comdcirr pooan ::)AMUEL G. King. i MEN OF AMERICA. A BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF THE City Govi-rxmiiXT of Piiii.adei.I'Iiia IN THE BI-CENTENNIAL YEAR. IN WHICH ARE EMBRACED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. lUDGES OF THE COURTS. MF,MBERS OF THE COUNCILS AM) OF THE PUBLIC TRUSTS. THERE IS NO LIFE OF A MAN, FAITHFULLY RECORDED, BUT IS A HEROIC POEM OF ITS SORT, RHYMED OR UNRH YMED.-Gir/).//. [ JUL 14 :- V s.,.J.¥ STJ ■■ PHIL.ADELPHIA: X^ .. -•- ^ THE .\MERIC.\N B10GR.\niICAL FUBLISHING COMP.ANY. 1883 Entered accordinc lo Act at Congreu, in the year 1882, bjr FOSTER & HART, In ihe Office uf the Librarian of Congress, at Waibiogton, D. C. Preface. 71 , , . -ISTORV," says Carlylc. " i;* the essence of innumerable bioi'- raphies." A later writer says: "Under whatever name, tlie books that aim at revealini^ individual character will always number most readers. I'or most people the taste for biojj- raphy is almost the same thin^j as the taste for reading." There is material of historic value that never will be preserved unless it shall be gathered for the personal interest that attaches to it. The biog- raphies of living men. particularly of those in public station, possess a cotemporancous interest not second to their historic value. Of the numerous men to whom the legislative and administrative interests of the great city of Philadelphia are entrusted the people have only tlie most general knowledge. The purpose of this work is to tell what is worth telling about each of these public servants, and to give them a closer acquaintance with each other. The desire has been to make the book complete within its scope, of value for reference, and a suitably: biographical memorial of the city government of Philadelphia in the Bi-Centennial year. The task has not been found an easy one; but the labor has been carefully and conscientiously performed, and it is hoped that the result will not disappoint those who have been pleased to give tlic design their encouraging approval. Pnii.ADELrni.v, 1882. Contents. The Bi-Cextesxi.\i. CELEnit,\TioN i The Mayor and Heads of Departments ~ The Judges and Minor Jloiciakv 41 The Select and Common Coincils 57 Directors of the Citv Trusts 116 The Port Wardens 127 The Fire Commisskinf-ks 138 The Board of Ri:vi>I()n of Taxi.s 141 The Hoard of Kducation 143 Managers of the House of Correction The Board of Health 11 The Public Buildings Commission i' ; Guardians of the Poor 1,-3 Trustees of the City Ice Boats 180 The G.vs Trustees i>_' Appendix 1 ~~ i INDEX TO PORTRAITS, Samuel G. Kint,. Robert E. Pattison Joseph J. Martin William B. Mann Knoch Taylor William K. Littleton Daviii U. Lane William S. Janney William H. McFadden William Baldwin Gkoroe S. Graham F. Am£d6e Bregv Charles F. Warwick John L. Kinsey John Hunter Henry B. Tener Joseph L. Caven William M. Taylor Samuel L. Smedley Samuel I. Givin William J. Liiilips A. IL Ladner Thomas W. South William B. Smith John A. Houseman Adam Albright John S. Davis M />««//.v//iY('. Michael ( )'Rourke />a? James Evans " William H. Lex " Charles Lawrence " Charles F. Iseminger " Moses Levi " Samuel D. Page " 32 William B. Irvine. 33 40 40 48 49 56 5f> 65' William B. Bement Henry Clay Henry H. Wisler Samuel F. Stringfellow John Simmons Louis Wagner James ^L Ferguson Charles H. Cramp 65 Franklin Dundore.. 72 i William F. McCi'Li.y 73 William Loughlin. George W. Fai^man.. Robert Laughlin .... Samuel C. Willits. . . William Bumm William McAleer John Huggard lO.) 112' 113 120 121 12S 12S 13''' 137 144 144 152 153 160 161 16S 169 177 177 1S4 iSs' 10:! '"3 197 200 104 1 John Ruhl. Till' I)i-Ci'\Tnxxi.\L Cr.inp.RATiox. \ Tuesday, October 24th, 1RS2, just two hundred years after William Tcnn set foot on tlic banks of the Delaware, all Philadelphia united in a commemorative celebration of the act that gave it bcinp^. and on that day another good ship " Welcome " bore in its prow another portly Quaker gazing with beaming eyes towards where the swinging signboard gave invitation to the hospitality of the Blue Anchor Inn. more than a million souls, however, being assembled to greet him, where, before, a handful of Swedes had viewed with wonder the stranger craft. The programme for the event that had made Philadelphia as gay in attire and as populous as in the zenith of its Centennial gayety, embraced a period of four days, and was executed in a manner so brilliant and successful as rarely attends such great popular demonstrations. The first day's celebration was made memorable by the grandest naval display which has ever plowed the Delaware; by one of the longest and most varied processions which has ever trailed through the city; by a brilliant show of fire- works, and by a popular greeting to revived historj- and present contrast which has never been equalled in numbers, order, enthusiasm and sustained interest. From sunrise to midnight the day was one long but ever-striking series of novel beauties and clamorous response. A million people lined the river's side or floated on its surface to greet the good ship of happy name, the " Welcome," which, sailing out of two eventful centuries of grbwth and achievement, bore a supposititious Pcnn back to his own. Where a wilderness had frowned, a great city beamed in bunting, and was gay with a flag Penn never saw; where forests had w.ived, black clusters of citizens clung to piers, bulkheads and river boats; where the canoe had stealthily glided, its savage owner watching with furtive eyes the arriving proprietary, a nation's men-of-war thundered sulphurous salutes, and the commercial transports of a metropolis cut the water with swifter keels than Penns dreams could ever have imagined. Once on shore, the hypothetical founder w.is escorted through a million and a half of jx-'ople, who were stretched out in two lines five miles long, and who were bursting from windows and bal- conies, stages and seats. The march was such a triumphal pageant as no ancient city, though iniix-rial mistress of a world, could ever have seen. The a.iuon. the N I 1 NMM. ( 1 I.I IKA I II IN. State, the city and the nationalities whicli have been blended into a cosmopohton unit}', and which have transrormcd a colony into a Commonwcoltli, were all rep- resented, and all sent tlieir iinposinu tribute of honor and congratubtion. Tl)c labor wl»ich lias wrought that clian^e which was the real inspiration of the day ceased ; and the city's heart beat not with the regular stroke of its normal life, but quickened in puiie in an inter\al of mingled retrospection, pride in the present and glowing hope for the future. The day's ceremonies began on the Delaware river with the reception by the North Atlantic squadron of the ship " Welcome," bearing Penn and his compan- ions from beyond sea, and with its escort by a naval procession, under direction of James M. Ferguson, to the landing-place. I'enn's ship, high-pooped and rigged after the naval models of his time, bearing in gilt letters on the stern the legend, " Welcome, of London," manned by picturesquely-clad Norwegian sailors, her quarter-deck crowded with gray-clad Quakers pointing eagerly to the shores of a new land, forged up the stream from League Island, passed five United States men-of-war, from whose huge black hulls, looming above the siKcr>' sheen of tile river, lurid flashes, white smoke-clouds and crashing rcjxtrts hailed greeting to the historic comer; this on the Jersey side. On the otlier were miles of piers black with jKople, and back of them acres of roofs and brick walls, all aflame with flags, streaming their folds in a wind just stiff enough to display well their colors. Ikliind tlie " Welcome " there steamed up the river ten dozen tugs, all decorated with bunting and flags, and meeting this procession on Nature's high- way were excursion and jwssenger boats of ever)' size, crammed with spectators to a sometimes dangerous degree, but all enjoying to the full the gala scene upon the water. Amid the boom of cannon, which punctuated a shrieking strain of whistles from tugs on the river, and from factories and locomotives along the shore, the fleet sailed past the city as far as Shackama.\on street, and then doubling upon itself, followed the "Welcome" to the foot of Dock street. Slowly the bulky craft was hauled to the wharf, and as it touched the edge of Pennsylvania, the bells and chimes from ever>* church in the city pealed their recognition of the founder of a State of spiritual freedom. Tlic scene which followed was one of the most remarkable of the day. Tlie middle of spacious Dock street, from the wharf to the Blue Anchor Inn, which first sheltered the real Penn, had been lined by a rope, and though hemmed about by thousands, oflered a free passage for the procession of Quakers, Dutch, Swedes and Indians which was to escort the pcrsonator of Penn to the historic h">!ttlric. This wide vacancy, in such open contrast to the dense mass of people which surrounded it for a time, w.is a rare example of the self-restraint of an American crowd. Only a frail ro|x-, with a blue-coated officer here and there, kept back the packed multitude. But this wis not for long. The shriek of whis- tles, the sharp report of the " Welcome's " little cannon and the applause of a favored TlIK IlI-CF.NTENNIAL CELEBRATION. Ill few on tlic pier loltl tlic crowd of Pcnn's arrival ; and when he had been wel- comed by the deputy-governor, and tlie divers-costumed prijccssion cnicrjjed from tlie wliarf upon tlie street, popiil.ir patience pave way to one wild wave of popular curiosity. Another inst.int and ro|j«:s, policemen and crowd were min- gled in a .surpinj se.i of liumanity which .swirled and eildied over the street, and through which costumed Penn and his escort .struggled in a wavering, broken line of color to the Indian encampment and the Blue Anchor inn. Here, pressed on every side by centring waves of frantic men, women and children, Penn was welconicd by a sachem, made his prescribed reply and struggled up to Broid street, where his party took |)lace in the procession. Meanwhile a city full of pcoi)le, scattered along the river front, made a rush for places along the route, which was from Hroad street down Chestnut to Third, to Market, and out Broad street to Columbia avenue. Along these streets, on the walks and pavements, in temporary stands erected in front of buildings and in every nook whence a view could be obtained, on balconies, in windows, on awnings and trees, on lofty roofs and low sheds, upon every conceivable vantage point to which muscle could climb and foot cling, there swarmed not only nine- tenths of the population of Philadelphia and all its suburbs, but half a million people more from every part of the State and its neighbors. Through this im- mense multitutlo, which now gaped with wonder, now roared with happy mirth aiul now a])plauded with generous response to .some deserving feature, there filed for four hours and twenty minutes soldiers, sailors, civil officers, secret, benevo- lent and social organizations, national bodies — but all American to a man ; fire com|xtnies with their apparatus of to-day and the olden time; tableaux and typical structures of various kind and meaning. The best decoration of the streets was the populace, that fillcil them with happy faces and the careless free- dom of a holiday ; but house-fronts, windows and flag-stafls were all bright with the nation's colors, wreathed with greens and festooned with flowers. Through all this vista of thickly-crowded faces and gay color, the procession twenty tliou- s.md strong marched to the sounding rhythm of brass and the pulsing beat of drum. Its van hail reached the end of the march and disbanded long before its rear had thought of moving, and all the afternoon the unwearied throng watched the pa-ssage of a State's triumphal march after two centuries' campaign of con- quest in art, science and social order. Then there was a rush homeward from the choked main arteries of the city. Night was maile brilliant with corrusca- tions of fire and streams of light in I*"airmounl park, whither crowds hurried early in the evening to close with an ephemeral but splendid display of the first day of the Bi-Centcnnial. During the display of fireworks a mortar, from which pyrotechnic bombs were to be thrown, exploded, causing loss of life and limb among the spectators. Six persons were killed and a numl>cr injured. Trades D.iy was the second in the four set ap;irt for the great celebration. IV THE lll-CLNTENNIAI. CFLCHKATION. It was in the main given up to a display of all that rhiladolphia has achieved since the landing of William I'cnn in every field of industry and art. All the results of American brain and brawn, which have at once lightened life's toil and enlarged life's results, trailed their instructive length for five hours through the same eager lines of sight-seers and bright decorations as had made the day before so noteworthy. In the army of workers and the amy of their work were fourteen th<)us;ind men, one tlu)Us;ind waj^ons and two thousand horses. This IMrade of realities wxs supplemented in the evening by a series of illuminated allegorical tibleaux, drawn through six miles of streets brilliant with electric lights, chemical fires and Chinese lanterns. This pageant, representing historic events in Pennsylvania's historj' and lengthened by tableaux significant of India's mythological epic, was received with wonder by a million or more people, who had waited its appearance through three hours of standing weari- ness or seated discomfort. A most praiseworthy feature of the tl.iy parade was its formation. To wheel fourteen thou.sand civilians into line, all in oriler ami all on time, to hold theni in impressive form and send them on a march of n.iles without a break, is a prob- lem which might have puzzled the best drill-master who ever studied martial machinery. But the problem solved itself with easy execution, and the trium- phant result was due simply to individual willingness and intelligence. Every man in the trades procession, from bricklayer to prosperous merchant at the head of his employes, mechanic, clerk, laborer and capitalist, felt that he was posing as a factor in Philadelphia's greatness and as an active contributor to her prosperity. The line was a living, moving treatise on {xilitical economy in the broadest sense of that term. There were farmers, bread-makers and bread- consumers, workers and hirers, manufacturers, exch.ingers of produce, manual and skilled laborers, builders, transporters — in brief, all who grow, all who make, all who carry, all who trade, all who consume. Borne in review before the throng was almost every kind of mechanism, from an anvil to a watch move- ment, from a .sewing machine to a cambric needle, from a burglar-protif .safe, with sides grim and defiant, to an open piano, with attuned .strings, vibrating harmony. Tlicrc was ever)'thing to make life comfortable, from Persian rugs and other im- ported textures to home blankets and home calicoes. The array of industries was not dull as a whole, though there were some stretches of ice wagons, bakers' carts and coal trucks which could not be called picturesque ; but as labor is dull, while all the things it conquers are invested with glamor of victor)', so the parade was colored through most of its length with all the beauty which art can weave and industrj' make perfect. 1 he evening w.is devoted to what was termed the Mystic Pageant, which was an unique demonstration for Philadelphia, exhibiting as it diii the predominant feature of the Mardi Gras of the Suutli. The city's swollen |Kipulation for three THE ni-CF.NTF.NSIAL CELEBRATION. V hours was forced to be content witli watching itself, as it rushed from scattered square miles of houses into condensed linear masses, packed alon^j the route of the pigeant. Two fringes of humanity bordered the highway from Hroad street and Columbia avenue south to Christian street, ami branched eastward on Chestnut and Market streets. The liigh walls which make chasms of streets were ever>-- where aflame with lights shining on fluttering flags and streamers which gave a riblM)n of glittering color as a relief to the black strings of spectators. Over all the city, glittering with gayety and humming with excitement, the round moon shed her calm ami gentle sheen, antl from her surface the full face of translated Penn looked down upon his people with patriarchal and benignant approval. The pageant, so long in coming, gave its best effect from afar. Away up Broad street, between its border of black coats, white faces and glittering decorations, the throng which surged against the base of the Public Buildings could see a mist of smoke and bright gleams of lights, while a roaring buzz of satisfaction and faint strains of music floated to the ear. Seen nearer, the pageant was to popular appreciation neither a disappointment nor a glory. It was a surprise to the Quaker City, and was received by the throng with more curiosity than manifest emotion. An accident to the lights and a consequent break in the line somewhat marred the show's debut ; but the tableau.x were successful enough to make their repetition in future popular celebrations more than probable. The first divi- sion of the procession, comprising ten tableaux borne upon large floats, was illus- trative of Pennsylvania historj*. F"ir>t appeared William Penn receiving the charter from Charles II., which was the first act in the founding of the provinces. Then followed in respective order The Landing of Penn, Framing the L;iw, Fi.x- ing the Boundarj', Pcnn's Treaty with the Indians, B.Utle of Bushy Run. The Fight at Germantown, The Fight at Valley I'orge, The 1-ast Delivery of Beaver .Skins, and an allegorical representation of Pennsylvania and a reunited countrj*. Tlie other ten divisions consisted of magnificently arranged floats brought from the Baltimore Oriole celebration, one department consisting of illustrious women, and the other comprising sixteen tableaux picturing the " Fpic of the Ea.st," an Indian mythological poem. The figurantes irt all these representations were young men fully masked, so as to make the semblance of both se.xes perfect. Immediately .at the conclusion of the pageant the participants proceeded to the Acadomy of Music, where " The Bi-Centenni.il Mystic Tableau Association " g.ive a reception that was attended by a ver>' large number of the fashionable people, and b>'"inany visitors of prominence .staying in the city during the week's festivi- ties. Owing to the unavoid.ible delay of the street procession it was twelve o'clock before the head of the column arriveti at the .Academy, and considerably aft.r l>eforc the curtain ro.se uiK>n the first tableau at the .Acailemy, in which the figurantes of the street par.ide were to take part. .After much eagor expect- VI THE BI-CENTCN-NIAL CELEBRATION. ancy on the p.irt of tlic audience, owing to the m) stcry surrounding the affair, ihcir curiosity was in jwrt gratified by a most imiKising spectacle in the first tableau. All the figurantes were ranged tier on tier above the stage, culminat- ing in the figure of the Goddess of Liberty at the top. At the base were seen William Penn and friends, flanked on the right by Continental troops at charge iKiyonet"!, and on the left by the king of the carnival, who. with outstretched hands, besought jKMce and protection for the poor Indians, all of whom were grouped in lying postures in front. Following the tableaux was a march, in which all the figurantes joined and thus opened the ball which followed. "Festival D.iy," the third of the Bi-Centenni;il celebration, was marked by a procession which might have reminded Penn of the romance of the Crusaders, and which would have shown him the fraternity of modern moral warfare ; by a regatta on the Schuylkill ; by an archery match, and by that newest of outdoor sports, bicycle racing. Welsh and German singing by day and an ojK-n air con- cert by night addcil their touch of refined enjoyment to the holiday, and the visiting Knights Templar were given a brilliant reception at Horticultural Hall and the Academy of Music in the evening. Broa:r, deployed into Kroad street, and to inspiring music and throbbing drum-b.its marched over the decorated route. All along Chest- nut street flags and bunting waved in the breeze, and here and tlu re red Maltese crosses flamed upon bac!^:;roundj nf white. The line of Knights, with its swing- ing step, now seemed a long .scroll of black, flecked With white plumes and r.'galia, and now untangled itself into the saving .symbol of the world, composed of living men. All along its length the flutter of richly-emblazoned standards and the glitter of unsheathed swords symbolized the Jerusalem of developed characters and peaceful repose by wresting which from the Moslem hordes of vice one may become greater th.in by taking a city. At the rear of the proces- sion there clattered a cavalcade of mounted Knights, tli.it brought the hour's pas- sage to an imposing end. Crowds of people then scattered them.sclves through Fairmount Park, dotting the banks of the Schuylkill from Rockland to the Palls, gathering at Ik-lmont and watching the archers on the Centennial grounds. The boat races were as exciting and picturesque as such events always are. The dancing water, now dull under the clouds and now gilded with a moment's sunshine which later in the day flooded cver>'thing. was dotted with small craft of cver\' kind, while on each shore were the glowing hues of autumn foliage and black clusters of sjK'cta- tors. Dripping oar-blades flashed in the iiiid-.t of .ill as they rose and fell with THE nil ENTKNNIAI. CF.I.FIIRA TION. vii the rcfjular stroke of brawny backs and knottcc d.iy tlic glisteninrmed. vibrating with martial tread and moving to the time of inspiring music, there were representatives of all the trades which had made, on Wednesday, so impressive a display of the achievements of peaceful labor. I'enn would have been reminded of the sword which, though of jxaceful intent, he was once forced to use so effectively for his own protection; and he could not have been dis- pleased with an arm of State and National defence which was at the same time an arm of constant industry. The serenity of even Quaker blood must have thrilled with exultant thankfulness, when there marched behind this array of ffirce, ready to defend, though apt to foster and develop. si.K thousand Grand Army veterans of the greatest war since I'enn [Kissed away, bearing aloft tattered !)annirs which had floated over many a bloody field, ami which had fluttered in gor>- triumph over conquered slavery and a united country. The blood of mul- titudes, ranged in crowded contact along the route. Ijeat with both a quicker and a nobler pulse and thrilled with all the thoughts of .sacrifice, devotion and glor>' which the jiomp of war and the strains of its music suggest. Thoughtful spectators, too. were filled with just pritle as the>- remembered that the sjK-ctacle was the result of willing ser\'ice. and not of forced conscription, and that the actors were civilians, as well as soldiers. Hefore the day was over the educa- tional forces of the city displayed their influences in making IVnn's youth wi-e as well as brave. The militarj- procession, wliich included three brigades of lVnns)Ivania troops, one brigade from New Jersey, artillery and cavalry and a Grand Anuy division, marched tor two hours ind .i half p.i t ikn .e masses of >jKelaloi.- 1 he city viii IIIK ni-cKNTKNNIAL CKI.I.URATION. was jjay with ilccorations, whosp red. wlutc and blue took on an added dignity when they reflected the standards b«)rnc by en in organized s(Kiety. gloriously recalls our kinship, and leaves us m.asters of the present by virtue of our inherit- ance of all the traditions of the p.ist. We belong in an orderly line of hi.storical development, and we can only know from time to tinie the stages we reach by an inventor)- of ourselves, such as we I'enn.sylvanians have been taking in the week that is past. An nnite and rioqurnt hUtnri.in inii«tinfT upon the unity of histor)' and the ling one. the old principle that point which, at once, embraces ■ which we txrlong. II a day in the early jwrt of tltc lice the d.iys of Pericles, and ewn ol tlie or.iior is silent in the V\\\\ ; the voice demy. Athene I'roniachos no lunger guard:i Icgl- we the Ml ill, ,l- . " ; ul on the cU I'f' Hirer.! sill lie. i he voii Oflu ^ilcnt in the .1 TIIK III-CKNTtNNIAL CELEBRATION. her city with the uplifted sjK-ar, nor do men deem that if the Goth should af^ain draw nigh her livin*; form would scare him from her walls; but her temple is still there, as yet unt- of Athens. Roman in title, Greek in speech, boasting of his descent from the Macedonian Alexander and from the I'arthian, Arsakes sprung in truth, so men whisjiered, from the Slavonic stock, which had given the I-.mpire Justinian and Iklisarius fresh from his victories over a people Turanian in blood, Slavonic in speech and delighting to deck their kings with the names of Hebrew prophets. Hasil the Second, the slayer of the Bulgarians, the restorer of the Hyzantinc power, paying his thank-offerings to God and the I'anagia. in the old heathen temple of democratic Athens, seems as if he had gathered all the ages and nations of the world around him. to teach by the most pointed of contrasts that the history of no age or nation can be fenced off from the history of its fellows." Kight centuries have gone by. Mouldering and slumbering down among the unconscious instincts of the people — consolidating against dynasties — cogit.iting their protest against that hierarchical episode which cost the race a thousand years' halt before intellectual and moral advance — was the busy energy of our humanity. Heliind were Moses, and Socrates, and Caius Lucinius, in the front was Simon, of Montfort, and Luther and Wasliington. The sense of the beau- tiful in the architects of medi.eval churches and the painters of Madonnas was to go down before the irresistible assertion of manhood and the inevitable loyalty which coinpelled ever>' individual soul to stand uncovered and stripped before the Sovereign of the universe in its own worth, without the intervention of authority, confessor, cultus, creed or dogma. And the last quarter of the nineteenth centurj- is looking upon the best that we have ilone. There is no strain of nobility which lias not entered into tlic bounding pulses of the successors of the founders of this colony. At Chalons, early in the fifth centur>-, l^atin and Celt and Hun met in that last .struggle before which the Roman Kmpire disappeared. Here blue-eyed Saxon, (l.oxen-haired Teuton — .lye, for aught I know, the Hun and the Sclav have made their contribu- tion to the outcome of all this bloody .series. A million men and women, citizens of an humble member of this great confederation of St.ites. itself without a flag and without international recognition, except as a unit in a whole, which is now looming Ss the most portentous power on the planet; a million such have gazed upon a pageant which exalts each into such rel.itions as makes the rea<;tion a motive of pride, of joy antl a sense of efficiency in the general scheme. No ilevice of skill and wisilom and science has eluded you — no creation of wit and art has csca]K-d the genius which invented the Jaccpiard loom or the electric tele- graph. Nothing within the Lasting persistence of human thews and sinews has avoided illustration. No symbol of your dominion over earth and air and water h.is been wanting. You h.ive com|)elled the subtile and molecular agencies of the universe to fall into line as useful agencies .md become in your hands the X THE CI-CLNTtSNIAL CI LFBUATtON. very apotheosis of cosmic forces, trained to tlie scnicc of man. The banners of the Mm •■( Calilec. who s|)oke "the sermon on the mount," have been reverent ! 'to syn)|Mtlii/.in^ thousands with tlie admonition, /« Aoc sigiio X'inffs I tread of manly legions in the plain blue ^jarb of your citizen Si'.-' )'ou to that sense of chixalry ami those models of heroism \v!: m and Yorktown and (ictty^bur^; rallyintj |KiinU> for all who h.i. •" ' '•■'• ! '■ -■ roourccs t)f sonjj and mythology and ( )i >■ risked in the contests and attritions of I . 1 to our divinely ordered pretlispositions crown the iiisj)lay. Notiung human is inconj^ruous to you : "A touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Cutting loose from mere ethnological ties, elimina- ting from the problem all jicrsonal equations, you have climbed to the high .md solid ground of generic humanity. Our ever-widening sympiithies. abnegating self anil the family even, and the Stite, go out and embrace th.i' ntity which We call " the nation." to which we t)We all th.^t we an- an'. You and I ami all of us stand here shivering in insufficiency, but there are mooon the jxipular mind the causes of Pennsylvania's greatness, and inspiring coming generations to make the next Hke celebration as startling a contrast to this as this has been to the nide hardships and primitive joys of the colonists. Men-of-war had thumlered, the river had borne the welcoming host of vessels, the city had deckeil it'iclf with color and given itself over to rejoicing, and the social order of the day had passed TIIK ni-CENTKNNIAt CELEBRATION. itself in review in liolitlay parb, but in truthful form, ready in its self-examination to exult over excellence and to live down defects. The people bad at once refresbcil themselves with festivities and quickened ambition by overlooking the path already trod and the victories won. With strength renewed and purpose enlarged, the city took up again its burden, daily toil and yearly progress. This memorial of a meniorable event would nylvani.i slock. For many gcn- -, . cralions the Kings tillcJ the soil and Xf- pracliscd handicrafts in the nciijhlMirhood of Chambcrsburg. George King was a man of strong character and deep thought. Drought up as a copiwrsniith in his native town, he removed when a young man to Thiladclphia, and carried on his business in the Northern Liberties, and tielween timts seized the opportunities which he licked in hu birthplace to store his mind with meiaphysics and malhemati>s— two braiH-his of study to which he devoted him»elf, t.iking in the theories of Reid, .Stewart, and Ilrown, as Elihu Ituriiit did Arabic, Italian, and I.aiin, between the blows of his hammer. In due time George King m.->rried Mary Gogler, thus giving to his son a strain of that German- American bloonish-makiiii; — with his rcLitivcs, and, curiously enough, his liist work was liegun where his father's had endcil, m the .spot occupied by the btter's place of business on Third street Iwlow Callowhill. The youih wa« VI industrious and economical that when he arrived 1 Ins Ihitly tilth vr.ir. when, having aoijuiird a com- prirnc*". he rriire t fn»m l>usiness to live in Cf»mfort, le himself to larger per- >U.-,-|ur of the IHjrt ol (7) aUKKICA. niiU>lcl|Jutini; Mayor King lu acli«c polilKal life and ulficc. Mr. Ilruwn hail been hi> ft. : m ■ M. wraith he ini|;hl aciiuire, anil huw liani^miui it wa* for >u jruunc a man to lie ami'r' Ml from what he might naluralljr cx|>c<.l, KiiU Itcuccfurlh lilt interest wat rel a« toon ai he could he cait hi« iint vote, which was vouched f'-r by ro<4masler Miller, llic fimt office which he held was thai of elcctiun ins|>cctor. which he tilled in his Iwciity- •cconil year. It is not nccrsury to mention the date* of his filling many offices, lie has Ivcn a incml>er of the Stale I>emocratic Central Committee and uf (he local committee, and Senatorial delegate to Stale and Naliuti.l Conventions. In i860 he wa* chosen by the Democrats of the Eleventh Ward as member of the Select Council, and he held the office uninlcrTU|itedly until his elec- tion as Mayor, a |Kriod of nearly twenty-one years, a longer term than any other mcml>cr of either branch of ihc City Councils has ever v:rved. Dur- ing that lime he scrveil the lity f.iilhfully ami well. No cuuncilman's name has licen more prominently connectnl with K-hcmes of ercmomy anti reform; for, as he has said, " I have always lieen a I>emo- cral in National politics since I was lrainecen affeii'^d." Of his reconl in Ihc Councils it is not necttaary lo f^ inin Hctailt. lie has serveil on all the com- mitters of his Imnch, an |u.>*cd, though in a somewhat ro'Hlihrlution for Ihe refunding by Ihc National (iovcriimrni to the cily of some $l2,ocx),ooo of cxira ex|icndilure. lie ■liginated Ihe idea of the Hoard of • Revision of Tases, and the correction of incquitaMe ostcu- menls. Il was ihrough him that the million dollar loan which built the school-houses was secured. lie wjs Ihe . ; ■ '■ Kshiltftion at a 1 at; but the sul, . . much to that he was ridiculed for proposing the plan of holding the celebration in Philadelphia. In Match, 1879, he intro ' i candi- i.ilion. The 1 :ic was 1 ,; mcml^rs of i , 1 jarty assuretl him of being m.ide a candidate by ihc reg- ular convention, .ind the fact ihal a majority of Ihc Cili/cns' Cummltlee farore«l his indunemcnt, ap- peared til render his reelection assured. On De- cemlier JO, 1S80, in advance of Ihe conventions of the regular |>olitical |iarties, the Committee of One llundrcil namcil lo be returned for a fably the feeling of am- tidcnce bum of Ihit stale of affairs and of • belief Martin. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. that no political exigency would warrant the Citi- zens' Committee in indorsing a Democrat, led to Mayor Slokley receiving some very bad advice and to his declining to indorse the declaration of prin- ciples of the Committee of One Hundred, satisfying himself instead with writing them a courteous letter in which he simply referred to his past record. In reply to this the Citizens promptly withdrew their selection of Mr. Stokley as a candidate, Mr. Caven declined the Citizens' nomination for satisfactory reasons, and so the Democratic Conventions found the One Hundred with but one candidate, John Hunter, remaining, and he a Republican, against whom the regular organization had made a strong nomination. The Democratic delegates were pre- pared to name as the party-ticket, Samuel G. King, tor Mayor; Edward R. Worrell, for City Solicitor, and William V. McGrath, for Receiver of Taxes. Local politics were in this chaotic condition when Mr. King wrote the following letter, which is worthy of preservation in this enduring form, for reasons other than that it was the instrument that made him Mayor of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Jaimary 26, 1881. To the President and Members o/the Democratic Mayoralty Convention : Gentlemen : — Understanding that my name will be pre- sented as a candidate for ttie office of Mayor of this city, I thiol: it but due to you and myself to state to you my position. One of the most important offices in the gift of the people is th.; office of Receiver of Taxes. The office is said to be worth a quarter of a million dollars yearly. Its perquisites are so enormous as to cause a frightful demoralization in the ranks of both parties. The whole community cry out for a repeal of the iniquitous law which gives large fortunes to a few individuals at the expense of the tax-payers. The great mass of our citizens, without any distinction of party, call in trumpet tones for the election of John Hunter, a truly honest man, who will, if elected, return these immense sums of money to the City Treasury, and thereby lessen the burden of taxa- tion. This will cause a repeal of the iniquitous law. These being my sentiments, I cannot consent ti the use of my name unless John Hunter be associated with me on the ticket. The use of the name of any other man than John Hunter for the office of Receiver of Taxes at a crisis like this, an office sep.irated from politics, would be suicidal, and would only bring reproach and disgrace on the parties who advocate r obedient Sai«uel G. King. It was not difficult to foresee the sequel to the writing of such a letter under the then existing cir cumstances. The Democratic Receiver of Taxes Cunvenlion resulted in a bolt, and the nomination of John Hunter, the subsequent withdrawal of Mr. McGrath, and the Citizens' Committee of One Hun- dred, in one of the most enthusiastic meetings it ever held, indorsed Mr. King. In the following February he was elected Mayor by a vote of 78,215, over Mr. Stokley, who received 72,428 votes. Thus far he has fulfilled the words of his inau- gural address, saying, " Called to this high position by the favor of my fellow-citizens, I shall endeavor to discharge all its duties with fidelity. Every pledge given by me previous to my election shall be faith- fully redeemed, in the discharge of the duties about to devolve on me, which shall be executed with firmness and fearlessness." He has given the most overwhelming proof of the non-partisan character of his administration by being the first Mayor of Philadelphia to employ colored patrolmen, and by not discharging any of the policemen employed by his predecessor, except from cause. Mayor King is about five feet eight inches in height, and of well-knit frame fairly covered with flesh. Hii face is square built. A high, square forehead, and lower jaw which just misses being heavy, mark his resolute and firm character. A heavy iron-gray moustache covers his upper lip, and his expression would be very stern were it not for a twinkle in the deep-sel, clear brown eyes. The high cheek bones and substantial nose, which is well shaped, show traces of his German blood, and the whole appearance and expression of his face is that of a man who has made his own way against large odds. In manners, Mayor King is courteous, kindly, responsive, simple and unaffected. His home life is simple. For m.iny years he occu- pied chambers in the Merchants' Hotel, where he lived surrounded by books, but after his inaugura- tion he moved to a solid-looking house on Arch street above Twentieth. In daily habits he is reg- ular. He is an early ri.ser and prescr\-es excellent health by moderation in diet, believing that regu- larity in sleeping, and moderation in eating and drinking are two great attributes of a healthful and happy life. He does not drink ; although he does not object to perhaps a half a glass of wine at dinner, more he does not take, and his smoking is not more extensive. For exercise he takes a daily walk through the streets, and, after his walk is over, generally retires early, as he is not a man of society in the usual sense of the word. An occasional visit to and from friends is the extent of his social intercourse, as his quiet, modest and retiring char- acter makes a crowd distasteful to him, though he is an agreeable companion to those who know him. His methodical ways are well illustrated by the fact th.at even on the night of his election he retired to bed at his customary hour, and before the result of the contest at the polls was known, and he actually had to be awakened to be apprised of the result. Mayor King was raised to the degree of Master Mason in 1852, and is a member of Concordia MTN or AMKKICA. I •"Ic'' ll '» n< gcnrr Uw Ut to» SI, -r,„.Lr, •umc iinir, >ul>)rcl ul i i;uinr, lie iIuuk. i II fuiiil of pu < ualr {.Andun increucd from 750,000 inhaUlanU >■■ I77S> '" iieArly 4,000,000 in 1875, mi m-^y Ihe aame numlier of rhilahian« in 1^7$ lie increased lu equ.il ihal iif Iximlon in a century's time. In the rule u( the lietler elemcnl of (he conimumly the Mayor i> a aionu l-rlirver. The moral Knliment i. Ikhiiii] to rule |aililically, he lliink«, a« it does in Ihc range of inorali. To ijuolc liif theorie«, " A nun't fuU fialurjl duy a alwayt to hit family ami then to hU city ur Ium n, ami tlie best ciliicn it he who di.*« for the be»t of the city and does it l)e»l. lu the faithful performance of hi> duly as a citizen is all the honor in liein;; a ciiizen — and it ii an honor; and the apiirnlnlion of hi« fctlow-ciliiens is full com|>ensaii<>n for the |>erforinance of his duly •nd a |>ro|>cr ami juti |iriiic as well." I ATTISON. ROnF.KT KMORY. City Con- troller of I'hilnlc'plii.a in the Bi-Cen- tennial year, an'I ('•ovcmor-elect of the Slale of Penn»ylvania, was Iwm on the 8lh of IVccmher, 1 850, in Quantico, Somerset county, Marylaml. Somerset county forms almost the extreme end of the penin- sula known as ihe I'jisirm Shore of Maryland, and lh<- ■ ' ' 'Jii.intico w.is the first (ilacc to wl V Kol>crt II. Pauls. n, I). I)., the (;■ r. a McthixlisI nrnister, was ap- |K>intrr. Thomis Woolford, of < ' I irrland. The elder P.-iliison was (Ir ' the ("prand I-o devilled to the order lhal he units. His car'y training Iwini; guided by cducaied |>arcnlt, Kulicil's advantages in his first school es- |>ericnccj were of no mean characier, and from the firtt he showed an a|>lilude fur MU'ly and a>lvaiice- mcnt which altrai-tcd Ihe atlcmiun of others lieside Ills tutors. Tlirough Ihe successive grades of lliila delphia't excellent common schools he |> i .tinent to him, but he turned again to Kit bjuks, and studied harder than cvtr lieforc, until his grailuaiion with the highest honors of the lily- fifth class, delivering the valciiictnry. His military spirit, however, never left him, and he was for many years an active member of the Philadelphia Fire Zouaves (Company A, Fourth regiment. Na- tional Guards). He not only canied a musket, but on social occasi ms usually did the speech-making on iKhalf of l!ie comjiany, having won his fir4 honors as an advocate in an able argument in de- fence of '' If of the memliers of Ihe Fourth • 'C'l with insulnnlination, licfore .1 ■• 1 by Cieneral Prevost, ac- quitting the accused on a plea to Ihe jurisdiction. Sutmcquenlly becoming identified with the Slate Fencililes. he formetl the friendship of Colunil James Page, and succeeded lh.it genilcroan .-.s |ire*iilcnt of I' ■■ ■ " While yd a • > n prescnlehi;> in I ' ■ c, the iiu:ilution lI which hii father lt-olt» after he left the Ilish School, lie craved | an active lite, and although he expecled to obey hit ^ father'! withrs, he «'x« on the lookout for lonie | new turn in altitn that would carijr him into the. buiy world. In Uccemlicr, 1809, while hi. plan tu (^ to Ui.kmKin College was still fixed, I'rofcuor (irorge Inman Kidie, ihe jiniicipal of the Ili^-h | .SchooM is to go to I>ic'\iiisoii College to hnisli my education after graduating here." " It will be necessary for you fo decide," was the teacher's rejoinilcr; "fur I have a rei|ue>l from Mr. Cavsidy for a law stuilcnt." .Mr. TattiHun had never yet met Ixwis C. Cxssidy, although he was a mci ber of the Uoard of Educa- tion, and >mc of the visiting committee to the school. lie took a letter from Mr. Kichc, and the next day l>re-ciitcd himself at the law ulTice of Mr. Cxvsidy. That gcntlciiun received him kindly, ami rather discouraged than encouraged his ambition to be a lawyer, lie pictured the struggles first of a law student, and then uf a young practitioner; told him to go home and think over what he had said to hi n, consult with his father, and if he thought licsl he would la'xe him. The result was the father and son called together in a few d.-iys, and the latter was registercil as a law student with Mr. Casddy, and entered his office immediately after his gradua- tion at the High School, lie spi-nt the first year at hard s:u ly at his Itooks, but about the licgiiining of the »cconi|her's (•enchant in ih it regard. While a law student the Reform .\ssoiiaiion was or^ani-oralnr came to lie recogni/cil, and his services were often called into rC'|Ui-iiion. In .SciKemlicr, 187J, he was ad- mitted to the l>ar, and at once entered U|xjn the |iraclice of law. Uy 1876 he had nude so |litical fortune of Kolicrt Kmnry I'altisoa took a favorable turn, and the year 1877 can lie said to have marked an epoch in the munuijial management of I'hdailclphia, which changed the conduct uf affairs fium plunder to protection. The |ieople had awakened to llie fad that there was an alarmiit^ increase in the lix rate and Ihe de|xin- ment expenses, anil that the appropriations were being recklessly wasted. The city debt had been increasing for ten years to the extent of 53,632,4o6 annually, anil there was not only criminal neglect in Ihe collection uf taxes but open comi|ition in the disburscinent of the funds. Mr. Taltisun wxs carried into the Controller's ufiicc un the tide of reform, and when he took posses-icn, in January, 1878, he inaugurated thor- ough reformation in the conduct of the business. Mis leg.d kiiuwiedgc and guoil common sense taught him th.it the ofiice of Controller was not simply a clerical one but judicial in its functions, and the Conlruller's decisions in passing on war- rants could l>e appealed from directly 10 the Su- preme Court. With this in mind he laid out a course of action which protected the people again-t public |ilunilerers, and carried it out. This vigil- ance and f.iithfuiness w.ts rewarded, in November, 1S80, by a re-clcclion, a- the Democratic candidate, to the same office, over E. IIar|>er JefTries, the Re- publican nominee, by a majority of 13.593. the vote being: r.ittison. 9^.4()| ; Jrffr es, 79.S68. This was in a IVcsidential year, and the majonty of James A. Uarfield, Repub ican, over (rtneral Hancock, I>em>Krat, in Ihe same city was 20,883, a result which ilemonstrated that the |>eople of Philadelphia could rise alwve partisan prejudices when their private rights ami the city's honor were at slake. In that cain|\ai^n Mr. Ta'tivin w .vs simply the nemocr.'tic nominee, and w.is not indorsed by the Citiiens' ('■mimitlec of t)ne llundrelitical faith. Leadmi; Repul>lic.ia< in various busi- ness callings favoicd his continuance in the position of watchdog of Ihe treasury, and on the evening of Satunlay, (Xtolier 30th. John Hunter, Jrweph I.. Caven, John J. Ridgway, Er.iiie Contention assembled al Ilarrisburg to jelccl >».: ttiHi ha VU DO I iSc pokltw all I umI i:>c^-> calcndcd tbrtr •p-iralinnl line of liutinrw : and in tif,$ ihc >alnri.I of (hit aLctch • n lb* : Ihe „; tiume in{ (u Luba and toropc, I' 3 m-rV(-t fi-r hrcrri id rcry 'hem :. and . Mr. - tiic supreme ciiDccm oi tiic in-l "n ihr «i»th !>all'< hr w.i« lutcti in l)>72, b\ I hi cnti, Ward, s'l'l rlccted P" the can; Julia 5(<.»Ait, lii^vj-cuUci-l U«:i-«^ ul o.t.iiax> cw..t.^U accomiAny him, he will (to 10 IIaiTis>>an;. and be inaui:urated on ihe I(aI ' • - - .. . h:i- hij , Mamol in the year 01 hu admiuion to ihe Imr, to Mw Ann:> P. 'Sm-'h. 'finchTT of F-!«in A. Smith. of I cutive ManMim, h*» Ijccn in llic un(*clciiU.HUi "ral and comfurtable boiuc. No. 3247 Sansum jnippii j _ Ciljr Tr«»ur«f. wm i-xh, l8i<). near K-^i- • countv, renn»vK cantiiuaie the U|'j>r.i'ivn CuuM ^^t.KW.. TKit ^uta- plimrnl was the greater as he encountered great op- frum many politicians in his own r*'^7t made every effort to secure the oftce fur In this new and important position he at once reduced the worlir(;s f the -fScr to 1 Kisincs*- like system, eni; it of their special taN '.heir icnd- c\act .;e hu private atiairs rc<)uire much attention he devotes thr frster p^ni^n "f h'< lime n'tiiHinp to the re (he ceof - • ":">C- •untrr. He n the lit of by William ■ ined He : jving He It Picsi- januAijf, 1663, B. Irvine. Mr. M the Rr belooc^ . }oiDe<< that or^ ■lent nf the I iile. V YsH T'lnpany, I'incu duiirs be co;ela (■'^ ' wsre cuunty, Pennsylvania, was his father, ^1-^J and hi« mother wai a ilau(;htcr of John Elkinlon, a farmer of CumlH-rland county. New Jeney. and a very pnimment anil influcnliid ciiiren. At ihr age of four ycarii tlic mother died, an'l in 1S2S Marl* Taylor removed with liis family lo Xorrirtown, Pennsylvania, where Enoch rcceiveil hi- early education, afterwanls spending two years in the private acailemy of Profevsor Roach, in Philadelphia. In 1S35 he entered the office of Samuel J. Curtis, conveyancer, wherein, after three years of service, he became proficient in the business, and started on his own account in 1838. During the next three years he st«>lied law, and in July, 1S41, was admiltcil to practice at the Philadelphia Imr. IIis -iiccKilly in the legal practice was real csl.ilc, and he became one of the l>c-t practitioners in that line in the city. His thorough knowleilge of real e>tale law rccommemled him lo Sheriff Samuel Allen, and in 1852 he was appoinicil by that official. Chief or Law Deputy, the most im- l«>rtanl {wsition in his office. In Octolier, 1S62, he was elected to represent the Twenty-second Ward in Common Council, and w.i5 rv-elecled in October, 1864. In DecemWr, 1867, he w.^s appointed by Sheriff Henry C. Howell lo the same position he had occupied fifteen year« before, under .Sheriff Allen. Again, in Dcccmlicr, 1870, he wa* lemlercd the same important office by Sheriff William K. Ixeds. and retained it under the administration of Shcnff Williim Elliott. In January. 1877, William H. Wright, a Democrat, was inducted into the office of Sheriff, who, rccogniiing the universal •entimcnt of the community as to Mr. Taylor's conduct of the intricate duties of his position during previous terms, and having t'le grcatrst confidence in hs in- tegrity, paid him the signal compliment of request- ing his services during his term. After so many yeirs of ronlimmns i.Tvir<» at ibis imi>ortaiit |»>»t. the 1- ... I'n by the Re- publ 'iiff. lie was duly , . .. . .ember, iS'f). by a majority of 29,036 over Samuel Hartranft. Dr mocrai, the vote lieing, Tiylor. 73,8<>2; Haitranfl. 44,826. On the lint Mmiilay in January, iSSo, he was sworn in as the chief official of an office in which he ha>l ss-rved a lifetime, and with the duties of which he wai lictter acquainted than any other |>eraon in Ihr city. Mr. Taylor licgan political life as an adherent of the olil line Whig doctnnes, and ca»t his fir.t vote for PrcMdenl for (Jeneral Harrison. He wis twice the candidate of that l>aity, in old Philadelphia ctiunty, for the Lcgi-'lalure ; but as the majority in the "county" al that time, which was licfore its divi-ion into legislative districts, was largely Demo- cratic, Mr. Taylir iMh times failed of election. At the organization of the Republican party he became a warm supporter and advocate of its principles, and has ever since adhered closely to that laith. Ucsides the offices mentioned, .Mr. Taylor has held various positions of honor and trust. Since .May, 1840, he has been a manager of Monument Cemetery, and Secretary of the Uoard. In June, 1 868, he was chosen by Councils a Director of Girard College, and continued a member of the Itoard until ihc manner of h.iKling the city trusts was changed. In 1857 he joined the First Presby- leiian Church in Germantown, of which Rev. J. H. M. Knox, D.D., was pastor; and in 1858 ne was elected a Ruling Elder and Superintendent of the Sunilay-.school, and sul>»equently a Trustee of the church, and Secretary and Treasurer of the IJoard, all of which positi -ns, except those of Sec- retary of the Hoard of Trustees, and Superintendent of the Sunday-school, which he resigned in 1 874, he still holds. Mr. Tajlor has been twice married. His first wife w.is .Vnnic B. P.istoriou's, daughter of Joseph anil Margaret Pastorious, ami a descendant of Daniel Pai-torious, who came here with Wil'iam Penn, and was proprietor of nearly all the land on which (iermantown now stamls. He was married lo Mi-s Paright man. ANN. WIll.IAM BENn'.N. 1 r..-hon,.- tary. second son of the Rev. William Mann, a member of the Metho', was born at Mount Holly, Burling- ton couniy, New Jersey, on the aTth of OctolKt, lSt6. The family was origin- ally of Irish origin, with which, in ourse of lime. Scottish blooil has intermingled and producctl a I ; mi;n i)F amerk a. ■ ihr one i« rrlirve<> u( ihe i-i . , «hi> liail lunictl hit •llrnliKn lu Ihc iiiMructmn ol Ihc yuunt*. anrcn ih< Mil lcriiilciiilcnce of ihc Mouni II >ll) Atailrmy in hi> native cuuntjr, remuvnl lu riiiii'lrliiliia in 1S31, liiin|;in|> hii lamiiy »irh him, .1 • ' .' in ihe oltl district of Ihc N ic llic M>n, Ihrn an inf.inl I (u ilwrll nimiwl wilhoul inlctniptiiin t<( an Kncli'-h eilucalion, where many of ' inenl ciii/cn« received the concluilini; if academic leamin);. lie continued hi« ljlx>i> in lhi« direction to a late pcrion\ roof, on the 4th d.iy of July, 1 867, in the ei|;hly ihird year of hi« a,:r. Mi« Hon William, who»e education had enjoyed Ihe advantage of hit falhcr't accom|>li>hmenu, ai- kisied in the management of the academy when it, at latt, liccamc too large for the »ii|>rr«'iaion of a tingle ini4ructor, and here hit m.ilhematical ac- qi: ' ' ' ' ' ' . were I ,vinK .. „ . '^al>'c in one of immature yean, and he was luund to posMM a talent which lime rather strengthened than abated, of making himself respected and his directions obeyed. He chose the bw for his profes- sion, and lictween eighteen and nineteen years of a.;e entered Ihc office of the lion. Charle* Naylor, >h<)rtly aftcrwarils elected memltcr of Cungicss from Ihe Third District of Pennsylvania. Merc he remained between two and three years, and was admitted mcml«r nf the liar November 27th, |8_}8, ' ju^ one m>'nth after attaining his Iwentyseconil year; and in view of hit active occupation in every |«rt of hit future career, it may lie «aid that here i finithed his tchtic education. To Ihit period ' may be ucribcd his aciiuainUncc with Kngli«h literature. Mr. Mann teltled down to Ihe practice ' ircd the \icA and 1-"^ , j^rr [lorli*!!! of the Illy was abie 10 supply. There were at that lime, ; (1 ih' pc-vnt. • r iher small legal rrpretentaii<.n 111 ' • ihe»e few were prominent i I' . and Mr. Mann, if not in. 'I' ..-.., cenainly tecond In wnr. I > int>iiulc «cany, and became one cham|iton* in Philadelphia county. At a rrwaid for hit exertions and in acknowleilgment of the tiabilily of hit piinciples, he was iiominalcd, in the years 1846 and 1847, at Whig candidate for the mayoralty of Ihe Northein I.iberlict, the mo«( im- |ssible, noland- ing a flattering vote, lu Hem the tide of Democratic victory. In the year 1850 he received his first ap|>oin|. ment to public office. The Distnct Altomcythip, which, previous to that year, had lieen exenned, cither in pervjn or by dcimty, by the .\ttorncy- (jeiieral of the Commimweallh, hai! lieen made elective by an enactment of the preceding Legisla- ture, and Willi.im U. Reed, Ewj., an acute politi- cian and one of the moti accnmplikheil memliert of the Philadelphia bar, was the fir^t Whig candidate. After an exceedingly vigorout campaign the Uemo- cmtic camlidate, Ilnm R. Kneau, Ktq., was de- clared elected liy the small majority of eighty-five votes. Irregularity in the conduct of the election in certain Democratic portions of the city and open defiance of the election laws were charged, which re^ultcd in an ap|ve hit atlenlion atmoti esclutively to Ihc practice of the criminal law. The duties of the >.lficc in whirli he was employed fell to a great cstciit on lii« >li.MiKlert, ami pte- venled all opportunity of tuccewfully cultivating THE LITV GOVERNMKNT. IS Ihc civil liraiicli of hi'* |>ri>rc*iio'n. Fortune or am- l>ili<>n had nia>le a crimiii.il lawyrr of him, and a« such he, no duuU, »land« anioi))* ihc hcarlt i>f ihc |n. In l8$6 Mr. Reed retired frum ihe I>i»inctAilorncy>.hi|>, and hit chief .luitlanl, who had lillin^ly cumlucted ihe greater «hare nf ntKcial dulie*, became the Whi^ c.uididale for Ihe succes- Mon. I^wit C CaMid), |-ls<|., still a youn); man, hut who had already i;ivcn promise of di«tin;;iiished eminence at the criminal Ixr, was chosen Ihe Demo- cratic Manilardliearer. Those of our readers who have formed Iheir ide.ii of |x>Iilical rivalry from olMervalions of the slru|;i;les of later years, can h.ive Imii little conception of the fcveri>h excite- ment of the conflict of 1856. It was a memorable one, closely cimlotetl ami hitler, and hxs passed into history as one of the most important election casts known to the country. Mr. Mann w.is de- clared defeateil, but, like his pretlccessor, he carried his cause into the courts of law. The letpl battle which ensued gave Ihe ap|>ellant and appellee na- tional reputations. Kcu law cases have ever at- tracted more attention, l»th from it^ dur.ition, the question at issue, and the eminent lej^.il talent en- gngeil. After a tedious 4itigaiinn of some seven months, Mr. Mann was successful in his suit, and pl.tcrd in an office from which for fifteen years the eliorts of his up|«nenls couM not remove him. Throu(;h the Whij; party, Know-\i>thin|{ or Na- tional Amcrion (Jarty, Ihc I'eople's party, Mr. Mann followed his op|x>sition to Democratic prin- ciples with which he had commenced in life until, in due course, he es|>oused Ihe Republican doc- trines with all the im|x>rtant consopiences they in- volved. In i860 he was chosen Delegate to the Chicago Convention, and is by s.une, .it least, who were present with him at that assemblage, ac- crrdilcd with licing mainly or even chiefly instru- mental in Ihe nomination of Mr. Lincoln. I'enn- sylvania, which, in company with New Jersey. Indiana, and |>crha|>s Ohii, was lo lie cl.issed among the doubtful Slatr> in Ihe coming election, hail chosen a large majority of her delegates in f.tv>scosition. ll was this firm resistance thai induced the delegation In resolve that, after a show of sup|>ort lo Mr. Came- ron<4heir choice should fall successively on judge .McLean and Kdward Bales of St. I^.uis. Mr. .Mann, only by llie nioken views than cither of those who had lieen named as Ihe choice of IVniisylvania. The details of the work of Ihe Chicago Convention have |>assed into the (mlitical history of the lan personal efKirts lo crush force by force, tie was active in Ihe en couragemcnl of movements looking to the forma- tion and support of regimenrs; and he signilieil his w illingness to the Governor lo acce|»l any duty w hich the lime might remler nccevsary. May I'lh, 1861. Mr. Mann look Ihe organired com|>anies that had liceii mustered into the sersice of the Stale in Phil- ailclphia, and marched Ihem to Camp Washington, ICa«lon. a camp of in.struclion, or a place of rcn- ' '' ' ' nicnls. . srrsc rgani- .KIL%. many cit !• Ml thai I In niruc hi* inlrnliim In re lurn |o hi« civil |> ' ■ ' ' Ihc (jovcniment : ttitlincliun, ImiI u , ,, , .. Union. When, in (he fall <>r iKbl, Ihe army re- I liretl iiilo winter iiuorterv, the I'oloncI tiMik leave of hi> comniaml ami relurne |Hil in iitiminjiion for Ihe kchikI tin < Mann'> olil o|i|wnciil, Ixwin C Ca>>iily. A|;ain ' Ihe Iwfi mejfturetl ornii, liut the Re|>ul>lican |<*rty, ' in Ihe miiltt of the war Mru|y;lc, w-a< loo aion^ in t|iirtl ami nurolicr« In huxik o|i|ni»linn. Mr. las »iily went iluvirn licfore hik ancient anla^nnial almoNi without a »ru|;glr. In 1865 I. Ncwion Urown, I Vm\., w j» ailileil to ihe li»t of the conquered, and ihcn fur a nhort |icriud the Dintrict Aliorney of so ' many vear< rr^etl a while from hit tabon. In l.""'^ Mr. Mann uilh'Irrw from lh< lUpublican nomination 10 Ihc !. l^. Thii gcnitcm.m wa* txaten l>y Kurm.in Sheppard, Esq. In 1871 XIr. Mann wai a|;ain placed in Ihc field, and Mr. She)<|«rd, frc%h from Ihc victory of the preceding Icmi, was kIccIoI a(;ainM him. Again, as though lie liore a charm againM defeat, ihc Kcpiil succe^>ful in the miiUl of a>lvcrK in- duence^, and Mr. Mann laid cluwn his .-al, for the unetamplcd term of twettfyone yean. It wav a Urrtimc of unremitting toil in Ih^ moat oneriiu« |>osiliy any public tervant in the county. For ihc next three years he turned ■ his altcniion to private busincsv, which in so long ' and exacting an official tcm had almost dwindled ' 10 nothing, lie raiiidiv recorcred loi( ground, and , secured a I : In 1874 .million merged the two oHiccs of I ■ ihc lounly Courts into! one of Ihc Lomro>>n I'Icas, and gave Ihc ajipoinl 1 roeni of the chief officer !■! the twelve judges of Ihc ' ('•■urts of C'omnon I'Icas. For Ihis lusiimn Mr. Mann was urged with a unanimity of voice from ll,r 1... .1.- . ,11... press, ami the dliirns at Lit •■ Ih^i I,. 4 fallen to Ihe share of n. Bin •''« worthy. He was appoiiu hI for the past seren yean has managed Ihe I HIS of the office with skill and rcgulani) N^ITTLI:T0\. WII.I.IAM inMlM) the ^ present ("Icrk of the Uuiner .Sessions, was Unn January Ivl, 1S38. His ^ faihcr. I.rmuci I.iltlrlon, dird when the , ^n lud reached the tenth year of his age. I'p to this time (he son had enjoyeciiig in lliosc days \c<* generally and systematically employed i.'.an at present. In Milion to this hi- vtiilovicd mother needed hit iMCes to aid in »up|»n of the family, after the ' Iter's death, and William adsition in which he might ac<|uirc a knowleilgc of bu-jncss, and to that end placed him in the office of Thom.it S. Mitchell, to learn Ihe profession of conveyancing. I Ic made rapid progress, and was of great a<«i-iancc to his employer. He then dcteiminni to turn his attention to real estate law, and entered the office of Kichard C. McMuitric, Flsq., from which he was ay Iral a amall majorilYi and in case of a cam)xugB betwreti pojmn uU I-'- !■■ >•• ;^...; jJieic uos tiefeated. In . Aod aQor an unlir- ENogn Iaylor. WiLi lAM E. Littleton. . KKNMKNT. •7 ing, prrvinil canva«4, w.i«a(;ain succct^fiil. Al the mil of liK Irrm, in 1S7J. Mr. I.ildclnn rcliicil fiom the Si-lcd ('iiiiiK'il. in uliicli bmly he w.is a veiy active mrnilK-r lie l viewt and ileMrc* on thii >uliject, and was lolicilcd tl eligible candidates, he received llic Republican nomination for Clerk of the t,)u.>rtcr Sessions. His spotless record during; his ofiicial career, the spirileil assiduity with which he coiulucled a campaii;n, and his (graceful cheerfulness under defeat, all tuld in his favor .it a time when the public will wxs hani to i;a»Be. lie wa» elected by 21,776 majority, ile- fcalin^ llenrv' II. Krecman. As .1 business man, Mr. Littleton is prompt, cor- rect, .ind |iunctual, and enjoys a choice and profit- able pr.ictice. As a public ofTicial he has always proved inilustrious and unscllish. When in .Select Council he was elected chairman, and made an ex- cellent presiding officer; while, as a »|x'akcr upon the floor, he is a ready, forcible, and |Kilishcd de- claimcr. He is a memltcr of the I'liion League and t'niun Kepublican Club. |»DONNi;i., JOHN. Recorder nf Deeds, was Uirn in I'hilailcli'hi.). Decemlicr 5th, |SJ5. His father, Richard t)|)onncl, W.1S a native of Itonegal, Ireland, and came to this country almut 1 829. He W.-IS a carjicnler by trade, and estal>lished himself in the ncighlorhood of Twelfth .ind S>uth Mrects. John < >'lK>nncl was a pupil in the Catha- rine Street (irammar School, and an apt sehidar; ' but his stuilies weie cut short by the death of his ' father, in 1846. the result of a fall from a sciffoM al Sisth ami .\drlphi sireels, while the buildin;;, known as the Alhen.Tum, was in course of erec- ' lion. Hr. l>'l>onnel left a family of young chil dren, of whom John, then eleven yean uf age. was , the oldest. The Iwy imm»-di.i|ely went to work to I earn money for his mother, lie first secure«l em- ploymcMi as an errand>l>oy to a clothes renov.itor, and next .is a clerk in a manofacturing establish racni. Wlirn ststeen years of age he determined to learn his father's trade, .ind arciirdingly was ap. { ' |>renticed lo John Mc.Viihar, a builder (uncle of the architect of the new Cty Hall), for whom his father hail .icted as foieman, Hereinained with Mi. McArthur until l86 ship with John Kiddle, a fellow. workman, the tinn j of O'Oonnel \- Kiddle then ap(>earing xs carficn- tcis and builders. Three years afterward Mr. I Kiddle withdrew, and Mr. O'lJonnel continued the business, which had greatly prospered, solely on his own account. .Many large and sulistanlial mills and Well-designed dwellings in various |>aits of the city testify lo his skill. In |iulilics Mr. O'Donncl has always licen a Re- publican, his first vote Iwing cast fur the candidate* of that parly. His ability and iiitc^iiiy early re ceived recognition at the hinds of the jieople of the First Wanl, in which he at hrsl resided. In 1865, while still a journeyman, he w.is elected Ward Assessor of Real Est.ite,a position for which he was eminently qualified by his knowledge of the value of prnjierty. Three years later, ami again in lS;i, he w.is re-elected ; and in 1874, when the .ip|><>iiitnient of real estate assessors l>ecanic vested in the lloard of Revision of Taxes, under the new constitution, he was one of the six out of the sevenly-two ward assessors retained. In 1S78 Mr. O'UonncI sought the nomin.ition for Recorder of I )ee|Niscany, and .Secretary of the .Stock .Xvvicialion: Cam- eron Club and Carjienters' Cam|ony. and is al*a a (imminent nicmlicr of the American Tnileaant .\»- suciation. lie is married, and resides M 1 16I South NiiU'teenth street. C^ ^. ipH-rrCIUR. JOSF.ril K., Deputy Re corder of Deeds, was Imm in I'hiladel phia, February ijih, 184a. His father was Ilenjamin K. Fletcher of the same ^ ij '"'>'• *"'' '*'"■ nio'her was Martha Itryer, a native of Kngland. II iti.l in the public schixds of the city. ■( twenty years enlereil the law oi; I". Kca, Ks<]., at a student. In May, Ijioj. he was i8 MKN tit AVKXIi \ ailimllril |.> Itic Ixr, anil at once bqfan lo |irj>.1i«c lii> |irii(cvuon. Ikini; piolicicnl in rral c«talc law and convcyancin|>, and well vencd in (•rncral ollice jiiactice, he very won allracletl the altcnlmn of older men in ihr ; ' ' jailihca lion* reciimmcndcc|Hity Recorder, which he accc|4cil, wr»ing in the office with capaliility : hi» cloic altciiiion (o the duties, which were .irduout and ekaciin^, Kcured for him the conlVlence of hi» thief and the friend>hip of thcr* wiih whom he deah in an official relation. Mr. Fletcher hx» alway* been a ke|>utilican, and ever unce he hat liccn a voter has t.«Len an active interot in hi» |«ny'> welfare. In 1863 he cnltted in Company L),.(;ray Re»crve», and »erved during the ■•emergency." He i> a IVutntanl in religion, and belong* to Ki>ing Star l>oilgc. No. 136, A. V. M., of which he wa> elected Junior Warden, Ikccmlicr lUh, 1881. He uan m.irried cm No- veiidicr 13th, 1805, to Miiry llrim;s of Philailct- |ihia, and h&s five children, three boys and two girlt. — ^ANNEY, WILLIAM SMITH. MI).. Coroner, wa< Ixirn in Lower Maketicid lownthip. Buck* county. Tennsylvania. August llth. 1833. He in of Norman extraction, his forefather* leaving Nor- mandy, with William the Conqueror, for F.n);l.ind. and *etlling near Chchirc. Thomas Janncy left Cheshire in 1684 and came to .Xnu-rica. and having |iurch&«cd a large Irict of land near Newtown, Ducks county, Pennsylvania. eMablinhed his home there and foumled the ettalc of the Jan- ncy family in thi* country. He wa.s a Quaker and a minidrr. William, the subject of this sketch. ' ' ' -ncralion of the Janncy*. Mis I Wdliam, and hi* mother x> 'laughter of Tlioma* Smith, whose anceMoi* came here in 1686 from York, England, and tetlled in Wrightalown, Buck* cnonty. Dr. Janncy i* the *econd ion of cigl 1 children, Kvcn of whom are still living. I'ntil he was twelve yean of age he aliendeil tlic common school* in the neighlmrhnod of his biith- pLacc ; then he was sent lo Newtown Academy. Ial<-r to llellerne Academy, and afterward* liccanir a |il nf Jose|ih Fell, a nnled teacher, ar father of Jadgc V. Newlm Fell, of Common I1ea« CUwrt No. 2, of I'hiladelphia. At the age of six- teen years he omimcncrd teaching school, lirsi in Itrownslmrg, anil afterwards in l.umliersitle. Uucks county. duiiMg which latter service he >ludird medicine, and, wiih the money he earned by uhnid teaching during ihc summer monihs, he atlcndeil medical lectures in I'hiladelphia in the winter. He graduatetl at l*cnn>)lvania Mrr.l. |85(>, went lo Leavenworth. Kansas, reaching there just in time lo l>ecomc involved in the llonler waKare. He stayed in Kansas three monihs during the John Ilrown troubles, and came blast, s^-itling down in Mcrcci county. N ' 1 g in the praclice of l.i e more took ilown tli' , „ . to live on a plantation in Caroline county, \ irgmu. In 1874 he came to I'hiladelphia and o|ienecy Volunteers. During this pcri'Ml the principal Uitlles in which his regiments were engaged were Frederickslturg and Chancellonville, and Dr. Janney, being one of the most skilful surgeons in the Union army, rendereti .-i- mcnis. Al the clo.c of the war I ■ 2, ('■rand Army of the Republic, anl - r- geon of the organiralion for one year. Until his election to ihe position of Coroner, in 1880, over Dr. Henry IxlTman. by 10,548 majority. Dr. Janney never held a public ofiiie. Reared in the ullr.i alwlilion schiKd from the cradle, he was an original Republican, and cusi his first sole for Hon. James i'ollock for CtoverrHir, and hi* *econil for Hon. John C. Fr^nionl for IVesidcnl. It was in the same year of hts election lo office that he • n Medical College, and i\ School of Anatomy „ .. 1 ; • Meilical sircels, which is a pnvale instilulion (or preparing medical men nnfl ->tn'1rn:s in the sciences therein laughl. In le I It. Janney has very pleasant home In tS;5 he was marrietl lo fsarah i . n I.. \i>>. who. with a daughter, agnl ten yean. THK CITV GOVERNMENT. '9 namocl Mariannn, and a wn, agcti irvrn, named William, ciimpoM the Janiicy HoukIiuUI at ilmad anil Uxford Mrccls. . . .OWKRS. THOMAS J.. Dcpuly Coroner. « '1 I *■" '""" '" '"''•'•"''• Janua'y lo*h, 1845, y I J ami came to I'liilailclphia « llh Wis (Kircnls '■iT, wlicii he wa» five yeat» of aj;e. lie wai educated in the puldic kHimiU, and early in life nUaincI cm|ili>ymrnt in the Iwok |iul>li>hing houw: of ItaycsiV Zcll, Kiftli and Market >trccls. In 1861, when at the age iif seventeen years, he enlisted in the Kurty-ninlh rejiiment, l'enn^ylv.-lnia Vulunlcert. lie afterward entcreil the Dana Troop, and the One Hundred and Fifteenth I'ennsylvnnia ri't;imcnt. He |ur- ticipatcd in fourteen lultU-t. tlie princiial ones being Second Bull Run, Sudlcy Spring Road, and Chantilly. At IWivar, Tennessee, while in a cavalry charge, he had his horse shot from under him, and w.is wounded himself. He was hon iral.ly ilischargcd fr.m the army in Scptem- l>er. 1S65, and then joined the .Secon.l regiment, Naiional tiuar.ls of rcnnsylvania. and remained an active mcml>er of that organization until 1872. In 1S77 he was apiminteil a clerk in the City Treasurer's office, and resigning in the follow- ing year. w.-is male chief clerk in the Recorder's oflic.-. In lS79he was promoted to the position of Deputy Recorder. In i.SSo he was appointed Coroner of Thiladelpliia county, liy (.iovernor Hoyt, to nil the unexpired term of Dr. \V. Kent Gil()ert, deceased. Upon the election of Dr. \V. S. Janncy, in iSSi, he was appointeil Deputy Conner. Mr. Towers rcprcsenie.l the Twenty-lifili Ward in the Republican City Committee for four ye.irs, and was f..r three years treasurer of that botly, a jwsilion he resigned in 1S80. He has been a delegate to Re- publican Stale Conventions, and in iSSo was a •Iclegntc to the .National Convention held in Chic.igo, where he was one of tlic "jryi" who vot-d for | Ceneial (Jranl. He is a mcml«r of the Masonic or.ler, 0.ld Fellow., Knights of IVihi.is, Aniient ( irder of United Workmen, and Cran.l Army of the Republic. He is a widower, and resides at J50 Mella avenue. ^ 1 II iVI'.V. \V 1 1. 1, 1. \M, Commissioner of City I'ii:kcv i>.itiveciitrring «iih Samuel Hopkins, and served in the |>ositi..n any, and re- in.iined with that c<>i|niralion for fifteen years, seven of which he had charge of the wrecking de- IMrtment of the riiiladclphia division. Ui>on the creation of ihe Twenty-lirst IVdice District, the second in West Philadelphia, Mayor Stokley, then in his first term. ap|x.iiitid .Mr. Dixcy Lieutenant, a |Hisition he held for several years. Previous to that he had been United Sl.itcs Revenue Assessor under Charles Uarrett. He rcsignc.l from the police force to accejH the Sui>crintcndcncy of the Faiimouiit Waterworks, and he held this [wsition until elected by Councils Commissioner of City IViiierty. which was in February, 1S75, holding the ofiicc for one year, and being re-elected in February, 1876, for another year. The term of the Commissioner having U-en changol from one to three ycirs, .Mr. Dixey was elected in February, 1S77, and again in February, 1S80, for the long period. The position of Commissiimer of City IVojieity is a rcs|icrty, .Mr. Dixey is exofficio member of the Hoard of Commissioners of Fairmount Park. In politics he has .ilw.iys liccn a Republican. Mr. Dixey is prominent in the Masonic Ortler, licing a PastM.ister of Femwooil Ix.dge. No. 543. a member of Fcrnwootain in the merchant marine. As his family mos-ed to difTcrrnI pnn« of ihr eitr, he years ol age. he was apfuintcd to a so MEN or AMERICA. clcfkahip nadcr \\*illiain P. Ilunm, Rrceivrr of Taic*. Ilr nr\t Iwl-I thr pr..ili.>n ..f rhirf cirrk t ■■ -'y, and > prcdiicoioo tor p lime he w3» sflin~ ; he xr.2 who j'. i#unn(^ the nuw an active memijer of Pu« No. rrr»iT-s!!r Mr ! jne t< 3 m'«t m- >. A. K. rnan He itU Mr. 1 inga ! him '. of Ih and y... v. Bat the you- defeat. He forces more trith wordt ' Mr. \V ■ anced», a pn»ttion ») yielded an immense annual revenue. Mr with a lavuh han<<, while Mr. Lane >o| brain* ("t wtist pf»>vrd In be a tucces^ful i and N\ nljr n"minalcd, but clcitc! a ha' >\,. 1 .v- ,1,,.,... ,.f oflSo: ■ at Ih-- »elf cIcvieJ I.. Ib« • : Jiol lliC lu- nation without ten l.'r>'n the »( lluc.ccuih ouU M^lci »ticcu, uiictc l>< I fine properly. I ADDEX. Wn.I.IAM HENRY. Chief- Ingineer of the Water Department, was 'Ti in PV!!:iH<-!j+is, N-vrTrSrr 4th, •h- I He re- ir (choob c City, and etilctcu the LinxrKUy uf TVnittyl- ■ .. pr»iI«i!top in the cUvi of 1X40. He ihetl ind He aitd ihc . he nd ljtne'% prnitiaQ waa now lecure, .^ Vat ^nrr fT«*m vr-nr f>-wr-fTj1 T^ THE nrV GOVERNMENT. To give an ulca of ihe mapniiuilc of Ihc work | dime by Ihc Waicr l>ci>annu 1 • whuh, altlihown. In 1S72, Ihe year liefurc he wa» placed in charjje, the to«al rccei|>l« for ihc twelve month* were 5I,075,J03.47; in iSSi Ihey were J1.509,- 541 34. an increiic of nearly half a million dollars. In 1S72 ihe ttiul e\i>ens of expcndiliirc-. were $11,617.19, •■""! '" iSSi they were 5.»Jt>. 153.