Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-27

Pennsylvania, director Of the PhIladel-
phia and Reading Railway and other
companies.
JUNE 2-ColoneI Caldwell X. Biddle. COM
mander Of the Sd Regiment, n. g. p,
and member OF the distinguished Biddle
family.
JUNE i7-Mrs. Anna J. Nicholson. wife
OF William r. Nicholson, president OF
the Land Title and Trust Company.
JUNE I9-The Rev. Charles W. Duane.
a leading Episcopal clergyman Nf Phila-
delphia.
JUNE 2i-T.ieutenant Colonel John Bid
die Porter, Judge Advocate General In
the United states Army.
JULY 4-James T. Mitchell, former Jus
tice of the state Supreme Court and one
of the first members OF the Union
July 9--Stephen ]. Ferris artist and por-
trait painter.
JULY i5-Dr. Lewis II. Adler, retired
physician and surgeon.
JULY is-Me1ical Director Howard Wells,
u. S s., noted military hospital or
sanizer.
JULY ts-Thc Rev. snyder B. Shines. one
OF the oldest and most widely known
Protestant Episcopal clergymen in the
city.
JULY 22-Dr. William c. Jacobs. Super
intendent Of Public Schools in Philadel-
phia and prominent educator.
July 24-Dr. Edward Bedloe. veteran
of the United states consular service
and founder of the Glover Club
JULY 2s-George Dearborn MoCreary,
former Congressman and City Treas
urer, politician, fnancier and philan-
throplst.
July 2e--william 7. Tilden. merchant,
ex-presdent of Union League and mem
ber Of Board OF Education
AUGUST 10-Chares Heber Clark au-
thor. economist and tariff expert
AUGUST 23-August B. Loeb, president
OF the Tradesmens National Bank. d.
rector of the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit Company and several other organ.
lzations
AUGUST so-John II. Fow, lawyer and
former state Representative.
SEPTEMBER 2.-Edward Bromley, lac,
manufacturer.
SEPTEMBER O. General Benjamin
Franklin Fisher. chief signal officer o.
L. S. A. In Civil War, lawyer and fnan
Cier.
SEPTEMBER 21-Radulph Ellis, presi.
dent OF the Fidelity Trust Company, {
Civil War captain and director Of thu
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
SEPTEM BIER 25-Colonel Joseph s. Brin
ton. soldier. lawyer and railroad official
| SEPTEMBER 26-C. Stanley Mackey
| leader of the Philadelphia Band anC
widely known musician.
| SEPTEMBER 2S--Captain John ]. Knapp
commandant of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard
| OCTOBER 3--Justice John p. Elkin
of the State Supreme Court. and ex
| Attorney General.
| October 3.-Dr. De Bonneville Klein
| Ludwig. former headmaster Of Ritten
| house Academy.
! OCTOBER 5.-The Rev. DR.. Charles w
| Buckley, one of the oldest and bes
/ Lf.,p tri in city
| OCTOBER 1l.-Edwin Augustus Landell
| president of the Kensington Natona
| Bank, and one of the original member!
| of the Union League.
| OCTOBER l2.-Austn Montgomery Pur
! YES, manufacturer and literary and ar
patron.
OCTOBER IA. Colonel Henry Taylo
Dechert. lawyer, civic worker and mill
| tary man.
! OCTOBER 17.--John Edmands. librarian
| emeritus Of the Mercantile Library anC
dean of American book experts.
OCTOBER Il. Thomas b. EIaEstoz
founder OF tie Keystone Watch Cas'
| Company.
| NOVEMBER 6.--Peter 4. Il. WideneT
capitalist traction magnate, art con
noisseur and Philadelphia's wealthies
citizen.
! NOVEMBER 7.-William Launer, secre
| taIey of the Bottle Blowers Association
of the United States and Canada.
| NOVEMBER 15.--Robert Coleman Dray
ton, financial vice president of the Penn
| Mutual Life Insurance Company.
! NOVEMBER 23.-Edward X. Rowland
carriage manufacturer, society man an'
sporting enthusiast.
| NOVEMBER CIV. Atleo Burpee, noted
| horticultural and head of seed firm
bearing his name.
| NOVEMBER 27.-Charles Edward Stat
ford. inventor and noted chemist.
| NOVEMBER 30--Willam Brooke Rawle
attorney and author of war stories.
! DECEMBER 3-Brigader General Hor
ace Neide, veteran of Civil War.
| DECEMBER Charles Field Haseltine
! artist and art dealer and proprietor o
| the Haseltine Art Galleries.
| DECEMBER flames Mapes Dodge
widely known engineer and eX-chairmal
of the Public Service Committee of on
! Hundred
president of the Manufacturers Ma
tionali Bank.
DECEMBER 10--The Rev. DR., George "
mclaughlin one of the Oldest and mos
widely known Methodist ministers Il
! the city.
! DECEMBER t5--Charles l. Cragn, presi
dent of the Dobblns Soap Company an
director of the Fourth Street Nationa
| Bank.
| DECEMBER l6--Edme II. g. Fraley, eN
business partner OF Mayor Blankenbure
| prominent in Baptist church work.