Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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the old New York StockExchange premises, and in 1887, to cope with the enormousgrowth of business, he removed to his present commodiousquarters at No. 45 Beaver Street. His offices there might well be described as the business Meccaof American yachtsmen. For, of course, even a sport or a plea-sure must have its business features, especially one that involvesthe expenditure of so much money as does yachting. The manwho wants to buy a yacht, or to sell one, or to exchange one foranother, or to have one repaired or remodeled, goes straight toMannings Agency. Thither goes, too, the man who wants tohire or to charter a yacht for a cruise or for the season ; and theman who wants to have his yacht laid away in safe, snug quar-ters while he spends the winter or other time ashore; and theman who wants his yacht manned and fitted out; and the man,too, who has no concrete, specific wants, but merely wants toknow, you know. All wend their way to Mannings, and thereall get their wants supplied. I
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PHILIP MAURO rpHE first member of the Mauro family in America was-L the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch,Philip Mauro. He came hither from Stuttgart, Germany, aboutthe year 1802, and settled in Baltimore. Thence he removed toWashington, D. C. He was a musician and publisher. Hemarried Catherine Ott of Georgetown, D. C, and to themwas born a son, Charles George Mauro. The latter enteredthe legal profession, and had a distinguished career therein.He went West, to St. Louis, and became one of the foremostlawyers of that city. During the Civil War he was ProsecutingAttorney for the county of St. Louis, and afterward was ap-pointed by President Andrew Johnson to be United States Dis-trict Attorney there. He died 1873. The wife of Charles G.Mauro was formerly Miss Charlotte Emmeline Davis, a memberof a well-known family of New York city. One member ofthat family was Matthew L. Davis, the biographer of AaronBurr. Several others attained eminence in New York in earlyyears, a

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