American lawyer and writer, born in Philadelphia, PA, on the 23rd of June 1839. In 1860 he graduated at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and settled in New York City. He took an active interest in municipal reform; was a member of the committee of seventy in 1870; on the state commission for investigating the government of cities in 1876; and in 1885 United States commissioner to Europe to investigate the regulation of railroads there. He was a constant contributor to economical magazines and the author of Our Representative Government, and Personal Representation (1871); Suffrage in Cities (1878); Hindrances to Prosperity (1879); and Constitutional History and Political Development of the United States (1882). He also contributed articles on Railways, Legislation, etc., to Lalor’s Cyclopædia of Political Science and United States History.
