The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ege with the degree ofMaster of Accounts. In 1864 he entered the officeof the Housatonic railroad, Bridgeport. In 1873 hereceived the appointment of special agent of the NewYork an
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ege with the degree ofMaster of Accounts. In 1864 he entered the officeof the Housatonic railroad, Bridgeport. In 1873 hereceived the appointment of special agent of the NewYork and New Haven railroad, and in two yearspaymaster of the New York Cen-tral and Hudson River same year this appointmentwas received he was made super-intendent of the Shore Line brought this line to a moreprosperous state than it had everbeen before, and in 1883 accept-ed the position of superintendentof the New York division of theNew York, New Haven andHartford railroad. In this, as inall other offices, he displayedpronounced ability, and in 1885was elected president of the asso-ciation of American railroad su-perintendents. In 1887 he waselected vice-president and generalmanager of the Housatonic rail-way. He rose to prominence inother phases of life, as well as the one he had takenas his special field. He was elected counsel of Bridge-port, sei-ved on the finance committee, was returned. IMM^A.^^ as alderman, and re-elected. He received the demo-cratic nomination for election against P. T. 1878 he passed his examination for a lawyer andwas admitted to the bar. In 1881 he received thedemocratic nomination for mayor. In 1884 he waselected president of the Young Mens Democraticand Cleveland and Hendricks clubs. He is a mem-ber of the democratic state convention. He wasthird president of the Elective club of Bridgeport,Master of Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows for the stateof Connecticut, and other similar honors are his justdue. In 1887 he was elected p
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