MEN OF NINETEEN-TWELVE

Abbott, Edville Gerhardt, chairman of the Republican City Committee of Portland, Me., was born Nov. 6, 1871, in Hancock, Me. He graduated from Bowdoin College with the degrees of A.B. and A.M. pro merito, and in 1898 with the degree of M.D. from the Maine Medical School. In 1900-1901 he studied in the Friedrich Wilhelm University at Berlin, and since that time has given his entire attention to the practice of orthopedic surgery at Portland, Me. He is instructor in orthopedic surgery in Bowdoin Medical College, surgeon-in-chief to the Children's Hospital and orthopedic surgeon to the Maine General Hospital. He is a director in the Fidelity Trust Company; is a member of the Portland Board of Trade, and chairman of the Republican City Committee.

Abbott, Grafton St. Loe, lawyer, trustee, capitalist, was born Coroline (Livermore) Abbott; received preparatory education at Noble's private school, Boston; graduated from Harvard college, A.B., 1877; studied law; married, Quincy, Mass., Sept. 29, 1890, Mary Adams. Admitted to the bar, 1880, and has since engaged in practice of law in Boston. He is director LewistonClarkston Co.; vice-president and director Fidelity Trading and Commercial Co., Hill Manufacturing Co.; treasurer and director Lewiston-Concord Bridge Co.; director River Bank Improvement Co., U.S. Quarantine Stock Yards Co., Atlantic Cotton Mills; and chairman board of directors Guamtama and Western Railroad Co.

Abhedananda, Swami, teacher, lecturer and author, was born Nov. 22, 1866. He is the spiritual head of the Vedanta Society of New York and of West Cornwall, Conn. He is the author of many books on social, moral and religious ideals of nations.

Ackerman, J. H., superintendent of public instruction of Oregon, was born in 1854 in Warren, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools; and attended the State Normal School at Milwaukee, Wis. He has been principal of the high school of Arcadia, Wis.; and principal of the grammar school of Portland, Ore. He has been county superintendent of schools at Portland; city superintendent of schools of East Portland; and assistant superintendent of schools at Portland, Ore. He is superintendent of public instruction for the state of Oregon; is now serving his fourth term ending in 1913; and resides in Salem, Ore.

Ackerman, J. Walter, civil and mechanical engineer, was born in Auburn, N.Y., Dec. 5, 1867; son of Elias Cuykendall and Amelia (De Witt) Ackerman; educated at Cazenovia seminar, Ithaca high school and Cornell university; married, May 28, 1902, Bertha H. Vedder, of Munsville, Madison co., N.Y.; sons Lauren V., born March 12, 1905; J. Bevier, born April 29, 1909. Engaged in railroad surveys, 1897-99; engaged in sanitary designs and construction, 1899-1902; city engineer of Auburn, N.Y., 1902 to Jan., 1908; resident engineer N.Y., Auburn and Lansing R.R., Jan. to Sept., 1908; since 1908 superintendent and chief engineer of Municipal Water Works system of Auburn, N.Y. Republican. Presbyterian. Member American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society for Municipal Improvements, Water Works Association, member of Committee on Uniform Accounts. and Reports, New England Water Work Association, Auburn Lodge 431, F. and A. M., Holland Society of N.Y. Club: Auburn City.

Ackerson, T. Benton, real estate owner and developer, was born at Rockland Lake, Rockland Co., N.Y., June 9, 1856; son of Theodore P. and Susan L. (Moore) Ackerson; educated in schools of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; married Dec. 28, 1887, Carrie E. Ambler; children: Ella A., born 1898; Alice (deceased); Jean, born 1901. Was 31 years in employ of Knickerbocker Ice Co., and its successors, and for the past fourteen years has been engaged in real estate development and kindred lines, making a specialty of home communities. President, T. B. Ackerson Co., real estate; manager the T. B. Ackerson Co.; active in development of homes in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Bay Shore, L.I., Maplewood, N.J., and building up of large factory interests in Long Island City. Republican. Episcopalian. Director and member Flatbush Board of Trade, 39th Ward Taxpayers' Association, Jamaica Bay Improvement Association, Brooklyn League. Recreations: Automobiling, yachting, out-of-door sports.

