[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] knew him well, which made his election to any public AQUEDUCT BRIDGE OVER SAW-MILL RIVER, AT YONKERS. and city of Yonkers, was born in West Hartford, Conn., on the. 20th of July, 1820, and died in Yonkers on the llth of October, 1884. His mother, Mrs. Lydia Wells Flagg, was a niece atid one of the heirs of Lemuel Wells, the last proprietor of the manorial lands which, previous to the Revolution, had belonged to the family of Frederick Philipse. Within a year or two after the death of Mr. Wells, Ethan Flagg re-moved to Yonkers, which became his residence for the remainder of his life. Meanwhile he bad acquired a familiarity with business pursuits during a connec-tion of two years with a mercantile house in Boston, Mass. From the first he entertained brilliant antici-pations of the future prosperity of the little settlement, then scarcely more than a hamlet, at the mouth of the Ncpperhan, and he resolved to devote his time and attention to the development of its latent resources. Hence, it was that by judicious purchases he acquired