Document states that Thomas Cody, EISB customer, died in Brooklyn on Jan. 1, 1872 without a will or testament. The value of his property does not exceed $10,000. Margaret Cody, widow, and her four children sees to be granted his estate.
Cody's family is listed; Thomas is not on the census, presumably because he died prior. Margaret Cody, widow of Thomas, is employed as a housekeeper; children (born in New York) Thomas, John, and James, are listed as well.
EISB customer, James Callanan, is discussed in the second column of The Brooklyn Union. Callanan is noimnated for Assemblyman in the Third District by the Independent Democrats.The article mentions that he "was formerly in the practice of the law,…