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JOHN BRISBEN WALKER, Ph. D., LL.D., editor and publisher, born on the
Monongahela river. Pa., Sept. lo, 1847^ springs from an old American family. His
grandfather. Major John Walker, was the first commissioner for the improvement of
Western rivers, and established the first ship yards west of the Alleghanies. Gen. S. G.
Krepps, his mother's father, was a conspicuous figure in the Pennsylvania Senate
between 1817 and 1827. From Georgetown College in 1865, Mr. Walker went to West
Point. He resigned in 1868 to accompany J. Ross Browne, the United States Minister,
to China, where he entered the military service of the Empire. In 1870, he returned to
his home and engaged in manufacturing in West Virginia, his popularity there resulting
in 1872 in a nomination by the Republicans for Congress. He was not, however, elected.
The panic of 1873 reduced Mr. Walker to poverty and he began life anew as a special
writer for The Cincinnati Commercial. He was shortly afterward made managing-
editor of The Pittsburgh Telegraph, and in 1876, managing editor of Tlie Washington.
Daily Chronicle. In 1879, he removed to Colorado and engaged in alfalfa farming.
He was the first to introduce alfalfa farming on a considerable scale into Colorado,
and, during the following ten years not only developed this interest but redeemed from
overflow a large tract of bottom lands on the Platte river within the city limits. The
Berkeley Farm became the largest plantation of this perfumed giant clover in the
State. These enterprises brought him a second fortune, which was due to his own
efforts. In 1889, he came to New York, purchased The Cosmopolitan Magazine, then
an insolvent property, having a circulation of 16,000 copies, infused great life into the
magazine, and brought its circulation up to nearly 400,000 copies a month. In 1871,
he married Emily Strother, daughter of Gen. David Hunter Strother, of Virginia,
famous under the nom de plume of "Porte Crayon," and their children are John
Brisben, jr., David Strother, James Randolph, Justin, Harold, Wilfred, Ethel and
Gerald. Mr. Walker is a member of the Century and Aldine clubs of New York, and
the University club of Chicago.

ANTHONY WALLACH, manufacturer born in Freystadt, Hungary, May 13,
1834, is one of the men of foreign birth who have made a conspicuous success of life
in New York city. He received a thorough education at a private school, and learned
from, his father the trade of manufacturing jeweler. At the age of nineteen, he became
associated with his brother, who had preceded him to this country by five years, in the
manufacture of gold chains. Commencing in a small way and pushing the sale of their
goods with the greatest skill and energy, they gradually enlarged their business until
they became one of the largest firms in that specialty in the country, employing from
two hundred to three hundred hands. They established a reputation of their own for
their class of goods, by adopting a uniform price for the various patterns and weights
and being careful of the quality of all their productions. During his thirty years' expe¬
rience, Mr. Wallach enjoyed uninterrupted success. He was known throughout the
entire business community as a man of the highest probity. He passed through more
than one great financial crisis, but his paper was never once dishonored, because he met
all his financial obligations promptly.