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HISTORICAL 

ENCYCLOPEDIA 


OF 


ILLINOIS 

WITH 

COMMEMORATIVE 

BIOGRAPHIES 


BY 

Newton  Bateman,  LL.  D.  Paul  Selby,  A.  M. 

J.  Seymour  Currey 
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MAJOR  GENERAL  HENRY  DEARBORN 
(From  the  painting  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  1821) 


PART  II 

(See  Index) 


HENRY  DEARBORN. 


Henry  Dearborn,  general  and  statesman,  was 
born  in  1751  in  New  Hampshire,  when  it  was 
yet  one  of  the  "original  thirteen  colonies."     His 
father  was   Simon   Dearborn  who   had  himself 
been  born  in  the  colony.     After  attending  the 
best  schools  of  his  native  place  young  Dearborn 
completed  a  course  in  a  medical  school  at  Ports- 
mouth,   and   entered   upon   the  practice   of   his 
profession.     In  anticipation  of  a  conflict  with 
the  Mother  Country  he  engaged  in  military  ex- 
ercises and  studied  the  science  of  war.    He  was 
a  devoted  student,  was  a  constant  reader  and 
became  a  master  of  an  excellent  English  style 
which  is  clearly  apparent  in  the  various  state 
papers    and   documents    of   which    he   was    the 
author.     The  inhabitants  of  the  colonies  were 
deeply   imbued   with   the  principles   of   liberty, 
and  after  the  battle  of  Lexington  young  Dear- 
born enrolled  himself  in  the  American  army  at 
Cambridge  as  a  volunteer  in  company  with  some 
sixty    others    of    his    associates.      He    was    ap- 
pointed captain  of  a  company  in  the  regiment 
commanded  by  Col.  John  Stark,  which  arrived 
on  the  battlefield  of  Bunker  Hill  on  the  morning 
of  the  battle.     The  regiment  was  soon  in  the 
thick  of  the  fight  which  resulted  in  several  re- 
pulses of  the  indomitable  British  who,  however, 
finally  carried  the  works  but  not  until  the  am- 
munition   of    the    Americans    had    become    ex- 
hausted.    The  British  forces  far  outnumbered 
the   defenders  and  lost   heavily   in   the   battle. 
One  result  of  the  battle  was  to  give  the  Amer- 
ican a  reputation  for  bravery  and  fighting  qual- 
ities that  has  continued  through  all  the  wars  of 
the  Republic  to  this  day.   Dearborn  was  present 
at  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne's  army  in  1777, 
holding  the  rank  of  major,  and  remained  in  the 
service    until    the    end    of    the    war.      He    was 


elected  member  of  Congress  in  1792  and   1795, 
where  he  established  a  reputation  as  a  speaker 
and  political  leader.     When  President  Jefferson 
took   his   seat  as   president   in    1801,   Dearborn 
was  appointed  Secretary  of  War  and  continued 
in   that  office  until  1809.     It  was  during  this 
period  that  the  site  for  a  fort  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Chicago  River  was  chosen.     The  fort  was 
completed  and  occupied  December  3,  1803,  and 
named  in  honor  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  Henry 
Dearborn.     After  his  retirement  from  the  cab- 
inet of  President   Jefferson   he   was   appointed 
collector  of  the  port  of  Boston.     On  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  War  of  1812  Dearborn  was  ap- 
pointed  senior  major-general  of  the  American 
forces,  and  he  entered  upon  active  service  with 
the  army  on  the  Northern  frontier.    John  Went- 
worth  said  of  him  that  "history  records  no  other 
man  who  was  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  the 
surrender  of  Cornwallis,  and  then  took  an  ac- 
tive part  in  the  War  of  1812."   One  of  Chicago's 
principal   streets    is    named    in    honor   of    Gen. 
Dearborn,  and  the  name  is  met  with  in  many 
connections  throughout  the  city.     It  was  said 
of  him   that  "one  of  the  highest  compliments 
paid  to  Gen.  Dearborn  is  the  fact  that  whilst 
the  names  of  so  many  of  our  streets  have  been 
changed  to  gratify  the  whims  of  our  aldermen, 
no   attempt  has  been  made  to  change  that  of 
Dearborn  Street.     Not  only  is  this  the  case,  but 
the  name  of  Dearborn  continues  to  be  prefixed 
to  institutions,  enterprises,  and  objects  which  it 
is  the  desire  of  projectors  to  honor."    Gen.  Dear- 
born was  appointed  by  President  Monroe  min- 
ister to  Portugal  in   1822,  where  he  remained 
two  years.    He  died  at  Roxburg,  Mass.,  June  6, 
1829,  and  was  buried  at  Forest  Hills  Cemetery. 


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MARSHALL  FIELD. 


Marshall  Field,  merchant  and  capitalist,  was 
born  in  Conway,  Mass.,  in  1835,  and  grew  up 
on  a  farm,  receiving  a  common  school  and 
academical  education.  At  the  age  of  17  he 
entered  upon  a  mercantile  career  as  clerk  in  a 
dry-goods  store  at  Pittsfleld,  Mass.,  but,  in  1850, 
came  to  Chicago  and  secured  employment  with 
Messrs.  Cooley,  Wadsworth  &  Co. ;  in  1860  was 
admitted  into  partnership,  the  firm  becoming 
Cooley,  Farwell  &  Co.,  and  still  later,  Farwell, 
Field  &  Co.  The  last  named  firm  was  dissolved 
and  that  of  Field,  Palmer  &  Leiter  organized  in 
1805.  Mr.  Palmer  having  retired  in  1807,  the 
firm  was  continued  under  the  name  of  Field, 
Leiter  &  Co.,  until  1881,  when  Mr.  Leiter  re- 
tired, the  concern  being  since  known  as  Mar- 
shall Field  &  Co.  The  growth  of  the  business 
of  this  great  establishment  is  shown  by  the 
fact  that,  whereas  its  sales  amounted  before 
the  fire  to  some  $12,000,000  annually,  in  1895 
they  aggregated  $40,000,000.     Mr.  Field's  busi- 


ness career  has  been  remarkable  for  its  suc- 
cess in  a  city  famous  for  its  successful  business 
men  and  the  vastness  of  their  commercial  opera- 
tions. He  has  been  a  generous  and  discriminat- 
ing patron  of  important  public  enterprises,  some 
of  his  more  conspicuous  donations  being  the  gift 
of  a  tract  of  land  valued  at  $300,000  and 
$100,000  in  cash,  to  the  Chicago  University,  and 
$1,000,000  to  the  endowment  of  the  Field  Co- 
lumbian Museum,  as  a  sequel  to  the  World's  Co- 
lumbian Exposition.  The  latter,  chiefly  through 
the  munificence  of  Mr.  Field,  promises  to  be- 
come one  of  the  leading  institutions  of  its  kind 
in  the  United  States.  Besides  his  mercantile 
interests,  Mr.  Field  had  extensive  interests  in 
various  financial  and  manufacturing  enterprises. 
Died  in  New  York  Jan.  16,  1906,  leaving  an 
estate  valued  at  more  than  $100,000,000,  the 
largest  single  bequest  in  his  will  being  $8,000,- 
000  to  the  Field  Museum. 


ISAAC  ARTHUR  ABT. 


Among  the  more  notable  physicians  and  sur- 
geons of  Chicago  who  have  established  a  reputa- 
tion for  ability  and  have  achieved  honorable 
success  in  their  profession,  none  is  more  worthy 
of  mention  in  the  history  of  Illinois  than  Dr. 
Isaac  A.  Abt,  specialist  in  the  diseases  of  chil- 
dren. He  has  been  a  potent  factor  in  the  medical 
profession  of  this  city  for  thirty -six  years ;  holds 
prestige  in  his  profession  by  reason  of  ability 
and  faithfulness,  and,  as  a  pediatrician,  he  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  most  skilled  and 
thoroughly  qualified  in  the  United  States.  His 
work  has  been  characterized  by  devotion  to  duty, 
his  professional  services  have  ever  been  dis- 
charged with  a  keen  sense  of  conscientious  ob- 
ligation, and  he  enjoys  merited  prominence  in 
his  profession. 

Doctor  Abt  was  born  at  Wilmington,  Illinois, 
December  18,  1867,  a  son  of  Levi  and  Henrietta 
(Hart)  Abt.  His  early  education  was  obtained 
in  the  public  schools  of  Illinois  and  was  sup- 
plemented later  by  a  preparatory  course  at  the 
University  of  Chicago.  Having  determined 
upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life  work, 
he  early  entered  Johns  Hopkins  University 
where  he  completed  his  preliminary  medical 
course  in  1889.  He  then  matriculated  at  the 
Chicago   Medical   College,   and   was   graduated 


from  that  institution  in  1891,  with  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine.  From  the  latter  date  until 
1893,  he  served  as  interne  at  the  Michael  Reese 
Hospital,  and  to  further  his  education  he  then 
went  abroad  and  took  post-graduate  work  for  a 
year  in  Vienna  and  Berlin,  during  which  time 
he  studied  under  some  of  the  most  noted  pre- 
ceptors of  that  country. 

Returning  to  Chicago,  Doctor  Abt  established 
himself  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  and  has 
since  been  an  active  practitioner  of  this  city. 
He  served  as  Professor  of  Diseases  of  children 
at  the  Northwestern  University  Woman's  Medi- 
cal School  from  1897  until  it  went  out  of  ex- 
istence in  1901.  From  the  subsequent  year  un- 
til 1908,  he  was  associate  Professor  of  Diseases 
of  Children  at  Rush  Medical  College,  and  since 
1909  has  been  Professor  of  Diseases  of  Children 
at  the  Northwestern  University  Medical  School. 
Besides  this  connection  he  is  Consulting  Physi- 
cian in  diseases  of  children  to  the  Provident 
Hospital,  Winfield  Tuberculosis  Sanitarium,  and 
the  Chicago  Orphan  Asylum.  He  is  also  Con- 
sulting Physician  to  the  Sarah  Morris  Chil- 
dren's Hospital  and  Attending  Physician  in 
diseases  of  children  to  St.  Luke's  Hospital. 

Doctor  Abt  was  formerly  attending  physician 
in  the  diseases  of  children  to  the  Cook  County 


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Hospital  and  Consulting  Physician  to  the  Jackson 
Park  Sanitarium,  the  Mary  Thompson  Hospital, 
Cranston  Hospital  and  others.  Few  physicians 
of  Chicago  have  been  so  active  in  the  profession, 
and  none  has  made  a  more  lasting  impression 
for  both  professional  ability  of  a  high  order 
and  for  the  individuality  of  a  laudable  personal 
character.  He  keeps  in  close  touch  with  all  that 
research  is  bringing  to  light  in  the  field  of 
scientific  knowledge,  and  as  a  man  of  marked 
intellectual  activity,  he  has  given  impetus  to 
the  medical  profession  of  this  city.  As  an  in- 
structor he  is  both  popular  and  thoroughly 
qualified  in  scholarship,  and  is  endowed  with 
rare  gifts  of  oratory,  ready  diction  and  per- 
sonal magnetism.  His  style  of  delivery  is  force- 
ful and  logical  and  each  sentence  teaches  its 
own  lesson.  He  has  also  gained  distinction  as 
a  writer  and  is  the  author  of  many  monographs 
on  subjects  relating  to  diseases  of  children.  He 
has  likewise  been  a  frequent  and  valued  con- 
tributor to  medical  journals  and  clinics,  and  is 
the  editor  of  A  System  of  Pediatrics,  known 
as  Abt's  Pediatrics,  also  a  volume  on  Pediat- 
rics in  the  Practical  Medicine  Series. 

Public  spirited  in  his  civic  attitude,  Doctor 
Abt  does  not  neglect  those  things  which  repre- 
sent the  higher  ideals  of  human  existence  and 
gives  generously  of  his  time  and  means  to  all 


measures  tending  to  the  public  good.  His  efforts 
are  not  confined  to  lines  resulting  in  individual 
benefit,  but  are  evident  in  those  fields  where 
general  interests  and  public  welfare  are  in- 
volved, and  during  the  many  years  of  his  resi- 
dence in  Chicago  he  has  wielded  definite  and 
benignant  influence,  both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a 
man  of  splendid  professional  ability.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  American  Pediatric  Society, 
America  Medical  Association,  Chicago  Medical 
Society,  and  the  Chicago  Pediatric  Society.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  City,  Quadrangle  and 
the  Illinois  Athletic  Clubs  and  is  prominent  in 
both  social  and  professional  circles.  He  was 
made  a  Chevalier  of  the  French  Legion  of 
Honor  November  4,  1927,  the  honor  being  con- 
ferred by  Dr.  G.  Illingworth  Helie,  of  the  Ameri- 
can Hospital  of  Paris,  and  is  the  highest  honor 
of  the  French  government  to  be  bestowed  on  any 
one.  Doctor  Abt  was  married  August  20,  1897, 
to  Miss  Lena  Rosenberg  of  Chicago,  a  woman 
of  engaging  personality  and  beauty  of  character 
and  of  this  union  were  born  two  sons ;  Dr. 
Arthur  Frederick  Abt,  who  is  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  and 
Lawrence  Edward  Abt,  who  is  the  founder  and 
executive  head  of  the  Hvid  Ice  Company,  of 
Chicago. 


EDWARD  JACKSON  BRUNDAGE. 


Mr.  Brundage  was  born  at  Campbell,  New 
York,  May  13,  1869,  a  son  of  Victor  and  Mary 
L.  (Armstrong)  Brundage.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  city,  and  on  the  removal  of  the  family 
to  Detroit,  Michigan,  in  1880,  he  became  a 
student  in  the  public  schools  of  that  city  and 
pursued  his  studies  there  until  he  attained  the 
age  of  fourteen.  He  then  engaged  in  clerical 
work  in  railroad  offices  at  Detroit  and  Chicago. 

He  early  began  the  study  of  law.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Illinois  Bar  in  1892  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Laws  from  the  Chicago  College  of  Law.  In 
1893  he  established  himself  in  the  practice  of  law 
at  Chicago,  and  has  since  been  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  legal  profession  of  this  city. 

Mr.  Brundage  is  not  only  a  power  in  the  legal 
affairs  of  this  city,  but  he  has  also  been  active 
in  civic  and  political  affairs  of  Illinois  for  many 
years  and  is  a  strong  factor  in  the  furtherance 
of  all  measures  tending  to  the  public  good.    As 


a  member  of  the  Illinois  House  of  Representa- 
tives during  the  forty-first  and  forty-third  gen- 
eral assemblies  from  the  sixth  Senatorial  Dis- 
trict of  Illinois,  he  rendered  effective  service. 
In  November,  1904,  he  was  elected  President  of 
the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  Cook 
County  and  made  such  a  record  for  substantial 
and  conservative  ability  as  well  as  executive 
force,  that  he  was  re-elected  in  November,  1906. 
He  served  in  this  capacity  until  April  16,  1907, 
when  he  resigned  to  become  Corporation  Coun- 
sel for  the  City  of  Chicago,  which  office  he  held 
until  April,  1911.  In  1915  he  was  appointed 
Judge  of  the  Court  of  Claims  of  Illinois,  but  re- 
signed in  1917  to  become  Attorney  General  of 
Illinois  and  filled  this  office  until  1925,  serving 
two  consecutive  terms. 

Here  as  in  all  other  official  trusts,  Mr.  Brun- 
dage performed  the  duties  devolving  upon  him 
with  thoroughness  and  fidelity,  and  he  left  the 
office  with  a  character  strengthened  in  the  esti- 
mation  of  the  public  because   of   the  obvious 


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honesty  of  his  intentions  and  the  patient  wisdom 
with    which    he    met    many    trying    situations. 

He  was  Vice  President  for  Illinois  of  the  Pan- 
American  Exposition  at  Buffalo,  New  York,  in 
1907. 

Mr.  Brundage  is  a  member  of  the  American, 
Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Bar  Associations  and 
of  the  Chicago  Lawyers  Association.  He  is  a 
Thirty-third  degree  Mason,  a  Knight  Templar 
and  a  Shriner  and  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 


Pythias.  His  club  affiliations  are  with  the  Chi- 
cago Athletic  Association,  University,  Industrial, 
and  Mid-Day  clubs,  the  Knollwood  Golf  Club  of 
Chicago,  the  Illini  Country  Club  of  Springfield 
and  the  Rock  River  Golf  Club  of  Oregon.  He  was 
married  December  17,  1913,  to  Miss  Germaine 
Vernier,  of  Caen,  France,  and  of  this  union  were 
born  four  children :  Edward  J.  Jr.,  Margaret  G., 
Robert  V.  and  Jacqueline  L. 


FRANK  WAKELY  GUNSAULUS. 


Frank  W.  Gunsaulus  was  born  at  Chester- 
ville,  Ohio,  on  January  1,  1856,  a  son  of  Joseph 
and  Mary  Jane  (Hawley)  Gunsaulus.  He 
graduated  from  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  with 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  in  1875.  He 
received  his  degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  there, 
in  1887.  Beloit  College  conferred  his  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in  1887,  and  Marietta  Col- 
lege the  same  degree  in  1910.  He  was  made 
Doctor  of  Laws,  by  Miami  College,  in  1910. 

He  was  ordained  for  the  Methodist  ministry 
in  1875.  After  preaching  four  years,  he  entered 
the  Congregational  ministry.  He  was  pastor 
of  Eastwood  Church,  Columbus,  Ohio,  from 
1879-81,  pastor  at  Newtonville,  Massachusetts, 
1881-85 ;  of  Brown  Memorial  Church,  Baltimore, 
1885-87 ;  of  Plymouth  Church,  Chicago,  1887-99 ; 
and  minister  of  Central  Church,  Chicago,  from 
1899  to  1920. 

He  had  been  President  of  Armour  Institute 
of  Technology,  Chicago,  since  1893.  He  was 
lecturer  at  Yale  Theological  Seminary  since 
1882;  and  professorial  lecturer  on  practical 
theology,  at  the  Divinity  School  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago,  since  1912.  He  was  also 
a  trustee  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  and  of 
the  Field  Museum  of  Natural  History.  He  was 
author  of  a  number  of  books,  for  titles  see 
"Who's  Who  in  America." 

Dr.  Gunsaulus  was  married  on  September  20, 
1876,  to  Miss  Georgiana  Long  of  Parsons,  W. 
Virginia.  Their  children  are:  Joseph  Long, 
Martha  Wright,  Beatrice  Hawley,  Mary  Free- 
man and  Helen  Cowen. 

Following  we  print,  by  permission,  the  resolu- 
tions passed  at  a  public  memorial  meeting  in 
the  Auditorium  following  Dr.  Gunsaulus'  death 
on  March  17,  1921. 

"In  the  sixty-sixth  year  of  a  life  devoted"  to 
the  glory  of  God  and  the  service  of  man,  the 


great  soul  of  Frank  Wakely  Gunsaulus  has 
gone    to    its   everlasting    reward. 

"While  we  are  of  thousands  who  have  gath- 
ered here  today,  we  are  but  a  few  of  the  many 
who  loved  him,  and  whom  he  loved ;  and  we 
seek, — even  inadequately  as  it  must  be,  to  place 
on  record  our  estimate  of  his  character  and 
work,  and  our  sense  of  gratitude  for  his  life 
among  us,  for  so  many  years. 

"Dr.  Gunsaulus  was  deeply  appreciated  and 
revered  always,  but  we  realize  now,  to  an 
even  greater  degree,  his  eminence  and  invalu- 
able activities.  Citizenship  has  lost  a  militant 
patriot ;  art  an  earnest  apostle ;  education  a 
triumphant  leader ;  religion  an  ardent  prophet, 
and  humanity,  the  world  over,  a  sympathizing 
and  helpful  friend. 

"Dr.  Gunsaulus  was  of  heroic  mold  mentally 
and  physically  and,  in  his  capacity  as  a  citizen, 
was  a  tireless  crusader  who  won  and  held  the 
multitude  to  the  standards  of  law,  order  and 
civic  righteousness.  His  was  a  sense  of  respon- 
sibility, catholic  and  keenly  vigilant. 

"He  could  not  have  a  mere  casual  interest 
in  any  situation  or  measure  which  threatened 
the  common  safety  or  happiness.  With  a  fore- 
sight and  alertness  that  were  characteristic, 
he  was  immediately  aglow  and  into  the  arena 
at  the  first  sign  of  danger,  where  he  asked  for 
no  quarter  and  gave  none. 

"An  armored  knight  when  need  be,  in  other 
hours  Dr.  Gunsaulus  was  a  student,  a  poet,  a 
musician. 

"His  was  an  unquenchable  eagerness  for 
knowledge;  and  his  quick  intelligence,  aided  by 
an  aptitude  for  sifting  the  significant  from 
the  trivial,  carried  him  in  his  range  of  interest 
far  beyond  our  conception  of  the  possibilities 
of   the   human    mind. 

"Those  facts  were  most  dear  to  him  that 
could  be  made  to  add  to  men's  store  of  knowl- 


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edge  and  happiness.  In  his  writings  Dr.  Gun- 
sanlns  lias  given  ns  vividly  the  harvest  of  a 
scholar.  In  his  poems  he  has  shared  with  us 
a  fruitation  of  spirit  that  is  gleaned  from  the 
fields  of  many  centuries. 

"His  love  for  music  was  a  passion  underlying 
all  the  colorful  parts  he  played  with  unvarying 
ardor  in  his  life  among  us.  In  its  ministry  he 
profoundly  believed;  he  relied  upon  it  to  il- 
lustrate and  interpret,  beyond  the  power  of 
words,  and  labored  urgently  that  others  might 
share  its  gifts  and  its  message. 

"The  sense  of  beauty  which  was  so  marked 
in  his  religious  ministrations,  his  deep  under- 
standing and  appreciation  of  all  art,  flowed 
through  him  into  the  life  of  our  city.  As  Trustee 
of  the  Art  Institute  and  of  the  Field  Museum 
of  Natural  History,  donor  of  important  collec- 
tions to  each  institution;  as  patron,  collector 
and  inspirer  of  artistic  and  antiquarian  interest 
wherever  he  went,  his  name  will  be  kept  in 
honor  in  the  hearts  of  all  lovers  of  ancient  and 
beautiful  things.  He  contributed  to  the  art  de- 
velopment of  Chicago  gifts  which  none  but  he 
could  bestow ;  and  he  possessed  the  power  of 
stimulating  enthusiasm  and  of  enlisting  faith  in 
the  significance  of  art.  More  fortunate  than 
many  another  scholar,  he  preserved  his  intimacy 
with  the  masses  and  pointed  out  to  them  the 
solace  of  art.  He  visioned  its  province  with  an 
enthusiasm  which  inspired  his  associates  by  its 
creative  vigor ;  he  advanced  a  knowledge  of  the 
manifestation  of  art  for  life's  sake.  He  was 
tireless  as  a  teacher  and  a  lecturer,  disseminat- 
ing his  learning  in  schools,  colleges  and  art 
museums  throughout  the  country ;  and  for  all 
of  these  and  because  of  his  life  service,  he  will 
always  be  reverently  regarded  as  one  of  the 
*-ital  forces  of  art  in  his  time. 

"Chicago  will  remember  Dr.  Gunsaulus  as  the 
educator,  to  whose  vision  and  creative  leadership 
it  owes  its  foremost  technical  school — Armour 
Institute  of  Technology.  A  famous  sermon  of 
his  led  to  its  foundation  and  subsequent  enlarge- 
ment ;  he  has  been  its  only  President ;  and  to 
this  'child  of  his  Faith  and  Hope'  the  larger 
part  of  his  time  and  strength  have  been  given 
for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century.  It  em- 
bodied not  only  his  passionate  interest  in  young 
people  and  their  training,  but  his  comprehensive 
philosophy  of  education,  and  his  large  sense  of 
human  welfare  and  progress.  Its  great  past 
and  its  still  greater  future  will  be  commemo- 
rative of  him  whose  prophetic  eye  foresaw,  and 


whose  kindling  heart  first  inspired  that  which 
bis  marked  [lowers  of  administration  and  in- 
domitable energy  have  done  so  much  to  turn 
into  reality. 

"Underlying  every  interest,  every  activity  of 
Dr.  Gunsaulus,  was  a  profound  spirit  of  rever- 
ence which  glorified  his  attitude  toward  all 
great  things.  To  most  people  he  was,  first  and 
fundamentally,  a  preacher, — a  faithful  ambas- 
sador of  Christ,  in  whom  a  native  gift  of 
eloquent  utterance,  a  vivid  imagination,  an  ex- 
traordinary power  of  dramatic  characterization, 
a  creative  aesthetic  sense,  intense  moral  convic- 
tions and  a  rich  religious  experience,  combined 
to  make  one  of  the  great  voices  of  the  American 
pulpit.  The  warm  Spanish  and  the  deep  Puritan 
strains  in  his  unusual  inheritance  mingled  in 
him  to  produce  a  spiritual  prophet  who,  through 
twrelve  years  in  Plymouth  Church  and  twenty 
years  in  Central  Church,  led  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands to  'worship  the  Lord  in  the  beauty  of 
holiness.'  His  trumpet  call,  simple  and  im- 
passioned, reached  alike  all  men — an  equal  in- 
spiration to  educated  and  uneducated,  to  young 
and  old,  rich  and  poor — a  fountain  of  courage 
and  strength. 

"The  nation  knew  Dr.  Gunsaulus  almost  as 
well  as  did  Chicago.  Perhaps  none  other  of 
.  our  city  and  of  our  clay  was  so  reverenced  by 
his  countrymen.  Often  and  more  often,  as  his 
fame  spread  from  sea  to  sea,  came  the  call  to 
pulpit  or  lecture  hall,  of  villages  and  cities  all 
over  the  land ;  and  never  sparing  his  strength, 
never  thinking  of  his  convenience  or  comfort, 
he  hastened  to  respond  and  give  of  his  wealth 
of  eloquence,  knowledge  and  understanding. 
Those  who  had  the  privilege  to  find  themselves 
under  his  magnetic  spell  will  not  forget,  as  long 
as  memory  lasts,  this  great  preacher. 

"But  back  of  his  diverse  interests  and  achieve- 
ment lies  the  most  remarkable  thing  about  Dr. 
Gunsaulus — his  unique  and  irresistible  person- 
ality. Magnetic  and  dominating  as  he  was,  he 
never  used  his  great  power  over  other  men 
selfishly.  He  was  quick  to  know  and  generously 
applaud  the  smallest  contribution  of  others  to 
the  common  weal. 

"He  had  a  heart  of  gold ;  unalloyed  in  its 
integrity,  quick  to  melt  in  sympathy,  rich  in 
the  rewards  of  its  friendship.  This  made  him 
deeply  beloved  and  constantly  sought  out  by 
all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men ;  for  he  was 
intuitive  to  understand,  tender  to  comfort,  wise 
to  counsel  and  mighty  to  inspire. 


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"He  had  an  unfailing  memory  for  our  graces 
and  a  merciful  forgetfulness  for  our  shortcom- 
ings. 

"The  love  for  his  fellow-men  that  poured  forth 
unstinted  and  inexhaustible  from  his  own  great 
heart,  came  back  to  him  again  in  the  universal 
regard  and  general  affection  which  this 
memorial  gathering  seeks   to  express. 

"To  his  family,  we  extend  our  deepest  sym- 
pathy and  the  acknowledgment  of  the  debt  of 
humanity  to  this  husband  and  father — a  debt 
which  can  never  he  repaid. 

'THEREFORE,  Be  it  resolved  by  all  here  as- 


sembled, that  this  obligation  be  preserved  in 
deathless  memory  and  that  the  name  of  Frank 
Wakely  Gunsaulus  be  inscribed  forever  upon 
the  honor  roll  of  our  city  and  country  as  one 
of  our  noblest  and  best  beloved  citizens ;  edu- 
cator ;  orator ;  writer,  lover  of  music  and  art ; 
minister — unsurpassed  in  understanding,  undis- 
puted in  leadership,  and  unforgotten  in  his 
abiding  and  inspiring  influence. 

"As  we  glimpse  the  sunlight  through  a  rift 
in  the  clouds,  so,  through  Dr.  Gunsaulus,  we 
sense  the  glory  of  the  infinite.  Through  him 
and  'through  the  lenses  of  our  tears,  we  get  a 
closer  view  of  heaven.'  " 


SAMUEL  FALLOWS. 


Samuel  Fallows,  presiding  Bishop  of  the 
Reformed  Episcopal  Church  of  the  United 
States  and  Canada,  has  recently  died.  His 
history  is  written  in  the  many  lives  his  in- 
fluence has   reached. 

He  was  born  at  Pendleton,  Lancashire,  Eng- 
land, on  December  13,  1835.  He  came  with 
his  parents,  Thomas  and  Anne  (Ashworth) 
Fallows,  to  America  in  1848,  locating  in  Wis- 
consin, where  they  endured  all  the  hardships 
of  pioneers.  He  was  brought  up  in  a  devout 
home.  After  finishing  country  school  at  Azta- 
lan  and  Sun  Prairie,  he  entered  the  University 
of  Wisconsin ;  and  working  his  way  through, 
graduated  the  valedictorian  of  his  class  with 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1859.  In 
1862  he  received  his  Master's  degree ;  and, 
in  1894,  he  was  made  Doctor  of  Laws  by  the 
same  institution.  He  took  his  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Divinity  from  Lawrence  University  in  1873. 

In  1859  he  became  vice  president  of  Galesville 
University  and  filled  that  place  for  two  years. 
On  September  25,  1862,  he  entered  the  Civil 
War  as  Chaplain  of  the  32nd  Regiment,  Wis- 
consin Volunteer  Infantry.  Under  President 
Lincoln's  call  for  volunteers  to  serve  One  Hun- 
dred Days,  in  1863,  he  assisted  in  recruiting 
the  40th  Regiment,  Wisconsin  Infantry  Volun- 
teers, and  was  commissioned  its  Lieutenant- 
Colonel.  This  regiment  did  service  in  Ten- 
uessee.  Afterwards,  he  raised  the  49th  Regi- 
ment, Wisconsin  Volunteer  Infantry  and  was 
appointed  Colonel  of  the  organization.  For 
meritorious  service,  he  was  brevetted  Brigadier 
General  of  Volunteers  on  October  24,  1865.  He 
was  honorably  discharged  on  November  1,  1865 ; 


and  then  returned  to  Wisconsin,  taking  up  again 
the  duties  of  civil  life. 

In  1868  he  was  made  Regent  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin ;  and,  during  his  subse- 
quent connection,  became  deeply  beloved.  For 
several  years  before  his  death  he  was  the  oldest 
living  alumnus  and  was  always  present  at 
Commencement  where,  with  the  President,  he 
headed  the  alumni  procession.  He  was  held 
in  affectionate  regard  by  the  Alumnae  and 
Alumni,  who  always  gave  him  a  great  ovation. 
He  was  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion of  Wisconsin  from  1871  to  1874.  In  1874 
he  was  elected  President  of  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University. 

In  1859  he  began  his  ministry  as  a  Methodist 
preacher  and  he  so  continued  until  1875,  when 
he  came  to  Chicago  as  Rector  of  Saint  Paul's 
Reformed  Episcopal  Church.  The  following 
year  he  was  chosen  a  Bishop  and  a  few  years 
later,  Presiding  Bishop  of  the  Reformed  Epis- 
copal Church  of  the  United  States  and  Canada. 
This  high  honor  was  conferred  upon  Bishop 
Fallows  eleven  times.  He  was  the  head  of 
this  Church  through  a  period  of  over  forty 
years. 

As  an  author  and  compiler  the  Bishop  has 
over  a  score  of  books  to  his  credit.  From  his 
pen  we  have :  "Bright  and  Happy  Homes ;" 
"The  Home  Beyond ;"  "Synonyms  and  An- 
tonyms;" "Handbook  of  Abbreviations  and  Con- 
tractions ;"  "Supplemental  Dictionary  of  the 
English  Language;"  "Past  Noon;"  "The  Bible 
Looking  Glass ;"  "Life  of  Samuel  Adams ;" 
"Christian  Philosophy  and  Science  and  Health  ;" 
while   of   standard    works    are:    "Popular    and 


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Critical  Biblical  Encyclopedia,"  and  "Webster's 
Encyclopedic  Dictionary,"  of  which  he  was 
Bdltor-in-Chle£  Enumerating  some  of  liis  other 
Interests,  Bishop  Fallows  was  a  Trustee  of  the 

United  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor  since  its 
foundation.  Ho  took  a  (loop  interest  in  all 
young  people,  especially  those  who  had  gone 
astray  and  who  had  been  caught  in  the  meshes 

of  the  law.  For  twenty-one  years  he  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Hoard  of  Managers  of  the  Illinois 
state  Reformatory.  lie  was  Chancellor  of  the 
University  Association,  lie  belonged  to  the 
U.  S.  Grant  Post  No.  28.  Department  of  Illinois 
and  was  also  Chaplain-in-Chief  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic  in  1907-9;  was  National 
Patriotic  Instructor  in  1908-9;  in  1913-14  was 
Department  Commander  for  Illinois.  Bishop 
Fallows  served  as  Chaplain  and  State  Com- 
mander of  the  Illinois  Commandery  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  For  nearly 
two  decades  he  was  Chaplain  of  the  Second 
Regiment,  Illinois  National  Guard.  He  was 
President  of  the  Illinois  Commission  for  the 
conduct  of  the  Half  Century  Anniversary  of 
N'ogro  Freedom.  On  October  12,  1916,  he  was 
unanimously  elected  President  of  the  Society 
of  the  Army  of  Tennessee,  following  General 
W.  T.  Sherman  and  General  Granville  M.  Dodge 
in  that  office.  As  President  of  the  Army  of 
Tennessee  he  was  Chairman  of  the  Grant  Me- 
morial Commission  created  by  Congress  to 
erect,  unveil  and  dedicate  a  monument  to  Gen- 


eral Grant  in  Washington,  D.  C.  ;  and  on  April 
27,  1922,  he  presided  over  the  great  concourse 
of  people,  comprising  representatives  of  all  na- 
tions gathered  for  this  occasion.  He  was  Chap- 
lain of  the  Lincoln  Memorial  Committee  which 
dedicated  the  memorial  to  Mr.  Lincoln  which 
v\:is  unveiled  May  30,  1922,  at  Potomac  Park, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Samuel  Fallows  was  married  to  Miss  Lucy 
Bethia  Huntington  of  Marshall,  Wisconsin,  on 
April  9,  I860.  Their  children  are :  Helen  May 
(Mrs.  William  Mayer  of  San  Francisco),  Hon. 
Edward  Huntington  Fallows  of  New  York, 
Alica  Katharine  Fallows  of  Chicago,  and  Major 
Charles  Samuel  Fallows  of  Saratoga,  Cali- 
fornia. Mrs.  Samuel  Fallows  died  July  30, 
1916.  Bishop  Fallows  died  on  September  5, 
1922. 

The  mind  of  Bishop  Fallows  was  enriched 
and  his  experience  enlarged  in  many  direc- 
tions. Study  of  the  most  comprehensive  sort, 
travel,  and  acquaintance  with  the  foremost  men 
of  America  and  Europe,  assisted  in  broadening 
his  intellect.  In  him  united  great  mental  ability 
and  great  beauty  of  character.  His  help  to 
people  through  personal  contact  is  beyond  esti- 
mate; his  writings  are  of  widely  recognized 
worth ;  and  his  powers,  expressed  in  adminis- 
trative connections,  have  served  Illinois — and 
America — in  such  a  way  as  to  make  his  name 
imperishable. 


WILLIAM  CULP  BROWN,  S.B.,  D.D.S.,  M.D. 


Dr.  William  Culp  Brown  was  born  at  Dun- 
ville.  Ontario.  Canada,  April  12,  1866,  a  son  of 
Rev.  William  Gould  Brown  and  Lois  Jane 
(Culp}  Brown.  He  had  the  advantage  of  splen- 
did education.  He  attended  the  primary  and 
high  schools  of  Ingersoll,  Ontario,  and  Albert 
College.  Belleville,  Ontario.  He  later  matricu- 
lated at  the  Dental  Department  of  the  North- 
western University  and  was  graduated  from  that 
Dental  Surgery.  To  further  his  education  he 
later  entered  the  National  Medical  University 
and  was  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1895 
with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  He  also 
received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  from 
Dunham  Medical  College  in  1896.  He  became  a 
resident  of  the  United  States  iu  1885  and  a  nat- 
uralized citizen  in  1887,  and  is  as  appreciative 
of  his  adopted  country  as  the  country  is  of  him. 
He  was  licensed  to  practice  by  the  Illinois  State 


Board  of  Medical  Examiners  in  1895  and  has 
since  been  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
his  profession. 

In  1896-97  Dr.  Brown  was  associate  professor 
of  pathology  at  Dunham  Medical  College,  and  in 
1897-98  he  was  clinical  instructor  in  medicine 
and  lecturer  in  obstetrics  at  the  National  Med- 
ical University  of  Chicago.  He  was  also  former 
professor  of  dental  prosthesis  and  crown  and 
bridge  work,  dental  anatomy  and  dental  materia 
medica,  at  the  Columbia  Dental  College  (now  the 
Dental  Department  of  the  University  of  Illinois). 
He  is  on  the  visiting  staff  of  the  Frances  Wil- 
lard  Hospital.  For  some  years  he  has  been 
actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  and 
specialties  in  this  branch  of  the  profession,  and 
is  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  skilled  and  thor- 
oughly qualified  men  in  the  city  of  Chicago. 

Dr.  Brown  is  a  member  of  numerous  clubs  and 


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organizations,  among  which  are  the  Illinois  State 
and  Chicago  Medical  Societies ;  the  American 
Medical  Association  of  which  he  is  a  Fellow,  and 
the  Oak  Park  Physicians  club  and  the  Austin 
Kiwanis  club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Austin 
Lodge  No.  85,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons ;  Cicero  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
Siloam  Commandery  No.  54,  Oak  Park  Knight 
Templar  ;  Medinah  Temple  Ancient  Arabic  Order 
of  the  Noble  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  No. 
1925,  Oak  Park.  He  likewise  belongs  to  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  of  which  he  is  past  district 
Grand  Chancellor  of  Illinois.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Civil  Legion  of  the  United  States  in  which 
he  is  an  active  factor  and  in  which  he  rendered 


valuable  and  efficient  service  during  the  World 
War.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  West 
Town  Chamber  of  Commerce.  In  his  religious 
faith  he  is  a  Methodist  and  his  political  affilia- 
tions are  with  the  Republican  party.  Dr.  Brown 
was  married  April  15,  1891,  to  Grace  Matilda 
Dalbey,  of  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  a  daughter  of 
James  H.  Dalbey  and  Montague  (Clark)  Dalbey; 
and  of  this  union  were  born  four  children ;  Alice 
Evaland,  wife  of  Sidney  B.  Egan ;  Margaret 
Leone,  wife  of  John  M.  Noble;  William  Culp 
Brown,  Jr.,  and  Lois  Montague,  who  is  deceased. 
The  family  home  is  at  738  Columbia  avenue.  Oak 
Park,  Illinois,  and  the  doctor  maintains  his  of- 
fices in  his  own  office  building,  "The  Brown," 
5720  West  Lake  street. 


FRANCES  E.  WILLARD. 


Frances  Elizabeth  Willard  was  born  at 
Churchville,  N.  Y.,  September  28,  1839,  daughter 
of  Josiah  F.  and  Mary  (Hill)  Willard.  Her 
parents  removed  to  Oberlin,  Ohio,  where  she 
spent  five  years  as  a  student  in  the  college  at 
that  place.  In  1846  removal  was  made  to  Wis- 
consin, the  Willards  settling  near  Janesville, 
but  in  1858  the  family  finally  took  up  their  resi- 
dence at  Evanston,  111.,  which  remained  their 
permanent  home.  In  1859  Frances  graduated 
at  the  Northwestern  Female  Seminary,  now 
known  as  the  Woman's  College  of  the  North- 
western University.  After  some  years  of  teach- 
ing she  was  chosen  president  of  the  institution 
from  which  she  had  graduated.  She  resigned 
her  position  in  1874,  and  in  the  same  year  was 
elected  president  of  the  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union,  and  to  its  work  she  devoted 
the  remainder  of  her  life.  Under  her  leader- 
ship the  temperance  crusade  spread  as  if  by 
magic  throughout  the  United  States.  Eventually 
she  visited  England,  and,  having  developed  a 
wonderful  power  of  oratory,  she  addressed  im- 
mense audiences  in   the   cause   of   temperance. 


In  1888  she  became  president  of  the  World's 
Christian  Temperance  Union.  She  was  a  pro- 
lific writer  from  early  womanhood,  and  pub- 
lished many  books  among  which  may  be  espe- 
cially mentioned  "Nineteen  Beautiful  Years," 
"A  Classic  Town"  (being  a  history  of  Evanston). 
"Glimpses  of  Fifty  Years,"  and  others.  Her 
home  in  Evanston  was  known  as  "Rest  Cot- 
tage," and  is  maintained  at  the  present  time  in 
her  memory  and  as  the  headquarters  of  the 
movement  with  which  she  was  identified  for 
nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century.  She  died  in  New 
York,  February  18,  1898,  and  her  remains  were 
brought  to  Rosehill  Cemetery,  in  Chicago,  where 
they  rest  under  a  beautiful  monument,  and  are 
visited  by  thousands  every  year.  In  1905  her 
statue  was  placed  in  Statuary  Hall  in  the  Capi- 
tol at  Washington,  as  one  of  the  two  representa- 
tives in  that  "Valhalla  of  the  Republic,"  pre- 
sented by  the  state  of  Illinois.  At  the  time  of 
its  presentation  Miss  Willard  was  referred  to 
as  "one  of  the  most  eminent  women  of  the 
United  States." 


JAMES  EDGAR  BROWN. 


James  Edgar  Brown  was  born  in  Monongalia 
County.  West  Virginia,  February  8,  1865.  a  son 
of  Granville  and  Elizabeth  (Watson)  Brown. 
He  is  a  direct  descendant  of  William  Brown, 
who  settled  in  Virginia  in  1632.  His  great-grand- 
father, Thomas  Brown,  was  a  soldier  in  the 
American  Revolution  and  fought  with  General 
Green,  at  the  Battle  of  Cowpens,   South  Caro- 


lina. His  grandfather,  Samuel  Byrne  Brown, 
was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  his  father 
was  an  officer  in  the  Union  Army  in  the  Civil 
War. 

James  Edgar  Brown  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  state  and  the  West  Vir- 
ginia University,  and  he  received  his  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Science  from  the  latter  institution 


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in  18S9,  and  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws  in 
1891.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  all  the 
State  and  Federal  Courts  and  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  United  States,  and  in  1892  he  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Chicago, 
where  he  has  since  been  active  in  the  legal  pro- 
fession of  this  city.  He  has  traveled  extensively 
and  made  a  special  study  of  municipal  affairs 
and  administration  of  justice  in  various  coun- 
tries of  Europe,  and  few  attorneys  of  Chicago 
are  so  thoroughly  versed  in  modern  jurisprud- 
ence. He  has  also  taken  an  active  interest  in 
local,  state  and  national  politics,  and  has  gained 
a  wide  reputation  as  an  orator  and  campaign 
speaker.  He  is  likewise  a  writer  of  notable  repu- 
tation, and  is  the  author  of  Genealogy  of  the 
Brown  Family ;  of  Prince  William  County,  Vir- 
ginia, and  has  also  contributed  extensively  to 
various  magazines  on  Criminology  and  Sociology, 
and  on  legal,  patriotic  and  miscellaneous  sub- 
jects. 


He  is  a  member  of  numerous  clubs  and  or- 
ganizations, among  which  are  the  Hamilton 
Club,  Michigan  North  Woods  Club  of  which 
he  is  a  charter  member  and  secretary,  American 
and  Chicago  Bar  Associations,  Chicago  Law 
Institute,  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce, 
National  Geographical  Society,  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution,  of  which  he  was  Chancel- 
lor General,  Illinois  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution,  of  which  he  is  ex-Presi- 
dent, Illinois  Society  of  the  War  of  1812,  of 
which  he  is  also  ex-President,  National  Star 
Spangled  Banner  Association,  of  which  he  is  ex- 
Treasurer,  and  he  was  also  Patriotic  Instructor 
of  the  Sons  of  Veterans.  He  is  likewise  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Illinois  State  Historical  Society  and 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society.  He  is  a  Thirty- 
Second  degree  Mason,  Oriental  Consistory,  a 
Shriner,  and  an  Elk. 


CHANGING  WHITNEY  BARRETT. 


Doctor  Barrett  was  born  near  Blissfield, 
Michigan,  December  14,  I860,  a  son  of  David  F. 
and  Martha  C.  (Dewey)  Barrett.  His  boyhood 
days  were  spent  on  a  farm,  where  he  was  taught 
the  habits  of  industry  and  economy  and  the 
discipline  proved  a  valuable  one  during  the 
formative  period  of  his  life.  He  had  the  ad- 
vantage of  a  thorough  education,  including  that 
of  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state,  Fayette 
(Ohio)  Normal  School  and  Hillsdale  (Michigan) 
College.  For  six  years  during  his  early  career 
he  engaged  in  teaching  school,  but  having  de- 
termined upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life 
work,  he  early  began  the  study  for  this  profes- 
sion and  for  two  years  during  this  period  he 
read  medicine  under  the  direction  of  an  eminent 
physician  and  surgeon.  In  1892  he  matriculated 
at  the  Detroit  College  of  Medicine,  where  he 
took  a  thorough  course  and  was  graduated  from 
that  institution  in  1895  with  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Medicine,  having  served  as  interne  at  St. 
Luke's  Hospital,  ill  that  city  for  two  years  prior 
to  his  graduation. 

Doctor  Barrett  was  house  physician  to  the 
Harper  Hospital,  Detroit,  in  1895-96,  and  in  the 
latter  year  he  came  to  Chicago,  where  he  was 
assistant  surgeon  to  the  Marion  Sims  Hospital 
for  six  years.  From  1900  until  1906,  he  was 
Professor  of  Gynecology  at  the  Chicago  Clinical 
School  and  as  an  instructor,  he  was  not  only 


popular  but  proved  himself  thoroughly  qualified 
in  scholarship.  He  has  also  been  Chief  Pro- 
fessor of  the  University  of  Illinois  Medical 
School ;  Chief  of  the  Department  of  Gynecology 
at  the  Cook  County  Hospital,  and  Attending 
Gynecologist  to  the  West  Side  and  Columbus 
Hospitals  for  many  years,  and  has  rendered 
most  effective  service  to  these  institutions.  He 
has  also  gained  distinction  as  a  writer  and  has 
been  a  frequent  and  valuable  contributor  of 
many  articles  to  medical  journals,  among  them : 
The  Crime  of  Gynecology  (American  Journal  of 
Obstetrics),  in  1908;  Endothelioma  of  the 
Ovary,  1909 ;  The  Thyroid  Gland,  Its  Degenera- 
tions in  Relation  to  Obstetrics,  1914 ;  The  Treat- 
ment of  Abortion  on  the  Basis  of  Its  Pathology, 
1915;  Hernias  Through  the  Pelvic  Floor,  1909, 
and  The  Elements  Which  Make  Success  or 
Failure  in  Surgical  Work,  1911.  He  has  also 
published  Original  Operations  for  Displacement 
of  the  Uterus  and  also  the  Pelvic  Floor. 

Doctor  Barrett  keeps  in  close  touch  with  all 
that  research  is  bringing  to  light  in  the  field  of 
scientific  knowledge,  and  though  a  man  of  broad 
information  along  many  lines,  his  professional 
work  for  many  years  has  been  confined  chiefly 
to  that  of  gynecology  and  abdominal  surgery, 
and  there  are  few  specialists  in  the  city  of  Chi- 
cago who  are  so  thoroughly  qualified  in  these 
branches  of  the  medical  profession. 


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Doctor  Barrett  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American 
College  of  Surgery,  the  American  Gynecological 
Society  and  the  Association  of  Obstetricians  and 
Gynecologists.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  Illinois  State 
and  Chicago  Medical  Societies,  Chicago  Gyne- 
cological Society,  of  which  he  is  President,  and 
the  Mississippi  Valley  Medical  Society.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  and  among  his  most  dis- 
tinguished work  in  connection  with  this  or- 
ganization was  that  as  Chairman  of  the  West 
Side  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  Profes- 
sional School  and  in  the  raising  of  funds  for  the 
erection  of  a  students  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  Building,  now  just  completed.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  City  and  Press  clubs  and  of 


the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  is  a  Re- 
publican in  his  political  affiliations.  He  saw  ac- 
tive service  overseas  during  the  'World  War  and 
in  many  ways  proved  his  loyalty  and  patriotism 
to  his  country.  Although  a  gynecologist,  he  did 
work  as  a  general  surgeon  in  the  United  States 
Medical  Corps  in  France,  and  was  decorated 
with  the  medal  of  honor  (Medaille  D'Honneur) 
by  the  French  government  for  work  among  the 
French  wounded. 

Doctor  Barrett  was  married  July  22,  1896,  to 
Miss  Luella  May  Alvord,  a  daughter  of  the  late 
Nathan  Alvord  of  Hillsdale,  Michigan.  Of  this 
union  were  born  four  children :  Russell  Alvord, 
Florence  Louise,  Helen  Elizabeth,  and  Ruth 
Esther. 


JOHN  GRAVES  SHEDD. 


The  late  John  G.  Shedd  of  Chicago,  President 
of  Marshall  Field  &  Company,  was  born  on  a 
farm  at  Alstead,  New  Hampshire,  July  20,  1850, 
a  son  of  William  and  Abigail  (Wallace)  Shedd, 
and  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  eight  children. 
When  he  was  five  years  old  the  family  moved 
to  a  farm  at  Langdon,  New  Hampshire.  Here 
most  of  his  boyhood  was  spent,  doing  a  man's 
work  about  the  farm. 

Before  he  was  seventeen  he  left  home  to 
strike  out  for  himself.  On  June  13,  1867.  he 
went  to  work  in  a  small  grocery  store  at  Bel- 
lows Falls,  Vermont,  for  the  wage  of  $1.50  a 
week  and  board.  On  June  1,  1868,  he  entered 
the  employ  of  Timothy  Tufts  who  owned  the 
general  store  in  his  native  town,  Alstead,  New 
Hampshire.  Fire  destroyed  the  business  in 
September,  1868.  so  he  then  went  to  work  for 
James  H.  Porter  who  owned  another  general 
store  at  Alstead.  Here  he  continued  until 
April  1,  1870,  when,  for  a  year,  he  worked  with 
C.  A.  Parkhurst  &  Company,  dry  goods  mer- 
chants at  Rutland,  Vermont.  In  July,  1871, 
he  took  a  position  with  B.  H.  Burt  who  was  a 
leading  dry  goods  merchant  of  Vermont.  He 
remained  there  nearly  a  year  and  then,  having 
by  five  years  of  close  application,  learned  the 
rudiments  of  the  dry-goods  business,  he  decided, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years,  to  look  for  a 
better  opportunity  than  was  offered  in  the  small 
New  England  towns. 

In  the  fall  of  1871  Chicago,  then  about  300,000 
in  population,  had  been  almost  overwhelmed  by 
the  historic  great  fire;  but  from  its  command- 


ing location  was  destined  to  rise  from  its  ashes 
and  after  phenomenal  growth  to  become  the 
center  of  business  in  the  West :  witli  nearly  a 
ten-fold  increase  in  population  in  the  next  half 
century.  With  the  accurate,  far-seeing  judg- 
ment, which  made  all  of  his  later  life  notable, 
Mr.  Shedd  decided  to  locate  at  Chicago. 

On  August  7,  1872,  he  became  a  clerk  in  the 
employ  of  Field,  Leiter  &  Company,  which  was 
even  then  the  largest  and  fastest  growing  whole- 
sale and  retail  dry  goods  house  in  the  Central 
States.  This  business,  ten  years  later,  became 
Marshall  Field  &  Company.  Mr.  Shedd  began 
work  there  at  $12  a  week.  Five  months  later 
he  was  gratified  to  have  his  pay  raised  to  $14 
a  week,  Mr.  Field  explaining  that  this  was  done 
in  appreciation  of  his  good  work — "A  tribute 
which  pleased  me  more"  said  Mr.  Shedd  in  later 
years,  "than  any  other  subsequent  advancement 
in  the  whole  course  of  my  business  career." 

Mr.  Shedd  gave  his  concentrated  attention 
to  his  duties,  met  every  opportunity  offered, 
rapidly  progressed  in  usefulness  from  a  position 
as  salesman  to  executive  work  of  increasing 
responsibility,  and  he  grew  in  powers  with  the 
growth  of  the  business. 

In  1893  he  was  admitted  to  partnership  in  the 
firm  and  soon  became  a  powerful  controlling  in- 
fluence in  its  affairs.  In  1901  the  company  was 
incorporated  with  Mr.  Field  as  President  and 
Mr.  Shedd  as  Vice  President.  On  the  death  of 
Mr.  Field  in  1906,  Mr.  Shedd  was  chosen  to 
succeed  him  as  President  of  this  vast  business. 

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Field   &  Company,   he   was   a   Director   of  the 

Commonwealth  Edison  Company,  the  Merchants 
Loan  and  Trust  Company,  the  Illinois  Trust  & 
Savings  Bank,  the  First  State  Pawners  Society, 
and  of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio,  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral, the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  and  Pacific  rail- 
roads. He  was  a  Trustee  of  the  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  New  York  and  a  Director 
of  the  Bank  of  Commerce  of  N.  T. 

His  club  memberships  included  :  The  Chicago, 
Union  League,  Commercial,  University,  Onwent- 
sia.  Saddle  and  Cycle.  Old  Elm.  Shore  Acres. 
Flossmore,  South  Shore  and  Midlothian  Coun- 
try clubs,  all  of  Chicago ;  the  Metropolitan  and 


Recess  clubs  of  New  York  City ;  and  the  Mid- 
wick  Country  Club  of  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Shedd  was  married  May  15.  1878,  at 
Walpole,  New  Hampshire,  to  Miss  Mary  R. 
Porter,  of  Walpole,  New  Hampshire,  a  daughter 
of  Dr.  Winslow  B.  and  Laura  M.  (Burt)  Por- 
ter. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shedd  have  two  daughters, 
Laura  A.  (Mrs.  Charles  H.  Schweppe)  and 
Helen  M.   (Mrs.  Kersey  Coates  Reed.) 

Mr.  Shedd  is  the  donor  of  the  Shedd  Aquarium 
($3,000,000)   to  the  people  of  Chicago. 

John  G.  Shedd  died  October  22,  1926.  He 
stands  as  one  of  the  greatest  merchants  that 
the  business  life  of  America  has  produced. 


DANIEL  JOSEPH  BRUMLEY. 


Daniel  Joseph  Brumley  was  born  near  Leipsic, 
in  Putnam  County,  Ohio,  March  19,  1865,  a  son 
of  Joseph  Brumley  and  Phillippina  (Leffler) 
Brumley.  After  his  preliminary  schooling  he 
attended  the  Ohio  Northern  University,  Ada, 
Ohio,  and  the  Ohio  State  University,  graduating 
from  the  latter  institution  in  1895  with  the  de- 
gree of  Civil  Engineer.  He  entered  the  railway 
engineering  service  June  18,  1895,  as  assistant 
section  foreman  for  the  Louisville  &  Nashville 
Railroad,  at  Evansville,  Indiana.  From  August 
to  December  of  the  ensuing  year  he  served  as 
assistant  engineer  for  the  Columbus  &  Hocking 
Coal  &  Iron  Company,  at  New  Straitsville,  Ohio. 
He  then  became  identified  again  with  the  Louis- 
ville &  Nashville  Railroad,  and  served  suc- 
cessively with  that  corporation  as  assistant 
supervisor  at  Belleville,  Illinois,  from  December, 

1896,  until  March,  1897 ;  section  foreman  at 
Evansville,  Indiana,  from  March,  until  May, 
1897  ;  rodman  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  from  May, 

1897,  until  March,  1898 ;  assistant  engineer  at 
Clarksville,  Tennessee,  from  March  until  Decem- 
ber, 1898,  and  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  from 
December,  1898,  until  September,  1901,  and  from 
September  until  October,  1901,  he  was  engineer 
of  maintenance  of  way  for  the  National  Railway 
of  Mexico. 

From  1901  until  1904  Mr.  Brumley  served  as 
roadmaster  for  the  Louisville  &  Nashville  Rail- 
road at  Elizabethtown,  Kentucky,  and  was  then 
made  division  engineer  for  the  Indianapolis 
Southern  Railroad  until  1905.  He  was  appointed 
principal  assistant  engineer  of  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral and  Mississippi  Valley  Railroads  on  March 
20, 1905,  and  served  as  such  until  May  1, 1910.    He 


was  Engineer  of  Construction  of  the  same  roads 
until  April  1,  1910.  He  then  was  engineer  of 
Maintenance  of  Way  of  these  properties  until 
November  19,  1913,  when  he  was  appointed  as- 
sistant chief  engineer.  Continuing  with  the 
same  roads,  he  served  as  assistant  chief  engineer 
from  November  19,  1913,  until  April  1,  1914 ;  as 
valuation  engineer  from  the  latter  date  until 
September  10,  1918 ;  as  chief  corporate  engineer 
and  director  of  valuation  work  from  September 
10.  1918.  until  April  1,  1920,  and  since  the  latter 
date  he  has  been  chief  engineer  in  charge  of 
electrifying  the  Chicago  Terminal  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad. 

Besides  his  business  and  professional  work 
Mr.  Brumley  is  also  interested  in  civic  and  mil- 
itary affairs.  While  in  his  native  state  he  served 
as  a  private  in  Company  A,  14th  Infantry  of 
the  Ohio  National  Guard  from  1S93  until  1895. 
He  has  served  as  president  of  the  board  of  di- 
rectors of  School  District  No.  161,  Cook  County, 
Illinois,  since  1921 ;  has  been  president  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Village  of  Flossmoor, 
Illinois,  since  1924,  and  justice  of  the  peace  of 
the  Town  of  Rich,  Cook  County,  Illinois,  since 
1920. 

Mr.  Brumley  is  a  member  of  numerous  clubs 
and  organizations,  among  which  are  the  Ohio 
Society  of  Chicago,  Ohio  State  University 
Alumni  Association,  American  Society  of  Civil. 
Engineers,  American  Institute  of  Electrical  En- 
gineers, American  Railway  Engineering  Associ- 
ation of  which  he  is  past  vice-president,  Western 
Society  of  Engineers,  of  which  he  is  second  vice- 
president,  and  the  Chicago  Engineers  club  of 
which    he   is   past-president,    and    the   Olympia 


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Fields  Country  club.  In  his  religious  faith  he  is 
a  Methodist  and  his  political  affiliations  are 
with  the  Republican  party.  He  has  gained  dis- 
tinction as  a  writer  and  in  conjunction  with 
Thomas  G.  Grier  and  Fred  Menge,  was  the 
author  of  "Preparation  and  Care  of  a  Vegetable 
Garden,"  in  1918,  besides  being  a  frequent  and 
valued  contributor  to  magazines  and  periodicals. 


Mr.  Brumley  was  married  September  1,  1908,  to 
Susanna  Pinkerton  Lytle,  of  Deshler,  Ohio,  a 
daughter  of  David  Lytle  and  Sarah  (Pinkerton) 
Lytle.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brumley  have  one  son, 
David  Joseph  Brumley,  who  is  a  student  at  the 
University  of  Illinois.  The  family  home  is  at 
Flossmoor,  Illinois,  and  is  a  hospitable  one, 
where  their  friends  are  always  welcome. 


JOHN  WILLIAM  O'LEARY. 


Although  many  changes  have  taken  place  in 
the  industrial  life  of  Chicago  during  the  past 
half  century,  some  of  the  old  reliable  firms  still 
have  the  advantage  of  being  governed  by  mem- 
bers of  the  same  family  who  were  the  original 
founders.  The  advantage  of  such  conditions  is 
easy  to  determine,  and  is  generally  recognized, 
for  interest  is  always  sustained  and  old  stand- 
ards maintained  when  no  radical  changes  have 
been  effected  in  the  management.  In  the  manu- 
facture of  iron  and  steel  products,  the  firm  of 
Arthur  J.  O'Leary  &  Son  Company  and  its  pred- 
ecessors, takes  precedence  over  all  other  con- 
cerns of  its  kind  in  Chicago,  both  in  prolonged 
period  of  operation  and  in  the  scope  and  im- 
portance of  business  controlled.  This  notable 
enterprise  had  its  inception  in  Chicago  nearly 
a  half  century  ago  when,  in  1874,  Arthur 
John  O'Leary  founded  the  business  under  the 
name  of  Smith  &  O'Leary,  manufacturers  of  iron 
and  steel  products.  This  firm  was  later  suc- 
ceeded by  Arthur  J.  O'Leary,  which  was  incor- 
porated in  1903  as  the  Arthur  J.  O'Leary  &  Son 
Company. 

During  the  ensuing  years  this  enterprise  has 
kept  pace  with  the  marvelous  development  and 
advancement  of  the  city,  and  its  status  has  long 
been  one  of  prominence  in  connection  with  the 
representative  industrial  activities  of  the  coun- 
try. Although  its  honored  founder  has  long 
passed  from  the  scene  of  earthly  activities,  he 
is  remembered  as  one  of  the  sterling  pioneer 
business  men  of  this  city  whose  efforts  not  only 
contributed  materially  to  the  growth  and  devel- 
opment of  the  industrial  interests  of  Chicago, 
but  in  the  promotion  of  charitable  movements 
0  and  all  measures  tending  to  the  public  good  he 
was  an  active  and  unostentatious  worker.  He 
was  born  at  Portsmouth,  England,  March  25, 
1836,  a  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Hartnett) 
O'Leary.  He  came  to  America  in  1868,  and  in 
1874  established  the  forge  and  iron  works  at 
Chicago  with  which  he  was  identified  for  many 


years,  and  of  which  he  was  the  executive  head 
until  the  time  of  his  death  in  May,  1923.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church ;  was  a  Mason,  Knight  Templar  and  an 
Odd  Fellow  and  was  prominent  in  both  business 
and  social  circles.  He  was  married  June  24, 
1858,  to  Miss  Emma  S.  Hunt,  of  Peterborough, 
England,  and  of  this  union  were  born  eight 
children,  all  of  whom  are  deceased  but  John 
William  O'Leary,  whose  name  heads  this  review 
and  who  is  well  upholding  the  honor  of  the 
family  name. 

John  W.  O'Leary  was  born  in  Chicago,  July 
9,  1875.  He  grew  up  with  the  city  during  the 
period  of  its  most  marvelous  development,  and 
he  has  never  lost  an  opportunity  to  do  what  he 
could  for  the  advancement  of  the  best  interests 
of  the  great  metropolis  which  has  figured  as  the 
stage  of  his  splendid  achievements,  and  in  which 
his  activities  have  been  centered  for  more  than 
half  a  century.  His  early  education  was  ob- 
tained in  the  public  schools  of  this  city  and 
Armour  Institute  of  Technology.  He  later 
matriculated  at  Cornell  University  and  in  1899 
was  graduated  from  that  institution  with  the 
degree  of  Mechanical  Engineer.  He  has  been 
identified  since  the  beginning  of  his  active 
career  with  the  business  established  by  his 
father,  and  the  success  of  this  enterprise  may 
be  attributed  in  no  small  degree  to  his  quiet 
faithfulness  and  untiring  efforts.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  he  served  as  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  corporation,  and  after  his  father's 
death  he  became  President,  and  still  retains  this 
position. 

Besides  his  connection  with  the  Arthur  J. 
O'Leary  &  Son  Company,  Mr.  O'Leary  is  also 
identified  with  numerous  other  enterprises,  and 
his  progressive  spirit  is  evident  in  many  ways. 
He  is  President  and  a  Director  of  the  Chicago 
Trust  Company ;  a  Director  of  the  First  Engle- 
wood  State  Bank  and  Receiver  for  the  Michi- 
gan Avenue  Trust  Company.    He  is  also  a  Di- 


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rector  of  the  Advance  Rumely  Company,  Chi- 
cago Railways  Company,  Belden  Manufacturing 
Company,  Republic  Realty  Mortgage  Corporation, 
Northwestern  Terra  Cotta  Company,  Templeton 
Kenly  &  Company,  Ltd.,  and  the  Chicago 
Crucible  Company.  He  is  past  President  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  United  States  and 
a  member  of  the  Chicago  Association  of  Com- 
merce, of  which  he  was  President  in  1916-17. 
He  is  also  a  member  and  ex-President  of  the 
National  Metal  Trades  Association  and  was  a 
member  of  President  Wilson's  First  Industrial 
Conference.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Committee  of  Fifteen,  Chicago 
Crime  Commission ;  Vice  Chairman  of  the  Citi- 
zens' Committee  to  Enforce  the  Landis  Award ; 
Trustee  of  the  Wesley  Memorial  Hospital  and  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  the  Infant  Welfare 
Society. 

Although  the  scope  of  his  work  has  always 
been  broad,  Mr.  O'Leary  does  not  neglect  those 
things  which  represent  the  higher  ideals  of 
human  existence  and  gives  generously  of  his 
time  and  means  to  charitable  movements  and 
all  measures  tending  to  the  public  good.  His 
efforts  are  not  confined  to  lines  resulting  in  in- 


dividual benefit,  but  are  evident  in  those  fields 
where  general  interests  and  public  welfare  are 
involved.  He  has  ever  stood  as  an  exponent  of 
the  best  type  of  civic  loyalty  and  progressive- 
ness,  and  during  the  many  years  of  his  resi- 
dence here  he  has  wielded  definite  and  benignant 
influence,  both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man  of 
splendid  business  ability.  In  his  political  af- 
filiations Mr.  O'Leary  is  a  stanch  Republican 
but  he  has  never  cared  for  the  distinction  that 
comes  from  political  office  and  takes  no  active 
part  in  politics  aside  from  casting  the  weight  of 
his  influence  in  support  of  men  and  measures 
working  for  the  public  good.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  of  the  Chi- 
cago Athletic  Association,  the  MidDay,  Indus- 
trial, Chicago,  Knollwood,  Onwentsia  and  South 
Shore  Country  Clubs  of  Chicago,  the  Lotos  club 
of  New  York  City,  and  Metropolitan  Club  of 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Mr.  O'Leary  was  married  at  Chicago  in  1901 
to  Miss  Alice  Estelle  Smith,  a  woman  of  engag- 
ing personality,  and  of  this  union  were  born 
five  children :  Alice  Estelle,  Lillian  Emma, 
Dorothy  Rose,  Janet  Edna  and  John  William, 
Jr. 


CARROLL  EUGENE  COOK. 


Although  Dr.  Carroll  E.  Cook  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  Chicago  but  a  few  years,  he  has  made  a 
lasting  impression.  A  man  of  broad  information 
along  many  lines  in  medical  science,  he  has  con- 
fined his  work  largely  to  that  of  roentgenology 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  has  gained  a  na- 
tional reputation  in  this  branch  of  the  medical 
profession. 

Doctor  Cook  was  born  at  Post  Mills,  Ver- 
mont, February  21,  187G,  a  son  of  Edward  Sar- 
gent and  Elizabeth  Kimball  (Cooley)  Cook,  and 
comes  of  prominent  old  established  New  Eng- 
land families.  His  early  educational  advantages 
were  those  afforded  by  the  grade  schools  of  his 
native  state  and  Keokuk,  Iowa.  Having  deter- 
mined upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life 
work,  he  matriculated  at  Rush  Medical  College 
(University  of  Chicago),  and  was  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  1897,  with  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  Soon  after  completing  his 
medical  course  he  established  himself  in  the 
practice  of  medicine  at  New  London,  Iowa,  and 
was  an  active  practitioner  of  that  city  for 
twenty-five  years. 

He  was  Mayor  of  New  London,  Iowa,  from 


1914  until  1920 ;  was  the  organizer  of  the  Farm- 
ers' State  Bank,  there,  of  which  he  was  the 
chief  stockholder ;  was  President  of  the  Henry 
County  (Iowa)  Medical  Society;  was  a  member 
of  the  local  Board  of  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment Fuel  and  Food  Exemption  Administration 
of  Henry  County,  Iowa,  in  1918-19,  and  since  the 
latter  date  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Iowa 
State  Game  Commission. 

In  1922-23  Doctor  Cook  was  assistant  to 
George  W.  Holmes,  Professor  of  Roentgenology, 
at  Harvard  Medical  School,  and  in  the  latter 
year  he  came  to  Chicago,  where  he  has  since 
been  a  potent  factor  in  this  field  of  activity. 
For  some  time  he  was  Chief  Director  of  the 
X-Ray  department  at  the  West  Suburban  Hos- 
pital, at  Oak  Park,  but  of  late  he  has  been 
actively  identified  with  the  Municipal  Tuber- 
culosis Sanitarium  of  Chicago,  and  is  Chief 
Consultant  of  the  X-Ray  Department  of  that 
institution.  He  is  the  designer  and  patentee 
of  a  valuable  optical  auto-glass,  and  has  also 
gained  distinction  as  a  writer  and  lecturer, 
having  written  many  medical  articles  which  he 
has  read  and  lectured  on  before  medical  socie- 


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ties    in    Iowa,    Boston    and    Chicago,    and  was 

highly   complimented   for   his   work   along  this 

line.     He  has  also  written  on  propagation  and 

on   the  growth   of  fresh   water   game   fish  and 
made  moving  pictures  in  the  wilds. 


He  is  a  Mason  and  a  Shriner,  and  a  member 
of  the  Odd  Fellows  and  Knights  of  Pythias.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
and  of  the  Lincoln  Park  Traps  Club,  of  which 
he  is  Director  and  Vice-President. 


A.  MONTGOMERY  WARD. 


Mr.  Ward  was  born  at  Chatham,  New  Jersey, 
on  February  17,  1843,  a  son  of  Sylvester  A.  and 
Julia  Ann  Green  Ward.  He  was  a  great- 
grandson  of  and  namesake,  of  Gen.  A.  Mont- 
gomery Ward  of  Revolutionary  fame,  and  a 
grandson  of  Capt.  S.  Israel  Ward  of  the  War 
of  1812. 

When  he  was  eight  years  old  the  family 
moved  to  Niles,  Michigan,  and  here  he  went  to 
public  school  until  he  was  fourteen.  His 
parents  needed  his  help  with  the  financial  sup- 
port of  the  family  at  this  time,  so  he  was 
apprenticed  to  a  trade.  However,  he  preferred 
to  get  a  job  for  himself;  and  he  began  work- 
ing in  a  stave  factory,  for  twenty-five  cents  a 
day. 

Later  he  moved  to  St  Joseph,  Michigan,  and 
worked  in  the  general  store  there.  He  started 
at  a  wage  of  $5  a  month  with  board ;  but,  at 
the  end  of  two  years  he  was  placed  in  charge 
of  the  store  at  $100  a  month  and  board. 

In  1865,  Mr.  Ward  located  in  Chicago.  He 
worked  for  Field,  Palmer  &  Leiter  for  two 
years.  Then  he  entered  the  wholesale  dry- 
goods  firm  of  Willis,  Gregg  &  Brown,  after 
which  he  travelled  for  Walter  M.  Smith  &  Com- 
pany, of  St  Louis.  He  soon  returned  to  Chi- 
cago and  went  with  C.  W.  Pardridge  & 
Company. 

Mr.  Ward  was  married  in  Chicago,  in  1872, 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  J.  Cobb.  That  same  year  he 
and  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  George  R.  Thome, 
founded  the  business  now  known  all  over  the 
world  as  Montgomery  Ward  &  Company.  The 
idea  they  started  with  was  to  develop  an  or- 
ganization that  could  sell  merchandise,  of 
nearly    every    sort,    direct    to    the    consumer, 


eliminating  the  middleman.  Theirs  was  the 
first  mail-order  business.  From  this  beginning, 
when  but  one  clerk  was  employed,  Montgomery 
Ward  &  Company  has  grown  into  one  of  the 
largest  industries  in  the  world  and  is  saving 
millions  of  dollars  annually  to  the  people  with 
whom  it  trades.  Mr.  Ward  was  president  of 
the  company  from  its  beginning  in  1872,  until 
his  death  in  1913,  although  in  1901  he  retired 
from  active  management. 

Further,  Mr.  Ward  rendered  Chicago  a  very 
distinguished  and  permanent  service  through 
the  fight  he  waged  for  twenty  years  to  keep 
buildings,  of  all  descriptions,  out  of  Grant 
Park.  This  involved  litigation  that  carried  him 
four  times  to  the  Illinois  Supreme  Court. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ward  for  years  maintained 
their  summer  home,  LaBelle  Knoll,  at  Oconomo- 
woc,  Wisconsin,  and  here  Mr.  Ward  indulged 
his  fondness  for  fine  horses. 

Through  his  charities,  which  were  many  and 
which  were  thoughtfully  administered,  and 
through  his  endowments  to  hospitals  and  other 
institutions,  Mr.  Ward  did  a  vast  amount  of 
good.  His  death  on  December  7,  1913,  closed 
one  of  the  most  practical,  useful  and  helpful 
careers  on  record  in  America. 

In  1923,  Mrs.  Ward  gave  to  Northwestern 
University,  one  of  its  principal  buildings,  to 
be  erected  and  presented  as  a  memorial  to 
Mr.  Ward.  Later  Mrs.  Ward  made  Northwest- 
ern University  another  gift  of  four  million  dol- 
lars the  proceeds  of  which  are  to  be  used  in  se- 
curing and  maintaining  for  the  A.  Montgomery 
Ward  Memorial  Dental  and  Medical  School  the 
finest  faculty  obtainable. 

Mrs.  Ward  died  July  26,  1926. 


SOREN  THOMSEN  CORYDON. 


Soren  T.  Corydon,  founder  and  President  of 
the  modern  department  store  of  S.  T.  Corydon 
Company,  at  2704-12  West  North  Avenue,  has 
achieved  a  well-earned  success.  Although  Mr. 
Corydon's    birth    occurred    many    hundreds    of 


miles  away,  he  has  been  a  resident  of  Chicago 
for  approximately  forty  years. 

He  was  born  in  Denmark,  February  27,  1868, 
a  son  of  Niels  T.  and  Ellen  C.  (Dahl)  Corydon. 
His  early  training  was  had  in  elementary  schools 


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and  a  business  college.  In  18S9,  when  twenty- 
one  years  of  age,  he  sailed  for  the  United  States, 
coming  direct  to  Chicago,  and  has  since  been  a 
resident  of  this  city.  He  became  a  naturalized 
citizen  of  the  United  States  in  1895. 

He  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness in  his  native  country  from  1882  until  com- 
ing to  Chicago  in  1889.  Soon  after  coming  to 
this  city  he  secured  a  position  as  salesman  with 
the  Ed  Ahlswede  Dry  Goods  Company,  and  re- 
mained with  that  concern  for  nine  years.  His 
ability  soon  became  apparent  and  in  1894  he 
was  made  general  manager  of  the  store  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  1898,  when  he  re- 
signed to  become  buyer  for  the  firm  of  W.  A. 
Wieboldt  &  Company.  In  the  subsequent  year 
he  became  associated  with  A.  H.  Greenberg,  in 
the  dry  goods  business,  under  the  name  of  Green- 
berg &  Corydon,  and  this  alliance  continued  un- 
til 1907,  when  he  purchased  his  partner's  in- 
terests, and  conducted  the  business  under  his 
own  name.  In  1916  he  erected  a  large  and  ade- 
quate store  building  and  established  a  modern 
department  store.  In  1923  the  business  was  in- 
corporated under  the  name  of  the  S.  T.  Corydon 
Company,  of  which  he  is  President.  The  store 
is  a  modern  and  well-ordered  mercantile  estab- 
lishment, and  under  the  able  and  conservative 
management  of  its  founder,  it  has  become  one  of 
the  largest  and  most  popular  department  stores 
in  the  Northwest  section  of  Chicago,  and  its 
status    is    one    of    prominence    in    commercial 


circles.  Besides  his  mercantile  activities,  Mr. 
Corydon  has  been  President  of  the  Chicago  Na- 
tional Life  Insurance  Company  since  January, 
1923,  and  is  also  a  Director  in  the  Humboldt 
State  Bank,  and  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Asso- 
ciation of  Commerce.  He  is  also  prominent  in 
social  and  fraternal  circles  and  is  identified  with 
numerous  clubs  and  organizations,  among  which 
are  the  Hamilton,  Edgewater  Athletic,  Edge- 
water  Golf,  Pistaqua  Heights,  Medinah  Athletic, 
and  Lake  Shore  Athletic  Clubs  and  the  Society 
of  Dania.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Progressive 
Lodge  No.  954,  of  the  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  Oriental  Consistory,  and  Medinah  Tem- 
ple of  the  Ancient  Arabic  Order  of  the  Nobles  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine.  In  his  religious  faith  he  is  a 
Lutheran,  and  in  his  political  affiliations  he  is  a 
stanch  Republican. 

In  December,  1926,  he  was  created  Knight  of 
Dannebrog  by  the  King  of  Denmark,  in  recogni- 
tion of  his  services  in  relief  work  to  World  War 
sufferers  in  the  Province  of  Slesvig. 

Mr.  Corydon  was  married  January  25,  1896, 
to  Miss  Herline  F.  Boysen  of  Chicago,  who  died 
March  10,  1916,  leaving  four  children :  Ella  M., 
Henry  F.,  Arthur  E.,  and  Lillian  A.,  of  whom 
the  two  sons  are  able  assistants  to  their  father 
in  the  store.  On  September  18,  1918,  Mr.  Cory- 
don married  Mrs.  Dagmar  R.  (Thustrup)  An- 
derson, of  Chicago.  The  family  home  is  at  5909 
Kenmore  Avenue,  Chicago. 


A.  J.  CERMAK. 


Mr.  Cermak  was  born  at  Prague,  Czecho- 
slovakia, May  9,  1873,  a  son  of  Anton  J.  and 
Catherine  (Frank)  Cermak.  He  came  to  the 
United  States  with  his  parents  when  a  year 
old.  He  attended  the  public  schools  at  Braid- 
wood,  Illinois,  and  high  school  and  a  business 
college  at  Chicago  and  also  studied  law. 

Beginning  his  active  career  as  a  coal  miner 
in  Illinois,  Mr.  Cermak  continued  in  that  field 
of  activity  until  1892,  when  he  came  to  Chicago 
and  embarked  in  the  coal  and  wood  business 
and  was  actively  identified  with  that  enterprise 
for  sixteen  years.  In  1908  he  organized  the 
real  estate  firm  of  Cermak  &  Serhant  and  is 
still  an  active  member  of  this  concern.  He  has 
been  President  of  the  Homan  Building  &  Loan 
Association  since  1907  and  is  also  a  Director  of 
the  Lawndale  National  Bank  and  of  the  26th 
Street  Business  Men's  Association. 


He  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois  House  of 
Representatives  during  the  forty-third,  forty- 
fourth,  forty-fifth  and  forty-sixth  General  As- 
semblies. He  was  Bailiff  of  the  Municipal 
Court  of  Chicago  from  1912  until  1918.  He  also 
served  as  a  member  of  the  City  Council  of  Chi- 
cago and  was  elected  President  of  the  Board 
of  Commissioners  of  Cook  County  in  1922,  and 
still  retains  this  position,  having  served  in  this 
capacity  for  six  consecutive  years,  a  record 
that  indicates  his  executive  ability  and  his  pop- 
ularity and  high  standing  as  a  citizen.  He  is 
also  Chairman  of  the  Cook  County  Democratic 
Committee.  In  all  his  official  trusts  Mr.  Cer- 
mak has  performed  the  duties  devolving  upon 
him  with  fidelity  and  thoroughness,  and  vindi- 
cating every  pledge  of  his  official  trust,  he  has 
stood   the  acid   test  for  loyalty   and   efficiency. 

As  President  of  the  Bohemian  Charitable  As- 


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sociation,  he  has  rendered  exceptional  help  to 
that  institution  and  there  are  few  who  respond 
more  readily  for  the  relief  of  suffering. 

Mr.  Cermak  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Lake 
Shore  Athletic,  Midwest  Athletic,  Medinah  Ath- 
letic and  the  Medinah  Country  Clubs,  and  his 
friends  are  as  numerous  as  his  acquaintances. 
He  is  also  a  Thirty-second  degree  Mason,  a 
member  of  Medinah  Temple,  an  Elk,  Odd  Fel- 


low, a  Knight  of  Pythias  and  a  member  of  the 
Lincoln  Turn  Verein. 

Mr.  Cermak  was  married  December  15,  1894, 
to  Miss  Mary  Horejs,  of  Chicago,  and  of  this 
union  were  born  three  daughters;  Lillian,  who 
became  the  wife  of  Richey  V.  Graham;  Ella, 
wife  of  Dr.  Frank  J.  Jirka ;  and  Helen,  wife  of 
Floyd  M.  Kenlay.  The  family  home  is  at  2348 
So.  Millard  avenue,  Chicago. 


RICHARD  TELLER  CRANE. 


Mr.  Crane  was  born  at  Passaic  Falls,  Pater- 
son,  New  Jersey,  May  15,  1832,  a  son  of  Timothy 
B.  and  Maria  (Ryerson)  Crane.  His  ancestors 
are  traced  to  the  original  Mayflower  colony, 
which  settled  at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  in 
1620.  His  father,  Timothy  B.  Crane,  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade  in  Litchfield,  Connecticut, 
and  became  a  contractor  and  builder  in  New 
York  city.  He  later  removed  to  Passaic  Falls, 
New  Jersey,  to  engage  in  the  milling  business 
and  erected  many  saw  and  flour  mills  in  that 
state. 

From  his  father  Mr.  Crane  inherited  me- 
chanical aptitude  and  ingenuity  and  his 
mother's  one  desire  was  that  her  boys  should  all 
learn  trades.  The  family  were  too  poor  to 
send  the  children  long  to  school,  consequently  at 
the  age  of  eleven  he  was  obliged  to  seek  self- 
support.  He  learned  various  branches  of  me- 
chanical work,  and  in  1847,  an  uncle  procured 
for  him  a  situation  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
where  he  remained  until  1851,  by  which  time  he 
had  acquired  the  trade  of  a  brass  and  iron 
worker.  He  then  went  to  New  York  city,  where 
he  found  employment  with  several  prominent 
firms,  among  them  that  of  R.  Hoe  &  Company. 
The  business  depression  of  1854-5  threw  him  out 
of  employment,  and  after  some  time  spent  in 
futile  search  for  work,  he  came  to  Chicago  in 
the  latter  year.  Here  he  had  an  uncle,  Martin 
Ryerson,  engaged  in  the  lumber  business. 
Shortly  after  his  arrival  he  decided  to  start  in 
business  for  himself,  and  Mr.  Ryerson  granting 
him  the  privilege  and  furnishing  the  means,  he 
erected  a  small  brass  shop  in  a  corner  of  the 
latter's  lumberyard.  Here  he  began  the  manu- 
facture of  finished  brass  goods,  in  a  small  way, 
and  lived  in  the  loft  overhead.  He  had  neither 
capital,  business  experience  nor  acquaintance 
with  which  to  start  his  enterprise,  and  but  lit- 
tle ability  as  a  salesman,  but  possessed  a  fairly 
good  knowledge  of  brass  foundry  work  and  fin- 


ishing and  was  a  good  machinist.  And  what  is 
more,  he  was  endowed  with  foresight,  ingenuity, 
energy  and  determination.  He  avoided  all  de- 
ception and  trickery,  soon  won  the  confidence  of 
all  with  whom  he  had  dealings,  and  established 
a  reputation  for  fairness  and  reliability,  which 
has  been  his  chief  pride  throughout  his  entire 
business  career. 

A  few  months  after  starting,  Mr.  Crane  was 
joined  by  his  brother  Charles  S.,  with  whom  he 
formed  a  partnership  under  the  name  of  R.  T. 
Crane  &  Brother.  The  business  grew  rapidly 
from  the  start,  the  variety  of  their  products 
was  gradually  increased,  and  from  time  to  time 
new  quarters  were  secured  to  accommodate  the 
growing  enterprise.  Owing  to  the  small  de- 
mand, it  was  necessary  for  some  time  to  take  up 
any  article  which  was  found  profitable  and  they 
were  obliged  to  manufacture  an  enormous 
variety  of  goods  in  order  to  build  up  their  busi- 
ness. In  1858  they  begun  the  manufacture  of 
steam  heating  apparatus  (which  they  discon- 
tinued in  1877).  In  1860  they  established  an 
iron  factory,  and  in  1864  a  wrought-iron  pipe 
mill,  at  the  corner  of  Fulton  and  Desplaines 
streets.  In  1865,  they  built  their  works  on 
North  Jefferson  street,  and  added  three  new 
branches  to  their  business — a  malleable  iron 
foundry,  the  manufacture  of  malleable  and  cast- 
iron  fittings,  and  a  general  machine  shop,  in 
which,  later,  steam  engines  were  made.  Their 
business  soon  doubled,  and  a  charter  was  ob- 
tained from  the  legislature,  incorporating  the 
concern,  under  the  name  of  the  North-Western 
Manufacturing  Company,  with  a  capital  stock 
of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  of  which  only 
fifteen  thousand  dollars  was  issued.  R.  T. 
Crane  was  the  first  president  and  Charles  S. 
Crane  the  first  vice  president.  At  this  time, 
the  amount  of  business  annually  transacted  was 
five  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  the  number 
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classes  of  employes  were  given  an  interest  in  the 
company's  business.  In  August,  1872,  the  corpo- 
rate name  was  changed  to  Crane  Brothers  Manu- 
facturing Company,  owing  to  the  adoption  by 
other  parties  of  the  word  "North-Western"  and 
the  consequent  danger  of  confusion.  In  1870,  more 
room  was  required,  and  a  four-story  building 
was  erected  on  Desplaines  street,  adjoining  that 
on  Jefferson  street;  and  during  1871,  a  four- 
story  wing  was  added.  Charles  S.  Crane  retired 
from  the  company  at  this  time,  and  the  busi- 
ness was  thereafter  conducted  by  its  founder 
to  the  time  of  his  death.  Previous  to  this  time, 
the  company  had  commenced  building  steam 
freight  and  passenger  elevators,  of  which  but 
few  were  then  in  use  in  Chicago,  none  having 
been,  up  to  that  time,  constructed  in  the  west. 
The  company's  first  passenger  elevator  was 
placed  in  a  hotel  on  the  corner  of  Michigan 
avenue  and  Congress  street.  In  1874  the  manu- 
facture of  hydraulic  elevators  was  undertaken, 
and  has  since  grown  steadily,  this  branch  of  the 
business  being  conducted  under  the  name  of  the 
Crane  Elevator  Company.  It,  too,  has  grown  to 
the  proportions  of  leadership  in  its  line  and 
there  is  today  no  civilized  country  on  the  face 
of  the  globe  where  the  Crane  elevator  has  not 
been  introduced.  Shortly  after  the  building  of 
steam  elevators  had  been  commenced,  an  acci- 
dental discovery  showed  that  the  machine  was 
adapted  to  the  hoisting  of  material  for  blast 
furnaces.  The  company  at  once  set  to  work  to 
design  an  apparatus  still  better  suited  for  this 
class  of  work ;  the  result  was  a  great  improve- 
ment over  anything  theretofore  built.  In  1880, 
the  pipe  manufacture  had  entirely  outgrown 
the  capacity  of  the  mill  erected  in  1864,  and  a 
new  mill  was  erected,  on  the  corner  of  Canal 
and  Judd  streets.  Eventually,  however,  it  de- 
veloped that  the  fitting  business  was  growing  so 
rapidly  that  it  would  be  a  good  line  in  which 
to  specialize,  and  Mr.  Crane  decided  to  give 
esspecial  attention  to  that  line ;  then,  as  their 
capacity  for  manufacturing  became  crowded,  he 
gradually  dropped  one  after  another  of  their 
various  outside  lines,  including  steam  warming 
and  elevators,  feeling  that  the  rapid  growth  of 
the  pipe  and  fitting  business  would  afford  an 
enterprise  sufficiently  large  for  himself  and 
family  to  look  after.  It  then  became  his  aim  to 
place  his  plant  in  advance  of  all  others  in  the 
country  in  the  variety  and  quality  of  goods,  and 
with  this  end  in  view  he  endeavored  not  only  to 
carry   everything   that  was   called   for   in   this 


line,  but  to  anticipate  the  wants  of  the  trade ; 
that  is  to  bring  out,  in  advance,  articles  that 
he  could  see  would  be  needed,  which  his  ex- 
perience in  the  steam-fitting  line  had  for  many 
years  enabled  him  to  do.  As  a  result  Mr.  Crane 
had  a  vast  number  of  inventions  to  his  credit 
covering  a  wide  and  varied  range  of  articles. 

From  time  to  time,  since  1886,  branch  offices 
have  been  established  in  other  cities  throughout 
the  United  States  where  satisfactory  arrange- 
ments could  be  made  with  jobbers,  thus  insur- 
ing a  steady,  reliable  outlet  for  their  products. 
In  doing  this,  however,  Mr.  Crane  at  no  time 
pursued  an  avaricious  course,  as  he  believed  in 
the  policy  "live  and  let  live,"  but  made  it  a  rule 
not  to  establish  a  branch  at  a  point  where  he 
was  receiving  fair  treatment  from  the  trade. 

While  no  special  effort  has  been  made  to 
create  a  demand  for  Crane  goods  outside  the 
United  States  and  their  possessions,  for  the  rea- 
son that  the  capacity  of  the  company  has  been 
fully  taxed  in  taking  care  of  domestic  demands, 
nevertheless  they  are  sold  in  considerable  quan- 
tities in  Canada,  Great  Britain,  Denmark,  Mex- 
ico, South  America,  South  Africa,  Australia, 
Japan,  China  and  Russia,  and  in  smaller  quan- 
tities in  all  countries  of  the  world.  The  com- 
pany was  awarded  the  only  gold  medal  given  at 
the  Paris  Exposition,  1900,  for  exhibits  of  valves 
and  fittings. 

As  the  business  of  the  Crane  Company  grew, 
Mr.  Crane  grew.  Gradually  he  acquired  a  valu- 
able business  acquaintance,  and  a  thorough  un- 
derstanding of  business  methods  was  added  to 
his  thorough  mechanical  knowledge.  His  policy 
from  the  first  was  to  put  his  earnings  back  into 
the  business,  and  he  had  sufficient  courage  to 
extend  the  business  as  rapidly  as  his  means  per- 
mitted. The  panics  of  1857  and  1865  both  found 
the  company  in  a  greatly  expanded  condition, 
and  an  exceedingly  severe  struggle  was  neces- 
sary in  each  case  to  weather  the  storm.  By 
1873  the  company  had  gained  such  financial 
strength  that  the  panic  of  that  year,  as  well  as 
the  later  panic  of  1893,  was  passed  without  the 
business  being  seriously  threatened.  Although 
the  company  started  without  resources,  and  the 
business  has  been  rapidly  extended  and  many 
financial  difficulties  encountered,  never,  during 
the  years,  has  the  company's  paper  gone  to 
protest.  Very  early  in  his  business  career,  Mr. 
Crane  recognized  the  value  of  thorough  system, 
and  worked  out  for  himself  a  system  of  policies, 
rules,  and  regulations,  covering  every  feature  of 


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the  business.  This,  in  addition  to  supervising 
the  details  of  work,  not  oidy  in  the  manufac- 
turing departments,  but  the  sales,  cost,  finances 
and  general  office  work  as  well,  was  a  tremen- 
dous task,  but  he  finally  succeeded  and  today 
the  company  is  one  of  the  most  thoroughly  sys- 
tematized and  best  organized  concerns  in  the 
world. 

One  of  the  greatest  factors  in  his  success  was 
the  attitude  which  Mr.  Crane  always  maintained 
toward  his  employes.  "Justice,"  he  said,  "is 
the  first  thing  to  be  considered  in  dealing  with 
your  men,  and  justice,  in  its  broadest  sense,  in- 
cludes kindness,  courtesy,  sympathy  and  genuine 
interest  in  the  welfare  of  your  employes." 
Absolute  fairness  to  the  employe  as  the  inspira- 
tion of  fidelity  and  service,  has  been  the  Crane 
keynote.  Always  accessible  to  the  lowest  of  his 
force,  keeping  constantly  in  touch  with  them 
all,  in  their  work  and  their  amusements  as  well, 
he  established  and  maintained  a  feeling  of  re- 
gard and  loyalty  among  his  employes  such  as 
probably  no  other  man  has  ever  enjoyed  from 
so  large  a  force.  At  its  fiftieth  anniversary  the 
home  shops  and  offices  mustered  forty-two  em- 
ployes who  had  been  continuously  with  the  con- 
cern from  twenty-five  to  forty  years. 

Mr.  Crane  always  believed  in  a  fair  distribu- 
tion of  profits,  as  a  practical  remuneration  of 
his  employes'  loyalty.  He  investigated  numerous 
profit-sharing  systems  in  use  in  this  and  other 
countries,  some  of  which  be  gave  a  trial  with- 
out satisfactory  results.  However,  years  ago  he 
devised  and  adopted  what  is  probably  as  fair 
and  liberal  a  practice  as  has  ever  been  insti- 
tuted by  any  large  concern.  Every  year  each 
employe  is  presented  with  a  cash  Christmas 
gift  from  the  company.  This  amount  has  varied 
from  five  to  ten  per  cent  of  each  employe's  an- 
nual earnings  from  the  company.  In  this  way 
the  Crane  Company  has  given  its  employes  many 
millions  of  dollars.  Mr.  Crane  believed  in  giv- 
ing his  employes  golden  dollars  in  return  for 
the  golden  dollars  they  harvested  for  the  com- 
pany, and  was  bitterly  opposed  to  the  so-called 
profit-sharing  practices  in  vogue  with  many 
corporations  by  which  the  employer  gratifies  a 
selfish  ambition  under  the  guise  of  charity. 
Prior  to  the  establishment  of  a  pension  system 
by  the  Crane  Company,  Mr.  Crane  personally 
pensioned  employes  whom  sickness  or  old  age 
had  overtaken  without  their  having  been  able 
to  lay  by  enough  to  support  themselves  and 
their  families.     Some  of  the  axioms  that  made 


Mr.  Crane  a  millionaire  are :  "Money  comes  to 
the  man  who  knows.  If  you  want  to  lead  you 
must  first  learn.  Learn  your  business  thor- 
oughly and  you  can  get  to  the  head  today,  as 
well  as  men  could  fifty  years  ago.  The  only 
place  to  learn  a  business  is  in  the  business.  To 
make  a  success  today  a  man  must  know  a  great 
deal  more  than  in  the  old  days — therefore  begin 
to  learn  early.  The  big  men  in  business  today 
were  poor  boys  of  yesterday.  The  big  men  of 
tomorrow  are  to  be  found  among  the  poor  boys 
of  today.  There  is  always  room  for  capable 
men — big  employers  can  never  find  enough  of 
them.  To  be  poor  is  no  bar — a  poor  boy  can 
enter  the  trades  and  at  twenty-six  have  acquired 
the  knowledge  on  which  to  base  a  fortune. 
Lack  of  college  training  is  no  handicap.  Get 
right  into  the  business  and  learn  from  the  bot- 
tom up.  I  don't  know  of  any  man  who  has 
made  a  success  in  any  other  way.  To  develop 
a  perfect  organization  a  man  must  have  a  thor- 
ough knowledge  of  the  line  he  is  to  manufacture, 
of  the  best  machinery,  processes,  factory  loca- 
tions and  construction,  raw  material,  men, 
wages,  merchandising,  manufacturing  costs,  im- 
provements, business  growth,  panics  and  other 
trade  conditions." 

The  development  of  the  Crane  Company  would 
alone  entitle  him  to  recognition  as  one  of  the 
most  prominent  factors  in  the  life  of  Chicago, 
but  Mr.  Crane  also  became  widely  known  by 
reason  of  his  activity  in  philanthropic,  bene- 
volent and  humanitarian  movements.  He  al- 
ways took  an  active  interest  in  social,  economic, 
political  and  educational  affairs  and  was  prom- 
inently identified  with  many  important  works. 
He  was  a  student  of  and  writer  upon  educa- 
tional problems.  In  his  articles  and  pamphlets 
he  placed  great  emphasis  upon  the  distinction 
between  an  educational  system  adapted  to  meet 
the  wants  of  the  masses  and  a  system  suitable 
for  training  a  favored  few.  He  laid  great  stress 
upon  the  importance  and  practical  value  of 
manual  training  in  the  grade  schools  and  was 
associated  with  John  W.  Doane,  Marshall  Field, 
John  Crerar,  N.  K.  Fairbanks,  E.  W.  Blatchford 
and  O.  W.  Potter  on  the  pledge  of  one  thousand 
dollars  for  the  buildiug  of  the  Chicago  Manual 
Training  School.  In  September,  1892,  Mr. 
Crane  equipped  a  manual  training  room  in  one 
of  the  Chicago  grade  schools  and  employed  a 
special  teacher  to  give  instruction  in  woodwork 
in  the  higher  grades  of  several  of  the  schools. 
In  1900,  recognizing  the  success  of  his  first  ex- 


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periinent.  he  provided  the  necessary  means  for 
making  possible  manual  training  in  the  lower 
grades.  In  1905  he  provided  twenty-four 
scholarships,  of  three  hundred  dollars  each  per 
year,  to  enable  young  men  to  prepare  themselves 
as  teachers  of  manual  training  and  provided 
funds  for  opening  manual  training  departments 
in  five  more  grades  schools.  In  recognition  of 
his  interest  in  the  public  school  system  the  Chi- 
cago board  of  education  named  the  R.  T.  Crane 
Manual  Training  High  School. 

With  the  exception  of  Potter  Palmer  Mr. 
Crane  was  the  largest  subscriber  to  the  Chicago 
Interstate  and  Industrial  Exposition  Company, 
which  was  organized  in  March,  1873,  to  hold  ex- 
positions on  the  lake  front.  These  continued  for 
many  years,  one  of  the  most  attractive  features 
in  the  public  life  of  the  city,  drawing  to  Chi- 


■cago  hundreds  of  visitors  annually  and  proving 
a  decided  stimulus  to  trade.  Many  other  in- 
stances might  be  cited  of  Mr.  Crane's  kindly 
spirit  and  generous  nature.  To  his  financial 
assistance  and  intelligently  devised  plans  many 
great  movements  and  organizations  owe  their 
success  today. 

As  a  writer  Mr.  Crane  was  concise,  analytical 
and  forceful.  His  contributions  during  the  last 
few  years  were  numerous  and  cover  a  wide  range 
of  topics.  Each  issue  of  the  "Valve  World," 
his  house  publication,  contained  one  or  more 
editorials  from  his  pen,  and  noteworthy  among 
these  are  a  series  of  biographies  of  English  and 
American  inventors  and  a  series  of  articles  on 
education. 

Mr.  Crane  died,  at  Chicago,  on  January  8, 
1912. 


WILLIAM  ROBERT  CUBBINS. 


Among  the  more  notable  physicians  and  sur- 
geons of  Chicago  who  have  established  a  repu- 
tation for  ability  and  have  achieved  honorable 
success  in  their  profession,  none  is  more  worthy 
of  mention  in  the  history  of  Illinois  than  Dr. 
William  R.  Cubbins.  He  has  been  an  active 
factor  in  the  medical  profession  of  this  city  for 
more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century,  and  no  physi- 
cian or  surgeon  of  Chicago  has  made  a  more 
lasting  impression  for  both  professional  ability 
of  a  high  order  and  for  the  individuality  of  a 
laudable  personal  character.  He  keeps  in  close 
touch  with  all  that  research  is  bringing  to  light 
in  the  field  of  scientific  knowledge  and,  though  a 
man  of  broad  information  along  many  lines,  his 
professional  work  for  many  years  has  been  con- 
fined chiefly  to  that  of  surgery,  in  which  he  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  most  skilled  and  thor- 
oughly qualified  in  the  city  of  Chicago. 

Doctor  Cubbins  was  born  at  Memphis.  Ten- 
nessee, August  6,  1874,  a  son  of  John  and 
Miriam  (Windiate)  Cubbins.  He  had  the  ad- 
vantage of  splendid  educational  discipline,  in- 
cluding that  of  the  Memphis  (Tennessee)  In- 
stitute. Hanover  (Indiana)  College,  and  Centre 
College.  Danville,  Kentucky,  and  was  graduated 
from  the  last  named  institution  in  1896.  with 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science.  Having  de- 
termined upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life 
work,  he  matriculated  at  the  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity Medical  School,  and  was  graduated  from 
that  institution  in  1900,  with  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Medicine.    After  serving  as  interne  at  the 


Cook  County  Hospital  in  1900-2  he  established 
himself  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Chi- 
cago, and  has  since  been  an  active  practitioner 
of  this  city.  In  1910  he  became  Assistant  Pro- 
fessor of  Surgery  at  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity Medical  School  and  filled  that  position  until 
1918,  and  since  the  latter  date  has  been  Asso- 
ciate Professor  of  that  institution.  He  was  also 
Professor  of  Surgery  at  the  Post-Graduate  Med- 
ical School  from  1905  until  1921.  From  1913 
until  1919  he  was  Attending  Surgeon  to  the 
Cook  County  Hospital,  and  from  the  latter  date 
he  has  served  as  Chief  Surgeon  of  that  institu- 
tion. He  is  Surgeon  to  the  Post-Graduate  Hos- 
pital and  to  the  Wesley  Memorial  Hospital,  and 
is  also  Surgeon  for  the  Fidelity  &  Casualty 
Company  of  New  York. 

Although  his  work  was  broad  and  exacting. 
Dr.  Cubbins  proved  his  loyalty  and  patriotism 
during  the  World  War  and  rendered  valuable 
and  efficient  service  to  his  country  in  various 
ways.  As  Major  of  the  Medical  Corps  of  the 
United  States  Army,  he  served  as  Chief  Surgeon 
of  Base  Hospital  at  Camp  Beauregard,  Louis- 
iana, from  March  1  until  July  5,  1918.  He  also 
served  in  the  same  capacity  at  Evacuation  Hos- 
pital No.  22,  of  the  American  Expeditionary 
Forces,  from  July  7,  1918,  until  February,  1919. 
Munificent  and  public-spirited  in  his  civic  atti- 
tude, he  does  not  neglect  those  things  which 
represent  the  higher  ideals  of  human  existence 
and  gives  generously  of  his  time  and  means  to 
all  measures  tending  to   the  public  good.     He 


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has  ever  stood  as  an  exponent  of  the  best  type 
of  civic  loyalty  and  progressiveness,  and  during 
the  many  years  of  his  residence  in  Chicago  he 
has  wielded  definite  and  benignant  influence, 
both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man  of  splendid  pro- 
fessional ability. 

A  man  of  exceptional  intellectual  activity, 
Doctor  Cubbins  has  gained  a  wide  reputation 
as  a  writer  and  author  and  for  a  number  of 
years  has  been  a  frequent  and  valued  contrib- 
utor to  medical  journals  and  periodicals  on  sub- 
jects pertaining  to  surgery.  As  the  editor  of 
Surgery,  Gynecology  and  Obstetrics,  he  wrote  A 
Study  of  Wounds  of  the  Ureter  for  this  publica- 
tion in  1906 ;  A  Contribution  to  the  Surgery  of 
Hernia  in  1911 ;  General  Plastic  Peritonitis  with 
a  Report  of  a  Case  in  1913 ;  Intussusception 
with  the  Technique  of  a  New  Operation  in  1915 ; 
and  A  Compilation  of  the  Methods  Used  and  the 
Results  Obtained  by  Fellows  of  the  Surgical 
Society  in  Brain  Surgery,  and  The  Effect  of 
Foreign    Substances    in    the    Peritoneal    Cavity. 


He  is  a  member  of  numerous  clubs  and  societies, 
among  which  are  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, the  Chicago  Medical  Society,  Chicago 
Surgical  Society,  of  which  he  was  Secretary  in 
1912-15  and  inclusive,  Vice  President  in  1915-16, 
Chicago  Pathological  Society,  Western  and 
Southern  Surgical  Societies,  and  a  Fellow  of 
the  American  College  of  Surgeons.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta,  Nu  Sigma  Nu, 
Northwestern  University  Medical  School  Alumni 
Association,  of  which  he  served  as  President  in 
1915-16,  Cook  County  Alumni  Association,  of 
which  he  was  Secretary  in  1912-15,  and  Presi- 
dent in  1915-16,  the  University,  Midlothian 
Country  and  the  South  Shore  Country  Clubs, 
and  is  prominent  in  both  professional  and  social 
circles.  Doctor  Cubbins  was  married  September 
18,  1901,  to  Miss  Cora  Hott  Brindley,  of  Wash- 
ington, Iowa,  a  woman  of  engaging  personality, 
and  of  this  union  were  born  two  sons :  Law- 
rence B.,  who  died  April  13,  1905,  and  William 
Robert  Cubbins,  Jr. 


FRANK  BILLINGS. 


Doctor  Billings  was  born  at  Highland,  Iowa 
County,  Wisconsin,  April  2,  1854,  a  son  of  Henry 
M.  and  Ann  (Bray)  Billings.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  state,  in  which  he  made  good  use  of  his 
time  and  opportunity,  and,  having  determined 
upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life  work,  he 
early  began  the  study  for  this  profession. 
Matriculating  at  the  Northwestern  University 
Medical  School,  he  was  graduated  from  that  in- 
stitution in  1881,  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine.  He  also  received  the  degree  of  Master 
of  Science  from  the  Northwestern  University  in 
1890,  and  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Science  from 
Harvard  University  in  1915.  He  received  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Science  from  the  University 
of  Wisconsin  in  1924,  from  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity in  1926  and  from  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago in  1927 :  and  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Law 
from  Cincinnati  University  in  1925. 

After  completing  his  course  at  the  North- 
western University  Medical  School  and  serving 
an  internship  in  1881-2  in  the  Cook  County  Hos- 
pital, Doctor  Billings  established  himself  in  the 
practice  of  medicine  at  Chicago,  and,  for  forty- 
six  years,  he  has  been  one  of  the  ablest  men  in 
this  field  of  activity  in  this  city.  To  further  his 
education  he  went  abroad  and  took  post-graduate 
courses  at  Vienna,  London  and  Paris  in  1885-6, 


during  which  time  he  studied  under  some  of  the 
most  noted  instructors  of  that  country. 

For  sixteen  years  Doctor  Billings  was  actively 
identified  in  various  capacities  with  the  North- 
western University,  and  during  this  period  he 
rendered  most  efficient  service  to  that  institu- 
tion. He  was  Demonstrator  of  Anatomy  from 
1882  until  1885 ;  Professor  of  Physical  Diagnosis 
from  1886  until  1891  and  Professor  of  Medicine 
from  1891  until  1898.  Since  the  latter  date  he 
has  been  Professor  of  Medicine  at  Rush  Medical 
College  (University  of  Chicago),  and  has  also 
been  Dean  of  the  Faculty  of  the  same  institu- 
tion since  1900.  From  1901  until  1905  he  was 
Professorial  Lecturer  at  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago, and  from  the  latter  date  until  1924,  he 
was  Professor  of  Medicine  at  the  same  institu- 
tion ;  and  Professor  Emeritus  since  that  time. 
He  also  served  as  Attending  and  Consulting 
Physician  to  the  Presbyterian,  the  Children's 
Memorial,  St.  Luke's,  Michael  Reese,  Cook 
County  and  Provident  Hospitals  for  many  years 
and  was  President  of  the  Illinois  State  Board  of 
Charities  and  of  the  State  Charities  Commission 
from  1906  until  1912. 

During  the  World  War  Doctor  Billings  ren- 
dered valuable  and  efficient  service  to  his  coun- 
try in  various  ways  giving  generously  of  his 
time  and  means  for  the  winning  of  the  war. 


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He  was  a  member  of  the  Advisory  Board  of  the 
American  Red  Cross  War  Council  and  of  the 
Illinois  State  Council  of  Defense.  He  was  also 
Chairman  of  the  American  Red  Cross  Mission  to 
Russia  in  1917.  He  also  served  as  Major  of  the 
Medical  Corps  of  the  United  States  Army  as 
aide  to  the  governor  of  Illinois  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  advisory  medical  boards  for  army  draft. 
He  served  in  the  American  Expeditionary 
Forces  and  in  the  office  of  Provost  Marshal  Gen- 
eral and  office  of  Surgeon  General  from  Feb- 
ruary 1,  1918,  until  June  28,  1919.  He  was 
honorably  discharged  with  the  rank  of  Colonel, 
Medical  Reserve  Corps.  In  1922  he  was  pro- 
moted to  Brigadier  General.  Medical  Reserve 
Corps.  The  Distinguished  Service  Medal  was 
conferred  upon  him  by  the  U.  S.  War  Depart- 
ment. May  1919.  In  1927  he  was  made  an  of- 
ficer of  the  Legion  of  Honor  of  France. 

He  retired  from  active  practice,  at  the  age  of 
seventy,  in  1924. 

Doctor  Billings  is  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
State  Medical  Society.  Chicago  Medical  Society, 


of  which  he  was  President  in  1890,  Chicago 
Pathological  Society,  Chicago  Neurological  So- 
ciety, Chicago  Society  of  Internal  Medicine.  In- 
stitute of  Medicine  of  Chicago.  American  Med- 
ical Association,  of  which  he  was  President  in 
1902-4,  National  Association  for  the  Study  and 
Prevention  of  Tuberculosis  of  which  he  was 
President  in  1907,  and  the  Association  of  Amer- 
ican Physicians,  of  which  he  was  President  in 
1906.  He  was  President  of  the  Congress  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  in  1922.  He  is  also  a 
valued  member  of  the  Chicago,  Chicago  Athletic, 
University,  Saddle  and  Cycle,  City  and  Glen 
View  Clubs,  and  is  prominent  in  both  social  and 
professional  circles. 

He  was  married  May  26,  1887,  to  Dane  Ford 
Brawley,  of  Washington,  D.'  C,  and  of  this  union 
was  born  one  daughter,  Margaret,  who  was  mar- 
ried June  3,  1916,  to  George  R.  Nichols,  Jr.,  of 
Chicago,  who  died  October  10,  1919,  leaving  two 
sons,  Frank  Billings  Nichols  and  George  Rose- 
man  Nichols.  Mrs.  Billings  died  October  2,  1896, 
and  is  mourned  by  all  who  knew  her. 


JACOB  McGAVOCK  DICKINSON. 


Judge  Dickinson  was  born  at  Columbus.  Mis- 
sissippi, January  30,  1851,  a  son  of  Henry  Dick- 
inson and  Anna  (McGavock)  Dickinson.  His 
maternal  great-grandfather,  Hugh  McGavock, 
served  as  a  Lieutenant  with  the  colonists,  in  a 
Virginia  Regiment  under  General  George  Rogers 
Clark,  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  During  the 
Civil  War,  J.  M.  Dickinson  served  in  the  Con- 
federate Army,  as  a  boy  of  fourteen.  He  had 
the  advantage  of  splendid  educational  discipline, 
including  that  of  the  LTniversity  of  Nashville, 
from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts  in  1871,  and  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts  in  1872.  He  also  studied  law  at  Columbia 
University,  New  York,  University  of  Leipzig,  and 
L'Ecole  de  Droit,  Paris,  and  attended  lectures 
at  the  Sorbonne.  The  honorary  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Laws  was  conferred  on  him  by  Columbia 
University,  and  the  University  of  Illinois,  in 
1905,  by  Tale  University  in  1909.  and  by  Lincoln 
University  in  1917.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1874.  and  for  a  quarter  of  a  century 
thereafter  was  one  of  the  potent  factors  in  the 
legal  profession  of  Nashville,  Tennessee.  Dur- 
ing this  period  he  served  several  times  by  spe- 
cial commission  on  the  Supreme  Bench  of  that 
State,  and  was  recognized  as  a  strong  factor  in 
the   best   element   of   his   profession.     He    also 


served  as  Assistant  Attorney  General  of  the 
United  States  from  1895  until  1897. 

