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196pp. Octavo (5 ¾" x 8 ¾"). In publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering and black decoration. Condition: About Very Good, with some light soiling/wear to covers. Large tear to tissue paper pullout of taxes for 1877. Labeled "Private Library of W.R.Grace. No. 713" to front pastedown. Stamped "Received APR 21 1880 MAYOR'S OFFICE." to title page and pages 57, 79. Light pencil annotations to "Mayor's Message" chapter. *** William Russell Grace (1832-1904) was the Mayor of New York City from 1881-1882 and 1885-1886. He was the founder of W.R.Grace and Company, a major American chemical business. Grace left his native Ireland in 1846 during the Great Famine (sometimes called the Irish Potato Famine), and subsequently traveled with his father, James Grace, to Peru to establish an Irish agricultural community. His father returned to Ireland, but William Grace stayed in Peru and established W.R.Grace and Company. The company was later headquartered in New York, where Grace ran for mayor on a reform platform against the infamous "Tammany Hall" political machine. In his second term of office, Grace received the Statue of Liberty for America as a gift from France. *** The book contains facts & figures for the New York suburb of Brooklyn for the year 1887. *** James Howell (1829-1897) was the mayor of Brooklyn from 1878-1881. His oversaw the final stages construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, known at the time as the East River Bridge, which is mentioned in this book.
Ref: AMER 8516
$425.00