* The vote for President. 1868-1^80, is given on page 134. t Includes scattering. { Fusion.
2 In Michigan the Fusion vote is divided, that of the distinctive Cleveland and Butler electors being
iven. In the table of counties the Fusion vote is combined for Cleveland.
given
^44
Eve fling Join-Jial Almanac^ 1887.
ASSESSMENT AND TAXATION IN A^E IV YORK, i885. *
Aggregate EqiiaUzed Valuations; Aggregate Taxation and Rate on each Dollar in cents ; Assessed Valuation,
Jical and Personal ; Corrected Aggregate Valuations.
* No returns. Valuations are taken from previous year.
The tax rate for the current year is 2.95 mills, which, upon the present valuation of 3,224,682,343, will
produce 9,512,812.91, to be devoted as follows :
School purposes $-3,708,384 69
Canals, including canal debt 2,192,784 00
General purposes 3,611,644 22
$9,512,812 91
I
Evejiing Journal Ahnanac, 1887.
145
NEW YORK LEGISLATURE.
SENA TE.
The Senate consists of 32 members, who are elected in November of every alternate odd numbered year
and hold their offices for two years from the first of January next succeeding. The State is divided into
32 districts, each electing one Senator. The Senators receive an annual salary of $1, 500 and also $1 for each
ten miles of travel in going to or returning from the place of meeting once in each session. Ten dollars
per day in addition is allowed when the Senate alone is convened in extraordinary session, or when acting
as a court for the trial of impeachments.
EDxVIUND L
JOHN W. YROOMAN (Rep.), aerk.
JOHN S. KEN YON (Rep. ), 4sswto««,(7ZcrA:.
First District.
(Suffolk and Queens counties. Population, 136,219,)
EDWARD FRANCIS FAG AN (Dem.), of Mas-
peth, Queens county. Mr. F. was born in New York
city, February 27, 1849, of Irish parentage. He was
educated at Manhattan College, New York city,
graduating at the head of the class of 18fi9. He re-
ceived the degree of M. A. in 1872, and that of Ph.
D. in 1880, and is a Professor of Philosophy and
Classics. He was School Commissioner of the second
district of Queens county in 1832-'84, and re-elected
in 1884, but was debarred from serving owing to a
law passed in 1883 excluding Long Island City from
the district. He has always been a Democrat, and
was elected to the Senate by a plurality of *464, his
opponent being John Birdsall (Rep.) and G. W.
Hallock (Ind.) The Republican majority in 1883
was 1,235.
Second District.
(1st, 2d, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, lOth, 12th and 22d wards
of Brooklyn and towns of Flatbush, Gravesend
and New Utrecht, Kin.?s county. )
JAMES F. PIERCE (Dem.). of Brooklyn (7 Mon-
tague terrace). Mr. P. was born in Madrid, St.
Lawrence county, April 8, 1830. His parents were
natives of New England, his father being a physician
and graduate of Dartmouth College. He was edu-
cated by private tutors and at St. Lawrence Acad-
emy. He prepared to enter college but was prevented
by sickness. He studied law with .Judge Henry L.
Knowles. of Potsdam, and Job Pierson and Wra. A.
Beach, at Troy, and was admitted to the bar in 1851.
when only twenty-one years of age. After admission
he spent three years in Florida, and on his return lo-
cated at Canton, St. Lawrence county, where he
practiced law until he removed to New York; in 1865.
A year later he removed to Brooklyn, where he has
.-iiuce been engaged in the practice of his profession.
In 1862, though a Democrat, he was elected County
Clerk of St. Lawrence county, and for several years
he represented that county in Democratic State Con-
ventions. He was a member of the Senate, 1868-71,
'78. '79, serving as Chairman of the Committees on
Gouiraerce and Navigation and Retrenchment, and
member of Railroads, Insurance, Judiciary, Canals,
Engrossed Bills and Public Buildings. He was
elected to the present Senate without opposition.
The Democratic majority in 1883 was 8,458.
Third District.
(3d, 4th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 23d wards
of Brooklyn.
STEPHEN M. GRISWOLD (Kep. ), of Brooklj-u
(43 Fort Green place). Mr. G. was born at Windsor,
Connecticut, November 22, 1835. His ancestors came
to this country from England in 1630 and settled in
Connecticut. He was educated in the common
schools, was a farmer in his youth and is now a
jeweler. In 1867 he visited all the countries of
Europe, and traveled through Asia Minor, the Holv
Land and Egypt. His first vote was cast for the Re-
* The vote for Senators is given on page 94.
