Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from college in 1850, he studied law at the Harvard Law School and later in the office of Brigham and Loring, of Boston. He began practice in Fall River, and from 1857-59, was city solicitor. He was common councilman in 1860, president of the council in 1861, and alderman from 1866 to 1873. In 1864 he was appointed to the position of clerk of the Bristol County Court, which he has held for thirty-two years...
...Alderman Milligan of the Sivinth," L. W. Mott...
...last meeting of the Cambridge Board of Aldermen, Alderman Bradford offered the following order: "That His Honor, the Mayor, be requested to communicate with the authorities of Harvard University with a view to securing from them some action which shall prevent improperly-clad students from running in the streets of the city...
...Dresden, each salaried alderman is responsible for a single department, or for several closely allied parts of the public business. He is elected to his office because of his knowledge and skill in a special field of municipal work, and takes charge of that department. Thus, city work offers to a young German a life career. An educated man makes a special study of water-works or building-laws or poor-relief. He learns the methods of the best European cities. He serves his time in the administration of some small town, and, perhaps, gets a place at the head...
...addressed to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Cambridge who have power to compel the street railway company to regard the petition. Every man in college who is affected by the present inconvenient arrangement should sign this petition in order that it may go to the Board of Alderman in as strong a form as possible...