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 . A. Fay &Co.; in 1876 was elected to theIllinois legislature, and servedone term; and in 1887 was elect-ed mayor of Chicago on the re-publican ticket by a majority of38,000. During
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 . A. Fay &Co.; in 1876 was elected to theIllinois legislature, and servedone term; and in 1887 was elect-ed mayor of Chicago on the re-publican ticket by a majority of38,000. During his term as mayorhe embellished and improvedChicago at a of several mil-lions of dollars furnished by cor-porations without expense to thecity, in return for privileges grant-ed by the city. He also con-structed various viaducts andIjridges, and extended the watertunnel four miles into the lake,and made contracts for a pump-ing engine with a capacity ofdelivering more than 100,000,000 gallons of waterin addition to the capacity of the old one. was elected mayor during the anarchist troub-les; he was instrumental in quelling many strikeswithout violence, and was successful in maintainingorder throughout the city at the time of the hangingof the anarchists. He also instituted many reforms,suppressed gambling and vice, left the treasury in abetter condition than he found it, and became known. /r^i°^-w A-y&re/L»^ 170 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA
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