Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living... |
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Page 221 - Select School, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1862.
Page 33 - He is a director on geology arid biology; since 1890 has been director of the Brooklyn Art association; in 1892-99 he was a member of the Brooklyn board of education; in 1895-1904 was director of the Brooklyn public library; and in 1901-05 was president of the Antioch college of Ohio. He is the editor of year-books, the Annual Prospectus, and the Bulletin of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; has been vice-president...
Page 588 - June, 1882, when he was graduated to the College of the City of New York, from which he was graduated with the degree of bachelor of...
Page 231 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Association.
Page 127 - College, and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the degree of MD in 1843.
Page 302 - He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native...
Page 478 - Brush obtained his early education in the public schools and graduated from the high school of Cleveland, Ohio.
Page 153 - He was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-second Congress, receiving 26,589 votes, to 20,281 for Henry E.
Page 142 - July 17. 1S23; educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating In 1S42.
Page 368 - Early in life he determined to follow the law as a profession, and after completing his academical course, he entered the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in the year 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.