(member of the Executive Council and life member of the Society);
President-General in 1901, 1902 and 1905. Served as a park
commissioner of New York City from 1883 to 1888, during which time he
was Treasurer and President of the board. He was a member of the Board
of Visitors to West Point in 1894, and presidential elector
(Democratic) in 1892 and 1904. Was appointed by Governor Roosevelt and
served as a member of the Greater New York Charter Revision
Commission. In 1894, he was a member of the New York State
Constitutional Convention. Is a member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce and officially connected with many railway, realty and
banking corporations. Among the offices to which he has been chosen
may be mentioned: President of the Essex and Hudson Land Improvement
Company; honorary Vice-President of the Trust Company of America, New
York; Vice-President of the Title Insurance Company of New York;
Vice-President of the New York Mortgage and Security Company; director
of the Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, and also a director in the
following companies: The Century Realty Company and the Chelsea Realty
Company. He is prominently identified with the charities of the Roman
Catholic Church, as well as with non-sectarian charities. He is a
member of the board of managers of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals; member of the executive committee of the New York
State Branch of the American National Red Cross Society; member of the
board of directors of the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island
Railroad Company; member of the board of directors of the Metropolitan
Bank; member of the board of managers of St. Vincent’s Hospital;
member of the board of trustees of St. John’s Guild, and also of the
Provident Loan Society of New York. Mr. Crimmins is also a director of
the City and Suburban Homes Company of New York, which has for its
object to provide model homes at reasonable cost for working people.
He is a member of the following clubs: Catholic, Metropolitan,
Lawyers, Democratic, Manhattan, and of the Wee Burn Golf Club, of
which he was formerly President. He is likewise a member of the board
of managers of the Sevilla Home for Children, a non-sectarian charity,
and is also one of the managers of the Society for the Reformation of
Juvenile Delinquents.
CRIMMINS, CAPT. MARTIN L., U. S. A., care of War Department,
Washington, D. C.
CRONIN, CAPT. WILLIAM, Rutland, Vt.
CROSTON, J. F., M. D., 83 Emerson Street, Haverhill, Mass.
CUMMINGS, MATTHEW J., overseer of the poor, 616 Eddy Street,
Providence, R. I.
CUMMINS, REV. JOHN F., Roslindale, Mass.
CUNNIFF, MICHAEL M., 1032 Beacon Street, Brookline, Mass., capitalist.
CUNNINGHAM, HON. JAMES, 277 Congress Street, Portland, Me., is a
member of the Executive Council of the State of Maine, one of seven
whose duty it is to advise the governor in all appointments and State
affairs; was born in Manor Hamilton, County Leitrim, Ireland, May 8th,
1839, of Irish parents, and arrived in Portland, Me., October 23,
1863, and worked as a journeyman mason for five years; he was the
first Irishman allowed to lay bricks in Portland, and as soon as
possible became an American citizen and cast his first vote for
himself for the office of city councilman, being the first foreigner
to serve in the Portland city council. His membership lasted eight
years, the longest period of continuous service to that time of any
citizen, either native or naturalized. Has been prominent in Catholic
work, and is a warm friend and associate of Bishop Bacon, Bishop
Healy, Archbishop O’Connell of Boston, and the present Bishop Walsh,
and was the first Catholic to hold office since Maine became a state.
He started several branches of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in
Pennsylvania, and stood by the organization in different parts of the
country during its darkest days, and has always been interested in the
Irish Land League. Has been very successful in all the business
affairs he has ever undertaken, and six years ago built the Lafayette
Hotel, the finest hostelry in Maine, which he still continues to own
and manage. Is the Vice-President of the Society for Maine.
CURLEY, MICHAEL H., merchant, 115 Broad Street, Boston, Mass. (Life
member of the Society.)
CURRAN, PHILIP A., of the Curran Dry Goods Company, Waterbury, Conn.
CURRY, EDMOND J., 69–71 East Eighty-ninth Street, New York City.
