when 29 years old, and engaged in general business alone; later organized a national bank, and was its president for several years. Moved to Salina, Kan., 1890, organized the National Bank of America, and was its president. Also organized a large cement company in 1890, and was its president five years; organized and was president of Automatic Telephone Co. for several years, also American Roofing Co., of Kansas City. President WatsonDurand-Kasper Grocery Co., Duncan Shingle and Lumber Co., of Kansas City, The Western Star Mill Co., of Salina; director National Bank of America, Salina. Was mayor of Salina; delegate to national Republican convention. Trustee St. John's Military School, Salina; Knight Templar, member Mystic Shrine. Clubs: Salina Country, Salina Auto. Address: Salina.

Watts, Frank Overton, banker; born, Paducah, Ky., Nov. 14, 1867; son of Thomas L. and Ruth (Caldwell) Watts; educated in preparatory schools; married, Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 14, 1894, Helen Moore; children: Lawson, Helen, Frank. Formerly cashier First National Bank of Union City, Tenn.; was cashier and president of the First National Bank of Nashville, Tenn. Vice-president Third National Bank of St. Louis, 1912-13; president since July, 1913; director Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. of Missouri, Laclede Gas Light Co. of St. Louis; president Tennessee Bankers Association, 1899; president American Bankers Association, 1910-11. Recreations: Golf and motoring. Clubs: St. Louis, Racquet, St. Louis. Country, Bellerive and Bogey. Residence: 5399 Lindell Blvd. Office: Third National Bank, St. Louis.

Waugh, Dr. Karl Tinsley, psychologist; born, Cawnpore, India, Nov. 30. 1879. A.B., Ohio Wesleyan Univ., 1900, A.M., 1901; A.M., Harvard Univ., 1906, Ph.D., 1907. Professor philosophy and mathematics, Claflin Univ., 1900-04. Weld fellow and assistant in philosophy, Harvard Univ., 1906-07. Associate in psychology, Univ. of Chicago, 1907-09. Professor of psychology and philosophy, Beloit College, 1909-. Lecturer on psychology, Univ. of Colorado, 1909 and 1914. Member Amer. Psychol. Assn., Amer. Assn. Adv. Sci., Nat. Geog. Soc., Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Delta Theta, Acacia. Author: Vision in Mental Life of Animals, Mental Tests for College Freshmen, etc. Address: Beloit, Wis.

Waughop, Philip Rexford, physician and surgeon; born, Blue Island, Ill., Feb. 1, 1868; son of John Wesley and Eliza Susan (Rexford) Waughop; his father built up Western Washington Hospital for the Insane, and was superintendent thereof, 1880-97; descendant of Capt. James Waughop, who escaped in his merchantman from pursuing British man-of-war in 1811, by shooting down its mainmast with his one cannon. A.B., Harvard University, 1890; M.D., 1894. House officer, Boston City Hospital, 1893-95; house officer, Boston Lunatic Asylum, 1893; president of class in Harvard Medical School. Hawaiian Government Physician and Health Officer, 1900-03; assisted his father in same capacity the three years previous, 1897-1900. Member Harvard Club of Seattle, Harvard Medical Alumni Association, Boston

City Hospital Alumni Association, King County Medical Society, Washington State Medical Society. Contributor to medical journals on leprosy and other skin affections. Address: 304 Melrose Ave., N. Seattle, Wash.

Weatherly, Ulysses Grant, educator and scientist, of Bloomington, Ind., was born April 21, 1865, in West Newton, Ind. He received the degrees of A.B., Litt.D. He was teacher of the Philadelphia Central High School in 1894-95; assistant professor University of Indiana, 1895-97; professor of economics and sociological science in 1899; graduate student Columbia University in 1899-1900; chairman Indiana Children's Bureau since 1911. He was professor of sociology at Columbia University, summer 1912, and University of Colorado, summer session, 1908 and 1913. He is a member of the American Economical Association.

Weaver, Charles Henry, merchant, capitalist; born, Whitesboro, N.Y., Jan. 10, 1843; son of Uri and Phila A. (Dorand) Weaver; removed with parents to Aurora, Ill., in 1847; educated in district schools and select schools of Ottawa, Ill.; married, Chicago, Feb. 18, 1869, Carrie A. Edmonds. Taught district school in 1863; removed to Chicago in 1863 and engaged in commission business with H. H. Marsh; bought out his partner's interest in 1868 and has since conducted it under firm name of C. H. Weaver & Co.; director Continental and Commercial National Bank. Republican. Club: Illinois. Address: 65-67 West South Water St., Chicago.

Weaver, Claude, United States congressman-at-large from Oklahoma, was born March 19, 1867, in Gainesville, Texas. He is one of the authors of the Oklahoma City Traveler. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15, and resides in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Webb, Edwin Yates, congressman, was born May 23, 1872, in Shelby, N.C. In 1893 he graduated from Wake Forest College; and then studied law in the University of North Carolina. He was a member of the fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth, sixty-first and sixty-second congresses from North Carolina as a Democrat. He was re-elected to the sixty-third congress from the ninth district of North Carolina for the term of 1913-15, and resides in Shelby, N.C.