(10. The pumpage for 1872 was 13,040.018,461 |;alloii*, or a daily average of 35,638,465; in 1881 it was 32,721,014,838, or a daily average of 63,349,355. I>uring the eighteen years, including 1855 .nnd 1872, Ihe receipts of Ihe dcpartmenl were $II,- 807,813.76, and the expenditures 59,129,779.85. an expenditure of 77 per cent, on the baii* of re- ceipts. During the nine years, including 1S73 ami 1881, duiing which Dr. McKaddcn has been Chief. Engineer, the receipts were 513,018,533.68, and Ihe expenditures S7.400.1 57.70, an expenditure of Ics* than 62 per cent, on the haMS of the receipts. In other words, the 38 per cent, of surplus of re. ceipts amounting to 54.618,375.98 during the last nine years hxs been deposited with the City Treas- urer, and ha* been used by Councils for the main- tenance of the other departments or to lesM;n Ihe lax-rate. During Ihe first jwiiod of ri'^hteen years the quantity of water pumpcil was xK'\\\ 170 billion gallons, and the work done, mcpin^ a million gallon* lifted 100 feet high, was 193 billion gallons. Dunng the second periixl of ninr »rar«. ih' '^iisn- tity of water puni)>ccriod of eighteen years, of over 20 |«r cent. In Ihe I&sl nine years more pounds of pipe were hanilleil than in ihethinysix rear> preceding |8(«. and r ■ ■ ■' ' year- nine ;. : addetl l^he 308 mi ie* and 1,001 Icct laid in the l lu riii..kisi|>lii^ During Dr. MtKaddcn's control the amount of |Uent water. icnts culleclcil has incrc.seil ■usiy. In 1S76, for instance, 531.071 75 "f ilaims were collected; in 1S77 563.10475, and in I.S78, the ye .r when a number of dishonest clerks were delected, prosecuted and sent to prison, 5136,133.93. Dr. McKadden has been toch a busy man that he has had little time to devole to m«nit>er\hip in organiulions of a social or fraternal character, the Masonic onler being Ihc only one with which he it connected. He it a member of Hiram L/xIge, No. 81, located at Chestnut Hill, where he resides. In 1854 Dr. McFadden married Sarah E. Yocum, a descendant of an old Swedish family which settled in Pennsylvania before the lime of William I'cnn. Mrs. McFadden is still living. The family con- sists of four daughters anela- ware, and he attended Ihe public schools there and received the mo«t of his education. When eiehtcen years •' ■ ..,..,. . :ecrry .It Tenth an.l ' c- .1. .\fter se\ .c .,. ....lonons rout'iu- ,, kciI I around for something more congenial to his active disposition. It was at Ihe time the " oil (ever " ' broke out in 1864, and he immediately sold ont his I store and entered into a pannership with William • '■" ' •' ■ , . . ^ "». I that gentleman. I In fSAo Mr Pil'lwin wa* elected to repcvscnl ■ Common Council. At '•n 1.^71, he was M-nl to I liu lUtiu {■■> \\illi.>ui l..li.4i, wIm Wdt»c!ctcr Department. Frederick GraeiT was the other applicant for the office. When the vote was taken each candidate received thirty eight votes. Mr. Baldwin decided the election by casting his ballot for Dr. Mcl'adden. In 1875 he was again nominated for the Com- mon Council, and after an excitmg campaign was declared elected over Samuel R. Marshall, his ' Democratic opponent, the returns giving him 2,546 votes to 2,412 for Marshall. This occasioned great excitement, and the finding of some ballots, an effort to destroy which had evidently been made, became the foundation on which the friends of Mr. Marshall commenced a conK^t. While this contest was pending in court, the Common Council was in the heat of a bitter struggle between A. Wilson Henszey and Joseph L. Caven for the presidency of the Chamber, and the position of Mr. Baldwin attracted considerable attention. Holding his cer- tificate under protest it was urged that Mr. B.aldwin could not take jiart in the organization, while on the other hand it was held that he w.as entitled to all the rights and privileges of a Councilman, and on the day before the organization it was found by acareful count that his course would have a decided effect upon the result. This question was settled by the noble comUict of Mr. Baldwin, who, when the Councils met, declined lo take his seat, stating that facts had come lo his knowledge which led him to believe that his election was not regular. He withdrew in favor of Mr. M.arshall, and Mr. Caven was elected by a small majority. In 1S76 Mr. Baldwin was unanimously chosen Chief Commissioner of Highways to succeed Mr. John L. Hill, who had resigned. On January 2d, 1877, he was re-elected Commissioner, receiving 86 votes to I for John McCarthy. On Decem- ber 30th, 1879, he was ag.iin re-elected by the joint convention of Councils for three years, from Janu.-iry 1st, 18S0, the term which expired in 18S3. There was no opposition to him even in the caucus. As Chief Commissioner of Highways, Mr. Baldwin .succeeded by economical and judicious management in reducing the appropriations of the department from $1,432,961.82 in 1875 to $258,235 in :88l. He compelled all the passenger railway comp.anies to pave the streets and place them in proper repair, •;ven going so far in some instances as to stop their running to secure conipliaiue with his onlers. He also carried on a wailaie with highway cuntiacloi.s, who failed to conform to the rules of Ihe department. From the lime that Mr. Baldwin took charge of the Highways Department there was a notable annual increase of receipts, mainly due to the care- ful collection of sewer-rents. He entered ujion his duties M.ay 1st, 1876, and in that year the sewer-rents reached $26,844.85 against $20,143.10 in the year previous. In 1877 he established a system of inspection of sewer connections, and by this means nearly $30,000 more were collected in 1877 than in 1S76, making the total collected $56,494.31. In 1878 the amount reached $64,- 766.45, or more than triple the revenue received from the same source in 1875, the year before he took charge. In January, 1879, sewer-rents were abolished by Councils, and the receipts from that source dwindled to $10,759.75 in 1879, and to $3,894.00 in iSSo. The total revenues of the department during Mr. Baldwin's career as Chief Commissioner were $89,667.01 in 1876; $112,- 154.37 in 1S77; $119,110.52 in 1878; $63,036.47 in 1879, and $59,322.53 in 18S0, the decrease in 1879 and iSSo being due to the abolition of sewer- rents. In order to make a complete and faithful record of the history of the Highways Department during Mr. Baldwin's administration of its ftffairs, recourse must be had to more figures. During 1874 and 1875, under other management, the ap- propriations made and expended aver.iged $1,421,- 799.91, while from 1876 to 18S1, inclusive, the average annual expenditures were $686,391.33, a yearly saving of $735,408.58, or $4,412,451.48 in six years; the annual appropriations being reduced from $1,377,040 in 1876 to $258,235 in 1881. Mr. Baldwin was in office fof over five years before street cleaning and the removal of refuse were added to the work of the department. In previous years the duty was performed by the Highways Department, but during the first years of Mr. Baldwin's term the work was done under the supervision of the Board of Health. Early in 1882, however, at Mr. Baldwin's suggestion, Ihe responsibility wr.s again placed. on the Highways Department, and the sum of $262,500 was appro- priated for the purpose. The amount provwl in. adequate, and when Mr. Baldwin figured up the requirements of his department for 1883 the street cleaning appropriation was set down at $300,000. Some jdea of the enormity of the work to be per- formed m.iy be gathered from the statement that Phil.adelphia has two thous-antl miles of streets, of which eleven hundred miles .ire unpnved and nine hundred miles .are paved, three hundred miles of the latter being ci>vered by railway tracks. Ill August, 1S82, Mr. Baldwin .-innounced him- self as a candidate for City Treasurer, but the THE CITY GOVERNMENT. opposition of the Commiitee of One Hundred, which was then inves'igatingthe Highways Depart- ment, injured his canvass. He w.is defeated in the convention by William B. Irvine, the vole being l66 votes for Baldwin to 348 for Irvine. As his term of office drew to a close Mr. Baldwin an- nounced himself for re-election. He met with great opposition, and his political enemies insti- tuted a bitter campaign against him, but being a man of iron will he did not despair, and as the day of election neared he became confident of success. On the morning of January 1st, 1SS3, the day appointed by Councils for the tlectiiin of a Chief Commissioner of Highways, Mr. Baldwin was on his way to the Chambers when he became suddenly ill. Several limes he was compelled to stop and wait until the pain in the region of his heart had subsided. On reaching Sixth and Chestnut streets he was prostrated, and was c.irried into a store on Sixth street, where after a brief struggle he expired at g.45 o'clock. His death not only caused univer- sal regret throughout the city, but intense excite- ment in political circles, and the Councils post- poned the election of Chief Commissioner until after his funeral. Mr. Baldwin was of medium height, heavily built, and his general appearance indicated a robust constitution. Mr. Baldwin possessed an amiable disposition, and had hosts of warm personal friends. He was a member of the Grand Lodge of Masons ; Colum- bia H. R. A. Chapter; St. John's Commandery, No. 4, K. T. ; Fernwood Chnpter and Lodge, F. and A. M.; Quaker City A. O. U. W. ; Knights of Birmingham, and Dorian Senate, Order of Sparta. His funeral took place from the family residence. No. 1347 North Twelfth street, on January 4th, 1S83. His immediite relatives are his wife, one daughter, and three brothers, J.jhn L., Rcbert, and James Baldwin, all of whom reside in Philadelphia. GRAHAM, GEORGE SCOTT, District- Attorney, the youngest and one of the ablest lawyers who have held the post, is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was born in Philadelphia, September I3lh, 1S50. He is the son of James Graham, for- merly a carpet manufacturer, but more recently a prominent grocer on North Second street, and Sarah J. Scott, the daughter of a well-to-do farmer in County Derry, Ireland. The son received his early education in the Jefferson Grammar "School, on Fifth street above Poplar, and intended to com- plete it at the Central High School, but at the period when fitted for the latter institution, he was withdrawn from the public schools, and his in- struction was committed to the care of his brother, the Rev. Robert Graham, at that time attending the University of Pennsylvaiii.i. At the age of si>Sten the young man entered the law office of George \V. Dedrick, Esq., and was also matricu- lated in the Law Department of the University, from which he graduated some three years later as Bachelor of Laws, and was admitted to practise in 1S70 from the office of John Roberts, Esq. Applying himself industriously to his profession, and possessing many of the qualifications which lead to forensic success, he gained an honorable recognition on the part of the public, and speedily won for himself a very desirable clientage. At an early period he also turned his attention to politics, when the condition of the Republican parly, with which he had enrolled himsL-l:', called for the infusion of new and whole- some vitality, and offered to active and honest young men openings to briUi.ant careers. In 1S76, in the Twenty-ninth Ward, Mr. Graham's residence, the principle of reform was assuming shape and strength, and to it he contributed his weight and energy. In the opening of the cam- paign a violent antagonism developed between two wings of the Republican party — one representing old monopoly of place and power — the other call- ing for a wider and more generous party recogni- tion. Two tickets were placed in the field, and as a representative of the young Republicans, Mr. Graham, by aid of the Democracy, who flocked to the overthrow of their ancient enemies, was chosen to a seat in Select Council. Here he rapidly rose into notice, and upon the withdrawal of John Cochran, of the Fifth Ward, was made Chairman of the Committee on Law, and awarded a place on the Finance Committee. In 1877, notwithstanding his youth, which was considered by some of the older citizens as a seri- ous impediment, Mr. Graham made known his aspirations to the District-.'Vttorneyship. He rep- resented the younger element of the party, and his following was respectable and eminently vigorous, but as representative also of a schism, he found it impossible to unite both divisions in his favor, and the nomination was accorded to Judge Thayer. So bitter a strife in the councils of the Republican party was the harbinger of defeat. Mr. Hagert, the Democratic candidate, was elected by a decisive majority. Mr. Graham retained his seat in the Select branch of Councils, and was notable for his punctual attention to the duties of his position and 24 MEN OF AMERICA. desire to secure the interests of the city. In iSSo a c.-ilmer spirit jircvaileJ in the ranks of the party; he secuicJ the nomination to the office of Dislrict- Altoruey without opposition, and w.ns clccieJ over Henry S. Hagcrt by 20,566 majority. I le is a good lawyer, a forcible speaker and an excellent official ; punctual, industrious, persever- ing, and successful. In private life he indulges domestic t.istes, is a happy husliand, and father. lie is an clilcr in the l'resbyleri.in Church at Broad and Oxford street^, and Sunday-school Superinten- literary knowledge. ^^INSEY, JOHN LIPPINCOTT, Third As- sistant District- Attorney, was born in Philadelphia, August 29ih, 1846, his father being William Kinsev, for many years in the leather business, and well known as a merchant. Young Kinsey, after attending a boarding-school in New Jersey, graduated from a select seminary in Philadelphia, and then turned his thoughts to Vale College. He prepared to pass examination for ailinission to the junior class of that institution, but abandoned the idea, and his education was continued at home under the careful training of private tutors. After spending as many years as are usually devoted to study, he entered his father's business house, where he passed one year, during which time he came to the determination to adopt the profession of the law. He accordingly entered the office of Albert S. Letchworth, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1S72.- He devoted his attention to gen eral law and equity practice, for which his reading had fitted him, and did not often appear at the bar of the criminal court except in a few homicide cases, among which Commonwealth vs. Sayre and Commonwealth vs. Maiden were the most noted. He also appeared as counsel for several persons charged with murder by assignment by the court. His intimate acquaintance with the rules of plead- ing qualified him for the position of Third Assist- ant District-Attorney, to which he was appointed by George S. Graham when that gentleman entered upon his duties as prosecutor of the pleas. Mr. Kinsey's position, the duties of which con- sist mainly in drawing up bills of indictment, work which requires the exercise of great skill in stating a criminal charge, is a most arduous one, and he has filled it with marked ability. When it is con- sidered that any bill of indictment presented to the court is liable to be attacked by counsel for the de- fence, an idea may be had of the necessity for strict accuracy, as a flaw in the indictment would result in many cases in the discharge of the defendant. In politics a Republican, even before he was of age, Mr. Kinsey has taken an active interest in city, State and national campaigns. He has fre- 26 MEN or Aiigair* f rcpRseatol h:-. warri. :h< "Hiiri-nrii, i.i ocy and eoaarr cr.v-r.-. r*. ;.-. : :- is-> ■»!■. hoaor td bf boag cho»ca a ourTu'crt al ihe (i^suiii: Board of bcfaoot Dimxan, ol^ wbtcfa be » bow Ike pyesdeot. { la SeptcBber. iSSz, he was iMa^nl, widboat i ofipmitim, faf the Re|)Bfalicaas for the oAce of RegMer of Wilbu The Cifuos' ConiMmcr of^ Ok Haadred pbeed Walter E. Rex, a RepabB- caa, ia the fidd, aad he was iadocsed bar the ItaBootas, Charles F. I raaagfr, the regalar D uauuju c aarSdate, dec&Bog to accept. The fiaipaiga «2> a Toy cb«e oae, and oa accoaat ci Ihe co » pfc :» Batare of the coatga Mr. KJaser £nlcil of eiectioa, the M LifU i ily of hK ofum a f a r beiag only 576^ Mr. Kauer was ■ Ji iied Jaae igih. 1S73. Id Jenie. diaehirr of Thooa- Bellas, fonaalj of the fin of Ctaig, Kdkt* k Co, He b itiwa. lie ia hs lasaes,aad ptiees his leisare hooB ia a coadotaUe ^OTER, JOHX. Recener of Taxes, was l bona Aprfl I5xh, 1&25, ia BeUsst, Ire- | ^11 bad. When bat two yeais oU he was canied ia his aKxher's ar^ 10 AaMrica, ' Ihe potciaal Haater witliag where West ' Phibdeiphia h bow located — aad where Kssna^tiD Kves — aad ea ga eine ia Ihe basiaes of {aia t iag cafico aad other cntioa goods. Whea (joite a boy. Joha HsBCer catered his father's em- play aad begaa that practical cdafaiin a that has aace served hia ia «ach good stead. So thor- oa^y did he becoaie ao^aaiared with every detafl of the b oaia ess. thit when ht^ faiher died. But ooly was ibe yoaag aoa c u u ip etewt to lake charge of the Bin ia coajooctioa with his bnxher JaoKS. bat socceeded ia placiag the p» uy e n r oa Ibe grhataa- tial bans that was ever ihaealcer the feamiatioo of ihe basiaes. aad (hat oude the firm of Jaaies and }ciat Hooter eafoy a lepataiioa ooaacry-wvie for opngtit deaKag. Emiaeot praoicafaleaea that broogfat him to a knowledge of the iminft sr- toaa Ji ngi of the iargt esublBfameat was oae of the c&saactive charKteriaUcs of his career as a maaafactatcr. aad this o io ali llMl his Sach was Ihe meas^of ha< crmmeit that whea he had reached the mrridim of fife he ■TBBoanced to kis brother that, oa aWajaaig hot fiftieth year, he woaU retire bum active hn i atw aad eadeavor 10 eaioy the firoit of his bbws. But this hope he was » t aMe lo realne. aad he is nit!, dcspiie hci ofajectioa, ea pg td ia the anaa. fl«■^M i^ ^^ basinet ahhoa^ he pi*c op active caa»- raercui pv^>aib some yean ago. .Akhoagh he &! 30c sever his c ima e» : ti u a with the firm, he looked iormzfi to a BCe of <{met esc ; bat thb dream was JulmbL d by a ttxfaesi. maAe by ri rnoairmiii Gentle E. HaB aad Sauel Hawonh. of the Board of Reviaoa of Taxes, that Mr. Hooter wooid permit the ose of his name x> a tti»j— *-i^ ™ raad i ifatf far C iiiam u ii Coaadlmaa fiom the Twcaty-Comth Ward. So rrlartaot was the naaa- bctorer 10 accept poGueal prefermeat, that he sag- geoed a ae^hfaor is a oKire sailable ria>fi»fatr, aad eves ofiered to pay cJk Utrcr's caapoiga ex- penseSL His objeoiocs. bowner. were of ao avail, and the coaveatioa aoauoated bia; bat beibre the tcdy aJjuMBcd i cprejem ii< es of a certam de- meat ia dhe ward ascertained what OKraiirT of oma the na i Mur was. aad the »iaiiBatioe was at ooce iK'iM^iihiid, oa the plea that Mr. Haater had ile- c£aed lo sidaoribe 10 a pledge that he woold abide by Ae decisioa of the dflrjjjafs , ao BBtrer what it aigiit be. Ia das cmci " i.ac r the aoa'i determia*- tioa of chara cter asserted itseH^ aad ia the eveots dot {bOowed hs iadoamabfe plack was afc^aiaady demoostnied. Xot haviag Kagfct the iiiiioaBiliiia he woaid not have troobled himjct f afcoot moiia^ the cmrnrilonaie prize, had aot bis fahrrem sease of ri^lt bcea oalraged by the caati lo depnvc hmi of that which was property his. He ioimi ili a< ty ly^ja a Tigijiuas warmre j g J iiw t hc% oppoac^^. He aafeoaaced haaseif as aa indepeadeBt camS. date, aad by hs nualy staad woa the iatiatseBKst of &e Democras. aad oa Feh raa y 20ih, 1877, was elected, 3jM4 vores beiag cast for him, aad 2,78s for Joha .\. Mangle, his oppooeat. So poci- live was Mr. Hoarer's ooocse ia the Comimm Coaaril, aad of jach aa aggressive chaianei was the reform be pncised, that hi» In nfiot, oppoaeati in ihe Tweaty-laanh Ward delerauaed ia 1880 10 p t e v eat hit eiectioa; but thai time aew tactics were resorted to. .Agaia had Mr. Haater ih'iHar d to cii—fly with the role leijaki a g a wriitea pledge to be made 10 Ihe aomiaariag coaveatioa that be vivrTf r -t Vcum i i aa indepradeat caadidate, bat t.' ~ '•'crlooKed. aad a finr^^d docaaaent i. ^. Oa the Bight hefete eiectioa Mr. rii.-:cr^ o'-.pnaencs p r eieaded to have aad- dealy diwivered tlm fraad, aad m iaifia fcli oaiired bis aame from Ihe regolor ward licko. soppbatigg it with that of a aew nadidTtf seicctrd by the ward comantiee. Bat Mr. Hamer had fc ireace a all this aad to his oaeanes' chagria they (nrand has tickeis aezt a a o r ai a g at every polfiag ptv-e. aad ai;aia he was elected. ht< vote beiag 2JM. ^ad thai of Heary F. Deal, his oppoa eo t. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 27 While in the Common Council Mr. Hunter pur- sued a policy that suusequently led the Committee of One Hundred to select him as the mo=t desirable man to place in the office of Receiver of Taxes. When he first entered the lower chamber of the municipal legislature he occupied his lime not in talkin" but in observing councilmanic methods and the workings of the city departments. He finally came to the conclusit ijiterests of the people, and he inaugurated a crusade against it that continued until the wrongs complained of had been righted. He next turned his attention to the conduct of the Gas Works, and w.ns made a member of the Councils' Committee to investig.ite the workings of the Department for Supplying the City with Gas. Having, by virtue of this position, gained access to the books of the department, he placed two of his own clerks in the Gas Office and had them make careful copies of such records and figures as he desired; and over these Mr. Hunter frequently pored many mornings until two or three o'clock. After the investigation had drawled along for about two months, complaint was made by John Bardsley, Chairman of the Committee, that it was practically accomplishing nothing, and did not give promise of anything belter. Then it was that John Hunter brought to light the result of his delving among the books. He told Joseph L. Caven, then President of the Common Council, what he could prove, and by that gentleman's advice he arose in a meeting of the committee, and made the charge that by the mismanagement of the Gas Works the citizens had been losing Si,ooo daily for years. The result was that every member of the committee signed the report, in which the Gas Trustees were severely criticised. This was in March, 1881 ; in the previous February Mr. Hunter had been fleeted Receiver of Taxes, but he retained his position as Councilman until he was sworn in the higher office in the succeeding April. John Hunter was the first actual candidate of the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred for a city or county office. Prior to the conventions of the two regular parties, the Committee named as can- didates for the positions respectively of Mayor, Receiver of Taxes and City .Solicitor, to be filled in February, 1881 : William S. Stokley, John Hun ter and Joseph L. Caven. The indorsement of the first-named gentleman was subsequently withdra and Mr. Caven, for reasons fully explained, de- clined a nomination. Mr. Hunter was nominated also by the Democratic Convention ; that was, how- ever of a dual character, William V. McGrath being likewise named as the party candidate, but he subsequently w ithdrew. It had been the inten- tion of the Republican delegates to select as their party candidate Major Ellis P. Phipps, who a long time subsequently, through his actions as Superin- tendent of the Almshouse, obtained a wide noto- riety as an embezzler and forger, and who was the subject of prolonged extradition litigation in Canada. The peculiar aspect of affairs political, prior to the spring election contest of 1881 led, however, to the dropping of Major Phipps' name, and to the nomination of a strong candid.ite in the person of George G. Pierie. Even this gentleman, however, could not breast the flood, and Mr. Hun- ter was elected, receiving 88,934 votes to his oppo- nent's 62,348. The moment Mr. Hunter entered the Tax Re- ceivers Office he turned his attention to the books of that departnien', and by diligent and painstaking examination he became aware of the existence of a series of signs running through them, and he took to studying these as he would a cipher, that he might unlock the secrets they contained. At this juncture Theodore Hanel, an ex-lax-clerk, who had ser\'ed a term of imprisonment for embezzlement, made a full and free confession to members of the Committee of One Hundred of the doings of the clerks employed in the department under previous administrations. Mr. Hunter searched the books day and night in corroboration of Hanel's tale, and the result was an exposure of one of the most sys- tematic schemes of fraud, by which the city and its citizens were robbed, that was ever unearthed. A number of the accused clerks admitted their wrong- doing, and one was arrested and bound over that a test-case might be made, and this is now pending in the courts. Another notable event of Mr. Hunter's adminis- tration of the Tax Receiver's Office was the re- moval of William J. Donohugh, Collector of Delinquent Taxes. By the law the Receiver, en- joying a sal.iry of §2,500, appointed the Collector, who received in fees a princely income, varying at times, but reaching in some years, it is said, the sum of Sloo,(X)0 and more, and extorting from de- linquents onerous penalties. When Mr. Hunter had been in office three months, and had become accustomed to the workings of the department, he removed Mr. Donohugh and appointed in his place Henry B. Tener. Mr. Donohugh, however, re. fused to go, and the result was a dual collectorship, uniil, after sharp litigation, it was decided that the Tax Receiver had only exercised his right. By Mr. Hunter's svstcm of government of his office 28 MEN OF AMERICA. Mr. Tener receives but Sio.ooo yearly, the remain- der of his fees being turned into the City Treasury. Necessarily with the motive for increasing the emoluments of the coUectorship removed, the penalties inflicted are less burdensome, and taxes are more actively collected, there being no induce- ment to allow them to become delinquent. Taxes of this sort in 1878 amounted to over $2,000,000 ; in 1881 they were only $800,000. So strict is Mr. Hunter's conduct of the receivership that, in com- pli.ince with the implied promise that if elected he WDiilil accept no fees, he turns into the City Treasury the search fees to which by law he is entitled, and all he receives annually for his arduous labors is the sum of $2,500. But he is not dissttisfied with this, saying that all he and his supporters wished was to capture the office. Personally Mr. Hunter is blunt, but never dis- courteous; frank, but never fanatical ; retiring, but never lacking the courage of his convictions. His charity, of which he has an abundant store, has the true ring that is never heard because of the modest Miicerity of the giver. To the poor only is he known as a cheerful bestower. His family con- sists of his wife and one married daughter. His mother, who was provided for years ago, and who is now eighty years of age, lives in a handsome residence that adjoins that of her son. Mr. Hunter is a strong supporter of Methodism, and Fletcher Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the finest edifices in West Philadelphia, is a monument of the pious generosity ol the Hunter family. 'EXER, HENRY BROWN, Collector of Delinquent Taxes, was born May 13th, 1S41, in Dung.nnnon, County Tyrone, Ire- land. His father was Richard Tener, a general merchant of Dungannon, and also a native of that town. His mother was Miss Mary Brown, daughter of David Brown, Esq., founder of the manufacturing house of David Brown & Sons, Donoughmore, County Tyrone. Young Tener received an academic education under the tuition of Reverends Joseph Acheson and John Beatly, of the Presbyterian Church. When but thirteen years of age he entered the employ of John Arnott & Co., Belfast, and re- mained with them three years, at the expiration of which time he emigrated to America. He made settlement in Philadelphia, and in the fall of 1857 secured a position with J. V. Cowell & Son, whose place of business was at the southwest corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets, where The Press of- fice now stands. Such was the stern and practical, but invaluable, education of the business houses of those days, that his duties for a time included even sweeping out the store in the early morning. In the following year he became a book-keeper in the extensive dry-goods house of Barcroft, Beaver & Co., subsequently Barcroft & Co., and he remained with them continuously for twenty-three years, rising during that tnne to the position of Cashier. When the Ciiizens' Reform movement had its modest beginning, Mr. Tener became one of its earnest supporters, although not prominent in the organization. In National politics he is a Repub- lican, having voted for Rutherford 15. Hayes and James A. Garfield ; but he has not held that party ties should bind him in city atTairs. Accordingly he joined the Citizens' Reform Association of the Twenty-ninth Ward, and during the fall campaign of 1881 w.-is made its Treasurer. Barcroft & Co. had retired from active business at the close of 1 878, but Mr. Tener was retained by them to settle their business interests, covering a period of sixty-one years, during which time a large amount of real estate had come into possession of the firni. The sale of this devolved upon him, and also ihc collection of the accumulated book accounts and judgments owing to the firm. This work was nearing completion, when John Hunter, the candi- d.iie of the Committee of One Hundred, was elected Receiver of Taxes in February, 1881. Acting upon the advice of friends, although not hitherto personally acquainted with Mr. Tener, Mr. Hunter tendered him the position of Chief Clerk in the Tax Office, which he accepted, and entered upon the discharge of its duties April 4th, 1881. In the campaign resulting in the triumphant elec- tion of Mr. Hunter, the Reform element took strong ground against the existing abuses in the Tax De- partment, mnre especially in relation 10 the exorbi- tant emoluments of the Collector of Delinquent Taxes. William J. Donohugh, the Collector, claimed that having been appointed by Mr. Hun- ter's predecessor for a term "{ years, his tenure of office could not be shortened. The position of af- fairs w.TS anomalous. The salarv- of the Receiver of Taxes wns but $2,500 per annum. The Col- lector, one of his appointees, received fees that in one year aggregated the enormous sum of over Sloo,ooo. Mr. Hunter was elected with the im- plied understanding that there should be no fees, and that only a fair salary should be given to any of his employes, and he was determined to sup- plant Mr. Donohugh, and to appoint in his place a person who would conduct the office in the interest THE CITY COVERKMEXT. 29 of the public, and who would pledge himself to turn over to the City Treasurer tlie surplus commissions over a salary of Slo,ooo and the legilimale expenses of the office. He tendered the po»i:ion 10 Mr. Tener, who agreed to these conditions, and was ac- cordingly appointed Collector of Delinquent Taxes, July 2ist, 1881, Mr. Donohugh being notified of his removal the same date. Select Council, which was controlled by the friends of the old regime, refused to approve Mr. Tener's ofBcial bond, although unquestioned real estate se- curity to the amount of over S 100,000 w.is offered. They were, however, compelled by order of Court to approve the s.ime, January 5th, 1S82, and on the 24th of the same month Mr. Tener entered upon his duties, as Collector of Delinquent Taxes. Mr. Tener brought to the Collectorship a full and even anxious realization of the fact that the Delin- quent Tax law, which his duty required him to en- force, was most onerous and unpopular. While protecting the interests of the city, he has, as far as he has had any legal discretion, exefcised the utmost leniency towards the taxpayer. The city at large has been no small gainer, by receiving the net in- come of the office, in strict accordance with the terms of Mr. Tener's appointment. It should be said that Mr. Donohugh, not recog- nizing Mr. Hunter's right to remove him, continued to make collections until April, 1882, the end of what he claimed to be his official term. As the result of the protracted litigation which followed his removal by Mr. Hunter, the Supreme Court sus- t.iined Mr. Hunter's position. While there has been nothing in the general life of Mr. Tener of an eventful nature, from the fact that it has been mainly of a mercantile character, and with the one house, his recent career is worthy of special note. It emphasizes the reform move- ment in showing the calling of such men as Mr. Tener from the walks of business to the service of the public, and in securing the utmost efficiency and courtesy in official administration. In the Receiver's Office under Mr. Hunter, and in the Delinquent Office under Mr. Tener, the clerks are prohibited from leaving their desks upon election days to electioneer at the polls. Information is cheerfully given, upon matters of business, to citi- zens and representatives of the press. Mr. Tener is a member of the First Church of Disciples of Christ, Twelfth street above Wallace. His home surroundings are of the most pleasant character. He was married. May 9th, 1867, to Miss Julia M. Widmer, daughter of the late Charles A. Widmer, for many years in the wholesale leather business on Third street. dren now living. v2> Mr. Tener has two chil AVEX, JOSEPH LEWIS, Solicitor of the Department of Delinquent Taxes, was born August 14th, 1835, in .^bing- ton township, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania. His father, Robert Caven, came to Philadelphia when the boy was but three years of age, and since that time 'he latter's habitation has been in the city for whose interests he has so fondly cared. Along the path of learning marked out in the primary, seconHaiy, and grammar department of what is now the Liv- ingston Public School, Twenty-third street above Callowhill, young Caven trod his way until he reached the Central High School. He did not continue through the four years' course of study provided in this popular college, but in 185 1 began the study of conveyancing in the office of A. B. Carver & Co. Having mastered a knowledge of the real estate business, he entered as a law student in the office of Charles E. Lex, father of the gen lleman who is now Mr. Caven 's successor as Presi- dent of the Common Council. His legal studies were finished under the tuition of Charles M. Wag- ner, and in April, 1861, he was admitted to the bar, after passing an examination held on the very day Fort Sumter was fired upon. Mr. Caven's entrance to the political field, in which he afterwards figured so prominently, was not the result of personal effort. One day, while he was sitting in the old District Court, John A. Clark, subsequently a member of the Common Council from the Ninth Ward, but then one of the School Board of the Fifteenth Ward, surprised Mr. Caven with the announcement that on the previous night he had been elected to fill a vacancy in the Board of School Directors. He served in this capacity for three years, becoming the President of the Board, but resigning that office when called to a wider sphere of usefulness, and one year later severing his connection with the Board entirely. Mr. Caven's admission to the Common Council — an event, the importance of which, viewed in the light of subsequent events, cannot be overestimated — took place January 1st, 1873. As though giltcd with a fateful prescience, those against whom his lance was ever afterwards couched fought des- perately to prevent his election. He was not a willing candidate for the nomination. Again and 3° MEN OF AMERICA. again did he decline, but his friends insisted suc- cessfully. The Republkans of the Kifteenth Ward, for the first time in the history of the city, made an experiment with the Crawford county system of nominating, and Mr. C.ivcn was elected a councd- manic candidate, receiving a majority of the votes cast, and being successful in a majority of the pre- cincts. One of the pioneer reform assjciations of the city had a youthful existence at that time in the I'ifteenth Ward, and its members knowing that Mr. Caven was going to be nominated, gave him the indorsement of the association. Tliey having an arrangement with the Democrats looking to the selection of a mutually satisfactory ticket, Mr. Caven was also made a candidate of the opposi- tion, and thus was presented the singular spectacle of one man being at one time the nominee of three opposing parties. Those who controlled the des- tinies of the regular Republican party of tlie I'if- teenth Ward were not overjoyed at this assurance of unanimous election bcin^ given one who they found was not moulded to their liking, and they determined to wre.st fi'om him the nomination he had secured at the po.ls. By a manipulation of the vote it was made to appear by the returns that, of the three men nominated for the Common Coun- cil, Mr. Caven had the smallest vote, while the fact was he had the hi'jhesl, and then the discov- ery was made that the number of taxable inhabi- tants of the ward permitted it to have a representa- tion of only two instead of three members in the lower branch of the municipal legislature. As Mr. Caven's was made the third name on the list of nominees, his, it was claimed, must necessarily be erased, and this was done. A storm of popular protest greeted this action. The ostracized candi- date had, up to that time, taken no interest in the canvass, but the feeling of indignation th.it now possessed him warmed him with a desire for vic- tory, and led him to display all that resoluteness of purpose, strength of will, and firmness of character for which he is now so justly celebrated. The contest that resulted was a most vigorous one, and the ensuing political upheaval in the Fifteenth Ward will be ever memorable as the first subslan- li.il reform victory won in the city of PhiL-idelphia. The election took place in October, 1872, and not- withstanding the fact that parly lines were tightly drawn by the interest excited by the Hartranft- Buckalew Gubernatorial contest, Mr. Caven was elected by 298 majoiity, although Harlranfl car- ried the ward by 1,397 m.ijority. Mr. Caven had not long been a member of the t'ummon Council ulieii he tleshed his maiden sword in an attack on those whom he ever afterwards op- posed, by the present.ition of arlicUs of impe.ich- ment against Councilman Siner, who had been arrested for conducting a gambling-house. The latier bowed to the inevitable and leslgned. The Highway Department next received his earnest attention, he insisting that all contracts should be given to the lowest bidder, whose competency and faithfulness were to be secured by responsible bondsmen. To-day this is the custom in neaily every department of the city, and its enforcement has saved many thousands of dollars. The new member was irrepressible. Fear or favoritism appeared to have no abiding place with him. But his Course met with the severe disapproba- tion of his old opponents in the Fifteenth Ward, and the regul.ir Republican Convention, that met in the spring of 1S74, refused to nominate him. Mr. Caven, however, had come to stay. Having en- tered on a cou'.se of antagonism to those in power, he determined to accomplish his end before lay- ing aside the task. He readily consented to become an independent candidate, and, being in- dorsed by the Democrats, was reelected by a ma jority of 279. His second term in the Common Council was an eventful one. He had now a small but influenti.l following, and differences existed in the ranks of his opponents. A. Wilson Henszey was President of the Chamber. John Bardsley, his Chairman of the Finance Committee, desired to be made the Re- publican nominee for City Treasurer, but his can- didacy was not viewed with favor by City Treasurer Peter A. B. Widener. He had, however, the sup- port of President Henszey and his friends. The thought occurred to Mr. Bardsley's opponents that, by taking advantage of these differences, they could assist in defeating Mr. Henszey for re-election to the Presidency, and narne as hi- successor a man who would, without doubt or question, de|>ose Mr. Bardsley from the Chairmanship of the Finance Committee ; the latier gentleman's chances for ele- vation to the City Trcasurership would thus be irretrievably ruined. They could not, however, muster enough votes without the aitl of the Re- form Councilmen. It was determined, after much Consultation, to select Mr. Caven as a candidate for the Presidency of Common Council, knowing that from his straightforward and consistent reform record, it would be impossible for him to reappoint Mr. Bardsley Chairman of the Finance Commit- tee. It was a wondrously shrewd political move- ment, and through its success, no matter what its motive may have been, the city has reaj)ed an abundant h.irvest. Mr. Henszey, however, was not defeated without a struggle. The Contest pre- THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 31 ceding the election will not soon be forgotien. The opponents of Mr. Henszey held numerous secret caucuses of which Mr. Caven had no knowl- edge, but they still failed to secure the requi>ite number of votes. When the election was near at h.ind, however, and the movement needed a direct- ing head, Mr. Caven attended one of the meetings, mapped out the programme, and assured his new supporters that he could secure the additional votes required to constitute a majority. This he did by pointing out to his Reform colleagues that an im- portant victory was within their grasp, and on Jan- uary 1st, 1876', he was elected President of the Common Council. Not even having been asked to make a promise as the price of his elevation, Mr. Caven was un- trammelud in his selection of committee chairmen, and he declined to realize the hopes of preferment of those who h.id been most active in securing his election. Without deviation he continued to pur- sue ihe course he h.id laid out in the beginning of his councilmanic career, and met with such popu- lar approbation that, in a mass-meeting of citizens, without distinction of party, held in Horticultural Hall, on January 20th, 1877, he was nominated for Mayor, and on January 24th a similar honor was conferred on him by the Democratic Conven- tion. In accepting the nominations he wrote a letter to the committee of citizens, in which he said: These nominations, coming to me as they do, without solicitation, without pledge, promise or agreement of any kind, have demanded and received my most earnest and seri- ous consideration. When 1 entered Councils, in 1873, my opinion was that the government of the City of Philadelphia should be removed from the influence of party politics ; an active experience of four years has confirmed and strength- ened this opinion. This is eminently true of the office cf M.^yor. Limited, perhaps, in some respects as its powers are. a non-partisan and f.:arlcss officer h.is power to regulate and check improvident legislation, prevent raids upon the city treasury and conduct the business of the city in the in- t-rest of its lax-payers ; that this has not be^n done during the past five years is evidenced by our present deplorable financi..! condition. Holding thes : vijws, the action of the Citizens' and Taxpayers' and Democratic Conventions have laid upon me a responsibility I cannot escape. I therefore accept your nomination, and if your choice sh.ill be ratified by the people, it will be my duty not only to enforce the views above expressed, but also, in the language of Article VI. in your resolutions, to remove the Police Department from the control of partisan politics, by retaining in the service all faithful and efficient officers, by making appointments with- out distinction of party, by relieving the men from all politi- cal duties, and by prohibiting all political It will be observed th.it the views enunciated above are identical with those on which the present administration of the Mayoralty is based. Mr. Caven's opponent was William S. Stokley, who was renominated by the Republican Convention. The campaign was vigorously conducted on both sides, and on February 20th, 1877, Mr. Stokley was returnedas elected by a majority of 2,866 out of a total vote of 126,692. An investigation of the conduct of the election was made by the Reform Club, and on March 23d, 1877, a committee, of which William Welsh was Cnairman, and John J. Kidgway and J. Hays Carson, .Secretaries, reported the result of their labors, particularizing many in- stances of ballot-box intrigue, and claiming that Mr. Caven had been elected. The result of the contest did not wean the general public from its admiration of Mr. Caven's course, and his influ- ence in the Common Council, to the Presidency of which he was elected for five successive terms, in- creased to such an extent that the Reformers took po-session of the Chamber and effected legislation that made marked changes in the conduct of city affairs. In February, 1879, the people of the Fif- teenth Ward selected him for the fourth time as their favorite representative. The earnestness of Mr. Caven's belief that poli- tics should be divorced from the management of city affairs was well exemplitied in the exciting political campaign of 1880. He was sincerely anxious for the election of James A. Garfield to the Presidency, believing, as he always did, that the welfare of the country demanded the continuance in power of the Republican party. He was equally positive that the best interests of the city required the re-election of it^ Democratic Controller, Robert E. Pattison. He declined to address Democratic meetings in the interest of Mr. Pattison lest it should affect some votes in the Presidential canvass, but, at a large distinctively Republican gathering, held in Horticu'tural Hall, on October 30th, a few days before that of election, and over which Ed- ward T. Steel presided, he made an earnest appeal for the Controller's re-election, prefacing his re- marks, however, with the announcement that he would vote for Garfield. That speech was after- wards looked upon as determining Mr. Pattison's second election, by bringing to his support many wavering Republican voters. When the Committee of One Hundred placed its first ticket in the field, in January, 1881, Mr. Civen figured on it as candidate for City Solicitor, but when the Republican Convention nominated Wi.liam Nelson West, he declined to be a candi- date. He was a warm advocate, however, of the election of John Hunter for Receiver of Taxes, and Samuel G. King for Mayor, both of whom were the candidates of the Committee of One Hundred and of the Democratic Conventions. 3* After a continuous service of eight years and three months in the Commun Council, five years and three months of which time he was President of thai hody — the longest term any one man ever occupied that position — he voluntarily retired from public life. His delerniiiiation in this respect caused deep popular regret. The last meeting of the Councils he attended w.is on March 31st, 1881, and ihe session assumed the character of a public testimonial consequent upon the retirement of the President. Eulogi>tic speeches were made by Henry Clay, William Henry Lex, William Elwood Rowan, John Haidsley, Richard Peterson, S. IJavis Page and Joseph A. Boiihani. A Cumniitlee on Resolutions, of which Henry Clay was Chairman, presented the following resolutions : Resoh/td, That the thanks of Common Council and ihc Taxpayers and Ciliicns of Philadelphia are eminently due, and arc hereby tendered, to Joseph L. Caven. Esq., for his faitliful services and fidelity 10 duty as a member of Common Council from the Fifteenth Ward ; he now voluntarily retir- ing after a continuous service of eight yeare and three months, signalized by an integrity of purpose, an honesty of action and devotion to pure and economical government, whicli has won for him the esteem of his associates and the gratitude and confidence of ihc people of Philadelphia. During the past five years and three months, he has discharged the duties of PresidvUt of ihc Chamber ably, courteously, impartially, and with strict fidelity to his oath of office. Rtiolvtd, That in his retirement the city loses the services of one who has ever firmly adhered to the best interests of her people: one who, by his devoted efforts, has ably contributed to ri-trenchmcnt in all Departments of the Municipal Govern- ment, and economy in the expenditure of public moneys. MEN UF A.MER1C.\. Subsequently the retiring President was tendered a public dinner at the St. George Hotel, that was attended by a large number of prominent citizens. On this occasion he was presented with a h.Tndsume gold medal made from a Ur.iied Stales coin, and Francis B. Reeves, the Cliairniaii, referred to its being "pure and solid," as emblematic of the char acter of the guest of the evening. The last public recognition of Mr. Caven's services to the city, was the attempt made in the Commi tee of Two Hun- dred — a temporary body of Republicans that grew out of the complex issues of the fall election C4iniest of 1882 — to have him nomin.iied for Sherifi', but he promptly arose and declined the honor. No matter what the future may have in store for him, Mr. Caven will ever be remembered as the David of the people in ihc lower branch of the city legislature. He is not now, perhaps, strictly speaking, a member of the city government. His position as Solicitor of the Department of Delin- quent Taxes is only a reminder of the good work he acconiplislietl, much of which, however, is only now, as in the case of the department mentioned, just reaching fruition. His beneficent deeds stdl live, and the record of the city's government in the Bi-Ccntennial year would be incomplete without this full story of his career. He entered Councils as a Republican, as a Republican he continued a member, and he is slill a member of tha't party ; but he belli to the theory, which he exemplified by practice, that the government of cities was purely a matter of business and not of politics. " Honcsiy and ability, not party," was his motto, and on a platform with this inscribed thereon he accepted the Mayoralty nomination, which he would have positively declined had he considered any other principle was involved in the contest. During his Presidency of the Common Council the debt of the city was reduced, department expenditures were curtailed, and a flood-tide of extravagance checked. The Act of 1S79, regulating appropriations and bringing expenses within the city's income, was passed, and the first appropriations thereunder were made under his special direction and guidance. This Act makes it impossible for another floating debt to be foisted on the municipality. These are but a few of the many thinys that resulted from his raising his fearless voice in the Council Chamber. It was the desire of a large number of Republi- cans in the city and Stale, that Mr, Caven should have been made the Republican nominee for Gov- ernor in the last cainpaign, and had this been done no doubt can now remain that the result of the election would have been entirely different. In private life Mr. Caveii still exercises a potent influence over public affairs, but he has thus far re- fused to accept any further political distinction, giving his lime and attention to his professional and business interests. EST, WILLIAM NELSON, City Solici- tor, was born August 21st, 1840, in Phil- adelphia, where his father, Charles E. We~t, and his mother also, had their being. For several generations the Wests had Pl.iladelphia for their birth-place, tracing their earlier pedigree amid the good people of Intle Delaware. The present Civil Counsellor of the Quaker city received his early training in the Central High School, from whence have graduated so many successful public men; but was subsequently educated in the higher branches of learning by private tutors. In 1857 he began the study of conveyancing in the office of S. W. William H. McFadden. «f » William Baldwin. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 33 Thackaray, and under that gentleman's supervision he read through a course of real estate law. He remained with Mr. Thackaray for five years, and then hung up his own sign as a conveyancer, soon securing a very profitable business. He had offices in conjunction with C. Stewart Patterson, Esq., and in 1865 he registered with that gentleman as a law student. He was admitted to the bar in 1868, and was subsequently entered as a practi- tioner in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of the United States. In the Republican City Convention that met on December 8th, 1876, to nominate a Mayor, Re- ceiver of Taxes and City Solicitor, Mr. West was nominated for the latter position on the first ballot, his opponents being Charles H. T. CoUis and Wil- liam V. Johnson. William S. Stokley was nomi- nated lor Mayor, and the Democrats and Inde- pendents selected Joseph L. Caven as his opponent. Through all the acrimonious debate of the memor- able contest that ensued, Mr. West passed un- scathed, and in February, 1877, he was elected by 7,548- majority over David W. Sellers, leading all his colleagues on the ticket ; Mr. Stokley by 4,793 votes, and Albert C. Roberts, the Republican can- didate for Receiver of Taxes, by 3,261 votes. At the spring election of 1881 Mr. West was again the Republican candidate for City Solicitor, and from the heated canvass that had preceded — a canvass made famous by the fact that it was the first in which the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred participated — he emerged without the shadow of a smirch, and was elected by a largely increased majority over Edward R. Worrell. He was the only candidate on the Republican ticket who was elected. Mr. Stokley was defeated for the Mayor- alty, John Hunter discomfited the Republican can- didate for Receiver of Taxes with his majority of 26,586 votes, but Mr. West was victorious with a balance of 20,459 votes to his credit. His administration of his office has been pheno- menally active. It was only after he had assumed the duties of the position that it attained its present prominence. During his incumbency a multitude of public questions have been brought to him for an official answer, and the reply has always been prompt, and it is an indisputable fact that he has advised the departments more closely than any of his predecessors. Although kept busy by his offi- cial duties Mr. WVst has an enviable private client- age, his real estate. Orphans' Court and corporation practice being particularly large. His authorship of "A Digest of Laws and Ordinances of the City of Philadelphia," published in 1882, is one of the best testimonials to his powers as a legal analyst. S Mr. West's present term of office does not expire until .-Vpril 1st, 18S4. A Y L O R, WILLIAM MARSHALL, Register of Wills, was born January iSth, 1 83 1, in Germantown, on the historic Chew estate. His early school-days were passed in the old Concord School-house, a Revolutionary relic which still stands on Main street, above Washington lane. He next attended the Riltenhouse Grammar School. Upon graduating he was apprenticed to Godfred liender, to learn the trade of ladies' shoemaking, a promi- nent industry of Germantown in those days. In 1854 he was appointed by Robert T. Conrad, first mayor of the city under the Consolidation act, a patrolman on the new police force. Four years later he was appointed Lieutenant of Police of the Germantown district by Mayor Alexander Henry. Mr. Taylor had not sought the position, but his selection was proven to have been a judicious one. He resigned, however, after eighteen months ser- vice, to accept the position of Registrar for the Germantown Gas Works. The war breaking out soon after he entered upon his new duties, Mr. Taylor left his place and aided in forming a com- pany of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsylva- nia regiment. Colonel Langhorne Wistar, and was sworn in as Fiist Lieutenant under Captain A. C. Widdis. The company, which was recruited en- tirely in Germantown, participated in many battles, and at Gettysburg left many of its members dead upon the field. Upon the completion of his term of service. Lieutenant Taylor returned to German- town and entered into the shoe business, in which he continued for five years. He renewed his in- terest in politics, and represented his ward, the Twenty-second, in the Republican City Committee until his election to the office of Register of Wills. In 1877 Mr. Taylor was selected by Chief- Engineer William H. McFadden for the position of Registrar of the Water Department. As in the case of his appointment as Registrar of the Ger- mantown Gas Works, the tender of this latter posi- tion was a voluntary act on the part of Chief McFadden, and unsolicited by Mr. Taylor, his particular recommendation being his well-known fitness to di^charge the duties with profit to the department and credit to himself. The good record he made as Registrar of the Water Depart- ment is still fresh in public recollection. He in- stituted and carried out many reforms, principal of which were the collection of a large amount of 34 MEN' OF AMERICA. dflinr|uent water-rents and the detection of a sys- ; Samuel early evinced an aptitude for study, and Icni of peculaiiun carried on by a clique of dis- | was carefully educated at a select school until h'S hunrst clerks, several of whom were sentenced lo , twelfth year, when he enlercd the Friends" Uo.iid- the pcniler.ti..ry. I ing-school at Westtown. Here he made such h was not surprising then thai, in 1879, when rapid progress, thai at the end of eighteen months he was nominated, uiihout op)x>siiion, for Register he stood at the head of the senior cla^s. He w.is of Wills, he was elected over Thomas Greenbank, ! then sent to school in Germantown to perfect him- his Democratic opponent, by the very flattering self in the classics, but cluse application so injured majority of 29,257, the vote being: Taylor, 73,926; his health that he was forced to return home, Greenbank, 44,669. At this same election Mr. , where he remained for several years upon the old Taylor received the largest m.ijority that was ever 1 homestead. given to a candidate in ihe Twenty-second Ward. Convinced that his health required an active out- In the office of Register of Wills, Mr. Taylor dis- door occupation, young .Smcdley determined lo played marked ability and served until January I adopt the profession of surveying, which was con- isl, 1SS3, when he was succeeded by Walter E. genial lo his tastes, a love for which he inherited, Rex. Resuming the life of a priv.-.te citizen, Mr. his Lighlfoot ancestors having been surveyors. Taylor took with him into retirement the esteem : Accordingly, in the spring of 1853, he engaged of all w iih whom he had come inlo contact in his with Joseph Fox, a noted city surveyor, who official capacity, and the proud consciousness of having performed his duties faithfully and credit- ably. Mr. Taylor's success, since his advent in politics, is largely due to a reputation which he earned for his devotion to his friends, of whom he had many, and to whom his word for a good deed was always as good as his bond. had laid out most of ihe northern portion of the city, and had then recently been engaged lo extend the city plan on the west side of the Schuylkill. Possessed of mathematical talent, and being an apt draughtsman, Mr. .Smedley soim mastered the minutix of his profession, and his promotion was rapid. In 1856 he had gained such reputation that he was engaged by the Com- missioners of Blockley to lay out the streets in that township. He also carried on conveyancing and entered largely inlo the purchase and sale of real estate, which the rapid growth of the western sec- lion of the city made quite profitable. About this time he published a complete atlas of the City of Philadelphia, a laborious and expensive undertak- is the youngest of three sons of Samuel I ing, bul one which was very successful, and the 'MEDLEY, SAMUEL LIGHTFOOT, Chief-Engineer and Surveyor, was born in Edgemont township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, December 29th, 1832. He L. and Hannah Smedley, and is de- scended from ancestors of the faith of William Penn, who came from Derbyshire, England, in 16S2. Other descendants of George Smedley, the first to come to America, continue to till the soil where he first cleared out the forest. Mr. Smed- ley's mother was, in her maiden years, Hannah book remains to this day a standard work for con- veyancers, and is highly prized by them. In 1S58 Mr. Smedley was elected a member of the Board of Surveyors, and was subsequently chosen by the people of the district for three terms of five years each. In 1871 his name was presented to the Republi- Pennell, daughter of Joseph Penncll, a descendant can Stale Convention as a candidate for the posi- of Robert Pennell, who came from Nottingham- \ tion of Surveyor-General of the State. The novelty shire in 1684. Samuel L. Smedley, Sr., was : of naming a professional surveyor for that position educated beyond most men of his locality. He was i met with much favor, but Ihe policy of placing sol- prominent in the community in which he lived as | dicrs upon the ticket prevailed, and General a teacher and malhematician, and besides his in- ! Robert B. Beath was nominated and elected, he heriled occupation of farming carried on surveying being the last to hold the office, as by the provi- and conveyancing. He died at the age of thirty- sions of ihe new Constitution it was merged into six, when the subject of this sketch was in his that of Secretary of Internal Affairs. In 1872 Mr. second year. His widow was a woman of energy, Smedley was elected by Ihe City Councils lo ihe and believing ii to be to the advantage of her family responsible office of Chief-Engineer and Surveyor, to continue on the paternal homestead, took the the position he now holds, having been chosen for care of the farm upon herself and managed its the third lime in March, 1SS2, his present term aflairs successfully until relieved by her sons. I expiring in 1887. In this position he has had THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 35 charge of mnny extensive publ'.c works, among which have been the building of Penrose Ferry bridge, and the Fairmount and Girard avenue bridges, and numerous smaller ones over railroads, canals and other streams within the limits of the city. Mr. Smedley in 1865 visited Europe on a tour of recreation and study, and returned impressed with the thought that Philadelphia, to keep pace with other great cities, should avail herself of her great natural advantages for establishing a grand park for the enjoyment of the people, and he entered with enthusiasm into the project of secur- ing Lansdowne, an estate of one hundred and fifty acres, from its English owners, as a nucleus for the park, and was largely instrumental in bringing about the purchase of that beautiful section of land as a pleasure-ground for the public. He was appointed by the Park Commissioners lo make the original surveys of the territory embmced in the Park, and many of the walks and drives therein were designed and laid out by him. Since 1872, as a Park Commissioner, by virtue of his office, he has been active in securing improvements to the territory under the control of the Board. A pet scheme of Mr. Smedley, and one which he hopes to have carried oiit before many years, is the construction of a gravity railroad in the Park, by which people can be conveyed around and through the western section so as to bring the grand views within the reach of the m.nsses. The road has been carefully designed and located, but various obstacles have so far prevented its construc- tion. Mr. Smedley has been a member of the Histori- cal Society of Pennsylvania since 1S57, and for fourteen years was Recording Secretary of the association. He has taken much interest in local history and genealogy, and has collected a large number of the records of his own family, which became of special interest during the Bi-Centennial year. He is also a member of the Numismatic and Antiqu irian Society of Philadelphia; honorary member of the Delaware County Institute of .Science ; member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Franklin Institute, and of the West Philadelphia Institute; of the latter he was for many years a director and secretary. In addition he is a member of the American Pul)lic Health Association, of the Executive Commiitee of the Philadelphia Social Science Association, the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and of the Union League and other political clubs. In religion he is a member of the Society of Fi lends, Orthodox, as his ancestors have been from the first settlement of the Stale. Mr. Smedley is unmarried and lives in West Phila- delphia, with which section of the city he h.is long been identified. RUMBHAAR, CHARLES H., City Com- missioner, was born in Philadelphia, May 13th, 1S48. His father was Lewis Krumbhaar, a German, and his mother was of Scotch lineage. Young Krumb- haar at the age of ten years was placed in the private academy at Broad and Arch streets, over which Thomas Baldwin presided, and which he attended five years. He was then placed under the care of Samuel Cleveland, afterward a Profes- sor in the University of Pennsylvania. At the age of seventeen he began the study of law in the ofiice of John M. Thomas, Esq., a son-in-law of Charles Ingersoll, Esq., passed the Board of Ex- aminers before of age, and on July loth, 1S69, was admitted to the bar. He turned his attention to the civil branch of the profession. A Democrat from his birth, Mr. Krumbhaar first took a prominent part in political affairs in 1873. In 1875 he joined the " Reform Club," in which organization he was elected a governor and chair- man of the House committee. In the fall of that year, John C. Martin, uncle of Mr. Krumbhaar, the Republican member of Common Council from the Eighth Ward, died. The Republicans nominated William G. King to fill the vacancy, and the Dem- ocrats placed Mr. Krumbhaar in the field. The Municipal Reform Association indorsed him, and although the Eighth Ward was Republican by 800 majority, Mr. Krumbhaar was elected by about 600 majority. President Caven, recognizing the qualifications of the new member, assigned Mr. Krumbhaar to such important committees as Centennial, Police, W.iter, Fire and Gas. He proved a valuable mem- ber of these committees, and in them as well as in general councilmanic woik was an earnest advo- cate of reform measures. He introduced a resolu- tion to impeach Samuel Hancock, then City Con- troller, but the resolution was defeated by two or three votes, and the purification of the Controller's ofiice was postponed. He w.as prominent in the investigation of the Wentz Farm Reservoir and Lardner Point Water Works jobs, and also the Hart Creek sewer examination. He instigated the inquiry into the management of the Tax office, and presented a report condemning the methods then in vogue therein. He urged the abolition of the 36 MEN OF AMF.RICA. office of Collector of Delinquent Taxes, and was tlie first to call atlemion to the enormous fees and double commissions filched from the revenues of that oflficc. From this action resulted the present complete system of the receiving, entering and re- turning of taxes, the ordinance for which was drafted at the instance and under the supervision of Mr. Krumbhaar, and passed mainly through his exertion. When his term in the Common Council had ex- pired, Mr. Krumbhaar declined renomination and devoted himself entirely to the practice of his pro- •fession, securing amongst other clients railroad and iron companies, and being intrusted with the sett- ling of several large estates. When the Ciiizens' Committee of One Hundred sprang into existence, Mr. Krumljhaar was naturally looked to as a man whose record guaranteed his fitness for responsible position in the city government, and in January, l8Sl, he was brought out with Hampton L. Carson, an Independent Republican, as a Citizens' candi- date for the office of City Commissioner. The Republicans nominated William Douglass and Wil- liam Lawson ; and the Democrats, John C; McMen- amin,lhen holding the office, and David Haggarty. Douglass, Lawson and Krumbharr received the highest number of votes and were declared elected, Carson running ahead of the Democratic candi- dates. The vote was Douglass, 45,706; Lawson, 47,096; McMenamin, 19,097; Hagg.irty, 32,137; Carson, 32,173, and Krumbhaar, 37,730. JOUGL.ASS, WnXI.\M S., one of the City Commissioners, was born August 2d, 1845, in the old District of Soulh- wark. He attended the public schools for a few years, and, when still young, engaged with E. Greble & Co., marble cutters, on Chestnut street, to learn the trade. During the Rebellion he served in the United States Navy, being aitached for a while to the West Gulf Squadron, under Admiral Farragut. At the close of the war he resumed the occupation of marble cutter, and became a member of ihe firm of Douglass Brothers, marble masons, who have been engaged for several years in contracts for slone work for the Public Buildings. In 1874 he was Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives at Harrisburg, and served as a member of the House from 1876 to 1878. He is now serving his second term as Commissioner, having been elected in November, iSS^, with Messrs. Krumbhaar and Lawson, when he received 45,706 voles, and was the second highest of six candidates. AWSON. Wn,LL\M, Cily Commissioner, was born in Ireland, July 17th, 1833. He is of Scotch-Irish parentage, his family originally being from the Midlothian dis- trict in Scotland. He is the oldest son of Alexander Lawson and Mary A. Wil- son, who were marrietown, Maiylaml. U|)on the eleciion of Judge Taxs.in to the Supreme bench, Mr. liiddle w.-is ap|>ointed, January lilh, l!i75, by Goveinor liartranft, to liil the vacant ch.iir ill ihe Common Picas, greally lo the salisfac- tion of the bar and the general jjublic. In the suc- ceeding June he was nominated as ihe Republican candidate for the full term and against an excellent Dciiiocratic nominee, E. Coppee Mitchell, Esq., receiving the highest majority on the ticket. Mr. Biddle's piivate tastes are very |)leasing; he acted for some years President of the Philadelphia Agri- cultural Society, and Vice-President of the Histori- cal Society. >ARE, JOHN IXNIS CLARK, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas No. 2, wa.s bom in the month of October, 1817, and is the .son of Dr. Robert Hare, a celebrated chemist, who was Profes.sor of Chemi.slry of the University of Pcnn- sj'lvania for many years, and the author of " Hare's Chemistry," one of the most authoritative and ex- haustive works on that subject ever published. Judge Hare's mother was Miss Clark, of Rhode Island, a daughter of John Innis Clark, after whom Judge Hare was named. Judge Hare was edu- cated at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated. For some lime after his collegiate course he was engaged in the study of chemistry under his distinguished father, and in pursuance tticreof was .absent in Europe for a period. Re- lurninv; home he studied law with the Late Hon. William M. Meredith, and was admitted to practise Septeml>er 9th, 184I. Soon after his admission he man led a daughter of Hor.ace Binney. In 1 85 1 he was nominated on the Whig ticket for Associate Judge of the Di-itrict Court, and elected by a large majority. He served ten years, and was reelected in 1S61, and in 1868 resigned as As'sociite to accept the President Judgeship, from which )y)sition he was transferred January 4th, 1875, to the President Judgeship of the Court of Common Pleas No. 2, and was re-elected No- vember Sih, 1S78. Early in his judicial career Judge Hare became one of the Amciican Editors of '• Smith's I,eadiii<» Cases," and he was also the American Editor of "White and Tudor's Leading Cases in E(iui:y," and edited ether legal works. Since June, 1S6S, he has been Professor of Institutes of Law in the University of Pennsylvania. ITCHELL, JAMES TVNDALE, Asso- ciate Judge of the Court of Common Plcis No. 2, was born in Philadelphia, November 9th, 1834, and graduateil at the Central High School, afterwards en- tering Harvard University, and graduat- ing in the clas^ of 1S55 with high rank. His class- mates were such men as Attorney-General Barlow, of New Vork, General Joseph Hayes, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Rev. James K. Husmer, Professor Alexan- der Aga-siz, and others who achieved distinction. He then entered the office of George W. Biddic, Esq.. studied law, and w.as admitted to bar Novem- ber loth, 1857, graduating from the Law Depart- ment of the University in 1858. He was Assistant City Solicitor, under Hon. Charles E. Lex, from 1S59 to 1862, and edited American Law Register from 1851 to 1871. He edited "Williams on Real Estate." In October, i87l,he was elected Judge of the District Court, and was iransfened January 4th, 1875, to the Common Pleas No. 2. On July 141I1, 18S1, he was nominated for re-election by the Democrats, and September 29th he was nominated by the Republicans, and unanimously re-elected in November, 1881. Previous to his elevation to the bench Judge Mitchell was engaged on an exhaustive digist of the " Pennsylvania State Reports." «ELL, DAVID NEWLIN, As.snciate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas No. 2, is a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Hyf'^ where he was born, November, 1S40. ^^?) He graduated at the State Normal School, and at the conclusion of the term re- moved to Philadel|ihia, and began the study of the law in the office of his brother, William W\ Fell, Esq. In 1S62 he entered the army and received commission as Major of the One Hundred and Twenty-second regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. THE CITV GOVERNMENT. He was admitted a member of the Philadelphia bar, March 17th, 1866. He was elected a member of Council in February, 1876, upon the Republican and Cilizen^' licket, and was also appointed by Governor Haitranft a member of the Municipal Commission. On May 3d, 1877, upon the death of Judge Pratt, Mr. Fell was .selected by Governor llartranft to fill the vacancy, and in the following November was elected upon the Republican ticket to the term of ten years, which he is at present servinpj. jUDLOW, JAME.S R., President Judge of Court of Common Pleas No. 3, was born at Albany, New York, May 3d, 1825. He is a son of Rev. John Lud- low, D. D., LL. D., for nearly twenty years Provost of the University of Penn- sylvania, from which institution he graduated with distinction, in July, 1843. Hiving made choice of the legal profession he entered in the same month the office of Hon. William M. Meredith, President of the Constitutional Convention of 1873, and fur many years a leading lawyer in Penn.sylva- nia. