In 1866

served one term, declining a renomination. he was appointed attorney for the New York and Harlem Railroad Company, and in 1875 was promoted to be General Counsel of the entire Vanderbilt System. In 1882 William H. Vanderbilt retired from the presidency of the New York Central, and the management was reorganized. Mr. James H. Rutter was made president, and Mr. Depew second vice-president. Upon the death of Mr. Rutter in 1885, Mr. Depew was elevated to the presidency, which position he now holds. Mr. Depew is an officer and director in many railroad and other important financial and commercial institutions, and is a inember of the Chamber of Commerce and many other associations. He was for seven years president of the Union League Club, and for ten years in succession president of the Yale Alumni Association.

DERBY, RICHARD_H.-Physician. Born March 12, 1844, in Boston, Mass. Educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard University. Is surgeon of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and Ophthalmic Surgeon of the Trinity Hospital and Orthopedic Dispensary. In politics he was a Republican, and subsequently a Cleveland Democrat. He has published reports in the transactions of the Sate Charities Aid Association on tenement houses and police-station lodging houses. He was instrumental in securing the passage of an Act for the Better Preservation of the Health of Children in Institutions. He was a member of the Committee of Twenty-one on Street Cleaning. Is Secretary of the New York Academy of Medicine and National Quarantine Committee. He is a member of the Committee of Seventy, and Chairman of its SubCommittee on Street Cleaning.

DIMOCK, HENRY F.-Born at South Coventry, Conn., March 28, 1842. Graduated with honors at Yale College, 1863; studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the law office of Judge Abraham R. Lawrence of this city, and practiced law in partnership with Hon. William C. Whitney in this city, under the firm name of Dimock & Whitney until 1870. In 1870 he took charge of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, running a line of steamers between this city and Boston, Mass., and has continued in charge ever since. He has been connected with many enterprises and corporations in the past, among others ne was director in the elevated roads of this city for several years. He is now vice-president, treasurer and New York manager of the Metropolitan Steamship Company; director of the Bank of North America; of the Knickerbocker Trust Company of the Boston & Maine Railroad Company; of the New York Loan and Improvement Company; of the Dominion Coal Company, and of many other corporations. In the year 1875 he was appointed by Mayor Wickham a Dock Commissioner, and served in that position more than six years. He has since more than once declined a re-appointment to that office. He was appointed by Governor Tilden in 1875, to be one of the commission to devise a plan for the government of all the cities of the State of New York, and served for more than a year in that capacity. He was appointed by President Cleveland government director of the Union Pacific Railroad, but declined the appointment. At the request of the Committee of Seventy he served as Chairman of their Committee on the Improvement of the Water Front.

DODGE, WILLIAM E.-Born in New York City, where he received his education. He has been for over forty years a member of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. Is a trustee of the New York Life Insurance & Trust Company. Presi dent of the Ansonia Brass & Copper Company, President of the Ansonia Clock Company. Trustee of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History. President of the Evangelical Alliance and the Board of Trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a member of the Century, Union League, Metropolitan, Down-Town and Country Clubs, and of the Committee of Seventy.

EATON, DORMAN BRITTON.-Born June 27, 1823, at Hardwick, Vt. Was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1848, and Harvard Law School in 1850. He subsequently received the degree of Doctor of Laws and was admitted to the Bar of New York in 1851, and soon after formed a partnership with Judge William Kent, whom he assisted in editing the well-known legal work "Kent's Commentaries." In 1852 he prepared an edition of "Chipman on Contracts Payable in Specific Article." In 1865 he aided in preparing and promoting the passage of the Paid Fire Department bill. In 1866 he drafted the law creating the Metropolitan Board of Health and next year its Sanitary Code, and he also drafted the law under which the police force of New York City are now organized. He was made chairman on Political Reform of the

Union League Club and held this position many years. President Grant appointed him on the Civil Service Commission, aud with the approval of President Hayes he went to Europe in 1877 and studied the Civil Service Systems of Great Britain, upon which he wrote a volume which was published by Congress. He drafted the Civil Service Laws enacted in 1883, under which the National Civil Service Commission was organized, and was the first commissioner appointed by President Arthur under this law. He is the author of many articles and essays on Administrative Reform and kindred subjects, which have appeared in the leading periodicals of this country. At the request of both Houses of Congress in 1874, he drafted a code for the government of the District of Columbia. He is a member of the Century, Union League, Commonwealth, City, Reform, Unitarian and Nineteenth Century Clubs, of the Bar Association, the City Municipal League and the Civil Service and Excise Reform Associations, and of the sub-committee of the Committee of Seventy on Civil Service.

ELLIOT, HENRY R.-Born at Woodbridge, Connecticut, in 1849. Educated at Yale College. He taught school for two years under the Japanese Government. Was Washington correspondent for six years of the New York Evening Post. Was for three years Secretary of the Textile Publishing Company and is now Secretary and Treasurer of the Evangelist Publishing Company. He is a member of the Aldine Club and President of Good Government Club B."

