HERRINGSHAW'S

AMERICAN BLUE-BOOK

OF BIOGRAPHY

PROMINENT AMERICANS OF 1915

THIRTY THOUSAND BIOGRAPHIES

An Accurate Biographical Record of Prominent Citizens in All Walks of Life
Who Have Achieved Success in Their Chosen Vocations in

the Various Civil, Industrial and Commercial

Lines of Activity.

BUSINESS MEN,

MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS, FINANCIERS,
STATESMEN, LAWYERS, JURISTS, PHYSICIANS, EDUCATORS

FOUNDERS, MAKERS AND BUILDERS OF OUR
GREAT REPUBLIC

As manifested in America's Great Institutions of Finance, Commerce and
Trade, and its Unparalleled Progress in Education, Literature,

Art, Science and in the Development of Our Nation

in all lines of Human Endeavor.

Edited and Compiled Under the Supervision of

THOMAS WILLIAM HERRINGSHAW

Author of Home Occupations, Prominent Men and Women of the Day, Aids to
Literary Success, Mulierology, Local and National Poets of America, Her-
ringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth
Century, Herringshaw's Library of American Biography,

The American Statesman, Progressive Americans,

Successful Americans, The American
Blue Book and numerous
other works.

One thing is forever good--
That one thing is success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

PUBLISHED ANNUALLY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION

THE LAKESIDE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

PRICE. TEN DOLLARS

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PREFACE

HE main purpose of Herringshaw's AMERICAN

BLUE BOOK of Biography is to present in one volume and in condensed form, a standard work of Biographical Reference, giving appropriate notices of all those who are identified in any capacity with the various phases of our National Activity and Progress.

The AMERICAN BLUE BOOK gives in a single handy volume in Dictionary form and without mystifying abbreviations, the biographic life stories of over thirty thousand persons selected from one hundred millions of citizens, men who lead in American thought and action, and who direct the affairs, the industries and the intellectual progress of this great commonwealth of ours.

The work contains a concise Alphabetical Record of America's Business Men, Merchants, Manufacturers, and Builders, Financiers, Lawyers and Jurists, Physicians, Clergymen, Educators and other Progressive Citizens who hold positions of trust and honor in their chosen vocations in the various lines of human effort.

These representative Citizens of character and influence, by their enterprise and thrift, by their activity and sagacity in business, and by their zeal in educational, social and public matters, have contributed vastly to the moral, spiritual and material prosperity of the community in which they live.

As builders and Merchants, they have erected buildings and illumined the marts of trade; in the field of