A century of mining and metallurgy in the United States. Centennial address of Abram S. Hewitt, president elect of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Philadelphia
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A Treatise On the Metallurgy of Iron: Containing Outlines of the History of Iron Manufacture, Methods of Assay, and Analyses of Iron Ores, Processes of Manufacture of Iron and Steel, Etc., Etc
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A Century of Mining and Metallurgy in the United States: Centennial Address of Abram S. Hewitt, President Elect of the American Institute of Mining Engineers
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Address Delivered by Abram S. Hewitt, on the Occasion of the Opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge
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A Treatise on the Metallurgy of Iron: Containing Outlines of the History of Iron Manufacture, Methods of Assay, and Analyses of Iron Ores, Processes
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Abram Stevens Hewitt was a major figure in the American iron and steel industry. His public career included service as mayor of New York City.
Background
Hewitt was born on July 31, 1822, in Haverstraw, New York, United States. His mother, Ann Gurnee, was of French Huguenot descent, while his father, John Hewitt, was from Staffordshire in England and had emigrated to the United States in 1796 to work on a steam engine to power the water plant in Philadelphia.
His father, John, a Staffordshire man, was one of a party of four mechanics who were sent by Boulton and Watt to Philadelphia about 1790 to set up a steam engine for the city water-works and who in 1793-1794 built at Belleville, New Jersey, the first steam engine constructed wholly in America; he made a fortune in the manufacture of furniture, but lost it by the burning of his factories.
With Edward Cooper (son of Peter Cooper, whom Hewitt greatly assisted in organizing Cooper Union, and whose daughter he married) he went into the manufacture of iron girders and beams under the firm name of Cooper, Hewitt & Co.
Education
Educated in New York City public schools, Hewitt was a brilliant student, won a scholarship to Columbia College, and distinguished himself before graduating in 1842.
Career
For several years he read the law, although he was never formally admitted to the bar.
In 1886 he was elected mayor of New York City, his nomination having been forced upon the Democratic Party by the strength of the other nominees, Henry George, and Theodore Roosevelt; his administration (1887 - 1888) was thoroughly efficient and creditable, but he broke with Tammany, was not renominated, ran independently for re-election, and, was defeated.
In 1896 and 1900 he voted the Republican ticket but did not ally himself with the organization. In 1843 Hewitt and a college associate, Edward Cooper traveled in Europe. In 1874 he was elected to the U. S. Congress. He was reelected four times.
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Politics
In politics, he was a Democrat. In 1871 he was prominent in the re-organization of Tammany after the fall of the " Tweed Ring "; from 1875 until the end of 1886 (except in 1879 - 1881) he was a representative in Congress; in 1876 he left Tammany for the County Democracy; in the Hayes-Tilden campaign of that year he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and in Congress he was one of the House members of the joint committee which drew up the famous Electoral Count Act providing for the Electoral Commission.
Views
As a philanthropist, Hewitt was especially interested in education.
Membership
He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 10th district from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1879.
Connections
In 1845 Hewitt had married Sarah Amelia Cooper, the only daughter of Peter Cooper.