Chief Examiner, New York Civil Service Commission
Centurion, 1898–1915
Born 7 September 1846 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 28 December 1915 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Rock Hill Cemetery
, Foxboro, Massachusetts
Proposed by James Herbert Morse and T. Frank Brownell
Elected 5 November 1898 at age fifty-two
Century Memorial
Frederick Guion Ireland graduated from Harvard in 1868, and three years later from the Columbia Law School. Having practiced law for a while, he formed a class of boys to fit for college, and conducted it for more than twenty years. In 1896 he was appointed, on competitive examination, chief Civil Service Examiner for the City of New York, a position which his thorough education and abundant knowledge enabled him to fill efficiently to the time of his death. The application of the merit system to the complex organization of this city owes much of its success to him.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook
