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Boss William Marcy Tweed
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2. Boss William Marcy Tweed built hospitals and orphanages, widened Broadway and got land for what Art Museum ?
5. How many years did it take to finish the Tweed Courthouse ?
6. Besides chairmaking Boss Tweed's first occupation was bookeeping. Tweed kept books for a saddle-maker and for a Pearl street manufacturer of what?
9. Some other Tweed Ring members were Sheriff Matthew Brennan, Mayor John Hoffman, James Kelso, and James O'Brien. Tweed alone became the scapegoat, but he was not the only one of the corrupt ring that served time in jail, what other member spent 2 1/2 years in jail.?
12. Boss William Marcy Tweed was the baby of his family, what number child was he ?
13. After his last words, I hope they are satisfied now, what time of day did Tweed die on April 12, 1878 ?
14. What was the 1838 Brookyn cemetery where Tweed was buried on April 17th, 1878 ?
16. A secret meeting in late August 1863 at the War Department in Washington D.C, gave Tammany Hall (through the Board of Supervisors) the right to run Lincoln's NYC draft. Who also met with secretary of war Edwin Stanton and the head of the draft James Barnet Fry, besides Tweed ?
18. Rutgers Square on the Lower East Side was once called Tweed Plaza. What is this triangular square at East Broadway and Canal Street, now known as ?
19. Tweeds last words were said right after he said Well, Tilden (Samuel Jones Tilden, the New York Governor) and Fairchild (Charles Fairchild, the New York State Attorney General) have killed me. The debtors prison where Tweed died was on what NYC street ?
20. After Tweed died, 5,000 poor people gathered outside his son in law's (Frederick Douglass) apartment at 68 E 77th street. Tweed's coffin had oxydized silver handles, and was draped with black silk velvet and quilted with white satin on the inside. What kind of wood was used for Tweed's coffin ?
21. What was the occupation of Boss Tweed's father Richard Tweed, as well as his grandfather Phillip Tweed ?
24. Tweed was called the Santa Claus with a diamond pin. Besides his blue-white gem on his shirt, what did Tweed have that was ten and a half carats ?
26. At 21 years old, blue eyed William Tweed married a 17 year old neighbor in 1844. The Tweeds moved into a top floor room in her fathers house at 193 Madison street, what was his wife Mary Jane's maiden name ?
27. Tweed developed a fever in his last 2 weeks of life in jail. Tweed's NYC jail cell had two rooms, a window to the street and a piano. He was lucky Tweed was sentenced to serve 12 years on what prison Island ?
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1. What was the nickname of the first fire squad Boss Tweed volunteered at ?
3. What in NYC did Tweed's illicit profits made him the third biggest owner of ?
4. What head of the Department of Parks was part of Tweed's City Hall lunch club that turned into the Tammany Ring?
7. What street was Boss Tweed's grandfathers shop located on ?
8. During the 1863 draft riots Boss Tweed was Deputy Commissioner of what NYC department ?
10. Tweed easily paid off members of the Legislature. In jail Tweed thought he wouldn't be in the fix he got into if he paid off what kind of men ?
11. The Tweed Ring pillaged city funds and used the construction of what county building as a pretext to embezzle millions of dollars ?
15. Tweed's final resting place (plot 6,477, which is just north of the cemetery entrance) has a great view of the bay and NYC. Tweed's wooden coffin was placed in a chestnut box and was buried on April 17th, 1878 overlooking what water ?
17. Boss William Marcy Tweed was born on April 3rd,1823 on top of Cherry Hill. What bridge is the old 1 Cherry street, now under ?
22. What NYC Mayor from 1869–1872, did Boss Tweed engineer into office to provide himself with a free hand to steal from the city ?
23. What animal was the symbol of Tweed's Engine Company #6 ?
25. What political cartoonist's well known images helped catch Tweed after he jumped bail ?
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