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Excerpt from Noted Living Albanians and State Officials: A Series of Biographical Sketches
From careful research in this fruitful field of investigation the author is convinced that there is no other city in the Union, of the same size, in which there are to-day more solid, sterling, enterprising men than in the old Dutch city of Albany, notwithstanding what may have been said to the contrary. While many other names equally notable are omitted in the present volume, it is because they are reserved for future portraiture.
It is the intention of the author to issue as soon as practicable, another series of Noted Albanians, in size and style to the present volume - which must close his efforts in this interesting department of biographical literature relating to Albany.
The principal changes that have taken place in the his torv of the subjects of this volume during its preparation are the retirement of the Hon. Diedrich from public office, in 1889; the resignation of the Hon. James Shanahan as superintendent of public works of the state of New York, in 1889; the resignation of Charles R. Hall as deputy superintendent of the banking department of the state of New York, in 1889; the removal, by death, of the venerable judge, Amasa J. Parker, and of Edgar Cotrell, in the very prime of his life.
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