Nathaniel A. Elsberg

He was born in 1872 in New York City. He graduated from City College of New York in 1891. Then he became a newspaper writer, and was associate editor of the American Economist. At the same time he studied law, graduated from New York University School of Law in 1893, and practiced in New York City.[https://archive.org/stream/newyorkredbook01unkngoog#page/n112/mode/1up New York Red Book] by Edgar L. Murlin (1903; pg. 74f)

Elsberg was a member of the New York State Senate (15th D.) from 1899 to 1906, sitting in the 122nd, 123rd, 124th, 125th, 126th, 127th, 128th and 129th New York State Legislatures.[https://archive.org/stream/officialnewyorkf04fitc#page/343/mode/1up Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes] by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; see pg. 364f)

Elsberg became an advocate for school integration. He introduced state legislature by 1900 to integrate the school system. Thomas F. Grady, a Democrat, strongly protested the Elsberg bill. Grady accused Elsberg and his Republican party of playing racial politics. African-American New Yorkers were dissatisfied with the Republican party. Mayor William Lafayette Strong was partly to blame for racial dissatisfication within the G.O.P., as he broke many promises to the black race.[http://www.maryjjohnson.com/primarysourcelibrarian/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/NoExclusion.jpg "NO SCHOOL EXCLUSION FOR NEGRO CHILDREN."] The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 30, 1900

He died on June 4, 1932, at his home at 112 Central Park South in Manhattan, of pneumonia after a long illness.

{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/06/05/archives/nathaniel-elsberg-dies-of-pneumonia-former-state-senator-was-long-a.html |title=Nathaniel Elsberg dies of pneumonia | newspaper=The New York Times | date=5 June 1932}}{{subscription required}} His brother Dr. Charles A. Elsberg (1871-1948) was a pioneer of spinal surgery working with Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in upper Manhattan.{{Cite journal|last=Guclu|first=Bulent|date=2012|title=Charles Albert Elsberg (1871-1948): Pioneer in Spinal Cord Surgery|url=http://www.wscj.org/pdf/pdf_WSCJ_78.pdf|journal=World Spinal Column Journal|volume=3 / No: 1 / January 2012}} He was also the brother of Herman A. Elsberg, an American textile designer and collector for institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA.{{Cite news|url=https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2015/06/28/the-collector-as-designer/|title=The Collector as Designer |date=2015-06-28|work=Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum|access-date=2018-04-04|language=en-US}} His sister, Bertha Elsberg Oppenheim was also a published writer and poet.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/legendslifeando00oppegoog|title=Legends of Life and Other Poems|last=Bertha Elsberg Oppenheim|date=1921|publisher=The Stratfore Co.|others=New York Public Library|language=en}}

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