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Frederick G. Ireland

Full Name: Frederick Guion Ireland

Chief Examiner, New York Civil Service Commission

Centurion, 1898–1915

born September 7, 1846
New York (Manhattan), New York
died December 28, 1915
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected November 5, 1898
Age fifty-two
Member portrait of Frederick G. Ireland
Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 9, Leaf 18
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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

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