ELY, ARTHUR H.-Born September 12, 1853. Educated at Yale College, graduating in the Class of 1876. Studied law in the office of the Hon. John R. Reid and at Columbia College Law School. Was admitted to the Bar in the State of New York in 1881, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession, first with his father, the firm being Geo. B. & A. H. Ely, and since the death of his father in 1886 he has continued practicing alone. He is a member of the University Club, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Lafayette Camp No. 140, Division of New York Sons of Veterans and Yale Alumni Association of New York. He is also a member of Good Government Club "B" and a delegate from this Club to the Council of Confederated Good Government Clubs, and a member of the Committee of Seventy.

ERVING, JOHN LANGDON.-Born at Manursing Island, Rye, N. Y., July 31, 1866. The Erving family is of Scotch descent; the first member of the family came to this country about 1700; he was a merchant in Boston, member of the King's Council, etc. Mr. Erving received a private school education and has since been in business pursuits. He is a direct descendant of John Langdon. Governor of New Hampshire and member of the Continental Congress, etc.; also a great-grandson of the Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer, of Albany; is connected with many of the old families of New York City. For many years he has been much in society and has a large social acquaintance. In the spring of 1892 he accompanied Dr. Parkhurst in securing evidence against the Police Department for the Grand Jury. He has been greatly interested in municipal reform. He is a member of the City Club, St. Nicholas Society, Sons of the Revolution, City Vigilance League, Good Government Clubs and the Young Men's Christian Association.

ETTINGER, LEO.-Physician. Born in New York City. Was graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1881 and the Medical Department of Columbia College in 1884. He also studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Has been in active practice for the past seven years and for two years Chief Resident Physician of the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids. Is founder and President of Good Government Club "M," and Treasurer of the German - American Reform Union for the Twentieth Assembly District.

FAIRCHILD, BEN L.-Lawyer. Born in Sweden, Monroe County, New York, and educated in the City of Washington, D. C., graduating at the Columbia Law College in that city in 1885. He was a clerk in the Interior and Treasury Departments in Washington until he was admitted to the Bar, when he removed to New York and engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1894 he was elected to Congress from the Sixteenth Congressional District, receiving 9,104 votes against 7,253 cast for his Democratic opponent, W. Ryan, and 692 scattering. He is a member of the New York Athletic Club, Society of Medical Jurisprudence, Republican, Suburban, Fordham and Lawyers' Clubs, the City Club of Yonkers and the Alumni Association of Columbia University, Washington, D. C.

FAIRCHILD, CHARLES STEBBINS.-Born in Cazenovia, N. Y., April 30, 1842, was graduated at Harvard in 1863, and

after studying at the law school of that university, was admitted to the Bar in 1865. Subsequently he became a member of the law firm of Hand, Hale, Schwartz & Fairchild, and continued actively in the practice of his profession for several years. In 1874 he was Deputy AttorneyGeneral of New York, and in 1876 he was elected as a Democrat to the Attorney-Generalship. He served in that capacity for two years, and spent some time in travel abroad. In 1880 he settled in New York and devoted himself to the practice of law. He continued so engaged until 1885 when he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. While holding this office he was frequently called on to represent Secretary Daniel Manning, and when the latter was compelled to give up the duties of the place, Mr. Fairchild became acting Secretary. On April i, 1887, the resignation of Mr. Manning went into effect and the portfolio was then given to Mr. Fairchild, who thus became a member of President Cleveland's Cabinet. He is now President of the New York Security and Trust Company, New York, and a leader in the New York State Democracy.

FAURE, JOHN P.-Merchant. Born July 17, 1846, New York C ty. Educated at nome until 14 years of age and then in Public School No. 41, Greenwich avenue, New York City. In 1864 he entered his father's store (who was a wholesale dry goods commission merchant), and for thirtytwo years has been engaged in this business in the drygoods district. He is a director in the Glastonbury Knitting Company. He was Secretary of the Wholesale Drygoods Democratic Club in the Presidential Campaigns of 1888 and 1892, and a member of the Executive Committee in 1884. He was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the first Martha Washington Reception, held 6th of April, 1875. He is Chairman of the Floating Hospital Committee of St. John's Guild since 1886. He is a school trustee of the Ninth Ward. Treasurer of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew and Corps Commander of the Diocese of New York of the Church Temperance Legion. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York City Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is Treasurer of the Tee-To-Tum Club, a member of the Church Club and Secretary of St. John's Guild since 1877. In 1888 he married the second daughter of Gen. Chas. G. Halpine (Miles O'Reilly). He is the Secretary of the Committee of Seventy.

