Peter Lynch & Co., where he had formerly worked. After the death of Mr. Lynch, a partnership was formed under the style of Callanan & Kemp, which is still in existence. He is a Democrat in politics. He takes great pride in the fight he made on sidewalk obstructions; fighting the case through all the courts. It was finally decided in his favor by the Court of Appeals, and is now the law of the State. He is a member of the Produce and Mercantile Exchanges, the Board of Trade and Transportation, the Retail Grocers' Union, the New York and Atlantic Yacht Clubs, President of Good Government Club "F," and a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Seventy.

CAMP, HUGH N.-Born October 14, 1827, in Livingston, New Jersey. Educated in Public School No. 3, corner Hudson and Grove streets, New York City. Began business life in 1843 as a clerk with Booth and Edgar, and in 1854 entered into the sugar refining business, continuing until 1870, when he engaged in the lead mining and realestate enterprises. In politics has always been a pronounced Republican since the birth of the party. Has never held a public office except president of the Board of Trustees of the schools of the town of West Farms, New York. Is a member of the Century, Union League, Grolier, City, Republican and Church Clubs, and a member of the Committee of Seventy.

CAMPBELL, ANDREW J.-Born July 5, 1828, in Newark, N. J. He came to New York in 1842, and was apprenticed to a builder, In 1856 he was Councilman for the Ninth Ward. Was appointed Deputy Tax Commissioner in 1857, which office he held until 1864, when he was ap

pointed clerk of the Third District Civil Court. In 1870 he was appointed Superintendent of Repairs and Supplies in the Department of Public Works, and in 1875 elected to the Assembly. In 1865, in partnership with W. H. Van Tassel, he established the Architectural Iron Works. He was president of the Chelsea Apartment House for six years, and a member of the board of trustees in charge of the property. He was a Republican in politics and was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress from the Tenth New York District, receiving 13,845 votes against 12,987 cast for Daniel E. Sickles, the Tammany candidate, and 2.948 scattering. In November, 1894, Mr. Campbell died suddenly thus leaving a vacancy in the Tenth Congressional District.

CANTOR, JACOB A.-Lawyer and State Senator, representing the Fourteenth District, New York. Democrat. Born in New York, December 6, 1854, his parents being natives of London, England. He was educated in the public schools of New York and the University Law School, from which he was graduated in 1875. For five years he was a reporter on the New York World. He has practiced law since 1875, and has been active in politics, being a prominent member of Tammany Hall. He served in the Assemblies of 1885, 1886 and 1887, and in the Senates of 1888-9, 1890-1 and 1892-3. At the last election for Senator he received 15,930 votes, a plurality over Columbus O. Johnson of 4,409; a majority over all of 2,455. He was a member of the Lexow Committee.

CARROLL, HOWARD, who on January 1st last was appointed Chief of Artillery on Governor Morton's military Staff, with the rank of Brigadier-General, won distinction as a correspondent of the New York Times, at Washington, D. C., where he was regarded as one of the brightest of the bright coterie of newspaper men always to be found at the Capitol. It was evident then that there was a bright future before him should he choose to remain in the newspaper business. But other pursuits had greater attractions, and he gave up his position to assume charge of the affairs of Mr. John H. Starin. He is the son of Gen. Howard Carroll, who was killed in the war. His education was received at the Polytechnic Schools of Hanover and Berlin. During President Arthur's administration he was offered the appointment of Minister to Belgium which he declined. When the New York Recorder was started in 1891 he was tendered the position of managing editor and occupied that chair for a short time, but his mercantile interests soon compelled him to relinquish the position.

CARTER, JAMES COOLIDGE.-Born October 14, 1827, in Lancaster, Mass. He was prepared for college at Derby Academy, Hingham, Mass., and was graduated at Harvard in 1850, with the degree B. A., and at the Law School in 1853, and received the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1885. Mr. Carter was a member of the Commission appointed by Governor Tilden, of New York, in 1875, to devise a form of municipal government for the cities of the State. He ranks among the leading lawyers of New York. He has published a monograph entitled "The Codification of our Common Law," in which he opposes the scheme of codification (New York, 1883). He is a member of the Metropolitan, the Union League, the Century, the University, and President of the City Club.

