The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-16
Martini sRossi
ITALIAN
Yarmouth
Has educated the popular
taste to the full apprecia-
ton of the benefits of
Vermouth drinking.
IT'S THE BRAND YOU KNOW

of 225 In 1895 wallenmeier was one OF the
original Mckinley men, and In that spring
helped to beat Platt's plan In Erie county
OF sending Morton delegates to the national
convention. Wallenmeier went rs an alter.
nate delegate TO that convention. In lssS
Tonawanda. and still holds that office. he
was married in November, 1883, to Miss
Hattie May Koch.
JULIUS II. MAYER.
julius H. Mayer is 80 years old. and q
New Yorker He was graduated from
old Grammar School 8s, and from the
College of the City of New York in 1884.
Then, after course in the Columbia Law
School, he was admitted to the bar III 1850
He was counsel for the Excise Board In
1894 1895 and 1896, and held the same post
for the Building Department in 1897 ana
mittee Of the Republican county com
mittee when Low ran for Mayor in 1901 :
and was appointed Justice of the Court
Of Special Sessions early in 1902, TO serve
out the rest of the term in the place lett
vacant when Justice Jerome became District
Attorney. Justice MAYER was later reap
pointed to serve full term of ten years
but resigned the post early last winter to
resume law practice.
HENRY A. VAN ALsTYNE.
Henry A. Van Alstyne, was born in
1859 in Columbia county, and is graduate
Union tOIIcGp. lie DeCdtIe al dSSiStd'lt
in the office of the State Engineer in 1894,
and in 1897 left to become engineer for the
Furnaceville Iron Company, which con-
Germ held contracts for canal improve
ment work in western counties; After
ward he was with the Union Bridge Com
pany Of Athens, Pa. but in 1899 he again
entered the State service and was promoted
until in 1901 he became division engineer
for the eastern division Of the canals. Gov.
Odell, few months ago appointed him
State Engineer and Surveyor TO complete
Mr.. Bonds unexpired term.
EDGAR NJ. CULLEN.
Judge Edgar NJ. Cullen was born in Brook
Ign in 1913. His father is DR.: Henry n.
cullen, who was one Of the best known
ply sicians in that city. Judge Cullen was
graduated from Columbia University in
1850 and, having a bent for engineeri ing.
entered the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute;
At the beginning OF the civil war he joined
the Union Army and was commissioned a
Second Lieutenant in the First United
States Infantry. With his regiment Judge
Cullen. took part in the engagements at
Corinth and ] harrington. He also served
under Gen. Grant at the siege Of VickS-
burg. He soon attained the rank Of Colonel
and led the Sixty-ninth New York Volun-
teers in the campaign that led up TO the fall
Of Richmond In this campaign he received
a wound that made it necessary for him
to resign his commission and return home.
year he entered the law office Of his uncle.
Alexander McCue, and was admitted to the
bar in 1857 Thereafter his rise as lawyer
was rapid and he soon ranked among the
leaders of the Brooklyn bar.
Mr.. Cullen was then an active Demo-
crat and in 1875 was made a member Of
Gov. Tilden's staff. When the second term
of Ju stice Gilbert Of the Second Judicial
district Of the Supreme Court expired In
1880, Mr.. Cullen was elected as his successor
In December, 1899, Gov. Roosevelt desig-
mated Judge Cullen for the Court of Appeals
and on June %, 1900 he first appeared on
the bench Of that court Judge Cullen is a
bachelor.
WILLIAM y. WERNER.
William +. Werner was born in Buffalo
on April is, 1855. When he was "a years old
his parents died and he was left without
resources and was compelled to leave school
70 earn a living. He toiled as chore boy
on farm in Cheektowaga and got what
education he could in the district schools.
His ambition prompted him to go to Buffalo,
where he went to work in factory and at
tended a night school, where he took a
course in bookkeeping and commercial
law.
From the factory he went TO work as a
bookkeeper, and in 1877 had saved enough
to go to Rochester and give more time to
the study of law in the offices Of W. II. Bow
man and d. C. Feely. In 1879 he was ap-
pointed clerk of the Municipal Court ana a
year later he was admitted to the bar
He then resigned his court clerkship.
formed partnership with Henry j.. Hert-
eel and won a reputation as jury lawyer.
As a citizen he became prominent in the
affairs of the Republican party and got the
nomination for County Judge.
He was elected and three years later, in
1887 was returned to the bench by 81 900
out Of %, 600 votes cast. In 1889 he was
unanimously chosen County Judge and
his election to the Supreme Court bench
took place in 1894, after the death OF Judge
Macomber. In the primary fights for the
nomination he carried every one OF the
thirty-nine towns and wards in Monroe
county He took his seat on the Supreme
Court bench on Jan. ], 1895.
Judge Werner was assigned to ait in this
county in 1897, 1893 and 1899 frequently,
and these assignments would probably
have been repeated had it not been for the
fact that he was selected in 1889 to sit as
an additional Judge of the Court of Appeals.
In 1902 he was nominated by the Re-
publicans for Associate Judge Of the Court
OF Appeals, but was one Of the two Repub-
licans on the State ticket who met defeat.
His successful opponent was Judge John
Clinton Gray. Since then Judge Werner
has sat in the Court of Appeals by assign