FITCH, ASHBEl Parmelee.-Lawyer. Born October 8, 1848, at Moores, Clinton County, N. Y. Was educated in the public schools of New York City; prepared for college at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. He went to Europe, completing his studies at the Universities of Jena and Berlin. Returning to this country, he was graduated by Columbia College Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1869, from which time until 1884 he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1886 he was elected to the Fiftieth Congress on the Republican ticket, and again to the Fifty-first Congress on the Democratic ticket, Mr. Fitch's attitude in regard to Tariff Reform, and his unwillingness to be governed by the party action in regard to matters in New York City, taking him out of line with the leaders of the Republican party. In 1890 he was again elected and became a member of the Fifty-second Congress, and again in 1892 was returned for the fourth time. At the municipal election held in New York City in November, 1893. Mr. Fitch was elected Comptroller of the City of New York, which position he now occupies. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Democratic and Liederkranz Clubs and the New England Society, and a member of the New York Rapid Transit Commission.

FRANK. JULIUS J.-Lawyer. Born March, 3 1852, in New York City. He was educated in Public Grammar School No. 40, and graduated at the College of the City of New York with the degrees of A.B., B.S. and A.M., and at Columbia College Law School with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the Bar in 1873, and has continued in the active practice of his profession since that time. He is President of the Freundschaft Social Club of New York, and a member and officer of several charitable and other organizations. He was a member of the Anti-Snapper Committee of Fifty of 1892, of the Anti-Snapper Convention held in Albany in February, 1892, and of the Chicago Convention, held in the same year. He has been active in the various Presidential campaigns from 1876 to 1892, and is a member of the New York State Democracy and of the Committee of Seventy. He is a member of the Democratic Reform and Freundschaft Clubs and Good Government Club "B," and a member of the Committee of Seventy.

FRISSELL, A. S.--Banker. Born February 1, 1845, at Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y. He was educated at a private school in Poughkeepsie and at Amenia Sem

inary. He was first a clerk in the City National Bank of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., going thence to the Merchants' National Bank of the same city, and after passing a year and a half in Washington, D. C., came to the Importers' and Traders' National Bank, New York. He was cashier of the Fifth Avenue Bank from its organization in 1875 to 1885, when he was elected president, which position he now occupies. He is a member of the Century and City Clubs, Sons of the Revolution and of the Committee of Seventy.

FULTON, THOMAS A.-Born March 24, 1851, in London, England. Educated at Archbishop Tennyson's Grammar School, London. He was corresponding clerk of the London and Southwestern Railroad Co. for three years, and was engaged in the wholesale drygoods business in London for three years, coming to America in 1872, when he was associated with E. S. Jaffray & Co. for fourteen years. He is now a resident buyer, representing Southern business houses. He is a Mugwump, with Democratic proclivities on national issues. He is Secretary of the Excise Reform Association and of Good Government Club "B." He is a member of the Committee of Seventy, and one of its Platform Committee.

GALLAWAY, ROBERT M.-Financier. Born August 4, 1837, New York City, and was educated at Yale College. He is president of the Atlantic Dock Iron Works; vicepresident of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad and president of the Merchant's National Bank. In politics he has always been a Republican and is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League and Riding Clubs and of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Seventy.

GILDER, RICHARD WATSON.-Born in Bordentown, N. J., February 8, 1844; educated at the school of his father, William Henry Gilder, clergyman, in Flushing, L. I. As a member of Landis's Philadelphia Battery he enlisted for the emergency" campaign in the summer of 1863, when the Confederate army invaded Pennsylvania, and took part in the defense of Carlisle. He joined the staff of the Newark, N. J., Advertiser in 1865, and in 1868, with Newton Crane, established the Newark Morning Register. In 1869 he became editor of Hours at Home, and when that magazine was merged into Scribner's Monthly (now the Century) he was made associate editor of the new periodical. On the death of Dr. J. G. Holland, in October, 1881, Mr. Gilder succeeded him as editor-in-chief. He received the degree of LL.D. from Dickinson College in 1883. He has published several volumes of poems. He is one of the founders of the Authors' Club, in New York. He is Chairman of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Seventy on "Tenement House Reform."

GODKIN, EDWIN LAWRENCE.-Journalist. Born October 2, 1831, in Wicklow, Ireland. He was educated at Queen's College, Belfast, Ireland. He is a member of the Bar and at the present time is editor-in-chief of the Nation, and the New York Evening Post. He is a Democrat in politics and is identified with the New York State Democracy organization. He has been exceedingly active in all the reform movements and efforts which have occupied the attention of the better element of New York citizenship for the past twenty years being consistently persistent in his advocacy of essential reforms in the various departments of the municipal administration of this city. He was appointed one of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners by Mayor Strong, in 1895. He is a member of the City, Knickerbocker, Century, Riding, Commonwealth, Authors' and Country Clubs, American Geographical Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and American Museum of Natural History.

