Excerpt from Leslie's History of the Greater New York: Biographical Mr. Spencer is also President of the Alabama Great Southern Rail road and the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway. He is a director in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the Erie Railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Central of Georgia Railway, the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway, and the West End Street Railway, of Boston; a director in the Lawyers' Surety Company, of New York; a trustee of the Street Railway and Illuminating Trust, which was created to take over from the General Electric Company several millions of miscel laneous securities as a means of financing that company in the panic of 1893; and it is understood that Mr. Spencer also occupies the posi tion of arbitrator between the General Electric and Westinghouse Electric companies, in their agreement for the adjustment from time to time of their patent interests. In 1890, Mayor Grant appointed him a member of the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners. 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.