[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 1 Mayors of the City of Yonkers to the present Samuel Swift: 1884-86. William G. Stahlnecker; time: 1872-74, James C. Courter; 1874-76, Joseph 1S86-90, J. Harvey Bell; 1890-92. James Mill-Masten; 1876-78, William A. Gibson; 1878-80, ward: 1892-94. James II. Weller; 1896-98. John Joseph Masten; 1s,nii-nl'. Norton P. Otis; 1882 S4, G. Peene; 1S9S-1900, Leslie Sutherland. from 1842 to 1900 607 first the seat of the city government was the Philipse Manor House, which in 18G8 had been purchased by the village from its owner, Judge William W. Wood worth. The presidential campaign of 1872 is ever memorable as the one in which Horace Greeley, the great editor of the New York Tribune, ran against General Grant. Mr. Greeley was for some twenty years a citizen of Westchester County. He was one of the early incomers from New York City after the opening of the railways. In the sum-mer of 1850 he lived with his family on the Todd Bailey estate in the Town of North Salem.1 We have seen that during the same year he took a very prominent part in the steps which led to the settle-ment of Mount Vernon. In 1851 he purchased a farm of seventy-five