Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New YorkJ. Munsell, 1868 |
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Page 9 - FREMONT ticket, and was elected, and thence reflected by large and generally increasing majorities down to 1864, when he withdrew, having been nominated for Governor. He thus served five terms in Congress, each as the representative of the strongly Whig district composed of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties, which contains many able and worthy men who were in full accord with its by-gone politics, and to the almost unanimous acceptance of his constituents. Immediately on entering Congress, Mr....
Page 86 - I respectfully invite attention to the appended letters of the mayor of the city and the president of the Board of Trade, and of the president of the Brunswick Terminal Company.
Page 396 - 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.
Page 114 - 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, and took his seat accordingly in the House of Representatives, in 1843.
Page 113 - It was, however, never permitted to see the light, having been suppressed in the official report of the proceedings of the Convention. Still it had its effect. The fact that the resolution had been suppressed soon became known. The New York Evening Post, then edited by the late WILLIAM LEGGETT, and many other journals, exposed the unfair proceeding, took up the doctrine, and gave it a strength and popularity which resulted, in a few years, in the utter prostration of the system of monopolized banking...
Page 326 - From this he entered the New York Free Academy, now the College of the City of New York, in 1851.
Page 82 - Master and Examiner in Chancery until the Chancery Court was abolished by the adoption of the Constitution of 1846. In 1851, he was elected County Judge of Ontario county, and held that office for four years.
Page 396 - The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth wards of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings.
Page 332 - ... remained there a short time, and then went to Peekskill, where he hired out as a journeyman at his occupation. But New York city had too many attractions for him, and he soon returned to it, opening a market on Avenue B, and then in Broadway. He is now one of the prominent dealers in Fulton Market. Mr. REED early took an active interest in politics, and was a general favorite among the young Democracy of 1840 and 1844. The first public position ever filled by him, was that of Deputy Clerk of...
Page 338 - His father was a soldier in the War of 1812. and his grandfather, was a soldier, in the Revolution from the State of New York.