It was unfortunate for him that his career in the executive office was coincident with the Tweed Ring exposures, which involved much criticism of his political affiliations with Tammany. Upon the completion of his second term he retired from public life. He died on the 24th of March, 1888. Eighteen hundred and seventy was the last census year in which Westchester County retained the bounds established for it under the original county act of 1083. The population in 1870, by townships and villages, was as follows: POPULATION

TOWNS

Bedford

. .

Peekskill Village Verplanck Village Eastchester Central Mount Vernon Village East Mount Vernon Village. .

3,f>!>7 11,694 6,560 7,41)1

10,790

Greenburgh Harrison

2,700 1,200

1,483 1,601 19,609 5,210

Mount Pleasant Beekmantown

Village

New Rochelle New Rochelle Village North Castle .

Pelham Poundridge Rve.

2.152 3,915

Soniers Westchester West Farms

2,206

1,996 1,754 7,798 1,790

4,696

1,194 7,150

3,797

Port Chester Village

Clairmont

1,500

1,721 6,015 9,372

1 58 5( 18

"

Fordham Monterey " Mount Eden '•

2,151 11(1

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

TOWNS

West Farms -- Continued Mount Hope Village Tremont " West Finns " Williams's Bridge « Woodstock " White Plains Yonkers Yonkers Village Yorktown

COUNTY POPULATION

2,025 1,701 ,

,

Total

2,030 18,357 2,035

12,733

131,348

The steady growth of Yonkers had long foreshadowed the conversion of that village into a city, and after the census enumeration of 1870 the important change began to be agitated. The legislative act creating the City of Yonkers was passed on the 1st of June, 1872, and received Governor Hoffman's signature the same day. By this measure the whole of the former Township of Yonkers, excepting a strip at its southern extremity, was incorporated in the new city. The southern strip excluded from the city limits extended from Spuyten Duyvil Creek to a point on the Hudson beginning at " the northerly line of the land belonging to the Sisters of Charity, known as Mount Saint Vincent de Paul," which line was continued eastward along specified bounds to the Bronx River.