GOODNOW, FRANK J.-Professor. Born in 1859 in Brooklyn, N. Y. Was fitted for college in that city, and entered Amherst in 1875, graduating in 1879 with the degree of A. B. Entered Columbia College Law School in 1880, graduating in 1882, taking the prize on Constitutional Law, and was admitted to the Bar in the same year. In 1883 he was appointed to the Chair of Administrative Law in the Columbia College School of Political Science, and was made head of the department with the title of Professor in 1891. Was one of the founders of the Political Science Quarterly, and has been one of its editors since its foundation. He is the author of a work on Comparative Administrative Law, the only book on this subject in the English language. Previous to his appointment to the professorship of Columbia College he studied for one year at the Ecole Des Sciences Politiques at Paris and at the University of Berlin, where he attended the lectures of Professor Gueist, the great German authority on English Public Law. He is a member of the Century Club, the Bar Association, and of the Council of the University Settlement Society. He is a member of the City Club from the time of its formation, and prepared the original Municipal Home Rule and Separate Election

Amendments for the present New York Constitution. He is a member of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Seventy on the Investigation of Pay-Rolls.

GRANT, DE FOREST.-Born in 1869. Was graduated from Yale University in 1891. Has been an active worker in Good Government Club "A" from its inception, and is at the present time a trustee and the president of this club. He is a member of the Calumet and City Club and of the Society of Colonial Wars and the Society of the War of 1812.

GREEN, GEORGE WALTON.-Lawyer. He is the State Democracy leader in the Fourteenth Assembly District and Chairman of the Law Committee of the organization. Born in New York City in 1854. He is a son of the late Dr. Horace Green, one of the most distinguished of American physicians. Mr. Green s grandfather served all through the Revolutionary War, and with three brothers fought at Bunker Hill, where two of them were killed. Educated at Exeter and Harvard, where he was graduated in 1876. He was president of the Harvard Athletic Association, a member of the team and a founder of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Mr. Green was the State Democracy candidate for Congress in the Twelfth District in the last campaign, and held the joint debate with Mr. Chesebrough, the Republican nominee, As Chairman of the Committee on Notification he made the speech tendering the State Democracy nomination for the Mayoralty to Col. Strong. Mr. Green has written numerous articles on political, legal and historical topics for the North American Review, Forum, Atlantic, Harper's Weekly and other periodicals. He was appointed Aqueduct Commissioner by Mayor Strong to succeed Francis M. Scott when the latter was made Corporation Counsel.

GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD.--Journalist. Born September 20, 1849, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Educated at Yale College, graduating in 1870, and from which, a few years later, he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. For several years after graduation he was assistant to Prof. O. C. Marsh in the Peabody Museum, and in 1880 became editor of the Forest and Stream, which position he still occupies. He spends a part of each year in the far West, either as a naturalist of some exploring expedition or employed in the study of North American ethnology. He has lived much with the Indians of the West and his knowledge of these people is equaled by few men. As a result of his studies he has published two volumes and written many articles for the scientific periodicals and monthly magazines. He took an active part in the formation of the Good Government Club in the Twenty-eighth Assembly District, and was elected a trustee of this club, a member of the Council of Confederated Good Government Clubs and a member of the Executive Committee of the Good Government Convention. He is a member of the Union, University, City and Century Clubs, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the National Geological Society, of the American Geographical Society and a member of many other scientific societies. He is a member of the Committee of Seventy.

GROSSE, EDWARD-Lawyer. Born in Germany, January 16, 1845. He received a common-school education, and was for five years a printer's apprentice; for three years was the secretary and companion of the famous author, traveler and lecturer, Dr. Alfred Brehm. In May of 1869 he landed in New York, made his living first as a compositor and then for seven years as a journalist; while working as such at night, he studied law in the day time, and in October, 1878, he was admitted to the Bar. Since then he has been actively engaged in the profession of the law. In 1879 he was the candidate of the German-American Independent Citizens' Association of the Tenth Assembly District for member of Assembly, and was elected, his principal opponent being the present Register, Ferdinand Levy. He introduced and secured in the Assembly the passage of the Five-Cents' Fare bill, which Senator William Waldorf Astor unsuccessfully fathered in the Senate, and which afterward caused the Elevated Railroad Company to increase its so-called commission, or five-cents' fare hours, from two to four in the morning and in the afternoon; he also introduced and championed the bill forbidding the manufacture of cigars in tenement-houses, the pioneer measure against the pernicious sweating system; and but for his vote the Niagara Park Reservation bill would have failed in said session, as it received but a bare majority of one, a powerful lobby of manufacturers, who used the waters of the Niagara River, and of other interested parties, having worked against the passage of the bill; he voted for the Brooklyn single-headed commission bill, and stood by the so-called young Republicans in their opposition against several suspicious items in the Supply bill. In 1880 he stumped the State for General Hancock, and

has since been an active, though independent Democrat, having never affiliated with Tammany Hall He was ap pointed Assistant District-Attorney by Col. John R. Fellows in 1887, and he remained in this position for three years. He and Mr. W. Travers Jerome were the only two members of Colonel Fellows's staff who took the stump for John W. Goff, when he ran for District-Attorney on the Municipal League ticket. On March 10, 1894, Mr. Grosse was nominated by President Cleveland for Internal Revenue Collector for the Third District of New York, but his nomination was not confirmed until August 28, 1894, and since September 25, 1894, he has performed the duties of said office. Mr. Grosse rendered valuable services in the recent reform movement, although considerations for his office prevented him from exercising a "pernicious partisan activity."

