<Tr> <Th> Resting place </Th> <Td> Woodlawn Cemetery </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Political party </Th> <Td> Republican </Td> </Tr> <P> William Lafayette Strong (March 22, 1827--November 2, 1900) was the 90th Mayor of New York City from 1895 to 1897 . He was the last mayor of New York City before the Consolidation of the City of Greater New York on January 1, 1898 . </P> <P> Strong was born on March 22, 1827 near Loudonville Ohio, in Ashland County . He was the son of Abel Strong, a farmer born in 1792 in Hartford, Connecticut . His mother, Hannah Burdine Strong was born in 1798, and was from Pennsylvania . Strong was the oldest of five children, and despite only a rudimentary rural education, became a clerk in a Wooster dry goods store to help support his family after the death of his father in 1840 . Strong later attended the Vermillion Institute in Hayesville, Ohio . </P>

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