. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. the degree of Bachelor of Laws,with the Class of 1864. In tlie following year heengaged in the manufacture of brick in companywith his father, continuing long enough to becomefamiliar with its requirements and having purchasedand improved various brick properties is at thepresent time conducting as landlord one of thelargest plants, formerly the largest, on the HudsonRiver. In politics Mr. Eckerson is a conservati
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. the degree of Bachelor of Laws,with the Class of 1864. In tlie following year heengaged in the manufacture of brick in companywith his father, continuing long enough to becomefamiliar with its requirements and having purchasedand improved various brick properties is at thepresent time conducting as landlord one of thelargest plants, formerly the largest, on the HudsonRiver. In politics Mr. Eckerson is a conservativeDemocrat and during the past ten years has fullydemonstrated his ability to defend his extensivebusiness exterprise against a most determined i)oliti-cal or factional opposition. In 1865 he became astaff-officer of the Forty-seventh Regiment, NationalGuard of the State of New York, and for severalyears was associated in that capacity with William UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 149 C. Prall, Theodore H. Conger, Richard Aspinwalland R. Douglass. He took a hvely interest in thelate war with Spain and is credited with having beenthe first to suggest to President McKinley the idea. J. ESLER ECKERSON of placing obstructions in the narrow passage lead-ing into the harbor of Santiago de Cuba as a meansof rendering harmless Admiral Cerveras fleet, theHobson exploit following immediately thereafter. Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. Mem-bers of the family served with distinction in theRevolutionary War. Mr. Dusenberrys mothersfiimily were also of Dutch and Huguenot ancestry,and setded on Long Island two centuries ago. Hereceived his early education at Anthons GrammarSchool in New York City, and afterwards enteredthe School of Mines of Columbia, graduating in 1S84as Mining Engineer, .\fter graduation he was forsome time connected with tlie United States CoastSurvey and engaged in mining engineering in thewestern part of the United States and in 1887 he received an appoi
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