The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . g the highest attainments of art, music or litera-ture, they find a common companionship. The NewTork Mail and Express, in an extended article out-lining his financial, professiona
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . g the highest attainments of art, music or litera-ture, they find a common companionship. The NewTork Mail and Express, in an extended article out-lining his financial, professional and social life, said:A distinguished-looking man, with a thoughtful, in-tellectual face, hair prematurely blanched to snowywhiteness, and dark moustache, and a pair of keen,piercing, fiery eyes, is frequently encountered in thedrawing-rooms of New York. This is Mr. TheodoreSutro, a graduate of Harvard university in 1871, andlorsome years past eminent in his profession as a mem-ber of the oldest German law firm in this city. Dulon, brother-in-law of Gen. Siegel, andthe ex-war governor of Wisconsin, are his , Sutro is attorney for the German consulate, andalso attends to the legal business of the Austrian con-sulate. His firm are the legal advisers of the Germaniasavings bank and the Germania life insurance com-pany. Mr. Sutro is devoted to music, and is the possess-or of a fine KNOX, John Jay, financier, was bom at Knox-boro, Oneida county, N. Y., March 19, 1828, son ofJohii J. Knox, who was a prominent merchant, bankpresident, college tru^ee, and brigadier-general ofmilitia in western New Yo:-k, and for whom thevillage of Knoxboro was named. The son wasgraduated from Hamilton college in 1849. Among hisfellow-students were Joseph R. Hawley and CharlesDudley Warner of Hartford,Conn., and Thos. S. Hastingsand Emmons Clark of NewYork. He was teller of theBank of Vernon, of which hisfather was president, for twoyears, al a salary of $300, andof the
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