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1846, and for eleven years engaged in a general practice. During this time he manifested an active interest in politics, acting with and occupying a prominent position in the old Democratic party of the city. At one time he was Chairman of its Executive Committee, and has served as a Delegate to State Conventions. In October, 1857, he was elected a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Phila- delphia, for the term of ten years ; at the end of which time, in October, 1867, he was re-elected for another term of ten years; and when the New Constitution took effect, by the provisions of which the old courts were abolished. Judge Ludlow, who was Senior Associate of the old Common Pleas, was transferred, January 4th, 1875, to the new Court of Common Pleas No. I, of which he be- came President Judge, a position to which he was re-elected for ten years, November loth, 1877. jINLETTER, THOMAS KNIGHT, Asso- ciate Judge of Court of Common Pleas No. 3, is the son of Thomas and Mar- garet (Dickson) Finletter. The family is originally of Scotch extraction, but settled in Ireland. His father emigrated to .\mcnca about 1S12, and established himself in 43 business as manufacturer of cotton and woollen go ids, in Philadelphia, in which city Thomas K. Finlelter was born. He received his preliminary education in this city ; subsequently he went to Lafayette College at Easton, and finally removed to the University of Pennsylvania, where he grad- uaieil about the year 1844. He studied law under the 'Hon. William A. Porter, afterwards Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1846. In 1849 he became a member of the State Legislature, and served during two sessions. While in the Legi-.lature, and dur- ing the session of 1849, ^^ introduced a bill known as the " Ten Hours' Bill," for regulating the hours of labor in factories, and the age at which children should be admitted to work in the same. This bill became a law during the same session. From 1849 to 1854 he also served as a School Director for the District of the Northern Liberties. In i860 he was appointed Assistant City Solicitor, assigned to the department of the Guardians of the Poor, which position he held until 1865, in which year he resumed the private practice of his profession, and continued until 1870, when he was elected Judge of the old Court of Common Pleas. Shortly after his promotion to the judicial bench he re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Laws from the Jefferson College of Philadelphia. He was mar- ried, in 1S59, to Martha M., daughter of Archibald Mcllroy, a prominent citizen and manufacturer of Philadelphia. By the terms of the New Constitu- tion Judge Finletter, on January 4th, 1875, was transferred from the old Common Pleas to be Asso- ciate Judge of Court of Common Pleas No. 3, to which position he was re-elected for a term of ten years, November 2d, 1S80. ^"ll^ERKES, WILLIAM HARMAN, Asso- ciate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas No. 3, was born in Moreland township, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania. He received his preliminary edu- cation at Treemount .Academy, under the tuition of the Rev. Samuel Ansons, and graduated at Lewisburg College. He entered the law oftice of Daniel H. Mulvany, Esq., of Norrislown, and was admitted to practise in 1859. Upon the break- ing out of the war of the Rebellion he joined the Fourth Pennsylvania regiment, of the three months contingent, under Colonel John F. Haitranft, and upon the ex]iiiation of that term of service re- enlisted, under the same commander, in the Fifty- first regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. In both 44 MKN OF AMERICA. these regiment; he was enrolled as private, but wns subsequently a|i|>oiiiteil Major of the One Hun(lri.d ami Sevmty-ninth regiment Pennsylvania Volun- teers, in which he served until the spring of 1864. He was a'isigned to duty as Deputy Provo-t, and afterwards I'rovost Marshal of the Sixth District, which post he filled until his final discharge from the service in the fall of 1S65. He then returned lo the practice of the law, opening his office in Philadelphia, and was appointed Assistant City Solicitor by Charles H. T. Collis, Esq. He was subsequently chosen Park Solicitor, and July 1st, 1S76, upon the death of Judije Lynd, was selected by Governor llartranft to fill the vacancy on the bench. In the fall if that year, November 7th, he was elected for the full term upon the Republican ticket, and still occupies the position. 'HAYER, MARTIN RUSSELL, Presi- dent Judge Court of Common Pleas No. "jWI 4, was born at Petersburg, Virginia, Jan- Jk^^C uary 27th, 1819. His parents were Mar- Cr(t)'' tin Thayer and Mary Call Russell, the former being a lineal descendant, in the sixth generation, from Richard Thayer, who came lo lioston with Winthrop, Dudley, and other foun- ders of that city, in 1630. The family came from the county Essex, England. Martin Thayer re- moved to Petersburg, Virginia, at the age of twenty. Martin Russell Thayer was his third son. Losing his mother when hardly two years old, his nurture and early education were intrusted to a maiden aunt, Martha Russell, a woman of very thorough education, of many accomplishments, of strong re- ligious sentiments, who bestowed upon him exem- plary care. When nine years old he was sent to Mount Pleasant Classical Institution, Amherst, Massachusetts; subsequently he studied at Am- herst College for a year. His father having in the meantime taken up his residence at Philadelphia, he removed thither, and entered the Sophomore Class in the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1S40, delivering the Valedictor)- Ad- dress. Having adopted the law as his profession, he became a student of the late Hon. Garrick Mai lery, and was admitted September 5th, 1842. He pursued his profession with success in Philadelphia until Jhe autumn of 1862, when he was elected a member of Congress from the Fifth District. In 1S64 he was re-elected, but at the end of his second term he declined renomination, and resumed his law practice. In 1S67 he w,as appointed a Judge of the old District Court, to till a vacancy, and in 1S6S wns elected a Judge of the same Court for ten years, and was transferred, January 4th, 1S75, pursuant to the provisions of the New Cunsiiiulion, from the old District Court, of which he was then Senior Associate, to the Court of Common Pleas No. 3, became Prcident Judge thereof, and was re-elected for another term of ten years November 5th, 1878. In 1S62 Judge Thayer was one of the Commis- sioners to revise the Revenue Laws of Pennsylvania. As a member of Congress he was an active worker, and took part in nao .t of the debates on important measures. He was Chairman of the Committee on Land Claims, and a member of the Special Committee which reported the Bankrupt Law. Judge Thayer is an author, and has contributed sev- eral valuable works to literature, among others being one on "The Law Considered as a Progressive Science," and "The Duties of Citizenship." In 1873 .I"<'g<^ Thayer was Presiilent of the Board of Visitors to the West Point Military Academy, and the report on that institution, made that year to the Secretary of War, was Judge Thayer's handiwork. RIGGS, AMOS, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, was born in Pennsbury Manor, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 22d, 1825. His father w.as John Biiggs, a native of New Jersey, who went to Bucks county at the .age of sixteen years, and a lew years later married Sarah While, of Pennsbury Manor. Amos w.as educated at the day-schools of the place, and at the age of eighteen years and six months began teaching school, which he continued until he was twenty-one years old. Then, August l6th, 1846, he entered the law office of William R. Dickerson, Esq., as a student, and left it at the end of one year and one month, and entered the office of the late Theodore Cuyler, Esq., wiih whom he studied also for just one year and one month, and was then, on motion of Mr. Cuyler, October 19th, 184S, admiited to practise in the Philadelphia courts, continuing at the bar as a successful lawyer until October, 1S72, when he was elected by the Republican party a Judge of the District Court, taking his seal in December, 1872, and was trans- ferred January 5th, 1875, '" '''<= Court of Common Pleas No. 4, where he served until the expiration of his term of ten years. In the fall of 18S2 he was renominated by the Kepublicans for the same |i<>silion, but w.as defeated by Hon. Mich.ael Ar- nold, the Democratic candidate. Judge Briggs IHE CITV GOVERNMENT. 45 left the bench at the dose of the Bi -Centennial year, and resumed the practice of law with his son, Frank Briggs, as hii law partner. 'LCOCK, THOM.A..S ROBERT, Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, was born in Philadelphia, in the old Northern Liberties section, August l6th, 1838. lie is the son of John Elcock and Margaret Kelly. His edu- cation was commenced in the public schools, and completed under private tutois, and he succe.--sively attended the Madison Grammar and the Central High Schools, and Villa Nova College. His studies were interrupted Ijy a long and severe spell of .sickness, and he spent four years on a farm at Busileton, Philadelphia county, finishing his edu- cntion at the hands of private tutors in 1S57, when he entered the law office of Hon. F. Carroll Brews- ter, where he passed through a thorough legal course of instruction, and was admitted to the bar, September Sth, 1S59. He remained with his pre- ceptor as an assistant until Mr. Brewster was made a Judge, and then Mr. Elcock succeeded to his prac- tice and kept it until he was himself elected Judge, in October, 1874. Politically he is a Democrat. The New Constitution provided that two addi- tional judges should be elected in Philadelphia, in 1874, to make up the full complement of the four courts as remodelled. Judge Elcock was selected as one from a large number of lawyers, who were well qualified, as a man possessing all the requisites for a judicial position, and Judge Pr.att was selected as the other, and both were nominated and elected. They drew lots for courts, and Judge Pratt became attached to the Common Pleas No. 2, and Judge Elcock to No. 4, where he took his seat, January 1st, 1875, for a term of ten years. ANNA, WILLIAM BRANTLY, Presi- dent Judge of the Orphans' Court of this cily, was born in the old District of .Southwark, Philadelphia, on the 23d of November, 1835. His parents were John Hanna, the prominent lawyer, and Clementina Hanna. He was educated in private as well as in the public schools of this city, and in July, 1849, after completing a four years' course, he graduated from the Central High School. He studied law in the office of his father, and was a graduate of the Law Department of Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar on November I4lh, 1S57. He then practised at his profession until elected one of the first three Judges of the Orphans' Court, as established under the New Constitution. This election, at which Judges Dwight and O'Brien were also elected, took place in Novem- ber, 1874, and Judge Hanna took his seat on the 1st of January, 1875, for a term of ten years. On June 3d, 187S, he was commissioned by Governor Hartranft to be President Judge of the Court. .Soon after his admission to the bar. Judge Hanna became an Assistant under District- Attorney Mann, but subsequently resigned, however, to resume prac- tice. In October, 1867, he was elected to the Com- I mon Council from the Tenth Ward, for a term of two years, and while serving there he wa.s elected to Select Council for three years. He was then re-elected and served until he resigned to go upon the bench in the Orphans' Court. In October, 1872, while in Select Council, he was elected to the Constitutional Convention from the Second Senatorial District of Philadelphia, and served in that body until the adjournment of the Convention. While in Councils, Judge Hanna was a very active member. He served on most of the important committees, being Chairman of the Committee of Fire and Trusts, which had jurisdiction over the old Volunteer Fire Department. He was the au- thor of a number of important measures, including the ordinance for the abolition of the old Volunteer Fire Department, and the org.mization of the pres- ent paid system. He also drew up the ordinance providing for the numbering of vehicles, as well as that under which the city is divided into the pres- ent police districts, the police force increased, and the ranking of officers. ENROSE, CLEMENT BIDDLE, Asso- ciate Judge of the Orphans' Court, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October 27th, 1832. His parents were Charles Bingham Penrose and Valeria Biddle. In 1841 his father, a prominent lawyer of that time, was appointed Solicitor of the Treas- ury, at Washington, by President Harrison, and continued as .such by President Tyler. The family remained in Washington, young Penrose going to school there from 1841 to 1S45, when, upon remov- ing back to Lancaster, he entered, as a pupil, the Franklin College, of which Frederick A. Muhlen- burg, now Professor of Greek at the L'nivcrsity of Pennsylvania, was piincipal. In 1847 the family came to Philadelphia, and the son entered the 46 MEN OF AMERICA. Sophomore class of the Universily of Tcnnsylvania, from which he grailualcil on July 3(1, 1S50, the mm()n Pleas of Lehigh and Northampton coun- ties, from 1857 untd 1S61. Mr. Findlay has always been a staunch Demo- crat, and was elected Magistrate of Court No. 2 by that party in February, 1S80, receiving 30,709 votes. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian. He has been married twice, and has one child living. liOWN, J.\MES LAURENCE, Magis- trate of Court Nil. 3, was born in Phila- delphia, September 1st, 1840. His father was James L. Brown, a prom- inent dealer and shipper of provisions. James was first taught in the Ringgold Grammar School, at Eighth and Fitzwater streets, which he left to attend the Arcadian Institute, at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. When he was yet young his father died, and he took charge of the busines-i, and conducted it until he was appointed a Purveyor of the Water Depart- ment. Mr. IJrown was afterwards appointed Lieu- tenant of the .Seventeenth Police District by Mayor Stokley, and held that office until June 1st, 1S81, when Governor Hoyt named him for Magistrate, Court No. 3, to fill the unexpired term of Henry Everly, deceased. In February, 18S2, he was nominated fiir the s.ime position by the Republi- cans. William Eisenbrown was the Democratic candidate. After a spirited campaign he was elected, defeating his opponent by a majority of 535 votes. He has alw.ays been an earnest •worker in the Republican party, and is a member of the Union Republican Club. He was a member of the School Board of the First Section for six years, during two years of which time he held the office of President of that body. Mr. Brown is a member of Melita Lodge, No. 295, F. & A. M.; Pennsylvania Lodge, No. I, Knights of Birmingham; Spring Garden Lodge, A. O. U. W., and Corinthian Senate, No. 9, Order of Sparta. He is also a contributing member of Dupont Post, No. 24, G. A. R. In religion he is a Methodist. On June 27th, 1858, Mr. Blown was married to Susannih Newsom, of Philadelphia They have had seven children, four of whom are now living. He resides at No. 1009 Tasker street. i -■'> [ROLLINS, HUGH, Magistrate of Court No. 4, was born in Leek Patrick, County Tyrone, Ireland, April 7, 1829, and came to America and settled in Philadelphia in 1844. He located in the old Moya- mcnsing district, and before the consol- idation was one of the watchmen in the section, serving contemporaneously with Colonel Joshua Taggart, afterwards a prominent detective officer. Subsequently Mr. Collins was elected Constable for Alderman Joseph Encu, and for a time served as Messenger of the Common Council. For ten years he was an Alderman of the Second Ward, and in 18S0 was elected one of the Police Mng- istrates. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Americus Club. In the old Volunteer Fire Depart- ment days he was an active member of the Moya- mensing Hose Company. ^^l|lST, WILLIAM HENRY, Magistrate of Court No. 5, is the son of John List and Jane Welsh, both of Philadelphia, and was born in that city, November ist, 1844. He received a common school edu- cation, attending Mount Vernon Gram- mar School. He afterwards studied in a Law office, and later on engaged in the bu-.iness of convey- nncing, which he still continues in conjunction with his magisterial duties. During the war Mr. List was a member of Colonel Day's Blue Re- serves, serving as Corporal in Company B, Thirty- second regiment Pennsylvania Militia, which w.ns called into the service during the rebel invasion. Mr. List is prominently connected with secret orders. He is Past Master and a Trustee of Washington Lodge, No. 59, F. & A. M.; a mem- ber of Harmony Chapter, and is Past Eminent Commander and Recorder of Philadelphia Com- mandery. No. 2, Knights Templar. He is Past Noble Grand of 'Justice Lodge, No. 186, and a member of the Grand Lodge of I. O. of O. F., and is Treasurer of West Philadelphia Lodge, No. 9, K. of B. He is a member of Pennsylvania Lodge, No. 57, American Legion of Honor, and of Quaker City Lodge, No. 116, A. O. U. W. Mr. List is a Republican, and in Februaiy, :SSo, was elected Magistrate of Court No. 5, by that parly. In religion he is a Baptist. On September 48 MEN OF AMERICA. Qlh, 1S65, he was married to Ella Murdoch, and is the father of seven children, three boys and four girls, all of whom arc living exccjjt one of the boys. •ARTIN, JOHN B., Magistrate of Court No. 6, was born in Philadelphia, April 6ih, 1833. John attended the public schools, and at an early age entered the house of Wise, Thomas & Co., ship chandlers and manufacturers of rope, of which firm his father w.is a partner. Subsequently he entered the printing establishment of Silas A. George, where he worked at the case for several years, and then obtained employment as book- keeper with r. Hohannan, a coal merchant. For fifteen years he held a simihir position in the counting-house of Dr. U. Jayne & Son, druggists, leaving there in 1881. He is a Democrat and held a clerkship in the Recorder's Office during the term of Albert D. Boileau, and in February, iSSo, was elected Magistrate. fcCI.INTOCK, JOHN, Magistrate of Court No. 7, is the son of Mary and the late John McClinlock, and was born in Mon- treal, Canada, June 6th, 1833. His mother is still living at the age of ninety- two years. One year after his birth his family removed to Philadelphia, where the father became sexton of Kerr's Presbyterian Church, in which position he remained till the close of a life much honored for exemplary piety. The son's school experience, like that of many of our most estimable citizens, was limited to about three years, spent mainly at the Southwestern Grammar School. The father was a weaver, and poor, and young John's opportunities of education were seriously interrupted at the age of ten years by his employ- ment, duiing the summer months, in a brick-yard, in which toilsome occupation he remained until the year 1856. At the age of twenty he was mar- ried to Sar.ih Standring, of Philadelphii. In 1856 he was appointed to a responsible position in the Ciiy Gas Works by the hte John C. Cresson, nnd while there was elected President of the old West- ern Fire Company (subsequently merged with the Fame), and continued at the head of the latter organization until the adoption of the new system. In the latter capacity he was an enthusiastic advo- cate of the introduction of steam fire-engines into the department, and was also a staunch supporter of the paid system now in existence. \Vhilc at the Gas Works he became an active member of the old Continental Guard, where he grew familiar with niil.tary tactics, of great service a few years later. In 1S62 Mr. .McC.iniock enlisted in the Keystone Battery, of Philadelphia, and went at once into active service in the field. At the end of a year he was mustered out, and shortly afterwards re-enlisted in the same battery as Orderly Sergeant, and was subsequently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Mr. McClinlock is a prominent Odd Fellowj and a member of the Masonic Order; he also belongs to the American Protestant Association, the Knighis of Honor, the A. O. U. W., and the Grand Army of the Republic. In religion he is a Presbyterian; in politics a Liberal Republican. He has been a prominent ofi'icial of the city for the past ten years. In October, 1872, he was elected an Alderman in the Sevenih Ward. After the abolition of the ofiice by the New Constitution, in 1874, he was elected one of the Magistrates of Philadelphia, and was re-elected in February, 1880. His popularity and efficiency are best attested by the fact that, in both the magisterial contests, lie was indorsed by the Union Le.igue and the Reform party, and in both contests he stood fouith highest among the twenty-four who were elected. MITII, ROBERT RICHARDSON, Mag- istrate of Court No. 8, was born in Phila- delphia, December 28th, 1833 ; his father being Levin Handy Smith and his mother Margaret M. Phillips, the great-grand- niece of General Macintosh, who distin- guished himself as a member of General Washing- ton's staff during the war of the revolution. Young Smith received an education such as the public schools of those days afforded, and at an early age was apprenticed to the trade of machinist and en- gineer, of which he gained a thorough knowledge, and which he followed until he entered upon a public life. Politically Mr. Smith has always been a staunch Republican, and when quite a young man took an active interest in the affairs of that party in the Eighth Ward, in which he was born and has always resided. His first political office was that of Constable, and although the emolu- ments of the position in those days were large, he promptly resigned upon the. breaking out of the rebellion, and on May 25th, l86i, enlisted as a private in the Second Pennsylvania Reserves, com- manded by Colonel William R. Mann. He took part in all of the important engagements partiti- ^ Charles F. Warwick. John L. Kinsey. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 49 pated in by that heroic organization, and at the b.illle of Antietam received a shell wound in the right leg which disabled him for some time. As soon as he was able to shoulder his musket he again went into active service. His bravery won for him the position of First Lieutenant of Company D, and he was subsequently breveted Captain of his Company by President Johnson. He was mus- tered out on June i6th, 1864. Returning home he renewed his interest in political affajrs, and for a time held a position in the office of Recorder, dur- ing the administration of Joseph Eneu. Subse- quently he was elected Alderman of the Eighth Ward, and when the new constitution was adopted, creating Magistrates' Courts, his name was among the first mentioned as a candidate. His popularity easily won for him the nomination, and in the elec- tion which took place in the spring of 1S75 he was chosen by a handsome majority. He was re-elected in the spring of iSSo, running 726 votes ahead of his ticket. M.igistrate Smith is a brother of .State Senator George Handy Smith, and an active member of the Masonic fraternity, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Senate of Sparta, Knights of Bir- mingham, and Post 2, Grand Army of the Republic. jENNON, RICHARD JOHN, Magistrate of Court No. 9, was born in Philadelphia, April 13th, 1848. His parents were na- tives of Irel.md, who came to this country some years before Richard's birth. His father died when Richard was two ye.irs of age, and his support fell upon his mother during his early years. He received his education in the public schools, mainly in the old Zane Street Gram- mar School, and as soon as old enough went to work to relieve his mother, whom he provided for comfortably until her death in 1874. His first em- ployment was with Cornelius & Sons, gas chandelier manufacturers, with whom he remained eleven years. In 1877 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, by Sheriff William H. Wright, and held that posi- tion during that official's term. In February, iSSo, he was elected one of the eight Democratic Magistrates, receiving 30,631 votes, and took his seat April 5th of the same year. Always a Democrat, he has taken a very active interest in the affairs of th.it party. He was elected to the Ninth Section School Board in 1872, and served for three years. He was a Delegate to the State Convention of 1875 which nominated Hon. Cyrus L. Pershing for Governor, and to the 7 Conventions of 1876 and iSSo which named Presi- dential Electors. During the campaign of 1S80 he was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. Since then he has been a member of the City Executive Committee. In the days of the old Volunteer Department he was an active fireman, and was connected with the Washington Hose and Hook and Ladder Company. As a Magistrate Mr. Lennon is noted for his good judgment and equitable decisions, and the strict application of the principles of justice to the varied cases which come before him. He is un- married, and passes a considerable portion of his leisure time with his friends in the Americus Club, of which he is a prominent member. OLE, JOHN FREDERICK, Magistrate of Court No. 10, was born in Philadel- phia, January 8th, 1S42, on Race street, west of Fifteenth, where the Quaker Meeting House at present stands. He is what may be called an " old time Phila- delphian," all the family traditions being identified with the Quaker City. His education for the greater part was received at the Northwest Gram- mar School. When he left school he entered into the store of John H. Parker, retail grocer, at the corner of Eleventh and Market streets, where he remained a number of years. Upon the rise of the Republican party he adopted its principles, and has been one of its most constant and faithful adherents to the present day. In pursuance of his political aspirations, to which his long and active service in the interests of the Republicans had given him a claim, he became a candidate for Magistrate when that office was cre- ated under the constitution of 1874, and was elected by a handsome majority. For three years during this term he conducted the business at the Central Station, where, owing to the multitude of cases, prompt decision and clearness of perception are more absolutely necessary than in any other chair. In 1880 he was re-elected. In religious faith Magistrate Pole is a Baptist, and a member of the First Baptist Church, north- west comer Broad and Arch streets. He is also a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, in which organization he has held all the offices, and has been Representative to the Grand Lodge ; a mem- ber of Covenant Lodge, No. 456, A. Y. M. ; Pales, tine Royal Arch Chapter, No. 240; and PhiUadel- phia Commandery, No. 2, Scottish Rite. He has taken thirty-two degrees in Masonry, the whole 50 MEN OF AMERICA. nuni)>cr with one exception. In addition to those named ho is a niemlier of the Ancient Order of United Workmen ; of Curinlhian Senate, No. 9, Order of Sparta ; of the Knights of I irmingham ; ane, he has ardently advocated the princi- ples, and zealously worked in the interests, of his party. Besides serving as a delegate in several important Stale conventions, where his influence was always acknowledged and his opinions re- spected, he was a member of the common branch of City Councils for three successive terms, from 1S70 to 1876, representing the Twelfth Ward, which had been previously represented by his brother William. It was duiing the last term of his councilmanic service that the overthrow of the Ilenszey ring was accomplished, and in th.it memor- able conflict Mr. Ladner bore a conspicuous part. He was the caucus nominee of the Democrats of the body for President, and Joseph L. Caven was the reform candidate. Rising to the imporl.ance of the occasion, and filled with the spirit of Irue refurm and the necessity for honest municipal gov- ernment, Mr. Ladner gracefully withdrew in favor of Mr. Caven, and the latter was triumphantly elected. During part of his career as Councilman, from 1872 to 1873, Mr. Ladner was also a School Director, and rendered efiicicnt service in the cause of education. In 1S72 Louis J. Ladner was a dele- gate to the National Convention in Bahimore, which nomiiuated Horace Greeley for IVesident, and Allert was his alternate. Up to the year 1880, when he was chosen one of eight Democratic mag- istrates of the twenty- four elected for the whole city, Mr. Ladner had never enjoyed an office of emolument. His generous and genial character has led him into many beneficial and social socitties. He is a member of Columbia Lodge, No. 91, and Columbia Mark Lodge, No. 91, F. & A. M., Holy R..yal Arch Chapter, No. 52, Philadelphia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, Columbia Lodge, No. 62, Knights of Pythias, Spring Garden Lodge, No. 158, United Order of Workmen, Mohawk Tribe, No. 14, I. O. R. M., Olympian Senate, No. 15, Order of Sparta, the Young Mxnnerchor.Canstalter Volksfest Vcrcin, Philadelphia Rifle Club. Ameri- cus Club, the old Volunteer Fire Associatiim. and other organizations. The religion of the Ladner THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 51 family is Protestant, and all, including Albert, at- tend the German Lutheran Church on Franklin street below Vine. Mr. Ladner has been twice married : first in 1S66 to Henrietta Steinbach, of this city, who died in 1 87 1, and again in 1SS2 to Miss Emma Konzal- mann, of Philadelphia, by whom he has one child, a boy, born October 2lst, 1882, the two hundredth anniversary of the landing of William Pcnn. JUKENS, EZRA, Magistrate of Court No. 12, was born in Philadelphia, October I4lh, 1S37, and is a Hneal descendant of J.an Liiken, who came from Holland to this country in October, 1683, and located in Germantown. He is the son of Wil- liam Lukens and Edith Lukens, members of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends, in which the subject of this sketch holds a birthright mem- bership. Educated in the public schools of his day, and subsequently in the institutions of the So- ciety of Friends, young Ezra at an early age entered the wliolesale dry-goods house of Siter, Price & Co., 315 Market street, where he remained eleven years, holding various responsible positions. When the war of ihe rebellion broke out, Mr. Lukens joined the Independent City Guard, of which organization he was an active member for two years. Politically he has always been a consistent Re- public.m, and was one of the organizers of the Republican Invincibles in July, i860. Of this body he has been a member ever since, having held the position of President four years. Treasurer three years. Marshal on several occasions, and was Quartemia^ter during the last .State campaign. In 1871-72 he represented the Thirteenth Ward in the Republican City Committee ; was a member of the Republican State Committee in 1871-73, being Secretary during the first two years. He was a Delegate to the State Convention in 1 87 1, which nominated a candidate for Auditor-General, and also to the Convention which viominated General Beaver for Governor. In 1869 Mr. Lukens entered the office of George Eyster, As:>istant Treasurer of the United States, in which department he continued until February, 1875, when he was elected M.agistrate. In Feb- ruary, 1880, he was re-elected for an additional term of five years. He has for nine years been President of the Householders' Building Associa- tion ; is a prominent member of Quaker City Lodge, A. O. U. W. ; and Adelphi Senate, Order of Span a. Mr. Lukens married Maria F. Maddock, d. ughter of Edward F. Maddock, who was de- scended from Quaker stock, .and this union resulted in the birth of one child, a boy, now twelve years of age. ROWN, CHARLES, Magistrate of Court No. 13, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, August 15th, 1832, and is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father was William H. Brown, and his mother Bes- sie Logan, who came to this country shortly after Charles was born, and located in Moreland township, Montgomery county. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of his time, and devoted his early life to the pursuits of an agriculturist. His parents subse- quently removed to this city, and the young man soon took an active part in politics, casting his lines with the Republican party. In 1855 he entered the City Gas Works, where he continued for almost fifteen years. He was appointed to take the census for 1S70 in the district lying west of Broad and between Green and Poplar streets. In the same year he was called to the position of Inspector of the Health Board. During 1 87 1 -72-73 he was a member of the .School Board of the Fifteenth Sec- tion, and in 1S75 "'^^ elected Magistrate, and was re-elected in iSSo for a term of five years. Mr. Brown is a member of Lodge No. 2, F. & A. M. ; Keystone Chapter, No. 175; Mary Conimandery, No. 36, K. T. ; Spring Garden Lodge, No. 4, Knights of Birmingham; Spring Garden Lodge, United Workmen; Order of Sparta, and Hand-in- Hand Lodge, American Protestant Association, of which he is a Past-Master. Mr. Brown married Amanda W. Marple, and they have eleven children. HOMPSON, JOHN THATCHER, Magis- trate of Court No. 14, was born in Phila- delphia, June 27th, 1S40. On the pater- nal side he is descended from English stock, and on the maternal side, German. His parents were Joshua Thompson and Elizabeth Van Horn. He was educated in the public schools, and his early life was spent on his father's farm at Bustleton, a suburb of the city. Arriving at the age of twent\'-two years, he tired of agricultural pursuit-;, and ventured in the business of a grocer. At this time he became interested in 52 MF.N OF AMERICA. politics, joining the Rcpublicnn ranks. Three years behind the grocery counter satisfied the young man, and he accepted an appointment on the police force under Mayor Henry. Subse- quently he was m,ade Day-Inspector in the Custom House, a position which he held six years. His next public oflice was that of Superintendent of Highways for two years, under Chief Commis- sioners Hill and Baldwin. In Janu.iry, 187S, he was appointed by Governor Hartranft to fill a vacancy caused by death in the Board of Magis- trates, and at the spring election of that year was elected Magistrate to serve for a term of five years. Mr. Thompson is a member of Franklin Lodge, No. 134, Order of M.isons; Philadelphia Chapter; Ancient Order United Workmen, and Philudel- phia Relief Association. Mr. Thompson married Hettie, the daughter of Isaac Wells, of Bustleton. They have had eight children, four of whom are living. (<^ LLEN, JOSEPH SERINE, M.igistrate of Court No. 15, \v.-is born in Philadelphia, November iSth, 1830, and is descended from English stock, though his ancestors have been identified with the history of the city for many years previous to the Revolution. His great-grandfather was William Allen, one of the original owners of the ground now occupied by Independence Hall and Square, and also the pioneer of stage-coaches carrying passengers and freight between this city and New York. His grandfather w.is for many years Warden ol the old Walnut street prison. His parents were William Allen and Elizabeth Piercy, of New Jer- sey. Joseph attended the public schools, and in early life engaged in the business of butcher and grocer, which he continued until 1861, when he was appointed a letter-carrier. This position he retained for three years, when he was made Deputy-Sheriff under Sheriff Howell. After three years as Dep- uty-Sheriff, he eng.aged in the real estate business. In 1869 he was elected to the Common Council from the Eighteenth Ward, serving for a term of two years. In 1S71 he embarked in ship-building, and among the ^nany vessels he constructed was the " Salmon P. Chase," a revenue cutter, which was acknowledged to be the fastest sailer in the govern- ment service. In April, 1880, he was appointed Magistrate of Court No. 15, to fill a vacancy caused by death, and was subsequently elected to the posi- tion. Mr. Allen has .always been a staunch Re- publican, and has for ten years been a member of the City Executive Committee. He married Han- nah Parker, and they have one chiltl. ECKER, WILLIAM PETER. Magistrate of Court No. 16, is of Erench LXti.action, and was born in Ccntreville, Warwick township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, September 4th, 1S25. His home, how- ever, was soon changed to Philadelphia, where he received his education, and where he ac- quired the tr.ade of harnessm.iking. He made subsequent changes in his home : first, moving back to Bucks county, and afterwards to .Selma, Ala- bama; but, while still young, fixed his permanent residence in the city of his education, and has ever since been enrolled among her citizens. A Dem- ocrat by birth and inclination, he never changed his political opinions. In 1852 he was appointed upon the po'.ice force in the old Northern Liberties, and in 1856 was elected Constable of the Eleventh Ward, in which position he remained until his election to the office of Alderman of the same w.->rd, in 1S63, a post he occupied until 1878. He was also a School Director in the same ward, in 1S68. In 1880 he was elected Magistrate. Magistrate Becker has be'ongcd to numerous societies and associations in his day. As a young man he joined the Northern Liberty Hose Com- pany in the Volunteer Fire Department, and re- mained a member until the advent of the present system. He is now a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows Orders; is a meml)er of the Schutzcn- Verein, M.x'nnerchor, and Canstattcr Ccrman or- ganizations, and in the last is one of the Directors. He is married and the father of three children, whom he has brought up in the Lutheran faith. Tall and robust, he presents a good type of the foreign descended citizen. His long occupation as magistrate has given him knowledge and experi- ence, and he is noted for the humanity he displays in dealing with those accused of crime. i ?:% VERS, HENRY SCH.UYLER, M.igistrate of Court No. 17, was born in Philadel- I I'l 1''""' ^o^'^nil'tT 4th, 1836, and is de- Crx^ sccnded from German stock. IIisp.arcnts Si te were Adam Myers and Margaret Stein- mycr, both of whom were natives of this city. Henry was educated in the public schools, and at an early age entered the rope manufactory THE CITY GOVERNMENT. of Edwin H. Filler, with which his father has been connected for more than fifty years. Mr. Myers has always been a Republican, and after leaving the rope business he was appointed on the police force under Mayor Henry, being retained during the administration of Mayor McMichael. When Daniel M. Fox succeeded to the chief magistracy of the city, Mr. Myers resigned from the police de- partment, and was elected Constable of the Nine- teenth Ward, a position which he held over three years, and was then appointed Water Purveyor of the Third District, under Chief-Engineer McFad- den. This office he retained more than five years, and only relinquished it to accept a clerkship in the office of the City Commissioners. In the spring of 1880 he was elected Magistrate for a term of five years. His military record consists of three years service with the .Sixty-eighth Pennsylvania regiment, having enlisted in July, 1862, as Ser- geant of Company 13. Mr. Myers is a member of the United Order of Workmen, Protestant Asso- ciation, and Sterbekasse Society. Magistrate My- ers was married to Mary Roats, and has three children. ;EVERN, BENTON ONIUS, Magistrate of Court No. iS, was Ijurn in this city on the lyih day of April, 1S41. His ances- try is English, and he is the son of Wil- liam P. Severn, a prominent builder of Philadelphia, and Elizabeth M. Costen, a cousin of General Torbert, of Delaware. After attending the public schools, Benton was appren- ticed to learn the trade of carpenter, which busi- ness he followed until the breaking out of the war of the rebellion. August loth, 1861, he enlisted as a priv.Tte in Company F, Seventy-second Regi- ment, and during the year following was commis- sioned a Second Lieutenant of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers. In the spring of 1863 he resigned, and during the subse- quent seven years was a post-trader on the frontier, his principal point of operation being Dakota Ter- ritory. Returning to this city in 1S70, he was in December of that year given a position in the office of Register of Wills. May 22d, 1S72, he was ap- pointed Lieutenant of the Twelfth Police District, where he remained until elected Magistrate in 1875. He was re-elected in 1880 for a term of five years. Mr. Severn has always been a consistent Republi- can, and is at present Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Twentieth Ward. He is a mem- ber of Post 8, G. A. R. ; Order of Chosen Friends ; Lodge No. 100, Order of Odd Fellows; Quaker 53 City Lodge, A. O. U. W. ; Quaker City League ; Columbia Lodge, Knights of Honor; and Order of Sparta. Magistrate Severn married Ella Patter- son, a daughter of Jacob Patterson, a well-known Philadelphian, and has four children. ILEY, JOSEPH SMITH, Magistrate of Court No. 19, was born in Philadelphia, December 27th, 1S50, and is of Irish descent. His great-grandfather, Joseph Riley, also a native of Philadelphia, once ran for the position of Mayor of the Northern Liberties, but was defeated by John Swift. The parents of Magistrate Riley were John M. Riley and Charlotte Boyd. Joseph attended the public schools, and on gr.iduating from the Central High School entered the law office of John L. Shoemaker. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1873, ^"d by dint of hard work built up quite a lucrative practice. Always a staunch Republican, Mr. Riley has considerable following in the Twenty-ninth Ward. For years he has been a prominent member of the Continental Club, has figured in several county and ward conventions, and at present represents his ward in the Republican City Executive Committee. In 1S77 he entered the City Treasurer's office, and his fidelity to the interests of the Republican parly was further rewarded in February, 1880, by his election to the city magistracy. His training in the legal profession thoroughly fitted him for the re- sponsible position which he now holds, and his reputation is that of a fearless and impartial dis- penser of the law. As a member of the First Regiment National Guards Pennsylvania, Mr. Riley participated in the suppression of the labor riots at Pittsburgh in the summer of 1877, and his name will be found enrolled among the heroes of the engagement nt the Round House. Magistrate Riley is a member of Covenant Lodge, No. 456, of the Masonic Order, and is prominently identified with several insurance companies. He married Edith L. Mears, daughter of William Mears, a well-known Philadelphian. [ ARR, ROBERT JOSEPH, Magistrate of Court No. 20, was born near Third and Race streets, Philadelphia, August 20th, 1834. His parents were both natives of Ireland, who came to America in 1S30 and settled in Philadelphia. His father 54 MEN OF AMCRiai. died when he wis six years of age, and his mother Ijclore he hid reached hii eighth year. Robert re- ceiveJ a thorough education, aitenjing firstaprivaie school al Fuunb and CallowbiU oreeu, and gradu- aiii^ from Villa NoTa College, a well-known Cath- olic institution. He then engaged in the liquor btbaoess with his nnde. Daniel Barr, at No. 203 Nonh Front street, with whom he remained until his death in 1S59, when Robert became the pro- pnetcr of the establishment. He cooiinued in this occupation in the same location for about twenty years, when he removed to 242 Race street. He was cunduciing the liquor business at this place when nominated for Magi:strale. J >lr. Barr is a Democrat, and a member of the Amcricns Club. He has been prominent in politics for some years. In 1S63 be was a Delegate to the State ConventioD at Harrisborg which nominated Geofge W. Woodward for Governor, and in 1878 was a Delegate to the convention in Pittsburgh, at which .\ndrcw H. Dill was nominated for the same office. In 1S74 he was elected a Director of the Sixth Section School Board, and held this position for five years, during three years of which he was Secretary of that body. In February, iSSo, he was elected Magistrate of Court No. 20, receiving 29,912 votes, or a majority of 15 over John Rink, also a Democrat. Rink determined to contest the right of Barr to the office, and in May of the same year the Courts appointed a Board of Examiners to lake the evidence. During the contest the Fourth Ward, which had given Barr 240 votes and Rink none, and the Tenth Ward, which had given Rink a majority, were thrown out, on evidence that the Toie was fraudulent. When the contest was pre- sented for the decision of the lower Court, it was decided in favor of Rink. Mr. Barr took the case into the Supreme G>un, where it is still per>ding. Mr. Barr is President of Branch No. 146, Catholic Knights of America, and also a member of the H.bemian Society. Philopatrian Literary Institute, and the Volumeer Firemen's A.<«ociation. In Oc- tober, 1864, he was married to Jennie Lark, of Philadelphia, and has (oar children living. He resides at No. 21 1 North Fifth street.' fOLTH. THOM.\S WINFIELD, Magis- trate of Court No. 21, was bom in Laurel. Clermont County, Ohio, on the 1st of i'>ct .'•■er. 1S47. and is descended from Wel-h ?4.K:k. His ancestors were among the uriginal seltlers of the Buckeye State, their pouU of location having been near the mouth of the LJuIe Miami river. Ilisparenu were Stephen Benton South, a native of Onio, and an eminent physician of forty years standing, and Abigail Steel- man, a native of New Jersey. The grandfather of Mr. South, on the maternal side, once owned the ground now comprising Atlantic Oiy, the title for which, it is claimed, never legally po-sed from his hands. Young South attended the public schools until the war of the rebellion bn^e out, when, although only fourteen years of age, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment of Ohio. To this step the elder South strongly ob- jected, because of his son's youth. It was with the hope that the boy would soon become homesick that the father did not take immediate action to pcx>cnre his dischai^e. After three weeks, how- ever, Mr. South fotmd that instead of regretting his venture the boy had become infatuated with mili- tary life, and the father invoked the aid of the Gov- ernor to have the young soldier mustered ouL Re- turning to his honK Thomas resumed his studies in the public schools until he reached the age of nine- teen years, when he entered Clermont .\cademy, from which he graduated with honor. The young man then turned his attention to stock-raising, dealing more particularly in the finer breeds. In this line of business he was quite successful, and won for himself a good reputatiun. In 1872, bow- ever, Henry Disston, of the well-kixiwn firm of saw manufacturers, and a relative of the mother of the subject of this sketch, visited the home of the young stuck-raiser, and prevailed upon him to come East and as-Time charge of hU real estate in Tacony. It. was a tempting offer, and cheerfully accepted. .\Uhoagh anfamiliar with this class of work, Mr. S-mh was so successful that in a short time he was made agent for all the property owned by the mem- bers of the firm. His shrewdness and faithfulness to hL» imsl were appreciated by hU appoinimeu to the Superintendency of the saw work*, which posi- tion he held for five years, at the same time retain- ing charge of the real estate. .■Mways a consistent Republican, he soon won recognition as a failhrul and influential worker in the Twenty-third Ward. 1 The first poliiical position to which he was chosen was that of Special Revenue -Agent, during the administration of Colonel .\snworth. This office I he held for a year, when he was called to the desk of Index Oerk in the department of Recorder tf Deeds, under General Wagner. Here he remained until the spring of iSSo, when he was electtd Magistrate of Court No. 21, by a majority exceed- ing bv 35,ocx> the vote of the highest r>cmocTat on the ticket. .As an arbiter of the law he was known to be just uid fearlcs, and when Mayor King was THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 55 elected, Mr. South was one of the two Magistrates selected to preside over the hearings at the Central Police Station, a position which was unsolicited, and in which he has served with faithfulness and ability. Mr. South is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Royal Arcanium, Knights of Honor, Senate of Sparta and Legion of Honor. If there is one man outside of the Disstons to whom the citizens are indebted for the development of the pretty liitle suburb of Tacony, that man is Magis- trate South. When he located there in 1872 the village had a population of but 500; now it has 3,000 inhabitants and numerous fine buildings. Mr. South has been twice married, his first union being with Jessie Donaldson, the daughter of Thomas Donaldson, a great Abolitionist, who constructed an underground escape for fugitives along the Ohio river during the war of the rebellion. The issue of this marriage was one child, who died two years ago. His second union was with Ida Corbley, daughter of S. J. Corbley, of Cincinnati, who has borne him two children, a boy and a girl, who are the sunshine of the Squire's beautiful home in Tacony. i RICKBAUM, GEORGE ROSE, Magis- trate of Court No. 22, was born in Ger- mantown, March 8th, 1838, and is de- scended from German stock. His ances- tors came from Hesse-Cassel and located in Germantown. Conrad Krickbaum, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a Colonel in the War of 1812. His parents were Hillary Krickbaum and Elizabeth Rose. George was educated in the public schools, graduating from the High School. After compleiing his education he entered the law oflfices of Daniel \Vebster„Esq., and ex-Judge John C. Knox. He was admitted to the bar December 8lh, i860. \\Tien the war of the rebellion broke out he accepted a position as paymaster's clerk in the United States Army, and for efficiency was advanced to the position of Chief Clerk of the Pay Depariment of the South. Upon the termination of the war he returned to Phila- delphia, and accepted a situation as clerk in the Water Department. After three years of such em- ployment he became engaged in the real-estate and insurance business. It was while in this line that he became counsel for the plaintiff in the Congres- sional contest of Taylor vs. Reading. The able manner in which he conducted the examination of witnesses attracted the attention of Judge Paxson, of the Supreme Court, and by his advice Mr. Krickbaum was induced to resume the practice of law. About this time the office of Magistrate was created, and he was induced to accept a Republican nomination for the position. He was elected by a handsome majority ; and in 1880 was re-elected for a second term of five years. Mr. Krickbaum is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Odd Fellows, Foresters and Ancient Order of United Workmen. For two years he has represented the latter society in the Grand Lodge which convened at Pittsburgh. LARKE, THOMAS HENRY, Magistrate of Court No. 23, was born near Castle- bar, Irel.and, May 5th, 1826. His pa- rents were M. H. Clarke and Marg.iret McNichol, who came to this country and located in Philadelphia, when Thomas was an infant. After receiving such an education as the common scliools afl'orded, he, at the age of twelve years, entered the High School, being among the first pupils to receive instruction in that institution. In 1842 he became connected with the printing-house of King & Baird, where he re- mained until 1S65, holding for many years the im- portant position of proof-reader. A close student, and possessed of a complete mastery of the lan- guage, and a rare fund of varied information, to- gether with the fact of being a ready and correct writer, he bore a conspicuous part in jilacing King & Baird's as the leading printing house of Phila- delphia. Subsequently he accepted and for three years held a similar situation on the Press, when that journal wielded an immense influence in the affairs of the nation. Failing health, caused by loo close application to his calling, led him to locate in West Philadelphia, where fresh air soon eflected a complete cure; and eventually, by his earnest ad- vocacy of his political principles, he was found in the front ranks of his party. Kind, courteous, and extremely popular, he was, in 1S68, solicited to lead a Democratic forlorn hope for Alderman of the Twenty-fourth Ward, when he overcame a heavy vote in that Republican stronghold, and was elected by a clever majority. Again, in 1S73, he was re-elected, overcoming a Republican ma- jority of 1,000. When the police magistracy was created by the New Constitution, the name of Mr. Clarke, who had alw.iys been a consistent Democrat, was sug- gested, and he was brought forward as a candidate. S6 MEN OF AMERICA. He was elected by a lianilsome majority in 1S75, heading ilie list of Mayisiralcs chosen by the Dem- ocrats ; ami was icturned for an additional term of live years in iSSo, coming in third in the race when the fates appeared against him. During his eight years' incumbency his administration of the office h.as been able and satisfactory. In 1876 he was the Magistrate in the Centennial Grounds, and during the continuance of the Expo- sition discharged his arduous duties with such rare ability, discrimin.ition and fairness, as to bring forth encomiums from the press and the people, not only of Philadelphia and vicinity, but of distant parts of the country. He has .ilso been the commit. ing Magistrate for Fairmount Park since its inception — an important position, and one requiring great tact and firmness; and still continues to mete out justice to those in- fringing on the rules and reguUuions governing the great pleasure-ground. Mr. Clarke was one of the founders of the Prin- ters' Union, in 1S50, an organization in which he evinced a warm interest long after he left the busi- ness. He is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 385; Temple Chapter, No. 24S; St. Alban Command- ei7. No. 47, K. T. ; Sons of Progress Lodge, No. 12; Knights of Birmingham, No. 2; St. John's Re- lief Society; Canstaller Volksfest Veicin; Americus Club; Metropolitan Club; and was a member of Franklin Engine Company, No. 12, from 1S47 until the introduction of the P.iid Fire Department, having held the position of President for fourteen consecutive years. Mr. Clarke manicd Miss Mar- tha Kilpatrick, and has two children. ANDALL, THOMAS, Magistrate of Court No. 24, was born in Philadelphia, August 1st, 1829, and is of English descent. His parents were Thomas Randall and Hannah Miller, both natives of this city. Educated in the public schools, Thomas was at an early age apprenticed to the trade of brickmaking, his employer being Nelson Wana- maker, father of the well-known merchant. Mr. Randall has always been a staunch Republican and an active worker in the interest of that parly. He held a position on the police force under Mayors Heniy and McMichael. Prior to the creation of the M.igistracy he served three terms as Alderman in West Philadelphia. In 1S75 he was chosen as Magistrate, and reelected in 1880 for a second term of five years. At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion Mr. Randall joined the Keystone Battery, with which organization he was connected for one year. He is a member of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 449, Order of Masons, in which he has held the position of treas urer for twelve years ; Order of Odd Fellows ; Ftrn- wood Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Knights of Birmingham, and American Mech.inics. Mr. Ran- dall married Mary Robinson, the daughter of an old Philadclphian, and has seven children. . — 4^ N N V John Hunter. Henry B. Tener. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 57 THE SELECT AND COMMON COUNCILS. ; .MITH, WILLI.\M BURNS, President of the Select Council, and member from the Twenty-eighth Ward, was born in Glas- ^"Jy^Si— gow, Scotland, November nth, 1844. *^^ His parents came to America and located in Philadelphia before he had completed his seventh year, and placed him in the public schools. After he had pursued the usual course of study he was apprenticed to the trade of wood- carving, which he mastered, and with which he has been connected ever since. He early became associated with the firm of Moore & Campion, furniture manufacturers, and continued wilh the house as m.mager and general superintendent through its changes to Smith & Campion and Wdliam W. Smith. He married Ellen B. Cochran, October 28th, 1869, by whom he has one son and one daughter. Beginning life with good prospecls, both in his pri- vate and public relations, Mr. Smith, from the first, took that part in public affairs and enterprises which marks the good citizen. To show the sociality of his disposition and his desire to aid his fellows, it is only necessary to enumerate the societies and organizations of which he is an active member. In 1853, when little more than nineteen years of age, he joined the Caledonian Club, and has en- joyed every office in the gift of that organization through a period of nearly twenty years. The Pre^idency of the North American Caledonian Association, the highest honor to which a Scotch- American can aspire, was conferred upon him at the meeting in Toronto, Canada, in 1875, and by re-election in Philadelphia, in August, 1876. He was elected Treasurer in 1880, and re-elected in 1881. He became a member of the Saint An- drew's Society, the leading Scottish benevolent society in Philadelphia, on the 31st of October, 1874; is a member of the Scots' Thistle Society, a charitable and benevolent organization, in which he has remained some fiftetn years, and was its Secretary during the years 1879, 18S0, i88i ; a member of the Burns' Association, formed to per- petuate the memory of the poet and his writings ; a Charter Member of Caledonian Lodge, No. 700, I. O. O. F., is at present its Treasurer, and was for eight years representative to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania; a member of Fredonia Encamp- ment, No. 36, of the same order; of the Uni- formed Battalion of Patriarchs, and was first Cap- tain of Company A. 8 His connection with the Masonic Order also began early, and has been widely extended. He was initiated into the William B. Schneider Lodge, No. 419, F. & A. M., on April 9th, 1872, and is a Past-Master of this lodge ; admitted to Harmony Chapter, No. 52, October 3d, 1873, and Philadel- phia Council, No. 11, R. S. E. and S. Masters, on March nth, 1874; knighted in Mary Comman- dery, No. 36, K. T., October 14th, 1875, ^^^ ^^ present is Eminent Commander of that body ; and belongs also to the Grand Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania. He joined the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and received the degrees in the various bodies according to the following order: Philadelphia Lodge of Perfection, 14°, February i6th, 1877; De Joinville Council, Princes of Jerusalem, 16°, March l6th, 1877; Kilwiiming Chapter, of Rose Croix, 18°, May i6th, 1877; and Philadelphia Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32°, June 15th, 1877. On the I2lh day of June, 1S78, he was admitted to Philadelphia Conclave, No. 8, Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine ; to Cos- mopolitan Lodge, No. 233, Knights of Pythias, March 29th, 1876; to Harmony Chapter, No. i. Knights of Friendship, November I5lh, 1877; to Apollo Castle, No. 3, Knights of the Golden Eagle, December 2d, 1880. He is also a memlier of the following bodies based upon the mutual life insurance plan, and here, as everywhere, has dis- played the activity inseparable from both in their organization and management : Merchant's and Salesman's Association, June l6th, 1877, and is at present Vice-President of that body ; Birmingham Lodge, No. 8, K. B., April 17th, 1878, Charter Member and Past Sir Chief; Tubal Cain Lodge, No. 166, A. O. U. W., November 28th, 1879, Charter Member and First Master Workman ; and Charter Member of Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 191, instituted February loth, 1882; Mercantile Council, No. 200, A. L. of H., May 28lh, 1880, Charter Member and First Commander ; Marathon Senate, No. 4, Order of Sparta, June 15th, 1S80; Ivy Council, No. 369, Royal Arcanum, November 24th, 1S80, Charter Member; Blue Garter Commandery, No. 2, K. of G., December isth, 1880, Charter Member and First Illustrious Commander. In addition to these he has been long and honorably connected with the National Guard of the State of Pennsylvania. He enlisted in Company B, First regiment, on the 19th of February, l868, passed through the grades of non-commissioned officer, jS MEN OF AMERICA. ami was elected Second Lieutenant, November 17th, 1S69; transferred to the roll of Company A, January 1st, 1871, and elected Second Lieu- tenant, March iSth, 1S72; Kirst Lieutenant, Oc- tober 7lh, 1872; re-elected First Lieutenant, De- cember 20ih, 1875, and elected Captain, October iSth, 1S7S, which position he held until Decem- ber, 1879, when he resigned. He is a member of the HuiKling Committee on New Regimental Ar- mory. I Ic became a member of the Veteran Corps of the regiment, on November 5th, 1875, was elected a Liijutenant in 1880, was re-elected in 1881, and elected a Captain in 1S82. It i-i scarcely to he expected that political inter- est in the affairs of the city of his choice should be wanting in a man of such extended activity. Eigh- teen years ago he became a member of the Repub- lican Invincililes of Phil.adelphia, and speedily became one of the most energetic adherents of that powerful body. Here, a.s before, his merits claimed recognition and reward, and in 1872 he was elected to the office of Secretar)' ; the Trcsi- dency followed in 1875, and in 1S76 and 1880, as Chief Marshal, he conducted with marked ability the affairs of that vigorous organization, securing a unanimous election as Colonel of the Club upon ils reorganization upon the military basis during.the campaign of 1882. He conim.inded the Invin- cibles when they participated in the inauguration of President Garfield, and also when they attended the m-iurnful funeral procession to Cleveland, Ohio, where it was the only organization representing tlie City of Brotherly Love. He is also a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, and .Sep- tember 18th, 1S82, he joined the "Young Re- publicans," a reputaVile and independent body of men anxious to aid in the honest management of the Republican party, and the selection of its best men for public trust. The sound educition of the public schools in his boyhood has been extended and refined through intervening years by sound reading and solid reflec- tion ; by unstinted use of the public press and pub- lic libraries; by employment of his pen in the various journals of the city, and by travel and observation in many parts of the United States and Canada. In his political career through a period of sixteen years, he was earnest and active, l.ut also eminently honorable and unselfish. He had never sought office, though always ambitious as far as com|>orls with manly integrity. In November, 1881, he was tleited, without opposition, a mem- ber of the Select Council from the Twenty-eighth Ward, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George A. Smith, who had been, for a number of years. President of that body. He was nomi- nated by the unanimous vote of the Republican Convention, indorsed by the Committee of One Hundred, and received the entire vote of the ward, less thirteen votes, out of a total vote of 2,984 votes cast. He speedily attracted attention by his ear- nestness, desire for public good, and his striking capacity for business. Keen, penetrating, fertile of expedient, he was a host of strength on the side he adopted. His accuracy and quickness in fram- ing a measure showed one who knew the use of words and had a store of proper ones at his com- mand. In Fel)ruary, 1882, he was defeated for renomi- nation at the Republican primary election, but was placed in nomination by the Citizens' Reform As- ■sociation, when he was indorsed by the Com- mittee of One Hundred for re election, and the Democrats did him the honor of placing him on their ticket. The Republicans placed in the field James Dobson, one of the most influential mem- bers of the party, a man of wealth and high stand- ing in the community. Under these circumstances the contest was a very close one, both sides put- ting forth all their energies to win. Mr. Smith was successful, winning by a plurality of 226 voles, the offici.il returns being: Smith, 2,772; Dobson, 2,546; Frank B. Shoemaker, Independent Demo- cr.u, 54. Upon the organiz.ition of the Select Council, Mr. Smith was chosen President of the Chamber after a most exciting contest of twenty- two ballots. Thus, he not oidy succeeded George A. Smith, who had (or so many years represented the Twenty-eighth Ward, as member, but also as presiding officer. In this position he has proven himself to be an excellent parliamentarian, calm, impartial, and a good disciplinarian, taking the greatest interest and adding much to the success of the reforms of the Gas Trust and the various Ciiy Departments. His selection of men to fill y>os\- tions on the various committees has shown that his ao his grandson, Daniel, the father of John Allen. A Philadel- phian by Hrth, Daniel Houseman took an active part in pnblic affairs at the beginning of the p»ix years. In November, 1S70, ill. Houseman was elected Recorder of Deeds, and emered the oSce on the first of December, where he remained for three years. From 1S73 nntil Febraary, iSSo. Mr. Houseman led a reared life so fax as be was individually con- cerned, bat his interest in natiTnaL State and local poUtics never lagged. In 1S6S he was a Delegate to the Kaiional Convention at Chicago which nominated General Grant for President. In Feb- ruary, iSSo, he was brought out again for office, this time for the Select Council, and was eleaed over Wi'liam Calhoun, Independent Repubiican and Dr. S. C. Allaband, Democrat, the vote being : Houseman, 2,701 ; Calhoun, 1,750, and AKabacd, 1,791. In this posit'on he is now serving, and has the distinction of being the only member of ihe present Councils who was a Councilman at the I ame of the Consolidation act in 1S54. In the Bi- I Ceniennial year he was Chairman of the Toint- J Committee of Councils which had charge of the I celebration. In 1852 Mr. Houseman was initiated into the Masonic Order, joining Lodge Xo. 2, and taking .his degrees at the old Temple on Third street ! above Spruce. He is also a member of Keystone Chapier, Xo. 175, and with these exceptions he belongs to no other secret socirties. When the Butcners' Hide and Tallow .Association was first J organized he was made Secretary, a position he ' filled for sixteen years. He is a P^ote^tant Episco- palian, and the oldest vestryman in the Old Swedes Church, having served for nearly forty years. In 1S40 Mr. Houseman married Rachel T. Rowland, of Philadelphia, with whom he had three children, . one boy and two girls, the boy and one girl being =*ill living. Mrs. Houseman died in 1S45, 2nd in 1S46 Mr. Houseman married Sarah Lawrence, the daaghler of Jacob Lawrence, who then had chaige of the city wharves as city corder. By thLs sec- ond union four children, two boys and two girk, came into the Houseman household, the gals and one of the boys being still alive. Mr. Houseman has a comfonable and attractive home at 1402 Moyamen^ng avenue. RADY, JOHX, the member of the Select Council from the Second Ward, was bom in Philadeljiia, >Iarch nth, 1S53. He is of Irish parentage, his father ami mother coming to this country twenty years before he wa.* bcm. He received his edncaticm partly in the public schools, leavii^ Jackwn Grammar school to anend Roth's academv. Broad and Pine streets. L'pon leaving school he learned the trade of printing, and served at it for seven years with Harry G. Leisenring and Allen, Lane & Scott. He then went into the liquor busi- ness, in which he is now engaged. In politico Mr. Brady has always been a Demc-crat, and has been active in the anairs of his party ^ce the time he became a voter. He is a member of the .Ameiicas 6o MEN OF AMERICA. Club and of the Democratic Ciiy Commitlce. He was elected to the Select Council in February, 1882. His o|>iK)ncnis were John V. Denny, Republican, and John Thomas, a Democrat indorsed by the Committee of One Hundred. The vote was: Urady, 2,103; Denny, 1,579; Thomas, 802. Mr. Brady is a member of the Committees on Water Works, Police, City Property, Railroads, Election Divisions, To Verify Cash Accounts of the City Treasurer, Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph, and Commerce and Navigation. Mr. Brady is a prop- erty-awner in the lower part of the city, and has been prominently connected with building ass icia- tions. He is not married, and resides at 1 131 Car- I>enter street, his place of business being at the northwest corner of Klevcnth and Christian streets. (^ij^OXROE, PETER, the member of the M III Select Council from the Third Ward, was bom at Coot Hill.CountyCaven, Ireland, April 27lh, 1844. His parents came to this country when Peter was a few years of age, and settled in Philadelphia in that portion of the District of Moyamensing which now constitutes the Third Ward. Mr. Monroe at- tended the public schools of the city, and in 185S, at the age of fourteen years, entered the employ of his brother John, to learn the business rf butch- ering. He remained with his brother until 1865, when he started business for himself. In 1S78 Mr. Monroe opened a retail dry goods and notion store at 752 South Eleventh street, though he continued in the meat business, giving it into the charge of a young man whom he raised. Mr. Monroe is a Democrat, and a member of the Americus Club. He was appointed Real Estate Assessor in 1873, ^"^ ^'^^ held that position for nine years. In 1881 he was chosen to represent the Third Ward in the Select Council, his opponents being, James D. Lee, Democrat, and Robert Eng- land, Independent. Mr. England was indorsed by the Committee of One Hundred. Mr. Monroe re- ceived 1,340 votes to 1,158 for Lee and 340 for England. During his tirsl year as a member of this body he was Ch.iirman of the Committee on Print- ing and Supplies. He was also a member of the Finance, Highways, Gas, City Property, Almshouse, House of Correction, and Prison Committees. Mr. Monroe has been frequently called upon to represent his section in both Slate and county con- ventions. He was a delegate to the Slate Conven- tion at Erie in 1S75. when that body nominated Hon. Cyrus L. Pershing, of Schuylkill county, for Governor; and in 18S2 was also a delegate to the Harrisburg Convention, which nominated Governor Paiiison. On July ist, 1863, Mr. Monroe, then nineteen years of age, enlisted as Sergeant of Company D, Fifty-ninth Regiment, P. V. M., for the " Emer- gency," and was mustered out on September 9th, of the same year. In religion Mr. Monroe is a Catho- lic. He was married fifteen years ago to Miss Julia Simons, of Philadelphia. They have no children, and reside in the same building which Mr. Monroe occupies as a store at No. 752 South Eleventh street. cMULLIN, WILLIAM, the member of the Select Council from the Fourth W.nrd, was born September 15th, 1826, at the southwest corner of Seventh and Bain- bridge (then Shippen) streets. His father, Archibald McMuIlin, was a re- spected citizen of the old District of Moyamensing, and was engaged in the grocery business. Young McMullin, after attending various private and pub- lic schools, finally entered the Central High School from the Ringgold Grammar School, located at Eighth and Fitzwater streets. He did not, how- ever, complete the course, and his father placed him with a printer. But the young man wanted to be a carpenter, and so after a brief experience in a printing office he was apprenticed to Joseph Govett, a Bonsall street builder. He did not remain long, however, among the shavings, and was taken by his father as an as.sis(ant in his store. He was next placed in the mvy, and relumed home about the time of the breaking out of the Mexican war. He immediately enlisted in Company D, First Penn- sylvania Infanlry, under Captain Joseph Hill. The father was so strongly opposed to his son's going to the war that he obtained a writ of habeas corpus to secure possession of him, but the officers in whose hands the process was placed did not serve it. Be- fore reaching ihe field McMullin secured the posi- tion of Orderly Sergeant. His conduct through the war proved his courage. After the capture of the City of Mexico he returned home, and on the very dny of his reappearance among his friends was elected to membership in the Moyamensing Hose Company, an honor he highly appreciated, as was shown by his active participation in the afTiirs of the association. It was this connection which years afterwards nearly cost him his life, being shot by Hugh Marn, one of the •' Moy.Vs" worst members, and receiving a wound so serious that his recovery was doubtful for several weeks. