Civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., Part 71

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909.
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : Munsell
Number of Pages: 1360

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Sullivan, John D .9 Decatur street.

Born N. Y. State, 1841; grad. Springfield, Mass., Eng. et Class Instit., 1865; grad. Med. dep. Univ., City of N. Y. 1867: House Phys. Charity Hosp., N. Y., April, 1867 -'68; Res. Phys. Fever Hosp., Apr. 1868-'69; Atten. Phys. St. John's Hosp. for boys since 1869; is Visiting Surg. St. Mary's Gen. Hospital; memb. K. Co. Med. Soc., located in B., April, 1869.

Swalm, William F 118 Lafayette avenue. Born N. Y. city, 1837; grad. Coll. Phys. and Surg., N. Y. city, 1859; conn. with B. City Disp .; Eye and Ear Inf. (dep., heart, throat and lung diseases); memb K. Co. Med. Soc .: Asst. Surg. 14th Reg. N.G.S.N. Y. ; was taken prisoner at Bull Run; in charge of Gen. Hosp., Wheeling, Va .. 1862; mustered out with the 15th N. Y. Surg., 1865; Surg .- General of State of N. Y., bv appt. of Gov. Robinson, for unexpired term of Dr. Austin Flint, Jr.

Sweeny, James 192 North 6th street, E. D. Swift, William 54 Lefferts place. Talmage, Samnel.

Born Somerville. N. J., 1831; ed. S. Acad .; teacher at Bound Brook, Peapack and Rawson: grad. Med. dept. Univ., N. Y., 1870; located B .; was House Phys. Gates ave. Hom. Disp., 1870-1880; is Consult. Phys. B. Nursery : memb. K. Co. Hom. Med. Soc., and Del. to State Soc.

Terhune, James J .. . 171 Adelphi street.

Born 1844, Bergen Co., N. J .: grad. L I. Coll. Hosp., 1875: (licentiate from Eclectic Soc., 1871, in which yr. he located in B.); served as private 3d. N. J. Cavalry, and 22d N. J. Vols., for 2} yrs.

Terry, Charles H. .540 Washington avenue.

Thallon, William M 167 Clinton and 816 St. Mark's avenne.

Porn B., 1858; grad. A. B., B. Polytech. 1877: grad. Coll. Phys. and Surg., N. Y., 1880; memb. K. Co. Med. Soc., and of B. Patlı. Soc.

Tucker, Harrison A ... .. 393 Clinton street.

Born Norton, Mass., March 18, 1832; grad. Penn. Med. Univ. (Phila.), 1865; practiced Foxboro, Mass., 1858-'64: located B., 1864; Trustee Eclectic Disp. since 1879, and V. Pres., 1883; memb. B. Acad. Med. since 1874.

Ticknor, Martin A.

Born Westfield, Mass .: entered Amherst Coll. 1844: on account of ill-health did not grad .; studied and practiced dentistry several years in Northern N. Y., but being threatened with ainanrosis, was obliged to abandon it: studied med. and grad. N. Y. Univ. 1854; in same year rec'd ad cundem degree of M. D., Berkshire Med. Coll., Mass .; mem. Mass. Med. Soc. : settled in Saratoga Co., N. Y .; Vice-Pres. of Med. Soc. of that Co. In 1863, loss of eyesight compelled his removal to Schenectady, N. Y .; after a few months' sechision was able to resume practice; 1837 rem. Brooklyn, where, despite severe and repeated illnesses, he lias maintained a successful practice.

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Turner, Joseph Mott. . ... 413 Henry street.

Born Cazenovia, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1817; grad. Hamilton Coll. 1838; practiced Vernon, N. Y., 1841-1844; grad. Transylvania Univ .. Ky .; located B., Nov., 1844; memb. K. Co. Med. Soc .: Fell. A. Acad. Med .; hon.m. Lexington Med. Soc., Ky.

Tuthill, James Y. 100 Ft. Greene place.

Born Kingston, N. Y., 1841: grad. Bellevue Hosp. Med. Coll. 1864; practiced Dover's Plains, N. Y :. 1864-67; Io- cated B., 1867; memb. Med. Legal Soc., N. Y.

Tuthill, S. B 430 Lewis avenue.

Valentine, John F. 150 Nohle street.