CHOATE, JOSEPH HODGES.-Born January 24, 1832, in Salem, Mass. He was graduated at Harvard in 1852, and at the Dane Law School in 1854. In the year following he was admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts, and in 1856 in New York, since which time he has practiced his profession in New York City. Mr. Choate was counsel for Gen. Fitz John Porter in the protracted investigation in West Point before the Board of Officers appointed by President Hayes, which resulted in the reversal of the judgment of the original court martial. He also defended the celebrated Cesnola case. Mr. Choate for many years was president of the Union League Club, and was a member of the Committee of Seventy and took part in the municipal canvass of 1871, which resulted in the overthrow of the ring that had plundered the city treasury. He was chairman of the Constitutional Convention which revised the Constitution of the State of New York, and which was adopted at the election November 6, 1894.

CLAFLIN, JOHN. - Merchant. Born July 24, 1850, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Educated at the College of the City of New York, graduating in 1869. In 1873 he was admitted to membership in the firm of H. B. Claflin & Co., and in 1890 formed the present corporation, the H. B. Claflin Co., being elected its president, which position he still occupies. He is a trustee and director in many of the leading finaocial institutions in New York City, and is one of the New York Rapid Transit Commissioners, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Seventy.

COLLIS, CHARLES H. T.-When Fort Sumter was fired upon in April, 1861, Charles H. T. Collis was a young lawyer in Philadelphia. He immediately enlisted as a private soldier and served during the entire war, leaving the army in June, 1865, with the rank of Major-General. While a captain in 1862 he covered the retreat of General Banks in the Valley of the Shenandoah so skillfully that Secretary of War Stanton, requested Governor Curtin to promote him to a colonelcy, and authorize him to raise a regiment. Captain Collis raised this regiment in sixty days and again joined the Army of the Potomac. In 1863-64 he commanded six Pennsylvania regiments, and later was assigned to command an independent brigade at General Grant's headquarters, which position he held until the surrender at Appomattox. General Collis was three times promoted for gallantry, and wears a medal of honor on which is inscribed, "The Congress to Col. Charles H. T. Collis, for distinguished bravery at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862." At the close of the war he at once resumed the practice of the law in Philadelphia, and his distinguished services and good citizenship were early recognized by his appointment and election to positions of trust. The twelve Judges of the Common Pleas made him a member of the Board of City Trusts, which is a life appointment. The Board administers all the public charities of Philadelphia including Girard's College for Orphans. This position he resigned when he removed to New York. For three years General Collis was Assistant Corporation Counsel of Philadelphia, and was afterward twice elected by the people as the Chief of that Department, and upon the close of his second term received the unprecedented compliment of a joint resolution of the City Councils, unanimously commending his administration of the office. In 1873 the city of Philadelphia sent him to investigate the municipal government of European cities, and upon his report was based the State and municipal legislation necessary as a preliminary to the Centennial Exhibition. For the past twelve years General Collis has resided in New York, and has taken an active interest in Republican and reform politics. He was the first prominent citizen who had the courage to beard the Tammany tiger in his lair on election day, and watch and report upon the infamous violations of the election law. This he did at the peril of his life in one of the worst of the down town districts, and his description of his experience there so aroused public indignation that it materially influenced the Senate to appoint the Lexow Committee; in fact, General Collis was the first witness subpoenaed to appear before it. In addition to being a member of the Committee of Seventy, he was a member of the Committee of Thirty, which reorganized the Republican party, and is a County and State Committeeman He is a member of the Union League and Republican Clubs, and of the Lotos, Lawyers', and United Service Clubs.

CONKLING, ALFRED RONALD.-Lawyer. Born September 28, 1850, in New York City. He was educated at Yale College, graduating in the scientific department in 1870 and attended a course of lectures for one year at Harvard University and also at the University of Berlin, Germany. He was graduated at Columbia College Law School in 1879 when he was admitted to the Bar. Was Geologist of the United States Engineer Corps and newspaper correspondent from 1875 to 1877, Assistant District Attorney of the United States in 1881 and 1882. Was defeated for Congress in 1884. Ected Alderman for New York City in 1886-7. Elected to the Assembly in 1891 and 1894. Was active in the indictment and conviction of Tammany ballot thieves in 1893 and 1894. Is a member of the Calumet, City, Vaudeville, Republican, Lincoln, Tuxedo Clubs and Good Government Club "F." Is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Historical Association, the National Municipal League, Yale Alumni Association, and the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club. He is the author of "Appleton's Guide to Mexico, "Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling" (his uncle), "City Government in the United States," and other works.