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 6i Mr. McMulIiii was soon recognized .is ihe leader of the young Democracy of Moy.imeniing, and was made President of the Keysione Club, an asso- ciation uf the active workers of the party. In 1854, the year of consolidation, he went into the liquor business at Eighth and Emmeline streets, and his influence rapidly increased. He was elected a member of the Board of Prison Inspectors and was .appointed a lieutenant of police, but refused to hold the latter office. Two years later he be- came a candidate for alderman, and succeeded in defeating Abram Megary, who then held that office in the Fourth Ward. Squire McMuUin was re- elected term after term; and when, in 1S74, the aldermen were abolished by the New Constitution, he had four years to serve. He resigned, however, to enter the City Councils, and on January ist, 1874, took his place in the Common branch. He served continuously until 187S, when he entered the Select Chamber. In 1882 he was re-elected. JohnO'Don- nell, a Democrat, opposed him, and -was indorsed by the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred. The vote was: McMuUin, 1,669; O'Donnell, 1,315. Squire McMuUin's political influence in the Fourth Ward has been recognized as greater than that of any other man, and his power has been dis- tinctly shown in the election returns. He has always been a staunch supporter of Samuel J. Ran- dall, and has greatly aided in securing the ex- Speaker's large majorities. His opposition to Joseph L. Caven, reform candidate for Mayor in 1877, is conceded to have secured William S. Stokley's re-election at that time, the vote of the Fourth Ward alone turning the scale. How such influence was obtained and maintained is no secret. A relentless political enemy. Squire McMullin is at the same time a generous neighbor and charitable man. His readiness to assist those in trouble, even his most open opponents, has gained him many lasting friends. He will do much to oblige a friend, and it has never been charged that he has ever broken a promise for the sake of pecuniary gain. Squire McMullin has been married twice, the second time to a widow with two daughters. ^HOTWELL, ALONZO, the member of the Select Council from the Fifth Ward, was born in Monmouth county. New Jersey, March 17th, 1844. He comes from old Quaker and Knickerbocker stock. His e.irly education was received in country schools and academies, closing at Fort Edward Institute, New York. His first employment was in connection with railroad transportation, with which he is now prominently iilentificd. Mr. Shotwell came to Philadelphia in 1865, and since then has held prominent positions in his business. He has been agent for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, General Transatlantic Steamship Com- pany, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and Camden & Amboy Railroads, and Master of Trans- portation fur the Pennsylvania, Paris Exposition of 187S, as well as Chairman of Committee on Trans- portation, to raise funds for Centennial Exhibition. He is now Freight Agent in this district for Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad and Steamship Com- pany, and for all the railroads in Texas and Louisi- ana. He was one of the Bi-Centennial Committee, and was greatly interested in the celebration de- signed to commemorate the city's two hundredth birthday. In politics Mr. Shotwell has been a Re- publican from the time he attained his majority, and has taken an active interest in the affairs of his party. In February, iS8x, he was elected to the Se- lect Council for the term he is now serving. He was opposed by Edward T. Parker, Independent Repub- lican, indorsed by the Committee of One Hundred, and William Conway, Democrat, also indorsed by the Citizens' Committee. The vote was : Shotwell, 1,634; Parker, 230, and Conway, 1,509. Mr. Shut- well is a bachelor. ITTON, PHILIP, the member of the Select Council from the Sixth Ward, was born in County Wexford, Ireland, April 19th, 1831. His father was Nicholas Mitton, a farmer, and his mother was Margaret Maher. Young Mitton went to private school until he was fifteen years of age, and com- pleted his education by a three years' course in the national school of his native county. He came to Philadelphia in 1849, and a year later went to Conshuhocken to learn the stone-cutting trade. He did not continue long at this business, however, but returned to the city and entered the wholesale dry goods store of Robert Ewing, 31 Chestnut street, in which he remained for four years. He then engaged with Fassitt & Co., in the same busi- ness, at 501 Market street. In 1856 he became the partner of Michael Redmond, in the retail liquor business, at 236 Race street, still retaining his position with Fassitt & Co. In 1857 the latter firm closed out their business, and Mr. Mitton took full control of the liquor store, Mr. Redmond re- tirmg. He remained on Race street and in the retail trade until lS6i, when he removed to 134 North Fourth street, and began the wholesale business. MEN OF AMERICA. Mr. Milton, who is a Democrat, was elected in I.S61 a School Director in (he Sixth District, and elected to that office at different times during the succeeding twenty years. In 1S66 he was elected to the Conninon Council, and scr>ed in that body for two years. In February, 1SS2, he was chosen to represent the Sixth Ward in the Select Council. In this conle>t he was sup|x)rtcd by the Citiiens' Committee of One Hundred, his opponents being Charles Alexander, Republican, and I'eter B. Stoy, Democrat. The vote was: Mitton, 599; Alexan- der, 4S3 ; Stoy, 466. Mr. Mitton has been identified for some years with real estate oper.itions, and has been connected with various corporations. In 1S74 he was chisen President of Commodore Barrj- Building and Loan Association, a position he resigned in 1S7S to accept the Presidency of St. .\ugu»tine's Building and Loan Association, an office he slill holds. He is also a Dirertor of Carroll, No. 5, Building and Loan Association. In religion Mr. Mitton is a Citholic. He has been married twice, his first wife being Hannah Barry, by whom he had five children, of whom two daughters and one son are living. The present Mrs. Milton was Ellen Shea. By this marriage there have been three children, two girls and one boy, all of whom are living. Mr. Mitton resides at 232 Crown street. NOWDEX, GEORGE RANDOLPH, the member of the Select Council from the Seventh Ward, was bom at Franklin, Venango county. Pennsylvania, FeLniar)- I2th, 1S41. He is the son of Dr. Nathaniel D. Snowden, long a leading physician of that section, and Jane, daughter of George Mc- Clelland, at one time Treasurer of Venango county, and an extensive builder and operator of furnaces for making iron. He comes of an old Phil.idelphi.i family, the founder of which, John Snowden, .-ifter- wards a judge in Bucks county, was bom near the site of this city in 16S0. John Snowden married Ruth Harrison, daughter of Benjamin FitzRan- dolph, a descendant of an old Massachusetts and New Jersey family of that name, which settled at Plymouth and Barnstable. Massachusetts, between 1620 and 1630. One of Mr. Snowden's ancestors, Nathaniel Fiu Randolph, then living at Princeton, gave without pecuni.aTy consideration in 1753 the land on which the College of New Jersey, belter known as lYincctun College, was erected. His paternal giandmoiher — Sarah Oustine Snowden, whose father. Dr. Lemuel Gustine, and grandfather, Dr. William Hooker Smith, were officers in the Revolutionary .Army, Dr. Gustine having served as aide-de-camp to Colonel Denison, and signed the Treaty of Forty Fort — was, it is believed, the last survivor of the Massacre of Wyoming. Mr. Snowden was educated in the public and private schools and academies, and took a course of classics, especially thorough in Latin, and mathe- matics under the piivate tuition of Rev. S. J. M. liatvn, D. D., a well-known Presbyterian clergy- man, and writer on religious and historical subjects. He has also given some attention to the modern languages. Studying the profession of the law under the instruction of C. Heydrick, Esq., a prominent lawyer of Western Pennsylvania, he was admitted to the bar on the 30lh of Apiil, 1S62, a few weeks after arriving at age. On his return from the war, he pursued practice at Franklin for some years, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he has since continued in his profession. Notwithstanding private reasons of weight to re- tain him at home, he enlisted as a private soldier in the month of .\ugust, 1S62, and was mustered into the service of the United States as First Sergeant of Company I, I42d Regiment, P. V., a company which he and two other gentlemen raised in Venango county within the period of one week, in less time than any other company was recruited in that county. .\ few days afterwards his Captain, .\lfred B. McCalmont,late Assistant .Attorney-Gen- eral of theUniied States under President Buchanan, being promoted, afterwards becoming Co'onel and Brevet Brigadier-General, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Mr. Snowden, although defeated on the orgaidza- tion of the company for Second Lieutenant, was unanimously elected First Lieutenant, and in the autumn of 1S63 was promoted to be Captain. In various capacities as an officer of the staff and of the line he took part with the First and Filth Corjis in the great battles of the war, including Fredericks- burg, ChanccUorsville, Gettysburg, etc. .At Fred- ericksburg, while serving as First Lieutenant of his company, he was esjiecially commended by his Colonel, and on the field appointed .Acting .Adjutant, but declined to accept the place permanently, pre- ferring to remain with the men whom he had in- duced to enlist. Since the war he has taken an active interest in the St.ate militia, and has ser%'ed as Captain of an infantry company. Major and Judge .Advocate on the staff of Major-General Huidekoper, and Colonel of the Third Infantry-, in which capacity he tcx>k part in the Pittsburgh riots in 1S77, havii^ been in the celebrated " Round House " from which the THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 63 troops were driven by the flames. It was his com- mand which drove the rioters away from a field- piece belonging to a Pittsburuh battery, which they had taken possession of and were about to fire when discovered by one of his men. Resigning command of the regiment, which has since been disbanded, he was, on the 28th of August, 1878, appointed by Governor Harlranft Brigadier-General of ihe N.ntional Guard, and a^signed to the com- mand of the First Brigade, which at this time com- jirises the troops of this city, the Washington Troop, and the .Sixth Regiment, an organiz.ition made up of companies of the adjoining counties. He was re-commissioned by Governor Ilojt, and in this capacity he is now serving. In political faith a Democrat, since and indeed before arriving at his majority he has t.iken an active part in politics as a public speaker and as a member of several State conventions. Identified with no clique or faction he has endeavored to uphold the principles of his parly, to maintain the doctrine of specie payments and hard money, a proper limitation of the powers of the federal government to general purposes, and the right and propriety of local self-rule in all mailers not regu- lated under the Constitution by the Federal Con- gress. Although of the minority party he was elected Eurgess of Franklin, an office analogous to Mayor, and which on the erection of the town of Franklin into a borough was first filled by his nmternal grandfather, George McClelland. In 1S80 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress in the First District, but was defeated, the district being largely Republican. The following year, however, lie was the candidate of the Liberal Re- publicans and Democrats for Select Council in the Seventh Ward, and notwithstanding a usual Re publican majority of 2,200 he was elected by a majority of over one hundred. In Councils where municipal affairs only are concerned he is inde- pendent, and acts with the reform party. He is the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Law. A member of the Masonic order, he was Master of -Myrtle Lodge, No. 316, and M. E. H. P. of Venango Chapter, 211, prior to his removal to Phil.idelphia, since which time he has affiliated with Philo Lodge, No. 444. In religious faith a Presbyterian, he is a Trustee of the Second Pres- byterian Church, with which his family has been continuously connected for over one hundred and fifty years, and of the first board of ruling elders some of whom have already been mentioned ; among others not now living who might be named are Hon. James Thompson, late Speaker House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, member of Congress, Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, supported for President by the dele- gation from this Slate in the convention at Baltimore in 1S72, etc., etc.; Hon. James Ross Snowden, twice Speaker of the Pennsylv.mia House of Rep- resentatives, State Treasurer, Director of the United States Mints, etc.; Hon. Arnold Plumer, late .State Treasurer, member of Congress, Canal Commis- sioner, and who, on the formation of President Buchanan's Cabinet, was offered but declined the position of Postmaster General, etc.; Hon. John Bredin, late a distinguished Judge of Western Pennsylvania, whose son, Hon. James Bredin, is now Judge on the s.ame bench. General Snowden is not married. His only brother. Dr. Samuel Gustine Snowden, a leading physician, lives and pursues his jwofession at Franklin, where the children of an only sister, now deceased, also reside. ^ROSS, A. HALLER, the member of Select Council from the Eighth Ward, was born March i8th, 1844, in Louis- ville, Kentucky, and is the son of Sam- uel D. Gro^s, the eminent surgeon and author, and of Louisa A. Gross, who was well known for her accomplishments and brilliant conversational powers. Mr. Gross received his preliminary education at private schools in Louis- ville and Philadelphia, and subsequently pursued his studies for one year at the University of Vir- ginia, where a certificate of jiroficiency in the Anglo.Saxon language was conferred upon him by the Faculty. He subsequently entered the junior class of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with honor as B. A. in 1864, and from which, Ihiee years later, he received the de- gree of A. M. He read law in the office of Wil- li,ira Henry Rawle, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in 1S67. After this he made an extended tour in Europe, during which he devoted himself as- siduously to the further acquisiticm of the French, German and Italian languages, with which he was already familiar. He was early retained in several important cases. of which his great-grandfather, Isaac Snowden, and in 1868 President Grant appointed him United who was Treasurer of the City and County of Stales Attorney for New Mexico, the Senate unan Philadelphia during the Revolution, was a member, imously confirming the nomination; ill-health His family has been conspicuous in public afTairs, | however, compelled him to resign the position 64 MEN' OF AMERICA. In 1S71, when public attention was being callcil lo the ilef.ilcalion of Slate-'I'reasurer Kvans, Hon. !•'. Carroll Ilrcwstcr, AllorneyGcncral of I'cnnsylva- nia, anil one of its most eminent jurists, tendered him the position of Deputy Attorney-General ; this appointment, for political reasons, he thought best to decline. Mr. Gross was a School Director of the Eighth Ward for seven years, during two of which, although a Democrat, he was chosen by the Board, the majority of whom were Republi- cans, to fulfil the duties of Secretary. In Feb- ruary, 18S2, he was elected to Select Council from the Eighth W:.rd, having been nominated by the Deniocr.itic party, indorsed by the Committee of One Hundred and supported by many Inde- pendent Republicans. This ward, which is strongly Republican, elected Mr. Gross over his com- petitor by 797 majority. Mr. Gross takes great interest in his councilmanic duties, and endeavors in all measures that come before him to act wholly uncontrolled by partisan spirit or bias. He has p.irticipated in numerous Democratic Conventions, and his resolutions in 18S1, urging his parly lo in- dorse Hon. James T. Mitchell for Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, were unan- imously adopted. Mr. Gross has, on different occasions, spoken on the stump in behalf of Democratic principles, has made frequent contributions to literature, and his lecture on Cremation received most favorable notice from the press. Although an excellent nius cian and the author of several well-known songs, Mr. Gross does not allow his artistic and literary inclinations to interfere with his profes- sional and political duties. sioned assistant surgeon of the Second Regiment, National Guards of I'ennsylvania. Previous to this, in the summer of 1877, he went as a volunteer with the First City Troop to Pittsburgh during the labor riots. Dr. Townsend is a Democrat, and a member of the Commonwealth Club. In February, 1882, he was nominated for the Select Council by the Democrats and indorsed by the Citizens' Com- mittee of One Hundred. His opponent on the Republican ticket was David Mullen, who then held the office. The vote was: Townsend, 1,179; Mullen, 953. Dr. Townsend is married, and resides at 2047 Chestnut street. Mrs. Townsend is the daughter of the late General William Brisbane, of Wilkes- barre. They have one child, a daughter. >OWNSEND, EUGENE, M. D., member of the Select Council from the Ninth Ward, was born in Philadelphia, February 6th, 1856. His father is the well-known physician, Dr. R. 11. Townsend, and his mother w.is in her maiden years Mary S. Vansyckel. Eugene Townsend was educated in private schools in Philadelphia, Paris and Dresden, and in 1877 graduated from the University of Penn- sylvania as Docliir of Medcine. He practised his profe-sion for three years after obtaining his degree, during which time he was visiiing physician to the Philadelphia Dispensary. He then went into busi- ness as a stock and bond broker, associating with Gustavus A. Benson, the firm-name being Benson k Townsend. He has taken an active interest in cCULLOUGH, JOHN, member of the Select Council from the Tenth Ward, w.is born in Philadelphia, May 17th, 184I. Ilis father, William McCullough, was a well-known resident of that sec- tion of the city now comprised in the Sixth W'ard, and an active member of the old Whig paiiy. Mr. McCullough received his earlier education in the Zanc street public school, and, at the age of fourteen, in 1855, was admitted to the Central High School. Instead of pursuing the usual four years' course of study, he obtained a position as clerk in the house of Berger & Butz, on North Water street, which he retained for eight years, and until he enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighty-third Pennsylvania regiment, com- manded by Colonel George P. McLean, and sub- sequently by Colonel J. F. McCullough, of Greene county, who fell in action, May 31st, 1S64. He made a good record during the war, and rose to the position of Captain. He was wounded at Deep Bottom, Virginia, August i6lh, 1864, and was subsequently detailed as Post Adjutant of the draft rendezvous pt Pittsburgh. When mustered out of the service he secured, through the influence of William R. Leeds, a position in the United Stales Arsenal on Gray's Feny road. He took up his residence in the Tenth Ward, joined the Good Will Fire Company, and became an active politi- cian. As a reward for his .services he was given a clerkship under Lewis R. Broomall, Recordi r of Deeds, and w.is retained under Mr. Broomall's successor. General Joshua T. Owen. In 1869 Mr. McCullough was elected to represent the Tenth Waj-d in the Republican City Committee, and was military affairs, and was in January, 1879, commis- I chosen one of the Secretaries of that body, serving ^ Joseph L. Caven. William Marshall Taylor. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 6? in ihat position for three years. Wlien William S. Stolvley was appointed United .States Assessor of Internal Revenue he made Mr. McCullough his chief assistant, and when elected to the mayoralty, in 1S71, offered him the chief clerkship of that office. Mr. McCullough resigned, after serving a short time, and was elected in October, 1872, to the State Legislature, serving in the House during the sessions of 1873 and 1874, in which body he was Chairman of the Committees on Municipal Corporations and the Legislative Apportionment. He .also became one of the Secretaries of the Re- publican .Slate Central Committee. When William B. Ilanna wrs ajipointed a Judge of the Orphans' Court, Mr. McCullough succeeded him in the Select Council, being elected February, 1875. He was re elected February, 1876, and again, Febiu- ary, 1880. The last time his majority was nearly 2, too, the vote being: McCullough, 2,665; John R. Read, Democrat, 568. Mr. McCullough holds the office of Mercantile Appr.iiser, to which he was appointed in January, 1S75. He is married and lives at 1460 Cherry street. .\TT1IEWS, EDWARD, the member of the Select Council from the Eleventh Ward, was born in Stourbridge, Wor- cestershire, England, September 19th, 1823. He is the son of Thomas Mat- thews and Mary Bayliss, both of whom were natives of England. When Edward was in his fourth year his parents moved to Birmingham, ■where the boy was sent to school to George Warm- ington, a well-known tutor of that place. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to learn the trade of michine blac'.isniithing, an occupation he followed in England, working part of the time at the Boulton and Watts Soho Foundry until 184S, when he came to America. He first went to Waterbury, Connecticut, where he worked at his trade for four mouths. Then coming to Philadel- phia he engaged fir^t with Rainey & Neafie, then with Merrick & Town, and finally was employed by Morris, Tasker & Co., with whom he remained for twenty-eight ye.ars, seven of which he worked at blacksmithing and the remainder in the capacity of travelling superintendent or foreman, in charge of the erection of machinery, principally steam- heating and ventilating apparatus, which were specialties with the firm and better understood by Mr. Matthews than any other man in their employ. Among other improvements Mr. Matthews superin- tended the erection of the first steam-heating ap- 9 paratus that was placed in a rhiladelphia hotel, the work being performed twenty-five years ago at the Girard House. In the fall of i860, at the time of the Presiden- tial election, which resulted in the choice of Abra- ham Lincoln and precipitated the war of the Re- bellion, Mr. Matthews was engaged in Savannah, Georgia, in charge of the erection of hotel gas- works, and witnessed many of the turbulent scenes which preceded the clash of arms in civil strife. He returned home, but the firm had important work to do in Tallahassee, Ala., and thither Mr. M.it- thews went at once, remaining until the completion of the job and reaching home two weeks prior to the battle of Manassas. He continued with Mor- ris, Tasker & Co. until 1878, and was intrusted with much important work. Mr. Matthews has been a life-long Democrat, and his adherence to the doctrines of his party is based on the firm conviction th.it its principles are the true ones. Although he has not always been active in party politics, his worth as a citizen long since came to be recognized, and for the past fif- teen years he has been a Director of the Eleventh School Section, and was made President of the Board in December, 1882, a position which he still holds. In 1S75 he was elected to the lower branch of Councils to fill the unexpired term of Thomas H. Gill, and remained in the Chamber for two full terms afterwards, serving until April, 1879. While there he took an active part in the overthrow of the Henszey party, and was appointed Chairman of the Gas Committee by President Caven, being also one of the Finance Committee. This chair- manship gave Mr. Matthews the distinction of being the only Democrat who was chairman of any Council committee in twenty years. In 188 1, when Mayor King became the city's executive, Mr. Matthews was chpsen to fill the vacancy in the Select Council, caused by Mr. King's elevation, and he was re-elected for the full term in February, 1882, by a vote of l,loS to 495 for Samuel Lowen- stein. Republican, and 389 for Joseph C. .Springer, Independent Democrat. In June of that year he represented his ward in the State Convention which nominated Robert E. Pattison for Governor. He is a Pa'-t-Master of Integrity Lodge, No. 187, A. Y. M., and a member of the Masonic Temple Committee; a Past-Master of Columbia Mark Lodge, No. 91 ; Past High-Priest of Columbia Chapter, No. 91 ; has been Prelate for nine years of Philadelphia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar; a member of Purity Lodge, No. 325, I. O. O. F., and belongs to Mt. Zion Encamp- 66 MEN OF AMKRICA. Mr. Matlhev/s was married in 1S50 to Ann Hill, a lady of English birth, who camt to America at the ai;c of live yeais. They have two children, Kranklin R. and Mary, l>"th of whom arc married anil reside in Philadelphia, ihc latter being the wife of George M. Moore, one of the proprietors of the Girard House. ITJALTERMAN, FREDERICK, member QjJ'll of the Select Council from the Twelfth Ward, was born in Bremen, Germany, October 22d, 1831, and received a sound education in the schools of his native land. He came to this country in the fall of 1S49, being then eighteen years of age. Securing employment in a grocery store he set to work to master the details of the business, and was enabled, in October, 1S53, to start for himself. He selected the southwest corner of Fifth and Callow- hill streets as a desirable location, and has re- mained there to the present time. He early identi- fied himself with the Republican party, but never as a candidate for office. He has been, however, frcqucn'.ly elected to positions of trust by the peo- ple of the ward in which he has resided for thirty- two years. He was chosen a member of the Sectional School Board in 1S72, and served con- tinuously until January, iSSl. During six years of the lime he was Secretary of the body. His election to the Select Council, February, 1880, is a further evidence of the esteem in which he is held. The Demncralic candidate was J. J. McDevitt, and the vole was: Hallerman, 1,302; McDevitt, 1,127. Mr. Halterman is a member of several German societies, a director of the M.-ennerchor, belongs to the Lutheran Church, is married and has one son. C'TAAOOIAT.RTON. JOHN 1'., the member of ^1 1 1 the .Select Council from the Thirteenth (' III Ward, was born at .Mexandria, Hunter- ^'^Tl don county. New Jersey, October l6lh, ^ r''j' 1839. He was of American ancestry, his parents being Runyon and Mahala Woolverton. Mr. Woolverton received his educa- tion in the schools of W'illiamsport, Pennsylvania, whither his father had removed, and was engaged in the manufacture of lumber. On leaving school he Iwcame as.soci.itcd with his father in the lumber business, and continued in it ever since. He after- wards became one of the firm of Woolverton & Tinsman, manufacturers and dealers in lumber, in Willianisport and Philadelphia. The business necessitated the presence of one of the membcis of the firm in the latter city, and Mr. Woolverton came here in 1854, where he continued to reside. He was an .active member of the Ma>nnerchor So- ciety and took great interest in its proceedings. He was a Director of the Kensington National Bank and of the Northern I.iberties National Bank. He was also a member and Director of several successful building associations. Mr. Woolverton was a Republican, though he did not take an active pait in politics until 1875, when, on February iCth of that year, he was cho.sen to rei resent the Thirteenth Ward in the Common Council. He took his scat in that body on Janur.ry 3d, 1S76, and served for one term. On February 21st, 18S2, he was elected to the Select Council on the Reform ticket; Mr. Woolverton was not desirous of being a candidate for the office, and only consented after much persuasion. His opponent was John L. Miles, the regular Republi- can nominee, whom he defeated by a majority of 265 votes. The vote was: Woolverton, 1,588, and Miles, 1,323. During his term in this branch of Councils, Mr. Woolverton was a member of the Committees on Finance, Highways, Schools, Boiler Inspection, Gas Works, Printing and Supplies, and To Compare Bills. On December l6th, 1S82, while transacting busi- ness in the Northern Liberties Bank, Mr. Woolver- ton wrs suddenly stricken with paralysis and never sjioke afterwards. He died at 3 o'clock on Christ- mas morning. Mr. Woolverton was married on September l6th, 1S69, to Emily M. Harnstead, and was the fiither of two children, a boy and girl, who are living with their mother at No. 508 North Seventh street. $ROOKE, JOHN G., the Select Council- man from the Fourteenth Ward, was born in PhiLadelpliia, December 31I, 1836. He received a limited education in the common schools, and entered ac- tive political life in the Republican camp about the year 1864. His services as a worker were not recognized until February 24th,' 1876, when he W.1S given a seat in the Select Council to fill the unexpired term of Robert W. Downing, who re- signed. Mr. Brooke was re-elected in February, 1S77, and again in iSSo, and his ofiicial life as a representative of the people will end in April, 1S83, at the close of his present term. During his ofiicial THE CITV GOVERNMENT. career in the Select Council, Mr. Brooke served as Chairman of ihe Boiler Inspection Committee, and in 1S82 was a member of the Committees on High- ways, Survejs, Police, City Property, Railroads, Elcciion Divisions, Boiler Inspection and Com- merce and Navigation. He is now employed in the Custom House. .\NES, CHARLES H., Select Council- man from the Fifteenth Ward, was born in Philadelphia, October 24th, 1S31. He received a liberal education, and graduated at the High School about the year 1850. He at once entered the house of Atwood & Co., wholesale merchants, with whom he remained until 1861, and qualified him- self for a mercantile life. He responded to the call for three years' troops in the war of the rebel- lion, and entered the service of the United States, August loth, 1861, as Captain of Company E, Seventy-second regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, performing active and honorable service during the terrible days which followed the mustering of the volunteer army, from 1861 until the autumn of 1864. He commanded his company at the sie^e and capture of Yorktown, in 1862, and in the Ixit- tles of Fair Oaks, May 31st, 1862; Seven Pines, June ist, 8th and 9th, and Garnet's Farm, June 15th and 18th; Savage Station, June 29th; Peach Orchard, June 29th ; Glendale, June 30th ; Malvern Hill, July i>t; Chanlilly, September 1st; Antietam, -September 13th to 17th, and Fredericksburg, De- cember 13th, 1S62. On the 26th of the latter month, having received honorable mention for gal- lantry in the battle of Fredericksburg, in which en- gagement he was wounded. Captain Banes was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General, and con- firmed by the United States Senate, May 15th, 1863. He took part in the battles of Chancellors- ville, May 12th, 1863; Hay Market, June 24th; Gettysburg, July 2d and 3d (where he was again wounded and honorably mentioned for bravery and gallant conduct); Robertson's Tavern, November 26th; Mine Run, December 2d (being again hon- orably mentioned); Wilderness, M.ay Sth-7th, 1S64; .Spottsylvania, May 8th-i8th ; Po River,' M.iy 9th; North Anna, May 23d-27th ; Tolopoto- may. May 2Si"h, and Cold Harbor, June ist-4th, 1S64, where he was so severely wounded as to in- capacitate him for further service. He was bre- vctted Major for his gallantry at Gettysburg, and I.ieulenant-Colonel after Spottsylvania. Forced to retire from the service in which his skill and bravery had been so conspicuous, Colonel 67 Banes returned to Philadelphia, where, as soon as he recovered sufficient strength, he engaged ac- tively in business, becoming a partner in the firm of Fiss, Banes, Erben & Co., manufacturers of worsted yarns at the Fairmount Mills, Twenty- fourth and Spring Garden streets, one of the most extensive and prosperous establishments of that in- dustry in the United States. Shortly after the close of the war Colonel Banes wrote and had published the " History of the Phila- delphia Brigade," a work which has been com- mended for its accurate information, and as bein^ a complete story of that organization. He is prominently connected with the Baptist Church, and is an untiring worker in various scientific, benevolent anil religious organizations, especially as Trustee of the F'ranklin Institute and President of the Baptist Social Union, the Baptist City Mis- sion, and other kindred enterprises. Politically he is a Democrat, and was the Demo- cratic nominee in his ward, in 1882, for the Select Council against William S. Reyburn, the Republi- can candidate. He was indorsed by the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred, and elected with 4,152 votes to 2,991 for Mr. Reyburn. ARKER, OLIVER, the member of the Select Council from the Sixteenth Ward, was born at Westfield, Burlington county, ^ New Jersey, October 25th, 1S23. His father, Willils Parker, was a Quaker and a tiller of the soil, being, at the time of his death, the most successful farmer in Bur- lington county. He was m.nrried to Phoebe Wil- lits, also a Quaker. Both of these people were de- scended from ancestors whose coming to America dates back to the time of William Penn. When Oliver was a lad, hfs father had not yet acquired that station in life which he afterwards reached, when he could afford to give his oldest son a fin- ished education. But he did give him a chance to profit by Ihe advantages of the public schools of the county, and there, princi|ially those of Tucker- ton, Oliver was educated in the common branches. , Having finisihed his course of studies, Mr. Parker engaged with his father in working the farm, and he remained with him until 1850, when he married and settled on a farm of his own near Tuckerlon, which he continued to develop until i860. In February of that year he removed to Philadeljihia, establishing himself in the manufacture of soap and candles at No. 1095 Geimanlown avenue, in the Sixteenth Ward. He has carried on this business 68 MEN OF AMERICA. unimcmipleilly in the same build. ng ever since wilh apparent success. Mr. I'arker is a Republican, and a firm supporter of his parly, though only of late years taking more than . ordinary interest in politics. In Febru- ary, 1880, he was elected by the regular Repub- licans to represent the Sixteenth Ward in the Select Council. The other candidate for the same posi- tion was William S. LefTnian, a Democrat, whom he defeated by a majority of 552 votes. The vote was: Parker, 1,669, and Leffman, 1,117. During his term in this body Mr. I'arker has served on the Committees on Finance, Schools, Police, House of Correction, Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph, and to Compare Bills. In religion Mr. Parker is a member of the Ortho- dox Society of Friends, and is a regular attcndoUt at the church at Sixth and Noble streets. On March 14th, 1S50, he was married to Miss Edith, daughter of George M. Elkinton, of this city, and also a mender of the Society of Friends. They have two children, both boys, who are now grown to manhood, and a-.soci.aed in business wilh their father. G^ON i jONEY, GEORGE, the membLr of the Select Council from the Seventeenth Ward, was born in Philadelphia, Octo- ber 31st, 1845. His parents, James Roney and Isabella Matthews, were both born and married in Ireland, and came to Phil.idelphia in 1S42, locating in what was then called Hopkins' court, now Shenango street. George attended the public schools of the neigh- borhood, and received the last of his tuition in Harrison Grammar School. When the civil war broke out in 1861, he was engaged wilh his father in the milk business. Although not quite sixteen years old, on August l6lh, of that year, he enlisted in Company C, Eighly-first Regiment Pennsylva- nia Volunteers, Colonel James Miller. The regi- ment was attached to General O. O. Howard's brigade of the Second Corps, and participated in the battles of the Peninsula, second Bull's Run, and Antietam. Mr. Roney wns wounded twice, the first time at Fair Oaks, and again at Antietam, and was discharged from the service for disatiility resulting from the List wound. He had sufficiently recovered to again enlist when the rebel army in- vaded Pennsylvania in 1863, and- he marched aw.iy as Orderly Sergeant of a company in the Merchants' reginieni, commanded by Colonel Elias Woodward, and returned as a Lieutenant. In the fall of the same year he engaged to learn blacksmilhing, at which trade he employed himself for seven years, leaving it to become a patrolman on Mayor Stokley's police force. After serving for two months he was promoted to the position of sergeant, and served nearly eight years in that capacity, resigning in September, 1879, '° accept a position in the employ of John Wanamaker. In February, 1880, Mr. Roney was selected by the Republicans of the Seventeenth Ward as their candidate for the Select Council. He had iwo oppo- nents, both Democrats, and the victory was an easy one — hisvolebeing 1,185101,072 for James Hughes, and 775 for Timothy I.eary. Always a Republican, Mr. Roney has been very prominent in party poli- tics, and for eight years has been Chairman of the Seventeenth Ward Republican Executive Commit- tee. In the Masonic and other societies he also fig- ures prominently, being very active in St. Paul's Lodge, No. 481, F. & A. M.; a member of the Knights of Birmingham, Odd Fellows, American Prolcslant Association, Post No. 7, G. A. R., and Secretary of Thermop) he Senate, Order of Sparta. ' *^ UMM, GEORGE W., Select Councilman from the Eighteenth Ward, is of Ameri- can p.irentage, and was born in Kensing- ton, Philadelphia, August <)th, 1844. "'^ is a son of William Bumm, the prominent salt merchant, and a present member of the Board of Managers of the House of Correction, lie W.1S educated in the public and private schools of Philadelphia, and at an early nge was entered in the counting-room of his father, ti^ learn the busi- ness, with whom he has remained ever since. He is a member of Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M.; Chosen Friends Lodge, No. 100, 1. 0. of O. F. ; Kensington Lodge, A. O. U. W.; Girard Council, A. L. O. II., and Thcrmopylic Senate, Order of Sparta. Mr. Bumm is a Republican, and in 1874 he was elected to the Select Council for three ycais, and he has been twice re-elected, having, up to the present lime, represented the Eighteenth Ward in that body for nine years and three months. In November, 1S81, Mr. Bumm was elected President of the Select Council, in which capacity he served until April, 18S2. During his career in ihe Select Council he has served on all the important committees. He has been Chairman of the Committees on Water Works, City Properly, and Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph. In the Bi-Centeiiiiial year he was a inenil)er of the ("inii- miltees on Schools, City i'ro[>erly, Election Uivi- sious, to Verify Cosh Accounts of the City Trcas- THE CITY GOVERNMENT. urer, Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph, Prisons to Compare Bills, and Printing and Supplies. 69 LBRIGHT, ADAM, member of the Select Council from the Nineteenth Ward, was born in Philadelphia, February 17th, 1825. His father, Peler Albright, a compositor by trade, died when his son was but nine years of age, leaving his family in such circumstances th»t Adam, the eldest of five children, was compelled to seek employ- ment. He found work in the printing office of John J. Young, where he remained about a twelve- month, when the mother, finding it impossfble to keep her family together, broke up housekeeping, and sent Adam to help on his grandfather's farm at Mount Airy, where he remained until his six- teenth year, working at farm-work during the spring, summer and autumn, and in winter attend- ing school, where he had part of three winters' schooling, until he became a member of the Legis- lature in 1S70. Determining at the age of sixteen to seek a permanent trade, he apprenticed himself to Joseph Beacher to learn the saddlery business. Here he remained until 1874, in the various posi- tions of apprentice, journeyman, superintendent, and partner, with the exception of a short period spent at Chicago and St. Paul's in 1856. The part- nership continued until the breaking out of the w.ar, when Mr. Albright, fearing ruinous loss from the de- struction of their southern trade, which was large, withdrew from the concern against the wishes and advice of his partner, and with prejudice to his own interests, but remained in its employ. Originally Mr. Albright joined the Whig party, and took an early and active interest in politics; but in 1S52, upon the rise of the Free Soil party, he voted for Hon. John P. Hale for the Presi- dency, and four years later took an active part in the campaign for Fremont. In 1S60 he worked hard for Lincoln, and has ever since remained a firm and energetic member of the Republican party. In 1859 he was chosen a member of the Nineteenth Ward Republican Executive Commit- tee, and has served in that body continuously ever smce. He has represented his ward several times in the City Committee, of \Vhich he is at present a member. In i868 he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the School Board of the Nineteenth Section. ■ In the same year he was elected a Dele- gate to the Slate Convention, .and has since been elected as Stale Delegate on six different occa- sions. In the fall of 1S69 he was elected a mem- ber of the Slate House of Represenlalives, and was re-elected in 1S70, 1S71 and 1872, returning to his trade upon each adjournment and remaining at it until the next assembly. In 1S73 he was elected to the Select Council, and upon the expira- tion of the term was unanimously renominated. He withdrew, however, from the canvass for the sake of Republican harmony, but the rupture in the ward was too great to be healed, and the choice fell to Benjamin T. Caskey, ihe Democratic candi- date, who, dying in 1879, was succeeded by Mr. Albright for the unexpired term. The latter was renominated and elected in February, 1S80, over John Enisley, a Democrat, receiving 3,293 votes to 2,571 cast for his opponent. For three years, from 1S74 to 1876 inclusive, he served as deputy under Sheriff William Elliott, and in 1877 was appointed by Governor Hartranft one of Ihe Sealers of Weights and Measures. He was a member of the State Central Committee, when, in 1S72, the Nineteenth Ward gave a larger majority for Robert W. Mackey, candidate for State Treasurer, than did Allegheny county, Mr. Mackey's own residence; and again, in 1881, when the ward carried off the prize-banner, offered by the State Cen- tral Committee to the ward, township, or county, that should record the largest gain over the Presi- dential vote of 1880. He was chosen delegate to the National Convention, held in 18S0, at Chicago, but adhering with accustomed tenacity to General Gram, was one of the devoted band doomed to defeat. In Ihe subsequent campaigns of 1876 and 1880 Mr. Albright appeared in a somewhat new field of labor, in which his services were of great impor- tance to the Republican party. In 1876 he visited Indiana to assist the Republican Slate Committee in organizing the party for the Presidential cam- paign, and although the State was carried by the Democrats, Mr. Albright gathered information which proved highly important in the arrangement of the Garfield campaign in 1880. In September of the latter year he again went to Indiana at the head of a body of assistants, for the purpose of putting that State in readiness for the coming contest. His exertions were unceasing. Every county and township w.is thoroughly organized, and the Republican spirit encouraged to its warm- est efTorts. The result was highly flattering to his abilities as a partisan leader. The State, which had been confidently reckoned as belong- ing to the Democratic ranks, was successfully car- ried by a decisive Republican majority. The vic- tory spread encouragement in other States where Ihe outlooks had been disheartening, and may be considered as the turning-point of Ihe Garfield cam- paign. In December, 18S2, he was appointed by 70 MEN OF AMERICA. SherifT Kcim Deputy of the Second District, and he is now scrvinj; in that capacity. Mr. Allirighl's relations have not been confined to iliosc of business and politics. He is a member of the Vaux Lodge, A. Y. M.; of the Cohocksink Lodge, L O. O. v.; Apollo Lodge, K. of P.; Montgomery Lodge, A. P. A. ; Peqiiod Tribe, N. AL ; l.il)crty Council, A. .^L ; and of Lodge No. 3, Knighis of Birmingham. I'ersonally he is a man of frank address, oC great activity and self-reliance, and through his thirty years of political life has pre- served his freedom and candor to an extent credita- ble to himself. He is married and is the parent of nine children, six living and three dead. "■ ^"AMMETT, THOMAS MU.TOX, Select Councilman from the Twentieth Ward, was born in Philadelphia, March Slh, ^<7t 1836. His father was Thomas Ham- *> ^^ mett, of Uoston, and his mother was Relxjcca Harrington, of Philadelphia, well known and highly respected for her charitable nature. She was one of the founders of the North- ern Home for Friendless Children and Old Ladies' Methodist I lome, and when she died was the old- est member of the Union Methodist Epi'icopal Church, on Fourth street. Her son attended the Hancock Grammar School on Coatcs street, and finished his school-d.nys in the academy on Fourth street below Arch. He learned the trade of a coppersmith with his father, who started in busi- ness at 322 Vine street, in 1837, where his son now trades as his successor. Mr. Hammett is a Republican, and first entered public life in 1876, when he began a service of four years and three months in the Common Coun- cil. In February, 18S1, he was elected to the .Select Council, in which l)ody he is Chairman of the Com- mittee on Railroads, and a member of the Commit- tees on Finance, Surveys, House of Correction, Law, Gas Works, Prisons, and Printing and Supj)lies. While a member of the Common Council Mr. Hammett was Chairman of the Fire Department Committee, and through his instrumentality the famous Hayes extension ladder, which has since been adopted in other cities, was introduced in Philadelphia. Through his efforts also the force of workmen in the department shops was increased, and large additions to the machinery were made, thereby enabling the department not only to com- pletely repair, but also to build steam fire-engines and the other apparatus. The residt of these im- provements was the saving of large sums of money to the people of the city. He served during the Rebellion as First Sergeant of Company G, Seven- teenth Pennsylvania regiment, and was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of service. He was married, July 12th, 1855, toMiss Agnes S. Wilt, of AUentown. They have had five chil- dren, three girls and two boys, all of whom are still living, except one of the boys. AVIS, JOHN SAYLOR, Select Council- man from the Twenty-first Ward, was born in Philadeljihia, March 12th, 1843. His parents were W'illiam Davis and Edith S.aylor, who resided in the old Spring Garden district. His schooling was limited, and at the age of ten years he was obliged to seek employment, which he obtained in the office of Alexander Fillot, a liquor merchant. Subsequently he was apprenticed to Henry Apple & Sons, coopers, and later on to Theodore AL Apple. In 1861 he enlisted with the Scott Legion in the three months' service, at the expir.i- tion of which time he re-enlisted in the Twenty- third regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, com- manded by Colonel David B. Birney, and was discharged for disability in March, 1862. He re- turned to Philadelphia and finished his trade, and worked as a journeynian cooper until June, 1868, when he started in the general coopering business for himself. Before he was twenty-one years of age, he was President of the Journeymen Coopers' Union, No. I. On account of the failures of other parties in the same business, Mr. Davis was obliged to give up the coopering industrj-, and started as a petroleum merchant, paying particular attention to oil pr<) X mittee which conducted the Bi-Centenni d celebra- tion on the part of the Councils. In 1877 he was Chairman of the Committee which arranged the celebration of the One Hundreth Anniversary of the battle of Germantown. In the present Select Council he is Chairman of the Finance and Schools Committees, and a mem- ber of the Committees on Law, Printing and Sup- plies, Prisons, Railroads, Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph, and Surveys. Mr. Gates is married and still resides in the place of his birth. REEN, THOM.'VS, the Select Councilman from the Twenty-third Ward, was born in Frankford, October 20ih, 1832. His father, whose name was Thomas, came from England, and his mother was a Scotch lady named Christiana Anderson. Mr. Green's tuition was begun at pay-schools, and finished at the public schools in Frankford, es- pecially at Marshall Gr.immar School. His first employment was in a print-mill, and, in 1866, hav- ing learned the moulder's trade with Alfred Jenks & Son, he became a member of the firm of Green & Linehan, iron founders, and is still in that busi- ness under the same firm-name, on Mill street, Frankford. He is a Republican, and was elected to Select Council in February, 1880, defeating John R. Reading, a Democrat, by a vote of 2,620 to 1,056. In that body he is Chairman of the Committee on Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph and a member of the Committees on Police, House of Correction, Prisons and Gas Works. He was married in 1864 to Claudine E. Rebischon, a native of France. They have three children, two boys and one girl, and the religious faith of the family is Presbyterian. LASS, HENRY, the member of the Select Council from the Twenty-fourth Ward, was born at Petersburg, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, March 12th, 1820, and is of American ancestry. He was educated in the common branches in the schools of that place, and, on finishing his studies, learned the trade of shoemaking. Mr. Glass settled in Carlisle in 1S40, where he remained until 1856, when he removed to Dauphin county. In 1857 he returned to Carlisle. He came to Philadelphia in 1863, where he has since resided. Among other employments, Mr. Glass was at one time a distiller, and is at present the proprietor of a hotel. He is also a dealer in live-stock, and is the President of MKV OK AMFRirA. the I'annere' & lUilclicrs' nrovo-Yanl Company. Mr. Class is a iuciiiIht of llic Masonic Older, aiitl alsoolOic I. (). olO. K. In i>ilitics Mr. I'llass is a Ropulilican, and he has always liccn active in the doinjp of his |>arty. He was first elected to office in 1851, when he was made a niemlvcr of the Itori)uj;li Council of Car- lisle. In 1S56, while li\ing in naviphin county, he was elected a Sctiool Director. Mr. Cila^s was cleeled to the Common Council of riiil.xdelphia in 1S70. At the cxpinttion of this term he was chosen to represent his warxl in the Select Council, in which body he has held his .seat up to the present time, or four suc-cessive teims. In tSSl there were thive aspirants for Select Councilmen fi«m the Twenty-fourth Waul: John ti. Dunwoody, n l>cn\ocrat; Jo.seph U. Carson, an lnde|M;ndent Kepuhlican, who was indorsed hy the Committee of l^ne Hundred, and Mr, li lass, the regular Re- pulilican candidate. The l.Hter w.is clectc^l, the vote iH'injj: Idass, _;,J7i; Hunwixvly, 3,0J!6, and Carson, 1,600, l>«iin^ iSSj Mr. i;i.\ss servcil on the Committees on Schixils, City IVi|>criy, Mouse of Correction, lo Verify Cash Accounis of the City Treasurer, IVisons, Itoilcr Insjvclion and IVinting and Supplies. Mr. tllass is a ner of the Lutheran Church, and ivsidcs at the corner of Thirty-tirst street ar.> Il.niifoul axenue. West rhihidelphia. ll^lh'KOlRKK. MICHAEU Select Council- man fr\m> the Tweu(\--lifth Want, \»-as lKin> in County l.eitrim, ne.ir Carrick on Shannon. lrt-l,\nd. in SejUemhcr, 5s) IS44, His father was Jvxhn 0"R>>urke, a lirvHher of W.trick t^'Rourke. who re|>re*entt>il the 'IVenty tilth Waul in the Select t\«uncil frvM« iSo,? to iSoj, and his mother was Mar>- Lynch, who is still living »t the adv.\nced aj^ of eightyfix-e years, and rfsidcs with her son, the sul"n1 of this «kHch. Mich^tel is one of nine eh.l.^ ■ ie)\ ; this ^- , ^ •cIkkJ at hi* h«ith-j4ac-« sex-eral rears ami at iVRC* en)>*4^1 in ,-,^r>Tn,-l-.*ii: with h'< Hr^Hrr James )v«m ■ IMving, h«n real • ' and ^ ins, h.vujaes iM h»s own, thW ^^ his >ntem«^. SilK« his rc*Jen.v in .\-.„.-...a. Mi O K.s.;ikC has made three trips to Europe; the first in l>74, when he sailed on the same xesscl with the l;.te Theodore Cuylcr and ex-SheiiT Wn(;lil; .again in 1S77, when he accom|vinied his hruther James, I who was ai\ invalid and went alinud in search of health, died and was buried at the old family (home in Ireland; and .ngain in 18S2, when he lirouglit his aged mother to this country and in- stalled her as a mcndicr of his household. I Mr, O'Rourkc is a Pemocrat, and first repre- sented the Twenty-fifth Ward in City Councils in iSSi, when he was sent to the Common branch by the highest vote cast for six candidates. His course in the lower Chamber was so .satisfactory to his constituents that in Februarj', 1SS2, he w.is elected to the higher branch by a m.ajority of 1,006. In this body he serves on the Committees on Surxeys, Tolicc, House of Correction, Election Divisions, to Ver.fy Cash .\ccounts of the City Treasutcr, Boiler Ins|ieclion and lo Com|\ire Bills. Mr. O'Rourke is a C.itholic. and .attends St. ' Cecilia's Church. In 1807 he marrieecame .ili.iched in the old ] country. They have had nine chddren, only three of whom art: living. V.\XS. J.VMES. Select Councilman from the Twenty-sixth Wanl. was lx>m in Smyrna, Delaware. .\i»il 7th, 1S22. of Welsh [xireniagc. His father was IVter H. Evans, « local Methodist preacher, and a carjienter and builder by occupa- tion; and his mother's maiden-n.irae was Mary I\>»-ell. James was Init one year old when his father die^l, and about the x-ear 1824 his m^^ther re- ' move\l to fiiiladelphia. whenc, at the proper age, the K>y was sent to schvv>l and ttceivevl such tui- tion as the public institutions aflv»xle\l until he was ' eleven years of age. when his moiber also died. .-Vt this tender age the boy was required to go to ' work to earn a livelihood, and he chose em|xloy- ment in a brick-vard in the summer time, and " ' V in ort -ge, I when he started in the bnck-making bosiness with hrt V— the:-, J.-^n l\s»re1! Frsrr?, s partnership i: »-as dis- , John's in- - .--- ...i) his own - -'r. Tvscess e»f bcming vs !,y ihc »»: .."4 .;^;i^h.'.ic 4e cvul. which had . .~d a failuie in the ha»,ls of manr others who Samuel L. Smedley. I Samuel 1. Givin. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 73 operation under Mr, Evans' supervision. It re- quired his personal attention day and night, how- ever, as he alone had made a careful study of it, and was unable to leave it in charge of subordi- nates until the year i860, when he succeeded in teaching an employe how to manage it. From this time on Mr. Evans was very successful in busi- ness, owing principally to close attention, frugality and perseverance, and was enabled to retire with a handsome foitune about the time of the Centennial. During his business career Mr. Evans interested himself greatly in the improvement of the southern part of the city. Ever since he was nine years of age he has lived south of South street, and ninny of the buildings in the neighborhood of his present handsome residence, No. 1160 South Broad street, are the result of his enterprise. In 1873 he built the market-house at Seventeenth and Federal streets, one of the most substantial structures of its kind in the city. He is a very benevolent man, and has always given liberally to churches. During the war he did much to alleviate the sufferings of the soldiers, being one of the originators and active managers of the Citizens' Volunteer Hospital at Broad and Prime st eets, which was instituted .Sep- tember 5th, 1862, " for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers arriving and passing through the city." His wife, who was Miss Harriet B. Griffith, of Philadelphia, to whom he was married itr 1850, was one of the lady managers of the same institu- tion, and from the time of the opening of the hos- pital, in 1S62, until its close, August 9th, 1865, her time and means were given to the wants of the suffering inmates. Mr. Evans was originally an old-line Whig, and since the organization of the Republican party has been attached to that political faith. In February, 1880, he was elected to the .Select Council by a large majority, receiving 3,265 votes to 859 for George W. Meeser, a Democrat, and 144 for George W. Grant, an independent candidate. He is a member of Meridian Sun Lodge, No. 158, F. & A. M., and Moyamensing Lodge, No. 330, I. O. of O. F. He belongs to the Presbyieri.m faith, and has been a member of the Rev. John Chambers' Church at Broad and .Sansom streets since 1852, and is now the President of the Board of Trustees. I ATTON, EDWARD WAGNER, member of the Select Council from the Twenty- seventh Ward, was born on Powell etreet. Fifth Ward, Philadelphia, June gth, 1846. He received his early education in private and public schools and entered the Cen- tral High School in July, i860, as a pupil of the Locust Street Grammar School. In June, 1863, he enlisted as a private in Landis' Battery, and served during the emergency causeom streets. <^: CvsCmed to having had reports prepared by the official named approved as a matter, of course. He therefore offered his dissent from the report, assigning r.s his reasons " that sufficient oppoitunity had not been given to examine said statement ; that it was the duty of the committee to investigate, as they had failed to do, whether the ordinances of 1S72 and 1877 had been complied with; that the City Treasurer had disputed the right of the committee to do more than solely to examine the account as of the day stated, and vouch for the items appear- ing thereon." This did not suit certain people, and especially the friends of the officials, and his defeat for re-election was resolved upon, but when the time for renomination came around so strong was his hold in the good wishes of his constituents, the opposition considered it useless to nominate an opponent, and therefore he was re-elected in 1880 to serve until April, 1882. During the first ye.ar of his second term, ^Ir. Lex has stood second on the Finance Committee, Chairman of the Commit- tee on Surveys, and a member of the Committee on Law, and on the first Monday of April, 18S1, was elected presiding officer of the Common Council. In February, 1882, he was again re-elected for a third term, being nominated by the Republican party and indoised by the Democrats and Commit- tee of One Hundred, and on the first Monday of April, 1882, reelected President of Common Council. The members of the Lex family are connected with St. Clement's Church, but the subject of this sketch is pew-holder and attendant at St. Mark's since 1 869, where, for a number of years, he was one of the chorister-boys, and is well and favorably known to the entire congregation since boyhood. A worthy son of a worthy sire, he has thus far fulfilled his early promises, and his future is promising, as his strict adherence to a true line of policy can hardly fail to be appreciated and re- warded. AWRENCE, CHARLES, a member of Common Council from the First Ward, was born in Philadelphia, July 20th, 1837. His father. Captain Alexander Lawrence, was a native of New Jersey, but transferred his residence to this city, dying when the son was an infant of seven months. His mother, a woman of noble impulses, tendered her services as nurse, when the cholera w.is raging among us iii 1S49, and devoting all her energies to the relief of the sufftrin:,', unfortunately fell herself a victim as the pestilence was drawing to a close. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 77 The son, a youth of twelve years, thus left self- d-'pendent, engageil himself in 1852 with William Neal, and under his instructions became a profi- cient sail maker. At the age of twenty-one he secured a situation in the tent department of the United States Arsenal, where he remained until the outbreak of the war, at which time he tendered his services to the Navy Department, and was as- signed posiiion as sail-maker. He was ordered to the United States sloop-of-war "Pensacola," and was with Farragut's fleet in all its principal engage- ments, among which was the brilliant one ending in the capture of New Orleans. He was the only sail-maker ever promoted; a singular lionor. At the recommendation of the great admiral, he was raised to the rank of Master and detailed as Second Lieutenant of the sloop of war " Portsmouth," which position he retained to the close of the war, when he returned to his origi- nal calling. In this line of business, to which he h.rs since adhered, Mr. Lawrence is one of the most widely known and highly appreciated in the city. To his apprenticeship under a thorough mas- ter like Mr. Neal, he adds the knowledge and ex- perience gained as master during three years in the United Slates Navy, and from these two schools he has learned all that is known of a vessel's construc- tion and furniture. In addition to this, he ranks as one of the best draughtsmen in the country, and shows considerable skill and talent as a designer. He is a member of the Vessel Owners' and Cap- tains' Association, and for four successive years has been unanimously elected President of that organi- zalion. He has paid great attention to the shipping interests of this port, and many advantageous meas- ures owe their origin to his keenness and determi- nation. Blessed in his marriage, he is the father of seven children — three daughters and four sons ; and wiih his family attends religious service at " Old Swedes' " (Gloria Dei) Church. In the midst of numerous avocations Mr. Law- rence has devoted a portion of his time to the poli- tics of the city of his birth. In principles he is a Republican, and has for a number of years been active and useful in the affairs of his party. He was elected a member of Common Council in 1882, and his usual energy and desire for the public good are already visible in this new career. To him the lower part of the city owes two very desirable ordi- nances ; one to pave Broad street south to the Navy Yard at League Island ; the other to pave Reed street with Belgian blocks. He took great interest in the Bi-Centennial celebraiion, and was one of the committee appointed by the Councils to ar- range for the proper ceremonies. He is a member of the Masonic Older, belonging to the Blue Lodge Chapter and Knights Templar, and is a member of Reynolds Post, 71, G. A. R. He is a gentleman of great personal popularity, and exerts a consider- able personal as well as political influence. He has been a member of the School Board, in which he was elected President. Gentlemanly in manner and deportment, he displays much the directness and self-reliance which are found to characterize men who have ri^en to established position in society, by resolute exertion, under adverse circumstances. TEUBING, WILLIAM, member of the Common Council from the First Ward, was born in Wittgenborn, Kurhe^sen, Germany, September 3d, 1839. In 1S47 his parents came to this country, and he was sent to the public school on New Market street. In 1851 he left school and .secured employment in a cracker bakery, and remained until he was sixteen years of age, when he was ap' prenticed to a butcher. .Hi-, time expiring just as the war broke out, young Steubing enlisted in the Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry (Cameron Dragoons), being enrolled August 27th, 1S61. He re-enliNted in 1864, and on August 14th of that year was made Corporal. August 7th, 1865, he was honorably discharged in Richmond, Virginia, having served in all the battles his regiment participated in from Germantown, Virginia, 1861, until the surrender of Lee, 1865. Upon his return from the army, Mr. Steubing went back to his trade of butchering, and worked at it until 1874, in which year he entered into busi-- ness on his own account. Politically he has always been a Democrat. He is now serving his fir?t term in the Com.mon Council, having been elected in February, 1882. He is a member of numerous societies and organizations of a business and social character. He is President of the Southwark Butch- ers' Society, Aurora Singing Society, Schiller Benefi- cial Society, Vice-President Wharton Building Asso- ciation, and a member of Greble Po^t, No. 10, G. A. R. He is married and has one child, a son. fAMES, CHARLES DUNGAN, a mem- ber of the Common Council from the First Ward, was bom in Montgomery county, December 15th, 1S18, and is de- scended from American ancestors. He is the son of Thomas James, a first cousin 78 MEN OF AMERICA. to the well-known John O. James, of Philadelphia, llis mother's m:iiilen name was Martha Morris. Ill 1S23 the family removed to Philadelphia, and stilled in the Norihern Liberties District, and young J.imcs was sent to a private school, piesided over by Jonathan Collins. When at the age of nine years he was made acquainted with the mysteries of his father's trade, which was that of shoemaking, a:)d has worked at it almost continuously ever since, and has occupied his present place of business, No. 796 South Front street, nearly thirty-eight years. Mr. James is a Democrat, and until the election of Mayor Fox, in 1868, h.id taken an active part in politics ; he never held a public office until February, 1882, when he was chosen to represent his ward in the Common Council. During his first ye.nr in that body he served on the City Prop- erty, Fire Dcp.irtment and Boiler Inspection Com- mittees. In religion Mr. James is a Baptist. He was married to Susan Barlow, of PliiLidclphia, by whom he had two children, both girls, who are married and living with their father at No. 1435 South Sixth street. 'pear, THEODORE DOUGLASS, a member of the Common Council from the First Ward, is of American ancestry, and was born in Newark, New Jersey, January nth, 1835. His father, John D. S|)ear, was born in Boston, Massa- chusetts, and was married to Mary Snyder, a native of Philadelphia. When Theodore was but one year of age his parents removed to Philadelphia, and here he has resided ever since. He received his education in the Zane street Grammar School. At the age of twelve years, his father, who was en- gaged in the paint and oil business, thought it time that he was initiated into the routine of every-day business life, and the younger Spear was forthwith installed in the store, which was situated at No. 40Z South Delaware avenue. This occupation proving congenial to his tastes he continued work- ing for his father until he was twenty-five years of age, when he became the sole proprietor of the est.iblishment. Shortly afterwards he became largely interested in building operations in the First Ward. In 1877 Mr. Spear disposed of his paint business, and has since devoted himself solely to that of real estate, being very success- ful. Piiliiically, Mr. Spear is a Republican, but has never been an aspirant for honors in the political arena. In 1879, «'hen the Republicans of the First Ward were looking around for an exception- ally strong man to put on their ticket for Common Councilman, it was not strange that their choice should fall on the subject of this sketch. Mr. Spear's friends were many, and they gladly accepted him as their candidate. He was elected, and his course in the Commnn Councd during his first term was such as to cause his re-election in February, 1881, when he was returned with 3.344 votes. During 1882 he was a member of the Schools, Surveys and Gas Works Committees. Mr. Spear is a member of Putter Lodge, No. 441, F. & A. M., of Empire Lodge I. O. of O. F., and also of several other societies. He has always been more or less connected with building asso- ciations, and has been instrumental in making suc- cesses of many of them. In religion Mr. Spear is a Baptist. He was married on December 1st, 1 859, to Miss Frances C. Rupp, and has one cliild, a son named Harry. Mr. Spear resides in one of his own houses. No. 1811 South Fifth street. ALONEY, ANDREW JACKSON, a mem- ber of the Common Council from the First Ward, was born at Grecnsburgh, Caroline county, Maryland, March 3d, 1846. He is of American ancestry, his father, Samuel Maloney, having been born on the eastern shi re of Maryland near Easton, Talbot county, and his mother, who was Mary Clifton, coming from near Maston's Corner, Dela- ware. W'hen Andrew was about six years of age his parents removet reform victory in the Demo- cratic ranks, established Mr. Iseminger's firm hold on the confidence of his constituents, and when, in iSSo, his term had nearly expired, he was re- elected, although he made no personal efibrt, ami was agnin returned to the popular branch in Feb- ruary, 1882, by 1,235 majority. In that campaign Mr. Iseminger was indorsed by the Committee of One Hundred, but John Brady, the Democratic nominee for Select Council in the same ward, failed to receive that mark of favor. This gave rise to the impression that Mr. Iseminger was a party to the action of the committee in its indorsement of Mr. Bmdy's opponent, and for the purpose of defining his true position and estab- lishing his thorough independence, a copy of the following letter, which Mr. Iseminger had sent to the committee, was read at a meeting of the Ward Democratic Committee. It is here reproduced as evidence of Mr. Iseminger's force of character. I have just received from you a copy of a set of resolu- tions passed by the Committee of One Hundred, consisting of nine articles, and you ask me if favorable to them to report to you. Now, while I heartily suljscribe to them, and have always acted up to them, allow me to ask you. Where has your committee b-;en during the last four years that you or any other bodies of men should desire to put such questions to me? If you are so much interested in the public weifare, why have you not observed the course of honest men in So MEN OF AMERICA. CounciU? Why not look al the Journal of Common Council and TCiid my record? Why not jjo back lo llic years 1856- 57-6j, and see how the yuung nian'i letord of that time tal- lies with the old nian\ of to-day? After you have done all of this, if not satisfied, 1 will say that all the guarantee for the futur.; that 1 can give you or your committee is to point proudly to the past. In conclusion, you will allow me to say 1 f^ar you are not acquainted with my character. 1 am as proud of my integrity as the wealthiest man on your com- mittee. 1 am no oflicc-seeUcr ; 1 am no place-hunter. I am nut anxious 10 serve in a piibl.c capacity, while I am anxious t J have and merit the good opinions of all men. If my fcllow- Cltizeiis think it best for the public good for me to stay at home, allow me to assure you that I am very willing 10 do so. After re-idiiig this, if you think 1 am worthy, indorse ine; if not, reject. Anollier event in Mr. Iscminger's political life is illustrative of his self-sacrilicing spiiit an J indomi- table will. In the fall of 1S82 he was nominated for Kegister of Wills by the Philadelphia Denioc racy. The ofTitcis one which he would have filled with ability anil administered with good judgment, but in view of the f.tct that his paity had placed in the field Michael .\rnold for Judge, John L.Grimfor Sheriff, and his own warm personal friend, .S. Davis l*age, for Treasurer, Mr. Iseniiiiger thought the Democracy were asking too much in the distribu- tion of offices in a minority county, and in the in- terest of good government and' his p.irty, and to further the success of the gentlemen named, he withdrew from the contest against the earnest pro- test of the Democr.itic City Executive Committee. Mr. Iseminger is a member of the Historical Society. In 1855 he married Miss Catharine Simon, a daughter of Christopher Simon, a farmer, of I hiladelphia county. They have had six chil- dren, three boys and three girls, of whom the girls and one boy are still living. (cCUI.I.Y, GEORt;E IIEXRY, a mem- ber of the Common Council from the Second Ward, was born in Philadelphia, November iSth, 1847. Both his parents were also born in the city, but his grand- parenis were natives of New Jersey, lie received his education in the public schools, mainly in the Ringgold Grammar School. When of proper age he applied himself to learning the printing busi- ness, first with William S. & Alfred Martien, and then with A. C. liryson & Co. For some years he has been engaged in the business on his own account. In politics Mr. McCully has always been a Democrat, and is a member of the Americus and Andrew Jackson Clubs. lie was elected to the Common Council, February, 1881, with James Mo- ran, another Democrat, who had also received the indursement of the Commiltce of One Hundred. Mr. McCully, who was simply the Democratic nom- inee, polled the highest vote of the four contestants for the position, and le-tding in his ward all the other Democratic nominees who ran for office .it the same election. The vote was: McCully, 3,034; Moran, 2,897 '< W'llliam D. Moore, Republican, 1,985; James W. Thompson, Republican, 2,065. In the Council he was a member of the Committee on Hi-Centennial, and is now on [he Committee on Water and Committee on Law. Mr. McCully is connected with various fraternal orders, being Past Master of Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 155, F. & A. M., and a member of Harmony R. A. Chapter, No. 52, and Philadelphia Com- mandery, No. 2, Knights Templar. lie is also a member of Blue Garter Commandery, No. 2, K. of G. ; Birmingham Lodge, No. S, K. of B. ; Pennsylvania Masonic Relief Association ; Spring Garden Lodge, A. O. U. W. ; Corinthian Senate, O. of S. ; and Quaker City Lodge, A. L. of H. In religion Mr. McCully is an Episcopalian. He was married, June 20th, 1877, to Laura Matilda Yost, of Philadelphia, and has three children, two boys and one girl. ORAN, J.\MES, a member of the Com- mon Council from the Second Ward, is of Irish descent, and was born in County Deny, Ireland, about the year 1S27. His father, Peter Moran, was a farmer, and had married Rachel McMahon. James w.as sent to a private school in the neighborhood, where he was educated. At the .tge of fourteen years he was placed on the farm, where he worked until 184S, when he came to .