Born N. Y. city. 1856: grad. Coll. Phys. & Surg. N. Y., 1879; located B., 1879: Visit. Surg. St. Cath. Hosp., and Visit. Phys. Wmsburgh Disp. and llosp. Clinic Diseases of Child. : Surg. (rank of Major) 32d Reg. N. G. S. N. Y.

Vanderhnhe, Margaret. .. . 98 Fifth street, E. D.

Vanderveer, John R. .. . 301 Carlton avenue.

Born Newtown, L. 1., 1829; grad. Univ. City N. Y. 1850. and M. D. from same 1852; practiced Flatbush, L. 1 .. 1852-53; when located in B .: Treas. K. Co. Med. Soc., 1879-1883.

Van Horne, Jacob P 12 Third avenue.

Van Ness, John . 456 Bedford avenne.

Wade, James D. 252 South Ninth street.

Born N. Y. city 1838; grad. Med. Dept. N. Y. Univ. 1865; located in B. that yr .; memb. K. Co. Med. Soc .; enl. as private, afterwards commanded Co. F, 87th U. S. (col.) Inf. 2 yrs .; served in Louisiana and Texas.

Ward, James H . 60 Bedford avenue.

Watts, Alfred J. . 661 Bedford avenne.

Weeks, Joshua R. 173 Sands street.

Born N. Y. city, 1856: grad. Med. Dent. Univ. City N. Y. 1877; located B .. 1878.

Waters, E. 281 Raymond street.

Wemmell, A. A.

Born N. Y. city, 1844: ed. Warwick Inst., Orange Co., N. Y .; studied at N. Y. Homcop. and N. Y. Eclectic Med. Coll .; grad. latter, 1875 ; founded Hom. Disp. of East N. Y., 1876 : Health Officer of East N. Y., 1880-'82; Surgeon for L. I. R. R .; Police Surg. for New Lots, etc.

Westbrook, Benj. F ..... . 74 Clinton street.

Born St. Louis, Mo ; rem. to N. Y. City, where he at- tended the Coll, of the City of N. Y .: grad. L. I. Coll. Hosp .. 1871; and served as House Phys. and Surg .: has been Lect. on Surg. Path. and Læct. Anatomy, and At- tending Phys. Hosp .: rosigned as Lect. on Anat., 1883; app. Visiting Phys, to St. Peter's Hosp., 1880, but oh- liged, from illness, to relinquish it in a few months; in 1880-'81 was Atten. Phys. Sheltering Arms Nursery; in 1878, became the Pathologist to St. Mary's llosp. for Women, and, on the org. of the St. Mary's Gen. Hosp .. became one of its Medical Board; Phys .- in-chief to the Dept. Dis, of the Chest; has published a paper on the Anatomy of the Eucephalon (Annals of Anato, and Surg. Soc. of B ); (1879) a paper on the Treatment of Asthma (Proc. K. Co. Med. Soc.): (1880) with Dr. Paul H. Kretzschmar, on Chronic Empyema and Amyloid Degen- eration (Proc. of K. Co. Med. Soc.): (1882) on Abstraction of Blood from the Right Heart (N. Y. Med. Record); (1883) a lecture on Dyspuwa (Atrch. of Med .. vol. X .. Nos. 2 and 3); (1881) a lecture on Cough as a Symptom of Dis- case (Am. Jo. of Neural. aud Psych.); besides unmerons contributions to the proceedings of societies, reviews, (te. : is also author of the article on the Anatomy of the Respiratory Organs, in the text-book of Histology, edited by Dr. Satterthwaite, of New York; Jan., 1881, was elected President of the B. Path. Soc.

Wheeden, Thos. J . . ..... 54 Concord street.

Born Baltimore, Md .; grad. Univ. Maryland; grad. M. D., same Univ .; connected with Bd of Health, Bklyn; way in charge of Marine llosp., Baltimore, 1869; Surg. in Navy during late war; located B., 1872.

White, G. Rankine ....... 380 Ninth street.

Born Scotland, 1839; grad. Edin., 1863; located same yr. in B .; memb. Kings Co. Med. Soc.

Wieber, George 181 South Fifth street. Wight, Jarvis S. 115 Pacific street.

