franchot

Updated: May 25, 2025

Then in the New York and other delegations there were gentlemen who represented large employing and moneyed interests, as Mr. Orton, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, Mr. Shoemaker, of Adams Express, and Mr. Franchot, familiarly known as "Goat Island Dick," the principal attorney of the California Central Pacific for legislative favors from Congress.

Benjamin Perley Poore - Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2: of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis