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WILLIAM CARY, an American public official, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1853. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1869, and from Harvard in 1874. From 1895 to 1897 he was a member of the New York Assembly. During the Spanish-American War he served as lieutenant colonel of the 203d New York Infantry.
He was assistant secretary of war from 1901 to 1903. In 1906 he was one of the American delegates to the International Red Cross Conference, held in Geneva, to revise the treaty of 1864. He was a member of the war relief board of the National Red Cross, and during the World War was director of military relief for the Potomac Division of the American Red Cross. He wrote several reports on military conditions in Europe and contributed articles on military subjects to magazines.