In  1899  Judge  Dickinson  removed  to  Chicago, 
where  he  at  once  became  an  active  factor  in 
the  legal  profession  of  this  city.  He  was  gen- 
eral solicitor  for  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad 
Company  from  1899  until  1901,  and  general 
counsel  from  the  latter  date  until  1909.  He 
also  served  as  counsel  for  the  United  States  be- 
fore the  Alaskan  Boundary  Tribunal  in  1903, 
and  from  March,  1909,  until  May,  1911,  was 
Secretary  of  War  in  the  Cabinet  of  President 
Taft.  Resuming  the  practice  of  law  in  Chicago 
in  1911.  he  again  became  a  strong  figure  in  the 
legal  profession  of  this  city.  He  was  made  re- 
ceiver for  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific 
Railway  in  1915,  and  also  Chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island 
&  Gulf  Railway,  and  served  in  these  capacities 
until  1917.  Since  the  latter  date  he  devoted 
his  time  chiefly  to  private  practice  and  to  con- 
ducting the  affairs  of  his  personal  account. 

He  served  as  President  of  the  American  Bar 
Association  in  1907-8,  and  also  as  Vice  President 
of  the  American  Society  of  International  Law. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  was  also  a 
member  of  Wayfarers,   Industrial,  Cliff  Dwell- 


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ers,  and  Chicago  Clubs  of  Chicago,  the  Univer- 
sity Club  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  the  Wapo- 
noca  Outing,  and  Coleman  Lake  Clubs. 

He  was  married  April  20,  1876,  to  Martha 
Maxwell  Overton,  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and 
of  this  union  were  born  three  children  :  John 
Overton    Dickinson,    who    is    deceased ;    Henry 

EDMUND  D. 

Through  the  recent  passing  of  E.  D.  Hulbert, 
of  Chicago,  one  of  the  finest  men  and  one  of  the 
finest  minds  participating  in  the  control  of 
financial  matters  in  the  United  States,  is  no 
longer  among  us. 

Edmund  O.  Hulbert  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Pleasant  Valley,  Connecticut,  on  March  2,  1858, 
a  son  of  Henry  Roberts  and  Emeline  (Stillman  I 
Hulbert,  both  natives  of  Connecticut.  As  a  boy 
he  worked  on  the  home  farm  and  attended 
school  at  Winsted,  Connecticut,  which  town  was 
near  his  home.  His  first  business  position  was 
that  of  errand  boy  in  the  employ  of  the  national 
bank  at  Winsted.  After  some  time  he  earned 
the  position  of  assistant  bookkeeper  in  this 
bank ;  and,  two  years  later,  was  offered  the 
position  of  head  bookkeeper.  About  this  time, 
however,  he  was  offered  a  better  opportunity 
in  a  bank  at  Winona,  Minnesota,  so  he  came 
West.  When  he  was  twenty-one  years  old  he 
was  offered  the  position  and  made  cashier  of 
the  bank,  and  a  large  share  of  the  management 
of  the  bank  rested  in  his  hands.  He  was  lo- 
cated at  Winona  until  1895.  In  that  year  he 
was  called  to  Chicago  to  join  the  Merchants' 
Loan  and  Trust  Company  and  the  office  of 
second  vice  president  of  that  organization  was 
created  for  him.  In  1898  he  was  made  vice 
president ;  and,  in  1916,  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  bank.  Mr.  Hulbert  retained  this  office 
until  1919.  At  the  time  Mr.  Hulbert  entered 
the  Merchants'  Loan  and  Trust  Company,  in 
1895,  the  capital  and  surplus  was  $3,000,000, 
with  total  deposits  of  $12,000,000.  In  1916 
when  he  was  made  president,  the  capital  and 
surplus  was  $10,000,000,  with  deposits  aggre- 
gating $75,000,000.  During  the  years  he  was  at 
the  head  of  the  bank,  the  capital  and  surplus 
had  grown  to  $15,000,000,  with  total  resources 
of  $142,000,000. 

The  work  he  has  accomplished  and  the  ex- 
perience and  judgment  he  had  acquired  up  to 
this  time,  came  to  be  recognized  as  being  of 
an  excellence  rarely,  if  ever  before,  attained  in 
the    banking    business    of    the    Central    States. 


Dickinson,  a  practicing  attorney  of  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  and  Jacob  McGavock  Dickinson,  Jr., 
who  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  at  Chi- 
cago, and  who  is  more  specifically  mentioned 
elsewhere  in  this  work. 

Judge  Dickinson  died  on  December  13,  1928. 

HULBERT. 

And  added  to  the  place  of  eminence  his  ability 
had  created  in  the  esteem  of  a  very  wide  circle 
of  bankers  and  bank  patrons,  stood  the  fact  that 
everybody  who  knew  Mr.  Hulbert  had  implicit 
trust  in  his  total  honesty  and  gave  him,  to  a 
most  unusual  degree,  their  warm  regard.  Chi- 
cago has  never  had  a  man  of  finer  qualities  than 
Mr.  Hulbert. 

In  1919  a  merger  of  three  great  Chicago  banks 
was  made.  They  were  the  Merchants'  Loan  and 
Trust  Company,  the  Illinois  Trust  and  Savings 
Bank,  and  the  Corn  Exchange  National  Bank. 
The  new  organization,  under  the  name  of  the 
Illinois  Merchants  Trust  Company,  represents 
a  capital  and  surplus  of  nearly  $50,000,000,  and 
deposits  aggregating  $300,000,000.  Mr.  Hulbert 
was  made  president  of  this  vast  institution. 
We  believe  this  distinction  to  be  the  highest 
recognition  within  the  gift  of  the  banking  in- 
terests of  the  Middle  West. 

It  should  be  stated  here  that  Mr.  Hulbert, 
perhaps  more  than  any  other  man  in  the  coun- 
try, was  instrumental  in  creating  the  Federal 
Banking  System.  His  work  and  his  guidance 
in  this  matter  will  yield  a  continued  benefit  to 
the  entire  nation  for  years  and  years  to  come. 

Mr.  Hulbert  was  asked  by  President  Wilson 
to  become  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the 
United  States,  an  office  which  Mr.  Hulbert 
thought  it  best  to  decline. 

On  July  28,  1897.  Mr.  Hulbert  was  married 
to  Miss  Emily  Strayer,  of  Winona,  Minnesota. 

Mr.  Hulbert  was  very  earnestly  interested 
in  extending  needed  help  to  boys  and  young 
men.  He  fathered  the  Boys  Brotherhood  Re- 
public. "The  Chicago  Evening  Post"  says  of 
tins  side  of  his  nature: 

"Business  circles  in  Chicago  are  deploring  the 
sudden  death  of  Mr.  E.  D.  Hulbert,  who  counted 
hundreds  of  warm  friends  among  those  with 
whom  his  activities  brought  him  in  touch.  The 
world  of  finance  has  lost  an  able  and  clear- 
visioned  leader. 

"But  it  is,  perhaps,  in  the  world  of  Chicago's 
under-privileged  boyhood  that  his  passing  will 


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be  felt  most  keenly.  Mr.  Ilulbert  was  the  gen- 
erous friend  of  the  boy  who  lacked  full  opportu- 
nity. His  time,  bis  money  and  bis  active  serv- 
ice were  given  to  helping  lads  who  needed  help. 
The  fact  that  he  won  his  own  way  to  success, 
following  the  advice  of  a  wise  and  good  father, 
made  him  only  the  more  eager  to  extend  a 
friendly  hand  to  the  boy  of  the  street. 

"Among  his  many  investments  we  doubt  if 
there  were  any  he  counted  better  worth  while 
than  that  which  he  made  in  the  human  values 
of  boyhood.  To  be  remembered  gratefully  by 
those  who  got  their  first  real  chance  through 
his  sympathetic  interest  is  the  fine  tribute  paid 
him  today.  Chicago,  too,  may  be  grateful  for 
the  legacy  of  a  better  manhood  which  he  has 
left  his  city  in  those  whom  he  helped." 


Mr.  Ilulbert  belonged  to  the  Chicago  Club 
and  to  the  Bankers,  University,  Chicago  Ath- 
letic, Commercial,  Glen  View,  Shore  Acres,  Way- 
farers and  Onwentsia  clubs,  and  to  the  Society 
Colonial  Wars,  and  the  Chicago  Historical  So- 
ciety. He  was  also  a  Mason.  Many  of  his 
friends  will  recall  his  fondness  for  chess.  This 
brought  happiness  all  through  life. 

While  enjoying  a  recent  trip  abroad,  Mr.  Ilul- 
bert became  ill  and  his  return  home  was  neces- 
sitated. His  health  was  not  regained.  His 
death  on  March  30,  1923,  was  a  real  sorrow  to 
every  person  who  knew  him.  He  was  buried  at 
Winona,  Minnesota.  The  record  of  his  life  adds 
a  splendid  chapter  to  the  personal  history  of 
great  Americans. 


NATHAN  SMITH  DAVIS,  III. 


Although  numbered  among  the  younger  phy- 
sicians and  surgeons  of  Chicago,  Dr.  Nathan 
Smith  Davis.  Ill,  stands  at  the  head  of  his  pro- 
fession. He  represents  three  generations  of  phy- 
sicians of  the  same  name  in  Chicago,  and  is 
well  upholding  the  honors  of  the  family  title. 

Doctor  Davis  was  born  in  Chicago,  June  25, 
1889.  a  son  of  Dr.  Nathan  Smith  Davis.  II,  and 
Jessie  Bradley  (Hopkins)  Davis,  the  former  of 
whom  was  also  a  native  of  Chicago,  where  his 
birth  occurred  September  5,  1858.  His  parents, 
Dr.  Nathan  Smith  Davis  and  Anna  Maria 
(Parker)  Davis,  were  pioneers  of  Chicago  and 
were  numbered  among  its  enterprising  and  most 
highly  respected  citizens,  the  father  being  for 
many  years  one  of  the  city's  most  eminent  early 
physicians.  Dr.  Nathan  Smith  Davis,  II,  was 
graduated  from  the  Northwestern  University  in 
1SS0.  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He 
also  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from 
the  same  institution  in  1883.  He  early  began 
the  study  of  medicine,  and  was  graduated  from 
the  Chicago  Medical  College  in  1883,  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  He  also  took 
post-graduate  work  in  Heidelberg  and  Vienna 
in  18S5.  He  was  actively  identified  with  the 
medical  profession  of  Chicago  for  thirty-seven 
years,  and  was  one  of  the  city's  most  notable 
physicians.  He  was  also  active  in  civic  affairs 
and  in  all  measures  tending  to  the  public  good. 

The  late  Dr.  Nathan  Smith  Davis,  II,  was 
Associate  Professor  of  Pathology  and  Professor 
of  Principles  and  Practice  of  Medicine  and  of 
Clinical  Medicine  for  many  years,  and  was  also 


dean  of  the  Northwestern  University  Medical 
School.  He  was  Physician  to  the  Wesley  Me- 
morial, Mercy,  and  St.  Luke's  Hospitals  for 
many  years  and  rendered  most  valuable  and 
efficient  service  to  these  institutions.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Ninth  International  Medical 
Congress  and  also  the  Pan-American  Congress. 
He  was  Vice  President  of  the  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia  Convention  held  in  1910,  and 
was  formerly  Chairman  of  the  Section  of  Ther- 
apeutics and  Pharmacology,  and  Secretary  of  the 
Section  of  Medicine  of  the  American  Medical 
Association.  He  was  also  Chairman  and  Secre- 
tary of  Medicine  of  the  Illinois  State  Medical 
Society;  was  a  Trustee  of  the  Northwestern 
University,  the  Chicago  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association,  and  the  Wesley  Hospital.  He  was 
also  Chairman  of  the  board  of  Scientific  Gov- 
ernors of  the  Chicago  Academy  of  Science,  and 
a  member  of  many  local  and  national  medical 
and  scientific  societies.  He  gained  a  wide  repu- 
tation as  a  writer,  and  besides  being  a  frequent 
and  valued  contributor  to  medical  journals  and 
periodicals,  he  was  the  author  of  "Consumption, 
How  to  Prevent  It  and  How  to  Live  With  It," 
also  "Diseases  of  the  Lungs,  Heart  and  Kidneys, 
and  Dietetics,  or  Alimento-Therapy."  He  was 
one  of  the  most  scholarly  and  thoroughly  quali- 
fied physicians  of  his  day,  and  in  his  death, 
which  occurred  December  21,  1920,  Chicago  lost 
one  of  its  most  valued  citizens. 

Dr.  Nathan  Smith  Davis,  III.  had  the  advan- 
tage of  splendid  educational  discipline,  includ- 
ing  that   of   a    Chicago    University    School    for 


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Boys,  and  Harvard  University,  and  he  was 
graduated  from  the  latter  institution  in  1010, 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  Having 
determined  upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a 
life  work,  he  matriculated  at  Bush  Medical  Col- 
lege, and  was  graduated  from  that  institution 
in  1913,  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine. 
Soon  afterward  he  established  himself  in  the 
practice  of  medicine  at  Chicago,  and  has  since 
been  an  active  practitioner  of  this  city.  He 
was  Assistant  and  Associate  in  Medicine  at 
Bush  Medical  College  from  1915  to  1920.  and 
was  associate  in  medicine  at  the  Northwestern 
University  Medical  School  until  1928,  when  he 
became  associate  Professor  of  Medicine.  He  has 
also  been  Historian  of  the  Northwestern  Medical 
faculty  since  1924.  He  not  only  proved  his  loy- 
alty and  patriotism  as  an  American  citizen  dur- 
ing the  World  War,  but  rendered  valuable  and  ef- 
fective service  to  his  country  in  various  ways. 
He  served  as  First  Lieutenant  of  the  Medical 
Corps  of  the  Illinois  National  Guard,  and  was 
on  active  duty  from  June  18  to  October  31,  1916. 
He  also  served  as  Captain  of  the  Medical  Re- 
serve  Corps  of  the  United  States  Army,  and  was 
on  active  duty  while  in  that  capacity  from  Sep- 
tember 21,  1917,  to  August  25,  1919. 

He  is  a  member  of  numerous  clubs  and  organi- 
zations, among  which  are  the  American  Medical 
Association,  Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Medical 
Societies,   Society  of  Internal  Medicine  of  Chi- 


cago, Institute  of  Medicine  of  Chicago,  Chicago 
Pathological  Society,  Chicago  Heart  Association. 
Friends  of  Medical  Progress,  American  Associa- 
tion for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  and  Nu 
Sigma  Nu,  a  college  fraternity.  He  is  a  life 
member  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  and  of 
the  Field  Museum  of  Natural  History.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Civic  Music  Association, 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society.  Chicago  Geo- 
graphical Society  and  a  member  of  its  Board  of 
Directors;  Municipal  Voters'  League,  of  which 
he  was  Secretary,  and  is  now  a  member  of  its 
Board  of  Directors;  Chicago  Academy  of  Sci- 
ences ,  of  which  he  is  Secretary,  and  the  Amer- 
ican Legion,  and  he  was  an  advisory  member  in 
general  medicine  and  surgery  of  the  Illinois 
State  Rehabilitation  Committee  of  the  Legion. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  University,  Onwent- 
sia,  City,  Commonwealth,  and  Medical  and  Den- 
tal Arts  Clubs,  and  of  St.  James  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  of  which  he  is  Vestryman, 
and  is  active  in  all  good  work  of  that  organiza- 
tion. 

Doctor  Davis  was  married  July  6,  1923,  to 
Cordelia  Fairbank  Carpenter,  of  Chicago,  a 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Helen  Graham  (Fair- 
bank)  Carpenter,  and  of  this  union  were  born 
three  sons:  Nathan  Smith  Davis,  IV,  Graham 
Davis,  and  Stephen  Fairbank  Davis.  The  fam- 
ily home  is  at  460  Barry  Avenue,  Chicago. 


DARIUS  MILLER. 


The  influence  of  the  railroads  upon  the  open- 
ing up  of  the  country  is  so  powerful  as  to  need 
no  comment  here.  But  for  them,  the  United 
States  today  would  practically  lie  along  the 
Atlantic  coast,  and  all  the  region  west  of  it, 
save  perhaps  that  along  the  Mississippi  River, 
would  be  a  wilderness.  These  great  railroads 
have  not  come  into  being  and  progressed  as  they 
have,  as  a  natural  consequence.  They  are  the 
outgrowth  of  the  ideas  and  practical  plans  of 
men  who  have  risen  from  the  beginnings  of 
railroad  work,  to  positions  of  the  highest  trust 
and  responsibility.  One  of  these  men  known 
the  country  over,  wherever  railroad  men  con- 
gregate, was  the  late  Darius  Miller,  for  years 
president  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Bailroad,  who  died  while  holding  that  office. 

Darius  Miller  was  born  at  Princeton,  Illinois, 
on  April  3,  1859,  a  son  of  John  S.  and  Eliza- 
beth  S.   Miller,  pioneers  of  that   village.     The 


lad  was  reared  at  Princeton,  where  he  at- 
tended the  public  schools,  and  when  he  was 
nineteen  years  old  he  secured  a  position  as 
stenographer  with  the  Michigan  Central  Rail- 
road. A  few  years  later  he  became  a  clerk  in 
the  general  freight  office  of  the  St.  Louis,  Iron 
Mountain  &  Southern  Railroad.  Then  he  was 
made  chief  clerk  to  the  general  manager,  and 
in  1883  was  promoted  to  be  general  freight  and 
ticket  agent  of  the  Memphis  and  Little  Rock 
Railroad.  A  little  later  he  left  that  road  to  be- 
come general  freight  and  passenger  agent  of 
the  St.  Louis,  Arkansas  &  Texas  Railroad,  now 
a  j.art  of  the  St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railroad. 
He  was  promoted  a  few  years  later  to  the 
position  of  traffic  manager  of  this  road.  In 
189u  Mr.  Miller  became  traffic  manager  of  the 
Queen  &  Crescent  Route,  which  position  he 
held  until  1893.  From  1893  to  1896  his  services 
as   traffic   manager   were   secured  by   the  Mis- 


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souri,  Kansas  &  Texas  Railroad,  and  he  be- 
came vice  president  of  that  company  in  No- 
vember, 1896,  retaining  it  until  October,  1898, 
when  he  was  elected  second  vice  president  of 
the  Great  Northern  Railroad  at  St.  Paul,  Min- 
nesota, continuing  in  that  ofBce  until  January, 
1902.  He  then  took  the  office  of  first  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Rail- 
road January  1,  1902,  and  on  January  31,  1910, 
was  advanced  to  the  highest  office  in  the  gift 
of  the  corporation,  that  of  president  of  the 
road. 

Mr.  Miller  had  other  interests,  being  a  di- 
rector in  the  Commercial  National  Bank,  the 
Commercial  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  the  Com- 
mercial National  Safe  Deposit  Company  and  the 
Union  Trust  Company.  He  belonged  to  the 
Chicago  Club,  the  Chicago  Athletic  Associa- 
tion, the  Saddle  and  Cycle  Club,  the  Old  Elm 
Club,   the   Onwentsia    Club,   the   Exmoor   Club, 


the  Mid-Day  Club  and  the  Industrial  Club. 
Golf  was  his  favorite  recreation.  He  died  at 
Glacier  Park,  Montana,  August  2:5,  1914. 

On  October  19,  1882,  Mr.  Miller  was  married 
at  Morris,  Illinois,  to  Suzanna  Caroline  Brown. 
The  story  of  Darius  Miller's  rise  from  a  humble 
position  as  stenographer  in  a  freight  office  to 
the  presidency  of  a  great  railroad  system  is 
one  of  the  most  striking  romances  of  success 
in  the  annals  of  railroading.  A  common-school 
education,  a  grounding  in  stenography,  and  a 
liberal  supply  of  ambition,  were  his  entire  cap- 
ital. His  rise  in  life  was  due  not  only  to 
industry  from  year  to  year,  but  to  the  fact  that 
he  possessed  indomitable  will  power  which  mas- 
tered every  new  field  he  entered  in  his  rapid 
and  remarkable  career.  Mr.  Miller  was  a 
great  silent  force.  He  had  few  equals  and  no 
superiors  in  the  line  of  his  interests. 


CHARLES  DAVISON. 


Among  the  older  and  more  notable  physicians 
and  surgeons  of  Chicago  who  have  established 
a  reputation  for  ability  and  have  achieved  hon- 
orable success  in  their  profession,  none  is  more 
worthy  of  mention  in  the  history  of  Illinois 
than  Dr.  Charles  Davison.  He  has  been  an  ac- 
tive practitioner  in  Chicago  for  forty-four  years, 
and  no  physician  or  surgeon  of  this  city  has 
made  a  more  lasting  impression  for  both  pro- 
fessional ability  of  a  high  order  and  for  the 
individuality  of  a  laudable  personal  character. 
He  holds  prestige  in  his  profession  by  reason 
of  thorough  training  and  many  years  of  actual 
experience,  and  as  a  man  of  marked  intellectual 
activity,  his  labors  have  given  impetus  to  the 
medical  profession  of  this  city. 

Doctor  Davison  was  born  in  Lake  County, 
Illinois,  January  13,  1858,  a  son  of  Peter  and 
Martha  Maria  (Whedon)  Davison.  His  boy- 
hood days  were  spent  on  a  farm,  where  he  was 
taught  the  habits  of  industry  and  economy  and 
the  discipline  proved  a  valuable  one  during  the 
formative  period  of  his  life.  He  had  the  ad- 
vantage of  a  good  common  school  and  academic 
education  and  is  a  man  of  broad  information 
along  many  lines.  In  1917  the  honorary  degree 
of  Master  of  Arts  was  conferred  on  him  by  the 
Northwestern  University.  Having  early  deter- 
mined upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life 
work,  he  matriculated  at  the  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity Medical  School  and  was  graduated  from 


that  institution  in  1883,  with  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Medicine.  After  serving  an  interneship 
at  the  Cook  County  Hospital  for  eighteen 
months,  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  at 
Chicago  in  1884,  and  has  since  been  one  of  the 
potent  factors  in  the  medical  profession  of  this 
city. 

From  1887  until  1892  Doctor  Davison  was 
Assistant  Surgeon  at  the  Illinois  Charitable  Eye 
and  Ear  Infirmary  and  from  1894  until  1926  he 
was  Attending  Surgeon  to  the  Cook  County  Hos- 
pital, being  President  of  the  medical  staff  from 
1917  until  1919,  Chief  of  the  Department  of 
Surgery  in  the  latter  year,  and  Emeritus  Attend- 
ing Surgeon  since  1926.  He  was  also  Attending 
Surgeon  to  the  West  Side  Hospital  from  1896 
until  1907,  and  since  1908  he  has  been  Attend- 
ing Surgeon  to  the  University  Hospital,  and 
Surgeon-in-Chief  and  President  of  the  Medical 
Staff  of  the  latter  institution.  He  was  Pro- 
fessor of  Surgery  at  the  Chicago  Clinical  School 
from  1896  until  1906,  and  has  also  been  actively 
associated  in  various  capacities  with  the  College 
of  Medicine  of  the  University  of  Illinois  for 
many  years,  being  Professor  of  Surgical  Anat- 
omy in  1899-1900 ;  Adjunct  Professor  of  Clinical 
Surgery  from  1900  until  1903;  Adjunct  Pro- 
fessor of  Surgery  and  Clinical  Surgery  in  1903-4 ; 
Professor  of  Surgery  and  Clinical  Surgery  from 
1905  until  1926,  head  of  the  Department  of  Sur- 
gery  from   1917  until  1926  and  Emeritus  Pro- 


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fessor  of  Surgery  since  1926.  As  an  instructor 
he  is  not  only  popular,  but  is  thoroughly  quali- 
fied in  scholarship  and  is  endowed  with  rare 
gifts  of  oratory,  ready  diction  and  personal 
magnetism.  His  style  of  delivery  is  forceful 
and  logical  and  each  sentence  teaches  its  own 
lesson.  He  was  appointed  by  the  United  States 
War  Department  as  Lecturer  in  1917-18,  on 
Bone  Surgery  at  the  Cook  County  Hospital,  be- 
fore the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  officers  of  the 
Regular  United  States  and  Canadian  Armies, 
and  in  this  capacity  he  also  proved  himself  a 
man  of  ability. 

Doctor  Davison  was  Trustee  of  the  University 
of  Illinois  from  1905  until  1911 ;  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  University  and  the  West  Side 
Hospitals,  and  in  many  ways  has  contributed 
much  to  the  advancement  of  medical  science  in 
this  city.  He  was  the  author  of  Autoplastic 
Bone  Surgery  in  1916,  besides  being  a  frequent 
and  valued  contributor  of  many  surgical  papers 
and  monographs.  His  professional  services 
have  ever  been  discharged  with  a  keen  sense  of 
conscientious  obligation  and  he  enjoys  merited 
prominence  in  his  profession.  Although  the 
scope  of  his  work  has  always  been  broad,  he 
does   not   neglect   those   things   which   represent 


the  higher  ideals  of  human  existence  and  gives 
generously  of  his  time  and  means  to  charitable 
movements  and  all  measures  tending  to  the  pub- 
lic good.  He  has  ever  stood  as  an  exponent  of 
the  best  type  of  civic  loyalty  and  progressive- 
ness,  and  during  the  many  years  of  his  resi- 
dence here  he  has  wielded  definite  and  benignant 
influence,  both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man  of 
splendid   professional   ability. 

Doctor  Davison  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American 
College  of  Surgeons ;  a  member  of  the  American 
Medical  Association ;  Illinois  State  and  Chicago 
Medical  Societies;  Chicago  Surgical  Society,  of 
which  he  was  President  in  1912-13;  Institute 
of  Medicine;  Society  for  Medical  Research,  and 
the  Alpha  Kappa  Kappa  and  Alpha  Omega 
Alpha  fraternities.  He  is  also  a  Knights-Tem- 
plar and  a  Shriner  Mason,  and  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Doctor  Davi- 
son was  married  October  20,  1S87,  to  Miss  Mary 
Lavinia  Kidd,  of  Chicago,  a  woman  of  engaging 
personality,  and  of  this  union  was  born  one  son, 
Dr.  Charles  Marshall  Davison,  who  is  a  Sur- 
geon at  the  University  and  Cook  County  Hos- 
pitals, and  is  also  Associate  Surgeon  at  the 
Northwestern  University  Medical  School. 


CHARLES  FREE  DURLAND. 


Charles  F.  Durland  of  Chicago  and  River 
Forest,  111.,  was  born  at  Flora,  111.,  on  Decem- 
ber 22,  1872,  a  son  of  James  Y.  and  Rebecca 
(Free)  Durland,  who  came  from  Indiana  and 
Ohio,  respectively.  His  boyhood  was  lived  in 
Flora,  and  there  he  attended  the  public  schools. 
He  later  took  a  course  in  a  business  college. 

For  a  time  he  was  engaged  as  a  salesman, 
in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  He  came  to  Chicago  in  1892. 
That  same  year  he  went  to  work  in  the  office 
of  the  late  Mr.  W.  C.  Newberry.  This  connec- 
tion was  continued  for  a  long  time,  Mr.  Dur- 
land filling  a  place  of  ever  increasing  responsi- 
bility in  the  office.  Following  the  death  of  Mr. 
Newberry,  he  represented  the  Newberry  Estate 
for  a  long  period,  conducting  his  business  under 
the  name  of  C.  F.  Durland  &  Co. 

The  marriage  of  Charles  F.  Durland  to  Miss 
Fannie  E.  Ricketts  took  place  at  Flora,  111.,  on 
June  15,  1898.  His  wife  is  a  daughter  of  George 
A.  and  Mary  (Smedley)  Ricketts.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Durland  have  three  children.  Edwin  N.,  Harold 
C,  and  Charles  F.  Durland,  Jr.  The  family 
residence  is  at  River  Forest,  111. 


Mr.  Durland  served  as  President  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  River  Forest.  He  was 
very  earnestly  and  deeply  interested  in  every- 
thing that  pertains  to  good  government.  His 
term  of  office  was  characterized  by  the  growth 
and  stability  that  comes  with  the  highest  type 
of  administration. 

Mr.  Durland  was  actively  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  business  at  Chicago  for  thirty-five  years. 
His  success  and  his  outstanding  worth  were 
recognized  by  his  election,  in  December,  1927,  as 
President  of  the  Chicago  Real  Estate  Board. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church  of  River  Forest.  He  was  a  Mason 
and  also  belonged  to  the  River  Forest  Country 
Club,  Commercial  Club,  Maywood  Country 
Club  and  the  Executives  Club  of  Chicago. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Durland  came  in  his  56th 
year.  He  was  a  power  for  good  in  his  busi- 
ness and  in  the  community  in  which  he  lived. 
His  life  was  a  thoroughly  successful  and  admi- 
rable one. 

Charles  F.  Durland  died  on  February  7,  1928 


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JACOB  McGAVOCK  DICKINSON. 


Jacob  M.  Dickinson,  Jr.,  was  born  at  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee,  February  4,  1891,  a  son  of  Jacob 
McGavock  and  Martha  Maxwell  (Overton)  Dick- 
inson, of  whom  mention  is  made  elsewhere  in 
this  work.  His  education  has  been  thorough  and 
comprehensive  and  he  is  a  man  of  broad  infor- 
mation along  many  lines.  He  was  graduated 
from  Tale  University  in  1912,  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  from  Harvard  Uni- 
versity in  1915,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Laws.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  Bar  in 
1915,  and  has  since  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  legal  profession  of  this  city,  being  senior 
member  of  the  law  firm  of  Dickinson,  Smith, 
Far  roll  '&  Wham.  He  served  as  Assistant  State's 
Attorney  of  Cook  County  from  1915  until  1917, 
and  in  that  capacity  rendered  able  and  effective 
service  to  the  county  and  state. 

Besides  the  practice  of  his  profession,  Mr. 
Dickinson  is  also  interested  in  business  affairs, 
being  President  of  the  Roundaway  Manufactur- 
ing Company  of  Mississippi.  He  also  proved 
his  loyalty  and  patriotism  during  the  World 
War,    serving    as    Captain    of    the    One    Hun- 


dred and  Forty-ninth  Field  Artillery,  Rainbow 
Division,  A.  E.  F.,  from  1917  until  1919.  He  also 
finds  time  and  opportunity  to  give  effective  co- 
operation in  movements  for  the  civic  and  social 
betterment  of  the  community.  He  is  Treasurer 
of  the  Chicago  Chapter  of  the  American  Red 
Cross,  and  a  Trustee  of  the  Public  Health  In- 
stitute of  Chicago.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Illinois  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution, the  American  Legion,  and  of  the  Ameri- 
can, Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Bar  Associations. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Greek  Letter  Fraternity,  the 
Chicago  and  University  Clubs  of  Chicago,  and 
the  Yale  Club  of  New  York.  Mr.  Dickinson  was 
married  June  10,  1916,  to  Miss  Margaret  Adams 
Smith,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  a  daughter  of  Rufus 
B.  and  Edith  (Harrison)  Smith,  the  former  of 
whom  was  for  many  years  a  prominent  lawyer 
and  judge  of  Cincinnati.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dick- 
inson have  been  born  three  children:  McGavock 
Dickinson,  Margaret  Adams  Dickinson,  and 
Martha  Maxwell  Dickinson. 


WILLIAM  EDWARD  DEFENBACHER. 


Although  William  E.  Defenbacher,  proprietor 
of  the  Virginia  Hotel,  has  been  a  resident  of 
Chicago  but  a  few  years,  he  has  made  a  lasting 
impression.  He  has  a  very  large  acquaintance 
and  is  one  of  the  most  popular  hotel  men  in 
America,  having  been  in  the  business  all  his 
life.  He  is  notable  for  politeness,  courtesy  and 
atfentiveness  to  his  guests,  and  anyone  who  has 
stopped  with  him  once  wishes  to  make  his 
hostelry  their  home  whenever  they  are  in  the 
city. 

Mr.  Defenbacher  was  born  in  a  hotel  at  Dover, 
Tuscarawas  County,  Ohio,  October  3,  1881,  a 
son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Gintz)  Defenbacher, 
his  father  at  that  time  being  proprietor  of  the 
Iron  City  Hotel  of  Dover.  His  educational  ad- 
vantages were  those  afforded  by  the  elementary 
and  high  schools  of  his  native  town,  but  he  left 
school  in  his  senior  year  to  assist  his  father  in 
the  management  of  the  latter's  hotel.  He  has 
been  actively  identified  with  the  hotel  business 
all  his  life  and  for  the  past  twenty  years  has 
operated  and  been  proprietor  of  five  different 
hotels  in  various  sections  of  the  country.  His 
entire  business  career  has  been  devoted  to  the 


hotel  industry,  and  there  are  few  men  in  this 
field  of  activity  who  have  gained  so  high  a  repu- 
tation for  ability  along  this  line.  He  has  made 
a  study  of  the  business  for  many  years  and  has 
gained  a  wide  knowledge  of  hotel  management 
and  operation  which  has  been  put  into  practical 
force  by  himself  as  well  as  by  many  other  hotels 
throughout  the  country. 

Mr.  Defenbacher  began  his  connection  with 
the  hotel  business  as  a  proprietor,  in  Dover, 
Ohio,  in  1907,  when  he  purchased  the  Hotel  Her- 
bert, formerly  owned  by  his  father,  and  named 
after  a  younger  brother.  This  hotel  had  been 
built  by  the  elder  Defenbacher  in  1900.  In  1914, 
together  with  Charles  E.  Nickles,  he  took  over 
the  Conrad  Hotel  at  Massillon,  Ohio,  and  in 
1916  a  partnership  of  Nickles  and  Defenbacher 
bought  the  Monticello  Hotel  in  Toledo,  Ohio, 
hut  sold  it  in  1919.  In  1920  Mr.  Defenbacher 
sold  his  interests  in  the  Conrad  Hotel  to  his 
partner,  and  together  they  purchased  the  Shaw- 
han  Hotel  at  Tiffin,  Ohio.  Then  in  1921  they 
dissolved  partnership,  Mr.  Defenbacher  retain- 
ing the  Shawhan  and  Mr.  Nickles  the  Conrad. 
In  1923  Mr.  Defenbacher  sold  the  Shawhan  and 


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purchased  the  famous  Virginia  Hotel. in  Chicago, 
which  he  has  ably  and  successfully  operated 
ever  since.  This  modern  and  home-like  hotel 
needs  no  recommendation,  as  it  is  known 
throughout  the  country  as  one  of  the  most  com- 
fortable and  delightful  places  at  which  to  stop 
in  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  its  status  has  long 
been  one  of  prominence  in  connection  with  the 
representative  hostelries  of  the  country.  For 
four  years  Mr.  Defenbacher  has  devoted  his 
time  and  energy  to  building  up  the  prestige  of 
this  notable  house,  and  its  popularity  and  high 
commercial  standing  may  be  attributed  in  no 
small  degree  to  his  able  management  and  un- 
tiring efforts. 

Mr.  Defenbacher  is  President  and  the  own- 
ing operator  of  the  Virginia  Hotel  Company. 

Always  active  in  civic  and  fraternal  affairs 
as  well  as  in  hotel  interests,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-two  he  was  elected  Exalted  Ruler  of 
Dover  Lodge,  B.  P.  O.  E..  of  Dover,  Ohio.  In 
1922  he  was  elected  President  of  the  Greeters' 
of  America,  and  in  1923  he  was  reelected  to  that 
office,  thus  having  the  distinction  of  being  the 
only  one  ever  elected  to  the  presidency  for  two 
consecutive  terms. 

After    three    months    in    Chicago    Mr.    Defen- 


bacher was  elected  a  Director  of  the  Chicago 
Hotel  Association,  and  Treasurer  of  the  Ameri- 
can Hotel  Association.  He  is  also  a  Director 
of  the  Hotel  Men's  Mutual  Benefit  Association, 
and  at  the  convention  of  that  body  in  Atlantic 
City  in  1925  he  was  honored  with  the  election 
to  the  Presidency  of  the  organization.  He  also 
serves  as  a  member  of  the  Special  Finance  Com- 
mittee of  the  Greeters'  of  America,  which  or- 
ganization intends  building  a  new  unit  of  the 
Greeters'  Home  in  Denver  and  creating  a  Main- 
tenance Fund.  He  has  also  gained  distinction 
as  a  public  speaker  and  delivers  approximately 
a  hundred  addresses  annually,  for  the  good  of 
the  hotel  industry,  being  sought  after  by  organi- 
zations of  all  kinds  in  this  field  of  activity.  He 
is  a  Thirty-second  Degree  Mason,  a  Knights- 
Templar  and  a  Shriner,  and  a  member  of  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Medinah  Country  Club 
and  of  the  English  Lutheran  Church.  He  was 
elected  Presideut  of  the  Ohio  Society  of  Chicago 
on  Nov.  1,  1927. 

Mr.  Defenbacher  was  married  May  21,  1903, 
to  Miss  Verna  Kreiter.  of  Massillon,  Ohio,  and 
of  this  union  was  born  one  daughter,  Ruth 
Kreiter  Defenbacher. 


JOHN  P.  WILSON. 


John  P.  Wilson  was  born  on  July  3rd,  1844, 
on  a  farm  near  Garden  Plain,  Whiteside  Coun- 
ty, Illinois.  He  was  one  of  thirteen  children 
born  to  Thomas  and  Margaret  (Laughlin)  Wil- 
son. His  father,  a  native  of  Scotland,  was  a 
graduate  of  the  University  of  Glasgow.  His 
mother  belonged  to  a  family  of  early  settlers 
in  the  Mississippi  valley. 

His  boyhood  was  spent  on  his  father's  farm, 
and  he  secured  his  early  education  in  the 
neighborhood  schools. 

At  an  early  age  he  met  with  an  accident 
which  resulted  in  permanent  lameness,  and 
which  changed  the  course  of  his  life.  Being 
unfitted  for  farm  work  he  decided  to  study 
for  a  profession. 

He  worked  his  way  through  Knox  College 
at  Galesburg,  Illinois,  graduating  with  the  Class 
of  1865.  For  two  years  after  graduation  he 
taught  school  in  the  Galesburg  Academy  and 
devoted  his  spare  time  to  the  study  of  law. 
In  1867  he  moved  to  Chicago,  where  he  secured 
a  position  in  the  law  office  of  John  Borden. 

Mr.  Borden  was  an  expert  real  estate  lawyer. 


The  experience  which  Mr.  Wilson  gained  in  his 
ofiice  laid  the  foundation  for  that  proficiency 
in  real  estate  law  which  ultimately  made  him 
the  recognized  authority  in  Chicago  on  all  legal 
questions  relating  to  real  estate. 

After  the  great  fire  of  1871  litigation  devel- 
oped from  the  assessment  and  collection  of 
taxes.  Mr.  Wilson  was  employed  in  this  liti- 
gation. His  work  attracted  attention,  and  he 
acquired  the  reputation  of  being  an  able  and 
successful  trial  lawyer.  He  then  met  the  own- 
ers of  large  real  estate  holdings  in  Chicago, 
many  of  whom  later  became  his  clients. 

In  1877  the  constitutionality  of  the  Act  of 
the  legislature  establishing  Probate  Courts  was 
attacked.  Mr.  Wilson  was  still  a  young  man, 
but  he  was  selected  by  Joshua  C.  Knickerbocker, 
who  had  just  been  elected  Judge  of  the  Probate 
Court  of  Cook  County,  to  defend  the  Act.  Mr. 
Wilson  prosecuted  the  litigation  to  a  successful 
conclusion  in  the  Supreme  Court. 

During  the  following  ten  years  his  practice 
increased  steadily.  He  was  associated  in  im- 
portant litigation  with  Corydon  Beckwith,  Ly- 


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man  Trumbull,  Melville  W.  Fuller,  William  C. 
Goudy,  and  other  prominent  lawyers.  His  rep- 
utation as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Chicago 
Bar  had  become  firmly  established. 

In  1892  and  1893  he  was  counsel  for  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition. 

In  1896  he  drafted  the  legislation  creating 
the  Sanitary  District  of  Chicago,  and  success- 
fully defended  its  validity  through  the  Supreme 
Court. 

He  was  later  selected  as  a  member  of  the 
Tax  Commission,  which  had  been  created  to 
revise  the  tax  laws  of  Illinois.  His  long  ex- 
perience in  tax  matters  and  his  sound  judgment 
enabled  him  to  render  valuable  services  to  the 
Committee. 

For  many  years  his  counsel  and  advice  have 
been  sought  and  freely  given  in  matters  relat- 
ing to  the  public  welfare. 

His  association  as  counsel  with  the  Asso- 
ciated Press,  with  the  International  Harvester 
Company,  Chicago  City  Railway  Company,  and 
other  large  interests,  brought  him  in  contact 
with  many  of  the  prominent  lawyers  of  the 
country,  and  he  was  generally  recognized  by 
them  as  one  of  the  able  and  outstanding  lawyers 
of  the  country. 


Outside  of  his  profession  he  was  deeply  in- 
terested in  the  Children's  Memorial  Hospital. 
For  the  last  twenty  years  of  his  life  he  gave 
unsparingly  of  his  time  and  means  to  its  de- 
velopment and  support,  and  by  his  will  he  be- 
queathed a  large  sum  to  its  endowment  funds. 

He  was  for  many  years  a  trustee  of  Knox 
College.  The  University  Club  of  Chicago  owes 
the  possession  of  its  present  location  and  build- 
ing largely  to  his  advice,  foresight  and  liber- 
ality. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  married  on  April  25,  1871, 
to  Margaret  C.  Mcllvaine,  of  Chicago,  a  daugh- 
ter of  John  D.  Mcllvaine.  Three  children  of  the 
marriage  survive:  Martha  Wilson,  John  P. 
Wilson,  Jr.,  and  Anna  W.  Dickinson  (Mrs. 
William  R.  Dickinson).  Two  daughters,  Mar- 
garet C.  Wilson  and  Agnes  R.  Wilson,  died  in 
their  father's  lifetime. 

Mr.  Wilson  died  on  October  3,  1922,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-eight  years.  He  was  actively 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  until 
within  two  weeks  of  his  death,  and  his  mental 
and  physical  vigor  remained  unimpaired. 

He  will  be  long  remembered,  not  only  as  a 
great  lawyer,  but  also  as  a  just,  kindly  and 
upright  man. 


ARTHUR  WEEKS  WAKELEY. 


Although  numbered  among  the  younger  busi- 
ness men  of  Chicago,  Arthur  W.  Wakeley,  of  the 
firm  of  Paul  H.  Davis  &  Company,  investment 
securities  and  brokers  in  stocks  and  bonds,  has 
proved  his  ability  as  a  thorough  business  man 
and  well  deserves  mention  in  the  history  of 
Illinois.  Aside  from  his  personal  worth  and 
accomplishments,  there  is  much  of  interest  at- 
tached to  his  genealogy  which  betokens  lines  of 
sterling  worth  and  prominent  identification  with 
American  history  for  many  generations,  being 
a  direct  descendant  of  Lewis  Morris,  who  was 
a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
a  General  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  an 
epoch-maker  in  the  political,  civic  and  social 
development  of  our  great  Republic. 

Mr.  Wakeley  was  born  in  Chicago,  December 
6,  1888.  a  son  of  Lucius  W.  and  Helen  L. 
(Weeks  i  Wakeley.  His  early  education  was 
obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  Omaha,  Ne- 
braska, graduating  from  the  High  School  of 
that  city  in  1907.  He  later  matriculated  at 
Cornell  University  and  was  graduated  from  that 
institution  in  1911  with  the  degree  of  Mechani- 


cal Engineer.  Soon  after  completing  his  college 
course  he  became  boiler  engineer  for  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  and  served 
in  that  capacity  for  two  years.  In  1913  he  be- 
came purchasing  agent  for  the  Wilson  Steel 
Products  Company,  and  remained  with  that  con- 
cern two  years.  He  was  then  identified  with 
John  Burnham  &  Company  of  Chicago  until 
1916,  when  he  became  a  founder  and  member 
of  the  firm  of  Paul  H.  Davis  &  Company.  This 
company  holds  membership  in  the  Chicago  and 
New  York  Stock  Exchanges,  and  is  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  substantial  concerns  of  its 
kind  in  Chicago.  Its  status  has  long  been  one 
of  prominence,  and  it  is  numbered  among  the 
representative  brokerage  bouses  of  the  United 
States. 

Besides  his  business  connections  Mr.  Wakeley 
is  also  active  in  civic  affairs  and  his  progressive 
spirit  is  evident  in  many  ways.  He  served  as 
Captain  of  the  Ordnance  Department  of  the 
United  States  Army  during  the  World  War.  and 
in  many  ways  proved  his  loyalty  and  patriotism 
to  his  country.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of 


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the  American  Revolution;  Cornell  University 
Association  of  Chicago,  University  Club  of  Chi- 
cago, Kenilworth  Club  and  the  Bankers  Lounge 
Club,  and  is  prominent  in  both  business  and 
social  circles. 


Mr.  Wakeley  was  married  April  10,  1920,  to 
Miss  Mildred  Wheeler,  of  Chicago,  daughter  of 
Harry  A.  and  Emma  (Lindsay)  Wheeler,  and 
of  this  union  was  born  one  daughter:  Barbara 
Wakeley. 


FRANK  GRANGER  LOGAN. 


Frank  G.  Logan,  who  is  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished men  that  Chicago  has  known,  was 
born  October  7,  1S51,  in  Cayuga  County,  New 
York,  a  son  of  Simeon  Ford  Logan  and  Phoebe 
Ann  (Hazen)  Logan.  His  is  an  old  Colonial 
family,  originating  in  this  country  with  John 
Logan  who  came  from  Scotland  and  settled  in 
Connecticut  in  1718. 

Frank  G.  Logan  attended  country  school  in 
Cayuga  County,  and  later  studied  at  the  academy 
at  Ithaca,  New  York.  When  he  was  nineteen 
years  old  he  came  to  Chicago.  He  became  a  clerk 
in  the  store  of  Field,  Leiter  &  Company  ;  but  soon 
entered  the  employ  of  a  Board  of  Trade  firm. 
In  1877  he  organized  the  firm  of  F.  G.  Logan  & 
Company,  and  engaged  in  the  grain  commission 
business.  His  business  grew  and  prospered  and 
became  one  of  the  most  important  on  the  Chi- 
cago Board  of  Trade.  It  was  Mr.  Logan  who, 
in  1890,  established  his  private  wire  system  for 
which  F.  G.  Logan  &  Company,  and  its  successor, 
Logan  &  Bryan,  have  become  known  throughout 
the  nation.  For  many  years  Mr.  Logan  was  a 
banker  and  broker  and  a  member  also  of  the 
New  York  and  Chicago  Stock  Exchanges. 

In  July,  1901,  Mr.  Logan  retired  from  active 
business,  turning  his  interests  over  to  his  part- 
ners and  reserving  for  his  sons  a  place  in  the 
business.  Two  of  them,  Stuart  and  Howard 
Logan,  later  became  partners.  Since  that  time 
he  has  devoted  the  best  years  of  his  life  to  the 
furtherance  of  art,  education  and  science.  The 
world  has  benefited  largely  through  the  influ- 
ence he  has  wielded  and  the  results  he  has  ac- 
complished. 

For  years  he  has  been  Vice  President  and 
Trustee  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  and  he 
and  his  wife  are  two  of  the  most  valued  patrons 
and  benefactors  of  that  great  institution.  He 
is  a  Trustee  of  the  B.  F.  Ferguson  Fund  through 
which  notable  monuments  have  been  erected  to 
beautify  the  city,  is  a  member  of  the  Municipal 
Art  League,  of  the  Public  School  Art  Society 
and  of  the  Industrial  Art  League,  as  well  as  The 
Chicago  Galleries.  The  Mayor  of  Chicago  has 
honored  Mr.  Logan,  year  after  year,  by  appoint- 


ing him  a  director  and  one  of  the  purchasing 
committee  that  directs  the  disbursement  of  the 
fund  authorized  by  the  city  for  the  advancement 
and  acquisition  of  municipal  art.  He  is  a  Trus- 
tee of  the  Grand  Central  Galleries  of  New  York, 
a  founder  of  the  Friends  of  American  Art, 
which  organization  has  done  so  much  to  en- 
courage American  artists  and  which  has  made 
the  splendid  collection  of  paintings  and  sculpture 
that  it  has  presented  to  the  Art  Institute. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Logan  gave  to  the  Art  Institute 
of  Chicago  an  endowment  fund  through  which 
the  Institute  awards  yearly  the  Logan  Medals 
for  paintings,  sculpture,  portraiture,  water 
colors,  etchings  and  the  industrial  arts.  Accom- 
panying the  Logan  Medals,  which  are  beautifully 
wrought  in  bronze,  are  various  cash  prizes,  vary- 
ing from  $100  to  $2,500,  all  provided  for  by  the 
endowment. 

In  Mr.  Logan's  home  is  his  world-famous  col- 
lection of  Flemish,  Barbizon,  English  and  Amer- 
ican paintings. 

Mr.  Logan  is  a  Trustee  and  has  been  Vice 
President  of  Beloit  College.  He  gave  to  the 
college  the  Rust  Collection  of  Archaeological 
Specimens,  and  has  frequently  added  to  the  col- 
lection ;  from  it  has  grown  the  Logan  Museum 
of  Beloit  which  is  one  of  the  most  valuable 
permanent  exhibits  of  its  kind,  containing  as 
it  does  important  collections  of  pre-historic 
American  and  world  paleolithic  material.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Logan  also  founded  the  Chair  of 
Anthropology  at  Beloit  College,  one  of  the  twelve 
such  chairs  in  American  Educational  institu- 
tions ;  and  they  have  sent  expeditions  to  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  world,  one  expedition  being 
to  Les  Eyzies,  called  the  pre-historic  capital  of 
the  world  and  located  in  the  Dordogne  Cave 
region  of  Southern  France,  where  was  found  the 
unique  Aurignacean  necklace,  40,000  years  old, 
on  which  man  made  one  of  his  first  attempts, 
apparently,  at  decoration.  Here  also  was  found 
the  famous  cave  bear  tooth  necklace  of  Magda- 
lenean  time,  which  is  some  25,000  years  old. 
These  rare  treasures  are  preserved  in  the  Logan 
Museum  at  Beloit  College.     The  site  on  which 


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the  necklaces  were  found  was  leased  that  the 
museum  might  conduct  a  summer  school  there 
and  also  conduct  further  excavations.  The  mu- 
seum also  sent  another  important  expedition  into 
the  .Sahara  and  into  French  Algeria,  in  which 
region  were  found  skeletons  of  Aurignacean  time 
and  which  are  now  being  observed  for  identifi- 
cation by  leading  scientists.  Dr.  George  L.  Col- 
lie, curator  of  the  museum,  has  published  a 
Museum  bulletin  on  the  Aurignacean  man  which 
will  be  the  first  complete  review  of  that  subject. 

For  his  many  contributions  to  research  work 
in  French  territory  Mr.  Logan  was  made  a  mem- 
ber of  the  French  Academy,  and  was  given  the 
decoration  of  "the  Gold  Palms."  Beloit  College 
conferred  upon  him,  in  1922,  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Laws. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Logan  have  endowed  three  Fel- 
lowships in  the  University  of  Chicago  for  re- 
search in  experimental  medicine,  pathology, 
bacteriology  and  surgery.  Mr.  Logan  was  a 
founder  of  the  College  of  Surgeons  at  Chicago. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Archaeological  Society 
of  America,  and  served  as  President  of  the  Chi- 
cago Chapter ;  of  the  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science ;  the  Chicago  Academy  of 


Science ;  the  National  Geographic  Society  and  of 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  to  which  he  gave 
his  priceless  collection  of  the  personal  belong- 
ings of  John  Brown  and  Abraham  Lincoln. 

He  is  a  patron  of  the  Chicago  Grand  Opera, 
the  Symphony  Orchestra,  the  Drama  League,  and 
is  a  Trustee  of  the  Goodman  Theatre. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club, 
City  Club,  Onwentsia,  Shore  Acres,  Cliff  Dwell- 
ers and  South  Shore  Country  clubs. 

The  marriage  of  Frank  G.  Logan  to  Miss 
Josephine  Hancock  of  Chicago  took  place  June 
15,  18S2.  Mrs.  Logan  is  a  daughter  of  the  late 
Colonel  John  Lane  Hancock,  extended  mention  of 
whom  will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  history. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Logan  have  five  children :  Rhea 
(Mrs.  Charles  Andrews  Munroe),  Stuart  Logan, 
Howard  Hancock  Logan,  Spencer  Hancock 
Logan,  and  Waldo  Hancock  Logan.  The  fam- 
ily home  is  at  No.  1150  Lake  Shore  Drive,  Chi- 
cago. 

As  is  evidenced  by  the  foregoing  review  there 
have  been  few  men  whose  lives  hold  such  diver- 
sified interests  or  have  wrought  so  much  of  good 
as  that  of  Frank  G.  Logan. 


OSCAR  DURANTE. 


In  the  conduct  of  enterprises  of  broad  scope, 
no  country  in  the  world  has  offered  to  the  young 
man  of  initiative  power  and  worthy  ambition 
so  splendid  opportunities  as  has  our  American 
republic,  and  in  no  city,  perhaps,  has  the  young 
man  come  to  his  own  in  so  distinct  and  in- 
fluential a  way  as  in  Chicago.  Here  encourage- 
ment and  support  are  never  denied  to  any 
legitimate  undertaking,  and  here  it  has  been 
possible  for  young  men  of  ability  and  spirit  to 
become  leaders  and  masters  in  nearly  all  walks 
of  life. 

Oscar  Durante,  founder  and  managing  editor 
of  The  Italian  News  (L'ltalia),  is  one  of  the 
aggressive  and  public-spirited  men  of  this  city 
of  foreign  birth,  who  took  advantage  of  the 
opportunity  offered  here  for  journalistic  ad- 
vancement, and  has  achieved  notable  success 
thereby.  He  has  made  his  way  to  prominence 
and  honorable  prestige  through  his  own  well- 
directed  energy  and  efforts,  and  by  industry 
and  frugal  habits  he  has  risen  from  a  modest 
beginning  as  a  youth,  to  a  place  of  command- 
ing influence  in  the  business  world,  and  well  de- 
serves  mention   in   the  history   of  Illinois.     Al- 


though a  native  of  Italy,  Mr.  Durante  has  been 
a  resident  of  Chicago  for  forty-two  years,  and 
no  citizen  of  this  city  has  made  a  more  last- 
ing impression  for  both  business  ability  of  a 
high  order  and  for  the  individuality  of  a  laud- 
able personal  character. 

Mr.  Durante  was  born  at  Naples,  Italy,  May 
14,  1869,  a  son  of  Louis  and  Teresa  (Canua- 
vale)  Durante,  and  comes  of  distinguished  old 
established  Italian  families,  which  dates  back 
many  generations  in  the  history  of  that  country. 
His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  schools 
of  his  native  land,  but  like  many  ambitious 
young  men  of  the  old  world,  he  was  not  satisfied 
with  the  opportunity  offered  there  for  advance- 
ment, and  resolved  to  seek  attainment  in  Amer- 
ica, where  greater  advantages  are  afforded.  Ac- 
cordingly, in  1885,  when  sixteen  years  of  age, 
he  sailed  for  the  United  States,  coming  direct 
to  Chicago,  and  has  since  been  a  resident  of  this 
city.  He  became  a  naturalized  citizen  of  the 
United  States  by  act  of  Congress  soon  after  at- 
taining his  majority,  and  is  as  appreciative  of 
his  adopted  country  as  it  is  of  him. 

Having  a  natural  predilection  for  journalism 


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and  early  developing  an  unusual  literary  talent, 
Mr.  Durante  established  The  Italian  News  in 
April,  1886,  and  has  since  been  the  managing 
editor  of  this  paper.  The  L'ltalia — The  Italian 
News — which  is  published  in  Italian,  advocating 
Italian  traditions  and  American  ideals  and 
business  methods,  is  a  clean,  well-edited  and 
well-printed  sheet  with  reliable  news  matter 
and  timely  editorials.  The  editor  has  always 
kept  its  columns  open  to  the  support  of  move- 
ments for  the  benefit  and  betterment  of  the 
city  and  state  and  the  people  of  the  community, 
and  it  has  frequently  been  quoted  by  metropol- 
itan newspapers  on  foreign  political  matters 
and  issues  of  the  day.  Under  Mr.  Durante's 
able  management,  the  paper  has  become  one  of 
the  leading  newspapers  in  Chicago,  and  its 
status  has  long  been  one  of  prominence  in  con- 
nection with  the  representative  journalistic 
activities  of  the  country. 

Besides  his  journalistic  work.  Mr.  Durante 
also  finds  time  and  opportunity  to  give  effective 
co-operation  in  movements  for  the  civic  and 
material  betterment  of  the  country,  and  has 
ever  stood  as  an  exponent  of  the  best  type  of 
civic  loyalty  and  progressiveness.  His  efforts 
are  not  confined  to  lines  resulting  in  individual 
benefit,  but  are  evident  in  those  fields  where 
general  interests  and  public  welfare  are  in- 
volved, and  during  the  many  years  of  his  resi- 
dence here  he  has  wielded  definite  and  be- 
nignant influence,  both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a 
man  of  splendid  business  ability.  He  has  al- 
ways advocated  the  principles  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  in  1896  was  entrusted  by  Chair- 
man Marcus  A.  Hanna.  of  the  Republican  Na- 
tional Committee,  with  the  management  of  that 
campaign  among  the  citizens  of  Italian  birth 
and  descent,  and  in  that  capacity  he  not  only 
proved  his  ability  as  a  leader,  but  bis  popularity 
and  high  standing  as  a  citizen. 

On  January  22,  1898,  Mr.  Durante  was  ap- 
pointed United  States  Consul  to  Catania.  Italy, 
by  President  William  M'Kinley.     He  was  also  a 


member  of  the  American  Commission  for  the 
establishment  of  a  United  States  Postal  Service 
in  Porto  Rico  that  took  the  first  United  States 
registered  mail  across  the  Island  in  two  cov- 
ered wagons,  in  1899.  He  also  served  as  official 
interpreter  for  the  United  States  Army,  and  in 
1899,  was  assistant  postmaster  at  San  Juan, 
Porto  Rico.  In  1899  and  1900,  he  was  cable 
correspondent  for  the  Chicago  Daily  Tribune, 
at  Rome,  Italy.  He  is  a  student  of  languages, 
both  ancient  and  modern,  and  was  the  trans- 
lator (from  the  Italian),  of  De  Amici's  '"Cuore" 
(Heart  of  a  Boy)  in  1904.  He  is  also  the  com- 
piler of  Italian  on  the  phonograph,  and  English 
on  the  phonograph,  and  also  a  vest  pocket  Ita- 
lian-English and  English-Italian  Dictionary.  He 
is  fond  of  good  music,  chess  and  pinochle,  and 
always  gets  the  most  out  of  the  finer  social 
amenities  of  life. 

In  1923  Mr.  Durante  served  as  a  Special  Rep- 
resentative of  Secretary  of  Labor,  James  J. 
Davis,  at  Chicago.  He  has  also  made  a  survey 
of  foreign  language  people  in  the  United  States. 
He  is  an  advocate  of  naturalization  of  Italian- 
born  residents  in  the  United  States  and  of  com- 
pulsory education  in  Illinois.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Illinois  Commission,  by  appointment 
of  Governor  Deneen,  for  the  distribution  of 
State  relief  to  the  earthquake  sufferers  at  Mes- 
sina, Italy,  in  1909.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chi- 
cago Board  of  Education,  and  in  various  ways 
has  rendered  valuable  and  efficient  service  con- 
ducive to  the  best  interests  of  the  city  and  state. 
In  1918.  he  was  decorated  by  King  Victor 
Emanuel  III.  with  Knighthood  of  the  Crown  of 
Italy. 

Mr.  Durante  was  married  October  30,  1899, 
to  Miss  Jean  Andrews,  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland, 
a  woman  of  engaging  personality,  and  of  this 
union  was  born  one  daughter,  Marion  Teresa 
Jean,  wife  of  Frank  Schneberger,  who  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  law  firm  of  Dawson.  Dawson  & 
Schneberger.  one  of  the  leading  legal  organiza- 
tions of  Chicago. 


JOSEPH  LANE  HANCOCK. 


The  late  Dr.  Joseph  Lane  Hancock,  of  Chi- 
cago, was  born  in  that  city.  April  12,  18G4,  a  son 
of  the  late  Colonel  John  Lane  Hancock,  extended 
mention  of  whom  will  be  found  elsewhere  in 
this  history. 

His  early  education  began  in  the  Chicago  Pub- 
lic School.    Later  lie  graduated  from  the  Medi- 


cal Department  of  Northwestern  University, 
with  his  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  He  was 
a  lifelong  resident  of  Chicago ;  and  for  many 
years  prior  to  his  death  he  was  active  in  the  pri- 
vate practice  of  medicine  here,  ranking  high 
among  the  members  of  his  profession.    He  was 


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also  physician  for  the  Elevated  Railways  of 
Chicago  for  some  years. 

He  was  a  devoted  student  of  science  and  be- 
came one  of  America's  recognized  naturalists. 
He  gave  much  of  his  time  and  a  great  share  of 
his  fine  enthusiasm  and  ability  to  research  work. 
Material  was  sent  to  him  from  India,  Borneo, 
Costa  Rica,  Peru  and  other  remote  countries  for 
investigation  and  classification ;  and  his  results 
were  published  in  scientific  journals  throughout 
the  world.  He  was  a  scientific  writer  of  rare 
ability.  The  illustrations  which  frequently  ac- 
companied his  writings  were  by  his  own  hand 
and  are  very  able  representations  of  the  insect 
life  under  discussion.  The  publication  of  his 
book  on  the  Tettigidae  gave  him  place  as  one 
of  the  principal  authorities  on  that  subject. 

Doctor  Hancock  had  a  profound  love  of  art, 


evidenced  not  only  in  his  accurate  appreciation 
of  the  best  paintings  but  also  in  the  exceptional 
ability  as  a  painter  that  he  himself  possessed. 
The  landscapes  which  he  painted  speak  for  them- 
selves. 

On  March  22,  1893,  Doctor  Hancock  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Louise  J.  Lambert  of  Oskaloosa, 
Iowa,  who  died  on  May  19.  1919.  They  had  one 
daughter,  Margaret  (Mrs.  John  Sinclair).  His 
second  marriage  was  to  Mrs.  Ida  Richardson, 
on  December  25,  1920. 

The  death  of  Doctor  Hancock  occurred  March 
12,  1922.  He  was  much  beloved  for  his  kindly, 
sensitive  nature  and  his  fine  character.  His  pass- 
ing closed  a  career  of  unusual  attainment;  and 
he  left  behind  him  a  distinguished  name  in  the 
fields  of  art,  of  letters  and  of  science. 


ADDISON  LEMAN  GARDNER. 


Addison  L.  Gardner,  senior  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Gardner,  Foote,  Burns  &  Morrow, 
one  of  Chicago's  strong  and  successful  law  or- 
ganizations, has  been  a  prominent  figure  in  the 
legal  affairs  of  this  city  for  more  than  four 
decades,  and  has  achieved  notable  success  in 
his  profession. 

Mr.  Gardner  was  born  at  Walworth,  New 
York,  May  10,  1866,  a  son  of  Leman  and  Eliza 
A.  (Knapp)  Gardner,  and  comes  of  prominent 
old  established  American  families  which  date 
back  to  the  Colonial  Epoch  in  our  nation's  his- 
tory, being  a  direct  descendant  of  Robert  Gard- 
ner, who  settled  in  Massachusetts  about  the 
year  1650,  and  was  one  of  the  active  factors  in 
the  early  development  of  that  country.  Many 
of  his  descendants  were  leading  spirits  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  many  have  become  suc- 
cessful, in  nearly  all  walks  of  life,  in  various 
localities  throughout  the  country.  Addison  L. 
Gardner  had  the  advantage  of  splendid  school- 
ing, including  that  of  Walworth  (New  York) 
Academy,  Genesee  Wesleyan  Seminary.  Lima, 
New  York,  and  in  schools  of  history  and  po- 
litical science  of  Columbia  (New  York)  Uni- 
versity, and  he  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Laws  from  the  last  named  institution  in  1887. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1887,  and  began 
the  practice  of  law  at  New  York  City,  but  in 
the  same  year  came  to  Chicago,  where  he  was 
identified  with  the  law  firm  of  Jenkins  &  Hark- 
ness  for  six  years,  during  which  time,  from 
1890  until  1893,  he  was  assistant  attorney  for 


the  South  Side  Rapid  Transit  Railroad  Company. 

In  1893  Mr.  Gardner  became  attorney  for  the 
Metropolitan  West  Side  Elevated  Railway  Com- 
pany, for  which  he  served  as  General  Attorney 
from  1912  until  1924.  He  was  also  General 
Attorney  for  the  Northwestern  Elevated  Rail- 
road Company,  the  South  Side  Elevated  Rail- 
road Company,  and  the  Chicago  &  Oak  Park 
Elevated  Railroad  Company  from  1912  until 
1924.  In  1916  he  became  General  Attorney  for 
the  Chicago,  North  Shore  &  Milwaukee  Rail- 
road, and  has  since  served  in  this  capacity.  He 
has  also  served  in  the  same  capacity  for  the 
Chicago  Rapid  Transit  Company  since  1924.  As 
senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Gardner. 
Foote,  Burns  &  Morrow,  Mr.  Gardner  represents 
one  of  the  most  powerful  and  successful  law 
organizations  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  their 
clients  are  numbered  among  the  representative 
citizens  and  business  and  financial  institutions 
of  the  country.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican, Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Bar  Associa- 
tions, and  is  recognized  as  a  strong  factor  in 
the  best  element  of  his  profession. 

Although  a  stanch  Republican  in  his  political 
affiliations,  Mr.  Gardner  has  never  cared  for  the 
distinction  that  comes  from  political  office,  and 
takes  no  active  part  in  politics  aside  from  cast- 
ing the  weight  of  his  influence  in  support  of 
men  and  measures  working  for  the  public  good. 
He  does  not  neglect  those  things  which  repre- 
sent the  higher  ideals  of  human  existence. 

He  is  a   member  of  numerous  clubs  and  or- 


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ganizations,  among  which  are  the  American  His- 
torical Association,  Sons  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution, Union  League  Club,  University  Club,  Oak 
Park  Country  Club,  and  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Mr.  Gardner  was  married  October  4,  1893,  to 
Jeanie  A.  Black,  of  Chicago,  a  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Jeanie    (MacAdam)    Black,  and  of 


this  union  were  born  two  children :  Addison 
Leman  Gardner,  Jr.,  who  is  a  graduate  of  Har- 
vard University  and  Harvard  Law  School,  and 
since  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1922,  has  been 
associated  with  the  law  firm  of  Gardner,  Foote, 
Burns  &  Morrow  ;  and  Isabel  B.,  who  is  the  wife 
of  John  Shillestad,  of  Chicago. 


JOHN  L.  HANCOCK. 


Colonel  Hancock  was  born  in  Buxton,  Maine, 
March  16,  1812,  a  son  of  John  Lane  Hancock 
and  Hannah  (Prescott)  Hancock,  and  came  of 
a  prominent  old  established  New  England  family 
which  dates  back  to  the  colonial  epoch  in  Amer- 
ican history.  The  family  name  is  synonymous 
with  our  national  independence  and  numbers 
among  its  members  many  of  the  patriots  of 
1776,  including  the  American  statesman,  John 
Hancock,  president  of  the  Provincial  Congress 
in  1774,  and  of  the  General  Congress  from  1775 
to  1777,  and  the  first  of  the  signers  of  the  Dec- 
laration of  Independence.  The  immediate  sub- 
ject of  this  review  spent  his  boyhood  days  in 
his  native  village  and  at  Hiram,  Maine,  whither 
the  family  had  removed  when  he  was  a  lad  of 
fourteen. 

As  a  youth,  Colonel  Hancock  manifested  unus- 
ual business  talent.  He  was  endowed  by  nature 
with  a  powerful  frame,  vigorous  intellect,  and  a 
spirit  of  courage  and  enterprise  that  prompted 
him  to  seek  a  broader  field  than  the  eastern 
village  afforded ;  and  upon  attaining  his  major- 
ity, in  1833,  he  went  to  Westbrook,  Maine,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  business  of  beef  packing  for  a 
time  with  considerable  success.  In  1854,  he 
formed  a  connection  with  the  firm  of  Cragin  & 
Company,  of  New  York,  and  soon  afterward 
came  to  Chicago  to  assume  charge  of  the  com- 
pany's western  business.  He  arrived  here  in 
May,  1854,  and  thenceforward  his  life  and  en- 
terprises were  blended  with  the  growth  and 
development  of  this  city ;  and  through  pluck, 
perseverance  and  honorable  dealing  he  became 
one  of  the  city's  most  substantial  and  valued 
citizens. 

The  Chicago,  of  that  day,  which  was  reached 
by  Erie  Canal,  stage  route  or  limited  sections  of 
railroad,  was  only  a  frontier  town  of  less  than 
fifty  thousand  inhabitants,  and  offered  little  in- 
ducements to  the  casual  observer.  The  block- 
houses and  forts,  which  shortly  before  had 
marked  the  most  north-westerly  point  held  by 


the  Government  against  the  Indians,  were  still 
central  features ;  and  it  was  not  uncommon  to 
see  straggling  bands  of  Pottawatomies  on  the 
streets,  although  their  tribe  was  a  party  to  the 
treaties  at  Chicago  in  1832-33,  and  their  final 
immigration  beyond  the  Mississippi  being  among 
the  last  of  the  tribes  to  remove,  had  taken  place 
in  1838.  Colonel  Hancock  recognized  the  fact, 
however,  that  Chicago  was  advantageously  sit- 
uated ;  that  it  was  already  marked  out  as  a 
great  railroad  center,  and  held  a  commanding 
position  on  the  Great  Lakes.  His  faith  in  its 
future  was  never  broken. 

Soon  after  his  arrival  here  he  began  the  erec- 
tion of  a  packing  house,  the  magnitude  of  which 
astonished  the  many  who  could  not  understand 
where  sufficient  business  could  be  obtained  to 
keep  it  in  operation.  The  plant  represented  an 
investment  of  $45,000  and  had  a  capacity  of 
1.500  barrels  of  dressed  meats  per  day,  and  was, 
in  fact,  one  of  the  best  establishments  of  its 
kind  in  existence.  Western  people  thought  there 
existed  no  need  for  such  a  plant,  and  were  in- 
clined to  look  with  doubt  upon  the  judgment  of 
its  builder ;  but  Colonel  Hancock,  with  unerring 
vision,  a  keen  discernment  born  of  optimism, 
and  an  unflagging  belief  in  the  growth  and  de- 
velopment of  the  great  Northwest,  saw  beyond 
the  restrictions  of  the  moment  and  built  for 
the  future. 

That  Colonel  Hancock's  judgment  was  correct 
has  long  since  been  demonstrated  by  the  mar- 
velous growth  of  the  packing  industry,  of  which 
he  was  such  an  early  pioneer.  From  the  time 
of  his  arrival  in  Chicago  and  the  casting  of  his 
lot  with  the  great  West,  he  took  an  active  in- 
terest in  the  Board  of  Trade,  of  which  he  became 
a  member  during  the  early  days  of  its  struggle 
for  existence.  He  was  elected  second  vice  presi- 
dent, then  first  vice  president,  and  in  1863,  was 
elected  president.  At  the  expiration  of  his  term 
as  chief  executive  the  members  of  the  board 
showed  their  high  appreciation  of  his  worth  and 


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ability  by  conferring  upon  bim  tbe  unusual  honor 
of  re-electing  him,  by  a  very  large  majority,  to 
serve  a  second  term. 

During  his  second  term  as  president  the  Board 
of  Trade  found  itself  too  greatly  restricted  by 
lack  of  suitable  quarters  in  which  to  conduct  the 
rapidly  increasing  volume  of  its  business;  and 
a  movement  was  started  looking  toward  tbe  con- 
struction of  a  new  building.  An  association  was 
organized  for  this  purpose,  and  Colonel  Hancock 
subscribed  liberally  to  the  stock  and  gave  gen- 
erously of  his  time  and  effort.  He  was  elected 
a  director  of  the  building  association ;  and  at 
once  became  active  in  tbe  detail  and  work  of 
bringing  the  undertaking  to  a  satisfactory  and 
successful  conclusion.  The  new  building,  lo- 
cated at  the  corner  of  La  Salle  and  Washington 
streets,  was  completed  and  occupied  in  1865. 

This  handsome' structure  was  completely  de- 
stroyed in  the  great  fire  of  1871  and  the  Board 
of  Trade  found  itself  without  a  home ;  but  the 
courage,  energy  and  resources  of  the  members, 
which  had  proved  equal  to  every  former  emer- 
gency, again  asserted  themselves,  and  plans  for 
the  construction  of  a  new  building  were  imme- 
diately begun.  A  special  building  committee 
was  appointed,  of  which  Colonel  Hancock  was 
chosen  chairman,  a  preference  no  less  a  compli- 
ment to  his  past  effort  than  a  fitting  tribute  to 
his  genius  and  constructive  ability  for  the  future. 
In  referring  to  this  particular  undertaking,  An- 
dreas, in  his  History  of  Chicago,  says :  "On 
October  11,  1871,  two  days  after  the  destruction 
of  the  chamber  of  commerce,  with  its  library, 
trophies  and  valuable  papers,  the  directors  met 
and  resolved  to  reconstruct  their  building  on  the 
old  site.  The  first  work  was  done  on  October 
14.  while  the  sTone  and  brick  were  yet  warm. 
In  exactly  twelve  months  the  new  building  was 
completed  and,  at  noon  of  October  9,  1872,  was 
formally  opened  and  tbe  Board  of  Trade  in- 
stalled in  one  of  the  finest  buildings,  for  com- 
mercial purposes,  in  America."  Thus  it  was 
given  Colonel  Hancock  to  be  a  leader  in  the 
securing  and  the  building  of  two  Chambers  of 
Commerce  occupied  by  the  Board  of  Trade. 

It  is  impossible  within  the  limitation  of  a  per- 
sonal review  of  this  character  to  deal  in  detail 
with  all  the  various  matters  of  importance  In 
connection  with  the  Board  of  Trade  with  which 
Colonel  Hancock  was  connected,  or  to  enumerate 
the  many  regulations  now  in  force  which  bear 
the  unmistakable  impress  of  his  personality  and 
character ;  but  it  may  be  said  in  conclusion  that 


his  labors  were  of  the  most  earnest  character, 
that  they  were  exceedingly  comprehensive  and 
that  they  contributed  in  an  important  degree  to 
the  welfare  and  popularity  of  this  great  or- 
ganization. 

It  is  not  alone  in  the  business  world  that  Col- 
onel Hancock  won  merited  distinction,  for  in 
the  dark  hour  of  civic  strife,  when  our  existence 
as  a  nation  was  at  stake,  the  part  taken  by  the 
Board  of  Trade  in  sustaining  the  hands  of  the 
government  all  through  the  long  night  of  its 
darkest  trial  is  well  known  as  forming  one  of 
the  brightest  pages  in  our  national  history ;  and 
if  there  be  one  to  whom  special  praise  is  due, 
it  is  Colonel  Hancock.  From  the  very  first  he 
was  ever  active,  always  doing,  liberal  to  a  high 
degree,  hopeful  when  many  others  were  despond- 
ent, and  ever  ready  to  aid  with  his  counsel  and 
his  purse.  He  took  an  active  part  in  raising  and 
equipping  regiments  for  the  field,  and  his  office 
was  made  headquarters  for  the  organization  of 
the  first  battalion  of  troops  that  was  called  out 
to  duty  at  Cairo. 

Soon  after  their  departure,  Colonel  Hancock 
was  supported  by  the  Board  of  Trade  in  the 
endeavor  to  send  other  troops  to  the  field,  and 
he  centered  his  heart  and  soul  in  the  work.  It 
was  determined  to  raise  a  body  of  men  to  be 
called  the  "Chicago  Board  of  Trade  Battery." 
A  war  committee  was  formed,  of  which  Colonel 
Hancock  was  chosen  chairman,  and  soon  the 
battery  was  organized,  equipped  and  went  forth 
to  battle  for  the  integrity  of  the  nation,  the  ex- 
pense being  borne  by  the  Board.  Thousands  of 
dollars  were  raised  again  and  again  on  'change, 
each  succeeding  request  finding  the  purse  strings 
open  as  liberally  as  at  first.  Colonel  Hancock, 
not  only  ascended  the  platform  and  asked  for 
contributions,  but  he  gave  liberally  himself,  set- 
ting a  noble  example  which  others  were  not  slow 
to  follow.  Although  shunning  ostentation,  he  did 
his  utmost  to  further  the  cause  of  the  Union,  and 
it  is  authoritatively  said  that  he  contributed  of 
his  personal  means  not  less  than  $50,000  to  the 
cause. 

As  chairman  of  the  War  Committee  of  the 
Board  of  Trade,  his  duties  were  ceaseless  and 
efforts  untiring.  In  1865  he  took  command  of 
Camp  Fry,  and  under  his  regime  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Forty-seventh,  One  Hundred  and  Fifty- 
third  and  tbe  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-sixth  regi- 
ments, Illinois  volunteers,  were  organized,  be- 
sides which  several  other  companies  were  com- 
pleted for  other  regiments  depleted  by  service 


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in  the  field.  Colonel  Hancock  was  a  man  of  not 
only  great  mental  capacity  and  steadfast  pur- 
pose, but  universally  respected  for  his  high 
code  of  business  ethics  and  consistent  moral 
character.  He  was  most  conscientious  and  scru- 
pulous in  all  his  dealings,  and  was  of  the  type 
that  would  rather  err  to  his  own  cost  than  do 
an  injustice.  In  all  the  years  in  which  he  con- 
trolled a  growing  business  that  eventually 
brought  Mm  wealth,  his  reputation  was  ever 
unsullied. 

Although  Colonel  Hancock  was  recognized  as 
a  successful  man,  attainment  of  wealth  was 
never  the  ultimate  aim  and  object  of  his  life. 
Be  rejoiced  in  his  prosperity  because  it  gave  him 
the  opportunity  to  provide  liberally  for  his  fam- 
ily, and  to  aid  generously  his  fellowman.  To 
many  unfortunates  he  quietly  extended  a  help- 
ing hand. 

His  contribution  to  the  world's  work  was  a 
valuable  one ;  not  only  in  business  affaks,  but 
in  the  splendid  example  which  he  left  of  honor- 
able manhood.  His  courage  and  will ;  his  high- 
minded  conception  of  a  man's  duty  in  his  do- 
mestic as  in  his  business  life,  and  his  quiet  and 
unswerving  allegiance  to  the  principles  of  good 
citizenship  were  traits  which  especially  distin- 
guished him. 


He  was  always  deeply  interested  in  Chicago's 
welfare,  and  there  were  few  movements  of  vital 
importance  to  the  city  with  which  he  was  not 
concerned.  He  proved  his  faith  in  the  future  of 
the  city  by  investing  freely  in  property  holdings, 
owning  at  one  time  the  ground  later  occupied  by 
Plymouth  and  Trinity  churches,  and  various 
other  valuable  possessions.  In  1862  he  built  his 
handsome  residence  on  Michigan  Avenue,  at 
Twenty-sixth  Street,  then  the  center  of  the  social 
and  fashionable  life  of  the  city,  and  for  many 
years  this  was  his  home. 

On  June  24,  1845,  Colonel  Hancock  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Bmaline  P.  Goding,  of 
Livermore,  Maine,  a  daughter  of  Jonal  and  Pa- 
tience T.  (Hathaway)  Goding,  and  they  became 
the  parents  of  eight  children,  Charles  D.,  William 
S.,  George  W.,  Dr.  Joseph  L.,  Emeline  P.  (Mrs. 
Gwynn  Garnett),  Fay  H.  (Mrs.  Alfred  H.  Sel- 
lers), Ella  F.  (Mrs.  William  Harvey,  Jr.)  and 
Josephine  H.  (Mrs.  Frank  G.  Logan).  Colonel 
Hancock's  domestic  life  was  always  most  at- 
tractive in  all  of  its  various  phases  as  husband, 
father  and  host,  and  he  held  friendship  inval- 
uable. His  death,  which  occurred  February  17, 
1883,  removed  from  this  city  one  of  its  most 
valued  citizens. 


CHARLES  HODGDON  SCHWEPPE. 


Charles  Hodgdon  Schweppe,  member  of  the 
firm  of  Lee,  Higginson  &  Company,  foreign  and 
domestic  bankers,  was  born  at  Alton,  Illinois, 
November  18,  1880,  a  son  of  William  E.  and  Eva 
(Jewett)  Schweppe.  He  was  graduated  from 
Harvard  University  in  1902,  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  soon  afterward  became 
identified  with  the  firm  of  Lee,  Higginson  & 
Company,  with  which  he  has  since  been  asso- 
ciated. He  entered  the  employ  of  the  firm  at 
Boston,  and  in  October,  1905,  he  came  to  Chi- 
cago to  open  a  branch  office  in  this  city,  and 
has  since  been  the  executive  head  of  the  West- 
ern division  of  this  great  financial  corporation. 
His  ability  soon  became  apparent  and  he  was 
admitted  to  partnership  in  1913  and  still  retains 
a  large  financial  interest  in  the  concern.  The 
firm  is  one  of  the  most  important  concerns  of 
its  kind  in  the  United  States.  Mr.  Schweppe 
has  devoted  much  time  and  energy  to  building 
up  the  commercial  prestige  of  this  great  concern 
in  the  Middle  West,  and  its  success  and  high 
financial  standing  may  be  attributed  in  no  small 


degree   to   his   able   management   and    untiring 
efforts. 

Besides  his  connection  with  the  firm  of  Lee, 
Higginson  '&  Company,  Mr.  Schweppe  is  inter- 
ested in  numerous  other  enterprises.  He  is  a 
Director  in  the  Illinois  Merchants  Trust  Com- 
pany, Montgomery  Ward  &  Company,  Fairbanks, 
Morse  &  Company,  and  the  Union  Refrigerator 
Transit  Company  of  Chicago,  Lee,  Higginson 
Trust  Co.,  Boston,  and  the  Simmons  Company  of 
New  York  City.  He  is  President  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  trustee  of  the 
Northwestern  University,  Old  People's  Home 
Home  for  the  Friendless,  and  Ferry  Hall  School 
for  girls  at  Lake  Forest.  During  the  World  War 
he  was  director  of  the  Liberty  Loan  organiza- 
tion of  the  Seventh  Federal  Reserve  District 
and  rendered  most  effective  service  to  his  coup 
try  along  this  line. 

Prominent  in  social  as  well  as  in  business 
circles,  Mr.  Schweppe  is  a  member  of  numerous 
clubs,  among  which  are  the  Chicago,  University, 
Mid-Day,  Saddle  and  Cycle,  The  Attic,  Racquet, 


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Casino,  Old  Elm,  Onwentsia,  Shoreacres,  Har- 
vard of  Chicago,  Boston  and  New  York  Univer- 
sity, Tennis  and  Racquet,  Recess  of  New  York, 
Somerset,  and  Tennis  and  Racquet  of  Bos- 
ton. He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Vestry  of 
Grace  Episcopal  Church  and  is  active  in  all 
good  work  of  that  congregation. 

Mr.  Schweppe  was  married  February  22,  1913, 


to  Miss  Laura  A.  Shedd,  and  of  this  union  were 
born  two  children :  Jean  Shedd  Schweppe,  and 
John  Shedd  Schweppe.  Mrs.  Schweppe  was  born 
in  Chicago  and  is  a  daughter  of  the  late  John 
Graves  Shedd  and  Mary  R.  (Porter)  Shedd, 
pioneers  of  this  city  and  of  whom  mention  is 
made  elsewhere  in  this  work.  The  family  home 
is  on  Mayflower  Road,  Lake  Forest,  Illinois. 


GUY  GUERNSEY. 


Mr.  Guernsey  was  born  at  Terre  Haute,  In- 
diana, January  11,  1872,  a  son  of  William  D. 
and  Eleanor  B.  (Flint)  Guernsey,  and  comes 
of  distinguished  American  ancestors.  As  a  boy 
he  attended  the  grammar  schools  of  Terre 
Haute,  Indiana,  and  Orchard,  Iowa ;  Osage, 
Iowa,  High  School,  and  the  Chicago  Manual 
Training  School.  He  was  also  a  student  in 
Iowa  (now  Grinnell)  College  from  1887  until 
1889.  From  1894  until  1901,  he  was  salesman, 
expert  operator  and  collector  in  Iowa  for  the 
Piano  Manufacturing  Company  and  McCormick 
Harvesting  Machine  Company.  He  came  to 
Chicago  in  the  latter  year  to  study  law.  Matric- 
ulating at  the  Chicago-Kent  College  of  Law, 
then  a  part  of  Lake  Forest  University,  he  took 
the  full  course,  and  was  graduated  from  that 
institution  in  1904,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Laws.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  Bar 
in  the  same  year,  and  at  once  established  him- 
self in  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Chicago, 
being  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Lamborn  and 
Guernsey,  and  this  alliance  continued  until 
1911.  During  this  period  be  was  also  Clerk  of 
the  Probate  Court  of  Cook  County  from  1906 
until  1910,  and  in  1906  was  made  Secretary  of 
the  Chicago-Kent  College  of  Law. 

In  1916  Mr.  Guernsey  was  elected  to  the  Illi- 
nois Legislature,  serving  one  term  as  a  member 
of  the  Fiftieth  General  Assembly  from  Hyde 
Park.  He  has  also  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Aldermen  from  the  Sixth  Ward  (for- 
merly the  Seventh  Ward)  since  April,  1918;  is 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Harbors, 
Wharves  and  Bridges,  having  charge  of  the 
Calumet  Harbor  promotion,  and  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Sub-Committee,  which  prepared  the 
South  Park  Extension  and  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad  electrification  ordinance.  He  is  the 
original  promoter  of  the  Aquarium  for  Chicago, 
having  devoted  much  time  to  the  organization 
of  this  project,  and  it  was  largely  through  his 
influence    that    interest    was    aroused    and    the 


Aquarium  procured.  He  is  also  active  in  the 
work  of  Boy  Scouts,  Camp  Fire  Girls  and  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and  has 
gained  distinction  as  a  writer,  being  a  frequent 
and  valued  contributor  to  legal  journals  on 
Probate  Court  work.  He  is  the  father  of  a 
resolution  proposing  to  hold  a  great  Rail  Cen- 
tennial Exposition  in  Chicago  and  Celebration 
of  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  Chicago's 
Birth.  The  resolution  asks  that  the  Mayor  of 
the  City  of  Chicago  be  authorized  and  in- 
structed to  call  together  representatives  of  the 
leading  organizations  in  the  City  and  other  in- 
fluential citizens  for  the  purpose  of  discussing 
the  desirability  of  inviting  the  Rail  Centennial 
Exposition  to  Chicago  and  also  of  celebrating 
separately  or  in  conjunction  therewith  the  one 
hundred  years  of  Chicago's  growth.  Unanimous 
consent  was  given  to  permit  action  on  this 
resolution  without  reference  thereof  to  a  com- 
mittee, and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  in  1933,  Chi- 
cago will  once  more  be  the  scene  of  a  great 
World's  Fair. 

Aside  from  his  personal  worth  and  accom- 
plishments, there  is  much  of  interest  attached 
to  his  genealogy  which  betokens  lines  of  sterling 
worth  and  prominent  identification  with  Ameri- 
can history  for  many  generations,  being  a 
descendant  of  some  of  the  most  distinguished 
veterans  of  the  Revolutionary  and  other  wars 
of  our  nation.  Among  his  ancestors  who  fig- 
ured prominently  in  the  great  struggle  for  Inde- 
pendence were  Stephen  Weston,  who  was  born 
at  Reading,  Massachusetts,  in  1693,  and  died 
at  Lincoln,  Massachusetts,  in  1798.  He  served 
from  April  2  to  July  3,  1778,  in  Captain  Daniel 
Harrington's  Company,  Colonel  Jonathan  Reed's 
Regiment  of  Guards,  guarding  prisoners  at 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and  it  is  largely 
through  the  Revolutionary  War  service  of  this 
ancestor  that  Mr.  Guernsey  became  eligible  to 
membership  in  the  society  of  Sons  of  the 
Revolution.      Joseph    Weston,    son    of    Stephen 


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Weston,  was  born  at  Concord,  Massachusetts, 
in  1732,  and  was  a  pioneer  settler  of  Skow- 
hegan,  Maine.  He  with  his  two  sons,  Eli  and 
William  Weston,  were  with  Benedict  Arnold's 
forces  on  their  expedition  to  Quebec  in  1775. 
He  assisted  in  dragging  the  boats  through  the 
swift  current  of  the  river,  and  in  carrying  them 
around  Skowhegan  and  Norridgewock  Falls,  and 
from  the  hardship  and  exposure  incident  thereto 
took  a  severe  cold  from  the  effect  of  which  he 
died  in  October,  1775. 

Samuel  Rexford,  of  whom  Mr.  Guernsey  is 
also  a  descendant,  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Sev- 
enteenth (Albany  County)  New  York  Regiment 
during  the  Revolutionary  War.  John  Weston, 
of  whom  Mr.  Guernsey  is  likewise  a  descendant, 
came  to  America  as  a  stowaway,  when  a  boy 
of  thirteen.  He  was  afterward  Master  of  a 
trading  vessel  and  made  several  voyages  to  Eng- 
land. He  served  in  the  King  Philip's  War.  Mr. 
Guernsey  is  also  a  descendant  of  Captain  Peter 
Powers,  who  commanded  a  company  in  the 
French  War.  He  is  likewise  a  descendant  of 
John  Prescott,  who  was  born  in  1604,  and  who 
brought  to  the  Colonies  a  complete  suit  of  mail, 
which,  on  several  occasions,  he  wore  while  fight- 
ing in  the  Indian  Wars  in  Massachusetts. 
Peter  Guernsey,  a  direct  ancestor  of  Guy  Guern- 
sey, was  born  in  Connecticut  in  1748,  and  re- 
moved to  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  practce  of  law.  He  served  in 
the  Revolutionary  War  as  Adjutant  in  the 
Seventeenth  New  York  Regiment.  Joseph 
Guernsey,  another  direct  ancestor  of  Guy  Guern- 
sey, was  in  1709  a  Delegate  to  the  General 
Court,  from  Milford,  Connecticut,  where  he  died 
in  1730,  at  the  age  of  nearly  one  hundred  years. 
Mr.  Guernsey's  father,  William  D.  Guernsey, 
who  died  in  1879,  was  one  of  the  patentees  of 
the  Split  Switch,  one  of  the  most  important  and 
essential  railroad  devices  ever  invented.  He 
was  a  man  of  great  mental  capacity  and  force 


of  character  and  was  ever  active  in  all  meas- 
ures tending  to  the  public  good. 

Guy  Guernsey,  whose  name  heads  this  re- 
view is  a  member  of  numerous  societies  and 
organizations,  among  which  are  the  Illinois 
State  and  Chicago  Bar  Associations,  Phi  Delta 
Phi  the  Greek  letter  legal  fraternity,  Indiana 
Society,  Hawkeye  Fellowship,  of  which  he  is 
President,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  of  which  he 
is  a  life  member,  and  the  Sons  of  Veterans.  He 
is  a  high  Mason,  being  a  member  of  the  Blue 
Lodge,  Chapter,  Commandery  and  Shrine.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protec- 
tive Order  of  Elks,  Knights  of  Pythias,  Royal 
Arcanum,  North  American  Union,  Order  of  the 
Eastern  Star,  Izaak  Walton  League,  of  which 
he  was  one  of  the  organizers,  Hamilton  Club, 
of  which  he  is  a  life  member  and  ex-President, 
Collegiate  Club,  of  which  he  is  President,  the 
Forty  Club,  and  the  Chicago  Kiwanis  Loop 
Club,  of  which  he  has  been  President. 

Mr.  Guernsey  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  wife  was  Genevieve  B.  Wright,  a  daughter 
of  Gustavus  A.  and  Angelina  (Orchard)  Wright 
of  Orchard,  Iowa,  whom  he  married  March  13, 
1893,  and  who  died  January  17,  1902,  leaving 
one  son,  William  Donaldson  Guernsey,  who  was 
born  January  12,  1902.  He  was  educated  in 
McKendree  College,  Lebanon,  Illinois ;  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois,  and  the  Northwestern  Col- 
lege, Naperville,  Illinois,  and  is  a  practical 
young  business  man  of  Chicago  who  is  well  up- 
holding the  honors  of  his  family  name.  He  is 
a  life  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  his 
membership  in  the  society  being  based  upon  the 
same  ancestral  lines  as  his  father.  Mr.  Guern- 
sey's second  marriage  was  with  Jennie  Lucia 
Wanzer,  a  daughter  of  Sidney  Wanzer  of  Chi- 
cago, January  4,  1905.  The  family  home  for 
many  years  has  been  at  6044  Vernon  Avenue, 
Chicago. 


WILLIAM  THOMAS  RICKARDS. 


The  late  William  T.  Rickards  of  Chicago  and 
Evanston,  111.,  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
August  20,  1849,  a  son  of  William  and  Eliza  A. 
(Tucker)  Rickards.  His  father  was  one  of  the 
organizers  and  was  Colonel  of  the  29th  Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  War. 

William  T.  Rickards  attended  public  school  in 
Philadelphia.  Then  he  joined  his  father  in  the 
oil    business    at   Oil    City,    Pa.     When    he    was 


eighteen  years  old  he  went  west  and  soon  became 
connected  with  the  lumber  industry  there. 

In  1876  he  came  to  Chicago,  where  he  helped 
to  organize  the  firm  of  Rickards,  Beveridge  and 
Dewy,  and  engaged  in  the  private  banking  busi- 
ness. His  partners  were  the  late  Governor 
Beveridge  and  the  late  Mr.  David  B.  Dewy. 
Mr.  Dewy  was  also  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Bankers  National  Bank  of  Chicago. 


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Subsequently  Mr.  Rickards  was  again  identi- 
fied with  lumber  interests,  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa ; 
but  eventually  returued  to  Chicago.  There  he 
founded  the  business  known  as  W.  T.  Rickards 
and  Company.  He  was  a  pioneer  in  the  han- 
dling of  commercial  paper  in  the  Central  States. 
He  remained  at  the  head  of  this  company  until 
his  retirement  from  active  business  in  1914. 

In  September  24,  1872  Mr.  Rickards  was  mar- 
ried, at  Des  Moines.  Iowa,  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Har- 
bert,  a  daughter  of  Soloman  and  Amadine  (Wat- 
son) Harbert.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rickards  had  no 
children.  They  adopted  a  niece  of  Mrs.  Rick- 
ards' when  she  was  a  small  child.  The  family 
home  has  been  maintained  at  Evanston,  111.,  for 
many  years.  The  family's  winter  residence  was 
at  Pasadena.  Calif.    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rickards  have 


long  been  members  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Evanston.  Mr.  Rickards  also  be- 
longed to  the  Union  League  Club,  the  Evanston 
Club,  Evanston  Country  Club  and  Glen  View. 

The  life  of  William  T.  Rickards  came  to  its 
close  in  his  seventy-seventh  year.  His  influence 
in  Chicago's  earlier  development  is  very  marked 
for  he  was  one  of  the  first  men  in  all  this  coun- 
try west  of  the  Allegheny  Mountains  to  engage 
in  the  business  of  handling  commercial  paper.  On 
foundations  that  he  helped  to  lay  there  has  since 
grown  a  nation-wide  business  of  immense  impor- 
tance. Mr.  Rickards  was  held  in  warm  appre- 
ciation and  esteem  by  the  generation  of  Chiea- 
goans  of  which  he  was  a  part. 

William  T.  Rickards  died  on  November  19, 
1926. 


GEORGE  BYRON  HOLMES. 


George  B.  Holmes.  Judge  of  the  Municipal 
Court  of  Chicago,  was  born  at  Fairlee,  Vermont, 
December  12,  18G7,  a  son  of  George  W.  and 
Sara  P.  (Cooke)  Holmes,  and  comes  of  Revo- 
lutionary stock.  His  early  education  was  ob- 
tained in  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
state,  and  was  supplemented  by  courses  in  the 
grammar  and  high  schools  of  Indianapolis.  In- 
diana, and  the  Cook  County  (Illinois)  Normal 
School.  He  later  matriculated  at  the  Union 
College  of  Law  (Northwestern  University),  and 
was  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1890 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Illinois  Bar  in  the  same  year 
and  at  once  established  himself  in  the  practice 
of  law  at  Chicago.  From  1908  until  1911  he  was 
associated  with  the  law  firm  of  Winston,  Payne, 
Strawn  &  Shaw,  and  from  the  latter  date  until 
1919.  he  practiced  alone.  He  was  also  asso- 
ciated with  and  was  President  of  the  Franklin 
County  (Illinois)  Abstract  Company  of  Benton, 
Illinois,  from  1913  until  1917. 

On  April  11,  1919,  Judge  Holmes  was  elected 
to  the  Municipal  Court  Bench  of  Chicago  for  a 
short  term,  and  in  November,  1920.  he  was  re- 
elected Judge  of  the  same  court  for  a  full  term 
of  six  years.  He  made  such  a  record  that  he 
was  again  re-elected  Judge  of  this  court  for  a 
term  expiring  in  1932.  Although  he  was  popu- 
lar and  successful  as  a  practitioner,  his  legal 
talent  has  been  most  effective  and  shown  to  the 
best  advantage  since  he  has  been  on  the  bench. 
His  ability  to  grasp  a  multitude  of  details  and 


show  their  general  bearing  on  the  points  at  is- 
sue, and  a  patient  and  courteous,  though  in- 
flexible attitude  toward  all  who  come  before 
him,  with  a  broad  knowledge  of  the  law  and 
promptness  of  decision,  are  traits  which  espe- 
cially distinguish  him. 

Besides  his  judiciary  work,  Judge  Holmes 
has  also  proven  his  loyalty  and  patriotism  in 
military  affairs  and  has  rendered  valuable  and 
effective  service  to  his  country  in  various  ways. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Infantry  of  the 
Illinois  National  Guard  from  1894  unitl  1916, 
and  served  as  Sergeant  of  the  First  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry  during  the  Santiago  Cam- 
paign in  1898.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Adjutant-General's  staff  at  the  mobilization 
camp  during  the  Mexican  trouble  in  1916.  He 
has  also  found  time  and  opportunity  to  give 
effective  co-operation  in  movements  for  the  civic 
and  material  betterment  of  the  community,  and 
as  President  of  Ft.  Dearborn  Hospital  Associa- 
tion for  some  years  he  rendered  valuable  and 
efficient  service  to  that  institution. 

Judge  Holmes  is  a  member  of  many  societies 
and  organizations,  among  which  are  the  Ameri- 
can. Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Bar  Associa- 
tions. Illinois  Lawyers'  Association,  The  Civil 
Legion,  American  Brotherhood,  Illinois  Society 
of  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  Sons  ot 
Union  Veterans  of  the  Civil  War,  Illinois  Branch 
of  the  Society  of  the  Army  of  Santiago  de  Cuba, 
United  Spanish  War  Veterans,  Veterans  of  For- 
eign Wars,  and  Veteran  Corps  of  the  First  Infan- 


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try  of  Illinois  National  Guard.  He  is  also  a 
Thirty-second  Degree  Mason,  Knight  Templar, 
Shriner,  belongs  to  Aryan  Grotto,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Fern  wood  Lodge  No.  238  of  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  Veteran  Odd  Fellows 
Association  of  Illinois,  Fernwood  Rebekah  Lodge 
No.  396  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
Illinois  Lodge  No.  1.  Knights  of  Pythias,  Na- 
tional Union,  and  Loyal  Order  of  Moose.  He  at- 
tends the  Episcopal  Church  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Hamilton  and  Gerniania  clubs. 


Judge  Holmes  was  married  September  30, 
1897,  to  Mary  Amy  Myrick,  of  Chicago,  whose 
ancestors  also  were  of  Revolutionary  stock.  She 
is  a  daughter  of  Paris  M.  and  Delilah  (Conn) 
Myrick,  the  former  of  whom  served  with  dis- 
tinction in  the  Union  Army  during  the  Civil 
War.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holmes  was  born  one 
son,  Byron  Lee  Holmes,  who  is  an  able  attorney 
of  Chicago,  and  is  well  upholding  the  honor  of 
the  family  name. 


JOHN  EDWIN    OWEN 8. 


Dr.  John  E.  Owens,  noted  Chicago  surgeon 
and  lecturer,  died  December  21,  1922.  He  was 
born  at  Charleston,  Maryland,  October  14,  1S36, 
a  son  of  John  and  Martha  J.  (Black)  Owens. 
After  attending  school  in  Maryland,  he  attended 
Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  gradu- 
ating therefrom,  in  1SG2.  He  took  a  special 
course  in  surgical  anatomy  and  operative  sur- 
gery under  Dr.  Hayes  Agnew  of  Philadelphia. 
He  was  resident  physician  in  Blockey  Hospital 
of  that  city  until  he  joined  the  Union  army  in 
1S63.  and  was  assigned  to  duty  in  the  military 
hospital   at    Chicago. 

After  the  period  of  the  war  he  began  private 
practice  in  Chicago.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
surgeons  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital  and  consulting 
surgeon  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  became 
chief  surgeon  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  in 
1869,  and  he  filled  this  post  for  over  forty  years. 
Since  1888  he  was  also  chief  surgeon  and  later 
consulting  surgeon  of  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western Railroad.  Doctor  Owens  was  medical 
director  of  the  World's  Fair  in  1893,  having 
earned  recognition  as  an  outstanding  authority 
in  surgery  in  the  United  States.    Doctor  Owens' 


lectures,  particularly  at  Rush  Medical  College, 
the  Women's  Medical  College  and  the  Chicago 
Medical  College  were  of  great  interest  and  value. 

John  E.  Owens  was  married  on  Dec.  30, 
1S69,  to  Miss  Althea  S.  Jamar,  of  Elkton, 
Md.  Their  daughter  is  Mrs.  John  Crerar  of 
1901  Prairie  Avenue,  Chicago. 

Doctor  Owens  and  his  family  belonged  to  the 
Episcopal  Church.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the 
American  Surgical  Association  and  the  Ameri- 
can College  of  Surgeons.  He  was  an  honorary 
meinber  of  the  Association  of  Chief  Railroad 
Surgeons.  He  also  maintained  membership  in 
the  American  Medical  Association,  the  Chicago 
Surgical  Society,  the  American  Association  of 
Railway  Surgeons,  and  in  the  Illinois  State 
Medical  Society.  He  wrote  extensively  on  the 
subject  of  his  profession. 

Eighty-six  years  of  life  were  granted  Doctor 
Owens.  They  were  full,  helpful  years.  His 
passing  occasioned  much  real  sorrow.  Look- 
ing at  his  portrait  accompanying  this  review, 
one  readily  understands  why  a  large  measure 
of  appreciation  was  extended  to  him. 


ALBERT  SELLNER  GARDNER. 


Captain  Gardner  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri. June  7.  ISO."),  a  son  of  William  Alfred  and 
Julia  (Sellner)  Gardner,  and  comes  of  distin- 
guished ancestors,  being  a  descendant  of  Henry 
("lay,  and  of  the  Whitehead  and  Russell  fam- 
ilies of  Virginia.  He  had  the  advantage  of  splen- 
did educational  discipline,  including  that  of  Cul- 
ver (Indiana)  Military  Academy  and  Lawrenee- 
ville  (New  Jersey)  School,  and  was  graduated 
from  the  latter  institution  in  1914.  In  1920  he 
became  assistant  to  the  general  sales  manager  of 
the  Calumet  Baking  Powder  Company  and  was 


identified  with  that  corporation  until  1922.  He 
then  became  Vice  President  of  the  Ster-Electron 
Corporation,  manufacturers  and  distributors  of 
devices  for  deodorizing  and  sterilizing,  and  was 
with  that  concern  from  1924  until  192").  In 
September,  1925.  he  became  President  of  the 
Metcalf  Stationery  Company,  and  has  since 
been  the  executive  head  of  this  enterprise. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Young  Men's  Republi- 
can Club  of  the  Twenty-first  Ward  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Ways  and  Means  Committee  in 
the  National  Republican  campaign  of  1920. 


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During  the  World  War  he  served  in  the 
United  States  Army  and  in  the  American  Expe- 
ditionary Forces,  and  was  Captain  of  the  One 
Hundred  and  Fortieth  Infantry,  Thirty-fifth  Di- 
vision, which  distinguished  itself  overseas.  He 
was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Argonne,  Septem- 
ber 29,  191S,  and  was  honorably  discharged  Oc- 
tober 1,  1919. 

Captain  Gardner  is  a  member  of  the  Union 
League  Club  of  Chicago,  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
and  of  Covenant  Lodge  No.  526,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons. 

He  was  married  June  10,  1922.  to  Caroline  de 


Windt,  of  Winnetka,  Illinois,  and  of  this  union 
were  born  two  children:  Carol  Gardner,  and 
William  Alfred  Gardner  II.  Mrs.  Gardner  is 
a  daughter  of  Heyliger  Adams  de  Windt  of  Win- 
netka, Illinois,  one  of  Chicago's  pioneer  business 
men  now  retired,  and  Bertha  W.  (Mandell)  de 
Windt,  who  died  in  July,  1907.  Like  her  hus- 
band. Mrs.  Gardner  is  a  descendant  of  prominent 
old-established  American  families,  being  a  grand- 
daughter of  the  third  generation  of  John  Adams, 
second  President  of  the  United  States,  who  was 
elected  as  a  candidate  of  the  Federalist  party  in 
1796,  and  inaugurated  President  March  4,  1797. 


ROBERT  HOSEA  GOOD,  M.D.,  S.B.,  M.S. 


Dr.  Robert  H.  Good  was  born  at  Waterloo, 
Ontario.  Canada.  December  31.  1873,  a  son  of 
Joel  Good  and  Agnes  (Hosea)  Good.  After  com- 
pleting his  studies  in  public  school  he  studied  at 
Northwestern  College  (now  North  Central  Col- 
lege), from  which,  institution  he  received  the  de- 
gree of  Master  of  Science,  and  Albion  (Michi- 
gan )  College,  from  which  he  received  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Science.  Having  determined 
upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life  work,  he 
matriculated  at  Rush  Medical  College  and  was 
graduated  there  in  1902  with  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Medicine.  To  further  his  education  he 
took  post-graduate  work  at  the  University  of 
Chicago  in  1905  and  at  Vienna,  Austria,  in  1906. 
He  has  been  a  resident  of  the  United  States  since 
1SS9  and  a  naturalized  citizen  since  1894. 

He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 
Chicago  in  1902  and  has  since  been  a  strong 
factor  in  the  medical  profession  of  this  city.  He 
was  chief  professor  in  diseases  of  the  ear,  nose 
and  throat  at  the  Chicago  College  of  Medicine 
and  Surgery  from  1906  until  1915 ;  and  since 
1905  he  has  been  chief  surgeon  in  diseases  of  the 
eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat  -  at  the  Evangelical 
Deaconess  Hospital,  and  has  also  served  in  the 
same  capacity  at  the  American  and  Oak  Park 
Hospitals  since  that  date.  He  has  also  been  a 
member  of  the  staff  in  diseases  of  the  eye,  ear. 


nose  and  throat  at  Frances  Willard,  Norwegian- 
American,  and  West  Suburban  Hospitals  since 
1906.  He  was  clinical  assistant  at  Rush  Med- 
ical College  and  the  Chicago  Policlinic  and  was 
formerly  professor  of  physical  diagnosis  at  the 
Chicago  Dental  College,  and  head  professor  at 
the  Chicago  College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery. 

His  professional  services  have  ever  been  dis- 
charged with  a  keen  sense  of  conscientious  obli- 
gation, and  he  enjoys  merited  prominence  in  his 
profession.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Medical  Association  and  of  the  Medical  Officers 
Reserve  Corps  of  the  United  States  Army.  He 
is  a  Mason  :  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  and  of  the  Hamilton  Club  and  is 
prominent  in  both  social  and  professional  cir- 
cles. He  was  instrumental  in  establishing  the 
first  Lawn  Bowling  Green  of  the  Mid-West,  at 
River  Forest,  and  is  interested  in  healthful  recre- 
ation, believing  that  mental  and  physical  activity 
has  much  to  do  with  good  health.  He  is  also 
vice-president  of  the  National  Roque  League  and 
is  interested  in  tennis,  golf  and  out-door  diver- 
sions. He  was  married  July  26,  1900,  to  Ella 
Bell  Wagstaff,  of  Toronto,  Canada,  and  they  have 
four  children  ;  Palmer  Wagstaff,  Grace  Madeline, 
Carlton  Robert,  and  Wilma  A.  Good.  The  family 
home  is  at  517  Thatcher  avenue,  River  Forest, 
Illinois. 


ARTHUR  SCHERMERHORN  HOOK. 


The  late  Arthur  S.  Hook  of  Chicago  and  Oak 
Park.  Illinois,  was  born  at  Ottawa,  Illinois, 
August  3,  1868,  a  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Anna 
(Schermerhorn)  Hook. 

When  he  was  sixteen  years  old  he  went  to 
work  as  a  clerk  in  the  First  National  Bank  of 


Ottawa.  Later  he  was  elected  Treasurer  of  the 
City  of  Ottawa,  and  he  served  in  the  office  for 
two  terms.  In  1892  he  became  connected  with 
the  Moling  Plow  Company  of  Moline.  Illinois. 
He  was  thus  identified  for  one  year,  and  then, 
in   1893,   he   was   made   Treasurer  of  the   J.   E. 


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Porter  Corporation  of  Ottawa,  Illinois,  manu- 
facturers of  farm  implements.  He  filled  this 
office  with  noteworthy  success  for  the  following 
eight  years. 

It  was  in  1902  that  Mr.  Hook  was  elected 
Secretary  of  the  Inland  Steel  Company  and  at 
that  time  he  moved  to  Chicago  and  established 
headquarters  there.  Six  years  later  he  became 
Treasurer  of  the  Calumet  Steel  Company  at  the 
time  this  business  was  founded.  A  good  share 
of  the  substantial  success  that  the  business  has 
since  attained  may  be  traced  to  the  thought 
and  work  and  strength  that  Mr.  Hook  devoted 
to  its  progress. 

Arthur  S.  Hook  was  married  June  9,  1892.  at 
Ottawa,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Annie  L.  Porter,  a 
daughter  of  Mr.  J.  E.  Porter,  of  Ottawa,  who 
was  the  President  of  the  manufacturing  concern 
at  Ottawa  bearing  his  name,  and  who,  later,  be- 
came   the    first    President    of   the    Inland    Steel 


Company.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hook  had  two  sons, 
Harmon  P.  Hook,  who  died  in  the  United  States 
Military  Service  during  the  World  War,  and 
Joseph  P.  Hook.  The  family  home  has  been  at 
Oak  Park,  Illinois,  for  more  than  twenty  years. 

Mr.  Hook  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Oak 
Park  Club,  Oak  Park  Country  Club  (a  founder 
and  President  for  four  terms),  Westward  Ho 
Club  (President  for  three  terms),  Chicago  Ath- 
letic Association  (a  Director  and  head  of  many 
important  committees),  the  Illinois  Senior  Golf- 
ers Association  (a  founder  and  President),  the 
Midday  Club  and  to  the  Masons. 

The  death  of  Arthur  S.  Hook  occurred  May 
9,  1927.  He  was  an  exceptional  man.  He  was 
a  leader  in  the  steel  industry  of  this  country 
for  many  years  and  he  was  always  much  en- 
joyed by  those  to  whom  his  truly  delightful 
friendship  was  extended. 


JOHN  CRERAR. 


John  Crerar  was  born  at  Pictou,  Nova  Scotia, 
January  7,  1857,  a  son  of  John  and  Jane  Kate 
(Hatton)  Crerar.  He  was  educated  at  Kings 
School  at  Canterbury,  England,  and  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Glasgow,  where  he  rowed  on  the  crew. 

As  a  boy  he  entered  the  employ  of  a  ship- 
owner at  Glasgow,  and  there  he  was  until  1879. 
In  that  year  he  came  to  the  United  States  and 
to  Chicago,  with  letters  from  Lord  Leith  of 
Fyvie  to  the  head  of  the  Joliet  Steel  Company 
at  Joliet,  111.  He  entered  this  firm  and  he  con- 
tinued to  be  identified  with  it  for  the  ensuing 
five  years.  During  this  time  he  acquired  much 
valuable  experience. 

