JOHN GRIBBEL.

John Gribbel, sole proprietor of the gas meter manufacturing plant of John J. Griffin & Co., was born in Hudson City, N. J., March 29, 1858. His education was received in the College of the City of New York and the Wesleyan University, the latter institution conferring the M. A. degree upon him. After the completion of his schooling he entered the employ of the Importers and Traders Bank, New York City, in 1876 and remained with that concern until 1877 when he accepted an advanced position with the Leather Manufacturers National Bank. He retained this connection until 1883 when he was appointed New York agent for Harris, Griffin & Co. John J. Griffin & Co. succeeded this firm in the manufacture of gas meters and Mr. Gribbel was admitted to partnership in 1890. Mr. Griffin was taken seriously ill the same year and Mr. Gribbel removed to Philadelphia to give his personal attention to the firm's interests, and upon the death of Mr. Griffin, he became sole owner of the extensive works. In addition to the business of John J. Griffin & Co., which has been largely extended under Mr. Gribbel's personal supervision, he is interested in a score of financial and commercial enterprises. He is a director and second vicepresident of the Curtis Publishing Company of Philadelphia, director and vicepresident of the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company of New York, president of the Royal Electrotype Company of Philadelphia, president of the Helena Gas and Electric Company of Helena, Arkansas, president of the Athens Gas Company of Athens, Georgia, director of the Girard National Bank and Real Estate Trust Company, of Philadelphia, president of the Fairmount Savings Trust Company, of Philadelphia, director and vice-president of the "Public Ledger," director of the United Gas and Electric Corporation of New York, director of the Lancaster Gas and Electric Company, of Lancaster, Pa., and president of the Tampa Gas Company, of Tampa, Florida.

Mr. Gribbel is of English ancestry and is a son of James and Anna (Simmons) Gribbel. On January 8, 1880, he was mar

turies. Mr. Gribbel has a handsome residence at Wyncote, Pa., in which is housed the almost priceless objects which he has spent years in collecting. He has a summer home at Camden, Me., where he spends a part of each year and being fond of outdoor life finds recreation between seasons in the wildest and most picturesque spots in the country. He is a member of the Union League, of Philadelphia, and the Lotus Club, of New York City. He is a Republican of a pronounced type but takes no part in politics beyond giving his moral and financial support to the party whose principles he ad

vocates.

DANIEL BAUGH.

Devoting every spare moment from an active business career for the advancement of Art and Science, Daniel Baugh has been rewarded by the progress made in the fields in which he has labored assiduously. Mr. Baugh was born in Chester County, Pa., October 22d, 1836, the son of John Pugh and Hannah (Krauser) Baugh. His ancestors on both sides were German and the families have been prominent in Chester County for nearly three centuries. He was educated in a private academy in the locality in which he was born and then attended Tremont Seminary, Norristown, Pa., for several terms but did not enter college as his father's business demanded his attention at this period. The family had been for generations engaged in the tanning business, but the introduction of improved. machinery made primitive methods unprofitable and his father turned his attention to crop fertilization by chemical. process. For the manufacture of this commodity, known as super-phosphates, the firm of Baugh and Sons, consisting of the father and the sons Edward P. and Daniel, was formed in 1855. The product became at once popular and one year later a special plant was erected at Downingtown, Pa. In 1860 the plant was moved to Philadelphia and the Delaware River Chemical Works established. The father died in 1881 and in 1887 the business was incorporated with Edwin P. Baugh as president. The latter died in 1888, and since that time Daniel Baugh has been the active head of Baugh & Sons and the subsidiary companies, which includes, in addition to the Delaware River Chemical Works, the Baugh Chemical Company, of Baltimore, Md., and the Chemical Works at Norfolk, Va. Under Mr. Baugh's direction the business has expanded wonderfully and the products have attained a world-wide reputation. Despite his business activity, Mr. Baugh has found time to devote to many objects for the betterment of mankind. He is a trustee of the Rush Hospital, was a member of the Board of Managers of the Howard Hospital, and

is a trustee of the Jefferson Medical College and Hospital. His work for this institution was of such a character that President William Potter referred to him as the most valuable man ever on the Board, and this is unquestionably so, for in addition to his interest in the institution's welfare he has helped it in a material way. When the faculty found the college building inadequate for the proper teaching of anatomy, Mr. Baugh purchased the property at Eleventh and Clinton streets and fitted it up with every modern scientific apparatus at a cost of nearly $200,000. This was turned over to the college September 26th, 1911, and at the dedicatory services it was named by special action of the trustees the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy of the Jefferson Medical College as a "Memorial to a man who is true, generous, sympathetic and a prince among men.'

