Victory Parade

 

APPENDIX C

 

Borough and City Officials

 

OFFICIALS UNDER THE BOROUGH CHARTER OF 1746

Dr. Thomas Cadwalader, Chief Burgess.

Nathaniel Ware, Recorder

David Martin, Marshal

Andrew Reed, Treasurer

 

Trenton was incorporated as a Borough September 6, 1746, and the charter was surrendered December 23, 1749, effective April 9, 1750.

 

The following lists of City officials were furnished and certified to as correct by Leon D. Hirsch, city clerk.

 

MAYORS FROM THE GRANTING OF THE CHARTER

OF 1792 ONWARD

 

Moore Furman  1792-1794
Aaron D. Woodruff  1794-1797
James Ewing 1797-1803
Joshua Wright 1803-1806
Stacy Potts 1806-1814
Robert McNealy   1814-1832
Charles Burroughs 1832-1847
Samuel R. Hamilton 1847-1849
William C. Howell 1849-1850
William Napton 1850-1852
John R. Tucker 1852-1854
William Napton 1854-1855
William P. Sherman 1855 (part)
John R. Tucker 1855-1856
Joseph Wood 1856-1859
Franklin S. Mills 1859-1861
William R. McKean 1861-1863
Franklin S. Mills 1863-1867
Alfred Reed 1867-1868
William Napton 1868-1871
John Briest  1871-1875
Wesley Creveling 1875-1877
Daniel B. Bodine 1877-1879
William Rice 1879-1881
Garret D. W. Vroom 1881-1884
Richard A. Donnelly 1884-1886
John Woolverton 1886-1887
Frank A. Magowan 1887-1889
Anthony A. Skirm 1889-1891
Daniel J. Bechtel 1891-1893
Joseph B. Shaw  1893-1895
Emory N. Yard 1895-1897
Welling G. Sickel 1897-1899
Frank O. Briggs 1899-1902
Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr. 1902-1906
Frederick W. Gnichtel 1906-1908
Walter Madden 1908-1911
 Frederick W. Donnelly  1911 -

 

Commission government went into effect August 22, 1911.

 

OFFICIALS

 

Frederick W. Donnelly, Mayor and Director of Public Affairs 1911 -
William F. Burk,* Director of Parks and Public Property 1911-1919
J. Ridgway Fell,$ Director of Streets and Public Improvements 1911-1923
George B. La Barre, Director of Public Safety 1911 -
Edward W. Lee, Director of Revenue and Finance  1911 -
George W. Page, Director of Parks and Public Improvements  (elected July 22) 1919 -
Abram Swan, Jr., Director of Public Works (elected May 8)  1923 –

 

* Died in office.

$ Declined renomination.

 

CITY CLERKS

 

Benjamin Smith 1792-1796
Jacob Benjamin 1796-1806
Peter Forman 1806-1822
Samuel T. Machett 1822-1827
John S. Chambers * 1827 (part)
David Johnston 1828-1836
John R. Tucker 1836-1837
Thomas J. Macpherson 1837-1842
Henry C. Boswell 1842-1843
Alexander M. Johnston 1843-1848
L. R. Justice 1848-1849
Charles W. Jay 1849-1850
Alexander M. Johnston 1850-1857
John O. Raum 1857-1859
William N. Nutt 1859-1862
Mathew Brown 1862-1865
Benjamin Naar, Jr. 1865-1866
Alexander M. Johnston 1866-1871
Edward E. Hooker 1871 (part)
Benjamin Moorhouse 1871-1873
Frederick S. McNeely 1873-1875
Alexander C. Yard 1875-1882
William H. Earley 1882-1885
Eckford Moore 1885-1887
John C. Owens 1887-1892
Charles J. Fury 1892-1894
C. Edward Murray 1894-1904
Harry B. Salter 1904-1912
Frank Thompson 1912-1916
Leon D. Hirsch 1916 -

 

* John S. Chambers served as city clerk pro tem during part of the year 1827.

 

            CITY TREASURERS

 

Pontius D. Stelle 1792-1798
Jacob Benjamin  1798-1799
Alexander Chambers 1799-1818
John R. Smith  1818-1826
Samuel Evans 1826-1839
Joseph G. Brearley  1839-1840
Samuel Evans  1840-1841
William C. Howell 1841-1849
Jonathan Fisk   1849-1852
James H. Clark 1852-1853
Jonathan Fisk 1853-1858
William M. Force 1858-1859
Jesse M. Clark 1859-1862
Peter Crozer 1862-1867
John O. Raum 1867-1871
Joshua Jones 1871-1873
Philip H. Wentz 1873-1875
Thomas S. Stevens  1875-1881
J. R. Encke  1881-1884
John Margerum 1884-1887
Watson H. Linburg  1887-1888
Charles P. Brown 1888-1892
Samuel Walker, Jr. 1892-1894
William J. B. Stokes  1894-1910
Harry E. Evans  1910 -

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