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Vice Presidents: Ernest Hall, Joseph A. Goulden, Adolph G. 

 Hupfel, John J. Amory, Charles W. Bogart, John Claflin, Henry 

 Lewis Morris, Louis F. Haffen, Charles A. Berrian, J. Homer 

 Hildreth. 



Board of Directors: Edward B. Boynton, Thomas J. Quinn, 

 J. Clarence Davies, John De Hart, Herbert A. Knox, Charles E. 

 Reid, Dr. William A. Boyd, Michael J. Sullivan, Richard W. Law- 

 rence, Louis F. Haffen, Matthew Anderson, Israel C. Jones, Fred 

 W. Hottenroth, Louis F. Kuntz, Martin Walter, J. Harris Jones, 

 Douglas Mathewson, Thomas J. Higgins, Arthur Knox, Cornelius 

 J. Earley, John F. Steeves, Olin J. Stephens, James L. Wells, Ernest 

 Hall, Charles W. Bogart, Joseph A. Goulden, William W. Niles, 

 J. Homer Hildreth, William S. Germain, Theodore Trimmer. 



The Taxpayers' Alliance was founded in 1894, shortly after 

 the establishment of local self-government in The Bronx, and owes 

 its formation to the Twenty-third Ward Property Owners' Asso- 

 ciation, now known as the "Bronx County Property Owners' 

 Association." This worthy body believed that by cooperating with 

 other local improvement associations, and by uniting, it would 

 accomplish more good for the uplifting of The Bronx than by 

 working independently. Thru the earnest efforts of Colonel 

 Goulden, a meeting was arranged at the Fordham Club, on the 

 evening of December 15, 1894, to which representatives from all 

 the other local associations were invited. The consolidation plan 

 met with instant favor, and as a result the Taxpayers' Alliance 

 of the Borough of The Bronx was launched, with Colonel Goulden 

 as its first president. 



The six original associations forming this alliance were: 



The Twenty-third Ward Property Owners' Association. 



The Fordham Club. 



West Farms Local Improvement Association. 



Kingsbridge Property Owners' Association. 



Property Owners' Association Vyse Estate and vicinity. 



The Fox Estate Property Owners' Association. 

 The combined membership of these six organizations num- 

 bered about 600. Today the Alliance has thirty-seven local asso- 

 ciations affiliated with it, and a membership of more than 8,000. 

 The list of the associations is made up as follows : 



Twenty-third Ward Taxpayers' Association. 



Fordham Club. 