Adair, John A. M., United States congressman from the eighth district of Indiana, was born Dec. 22, 1863, in Portland, Ind. He was educated at the high schools of Portland, Ind. He has been city clerk of Portland, Ind.; and in 1902-03 a representative in the Indiana state legislature. He is a successful banker; president of the First National Bank of Portland, Ind.; and prominently identified with the business of public affairs of this city, county and state. He was elected to the sixtieth and sixty-first congresses from the eighth district of Indiana; and was reelected to the sixty-second congress for term ending 1911-13; and resides in Portland, Ind.

Adams, Comfort Avery, educator, electrical engineer, scientist, author, was born Nov. 1, 1868, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was educated in the Cleveland grammar and high schools; in 1890

graduated with the degree of S.B. from the Case school of applied science of Cleveland, Ohio; and in 1891-94 studied in the graduate school of arts and sciences of Harvard university. In 1891-96 he was an instructor in Harvard university; in 18961906 was assistant professor and since 1906 has been professor of electrical engineering in that institution. In 1902-06 he was consulting engineer for Stone and Webster of Boston, Mass.; and since 1905 has been consulting engineer of the American Tool and Machine Co. He has made original researches on induction motors, alternators and other electrical machinery. He is the author of Dynamo Design Schedules; numerous papers delivered before scientific societies; and articles in technical journals. Conuslting engineer for Warner Sugar Refining Co. of N.Y. since 1910, consulting engineer for Simplex Electric Co., 1912. Fellow American Institution of Electrical Engineers, also manager and member of four important committees. Member British Institution of Electrical Engineers, fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences; fellow American Society for its Advancement of Sciences; member National Electrical Association; member American Electrotechnic Society; member Illuminating Engineers' Society, etc.

Adams, Francis Alexandre, associate editor New York Commercial, was born May 11, 1874, in New York City. In 1891 he graduated from the New York public schools; and subsequently the College of the City of New York, and studied law. He has been editor of Printers' Ink and on the staff of the New York Journal. During the Spanish-American war in 1898 he was lieutenant in the fourteenth regiment New York volunteer infantry. He is the author of Truths About Trusts; The Philippine Question; The Transgressors, a political novel, and Roosevelt. He is now associate-editor of the New York Commercial; and resides in New York City.

Adams, Jay Elmer, land proprietor, was born March 30, 1862, on a farm near Osceola, Clarke county, Ia. For a time Mr. Adams lived in Denver, Col., but in October, 1890, settled in San Antonio, Tex., which has ever since been his home. There he devoted himself to real estate interests, buying much acre property and dividing it into city lots. It is he who bought the land, plotted the streets and developed the attractive suburb of Laurel Hights, now the best resident property in the city. Mr. Adams is also the owner of ninety thousand acres of land in Mexico and eight thousand acres in Texas farm land, of which more than two thousand acres are in cultivation and in farms. He also owns some six hundred and fifty acres in farms in Illinois; a summer resort and a summer home in the mountain of Colorado, besides townsites and additions in Texas. All of his operations have been conducted in his own name.

Adams, Melvin Ohio, lawyer, banker, was born in Ashburnham, Mass., Nov. 7, 1850; son of Joseph and Dolly W. (Whitney) Adams; descendant of John Adams, who came from England and settled in Cambridge, Mass., 1650; educated in public schools and Appleton academy of New Ipswich, N.H.; graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1871; from Boston university, LL.B.. 1874, LL.D. Dartmouth, 1812. Married, Fitchburg, Mass., Jan. 20, 1874, Mary Colony. Practising law at Boston since 1876; assistant district attorney, 1876-86; president Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn railroad; vice-president Liberty Trust Co. Served as U. S. attorney, 1895-1906; assistant adjutant-general staff of Gov. Brackett with rank of colonel, 1890-91. Republican. Trustee Dartmouth Educational Association; trustee Dartmouth college; president Board of Trustees of Cushing academy; managing trustee of the Farm and Trades school. Clubs: Union, Unitarian, University, Exchange, Boston Yacht, Union League, N.Y.

