new racially segregated "Colored Schools" established a few years before to the BCPS in 1865. Another Kane-signed ordinance was to give "Authority to condemn and open Wolfe Street from East Monument Street to North Avenue and Patterson Park Avenue from Oliver Street to North Avenue" and was granted. A Council resolution to appoint a committee to visit and urge upon the United States Congress the necessity of constructing a new post-office was approved by Mayor Kane and also an ordinance to accept Homewood Park (a part of the present site of Johns Hopkins University—near Homewood Mansion, a Georgian/Federal style of architecture, constructed 1801–1808, formerly of the Carroll family and later William Wyman's "Wyman Villa" estates) which was signed April 8, 1878. This ordinance, however, was not carried into effect at that time, as JHU did not move from its newly established "temporary" downtown campus on North Howard Street near Little Ross, West Centre and West Monument Streets until after the turn of the century. Colonel George Proctor Kane died, while serving as the Mayor of his home city, on June 23, 1878. His former opponent, Ferdinand C. Latrobe was elected to serve his unexpired term (and began his own long and honored public service career, being elected to seven terms of office and dominating the political life of Baltimore for a quarter-century). Kane was buried at New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore. Notes References Maryland State Archives online biography, MSA SC 3520-12478, Evitts, William J., "A Matter of Allegiances – Maryland from 1850–1861" (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974). Coyle, Wilbur F., "The Mayors of Baltimore" (Reprinted from The Baltimore Municipal Journal, 1919) pp. 139–151. Cuthbert, Norma, "Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot 1861", The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1949. Brown, George William, "Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April 1861", reprinted by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1961. Davis, Jefferson, "The Papers of Jefferson Davis", edited by Lynda Crist, Louisiana University Press, Baton Rouge, 1999 American people of Irish descent 1820 births 1878 deaths Mayors of Baltimore 19th-century American politicians Baltimore Plot