[3] Not only was Low not on the ticket in the 1885 mayoral election, he refused to support the machine Republican candidate, General Isaac S. Catlin.

Daniel Whitney was an affable local grocer whose store was on Fulton Street, near Brooklyn City Hall.

[2] This gained him the attention of the local Democratic political machine, run by party boss Hugh McLaughlin.

[2] In later years, Whitney was a central member of the Society of Old Brooklynites, a civic organization which remembered and celebrated the old days when Brooklyn was an independent city.

[4] "Several hundred" people attended, and speeches were given in his honor by Borough President Bird Sim Coler and ex-mayors Charles A. Schieren and David Boody.

[4] On November 9, 1914, Whitney left his grocery a little early and walked to his nearby home on Poplar Street.