GULLIVER, WILLIAM C.-Lawyer. Born in Norwich, Conn. was prepared for college at Phillip's Academy, Andover. He was graduated from Yale College in 1870, and from Columbia Law School in 1874. He is a member of the law firm of Alexander & Green and a Trustee of the City Club.

HALL, BENJAMIN E.-Is a native of Essex County, New York, and is a son of Hon. Monroe Hall, a prominent citizen of that section. He was graduated from Williams College, Class of 18-5, and is 32 years of age. After graduation he studied law in the office of Hon. S. A. Kellogg, a Supreme Court Justice in Clinton County. He then pursued a course of study at Columbia Law School, and subsequently was associated with ex-Attorney-General Leslie W. Russell until the latter's election to the Supreme Court bench. He is now in active practice at the New York Bar. He is a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, and of Good Government Club “A," and was supported by Republicans and anti-Tammany Democracy for Alderman of the Twenty-first Assembly District, and was elected by a plurality of 3,112.

HARDING, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.- Public Accountant. Born at No. 3 Vandewater Street, New York City, where he resided until twenty years of age. Was educated and graduated at the Union Hall Academy in New York City. He subsequently moved to Wisconsin, where he studied law and medicine, and returning to New York City engaged in the business of public accountant, which pursuit he has followed for the past twenty-two years. He is a director in the Society for the Prevention of Crime, being one of the earliest members.

HALLOCK, JOSEPH NEWTON.-Clergyman.

Born July

4. 1834, in the village of Franklinville, Long Island, N. Y., where he spent the first sixteen years of his life with his parents, during which time he was fitted for college at the academy of the village. He entered Yale College, where he was graduated and took his degree as Bachelor of Arts with the Class of 1857, and Master of Arts three years later. After his graduation in 1857 he entered the Theological Seminary in New Haven. During his theological and also part of his college course, Mr. Hallock had charge of two large academies situated near each other in the township of Riverhead, L. I. After his graduation from the Yale Theological Seminary he preached three months in the village of Bridgewater, Conn. In 1876 he became the publisher of the Christian at Work, and in 1880 became editor-in-chief of the paper, its name being changed to the Christian Work. He is a director of the Society for the Prevention of Crime.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM GASTON.-Born in New York City, 1833; fitted for college. Having a marked taste for mechanics, entered the machine works of H. R. Dunham & Co., became an expert draughtsman, later became a member of the firm of Breese, Kneeland & Co., locomotive builders, Jersey City; was engineer of the company and became president; was mechanical engineer and manager for James McHenry in constructing the Atlantic and Great Western Railway. Established the Ramapo Wheel & Foundry Company; was an inventor; was patentee of the Hamilton Steeled Wheel Process; president of the company; as consulting mechanical engineer to the Pennsylvania Railroad, had charge of the erection of wheelworks and manufacture of all their car wheels during existence of this patent; has been identified with manufacturing since boyhood; is vice-president Ramapo Wheel & Foundry Company, is vice-president of the Mexican Telegraph Company, vice-president of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, vice-president of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and built their baths; vice-president Demilt Dispensary, of the Board of Governors of the New York Cancer Hospital, Woman's Hospital, New York Blind Asylum, New York Juvenile Asylum, Governor American Geographical Society, trustee

for several large estates. He is a member of the Century, Tuxedo, Metropolitan and Players clubs, treasurer and secretary of the Board of Trustees of Gramercy Park. He is chairman of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Seventy on Public Baths and Lavatories.

HAUSELT, CHARLES EDWARD.-Born January 23, 18€4, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Was educated in the public schools and Columbia Grammar School, New York City and the Industrial Schools at Zurich and Lausanne, Switzerland. He is engaged in the manufacturing and importing of leather. Is a member of the German Liederkranz Society, the Hide and Leather Club and Good Government Club "A," and a member of the Committee of Seventy.

HAYES, J. NOBLE.-Lawyer. Born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 7, 1856. His father's family were among the early English settlers of Connecticut, locating at New Milford, Conn. When the family history in this country began his father's branch moved to Unadilla, N. Y., about a hundred years ago, where he was born; they intermarried with the Noble family from whom he takes his name. His father was a merchant in New York City, a member of the old firm of Hayes & Heyer; he died in Vermont at the age of eighty-three, three years ago. His mother's family came from Lee, Mass., she was a Miss Foutz, and her family has been more or less distinguished in the history of the county. J. Noble Hayes was educated in the New York public schools, private schools in Vermont, the College of the City of New York, and Columbia College Law School, having been admitted to the Bar in 1880. He has been in an active litigated practice ever since. He joined the Old City Reform Club in 1880, and has been an active member of that society ever since. He is one of the founders of the City Club, a trustee, and generally active in its affairs. He is an independent Republican in politics and has never held any public offices.