\merica. He settled in Philadelphia, and secured employment in the foundry of Raney & Neafie. At the end of six years he obtained a situation in the foundry of Mer- rick & Sons, where he remained seven years. At the end of that time he accepted a position in the establishment of S. & W. Welsh, commission mer- chants, with whom he is still connected as a col- lector. Mr. Moran is a member of St. John's Beneficial Associ.ation, and has been President of .St. Paul's Beneficial Association for more than twenty years. He is a Democrat, and was first elected lo the Common Council in 1876, taking his seat in 1877, and has represented his ward in that body for three successive terms. In 1881 he was indorsed by the William J. Philips. Albert H. Ladner. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. Citizens' Committee of One Hundred, and polled 2,8g7 votes. Mr. Moran is a Catholic in religious faith. He was married in 1S53 to Miss Mary Cas- sidy. They have no children, and reside at No. 1014 Christian street. fcAVIS, WILLIAM HENRY HARRI- SON, a member of the Common Coun- cil from the Third Ward, was born at No. 813 South Tenth street, Philadel- phia, May 1st, 1841. He is of American ancestry, his parents and grandparents on both sides having all been born in this country. His father, William Miles Davis, was a carpenter and builder, and was married to Catharine Biee. William received his education in the public schools, first attending the Ringgold Grammar School, and later taking a two and a half years' course in the High School. He commenced to learn the carpenter trade with his father, but at the breaking out of the war he laid aside his tools and quit the bench to fight for his country. He shipped on board the " Miami" as a seaman on January 20th, 1862, and served in the navy for three years. Dur- ing his first year in the war his vessel was under Admiral Farrngut, and was engaged in the vicinity of New Orleans, figuring in the bombardment of Forts Jackson and Phillips, and in the capture of the above-mentioned city. In the same year his vessel was at Vicksburg. In 1863 the " Miami " was sent to North Carolina, where she had several en- gagements with the iron clad ram "Albemarle," in the sound bearing that name. Fmm there she was stationed in the James river, at Dutch Gap canal, to co-operate with the army. Mr. Davis received his discharge at City Point on January 20th, 1S65, and returned home. On April 21st, of the same year, he enlisted in Hancock's Veteran Corps, and was finally mustered out one year later, April 21st, 1866. At the close of the war Mr. Davis engaged in the real-estate business, which he still pursues. He is a charter member of Post No. 5, G. A. R., and is also a member of the Knights of Pythi.is. Mr. Davis is a Democrat. In February, 1879, he was elected to the Common Council from the Third Ward, and was re-elected in February, 188 1, re- ceiving 1,071 votes. He served on the Committees on House of Correction, to Compare Bills and Fire Department, during the Bi-Centennial year, Mr. Davis was not a candidate for re-election in 1883, his private affairs not permitting of sufficient time to attend to the many duties of the office. On January 21st, iSSo, Mr. Davis was married to Miss Sallie Gogan. They have one child, a little girl, and reside at No. 818 South Ninth street. ARLIN, BERNARD J., a member of the Common Council from the Third Ward, was born in Philadelphia, March 27th, 1842, and is of Irish ancestry. Patrick Carlin, his father, was married to Hannah Brady, both of whom were na- tives of Ireland. About a month previous to the birth of Bernard, his parents came to this country and settled in Philadelphia, where the father se- cured work as a laborer. Young Carlin was sent first to a private school, and afterwarils attended the Ringgold Grammar School. At the age of seventeen years he was apprenticed to John Mc- Guckin, to learn the plumbing trade. lie served as a journeyman for several years, and in June, 1865, was employed to superintend the plumbing business at the Continental hotel, which position he held until 1S71. Soon afterwards he engaged in business for himself, and is at present located at No. 625 Fitzwater street. He is also conducting a liquor store at the northwest corner of Passyunk avenue and Fitzwater street. Mr. Carlin is a member of the Disabled Fire man's Relief Association. He is a Democrat, and has taken much interest in the workings of his party. He was a delegate to the State Convention which nominated Amos C. Noyes for State Treas- urer. In 1879 Mr. Carlin was elected to the Com- mon Council, on the same ticket as William H. H. Davis. In iSSi he was re-elected to the same body, receiving 1,094 votes, the highest number polled for any candidate in his ward. During his last term he was a member of the Committees on Police, Boiler Inspection, and Printing and Supplies. In religion Mr. Carlin is a Catholic. He was married on April I2lh, 1S70, to Miss Annie Arch- field, who bore him six children, of whom four, two boys and two girls, are now living with their parents at 620 Fitzwater street. r'/'^OFFMAN, GEORGE HENRY, a mem- iTl ''^"^ °^ Common Council from the Fourth J < I Ward, was born in New York city, De- (efcZ '^'^'"''*f 22d, 1S48. His f.ither, John M. 2 Hoffman, who died in January, 1S82, was born in Bavaria, and came to this country in 1846, and his mother, who is still living, is a native of Hesse-Cassel. The family removed S2 MEN UK AMtKICA. to Philadelphia in 1850, where the son received his early education iii the public schools, and in a German school, where special attention was paid to the acquisition of that language. In 1866 he graduated from Crittenden's Commercial College, and was then placed with Jacob Sthaudcin, im- porter of cloths, on North Second street, where he remained about three years. He then entered the house of James & Lee, and continued with them until he became junior partner in the firm of James Iluber & Co., afterwards Steinbusser, Huber & Co., the latter firm dissolving in December, 1877. In March of the following year Mr. Iloffman pur- chased an interest in the cloth-house of Joseph Sheehan, Eighth and Market streets, where he still remains. In politics Mr. Iloffman has always been a Democrat. In 1S73, wtiile residing in the Third Ward, he was elected School Director, and served three years, declining renominalion, as he intended to remove into the Fourth Ward, which he di^ through General THE CITY GOVERNI.IENT. 85 Patterson's campaign. On returning home he at- tached himself to the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, as First Lieu- tenant, and in June, 1S62, was promoted to Cap- tain. He served in this capacity until December of that year, when he was discharged on account ol sickness. At the time of Lee's raid he raised a company for the emergency, equipped them and had them in camp in three days. This company was connected with the Fourth Union League Regiment, commanded by Colonel McClain, and was mustered out at the expiration of service. Mr. Govett is a member of Chester Lodge, No. 236, F. & A. M., of which he was elected Master in 1872. He is Reporter of Knights of Honor Lodge, No. 2136, an office which he has held since April, 1S80. He is also a member of Mocaponaca Tribe of Red Men, General Marion Lodge, Ameri- can Mechanics, Pennsylvania Lodge, American Protestant Association, and the Washington Broth- erhood. In politics Mr. Govett is a Republican, but is never influenced by bosses or factions. He was elected a Director of the Seventh Section School Board in 1S75, and held that position until 1S82, and was Secretary of that body five years. He held the office of Visitor of the Poor of the Fifth District from October, 1876, until the system was abolished in January, 1879, and was highly com- mended by Councils for his efficiency in attending to its duties. In February, 1881, Mr. Govett was elected by the Republicans of the Seventh Ward to the Common Council, receiving 2,669 votes. During 1882 he served on the Committees on Fire Department, Election Divisions and Printing and Supplies. In religion he is a Presbyterian. He was married on December 26th, 1878, to Rebecca E. Richardson, of Baltimore. They have two chil- dren, both boys, only one of whom is now living, and they reside at No. 1329 Pine street. COLLINGSWORTH, SAMUEL SHO- REV, a member of the Common Coun- cil from the Seventh Ward, is a descend- ant of one of the Hollingsworths who came to this country in 1682 with Wil- liam Penn, and was born in Cleveland, Ohio, November nth, 1842. His father was Jehu HoUingsworth, a Philadelphian by birth, and his mother was Fanny E. Shorey, of Orleans county, New York. Samuel's early education was obtained in the High School of Zanesville, Ohio, after which he entered Vale College as a junior, and graduated with the class of 1S63. After leaving college he came to Philadelphiaand studied l.iw with William Henry Rawle, Esq. He was admitted March 12th, 1866, remained with Mr. Rawle for one year, and subsequently was connected in practice with George W. Biddle, Esq., for seven years, until 1877. His office is now at 707 Walnut sireet. Mr. HoUingsworth is a Republican, and entered the Common Council m April, 1S81, being elected in February of that year, by a n.ajority of sixteen, after a very close contest against Alexander Rus- sell, who had been a member for eight years. He is a member of the Committees on Finance, Law and Gas Works, and his record was so satisfactory to his constituents and the people generally, that at the close of his first term he was nominated by his party for a second, and was indorsed by the Com- mittee of One Hundred and the Democrats. In 1872 Mr. HoUingsworth was married to Nancy Pembeiton Pleasants. They have five chil- dren, three boys and two girls, and the family at- tend the Episcopal church. D.¥Z ANDERS, DALLAS, member of Common Council for the Seventh Ward, is the son of John Sanders, of Kentucky, captain in the Engineer Corps of the United States regular army, and was born in the city of Philadelphia, January 13th, 1848. Having received the usual preliminary education, he finished his studies in the University of Western Pennsylvania, where he graduated with honors, and having selected the law as his profession, entered the office of George M. Dallas, Esq., of Philadel- phia, and was admitted to the bar January i6th, 1S69. He has since continued in the active prose- cution of his profession. On reaching manhood he connected himself with the Democratic party, and upon the election of Henry S. Hagert, Esq., to the office of District Attorney, Mr. Sanders was appointed to the position of Assistant, in recognition of his professional abil- ity and his useful exertions during the campaign. The post he occupied acceptably, both to the court and the community, until the expiration of Mr. Hagert's term in January, 1881. He has, for a number of years, acted as senior editor of the Legal Intelligencer, thus adding to active practice a share of attention to the literature of his profession. The paper has been exception- ally well managed, both as regards the fulness and correctness of its reports, under his supervision. In February-, 1882, he was elected a member of the 86 MEN Ol'" AMERICA. Common Council from the Seventh \Vnrs of 1863, and entered the law office of John C. Bulliit, Esq., of Philadelphia, with whom lie commenced the study of law, finishing in the office of Theodore C. Rand, Esq., with whom, after his admission to the bar in January, 186S, he en- tered into copartnership as a law and collection firm, doing business at 17 South Third street. Mr. Patton was elected to the Common Council in Feb- ruary, 18S1. He is a Republican, and was indorsed by the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred, re- ceiving 3,208 votes, loi more than the next highest on the same ticket. In 1882 he served on the Finance, Schools, Law, and Municipal Government Committees, and wrote the supplemental report on the Bullitt bill. ILLER, JOHN CHRISTIAN, the mem- berof Common Council from the Eleventh Ward, was burn in Philadelphia, June 17th, 1S35. He isof German parentage, of which nationality there are many set- tled in the Northern Liberties, where Mr. Miller resides, and he stands high among the peo- ple of his race. His education was begun and com- pleted in the public schools of th.it section, and at the age of si.\teen he was apprenticed to the trade 88 MF.N O:- AMERICA. of confcclioner. Two years iflenvards he formed wilh his father the firm of John M. Miller & Son, he being the junior partner, and established at No. 335 Niirlh Third street, a few years later embracing the a', iSSz. In that year he was a member of llie Cunimiiletrs on Schools, Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph, anu Boiler Ins|iection. He has l>een a prominent mem- ber of the Board of Managers t>f ihc Spring G:irden Institute for five years, and takes great interest in iis progress, being proud oi its succe^f and hopeful for its future career as a school of imiustriai art. Mr. Smethurst has been married tw^ice, and is the father of one child — a daughter. His home surroundings are of the most pleasant description, and as he delights in literature, his library is both large and valuable. Mr. Smelhutst resides at No. 1241 Ridge avenue. «M& -m ,»OLLINS, S.\Ml,F.L C.A.RTER, a member of Common Council from the Fifteenth Ward, was bom in Philadelphia, on August 14th, 1S29. He is the second son of the late Tillin^hast K. Collins, a native of this city, who was widely and favorably known as the senior member of the firm of T. K. & P. G. Collins, printers, which stood in the front rank of the profession, and in whose establishment steam power presses and composition rollers were first intros Edmonia C. Kramer, daughter of Allan C. Kramer, a prominei.t banker of l>itt>l>urgh. Of their four children, two are living. RVINE, WILLIAM B., a member of the Common Council from the Fifteenth Ward during the Bi-Centennial year, and City Treasurer elect, was bom in Phila- delphia, on February iSth, 1S44. His education wis obtained in the public schools, princi(>ally in the Livingston Grammar School, and at the age of eighteen years he com- menced the business of manufacturing lime in Chester county, and selling it in Philadelphia. In this occujaiion he continued and is still engaged, being proprietor of a large wholesale and retail lime depot at Xo. 525 North Twenty -third street. From the time he reached the age of maturity he has taken great interest in municipal and educa- tional aiiairs, and in 186S was elected a member of the Fifteenth Section School Board, a position to which he was re-elected four limes, sening con- tinuously for twelve years, and during the la^t four years of his mem)>etship as President of the Board. In politics he is a Republican, and has affilbtcd with that party from the commencement of his career as a voter. His first election to the Com- mon Council occurred in Februarj-, 1S80, and during his senice in the office for the two subse- quent years, by close attention to his official duties, earned the confidence of his constituents to such a marked degree that in February, l8S2, he was re- turned to the Common Council by the unanimous vote of the people of the ward, receiving the sup>- pott of Democrats and Independents as well as Republicans, and polling the entire 6,400 votes of the district. It was this flattering indorsement as much as his conscientious course in the discharge of hLs duties which caused the Republicans to sii- gle Mr. Irvine out as a proper person to succeed Joseph J. Manin in the office of City Treasurer, and when his party convention was held to select a candidate, in 1SS2, for that responsible position, he was pitted against NMlliam Baldwin, the late Highway Commissioner, and was nominated by 34S votes to 166 for Mr. Baldwin. The Democrats nominated S. Davis P.ige, also a memlier of the Common Council, a very worthy and popular cili- len. One of the most interesting contes's thai ever THE CITY GCVERNMENT. 91 occurred in the history of the city followed, result- iiisj ill ihe election of Mr. Irvine liy the largest number of votes polled for any candidate on the Republican ticket at that election, viz.: 73,999, and the defeat of Mr. Page by a majority of 1,840. Mr. Irvine is unmarried, and lives with his mother and sister at No. 2239 Spring Garden street. He is a member of Keystone Lodge, No. 291, F. & A. M. ; Columbia Chapter, and St. John's Conimanderv. MITH, USELM.\ CLARKE, a member of the Common Council from the Fif- teenth Ward, is the son of Cyrus T. and Charlotte Smith, and was born in Phila- delphia, June 9th, 1842. His grand- father was John Smith, of Hartford, Connecticut, who was the Chief Clerk of the United States War Department during the war of 1812, and was for a while Secretary of War pro tein. His father was a graduate of the West Point Military Academy, and a prominent member of the Philadelphia bar. His mother was a daughter of Captain Lloyd Jones, of Philadelphia, a commander in the United States navy during the war of 1S12, and a niece of Hon. Willi.im Jones, the Secretary of the Navy from 1812 to 1S15, and who was also acting Secretary of the Treasury for nearly half that time. His grandmother on his mother's side was a daughter of Colonel Benjamin Loxley, a veteran of the revolutionary war. When Usehna was four years old his father died, and the family, consisting of the mother and four children, removed to Jefferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio. He received a sound education in the Union School of Jefferson, and at the Grand River Insti tute of Auslinburg, of the same county. At the age of eighteen- years he returned to Philadelphia, and studied law in the office of Macgregor J. Mitcheson, Esq.; he was admitted to the bar in Jaimary, 1S64, and has practised with success ever since. On June 2d, 1S73, he was married to . Faunie M., daughter of Rev. Robert M. Mitche- son, of Philadelphia, and is the father of four children. Mr. Smith is an active Mason, being W. ^L of Corinthian Lodge, No. 368, a member of Corinthian Chapter, No. 250, and of Corinthian Chasseur Comn-.andery, K. 1'., No. 53. He is P. M. W. of Fidelity Lodge, No. 179, A. O. U. W.,and a mem- ber of Philadelphia Lodge, No. 48, A. L. of H., and when quite young was initiated into Jefferson Lodge, Union League of America, of which John Brown, the abolitionist, and his sons were members. Mr. Smith obtained his early pulidcal education from his close relations to Benjamin F. Wade, ex- senator from Ohio, and afterwards Vice-Piesident of the United States, and Joshua R. Giddings, ex- congressman from the Nineteenth Ohio District, both of whom were his near neighbors. He has always been attached to the Republican party. In February, 1880, he was elected by the citizens of the Fifteenth Ward to represent them in the Common Council on an Independent Republican ticket, and was re-elected in Februar)', 1882. This is the only pohti-al position he has ever held. Having pronounced views in the way of reform, he at once took a firm stand, and has since steadily maintained that course in the Council chamber and the different committees ol which he has been, and is still a member, advocating the conduct and man- agement of the dep.ntnienls of the city on strict business principles, such as a private individual would exercise in the management of his own affairs. In the matter of the Controllership, his be- lief was that the Governor of the State was alone empowered to make the appointment, and believed no court in Pennsylvania would decide otherwise, since the people and all the parties in the city had mutually acquiesced in and recognized the office as a county office since the new Constitution, and had elected the Controller in healed contests, in which no question had ever been raised as to its legality; and if Councils should decide to elect a Controller, he could not, holding such opinions, vote, and he therefore declined to cast a vote when the matter came up for consideration. Mr. Smith's course throughout his whole councilmanic career has been thus earnestly manifested in the cause of true reform and fur the best interests of the city. EME.XT, WILLLXM BARNES, a mem- ber of the Common Council, represent- ing the Fifteenth Ward, was, born in Bradford, Merrimac county. New Hamp- shire, May loth, 1817. His father was Samuel Bement, a native of Connecticut, who early in life located in Tunbridge, Vermont, where he followed the occupation of a maker of wrought nails. ,In i8i6 he removed to Bradford, the birthplace of the subject of this sketch, and estalilished himself as a farmer and blacksmith. Owing to the limited educational privileges of thnt day, the son's schooling was restricted to a few months each winter, and his time for the most part, after he became old enough, was occupied in as- 92 MEN OF AMERICA. sistiiig his father ami i.lclcr brother in the smith- shop anil on the firm. Very early in life he ilis- ]ilayed an inclination to fashion machinery, and as he passed from happy boyhooil into maturer years, the love of mechanics had inculcated itself firmly within him, and he developed an inventive faculty which was the forerunner of an eventful and suc- cessful business career. At the age of seventeen years young Bement went into the world to seek his fortune, and he found it. His pathway was not strewn with roses, nor did success fall into his lap like the golden fruit from an overburdened tree, but with stout hands and a willing heart he struck out to earn his livelihood, and thus laid the foundation for future prosperity, and won the proud distinction of a self- made man. Leaving home in the autumn of 1834, with one suit of clothes, all his worldly possessions, he apprenticed himself for three years to Moore & Colby, manufacturers of cotton and woollen ma- chinery, Pcterboro, New Hampshire. He pro- gressed so rapidly that before he was quite twenty years of age he became superintendent of the works, and very shortly took the place in the firm of a partner who withdrew. Here he remained for three years, during which he devoted much time in devising certain valuable tools and fixtures for the establishment, and yearning for a broader field, left; and in 1S40, having married in the meantime, engaged with the Amoskeag Machine Works in Manchester, New Hampshire, which, at the time, were not yet completed. After two years' lalxir, during which time the second cotton mill of the growing city was erected, the machinery being made in the Amoskeag shops, partly under Mr. Bement's supcr\ision, he, in 1842, took a trip to the West, and was induced to take charge of a manufactory of woollen machinery in Mishawaka, Indiana. Returning to New Hampshire for his family, the shops of which he was to have charge burned down in the interval, and Mr. Bement reached Mishawaka with his household to look upon a scene of desolation and to find himself homeless, without work and the possessor of only ten dollars in money. This was the greatest crisis in his life, but he met it nobly and boldly. With his ambition somewhat dampened, but with an und.aunted spirit, he applied himself to work in his brfither's blacksmith shop, and with his early knowledge of the use of tools, employed himself in their manufacture, a faculty which developed as rapidly in Mr. ficment's active brain as blossoms on a fruit tree in spring-time. He also .attained pro- ficiency .as a gunsmith, and his skill in this line led to the fitting up of a separate room for that work. which necessitated the erection of an engine lathe. Such a thing was not m.ade in that country at that time, but .Mr. Bement's inventive genius came to his aid again, and he designed one. This remark- able constructive skill led to his employment in the St. Joseph's Iron Shops. The old works hav- ing burned down, the industry was rebuilt, and he assumed a position in the new works. Without following Mr. Bement through the ever- changing events of a busy life, let the thread be taken up in 1 851, September 3d, when he came to Philadelphia from Lowell, Massachusetts. Here he entered into copartnership with E. D. Marshall, in a small shop at Twentieth and Callowhill streets. The rise and progress of this business, through years of hard struggle and a lifetime of vicissitude, is part of the industrial history of Philadelphia. That which thirty-one years ago started on a small scale, with but a few hundred dollars capital, has grown to be today the great Industrial Works of William B. Bement & Sons, manufacturers of ma- chinists' tools, which occupies the whole of the front between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, on Cal- lowhill, employs 400 hands, and does a business annually of $700,000. The senior partner has amassed a well-deserved fortune, and lives in a beautiful mansion at 1S14 Spring Garden street, while the hum of industry keeps up its cheerful tune at the Industrial Works a few rods distant, now under the active management of his sons. In this virtual retirement from worldly cares Mr. Bement lives happily with his family, in the enjoy- ment of life's greatest boons — pictures and plenty. With the accumulation of wealth came a love for art, and there is now no private collection of paint- ings in the city which excels that which adorns the walls of Mr. Bement's beautiful home. Of the house itself it can be said that nothing has been left undone which would add to its attractiveness or the comfort of its occupants. It is at once ))a- latial and home-like, and hassurroundings to which few in the city can compare. His family consists of his wife, whom he married in 1S40, and who was Miss Emily Russell, of Royalton, Vermont, two sons and a daughter, married, and one son un- married. They are Universalists, and attend the Church of the Messiah. Mr. Bement is a Republican, and was chosen a member of the Common Councils in February, 1881, receiving 5,235 votes to 2,660 for William Stanton, his highest opjioncnt. He is connected with the Bank of the Republic, the Hotel Com- pany of Lake Cleorgc, and the .School of Design for Women, as a Director, and recently denion- I strated his liberality and devotion to the interests THE CITY GOVERNMENT. of art by coniributing $10,000 to the Academy of the Fine Arts, of which he is also a Director. I ALTER, THOMAS, .1 member of the Common Council from the Fifleenth Ward, is descended from Quaker stock, and was born in Chester county, Penn- sylvania, in July, 1826. He attended the public schools, where he received a thorough education in the common branches, and then commenced to do for himself. His business is the manufacture of brooms and brushes, at No. 1015 Market street. In politics Mr. Walter is a Republican, with decided independent tendencies, especially in local matters. He was elected to the Common Council in February, 1882, being in- dorsed by the Citizens' Committee of One Hun- dred, and has been an active reformer in thnt chamber. In the Bi-Centennial year he served on the Committees on Schools, Prisons and to Com pare Bills. Mr. Walter has been an earnest worker for reform, and since his advent into public life has, on many occasions, made speeclies in behalf of the movement. 'LAY, HENRY, a member of the Common Council from the Sixteenth Ward, was born in Philadelphia, August 17th, 1850, his parents then residing on Poplar street west of Sixth. His paternal grandfather was George Francis Clay, a German, who fought under Napoleon at Waterloo, came here in iSlg, and built and occupied a house on Fifth street above Poplar, in 1S29, in the same election division where Mr. Clay now resides, and where with a single exception he has always voted. When Henry was fifteen months old, his father having died, his mother, with three children, two boys and a girl, went to live in the house belonging to his grand- father, in the rear of 929 North Fifth street, where they resided until the d^ath of the grandfather, in June, 1865, when Henry went into the comb manu- factory of Lewis W. Cox, 921 North Fifth street, where he remained for fifteen months. His next employment was in the conveyancing office of ]. H. Siddall & Son, where he remained until July 1st, 1S69, when he connected himself with W. Frederick Snyder, having charge of the conveyanc- ing department of his office, and remaining there until March, 1S78, transacting business for his em- ployer and himself at the same time ; the work l>roving 100 heavy, he emb.ukcd for himself as a 93 conveyancer, at 906 North Sixth street, where he still does business. On the nuiternal side Mr. Clay is descended from English Quaker slock. His mother was Mary Ann Corbit, whose ancestors located in Delaware as early as the seventeenth century. She is a niece of Rev. William Corbit, the eminent Methodist divine. At the age of six years Henry eniered the Wolf Primary School, in Charlotte street above Poplar, thence he went to the secondary, in Si. John street below George, and afterwards to the Jefl[<:rson Grammar School, on Fifth street above Poplar. Mr. Clay's public career began in February, 1S77, when he was elected a School Director in his section, assuming the duties January, 1S7S, and serving one year on the floor and two years as presiding officer. In February, 1S80, he was elected to the Common Council, and took his se.t in April of that year. The fir.-st year he served on the Committees on Water, Law and Railroads, and in iSSi as Chairman of the Finance Committee, and was continued as a member of the Water Com- mittee. In 1SS2, having been re-elected, he was continued in both positions. In the latter election Mr. Clay defeated H. Edward Wendel, Democrat, by 95 majority, although the ward gave Hancock 400 majority in 1880. This result was a fitting tribute to Mr. Clay's worth as a Councilman. Active and attentive, as well as fearless and inde- pendent, Mr. Clay earned the confidence of l.is constituents, and whenever he has been a candi- date the people of the Sixteenth Ward have dis- regarded political affiliations and given him a cor- dial support. In 1S77, for instance, when Mr. Clay was one of four Republican candidates for School Director, although the Democrats elected their entire ward ticket, Mr. Clay was elected ns the minority candidate, having a majority over the higfiest vote received by the Democratic candidates, his own division, which is Democratic by 25, giving him 58 majority. As a membef of the popular branch of the local legislature, Mr. Clay has invari- ably been an advocate of true reforms, and his sup- port, when it has been given to a measure, has been hearty and ardent. In the fall of 1878 there were Iwo Republican Legislative tickets in the field in the Sixteenth Ward, Mahlon H. Dickinson and Benjamin F. McCutcheon being the candidates. A compromise was effected, and Mr. Clay was agreed upon with- out his knowledge as the compromise candidate. The feeling ran high, and .as M'r. Clay's pro- nounced seniimenls did not suit the leaders of his party their intiuence was u.sed .agains*. him, and he 94 MEM OF AMERICA. was defeated liy Andrew J. Elder, a Democrat, although he ran ahead of his ticket. His first elec- tion to the Council was accomplished .igainst the- opposition of the local leaders by a majority of 565, ihe largest ever given to any candidate in the ward, his own division scoring 113 majority for him. In 1SS2 this opposition was more determined tluin ever to defeat Mr. Clay for the Republican nomination, all the departments, their employees, and the bosses of both parties l>eing against him. With all these difficulties in the way, threatened 0|>cnly with defeat, he boldly took a stand, de- fined the course he would pursue if elected, and was nominated and returned by 94 majority. Through discouraging adversity Mr. Clay has fought his way to a position of moderate means. On .May 9th, 1869, he was married to Savilla E. Hausman, and with his family, Consisting of his wife and two daughters, he resides in his own house, at 952 Lawrence street. He is a member of Pacific Lodge, L O. of O. F., and the repre- sentative thereof in the Grand Lodge of Pennsyl- vania; a Past-Chancellor of Temple Lodge, No. 341, K. P.; belongs to St. Paul's Lodge, No. 4S1, F. & A. M., and Lafayette Lodge, A. O. U. W. He is attendant in the Methodist Church, and takes an active interest in building rbylerian. 43 N^\RDY, WILLL\M RISTINE, a member of the Common Council from the Eigh- teenth Ward, was born at No. 411 Moyer street, Philadelphia, November 23d, 1833. He is of German extraction, but his parents were born in Philadelphia. Wil- liam was educated in the public schools, attending the Master Street Grammar School and the Central High School. At the age of fifteen years he was apprenticed to learn the machine trade with Brock & .Andrews, with whom he remained two years, when the firm failed. He was then apprenticed to Messrs. Gill & Hollowell to learn the carpenter trade, at which he served full time. He is a mem- ber of the firm of Wildey & Gardy, carpenters and builders, and is also the Surveyor for the United Firemen's and the Royal Insurance Com- panies. Mr. Gardy is a member of St. Paul's Lodge, No. 4S1, F. & A. M.; of Elm-Tree Council, No. 26, O. U. A. M. ; Kensington Lodge, No. 5, K. of B.; Jefferson Lodge, No. 12, L O. of O. F.; Quaker City Lodge of the Legion of Honor ; and Minerva Lodge, No. 21, K. of P. He is a Republican, and has held office by appointment and election under the State and city governments. In i860 he was for a short time a clerk in the Water Department of PhiLidelphia, and during the next three years he was one of the door-keepers in the House of Representatives at Harrisburg. In 1864 he was made Clerk to a Contested Election Committee at the Slate capital, and for a time during C. A. Wal- born's term as the Philadelphia Postmaster he was a clerk in that office. In February, 1879, Mr. Gardy was elected to the Common Council from the Eighteenth Ward by the Republicans. In Feb- ruary, iSSi, he was re-elected, receiving 3,116 votes. In 1S82 he served on the Committees on Highways, Railroads and Fire Department. Mr. G.irdy is a Methodist, and attends the Siloam Methiidist Episcopal Church on Otis street. He has been married twice. His first wife was Mary Bennett, by whom he had five children, and his second wife was Mary E. Mood, who bore him three children. .Six of these children are now living, three being married. Mr. Gardy also h.is six gr.indchildren. He resides at 419 Moyer street. ILLIG, EDWARD, a member of the Common Council from the Eighteenth Ward, is the son of Edward and Mary Willig, and was born in Philadelphia, December 23d, 1848. He received a good business education in the public schools and attended the Kensington Grammar School. On laying a>.ide his books he learned the butcher's trade with his father. At the age of eighteen years .Mr. Willig started in that business for himself, and has continued in it up to the present time, being very successful and highly esteemed by the other members of the trade. He was elected Treasurer of the Butchers' Hide and Tallow Association, in July, 1882, and still holds that office. Mr. Willig is a member of Gothic Lodge, No. 519, F. & A. M. ; Tristran B Freeman Chapter, No. 243, and Kensington Commandery, K. T. He is also a member of Kensington Lodge, No. 5, Knights of Birmingham. Mr. Willig is a Dem- ocrat and has taken much interest in the doings of his party. He was elected to the Common Council in February, 1SS2. He was indorsed by the Citi- zens' Committee of One Hundred and prosecuted a spirited campaign. In 1882 he was a member of c6 MEN OK AMERICA. thi- (.\inimiui.f5 cm Tolice and Prisons. On July I2tli, IIS76, hu was married to Annie Denny, of Krank.o.d. IIEGOG, JOHN, a member of the Com- mon Council from the Nineteenth Ward, is of Irish descent, and was born in the city of Armagh, Ireland, March 20lh, 1827. He attended a private school in that city, and subsequently learned the trade of house-plastering. He came to America after he became of age, and settled in rhiladel|)hia, where he commenced the manufacture of ingr.iin carpets which business he still coniinues at No. 1925 Hope sireet. Mr. Sliegog is a member of the Masonic Order and of the Knights of Uirmingham. He is a Re- puJilican, and held the office of Property Assessor in the Nineteenth Ward fbr three yeais. In Feb ruary, iSSi, he \v.:s nominated by the Republicans for Common Councilman, and being indorsed by the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred, he polled 3,700 votes, the second highest of six cindidates, Henry Schneider receiving the largest vote. In 1 882 Mr. .Shegog was the Chairman of the House of Correction Committee, and a member of the Highways Committee. In religion he is an Epis- copalian. Mr. Shegog is married and is the father of three children, one of whom is married. He resides at No. 1925 North Front street. CHNKIDER, IIEXRY, a member of the Common Council from the Nineteenth Ward, w.is burn in Philadelphia, July 19th, 1846. He is of German descent, both jiarents being natives of Saxony. His father was Franz .Schneider, a weaver by occupation, and his mother was Henriette Kr.ie- mer. His p.arents being emigrants, Mr. Schneider did not secure all the desirable educational advan- tages, but received some instruction in the public schools, and was afterwards taken into the shop of his father, where he assisted him in weaving car- pet. Later on he st 'rted to learn the printing busi- ness, but soon relinquished this for upholstering, which he considered more suited to his tastes. Having finished this trade he worked as a journey- man for a lime, when be olitained a situation with an undertaker in Germanlown. He continued in this ))lace until March 28ih, 1870, when he com- menced the business of undertaking for himself at No. 1737 Germanlown avenue. By perseverance and untiling zeal, he rapidly rose from a poor buy to a position of comparative wealth and induence. His business at present occupies a convenient house, which he has lately built, at No. 1739 Germanlown avenue, and next door to the one where he made his first venture, and which he still uses as a resi- dence.^ Mr. Schneider is a member of Gothic Lodge, No. 519, F. & A. M., and Freeman Chapter, and Kensington Commandcry. I le is also a member of AUcmania Lodge, No. 312, I. O. of O. F. Among other societies he is connected with the Knights of Pylhias, Knights of Uirminghani. Legion of Honor, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Red Men, Druids, Goodfellows, Seven Wise Men and Sons of Progress. In 1S64 Mr. Schneider en- listed in the emergency for one hundred d.ays. He is a member of Becker Post, No. 8, G. A. R. He has passed all the chairs in the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pylhias. In politics Mr. Schneider is a Republican, and a warm supporter of his party. He was elected to the School Board of the Nineteenth W'ard in 1S78, for three years. He took his se.at in 1879, and re- tained it until February, 1881, when he was elected to the Common Council on the regular Republixan ticket. There were six candidates in the field, of whom Mr. Schneider received the largest ballot, which was 4,184 votes. In 1S82 he was a member of the Committees on Police, House of Correction, and Printing and Supplies. Mr. Schneider is a member of the Lutheran Church. He w.as married on August I2lh, 1S73, to Caroline Groh, of Philadelphia. They have four children, all boys, and now living. ISLER, HENRY H., a member of the Common Council from the Nineteenth Ward, was born January 19th, 1824, in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, about twenly-five miles north of the city of PhiUidelphia. His father w.as Isaac Wis- ler, a farmer, and he was third in a family of seven. He received a good common school education, his father having sent him to p.iy schools three months each year, jiublic schools not being then established. In the year 1S45. at the age of twenty one, he came to Philadelphia and began his business-life m a grocery store. In the spring of 1S47, his health having suffered, he travelled to the Stale of Ohio. Returning in the fall, he .■gain attended a groceiy store. On September 7ih, 1848, he was married John A. Housema Adam Albright. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 97 to Miss Anna Frick, and shortly after started in tlie grocery business. His personal capital on starting was only fifty dollars, the product of his savings ; to this, however, his father added a loan of eight hundred dollars. With this amount he faced the woild, determining, by economy and persevering industry, to make his way. Having prospered in the grocery business, in 1854 he sold out, and went for a little time into the fruit busi- ness. Finding this unprofitable, he bought a chair factoiy, and met with encouraging success. In the financial crash of 1857 he suffered with others, and in 1859 he sold out the chair business to his brother, Isaac H., who had been in partnership with him, and started the coal, lime and building-stone busi- ness at American and Diamond street;, having in connection with this a stone-quarry near Jenkin- t-jwn, Pennsylvania. He prospered greatly in this business, but in 1862 pas->ed through great financial trials, having been compelled to take up many notes which had been given to him, and which, when discounted, the makers failed to meet. He weath- ered the storm, however, and was able at the close of the war to buy considerable property. In 1867 he started a brick-yard at American and Cumber- land streets, and built eight hoiises, attending to his business without the assistance of clerk or book- keeper, he himself working during the day and posting his books as well as making out and col- lecting his bills at night. In 1868 he sold out his coal and stone business, and while continuing the manufacture of bricks, went extensively into build- ing operations, rapidly selling the houses which he constructed. In 1873, the clay in the brick-yard being exhausted, he put in a railroad switch, and began the sale of lumber. He continued this with his building operations until 1877, when he gave up the lumber business to his son, Ch rles H., and retired to private life, fully saiisfied with the suc- cess which he had achieved, and content to spend the rest of his days in comparative rest. During the Liter years of his business life, in connection with a partner and on his own account, he built about five hundred houses, sixty of which he still retains. Politically, previous to 1856, Mr. Wisler acted with the Whig party. He voted fur John C. Fre- mont, and has since been connected w th the Re- publican party; he now ranks as an Independent Republican. In 1882 he was nominated for the Common Council by the Independent Republicans of the Nineteenth Ward, and indorsed by the Dcm ocrats. His nomination was entirely unsolicited, and was held under advisement for several weeks. It was finally accepted, however, and in February- he was elected in spile of great opposition. 13 During the progress of the war, Mr. Wisler sym- pathized most strongly with the- government in its efforts to put down the rebellion. Unable to go himself he contributed largely to filling the quota from the Nineteenth Ward, and in addition sent a personal suljsiituie to the field. On the invasion of the Stale by General Lee's army, he paid the same wages they had been receiving to the families of the men in his employ who volunteered for the State service, and secured to these also their mili- tary pay and bounties. Religiously Mr. Wisler is a member of the Bap- tist denomination. He united with the Tenth Baptist Church in the great revival of 1857. Mr. Wisler's wife is still living. He has had two sons, Charles H. and Harry E., both of whom are living. The family residence is at 149 Susquehanna avenue. Life is varied by travelling and social enjoyments. He has been, from its start, one of the Directors of the Shackamaxon Bank. Though out of active business he is by no means idle, and is striving to use his time and means for the good of his fellow- citizens and the improvement of society. OSTER, WILLIAM ADEY, a member of the Common Council from the Nineteenth nip W'ard, was born in Kingston, Luzerne lV county, Pennsylvania, July 7th, 1843, and ^ ^ is descended from English ancestry, his father, Robert Foster, and his mother, Catharine Adey, both being natives of England. In 1851 his parents removed to Philadelphia, and Wil- liam attended the public schools of that city. On leaving school he learned the blacksmith trade. He worked at his trade in the army for three years, and in 1867 he located in Washington, where he became a dealer in paper stock and metals, remain- ing there until 1870. In December of that year he returned to Philadelphia and engaged in the hard- ware business, which he has continued ever since at No. 2526 Kensington avenue. Mr. Foster has taken thirty-two degrees in the Masonic order, and is a member of William C. Hamilton Lodge, No. 500; Tristran B. Freeman Chapter, No. 243 ; Kadosh Commandery, K. T., No. 29 ; and Scottish Rite of Pennsylvania, No. 32. He is also a member of St. George's Society and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Foster is a Democrat, and takes great in- terest in the political affairs of his ward. In Feb- ruary, 1 88 1, he was nominated by his party for Common Councilman, and indorsed by the Citi- zens' Committee of One Hundred. He received 98 M1..N OK AMERICA. 2,944 votes. In 1S82 he was a member of the Bi- centennial Conimiltee, and served on the Commit- tees on Schools, I'ohcc and Kire- Alarm Telegraph, and to Compare Bills. At the expiration of his term he refused a renomination. Mr. Foster was raised in the Methodist faith. On April 7th, 1S61, he was married to Annie \V. Har- vey. They have had seven children, four of whom, three boys and one girl, are now living. a |SRIM, JOSEPH, a member of the Common Council from the Nineteenth Ward, is of American ancestry, and was born in Phil- adelphia in 1824. He was educated in the public schools of the city, and is at present engaged in the real estate busi- ness at No. 906 North Third sireet. In politics Mr. Grim is a Democrat. He was nominated by that party for Common Councilman in 1 88 1, but was defeated. In 1882 he was again placed in the field, and this time was successful. During his term in that body he was a member of the Commit- tees on Fire Department and to Verify Cash Ac- counts of the City Treasurer. Mr. Grim is married, and resides at No. 323 Diamond street. ERKLEE.CHAUI.CS KENDEL,amem- lier of the Common Council from the Twentieth Ward, was born in the Upper Delaware Ward, Philadelphia, March 15th, 1S27. His father was Conrad Merklee, who served in the war of 1812, and his moihcr's maiden name was Catharine Nolan. Until he was fourteen years of age the son attended paySL-hools, and afterwards went 10 the Buttonwood Street Grammar School. Hi~ fir-t employment was at shoeniakiiiij, which not proving cmgenial to his ta>tes, he learned the trade of carpenter, and worked as journeyman for a couple of years and then .started for nimself. He conducted a planing mill for a while, and then embarked in the building business, which he quit in 1864, and again started a planing mill, opening at Broad and W.illace streets, where he is still located. He is a Republicnn, and went into Common Council in January, 1877, being elected in February, 1876. He was re-elected in 1.S7Q, and again in 1881, receiving the last time 4.677 votes. In 1S81 he w.ts Chairman of the Committee on Election Division^;, and in 1882 he was a member of the Committees on Law, City Pro|)erty, and lo Compare Bills. He is married and has live children, four sons and one daughter. MITH, CHARLES KNOX, a member of the Common Council from the Twentieth Ward, was bom in Philadelphia, Febru- ary 1st, 1845. His father was born in •^Y^ Philadelphia and his mother in Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Smith received his education in tie public schools and graduated from Morns Grammar .School. He has been actively connected with the oil business for over twenty years, and at present is engaged in the manufacture and sale of oils at No. 129 Arch street. He is also President of the Girard While Lead, Zinc and Color Works, limited. Mr. .Smith is a member of Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M.; Key- stone ChaiJter, No. 175, and Conimandery No. 2. In politics Mr. Smith is a Republican. In Feb- ruary', 1881, he was elected to the Common Coun cil, receiving 4,828 votes, the highest number polled for any of the seven candidates in the Twentieth Ward. In 1882 he was a meml>er of the Commit tees on Highways and Law. Mr. Smith is a Pres- byterian, and resides at No. 951 North Seventh street. RACE, A. ATWOOD, a member of the Common Council from the Twentieth Ward, is a son of John Grace, a victual- ler, and was born in Philadelphia, De- cember l6th, 1839. He received a liberal education in the public schools of the city, and afterwards entered the commission house of Ladd Brothers, where he remained one year. He was next employed in a wholesale dry goods store, at No. 43S Market street. He continued with this house until 1S59. On .\ugust 8lh, of that year, he registered in the office of Hon. F. C.irroll Brewster as a Ntudent of the law. He was admitted lo the bar on November 28th, 1862, and has since prac- tised at his profession with success. Mr. Grace is a member of Perkins Lodge, No. 402, F. & A. M., and of Quaker City Lodge, No. 116, A. O. U. W. He is a Republican, and has been conspicuous in politics for many years. He held a position in the City Solicitor's office for live year-i, during the terms of Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, Hon. James F. Lynd, and Thomas J. Worrell, Esi). In 1S69 he was nomin.iteke out, Mr. Werntz w.as sojournmg with an uncle in Indiana. He enlisted on April 19th, 1861, in the Seventh regiment Indi- ana Volunteers, for throe months. He was mus- tered out al Indianapolis in>July, and in August returned 10 Philadelphia. On September 17th, 1861, he enlisted for three years in Colonel Chor- man's Mounted Riflemen, which were afterward transferred to the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was soon promoted to the position of Sergeant. Al the expiialion of his time he re-enlisted in the same regiment for another three years. During his service in the army Mr. Wirntz was wounded twice and taken prisoner once. He was severely wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, on May 2d, 1863, from the effijcts of which he was confined to the hospital until October zRlh of the same year. He was taken pri-oiier on December 13th, 1862, anil incarcerated in Libby and Belle Isle until March 2d, 1S63. On . August 2ISI, 1865, Mr. Werntz was honorably discharged, with the rank of First Lieutenant. He is a member of Post No. 2, G. A. R., and the Society of American Mechanics. Mr. Werntz is a Republican, and the Captain of the Twenty-fourth Ward Veteran Club. He was elected lo the Common Council in February, 1882, receiving 3,146 votes. In the first year of his term he was a member of the Committees on Rail- roads, Boiler Inspection, and to Verify Cash Ac- counts of the City Treasurer. Mr. Werntz is connected with West Philadelphia Building Asso- ciations, Nos. I and 2, and is interested in real estate. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was married on March 5lh, 1866, to Maria Sullivan. He is the father of eight children, six of whom are living. TRICKLAND, JOHN T., a member of the Common Council from the Twenty- fourth Ward, was born in Chester county, Peimsylvania, January l8th, 1846. He is a son of Thomas Strickland, at one lime the heaviest dealer in cattle in Philadelphia. When John was about seven years of age his parents removed to Philadelphia, and he attended the public schools. Possessed of the same energy for which his father was noted, he was ambitious of doing for himself Therefore, at the early age of fourteen years, he gave up his books, and renting a stall in the old Kaler street market, he started in the meat business, and was successful in his venture. Two years later he re- moved to the Western Market at Sixteenth and Market streets, where he remained until the build- ing was sold 10 the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany. He became a member of the Central Mar- ket Company and was elected one of its Directors, being prominent in the erection of the building at Seventeenth and Market streets in 1871, where he has had a stand ever since. Mr. Strickland is a member of the Masonic Order, being connected with Alhelstan Lodge, No. 482; Columbia Royal Arch Chapter, No. 91, and Mary Commandiry, K. T., No. 36. He is also a Director of Bellevue Literary Institute, of West Philadelphia. In politics Mr. Strickland is a Democrat. He was first elected to the Common Council from the Twenty-fourth Ward in February, 1880, and his conduct so entirely satisfied his constituents that he was re-elected in 1882, receiving 3,037 votes. In the Bi-Ccntennial year he served on the Commit- tees on Water Works, and Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph. Mr. Strickland is a mertiber of the Episcopj.l THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 103 Church. On October 21st, 1S72, he was married to Miss Sue M. Jones. He lia> no children, and resides at Sixty-fifth and Vine streets. .WXES, RODGER, a member of the Common Council from the Twenty fourth Ward, was born in County Tyrone, Ire- land, April inh, 1S38. His parents were both of Irish descent, and they came to .America when Rodger was quite young and settled in the Fifteenth Ward, Phila- delphia. Young Maynes was sent to the public .school at Twenty-third and Lynn streets, where he secured a knowledge of the common branches. At an early age'he was given employment in the stock- y.ird at Ridge avenue and Broad street. He con- tinued in this business, and by his energy and strict attention, to which was added a talent for making and saving money, Mr. .Maynes has gradually worked himself to the foremost rank in his par- ticular line, being at present one of the largest and most prominent live stock and wholes.ile beef dealers in Philadelphia. His place of business is on Thirtieth street above Market. Mr. Maynes is a Democrat, and although he has taken great interest in politics, his private duties did not permit of his taking an active part in the workings of his party. In February, 1882, he was induced to be a candidate for Common Councilman, and he was elected, receiving 3,155 votes. He took his seat in April, 1S82, and during his first year in the Common Council he was a member of the Committees on Election Divisions and Surveys. When the Metropolitan Club, at Forty-first and Lancaster avenue, was organized, Mr. Maynes was elected a member of the Board of Trustees, and has held that position ever since. He is of the Catholic faith. He was married in April, 1858 to Si>san McClo.key. Mr. Maynes resides at No. 417 -Vorih Forty-first street, where he is surrounded by a large and happy family. feRIM, JOH>f L., Common Councilman "^ from the Twenty-fourth Ward, is de- scended from Quaker ancestry, and was horn on his grandfather's farm in Dela- ware county, Pennsylvania, February 14th, 1843. His family, during the Revolution, were known as fighting Quakers, hav- ing at that time and later on taken an active' part in the military affairs of the colonies. John at- tended the schools of the neighborhood. At the age of eighteen years he enlisted in the Fifth Regi- ment Pcniisylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and was de- tailed as Orderly to General Baldy Smith, and afterwards transferred to General Winfield Scott Hancock's command. While at the front he con- tracted the typhoid fever, and was sent to the hos- [ital at Washington, and soon after was discharged. He returned home, but immediately re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regimei.t Pennsylvania Volunteers, and at the expiration of his time again enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Slate Militia, and was employed in establishing commis- saries. Mr. Grim next coimected himself with the United States Railroad Department, with which he served until the close of the war. In 1866 he came to Philadelphia and engaged in the grocery business. At the end of fifteen" months he sold out, and commenced the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods. He, did not succeed in this, however, and fourteen years ago started in the produce commission business at the Fortieth .Street Market, which he still continues. For sixteen years Mr. Grim has been an active member of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, being Past Grand of West Philadelphia Lodge, No. 572. He has taken great interest in the charities of this or- ganization, and was one of the founders of the Odd- Fellows' Home in 1870. He is also Past Com- mander of Courtland Saunders Post, No. 21, Grand Army of the Republic. Politically, Mr. Grim has always been a staunch Democrat. He cast his first vote for General George B. McClellan for President in 1864. In 1878 he was nominated by the Democrats of the Twenty, fourth Ward for the Common Council. The con- test was very close, the returns on the night of the election showing him to be seven votes ahead of his opponent, Richard Peltz. The next day, how- ever, it was found that he lacked eleven votes of being elected. In 1880 he was nominated again, and although the wnrd was Republican by a ma- jority of about 1,500 votes, he secured the election. In 1882 he was re-elected. He was twice indorsed by the Committee of One Hundred and the Tax- payers' Association. During his service in the Common Council, Mr. Grim has taken an active part m reformatory matters, and his course in ex- posing the almshouse frauds will never be forgotten. When the bill for the deficiency of 543,000 for the Guardians of the Poor was placed before the Coun- cils, he was greatly opposed to its passage, and when it did pass that body, he resolved to unearth the mysteries surrounding the institution. He im- mediately set himself to his task, and after a year 104 MEN OF AMERICA. f|jenl iti unceasing eflTorts, he galhercil tliirtecn afii- davits. Armed wilh lliese, he one day rose in Council and demanded a Commiltce of Investiga- tion, of which he was made Cliairman. The Com- miilee wenl to work, and afttr thirty-eight meetings filed a report condemning the management of the almshouse, recommending the retiring of five mem- bers of the Board of Guardians of the Poor, and the immediate discharge of Major Phipps, the manager. This was effected, but not satisfied that all was yet made pl.iin, Mr. Grim continued his good work, and finally succeeded, in company with several members of the Committee of One Hun- dred, in securing the confession of Morris Matthews, one of the fraudulent contractors, and on the strength of this man's affidavit he swore out a war- rant for the arre^t of Phipps. The ilcfiulting man- ager, after furnishing b.iil to the amount of S5,ooo, fled to Canada, and it was only after much trouble and loss of lime that his capture and extradition were effected. That Mr. Grim's efforts in behalf of reform were appreciated was shown at the election in November, 1S82, when he came within 8,000 voles of being elected Sheriff of Philadelphia, which usunlly gives a Republican majority of over 20,000, ami that, too, without the support of the Citizens' Coinniittee of One Hundred, which for some reason was with- held and conferred on J. William Hoffman. George DeB. Keim, the Republican c.indidatc, secured the election, the vote being: Keim, 70,197; Grim, 61,329; and Hoffman, 14,880. Mr. Grim was raised in the Methodist faith. He was married in 1866 to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Antrim Osliorne, a well known manufacturer of Delaware county, and owner of the Ro>e Valley Mills. They have had four children, the oldest a son, Charles, aged twelve years, and three daugh- ters, one of the latter being now dead. ;AUFFMAN, CHARLES A., a member of the Common Council from the Twenly- fiflh Ward, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 23d, 1843, and his parents came to America when Charles was alxjut six years of age, and seitleil in Philadelphia, where he secured a common school education. He learned the trade of butchering with his father, which business he followed until 1866. In ;h;it ye.-ir he opened a s.nloon at No. 1638 Richmond street, where he has continued ever since, and is now about retiring from the busi- ness. Mr. Kauffman i- a member of the Indepeu dent Order of Odd Fellows, being Past Grand of Richmond Lodge, No. 240. He was raised in the Lutheran Church, and has continued to adhere to its doctrines. He is connected with the Richmond Building Association, and is largely interested in real estate. Mr. Kauffman is a Republican ; and although the Twentieth Ward is Democratic by a large majority, he was elected to the Common Council in February, 18S1, receiving 3,102 votes. In Feb- ruary, 1882, after a spirited campaign, he was re- elected, and during the year he served on the Committees on Surveys, House of Correction, and to Compare Bills. In 1866 Mr. Kauffman was married to Su.san Green, of Philadelphia, and is the father of two children, both of whom are girls. ROUCII, GEORGE WILLIAM, a mem- ber of Common Council from the Twenty-fifth Ward, was born in Kidder- minster, England, June 4th, 1841. His father, who was Secretary of the Chartist Society, was obliged to fly to this coun- try without his family, who joined him here afte . wards. The son, after receiving the usual instruc- tion in Jefferson and Harrison Grammar Schools, wa.s, in 1855, placed on a farm in Roxborough. Farm life was exceedingly distasteful to him, how- ever, and after serving ten months he returned home, determined to stick to city life. June 21st, 1856, he was apprenticed to Joseph Becker, harness manufacturer, with whom he served successively as apprentice, journeyman, bookkeeper and general manager up t > January ist, 1880, when he pur- chased the e-tablishmcnt and continued the busi- ness under his own name, making a specialty of the manufacture of horse collars. A Republican in principle, Mr. Crouch has taken considerable in- terest in the political affairs of his ward. In 1874 he was chosen a School Director, and in 18S1 he was elected to Common Council for the term he is now serving. He is highly esteemed as a busine-s man, and his connection sought a't.r in legitimate enterprises. He is prominently connected with real estate matters, a.id is Secretary of the Lehigh Building and I^an Association, one of the most successful corporations of its kind in the city. Mr. Crouch is a member of numerous beneficial and social organizations. Among them may l>e enumerated Richmond Lodge, No. 230, F. & A. M. ; Fredonia Encampment, No. 36, 1. 0. 0. F. ; Cohock- •ink Lodge, No. 383, I. O. O. F., in which he be- came a Past Grand and member of the Grand Lodge John S. Davis. IT. MlZHAZl; O'RCUEKE. THE CITV GOVERNMENT. in April, 1863; Pequod Tribe, No. iS, I.O.R. M., in which he became a I'ast Sachem and member of the Great Council in October, 1S63 ; Aurora Lodge, No. 40, K. of P. ; Past Grand Chancellor and mem- ber of the Su|)reme Lodge of the World, in which he represented the Stale of Pennsylvania for two terms; is present Noble Chief of Fidelity Castle, No. 8, Knights of the Golden Eagle of Pennsyl- vania; United States Council, No. i. Order of Mystic Brothers; Past Great Chief of Grand Coun oil, and present R. W. Grand Secretary of Grand Council of the United States; Integrity Chamber, No. 6, Knights of Friendship, in which he became a Past Sir Knight Marshal in January, 187S; and also became a member of the Grand Chamber and Past Assistant Secretary of that Grand Body in De- cember of that year. Mr. Crouch is also a mem- ber of Birney Post, No. 63, G. A. R. In religion he is a Methodist, and is a member of Eden M. E. Church. He resides at 2926 North Sixth street. lEALL, WILLIAM A., a member of the Common Council from the Twenty-fifth Ward, is the son of English parents, and was born at New Market and Coates streets, Philadelphia, August 9th, 1821. At the proper age he attended the Mas- ter Street Grammar School, where he received all of his schooling. In 1S43 ^^ went to Chicago and learned ship-building. He remained in Chicago and Milwaukee until the fall of 1849, when he re- turned to Philadelphia. He worked at his trade in this city until 1864, when he was appointed Superintendent of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad boat yards. Mr. Peall served in this capacity until 1876, at which time he became one of the firm of Carter & Peall, shipwrights, whose place of business was est.ablished at Cooper's Point, Camden. In this undertaking he was thoroughly successful, so much so, in fact, that he retired from active business life in 18S1. Mr. Peall is a mem- ber of Purity Lodge, No. 325, I. O. of O. F., United Brothers; in Camden Lodge, No. 26, of the same order; Anthracite Lodge, No. 52, K. of P. ; Pe.ibody Circle, No. 39, B. U. H. F. of Penn- sylvania, and Integrity Lodge, No. 139, A. O. U. W., in all of which he has held prominent posi- tions. He is also Treasurer of the Anthracite Re- lief Association. Mr. Peall is a Democrat, and was elected to the Common Council in February, 18S2, having a majority of about 1,900 votes over his competitor. He was married in 1850 to Han- nah M. Paxson. They h.-ive four children— two 14 boys and two girls, and the family attends the Methodist Episcopal Church. OLEMAN, WILLIAM, a member of the Common Council from the Twenty-fifth W.ird, is of Geiman ancestry, and was born at Bremen, December 27th, 1S35. His father, Frederick William Holeman, and his mother, Engel Artger, were both natives of that |-Uce. He attended the common schools at Bremen, and afterwards became a sailor. In March, 1856, Mr. Holeman came to America and settled in New York, where he remained four years. In i860 he married Miss Fanny Kirkpat- rick and came to Bridesburg, Philadelphia, where he has since resided. He is at present engaged in harbor lighterage and canal transportation. Mr. Holeman is a member of the I. O. of O. F., the Red Men, Goodfellows and Knights of Pythias, in all of which he is a past officer. Mr. Holeman has always been a Democrat. In February, 1 88 1, he was elected to the Common Council, having received 3,141 votes, the next to the highest number polled for one candidate in his ward. During his term in that body he served on the Schools, Boiler Inspection and Gas Works Com- mittees. During the rebellion he served at Fort Delaware, from 1863 until the close of the war. In religion Mr. Holeman is a Lutheran. He is the father of five children, four girls and one boy, all of whom are living. TEEN, JOHN, a Common Councilman from the Twenty-sixth Ward, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, March nth, 1837. He aitended the pay-schools of the neighborhood, and at an early age secured work in a factory. He came to .\merica in 1853, and shortly after settling in Philadelphia was apprenticed to George W. Wat- son to learn the trade of carriage-building, at which he served four years and four months. On leaving this business, he engaged in the store of John Gibson, Sons & Co., liquor merchants, with whom he remained for thirteen years, at the end of that time starting in business for himself on Lombnrd street. He afterwards removed to No. 1 1 26 .South Nineteenth street, where he has continued ever since. Mr. Stecii is a member of the M.isonic Order, io6 MEN or AMERICA. the Inilepcmleiit Order of Odd Fellows, and the American I'rolcstant Association. He is a Re- publican, anil was elected to the Common Council in February, iSSo, and rc-elccled in 18S2. In the Ui-Cenlennial year he was a member of ihe Com- mittees on Police, House of Correciion and to Compare Bills. Mr Stcen is a member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1S61 he was married to Sarah A. Hart, and has hail five children, fuur of whom are now living. TKINGFKLI.OW, S.VMLEL F., a mem- ber of the Common Council from the Twenty sixth Ward, is an American by birth and ancestry, and was born in Delaware county, February 21st, 1828. His father, Mahlon Stringfellow, was also born in Delaware county, and was descendeil from Swedes who came to this country previous to the arrival of Penn, settling near Chester. His mother was M.argarct E. Williams, a descendant of one of the oldest Quaker families of Philadelphia, and up to the time of her marriage was a prominent member of the Society of Friends. When Mr. Stringfellow was a boy the opportunities for secur- ing a good education were few outside of large cities. Samuel was sent to a country school, where he obtained all the regular instruction he ever re- ceived. The family was large, numbering eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the oldest son, and he, at the age of eleven years, resolved to sti ike out for himself, and after much persuasion obt.Tincd the consent of his father to lay aside his books and go to work. He procured em- ployment on a neighboring farm, where he re- mained until he was sixteen ye .rs of age. He was then apprenticed to Joel H. Smith to learn coach- making in the village now known as Cliftin. The verm of liis apprenticeship was five years, but in 1S48, one year prior to its expiration, the balance of his time was transferred to the proprietors of a country store. The agreement w.ns mutual, and Simuel remained in this place until 1850, when he came to Philadelphia and entered the store of Wil- liam G. Mentz, a stationer, at No. 53 North Second street. H.- continued in this situation until 1S55, when, having given notice the year before of his intention, he removed to Darby, Delaware county, and commenced the manu^iclure of knitting cotton. Mr. Stringfellow manufnctured on a small scale in this ]ilace until 1856, when he removed his fac- tory to Hestonville, continuing in the same busi- ness. In i860 he removed to Haddington and conducted his factory for two more years, when business coming to a standstill, he disposed of his property ami returned to Philadelphia. Mr. String- fellow next became a clerk in the office of Provost Marshal Palmer, at 1 2 14 Locust street, where he worked until the close of the rebellion. In 1865 Mr. Stringfellow was persuaded by Ed- win Palmer, the present Secretary of the House of Correction, to engage with him in the manufac- ture of knitting cotton. Mr. Palmer reiired in 1S67, and Richard Peltz became one of the firm, which was then known as Peltz & Stringfellow. It w.as at this time that the factory was enlarged and the business greatly extended, more capital having been invested. The manufacture of Germantown wool was also commenced. In 1873 ^'i"- I'eltz withdrew, Mr. John Shaffner t.aking his place. The firm of Shaffner & Stringfellow remains unchanged, though the business has .steadily increased, and it has proven an exceedingly profitable vcntnie. Mr. Stringfellow is a member of the Blue Lodge, F. & A. M., and of Keystone Chapter, R. A. M. He took an active part in the organi- zation of Fulton Lodge, K. of-P., in 1868, and was elected Treasurer, a position he has held ever since. Though a Republican, Mr. Stringfellow is a warm advocate of reform measures. In Januar)-, 1881, the citizens of the Twenty-sixth Ward notified him that it was their intention to nominate him for the Common Council. He sent them a letter of re- fusal, which, however, was not satisfactory, and a commiitee was appointed to urge liim to accept. As he still refused to be placed as a candidate, the convention met and nominated him. He w.ns then sent for and brought before the convention. When he entered the room, Mr. Stiingfellow was still of the opinion that he was not the man needed, and he intended to insist on the nomination of another, but when he noted the composition of the assem- bly he consented to be their camlidate on the con- dition that the people must elect him, r.s he would make no person.al effort. He was indorsed by Ihe Citizens' Committee of One Humlrcd, and ]K)lIcd 2,441 votes, the highest number received by any candidate in his ward. He proved .an ac- tive reformer in the Councils, and made a go> of age, Mr. Rowan was apprenticed to John S. Reed & lirolher, paper hangers ; and first went in the same husiness, on his own behalf, in August, ISS5, on the north side of Market street above Lancaster avenue. In lS6o Mr. Rowan built the store in the same street below Tliiriyseventh street, which is occupied by him at the present lime, and in which he has built up a profitable business. Mr. Rowan was a Schuol Director in the Twenty seventh Ward, ser\ing from 1S63 to 1866, and served as a Controller from his Sectional Board for one year piior to the appointment of those officers being vested in the Board of Judges. A few years afterward he was elected to the Com- mon Council, and on January 1st, 1883, he com- pleted his twelfth year of continuous service in that chamber. The military instincts of Mr. Rowan were grati- fied early in his life by his connection with the Livingston Grays, a company commanded by Cap- tain Philip Lowry, Jr., and during the rebellion he served as Lieutenant of Company C, Third regiment Gray Reserves, under Colonel Eakin. During the battle of Antietam Mr. Rowan's regi- ment was stationed in Delaware. In 1S63 the bars of a First Lieutenant glittered on his shoulder- straps, he being the commanding officer of Com- pany G, of the First Ci>al regiment, raised by the Coal Exchange, and stationed at Williamsport, on the Potomac river, after the battle of Gettysburg. In the Council Chamber Mr. Rowan has been an earnest advocate for improved pavements, and for the construction of bridges over the Schuylkill river. He was Chairman of the Fire and High- way Committees of Councils, and has served on nwny other important committees of the lower chamber. He is a member of Roxborough Lodge, F. & A. M.; Fernwood Chapter, and Corinthian Chasseur Commnnderj-, Knights Templar, and is also afBlialed with Fredonia Councils, .American Mechanics, and Minerva Lodge, Odd Fellows. f RAIG, SAMUEL LEWIS, a member of 5 f| the Common Council from the Twenty- seventh Ward, was born in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, July 15th, 1S38, and is the son of American parents. His paternal grandfather was a native of Scotland, .ind came to America, where he married the grandmother of Samuel, a native of Newtown, Delaware county. Both grandparents on his mother's side, Phineas and Mary Lewis, were natives of that county. Samuel was given a sub- stantial education in the public schools of Phila- delphia, attending Ncwtun Grammar School at Thirty-sixth and Chestnut streets. He commenced work as a farmer with his father, at Easttown, Chester county, Pennsylvania, and afterwards learned the carpenter's trade w ith George Ruth of the same place. On finishing his trade he came to Philadelphia, where he was employed in the con- struction shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany. In i860 he engaged in the flour and feed business at Thirty-second and Market streets, where the Centennial Bank now stands, and con- tinued in this vocation until the breaking out of the rebellion. He enlisted as Second Lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth emergency regiment, Pennsyl vania Volunteers, in which he served four months, at the end of that lime being honorably discharged. He then entered the United States Construction Corps at Washington, District of Columbia, and was shortly afterwards transferred to the same corps of the Department of the Cumberland, where he remained twenty -two months, when he retired from service. Mr. Craig then removed to the western part of Pennsylvania, where he became interested in the oil business. In 1864 he was elected Superintendent of the Oil Valley Petroleum Company, of Venango county, Pennsylvania, and served in ihat capacity for several years. He afterwards became :^ con- tractor, and W.