Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New YorkJ. Munsell, 1873 |
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ability Academy acted active Albany Albany county appointed attention became Board of Supervisors born Brooklyn Buffalo campaign canal candidate canvass capacity Capitol career Cayuga county Chairman chosen Clerk College Columbia county command commenced Commissioners Committee common school education constituents contest Convention CORNELL defeated delegate Democrat Dutchess county duties early earnest elected engaged entered Erie Erie county fact farm father friends gentleman GEORGE graduated held Herkimer county honor Insurance interests JAMES JOHN labors last fall legislative Legislature Liberal Livingston county majority married member of Assembly ment mittee native never nominated Oneida Oneida county Ontario county opponent organization Otsego county parents political popular position possesses practical President profession prominent Railroad re-elected received regiment represented Republican party Saratoga county Senatorial district served session sketch speaker success Tammany term ticket tion town vote ward Washington county Westchester county Whig WILLIAM York city young
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86 ページ - ... counsel to the corporation of his native city, and, consequently, became familiar with the nature and operation of municipal corporations generally. In 1842, he was elected mayor of Brooklyn. During his administration, he introduced a system of retrenchment, which actually kept the expenditures of that city within its income. He commenced this retrenchment by the reduction of his own salary. Before the expiration of his term of office as mayor, he was elected member of the twenty-eighth congress,...
7 ページ - Nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old hackneyed roll-call, chronologically arrayed, of inevitable facts in a man's life. One is so certain of the man's having been born, and also of his having died, that it is dismal to lie under the necessity of reading it.
321 ページ - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
57 ページ - In 1888 he was elected a member of the Common Council of the city of Boston on the Republican ticket, and in 1889 was reelected.
13 ページ - Dix,8 he directed that officer to proceed immediately with his vessel to New York. Breshwood instantly replied : — "Your letter, with one of the 19th of January from the Honorable Secretary of the Treasury, I have duly received, and, in reply, refuse to obey the order.
97 ページ - ... ultra federal. At the final organization under the new Constitution he was placed at the head of the Treasury Department. To the surprise and joy of all concerned he raised the credit of the nation rapidly from the lowest depths of depreciation to a lofty eminence of credit. At the end of six years he resigned and resumed the practice of law in the city of New York. When the provisional army was raised in 1798 in anticipation of a war with France, he was placed next in command to Washington and...
349 ページ - The Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth wards of the city of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Lots, and New Utrecht, of the county of Kings.
359 ページ - On Wednesday, the 23d of April, the corner-stone of the State House was laid by Hon. Philip S. Van Rensselaer, in presence of the Chancellor, Judges of the Supreme Court, members of the corporation, State House Commissioners and other citizens. The site on which this edifice is to be erected is at the head of State street, on tlie west side of the public square.
349 ページ - The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth wards of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings.
303 ページ - Rhode Island; was Commander of the Department of Rhode Island, Grand Army of the Republic, 1877; was Representative from the city of Providence to the General Assembly...