PITTS (Rep.), President.
JAMES C. MURRAY {RQV'),Seratant-at-Arms.
HARRIS A. CORELL (Rep. ),^'ienoi7rap;icr.
[ publican ticket in 1856, and he has ever since been
identified with that party. He was Alderman of
the eleventh ward of Brooklyn in 1876 and 1878. He
was elected to the Senate by a majority of 4,829 over
John L. Cameron (Dem.), running about 600 votes
ahead of the State ticket. The Republican majority
m 1883 was 2,227.
Fourth District.
(14th. 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 24th and 2.5th wards oi
Brooklyn, and towns of New Lots and Flatlands,
Kings county.)
JACOB WORTH (Rep.), of Brooklvn. Mr. W.
was born in New York city, of German parentage.
May 1, 1838. When he was five years old his father
died, leaving a widow and five children in straight-
ened circumstances. He received nothing but the
most rudimentary education in the common schools,
his entire attendance covering but a few months.
At the age of four years, his mother removed to Wil-
liamsburgh, N. T. At the age of eight, he went to
work in a rope-walk, where he continued until he
was fourteen, worked as a teamster the next j-ear on
the Erie canal, and spent some time as a boatm.an on
the North river. At the age of sixteen, he entered
the United States Navy as an apprentice, and as such
made a voyage around the world, occupying three
years. On his return he was employed as a rigger
until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he en-
listed in the 139th Regiment, N. Y. Vols., in which
he was commissioned a Lieutenant. He participated
in the Peninsular campaign in 1862, was present in
all of the Seven Days' battles, and was specially
commended by his superior officers. Early in 1863,
he was commissioned as Captain in the 84th New
York, and served therein until the regiment was
mustered out at the close of its term of enlistment.
In the fall of 1863, Mr. W. was nominated bv the
Republicans for member of Assembly from the then
Seventh District of Kings county, and though the
district was decidedly Demooratic, he was elected bv
a good majority. He was re-elected in 1864 and "65,
but declined a renomination in 1866. In that year
he was nominatef^ for street commissioner, but "was
beaten. In 1867 he was again elected to the Assem-
bly from a new district. From 1868 to 1872 he de-
voted himself to private business. In the latter
year he was again elected to the Assembly, and was
re-elected in 1873, '74. '75 and '77, decUning the nom-
ination in 1876. During his nine years' membership
in the Assembly, he served five years on the Com-
mittee on Cities, three years on Railroads, and was
three years Chairman of Commerce and Navigation,
besides being a member of other important commit-
tees. As a legislator, he was very active, especially
concerning Brooklyn and Workingmen's interests".
In 1878 he was a candidate for Sheriff, and was un-
doubtedly elected, but owing to the loose election
laws, was counted out. In 1879 he was appointed
one of the Commissioners of City Works, in which
capacity he served until 1880, when the " single-head
departments " were inaugurated, and he was ap-
pointed Fire Commissioner, the first sole head the
department had then had. and served the full term.
In 1884, he was the unsuccessful Republican candi-
date for Congress in the Fourth District, though he
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Erc/ii/ig Jou7'nal Al??ia?iac^ 1887.
was beaten by but S40 votes, while Cleveland re-
ceived 3,600 majority. For more than twenty years
he was a member of the Kings County Republican
General Committee, representing the ItUh ward. He
attended every State Convention as a delegate from
1864 to ISSO. He was a member of the State Com-
mittee three years, serving on the Executive Com-
mittee ; was a Presidential elector in 1868 and 1;76,
and a delegate to the Kepublican National Conven-
tions of 1876 and "80. He was chosen to the Senate
bv a pluralitv of 953. his opponents being Patrick H.
McCarren (Dem.), and Marcenas Willet (Pro.) This
district has been represented for the last twelve
vears bv Hon. John C. Jacobs (Dem. ), whose ma-
jority ill 1883 was 163. Mr. Worth is the only Repub-
lican ever elected in the district.
Fifth District.
