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He adopted the business of a plumber, which he conducted in the City of New York. He served as a City Councilman for several years, and was subsequently elected a member of the Board of Aldermen, of which he was made President. In 1864 he was elected a member of the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by John Fox.
In Lake View old General Van Sickle and De Soto Sippens, conferring with shrewd Councilman Duniway, druggist, and with Jacob Gerecht, ward boss and wholesale butcher, both of whom were agreeable but exacting, holding pleasant back-room and drug-store confabs with almost tabulated details of rewards and benefits. In Hyde Park, Mr.
Jim's power and his hold on Tillman City affairs had combined to inspire the lesser dictator with awe, and in order to obtain concessions it had been necessary only to ask for them. Jim never dealt direct with Blaney. The councilman to whom he intrusted his measures was Bridge, leader of the pro-pavers. Jim had won him by generosity in transportation of paving supplies.
In truth the major recognized in Councilman Finnigan, the honest Quaker, Greeley Hanniford, who, with General Fopp, of "Pleasant-side Row," had managed to relieve him of all his money during his first adventure in New York.
She did us the honor to stop the carriage, and drive up to the curb-stone for a little chat. Her spirits were up, for Colonel Ristofalo had just been made a city councilman by a rousing majority. We expressed our regret not to see Raphael himself in the family group enjoying the exquisite air. "Ha, ha! He ride out for pleasure?" And then, with sudden gravity, "Aw, naw, sur! He's too busy.
Blenkinsop, the childless widow of a Common Councilman of London, one morning met the Twins in the village. They greeted her politely and made to escape. But she was in the mood, her most constant mood, to babble. She stopped them, and with a knowing air, and even more offensive smile, said: "So, young people, we're going to hear the sound of wedding bells very soon in Little Deeping, are we?"
The Boob is hopeful, cheery, more concerned over other people's troubles than his own. He goes serenely unsuspicious of the brick under the silk hat, even when the silk hat is on the head of a Mayor or City Councilman. He will pull every trigger he meets, regardless that the whole world is loaded and aimed at him.
His connection with city affairs was renewed as Councilman in 1839, and as Alderman in 1841. But to go back to his professional life. Having studied law in the office of James L. Conger, at Cleveland, for a year, he was admitted to the Bar in September, 1835, by the Supreme Court of Ohio, on the Circuit, Chief Justice Peter Hitchcock, that Nestor among judges, then presiding.
I have just walked out to Kern's Castle and back." "H'm. Five miles if it's a step." "And a half. I do it twice a week in an hour and seven minutes." The Colonel thought of his own over-rubicund cheek and sighed. "Well, whom or what do you wish to crucify to-morrow?" "I am at your orders there." "Have you examined Deputy Clerk Folsom's reply to Councilman Hannigan's charge?
"You have asked the advice of the council," said Councilman Gray to Hutchinson; "it has been given; you are bound to conform to it." Robert felt it was a home-thrust that Councilman Gray gave, who said further: "If mischief shall come, your excellency, by means of your not doing what the council has advised, you alone must bear the blame.
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