HERRICK

and F. W. Coolidge, of Detroit, all business men of acknowledged ability and enterprise. On the death of Mr. Payn, several years later, the surviving partners acquired the business, and, on 1 Jan., 1903, the firm became that of Lussky, White and Coolidge. It is now one of the leading concerns in its department in the West. In politics Mr. White is a Republican, and, while taking an interest in politics, has never held public office, preferring to devote his time and energies to his business affairs. He takes much interest in athletic sports of all kinds, and is a member of the Chicago Athletic Club. He is also enrolled with the Calumet, Golf, and Hamilton Clubs, of Chicago. Mr. White married 17 Oct., 1887, Alice Luther, of Belding, Mich., by whom he had one son, Gale Carleton Luther. On 21 April, 1896, he married Louise A. White, of Chicago, Ill.

Ohio.

MOORE

HORTON, Dexter, banker, b. in Catherine, Schuyler County, N. Y., 15 Nov. 1825; d. in Seattle, Wash., 28 July, 1904, son of Darius and Hannah (Olmstead) Horton. Until his fifteenth year he resided on the farm in his native county, attending the district schools, and then removed to De Kalb County, Ill., where his father had taken up a "claim" of government land. In 1852 he crossed the plains with a train of pioneers, who pushed on to the Pacific Coast. He settled first in Oregon, but in the spring of 1853 removed to Seattle, Wash., thus gaining the distinction of being one of that city's earliest citizens. The climate was invigorating, other settlers came in rapidly, and Mr. Horton met with success from the start. ter his arrival in Seattle he started a general mer

Soon af

Dexter Horton

HERRICK, Myron T., U. S. ambassador to France (1912—), b. at Huntington, Ohio, 9 Oct., 1854, son of Timothy R. and Mary L. Herrick. Both his paternal and maternal great-grandfathers served in the Revolution, and his grandfather, Timothy Herrick, fought with distinction in the War of 1812, receiving for his services a land-claim in Lorain County, Myron T. Merrick was educated at Oberlin College and the Ohio Wesleyan University. Subsequently he taught school for a time and traveled extensively in the West, writing descriptive articles for Eastern news-chandise store, papers. He settled at Cleveland, Ohio, in which proved a highly successful enterprise. 1875, and read law in the office of J. F. and By 1870 it had developed into one of the Z. E. Herrick. Three years later he was ad- most important mercantile houses in the mitted to the bar and began the practice of State of Washington. About that time Mr. law in Cleveland. In 1886 he organized the Horton decided to engage in the banking busEuclid Avenue National Bank, and for a time iness and, selling out his store, established was one of its directors. He resigned to be- the Dexter Horton and Company Bank. This come secretary and treasurer of the Society was the first bank established in the State of for Savings, of which he was elected president Washington and since the death of its founder in 1894. In addition to his banking interests has become the Dexter Horton National Bank. he has been concerned in the erection of some Mr. Horton's most salient characteristics were of the largest business buildings in Cleveland, his forcefulness of character and his unconamong them the Cleveland Arcade, Cuyahoga querable spirit. His name a synonym and Mohawk buildings. For many years he throughout his part of the country for rehas been a member of the Republican Na- liability and steadfast integrity. He was gentional Committee and of its advisory commit-ial and helpful, faithful to his friends, but tee. He was a delegate to the Republican Na-resented any attempt at unfairness or doubletional Conventions of 1888 and 1892, and a dealing; altogether a fitting type of the men delegate-at-large in 1896 and 1900. During who conquered the great Northwest territory. the administration of William McKinley as governor of Ohio, he served on the governor's staff, with the rank of colonel. In 1892 he was a presidential elector-at-large for the State of Ohio, and he was a delegate to the sound-money convention at Indianapolis. He was elected governor of Ohio in 1903 by the largest majority ever given to a guberna

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In 1864 Mr. Horton married Hannah Shondy, daughter of Israel Shondy. She died 30 Dec., 1871. On 30 Sept., 1873, he married Caroline E. Parsons (d. 24 March, 1878); and on 14 Sept., 1882, he married Arabella C. Agard, daughter of Eaton Agard. He was the father of two children: Nebbie Horton Jones and Caroline E. Horton.

torial candidate in that State. He was apLOORE, George Gordon, financier, b. in pointed U. S, ambassador to France in 1912. Lambton County, Ont., Canada, 2 Oct., 1876. Mr. Herrick was president of the American He passed his early years in Canada, obtainBankers' Association in 1901. He is chairman of the board of directors of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, and is an officer or director in a number of other railroad and financial enterprises. He is also trustee and treasurer of the McKinley National Memorial Association. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Ohio Wesleyan University in 1899. He was married 30 July, 1880, to Caroline M., daughter of M. B. Parmely, of Ashland, Ohio, and has one son.

ing his education in the public and high schools of his county, and then studied law in Port Huron, with O'Brien J. Atkinson, one of the foremost corporation lawyers in the middle western states. Immediately upon his admission to the bar in 1897, he formed a partnership with Mr. Atkinson, which continued until the latter's death, the firm having an extensive clientele among the large corporations. Equipped with the experience, both legal and practical, obtained in this way Mr. Moore en

the Kansas
City Bar Asso-
ciation, has
membership in

• Lathro

the Missouri State Bar Association, and the
American Bar Association. In politics he is
a Republican. At Kansas City 16 Jan., 1879,
Mr. Lathrop married Eva Grant, a native of
Missouri. They have had four daughters and
one son, Frances E., Jessie, John H., Louise,
and Lothrop.

gaged in business on his account in 1901 and | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Sys-
became heavily interested in the interurban tem, with headquarters in the Railway Ex-
railway developments of Michigan, and within change Building, Chicago. He has taken much
a few years, under the name of the Michigan interest in the affairs of his alma mater, the
United Railways, built and acquired one of University of Missouri, and was at one time
the most extensive street railway operations in president of its board of curators. For eight-
the country. He extended his activities along een years he was a member of the Kansas City
these lines and financed electric railway and School Board, and its vice-president several
other public utility corporations in the states years. Mr. Lathrop is a member of the Uni-
of Georgia, Nebraska, Vermont, and other versity Club of Chicago, the Chicago Club, the
states, and later extended his business activi- Kansas City
ties in many other directions. Since 1908, he Club, the Uni-
has spent much of his time in England, and versity Club
some years before the War formed a close of Kansas
friendship with Sir John French, now Vis- City, has
count French, so close that they made their membership in
home together in London and now have a the Sons of
house together at 94 Lancaster Gate, London. the American
On the outbreak of the War, Mr. Moore joined Revolution,
Lord French at his headquarters in France and and belongs to
in the stress of the difficulties of the early the Wisconsin
campaign in France Lord French, on account Society of Chi-
of his knowledge of Mr. Moore's remarkable cago. He was
one time
record as a practical director of large under- at
of
takings, appointed him to the work of dealing president
with certain novel, grave, and difficult
problems involving scientific knowledge and
the organization of scientific work and labor."
The assistance rendered by Mr. Moore in this
connection was publicly stated by the great
commander as invaluable" and of such a
character as could have been rendered by no
other man then available to him. Mr. Moore
has been a strong advocate of the Allied cause
from the beginning of the War, and has
strongly urged preparedness upon his own
countrymen, not only against alien enemies,
but also against disloyalty and sedition in our
midst. Aside from his many and great activi-
ties, Mr. Moore is a keen sportsman and an
enthusiastic exponent of out-of-door life. He
owns an extensive estate at St. Clair, Mich, in
connection with which he maintains a well-
equipped stock farm. Here was foaled and
bred the famous trotting stallion, Justice
Brooke," which won the world's championship
for two-year-olds in 1911. Mr. Moore is also
a discriminating dog-fancier, and breeds sev-
eral varieties of blooded dogs, notably wolf
hounds and Irish terriers. He owns a large
game preserve in North Carolina, which is well
stocked with wild boar, deer, elk, and buffalo.
LATHROP, Gardiner, lawyer, b. at Wau-
kesha, Wis., 16 Feb., 1850. He spent the first
nine years of his life in Wisconsin, and grew
to manhood at Columbia, Mo., and there he
lost his father when but sixteen years of age
He was graduated A B. at the University of
Missouri in 1867, and took his master's de-
gree in 1870.
In 1869, just fifty years after
his father's graduation, he received the degree
of AB. from Yale University, and also like
his father was the salutatorian of his class.
The same university gave him his master of
arts degree in 1872, and in 1873 he graduated
LL B. from the Harvard Law School. In 1907
the University of Missouri and Washington
University at St. Louis conferred upon Gardi-
ner Lathrop the honorary degree of LL D. Ad-
mitted to the bar in 1873, Mr. Lathrop en-
gaged in practice at Kansas City, Mo., and
from 1885 was senior member of the firm of
Lathrop, Morrow, Fox and Moore. In 1905
he was appointed general solicitor for the

PARIS, John Waldorf, real estate operator, b in Rensselaer, Ind, 9 March, 1860, son of Berry and Sarah (Dwiggins) Paris, and descendant of Samuel Paris, who came from England and settled on Long Island in 1655. He was educated in the public and high schools of Rensselaer, and completed his studies at Purdue University, where he attended one year. Ambitious to acquire a thorough education, he taught school while at college and saved sufficient of his earnings to pay the expenses of tuition. After leaving college he traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada, and the knowledge gained on this journey equipped him for a successful business career. His first employment was as a clerk in the Commercial Bank of Oxford. He was quick to grasp all the details of his duties and won rapid promotion. In 1883 he became cashier of the Citizens' National Bank of Attica, Ind. He removed to Indianapolis, Ind, in 1889, and there engaged in the investment banking business in association with Hon. J. Shannon Nave, under the firm name of Paris and Nave. This firm attained an eminent position in Western banking circles. In 1896 his attention was attracted by the enormous fortunes made in New York real estate, and he decided to devote his energies to the development of metropolitan property. His earliest operations were in Brooklyn, but, when the building of the Pennsylvania tunnels, the Belmont tunnels, and the Queensborough Bridge were assured, he turned his attention toward Long Island real estate and the prospects it held forth. His foresight was rewarded in the succeeding years, and the initiative displayed aroused the