Mr. Baugh is a member of the Permanent Relief Committee, was president of the Sanitarium Association for twelve years and has been president of the School of Design for Women for twenty-five years. ty-five years. His devotion to Art has been shown by his work as one of the organizers of the Art Club and his activity as its treasurer and as president for a period of ten years. He was also one of the organizers and first president of the Art Federation which had for its object the beautification of the city and the construction of a Boulevard to Fairmount Park. This has since been merged with the Parkway Association and a portion of its objects consummated. Mr. Baugh is ex-president of the Department of Archaeology and Palaeontology of the University of Pennsylvania and during his term of office a new building was erected in which is housed a large collection of Egyptian, Babylonian and Mediterranean objects. He also aided in the establishment of the Philadelphia Medical Journal. Mr. Baugh is a director of the Girard National Bank, the Delaware Insurance Company, the Philadelphia Bourse, the Philadelphia Museums and the Belt Line Railroad Company. His clubs are the Union League, Art, Penn, Racquet, Merion Cricket, Corinthian Yacht and Philadelphia Country.

STEPHEN GREENE.

Stephen Greene was born in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York, September 25th, 1831. He was three years old when his parents removed to Pennsylvania and three years later he was sent to the public schools which sys

STEPHEN GREENE.

tem had been organized in the State one year previously. From that period until 1845, he attended schools in Marietta, Columbia and Washington, in Lancaster County and during the vacation period was given private instruction. He taught a district school in Hellam Township, York County, for a term and deciding to become a printer, he secured employment in the office of the Pennsylvania Intelligencer, at Lancaster. He had become an expert printer when in May, 1848, he removed to Philadelphia and entered the

printing establishment of William S. Young, as a compositor, "subbing" at night on the Daily News, then published on Third street below Chestnut. In the Fall of the same year he returned to Columbia, Pa., to take charge of the mechanical department of the Columbia Spy. and in 1853 became one of its editors and proprietors, acquiring sole ownership in 1855. He sold the plant in 1856, and two years later returned to Philadelphia and organized the firm of Ringwalt & Brown. He retired from this firm in 1860 and then became superintendent of the printing house of the late Henry G. Leisenring. He introduced in Philadelphia the first presses for printing consecutively numbered railroad and other tickets, and in 1871 became a member of the firm of Helfenstein, Lewis and Greene, eventually becoming sole proprietor of the extensive business, which he incorporated in 1900 as the Stephen Greene Company, becoming the president and retaining the position until the time of his death. The large plant at 16th and Arch streets was erected in 1902 and the business largely extended under Mr. Greene's careful management. In 1800 he became interested in the development of Wenonah, N. J., instituting the Wenonah Military Academy there, and acquiring much real estate in that locality. He was a member of the Franklin Institute for many years and was for a long time a member of its Board of Managers. He was for twenty-five years one of the trustees of Drew Theological Seminary and long active in the affairs of Philadelphia School of Design, being at one time its president. He was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Union League, Manufacturers' Club and the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Greene married in 1853, Miss Martha Mifflin Houston, of Columbia, Pa.

Howard Barclay French, who has, for more than forty-five years, taken a leading part in promoting the civic, commercial and political advancement of Philadelphia, was born in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, September 3d, 1848, the son of Samuel Harrison and Angelina (Dunseth) French. On the paternal side he is descended from Thomas French, a member of the Society of Friends, who, in 1680, in order to escape religious persecution, came from Northamptonshire, England, and settled near Burlington, N. J.

Mr. French was educated in Friends' schools, and graduated from the College of Pharmacy. He then entered the employ of his father's firm, French, Richards & Company, wholesale druggists and paint manufacturers, established in 1844. In January, 1883, the manufacturing and drug departments of the concern were separated, and Howard B. French with his brother William A., joined with their father, Samuel H. French, and John L. Longstreth in forming the firm of Samuel

H. French & Company, which succeeded the manufacturing branch of the old firm. William A. French died in 1886, and Samuel H. French in 1895. Upon the retirement of John L. Longstreth in 1901, Mr. French became sole proprietor of the business, under the name of Samuel H. French & Company.

Mr. French is a member of the Philadelphia Paint Manufacturers' Club, and was president of the National Paint, Oil and Varnish Association. He is treasurer of the Central Committee of the Paint and Varnish Manufacturers' Associations of the United States, and treasurer and director of the Paint Trade Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He was president of the Equitable Trust Company from 1902 until 1912. He is a director of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he is first vice-president. In 1896 he was appointed by the Governor a delegate to the Convention at Tampa, Florida, to devise coast defenses for the Gulf and South Atlantic Harbors; also a member of the Executive Committee of the Tennessee Centennial Commission of Philadelphia. He has served as secretary of the Union Committee on Transportation, Manufacturing and Commercial Interests of Philadelphia; as a member of the Advisory Board of the Commercial Museums, and is now a member of its Board of Trustees. He was a director of the Manufacturers' Club, of the Franklin Institute and served on the sub-committee in the selection of a site for the new United States Mint. He was a member of different committees prominent in the Founders' Week Celebration, October, 1908, of the Committee on Transportation and Railroad Terminals co-operating with the Mayor in an effort to provide facilities for the enlargement of trade, of the committee of the organizing Commission for the Twelfth Congress of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, and a delegate to the Fifth Annual Convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, New London, Conn., 1912, at which he also represented the Commercial Museum and Chamber of Commerce. He was chairman of the Finance Committee of the Historical Pa