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Burns, William
John. Pres. Wm. J. Burns
Internat. Detective Agency, Inc.; b. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 19, 1861; s. Michael and Bridget
(Trahey) Burns; ed. public sells. and business coll., Columbus, Ohio; in. Columbus, Ohio, 1880, Anna )J.
Ressler; children: George, Edwin. Raymond, Florence, Sherman, Kathleen. Joined U.S. secret service, 1889, and appt'd to headquarters, St. Louis; handled many celebrated cases throughout U.S. Resigned from secret service, 1903, and appt'd to take charge of investigation of Oregon, Washington and Calif. land fraud cases, which resulted in prosecution and conviction of numerous Federal, State and city officials; cleared up most remarkable counterfeiting case world has known.
Monroe-head $100 silver certificate, bill so accurate defied all experts as to its genuineness; counterfeiters arrested
Phila., Pa., April, 1899; won the gratitude of the entire nation for the thoroughness and fearlessness with which he laid bare the truth in the dynamite cases, and clearing up of Los Angeles Times, Oct. 1, 1911, etc. Organized Wm. J. Burns Nat. Detective Agency, N.Y., 1909, now Win. J. Burns
Internat. Detective Agency, Inc.,
having branches all over U.S., including one in London, Paris and Brussels. The London office is first permanent office established by an Am. detective in Europe. Author : The Masked War, The Argyle Case (in collaboration with Harriet Ford and Harvey J.
O'Higgins). Lectured in all universities and colleges throughout the U.S. and Europe. Progressive; Roman Catholic.
Mem. Nat. Federation of Theatres. Mem. N.Y. Press Club. Address: Woolworth
Bld'g, N.Y. City.
Burns
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Carter, A.
Bion, banker; born in Great Bend, N.Y., June 23, 1857; son of Asa T. and Amanda (Cross) Carter; educated in school at Great Bend, and Ives Seminary, Antwerp, N.Y.; married,
Boonville, N.Y., Oct. 17, 1883, Lelia M. Wentworth; children: Lulu I., Helen W., Erma L. Was telegraph operator on Utica & Black River Railroad at age of 16;
entered land office of Leroy De Chammont, Carthage, N.Y., later entered employ of G. M. Ratchford & Co ., sole leather tanners, Otter Lake, N.Y.; became manager of the large Moose River Tanneries serving until their close; engaged in drug business at Carthage, and was employed with Hon. Le Roy
Crawford, Chase's Lake, N.Y., making extract of hemlock bark for tanning purposes: manager of large tannery at Fine, N. Y., for U. S. Leather to., until its close in 1902. Organized National Exchange Bank of Carthage, and has been its president since 1902. Treasurer Wilna Farms Co., and Security and Real Estate Co. Republican. President Board of Education of Carthage High School; Odd Fellow (trustee of lodge) ; Royal Arch Mason, Knight
Templar, Shriner. Club: Carthage. Address: Carthage.
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Coombs, Frank
L., lawyer, diplomat and statesman of Napa, Cal., was born Dec. 27, 1853, in Napa, Cal. He has been a representative in the state legislature. n 1892-93 he was United States minister to Japan; and in 1898-1900 he was United States attorney for the northern district of California. In
1901-03 he was a member of congress.
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Cunningham, John Benedict, 1919, St. Albans, W.Va., known as Irish Bull; member of bar of District of Columbia; author of Death Bell, famous as the poem that frightened Roosevelt; orator with voice of great volume; singer; composer, Mermaid Operetta, The Same Dream, etc.; editor of a published-when-convenient journal called "1919" with unique special features; author or Princess Zey detective stories, Hand of Invincible Death mysteries; Modern Methods, dialogues of wit and love; Catechism for Babies satires; Versatility Verses; Sayings of Sphinx; Mirage of Futurity. Was first to seek political coalition of Prohibition,
Socialism, Labor Unions and Woman's Suffrage,--cornerstones of Platform of Irish Bull. Prophesies that such a political merger will lead the politics of the world.
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Daley, Alexander
F., born March 29, 1852, in Effingham County, Georgia. Educated at Wrightsville High School. Admitted to the practice of law .March, 1872. Entered railway service by organizing the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad Company, December, 1883, since which time, up to October, 1899, he acted as Director and General Counsel, and since then as President, Director and General Counsel. In 1898 purchased Oconee and Western Railroad Company and acted as President and General Manager until February, 1899, when consolidated with Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad. July 1, 1906, bought Dublin and Southwestern Railroad and consolidated it with Wrightsville and Tennille in 1907. In 1898 bought Atlantic Short Line and re-organized it as Brewton and Pinora Railroad, acting as President until sold to Central of Georgia Railway Company.
Daley
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De Young, Michael
Harry, newspaper proprietor; born in St. Louis, Oct. 1, 1849. His mother, whose maiden name was
Morange, was daughter of a French nobleman. When a boy five years old,
he was taken to California and was educated in the schools of that State. He became associated with his brother, Charles De Young, in 1865, in establishing The Dramatic Chronicle, a theatrical paper from which they afterward developed The San Francisco Chronicle, which, in a few years, they made the leading daily paper of the Pacific Coast. Upon his brother's death in 1880, he became sole proprietor of the paper, and its editor-in-chief, and has so continued ever since. Mr. De Young was twice the California
member of the National Republican Committee, and for one term its vice-chairman, and was a delegate at large to the National Republican Conventions, 1888, 1892. He has also taken an especially prominent part in the creation and management of international expositions, beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1889, to which he was a commissioner from California. He was commissioner from California and vice-president of the World's Columbian National Commission in 1892 and 1893, and was the originator of its classification plan; was president of the International League of Press Clubs in 1893, was projector, organizer and director-general of the California Midwinter Exposition at San Francisco in 1893 and 1894; organizer of the Midwinter Fair Memorial Museum, 1894; commissioner-general for California at the Omaha Trans-Mississippi Exposition in 1898, and president of the United States Commission at the Paris Exposition in 1900. Vice-president and member Executive Committee Panama Pacific Exposition. He is a member of the Legion d'Honneur of France, and has been a
director of the Associated Press since 1882. Residence: Meadowlands, San Raphael, Calif. Address : 1919 California Street, San Francisco, Calif.
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Men of 1914, Chicago, Ill, 1915
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