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Object Name |
Ballot |
Date |
1880s-1890s |
Description |
Campaign ticket, printed in black ink on off-white paper, listing candidates for election in Staten Island. Inscription: "TOWN. / For Supervisor, / ABRAM COLE. / For Town Clerk, / JOHN T. HOPPING. / For Justice of the Peace, / CHARLES H. PENDEXTER. / For Assessor, / HARMON B. LAFORGE. / For Commissioner of Highways, / JACOB STERLING. / For Collector, / JAMES LAFORGE. / For Sealer of Weights and Measures, / JOHN SIMONSON. / For Constables, / FREDERICK DRAKE. / JAMES W. RICKHOW. / DAVID C. JOHNSON. / HENRY S. LAFORGE. / ELBERT L. POILLION. / For Game Constable. / CLARENCE W. MANEE. / For Inspectors of Election. / 1st Dist / JAMES BAILEY. / HENRY WOODRUFF / 2nd Dist. / HARMON B. LAFORGE. / JOHN C. DISOSWAY. / 3rd Dist. / STEPHEN B. WINANT, JR. / THOMAS MALLET. / 4th Dist. / NICHOLAS HOAG. / FRANK D. THRALL. / 5th Dist. / JACOBSON W. WOOD. / DAVID M. RYDER." Printed on the reverse: "TOWN." (Keywords: New York) |
Acquisition |
Gift of Fred Hopping |
Ownership and History |
By the mid-1800s, it was common for political parties to provide voters with pre-printed "tickets" listing their candidates. Abram Cole, whose name heads this ticket, was a resident of Tottenville, Staten Island. He served multiple terms as Town Clerk of Westfield and as a member of the Board of Supervisors. He was quoted in a New York Times article on March 24, 1889, declaring his opposition to Staten Island becoming part of the City of New York: "Jersey Preferred to New-York. The residents of Westfield Township, Staten Island, are much opposed to the passage of the bill to annex the island to New-York City. Supervisor Abram Cole said yesterday that he did not believe in annexation, as he could not see in what manner Richmond County, as a whole, could be benefited by the scheme...Supervisor Cole believed that it would be better for Staten Island to be annexed to the State of New-Jersey, as the latter was more in sympathy with Richmond County than New-York. 'If you were to draw a line from Communipaw to Sandy Hook,' continued Mr. Cole, 'you would find that Staten Island lies within the line drawn, and that our island is much closer to New-Jersey than it is to New-York.' " |
Earliest Date |
1880 |
Latest Date |
1900 |
Subjects |
Ballots Voting Political elections Ephemera |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Cole, Abram Wood, Jacobson W. |
Catalog Number |
52.004.0003 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by Barbara Newington, January 2018. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |