His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

Jeanerette was incorporated as a town in 1878 and Joseph E. Provost became the first mayor ; its economy was based on the cypress lumber and sugar industries.

* Samuel Hunter Adams ( 1878 – 1975 ), mayor of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Simcoe was incorporated as the Corporation of the Town of Simcoe in 1878 and had its own town council and mayor until December 31, 2000.

* mayor of New York in 1877 and 1878.

* John W. Murphy ( Connecticut ) ( 1878 – 1963 ), former mayor of New Haven, Connecticut

Angelo Joseph Rossi ( January 22, 1878 – April 5, 1948 ) was a U. S. political figure who served as the 31st mayor of San Francisco.

Albert E. Todd ( August 5, 1878 – October 26, 1928 ) served as mayor of Victoria, BC Canada from 1917 to 1919.

) The tunnel is named after Thomas E. Caldecott ( 1878 – 1951 ), mayor of Berkeley from 1930 – 1932, member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors 1933-1945, and president of Joint Highway District 13, which built the first two bores.

* John Corry Wilson Daly ( 1796 – 1878 ), early Canadian politician, first mayor of Stratford, Ontario

He served as a member of the Kansas Senate from 1859 to 1861, and was mayor of Atchison, serving in 1865 and 1878 to 1880.

In addition to being mayor, Gatzert was charter member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, served on the Seattle City Council 1872 – 1873 and 1877 – 1878, was president of Puget Sound National Bank and Peoples Savings Bank, and co-founded Washington's second synagogue ( Seattle's first ), Ohaveth Shalom, which opened in 1892.

* Bailey Gatzert, council member 1872 – 1873 and 1877 – 1878, in between was elected the city's first ( and, as of 2011, only ) Jewish mayor

He was a member of the Grand Rapids board of education 1878 – 1885, served on the board of aldermen from the Seventh Ward 1880 – 1882, and was mayor in 1884.

** Robert Henry Otley Gale ( 1878 – 1950 ), mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia

In 1878 Labadie organized Detroit's first assembly of the Knights of Labor, and ran unsuccessfully for mayor on the Greenback-Labor ticket.

* Henry Howard ( Detroit ) ( 1801 – 1878 ), businessman and mayor of Detroit

), U. S. politician, mayor of Orlando, 1877 – 1878

He served as mayor of Orangeville, Ontario from 1878 to 1880 and mayor of Regina, Saskatchewan from 1884 to 1885.

* Józef Dietl ( 1804 – 1878 ) a mayor of Kraków ( Cracow )

Their eldest son John Talbot Dillwyn Llewellyn became High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1878, mayor of Swansea in 1891, and M. P.

He died in 1878 in office and Bernard Cohn was appointed to be mayor for only 2 weeks.

He was mayor of Albany from May 1878 to June 24, 1883 and served in the 47th United States Congress ( March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883 ).

* 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

Published in 1878, the novel is set in the 1840s, though horse trams were not introduced in Boston till the 1850s.

Meanwhile, numerous pirated versions of Pinafore began playing in America with great success, beginning with a production in Boston that opened on 25 November 1878.

The first of these, opening at the Boston Museum on 25 November 1878, made such a splash that the piece was quickly produced in major cities and on tour by dozens of companies throughout the country.

Thompson subsequently practiced law in Boston and was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1876 to 1878.

* George Girdler Smith ( 1795 – 1878 ), engraver in Boston, Massachusetts

* Charles Sumner ( 1878 ) in the Boston Public Garden

In 1878, Albert Pope began manufacturing the Columbia bicycle outside of Boston, starting their two-decade heyday in America.

* Gerardine Bate ( Mrs. Robert ) Macpherson, Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson ( Boston, 1878 )

See the Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, edited by George William Curtis ( New York, 1889 ); Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir ( Boston, 1878 ); and John Lothrop Motley and his Family: Further Letters and Records ( 1910 ), edited by his daughter, Mrs Susan St John Mildmay.

* The Stoughton Musical Society's Centennial Collection of Sacred Music, contains a version with the later text and was published in Boston in 1878 ; reprint by DaCapo Press, 1980, with New Introduction by Roger L. Hall.

By an arrangement with the city of Boston, the Arnold Arboretum became part of the famous " Emerald Necklace ", the long network of parks and parkways that Frederick Law Olmsted laid out for the Boston Parks Department between 1878 and 1892.

* Peirce, Benjamin ( 1878 ), " On Peirce's Criterion ", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 13 ( whole series ), v. 5 ( new series ), for May 1877 – May 1878, Boston: Press of John Wilson and Son, pp. 348 – 351.

He played for the Tecumseh team in the International Association ( arguably baseball's first minor league ) in 1878, returned to the National League with the Cincinnati club in 1879, sat out all of 1880, and finished his professional career in 1881, playing his last season in Boston, the site of his former glory.

After a year at the art school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, during which time he married Elizabeth Goodhue Millett, he traveled to Japan in 1878 at the invitation of American zoologist and Orientalist Edward S. Morse to teach political economy and philosophy at the Imperial University at Tokyo.

Poore offered a competing historical volume in 1878 with his Political Register and Congressional Directory, published by Houghton, Osgood and Company of Boston.

In January 1878 George Willard Croy became the world's first telephone operator when he started working for the Boston Telephone Despatch company.

Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator on 1 September 1878 when she started working for the Boston Telephone Despatch company, because the attitude and behaviour of the teenage boys previously employed as operators was unacceptable.

" Goodwin, a native of Boston, had been a founder of its Elks lodge in 1878.

Frederick Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley, and George Putnam ( 1807 – 1878 ; the Unitarian minister in Roxbury ) met in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 8, 1836, to discuss the formation of a new club ; their first official meeting was held eleven days later at Ripley's house in Boston.

In 1878, Kearney traveled to Boston to carry his message against the Chinese to eastern audiences.