A woman living in this city called Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Louis Agassiz (“AGG-uh-see”) to testify about an alleged forged signature that was then analyzed with statistical forensics by Benjamin and C. S. Peirce (“purse”). This city’s elite joined a volunteer Civil War regiment nicknamed the “Blue-Bloods.” The first Union League Club was founded in this city, where wealthy matriarchs established the Phelps Stokes Fund and Russell Sage Foundation. Hetty Green lived in this city when she became America’s richest woman during the Gilded Age. In this city’s 1886 mayoral race, Abram Hewitt defeated the author of Progress and Poverty. Hewitt’s father-in-law established this city’s tuition-free college, naming it after the inventor of the “Tom Thumb” steam locomotive. For 10 points, the Cooper Union is located in what city controlled by Tammany Hall? ■END■
ANSWER: New York City [or NYC] (Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty. Green was called the “Witch of Wall Street.”)
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