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Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds (Paperback)
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Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds (Paperback)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original
book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...occupied at the same time
the large building at Nos. 9 and n White street, near West Broadw
av, which was built for them by the late Daniel Kingsland. In i864
Mr. Sherwood retired from business in New York and started into the
real estate and insurance business in Paterson, to which place he
had removed four vears previous. Mr. Sherwood was the first to move
in the laving out of the East Side of Paterson. He mentioned the
matter one dav when he had accidentallv met Mr. Jacob S. Rogers in
New York; Mr. Rogers urged Mr. Sherwood to take charge of the
matter, having become convinced that Mr. Sherwood, s ideas were the
best: on the train going to Paterson thev met Mr. William G.
Watson, at that time Mayor of the city; Mr. Watson added his
entreaties to the request of Mr. Rogers and Mr. Sherwood agreed to
undertake the difficult task. The petition was presented at the
next meeting of the Board of Aldermen and granted. Mr. Sherwood has
since been closelv identified with the progress of Paterson. Ie was
one of the incorporators of the Paterson & Passaic horse
railroad company: he was a member of the first board of directors
and for some time secretarv; he is at present a member of the board
of directors of the Paterson Citv Railwav Companv, which some time
ago absorbed all the horse car lines in the citv. Mr. Sherwood was
the first to take energetic steps towards compelling the Dundee
Water Power and Land Companv to open its dam for the navigation of
the Passaic and is at present treasurer of the fund subscribed for
that purpose. He was a member of the Board of Aldermen from i875 to
i879; he was chairman of the committee on finance for the whole of
his term and for three years he was the unanimous choice of the
Board for president, an office...
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