HENNEBERRY, JOHN ALBERT.- Born at St. John, N. B., June 4, 1853. He entered the telegraph service as messenger in 1865. In 1868, with his parents, he moved to Philadelphia. He worked in New York City, first in 1874, for the Automatic Telegraph Company, and again in 1884 for the Western Union Telegraph Company, since which time he has practically been a resident of New York City. Mr. Henneberry is an expert telegrapher, and well known at the Stock Exchange as one of the few operators who can handle the "arbitrage" brokers' business. He is a member of the Gold and Stock Life Insurance, the New York Telegraphers' Aid Society, and of the Magnetic Club, the celebrated dining club of the New York telegraph people. He is also a member of a number of social and political clubs and fraternal organizations. In politics he has always been an active Democrat and has acted with Tammany Hall-being one of the secretaries of the General Committee and secretary of the Tammany Social Club of the Twenty-fifth Assembly District-until February, 1894-when he resigned from Tammany to go with the New York State Democracy, and is chairman of the Twenty-fifth Assembly District organization and member of the Executive Committee. In the November election he was a New York State Democracy candidate for the Legislature, and polled the second highest vote of the State Democracy legislative candidates in the city.

HEWITT, ABRAM STEVENS.-Born at Gurnee's Corners, near Haverstraw, N. Y., July 31, 1822, in a log cabin. Educated in New York public schools, where by special examination he gained a scholarship at Columbia, and was graduated first in his Class in 1842. He married a sister of Edward Cooper in 1855. Studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1845. Became associated with Peter Cooper in the iron business. When Tilden and Kelly purified Tammany Hall Mr. Hewitt fought with them and became a Tammany sachem in 1872, and later chairman of the society's general committee. In 1879 he left Tammany and joined the Irving Hall Society, and was one of the organizers of the County Democracy. He was elected to Congress in 1874 and served continuously, with the exception of one term, until 1886. He was Democratic Mayor in 1886, receiving 90,552 votes against 68,110 cast for Henry George, and 60.435 for Theodore Roosevelt. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1876. Columbia College gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1887. In 1876 he was elected president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and made report on Iron and Steel at World's Fair in Paris in 1867. He is a member of the Committee of Seventy.

HITCHCOCK, HIRAM.-Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, August 27, 1832. His family removed to Drewsville, N. H., in 1842. In 1848 he entered Black River Academy at Ludlow, Vermont. One of his instructors there, by whom he was largely influenced, was the late Chief Justice of Iowa, Austin Adams, LL.D., who had just been

graduated from Dartmouth College. Mr. Hitchcock fitted for Dartmouth College, but, instead of entering, accepted a position as instructor at Black River Academy, and continued his studies at the same time. In 1852 his eyes failed him, and he was obliged to give up study, and was advised by his old friend and oculist, the late Dr. John H. Dix, of Boston, to go South. He went to New Orleans in the autumn of 1853, and entered the office of the St. Charles Hotel. He passed several winters there, and the summers at the Nahant House, near Boston, until he opened the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, in 1859, in partnership with Alfred B. Darling and Paran Stevens. In 1866, his health failing, he retired from business and traveled extensively abroad, where he revived his interest and studies in ancient art, in Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, Greece and Italy. He located at Hanover, N. H., in 1871. In 1872 he announced to the world the extensive discoveries of General Cesnola in Cyprus, and read papers on that subject before the learned societies of New York, and also before the Faculty and students of Dartmouth College. A paper on the same subject was published by him in Harper's Magazine of that year, which attracted marked attention in England, France, Italy, Germany and Russia. He has taken a deep interest in the work of exploration in Egypt, Palestine and South America, and in the American School at Athens. In 1872 the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Dartmouth College. In 1874, on motion of the venerable Samuel Birch, LL.D., President of the British Society of Biblical Archæology, he was made a member of that society. In 1876 he was appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire a trustee of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The same year he was elected President of the Dartmouth National Bank and the Dartmouth Savings Bank. In 1877 he represented Hanover in the New Hampshire Legislature. In 1878 he was elected a trustee of Dartmouth College. In 1879 he resumed his connection with the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Hitchcock has filled many positions of honor and trust during his active career. It was largely through his personal efforts that the Madison Square Garden Company succeeded in its plans, and he was president of the company during its construction and upon its successful opening to the public. He was one of the founders of the Garfield National Bank and Garfield Safe Deposit Company, and was vicepresident of both those institutions. He was for some years a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a director of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, a trustee and the treasurer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a trustee of Black River Academy, a Fellow of the National Academy of Design, a life member of the American Geographical Society, of the New York Historical Society, and of the New England Society, a member of the Dartmouth Scientific Association, the New York Chamber of Commerce, the University Club and other associations. He was president of the Nicaragua Canal Association, which obtained the concessions from Nicaragua and Costa Rica under which the Nicaragua Canal will be constructed; and on the organization of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, in May, 1889, under the charters of the United States and the State of Vermont, he was elected president, which office he continues to hold. His official efforts and labors in connection with the Canal have been untiring, and have resulted in great benefit to the enterprise. In 1889 he restored the College Church at Hanover to its attractive Colonial period. His name is tenderly and inseparably connected with that most lovely and complete of humane institutions, the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital at Hanover, which he erected in 1890 in memory of his wife.

