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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Proctor_Gould_Harding William Proctor Gould Harding (May 5, 1864 – April 7, 1930) was an American banker. He was born in Boligee, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1881. He was the second Chairman of the Federal Reserve, serving from 1916 to 1922. After working in Cuba to reorganize the financial System, he was appointed president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 1923 and served until his death in 1930. His death was due to heart trouble after a long illness. He died at his Boston home. His obituary was printed in the New York Times, April 8, 1930. [1] He also served as the managing director of the War Finance Corporation.

We appreciate the identification of William P. G. Harding and his link to the Federal Reserve Board. We will add some of the information to the description when we update. The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog shows other photos of him from the Harris & Ewing collection, for example: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2008003278/

The photographer, Pach Bros. (not Pack), also has a Wikipedia article, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pach_Brothers.

Francis Henry Wadsworth, Captain of the RMS Caledonia, Anchor Line, Glasgow, was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society in 1913: articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1913MNRAS..73..485./000... He had been third mate on the SS Utopia at the time of its sinking disaster in 1891, at Gibraltar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Utopia

Pach Brothers photographers: broadway.cas.sc.edu/index.php?action=showPhotographer&amp... Caledonia was sunk by a German U-Boat on December 4, 1916, but Wadsworth was no longer her captain at that time. www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?135648

pennylrichardsca and artolog: thanks for the additional information. We will update the record.

This is David Hummell Greer, Episcopal Bishop of New York. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hummell_Greer New York Public Library also has a photo of him: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1247777

j3net: Thank you for the additional information on Bishop Greer. We will expand the description when we update the record.

The same choir habit this bishop wears was used by the Catholic Bishops who received Pope John Paul II on his visit to Mexico in 1979. These are called penguin suits.