It  was  in  1884  that  he  started  in  business  for 
himself;  and  in  1889  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  Mr.  R.  Floyd  Clinch  as  Crerar,  Clinch  & 
Company,  miners  and  shippers  of  coal.  This 
business  was  conducted  as  a  partnership  for 
thirty-four  consecutive  years.  On  October  1, 
1923,  Mr.  Crerar  retired  from  the  firm.     Since 


that  time  the  business  has  been  conducted  under 
the  firm  name  of  the  Crerar,  Clinch  Coal  Com- 
pany. 

Mr.  Crerar  was  married  June  20,  1900,  to  Miss 
Marie  G.  Owens,  of  Chicago,  a  daughter  of  the 
late  Dr.  John  E.  Owens,  celebrated  surgeon,  of 
whom  extended  mention  appears  elsewhere  in 
this  history.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crerar  have  two 
daughters,  Marie  Owens  and  Catherine  Hatton 
Crerar.  The  family  home  for  many  years  was 
on  Prairie  avenue,  Chicago. 

Mr.  Crerar  has  served  for  a  long  time  as 
Trustee  of  Saint  Luke's  Hospital.  He  was  also 
President  of  the  Saint  Andrew's  Society,  and 
President  of  the  Canadian  Red  Cross  Fund  in 
1916-18.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Lanark  Rifle 
Volunteers  of  Scotland.  His  clubs  are  the  Chi- 
cago Club,  Onwentsia,  the  Saddle  and  Cycle 
Club,  the  Casino  Club  and  the  Scarborough  Club. 

Mr.  Crerar's  life  has  been  one  of  distinguished 
success  and  usefulness. 


WILLIAM  CORNELIUS  HOLLISTER. 


William  C.  Hollister,  founder,  and  President 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Chicago  Lino-Tabler  Com- 
pany, has  for  many  years  been  a  strong,  able 
figure  in  the  civic  and  business  affairs  of  this 
city.  He  was  born  at  Omro,  Wisconsin,  April 
12,  1861,  a  son  of  Henry  Cornelius  and  Jennie 
Margaret  (Huie)  Hollister,  and  comes  of  prom- 


inent, old-established  American  families  which 
date  back  to  the  Colonial  epoch  in  our  nation's 
history.  When  only  eleven  years  of  age  he  be- 
came an  apprentice  in  the  office  of  the  Appleton 
(Wisconsin)  Times,  where  he  remained  for  two 
years.  He  was  later  consecutively  identified  with 
the   Omro    (Wisconsin)    Journal,    the    Oshkosh 


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(Wisconsin)  Northwestern,  and  the  Oshkosh 
(Wisconsin)  Times  for  six  years,  having  charge 
of  the  mechanical  department  of  the  last-named 
paper.  His  ability  soon  became  apparent,  and 
at  the  age  of  nineteen  he  was  given  entire  charge 
of  the  Appleton  (Wisconsin)  Crescent.  He  later 
rilled  an  executive  position  with  Rand,  McNally 
&  Company  of  Chicago,  and  after  remaining 
with  that  concern  for  a  time,  he  with  his  brother, 
Franklin  C.  Hollister,  established  the  corpora- 
tion of  Hollister  Brothers  in  1S86.  In  1900  this 
concern  was  merged  with  the  Manz  Engraving 
Company,  of  which  William  C.  Hollister  became 
Vice-President. 

In  1910  Mr.  Hollister  disposed  of  his  interest 
in  the  Manz  Engraving  Company  and  organized 
the  Chicago  Lino-Tabler  Company,  of  which  he 
is  President  and  Treasurer.  This  corporation 
controls  a  number  of  valuable  patents  on  type- 
setting and  tabular  composing  devices.  It  is 
one  of  the  most  important  concerns  of  its  kind 
in  the  middle  west,  and  its  status  has  long  been 
one  of  prominence  in  connection  with  the  repre- 
sentative printing  industry  of  the  country.  Mr. 
Hollister  has  devoted  his  time  and  energy 
largely  to  building  up  the  prestige  of  his  com- 
pany since  its  inception,  and  its  success  and 
high  commercial  standing  may  be  attributed  in 
no  small  degree  to  his   able   management   and 


untiring  efforts.  Besides  this  connection  he  has 
also  been  head  of  the  Champlin  Law  Printing 
Company  since  1920,  and  since  1922  has  served 
as  President  of  the  national  body  of  Employing 
Law  Printers  of  America. 

Mr.  Hollister  is  a  man  of  unusual  public  spirit, 
interested  in  local  affairs  and  proud  of  the  city 
in  which  most  of  his  activities  and  mature  man- 
hood have  been  spent.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
Washingtonian  Home  Association,  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce,  Master 
Printers'  Federation  of  Chicago,  and  various 
other  civic  and  business  organizations.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Wisconsin  Society  of  Chicago, 
the  Chicago  Riding  Club,  Lake  Shore  Athletic 
and  Hamilton  Clubs. 

Mr.  Hollister  was  married  March  1,  1881,  to 
Miss  Annie  O'Leary,  at  Appleton,  Wisconsin,  a 
woman  of  engaging  personality,  and  of  this 
union  were  born  six  children :  William  C,  Jr., 
who  is  deceased ;  Jennie  Margaret,  wife  of 
Harry  Anderson,  of  Glen  Ellyn,  Illinois ;  Ed- 
ward Maurice,  of  LaGrange,  Illinois ;  Joseph 
Cornelius,  of  Oak  Park,  Illinois ;  Mabel  Helen, 
deceased ;  and  Mary  Kathryn,  wife  of  Louis  L. 
Launius.  of  Oak  Park.  Illinois.  The  family 
home  is  at  544  Highland  Avenue,  Oak  Park, 
Illinois. 


DAVID  SWEENEY  HILLIS,  M.D. 


Dr.  David  S.  Hillis  was  born  in  Chicago,  July 
19,  1873,  a  son  of  David  M.  Hillis  and  Dora  E. 
(Knights)  Hillis.  His  early  education  was  ob- 
tained in  private  schools  and  the  Englewood 
High  School.  He  then  matriculated  at  the 
Northwestern  University  Medical  School  and 
was  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1898  with 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  He  served  as 
interne  at  the  Michael  Reese  Hospital  from  the 
latter  date  until  1900,  and  then  established  him- 
self in  the  general  practice  of  medicine  at  Chi- 
cago and  has  continued  in  this  field  of  activity. 
To  further  his  education  he  then  went  abroad 
and  took  post-graduate  work  at  Berlin  and 
Vienna,  during  which  time  he  studied  under  some 
of  the  most  noted  preceptors  of  that  country. 
Returning  to  Chicago  he  resumed  the  practice  of 
his  profession.  His  practice  since  1910,  how- 
ever, has  been  specialized  in  obstetrics  and 
gynecology. 

Dr.  Hillis  has  been  a  member  of  the  staff  of 
the  Chicago  Lying-in  and  the  Wesley  Memorial 


Hospitals  since  1914.  He  has  also  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  staff  of  the  Cook  County  Hospital 
since  1912 ;  and  chief  of  obstetrical  service  since 
1918.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  advisory 
staff  of  the  Chicago  Memorial  Hospital  since 
1922  and  is  also  assistant  professor  of  obstetrics 
at  the  Northwestern  University  Medical  School. 
He  served  as  medical  officer  of  the  Naval  Re- 
serve, with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Commander 
during  the  World  War,  being  stationed  at  Great 
Lakes,  Illinois,  from  1917  until  1919.  He  has 
gained  a  wide  reputation  as  a  writer  and  for  a 
number  of  years  has  been  a  frequent  and  valued 
contributor  to  medical  journals  and  periodicals 
on  matters  pertaining  to  obstetrical  subjects.  He 
also  originated  and  introduced  the  head  stetho- 
scope for  use  in  obstetrics. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  As- 
sociation and  of  the  Illinois  State  and  Chicago 
Medical  Societies.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Chicago    Gynecological    Society,    Association    of 


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Military  Surgeons,  University  Club,  aud  the  Phi 
Rho  Sigma,  college  fraternity.  He  is  an  Episco- 
palian in  his  religious  faith  and  his  political 
affiliations  are  with  the  Republican  party.     Dr. 


Hillis  was  married  February  19,  1903,  to  Mary 
F.  Sutherland,  of  Hamilton,  Ontario,  Canada, 
and  they  have  one  son,  David  S.  Hillis,  who  is 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  Chicago. 


ROBERT  HENRY  PARKINSON. 


The  late  Robert  H.  Parkinson  of  Chicago,  was 
born  at  Cape  Elizabeth,  Maine,  on  August  10, 
1849,  a  son  of  Royal  H.  and  Juanna  (Griffin) 
Parkinson. 

Following  his  preliminary  schooling,  he  en- 
tered Dartmouth  College  and  graduated  there  in 
the  Class  of  1870.  He  then  studied  law  at 
Woodstock,  Vermont,  and  later  at  Manchester, 
New  Hampshire,  and  continued  his  studies  iu 
the  office  of  Judge  Adams  in  Saint  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, to  which  city  he  came  in  the  summer  of 
1872.  That  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the 
Missouri  Bar  and  opened  an  office  for  general 
practice.  He  was  made  assistant  attorney  for 
the  Atlantic  &  Pacific  Railroad  Company ;  but 
later  resumed  private  practice. 

In  1875  he  entered  into  partnership  with  John 
E.  Hatch  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  This  association 
was  discontinued  in  1878 ;  and  his  brother, 
Joseph  G.  Parkinson,  became  his  partner  the  fol- 
lowing year.  Later  George  B.  Parkinson,  also  a 
brother,  entered  the  firm. 

His  practice  became  almost  entirely  devoted  to 
the  trial  of  patent,  trademark  and  unfair  com- 
petition cases,  which  required  his  attendance  in 
Federal  Courts  in  most  of  the  large  cities  of  the 
United  States. 

In  1893  he  moved  to  Chicago  where  he  estab- 
lished his  office  and  his  home.  Throughout  these 
more  recent  years  he  was  senior  member  of  the 
firm  of  Parkinson  &  Lane.  He  has  been  suc- 
cessful in  many  important  cases  before  the  Fed- 
eral Courts  and  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States.  He  became  one  of  the  foremost  represen- 
tatives of  his  branch  of  the  law  in  America. 

By  appointment  from  President  Taft,  he  was 


a  representative  of  the  United  States,  in  the 
International  Congress  for  the  Revision  of  Laws 
Relating  to  Industrial  Properties,  held  in  Wash- 
ington in  1911. 

When,  preparatory  to  the  revision  of  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court  rules  in  equity, 
that  Court  requested  that  each  United  States 
Court  of  Appeals  appoint  an  advisory  committee 
on  such  revision,  Mr.  Parkinson  was  appointed 
as  the  Chicago  member  of  the  committee  from 
that  circuit ;  and  he,  personally,  drew  the  report 
of  that  committee  and  represented  it  at  the  joint 
discussions  at  Washington  and  elsewhere. 

For  many  years  he  was,  by  successive  elec- 
tions, Chairman  of  the  section  of  the  American 
Bar  Association,  on  Patent,  Trademark  and 
Copyright  Law. 

On  April  22,  1878,  Mr.  Parkinson  was  married, 
at  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  to  Miss  Helen  B.  McGuffey. 
They  have  four  children :  Elizabeth  D.,  June  G., 
Sterling  B.  and  Kelso  S.  Parkinson  (deceased). 
Mrs.  Parkinson  died  on  May  21,  1925. 

Mr.  Parkinson  was  Vice  President  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  Central  Church,  Chicago, 
for  many  years.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Club,  the  Union  League  Club,  University 
Club,  the  Chicago  Riding  Club,  and  the  Queen 
City  Club  of  Cincinnati.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  American  Bar  Association,  the  Illinois  Bar 
Association,  the  Chicago  Bar  Association  and  of 
the  Chicago  Law  Institute. 

The  close  of  Robert  H.  Parkinson's  very  active 
and  distinguished  life  came,  in  his  seventy-ninth 
year,  on  December  26,  1927.  He  was  a  man  of 
the  finest  personal  qualities  and  the  highest  type 
of  ability. 


FRANK  HENNEBOHLE. 


Frank  Hennebohle,  manufacturer  of  steam  and 
hydraulic  specialties  and  an  inventor  of  notable 
distinction,  was  born  at  Ruethen,  Westphalia, 
Germany,  September  30,  1856,  a  son  of  Casper 
and  Therese  (Tillman)  Hennebohle.  His  early 
education  was  obtained  in  the  parochial  schools 
of  his  native  country,  in  which  he  received  ex- 
cellent   scholastic   advantages.    As   a   youth   he 


manifested  unusual  mechanical  talent  and  began 
an  apprenticeship  in  the  machinist's  trade  at  the 
age  of  twelve  years.  About  five  years  later, 
after  thoroughly  mastering  his  trade,  he  became 
identified  as  master  mechanic  with  a  large  con- 
cern devoted  to  the  manufacture  of  machinery 
at  Westphalia.  Germany,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained for  live  years. 


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In  1SS0,  he  sailed  for  the  United  States,  locat- 
ing first  at  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
was  identified  with  the  Pittsburgh  Locomotive 
Works  for  a  year,  making  the  templets  for  the 
big  six-coupler  locomotive,  called  "Jumbo," 
which  was  exhihited  at  Chicago  in  1S84.  He  was 
later  employed  in  the  McKinney  Hinge  Factory 
at  Pittsburgh  for  a  year. 

In  1S82  Mr.  Hennebohle  came  to  Chicago  and 
has  since  been  a  resident  of  this  city.  He  became 
a  naturalized  citizen  of  the  United  States  in 
1886.  After  coming  to  Chicago  Mr.  Hennebohle 
was  employed  for  a  time  in  various  capacities 
in  the  Calumet  district,  and  being  a  student  of 
geology,  his  attention  was  drawn  to  the  rock 
formation  and  the  deposits  of  lava  in  different 
parts  of  that  district.  This  led  him  to  the  belief 
and  later  to  the  conviction  that  the  Calumet  dis- 
trict had,  perhaps  thousands  of  years  ago,  been 
the  center  of  an  active  volcano.  He  also  arrived 
at  the  conclusion  that  this  district,  on  account  of 
its  nearness  to  the  raw  material  and  its  excellent 
water  and  land  transportation  facilities,  was 
destined  to  become  the  center  of  the  largest  iron 
and  steel  works  and  metal  industries  in  the 
world,  so  he  settled  in  that  district  and  became 
identified  with  the  Illinois  Steel  Company,  with 
whom  he  was  connected  for  several  years. 

In  1S89  Mr.  Hennebohle  embarked  in  business 
on  his  own  account,  and  from  a  modest  begin- 
ning in  a  small  factory  at  the  corner  of  Ninety- 
first  Street  and  Ontario  Avenue  he  has  devel- 
oped one  of  the  largest  and  most  unique  enter- 
prises of  its  kind  in  the  United  States.  It  was 
not  long  after  he  had  established  a  business  of 
his  own  until  it  became  apparent  that  larger 
quarters  must  be  secured  in  order  to  handle  the 
increasing  volume  of  trade.  In  1893  he  pur- 
chased property  at  South  Chicago  Avenue  and 
Ninety-fourth  Street,  where  he  erected  a  mod- 
ern and  adequate  factory  building  of  the  very 
most  substantial  order  and  removed  to  these 
quarters.  This  building,  unfortunately,  was 
surrounded  by  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio,  New  York 
Central,  Pennsylvania,  Rock  Island,  and  Illinois 
Central  railroad  tracks,  and  upon  the  elevation 
of  these  tracks,  it  fenced  Mr.  Hennebohle's  fac- 
tory in,  shutting  off  practically  all  outlets,  there- 
fore he  was  compelled  to  secure  a  more  suitable 
location.  This  was  an  unfortunate  and  most 
serious  thing  for  Mr.  Hennebohle,  and  caused 
him  to  lose  many  thousands  of  dollars.  He  had 
equipped  his  factory  with  the  most  modern  ma- 
chinery at  great  expense,  much  of  which  was 


too  heavy  to  move  and  had  to  be  sold  as  junk 
at  a  loss  of  seventy  per  cent  on  the  dollar.  He 
was  not  the  type  of  man,  however,  to  harbor 
misfortune  and  apathy,  and  with  the  courage 
and  intrepidity  of  the  true  self-made  man,  he 
at  once  set  out  to  retrieve  his  losses.  In  1911 
he  purchased  his  present  site  at  Eighty-first 
Street  and  South  Chicago  Avenue,  where  he 
built  his  present  modern  plant.  This  building 
is  remarkable  for  the  diversity  and  excellence 
of  its  mechanical  equipment  and  facilities,  and 
its  corps  of  operatives,  including  mechanics,  are 
of  the  maximum  ability  and  skill.  As  an  in- 
ventor and  manufacturer  of  general  specialties. 
Mr.  Hennebohle  has  gained  national  prestige 
and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  prolific 
and  resourceful  inventors  of  modern  times.  His 
initial  patent  was  received  July  28,  1885.  Since 
that  date  he  has  been  the  inventor  and  patentee 
of  scores  of  other  valuable  devices,  besides  hav- 
ing invented  several  contrivances  without  ap- 
plying for  patents  or  asking  for  remuneration, 
which  have  been  in  daily  use  in  the  large  steel 
and  rolling  mills  for  more  than  four  decades, 
and  which  have  saved  many  lives  and  limbs 
and  made  hard  work  easy.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  patent  office  as  an  inventor  for 
forty-five  years,  and  has  been  awarded  more 
than  fifty  patents  for  devices  applying  to  steam, 
hydraulic,  gas,  air,  and  ammonia  pressure  uses, 
many  of  which  are  employed  throughout  the 
world  in  mills,  arsenals,  cold  storage  houses, 
steamships,  packing  houses,  etc.  Of  these  spe- 
cialties and  many  others,  Mr.  Hennebohle  is  the 
sole  manufacturer  and  the  sale  of  the  same  has 
been  extended  into  all  parts  of  the  industrial 
world. 

Upon  his  admirable  inventions  of  supreme 
utility  Mr.  Hennebohle  received  medals  and 
diplomas  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition, 
held  in  Chicago  in  1893,  and  since  that  time 
similar  distinction  has  come  to  him  from  many 
large  power  and  rolling  mill  plants  throughout 
the  country.  To  the  writer  the  potency  of  an 
inventor's  life  is  very  significant,  for  he  is  the 
man  who  not  only  develops  and  puts  into  action 
many  new  and  important  ideas,  but  is  the  one 
who  is  the  most  valuable  in  the  world's  work 
for  progress.  His  inventive  genius  has  placed 
at  the  disposal  of  the  public  many  labor  and 
time  saving  devices,  and  it  is  largely  through 
his  enterprise  and  activity  that  this  country 
today  enjoys  its  wonderful  prosperity.  Mr. 
Hennebohle  is   a   man   of  distinctive  inventive 


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genius  and  broad  mental  grasp,  and  few  in- 
ventors of  modern  times  have  attained  so  high 
a  reputation  for  ability  and  keenness  of  dis- 
cernment. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Manufacturers 
Association  and  of  the  National  Association  of 
Power  Engineers.  He  was  the  organizer,  in 
1883,  of  Branch  No.  317  of  the  Catholic  Knights 
of  America,  and  for  many  years  has  been  active 
in  civic  and  munificent  affairs.  Mr.  Henne- 
bohle  has  been  twice  married,  his  first  wife 
being  Anna,  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret 
Schildges,  of  Bochum,  Westphalia,  Germany, 
who  died  May  7,  1920,  the  mother  of  eight  chil- 


dren:  Martha,  Henry,  and  Frank,  all  of  whom 
died  in  infancy ;  Theresa,  wife  of  Nicholas  Tost, 
of  Detroit,  Michigan ;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Walter 
Prine,  of  Chicago,  Illinois ;  Anna,  wife  of  Erich 
F.  Schumann,  of  Calumet  City,  Illinois;  Marie, 
wife  of  Walter  T.  Plath.  of  Chicago,  Illinois; 
and  Catharine,  wife  of  Theodore  Sieben,  of  Chi- 
cago, Illinois.  Mr.  Hennebohle  has  twenty-five 
grandchildren.  On  April  2,  1921,  Mr.  Henne- 
bohle married  Louise  M.,  daughter  of  Mathias 
and  Barbara  Weller,  of  Port  Washington,  Wis- 
consin, and  his  home  is  at  8038  Constance  Ave- 
nue. South  Shore,  Chicago. 


ALFRED  EDGERTON  MANIERRE. 


Alfred  Edgerton  Manierre  was  born  in  Chi- 
cago, 111.,  on  Aug.  13,  1878,  a  son  of  George  and 
Anne  Eliza  (Edgerton)  Manierre.  His  father 
was  one  of  the  distinguished  early  residents  of 
Chicago.  The  mother's  family  is  an  old  one  in 
the  history  of  America,  and  was  a  very  promi- 
nent one  in  Ohio  when  her  father  was  an  United 
States  Senator. 

Alfred  E.  Manierre  attended  the  Coulter 
School  in  Chicago,  St.  Mark's  Academy  and 
then  entered  Yale  University  where  he  gradu- 
ated with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in 
1902.  He  was  then  active  in  railroad  work  for 
a  time,  but  soon  became  engaged  in  business  at 
Nashville,  Tennessee,  with  the  Newson  Crushed 
Stone  &  Quarry  Company.  Later  he  built  a  good 
many  houses  in  Nashville. 

Then  he  took  a  post  graduate  course  in  Archi- 
tecture at  the  University  of  Illinois,  and  grad- 
uated with  high  honors.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  American  Institute  of  Architecture. 

From  1912  until  the  close  of  his  life  he  was 
active  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Chi- 
cago and  vicinity.  He  designed  many  of  the 
finest  residences  on  the  North  Shore,  principally 
in  Glencoe,  AVinnetka  and  Lake  Forest.  He  had 
a  remarkable  genius  and  love  for  his  work ;  and 
he  earned  a  distinguished  reputation  as  a  builder 


of  the  beautiful  homes  which  stand  today  as  a 
monument  to  his  memory. 

On  March  20,  1907,  he  was  married  at  Chicago, 
111.,  by  the  late  Rev.  Frank  W.  Gunsaulus,  to 
Miss  June  Griffin  Parkinson,  a  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert H.  Parkinson  of  Chicago,  extended  mention 
of  whom  is  made  elsewhere  in  this  history.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Manierre  have  two  daughters,  Barbara 
Drake  Manierre  and  Jeannette  Lee  Manierre. 
The  family  home  was  for  many  years  main- 
tained at  Winnetka,  111.  Mr.  Manierre  was  in- 
finitely devoted  to  his  family.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  James  Episcopal  Church  and  also 
belonged  to  the  American  Institute  of  Architects. 

The  close  of  Mr.  Mainerre's  life  came  in  his 
forty-ninth  year.  He  will  be  remembered  not 
only  for  the  rare  quality  of  his  work  as  an  archi- 
tect but  for  fineness  and  solid  worth  of  his  life. 
He  was  loved  by  all  who  knew  him  and  had 
warm  friends  among  all  classes.  He  possessed 
a  thoroughly  developed  and  splendid  character ; 
and  his  personality  was  so  filled  with  goodness 
and  cheerfulness  that,  when  he  came  into  a 
room,  it  seemed  as  though  the  sun  had  come 
out  from  behind  a  cloud.  He  was  wholly  un- 
selfish and  was  blessed  with  deep  understanding 
and  sympathy. 

Alfred  Edgerton  Manierre  died  on  Dec.  9,  1926. 


WILLIAM  TALMADGE  HUGHES. 


Dr.  William  T.  Hughes  of  Oak  Park,  Illinois, 
was  born  at  Cuyhoga  Falls,  Ohio,  on  October  8, 
1876,  a  son  of  Evan  and  Margaret  (Thomas) 
Hughes.  The  family  moved  to  a  farm  near  Bray- 
mer,  Missouri,  when  he  was  still  a  boy. 


His  early  training  was  in  the  country  schools 
near  his  home  and  at  Kidder  Institute.  Later  he 
graduated  from  Yankton  College,  in  South  Da- 
kota, with  his  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science. 
This  was  in  1905.    After  that  he  came  to  Chi- 


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eago,  and  took  further  studies  at  the  University 
of  Chicago  and  there  received  his  Master's  de- 
gree. 

He  entered  Rush  Medical  College  at  Chicago, 
and  graduated  from  that  institution  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  in  1900. 

Then,  for  a  time,  he  was  interne  at  the  Pres- 
byterian Hospital.  He  gave  evidence  of  excep- 
tional ability  and  was  chosen  as  assistant  to 
Dr.  Arthur  Dean  Bevan.  He  als6  worked  under 
Doctor  Le  Count  in  the  Pathology  Department 
of  the  hospital.  He  held  the  Nicholas  Senn  Fel- 
lowship which  enabled  him  to  do  research  work. 

He  began  private  practice  at  Oak  Park,  Illi- 
nois, in  1910.  His  work  since  that  time  has  en- 
titled him  to  a  place  among  the  most  able  phy- 
sicians of  Chicago  and  suburbs. 

On  February  5.  1910,  Doctor  Hughes  was  mar- 
ried at  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Sara  Low,  a 
daughter  of  Eugene  S.  and  Florence  (Moore) 
Low.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Hughes  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth  Low  Hughes. 


Doctor  Hughes  belonged  to  the  Pilgrim  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Oak  Park.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  the  Oak  Park  Club  and  the  River 
Forest  Tennis  Club.  Professionally  he  belonged 
to  the  American  Medical  Society,  the  Illinois 
State  Medical  Society  and  the  Physicians'  Club 
of  Oak  Park. 

Doctor  Hughes  was  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  the  West  Suburban  Hospital. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  staff  of  this  hospital 
and  he  was  on  the  staff  of  the  obstetrical  de- 
partment. It  should  be  recorded  that  Doctor 
Hughes  was  very  largely  instrumental  in  the 
development  of  the  West  Suburban  Hospital 
which  is,  today,  a  splendidly  equipped  institu- 
tion and  one  which  will  render  incalculable 
service  to  thousands  of  people,  year  after  year. 

Doctor  Hughes'  life  of  fine  usefulness  came  to 
its  close  in  his  fifty-second  year.  He  was  always 
faithful  to  the  best  of  his  profession.  His  death, 
on  May  17,  1928,  brought  sorrow  to  many  hearts. 


CLARENCE  EVERETT  ESTES. 


Clarence  E.  Estes,  Vice  President  of  the  Illi- 
nois Merchants  Trust  Company,  is  one  of  the 
aggressive  and  conservative  financiers  of  Chi- 
cago who  has  made  his  way  to  prominence  and 
honorable  prestige  through  his  own  well-di- 
rected energy  and  efforts,  and  the  history  of 
Illinois  would  be  incomplete  without  a  review 
of  his  career.  He  began  his  banking  activities 
as  messenger  with  the  Merchants  Loan  &  Trust 
Company  at  this  city  when  nineteen  years  of 
age.  and  by  hard  work  and  frugal  habits  he 
•has  risen  to  a  place  of  commanding  influence  in 
banking  circles. 

Mr.  Estes  was  born  at  Mechanics  Falls, 
Maine,  December  15,  1871.  a  son  of  Alfred  L. 
and  Mary  (Greenwood)  Estes,  and  he  fully  ex- 
emplifies the  alert  and  enterprising  character 
for  which  the  people  of  New  England  have  al- 
ways been  noted.  His  educational  advantages 
were  those  afforded  by  the  grammar  schools  of 
Auburn,    Maine,   and   the   Edward   Little   High 


School  of  that  city,  and  he  was  graduated  from 
the  latter  institution  in  1889.  On  March  5, 
of  the  subsequent  year  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Merchants  Loan  &  Trust  Company  at 
Chicago  as  messenger.  In  1903  he  was  pro- 
moted to  be  auditor ;  in  1908  to  be  assistant 
cashier  and  in  February,  1916,  he  was  elected 
Vice  President. 

During  the  time  Mr.  Estes  has  served  as 
Vice  President  of  the  Illinois  Merchants  Trust 
Company,  he  has  not  only  proven  his  ability  as 
a  banker  but  has  gained  the  confidence  and  re- 
spect of  all  with  whom  he  has  transacted  busi- 
ness. He  is  prominent  in  social  as  well  as  in 
business  circles,  and  is  a  valued  member  of  the 
Bankers,  Union  League,  Caxton,  Hamilton,  Ev- 
anston  Golf  and  Chicago  Yacht  Clubs.  Mr.  Estes 
was  married  February  20,  1909,  to  Miss  Emilie 
Josephine  Frick,  of  Winona,  Minnesota,  who  died 
in  1918.  On  April  28,  1923,  he  married  Miss 
Sarah  Marie  Gavin,  of  Chicago. 


EUGENE  MORGAN  STEVENS. 


Eugene  M.  Stevens.  President  of  the  Illinois 
Merchants'  Trust  Company,  was  born  at  Preston, 
Minnesota,  February  1.  1871.  a  son  of  Andrew 
J.  Stevens  and  Clara  Morgan  (Bentley)  Stevens. 


by  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state,  and, 
early  developing  an  aptitude  for  business,  he 
became  identified  with  the  Winona  (Minnesota) 
Wagon    Company    when    sixteen    years    of   age, 


His  educational  advantages  were  those  afforded      and     remained     with     that    concern    for    four 


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years.  In  1891  he  secured  employment  with 
F.  H.  Peavey  &  Company,  a  Minneapolis  grain 
commission  house,  and  remained  with  that  con- 
cern for  ten  years.  In  1901  he  embarked  in 
business  for  himself,  establishing  the  firm  of 
Eugene  M.  Stevens  &  Company,  which  later  be- 
came Stevens,  Chapman  &  Company,  investment 
bankers  at  Minneapolis.  This  alliance,  which 
continued  for  sixteen  years,  proved  most  valu- 
able and  was  destined  to  have  important  in- 
fluence in  directing  his  subsequent  activities  as 
a  banker. 

In  1917  Mr.  Stevens  came  to  Chicago  as  Vice 
President  of  the  Illinois  Trust  &  Savings  Bank, 
and  after  that  bank  was  merged  into  the  Illinois 
Merchants'  Trust  Company,  he  continued  in  the 
same  capacity  with  the  latter  institution  until 
February  4,  1927,  when  he  was  elected  President 
of  this  great  financial  institution,  a  position 
which  not  only  indicates  his  ability  as  a  banker, 
but  his  popularity  and  high  standing  as  a  citizen. 
Besides  this  connection  he  is  a  director  in  the 
bank.and  is  also  a  director  of  the  Diamond  Match 
Company   of   New   York   and   of  Wilson   &   Co. 


Packers,  Marshall  Field  &  Company,  Guaranty 
Trust  Company.  N.  Y.,  Texas  Company  and  the 
Illinois  Trust  Safety  Deposit  Co.,  and  a  Trustee 
of  the  University  of  Chicago.  While  a  resident 
of  Minnesota,  he  served  for  a  number  of  years  as 
a  member  of  the  National  Guard  of  that  State, 
and  was  also  an  active  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Liberty  Loan  Campaigns  in  the 
Chicago  Federal  Reserve  District.  He  is  a  life 
member  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago;  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and 
of  the  Chicago  Club,  the  Glenview  Country  Club, 
Commercial  Club,  Old  Elm  and  The  Attic  Club, 
of  Chicago,  the  Minneapolis  club  of  Minneapolis, 
and  the  Recess  club  of  New  York  City. 

Mr.  Stevens  was  married  in  1899,  to  Miss 
Mary  Frances  Rolfe,  of  Stacyville,  Iowa,  and  of 
this  union  were  born  two  sons :  Eugene  Morgan 
Stevens,  Jr.,  and  Charles  Rolfe  Stevens.  The 
family  home  is  at  1246  Ridge  Avenue,  Evanston, 
Illinois. 

The  record  of  Eugene  M.  Stevens'  life  holds 
the  finest  type  of  inspiration. 


CHARLES  EDWARD  RINGLING. 


The  late  Charles  Edward  Ringling  was  born 
in  the  town  of  McGregor,  Iowa,  on  January  19, 
1864.  His  parents  were  August  and  Salome 
(Juliar)  Ringling. 

The  family  moved  to  Wisconsin  when  Charles 
Ringling  was  a  boy ;  and  it  was  in  Wisconsin 
that  he  attended  public  school,  at  Prairie  du 
Chien  and  at  Baraboo. 

About  the  year  1882  Charles  Ringling  and  sev- 
eral of  his  brothers  formed  a  small  concert  com- 
pany which  they  operated  through  the  winter 
seasons,  in  Wisconsin.  In  1884  they  started  a 
wagon  show  which  met  with  deserved  success 
and  which  toured  the  country  throughout  the 
summer  seasons.  This  business  they  enlarged 
from  year  to  year. 

By  1890  their  show  had  outgrown  wagon  trans- 
portation ;  so  the  required  railroad  equipment 
was  purchased  and  installed  and,  from  that  time, 
Ringling  Brothers  Circus  traveled  from  town  to 
town  and  city  to  city  by  rail,  and  has  become 
known  to  nearly  every  man,  woman  and  child 
in  the  entire  country. 

The  growth  of  Ringling  Brothers  Circus  has 
been  remarkable.  In  1908  the  Brothers  bought 
the  Barnum  '&  Bailey  Circus  and  until  1917  op- 
erated the  two  circuses  separately.    In  that  year 


they  were  consolidated  to  form  what  is  literally 
the  greatest  show  of  its  kind  on  earth.  At 
various  times  the  Ringling  brothers  also  bought 
and  absorbed  the  Sells  Brothers  Circus,  the  Adam 
Forepaugh  Circus,  Buffalo  Bill's  Wild  West 
Show  and  other  similar  well-known  organiza- 
tions. 

The  original  brothers  in  the  original  owner- 
ship and  management  of  Ringling  Brothers  Cir- 
cus were  Albert,  Otto,  Alfred,  Charles  and  John 
Ringling.  It  is  a  very  noteworthy  fact  that 
throughout  all  the  subsequent  years  that  these 
brothers  controlled  this  vast  organization  they 
worked  together  in  closest  harmony,  for  the  mu- 
tual good,  without  any  contract  or  written  agree- 
ment existing  between  them.  Theirs  was  a 
splendid  and  rare  companionship.  All  matters 
of  consequence  were  always  discussed  between 
them  and  decided  upon  in  friendly  agreement. 

Much  of  the  success  that  this  great  business 
organization  has  achieved  is  credited  to  Charles 
Ringling.  He  had  a  firm  grasp  of  detail.  He 
was  endowed  with  the  ability  to  see  the  whole 
of  any  important  situation,  to  consider  it  care- 
fully ;  and  his  judgments  were  remarkably  cor- 
rect and  adequate. 

On   October  23,    1889,    Charles   Ringling  was 


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married  at  Bamboo,  Wisconsin,  to  Miss  Edith 
Conway,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  W.  E.  Conway,  who 
was  for  many  years  a  minister  of  the  West  Wis- 
consin Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ringling  have  two  chil- 
dren, Robert  Edward  Ringling,  and  Hester  Mar- 
garet Ringling  (Mrs.  John  Patterson).  The 
family's  summer  home  is  at  Evanston,  Illinois, 
and  their  winter  home  is  at  Sarasota,  Florida. 

Charles  Ringling  was  the  founder  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Ringling  Trust  &  Savings  Rank  at 
Sarasota.  He  was  the  owner  of  large  tracts  of 
land  in  Florida.  He  was  president  of  the  Sara- 
sota Chamber  of  Commerce.  For  the  past  fifteen 
years  he  accomplished  a  great  deal  for  the  de- 
velopment of  Sarasota  County. 

Mr.  Ringling  was  a  true  lover  of  music.     He 


was  a  very  fine  violinist  and  he  owned  one  of 
the  most  famous  violins  in  the  world.  He  was 
at  all  times  a  patron  of  everything  good  in  music. 
The  life  of  Charles  E.  Ringling  came  to  its 
close  in  his  sixty-second  year.  He  was  world- 
famous  as  a  circus  owner,  for  Ringling  Brothers 
Circus  has  been  almost  a  national  institution  for 
years  and  years.  He  was  also  widely  known  as 
a  financier.  His  friendships  extended  through- 
out all  America  and  abroad.  He  was  a  thor- 
oughly admirable  man,  of  excellent  character, 
very  able,  genial,  unassuming  and  kind.  He  pos- 
sessed the  spirit  of  Divine  Helpfulness  for  every- 
one in  need.  His  death  on  December  3,  1926. 
was  a  loss  to  the  people  of  the  entire  nation  for 
his  life  added  much  to  the  sum  of  knowledge  and 
of  happiness  in  the  world. 


JOHN  PETER  IMMEL. 


Although  his  birth  occurred  many  hundreds 
of  miles  away,  Mr.  Immel  has  been  a  resident  of 
Chicago  for  forty-four  years.  He  was  born  in 
Germany,  February  6,  1859,  a  son  of  Jacob 
Immel  and  Margaret  (Jung)  Immel.  After  ac- 
quiring a  substantial  elementary  education  he 
learned  the  cabinet  making  trade  and  was  en- 
gaged in  that  field  of  activity  in  his  native  coun- 
try for  several  years.  Like  many  ambitious 
young  men  of  the  old  world,  he  was  not  satis- 
fied with  the  opportunities  offered  there  for  ad- 
vancement, and  resolved  to  seek  attainment  in 
America.  Accordingly,  in  1884.  he  sailed  for  the 
United  States,  coming  direct  to  Chicago,  and  has 
since  been  a  resident  of  this  city.  He  became  a 
naturalized  citizen  of  the  United  States  in  1890. 
Soon  after  coming  to  Chicago  he  found  employ- 
ment as  a  cabinet  maker  and  was  thus  engaged 
for  several  years.  In  1892  he  embarked  in  the 
insurance  and  loan  business  and  was  an  active 
factor  in  that  enterprise  for  more  than  twenty 
years.  In  1914  he  became  a  partner  in  a  private 
bank  and  later  organized  the  Immel  State  Bank, 
which  was  incorporated  in  1919.  and  of  which 
he  is  president.  He  is  likewise  president  of  the 
Immel  Safe  Deposit  Company ;  and  also  has 
other  business  and  financial  interests. 

Under  Mr.  Immel's  able  and  conservative  man- 
agement the  Immel  State  Bank  has  become  one 
of  the  strong  financial  institutions  of  Chicago, 
and  its  status  is  one  of  prominence  in  connection 
with  the  representative  banking  houses  of  the 
city.  It  is  a  State  and  Clearing  House  Bank,  and 
its  growth  has  been  phenomenal.    On  January  1, 


1915,  its  deposits  aggregated  $G0,149.51 ;  January 
1,  1920,  $526,140.49;  January  1,  1925.  $1,616,- 
765.26,  and  on  February  28,  1928,  its  deposits 
aggregated  $2,17.3,149.58.  The  bank's  statement 
of  conditions  at  the  close  of  business  on  Febru- 
ary 28,  1928,  as  made  to  the  Auditor  of  Public 
Accounts  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  shows  its  re- 
sources and  liabilities  as  follows :  Loans  and 
discounts  were  $762,925.82;  Overdrafts  $155.90; 
Bonds  and  securities  $1.450.012.13 ;  Furniture 
and  Fixtures  $16,397.74 ;  Interest  earned  but  not 
collected  $28,006.17;  Cash  and  due  from  banks 
$207,610.33.  Its  liabilities  were :  Capital  $200,- 
000.00;  Surplus  $50,000.00;  Undivided  profits 
$29,957.10;  Reserve  for  interest,  taxes,  Etc., 
$8,596.16  ;  Unearned  discount  $3,405.25  ;  Deposits 
$2,173,149.58.  Its  officers  are  as  follows :  John 
P.  Immel,  president ;  Henry  J.  Immel.  vice-presi- 
dent ;  Walter  Rasmussen,  vice-president ;  Wil- 
liam J.  Immel,  cashier ;  and  Edward  S. 
Karasinski,  assistant  cashier.  Its  Board  of  Di- 
rectors are  :  John  P.  Immel ;  John  A.  Immel ; 
Dr.  F.  O.  Bowe;  Otto  Frerk ;  Ernest  H.  Leder ; 
and  Walter  Rasmussen.  All  are  numbered 
among  the  representative  and  highly  respected 
citizens  of  Chicago  and  are  men  who  give  im- 
petus to  any  enterprise  with  which  they  are 
associated. 

Besides  his  business  connections  Mr.  Immel  is 
also  active  in  civic  affairs.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Avondale  Booster  Club  and  of  the  Goethe 
Maennercbor,  and  is  prominent  in  both  social 
and  business  circles.     In  his  religious  faith  he  is 


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a  Catholic  and  is  active  in  all  good  work  of  that 
organization.  Aside  from  his  business  activities 
he  also  finds  time  to  get  the  most  out  of  the  finer 
amenities  of  life  and  the  recreation  and  diversion 
which  he  finds  in  motoring  and  travel.  Mr. 
Inirnel  was  married  November  14,  18S6,  to  Fran- 
ces Amrhein.  They  became  the  parents  of  twelve 
children,  of  whom  the  first  born  died  in  infancy. 


The  others  are :  Joseph  P.,  Paul  P.,  Henry  J., 
John  A.,  William  J.,  Catherine,  Margaret,  Eliza- 
beth, Peter  J.,  Edward  B.,  and  Marie  C.  Three 
of  the  sons  are  identified  with  the  Immel  State 
Bank  of  Chicago  and  two  with  the  Peoples  & 
Merchants  State  Bank  of  Park  Ridge,  Illinois. 
They  are  all  practical  business  men  and  are  well 
upholding  the  honor  of  the  family  name. 


MARY  MARGARET  BARTELME. 


In  no  age  has  the  world  been  so  greatly  in- 
debted to  women  as  at  the  present.  Considered 
the  weaker  sex  for  centuries,  she  has  in  many 
ways  proven  herself  the  peer  of  the  stronger, 
and  in  the  professions,  in  public  offices,  hospitals, 
factories,  mills,  work-shops  and  even  in  muscular 
force  she  is  not  unequal  to  the  severest  tests. 
Among  the  notable  women  of  Chicago  who  have 
established  a  reputation  for  ability  and  have 
achieved  honorable  success,  one  worthy  of  men- 
tion in  the  history  of  Illinois  is  Mary  M.  Bar- 
telme.  Judge  of  the  Juvenile  Court,  of  the  Cir- 
cuit Court  of  Cook  County. 

Judge  Bartelme  is  a  native  of  Chicago,  and 
her  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  public 
schools  of  this  city.  Her  parents  Balthasar  and 
Jeannette  ( Ho  IT  I  Bartelme,  who  arc  both  now 
deceased,  were  pioneers  of  the  city,  and  were 
numbered  among  its  progressive  and  most 
highly  respected  citizens.  After  completing  her 
studies  in  the  Chicago  public  schools,  and  hav- 
ing determined  upon  the  practice  of  law  as  a  life 
work,  Miss  Bartelme  matriculated  at  the  North- 
western University  Law  School  and  was  gradu- 
ated from  that  institution  in  1894.  with  the  de- 
gree of  Bachelor  of  Law.  Soon  afterward  she 
began  the  practice  of  law  in  Chicago,  and  has 
since  been  one  of  the  prominent  factors  in  the 
legal  profession  of  this  city.  She  has  the  dis- 
tinction of  being  the  only  woman  ever  elected 
Judge  of  a  court  of  record  in  Illinois.  She 
has  also  been  active  in  civic  and  welfare  work 
and  in  the  public  affairs  of  Chicago  and  Cook 
County  for  many  years,   and   in   all  capacities 


her  work  has  ever  been  discharged  with  a  keen 
sense  of  conscientious  obligation. 

For  more  than  sixteen  years  Judge  Bartelme 
served  as  Public  Guardian  of  Cook  County,  hav- 
ing been  appointed  by  each  governor  of  Illinois 
during  that  period.  On  March  3,  1913,  she  was 
appointed  by  the  Judges  of  the  Circuit  Court  to 
try  the  cases  of  delinquent  girls  in  the  Juvenile 
Court.  She  made  such  a  record  in  this  ca- 
pacity for  jurisprudence  and  for  the  patient 
wisdom  with  which  she  met  many  trying  situa- 
tions, that  she  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Circuit 
Court  of  Cook  County  on  November  6,  1923. 
She  was  assigned  to  the  Juvenile  Court,  and  has 
since  filled  this  responsible  position  with  fidelity 
and  probity,  having  been  re-elected  June  6,  1927, 
for  a  term  expiring  in  1933.  Here,  as  in  all 
other  official  trusts,  she  has  performed  the 
duties  devolving  upon  her  with  loyalty  and 
thoroughness,  and  has  proven  herself  a  woman 
of  exceptional  judicial  ability.  Her  strong  con- 
victions regarding  right  and  wrong;  her  fear- 
lessness of  criticism  or  public  opinion  when  she 
believes  she  is  right  and  her  unswerving  alle- 
giance to  principles  of  good  citizenship  are 
traits  which  especially  distinguish  her  and  make 
her  a  strong  factor  in  the  furtherance  of  law 
and  order. 

She  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Asso- 
ciation, the  Illinois  State  Bar  Association,  The 
Illinois  Woman's  Bar  Association  and  the  Chi- 
cago Bar  Association,  the  League  of  Women 
Voters  and  of  the  Chicago  Woman's  Club,  the 
Woman's  City  Club  and  the  Cordon  Club. 


GEORGE  E.  Q.  JOHNSON. 


Mr.  Johnson  was  born  at  Harcourt,  Iowa,  July 
11.  1874,  a  son  of  John  and  Mathilda  (Linder- 
holm)  Johnson.  His  educational  advantages 
were  those  afforded  by  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  Tobin  College,  Fort  Dodge, 
Iowa,  and  he  graduated  from  the  latter  institu- 


tion in  1897.  Having  determined  upon  the  prac- 
tice of  law  as  a  life  work,  he  later  matriculated 
at  the  Law  Department  of  Lake  Forest  Univer- 
sity and  was  graduated  from  that  institution  in 
1900,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws. 
Soon  after  completing  his  law  course  he  estab- 


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lished  himself  in  the  practice  of  law  at  Chicago, 
and  has  since  been  a  strong  power  in  the  legal 
profession  of  this  city.  He  has  been  a  Master- 
in-Chancery  in  the  Circuit  Court  of  Cook  County 
since  I!)!'!',  and  on  February  14,  1927,  he  was  ap- 
pointed United  States  District  Attorney. 

He  is  attorney  and  a  Director  of  the  Roseland 
National  Bank  of  Chicago,  the  Roseland  Home 
Building  Association,  Homestead  Securities  Cor- 
poration and  the  Roseland  Community  Hospital. 
He  is  also  active  in  church  and  social  work  and 
is  a  leader  in  South  Shore  community  circles. 
He  is  known  as  a  student  of  history,  political 
economy  and  jurisprudence,  and  has  gained  a 
wide  reputation  as  an  orator  and  lecturer  on 
many  topics  of  interest.  He  is  recognized  as  a 
leader   of  the  best  element  of  the  Republican 


party,  and  as  Committeeman  of  the  Seventh 
Ward,  he  has  rendered  effective  service  to  his 
party  in  that  community. 

He  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  Royal  Arcanum ;  Lutheran 
Church,  and  the  Calumet  Commercial  and  Swed- 
ish clubs. 

Mr.  Johnson  was  married  September  8,  1906, 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  M.  Swanstrom,  of  Lindsborg, 
Kansas,  and  of  this  union  was  born  one  son, 
George  E.  Q.  Johnson,  Jr.  Mrs.  Johnson  is  a 
woman  of  exceptional  intellectual  capacity.  She 
is  a  dramatic  coach  and  a  reader  of  note,  and  is 
greatly  admired  for  her  social  and  educational 
activities.  The  family  home  for  many  years  has 
been  at  7327  Crandon  Avenue,  Chicago. 


EDWARD  TURNER  JEFFERY. 


The  late  Edward  T.  Jeffery  was  born  at  Liver- 
pool, England,  April  6,  1843,  a  son  of  William 
S.  and  Jane  (McMillan)  Jeffery,  who  were  na- 
tives of  Greenock,  Scotland  and  of  Downpatrick, 
Ireland,  respectively.  His  father  was  a  captain 
in  the  English  Navy ;  and  it  is  recorded  of  him 
that  he  commanded  the  first  side-wheel  steamer 
that  left  the  shores  of  England.  The  father  died 
when  Edward  T.  Jeffery  was  six  years  old. 
Later  the  mother  married  again  and  brought  her 
son  with  her  to  America,  settling  at  Wheeling, 
West  Virginia,  in  the  eighties.  There  the  son 
attended  school  for  two  years.  That  was  all  the 
schooling  he  had.  The  broad  knowledge  and 
exceptional  culture  that  characterized  his  later 
life  came  to  him  through  his  own  untiring  effort. 
He  was  a  self-made  man  in  the  best  sense  of 
that  term. 

He  came  to  Chicago  before  he  was  thirteen 
years  old  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  as  office  boy  in  the  office  of  the 
Master  Mechanic.  Here  he  availed  himself  of 
the  opportunity  to  study  mechanical  drawing  and 
other  branches-  of  a  practical  American  educa- 
tion. He  also  had  valuable  training  as  an  ap- 
prentice in  the  machine  shop.  Later  he  was 
made  librarian  of  the  Library  which  the  road 
maintained  for  its  employes ;  and  this  work 
opened  to  him  further  avenues  for  study. 

Then  he  was  made  a  mechanical  draftsman  for 
the  Illinois  Central  and  as  time  passed  he  be- 
came one  of  the  ablest  men  of  his  day  at  that 
work. 


In  1877  he  was  made  Superintendent  of  ma- 
chinery for  the  Illinois  Central. 

From  that  position  he  was  promoted  to  be- 
come General  Superintendent  of  the  road,  and, 
later,  was  made  General  Manager  of  the  Illinois 
Central,  which  office  he  filled,  with  distinguished 
success,  until  1893,  in  which  year  he  retired  from 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad. 

He  was  then  elected  President  of  the  Denver 
&  Rio  Grande  Railroad. 

In  1877  he  was  married  to  Miss  Virginia  O. 
Clarke  of  Maryland,  a  daughter  of  James  C.  and 
Susan  (Schaefer)  Clarke.  James  C.  Clarke,  his 
wife's  father,  was  President  of  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroad. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jeffery  have  two  children,  James 
Clarke  Jeffery,  deceased,  and  Edna  Turner  Jef- 
fery  (Mrs.  Edmund  J.  Doering,  Jr.). 

James  Clarke  Jeffery  who  became  a  promi- 
nent Chicago  lawyer,  died  on  December  5.  1924. 
He  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  University  and  of 
Harvard  Law  School.  He  is  survived  by  his 
daughter,  Frances  Clarke  Jeffery. 

Edna  Turner  Jeffery  married  Edmund  J. 
Doering,  Jr.  They  have  four  children  :  Virginia 
Jeffery  Doering,  Edna  Mary  Doering,  Nancy 
Doering  and  Edmund  James  Doering. 

The  Jeffery  family  residence  was  maintained 
for  many  years  on  the  South  Side  in  Chicago. 
Mr.  Jeffery  lived  on  Michigan  Avenue  for  about 
sixty  years. 

Mr.  Jeffery  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Club. 


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He  was  a  Director  of  the  old  Calumet  Club.  He 
also  belonged  to  the  Metropolitan  Club  and  to 
the  Lawyers  Club  of  New  York  City. 

It  should  also  be  stated  that  he  rendered  very 
valuable  service  to  Chicago  during  the  World's 


Fair ;  and  the  present  Jeffery  Avenue,  Chicago, 
is  named  in  his  honor. 

Mr.  Jeffery  died  on  September  24,  1927.  For 
many  years  he  was  one  of  the  most  notable 
figures  in  railroad  circles  in  America. 


MYRON  JAY  CARPENTER. 


Myron  J.  Carpenter,  one  of  the  best  known 
railroad  executives  in  the  West,  was  born  at 
Caledonia,  Illinois,  in  1850,  a  son  of  Adolphus 
and  Martha  (Mann)  Carpenter  of  Massachu- 
setts and  New  York,  respectively.  The  Car- 
penters are  an  old  family  in  America ;  the  first 
representative  came  to  this  country  from  Eng- 
land and  settled  at  Rehobeth,  Massachusetts, 
in  1638. 

Myron  J.  Carpenter  attended  the  public 
school  in  Caledonia.  In  1868  his  parents  moved 
to  Janesville,  Wisconsin.  He  then  entered  the 
Preparatory  School  of  Beloit  College.  The  fail- 
ing health  of  his  father  soon  compelled  him  to 
drop  his  studies  to  become  the  wage-earner  for 
the  family.  While  in  the  employ  of  the  Harris 
Manufacturing  Company  he  attended  the  Con- 
gregational Sunday  School ;  here  he  was  in- 
duced by  his  teacher,  Mr.  A.  A.  Jackson,  to 
study  telegraphy.  Soon  mastering  the  key- 
board he  was  given  a  position  as  telegraph 
operator  at  Wells,  Minnesota.  In  a  few  months 
Mr.  Carpenter  was  promoted  to  the  position  of 
station  agent  at  Mankato,  Minnesota.  From 
this  time  Mr.  Carpenter's  advancement  was 
rapid  because  of  his  untiring  devotion  to  the 
work  assigned  him,  and  his  unflagging  interest 
in  every  detail  of  railroading. 

From  station  agent  at  Mankato,  Mr.  Car- 
penter was  made  travelling  auditor  of  the  Chi- 
cago &  Northwestern  Railroad.  Again  after 
three  years  he  was  put  in  charge  of  the  North- 
western shops  at  Winona,  Wisconsin.  Later 
he  became  cashier  and  freight  agent  of  the 
Chicago  '&  Northwestern  Railroad's  principal 
station  in  Chicago. 

The  evidences  of  his  exceptional  ability  were 
such  that  when  the  Chicago  and  Great  Western 
Railroad  was  about  to  be  built  into  Chicago, 
Mr.  Carpenter  was  chosen  to  have  full  charge 
of  its  construction.  Mr.  Carpenter  built  the 
road  and  ran  its  first  train  into  Chicago. 

He  was  next  elected  President  of  the  Duluth 
&  Iron  Range  Railroad,  residing  in  Duluth 
while  holding  this  position. 

After    three    and    a    halt'    years    there,    while 


on  a  business  trip  to  Chicago,  he  was  offered 
the  presidency  of  three  roads.  Mr.  Carpenter 
chose  to  accept  that  of  the  Chicago  &  Eastern 
Illinois.  His  subsequent  work  in  the  rebuild- 
ing and  reconstruction  of  the  Chicago  '&  East- 
ern Illinois  Railroad  forms  a  remarkable  chap- 
ter in  railroad  history.  He  brought  about 
changes  for  improvement  throughout  the  en- 
tire system  that  were  monumental ;  and  the  road 
at  the  time  it  was  sold  to  the  St.  Louis  &  San 
Francisco  Railroad  Company  brought  the  high- 
est price  per  mile  on  record.  The  Frisco  man- 
agement sought  to  retain  Mr.  Carpenter  in 
charge ;  but  the  Pere  Marquette  Railroad  was 
seeking  the  ability  Mr.  Carpenter  possessed  to 
rehabilitate  their  property.  The  zest  to  rebuild 
again  allured  Mr.  Carpenter  to  accept  the  offer 
of  the  Pere  Marquette  Railroad,  as  vice-presi- 
dent and  general  manager.  Again  Mr.  Car- 
penter made  a  signal  success — gaining  for  the 
Pere  Marquette  emancipation  from  its  financial 
difficulties  and  a  long  sought  for  terminal  of 
its  own  in  Chicago.  After  two  years  he  re- 
signed and  felt  that  he  would  never  again  in- 
dulge in  railroading.  However,  there  was  one 
more  piece  of  work  for  him  to  do.  Judge 
Kohlsaat  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court, 
on  request  of  the  bankers  of  Chicago  and  New 
York,  appointed  Mr.  Carpenter  as  Receiver  of 
the  well-known  John  R.  Walsh  roads.  Once 
more  Mr.  Carpenter  bent  his  energy  in  bring- 
ing order  out  of  chaos.  The  several  smaller 
lines  were  consolidated  and  became  the  Chi- 
cago, Terre  Haute  &  Southeastern  Railroad,  of 
which  Mr.  Carpenter  was  made  President.  Dur- 
ing the  war  when  the  Government  assumed 
control  of  the  railroads  of  the  nation,  Mr.  Car- 
penter was  asked  to  become  a  Regional  Direc- 
tor. He  however  decided  not  to  accept.  When 
the  Government  released  control  after  the  War. 
Mr.  Carpenter  again  took  up  the  reins ;  and 
he  continued  as  President  until  the  road  was 
sold  to  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul 
Railroad. 

Mr.   Carpenter  was  a  devout  Christian — liv- 


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ing  his  religion  every  day — deeply  interested  in 
all  the  work  of  the  Church — giving  the  same 
untiring  energy  to  promoting  all  organizations 
for  the  uplift  of  humanity. 

Mr.  Carpenter  belonged  to  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  Central  Young  Men's  Christian  As- 
sociation, Chicago,  and  for  two  terms  was 
Treasurer.  He  was  a  life  member  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  the  Chicago  City  Mis- 
sionary Society ;  a  life  member  of  the  Red 
Cross,  the  Art  Institute  and  the  Chicago  His- 
torical Society.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Commissioners   of   Foreign   Missions. 


Mr.  Carpenter  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Club  and  a  charter  member  of  the  La  Grange 
County  Country  Club.  He  served  two  terms  as 
President  of  the  Board,  of  the  suburb  of  La 
Grange.  With  the  late  Mr.  James  Kidston,  he 
was  largely  instrumental  in  securing  the  Car- 
negie Library  for  La  Grange. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Carpenter  occurred  January 
2,  1925,  when  he  was  in  his  seventy-fifth  year. 
He  was  one  of  the  important  figures  in  the 
railroad  improvements  and  developments  of 
Illinois,  a  man  of  the  finest  attainment  of  char- 
acter. 


EDWARD  JOSEPH  KELLY. 


Edward  J.  Kelly,  President  of  the  Board  of 
South  Park  Commissioners,  and  for  more  than 
a  quarter  of  a  century  an  active  factor  of  the 
Sanitary  District  of  the  city,  has  not  only  proven 
his  ability  and  fidelity  as  a  public  official,  but 
he  is  a  worthy  example  of  that  element  of  ag- 
gressive and  public-spirited  citizens  who  have 
contributed  so  much  to  the  material  betterment 
of  Chicago  during  the  past  three  decades.  His 
career  is  typical  of  men  who  have  been  the  archi- 
tects of  their  own  fortunes  and  is  most  inter- 
esting and  significant. 

Mr.  Kelly  was  born  in  Chicago,  May  1,  1876, 
a  son  of  Stephen  and  Helen  (Lang)  Kelly. 
His  educational  advantages  were  those  afforded 
by  the  public  and  night  schools  of  this  city  and 
he  was  also  under  private  tutors.  As  a  youth 
he  manifested  a  diligent  temperament  and,  hav- 
ing no  false  pride  and  placing  a  true  valuation 
on  honest  toil  and  endeavor,  of  whose  dignity 
he  has  ever  continued  deeply  appreciative,  he 
worked  at  any  honorable  employment  he  could 
find  during  his  boyhood  days.  In  1896  he  be- 
came identified  with  the  Sanitary  District  of 
Chicago,  successively  as  axman,  roadman,  com- 
puter, head  inspector,  levelman,  instrumentman, 
sub-assistant  engineer,  assistant  engineer,  divi- 
sion engineer,  assistant  chief  engineer  and  chief 
engineer,  the  latter  of  which  position  he  still 
retains.  He  was  a  leading  figure  in  the  passage 
of  the  Illinois  Waterway  and  also  served  as 
Illinois  Waterway  Commissioner,  his  services 
being  loaned  by  the  Sanitary  District  to  the 
State  for  this  work. 

In  May.  1922.  Mr.  Kelly  was  appointed  South 
Park  Commissioner  for  a  term  of  five  years  by 
a  non-partisan  Circuit  Court  and  re-elected  in 
March,  1927.     He  is  President  of  the  Board  be- 


ing elected  by  his  fellow  board  members  in  May. 
1924.  This  Board  has  charge  of  seventy  miles 
of  parks  and  boulevards,  including  the  Lake 
Front  and  Michigan  boulevard,  and  it  is  esti- 
mated that  thirty  million  dollars  will  be  spent 
by  this  Board  on  improvements.  Mr.  Kelly  is 
directing  the  work  to  make  Grant  Park  a  model 
of  beauty,  the  completion  of  the  Stadium,  where 
the  Eucharistic  Congress  was  held  and  the 
Army-Navy  game  played ;  the  establishment  of 
boulevards  to  relieve  traffic,  the  establishment 
of  numerous  parks,  including  one  of  twenty-six 
acres  in  the  colored  district,  the  restoration  of 
the  Fine  Arts  building  as  a  great  convention 
hall,  the  supervision  of  a  twenty  years'  program 
for  the  Sanitary  District,  to  cost  one  hundred 
million  dollars.  He  was  a  leader  in  the  fight 
for  the  ten  thousand  cubic  feet  of  water  per 
second  through  the  main  Drainage  Canal,  the 
district  agreeing  to  construct  compensating 
work  in  St.  Lawrence  and  Niagara  rivers.  He 
also  made  a  study  of  metering  Chicago  water 
supply  and  in  many  ways  has  rendered  efficient 
service  to  his  native  city. 

There  are  few  movements  of  vital  importance 
to  the  city  and  state  with  which  he  is  not  con- 
cerned as  an  active  factor  in  his  support  of  or 
opposition  to,  as  the  case  might  be,  for  he  is  as 
strong  in  his  denouncement  of  a  measure  which 
he  deems  inimical  to  the  best  interests  of  the 
people  as  he  is  firm  in  his  allegiance  when  he 
believes  that  the  interests  of  the  public  will  be 
promoted  thereby.  His  strong  convictions  re- 
garding right  and  wrong;  his  fearlessness  of 
criticism  or  public  opinion  when  he  believes  he  is 
right ;  his  loyalty  and  high-minded  conception  of 
a  man's  duty  to  his  fellowman  and  his  quiet  and 
unswerving  allegiance  to  the  principles  of  good 


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citizenship    are   traits   which   especially    distin- 
guish him. 

Although  a  busy  man,  Mr.  Kelly  also  finds 
time  to  get  the  most  out  of  the  finer  social 
amenities  of  life  and  the  recreation  which  he 
finds  in  golf  and  outdoor  diversions.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic,  the  Illinois 
Athletic,  Union  League,  the  Press,  South  Shore 
Country,  Beverly  Country,  Michigan  Field  and 
Chicago  Yacht  Clubs,  and  is  prominent  in  both 
business  and  social  circles.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Society  of  Engineers, 
Western  Society  of  Engineers ;  is  a  trustee  of 
the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  and  an  ex-officio 
member  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission.  As 
an  official  he  has  ever  performed  the  duties  de- 


volving upon  him  with  attentive  thoroughness 
and,  vindicating  every  pledge  of  his  official 
trust,  he  has  stood  the  acid  test  for  loyalty 
and  efficiency  and  has  proven  himself  a  man  of 
sagacity  and  probity. 

Mr.  Kelly  has  been  twice  married.  On  March 
29,  1910,  he  married  Mary  E.  Roach,  of  Chicago, 
who  died  in  1918,  leaving  one  son,  Edward 
Joseph  Kelly,  Jr.,  who  died  in  November,  1926, 
at  the  age  of  fourteen  years.  On  January  25, 
1922,  Mr.  Kelly  married  Margaret  E.  Kirk,  of 
Kansas  City,  Missouri,  who  served  with  distinc- 
tion as  a  Red  Cross  worker  at  the  front  in 
France,  during  the  World  War,  and  who  is 
greatly  admired  for  her  sterling  qualities  and 
social  and  philanthropic  activities. 


PHILIP  SIDNEY  POST. 


The  life  and  work  of  the  late  Philip  Sidney 
Post  has  been  of  wide  consequence.  His  achieve- 
ments in  the  field  of  industrial  relationships, 
as  well  as  in  the  legal  profession,  stand  to  his 
credit  as  a  man  of  real  importance  to  his  times. 

He  was  born  at  Vienna,  Austria-Hungary, 
November  10,  1869,  the  eldest  sou  of  Gen.  Philip 
Sidney  Post  and  Cornelia  Almira  (Post)  Post 
who  were  both  native  Americans  residing  tem- 
porarily abroad.  The  elder  Philip  Sidney  Post 
was  a  distinguished  officer  in  the  Civil  war. 
He  subsequently  served  as  United  States  Coun- 
sel and  Consul-General  to  Austria-Hungary 
from  1866  to  1879;  and,  still  later,  he  was  a 
member  of  Congress  from  the  State  of  Illinois. 

It  was  in  Vienna  that  the  younger  Philip 
Sidney  Post  received  his  earlier  schooling.  He 
accompanied  his  parents  when  they  returned 
to  the  United  States  at  the  close  of  General 
Post's  consular  service.  In  1887  he  was  grad- 
uated from  Knox  College  at  Galesburg,  Illinois, 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  For  some 
time  thereafter  he  was  engaged  in  newspaper 
work  at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  he  later  offi- 
ciated as  private  secretary  to  his  father  and  to 
the  commissioner  of  patents  at  Washington. 
Throughout  this  period  he  was  studying  law. 
In  1892  he  completed  his  course  at  the  National 
Law  School  at  Washington.  He  was  admitted 
to    the    Illinois    bar    that    same    year. 

In  1892  Mr.  Post  began  the  practice  of  law 
in  the  office  of  Judge  L.  C.  Collins  of  Chicago. 
In  1894,  upon  the  death  of  his  father,  he  re- 
moved to  Galesburg,  where  until  1907  he  was 
engaged  in  practice,  for  a  time  being  in  partner- 


ship with  Congressman  George  W.  Prince. 
From  1898  to  1902  he  served  as  Probate  Judge 
of  Knox  County  and  from  1903  to  1907  he  was 
master-in-chancery  of  the  Knox  County  Circuit 
Court.  During  his  term  as  county  judge  the 
juvenile  court  of  Knox  County  was  established, 
the  administration  of  which  received  his  devoted 
attention.  In  addition  to  the  activities  already 
mentioned  Judge  Post  was  interested  in  several 
newspapers  and  he  participated  actively  in  all 
affairs  of  public  consequence  in  his  part  of  the 
state. 

In  1907  Judge  Post  came  back  to  Chicago 
to  become  general  attorney  for  the  International 
Harvester  Company.  In  May,  1919,  he  was 
elected  vice  president  of  the  company,  with 
special  executive  duties  including  full  charge 
of  the  company's  public  relations.  He  took  a 
leading  part  in  framing  the  Harvester  Com- 
pany's Industrial  Relations  Plan  which  was 
adopted  in  March,  1919.  In  this  connection 
we  quote  from  a  speech  of  Mr.  Post.  "We 
feel  that  their  hope  (the  president  and  board 
of  directors  of  the  International  Harvester 
Company)  is  the  building  of  a  permanent  in- 
dustrial enterprise  which,  as  the  years  go  by, 
will  be  recognized  as  the  finest  type  of  Ameri- 
can corporation,  a  corporation  private  in  name 
and  management  but  awake  to  every  public 
obligation  and  rendering  to  mankind  a  world- 
wide public  service." 

Judge  Post  was,  for  many  years  and  up  to 
the  time  of  his  death,  a  trustee  of  Knox  College. 
He  took  a  very  deep  interest  in  that  institution's 
affairs,  giving  his  keenest  attention  to  its  prob- 


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lems.  After  his  death,  the  Chicago  Knox  Club, 
alumni  of  Kuox  College  and  other  friends 
raised  a  fund  of  $100,000.00  to  establish  at 
Knox  College  a  memorial  department  in  po- 
litical science,  to  be  known  as  the  Philip  Sid- 
ney Post  Memorial  Department. 

Judge  Post  was  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Le- 
gion. He  belonged  to  the  American  and  Illinois 
Bar  associations ;  to  the  University  Club,  Hamil- 
ton Club,  City  Club,  Union  League  Club,  the 
Law  Club  and  to  the  old  Sunset  Club  which 
he  formerly  served  as  secretary.  His  fraternity 
at  Knox  College  was  Phi  Gamma  Delta.  He 
was  a  Knight-Templar  Mason.  He  was  always 
interested  in  the  work  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hotel 
and  for  years  was  a  member  of  its  advisory 
committee. 

Judge  Post  wrote  with  unusual  strength  and 
discernment  on  economic  and  political  questions 
and  the  problems  of  industrial  relations.  He 
was  a  contributor  to  "The  Outlook"  and  other 
periodicals.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican ; 
in  religion  a  Congregationalism 

On  August  27,  1902,  Philip  Sidney  Post  was 
married  to  Janet  Greig,  formerly  Dean  of 
Women  at  Knox  College,  and  a  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hugh  Greig  of  Oneida,  Illinois. 
Mrs.  Post  survives  her  distinguished  husband, 
as  do  his  sister,  Mrs.  James  C.  Simpson  of 
Galesburg  and  his  brother,  Major  William  S. 
Post  of  Los  Angeles,  California.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Post  made  their  home  in  Winnetka,  a  north 
shore  suburb  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Post  was  much 
interested  in  city  planning  and  was  chairman 
of  the  Winnetka  Plan  Commission. 

Philip  Sidney  Post  died  at  his  home  in  Win- 
netka on  June  27,  1920.  Pres.  Harold  F.  Mc- 
Cormick  of  the  International  Harvester  Com- 
pany wrote,  at  the  time  of  Mr.   Post's  death : 

"The  passing  of  Mr.  Post  brings  to  the  Har- 


vester organization  a  sense  of  loss  too  sharp 
to  be  measured  in  words.  Yet  out  of  his  long 
service  in  the  law  department  and  his  all-too- 
brief  service  as  vice  president  we  gratefully 
receive  and  cherish  three  distinct  inheritances 
— his  many  definite  contvibutions  to  the  com- 
pany's development  and  progress,  the  deep  im- 
pression of  a  rare  personality  upon  his  asso- 
ciates, and  the  strong  influence  he  exerted  in 
our  behalf  in  his  contacts  with  outside  people 
and  interests.  In  all  respects,  business  and 
personal,  his  was  a  record  and  example  that 
we  who  carry  on  the  work  shall  do  well  to 
follow. 

"The  sincere  desire  for  truth  that  guided  his 
active,  eager  mind  brought  him  quickly  to  the 
solution  of  problems  and  made  his  viewpoint 
readily  comprehensive  to  his  co-workers.  Be- 
ing intellectually  four-square  with  himself,  im- 
bued with  the  impersonal  spirit  of  justice,  his 
counsels  were  always  clear  and  convincing ;  and 
added  to  these  attributes  were  a  tolerance  that 
never  forgot  to  be  kind,  a  good  humor  so  un- 
failing and  a  charm  or  manner  so  engaging 
that  he  was  always  assured  of  earnest  atten- 
tion. 

"Those  who  sat  with  him  about  the  executive 
council  table  will  especially  miss  the  thorough- 
ness and  sense  of  responsibility  that  marked 
all  his  researches  and  the  presentation  of  their 
results.  They  will  remember  how  broadly 
human  his  sympathies  were  and  how  strong  his 
faith  that  a  sure  path  to  both  industrial  and 
national  peace  and  progress  can  be  found 
through  a  quickened  and  deepened  mutuality 
of  understanding  and  effort. 

"All  of  us  who  knew  him  will  remember  and 
honor  him  as  a  man  of  highest  and  finest  type- 
able,  companionable,  joyous  and  true." 


WALTER  CLYDE  JONES. 


The  late  Walter  Clyde  Jones  of  Chicago  and 
Evanston.  Illinois,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Pilot 
Grove.  Iowa,  on  December  27.  1870,  a  son  of 
Jonathan  and  Sarah  Buffnigtou  Jones. 

He  began  his  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  Keokuk.  Iowa.  He  then  took  a  course  in 
mechanical  and  electrical  engineering  at  Iowa 
State  College,  graduating  therefrom  with  the 
degree  of  M.  E.  in  1891.  By  this  time  he  had 
decided  also  to  take  up  the  study  of  law,  so  he 


entered  the  Chicago  College  of  Law  (Lake  For- 
est University).  He  received  his  degree  of  LL.B. 
there  in  1895. 

That  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois 
Bar;  and  from  that  time  until  the  close  of  his 
career  he  was  engaged  in  the  practice  of  general 
law  and  patent  law.  at  Chicago.  As  time  passed 
he  established  a  splendid  reputation  in  his  pro- 
fession for  ability  and  character.  During  the 
latter  part  of  his  life  he  was  senior  member  of 


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the  firm  of  Jones,  Addington,  Ames  and  Seibold, 
of  Chicago  and  New  York. 

Mr.  Jones  was  a  Director  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Benjamin  Electrical  Manufacturing  Company. 

In  1906  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Illi- 
nois Senate,  representing  the  Fifth  District 
(Hyde  Park),  and  he  filled  this  oflice,  with 
highly  productive  service  and  honor,  until  1914. 

He  was  a  valued  member  of  the  War  Indus- 
tries Board  in  America  throughout  the  period  of 
the  World  War. 

He  was  a  Progressive  Republican  and  was 
candidate  for  Governor  of  Illinois  in  1912. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  American,  Illinois 
State  and  Chicago  Bar  Associations,  and  the 
American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers.  He 
was  formerly  President  of  the  Chicago  Electrical 
Association. 

His  clubs  were  the  Union  League,  University, 
Hamilton,  Press  (Chicago),  University  Club  of 
Evanston,    EVanston    Country    Club,    Evanston 


Golf  Club,  Cosmos  Club  of  Washington,  Lawyers 
Club  and  the  Engineers  Club  of  New  York. 

He  was  joint  author  and  editor,  with  Mr. 
K.  H.  Addington,  of  "Jones  and  Addington's 
Annotated  Statutes  of  Illinois",  of  the  "Cyclo- 
pedia of  Illinois  Law,"  and  of  "The  Appellate 
Court  Reports  of  Illinois." 

Mr.  Jones  was  a  founder  of  the  Evanston 
Equestrian  Club.  He  was  very  fond  of  horses 
and  of  riding.  He  also  greatly  enjoyed  travel, 
both  in  the  United  States  and  abroad. 

On  June  3,  1896,  Mr.  Jones  was  married  to 
Miss  Emma  Boyd  of  Paulina,  Iowa,  a  daughter 
of  William  O.  and  Ella  (Doxey)  Boyd.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Jones  have  three  children,  Walter  C.  Jones, 
Jr.,  Helen  G.  Jones  and  Clarence  B.  Jones.  The 
family  home  is  at  Evanston,  Illinois. 

Mr.  Jones'  life  came  to  its  close  in  his  fifty- 
eighth  year.  For  a  long  time  past  he  was  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  the  most  able  lawyers  in  Illi- 
nois.    His  death  occurred  on  March  28,  1928. 


NATHANIEL  KELLOGG  FAIRBANK. 


The  late  Nathaniel  Kellogg  Fairbank,  of  Chi- 
cago, was  born  in  Sodus,  New  York,  on  October 
20,  1829,  a  son  of  Stephen  Taylor  Fairbank  and 
Mehetibel  (Kellogg)  Fairbank,  of  New  England. 
At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  began  an  apprenticeship 
as  a  bricklayer  in  Rochester,  New  York,  but 
soon  after  started  work  as  a  bookkeeper  in  a 
flour  mill.  Two  years  later  he  was  made  a  part- 
ner in  the  firm  which  employed  him.  Through 
the  western  connections  of  this  company  he  came 
into  touch  with  business  conditions  at  Chicago, 
and  from  the  knowledge  he  acquired  in  this  way 
he  became  much  interested  in  the  opportunities 
which  that  city  presented. 

It  was  in  1855  that  he  came  to  Chicago  as  the 
Western  representative  of  the  firm  of  David 
Dows  &  Company,  grain  dealers  of  New  York 
City.  He  was  for  many  years  an  active  member 
of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade. 

Following  the  close  of  the  Civil  War  Mr.  Fair- 
bank  provided  the  capital  for  the  building  of  a 
lard  and  oil  refinery,  located  in  Chicago,  on 
Eighteenth  Street,  west  of  the  river.  This  plant 
was  destroyed  by  fire  and  a  large  building  was 
soon  erected  at  Eighteenth  and  Blackwell 
Streets.  This  business  subsequently  became  the 
nucleus  of  the  present  firm  of  N.  K.  Fairbank  & 
Company.     During  the   first   twenty   years  the 


principal  output  was  lard  and  lard  oil,  their 
products  coming  to  have  a  world-wide  distribu- 
tion. In  more  recent  years  the  business  has  em- 
braced the  manufacture  of  soaps.  Their  laundry 
and  toilet  soaps  are  now  known  in  practically 
every  household  in  America.  About  a  decade 
after  the  business  was  started,  a  branch  house 
was  established  at  St.  Louis,  and  later,  another 
at  Omaha.  Long  before  Mr.  Fairbank  retired 
from  active  control  of  the  business,  it  had  grown 
to  a  place  of  first  importance  in  the  commercial 
life  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Fairbank  was  married  in  1866  to  Miss 
Helen  L.  Graham,  of  New  York.  Their  children 
are:  Helen  Graham  Fairbank  (Mrs.  Benjamin 
Carpenter),  Kellogg  Fairbank,  Wallace  Fair- 
bank,  Dexter  Fairbank,  Livingston  Fairbank, 
Margaret  (Mrs.  Theodore  F.  Reynolds),  and 
Nathalie   (Mrs.  Laird  Bell). 

N.  K.  Fairbank  donated  the  land  and  he  and 
his  wife  were  among  the  principal  supporters  of 
St.  Luke's  Hospital  after  that  institution  was 
transferred  to  its  present  site.  He  .was  also  a 
lover  of  music  and  was  a  sponsor  of  those  mus- 
ical activities  in  Chicago  that  led  to  the  founding 
of  the  Symphony  Orchestra  under  the  late  Theo- 
dore Thomas.     Mr.   Fairbank   and   Mr.    George 


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Benedict  Carpenter  were  largely  to  be  thanked 
for  the  building  of  the  Chicago  Music  Hall.  He 
took  the  initiative  and  assumed  for  a  time  the 
entire  financial  responsibility  of  building  the 
Chicago  Club. 

He  was  a  devoted  member  of  Prof.  David 
Swing's  Church,  which  held  its  services  in  Cen- 
tral Music  Hall. 


He  helped  to  finance  and  to  place  on  a  perma- 
nent basis  the  Chicago  Newsboy's  Home. 

Nathaniel  K.  Fairbank  died  on  March  27,  1903. 
He  came  to  Chicago  when  he  was  little  more 
than  a  boy ;  and  throughout  the  rest  of  his  busy 
and  eminently  useful  life  he  was  as  closely  as 
possible  identified  with  the  commercial  and  cul- 
tural progress  of  Chicago. 


HENEY  HERMAN  KLEINPELL. 


Among  the  more  notable  physicians  and  sur- 
geons of  Chicago  who  have  established  a  rep- 
utation for  ability  and  have  achieved  honorable 
success  in  their  profession,  none  is  more  worthy 
of  mention  in  the  history  of  Illinois  than  Dr. 
Henry  H.  Kleinpell.  He  has  been  an  actice 
factor  in  the  medical  profession  of  this  city  for 
nearly  three  decades  and  no  physician  or  sur- 
geon of  Chicago  has  made  a  more  lasting  im- 
pression for  both  professional  ability  of  a  high 
order  and  for  the  individuality  of  a  laudable 
personal  character.  He  holds  prestige  in  his 
profession  by  reason  of  ability  and  thorough 
training  and  is  a  man  of  broad  information 
along  many  lines.  His  work  has  been  char- 
acterized by  devotion  to  duty  and  his  profes- 
sional services  have  ever  been  discharged  with 
a  keen  sense  of  conscientious  obligation,  and  he 
enjoys  merited  prominence  in  his  profession. 

Doctor  Kleinpell  was  born  at  Cassville,  Wis- 
consin, February  26.  1869,  a  son  of  Karl  Klein- 
pell and  Louise  (Wagner)  Kleinpell,  and  his 
early  education  was  obtained  in  the  public 
schools  of  that  place.  He  was  graduated  in 
pharmacy  from  the  Northwestern  University  in 
1892,  and  in  1900  was  graduated  from  Rush 
Medical  College  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine.  Having  determined  upon  the  medical 
profession  as  a  life  work,  and  to  further  his 
education,  he  took  post-graduate  work  at  the 
University  of  Vienna  in  1904-5,  and  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Berlin  in  1908.  During  this  period 
he  studied  under  some  of  the  most  noted  pre- 
ceptors of  that  country.  He  also  took  courses  at 
the  Post-Graduate  Medical  School  of  New  York 
in  1908-21,  and  at  the  Harvard  University 
Medical  School  in  1910.  1912,  and  1921. 

In  1900  Doctor  Kleinpell  established  him- 
self in  the  practice  of  medicine  at  Chicago  and 
has  since  been  one  of  the  active  practitioners 
of  this  city.  He  has  been  Professor  of  Pe- 
diatrics at  the  Chicago  Polyclinic  since  1905, 
and    Attending    Pediatrician    to    the    Deaconess 


Evangelical  Hospital  since  1922.  He  was  also 
Associate  Physician  at  the  Children's  Memorial 
Hospital  from  1912  until  1918,  and  Attending 
Physician  to  St.  Vincent's  Infant  Asylum  from 
1907  until  1919.  He  keeps  in  close  touch  with 
all  that  research  is  bringing  to  light  in  the  field 
of  scientific  knowledge,  and  though  a  man  of 
broad  information  along  many  lines,  his  profes- 
sional work  for  some  years  has  been  confined 
chiefly  to  that  of  internal  medicine,  pediatrics 
and  obstetrics,  in  which  he  is  one  of  the  most 
skilled  and  thoroughly  qualified  in  the  city  of 
Chicago.  Besides  the  practice  of  his  profession 
he  is  also  active  in  business  affairs  and  his 
progressive  spirit  is  evident  in  many  ways.  He 
is  associated  with  the  Flint  Lumber  Company, 
the  Herman  Hughes  Lumber  Company,  and  the 
Viet  &  Davidson  Lumber  Company  of  Flint, 
Michigan,  and  the  Flushing  Lumber  Company, 
of  Flushing,  Michigan. 

Public-spirited  in  his  civic  attitude,  Doctor 
Kleinpell  does  not  neglect  those  things  which 
represent  the  higher  ideals  of  human  existence 
and  gives  generously  of  his  time  and  means  to 
all  measures  tending  to  the  public  good.  He 
has  ever  stood  as  an  exponent  of  the  best  type 
of  civic  loyalty  and  progressiveness,  and  during 
the  many  years  of  his  residence  in  Chicago  he 
has  wielded  definite  and  benignant  influence, 
both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man  of  splendid 
professional  ability.  He  served  as  Major  of  the 
Medical  Corps  of  the  American  Expeditionary 
Forces  from  April,  1918,  until  July,  1919,  and  is 
now  Major  of  the  Medical  Officers'  Reserve 
Corps  of  the  United  States  Army.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Medical  Association  and  of 
the  Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Medical  Societies. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Historical 
Society,  art  Institute  of  Chicago,  Field  Museum 
of  Natural  History,  Wisconsin  Society  of  Chi- 
cago, Medical  Arts  Club,  German  Club,  Lutheran 
Church  and  the  American  Legion,  and  is  prom- 
inent in  both  social  and  professional  circles. 


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BENJAMIN  CARPENTER. 


Benjamin  Carpenter  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, September  16,  1865,  a  son  of  George  B. 
and  Elizabeth  (Greene)  Carpenter.  As  a  boy 
he  attended  the  University  School  for  Boys  and 
later  went  to  Harvard  University  where  he  grad- 
uated in  1888.  On  his  return  home  he  went  to 
work  for  the  firm  of  Geo.  B.  Carpenter  '&  Co., 
in  Chicago. 

The  present  business  firm  of  Geo.  B.  Carpenter 
&  Co.,  manufacturers  and  jobbers  of  railroad, 
mill  and  vessel  supplies,  is  one  of  the  oldest 
concerns  in  Chicago.  The  business  was  founded 
in  1840  as  Foster  and  Robb,  ship  chandlers. 
Mr.  George  B.  Carpenter  became  a  partner  in 
the  firm  in  1857  and,  following  the  death  of  Mr. 
Hubbard  in  1881,  he  succeeded  to  the  business; 
and  the  firm  name  became  Geo.  B.  Carpenter 
&  Co.  He  remained  at  the  head  of  this  busi- 
ness until  his  death  December  11,  1912.  On 
January  23,  1913,  his  son,  Benjamin  Carpenter, 
was  elected  President,  which  office  he  filled 
with   notable   success  for  nearly   fifteen   years. 

Benjamin  Carpenter  was  also  Vice  President 
of  the  Anniston  (Alabama)  Cordage  Company, 
and  was  a  Director  of  the  Elk  Rapids  Iron  Com- 
pany, of  Elk  Rapids,  Michigan,  and  was  a  Di- 
rector of  the  Commonwealth  Edison  Company 
and  of  the  Illinois  Merchants  Trust  Company 
of  Chicago. 

He  was  also  a  former  President  of  the  Board 


of  Trustees  of  the  St.  Charles  (Illinois)  School 
for  Boys. 

During  the  World  War  he  was  commissioned 
as  Captain  and  later  Major,  Q.  M.,  R.  C,  U.  S. 
A.,  and  was  on  active  duty  from  July,  1917,  to 
February,  1919,  rendering  a  service  of  much 
consequence,  made  possible  by  his  exceptional 
commercial   judgment   and   experience. 

On  September  18,  1903,  Mr.  Carpenter  was 
married  to  Miss  Helen  Graham  Fairbank,  of 
Chicago,  a  daughter  of  Nathaniel  K.  and  Helen 
L.  (Graham)  Fairbank.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carpen- 
ter had  four  children :  Benjamin  Carpenter, 
Jr.,  Cordelia  Carpenter  Davis  (Mrs.  N.  S.  Davis, 
III),  Elizabeth  Carpenter  Marshall  (Mrs. 
Thomas  L.  Marshall),  and  Fairbank  Carpenter. 
The  family  home  has  always  been  in  Chicago. 

Mr.  Carpenter  was  a  valued  member  of  the 
Chicago  Club,  the  University  Club,  Onwent- 
sia,  Saddle  and  Cycle  Club,  Cliff  Dwellers  and 
the  Commercial  Club  (ex-President).  He  was 
also  a  past  President  of  the  Associated  Harvard 
Clubs. 

Benjamin  Carpenter  died  February  23,  1927. 
He  will  be  remembered  with  an  unusual  warmth 
of  friendship  because  of  the  cheerfulness  and 
kindliness  that  were  so  characteristic  of  him. 
All  of  his  mature  years  were  filled  with  dis- 
tinguished achievement 


DEXTER  FAIRBANK. 


Dexter  Fairbank  was  born  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 
on  January  15,  1877,  a  son  of  Nathaniel  K.  and 
Helen  Livingston  Graham  Fairbank,  extended 
mention  of  whom  is  made  elsewhere  in  this 
history. 

He  began  his  schooling  at  St.  Paul's  School, 
Garden  City,  Long  Island,  New  York.  Then  he 
entered  Harvard,  graduating  there  in  1899,  with 
his  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science,  having  spe- 
cialized in  the  study  of  metallurgy. 

It  was  in  1905  that  he  and  Mr.  H.  H.  Cassady 
organized  the  Cassady,  Fairbank  Manufacturing 
Company.  This  business  grew  to  be  known 
throughout  the  United  States  as  one  of  the  prin- 
cipal makers  of  steel  stampings  in  the  country. 
For  ten  years  Mr.  Cassady  and  Mr.  Fairbank 
conducted  this  company ;  and  at  the  end  of  this 


period  they  sold  to  a  large  consolidation  of  in- 
terests that  was  formed  at  that  time. 

Subsequently  Mr.  Fairbank  was  associated 
with  the  Babcock,  Rushtou  Company,  Investment 
Securities,  at  Chicago. 

On  December  29,  1906,  Dexter  Fairbank  was 
married  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  to  Miss  Evelyn 
Young,  a  daughter  of  John  D.  and  Lucy  May 
Young.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fairbank  have  four  chil- 
dren :  John  Young  Fairbank,  Dexter  Fairbank, 
Jr.,  Lucy  FitzHugh  Fairbank  and  Graham 
Fairbank. 

Mr.  Fairbank  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Chicago  Club, 
the  Harvard  Club  and  the  Saddle  and  Cycle 
Club. 

The  death  of  Dexter  Fairbank  occurred  in  his 


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forty-ninth  year,  when  he  was  in  the  very  prime 
of  life.  He  was  finely  endowed  in  character, 
friendly  charm  and  ability.  He  might  well  have 
become  one  of  the  foremost  figures  in  industrial 


development.  He  was  a  worthy  representative 
of  one  of  Chicago's  oldest  and  best-known 
families. 

Mr.  Fairbank  died  on  March  9,  1926. 


DENNIS  FRANCIS  KELLY. 


Energy,  determination  and  ambition  lead  the 
career  of  Dennis  F.  Kelly,  President  of  The 
Fair,  which  is  typical  of  men  who  have  been 
the  architects  of  their  own  fortunes.  Mr.  Kelly 
worked  his  way  up  from  the  bottom  rung  of  the 
business  ladder  by  sheer  pluck  and  persever- 
ance. He  has  risen  from  a  minor  position  with 
Mandel  Brothers,  in  which  position  he  was 
placed  as  a  boy,  to  the  presidency  of  one  of 
Chicago's  first  and  largest  department  stores. 

Mr.  Kelly  was  born  in  Chicago,  August  23, 
1868.  His  educational  advantages  were  those  af- 
forded by  St.  Mary's  Parochial  School  of  Chi- 
cago. Nevertheless  in  1923  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Laws  was  conferred  on  him  by  DePaul 
University,  Chicago.  On  June  6,  1879,  before  at- 
taining the  age  of  eleven  years,  he  secured  a 
minor  position  with  Mandel  Brothers,  expecting 
to  remain  only  during  the  summer  vacation  pe- 
riod, and  was  identified  with  that  mercantile 
house  in  various  capacities  for  forty-four  years. 
He  was  made  Superintendent  of  the  store  in 
1888,  and  served  as  such  until  1901,  when  he  be- 
came general  manager.  He  remained  with  Man- 
del  Brothers  until  January,  1923,  when  he  re- 
signed to  become  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  of  The  Fair.  In  March,  1925,  he  was 
elected  President  of  this  great  mercantile  house. 

Besides  this  connection  Mr.  Kelly  is  identified 
with  several  other  business  and  financial  enter- 
prises. To  him  Chicago  has  ever  meant  much, 
and  he  has  always  been  willing  to  give  of  his 
own  time  for  the  advancement  of  the  best  in- 
terests of  this  city.  He  is  a  Director  of  the 
Continental  National  Bank  &  Trust  Co.,  and  of 
the  Consumers  Company.  He  was  the  first  Presi- 
dent of  the  Catholic  Charities  of  the  Archdiocese 
of  Chicago  and  has  occupied  that  position  for  ten 
consecutive  years,  or  since  its  organization  in 
1918.     He  is  a  Director  of  Grant  Hospital,  and  a 


trustee  of  Henrotin  Hospital.  He  was  for  many 
years  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce ;  was  Vice 
President  of  the  First  State  Industrial  Wage 
Loan  Society ;  and  a  director  of  the  Employers' 
Association  of  Chicago.  He  was  commissioned 
Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  Illinois  Reserve  Mili- 
tary by  Governor  Frank  .O.  Lowden  for  services 
rendered  during  the  World  War.  He  was  created 
Knight  of  the  Order  of  St.  Gregory  by  Pope  Ben- 
edict XV  in  1920,  and  in  1925  he  was  elevated 
to  the  rank  of  Knight  Commander  of  the  Order 
of  St.  Gregory  by  Pope  Pius  XI  in  recognition  of 
his  work  as  President  of  the  Catholic  Charities. 

Mr.  Kelly  was  Chairman  of  the  great  civic 
mass  meeting  held  at  the  Coliseum  in  Chicago 
on  June  17,  1926  to  welcome  the  Papal  Legate 
His  Eminence.  John  Cardinal  Bonzano,  to  Chi- 
cago on  the  occasion  of  the  XXVIII  Interna- 
tional Eucharistic  Congress.  He  was  also 
Chairman  and  Toast  Master  of  the  banquet  to 
notable  laymen  visitors  to  the  Eucharistic  Con- 
gress held  at  the  Blackstone  Hotel  on  June  21, 
1926. 

Mr.  Kelly  is  a  member  of  a  number  of  clubs 
among  which  are  the  Chicago  Club,  Chicago 
Athletic  Association  of  which  he  was  a  Director 
In  1913-15,  Vice  President  in  1916.  and  President 
in  1917;  the  Exmoor  Country  Club  of  which  he 
was  President  in  1912-14 ;  The  Industrial ;  the 
Medievalists;  Old  Elm  and  Knollwood  Golf 
Clubs;  The  Everglades  Club  of  Palm  Beach, 
Florida  and  The  Catholic  Club  of  New  York.  He 
was  President  of  the  Chicago  District  Golf  As- 
sociation in  1916-17. 

Mr.  Kelly  was  married  January  4,  1894,  to 
Irene  E.  Sullivan  of  Chicago,  and  of  this  union 
was  born  one  daughter,  Mrs.  Charles  Pfister 
Vogel  of  Milwaukee. 


RAYMOND  GRANT  KIMBELL. 


In  the  control  and  direction  of  financial  and 
industrial  enterprises  of  broad  scope,  no  coun- 
try in  the  world  has  offered  to  the  young  man 
of    initiative    power    and    worthy    ambition    so 


splendid  opportunities  as  has  our  American  re- 
public, and  in  no  city,  perhaps,  has  the  young 
man  come  to  his  own  in  so  distinct  and  influen- 
tial a  way  as  in  Chicago.     Here  encouragement 


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and  support  are  never  denied  to  any  legitimate 
undertaking,  and  here  it  has  been  possible  for 
young  men  of  ability  and  spirit  to  become 
leaders  and  masters  in  nearly  all  walks  of  life. 

Raymond  G.  Kimbell,  founder  and  President 
of  tbe  Kimbell  Trust  and  Savings  Bank  and 
President  of  the  West  City  Trust  and  Savings 
Bank,  is  one  of  Chicago's  native  sons  who  took 
advantage  of  the  opportunities  offered  here  for 
business  preferment,  and  has  achieved  notable 
success  thereby.  He  has  made  his  way  to  prom- 
inence and  honorable  prestige  through  his  own 
well  directed  energy  and  efforts,  and  by  hard 
work  and  frugal  habits  he  has  risen  from  a 
modest  beginning  as  a  youth,  to  a  place  of  com- 
manding influence  in  the  business  world  and 
well  deserves  a  place  in  the  front  rank  among 
the  leading  business  men  and  financiers  of  the 
city. 

Mr.  Kimbell  was  born  in  Chicago,  October 
20,  1878,  a  son  of  Martin  N.  Kimbell  and  Annie 
(Craigmile)  Kimbell.  His  educational  advan- 
tages were  those  afforded  by  the  public  schools 
of  this  city  and  the  Chicago  Business  Law 
School,  in  which  he  made  good  use  of  his  time 
and  opportunity.  As  a  youth  he  manifested  un- 
usual business  talent,  and  in  1897,  when  nine- 
teen years  of  age,  he  became  identified  with  the 
real-estate  and  loan  business  and  continued  in 
that  field  of  activity  for  twelve  years.  This 
alliance  proved  most  valuable,  and  was  destined 
to  have  important  influence  in  directing  his  sub- 
sequent activities,  for  in  1909  he  embarked  in 
business  as  a  private  banker  and  successfully 
continued  as  such  for  ten  years. 

In  1919  Mr.  Kimbell  founded  the  Kimbell 
Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  of  which  he  became 
President  and  has  since  been  the  executive  head 
of  this  financial  institution.  Under  his  able  and 
conservative  management  this  bank  has  become 
one  of  the  notable  and  substantial  financial  in- 
stitutions of  the  city,   and   its  status  lias   long 


been  one  of  prominence  in  connection  with  the. 
representative  banking  houses  of  the  country. 
Besides  this  connection  Mr.  Kimbell  is  also 
President  of  the  West  City  Trust  &  Savings 
Bank,  and  his  activities  have  meant  much  to 
Chicago  in  both  financial  and  material  progress. 

Public-spirited  in  his  civic  attitude,  Mr.  Kim- 
bell does  not  neglect  those  things  which  repre- 
sent the  higher  ideals  of  human  existence  and 
gives  generously  of  his  time  and  means  to 
charitable  movements  and  all  measures  tending 
to  the  public  good.  His  efforts  are  not  con- 
fined to  lines  resulting  in  individual  benefit, 
but  are  evident  in  those  fields  where  general 
interests  and  public  welfare  are  involved.  He 
has  ever  stood  as  an  exponent  of  the  best  type 
of  civic  loyalty  and  progressiveness,  and  dur- 
ing the  many  years  of  his  residence  here  he  has 
wielded  definite  and  benignant  influence,  both 
as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man  of  splendid  business 
ability. 

In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  Kimbell  is  a 
stanch  Republican,  but  has  never  cared  for  the 
distinction  that  comes  from  public  office  and 
takes  no  active  part  in  politics  aside  from  cast- 
ing the  weight  of  his  influence  in  support  of 
men  and  measures  working  for  the  public  good. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  and 
is  President  of  the  Chicago  District  Camp 
Grounds  Association  of  that  organization.  He 
is  a  Thirty-second  degree  Knight  Templar  and 
a  Shriner  Mason,  and  a  member  of  the  Hamil- 
ton Club  and  is  prominent  in  both  business  and 
social  circles. 

He  was  married  October  22,  1902,  to  Miss 
Edith  M.  Smith  of  Chicago,  a  woman  of  engag- 
ing personality  and  of  this  union  were  born  two 
sons :  Robert  Raymond  Kimbell  and  Raymond 
Grant  Kimbell.  Jr.  The  family  home  is  at  422 
Forest  Avenue,  Wilmette,  and  is  a  hospitable 
cne,  where  their  friends  are  always  welcome. 


EDWIN  FISHER  BAYLEY. 


Edwin  Fisher  Bayley  was  born  at  Manlius, 
New  York,  June  11,  1845,  a  son  of  Calvin  Chapin 
and  Ann  Sophia  (Fisher)  Bayley.  His  grand- 
parents were  James  and  Hannah  (Chapin)  Bay- 
ley.  Calvin  C.  Bayley  was  at  one  time  principal 
of  Manlius  Academy  at  Manlius,  New  York,  and 
later  was  president  of  Ripon  College.  In  1848 
the  family  moved  to  Waupun,  Wisconsin,  and 
Edwin  F.  Bayley  attended  the  public  schools  of 


that  place,  and  later  went  to  Brockway  College, 
afterwards  known  as  Ripon  College.  He  served 
an  enlistment  of  100  days  as  a  private  in  Com- 
pany B,  Forty-first  Wisconsin  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, during  the  summer  of  1864,  and  then 
returned  to  Ripon  College,  which  he  left  in 
1866.  In  1868,  he  received  the  degree  of  Bach- 
elor of  Arts  at  Amherst,  and  in  1870  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Laws  was  conferred  upon  him 


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from  the  St.  Louis  Law  School.  During  the 
time  he  was  a  student  of  law,  he  taught  Latin 
and  mathematics  at  Washington  University. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Missouri  in  1870, 
and  in  1871  he  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion at  St.  Louis,  in  the  office  of  the  late  Circuit 
Judge  Elmer  B.  Adams.  On  October  9,  1872, 
Mr.  Bayley  came  to  Chicago  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Scoville,  Corwin  &  Bayley, 
which  association  was  continued  until  1877. 
From  1877  until  1885  Mr.  Bayley  practiced 
alone,  and  then  for  ten  years  was  senior  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Bayley  and  Waldo.  This 
connection  being  severed,  he  took  Charles  R. 
Webster  into  partnership  and  the  firm  of  Bayley 
&  Webster  continued  until  the  death  of  Mr. 
Bayley,  August  14,  1920.  Their  practice  was 
general,  with  special  attention  to  real-estate 
and  probate  law. 

On  November  15,  1876,  Mr.  Bayley  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Anna  Katharine  Ober  at  Chi- 
cago. Their  children  are  as  follows :  Helen, 
who  is  Mrs.  Charles  T.  Mordock  and  Katharine, 
who  is  Mrs.  Edwin  H.  Clark,  both  of  Win- 
netka,  Illinois.  There  are  four  grandchildren: 
Katharine  Mordock  (Mrs.  James  Douglass 
Adams)  of  San  Francisco;  John  Bayley  Mor- 
dock ;  Robert  Ober  Clark,  and  Alice  Ann  Clark. 
Mr.  Bayley  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
State  Bar  Association  and  the  Chicago  Bar 
Association.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Amherst 
College  from  1905  to  1910.  From  1910  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Amherst  Alumni  Council, 
serving  until  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
fraternities.     He  was  also  trustee  of  the  Old 


Peoples  Home  and  of  the  Home  for  the  Incur- 
ables in  Chicago.  Socially  he  maintained  mem- 
bership with  the  City  Club,  the  Union  League 
Club,  the  University  Club,  and  Onwentsia  and 
Indian  Hill.  He  was  a  life  member  of  the  Chi- 
cago Art  Institute  and  belonged  to  the  Chicago 
Historical  Society.  He  was  a  founder  of  the 
Kenwood  Club.  His  chief  recreation  was  golf. 
He  loved  nature  and  enjoyed  greatly  his  farm 
near  Chicago,  which  he  bought  that  his  grand- 
children might  know  from  experience  and  their 
own  labor  the  cultivation  of  fields  and  gardens. 

His  political  affiliation  was  with  the  Republi- 
can party  with  Mugwump  tendencies. 

He  was  a  consistent  member  and  long  a 
trustee  of  the  Kenwood  Evangelical  Church. 

In  closing  we  quote  a  sentence  written  by  an 
old-time  friend,  following  Mr.  Bayley's  death : 
"He  was  a  good  citizen,  an  able  lawyer,  a  man 
of  noble  qualities  of  heart  and  mind  and  of  un- 
impeachable integrity  wherefore  he  was  re- 
spected and  trusted  by  all  who  knew  him."  It 
was  also  written  of  him :  "Edwin  F.  Bayley  is 
no  more.  His  was  a  life  not  only  longer  than 
usual,  but  more  useful  in  service  as  a  lawyer, 
friend,  citizen  and  neighbor,  than  the  lives  of 
most  of  us  who  remain.  It  is  not  given  to  many 
so  to  live  for  more  than  the  allotted  three  score 
years  and  ten,  amid  the  trials  and  temptations 
of  a  great  city,  that  at  the  end  it  may  be  said : 
In  every  relation  of  life  he  was  without  re- 
proach. He  touched  life  on  many  sides,  always 
for  the  enrichment  of  every  person  he  knew, 
every  enterprise  he  assisted,  every  cause  he  em- 
braced.' " 


WLADYSLAW  AUGUSTYN  KUFLEWSKI. 


Among  the  more  notable  physicians  and  sur- 
geons of  Chicago  who  have  established  a  repu- 
tation for  ability  and  have  achieved  honorable 
success  in  their  profession,  none  is  more  worthy 
of  mention  in  the  history  of  Illinois  than  Dr. 
Wladyslaw  A.  Kuflewski.  He  has  been  an  ac- 
tive factor  in  the  medical  profession  of  this 
city  for  thirty-four  years,  and  no  physician  or 
surgeon  of  Chicago  has  made  a  more  lasting  im- 
pression for  both  professional  ability  of  a  high 
order  and  for  the  individuality  of  a  laudable 
personal  character.  He  holds  prestige  in  his 
profession  by  reason  of  ability  and  many  years 
of  experience  and  as  a  man  of  marked  intel- 
lectual   activity,    he   has   given    impetus    to    the 


medical  profession  of  this  city.  He  keeps  in 
close  touch  with  all  that  research  is  bringing  to 
light  in  the  field  of  scientific  knowledge  and  is 
a  man  of  broad  information  along  many  lines. 
His  work  has  been  characterized  by  devotion  to 
duty  and  his  professional  services  have  ever 
been  discharged  with  a  keen  sense  of  con- 
scientious obligation,  and  he  enjoys  merited 
prominence  in  his  profession. 

Doctor  Kuflewski  was  born  at  Jaroszewo, 
Posen,  Poland.  May  2t>,  1870,  a  son  of  August 
and  Salomea  (Kalacinska)  Kuflewski.  His  edu- 
cational advantages  were  those  afforded  by  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  city,  the  Chicago 
College  of  Pharmacy  and  in  evening  schools  of 


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this  city.  Having  determined  upon  the  practice 
of  medicine  as  a  life  work,  he  early  began  the 
study  for  his  profession,  and,  matriculating  at 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Chi- 
cago, he  was  graduated  from  that  institution 
in  1894,  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine. 
He  at  once  established  himself  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession  at  Chicago  and  has  since  been 
an  active  practitioner  of  this  city.  He  is  Profes- 
sor of  Surgery  at  the  Chicago  Clinical  School ; 
is  Senior  Surgeon  at  St.  Mary  of  Nazareth  Hos- 
pital and  is  Surgeon  of  the  Second  Regiment  of 
the  Illinois  National  Guard. 

Besides  the  practice  of  his  profession  Doctor 
Kuflewski  has  also  been  active  in  civic  affairs 
for  many  years  and  has  never  lost  an  oppor- 
tunity to  do  what  he  could  for  the  advancement 
of  the  best  interests  of  his  adopted  city.  He 
was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation of  Chicago ;  is  ex-President  of  the  Chi- 
cago Public  Library,  the  Polish  National  Libra- 
ry, and  is  ex-Chief  Medical  Examiner  of  the 
Polish  National  Alliance  of  the  United  States 
Army.  He  was  Grand  Marshal  at  the  unveil- 
ing of  the  statues  of  Brigadier  Generals  Pulaski 
and  Kosciuszko,  in  Washington,  D.  C,  May  11, 
1910.  He  was  also  a  delegate  to  the  first  Polish 
Congress  held  in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  May, 
1910,  and  was  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee.    He  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American  College 


of  Surgeons ;  a  member  of  the  American  Medical 
Association ;  Association  of  Military  Surgeons 
of  the  United  States ;  Illinois  State  and  Chicago 
Medical  Societies,  and  the  Polish  Surgical  So- 
ciety of  Cracow,  Poland.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Chicago  Athletic  Association,  and  is 
prominent  in  both  social  and  professional 
circles.  He  has  gained  distinction  as  a  writer 
and  is  the  author  of  articles  on  "How  to  Steril- 
ize Books  and  How  to  Celebrate  Independence 
Day,"  besides  being  a  frequent  and  valued  con- 
tributor to  journals  and  periodicals. 

Public-spirited  in  his  civic  attitude,  Doctor 
Kuflewski  does  not  neglect  those  things  which 
represent  the  higher  ideals  of  human  existence 
and  gives  generously  of  his  time  and  means  to 
charitable  movements  and  all  measures  tending 
to  the  public  good.  His  efforts  are  not  confined 
to  lines  resulting  in  individual  benefit,  but  are 
evident  in  those  fields  where  general  interests 
and  public  welfare  are  involved,  and  during 
the  many  years  of  his  residence  in  Chicago  he 
has  wielded  definite  and  benignant  influence, 
both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man  of  splendid  pro- 
fessional ability. 

Doctor  Kuflewski  was  married  in  1906,  to 
Angeline  Rose  Curklinski,  of  Buffalo,  New  York, 
a  woman  of  engaging  personality,  and  of  this 
union  was  born  one  daughter :  Adelle  Alice 
Kuflewski. 


JOHN  WILLIAM  GARY. 


His  record  forms  one  of  the  interesting  pages 
in  the  history  of  the  lumber  industry  of  Chi- 
cago. Mr.  Gary,  lumberman  and  capitalist,  was 
born  on  a  farm  in  East  Conneaut,  Ohio,  on 
August  8,  1859,  son  of  Dorance  Benjamin  and 
Susan  (Akerly)  Gary,  and  of  Scotch  ancestry. 
Enos  Gary,  one  of  his  earliest  American  ances- 
tors of  record,  was  born  in  Taunton,  Massachu- 
setts on  September  23,  1759.  From  him  and  his 
wife,  Esther  Buckingham,  the  line  of  descent 
is  traced  through  their  son  William  Lewis  and 
his  wife  Betsy  Plant,  who  were  the  grandpar- 
ents of  our  subject.  His  father  was  a  farmer 
and  contractor. 

Mr.  Gary  was  educated  at  the  Conneaut,  Ohio, 
Academy,  and  was  engaged  in  various  occupa- 
tions in  Conneaut  until  1880.  He  then  entered 
the  lumber  business  in  the  employ  of  Thomas 
R.  Lyon,  with  offices  in  Ludington,  Michigan, 


and  Chicago,  Illinois.  In  1885-91  he  was  man- 
ager of  Mr.  Lyon's  business  in  Chicago  and  in 
1897  he  became  a  partner  of  the  firm  of  Lyon, 
Gary  &  Company,  Investment  Brokers,  loans, 
owners  and  dealers  in  timber  lands  with  vast 
Interests  in  lumber  manufacturing  companies 
such  as  Lyon  Lumber  Company,  Baker  Lumber 
Company,  J.  S.  Stearns  Lumber  Co.,  Bagdad 
Land  &  Lumber  Company,  Continental  Timber 
Land  Co.,  and  others.  He  became  vice  presi- 
dent of  Lyon,  Gary  &  Company  in  1907  when 
it  was  incorporated  and  so  continued  until  1917 
when  he  was  elected  president. 

Mr.  Gary  was  vice  president  of  the  Commer- 
cial Loan  '&  Trust  Company  in  1894-98,  but  the 
object  of  his  continued  thought  and  effort  was 
the  Lyon  Lumber  Company  of  which  he  was  a 
director  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century — 
from    its   organization — and   its    President   for 


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many  years  prior  to  and  at  tbe  time  of  his 
death.  His  knowledge,  thoroughness,  mastery 
of  detail,  sound  judgment  and  courageous  ex- 
ecution contributed  to  the  great  success  the 
company  has  achieved. 

Mr.  Gary  was  married  in  Chicago  on  March 
31,  1902,  to  Emily  Lyon,  daughter  of  Thomas 
R.  and  Harriet  Rice  Lyon.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gary 
have  one  child,  a  son,  Kellogg  Gary,  who  was 


attending  Harvard  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death.     The  family  home  is  in  Glencoe. 

Mr.  Gary  was  a  member  of  the  following 
clubs:  Chicago,  Old  Elm,  Indian  Hill,  Onwent- 
sia.  Saddle  &  Cycle,  Midday,  Casino  and  he  was 
a  life  member  of  Chicago  Historical  Society, 
Field  Museum,  and  Art  Institute. 

Mr.  Gary  died  in  Chicago  on  January  14, 
1923. 


FREDERIC  EBENEZER  JOHN  LLOYD. 


In  preparing  a  review  of  the  lives  of  men 
whose  careers  have  been  of  signal  usefulness  and 
honor  to  the  country,  no  name  is  more  worthy 
of  mention  in  the  history  of  Illinois  than  that 
of  Archbishop  Frederic  E.  J.  Lloyd,  of  Chicago. 
He  stands  as  a  worthy  example  of  that  element 
of  aggressive  and  public  spirited  citizens  who 
have  contribated  so  much  to  the  social  and 
religious  advancement  of  the  city  during  the 
past  two  decades,  and  a  history  of  the  State 
would  be  incomplete  without  a  review  of  his 
work.  His  history  is  written  in  the  lives  of 
those  who  come  under  his  influence  and  follow 
his  teachings,  and  no  citizen  of  Illinois  is  more 
respected  or  more  fully  enjoys  the  confidence 
of  the  people  and  more  richly  deserves  the  re- 
gard in  which  he  is  held. 