-IS engaged in drilling oil-wells until June, 1867. He then returned to Philadelphia, and after a short time was elected Superintendent of the Woodland Cemetery Company. That he has been a faithful and efficient official is ajiparent from the fact that he has been annually re-elected to that position ever since. Mr. Craig is a Republican. He was first elected to the Common Council from the Twenty-seventh Ward in February, 1 877, and was re-elected in February, 1879, and again in 1881. In the latter election Mr. Craig received 2,8l6 votes, the highest number polled for any one candidate in that ward. In October, 1882, he resigned his seat in the cham- ber for reasons of his own, and retired to private life. In the List year of his service in Council he was a member of the Committees on City Property, and Commerce and Navigation. Mr. Craig is a member of Phoenix Lodge, No. 130, F. & A. M.; Girard Mark Lodge, No. 214; Harmony Chapter, No. 52, and Mary Comniandery, K. T., No. 36. He is also coiinecied with Phila- delphia Lodge, No. 2, K. of B. ; West Philadel- phia Lodge, No. 161, A. O. U. W., and Courtl.ind THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 109 Saunder"; Post, No. 21, G. A. R. Mr. Craig is married and has three children. jARDSLEY, JOHN, a member of the Common CouncU from the Twenty- eighth Ward, was born September 5th, 1S36, near Manchestei', England. When he was five years old his parents came to this country, and located in \\'ilmington, Delaware. After remaining there a few years, they resolved to return to the old country, and embarked on the voyage. The vessel, when several days ai sea, was struck by iightning, and taking lire burned slowly for a week. The passengers and crew re- mained on board, and were rescued by a s lip bound for Boston, to which city they were taken. The Bardsley family returned to Wilmington, and in 1849 removed to Philadelphia, where the father established himself in his trade of blacksmith in the neighborhood of Twenty-fiist and Lombard streets. In 1852 young Bardsley, Upon the death of his father, took charge of the business. He was but sixteen years of age, but was old in experience, and he developed wonderful ability in continuing his father's trade. In a few years the business de- veloped into that of supplying ranges and builders' hardware. By his ability and enterprise Mr. Bards- ley steadily accumulated wealth. In 1872 he sold his interest, and confined his attention to the busi- ness of manufacturing lustre coatings, mohair and alpaca brilliantines, employing several hundred hands. He is now proprietor of the extensive Bradford Mills, Germantown. Mr. Bardsley made his debut in political life in October, 1865, when he was elected to the Com- mon Council from the Seventh Ward. He was re-elected every two years until November, 1877, when, having moved into the Twenty eighth Ward, he resigned his seat. At the following election, however, he was sent back to Councils as one of the representatives of his new ward. He was re- elected in 1880, and again in 18S2. From his ad- vent Mr. Bardsley has been one of the most prom- inent men in the legislative branch of the city government. He rapidly mastered the details of the various departments, and it is doubtful if there is to-day another member of Councils who is so thoroughly acquainted with the details of the muni- cipal machinery. He is a good parliamentarian and a strong debater, and his advocacy of any measure is of great weight. As Chairman of the Finance Committee in the year before the Centen- nial Exhibition, when large sums were expended for improvements, he held a high position. He is -d^ now a member of the important Committees of Fniance, Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph and Gas Works. He is married, and is the father of several children. ANDERSLICE, JOHN M., a member of the Common Council from the Twenty- eighth Ward, was born on a farm, near Qry^ Valley Forge, Chester county, August ^ 31st, 1846. For five generations back his ancestors were American, being orig- inally HoUandeis on his father's side and Scotch- Irish on his mother's side. Tliey were promi- nent in the war of the Revolution, and the war of 1812. His father's grandmother, Tacy Richardson, is well known in Revolutionary his- tory for furnishing Washington with valuable news and her escai)es from the British, wherein she showed many daring feats of horsemanship. In 1861 the family removed to Philadelphia. John was educated at Freeland Classical Institute in Montgomery county. Leaving the Institute, where he was preparing for Harvard College, he enlisted in the Eighth regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry when in his seventeenth year, and served until the close of the war, being one of the few of his regiment left to witness the surrender of Lee. He received mention from his superior officers for gallantry upon several occnsions. Mr. Vanderslice returned home and entered the office of the late Theodore Cuyler, Esq., as a student of the law. He remained there three years, and was admitted to the bar. May ist, 1869, and has practised his profession ever since, his office being at No. 16 North Seventh street. Mr. Vanderslice is one of the most prominent members of the Grand Army of the Republic, hav- ing been identified with it since its organization, and being a member of Post 2. He held the position of Assi-tant Adjutant-General of Penn- sylvania, from Januar)', 1S76, until 1 882. In the latter year he was made Commander of the De- partment of Pennsylvania. During these seven years of offici.nl life, two hundred and filty Posts were organized in that State. He is the first Master Workman of North Star Lodge, No. 165, A. O. U. W., and first Regent of Integrity Council, No. 586, Royal Arcanum. Mr. Vanderslice is a Republican, and his father was a strong abolitionist, his residence being a station on the underground railway for the escape of slaves. He has always been a worker in his party, and has made campaign addresses in different States since 1866. He was first elected to the Com- mon Council in February, 1880, by the largest MEN OF AMERICA. majority ever given in the ward, receiving the unanimous vote of the division where lie has re- sided for twelve years, and was re-elected in 1882. In the Bicentennial year he served on the Com- mittees on Highways, Railroads, and Law. In 1870 Mr. Vanderslice was married to C. Cecilia, oldeM daughter of Dr. James Hanicr, of CoUegeville, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. They have had four children, only two of whom are living. He resides at No. 1818 North Thirteenth stieet, and the family are of the Baptist pcisuasion. VERS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, a member of the Common Council from the Twentyeii;hth Ward, was born in N^-I PhiLuklphia, July 3ISI, 1818, and is one J • of ten children. His father, Henry Myers, was born in Philadelphia, April l6lh, 1787, and died October 17th, 1S45. His |).iternal grandparents both died with the yellow kver during the epidemic in October, 1793. His mother was Mary Steinbach, one of the twenty-one children born to Adam and Elizabeth Steinbach, having been born on April i llh, 1797. She died on June Ijth, 1878, at the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. Myers being in delicate health, George was anxious to help the f.amily, and in consequence his school-days were greatly shortened, leaving school at the early age of ten years lo work in a china store on Market street. He w.-s then employed by Samuel Bispham, a wholesale grocer, where he re- mained until he was engaged by John Hinkle, a butcher. He continued in Hinkle's employ, whose place of business was in High street market, until 1834, when he rented a stall in the Callowhill Sreet market, below Seventh street, where he has remained ever since, though he now only superin- tends his business, his sons doing all the work. Mr. Myers is a member of Palestine Lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M. He is a Republican, and was first elected lo the Common Council from the Twenty-first Ward in 1866, taking his seat in 1867, and serving through 1868, when the ward was divided, making him a resident of the "Twenty- eighth Ward, from which he was elected in the fall of 186S, and served in 1869 and 1870. He was again elected to the lower branch of Councils in February, 1881, receiving 3,717 votes. In 1882 he served on the Committees on House of Correc- tion, City Property and Election Divisions. He was also a member of the Committee on the Anni- versary ol the Bi-Centennial. At one time Mr. Myers was connected with many building associations. He has been a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1841. On August 17th, 1S41, he was married to Jane D., daughter of John Dougall, a native of Paisley, Scot- l.ind, who came to .Vmerica in 1818. They have had eight children, three of whom are living with their p..renis at No. 1848 North Twentieth street. ORBER, CHARLES KIRK, a member of the Common Council from the Twenty- eighth W'ard, was born July 28tli, 1834, in that part of Philadelphia known as the Falls of Schuylkill. His ancestors were Swedes, w ho came to this country before the Revolution. The first American Sorbet was Joseph Elias, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who arrived here about 1 740, and seitled in Germantown, and was a scout under Washington. Mr. Soiber's mother was a Duy, of the well-known family of that name. His grand- father, on the paternal side, built the first brick- house in Germanlown, which at present belongs to the Royal estate. In 1803 Mr. Sorber's grand- father located at the Falls, where the family has since remained, and where the present head carries on the business of light carriage building, which for two preceding generations was conducted at the same place. Mr. Sorber received his early education in the old Falls Academy, and was afterwards instructed in a private school, csl.ablished under the Episco- pal Church of St. James the Less. In 1867 he was elected Jii>tice of the Peace and served five years. He also was a Notary Public for six years. July I7lh, 1877, he w.as appointed Postmaster, and has held that position since. Mr. Sorber entered the Common Council, April, 1881, having been elected in February of that year. He was nominated by tlie Republican p.irty and indorsed by the Dem- ocrats, and h.ad llicrefoie no opposition. 5,^1^ EVELING, HENRY, a member of the Common Council from the Twenty-ninth Ward, is the son of Isaac Neveling, the well known wharf and bridge builder, and Deliah Coleman, and was born in Richmond above Palmer street, Phila- delphia, April 29th, 1851. Henry attended Hun- ter's Grammar School on Palmer street, and on finishing his education engaged in paper-hanging. After two years spent in this business, he became THE CITY r.OVERNMENT. conncLted v\iih his father, and has continued wiih him ever since, the firm-name being Is.iac Nevel- ing & Son, and their offices at No. 407 Walnut street. Mr. Neveling is a Republican, and since he be- came a voter has taken an active part in political affairs. In February, 1S81, he was elected to the Common Council by the regular Republicans. His Vote was 3,849, the highest number received by any candidate in the Twenty-ninth Ward. During the Bi-Centennial year he was Chairman of the Committee to Compare Bills, and a member of the City Property Committee. Mr. Neveling's reli- gious faith is Baptist. He was married to Lizzie Entress, on June 13th, 1S70, and has one child — a little girl. He resides at No. 152S North Twenty- fourth street. ||,\ILEY, JOHN THOMAS, a member of the Common Council from the Twenty- ninth Ward, was born near Dublin, Ire- land, November 24th, 1830. He is the son of Christopher Bailey, a farmer, and his mother's maiden-name was Jane Kelley, parents who believed that the best tuition for John was that which could be given him at home, and they never permitted him to go to school. He therefore grew to manhood without having been t.iu^ht a single lesson outside of his own home, and in the year 1851, when he had arrived at the years of maturity,' he left home to seek his fortune. He found it in America, where so many of his country- men have distinguished themselves in a similar way. and the story of his life is that of another self- made m.in. He came to Philadelphia alone and friendless, almost without means, and entirely with- out a relative in the whole land. The struggle for fortune was before him, and he began it with a light heart and willing hands. He had learned no particular trade or Ijiisiness, before coming to America, and he was thercfbre ready to accept anything that was offered. He first found employment with Benjamin S. Janney, Jr., & Co., wholesale grocers, with whom he toiled for five years, but he had been with them but a few months, before he did the very best thing jierhaps that a young stranger in a strange land could do — he married. He fell in love with Miss Eliza Carey, and made her his wife. Stimulated by the consciousness of new responsiliilities, Mr. Bailey toiled on in the rugged way to fortune, and at the end of the first five years of his life in his adopted country, accepted employment under Field & Keehmlier, coffee and sugar brokers, for a short time, and in 1857 struck out for h mself in the maimfacture of b.igs. His capit.il was so limhed that he accepted the kind offer of the firm of Bog^s & Kirk, an .\rch street house, who put a third story room at his disposal free of rent, and there, in that attic, he made his first real business start in life. It was an act of kindness for which the re- cipient was ever grateful, and Boggs & Kirk have ever been borne in kind remembrance. Ill i860 he moved his place of business to more commodious quarters on Front street above Arch, where he remained for three years, and then re- moved to the corner of Water and Market streets; thence, after a few years, to Chestnut above Front, and later to 220 and 222 Chestnut street, where the business occupied two store-rooms, and, finally, on January 1st, 18S0, to the present commodious buildings, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street, where the business of the firm of John T. Bailey & Co. has grown to enormous proportions, and the firm now includes, besides the subject of this sketch, his brother, Chri^topher Biiley, and Frank Cascaden, the latter being a half-brother of James Cascaden, who was the original partner of John T. Bailey, and who di-'d in 1868. Christopher Bailey came to this country in 1870, and established the first manufactory for making hemp and flax twine by machinery in America. This industry was con- nected with John T. Bailey's well-established busi- ness of bag manufacturing, and the two are now conducted in conjunction. In the bag department 500 persons are employed, and in the manufacture of twine 250 more, making together 750 employes to which this firm gives employment. Mr. Bailey hxs always adhered to Republican doc- trine, but has never been a seeker after office. His recognized business qualifications recommended him twice for the distinction of President of the Commercial Exchange, an honor which is sel- dom, if ever, conferred on a member for more than one year, but Mr. Bailey filled the chair for two terms, in 1879 and again in 1880. In February, 1882, he was elected to the Common Council, where his vote has always been cast on the side of justice and true reform. In 1882 he was a mem- ber of the Commerce and Navigation Committee. He was selected as a member of the general Bi- Centennial Committee, under Mr. E. C. Knight, and served as Chairman of the Tnides' Display un- til the summer of 1882, when he resigned and went to Europe, reluming in the fall, which return trip marked the eleventh time that .Mr. Bailey has crossed the ocean since he first left his native heath. Eleven children have come into the Bailey house- hold, six of whom, four boys and two girls, are still MEN OK AMERICA. living. The family belong to th>; Episcopal Church, and reside at 1503 Master street. 'ERSE, STEPHEN, a member of the Common Council from the Twenty-ninth Ward, was born in Philadelphia, August 3d, 1842. He is a son of George P. Hersc, formerly of the firm of De Silver, Herse, Lindsay & Co., paper dealers. Stephen attended the public schools of this city and l-'reeland Seminary, ten miles above Norris- town. When he left school, he learned the plumb- ing, gas and steam-fitting business, with which he has been connected ever since. From 1869 until 187 1 Mr. Herse was engaged at his trade in Cleve- land, relurning to Philadel|)hia in that year. He has continued in the plumbing business, and during his career has been largely engaged in fitting up new houses ; in one year furnishing as great a number as three hundred buildings with water, gas and steam attachments. At the breaking out of the rebellion Mr. Herse enlisted for three years with Goslin's Zouaves, of the Ninety-filth Regiment, Pennsylva- nia Volunteers. During this time he was wounded in three different engagements. He is a member of Post No. 2, G. A. R., and of the Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Herse is a Republican, and in February, 1881, he was elected by the regular Republican party, re- ceiving 3,613 votes, the second highest of the can- didates, Henry Neveling receiving 3,849 votes. During 1882 he served on the Committees on Po- lice, House of Correction, and Election Divisions. In religious faith Mr. Herse is an Episcopalian. He was married on September 20th, 1870, to Annie L. Moore, of Philadelphia, and h.is one child, a daughter aged twelve years. He resides at No. 1508 Thompson street, in the same building occupied as his pl.-icc of business ' LSE, THOMAS C, a member of the Com- mon Council from the Twenty-ninth Ward, was bnrn January 28th, 1833, in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, on a farm. His father, who was of English descent, was born in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, and his mother was Patience Bailey, whose parents were French people. His paternal grandfather was Jacob Else, a soldier of the war of 1812. After a few years spent in the public schools of the place of his birth, Mr. Else at the age of six- teen, in the year 1849, caught the California gold fever and joined a party which left Wisconsin for the Pacific coast. Owing to unforeseen circum- stances, principally sickness, the overland trip was |H)stponed ; and after travelling through Michigan, Indiana, Illmois and Ohio, Mr. Else returned home and went to work for Peter M. Hanna, a mill- wright, learning the trade with Mr. Hanna, who had large contracts throughout Pennsylvania, and who employed Mr. Else to look after the machinery and supplies. In 1855 he started in the mercantile business in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, but sold out and came to Philadelphia in the spring of 1858, and engaged with Shultz, Pciper & Saegar in the I'oot and shoe business, at 45 North Third street, as salesman. Here he remained for some time, and subsequently bought .^n interest in the business, the firm-name being changed to Shultz, Fahnestock & Else, and again, in 1873, to Thomas C. Else & Co. In 1879 the business location was changed to 53 North Third street, where Mr. Else still con- tinues under the firm-name of Thomas C. Else & Co., aUhougli he is the sole member of the firm. Mr. Else is a Democrat, with a decided tendency toward independent action, especially in municipal matters, and is a strong adherent of the promoters of reform measures. These princi]>les were his recommendation to the people of his ward in Feb- ruary, 18S2, when he was put forward for a seat in the Common Council. He was indorsed by the Committee ol One Hundred and the Reform As- sociation of the ward, which is strongly Repub- lican, and elected by the largest vote polled by any candidate in the ward at that election; polling 188 more voles ihan the Republican councilmanic can- didate who was electeil at the same time. In 18S2 he was a member of the Committees on Railroads anil Prisons. Mr. Else is a member of Franklin Lodge, No. 134, F. & A. M.; and Fairfield Lodge, No. 236, I. O. O. F. In 1862 he w.is married to Sarah E. Backus, of Snyder county, Pennsylvania. He has two children, a son and a daughter, and he resides at 1428 North Fifteenth street. cCORMICK, JAMES, one of the mem- bers of the Common Council from the Thirtieth Ward, is of Irish descent, and was I)orn in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, on November loth, 1S39. His parents brought him to .America when he was e'ght years old, and they settled in Philadel- James Evans. William Henry Lex. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. "3 phia. He attended the Ringgold Grammar School at Eighth and Fiizwater streets, where he was taught the common branches. On leaving school he was apprenticed lo learn the carpenter trade, at which he worked until the breaking out of the re- bellion. In 1861 Mr. McCormick enlisted in the Pennsylvania Reserves, and was immediately sent to the front, and took part in all the battles in which the army of the Potomac was engaged up to the time of the battle of Fredericksburg, when he was severely wouivded. He was aKo injured by ahorse in the Seven Days' Fight, but continued at the front througli the whole engagement. When he was wounded at Fredericksburg, he was sent to the military hospital at Washington, but was afterwards removed to the Satterlee Hospital in this city, where he gradually recovered. When he was able to do duty, his marked executive ability and clerical knowledge caused him to be appointed Chief Clerk, a position he held until the close of the war. Like many ethers, the close of the war left Mr. McCormick without employment, and Dr. J. J. Hayes, his old chief in the hospital, offered him a position in New York with a coal company, of which he was manager. The pl.^ce was accepted, and he remained there for one year, when he re- turned to Philadelphia and entered in the retail coal business for himself, and he is still engaged in that vocation at Thirteenth street and Washington avenue. Mr. McCormick has connected himself with many societies, and his executive ability has always advanced him to high positions in thein. He is a Mason, and Past Master of Lodge No. 432, F. & A. M., Past High Priest of Corinthian Chapter, No. 230, and a member of the Knights Templar. He is also a member of Quaker City Lodge, A. O. U. W. ; Recorder of Triple Tan Lodge, Knights of Honor; the American Legion of Honor; is Past Grand Representative of the Knighis of Pythias; and is a member of the I. O. O. F. On the organ- ization of the Grand Army of the Republic, Mr. McCormick took an active part in its formation, and has ever since continued a firm supporter of the association. He is at present Past Commander of Post 5, G. A. R. In 1879 Mr. McCormick was e'ected to fill an unexpired term in the Common Council. In 1881 he was re-elected, polling 2,136 votes. He was nominated by the regular Republicans and indorsed by the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred. Mr. McCormick's course as Councilman not only met with the approval of his constituents, but they took occasion to show it in the most commendatory manner. When the ciuestion of the succession to his first regular term was being agitated, the citizens of his ward, irrespective of party, assembled, and, after indorsing him as an honest and efficient rep- resentative, unanimously presented Mr. McCormick for re-electiun. This compliment was the stronger because it came to him unsolicited, and was the outburst of pojmlar sentiment in behalf of a faith- ful servant. In religion Mr. McCormick is a Methodist, and is as earnest in this as in everything with which he engages. He has been largely identified with the many building associations which haie helped so materially in building up the city. UDD, SAMUEL PEMBERTON, a mem- ber of the Common Council from the Thirtieth Ward, was born m Philadel- phia, February 27th, 1844. He is uf Quaker ancestry, his father being Wil- liam Budd, a well-known and prominent builder of Philadelphia, who had upwards of forty years experience in the building up of the city. Mr. Budd was educated in the public schools, leav. ing the Central High School to enter the Engineer Corps of the United States Navy, in 1S63, passing the best examination from civil life before the ex- amining board. He served in the navy until iS68, when he resigned, returning to Philadelphia and starting in the coal and lime business. He is now one of the firm of Budd & Co., coal dealers, at No. 2030 Market street. He is a member of Post No. 2, G. A. R., and was at one time President of Gray's Ferry Building Association, which was honorably closed out. Mr. Budd is a Republican, and w.as elected to the Common Council in February, 1S82. In the Bi-Centennial year he served on the Committees on Schools, Law, and to Compare Bills. In reli- gion Mr. Budd is a Baptist. In 1S75 he was mar- ried to Annie, daughter of John Cook, and has one child, a little girl. ATANACH, ADAM A., a member of the Common Council from the Thirtieth Ward, was born in Philadelphia, July 23d, 1836. He is descended from Scotch ancestry, both parents being natives of Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Archi- bald Catanach, was a carpenter and builder, and came lo America in 1828, where, in 1830, he was married to Margnret Notman, who had come to America some time before. When Adam was less 114 MEN OF AMERICA. than a year old, his parents removed to Lexington, Kentucky, where they remained until he had reached his twelfth year. They then returned to Philadelphia and he attended the public schools, graduating from the Locust Street Grammar School. He then learned the carpenter trade with his father, with whom he continued after ser\ing his time. Six years prior to his father's death, in 1872, he was made one of the firm of A. Catanach & Son, carpenters and builders, dciing business all over the State, and making a specialty of the erection of churches. When his father died, he succeeded to the whole concern, and has conducted it ever since. Mr. Catanach is a member of the old Carpenters' Company; Philadelphia Lodge, No. 72, F. & A. M.; Jerusalem Chapter, Philadelphia Commandery, No. 2, and Covenant Lodge, No. 120, £. O. of O. F. He is a Republican, and was one of the origi- nal members of the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred. He was a member of the Board of Port Wardens from 1877 until 1881, when he re- signed his seat to become a representative of the Thirtieth Ward in the Common Council. He was elected to this body, being indorscil by the Com- mittee of One Hundred, and receiving 1,709 votes. In 1 882 he served on the Committees on Finance, Gas Works, and Commerce and Navigation. Mr. Catanach was married in 1859 to Miss Mar- g.-iret Carrick. They have seven children living, and reside .it No. 1523 Christian street. The fam- ily attends the Presbyterian Church. 'ILLYER, WILLIAM, a member of the Common Council from the Thirty-first Ward, was born in Springville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on the 20th day ^) of January, 1847. From there he re- moved to Bustlelon, in Philadelphia, and attended the Central High School, and finished his school-days in Treemount Seminary at Norristown. His first occup.-\lion in life w.as as clerk in a coun- try store, where he acquired the rudiments of mer- cantile education, from which he developed into a practical bookkeeper, in which position he is at present employed. He !■; a member of the Masonic Order, belonging to Montgomery Lodge, No. 19, F. & A. M. ; and is a member also of Integrity Ix)dgc, No. 139, A. O. V. W. ; and of Live 0.ak Council, A. L. H., holding in the latter the r.ink of Commander. Entering into .nciive life he alitics, except lo perform what he was taught when a youth was the duty of ever)' citizen — to vote, and this he has done con scientiously and fearlessly. Mr. Biddle's home surroundings are .is pleasant as a love of home, a taste for the beautiful, and a THE CITV GOVERNMENT. due regard for comfurl can make them. He was married, October nth, 1855, to Julia Williams Rush, granddaughter of Dr. Benjamin Rush, of revolutionary fame, and daughter of Samuel Rush, late Recorder of the City of Philadelphia. He has -IX children living, four sons and two daughters, the eldest being a son. Dr. A. \V. Biddle, who has just commenced the practice of medicine. In the late Dr. Rush's will Mr. Biddle was named as e.\ecutor, to succeed Mr. Williams, his uricle, in case of the latter's death. The .site of tlie Rush Library was suggested by Mr. Biddle, and accepted by Dr. Rush previous to his death. On a beautiful plot of ground, situated between Chrislian and Cirpenter, and Thirteenth and Broad -treets, was erected the magnificent Rush Library, which was completed by executor Williams before his death, aided by the valuable suggestions of Mr. Biddle, and it stands there to-day, a beautiful monument to the munificence of one of the most public-spirited citizens that Philadelphia ever claimed. 117 Since 1872 he has been a Director of the Board of City Trusls, having been elected by the judges to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Ed- ward King, and he is now Vice-President of the Board, Chairman of the Committee on .Mechanical Instruction, and a member of the Committees on Finance, Girard Estate without the city, Instruction and Library of Girard College and Infirmary. iRAYTGN, WILLIAM HEY WARD, a Director in the Board of City Trusts and Vice-President of the Board, was born in Ch.irleston, South Carolina, December 27th, 1817. He is the son of Colonel William Drayton and Miss Maria Hey- ward, of Charleston. Colonel Drayton was a prominent citizen of Charleston and a Federalist. He was a soldier of the war of 1S12, and served in General Izard's command on the Canadi.-m frontier. In President Jackson's term Colonel Drayton was tendered a place in his Cabinet, and .niso offered the mission to England, both of which he declined. William Hey ward Drayton left Charleston when a boy, and was educated at St. Mary's College, in Baltimore, after which he entered the law office' of Thomas J. Wharton, of Philadelphia, an,l prepared himself for the bar by a thorough course of legal studies. He was admitted October 22d, 1842, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession in all Its branches, in which he is still engaged at ^o. 704 Walnut slreet. Mr. Drayton is a Republican, but has never held any political office. His first public position was •IS School Director in the old Fifth Ward He was subsequently elected to the Common Council, and served in that body during the ses-ions of 1877 and 1878. In February, 1879. he was elected to the I Select Council, .ind s.-rved until the spring of 1882 I ■ oJ/^/l.AGUORN, JAMES LAWRENCE, a member of the Board of City Trusts, is a native of Philadelphia, and was born July 5th, 1S17. He is the second son of John W. Claghorn, who was a partner in the firm of Jennings, Thomas, Gill & Co., auctioneers and commission merchants, in whose establishment James was employed at the age of fourteen. He had received a practical edu- cation in the public schools, and, like many other successful citizens, applied himself early to the work by which he expected to make his way in the world. Five years afterward, Mr. Jennings having died, the elder Claghorn and Mr. Myers, another partner, withdrew and formed the firm of Myers & Claghorn. In 1840 John W. Claghorn withdrew, and then the subject of this sketch, together with -Samuel T. Altemus, entered into a new combina- tion with Mr. Myers, and continued the business on Market street, between Second and Third. There they went on with various changes until December 31st, 1861, when James L." Claghorn retired. Up to this time so steady had been his devotion to business that for the whole twenty-one years, during which he had been a partner in the concern,' not a single entry appeared in the ledger which was not made with his own hand. Throughout this period he had entire charge of the finance de- partment, which was no small m.itter. In those days, to do a business of gio.ooo.ooo a year meant even more than it does now. The firm here re- ferred to advanced money on crops and manufac- tures, undertaking to guarantee their sales, and making sales twice a week. Payment always fol- lowed two days after sale, and hence the work in- volved was extremely exacting. For instance, it is said that Mr. Claghorn, for a number of years, used to breakfast between three and six o'clock in the morning, in order to get time for his business; and frequently he was up night after night, working all day besides. After such close labors he might reasonably desire a respite; and, though not in- ii8 MEN OF AMERICA. U'nding to quit active life, he planned an excursion ahruad, lo enjoy his well-earned leisure. But just at the time when he was ready to carry this out, the slate of the natinn had become so threatenmg that he could not lind it in his conscience to turn his back on the popular struggle just entered upon, with the issue still doubtful. Instead he resolved to devote his whole time and energies, just set free from business, to aiding, so far as he could, the cause of the Union. It is rather a remarkable fact that both he and Mr. Myers were invited to join the Union Club, which was formed in November, 1S62, for the purpose of consolidating the loy.il gentlemen of Philadelphia, and counteracting se- cession sympathizers. It embraced but a little over forty members at flr^t, and the selection of two persons from one firm w.-is a pronounced com- pliment. Not long afterward, on December ajlh, 1S62, the Union Club evolved that larger body which look the name of Union League, and pL-iyed so im]>ortant a p.irt in creating a popular support for the war. Immediately on it^ organization Dr. John K. Mei-s, William 11. Ashhiirsl, George H. Bokcr and J.imes L. Cl.ighorn were chosen on the executive committee. Tlie last named was ap- juinted treasurer, and has held that office ever since down to the present, except while absent for a time in liurope. As an instance of his strict ideas in regard to all linancial transactions, it may be mentioned that on taking this office he insisted, despite the remonstrance of League olTicers, on giving a bond for the faithful discharge of his duties. The pecuniary management of the League, so essential to its welfare, has always been success- ful, and for this fact its treasurer certainly deserves the credit. He was one of the first to foresee its large needs and the wisdom of selecting a capa- cious house for it ; but he knew how important a good business management was to the fulfilment of its aims, and alw.-iys kept it on a solid pecuniary basis. Besides this, he was very active in obtaining those large subscriptions which the Leaguers indi- vidually raised for various purposes, such as publi- cation and recruiting. He became treasurer of each of the important committees and kept all their accounts, besides ihosi; of the League itself. .Some i-ative. After he had lieen in business a while, he lost, by the failure of the old Philadelphia Loan Company, his savings for two year5, which he had deposited with them ; and he resolved that if ever he had the chance he would show how a trust company should be man- aged so as to avoid accidents of this sort. He had not been in this country many days, after returning from Europe, before he was elected President of the Commercial National Bank, having previously been a Director of the Philadelphia Bank, as hi- father had been before him, and also of the Girard Bank. Thb result was in part brought about throuijh Mr. Caleb Cope and Thomas Robbins. Mr. Cope and the late Joseph Harrison further- more became convinced that be was the right per- son to take the leadership of the Academy of Fine Arts. He had been a Direttor for a number of years, and, finally, when Mr. Cope resigned the presidency, Mr. Claghom was chosen to succeed him. He made only one condition, on Mr. Harri- son's offering him this honor. He said : " If I take the place you must give me pecuniary support." "To what extent?" asked his friend. "Well," was the answer, " I expect you to subscribe $10,000." Sir. Harrison thought this rather a heavy demand, but finally fell in with it. Mr. Cl.Tghom then lent all his influence to the work, and chiefly by his exe.'tions there were obtained twenty-three subscripiions of Sio.ooo each and seven of §5,000 each, \iithin six weeks, making a total of 5265,000. There are not many men who have the tact or can command the confidence to accomplbh a feat like this. In this way the fund was raised which brought the Academy into its present effective and commodious building. Mr. Claghom is a connoisseur of art, and is ac- credited with possessing the finest collection of en- g"«ng5, etchings, prints and paintings in Phila- delphia. His collection of engrarings alone n.imbeis fifty thousand. The love of art was boni in him, and perhaps descended from his uncle, John Crumby, a partner in the firm of Crumby & Draper, once the largest importing house in New York. Meeting with reverses, .Mr. Crumby, who had always been a patron of anisis, dealt in pic- tures during the last part of his life, and his nephew began by making a collection of paintings. More than thirty years ago he attended the first meeting of the School of Design f.,r Women. .Subse- quently he became a Director and then Tre.isurer of that institution, and finally he was made Presi- dent. Stout, hearty, white-haired, but active and keen in his enjoyment of all the good things of life, Mr. Qaghom retains at sixty five all the zest of a young man, and nothing gives him more pleasure than to see those around him thoroughly happy, and to add to their ideal pleasures, as well as to their material comforts. He is a striking example of how, in our .American society, faithful devotion to business may be combined with sincere cultiva- tion of the beautiful, generous encouragement of art and whole-souled patriotism, by simply carry- ing out the promptings of a large, frank and un- affected manhood. <5^^35 AMPBELL, HON. JAMES, a member of the Board of City Trusts, was bom in Philadelphia, September 1st, 1812. His father was engaged in the wood trade, and owned a wood-yard on the banks of the Delaware river. He was thrifty and prosperous, and in such circnmslances as to well afford his son James a thorough course of study in the private schools of the city. When he had completed his studies at such institutions, the young man entered the law office of Edward D. Ingram, Es^., and engaged in the study of the law. His preparation fur the bar was thorough and com- plete, and in 1834 he was admitted to practise. The first office ever held by Mr. Campbell was that of Director of the Public Schools of Soiaih- wark, being afterwards chosen a member of the Board of Mucation from the District of Sonth- wark, and he offered in that body the resolution which established the Girls' Normal School of Philadelphia. He was afterwards a Commissioner of the District of Southwark, a pw^tion he filled for a number of years. During all this time he was devoting him^lf to the practice of his profes- >ion, and he attracted such attention as a lawver, that in 1841 Governor David Porter selected him as a proper person for the position of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia county, an.l tendered him the appointment .Mr. Camp- bell accepted and held the office for ten years. In 1851, the office of judge haring, meanwhile, be- come elective under the Constitutional amendment of 1850, Judge Campbell was the candidate of the MEN OF AMKRICA. licmocratic party for re election. It was just at the |u-rioil when the Know-Nolhing feeling was rife; the Native American party was at its zenith, and Judge Campbell was defeated by Judge Rich- ard Coulter, the Native American candidate. After his defeat Judge Campbell was tendered, by Governor William Bigler, the office of Attorney- General of the State. He accepted and held the position until March 4th, 1S53, when he was ap- pointed by President Pierce to be Postmaster- General of the United States. He accepted this portfolio in President Pierce's Cabinet, and re- mained there during the four years of Mr. Pierce's term, at the close of which he returned to Phila- delphia, and resumed the practice of his profession. In 1862 Judge Campbell was a candidate for United States Senator, but was defeated by Hon. Charles R. Buckalew, the vote in caucus being Iwcnly-scven for Buckalew to twenty-three for Campbell. In the Constitutional Convention of 1S73 he wMs tendered a seat but declined the honor, preferring to continue the retired mode of life which he had some time before adopted, and leave active matters of State and politics to younger men. He is now a member of the Board of City Tru.sts, JefTerson Medical Col'ege, Beneficial Sav- ing Fund, St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, and other institutions. He has been a Delegate to many of the Slate and National Conventions of the Demo- cratic party, of which organization he has always been an honored member, and his name stands high on the roll of honorary chieftains of Democ- racy. DQX TUART, GEORGE HAY, a Director of "^^ the Board of City Trusts, w^as born at Rosehall, County Down, Ireland, April 2d, 1S16. His parents were natives of that part of Ireland, and were connected with the Associate Presbyterian Church, of which Rev. George Hay was pastor, after whom Mr. Stuart was named. His religious training wns commenced when he was a child, scarcely able to lisp the Lord's prayer, and he grew to manhood a Christian in spirit and in practice. His school- days in his native land were ended at the age of fifteen years, and he (hen came to America, arriv- ing in Philadelphia, Se| tember Isl, 1831, where he made his home, connecting himself with the First Rffi.rmed Prcsb\leri:in Church, of which the late Rev. Dr. S. H. Wylic was then the pastor. Nearly four years later, April 24th, 1S35, Mr. Stuart made a profession of faith and joined the church, soon becoming not only one of the most prominent mem- bers of his own church, but al.so one of the nu.st active churchmen and Christian workers in the country. He was ordained a Ruling Elilcr, Au- gust 7th, 1842, and holds that office still. On the subject of Mr. Stuart's activity and worth as a churchman, it is recorded of him in a Imok by A. S. Billingsley, published 1872, enliiled, " From the Flag to the Cross," in a sketch by his pastor. Rev. T. W. J. Wylic, D. D., of Philadelphi.n, that he " has always been one of the most active, liberal and useful members of the congregation," and to his munificent contributions as well as his untiring personal labors, much of its prosperity has been owing. The handsome and commodious edifice occupied by the congregation, and which h.ns his- toric fame as the place of meeting of the Presby- terian National Convention in 1S67, was erected principally by his exertions and received his gener- ous aid. Mr. Stuart has been an early and warm supporter of the Foreign Missionary cause, and for many years acted as Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. The Missionary Refuge at Landour, Northern India, was his gift to the Saharunpur Mission, to all of whose operations he has made large donations. He was also for many years Treasurer of the Theological Seminary of the Re- formed Presbyterian Church, which received from hiin valuable aid. He was early interested in the Sabbath-school cause. Shortly after his arrival in this country he became connected, as a teacher, with the Sabbath-school of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and after a few years was elected its Superintendent, an office which he filled for about twenty-five years with the greatest success, the number of teachers and pupils in the parent school, and two white and one col- ored mission schools connected with the congrega- tion, amounting at one time to nearly a thousand. Mr. Stuart's efforts to do good have not, how- ever, been restricted to one denomination. Wher- ever good was to be done, he has been ready to give all the aid in his power. The Delegation of the Irish Presbyterian Church, sent to this country during the years of famine in that land, owed to his counsel, co-operation and contributions much of its success. The Rev. Dr. Duff visited America by his invitation, and the extensive tour he made, aad the large amount of money he received for the college in Calcutt.i, was, in a great measure, the result of Mr. Stuart's arrangements. Other depu- tations from the Presbyterian Churches of Ireland and Scotland were greatly indebted to him. The •Charles Lawrence. Charles F. Iseminger. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. Presbyterian National Conveniion, held in Phila- delphia, November, 1867, which did so much to effect the reunion of the Old and New School Churches, was suggested by him, and he was called by acclamation to act as its President. He has been associated with the Young Men's Christian Association since its organization, anion Society, and is still a Director. He is prominently connected with various societies, whose objects are the promulgation of religious works. He is Vice- President of the American Sunday-School Union ; Vice-President of the American Bible Society in MEN OK AMERICA. New York; Vice-President of the American Tract Society; Vice-PresiJenl of ihc National Temper- ance Society, of which the late IIuii. William E. Dodge was President; Vice-President of the Evan- gelical Alliance of the United States, and President of the Philadelphia branch. He is also the oldest living Director of the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, which is the oldest company of its kind but one in the country, and he is one of the original founders of the Equitable Life As- surance Society. In the prosecution of his philanthropic work Mr. Stuart gathered many relics of historic value which he has carefully preserved, among others being autogiaph letters from every prominent official from President Lincoln down. He wns Chairman of the committee which, besides himself, was com- posed of Adolph E. Borie, William C. Kent, E. C. Knight, Davis Pearson, George W'himey and James Graham, the men who, in January, 1S65, raised $44,000, purchased a furnished house on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and presented it to Geneml Grant. The General's autograph letter, acknowl- edging this gift, is one of the treasures preserved in Mr. Stuart's scrap-book. On the Illh of May, 1837, Mr. Stuart was mar- ried to Miss Martha K. Dcnison, of Philadelphia. They have had nine children, five of whom are still living. f OMEGVS, BENJAMIN B., a member of the Board of Directors of City Trusts, was born in Dover, Dcl.aware, May 9th, 1S19, where the first ten years of his life were spent. The next seven or eight years were passed on his father's farm, going every day two miles to the public school, ex- cept when doing such work on the farm as a lad of his age could do. When between seventeen and eighteen years of age he went to Philadelphia, and found employment in the house of O'Brien, Dun- bar & Co., where he worked three years. Shortly after this he was employed by the house of Rock- hill & Co., at that time one of the oldest and best of the Market street dry-goods houses. Here his real business education was acquired. For about six years he was the confidential bookkeeper of this house, holding their power of attorney to sign checks in the banks where their accounts were kept. He also travelled extensively in the West for the house, collecting money and securing debts. Prom- ises of an interest in a firm recently est.iblished induced him to leave Rockhill & Co., but not being pleased with his new position, he sought and ob- tained a situation in the Philadelphia Bank. On the nth of May, 1848, he entered the bank as as- sistant to the gener.il bookkeeper and general clerk, at that time the lowest position in the'bank except the janitor. A week later his principal died, and the changes which occurred in consequence ])ut Mr. Comegys into the cashier's room as the cash- ier's clerk, a position he held for more than three years, and gave him advantages through which he prepared himself for the position of Cashier, which became vacant August 28lh, 1851, when Mr. Comegys was elected Cashier of the bank. This place he held until 1867, when he was made Vice- President, holding the office of Cashier at the same time until 1S71, when Dr. Chatham was elected Cashier of the bank, and Mr. Comegys continued as Vice-President. In January, 1879, Mr. Come- gys was elected President of the bank, a pobilion which he now holds. Mr. Comeg)S h.is been interested in church work, having been a Sunday-school Superintendent and an Elder in the Clinton street Presbyterian church, and in the W'alnut street Presbyterian church. For the last ten ye.irs he has been an ac- tive Manager of the House of Refuge, having been appointed to represent the city by Mayor Sloklcy. To this work he has given much time and thought, and is still a member of th.it board. He has been a Manager of the American Sunday-school Union for more than twenty-five years; a Director of the Philadelphia Trust Safe Deposit and Insurance Company since its foundation; a Trustee of the Jefferson Medical College, and a Manager of the Western Saving Fund for several years. In Jan- uary, 18S2, he was elected by the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas a Director of the City Trusts, and was Chairman of the Infirmary Com- mittee and a member of the Committees on Girard Estate within the city. Household of Girard Col- lege, Instruction and Library of Girard College, and Property and Ailminislration of Wills' Hos- pital. ^i :k[TOLLIS, CHARLES H. T., a member of ^«> Cork, Ireland, February 4th, 1S38, and is descended from a prominent family, which numbers among its members two of the leading barristers at the Irish bar and one of the most eminent surgeons in the United Kingdom. His father, a man of sujierior eiluca- tion, brought Charles to America when he was a child, but the rest of the family perished in the un- fortunate sieamer " City of Glasgow." They THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 123 settled in Philadelphia, and here Charles secured a liberal education. His object was to become a lawyer, but on leaving school he found that he had to depend on his own exertions, and he supported himself by his pen, while studying the law in the office of the Hon. John M. Read, who was after- wards one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. On February 4th, 1859, he was admitted to the bar and practised his profession until the breaking out of the rebellion, when he enlisted as Sergeant-Major in the Eighteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Wil- liam D. Lewis, commanding. He was on duty in Baltimore for three months, at the end of which time he received authority from the Secretary of War to recruit a company for special duty in the Valley of the Shenandoah. This he did and was commissioned its captain, the company being known as Zouaves. In October, l85i, he joined General Banks at Downestown, Marjdand. From that time his military career was one of marked brilliancy and his promotion was rapid. In the latter part of May, 1862, he with his command, by a series of skilful and daring manoeuvres, protected the critical retreat of General Banks from Strasburg. This was effected with such ability as 10 call forth a formal recognition of this important service from the General, in which he said the checking of a whole regiment by one company seemed incredible to one not an eye-witness of the event, and he con- sidered it a great honor to have selected Captain CoUis for the position which he defended so ably, and he only regretted that the company had not been a regiment. At the solicitation of General Banks, the Secretary of War and Governor Curlin instructed Captain Collis to increase his command to a regiment, which he did within a few weeks, and again joined the army of the Potomac as the commander of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, well known as Collis' Zouaves. Their first engagement was at Fredericksburg, where they distinguished themselves by coming to the aid of the Pennsylvania Reserves, who were sorely pressed, and thereby gaining the approval of General Stoneman (the General com- manding), who said that they " charged most nobly under a very galling fire." At the desperate con- test at Chancellorsville, May, 1S63, the One Hun- dred and Fourteenth participated in the very hottest of the struggle, as w^as only too well indicated by the loss of over three hundred men in killed, wounded and missing, in the engagement. For his gallant conduct here the field officers of the brigade united in requesting his appointment to the command of the brigade. This promotion was de- layed by an unfortunate personal controversy, and later by a severe attack of typhoid fever, which latter kept him absent from the battle of Gettys- burg. He rejoined his command in August, 1863, and was at once assigned by General Birney to the command of a Pennsylvania brigade, consisting of the Fifty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, One Hundred and Fifth, One Hundred and Fourteenth, and One Hundred and Fortieth Regiments, which troops he commanded in all the subsequent engagements, in- cluding "Auburn," " Locust Grove," " Mine Run," " Kelly's Ford " and " Rappahannock." At the battle of "Auburn," his brigade was attacked while on the march by Stuart's cavalry brigade, but the rebel horsemen were dispersed by a skilful dis- position and intrepid charge of the Pennsylvanians, and the road was secured for the rest of the army, hastening from Culpeper to Centreville. Upon the reorganization of the army in 1864, preparatory to Grant's campaign against Richmond, the One Hun- dred and Fourteenth Regiment was selected by General Meade for special duty at his headquarters, Colonel Collis being left in command of his brigade in General Birney's division. At this time Gen- erals Birney, French and Meade united in recom- mending the Colonel's promotion, as the brigade deserved a general officer to command it. There were no vacancies in the list of general officers, and he received in reply to these recommendations only the brevet rank of Brigadier-General, but was assigned to duty as a general officer, being placed in command of an independent brigade, which was held for special service at the commanding gen- eral's headquarters. This command consisted of five regiments of infantry and cavalry, and with it General Collis participated in the campaign from the Rappahannock to Petersburg, and rendered particular service in repulsing the attack made by Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry upon the headquarters of Generals Cirant and Meade. At the battle of Petersburg the Ninth Corps having been driven back from the line of works they had so gallantly captured on the morning of April 2d, 1865, he came to their relief, and in person leading the charge of the Sixty-eighth and One Hundred and Fourteenth Pennsylvania and Sixty-first Massachu- setts regiments, succeeded in retaking the lost ground, though at a terrible loss of life. For his conduct on this occasion he was brevetted Major- General, at the special request of Lieutenant-Gen- eral Grant. In June, 1S65, his regiment returned home and wns mustered out of the service. General Collis immediately resumed the practice of the law, bestowing upon it the same care and zeal which had distinguished his military career, 124 MI-.N OK AMKRICA. and he rapidly advanced in the estimation of the public and the other members of the bar. He early recognized it as the duty of every citizen to take a decided position in politics, and he has con- sistently adhered to that plan. His sympathies have always been with the principles of the Repub- lican parly. Even before attaining his majority he was an earnest worker in politics, and after the w..r he aided materially in organizing his party and carrying the Slate for his adopted principles. This conibiuation of legal and political t.ilent led to his selection by the Hon. F. Carroll I5revv.ster in lS66, as Assistant City Solicitor, and after the campaign of 1868, he was recommended by the bench and bar of Philadelphia as United States District Attor- ney, and later he was tendered the position of At- torney-General of Pennsylvania, which, however, he declined. In 1S71, after an animated campaign, he was elected City Solicitor by a majority of 10,000 votes. In 1869 Mr. CoUis was appointed a niemlier of the Board of City Trusts, and he hi.s occupied a prominent place in that body ever since. One of his literary eflforts and the one for which the public are greatly indebteame |il.ice. Mr. riercc is .ist.\unch Keijublican, and has held various offices under the city government of Bris- tol. He h;:s been Assessor and Fire Warden of that Ixjrou^h, and a meml)cr of its Council. Mr. Pierce has pa-sed ail the chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is married and has five children living. He resides at Uristol. er of the Commercial Exchange. Mr. Keen is a Republican. fROTHINGHAM, THEODORE, a mem- ber of the Board of Port Wardens, was born in Boston, Ma-sachusclts, March 22d, 1848, and is of American parentage. He was educated in the public schools, and finally graduated from " Harvard." On leaving college he became a ship broker and commission merchant, at which he has remained ever since. Mr. Frothingham is a strong adherent to Republican jirinciples. lie is a member of the Episc.ipal Church, and is unmarried. ^§^ [USSELI,, GEORGE, a member of the Board of Port Wardens, was born in Kent county, England, September 27th, 1810, his parents beinj of that country. He received the greater part of his edu- cati(m in England, coming to the United Stales with his parents when he was eighteen years of age, where he finished his schooldays. Mr. Russell began to carve a fortune for himself as an apprentice in the lumber-yard of Lindsay & Nicholson, situated on Chestnut, between Ninth and Tenth streets. He was employed there during 1829, 1S30, and l8jl. In 1839 he became a mem- l)cr of the firm of Harberl, Russell & Co., in which he still continues. Mr. Russell is a Republican, '''^ but never held any office except that of a mcmlier of the Board of Port Wardens. He is a member of the Methoaist Epi-copal Church, is married, and has two children living. s'°/it^^ARTSlUE,AMOS, a member of the Board of Port Wardens from Chester, was txirii in Lancashire, England, October 23d, 1S29, and i^ the son of Benjamin Uart- side. His parents removed to the United Stales in 1831. He was educated in the primary branches in the common schools, and graduated fiom the old Gemiantown Academy. At the age of eighteen yeais he entered his father's factory at Cardington, Delaware county, where he learned the trade of woollen weaving, becoming practically and thoroughly acquainted with the business in all its delai s. When his father removed to Chester he accompanied him and continued in his employment until 1857, when a partnership was formcil, anecame a clerjt in the establishment of Julius & Anderson, ship chandlers, at Del.i- ware avenue and Lombard street. He remained with this firm three years, when he became the book-keeper in the house of R. F. Maull & Co., at 22 and 24 South Delaware avenue. Mr. Cotton continued with this firm three years, when on the death of Mr. Maull, he bought his interest, the business continuing under the old name for thirteen THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 131 months. At the end of this time Bartram Ashmead was admitted into the firm, and the name was changed to Cotton & Ashmead, which is still doing business. Mr. Cotton is Master of William C. Hamilton Lodge, No. 500, F. & A. M., and Past Officer of Kensington Lodge, No. 11, L O. of O. F. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Cotton is a mem- ber of the Methodist Church. On M.iy 5th, 1S70, he was married to Erann C. Reynolds, of Phd.idel- phia, and is the father of one child, a daughter. 'UCKER, VVILLL-\M R., a member of the Board of Port Wnrilens, was born in Philadelphia, June 9th, 1S45. He was educated in the public schools, graduatin'^ from the Central High School. On finish- ing his school-days he bec.ime a clerk in the shipping commission house of John R. Penn.sc, who was agent for a line of Liverpool packets. Mr. Tucker succeeded to the business of thi , house and has conducted it with success. In politics Mr. Tucker is a Republican. He was appointed a member of the Board of Port Vv'ardens in 1S73, and with the exception of one term has held a seat in that body ever since. He is at present Chairman of the Navigation Committee. Mr. Tucker was a member of the Harbor Commit- tee of the Commercial E.xchange. He has fre- quently been placed on committees to visit Wash- ington and appear before the Congressional Com- mittee of Commerce in the interest of the improve- ment of the Delaware and .Schuylkill rivers. Mr. Tucker takes great interest in boating. He is the coxswain of the Undine Barge Club, and an old and prominent niemlieiof the Schuylkill Navy. He took an imporiant part in the organizaiion of the National .Association of Oarsmen. Mr. Tucker has largely contributed to the boating literature, his articles appearing in Turf, FielU, and Wilkes' Spirit, the London Field and many other sporting pub- lications. He is married, and is the father of one child. [JOWELL, WILLIAM. Jr., a member of the Board of Port Wardens, was born in Lower Merion, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, March 29th, 184S. His ancestors were members of the Society of Friends. At an early age he came to Philadelphia, where he attended different private schools and secured a liberal education. On iiivine up his studies he entered the counting-room of a grain commission house as a clerk, and remained there until he went into business as a grain broker. Mr. Howell enlisted for three months in the Keystone battery during tlie rebellion. He is a Republican. He is a prominent member of the Maritime Exchange. He is an adherent to the Presbyterian Church, is married and has two chil- dren. INSMORE, THOMAS, a member of the Board of Port Wardens, is of American ancestry, and was born in Milford, Dela- ware, March 23d, 1844. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia and afterwards became a mariner. He is at present a ship chandler, being one of the firm of Cain & Winsmore, whose place of business is at No. 826 Swanson street. Mr. Winsmore is a mem- ber of the Masonic Order, being a Past Master in his Lodge. He is also a n ember of the Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. When the rebellion broke out in 1861, he enlisted in the navy, and served in the Trans- port Service uniil 1S65. Mr. Winsmore is a Democrat. He was elected -School Director in the Second Ward in 1S77, 3"<1 held that position until 1881. In 1882 he was aji- pointed by City Councils a member of the Board of Port Wardens for a term of two years. Mr. Winsmore is married, and has one child. cGINLEY, CHARLES, a member of the Board of Port Wardens, was born in Philadelphi.i, June 6th, 1S40. He re- ceived his education in the public schools of the city, graduating from the Zane Street Grammar School in 1853. In he entered the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, in a minor capa- city, and was regularly promoted, uniil he became Freight Agent at their Willow street wharf, a position he still holds. He was made a member of the Board of Port Wardens in June, 1S75, and h.as continued in that board ever since. In August, 1S62, Mr. McGinley enlisted as a private in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry (Anderson Troop). He was commissioned First Lieutenant of the Thirty-second L'niled States Cavalr)' in March, 1864, and was mustered out of the service in September, 1S65, taking with him the title of brevet major. 132 MEN OK AMERICA. During the Hi-Centennial celebration in October, 1SS2, Mr. MeOinlcy took antictive part in the pro- ceedings, and in the Landing ceremonies was the Captain commanding the ship " Welcome." In religion he is a Lutheran, He was married in November, 1S64, and has two chiUlien. 'LWELL, JOSEril .S., a member of the Board of Port Wardens, was born in Bath, Maine, April 2jd, 1S28. He is of American descent, his ancestors be- ing traced back to the Pilgrims. Jo- seph was educated in the schools of Brooklyn, New York. At the age of twelve years he was placed on a vessel, and he followed a sea- faring life for twenty-six years. In 1S66 Mr. Elwell abandoned the sea and became one of the firm of Darrah & ElwcU, ship-chandlers, in which business he has ever since remained. He is a Di- rector of the Sun Insurance Company. Mr. Elwell is a Republican, and has never held any jjublic office except that of Port Warden. He is a member of the Masonic Order. He s married and has one child, a son, living. The family at- tend the Congregationalist Church. 5»1 ^^'^* born in Philadelphia, M.ay 9th, 1828, i^j^«T he being the eldest son of William Cramp, (weJ the progenitor of the famous shipbuilding firm bearing that name. Young Cramp received his finishing education — outside the art of marine construction — in the Central High School, which at that time was under the alile principalship of Alexander Dallas Bache, who added to his fame by his connection with the United States Coast Survey. The government had made a large appro; priation for testing a system of magnetic and mete- orological observations combined, and the arrange- ments were placed under the direction of Professor Bache, who had five stations at as many different points. There was an observatory on the grounds of Girard College that was given to the care of Major Bache, and he desired the assistance of four High School scholars to take watches during the night and make observations. For this delicate ta.sk were selected George Davidson, now Professor Davidson, connected with the Coast Survey in .San Francisco; Chailes H. Cramp, James S. Lawson, now ill charge of the Coast Survey in Oregon Ter- ritory, and William Hunter, now dead. Reports of their observations were made to Washington, and the information then obtained is of great use at the present time, and the system thus inaugurated fur- nished the material on which the present .-tdmirable Signal Service liurcau had its foundation. After his graduation from the High School in 1845, young Cramp began the study of ship-building in the yard of his uncle, John Byerly. His father was also engaged in the business at thai time, but it was thought that llie young man would be more thorouglily taught away from the favoritism that might naturally aitach to a position in the paternal establishment. After remaining with his uncle for three years and receiving the rudiments of a sound education in the business he had adopted, Mr. Cramp entered his father's employ. He continued this course of practical instruction — a course which his younger brottiers pursued, and which gave them all a knowledge of ship-building that has gained for (he Cram|>s a worldwide reputation — until about 1859, when he was admitted to a partnership in his father's business. The history of that firm is actu- ally the story of his life, and so it has a fitting place here. That the Delaware river has earned the appella- tion of " The Clyde of America" is largely due to the enterprise and industry of the Cramps. The firm, which bears the name of the William Cramp & .Sons' Ship and Engine Building Company, was founded in 1S30, by William Cramp. Its honored head having passed away, Charles H. Cramp is now the president of the company, four younger brothers being associated with him in the family corporation. Their establishment is one of the wondrous insti- tutions of the city of Philadelphia. Two thousand men constitute its working force, and when this human hive is extraordinarily active, it buzzes with the industry of one thousand more. Besides the Erie Basin in New York harbor — the largest dry- dock in the world — the control of which they re- cently secured for fourteen years, at an annual rental of $53,000, the Cramps own two large ship-yards in Philadelphia. One at the foot of Palmer, and the other at the foot of Norris street, on the Delaware river, comprise their main works. At the first- named locality is to be found one of the largest basin docks in the Uniteil Stales. Science and human patience have left nothing undone to make this .as complete as possible for the rcp.iiiing, recon- struction ar remodelling of whatever floats upon water bearing the name of craft, and comes seeking refreshment and rest within the ba.sin's embrace. The extreme lenglh of this basin is 462 feet, thereby accommodating a vessel 450 feet long on a draft of THE CITY GOVERNMENT. ^33 twenty feet on three feet blocks. It lias a widih of III feet and requires 4,200 piles. The Ueel block- ing is of wedged blocks arranged to haul under and fit a damaged or hogged keel. The ba^in has four centrifugal pumps, each capable of lifting 30,000 gallons of water per minute, or an aggregate pump- ing capacity per minute of 120,000 gallons. By these pumps it can be emptied of water in forty-five minutes. To build this basin and secure the land cost half a million dollars. The Norris street es- tablishment has a frontage on the Delaware of 750 feet, extending back to Beach street, 700 feet. Here all new work is done, such as the building of iron and wooden hulls of vessels, marine engines and boilers. The machine and boiler shops are on the largest scale; the tools and machinery of the most recent and approved pattern and of the greatest po.-sible power. It would be idle to repeat the many feats of naval architecture that have made the name of Cramp famous, but a few are deserving of special mention. When the Government Navy Yards were unable to respond to the demand made upon them during the war of the rebellion, Philadelphia's favorite ship- builders proved of invaluable aid. Besides build- ing the monitors "Yazoo" and "Tunxis," the double-end gun-boat " Wyalusing," and the 3,500 ton screw steamship " Chattanooga," they con- structed the steam frigate " New Ironsides," the first regular broadside iron-clad ever launched in the United States, and among the first ever engaged in action, and that distinguished itself before Forts Fisher, Wagner, Sumter, and Moultrie. To the Cramps also belongs the credit of having built the only passenger steamships plying between Europe and America that fly the American flag. The history of the American .Steamship Company is well known. Philadelphia merchants, aided by the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company, gave practic:>l force to the idea in 1870, and the construction of four speedy and handsome vessels was intrusted to the Cramps. Before the " Pennsylvania," " Ohio," " Indiana," and " Illinois" were completed, the price of Amer- ican iron had risen thirty per cent., but there was no suggestion of default, and the ships were deliv- ered on time and in thorough accord with the terms of the contract. Their subsequent records are mat- ters of public notoriety. They have carried nearly 100,000 passengers without losing one, unless by an accidental or intentional fall into the sea ; they have made rapid time, gained a name for possessing every comfort that can attach to an ocean voyage, and have in every way demonstr.ated their thorough sea-going qualities. Another bright feather in the Cramp plume was the favors bestowed on the firm by the Russian government. War lj|reatened, and the Admiralty of the Czar looked about for fast and formidable cruise. s. The Cramps had just completed two ves- sels, the "State of California" and the "Colum- bus," for the merchant marine of this country, and the agent of the Russian government, Mr. Wharton Barker, in connection with Captain Semetchskm, of the Russian Navy, advised their purchase. Terms were made, and the ships were recon- structed to suit the new purpose for which they were intended, and rechristened the "Europe" and the "Asia." They had a remarkable spread of canvas, the former showing 13,390 square feet, and the latter a sail area of 12,902 square feet. Coupled with this were a light draft of water, natu- rally high speed, and a fuel capacity of thirty days ; this latter peculiarity giving them an obvious ad- vantage over the English cruisers, the fastest of which are only capable of carrying coal for six days' consumption. How well the Russian government was satisfied with their purchases is best shown by the fact that they had another vessel, the "Africa," reconstructed, and then had built anew the famous " Zabiaca," which won the admiration of the Mus- covite navy by her graceful speed of fifteen and a half knots an hour. The firm's more recent triumphs include the building of the "Mariposa" and "Alameda," sister ships, for Claus Spreckles, the sugar king, intended to run with passengers between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, and which will have one hundred per cent, more power than even the American Line vessels; the reconstruction of the United States iron-clad " Terror," for which the government made an appropriation of §250,000, and the building for Jay Gould, at a cost of S250,- ooo, of the ".