John Nelson Partridge (1838 – April 8, 1920) was the

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and Fire Commissioner for Brooklyn in the 1880s before the merger into

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. He was the New York Superintendent of Public Works, and the

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from 1902 to 1903.

Biography

He was born in 1838 In

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. From 1886 to 1887 he was president of the

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. He was the

from 1902 to 1903. During his tenure he wanted to move the New York City police headquarters from Mulberry Street to

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. In 1906 he married Charlotte Held. They then moved to

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. He died on April 8, 1920, in

References

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