cated in public schools of Chippawa, Ontario, and Jamestown (N.Y.) High School. (Married.) Was clerk, bookkeeper and teller Chautauqua County National Bank, 1873-84; teller First National Bank, 1885-94; organized in 1894 and was the first cashier of Union Trust Co., of which he has been president since 1899. Member Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Masonic bodies.

Meserve, Charles Francis, educator, lecturer, college president, was born July 15, 1850, in North Abington, Mass. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native town; attended the classical institute of Waterville, Me., and in 1877 graduated from Colby University, from which institution he has received the degrees of A.B., A.M. and LL.D. In 1877-85 he was principal of the high school at Rockland, Mass.; in 1885-88 was principal of the Oak Street School at Springfield, Mass.; and in 1889-94 was superintendent of Haskell Institute, the U.S. Indian industrial training school at Lawrence, Kan. Since 1894 he has been president of Shaw University, of Raleigh, N.C. He has lectured extensively on Negro and Indian problems; and in 1896 was agent for the National Indian Rights Association.

Metcalf, Bryce, ass 't cashier International Bank, 60 Wall St., New York City, was born, N.Y. City, Dec. 10, 1874; son James Betts and Annie Tiffany (Cutting) Metcalf; attended Mass. Inst. of Technology, class 1898; married, N.Y. City, Nov. 2, 1905, Suzette T. Hall. Mem. Delta Psi fraternity, Soc. War of 1812, Sons of Revolution, Soc. Colonial Wars; sec. Soc. of Cincinnati in Conn.; lieut. Veteran Corps of Art'y. Clubs: Riding, St. Anthony. Residence: Ardsley, N.Y.

Metcalf, Lorettus Sutton, editor; born in Monmouth, Maine, Oct. 17, 1837; son of Mason J. and Hannah E. (Welch) Metcalf. He received his education in the public schools of Boston and Maine, and by private teachers; received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Iowa College, Iowa, and. M.A. from Bates College, Maine. When he was young, Mr. Metcalf contributed to a considerable number of journals, including the Commonwealth, Congregationalist, Zion's Herald, Boston Traveler; later became the proprietor of five local weekly papers published in the vicinity of Boston; was managing editor and business manager of the North American Review, 1876-1885; founded the Forum in 1886, and continued in charge of it until 1891; established the Daily Florida Citizen in 1893, and edited and published it till 1897, retiring from active business in 1898. He is a member of the Authors Club. He married in Bath, Maine, Sept. 2, 1861, Amanda Ames Lemont, and has had two children. Address: Bath, Maine.

Metson, William Henry, lawyer; born San Francisco, Cal., March 18, 1863; son, John E. and Elizabeth Wigglesworth (Fanning) M. Educated: public schools, San Francisco, Cal.; Gold Hill high school, Virginia City, Nev.; studied law in office of Hon. Patrick Reddy; grad., Hastings College of Law, 1886. Married, Josephine Kercheval, April, 1893, at San Francisco. Member of firm, Reddy, Campbell & Metson, 1889-1900; Yosemite Park

Commnr., 3 terms. Pres. San Francisco Park Commission; Lieut. Natl. Guards, Cal. Went to Alaska, 1900. Atty. Pioneer Mining Co. Prin. Owner, Goetjen-Metson Co.; member law firm, Metson, Drew and McKenzie. Dir. Scandinavian Bank of Seattle. Member: Native Sons of the Golden West (past pres. and past grand trustee). Clubs: Union League, Bohemian. Address: San Francisco, Cal.

Metz, Herman A., United States congressman from the tenth district of New York, was born Oct. 19, 1867, in New York City. He is president of H. A. Metz & Co.; and has been comptroller of New York City. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Meurer, Jacob, metals, 569 to 575 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn; res., 266 Lincoln Pl., born in New York City. (Married.) Senior mem. Meurer Bros. Co. Pres. Meurer Steel Barrel Co.; president United Stove & Repair Co. Member Union League, Crescent Club, Riding and Driving Club, Montauk Clubs, Chamber of Commerce.

