Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of ...

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Page 447 - BE Fernow, Chief of the Division of Forestry in the United States Department of Agriculture, was comprehensive and of great value.
Page 121 - June 30, 1906, provided that analyses of foods and drugs shall be made in the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 179 - He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
Page 477 - He is first lieutenant in the medical reserve corps of the United States army. He is consulting dermatologist to the Harlem hospital and other institutions; and professor of dermatology in the Dartmouth medical school.
Page 283 - He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ethnological Society of America : and from 1843 to his death he was president of the New York Historical Society.
Page 408 - He is professor of the literature and interpretation of the New Testament in the general theological seminary of New York.
Page 164 - Title Insurance and Trust company. Brightly, Frank Frederic, lawyer and author of 134 South Ninth st., Philadelphia.Pa,, was born Feb. 26, 1845, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Brightly's Digest of New York Decisions and other works. Brill, Abraham Ardens, physician of 55 Central Park West, New York City, was born in 1874 in Austria. He graduated from the New York university; and received his medical degree from the college of physicians and surgeons. He is chief of clinic of psychiatry...
Page 240 - Wis.; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his county and state. He is the author of a work entitled Lives of the Presidents, the subject matter of which, by his permission, has been incorporated into the pages of this work. For many years he was grand chief templar of the Wisconsin independent order of good templars; and is a prominent member of various other fraternal orders. Chaille, Stanford Emerson, educator and author of 1551 Canal St., New Orleans, La., was born July 9, 1830,...
Page 21 - ... street railways. The need of securing uniform returns as a basis for estimating the cost and efficiency of such public utilities has occupied the attention in the last two years of several associations in the United States, eg, the American Economic Association, the American Gas Light Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the New England Water Works Association, the American Society for Municipal Improvements, and others. At the conference to be held to-morrow the representatives...

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