Archbishop  Lloyd  was  born  at  Milford  Haven, 
South  Wales,  June  5,  1859.  a  son  of  Thomas  and 
Marie  (Clay)  Lloyd.  His  early  educational  ad- 
vantages were  those  afforded  by  English  schools, 
and  the  Dorchester  Theological  College,  Ox- 
fordshire, England.  He  later  entered  the  Col- 
lege of  Church  Musicians,  and  was  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  1895,  with  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Music.  He  also  received  the  de- 
gree of  Master  of  Arts  and  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Letters  from  the  same  institution,  and  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  the  Inter- 
collegiate University.  In  1901  the  honorary  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  conferred  on 
him  by  Rutherford  (North  Carolina)  College. 
He  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  by  the  Church 
of  England  in  1882,  at  Oxford.  England,  by  the 
Right  Reverend  Bishop  John  Mackarness,  and 
in  the  same  year  removed  to  Canada,  where  he 
held  various  pastoral  positions  for  eleven  years. 
In  1885  he  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  by 
the  Right  Reverend  Bishop  Williams,  of  Quebec, 
Canada.  In  1893  he  came  to  the  United  States 
where  he  continued  ministerial  work,  and  has 
since  been  a  potent  factor  in  church  affairs  of 


this  country.  He  is  President  of  the  Intercol- 
legiate University  of  Chicago  and  London,  and 
also  served  for  four  years  as  Superintendent 
of  the  Grace  Episcopal  Church  Parish  House 
at  Chicago.  He  was  elected  Bishop  Coadjutor 
of  the  Oregon  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in 
1905,  but  declined  the  position,  and  in  the  sub- 
sequent year  he  resigned  from  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  ministry.  On  June  18,  1915,  he  was 
ordained  to  the  ministry  of  the  American 
Catholic  Church,  and  was  consecrated  Bishop 
of  Illinois  on  December  15,  of  that  year.  He 
was  elected  Archbishop  and  Primate  in  1920, 
and  still  retains  this  high  position,  having 
served  in  this  capacity  for  seven  years,  a  record 
that  not  only  indicates  his  ability  as  Chief 
Ecclesiastic  of  the  American  Catholic  Church, 
but  his  popularity  and  high  standing  as  a  citi- 
zen. 

Besides  his  church  connections  Doctor  Lloyd 
is  also  active  in  civic  and  municipal  affairs,  and 
his  progressive  spirit  is  evident  in  many  ways. 
As  a  member  of  the  Forty-eighth  General  As- 
sembly of  Illinois,  from  the  Third  Senatorial 
District  in  1912-14.  he  rendered  effective  service 
to  that  body.  He  was  appointed  a  member  of 
the  Curran  Commission  by  Governor  Dunne,  for 
investigating  home-finding  institutions  of  Illi- 
nois, and  in  that  capacity  he  also  rendered  most 
effective  and  valuable  service.  He  has  also 
gained  distinction  as  a  writer  and  was  the 
projector,  editor  and  sole  owner  of  Lloyd's 
Clerical  Directory,  of  which  five  editions  were 
issued ;  Lloyd's  Church  Musicians'  Directory  in 
1910,  and  Church  Life,  of  the  Ohio  Diocesan 
Organization  in  1901-3.  He  was  the  founder  of 
the  Society  of  St.  Philip,  the  Apostle  for  Mis- 
sion-Preachers, in  1902.  He  is  also  the  author 
of  "Two  Years  In  The  Regions  Of  Icebergs,"  in 
1885,  besides  being  a  liberal  and  valued  con- 
tributor of  many  magazine  articles. 

The   following  is   a   quotation   from   a   letter 


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written  to  Doctor  Lloyd  January  5,  1926,  by 
J.  Hamilton  Lewis,  former  United  States  Sen- 
ator from  Illinois.  "It  has  come  to  my  atten- 
tion that  you  are  on  the  eve  of  delivering 
some  lectures  upon  your  recent  travels  in  Pales- 
tine and  other  subjects.  I  am  delighted  to 
know  that  you  will  present  yourself  in  com- 
munities where  I  have  acquaintances  and 
friends,  and  I  would  be  happy  if  you  felt  free 
to  let  them  know  that  by  this  letter  I  present 
you  as  one  of  the  men  who  has  been  ardent  as 
a  citizen,  one  of  the  important  men  in  our 
civic  life,  a  distinguished  member  of  the  Legis- 
lature, have  ever  been  regarded  as  one  of  the 
first  men  of  letters;  and  in  the  long  life  you 
have  lived  here,  esteemed  as  a  gentleman  rep- 
resenting the  highest  ideals  of  honor,  citizen- 
ship and  integrity.  I  beg  to  wish  you  success 
in  the  field  that  you  now  advance  upon." 

Archbishop  Lloyd  has  been  three  times  mar- 


ried. In  1883,  he  married  Miss  Joanna  Genge, 
of  Newfoundland,  who  died  in  1890,  leaving  two 
daughters ;  Ethel  I.  M.,  who  is  the  wife  of 
Lloyd  Hull,  of  Seattle,  Washington,  and  Muriel 
Marie,  wife  of  Ira  Kaser,  of  Akron,  Ohio.  In 
1892  Archbishop  Lloyd  married  Miss  Ada  Anna 
Green,  of  Quebec,  Canada,  who  died  at  Chicago, 
in  1912,  leaving  eight  children :  Lillian  Ada, 
wife  of  Benjamin  Phillips,  of  Waban,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  Frederic  E.  J..  Jr.,  of  Hollywood, 
California ;  Edwyn  Clay,  of  Los  Angeles,  Cali- 
fornia ;  Florence  M.  M.,  wife  of  Willard  E. 
Lyons,  of  Chicago ;  Edythe  Ada,  wife  of  James 
T.  Beattie,  of  Elwood,  Illinois :  Harold  Henry, 
of  Chicago ;  Sara  Beatrice,  wife  of  Bester  P. 
Price,  of  Chicago,  and  Mary  Frances,  wife  of 
Prescott  F.  Kay,  of  Wilmington,  California. 
On  February  7,  1917,  Archbishop  Lloyd  married 
Mrs.  Philena  Ricker  (Maxwell)  Peabody,  of 
Chicago,  widow  of  the  late  Hiram  Bell  Peabodv. 


CHARLES  HIRAM  ACKERT. 


Charles  H.  Ackert,  of  Chicago  and  Lake 
Forest,  Illinois,  was  born  in  Duchess  County, 
New  York,  February  19,  1856.  a  son  of  Fountain 
H.  and  Frances  (Davis)  Ackert.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools.  He  began  his 
railroad  career  in  1872.  when  he  was  sixteen 
years  old,  as  a  telegraph  operator. 

His  first  position  was  at  Saint  Louis,  Missouri, 
with  the  Saint  Louis,  Kansas  City  and  Northern 
Railroad.  This  road  later  became  a  part  of  the 
Wabash  System.  Mr.  Ackert  was  promoted  to 
become  private  secretary  to  the  late  Col.  Mc- 
Kessock,  who  was  then  Superintendent. 

Somewhat  later  he  went  to  work  for  the 
Texas  Pacific  Railroad  as  private  secretary  to 
Mr.  E.  L.  Dudley  and  was  located  for  a  time  at 
Marshall  and  Dallas,  Texas.  He  next  went  to 
the  Iowa  Central  Railroad,  and  in  1884  was 
made  Chief  Clerk  for  that  road  at  Marshalltown, 
Iowa.  Four  years  later.  November  1,  1888,  he 
was  chosen  to  become  General  Manager  of  the 
Iowa  Central. 

He  filled  this  last-named  office  with  notable 
success  until  1893,  during  which  time  he  brought 
about  remarkable  progress  in  his  road.  He  re- 
signed from  this  office  March  18,  1893,  to  be- 
come General  Manager  of  the  Elgin,  Joliet  & 
Eastern  Railroad.  It  was  at  this  time  that  he 
moved  to  Chicago.  He  came  to  the  Elgin,  Joliet 
&   Eastern    at    the    request   of   Mr.    Samuel   B. 


Spencer,  the  railroad  representative  of  the 
Drexel-Morgan  Company.  At  the  end  of  six 
years.  April  1,  1896,  he  was  made  President  of 
the  Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern  Railroad,  and  of  the 
Chicago,  Lake  Shore  &  Eastern  Railroad. 

In  March  of  1901.  he  moved  to  Saint  Louis, 
Missouri,  and  there  became  General  Manager  of 
the  Mobile  &  Ohio.  From  Saint  Louis  he  was 
called  to  become  the  General  Manager  of  the 
Southern  Railway,  with  headquarters  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  His  work  there  was  very  im- 
portant in  its  responsibilities  and  in  the  very 
fine  results  that  he  brought  about.  He  was  also 
Fourth  Vice  President  of  the  Southern,  in 
charge  of  operations,  from  1905  to  1910. 

In  1910  he  left  the  Southern  and  was  made 
Vice  President  of  the  Hawley  Lines  which  then 
embraced  the  Minneapolis  &  Saint  Louis,  the 
Iowa  Central,  the  Chicago  &  Alton,  and  the  To- 
ledo, Saint  Louis  &  Western  roads.  This  was 
his  work  until  failing  health  necessitated  his 
temporary  retirement. 

After  his  retirement  from  the  railroads  he 
became  President  of  the  National  Railway 
Time  Service  Company,  operated  at  Chicago, 
Illinois,  and  Saint  Louis,  Missouri. 

The  marriage  of  Charles  H.  Ackert  to  Miss 
Annie  Dugan,  daughter  of  Robison  and  Mar- 
garet    (Lainont)     Dugan,    was    solemnized    on 


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September  27,   1881.     They  have  one  son,  Mr. 
Fred  Ackert. 

The  family  residence  was  established  at  Lake 
Forest,  Illinois,  in  1912.  Their  beautiful  home 
was  built  to  duplicate  General  Washington's 
home  at  Mount  Vernon. 


Mr.  Ackert  was  a  valued  member  of  the  Chi- 
cago Club,  the  Glen  View,  Old  Elm  and 
Onwentsia  clubs. 

Charles  H.  Ackert  died  June  5,  1927.  His 
name  is  one  of  the  very  important  ones  in  rail- 
road history  in  the  Central  States. 


PETER  S.  LAMBROS. 


Peter  S.  Lambros,  founder  and  proprietor  of 
The  Greek  Star,  is  one  of  the  aggressive  young 
business  men  of  this  city  of  foreign  birth.  Al- 
though a  native  of  Greece,  he  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  Chicago  for  thirty-seven  years. 

Mr.  Lambros  was  born  at  Sparta,  Greece,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1874.  In  1890,  he  sailed  for  the  United 
States,  coming  direct  to  Chicago,  and  has  since 
been  a  resident  of  this  city.  He  became  a  nat- 
uralized citizen  of  the  United  States  in  1895. 
He  had  the  advantage  of  good  schooling  in  his 
native  country,  and  after  coming  to  Chicago  he 
became  a  student  in  the  Hull  House  and  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  evening 
schools,  where  he  acquired  a  substantial  Eng- 
lish education.  His  natural  inclination  being 
toward  journalism  and  having  developed  an  un- 
usual literary  talent,  he  established  The  Greek 
Star  in  1904,  and  has  since  been  the  editor  and 
publisher  of  this  paper.  The  Greek  Star,  pub- 
lished in  both  English  and  Greek,  advocating 
Greek  traditions  and  American  ideals  and  busi- 
ness methods,  is  a  clean,  well-edited  and  well- 
printed  sheet  with  reliable  news  matter  and 
timely  editorials.  The  editor  has  always  kept 
its  columns  open  to  the  support  of  movements 
for  the  benefit  and  betterment  of  the  city  and 
state  and  the  people  of  the  community,  and  it 
has  frequently  been  quoted  by  metropolitan 
newspapers  and  the  Literary  Digest  on  foreign 
political  matters  and  issues  of  the  day.  Under 
Mr.  Lambros'  able  management  the  paper  has 
become  one  of  the  leading  newspapers  in  Chi  'ag«. 

He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  National  Security  League  during 
the  World  War,  and  in  various  ways  proved  his 
loyalty  and  patriotism  to  his  adopted  country. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  committee  that  wel- 
comed Marshal  Joffre  and  ex-Premier  Viviani 
of  France;  was  the  organizer  of  seventy-five  dif- 
ferent nationalities  of  Chicago  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  National  Security  League,  speaking 
from  the  same  platform  with  Governor  Frank 
O.  Lowden  and  Bainbridge  Colby,  at  the  pa- 
triotic rally  of  February  6,  1918.   He  also  served 


as  chairman  of  the  Foreign  Language  Division 
of  the  Liberty  Loan  drives ;  was  one  of  the  origi- 
nators of  the  "Safety  First"  movements  started 
in  Chicago  in  1913,  and  as  a  close  friend  of  ex- 
Premier  Eleutherios  Venizelos  of  Greece,  he  was 
active  in  the  reception  to  that  statesman  on  his 
visit  to  Chicago  in  1922. 

Mr.  Lambros  received  letters  from  Presidents 
Roosevelt,  Taft,  Wilson,  Harding  and  Coolidge 
and  in  the  summer  of  1928  he  was  the  chairman 
of  the  picnic  committee  of  the  Hamilton  Club, 
at  Pottawatomie  Park,  St.  Charles,  111.,  which 
was  a  republican  demonstration  attended  by 
10,000  people.  He  was  also  appointed  a  member 
of  the  Publicity  Committee  of  the  1933  World's 
Fair  of  Chicago. 

Mr.  Lambros  is  chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Foreign  Language  Newspapers, 
Inc.,  and  is  also  Treasurer  of  the  Forty-ninth 
Ward  Republican  Club.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Greek  Orthodox  Church,  and  of  the  Ham- 
ilton Club.  He  has  also  gained  distinction  as  a 
writer  and  orator  and  is  the  author  of  "Lin- 
coln and  Pericles,"  bringing  out  the  fact  that  the 
Gettysburg  Address  and  the  Funeral  Oration  are 
the  two  greatest  orations  recorded  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  world.  He  also  made  an  address  on 
the  same  subject  before  the  Hamilton  Club  at 
Chicago,  and  his  speech  was  reported  by  the 
Associated  Press  to  newspapers  throughout 
America.  He  likewise  delivered  a  speech  on  The 
Blessing  of  Democracy,  at  the  celebration  in 
honor  of  the  declaration  of  a  Republic  in  Greece, 
at  the  Garrick  Theater  at  Chicago,  May  25,  1924. 
As  a  public  speaker  he  is  not  only  popular,  but 
is  endowed  with  rare  gifts  of  oratory,  ready  dic- 
tion and  personal  magnetism  and  his  style  of 
delivery  is  forceful  and  logical.  He  owns  con- 
siderable Chicago  real  estate,  and  the  family 
home  at  7720  Sheridan  Road,  is  the  social  center 
of  intellectual  activity  and  hospitality. 

Mr.  Lambros  was  married  in  1908,  to  Ariadni 
D.  Papadakis.  To  them  have  been  born  four 
children :  Peter,  Jr.,  Theodore,  Maria  and 
Sophia. 


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ELIPHALET  WICKES  BLATCHFOBD. 


Eliphalet  Wiekes  Blatchford,  senior  member 
of  the  firm  of  E.  W.  Blatchford  &  Company, 
lead  pipe  manufacturers,  was  long  associated 
with  the  business  interests  of  Chicago.  He 
was  born  at  Stillwater,  N.  Y.,  May  31,  1826,  a 
son  of  Rev.  Dr.  John  and  Frances  (Wiekes) 
Blatchford.  Eliphalet  Wiekes  Blatchford  at- 
tended the  Lansingburgh  Academy  in  New 
York,  Marion  College  in  Missouri,  and  then  the 
Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville,  111.,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1845,  and  from  which  he 
later  received  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  For  one  year 
he  was  connected  with  the  law  firm  of  his  uncles, 
R.  M.  and  E.  H.  Blatchford  in  New  York,  but 
then,  his  health  failing,  he  came  west  to  St. 
Louis,  where  he  established  himself  as  a  lead 
pipe  manufacturer,  later  taking  Morris  Collins 
into  partnership.  As  the  business  expanded  a 
branch  was  established  at  Chicago  by  the  firm 
that  was  later  dissolved,  but  Mr.  Blatchford  con- 
tinued manufacturing  under  the  new  firm  name 
of  E.  W.  Blatchford  &  Company.  When  he  re- 
tired he  turned  the  business  over  to  a  younger 
brother,  Nathaniel  H.  Blatchford  and  a  son, 
Paul  Blatchford.  Early  a  Whig,  he  later  became 
a  Republican. 

On  October  7.  1858,  Mr.  Blatchford  was  mar- 
ried   to   Mary   Emily   Williams,   a   daughter  of 


John  C.  Williams,  and  they  became  the  parents 
of  the  following  children:  Paul,  Amy,  Frances 
May,  Edward  Williams,  Florence,  Charles  Ham- 
mond and  Eliphalet  Huntington.  Soon  after 
coming  to  Chicago,  Mr.  Blatchford  connected 
himself  with  the  New  England  Congregational 
Church ;  was  for  years  a  charter  member  of  the 
Chicago  City  Missionary  Society ;  a  member  of 
the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  For- 
eign Missions,  serving  as  its  vice  president  from 
1885  to  1898 ;  for  nearly  forty-two  years  was 
president  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Chicago 
Theological  Seminary;  from  1866  to  1875  was 
one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Illinois  College;  was 
president  of  the  Chicago  Academy  of  Sciences ; 
a  trustee  of  the  Art  Institute ;  president  of  the 
Commercial  Club ;  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Chicago  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary 
and  for  seventeen  years  its  president;  a  trustee 
of  the  John  Crerar  Library ;  executor  and  one 
of  the  trustees  of  the  estate  of  Walter  L.  New- 
berry ;  president  of  the  Newberry  Library ;  one 
of  the  founders  and  president  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Chicago  Manual  Training 
School,  and  a  life  member  of  the  Chicago  His- 
torical Society.  He  died  in  Chicago,  January 
25,  1914. 


PAUL  BLATCHFORD. 


Paul  Blatchford  was  born  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 
on  July  18,  1859,  a  son  of  the  late  Eliphalet  W. 
and  Mary  E.  (Williams)  Blatchford,  extended 
mention  of  whom  will  be  found  in  this  history. 

After  completing  his  studies  in  preparatory 
schools,  Paul  Blatchford  entered  Amherst  Col- 
lege, from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1882. 

That  same  year  he  entered  his  father's  busi- 
ness, E.  W.  Blatchford  and  Company,  manufac- 
turers of  lead  and  shot.  He  later  became  Sec- 
retary and  a  Director  of  this  old,  substantial 
concern.  In  1898-9  he  served  as  President  of 
the  Central  Supply  Association.  In  1900  he  was 
made  Secretary  of  that  body.  In  1901  he  be- 
came Secretary  of  the  Chicago  Metal  Trades 
Association,  and  continued  as  Secretary  of  the 
Chicago  Branch  of  the  National  Metal  Trades 
Association  which  was  established  in  1904.  His 
constructive  work  in  this  office  brought  him  into 
wide  and  intimate  touch  with  manufacturing 
enterprises  throughout  Illinois  and  made  him 


well  and  favorably  known  throughout  the  coun- 
try. 

In  1887  Mr.  Blatchford  was  married  to  Miss 
Frances  V.  Lord,  of  Bangor,  Maine.  Their  home 
is  at  Oak  Park,  Illinois.  Their  children  are 
John,  Dorothy  L.,  Barbara,  and  Charles  L. 
Blatchford. 

Mr.  Blatchford  belonged  to  various  Masonic 
bodies.  He  was  a  member  of  the  University 
Club,  the  Caxton  Club  and  the  Oak  Park  Coun- 
try Club. 

In  1907-9  he  was  Governor  of  the  Society  of 
Mayflower  Descendants  in  the  State  of  Illinois. 
In  1908-9  he  also  served  as  Lieutenant  Gov- 
enor  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the 
State  of  Illinois ;  and  was  a  member  of  the  Illi- 
nois Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution. 

The  death  of  Paul  Blatchford  occurred  on 
October  8,  1925. 


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HENRY  WASHINGTON  LEE. 


Major  Henry  W.  Lee,  founder,  editor  and 
publisher  of  The  Calumet  Record  at  South  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  was  born  October  8,  1875,  a  son 
of  William  Lee  and  Anne  Cleo  (Everett)  Lee. 
He  has  the  advantage  of  a  thorough  academic 
and  college  education,  having  attended  Racine 
(Wisconsin)  College:  Kenyon  Military  Acad- 
emy, Gambier,  Ohio ;  University  School  of 
Kenosha,  Wisconsin;  Chicago  Manual  Training 
School,  and  the  Pennsylvania  Military  College, 
Chester,  Pennsylvania,  and  being  graduated 
from  the  last  named  institution  in  1894  with 
the  degree  of  Civil  Engineer. 

Major  Lee  established  The  Calumet  Record 
in  1898.  and  for  thirty  years  has  been  the  editor 
and  publisher  of  this  paper,  the  leading  publica- 
tion of  the  Calumet  Industrial  District,  and  is 
responsible  for  many  of  its  great  river  and 
harbor  improvements  and  other  important  civic 
developments. 

Besides  his  connection  with  journalism,  Major 
Lee  also  finds  time  and  opportunity  to  give  ef- 
fective co-operation  in  movements  for  the  social 
and  material  advancement  of  the  community, 
and  has  ever  stood  as  an  exponent  of  the  best 
type  of  civic  loyalty  and  progressiveness.  He 
has  not  only  achieved  success  in  his  undertak- 
ings, but  has  gained  distinction  in  his  profes- 
sion and  is  nationally  recognized  as  one  of  the 
most  thoroughly  qualified  harbor  and  sanitary 
engineers  of  the  country. 

As  Consulting  Engineer  for  the  City  of  Chi- 
cago ;  Special  Engineer  for  the  Sanitary  Dis- 
trict of  Chicago,  and  Consulting  Engineer  for 
the  Commission  of  Mayors  of  Northern  Indiana, 
Major  Lee  rendered  most  efficient  service  to 
these  bodies.  He  passed  a  civil-service  exam- 
ination in  Chicago  for  assistant  civil  engineer 


in  1899,  and  in  1917  he  certified  as  Chief  Sani- 
tary Engineer  for  the  State  of  Illinois,  by  ex- 
amination by  the  Civil  Service  Commission.  He 
was  the  first  to  propose  the  Calumet-Sag  Canal, 
Lake  Calumet  Harbor  and  the  Inter-State  Har- 
bor of  Illinois  and  Indiana.  He  served  as  Major 
of  the  Quartermasters  Officers  Reserve  Corps 
of  the  United  States  Army  during  the  World 
War,  and  here,  as  in  all  other  official  duties,  he 
proved  his  ability  and  loyalty. 

Major  Lee  is  a  member  of  the  Western  Society 
of  Engineers,  National  Association  of  Port  Au- 
thorities of  which  he  is  a  charter  member  and 
first  Vice  President,  Lake  Michigan  Sanitation 
Congress  of  which  he  has  served  as  President 
for  three  years,  South  Chicago  and  Hammond 
Chambers  of  Commerce,  and  the  Press  Club  of 
Chicago  of  which  he  is  President,  having  been 
elected  to  this  office  in  March,  1927.  He  drafted 
the  laws  on  harbors  and  sanitation  now  on  the 
Statute  Books  of  Illinois  and  Indiana.  He  has 
also  gained  distinction  as  both  a  technical  and 
dramatic  writer  and  is  the  author  of  The  Pro- 
posed Sanitary  District  of  Northern  Indiana  in 
1913;  "ElCid  Campeador"  in  1917;  "The  Lake 
Front  Steal"  in  1918;  "History  of  the  Calumet 
Region  in  1923,"  and  "Joan  of  Arc,"  a  pageant, 
in  1924. 

Major  Lee  was  married  March  12,  1901,  to 
Miss  Emily  J.  Ritzmann,  of  Chicago,  a  woman 
of  engaging  personality,  and  of  this  union  were 
born  four  children :  Doris,  who  is  the  wife  of 
John  H.  Little  of  New  York;  William  R.  Lee, 
Henry  W.  Lee,  Jr.,  and  Everett  M.  Lee.  The 
family  home  is  at  2603  East  Seventy-seventh 
street,  a  hospitable  and  well-known  center  of 
social  life  and  musical  and  literary  culture. 


ANDREW  V.  LOUDERBACK. 


Andrew  V.  Louderback  was  born  on  a  farm 
near  Fulton,  Indiana,  on  October  13,  1867,  a  son 
of  Newton  A.  and  Mary  Lucretia  (Conn)  Louder- 
back. 

He  attended  country  school  and  at  the  age  of 
17  became  a  teacher.  He  was  soon  made  Prin- 
cipal of  the  Deeds ville  (Ind. )  school.  Subse- 
quently he  attended  Roanoke  Seminary  and, 
later,  Lane  University  at  Lecompton,  Kansas. 
He  graduated  from  this  institution  in  1895  with 
his  degree  of  B.S.     He   received   his   master's 


degree  there  in  1898.  He  was  Supt.  of  Schools 
at  Stockton,  Kansas,  1891-4,  at  Weeping  Water, 
Neb.,  1895-7  and  at  Wymore,  Neb.,  1898-1901. 
He  then  took  post  graduate  work  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Nebraska.  After  that  he  came  to 
Chicago  and  entered  North  Western  University 
Dental  School,  receiving  his  degree  of  D.D.S.  in 
1905. 

He  was  a  student  of  such  exceptional  ability 
that  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  faculty  at 
Northwestern  University  Dental  School,  and  as- 


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sistant  to  Dr.  Noyes  very  soon  after  his  grad- 
uation there. 

Dr.  Louderback  practiced  dentistry  at  Chicago 
from  1905  until  his  death  in  1928.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  American  Dental  Association,  the 
Illinois  State  Dental  Society  and  the  Chicago 
Dental  Society.  He  was  President  of  the  Chi- 
cago Orthodontic  Society. 

He  was  also  Past  Commander  of  the  General 
Phil.  Sheridan  Camp,  Sons  of  Veterans. 

The  marriage  of  Andrew  V.  Louderback  to 
Miss  Artie  White  of  Marion,  Indiana,  took  place 
at  Lecompton,  Kansas,  on  June  15,  1892.  His 
wife  is  a  daughter  of  George  and  Hannah 
(Green)  White.    Dr.  and  Mrs.  Louderback  have 


one  daughter,  Pauline  (Mrs.  Holland  F.  Fla- 
Havhan),  who  has  one  son,  Holland  Louderback 
FlaHavhan. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Louderback  have  long  been  de- 
vout members  of  the  Christian  Science  Church. 
He  was  First  Reader  at  the  Fourth  Church  of 
Christ,  Scientist,  at  Chicago  from  1909  to  1912. 

Dr.  Andrew  V.  Louderback  died  in  his  sixty- 
first  year.  He  was  a  man  of  superior  culture 
and  education.  He  practiced  his  profession  in 
Chicago  for  more  than  twenty  years  and  was  a 
leading  specialist  in  orthodontia. 

The  close  of  Dr.  Louderback's  life  here  came 
on  May  3,  1928. 


JOHN  RICHARD  TREVETT. 


The  late  John  Richard  Trevett  was  born  at 
Chicago,  Illinois,  December  14,  1853,  a  son  of 
Oliver  and  Mary  F.  (Hay ward)  Trevett,  na- 
tives of  England.  When  he  was  ten  years  old 
he  moved  to  Champaign,  Illinois,  with  his 
widowed  mother  after  the  death  of  his  father. 
His  mother  lived  to  be  eighty-eight  years  old. 

He  attended  public  school  at  Champaign  and 
later  became  one  of  the  first  students  of  what 
is  now  the  University  of  Illinois.  He  soon 
found  it  necessary  to  go  to  work  and  earn 
money  for  his  living,  so  he  withdrew  from  col- 
lege. His  first  work  was  in  a  broom  corn  fac- 
tory at  Champaign.  Some  time  later  he  went 
with  Burnham,  Trevett  &  Mattis,  banking  and 
farm  loans.  Eventually  he  was  made  Vice 
President  of  this  firm  and  he  continued  to  fill 
this  office,  with  distinction,  for  many  years. 
During  the  early  period  of  development  at 
Champaign  he  was  a  very  strong  and  active 
factor  in  the  growth  of  that  city.  He  was 
President  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  for  a 
long  period. 

On  May  20,  1875,  Mr.  Trevett  was  married 
to  Miss  Helen  Martha  Lennington,  born  in 
Licking  county,  Ohio,  in  1856,  a  daughter  of 
William  and  Julia    (Condit)    Lennington.     Her 


father  was  born  in  Ohio.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
came  to  Champaign  county  in  1857  and  became 
one  of  the  most  substantial  farmers  in  that 
county.  He  was  a  staunch  supporter  of  the 
Presbyterian   Church. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Trevett  became  the  parents  of 
the  following  children  :  Ross  Lennington  Trevett, 
who  was  born  in  1876,  died  in  1913 ;  John  How- 
ard Trevett  took  his  father's  place  as  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Trevett  &  Mattis  Banking  Company 
at  Champaign ;  Helen  Mary  Trevett  is  Mrs. 
James  H.  Finch  of  Champaign,  where  her  hus- 
band is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine ;  and 
Bess  Harriet  Trevett,  who  married  Hon.  L.  T. 
Allen,  ex-County  Judge,  and  resides  at  Danville, 
Illinois.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Trevett  have  long  been 
members  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  Mr. 
Trevett  was  a  Trustee  of  the  University  of 
Illinois,  for  several  terms.  Fraternally  he  be- 
longed to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Benevo- 
lent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  went 
through  all  of  the  chairs  in  both  orders. 

John  R.  Trevett  died  on  June  12,  1926.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  able,  conservative  and 
finely  cultured  men  that  Champaign  County 
has  known. 


FRANK  JOSEPH  LOESCH. 


Among  the  older  and  more  notable  attorneys  of 
Chicago  who  have  established  a  reputation  for 
ability  and  have  achieved  honorable  success  in 
their  profession,  none  is  more  worthy  of  men- 
tion in  the  History  of  Illinois  than  Frank  J. 
Loesch,  senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Loesch, 


Scofield,  Loesch  &  Richards,  one  of  Chicago's 
strong  and  successful  law  organizations.  He  has 
been  a  potent  factor  in  the  legal  affairs  of  Chi- 
cago and  Illinois  for  more  than  half  a  century, 
and  no  attorney  of  the  city  or  state  has  made  a 
more  lasting  impression.     He  holds  prestige  in 


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his  profession  by  reason  of  ability  and  many 
years  of  experience;  and  as  a  man  of  marked 
intellectual  activity,  be  has  given  impetus  to 
the  legal  profession  of  this  city.  As  an  advocate 
his  ability  has  repeatedly  been  demonstrated, 
and  in  both  private  and  public  life  he  has  ever 
stood  as  an  exponent  of  the  best  type  of  civic 
loyalty  and  progressiveness.  In  the  practice  of 
his  profession  his  course  has  ever  been  marked 
by  inflexible  integrity  and  honor,  and  during  the 
many  years  of  his  residence  here  he  has  wielded 
definite  and  benignant  influence. 

Mr.  Loesch  was  born  at  Buffalo,  New  York, 
April  9,  1852,  a  son  of  Frank  Loesch  and  Mary 
(Fisher)  Loesch.  After  obtaining  a  substan- 
tial education  in  the  schools  of  his  native  city 
and  having  determined  upon  the  practice  of  law 
as  a  life  work,  he  matriculated  at  the  North- 
western University  (Union  College  of  Law), 
Chicago,  and  was  graduated  from  that  institu- 
tion in  1874  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws. 
The  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  was  con- 
ferred on  him  in  1922  by  the  Missouri  Valley 
College,  of  Marshall,  Missouri.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  Illinois  Bar  in  1874,  and  at  once  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Chi- 
cago. Although  he  specializes  to  a  great  extent 
in  estate  and  corporation  law,  he  is  qualified  in 
all  branches  of  the  profession.  He  has  been 
counsel  at  Chicago  for  the  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
road System  since  April,  1886,  and  has  also  been 
general  counsel  for  the  Chicago  Union  Station 
Company  since  1913.  He  was  special  state's  at- 
torney in  and  for  Cook  County,  Illinois,  to  inves- 
tigate and   prosecute  frauds  committed  at  the 


first  direct  primary  in  1908-9.  He  is  now  (1928) 
serving  as  chief  special  assistant  Attorney  Gen- 
eral in  the  investigation  of  vote  frauds,  kidnap- 
ing, murders,  bombings,  and  other  crimes  of 
violence  in  connection  with  the  primary  election 
of  April  10,  1928.  His  example  is  of  priceless 
value  to  Chicago. 

Mr.  Loesch  gives  generously  of  his  time  and 
means  to  all  measures  tending  to  the  public  good. 
There  are  few  movements  of  vital  importance  to 
the  city  and  state  with  which  he  is  not  concerned. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Historical  So- 
ciety of  which  he  is  vice-president  and  a  trustee, 
and  was  also  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of 
Education  from  1898  until  1902.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American,  Illinois  State  and  Chicago 
Bar  Associations,  and  was  president  of  the  last 
named  in  1906-7.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the 
Union  League  Club,  of  which  he  was  president 
in  1916-17 ;  Law  Club  of  which  he  was  president 
in  1922-23 ;  University  Club  ;  City  Club ;  Chicago 
Literary  Club  of  which  he  was  president  in 
1927-28;  Glenview  Golf  Club  and  the  Coopers- 
town  Country  Club  of  New  York.  In  his  reli- 
gious faith  he  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  is  interested 
in  all  good  work  of  that  organization.  His  polit- 
ical affiliations  are  with  the  Republican  party. 
Mr.  Loesch  has  been  twice  married.  October  2, 
1873,  he  married  Lydia  T.  Richards,  of  Chicago, 
who  died  in  1924,  leaving  four  children ;  Angeline 
L.,  wife  of  Dr.  Robert  E.  Graves,  Winifred  L., 
wife  of  Frederick  Z.  Marx,  Richard  L.,  and  Jo- 
seph B.  On  February  7,  1925,  Mr.  Loesch  mar- 
ried May  Browning  Bausher,  of  Cooperstown, 
New  York. 


GERHARDT  FRANZ  MEYNE. 


Mr.  Meyne  was  born  in  Chicago,  December 
30,  1880.  a  son  of  William  and  Wilhelmine  (Hin- 
richs)  Meyne.  His  early  education  was  obtained 
in  Lutheran  private  schools  of  Chicago,  ard 
later  in  the  Columbia  Trade  School,  where  h* 
took  courses  in  architecture  and  engineering. 
He  served  an  apprenticeship  as  carpenter,  and 
later  worked  consecutively  as  journeyman,  fore- 
man, superintendent  and  general  building  super- 
intendent, becoming  thoroughly  qualified  in  all 
details. 

In  1910  Mr.  Meyne  embarked  in  general  build- 
ing and  contracting  work  for  himself  under  the 
firm  name  of  Walther  &  Meyne.  This  alliance 
continued  until  1912.  when  he  became  sole 
proprietor  and  has  since  conducted  the  business 


under  his  own  name.  He  has  not  only  achieved 
success  in  his  profession,  but  is  recognized  as 
one  of  Chicago's  most  thoroughly  qualified  con- 
tractors and  builders,  and  many  of  the  large 
commercial  buildings  and  industrial  plants  of 
the  city  are  the  more  beautiful  because  of  his 
work.  He  has  for  some  years  been  engaged  in 
constructing  and  re-constructing  numerous  in- 
dustrial plants  and  commercial  buildings  with 
a  specialty  of  reclaiming  and  altering  struc- 
tures, involving  extraordinary  structural,  en- 
gineering and  architectural  difficulties. 

Besides  his  building  work,  Mr.  Meyne  is 
also  interested  in  numerous  other  business  en- 
terprises as  officer  or  stockholder.  He  has  also 
been  entrusted  with  much  work  of  a  civic  na- 


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ture  by  patriotic,  philanthropic  and  municipal 
Associations.  He  is  a  leader  in  the  open-shop 
movement  in  the  building  industry  in  Chicago, 
in  co-operation  with  the  Citizens  Committee  of 
Chicago.  He  is  Trustee  of  the  Union  League 
Foundation  for  Boys  Clubs,  and  has  also  been 
a  strong  advocator  for  the  establishment  of  vo- 
cational guidance  and  of  practical  vocational 
education  in  the  public  schools. 

Mr.  Meyne  is  affiliated  with  numerous  soci- 
eties and  organizations,  among  which  are  the 
Associated  General  Contractors  of  America,  Na- 
tional Association  of  Building  Trades  Em- 
ployers, Builders  Association  of  Chicago,  Asso- 
ciated Building  Contractors  of  Illinois,  Building 
Construction  Employers  Association  of  Chicago, 
Associated  Builders  of  Chicago,  American  Con- 
struction   Council,    Constructors    Club    of    Chi- 


cago, National  Society  of  Vocational  Education. 
American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social 
Science,  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce,  and 
Chicago  Crime  Commission,  in  nearly  all  of 
which  he  has  held  executive  offices.  He  is  also 
Trustee  of  the  Field  Museum  of  Natural  His- 
tory, a  member  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago, 
Chicago  Historical  Society  and  of  the  Union 
League,  Architects,  Builders,  Lake  Shore  Ath- 
letic, Chicago  Riding,  Chicago  Yacht,  Rotary. 
Evanston  Golf,  and  Kisbwauketow  Country 
Clubs. 

Mr.  Meyne  was  married  at  Buffalo,  New 
Tork,  February  7,  1911.  to  Elizabeth  Starrett, 
daughter  of  Henry  M.  Ernst,  of  Olean,  New 
York.  This  wife  died  January  18,  1919.  On 
January  31,  1928,  he  married  Hilda  Beatrice, 
daughter  of  William  J.  Brown. 


OLIVER  TEEVETT. 


Oliver  Trevett  was  born  at  Albany,  New  York, 
in  November,  1817,  a  son  of  Capt.  John  Trevett, 
who  was  born  at  York.  Maine,  March  6,  1783. 
He  first  married  Sarah  E.  Hayward.  born  in 
England  in  1818.  After  her  death  he  married 
her  sister  Mary.  He  was  reared  from  a  lad 
at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  but  in  1839  he 
came  to  Cook  County,  Illinois  and  for  twelve 
years  was  on  a  farm  near  Chicago.  Moving 
to  Chicago,  he  began  baking  and  was  the  first 
to  have  steam  equipment  to  bake  his  crackers. 
In  1857  he  sold  and  came  to  Champaign,  and 
bought  five  acres  on  Prospect  Street  and  Uni- 
versity Avenue.  Although  he  did  gardening  he 
also  conducted  a  bakery  at  Champaign  for  a 
time.  He  died  at  the  age  of  forty-six  years. 
His  widow  died  at  the  age  of  ninety  years, 
lacking  eighteen  days.  By  his  first  wife  he  had 
the  following  children :  Harriet,  who  lives  at 
301  Columbia  Avenue,  Champaign  ;  and  Henry. 


Jane,  John  and  Thomas  Trevett.  Harriet  was 
born  in  Cook  County,  Illinois,  in  1841.  She  at- 
tended the  public  schools  and  a  seminary  in 
Chicago.  When  only  seventeen  years  old  she 
taught  school  in  Cook  County.  After  coming 
to  Champaign  she  taught  in  the  district  schools 
for  eight  years,  and  for  two  years  taught  at 
the  Dunlap  school.  For  eight  years  she  taught 
in  the  schools  of  Champaign.  She  was  later  a 
companion  for  her  aunt  at  Chicago,  but,  when 
her  mother's  health  failed,  she  returned  home 
and  took  care  of  her  until  her  death.  After 
that  she  lived  with  her  sister  Jane,  who  died 
in  January,  1925.  Since  then  she  has  lived 
alone  and  is  very  bright  and  active.  She  be- 
longs to  numerous  societies,  and  is  president  of 
several.  In  politics  she  is  a  Democrat.  Mr. 
Trevett  participated  in  the  Black  Hawk  War, 
and  his  paternal  grandfather  was  a  soldier  in 
the  American  Revolution. 


CHARLES  HENRY  MacDOWELL. 


Among  the  men  prominently  identified  with 
the  industrial  interests  of  Chicago,  adequate 
mention  must  be  made  of  Charles  H.  Mac- 
Dowell.  founder  and  President  of  the  Armour 
Fertilizer  Works.  Coming  to  Chicago  and  en- 
tering the  employ  of  Armour  &  Company  when 
nineteen  years  of  age,  he  has  risen  to  a  place 
of  commanding  influence  in  the  commercial  and 
civic  affairs  of  the  country,  and  well  deserves 
a   place   in  the  front  rank   among  the  leading 


business  men  and  benefactors  of  our  nation.  He 
has  not  only  achieved  success  in  business,  but 
has  materially  aided  the  country  in  civic,  mu- 
nicipal and  military  affairs  and  well  deserves 
representation  in  this  history  of  his  native  state. 
Mr.  MacDowell  was  born  in  Lewistown,  Ful- 
ton County,  Illinois,  October  21,  1867,  a  son  of 
Dr.  John  Ross  and  Ella  (Burgett)  MacDowell. 
His  educational  advantages  were  those  afforded 
by  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  his  native 


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town  and  a  business  course  at  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, Bloomington,  Illinois.  The  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Science  was  conferred  on 
him  in  1921  by  the  University  of  Pittsburgh.  In 
April,  1887,  Mr.  MacDowell  became  identified 
with  Armour  &  Company  at  Chicago,  and  he  has 
since  been  actively  associated  with  this  great 
concern.  He  was  personal  secretary  and  stenog- 
rapher to  the  late  Philip  D.  Armour  from  1888 
until  1893.  Early  in  1894  he  founded  the  Fer- 
tilizer Department,  as  Department  Manager, 
and  is  a  pioneer  in  the  development  of  packing- 
house by-products  and  chemical  fertilizers.  In 
1910  the  enterprise  was  incorporated  under  the 
name  of  the  Armour  Fertilizer  Works,  of  which 
he  became  President  and  a  Director,  and  has 
since  retained  this  position.  He  is  also  a  director 
and  Vice  President  of  Armour  &  Company. 

Beside  his  connection  with  these  enterprises, 
Mr.  MacDowell  has  also  been  active  in  the  pro- 
motion and  development  of  numerous  other 
projects,  and  his  progressive  spirit  is  evident  in 
many  ways.  He  is  President  of  the  Tennessee 
Chemical  Company,  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and 
also  served  in  the  same  capacity  of  the  Planters' 
Fertilizer  '&  Chemical  Company  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  and  of  the  Marietta  Fertilizer  Com- 
pany of  Atlanta,  Georgia.  With  an  associate  in 
1915  he  developed  the  alunite  potash  alumina 
mine  at  Marysvale,  Utah,  which  was  the  first  pro- 
ducing potash  mine  in  America.  He  was  Vice 
President  of  the  Mineral  Products  Corporation 
operating  this  property.  He  is  a  Director  in  the 
Garfield  National  Bank  of  New  York. 

In  1910  he  was  one  of  a  committee  of  three 
aiding  the  Department  of  State  in  the  so-called 
"potash  war"  with  Germany,  visiting  that  coun- 
try a  number  of  times  in  this  connection.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Chemicals 
of  the  Advisory  Commission  of  the  Council  of 
National  Defense  during  the  summer  of  1917.  In 
the  fall  of  1917  he  organized  the  Chemicals  Di- 
vision of  the  War  Industries  Board  handling 
chemical  and  explosive  materials,  and  served  as 
its  director  in  Washington  during  the  war 
period. 

In  1919  Mr.  MacDowell  served  as  Associate 
Economic  Advisor  of  the  American  Commission 
to  Negotiate  Peace  at  Paris,  and  was  chairman 
of  many  meetings  of  the  Allied  and  German 
experts  at  Versailles.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Committee  on  Germany,  also  committees  for 
disposal  of  war  stocks,  dyes,  etc.,  and  assisted 
in  formulating  the  chemical  and  other  repara- 


tions clauses  in  the  treaty,  and  witnessed  the 
signing  of  the  latter. 

He  was  a  delegate  and  speaker  at  the  organi- 
zation meeting  of  the  International  Union  of 
Pure  and  Applied  Chemistry,  Paris,  1919.  He 
was  a  delegate  and  speaker  at  President  Hard- 
ing's Agricultural  Conference  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  in  1921,  and  was  Chairman  of  the  Ameri- 
can Section  of  the  Trade  and  Industry  Group 
of  the  International  Chamber  of  Commerce 
Conference  at  Rome  in  1923.  He  was  also  a 
delegate  and  speaker  at  the  Department  of 
Agriculture's  National  Conference  on  Utiliza- 
tion of  Forest  Products  at  Washington  in  1924. 
He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Over- 
seers' Committee  on  Chemistry,  Harvard  Col- 
lege, 1920-24,  and  as  Chairman  of  the  Commit- 
tee on  the  Development  of  Chemistry  of  the 
University  of  Chicago,  1926.  In  August  1920 
he  presided  as  a  conference  and  round  table 
leader  on  Fertilizer  Materials  and  their  Polit- 
ical Significance  at  the  Institute  of  Politics, 
Williams  College,  Williamstown,  Mass. 

In  1927  he  was  a  delegate  and  chairman  of  the 
American  Section  on  "International  Ententes" 
International  Chamber  of  Commerce  Congress, 
Stockholm,  Sweden.  He  was  Speaker  at  the  first 
Congress  of  the  International  Society  of  Soil 
Science,  Washington,  D.  C— June,  1927.  He 
was  also  speaker  at  the  Second  International 
Conference  on  Bituminous  Coal,  at  Pittsburgh, 
in  1928. 

In  acknowledgment  of  faithful  and  expert 
services  rendered  the  United  States  and  foreign 
countries,  Mr.  MacDowell  has  been  decorated 
with  the  Distinguished  Service  Medal  by  the 
United  States;  Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of 
Honor  by  France;  Commander  of  the  Crown  by 
Belgium ;  and  Knight  of  the  Crown  by  Italy. 

Mr.  MacDowell  has  also  gained  a  reputation 
as  a  writer,  and  is  the  author  of  "German  and 
Other  Sources  of  Potash  Supply";  "The  Sig- 
nificance of  Yorktown";  "The  Problem  of 
Muscle  Shoals,"  and  many  technical  and  eco- 
nomic articles.  He  is  a  member  of  numerous 
clubs  and  organizations,  among  which  are  the 
National  Fertilizer  Association,  of  which  he  was 
President  four  years— 1904-05  and  1921-22;  the 
Western  Society  of  Engineers,  of  which  he  was 
President  in  1921;  the  Executive  Board  of  the 
American  Engineering  Council,  of  which  he  was 
a  member  in  1922-23;  the  Chicago  Historical 
Society,   American  Geographical  Society,  Amer- 


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ican  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science, 
Academy  of  Political  Science  of  New  York, 
American  Chemical  Society.  American  Institute 
of  Mining  &  Metallurgical  Engineers,  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  Il- 
linois State  Academy  of  Science,  International 
Society  of  Soil  Science,  Society  of  American 
Military  Engineers  and  the  Army  Ordnance 
Association.      He    is    a    Fellow    of    the    Royal 


Society  of  Arts  of  Great  Britain.  His  club 
affiliations  are  the  Chicago,  University,  Union 
League,  Engineers,  Glenview,  Old  Elm,  Saddle  & 
Sirloin,  and  Knollwood  of  Chicago ;  Bankers  and 
Chemists  of  New  York ;  the  Metropolitan  and 
Congressional  Country  Club  of  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mr.  MacDowell  was  married  October  25,  1892, 
to  Miss  Janet  Borland  of  Chicago,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Matthew  L.  and  Emily  (Robinson)  Borland. 


JOHN  ALDEN  SPOOR. 


John  Alden  Spoor  was  born  at  Freehold,  New 
York,  September  30,  1851.  a  son  of  Rev.  John 
Spoor  and  Amanda  (Alden)  Spoor.  As  a  boy 
he  attended  the  schools  near  his  home,  and  later 
the  Hudson  River  Institute  at  Claverack,  New 
York. 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  1886.  We  print  here  a 
brief  resume  of  his  very  exceptional  business 
career.  He  was  made  Superintendent  and  later 
General  Manager  of  the  Wagner  Palace  Car 
Company,  and  so  continued  until  1S97.  In  that 
year  he  was  made  President  of  the  Chicago 
Junction  Railway  Company.  Subsequently,  he 
was  Chairman  of  their  Board  of  Directors  for 
many  years.  He  was  President  and  later  Chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Union  Stock 
Yards  and  Transit  Company. 

He  also  was  a  Director  of  the  Chicago  City 
Railway  and  its  connecting  lines;  of  the  Union 
Stock  Yards  of  New  Jersey,  the  Pullman  Com- 
pany, the  First  National  Bank  of  Chicago,  the 
National  Safe  Deposit  Company,  the  Stock  Yards 
National  Bank  of  Chicago,  the  National  Surety 
Company,  the  Guarantee  Trust  Company  of  New 
York,  and  of  Montgomery  Ward  &  Company. 
He  also  did  a  great  deal  to  develop  the  Central 
Manufacturing  District  of  Chicago. 

He  was  a  Trustee  of  the  Newberry  Library. 
St.  Luke's  Hospital  (President),  the  Children's 
Memorial  Hospital  and  of  the  Chicago  Historical 
Society. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 


Revolution,  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the 
Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants,  and  the  Bib- 
liophile Society.  His  clubs  were  the  Metropoli- 
tan. Grolier.  New  York  Yacht.  Midday  and  Guar- 
antee clubs,  all  of  New  York ;  and  the  Chicago 
Club,  the  Midday.  Chicago  Athletic  Association, 
Saddle  and  Cycle,  Onwentsia,  Commercial,  Shore 
Acres  of  Chicago,  the  Jekyl  Island  Club  of 
Brunswick,  Georgia,  the  Royal  Automobile  Club 
of  London,  and  the  Travelers  Club  of  Paris. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of 
Chicago,  and  of  the  Chicago  Stock  Exchange. 

Mr.  Spoor  was  married  February  12.  1889,  to 
Miss  Frances  Samuel,  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  a 
daughter  of  Webb  M.  and  Anna  M.  (Russell) 
Samuel.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spoor  have  one  daughter, 
Caryl  Spoor  (Mrs.  Thomhill  Broome).  There 
are  three  grandchildren,  John  Spoor  Broome, 
Elizabeth  Thornhill  Broome,  and  Caryl  Spoor 
Bagshaw  Broome. 

The  family  home  has  been  at  1526  North  State 
Parkway.  Chicago,  for  the  past  thirty-one  years. 

The  death  of  John  A.  Spoor  occurred  October 
15,  1926.  He  will  be  greatly  missed  for  he  was 
notably  just  and  able  and  devoted  to  the  things 
that  are  fine.  He  was  identified  with  the  growth 
and  betterment  of  Chicago  for  over  thirty  years. 
He  was  a  man  of  world-wise  consequence.  His 
connections  were  exceedingly  comprehensive, 
and  his  life  contributed  in  a  most  important  de- 
gree to  many  works  that  have  been  indispens- 
able to  Chicago's  development. 


OSCAR  JOEL  NOTHENBERG. 


Doctor  Nothenberg  was  born  in  Sweden, 
June  19,  1874.  a  son  of  Anders  J.  and  Chris- 
tina (Peterson)  Janson.  His  early  education 
was  obtained  in  the  primary  and  grammar 
schools  of  his  native  country,  in  which  he  pur- 
sued his  studies  until  attaining  the  age  of  four- 
teen.    He  then  became  a  student  in  the  Sloid 


and  Manual  Training  School  there,  and  con- 
tinued his  studies  in  that  institution  until  1890. 
In  1892  he  came  to  Chicago,  where  he  continued 
his  studies  in  the  grammar  evening  school  for 
three  years.  He  was  then  a  student  in  Rivers- 
ton  Academy  for  two  years  and  one  year  in  the 
Chicago  Athenaeum.     Having  determined  upon 


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the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life  work,  he  then 
entered  the  National  Medical  University,  Chi- 
cago, and  later  the  Dearborn  Medical  College, 
and  was  graduated  from  the  latter  institution 
in  1907  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine. 
Soon  after  completing  his  medical  course  he  es- 
tablished himself  in  the  practice  of  medicine 
at  Chicago  and  has  since  been  an  active  factor 
in  the  medical  profession  of  this  city. 

Doctor  Nothenberg  became  a  naturalized  citi- 
zen of  the  United  States  in  1898.  From  1907 
until  1911,  Doctor  Nothenberg  was  Demon- 
strator of  Anatomy,  lecturer  in  Neurologic 
Anatomy  and  Clinical  Instructor  in  Otorhino- 
laryngology  at  the  Reliance  Medical  Col- 
lege, and  from  1913  until  1915  he  was  Clinical 
Assistant  in  Oto-laryngology  at  the  Chicago  Eye, 
Ear,  Nose  and  Throat  College,  and  since  the  lat- 
ter date  he  has  been  Professor  of  Otology,  Rhi- 
nology  and  Laryngology  at  that  institution.  At- 
tending Otologist  and  Rhinologist  to  the  Ameri- 
can Hospital,  Chicago,  1928.  As  Health  Officer 
of  the  Chicago  Department  of  Health  in  1909,  he 
rendered  effective  service  to  that  body.    He  was 


also  President  of  the  Parent-Teachers'  Associa- 
tion of  the  Lyman  Trumbull  School  in  1912-14, 
and  likewise  rendered  valuable  service  to  that  or- 
ganization. He  served  as  Medical  Examiner  of 
Exemption  Board  No.  60,  for  Selective  Service  at 
Chicago  in  1917  and  was  a  volunteer  Red  Cross 
physician  in  1918.  He  was  Acting  Assistant 
Surgeon  of  the  United  States  Public  Health 
Service  in  1918.  He  has  also  gained  distinction 
as  a  writer  and  is  the  author  of  "Modification 
of  the  Submucous  Resection  Operation,"  "New 
Method  of  Controlling  Hemorrhage  After 
Tonsilectomy,"  etc. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Medical 
Societies,  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  Kiwanis. 

Doctor  Nothenberg  was  married  April  27, 
1901,  to  Miss  Esther  S.  Jacobson,  of  Chicago,  a 
daughter  of  Per  S.  and  Esther  C.  Jacobson,  and 
of  this  union  were  born  two  daughters :  Esther 
Christina  Mercedes,  who  is  the  wife  of  Doctor 
Henry  P.  Dorman,  and  Alice  Lydia  Angela,  wife 
of  Jeff"  E.  Corydon  Jr. 


JOHN  NUVEEN,  V. 


John  Nuveen,  V.  was  born  in  Altona,  Schleswig- 
Holstein,  Denmark,  (now  Germany),  August  26, 
1864,  of  Dutch  ancestry,  his  father  being  at 
that  time  a  citizen  of  Holland.  He  comes  of 
prominent  old  Holland  families  which  date  back 
many  generations  in  the  history  of  that  country, 
his  paternal  grandfather,  John  Nuveen,  III  be- 
ing the  most  prominent  shipbuilder  of  Holland 
in  his  day. 

Coming  to  Chicago  with  his  parents,  John  Nu- 
veen, IV  and  Margaret  Christina  (Reimer)  Nu- 
veen, when  two  years  of  age,  Mr.  Nuveen  grew 
up  with  that  city.  He  attended  the  grade  schools 
of  Chicago  and  of  Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  the 
West  Division  High  School  and  Souder's  Busi- 
ness College  of  Chicago. 

He  began  his  commercial  career  in  his  father's 
dry  goods  business.  He  later  became  secretary 
for  the  wholesale  grocery  firm  of  Chapman  & 
Smith  Company,  and  was  identified  with  that 
concern  until  1898. 

Resigning  in  this  year,  Mr.  Nuveen  embarked 
in  the  investment  banking  business  in  the  First 
National  Bank  Building  of  Chicago,  under  the 
firm  name  of  John  Nuveen  &  Company ;  and  he 
still  maintains  his  business  in  the  same  building. 
The  firm  makes  a  specialty  of  municipal  bonds ; 


and  under  Mr.  Nuveen's  able  and  conservative 
management  it  has  become  one  of  the  notable 
enterprises  of  the  city.  Mr.  Nuveen  is  also  vice- 
president  of  the  Columbia  Bank  Note  Company. 
Mr.  Nuveen  is  greatly  interested  in  the  welfare 
of  deserving  young  men,  and  has  done  much  to 
aid  them  in  their  intellectual  advancement  and 
life  work.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  College  of  Chicago,  Illinois, 
and  Lake  Geneva,  Wisconsin ;  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  of  Chicago ;  of  the 
Pacific  Garden  Mission,  and  of  the  Immanuel 
Baptist  Church.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Sunday 
Evening  Club,  which  conducts  religious  services 
at  Orchestra  Hall,  and  was  formerly  president 
of  the  Chicago  Baptist  Social  Union.  He  is 
national  President  of  the  American  Baptist  Pub- 
lication Society ;  is  an  active  member  of  the  Im- 
manuel Baptist  Church,  having  been  Sunday 
School  Superintendent  for  more  than  twenty 
years  and  is  interested  in  all  good  work  of  that 
organization.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union 
League,  Hamilton,  Mid-Day,  Quadrangle,  and 
Olympia  Fields  Country  clubs  of  Chicago,  and 
the  Muskegon  Country,  White  Lake  Golf  and 
Yacht  and  the  Knapp  Island  Gun  Clubs,  and  is 
prominent  in  both  social  and  business  circles. 


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Mr.  Nuveen  has  been  twice  married.  June  18, 
1895,  he  married  Ida  E.  Strawbridge,  of  Chicago, 
a  daughter  of  William  C.  Strawbridge  and 
Esther  (Starbuck)  Strawbridge.  She  died  Jan- 
uary 23,  1910,  leaving  one  son,  John  Nuveen,  VI. 
She  was  ever  active  in  all  good  work,  and  was 
president  of  the  Woman's  American  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society  at  the  time  of  her  death. 


On  June  21,  1912,  Mr.  Nuveen  married  Anna 
M.  Strawbridge,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife.  She 
is  likewise  active  in  social  and  munificent  work, 
being  at  this  writing  (1928),  the  president  of 
the  Woman's  American  Baptist  Home  Mission 
Society.  The  family  home  in  Chicago  is  at  5312 
Hyde  Park  boulevard  and  Mr.  Nuveen  also  has 
a  summer  home  at  White  Lake,  Michigan. 


WELLINGTON  LEAVITT. 


Wellington  Leavitt  was  born  at  Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts,  on  August  5,  1854,  a  son  of  Cal- 
vin and  Sarah  (Whitman)  Leavitt.  He  was  the 
youngest  of  seven  children.  The  Leavitts  are  one 
of  the  early  families  of  Maine  and  the  Whitmans 
are  of  Puritan  stock. 

Wellington  Leavitt  attended  public  school  in 
Bridgewater.  After  his  boyhood  days  were  past 
he  went  into  the  cattle  business,  with  his  father, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Leavitt  &  Son  at 
Brighton,  Massachusetts.  He  became  one  of  the 
most  able  cattle  buyers  in  that  section  of  the 
country. 

In  1883  he  was  asked  by  Mr.  Gustavus  F. 
Swift,  of  Swift  &  Company,  Packers,  to  come  to 
Chicago  and  take  charge  of  the  cattle  buying  for 
this  great  organization.  Mr.  Leavitt  accepted, 
and  on  August  1,  1883,  he  became  head  of  their 
cattle  buying  department.  He  continued  in  that 
office  throughout  all  the  remaining  years  of  his 
life.  Speaking  of  him  an  official  of  Swift  & 
Company  said : 

'He  was  one  of  the  early  associates  of  Gus- 
tavus F.  Swift,  founder  of  Swift  &  Company,  his 
first  connection  with  the  cattle  business  having 
been  begun  with  his  father  in  Massachusetts. 
Mr.  Swift  then  just  beginning  to  buy  cattle  on 
the  Chicago  market  bought  hundreds  of  heads 
for  Leavitt  &  Son  and  shipped  them  alive  to  the 
eastern  state.  When  the  business  of  Swift  & 
Company  grew  too  large  for  Mr.  Swift  and  his 
sons,  Louis  F.  and  Edward  F.  Swift,  to  handle 
tlie  cattle  buying,  Wellington  Leavitt  was  hired 


and  brought  to  Chicago.  He  first  came  to  work 
on  August  1,  1883,  and  soon  won  his  place  among 
the  cattle  buyers  by  the  force  of  his  personality 
and  his  keen  judgment  of  values. 

"  'Billy'  Leavitt,  or  'The  Boss'  as  he  was  lov- 
ingly known  by  hundreds  of  men  in  the  yards, 
was  regarded  as  a  man  whose  word  could  be 
taken  at  its  face  value.  He  was  consulted  by 
commission  men  and  other  buyers  alike  and 
when  his  opinion  was  given  it  was  taken  as 
final."  Mr.  Leavitt  was  head  of  the  cattle  buy- 
ing department  of  Swift  '&  Company  for  forty- 
four  consecutive  years. 

On  June  17,  1891,  Mr.  Leavitt  was  married  at 
Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Mae  Mansfield,  a 
daughter  of  Ira  K.  and  Emma  G.  (Cooke)  Mans- 
field. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leavitt  have  four  children, 
Bessie  Leavitt  Boyle,  Helen  Leavitt  Morton, 
Wellington  Leavitt,  Jr.,  and  Calvin  H.  Leavitt. 
Mr.  Leavitt  was  very  deeply  devoted  to  his  home 
and  his  family. 

Mr.  Leavitt's  life  came  to  its  close  in  his 
seventy-fourth  year.  He  will  be  remembered  in 
sincere  appreciation.  He  was  a  modest,  unas- 
suming man  and  was  endowed  with  quiet  force- 
fulness.  Honor  and  loyalty  were  the  foundations 
of  his  character.  He  was  held  in  warm  affection 
by  a  host  of  the  men  who  knew  him.  For  nearly 
half  a  century  he  filled  one  of  the  most  respon- 
sible places  in  the  great  packing  industry  of 
America. 

The  death  of  Wellington  Leavitt  occurred  on 
October  28,  1927. 


LOUIS  THOMAS  ORR. 


The  family  of  Louis  T.  Orr  has  been  prom- 
inently identified  with  American  history  for 
many  generations,  his  ancestors,  both  paternal 
and  maternal,  having  immigrated  to  America 
prior  to  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  were  mov- 
ing spirits  in  that  great  struggle  for  liberty  and 
independence. 


Mr.  Orr  was  born  at  Kankakee.  Illinois,  No- 
vember 30,  1871,  a  son  of  James  Nicholas  and 
Emma  Huntington  (Ains worth)  Orr.  His  edu- 
cational advantages  were  those  afforded  by 
Oberlin  College,  class  of  1889-92.  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  graduating  from  the  latter 
institution  in  1895.  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 


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of  Laws.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  Bar 
in  1895  and  soon  afterward  established  himself 
in  the  practice  of  law  at  Chicago,  where  he  has 
since  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
and  where  he  has  made  a  lasting  impression. 

Besides  his  legal  practice  Mr.  Orr  is  also  in- 
terested in  numerous  business  enterprises.  He 
has  been  prominently  identified  with  the  real 
estate  interests  of  Chicago  for  a  number  of 
years,  being  a  member  of  the  firm  of  H.  G. 
Howard  &  Company  and  its  successor  in  1922, 
the  Howard  &  Orr  Company,  Inc.,  of  which  he 
has  been  President  since  1924. 

In  1901  Mr.  Orr  was  retained  by  the  Women's 
and  Children's  Protective  Association  to  investi- 
gate charges  against  the  management  of  the 
Eastern  Illinois  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  at 
Kankakee,  his  work  resulting  in  the  removal 
of  one  trustee  and  the  discharge  of  many  em- 
ployes. He  was  also  instrumental  in  starting 
the  movement  to  stop  hazing  in  the  Universities 
of  the  United  States  in  1922,  beginning  at  the 
University  of  Michigan.  He  also  led  in  solving 
the  "coal  crises"  in  1917.  by  appearing  before 
the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  and  Pub- 
lic Utilities  Commission  of  Illinois  in  the  argu- 
ment against  the  embargo  of  coal  by  railroads. 
He  also  successfully  opposed  the  laws  detri- 
mental to  the  growth  of  Chicago,  which  were 
pending  in  the  Illinois  Legislature  in  1922. 
There  are  few  movements  of  vital  importance 
to  Chicago  and  Illinois  with  which  Mr.  Orr  is 
not  concerned. 

For  some  time  Mr.  Orr  has  been  lecturer  at 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  School 
of  Commerce,  and  as  an  instructor  he  is  not 
only  popular,  but  is  thoroughly  qualified  in 
scholarship  and  is  endowed  with  rare  gifts  of 


oratory,  ready  diction  and  personal  magnetism. 
His  style  of  delivery  is  forceful  and  logical  and 
each  sentence  teaches  its  own  lesson. 

Mr.  Orr  is  a  member  of  the  American  and 
Illinois  State  Bar  Associations  and  of  the  Chi- 
cago Real  Estate  Board,  being  ex-Vice  President 
and  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of  the 
last  named  organization.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  National  Association  of  Real  Estate  Boards, 
and  is  Chairman  of  the  Property  Management 
Division  of  that  organization.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the 
United  States,  and  has  been  active  in  many 
ways  in  promoting  the  commercial  prestige  of 
Chicago  and  the  State  of  Illinois.  He  is  a 
Mason,  Knight  Templar  and  a  Shriner.  and  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum  and  Royal 
League.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  Ham- 
ilton, South  Shore  Country,  Lake  Shore  Athletic, 
Collegiate,  Midway  Athletic,  Dixmoor  Golf, 
Michigan  North  Woods,  and  the  Hyde  Park 
Men's  clubs. 

In  his  political  affiliations  he  is  a  stanch  Re- 
publican. In  his  religious  faith  he  is  a  Presby- 
terian and  has  ever  been  active  in  all  good  work 
of  that  organization. 

Mr.  Orr  was  married  October  15,  1902,  to 
Miss  Arabella  Ruth  Armstrong,  of  Akron,  Ohio. 
They  have  four  children :  Louis  T.  Jr.,  who  is 
a  graduate  of  the  University  of  California  and 
is  associated  with  his  father  in  business ;  Wil- 
lard  T.,  who  is  a  student  in  the  University  of 
Chicago  Law  School  (1927)  ;  Arabella  Ruth,  who 
is  a  student  in  the  Frances  Shinier  School  for 
Girls  (1927)  ;  and  Mary  Katherine,  a  student 
in  the  University  High  School,  Chicago.  The 
family  home  is  at  5225  University  Avenue.  Chi- 
cago. 


WILLAED  MILTON  McEWEN. 


Willard  M.  McEwen  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Milton  Township,  De  Kalb  County,  Illinois,  on 
December  15,  18G3,  a  son  of  Lewis  M.  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Ward)  McEwen.  He  began  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  De  Kalb  County. 
He  then  entered  the  Union  College  of  Law,  at 
Chicago.  He  received  his  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Laws  from  that  institution  in  1887. 

He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 
partnership  with  Charles  S.  Deneen,  establish- 
ing the  law  firm  of  Deneen  &  McEwen.  Sub- 
sequently   he    entered    into    partnership    with 


Frank  Pease,  in  the  firm  of  Pease  &  McEwen, 
an  association  which  continued  until  1895. 

Mr.  McEwen  served  for  one  year  at  Attorney 
for  the  Sanitary  District  of  Chicago.  He  then 
was  appointed  Assistant  State's  Attorney  for 
Cook  County,  which  office  he  filled  until  Jan- 
uary 1,  1901.  Then  for  a  year  he  was  engaged 
again  in  private  practice  in  the  firm  of  McEwen 
&  Weissenbach. 

The  following  year,  1902,  Mr.  McEwen  was 
elected  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Cook 
County,  Illinois.     From  this  time  on,  for  nearly 


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a  decade,  he  filled  this  very  important  office, 
with  honor  and  distinction.  He  resigned  from 
the  Bench  in  May,  1910. 

For  the  following  eight  years  he  practiced 
law  in  the  firm  of  McEwen,  Weissenbach  and 
Shrimski.  During  the  last  ten  years  of  his  career 
he  was  in  practice  alone. 

On  October  20,  1890,  Mr.  McEwen  was  mar- 
ried, at  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Andrea  Autzen. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Marie.  Mr.  McEwen 
was  deeply  devoted  to  his  family  and  his  home. 
The  family  residence  for  many  years  has  been 
at  3633  North  Springfield  Avenue.  Their  sum- 
mer home  is  at  Ephriam,  Wisconsin. 


Mr.  McEwen  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
Constitutional  Convention  in  1920.  He  belonged 
to  the  American,  Illinois  State,  Chicago  Bar  As- 
sociations, and  to  the  Law  Club.  He  was 
a  Mason  (Knight  Templar,  Consistory  and 
Shriner).  He  also  belonged  to  the  Union  League 
Club,  the  Hamilton  Club,  and  to  the  Lake  Shore 
Athletic  Club. 

The  death  of  Mr.  McEwen  occurred  on  Au- 
gust 18,  1927.  From  his  early  boyhood  days  on 
the  farm  he  advanced,  by  steady  growth,  to  be- 
come one  of  the  best-known  lawyers  of  his  day 
in  the  state  of  Illinois. 


JACOB  MARTIN  APPEL. 


Jacob  Martin  Appel,  President  of  the  High- 
land Park  State  Bank,  First  National  Bank  of 
Wilmette  and  The  Broadway  National  Bank  of 
Chicago  and  founder  of  the  two  last  named,  and 
for  many  years  an  active  and  unostentatious 
worker  in  church  and  municipal  affairs,  is  one 
of  the  aggressive  and  public  spirited  citizens 
of  Chicago  who  has  contributed  much  to  the 
civic  and  material  advancement  of  our  great 
commonwealth,  and  well  deserves  mention  in 
the  history  of  his  native  state. 

Mr.  Appel  was  born  at  Highland,  Illinois, 
May  22,  1864,  a  son  of  Franz  and  Maria  (Hoh- 
meier)  Appel,  pioneers  of  this  state.  Although 
his  educational  advantages  were  limited  to  that 
of  the  public  schools,  he  became  well  qualified, 
and  in  1905  the  honorary  degree  of  Certified 
Public  Accountant  was  conferred  on  him  by  the 
University  of  Illinois.  In  1897  he  became  iden- 
tified with  the  State  Auditor's  office  at  Spring- 
field, having  charge  of  the  banking  and  build- 
ing and  loan  department,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  1910.  In  the  subsequent  year  he 
became  associated  with  the  Highland  Park 
(Illinois)  State  Bank  and  was  elected  Presi- 
dent of  that  institution  in  1921.  In  1917  he 
founded  the  First  National  Bank  of  Wilmette, 
and  in  1923  he  founded  The  Broadway  National 
Bank  of  Chicago,  and  is  President  of  both. 
Under  his  able  and  conservative  management 
these  banks  have  become  substantial  and  popu- 
lar financial  institutions  and  are  numbered 
among  the  representative  banking  houses  of  the 
country. 

Mr.  Appel  has  not  only  gained  a  national  repu- 
tation as  a  financier,  but  has  won  distinction 
in    the    management   of   large    affairs,    and    he 


merits  a  place  in  the  front  rank  among  the 
leading  business  men  of  the  country.  He  was 
formerly  President  of  the  Guaranty  Securities 
Company,  Certified  Audit  Company,  and  Vice 
President  of  the  Inter-Ocean  Casualty  Company, 
but  of  late  years  he  has  devoted  his  time  chiefly 
to  monetary  affairs. 

In  June,  1926,  Mr.  Appel  was  elected  Vice 
President  of  the  Illinois  Bankers  Association 
and  served  in  that  capacity  until  June,  1927, 
when  he  was  elected  President.  In  1928  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  executive  council  of  the 
American  Bankers  Association.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Memorial  Church  of  Christ  and  has 
ever  been  active  in  all  good  work  of  that  or- 
ganization. He  is  also  a  Mason,  Knight  Templar 
and  Shriner,  and  a  member  of  the  Hamilton 
Club,  Steuben  Club  and  Medinah  Athletic  Club 
and  the  Bankers  Club. 

He  was  married  October  20,  1886,  to  Miss  Ida 
Idler,  of  Pocahontas,  Illinois,  a  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Stoecklin)  Idler,  and  of 
this  union  were  born  two  children :  Vallee  Or- 
ville  Appel,  who  is  an  attorney  by  profession  and 
now  President  of  the  Fulton  Market  Cold  Stor- 
age Company ;  and  Miss  Mildred  Neta  Appel, 
who  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Chicago 
and  still  resides  with  her  parents.  The  son  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Officers'  Training  Camp 
at  Ft.  Sheridan,  in  1917 ;  served  as  First  Lieu- 
tenant of  the  Three  Hundred  and  Forty-fourth 
United  States  Infantry  and  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Ninth  United  States  Infantry  during  the 
World  War,  and  was  with  the  American  Ex- 
peditionary Forces  in  France  for  one  year.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Chicago 


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as  President  of  his  class  in  1911,  with  the  de- 
gree of  Bachelor  of  Philosophy,  and  from  Har- 
vard University  in  1914,  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Laws.  He  also  received  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Jurisprudence  from  the  University 
of  Chicago  in  1914.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Illinois  Bar  in  1914  and  for  some  years  was  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law  at  Chicago.  From 
1919  until  1922,  he  was  Trust  Officer  and  Secre- 
tary of  the  Great  Lakes  Trust  Company,  and 


in  the  latter  year  he  became  Vice  President  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Fulton  Market  Cold  Storage 
Company.  He  was  elected  President  of  this  great 
corporation  in  June,  1925,  and  still  retains  this 
position.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bar 
Association,  American  Legion,  Sigma  Alpha  Ep- 
silon  fraternity,  the  Harvard  Club,  the  Univer- 
sity Club  and  the  Exmoor  and  South  Shore 
Country  Clubs.  He  belongs  to  the  Disciples  of 
Christ. 


CHARLES  EDWARD  SCHICK. 


Mr.  Schick  was  born  iu  Chicago,  August  16, 
1872,  a  son  of  William  and  Johanna  (Boener) 
Schick.  His  educational  advantages  were  those 
afforded  by  the  public  schools  of  Chicago  and 
the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Business  College.  He 
early  developed  an  aptitude  for  business,  and  in 
1888,  when  sixteen  years  of  age,  he  secured  a 
position  as  messenger  in  the  Home  National 
Bank  of  Chicago,  and  has  since  been  identified 
with  the  banking  activities  of  this  city.  His 
ability  soon  became  apparent  and  he  was  ad- 
vanced to  the  position  of  Assistant  Cashier  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  that  institution 
was  merged  with  the  Chicago  National  Bank, 
and  in  1898  he  became  Cashier  of  the  Home 
Savings  Bank.  From  December  8,  1906,  until 
December  30,  1915,  he  was  Cashier  and  Director 
of  the  North  Avenue  State  Bank  and  on  Jan- 
uary 1,  1916,  he  was  elected  Vice  President  of 
that  bank.  In  January,  1925,  he  became  Presi- 
dent of  the  Northcenter  Trust  and  Savings 
Bank,  and  has  since  been  the  executive  head 
of  this  institution.  He  has  been  actively  iden- 
tified with  the  monetary  affairs  of  Chicago  for 
nearly  forty  years,  and  few  financiers  of  this 
city  have  gained  so  high  a  reputation  for  probity 


and  sagacity.  He  has  not  only  achieved  suc- 
cess in  business,  but  has  gained  distinction  in 
the  management  of  large  affairs,  and  well  de- 
serves mention  in  the  history  of  his  native  state. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Association  of 
Commerce  and  of  the  Cook  County  Real  Estate 
Board,  and  in  1917  he  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  Chicago  Public  Library  Board,  of  which 
he  served  as  President  for  some  years.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Hamilton  Club,  Germania 
Club,  Steuben  Club,  Northern  Athletic  Club, 
Pistaqua  Heights  Country  Club,  and  is  a  Thirty- 
Second  Degree  Mason  and  a  Shriner.  In  his 
religious  faith  he  is  a  Lutheran. 

Mr.  Schick  was  married  in  1896  to  Miss  Ot- 
tilie  L.  Rutishauser,  of  Chicago,  and  of  this 
union  were  born  two  children :  Edna  Louise, 
who  is  the  wife  of  Charles  J.  Kuchel,  President 
of  the  Coney-Kuchel  Electrical  Works,  at  San 
Francisco,  California,  and  Robert  E.  Schick,  a 
student  in  Lawrence  College,  at  Appleton,  Wis- 
consin. The  family  home  for  many  years  has 
been  at  1722  Chase  Avenue,  Chicago.  The  pres- 
ent residence  is  at  532  Earlston  Ave.,  Kenil- 
worth,  111. 


MARIE  O.  ANDRESEN. 


Thoroughly  aroused  to  the  needs  which  have 
been  brought  about  through  modern  conditions 
and  seeing  the  value  of  organized  efforts,  women 
of  today  are  doing  splendid  and  efficient  work 
in  nearly  all  walks  of  life.  The  spirit  of  pro- 
gress which  has  been  the  dominant  factor  in 
the  history  of  the  nineteenth  and  the  opening 
years  of  the  twentieth  centuries  has  been  mani- 
fested in  no  way  more  strongly  than  in  the 
legal  profession,  and  among  the  notable  women 
of  Chicago,  one  deserving  of  mention  in  the  his- 
tory of  Illinois  is  Miss  Marie  O.  Andresen,  for- 


mer assistant  State's  attorney  of  the  Criminal 
Court  of  Cook  County. 

Miss  Andresen  was  born  in  Chicago,  April  27, 
1889,  a  daughter  of  Theodore  O.  J.  Andresen,  a 
prominent  architect  of  Chicago,  and  Bertha 
(Fox)  Andresen,  and  is  a  granddaughter  of 
Rev.  Andreas  Andresen.  Her  educational  ad- 
vantages were  those  afforded  by  the  public 
schools  of  this  city  and  the  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity. In  1921  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Laws  was  conferred  on  her  by  the  University 
of  Illinois.     In  1910-11,  she  engaged  in   teach- 


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ing  in  the  public  schools  of  Cook  County  and  in 
1917,  she  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  Board 
of  Local  Improvements  for  the  City  of 
Chicago,  serving  in  that  capacity  for  two  years. 
She  was  also  actively  identified  with  the  State 
of  Illinois  Department  of  Labor  from  1918  un- 
til 1921,  and  during  this  period  she  prosecuted 
numerous  cases  of  infraction  of  the  industrial 
code. 

On  December  14,  1922,  Miss  Andresen  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  by  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Illinois,  and  has  since  been  an  active  factor  in 
the  legal  profession  of  Chicago.  She  was  also 
admitted  to  practice  in  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States,  December  14,  1925,  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  On  September  15,  1923,  she  was 
appointed  Assistant  State's  Attorney  of  the 
Criminal  Court  of  Cook  County,  and  served  in 
that  capacity  until  January  1,  1927,  being  the 
only  woman  presecutor  among  seventy-two 
lawyers  to  serve  in  this  capacity  on  the  staff 
of  State's  Attorney  Robert  E.  Crowe.  She  served 
as  a  voluntary  worker  with  the  American  Red 
Cross  during  the  World  War  in  1917-18  and  ren- 
dered most  effective  service  to  that  organization. 
She  was  a  delegate  to  the  Woman's  Legislative 
Congress  from  the  Republican  State  Central 
Committee  in  1920 ;  was  a  delegate  to  the  Re- 


publican State  Convention  at  Springfield,  in  1922, 
and  a  delegate  to  the  Mississippi  Valley  Indus- 
trial Conference  in  1923-24.  She  was  a  member 
of  the  Ways  and  Means  Committee  from  Illinois 
under  the  Republican  National  Committee,  and 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Speakers'  Committee 
in  the  campaign  of  1924 ;  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Woman's  Association  of  Commerce  to  the  United 
States  Chamber  of  Commerce  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  in  1925.  She  had  also  gained  distinction 
as  a  writer  and  is  the  author  of  two  interesting 
books  on  Old  Norse  and  Teutonic  Folkore.  She 
has  also  been  awarded  numerous  prizes  for 
sculpture. 

Miss  Andresen  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Bar  Association,  Illinois  State  Bar  Association, 
Chicago  Bar  Association,  Lawyers'  Association  of 
Illinois,  Woman's  Bar  Association  of  Illinois 
American  Association  of  the  University  of 
Women,  Woman's  Association  of  Commerce,  of 
which  she  was  a  director  from  1924  to  1927, 
Woman's  Trade  Union  League,  Woman's  Relief 
Corps  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  Re- 
public Woman's  Club,  and  a  charter  member 
of  the  Woman's  Roosevelt  Republican  Club  of 
Illinois.  She  is  also  a  valued  member  of  the 
Woman's  City  Club  and  of  the  Chicago  Illinae 
Club,  being  vice-president  of  the  latter  in  1924-25. 


GEORGE  BUTTERS. 


Mr.  Butters  was  born  September  14,  1849,  in 
South  Boston,  a  division  of  the  Massachusetts 
metropolis,  and  was  a  son  of  John  Arnould 
Cormerais  Butters  and  Caroline  Elizabeth 
(Sampson)  Butters.  His  first  American  pa- 
ternal ancestor  was  William  Butters,  who  set- 
tled in  that  part  of  Northern  Massachusetts 
now  called  Wilmington  in  the  year  1665.  He 
served  in  King  Philip's  War  as  a  member  of 
Capt.  Joseph  Sill's  Company.  A  grandson,  Sam- 
uel Butters  and  a  great-grandson  of  the  same 
name,  were  among  the  Minute  Men  in  the  Battle 
of  Lexington. 

George  Butters  attended  a  private  school  at 
West  Roxbury  and  also  Brookline,  Massachu- 
setts. At  the  age  of  nine  years  he  went  to  live 
with  an  uncle  at  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  attended  the  primary  and  High  schools. 
When  fifteen  years  old  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Samuel  Greves,  a  furniture  manufacturer  in 
Boston,  and  learned  the  trade  of  an  upholsterer. 

He  took  up  his  residence  at  Chicago  in  July, 
1868,  and  was  employed  by  D.  Long  &  Company, 


upholsterers  and  furniture  dealers,  in  whose 
business  his  uncle,  William  A.  Butters,  had  an 
interest.  He  became  a  salesman  in  this  es- 
tablishment, and  a  few  years  later  was  employed 
as  bookkeeper.  When  the  business  was  closed 
out  in  1870,  he  entered  the  service  of  William 
A.  Butters  &  Company,  having  charge  of  their 
shoe  department.  The  following  spring,  owing 
to  ill  health,  he  went  to  Colorado  where  he  re- 
mained until  after  the  great  Chicago  fire  in 
October  of  that  year.  The  next  spring  he  moved 
to  Oak  Park  where  he  purchased  a  tract  of 
land  which  he  subdivided  and  sold. 

For  many  years  he  gave  his  attention  to  real- 
estate  investments  and  was,  in  a  portion  of 
these  transactions,  associated  with  the  firm  of 
E.  A.  Cummings  '&  Company.  He  was  one  of 
the  original  stockholders  of  the  Proviso  Land 
Association  and  also  of  the  Union  Land  Pool. 
He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  first  board  of  directors  of  the  Cicero 
&  Proviso  Electric  Railroad  Company,  and  was 
assistant   consulting  engineer   during   the   con- 


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struction  of  its  lines  and  performed  the  full 
duties  of  that  office.  Upon  their  completion  he 
was  elected  the  first  general  manager  of  the 
company  and  was  later  elected  President  to 
succeed  D.  J.  Kennedy.  He  held  that  position 
until  1896  and  for  many  years  served  as  a 
director. 

He  always  manifested  a  great  interest  in  the 
progress  and  development  of  Oak  Park,  espe- 
cially of  the  portion  known  in  the  earlier  days 
as  Ridgeland.  He  not  only  sought  to  promote 
its  material  growth,  but  wisely  took  a  leading 
part  in  the  work  of  developing  the  intellectual 
culture  and  social  instincts  of  the  people.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  members  of  the  Ridgeland 
Literary  Club,  an  organization  which  became 
very  popular,  grew  rapidly  and  was  eventually 
merged  into  the  Ridgeland  Hall  Association,  a 
corporation  which  included  most  of  the  citizens 
among  its  stockholders  and  which  erected  a 
handsome  brick  block  on  Lake  Street,  known  in 
the  earlier  days  as  Ridgeland  Hall.  Mr.  But- 
ters was  President  of  this  corporation  until  it 
disbanded. 

Mr.  Butters  always  was  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics. In  1877  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Oak  Park  board  of  education  and  served  six 
years,  being  at  first  Secretary  and  later  Presi- 
dent of  the  board.  It  was  during  this  time  that 
the  first  school  building  in  Ridgeland  was 
erected.  In  1878  he  was  elected  assessor  of  the 
Town  of  Cicero,  and  was  five  times  re-elected. 
This  office  made  him  an  ex-officio  member  of 
the  town  board  of  trustees,  and  at  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term  of  assessor,  in  the  spring  of 
1884,  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  town.  In 
1889  he  was  elected  a  town  trustee  for  a 
period  of  four  years.  During  this  period  of 
eleven  years  of  his  connection  with  the  town 
board  he  served  on  the  most  important  com- 
mittees of  that  board. 

He  helped  to  organize  the  first  fire  company 
in  the  Town  of  Cicero,  known  as  the  Ridgeland 
Fire  Association  and  was  elected  its  first  Presi- 
dent and  held  that  position  most  of  the  time 
until  1895.  This  organization  created  an  endow- 
ment fund  by  subscription,  with  which  it  built 
the  first  engine  house  in  the  community,  in- 
stalled the  first  system  of  fire  alarms  and  in- 
troduced most  of  the  improved  features  of  the 
service  in  the  town. 

In  1900  Mr.  Butters  became  a  director  and 
stockholder  in  the  Taryan  Public  Service  Com- 
pany, becoming  its  vice  president  and  general 


manager  until  January,  1911,  when  that  com- 
pany was  purchased  by  the  Public  Service  Com- 
pany of  Northern  Illinois. 

After  that  Mr.  Butters  was  not  active  in  any 
general  enterprises,  excepting  those  of  caring  for 
his  family  and  properties. 

Mr.  Butters  spent  considerable  time  on  his 
writings  and  published,  at  his  own  expense,  a 
large  volume  entitled  "A  History  of  the  Butters 
Family,  from  1666  to  1896."  The  next  volume 
he  intended  to  publish  was  a  history  of  the  ear- 
lier days  of  Oak  Park.  E.  A.  Cummings  was 
a  co-worker  on  this  manuscript  and  the  death 
of  Mr.  Cummings  delayed  its  completion. 

Mr.  Butters  was  made  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity  in  Lincoln  Park  Lodge  No. 
611,  of  Chicago.  He  subsequently  joined  Harlem 
Lodge  of  Oak  Park,  now  known  as  Oak  Park 
Lodge,  No.  540,  in  which  he  held  all  the  prin- 
cipal offices.  He  was  elected  worshipful  master 
in  1879,  and  became  a  life  member.  He  was 
created  a  sublime  prince  of  the  Thirty-sec- 
ond degree  October  5,  1875,  in  Oriental  Con- 
sistory of  Chicago,  of  which  he  was  also  a  life 
member.  He  was  made  a  Knight  Templar,  April 
28,  1880,  in  Apollo  Commandery,  Chicago,  from 
which  he  was  demitted  to  join  Siloam  Com- 
mandery of  Oak  Park.  He  was  made  a  Noble  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine  in  Medinah  Temple  of  Chi- 
cago, November  20,  1891.  He  was  one  of  the 
early  members  of  the  Society  of  Mayflower 
Descendants;  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  of 
Illinois,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 

On  November  17,  1872,  he  married  Maria 
Shaw  Bramhall  of  Boston.  The  only  child  of 
this  marriage,  George  Russell,  died  in  infancy. 
Mrs.  Butters  died  in  1912.  Later  Mr.  Butters 
married  Miss  Amelia  M.  Luesing,  and  is  sur- 
vived by  the  widow,  two  daughters  and  a  son. 
Mary  Priscilla,  George  Lessing  and  Eleanor 
Louise. 

Mr.  Butters  died,  at  his  summer  home  at 
Clayton,  New  York,  on  August  6,  1924.  He 
will  be  deeply  missed  for  he  accomplished  a 
great  deal  for  the  growth  and  betterment  of 
the  community  in  which  he  lived  for  over  fifty 
years.  He  was  much  enjoyed  as  a  friend.  Rev. 
Dr.  James  W.  Vallentyne,  of  Oak  Park,  speaks 
of  him  further  as  follows: 

"His  philanthropies  were  many,  liberal  and 
secret.  He  gave  freely  and  made  those  who 
sought  his  support  of  good  causes  feel  that 
it  was  a  pleasure  for  them  to  ask  and  for 
him  to  give.     His  list  of  regular  gifts  was  a 


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generous  one  and  his  spirit  in  giving  was  truly 
Christian  in  that  neither  hand  knew  what  the 
other  did  in  helping  where  the  situation  was 
delicate. 

"He  was  a  good  man,  and  no  time  can  ever 


come,  nor  can  any  circumstance  ever  arise  when 
or  where  plain  worth  will  not  be  worth  most. 
The  wealthiest  man  is  the  man  who  is  most 
worthy.  The  richest  is  the  man  who  has  the 
most  goodness." 


CHARLES  HOPKINS  CONOVER. 


The  late  Charles  H.  Conover  of  Chicago  was 
born  in  Easton,  Pennsylvania,  July  12,  1847,  a 
son  of  William  S.  and  Elizabeth  (Gangwer) 
Conover. 

He  attended  public  school  in  the  East  until  he 
was  twelve  years  old.  The  family  then  moved 
to  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  here  he  soon  com- 
menced work.  His  first  position  was  with  Pratt 
'&  Company,  hardware  merchants  of  Buffalo. 

In  1871  he  came  to  Chicago.  He  entered  the 
business  of  Hibbard  &  Spencer,  wholesale  hard- 
ware, as  a  buyer  and  assistant  to  William  G. 
Hibbard.  Before  many  years  had  passed  he  came 
to  know  every  detail  in  the  management  of  the 
firm.  In  1882,  when  the  business  was  incor- 
porated as  Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  &  Com- 
pany, Mr.  Conover  was  made  a  Director.  Fol- 
lowing the  death  of  Mr.  Spencer  in  1890,  he  was 
made  Secretary  of  the  company.  In  1903  he 
was  elected  Vice  President.  He  became  Presi- 
dent January  1,  1914,  succeeding  Mr.  Bartlett. 

On  December  7,  1881,  Mr.  Conover  was  mar- 
ried, at  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Delia  Louise 


Boardman  of  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  a  daughter 
of  H.  E.  J.  Boardman.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Conover 
have  four  children  :  Elinor  (Mrs.  Balph  Owen), 
Delia  (Mrs.  Eugene  Talbot),  Margaret,  and 
Henry  Boardman  Conover. 

Mr.  Conover  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.  He  belonged  to  the  Chicago  Club, 
Saddle  &  Cycle  Club,  Onwentsia  Club,  the  Glen 
View  Country  Club  and  the  Commercial  Club. 

He  was  one  of  the  early  and  most  effective 
members  of  the  City  Plan  Commission,  and  was 
very  deeply  interested  in  the  work  of  this  body. 

He  was  a  Governing  Member  of  the  Art  In- 
stitute, a  Director  of  the  Chicago  Historical  So- 
ciety. He  was  also  a  Director  of  the  National 
Bank  of  the  Republic  and  of  the  Great  Western 
Railroad. 

The  death  of  Charles  H.  Conover  occurred 
November  4,  1915.  He  was  an  exceptionally 
fine  and  able  man  and  his  long  career  in  Chi- 
cago, covering  a  period  of  a  little  less  than  fifty 
years,  represents  a  great  deal  of  good  accom- 
plished. 


MELVIN  ALVAH  TRAYLOR. 


Melvin  A.  Traylor,  President  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Chicago,  was  born  in  Adair 
County,  Kentucky,  October  21,  1878,  a  son  of 
James  Milton  Traylor  and  Kitty  Frances  (Har- 
vey) Traylor.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  county,  in  which  he  made  good  use  of 
his  time  and  opportunity,  devoting  also  his  eve- 
nings to  the  study  of  law.  His  boyhood  days  were 
spent  on  a  farm,  where  he  was  taught  the  habits 
of  industry  and  economy,  and  the  discipline 
proved  a  valuable  one  during  the  formative  pe- 
riod of  his  life.  In  1898,  when  twenty  years 
of  age,  he  went  to  Hillsboro,  Texas,  where 
he  was  employed  for  a  time  as  clerk  in  a  gro- 
cery store.  His  ability  became  apparent,  and  he 
soon  rose  to  be  one  of  the  representative  men  in 
the  business  and  civic  affairs  of  that  community. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1901  and  in  the 
same  year  was  elected  to  the  office  of  City  Clerk 


of  Hillsboro.    He  also  served  as  assistant  County 
Attorney  of  Hill  County  in  1904-5. 

Mr.  Traylor  accepted  a  position  as  Cashier  of 
the  Bank  of  Malone,  Texas,  in  1905  and  served  in 
that  capacity  for  two  years.  He  then  became 
Cashier  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank  at  Bal- 
linger,  Texas,  of  which  he  was  later  made  Vice 
President  and  when  that  Bank  and  the  First 
National  Bank  consolidated  under  the  name  of 
the  latter,  Mr.  Traylor  was  elected  President  of 
that  institution.  In  1911  he  became  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Stock  Yards  National  Bank  at  East 
St.  Louis,  Illinois,  and  filled  that  position  until 
1914,  when  he  was  elected  Vice  President  of  the 
Live  Stock  Exchange  National  Bank  at  Chicago. 
He  was  elected  President  of  this  institution  in 
1916,  and  also  served  in  the  same  capacity  in  the 
Chicago  Cattle  Loan  Company  from  1914  until 
1919.  On  January  1,  1919,  he  was  elected  Presi- 
dent of   the   First   Trust  &   Savings   Bank,    of 


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Chicago,  and  also  Vice  President  of  the  First 
National  Bank.  On  January  13,  1925,  he  was 
elected  President  of  the  First  National  Bank. 
He  is  at  present  President  of  the  First  National 
Bank  as  well  as  of  the  First  Trust  and  Savings 
Bank.  He  is  also  a  Director  of  Fairbanks,  Morse 
&  Company,  of  Chicago,  and  of  the  General  Elec- 
tric Company  and  Austin,  Nichols  &  Company, 
of  New  York  City. 

Although  comparatively  a  young  man,  Mr. 
Traylor  has  gained  an  international  reputation 
as  a  banker  and  in  monetary  affairs.  He  has 
not  only  achieved  success  in  business,  but  has 
gained  distinction  in  the  management  of  large 
affairs,  and  well  deserves  a  place  in  the  front 
rank  among  the  leading  business  men  and 
financiers   of   the   country. 

As  Trustee  of  Northwestern  University  and 
the  Newberry  Library,  Mr.  Traylor  has  rendered 
valued  service  to  these  institutions  and  in 
various  other  ways  he  has  contributed  much  to 
the  betterment  of  his  adopted  city  and  state. 

Mr.  Traylor  is  a  member  of  the  Art  Institute 


of  Chicago,  the  American  Economic  Association, 
the  Chicago  Southern  Society  and  the  Chicago 
Shedd  Aquarium  Society,  being  President  of  the 
latter.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  American 
Bankers'  Association  and  was  elected  President 
of  this  organization  at  the  annual  convention 
held  at  Los  Angeles,  California,  October  7,  1926. 
Few  men  of  his  age  have  been  honored  with 
this  responsible  position,  and  his  election  not 
only  indicates  his  capability  as  a  banker,  but 
his  popularity  and  high  standing  as  a  citizen. 
He  is  a  Mason  in  good  standing  and  is  also  a 
valued  member  of  the  University,  Chicago, 
Bankers,  Chicago  Literary,  Press,  Industrial, 
Bond  Men's,  Commercial,  Iroquois,  Saddle  & 
Cycle.  Saddle  &  Sirloin,  Racquet,  Glen  View 
and  Old  Elm  clubs  of  Chicago,  and  the  Recess 
club  of  New  York  City. 

Mr.  Traylor  was  married  June  6,  1906,  to 
Miss  Dorothy  Arnold  Yerby,  of  Hillsboro,  Texas. 
They  have  two  children :  Nancy  Frances  and 
Melvin  Alvan  Traylor,  Jr. 


GEORGE  MARK  CLARK. 


The  late  George  M.  Clark  was  born  on  a  farm 
near  the  village  of  Westminster  West,  Vermont, 
on  June  10, 1841,  a  son  of  Mark  and  Sarah  (Hall) 
Clark.  His  parents  were  both  born  near  the 
same  village. 

When  George  M.  Clark  was  four  years  old  his 
father  died.  The  large  farm  was  sold  and  the 
family  moved  to  a  small  farm  near  the  village, 
where  they  remained  until  he  was  sixteen  years 
old.  From  the  time  he  was  twelve  he  did  a 
man's  work  about  the  farm. 

In  1857  the  family  moved  to  the  nearby  town 
of  Brattleboro,  where  he  went  to  work  in  a  gen- 
eral store,  serving  his  apprenticeship,  for  $50.00 
a  year,  and  board. 

In  1864  he  came  to  Chicago.  He  soon  went  to 
work  for  Crerar,  Adams  &  Company ;  and  by 
hard,  conscientious  work  gained  recognition.  In 
1874,  when  Crerar,  Adams  &  Company  and  Dane, 
Westlake  &  Company  were  consolidated  to  form 
the  present  Adams  '&  Westlake  Company,  Mr. 
Clark  was  made  general  superintendent  of  this 
large  business. 

In  1878  Adams  &  Westlake  began  to  make  oil 
stoves. 

In  1881,  while  still  with  Adams  &  Westlake, 
Mr.  Clark  organized  a  company  to  manufacture 


Jewel  gasoline  stoves,  Mr.  Adams  having  an 
equal  interest  in  the  new  company. 

In  1885  Mr.  Clark  sold  his  interest  in  Adams  & 
Westlake  to  Mr.  Adams  and  bought  Mr.  Adams' 
interest  in  the  newer  company.  Then  he  de- 
voted all  of  his  time  to  George  M.  Clark  &  Com- 
pany, in  the  manufacturing  of  gasoline  stoves. 

These  gasoline  stoves  were  used  in  the  country 
and  in  the  city,  as  gas  had  not  then  come  into 
general  use  for  cooking  purposes. 

When  Mr.  Clark  started  to  manufacture  gas 
stoves  in  1888,  there  was  but  one  other  manu- 
facturer of  them  in  the  country. 

From  1881  to  1897  Mr.  Clark's  manufacturing 
plant  was  on  Superior  Street,  in  Chicago.  In 
1897  the  plant  was  moved  to  Harvey,  Illinois, 
and  the  office  to  179  North  Michigan  Avenue. 

In  1901  they  made  the  first  "all  steel"  stove. 
The  business  subsequently  grew  to  nation-wide 
proportions. 

The  American  Stove  Company  was  formed  in 
1902.  Mr.  Clark  was  President  of  this  organiza- 
tion in  1908,  9  and  10. 

After  the  American  Stove  Company  was 
formed  Mr.  Clark  continued  as  manager  of  the 
George  M.  Clark  &  Company  Division  until  his 
retirement  a  year  prior  to  his  death. 


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On  June  18,  1872,  Mr.  Clark  was  married,  at 
Oberlin,  Ohio,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Keep,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Reverend  Theodore  John  and  Mary  Ann 
(Thompson)  Keep.  Their  children  are:  Alice 
Keep  Clark,  Robert  Keep  Clark,  who  has  suc- 
ceeded his  father  in  the  business  ;  George  Hough- 
ton Clark  and  Marjorie  Clark,  both  of  whom  died 
in  infancy. 

For  years  Mr.  Clark's  residence  was  in  Chi- 
cago. There  he  was  devoted  to  the  work  of  the 
New  England  Congregational  Church.  In  1908 
he  and  his  family  established  their  home  at 
Evanston.  He  then  became  an  active  and  earnest 
member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
Evanston.     He  was  for  twenty  years  a  Director 


of  the  Chicago  Congregational  Missionary  and 
Extension  Society. 

Mr.  Clark  was  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
Club  of  Chicago  and  the  University  Club  of 
Evanston. 

The  close  of  Mr.  Clark's  life  came  in  his  eighty- 
third  year.  He  arrived  in  Chicago  as  a  young 
man  twenty-three  years  old,  with  ten  dollars  in 
his  pocket.  He  became  one  of  the  most  sub- 
stantial figures  in  the  great  manufacturing  in- 
dustry of  the  United  States.  He  was  a  fine 
Christian  gentleman  and  the  record  of  his  life 
is  an  inspiration. 

The  death  of  George  M.  Clark  occurred  on 
April  5.  19-24. 


WILLIAM  H.  DIETZ. 


The  late  William  H.  Dietz  of  Chicago  was 
born  at  Troy,  New  York,  February  11,  1859,  a 
sou  of  Martin  and  Sophia  (Jacobs)  Dietz.  both 
of  whom  were  natives  of  Bavaria,  Germany. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Troy, 
New  York,  and  at  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business 
College. 

In  1874  he  entered  the  employ  of  L.  C.  Champ- 
ney  of  Troy  to  learn  the  trade  of  watchmaker. 
After  two  years  there  he  went  west  and  took  a 
situation  with  the  firm  of  Crowell  Brothers. 
leading  jewelers  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  A  little 
later  he  became  a  representative  for  Taylor 
Brothers  &  Company,  manufacturers  of  rubber 
stamps.  He  continued  this  connection  for  some 
years,  with  deserved  success. 

Mr.  Dietz  always  enjoyed  travel.  On  July  4. 
1880,  he  sailed  for  Europe,  where  he  visited  the 
Rhine  Country,  France  and  other  parts  of  the 
continent.  On  his  return  to  America  he  and 
A.  \Y.  Schmitt  of  New  York  formed  the  firm  of 
Dietz  &  Schmitt.  manufacturers  of  rubber 
stamps.  This  concern  was  later  merged  into 
the  Seotford  Manufacturing  Company,  of  which 
Mr.  Dietz  became  Vice  President  and  General 
Traveling   Representative. 

Subsequently  he  made  two  more  trips  to  Eu- 
rope, one  in  1883,  and  the  other  in  1887. 

On  June  20,  1888,  he  was  married  in  Chicago, 
Illinois,  to  Miss  Alice  Hogan,  a  daughter  of 
Walter  and  Ann  (Hughes)  Hogan,  both  of 
Welsh  descent.  After  a  two-month  tour  of  the 
Eastern  States  and  Canada,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dietz 
established  their  home  in  Chicago.  He  retired 
from  his  office  in  the  Seotford  Manufacturing 
Company  and  purchased  the  Chicago  Branch  of 


that  concern.  For  many  years  thereafter  he 
conducted  the  business  successfully  under  his 
own  name,  extending  the  business  to  handle  sta- 
tionery, printing,  etc. 

In  1904  Mr.  Dietz  sold  out  the  business  and 
founded  the  firm  which  today  bears  his  name, 
William  H.  Dietz,  manufacturer  and  distributor 
of  Sunday  School  Supplies.  His  wife  and  his 
two  daughters,  Emma  and  Dorothy  Dietz,  have 
long  been  associated  with  him  in  this  business, 
which  serves  the  entire  United  States.  The  firu. 
stands  today  as  one  of  the  most  important  con- 
cerns of  its  kind  in  the  world,  and  the  amount 
of  good  that  has  been  achieved  through  its  work 
in  the  distribution  of  Christian  ideas  and  Chris- 
tian methods  is  well-nigh  beyond  compute. 

It  is  recorded  of  Mr.  Dietz  that  he  was  the 
first  man  to  offer  public  prayer  as  a  juror  in 
the  Criminal  Courts  of  Chicago,  asking  divine 
guidance  that  justice  be  reached.  This  was 
when  he  was  foreman  of  a  jury  in  a  murder 
trial  in  1898. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dietz  and  their  daughters  have 
been  devoted  members  of  the  Auburn  Park 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  for  many  years. 

William  H.  Dietz  passed  from  among  us 
March  29th,  1927.  His  death  closes  a  career  that 
has  been  a  great  and  abiding  blessing  through- 
out the  wide  circle  in  which  his  influence  was 
felt.  He  was  a  fine  Christian  man,  living 
through  the  days  of  his  mature  years  in  close 
accord  with  his  finely  developed  conscience.  His 
life  stands  as  a  truly  notable  reflection  of  the 
spirit  of  the  Heavenly  Father  that  was  in  his 
heart. 


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Solomon  Sturges 

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ALEXANDER  A.  WHAMOND. 


Dr.  Alexander  A.  Whamond,  Founder,  Presi- 
dent. Treasurer  and  Surgeon-in-Chief  of  the  Rob- 
ert Burns  Hospital,  at  3807  Washington  Boule- 
vard, has  been  an  active  practitioner  of  this  city 
for  thirty-three  years.  He  holds  prestige  in  his 
profession  by  reason  of  ability  and  thorough 
training ;  and  as  a  surgeon  he  is  recognized  as 
one  of  the  most  skilled  and  thoroughly  qualified 
in  the  City  of  Chicago. 

Doctor  Whamond  was  born  at  Dundee,  Scot- 
land. March  1.  1871,  a  son  of  David  and  Jean 
(MacDougallt  Whamond.  His  early  educational 
advantages  were  those  afforded  by  the  elemen- 
tary, grammar  and  high  schools  of  his  native 
city,  in  which  he  made  good  use  of  his  time  and 
opportunity.  Like  many  ambitious  young  men 
of  the  old  world,  he  was  not  satisfied  with  the 
opportunities  offered  there  for  advancement,  and 
resolved  to  seek  attainment  in  America,  where 
greater  advantages  are  afforded.  Accordingly, 
in  1SS9.  when  eighteen  years  of  age,  he  sailed 
for  the  United  States,  and  has  since  been  a  val- 
uable resident  of  this  country. 

Having  determined  upon  the  medical  profes- 
sion as  a  life  work.  Doctor  Whamond  matricu- 
lated at  Rush  Medical  College  (  University  of  Chi- 
cago i  and  was  graduated  from  that  institution 
in  1S96.  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine. 
Soon  after  completing  his  medical  course  he  es- 


tablished himself  in  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
Chicago.  As  a  Director  of  Grace  Hospital  from 
1904  until  1906,  he  rendered  effective  service  to 
that  institution.  In  1907  he  founded  the  Robert 
Burns  Hospital,  a  notable  institution. 

Besides  being  President,  Treasurer  and  Sur- 
geon-in-Chief of  this  institution.  Doctor  Whamond 
is  also  Professor  of  Surgery  at  the  Chicago  Med- 
ical School. 

During  the  World  War  Doctor  Whamond  was 
Chairman  of  the  Draft  Registration  Board  No. 
85  and  in  various  ways  rendered  effective  and 
valuable  service  to  his  adopted  country.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association 
and  of  the  Chicago  Medical  Society,  and  keeps 
in  close  touch  with  all  that  research  is  bringing 
to  light  in  the  field  of  scientific  knowledge.  He 
is  a  Thirty-Second  Degree  Mason  and  a  member 
of  the  Midwest  Athletic  Club.  Medinah  Athletic 
Club  and  the  Antlers  Country  Club. 

Doctor  Whamond  was  married  July  26,  1S96. 
to  Miss  Jemima  Murray  Soutar,  a  native  of 
Aberfeldy,  Perthshire.  Scotland,  and  of  this 
union  were  born  five  children :  Alexander  Rus- 
sell, Jean  MacDougall,  Esther  Victoria,  Donald 
Sinclair  and  Iona  Isabella.  The  family  home  for 
many  years  has  been  at  4359  Washington  Boule- 
vard, Chicago. 


SOLOMOX  STURGES. 


The  Sturges  family,  to  which  Clarence  Buck- 
ingham traced  descent  through  his  mother,  was 
founded  in  the  American  Colonies  in  1660  by 
John  Sturges,  born,  probably  in  England,  in 
1624.  He  married  Deborah  Barlow,  and  one 
of  their  sons,  Joseph,  born  about  1653,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Judson,  and  they  had  a  son,  Solo- 
mon, born  about  1698.  Solomon  Sturges  married 
Abigail  Bradley  and  their  son,  Hezekiah,  born 
at  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  in  1726,  died  there  in 
1792.  In  1751  he  married  Abigail  Dimon,  and 
one  of  their  nine  children.  Dimon,  was  born 
October  29,  1754.  He  married  Sarah  Perry,  and 
of  their  ten  children,  Solomon  Sturges,  the 
fourth  son,  born  at  Fairfield,  Connecticut, 
April  21,  1796.  was  the  maternal  grandfather  of 
Clarence  Buckingham. 

About  1815  Solomon  Sturges  located  at  Zanes- 
ville,  Ohio,  and  developed  into  one  of  the  lead- 
ing merchants  and  business  men  of  that  city. 


In  June,  1855.  he  came  West  to  Illinois,  and 
went  into  the  grain  elevator  business  at  Chi- 
cago, to  which  place  he  moved  his  family  in 
1859.  As  Chicago  expanded,  his  interests  in- 
creased and  he  was  at  one  time  owner  of  a 
number  of  grain-bearing  vessels  on  the  Great 
Lakes,  and  for  a  time  he  was  engaged  In  a 
banking  business.  Originally  a  Whig,  he  later 
became  a  Republican,  and  was  an  ardent  sup- 
porter of  Mr.  Lincoln,  not  only  for  the  presi- 
dency, but  of  his  subsequent  policies.  At  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  raised  and 
equipped  the  company,  known  as  the  Sturges 
Rifles.  He  was  also  a  close  personal  friend  of 
Stephen  A.  Douglas.  The  death  of  Mr.  Sturges 
occurred  October  14,  1864.  He  was  a  liberal 
supporter  of  religious  organizations,  and  was 
one  of  the  three  founders  of  the  Ladies  Sem- 
inary at  Putnam,  of  which  he  continued  a  trus- 
tee for  many  years. 


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In  August,  1823,  Solomon  Sturges  was  mar- 
ried to  Lucy  Hale,  who  died  July  25,  1859,  just 
prior  to  the  removal  of  the  family  to  Chicago, 
so  that  she  never  occupied  the  Sturges  resi- 
dence at  the  northeast  corner  of  Pine  and 
Huron  streets,  which  was  destroyed  in  the 
Great  Fire  of  1871.  Lucy  Sturges,  second 
daughter  of  Solomon  and  Lucy  (Hale)  Sturges, 
was  married  May  5,  1853,  to  Ebenezer  Buck- 
ingham, a  banker  and  commission  merchant  of 
Zanesville,  Ohio.  In  1859  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eben- 
ezer Buckingham  came  to  Chicago.  Their 
eldest  child  was  the  late  Clarence  Buckingham, 
of  whom  extended  mention  is  made  elsewhere 
in  this  work. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  a  contemporary 
journal,   published   at   Zanesville,   Ohio,   under 


date  of  October  21,  1864,  said  in  part  of  Solo- 
mon Sturges : 

"This  country  has  had  few  men  of  greater 
financial  ability  than  Mr.  Sturges.  Eminently 
was  he  the  architect  of  his  own  fortune.  His 
unwonted  success  was  not  the  result  of  some 
rash  speculation  by  which  wealth  is  some- 
times acquired  and  lost  in  a  day.  It  was  the 
legitimate  fruit  of  fine  business  talents,  patient 
and  laborious  toil,  singular  and  accurate  fore- 
sight. His  mind  worked  with  wonderful  rapidity 
not  only,  but  had  unflinching  tenacity  and  un- 
tiring energy  to  the  goal  of  his  ambition — almost 
always  too  with  sound  judgment  and  commend- 
able prudence,  thought  and  consummate  skill 
in  the  management  of  his  extensive  and  multi- 
form affairs. 


EBENEZER  BUCKINGHAM. 


The  men  who  are  entrusted  with  the  manage- 
ment of  great  financial  institutions  possess  in 
marked  degree  certain  characteristics,  both 
natural  and  cultivated,  which  fit  them  for  the 
responsibilities  entailed,  among  which  charac- 
teristics are  dependability,  conservatism,  true 
conception  of  the  relative  values  in  finance  and 
industry,  and  an  upright  and  unflinching  sin- 
cerity. Every  community  grows  in  proportion 
to  the  expansion  of  its  banking  institutions, 
just  as  it  is  interdependent  upon  their  stabil- 
ity and  standing.  Until  Chicago  developed  its 
mammoth  banks,  it  was  simply  an  overgrown 
village.  Once  its  position  in  the  financial  world 
was  recognized,  it  leaped  into  second  place 
among  the  cities  of  this  country.  Because  of 
the  stupendous  importance  of  the  banks  and 
their  influence  upon  every  branch  of  industrial, 
commercial  and  civic  activity,  great  care  has 
been  exercised  in  the  selection  of  the  men  who 
are  to  assume  charge  of  their  affairs.  To  be 
thus  chosen  is  proof  positive  of  unusual  capa- 
bility and  integrity.  One  of  the  men  of  Chicago, 
now  deceased,  who  in  his  day  occupied  an  im- 
portant place  among  the  financiers  of  the  coun- 
try, was  Ebenezer  Buckingham,  president  of 
the  Northwestern  National  Bank. 

