Moses Dinkelspiel

Moses Dinkelspiel (June 3, 1855 – May 30, 1916) was an American politician from New York.

Moses Dinkelspiel (1893)

Life

He was born on June 3, 1855, in New York City. He was a salesman, a commission merchant, and then a dealer in pictures and artworks. He also entered politics as a Democrat.[1]

Dinkelspiel was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1886. In January 1888, he was appointed as Paymaster at the U.S. Customs House at the port of New York.[2] Soon after he was accused of being involved with gamblers and bookmakers, and he did not take office.[3]

He was again a member of the Assembly in 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894. He was Chairman of the Committee on Trade and Manufactures in 1892; and of the Committee on Public Institutions in 1893.

In April 1893, he married Carrie Sladkus,[4] and they had two children.[5]

He died on May 30, 1916, at his residence at 226 West 97th Street in Manhattan,[6]

gollark: Did you just randomly decide to calculate that?
gollark: Well, you can, or also "it would have about the same mass as the atmosphere".
gollark: Wikipedia says that spider silk has a diameter of "2.5–4 μm", which I approximated to 3μm for convenience, so a strand has a 1.5μm radius. That means that its cross-sectional area (if we assume this long thing of spider silk is a cylinder) is (1.5e-6)², or ~7e-12. Wikipedia also says its density is about 1.3g/cm³, which is 1300kg/m³, and that the observable universe has a diameter of 93 billion light-years (8.8e26 meters). So multiply the length of the strand (the observable universe's diameter) by the density of spider silk by the cross-sectional area of the strand and you get 8e18 kg, while the atmosphere's mass is about 5e18 kg, so close enough really.
gollark: Okay, so by mass it actually seems roughly correct.
gollark: So, spider silk comes in *very* thin strands and is somewhat denser than water, interesting.

References
  1. New York State Legislative Souvenir for 1893 with Portraits of the Members of Both Houses by Henry P. Phelps
  2. City and Suburban News; ...Moses Dinkelspiel...yesterday qualified as Paymaster... in the New York Times on January 13, 1888
  3. Eyes Turned to Albany in the New York Times on November 2, 1890
  4. Marriage Report in the New York World on April 28, 1893 (subscription required)
  5. Died; Dinkelspiel.—Moses... in the New York Times on June 2, 1916
  6. Moses Dinkelspiel in the New York Times on June 1, 1916
New York State Assembly
Preceded by
Solomon D. Rosenthal		 New York State Assembly
New York County, 12th District
1886		 Succeeded by
Leonard A. Giegerich
Preceded by
Solomon D. Rosenthal		 New York State Assembly
New York County, 12th District
1889–1892		 Succeeded by
Frank A. O'Donnel
Preceded by
Samuel J. Foley		 New York State Assembly
New York County, 6th District
1893–1894		 Succeeded by
Benjamin Hoffman
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