PROMINENTND A PROGRESSIVE AMERICANS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA O F CONTEMPORANEOUS BIOGRAPHY COMPILED B Y MITCHELL C. HARRISON VOLUME I NEW Y ORK TRIBUNE 1902 THEEW N YORK public l h:::ary 2532861S ASTIMI. l .;-M':< AND TILI'EN ! -'.. VDAT.ON8 R 1 P43 I Copyright, 1 902, by Thb Tribune Association Thee D Vinne Prem CONTENTS PAGE Frederick T hompson Adams 1 John G iraud Agar 3 Charles H enry Aldrich 5 Russell A lexander Alger 7 Samuel W aters Allerton 10 Daniel P uller Appleton 15 John J acob Astor 17 Benjamin F rankldi Ayer 23 Henry C linton Backus 25 William T . Baker 29 Joseph C lark Baldwin 32 John R abick Bennett 34 Samuel A ustin Besson 36 H.. S Black 38 Frank S tuart Bond 40 Matthew C haloner Durfee Borden 42 Thomas M urphy Boyd 44 Alonzo N orman Burbank 46 Patrick C alhoun 48 Arthur J ohn Caton 53 Benjamin P ierce Cheney 55 Richard F loyd Clarke 58 Isaac H allowell Clothier 60 Samuel P omeroy Colt 65 Russell H ermann Conwell 67 Arthur C oppell 70 Charles C ounselman 72 Thomas C ruse 74 John C udahy 77 Marcus D aly 79 Chauncey M itchell Depew 82 Guy P helps Dodge 85 Thomas D olan 87 Loren N oxon Downs 97 Anthony J oseph Drexel 99 Harrison I rwln Drummond 102 CONTENTS PAGE John F airfield Dryden 105 Hipolito D umois 107 Charles W arren Fairbanks 109 Frederick T ysoe Fearey Ill John S cott Ferguson 113 Lucius G eorge Fisher 115 Charles F leischmann 118 Julius F leischmann 121 Charles N ewell Fowler ' 124 Joseph. M Gazzam 126 William W arren Gibbs 129 Charles P ierrepont Henry Gilbert 132 Lester. O Goddard 134 George J . Gould 136 George. R Gray 138 William C ornell Greene 140 Clement A cton Griscom 143 James B en Ali Haggin 146 Oliver H arriman, Jr 150 Norman W aite Harris 152 Lynde H arrison 154 Henry J . Heinz 158 Samuel A lexander Henszey 161 George. B Hill 164 Thomas G riswold Hillhouse 166 Edward H ines 168 Wh,liam B utler Hornblower 170 Harry. L Horton 172 Collis P otter Huntington 174 Henry E dwards Huntington 176 Lloyd L owndes Jackson 179 Joseph J efferson 181 Frederic B each Jennings 183 John. P Jones 185 Otto H erman Kahn 187 John E ean 189 James R obert Keene 191 Seneca. D Kimbark 194 John H enry Kirby 196 Alvin W illiam Krech 199 John B rooks Leavitt 201 Levi Z eigler Leiter 203 Robert P acker Linderman 206 Frank. G Logan 209 Leonor F resnel Loree 211 Frank O rren Lowden 213 Arthur F uller Luke 215 CONTENTS PAGE John A ugustine McCall 217 John J ames McCook 220 Flavel M cGee 222 John E dward Mabsh 225 Alonzo C lark Mather 228 Darius O gden Mills 230 David. H Moffat 236 James H obart Moore 241 William H . Moore 243 John P ierpont Morgan 246 Franklin M urphy 249 Samuel N ewhouse 251 Jacob V an Vechten Olcott 253 James E dwards Pepper 255 Lafayette E dward Pike 258 Robert P itcaibn 260 Andrew W oodbury Preston 262 Matthew S tanley Quay 264 Anton A dolph Raven 266 Norman B ruce Ream 268 James H ay Reed 271 Daniel G ray Reid 273 John J ackson Riker 276 John L awrence Riker 278 Perctval R oberts, Jr 281 Frederick L eo Rodewald 283 Jordan J ackson Rollins 285 Theodore R oosevelt 287 Exjhu R oot 290 Peter F rederick Rothermel, Jr 293 William S alomon 295 KlCKHAM S CANLAN 298 Charles T . Schoen 300 Charles. M Schwab 302 Isaac N ewton Seligman 304 Nicholas S enn 309 Dewttt S mith 311 John. C Spooner 313 John D reDRiCH Spreckels 316 Charles A lbert Stadler 319 James S tillman 321 Arthur E dward Stilwell 324 Joseph S uydam Stout 326 William L ewis Stow 328 Frank K night Sturgis 330 Talbot J . Taylor 332 George K ramer Thompson 334 CONTENTS PACK Francis J . Torrance 336 James. J Townsend 338 George A rthur Treadwell 340 William. H Truesdale 343 Charles H arrison Tweed 345 Frederick D . Underwood 347 Frederic W dlliam Upham 350 Harry J acques Verner 352 Herbert H arold Vreeland 354 Felix. M Warburg 357 .Leslie D Ward 360 William D rew Washburn 362 James M ontaudevert Waterbury 365 William S eward Webb 367 Henri. P Wertheim 370 Stanford W hite • 372 William C ollins Whitney 374 Cassius M ilton Wicker 377 Isaiah C ole Young 380 William Z iegler 382 y C^*'*z/s"z - ^Sr />^^^^^^^-/^ FREDERICK T HOMPSON ADAMS FREDERICK T HOMPSON ADAMS, who, besides being a highly successful financier, is one of the most enthusiastic and skilful yachtsmen, comes from families of bankers. His maternal grandfather was a banker who, with his two sons, Frederick T. and Samuel