Adams, Thomas Sewall, educator, author, was born Dec. 29, 1873, in Baltimore, Md. In 1900-01 he was assistant to the treasurer of Porto Rico. Since 1901 he has been professor of political economy at the university of Wisconsin. He is also tax commissioner of the state of Wisconsin. He is the author of Taxtation in Maryland; and Labor Problems.

Adams, Washington Irving Lincoln, journalist, business man, banker, author, was born Feb. 22, 1865, in New York City. He graduated from the high school of Montclair, N. J. For over ten years he was editor of the Photographic Times. In 1896-99 he was president of the Scoville and Adams Company; and in 1901 was vice-president of the Montclair Trust Company, becoming its president in 1905. Since 1901 he has been treasurer and then president of Styles and Cash of New York City. He is the author of the Amateur Photographer; Sin, Sunlight and Shadow; In Nature's Image; Woodland and Meadow; and a volume of poems.

Adams, William C. T., president of Highland college, Kans., was born July 6, 1869, in Vernon county, Wis. He graduated from the Wisconsin State Normal school, the upper Iowa university, the Taylor university and the university of Michigan; and has received the degrees of M.A. and M.S. He was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church; has been principal of schools in Wisconsin and North Dakota; and filled professorships in upper Iowa university and in Bellevue college of Nebraska. Since 1909 he has been president of Highland college of Kansas.

Adams, William L., banker, was born in Berwick, Pa., May 27, 1860; son of Enos L. and Margaret (Kisner) Adams; graduated from Mount Union college, Alliance, Ohio, Ph.B., 1881; married. Fort Worth, Texas, Elizabeth A. Davis; four children. Engaged in banking business since 1893. President and director

First National Bank of Hoquiam, Keystone Timber Co., Hoquiam; vice-president and director of the Gray's Harbor Lumber Co., Hoquiam, Wash. County commissioner of Mitchell county, Tex., 1882-85; county assessor Midland county, Tex., 1885-88. Republican. Episcopalian. Was president of Washington State Bankers' Association, 1908-09. Trustee of Hoquiam Carnegie library, 32nd degree Scottish Rite mason, Shriner, Elk. Member order of Sons of the American Revolution.

Adamson, William Charles, United States congressman from the fourth district of Georgia, was born Aug. 13, 1854, in Bowdon, Ga. He was judge of the City Court of Carrollton from 1885 to 1889, and was attorney for the city of Carrollton for a number of years; and was presidential elector in 1892. He was a member of the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat. He was reelected to the sixty-second congress from the fourth district of Georgia for the term of 1911-13; and resides in Carrollton, Ga.

Adcock, W. M., member State Committee Democratic party, was born Jan. 6, 1860, in Callaway County, Mo. He was educated in the public schools of his native state. He is engaged in the real estate and loan business; and is prominently identified with the business and public affairs of Fulton, Mo. He is now serving his first term of 1910-12 as state committeeman from the Ninth district of Missouri.

Addicks, John Edward, capitalist and statesman, was born. Nov. 21, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. Works for the manufacture of gas were built for him in Jersey City and for the Consumers' Gas Company of Chicago, Ill.; and the competition which he engendered led to the union of the gas companies of Chicago into the now noted Chiago gas trust. In 1884 he organized and became president of the Bay State Gas Company of Boston, which constructed large works. In 1892 he bought a majority interest in the Brooklyn Gas Company, becoming its president; and is now largely interested in other gas companies in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1899-1901 and in 1903 he was candidate for the United States senate from Delaware.

Adelsberger, Louis, physician and public official, was born Feb. 16, 1862, in Waterloo, Ill. His surname originated from the city of Adelsberg, Austria, of which an Adelsberg was burgomaster, the city deriving its name from him; and his descendants emigrated to Baltimore, Md. He received a thorough education. in the public schools of his native city; and in 1884 graduated with the degree of M.D. from the medical department of Washington university at St. Louis, Mo. In 1897-1901 he was president of the Illinois State Board of Health. In 1897 he was a delegate to the International Medical Congress held in Moscow, Russia. He holds a prominent position in the medical world; and since 1890 has practiced his profession in Waterloo, Ill.