Murphy, Charles F., 297-298, 299-303, 306, 310-311, 317, 322, 324, 326, 338-340, 344, 349, 351, 353, 355, 356, 360-364, 369-373, 375-376, 378, 382-386, 388-389, 395 Murphy, John J., 301, 310 Murphy, John M., 366 Mutual Life Insurance Co., 307 N Nast, Thomas, 235, 239 National Republican party, 85-86; election frauds, 90-91 Native American party, 103, 108, 121, 128, 134-135, 138, 139, 142, 155, 174-175, 179, 187, 191 Naughton & Co., 297 Nestell, Christian, 24 Newcomb, Colin G., 127 New York Contracting & Trucking Co., 302, 309-312, 314, 318 New York County Democracy, 261-262, 269, 274 New York Life Insurance Co., 307-308, 346, 381 New York Municipal Railway Corporation, 393 New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., 312-318 New York & Portchester Railroad, 312-318 New York Stock Exchange, 377 New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad Co., 312-318 New York, Westchester & Connecticut Traction Co., 332 Nicholl, Francis S., 63 Ninth Avenue Railroad, 167 Nixon, Lewis, 292, 295-296 Noah, M. M., 47, 60-62, 66, 75, 80, 88, 89, 123, 147 Norton “Mike,” 225, 244 O O’Brien, James, 225, 238, 254, 268 O’Brien, John J., 262 O’Conor, Charles, 147, 242, 252 O’Gorman, James A., 353-354 Ogden, Henry, 123 O’Neil, “Honest” John, 264 Opdyke, George P., 170, 192-193, 201 Ordway, Samuel H., 330-331 O’Rourke, Matthew, 237-238, 248 Osborne, James W., 319-320, 365, 389 Owego Lottery, 51 Owen, Robert, 78 Owen, Robert Dale, 78-79 P Page, William H., Jr., 334 Page, Samuel L., Jr., 24 Panics, 109, 117, 186-187 Parkhurst, Charles H., 278 Parton, James, 117 Partridge, John N., 303-304 Paulding, William, Jr., 47, 60, 69, 127 Parker, Andrew D., 279 Patterson & Co., 366 Peaconic Co., 101 Peck, Duncan W., 390 Peckham, Wheeler H., 242 Pendleton, Nathaniel, 19 Penn, William, 2 People’s Gas Light Co., 206 People’s Municipal League, 274 People’s Traction Co., 332 Perkins, James, 98, 179 Phelps, William Walter, 237 Philbin, Eugene A., 289-291 Phoenix Insurance Co., 342-345 Phoenix, J. Philips, 129 Pierce, Franklin, 157, 159, 194 Pierson, Isaac, 13 Pierrepont, Edwards, 240 Pintard, John, 7 Platt, Thomas C., 288, 305 Plunkett, George W., 383, 385, 389 Polk, James K., 136-137, 141 Populist party, 275 Porter, Peter B., 45, 46 Potter, Henry C., 289 Prendergast, William A., 382 Price, William M., 124 Prince, Benjamin, 41, 60 Prohibitionists, 275 Progressive party, 371, 396 Public Service Commission, 333, 379-380, 388, 392-394 Purdy, Elijah F., 122, 141, 146, 152, 163, 165, 168, 184, 192, 197 Purser, George H., 206 Q Queens’ Borough Property Owners’ Ass’n, 329 Quincy, Josiah, 179 Quigg, Lemuel Eli, 333 R Radcliff, Jacob, 29, 36, 39, 41, 42, 47 Raines, John, 352 Ramapo Water Company, 286