Ebenezer  Buckingham  was  born  at  Putnam, 
Ohio,  on  January  16,  1829,  a  son  of  Ebenezer 
and  Eurnice  (Hale)  Buckingham,  the  latter 
being  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  Hale  of  Con- 
necticut.    The  younger   Ebenezer  attended   the 


public  schools  of  his  native  place,  and  Mount 
Vernon.  Ohio,  and  when  only  sixteen  years  old 
entered  Yale  University,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1849. 

The  Buckingham  family  was  an  old  and 
prominent  one  in  Ohio,  where  the  elder  Ebe- 
nezer Buckingham  was  held  in  very  high  re- 
spect. His  sons  sought  broader  fields  of  opera- 
tion and  came  to  Chicago,  where  from  1860 
they  were  proprietors  of  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad  elevators,  and  were  very  successful 
and  prominent  among  the  early  grain  operators 
of  Chicago  and  Illinois.  At  the  death  of  George 
Sturges,  brother-in-law  of  Ebenezer  Bucking- 
ham, the  latter  became  president  of  the  North- 
western National  Bank,  and  served  as  such  un- 
til he  retired  from  active  work. 

On  May  5,  1853,  Mr.  Buckingham  was  mar- 
ried at  Putnam,  Ohio,  to  Lucy  Sturges,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Solomon  Sturges  who  was  a  Aery  promi- 
nent figure  in  the  early  history  of  Ohio.  They 
had  three  children,  namely :  Clarence,  who  died 
on  August  28,  1913,  and  was  a  director  of  the 
Illinois  Trust  &  Savings  Bank  and  the  Corn 
Exchange  National  Bank.  His  most  remarkable 
collection  of  etchings  is  now  owned  by  the 
Chicago  Art  Institute;  Kate  Sturges  Bucking- 
ham ;  and  Lucy  Maud  Buckingham,  who  died 
August  4,  1920. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Buckingham  had  a  very  wide 
circle  of  warm  friends.  They  were  both  very 
charitable,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  good 


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work  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Chicago.  Mr.  Buckingham  died  on  February 
25,  1911,  after  a  long  career  of  usefulness  both 


in  business  and  civic  advancement,  and  Chi- 
cago is  the  better  for  his  having  worked  and 
lived  here. 


CLARENCE    BUCKINGHAM. 


On  the  twenty-eighth  day  of  August,  nineteen 
hundred  and  thirteen,  the  trustees  of  the  Art 
Institute  lost,  by  death,  one  of  their  most  highly 
esteemed  associates,  Clarence  Buckingham.  He 
was  born  in  Zanesville,  Ohio,  on  the  second  day 
of  November,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-four, 
and  he  spent  all  save  three  years  of  his  life 
in  Chicago. 

He  was  attached  to  the  city  and  was  one  of 
its  useful  citizens.  He  gave  freely  of  his  time 
and  energy  to  the  encouragement  of  its  wel- 
fare. This  he  did  in  such  a  quiet,  unassuming 
way  that  comparatively  few  of  his  fellow  citi- 
zens were  aware  of  his  broad  sympathies.  As 
a  business  man  he  was  noted  for  his  judgment 
and  integrity,  and  was  called  upon  to  serve  as 
a  director  in  many  corporations  of  importance 
in  the  financial  world.  He  was  a  director  of 
the  Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank  and  the 
Corn  Exchange  National  Bank.  Greatly  inter- 
ested in  the  welfare  of  the  children  of  the 
community,  he  took  an  active  part  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  public  playgrounds  and  other 
institutions  for  their  pleasure  and  development. 
He  was  a  staunch  friend  of  the  University  of 
Chicago  Settlement  and  gave  generously  for  the 
support  of  its  good  work.  Mr.  Buckingham 
devoted  much  time  to  the  James  C.  King  Home 
for  Old  Men  on  Garfield  Boulevard.  As  a  trus- 
tee of  the  Glenwood  School  for  Boys,  he  was 
active  in  its  development. 

He  was  a  lover  of  the  Fine  Arts  and  was 
devoted  to  the  advancement  of  the  artistic  life 
of  Chicago.  For  thirty  years  he  was  a  govern- 
ing member  of  the  Art  Institute,  and  served 
faithfully  as  one  of  its  trustees  for  more  than 
eleven  years.  Here  his  fellow  trustees  soon 
recognized  the  value  of  his  presence.  He  was  a 
zealous  supporter  of  every  branch  of  the  varied 
work  of  the  Art  Institute,  and  enriched  its 
museum  by  repeated  gifts  of  money,  paintings, 
etchings  and  Japanese  prints.  He  possessed 
rare  artistic  taste  and  for  many  years  found  his 
greatest  pleasure  in  bringing  together  his  re- 
markable collection  of  etchings  and  Japanese 
prints  which  are  now  given  to  the  Art  Insti- 
tute. To  his  intimate  friends  this  collection  is 
a   living   witness   of   his    infinite   patience   and 


loving  care,  the  result  of  which  is  plainly  vis- 
ible in  the  quality  of  the  prints  hung  upon  the 
walls  of  the  Art  Institute. 

This  collection  includes  engravings  by  Al- 
brecht  Durer,  of  which  the  most  remarkable 
are  "Knight,  Death  and  the  Devil"  and  "St. 
Eustace ;"  etchings  by  Rembrandt,  of  which  the 
portrait  of  Ephraim  Bonus  and  "Ecce  Homo" 
are  among  the  most  noteworthy ;  engravings  by 
Martin  Schongauer,  Israel  Van  Meckenem,  and 
Lucas  Van  Leyden,  of  which  "David  Playing 
the  Harp  before  Saul"  and  the  "Adoration  of 
the  Magi"  are  regarded  as  the  gems ;  one  en- 
graving by  Matthaus  Zasinger;  six  engravings 
by  Hans  Beham,  one  engraving  by  Heinrich  Al- 
degrever;  four  etchings  by  Anthony  Van  Dyck, 
of  which  special  interest  centers  in  the  por- 
trait of  Jan  Brueghel ;  three  etchings  by  Claude 
Lorrain,  of  which  "Herd  in  a  Storm"  is  particu- 
larly valuable ;  two  etchings  by  Wenzel  Hollar ; 
one  etching  by  Adriaen  Van  Ostade ;  one  etch- 
ing by  Nicolaes  Berchem  ;  109  etchings  by  James 
A.  McNeill  Whistler,  of  which  "The  Doorway" 
and  "Old  Battersea  Bridge"  are  particular 
favorites ;  thirty-one  etchings  by  Charles  Mer- 
yon,  of  which  "L'Abside  De  Notre  Dame  De 
Paris"  and  "La  Galerie  De  Notre  Dame"  are 
regarded  as  the  most  valuable ;  forty-nine  etch- 
ings by  Sir  Francis  Seymour  Haden,  of  which 
special  attention  is  called  to  "A  River  in  Ire- 
land;" two  etchings  by  J.  M.  W.  Turner; 
four  etchings  by  Samuel  Palmer ;  four  etch- 
ings by  Charles  Jacque,  of  which  "La  Sortie 
Des  Moutons"  is  particularly  fine;  two  etchings 
by  J.  L.  E.  Meissonier,  of  which  "II  Signor 
Annibale"  is  particularly  characteristic;  one 
etching  by  J.  L.  Gerome ;  one  etching  by  Felix 
Bracquemond ;  one  etching  by  Jules  Jacque- 
mart ;  one  etching  by  Paul  Rajon ;  two  etchings 
by  Felix  Buhot ;  one  etching  by  Charles  Storm 
Van  Gravesande ;  two  etchings  by  Gustave  Le- 
heutre ;  and  six  engravings  by  Claude  Ferdinand 
Gaillard,  of  which  "La  Soeur  Rosalie"  is  re- 
garded as  the  most  representative,  making  in 
all  338  engravings  and  etchings  in  this  extreme- 
ly valuable  collection. 

The  Buckingham  Memorial  Fountain  in 
Grant  Park,  Chicago,  one  of  the  most  beauti- 


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ful   fountains  in  all  the  world,  is   the  gift  to 
Chicago  of  Miss  Kate  S.  Buckingham  in  memory 


of  her  brother,  the  late  Mr.  Clarence  Bucking- 
ham. 


ARTHUR  LEATH. 


Arthur  Leath  of  Elgin  was  born  at  Lanark, 
Illinois.  August  29.  1877.  He  worked  in  his 
father's  blacksmith  shop  at  Dixon,  Illinois,  and 
later  learned  the  upholstering  trade.  After 
that  he  worked  in  a  carriage  factory.  In  July. 
1902,  he  came  to  Elgin  with  $12.50  as  his  capital. 

He  began  his  career  at  Elgin  going  from 
house  to  house  soliciting  work  at  upholstering. 
From  that  small  start  he  built  up  one  of  the 
largest  furniture  businesses  in  this  country.  A. 
Leath  &  Company,  capitalized  at  $1,500,000. 
Today  the  company  owns  a  large  factory  mak- 
ing overstuffed  furniture  and  mattresses,  at 
Elgin;  and  also  owns  and  operates  thirty-two 
retail  furniture  stores  in  Illinois.  Iowa.  Wiscon- 
sin. Michigan  and  Indiana.  The  factory  at 
Elgin  has  grown  into  a  business  of  $500,000  per 
year.  Six  hundred  and  ten  people  are  employed 
in  it,  and  in  the  retail  stores.  The  stores  do  a 
business  of  about  $0,000,000,  per  year.  Mr. 
Leath  enjoyed  a  national  reputation  in  the  fur- 
niture trade.  He  was  ranked  as  one  of  the 
wealthiest  men  of  Elgin. 

On  May  12,  1020.  Mr.  Leath  was  married  to 
Miss  Grace  Andrews  of  Elgin.     They  had  one 


child.  Gloria.  She,  Mrs.  Leath,  and  two  sisters, 
Mrs.  Gertrude  Bond  of  Wheaton,  Illinois,  and 
Mrs.  Pearl  Webb,  of  Beloit.  Wisconsin,  and  one 
brother,  William  H.  Leath,  survive  Arthur 
Leath.  His  mother  died  many  years  ago.  and 
his  father.  John  S.  Leath,  died  in  1020.  at  the 
age  of  eighty-four  years. 

Arthur  Leath  was  President  of  the  Elgin 
Association  of  Commerce,  and  belonged  to  many 
civic  organizations.  He  was  a  Mason,  and  be- 
longed to  the  Weldwood  Country  Club  and  to 
other  fraternities  and  clubs.  During  the  winter 
months  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leath  spent  several  weeks 
each  year  at  Palm  Beach.  Florida,  and  during 
the  summer  ones  were  at  their  summer  home  at 
Lake  Geneva,  Wisconsin. 

The  death  of  Arthur  Leath  occurred  Wednes- 
day morning,  May  11.  1927.  His  work  during 
his  brief  life  was  of  great  value  to  his  com- 
munity and  to  the  upholstering  industry,  and  he 
is  remembered  with  appreciation  by  his  many 
friends  because  of  his  kindly  character,  his 
progressive  spirit  and  his  devotion  to  those 
who  were  close  to  him  in  business,  community 
interests  or  social  life. 


FRANK  FORSYTHE  WINANS. 


Frank  F.  Winans  is  Resident  Vice  President 
at  Chicago  of  the  National  City  Company,  of 
New  York.  Although  a  native  of  Canada,  he  has 
been  a  resident  of  Chicago  for  a  quarter  of  a 
century.  He  became  a  naturalized  citizen  of  the 
United  States  September  19,  1918. 

Mr.  Winans  was  born  at  Toronto,  Ontario, 
Canada,  November  6,  1880,  a  son  of  Edward 
Culver  and  Margaret  Elizabeth  (Ruthven) 
Winans.  His  educational  advantages  were 
those  afforded  by  public  and  private  schools  of 
his  native  city,  in  which  he  made  good  use  of 
his  time  and  opportunity,  becoming  well  quali- 
fied. He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Queen's 
own  Rifles  at  Toronto  in  1898-99,  but  having 
determined  upon  a  business  career,  he  came  to 
Chicago  in  April,  1902,  and  took  a  position  as 
clerk  in  the  Northern  Trust  Company.  He  re- 
mained with  this  bank  in  various  capacities  for 
thirteen  years,  and  was  then  manager  for  the 
firm  of  Weil,  Roth  &  Company  one  year.    From 


June,  1916,  until  July,  1917,  he  was  sales  man- 
ager of  the  bond  department  for  the  Illinois 
Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  but  on  the  latter  date 
he  resigned  his  connection  with  that  institution 
to  accept  the  position  offered  him  as  Assistant 
to  the  Vice  President  at  the  Chicago  office  of 
the  National  City  Company,  of  New  York.  His 
ability  soon  became  apparent,  and  in  1921  he 
was  elected  Resident  Vice  President  of  the 
company  at  the  Chicago  office  and  placed  in 
charge  of  the  control  office  for  the  Middle- West, 
with   jurisdiction   West   to   Salt   Lake  City. 

The  National  City  Company  of  New  York,  an 
affiliate  of  the  National  City  Bank  of  New  York, 
is  one  of  the  largest  and  most  substantial  invest- 
ment bond  houses  in  the  United  States.  Mr. 
Winans  has  devoted  his  time  and  energy  largely 
to  building  up  the  commercial  prestige  of  this 
great  concern  in  the  Middle- West  for  a  number 
of  years,  and  its  success  and  high  commercial 
standing  throughout  this  section  of  country  may 


ARTHUR  LEATH 


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be  attributed  in  no  small  degree  to  his  able  man- 
agement and  untiring  efforts.  Besides  this  con- 
nection he  is  also  Vice  President  and  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  W.  B.  Conkey 
Company,  printers  and  publishers,  at  Chicago 
and  Hammond.  Indiana. 

He  is  a  Director  of  the  Illinois  Association 
for  Criminal  Justice;  Trustee  of  the  Chicago 
Sunday  Evening  Club ;  President  of  the  Chicago 
Association  of  Commerce;  a  member  of  the 
Committee  of  Fifteen;  Illinois  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce ;  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  ;  Chicago  His- 
torical Society ;  Chicago  Civic  Opera,  and  the 
English-Speaking  Union.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  numerous  clubs,  among  which  are  the  Chicago 


Club,  Chicago  Athletic  Association ;  the  Com- 
monwealth ;  South  Shore  Country ;  Union 
League ;  Flossmoor  Country ;  Mid-Day  and  The 
Attic,  the  Chikaming  Country  Club  of  Lakeside, 
Michigan,  and  the  Royal  Canadian  Yacht  Club 
of  Toronto,  Canada. 

Mr.  Winans  was  married  June  3,  1916,  to  Miss 
Jane  Phillips  Conkey,  of  Chicago,  a  daughter  of 
the  late  Walter  Blakesley  Conkey  and  Kate 
(Phillips)  Conkey,  and  of  this  union  were  born 
two  children :  Walter  Edward  Winans  and 
Frances  Jane  Winans.  The  family  home  is  at 
4947  Kimbark  Avenue.  Chicago.  Mr.  Winans  also 
maintains  a  home  at  Lakeside,  Michigan,  where 
the  family  usually  spend  the  summer  months. 


WILLIAM  NATHAN  EISENDRATH. 


William  N.  Eisendrath  was  born  in  Chicago, 
Illinois.  December  5,  1853,  a  son  of  Nathan  and 
Helene  (Fellheimer)  Eisendrath,  who  were 
originally  from  Westphalia  and  Augsburg,  Ger- 
many, respectively.  The  family  located  in  Chi- 
cago in  the  later  forties. 

The  son  was  educated  in  a  private  school 
here,  and  later  a  commercial  college.  After 
that  he  spent  two  years  in  further  study,  in 
Brussels. 

In  1876  when  he  was  twenty-three  years  old 
he  went  to  work  for  Marcus  E.  Stearns  in  the 
lime  and  building  material  business  at  Chicago. 
In  1878  he  founded  the  firm  of  W.  N.  Eisen- 
drath &  Company,  leather,  of  which  he  was 
made  President ;  and  he  continued  in  that  office 
until  1899,  when  his  company  was  merged  into 
the  American  Hide  &  Leather  Company.  Of 
more  recent  years  he  was  President  of  the 
Monarch  Leather  Company. 

The  marriage  of  William  N.  Eisendrath  to 
Miss  Rose  Loewenstein  took  place  at  Chicago, 


December  21,  1882.  His  wife  is  a  daughter  of 
Leopold  and  Clara  (Goldsmith)  Loewenstein 
who  came  from  Frankfort-on-the-Main,  Ger- 
many, and  from  Boston,  Massachusetts,  re- 
spectively. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eisendrath  have  three 
children :  Edwin  W.,  Marion,  and  William  N. 
Eisendrath,  Jr.  The  family  home  has  been  at 
No.  4441  Drexel  Boulevard,  Chicago,  since  1913. 
Mr.  Eisendrath  was  a  devout  member  of  Sinai 
Temple.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Standard 
Club  and  to  the  Lake  Shore  Country  Club. 

His  death  occurred  December  9.  1926.  He 
was  continuously  identified  with  the  leather  in- 
dustry here  since  1878,  a  period  covering  over 
fifty  consecutive  years.  He  accomplished  as 
much  or  more  than  any  other  individual  in  fur- 
thering the  development  of  this  great  field  of 
work ;  and  his  life  was  of  yet  further  value  dur- 
ing the  many  years  in  which  he  was  active  in 
Chicago,  through  his  support  of  Jewish  chari- 
ties here,  and  through  his  gifts  to  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago. 


CHARLES  NELSON  BISHOP. 


The  late  Charles  Nelson  Bishop  of  Chicago 
was  born  at  Kenosha,  Wisconsin,  on  May  28, 
1855,  a  son  of  Hiram  Nelson  Bishop,  D.  D.  and 
Catherine  Amelia  (Stout)  Bishop.  The  Bishop 
family  dates  back,  in  America,  to  the  year  1636. 
The  Stout  family  settled  in  New  Jersey  near  the 
close  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Mr.  Bishop 
is  also  a  descendant  of  Samuel  Chapin  who 
founded  the  city  of  Springfield.  Massachusetts. 

Charles  Nelson  Bishop  attended  public  school 
in  Chicago.     When  he  was   thirteen  years  old 


his  father  died ;  and  soon  thereafter  the  son 
began  work  and  became  self-supporting.  He  had 
a  real  gift  for  writing.  As  a  boy  he  was  editor 
and  publisher  of  an  amateur  magazine,  "Little 
Men."  Between  the  years  1875-80  he  was  West- 
ern Manager  for  "The  Spectator."  In  the  latter 
year  he  went  to  Colorado  and  there,  for  three 
years,  was  the  editor  and  publisher  of  "The 
Summit  County  Leader,"  at  Breckenridge,  Col- 
orado. 

It  was  in  1884  that  Mr.  Bishop  returned  to 


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Chicago  and  became  prominently  identified  with 
the  insurance  business.  In  1889  he  became 
agent  and  manager  of  the  Chicago  and  Suburban 
Departments  of  the  Northern  Assurance  Com- 
pany of  London,  England.  He  continued  to  be 
the  head  of  this  company's  Chicago  office  for 
more  than  forty  years. 

Mr.  Bishop  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
old  First  Regiment,  Illinois  National  Guards,  in 
1875. 

He  was  chairman  of  the  Fire  Insurance  Patrol 
Committee  and  President  of  the  Patrolmen's  Pen- 
sion Fund,  at  Chicago,  for  more  than  twenty 
years. 

He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  High  Pres- 
sure Water  Commission. 

He  was  President  of  the  Chicago  Board  of 
Underwriters  for  two  terms. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Historical 
Society,  the  National  Geographic  Society,  the 
Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  and  the  Everett  Liter- 
ary Society.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Chicago  Athletic  Association.  He  was  a  senior 
member   of   the  Oak   Park   Club   and   formerly 


belonged  to  the  Oak  Park  Country  Club  and  to 
Westward  Ho. 

The  marriage  of  Charles  N.  Bishop  to  Anna 
Robbins  Hill,  of  Denver,  Colorado,  was  solem- 
nized at  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  in  September,  1903. 
She  died  in  January,  1923.  Mr.  Bishop  has  two 
sisters,  Laura  and  Katherine  Bishop. 

The  death  of  Charles  Nelson  Bishop  came  in 
his  seventy-third  year  at  Santa  Monica,  Califor- 
nia. He  was  active  in  the  insurance  business  at 
Chicago  for  nearly  half  a  century.  His  char- 
acter was  notably  fine,  everyone  trusted  his 
honor  implicitly ;  and  his  influence  in  business 
has  brought  about  much  real  betterment  and 
progress.  Throughout  the  latter  part  of  his  ca- 
reer he  was  one  of  the  most  eminent  figures  in 
the  insurance  business  in  the  Central  States.  He 
was  very  loyal  to  Chicago  and  to  the  city's  best 
interests.  It  should  also  be  recorded  of  him 
that  his  friendship  was  very  much  appreciated ; 
and  that  he  was  always  doing  some  kind  and 
thoughtful  thing  for  someone. 

Charles  Nelson  Bishop  passed  from  this  life 
on  May  8,  1928. 


LAWRENCE  GUTHRIE  WEAVER. 


Lawrence  G.  Weaver,  owner  and  executive 
head  of  the  investment  securities  firm  of  L.  G. 
Weaver  &  Company,  has  for  many  years  been 
active  in  the  business  and  civic  affairs  of  this 
city.  In  both  private  and  public  life  Mr.  Weaver 
has  ever  stood  as  an  exponent  of  the  best  type 
of  civic  loyalty  and  progressiveness. 

Mr.  Weaver  was  born  in  Chicago  October  18, 
1883,  a  son  of  Henry  Erastus  Weaver  and  Addie 
(Guthrie)  Weaver,  and  comes  of  prominent,  old 
New  England  families.  He  is  a  direct  descend- 
ant of  Sergeant  Clement  Weaver,  who  settled  at 
Newport,  Rhode  Island,  in  1630,  and  is  also 
the  eleventh  in  descent  from  Elder  William 
Brewster,  of  the  Mayflower  in  1620.  His 
father,  the  late  Henry  Erastus  Weaver,  who 
is  remembered  as  one  of  Chicago's  sterling 
pioneer  business  men,  was  born  at  Cambria, 
Niagara  County,  New  York,  October  27,  1854, 
a  son  of  Erastus  Brown  and  Louise  E.  (Phelps) 
Weaver.  Coming  to  Chicago  in  1874,  when 
a  young  man  of  twenty,  he  grew  up  with  the 
city,  and  he  never  lost  an  opportunity  to  do 
what  he  could  for  the  advancement  of  the  best 
interests  of  the  great  metropolis  which  figured 
as  the  stage  of  his  achievements  and  in  which 
his  activities  were  centered  for  half  a  century. 


Soon  after  coming  to  Chicago  he  became  clerk 
for  the  firm  of  West,  McGarry  &  Company,  coal 
dealers,  and  in  1880  he  acquired  an  interest  in 
the  business;  and  the  firm  became  Weaver,  Dan- 
iels &  Company.  In  1883  he  purchased  his  part- 
ner's holdings  and  consolidated  his  business  with 
the  Cleveland,  Ohio,  firm  of  Tod.  Stambaugh  & 
Company,  the  Chicago  house  being  known  as 
Weaver,  Tod  &  Company.  He  later  purchased 
the  controlling  interest  in  the  company  and  in- 
corporated the  business  under  the  title  of  the 
Weaver  Coal  &  Coke  Company,  of  which  he  was 
president  until  1903.  He  also  organized  and  was 
president  of  the  Belington  &  Beaver  Creek  Rail- 
road Company  and  the  Maryland  Smokeless  Coal 
Company.  In  1904  he  organized  and  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Henry  E.  Weaver  Coal  Company, 
and  was  also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Fall 
Creek  Collieries  of  Tennessee.  His  death,  which 
occurred  December  17,  1905,  removed  from  Chi- 
cago one  of  its  most  valued  citizens.  He  was 
vice-president  and  a  trustee  of  the  St.  Charles 
School  For  Boys ;  was  one  of  the  originators  of 
the  Glenwood  Manual  Training  School,  and  was 
active  in  promoting  the  Waif's  Mission  and  other 
missions  in  Chicago.  He  was  president  of  the 
Chicago  Coal  Dealers  Association  in  1885-86,  and 


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was  a  valued  member  of  the  Hamilton,  Union 
League,  Washington  Park,  Kenwood  clubs,  and 
Chicago  Athletic  Association.  He  was  married 
in  1880,  to  Addie  Guthrie,  of  Chicago,  a  woman 
of  rare  musical  talent  and  exceptional  intellec- 
tual activity  and  beauty  of  character,  and  of  this 
union  were  born  five  children  :  Vivian,  Lawrence 
G.,  Louise  who  is  deceased,  Carolyn,  and  Ham- 
ilton. Mrs.  Weaver  died  March  10,  1923, 
mourned  by  all  who  knew  her.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Wardell  Guthrie  born  April  29,  1831, 
at  Sackets  Harbor,  New  York,  and  Caroline 
(Pomeroy)  Guthrie  born  at  Lockport,  New  York, 
November  30,  1833.  She  was  the  only  member 
of  the  family  who  grew  to  maturity,  her  brothers 
and  sisters  having  died  in  infancy.  Her  father, 
Wardell  Guthrie,  was  a  Captain  in  the  Union 
Army  during  the  Civil  War.  He  came  to  Chi- 
cago in  1846  and  owned  and  operated,  with  his 
father,  Alfred  Guthrie,  the  first  tug-boat,  named 
"Archimedes,"  on  the  Chicago  river.  He  also 
owned  and  operated  one  of  the  first  ice  companies 
in  Chicago  and  held  several  city  positions  such  as 
City  Boiler  Inspector,  Steamboat  Inspector,  Mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Examiners  of  Engineers,  Etc. 
Wardell  Guthrie's  grandfather,  Dr.  Samuel 
Guthrie,  Jr.,  was  the  discoverer  of  chloroform,  a 
bronze  tablet  to  whose  memory  may  be  seen  in 
Washington  Park,  Chicago.  Wardell  Guthrie's 
wife,  Caroline  (Pomeroy)  Guthrie,  was  de- 
scended from  New  England  stock,  including  Wil- 
liam Brewster  and  Stephen  Hopkins,  both  of  the 
Mayflower. 

Lawrence  G.  Weaver,  whose  name  heads  this 
review,  had  the  advantage  of  splendid  educa- 


tional discipline,  including  that  of  the  public 
schools ;  Harvard  School  for  Boys,  Chicago ; 
Phillips  Academy,  Aiidover,  Massachusetts,  from 
1901  to  1904,  and  Yale  University,  in  1904-5. 
After  leaving  college  he  became  secretary  of  the 
Henry  E.  Weaver  Coal  Company  and  was  later 
identified  with  Burnham,  Butler  &  Company, 
stocks  and  bonds,  until  1906,  when  he  embarked 
in  the  grain  business  on  the  Chicago  Board  of 
Trade,  and  continued  in  this  field  of  activity 
until  1914.  After  this  Mr.  Weaver  went  into  the 
bond  business  being  associated  with  the  In- 
vestors Service  Corporation,  Brokaw  &  Company 
and  the  Guaranty  Company  of  New  York.  In 
February,  1924,  he  organized  the  Investment 
Securities  business  of  L.  G.  Weaver  &  Company. 
He  is  a  member  of  numerous  clubs  and  organ- 
izations, among  which  are  the  Chicago  Associ- 
ation of  Commerce,  Illinois  Society  of  Mayflower 
Descendants,  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  Founders 
and  Patriots  of  America,  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 
and  Evans  Lodge  No.  524,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Bondmen's  Club,  the  Yale  Club  of  N.  Y.  and  the 
Evanston  Country  club,  Wilamette  Golf  club,  and 
the  Union  League  club.  His  political  affiliations 
are  with  the  Republican  party.  Mr.  Weaver  was 
married  May  1,  1917,  to  Alice  Siegfried  Olsen,  of 
Chicago,  a  daughter  of  Henry  T.  and  Anna 
(Andersen)  Olsen.  To  them  have  been  born  two 
children  :  Carolyn  Vaughan  Weaver  and  Walden 
Phelps  Weaver.  The  family  home  is  at  1227 
Maple  avenue,  Evanston,  Illinois. 


GENERAL  HART  L.  STEWART. 


General  Hart  L.  Stewart  was  born  in  Bridge- 
water,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.,  on  August  29,  1803,  a 
son  of  William  and  Valida  (Turner)  Stewart. 

As  a  young  man  he  studied  law,  later,  engaged 
as  a  contractor  with  his  brother.  Together 
they  built  many  of  the  important  early  canals 
in  the  eastern  part  of  this  country. 

With  money  thus  earned  he  bought  a  thou- 
sand acres  of  land  at  White  Pigeon  and  Sturgis 
Prairie,  in  what  was  then  the  Territory  of 
Michigan.  There  he  erected  a  log  house  and 
established  his  home.  Subsequently  he  took  an 
indispensable  part  in  the  pioneer  development 
of  that  entire  region.  He  was  appointed  Colonel 
on  the  staff  of  Gov.  Cass.  In  1832  he  was  made 
Judge  of  the  County  Court  of  St.  Joseph  County 


and  in  1833  Circuit  Judge.  He  was  influential 
in  securing  the  Act  of  Congress  that  admitted 
the  Territory  of  Michigan  into  the  Union.  He 
was  appointed  Commissioner  of  Internal  Im- 
provements and  as  such  supervised  the  develop- 
ment of  most  of  the  early  railroads,  highways 
and  waterways  in  lower  Michigan. 

He  raised  a  Regiment  of  Michigan  Volunteers 
which  he  commanded  with  distinction  through- 
out the  Blackhawk  War.  In  1838  he  was  com- 
missioned Brigadier  General,  commanding  the 
Fourteenth  Brigade,  Michigan  Militia. 

He  contracted  and  built  a  large  part  of  the 
Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal  in  the  vicinity  of 
Chicago,  111. 

During  the  administration  of  President  Polk 


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lie  was  Postmaster  at  Chicago  through  the  years 
1S45-9. 

The   marriage   of   Hart  L.    Stewart   to   Miss 
Hannah   Blair  McKihben   of   Philadelphia  was 


solemnized  on  February  5.  1829.  They  became 
the  parents  of  two  sons,  who  died  in  infancy, 
and  Mary.  Frances.  Anne.  Kate.  Jeanie,  Hannah 
McKibbeu  Stewart  and  Helen  Wolcott  Stewart, 


LORENZO  M.  JOHNSON. 


The  following  article  was  written,  largely,  by 
Mr.  Johnson's  daughter,  Dorothea  Priscilla 
Stewart  Johnson,  who  was  closely  in  touch  with 
details  of  her  father's  life. 

"Lorenzo  M.  Johnson  was  born  on  January 
22,  1843,  the  son  of  Lorenzo  Dow  Johnson  and 
Mary  Burges  Johnson.  He  lived  during  his 
boyhood  in  Rochester,  Mass.  He  was  one  of  the 
eighth  generation  in  direct  line  from  John 
Alden  and  Priscilla  Mullins. 

"After  the  death  of  his  father  he  assumed 
the  responsibility  of  the  house,  the  farm  and 
the  care  of  his  two  younger  brothers.  He  was 
always  self-forgetful  to  a  remarkable  degree. 
In  a  hundred  ways  he  would  show  a  very  un- 
selfish spirit.  His  devotion  and  affection 
toward  his  mother  and  brothers  were  unusual. 
He  graduated  from  the  Rochester  Academy  and 
soon  after,  in  1860,  was  appointed  an  aid  in  the 
United  States  Coast  Survey,  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen years  making  a  number  of  trips  in  the 
West,  one  with  Count  de  Portales  (later  the 
French  minister  to  the  United  States)  who  was 
also  with  the  Coast  Survey.  Mr.  Johnson  was 
engaged  in  the  surveys  of  Mobile  harbor  and 
the  projected  canal  across  Cape  Cod. 

"He  was  active  in  volunteer  guard  duties 
in  Washington  until  September,  1861,  when  he 
was  assigned  to  duty  in  the  pay  department 
of  the  army.  In  this  capacity  he  was  with  the 
ariny  of  the  Potomac  at  the  capture  of  York- 
town,  and  during  the  Seven  Days  Battle  on  the 
Peninsula,  and  at  the  capture  of  Vicksburg,  in 
December,  1863.  He  was  later  appointed  post- 
master's clerk  to  Paymaster  Marston  of  the 
United  States  army ;  and  in  that  trusted  posi- 
tion made  many  lonely  and  dangerous  trips 
on  horseback,  carrying  bonds  and  large 
amounts  of  money,  frequently  with  an  escort 
of  only  one  or  two  men. 

"At  the  end  of  the  war,  he  resigned  from 
the  United  States  army  service  to  go  as  consular 
pupil  to  the  East.  In  1867  he  became  consular 
clerk  in  Beirut,  Syria,  one  of  thirteen  authorized 
by  Congress  with  a  view  to  their  being  perma- 
nently in  the  consular  service.  Subsequently  he 
was    vice-consul   at   Beirut   and    representative 


of  the  consulate  general  at  Jerusalejn  and 
Damascus  and  Jaffa.  While  in  Syria  he  ac- 
knowledged his  faith  in  an  overruling  God  and 
in  Christianity,  by  joining  the  little  Mission 
Church.  Seven  years  later  he  joined  the  Sec- 
ond Presbyterian  Church  in  Chicago.  In  1870 
he  was  appointed  consul  general  at  Beirut. 
During  all  this  time  he  studied  law  in  his 
leisure  hours. 

"Realizing  that  this  service  would  not,  under 
our  government,  become  a  certain  career,  he 
returned  to  America,  in  1871,  after  extensive 
travel  in  Asia  and  Europe,  intending  on  his  re- 
turn to  study  civil  engineering,  his  intention 
when  he  first  left  his  New  England  home.  He 
entered  the  scientific  department  of  Tale  Uni- 
versity in  1871,  receiving  the  degree  of  Civil 
Engineer,  in  1874.  He  had  been  for  a  year 
editor  of  the  Yale  Courant,  and  for  two  years 
president  of  his  class,  also  a  member  of  the 
Cloister  Society  (Book  and  Snake),  although  it 
was  said  he  was  opposed  on  principle  to  college 
secret  societies,  as  tending  to  breed  heart- 
burnings and  unnecessary  disappointments. 
Because  of  his  mathematical  precision  in  all 
things,  he  was  called  'Triangles.' 

"Even  in  these  years  men  respected  and  ad- 
mired his  conscientiousness  of  character,  his 
high  standards.  Truth  was  his  fundamental 
virtue,   kindness  of  heart  his,  by  nature. 

"Soon  after  graduating,  he  was  appointed 
engineer,  then  chief  engineer,  paymaster  and 
general  superintendent  on  the  Keokuk  and  Des 
Moines  Railway.  On  January  1,  1878,  he  was 
appointed  general  manager  of  the  Cairo  and 
St.  Louis  Railroad,  and  director  and  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  St.  Louis  &  Cairo  Railroad. 

"In  1878  he  married  Helen  Wolcott  Stewart, 
of  Chicago,  daughter  of  Gen.  Hart  L.  Stewart, 
who  was  a  distinguished  early  Illiuoisan.  A 
daughter,  Helen  Wolcott  Stewart  Johnson, 
was  born  in  1879 ;  and  a  son,  John  Alden 
Stewart  Johnson,  in  1S80.  In  18S2  their  daugh- 
ter Dorothea  rriscilla  Stewart  Johnson  was 
born,  and  in  1883,  their  daughter  Lesley  Stewart 
Johnson  was  born. 

"In  1S80,  he  resigned  to  accept  the  position 


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in  Chicago  of  assistant  to  the  president  of  the 
Pullman  Palace  Car  Company." 

Quoted   from    the   Railway   Age. 

"In  1883,  Mr.  C.  P.  Huntington  had  started 
his  Mexican  International  Railroad  and  planned 
to  extend  it  from  the  Rio  Grande  to  the  Pa- 
cific ;  and  he  wanted  to  place  the  enterprise 
in  charge  of  a  man  capable  of  taking  inde- 
pendent command  at  a  long  distance  from 
the  source  of  supplies  and  authority,  and  of 
being  in  fact,  as  well  as  in  name,  general 
manager,  of  the  entire  venture.  The  selection 
fell  on  Lorenzo  M.  Johnson,  then  occupying 
the  position  in  the  Pullman  Company  of  as- 
sistant to  the  president.  It,  therefore,  required 
courage  and  resourcefulness  years  ago  for  a 
railroad  man,  who  had  made  name  and  position 
in  the  United  States,  to  break  off  his  connec- 
tions and  move  to  Mexico  to  take  up  the  man- 
agement and  extension  of  a  new  railroad  in  that 
comparatively  unknown  country. 

"Mr.  Johnson  accepted  this  foreign  mission, 
and  in  December,  1883,  took  up  his  headquarters 
at  Piedras  Negras,  on  the  Rio  Grande,  opposite 
Eagle  Pass,  Texas,  and  general  offices  in  the 
City  of  Mexico.  It  is  going  outside  the  record, 
but  it  is  not  in  conflict  with  truth  and  justice, 
to  credit  some  share  of  the  contentment,  courage 
and  persistency  with  which  the  young  American 
engineer  took  up  his  difficult  labors  in  a 
foreign  land,  among  an  aboriginal  population, 
to  the  young  wife  who  exchanged  a  home  of 
comfort  in  a  highly  civilized  community  for 
the  rude  accommodations  then  accounted  luxuri- 
ous on  the  Texas-Mexican  border. 

"For  the  next  nineteen  years,  Mr.  Johnson 
directed  the  growth  of  the  Mexican  Interna- 
tional from  about  seventy  miles  fo  nearly  one 
thousand  miles.  During  the  time  he  was  with 
the  International,  he  was  also  general  manager 
of  the  Alamo,  Fuente,  Coahuila  &  Rio  Bravo 
Coal  Companies,  and  superintendent  of  con- 
struction of  the  American  Development  Com- 
panies, and  general  manager  of  the  Coahuila 
and  Durango  Development  Company.  Although 
sojourning  in  a  foreign  land,  Mr.  Johnson  main- 
tained a  family  home  at  Winnetka,  Illinois, 
on  the  shores  of  Lake  Michigan,  and  preserved 
relations  with  the  professional  and  social  life 
of  his  country,  by  membershp  in  the  Chicago 
("Tub,  Onwentsia   Club,  Chicago  Literary   Club, 


the  St.  Louis  Club,  Western  Society  of  Civil 
Engineers,  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers, 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  the 
Society  of  the  Mayflower  and  the  Chicago  His- 
torical Society. 

"On  leaving  the  International,  on  December 
31,  1902,  after  almost  twenty  years  with  that 
road,  the  officials  and  employes  presented  him 
with  a  beautiful  gift,  as  a  mark  of  their  esteem 
and  affection.  This  bowl  was  presented  to  him 
at  a  reception  given  in  his  honor  and  that  of 
his  family,  with  addresses  and  speeches  from 
different  men,  who  showed  much  feeling  and 
emotion  in  their  expression  of  regret  and  sad- 
ness at  his  departure.  Mr.  Johnson  was  much 
touched  by  these  tributes.  Almost  every  man 
in  the  audience  broke  down  on  hearing  his 
words  of  thanks  to  them,  and  of  affection  for 
them.    Thus  was  he  beloved ! 

"On  January  1,  1903,  his  connection  with  the 
Mexican  International  Railroad  ceased.  On 
that  date  he  assumed  the  position  of  manager 
of  the  Railroad  and  Fuel  Department  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Mexican  Union  Railway, 
El  Carmen  Railway,  Aguascalientes  Railway, 
and  Veladena  Railway  of  the  American  Smelt- 
ing &  Refining  Company,  with  headquarters  in 
the  City  of  Mexico. 

"On  August  15,  1904.  he  accepted  the  position 
of  president  of  the  Pittsburg.  Shawmut  &  North- 
ern Railroad  and  allied  companies.  His  work 
was  broad  and  in  many  fields.  Although  his 
main  office  was  at  45  Wall  Street  in  New  York 
City,  the  principal  field  of  work  lay  in  the 
western  part  of  New  York  State,  and  at  St. 
Marys,  Pennsylvania,  at  which  place  he  died  on 
Monday,  November  28,  1904." 

We  print  these  few  comments  from  Mr.  John- 
son's friends,   following  his  death : 

"He  was  a  noble  man,  made  of  pure  gold, 
faithful    and    true   in   every    walk   of   life." 

"He  was  of  a  strong  and  virile  race  of  men 
and  women,  whose  lives  and  accomplishments 
stand  for  the  best  and  biggest  things,  and 
when  he,  one  of  the  most  upright  and  manly 
of  these,  comes  to  an  untimely  end,  there  is 
unusual   cause   for   sorrow   and   regret," 

"Now,  for  him  all  is  fulfilled ;  his  life  was 
rounded,  completed,  perfected.  No  man  could 
have  left  a  fairer  name,  and  all  who  knew  him 
will  do  him  reverence." 


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STEWART  JOHNSON. 


Stewart  Johnson  was  born  at  St  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, December  10,  1880,  a  son  of  Lorenzo  M. 
and  Helen  (Stewart)  Johnson,  extended  mention 
of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  history.  Much 
of  his  boyhood  was  spent  in  Mexico  with  his 
father  and  mother.  He  attended  St  Paul's 
School  at  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and  he  then 
entered  Yale  University,  graduating  in  1902.  He 
graduated  from  Harvard  Law  School  in  1907. 

Then  he  located  at  Chicago  in  the  practice  of 
law  and  was  in  the  law  office  of  Lincoln,  Isham  & 
Beale  until  1915.  That  year  he  entered  the  diplo- 
matic service  of  the  United  States. 

His  career  in  the  diplomatic  service  was  a  bril- 
liant one,  covering  a  period  of  more  than  a 
decade;  and  was  only  terminated  by  his  death. 
He  served  successively  as  First  Secretary  and 
Charge  d'Affairs  in  Santa  Domingo,  Guatamala, 
Costa  Rica  and  Venezuela.  Then,  in  1920,  he  was 
stationed  at  Washington,  D.  C,  as  acting  chief 
of  the  Bureau  of  Latin  American  Republics.    The 


following  year  he  was  offered  his  choice  of  a 
number  of  important  diplomatic  posts  in  Europe ; 
and  he  chose  to  go  to  Berlin  to  assist  in  the 
adjustment  of  many  difficult  problems  during 
Germany's  reconstruction  period. 

In  1924  a  situation  requiring  careful,  strong 
and  tactful  handling  arose  in  Egypt  and  he  was 
transferred  to  Cairo  where  he  was  soon  pro- 
moted to  still  higher  position  in  the  Foreign 
Service  Office.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
one  of  the  most  responsible  men  in  the  Foreign 
Service  of  our  Government. 

On  November  17,  1917,  Mr.  Johnson  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Catherine  ReQua  of  Chicago,  a 
daughter  of  Charles  H.  and  Alice  (Haven)  Re- 
Qua, both  of  whom  are  from  distinguished  early 
families  of  Chicago.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Johnson  have 
one  daughter,  Catherine  ReQua  Stewart  Johnson. 

Stewart  Johnson  died  at  Cairo,  Egypt,  on  Sep- 
tember 10,  1926.  His  passing  occasioned  deep 
and  sincere  sorrow. 


JAMES  KANE  RIORDON. 


James  K.  Riordon,  senior  member  of  the  firm 
of  Riordon,  Martin  &  Company,  a  substantial 
and  important  concern  in  the  grain  commission 
business  in  Chicago,  is  one  of  the  aggressive  and 
public  spirited  native  sons  of  Illinois  who  has 
contributed  much  to  the  civic  and  material  ad- 
vancement of  our  great  commonwealth,  and 
well  deserves  mention  in  the  history  of  his  na- 
tive state.  He  has  made  his  way  to  prominence 
and  honorable  prestige  through  his  own  well 
directed  energy  and  efforts,  and  by  hard  work 
and  frugal  habits  he  has  risen  from  a  modest 
beginning  as  a  youth,  to  a  place  of  command- 
ing influence  in  the  business  world.  He  has 
ever  stood  as  an  exponent  of  the  best  type  of 
civic  loyalty  and  progressiveness,  and  during 
the  many  years  of  his  residence  in  Illinois  he 
has  wielded  definite  and  benignant  influence, 
both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man  of  splendid  busi- 
ness ability. 

Mr.  Riordon  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Whiteside 
County,  Illinois,  February  19,  1877,  a  son  of 
Bartholomew  M.  Riordon  and  Ellen  (Kane) 
Riordon,  natives  of  Vermont  and  New  Jersey 
respectively,  and  worthy  representatives  of 
prominent  old  established  American  families 
which  date  back  to  the  colonial  epoch  in  our 
National  history.     His   educational   advantages 


were  those  afforded  by  the  public  country  schools 
of  Illinois  and  a  business  college  at  Clinton, 
Iowa,  and  he  was  graduated  from  the  latter  in- 
stitution in  1896.  His  boyhood  days  and  early 
manhood  were  spent  on  a  farm,  where  he  was 
taught  the  habits  of  industry  and  economy,  and 
the  discipline  proved  a  valuable  one  during  the 
formative  period  of  his  life.  He  early  developed 
an  aptitude  for  business,  and  in  1901  with  a 
capital  of  $1,200  earned  by  farming,  he  rented 
a  grain  elevator  with  B.  L.  Funston,  at  Erie, 
Illinois,  and  engaged  in  the  grain  business.  To 
this  industry  he  later  added  coal  and  lumber 
to  its  activities  and  the  enterprise  is  still  be- 
ing successfully  conducted. 

In  October,  1911,  Mr.  Riordon  removed  to 
Chicago,  and  on  March  27,  1912,  he  joined  the 
Board  of  Trade  and  has  since  been  an  active 
factor  of  this  great  commercial  organization. 
For  six  years  after  becoming  a  resident  of  Chi- 
cago, from  1912  until  1918,  he  was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Adolph  Kempner  Company,  of 
which  he  was  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  He 
then  became  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Riordon  '&  Windsor,  and  upon  the  retirement  of 
Mr.  Windsor  and  the  admission  of  Charles 
Riordon  and  Elmer  Martin,  the  name  was 
changed  in  December,  1918,  to  Riordon,  Martin 


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&  Company.  This  company  is  one  of  the  most 
conservative  and  successful  concerns  now  en- 
gaged in  the  grain  commission  business  in  the 
City  of  Chicago,  and  its  status  has  long  been 
one  of  prominence  in  connection  with  the  rep- 
resentative commercial  activities  of  the  country. 
Mr.  Riordon  has  devoted  much  time  and  energy 
to  building  up  the  prestige  of  his  company,  and 
its  present  popularity  and  high  commercial 
standing  may  be  attributed  in  no  small  degree 
to  his  able  management  and  untiring  efforts. 

Besides  his  connection  with  the  firm  of  Rior- 
don, Martin  &  Company,  Mr.  Riordon  is  also  in- 
terested in  numerous  other  enterprises  and  his 
progressive  spirit  is  evident  in  many  ways.  He 
owns  seven  farms  in  DuPage  County,  Illinois, 
aggregating  776  acres  all  under  cultivation. 
He  is  also  Vice-President  of  the  State  Bank  of 
Villa  Park,  Illinois ;  is  serving  on  his  second 
term  as  Director  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of  the 
City  of  Chicago,  having  been  elected  to  that 
office  in  1922  and  re-elected  in  1925,  serving  for 
five  consecutive  years,  a  record  that  not  only 
indicates  his  executive  ability  but  his  popularity 
and  high  commercial  standing.  He  is  also 
Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Legal  Advice  Committee  of  this  or- 
ganization. He  served  as  President  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  Erie,  Illinois,  in  1911,  and 
was  also  Township  Committeeman  for  some 
years.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Associa- 


tion of  Commerce ;  a  life  member  of  the  Art  In- 
stitute of  Chicago,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Protective  League  during  the  World 
War.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  and  of  the  Illinois  Athletic,  Chicago 
Riding  and  the  Butterfield  Country  Clubs  of 
Chicago,  and  the  Four  Seasons  Club  at  Pern- 
bine,  Wisconsin.  In  his  religious  faith  he  is  a 
Catholic  and  in  his  political  affiliations  he  is  a 
Democrat. 

Although  the  scope  of  his  work  has  always 
been  broad,  Mr.  Riordon  does  not  neglect  those 
things  which  represent  the  higher  ideals  of  hu- 
man existence  and  gives  generously  of  his  time 
and  means  to  charitable  movements  and  all 
measures  tending  to  the  public  good.  His  ef- 
forts are  not  confined  to  lines  resulting  in  in- 
dividual benefit,  but  are  evident  in  those  fields 
where  general  interests  and  public  welfare  are 
involved,  and  there  are  few  movements  of  vital 
importance  to  the  city  and  state  with  which  he 
is  not  concerned. 

Mr.  Riordon  was  married  October  27,  1904. 
to  Miss  Helen  Fawn  Quick,  of  Chicago,  a  woman 
of  engaging  personality,  and  of  this  union  were 
born  four  children  :  James  Ross,  John  Stuart. 
Helen  Margaret,  and  Marion,  of  whom  the  first 
named  is  deceased.  The  Chicago  family  home 
is  at  3726  Sheridan  Road,  while  a  fine  country 
home  is  also  owned  and  maintained  at  Villa 
Park.  Illinois. 


ANDREW  GRAY  MORSE. 


Andrew  Gray  Morse  was  born  at  East  Hard- 
wick,  Vermont,  March  16,  1869,  a  son  of  Amasa 
and  Louisa  (Orcutt)  Morse.  The  foundations 
of  the  fine  character  that  made  his  latter  life 
notable  were  laid  during  the  years  of  his  boy- 
hood when  he  was  at  home  in  close  contact  with 
the  good,  strengthening  influence  of  his  father 
and  mother. 

He  attended  public  school  and  the  Academy 
at  Saint  Johnsbury,  Vermont.  Early  in  life  he 
became  self-supporting,  even  while  he  was  at 
school.  As  one  source  of  income  for  him,  he  and 
his  mother  entered  quite  extensively  into  the 
making  of  candy  which  he  sold  in  his  spare 
time.  It  was  so  good  that  it  always  found  a 
ready  market.  The  experiences  of  these  days 
were  to  shape  the  course  of  the  rest  of  his  life. 

During  several  summers  he  spent  his  vaca- 
tions pleasantly  and  profitably  in  the  employ  of 
two    of    the    famous    White    Mountain    Hotels. 


Here  he  formed  an  acqaintanceship  with  several 
distinguished  men,  among  them  Cornelius  Van- 
derbilt  and  Lord  Coleridge,  whose  advice  was  of 
much  inspiration  and  subsequent  value  to  him. 
All  the  money  that  he  earned  during  these  sum- 
mer months  he  saved  and  brought  home  to  his 
mother,  in  the  same  coins  in  which  he  had  re- 
ceived it.  Thrift  and  purposeful  self-denial 
throughout  his  youth  contributed  very  largely  to 
his  later  success.  Another  evidence  of  the  good 
use  to  which  he  put  his  opportunities  during  his 
early  years  is  that  he  studied  music,  principally 
under  his  father's  guidance,  throughout  many  of 
his  evenings  at  home ;  and  became  an  accom- 
plished cornetist. 

In  1889  his  family  moved  to  Peoria,  Illinois ; 
and  there  he  went  to  work  for  the  dry  goods 
firm  of  Clark  &  Company.  His  days  were  occu- 
pied in  this  way ;  his  evenings  he  gave  almost 
entirely  to  the  management  of  a  small  business 


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of  his  own  that  he  had  started.  Soon  after 
locating  in  Feoria,  he  began  the  manufacture  of 
flavoring  extracts,  a  work  his  earlier  training 
had  particularly  fitted  him  for.  So,  each  day 
as  soon  as  he  was  through  with  his  duties  at  the 
dry  goods  store,  he  returned  to  his  home  where 
he  not  only  made  his  exceptionally  good  flavoring 
extracts,  but  where  he  also  directed  his  repre- 
sentatives who  sold  his  product.  His  business, 
though  not  large,  met  with  deserved  success.  His 
Sundays,  and  such  spare  time  as  he  had,  he  gave 
to  his  music. 

So  we  see  that  the  days  and  hours  of  his  young 
manhood  were  filled  with  keen  interests,  con- 
genial hard  work  and  with  thoughtful  building 
toward  the  future.  His  rise  in  life  came  in  this 
way  and  not  through  specially  favoring  circum- 
stances. He  always  had  in  mind  something 
bigger  that  he  was  climbing  toward :  and  he  was 
willing  to  work  for  it.  He  did  not  expect  some- 
thing for  nothing. 

From  Peoria  he  came  to  Chicago  in  1893.  seek- 
ing larger  opportunities,  and  established  himself 
as  a  manufacturer  of  ice  cream.  Back  in  his 
boyhood  days  in  Vermont,  however,  when  he  and 
his  mother  had  made  candy  and  derived  a  sub- 
stantial income  from  it,  he  had  formed  the  am- 
bition to  make  that  his  life  work,  and  to  build 
a  large  business  on  this  foundation.  This  ambi- 
tion and  hope  remained  with  him  throughout 
all  the  following  years;  and,  not  long  after  he 
located  in  Chicago,  he  began  to  manufacture 
chocolate  confections.  This  was  the  beginning 
of  the  present  A.  G.  Morse  Company.  Inc.,  which 
after  the  passing  of  some  thirty  years  since  its 
founding,  holds  a  place  today  as  one  of  the 
largest  and   most   highly   regarded   concerns   in 


America  engaged  in  the  great  candy  business. 
The  familiar  red  box  of  chocolate  candy  that 
bears  his  name  has  one  of  the  largest  individual 
distributions  that  has  ever  been  reached. 

Mr.  Morse  was  long  an  active  and  interested 
member  of  the  National  Confectioners  Associa- 
tion, the  Illinois  Manufacturers  Association,  the 
Chicago  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  of  the  Chi- 
cago Rotary  Club. 

Mr.  Morse  was  married  October  13,  1899,  at 
Peoria.  Illinois,  to  Miss  Libbie  Odell  Lewis.  She 
died  in  1911,  leaving  two  daughters,  Evelyn  L., 
deceased,  and  Julia  L.  Morse  (Mrs.  Arthur  B. 
Fairbanks,  Jr.)  On  February  11,  1914,  Mr. 
Morse  married  Marguerite  E.  Rowe,  who  has 
two  daughters,  Mrs.  John  W.  Schroeder,  and 
Mrs.  Paul  Dudley  Webster.  The  family  home  is 
at  Oak  Park,  Illinois. 

Mr.  Morse  was  a  true  lover  of  music,  and  was 
himself  a  nmsieian  of  fine  ability.  This  was  a 
joy  to  him  throughout  all  of  his  life. 

The  business  success  that  he  achieved  during 
the  three  decades  of  his  business  activity  that 
centered  at  Chicago,  was  a  remarkable  one, 
earned  by  hard,  conscientious  work  and  devo- 
tion, and  built  upon  the  basis  of  absolute  fairness 
and  honesty.  When  he  began  the  manufacture 
of  candy,  he  had  to  make  it,  sell  it  and  deliver 
it  himself.  From  this  small  start  he  built  up 
his  business  until  it  came  to  be  of  national  im- 
portance. His  belief  is  expressed  in  his  own 
words :  "Your  success  is  in  direct  proportion  to 
your  ability  to  stand  up  and  take  what  is  coming 
to  you,  without  quitting."  He  was  kindly,  strong, 
generous,  a  delightful  friend,  and  scrupulously 
faithful  in  all  of  his  responsibilities. 

His  death  occurred  February  16,  1927. 


THOMAS  A.    NOBLE. 


The  late  Dr.  Thomas  A.  Noble  was  born  at 
Maple,  Ontario,  Canada,  on  November  3,  1858. 
His  parents  were  Joseph  and  Sarah  (McQuarrie) 
Noble  and  were  of  Irish  and  Scotch  descent,  re- 
spectively. 

The  early  years  of  his  life  were  lived  in 
Toronto,  Canada,  and  there  it  was  that  he  at- 
tended preparatory  school.  Having  decided  to 
devote  himself  to  the  study  of  medicine  and 
surgery,  he  then  entered  the  University  of 
Toronto  from  which  institution  he  graduated 
with  his  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1888. 
Following  this  Doctor  Noble  went  to   Scotland 


and  there  devoted  four  years  to  further  research 
and  study. 

It  was  back  in  1892,  thirty-five  years  ago,  that 
Doctor  Noble  established  his  residence  and  his 
office  at  Harvey,  Illinois,  and  assumed  the  re- 
sponsibilities of  an  ever-growing  practice.  In 
the  years  that  followed  he  accomplished  a  serv- 
ice of  inestimable  value  to  the  people  of  that 
community.  The  city  of  Harvey  could  not  well 
have  done  without  him.  In  addition  to  his  pri- 
vate practice  he  was  physician  and  surgeon  for 
the  great  industrial  plants  that  are  located  at 
Harvey.     He  was  also  surgeon  for  the  Illinois 


HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


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Central  Railroad  and  was  Chief  of  Staff  of  the 
Ingalls  Memorial  Hospital. 

On  January  18,  1910,  Doctor  Noble  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Lydia  King  of  Harvey,  Illinois,  a 
daughter  of  Theodore  II.  and  Victoria  (Kehl) 
King.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Noble  have  one  son, 
Thomas  A.  Noble,  Junior. 

For  more  than  three  decades  Doctor  Noble  ren- 
dered an  invaluable  service,  through  many  chan- 
nels, to  the  people  of  Harvey.  As  physician  and 
surgeon  there  his  work  was  of  finest  consequence. 
He  was  also  a  Director  of  the  Bank  of  Harvey. 


He  was  a  member  of  the  High  School  Board  there 
for  twenty  years  and  was  also  President  of  that 
Board.  He  was  very  largely  instrumental  in 
securing  the  present  fine  High  School  for  the 
city.  In  these  ways  and  in  many  others  his  in- 
fluence was  strong  for  betterment  and  growth. 
Dr.  Thomas  A.  Noble's  life  came  to  its  close 
on  September  12,  1927,  in  his  sixty-ninth  year. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  valuable  members  of  his 
profession  in  the  State  and  was  one  of  the  most 
able  and  unselfish  men  that  Harvey  has  ever 
known. 


JOHN  WILLIAM  OGREN. 


.Tiilin  W.  Ogren  was  born  at  Westervik, 
Sweden,  March  27,  1877,  a  son  of  John  Fred- 
erick Ogren  and  Emma  Amelia  (Strom)  Ogren. 
He  came  to  the  United  States  with  his  parents 
when  six  years  of  age,  and  his  early  education 
was  obtained  in  the  grade  schools  and  the  South 
Side  High  School  at  Minneapolis,  Minnesota.  He 
was  also  a  student  at  Hamline  University  from 
1896  until  1899;  and  in  1902  he  was  graduated 
from  the  University  of  Minnesota  Law  School 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws.  Soon 
after  completing  his  course  at  the  University  of 
Minnesota  he  established  himself  in  the  prac- 
tice of  law  at  Grand  Forks,  North  Dakota,  and 
was  active  in  the  legal  profession  of  that  city 
until  1916,  during  which  time,  in  1912,  he  was 
the  Republican  nominee  for  district  judge. 

Coming  to  Chicago  in  1916,  Mr.  Ogren  became 
active  in  the  legal  profession  of  this  city  and  is 
recognized  as  a  strong  factor  in  the  best  element 
of  his  profession.  He  is  vice-president  of  the 
Johnson  Shuttle  Company ;  is  general  counsel 
for  the  National  Association  of  Loose  Leaf  Man- 
ufacturers ;    general   counsel   and    commissioner 


for  the  Elevator  Manufacturers  Association,  and 
lecturer  on  "Law  of  Trade  Associations"  at  the 
Northwestern  University  School  of  Secretaries. 
He  served  as  referee  in  bankruptcy  from  1908 
until  1912;  is  trustee  of  Wesley  College  and  is 
also  affiliated  with  the  University  of  North  Da- 
kota. He  is  a  member  of  the  American,  Illinois 
State  and  Chicago  Bar  Associations,  American 
Trade  Association,  Executives,  Chicago  Associa- 
tion of  Commerce  of  which  he  is  chairman  of 
Ways  and  Means  of  the  Committee  Council, 
American  Economic  Association,  Academy  of  Po- 
litical Science,  and  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago. 
He  is  also  a  Mason,  Knight  Templar  and  a 
Shriner,  and  a  member  of  the  Union  League, 
Hamilton,  and  Swedish  clubs  of  Chicago,  and  the 
Crystal  Lake  Country  club. 

Mr.  Ogren  was  married  July  30,  1903,  to  Cath- 
erine M.  Cross,  of  Hudson,  Wisconsin,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  A.  and  Mary  (Grover)  Cross;  and 
of  this  union  were  born  two  children :  Ruth 
Catharine,  and  John  Charles.  The  family  home 
is  at  1428  Farragut  avenue. 


EDWIN  STEWART  WHEELER. 


Edwin  S.  Wheeler  was  born  at  Oregon,  Ogle 
County.  Illinois,  April  5,  1858,  a  son  of  Edwin  R. 
and  Harriet  P.  (Stewart!  Wheeler,  both  of  whom 
were  early  pioneers  in  this  state.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  near  his  town,  and 
then  entered  Northwestern  University.  He  grad- 
uated from  the  Union  College  of  Law  in  1879. 
Soon  after  completing  this  course  he  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  law  at  Nora  Springs,  Iowa,  in 
the  office  of  his  father-in-law,  Mr.  W.  P.  Gaylord, 
who  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  of  the  pio- 


neer residents  of  Iowa,  and  who  was  State  Sen- 
ator from  that  state. 

Mr.  Wheeler  subsequently  practiced  law  at 
Mason  City,  Iowa,  but  returned  after  several 
years  to  Nora  Springs.  Here  he  also  conducted 
a  private  banking  business  under  the  title  of 
Shepardson  &  Wheeler. 

In  1885  he  was  made  Western  Representative 
and  General  Agent  for  the  Newark  Fire  Insur- 
ance Company  of  Newark,  New  Jersey.  In  1888 
he  established    his   residence   and   his   business 


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HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


headquarters  at  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  had  charge 
of  the  entire  business  of  his  company  in  eight 
states ;  and  he  represented  the  company  for 
nearly  twenty  years.  In  1904  he  retired  from 
this  office  and  became  associated  with  Mr.  W.  H. 
Noake  and  Mr.  R.  W.  Clough  in  the  purchase 
of  the  plant  and  business  of  the  Watts-De  Golyer 
Company,  varnish  manufacturers.  This  business 
was  established  in  Chicago  in  1840. 

The  company  was  reorganized  and  was  opera- 
ted as  the  Noake,  Wheeler,  Clough  Company  for 
a  time,  and  later  became  the  Wheeler,  Clough 
Company.  When  the  business  was  incorporated 
it  was  given  its  present  name,  the  Wheeler  Var- 
nish Works.  Mr.  Wheeler  was  President  of  this 
corporation  until  his  death.  It  is  one  of  the  old- 
est industries  in  Chicago,  and  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  complete  organizations  of  its  kind. 

During- his  earlier  life  in  Iowa  Mr.  Wheeler 
took  an  active  part  in  military  affairs,  and  was 
Adjutant  of  the  Seventh  Regiment  of  the  Iowa 
National  Guard.  After  locating  in  Chicago  he 
joined  the  First  Regiment  of  the  Illinois  National 
<;uard.  In  more  recent  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Veterans  Corps. 

Mr.  Wheeler  was  a  Mason,  being  affiliated  with 
Oak  Park  Lodge  No.  540,  A.  F.  '&  A.  M. :  Siloam 
Commandery  No.  54,  K.  T. ;  and  Medinah  Temple 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  was  a  life  member  of 
the  Illinois  Athletic  Club,  and  belonged  also  to 
the  Elks,  the  Rotary  Club  of  Chicago,  the  Oak 


Park  Commercial  Club,  Pistakee  Country  Club, 
and  to  the  Min  Dako  Wis  Tribe,  which  is  com- 
posed of  devotees  to  outdoor  sports  from  the 
states  of  Minnesota,  Dakota  and  Wisconsin,  as 
the  name  implies. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Wheeler  to  Miss  Chloe 
Irene  Gaylord  of  Nora  Springs,  Iowa,  took  place 
September  29,  1879.  His  wife  is  a  daughter  of 
Wilberforce  P.  and  Sarah  E.  (Slater)  Gaylord. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wheeler  became  the  parents  of  four 
sons :  Edwin  Gaylord  Wheeler,  deceased,  Arthur 
Stewart  Wheeler,  deceased,  Wilberforce  Richard 
Wheeler  and  Henry  Duncan  Wheeler.  The  last 
two  sons  are  now  President  and  Secretary-Treas- 
urer of  the  Wheeler  Varnish  Works,  respect- 
ively. W.  R.  Wheeler  has  one  son,  Frank  Hebard 
Wheeler ;  and  H.  D.  Wheeler  had  one  son  and 
one  daughter,  Edwin  Stewart  Wheeler  and  Mar- 
jorie  Jane  Wheeler. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Wheeler  occurred  December 
19,  1925.  He  was  active  in  business  at  Chicago 
since  1888:  and  he  had  maintained  his  residence 
at  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  since  that  same  year.  He 
and  Mrs.  Wheeler  have  been  devoted  members  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church  at  Oak  Park  for  a  long 
time.  Throughout  the  last  five  years  of  his  life 
Mr.  Wheeler  was  Treasurer  of  the  church  build- 
ing fund ;  and  his  work  and  help  was  of  great 
value  in  making  possible  their  present  splendid 
church  edifice. 


JOHN  RUSH  NEWCOMER. 


The  late  John  Rush  Newcomer  of  Chicago 
was  born  at  Quincy,  Pennsylvania,  on  August  11, 
18G3,  a  son  of  Dr.  John  Newcomer.  M.D.,  and 
Catherine  (Middour)  Newcomer.  The  family 
moved  to  Illinois  in  1865. 

As  a  boy  he  attended  public  school  and  then 
entered  the  Teachers  Training  School  at  Oregon. 
Illinois.  After  finishing  his  studies  at  this  insti- 
tution he  then  took  further  work  at  Jennings 
Seminary,  Aurora,  Illinois.  Following  this  he 
entered  upon  the  study  of  law  at  the  University 
of  Michigan,  and  he  graduated  there  with  his 
degree  of  LL.B.,  in  1891. 

Upon  his  completion  of  his  course  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  he  returned  to  Chicago  and 
that  same  year,  1891.  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  Illinois.  He  was  engaged  in  general  practice 
at  Chicago  from  1891-98.  In  the  latter  year  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  Illinois  House  of 
Representatives;    and    he   filled    this  office    with 


credit  to  himself  and  to  the  people  he  repre- 
sented, for  two  years. 

In  1900  he  was  appointed  Assistant  State's 
Attorney  for  Cook  County  and  he  rendered  very 
valuable  service  in  this  capacity,  under  Charles 
S.  Deneen  and  John  J.  Healy,  for  the  following 
six  years. 

In  1906  he  was  elected  to  become  Judge  of  the 
Municipal  Court  of  Chicago.  He  continued  to  be 
Judge  of  this  Court  throughout  all  the  rest  of  his 
life,  a  period  covering  more  than  two  decades. 

On  July  31,  1901,  John  Rush  Newcomer  was 
married  at  Chicago.  Illinois,  to  Miss  Jeanette  R. 
Arnold,  a  daughter  of  James  and  Emma 
(Barnes)  Arnold.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Newcomer 
have  one  daughter  Evelyn  B.  (Mrs.  John  Theo- 
dore Hilborn)  of  Chicago.  Judge  Newcomer  was 
deeply  devoted  to  his  family  and  his  home.  The 
family  residence  is  at  5833  Midway  Park,  Chi- 
cago, and  their  summer  home,  which  Judge  New- 


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coiiiei'  also  greatly  enjoyed,  is  at  Ludington, 
Michigan. 

Mr.  James  Arnold,  Mrs.  Newcomer's  father, 
was  an  old  and  honored  resident  of  Chicago.  He 
came  here  in  1871.  He  was  a  man  of  high  type 
and  accomplished  a  great  deal  of  good  in  his 
lifetime.  The  Douglas  Park  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  was  organized  in  his  home,  back  in  1885. 
He  was  long  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  this  church  and  was  Superintendent  of  their 
Sunday  School  for  twenty-two  years.  Since  his 
death  the  church  has  been  renamed" the  Arnold 
Memorial  M.  E.  Church,  in  his  honor. 

Judge  Newcomer  was  an  earnest  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.     He  was  a  Re- 


publican and  also  belonged  to  the  Lawyers  Asso- 
ciation of  Illinois. 

The  life  of  Judge  Newcomer  came  to  its  close 
at  Chicago,  in  his  sixty-fifth  year.  He  was  a 
man  of  keenest  understanding  and  tenderest 
sympathy.  He  was  a  fine  Christian  gentleman. 
For  twenty-two  years,  as  Judge  of  the  Municipal 
Court  of  Chicago,  he  rendered  justice  tempered 
with  mercy,  and  he  held  the  trust  and  affection 
of  hundreds  of  people  to  an  extent  attained  by 
but  few  men  in  the  past  history  of  the  courts 
of  this  great  state. 

The  death  of  John  Rush  Newcomer  occurred 
on  May  13,  1928. 


FREDERICK  BROWN  MOOREHEAD. 


Doctor  Moorehead  was  born  at  Mineral  Point, 
Wisconsin,  October  14,  1878,  a  son  of  James  and 
Mary  Jane  (Brown)  Moorehead.  His  educa- 
tional advantages  were  those  afforded  by  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  state  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago,  in  which  he  made  good  use 
of  his  time  and  opportunity.  His  predilection 
being  toward  that  of  a  professional  career,  he 
early  entered  the  Chicago  College  of  Dental 
Surgery  and  was  graduated  from  that  institu- 
tion in  1899,  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Dental 
Surgery.  He  soon  afterward  established  him- 
self in  the  practice  of  Oral  Surgery  at  Chicago 
and  for  a  number  of  years  was  a  potent  factor  in 
this  field  of  activity.  Later  he  specialized  in 
oral  and  plastic  surgery,  in  which  he  has  since 
continued  and  in  which  he  has  gained  a  na- 
tional reputation. 

Few  physicians  or  surgeons  of  Chicago,  per- 
haps, have  had  such  a  thorough  training  in  all 
branches  of  the  medical  profession  as  Doctor 
Moorehead,  and  as  a  deep  student  and  a  man 
of  marked  intellectual  activity,  his  labors  have 
given  impetus  to  the  profession  in  this  city. 
He  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science 
and  Doctor  of  Medicine  from  the  University  of 
Chicago  in  1906 ;  the  degree  of  Master  of  Science 
from  the  University  of  Michigan  in  1913,  and  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  from  Rush  Medical 
College  (University  of  Chicago)  in  1906.  Be- 
sides his  private  practice  he  has  also  been  ac- 
tively identified  with  numerous  colleges  and 
hospitals,  in  which  he  has  distinguished  himself 
in  various  ways  and  to  which  he  has  rendered 
efficient  service.  He  was  Dean  and  Professor  of 
Oral  Surgery  and  Pathology  at  the  College  of 


Dentistry  of  the  University  of  Illinois,  1912- 
1925,  is  Associate  Professor  of  Surgery  at  Rush 
Medical  College ;  attending  Oral  Surgeon  to  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital,  the  Children's  Memorial 
Hospital  and  the  Home  for  Destitute  Crippled 
Children.  In  all  capacities  his  work  has  been 
characterized  by  devotion  to  duty  and  his  pro- 
fessional services  have  ever  been  discharged 
with  a  keen  sense  of  conscientious  obligation. 

For  some  time  Doctor  Moorehead  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  General  Medical  Board  of  the  Coun- 
cil of  National  Defense  and  of  the  Medical 
Board  of  Appeals  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  As- 
sociation, Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Medical  So- 
cieties, American  Dental  Association,  Illinois 
State  and  Chicago  Dental  Societies,  Chicago  In- 
stitute of  Medicine,  Chicago  Pathological  So- 
ciety and  the  American  Association  of  Oral  and 
Plastic  Surgery,  being  elected  President  of  the 
latter  association  in  December,  1926.  He  has 
gained  a  notable  reputation  as  a  writer  and  was 
the  author  of  "Pathology  of  the  Mouth,"  in 
1923,  besides  having  written  numerous  mono- 
graphs and  articles  of  wide  importance  along 
this  line  at  various  times.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  Delta  Sigma 
Delta,  Nu  Sigma  Nu  and  the  University,  Racquet 
and  Chicago  Yacht  Clubs.  In  his  religious 
faith  he  is  a  Presbyterian. 

Doctor  Moorehead  was  married  October  29, 
1901,  to  Miss  Marguerite  Mary  Hirst,  of  Chi- 
cago, and  of  this  union  were  born  two  children : 
Chester  Hirst  Moorehead  and  Dorothy  Mar- 
guerite Moorehead. 


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WILLIAM  C.  FOSTER. 


William  C.  Foster  was  born  at  Morrison,  Illi- 
nois, on  September  second,  1802,  a  son  of  Charles 
and  Lydia  (Drake)  Foster.  He  was  graduated 
from  the  public  schools  at  Morrison  and  then 
entered  Beloit  College  at  Beloit,  Wisconsin. 
While  a  student  there  he  was  also  an  athlete 
of  marked  ability. 

Soon  after  completing  his  college  training  he 
went  to  South  Dakota.  He  had  previously  had 
experience  in  making  up  tax  books ;  and  he  be- 
came identified  with  work  of  that  kind  in  the 
West.  As  time  passed  he  became  one  of  the 
most  able  tax  experts  in  that  part  of  the  coun- 
try, compiling  the  tax  books  for  many  counties 
in  both  North  and  South  Dakota. 

The  Northwestern  Railroad  Company  then  se- 
lected Mr.  Foster  as  their  assistant  Tax  Com- 
missioner. He  was  later  made  Tax  Commis- 
sioner for  South  Dakota.  His  services  for  the 
Northwestern  Railroad  Company,  covering  a  pe- 
riod of  more  than  twenty  years,  were  of  great 
and  lasting  value.  He  was  one  of  the  most  no- 
table tax  experts  in  the  United  States. 

He  also  was  Public  Examiner  for  Dakota  ter- 
ritory and  he  served  on  the  Staff  of  Governor 
Melette  of  South  Dakota  with  the  rank  of 
Colonel. 

On  August  .SI.  1886,  Mr.  Foster  was  married, 
at  Stillwater,  Minnesota,  to  Agncss  Greene,  au- 
thor. Their  life  together  throughout  all  the 
years  thai  followed  was  one  of  rare  happiness, 
devotion  and  mutual  helpfulness. 

Such  a  companionship  as  theirs  has  always 
been  and  still  is,  is  a  thing  of  everlasting  beauty 
and  inspiration. 

Mrs.  Foster,  who  is  known  to  the  reading  pub- 
lic as  Agncss  Greene  Foster,  has  given  to  Amer- 
ica some  of  the  most  charming,  wholesome  and 
ennobling  literature  of  this  day.    William  Dean 


Howells  said  of  her  writing,  "It  could  not  be 
bettered  by  any  old  or  young  writer  whom  I  now 
recall." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Foster  came  to  Chicago  and  es- 
tablished their  home  here  in  1901. 

While  living  in  South  Dakota  Mr.  Foster 
availed  himself  of  the  opportunity  to  acquire 
large  holdings  of  land.  These  properties  formed 
the  nucleus  of  the  present  W.  C.  Foster  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Foster  was  President  of  this  Com- 
pany from  the  time  of  its  founding  until  his 
death. 

It  can  be  truly  said  that  Mr.  Foster»loved 
South  Dakota;  he  worked  for  its  advancement 
with  all  his  heart.  He  did  more  perhaps  than 
anyone  else  to  induce  young  men,  and  especially 
young  married  couples,  to  go  to  South  Dakota 
and  establish  their  homes  and  make  for  them- 
selves foundations  for  substantial  success.  His 
efforts  were  unremittingly  applied  to  securing 
a  reduction  and  equalization  of  taxes  in  that 
part  of  the  country,  for  he  saw  that  was  the 
first  step  requisite  to  a  groat  agricultural  de- 
velopment there. 

Mr.  Foster  had  a  deep  fondness  for  travel;  he 
and  his  wife  have  visited  every  country  in  the 
world.  It  must  also  be  recorded  of  him  that  he 
was  a  profoundly  loyal  American. 

The  life  of  William  C.  Foster  came  to  its  close 
in  his  sixty-sixth  year  on  July  twenty-first,  1028. 
He  was  a  man  of  princely  development  of  mind 
and  heart :  a  gentleman  in  every  sense  of  that 
thought.  His  kindliness  and  thoughtfulness  and 
the  other  high  ideals  by  which  his  own  life  was 
controlled  have  borne  much  fruit,  through  con- 
tact with  him,  in  the  lives  of  every  young  man 
who  was  so  fortunate  as  to  come  under  his  re- 
fining influence. 


WILLIAM  LAAYRKNCE  O'CONNELL. 


As  a  business  man,  city,  county  and  state  of- 
ficial, and  stanch  citizen,  Chicago  and  the  State 
of  Illinois  will  look  hard  to  find  so  strong  or 
higher  minded  a  representative  as  William  L. 
O'Connell,  president  of  the  O'Connell  Motor 
Truck  Company  and  the  Illinois  Auto  Truck 
Company,  and  for  many  years  an  active  factor 
in  the  civic  and  business  affairs  of  Chicago  and 
Illinois.  He  stands  as  a  worthy  example  of  that 
element  of  aggressive  and  public   spirited  citi- 


zens who  bave  contributed  so  much  to  the  civic 
and  material  advancement  of  our  great  me- 
tropolis and  commonwealth,  and  well  deserves 
mention  in  the  history  of  his  native  city  and 
state. 

Mr.  O'Connell  was  born  in  Chicago,  May  15, 
1872,  a  son  of  Michael  J.  O'Connell  and  Anna 
(Bennett)  O'Connell.  and  his  early  education 
was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  this  city. 
He  also  took  a  course  in  law  at  the  Northwest- 


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ern  University  night  school  in  1902-4.  In  1906 
he  was  appointed  Commissioner  of  Public  Works 
of  Chicago  and  filled  that  position  for  two  years. 
He  also  served  as  Chairman  of  the  Democratic 
County  Committee  of  Cook  County  from  1906  un- 
til 1910.  In  the  latter  year  he  was  elected  County 
Treasurer  of  Cook  County  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  1914.  In  the  ensuing  year  he  be- 
came Chairman  of  the  State  Public  Utilities 
Commission  of  Illinois,  and  served  in  that  ca- 
pacity until  1917.  In  all  his  official  trusts,  Mr. 
O'Connell  performed  the  duties  devolving  upon 
him  with  fidelity  and  thoroughness.  He  not  only 
rendered  efficient  service  to  the  city,  county  and 
state,  but  proved  himself  a  man  of  sagacity  and 
probity. 

In  1916  Mr.  O'Connell  acquired  control  of  the 
Manly  Motor  Corporation  of  Waukegan,  Illinois, 
and  has  since  been  the  executive  head  of  this 
business.  In  1918  the  name  was  changed  to  the 
O'Connell  Motor  Truck  Company,  manufacturers 


of  high  grade  motor  trucks.  He  still  continues  as 
president.  He  began  building  Two-Way  Drive 
Trucks  in  1921.  Besides  this  connection  he  is 
also  president  of  the  Illinois  Auto  Truck  Com- 
pany, and  a  director  in  the  South  Side  Savings 
Bank  and  the  Washington  Park  National  Bank. 
Mr.  O'Connell  is  affiliated  with  many  leading 
clubs  and  organizations,  among  which  are  the 
National  Union,  American  Academy  of  Political 
and  Social  Science,  Catholic  Order  of  Foresters, 
Woodmen  of  the  World,  Chicago  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation, and  the  Iroquois,  Illinois  Athletic,  South 
Shore  Country  and  Olympia  Fields  Country 
Clubs.  He  is  also  an  Elk  and  a  Knight  of  Co- 
lumbus, and  is  prominent  in  both  social  and 
business  circles.  He  was  married  July  18,  1905, 
to  Anna  J.  Curry,  of  Chicago,  and  of  this  union 
were  born  three  children  :  Mary  J.,  Anna  J.,  and 
William  L.  Jr.  The  family  home  is  at  4418 
Drexel  boulevard. 


EDWARD  AUGUSTUS  FOX. 


Edward  Augustus  Fox  was  born  at  Roxbury, 
Massachusetts,  October  11,  1826,  a  son  of  Charles 
and  Mary  Louise  (Sparhawk)  Fox  and  was  one 
of  twelve  children.  He  came  of  an  old  New 
England  family  of  Revolutionary  stock.  He  was 
a  civil  engineer  of  marked  ability.  He  moved  to 
Chicago. and  established  his  home  in  1865.  For 
some  time  he  practiced  engineering  and  survey- 
ing, sharing  an  office  with  Alexander  Wolcott 
who  was  then  county  surveyor  of  Cook  County. 
Among  the  very  important  works  Mr.  Fox  did 
here  are  the  laying  out  of  Garfield  Park,  Hum- 
boldt Park  and  Douglas  Park.  He  also  surveyed 
and  laid  out  the  beautiful  village  of  Riverside. 


He  supervised  the  planning  and  development  of 
many  of  the  most  successful  suburban  additions 
to  the  City  of  Chicago.  Following  the  Chicago 
Fire  he  compiled  a  plat  book  of  Chicago  that 
gathered  and  presented  facts  of  Chicago  terri- 
tory that  was  of  great  service.  He  did  a  work 
that  has  proved  to  be  of  infinite  value  to  Chi- 
cago and  its  people.  He  accomplished  much, 
after  the  Chicago  Fire,  toward  the  rebuilding  of 
the  city.  He  was  careful,  thorough,  painstaking ; 
and  very  seldom  an  error  got  into  the  work  that 
went  through  his  office.  He  died  August  25, 
1887. 


ALBERT  MILLER. 


The  late  Albert  Miller  of  Chicago  and  Oak 
Park,  Illinois,  was  born  at  Tarrytown,  New 
York,  on  September  18,  1850,  a  son  of  Edward 
and  Sarah  Ann  (Cromwell)  Miller.  He  is  a 
descendant,  on  his  mother's  side,  from  a  brother 
of  Oliver  Cromwell.  His  family  is  also  closely 
related  to  the  Haviland  family,  world-famous 
makers  of  chinaware. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  school  and  in 
Tarrytown  Institute.  The  family  moved  to  Chi- 
cago in  1870. 

He  began  his  active  business  career  at  Chi- 
cago in  the  employ  of  the  produce  commission 


firm  of  Hanchett  &  Lyon.  He  was  with  them 
from  1870-73,  when  he  became  a  junior  member 
in  the  business  of  R.  C.  Miller  &  Company.  He 
was  identified  with  this  concern  for  nearly  ten 
years.  In  1883  he  joined  Earl  Brothers.  In  1889 
he  was  made  a  member  of  the  firm ;  and  he  so 
continued  until  1896. 

That  year  he  founded  his  own  business,  of 
Albert  Miller  &  Company,  shippers  and  receiv- 
ers, in  connection  with  his  nephew,  E.  Percy 
Miller.  He  was  senior  member  of  this  firm  up 
to  the  time  of  his  death,  a  period  covering  nearly 
three  decades.   They  are  one  of  the  largest  deal- 


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ers  in  potatoes  in  the  United  States.  Since  the 
death  of  Albert  Miller,  the  firm  is  still  continued 
under  the  same  name. 

On  September  26,  1876,  Albert  Miller  was  mar- 
ried, at  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Alice  M.  Fox, 
a  daughter  of  Edward  Augustus  Fox  and  Sarah 
E.  (Eldridge)  Fox. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Miller  became  the  parents 
of  three  children,  Ivan  Dunlap  Miller,  Lelia  Eld- 
ridge Miller,  deceased,  and  Lindsay  Haviland 
Miller.    The  family  home  is  at  Oak  Park,  Illi- 


nois. Their  winter  residence  has  been  for  many 
years  in  Florida.  Mr.  Miller  was  a  member  of 
the  Quaker  faith. 

Death  came  to  Albert  Miller  in  his  seventy- 
eighth  year.  He  had  been  a  Chicagoan  for  nearly 
sixty  years.  Throughout  practically  all  of  this 
long  period  he  was  active  in  the  produce  commis- 
sion business.  His  ability  and  trustworthiness 
earned  him  abundant  success  and  a  prominent 
place  among  the  leaders  in  that  great  field  of 
business. 

Albert  Miller  died  on  April  27,  1928. 


J.  FRANK  FOSTER. 


The  late  Mr.  J.  Frank  Foster  rendered  the 
people  of  Chicago  a  really  great  service  in  the 
many  years  of  his  work  as  General  Superin- 
tendent of  the  South  Park  System.  He  has  now 
passed  from  among  us,  and  the  following  brief 
memorial  is  recorded  in  the  Illinois  State  His- 
tory as  a  permanent  recognition  of  our  esteem 
for  him : 

He  was  born  at  Port  Washington,  Wisconsin, 
March  28,  1851,  a  son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah 
(Pidge)  Foster.  The  family  were  very  early 
settlers  in  Wisconsin.  The  father  organized 
the  First  Wisconsin  Battery,  for  the  Civil  War, 
and  was  its  Captain.  He  was  later  commis- 
sioned Colonel  in  the  Federal  Army  and  fought 
to  the  close  of  the  war. 

The  boyhood  of  J.  Frank  Foster  contained  a 
good  deal  of  work  and  but  little  schooling.  He 
attended  school  when  and  where  he  could ;  but 
undoubtedly  gained  the  foundation  of  his  tech- 
nical training  from  his  father  who  was  an  ex- 
cellent engineer.  Throughout  all  his  life,  too, 
he  was  an  earnest  reader. 

It  was  in  the  early  seventies  that  J.  Frank 
Foster  became  connected  with  the  Chicago 
Parks.  Throughout  all  the  years  that  followed, 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  he  gave  the  very 
best  of  his  fine  mind  and  fine  heart  to  main- 
taining, creating  and  improving  the  facilities 
in  the  public  playgrounds  that  have  so  blessed 
Chicago.  In  addition  to  his  supervision  of 
every  important  detail  of  the  work  incident  to 
Washington  and  Jackson  parks  over  a  period 
of  forty  years,  we  have  Mr.  Foster  to  thank, 
perhaps  more  than  anyone  else,  for  the  smaller 
parks  that  have  added  so  much  to  health,  hap- 
piness, outdoor  recreation  and  contact  with 
nature  in  practically  every  important  section  of 
the  great  city.     His  planning,  his  engineering 


skill,  and,  most  of  all  the  wisdom  and  the  vision 
of  his  great  heart,  have  created  for  the  people 
of  Chicago  what  is  in  many  ways  the  finest 
system  of  public  parks  that  the  sun  shines  upon 
any  place  in  the  world  today. 

He  was  made  General  Superintendent  of  the 
South  Park  System  in  1891.  Although  the  city 
administration  changed  many  times  in  subse- 
quent years  he  retained  that  office,  which  fact 
is  a  credit  to  him  and  a  credit  to  the  succes- 
sive Park  Boards.  The  plain  fact  of  the  mat- 
ter is  that  his  service  to  us,  the  people  of  Chi- 
cago, was  of  such  excellence  as  to  earn  a  deep 
appreciation  and  to  make  him  well  nigh  in- 
dispensable. 

Mr.  Foster  was  married  June  20,  1877,  at  Mt. 
Joy,  Pennsylvania,  to  Miss  Clara  E.  Walton,  a 
daughter  of  Augustus  and  Anna  (Myers)  Wal- 
ton. They  have  three  children :  May  Belle 
(Mrs.  H.  A.  Abbott),  George  Thomas,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  fourteen ;  and  Frank,  who  died  in 
infancy. 

The  death  of  J.  Frank  Foster  occurred  Jan- 
uary 25,  1926.  Tributes  in  recognition  of  the 
great  and  lasting  value  of  his  work  came  from 
all  parts  of  the  world.  We  quote  here  the 
Resolutions  adopted  by  the  Board  of  South 
Park  Commissioners  at  a  meeting  held  April  21, 
1926: 

"In  the  death  of  J.  Frank  Foster  on  Jan- 
uary 25,  1926,  the  Board  of  South  Park  Com- 
missioners and  the  City  of  Chicago  have  suf- 
fered a  serious  and  enduring  loss. 

"Mr.  Foster  was  Superintendent  of  the  South 
Park  System  for  forty-five  years  and  was  every- 
where regarded  as  the  Dean  of  park  super- 
intendents. As  an  engineer  he  was  thorough, 
skilled  and  resourceful ;  as  an  executive 
scrupulously  honest,  thrifty  and  just.     He  was 


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enterprising  in  providing  park  development  of 
every  character  for  a  rapidly  growing  com- 
munity. He  was  fearless  in  maintaining  the 
rights  and  properties  of  the  Park  District 
against  every  attempt  at  fraud  or  imposition. 
In  his  personal  relations  he  was  friendly, 
courteous  and  human,  intensely  loyal  to  his  as- 
sociates and  subordinates.  The  South  Park 
System  is  a  lasting  memorial  to  his  wise  and 
faithful  labors. 


"We  therefore,  members  of  the  Board  of 
South  Park  Commissioners,  resolve  that  we  en- 
ter upon  our  records,  an  acknowledgment  of  the 
services  of  this  honored  citizen,  that  we  express 
our  sincere  sympathy  to  his  family  in  their  be- 
reavement; and  that,  as  an  additional  and  per- 
petual tribute  to  his  memory,  the  new  park  now 
in  the  course  of  construction  in  the  South  Park 
System  at  West  Eighty-third  Street  and  Loomis 
Street  we  name  J.   FRANK   FOSTER   PARK." 


HERBERT  WILLIAM  WOLFF. 


Herbert  W.  Wolff.  Vice  President  of  the 
American  Car  &  Foundry  Company,  with  head- 
quarters now  in  New  York  City,  but  formerly 
active  in  the  business  affairs  of  Chicago,  was 
born  at  Hamilton.  Ontario,  Canada,  Dec-ember 
27,  1873,  a  son  of  Theodore  A.  and  Julia  Sophia 
(Vale)  Wolff.  His  father  was  a  native  of 
Prussia,  and  his  mother  was  born  on  the  Island 
of  Guernsey,  of  English  and  French  extraction. 
Mr.  Wolff  became  an  American  citizen  through 
naturalization  of  his  father,  and  he  has  never 
lost  an  opportunity  to  do  what  he  could  for 
the  advancement  of  the  best  interests  of  the 
country  which  has  figured  as  the  stage  of  his 
splendid  achievements,  and  in  which  his  activi- 
ties have  been  centered  since  early  boyhood. 
He  obtained  his  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  in  early  youth  became 
identified  in  a  minor  position  with  the  Michigan 
Peninsular  Car  Company  of  that  city.  Upon 
the  organization  of  the  American  Car  &  Foun- 
dry Company  in  1899,  he  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  and  took  charge  of  the  mechanical 
department  of  the  business  for  that  corporation. 
His  ability  soon  became  apparent,  and  in  1912 
he  was  made  assistant  to  the  vice  president. 
In  1916  he  was  elected  vice  president  and 
placed  in  charge  of  sales  at  the  Chicago  office. 
He  served  in  this  capacity  until  November  1, 
1925,  when  he  was  made  the  executive  head  of 
sales  of  the  entire  corporation,  with  offices  in 
New  York  City.  Besides  being  the  incumbent 
of  this  responsible  position,  he  is  also  a  Director 
in  the  corporation,  and  in  many  ways  has  been 
a  potent  factor  in  its  business  affairs. 

During  the  World  War  period,  Mr.  Wolff 
spent  much  time  in  Washington,  D.  C,  co- 
operating with  the  United  States  Railway  ad- 
ministration and  the  Military  Railways  Division 
of  the  War  Department,  in  co-ordinating  indus- 
trial forces  for  the  winning  of  the  War.     He 


was  not  only  an  active  factor  in  the  service  of 
his  company  during  this  memorable  period,  but 
rendered  efficient  and  valuable  service  to  his 
country.  In  addition  to  car  manufacturing,  the 
entire  capacity  and  facilities  of  several  of  the 
corporation's  largest  plants  were  devoted  to  the 
manufacture  of  artillery  vehicles,  gun  caissons, 
limbers,  camp-kitchens,  railway  gun  mounts, 
munitions  and  military  equipments  of  various 
kinds,  submarine  net  buoys,  speed  motorboats 
for  chasing  submarines,  etc.  During  this  entire 
period  Mr.  Wolff  was  actively  engaged  in  look- 
ing after  the  details  of  the  work  for  his  cor- 
poration and  for  his  country,  and  well  deserves 
credit  for  his  efficient  service. 

Aside  from  his  business  activities,  he 
also  finds  time  to  get  the  most  out  of  the  finer 
social  amenities  of  life  and  the  recreation  and 
diversion  which  he  finds  in  motoring,  golf  and 
outdoor  sports.  He  is  likewise  a  great  lover 
of  music,  art  and  literature.  He  is  a  life  mem- 
ber of  the  Izaak  Walton  League  of  America ; 
is  a  Mason  in  good  standing  and  is  also  affiliated 
with  the  Chicago,  Commonwealth,  Old  Colony, 
and  Barrington  Hills  Country  clubs  of  Chicago, 
the  Hudson  River  Country  Club,  Pelham  Country 
Club  and  Lotos  and  Railroad  clubs  of  New  York 
City  and  is  a  life  member  of  the  Congressional 
Country  Club  of  Washington,  D.  C.  In  his  reli- 
gious faith  he  is  a  Presbyterian,  being  a  member 
and  an  officer  of  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Chicago  for  many  years.  Now  a  member  of 
the  Fifth  Ave.  Presbyterian  Church  of  N.  Y.  C. 
He  has  ever  taken  an  active  and  helpful  part  in 
charitable  and  benevolent  work  and  is  closely 
associated  with  this  congregation  in  its  labors 
for  furthering  useful,  helpful  and  elevating  in- 
stitutions and  all  measures  tending  to  the  public 
good. 

Mr.  Wolff  was  married  December  27,  1898,  to 


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Miss  Kata  E.  Sargent,  of  West  Branch,  Mich- 
igan, a  woman  of  engaging  personality,  and  of 
this  union  were  horn  two  children :  Marjorie 
Helen,  who  is  the  wife  of  Halford  H.  Kittleman, 


a  lumber  dealer  of  Chicago,  and  Herbert  Sar- 
gent Wolff,  who  married  Geraldine  Robertson, 
of  South  Bend,  Indiana,  and  is  associated  with 
the  Robertson  Brothers  Company  of  that  city. 


GUSTAF  WILHELM  HALLBOM. 


The  late  Gustaf  Wilhelm  Hallbom  of  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  was  born  at  Lulea,  Sweden,  on 
April  16,  1865,  a  son  of  Isaac  August  and  Maria 
Gustava  (Bohman)  Hallbom.  His  boyhood  was 
spent  in  his  native  town  and  there  he  attended 
public  school. 

When  he  was  fourteen  years  old  he  came  to 
the  United  States.  He  went  out  West  to  Kan- 
sas for  a  short  time,  but,  soon  thereafter,  lo- 
cated in  Chicago,  about  1879.  His  first  employ- 
ment in  the  city  was  as  errand  boy  for  the 
banking  firm  of  Haugen  and  Lindgren.  This 
firm  was  subsequently  expanded  into  the  pres- 
ent State  Bank  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Hallbom  was 
connected  with  this  institution  for  many  years, 
rising  in  the  organization,  through  various  de- 
served positions,  to  a  place  of  much  importance. 
He  resigned  from  this  connection  in  1905  and 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Union  Bank 
of  Chicago.  He  was  chosen  to  become  Vice 
President  and  Cashier  of  this  bank ;  and  he  con- 
tinued to  fill  those  offices  from  1905  to  1922. 


In  1922  Mr.  Hallbom  founded  the  Builders 
and  Merchants  State  Bank  of  Chicago.  He 
was  President  of  this  institution  from  1922 
until  his  death. 

On  April  10,  1900,  Mr.  Hallbom  was  married, 
at  Pitea,  Sweden,  to  Miss  Ida  Holmgren.  They 
have  three  children,  Aina  (Mrs.  George  Pur- 
tell),  Greta  (Mrs.  Grant  Broadbent)  and  Gus- 
tav  V.  Hallbom. 

The  death  of  Gustaf  Wilhelm  Hallbom  came 
in  his  sixty-fourth  year.  He  was  a  Chicagoan 
for  nearly  fifty  years.  Starting  life  here  as  a 
boy  without  any  specially  favoring  circum- 
stances to  help  him  along,  he  worked  hard  and 
conscientiously,  did  his  best  from  day  to  day 
and  from  year  to  year;  and,  in  this  manner, 
rose  to  a  place  at  the  very  top  in  the  great 
banking  business  of  Chicago.  The  story  of  his 
career  holds  true  inspiration. 

Gustaf  Wilhelm  Hallbom  died  on  May  5,  1928. 
His  life  is  a  fine  record  of  work  well  done  and 
of  success  rightly  earned. 


WILLIAM  P.  HENNEBERRY. 


The  record  of  no  Chicago  business  man  per- 
haps indicates  more  clearly  what  can  be 
accomplished  when  energy,  determination  and 
ambition  lead  the  way  than  that  of  William 
P.  Henneberry,  founder  and  for  many  years  the 
executive  head  of  The  Henneberry  Company, 
printers,  book  binders  and  general  book  man- 
ufacturers. His  career  is  typical  of  men  who 
have  been  the  architects  of  their  own  fortunes 
and  is  interesting  and  significant,  for  never 
was  a  man's  success  due  more  to  his  own 
ability  and  less  to  outward  assistance.  Nothing 
came  to  him  by  chance.  He  worked  his  way 
ud  from  the  bottom  rung  of  the  business  ladder 
Dy  sheer  pluck  and  perseverance,  and  by  indus- 
try and  frugal  habits  he  rose  from  a  modest 
beginning  as  a  youth,  to  a  place  of  commanding 
influence  in  the  business  world,  and  a  review 
of  his  career  cannot  fail  to  interest  and  inspire 
the  young  man  who  has  regard  for  honorable 
manhood  and  an  appreciation  of  wise  and  in- 
telligent use  of  opportunity. 


Mr.  Henneberry  was  born  in  Chicago,  March 
14.  1847,  a  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Burke) 
Henneberry,  who  removed  from  Manhattan, 
New  York,  to  this  city  in  1844,  locating  on 
South  Clinton  Street,  and  were  numbered  among 
the  enterprising  and  highly  respected  citizens 
of  the  community.  He  grew  up  with  Chicago 
during  the  period  of  its  most  marvelous  devel- 
opment, and  he  has  never  lost  an  opportunity 
to  do  what  he  could  for  the  advancement  of 
the  best  interests  of  the  great  metropolis  which 
figured  as  the  stage  of  his  splendid  achieve- 
ments, and  in  which  his  activities  have  been 
centered  all  his  life.  Although  he  retired  from 
active  business  in  1919,  his  course  was  one  of 
secure  and  consecutive  progress  for  fifty-five 
years,  and  through  his  well  directed  endeavors 
he  contributed  much  to  the  civic  and  material 
advancement  of  his  native  city.  His  early  ed- 
ucation was  obtained  in  the  Foster  School  on 
South  Union  Street,  near  Twelfth,  of  which 
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became  a  student  in  the  Chicago  High  School, 
on  West  Monroe  Street,  of  which  George  How- 
land  was  principal,  where  he  concluded  his 
studies. 

As  a  youth  Mr.  Henneberry  manifested  un- 
usual business  talent,  and  on  May  1,  1865,  soon 
after  attaining  the  age  of  eighteen,  lie  secured 
a  position  at  book-binding,  and  was  thus  em- 
ployed for  several  years.  This  alliance  proved 
most  valuable  and  was  destined  to  have  im- 
portant influence  in  directing  his  subsequent 
activities,  for  on  October  16,  1871,  a  week  after 
the  great  Chicago  conflagration,  he  embarked 
in  the  same  line  of  business  for  himself.  In 
1916  he  erected  the  present  modern  plant  at 
451-55  West  Twenty-second  Street  (now  oc- 
cupied by  The  Cuneo  Press),  and  engaged  in 
printing,  bookbinding  and  general  book  manufac- 
turing under  the  name  of  The  Henneberry  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  president  until  his  retire- 
ment in  1919,  and  he  still  retains  an  interest 
in  the  business.  The  firm  name  was  changed 
some  years  ago  to  the  Cuneo-Henneberry  Com- 
pany, and  this  title  was  succeeded  in  December, 
1924.  by  The  Cuneo  Press,  Inc. 

Public-spirited  in  his  civic  attitude,  Mr. 
Henneberry  does  not  neglect  those  things  which 
represent  the  higher  ideals  of  human  existence 
and  gives  generously  of  his  time  and  means  to 
charitable  movements  and  all  measures  tending 
to  the  public  good.  His  efforts  are  not  confined 
to  lines  resulting  in  individual  benefit,  but  are 
evident  in  those  fields  where  general  interests 
and  public  welfare  are  involved.  He  has  ever 
stood  as  an  exponent  of  the  best  type  of  civic 


loyalty  and  progressiveness,  and  during  the 
many  years  of  his  residence  here  he  has  wielded 
definite  and  benignant  influence,  both  as  a  citi- 
zen and  as  a  man  of  splendid  business  ability. 
Chicago  to  him  has  ever  meant  much,  and  his 
character  and  achievements  have  meant  much  to 
Chicago,  in  whose  history  his  name  shall  ever 
merit  a  place  of  honor  and  distinction.  He  is 
a  life  member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic  Associa- 
tion and  of  the  Press  Club,  and  his  friends  are 
as  numerous  as  his  acquaintances. 

Mr.  Henneberry  was  married  at  Chicago, 
May  12,  1874,  to  Miss  Hannah  C.  O'Neill,  who 
was  born  at  Brooklyn.  New  York,  and  came  to 
Chicago  with  her  parents,  Peter  and  Margaret 
(Stanton)  O'Neill,  when  a  child.  She  is  a  wom- 
an of  engaging  personality  and  much  beauty 
of  character  and  is  greatly  admired  for  her 
sterling  qualities  and  social  and  philanthropic 
activities.  She  has  always  enjoyed  the  fullest 
measure  of  her  husband's  confidence  and  has 
contributed  much  to  his  success  and  happiness. 
For  more  than  half  a  century  this  worthy 
couple  have  traveled  life's  journey  happily  to- 
gether, having  celebrated  their  Golden  Wedding 
anniversary.  May  12,  1924.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henneberry  were  born  five  children  of  whom 
two  died  in  infancy.  Those  living  are  Margue- 
rite C,  who  was  educated  in  the  public  and 
private  schools  of  Chicago,  and  still  maintains 
her  home  with  her  parents ;  George  F.,  who 
graduated  from  Harvard  University  in  1902 ; 
and  William  P.,  Jr.,  who  was  also  a  student  in 
Harvard  University  and  was  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Chicago  in  1906. 


JOHN  THOMAS  RICHARDS. 


The  late  John  T.  Richards  of  Chicago  was  born 
on  a  farm  near  Tuscola,  Illinois,  on  November 
15,  1849,  a  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Henson) 
Richards.  Both  the  Richards  family  and  the 
Henson  family  date  far  back  in  the  history  of 
Central  Illinois. 

John  T.  Richards  was  orphaned  when  he  was 
six  years  old.  His  boyhood  was  largely  spent 
with  his  uncle  at  Indianola,  Iowa ;  and  there  he 
attended  public  school. 

He  began  his  business  career  in  a  small  grocery 
store  at  Indianola.  He  came  to  Chicago  in  1872 
and  soon  was  engaged  as  bookkeeper  for  the  firm 
of  F.  H.  Hill  &  Company,  manufacturers  of  cas- 
kets.    In  1881  he  organized  the  Chicago  Coffin 


Company,  manufacturers  and  distributors ;  and 
he  was  President  of  this  concern  until  it  was 
merged  with  the  National  Casket  Company  in 
1899.  He  was  made  Vice  President  of  the  larger 
company.  Subsequently  he  founded  the  Chicago 
Casket  Company  of  which  he  continued  to  be 
President  as  long  as  he  lived. 

The  marriage  of  John  T.  Richards  to  Miss 
Mary  Louise  Dimmett  took  place  at  Des  Moines. 
Iowa,  on  June  11,  1874.  His  wife  is  a  daughter 
of  the  late  Rev.  J.  G.  Dimmett.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Richards  had  six  children,  of  whom  two,  George 
D.  Richards  and  Marcus  D.  Richards,  survive 
their  father. 

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members  of  the  Methodist  Church  for  many 
years.  Mr.  Richards  also  belonged  to  the  Union 
League  Club  of  Chicago. 

The  death  of  John  T.   Richards  occurred   on 


May  22.  1925.  He  was  active  and  successful  in 
the  business  life  of  Chicago  for  more  than  half 
a  century.  He  is  being  succeeded  in  business  by 
his  two  sons. 


EDWARD  KENDALL  ROGERS. 


Edward  Kendall  Rogers  was  born  in  the 
United  States  in  1N12.  He  came  to  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, in  1835  and  eventually  became  one  of  the 
leading  men  of  his  time  in  that  city. 

For  some  time  after  he  came  to  Chicago  he 
lived  in  the  original  Fort  Dearborn. 

He  first  engaged  in  the  coal  business.  In  1837 
he  became  associated  with  Horace  Norton  &  Co., 
forwarding  agents  and  commission  merchants, 
and  was  with  that  firm  for  twenty  years. 

In  1858  he  went  into  the  coal  and  iron  busi- 
ness. From  1861-4  the  firm  was  Walter  &  Rog- 
ers, later  becoming  Rogers  &  Co. 

He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Trade  in  1848. 

He  was  a  director  of  the  bank  now  known  as 
the  Illinois  Merchants  Trust  Company  for  over 
twenty  years,  retiring  in  1883. 

In  1857  he  was  elected  Vice-President  of  the 
Garden  City  Insurance  Co.  That  same  year  he 
assisted  in  the  organization  of  Unity  Church. 
In  1861  he  became  Vice-President  of  the  Chicago 
and  Milwaukee  Railroad. 

Soon  after  his  arrival  in  Chicago  he  helped  to 
start  the  Chicago  Bible  Society. 


In  1S40  he  was  one  of  the  party  of  "Whigs" 
who  went  to  Springfield  in  the  "Log  Cabin  Hard 
Cider  Campaign." 

In  1861  he  was  a  member  of  the  Union  De- 
fense Committee. 

He  was  a  founder  of  the  Old  Settlers'  Society. 

He  was  married  in  1837  to  Miss  Mary  Brad- 
ford Curtis.  She  died  in  1902  leaving  three  chil- 
dren :  Susan  C.  Rogers,  John  Leverett  Rogers 
and  Edward  Kendall  Rogers,  Jr. 

John  Leverett  Rogers  married  Miss  Mary 
Elizabeth  Swords.  Their  children  are:  Edward 
Kendall  Rogers  and  Caroline  Stanard  Rogers 
(Mrs.  Alfred  Parker  Laigston). 

Edward  Kendall  Rogers,  Jr.  married  Miss 
Annie  Penton  Trimble.  Their  children  are :  An- 
nie T.  Rogers,  Mary  Bradford  Rogers  (Mrs. 
Robert  F.  Hall),  Edith  Penton  Rogers  (Mrs.  A. 
Wallace  Owen)  and  Mildred  C.  Rogers  (Mrs. 
William  Ernest  Walker). 

The  death  of  Edward  Kendall  Rogers,  whose 
name  heads  this  record,  occurred  on  May  2, 
1883.  He  was  a  conscientious,  honorable  man 
and  filled  a  large  place  in  the  Chicago  of  his 
day. 


WILLIAM  HOOPER  SCRIVEN. 


The  late  William  Hooper  Scriven  of  Chicago, 
was  born  in  London,  England,  March  18,  1860, 
a  son  of  Matius  Horatio  and  Mary  (Hooper) 
Scriven.  The  family  is  an  old  one  in  Yorkshire. 
Mr.  Scriven  is  a  descendant  of  the  famous 
Bishop  William  Hooper  who  was  burned  at  the 
stake  in  England. 

William  H.  Scriven  came  to  the  United  States 
and  located  in  New  Jersey  with  his  parents  and 
the  rest  of  the  family,  when  he  was  still  a  child. 
He  was  educated  in  the  local  schools  there  and 
in  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Institute.  While  he 
was  yet  a  youth  the  death  of  his  father  placed 
the  responsibility  of  the  support  of  the  family 
upon  his  shoulders. 

In  1881,  when  he  was  twenty-one  years  old, 
Mr.  Scriven  began  his  railroad  career.  For  a 
year  he  worked  as  rodman  and  levelman  for 
the  Mexican  National  Railroad.     In  May,  1882, 


he  joined  the  force  surveying  for  the  Housa- 
tonic  Railroad  at  Derby,  Connecticut.  Then  for 
two  years  he  was  transitman  and  topographer 
under  the  chief  engineer  of  the  S.  W.  System. 
From  May,  1884,  to  June,  1885,  he  worked  as 
assistant  on  the  engineering  corps  of  the  P.  C. 
C.  &  St  L.  Division.  From  June,  1885  to  April, 
1886,  he  was  in  charge  of  installing  the  masonry 
and  changing  the  track  at  the  Wabash  River 
bridge  at  Logansport,  Indiana.  He  was  then 
made  division  engineer  of  the  Hamilton  Divi- 
sion of  the  C.  &  P.  Railroad.  In  December, 
1886,  he  was  made  engineer  of  maintenance  of 
way  of  the  Little  Miami  Division.  From  Sep- 
tember 1  to  May  1,  1889,  he  was  unattached  on 
account  of  illness.  On  the  latter  date  he  was 
placed  in  charge  of  the  survey  then  being  con- 
ducted by  the  P.  V.  &  C.  and  New  Cumberland 
branch.     It  was  on  August  1,  1889,  that  he  was 


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made  engineer  of  maintenance  of  way  of  the  C. 
&  P.  Division,  an  office  he  filled  until  April  1, 
1895,  on  which  date  he  was  transferred  to  the 
same  post  for  the  Eastern  Division.  On  Jan- 
uary 15,  1896,  he  was  made  superintendent  of 
the  C.  and  P.  Division. 

On  December  21,  1903,  he  was  made  general 
agent  and  superintendent  of  the  Chicago  Ter- 
minal Division,  which  office  he  continued  to  fill. 

Mr.  Scriven  was  a  vital  force  in  the  building 
of  the  new  Chicago  Union  Station,  accomplish- 
ing a  very  great  deal  toward  paving  the  way, 
and  making  this  great  enterprise  physically  pos- 
sible. 

His  headquarters  have  been  in  Chicago  for 
the  past  two  decades,  and  he  earned  recogni- 
tion as  one  of  the  most  able  railroad  men  in 
the  United  States. 

Mr.  Scriven's  first  marriage  was  to  Miss  Clara 
Hollywood  who  died  in  July,  1897.  He  was 
married  April  15,  1902,  in  New  York  City,  to 
Alice  Davis,  a  daughter  of  Charles  C.  and  Mary 
(Lougee)  Davis.    They  have  two  children,  Jane 


(Mrs.  John  Jerome  Finlay)  and  Mary  Eliza- 
beth Scriven.  For  the  last  twenty-one  years 
the  family  home  was  at  104  Bellevue  Place, 
Chicago.  Mr.  Scriven  was  deeply  devoted  to 
his  family  and  his  home.  He  was  a  lover  of 
music,  as  is  his  wife ;  and  their  home  has  for 
years  been  a  gathering  place  for  a  distinguished 
group  of  friends  of  the  musical,  literary  and 
artistic  world.  Mr.  Scriven  was  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Club,  the  Casino  Club  and  of  the 
Traffic  Club. 

William  H.  Scriven  was  much  valued  as  an 
intimate  friend  by  many  of  the  most  substantial 
men  of  Cleveland  and  Chicago.  •  He  was  also 
held  in  the  sincerest  affection  by  a  host  of  men 
with  whom  he  had  worked  for  so  many  years 
past.  One  permanent  evidence  of  this  is  the 
beautiful  memorial  which  these  friends  and  co- 
workers erected  in  his  name  at  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
in  the  Lake  View  Cemetery,  where  he  is  buried. 