Born Centreville, N. Y., 1834; grad. Tuft's Coll. A. B. 1861, and A. M. 1882: grad. L. I. Coll. Hosp. 1864; Asst. Snrg. U. S. A. 1865; loc; Brooklyn 1866; in L. I. Coll. Hosp. Prof. Mat. Med., 1870-'74; Prof. Surg. and Clinical Surg. 1874-'81: Prof. Operative and Clinical Surg. 1852 3; and Visit. Surg. Vol. 18th Reg. N. G. S. N. Y .: Hosp. Steward and Asst Surg .: has pub. a work on Myodyn- amies, and some 75 original articles, lectures aud scien- tific papers: specialty, Surgery.

Williams, May S. 395 Sixth avenue.

Willis, Harrison.

695 Lafayette avenue.

Wiltman, Charles. . 686 Flushing avenne. Woodruff, Harlow L. D. . . 755 DeKalb avenue. Born East Pike, N. Y., 1845; grad. Med. Dept. Univ. N. Y., 1870; located B. 1871.

Wray, Geo. B. 13 Debevoise street.

Wunderlich, Fred'k W. .. 145 State street.

Young, Charles F

326 Classon avenue.

Born England, 1834; grad. L. 1. Coll. Hosp., 1565; memb. K. Co. Med. Soc.

Zabriskie, J. I Flatbush.

Zelhoeffer, Charles

175 Sonth Fourth street.

ADDENDA.

Bradford, R. A .595 Fulton street.

Bodkin, D. G.

92 Sands street.

Birdsall, A. H.

. 544 Bedford avenne.

Cook, Charles.

133 Pacific street.

Candidus, Panteleon

288 S. 9th street.

Freeman, John 80 Hanson place.

Gray, Landon Carter

Born in N. Y. city; ed. academically; and at Columbia Coll., and thence to Univ. of Heidelberg for two years ; took a course at the Columnbia Law School; stud. med. at Bell. Hosp. Med. Coll., grad. 1873 : appt. Phys. N. Y. Disp .: loc. Brooklyn 1875: hekl dept. Nervous and Men- tal Disease in the Out Door Department. L. I. Coll. llosp .; Lect. on Anat. and Phys. of the Nervous System: Lect. on Mental and Nervous D seaso ; res. in 1952, and became Prof. of Mental and Nervous Disease in the N. Y. Polyclinic Med. School; is Phys. in-Chief Dept. Ment. and Nerv. Dis .. St. Mary's Hosp .; memb. K. Co. Med. Soc .; K. Co. Path. Soc .; N. Y. Nonrol. Soc .: Am. Neurol. Soc .; Editor Am. Jour. of Neurology and Psychiatry, author of The Tendon-Rettex: its Physiology and its Prevalence; the Physiological Anatomy of the Spinal Cord and the Motor Tract of the Cerebrum, etc., etc . etc. Hunt, William G 101 Pierrepont street.

Hunt, J. H. 627 Bedford avenue.

Hutchinson, Alex 796 DeKalb avenue. Hyde, Joel W.

Born Westbrook, Conn .. March 20, 1839 : son of Rev. Wm. A. Ilyde, a Congregational clergyman of some dis- tinction : preparatory ed. at Monson and Northampton, Mass: grad. Vale Med. School, in 15th, having previ. ously stud. in the Acad. Dept. of the coll .; served during the war of the Rebellion as a Medical and Staff Ofheer . at one time had full charge of the Point Lookout Brigade Hosp .: after the war. came to Bklyn. : 8 years Attent Phys. Bklyn. City Orph. Asylum : 1880, elected memb Council of 1. 1. Coll. Hosp., and See. of the institutions ; 1889, app. Chief to the Dept. Obstet., St. Mary's Gen. Hosp.

For others, set AnDENDA at end of Volume.

THE

HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES AND

SEMI-MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS

KINGS COUNTY AND BROOKLYN."

