Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — SETH LOW. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SETH LOW.

Eminent New-Yorker Again a Mayoralty Candidate. The nomination of Seth Low for Mayor Of New York on the fusion ticket of the anti-Tammany forces is the logical consequence of the campaign of four years ago, when he was defeated in a four-cor-nered contest. The two principal candidates with Low on the fusion ticket are Edward M. Grant for Comptroller and Jaeob A. Cantor, the erstwhile Tammany leader in the State Senate, for president of the. borough of Manhattan. Seth Low is the son of Abiel Abbot Low, who was long one of the foremost merchants of Brooklyn. ’The present candidate for Mayor was born in that city Jan. 18, 1850, aud graduated from Columbia College in 1870. He then be-

come a clerk in his father’s mercantile house, amiJn 1875 was admitted a» u partner. He became a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce and attracted attention by his addresses on the carrying trade, both on the rails and witter. He founded the Brooklyn bureau of charities and was its first president. Political reform next engrossed Lis attention, and at the ago of 31 lie was a reform candidate for Mayor of Brooklyn. His majority was decisive and the people of Brooklyn re-elected him. After a four years' term lie resumed his commercial occupations, but, in 1880, accepted tin* presidency of Columbia University, being one of the youngest college presidents in the country.

SETH LOW.