His  death,  October  3,  1925,  ended  one  of  the 
finest  and  most  remarkable  lives  that  present 
day  railroad  history  holds. 


WALTER  JOHN  RAYMER. 


Walter  J.  Raymer  is  one  of  Chicago's  notable 
financiers.  Left  an  orphan  when  twelve  years 
of  age,  he  worked  his  way  up  from  the  bottom 
rung  of  the  business  ladder ;  and  a  review  of 
his  career  cannot  fail  to  provide  inspiration. 
Although  a  native  of  Canada,  he  has  been  a 
resident  of  Chicago  for  forty-seven  years. 

Mr.  Raymer  was  born  at  Woodstock,  Ontario, 
Canada,  June  21,  1864,  a  son  of  Robert  Raymer 
and  Mercy  (Mundy)  Raymer,  and  his  educa- 
tion was  obtained  chiefly  in  the  grammar 
schools  of  that  city.  Coming  to  Chicago  in 
1881,  when  seventeen  years  of  age,  he  became  a 
naturalized  citizen  of  the  United  States  five  years 
later,  soon  after  attaining  his  majority.  He  began 
his  business  career  as  a  clerk  for  Jallings  &  Man- 
ning, builders  of  machinery,  and  later  he  accepted 
a  position  as  salesman  for  the  firm  of  Gibson, 
Parish  &  Company,  jobbers  in  upholstery,  hard- 
ware and  furniture  coverings,  with  whom  he 
remained  about  four  years.  He  was  then  in  the 
employ  of  Carson,  Pirie,  Scott  &  Company  for  a 
year  and  then  became  resident  manager  at  Chi- 
cago, for  the  American  Pin  Company,  brass 
goods  manufacturers  of  Waterville,  Connecticut, 
and  was  identified  with  that  corporation  for 
thirty-four  years,  having  charge  of  their  entire 
western  business. 


Besides  this  connection  Mr.  Raymer  also  be- 
came prominently  identified  in  banking  circles, 
and  for  many  years  has  been  one  of  the  notable 
financiers  of  this  city.  In  1906  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  the  late  John  F.  Smulski,  in  organ- 
izing the  Northwestern  Trust  &  Savings  Bank, 
of  which  he  was  Vice-President  until  April  5, 
1928,  when  he  was  elected  Chairman  of  the 
Board,  a  position  he  still  retains.  He  is  also 
a  Director  of  the  Second  Northwestern  State 
Bank,  Inland  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  Edge- 
water  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  and  the  Edison 
Park  State  Bank.  In  1914  he  became  President 
of  the  Fullerton  State  Bank,  and  has  since  been 
the  executive  head  of  this  great  financial  insti- 
tution. Under  his  able  and  conservative  man- 
agement, this  bank  has  become  one  of  the  sub- 
stantial financial  institutions  of  the  city. 

He  was  also  President  of  the  Cinch  Manufac- 
turing Corporation  of  Chicago,  in  which  he  is 
now  a  director,  and  for  some  years  was  also 
President  of  the  Imperial  Pin  Company  of  Can- 
ada. From  1898  until  1906,  he  served  as  Alder- 
man from  the  Fifteenth  Ward  (now  the  28th 
Ward ) . 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation and  of  the  Union  League  Club  and  the 
Park  Ridge  Country  Club. 


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Mr.  Raynier  was  married  November  3,  1885, 
to  Mary  Gallagher,  of  Chicago,  a  daughter  of 
Francis  Gallagher  and  Abigail  (Reilly)  Gal- 
lagher. To  them  have  been  born  three  daughters  : 


Abigail  Mercy,  who  is  deceased ;  Alice  Veronica, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Arthur  W.  Kimbell,  of 
Chicago,  and  Ellen  May,  wife  of  Dr.  Thomas  E. 
Conley,  of  Park  Ridge,  111. 


JOHN  JACOB  PFLOCK,  M.D.,  S.B. 


Dr.  John  Jacob  Pflock  was  born  at  Stadt 
Lengsfeld,  Germany,  January  18,  1880,  a  son  of 
John  Adam  Pflock  and  Elizabeth  (Schrumpf) 
Pflock.  His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the 
public  schools  of  Lengsfeld  and  the  high  school 
of  Eisenach,  Germany ;  and  after  coming  to  the 
United  States  he  studied  at  Bennett  Medical 
CoUege,  Chicago,  in  1909-10  and  in  1911  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  from 
the  Carnegie  University  of  Chicago  which  later 
became  the  Loyola  University.  Having  deter- 
mined upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life 
work,  he  matriculated  at  the  Chicago  College  of 
Medicine  and  Surgery,  and  was  graduated  from 
that  institution  in  1912  with  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Medicine. 

Soon  after  completing  his  course  at  the  Chicago 
College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery,  Dr.  Pflock  es- 
tablished himself  in  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
Chicago,  and  with  the  exception  of  one  year 
(1913),  as  surgeon  for  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee 
&  St.  Paul  Railroad  at  Miles  City,  Montana,  he 
has  been  actively  identified  with  the  medical  pro- 
fession of  this  city.  Besides  his  private  prac- 
tice he  is,  or  has  been,  associated  with  several 
of  the  leading  institutions  of  Chicago  and  is  rec- 
ognized as  a  leader  in  the  medical  profession  of 
this  city.  He  lectured  at  the  Chicago  College  of 
Medicine  and  Surgery  from  1913  until  1917,  and 
from  1921  until  1923  he  was  assistant  professor 
of  medicine  at  Hahnemann  Medical  College.  He 
also  was  professor  of  medicine  at  the  Illinois 
Post-Graduate  School,  and  as  an  instructor  was 
both  popular  and  qualified  in  scholarship.  To 
further  his  education  he  went  abroad  in  1921 
and  took  post-graduate  work  at  Vienna  and  Jena, 
Germany,  during  which  period  he  studied  under 
some  of  the  most  noted  teachers. 


Dr.  Pflock  was  one  of  the  founders  and  is  vice- 
president  and  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  new 
Garfield  Park  Hospital.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
staff  of  the  West  Side,  the  American  and  the 
Illinois  Masonic  Hospitals,  and  is  one  of  the  out- 
standing men  of  his  profession.  Coming  to  Chi- 
cago in  1895,  when  fifteen  years  of  age,  his  ac- 
tive career  has  been  blended  with  this  city,  and 
he  has  never  lost  an  opportunity  to  do  what  he 
could  for  the  advancement  of  its  best  interests. 
He  became  a  naturalized  citizen  of  the  United 
States  in  1901. 

Dr.  Pflock  is  a  member  of  numerous  clubs  and 
organizations,  among  which  are  the  American 
Medical  Association,  the  Chicago  Medical  So- 
ciety and  the  Illinois  State  Medical  Society  of 
which  he  was  vice-president  in  1924.  He  also 
was  president  of  the  Northwest  Branch  of  the 
Chicago  Medical  Society.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Physicians'  Fellowship  Club  of  which  he  was 
president  in  1923-24,  and  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Phi  Chi  college  fraternity.  He  is  a  Thirty- 
Second  Degree  Mason,  a  Knight  Templar  and  a 
Shriner,  and  is  a  life  member  of  the  Medinah 
Athletic  Club.  He  is  also  an  Odd  Fellow  and  a 
Knight  of  Tythias,  and  a  member  of  the  Evan- 
gelical Church.  He  belongs  to  the  German  Club, 
and  is  a  life  member  of  the  Medical  and  Dental 
Arts  Club;  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago;  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society ;  the  Students  Club 
of  Chicago,  and  the  Field  Museum  of  Natural 
History.  Dr.  Pflock  was  married  April  29,  1905, 
to  Emma  Rattey,  of  Chicago.  They  have  three 
daughters :  Ruth  Miriam,  Esther  Irene,  and 
Beth  Adeline,  of  whom  the  first  named  is  the 
wife  of  Walter  Beyer,  of  Chicago. 


WILLIAM  ERNEST  WALKER. 


William  Ernest  Walker  was  born  in  Coving- 
ton, Kentucky,  November  19,  1868,  a  son  of  Sam- 
uel Johnston  Walker  and  Amanda  (Morehead) 
Walker,  both  members  of  old  Kentucky  families. 
Amanda  Morehead's  father  was  a  distinguished 
governor  of  that  state. 


Samuel  J.  Walker  and  his  family  came  to 
Chicago  to  make  their  home  the  year  following 
the  Chicago  Fire.  William  Ernest  Walker  was, 
then,  four  years  old.  As  he  grew  up  he  at- 
tended public  school  here  and  private  school 
at    Lakeville,    Conn.      Then    he    entered    Tale 


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University ;  and  graduated,  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Philosophy,  in  1891. 

Returning  to  Chicago,  he  entered  business, 
working  and  studying  under  the  direction  of 
the  late  Henry  Ives  Cobb,  who  will  be  remem- 
bered as  one  of  Chicago's  noted  architects. 
The  connection  continued  for  five  years. 

In  1897  Mr.  Walker  opened  his  own  offices 
as  an  architect.  Throughout  the  next  twenty- 
one  years,  up  until  his  recent  death,  he  was 
active  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  here. 
He  attained  a  very  sound  success.  He  special- 
ized in  the  design  and  erection  of  busings 
blocks  and  of  the  finer  apartment  buildings. 
A  specimen  of  his  work  is  the  property  at  936 
Lake  Shore  Drive,  Chicago,  which  he  built  in 
1912  and  which,  today,  is  one  of  the  most  in- 
teresting and  truly  delightful  apartment  build- 
ings in  the  United  States. 

An  interesting  feature  of  the  building  was  the 
erection  on  the  roof  of  this  structure,  of  a  con- 


crete bungalow  with  a  delightful  terrace  on  two 
sides.  This  was  one  of  the  first  bungalows  to 
be  constructed  on  the  top  of  a  building.  Mr. 
Walker  will  also  be  remembered  as  the  builder 
of  the  first  lovely  home  of  the  Casino  Club  in 
Chicago. 

On  the  10th  of  May,  1905,  Mr.  Walker  was 
married  to  Miss  Mildred  Curtis  Rogers,  of  Chi- 
cago. They  have  one  daughter,  Edith  Morehead 
Walker.  The  home,  for  some  years,  was  at  936 
Lake  Shore  Drive. 

The  family  belong  to  St.  James  Episcopal 
Church.  Mr.  Walker  was  also  a  member  of 
the  University,  Saddle  &  Cycle  and  Casino 
clubs. 

William  Ernest  Walker  died  December  25, 
1918.  He  was  one  of  the  foremost  architects, 
in  his  field,  in  Illinois ;  and,  further  than  that, 
his  friendship  was  greatly  valued  and  enjoyed 
bv  everyone  to  whom  it  was  extended. 


ANTON  ROLAND. 


The  late  Anton  Roland,  of  Champaign,  Illi- 
nois, was  born  at  Urbana,  Illinois,  October  25, 
1858,  a  son  of  Herman  and  Matilda  (Krohlin) 
Roland,  who  were  natives  of  Prussia,  and  of 
Hamburg,  Germany,  respectively.  The  parents 
met  on  the  voyage  to  this  country,  on  a  sailing 
vessel  which  took  six  weeks  to  cross  the  ocean ; 
and  after  they  had  landed  at  New  York,  they 
were  married,  in  a  Roman  Catholic  Church. 
For  the  next  two  years  they  lived  in  that  city 
where  he  worked  at  his  trade  of  cabinetmaking. 
They  then  came  to  Champaign,  traveling  by 
wagon,  and  here  he  continued  in  the  same  busi- 
ness until  1858.  Then  he  moved  to  New  Or- 
leans, Louisiana,  and  was  there  when  the  Civil 
War  broke  out.  He  enlisted  in  an  Illinois  regi- 
ment, and  three  months  later  was  wounded  by 
a  gunshot,  and  died  from  the  effect  of  his  in- 
jury. His  widow  lived  in  Urbana,  Illinois,  until 
her  death. 

Anton  Roland  attended  what  is  now  the  Mar- 
quette public  school,  through  the  third  grade. 
His  mother  died  and  he  then  began  working. 

On  April  24,  1888,  he  was  married  to  Anna 
Mae  Weeks,  who  was  born  at  Champaign,  Illi- 
nois, March  18,  1864,  a  daughter  of  David  and 
Matilda  Ann  (Watson)  Weeks,  he  born  in 
Somersetshire,  England,  and  she  in  Fayette 
County,  Ohio.  Mr.  Weeks,  with  a  younger 
brother,  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  came  to 


this  country,  landing  in  New  York  City,  and 
after  being  there  for  two  years,  moved  to 
Urbana,  Illinois,  and  was  there  married. 

After  his  marriage  Anton  Roland  spent  five 
years  as  a  farmer  on  the  farm  of  his  father-in- 
law  in  Urbana  Township.  He  then  bought 
seventeen  and  one-half  acres  adjoining  the  Uni- 
versity farm.  On  it  he  built  a  three-room 
house  and  farmed  his  land  and  100  acres  of  the 
University  farm.  He  kept  adding  to  his  own 
farm  until  he  had  thirty-three  and  one-half 
acres,  and  on  it  he  built  a  second  house  of  nine 
rooms.  This  he  and  his  wife  sold  in  August, 
1919,  all  but  an  acre  of  the  land,  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois,  and  moved  to  Mrs.  Roland's 
present  home,  133  East  University  avenue.  The 
land  they  sold  comprised  the  ground  where  the 
Illinois  Stadium  is  built. 

In  1897  Mr.  Roland  started  building  houses 
in  various  sections  of  the  twin  cities.  He  then 
went  into  the  real-estate  business  which  he  fol- 
lowed until  his  death,  December  4,  1923.  His 
business  is  now  equally  owned  by  the  widow 
and  two  children.  The  children  are :  Vern 
Anton  Roland,  who  married  Kathrine  Anna 
Hurst,  and  has  one  daughter,  Irma  Jean ;  and 
Lela  May  Roland,  who  married  Floyd  Collins, 
and  has  one  son,  Roland  Dean  Sterling  Collins. 

Mrs.  Roland  is  an  Episcopalian,  and  belongs 
to  the  church  guild.     She  also  belongs  to  the 


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Women's  Business  Association,  and  the  Rebe- 
kahs.  Mr.  Roland  was  a  Democrat,  and  he 
served  as  a  school  director  for  five  years.  Dur- 
ing  his    building   activities    he   built   over    200 


houses  in  the  north  and  east  part  of  town.  In 
July,  1917,  Mr.  Vern  A.  Roland,  his  son,  enlisted 
in  the  Ordnance  Department,  U.  S.  Army,  and 
served  overseas  in  France  for  eighteen  months. 


ENOCH  PINKNEY  STEVENS. 


The  late  Enoch  Pinkney  Stevens  of  Chicago 
and  Morgan  Park,  was  born  at  Hancock  Chapel, 
Harrison  County,  Indiana,  a  son  of  Francis  M. 
and  Deborah  (Hancock)  Stevens.  The  mother's 
family  are  direct  descendants  of  John  Hancock, 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

The  story  of  the  life  of  Enoch  P.  Stevens  is 
truly  interesting.  As  a  boy  he  attended 
school,  in  the  country,  only  long  enough  to  go 
through  the  second  primer.  The  years  of  his 
youth  were  filled  with  many  and  varied  experi- 
ences. 

He  left  Indiana  and  went  into  Kansas  and 
spent  some  time  there  as  a  cowpuncher.  It  was 
in  Kansas  that  he  first  became  interested  in 
brick  making,  and  he  started  in  this  business 
with  a  small  one-horse  mill  to  grind  the  clay. 
Later  he  moved  to  Chicago,  and  worked  for 
A.  T.   Griffin  in  the  brick  business. 

Mr.  Stevens  was  an  exceptionally  capable 
man.  He  had  formed  a  great  liking  for  the 
brick-making  industry  and  he  gave  to  it  the  full 
strength  of  his  unusual  ability.  He  became 
a  member  of  the  Thomas  Moulding  Brick  Com- 
pany ;  and  not  many  years  passed  before  he 
became  recognized  as  a  leading  expert  in  his 
field   of  work. 


Mr.  Stevens  is  best  known  to  the  industrial 
world,  however,  because  of  his  many  and  val- 
uable inventions.  He  was  granted  sixty-seven 
patents  by  the  United  States  government.  Per- 
haps his  greatest  contribution  was  his  patented 
locomotive  arch  which  is  now  standard  equip- 
ment in  practically  all  the  railroad  engines  in 
America. 

On  July  29,  1887,  Mr.  Stevens  was  married, 
in  Kansas,  to  Miss  Mary  Dougherty.  Through- 
out all  the  years  of  their  married  life,  Mrs. 
Stevens  has  been  her  husband's  devoted  com- 
panion and  able  helper.  Their  children  are : 
Catherine,  Helen,  Charles,  Edwin,  Martha,  Wil- 
liam and  Harry.  The  family  home  has  been 
maintained  at  Morgan  Park.  Mr.  Stevens  was 
a  Knight  Templar  and  Thirty-second-degree 
Mason  and  also  belonged  to  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

Enoch  P.  Stevens  died  May  15,  1923.  He  had 
a  host  of  friends  who  were  deeply  attached  to 
him  because  of  his  Christian  character  and  his 
wide-spread  kindness.  News  of  his  death 
brought  sorrow  to  many  people  in  all  walks  of 
life.  Beside  all  this,  industrial  history  will 
record  him  as  one  of  our  distinguished  inventors. 


EDWARD  S.  SHEPHERD. 


Mr.  Shepherd  was  born  at  Orleans,  Ontario 
County,  New  York.  May  28,  1845,  a  son  of 
Dr.  George  W.  and  Julia  A.  (McBride)  Shep- 
herd, and  came  of  prominent  old-established  New 
England  families.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Dansville,  New  York,  to  which  place  his  par- 
ents had  removed  in  1846.  In  1858,  when  only 
thirteen  years  of  age,  he  took  a  position  as 
clerk  in  a  mercantile  establishment  at  Dansville, 
remaining  in  the  employ  of  that  firm  for  four 
years.  In  1862  he  went  to  Toledo,  Ohio,  where 
he  became  bookkeeper  with  a  concern  of  that 
city,  and  worked  in  that  capacity  for  two  years. 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  January,  1865.  On  lo- 
cating here  he  first  secured  employment  as  a 
clerk  in  the  purchasing  department  of  the  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad  Company  and  served  in- 


this  capacity  until  1869,  when  he  accepted  a 
position  as  salesman  for  Crerar,  Adams  &  Com- 
pany. His  ability  and  efficient  service  soon 
gained  him  advancement,  and  in  1877  he  was 
admitted  to  partnership  in  the  firm.  From  that 
date  until  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  one  of 
the  prime  movers  in  the  concern,  becoming  its 
executive  head  in  1890. 

Crerar,  Adams  &  Company,  one  of  the  pioneer 
manufacturers  of  railway  and  other  supplies  in 
Chicago,  has  long  held  prestige  as  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  successful  concerns  of  its  kind 
in  the  Middle  West.  It  has  played  an  impor- 
tant part  in  furthering  the  commercial  and  in- 
dustrial advancement  of  the  city,  its  history, 
under  various  changes  in  control  and  manage- 
ment,  covering  a  period  of  many  years.       Al- 


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HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


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though  the  honored  and  influential  citizens 
whose  names  appear  in  the  present  title  have 
long  since  passed  away,  and  the  business  was 
controlled  almost  solely  by  Mr.  Shepherd  for 
many  years,  his  appreciative  loyalty  to  the  mem- 
ory of  his  former  associates  was  significantly 
shown  in  his  retaining  their  names  in  the  title 
of  the  concern.  The  business  of  the  corpora- 
tion dates  its  inception  back  to  the  year  1858, 
when  it  was  founded  by  J.  McGregor  Adams, 
who  began  business  in  a  small  way,  with  limited 
demands  for  his  supplies. 

Mr.  Adams  occupied  a  small  place  on  Dear- 
born Street,  but  later  when  Morris  K.  Jesup, 
John  S.  Kennedy  and  John  Crerar  became  af- 
filiated, the  business  branched  out  in  more 
commodious  quarters  under  the  name  of  Jesup, 
Kennedy  &  Company.  In  1865,  shortly  after 
the  close  of  the  Civil  War,  the  firm  moved  to 
the  corner  of  Wells  and  South  Water  streets. 
Subsequently  Messrs.  Jesup  and  Kennedy  re- 
tired from  the  firm,  and  the  name  was  changed 
to  Crerar,  Adams  &  Company,  and  a  continued 
expanding  business  was  conducted  until  the 
Great  Chicago  Fire  in  1871,  when  the  firm's 
building,  notable  as  having  been  one  of  the  only 
two  iron-front  business  structures  in  the  city, 
was  entirely  destroyed. 

With  the  courage  and  determination  that  so 
significantly  animated  other  business  men  of 
the  prostrate  city,  the  members  of  this  firm  re- 
sumed operations  practically  before  the  embers 
of  the  great  conflagration  were  cold.  For  the 
first  year  after  the  fire  the  business  was  con- 
ducted in  a  mere  shanty  that  had  been  erected 
for  temporary  use  at  the  corner  of  Adams  street 


and  Michigan  avenue,  on  the  site  now  occupied 
by  the  Chicago  Art  Institute.  It  was  not  long 
before  a  new  building,  known  as  the  Robbins 
Building,  was  erected  at  the  corner  of  Wells 
and  South  Water  Street,  and  this  was  the 
business  home  of  the  firm  for  thirty-nine  years. 
In  1889  Mr.  Crerar  passed  away,  and  shortly 
afterwards  Mr.  Adams  retired,  leaving  Mr.  Shep- 
herd the  only  active  member  of  the  firm  to  con- 
duct the  enterprise.  In  1890  the  business  was 
incorporated  under  the  former  firm  title  of 
Crerar,  Adams  &  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Shep- 
herd became  President.  In  1895  he  purchased 
Mr.  Adams'  interest,  and  after  that  date  was 
practically  sole  owner  of  the  business,  the  of- 
ficers of  the  corporation  being  Edward  S.  Shep- 
herd, President;  Russell  Wallace,  Vice  Presi- 
dent; Fred  R.  Shepherd,  Secretary,  and  George 
B.  Howard.  Treasurer. 

In  1909  Mr.  Shepherd  purchased  land  on  East 
Erie  street  where  he  erected  a  modern  fire-proof 
building  of  seven  stories. 

Edward  S.  Shepherd  was  married  November 
4,  1872,  to  Miss  Julia  M.  Reed  of  Chicago.  Their 
children  are:  Fred  R.  Shepherd,  of  Highland 
Park,  111.,  and  Julia  W.  (Mrs.  Wall)  of  Hono- 
lulu, Hawaii.  The  family  home  has  been  for 
many  years  maintained  at  No.  6341  Sheridan 
Road,  Chicago. 

Mr.  Shepherd  was  a  member  of  the  South 
Shore  Country  Club,  the  Union  League  Club, 
and  the  Chicago  Athletic  Association,  being  a 
charter  member  of  the  two  last  named. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Shepherd  occurred  Aug- 
ust 21,  1922. 


JOHN  R.  PALANDECH. 


In  the  conduct  of  enterprises  of  broad  scope, 
no  country  in  the  world  has  offered  to  the  young 
man  of  initiative  power  and  worthy  ambition 
so  splendid  opportunities  as  has  our  American 
republic,  and  in  no  city,  perhaps,  has  the  young 
man  come  to  his  own  in  so  distinct  and  influen- 
tial a  way  as  in  Chicago. 

John  R.  Palandech,  head  of  the  publishing 
house  bearing  his  name,  publishers  of  United 
Serbian  and  Jugoslavia  newspapers  and  numer- 
ous South  Slav  magazines  and  almanacs,  and 
also  proprietor  of  the  John  R.  Palandech  Adver- 
tising Agency,  representing  foreign  language 
newspapers,  and  for  many  years  an  active  factor 
in  the  business  and  civic  affairs  of  this  city.   He 


is  one  of  the  men  of  foreign  birth  who  took  ad- 
vantage of  the  opportunity  offered  here  for  busi- 
ness preferment  and  has  achieved  notable  success 
thereby. 

Mr.  Palandech  was  born  of  Serbian  parents  at 
Sulina,  Roumania,  September  23,  1874,  a  son  of 
Ralph  J.  Palandech  and  Paraskeva  (Teodoro- 
vich)  Palandech.  He  attended  schools  in  Dal- 
matia,  formerly  Austria-Hungary  and  now  Jugo- 
slavia ;  the  Fresno,  California,  high  school  and 
a  business  college.  He  has  also  studied  law 
and  sociology  and  is  a  man  of  broad  informa- 
tion. He  came  to  America  in  1888,  locating  first 
in  California.  In  1897  he  became  a  naturalized 
citizen  of  the  United  States.    He  visited  Chicago 


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during  the  World's  Fair  in  1893,  but  returned 
to  California  again  that  fall.  He  was  so  im- 
pressed with  the  great  resources  and  commercial 
activities  of  the  city  that  he  decided  to  make  it 
his  home,  so  in  1897  he  returned  to  Chicago  and 
has  since  been  a  resident  of  this  city.  In  1906 
he  embarked  in  business  as  publisher  of  the 
United  Serbian  and  since  that  date  he  has  be- 
come widely  known  in  journalism.  He  is  the 
executive  head  of  John  R.  Palandech's  Publish- 
ing House  and  is  also  proprietor  of  the  John  R. 
Palandech  Advertising  Agency.  His  United 
Serbian  and  Jugoslavia  newspapers  and  several 
Jugoslav  magazines  and  almanacs  are  clean, 
well-edited  and  well-printed  sheets  with  reliable 
news  matter  and  timely  editorials.  The  editor 
has  always  kept  its  columns  open  to  the  support 
of  movements  for  the  benefit  and  betterment  of 
the  city  and  state  and  the  people  of  the  com- 
munity. They  have  frequently  been  quoted  by 
metropolitan  newspapers  on  foreign  political 
matters  and  issues  of  the  day. 

Besides  this  connection  Mr.  Palandech  has 
compiled  and  published  more  than  fifty  books  on 
Americanization  and  other  subjects  and  for  a 
number  of  years  he  has  been  a  frequent  and 
valued  contributor  to  American  and  foreign  lan- 
guage newspapers.  He  is  president  of  the 
Foreign  Language  Press  Association  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Advertising  Council  of  Chicago  of 
which  he  is   chairman  of   the  foreign   language 


division.  He  has  traveled  extensively  in  Europe, 
North  and  South  America,  and  has  frequently 
been  called  upon  here  to  speak  on  European  ques- 
tions. He  is  affiliated  with  the  Chicago  Associ- 
ation of  Commerce  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Americanization  Committee  of  that  organization. 
He  was  unanimously  elected  chairman  of  the 
Jugoslav  Division  of  the  1933  Chicago  World's 
Fair  Committee,  and  is  interested  in  making  this 
event  world  famous. 

Mr.  Palandech  was  superintendent  of  the  so- 
cial surveys  of  the  Department  of  Public  Wel- 
fare in  Chicago  in  1914 ;  is  a  member  of  the 
Immigration  Department  of  the  Foreign  Com- 
mission of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, and  of  the  Serbian  Orphan  Society.  He  was 
decorated  by  King  Nicholas  of  Montenegro  with 
the  Order  of  Danilo,  and  by  King  Alexander  of 
Jugoslavia  with  the  Order  of  Mercy.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Serbian  Orthodox  Church  and  is 
active  in  all  good  work  of  that  organization.  He 
is  also  a  Thirty-Second  Degree  Mason,  a  Knight 
Templar  and  a  Shriner,  and  a  member  of  the 
Press,  Hamilton,  Advertising,  Serbian  National, 
Casa  del  Mar,  and  Dobrovsky  Clubs.  Mr.  Palan- 
dech was  married  January  22,  1901,  to  Catherine 
Leonard,  of  Chicago,  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Patrick  Leonard  and  Anna  (Dunn)  Leonard.  Of 
this  union  were  born  three  children ;  Paraskeva 
who  is  deceased ;  Veronica,  and  Catherine  Marie. 


ROGER  SHERMAN. 


The  late  Roger  Sherman,  of  Chicago  and 
Evanston,  Illinois,  was  born  at  Chicago,  March 
18,  1877,  a  son  of  James  Morgan  and  Mary  E. 
(French)  Sherman.  He  was  a  descendant  of 
Capt.  John  Sherman,  who  settled  at  Watertown, 
Massachusetts,  in  1634.  He  was  also  a  descend- 
ant of  Hon.  Roger  Sherman,  who  was  a  member 
of  the  Continental  Congress,  and  one  of  the  draw- 
ers and  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence. Hon.  Roger  Sherman  also  held  many  pub- 
lic offices  in  the  state  of  Connecticut.  He  had 
the  distinction  of  being  the  only  man  who  signed 
all  of  our  early  great  American  documents,  the 
Bill  of  Rights,  the  Articles  of  Federation,  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  and  the  Constitu- 
tion of  the  United  States. 

Roger  Sherman's  education  was  begun  in  the 
old  Brown  School  on  the  West  Side  in  Chicago, 
and  was  continued  at  the  former  Chicago  Acad- 
emy, and  later,  at  Lewis  Institute.     Following 


his  graduation  there  he  went  into  business  with 
his  father,  who  was  one  of  the  outstanding  early 
members  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade,  in  the 
firm  of  Pool  and  Sherman. 

He  soon  made  a  change  and  went  to  work  in 
the  office  of  Philo  A.  Otis.  Thus  began  an  as- 
sociation with  the  Otis  family  that  was  to  con- 
tinue as  long  as  Mr.  Sherman  lived. 

Mr.  Sherman  became  a  prominent  figure  in 
Chicago  in  both  the  real-estate  and  the  insurance 
business.  He  was  for  years  the  manager  of  the 
Otis  Building  and  other  important  properties. 
His  greatest  interest,  however,  was  directed  to 
the  management  of  trust  affairs. 

Roger  Sherman  was  married  June  9.  1902,  in 
the  Church  of  the  Epiphany,  Chicago,  to  Miss 
Martha  Tucker,  a  daughter  of  William  S.  and 
Martha  A.  (Nesbitt)  Tucker.  They  have  three 
children :  Martha  (Mrs.  Charles  Graves  Ben- 
net),   Roger   Sherman,   Jr.,   and  James  Morgan 


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Sherman.    The  family  home  has  been  in  Evans- 
ton.  Illinois  since  19(10. 

Mr.  Sherman  belonged  to  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Evanston,  which  he  served  as 
a  Deacon.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Union  League 
Club,  the  Mid  Day  Club,  to  the  Society  of  Colo- 
nial Wars,  the  New  England  Historic  Genealogi- 


cal Society,  the  Evanston  Country  Club  and  the 
Glen  View  Club. 

The  death  of  Roger  Sherman  occurred  June 
19,  1927.  His  life  was  distinguished  by  rare 
ability  and  personal  charm,  and  by  a  splendidly 
developed  character.  He  will  be  truly  missed 
from  the  places  that  knew  him. 


JAMES  MORGAN  SHERMAN. 


The  late  James  Morgan  Sherman  was  born  at 
Windsor,  Conn.,  November  20,  1842,  a  son  of 
James  T.  and  Abigail  Talcott  (Morgan)  Sher- 
man. He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools 
of  Connecticut  and  Wisconsin.  He  went  to  Brod- 
head,  Wis.,  with  his  parents  in  1856. 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  1862  and  became  identi- 
fied with  the  grain  trade  here  soon  thereafter. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  widely  known  firm  of 
Poole  and  Sherman,  Chicago  Board  of  Trade 
grain  merchants,  for  eighteen  years.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  firm  of  J.  M.  Sherman  & 
Co.  He  retired  to  devote  his  attention  to  private 
interests  in  1900. 

On  May  2,  1871,  Mr.  Sherman  was  married, 
at  Maiden,  111.,  to  Miss  Mary  E.  French,  a  daugh- 


ter of  Sanford  B.  and  Mary  A.  (Mead)  French. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sherman  became  the  parents  of 
the  following  children :  Edwin  M.  Sherman, 
Roger  Sherman,  Martha  E.  (Mrs.  John  E. 
Dixon),  and  Mary  F.  (Mrs.  Charles  R.  Mc- 
Millen).  * 

Mr.  Sherman  was  a  member  of  the  New  First 
Congregational  Church  and  of  the  Union  League 
Club  of  Chicago. 

The  family's  summer  residence  has  long  been 
maintained  at  Kilbourne,  Wis. 

James  Morgan  Sherman  died  on  April  18th, 
1920.  The  vast  grain  trade  of  Illinois  has  known 
no  man  of  finer  mind  or  of  finer  character  than 
Mr.  Sherman. 


HENRY  SCHOELLKOPF,  II. 


Although  twelve  years  have  passed  since  he 
was  called  to  his  final  reward,  Henry  Schoell- 
kopf,  II,  is  remembered  as  one  of  the  sterling 
pioneer  business  men  of  this  city  whose  efforts 
contributed  materially  to  the  commercial  pres- 
tige of  the  city,  for  sixty-five  consecutive  years. 
To  him,  Chicago  ever  meant  much,  and  his  char- 
acter and  achievements  meant  much  to  Chicago. 

He  was  born  in  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  April 
23,  1826,  a  son  of  Henry  and  Susan  Schoellkopf. 
His  education  was  obtained  in  the  private  schools 
of  his  native  land.  Like  many  ambitious  young 
men  of  the  old  world,  he  was  not  satisfied  with 
the  opportunities  offered  there  for  advancement, 
and  resolved  to  go  to  America.  Accordingly,  in 
1848,  when  twenty-two  years  of  age,  he  sailed  for 
the  United  States,  locating  first  at  Buffalo,  New 
York,  where  he  secured  employment  as  book- 
keeper in  a  savings  bank  and  was  thus  engaged 
for  three  years.  In  1851  he  came  to  Chicago, 
where  he  embarked  in  the  grocery  business  and 
he  continued,  very  successfully,  in  that  field  of 
activity  until  the  time  of  his  death  in  1916.  His 
store  was  destroyed  in  the  great  Chicago  fire  of 
1871,  but  was  soon  rebuilt  and  he  was  doing  a 
greater  business  than  before.    From  the  time  of 


its  inception,  his  enterprise  was  successful  and 
kept  pace  in  its  advancement  with  the  marvelous 
development  of  Chicago.  He  was  not  only  ac- 
tive in  the  mercantile  interests  of  Chicago,  but 
he  also  acquired  large  real  estate  holdings. 

After  his  sons,  Henry  III,  and  Edward  C,  be- 
came associated  with  the  enterprise,  the  firm 
name  became  Henry  Schoellkopf  Sons,  and  the 
business  was  continued  until  January  1,  1924. 
When  the  store  and  residence  was  destroyed  by 
fire  in  1871,  the  family  home  was  established  at 
19  West  Chicago  avenue,  where  it  is  still  main- 
tained, being  one  of  the  landmarks  of  that  vi- 
cinity. A  man  of  congenial  temperament,  Mr. 
Schoellkopf  had  a  great  capacity  for  friendship. 
His  high-minded  conception  of  a  man's  duty  to 
his  fellowman  and  his  quiet  and  unswerving  al- 
legiance to  the  principles  of  good  citizenship 
were  traits  which  especially  distinguished  him, 
and  his  devotion  to  the  practice  of  infallible 
honesty  is  an  enduring  legacy  left  to  the  genera- 
tions that  come  after  him.  He  took  time  during 
his  arduous  labors  to  work  for  the  public  good, 
and  his  death  removed  from  Chicago  one  of  its 
valued  citizens. 

Mr.  Schoellkopf  was  married  at  Akron,  Ohio, 


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in  1864,  to  Miss  Emma  Kohler.  She  died  May 
14,  1903.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schoellkopf  have  five 
children  :  Henry  Schoellkopf  III ;  Emma,  wife 
of  P.  L.  Gallagher  of  Chicago;  Minnie,  wife  of 
Bernard  PeVry  of  Chicago;  Ida,  wife  of  Her- 
man DeVry  of  Chicago ;  and  Edward  C.  Schoell- 
kopf. 

The  sons  are  both  able  and  conservative  busi- 
ness men  of  Chicago  and  are  well  upholding  the 
honors  of  the  family  name.  Henry  Schoellkopf, 
III,  was  born  in  Chicago  April  27,  1866,  at  what 
is  now  311  West  Randolph  street,  where  his 
father  conducted  a  wholesale  grocery  business 
for  many  years,  and  where  the  store  remained 
as  a  landmark  until  January  1,  1924.  He  ob- 
tained his  early  education  chiefly  in  Professor 
J.  P.  Lauth's  private  school,  and  later  was  a 
student  in  the  University  of  Chicago  and  the 
Union  College  of  Law,  of  the  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity. He  became  associated  with  his  father 
in  the  grocery  business  and  also  assisted  in  the 
care  and  management  of  real-estate  which  his 
father  had  acquired,  until  the  Litter's  death  :  and 
has  since  been  a  trustee  of  his  father's  estate. 
He    is    a    member    of   the   Chicago    Real-Estate 


Board,  Cook  County  Real-Estate  Board,  and  the 
Chicago  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters.  He  is  a 
life  member  of  the  Chit-ago  Historical  Society, 
Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  and  the  Field  Museum 
of  Natural  History,  Illinois  Academy  of  Sciences 
and  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Phi  college  fra- 
ternity. He  is  also  treasurer  of  the  Illinois 
District  of  the  American  Gymnastic  Union  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Germauia  Club,  the  Stueben 
Club  and  the  Steuben  Society. 

Edward  C.  Schoellkopf  was  born  in  Chicago, 
November  14,  1S77.  His  educational  advantages 
were  those  afforded  by  the  Ogden  public  school, 
the  University  of  Chicago  and  Bryant  &  Stratton 
Business  College.  He  became  identified  with  his 
father  in  the  grocery  business  when  eighteen 
years  of  age,  and  was  associated  with  the  en- 
terprise until  it  went  out  of  business  in  1924 ; 
and  since  then  served  as  a  trustee  of  his  father's 
estate.  He  was  a  Thirty-Second  Degree  Mason, 
a  Knight  Templar  and  a  Shriner,  and  a  member 
of  the  Lutheran  Church.  He  was  married  in  Feb- 
ruary. 1907.  to  Emma  Sloan,  of  Bloomington, 
Illinois,  and  they  have  one  daughter,  Edna  C. 
Schoellkopf.     He  died  June  20,  1928. 


OLIVER  FRANKLIN  FULLER. 


The  late  Mr.  O.  F.  Fuller  was  born  at  Sher- 
man, Connecticut,  October  19,  1S29,  a  son  of 
Revilo  and  Caroline  E.  (Hungerford)  Fuller. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  at  Sher- 
man, and  then  in  1844,  he  began  his  business 
career  in  a  drug  store  at  Peekskill,  New  York, 
owned  by  a  Doctor  Brewer.  He  later  owned  a 
drugstore  at  Peekskill  in  partnership  with  Mr. 
Nathaniel  Dane. 

Mr.  Fuller  came  to  Chicago  in  February, 
1852.  In  the  years  that  followed,  he  became  one 
of  the  most  successful  men  engaged  in  the 
wholesale-drug  business  in  America.  We  re- 
print here  an  article  written  some  time  ago 
by  business  associates  of  Mr.  Fuller,  in  celebra- 
tion of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  start 
in  business. 

"Custom  approves  the  fitness  of  pausing  upon 
the  lapse  of  certain  periods  of  time  to  consider 
unusual  events  and  careers.  Anniversaries  are 
universally  commemorated,  and  it  is  a  pardon- 
able impulse  which  inclines  us  to  record  a 
tribute  to  Oliver  F.  Fuller  on  the  passing  of  his 
fiftieth  year  of  active  participation  in  the  busi- 
ness history  of  Chicago. 

"  'The  years  of  a   man's  life  are   threescore 


and  ten'  with  a  promise.  If  we  deduct  the 
years  of  minority  and  those  commonly  granted 
to  the  quiet  of  old  age,  about  forty  years  of 
vigorous  manhood  remain  in  which  to  transact 
the  business  of  life.  Fifty  consecutive  years, 
then,  of  activity  in  one  place  and  one  busi- 
ness, is  a  noteworthy  achievement.  The  quali- 
ties which  have  borne  a  man  successfully  and 
honorably  through  the  difficulties  of  such  a 
career  must  have  been  of  an  enduring  fabric. 
If  those  privileged  to  know  his  character 
through  the  close  daily  contact  of  many  years 
were  permitted  to  speak  of  the  dominant  ele- 
ments in  the  success  of  Mr.  Fuller,  the  words 
Honesty,  Reliability  and  Courage  combining 
gentleness  and  firmness  would  characterize  his 
work,  for  these  qualities  have  served  to  sur- 
mount the  obstacles  incident  to  trade  and  to 
life,  to  win  the  support  of  strong  and  loyal 
friends,  to  command  the  respect  and  admiration 
of  competitors,  and  to  ensure  the  reward  of 
satisfaction,  peace  and  contentment. 

"Coming  to  Chicago  when  it  was~but  a  large 
village  in  the  year  1S52,  Mr.  Fuller  established 
himself  in  the  drug  trade  on  Lake  street,  be- 
tween  Fifth  avenue  and  Franklin  street ;  and 


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for  fifty  consecutive  years  he  has  devoted  him- 
self to  that  business,  and  always  within  a 
few  hundred  feet  of  the  scene  of  his  first  ven- 
ture. His  several  partners  have  long  since 
passed  out  of  commercial  walks — and  out  of 
life ;  but  today,  after  the  lapse  of  so  many 
years,  he  still  maintains  an  active  part  in  the 
daily  transactions  of  the  Fuller  &  Fuller  Com- 
pany, and  dictates  the  general  policy  of  the 
house,  how  justly,  liberally  and  fairly  his  old 
customers  from  long  experience  know. 

"In  the  year  1885  the  Fuller  and  Fuller  Com- 
pany was  incorporated  and  the  undersigned, 
having  been  associated  with  Mr.  Fuller  since 
the  early  sixties,  became  with  him  its  general 
©ffieers.  The  advantage  of  so  long  and  intimate 
a  relation  impresses  them  with  a  peculiar  sense 
of  his  honor,  strength  and  wisdom ;  and  the 
deepest  feelings  of  respect,  gratitude  and  affec- 
tion inspire  the  hope  that  he  may,  for  many 
years,  continue  to  act  as  their  wise  counselor, 
courageous  guide  and  president. 

Jos.  G.  Peters, 
W.  H.  Rockwood, 
J.  Walker  Scofield." 

Chronology:  "1852,  Fuller  &  Roberts,  195 
Lake  street ;  1854,  O.  F.  Fuller.  195  Lake  street ; 
1856,  O.  F.  Fuller  &  Co.,  244  Lake  street ;  1859, 
O.  F.  Fuller  &  Co.,  54  and  56  Franklin  street; 
1859,  O.  F.  Fuller  &  Co.,  burned  out,  moved 
to  244  Lake  street;  1860,  Fuller  &  Finch,  24 
and  26  Market  street;  1863,  Fuller,  Finch  & 
Fuller,  24  and  26  Market  street;  1871,  Fuller 
&  Fuller,  20  to  30  Market  street;  1882,  Fuller 
&  Fuller,  220-222  Randolph  street;  1885,  Fuller 
&  Fuller,  Inc.,   220-222  Randolph  street." 

On  January  1.  1915,  the  last  named  firm  was 
consolidated  with  Morrison,  Plummer  &  Com- 
pany, to  form  the  present  Fuller-Morrison  Com- 
pany, of  which  Mr.  Fuller  was  made  chairman 
of  the  board  of  directors. 

Mr.  Fuller  was  active  in  business  in  Chicago 
for  seventy-five  consecutive  years. 

Mr.  Fuller  was  married  at  Peekskill,  New 
York,  on  November  8,  1858,  to  Miss  Phoebe  Ann 
Shipley.  Their  children  were :  Henry  M., 
Frank  R.,  Charles  and  George  S.  Fuller,  all  of 


whom  are  deceased.  Mr.  Frank  R.  Fuller  and 
Mr.  Charles  Fuller  were  both  vice  presidents 
of  Fuller  and  Fuller,  Inc.,  and,  later,  of  the 
Fuller-Morrison  Company.  The  mother  died 
in  1901.  On  October  10,  1911,  Mr.  Fuller  was 
married  to  Rebecca  R.  Secor,  who  survives  him. 
Their  home,  for  many  years,  has  been  at  1001 
North  Dearborn  street,  Chicago. 

Mr.  Fuller  lost  a  dearly-beloved  grandson  in 
the  World  War.  Lieut.  Roswell  Hayes  Fuller 
was  born  in  Chicago,  on  December  13,  1895,  a 
son  of  Frank  R.  and  Laura  (Hayes)  Fuller. 
He  was  graduated  from  the  Chicago  Latin 
School,  from  Andover,  and  from  Yale  Uni- 
versity. 

He  entered  the  aviation  service  of  the  United 
States  army  in  April,  1917.  He  took  his  ground- 
school  training  at  Champaign,  Illinois,  and  his 
training  in  flying  at  Wilbur  Wright  Field, 
Dayton,  Ohio.  He  served  two  months  as  ad- 
jutant of  the  Fourth  Wing  of  the  Provisional 
Army.  Then,  he  was  assigned  to  duty  as  an 
instructor  of  acrobatic  flying  at  the  flying 
school  at  Issondun,  France.  After  some  months 
of  this  work,  he  joined  his  squadron  and  was 
in  action  through  the  fighting  in  the  St  Mihiel 
and  Verdun  sectors. 

Lieutenant  Fuller  was  killed  in  battle,  falling 
within  the  German  lines,  while  flying  on  scout 
duty  before  the  Argonne-Meuse  attack.  He  was 
buried  by  the  Germans,  with  full  military 
honors,  at  Brandeville,  France,  on  September 
30,   1918. 

Mr.  Fuller  was  a  fine,  strong  figure  in  the 
life  of  Chicago,  throughout  seven  decades.  His 
business  record  and  his  influence  on  commer- 
cial growth  are  most  noteworthy.  At  the  time 
of  his  death,  he  was  the  oldest  living  member 
of  the  Academy  of  Science.  He  was  a  life 
member  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  and  a 
governing  member  of  the  Chicago  Historical 
Society  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  Field 
Museum.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Central  Church.  He  was  honorary  president  of 
the  Veteran  Druggists  Association. 

Mr.  Fuller's  life  came  to  its  close  in  his 
ninety-fourth  year,  on  April  10,  1923. 


ABRAHAM  R.  STUMER. 


The  late  Abraham  R.  Stumer  was  born  at 
Chicago,  Illinois,  on  July  15,  1872,  a  son  of 
Michael  and  Jennie  (Kellner)  Stumer.   His  par- 


ents originally  came  to  the  United  States  from 
Austria  and  from  Poland,  respectively. 

As  a  boy  he  attended   the  public  schools  of 


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Chicago  and  later  he  entered  Bryant  and  Strat- 
ton's  Business  College,  at  that  city.  His  first 
work  after  finishing  his  schooling  was  helping 
his  mother  in  the  small  millinery  business  which 
she  had  founded.  His  mother  was  a  woman  of 
exceptional  ability  and  foresight.  The  start 
which  she  gave  her  sons  determined  in  large 
measure  the  course  of  their  later  success  in  the 
great  millinery  industry  of  this  country. 

Louis  Stumer.  B.  J.  Rosenthal  and  Louis  Eck- 
stein started  the  Emporium  Millinery  Company 
at  Chicago.  They  later  established  the  retail 
millinery  store  called  The  World,  where  the  Hub 
now  stands.  These  two  stores  were  later  con- 
solidated into  the  Emporium  World  Company. 
Now  their  business  is  to  operate  the  retail  mil- 
linery departments  in  many  of  the  largest  and 
finest  department  stores  in  America. 

Abraham  Stumer  joined  his  brother  in  business 


as  a  boy  and  they  were  together  throughout  the 
subsequent  years.  Following  Louis  Stumer's 
death  on  July  14,  1919,  the  direction  of  this 
great  business  rested  largely  with  Abraham 
Stumer. 

On  December  21,  1913,  Mr.  Stumer  was  mar- 
ried, at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  to  Miss  Helen 
Hartman,  a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary 
(Straus)  Hartman.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stumer  have 
two  children,  Alfred  M.  Stumer,  and  Mary  Jane 
Stumer. 

Mr.  Stumer  was  a  member  of  Sinai  Temple 
and  also  belonged  to  the  Standard  Club. 

The  death  of  Abraham  R.  Stumer  occurred  in 
his  fifty-fifth  year,  on  October  4,  1927.  The  suc- 
cess that  he  earned  is  among  the  most  remark- 
able in  the  history  of  the  business  life  of 
Chicago. 


SIMEON  BREED  WILLIAMS. 


Simeon  Breed  Williams  was  born  in  Norwich, 
Conn.,  Feb.  3,  1815;  died  in  Berlin,  Germany, 
Sept.  3,  1902,  and  was  buried  in  Spring  Grove 
Cemetery,  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  Sept  17,  1902.  He 
received  the  name  of  his  mother's  uncle,  Simeon 
Breed,  who  had  saved  his  father  from  drown- 
ing when  a  child.  After  his  father's  death  (when 
he  was  but  three  years  of  age  and  his  mother 
took  her  two  children  to  her  father's  home)  he 
received  parental  care  and  instruction  from  his 
grandfather  until  he  was  sixteen.  During  that 
time  he  attended  a  school  held  in  the  basement 
of  Christ  Church  (Episcopal),  across  the  street 
from  the  home,  and  also  the  "Proprietors' 
School,"  of  which  both  of  his  grandfathers  were 
"Proprietors."  Later  he  was  sent  to  Bacon's 
Academy  at  Colchester,  there  living  in  the  fam- 
ily of  Rev.  Salmon  Cone,  whose  wife  was  his 
grandfather's  sister.  He  left  Norwich  in  1831 
at  the  early  age  of  sixteen  to  join  an  uncle  in 
Pittsburgh.  It  took  him  ten  days  to  make  this 
journey ;  going  by  stage  to  Essex  Ferry  on  the 
Connecticut  River;  by  steamboat  to  New  York 
and  to  South  Amboy,  N.  J. ;  thence  by  stage  to 
Bordentown,  N.  J. ;  by  steamboat  to  Phila- 
delphia. Pa. ;  and  to  Baltimore,  Md. ;  thence  by 
stage  for  three  long  days  and  nights  across  the 
state  of  Pennsylvania  and  over  the  Allegheny 
mountains  to  Pittsburgh. 

With  the  exception  of  a  year  spent  in  New 
York,  employed  by  his  uncle,  Edwin  Williams, 
the   publisher  of  the  New  York  Annual  Register 


and  the  Statesman's  Manual,  he  remained  in 
Pittsburgh  until  about  1840,  for  four  years  em- 
ployed in  the  dry-goods  business  of  his  uncle, 
George  Breed,  and  later  in  the  commission  house 
of  Atwood  and  Jones.  During  this  time,  he  went 
on  a  collecting  tour  by  steamboat  down  the  Ohio 
River  and  up  the  Mississippi,  Illinois,  and  Wa- 
bash, traveling  by  stage  and  on  horseback 
throughout  the  interior  of  Kentucky,  Indiana 
and  Illinois.  Then  for  three  or  four  years  he 
was  engaged  in  business  for  himself.  In  1844 
he  removed  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  after  a 
few  years  as  bookkeeper  in  the  employ  of  J.  I>. 
and  C.  Jones,  dry-goods  merchants,  he  entered 
the  manufacturing  business  on  his  own  account. 
Here  he  was  a  member  of  the  School  Board 
and  of  the  Young  Men's  Mercantile  Library  As- 
sociation and  took  a  great  interest  in  the  life 
of  the  place.  In  1875  he  originated  the  idea  of 
erecting  the  Johnston  Building  on  the  corner  of 
Fifth  and  Walnut  streets  on  property  owned  by 
his  wife  and  her  sisters — the  first  fine,  modern 
office  building  in  the  city,  which  set  the  pace  for 
others  to  follow.  It  served  its  purpose  for  forty- 
five  years,  when  it  was  torn  down  in  1920,  and 
the  Gibson  Hotel  now  occupies  its  site.  Cincin- 
nati was  his  home  for  twenty-one  years,  until 
1865,  when  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Lake 
Forest,  a  suburb  of  Chicago,  in  which  city  he 
occupied  himself  for  many  years  with  real-estate 
transactions.  In  1887  he  sold  his  residence  in 
the  country  and  moved  into  the  city.    He  was  a 


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man  of  public  spirit  and  his  voice  was  frequently 
raised  through  the  press,  to  elevate  the  moral 
tone  of  the  community  and  to  better  conditions. 
These  letters  cover  a  variety  of  subjects :  banks, 
currency,  public  safety,  good  government,  re- 
dress of  wrongs,  exposure  of  frauds,  and  more 
particularly  the  advocacy  of  all  sorts  of  civic 
improvements,  widening  of  streets,  extension  of 
railway  facilities,  reduction  of  railway  fares, 
building  of  bridges,  enlarging  of  harbors,  and 
erecting  of  fountains  and  better  classes  of  build- 


ings. He  had  a  talent  for  drawing,  delighted  in 
painting  and  sculpture,  was  very  fond  of  music, 
and  found  constant  pleasure  in  his  books. 

His  noble  life,  well  rounded  out  in  years  and 
good  example,  could  not  fail  to  leave  its  impress 
on  those  about  him. 

Simeon  Breed  Williams  married  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  June  29,  1848,  Cornelia  Johnston,  daughter 
of  William  Sage  and  Clarina  (Bartow)  John- 
ston. He  left  four  children  and  eight  grandchil- 
dren. 


WILLIAM  HAMLIN  WILDER. 


Dr.  Wilder  was  born  at  Covington,  Kentucky, 
December  16,  1860,  a  son  of  Josiah  and  Emma 
(Morse)  Wilder,  and  comes  of  a  prominent  old 
family  in  America,  being  a  direct  descendant  of 
Edward  Wilder,  who  settled  in  the  Hingham 
Colony,  Massachusetts,  in  1638.  His  educa- 
tional advantages  were  those  afforded  by  the 
public  schools  of  College  Hill,  Ohio,  and  Belmont 
College  at  College  Hill.  He  graduated  from  the 
latter  institution  in  1878,  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts. 

He  matriculated  at  the  Medical  College  of 
Ohio  (University  of  Cincinnati),  in  1880,  and 
was  graduated  in  1884  with  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Medicine,  having  served  as  Resident  Physician 
to  the  Cincinnati  Hospital  for  more  than  a  year 
previous  to  his  graduation.  Soon  after  complet- 
ing his  college  course  he  established  himself  in 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Cincinnati,  and  was 
an  active  practitioner  of  that  city  until  1889. 
To  further  his  education  he  then  went  abroad 
and  in  1889-90,  took  post-graduate  courses  in  the 
Universities  of  Gottingen,  Berlin  and  Vienna. 
He  also  served  for  a  year,  1890-91,  as  assistant 
in  the  Royal  London  Ophthalmic  Hospital,  Lon- 
don. For  nearly  three  years  he  studied  under 
some  of  the  most  noted  preceptors  of  Europe 
and  returned  to  this  country  well  qualified  to 
resume  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

In  the  fall  of  1891  Doctor  Wilder  established 
himself  in  the  practice  of  medicine  at  Chicago, 
specializing  chiefly  in  diseases  of  the  eye.  For 
nearly  twenty  years  he  was  Professor  of  Oph- 
thalmology at  Rush  Medical  College  (University 
of  Chicago)  and  was  appointed  Emeritus  Pro- 
fessor in  July,  1926.  He  is  also  Honorary 
Surgeon  to  the  Illinois  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear 
Infirmary,  having  served  as  Assistant  Surgeon 
and  Surgeon  for  nearly  twenty-five  years,  Oph- 
thalmologist to  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  and 


Major  of  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  of  the 
United  States  Army.  He  has  also  gained  distinc- 
tion as  a  writer  and  is  the  author  of  articles  in 
a  "System  of  Ophthalmic  Surgery,"  and  has  also 
been  a  frequent  and  valuable  contributor  of 
many  articles  to  medical  journals  and  magazines 
and  collaborated  in  the  editing  and  publishing  of 
numerous  books  on  ophthalmology.  He  keeps  in 
close  touch  with  all  that  research  is  bringing  to 
light  in  the  field  of  scientific  knowledge,  and 
though  a  man  of  broad  information  along  many 
lines,  his  professional  work  for  many  years  has 
been  confined  chiefly  to  that  of  ophthalmology, 
and  there  are  few  specialists  in  the  city  of  Chi- 
cago, if  any,  who  have  gained  so  high  a  reputa- 
tion for  skill  and  abiUty  in  this  branch  of  the 
medical  profession.  His  work  is  characterized 
by  devotion  to  duty  and  his  professional  services 
have  ever  been  discharged  with  a  keen  sense  of 
conscientious  obligation  and  he  enjoys  merited 
prominence  in  his  profession. 

He  helped  to  found  the  Illinois  Society  for  the 
Prevention  of  Blindness,  and  has  been  an  active 
officer  of  that  institution  since  its  inception.  He 
has  also  rendered  effective  service  in  many  other 
ways. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Ophthal- 
mological  Society,  of  which  he  has  been  Presi- 
dent ;  of  the  American  Academy  of  Ophthalmol- 
ogy and  Oto-Laryngology,  the  American  Medical 
Association,  Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Medical 
Societies,  Chicago  Ophthalmological  Society  and 
the  Chicago  Pathological  Society ;  and  is  a  Fel- 
low of  the  American  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science.  He  is  also  a  valued  mem- 
ber of  the  University,  Quadrangle,  Chicago  Ath- 
letic, Physicians  and  Flossmoor  Country  Clubs. 

Doctor  Wilder  was  married  June  10,  1884,  to 
Ella  Taylor,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  who  died  in 
1898,    leaving    two    children ;    Russell    M.,    and 


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Laura  C,  the  latter  of  whom  died  in  1914.  On 
December  25,  1907,  he  married  Caroline  L.  Roths- 
child, of  Chicago,  and  of  this  union  were  born 


two  children ;  William  H.,  Jr.,  and  Margaret. 
The  family  home  for  many  years  has  been  at 
5811  Kenwood  Avenue. 


WILLARD  RUFUS  WILEY. 


The  late  Willard  R.  Wiley  of  Chicago,  Illinois, 
was  born  at  Holliston,  Massachusetts,  on  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1845,  a  son  of  Charles  M.  and  Frances 
E.  (Cobb)  Wiley,  both  of  whom  were  represen- 
tatives of  old  substantial  New  England  families. 

He  attended  public  school  at  Holliston,  and 
then  went  to  work  in  a  dry  goods  store  at  Mil- 
ford,  Massachusetts.  When  he  was  but  seven- 
teen years  old  he  enlisted  for  service  in  the  Civil 
War;  and  he  fought  through  to  the  end  of  the 
war  in  Company  D,  of  the  Second  Massachusetts 
Cavalry,  under  General  Sherman  and  General 
Custer. 

Soon  after  the  close  of  the  war  he  came  to 
Chicago  to  live,  in  18G5 ;  and  then  he  entered 
the  employ  of  the  firm  of  Field.  Palmer  &  Leiter. 
He  also,  at  that  time,  attended  Bryant  &  Strat- 
ton's  Business  College.  He  continued  his  employ- 
ment with  Field,  Palmer  &  Leiter,  and  their  suc- 
cessors, Field,  Leiter  &  Company,  and  Marshall 
Field  &  Company,  throughout  all  of  the  rest  of 
his  active  business  career,  a  period  covering 
fifty-eight  consecutive  years.  In  1893  he  was 
made  Department  Manager  for  Marshall  Field 
&  Company,  wholesale,  and  he  filled  that  office, 
with  noteworthy  success,  until  his  retirement 
from  active  participation  in  business,  in  1923. 


On  April  2S,  1880,  Mr.  Wiley  was  married,  at 
Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Maude  May  Morris,  of 
Chicago,  a  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Dorothy 
(Eckardt)  Morris.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wiley  have 
three  sons,  Harold  E.  Wiley,  Stanley  M.  Wiley, 
and  Clarence  F.  Wiley.  The  family  home  has 
been  maintained  in  Chicago,  on  the  South  Side, 
for  nearly  fifty  years. 

Mr.  Wiley  was  a  member  of  Bishop  Cheney's 
Church.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Union  League 
Club  of  Chicago,  the  South  Shore  Country  Club, 
and  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Chicago  Ath- 
letic Association. 

When  Mr.  Wiley  came  to  Chicago  and  went 
to  work  for  Field,  Palmer  &  Leiter,  he  was  a 
boy  twenty  years  old.  His  wages  were  $35  a 
month.  From  that  start  he  grew  to  become  one 
of  the  principal  figures  in  Marshall  Field  &  Com- 
pany's vast  organization.  When  his  life  came 
to  its  close,  more  than  sixty  years  after  he  came 
to  Chicago,  his  passing  occasioned  much  genuine 
sorrow  for  he  was  truly  beloved  and  respected 
and  was  a  valued  friend  of  young  and  old,  rich 
and  poor. 

The  death  of  Willard  R.  Wiley  occurred,  in 
his  eighty-third  year,  on  November  17,  1927. 


EDMUND  ADCOCK. 


While  the  legal  profession  offers  exceptional 
opportunities  to  all  intelligent  men,  there  are 
certain  branches  which  as  yet  are  not  over- 
crowded, and  some  men  whose  minds  are  sin- 
gularly acute,  prefer  to  specialize  in  certain 
features  of  their  calling.  Within  the  past  quar- 
ter of  a  century  or  more,  more  inventions  have 
been  patented  than  during  the  whole  of  the 
preceding  century.  The  developments  along 
every  line  of  endeavor;  the  increasing  use  of 
machinery,  and  the  new  discoveries  in  mechan- 
ics, have  led  to  the  placing  before  the  public 
not  only  new  and  approved  appliances,  but 
further  improvements  upon  these.  In  order 
that  the  rights  of  the  inventor  be  fully  pro- 
tected, it  is  absolutely  necessary  for  him  to 
have  some  reliable  and  trustworthy  person, 
whose   knowledge   of   the   laws   governing   pat- 


ents is  thorough,  to  assume  care  of  the  details 
of  his  interests,  and  in  the  person  of  Edmund 
Adcock,  people,  needing  such  service,  found  the 
man  they  wanted.  For  years  he  was  the  bul- 
wark between  the  inventor  and  those  who 
sought  to  prey  upon  him;  and,  when  he  died, 
he  was  mourned  by  many  whose  connections 
with  him  were  merely  of  a  business  nature,  but 
to  whom  he  was  endeared  because  of  his  fidel- 
ity and  his  legal  ability. 

Edmund  Adcock  was  born  in  Warren  county, 
111.,  in  1854,  a  son  of  Joseph  W.  and  Mary  (Mc- 
Murtry)  Adcock,  and  here  he  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools.  Leaving  them,  Mr.  Adcock  secured 
his  degree  of  A.  B.  from  Eureka  College  in 
1871,  and  then  took  the  full  legal  course  at 
Union  College  of  Law  at  Chicago,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  with   the  degree  of  LL.   B- 


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In  1878,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession.  Mr.  Adcock 
formed  desirable  connections,  and  was  for  many 
years  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Munday,  Evarts 
&  Adcock  and  rose  steadily  until  he  was  one  of 
the  best  and  most  successful  patent  lawyers  in 
the  country. 

Edmund  Adcock  was  married  at  Chicago, 
October  5,  1881,  to  Bessie  B.  Nicholes,  daughter 
of  Daniel  C.  Nicholes,  who  was  very  prominent 
as  a  lawyer  in  earlier  Chicago  and  who  founded, 
with  his  brother,  the  suburb  of  Englewood.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Adcock  had  one  daughter,  Edith,  who 
is  Mrs.  George  I.  Haight.  In  politiics  Mr. 
Adcock  was  a  Democrat.     He  belonged  to  the 


Union  League,  South  Shore  Country  and  Home- 
wood  Country  clubs,  and  was  honored  in  all  of 
bhem.  A  profound  thinker,  Mr.  Adcock  took 
pleasure  in  solving  the  problems  presented  to 
him,  and  oftentimes  was  able  by  his  knowledge 
of  the  laws  governing  patents,  and  his  recollec- 
tion of  just  what  had  already  been  accomplished 
along  certain  lines  of  invention,  to  save  his 
clients  months  of  useful  efforts,  and  heart- 
breaking delays.  As  a  citizen,  he  lived  up  to 
the  highest  conception  of  manhood,  and  his 
home  in  Evanston  was  an  intellectual  center, 
from  which  radiated  an  influence  which  could 
not  help  but  be  productive  of  far-reaching  and 
effective  results. 


THOMAS  EDWARD  WILDER. 


The  worth  of  a  man  to  his  community  is  large- 
ly measured  by  his  constructive  citizenship, 
whether  his  efforts  be  directed  along  public  or 
private  avenues  of  activity.  The  man  who 
builds  up  a  large  industry,  thus  affording  em- 
ployment to  many,  is  as  valuable  to  his  locality 
as  the  statesman  who  safeguards  its  rights.  The 
late  Thomas  Edward  Wilder  of  Chicago  and 
Elmhurst,  was  one  of  the  men  who  not  onlj 
made  a  name  for  himself  in  business  circles,  but 
also  found  time  to  lead  others  in  promoting  pub- 
lic improvements.  He  was  born  at  Lancaster, 
Mass.,  Aug  15,  1855,  a  son  of  Charles  Lewis 
and  Harriet  Ellen  (Harris)  Wilder.  After  at- 
tending the  schools  of  Lancaster,  he  became  a 
student  of  the  academy  of  that  place,  complet- 
ing his  educational  training  at  the  Worcester, 
Mass.,  Polytechnic  Institute,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  E. 

Coming  to  Chicago,  Mr.  Wilder  was  united  in 
marriage  in  1880  with  Anna  Gage  Tucker,  a 
daughter  of  William  F.  Tucker,  and  they  be- 
came the  parents  of  the  following  children : 
Marjorie,  who  is  Mrs.  William  H.  Emery ;  Ed- 
ward Tucker ;  Erskine  Phelps  ;  Harold  ;  Paul 
and  Harris  Emory. 

After  completing  his  educational  training  Mr. 
Wilder  entered  the  educational  field  and  for  a 
year  was  engaged  in  teaching  school,  but  left  the 
east  for  Chicago  in  1875,  and  became  a  clerk 
with  the  firm  of  Walker,  Oakley  &  Company,  in 
that  capacity  learning  the  fundamentals  of 
business  life  in  a  practical  manner.  In  1878 
he  organized  the  firm  of  Johnson  '&  Wilder,  leath- 
er commission  merchants  and  manufacturers  of 
cut   soles  and  similar  articles.     This  firm  was 


succeeded  in  1880  by  Wilder  &  Hale,  and  became 
Wilder  &  Company  in  1887,  of  which  Mr.  Wilder 
was  the  senior  member,  his  associate  being  his 
brother.  John  E.  Wilder.  As  the  business  ex- 
panded it  was  deemed  expedient  to  incorporate 
it,  an3  the  necessary  preliminaries  were  car- 
ried out,  and  papers  of  incorporation  secured  on 
December  31,  1906,  with  Mr.  Wilder  as  president 
and  his  brother  as  vice  president.  Mr.  Wilder 
was  also  vice  president  of  the  Wilder-Manning 
Tannins  Company  of  Waukegan,  111.,  and  chair- 
man of  its  board  of  directors ;  and  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  J.  W.  and  A.  P.  Howard  Company, 
Ltd.,  of  Corry.  Pa„  giving  to  the  affairs  of  all 
these  concerns  a  painstaking  and  efficient  atten- 
tion that  had  a  strong  effect  on  their  growth. 

Outside  of  his  business  relations,  Mr.  Wilder 
took  a  deep  and  effective  interest  in  public  af- 
fairs, and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Chicago  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  served  for 
years  on  its  board  of  directors,  and  also  as  a 
director  of  the  National  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
His  practical  mind  early  foresaw  the  impor- 
tance of  the  deep  waterways  plan,  and  he  gave 
the  project  some  of  his  best  efforts,  serving  on 
the  executive  committee,  the  ways  and  means 
committee,  as  chairman  of  the  publicity  com- 
mittee, and  secretary  and  chairman  of  the  Lakes 
to  the  Gulf  Deep  Waterway  Commission ;  and 
was  vice  president  of  the  National  Congress  of 
Rivers  &  Harbors  for  the  State  of  Illinois,  and 
through  his  energy  the  public  was  enlightened 
as  to  the  benefits  which  would  accrue  from  such 
development  as  was  proposed.  Mr.  Wilder  was 
a   member  of  the   International  Business   Con- 


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gress  and  the  National  Conservation  Congress. 
His  old  educational  institution  recognizing  his 
importance,  honored  him  by  placing  him  upon 
its  board  of  trustees  in  1907.  Always  a  strong 
Republican  he  exemplified  in  his  politics  the 
highest  ideals  of  his  party.  Christ  Church  of 
Elmhurst  had  in  him  a  loyal  member  and  gen- 
erous supporter.  His  social  connections  were 
with  the  Massachusetts  Society,  which  he  at 
one  time  served  as  president,  the  New  England 
Society,  the  Union  League  Club,  and  Aero  Club, 


of  which  he  was  a  director,  the  Elmhurst  Golf 
Club,  of  which  he  was  at  one  time  president, 
and  the  University  Club,  and  was  active  in  all 
of  these  organizations.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  maintained  his  home  at  Elmhurst,  where 
his  extensive  grounds  gave  him  opportunity  to 
indulge  his  love  of  flowers.  Here  he  died  Au- 
gust 22,  1919.  Mr.  Wilder  was  essentially  en- 
grossed in  his  family  circle,  and  in  his  home, 
surrounded  by  his  wife  and  children  he  found 
his  greatest  happiness. 


FRANKLIN  AMES. 


This  is  the  age  of  appreciation  of  special 
talents.  It  matters  little  in  which  direction  a 
man's  natural  ability  may  lead  him,  provided 
he  develops  to  his  highest  capacity,  and  gives 
to  those  associated  with  him,  the  best  that 
is  in  him.  The  great  commercial  and  mer- 
cantile houses  of  his  country  are  not  the  work 
of  any  one  man,  but  rather  the  outgrowth 
of  the  combined  efforts  of  many,  who,  working 
together,  are  able  to  create  establishments  of 
international  importance,  and  give  to  the  public 
a  service  impossible  to  obtain  otherwise,  at  the 
same  time,  afford  profitable  employment  for 
thousands.  Chicago  has  the  distinction  of  being 
the  headquarters  for  the  largest  and  finest  retail 
mercantile  establishment  in  the  world,  and  yet 
it  is  very  doubtful  if  Marshall  Field  &  Com- 
pany would  occupy  the  place  it  does  today, 
had  not  the  founder  of  it  been  one  who,  almost 
from  the  beginning,  sought  to  surround  himself 
with  men  of  unusual  ability,  and  to  give  such 
men  almost  unlimited  power  in  their  several 
special  departments.  At  any  rate,  such  has 
been  and  is  the  policy  of  this  establishment, 
and  in  it  the  artistic  ability,  business  acumen 
and  knowledge  of  Franklin  Ames  found  gratify- 
ing recognition  and  proper  expansion. 

Franklin  Ames  was  born  at  Becket,  Mass., 
July  7,  1845,  a  son  of  Justin  M.  and  Anna 
H.  (Chaffee)  Ames.  The  father  was  a  farmer. 
Growing  up  on  the  homestead,  Franklin  Ames 
early  learned  lessons  of  industry  and  thrift  he 
never  forgot,  and  found  in  nature  combinations 
of  color  he  later  sought  to  have  reproduced 
in  the  art  to  which  he  devoted  his  mature 
years.  He  attended  the  local  schools,  and  in 
young  manhood  entered  the  educational  field  as 
a  teacher,  having  a  school  at  Saratoga,  N.  Y. 
Forty-five  years  ago.  Franklin  Ames  turned  his 


face  westward,  and  arriving  at  Chicago,  found 
congenial  surroundings  in  the  business  with 
which  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  working 
hours.  From  the  beginning  his  taste  was  rec- 
ognized, and  in  time  he  was  made  buyer  for 
his  firm  of  rugs  and  tapestries,  traveling  all 
over  the  world  to  glean  the  choicest  specimens. 
As  the  years  progressed,  Mr.  Ames  became 
known  as  the  dean  of  buyers,  and  his  advice 
was  sought  by  others  less  proficient,  while  his 
judgment  with  relation  to  any  article  under 
discussion  was  never  questioned.  While  he  was 
an  artist  to  his  finger-tips,  he  had  a  practical 
side  to  his  nature,  possibly  inherited  from  that 
stanch  patriot,  Col.  Thomas  Knowlton,  of 
Revolutionary  fame,  who  was  one  of  his  dis- 
tinguished ancestors.  Among  other  things 
which  gained  Mr.  Ames  substantial  recognition 
was  his  invention,  the  Ames  Carpet  Sewing 
Machine,  which  is  used  throughout  the  world. 
On  July  11,  1876,  Mr.  Ames  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Emma  Cowen,  of  Columbus, 
Ohio,  a  daughter  of  Washington  and  Elizabeth 
(Lemmon)  Cowen,  and  they  became  the  parents 
of  two  children,  namely :  James  C,  who  lives 
at  Chicago;  and  Germaine,  who  is  Mrs.  Glenn 
Hall  of  New  York  City.  While  he  never  ob- 
truded his  religious  views,  Mr.  Ames  was 
known  among  his  associates  as  a  man  of  deep 
convictions,  and  the  Presbyterian  Church  had 
in  him  a  consistent  member.  His  social  pro- 
clivities found  pleasant  surroundings  at  the 
Union  League  and  South  Shore  Country  clubs, 
to  which  he  belonged.  Death  claimed  Mr.  Ames 
January  20,  1918,  five  years  after  his  retire- 
ment from  active  life.  An  American  in  the 
truest  sense  of  the  word,  he  loyally  supported 
the  government  during  the  war,  and  strove  to 
exert  his  influence  which  was  strong  and  wide- 


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spread,  to  aid  in  defeating  the  enemy,  and 
w!:ile  he  was  not  spared  to  witness  the  consum- 
mation of  his  hopes,  he  had  such  faith  in  the 


strength  of  our  government  and  the  bravery 
of  our  soldiers,  that  he  never  felt  a  single  doubt 
as  to  the  final  outcome. 


SMITH  DYKINS  ATKINS. 


The  birth  of  Smith  Dykins  Atkins  occurred 
June  9,  1835,  at  Horseheads,  Chemung  County, 
N.  Y.,  he  being  a  son  of  Adna  Stanley  and 
Sarah  (Dykins)  Atkins.  When  he  was  eight 
years  old  his  parents  came  to  Illinois,  locating 
at  Freeport,  and  there  he  later  became  associ- 
ated with  the  Prairie  Farmer.  Still  later  he 
became  a  student  at  Mt.  Morris  College,  and 
studied  law.  After  his  admission  to  the  bar, 
he  was  elected  state's  attorney  of  Jo  Daviess, 
Stephenson   and   Winnebago  counties,   and  was 


so  acting  when  President  Lincoln's  first  call  for 
troops  was  received.  Mr.  Atkins  was  asked  to 
draw  up  an  enlistment  roll,  and  complying, 
signed  his  own  name  as  the  first  man  to  enlist, 
subsequently  resigning  as  state's  attorney.  For 
years  he  was  president  of  the  Stephenson 
County  Old  Settlers'  Association ;  was  a  Mason, 
and  belonged  to  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public and  Loyal  Legion.  His  death  occurred 
March  27,  1913. 


GEORGE  FREDERIC  WESTOVER. 


George  F.  Westover  was  born  at  Manlius,  New 
York,  August  18,  1834,  a  son  of  Frederic  and 
Phebe  (Miller)  Westover.  The  Westovers  were 
Tories  and  were  among  the  earliest  of  the  Colon- 
ists. George  F.  Westover — a  fervent  patriot — 
was  one  of  the  most  able  and  learned  lawyers 
of  the  Chicago  Bar. 

His  early  boyhood  was  spent  on  a  farm.  When 
he  was  nine  years  old  he  came  west,  accompany- 
ing Professor  Bailey  of  Manlius,  making  the  voy- 
age from  Buffalo  to  Milwaukee  on  the  steamer 
"New  Orleans."  At  that  time  there  were  no  rail- 
roads and  that  section  of  the  country  was  but 
very  thinly  settled.  On  reaching  Milwaukee 
he  sought  the  keeper  of  the  lighthouse,  Eli  Bates, 
a  family  friend,  and  with  his  direction  made  his 
way  to  the  residence  of  a  married  sister.  Mr. 
Bates  was  then  keeping  the  lighthouse  at  $35  a 
month,  but  subsequently  became  a  resident  of 
Chicago,  and  died  a  millionaire. 

George  F.  Westover  remained  in  Milwaukee 
until  he  entered  Oberlin  College  in  1852.  The 
following  year  his  parents  located  in  Wisconsin, 
and  he  returned  there  and  became  a  student  of 
Milwaukee  University  where  he  graduated  and 
later  became  an  instructor  of  Latin  and  Greek. 
He  read  law  with  Hon.  Jason  Downer  and  with 
Leander  Wyman,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Wis- 
consin Bar  in  1859.  In  1861  he  settled  in 
Waukesha  County,  Wisconsin.  He  was  soon 
appointed  to  a  place  in  the  paymaster's  depart- 
ment in  the  Army  at  Vicksburg. 

In  1866  he  became  associated  in  the  practice 
of  law  with  D.  W.  Small  of  Oconomowoc,  Wis- 


consin, and  so  continued  until  1870,  when  Mr. 
Small  was  elected  Circuit  Judge. 

In  1874  he  became  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Bar,  and  established  his  residence  here.  He 
formed  a  partnership  with  George  A.  Shufeldt, 
a  brother  of  Admiral  Shufeldt  of  the  United 
States  Navy,  the  firm  being  "Shufeldt,  Westover 
and  Ball."  The  association  was  continued  until 
Judge  Farlin  Q.  Ball  was  called  to  the  Bench 
and  until  18S5  when  Mr.  Shufeldt  retired  from 
the  firm.  Later  he  formed  the  firm  of  Westover 
&  Carr.  In  1900  he  relinquished  the  greater 
part  of  his  practice  and  moved  to  Oconomowoc, 
Wisconsin. 

Mr.  Westover's  first  marriage  was  to  Miss 
Mary  Drury,  a  daughter  of  Judge  Drury  of  Fond 
du  Lac,  Wisconsin.  Two  years  following  her 
death  he  was  married,  April  14,  1868,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Quackenbush  Miller  of  Brooklyn,  New 
York.  She  had  come  west  to  visit  her  brother, 
Dr.  Daniel  McLaren  Miller  of  Oconomowoc,  Wis- 
consin, where  she  met  Mr.  Westover.  They  have 
one  daughter,  Vesta  M.  Westover  (Mrs.  Harry 
Channon)  of  Chicago.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Channon 
have  one  son,  Henry  Channon  III.  Mrs.  West- 
over  died  in  1911.  at  Oconomowoc,  and  a  few 
years  later  Mr.  Westover  went  to  Los  Angeles 
where  the  rest  of  his  life  was  spent. 

He  was  one  of  the  foremost  lawyers  at  the 
Chicago  Bar  during  his  residence  here ;  and  he 
had  charge  of  some  cases  of  international  im- 
portance that  were  tried  in  London.  He  was  for 
a  long  time  attorney  for  the  John  V.  Farwell 
Company. 


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He  was  active  in  his  practice  of  law  right  up 
to  the  end  of  his  life.  He  was  chief  Counsel  for 
the  H.  H.  Shufeldt  Estate  for  forty-nine  con- 
secutive years,  and  until  his  death.  He  con- 
tinuously gave  his  services,  without  recompense, 
to  all  who  needed  them.  Numerous  eulogies 
from  the  Poor,  among  his  clients,  came  with  his 
death.  In  disposition,  Mr.  Westover  was  most 
cheerful,  radiating  optimism  to  all  who  met  him. 
He  was  possessed  of  a  fine  mind  and  was  also 
a  writer  of  exceptional  ability.  His  Chicago 
residence  was  at  No.  1434  Astor  Street  since 
1891.     His  death  occurred  October  10,  1921,  in 


his  eighty-seventh  year,  at  Los  Angeles,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Vesta  Westover  Channon  (Mrs.  Harry)  of 
1434  Astor  Street,  Chicago,  is  the  President  and 
founder  of  the  American  Library  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Strasbourg,  France.  The  Library  was 
founded  Oct.  6,  1923.  This  collection  of  books, 
exclusively  by  American  authors,  is  an  American 
tribute  to  the  immortal  Pasteur.  It  includes 
many  rare  autographed  copies,  among  them 
"The  Price  of  Freedom"  offered  by  President 
Coolidge.  The  Library  is  housed  in  the  Faculty 
of  Letters,  at  Strasbourg. 


BENJAMIN  FKANKLIN  AYER. 


1  ae  Chicago  bar  lost  one  of  its  ablest  mem- 
bers, and  the  community  generally,  a  public- 
spirited  citizen  in  the  passing  from  this  sphere 
of  earthly  endeavor  of  Benjamin  Franklin  Ayer 
of  Chicago.  He  was  born  at  Kingston,  N.  H., 
April  22,  1825,  a  son  of  Robert  Ayer  and  his 
wife,  Louisa  (Sanborn)  Ayer,  members  of  New 
England  families.  The  Ayer  family  was 
founded  in  the  American  Colonies  by  John  Ayer 
who  came  to  them  from  England  in  1637,  and 
settled  at  Haverhill  in  1645.  The  Sanborns  are 
descended  from  Stephen  Batchelder,  who  came 
from  Derbyshire,  England  in  1632,  and  became 
the  first  pastor  of  the  first  church  of  Hampdon, 
New  Hampshire,  in  1638,  and  it  is  interesting  to 
note  that  Daniel  Webster  and  Lewis  Cass  are 
also  descended  from  him. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Ayer  was  graduated  from 
I?art;nouth  College  in  1846,  following  which  he 
studied  law  at  the  Dane  Law  School,  Harvard 
University,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Manchester, 
New  Hampshire  and  his  remarkable  talents 
received  almost  immediate  and  signal  recogni- 
tion. In  1853  he  was  sent  to  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Legislature,  and  in  the  subsequent  year 
was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  for  Hillsbor- 
ough County. 

Mr.  Ayer  came  to  Chicag )  in  1857 ;  and,  in 
spite  of  the  fact  that  there  were  a  number  of 
the  foremost  men  of  legal  profession  of  the 
country  gathered  in  the  "village  by  the  lake," 
he  rose  with  amazing  rapidity,  and  in  1861  was 
made  corporation  counsel,  and  two  years  later 
drafted  the  revised  city  charter. 

The  early  sixties  were  strenuous  times  for  the 
country  and  a  period  of  great  development  for 
Chicago,  days  which  marked  the  beginning  of 


its  future  greatness,  and  in  this  expansion  Mr. 
Ayer  played  a  most  important  part.  Although  a 
Democrat,  he  was  one  of  the  conservative  mem- 
bers, and  he  voiced  the  sentiments  of  the  city 
upon  several  important  occasions.  One  of  these 
was  during  the  excursion  to  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, at  the  time  of  the  opening  of  the 
Pittsburgh  &  Fort  Wayne  Railroad,  when  on 
January  25,  1861,  he  spoke  in  response  to  the 
toast  "Our  Guests,"  as  follows : 

"We  would  cultivate  with  you  those  amicable 
and  fraternal  feelings  which  ought  always  to 
be  cherished  between  the  people  of  all  of  the 
states  composing  our  hitherto  happy  and  pros- 
perous Union.  At  this  alarming  and  dangerous 
crisis,  when  some  of  our  states  are  madly  repu- 
diating their  constitutional  obligations  and  the 
Federal  government  is  menaced  with  destruc- 
tion, it  becomes  those  who  remain  loyal  to  the 
constitution  to  take  temperate  counsel  together 
and  consider  what  can  be  done  to  allay  sectional 
discord,  to  heal  existing  difficulties,  and  bring 
back  the  people  of  the  disaffected  states  to  the 
observance  of  their  constitutional  duties." 

The  above,  of  course,  was  delivered  prior  to 
any  overt  act  of  armed  resistance.  On  July  4, 
1862,  upon  the  occasion  of  the  first  official  cele- 
bration of  that  great  day  by  the  City  of  Chicago, 
Mr.  Ayer  as  orator  of  the  day  said  in  part : 

"The  pretexts  for  their  rebellion  are  nu- 
merous. I  have  no  time  to  discuss  them.  It  is 
sufficient  to  say  that  some  of  them  are  un- 
founded, many  of  them  are  frivolous,  and  all  of 
them  fall  far  short  of  furnishing  either  justifi- 
cation or  excuse  for  the  atrocious  conspiracy 
which  has  already  bathed  a  continent  in  blood. 
The  nature  and  magnitude  of  the  interests  at 
stake   have   been    already    indicated.      It    is    a 


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death  struggle  for  Constitutional  Liberty  and 
Law.  It  involves  the  welfare  of  future  and  un- 
born millions ;  on  the  decision  of  which  hang3 
the  destiny  of  America,  and  in  that  the  destiny 
of  the  world.  Let  us  then  take  courage.  God 
did  not  create  this  fair  land  to  be  the  theatre 
of  unceasing  anarchy  and  strife.  The  rebellion 
will  be  subdued,  and  the  lost  stars  which  have 
been  shot  so  madly  from  their  sphere  will  yet 
glisten  again  in  the  glorious  galaxy  of  the 
Union." 

With  the  completion  of  his  official  career,  Mr. 
Ayer  assisted  in  the  formation  of  the  firm  of 
Beckworth,  Ayer  &  Kales,  which  continued  for 
eight  years  and  then,  upon  the  retirement  of 
Judge  Beckworth,  became  Ayer  and  Kales. 
These  two  gentlemen  remained  together  with 
mutual  benefit  until  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Ayer 
from  a  general  practice  to  become  solicitor  for 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  He  was  later 
made  one  of  its  directors  and  its  general  coun- 
sel. It  was  said  of  him  while  he  was  in  the 
height  of  his  usefulness  with  this  great  road  as 
follows : 

"Benjamin  F.  Ayer  has  stood  in  the  front  rank 
of  lawyers  at  Chicago  for  more  than  thirty 
years.  Nothing  has  been  allowed  to  divert  him 
from  his  profession.  He  never  relies  upon 
others  to  do  his  work.  Every  question  is  in- 
vestigated until  the  subject  is  exhausted.  While 
not  controlled  by  precedents,  he  personally  ex- 
amines every  case  where  the  subject  has  been 
involved,  in  order  to  extract  the  principles  ap- 
plicable to  the  matter  in  hand.  The  most  re- 
markable quality  is  the  ability  to  make  a  correct 
and  logical  statement  of  his  case  to  the  court. 
This  is  done  in  language  which  cannot  be  mis- 
understood, and  when  presented  orally,  it  is 
with  a  clear  voice  and  appropriate  emphasis, 
giving  the  greatest  pleasure  to  the  listener.    The 


manner  is  one  of  honesty  and  candor  which 
leaves  no  room  for  doubt  as  to  his  own  convic- 
tions. He  has  always  endeavored  to  aid  the 
court  in  arriving  at  correct  conclusions,  both  as 
to  fact  and  law,  believing  it  the  highest  duty 
of  the  lawyer  to  see  that  justice  is  done.  In 
short  he  commands  the  confidence  and  respect  of 
judges  and  lawyers,  and  as  a  citizen  is  above 
reproach." 

Mr.  Ayer  was  able  to  direct  the  policies  of 
his  road  in  such  a  manner  as  to  steer  clear  of 
many  of  the  harassing  and  delicate  difficulties. 
Not  only  was  he  able  to  adjust  matters  and 
solve  problems  in  which  legal  controversies  were 
involved,  but  those  others  involving  public  ques- 
tions, especially  those  connected  with  the  va- 
rious and  unending  negotiations  which  were 
and  are,  constantly  arising  between  the  road 
and  Chicago.  For  this  particular  branch  of 
work  he  was  eminently  qualified. 

In  1868  Mr.  Ayer  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Janet  A.  Hopkins,  of  Madison,  Wisconsin, 
a  daughter  of  Judge  Hopkins  of  the  District 
Court  of  the  United  States.  They  had  four 
children,  namely:  Walter,  Mary  Louise,  Janet 
and  Margaret  Helen.  Mr.  Ayer  belonged  to  the 
American  Bar  Association ;  the  Chicago  Bar  As- 
sociation, of  which  he  was  president ;  the  Society 
of  the  Sons  of  New  Hampshire,  which  he  served 
for  two  years  as  president ;  the  Western  Rail- 
road Association,  of  which  he  was  president  for 
fifteen  years ;  the  Chicago  Historical  Society, 
The  Chicago  Law  Institute,  the  Chicago  Liter- 
ary Club  and  the  Chicago  Club.  For  many  years 
Mr.  Ayer  was  a  pew  holder  of  St.  James'  Episco- 
pal Church,  but  he  was  not  a  church  member. 
Mr.  Ayer  passed  from  this  life  on  April  6,  1903, 
and  his  city  and  his  profession  lost  one  of  their 
finest  representatives. 


EUGENE  S.  TALBOT. 


Dr.  Eugene  S.  Talbot  was  born  at  Sharon, 
Massachusetts,  March  8,  1847,  a  son  of  Solomon 
and  Emily  (Hawes)  Talbot,  both  natives  of 
Massachusetts.  The  family  is  one  that  is  re- 
corded far  back  in  the  history  of  England,  and 
has  been  represented  in  America  since  the 
country's  earliest  days. 

Eugene  S.  Talbot,  as  a  boy,  attended  Ston- 
ingham  Institute  at  Sharon,  Massachusetts.  He 
later  took  up  the  study  of  dentistry  and  gradu- 
ated from  the  Pennsylvania  Dental  College,  with 


his  degree,  in  1873.  He  received  his  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  upon  graduating  from  Rush 
Medical  College,  Chicago,  in  1880.  In  1902  Ken- 
yon  College  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws.  His  degree  of  Master  of  Arts 
was  conferred  by  Whitman  College  in  1903,  and 
his  degree  of  Doctor  of  Science  was  conferred 
by  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  in  1915. 

He  was  Professor  of  Stomatology  at  the  Illi- 
nois Medical  College.  He  was  elected  Honorary 
President   of   the  dental   section    of  the  Tenth 


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International  Medical  Congress,  held  at  Berlin, 
in  1899,  and  of  the  Twelfth  Congress,  held  at 
Moscow,  in  1897.  He  was  an  honorary  member 
of  the  Sociedad  Odontologica  Espanola,  of  the 
Odontologischen  Gesellshaft  Generale  des  Den- 
tistes  de  France.  He  served  as  Vice  President 
of  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  was 
also  an  honored  member  of  the  Chicago  Medi- 
cal Society.  He  was  a  fellow  of  the  Chicago 
Academy  of  Medicine,  of  the  Chicago  Academy 
of  Sciences,  of  the  A.  A.  A.  S.,  and  of  the 
Stomatological  Society  of  Hungary.  He  was  a 
corresponding  member  of  the  Association  of 
Danish  Dentists.  He  was  chosen  honorary 
President  of  the  International  Association  of 
Stomatology,  Paris,  and  a  member  of  the  French 
Congress  of  Stomatology.  He  was  an  honorary 
member  of  the  Budapest  Royal  Society  of  Phy- 
sicians and  of  the  Italian  Stomatological  So- 
ciety. He  also  belonged,  socially,  to  the  Authors' 
Club  of  London  and  to  the  University  Club  of 
Chicago. 


As  a  writer  on  scientific  subjects  Doctor  Tal- 
bot holds  preeminent  recognition  throughout 
the  world.  For  the  list  of  the  titles  of  works 
of  which  he  is  author,  please  consult  "Who's 
Who  in  America." 

Doctor  Talbot  was  married,  in  Chicago,  on 
September  2G,  1876,  to  Miss  Flora  Estey,  a 
daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  Willis  H.  and  Mar- 
garet (Meloy)  Estey,  of  Chicago.  Doctor  and 
Mrs.  Talbot  have  three  children :  Florence  (Mrs. 
Donald  R.  Wegg),  Eugene  S.  Talbot,  Jr.,  and 
Margaret   (Mrs.  Harris  E.  Adriance,  Jr.). 

Doctor  Talbot  was  a  devoted  member  of 
Unity  Church,  Chicago,  and  for  years  he 
has    served    this    body    as    one    of   its    officers. 

When  he  was  nearing  his  seventy-eighth  birth- 
day, Doctor  Talbot  was  called  from  this  life, 
December  20,  1924.  He  is  one  of  our  truly  great 
men  for  he  put  into  the  many  years  that  were 
granted  him,  a  most  remarkable  quality  of 
thought,  of  unremittent  work  and  of  inesti- 
mable service  to  mankind. 


ERNEST  WOLTERSDORF. 


The  late  Ernest  Woltersdorf  of  Chicago  and 
Oak  Park,  Illinois,  was  born  in  Varno,  Prussia, 
on  October  18,  1855,  a  son  of  Frederick  and 
Frederika  (Ohnesorge)  Woltersdorf.  When  he 
was  about  three  years  old  tbe  family  came  to 
America,  and  soon  established  their  home  in 
Chicago.  Here  the  son  attended  school,  having 
also  attended  school  for  a  period  at  Lawrence, 
Kansas. 

His  first  business  experience  was  gained  with 
"Burnham's,"  wholesale  druggists,  Chicago.  He 
next  went  with  the  firm  of  Fuller  &  Fuller. 
He  remained  with  them  until  1879,  after  which 
he  spent  some  years  out  in  Colorado.  On  return- 
ing to  Chicago  he  joined  the  firm  of  Van  Schacks 
and  Stevenson,  wholesale  druggists.  When  the 
firm  dissolved  he  and  Mr.  Stevenson  continued 
in  this  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Robert 
Stevenson  &  Company.  He  was  thus  identified 
until  1892. 

In  1892  Mr.  Woltersdorf  founded  his  own  real- 
estate  business.  He  had  gained  considerable 
experience  in  real-estate  transactions  prior  to 
this  time ;  and  he  had  foreseen  such  possibilities 
for  real-estate  development  that  he  determined 
to  make  this  business  his  life  work.  For  the 
following  thirty-two  years  he  specialized  in  the 
sale  and  management  of  West  Side  property.  The 
volume  of  the  business   he   handled   was   very 


large.  His  work,  all  the  way  through,  was 
characterized  by  exceptional  conscientiousness 
and  community  interest. 

He  served  the  Chicago  Real  Estate  Board  on 
the  Valuation  Committee,  and  he  did  a  great 
deal  of  work  in  matters  relating  to  the  zoning 
for  the  Chicago  Real  Estate  Board  and  for 
the  City  Club. 

Mr.  Woltersdorf  was  married  April  15,  1884, 
at  Chicago,  to  Miss  Henriette  E.  Nockin,  a 
daughter  of  Joseph  M.  and  Louise  (De  La 
Motte)  Nockin.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woltersdorf  have 
one  daughter,  Virginia.  She  is  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Stanley  Gibson  of  Chicago.  The  family  home 
has  long  been  at  Oak  Park,  Illinois.  Mr.  Wol- 
tersdorf was  deeply  attached  to  his  home.  He 
was  a  lover  of  nature  and  of  the  out-of-doors. 
It  had  also  been  his  privilege  and  pleasure  to 
travel  extensively. 

Mr.  Woltersdorf  was  a  member  of  the  Ethical 
Society  for  more  than  thirty  years,  and  was 
chosen  President  of  this  body  in  1924.  He  was 
also  Vice  President,  Trustee  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Henry  Booth  House  Settlement.  He  was  a 
life  member  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  and 
of  the  Chicago  Geographic  Society  and  the  Na- 
tional Geographic  Societies.  He  belonged  to  the 
Friends  of  our  Native  Landscape. 


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It  was  on  October  1,  1924,  that  Mr.  Wolters-  the  city;  and  in  every  way  he  was  an  admira- 
dorf  died,  within  two  weeks  of  the  close  of  his  ble  man,  strong,  delightful  and  thoroughly  Chris- 
sixty-eighth  year.  His  business  was  a  success  tian.  He  is  missed  from  the  places  that  knew 
and  it  contributed  much  to  the  development  of  him. 


DAVID  NELSON  BARKER. 


The  late  David  M.  Barker,  of  Chicago  and 
Evanston,  was  born  at  Homer,  New  York, 
March  3,  1844,  a  son  of  David  Earle  and  Naomi 
(Hill)  Barker.  The  father  was  a  farmer  and 
owned  a  fine  place  near  Homer. 

David  N.  Barker  studied  in  the  public  schools 
and  at  Courtland  County  Academy,  Homer. 
Then  he  attended  the  Ames  Commercial  College 
at  Syracuse,  New  York.  He  came  West  to  Wau- 
kegan,  Illinois,  in  18G1  and  began  work  in  a 
dry  goods  store  there.  Eventually  he  became  a 
partner  in  the  business.  In  1872  he  sold  his 
interest  and  moved  to  Chicago.  In  1875  he 
joined  the  firm  of  Jones  and  Laughlin,  in  the 
steel  business  here.  The  firm  later  changed  its 
name  to  Jones  and  Laughlin,  Limited,  and,  still 
later,  became  the  Jones  and  Laughlin  Steel 
Company.  Mr.  Barker  was  made  manager  of 
the  business  in  1894,  and  remained  in  this  office 
until  his  retirement  from  the  firm  on  July  1, 
1916. 


Mr.  Barker  was  married  on  September  7, 
1870,  at  Waukegan,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Mary  Jane 
Sherman,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  Alson  S.  Sherman, 
a  pioneer  Chicagoan.  The  children  born  to 
them  were:  Earle  Sherman  Barker,  who  died 
on  September  3,  1918,  and  Marian  (Mrs.  Luman 
R.  Wing,  Jr.)  of  Evanston.  The  family  home 
is  at  1220  Ridge  avenue,  Evanston,  Illinois. 
Mr.  Barker  was  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
Club  and  of  the  Westmoreland  Golf  Club. 

David  N.  Barker  died  on  July  21,  1923,  in 
his  eightieth  year.  For  nearly  fifty  years  he 
was  active  in  the  business  life  of  Chicago,  hold- 
ing during  the  greater  part  of  that  period,  a  po- 
sition of  high  responsibility.  His  earnest  work, 
his  scrupulous  regard  for  the  interests  in  which 
he  shared,  and  the  unusual  value  of  his  ripened 
judgment,  earned  him  a  very  representative 
place  in  the  steel  industry  here.  He  was  also 
a  director  of  the  State  Bank  of  Chicago. 


WILLIAM  WILCOX  BARNARD. 


The  year  Nineteen  Hundred  and  Twenty-One 
has  marked  the  passing  of  many  people  who 
have  been  Chicagoans  since  the  period  preced- 
ing the  Chicago  Fire.  In  thinking  of  them, 
and  of  the  past  years,  we  are  reminded  that 
Chicago  has  not  long  been  at  its  present  point 
of  development.  The  growth  thus  far  attained 
has  come,  quite  largely,  through  the  combined 
efforts  of  the  people  who  have  lived  here  for 
the  past  fifty  and  more  years.  Among  those 
men  recently  deceased,  whose  names  are  espe- 
cially worthy  of  mention  in  a  record  covering 
a  long  period  of  Chicago's  industrial  progress 
is  the  late  William  Wilcox  Barnard. 

William  Wilcox  Barnard  was  born  on  a  farm 
in  Chicago,  very  near  the  present  site  of  his  late 
home  in  Beverly  Hills,  on  July  4,  1856.  His 
parents  were  William  and  Miranda  (Wilcox) 
Barnard.  They  are  numbered  among  the  earli- 
est residents  of  that  section  of  the  city  for  the 
mother  came  here  in  1844,  and  the  father  in 
1846.     In   more  recent  years   their  homestead 


farm  has  been  subdivided  and  now  forms  a 
portion  of  Beverly  Hills.  William  W.  Barnard, 
as  a  boy,  attended  the  Englewood  High  School 
and  Bryant  and  Stratton's  Business  College. 

His  first  connection  in  business  was  as  a  clerk 
in  a  small  seed  store,  on  Clark  street,  under 
D.  S.  Heffron.  He  later  became  bookkeeper 
and  cashier  for  Hiram  Sibley  and  Company, 
who  were  pioneer  seedsmen  and  owners  of  a 
warehouse.  In  November,  1888,  William  W. 
Barnard  established  his  own  business,  as  a 
seedsman.  In  1905,  this  business  was  consoli- 
dated with  Goodwin,  Harris  and  Company  as 
The  W.  W.  Barnard  Company,  dealers  in  seeds 
and  stock  foods.  Mr.  Barnard  was  made  presi- 
dent and  treasurer  and  continued  as  such  until 
his  death,  March  10,  1921.  His  connection  with 
the  seed  business  in  Illinois  covers  about  fifty 
continuous  years. 

Mr.  Barnard  will  also  be  remembered,  by  the 
many    friends    who    knew    him,    for    his    long 


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connection  with  Bethany  Union  Church.  He 
served  this  organization  as  trustee  for  many 
years.  He  belonged  to  the  Chicago  Association 
of  Commerce  and  was  also  a  member,  until  re- 


cently, of  the  Ridge  Country  Club.  Mr.  Barnard 
is  survived  by  his  sisters,  Miss  Alice  Barnard, 
Mrs.  E.  G.  Howe  and  Mrs.  George  Graham,  of 
Beverly  Hills. 


JOHN  TERBORGH. 


John  Terborgh  was  born  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 
on  May  9,  1878,  a  son  of  John  and  Grace  (Wes- 
terbring)  Terborgh,  both  of  whom  were  natives 
of  Holland.  The  parents  came  to  the  United 
States  about  1866. 

John  Terborgh  attended  public  school  in  Chi- 
cago. After  finishing  the  eighth  grade,  he  went 
to  work,  entering  the  employ  of  Foreman 
Brothers  Banking  Company  at  Chicago.  He 
commenced  work  there  on  June  26,  1893,  as  an 
office  boy.  He  continued  to  be  identified  with 
this  bank  up  to  within  a  year  of  his  death,  ris- 
ing, by  hard  work,  unswerving  loyalty  and  ex- 
ceptional ability,  to  become  Vice  President.  The 
record  of  his  life  contains  a  notably  fine  ex- 
ample and  is  a  source  of  true  inspiration. 

In  1913,  after  having  successfully  filled  posi- 
tions of  lesser  importance  in  the  bank,  he  was 
made  Cashier.  He  held  that  office  for  nine 
years.  In  1922  he  was  elected  Vice  President 
and  he  continued  in  office  until  February,  1926. 
In  1923  the  name  of  the  bank  was  changed  from 
Foreman  Brothers  Banking  Company  to  the 
present  title,  the  Foreman  National  Bank. 


On  June  14,  1905,  Mr.  Terborgh  was  married, 
at  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Ursula  Karp,  a 
daughter  of  Frank  and  Mary  Karp.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Terborgh  have  two  sons,  Douglas  Johnson 
Terborgh,  and  John  Karp  Terborgh.  Mr.  Ter- 
borgh was  a  member  of  the  Christian  Science 
Church,  and  very  active  in  the  work  there  for 
a  good  many  years.  He  also  belonged  to  the 
Union  League  Club  of  Chicago. 

Mr.  Terborgh  was  deeply  interested  in  the 
welfare  of  Chicago,  for  he  was  earnestly  de- 
voted to  the  city  in  which  his  entire  life  was 
spent.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Art  Institute 
of  Chicago.  He  was  also  a  Thirty-second  Degree 
Mason. 

The  close  of  John  Terborgh's  life  came  when 
he  was  but  forty-nine  years  old.  His  was  a 
strong,  good  lovable  nature.  He  was  very 
highly  regarded  by  his  associates  in  Chicago's 
banking  business  and  also  by  the  patrons  of  his 
bank.  His  steady  climb  from  office  boy  to  Vice 
President  of  the  great  institution  he  served  is 
an  index  to  his  mental  strength  and  character. 

John  Terborgh  died  on  May  28,  1927. 


HENRY  HOLMES  BELFIELD. 


Henry  Holmes  Belfield  was  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.,  in  1837,  a  lineal  descendant  of  that 
John  Belfield  who  migrated  from  Normandy  to 
England  shortly  after  the  Norman  conquest,  in 
1066.  A  branch  of  this  family  has  lived  for  gen- 
erations in  Nottingham,  many  of  them  engaged 
in  lace-making;  some  of  them  were  leaders  in 
the  destructive  riots  that  occurred  in  Notting- 
ham when  machines  were  installed  to  replace 
manual  labor. 

Henry  Belfield,  grandfather  of  Henry  Holmes 
Belfield,  in  1820  migrated  with  his  family  from 
Nottingham  to  Philadelphia.  Here,  some  years 
later,  three  of  his  sons  organized  a  brass  foun- 
dry. Henry  Belfield  and  seven  of  his  chil- 
dren lived  each  more  than  eighty  years,  one 
of  them,  William,  Mr.  Belfield's  father,  having 
recently  died  in  his  ninety-first  year.  The 
maiden  name  of  Mr.  Belfield's  mother  was  Sel- 
ener  Marshall,   also  born  in  Nottingham.     She 


was  a  woman  of  unusual  culture,  an  amateur 
musician  of  note,  whose  high  ideals  moulded  the 
character  of  her  son.  After  their  marriage,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  William  Belfield  lived  at  first  in  Phila- 
delphia. Henry  Holmes  Belfield,  the  second  of 
their  eight  children,  was  born  in  a  house  which 
stood  on  land  now  occupied  by  the  store  of  John 
Wanamaker.  In  1844,  with  relatives  and  other 
friends,  they  removed  to  Van  Buren  County, 
Iowa,  to  engage  in  farming.  The  privations  of 
this  isolated  life,  and  the  lack  of  educational 
advantages  for  their  children,  led  them  to  move 
to  Dubuque. 

In  1858,  Henry  Holmes  Belfield  graduated 
from  Iowa  College,  being  awarded  the  valedic- 
tory, and  two  gold  medals ;  and  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  tutor  in  the  college  the  same  day. 
The  following  year  he  was  appointed  principal 
of  the  Fifth  Ward  school  in  Dubuque,  and 
a   few   months  later  was  made  superintendent 


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of  the  city  schools,  although  then  only  twenty- 
one  years  old.  After  the  Civil  war  hegan, 
he  resigned  his  school  office,  and  participated 
in  raising  a  regiment  which  was  mustered 
into  the  government  service  as  the  Eighth  Iowa 
Cavalry.  In  this  regiment  he  served  as  adjutant, 
being  detached  at  various  times  to  the  staffs 
of  Gens.  McCook  and  Thomas.  The  regiment 
was  in  continuous  active  service  as  a  part  of  the 
army  of  the  Tennessee  and  Cumberland ;  a  part 
of  it,  including  Mr.  Belfield,  was  captured  in 
July,  1864.  He  was  a  prisoner  of  war  at  Macon 
and  at  Charleston  until  exchanged  in  Septem- 
ber. At  the  battle  of  Nashville,  December  15 
and  16,  1864,  he  was  severely  injured  when  his 
horse  fell  upon  him,,  but  remained  with  his  regi- 
ment until  it  was  mustered  out  August  27,  1865. 
He  then  returned  to  Dubuque,  becoming  princi- 
pal of  the  Third  Ward  school.  A  year  later  he 
was  appointed  principal  of  the  Jones  school  in 
Chicago,  where  he  served  until  transferred  to 
become  principal  of  the  new  and  commodious 
Dore  school  in  1868.  The  summer  vacation  of 
1867  he  devoted  to  a  visit  to  Europe. 

In  1869  he  married  a  teacher  in  the  Dore 
school,  Miss  Anne  W.  Miller.  She  belonged  to  a 
family  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry ;  her  father,  An- 
drew Miller,  was  born  in  Londonderry  County, 
Ireland,  and  did  not  emigrate  to  the  United 
States  until  he  was  about  twenty-one  years  old. 
He  worked  with  his  uncle,  a  ship-builder  at 
Oswego,  N.  Y.,  where  he  married  Margaret  Wal- 
lace, by  whom  he  had  three  children :  Anne, 
Mary,  and  Andrew.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Belfield  be- 
came the  parents  of  six  children :  Clara  Anne, 
Ada  Marshall,  Andrew  Miller,  Henry  Holmes, 
Henry  William,  and  Margaret  Wallace. 

In  1876,  Mr.  Belfield  was  appointed  principal 
of  the  new  North  Division  High  school.  In  this 
capacity  he  became  impressed  with  the  advan- 
tages that  would  result  from  training  a  boy's 
mind  through  his  hands  as  well  as  from  books ; 
of  directing  the  average  boy's  natural  in- 
stinct for  bodily  activity  into  constructive 
and  instructive  channels.  Mr.  Belfield  became 
one  of  the  pioneer  advocates  of  manual  train- 
ing in  high  schools,  and  a  factor  in  the  or- 
ganization of  the  Chicago  Manual  Training 
School,  of  which  he  was  appointed  director  in 
1883,  and  which  was  opened  under  his  control 
in  1884.  This  school,  the  first  independent 
Manual  Training  School  in  the  country,  located 
at  Michigan  avenue  and  Twelfth  street  was 
built,   equipped,   and   maintained   by    the   Com- 


mercial Club  of  Chicago,  as  a  public  benefaction. 
So  brilliant  was  its  success,  so  far  in  excess  of 
its  accommodations  were  the  applicants  for  ad- 
mission, that  the  Chicago  city  schools  soon  in- 
stalled manual  training  in  their  curriculum. 

In  1891  Mr.  Belfield  was  sent  by  the  United 
States  government,  at  the  instigation  of  Mr.  Car- 
roll D.  Wright,  then  Commissioner  of  Labor,  to 
investigate  technical  schools  in  Europe. 

In  1897,  the  Chicago  Manual  Training  School 
was  amalgamated  with  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago, finally  receiving  the  name,  University  High 
School.  In  1905  accompanied  by  his  wife  and 
one  daughter  he  spent  eight  months  in  Europe, 
traveling  and  studying.  Mr..  Belfield  continued 
to  direct  the  work  of  the  school  until  he  retired 
from  active  duty  in  September,  1908. 

Mr.  Belfield  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Loyal  Legion,  which  he  served  as  senior  vice 
commander.  In  1910  he  took  his  wife  and  two 
daughters  to  Europe  for  an  indefinite  residence. 
Returning  in  May,  1912,  a  visit  was  made  at  the 
home  of  a  daughter,  Mrs.  H.  M.  Bates,  at  Ann 
Arbor,  Michigan,  and  there  Mr.  Belfield  died, 
June  5,  1912. 

In  appreciation  of  his  pioneer  work  in  the 
conception  and  evolution  of  manual  training  as 
an  educational  method,  the  trustees  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  designated  the  new  building 
erected  for  manual  training,  the  "Henry  Holmes 
Belfield  Hall."  A  year  after  his  death,  the  new 
manual  training  building  which  bears  his  name 
was  dedicated ;  and  in  it  was  placed  a  bronze 
tablet  suitably  inscribed,  the  gift  of  his  early 
pupils  in  the  Chicago  Manual  Training  School. 

Modest,  refined,  Mr.  Belfield  never  fully  ap- 
preciated himself,  nor  realized  his  powerful 
influence  for  good  upon  all  with  whom  he  came 
in  contact.  .An  educator  of  unusual  ability,  he 
strove  to  impart  knowledge,  to  stimulate  ambi- 
tion, and  above  all,  to  mould  character.  On  the 
memorial  tablet  presented  to  the  University  by 
his  former  pupils,  he  is  called  "Educator,  Sol- 
dier, Citizen."  These  in  truth  he  was ;  yet  these 
vocations  were  but  phases  of  an  idealism  which 
made  Henry  Holmes  Belfield,  by  precept  and 
example,  a  builder  of  character.  This,  his  loy- 
alty to  ideals,  it  is,  that  abides  in  the  hearts  of 
his  pupils  long  after  the  technical  instruction 
of  the  class-room  is  forgotten ;  and  this  loyalty 
to  ideals  it  was,  that  made  him  a  brave  soldier, 
an  earnest  educator,  a  good  citizen,  in  every 
capacity  an  inspiration  to  righteousness. 