CURTIN, DANIEL I., 332 East Twenty-fifth Street, New York City, was
born in that city May 21, 1880, son of John J. Curtin (born in Tallow
County, Waterford, Ireland, in 1849; seaman United States Navy
1861–65), and nephew of Daniel Curtin, who constituted part of the
bodyguard of General Nathaniel P. Banks and was killed at the Battle
of Antietam. Was educated in the New York public schools, from which
he graduated in 1895; studied for five years in the Scientific
Department of Cooper Union, New York; has been engaged for the past
nine years (1900–09) in civil engineering pursuits as assistant to the
chief engineer Standard Gas Light Company of New York (1900–02),
assistant to the chief engineer Jersey Central Railroad on re-survey
of line (1902–04) and (1904–09) assistant to chief engineer,
Department of Water Supply, Borough of Brooklyn.
DALY, EDWARD HAMILTON, attorney at law, 54 Wall Street, New York City.
DALY, JOHN J., 833 Longwood Avenue, Bronx, New York City; foreman, U.
S. Immigration buildings, Ellis Island.
DALY, HON. JOSEPH F., LL. D., 54 Wall Street, New York City; chief
justice of the Court of Common Pleas, New York, 1890–’96; justice of
the New York Supreme Court, 1896–’98; member of the Board of Managers,
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum; member of the Advisory Board, St.
Vincent’s Hospital; served in 1900 on the commission to revise the
laws of Porto Rico.
DANAHER, HON. FRANKLIN M., Bensen Building, Albany, N. Y.; member of
the State Board of Law Examiners; many years judge of the City Court
of Albany.
DANVERS, ROBERT E., 428 West Fifty-Eighth Street (the St. Albans), New
York City; dealer in iron and steel.
DAVIES, WILLIAM GILBERT, 32 Nassau Street, New York City, son of Henry
E. Davies and Rebecca Tappan Davies, was born in New York City, March
21, 1842. He received a collegiate education at Trinity College,
Hartford, Conn., from which he graduated in 1860. He also studied at
the University of Leipsic, Germany. Mr. Davies read law with Slosson,
Hutchins and Platt, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1863, and at
once entered earnestly upon the pursuit of the profession his father
had so greatly adorned. During the Civil War, then raging, he served
in the Twenty-second Regiment, New York Militia, during the Gettysburg
campaign. Mr. Davies’ first partnership in practice was formed with
Henry H. Anderson, but on August 1, 1866, the partnership was
dissolved, and Mr. Davies entered the service of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York. The law department of that corporation
was fully organized in September, 1870, with Mr. Pruyn as solicitor
and Mr. Davies as his assistant. He remained in that position until
May 20, 1885, at which time he became the head of the department.
During the succeeding quarter of a century Mr. Davies, as counsel for
one of the leading insurance companies, was largely instrumental in
establishing rules of law on insurance matters as they exist today. He
resigned in December, 1893, in order to resume the active practice of
his profession. He was one of the commissioners on the widening of Elm
Street, New York, and extending the street from Great Jones Street to
the City Hall. Mr. Davies joined the American Irish Historical Society
in 1898 and is a member of the New York Historical Society, the New
York Biographical and Genealogical Society, the Medicolegal Society,
the New England Society, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution,
the New England Historical Genealogical Society, the Virginia
Historical Society, the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association, the
Liederkranz Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Century
Association, and the Union University Lawyers, Manhattan, Tuxedo,
Grolier, Democratic and St. Nicholas Clubs. He belongs also to the
American, New York State, and New York City Bar Associations, and the
Law Institute. He was married in 1870 to Miss Lucie Rice, daughter of
Hon. Alexander H. Rice, who was three terms governor of Massachusetts.
He resides at 22 East Forty-fifth Street. Mr. Davies is a writer of
great fame and among many others is the author of _Papers and
Addresses_ (published by Robert Grier Cooke of New York), on very
interesting subjects.
DAY, JOSEPH P., real estate, 31 Nassau Street, and 932 Eighth Avenue,
New York City.
DEEVES, RICHARD, of Richard Deeves & Son, builders, 305–309 Broadway,
New York City. (Life member of the Society.)
