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He remained with us but one term, when he left, and went to Hobart
College, Geneva, New York, where he completed his Freshman year. He remained out
of college for one year, and then entered as a Sophomore in the class of 65, at Trinity
College, Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from that college in 1865, and took his
degree of Master of Arts in course.
Immediately after graduating, he went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he read
law for a year and a half, and took the full course at Harvard Law School, receiving his
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1868. He was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts as
attorney and counsellor-at-law, in the same year. He spent the next two years in
traveling, and in September, 1870, he located at Niagara Falls, New York, where his
family had made their home. He decided to give up the practice of law, and started a
private banking office at Niagara Falls. He has continued in the same business up to the
present time, only on a larger scale. He was for a number of years Cashier of the
Cataract Bank, the largest and most successful bank in Niagara County, owning one-third
of its capital stock of $100,000. He was elected President of this bank in July, 1883.
His general business outside of the bank is that of a capitalist, having large
interests in the neighborhood of the Falls. He is a member of the International Hotel
Company, Treasurer of the Niagara Falls Brewing Company, Treasurer of the Niagara
Falls Water-Works Company, Treasurer of the Pettebone Paper Company, of Niagara
Falls, and President of the Merchants' Gargling Oil Company, of Lockport, New York.
As may be judged from his many official positions, his time is pretty fully occupied, and
he may be classed among the decidedly busy men.
He is a member of the Episcopal church. Politically, he is Democrat.
He was married October 19, 1871, to Miss Elizabeth Gant, of Niagara Falls, New
York. They have one child, Nannette Roselle, born August 31, 1875.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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