. Leslie's history of the greater New York . Marys, Emmetsburg, Md., iu1859, he was one of the firststudents to enter the Ameri-can College at Rome, Italy,and was ordained a i)riest inthat city, September 19, 1803,receiving the degree of Doctor of Divinity the following year in publiccompetition. He was appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology andSacred Scripture in Seton Hall College, Orange, N. J.; became Presi-dent of that institution in 1868, administered the Diocese of Newark inthe absence of Bishop Bayley iu ISTO, and. in ^March, 1873, was ap-pointed Bishop of Newark by Iius IX. It was t
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . Marys, Emmetsburg, Md., iu1859, he was one of the firststudents to enter the Ameri-can College at Rome, Italy,and was ordained a i)riest inthat city, September 19, 1803,receiving the degree of Doctor of Divinity the following year in publiccompetition. He was appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology andSacred Scripture in Seton Hall College, Orange, N. J.; became Presi-dent of that institution in 1868, administered the Diocese of Newark inthe absence of Bishop Bayley iu ISTO, and. in ^March, 1873, was ap-pointed Bishop of Newark by Iius IX. It was the record made byhim in this diocese in establishing Catholic institutions, erectingchurches, and creating new parishes, as well as for his skill in adjust-ing ecclesiastical differences, which led to his assignment to the Dioceseof New York. LOW, SETH, President of Columbia University, was born in Brook-lyn, N. Y., January 18, 1850, and is one of the sons of the late Abiel , referred to elsewhere. (For portrait of Seth Low. see Aolume. MICHAEL AUGUSTINE COKKIGAN. 518 HISTORY OF THE GREATER NEW YORK. II. of tliit> wnik, pa^c 27:.. 1 lie attended the Brooklyn PolytechuicInstitute, and in INTO was graduated from Columbia College at thehead of his elass. During the last ^ear of the course he also attendedlaw lectiires. hi ISTo he entered his fathers tea-importing business,becoming manager of tIic firm business. He became a mendjer of theNew York Cliamber ot < iininicnc He was one of tlie founders of theYoung Mens IJeform Club of lirooklvn, and became its first ISf^il he was elected Mayor of Brooklyn as an independent candi-date, while in 1883 he was re-elected. He won distinction by hiseconomical administration ami his efforts to introduce the principleof civil-service examiualioii^ in connection with municipal offices. Atthe end of his second tciin he \ isited Europe, lleturning he re-enteredhis fatliers business, subsequently closing up the euterpi-ise. I
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