Meyer, Arthur G., dry goods merchant, 66 Leonard St., New York City; residence Elizabeth, N.J. Born in Elizabeth, N.J., March 29, 1870. Educated in Elizabeth. (Married.) Formerly cashier of the firm of Meyer, Kingsland & Co. and connected with Townsend & Montant. Manager English woolen department of Fred'k. Vietor & Achelis; senior member firm of Meyer & Baxter. Now president and treasurer of Arthur G. Meyer & Co., woolen merchants, also treasurer A. G. M. Realty Co., a N.Y. Corporation. Member New York Athletic, Manhattan and Arkwright Clubs, N.Y. Athletic Club, Manhattan Club, Andiron Club, Oakland Golf Club and Greenwich Country Club, and Elizabeth Athletic and Mattano Clubs of Elizabeth.

Meyer, George J., president George J. Meyer Malting Co.; born April 9, 1864, in Buffalo, N.Y.; son of Stephen and Cecelia (Hauser) Meyer; educated at St. Michael's School and Canisius College, Buffalo; married Mary J., daughter of Anthony and Mary (Timms) Killinger. Member of Canisius College Alumni Sodality; Orpheus; Knights of Columbus; Catholic Mutual Benefit Association; Elks; Saengerbund. Member Chamber of Commerce; Black Rock Manufacturing Assn. Address: Buffalo, N.Y. Member of Buffalo Club. Residence: 249 North St.

Meyer, Otto A., publisher, Utica; residence 14 Jewett Pl. Born in Prospect, N.Y. Educated at Utica Academy. (Single.) Publisher and director Utica "Daily Press," director Second National Bank; Utica Steam Cotton Co.; trustee Utica Public Library; owner of Clarendon Office Bldg. Member Fort Schuyler and Sadaquada Clubs.

Meyer, Willy, surgeon, of 700 Madison Ave., N.Y. City, was born, Minden, Westphalia, Germany, July 24, 1858; grad. Univ. of Bonn, M.D., 1880; married N.Y. City, April 29, 1885, Lilly O. Maass. Asst. to surg. clinic, Univ. of Bonn, Germany, 1881-84; came to U.S., 1884; prof. clinical surgery Woman's Med. Coll., N.Y. City, 1886-93; instr. and prof. surgery, N.Y. Post-Grad. Med. Sch., and Hosp. since 1887. Attending surgeon German and Post

Grad. Hosp.; consulting surgeon N.Y. Skin and Cancer Hosp., N.Y. Infirmary, Hosp. for Deformity and Joint Diseases, Har Moriah Hosp., Monteflore Home. Introduced cystoscopy into U.S., 1887, and was first in U.S. (1897) to perform Bottini's operation; author of radical operation for cancer of the breast; since 1908 engaged in solving the problems of thoracic surgery. Fellow Am. Surg. Assn., etc.

Meynell, Mrs. Grazia (Carbone), musician; born in Buffalo, N.Y., of Italian parents; studied music with Miss Cronyn, Buffalo; Santley, London. Educated at Miss Nardin's Academy, Buffalo; sang in the Jesuit Church, New York, until the issue of the Papal restriction in regard to church choirs, since which time her alto voice has been heard in the concert halls of America, Berlin, London, and the principal towns of England, which she, with her sister Carmela, toured with Patti in 1907. An English newspaper said of them: The Signorina Carbone make music primarily for musicians. The quality of her voice was pronounced spiritual, rich and deep, her sister's soprano, pure lyric ecstasy. Max Bruch, German composer, has associated the names of the sisters with the music of religion, by composing for their voices a duet entitled The Cross, sung for the first time at Queen's Hall, London, 1907. In 1908, Miss Carbone married, in London, Everard Meynell, second son of Wilfrid and Alice (Thompson) Meynell; godson of Cardinal Manning; educated at St. Charles College, London, England, and Slade School; artist and art critic, staff London Illustrated News; author of Giovanni Bellini in Great Artist series, Life of Corot, and Life of Francis Thompson. Address: Care London Illustrated News, London, Eng.

