. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . ace value,Mr. Parsons invested heavily in the securities. Hethen took legal action to enforce taxation on the partof the city for the purpose of redeeming the step was contested by the municipal authorities,but the Supreme Court of the United States unani-mousl) ordered a peremptory manJamiis to be issuedto force the levying of taxes sufficient to pay theprincipal and int
. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . ace value,Mr. Parsons invested heavily in the securities. Hethen took legal action to enforce taxation on the partof the city for the purpose of redeeming the step was contested by the municipal authorities,but the Supreme Court of the United States unani-mousl) ordered a peremptory manJamiis to be issuedto force the levying of taxes sufficient to pay theprincipal and interest of the bonds. Mr. Parsons has membership in the New YorkChamber of Commerce, the American (leographicalSociety, the New York Historical Society, and theNew York Stock Exchange. PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— CharlesParsons was born at Alfred, Me., February C>, 1829 ; 7oas educated in Ya?-mouth (^Me.) Academy and inPro7idence, R. I. ; engaged in the produce commissionbusiness in the South, 1853-61; married Sarah of Proindence, R. I., in 1855; has beenlargely inferested in railroad management for manyyears, and has been president of the Rome, Watertown& Ogdensburg railroad since June, IRUSSell Sage, the famous finan-cier, born in Oneida county, NewYork, during James Madisons secondterm in the White House. Spendinghis early years on a farm and as anerrand boy in a country grocery, found scant time for mental cul-ture ; but he studied evenings, andotherwise acquired a fair education. Hischief successes, however, in early lifewere of a commercial nature; and hehad already become a capitalist in asmall way when he reached his majority,and established, in partnership with hisbrother, a grocery store at Iroy, N. buying out his brother, increasingthe business markedly, and selling thesame on advantageous terms, he formeda partnership with John W. Bates in1839 to conduct a wholesale business ingroceries. This venture also was en-tirely successfu
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