HOE, WILLIAM A.-Builder. Born in the City of New York. Educated at the School of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen in New York City. His greatgrandfather was a Lieutenant in a Long Island Regiment in the War of 1775. He is a member of the firm of James C. Hoe's Son, established by Wm. Hoe in 1815. He served in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War, being attached to the Third Corps under Major-General French, and in the Maryland Campaign of 1863. He voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860. He is a member of the Seventh Regiment Veteran Club, of the Builders' Trade Club and Good Government Club ** Q," and of the Committee of Seventy.

HOEBER, EMIL W.-Born April 30, 1833, at Carlsruhe, Baden; educated in the Gymnasiums at Carlsruhe; studied medicine in Göttingen, Munich and Wurzburg. He has practiced medicine in New York City since 1859; is a member of the County Medical Society and German Medical Association; is Examiner for Life Insurance of the American Legion of Honor, Examiner in Lunacy, United States Pension Surgeon and was elected Coroner on the Reform Ticket at the election held November 6, 1894, receiving

153,686 votes against 107.422 votes cast for the Tammany candidate, J. A. Mittnacht.

HOOVER, F. PIERCE.-M. D. Born in 1862, Washington, D. C.; educated in Baltimore, Md., where he was graduated in medicine in 1884, subsequently removing to this city, where he is now engaged in the practice of his profession. In politics he is a Democrat and President of Good Government Club " H."

HORNBLOWER, WILLIAM BUTLER.-Lawyer. Born May 13, 1851, at Paterson, N. J. Educated at Dr. George T. Quackenbos Collegiate School, New York City, 1863-66, and Princeton College, 1867-71, graduating with the degree of A. B. Studied law in Columbia College Law School, 1873 to 75, receiving degree of LL. B. Admitted to the Bar in '75, and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession since that time. At present a member of the firm of Hornblower, Byrne & Taylor. In politics he has always been an active Democrat. Was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1890. Was appointed under an Act of the Legislature to prepare amendments to the Judiciary Article of the State Constitution. Was one of a Committee of Nine of the New York City Bar Association who investigated in 1892 the conduct of Judge Maynard, of the Court of Appeals, in connection with the abstracting of the election returns from the State Comptroller's office in 1891, and who reported against Judge Maynard and urged his removal from office by the Legislature. This report was adopted by the Bar Association with substantial unanimity, and the Association opposed Judge Maynard when nominated by the Democratic party for election for a full term on the Bench of the Court of Appeals, and aided in his overwhelming defeat in 1893 by upwards of 100,000 majority. In the meantime, in September, 1893, President Cleveland had nominated Mr. Hornblower to succeed Mr. Justice Blatchford on the Bench of the United States Supreme Court Through the opposition of Senators Hill and Murphy, of this State, the nomination was hung up in the Senate till January, 1894, when it was defeated by a majority of six votes by a coalition between Anti-Administration Democrats and Republicans. Mr. Hornblower is a member of the Bar Association, the University, Century, Metropolitan. Manhattan, Democratic, City, Lawyers' and Reform Clubs, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Seventy.

INMAN, JOHN HAMILTON -Financier. Born October 23, 1844, in Jefferson County, Tenn. His father was a banker and a farmer. He left school at fifteen years of age and became a clerk in a Georgia bank, of which his uncle was president. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army. His relatives were impoverished by the war, and in September, 1865, he came to New York City to seek his fortune. He obtained employment in a cotton house, was admitted to a full partnership in the firm in 1868, and in 1870 founded the house of Inman, Swan & Co., in which he associated himself with his former partners. The business increased rapidly, and in a few years he amassed a fortune of several million dollars in the cotton trade, which was attracted to New York City largely through his activity. He turned his attention to the development of Southern resources, and, in association with other capitalists who relied on his judgment, invested over $5,000,000 in the enterprises of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, including the bituminous coal mines at Birmingham, Ala., the blast furnaces in that city, and Bessemer steel works at Ensley City, near there. He induced the investment of over $100,000,000 in Southern enterprises, and became a director in companies that possessed more than 10,000 miles of railroad. He is one of the New York Rapid Transit Commissioners.

