Excerpt from History of Middlesex County, New Jersey, 1664-1920, Vol. 3: Historical Biographical He was deputy-surrogate of the county of Middlesex during the two terms of the Honorable Leonard Furman as surrogate from 1892 to 1902, and succeeded him through election to the office of surrogate. He was elected twice, and at his election in 1902 he ran nine hundred votes ahead of his ticket, and at his reelection in 1907 he was eighteen hundred votes ahead of his ticket. There was over a year and a half of his second term left when he was made county judge by Governor Wilson. During the period of the vvorld - wide War, Peter Francis Daly, through the profoundly efficient discharge of the broad and varied duties Of his high official county position - made abnormally onerous and exact ing by the extraordinary conditions of the times; through his distinctive genius in the work of organizing popular movements, his tireless energy, his stirring eloquence and his strong hold upon the imagination and good will of the people and their admiration for the intensity and zeal of his Americanism, was indisputably the most Outstanding leader and chief spokesman of America's cause in this county of one hundred and sixty-eight thousand people and which embraces within its confines so many different racial strains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.