DELANEY, J. C., Chief Inspector, Department of Factory Inspection,
Harrisburg, Pa.
DELANEY, WILLIAM J., Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
DELANY, CAPT. WILLIAM H., 254 West Fourteenth Street, New York City,
was born April 19th, 1849, in the old Ninth Ward. His father, Captain
John Delany, also born in New York City, was a shipmaster 30 years in
the old Black Ball Line, carrying passengers between New York and
Liverpool and in his earlier days was in the China and East Indies
trade. His mother was Catherine Shelley, born in Belfast, Ireland. The
paternal grandparents were born in Dublin and the maternal
grandparents in Belfast. All followed the sea. Captain Delany had ten
uncles who were shipmasters.
DELEHANTY, HON. F. B., Judges’ Chambers, Court House, City Hall Park,
New York; a judge of the City Court.
DEMPSEY, GEORGE C., Lowell, Mass.
DEMPSEY, WILLIAM P., Treasurer and manager, the Dempsey Bleachery and
Dye Works, Pawtucket, R. I.
DENNEN, REV. C., Pastor of Catholic Church, Wilmington, N. C.
DEROO, REV. PETER, St. Joseph’s Church, 1127 Corbett Street, Portland,
Ore.; author of the “History of America Before Columbus,” a most
interesting and valuable work.
DEVINE, JOHN T., proprietor, The Shoreham, Washington, D. C.
DEVLIN, JAMES H., 35 Parsons Street, Brighton, Boston, Mass.
DEVLIN, JAMES H., Jr., Barristers’ Hall, Boston, Mass., attorney at
law, was born in that part of Boston known as Dorchester, July 21,
1877, and received his early education in the public schools of Milton
and Dedham; was graduated from Boston College in 1897, with the degree
of A. B., and in 1900 from the Harvard University School of Law, with
the degree of LL. B. Is President of the Charitable Irish Society of
Boston, and a member of the Boston City Club. He is unmarried.
DIXON, RICHARD, insurance, 52–54 William Street, New York City.
DIXON, SAMUEL GIBSON, M. D., LL. D., Bryn Mawr, Pa., was born of
Quaker parentage in the city of Philadelphia in the family homestead
below Bartram’s Botanical Gardens, March 23, 1851. His early education
was received at the Friends’ Schools in that city and was supplemented
by private tutors, by whom he was prepared for Harvard College. His
health failing, however, he went abroad for recreation and study.
Returning home he set himself to acquire a thorough knowledge of
business principles, taking a course at the Mercantile College. On the
conclusion of this he studied conveyancing under the late Edward
Bedlock of Philadelphia. He then studied law in the office of his
brother, Edwin Saunders Dixon, Esq., attended the law course of the
University of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to practice at the bar of
Philadelphia June 30, 1877, continuing in the active practice of that
profession for ten years. The practice of law left him with
trusteeships of importance which have necessarily kept him well to the
front in affairs. Under the stress of desk and office work his health
again failed, and his tastes inclining him to make a hobby of
scientific medicine he matriculated in the Medical Department of the
University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, from which he was
graduated with honor in 1886. While still an undergraduate, however,
he received the unusual compliment of an appointment by the trustees
to the position of Assistant Demonstrator of Physiology. During his
last year in the medical school he suffered from a serious attack of
typhoid fever, which made a foreign trip again desirable in the
opinion of his physicians. Being greatly interested in the infant
science of bacteriology, as soon as his strength permitted, he entered
the Bacteriological Department of King’s College, London, from which
he was graduated. He also took a course in the College of State
Medicine, London, under Professor Klein, and it was while prosecuting
observations under that master in bacteriology that he made the
discovery of branched forms of tubercle bacilli hitherto unnoticed. He
also studied under Pottenkofer, in Munich, and made a careful study of
the methods of filtration of water and disposition of sewage then in
vogue in the capitals of Great Britain and Europe. Returning to
Philadelphia in 1888, his alma mater recognized the value of his
attainments by appointing him the first Professor of Hygiene in the
newly created chair in the Medical Department, and also Dean of the
Auxiliary Department of Medicine. While in this position he embraced
the opportunity to establish the first Laboratory of Hygiene in the
University. Two years later he resigned these positions to accept the
appointment of Professor of Bacteriology and Microscopical Technology
at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, of which
institution he became Executive Curator in 1892 and President in 1896.
During this period his mind reverted constantly to the problem of the
branched tubercle bacillus and the possibility which he had conceived
of obtaining immunity to that disease by the introduction into the
human economy of attenuated bacilli or of fluid extracts from the
same, and he prosecuted original researches on this subject
untiringly. On October 19, 1889, he published in the _Medical News_ of
Philadelphia the results which he had then reached in producing
immunity to that disease in the lower animals, and has constantly kept
the profession informed of his investigations by means of addresses
and contributions to medical and scientific journals. The two theses
or propositions on which he based this theory of possible immunity to
the tubercle bacillus are as follows: “First. It is possible that by a
thorough filtering out of bacilli from tubercular material a filtrate
might be obtained and attenuated so that by systematic inoculations a
change might be produced in living animal tissues that would enable
them to resist virulent tubercle bacilli. Second. To bring about a
chemical or physical change in living tissues that would resist
tubercular phthisis it is possible that inoculations with the bacillus
would have to be made; yet, before this could be done, the power of
the virulent bacilli would have to be diminished; otherwise the result
would be most disastrous.” In the autumn of 1890, Doctor Dixon,
inspired by the announcement of Professor Koch that he had succeeded
in developing a substance which possessed the power of preventing the
growth of the tubercle bacillus in the human economy, again visited
Europe in order to assure himself of the accuracy of the reports and
in the interest of humanity as well as of the various scientific and
medical institutions with which he was connected, and had interviews
with Koch, Virchow and Dubois Raymond. That Doctor Dixon has always
recognized the claims of the community as a whole on members of his
profession is sufficiently proven by the fact that he is officially
connected with so large a number of scientific, philanthropic and
educational institutions. He has been for eighteen years Executive
Curator of the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences, and for
fourteen years its President. For a number of years he was a member of
the Board of Education of the city of Philadelphia an as Chairman of
the Committee on Hygiene devoted much time to improving the sanitary
condition of the schools. He is an officer of the Ludwick Institute,
the Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Pennsylvania, the
Zoological Society of Philadelphia and the Grandom Institution, a
member of the Council of the American Philosophical Society and of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a director of the Wistar Institute
of Anatomy of the University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow of the College
of Physicians of Philadelphia, a member of the American Medical
Association, the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, the
Philadelphia County Medical Society, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the American Archeological and Asiatic
Society, and one of the originators of the Geographical Society of
Philadelphia. An enthusiast on field sports from his early boyhood,
many of his vacations have been spent in salmon and trout fishing and
the hunting of big game. He has been an enthusiastic and successful
breeder of choice cattle and sporting dogs. He is a member of the
American Kennel Club, of which he was the first Secretary, and
President of the Philadelphia Kennel Club. Among the social clubs of
the country he is a member of the Philadelphia Club, the Merion
Cricket Club, the University Club, the Tarrantine Golf Club and the
Radnor Hunt.
DOLAN, JAMES A., 346 Broadway, New York City.
DOLAN, THOMAS E., M. D., 250 Elizabeth Avenue, Elizabeth, N. J.
DONAHUE, DAN A., 178 Essex Street, Salem, Mass.; outfitter to men and
women.
DONAHUE, R. J., cashier of the National Bank of Ogdensburg, N. Y.
DONNELLY, HON. THOMAS F., a justice of the New York City Court, 257
Broadway, New York City.
DONOGHUE, D. F., M. D., 240 Maple Street, Holyoke, Mass.
DONOVAN, DANIEL, 21 High Rock Street, Lynn, Mass.; an authority on
heraldry, armorial bearings, etc.; particularly as the same relate to
Ireland.
DONOVAN, COLONEL HENRY F., editor and proprietor of _The Chicago
Eagle_, No. 504 Teutonic Building, Chicago, Ill.; was commissioned as
Colonel by the Governor of Illinois, and served that State four years
as Inspector-General of the Illinois National Guard.
