106 JSTew Yoek at the Wokld's Columbian Expositioit. 



removed his law offices to Eochester, though he always retained his 

 old home in Mumford and spent his leisure hours there. 



Mr. McNaughton at once became identified with the liberal and pro- 

 gressive pubhc spirit which has developed the city of Eochester, and 

 occupied many positions of honor and trust. He was secretary and 

 president of the Eochester and State Line Eailroad Company (now the 

 Eochester and Pittsburg), a trustee of the Central Union Storage 

 Company, a trustee of the Eeynolds Library, president of the Scottish 

 Society of Eochester, and secretary of the "Wheatland Historical Society. 



His first entrance into State polities was in 1887 when he was elected 

 Senator from the twenty-ninth district, whicli is usually Eepublican by 

 a large majority. In 1889 he was re-elected. His career in the upper 

 house attracted wide attention, for though a member of the minority 

 his popularity among his fellow members was so great that if a bill 

 came heralded as " one of McNaughton's little bills " it rarely failed in 

 passing. At the close of his senatorial career he had obtained a repu- 

 tation for unimpeachable integrity and few of his colleagues were con- 

 sidered to have a brighter political future than he. A third nomination 

 for the Senate was declined by him in 1891, as he wished to devote 

 himself entirely to his law practice. In April, 1892, after the passage 

 of the "World's Fair Bill by the New York Legislature, Senator 

 MclSTaughton was selected by Grovernor Flower for chief executive 

 officer, as possessing in the highest degree the ability, popularity and 

 creative energy necessary to place the New York exhibit in the front 

 rank. To accomplish this in one year was an exacting task,"but"he 

 bent to it every resource of his nature and sacrificed to its successful 

 issue his time, his strength, and, as the sequel proved, his life. 



Only one incident was allowed to interrupt his labors and this 

 attested in a further degree the remarkable popularity of the man. 

 Always a staunch Democrat, he was induced by his party associates to 

 accept the nomination for Congress in the thirty-first district in the 

 fall of 1892. The county of Monroe, which comprises this district, is 

 strongly Eepublican, and gave the Eepublican presidential candidate 

 in this election 3,621 majority. Senator McNaughton, though giving 

 but little time to his canvass, was defeated by only 507 votes. 



After the close of this " little recreation," as he termed it, his sole 

 idea was the development of the New York exhibits ; and when at the 

 close of a year's arduous labor he saw his many plans put successfully 

 into effect, it was with a feeling of intense satisfaction that he removed 



