Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries . epigrammatist. Hehas an international reputation as a makerof chess problems; is one of the founders ofthe American Chess Magazine; and waseditor of American Tid-Bits, 1902. He isauthor of: Chess Harmonies (originalproblems), 1894; That Duel at the ChateauMarsanac (novel), 1899; A Cynics Medi-tations (epigrams), 1904, which wentthrough seventeen editions; Cozy CornerConfidences (epigrams), 1906; and CupidsPack of Cards. He is vice-president of theTheatregoers Club of America. Summerresidence: Pinewood. Mt. Pleasant. Cat-sk
Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries . epigrammatist. Hehas an international reputation as a makerof chess problems; is one of the founders ofthe American Chess Magazine; and waseditor of American Tid-Bits, 1902. He isauthor of: Chess Harmonies (originalproblems), 1894; That Duel at the ChateauMarsanac (novel), 1899; A Cynics Medi-tations (epigrams), 1904, which wentthrough seventeen editions; Cozy CornerConfidences (epigrams), 1906; and CupidsPack of Cards. He is vice-president of theTheatregoers Club of America. Summerresidence: Pinewood. Mt. Pleasant. Cat-skill Mountains. N. Y. Address: Arling-ton Hotel, 18 West 2r)th Street. New YorkCity. PUMPELLY, Josiah Collins: Lawyer, retired; born in Owego. TiogaCounty. N. Y., Aug. 16, 1839; son of(Tcorge James and Susan Isabella Puni]) was graduated from Rutgers College, 1800, \ 1863; and from Colum-bia Law School, , 1863. During tlieCivil War he recruited drilled menfor the Union Army. After some years oftraAel, lie set lied in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,. Joseph PulitzerProprietor of New York \YorltI MEN OF AMERICA. 1357 and laid- at Morristown, N. J., ami in 1800removed to New York City, where lie active in social betterment and phil-anthropic work. He aided in founding theHuguenot Society of America, the PatrioticLeague, the National Society of Sons of theAmerican Revolution and its New JerseyBranch, the New Jersey State Charities Aidand Prison Reform Association and the NewYork Peace Society. At the celebration ofthe tercentenary of the signing of the Edictof Nantes, 1898, he read a paper entitled:the Huguenot Settlers of New his numy other published addressesare: Washington, 1888; Fort Stanwix andthe Battle of Oriskany, 1888; Our FrenchAllies, 1889; Joseph Warren, 1890; Mah-lon Dickerson, 1891; Paul Jones, 1892; In-cidents in the Early History of BerkshireCount}^ Mass., and the Pumpelly, Pixley,Paterson, and Avery Families, 1896; TheJumel
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