T THE BROOKLYN CITY HOSPITAL .- So far as known, the first proposition to establish a hospital in this city was made by Dr. Isaac J. Rapelyca, in his inaugural address, delivered July 13th, 1835, when President of the Kings County Medical Society. A memorial and petition from that society was presented to the Common Council on the 25th of the same month, but without immediate results. In 1839, public attention was sharply called to the need of a hospital, by an ac- cident in Fulton street, near City Hall, in which a gentle- inan from Buffalo had his leg broken. There was no place to which he could be carried, for care and treat- ment, except the alms-house, four miles distant. Hon. Cyrus P. Smith witnessed the accident, and he, with Mr. Robert Nichols, had the stranger conveyed to a pri- vate house near by, and cared for at their expense. Their active efforts to establish a hospital met with pathy and discouragement. At first they attempted only to engage physicians and surgeons to attend such patients as should be taken to a house owned by Mr. Smith in Adams street, near Johnson, which afforded ac- commodations for only ten or twelve patients. Through he efforts of Mr. J. M. Perry and others, the Common Council passed an ordinance August 5th, 1839, appro- riating $200 per annum to the support of the hospital hus established. On the 2d of September following, a taff of physicians and surgeons was appointed, and he institution was organized, with a body of rules for ts management. It was thus continucd until 1844, when the appropriation from the city ceased, being hen considered not warranted by the city charter. But he need of such an institution was by this time appar- nt to all. The matter was brought before the citizens f Brooklyn, in December, 1844, by the Society for Im- roving the Condition of the Poor. A large public meeting was held February 17th, 1845, and a committee ppointed to secure the incorporation of a hospital. The act of incorporation was passed by the Legislature n the 8th of May following, naming the following per- ons as trustees : Robert Nichols, Henry E. Pierrepont, | schools,

Cyrus P. Smith, Peter C. Cornell, John Greenwood, Joseph W. Harper, William S. Packer, Edward W. Dunham, Augustus Graham, Henry Sheldon, Edgar Hicks, George Hall, Edgar J. Bartow, Hosea Webster, Abiel A. Low, Alfred Edwards, Elisha D. Hurlburt, George S. Howland, Patrick Mullen, Nicholas Luqueer, Joseph L. Hale, John H. Smith.

This board took immediate steps to raise means for the purchase of grounds and the erection of the neccs- sary buildings. At this early period Augustus Graham, Esq., manifested his interest in the work by a donation of $5,500.

In October, 1846, a frame dwelling in Jackson street (now Hudson avenue), near Willoughby, was purchased of Mr. Thomas Titus for $2,600. This small building bore the sign, "Brooklyn City Hospital." Repeated and persistent efforts were made to interest the public and secure aid for enlarging thesc temporary accommo- dations, but with poor success. At length a better day dawned. July 4, 1848, Augustus Graham, Esq., whosc heart was in the work, gave bonds and mortgages amounting to $25,000 for an endowment fund, on con- dition that the citizens of Brooklyn should contribute an equal amount. The trustees appealed to the public for contributions, but with little or no response for two years, when the new city charter went into effect, which allowed to the City Hospital the sum of $2,000 annually. Inspired by this, the twelve or thirteen trustees present at a stated meeting of the board, Octo- ber 21, 1850, started a subscription with about $11,000, to which the public added only some $4,000. Mr. Graham gave $2,000 more, and generously waived the condition annexed to his gift of $25,000 in 1848.

In the meantime, thirty-seven suitable lots had been purchased on the high ground adjoining Fort Greene (now Washington Park), and in the latter part of 1850 the first sod was removed from the site by Mr. Graham. He laid the corner-stone of the new hospital building, June 11, 1851, with appropriate ceremonics.

* For Homœopathic and Eclectic Institutions see the history of these

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Fearing that the lots on the southern line of the hos- pital grounds, fronting on De Kalb avenue, would be occupied by buildings preventing the circulation of air, the trustees raised among themselves money, and pur- chased and enclosed these twenty lots with an iron railing and a plantation of trees.

The edifice is of brick, with stone trimmings. The main building is 52 feet wide and the same in depth, and four stories in height. To this have since been added two wings, 7t feet long, 56 feet deep, three stories high; also an extension of 30 feet in length and the same height in the rear. The center building was com- pleted and opened for the reception of patients April 29, 1852. The building stands on high ground on Raymond street, north of De Kalb avenue. The large lawn is smoothly graded down to the street and neatly kept.

The interior arrangements of the City Hospital are as complete as scientific construction can make them. Particular attention was given in building to secure perfect warming, ventilation and drainage. The hos- pital has accommodations for 200 patients, all the beds being at one time, during the war of the rebellion, fully occupied.