Webb, James Henry, lawyer; born Dec. 22, 1854, at Santa Fe, N.M.; son of James J. and Florilla M. (Slade) Webb; married Helen M. Ives, June 29, 1880, at Hamden, Conn.; educated at private school, New Haven, Conn.; Winchester Institute, Conn.; Hudson River Institute, Claverack, N.Y.; Massachusetts Agricultural College (B.Sc., 1873); post-graduate student Yale University, 1874-75; Yale Law School (LL.B., cum laude, 1877). Admitted to the bar, 1877; formerly of firm of Alling, Webb & Morehouse. Member of bar of Supreme Court of U.S.; sometime instructor in criminal law and procedure and lecturer on medical jurisprudence, Law School of Yale University. Democratic candidate for congress, second Connecticut district, 1898; member of Constitutional Convention of Connecticut, 1902; member of board of control, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

since 1892; delegate to Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, St. Louis, 1904. Editor of Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law, 1905; contributor to Two Centuries' Growth of American. Law (article Criminal Law and Procedure), Yale Bicentennial publication. Appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut in June, 1913. Member of American Bar Association. Clubs: Graduates (New Haven); Catholic (N.Y.). Address: New Haven, Conn.

Weber, Fred Dale, electrical engineer; born, Rohnerville, Cal., July 28, 1880; son of Michael Nicholas and Lola (Dale) Weber. B.S. (E.E.), Univ. of Cal., 1904. Married, Mabel Ella Hobensack, June 1, 1909, at Portland, Ore. Elec. Insp., Underwriters Equitable Rating Bureau. Assoc. member Am. Inst. Elec. Engrs. Member Ore. Soc. of Engrs., Ore. Elec. Contractors Assn. (hon. member); member Sons of Jove; correspondent for the Journal of Electricity, Power & Gas, San Francisco, in state of Oregon. Member Portland lodge, No. 55, A.F.&A.M. Res.: 1626 6th St., South. Office: 559 Sherlock Bldg., Portland, Ore.

Webster, Charles E., consulting engineer. Office: South Bethlehem, Pa. Born May 5, 1842, at Mauch Chunk, Pa. Graduate of Princeton University. Entered railway service June, 1862, since which he has been consecutively to 1868, rodman and assistant engineer, Lehigh & Susquehanna Rd.; 1868 to 1870, assistant engineer Boston, Hartford & Erie Rd. in Connecticut; 1870, assistant engineer Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. and chief engineer Newburg & Midland Rd.; 1871, assistant engineer New Jersey West Line Rd.; 1871 to 1874, resident engineer Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. in West Virginia; 1874, chief engineer Longdale Rd. in Virginia; 1875 to 1879, resident engineer, division engineer and assistant chief engineer Cincinnati Southern Ry.; 1879 to 1881, division engineer New York & New England Rd.; 1881 to 1883, division engineer and assistant chief engineer New York, Chicago & St. Louis Rd.; 1883, principal assistant engineer Rochester & Pittsburgh Rd., chief engineer Susquehanna & Allegheny Ry. and assistant engineer Boston,, Hoosac Tunnel & Western Ry.; 1883 to 1885, resident and division engineer South Pennsylvania Rd.; 1885 to 1886, assistant engineer Croton Aqueduct at New York; 1886 to 1888, division engineer and principal assistant engineer St. Louis & San Francisco Ry.; 1888, chief engineer Johnsonburg & Bradford Rd.; 1889 to 1891, chief engineer Schuylkill & Lehigh Valley Rd.; 1891 to Jan. 1, 1899, successively assistant chief engineer and chief engineer Lehigh Valley Rd.; to Nov. 15, 1900, chief engineer Erie & Wyoming Valley Rd.; Jan. 4, 1901, to Feb. 15, 1902, division engineer New York Central & Hudson River Rd. at Clearfield, Pa.; Feb. 15 to Sept., 1902, principal assistant engineer Western district same road; Oct., 1902, appointed consulting engineer Buffalo & Susquehanna Rd., and later chief engineer Northern Construction & Improvement Co.

Webster, Clement Lyon, Charles City, Ia. Mining engineering. Born in Rockford, Ia., March 18, 1859. M.S., Iowa, 1901. Consulting geologist and mining engineer. President Interstate Investment and Development Co. M.A.A.; min. eng.; Electro