\talanta," which will be the largest and best appointed and finished steam yacht that has ever been designed for ocean navigation. The order for this last-named marvel was given by the New York millionnaire without any solicitation on the part of the Messrs. Cramp. In all, the film has built two hundred and forty-eight vessels. Probably the greatest credit, however, that is due William Cramp & Sons they have earned by an in- novation that has entirely revolutionized the ship- building of America. In 1870 they first introduced and perfected the construction of compound en- gines. Only one firm in England, John Elder & Son, of Glasgow, the builders of the "Alaska" and "Arizona," had adopted the new system. They were the greatest promoters of the compound engine in the world, and persevered in spite of the oppo- sition of the whole ship-building interest. The 134 MEN Ot AMERICA. Cramps met also with violent Of>position, but they stubbornly persisted thai they were right, ami how well they understood their business is shown to-day, when compound cnjjinc-i, used for marine purposes, have reduced the consumption of coal one-half. Such, in brief, is the tale told by the progress of the company o( which Charles H. Cramp is Presi- dent. Mr. Cramp's career ns a public official began when he was twenty one years of age, by his elec- tion as a School Director of the Eighteenth Ward. He filled this position for some years, and was then sent to the Common Council. Charles B. Tn-go was President of that body, and Mr. Cramp had amon^ his colleagues John Cassin, the naturalist; William S. Siokley, afterwards Mayor; William Loughlin, now of the Board of Revision of Taxes; William P. Hiicker, and Thomas Potter, the oil- cloth manufacturer. The breaking out of the war gave the s'lip-building firm such an enormous busi- ness to atten I tu, that Mr. Cramp could not do justice to his councilm inic duties, and he did not serve a second term. He was elected a member of the Board of Port Wardens six years ago, and has been re-elected each successive year. Mr. Cramp was a Manager of the Franklin In- stitute, and is now a Director of the Union League. He is married and has six sons. He resides at Eighteenth and Spring Garden streets. He is noted among those who know him best, for his keen powers of observation, his strict probity, and the reliance that can be pl.aced upon his slightest word. 'TEVENSON, EDW.VRD knight, a member of the Board of Port Wardens, was born in Philadelphia, on May 3d, 1841. He is of English anceslry, and is the son of James H. and Martha U. Stevenson. H.aving received a first-class business education in the schools of Philailelphia, on December 5th, 1859, he entered the counting- house of E. C. Knight & Co., sugar refiners, for the purpose of learning the business. He held the position of clerk, and being of a studious di>;]iosi- tion, and having a liking for mercantile pursuits, he was not long in acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business. His business capacity soon drew the attention of the firm, and he was rapidly ad- vanced untd on January 1st, 1865, after a service of five years, he was taken in as a partner. Mr. Stevens >n remaincil one of the firm of E. C. Knight iV C'l. unid January 1st, iSSo, and was very successful. In the year just mentioned he be- came the senior member of the firm of Stevenson, Bcrnadou & Co., general shipping and commission merchants. On the death of Mr. Bernadou the firm was changed to Stevenson, Eernald & Co., who still continue to conduct the business, which has increased yearly. Their offices are now at No. 133 .South Front street. Mr. Stevenson is a Republican, and a member of the Union Le.aguc. He was first elected a Port Warden by the City Councils in M.ay, 1876, taking his seat in June, and served one term, or until M.ay, 1878. He was not a member of the Board during the year following, but in May, 1S79, he was re- elected, and has continued in the Board ever since. At the expiration of his present term, in May, 1883, he will have served six years in the Board of Port Wardens. Mr. Stevenson is a prominent member of nu- merous noted corpor.itions. He is a Director of the Penn National Bank, the Delaware Mutual Safety Insurance Company, the Philadelphia Sugar Refining Company, the Philadelphia Maritime Ex- change, and the Mercantile Beneficial Association. He is also a member of the Executive Council of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. He is married, and has five sons living. The family attend the Episco- pal Church, and reside on East Fisher's lane in the Twenty-second Ward. ^^IIXINGHAM, JONATHAN, Secretary of the Board of Port Wardens, was born in Solehury, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on September 6lh, 1S47, and is descended ^C,''. J from Quaker ancestry. His father, John "■ W. Gillingham, was the first conductor employed by the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and had charge of the first train lh.it 'eft their Front and Willow street depot. He after- wards became .Superintendent of the Second and Third Streets Railway Company, and was subse- quently for some years in charge of the passenger railways of Washington, D. C. He came to Phil- adelphia when nearly five years old, where he re- ceived a thorciugh education in the public schools, taking a three years' course in the Central High School. About six months after he had finished his school-days he- became a clerk in the North Pennsylvania Railroad freight department. Later on he became the book-keeper and salesman for William Overfield, slate-dealer, with whom he con- tinued for three years. He then accepted a position as agent for A. W. Lerch & Co., school-slate man- ufacturers, of Northampton county- In 1S71 he THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 135 was elected Secretary and Treasurer of ilie Karthaus Coal and Lumber Company, which position he held until 1875. In August, 1875, City Controller S. P. Hancock appointed him Auditor, in which capacity he served until July isl, 1S77. Mr. Gillin^hain is a strong Republican. On July 2d, 1877, he was made the Secretary of the Board of Port Wardens, and he has continued to fullil the duties of that office ever since. For three ye.nrs, 1874-75-76, Mr. Gillingham occupied the position of ,S cretaryof the Schuylkill Navy, and during 1876 he was a member and the Secretary of the International Regatta Committee. During 1874 and 1875 he was an occasional cor- respondent to the popular sporting paper. Forest and Stream, of New York, and in 1S76 he was the regular correspondent of that paper. Mr. Gilling- ham is a member of the Green Street Friends' Meeting. He was married on September 30th, 1875, to Nettie Smith. They have had three chil- dren, two of whom are now living. DAMS, HENRY RISLEY, Harbor Mas ter of the Port of Philadelphia, was born at Absecon, Atlantic county. New Jersey, March 19th, 1839. \Vhen he was eleven years of age his parents re- moved to Philadelphia, and Henry was sent to the Carroll Grammar School, where he re- ceived his education. At the age of fourteen he shipped on board a vessel and served in every branch nf s-eamanship from cook to master, remain- ing on the water until 1874. In 1852 he .settled in Philadelphia. He was made Deputy Harbor Master under Joseph W. Eullock, whom he succeeded on May 29th, 1879. Mr. Adams is a member of the I. O. O. F. ; Knights of Pythias; Red Men and B. U. of H. F. In political faith he is a Republican, and in re- ligion a ilelhodist. He was married, April, 1865, to Julia Tustin. They have seven children, all girls, the oldest being fifteen years of age. lUNDORE, FRANKLIN, was bom in Berks county, Pennsylvania, April 6th, 1 838, and is the son of Gabriel Dundore and Lydia Dewees. There are few fami- lies whose genealogy has been so care- fully traced as that of which Mr. Dun- dore is a prominent member, and since the labors of Nathan Dundore, an older brother, enable the biographer to be particular in his statements, an abstract of the family history is added hereto. Na- than Dundore reduced his searches and researches into the family histoi-y to tangible shape, and the result is a book, published in January, 1881, giving the origin and growth of the family from the birth of his ancestor, Jacob Dundore, July 25ih, 1720, to the present period. Jacob may have been born either in Alsace or Lorraine, the birth-place bting the only unsettled point in the history; but his educa- tion was unmistakably German, and he came to America about the year 1745 and settled in Tulpe- hocken township, Beiks county, Pennsylvania. He lived forty-four years after settling in Berks county, and eight children, five sons and three daughters, were his ofispring. His wife, Anna Maria Brecht (Bright), survived him for about five years. The third was a son, John Dundore, who became a farmer in Bern township, Berks county, and married Catharine Geiss. Their eldest son was John Jacob Dundore, who was bom August 3i5t, 1776, and married Margaretta Werheim. They had three children, two daughters and one son, Gabriel, born December 20th, 1799, the father of the subject of this sketch. Franklin was the third son of Gabriel's second wife, and in his early youth was obliged to avail himstlf of. the limited advantages of a country school in Bern Church, attending the public schools and Rev. \V. A. Good's Academy in Reading later, and graduating in the Iron City Commercial College of Pittsburgh in 1858. His first employ- ment was an apprenticeship at tinsmithiiig, and in 1856=7 he was a dry-goods clerk in Dyersville, Dubuque county, Iowa. After serving as cashier with J. L. Stichter and Bard & Reber, hardware merchants in Reading, Pennsylvania, in i860 he took a position with Seyfert, McManus & Co., iron men in that city, and in 1862 became a partner in the firm of McHose, Eckert & Co., rolling-mill op- erators. The mills were transferred to the West Reading Iron Company, and Mr. Dundore acted as Treasurer, resigning in 1865 to go into the iron commission business in Philadelphia. Thus he was employed until the panic of 1873, which interrupted the iron business for such a long time that he en- tered into the business of hanker and broker in 1877 at 39 South Third street, which he still continues at No. 33 South Third street. Mr. Dundore is a Republican, and had only been a resident of Philadelphia a few years before he became we.l known and highly respected. He was a member of the Twelfth Section School Board, and in February, 1S76, was elected to the s- 136 MEN OF AMERICA. Select Council from tlie Twelfth Ward, ser\'iiig from January, 1S77, until April, 1S80. While in the Council he was one of the most active and pro- gressive members, and did good service for the city as Chairman of the Commitlee on Improvement of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. This com- mittee he had changeU from a special to a standing committee, and it became and still is the Com- mittee on Commerce and Navigation, and under Mr. Dundore's direction was very successful in securing national legislation making appropriation for the improvement of our rivers and harljor. In 1878 he was appointed by the City Councils to convey resolutions tendering the hospitalities of the city to General U. S. Grant, who was then sojourning in Europe ; in pursuance of which Mr. Dundore de- parted on his mission July 8th, 1 878, sailing for Antwerp and proceeding to Paris, where he formally presented the resolutions to General Grant. Re- turning home Mr. Dundore served on the Recep- tion Committee which received General Grant in March, 1879. Upon his retirement from the Coun- cil he was presented with a testimonial by resolu- tion for his services in behalf of the commercial interests of the city, in the shape of a beautifully engrossed set of resolutions which bears the sijjna- tures of Mayor W. S. Stokley, George A. Smith, President of the Select Council, Joseph L. Caven, President of the Conimim Council, and of officials of every railroad corporation and commercial organization in the city. lie also sjrved on Finance. Water and Fire Department, Police and Survey Committees. Af.er his retirement from the Select Council Mr. Dundore was elected a Trustee of the city ice boats for three years, and in the Bi- Centenni.il celebration was appointed by Mayor King on the Finance Committee and acted as an aid to Commodore Ferguson, who managed the river displ.ny on Landing D.iy. Mr. Dundore was one of the original Directors of the Sunbury & Lewistnwn Railroad, and also one of the projectors of several railroad enterprises in Kansas which are now in successful operation. He was also one of the originators and is now a Director of the Tradesmen's National Bank of Conshohocken. During the reliellion he served in the Twentieth Regiment, P. V. M. He is well known in Masonic circles, l>eing a member of Chandler Locr of Olympian Senate, No. 15, Order of .Sparta; the Union League, Stylus and "Welcome" Clubs, and of the last-named cKib is President. On October 8th, 1861, Mr. Dundore married Miss Mary J. Rick, daughter of the late Charles Rick, of Reading. They have three children — Charles Rick Dundore, Ellen Lydia, and Franklin, Jr.; and their home surroundings at No. 1424 Girard avenue are bright, happy and comfortable. T^'^ EIDY, PIHLIP, M. D., Port Physician, was born in the city of Philadelphia, De- ^ cember 29th, 1838. His father, Philip O'^ Leidy, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1791, and his mother, Christiana Talianna, whose maiden name was Mellick, was born in the city of Philadelphia, 1797. On both sides the family is of Huguenot and Palatinate ancestry. He was educated at the Philadelphia Central High School and by private instructors. He commenced the stuily of medicine in the office of his brother. Dr. Joseph Leidy, the renowned anatomist and palaiontologist, and grad- uated from the University of Pennsylvania, 1 859. He was elected one of the resident physicians of the Philadelphia Hospital, and ser\'ed from 1S59 to 1861. In the early part of 1861 he entered the United States army, and after the battle of Balls Bluflf, Vir- ginia, established the fir>t field general hospital of the war, ne.ir Poolsville, Maryland, and in the early part of 1S62 organized the first general hos- pital in the Shcnando.ih Valley, Virginia, at Bolivar Heights; was subsequenfly Post-Surgeon at Win- che>ler, Virginia, and Medical Inspector of the Department of the Shenandoah, on the staff of General Phil Sheridan. Upon the reorganization of the Medical Department of the United States army in the latter [lart of 1S62, by Surgeon-Gen- eral Lelterman.he was detailed as one of the three chief surgical operators of the Sixth Army Corjis, commanded by General Sedgwick, which (wsition he occupied uninterruptedly till the close of the war, 1S65, in connection with his other executive and professional duties. His original command was the One Hundred and Sixth Pennsylvania regiment. He was transferred to the One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania regiment, and was immediately placed upon detached service. At the end of the war he settled in Philadelphia, and at once engaged in the active pr.actice of his profes- sion. He is a meml)cr and was formerly President of the Medico-Chirurgical .Society of Philadelphia; of the Northern Medical Society of Philadelphii ; Philadelphia County Medical Society; Pennsylva- nia State Medical Society; of the .\merican Medi- William B, Irvine. William B. Bement. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. »37 cal Association; and is also a member of the Alumni Association of the University of Pennsyl- vania. He is the author of various reports to the medical and surgical department of the United States army; papers read before medical societies, and contributions to medical and surgical periodi- cals. He was United States examining surgeon for four years, 1S66-1870, stationed at Philadelphia. In the year 1874 he became connected with the Philadelphia Board of Health, as one of its ex- ecutive officers, by his appointment as Port Physi- cian for the City and Port of Philadelphia, by Gov- ernor Hartranft, which position he occupied two consecutive terms under the Governor's administra- 18 tion; and was reappointed by Governor Hoyt, 1879. He is aUo one of the consulting surgeons, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Phila- delphia Home for Incurables, and one of the con- sulting surgeons to the Home for I. O. O. F., of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Sectional Edu- cational Board of Philadelphia. In 187S he made an extended tour of Europe, visiting professionally the principal hospitals of England, France and Germany, etc., etc. Dr. I.eidy was married, February I5lh, 1865, in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, to Nellie Mauiy, daughter of R. I. W. Folk, Esq., of Winchester, Virginia. 138 MEN OF AMERICA. THE FIRE CDMMISSIDNERS. JAUDENSLAGER, JACOB, President of the Board of Fire Com^lli^.siollers, was born in Philadelphia, July I2lh, 1S09. U' 0' His grandfather, Michael Laudcnslager, J" >^ "■»'' a native of Germany, who, having emigrated to America, settled in Bridge- ton, New Jersey, where George Laudenslager, father of the subject of this sketch, was born. Mr. Laudcnslager's mother was Margaret Uber, of Phil.idelphia, his father having come to the city in 17S5. Young Jacob .ittcnded the school of Charks Keyser, an eminent teacher of the Society of Friends, in German Hall, on Seventh street, now used as the office of the Trustees of the Gas Works, and finished his education in a select school near Girard College. In 1824 he l)ecame an apprentice to the saddlery business with William H. Coles- bury, 138 Market street (old number). After the expiration of his apprenticeship he continued to work as journeyman until 1833, when he formed a cop.irtnership with Anthony Nutt, in the saddlery and harness business, at Strawberry alley and Chestnut street, where he remained three years. In 1837 he engaged with the firm of Ogle & Wat- son, carriage builders, Sixth street below Market, and continued with them until 1844, when a dis- solution occurred, Mr. Watson continuing the busi- ness, with Mr. Laudenslager as superintendent. After the death of Mr. Watson, which occurred Febru.iry 8th, 1857, he conducted affairs in the interest of Mrs. Watson, widow of the Lite proprie- tor, until 1863, after which he succeeded to the business, and continued it at 1 21 7 Chestnut street until December, 1880. On January 1st, l88l, he retired, after an active busmess life of fifty six years. Mr. Laudenslager has taken an active part in military aflTairs for fifty-five years. During the late war he served as Captain of Company E, in the Gray Reserves, now the First Regiment, infantry. National Guards of Pennsylvania, and participated in the campaigns of 1862 and 1863, under the com- mand of Colonel Charles S. Smith. In those days the rolls contained the names of twelve hundred men, among them being those of Morton Mc- Michael, John Welsh, Thomas Sparks and others, who were then or have since become noted. The Reserves were called into the field in .Septem- ber, lS52, 10 .^ssi■.t in checking Lee's mid, .ind were assigned to McClellan's headquarters at Boonsboro, Maryland. In June, 1S63, they took part in the formation of fortifications around Har- risburg, to check the advance of Jub:d A. Early, being sent thence to Carlisle, where, in action with General Early's command, they met with the loss of one man killed and three men wounded. Thence they went to South Mountain, advancing to Ilageistown, and, upon the defeat of General Lee, returned home and were mustered out of the ser- vice of the United Slates. Captain Laudenslager continued on active duty in the militia until 1868. Upon the reorganization of the State troops he be- came a member of the "Old Guard," of which he is commander at the present time. In addition to the service in the field alluded to, he participated in the famous Buckshot war in 1838, and aided in the protection of property during the riots of 1844. In politics Captain Laudenslager was an old line Whig until the birth of the Republican party, whose principles he immediately embraced. As far back as 1833 he was active in the affairs of his ward, the Lower Delaware, of which he was made Asses- sor in 1840, and held this office until 1S50. He has always taken an active interest in the Fire De- partment. In 1S27 he became a member of the Perseverance Hose Company, with which he re- mained connected until 1834, when he joined the Pennsylvania Fire Company. He continued a member of this organization until its retirement from active service, in 1839. Upon the organiza- tion of the Paid Fire Department he was chosen as one of the Commissioners. He was elected first President of the Board, and continues to exercise the functions of that office at the present time. Captain Laudenslager was m.irried in 1833 to .Sarah Worrell Foering, who i^ still living. ATTERSON, JAMES, a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, was born on Nineteenth street above Chestnut, in Philadelphia, November 1st, 1836. He is ilescended from Irish ancestry, both parents Iwing natives of Belfast, Ireland. James leccived a common school education, attend- ing the Soi:thwest Grammar School, which was THE cm- GOVERNMENT. presided over bv Professor Wood. He was then employed at bnckmaking and shoemaking, work- ing at the former in summer and at the latter dur- ing the winter months. In 1S64 Mr. Patterson started in the iiquor business on South street below Eighteenth, where he continued until 1878, when he established his present sample rooms, at Xo. 14 South Broad street. On March 15th, 1871, he was made foreman of Engine Xo. i, of the Fire Department, on South street, m which posiiion he remained until April, 1S77, when he was elected a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners. In this body Mr. Patter^n held a place until February 13th, 18S3. He is a member of the Masonic Order, being connected with Lodge Xo. 432. In politics Mr. Patterson is a RepnbUcan, and has represented hU ward and district in several State and many city and county conventions. He is a life-member of the old Fire .Association, and also a member of the Relief Association of the present department. In 1856 he was married to Margaret Armstrong, since deceased. Thev had ten chUdren, five of whom are now living.' The family attend the Presbjierian Church. '39 rcCULLY, WILLL\M FREELAXD, member of the Board of Fire Commis- sioners, was bom in Philadelphia. De- cember 8th, 1S39. His father was James McCully, a prominent Demo- cratic citizen of the old Southwark Dis- tricL The elder McCully was one of the Commis- sioners of Southwark, and also a member of the School Board of his ward, being greatly interested in the public school system of education. Vonng McCnlly made his way from the primary school of hU neighborhood to the Locust Street Grammar School, from which he entered the Central High .School. When sixteen years of age he was appren- ticed to Elias Joseph Hincken, one of the proprie- tor-i of the Sunday Dispatch, to leam the trade of pressman. AMien he had mastered the craft he was placed in charge of the jwess-room of the paper, and remained as foreman nmn 1S59, when he accepted a similar position on the Exenir,^ Bulbtin. ^\,th thU journal he has since con- tinued, ad%-ancing fVom pressmin to business man- ager and part proprietor, in 1873, ha%-ing purchased a nmnber of shares in the stock of the companv puhli^hing the paper. Following in the fnoweiK of his father, Mr McCuUy eariy took an imerest in the manag^ent of the public schools, and at the age of twenty two I was eleaed to and made President of the School Board of the Third Scaion, a position he held for the term of three years, when, having removed out of the ward, he was ineligible for re-election. Mr. McCully's connection with the Fire De- partment dates back to old volunteer days. When but eighteen years of ^e he became a ftiember of the Hibemia Fire Engine Company, and was suli- sequently elected Recorder and Treasurer of that organization. Upon the formation of the honorar>- association, called the Old Guard, he was made Proident, and still holds the office. He is also President of the Hibemia Hre Company, which still continues its organization. On December 3i5t, 1870, when the Paid Rre Department was established, Mr. McCully was eleaed by the Conn cils a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners and served four years and four months in 3 most efficient manner. In May, 1881, he was re-elected by the Councils to fill an tmeipired term, and in February, 1SS3. he was re-elected for the full term which he is now serving. Mr. McCully has been connected with the -Vmericus CluV since its organization, being one of the original roll of Ufe-members, and has occupied the posi'ion of Secretary for the past six yeai=. He is also a prominent member of the Masonic Order, being a Past Master of Ml Moriah Lodge, Xo.' 155 ; a member of Harmony Chapter, R. A. M., Xo. 52; a member of Phibdelphia Commandery,' Xo. 2, Knights Templar; a Past Master of Phila- delphia Council, and a member of the Consistory-. He is a widower, with one daughter, grown to womanhood. ^ ORCORAX, JAMES, a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, was bora in Philadelphia, February 7th, 1841. His father was bora in Ireland and his mother in Canada. James was educated at the Zane Sireet Grsmmar School, and at an eariy age b^an to leam the carpenter trade, at which he served until 1854. In that year he went to California, where he remained for a short time, and then shipped as a ship-carpenier on a vesel bound for China. From there the ship con- tinned to London. Mr. Corcoran remained on the sea until 1863, and during that time he sailed around the world seven times, having visited almost every country possessed of a sea-porL In the year joa mensioned he returned to the United States and settled in Philadelphia, where he was employed by the Pennsylvania Raih-oad Company. He wa= afterwards employed as a Custom House I40 MEN OF AMERICA. officer for a number of years, and in 1870 he en- gaged in the real eslale business, at which he still continues. He is also a Notary Puhlic. Mr. Corcoran is a member of Williamson Lodge, No. 369, F. & .\. M., and also of Centennial Loilge, No. 7, Knights of Birmingham. He is a Kepubli- can, and during his twenty years' residence in Philadelphia has taken much interest in the affairs of his parly, being a delegate to many of the city an was a member of the Comniiltees on (Irammar, Secondary anil Primary Schools, Niglit Schools, Accounts, Lcgi-t white settlers on the Cohansey river. Mr. Shepp.ird's chances for an elaborate education were not promising, and he was obliged to content him- self with what he could pick up in the country schools. At the early age of eleven years he liegan life for himself by working on a farm, and during the three winter months, when there was no work, he went to school. In 1840 his parents, looking to the advancement of their children's interests, re- moved to Philadelphia. Shortly after this his mother died, and the family was scattered. Isaac was thus thrown upon his own resources, and it was then that the teachings of his beloved mother became a protection and support to him. Being convinced that the advantages enjoyed by mechanics Henry Clay. Henry H. Wisler. THE CITY GOVlikNMENT. over other classes were many, he determined to learn a trade, but was deterred by the general finan- cial crisis of the time. However, not wishing to remain idle whde waiting for an opening, he sought for and obtained employment as errand-boy in a shoe store, and afterwards, in succession, worked in a balse of forming a Board of Controllers of the Public Schools. He was twice appointed a member by Judge Brewsicr, anrn in Boston, Massachusetts, April 5th, 1821. His parents were of English ancestry, and were Samuel Abbot, of Boston, who died at the age of 92 years, and Abigail Spear, a native of Massachusetts, who died at the age of 78 years. In 1828 the family removed to Worcester county, Massachuscils, where Charles, who was the youngest child, received his primary education, subsequently attending a grammar school in Boston and finishing his education under private tutors. His employment from the time he was seventeen years of age for five years was in wholesale and retail mercantile pursuits in Richmond, Virginia, and Newburg and Buffalo, New York. In 1845 he came to Philadelphi.i, where he has since re- sided, and engaged in the manufacture of cotton fabrics. Subsequently for a few, years he retired from business and afterwards engaged in real estate transactions. Mr. Abbot is a Republican. In 1858 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the State Legislature, and served for four years consecutively in that body during a period of ex- citing and highly important legislation. While in the House he had charge of the bill " for the com- mutation of tonnage duties" for the Pemsylvania Railroad, and took an active interest in the defence and readjustment of the railroad system of the Slate. During the early years of the rebellion he was a member of the House Committee on Federal Relations. He pariicipatcd actively in national and local measures for raising supplies, and in urging a vigorous pro-ecuiicin of the war. In 1863. during the rebel invasion of Pennsylvania, he vol- unteered for the emergency, and participated in the engagements with General Lee's army on its retreat after the batde of G ttysburg. Mr. Abbot was appointed a member of the Board of Education in 1867, has been reappointed and has served on the Board continuously ever since. In religion he is a Baptist, and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Raptist Publication Society for twenty-five ye.irs. He has also been at various limes a Director in State and local Boards of educational and religious societies, and for about twenty, years was a member of the Board of Truslees of the university at I.ewis- burg. In 1S62 he w.as a member of the commis- sion appointed by Governor Curtin to investigate the al'cgeil frauds and irregularities in furnishing supplies for the use of Pennsylvania troops. Mr. Abbot was married in the year 1848 to Miss Elizabeth Evans, a daughter of Griffith Evans, a prominent merchant and citizen of Phila_RATZ, SIMON, the member of the Board of Education from the Eighth Section, was born in 1840, and is descended from an old Philadelphia family ; his great-grandfather having been one of the merchants of this city who, in the year 1765, signed the "non-importation resolutions" evoked by the odious "stamp act" passed by the British Parliament of that day. His father, Ed- ward, who died in the year lS6g, was one of our best known and most highly esteemed citizens ; and is well remembered for the active part he took in the public affairs of the city and in all that related to its prosperity and advancement. The subject of this notice entered the freshman class of the University of Pennsylvania before he had reached the age of thirteen ; and, after com- pleting the full four years' course of study in the Department of Arts, was graduated, and received the degree of A. B. Four years afterwards he received the degree of A. M. Immediately upon graduating he entered the office of Hon. Garrick Mallery, where he spent three years in preparing himself for the legal profession. He was then ad mitted to practise in the courts of this city and county. Prior to his admission, and while yet in his minority, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of this Slate. He served one term ; but declined to be a candidate for re- election. Shortly after his admission to the bar he received the appointmenfbf Assistant City Solicitor '5-t MKN VV AMKKICA. from Charles E. I.cx, Esq., who had I)cen cletlol chief law officer of the city. Me held thi> position for three years, an 1 uniil the expiration- of Mr. Lex's term. Diirin;^ this time lie w.is admitted li> practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. At the close of the year 1S69 he was appointed by the Court of Common I'Icas to represent the Eighth Ward in the Board of Public Education. Since ihcn he has served continuously in that body, and has been one of ils most active and influential membeis. For twelve ye.irs he has been a member of the Committee having immediate su|)ervision of the Girls' Normal School, and during the greater part of that time has been Chairman of the Com- mittee. The acknowledged excellence and high standing of th.at school are due, in a great measure, to the zealous interest he has taken in it. ^ ylflOLLOCK, JAMES, the member of the cV^f I Board of Education from the Thirty- Y i I fifst District, was born in Ireland, August fc[^ ^ 29th, 1S4S. He was brought to this y^ country when quiie young, and was educated in the public schools. He is now engaged in the manufacture of carpets. Mr. Pollock is a Republican. He was elected a mem- ber of the Board of Education on January 1st, 1879, which position he has held ever since. and a strong will, he brings to the consideration of every subjc.l an intelligent, reasoning mind. Quick to grasp the jirincipal points in any matter presented to him, he decides quickly ansi- lion he still retains. In this long scries of years, besides being connected with >'r origii .ilnig many THE CITY GOVERN.MENl. '57 private enterprises, there has been scarcely a single public undertaking to which his services have not been contributed, and their usefulness recognized. Busily as he has been employed he has found time to indulge his literary tastes in the authorship of "A History of Lower Dublin Academy, with Biographical Sketches and Historical Reminis- cences of the Academy and Vicinity from the ear- liest times, including a Memoir of Thomas Holme" (William Penn's Surveyor-General). Kindly, even, and sedate in mind and manner, Mr. Willits has through the course of a moderately long career scarcely allowed himsell a moment's idle time. Never of very robust constitution, he has, nevertheless, been untiring in his exertions for the comfort and advancement of hi-; fellow, and, to speak in his quaint way, " has h.id a pretty active life." ^«?UNN, JOHN, a member of the Board of \^A\ I Managers of the House of Correction, ^/'•■|| I was born in Philadelphia, Sunday, May c~^^ loih, 1835, and is descended from Irish ancestry. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of the city. His mother car- ried on the shoe business on Market street near Eleventh, and in 1847 John was taken into the store to assist her. In 1849 he entered the printmg house of T. K. & P. G. ColHns, the father and uncle of the senior partner of the firm of Collins & McLeester, type-founders. At first he was only engaged as a roller-boy, but later became a regular apprentice, and learned the trade. In 1856 he worked as a journeyman printer on T/ie Morning Times, a Know-Nothing paper, which became e.\- tinct in th.at yenr. Colonel John W. Forney es- tablished The Press in 1857, and Mr. Dunn went to work for him. He remained in the employ of Mr. Forney untd the war broke out, when he en- listed. At the expiration of his term he was made assistant-foreman on the same paper. Mr. Dunn became foreman of the Morning Post in 1868, and continued there through 1869, when, at the death of Mr. Tyson, foreman of The Press, he was ofTered that position and accepted. He continued foreman until the resignation of the busi- ness manager, Mr. J. G. L. Brown, whom he suc- ceeded. He held this position until the paper was sold to its present owner, when he resigned and liecame proprietor and publisher of the Sunday and Evening Leader. When the publication of these papers was discontinued, lie was again made fore- man of The Press. Mr. Dunn is a member of Phil.idelphia Typo- graphical Union, No. 2, of which he was a Trustee for a number of years. He also represented it in the National Union at Albany in 1869. He is a member of Rising Star Lodge, No. 126, F. & A. ^L ; Philanthropic Lodge, No. 15, I. O. O. F., and The Typographical Beneficial Society. In December, 1875, Mr. Dunn was elected a member of the Board of Managers of the House of Correction by Councils fur a term of five years, and was re-elected on December iSth, iSSi, for another term. In politics Mr. Dunn is a Repulilican. He was made the candidate of the Labor Party, in 1877, for Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, but was defeated. On August 9th, 1862, Mr. Dunn enlisted as a private in the Si.\ty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylv.mia Volunteers, Scott Legion, and served throughout the rebellion. This regiment belonged to the Army of the Potomac. He was taken prisoner at Chan- cellorsviUe, May 3d, 1S64, and taken to Richmond, where he was incarcerated in the notorious Libby Prison. In August of the same year he was pa- roled, and in September was exchanged, where- upon he returned to his regiment and was made Color Corporal. He was discharged with the reg- iment at Hart's Island, New York Harbor, in Jun.-, 1865. Mr. Dunn was mairied in 1855, and h.as three sons and one dauirhier living. UMM, WILLIAM, a member of the Board of Managers of the House of Con eciion, is the son of John Bumm, carpenter and builder, and Hannah, daughter of Peter Sheetz, a prominent citizen of the old Distritt of Kensington in his day, and was born in the present Eighteenth Ward of the city, November yth, 1819. He received his earliest in- struction at the only pay-schou! then existing in the district, from which he was removed to the public schools, at that time beginning to show superior excellence, and there finished his preparatory edu- cation. On leaving school he entered into appren- ticeship with Isaac Pearson, a whip-maker, the pre- decessor of the firm of Pearson & Sallada, and remnined with that gentleman until he reiired from business, about the year 1839. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Bumm married Miss Mary Ann Rea, an estimable lady, still living, and under the impulse of new res|X)nsibi'ities left his trade and sought a clerkship in the salt-house of Nicholas Wallace on Race street wharf. Evincing consider- leg MEN OF AMERICA. able business tact and energy, Mr. Bumm was in- vilcd by Mr. Wallace inia a partnership unik-r the Arm-name of Nicholas Wallace & Co., a firm which, through careful and sigacious management, enjoyed a continuous prosperity, until the retire- ment of Mr. Wallace in 1857 upon a competent fortune left the entire proprietorship in Mr. Bumm's hands. Under his care the trade in- creased both in extent and importance, until in 1865 he associated with himself his son, George W. Bumm, who had previously been employed as clerk, and the firm became William Bumm & Son. In the year 1882 the younger son, William H. Bumm, was also admitted to partnership, and the firm now trading as William Bumm & Sons forms the largest sall-imiKjrting house in the United States. The confidence end respect of Mr. Bumm's fellow-citizens kept even pace with his business prosperity, and it was upon their urgent solicitation that he consented to receive in May, 1S60, the nomination and election as member of the Common Council fnim the Eighlecntli W.ird. On the 6tli of May, 1S60, he took his se.it in tb.-it body, and from that time onward for fifteen years he added to the pressing necessity of business management the equally burdensome duties of city government. During the three tcru s he sat in Common Council his presence and direction are [wrcepLble in almost all departments of civic affairs, and before his third term had reached its cluse, upon the same persist- ency of the Republicans of the Eighteenth Ward, he was returned by an increased m.ijority as mem- ber of the Select branch, where he look his seat in Januarj', 1866. During the nine years he sat. in Select Council we find liim upon the most impor- tant committees, especially of Finance, of which he was Chairman, and the draught upon the time of a gentleman of prompt business habits must have been extreme. He acted also as Chairman of the Committees of City Pri>perty, of Schools, to Ver- ify the Account of the City Treasurer, and of the Committee on Port Wardens, in which latter posi- tion he offered an important resolution looking to the improvement of the navigation of the Delaware river. In pursuance of this resolution he proceeded to Washington to meet the Congressional Commit- tee of Ways and Means, where the effect of his judicious management is visible in an appropria- tion of $500,000, .ind in subsequent appropriations of equal or even greater liberality up to the present time. During his term of service in Select Coun- cil he w.Ts twice offered the Chairmanship of that body, but the tl.iims of his priv.ite aff.icrs m.nde it absolutely im|X>ssilile to .icccpt the honor with its accompanying labors. Another important measure we believe originated by Mr. Bumm, though still delayed, may at seme lime reach a jiractical conclu- sion. He perceived th.it Smith's Island presents the chief obstruction to the free navig.-ition of the Delaware in the vicinity of Philadelphi.i, and in May, 1873, *>* offered a resolution in .Select Coun- cil that the city shouKI purchase ihe island, and have it permanently removed. The resolution was referred 10 the Committee on Finance, of which he was a member, but owing to the depleted condition of the city treasury, it was at least temporarily abandoned. Approaching the end of his third term in Select Council his constituents, well satisfied with his of- ficial conduct, again insisted upon his nomination; but this time Mr. Bumm positively refused, and finding no alternative left resolved to change his residence, and accordingly moved to his house in the Fifteenth Ward, where he still resides. It is Certainly rare in oflicial life at least that we find a gentleman absolutely flying from the lasting ap- proval of his friemls. Mis vacant seat in Council, however, was immeiliatcly occupied by his son, George W. Bumm, who, in the year 1881, was chosen to the presidency wl^ich the father was obliged to decline. Mr. Bumm's term expired with the beginning of the year 1S75, '""' ''"' " short lime private business claimed his undivided attention ; but on the 20lh day of May he was chosen one of the Board of Managers of the House of Correction to fill the unexpired term of A. II. Franciscus, Esq. His friends in .Select Council had evidently not forgotten him. In December, 1S79, he was reelected to the same position for the full term, and there he re- mains. In 1S73 the people of the northeastern portion of the city, owing to the increase of the number of inhabitants, and extension of business relations, felt the need of banking facilities, and in this new field Mr. Bumm exerled himself to meet a |X)pula- want. In company with some other gentlemen of enterprise he formed and secured a charter for the Shackamaxon Bank, a solid and verj- reliable in- stitution. He was tendered the first presidency, and having at heart the interests of the section in which he was born and reared, and a thorough confidence in the steady business habits of i's people, the post wa-. accepted, and is still relain>ored earnestly to extend the scope and im- prove the character of the annual publications of the Board, especially in reyard to the subject of vital statistics. In 1876 Dr. I'ord was elected Phy- sician to the I'oster Home. In 1S79 he was made a member of the Board of Managers of the Sanita- rium .'Vs^ocialion of Philadelphia, and in the same year he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Tenth Ward Charily Society, and was elected Chairman. In 1880 he was elected a member of the Board of Managers of the American Sunday- School Union. He is the aulhor'of a thesis on " Gunshot Wounds of the Chest," suggested by experience in military hospital wards, and illustrated by cases treated, and is also the editor of the rejiorts of the Bo.nrd of Health of Philadelphia from 1S72 to 1S76 inclu sive. He is the compiler of vital statistics of Phila- delphia for the years 1872-73-74-75; .nuthor of " .Statistics of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the City of Philadelphia," 1874; and of "Notes of Clinical Lectures," Medical and Surgical Peporter, 1864 and 1865. He also acted as one of the Asso- ciate Editors of Tht riiilatlclphia Medical Times in 1870 and 1S71. He is the author of a treatise of two hundred pages on ".Soil and Water," in- cluding drain.ige, sewerage, etc., incorporated in " Buck's Hygiene and Public Health," published in two volumes, by William Wood & Co., New York, 1879; and is also an occasional writer on sanitar)' topics for medical journals. ^LEEMAN, RICHARD .VL.SOP, M. D., a member of the Bnard of Health, was born in Phil.idelphia, February 22d, 1S40. He received his early education in private schools, and afterwards en- tered the University of Pennsylvania, where, in 1859, he received thedegree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1862 that of Master of Arts and Doctor of Medicine. From 1862 until the end of 1S64 he was Acting Assistant-Surgeon in the United Slates army. He has been Visiting Physician to St. Mary's Hospital for several years. He is Sec- retary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and President of the Obstetrical Society of Phila- delphia, and was formerly Correspondent of the National Board of Health. Dr. Cleeman became a member of the Board of Health of Philadelphia, on October 29th, 1S7S, and has since l.eld a seat in that body. VICHARDSON, JOSEPH C, M. D., a ^J member of the Board of Health, was I born in Philadelphia, January loili, p 1836. He received a good education in the private schools, and aficrwards stuilied medicine, at which he has prac- tised with success ever since. Dr. Richardson is at present Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been Attending Physician to the Presbyterian Hospital since 1876, and Micioscopist to the Pennsylvania Ho.spital since 1870. On July 1st, 1S81, Dr. Rich.irdson became a member of the Board of Health. UTTON, WILLIAM IL, a member of the Board of Health, was born at No. 710 Washington avenue, Philadelphia, July 1 2th, 1842. He w.ns educated at the Eighth and Fitzwaler Streets Gram- mar School, and also at Professor B. Lewis' Academy. He then learned the carpenter- ing trade, and is now engaged as a carpenter and builder. In July, 1881, Mr. Dutton became a member of the Board of Health. ATTERSON, JOSEPH GII.I.IS, a mem- ber of the Board of Healih, was born in Philadelphia, December 22d, 1S47. He received a common school education at the Northwest Grammar School in the Tenth Ward. He is at present en- gaged in the shipping and transportation business. Mr. Patlerson was elected a member of the Board of Healih on October i_",th, 1S74, a place he has filled with dignity and honor. AVIS, MARCUS ALFONZO, a member of the Board of Health, was born in the old District of Southwark, Philadelphia, on January 3d, 1823. As far back as can be traced, his paternal ancestors were natives of New Jersey, in which Slate his father, Abraham Davis, was born. His mother was lx>rn in this country, but her maternal ances- try was Gcmian. Marcus received a good educa- ANDERSLICE.THADDEUS L.,ameni. lier of the Board of Health, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, July 22d, 1S41, He received a liberal education in the common schiols of Chester and Montgomery counties. He then learned the machinist's trade. In 1861 he entered the army. He was commissioned on the Engineer Corps of the navy, in September, 1862, and served until August, 1871, when he resigned. In the meantime he had studied law, and began to prac- tise at that profession in February, 1S72. In Sep- tember, 18S0, Mr. Vanderslice was appointed by the twelve Judges of the Courts of Common Pler.s to a membership in the Board of Health. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 1 65 tion in the public schools of Philadelphia, and was [ B., daughter of William Ruddiman, of Philadcl- afterwards apprenticed to learn cabinet-making, j phia. They have two sons, and reside at No. 322 On finishing the trade he worked as a journeyman Dickinson street. The family attend the Methodist until January 24th, 1854, when he started in the Church. furniture business with William Parson as a part- ner, the firm being known as Farson & Davis. Their place of business was on Walnut street, but it was soon afterwards changed to No. 224 South Second street. In 1S64, Mr. Farson retiiing, Mr. Davis continued the business alone until about the year 1S74, when he formed a partnership with his two sons, and from that time the firm of Marcus A. Davis & Sons has continued the business in thi stoie on Second street. Mr. Davis was in former years connected with various secret orders, but at the present time is a member only of Oriental Lodge, No. 113, I. O. of O. F., in which he has passed to the high office of Past Grand. Mr. Davis is a Republic.in, and has been very active in public affairs. During the last twenty- eight years he has held various positions in the city government. He first-appears as an office holder in 1854, when he was elected a member of the School Board of the Second Section, of which body he was the President for two years. As a member of the Sectional Board, he was an earnest worker, proving himself a warm friend of the public school system, and at the end of his term he was elected a member of the Board of Control (now Board of Edu- cation), where he remained four years. During that time he was a member of several prominent commit, tees, and Chairman of the Committee on Property. This committee erected several school-houses while Mr. Davis was its chairman, and one of them was in his own ward, the Second. In 1872 he was an Elec. tor on the Republican ticket, on which General U. S. Grant was running fur re-election to the Presi- dency. In the fall of 1S73 the Republicans of the Second Ward elected him to represent them in the Common Council. He took his seat January ist, 1874, and was twice re-elected, serving six years in all. He was prominent, in 1876, in the caucus which elected Joseph L. Caven, Esq., President of the lower branch of Councils, and shortly after that gentleman's election Mr. Davis was appointed INSEY, WILLIAM B., member of the Board of Health, is of English descent, and was bom in WiUistown, Chester county, Pennsylvania, May nth, 1S36. His parents were Dr. John and Margaret Kinsey. He attended the schools of the county, starting at a private school, then going to the Friends' Schools, and finally graduating from Swayne's Academy. After leaving school he learned the drug business, which he followed for some time. He then became a travelling sales- man. During his early life he resided at Wilming- ton, Delaware, and Elmira, New York. He re- moved to Philadelphia in 1S66, where he has since remained, being at present engaged in the coal business. Mr. Kinsey served four years and a half in the Union army during the late war. He enlisted as a private in the Twenty-third Regiment New York Infantry, and was rapidly promoted to the positions of Corporal, Sergeant and Orderly-Sergeant of his f^l ■ r , ,r t y '^ ^.v*^..j .^...^4,0,11 v^i Ilia Chairman of the Highways Committee, in which [ company. But his promotions did" not end here capacity he served until his last term was finished. In the spring of 1882 he was elected a member of the Board of Health by the Joint Convention of Councils, and became a regular member of the Board in July. Mr. Davis is connected with several Building Associations, and is the Treasurer of one of them. On January 3d, 1848, he was married to Elizabeth In rapid succession he was made Adjutant, Lieu- tenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment New York Infantr)-, and was finally retired from the service with the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General. Mr. Kinsey is connected with several secret orders. He is a member of Kensington Lodge, No. 211, F. & A. M., Chapter 233, Commandery 1 66 MEN OF AMERICA. 54, and the Kensington Masunic Relief. Among his other societies may l>e mentioned the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Independent (Jider of Odd Fellows, the Order of Sparta, of which he is Great Regent, and Po>t No. 2, G. A. R. Mr. Kinsey is a Republican, and has been a memlier of the Bo.-ird of Health since 187S. l^e is married and is the father of three children. 'IRST, ANTHONY A., a member of the Board of Health, was born at No. 1524 Chestnut street, Phil.idelphia, on January iSth, 1846. He received the finishing touches to his education at Georgetown College, in Georgetown, Disliict of Columbia, and then studied law. He was ad mitted to the bar, and has since practised at his profession with success. Mr. Hirst was made a member of the Board of Health on October 15th, 1874, and has held a scat in that body ever since, or for a period of nine years. IXGEE, ALBERT M., a member of the Board of Health, was born in Philadel- phia, January 31st, 1846. He received a liberal education in the schools of that city, and afterwards engajjed in the manu- facture of bricks with his brother, under the firm-name of J. & A. Dingce. He continued in this business until 1876, when he withdrew. On July 6lh, 1 878, Mr. Dingce became a mem- ber of the Board of Health, having been appointed by the Board of Judges of the Common Pleas Courts. During the Bi-Centennial year he was a member of the Lazaretto and the Fourth District Committees. Mr. Dingee is married and has two children, a son and daughter. The family reside at No. 1524 North Broad street. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 167 THE PUBLIC BUILDIN&S CDMMISSIDN, Jerkins, SAMUEL C, rresident of the Public Buildings Commission, was born in Philadelphia, November I4ih, 1828, and is the son of Samuel H. Perkins, a native of Windham, Connecticut, and of Mary F. Donnell, formerly of Woodbury, New Jersey. His father was a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia. He received his preparatory educa- tion in the best schools of the city, and later on be- came a member of the class of 184S in Yale Col- lege. On graduating here the degree of A. M. was conferred on him, and he returned to Philadelphia, where he entered the Law Department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and in 1S49 he received the degree of LL. B. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in July, 1851, since which time he has continued to practise, and by his close attention to the wants of his clients he has accumulated a large business. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, First Regiment of Artillery, Home Guard. In March, 1862, he was promoted to First Sergeant, in which position he served until September of the same year, when he was made First Lieutenant. His company, which was Captain Landis' Light Battei-y, was called out for the emer- gency in September, 1S62, ami on June 24th, 1863, it was again mustered into the United States service for an emergency. Mr. Perkins has taken great interest in public matters from the early days of his business life, and has held various offices of trust and honor. He is a Republican and a member of the Union League, and wa.s, on December 14th, 186S, chosen a Di- rector of the institution and Chairman of the Library Committee. In 1857 the Republicans of the Seventh Ward elected him to the Common Council, in which assembly he served one term. He was named as one of the Commissioners for the erection of the new Public Buildings in Philadelphia by the act of the Legislature, approved August 5lh, 1870, and was elected President of the Board on Ajivil 17th, 1S72. This responsible position, the duties of which he has discharged with fidelity, he still holds. Mr. Perkins is a Mason, and has held many prominent positions in that fraternity. He was Grand Scribe of the Grand H. R. A. Cha|iter of Pennsylvania, from December, iSoi.to the close of 1S63 ; Grand King from the latter part of 1S63 until December, 1S65, and Grand High Priest from the close of 1S65 until December, 1S67. For one year from December, 1866, he served as Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania ; for two years, from De- cember, 1867, as Senior Gmnd Warden; for two years, from December, 1869, as Deputy Grand Master. In December, 187 1, he was elected Grand Master ; re-elected in December, 1872, for another term. On June 27th, 1 868, he was elected Chairman of the Building Committee of the new Masonic Temple, at the northeast corner of Broad and Fil- bert streets, which at that time was in course of con- struction. Mr. Perkins became a member of the Presby- terian Church when quite young. From May, 1856, until May, 1870, he was Trustee of the First Pres- byterian Church of Philadelphia. He has been an elder of that church since March 21st, 1S70. He was a member of the Presbyterian Publication Committee from September 20th, 185S, until June 30th, 1870. In May, 1870, he became a member of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, and in June was elected President of the Trustees of that body. In 187 1 he was a delegate to ihe General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and in May, 1873, ^s "'35 elected a Manager of the American Sunday-School Union. On April I2th, 1S55, Mr. Perkins was married to Mary H., daughter of Frederick A. Packard, of Philadelphia. They have no children living. ;ASKILL, THOMAS ELLWOOD, a member of the Board of Public Building Commissioners, was born in Philadelphia, January nth, 1830, and is descended from American stock. His parents were natives of New Jersey. He received a good education in the public schools of Philadel- phia, and then turned his alteniiim to mercantile pursuits. In 1S63 he eng.aged in the paper busi- ness with a Mr. Gresimer, under the firm-name of Gaskill & Gresimer. This partnership continued for nineteen years. In 1882 there was a change, two gentlemen, Messrs. Bauer and Conderman, taking the place of Mr. Gresimer. The firm is now Gaskill. Bauer & Conderman, and the estab- i6S MEN OK AMERICA. lishmcnt is situated at No. 127 North Fourth s'.rccl. Mr. Gaskill is a thorough business man, anil during his nn.rcaMlilc oxi)erience has been very successful. In Mr. Gaskill the principles of the Democratic p:\rty have always found a staunch supporter. lie has held several prominent public positions. Dur- ing 1S56-57-5S he w.is Superintendent of the City Tobacco Warehouse, an ofTice which has since been abolished. He was a member of the Second .Section School Board from July 1st, 1858, until 1S70, when he removed to the Fifteenth Ward. In 1S70 he bec.ime a member of the School Hoard of the latter seclion, and still holds a seat in that body. In 1861 he became a member of the Slate Legislature, having been elected to that office by the Democrats of the Second District, and he represented his constituents in that body for one term of two years. On July 12, 1872, Mr. Gaskill was appointed a member of the Hoard of Public Uuilding Commissioners, to fill the jilace made vacant by the resignation of R. J. C. Walker, Esq., and has continued in that Board ever since. In 1S76 he was one of the Democratic candidates for I'resldential Elector in the State of Pennsylvania, but was defeated. Mr. Gaskill is a member of Lafayette Lodge, No. 71, A. Y. M. He was raised in the faith of the Orthodox branch of the Society of Friends. lie has been twice married and has h.id ten children, seven of whom are now living. Mr. Gaskill re- sides at No. S64 North Twentieth street, in the Fifteenth Ward. C^ ATTEI.L, SAMUEL WARWICK, a member of the Public I'uildings Com- mis^ilm and Superintemknt of the House of Correction, was born in Little Dock Street, near Spruce, Philadelphia, De- cember 29th, 1822. He ii of American ancestry, his father, Joel Cattell, and his mother, both having been born in New Jersey. He re- ceived his education in the public schools of the city, and was afterwards apprenticed to Mr. John Euston to learn the painter's trade. 'In 1844 Mr. Cattell engaged in the business for himself, subse- quently entering into the manufacture of stained glass. Mr. Cattell is a member of the Masonic Order, and also of the I. O. of O. F. In the latter order he has p-issed all the chairs, including those of the Encampment. I'olitically Mr. Cattell has always been a staunch Republican, ami has taken an active part in the local interests of his party. He was first elected to the Common Council from the Twenty-fourth Ward in the fall of 1857, and served in that body for five years. During this time his course as a Councilman gaineLVIILON HALL, a mem- ber of the Public Buildings Commission, was born in the old District of the North- ern Liberties, Philadelphia, August nth, 1S14, and is the son of Nathan and Martha Dickinson. His father was a grain and flour merchant, and after his death the business was continued by his mother, upon whom devolved the care of rearing and educating five children. The Dickinsons came originally from England, and were among the first settlers of Penn- sylvania. Mahlon's education was obtained in private schools and seminaries of Philadelphia, principally in those controlled by Friends. At the close of l-.is school-days, he learned the trade of bricklayer and mason, and afterwards engaged in the building business with John Horton, under the firm-name of Horton & Dickinson, receiving em])loyment from some of the leading merchants and business men in the city in the construciion of houses. Mr. Horton retired from ihe firm, and Mr. Dickinson continued the business alone until iStio, when he retired with a competency, and was succeeded by some of his faithful employes. He had led such an active business life up to this time that, except as an active volunteer fireman, he had connected himself with no organization. But to the Volunteer Fire Department he devoted much lime and attention. For many years he, with Ex-Mayor Stokley as a colleague, represented the Harmony Fire Company in the Fire Association, and was President of the Harmony Company from 1S50 until it disbanded. He was also a Trustee of the Fire Insurance Company known as the Fire Association for many years, and at the time that in- stitution changed its organization on account of the change from a Volunteer to a Paid Fire Dep.art- ment, he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the reorganized company. Until the attempt was made to extend slavery into the Territories Mr. Dickinson was not active in political matters, but then he began to take an in- terest, and he was one of the first persons in Phila- delphia who entered ihe ranks of the Republican party, to which he has steadfastly adhered ever since. In 1856 he was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated General Fremont. A resident then, as now, of the Sixteenth Ward, Mr. Dickinson organized a Republican Club, and a full ticket was nominated in his ward, the first Repub- lican ticket that was nominated in any ward in Philadelphia. After the nomination of General Fremont, the old-line Whigs, who had nominated Millard Fillmore, agreed on a joint electoral ticket, and Mr. Dickinson was chosen an elector for the Third Congressional District. Thereafter Mr. Dick- inson was very active in political matters. For sev- eral years he was a member of the Republican .St. te Central Committee, and on the decease of Hon. John Covode he was made Chairman to fill the vacancy. In 1S58 he went into the Common Council, and in 1 859 was elected by that body a member of the Bo-nrd of Guardians of the Poor, where he remained lor five years, accomplishing a much needed reform m the management of the Almshouse affairs. Pre- vious to his retirement from the Board he was its presiding officer. He was one of the Managers of the Pennsylvania Training School at Media, for many years, and also a member of the Society for Alleviating the Miseries 'of Public Prisons, ami as one of the visiting committee to the Eastern Penitentiary discharged his duty with fidelity until 1S67, when, through the efforts of the Society, his attention was directed to the cruel treatment and neglect of insane poor, who were confined in prison cells or poorhouse basements for want of better ac- commodation. In accordance with the provisions of 170 MEN OF AMERICA. an Act of Assembly, passed after much opposition, Mr. Dickinson w..s in May, 1S67, appointed by Governor Geary a commissioner to visit these in- slitiition*;, and investigate the causes of the bad treatment. He was obliged to serve without com- pensation, but he accepted the commission without reluctance, and during the ensuing seven months he visited as many of the prisons and almshouses as he could reach. At the next session of the Legislature he made a report, showing the existence of abuses and urgmg a I'emcdy for them, following up the work already so well done l)y calling on in- dividual members of the Legislature and the ex- ecutive, and enlisting their symp.-ithies in behalf of this humane cause. This was made the subject of a recommendation in the Governor's next annu.il message, and the result was the establishment of another insane asylum for the northeastern section of the State. On March 1st, 1S68, Mr. Dickinson was ap- pointed Chief Commissioner of the Highways of Philadelphia, and was re-elected annually thereafter until 1875, when he was succeeded by John L. Hill. On November 15th, 1871, he was elected a mem- ber of the Public Buildings Commission, and has held the position ever since. In religion Mr. Dickinson adheres to the views of the Society of Friends. I RIGHT, WILLIAM HENRY, a member of the Public Buildings Commission, was born at Nottingham, England, December 2d, 1S27. His parents belonged to the poorer class of English operatives, and the advantages of a good education were not his lot ; but from the time he was able to do anything he was put to work to assist in supporting the family, of which he was a member. Taking advantage of the first opportunity William Henry Wright came to America and settled in Philadel- phia, October 8lh, 1849, renouncing allegiance 10 all foreign potentates, and especially to the Queei. of Great Britain and Ireland, and becoming a naturalized citizen in 1855. He married a sister of the late Henry Disston, the well-known saw manufacturer, and was employed by that gentle- man for a time, but afterwards opened a notion store on North Second street, meanwhile retaining his connection with the Disston saw works until he rose to the position of purchasing agent for the great industry established by his brother-in-law. His residence was in the Eleventh Ward, and he early manifested an active interest in public affairs. His first office was that of a member of the Board of School Directors of the Eleventh Section, and he served in that capacity for a number of years. He is a Democrat, and in the division which oc- curred between tho Buchanan-Breckcnridge and the Douglas wings of the party, Mr. Wright sided with the Douglas men, and as a result became a, War Democrat, not ardent enough, however, to enlist and take up arms against the would-be destroyers of the Union, but sufticienlly warm in the movement to save the country, to encourage others to go to the front, while he accepted the position of Treasurer of the Eleventh Ward bounty fund. The year 1S76, which marked the one hundredth .•\nniversary of the Independence of the United .Slates and commemorated the liberty wrested by force of arms from England, the mother country, was a lucky one for one Englishman at least, and he was the subject of this sketch. William Ell- wood Rowan, the old Republican war-horse, was the nominee of his party for .SherifT. The shrewd and calculating leaders of the Democracy, which was woefully in the minority in Philadeljihia, saw in William Henry Wright a candidate who could win against even so strong a Republican leader as Rowan. They counted on Wright's family connec- tion with the Disstons, who were Republicans and a power in their party, and they did not count with- out their host. Mr. Wright was nominated and in November, 1876, was elected Sheriff of Philadel- phia county, a position in which he was succeeded three years later by Enoch Taylor, a Republican, who was in turn succeeded by George DcB. Keim, also a Republican. Mr. Wright's term in the Sheriff's office was lucrative, and since his retirement he has invested Largely in mining stocks. On December 28th, 1881. he was m.ade a member of the Public Build- ings Commission to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas ]. B.arger, who died on the 17th of the same month. ILLER, HIRAM, one of the Public Build- ings Commissioners, was born July 29lh, 1S14, in what was then Rising Sun Vil- lage, now in the Twenty-eighth Ward of Philadelphia. His father was George I. Miller, a son of a soldier of the Revolu- tionary war, and lived in Germantown, and his mother was Mary Garlinger. Both parents were of German ancestry. When Hiram was eight years of age his father died, and all the schooling the boy re- THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 171 ceived was to learn to read, write and cipher, at a private school in the neighborhood of his home. At the age of sixteen years he became an apprentice of Buthuel A. Moore, a well-known house carpenter. He served for five years, and having learned the trade worked as a journeyman for Mr. Moore until he was twenty-four years of age, when he engaged in business for himself as a house carpenter and builder, which he has followed steadily up to this time with great success. Mr. Miller very soon became prominent and efficient as a builder, and his abilities being recog- nized, he was sought by contractors and given in charge the ereciion of large blocks of private resi- dences. Among his many achievements in the building line is the improvement of Bush Hill, now known as that part of the city lying between Spring Garden and Coates streets, and Broad street and the Schuylkill river. This was the work of several years and was commenced in 1852. Another im- provement was the erection of dwellings on what was called Camac's Woods, now known as the territory bounded by Berks and Diamond, and Tenth and Broad streets. In the two localities mentioned Mr. Miller built hundredsof houses, and they comprise some of the best residences in Phila- delphia. Away back in 1S42 Jlr. Miller's services as a public servant were first called into requisiiion by his election as a Commissioner of the District of Spring Garden. After that he was repeatedly elected a School Director in the old Spring Garden District, now the Fifteenth Ward. Since the for- mation of the Republican party he has been one of its mo^t faithful adherents. He served in the Com- mon Council from 1855 to 1S57, and again during the years 1864 and 1865. On the I3ih of Febru- ary, 1872, he was elected a member of the Com- mission for the erection of the Public Buildings in place of Daniel M. Fox, and has served continu- ously since. Mr. Miller is a Methodist, and with his family attends the Mount Carmel M. E. Church. He was married in 1S41 to Melvina Sides, of Philadelphia. They have had ten children, eight of whom, seven sons and one daughter, are still living. The fam- ily residence is at 1510 Allegheny avenue. lELTZ, RICHARD, a member of the Pub- lic Buildings Commission, was born July lilh, 1832, in Passyunk township, Phila- delphia county, now part of the Twenty- sixlh Ward of Philadelphia. His parents were Richard Peltz and Sarah Lentz. Their son attended the primary and secondary public schools, and for a time, until his father died, was a student in the Central High School. He (hen went to Henry A. Bower, a druggist at Sixth and Green streets, and learned the retail drug business. He remained with Mr. Bower until he was of age, after which he engaged in the drug business for himself at different places in Philadelphia, until 1S54, when he accepted a clerkship in the tax office. Mr. Peltz is a Republican, and this was the beginning of a life in pubUc position, which he still continues. Four years later he was again ap- pointed to a clerkship in the tax ofiice, and having thoroughly mastered the duties of the position, and being well known and popular in his party, in 1 856 he was elected Receiver of Taxes fdr a term of two years. In 1S6S he was a candidate for re- election against John M. Malloy. The certificate of election was given to Mr. Malloy, and Mr. Peltz started a contest, which resulted in 1S69 in a victory for Mr. Peltz. He again became Receiver of Taxes and served until 1 87 1. During these years he was also engaged in the manufacture of cotton and woollen yarns, at Twelfth street below Federal, in partnership with Samuel F. .Stringfel- low, now a member of the Common Council from the Twenty-sixth Ward. From 1S63 to 1S66 he was a School Director in the Twenty-fourth Ward. In 1875 Mr. Peltz Waa elected a member of the Common Council from the Twenty-fourth Ward. He took his seat in January, 1876, and served until April, 18S0. In the latter year William R. Leeds became Clerk of the Courts by appointment of Governor Hoyt, to fill the unexpired term of George Truman, deceased, and Mr. Peltz was made chief deputy, a position in which his superior qualifica- tions as an official were brought into requisition, and to which he was reappointed six months later by the present incumbent, William E. Littleton, and which he still fills. On May 2Sth, 1S72, he was elected a member of the Building Commission in place of John Rice, and has served continuously ever since. Mr. Peltz was married on the 9th of December, 1 858, to Anna S. Stewart, of Philadelphia. They have one son, Samuel Peltz, a lawyer, and assistant City Solicitor under William Nelson West. In re- ligion Mr. Peltz clings to the Presbyterian faith, and attends the Princeton Presbyterian Church, West Philadelphia, of which Dr. Henry is the pastor. He belongs to Melita Lodge, No. 295, F. & A. M. ; Jerusalem Chapter, No. 3 ; Columbia Mark Lodge; and Southern Lodge, No. 41, I. O. O. F. In 1863 Mr. Peltz enlisted for the emer- gency in the First Regiment, Gray Reserves, and '7-' MEN 01' AMERICA. served ill ihc campaif;n which succeeded the battle of Gettysburg untd (jeneral Lee's army was driven across the Potomac. 