CUTTING, WILLIAM BAYARD.-Born January 12, 1850, in New York City. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia College Law School. Was president of the St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad Company from 1878 to 1890. Is a trustee of Columbia College, a director of the United States Trust Company and many other important financial and public institutions of New York City. He is a member of the Union, Century, University, Grolier, Metropolitan and Players' Clubs, and is vice-president of the City Club.

DAVIS, NOAH.-Born September 10, 1818, at Haverhill, N. H. He was educated at Albion, N. Y., whither his parents removed in 1825, and in the Seminary at Lima studied law; was admitted to the Bar in 1841 and practiced in Gaines and then Buffalo; in 1844 he formed a partnership with Sanford E. Church, with whom he practiced in Albion for fourteen

years, until he was appointed, in March, 1857, a Justice of the New York Supreme Court, to which office he was subsequently twice elected. After serving two years as a judge he resigned in November, 1868, having been elected as a Republican to Congress. He served in Congress from March 4, 1869, till July 20, 1870, when he resigned, having been appointed by President Grant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He resigned that office on December 31, 1872, being elected a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court for the term expiring in December, 1887. The trial of the cases of Edward S. Stokes for the murder of James Fisk, Jr., and that of Wm. M. Tweed for malfeasance in office were held before him soon after he took his place on the bench. He sentenced Tweed to a year's imprisonment for each of the twelve counts of the indictment, but two years later the Court of Appeals decided that this cumulative sentence was contrary to law. In 1874 he became presiding justice. In January, 1887, he was retired from the bench and resumed practice. A committee of lawyers presented Judge Davis's portrait, by Daniel Huntington, to the Supreme Court.

DEEVES, RICHARD.-Builder. Born September 5, 1837, in Ireland. Educated in the public schools of New York City. He has erected many first-class structures in this city. Among others, the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Building and the Navarro apartment houses. In politics he has always been a Republican. He is a member of the Lotos, Colonial, Republican and Wa Wa Yanda Clubs, and is a member of the Committee of Seventy.

DELAFIELD, LEWIS L.-Born in New York City. Has been actively engaged in the practice of the law, and is a member of the firm of Hawkins & Delafield. Is a member of the Union and City Clubs and the Bar Association, a director of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, secretary of the New York Rapid Transit Commission and a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Seventy.

Delehanty, DANIEL.-Lieutenant-Commander United States Navy, Supervisor of New York Harbor. Joined the volunteer navy at sixteen years of age and served in the Atlantic and Gulf Blockading Squadrons; was appointed to the United States Naval Academy by President Lincoln, graduated in 1867, was promoted to Ensign in 1868, to Master in 1870, to Lieutenant in 1872 and to his present rank in 1892. His sea service embraces all quarters of the globe and his shore service has been performed principally at Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal., Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Naval Academy, at which institution he was instructor in seamanship, naval tactics and shipbuilding. He was assigned to his present duty in September, 1893; was a member of the Advisory Commission to the Mayor on the final disposition of city refuse, appointed by Mayor Gilroy last summer; and on the completion of the commission's investigations, was invited to serve with the Committee of Seventy to determine the best methods of final disposition.

DENNETT, ARTHUR F.- Otherwise known as "Angel" Dennett, is superintendent of the Society for the Preven tion of Crime. He was born in Concord, New Hampshire, twenty-eight years ago, where he resided until within the past two years, when he came to New York City and associated himself with Dr. Parkhurst in the securing of evidence against incompetent and dishonest officials and members of the Police Department; having had no previous experience in detective work prior to his employment in this connection by the Parkhurst Society, he has developed remarkable ability in unearthing and bringing to light fraud and corruption around which had been thrown the shade of secrecy and silence. He was very successful and active in obtaining evidence and witnesses for the Lexow Committee. Mr. Dennett has acquired the sobriquet of the "Angel" from the fact that during his visit in search of evidence among disorderly houses he insisted that the inmates should partake of no other beverages than soda and vichy water. In stature he is 6 feet 3 inches, possesses much executive ability and is at all times a cool, bright, intelligent, active and trustworthy man. He is the proprietor of the Aquedoktan, one of the best known summer hotels at The Weirs, on Lake Winnipiseogee, N. H.

DEPEW, CHAUNCEY MITCHELL,-Lawyer, orator and politician. Born April 23, 1834, in Peekskill, New York. He was educated at Yale College, graduating in 1856. Не studied law in his native village with the Hon. William Nelson and was admitted to the Bar in 1858, and began practice in 1859. On June 28, 1887, the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Yale College. In 1861 he was elected to the Assembly, and was re-elected in 1862. In 1863 he was elected Secretary of State and