Reports of Samuel B. Ruggles, Delegate to the International Statistical Congress at Berlin, On the Resources of the United States, and On a Uniform System of Weight, Measures and Coins
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Report of Samuel B. Ruggles, Commissioner Appointed by the Governor of the State of New York: Under the Concurrent Resolution of the Legislature, of ... for National Purposes (Classic Reprint)
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Samuel Bulkley Ruggles was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1838, and a Canal Commissioner from 1839 to 1842 and in 1858.
Background
Samuel Bulkley Ruggles, descended from John Ruggles who settled in Roxbury, Massachussets, in 1635, was born in New Milford, Connecticut. He was the son of Philo and Ellen (Bulkley) Ruggles. His father, a lawyer, removed to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , in 1804. The boy gave evidence of precocity, and by private tutoring was prepared for college at the age of twelve.
Education
He was admitted to the sophomore class at Yale and graduated in 1814. He then passed several years at Poughkeepsie, studying in his father's law office.
Career
Ruggles was admitted to the bar in 1821 and he began practice in New York City. He was successful in his profession, but long before he had reached his fortieth year he had retired from active practice to devote his time to public interests.
As early as 1831, when little thought had been given in New York to the providing of breathing spaces in city blocks, Ruggles was working out a plan by which a subdivision could be developed with a small park as its central feature, to be held in perpetuity by the surrounding lot-owners. He had bought land (lying between Third and Fourth Avenues, Twentieth and Twenty-second streets) as farm acreage, and through a costly process of leveling and filling converted it into a desirable residential district. He realized little profit from his investment, but in Gramercy Park the community had a permanent object-lesson in the beauty and value of small parks, which became the more impressive as the city was closely built around it in the course of years. In 1931 the centenary of the park was observed, with tributes to its founder.
Ruggles was also active in promoting the creation of Union Square, one of the earliest of the city's public parks. Later he was one of the Croton Aqueduct commissioners. His election to the lower house of the state legislature in 1838 and his selection as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee gave his zeal for public service a wider scope. His Report upon the Finances and Internal Improvements of the State of New York (1838) was epoch-making in New York's canal policy. Ruggles was one of the few men after the time of DeWitt Clinton to make a sincere, broadly conceived effort to formulate a canal policy for the future. As canal commissioner 1839-58 and president of the commission from 1840, he carried far beyond the state boundaries his inquiries into traffic conditions and the products then needing the Erie Canal for transport to the seaboard.
His familiarity with the transportation problems of the day made it natural that he should have a part, with James Gore King and other New Yorkers, in the building of the New York & Erie Railroad. He continued his statistical studies over a long period, publishing many pamphlets on economic themes. His chief public service in later years was rendered as delegate of the United States to the International Statistical Congress at Berlin in 1863 and at The Hague in 1869 and to the International Monetary Conference at Paris in 1867. His reports on the last-named conference were published under the titles, International Coinage (1867) and International Coinage: Supplemental Report (1870). On the complicated issue of bimetallism he was far more at home than were most of his countrymen.
He had been interested in banking since 1839, when he had helped to found the Bank of Commerce. In one other field Ruggles was for years distinctly in advance of his times. While he was serving as trustee of Columbia College (1836 - 81) the opposition of some of his colleagues, in 1854, to the election of Oliver Wolcott Gibbs to the chair of chemistry because of his Unitarianism, called out from Ruggles a ringing protest, The Duty of Columbia College to the Community (1854). The conflict seems to have set clearly within his vision the development of the college into a university. From that ideal he never wavered and in 1880, while he was still a trustee, he took part in the erection of the School of Political Science, headed by Dr. John W. Burgess, in the conviction that the University had at last arrived. Ruggles died at Fire Ireland, N. Y. , as the result of a paralytic stroke.