DONOVAN, JOHN W., real estate, mortgages and insurance, 360 West One
Hundred Twenty-fifth Street, New York City.
DONOVAN, RICHARD J., attorney at law, 170 Broadway, New York City.
DONOVAN, DR. S. E., New Bedford, Mass.
DONOVAN, COL. WILLIAM H., Lawrence, Mass.; commander of the Ninth
Regiment, M. V. M.; served with the regiment in Cuba during the war
with Spain.
DOOLEY, MICHAEL F., Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.,
Treasurer-General of the Society and member of the Executive Council,
was born in New Britain, Conn., in 1853. His education was obtained in
St. John’s College, now Fordham University, from which institution he
graduated in 1872. After leaving college, he spent two years in
France, and upon his return to this country studied law for a time in
the office of former Lieutenant-Governor Sill of Hartford, Conn. Some
time after he was elected Chairman of the Board of Tax Assessors, in
which capacity he served the city of Hartford for eight years. In 1887
he was appointed National Bank Examiner for Connecticut and Rhode
Island, and served until 1890, when he relinquished that office to
conduct a brokerage business, in which he continued for three years,
when he was again appointed National Bank Examiner and his appointment
by Ex-President Cleveland was continued during the succeeding
Republican administration. From 1895 to 1899 Mr. Dooley was also
Receiver of the First National Bank of Willimantic, resigning in the
latter year to become Secretary of the Union Trust Company of
Providence, R. I., and in 1906 was made Vice-President of that
institution. In April, 1908, he was elected President of the National
Exchange Bank of Providence, which position he now holds. Mr. Dooley
was married in 1888 to Miss Ellen Cook McManus.
DORAN, PATRICK L., Synus Utah Grocer Company, Salt Lake City, Utah.
DORDAR, JOHN, Forty-first Street and Park Avenue, New York City.
DORVER, REV. WILLIAM J., pastor of St. Charles Church, Pittsfield,
Mass.
DOWD, WILLIS B., attorney at law, 141 Broadway, New York City;
great-grandson of Cornelius Dowd who came to this country about 1750
and settled in Moore County, N. C., where he became prominent. The
family has attained much distinction in North Carolina.
DOWLING, REV. AUSTIN, rector of the Cathedral, Providence, R. I.; a
historian and author of much fame.
DOWLING, HON. VICTOR J., County Court House, Chambers Street, New York
City, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; is the son of Dennis
and Eliza Fierlants (Faider) Dowling, and was born July 20th, 1866.
Received the degree of A. B. in 1881 from Manhattan College, LL. B. in
1887 from the University of New York, where he took first prize for
the best written and best oral examination, being the first student of
the university to secure both prizes; M. A. in 1888 at Manhattan
College, and LL. D. in 1908 from the New York University Law School.
Is a member of the Bar Association of New York State, the Bar
Association of the City of New York, the Bibliophile Society of
Boston, the American Catholic Historical Society, the United States
Catholic Historical Society, the Manhattan Club, Catholic Club, the
Democratic Club, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Benevolent Union, and
others. He is the author of the very valuable essay entitled, _Irish
Pioneers in New York_, appearing elsewhere in this volume.
DOWNEY, WILLIAM F., 1622 L Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
DOWNING, BERNARD, Secretary to the President of the Borough of
Manhattan, City Hall, New York City.
DOWNING, D. P., manager National Biscuit Company, Cambridge, Mass.
DOYLE, ALFRED L., of John F. Doyle & Sons, real estate agents, brokers
and appraisers, 45 William Street, New York City.
DOYLE, DAVID A., Katonah, N. Y.; postmaster.
DOYLE, JAMES, 455 West Twenty-eighth Street, New York City; present
oldest member of the flour trade in New York; member of the New York
Produce Exchange from the beginning; member of the board of managers
of the Exchange, 1897–1901. He and his son, Mr. Nathaniel Doyle, also
a member of the Society, are associated in trade as James Doyle &
Company.