C. Thompson, founded the First Na tional Bank and subsequently also the Chase National Bank of New York. His father went to California among the "forty- niners," but a few years later came back to Chicago and engaged in the banking business, which he conducted with great success until 1866, when, having amassed a fortune, he retired and went to live at his old family home at Coxsackie, New York. The s ubject of this sketch is the son of Francis G. Adams and Eudora L. (Thompson) Adams, and was born to them in Chi cago in April, 1854. He received a good education, but was from early boyhood so strongly attracted to the sea that instead of going into business he sailed, at the age of nineteen years, on the clipper ship St. Charles for a voyage around the Horn. Arriv ing at San Francisco, he -sailed again on various ships on the Pacific, and then, coming back to New York, passed an examina tion as midshipman in the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. He was assigned to duty on the City of Peking, just built, and went on her from New York to San Francisco by way of the Strait of Magellan. This voyage was a memorable one, since the ship lost two blades of her propeller on the way, and had to make the latter part of the run in a crippled condition, thus being at sea from September, 1874, to February, 1875. Mr. Adams then went across the Pacific on that ship and returned, after which he resigned his place on her and repaired to Chi- 2 F REDERICK THOMPSON ADAMS cago. T hence he went to the mining regions, and finally, in 1880, came to New York. In N ew York Mr. Adams established a Western farm and mortgage business, and became a member of the Unlisted Secur ities Board. In that he prospered, and presently he joined the New York Mining Exchange, and went with it into the Con solidated Exchange. In 1884 he became a director of the Chase National Bank, having purchased a stock interest in it, and served until 1886, when he negotiated the sale of that bank to the syndicate now controlling it. He bought a seat in the New York Stock Exchange in 1886, and in 1889 formed the firm of F. T. Adams & Co., with W. E. Pearl as his partner. In addi tion to the Stock Exchange, he is a member of the Produce Exchange, the Cotton iExchange, and the Coffee Exchange of New York. Mr. A dams's fondness for the sea naturally led him to take to yachting as his favorite sport, and in that he has attained suc cess and great distinction As soon as he could afford it he bought a yacht, his first important vessel being the Esperite. Later he joined John G. Moore in buying the Sachem, one of the fastest and most famous schooners ever built. The Sachem won the prized Goelet Cup twice, besides innumerable other races. Mr. Adams has also himself given many trophies, and has in many ways greatly promoted the fine sport of yachting. He was formerly commodore of the Atlantic Yacht Club, one of the crack organizations of New York, and is now commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club. He is still a member of the Atlantic Yacht Club, and also of the New York, Columbia, Man- hasset Bay, and Bridgeport Yacht Clubs. His other affiliations include membership in the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York and the New York, Manhattan, Automobile, Lambs, Suburban Riding and Driving, and New York Athletic clubs of New York. Mr. A dams was married in New York, in October, 1886, to Miss Witherbee of Boston, Massachusetts. He makes his home in New York, but in summer spends most of his time in cruis ing on his yacht on Long Island Sound and elsewhere. **^*r.f y JOHN G IRAUD AGAR JOHN G IRAUD AGAR is of Southern birth and early train ing. His mother, whose maiden name was Theresa Price, was a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and a descendant of some of the first settlers of that State. Mr. Agar's father, William Agar, was descended from one of the most ancient families of County Carlow, Ireland, and in early life settled in New Or leans, Louisiana, where he became one of the leaders of the mer cantile community. John G. Agar was born in New Orleans on June 3, 1856. He received his early education from his parents and from private tutors at home. After the Civil War he was sent, in 1869, to the preparatory department of Georgetown University, in the District of Columbia.