...library when he died in 1909. Hoe had been an important figure in the New York book and art world: he was one of the founders, and the first president, of the Grolier Club and a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He published a series of careful bibliographic...

...GRINNELL, Henry, in the city of NewYork, in June, 1874. He was born in New-Bedford, Mass., Feb. 13, 1799. He was one of the founders and the first president of the American Geographical Society. He fitted out at his own expense two exploring expeditions to the North...

...very much alive and is a marvel of breadth, mathematical sophistication, and physical understanding. He was one of the founders and the first president of the International Association of Mathematical Physics (whose membership spans the globe and which remains...

...with local affairs, having been called upon to serve in public positions of trust and responsibility. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Fanwood fire department. He was elected a member of the township committee, and was the incumbent as...

...with his. John Wesley Thompson Falkner no longer had a railroad to provide jobs for his kinsmen, but he was one of the founders and the first president of the First National Bank of Oxford. So now, as Phil Stone was at Yale working on his second LL.B., William...

...within weeks of his call to the bar of Manitoba he published an article in the Canada Law Journal. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Winnipeg Legal Club, an organization dedicated to the publication of essays on legal topics. (Provincial...

...efforts were of the greatest avail in establishing the Woman's Hospital upon a sure foundation, and he was one of the founders and the first president of the American Gynaecological Society. He was connected with many hospitals, either actively or as a consultant,...

...Stern, a native of Germany. The elder Stern took, in his days, a hearty interest in Jewish affairs. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Keneseth Israel Congregation. Of his oldest son's musical talents he was particularly proud, and he...

...1875, and has held membership in many other scientific societies, both in this country and abroad. He was one of the founders and the first president of the American Society of Naturalists, and in 1898 he received the honorary degree of" Doctor of Laws " from...

...Eastern Boundary dispute. He subsequently settled in New York and devoted much of his time to literature. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ethnological Society of America; and from 1843 to his death was president of the New York Historical...