(Richmond county, and 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th,8thLl4th
and part of the 4th and 9th wards of New York
city. )
MICHAEL C. MURPHY (County Democrat), of
New York city (441 Washington street). Mr. M.
was born in Killmallock, Limerick county, Ireland,
March 7, 1839: came to America at the age of nine;
was educated in the common schools ot New York
citv ; was formerlv a compositor ; was a member of
Assemblv, 1867-70. "81, "82, "a'^, serving in 1881 on
Committees on Charitable and Religious Societies,
and Joint-Librarv ; in 1882. as Chairman of Cities,
and member of Two-thirds and Three-fifths Bills
and Rules, and in 1883 as Chairman of Cities and
member of Militia, Two-thirds and Three-fiths Bills
and Rules. He was a member of the last Senate,
serving on the Committees on Finance, Insurance,
Taxation and Retrenchment, and Privileges and
Elections, and was re-elected by a plurality of 7,469,
his opponents being Michael Norton (Tammany and
Irving Hall Dem.) and Alfred T. Sorgenfrce (Ind. )
His majority in 1*S3 was 6, 193. Mr. M. was indorsed
by the Republicans in the fall of 18S5. His ma-
jority for the Assembly in 1882 was 2, 969, in 1881,
1,222, and in 1880, 869.
Sixth District.
(7th, 11th and 13th ward.a. and part of the 4th ward
of New York city. )
EDWARD F. REILLY(Tam. Dem.), of New York
city (25 Ridge street). Mr. R. was born in New
York city, March V, 1856, of Irish parents, who came
to this country when children; educated at the
Christian Brothers and public schools of the district,
worked at the trade of book-binding five years and
in a law office two years ; and has been clerk in the
office of the Sheriff of New York county fi-om 1877 to
Jan. 1, lass, and from adjournment of legislature
of 1885 to the present time. He has always been a
Tammany Democrat, and was an unsuccessful can-
didate for Assembly in 1882 and '83, being defeated by
pluralities of 719 and 262 respectively. He was a
member of Assembly in 1885. serving on the com-
mittee on Civil Divisions, and was elected to the Sen-
ate by a majority of l,5f)4 over Edward McCue
(County Dem. ) The Republicans made no nomina-
tion. Ills majority for the Assembly in 1884 was
1,822. In the Assembly Jof 1.S85. Mr. R. secured the
passage of the bill relieving engineers of New York
city from payment of tax for receiving certificate
of comnettncy. He was presented with a set of en-
grossed' resolutions by the engineers, testifying their
appreciation of his efforts in their behalf,
Serenth District.
(10th and 17th warrls and part of the 15th, 18th and
21st wards of New York city.
JAMES DALY (Dem.), of New York city (230
East Twelfth street). Mr. D. was born In Ireland,
Aug. 15th. 1844, and received his education in Queens
College, Gal way, being intended for holy orders. Since
the completion of his studles,however,he has been en-
gaged In mercantile pursuits, and is now a stock and
bond broker. He becanie connected with New York
politics in 1870, when he was identifleil with the
Reform movement in opposition to the Tammany
regime. He was a member of Assemblv in 1874. Ie75,
and 1878, serving as Chairman of the Committee on
Cities in 1875, and being identified with the Canal
Reform and Excise measures in 1878. He was a
member ot the Senate, 1882-'85. serving as Chairman
of Public Health and Grievances, and member of
Cities, Commerce and Navigation, Literature and
Claims, and was re-elected to the present Senate by
a majority of 2, 501 over Philip Wassung (Rep. ) His
majority in 1883 was 1,844 and in 1881, 2,356. In the
Senate of 1882-83 he advocated the Aqueduct and
Telegraph bills.
Eighth District.
(16th ward and parts of the 9th, 15th, 18th, 20th and
21st wards of New York city.)
THOMAS C. DUNHAM (Dem.), of New York
city (68 Murray street). Mr. D. was born at Perth
Amboy, New Jersey, November 16, 1845, and edu-
cated in the public schools. He was formerly a
printer and is now a merchant. He was elected to
the Senate by a plurality of 1,545, his opponents
being Frederick S. Gibbs (Rep.), who was elected to
the last Senate by a plurality of 7,359, and Stephen
Merritt (Citizens and Pro.)
Ninth District.
(Parts of the 18th, 19th and 21st wards of New York
city.)
JOHN J. CULLEN (Tam. and Irving Hall Dem.),
of New York city (219 East Thirt.v-ninth street). Mr.
C. was born in Ireland, Januars' 1, 1845, educated in
public schools in New York city, and is a dry goods
dealer. During the war of the rebellion he served
three years in the army of the Potomac, under Gen-
erals McClellan, Hooker and Burnside. He has
alwaj'S been a Democrat ; was a member of Assem-
bly in 1882, serving on the Committees on Internal
Affairs, Public Health and Grievances ; was a mem-
ber of the last Senate, serving on Cities, Villages,
Public Printing and Roads and Bridges ; and was re-
elected by a majority of 1,473 over John Hayes (Co.