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NYT of June 6, 1916 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00C15F93A5B1773... reports that an Aaron Bradshaw was head of the delegation from Washington D.C. to the 1916 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

swanq: Thanks for linking Bradshaw to the Republican National Convention. We will include this in our next update.

Compatible with photo at www.flickr.com/photos/31129802@N03/sets/72157623863816513... from obituary of William H Reynolds, real estate developer, New York State Senator (for one term), he developed Dreamland at Coney Island, and was convicted of graft and later released. See: www.carouselnews.com/August-2008/August-2008/William-H.-R... www.brownstoner.com/blog/2010/04/walkabout-trump/ www.brownstoner.com/blog/2010/05/walkabout-willi/ www.brownstoner.com/blog/2010/05/walkabout-willi-1/ His wife was Elise or Elsie Guerrier and had been an opera singer in Boston before marriage. Her obituary was in the NYT of Oct 22, 1943 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70715F83F59147B...

Acording to the Political Grvyard: William H. Reynolds (1868-1931) — of Long Beach, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., February 29, 1868. Republican. Builder; real estate developer; member of New York state senate 3rd District, 1894-95; indicted by a grand jury in August 1917 for perjury, over his 1912 expert testimony on the value of land sought by the city for a park; the grand jury alleged that he falsely denied any personal interest in the realty company which owned the property; also indicted in October 1917, with three others, for conspiracy defraud the city of $500,000 by inflating the appraisal; the indictments were dismissed in May 1920 over the prosecutor's delay of the trial; village president of Long Beach, New York, 1921-22; mayor of Long Beach, N.Y., 1922-24; removed 1924; defeated, 1925; indicted on May 1, 1924, along with the Long Beach city treasurer, for misappropriating city funds in connection with a bond issue; tried in June 1924, convicted, sentenced to six months in the county jail, and automatically removed from office as mayor; released pending appeal; the Appellate Division reversed the conviction in June 1925 and ordered a new trial; the indictment was dismissed in June 1927. English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Elks; Freemasons. Died, from heart disease, in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., October 13, 1931 (age 63 years, 0 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Relatives: Son of William Reynolds and Margaret (McChesney) Reynolds; married to Elise Guerrier.

New-York tribune., May 27, 1906, Page 8 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1906-05-27/ed-... has a picture from 1906, a possible match given the decade between the pictures.

swanq: thanks for all the additional information on Mr. Reynolds. We will include some of it in our next update!

"George von Lengerke Meyer (June 24, 1858 – March 9, 1918) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as United States ambassador to Italy and Russia, as United States Postmaster General from 1907 to 1909 during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1909 to 1913 during the administration of President William Howard Taft." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_von_Lengerke_Meyer

Thanks! We'll include some of your info in our next update.