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AMBROSE  LEACH  THOMAS. 


Ambrose  L.  Thomas  was  born  at  Thoinaston, 
Me.,  on  Jan.  10,  1851,  a  son  of  Barney  and  Abi- 
gail (Kalloch)  Thomas.  The  family  is  of  Revo- 
lutionary Stock  and  descended  from  Captain 
Sayward,  one  of  the  participants  in  the  Boston 
Tea  Party. 

A.  L.  Thomas,  as  a  boy,  attended  public  school 
in  Thomaston  and,  later,  in  Boston.  As  soon  as 
he  was  old  enough  he  went  to  work,  to  become 
self-supporting,  entering  the  employ  of  one  of 
the  oldest  newspapers  in  the  East,  the  "Boston 
Traveller,"  as  office  boy.  That  was  the  start  of 
his  thoroughly  successful  business  career. 

The  next  important  change  came  when  he  be- 
came identified  with  the  T.  C.  Evans  Agency,  a 
substantial  firm  handling  newspaper  advertising 
in  Boston.  It  was  while  he  was  working  in  this 
business  that  he  met  Mr.  Daniel  M.  Lord  who, 
with  Mr.  Thomas,  was  later  to  found  the  adver- 
tising house  of  Lord  &  Thomas.  Mr.  Lord  visited 
the  office  of  the  Evans  Agency,  met  Mr.  Thomas 
and  became  deeply  interested  in  his  exceptional 
ability  and  judgment. 

After  a  number  of  conferences  with  Mr.  Lord, 
Mr.  Thomas  came  west  to  Chicago,  about  1881 ; 
and,  at  that  time,  the  present  business  of  Lord 
&  Thomas  was  established.  This  business  has 
grown  until  it  is  one  of  the  best  known  adver- 
tising firms  in  the  world.     A  considerable  por- 


tion of  the  success  to  which  this  noted  firm  has 
attained  must  be  attributed  to  the  work  and  par- 
ticular ability  of  Mr.  Thomas  who  was,  unques- 
tionably, one  of  the  outstanding  advertising  men 
of  his  day. 

Mr.  Thomas  was,  also,  President  of  the  Ster- 
ling Chemical  Company  for  many  years. 

On  December  24,  1874,  Mr.  Thomas  was  mar- 
ried, at  Boston,  Mass.,  to  Miss  Ella  A.  Hewitt, 
a  daughter  of  Lewis  S.  and  Sophia  (Carsley) 
Hewitt,  both  of  whom  came  from  good  old  sub- 
stantial New  England  families. 

Mr.  Thomas  was  a  member  of  Jenkin  Lloyd 
Jones'  Church.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Chicago 
Athletic  Association  and  to  the  Midlothian 
Country  Club. 

The  life  of  Mr.  A.  L.  Thomas  came  to  its  close 
in  his  fifty-sixth  year.  We  feel  that  he  accom- 
plished probably  as  much  as  any  man  in  the 
Central  States  in  the  establishment  and  advance- 
ment of  the  vast  advertising  business  in  this 
country.    His  name  will  long  be  remembered. 

Mr.  Thomas  died  on  November  10,  1906.  He  is 
survived  by  his  widow  Mrs.  Ella  A.  Thomas  and 
his  younger  daughter  Mrs.  John  Harvey  Dingle 
(Florence  L.  Thomas).  His  older  daughter  and 
only  other  child,  Mrs.  Roscoe  U.  Lansing  (Ma- 
bel Vittrice  Thomas)  passed  away  on  June  18, 
1926. 


FRANK  HENRY  THOMAS. 


Frank  H.  Thomas  was  born  at  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  February  15,  1861,  a  son  of  James 
and  Adelaide  (Jackson)  Thomas,  who  were  na- 
tives of  Thomaston  and  Rockland,  Maine,  re- 
spectively. His  parents  died  when  he  was  a 
small  boy  and  he  went  to  live  with  his  uncle, 
A.  L.  Thomas,  at  Boston.  Mr.  A.  L.  Thomas  was 
the  original  member  of  that  name  in  the  firm  of 
Lord  &  Thomas. 

He  attended  school  in  Boston  and  gave  evi- 
dence of  exceptional  ability ;  however  his  inde- 
pendent spirit  made  him  wish  to  work  and  to 
become  self-supporting.  Accordingly  he  got  a 
job.  His  first  earnings  were  at  the  rate  of  $2.50 
a  week.  Later  he  became  a  messenger  in  the 
Boston  Public  Library.  Not  long  thereafter  he 
went  to  work  in  the  bindery  of  that  library  to 
learn  the  trade  of  bookbinder. 

From  Boston  he  came  to  Chicago  in  1880  and 
entered  the  business  of  Lord  &  Thomas  as  book- 


keeper. Subsequently  he  was  promoted  and 
made  cashier  of  this  expanding  firm. 

In  1889  he  moved  to  New  York  City  and  be- 
came manager  of  the  New  York  branch  of  Lord 
&  Thomas. 

In  1890  he  returned  to  Chicago  and  established 
his  permanent  home.  He  continued  his  connec- 
tion with  the  business  of  Lord  &  Thomas  and  for 
a  long  time  had  charge  of  their  entire  religious 
list.     He  left  the  firm  in  1896. 

In  recent  years  he  had  been  in  business  for 
himself,  as  publishers'  representative,  achieving 
a  well-merited  success. 

Years  ago  Mr.  Thomas  became  profoundly  in- 
terested in  the  welfare  of  the  many  under  priv- 
ileged boys  and  girls  of  Chicago.  He  became  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Off-The-Street  Club,  which 
has  since  accomplished  such  splendid  results  for 
the  protection,  guidance  and  encouragement  of 
boys  and  girls  here;  and  he  undertook  to  raise 


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the  money  which  has  made  this  most  important 
work  possible.  The  money  was  raised  largely 
among  the  advertising  men  of  Chicago. 

On  July  16,  1S90,  Mr.  Thomas  was  married  to 
Miss  Sarah  Hewett  of  Chicago,  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  R.  and  Elizabeth  H.  Hewett.  They  be- 
came the  parents  of  three  children,  Remington 
H.,  Kenneth  H.  and  Elizabeth  H.  Thomas.  Rem- 
ington H.  Thomas  died  on  December  30,  1903. 

Mr.  Thomas  was  a  member  of  St.  Mark's  Epis- 
copal Church.     He  also  belonged  to  the  Chicago 


Athletic  Association  and  to  the  Advertising  Club. 
He  served  on  the  Advertising  Council  of  the 
Chicago  Association  of  Commerce. 

Everyone  who  knew  Mr.  Thomas  intimately 
recognized  in  him  a  man  of  very  fine  mind  and 
of  true  nobility  of  character.  His  death  on 
March  21,  1928,  closed  a  life  that  was  a  remark- 
able inspiration  and  a  splendid  example.  He  will 
be  greatly  missed ;  and  his  saving  influence  will 
live  after  him. 


WILLIARD  THOMAS  BLOCK. 


One  of  the  towering  figures  in  connection 
with  railroad  constructive  policies,  the  late 
Williard  T.  Block  is  also  remembered  as  a 
genial  companion,  and  a  high-minded  public- 
spirited  citizen.  While  he  was  a  hard-working, 
hard-headed  man  of  affairs,  deeply  emersed 
in  intensely  practical  matters  which  gave  him 
a  conspicuous  place  before  the  public,  yet  in 
his  moments  of  relaxation  he  was  thoroughly 
delightful  as  a  social  figure.  He  was  able  and 
willing  to  promote  public  interests  of  all  kinds 
being  always  steadfast  and  devoted  to  the  af- 
fairs of  the  moment,  to  which  he  gave  thought- 
ful consideration,  and  upon  which  he  was  rec- 
ognized as  an  authority.  He  possessed  certain 
personal  endowments,  natural  and  cultivated, 
courage,  unselfishness,  a  capacity  for  public 
friendship,  and  whenever  occasion  arose,  proved 
the  mettle  of  individual  Americanism  as  few 
can. 

Williard  Thomas  Block  was  born  at  Colum- 
bia, Pennsylvania,  on  January  6,  1853,  a  son 
of  Abraham  Bernard  and  Barbara  A.  (Brobst) 
Block.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Columbia.  He  began  his  business  career 
when  only  fourteen  years  old  with  the  Phila- 
delphia &  Reading  Railroad,  and  served  it, 
in  various  capacities,  advancing  steadily  until 
1878,  when  he  severed  these  connections  to  go, 
at  the  solicitation  of  John  B.  Carson,  with  the 
Hannibal  and  St.  Joseph  Railroad  to  organize 
the  accounts  of  the  commercial  department  of 
that  road,  and  remained  with  it  from  1878  until 
1882,  during  that  period  placing  that  depart- 
ment in  excellent  shape  and  inaugurating  a 
system  that  is  practically  in  use  today.  He 
then  entered  the  employ  of  R.  T.  Wilson  & 
Company  of  New  York,  and  then  had  charge, 
from  1883  to  1887,  of  the  auditing  department 


of  the  Wisconsin,  Iowa  and  Nebraska  Railroad 
in  Iowa,  being  auditor,  treasurer,  traffic  man- 
ager and  superintendent.  In  1887  he  found 
that  his  arduous  duties  had  somewhat  under- 
mined his  health  and  so  he  took  an  entire  rest 
for  a  year,  following  which  he  bought  the  Fort 
Madison  &  Northwestern  Railroad  under  fore- 
closure, and  organized  a  new  company  of  which 
he  became  president.  It  was  under  his  per- 
sonal supervision  that  ninety-five  miles  of  the 
road  were  built. 

Later  Mr.  Block  promoted  many  enterprises, 
including  the  Grant  Locomotive  Works,  the 
Siemens  &  Halske  Electric  Company,  Grant 
Land  Association  and  the  United  Telephone, 
Telegraph  &  Electric  Company.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago  &  Southern  Railroad,  and 
as  such  bought  a  large  amount  of  land  for  his 
road,  and  in  every  way  did  his  full  duty  as 
one  of  the  masterful  captains  of  finance,  im- 
bued with  a  sense  of  responsibility  for  the 
proper  expansion  of  the  resources  of  his  county. 
From  1885  until  1889  he  was  honored  by  ap- 
pointment as  colonel  on  the  staff  of  Governor 
Larrabee  of  Iowa,  and  was  also  one  of  the 
aide-de-camps  of  the  staff. 

On  November  10,  1880,  Mr.  Block  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Anna  E.  Scott,  a  daughter  of 
William  P.  Scott  of  Iowa,  and  a  niece  of  CoL 
Thomas  A.  Scott,  ex-president  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad.  Mr.  Block  belonged  to  the 
Episcopal  Church.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Real  Estate  Board  and  the  Illinois  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution,  the  Union  League 
Club,  the  South  Shore  Country  Club  and  was 
popular  in  all  of  these  organizations.  His  death 
occurred  on  March  17,  1917.  Mrs.  Block  is 
greatly  valued  in  social  and  club  life  in  Chicago. 


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She  is  a  charter  member  of  the  National  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution  No.  337,  and 
a  charter  member  of  the  Chicago  Chapter  No. 


3,  D.  A.  R.  She  is  the  national  chairman  of 
the  Liquidation  and  Endowment  Committee  of 
the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution. 


HENRY  ALFRED  TAYLOR. 


The  late  Henry  A.  Taylor,  of  Chicago  and  Oak 
Park,  Illinois,  was  born  at  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  August  6,  1856,  a  son  of  James  Alfred 
and  Julia  Eddy  (Arnold)  Taylor,  and  a  descen- 
dant of  Martin  Seamon,  of  Providence,  who  was 
one  of  the  Minute  Men. 

He  attended  school  at  Providence  until  he  was 
fifteen  years  old,  then  he  went  to  work  in  the 
employ  of  the  American  Screw  Company  at 
Providence.  It  is  a  noteworthy  fact  that  he 
continued  to  be  identified  with  this  great  con- 
cern throughout  the  rest  of  his  active  business 
life.  In  1880  he  was  chosen  by  the  company  to 
come  to  Chicago  and  establish  their  branch  of- 
fice at  this  place.  This  he  did.  Later  he  was 
made  general  sales  agent  and  district  manager 
and  a  Director  of  this  corporation.  He  resigned 
from  these  offices,  and  retired  from  business, 
after  more  than  half  a  century  of  unbroken  serv- 
ice, in  January,  1927. 

On  June  16,  1886,  Mr.  Taylor  was  married  to 
Jessie  McArthur  French,  of  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis- 
consin, a  daughter  of  Edwin  C.  and  Margaret 
(McArthur)  French.  Their  children  are:  Mar- 
garet A.  (Mrs.  A.  H.  Yates),  Dorothy  E.,  and  Jo- 
sephine G.  Taylor. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Taylor  established  their  home 
at  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  back  in  1891,  ten  years 
prior  to  the  time  that  that  village  was  incorpora- 
ted. Throughout  the  years  that  have  since  passed, 
Mr.  Taylor  was  very  earnestly  and  deeply  inter- 
ested in  safeguarding  the  welfare  and  in  pro- 
moting the  remarkable  growth  that  this  com- 
munity has  enjoyed.  Such  unselfish  devotion, 
wise  counsel  and  strength  as  he  gave  to  Oak 
Park  has  rarely  been  equalled. 


He  was  largely  responsible  for  the  incorpora- 
tion of  Oak  Park  as  a  village  unto  itself.  For 
eight  years  he  was  President  of  the  Library 
Board.  For  the  fifteen  years  preceding  the 
close  of  his  life  he  was  President  of  the  Park 
Board.  In  his  honor  the  village  changed  the 
name  of  North  Park  to  Henry  A.  Taylor  Park, 
thus  establishing  their  fine  and  lasting  tribute 
to  his  memory. 

Mr.  Taylor  was  a  member  of  the  Advisory 
Committee  of  the  Legislative  Voters  League  of 
the  Citizens  Association.  He  belonged  to  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  to  the 
New  England  Society.  He  was  a  Mason 
(Siloam  Commandery,  K.  T.).  He  was  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic  Association 
and  a  charter  member  of  Westward  Ho. 

He  and  his  family  have  belonged  to  the  First 
Congregational  Church  of  Oak  Park  for  more 
than  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Taylor  was  a  trustee 
of  this  church. 

Mr.  Taylor's  life  came  to  its  close  in  his  sev- 
enty-first year.  His  business  career  was  a  not- 
able one.  He  was  a  constant  reader,  a  student 
of  several  languages,  a  true  lover  of  music,  a  d«>- 
lightful  and  valued  friend.  Few  men  have  so 
endeared  themselves  to  their  communities  by 
long,  useful  service  and  devotion,  as  did  he. 
As  was  said  of  him  :  ''he  gave  dignity  to  the  vo- 
cation of  citizenship  and  encouraged  other  men 
of  his  kind  to  interest  themselves  in  civic  mat- 
ters." 

The  death  of  Henry  A.  Taylor  occurred  Aug- 
ust 26,  1927. 


HENRY  HAMMERSLEY  WALKER. 


Rev.  Henry  Hammersley  Walker  of  Chicago, 
was  born  in  Flint,  Michigan,  on  August  26, 
1871,  son  of  Henry  C.  and  Ann  Jane  (Hammers- 
ley)  Walker,  who  were  natives  of  New  York 
State  and  England,  respectively. 

He  began  his  studies  in  the  public  school  at 
Flint,  Michigan,  and  later  graduated  from  high 
school  at  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan.  Then  he  en- 
tered  the  University  of  Michigan   from   which 


he  graduated  with  his  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts  in  1893.  He  then  went  to  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  from  which  institution  he 
received  his  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity  in 
1896.  From  the  Seminary  he  also  received  a 
fellowship  for  two  years  of  foreign  study.  His 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  was  conferred 
upon  him  by  the  University  of  Halle,  Germany, 
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Returning  to  America  he  began  his  work  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Boulder, 
Colorado.  His  ministry  there  was  of  unusual 
value  in  its  results  and  he  remained  there  for 
twelve  consecutive  years,  between  1898  and 
1910. 

It  was  in  1910  that  he  was  called  to  become 
Professor  of  Ecclesiastical  History  at  Chicago 
Theological  Seminary.  To  this  work  was  later 
added  the  Department  of  Missions. 

On  July  16,  1896,  he  was  married  at  Worces- 
ter, Massachusetts,  to  Miss  Helen  F.  Reed, 
daughter  of  Thomas  H.  and  Mary  Frances 
(Whiting)  Reed.  They  have  three  daughters, 
Helen  F.  Walker,  Florence  H.  Walker  and  Mar- 
garet Walker  (Mrs.  Glen  way  W.  Nethercut). 
The  family  home  has  been  on  the  South  Side 
in  Chicago  since  1915. 

Professor  Walker  was  a  member  of  the  So- 


ciety of  Biblical  Research,  and  of  the  American 
Society  of  Church  History.  He  also  belonged 
to  the  Quadrangle  Club,  the  Apollos  Club  and 
to  Phi  Beta  Kappa  honorary  fraternity. 

Back  in  the  days  of  his  ministry  at  Boulder, 
Colorado,  he  was  an  acknowledged  leader  in 
the  cause  of  betterment  and  progress  in  that 
city  and  state.  He  was  largely  responsible  for 
the  establishment  of  prohibition  in  Boulder,  and 
also  built  a  splendid  church  in  that  city. 

In  addition  to  his  educational  work  in  Chi- 
cago, he  served  on  many  important  committees. 
He  did  much  to  raise  the  funds  for  the  new 
Chicago  Theological  Seminary  buildings. 

The  death  of  Professor  Walker  occurred  on 
September  1,  1927.  He  was  a  distinguished 
scholar,  pastor,  preacher,  builder,  leader,  friend 
and  Christian,  and  a  very  able  figure  in  the 
field  of  education  here  for  many  years. 


HENRY  BOTSFORD. 


The  history  of  the  great  packing  industry 
forms  a  very  important  part  of  the  record  of 
the  growth  and  development  of  Chicago.  This 
monumental  factor  in  the  business  life  of  the 
country  is  so  far-reaching  in  its  connections 
and  so  magnificent  in  its  proportions  that  natu- 
rally interest  is  stimulated  with  reference  to 
the  lives  of  the  men  who  were  initially  respon- 
sible for  it.  One  of  those  belonging  to  this 
important  class  of  Chicago's  early  business 
men  was  the  late  Henry  Botsford,  for  many 
years  president  of  the  Chicago  Packing  and 
Provision  Company.  Henry  Botsford  was  born 
at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  July  30,  1834,  second  son 
and  third  child  of  Elnathan  and  Eliza  (Smith) 
Botsford.  The  family  was  founded  in  the 
American  Colonies  by  one  Henry  Botsford,  who 
came  here  from  England  in  1664,  and  settled 
at  Milford,  Conn.  Elnathan  Botsford,  son  of 
Eli  and  Mary  (Pond)  Botsford,  was  born  at 
Milford,  Conn.,  May  6,  1799.  When  a  young 
man  he  went  west  and  settled  near  Ann  Arbor, 
Michigan.  There  he  became  a  prosperous 
farmer,  and  a  merchant  in  the  town  of  Ann 
Arbor.  Until  he  was  fourteen  years  old  Henry 
Botsford  attended  the  grammar  school  at  Ann 
Arbor,  and  'then  entered  his  father's  employ 
and  worked  in  his  store  until  he  was  twenty- 
one.  During  this  time  he  made  his  first  trip 
to  New  York  as  a  buyer  for  his  father's  firm, 
taking  four  days  via  the  Great  Bakes,  Erie 
Canal  and  the  Hudson  River  Railroad. 


In  1855  he  came  to  Chicago  and  entered  the 
employ  of  Dyon,  Dow  and  Company,  a  packing 
and  commission  house,  later  becoming  a  junior 
partner  in  the  firm.  In  1858  he  joined  the 
Chicago  Board  of  Trade,  and  retained  his  mem- 
bership until  1916.  In  1863  he  engaged  in  the 
packing  business  for  himself  under  the  name 
of  H.  Botsford  &  Company,  a  firm  which  con- 
tinued for  many  years  even  after  his  connec- 
tion with  the  Chicago  Packing  and  Provision 
Company,  the  International  Packing  Company, 
which  he  helped  to  organize,  and  other  busi- 
ness enterprises.  In  1S86  he  became  president 
of  the  Chicago  Packing  and  Provision  Company 
and  remained  head  of  that  firm  for  some  years 
after  it  was  bought  by  an   English  syndicate. 

Although  he  withdrew  from  active  business 
undertakings  during  the  latter  years  of  his 
life,  he  remained  a  director  of  the  Continental 
&  Commercial  Bank  of  Chicago  and  until  his 
last  illness  administered  his  own  affairs  and 
went  daily  to  his  office  in  the  Royal  Insurance 
Building.  His  business  career  was  marked 
by  conservation,  excellent  judgment  and  a  high 
ideal  of  integrity.  On  this  account  his  opin- 
ion was  greatly  valued  by  his  contemporaries 
in  the  business  world,  and  his  judgment  highly 
respected.  As  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Chi- 
cago, he  took  a  keen  interest  in  its  develop- 
ment and  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago  His- 
torical Society.     He  was  also  a  member  of  the 


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Art  Institute,  the  Chicago  Club,  and  the  Union 
League   Club. 

In  1S73  Henry  Botsford  married  Emma 
Schwartz,  daughter  of  George  Schwartz  of 
Albany,  N.  Y.  There  were  three  children, 
two  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Botsford 
is  survived  by  one  daughter,  Mrs.  Irene  (Bots- 
ford) Hoffmann,  wife  of  Bernard  Hoffmann  of 
New  York  and  Stoekbridge. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Botsford  occurred  April  30, 
1919,  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  following  an  op- 
eration performed  three  weeks  previously. 

Chicago  produced  many  men  of  forceful 
character,  but  none  bore  a  more  important  part 


in  the  history  of  his  times  than  Henry  Bots- 
ford. He  did  not  seek  publicity,  rather  shrink- 
ing from  it,  but  in  hiis  wise  and  able  adminis- 
tration of  his  many  interests,  his  support  of 
constructive  policies  in  the  several  institutions 
with  which  he  was  connected,  and  his  upright 
and  sincere  life,  did  he  influence  his  contem- 
poraries, and  assist  very  materially  in  raising 
a  standard  of  excellence  for  business  men  that 
is  difficult  to  equal  and  impossible  to  excel. 
Such  men  as  he  are  rare,  and  in  his  passing 
Chicago  and  the  country  lost  one  not  easily 
spared,  although  he  lived  far  to  exceed  the 
customary  allotment  of  years. 


WILLIAM  JOSEPH  WATSON. 


William  J.  Watson  was  born  at  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.  March  26,  1843,  a  son  of  James  V. 
and  Elizabeth  H.  (Pitman)  Watson.  The  father 
was  a  very  prominent  and  influential  man  in 
the  earlier  history  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
President  of  the  Philadelphia  Clearing  House, 
which  he  helped  to  organize ;  President  of  the 
Consolidated  National  Bank  of  Philadelphia ; 
and  a  director  of  the  Provident  Life  Insurance 
and  Trust  Company  and  of  the  Western  Savings 
Fund  Society.  He  was  President  of  the  lumber 
firm  of  Schofield  &  Watson,  and  President  of 
the  House  of  Refuge  Association.  He  was  an 
early  and  valued  member  of  the  Union  League 
Club  of  Philadelphia.  He  lived  to  be  ninety- 
three  years  old,  honored  and  beloved. 

William  J.  Watson  graduated  from  Central 
High  School  in  Philadelphia,  and  from  Eagles- 
wood,  a  private  school  in  New  Jersey.  Then  he 
began  farming  and  soon  located  just  outside 
of  Battle  Creek,  Michigan.    This  was  in  1863. 

In  1870  he  moved  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
where  he  was  representative  of  the  Middleton 
Car  Spring  Company  of  Philadelphia.  On  May 
1,  1873,  he  came  to  Chicago,  for  the  same  com- 
pany. He  was  made  President  of  the  company 
in  1890. 

Mr.  Watson  organized  and  established  the 
Buda  Foundry  &  Manufacturing  Company  in 
1884,    the    Hewitt    Manufacturing    Company    in 


1886,  and  the  Fort  Madison  Iron  Works  Com- 
pany, in  1887.  He  served  as  President  of  all 
of  these  corporations. 

He  has  been  actively  identified  with  hanking 
interests  since  he  came  to  Chicago.  He  was  a 
Director  and  Vice  President  of  the  Metropolitan 
National  Bank,  and  was  a  Director  in  the  First 
National  Bank,  the  First  Trust  and  Savings 
Bank,  the  Security  Bank,  the  Second  Security 
Bank,  and  the  Chicago  Transfer  and  Clearing 
Company,  all  of  Chicago. 

In  1865  Mr.  Watson  married  Miss  Amelia  E. 
Gould,  of  Newark.  New  Jersey.  She  died  in 
1903.  There  is  one  son,  James  V.  Watson.  In 
190S  Mr.  Watson  married  Mrs.  Susan  Runyon 
Cheney,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  who  survives 
him. 

The  Watson  family  home  has  been  the  same 
residence  at  No.  2640  Prairie  Avenue,  Chicago, 
since  1885. 

Mr.  Watson  was  Trustee  of  the  Old  Peoples 
Home  at  Chicago,  and  was  also  President  of 
its  Board  of  Managers  for  nearly  twenty  years. 

He  was,  for  years,  very  deeply  interested  in 
charity.  His  benefactions  were  almost  boundless 
and  were  very  wisely  administered.  Under  the 
terms  of  his  will  nearly  all  of  his  estate  will 
eventually  go  to  charity.  In  his  death,  October 
1,  1926,  Chicago  lost  one  of  the  finest  men  the 
city  has  ever  known. 


GEORGE  FRALEIGH  WEATHERWAX. 


George  Fraleigh  Weatherwax  was  born  in 
Ashtabula,  Ohio,  on  May  19,  1878,  a  son  of 
George  F.  and  Susan  (Edney)  Weatherwax, 
natives    of    New    York    state    and    of    England 


respectively.  The  Weatherwax  family  were 
early  settlers  in  Ohio.  They  later  moved  their 
home  to  Chillicothe,  Illinois,  and  here  it  was 
that  the  son's  boyhood  was  spent.     After  finish- 


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ing  his  studies  in  the  public  schools  of  Chilli- 
cothe  he  took  one  year  of  instruction  in  the 
Art  Institute  of  Chicago. 

When  he  later  started  to  work  in  the  business 
world  he  entered  the  employ  of  Kehni  Brothers, 
and  he  learned  the  steamfitter's  trade  under 
their  direction.  Then  for  ten  years  he  was 
connected  with  the  National  Boiler  Washing 
Company,  and  was  offered  the  office  of  Vice 
President  and  General  Manager. 

In  June,  1917,  he  founded  his  own  business, 
the  George  Weatherwax  Company,  engineers. 
Their  work  was  largely  devoted  to  power  and 
heating  plant  construction  and  installation.  The 
business  under  Mr.  Weatherwax's  direction  grew 
to  considerable  proportions. 

George  Weatherwax  was  married  July  6, 
1905,  in  South  Bend,  Indiana,  to  Miss  Cleo  Z. 
Barnes,  a  daughter  of  the  late  T.  C.  Barnes. 
Their  children  are:  Thomas  and  Virginia  Weath- 


Weatherwax  was  an  earnest  member  of  the 
Berwyn  Methodist  Church,  and  also  belonged 
to  the  Masons,  the  Hamilton  Club,  the  Acacia 
Country  Club  and  to  the  Chicago  Association  of 
Commerce. 

Mr.  Weatherwax  was  long  a  prominent  and 
very  helpful  figure  in  local  Boy  Scout  work. 
For  two  terms  he  held  the  office  of  President 
of  the  Berwyn  Council,  and  he  was  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  whole  West  Suburban  Council  at 
the  time  of  his  death.  His  was  a  remarkably 
fine,  strong  and  lovely  Christian  character. 

Following  his  death  January  29,  1924,  his 
wife,  who  has  also  been  deeply  interested  in 
boys'  work,  gave  funds  for  the  erection  of 
the  George  Weatherwax  Memorial  Building  at 
the  Boy  Scout  Summer  Camp  at  Delavan,  Wis- 
consin. 

The  life  of  George  Weatherwax  was  a  true  in- 


erwax.     The  family  home  is  in   Berwyn.     Mr.      spiration  to  everybody  who  knew  him  intimately. 


CHARLES  THEODORE  BOYNTON. 


Charles  T.  Boynton  was  born  at  West  Stock- 
bridge,  Massachusetts,  on  December  5,  1858,  and 
was  a  son  of  Charles  S.  and  Elizabeth  (Thomp- 
son), Boynton.  His  schooling  was  in  the  pub- 
lic school  and  in  the  academy  at  Catskill,  New 
York.  When  he  was  fifteen  years  old  he  was 
prepared  to  enter  the  State  Normal  School, 
but  the  pressing  need  to  earn  his  living  sent 
him   to  work  instead. 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  1879  and  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Washburn  &  Moen  Mfg.  Com- 
pany, as  office  boy.  He  remained  with  this 
concern  for  nearly  twenty  years ;  and  he  was 
general  western  manager  of  this  business  at 
the  time  it  was  sold  in  1898,  to  the  American 
Steel  &  Wire  Company.  Mr.  Boynton  was  made 
general  sales  agent  and  director  of  the  Amer- 
ican Steel  &  Wire  Company  and  so  continued 
until  1900.  He  was  president  of  the  Shelby 
Tube  Company  from  1900  to  1902.  On  March 
1,  1902  he  was  made  vice  president  of  Pickands, 
Brown  &  Company,  in  which  office  he  remained. 
Mr.  Boynton  was  also  vice  president  of  the 
By-Products  Coke  Corporation  and  of  the 
Rogers-Browne  Ore  Company.  He  was  a  di- 
rector of  the  Continental  &  Commercial  Na- 
tional Bank,  the  Continental  &  Commercial 
Trust  '&  Savings  Bank,  the  Dearborn  Company, 
the  Buck  &  Rayner  Drug  Company,  and  of 
the  Semet-Solvay  Company. 


On  June  17,  1880,  Mr.  Boynton  was  married 
to  Miss  Ann  E.  Bell  of  Catskill,  New  York, 
a  daughter  of  Thomas  W.  and  Matilda  M. 
(Browere)  Bell.  Her  grandfather,  A.  D.  O. 
Browere,  was  an  artist  of  note  in  New  York 
State,  as  were  other  members  of  the  immedi- 
ate family.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Boynton  have  three 
children:  Elizabeth  (Mrs.  Everett  L.  Millard), 
Edith  Boynton  and  Donals  Stuart  Boynton, 
who  married  Miss  Helen  Winn  Canfield.  The 
family  formerly  lived  in  Evanston.  Some  years 
ago  they  moved  to  their  delightful  home,  Ravin- 
oaks,   in   Highland   Park. 

Mr.  Boynton  belonged  to  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  was  a  life  member  of  the  Chicago 
Art  Institute.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Club,  the  Cliff  Dwellers,  Old  Elm. 
Shore  Acres,  Onwentsia,  and  Evanston  Country 
clubs.  He  was  much  enjoyed  everywhere,  for 
he  was  a  man  of  unusual  fineness,  friendliness 
and  worth. 

Charles  T.  Boynton  died  on  February  27, 
1923.  He  began  work  as  a  boy  of  fifteen  years. 
From  this  start,  and  solely  through  his  own 
hard,  thoughtful  efforts,  he  became  one  of  the 
most  substantial  men  of  business  in  the  State 
of  Illinois,  and  was  the  builder  of  a  large 
share  of  Chicago's  industrial  prosperity. 


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AXEL  WERELIUS. 


Dr.  Axel  Werelius,  president  and  surgeon  in 
chief  of  the  South  Shore  Hospital  of  Chicago, 
was  born  in  Sweden,  January  5,  1871,  a  son  of 
Erik  and  Bengta  (Eriksdotter)  Werelius.  He 
had  the  advantage  of  a  thorough  education  in 
his  native  country,  including  that  of  the  high 
school  and  gymnasium,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1889.  He  was  also  a  student  in  Karls- 
borg  Military  School  from  the  latter  date  until 
1892. 

In  1892,  after  completing  his  course  in  the 
Military  School,  he  sailed  for  the  United  States 
and  has  since  been  a  valued  resident  of  this 
country,  becoming  a  naturalized  citizen  in  1904. 
Having  determined  upon  the  practice  of  medicine 
as  a  life  work,  he  matriculated  at  the  College  of 
Medicine  of  the  University  of  Illinois  and  was 
graduated  from  that  institution  in  1902,  with 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  The  subse- 
quent year  he  established  himself  in  the  practice 
of  medicine  at  Chicago,  and  has  since  been  one 
of  the  potent  factors  in  the  medical  profession 
of  this  city.  For  a  number  of  years  he  has  con- 
fined his  practice  largely  to  surgery. 

As  President  and  Surgeon-in-Chief  of  the  South 
Shore  Hospital  since  1912,  Doctor  Werelius  has 
rendered  efficient  service  to  that  institution 
and  in  many  ways  has  proven  his  capability  in 
the  field  of  medical  science.  During  the  World 
War  he  served  as  a  Red  Cross  Surgeon  and  here 
he  also  rendered  efficient  service  and  gained  dis- 
tinction. He  was  Knighted  with  the  Order  of 
Vasa  by  Gustave  V,  of  Sweden,  in  1920.  He  is 
a  Fellow  of  the  American  College  of  Surgeons 
and  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  and 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Medical  Society. 
He  has  gained  a  wide  reputation  as  an  author 
and  has  contributed  liberally  to  the  American 
Medical  Association  Journal  and  to  Journals  on 
Surgery,  Gynecology  and  Obstetrics.  Among  his 
more  notable  articles  which  were  published  in 
these  journals  are:   "New  Technique  of  Neph- 


ropexy (basket  handle  operation)  ;  A  New  Method 
of  Lateral  Anastomosis ;  Successful  Resection 
of  Twelve  Feet  Two  Inches  of  the  Ileum  in  Case 
of  Criminal  Abortion ;  Experimental  Pressure 
Atrophy  of  the  Thyroid ;  Central  Flap  in  Expo- 
sure of  Brain  (experimental  study  of  monkeys)  ; 
The  Pathology  of  the  Thyroid  and  Haematology 
in  100  Goitrous  Chicago  Dogs ;  Ureterotubal 
Anastomosis ;  Operative  Method  of  Exsrophy 
of  Bladder ;  On  the  Action  of  Iodin  on  the  Tis- 
sues;  Goitre  Among  the  Insane  (a  study  based 
on  examination  of  4,184  patients)  ;  On  the  In- 
ternal Secretion  of  the  Thyroid,  with  Brief  Con- 
sideration of  the  Factors  of  the  Gland  (in  con- 
nection with  paper  on  the  Goitre  Among  Insane)  ; 
Hepatoptosis  and  Hepatopexy  ;  Operative  Method 
in  Case  of  Intestinal  Obstruction ;  Do  the  Para- 
thyroids Function  in  Intrauterine  Life?;  Neph- 
roptosis and  Nephropexy  (with  special  reference 
to  the  basket  handle  operation)  ;  111  Effects  from 
Ileosigmoidostomy  (report  of  case)  ;  Traumatic 
Detachment  of  the  Bladder  from  Symphysis 
Pubic  with  Complete  Severance  of  Urethea-Use 
of  the  Labia  Minora  as  a  Substitute  for  Necrosed 
Vaginal  Wall ;  Experimental  Surgery  of  Heart, 
Lung  and  Trachea ;  Accidental  Surgical  Injuries 
of  the  Bile  Ducts;  Ureterotubal  and  Uretero 
Uterine  Anastomosis  ;  Suction-Bulb  Action  of  the 
Gall  Bladder ;  Andrews  Operation  for  Inguinal 
Hernia  with  Report  of  316  Cases  and  Modifica- 
tion of  Technique;  Is  Death  in  High  Intestinal 
Obstruction  Due  to  Liver  Insufficiency,  etc." 

Dr.  Werelius  has  established  a  splendid  record 
in  the  quarter  of  a  century  that  he  has  been 
active  in  his  profession,  in  Chicago. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Lutheran  Church.  He 
also  belongs  to  the  Illini  Club,  Press  Club,  Mid- 
way Athletic  Club,  South  Shore  Country  Club, 
the  Four  Seasons  Club  and  the  Swedish  Club. 

He  was  married  June  20,  1895,  to  Miss  Ester 
Branstrom,  of  Chicago,  and  of  this  union  were 
born  three  children :   Archibald,  Anita  and  Carl. 


WILLIAM  LOUIS  WILSON. 


Dr.  William  Louis  Wilson  of  Chicago  and 
Hinsdale,  Illinois,  was  born  at  Centerville,  New 
York,  July  19,  1869,  a  son  of  Andrew  W.  and 
Anna  Jean  (Rutlidge)  Wilson  who  were  of 
Scotch-Irish  and  Canadian  descent  respectively. 

After  preliminary  school  training  he  entered 
Northwestern  University  of  Evanston,   Illinois, 


and  graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1892. 
The  following  year  he  received  the  degree  of 
M.  S.  and  in  1896  the  degree  of  M.  D.  was 
conferred  upon  him.  He  was  a  Fellow  in 
Chemistry  at  Northwestern  University  in  1892-3. 
He  was  an  interne  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital, 
Chicago,  in  1896-8.     From  1900  to  1910  he  was 


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assistant  Professor  of  Medicine  at  Rush  Med- 
ical College.  From  1906  to  1909  he  was  asso- 
ciate in  medicine  at  Cook  County  Hospital.  Of 
more  recent  years  he  has  given  many  lectures 
of  value  and  interest  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital. 

Doctor  Wilson  was  married  June  29,  1900,  to 
Miss  Julia  Tyndale  Milligan  of  Oak  Park,  Illi- 
nois, a  daughter  of  Frank  and  Ada  Josephine 
(Brewster)  Milligan.  Their  children  are  Paul 
P.  and  Dorothy  Wilson.  The  family  home  has 
been  at  Hinsdale,  Illinois,  since  1909. 

Doctor  Wilson  was  active  in  Masonic  circles 
for  the  past  quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  one 
of  the  organizers  of  Hinsdale  Chapter,  R.  A.  M., 
and  was  a  member  of  Trinity  Council  No.  80, 
K.  T.,  and  of  Medinah  Temple  Shrine. 


Doctor  Wilson's  private  practice  has  been  a 
large  and  important  one  for  many  years.  He 
maintained  offices  at  Hinsdale  and  in  the 
Marshall  Field  Annex  Building,  Chicago.  His 
work  extended  over  a  large  portion  of  Northern 
Illinois. 

The  death  of  Doctor  Wilson  occurred  March 
17,  1927.  His  life  was  one  of  exceptional  serv- 
ice. Throughout  the  past  thirty  years  his 
cheerfulness  and  skill  have  brought  courage 
and  help,  renewed  happiness  and  health  into 
ever  so  many  homes.  He  will  be  remembered 
as  one  of  the  most  able  general  practitioners  in 
his  section  of  the  state. 


J.  HARLEY  BRADLEY. 


It  is  not  every  son  of  an  illustrious  father 
who  is  able  to  reach  distinction  in  the  same 
field  of  endeavor  in  which  the  parent  has  won 
honors;  but,  in  the  case  of  J.  Harley  Bradley 
it  would  appear  that,  through  high  intellectual 
attainment,  he  also  has  reached  eminence  in 
his  work,  inheritance  and  environment  having 
by  no  means  been  necessary  factors.  While 
he  perpetuates  a  reputation  for  keen  business 
acumen  and  energy  earned  by  his  honored 
father,  his  own  place  in  the  ranks  of  manu- 
facturers in  Illinois,  has  been  gained  through 
force  of  merit.  For  fifty-four  years,  the  late 
J.  Harley  Bradley  has  been  intimately  con- 
nected with  the  implement  and  seed  trade  in 
this  State.  His  influence  as  a  manufacturer, 
gained  in  later  years,  does  cease  to  be  a  potent 
example  among  those  with  whom  he  was 
associated. 

J.  Harley  Bradley  was  born  in  Racine,  Wis., 
in  1844,  a  son  of  David  Bradley  and  Cynthia 
(Abbott)  Bradley.  In  1845  he  came  to  Chicago 
with  his  parents,  and  attended  the  public  schools 
here.  In  1S65  he  was  made  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Jones,  Ellinwood  and  Bradley,  which 
firm  succeeded  Hooker  and  Jones,  wholesale 
and  retail  dealers  in  implements  and  seeds. 
After  a  period  of  three  years,  he  sold  these 
interests  and,  with  Harry  Banks,  undertook 
a  general  jobbing  trade  in  farm  implements. 
This  business  was  known  as  Bradley  and  Banks. 
In  1872  this  partnership  was  dissolved  and  Mr. 
Bradley  became  secretary  of  the  Furst  and 
Bradley  Manufacturing  Company,  of  which  his 
father  was  a  partner.     In   1884   this   business 


became  officially  known  as  the  David  Bradley 
Manufacturing  Company,  at  which  time  the 
son  was  made  vice  president  and  treasurer, 
continuing  these  offices  until  his  father's  death, 
at  which  time  he  succeeded  to  the  presidency. 
The  town  and  the  extensive  manufacturing 
plant  at  Bradley,  Kankakee  County,  111.,  are 
I>ermanent  evidence  of  the  substance  and  suc- 
cess of  the  work  of  both  father  and  son.  Among 
Mr.  Bradley's  other  interests  may  be  mentioned 
his  connection  with  the  agricultural  implement 
jobbing  houses  of  Bradley,  Clarke  and  Company, 
Minneapolis,  Minn.,  David  Bradley  and  Com- 
pany, Council  Bluffs,  la.,  Bradley,  Anderson 
and  Company,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and  Bradley, 
Holton  and  Company,  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.  He 
was  also  a  director  of  The  Northern  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Chicago. 

Another  phase  of  Mr.  Bradley's  connection 
with  Illinois,  which  is  very  well  worthy  of 
record  here,  is  a  resultant  from  his  efforts  in 
the  organization  of  the  Chicago  Freight  Bureau. 
In  1S91  he  was  President  of  the  Citizens'  As- 
sociation. He  has  also  been  interested  in  the 
work  of  the  Relief  and  Aid  Society.  Mr.  Brad- 
ley enjoyed  membership  in  the  University,  Com- 
mercial, Union  League,  Chicago,  and  Illinois 
Clubs,  and  served  the  Commercial  and  Illinois 
clubs  as  president. 

J.  Harley  Bradley  was  married,  in  1872,  to 
Mrs.  Margia  J.  Peugeot,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  T. 
There  are  four  daughters  in  the  family.  Mr. 
Bradley's  death  occurred  June  16,  1919.  He  was 
a  man  of  kindly  sympathy  and  broad  charity. 


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There  is  no  better  indication  of  character  than 
the  opinions  held  and  expressed  by  a  man's 
business  associates.  These  opinions  indicate  that 
in  Mr.  Bradley  were  grouped  many  of  the  rarer 
good  qualities  that  made  him  a  strong  figure 
in  a  very  important  part  of  the  commercial 
development  of  the  state,  and  which  also  drew 


to  him  in  close  friendship,  all  those  who  knew 
him  intimately  outside  of  business.  No  more 
interesting  story  has  ever  been  written  than  the 
true  one  of  the  men  who  have  won  success 
and  financial  independence  and,  at  the  same 
time,  have  kept  faith  with  themselves  and  have 
been  helpful  to  others. 


JAMES  SPURGEON  ANDERSON. 


James  S.  Anderson  was  born  in  Belfast,  Ire- 
land, on  July  12.  1878,  a  son  of  David  and  Eliza- 
beth (Craig)  Anderson,  both  of  whom  were 
natives  of  Ireland.  The  family  came  to  America 
when  the  son  was  four  years  old,  and  located 
in  Canada  where  the  father  cleared  and  farmed 
a  tract  of  land  not  far  from  Toronto.  Three 
years  later  the  family  moved  to  Chicago,  Illinois. 

Here  James  S.  Anderson's  subsequent  boyhood 
was  spent.  He  attended  both  public  and  high 
school  on  the  West  Side  of  the  city.  He  became 
practically  self-supporting  when  still  very  young, 
entering  the  employ  of  a  grocery,  where  he 
worked  after  school  and  on  Saturdays  and  dur- 
ing vacations.     He  also  had  a  paper  route. 

It  was  on  January  2,  1895,  in  his  seventeenth 
year,  that  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  great  dry 
goods  firm  of  Carson,  Pirie,  Scott  and  Company, 
in  their  wholesale  division.  His  job  was  that  of 
"carrier"  and  his  pay  was  $3  a  w£ek.  He  con- 
tinued to  be  associated  with  the  company  as  long 
as  he  lived ;  and  he  became  one  of  the  most  de- 
voted and  one  of  the  most  valued  men  in  the 
entire  organization. 

His  first  trip  as  a  traveling  salesman  for  the 
company  was  made  in  October,  1899,  with  a  line 
of  laces  and  embroideries.  He  was  on  the  road 
until  1923,  accomplishing  thoroughly  satisfactory 
results  and  also  acquiring  very  valuable  experi- 
ence under  the  guidance  of  Mr.  A.  W.  Mac  Lean 
and  Mr.  M.  P.  French. 

In  1923  he  was  placed  in  full  charge  of  the 
Drapery  and  Curtain  Departments,  Wholesale 
Division,  of  Carson,  Pirie,  Scott  &  Company, 
which  office  he  filled  with  distinguished  success 
the  rest  of  his  life. 


On  April  10,  1902,  Mr.  Anderson  was  married 
at  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Oliva  L.  Hill,  a 
daughter  of  Edwin  H.  and  Minnie  (Padelford) 
Hill.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Anderson  had  two  sous, 
Donald  James  Anderson,  who  died  in  infancy, 
and  James  Clyde  Anderson.  The  family  home 
has  been  in  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  for  nearly  a  quar- 
ter of  a  century. 

Mr.  Anderson  was  a  devoted  member  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Oak  Park,  Illinois.  He 
was  a  Trustee  of  the  church,  and  was  likewise 
of  much  help  during  the  building  of  the  church's 
present  edifice.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Advisory  and  Planning  Committee  of  the  new 
Community  Center  project  at  Oak  Park.  He  had 
a  fine  spirit  of  service  toward  his  community 
and  he  gave  his  backing  to  all  those  indispensable 
public  enterprises  such  as  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  the 
Boy  Scouts,  the  Red  Cross  and  the  Near  East 
Relief.  He  was  a  member  of  Oak  Park  Lodge 
No.  540,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

Mr.  Anderson's  business  career  was  a  note- 
worthy one.  He  was  connected  with  Carson, 
Pirie,  Scott  &  Company  for  more  than  thirty 
years.  One  of  his  outstanding  characteristics 
was  his  firm  belief  in  the  Company,  which  he 
held  in  the  highest  regard.  He  also  had  a  deep 
interest  in  the  training  of  the  young  men  who 
worked  under  him  and  he  wrought  much  of 
lasting  good  in  that  direction.  He  was  very 
thorough  in  whatever  he  did.  His  life  was  not 
an  impetuous  stream,  but  a  smooth  yet  powerful 
current. 

His  death  on  September  29,  1927,  in  his  forty- 
ninth  year,  took  from  among  us  a  fine,  strong, 
devoted,  Christian  man. 


HARRY  CLARKE  PATTERSON. 
IRA  WARNER  BUELL. 


Harry  Clarke  Patterson  was  born  in  Chicago, 
July  24,  1863.  His  parents,  James  Harvey  Pat- 
terson  and   Mary   Ann    (Ely)    Patterson,   were 


pioneers  of  this  city  and  were  numbered  among 
its  frugal  and  enterprising  citizens  who  were 
ever  ready  to  do  their  part  in  the  world's  work 


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for  civilization  and  progress.*  He  acquired  a 
substantial  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Chicago,  and  when  fourteen  years  of  age  be- 
came associated  with  his  brother,  Thomas  Ely 
Patterson,  in  the  real  estate  business,  remain- 
ing in  the  latter's  employ  until  he  opened  an 
office  of  his  own  in  the  old  Adams  Express 
building  under  the  title  of  Harry  C.  Patterson, 
real  estate,  renting  and  loans.  He  soon  became 
prominent  in  this  field  of  activity  and  his  repu- 
tation as  an  efficient  and  careful  dealer  brought 
him  a  liberal  clientele  and  remunerative  busi- 
ness. 

For  forty-five  years  Mr.  Patterson's  time  and 
energy  was  devoted  to  the  real  estate  interests 
of  Chicago,  and  he  not  only  contributed  to  the 
general  progress  and  development  of  the  city, 
as  well  as  to  individual  prosperity,  but  he 
handled  much  property,  either  as  an  individual 
or  for  others.  For  many  years  his  interests 
were  centered  chiefly  in  the  development  of 
the  Woodlawn  district,  and  he  was  one  of  the 
prime  movers  in  the  building  of  the  Woodlawn 
Park  Presbyterian  Church.  He  was  a  man  of 
marked  initiative  ability  and  resourcefulness. 

It  is  to  the  activity  and  public  spirit  of  such 
men  that  Chicago  owes  its  moral  education  and 
commercial  growth,  and  their  loss  is  not  easily 
forgotten. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Real  Estate 
Board,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  City 
Club  of  Chicago,  and  a  life  member  of  the  Chi- 
cago Art  Institute.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Woodlawn  Park  Presbyterian  Church,  of 
which  he  was  a  trustee  for  fifteen  years,  serv- 
ing a  part  of  the  time  as  president  of  the  Board. 
He  was  also  one  of  the  early  directors  of  Grace- 
land  Cemetery. 

He  was  urged  to  take  the  nomination  as 
alderman  of  the  old  Seventh  Ward,  but  his 
health  was  not  such  as  to  permit  him  to  accept. 

His  death,  which  occurred  November  1,  1922, 
"was  a  sorrow  to  all  who  knew  him. 

Mr.  Patterson  was  married  in  Chicago,  No- 
vember 22,  1893,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Averell  Buell, 
only  daughter  of  Ira  Warner  Buell  and  Anna 
M.  (Averell)  Buell,  and  they  became  the  par- 
ents of  four  children :  Buell  Averell  who  grad- 
uated with  honors  from  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago, and  who  enlisted  in  the  World  War  in 
April,  1917,  and  served  in  Base  Hospital  Unit 


13,  France,  from  January,  1918,  until  April, 
1919 ;  Harry  Ely ;  Ben  St.  Claire  and  Elizabeth 
Averell.  Mrs.  Patterson  is  a  native  Chicagoan, 
and  was  born  on  Indiana  Avenue,  near  Twenty- 
fourth  Street.  For  many  years  she  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Woodlawn  Park  Presbyterian 
Church  and  later  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Chicago  and  always  takes  an  active 
and  helpful  part  in  charitable  and  benevolent 
work.  She  is  also  a  member  of  Ferry  Hall 
Alumnae  Association,  AVoman's  Auxiliary  Board 
of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital  and  Children's  Ben- 
efit League,  and  Woman's  Society  of  the  Wood- 
lawn Park  Presbyterian  Church.  Her  parents 
were  pioneers  of  this  city,  the  mother,  who  was  a 
daughter  of  James  and  Eunice  (Hitchcock)  Av- 
erell, having  come  here  with  her  parents  in  1843. 
The  father,  Ira  Warner  Buell,  was  an  attorney 
of  marked  ability,  and  for  many  years  was  one  of 
the  leading  lawyers  before  the  bar  of  this  city. 
He  was  born  near  Lebanon,  Madison  County, 
New  York,  December  9,  1830,  and  was  a  son  of 
Elijah  and  Polly  (Higgins)  Buell.  His  boyhood 
days  were  spent  upon  his  father's  farm  and  his 
early  education  was  acquired  in  the  country 
schools  of  that  county,  where  he  became  suffi- 
ciently advanced  to  teach  at  the  age  of  sixteen. 

When  nineteen  years  of  age  Mr.  Buell  matric- 
ulated at  Madison  University,  and  after  com- 
pleting his  course  he  began  the  study  of  law, 
having  determined  to  make  the  legal  profes- 
sion his  life  work.  In  September,  1855,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Rochester,  New  York, 
and  in  the  following  year  he  came  to  Chicago 
and  established  himself  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  in  which  he  successfully  continued 
until  the  time  of  his  death,  January  14.  1906. 
Besides  his  private  practice,  Mr.  Buell  was  also 
prominent  in  civic,  social  and  political  affairs 
and  in  every  way  was  recognized  as  a  strong 
factor  in  the  best  element  of  his  profession.  He 
was  supervisor  of  North  Chicago  in  1860,  city 
attorney  for  Chicago  in  1861,  and  in  1879  was 
the  Republican  nominee  for  Judge  of  the  Cir- 
cuit Court,  though  defeated  with  the  rest  of 
the  Republican  ticket  in  that  year.  He  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Union  League  Club  of 
Chicago,  of  which  he  was  a  director  for  the  first 
three  years.  He  was  also  a  Knight-Templar 
Mason,  and  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Law  In- 
stitute. 


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JAMES  BOLESWORTH  BRADWELL. 


James  B.  Bradwell,  lawyer  and  editor,  was 
born  at  Loughborough,  England,  April  16,  182S, 
and  brought  to  America  hi  infancy,  his  parents 
locating  in  1S29  or  '30  at  Utica,  N.  Y.  In  1833 
they  emigrated  to  Jacksonville,  111.,  but  the  fol- 
lowing year  removed  to  Wheeling,  Cook  County, 
settling  on  a  farm,  where  the  younger  Brad- 
well  received  his  first  lessons  in  breaking  prai- 
rie, splitting  rails  and  tilling  the  soil.  His  first 
schooling  was  obtained  in  a  country  log-school- 
house,  but,  later,  he  attended  the  Wilson  Acad- 
emy in  Chicago,  where  he  had  Judge  Lorenzo 
Sawyer  for  an  instructor.  He  also  took  a  course 
in  Knox  College  at  Galesburg,  then  a  manual- 
labor  school,  supporting  himself  by  working  in 
a  wagon  and  plow  shop,  sawing  wood,  etc.  In 
May,  1852,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Myra  Colby, 
a  teacher,  with  whom  he  went  to  Memphis, 
Tenn.  the  same  year,  where  they  engaged  in 
teaching  a  select  school  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  meanwhile  devoting  some  attention  to 
reading  law.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
there,  but  after  a  stay  of  less  than  two  years 
in  Memphis,  returned  to  Chicago  and  began 
practice.  In  1861  he  was  elected  County  Judge 
of  Cook  County,  and  re-elected  four  years  later, 
but  declined  a  re-election  in  1SG9.  The  first 
half  of  his  term  occurring  during  the  progress 
of  the  Civil  War,  he  had  the  opportunity  of 
rendering  some  vigorous  decisions  which  won 
for  him  the  reputation  of  a  man  of  courage  and 
inflexible  independence,  as  well  as  an  incor- 
ruptible champion  of  justice.  In  1872  he  was 
elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Twenty- 
eighth  General  Assembly  from  Cook  County, 
and  re-elected  in  1S74.  He  was  again  a  candi- 
date in  1882,  and  by  many  believed  to  have  been 
honestly  elected,  though  his  opponent  received 
the  certificate.  He  made  a  contest  for  the  seat, 
and  the  majority  of  the  Committee  on  Elections 
reported  in  his  favor;  but  he  was  defeated 
through  the  treachery  and  suspected  corruption 
of  a  professed  political  friend.  He  is  the  author 
of  the  law  making  women  eligible  to  school  of- 
fices in  Illinois  and  allowing  them  to  become 
Notaries  Public,  and  had  always  been  a  cham- 
pion for  equal  rights  for  women  in  the  pro- 
fessions and  as  citizens.  He  was  a  second  lieu- 
tenant of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifth  Regi- 
ment, Illinois  Militia,  in  1848 ;  presided  over 
the  American  Woman's  Suffrage  Association  at 
its  organization  in  Cleveland ;  served  as  Pres- 


ident of  the  Chicago  Press  Club,  of  the  Chicago 
Bar  Association,  and,  for  a  number  of  years, 
an  Historian  of  the  latter ;  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  President  of  the  Union  League 
Club,  besides  being  associated  with  many  other 
social  and  business  organizations.  He  was  iden- 
tified in  a  business  capacity  with  "The  Chicago 
Legal  News,"  founded  by  his  wife  in  1868,  and 
after  her  death  became  its  editor.  Judge  Brad- 
well's  death  occurred  Nov.  20,  1907. — Myra 
(Colby)  Bradwell,  the  wife  of  Judge  Bradwell. 
was  born  at  Manchester,  Vt.,  Feb.  12,  1S31 — 
being  descended  on  her  mother's  side  from  the 
Chase  family  to  which  Bishop  Philander  Chase 
and  Salmon  P.  Chase,  the  latter  Secretary  of 
the  Treasury  and  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  by  appointment  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  be- 
longed. In  infancy  she  was  brought  to  Por- 
tage, N.  Y.,  where  she  remained  until  she  was 
twelve  years  of  age,  when  her  family  removed 
west  She  attended  school  in  Kenosha,  Wis., 
and  a  seminary  at  Elgin,  afterwards  being  en- 
gaged in  teaching.  On  May  18,  1852,  she  was 
married  to  Judge  Bradwell,  almost  immediately 
going  to  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where,  with  the  as- 
sistance of  her  husband,  she  conducted  a  select 
school  for  some  time,  also  teaching  in  the  pub- 
lic schools,  when  they  returned  to  Chicago. 
In  the  early  part  of  the  Civil  War  she  took 
a  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  soldiers 
in  the  field  and  their  families  at  home,  becom- 
ing President  of  the  Soldiers'  Aid  Society,  and 
was  a  leading  spirit  in  the  Sanitary  Fairs  held 
in  Chicago  in  1S63  and  in  1865.  After  the  war 
she  commenced  the  study  of  law  and,  in  1868, 
began  the  publication  of  "The  Chicago  Legal 
News,"  with  which  she  remained  identified  un- 
til her  death — also  publishing  biennially  an  edi- 
tion of  the  session  laws  after  each  session  of 
the  General  Assembly.  After  passing  a  most 
creditable  examination,  application  was  made 
for  her  admission  to  the  bar  in  1871,  but  de- 
nied in  an  elaborate  decision  rendered  by 
Judge  C.  B.  Lawrence  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  State,  on  the  sole  ground  of  sex,  as 
was  also  done  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  in  1873,  on  the  latter  occasion 
Chief  Justice  Chase  dissenting.  She  was  finally 
admitted  to  the  bar  on  March  28,  1892,  and  was 
the  first  lady  member  of  the  State  Bar  Associ- 
ation. Other  organizations  with  which  she  was 
identified    embraced    the    Illinois    State    Press 


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Association,  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Sol- 
diers' Home  (in  war  time),  the  "Illinois  Indus- 
trial School  for  Girls"  at  Evanston,  the  Wash- 
ingtonian  Home,  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers 
of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  and 
Chairman  of  the  Woman's  Committee  on  Juris- 


prudence of  the  World's  Congress  Auxiliary  of 
1893.  Although  much  before  the  public  during 
the  latter  years  of  her  life,  she  never  lost  the 
refinement  and  graces  which  belong  to  a  true 
woman.  Died  at  her  home  in  Chicago,  Feb.  14, 
1S94. 


NATHANIEL  BUTLER. 


The  late  Professor  Nathaniel  Butler  was  born 
at  Eastport,  Me..  May  27.  1853.  a  son  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Jennette    (Loring)   Butler. 

He  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
from  Colby  University  in  1873,  and  received  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  1876,  Doctor  of  Di- 
vinity in  1895  and  Doctor  of  Laws  in  1903. 

From  1873-6  he  was  associate  Principal  at 
Ferry  Hall  Female  College  at  Lake  Forest,  111. ; 
from  1876-9  associate  Principal  at  Highland  Hall 
College  for  women,  at  Highland  Park,  111.,  and 
Principal  there  from  1880-4.  He  was  Master  of 
the  Yale  School  for  Boys  at  Chicago,  1879-80. 

In  1884  he  was  ordained  for  the  Baptist  min- 
istry. 

He  was  Professor  of  Rhetoric  and  English 
Literature  at  the  old  Chicago  University,  1884- 
6 ;  Professor  of  Latin,  1886-9 ;  and  Professor  of 
English  Language  and  Literature,  1889-92,  at 
the  University  of  Illinois. 


He  was  acting  Director  of  the  University  Ex- 
tension Division,  1893-4  and  Director,  1894-5  for 
the  University  of  Chicago. 

He  was  President  of  Colby  College,  1895-01. 

That  year  he  returned  to  the  University  of 
Chicago  which  he  subsequently  served  as  Pro- 
fessor of  Education  and  Director  of  Cooperative 
Work  ;  Dean  of  the  College  of  Education,  1905-9 ; 
Dean  of  the  University  College,  1916-23 ;  and  as 
Assistant  to  the  President  from  1924  until  the 
close  of  his  life. 

He  was  also  a  very  able  writer  on  educational 
subjects. 

In  1881  Professor  Butler  married  Miss  Flor- 
ence Reeves  Sheppard  of  Chicago,  who  died 
some  years  later.  On  Dec-ember  12,  1903,  he 
married  Miss  Lillian  M.  Googins  of  Chicago. 

Professor  Butler  died  on  March  3.  1927.  The 
contribution  of  his  life  to  the  work  of  education 
in  the  state  of  Illinois  has  rarely  been  equaled. 


FLORA  JULIETTE  COOKE. 


The  spirit  of  progress  which  has  been  the 
dominant  factor  in  the  history  of  the  nineteenth 
and  the  opening  years  of  the  twentieth  centuries 
has  been  manifested  in  no  way  more  strongly 
than  in  education,  and  among  the  notable 
educators  of  Chicago  one  worthy  of  mention  in 
the  history  of  Illinois  is  Miss  Flora  J.  Cooke, 
Principal  of  the  Francis  W.  Parker  School,  at 
330  Webster  Avenue.  She  was  born  at  Bain- 
bridge,  Ohio,  December  25,  1864,  a  daughter  of 
Rev.  Sumner  and  Rosetta  (Ellis)  Hannum.  and 
an  adopted  daughter  of  Charles  E.  and  Luella 
(Miller)  Cooke.  Her  educational  advantages 
were  those  afforded  by  the  grade  and  high 
schools  of  Youngstown,  Ohio,  the  Chicago  and 
Cook  County  Normal  schools  and  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago  Extension  and  she  completed 
twelve  summer  courses  in  science  and  literature 
at  the  latter  institution  between  1890  and  1914. 
She  also  studied  elementary  and  applied  chem- 
istry at  Armour  Institute  of  Technology  in  1916. 
From  1891  until  1900  she  was  a  teacher  in  the 


Chicago  Normal  school  and  Chicago  Institute 
under  Francis  W.  Parker.  In  1901  she  became 
Principal  of  the  Francis  W.  Parker  school  and 
still  retains  this  position,  having  served  in  this 
capacity  for  twenty-six  years,  a  record  that 
indicates  her  superior  qualification  as  an  in- 
structor, her  executive  ability  and  her  popular- 
ity and  high  standing  as  a  citizen.  She  has 
also  been  an  instructor  in  teachers'  institutes 
in  many  states  and  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands, 
and  has  gained  an  international  reputation  as 
an  educator. 

As  Trustee  of  the  Chicago  Teachers'  College 
she  has  been  very  helpful  to  that  institution, 
and  as  President  of  the  Superintendents  and 
Principals  Association  of  Northern  Illinois  in 
1925  and  Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee 
of  Deans  of  the  Women  Association  since  1923 
her  influence  has  been  of  marked  value. 

Thoroughly  appreciative  of  the  importance  of 
her  position,  Miss  Cooke  has  ever  discharged  the 
duties  devolving  upon  her  with  a  keen  sense  of 


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conscientious  obligation,  and  as  a  woman  of 
marked  intellectual  activity,  her  labors  have 
given  impetus  to  educational  work  in  the  com- 
munity. She  is  a  member  of  the  National  Edu- 
cational Association  (life  member).  National  So- 
ciety for  Scientific  Study  of  Education,  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  So- 
ciety for  the  Study  of  Educational  Methods,  Na- 
tional Secondary  Principals,  National  Council 
Primary  Education,  Association  of  Principals  of 
Girls'  Preparatory  Schools.  National  Kindergar- 
ten Association,  Chicago  Teachers'  Association, 
Northern  Illinois  Teachers'  Association,  Chicago 


Forum  League  of  Woman  Voters,  Art  Institute 
of  Chicago  (life  member).  Academy  of  Science 
(life  member),  Field  Museum  of  Natural  History 
(life  member),  Audubon  Society,  Woman's 
League  of  Peace  and  Freedom,  Ethical  Culture 
Society  and  the  Woman's  City  and  Cordon  Clubs. 
She  has  also  gained  distinction  as  a  writer  and 
was  the  author  of  "Nature  Myths"  in  1895.  She 
has  also  been  co-editor  of  "Annual  Studies  in  Ed- 
ucation," a  yearly  educational  journal,  since  1912, 
besides  being  a  liberal  and  valued  contributor  on 
many  educational  subjects. 


HENRY  W.  BRYANT. 


Henry  W.  Bryant  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Elyria,  Ohio,  July  22,  1854,  a  son  of  Henry 
Beadman  Bryant  and  Lucy  (Stratton)  Bryant. 
The  Bryant  family  came  to  America  about  1828 
and  settled  in  Ohio  soon  thereafter. 

Henry  Beadman  Bryant  earned  a  lasting  place 
in  American  history  as  a  pioneer  in  the  field 
of  business  education.  His  genius  conceived  and 
perfected  the  great  scheme  of  International  Com- 
mercial Colleges.  He  and  Mr.  Henry  D.  Strat- 
ton founded  the  very  important  institution  now 
known  throughout  the  world  as  the  Bryant  & 
Stratton  Business  College.  This  college  was 
founded  in  Chicago  in  1856. 

Henry  W.  Bryant  came  to  Chicago  with  his 
parents  in  1860.  He  was  graduated  from  the 
public  schools  of  this  city,  and  then  entered 
Harvard  University  in  the  class  of  1879.  On  his 
return  to  Chicago  he  went  into  business  under 
his  father's  direction.  He  was  thus  associated 
with  the  management  of  the  Bryant  &  Stratton 


Business  College  until  1892.  In  that  year  be 
was  elected  president  of  the  organization,  to 
succeed  his  father,  and  continued  as  president 
from  1892  until  he  retired  from  office  in  1922. 

Henry  W.  Bryant  was  married,  in  Chicago, 
to  Miss  Antoinette  ReQua,  a  daughter  of 
Charles  W.  and  Catherine  Jane  (Bruyn)  Re 
Qua.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bryant  have  lived  in  Chi- 
cago continuously  following  their  marriage. 
Two  children  were  born  to  them :  Catherine 
Re  Qua  Bryant  (Mrs.  Cochran  Supplee)  ;  and 
Willis  Re  Qua  Bryant,  who  married  Frances 
Thompson,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harold  L. 
I  ekes. 

Mr.  Bryant  was  a  member  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church,  the  Union  League  Club  of 
Chicago,  and  the  Chicago  Historical  Society. 

The  death  of  Henry  W.  Bryant  occurred  July 
28,  1925.  He  was  a  Chicagoan  for  a  period  of 
over  sixty-five  consecutive  years,  and  his  work 
has  been  of  valuable  and  lasting  consequence. 


WILLIAM  S.  PLITMER  BRYAN. 


The  late  Dr.  W.  S.  Plumer  Bryan,  for  years 
pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Covenant  at  Chi- 
cago, was  born  at  Allegheny,  Pennsylvania,  on 
August  30,  1856.  His  parents  were  S.  S.  Bryan 
and  Kate  (Plumer)  Bryan,  devout  Christian 
people.  He  is  a  direct  descendant  of  the  Hon. 
George  Bryan,  the  first  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States. 

After  preliminary  schooling  W.  S.  Plumer 
Bryan  entered  Davidson  College,  in  North  Caro- 
lina, where  he  graduated  at  the  age  of  nine- 
teen. Then  he  took  up  his  studies  for  the 
ministry  at  Columbia  Theological  Seminary, 
Columbia,    South   Carolina,   in  which  seminary 


his  grandfather,  Dr.  W.  S.  Plumer  was  for  years 
a  professor. 

Soon  after  receiving  his  degree  as  Doctor  of 
Divinity,  Plumer  Bryan  began  his  long  and  most 
useful  career  as  a  minister  of  the  Gospel.  For 
nine  years  he  was  active  in  his  work  in  the 
mountain  districts  of  West  Virginia.  Then  for 
five  years  he  held  a  pastorate  at  Asheville,  North 
Carolina.  The  following  two  years  he  spent  at 
the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  at  Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

Doctor  Bryan  became  pastor  of  the  Church 
of  the  Covenant  at  Chicago,  on  February  1, 
1895.     From  then  on  until  his  death,  a  period 


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covering  more  than  thirty  years,  he  remained  at 
the  head  of  this  congregation.  The  value  of 
his  work  from  the  pulpit  and  among  the  mem- 
bers and  families  of  his  church,  is  beyond  com- 
putation. His  leadership  was  most  able  and 
wise,  and  his  personal  life  was  a  great  inspira- 
tion and  example. 

He  was  always  a  leader  in  the  work  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  at  large,  in  the  Chicago 
Presbytery  and  in  vhe  Synod  of  Illinois. 

The  Presbyterian  Home  for  Old  People,  in 
Evanston,  Illinois,  with  its  splendid  buildings  in 
beautiful  grounds,  representing  a  value  of 
.$750,000  came  into  being  quite  largely  through 
"the  vision,  faith,  foresight,  persistence,  courage 
and  unrelenting  toil"  of  Doctor  Bryan. 

Dr.  Bryan  will  also  be  gratefully  remembered, 
always,  through  the  University  Chajpel  for 
Presbyterian  students  which  he  established  at 
the  University  of  Illinois.     This  is  a  very  serv- 


iceable institution  in  that  great  college  com- 
munity. 

In  January,  1889,  Doctor  Br.van  was  married 
to  Miss  Alice  Reid,  of  Staunton,  Virginia,  a 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Cochran)  Reid. 
Their  children  are :  Will  Plumer  Bryan,  de- 
ceased ;  Alison  Reid  Bryan,  who  is  now  a  mis- 
sionary in  India ;  George  Plumer  Bryan,  of 
Germantown,  Pennsylvania ;  and  Miss  Helen 
Reid  Bryan. 

Doctor  Bryan  was  a  valued  member  of  the 
University  Club,  of  Chicago,  of  the  Chicago 
Cleric  and  of  the  North  Side  Fellowship  of 
Ministers. 

The  death  of  Dr.  William  S.  Plumer  Bryan 
occurred  on  May  28,  1925.  Such  a  life  as  his  has 
been  is  of  inestimable  worth.  His  three  decades 
of  service  as  a  leader  in  the  work  of  the  church 
in  Chicago,  have  been  a  great  blessing  to  the 
people  of  that  city. 


FREDERIC  BOGART  McMULLEN. 


The  late  Frederic  B.  McMullen  was  born  at 
Chicago,  111.,  June  19,  1871,  a  son  of  James  B. 
and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Bogart)  McMullen.  His 
father  was  owner  and  publisher  of  the  "Chicago 
Post"  and  was  also  President  of  the  McMullen 
Woven  Wire  Fence  Company.  Later  he  was  en- 
gaged in  operating  a  railroad  in  Canada. 

The  McMullen  and  Bogart  families  both  date 
back  to  a  very  early  period  in  American  history. 

Frederic  B.  McMullen  began  his  schooling  in 
Canada,  then  entered  Yale  University  where  he 
was  graduated  in  1893.  He  was  a  prominent 
member  of  his  Class  at  Yale  and  his  college  in- 
terests continued  throughout  the  rest  of  his  life. 
He  served  the  Class  of  1893  (Sheffield)  as  Sec- 
retary from  the  time  of  his  graduation  until  his 
death. 

Soon  after  his  graduation  from  Yale  he  took 
a  course  in  Mineralogy  at  Queens  University, 
Kingston.  Ont..  Can. ;  and  for  a  short  time  was 
engaged  as  a  Civil  Engineer  in  Canada. 

In  1894  he  was  made  Secretary  of  the  Mc- 
Mullen Woven  Wire  Fence  Company,  of  Can- 
ada and  the  United  States,  and  filled  that  of- 
fice until  1898.  Then,  for  two  years  he  was  as- 
sistant manager  of  the  fence  department  of  the 
American  Steel  &  Wire  Co. 

He  left  that  business  to  enter  the  lumber 
trade :  and,  after  acquiring  the  necessary  expe- 
rience and  resources,  he  organized  the  McMul- 
len Lumber  Company.    He  was  Treasurer  of  the 


McMullen  Lumber  Co.,  and  its  successor,  the 
Chicago-Mississippi  Lumber  Company  from  1900 
to  1905.  From  1905  to  1912  he  was  manager  of 
the  Chicago  Office  of  the  Fullerton.  Powell 
Hardwood  Lumber  Company  which  firm  later 
became  affiliated  with  the  McMullen.  Powell 
Lumber  Company,  organized  in  1912,  and  of 
which  he  was  Vice  President  and  General  Man- 
ager until  his  death.  He  was  also  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  1916-27,  of  the  Corinth  Saw  Mills, 
Inc. 

He  was  associated  with  the  Chicago  Hardwood 
Lumber  Exchange  as  Treasurer,  Secretary  and 
President.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in  con- 
solidating into  one  association  the  various  lum- 
ber trade  organizations  of  Chicago. 

Mr.  McMullen  was  also  engaged  in  the  foreign 
lumber  trade. 

He  was  one  of  the  principal  forces  behind  the 
projected  erection  of  the  Lumberman's  Building 
in  Chicago. 

On  January  26,  1S99,  Frederic  B.  McMullen 
was  married  to  Miss  Lois  Rice,  a  daughter  of 
Fordyce  Bernard  and  Ann  Jane  (Anderson) 
Rice.  They  have  one  daughter,  Mary-Lois  Mc- 
Mullen. The  family  home  has  been  in  Evanston, 
111.,  for  many  years. 

Mr.  McMullen  was  a  member  of  St.  Marks 
Episcopal  Church  and  had  been  President  of 
the  Men's  Club  of  that  church. 

He  was  Vice  President  of  the  Lumbermen's 


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Association  of  Chicago  in  1917.  In  1921  he 
founded  the  Yale  Club  of  Evanston,  and  be- 
came its  President;  he  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Yale  Club  of  Chicago  and  the  Harvard-Yale- 
Princeton  Club  of  Chicago.  He  was  a  founder 
and  director  of  the  Evanston  University  Club 
and  a  member  of  the  Evanston  Country  Club. 

Mr.  McMullen's  life  was  filled  with  kindliness 
and  friendliness.   He  had  a  very  fine,  able  mind. 


He  was  a  true  lover  of  music  and  had  a  beau- 
tiful baritone  voice.  He  gave  and  received  much 
joy  from  singing.  He  also  traveled  extensively 
and  visited  Europe  several  times  with  his  fam- 
ily. His  home,  his  family  and  his  friends  were 
the  absorbing  interests  of  his  life. 

The  death  of  Frederic  B.  McMullen  occurred 
on  June  7,  1927. 


ORLANDO  J.  BUCK. 


The  record  of  no  Chicago  business  man  per- 
haps indicates  more  clearly  what  can  be  ac- 
complished when  energy,  determination  and 
ambition  lead  the  way  than  that  of  the  late 
Orlando  J.  Buck.  His  labors  not  only  consti- 
tuted a  potent  factor  in  the  industrial  inter- 
ests of  Chicago,  but  were  evident  in  many  ways, 
and  his  career  indicated  a  man  ready  to  meet 
any  obligation  of  life  with  the  confidence  and 
courage  that  come  of  conscious  personal  ability, 
right  conception  of  things  and  an  habitual  re- 
gard for  what  is  best  in  the  exercise  of  human 
activities.  In  all  those  elements  which  enter 
into  the  makeup  of  the  successful  and  enter- 
prising business  man.  as  well  as  a  progressive 
and  public-spirited  citizen,  Chicago  has  had  no 
more  notable  example. 

Mr.  Buck  was  born  in  Buckfield,  Maine,  De- 
cember 30,  1852,  a  son  of  John  and  Abbie  M. 
(Morse)  Buck,  and  came  of  prominent  old  es- 
tablished New  England  families  which  date 
back  to  the  colonial  epoch  in  American  history. 
His  educational  advantages  were  those  afforded 
by  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  a 
Normal  school  at  Paris,  Maine,  after  which  he 
engaged  in  teaching  school  for  some  time.  He 
later  filled  a  clerical  position  for  a  time  at  the 
old  Quincy  Street  market  in  Boston,  then  went 
bo  New  York  where  he  began  as  an  apprentice 
to  learn  the  rubber  paint  manufacturing,  in 
which  he  became  proficient,  and  for  two  years 
had  charge  of  the  New  York  factory  for  the 
Rubber  Paint  Company,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

In  1881,  Mr.  Buck  removed  to  Chicago  to 
accei>t  a  position  as  superintendent  for  the  same 
concern  in  this  city,  and  later  became  an  officer 
and  large  stockholder  in  the  company.  In  1892, 
he  became  part  owner  and  general  superinten- 
dent of  the  Zeno  Manufacturing  Company.  In 
1911.  he  was  made  General  Manager  of  factories 
and  also  became  a  Director  of  the  William 
Wrigley,  Jr.,  Company,  and  filled  this  position 


until  1914,  when  he  retired  from  his  position 
as  general  factory  manager,  although  remained 
as  a  director  of  the  corporation  until  the  time 
of  his  death.  His  best  efforts  were  given  to  the 
success  of  the  enterprise,  and  it  can  be  said 
that  the  success  and  popularity  of  this  great 
concern  may  be  attributed  in  no  small  degree 
to  his  faithfulness,  inventive  genius  and  untir- 
ing efforts. 

Endowed  with  a  just  appreciation  of  the 
importance  in  business  of  rigid  economy,  Mr. 
Buck  was  most  conscientious  and  scrupulous  in 
all  his  dealings,  and  was  of  the  type  that  would 
rather  err  to  his  own  cost  than  do  an  injustice. 
He  seemed  to  recognize  readily  every  opportu- 
nity and  to  use  time  and  material  to  the  best 
advantage,  and  out  of  seemingly  diverse  ele- 
ments would  work  out  harmony  resulting  in 
success.  He  was  a  man  of  not  only  great  men- 
tal capacity  and  steadfast  purpose,  but  univer- 
sally respected  for  his  high  code  of  business 
ethics  and  consistent  moral  character,  and  the 
record  of  his  deeds  stands  to  show  that  he  did 
not  live  in  vain. 

Besides  his  connection  with  the  William 
Wrigley,  Jr.,  Company,  Mr.  Buck  was  also  vice 
president  of  the  Otis  Lithograph  Company,  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  was  an  extensive  owner  of 
Chicago  real  estate,  and  his  progressive  spirit 
was  evident  in  many  ways.  His  contribution 
to  the  world's  work  was  a  valuable  one;  not 
only  in  business  affairs,  but  in  the  splendid 
example  which  he  left  of  honorable  manhood, 
and  his  career  was  one  that  redounds  to  his 
credit  and  places  his  name  high  in  the  estima- 
tion of  his  fellowman.  His  efforts  were  not 
confined  to  lines  resulting  in  individual  benefit, 
but  were  evinced  in  those  fields  where  general 
interests  and  public  welfare  are  involved,  and 
he  gave  freely  of  his  time  and  means  to  all 
measures  tending  to  the  public  good.  His 
mighty  courage  and  will;  his  high-minded  con- 


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ception  of  a  man's  duty  in  his  domestic  as  in 
his  business  life,  and  his  quiet  and  unswerving 
allegiance  to  the  principles  of  good  citizenship 
were  traits  which  especially  distinguished  him. 
On  January  21,  1S80,  Mr.  Buck  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Lillian  Louise  Brewer, 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  a  daughter  of  Nelson  C.  and 
Caroline  C.  (Benedict)  Brewer,  and  a  woman 
of  much  beauty  of  character,  and  they  became 
the  parents  of  three  children :  Nelson  L.,  who 
is  manager  of  factories  of  the  William  Wrig- 
ley,  Jr.,  Company  of  Chicago;  Ellsworth  B.,  is 
engaged  in  the  chemical  business  at  Staten 
Island,  New  York ;  and  L.  Hazel,  wife  of  Davis 
Ewing,  of  Bloomington,  Illinois.  Although  un- 
assuming in  manner,  Mr.  Buck  had  hosts  of 
warm  friends  and  was  recognized  as  a  man  of 
high  ideals.  His  domestic  life  was  most  at- 
tractive in  all  of  its  various  phases  as  husband, 
father  and  host,  and  his  happiest  moments  were 
always  spent  at  his  own  fireside. 


Although  the  scope  of  his  work  in  connection 
with  his  business  was  always  broad,  Mr.  Buck 
was  identified  with  numerous  clubs  and  socie- 
ties and  always  found  time  to  get  the  most 
out  of  the  finer  social  amenities  of  life.  He 
was  a  great  lover  of  art  and  music,  and  con- 
tributed liberally  toward  its  support  and  en- 
couragement. He  was  a  life  member  of  the  Art 
Institute  of  Chicago,  and  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers and  a  life  member  of  the  Beverly  Country 
Club,  of  which  he  served  as  president.  He  was 
also  a  life  member  of  the  Illinois  Athletic  Club, 
a  life  member  and  a  director  in  1917-18,  of  the 
Hamilton  Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Union 
League,  Wausaukee,  South  Shore  Country,  and 
Swan  Lake  Gun  clubs.  In  both  business  and 
social  life  he  was  honored,  prompt  and  true  to 
every  engagement,  and  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred July  7,  1919,  removed  from  Chicago  one 
of  its  most  valued  citizens. 


HARRY  CLAY  COFFEEN. 


Harry  Clay  Coffeen  was  born  at  Champaign, 
Illinois,  on  July  27,  1877,  a  son  of  Alva  M.  and 
Miranda  (Gaines)  Coffeen.  His  father  was  an 
educator  in  Central  Illinois  and  was  Principal 
of  the  Urbana  High  School.  After  resigning 
this  office,  he  owned  and  conducted  a  book  and 
music  store  at  Champaign.  The  mother,  who 
was  also  a  teacher,  was  a  direct  descendant  of 
Henry  Clay. 

Harry  Coffeen  went  to  the  public  school  at 
Champaign  and  then  enrolled  in  the  University 
of  Illinois.  It  will  be  remembered  that  he 
played  two  years  on  the  championship  Illinois 
tootball  team,  and  that  he  held  several  records 
as  a  pole  vaulter.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Gamma  Delta  and  Tau  Beta  Pi  fraternities. 
He  graduated  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Science  in  1898,  and  later  received  the  degree 
of  Master  of  Science.  He  then  entered  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  and  began  work  for 
his  Doctor's  degree  in  astronomy.  These  studies 
he  relinquished  within  a  few  months  of  their 
completion  to  take  up  astronomical  work  for 
the  government. 

Some  time  thereafter  he  began  to  feel  that 
his  time  and  efforts  were  not  being  used  in  the 
way  best  suited  to  his  own  development,  so  he 
left  the  East,  and  returned  to  Illinois.  That 
same  year  he  took  the  position  as  Assistant 
Professor  of  Mechanical  Engineering,  and  also 


as  Director  of  Athletics  at  the  Armour  Institute 
of  Technology,  Chicago.  As  time  passed,  he 
became  one  of  the  best  loved  and  most  highly 
regarded  men  that  have  ever  been  connected 
with  that  institution.  It  is  a  noteworthy  fact 
that  the  only  times  this  school  has,  thus  far, 
been  closed  as  an  expression  of  sorrow,  were 
following  the  death  of  Mr.  Armour,  the  death 
of  Dr.  Gunsaulus,  and  following  the  more  recent 
death  of  Mr.  Coffeen. 

After  nine  very  pleasant  and  useful  years 
at  Armour  Institute,  Mr.  Coffeen  decided  to  stop 
teaching.  This  decision  he  reached  after  much 
sincere  and  searching  consideration.  He  felt 
the  need,  in  relation  to  his  own  growth,  of  get- 
ting out  into  daily  touch  with  men  and  affairs. 

He  entered  the  insurance  business.  His  train- 
ing and  experience  finely  fitted  him  for  it.  What 
was  more  important,  he  recognized  insurance 
to  be  a  well-nigh  invaluable  service  to  people; 
and  he  foresaw  that  his  time  and  effort  de- 
voted to  selling  insurance  would  bring  the 
maximum  results  in  usefulness  accomplished. 
He  retained  this  clear,  unshadowed  view  of  in- 
surance throughout  his  life.  His  work  has 
been  of  value  beyond  estimate.  It  is  possible 
that  Mr.  Coffeen  accomplished  as  much  for  in- 
surance business  as  any  man  in  the  state. 

On  October  23,  1907,  Mr.   Coffeen  was  mar- 


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ried  at  Iowa  City,  Iowa,  to  Miss  Ida  Felkner, 
a  daughter  of  William  and  Jessie  (Works) 
Felkner.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coffeen  had  one  son, 
John,   who   died. 

Mr.  Coffeen  was  widely  known  among  alumni 
of  the  University  of  Illinois.  He  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  General  Alumni  Association  at  the 


time  of  his  death.  The  University  held  a  big 
place  in  his  heart.  No  alumnus  was  held  more 
truly  in  affectionate  regard  than  he.  He  was 
a  founder  of  the  Illini  Club  of  Chicago,  and 
was  the  first  President.  He  also  belonged  to 
the  City  Club  and  to  the  University  Club. 
Mr.  Coffeen  died  September  14,  1924. 


HOMER  J.  BUCKLEY. 


Homer  J.  Buckley,  President  of  the  largest 
direct  mail  advertising  house  in  the  United 
States,  is  a  native  of  Illinois  and  his  entire  busi- 
ness career  has  been  spent  in  Chicago.  A  self- 
made  man,  struggling  against  difficulties  for  his 
early  education,  within  the  past  ten  years  he  has 
guided  his  firm,  Buckley,  Dement  and  Company, 
from  a  small  pioneer  of  the  advertising  business 
to  be  a  leader  in  the  field.  In  addition,  Mr. 
Buckley  has  become  connected  with  probably  as 
many  business,  civic  and  fraternal  organizations 
as  any  man  in  Chicago  and  has  made  an  in- 
ternational reputation  as  author  and  speaker. 
He  is  still  only  forty-six  years  old. 

Homer  J.  Buckley  was  born  in  Rock  Island 
County  on  March  16,  1879.  and  as  a  boy  came 
with  his  parents  to  Chicago.  He  attended  the 
grammar  and  High  schools  and  spent  two  years 
at  St.  Ignatius  (now  Loyola)  university. 

Mr.  Buckley  associated  with  Marshall  Field 
and  Company  in  1898  and  spent  fifteen  years 
with  this  firm.  Here  he  passed  through  the 
advertising  and  sales  department  and  in  1913 
was  their  sales  promotion  manager.  But  he 
had  a  great  idea — that  the  direct  by  mail  busi- 
ness was  going  to  grow,  so  he  broke  away  from 
his  high  connection  with  the  big  merchandising 
firm  and  with  Merritt  Henry  Dement  started  a 
small  direct  by  mail  business  at  340  South  Dear- 
born street,  Chicago.  They  had  only  $3,000  capi- 
tal and  it  was  a  hard  fight  the  first  year  but  the 
business  soon  prospered  and  today  the  concern 
is  appraised  at  over  $750,000.  Three  hundred 
employes  carry  on  the  work  of  Buckley,  Dement 
and  Company  and  a  six-story  building  at  1300 
West  Jackson  boulevard  houses  the  latest  types 
of  "color  presses"  and  the  immense  organization. 
Buckley  Dement  and  Company  deal  with  the 
nation's  largest  advertisers  and  have  perfected 
their  organization  until  their  scope  is  tremen- 
dous. 

Homer  J.  Buckley  was  first  president  and  or- 
ganizer of  the  Direct  Mail  Advertising  Associa- 
tion   and    is    now    a    member    of    this    group's 


Board  of  Governors.  He  helped  organize  and 
is  a  charter  member  of  the  Advertising  Club  of 
Chicago  and  is  its  president  this  year.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee,  Chicago 
Association  of  Commerce.  He  belongs  to  the 
speaker's  bureau  of  the  Illinois  Association  of 
Commerce  and  is  active  in  that  organization. 
As  Chairman  of  the  Legislative  Committee  of 
the  Associated  Advertising  Clubs  of  the  World 
he  attended  the  famous  International  Conven- 
tion at  Wembley,  England,  in  the  summer  of 
1924  and  addressed  the  prominent  men  of  the 
world  on  his  science — direct  mail  advertising. 
He  was  National  Chairman  at  this  convention. 
He  also  belongs  to  the  Advertising  Club  of 
New  York  and  is  on  the  lecture  staff  of  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  and  the  University  of 
Illinois. 

Fraternally,  Mr.  Buckley  is  a  Fourth  Degree 
Knight  of  Columbus,  and  as  an  uncommon  con- 
trast, a  member  of  the  Board  of  Governors  and 
Chairman  of  the  Marketing  Commission  of 
the  Chicago  Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 
He  belongs  to  the  Union  League  Club  and  the 
Chicago  Athletic  Club,  The  La  Grange  Country 
Club,  La  Grange  Civic  Club,  and  numerous  other 
organizations. 

Mr.  Buckley  was  married  to  Miss  Lucile  Wal- 
lace of  New  York  City  in  1909.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Marihelyn.  For  twelve  years  they 
have  lived  in  La  Grange,  a  pleasant  suburb  of 
Chicago,  and  Mr.  Buckley  has  found  time  to 
be  active  in  his  church,  St.  Francis  Xavier's, 
as  well  as  every  civic  betterment  move  in  the 
town.  He  is  a  speaker  of  known  reputation 
and  the  author  of  many  magazine  articles  as 
well  as  these  books :  Science  of  Marketing  by 
Mail ;  Principles  and  Practices  of  Direct  Mail 
Advertising;  Retail  Merchandising;  Lecture 
Series  for  Retail  Clerks. 

Homer  J.  Buckley,  through  his  tireless  energy 
and  courage  has  made  his  business  the  leader 
in  its  field  and  himself  one  of  the  best  known 
younger  executives  in  the  state  and  nation. 


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HENRY  CHANNON. 


The  late  Henry  Channon  had  a  long,  help- 
ful, strong  and  interesting  life.  We  take  pleas- 
ure in  reviewing  it  here.  He  was  born  at 
Bridgewater,  England,  on  February  24,  1834, 
a  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Dyer)  Chan- 
non,  both  natives  of  England.  The  father  was 
a  carpenter.  Henry  Channon  attended  public 
school  in  England ;  and  then  went  to  sea  for 
several  years,  during  which  time  he  sailed 
around  the  entire  world.  In  1858,  when  he 
was  twenty-five  years  old,  he  left  his  ship  at 
New  Orleans  and  journeyed  up  the  Mississippi 
River  to  St.   Louis,  Missouri. 

It  was  in  1858,  that  he  came  to  Chicago  and 
his  long  residence  here  dates  from  that  time. 
His  love  for  the  water  and  his  training  as  a 
seainsm  led  him  to  sail  the  Great  Lakes.  He 
eventually  becamo  owner  of  several  lake  boats. 

Later,  an  opportunity  came  to  him  to  buy 
a  large  consignment  of  rope  from  Rylands 
Brothers,  manufacturers,  of  Warrington,  Eng- 
land. With  this  as  a  start  he  built  up  a  sub- 
stantial business  in  Chicago,  rigging  ships,  on 
Goose  Island,  for  the  lake  trade.  Mr.  Channon 
was  a  most  efficient  ship  rigger,  in  fact  stand- 
ing at  the  very  top  of  that  profession.  No 
doubt  he  was  capable  of  rigging  completely  any 
sailing  craft  that  sailed  fresh  or  salt  water. 
Then  occurred  the  Chicago  Fire  and  his  estab- 
lishment was  completely  destroyed. 

Following  the  fire  he  got  a  stronger  derrick 
which  was  capable  of  lifting  the  rear  end  of 
tugs  from  the  water  so  that  their  propellors 
and  steering  gear  might  be  cleared  of  weeds, 
logs  and  other  entanglements  that  were  con- 
stantly accumulating.  This  work  engaged  him 
until  1875. 

In  that  year  he  founded  his  ship  chandlery 
business.  This  business,  bearing  his  name, 
grew  to  very  considerable  importance  in  Chi- 
cago's shipping  and  increased  in  volume  from 
year  to  year. 

When   steamships   gradually   but  surely   dis- 


placed sailing  craft  in  Great  Lakes  commerce, 
Mr.  Channon  reorganized  his  business ;  and,  in 
time,  became  one  of  the  largest  manufacturers 
and  distributors  of  steamship  and  railroad  fit- 
tings and  supplies  in  the  United  States.  He 
incorporated  as  the  H.  Channon  Company  in 
1881.  Over  thirty  years  ago  his  two  sons 
joined  Mr.  Channon  in  this  organization  and 
their  work  has  been  a  strong  contribution  to 
the  development  of  the  business  and  to  its 
reputation  for  complete  reliability. 

Mr.  Channon  continued  as  president  and 
owner  of  his  concern  until  1919,  when  he  sold 
out.  He  then  built  the  H.  Channon  Building 
located  at  Market  and  Randolph  streets,  Chi- 
cago, which  was  completed  in  1920.  This  build- 
ing was  entirely  owned  by  Mr.  Channon. 

Henry  Channon  was  married  in  Chicago  by 
the  late  Rev.  Clinton  D.  Locke,  to  Miss  Eliz- 
abeth Smith.  The  date  was  December  4,  1860. 
Through  all  the  years  of  married  life  that 
followed  we  know  that  Mr.  Channon  felt  that 
the  strength,  encouragement  and  fortitude  he 
received  from  his  wife  were  a  great  blessing. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Channon's  children  are :  Wil- 
liam and  Henry,  both  of  whom  died  in  infancy; 
Grace  Anne  (Mrs.  Charles  E.  Bortell),  deceased  ; 
James  Harrison  Channon,  deceased  ;  and  Harry 
Channon  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Channon  was  devoted 
to  his  home.  The  death  of  his  wife  occurred  on 
May  9,  1921. 

His  own  life  was  closed,  in  his  ninetieth 
year,  through  his  death  at  his  home  in  Winter 
Tark,  Florida,  on  May  5,  1923. 

Mr.  Channon  belonged  to  the  Chicago  Athletic 
Association.  He  was  also  a  Knight-Templar 
and  Shriner  Mason.  At  his  death,  he  was  the 
oldest  living  member  of  St.  Bernard's  Com- 
ma ndery. 

His  life,  all  through,  was  characterized  by 
careful  adherence  to  his  fine  ideals  of  life's 
privileges,   responsibilities   and   attainments. 


FAYETTE  SHEPARD  CABLE. 


It  would  be  impossible  to  write  properly  of  the 
men  of  Illinois  whose  names  stand  out  conspicu- 
ously in  the  commercial  and  industrial  interests 
of  the  commonwealth,  who  through  inherent 
characteristics  and  achievements  contributed  to 
the    upbuilding    and    development    of    Chicago, 


without  paying  special  attention  to  the  record 
of  Fayette  Shepard  Cable,  founder  of  the  Cable- 
Nelson  Piano  Company,  and  former  president  of 
this  concern.  For  thirty  years  Mr.  Cable  had 
been  prominently  identified  with  the  manufac- 
ture of  musical  instruments  in  Chicago,  and  few 


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men,  if  any,  had  a  more  thorough  schooling  in 
this  field  of  activity.  Of  a  family  noted  for 
strong  intellect,  indomitable  courage  and  en- 
ergy, he  entered  upon  his  commercial  career 
in  1876,  well  equipped  by  inheritance ;  and  such 
were  his  force  of  character  and  natural  quali- 
fications that  he  attained  prominence  not  only 
as  a  thorough  business  man,  but  as  manager 
of  large  affairs,  in  which  he  displayed  marked 
executive   ability. 

Mr.  Cable  was  born  in  Cannonsville,  Delaware 
County,  New  York,  March  18,  1855.  His  par- 
ents, Silas  and  Mary  (Goodrich)  Cable,  spent 
the  greater  part  of  their  lives  in  that  locality, 
and  were  worthy  representatives  of  old  New 
York  families.  The  elder  Cable  was  a  farmer 
by  occupation,  and  was  prominently  identified 
with  the  development  of  that  country.  He  took 
a  prominent  part  in  all  municipal,  educational 
and  civic  affairs  and  was  a  man  of  sterling 
worth.  The  early  boyhood  days  of  Fayette 
S.  Cable  were  spent  upon  the  home  farm  and 
he  was  brought  under  the  strict  discipline  of 
devout  and  faithful  parents.  He  was  early 
taught  the  habits  of  industry  and  economy,  the 
environment  being  valuable  during  the  forma- 
tive period  of  his  life.  His  opportunities  for 
scholastic  attainment  were  those  afforded  by  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  county,  and  the 
Delaware  Literary  Institute  of  Franklin,  N.  Y. 
After  completing  his  course  in  the  latter  insti- 
tution, Mr.  Cable  engaged  in  teaching  school. 
He  was  later  associated  with  the  house  of  A.  S. 
Barnes  and  Company  of  New  York  City,  and 
continued  with  it  from  1876  until  1880.  In  the 
latter  year  he  came  to  Chicago  to  accept  the 
position  of  manager  for  the  Chicago  branch 
of  the  Philadelphia  book  house  of  Porter  and 
Coates,  and  remained  with  this  house  for  sev- 
eral years. 

In  1890  Mr.  Cable  became  associated  with 
the  Chicago  Cottage  Organ  Company,  and  later 
with  its  development  into  the  Cable  Company, 
a  business  founded  by  his  brother,  the  late 
Herman  D.  Cable  in  1880.  He  became  a  stock- 
holder and  filled  the  position  of  secretary  and 
was  also  a  director,  and  upon  the  death  of 
Herman  D.  Cable,  he  became  its  president,  and 
as  such  was  a  leading  factor  in  the  manage- 
ment and  development  of  the  business.  In 
1903  Mr.  Cable  severed  his  connection  with 
this  concern  and  founded  the  Fayette  S.  Cable 
Piano  Company,  manufacturers  of  pianos.     In 


July,  1904,  the  business  was  reorganized,  and 
the  name  changed  to  the  Cable-Nelson  Piano 
Company,  of  which  Mr.  Cable  was  president. 
The  position  which  the  Cable-Nelson  Piano  Com- 
pany occupies  with  relation  to  the  trade  inter- 
ests of  Chicago  is  well  known,  and  under  the 
progressive  policy  of  Mr.  Cable  rapid  growth 
was  the  dominant  feature  of  the  corporation. 
Resulting  from  a  spirit  of  enterprise  that  was 
evidenced  through  new  ideas  and  modern  in- 
ventions and  appliances,  the  house  flourished 
from  the  start,  and  is  today  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  complete  of  its  kind  in  the  country. 
Its  name  upon  any  instrument  is  a  guarantee 
of  superior  quality,  and  no  house  in  America 
stands  higher,  or  has  a  better  reputation  for 
square  and  honorable  dealing.  Mr.  Cable  en- 
joyed wide  popularity  for  the  active  interest  he 
took  in  connection  with  this  work  and  all  mat- 
ters tending  toward  the  betterment  of  the  busi- 
ness. His  progressive  spirit  was  evidenced 
in  all  commercial  enterprises  with  which  he 
was  identified,  and  he  earned  an  honorable 
standing  among  the  leading  business  men  of 
the  country. 

On  October  16,  1879,  Mr.  Cable  was  married 
to  Miss  Kate  Elting  of  Ellenville,  New  York,  a 
daughter  of  Daniel  Elting  of  that  place.  To 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cable  were  born  four  children  as 
follows :  Anne  Southwick,  Rachel  Elting, 
Gladys  Goodrich  and  Dorothy  Roselle.  The 
family  home  is  at  Hinsdale,  Illinois.  Mr.  Cable 
had  many  friends  who  recognized  in  him  a 
man  of  earnest  purpose  and  progressive  prin- 
ciples. In  religious  faith  he  was  a  Congrega- 
tionalist.  He  was  a  Republican  in  his  political 
affiliations.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Union 
League,  Hamilton  and  Hinsdale  clubs.  Al- 
though the  scope  of  his  work  in  the  various 
business  interests  of  Chicago  was  always  broad, 
Mr.  Cable  was  very  active  in  all  matters  con- 
cerning the  public  welfare  and  never  omitted 
an  opportunity  to  do  what  he  could  toward 
the  improvement  of  the  municipality.  In  the 
light  of  later  years,  the  record  of  his  early 
ability  is  most  interesting  and  significant,  for 
never  was  a  man's  success  due  more  to  his  own 
native  ability  and  less  to  outward  circum- 
stances. Nothing  came  to  him  by  chance.  He 
reaped  only  where  he  sowed,  and  reached  his 
high  position  through  no  favors  of  influential 
friends,  but  worked  his  way  upward  through 


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sheer  ability  and  pluck,  and  his  achievements 
were  the  merited  reward  of  earnest,  honest 
effort.    Fayette  S.  Cable  passed  from  this  sphere 


of  endeavor  February  22,  1920,  and  in  his  death 
Chicago  lost  one  of  its  most  representative  and 
worthy  citizens. 


DWIGHT  BISSELL  CHEEVER. 


Dwight  B.  Cheever  was  born  at  Ann  Arbor, 
Michigan,  February  23,  1868,  a  son  of  Henry 
Sylvester  and  Laura  Edna  (Bissell)  Cheever. 
He  attended  public  school  at  Ann  Arbor,  and 
completed  high  school  there  in  1887.  He  then 
entered  the  University  of  Michigan  and  grad- 
uated from  the  College  of  Mechanical  Engineer- 
ing, with  his  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science,  in 
1891.  It  is  an  interesting  fact  to  note  that  from 
1858  to  1903  there  has  been  some  member  of 
the  Cheever  family  at  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan, either  as  a  student  or  as  a  member  of  the 
faculty.  At  the  time  of  this  writing  one  of  a 
new  generation  of  the  family  is  in  attendance 
there. 

Dwight  B.  Cheever  took  a  very  active  part  in 
the  life  of  the  University  throughout  his  under- 
graduate years.  He  was  not  a  fraternity  man. 
He  was,  however,  class  Treasurer,  Secretary  of 
the  Mathematics  Club,  Treasurer  of  the  Stu- 
dents Lecture  Association,  was  "Castalion"  Edi- 
tor and  "Technic"  Editor. 

For  several  years  following  his  graduation  he 
was  engaged  in  practical  engineering  work. 
Then,  deciding  to  perfect  himself  in  the  legal 
end  of  his  profession,  he  entered  the  Law  School 
of  the  University  of  Michigan,  and  graduated 
with  his  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws,  in  1896. 

In  1897  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  patent  law 
office  of  Mr.  Robert  H.  Parkinson  at  Chicago. 
He  was  in  this  office  until  May  1,  1901,  at  which 
time  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  patent  law, 
by  himself.  In  November  of  1904,  he  and  Mr. 
Howard  M.  Cox  formed  the  firm  of  Cheever  & 
Cox,    with   offices   in   the  Monadnock   Building, 


Chicago.  This  firm  has  since  practiced  law  as 
it  relates  to  patents,  trademarks  and  copyrights, 
exclusively,  and  has  met  with  marked  success. 
Mr.  Cheever  tried  several  cases  before  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  United  States. 

On  September  1,  1904,  Mr.  Cheever  was  mar- 
ried at  Pasadena,  California,  to  Miss  Arline  H. 
Vallette,  of  Chicago,  a  daughter  of  Frank  H. 
and  Jean  (Martin)  Vallette.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cheever  have  two  sons,  Dwight  Martin  Cheever, 
and  Bruce  Bissell  Cheever.  Mr.  Cheever  was 
deeply  devoted  to  his  family.  Loving  travel, 
they  have  journeyed  together  throughout  most  of 
the  United  States.  He  believed  very  thoroughly 
in  the  educational  value  of  travel  and  he  was 
very  anxious  that  his  boys,  to  whom  he  was 
always  a  very  near  and  dear  companion,  should 
have  the  gifts  of  understanding  that  travel 
would  give  them. 

The  family  residence  has  long  been  at  5491 
Hyde  Park  Boulevard,  Chicago,  and  their  sum- 
mer home  was  at  Flossmoor,  Illinois. 

Mr.  Cheever  was  a  member  of  the  American 
and  Chicago  Bar  Associations  and  of  the  Chi- 
cago Patent  Law  Association. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Union  League 
Club,  Flossmoor  Country  Club  and  the  South 
Shore  Country  Club. 

Mr.  Cheever's  death  occurred  July  24,  1927. 
He  had  an  exceptionally  fine  mind  and  a  rare 
ability  to  concentrate.  For  some  years  past  he 
has  been  recognized  as  one  of  the  best  and  most 
highly  regarded  patent  lawyers  in  this  country. 


ALBERT  HENRY  CHILDS. 


The  late  Albert  H.  Childs  of  Chicago  and 
Evanston,  Illinois,  was  born  in  Chicago.  Decem- 
ber 19,  1861,  a  son  of  S.  D.  Childs,  Jr.,  and  Mary 
A.  (Wright)  Childs.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Evanston. 

Back  in  1878,  when  he  was  but  sixteen  years 
old,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  firm  of  S.  D. 
Childs  &  Company,  which  was  founded  by  his 
grandfather,  Mr.  S.  D.  Childs,  in  1837.  The  firm, 
which   continues  with  distinguished  success  to 


the  present,  is  one  of  the  oldest  business  con- 
cerns in  the  history  of  Chicago. 

Albert  H.  Childs  began  his  work  for  the  firm 
at  the  very  bottom,  as  errand  boy.  Two  years 
later  he  became  one  of  the  traveling  salesmen 
representing  the  business.  Then  from  1884  to 
1886,  he  was  a  salesman  at  the  firm's  down- 
town place  of  business.  Following  the  death  of 
his  father,  in  1886,  he  represented  the  latter's 
interests  in   the  company  for   the  ensuing  six 


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years.  In  1902  the  business  was  incorporated 
as  S.  D.  Childs  &  Company.  At  this  time  he 
was  elected  Vice  President,  which  office  he  filled 
until  1908.  In  1908  he  was  made  President,  and 
he  continued  as  President  as  long  as  he  lived. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  National  Association 
of  Stationers   (elected  Treasurer  in  1921). 

The  marriage  of  Albert  H.  Childs  to  Miss 
Florence  Huntington  Johnson  of  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  took  place  in  Philadelphia,  May 
29,  1884.    His  wife  is  a  daughter  of  William  H. 


and  Elizabeth  (Jones)  Johnson.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Childs  have  one  daughter,  Mrs.  Helen  Childs 
Garvin.  The  family  residence  has  been  at  Evans- 
ton,  Illinois,  for  many  years.  Mr.  Childs  was 
devoted  to  his  family  and  his  home. 

The  death  of  Albert  H.  Childs  occurred  March 
10,  1927.  He  was  a  worthy  representative  of 
an  old  and  honored  Chicago  family  and  was 
one  of  the  leading  stationers  in  this  country  for 
many  years. 


JOSEPH  PETEE  COBB. 


The  late  Dr.  Joseph  P.  Cobb,  of  Chicago,  was 
born  at  Abington,  Massachusetts,  June  12,  1857, 
a  son  of  Edward  W.  and  ELmina  (Howard) 
Cobb,  natives  of  Westfield  and  West  Bridge- 
water,  Massachusetts,  respectively. 

He  represents  the  eighth  generation  from  an- 
cestors who  settled  in  Hingham,  Massachusetts, 
about  1692,  Thomas  Cobb  and  his  son,  Richard, 
having  come  to  Boston  in  1685. 

He  attended  public  school  at  Bridgewater,  to 
which  town  his  family  had  moved.  He  con- 
tinued his  studies  at  the  Waltham  New  Church 
School,  where  he  prepared  for  Harvard.  He 
graduated  from  Harvard,  with  his  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts,  in  1879.  Soon  he  came  to 
Chicago  and  entered  Hahnemann  Medical  Col- 
lege. He  graduated  in  1883,  with  his  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine. 

He  then  entered  upon  a  general  practice  of 
medicine  at  Chicago.  As  a  practitioner,  as  a 
teacher  and  demonstrator  and  as  a  leader  in 
medical  advancement  in  this  part  of  the  coun- 
try, his  work  has  been  of  very  great  value  to 
his  community,  for  the  past  four  decades. 

He  was  professor  of  Physiology,  Embryology 
and  Histology,  and  senior  Professor  of  Pedia- 
trics at  Hahnemann  Medical  College.  He  was 
Professor  of  Diseases  of  Children  at  Hahne- 
mann  Hospital. 

In  1913  he  was  elected  Dean  of  Hahnemann 
Medical  College,  and  he  so  served  continuously 
until  within  a   few  years  of  his  death. 


In  1907  he  was  made  President  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Homeopathy,  and  later 
became  Trustee.  He  belonged  to  the  South- 
ern Homeopathic  Association,  to  the  Illinois 
Homeopathic  Medical  Association,  and  to  the 
Chicago  Homeopathic  Society.  He  was  the 
first  President,  and  later  Vice  President,  of  the 
New  Jerusalem  Church.  Socially  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Harvard  Club,  Chicago  Ath- 
letic Association,  the  South  Shore  Country 
Club,  and  was  a  life  member  of  the  Press  Club. 

Doctor  Cobb  was  married,  at  Milwaukee,  Wis- 
consin, on  September  18,  1882,  to  Miss  Edith 
Persons,  a  daughter  of  Edinond  R.  and  Helen 
(Miller)  Persons.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Cobb  have 
one  son,  Edmond  Persons  Cobb.  There  are 
four  grandchildren :  Joseph  D.,  Edmond  P., 
Louella  P.,  and  Richard  M.  Cobb. 

Dr.  Joseph  P.  Cobb  was  called  from  this  life 
on  December  23,  1924,  in  his  sixty-eighth 
year.  His  death  was  assuredly  hastened  by 
the  great  strain  of  his  responsibilities  and 
labors  during  the  World  War,  for  he  main- 
tained the  work  of  Hahnemann  Medical  Col- 
lege and  Hospital  throughout  this  period  when 
only  one-half  of  the  medical  staff  was  retained 
for  duty  here. 

Doctor  Cobb  was  finely  equipped  in  mind  and 
training  and  in  conscience.  He  was  also  a  de- 
voted worker.  He  was  a  very  distinguished 
representative  of  the  medical  profession  in  Chi- 
cago for  many  years. 


IGNAZ  DOHNAL. 


Mr.  Dohnal  was  born  at  Tracht,  Moravia, 
Czechoslovakia,  July  31,  1863.  a  son  of  Franz 
and  Barbara  (Novotny)  Dohnal.  When  only 
thirteen  years  of  age  he  secured  employment 
as  an  apprentice  to  the  cutlery  trade  and  the 


manufacture  of  sharp-edged  tools  at  Vienna, 
Austria,  continuing  in  that  capacity  and  as  a 
workman  on  surgical  instruments  in  factories 
at  Vienna  for  five  years,  and  becoming  an  ex- 
pert in  this  field  of  activity.     Like  many  ambi- 


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tious  young  men  of  the  old  world,  he  was  not 
satisfied  with  the  opportunity  offered  there  for 
advancement,  and  resolved  to  seek  employment 
in  America,  where  greater  advantages  are  af- 
forded. Accordingly,  in  1886,  when  twenty- 
three  years  of  age.  he  sailed  for  the  United 
States,  stopping  for  a  short  time  in  New  York 
City,  where  he  worked  for  $5  a  week,  in  this 
way  securing  funds  to  bring  him  to  Chicago. 
He  soon  attained  this  end  and  in  due  time  was 
on  his  way  to  the  Western  Metropolis,  arriving 
here  in  May  of  that  year,  and  has  since  been  a 
resident  and  an  active  factor  in  the  business 
affairs  of  this  city.  He  became  a  naturalized 
citizen  of  the  United  States  in  1891. 