JACOBI, ABRAM.-Born May 6, 1830, at Harsam in Westphalia, Germany. Educated in the German colleges and universities, and has practiced medicine in New York City since 1853. He is a member of the Century, Commonwealth, Liederkranz, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History and of the American Geographical Society, He is a member of the Committee of Seventy.

JAMES, CHARLES FRANCIS.-Lawyer. Born in Hamilton, Madison County, N. Y., on July 12, 1856. He is a son of General Thomas L. James, Postmaster-General of the United States under President Garfield, who for many years was postmaster of New York City, and is now President of the Lincoln National Bank of New York. In 1873, after a preparatory course in the public schools, he entered the College of the City of New York, but left that institution in his junior year to enter Madison University, now Colgate University, from which college he was graduated in the Class of 1876, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. His

legal training was gained in Columbia Law School (from which he obtained his LL. B., in 1879), and in the office of Seward, Blatchford, Griswold & Da Costa. Immediately after his admission to the Bar he was appointed counsel to the Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York, which position he held until the commissioners were legislated out of office. United States Attorney-General Wayne McVeagh appointed him Assistant United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which office he filled until Elihu Root was appointed United States District Attorney, when he resigned and accepted the position as Assistant Corporation Counsel under Mr. Andrews, where he remained until his chief was elevated to the Supreme Court bench. He then became associated with Gen. G. E. P. Howard, of international rifle team fame, which partnership was subsequently dissolved by Mr. James going South as assistant to the President of the East Tennesssee Land Co. Upon his return from the South he was asked to undertake, and did successfully carry out, the formation and organization of the Franklin National Bauk, of which he was elected president, but from which he retired in favor of Ellis H. Roberts, former Sub-Treasurer of the United States. He is a member of the law firm of Dittenhoefer, Gerber & James, and is actively engaged in the practice of law, being counsel for the Lincoln National Bank and Safe Deposit Co., the East Tennessee Land Co., the David Jones Brewing Co., and a large number of other corporations. He is a member of the Union League Club, and VicePresident of the St. David's Society. His fraternity is Phi Gamma Delta. He was appointed on the Staff of Governor Morton, January 1st, 1895, as Aide-de-Camp with the rank of Colonel.

JEROLOMAN, JOHN.-Lawyer. Born in New Jersey, in 1845; his father being a farmer residing near Princeton, N. J. He worked on the farm until the year 1863, and while assisting his father on the farm pursued his studies and entered the Freshman Class in Princeton College in the fall of 1862. In June following, together with a number of the college boys, he enlisted for the war, and in July, 1863, was mustered into the service as a private in Company E, Second New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers, and was mustered out of the service in August, 1965, as Captain in Company C, Third New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers, having been promoted through the several ranks for meritorious services. While in the Second New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers he was engaged in the battles of Westpoint and Guntown, Miss. In the latter he was badly wounded. After that he was commissioned by Governor Joel Parker a second lieutenant in Company A, Third New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers, and served in the Army of the Shenandoah Valley, commanded by General Phil. Sheridan, in General Custer's brigade, and took part in every engagement in the Valley during the years 1864 and 1865, notably those of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Wainsborough and Cedar Creek. In the spring of 1865 he was again wounded in the second day's fight on the left of Petersburgh, at the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House, Va. After being mustered out of the service in August, 1865, he returned home and resumed his studies, and in the fall of 1866 entered the Law College at Albany, in this State, and after graduating commenced the practice of law in New York City. He was appointed a school inspector of the Ninth and Sixteenth Wards by Mayor Grace in 1885, and was Justice of the Civil Court of the Eighth Judicial District. He was elected President of the Board of Aldermen on the Reform Ticket, at the Election, November 6, 1894, receiving 152,929 votes, against 109,054 cast for A. W. Peters, the Tammany candidate and 9,708 scattering.

JEROME, WILLIAM TRAVERS.-Lawyer. Born April 18, 1859. New York City. Educated by tutors until 1877, and at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., from 1877 to 1878, Amherst College 1878 to 1881, Columbia Law School 1881 to 1884, in which year he was admitted to the Bar in New York City. At Amherst he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1893. Since his graduation he has practiced law in the city of New York, being a mem ber of the firm of Jerome & Nason. He was Assistant District Attorney from 1888 to 1890. He is a member of the Union, XIX. Century and City Clubs, of the Bar Association and Good Government Club “D,” and of the Execu tive Committee of the Committee of Seventy.

JOHNSON, J. AUGUSTUS.-Born June 3. 1836, Boston, Mass. Educated at Rochester, Mass., and Washington, D. C., in academies and by private tutors. Has been a member of the Bar in New York City since 1870. Was appointed United States Consul to Beirut, Syria, in 1858, and Consul-General in 1867. He was Commissioner sent by the Department of State to Jaffa and to the Island of Cyprus. In politics he is a Republican, and a member of the Union League Club since 1873. He is a member of the Lawyers' and City Clubs, President of Good Gov