Percival Kuhne seems to have had globe straddling business and ambition. He was a full partner at Knauth, Nachod & Kuhn and held a seat at the NYSE throughout the entire 1898 tax period.
In The Stock Exchange in Caricature, John James is depicted as painter while not trading stocks. James held a seat at the NYSE through 1901 but was out by 1902. He was based throughout at the R. J. Kimball firm.
The caricature of Mr. Hatch implies that he was pursued by police while stealing a chicken? The real story might be lost to history. E. Sanford Hatch began the 1898 tax period at Dominick & Dickerman and then moved shop to create a named partnership: Hurlbutt, Hatch & Company. Hatch held a seat at the NSYE throughout the tax period.
I think the artist who drew Edward Hough in the saddle might want to sue Ralph Lauren for infringing on his copyright. Whatever the case, Hough was the seated partner at Hough & Rowland and first gained his seat in 1901, making enough of a name for himself to make it into The Stock Exchange in Caricature, 1904, Vol. 2.
G. Lee Stout Jr. started the 1898 tax period at the firm of Haven & Stout and concluded the tax period in 1902 with Schuyler, Chadwick & Stout. I'm still looking for a Schuyler, Chadwick & Stout cancel, on or off memo.
Mr. Currie must have been a baseball player or fan, as his impressionistic rendition in charcoal seems to indicate. Currie began his membership at the NYSE during the 1898 tax period and worked through 1902, and perhaps beyond, with Charles Harned. You can find the work above in The Stock Exchange in Caricature, 1904, Vol. 2.
Harned used a straight-line cancel and a large CDS.
Edward W. Jewett, above, was a seated member of the NYSE and with Halsted & Hodges from 1898-1902 and perhaps beyond. The partners Richard H. Halsted and Amory G. Hodges also held seats during that time and actively traded for the firm.
Sporting chap Samuel H. Watts began his career on Wall Street at Fellowes Davis & Co., but quickly changed firms and joined up with Halsted & Hollister by 1901. The moose and Mr. Watts appeared in The Stock Exchange in Caricature, Vol. 2, 1904.
N. Townsend Thayer, the gilded-age fat cat depicted above in The Stock Exchange in Caricature, 1904 Vol 2, has been featured on this site previously due to his assocation with southwestern railroads. For today what is important is Mr. Thayer's partnership at Faris & Thayer where he was based and held a membership on the NYSE throughout the tax period. To remind, Mr. Thayer held a large share of the stock in the "Memphis Route" and was a close associate of the Gould Brothers, linking him to the use of printed precancels on the documentary battleship stamps.
Samuel Allerton was CBOT member 222. He was one of the richest men in Chicago, at one point only behind Marshall Field and J. Ogden Armour. Much of Allerton's fortune was made in livestock. He was the Republican candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1892.
Wiley B. Waters, CBOT Member #1680, traded with M'Crea & Waters until 1899, and then reorganized with someone named Patterson in that year. However, he was reported by The Grain Dealers Journal of April 10, 1900 to have declared bankruptcy. Following the bankruptcy, neither Waters nor Patterson were ever included in the CBOT membership lists after its organization in 1899.