'II. 1., I()II.\ L., a member of the Board or I'liblic liuiUliiig Commissioners, was burn in Philadelphia, September 20th, lSj9. His parents were John Hill and Charl itle Wilson, natives of Scot- l.ind, who came to ihis country when young. His faiher learned the trade of stone- culler with John Stnitliers, of Philadelphia, and was known as one of the most skilful carvers and sculptors in the country. Among the many pieces of stone-cutting which stands as a sample of his handiwork is the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon. Mis son, John L., attended the public schools of his native city, and for about a year was a student at the Central High School. At the age of sixteen he was left an orphan and obliged to earn a livelihood. He secured employment for a while in the house of Leedom, Haldeman & Brown, wholesale dealers in boots, shoes and straw goods on Fourth street below Market, but he inclined lo the trade of his f.ather, and he served an appren- ticeship with William. Struthcrs, who had suc- ceeded his father, John Strulhers, in the business of stone and marble-cutting and sculpturing. After serving a full term as an apprentice he worked as a journeyman for one year, during the last days of which he completed the sarcophagus of Henry Clay. Mr. Hill is a Republican, and from the time he became of age, which was contemporaneous with the advent of his party into power, he has been prominent as a worker, an adviser and an official. His first position was Chief Clerk in the Depart- ment of City Property under John W. Leigh, which he held for two years, and in 1866-67 he served as a Clerk in the Tax Office under Charles O'Nedl. From this post he rose to that of Chief Clerk in the same office under Richard Pellz. In 1870, 1871 and 1872 he w.is Collector of Delin- quvnt Taxes under the law of 1870 by appointment of Richard Pelt/, Receiver of Taxes. In 1875 he was elected by the City Councils Chief Commis- sioner of Highways, an office which he resigned in March, 1S76, after serving one year. Mr. Hill was appointed to his present position on the com- mi-ision for the erection of the Public Buildings on January iSth, 1872, to succeed J. Price Wcthcrill, and has served continuously in the Board ever since. Besides positions of trust Mr. Hill has figured in many representative bodies as an active member of the Republican parly. In nearly every Stale and local convention of importance for twenty years past he has been a prominent delegate, and in 1S76 was a deleg.ite to the National Convention held in Cincinnati, which nominated Rutherford B. Il.ayes for President. In that body he supported General Hariranft until he fell, and tlien ca^t his vole for James G. Blaine. Mr. Hill belongs to Solomon Lodge, No. 114, F. & A. M., and the United Order of Workmen. In 1864 he was married to Miss Jennie B..ldwin, a daughter of WiUon B.ddwin, deceased, of Radner, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. They have two children, a s.m and a daughter. RICE, WILLIAM, a Commissioner for the Erection of the Public Buildings, was born in Ardmore, County Donegal, Ireland, November 24th, 1S21. He came from an ancient Irish family, and received a good education in the private schools of his native land. His early business in- struction was obtained in his father's business es- tablishment. Fired with an ambition to try his fortunes in the new world, he sailed for America, arriving in Philadelphia on June 24th, 1842. After many struggles and vicissitudes he succeeded in obtaining employment, his firNt ])ermanent occupa- tion giving him charge of the Men's Surgical Ward in the Pennsylvania Hospital. He left there in 1S48 to accept a position wilh Mordecai Lewis, white lead manufacturer, whose attention was at- tracted to the young man by reason of Mr. Lewis being President of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Mr. Erice remained in the employ of Mordecai Lewis until the lattcr's death in 1851. In Jin- nary, 1852, he formed a copartnership wilh J)terian Church on Broad below Spruce; Schuylkill Navigation Company's Build- ing, on Walnut below I'"iflh ; Franklin Market, now the Mercantile Library; Restoration of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church on Chrislian street, and the dwelling of the late S. H. Horstman on Walnut and Fifteenth streets. In other places, besides this city, may illustrations of his genius be met with; he built Pardee Hall, Lafayette College, Luzerne County Prison, at Wilkesbarre; the man- sion of the late Henry Beckct on the Bonaparte Estate, at Bordentown ; the Presbyterian Church and Bank at New Castle, Delaware, and the Alms- house at Wilmington. He was also the Architect for the War Department for hospitals and other governmental buildings in and around Philadel- phia, during the Rebellion, and after its suppres- sion, for the Navy Department, for which he built the naval hospitals at Philadelphia, Mare Island, California and Annapolis, Maryland, and the State asylums for the insane at Danville and W^arren, Pennsylvania. Especially does he show regard for the fitness of things in his designs, whether for pub- lic institutions, business .structures, or private resi- dences; never overlooking any consideration which should legitimately operate to modify the char.icter of a building. Not less remarkable than his artistic skill are his unswerving integrity and indomitable energy. The first has won him the entire confidence of every client, whde to the second may, in a great meas- ure, be attributed his success in life. He has made his way to the front rank of a pro- fession in which eminence is peculiarly difficult of . attainment, in spite of obstacles that might well have seemed insurmountable. He is at present the representative in Philadelphia of the Supervis- ing Architect's oflnce of the United St.ites Treasury Department, in superintending the construction of the new Court and Post Office building at Chestnut and Ninth streets. The principal work, and one which for him will be monumental, is the new City Hall at Philadel- phia, now in course of construction, at an estimated cost of $12,000,000. When finished it will be the largest permanent building on this continent, with a tower exceeding five hundred feet in height, crowned by a statue of William Penn. Besides its magnificent proportions, exquisite sculpture, and graceful and consistent ornamentation, the perfect adaptability of the whole fabric, especially as re- gards its interior plan arid arrangements, to its practical uses, is a marvel of architectural taste and '74 MEN OF AMERICA. skill. During the last ten ycar^ this building anJ that for the United States Courts and Post-ORice at Ninth and Chestnut streets have chiefly occupied the lime and attention of this architect, though he has also in that interval designed and built several costly private dwellings, including an elegant coun- try residence for .Mr. George W. Childs. The en- grossing care they demand, and the pride he takes in the two great public works above named, have not only left him but little leisure for much private business, but have compelled him to decline the offer twice made him to become United States Architect at Washington. Mr. .\Ic.\rlhur is .is generous in recognizing the merit of others as he is modest in rating his own. Glad to accord to the work of rivals the amplest praise, he forbears to condemn when he cannot ap- prove and applaud. Professional jealousy is alien to his nature, which is singularly self-denying, sympathetic and unpretentious. To the younger member-i of his craft he is ever ready to give cheer- fully every aid and encouragement in his power, and what he has privily done in that way is beyond estimation. Many as are the great and expensive edifices he has designed and constructed for national. State and city governments, he has discharged each trust with punctilious integrity. Whether acting for a Stale or an individual, his sense of remmercial interests of Phil- adelphia than any other organization within its limits. The presidency is regarded as a high prize, and is awarded only to the most deserving members of the body, and is rarely won without a warm contest. When .Mr. Mc.Meer was installed as Pres- iilcnt of the Commercial Exchange on January zSth, 18S0, he made an inaugural address that well ex- emplified his broad-gauge views as a public-.spirited citizen. In the couree of his remarks he said : I lies, to make ihis vast wealth a mighty power iribuury to our city's prosperity and greatness. It should he a cause of thankfulness to ohscrve the iiidjcalions presented everjwhtre throughout our country of the healthy revival of all branches of business. In every direction we hear the hum and whirl of a more active condition of atTairs, and brighter skies and better limes arc rapidly dawning upon us. Wc have also reason 10 be thankful that a kind Providence has blessed us in the past year with a teeming abundance of the great staple articles of food— so necessary for man's comfort and subsist- ence. The granaries of the great West are overflowing with precious cereals, which will enable us to feed the famishing millions of the Old World, and at the same time bring a vast amount of wealth to our own citizens. At the expiration of his term of office as President of the Commercial Exchange, Mr. McAleer laid down the gavel, but still possessed, as he now [as- sesses, the full confidence and res|>ect of his fellow- members, and with the record of having presided with a dignity and excellence unsurpassed by any of his predecessors. Mr. McAleer was married, April 13th, 1875, to Miss Josephine M. Mooncy. His family consists of his wife and four children. Without setting forth any specific policy, my purpose shall at all times be to further every measure that may tend to- wards the advancement of our association or extend its ustfulncss. We need many improvements to increase the business facilities of our city. We want additional terminal accommodations for the storage of grain, flour and other products, mote grain elevators to accommodate that highly important and r.ipidly increasing branch of trade. A Lirgc railroad warehouse is much needed for storing flour and other articles of merchandise, without additional cost to the receiver, thus placing us on an equality with our sister cities. This association should continue with simiU^ organizations to urge upon Congress the necessity for liberal appropriations for the improvement of our nver^ and harbors. Something has been done in that direction, but much remains yet to be accomplished which experience has shown can only be se- cured by constant and persistent cflTort. We have, gentlemen, a grand old city and a noble Slate, of whose history and of the intelligence and enterprise of whose citizens we should feel justly proud. Our city is the metropolis of a Commonwealth which conuins within its ample borders all the elements of wealth, prosperity and power. Pennsylvania is today one of the grandest Commonwealths of our Federal Union, which in everything that contributes to the wealth, comfirl and happiness of man, she possesses a greatness and a power scarcely appreciated by her own citi- zens. School-houses and colleges dot every section of her broad domain, and a popul.ition of overfour millions of intcL hgent. thrifty and enlerprising people dwell peacefully and h.ippily within her bosom. It is for us.as far as in our power AXSON, JOSEPH, a member of the B,..-ird of Guardians of the Poor, was born in Philadelphia, about the year 1815. He is at present retired from active business. In .September, 1882, he was elected a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor, taking his seat in that l)ody in October of the same year. He is a member of the Commit- tees on Accounts, Heating and Ventilation and Supiwrt. Mr. Paxson resides at No. 413 Richmond street. OSS, LUCIEN, a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor, was burn in Phila- delphia in 1833. His parents were Ell L. and Mary L. Moss, and he is a grand- son of John Moss, an Englishman by birth and a Democrat in politics, who set- tled in this country over fifty years ago. I.ucien Moss was educated in Philadelphia and New Haven, Connecticut, schools, and learned the trade of machinist with I. P. Morris & Co., starting in the blacksmiih shop. After spending a few years in the West Indies he went into the brass business in Philadelphia, as a member of the firm of Wiler & Moss, and am.nssed a considerable fortune. Mr. Moss is independent in his political affilia- tions, and votes for those whom he consiilers are the best men. He has never been active in polit.cs nor connected in any way with public position until William . ULLY. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 177 in July, 1SS2, he was elected a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor, a position which he was well qualified to fill, and in which he took great pride and was ver)' attentive until after eight months' service, w hen he suddenly tired of the posi- tion and resigned. As a member of the Board he served on the Hospital and Manufacturing Depart- ment Committees. Mr. Moss is a Mason, and belongs to Union Lodge, of which his father was also a member. He worships in the Jewish Synagogue, is married and lives at 271 South Twenty-first street. 'H.A.PM.\X, WILLIAM RIDGW.W, a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor, was born in Washington, District of Columbia, December 31st, 1821. WTien he was about nine years of age he came to Philadelphia, where he secured a liberal education in the public schools. He engaged in the coal business, which he conducted with suc- cess until March 1st, 1874, when he retired. Mr. Chapman was elected a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor in September, 1882, and took his seat in that body in October of the same year. In religion he is an Episcopalian. He is married and resides at No. 1 119 Wallace street. 'HL, JOHN, a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor, was born in Philadelphia, November 5th, 1S54, and is descended from German ancestry. His father, Henry Ruhl, was born in Hesse- Darmstadt and came to America in 1848, and his mother, who was Catharine Schneider, was a native of Bav.iria and came to this country in 1850. John received a good education in the public schools. In July, 1870, he graduated from Price's Boys' Grammar School and immediately entered the office of B. I. Rilter, real estate agent and conveyancer. He continued in this office for some time, and is now engaged in the conveyancing business for himself at No. 512 Walnut street. Mr. Ruhl is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Red Men. He has been a member of Vesta Social Club since its organization in June, 1S75, and has held the office of President or Secretary during the whole of that time. He has always been a Republican, and even before he had reached maturity he took an active part in politics. In November, iSSo, he was elected to the Common Council from the Thirty-first Ward to fill 2.% the unexpired term of Thomas Bouden, deceased. In this contest he was the regular Republican nom- inee, and he received a majority of 1,975 votes, the largest ever received in the ward, exceeding that of President Garfield by 364. In June, 1S82, Mr. Ruhl was elected a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor by the Councils, receiving the highest vote of any Republican in the contest. Mr. Ruhl is greatly interested in mining opera- tions, being President of one and a Director of two companies. He also represents fifteen building associations in the capacity of conveyancer. He is a member of the German Reformed Church. On February 24th, 1881, he was married to Mary Baumgartner, and they have one child. t' G\:> G"^ AMBERS, JAMES SL.\TER, a mem- ber of the Board of Guardians of the Poor, was born in I hiladclphia, July 14th, 1S27. He is descended from American and Irish ancestry. He re- ceived a fair education in the free school on Walnut street aljove Sixth, which was conducted by William Neal, and afterwards became a news- paper folder and carrier, working for the Philadel- phia Inquirer and the Satiirday Courier. His present business is that of fire insurance broker. Mr. Chambers is a member of the Masonic Order, the American Legion of Honor and the Knights of Birmingham. He is a Republican. He was at one time a member of the School Board of the Tenth .Section, and also represented the Tenth Ward in the Board of Controllers of the Public Schools. He was for a time an agent of the L'nited States Navy. In July, 1S76, he was elected a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor; became Presi- dent of the Board soon after, and ser\ed until July, 1882. Mr. Chambers is married and has three daughters and two grandchildren now living. The family belong to the Presbyterian persuasion. fALY, PATRICK K., a member of the Board of Guardians of the -Poor, was born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland, t years under the new regime, 1854 and 1855. During his term as Coun- cilman Mr. liumm wa.s one of the most active members, and was placed on several important committees. From 1855 until 1871, when he was chosen a Director of the (Jas Trust, Mr. Bumm heUI various public positions of trust. In 1859 he aspired to the position of City Treasurer, but was defeated in the convention by Benjamin F. Brown. In 1861 he was again a candidate for City Treasurer, and w.is nominated but defeated at the polls. In 1863 he was nominated for City Treasurer and elected, and was re-elected in 1865 for a second term of two years. On the 26th of January, 1871, Mr. Bumm was elected by the Select Council a member of the Board of Gas Trustees, in place of William 11. Barnes, whose term of service had expired. In this position he became prominent and active from the first day of his connection therewith, and at the expiration of his term, January 29th, 1874, he was re-elected by the Select Council. He 'was re- elected January 25th, 1877, by the same body, and again, January 29th, 1880, the Select Council honored him with its approval and elected him a Gas Trustee for the fourth time. In the Bi-Cen- tennial year he was Chairman of the Committee on Distribution, and a member of the Finance Com- mittee. Mr. Bumm is married, and lives in a comfortable home on the southwest corner of Fifteenth siiect and Girard avenue. 'LLIS, THOM.\S S., a member of the Board of Gas Trustees, was l>orn in Philadelphia, November 24th, 1815. He attended school until he reached the age of eleven years, when he was p'aceil in the auction store of M. & S. Thomas, which was at that time on Chestnut street below Third. He has been with this house ever since, ascending step by step through all the grades of the business, overcoming every obstacle by his energy and perseverance, until, from being the smallest boy in the establishment, and holding the humblest position, he eventually became one of the firm, the name of the house having been changed to Moses Thomas & Sons. When the senior partner died on August 25th, 1865, Mr. Ellis became the senior partner, and he, with John D. Thoma.s, who died in January, 1867, and N. A. Jennings, the other survi\ing members of the firm, cominued the busi ness. At the special request of the deceased the style of the firm was not changed. This house car ries on an immense and varied grade of auction sales, embracing the highest order of property, and only a man who has years of active experience could successfully manage the business. Heavy sales of real estate, stocks, bonds, moitgages, loans and ground-rents are held in the Merchants' Ex- change every week, while those of furniture, books, etc., are made in their spacious rooms at Nos. 137, 139, and 141 South Fourth street ; and in addition many sales are conducted at private residences. Mr. Ellis was an active member of the old Vol- unteer Fire Department, being attached to the Fame Hose Company, of which organization he was Treasurer for nearly thirty years. He has been a Director of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company and also a Director of the Pennsylvania Salt .Manufacturing Company. In 1864 he was cho.sen Chairman of the Committee of Auctioneers, for the fair held in Philadelphia for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission. This committee, by their subscriptions and donations, aided materially in making the undertaking a suc- cess. He was also Chainiian of a similar commit- tee in reference to the International Exhibition, held in Philatlclphia, on the occasion of the Cen- tennial Anniversary of American Independence in 1876. Mr. Ellis was elected a member of the Board of Cis Trustees on June 12th, 1879, ''X Common Council, to fill the unexpired term of Nathan Hillcs, who had resigned. He was re elected to the same ]iosition on January 29th, 1880. In the Bicentennial yeor he was a member of the Fi- nance Committee. He was married in 1841. MITH, WILLIAM HINDS, a member of the Board of Gas Tiustees, is de- scended from Scotch-lri^h parentage, and was born in Philadelphia, .\ugust 26th, 1S51. He attended the public schools of the city, and passed one year in the High School, after which he secured em- ployment as a clerk, and subsequently as a reporter for the Evening Star, of which paper he is now- City Editor. In the spring of 18S2 Mr. Smith was elected a Gas Trustee by the Common Council, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas S. Ellis, and was re elected for the full term of three George W. Fairman. ,^^ \ t Robert Laughlin. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. igS years, in January, 1SS3. During the first six | Mr. McManes became a citizen of the United months of his service in the Gas Trust, he was a ' States by naturalization in the District Court, Sep- member of the Committee on Finance, and, upon 1 tember 27th, 1S44, in minor's papers (he beintr at the reorganization of the new Board, after his re- that time between twenty-one .-ind twenty-two years election, he was appointed Chairman of the Dis- of age), Mr. Robert Galbraith appearing as his tribuiion Committee and a member of the Commit- voucher. On the formation of the People's Party tee on Works. Mr. Smith's policy as a Gas in 1855-56, he gave his allegiance to the new prin- Trustee has been marked with constant efforts in , ciples then formulated, and made his first appear- the interest of reform, and he is perhaps the most j ance in political life when he reached the age of prominent worker in that behalf in the Trust. This thirty-four years. Two years afterward he was ch.iracteristic was recognized by Governor Patiison in the selection of Mr. Smith as the successor of D.aviJ H. Lane to the Recordership. The Gover- nor made the appointment, but it failed of con- firmation in the Senate, on the ground that Mr. Lane's term of office had not expired. Mr. Smith is a member of the Masonic Order, Ancient Order United Workmen, Knights of Birmingham and the Order of Spnria. Of the last organization he is one of the original members. He is married, and has three children. elected a member of the Board of School Direc- tors of the Seventeenth Ward, and was re-elected in each successive term for the next eight years, until in 1 856 we find him chosen to the Board of Control. The Controllers were at that time elected by the separate District Boards from among their own number, and it is an evidence of Mr. Mc- Manes' advancing influence and respect that he was chosen over William O. Kline, one of the most popular citizens of Old Kensington. We have anticipated somewhat in following his course m the department of public instruction, as during the intervening time he was by no means idle in the political affairs of the city. In the year 1858, he was chosen Delegate to the Sheriff's Convention, at which William H. Kern, Esq., was Gas Works, is a native of Ireland, and , the successful candidate for nomination. The con- was born in County Tyrone, province of I test was exceedingly sharp and animated, and it Ulster, March 13th, 1822. He came to I fell to the lot of the Seventeenth Ward delegation America in the year 1830, when about | to decide among the conflicting aspirants. Largely eight years of age, and at a subsequent period through the influence of Mr. McManes, the vote learned the trade of weaving with Samuel Clark, was given to Kern, who was equally successful at at that time in the old District of Southwark. the polls. From this time forward he not only About the year 1847 he commenced business as a prospered in his private aff'airs, but devoted consid- mnnufacturer of cotton goods in the southwestern erable attention 10 public questions, and became, in portion of the city. His first attempt at business j the Seventeenih Ward at least, a power in his party, resulted in disastrous failure. His establishment j In the year i860 he was chosen delegate to the was completely destroyed by fire, and goods in the ' Gubernatorial Convention. Here he supported hands of commission merchants were sold at a sac- Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, who w.as nominated and [cMANES, JAMES, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia rifice. The insurance on his stock was very inad- equate to the actual loss, and Mr. McManes find- ing it impossible to re-establish the industry, he ac- elected, and perhaps in recognition of Mr. Mc- Manes' claims upon his gratitude, some two or three years later appointed thai gentleman Bark Inspee- cepted the position of foreman for Thomas Herk- lor for the County of Philadelphia, a position of ness, manufacturer of cotton goods, on Water near small emolument, and we believe the first of Second street. He remained there for a few years, substantial reward that he had as yet received, and then repaired his shattered fortune in the The same year he was chosen delegate to the Xa- real estate business, which he entered in 1856, tional Convention at Chicago, and was one of the il is sai.l, by the advice of Edward C. Quinn, Esq., 1 Pennsylvania delegation whose vole secured the the present counsellor; he found a more pros- 1 nomination to Lincoln. ' perous career, and was enabled to discharge all his j On the 26ih of January, 1865, Mr. McManes was previous liabilities. He continued his residence, elected by the Common Council as one of the however, in the Seventeenth Ward, estaljlishing his members of the Board of Gas Trustees to succeed office, where he has ever since retained it, at No. [ Anthony Miskey, whose term had expired. This 609 Walnut street, next to the oflRce of ex-M.ayor was his first introduction to a position, in which his Alexander Heniy. | services have been long continued and unquestion- i86 MEN OF AMERICA. ably valuable. In January, iS6S, he was again elected by the choice of the Common Council. On the 26th of January, 1871, he was elected as Trustee by Select Council to succeed Nathan Hillcs, Esq., whose term had just concluded; but the latter gentleman was at the same time chosen by Common Council, and continued as member of the Board for several years later. January 29th, 1S74, Select Council again chose Mr. McManes, and in the same manner, on the 25th of January, 1877, and January 29th, 1880, manifested their en- tire confidence and appruwal. In 1S62 Mr. McM.ines announced himself as candidate for Congress from the then Third Dis- trict of Pennsylv.Tnia. The Convention was held at the American Mechanics' Hall, corner of Fourth and George streets. His opponent was the Hon. Leonard Myers, who on- this occasion carried off the prize, and was successful at the ensuing elec- tion. In the Convention which met in Philadelphia on Thursday, August 30th, 1866, Mr. McManes re- ceived the nomination of the regular Republican party for the ofifice of Prothonotary of the District Court. In the same manner as in the election which followed, the struggle for the nomination was singularly exciting and protracted. There were altogether eight aspirants for the office, and among these several gentlemen who had exerted a leading influence in the party through a series of previous years; but after three days of uncertainty the choice fell to the candidate from the Seventeenth, whose share in politics had heretofore been principally confined to his district and his ward. From the time of its rise in i860 to the present day the Republican party has never seen so gloomy an outlook as in 1866. The conduct of President Johnson had created uncertainty and discontent all through the North; a deep and apparently incura- ble schism rent the party ranks, and the merits and pretensions of each nominee for office were scanned and sifted with unusual acuteness. The Public Ledger, in its cautious manner, and perhaps with a sense of humor, speaks of Mr. McManes as, "although a member of the Gas Trust, an upright and honorable gentleman." It will be observed that a certain fashion of indiscriminate fault-find- ing has not been confined to the present day. His opponent on the Democratic side was Mr. John W. Lynn, an excellent citizen of old Southwark, and Mr. McManes was elected by a majority as respecl- al)le as any on the Republican ticket; after what was then characterized as " one of the most earnest and exciting campaigns on record." In this post his administration was marked by careful attention and punctuality, and the various functions of the office were performed with creditable regularity and correctness. Upon the expiration of his term as Prothonotary, Mr. McManes retired, with the exception of his connection with the Trust, which he still maintained, almost entirely to special business and to private life. He changed his residence from the Seven- teenth Ward to the dwelling on Fr.mklin street, which he at present occupies. Although his abili- ties as a party-organizer and leader were recognized and accepted, for more than ten years he ajipeared no longer a clannant of irapular suft'ragc. In 1880, however, he was elected as delegate at large from the State of Pennsylvania to the National Conven- tion which met at Chicago, and on this occasion at- tracted wider attention and exercised a greater in- fluence than perhaps nt any other portion of his career. It will be remembered that at that time party organization had assumed a shape of little less than military rigidity, and the oljL'dience ex- acted from party fealty forbade the entertainment of personal views or expression of personal opinion. An allegiance involving such complete self-nega- tion was extremely distasteful to a person of Mr. McManes' independent character, and not likely to command popular approbation. The convention met at Chicago, on Wednesday, June 2d, 18S0, but the various delegations had reached the city and transacted much important business during the two preceding days. Hon. J. Donald Cameron, as Chairman of the National Executive Committee, acted ex-officio as temporary chairman of the convention; and it was well known that as he, with a majority of the Pennsyl- vania delegation, were in favor of the nomination of General Grant, it was thought probable that the coercive power of the " Unit Rule " would fore- stall opposition. On Tuesday, however, it was an- nounced that a " manifesto " would be published on the following day, setting forth that, as it was well known a majority of the citizens of Pennsylvania were opposed to the nomination of General Grant, and as the sul>scribing delegates were desirous of allowing the freest expression of the popular will and heartily enlisted in the success of the Republi- can party, they pledged themselves to vote against Grant as their several wishes dictated. This paper, very important at that time, was signed by James McManes, at the head of a respectable list, in- eluding many of the ablest and most active men in the delegation. This action, as is well known, threw the plans of the leaders into extreme con- fusion. It touched a responsive chord in the dele- gations from other .St.ites, and although strenuously THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 187 resisted in every way, destroyed the hopes of the supporters of Grant, and resulted in the nomination of the lamented Garfield. Mr. McManes, who for a full decade has been recognized as an undoubted leader in Philadelphia politics, is a gentleman of full medium height, vigorously proportioned, of a meditative tempera- ment, and in manner grave and reticent. From unfavorable beginnings he has attained both position and fortune, and may be fairly admitted the creation of his own hand. His political career has been marked by much prudence and forecast; rarely mistaken in the true position of affairs, and feeling almost instinctively the direction of the popular will. He is married, and his home-life has ap- parently been accompanied with much content. IPRK, JAMES, a member of the Gas Trust, was born about the year 1833 in Philadelphia, where he attended school and has had a continuous residence. He is connected in business as a member of the firm of Samuel O. Stokes, yarns. No. 1 12 Chestnut street, and he resides at No. nil Lehigh avenue. He is a Republican, and has been prominent in politics for many years. For some time he was connected with the Water Department, and has held other positions of trust in the city government. Mr. Work became connected with the Depart- ment of Gas as a Trustee, in the Bi-Centennial year, by election on the 19th of January, 1882, by the Common Council, in the place of Fred- erick G. Wolbert, whose term of service expired. During that year he served on the Committees on Works and Distribution. ELLY, SAMUEL S., one of the Gas Trustees, was boin in Philadel]ihia about the year 1S20. He received his school- ing in that city, and has always resided there. He has retired from business, is married, and lives at 1530 Master street. Mr. Kelly entered the Gas Trust, by election by the Select Council, January 27th, 1870, as the successor of John A. Houseman, whose term ex- pired. He was re-elected four times, viz. : January 20th, 1873; January 27th, 1876; February 6th, 1879 ; and January 1 7th, 1882. In the latter year he served on the Co.i.mittee on Works and Distribution. h ~^^*~ |4] ITTENHOUSE, JOHN S., a member of ■'' the Board of Gas Trustees, was born in Geimantown in the year 1832, and was instructed in the private schools of the neighborhood. Mis first employment was as a clerk in a general store kept by his father, and he engaged in the mercantile business for himself soon after he became of age. His only public position, except as Gas Trustee, was Assist- ant Commissioner of Highways, to which he was appointed in 1S58. On the 1st of May, 1879, he was elected a mem- ber of the Board of Gas Trustees by the Select Council, to serve the unexpired term of Nathan L. Jones, deceased, and on January 20th, 1881, he was re-elected by the same body. NOTB.— For the sketches of David H. Lane and M. Hall Stanton, of the Board of Gas Trustees, see the Index. Appendix. MAYOR KING'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. GENTLEMEN OF THE SELECT AND COMMON COUNCILS : — I am deeply sensible of the responsibili- ties I am about to assume in entering upon the duties of the Mayoralty of this city. Called to this high position by the favor of my fellow-citizens, I shall endeavor to discharge all its duties with fidelity. Every pledge given by me previous to my election shall be faithfully redeemed. In the discharge of the duties about to devolve on me, which shall be executed with firmness and fear- lessness, I must ask the same indulgence which has been extended to me in other public positions for the last twenty years. It has been customary for my predecessors, at their inauguration, to make known the policy they in- tend to pursue in administering the affairs of the city, thus giving to Councils and the people their views of such measures as they " may deem expedient for the security, health, cleanliness, improvement, and •welfare of the city." I must first congratulate you on the present condition of the finances. Although oppressed with a large debt, recent legislation will enable us to lessen it and bring it within reasonable bounds, and thus enable us to reduce the burden of taxation. The Act of 1879, if strictly and sternly adhered to in all its details, will enable us to accomplish this much-desired object. During my continuance in office it will give me great pleasure to join with you in all measures for the improvement and welfare of the city. It will be, I am satisfied, your earnest endeavor to resist all improper or unnecessary expenditures of the public funds. The people demand reform and retrench- ment and greater economy in expenditure. Much has been accomplished and much more is expected, and the more speedily we pay obedience to the popular will, the sooner will Councils gain the confi- dence which they once had in this community. It will be my duty to free the city from a partisan police. An obser\ation of many years has con- vinced me that a police force, in order to be truly effective, must be entirely disconnected from politics, and that its members should hold their positions as long as they conduct themselves honestly, soberly, and efficiently. The very knowledge that they hold their positions on these terms will make them the terror of every violator of the law. By the present system, when votes are to be secured, laws and ordinances are disregarded, crime connived at, and known and open violators of the most salutary laws go free and unpunished. Under my administration, the members of the police force will not be per- mitted to interfere in elections, or in the nominating conventions of either party, and every violation of this rule will cause an immediate discharge, and no member of the force so discharged will ever be able to regain his position. In making this declaration it is proper for me to say, further, that I am aware that in some wards of the city members of the police force have been used by so-called political leaders /or their own purposes. Nominally on the force, they have been the political agents to carry out the views and partisan designs of these leaders. Every case of this kind shall be fairly investigated, and if vacancies are created, the places will be filled irrespective of party affiliations. Assessments on the police force for political purposes shall no longer be tolerated. Contributions and assessments for political purposes have produced, and will continue to produce, the worst possible results to the whole body politic. Whilst nominally procured for honest and legitimate election ex- penses, they are used to corrupt the voter and purchase the election officer. If corporate bodies and wealthy citizens will continue to contribute their money, with the knowledge th.it the money thus con- tributed is used to corrupt our elections, it shall be known that during my administration the police of Philadelphia shall not be made accessories to such crimes by contributions for such nefarious purposes, which strike at the foundations of our civil government. One of the most important wants of the city is better-paved highways. Paving with cobble stones or rubble should be discontinued, and the Belgian block or other approved pavement should be here- after authorized. In the suburban districts, cobble stones might be used temporarily, and I would recommend to Councils to appropriate a moderate amount annually for the purpose of repaving with Belgian blocks our principal streets at an early day. The present Condition of many of our main avenues is a reproach to the city. Improved pavements will add to the value of property on the line of the streets improved, and the treasury would be reimbursed in some degree from that increase. (189) I go APPENDIX. I cannot too earnestly impress uimn Councils the necessity of procuring an abundant supply of pure water. Any further ilelay in making this most necess-iry provision might endanger the health ami lives of our citizens. The completion of the East l'.irk Resrrvoir, as a subsiiling and storage reservoir, would be a great auxiliary, and aid l.irgely in securing us pure water at all seasons of the year. In completing this reserNoir, the labor of the inmates nf ihc Mouse of Correction could be advantageously and economically used. To accomplish this mucb-desiied object, I would suggest that an appropriaiion should be made from the surplus now in the treasury from tlie vear tSSo. A moderate appropriation this year might be continued from time to lime until the whole work should be completed. The pro(>er lighting of a large city is one of the most imporiant duties devolved UjHin Councils. If a city lie properly lighted, life and projierty are better secured. Darkness enables ihe thief, the burglar, and the criminal of every description to cover their tracks. Abundant light, on the contrary, is one of our best detective agents and preventives of crimes. It tends, besides, ti> adil to a city's popu- lation, commerce, and riches, and will increase its comforts as a place of residence. The electric light" has been introduced into some of the large and wealthy cities of the world, with great promise if future succes-. Its brilliancy and cheapness have commended it to citizens. In Ixjudon, I'-iiis, Vienna, New York, and in some of our own western cities it is being introduced. I commend it to the favorable con- sideration of Councils. The Board of Education is one of the best managed of our Departments. Its administration re- flects great credit on llie Hoard. With the expenditure of a I.irge appropriation made annually to them, no di^saiisfaction is expressed, and they have the entire confidence of the community. Councils should next year make a more liberal appropriation. Ufion the successful management of our schools, and the education of the young, depends the best development of our insiituiions. The appropriations for several years for teachers' salaries, whose duties are so arduous and exacting, were inndcquate; par- ticularly those salaries (laid to the teachers charged with the instruction of the youngest chiMren. The appropriation for night schools was exhnusted before the term was more than half over. The popularity and Usefulness of these night schools were so marked in some sections, that they have been supixjrted by private contributions for more than half the season. Hef. re concluding, there are a few oiher subjects to which I beg leave to draw the ritlenlion of Councils. It is important that the apartments in the Public Buildings, designed for public offices, shall be speedily occupied. Scattered as they now are, our citizens are seriously inconvenienced. Considering the millions already expended for these buildings, the city should be saved the annual rents paid for the offices now occupied for public purposes. The Passenger Railways are a great convenience to the public. It can lie justly said they join our widely spread city in iron bands, and have added largely to iis increase. But l>efore any additional privilege should be gr.inted to any of them, I would exact a reduction to five cent fares. .Some knowl- edge of the workings of these roads, and of their expenditures, has s.itislied me that a five cent fare would pay the stockholders a fair percent.ige on their capital, if it would not tend to increase it, by in- creasing ihe number of persons who would use the cars. With reference to this subject Councils should insist that the Act entitled " An Act to define the duties and liabilities of Passenger Railway Corporations in the City of PhiLadelphia," passed in |S6S, should be forthwith repealed, in order to bring the subject of fares as far as practicable under the juris- diction of Councils. Continueil and increasing attention should be given to the navigation of the Delaware and Schuyl- kill rivers. Without commerce, no city can l>ecome truly great and wealthy. The river Delaware and its tributaries have natural advantages scarcely equalled, and need but few artificial improvements, such as clearing the channels of obstructions and erecting the necessary lights. Congress has made, and I have no doubt will continue to make, the necessary appropriations; but in my opinion the attention of Congress should annually be directed by Councils to the necessity of making these appropriations. In the selection of menilwrs of the Hoard of Guardians of the Poor, members of the House of Correction, Commissioners of the Fire Department, and Trustees of the Gas Works, I would conjure my fellow-citizens of .Select and Common Councils to choose none but men of approved standing and character in the community. To the members of the first two Boards the care of the poor, sick, infirm, and the unfortunate inebriates of both sexes are confided, and they should not only Ik; men of iniegnty and ability, but men full of charity, with a kindly feeling towards those placed in their charge. There are many men of leisure in our community who would willingly give their time to the management of these benevolent institutions. Political considerations should not be [lemiitteil to enter into the choice of these agents. To the Trustees of the Gas Works are intrusted millions of the public funds. Niit only men of integrity but of business capacity of a high character are needed for these positions. Above all, no one should be selected who has mercenary or politic.il objects in view. Their accounts should be always open for public ins|>ection and examination, and should be annually audited by the City Controller. The Commissioners of the Eire Department should likewise be men of integrity, and should not be chosen in order to give pl.aces to a few (xilitical agents. If the [Xisition of a fireman is to lie considered in the future, as it is at present, a reward for political services rendered, or about to be rendered, then it is time the Department should be entirely reconstructed. The fireman — upon whose sobriety, fidelity, and courage so much de| ends — should be chosen irrespective of |iarty, and should hold his office during good l)ehavior. And now, gentlemen of the Select and Common Councils, in conclusion : I have been associated APPENDIX. 191 wilh you for upwards of twenty years. During that whole time, I have been treated by you all with kindness, regard, and respect. The recollections of these twenty years are among the happiest of my life. During my term of office as Mayor, I shall desire to cultivate wilh you, one and all, the same feelings of kindness and friemiship. If we should ever differ, 1 am satisfied it will be the difference of honest men seeking best how to serve the interests of our we.l-beloved city. MAYOR KING'S SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE (^Inchidiii;^ Department Statistics in the Bi-Centennial year). Mayor's Office, Philadelphia, March ■z.'&th, 1883. To the Select and Common Councils of the City of PhilaiMphia : Gentlemen: — The results of another year of our city's government have been recorded, and it is my duly, by the Act of Consolidation, to transmit to City Councils my Annual Message, with the Reports of the several Departmenls, giving in detail their operations for the year cloMiig with the 31st of Decemiier, 1SS2. In presenting my second Annual Message, I cannot refrain from expressing my profound gratifica- tion at the general prosperity which abounds in our midst. Notwiihstanding the crimes and disorders incident to dense populcition, the law in our city is supreme; good order prevails; the properly and rights of the ciiizens are secure; manufactories flour- ish; commerce increases; the laborer, the skilled mechanic, the artisan, are employed; and capital hns its rewards. Numerous lines of railroads centring in our city bring to our doors the products of a vast and fruitful interior, and return laden with the ever increasing fabrics of our manufacturing establish- ments, for all of which, we humbly acknowledge the fostering care and protection of the Almighty F.ither, who rules in justice and righteousness among the nations. The interests committed to the care of Councis are great and varied. To you belong the re- sponsibilities of niunidpal legislation ; you increase or decrease the tax rate ; you are expected to inaugur.ite methods of reform and economy ; and the people look to you f >r the exercise of due diligence and care in supervising the several Depnrtments, to produce all the advantage'^ which flow from a wise and economical administration of the aflairs of the municipality. In all that pertains to an enlightened and economical administration of our city government, including a full and unfailing supply of pure w.uer, a thorough repaving of our princip.Tl streets with Belgian blocks, or other improved pavements, extending the electric light system to our business avenues, and especially to the Delaware river front, a thorough system of sanitary regulations, which will insure clean streets and the health of our people — in all such measures, you may be assured of my earnest and energetic co-operation. DEPARTMENT OF CITY CONTROLLER. The report of the City Controller for 18S2 shows that the year commenced with a suiplus balance of 81,360,559.75 ; and also, the surplus for the year, §372,425.22. The tit.il receipts for the year were 313,425,404.97; the expenditures were ;$I3,255,6S4.53; re- ceipts over expenditures were 3169,720.44. The decrease in totil indebtedness for the years 1881 and 1882 was jSa, 109,538.06. During the year 1SS2, 8404,002.65 of the warrants of previous years were paid. P'or Departments, including Public Buildings, there was ])aid $7,486,324.67, and if to this amount be added $441,814.42 warrants countersigned for the Departmenls, and yet outstanding, — the total costs of the Departments including Public Buildings, for the year 1882, will be 37,928.139.09. The Appropriation for 1882 was 547.300 00 • The Expenditures were 345,984 15 The following is a statement of the appropriations of 18S2 to the Departments. This includes balances carried into the books of 1882, which were provided for in 1S81, aiul includes appro|iriations out of the surplus of iSSo and iSSl. Appropriated. Countersigned. Merging. Special appropriation not mercing. 39,765,718 II 37,928,088 6g 3286,226 59 51,551,402 S3 Revenues from all sources for the year 1882 313,425,404 97 192 APPENDIX. COMMISSIONERS OF SINKING FUND. The report of the Conimissioncr^, submitted (•t the yc:ir emlinj; Iicccmber 31, 1SS2, shows that the city tiel* h.-is been reduced during the ye.ir, the sum of seven hundred and six thousand live hun- dred and eleven (706,511) dollars and ninety-three (93) cents. Securities held by Sinking Fund amount to $24,813,318 39 Total funded debt, I>cceml>cr 31, 1SS2 68,139,916 24 Decrease of funded debt in 1SS2 706,5 1131 ^67,433.404 93 DEPARTMENT OF CITY TREASURER. The appropriation for 18S2 w.is '. $37,700 00 Disbursements 37,206 52 Cash balance on hand January I , I SS2 2,250,693 44 Total cash receipts 13,425,404 97 Si>.076.09S 41 Total paj-ments 13.255,684 53 Cash balance January i, 18S3 $2,420,413 S3 DEPARTMENT OF TAXES. The Receiver of Taxes presents a report of the colleciion of taxes for the year 1SS2. The annual appropriation for 1SS2 to the Receiver was $46,623 OJ Disbursements 43,619 58 The total amount of the City tax assessment for the year 1SS2 was $10,118,338 05 Additions during the year 3.650 04 $10,121,988 09 Allowance by " Board of Revision " 39.53- 73 Assessment $10,0^2455 36 Amount collected $9,406,362 13 Discount $43,644 96 Penalty 42.429 43 Net discount $1,215 S3 Receipts from poll lax, Februar)- election $1,422 00 Receipts from poll tax, November election 38,645 20 $40,067 20 Paid into City Treasury, search fees, from October I, iSSi, to October i, 1SS2 '. S3.S50 55 St.-ite tax, collected during the year 1SS2 •. 2o!i,5i2 68 Delinquent Taxes. — The following statement is submitted by the Delinquent Tax Collector for part of the year 1882, showing a gain to the city over former administrations of this office of $15,529.69, paid into the City Tre.-isury, and, but for the extraordinary expenses connected with the previous man- agement of that office (which will not occur again), the sum of $25,750.87 would have been paid into the City Treasury for the year 1SS2. Amount delinquent taxes collected from J.inuary 24, 1S82, to December 31, 1S82 $793.6^4 94 On which was retained : Commission allowed by law, 5 \->ct cent $39,684 16 Interest received from Fidelity Trust Comjiany 5° '3 Commission on collections made by Lien Solicitor and office deputies, who are paid fixed salaries S>'85 o? Tot.il .imount of fees and emoluments of this office from Januarv- 24. 1SS2, to Deccmlwr 31, 1SS2 '. . . $44,919 36 Which was appropriated as follows : Samuel C. Willits. 1^ f^sm '^E ^ William Bumm. APPENDIX. 193 Paid expenses of office, inchuling Collector's salary, renl, clerk hire, stationery, etc ?I9>'carch 1,4*2 75 Total ^.844 75 The branch sewers built dming the year, which are three feet in Jiameter, amotmted to 25,556 lineal feet, costing $66,856.00, or an average of J2.62 per foot ; ^58,529 of ihe cost was paid by property owners and $11,315 b)- the city. ■ The calculaiioni, plans, and -.urvevs for the SchuylkUI river sewer, have been made from the dam to Manayunk along the east side of the 'river. The plan of the engineer, it seems, contemplates the continuation of the sewer below the dam to the mouth of the SchuylkUI, a distance of seven mUes. The distance from the dam up to Manaynink U given as sU mUes. The estimated cost, from Fairmount to Manayunk, is $500,000. The necessity for this work has long been felL This work is too important to be delayed. The necessary appropriation should be made at once, and the work prosecuted w ith vigor to completion within a year. ^ , „ .„ . v 1 ..^ The report also states that a plan for a granite bridge crossing the Schuylkill has been selectea. The roadway of the bridge will be the width of Market street, between curbs 168 feet) with sidewalks (16 feet wide); the total length wdl be 544 feet, and will cost one million two hundred thousand ( I.200,000j dollars. Such a bridge will be permanent and valuable, and ample for all the demands of 'Iht Re^slry Bureau is attached to the Survey Department, and was organized in July, 1865. There are in use 138 registry books, containing 3,315 plans, upon wl.ich there are plotted 182,581 piop- eities, with 187,655 transfers. The work for 1882 has been as follows: Descripdons of property 15^59: 'ol^I. 352-445 Lots .^ . 4.325; total. 186,906 Transfers "5.S23: total, 203.478 Certificuesof search „ 5'93'- DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. The appropriauon to thU Department for the year was $l,536.453-70, and the diibursemenls were ^''^ Tht*tntCTes!s involved in the management of ihU Department are greater than dl the others, for upon the broad foundation of the general education of the people rest the secunti« of free government. The report shows the number of primary schools to be 227; .^.f:""^^^- V^=, ^™"r^'' ,^',,^^1 chs ified, 3^ a school of practice; a boys' High School and girls Normal Sdhool; making the total number of^hools 463. The number of pupiU in aU grades are 103.302. TTienumber of 1^^'^ being, males. 82 ; females, 2,057 ; total, 2,139. There was expended for night schools, $20,19302, and for Industrial .\rt School, $1,493. . , , -n- c . v...^,.^ ,t^ Ihe annual cost of our school-sv-stem is shown by the report to be one milbon five hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars ($1,529,157) and (97) cents. The tres. the public ^^uares. and other city property. The Commissioner calls attention again to the necessity of wharfing the nvcr front of the Aln«hou^ pror«rty on the SchuvlkiU river. I repeat the suggestion which I made ■" iny la'^t message: "The propertv has a river frontage of 4.000 feel, which, if filled in and wharfed. would bring consider- able revenue lo the city. The pauper labor of the Hou>e could be uulized for this purpose, and m the course of time the work would be done wi.hout cr« to the aiy." „„ . , ,, The report of the CommissioneT for the year ending December 31, 1882, shows as toUows: Annual appropriation for 1S82 $138,962 00 Special appropriation for 1882 I,6l8 30 Total • $»40.58o 30 I nsfaurseroenu ••39.9J' '9 William McAleer. APPENDIX. 197 The revenues of this Department for the year have been as follows : From market-houses $48,002 00 From wharves and hindings 46,040 00 From city property 7.1-7 ^9 From sale of city properly, etc 13.299 62 From venders' licenses 16,291 00 Total 3130,760 51 DEPARTMENT OF LAW. The City Solicitor has had an appropriation for the year 1SS2 of S41.2S0. The disbursements were $39,269.03. The report of the Solicitor shows th:it during the year 733 claims were returned lien from the various Departments. From the Water Department, 391, amounting to 535,687.31 ; from the Board of Health, 305, .amounting to S3,9J4.37; from the Highway, 37, amounting to 51,546.84; a total of 541,146.52. Before filing liens, $2,635 were paid ; the others are to be recovered by suit. The collections made during the year and paid into the city treasury amount to 3108,132.12. The certified mandamuses during the year amounted to 592,556.58. The expenses charged against the city in contested election cases were 532,718.12. Three hundred and sixty-three actions were commenced against the city in the year 18S2; 135 were brought in Common Pleas, and 228 before magistrates. Sixty-one actions were brought before magistrates by the City of Philadelphia to recover penalties for the violation of her ordinances, all of which were decided in favor of the city. Certified mandamus executions for road damages were issued to the amount of 511.058. 33; for work done and materials furnished, 538,210.06; for damages resulting from accidents occasioned by defective conditions of highways, construction of sewers, public works, etc., SM.378.52. The District Attorney. — The appropriation for this office, 535 .900, aiid the fees received and paid into the City Treasury, amounted to 531.344-67. The Sheriff received an appropriation of 554,475, and paid fees into the City Treasury amounting to 545,306.95. The Register of Wills reports the total number of wills probated in 1882 to be 1,247, ^"sements were $406,317.57. The report sets forth that the pauper population of the Almshouse at the beginning of the year 1S82 was 2,462, and there w.is admitted during the year 6,135, and discharged, 5,755; leaving, at the end of the year, 2,842. The cost of maintaining the House for the year was : Hospital, $29,615 ; for the insane, $13,598 ; for Children's Asylum, $1,467; House generally, $316,069; for manufacturing purposes, $20,730; for farm and Blockley Estate, $1 1,527 ; and out-door expenses, $26,410. It is to be hoped that this Department will in the future show a sound and economical administra- tion of the affairs of this institution, which past developments have shown are much needed. HOUSE OF CORRECTION. The appropriation to this Board for the year was $175,237, and the disbursements were $175,073.60. The revenues were $13,075.31. The report shows the number received from the opening of the inslilution, on J.nnuary 15, 1S74, until December 31, 1882, was 49.311, a large majority of whom were males. There was received during the year 1SS2 5,687, and discharged about the .same number. 198 APPEXDIX. T c:in do. It is proposed to ntil;; —., and lUo of c^xcp^eting th« I .-- works o*' the in^Eitmioa iia>--r.: Tf: --'i'i- li:-r.y i.-. ; (^oUegeriUe. The rercnue from ^Ic u( gis : ne Tear, I,6j0 paizs of shoes were made b; the imnalr*. Ir. the : - of management. THE COUNTY PRISON. T. - 1 - 1 - __. ^ -_ ;: je principal (a-ts fjr the yeir as follows: Appropriatioo for 1SS2 S10S.514 00 Disbonements 107 .146 99 Rerenue for 1SS2, from work of prisoners T 1 3,000 CO The total number of prisoners received during the jrcar 18S2 24,176 .\n increase o*-er iSSi of. 1.69S Convicted during ihe year 795 DEPARTMENT OF CITY COMMISSIONERS. To this Department was appropriated for the year iSS:. S56S.020. and the dbbmsemcDIs were $550,802-46. of which S121.4JO was f >r the Stale Ha>piial f»r In:>ane. a: Norrbiown, and to Inspectors of Eastern Penitentiary. S20.000; to the Managers of the House of Refuge, $40,000; to the Pennsyl- vania Suie Lunatic Hospital, Sl.ioo; for the pay of magistrates. {72.000. The expenses for holding elections in 1SS2 were $75,000. and the expenses of the Courts were «223.20j. COMMISSIONERS OF FAIRMOUNT PARK. To the Commissioners of the Park was arfrropriateJ $191,000, and their disbmsanenls were {187,904.24. The details of the Park management wiU be found in the report. DEPARTMENT OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS. To this Department was appropriated for the year 1SS2 the sum of J462.S55, and di>barsed The whole number of fires during 1SS2 was 756, with a loss of property of about two millions three hundred and fourteen thousand seven hundred and eleven (2,314.711) dollars. There is in use in the Department 43.6S0 feet of gum hose and 11,950 fee: of rubber-lined cotton hose. The real estate insurance amounted 10 $311,000, and the personal estate insurance was $616,350. The losses for the year are estimated at eight miliions two hundred and thirty-five thousand nine ban* dred and sixty-three (8,235.963) do'.iars. THE BOARD OF FIRE ESCAPES Present their annual report for the year i SSi. The question of fire escapes tiTSt took shape in the passage of an ordinance hy Coondls, December, 1S76, " To create a Board to regulate the cjnsiruciion and use of fire escapes." For some reason this ordinance was inoperative. Three years after, in June of 1S79, the Legislature of the Slate passed an act •* To provide for the better security of life and limb in cases of hre in hotels and other buildings." In pursuance of this .\ct of .-Vi-^mbly. the City Councils in January. 1SS2. passe2 , 129 05 $69,242 49 For meters ,. ., $70,721 5° " real estate ,...., 30.i53 89 " coal on hand and received dudng the year , 42,917 26 " wages, taxes, etc , 43.95° 75 $187,743 40 THE TRUSTEES OF CITY ICE BOATS. This Department has been a great help to the commerce of our city, in keeping open the Delaware river during the winter season; and, as now conducted, with three steamboats of large dimensions, not only keeps the river open, but returns a revenue by towage. ' The annual appropriation for the year 18S2 was $41,965, and disbursements, $41,659.65. The revenue for the year, paid into the City Treasury, for towage, was $687.62. DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING INSPECTORS. The inspectors report the revenue for the year 1882 to be: received for permits, etc., $10,734.85, disbursements (salaries of inspectors, etc.), $10,852.68, Dwelling-houses. Stores and dwellings. Stores. One-slory ' I.53S 735 IQ 21 59 9 21 Two-story 6 11 7 5 I I Total 2,280 9' 51 The character and progress of improvements going forward in our city during the year may be learned from the report of this Department. 20O APPENDIX. THE DEPARTMENT OF STEAM ENGINES AND BOILERS. The Chief Inspector of this Department presents his annual report. An imjiortant fact connected with this report is the showing that the Department i- self-sustaininj;. The appropriation being 812,335, and the revenue $14,192, giving a net gam to the city of 81,857. No steam boiler exploded during the year. The revised ordinance regulating the inspection of new boilers, approved February 16, 1SS2, is giving satisfaction, and the Inspector states, that there is great improvement in the material and con- struction of Boilers. The appropriation for 18S2 was $12,335, and the disbursements were $11,979.37. The revenue \v.as $14,192. THE PUBLIC BUILDING COMMISSIONERS. In connection with the erection of our new City Hall there has been much criticism as to the location, materials, design and management in its construction. Above all criticism in the m.inagcment, the building itself, in iis colossal grandeur and ornate beauty, will stand before the generations to come an object lesson of .architectural strength, and beauty, worth, to our civilization, to art, to skilled workman- ship, and to Philadelphia interests, all it has cost in dollars. The Commissioners furnish a statement of their operations during the year, as follows: " The balance to the credit of the Commissioners on the 3151 of December, 1881, was $102,096.77. There was appropriated for the year 1882 by the City Councils $750,000, making a total applicable to the purposes of the Commission during the year 18S2 of $852,096.77. Of this there had been expended up to December 31, 1SS2, $827,574.01, leaving an unexpended balance carried to their credit for the present year (1SS3) of $24,522.76. " During the past year the entire marble work of the southern and eastern fronts of the building has been completed and set in place, and the trestle-work and scaffolding has been entirely removed from the southern front and almpear. The applicants for assistants were 714; p.nssed successfully, 475, and 202 were re- jected as incompetent, and 37 failed to appear. There are now entered on the records as registered pharmacists, 877, and as qualified assi-t- ants, 517. The last census of drug stores, taken by order of the Mayor, shows, that all but six had been legally registered. The re]ioit states, that no fatal error has been made by any person holding a certi- ficate from the Hoard since its organization. The repoit also suggests that an annu.Tl census be taken by the jiolice force, which meets with my approbation. During the year 1882 there were 14 applicants for examination as proprietors ; 7 passed, 3 were rejected, and 4 did not appear; 31 assistants applied for examination, 14 passed, II were rejected, 6 did not appear. The year 1882 was made meitioiable in Pennsylvania by the Bi-Centennial celebration of the found- ing of the Slate. Great have been the chanoes in our Slate and city since William Pcnn embarked, September 11, 1682, at De.il, England, on the ship H'dcomf, and landed, first at New Castle, October AfFt.NUIX. 20 •? 27th, then at Upland, Chester, October 29th, and then at Philadelphia about October 30, 16S2. From that time to the present is presented one of the marvels of human history. First the wildernes-, and the march of progress, and now, civilization. A Stale with a populaiiun of over four niillions of people; a government of equal freedom for all ; a city of nearly a million inhabitants, and resources of commerce, manufactures, and a classification of indubtries, professions, and institutions so marvellous that a limited display occupied six days in review. Hitherto it has been the custom of nations to celebrate their historic periods by grand military dis- plays of phy-ical brute force, but this Bi-Centennial celebration of ours was the display of the industries of peace and the social and scientific resources of a government of the people. With you, gentlemen of the Councils, rests in a great degree the future prosperity and progress of our city. The citizen who feels a jiride in the reputation of the city will not fad to co-operate, and as the years pass, ihere shall be a constant increase of moral power, business integrity, and social refine- ment which will enable us to continue in the rank of a great city. I am, respectfully, SAMUEL G. KING, Mayor of Phil.inelphia. INDEX. A. Abbott, Charles F., 152. Adaire, Alexander, 144. Adams, Henry R., 135. Albright, Adam, 6g. Allen, Joseph S., 52. Allison, Hon. Joseph, 41. Allison, Walter, 162. Ashman, Hon. William N., 46. Austin, Charles S., 143. Bailey, John T., III. Baldwin, William, 21. Banes, Charles H., 67. Bardsley, John, log. Barr, Robert J., 53. Becker, William P., 52. Bement, William B., 91. Benson, Gust.ivus S., 125. Biddle, Alexander, 116. Biddle, Hon. Craig, 41. Brady, John, 59. Bregy, F. Amed^e, 24. Brice, Wilham, 172. Briggs, Hon. Amos, 44. Brooke, John G., 66. Brown, Charles, 51. Brown, James L., 47. Brown, Joseph H., loi. Budd, Samuel P., 113. Bumm, Henry, 183. Bumm, George W., 68. Bumm, William, 157. c. Campbell, James, iig. Campbell, John M., 146. Cantlin, John R., 39. Carlin, Bernard J., 81. Cassin, Isaac S., 168. Cattell, Samuel W., 16S. Catanach, Adam A., 113. Caven, Joseph L., 29. Chambers, James S., 177. Chapman, William R., 177. Claghorn, James L., 117. Claghorn, J. Raymond, 87. Clarke, Thomas H., 55. Clay, Henry, 93. Cleeman, Dr. Richard A., 164. CoUaday, William Y., 147. Collins, Hugh, 47. Collins, Samuel C, go. Collis, Charles H. T., 122. Comegys, B. B., 122. Conrad, George W., g4. Conrade, George T., 82. Cooper, James J., 151. Corcoran, James, 139. Cotton, George A., 130. Craig, Samuel L., 108. Cramp, Charles H., 132. Crouch, George W., 104. Cuming, John K., 74. Daly, Patrick K., 177. Davis, John S., 70. Davis, Marcus A., 164. Davis, William H. H., 81. Dickinson, Mahlon H., 169. Dingee, Albert H., 166. Disston, Thomas S., 160. Dixey, William, ig. Douglass, William S., 36. Downing, Frank T., 180. Drayton, William H., 117. Duff, William A., 159. Dundore, Franklin, 135. Dunlap, Henry C, 88. Dunlap, William, 94. Dunn, John, 157. Dutton, William H., 164. E. Eckstein, John, 115. Elcock, Hon. Thomas R., 45. (205) 2C6 Elkin, Lcwi'i, 144. EIIU, Thomas S., 184. Else, Thomas C, 112. Elwell, Joseph S., 132. Evan^, James, 72. Fagnn, Pauick A., 146. Fairman, George \V., 142. Kll, Hon. D. Xe«lin, 42. Fcllon, Samuel K., 100. Ferguson, James M., 127. ?'incllay, Hon. John K., 46. Finletler, Hon. Thomas K., 43. Filzpatrick, Philip, 129. Flanagan, John, 100. Fletcher, Joseph K., 17. Floyd, Robert C, 179. Ford, Dr. \V. H., 163. Foster, William A., 97. Freeborn, James, 147. Frothingham, Theodore, 130. Furlong, Edward, 140. G. Gardy, William R., 95. Gartside, Amos, 130. Gaikill, Thomas V,., 167. Gates, James K., 71. Gillingham, Jonathan, 134. Givin, Samuel I., 37. Glass, Henr)', 71. Godshall, Henry S., 154. Govett, Lewis W., 84. Grace, A. Atwood, 98. Graham, George S., 23. Gratz, Simon, 153. Green, Thomas, 71. Grim, Jacob, 99. Grim, John L., 103. Grim, Joseph, 98. Griscom, Clement A., iSo. Gross, A. Haller, 63. Gulager, William, 149. H. Hall, J. Dalla^^, loi. Halliwell, Edward T., iSo. Halliwell, Henry W., 154. Ilalterman, Frederick, 66. Hammctt, Thomas M., 70. Hanna, Hon. William B., 45. Hare, Hon. J. I. Clark, 42. Haworlh, Samuel, 141. Henry, Charles W., ico. Hersc, .Stephen, 112. Hill, John 1.., 172. Hirst, A. A., 166. HofTman, Edward F., 178. Hoffman, George H., 81. Holeman, William, 105. Hollingsworth, Samuel S., 85. Houseman, Juhn A., 58. Howell, William, Jr., 131. Huggard, John, 175. Hughes, James, 148. Hunter, John, 26. Hutchinson, Mahlon P., 149. Irvine, William B., 90. Iseminger, Charles F., 79. . J. Jackson, Washington J., 149. James, Charles D., 77. Janney, Dr. William S., iS. Jenks, Alexander S., 143. Johnson, Henry, 95. Jones, Joseph L., 89. Judge, William, 140. K. Kauffman, Charles A., 104. Keen, Joseph S., Jr., 130. Kelly, Samuel S., 187. Kennedy, Thomas, 151. Keyser, Thomas S., 178. King, Samuel G., 7. Kinsey, John L., 25. Kinsey, William B., 165. Krickhaum, George R., 55. Krumbhaar, Charles H., 35. L. Ladner, A. H., 50. Lane, David H., 19. Lane, Peter, Jr., 179. Laudenslager, Jacob, 138. Laughlin, Robert, 155. Lawrence, Charles, 76. Lawson, William, 36. Leeds, William R.,182. Leidy, Philip, M. D., 136. Leithcad, Robert S., 114. Lennon, R. J., 49. Levi, Moses, 82. Lewellen, John B., iSo. 207 Lewis, Edward, 144. Lex, William Henry, 75. List, William H., 47. Littleton, William E., 16. Loughlin, William, 141. Ludlow, Hon. James R., 43. Lukens, Ezra, 51. M. McAleer, William, 175. McArthur, John, 173. McClintock, John, 48. McCormick, James, 112. McCidlough, John, 64. McCiilly, George H., So. McCully, William F., 139. McFaddeji, William H., 20. McGinley, Charles, 131. McManes, James, 1S5. McMuUen, William, 60. Mair, John, 129. Maloney, Andrew J., 78. Mann, William B., 13. Marchment, Thomas W., 151. Marshall, Samuel R., 99. Martin, John B., 48. Martin, Joseph J., 12. Martin, Thomas J., 181. Matthews, Edward, 65. Maynes, Rodger, 103. Mears, George W., 180. Merklee, Charles K., 98. Michener, J. H., 126. Miller, Hiram, 170. Miller, J. Christian, 87. Miller, William F., 144. Millick, Wil jam H., 89. Mitchell, Hon. J. T., 42. Mitton, Phili|), 61. Monroe, Peter, 60. Moore, Alfred, 183. Moran, James, 80. Morris, Effingham B., 86. Morris;, Galloway C, iSo. Moss, Liicicn, 176. Myers, George W., 1 10. Myers, Henry S., 52. N. Neall, Willi.n.i M., I2.,j. Nebinger, Dr. Andrew, 147. Neveling, Henry, 110. o. O'Donnell, John, 17. Oellers, Richard G., 159. O'Rourke, Michael, 72. Overn, John, 40. P. Page, Samuel Davis, 82. Paist, Joseph H., 75. Parker, Oliver, 67. Patterson, James, 13S. Patterson, Joseph G., 164. Pattison, Robert E., 10. Patton, Edward W., 73. Patton, John W., 87. Pa.xson, Joseph, 176. Peall, William A., 105. Peltz, Richard, 171. Penrose, Hon. Clement B., 45. Perkins, S. C, 167. Philips, William J., 39. Phillips, Henry ISL, 125. Peirce, Joseph S., 129. Peirce, Hon. William S., 41. Pole, John F., 49. Pollock, James, 154. Pollock, William }., 153. Powers, Thomas J., 19. R. Randall, Thomas, 56. Reinstine, Alexander, 88. Rex, Waller E., 100. Richardson, Dr. J. G., 164. Riley, Joseph S., 53. Rittenhouse, John S., 1S7. Roberts, Albert C, 182. Roberts, Charles, 86. Roberts, John, 160. Roberts, Spencer, 147. Robinson, Joseph S., 140. Rodgers, Francis, 94. Roney, George, 68. Ross, Christian K., 128. Rowan, W. EUwood, 107. Ruhl, John, 177. Russell, George, 130. Ryan, Thomas J., 84. Sanders, D.all.is, 85. Schneider, Henry, 96. Severn, Benton O., 53. Shallcross, E. A., 159. 208 Shecldcn, John, 150. Shegog, John, 96. Sheppard, Isaac A., 144. Sliotwfll, Alonzo, 61. Sickcl, lioratio G., 161. Simmons, John, 107. Snieillcy, Samuel L., 34. Smethiirst, John C, 89. Smith, Charles K., 98. Smith, Robert R., 48. Smith, Thomas J., 183. Smith, Usclma C, 91. Smith, William B., 57. Smith, William II., 184. Smith, William M., 149. Snowden, George R., 62. Sorbcr, Charles K., no. South, Thom.is W., 54. Spear, Theodore D., 78. Stanton, M. Hall, 146. Steel, Edward T., 143. Stcen, Juhn, 105. Steubing, William, 77. Stevenson, Edward K., 134. Stewart, James, 178. Strickland, John T., 102. 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