The airy situation of the hospital has rendered it very healthful, and for many years the United States Marine Department made it a receptacle for sailors, giving a good support to the institution. After the Government had erected a marine hospital for the care of its sailors, the withdrawal of this support threw on its trustees the necessity of a renewal of their private contributions. The large majority of its patients are sent to it by the public authorities of Brooklyn, an an- nual payment of $4,000 being made from public funds; but, by the accounts, this payment has never amounted to more than the one-third or the one-half of the cost of maintaining these patients.

For a number of years the State appropriated several thousand dollars annually to this institution, and the amount was faithfully used by the trustees in improv- ing and enlarging the hospital accommodations.

In 1872 the trustees erected a brick three-story building on the eastern side of the hospital grounds, near the main building, for an Orthopedie Hospital, and for a Home for Trained Nurses. Means for this improve- ment was received from the county, for eleven lots sold (1877) for the enlargement of the jail. A number of private apartments, well-furnished, for pay patients, were added, which have been well patronized.

In 1874 the aid from the State was withdrawn. An appeal to the public for funds met with scanty re- sponses. There were some, however, who contributed securities in trust, retaining the income during their life, the principal sinn to revert to the use of the hospi- tal after their death. About $15,000 was thus given by Mr. Thomas S. Stook, and a considerable sum by Robert Nichols, Esq., under similar conditions.

The hospital has a children's ward, where diseased, deformed and crippled children are treated. Adjoining this is the lying-in ward.

In consequence of the name of Brooklyn City Hos- pital in the charter, and because of the authorities con- tributing to its support and sending patients to it, the impression prevailed in the publie mind that the lios- pital was a city pauper institution, and indebted for its maintenance to publie support, instead of being a private institution, established and maintained by its charitable trustees. This behef deprived it of pecuniary aid from individuals and from bequests. An appeal was made to the Legislature and the word ".City " was stricken out and Brooklyn Hospital is now its name.

Many, also, believed that an endowment would be received from the Union Ferry Company in conse- quenee of a clause inserted in the By-Laws of the Ferry Company, in 1844, by the then lessees of the ferries, Messrs. Le Roy and Pierrepont, requiring that, at the winding up of the lease, and payment to the stockholders for their stock at par, that any surplus should be paid, as a free gift, to the Brooklyn Hos- pital.

When, in 1854, the ferry company was dissolved, it was found, on a valuation of its property by commis- sioners, that there was not a surplus. The lessees then transferred their lease to a corporation, formed under the general laws to constitute corporations, to estab- lish and run ferries. Connected with this charter the trustees also executed a certificate of incorporation, containing an agreement to pay ten per cent. dividends to stockholders, and the par value of their stock at the termination of the corporation, in 1890, and any sur- plus of assets that might then remain, was to be paid as a free gift to the Brooklyn Hospital. The words free gift were inserted by the counsel of the lessees to prevent the hospital having any claim on this appro- priation of the surplus.

A difference of opinion arose among the trustees of the ferry and the trustees of the hospital, as to the legal bearing of this clause, which had been made in good faith by the ferry company. It was referred to eminent council, who generally agreed that under the Act of Incorporation, the ferry company had a right to run ferries only, and the certificate attached to the charter was not binding. Still, as a legal contest was threatened, and a claim made by the hospital for $100,- 000, a compromise was made, and 875,000 paid by the ferry company, on receiving a release from the hospital of all further claim on the ferry surplus, if any should remain on the termination of the charter.

In the classes of patients received, no distinction is made as regards color or nationality. Not only charity patients are treated, but, by a special provision inserted in the articles of incorporation, there are private wards set apart where those who wish can have special care and nursing at moderate charges.

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The hospital staff of physicians and surgeons has included some of the most eminent men in the medical profession, and a high standard of excellence is still maintained.

OFFICERS : P. C. Cornell, President and Treasurer; Elias Lewis, Jr., Vice-President ; Henry P. Morgan, Secretary ; C. V. Dudley, Superintendent ; Drs. J. C. Hutchison, D. E. Kissam, S. Fleet Speir, J. D. Rush- more, Staff of Surgeons; Drs. Robert Ormiston, Alex. Hutchins, Arthur R. Paine, Samuel Sherwell, Staff of Physicians; James Crane, M. D., Consulting Physi- cian.