Miles, C. C., physician and surgeon, Greenport, born in Sag Harbor, N.Y., Sept. 25, 1854. Educated at New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. (Married.) Trustee Southold Savings Bank; coroner Suffolk County; health officer village of Greenport, and second vice-president Southold Savings Bank; president Board of Education of Greenport.

Miller, Augustine A., president of Canisius College, Jesuit priest; born in Utznach, Switzerland, May 13, 1869; son of Augustine and Philomene (Pircher) Miller. He was educated. in the high school and college of Feldkirch, Austria, studied philology in Wynandsrade, philosophy in Exaeten, and theology in Valkenburg, all in Holland. He was professor of ancient languages at St. Ignatius College, Cleveland, O., 1893-98, and 190305, and has been president of Canisius College, Buffalo, N.Y., since 1905. Address, St. Ignatius Church, Park Ave. and 84th St., New York City.

Miller, Chas. A., attorney-at-law; born Bolivar, Hardeman Co., Tenn., July 13, 1853; son of Austin and Mary J. (Dunlap) Miller; Scotch-Dutch descent; educated University of Virginia, Cumberland University; graduate Cumberland University in law; married Lizzie Lea Unthank Jan. 23, 1874; member W. O. W., member, Tennessee Legislature, 1883-87; secretary of State, 1889-93; practiced law Bolivar, Tenn., since 1874; author Political and Historical Manual of Tennessee.

Miller, Charles F., lawyer, born Winona, Minn., Feb. 4, 1864; son of Charles F. and Rosaltha (Williams) Miller. Educated, College Course, State Univ. of Colo.; LL.B., Denver Univ., Law Dept. Has practiced law in Denver for about 20 years. Unmarried. Rendence, 2802 Elizabeth St. Office, Empire Bldg., Denver, Colo.

Miller, Charles Henry, artist, landscape painter; born in New York City, March 20, 1842; son of Jacob and Jane M. (Taylor) Miller. He attended Mt. Washington Institute, New York City, the art schools of the National Academy of Design, New York City, and the Royal Academy of Bavaria at Munich, Germany. He first exhibited his paintings at the National Academy of Design, in 1860; took the M.D. degree in 1863, and received his diploma from the hand of William Cullen Bryant; made his first voyage to Europe as surgeon of the packet ship Harvest Queen in 1864, visiting Paris, London and Scotland. He became acedemician of the National Academy in 1875. Mr. Miller is best known for his paintings of Long Island scenes. He was five years president of the Art Club of New York; president of the American Art Committee of the International Exposition at Munich, 1883; former president of the Shakespeare Club of Queens, L.I. He is a member of the Municipal Art Society of New York, American Geographic Society, the Masonic Order (past master); and the Board of Education of Queens Union Free School. He is author of: The Philosophy of Art in America; and is an artistic, poetic and philosophical essayist; strongly advocating human reason and judicial sense in place of arbitrary pacification. Mr. Miller is a member of the Century, Lotos, and Republican Clubs. He married at Queens, L.I., October, 1900, Elizabeth Dorothea Mosback, nee Herdfelder. Address: "Queens Court," Queens, L.I., N.Y.

Miller, Charles R., director and statesman of Wilmington, Del., was born Sept. 30, 1857, in Chester County, Pa. He has held executive offices in a number of corporations during the past twenty-five years; has been state senator from Wilmington; water commissioner of city. He is governor of state of Delaware; president of Delaware Hospital, Wilmington; president of Farmers Bank of Delaware; and president of corporations and several state commissions.

Miller, Charles Wesley, lawyer, banker; born Galena, Ind., Feb. 4, 1863; son of Jacob B. and Isabella (Smith) Miller; educated in Southern Indiana Normal School, Central Indiana Normal School, University of Michigan, LL.B., 1884; married, Goshen, Ind., June 1, 1887, Sarah Elizabeth Perkins. Admitted to bar and practiced law at Greenfield, Ind., 1884-85, since which time. has practiced at Goshen and Indianapolis, Ind.; member of the firm of Miller & Dowling; director Home Telephone Co. of Elkhart, Farmers Trust Co. of Indianapolis; director and vice-president of the American Underwriters, Inc.; mayor of Goshen, 1888-90; delegate to National Republican Convention in 1892; presidential elector at large for Indiana, 1900; attorney-general of Indiana, 1903-07; United States Attorney for the District of

Indiana, 1909-14; Mason (33d degree). Clubs: Columbia, Marion, Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade. Residence, 2051 N. Alabama St. Office, 1109-15 Fletcher Savings and Trust Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind.

Miller, Charles Winthrop, vice-president Jaffna Coll., Jaffna, Ceylon. Ornithology, was born, Worcester, Mass., Nov. 18, 1884. A.B., Clark, 1905. Asst. to director W. E. D. Scott, Worthington Soc. for the Investigation of Bird Life, 1905-06; acting director, 1905-08, director, 1908-. M.A.A.; assoc. Ornith Union; Breeders Assn.; Nature Study Soc. Colonization of the house martin; larvae of certain parasitic flies in bird nests; methods of attracting and protecting wild birds.-Growth of birds; inheritance of coloration of eggs of the bluebird; hybridism; daily life of birds especially during the breeding season; imitation and instinct in birds; the parasitic bird fly; increase of native birds; aviary methods.

Miller, Clarence Benjamin, congressman, was born March 13, 1872, on a farm in Goodhue County, Minn. Since 1900 he has practiced law at Duluth; was a member of the Minnesota Legislature, 1907; was elected to the sixty-first, sixty-second and sixtythird congresses; and resides in Duluth, Minn.

Miller, Clifton Meredith, 3 W. Grace St., Richmond, Va. Ophthalmology, otology, rhinology. Born in Richmond, April 21, 1873. M.D., Med. Coll. of Va., 1892. Demonstrator anat. Med. Coll. of Va., 1896-1905; instr. diseases of eye and ear, 1901-06; prof. anat., 1905-06; diseases of nose and throat, 1906-13. Laryngologist, rhinologist and ophthalmologist to various hospitals; mem. Richmond City Council. Acad. Ophthal; Am. Med. Assn.; Va. Med. Soc.; Richmond Acad. Med. and Surg. (pres., 1908). A.A. surgeon U.S. Marine Hosp. service, 1893; surgeon R.L.I. Blues Battalion, 1897-1902. Associate prof. otology and rhinology Med. Coll. Va. Member American Laryngological, rhinological and otological Society.

Miller, Henry, vice-president and general manager Wabash Rd. Office, St. Louis, Mo. Born Feb. 24, 1863, at Hannibal, Mo. Entered railway service 1878, as boilermaker's apprentice Hannibal & St. Joseph Rd., since which he has been consecutively, 1879 to 1883, switchman and 1883 to 1890, yardmaster same road; 1890 to 1892, trainmaster St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Rd.; 1892 to May, 1902, assistant superintendent same road; also assistant superintendent Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City Ry.; in 1891 to 1892 was also trainmaster Hannibal & St. Joseph Rd.; May, 1902 to Jan. 15, 1903, superintendent St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Rd. and Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City Ry.; Jan. 15, 1903, to May 1, 1905, general superintendent same roads. and Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Rd., comprising the Burlington lines in Missouri; July 1, 1904, to May 1, 1905, general superintendent Missouri district, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Ry.; May 1, 1905, to date, general manager Wabash Rd.; May, 1907, to date, also vice-president same road.

Miller, John W., real estate, insurance and mortgage loans, 280 Broadway, New York City, was born Eddyville, Ia., March 9,