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Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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y for Deposits,at an address he delivered before the .American Bankersconvention at Chicago in 1885. He is author of severalpamphlets on questions of currency and finance, includingone on the utilization of Silver as a Basis for Bank Circu-lation, and the Necessity for a Bank Circulation, alongthe lines which are now being advocated by CongressmanHarter, of Ohio. P. HENRY DUGRO. The Hon. P. Henry Dugro, one ot the Justices of theSuperior Court, was born in New York City in 1855. Hereceived his early education in the ))ublic schools of thecity, and graduated from Columbia College in 1876. In1878 he graduated from Columbia Law School, was admit-te(i to the bar immediately afterward and began the i)rac-tice of law. In the fall of 1878, although then only twenty-three years of age, he was elected to the .Assembly from theFourteenth District, and in iSSo he was elected to Con-gress from the Seventh Congressional District. In 1883 hewas nominated for Comj)troller, but declined on account of
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266 NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. the death of his father. In 1886 he was elected to theplace on the Superior Court bench which he now fills withcredit to himself and full satisfaction to the public. In1890 he commenced the erection of the magnificent SavoyHotel, at Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue, which hefinished in the spring of 1892, and leased to the SavoyHotel Company, of which corporation he is Treasurer. WILLIAM WALLACE FARMER Is the representative and leading light of the old estab-lished type founding firm of A. D. Farmer & Son, wellknown and respected as the Old New York Type Foundry,and the bitter opponent and successful rival of the AmericanType Pounding Trust. Mr. Farmer was born in Brooklynon January 12, 1851, and educated at the Polytechnic. Hegraduated in 1868, and began his business career in hisfathers office. He served an apprenticeship of eleven

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