Memorial encyclopedia of the state of New York : a life record of men and women of the past whose sterling character and energy and industry have made them preeminent in their own and many other states . eduty of the government to provide cheapmoney. This theory brought him in sym-pathy with the Greenback party, andwhen the Independent National Conven-tion was held in 1876, he polled 81,740popular votes. He had previously servedas city alderman, a member of the com-mon council, a trustee of the publicschool society and a school chose to be his own executor andhis wealth was dis
Memorial encyclopedia of the state of New York : a life record of men and women of the past whose sterling character and energy and industry have made them preeminent in their own and many other states . eduty of the government to provide cheapmoney. This theory brought him in sym-pathy with the Greenback party, andwhen the Independent National Conven-tion was held in 1876, he polled 81,740popular votes. He had previously servedas city alderman, a member of the com-mon council, a trustee of the publicschool society and a school chose to be his own executor andhis wealth was distributed under his per-sonal direction, while he witnessed theresults of his beneficence. His own lackof liberal education induced him to pro-vide for the class to which he had be-longed as a boy and young man. Withthis end in view he directed the policy ofthe public school system of New YorkCity as far as his authority as a trusteeand commissioner extended, and in 1859he completed the great monument to hismemory, The Cooper Union for the Ad-vancement of Science and Art, at a costof $630,000, and further sums between1859 and 1882 aggregating $1,603,,expended by trustees in enlarging the in-. t/VSU^ J^a^Z-^U&^^/jZT^ ~<^-T—f ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY stitution and rendering it more design of the projector and bene-factor was to devote the institution tothe instruction and improvement of theinhabitants of the United States in prac-tical science and art, including instruc-tion in branches of knowledge by whichmen and women earn their daily bread;in laws of health and improvement ofsanitary conditions of families as well asindividuals ; in social and political science,whereby communities and nations ad-vance in virtue, wealth and power; andfinally in matters which affect the eye,the ear, and the imagination, and furnisha basis for recreation to the workingclasses. Free lectures, free readingrooms and free galleries of art, with freeinstruction in the arts of
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