rejected by the Senate. After the adjournment of the Senate in July 1878, Hayes suspended both the collector (Chester A. Arthur) and the naval officer, and their successors were finally confirmed. At the subsequent elections, Cornell was chosen Governor of New York and Arthur became Vice President of the United States. Cornell was governor from 1880 to 1882, elected in 1879. His administration was noted for economy in public expenditures, and his vetoes of appropriation bills were beyond all precedent. Upon his recommendation, a state board of health and the state railroad commission were created, women were made eligible for school officers, a reformatory for women established, and the usury laws were modified. The resignation of the New York senators from the U. S. Senate in 1881 provoked a bitter contest for the succession, by which the Republican Party was divided into hostile factions, the Stalwarts and the Half Breeds. Cornell's opponents prevented his re-nomination for governor. Later life During his latter years, Cornell lived in New York City, where he had a mansion built in the 1870s at 616 Fifth Avenue on the west side of the avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, and wrote a biography of his father in 1884. Personal life On November 9, 1852, Cornell married Ellen Augusta Covert (1834–1893). She was the daughter of George P. Covert, a lifelong friend of his father, and Esther Elizabeth (née Bassett) Covert. Together, they were the parents of: Charles Ezra Cornell (1855–1947), a lawyer who married Katharine Lawyer Bouck, a granddaughter of New York Governor William C. Bouck. Edwin Morgan Cornell (1862–1870), who died young. Henry Watson Cornell (1866–1932), a lawyer who married Margaret Feek Bouck (b. 1870), also a granddaughter of New York Governor William C. Bouck. Marguerite Cornell, who married Arnoud Jacob Joris Van der Does de Bye, a professor who was the son of a Dutch count, in 1909. Roscoe Conkling Cornell, the circulation manager of the Herald and The San Francisco Examiner who married Nelle Edith Beyerle. After the death of his first wife in 1893, he remarried on June 8, 1894, to her younger sister, Esther Elizabeth Covert (1839–1923), a native of Auburn, New York. After suffering a stroke of apoplexy followed by Bright's disease in August 1904, Cornell died on October 15, 1904, in Ithaca, aged 72. He was interred with his father and mother in Sage Chapel on the Cornell