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Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 – May 14, 1917) was an American lawyer and diplomat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hodges_Choate "May 18, 1917. NATIONS JOIN IN LAST TRIBUTE TO CHOATE; Funeral Attended by Spring-Rice, Delegated as Personal Representative of the King. FRANCE SENDS HOVELACQUE St. Bartholomew's Not Quite Filled Owing to Restrictions;-Buried at Stockbridge, Mass. Throng Remains Outside. Prominent Men in Delegations. Flowers at the Church. BURIAL AT STOCKBRIDGE. Stores and Schools Closed as a Final Tribute to Mr. Choate. CHOATE AS AN EXAMPLE. Merchants' Association's Statement Says Life Is Worthy of Emulation. Without eulogy and with only the Episcopal burial service, the fnneral of Joseph H. Choate was held at 9:45 o'clock yesterday morning at St. Bartholomew's Church, Madison Avenue ..." query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901EEDB123AE433A...

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Richard Norton: Thanks for the link to the other photo of Paderewski. We'll incorporate the more complete information found there into this description next time we update.

Guillaume Stengel May 19, 1917. THRONG AT STENGEL BIER.; City's Musical Colony at Services in Church of St. Mary the Virgin. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=950CE5DA123AE4...

Wilhelm Ludwig Stengel (1846–1917), pianist www.geni.com/people/Wilhelm-Ludwig-Stengel/60000000074715... He was the husband of the Polish coloratura soprano Marcella Sembrich (Prakseda Marcelina Kochańska) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcella_Sembrich S. also - books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA824&l... - books.google.com/books?id=dsfq_5dFeL0C&pg=PA4348&... (in German)

This image was published here: books.google.com/books?id=Gk80AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA48&am...

Taken in the rear of Church of St. Mary the Virgin at 142 w. 47th St. in Manhattan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._Mary_the_Virgin_%28Ma... google street view: www.google.com/maps/@40.758671,-73.983344,3a,75y,182.98h,...

The issue of Musical America cited by Richard Norton, above, identifies the people in the photo as follows: "Some of the Honorary Pallbearers at the Funeral of Guillaume Stengel Husband of Mme Sembrich. No 1 Ernest Schelling[?] No 2 Alfred Bagby No 3 Adamo Didur No 4 André De Coppet No 5 Adolfo Betti No 6 W.J. Henderson [?] No 7 Antonio Scotti No 8 Alexander Lambert No 9 Franz Kneisel No 10 Ignace Paderewski No 11 HE Krehbiel No 12 Richard Aldrich."