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 . chess association;treasurer of the American chess problem association,and honorary member of several chess clubs. InJune, 1886, he became a member of the Chamber .ofCommerce, and h
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 . chess association;treasurer of the American chess problem association,and honorary member of several chess clubs. InJune, 1886, he became a member of the Chamber .ofCommerce, and he is also a member of the Maritimeassociation of New York city; a director of theBrooklyn choral society, a member of the academyof political and social science of Philadelphia, andan honorary member of the Trinity historical societyof Dallas, Tex. He is also a member of the Man-hattan chess club, the Metropolitan museum of art,and of the Museum of natural history of New Yorkcity. He has contributed largely to various chesspublications during the past thirty years, and haspublished : The Book of the Fifth American Con-gress (1881); Crumbs from the Chess Board(1890), and as co-editor with Eugene B. Cook, American Cliess Nuts (1868). Mr. Gilberg is ofmedium height, fine proportions, and of command-ing presence, with fair complexion and dark He has an energetic manner and a frank andopen 242 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA PATERSON, Maj. John, was bom Feb. 14,1707. He was the son of James Paterson of Wethers-field, Conn. His mother, Mary (Talcott) Paterson,had been twice married, her first husband beinga cousin of Joseph Talcott, who had been thegovernor of the colony. After his death she wasmarried to James Paterson. The son received thebest education which was possible at that time,and even when quite young was regarded as aman of great promise. As his tastes were entirelymilitary, he was educated in that direction, and re-ceived a non-commissioned ofiicers app
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