chem. Soc.; Nat. Geog. Soc.; Northwest. Cement Products Assn.; Davenport Acad. Geology; mining engineering. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Mining Engineers, the National Geographic Society, the Davenport Academy of Sciences, Indian Rights Association, American Electrochemical Society, Northwestern Cement Products Association, Nebraska Cement Users Association, Iowa Academy of Science, International Society of Archaeology, etc. Weed, Francis Edward, banker, manufacturer; born, New Canaan, Conn., Nov. 26, 1841; son of William H. and Mary (Hanford) Weed; educated in public schools of New Canaan; married in South Norwalk, April, 1867, Martha J. Brush; one son living: William F. Worked on farm, 1849 to 1858. Postoffice clerk, 1858 to 1860; worked for Hoyt Manufacturing Co., 1865-1868; in the employ of New Canaan Railroad, 1868-1878; engaged in coal, lumber and building material business since 1878, being member of firm of Weed & Lockwood, F. E. Weed & Co., and since July, 1905, of firm of Weed & Turner. From April, 1913, to July, 1914, firm of Weed & Duryea; from July, 1914, president of the Weed & Duryea Co. President New Canaan Savings Bank. Served in Company B, 13th Connecticut Volunteers, during Civil War, 18611865. Has held offices of assessor, member Board of Relief Selectmen, representative and justice of the peace. Republican; Congregationalist. President New Canaan Historical Society and Free Reading Room. Past Master Harmony Lodge of Masons, Past Grand Wooster Lodge Odd Fellows, Past Commander Grand Army Republic. Residence: St. John Place. Office: Grove St., New Canaan.

Weed, Walter Harvey, mining and geological engineer, was born, St. Louis, Mo., May 1, 1862; son of Samuel Richards and Nellie S. (Jones) Weed; educated in public schools, St. Louis, Brooklyn, Selleck School, Norwalk, Conn.; grad. Columbia Univ., M.E., 1883. Asst. geologist Yellowstone Park Survey, 1883-89; geologist surveying coal fields and metal mining districts of Montana, 1896-97; Butte mines, Butte, Mont., 1898; Mexican work examining mines, 1899; B.C. mines, 1901-02-03. U.S. Geol. Survey, with extensive travels in Central America, 1904. Geologist Gen. Development Co., N.Y., 1906. Explorations in Haiti, 1909. In recent years in independent practice first as Weed & Roberts (1910-11), later as geological engineer and mine valuer. In 1913-14 employed as expert witness in mining litigation, especially in Montana cases. At present consulting engineer for Butte-Ballaklava Copper Co., Calumet-Sonora M.&M. Co., etc. Discovered algeous origin of siliceous sinter, Death Gulch, sec-. ondary enrichment of ores, etc. Juror La. Purchase Expo., St. Louis, 1904. Prop. and editor The Copper Handbook (annual). Republican; Presbyterian. Author: Numerous memoirs and papers on geol. subjects, Ore Genesis and Butte, Mont., and other mining districts, Copper Mines of World (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., N.Y., 1908), Nature of Ore Deposits. Is a recognized authority on ore deposits, especially of copper. Special correspondent of Engineering Mining Journal, 1900-03. Published

papers on Geysers, Fossil Forests, etc., 1889-96. Mason, Fellow Geol. Soc. of America, A.A.A.S.; Am. Inst. Mining Engrs., Inst. Mining and Metallurgy of America, Alpha Delta Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi honor fraternities. Recreation: Traveling. Clubs: Chevy Chase (Washington, D.C.), Silver Bow (Butte, Mont.), Engineers (N.Y.). Address: 42 Broadway, N.Y. City, and Houghton, Mich.

Weeks, John Wingate, United States senator from Massachusetts, was born in Lancaster, N.H., April 11, 1860. He served in the Massachusetts naval brigade ten years, from 1890 to 1900, the last six years of this service as commanding officer of the organization; served as a lieutenant in the volunteer navy during the Spanish-American War, commanding the second division of the auxiliary navy; is married; is a member of the firm of Tornblower & Weeks, bankers and brokers; is vice-president of the First National Bank of Boston, and president of the Newtonville Trust Company, Newton; was for three years-1900-1901, 1902alderman, and two years-1903 and 1904-mayor of the city of Newton; was the permanent chairman of the Massachusetts Republican state convention in October, 1905; was elected to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses, and re-elected to the sixty-second congress, as a Republican. He is a member of the United States senate for the term of 1913-19; and resides in Newton, Mass.

Weil, Victor M., banker and broker; born at Newark, N.J., Nov. 17, 1876; resides at 726 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. He is president of the Inter-Trust Security Company; president of the Boise, Thunder Mountain, Big Creek Railroad, the California & Sierra Telephone Company, the Esmeralda Electric Light and Power Company, and also president of the Boston and Suburban Realty Trust Company; was for a number of years president of the Hyde Park Board of Trade, and was for two years a vice-president of the Massachusetts Board of Trade.

Weinmann, Louis, secretary, Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., of San Francisco; b. at Benicia, Cal., Aug. 23, 1853; educated at the Missionary College of St. Augustine, and after being graduated at the head of his class in 1874, he was appointed principal of the public schools of his native town, which position he held until 1886. During seven years of this time he was president of the Board of Education in Solano County. He also engaged in the drug business, and began his first experience as local agent for the Fireman's Fund. In 1886 he removed to San Francisco, and for the succeeding two years was in charge of the mathematical department of the Commercial High School, but resigned this position in 1888, to become special agent for the Fireman's Fund, being elected assistant secretary in 1892, and appointed to his present position in Jan., 1900. He was president of the Fire. Underwriters' Assn. of the Pacific in 1898, and was elected president of the Board of Education of Alameda in 1907. Address: San Francisco, Cal.

Weis, Joseph Deutsch, of 1448 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, La. Medicine. Born, New Orleans, June 12, 1872. Harvard,