ROBERT NICHOLS, born in 1790, in New York city ; edu- cated in Connecticut; at the age of 15 became a mercantile clerk; and at 18 was apprenticed to the bakers' trade, and, for a short time, carried it on in Brooklyn, but was burned outin 1811 and never resumed the business. In December, 1812, he became captain's clerk in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In 1813, by authority of Commodore Lewis, he opened a recruiting rendezvous for seamen, for the gunboat flotilla, in New York harbor, and was made purser of the flotilla. In April, 1814, his connection with the flotilla ceased, and, hearing of a Col. De La Croix, who had opened a military school in New York city, Mr. Nichols, together with Chas. I. Doughty, Joseph Dean, and other young men, inspired by martial ardor, forined a military association, waited upon the colonel and arranged with him to have a drill master sent to Brooklyn, to exercise them in the manual of arms. Such was their assiduity and attention to the instructions of their drill mas- ter, that when, five months later, the militia was ordered into service at Fort Greene, the companies commanded by these young men were more thoroughly disciplined than others upon the ground. The year 1814 was passed by Mr. Nichols in the discharge of onerous public duties ; was Secretary to Commodore Lewis ; kept open his rendezvous, where he re- cruited over a thousand seamen; and, a portion of the time, commanded a company in camp, on Fort Greene, from which he was not absent for a single night, for nearly three months. His company (the 5th, of 64th regiment, 22d brig- ade, N. Y. S. Infantry), was esteemed the best drilled in this division of the army. In August, 1815, he was ap- pointed Adjutant of the 3d Regiment of detailed infantry, destined for service on the Canadian frontier, but the force was finally not called upon ; Brigade Quartermaster of 22d Brigade, April 19, 1816 ; Lieutenant Colonel, March 4, 1817 ; Colonel, with rank, from July 19th (in place of Col. Joseph Dean, resigned), August 23, 1823 ; Brigadier General, 44th Brigade, March 27, 1827.

In 1821, Mr. Nichols, with Andrew Mercein, Augustus Graham, Joseph Moser, George Hall, and other good men, became a pioneer in the Sunday-school movement in the vil- lage. With them, also, as well as Thomas Kirk, F. C. Tucker and George S. Wise, he was, in 1823, active in tbe founding of the Apprentices' Library, of which he was the first secretary. In 1824, he and other directors of the library, made the first radical movement, in this village, in the temperance cause, by agreeing, among themselves, to refrain from offering liquors to visitors, when visiting each others houses.

The interest which he ever felt in the proper education of youth, led him to co-operate in every effort for the estab- lishment of public schools. In 1826, he was a school com- missioner, and took an active part in the organization of the public school system. He also was active in the establishment of the Brooklyn Savings Bank, of which he was first account-

ant, keeping its books gratuitously for one year. The Apprentices' Library building having been sold, and the books for some time packed away out of sight, the society was re- organized by Mr. Nichols' untiring efforts in its behalf, and he was made Vice-President. It was shortly after placed on a permanent basis, by the liberality of Mr. Augustus Graham, upon whose demise, in 1852, Mr. Nichols was elected President, and his name was always to be found on its working committees. In 1842, also, he was Treasurer of the City Library Association ; and, in 1844, was concerned in the organization of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor, out of which subsequently grew the Brooklyn City Dispensary. Of the former society, he was Chairman of the Executive Cominittee, and of the Dis- pensary, Vice-President in 1847, and, during the following year, President. Of the Brooklyn City Hospital, he was offered the presidency, but declined in favor of others. He accepted, however, the office of Vice-President, which lie held until 1849; was Treasurer from 1849 to 1852, and Vice- President from 1852 until the time of his decease. He ever considered his share in the establishunent of this great charity, as the proudest lionor of his life, and neither age or ill-health had power to abate his interest, or his efforts in its behalf. To within a short time of his death, his visits there were regularly paid ; and, in his will, he devised the sum of $9,000 to the institution. The Brooklyn Gas Light Company, chartered as early as 1824, had been dormant. In 1848, on the death of its former President, Colonel Alden Spooner, Mr. Nichols was elected to that office. From that time for- ward, it enjoyed an unusual degree of success. At the close of 1861, when his healthi failed, lie attempted to resign his office. His wish being overruled by the directors, he reluc- tantly consented to retain his position, but refused to receive the salary for the last half year.

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Civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., Part 71

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909. Publication date: 1884 Publisher: New York : Munsell Number of Pages: 1360

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909.
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : Munsell
Number of Pages: 1360