Soon  after  coming  to  Chicago  Mr.  Dohnal 
secured  employment  with  the  firm  of  Sharp  & 
Smith,  manufacturers  and  dealers  in  surgical 
instruments,  and  for  four  years  he  was  one  of 
their  most  expert  workmen  on  sharp-edged  tools. 
In  1890  he  became  identified  with  the  firm  of 
Rosenstock  &  Company,  and  for  four  years  he 
was  one  of  their  expert  workmen  in  the  same 
line.  In  1894  he  became  a  partner  in  the  firm, 
and  in  1895  the  name  was  changed  to  Kraut  & 
Dohnal,  and  in  the  subsequent  year  the  business 
was  incorporated  under  the  title  of  Kraut  & 
Dohnal.  Inc..  of  which  Mr.  Dohnal  has  been 
President  since  1913.  This  corporation,  which 
is    located    at   325    South    Clark    Street,    is    en- 


gaged in  the  importing  and  manufacture  of 
general  cutlery  and  barber  supplies,  at  both 
wholesale  and  retail.  Mr.  Dohnal  has  devoted 
his  time  and  energy  chiefly  to  the  building  up 
of  this  great  enterprise  for  nearly  forty  years, 
and  its  success  and  high  commercial  standing 
may  be  attributed  in  no  small  degree  to  his  able 
management  and  untiring  efforts. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Barber  Supply  Dealers' 
Association  of  America  :  is  a  Thirty-second  de- 
gree Mason,  a  Knight  Templar  and  a  Shriner, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Medinah  Athletic  Club, 
the  Medinah  Country  Club,  and  the  Chicago 
Turngemeinde. 

He  was  married  in  August.  1886.  to  Louise 
Stepanek,  of  Chicago,  and  of  this  union  were 
born  two  children :  Ignaz.  Jr.,  and  Louise,  both 
of  whom  are  deceased,  the  latter  having  mar- 
ried Otto  R.  Haas,  who  is  Secretary  of  the  firm 
of  Kraut  &  Dohnal.  Inc.,  and  one  of  the  city's 
active  business  men.  Mrs.  Dohnal  died  May  4, 
1S91.  and  on  October  10.  1891,  Mr.  Dohnal  mar- 
ried Anastasia  Malek.  of  Chicago,  and  they  be- 
came the  parents  of  four  children :  Anna,  wife 
of  Elmer  Johnson,  who  is  identified  with  the 
firm  of  Kraut  &  Dohnal,  Inc. ;  Helen,  and  Ed- 
ward, who  are  also  identified  with  this  firm ; 
and  Florence.  The  family  home  is  at  753  Forest 
Avenue,  River  Forest. 


LEWIS  LARNED  COBURK 


The  late  Lewis  Larned  Coburn  of  Chicago 
was  born  November  2,  1834,  at  East  Montpelier, 
Vt,  a  son  of  Larned  and  Lovisa  Allen  Coburn. 
Lewis  L.  Coburn  was  graduated  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Vermont  with  the  degree  of  B.  A., 
and  he  studied  law  with  Roberts  &  Chittenden 
of  Burlington,  Vt.,  and  Hon.  T.  P.  Redfield,  of 
Montpelier,  Vt.,  following  which  he  matriculated 
at  the  Law  School  of  Harvard  University,  and 
was  graduated  therefrom  in  1861.  In  February 
of  that  year  he  came  to  Chicago,  and  in  Novem- 
ber, 1861,  was  joined  by  William  E.  Marrs,  the 
two  going  into  partnership.  In  1862  Mr.  Coburn 
returned  home,  enlisted  in  Vermont  for  service 
in  the  Civil  War,  and  was  made  captain  of 
Company  C,  Thirteenth  Vermont  Volunteer  In- 
fantry. After  the  close  of  hostilities,  Mr.  Co- 
burn  returned  to  Chicago  and  resumed  the 
practice  of  law,  and  in  1875  admitted  Hon.  John 
M.  Thatcher  to  partnership,  which  association 
continued   until    Mr.    Thatcher's   death    twenty 


years  later.  Mr.  Coburn  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Union  League  Club  of  Chicago,  of 
which  he  was  the  first  president,  and  later  on  he 
was  made  a  life  member  at  the  same  time  a 
similar  honor  was  conferred  on  President  Taft. 
One  of  the  founders  of  the  Christian  Union, 
now  the  Chicago  Athenaeum,  Mr.  Coburn  sup- 
ported it  enthusiastically,  and  he  also  was  an 
organizer  of  the  Vermont  Association  of  Illi- 
nois. He  belonged  to  the  Calumet.  Union  and 
Onwentsia  clubs ;  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society,  a  governing  member 
of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Bar  Association  and  Patent  Law 
Association,  the  military  order  of  the  Loyal  Le- 
gion, and  U.  S.  Grant  Post  No.  28,  G.  A.  R. 
The  death  of  Mr.  Coburn  occurred  October  23, 
1910  at  his  home  in  Chicago. 

On  June  23,  1880,  Mr.  Coburn  was  married  to 
Annie  S.  Swan,  and  the  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


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JOHN  RUSSELL  EASTMAN,  M.D. 


The  late  Dr.  John  R.  Eastman  of  Chicago  and 
Evanston,  111.,  was  born  at  Republic,  O.,  on  Aug. 
11,  1867,  a  son  of  William  S.  and  Mary  (Rus- 
sell) Eastman,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of 
New  York  State. 

He  was  a  cousin  of  General  James  B.  McPher- 
son,  on  his  mother's  side;  and,  on  his  fathers 
side  of  the  family,  he  was  eligible  for  member- 
ship in  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 

He  attended  the  public  schools  at  Republic 
and  later  graduated  from  Hillsdale  College  in 
Michigan.  Then,  having  determined  to  take  up 
the  study  of  medicine,  he  entered  Rush  Medical 
College  at  Chicago,  from  which  institution  he 
graduated  with  his  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine and  was  chosen  as  assistant  to  the  late  Dr. 
E.  Fletcher  Ingalls,  the  noted  nose,  throat  and 
chest  specialist  of  Chicago. 

He  subsequently  located  at  Kenosha,  Wis. ;  and 
was  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  that  city  with  a  marked  degree  of 
success  for  twenty-five  years.  He  served  as  the 
President  of  the  Kenosha  Medical  Society  and 
as  an  officer  of  the  State  and  County  medical 
societies.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American 
Medical  Association  and  the  Chicago  Tuberculo- 
sis Society. 

Soon  after  the  entry  of  the  United  States  into 
the  World  War,  Dr.  Eastman  volunteered  for 
service  in  the  U.  S.  Army.  He  received  a  com- 
mission as  Captain  in  the  Medical  Corps  and 
was  stationed  at  Camp  Benjamin  Harrison. 
From  there  he  went  to  Camp  Dodge,  la.  Then, 
for  a  time,  he  was  a  member  of  the  medical  staff 
at  Camp  Merrett,  from  which  place  he  soon  went 
overseas. 


Upon  his  arrival  in  France  he  was  attached 
to  General  Pershing's  Headquarters  as  assistant 
attending  surgeon.  Not  long  thereafter  he  re- 
ceived his  commission  as  Major. 

Following  the  conclusion  of  the  war,  Major 
Eastman  returned  to  the  United  States  and  for 
a  year  was  stationed  at  Camp  Grant,  as  attend- 
ing surgeon  and  as  specialist  in  the  treatment  of 
diseases  of  the  lungs.  Later  he  was  in  charge  of 
the  government  Tuberculosis  Sanitarium,  of  sev- 
enty-five beds,  at  Oak  Forest,  111.,  for  a  year, 
where  he  was  a  general  favorite  with  the  ex- 
service  men. 

After  his  discharge  from  Camp  Grant  on  Nov. 
30,  1920,  he  became  associated  with  the  U.  S. 
Veterans  Bureau,  where  he  rendered  a  very  fine 
service  as  tuberculosis  specialist  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death. 

The  marriage  of  Dr.  Eastman  to  Miss  Jeannette 
M.  Starrett,  was  solemnized  at  Chicago,  111.,  on 
May  22,  1894.  His  wife  is  a  daughter  of  the  late 
David  A.  and  Catherine  M.  (Kent)  Starrett, 
pioneer  settlers  of  Chicago,  111.  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Eastman  have  two  sons,  Lawrence  W.  Eastman 
of  Chicago,  111.,  and  Kenneth  S.  Eastman  of  San 
Francisco,  Calif 

Dr.  Eastman's  life  here  came  to  its  close  in  his 
sixty-first  year.  He  was  endeared  to  many 
hearts  not  only  because  of  the  physical  help  it 
was  his  privilege  to  render,  but  also  because  of 
the  kindliness  and  charm  of  his  nature. 

He  was  profoundly  interested  in  the  work  to 
which  he  gave  all  of  his  mature  years;  and  he 
became  one  of  the  best  known  specialists  on  pul- 
monary diseases  in  the  United  States. 

Dr.  Eastman  died  on  March  1,  1928. 


ELIAS  COLBERT. 


Chicago  lost  one  of  its  finest  men  in  the  re- 
cent death  of  Elias  Colbert.  His  connections 
with  business,  with  scientific  research,  and  with 
the  earlier  developments  of  newspaper  work 
combine  to  credit  his  life  with  usefulness  that 
is  rarely  equalled. 

We  have  reprinted  here  a  memorial  to  Mr. 
Colbert,  presented  by  the  Chicago  Astronomical 
Society : 

Elias  Colbert  was  born  in  the  City  of  Paris, 
April  23,  1829.  In  the  following  year  his 
father,  whose  loyalty  to  King  Charles  X  had 
aroused  the  hostility  of  the  French  revolution- 


ists, was  forced  to  flee  from  his  native  land. 
With  his  wife  and  infant  son  he  sailed  for 
England.  The  vessel  in  which  he  took  pas- 
sage was  shipwrecked.  The  father  was  lost 
but  the  mother  and  babe  landed  safely  and 
she  placed  him  in  the  care  of  friends  in  Bir- 
mingham. Here  he  attended  school,  grew  to 
manhood,  and  married,  becoming  so  attached 
to  English  customs  and  English  traditions,  and 
so  identified  with  the  English  people,  that  he, 
as  well  as  others,  almost  forgot  that  the  name 
he  bore  had  been  famous  for  generations  in 
the  annals  of  France,  and  that  he  first  saw  the 


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light  under  the  standard  of  the  House  of  Bour- 
bon. Upon  the  outbreak  of  the  Crimean  War 
in  1854,  he  joined  the  British  army  and  was 
wounded  in  the  battle  of  Inkerman. 

Soon  after  the  close  of  the  Crimean  War, 
his  wife  having  died,  he  came  with  his  infant 
daughter  to  Chicago  in  1857,  and  at  once  began 
his  life  work  as  a  journalist.  Though  he  be- 
gan as  a  reporter  on  the  staff  of  one  of  the  city 
newspapers,  his  amazing  capacity  for  hard  work 
soon  brought  promotion,  and  during  the  early 
part  of  the  Civil  War  he  was  Commercial  Edi- 
tor of  the  Chicago  Times.  Before  the  close 
of  the  war,  he  left  the  "Times,"  and  became 
connected  with  the  Chicago  Tribune,  of  which 
he  was  successively  City  Editor,  Commercial 
Editor,  and  Editorial  Writer  upon  Astronomy 
and  other  scientific  subjects.  He  was  an  inti- 
mate friend  of  Joseph  Medill,  the  "Father"  of 
the  Tribune,  and  his  advice  was  often  sought 
and  highly  prized  by  that  great  newspaper  man. 

Elias  Colbert's  journalistic  work  brought  him 
into  contact  and  acquaintance  with  Abraham 
Lincoln,  Stephen  A.  Douglas  and  many  other 
prominent  men  of  the  stirring  days  preceding 
the  Civil  War,  and  during  that  conflict — men 
whose  names  are  a  part  of  the  history  of  our 
country. 

But  amidst  the  engrossing  duties  of  his  chosen 
profession,  he  somehow  found  time  to  acquire 
a  marvelous  fund  of  general  information  which 
made  him  a  cyclopedia  of  reference  to  his 
friends  upon  almost  every  subject  of  human 
interest.  In  those  subjects  in  which  he  took 
special  delight,  he  took  pains  to  become  par- 
ticularly proficient.  He  possessed  in  an  emi- 
nent degree  the  faculty  of  intense  and  pro- 
longed application  and  concentration  of  thought, 
and  with  it  there  was  combined  an  exceedingly 
retentive  memory.  But  the  greatest  marvel  of  his 
career  is  that  he  was  able,  in  those  busy  early 
years,  without  help  so  far  as  known,  to  mas- 
ter the  higher  mathematics  and  qualify  himself 
to  fill  acceptably  the  responsible  positions  to 
which  he  was  soon  afterwards  called. 

His  talents  would  have  won  for  him  position 
and  fame  in  almost  any  path  into  which  he 
might  have  directed  them.  He  published 
(1868)  the  "Historical  and  Statistical  Sketch 
of  Chicago,"  which  was  the  first  reliable  story 
of  the  early  commercial  development  of  the 
Western  Metropolis ;  and  every  subsequent  his- 
torian has  been  compelled  to  consult  its  pages  for 
many  facts  and  figures  not  elsewhere  obtainable. 


His  story  of  the  Great  Conflagration  of  1871 
is  perhaps  the  best  account  of  that  calamity 
that  was  written.  He  was  an  honored  mem- 
ber of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  and  he 
did  enough  in  this  field  to  prove  that  he  could 
have  excelled  in  it  if  he  had  chosen  to  devote 
his  talents  to  historical  research  and  the  writ- 
ing of  history. 

He  was  a  remarkable  linguist.  For  music 
he  had  a  fondness  and  considerable  aptitude. 

But  the  absorbing  passion  of  his  life  was 
astronomy,  and  he  is,  and  always  will  be,  best 
remembered  as  teacher,  writer  and  lecturer 
in  this  important  department  of  knowledge. 

It  is  impossible  to  say  whether  he  was  one 
of  the  original  members  of  the  Chicago  Astro- 
nomical Society,  because  all  our  early  records 
were  destroyed  by  the  great  fire  of  1871 ;  but 
upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Society  in  1874, 
he  is  referred  to  in  the  minutes  of  the  meet- 
ing of  April  16th  of  that  year  as  Emeritus  As- 
sistant of  Dearborn  Observatory,  indicating 
that  he  had  served  as  Assistant  Director  for 
a  considerable  period  prior  thereto.  This  meet- 
ing also  passed  resolutions  commending  him 
"for  his  active,  great,  and  intelligent  service 
in  promoting  the  success  of  the  Observatory-" 

April  15,  1875,  he  was  made  a  Life  Member 
of  the  Society  "as  a  mark  of  the  high  appre- 
ciation of  this  Society  for  his  labors  in  adding 
to  the  list  of  members,  and  collecting  money 
to  repair  the  dome  of  the  Observatory."  At 
a  meeting  of  the  Directors  held  July  26,  1875, 
he  resigned  his  position  as  Honorary  Assistant 
Director  of  the  Observatory,  and  was  elected 
Secretary  of  the  Society,  a  position  to  which 
he  was  re-elected  annually  for  several  years 
thereafter.  On  the  11th  of  May,  1876,  he  was 
elected  a  Life  Director  "in  recognition  of  the 
value  of  his  services  to  the  Society."  On  the 
30th  of  May,  1885,  he  was  elected  Vice  Presi- 
dent, and  on  the  27th  of  May,  1890,  he  was 
chosen  President  of  the  Chicago  Astronomical 
Society,  and  continued  to  hold  this  office  until 
his  death,  June  28.   1921. 

While  this  record  shows  the  high  honor  in 
which  he  was  held  by  his  associates  of  the 
Chicago  Astronomical  Society,  it  gives  necessa- 
rily an  imperfect  idea  of  the  many  and  varied 
activities  in  its  behalf  which  won  for  him  this 
regard.  If  the  Society  needed  money,  it  was 
his  task  to  secure  additional  members,  much 
time  being  required  in  many  cases  to  convince 
an    indifferent    "prospect"    that    civic   duty    or 


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pride,  or  any  other  motive  to  which  successful 
appeal  could  be  made,  required  him  to  part 
with  a  hundred  dollars  for  membership  in  a 
Society  which  was  likely  never  to  pay  a  divi- 
dend. The  year  following  the  great  fire  of  1871 
and  the  panic  of  1873  were  critical  years  in  the 
history  of  the  city,  as  well  as  of  this  Society. 
There  was  great  depression  in  commercial  and 
industrial  affairs,  and  men  were  loath  to  part 
with  their  money  unless  pecuniary  returns 
seemed  certain  and  immediate. 

It  was  in  the  midst  of  this  depression  that 
Mr.  Colbert,  as  the  result  of  innumerable  per- 
sonal appeals,  raised  several  thousand  dollars 
for  necessary  repairs  to  the  Observatory. 

About  this  time  the  financial  affairs  of  the 
Chicago  University  became  seriously  involved, 
and  the  University  was  no  longer  able  to  pay 
the  salary  of  Professor  Safford,  Director  of  the 
Observatory  and  Professor  of  Astronomy  in 
the  University.  Professor  Safford,  with  the 
consent  of  this  Society  and  the  University, 
accepted  a  position  offered  him  by  the  U.  S. 
Government,  and  again  Mr.  Colbert  was  called 
upon  to  act  as  Director  of  the  Observatory 
without  pay. 

He  was  appointed  Professor  of  Astronomy 
In  the  Chicago  University  under  the  Presi- 
dency of  Dr.  Burroughs,  and  for  several  years 
he  performed  the  duties  of  this  position  ac- 
ceptably, and  without  remuneration.  If  it 
seemed  desirable  to  stimulate  interest  in  as- 
tronomy by  means  of  public  lectures.  Professor 
Colbert  was  expected  to  deliver  the  lectures,  or 
to  induce  some  astronomer  of  note  to  do  so. 
And  so  for  half  a  century  Elias  Colbert  gave 
his  life  to  the  Chicago  Astronomical  Society. 


He  was  for  several  years  President  of  the 
Chicago  Press  Club,  and  also  of  the  Bohemian 
Club.  He  was  active  in  several  British-Amer- 
ican Associations.  He  wrote  many  pamphlets 
and  minor  works,  some  scientific,  and  some 
purely  literary  in  character.  His  Eulogy  of 
Shakespeare  is  a  gem.  Among  the  best  of  his 
minor  publications  are: 

"The  Earth  Measured" 

"The  Curve  of  Immortality" 

"Astronomy  Without  a  Telescope" 

"Star  Studies" 

"What  We  Know  of  the  Universe." 

Elias  Colbert  died — we  shall  look  upon  the 
face  of  our  honored  associate  no  more ;  but 
may  the  memory  of  his  unselfish  devotion  in- 
spire us  to  renewed  efforts. 

About  ten  years  after  the  death  of  his  first 
wife,  and  nine  years  after  his  arrival  in  Chi- 
cago, he  married,  in  1866,  Miss  Sarah  Cowper, 
a  woman  of  English  birth,  then  residing  in  this 
city,  who  bore  him  four  children,  three  of 
whom  died  in  early  life.  Professor  Colbert's 
second  wife  died  in  1894,  and  of  all  his  chil- 
dren, Mrs.  George  Herbert  Jones,  only  issue  of 
his  first  marriage,  and  Mrs.  George  H.  Mason, 
second  daughter  of  his  second  wife,  alone  sur- 
vive him.  Sharing  their  sorrow,  the  members 
of  the  Chicago  Astronomical  Society  tender  to 
them  their  heartfelt  sympathy,  and  direct  that 
this  Memorial  be  spread  upon  the  records  of 
the  Society,  and  a  copy  thereof  sent  to  each  of 
these  surviving  daughters  of  our  departed  as- 
sociate and  friend. 


WILLIAM  SEYMOUR  WARREN. 


William  Seymour  Warren  was  born  at  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  May  10,  1848,  a  son  of  William  and 
Mary  Ann   (Seymour)  Warren. 

He  attended  public  school  at  Cleveland  and  at 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  After  leaving  school,  in  1866, 
he  went  to  work  for  the  Liverpool,  London  & 
Globe  Insurance  Company,  Ltd. 

His  father  was  resident  secretary  of  this  com- 
pany at  Chicago  from  1875  until  his  death  in 
November,  1889. 

After  serving  for  some  time  in  minor  posi- 
tions that  he  might  gain  the  necessary  training 
and    experience,    William    S.    Warren    was    ap- 


pointed as  Local  Manager  of  the  Chicago  office 
of  this  company  and  be  filled  this  position  with 
marked  success  until  1889.  That  year  he  was 
appointed,  with  Mr.  George  Crooke,  to  succeed 
Mr.  William  Warren,  his  father.  Upon  the  resig- 
nation of  Mr.  Crooke,  in  December,  1892,  he 
was  appointed  Resident  Secretary  of  the  Liver- 
pool, London  &  (Jlol>e  Insurance  Company,  Ltd., 
and  placed  in  charge  of  their  entire  department 
in  the  Middle  West. 

On  January  4,  188:?,  William  S.  Warren  was 
married  at  Chicago,  to  Miss  Fannie  Parsons,  a 
daughter  of  Lucius  V.  and  Cornelia   (Pomeroy) 


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Parsons.  Her  father  was  a  prominent  early 
banker  at  Chicago,  having  come  to  that  city 
from  Auburn,  New  York,  in  1857. 

Mr.  Parsons  was  Cashier  of  the  Third  Na- 
tional Bank  in  Chicago  from  1S66  until  his 
death.  His  long  connection  with  the  banking 
and  business  interests  of  the  city  established 
him  as  a  man  of  strictest  integrity  and  high 
moral  character,  upright,  just  and  respected, 
possessing  the  entire  confidence  and  esteem  of 
the  people  of  Chicago  in  his  day.  He  was  also 
a  devoted  patron  of  music  and  did  much  for  its 
advancement.  He  was  especially  prominent  in 
the  organization  and  management  of  the  Phil- 
harmonic and  Mendelssohn  Societies  and  of  the 
Apollo  Club.  His  death  occurred  on  Nov.  3rd, 
1876. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Warren  have  made  their  home 
in  Chicago  for  over  forty  years.  The  children 
are  Lucius  Parsons  Warren  and  Marion  Parsons 
Warren.    Marion  Parsons  Warren  is  not  living. 

Mr.  Warren  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.  He  also-  belonged  to  the  Union  League 
Club  of  Chicago  and  to  the  Edgewater  Golf  Club. 

Mr.  Warren's  long  and  productive  life  came  to 
its  close  in  his  seventy-eighth  year.  He  was  a 
man  of  superior  refinement  and  character.  He 
was  a  devoted  patron  of  music.  He  gave  exten- 
sively and  unostentatiously  to  many  charities. 
His  business  career,  covering  a  period  of  fifty 
unbroken  years  in  insurance  circles  at  Chicago, 
entitles  him  to  permanent  recognition. 

The  death  of  William  S.  Warren  occurred  on 
March  12,  1926. 


ENOCH  COLBY. 


Enoch  Colby  was  born  at  Thornton,  New 
Hampshire,  on  January  14,  1817,  the  son  of  Cok 
Enoch  and  Dorothy  (Church)  Colby.  The  father 
served  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  was  a 
member  of  Gov.  Langdon's  Council.  The  mother 
was  a  daughter  of  Jabez  Church,  one  of  the 
scholarly  men   of  earlier  New  England. 

In  Enoch  Colby's  twenty-first  year  his  father 
died.  Soon  thereafter  young  Colby  determined 
to  journey  to  Chicago.  At  this  time  the  railway 
only  extended  twenty-six  miles  west  from  Al- 
bany. The  rest  of  the  way  he  came  via  the 
Erie  Canal  and  the  Great  Lakes.  He  reached 
Chicago  in  1838. 

He  went  to  work  for  Elijah  Doolittle  driving 
a  team  from  Chicago  to  Peru,  Illinois,  carrying 
provisions  to  the  workers  on  the  Illinois  and 
Michigan  Canal.  Later  he  visited  Milwaukee 
where  his  cousins,  Enoch  and  Horace  Chase 
had  farms.  He  went  back  to  New  Hampshire 
after  a  year  in  the  West. 

He  was  married  on  March  6,  1840  to  Eliza 
Ann  Mitchell,  a  native  of  Campton,  New 
Hampshire,  and  a  daughter  of  Col.  Elijah  Mit- 
chell. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Colby  became  the  parents 
of  nine  children :  Enoch  Colby,  Jr.,  lieutenant  of 
Battery  A,  Chicago  Light  Artillery  in  the  Civil 
War ;  Acca  Laurentia  Colby,  who  married  War- 
ren J.  Pardy,  president  of  the  Chicago,  Rock 
Island  &  Pacific  Railroad ;  John  Sullivan  Colby, 
of  the  One  Hundred  Thirty-fourth  and  One  Hun- 
dred   Forty-seventh    Illinois   Volunteers   in    the 


Civil  War ;  Francelia  Colby,  Ph.  B.  from  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago,  now  teaching  in  the  Chicago 
public  schools ;  Ella  Gertrude  Colby,  who  died 
when  three  years  old ;  "Little  Eva"  Colby  who 
died  in  infancy;  Laura  Genevieve  Colby  (Dr. 
Laura  Colby  Price  of  Chicago)  ;  Martha  Wash- 
ington Colby  and  Flora  Spenser  Colby  (Mrs. 
Silas  G.  Pratt). 

In  1854  Mr.  Colby  and  his  family  removed 
to  Port  Hope,  Canada,  where  his  brother-in- 
law,  Frederick  A.  Mitchell,  was  engaged  in  the 
construction  of  railroad  bridges.  Mr.  Colby 
assisted  in  this  work,  having  previously  had 
experience  as  a  surveyor,  carpenter  and  builder. 

In  1855  the  family  moved  to  Illinois,  and 
Mr.  Colby  began  farming  near  Barrington.  How- 
ever, prices  for  farm  produce  were  so  low  at 
this  time  that  he  decided  the  next  year,  to 
locate  in  Chicago,  where  he  arrived  in  April, 
1856.  He  established  himself  as  a  building 
contractor.  He  erected  many  large  buildings 
such  as  Tobey  &  Booth's  packing  house,  Syl- 
vester Marsh's  corn  drying  plant,  the  first  car 
barn  on  the  north  side  of  the  city,  etc.  He  re- 
mained in  this  business  for  nine  years. 

In  1865  Mr.  Colby  became  a  grain  inspector 
and  continued  in  the  business  until  he  was 
seventy-six  years  of  age. 

Enoch  Colby  was  a  strong  Republican  from 
the  first.  He  voted  for  Fremont  in  1856 ;  and 
in    1852    he    was    active    in    electing    John    P. 


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Hale,  the  first  Free  Soil  candidate  in  New 
Hampshire  to  the  House  of  Representatives. 

He  and  Mrs.  Colby  heard  some  of  the  Lincoln- 
Douglas  debates  and  he  was  very  active  as  a 
wide-awake  in  Mr.  Lincoln's  campaign. 

Mr.  Colby  had  two  sons  in  the  Civil  War.  He 
was  himself,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Union 
League  at  Chicago.  He  had  three  grandsons 
in  the  Spanish  War ;  Major  William  A.  Purdy, 
Ensign  Warren  Frederick  Purdy  (now  commo- 
dore on  the  American  Shipping  Board  in  Lon- 
don) and  Enoch  Clifford  Colby.  Three  of  his 
great-grandchildren,  Warren  G.  Purdy,  Jr.,  Don- 


ald Frederick  Purdy  and  Lyman  Munger  Purdy 
served  in  the  World  War. 

Enoch  Colby  was  a  great  reader  not  only  of 
political  history,  in  which  he  was  remarkably 
well-versed,  but  of  the  best  books  of  fiction 
and  poetry.  He  enjoyed  the  classics  and  knew 
them  well.  He  was  a  good  story  teller  and  a 
genial  host.  He  belonged  to  the  Universalist 
Church. 

Mrs.  Colby  died  in  1895,  after  a  happy  mar- 
ried life  of  fifty-six  years.  Mr.  Colby  survived 
her  nine  years,  and  was  buried  on  his  eighty- 
seventh  birthday,  January  14,  1904. 


JOHN  ALFONZO  WESENER. 


The  late  Dr.  John  A.  Wesener  of  Chicago,  con- 
sulting chemist  and  medical  expert,  was  born 
at  Saginaw,  Michigan,  March  14,  1865.  His  par- 
ents were  Hugo  and  Bertha  (Wiengut)  Wesener, 
both  natives  of  Germany. 

His  preliminary  education  was  had  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Saginaw  and  Owosso,  Michigan, 
and  then  he  entered  Michigan  Agricultural  Col- 
lege. He  subsequently  received  the  degree  of 
Ph.  C.  from  the  University  of  Michigan,  in  1888. 
He  came  to  Chicago  in  1889,  and  before  long  en- 
rolled in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons 
from  which  institution  he  graduated  with  his 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  in  1894. 

When  he  came  to  Chicago  in  1889,  he  began 
practice  as  a  chemist.  In  1891  he  was  made  As- 
sistant Professor  of  Chemistry  at  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  and  from  1902-8 
held  the  full  professorship  of  chemistry  there. 

It  was  in  1894  that  Doctor  Wesener  founded 
the  Columbia  Laboratories  at  Chicago.  He  was 
engaged  also  in  private  practice  at  this  time. 
His  work  in  connection  with  his  laboratories 
grew  to  such  an  extent,  however,  that  he  soon 
withdrew  altogether  from  private  practice,  and 
he  devoted  the  balance  of  his  life  to  the  great 
human  service  that  the  laboratories  have  ren- 
dered throughout  all  the  ensuing  years  under 
his  guidance. 


The  marriage  of  Doctor  Wesener  to  Miss  Lila 
Patty  occurred  March  2,  1891,  at  Owosso,  Michi- 
gan. His  wife  comes  of  a  distinguished  family 
and  she  is  a  cousin,  on  the  maternal  side,  of  the 
late  Warren  G.  Harding,  President  of  the  United 
States.  She  is  a  woman  of  many-sided  culture 
and  accomplishments  for  she  is  finely  versed  in 
music,  languages  and  the  arts. 

Doctor  Wesener  was  a  Fellow  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,  and  of  the  Academy  of 
Medicine  (Chicago).  He  also  belonged  to  the 
American  Chemical  Society,  and  the  Chicago 
and  Illinois  State  Medical  Societies.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic  Association,  the 
Lake  Shore  Athletic  Club  and  the  Indian  Hill 
Golf  Club. 

His  death  occurred  November  18,  1926.  He 
had  been  a  Chicagoan  for  nearly  forty  years. 
The  laboratories  which  he  founded  and  which  he 
directed  throughout  the  last  thirty-two  years  of 
this  long  period  of  time  have  rendered  a  price- 
less service  to  the  people  of  Chicago,  and  to  the 
medical  profession  of  that  city.  Many  of  his 
original  writings  are  now  on  record  in  the 
Crerar  Library. 

Doctor  Wesener  also  patented  a  process  for 
maturing  flour  that  is  now  in  general  use 
throughout  the  United  States. 


CHARLES  BACKUS  WHIPPLE. 


Charles  B.  Whipple  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, June  24,  1859,  a  son  of  Rodney  M.  and 
Abbie  A.  (Backus)  Whipple,  both  natives  of 
Vermont.  The  family  were  living,  at  the  time 
C.  B.  Whipple  was  born,  on  what  is  now 
Plymouth    Court.     As    a    boy    he   attended    the 


Haven  school  and  the  Central  High  school,  and 
then  he  entered  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business 
College. 

In  1877,  when  he  was  eighteen  years  old.  he 
entered  the  employ  of  Hibbard.  Spencer,  Bart- 
lett  &  Company  as  stenographer.     It  is  under- 


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stood  that  he  bought  the  first  typewriter  that 
was  used  by  this  great  concern,  and  that  this 
machine  was  later  purchased  from  him  by  Mr. 
Hibbard.  As  the  years  passed  his  work  and  his 
devotion  to  the  business  were  accorded  the 
recognition  due  them,  and  he  passed  through 
various  promotions  to  the  position  of  assistant 
secretary.  In  1908  he  was  elected  secretary  of 
the  company,  and  was  made  a  director.  He  con- 
tinued to  serve  in  both  of  these  capacities  until 
1914  in  which  year  he  retired  from  the  business, 
retaining,  however,  his  financial  interests  in  the 
company. 

The  marriage  of  Charles  B.  Whipple  to  Miss 
Almira  E.  Hayward,  of  Chicago,  took  place 
September  29,  1881.  His  wife  was  a  daughter 
of  John  and  Almira  E.  (Midler)  Hayward, 
both  of  whom  were  early  residents  of  Chicago, 


having  come  here  about  1845.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Whipple  have  three  children :  Edith  Whipple 
Milchrist,  Charles  J.  and  Walter  G.  Whipple. 
The  family  home  has  been  on  Kenwood  avenue 
in  Hyde  Park  for  about  half  a  century.  Mr. 
Whipple  was  a  member  of  long  standing  of  the 
Union  League  Club,  the  City  Club,  the  Sunset 
Club  and  the  Flossmoor  Country  Club. 

The  death  of  Charles  B.  Whipple  occurred 
January  13,  1927.  For  nearly  forty  years  he 
was  identified  with  the  growth  of  Hibbard, 
Spencer,  Bartlett  &  Company.  During  this 
period  Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  &  Company 
has  become  world-known  and  is  today  one  of 
the  greatest  institutions  in  the  commercial  life 
of  America.  Mr.  Whipple  will  be  remembered 
as  a  man  of  exceptional  training  and  ability 
and   of  finest   personal   character. 


FRANK  SAYRE  COWGILL. 


One  of  the  strongest  and  best-known  men  in 
the  grain  trade  of  the  Central  States  has  re- 
cently died. 

Frank  Sayre  Cowgill  lived  beyond  any  ordi- 
nary need  of  praise.  In  every  avenue  of  en- 
deavor that  he  entered,  he  far  exceeded  usual 
results. 

Frank  Cowgill  was  born  at  Springfield,  Illi- 
nois, on  August  22,  1S66,  a  son  of  Albert  H.  and 
Mary  (Brown)  Cowgill,  both  parents  being  from 
old  Kentucky  families.  After  attending  public 
school  in  Springfield,  F.  S.  Cowgill  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Bartlett-Frazier  Company,  grain 
dealers.  He  was  about  twenty-two  years  old 
when  he  came  to  Chicago.     Through  the  years 


which  have  followed,  Mr.  Cowgill  grew  to  be 
recognized  as  one  of  the  great  controlling 
forces  in  this  country's  grain  trade.  For  sev- 
enteen years  he  was  located  at  Omaha,  Ne- 
braska ;  and  there  he  built  the  Trans-Mississippi 
Grain  Company.  He  was  a  charter  member  of 
the  Omaha  Grain  Exchange. 

From  Omaha,  Mr.  Cowgill  was  called  to  Chi- 
cago to  become  president  of  the  Bartlett-Frazier 
Company.  He  remained  president  until  his 
death.  It  was  the  united  opinion  of  grain  men, 
the  country  over,  that  Mr.  Cowgill's  experience, 
judgment,  earnestness  and  effectiveness  were  of 
an  extent  and  quality  rarely  to  have  been  at- 
tained. 


RENSSELAER  W.  COX. 


Rensselaer  W.  Cox  was  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  on  May  14,  1865,  a  son  of  William  and 
Electra  R.    (Stanford)    Cox. 

When  he  was  one  year  old  the  family  moved 
to  Chicago.  They  lived  on  a  farm  here  occupy- 
ing the  territory  on  which  are  located  the  pres- 
ent immense  plants  comprising  the  Chicago 
Stock  Yards.  It  was  all  open  prairie  in  1856. 
Deer  were  plentiful.  The  father  shot  one  from 
his  own  front  door-step.  William  Cox  also 
owned  a  farm  of  considerable  acreage  on  the 
Calumet  River.  The  son  spent  his  summers 
there;  and  as  he  grew  up  he  formed  a  great 
love  for  the  out-of-doors.  As  his  father  before 
him,  he  was  an  ardent  sportsman  and  hunting 


claimed  a  real  share  of  his  devotion  and  inter- 
est throughout  his  later  years. 

At  the  time  of  the  great  Chicago  Fire,  the 
family  lived  at  the  corner  of  Michigan  Avenue 
and  Fourteenth  Street.  Rensselaer  W.  Cox 
was  then  sixteen  years  old.  He  often  told  of 
the  excitement  of  the  night ;  the  rush  to  rescue 
belongings ;  the  constant  procession  of  people 
fleeing  in  all  directions,  carrying  everything 
they  could,  or  riding  in  any  kind  of  convey- 
ance, their  household  goods  piled  about  them. 

As  a  boy,  R.  W.  Cox  attended  the  Chicago 
grade  and  high  schools.  Then  he  worked  for 
the  Pullman  Company  for  a  short  time ;   and, 


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later,  was  in  the  office  of  a  grain  broker  of 
this  city. 

His  uncle,  Mr.  William  Brown,  had  been  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  the  cooperage  business,  in 
St.  Louis,  since  1854.  About  1882,  Mr.  Brown, 
Mr.  R.  W.  Cox  and  Mr.  John  A.  Seaman 
founded  the  Chicago  branch  of  Seaman,  Cox 
and  Brown,  Cooperage  Manufacturers.  Each  of 
the  partners  owned  a  third  interest  in  this 
business. 

Following  the  death  of  William  Brown,  in 
1894,  the  Chicago  and  St.  Louis  branches  were 
consolidated  to  form  the  Pioneer  Cooperage 
Company;  and  the  new  company  purchased 
Mr.  Seaman's  share  in  the  business.  For  the 
period  of  the  next  twenty-eight  years,  R.  W. 
Cox  was  president  of  this  concern.  Under  his 
guidance  it  was  developed  into  one  of  the  fin- 
est organizations  active  in  this  branch  of  busi- 
ness in  the  entire  United  States.  In  1921, 
because  of  poor  health.  Mr.  Cox  resigned  as 
president,  and  was  made  chairman  of  the  com- 
pany's board  of  directors. 

Mr.  Cox  was  married,  on  February  11,  1904, 
to  Miss  Louise  Deshler,  a  daughter  of  William 
G.  Deshler  of  Columbus,  Ohio.  Their  children 
are:  Rensselaer  W.  Cox,  Jr.,  who  was  born  in 


1905  and  who  died  in  1921 ;  and  William  Desh- 
ler Cox,  who  was  born  in  1907. 

A  number  of  years  ago  Mr.  Cox  built  a  home 
on  North  Dearborn  Avenue,  near  Goethe  street, 
which  location  at  that  time  was  viewed  almost 
as  the  suburbs  are  now.  Later  he  built  the 
first  house  in  the  1400  block  on  Astor  Street, 
living  there  until  1905,  when  he  erected  the 
first  home  built  in  the  1500  block  of  Astor 
Street,  which  is  the  family  residence  at  present. 

Central  Church,  Chicago,  held  Mr.  Cox's 
membership  for  a  long  time,  and  during  most 
of  these  years  he  served  it  as  trustee.  He 
enjoyed  warm  friendship  with  David  Swing, 
Newell  Dwight  Hillis,  Frank  W.  Gunsaulus  and 
Frederick  F.  Shannon.  Mr.  Cox  belonged,  also, 
to  the  Chicago  Club,  Union  League  Club,  Com- 
mercial Club  and  several  out-of-town  shooting 
clubs. 

For  sixty-seven  years  the  home  of  Rensselaer 
W.  Cox  was  Chicago.  His  affection  for  the  city 
was  substantially  evidenced  many  times  and  in 
many  ways.  His  death  on  September  26,  1922, 
closed  a  life  that  was  truly  notable  in  attain- 
ment and  usefulness. 


WARREN  BRYAN  WILSON. 


Warren  Bryan  Wilson  was  born  at  Greens- 
burg.  Indiana,  on  Feb.  9,  1857,  a  son  of  Byron 
and  Mary  (Grover)  Wilson.  His  father  was  a 
prominent  lawyer  of  Greensburg. 

After  completing  his  studies  in  local  schools 
he  entered  Indiana  University.  Then  he  went 
into  his  father's  law  office. 

In  1880  be  came  to  Chicago,  that  he  might 
find  larger  opportunities.  He  came  without 
friends  or  other  external  advantages;  and  he 
made  his  own  way.  in  the  years  that  followed, 
up  to  the  top  of  his  profession.  He  began  his 
practice  of  law  in  Chicago,  alone;  and  he  re- 
mained alone  in  practice  practically  all  of  his 
life.  For  many  years  prior  to  his  death  he  was 
recognized  as  one  of  the  most  able  and  con- 
scientious lawyers  in  Chicago. 

During  the  period  of  the  World  War.  he  did 


much  work  on  the  Exemption  Board  of  Du 
Page  County,  at  Wheaton. 

For  many  years  lie  was  a  member  of  the 
School  Board  at  Hinsdale,  where  his  judgment 
and  advice  proved  to  be  of  great  help. 

Oil  April  15,  1891,  Mr.  Wilson  was  married, 
at  Hinsdale,  111.,  to  Miss  Stella  M.  Hinkley,  a 
daughter  of  George  W.  and  Mary  (Mauck) 
Hinkley.  Her  father  was  a  substantial  figure  in 
the  lumber  industry  at  Chicago  for  many  years. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilson  have  always  made  their 
home  in  Hinsdale. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  a  member  of  the  Union 
Church  of  Hinsdale.  He  also  belonged  to  the 
Hinsdale  Club,  the  Hinsdale  Golf  Club  and  to 
the  Chicago,  the  Illinois  and  the  American  bar 
Associations. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Wilson  occurred  on  Jan.  15, 
1926. 


HENRY  LINDLAHR. 


Henry    Lindlahr   was   born    at   Silburg,    Ger- 
many,  March   1,    1862,   a    son   of   William   and 


Gertrude  Lindlahr.    He  was  about  twenty  years 
old    when    he    emigrated    to    America.     After 


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spending  some  time  in  various  parts  of  the 
country,  he  located  at  Kalispell,  Montana,  and 
went  into  business  there,  meeting  with  gratify- 
ing success. 

On  May  22,  1895,  he  was  married,  at  Kalis- 
pell, to  Miss  Anna  Mattiesen. 

We  quote  here  extensively  from  articles  de- 
voted to  Doctor  Lindlahr's  early  career  and  his 
later  work : 

"During  the  succeeding  five  years  both  his 
health  and  that  of  Mrs.  Lindlahr,  declined. 
Finally  Mrs.  Lindlahr  was  taken  seriously  ill, 
and  he,  himself,  became  almost  a  wreck — in 
his  own  words  'at  the  age  of  thirty-five  years 
I  found  myself  a  physical  and  mental  wreck 
without  faith  in  God,  nature,  or  in  myself.' 

"After  consulting  several  doctors  and  healers, 
only  to  find,  as  so  many  others  have  done,  that 
there  is  no  way  of  vicarious  atonement  for  the 
errors  of  wrong  living,  and  just  as  the  desire 
to  end  the  misery  of  existence  threatened  to 
overcome  him,  a  kindly  neighbor  placed  in  his 
hands  one  of  the  early  German  nature  books. 
This,  he  said,  came  as  a  great  revelation,  il- 
luminating his  darkened  consciousness  and 
bringing  for  the  first  time  a  realization  that  the 
processes  of  life  and  death,  of  disease  and  cure, 
are  governed  by  laws  as  definite  and  as  im- 
mutable as  those  of  gravitation  or  chemical  af- 
finity. Perceiving  that  compliance  with  the 
laws  of  health  offered  certain  promise  of  re- 
generation he  straightway  began  to  follow  the 
natural  regimen.  Results  were  most  gratifying 
and  the  knowledge  that  he  was  working  out  his 
own  salvation  brought  him  great  happiness  and 
satisfaction.  This  self-directed  regimen,  how- 
ever, while  bringing  a  very  marked  improve- 
ment in  health  of  both  himself  and  Mrs.  Lind- 
lahr, was  not  sufficient  to  root  out  the  deep- 
seated  chronic  conditions  with  which  they  were 
afflicted. 

"Six  months  after  becoming  acquainted  with 
the  Nature  Cure  philosophy  he  disposed  of  his 
business  and  returned  to  Europe  with  the  ob- 
ject of  taking  a  three-months  cure  there.  His 
experiences  there,  however,  were  so  interesting 
and  the  results  obtained  so  striking  that  he 
immediately  lost  all  interest  in  commercial  pur- 
suits and  resolved  to  change  his  life  work. 
Moneymaking  had  lost  its  charms  for  him ; 
higher  and  finer  ideals  had  taken  their  place; 
henceforth,  he  decided,  he  would  devote  his 
time  and  talents  to  bringing  the  light  which  he 
had  found  to  suffering  humanity. 


"After  spending  a  year  abroad  in  various 
Nature  Cure  Sanitariums  and  schools,  he  re- 
turned to  this  country  and  immediately  began 
the  study  of  osteopathy  and  medicine.  In  this 
way  he  had  the  opportunity  of  comparing  the 
results  of  his  own  work  with  those  obtained  by 
medical  and  surgical  methods  in  clinics  and 
hospitals  of  the  medical  schools. 

"Though  well  advanced  in  life  at  this  time  he 
thoroughly  enjoyed  these  years  of  professional 
study  and  research,  and,  as  he  often  remarked, 
would  not  have  foregone  the  pleasure  of  a 
clinic  or  a  lecture  for  the  best  show  in  Chi- 
cago. In  due  time  he  graduated  in  allopathy, 
homeopathy  and  eclectic  medicine,  passed  the 
examination  of  the  Illinois  State  Board  of 
Health  and  obtained  a  license  to  practice  as  a 
physician  and  surgeon. 

"Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  in  Doctor  Lind- 
lahr's unique  career  lay  the  explanation  of  his 
extraordinary  insight  into  the  problems  of 
health  and  disease. 

"These  experiments  inspired  him  with  the 
idea  of  founding  in  this  country  an  institution 
which  would  teach  and  practice  all  that  is  good 
and  constructive  in  all  systems  of  healing.  In 
this  way  the  Lindlahr  Institutions  were  founded 
at  Chicago  and  Elmhurst,  Illinois. 

"The  story  of  those  early  years  of  sacrifice, 
of  persistent  struggle,  speak  more  eloquently 
than  any  eulogy  can,  of  the  fearless  honesty  of 
his  purpose  and  of  the  intensity  of  his  en- 
thusiasm. The  full  extent  of  the  trials  and 
tribulations  of  those  early  years  will  probably 
never  be  known,  but  it  is  certain  that  few 
men  at  his  age  would  have  deliberately  for- 
saken the  certainties  of  a  successful  business 
career  for  the  questionable  possibilities  of  Na- 
ture Cure.  As  the  Doctor  often  remarked  when 
reminiscing  over  those  early  days,  'in  business 
I  could  have  all  the  money  I  wanted — my 
friends  were  always  prepared  to  put  consider- 
able sums  at  my  disposal  but  for  this  "fool  Na- 
ture Cure"  as  they  were  pleased  to  term  it,  not 
one  cent.' 

"However,  Doctor  Lindlahr  had  caught  a  vi- 
sion, a  great  light  had  come  into  his  life  and  he 
had  resolved,  whatever  might  be  the  cost,  to 
follow  his  ideals  and  carry  this  message  of 
hope  to  suffering  humanity.  And  so  it  came 
that  in  1902  we  find  the  Doctor  established  at 
232  Michigan  Boulevard,  without  friends  or  fol- 
lowers, setting  out  to  propagate  this  gospel  of 
living.     The  Doctor  often  referred  humorously 


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to  those  early  days  when  the  advent  of  a  single 
patient  was  a  red-letter  event.  We  believe  that 
Doctor  Lindlahr  has  somewhere  recorded  the 
fact  that  the  first  month's  takings  were  $7.50 ! 

"The  intervening  years  slowly  built  up  a 
clientele  of  faithful  followers.  Gradually  the 
intensity  of  the  up-hill  fight  lessened  and 
though  reversals  and  assaults  of  fortune  were 
not  unknown,  his  reputation  was  gradually  es- 
tablished. Some  four  years  later  the  Doctor 
acquired  the  administrative  building,  No.  525 
South  Ashland  and  as  the  work  grew  in  the 
succeeding  years  one  after  another  of  the  ad- 
jacent buildings  was  purchased  until  the  prop- 
erties owned  by  the  Lindlahr  Corporation  oc- 
cupied a  frontage  of  over  250  feet  on  Ashland 
and  over  160  feet  on  Harrison.  In  1914  the 
Elmhurst  property  was  acquired  comprising 
over  eight  acres  of  beautiful  lawns,  parks, 
flower  gardens  and  vegetable  beds  constituting 
an  ideal  'back  to  nature'  resort. 

"Only  those  in  immediate  contact  with  Doctor 
Lindlahr  during  those  years  can  realize  the 
strenuousness  of  the  work.  During  this  time 
he  toiled  morning,  noon,  night,  vacations  and 
all  times.  In  addition  to  the  immediate  de- 
mands of  an  ever-growing  clientele  there  was 
a  constant  series  of  lectures  to  be  delivered, 
a  magazine  to  be  edited,  a  staff  to  be  trained, 
a  vast  correspondence  to  be  dealt  with  and  time 
to  be  found  to  keep  abreast  with  the  constant 
stream  of  new  methods  and  ideas  in  drugless 
healing. 

"In  these  years  Doctor  Lindlahr  found  time 
to  write  the  five  volumes  of  the  Library  of 
Natural  Therapeutics,  books  which  will,  unques- 
tionably— rank  as  classics  of  the  gospel  of  nat- 
ural living.  A  study  of  these  works  is  suffi- 
cient to  reveal  the  profundity  of  his  extraor- 
dinary insight. 

"Doctor  Lindlahr  was  to  be  admired  for  the 
consistent  way  in  which  he  kept  the  minds 
of  the  younger  members  of  the  staff  down  to 


fundamentals.  In  such  an  institution  as  his 
where  there  was-  such  a  breadth  of  view  and  a 
readiness  to  consider  all  things  new  there  was 
an  inevitable  tendency  to  accept  a  thing  at  its 
face  value.  With  that  acuteness  of  insight, 
however,  which  was  so  characteristic  of  him, 
he  would  remind  those  who  worked  with  him, — 
'Now  is  this  really  dealing  with  the  cause,  is 
it  not  merely  palliative  and  still  leaving  the 
primary  condition  untouched?'  and  so  their  rea- 
soning would  be  directed  along  the  right  lines. 

"Doctor  Lindlahr  labored  incessantly  almost 
up  to  the  day  of  his  death.  His  energy  seemed 
inexhaustible ;  his  enthusiasm  unlimited  and  his 
belief  in  the  future  of  the  work  boundless.  Only 
a  few  days  before  his  death  he  lectured  for 
three  consecutive  hours. 

"Even  this  brief  sketch  of  Doctor  Lindlahr, 
would  not  be  complete  without  a  record  of 
how  much  the  Nature  Cure  movement  owes  to 
Doctor  Lindlahr's  wife.  She  bore  no  small 
share  of  the  burden  of  the  strenuous  pioneering 
days  and  was  ever  the  Doctor's  helpmate  and 
inspirer.  Her  knowledge  of  Nature  Cure  is 
peculiarly  extensive  and  it  is  hoped  that  she 
will  yet  find  time,  in  the  midst  of  her  many 
sanitarium  activities,  to  record  a  first-hand  ac- 
count of  the  'Covered  Wagon'  days  of  Nature 
Cure." 

Doctor  and  Mrs.  Lindlahr  had  three  children 
born  to  them :  Dr.  Victor  Lindlahr,  who  suc- 
ceeds his  father  as  head  of  the  Lindlahr  insti- 
tution ;  Otto  F.  Lindlahr,  who  was  a  student  at 
the  University  of  Illinois  at  the  time  of  his 
father's  death ;  and  Florence  I.  Lindlahr,  who 
died   some  time   ago. 

Doctor  Lindlahr  died  March  26,  1924.  His 
work  was  that  of  a  pioneer  in  his  branch  of 
the  •  healing  profession  in  this  country ;  and 
there  are  already  many,  many  people  who  are 
indebted  to  him  for  an  improved  physical  well- 
being   and   a    happier,   clearer  outlook   on   life. 


JOSIAH  SEYMOUE  CURREY. 


Some  two  centuries  ago  there  arrived  in 
New  York  state  from  England  an  immigrant  by 
the  name  of  Richard  Currey.  He  settled  in 
Westchester  County  on  the  shores  of  Long 
Island  Sound,  and  became  the  progenitor  of 
numerous  descendants.  Many  of  these  descend- 
ants at  the  present  time  are  living  in  the  same 
neighborhood,  and  many  too  have  scattered  far 


and  wide  into  other  regions,  so  that  an  accurate 
genealogical  record  of  the  Currey  family  at 
the  present  time  would  practically  be  impossible 
to  write. 

Josiah  Seymour  Currey  was  born  in  West- 
chester County,  N.  T.,  near  Peekskill,  a  few 
miles  from  the  spot  where  the  original  Currey 
first,  settled  on  American  soil.    The  ancestors  of 


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Mr.  Currey  were  represented  in  the  American 
army  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  in  the 
community  life  of  the  county  from  early  co- 
lonial times.  In  his  childhood  he  attended  the 
schools  of  his  native  place,  and  at  the  age  of 
thirteen  removed  with  his  parents  to  Illinois, 
the  family  making  its  home  at  Channahon,  Will 
County,  where  his  father  carried  on  the  farm- 
ing business.  In  1862,  the  family  removed  to 
Chicago,  and  five  years  later  to  Evanston.  His 
father,  James  Currey,  was  engaged  for  some 
years  in  the  lumber  business  at  Evanston,  fre- 
quently receiving  cargoes  in  lake  vessels  di- 
rectly from  the  pineries  in  Wisconsin  and 
Michigan. 

In  1802,  Seymour  Currey,  as  he  was  generally 
known  in  his  boyhood  and  in  the  records  of 
the  adjutant  general's  office,  enlisted  in  the 
Sixty-seventh  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  a 
"three-months"  regiment,  during  the  second 
year  of  the  Civil  War.  After  serving  the  period 
of  his  enlistment  (and  somewhat  longer),  per- 
forming guard  duty  at  Camp  Douglas,  Chicago, 
he  received  his  discharge  in  October  of  the 
same  year.  Later  in  the  war  he  enlisted  again 
in  one  of  the  "hundred  day"  regiments,  the 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-fourth  Illinois  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  and  after  an  active  period  of 
service  in  Kentucky  and  Missouri  was  mustered 
out.  but  as  in  the  case  of  many  of  the  short- 
term  regiments  not  until  the  time  had  been 
prolonged  for  some  months  after  the  expiration 
of  the  enlistment  period.  In  the  interval  be- 
tween the  two  enlistments  mentioned  and  again 
in  later  years,  Mr.  Currey  became  engaged 
in  various  employments,  one  winter  a  teacher 
in  a  country  district  school  near  Aurora,  111., 
and  for  some  years  serving  as  an  assistant  in 
the  old-time  drug  store  of  Bliss  and  Sharp, 
Chicago.  In  1867  he  entered  the  freshman 
class  of  the  Northwestern  University  intending 
to  take  a  course  in  that  institution,  having  car- 
ried on  his  preparatory  studies  at  an  evening 


school  for  some  three  years  previously ;  but  for 
various  reasons  he  only  remained  there  a  year. 
After  this  period  he  was  engaged  in  a  number 
of  employments  and  business  enterprises,  but  in 
later  years  he  has  devoted  himself  largely  to 
historical  studies  and  writing,  especially  con- 
cerning the  history  of  Chicago  and  the  state 
of  Illinois.  Among  the  works  produced  by 
him  may  be  mentioned  "Chicago ;  Its  History 
and  Its  Builders,"  published  in  1912,  "The 
Story  of  Old  Fort  Dearborn,"  published  in  the 
same  year,  "The  Makers  of  Illinois,"  (1913), 
"Manufacturing  and  Wholesale  Industries  of 
Chicago"  (1918),  and  he  has  also  written  ex- 
tensively for  newspapers  and  magazines  on  the 
subjects  mentioned. 

On  November  24,  1875,  Mr.  Currey  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Mary  Ella  Corell.  Miss  Corell  was 
born  in  Portland,  Chautauqua  County,  N.  Y., 
the  daughter  of  Joseph  Corell  of  that  place. 
The  Corell  family  had  lived  in  Chautauqua 
County  since  the  days  of  the  "Holland  Pur- 
chase" early  in  the  nineteenth  century. 

Since  his  residence  in  Evanston  Mr.  Currey 
has  been  honored  by  the  citizens  in  his  election 
as  a  director  of  the  Public  Library  for  a  suc- 
cession of  terms.  In  the  spring  election  of  1886, 
when  Evanston  was  under  a  village  form  of 
government,  he  was  elected  for  a  term  of  three 
years,  and  re-elected  twice  thereafter.  The  vil- 
lage having  been  succeeded  by  a  city  form  of 
government  in  1892,  the  office  of  library  direc- 
tor became  thereafter  an  appointive  one,  and 
Mr.  Currey  received  the  appointment  each  time 
his  term  expired,  until  June,  1908,  when  he 
finally  resigned  from  the  board  after  a  contin- 
uous service  of  twenty-two  years,  the  last  two 
years  of  which  time  he  was  president.  In  1898, 
Mr.  Currey  assisted  in  the  formation  of  the 
Evanston  Historical  Society  of  which  he  be- 
came the  president  some  years  later.  In  the 
promotion  and  welfare  of  this  society  he  has 
devoted  many  years  of  his  life. 


THOMAS  HOWARD  VAUGHAN. 


The  late  Thomas  Howard  Vaughan  of  Chi- 
cago, who  was  prominently  identified  with  the 
banking  business  on  the  South  Side  for  some 
years  past,  was  born  at  Painesville,  Missouri, 
March  26,  1897.  He  was  a  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  Vaughan.  His  family  later  moved 
to  South  Dakota,  and  it  was  at  Watertown, 
South  Dakota,  that  he  graduated  from  High 
School. 


Then,  to  his  great  satisfaction,  he  received 
an  appointment  to  enter  the  United  States  Mili- 
tary Academy  at  West  Point.  After  his  first 
year  at  West  Point,  where  he  did  very  creditable 
work,  he  was  compelled  by  illness  to  withdraw. 
Throughout  the  rest  of  his  life  he  carried  with 
him  a  deep  interest  in  the  Army. 

His  first  important  business  connection  was 
made  when  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Stock- 


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yards  Trust  &  Savings  Bank  at  Chicago.  Then 
he  joined  the  forces  of  the  Federal  Reserve 
Bank  of  Chicago  and  he  traveled  on  the  road 
representing  this  great  organization  for  some 
years.  Change  came  when  he  accepted  the  posi- 
tion of  Assistant  Cashier  of  the  First  National 
Bank  at  Three  Rivers.  Michigan.  By  this  time 
his  training  and  experience  in  the  banking  pro- 
fession were  beginning  to  be  recognized  for  their 
value. 

Subsequently,  Mr.  Vaughan  returned  to  Chi- 
cago and,  in  1924,  he  assisted  in  the  founding 
of  the  Jackson  Park  National  Bank.  At  that 
time  he  was  chosen  as  Cashier.  Before  long 
he  was  elected  Vice  President  of  the  institution, 
and  a  good  share  of  this  bank's  flue  growth  in 


the  past  few  years  came  as  a  result  of  his  work 
and  fine  personal  character. 

Thomas  H.  Vaughan  was  married  June  10, 
1922,  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Helen  Irwin,  a 
daughter  of  Mark  B.  and  Katherine  (Erwin) 
Irwin.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vaughan  have  one  son, 
William  Irwin  Vaughan. 

The  death  of  Thomas  H.  Vaughan  occurred 
April  17,  1927.  He  was  still  a  young  man  at  the 
time  he  was  called  away.  We  understand  that 
he  was  the  youngest  man  to  hold  the  position 
of  Vice  President  in  any  bank  in  Chicago.  It 
is  but  a  deserved  comment  to  say  that  there 
have  been  comparatively  few  persons  of  his 
years  who  have  established  so  substantial  a 
life  record  as  he  did  in  the  short  span  of  life 
that  was  granted  him. 


ALBERT  DICKINSON. 


Albert  Dickinson  was  born  at  Stockbridge, 
Massachusetts,  October  28,  1841,  a  son  of  Albert 
F.  and  Ann  Eliza  (Anthony)  Dickinson.  When 
he  was  fourteen  years  old,  his  parents  moved 
to  Chicago,  and  the  lad  was  given  the  advantage 
of  a  course  in  the  public  schools  of  the  city, 
which  he  completed  in  1859,  with  the  first  class 
that  was  graduated  from  the  Chicago  High 
School.  He  then  became  his  father's  associate 
in  business,  but  put  aside  commercial  and  per- 
sonal interests  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War 
in  order  to  join  the  army.  The  smoke  of  Fort 
Sumter's  guns  had  scarcely  cleared  away  when, 
in  April,  1861,  he  become  a  member  of  Com- 
pany B,  Chicago  Light  Artillery,  known  as 
Taylor's  Battery,  but  later  Company  B,  First 
Illinois  Light  Artillery.  His  military  service 
covered  three  years  and  three  months,  during 
which  time  he  participated  in  the  engagements 
at  Frederickstown,  Fort  Donelson,  Shiloh,  Siege 
of  Corinth,  Chickasaw  Bayou,  Arkansas  Post 
and  Vicksburg,  Atlanta,  campaign  and  others. 
He  went  through  life  with  hearing  impaired 
as  a  result  of  heavy  cannonading  during  the 
war,  but  otherwise  enjoyed  good  health  which 
he  attributed  to  athletics  practiced  in  the  fifties 
in  the  old  Chicago  Light  Guard  Hall  of  State 
and  Randolph  streets,  where  young  men  were 
trained  to  be  "gymnasts"  as  they  called  them- 
selves. 

Following  the  close  of  the  war  Mr.  Dickinson 
went  to  Durant,  Iowa,  where  he  spent  a  year 
buying  grain,  but  returned  to  Chicago  on  ac- 
count of   his  father's   (ailing   health,   and   con- 


tinued the  grain  business  founded  by  the  elder 
man  in  1854.  Business  flourished  until  the 
fire  of  1871,  when  his  house,  together  with 
practically  all  the  others  of  Chicago,  sustained 
staggering  losses,  but  Mr.  Dickinson,  with  his 
brothers,  Nathan  and  Charles,  the  latter  only 
fourteen  years  old,  and  their  sister  Melissa,  re- 
sumed business,  soon  had  it  on  a  paying  basis, 
and  in  1888,  incorporated  it  for  $200,000,  with 
Albert  Dickinson  as  president ;  Charles  Dickin- 
son as  vice  president;  Nathan  Dickinson  as 
treasurer,  and  Melissa  Dickinson  as  secretary. 
After  several  changes,  permanent  quarters  were 
secured  by  building  at  Taylor  Street  and  the 
Chicago  River.  This  concern  made  its  fame  and 
fortune  by  furnishing  grass  seed  and  seed  grains 
to  the  farmers,  and  the  Albert  Dickinson  Com- 
pany is  widely  known  all  over  the  country  as 
buyers  and  sellers  of  all  kinds  of  seeds  and 
seed  grains. 

When  Albert  Dickinson  died,  April  5,  1925, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years,  not  only  did 
Chicago  lose  a  valued  citizen,  but  the  Chicago 
Historical  Society  was  deprived  of  one  of  its 
public-spirited  members.  He  was  the  donor  of 
the  Albert  Dickinson  Collection,  given  to  the 
society  in  1911,  which  consists  of  a  camp  outfit 
carried  by  him  throughout  the  war  as  corporal 
of  Company  B.  His  corporal's  jacket  and  belt, 
with  prison-made  shoes,  are  accompanied  by  his 
haversack,  its  contents,  including  a  diary  for 
1804,  in  which  he,  as  treasurer,  kept  the  ac- 
counts of  his  mess  of  four  comrades  who  pooled 
their  pay   to  buy   food.     Photographs  of  some 


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of  these  companions  are  shown,  together  with 
all  the  little  treasures  of  a  soldier,  even  his 
shaving  soap,  towel,  tin  dishes,  sewing  mate- 
rials and  an  open-faced  watch  with  a  tin 
crystal  which  he  carried. 

In  addition  to  the  Chicago  Historical  Society 
he  belonged  to  George  H.  Thomas  Post  Number 
5,  Department  of  Illinois,  the  Union  League,  the 
Athletic  and  Illinois  clubs,  the  Art  Institute, 
the  Academy  of  Science,  and  similar  bodies. 
All  his  life  he  was  a  strong  Republican.  For 
many  years  he  found  pleasure  and  relaxation  in 
travel,  and  his  culture  was  broad  and  compre- 
hensive. 

On  April  22,  1911,  Albert  Dickinson  was  mar- 


ried to  Emma  Benham,  and  for  the  last  few 
years  of  his  life  they  resided  at  Orange  City, 
Florida.  There  he  contributed  the  Memorial 
Library  Building,  Recreation  Hall  and  a  fine 
park.  He  was  a  man  of  many  charities, 
scholarly  tastes,  and  varied  interests.  Unself- 
ish he  preferred  a  quiet  place  in  the  back- 
ground to  the  glamour  of  publicity,  but  his 
rare  aptitude  and  ability  in  achieving  results 
and  his  keen  insight  into  any  situation,  made 
him  constantly  sought.  Unassuming  in  his 
manner,  sincere  in  his  friendship,  steadfast  and 
unswerving  in  his  loyalty  to  the  right,  it  is  but 
just  and  merited  praise  to  say  of  him  that  he 
fully  lived  up  to  the  highest  standards  of 
citizenship. 


FRANK  MORTIMER  MESSENGER. 


Among  the  distinguished  men  of  Chicago  is 
Frank  M.  Messenger.  Chairman  of  the  Board  of 
the  Messenger  Publishing  Company.  Although 
he  has  been  a  resident  of  Chicago  but  twenty- 
five  years,  he  has  made  a  lasting  impression. 
He  has  made  his  way  to  prominence  through  his 
own  well  directed  energy  and  efforts,  and  has 
risen  from  a  small  beginning,  at  an  advanced 
age.  to  a  place  of  commanding  influence  in  the 
business  world.  A  review  of  his  career  cannot 
fail  to  interest  and  inspire  the  young  man  who 
has  regard  for  honorable  manhood  and  an  ap- 
preciation of  wise  and  intelligent  use  of  oppor- 
tunity. 

Mr.  Messenger  was  born  at  Stoddard.  New 
Hampshire,  April  3,  18.12.  a  son  of  Silas  and 
Arvilla  (Copeland)  Messenger.  His  educational 
advantages  were  those  afforded  by  the  common 
schools  of  his  native  state,  in  which  he  made 
good  use  of  his  time  and  opportunity.  In  1883  he 
became  identified  with  the  Grosvenor  Dale  Man- 
ufacturing Company  of  Providence.  Rhode 
Island,  and  was  associated  with  that  corpora- 
tion for  twenty  years,  the  last  seventeen  of  which 
he  was  agent  and  general  manager  of  plants  at 
Grosvenor  Dale  and  North  Grosvenor  Dale.  Con- 
necticut. Mr.  Messenger  came  to  Chicago  in 
1903,  and  for  ten  years  was  actively  engaged  in 
benevolent  and  religious  work.  Having  ex- 
hausted all  his  means,  he  was  compelled  to  begin 
business  anew,  at  the  age  of  sixty-one.  His 
efforts  were  crowned  with  success  in  many  ways, 
and  he  is  now  enjoying  the  fruits  of  his  labor. 

In  1913  Mr.  Messenger  organized  the  Messen- 
ger Publishing  Company,  of  which  he  became  the 


executive  head  and  has  since  been  an  active 
factor  in  the  publication  of  religious  calendars 
and  various  periodicals  in  this  field.  Under  his 
conservative  management  and  the  able  co-opera- 
tion of  his  sons  and  daughter,  the  Messenger 
Publishing  Company  has  become  one  of  the 
notable  enterprises  of  the  middle-west,  and  its 
status  is  one  of  prominence  in  connection  with 
the  representative  publishing  industry.  The 
company  is  capitalized  at  more  than  $250,000  and 
is  housed  in  a  modern  and  adequate  plant  at  5932 
Wentworth  avenue,  which  was  recently  erected 
for  the  business  and  which  the  company  owns. 
Its  staff  of  officers  and  employes  are  all  skilled 
in  their  various  lines,  and  the  business  is  con- 
ducted on  the  most  modern  basis. 

Aside  from  his  business  activities  Mr.  Messen- 
ger gives  generously  of  his  time  and  means  to 
charitable  movements  and  all  measures  tending 
to  the  public  good.  He  has  ever  stood  as  an 
exponent  of  the  best  type  of  civic  loyalty  and 
progressiveness.  and  during  the  many  years  of 
his  residence  in  Chicago  he  has  wielded  definite 
and  fine  influence,  both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a 
man  of  business.  As  associate  pastor  of  the 
Church  of  the  Nazarene  he  has  rendered  valuable 
and  efficient  service  to  that  organization  and  in 
many  ways  has  done  much  for  the  advancement 
of  the  people  and  the  betterment  of  existing  con- 
ditions. Mr.  Messenger  was  married  May  13, 
1879,  to  Mary  A.  Young,  of  Newton,  Massachu- 
setts, a  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Ferguson) 
Young,  and  a  woman  of  exceptional  intellectual 
activity  and  beauty  of  character,  who  died  May 
7,  1928.    To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Messenger  were  born 


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seven  children;  Frank  M.,  who  died  in  1902; 
Mabel  W.,  who  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Messenger  Publishing  Company  and  who  is  un- 
married and  maintains  her  home  with  her 
father ;  Don  E.,  who  is  vice-president  and  sales 
manager  of  the  Messenger  Publishing  Company ; 
Harry  M.,  who  is  president  and  general  manager 
of  the  Messenger  Publishing  Company ;  Marion, 
who  is  the  wife  of  Eugene  Berry  of  the  Blue  Seal 
Food  Products  ;  Helen,  who  is  the  wife  of  Arthur 
E.  Moody,  and  Blanche,  who  is  the  wife  of  Rob- 
ert E.  South,  of  the  Messenger  Publishing  Com- 
pany. 

In  connection  with  this  review  of  Mr.  Messen- 
ger, it  is  just  that  mention  be  made  of  his  two 
sons,  who  are  able  business  men  and  are  well 
upholding  the  honors  of  the  family  name.  Harry 
M.  Messenger,  who  is  now  president  and  general 
manager  of  the  Messenger  Publishing  Company, 
was  born  at  North  Grosvenor  Dale.  Connecticut, 
January  9,  1893.  He  attended  public  school  there 
and  at  Chicago  and  Waukesha.  Wisconsin,  grad- 
uating from  the  high  school  of  the  last  named 
city  in  1912.  He  worked  at  the  printer's  trade 
in  1912-13.  and  in  the  latter  year  became  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  in  organizing  the  Messen- 
ger Publishing  Company,  with  which  he  has  since 
been  actively  identified.  Besides  this  connection 
he  is  also  president  of  the  Blue  Seal  Food 
Products,  Inc. ;  secretary  and  a  director  of  the 
Morrill  Garage  Corporation ;  secretary  of  the  de- 
partment of  literature  of  the  General  Nazarene 
Young  Peoples  Society;  a  trustee  of  the  First 
Church  of  the  Nazarene,  of  Chicago,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  General  Board  of  the  Cburch  of  the 
Nazarene,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Hamilton  club.  American  Ath- 


letic club,  Midway  Athletic  club,  Chicago  Motor 
club,  and  the  Lincolnshire  Country  club.  He  also 
proved  his  loyalty  and  patriotism  during  the 
World  War,  and  served  as  a  private  in  the 
United  States  Army  from  August  15,  until  De- 
cember 17,  1918.  He  was  married  November  14, 
1917,  to  Lydia  S.  Morrill,  of  Brattleboro,  Ver- 
mont, and  they  have  one  son,  Edward  M.  Mes- 
senger. 

Don  E.  Messenger,  who  is  vice-president  and 
sales  manager  of  the  Messenger  Publishing  Com- 
pany, was  born  at  Grosvenor  Dale,  Connecticut, 
July  10,  1886,  and  obtained  his  early  education 
in  the  elementary  and  high  schools  of  Putnam, 
Connecticut,  graduating  from  the  latter  institu- 
tion. He  later  became  identified  with  the  Ber- 
win  Fuel  Company,  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
and  was  engaged  with  that  concern  for  some 
years.  In  February,  1916,  he  became  associated 
with  the  Messenger  Publishing  Company,  and  in 
October  of  the  ensuing  year  (1917)  he  enlisted 
in  the  Air  Service  of  the  United  States  and 
served  overseas  during  the  World  War  from 
December,  1917,  until  June,  1919.  Returning  to 
Chicago  he  resumed  his  connection  with  the 
Messenger  Publishing  Company,  and  has  since 
been  an  active  factor  of  this  organization.  He 
was  elected  vice-president  and  sales  manager  of 
the  company  in  1923  and  still  retains  these 
offices.  Besides  this  connection  he  is  treasurer  of 
the  Advertising  Specialty  Association  of  Chi- 
cago. He  is  a  member  of  the  Midway  Athletic 
club,  and  is  prominent  in  both  social  and  busi- 
ness circles.  He  was  married  January  27,  1920, 
to  Alice  Purdy,  of  Minot,  North  Dakota,  and  they 
have  one  son,  John  Mortimer  Messenger. 


HENRY  CLAY  PURMORT. 


Henry  C.  Purmort  was  born  at  Jay,  Essex 
County,  New  York,  December  15.  1845,  a  son  of 
Adoniram  Judson  and  Amanda  B.  (Jordon) 
Purmont.  He  is  a  descendant  of  Elder  Wil- 
liam Brewster,  who  came  to  America  on  the 
Mayflower. 

He  began  his  education  in  a  private  school  at 
.lay.  New  York.  Later  he  attended  the  Academy 
at  Keiseville,  New  York,  the  Rutland,  Vermont, 
High  School,  and  Eastman's  Commercial  Col- 
lege at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York. 

He  then  worked  on  a  farm  for  four  years,  at 
the  expiration  of  which  time  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  Jay  Gould,  who  was  then  President  of 


the  Rutland  &  Washington  Railroad.  Subse- 
quently he  came  to  Chicago,  in  1863,  and  soon 
became  associated  with  Henry  Martin,  who  was 
at  that  time  General  Freight  Agent  of  the  Chi- 
cago Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad. 

Later  he  was  connected  with  Turlington  W. 
Harvey,  in  the  wholesale  lumber  business  at 
Chicago,  for  seven  years.  For  the  five  years 
following  this  period  he  was  engaged  as  a  manu- 
facturer of  sash,  doors  and  blinds  with  the  firm 
of  Palmer,  Fuller  &  Company. 

It  was  in  1880  that  he  founded  his  own  busi- 
ness as  a  wholesaler  and  jobber  of  sash,  doors, 
lumber    and    building    material.      He   later   ex- 


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HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


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paneled  his  business  to  also  engage  in  manufac- 
turing. He  retired  from  active  commercial  pur- 
suits in  1913. 

On  November  12,  1867,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Lillian  M.  Blish,  of  Jay,  New  York.  Their 
life  together  through  all  the  years  that  followed 
was  one  of  unusual  devotion  and  close  com- 
panionship. She  is  a  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  H.  (Bruce)  Blish.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pur- 
mort  became  the  parents  of  one  son,  Eugene 
Henry  Purmort,  who  died  July  15,  1872. 

Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Purmort  held  life  mem- 
bership in  the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descend- 
ants ;  and  both  were  deeply  devoted  to  the 
spirit  and  purpose  of  this  organization,  which  is 
to  preserve  and  honor  the  memory  of  the  Pil- 
grims, who  were  '"followers  of  the  Faith,  leaders 


of  Freedom,  loyal  to  the  Right,  devoted  to  the 
Truth." 

After  the  death  of  her  husband  Mrs.  Pur- 
mort prepared  and  presented  to  the  Society  that 
volume  known  as  Publication  Number  Four  of 
the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants  in  the 
State  of  Illinois.  She  was  one  of  the  principal 
compilers  of  this  volume,  of  which  she  had  an 
edition  beautifully  printed  and  bound,  and  dis- 
tributed to  members  of  the  Society  and  to  many 
libraries  as  her  gift  in  memory  of  Mr.  Purmort. 
This  is  a  publication  of  great  and  lasting  value. 

The  death  of  Henry  Clay  Purmort  occurred 
January  17,  1923.  His  business  career  gives 
him  foremost  place  in  the  history  of  Chicago's 
great  building  industry.  He  was  a  Chicagoan 
for  more  than  sixty  consecutive  years. 


CHARLES  VOLNEY  DYER. 


The  physician  of  the  old  school  has  passed 
with  other  things  of  his  day,  but  he  is  not  for- 
gotten in  the  ranks  of  a  profession  he  honored. 
A  new  generation  has  succeeded  him  with  wider 
opportunities  and  more  scientific  training,  but 
when  he  and  his  kind  flourished,  the  family  doc- 
tor was  a  warm,  personal  friend  who  not  only 
ministered  to  the  mind  and  the  body,  but  re- 
ceived confidences,  gave  advice,  and  made  him- 
self beloved  by  the  whole  community.  The  late 
Charles  Volney  Dyer  of  Chicago  belonged  to  this 
class.  Possessing  in  marked  degree  a  strong 
personality,  uncommon  physical,  mental  and 
moral  strength,  he  became  one  of  the  noted 
characters  of  his  day.  His  association  with 
men  and  events  demonstrated  that  he  was 
naturally  a  leader,  while  his  sympathies  made 
him  a  friend  as  well. 

Coming  to  Chicago  when  a  young  man  of 
twenty-seven,  Dr.  Dyer's  activities  became 
blended  with  the  growth  of  the  city  during  the 
period  of  its  early  and  most  marvelous  develop- 
ment, and  through  ability,  knowledge  of  his  pro- 
fession and  love  of  his  work,  he  became  one 
of  its  substantial  and  most  valued  citizens. 
Although  then  only  a  frontier  town  of  a  few 
thousand  inhabitants,  Dr.  Dyer  recognized  the 
fact  that  Chicago  was  advantageously  situated 
and  that  it  was  destined  to  become  the  center 
of  a  great  trade  territory.  To  the  usual  ob- 
server it  would  have  offered  little  inducements, 
but  his  faith  in  the  city  was  never  broken,  and 
there  was  perhaps  no  movement  of  vital  im- 
portance with  which  he  was  not  concerned  as  an 


active  factor  in  his  support  of  or  opposition  to, 
as  the  ease  might  be.  He  was  as  strong  in 
his  denouncement  of  a  measure  which  he  deemed 
inimical  to  the  best  interests  of  the  city  as  he 
was  firm  in  his  allegiance  when  he  believed 
that  the  interests  of  the  city  would  be  promoted 
thereby.  It  is  to  the  activity  and  public  spirit 
of  such  men  that  Chicago  owes  its  moral  educa- 
tion and  commercial  growth,  and  their  loss  is 
not  easily  forgotten. 

Charles  Volney  Dyer  was  born  at  Clarendon, 
Vt,  June  12,  1808,  and  was  afforded  a  good 
general  academic  education.  His  natural  predi- 
lection was  toward  work  in  the  medical  profes- 
sion, and  he  early  matriculated  in  the  medical 
department  of  Middlebury  (Vt.)  College,  where 
he  took  a  thorough  course  in  medicine  and  was 
graduated  from  that  institution  December  29, 
1830,  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  Soon  after  this 
event  he  went  to  Newark,  N.  Y.,  where  he  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  practice  of  medicine  and 
continued  as  an  active  practitioner  of  that  city 
until  August,  1835,  when  he  removed  to  Chi- 
cago, to  establish  a  practice  there.  Discharging 
the  duties  of  his  profession  with  a  keen  sense 
of  conscientious  obligation  and  skill,  together 
with  the  highest  standards  of  professional 
ethics,  gained  him  prestige,  and  he  soon  built 
up  a  lucrative  practice.  He  served  as  surgeon 
for  Fort  Dearborn  in  1835-6,  and  in  1839,  held 
the  office  of  city  physician  of  Chicago. 

Although  Dr.  Dyer  was  skilled  in  his  pro- 
fession and  had  largely  mastered  the  under- 
lying scientific  principles  of  medical  and  surgical 


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work,  he  did  not  continue  long  in  practice.  He 
had  become  so  strongly  interested  in  real  estate 
and  other  business  enterprises  of  importance 
that  he  eventually  abandoned  his  practice  and 
turned  his  attention  to  commercial  pursuits. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  active  and  persistent 
opponents  of  slavery,  and  was  identified  as 
president  with  the  famous  "Underground  Rail- 
road," for  the  escape  of  fugitive  slaves  from 
the  southern  states  to  Canada.  He  was  made 
judge  of  the  International  Court  to  Africa.  He 
was  a  man  of  great  mental  capacity  and  much 
force  of  character,  and  belonged  to  that  class 
who  wield  a  power  both  at  home  and  abroad. 
His  strong  convictions  regarding  right  and 
wrong,  his  opposition  to  a  course  which  he  be- 
lieved detrimental  to  the  city  and  his  fearless- 
ness of  criticism  or  public  opinion  when  he  be- 
lieved he  was  right,  were  traits  which  made  him 
a  powerful  factor  in  the  furtherance  of  any 
measure  which  has  for  its  aim  the  advancement 
of  the  people  or  the  betterment  of  existing  con- 
ditions. Besides  his  sterling  business  qualities 
he  was  also  exceedingly  humorous  and  was 
noted  for  his  ready  wit  and  jocularity,  and  was 
popular  among  all  classes. 

In  1837  Dr.  Dyer  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Louise  M.  Gifford,  a  native  of  Geneva, 
N.  Y.  They  reared  a  family  of  four  children : 
Stella  Dyer  Loring,  who  is  the  executive  head 
and  owner  of  the  Loring  School  and  Institute, 
at  4G0O  Ellis  Avenue,  Chicago ;  Charles  G.,  who 
was  a  noted  artist  of  international  fame,  is  now 
deceased ;  Louis,  who  was  a  lecturer  at  Baliol 
College,  Oxford  University,  England,  for  many 
years  and  to  whose  memory  Baliol  College  dedi- 


cated a  bronze  memorial  tablet  at  the  time  of 
his  death ;  and  Cornelia,  who  is  the  widow  of 
the  late  Adolph  Heile,  of  Chicago. 

Quiet  and  unassuming  in  manner,  Dr.  Dyer 
had  hosts  of  warm  friends  and  was  everywhere 
recognized  as  a  man  of  high  ideals.  His  free- 
dom from  ostentation  or  display  was  the  very 
essence  of  simplicity,  but  the  honor  and  prom- 
inence which  he  did  not  demand  for  himself 
came  to  him  as  the  free  will  offering  of  those 
among  whom  he  labored.  Although  he  accumu- 
lated a  fair  fortune  for  those  days,  his  efforts 
were  not  confined  alone  to  lines  resulting  in 
individual  benefit,  but  were  also  evident  in  those 
fields  where  general  interests  and  public  wel- 
fare are  involved.  He  was  quick  to  note  the 
needs  of  those  in  distress,  and  there  were  few 
men  who  realized  more  fully  or  responded  with 
greater  readiness  to  the  relief  of  his  fellow  men. 
His  home,  which  was  then  on  the  northern  bor- 
der of  the  city,  was  a  hospitable  one,  where 
good  cheer  abounded,  and  where  his  numerous 
friends  were  always  welcome.  In  professional 
and  in  business  life  he  was  alert,  sagacious  and 
reliable;  as  a  citizen  he  was  honorable,  prompt 
and  true  to  every  engagement,  and  his  death, 
which  occurred  April  24,  1878,  removed  from 
Chicago  one  of  its  most  worthy  citizens.  The 
originality  and  profound  grasp  of  his  intellect 
commanded  respect,  and  yet  these  were  not  all 
of  the  man.  In  every  relation  of  life  was  shown 
the  light  that  comes  from  justness,  generosity, 
truth,  high  sense  of  honor,  proper  respect  for 
self  and  a  sensitive  thoughtfidness  for  others. 
Such  a  record  is  a  legacy  the  most  valuable  and 
enduring  a  man  can  leave  to  posterity. 


DAVID  BLISH. 


David  Blish  was  born  at  Jay,  Essex  County, 
New  York,  on  April  8,  1841,  a  son  of  Daniel 
and  Mary  Houghton  (Bruce)  Blish.  He  was  a 
grandson  of  Capt.  Daniel  Blish,  who  became 
Colonel  in  the  War  of  1812. 

He  attended  school  at  Keeseville  Academy 
and  Chester  Academy.  Later  he  taught  school 
at  Jay,  N.  Y.,  and  at  Appleton  and  Poygan, 
Wisconsin. 

Then  he  was  successfully  engaged  in  the 
sash  and  door  business  at  Omro  and  Poygan, 
Wisconsin,  for  nearly  thirty  years. 

He  was  married  at  Jay,  New  York,  on  March 


1").  1SC.3,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Hickok  of  Wilming- 
ton. New  York.  They  became  the  parents  of 
two  children,  Daniel  W.  and  Ernest  Blish. 

Mr.  Blish  was  a  deacon  in  the  Baptist  Church 
at  Appleton,  Wisconsin.  He  also  had  served  as 
town  clerk  at  Poygan.  His  wife  was  postmis- 
tress at  Poygan  for  six  years. 

Mr.  Blish  came  to  Chicago  about  1891  and 
settled  in  Englewood.  There  he  was  active 
in  the  flour  and  feed  business  until  his  death. 
He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Covenant  Baptist  Church 
of  Englewood. 

David  Blish  died  on  September  29,  1913. 


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FRANK  D.  BLISH. 


Frank  D.  Blish  was  born  at  Jay,  Essex 
County,  New  York,  on  June  30,  1852,  a  son  of 
Daniel  and  Mary  Houghton  (Bruce)  Blish.  He 
was  a  brother  of  David  Blish,  of  whom  mention 
also  appears  in  this  connection. 

He  was  educated  in  the  schools  at  Jay  and 
Business  College  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York. 

The  marriage  of  Frank  D.  Blish  to  Miss 
Alice  M.  Bay  was  solemnized  on  December  5, 
1878.  They  became  the  parents  of  three  chil- 
dren, Buelah  Blish  Hughes,  deceased,  Philip, 
deceased,  and  a  daughter,  Franc  Blish  Miller, 
of  Amber,  Wash. 


Frank  D.  Blish  moved  to  Chicago  in  1869. 
He  lived  in  Chicago  until  the  close  of  his  life 
on  December  23,  1913.  He  will  be  remembered 
principally  for  his  literary  work.  He  was  at 
one  time  editor  of  the  Dickens  Club  Review 
and  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  magazines 
and  papers.  A  number  of  poems  by  Mr.  Blish 
are  worthy  of  preservation. 

Frank  D.  Blish  and  David  Blish  were 
brothers  of  the  late  Mrs.  H.  C.  Purmort  of  Chi- 
cago, who  was  for  years  Registrar  of  the 
Illinois  Daughters  of  1812,  and  Historian  of  the 
Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants. 


JOSEPH  K.  C.  FOKREST. 


Among  American  newspaper  men  few  can 
claim  so  varied  an  experience  or  so  long  a 
period  of  service  as  that  of  the  late  Col.  Joseph 
K.  C.  Forrest. 

Colonel  Forrest  is  descended  from  an  old 
and  prominent  family  in  Cork,  Ireland,  where 
he  was  born  November  26,  1820.  He  came  to 
America  when  he  was  twenty  years  old,  arriv- 
ing in  July,  1840.  During  the  early  years  of  his 
residence  in  Chicago,  he  was  associate  editor 
of  "The  Evening  Journal"  and  was  also  a 
writer  on  "The  Gem  of  the  Prairie,"  the  prede- 
cessor of  the  "Tribune."  On  the  10th  of 
July,  1847,  in  conjunction  with  others,  he 
assisted  in  bringing  out  the  first  issue  of  the 
"Tribune."  It  was  Colonel  Forrest  who  named 
the  "Tribune."  He  sold  his  interest  a  few  weeks 
later  and,  on  September  27,  1847,  he  took  up  the 
work  of  associate  editor  of  the  Chicago  "Demo- 
crat," then  under  the  management  of  John 
Wentworth.  This  connection  he  continued  until 
his  paper  was  consolidated  with  the  "Tribune" 
in  July,  1861.  Subsequently  he  was  corre- 
spondent for  the  "Tribune,"  the  St  Louis 
"Democrat"  and  the  Chicago  "Times"  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  and  in  Springfield,  Illinois. 

He  was  also  associated  with  the  Chicago 
"Republican"    after   its  establishment   in    1865, 


being  one  of  the  original  incorporators  of  that 
paper.  When  Mr.  Scammon  purchased  the  "Re- 
publican" after  the  fire  of  1871,  Colonel  Forrest 
was  made  its  managing  editor  and  he  continued 
to  write  editorials  for  several  years  after  the 
paper  became  the  "Inter-Ocean."  While  con- 
nected with  the  "Inter-Ocean"  he  made  Melville 
E.  Stone  its  city  editor,  a  favor  which  was  re- 
turned some  years  later  on  his  engagement,  by 
Mr.  Stone,  in  an  editorial  capacity  on  the 
"News."  Here  his  articles  under  the  heading 
"An  Old  Timer's  Facts  and  Fancies"  were 
greatly  enjoyed. 

In  1846,  Mr.  Forrest  was  elected  clerk  of  the 
recorder's  court  for  Cook  County  over  Phil.  A. 
Hoyne.  In  1873,  he  was  chosen  city  clerk  on 
the  People's  ticket 

Colonel  Forrest  was  married  to  Miss  Sarah 
Paddock  Calhoun,  a  daughter  of  Alvin  Calhoun. 

During  the  Civil  War,  Mr.  Forrest  served  on 
the  staff  of  Gov.  Yates,  with  the  rank  of 
colonel. 

His  facility  as  a  writer  was  widely  recog- 
nized, as  is  indicated  by  his  almost  continuous 
identification  with  the  Chicago  press.  Colonel 
Forrest  held  the  unique  distinction  of  being  an 
authorized  lawyer,  physician  and  clergyman. 


FREDERICK  HILL  SHEETS. 


Frederick  Hill  Sheets  was  born  at  Mt.  Morris, 
111.,  on  Dec.  25,  1859,  a  son  of  Benjamin  F.  and 
Alice  V.  (Hill)  Sheets.  His  father  was  Colonel 
in  the  Federal  Army  in  the  Civil  War  and  was 
also  a  figure  of  much  consequence  in  affairs  of 


church  and  State  in  Illinois.  Upon  his  retire- 
ment from  the  army  he  was  brevetted  Brigadier 
General. 

Frederick  H.  Sheets  attended  public  school  at 
Oregon,  111.,  and  then  went  to  Evanston  Acad- 


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emy.  He  was  graduated  from  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity with  a  degree  of  B.A.  in  1882.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  Beta  Theta 
Pi  fraternities.  He  also  won  his  "N"  at  North- 
western in  athletics. 

Sometime  later  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Divinity  was  conferred  upon  him  by  North- 
western University. 

Soon  after  his  graduation  in  1882  he  went 
west,  because  of  throat  trouble.  Not  long  there- 
after he  returned  to  Oregon,  111.,  to  accept  a  call 
to  the  ministry  there.  He  subsequently  became 
one  of  the  best  known  and  most  effective  pastors 
in  the  Rock  River  Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  He  filled  pastorates  at  Ster- 
ling, Dixon,  Blue  Island,  Joliet  and  Rockford, 
111.  Then,  in  1897,  Dr.  Sheets  came  to  Chicago 
and  became  pastor  of  Grace  M.E.  Church. 

He  was  Presiding  Elder  in  the  Chicago  West- 
ern District  from  1901  to  1904. 

In  1904  he  resigned  to  become  assistant  Sec- 
retary of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  with  offices  in  Chi- 
cago. Throughout  all  the  rest  of  his  life  he  was 
associated  with  the  missionary  movement. 

Dr.  Sheets  made  two  trips  through  the  Orient 
The  photographs  which  he  took  are  of  great  in- 
terest.    It    was    Dr.    Sheets'    photographs    that 


formed  the  nucleus  of  the  present  photographic 
department  of  the  Board  of  Missions.  He  also 
went  to  Porto  Rico  for  the  Home  Board  and  he 
started  their  photographic  department. 

Dr.  Sheets  was  a  speaker  of  exceptional  abil- 
ity. His  lectures  have  been  heard  throughout 
the  entire  United  States,  and  have  accomplished 
a  great  deal  for  the  advancement  of  missionary 
work. 

Dr.  Sheets,  in  the  later  years  of  his  life,  was 
a  profound  student  and  advocate  of  Steward- 
ship. 

He  was  also  identified  with  the  "World  Out- 
look." 

In  1884  Dr.  Sheets  was  married  to  Miss  Mary 
Hill,  who  died  in  1900.  There  is  one  son,  Fred- 
erick H.  Sheets,  Jr.  On  June  11,  1907,  Dr. 
Sheets  was  married,  at  Chicago,  111.,  to  Miss 
Emily  Thompson. 

The  close  of  Dr.  Sheets'  long  life  of  service 
came  in  his  sixty-ninth  year.  His  life  holds  a 
splendid  record  as  a  pastor,  speaker,  writer  of 
hymns  and  as  a  powerful  factor  in  furthering 
the  cause  of  Missions  and  of  Social  Service.  His 
work  and  his  strong,  cheerful  presence  and  en- 
thusiasm will  be  truly  missed.  His  death  oc- 
curred on  Aug.  11,  1928. 


OLIVER  OSBORNE  FORSYTH. 


Oliver  Osborne  Forsyth  of  Chicago,  has  re- 
cently died.  To  review  his  many  years  in  Chi- 
cago is  most  interesting;  and  this  story  also  in- 
cludes the  history  of  his  father  and  his  uncle, 
George  W.  Clarke,  who  were  factors  of  very 
great  importance  in  the  establishment  and 
growth  of  that  great  industrial  center  of  which 
the  present  five  cities  of  Gary,  Hammond,  East 
Chicago,  Whiting  and  Indiana  Harbor  form 
a  part. 

Oliver  Osborne  Forsyth  was  born  at  Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania,  on  June  15,  1856,  a  son  of 
Jacob  and  Caroline  M.  (Clarke)  Forsyth.  The 
Clarke  family  dates  back  to  Revolutionary 
times.  The  son  attended  the  Hellmuth  College, 
Ontario,  Canada,  and  later  Pennsylvania  Mili- 
tary  Academy. 

The  father  was  associated  with  the  earlier 
history  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad.  This 
work  eventually  brought  him  to  Chicago  as 
general  manager  of  the  freight  department 
and  about  1860  he  established  his  home  in  this 
citv.    His  wife's  brother  was  George  W.  Clarke, 


for  whom,  it  is  said,  Clark  Street,  Chicago, 
was  named.  Mr.  Clarke  was,  to  begin  with,  a 
civil  engineer  and  surveyor.  He  joined  the 
gold  rush  to  California  in  1849,  going  on  the 
first  steamship,  the  Tennessee,  that  went 
through  the  Straits  of  Magellan.  Ou  returning 
to  Illinois  a  few  years  later  he  bought  that 
area  of  land,  on  the  southern  shore  of  Lake 
Michigan,  now  occupied  by  Gary,  Indiana  Har- 
bor, East  Chicago  and  Whiting.  It  was  to  this 
section,  which  was  then  almost  entirely  unde- 
veloped, that  the  Forsyth  family  came.  George 
W.  Clarke  died  in  1866  and  the  management 
of  his  real-estate  holding  passed  to  the  hands 
of  Jacob  Forsyth,  who  some  years  later  was 
instrumental  in  bringing  the  Standard  Oi) 
Company  to  Indiana,  and  in  securing  the  loca 
tion  of  many  of  the  other  large  industries  that 
have  l>een  built  on  the  Lake  Shore  just  to  the 
south  of  Chicago.  He  gave  1,000  acres  to  found 
East    Chicago. 

Jacob   Forsyth   died   in  1899   and  since  that 
time  the  family's  property  has  been  controlled 


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by  Oliver  Forsyth ;  and  his  judgment,  deep  in- 
terest and  civic  pride  have  brought  many  ma- 
terial advantages  to  the  family  and  to  the 
cities  in  which  are  their  belongings. 

The  Forsyths  moved  back  to  Chicago  in  the 
'80s,  and  lived  on  Michigan  Avenue  for  over 
thirty  years,  and  on  Prairie  Avenue  for  the 
past  nine  years.  In  their  present  home  hangs 
an  oil  portrait  of  George  W.  Clarke.  The  por- 
trait was  among  the  few  possessions  the  family 
were  able  to  save  when  their  former  house 
was  destroyed  by  the  great  Fire  of  1871. 

The  family  belong  to  the  Episcopal  Church. 
Mr.  Forsyth  was  a  life  member  of  the  Art 
Institute  of  Chicago  and  of  the  Chicago  His- 
torical Society.  He  was  greatly  interested  in 
everything  of  sound  cultural  value  and  was 
also  kindhearted  and  generous. 

Oliver  Osborne  Forsyth  died  on  February 
1,  1922.     He  is  survived  by   two  sisters,   Miss 


Sarah   L.   Forsyth  of  Chicago  and  Mrs.  Annie 
Kerr-Fisher,  who  lives  abroad. 

THE  CALUMET. 

I  sing  of  the  Calumet  Region. 

The  haunt  of  the  Wild  in  ages  past 
Has  been  reclaimed  by  man  at  last. 

The   siller  of   Commodore   Tod 
Has  built  the  ship  canal  and  drained  the  bog. 

Exit  muskrat  and  frog. 
The  hydraulic  dredge  has  filled  up  the  slough ; 

None  can  tell  where  the  water-lilies  grew. 
With  mills  on  every   hand, 

The  Homes  of  the  puddler  and  roller  cover 
the  land. 
From  the  Calumet's  marshy  bank 

To  Michigan's  sandy  shore, 
The  call  of  the  Wild  is  heard  no  more. 

Written  by   Oliver   O.   Forsyth,  December  7, 
1912. 


JOHN  E.  O'HERN. 


The  late  John  E.  O'Hern  of  Chicago  who  for 
the  past  fourteen  years  was  general  superintend- 
ent of  all  the  plants  of  Armour  &  Company,  was 
born  December  8,  1868,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
His  parents  were  Patrick  and  Mary  (Starr) 
O'Hern. 

When  he  was  two  years  old  the  family  moved 
to  Lawrence,  Kansas,  and  there  it  was  that  he 
attended  public  school.  He  began  work  when 
he  was  fourteen  years  old. 

In  1890  he  came  to  Chicago  looking  for  a  posi- 
tion and  in  October  of  that  year  he  began  work- 
ing for  Armour  &  Company  at  the  wage  of 
seventeen  and  one-half  cents  an  hour. 

"I  worked  so  hard  on  that  first  job."  said 
Mr.  O'Hern  in  talking  over  the  past,  "that  I 
made  up  by  mind  to  look  for  another  job,  but 
I  was  too  busy  during  the  day,  and  too  in- 
fernally tired  at  night."  We  quote  here  further 
from  an  article  by  Armour  &  Company,  written 
shortly  after  the  death  of  Mr.  O'Hern. 

"So  the  young  man  kept  pace.  As  soon  as  he 
really  got  his  bearings,  he  was  setting  a  new 
pace,  always  working  a  little  harder,  thinking 
a  little  more  quickly  than  the  men  around  him. 
His  ability  as  an  organizer  and  as  an  operating 
expert  soon  attracted  the  attention  of  his  su- 
periors and  he  advanced  from  one  position  of 
responsibility  to  another  in  rapid  succession.  In 
June,  1898,  at  the  opening  of  the  Omaha  plant, 
he  was  sent  there  and  in  1902  he  became  plant 


superintendent.  In  1912  he  was  made  general 
superintendent  of  all  Armour  plants." 

Mr.  O'Hern  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Keefe, 
a  daughter  of  Edward  and  Sabra  (Hughes) 
Keefe  at  Lawrence,  Kansas,  June  8,  1893. 

Mr.  O'Hern  was  a  brother  of  the  late  Mon- 
signor  Charles  O'Hern  who  was  formerly 
rector  of  the  American  College  of  Rome. 

Mr.  O'Hern  was  a  valued  member  of  the 
South  Shore  Country  Club,  the  Ridge  Country 
Club,  Chicago  Lodge  No.  4,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  the  Sad- 
dle &  Sirloin  Club,  and  the  Fourth  Degree  As- 
sembly of  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  He  was  a 
devout  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

The  death  of  John  E.  O'Hern  occurred  Sep- 
tember 26.  1926,  at  Chicago.  As  a  fitting  com- 
ment on  his  life,  his  work  and  his  splendid  char- 
acter, we  reproduce  herewith  comments,  follow- 
ing his  death,  by  Mr.  J.  Ogden  Armour,  and  Mr. 
F.  Edson  White  who  are,  respectively,  Chair- 
man of  the  Board  and  President  of  Armour  & 
Company. 

"John  O'Hern's  death  takes  from  me  a  per- 
sonal friend  in  whom  I  had  great  confidence 
and  takes  from  the  packing  industry  one  of  its 
outstanding  characters.  He  contributed  much 
to  the  improvement  of  relations  between  em- 
ployer and  employe,  and  he  was  responsible  in 
no  small  measure  for  the  present  day  era  of 
industrial  peace  and  progress. 

"His    success    as    general    superintendent    of 


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Armour  '&  Company's  plant  was  based  on  in- 
herent qualities  of  leadership,  and  on  faith  in 
the  reasonableness  and  honesty  of  his  fellow 
men.  We  shall  miss  him  in  the  years  to  come 
while  we  are  trying  to  follow  the  trail  that  he 
blazed. 

"J.  Ogden  Armour, 

"Chairman  of  the  Board." 

"I  feel  the  loss  of  John  O'Hern  deeply,  for  in 
the  thirty  years  that  I  have  known  him.  I  have 
never  met  a  finer  character  nor  do  I  recall  in 
all    these    years    any    time    that    John    O'Hern 


shirked  a  task.  He  has  done  much  in  the 
humanizing  of  capital  and  labor,  and  the  plan 
of  employe  representation  now  in  effect  in  all 
of  our  plants  will  stand  as  a  monument  to  his 
memory.  Mr.  O'Hern  was  a  splendid  example 
of  a  man  rising  from  the  ranks  to  a  responsible 
position,  and  his  life  should  be  an  example  to 
others  for  his  name  is  written  indelibly  in  the 
history  of  Armour  &  Company  and  will  always 
be  revered  and  remembered. 

"F.  Edson  White, 

"President." 


ROBERT  ADDISON  GILLMORE. 


Among  the  men  of  importance  to  Chicago  in 
former  years  are  the  Gillmores,  father  and  son. 
Col.  Robert  Addison  Gillmore,  the  father,  was 
born  April  18,  1833.  Although  his  death  oc- 
curred over  fifty  years  ago,  he  is  still  remem- 
bered by  some  of  the  older  Chicagoans,  for  he 
left  a  very  excellent  record  as  a  business  man 
and  postmaster  of  Chicago.  His  service  in  the 
Union  army  through  the  Civil  War  was  espe- 
cially noteworthy.  The  Gillmore  family,  still 
in  Chicago,  have  Robert  A.  Gillmore's  personal 
diary,  commenced  in  1855  and  continued  until 
his  death  in  1867.  It  is  a  record  of  much  hu- 
man interest.  Robert  A.  Gillmore  was  married 
on  February  18,  1857,  to  Miss  Isadore  Frances 
Wilson,  a  daughter  of  Circuit  Judge  Robert  S. 
Wilson.  Mr.  Gillmore  was  active  at  that  time  as 
superintendent  of  the  Rock  Island  Railroad,  run- 
ning out  of  Chicago.  He  reached  a  broad  field 
of  usefulness,  and  no  citizen  of  his  day  was 
more  interested  in  the  material  and  intellectual 
progress  of  the  city.  He  was  very  sound  in  his 
religious  faith. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  Robert  A. 
Gillmore  immediately  became  active  in  the  or- 
ganization of  troops.  He  had  for  some  time 
belonged  to  the  Chicago  City  Guard.  He  was 
mustered  into  the  Union  Army,  by  Col.  John 
Mason,  on  October  12,  1862,  and  was  appointed 
major  in  the  Twenty-sixth  Illinois  Volunteers. 
The  war  record  of  the  Twenty-sixth  Illinois 
Volunteers  is  very  carefully  kept  and  very  ac- 
curately set  forth  in  the  personal  diary  just 
mentioned.  After  much  activity  in  the  field, 
Major  Gillmore  was  promoted  for  valiant  service 
to  become  lieutenant  colonel  of  the  Twenty-sixth 
Illinois  Volunteers.  He  was  seriously  wounded 
in  the  battle  of  Corinth.  He  later  resumed  his 
command.    He  was  brigade  commander  when  he 


was  but  thirty  years  old.  Shortly  thereafter, 
on  August  9,  1867,  Robert  A.  Gillmore  was  ac- 
cidentally drowned  in  Lake  Michigan,  while  he 
was  sailing  one  of  his  pleasure  boats.  His  was 
the  first  military  funeral  in  Chicago. 

The  death  of  Robert  Tracey  Gillmore,  the  son, 
occurred  January  20,  1918,  while  he  held  com- 
mission as  captain  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps 
of  the  United  States  Army  during  the  period 
of  the  World  War.  He  was  buried,  with  full 
military  honors,  in  the  National  Cemetery  at 
Chattanooga.  A  brief  review  of  his  life  follows : 
Robert  Tracey  Gillmore  was  born  in  Chicago, 
September  9,  1867,  one  month  after  the  death 
of  his  father.  As  a  boy  he  went  to  the  Chicago 
public  schools.  Later  he  attended  the  University 
of  Michigan,  and  he  was  graduated  from  the 
Northwestern  University  Medical  School  in  1892, 
with  his  degree.  After  that  he  spent  a  year 
abroad  in  special  study.  He  returned  to  general 
practice  in  Chicago,  and,  in  addition,  was  sur- 
geon for  the  South  Side  Elevated  Railroad.  He 
was  assistant  professor  of  gynecology  at  the 
Northwestern  University  Medical  School.  He 
was  fellow  in  the  American  College  of  Surgeons 
and  in  the  Institute  of  Medicine  of  Chicago.  He 
belonged  to  the  American  Medical  Association, 
Chicago  Medical  Society,  Chicago  Gynecological 
Society,  and,  socially,  to  the  Chicago  Athletic, 
Chicago  Motor  and  Camp  Fire  Clubs. 

Doctor  Gillmore  was  married  on  June  21, 1900, 
to  Emma  Wheat  Hastings  of  Quincy,  Branch 
County,  Michigan,  who  is  also  a  physician. 
During  the  period  of  the  World  War,  Dr.  Emma 
Wheat  Gillmore  was  acting  assistant  surgeon 
in  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service  in 
the  extra  cantonment  zone,  Fort  Oglethorpe. 
Later  she  was  chairman  of  the  committee  of 


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Women  Physicians  of  the  General  Medical  Board 
of  the  National  Council  of  Defense,  engaged  in 
enrolling  the  women  physicians  of  America  for 


the  government  for  war  service.  Dr.  Emma 
Wheat  Gillmore  is  now  active  in  practice  in 
Chicago. 


SYDNEY  ERASTUS  PERRYMAN. 


The  late  Sydney  Erastus  Perryman  of  Chi- 
cago, was  born  at  Mobile,  Ala.,  on  June  1,  1853, 
a  son  of  Samuel  E.  and  Elizabeth  (Bondurant) 
Perryman.  His  is  a  fine,  old  Southern  family. 
His  father  was  a  prominent  business  man  of 
Mobile  for  a  long  time  and  a  leader  in  the 
wholesale  grocery  industry  of  the  South. 

Sydney  E.  Perryman  attended  preparatory 
schools  and  college  at  Mobile.  Then  he  went 
to  work  in  his  father's  wholesale  grocery  estab- 
lishment there.  After  some  time  thus  spent 
he  went  to  Texas  where  he  engaged  in  the 
cattle  business.  As  time  passed  he  became  an 
extensive  raiser  and  shipper  of  cattle.  He  had 
a  fine  ranch  at  Jack  County,   and  maintained 


his  residence  in  Dallas.  He  was  very  favor- 
ably known  throughout  that  part  of  Texas. 

Mr.  Perryman  retired  from  the  cattle  business 
about  1911  and  came  to  Chicago. 

In  June,  1892,  Mr.  Perryman  was  married 
to  Miss  Hattie  S.  Armbrecht,  a  daughter  of  Au- 
gustus and  Sarah  Ann  (Dixon)  Armbrecht.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Perryman  have  no  children. 

For  some  years  past  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perry- 
man lived  on  the  South  Side  in  Chicago.  Their 
winter  home  is  at  Ocean  Springs,  Miss. 

Mr.  Perryman  died  in  his  74th  year  on  No- 
vember 28,  1927.  His  life  was  highly  successful 
and  he  was  held  in  warmest  regard  by  the  many 
friends  who  had  the  pleasure  of  knowing  him 
intimately. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  REDINGTON. 


The  late  William  Henry  Redington.  of  Chi- 
cago and  Evanston,  was  born  at  Fredonia,  New 
York,  June  6,  1851,  a  son  of  Frederick  A.  and 
Dorinda  C.  (McCluer)  Redington. 

He  was  educated  in  public  schools.  He  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  Sanford  Manufacturing 
Company,  makers  of  writing  inks,  in  1868.  when 
he  was  but  seventeen  years  old,  and  remained  a 
part  of  this  company  until  his  death.  He  rose 
through  various  offices  until  he  was  chosen 
president  of  the  concern,  in  which  capacity  he 
was  active  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was  also 
president  of  the  L.  H.  Thomas  Company,  inks, 
mucilage  and  bluing.    He  was  probably  the  fore- 


most personality  in  this  industry  in  America. 

Mr.  Redington  was  married  on  October  19, 
1875,  to  Miss  Frances  A.  Lull  of  Chicago.  They 
have  one  daughter,  Ruth  H.  (Mrs.  H.  T.  Gris- 
wold).  The  family  home  is  on  Ridge  avenue, 
Evanston,  Illinois.  Mr.  Redington  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Association  of  Commerce,  a  life  mem- 
ber of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  and  also  be- 
longed to  the  Chicago  Historical  Society.  His 
clubs  were  the  Union  League  Club,  Chicago 
Athletic  Association,  Evanston  Country  Club, 
Glen  View  Country  Club,  and  the  Westmoreland 
Country  Club. 

Mr.  Redington  died  on  October  8,  1923. 


WILLIAM  RAINEY  HARPER. 


William  Rainey  Harper,  president  of  the  Chi- 
cago University  until  his  death,  was  one  of 
the  eminent  educators  of  Chicago.  He  was  born 
at  New  Concord,  Muskingum  County,  Ohio,  July 
26,  1850,  and  died  at  Chicago,  January  10, 
1906.  His  father,  Samuel  Harper  was  a  dry 
goods  merchant  of  New  Concord,  and  an  active 
factor  in  Muskingum  College  to  which  William 
R.  Harper  was  sent,  and  from  which  he  was 
graduated  when  fourteen  years  of  age,  with 
the  degree  of  B.  A.,  his  commencement  oration 
being  delivered   in   Hebrew.     In   1873   he  took 


a  post  graduate  course  at  Yale  University,  and 
received  from  that  institution,  when  only  nine- 
teen years  old,  the  degree  of  Ph.  D. 

For  the  subsequent  year  Doctor  Harper  was 
principal  of  the  Masonic  College  at  Macon, 
Tenn.,  and  then  was  a  tutor  at  Dennison  Uni- 
versity, and  during  the  time  he  was  there,  he 
united  with  the  Baptist  Church.  In  1878  he 
came  to  Illinois  to  assume  charge  of  the  Baptist 
Union  Theological  Seminary  at  Morgan  Park, 
and  while  there  developed  his  two  great  ideas, 
the  one  with   reference  to  inductive  teaching, 


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and  the  other  the  awakening  of  interest  in  lie- 
brew  by  means  of  instruction  through  correspon- 
dence. His  work  along  these  lines  culminated 
in  his  being  placed  at  the  head  of  the  Chautau- 
qua College  of  Liberal  Arts,  and  later  of  the 
entire  system.  About  this  time  he  became  pro- 
fessor of  Semitic  languages  and  Wollsey 
professor  of  biblical  literature  at  Yale  Univer- 
sity, where  he  remained  for  five  years,  leaving 
it  during  July,  1891  for  the  presidency  of  the 
Chicago  University.  After  accepting  this  offer. 
Doctor  Harper  encouraged  the  study  of  biblical 
subjects,  and  gained  world-wide  fame  as  the  ex- 
ponent of  this  activity,  organizing  the  Religious 
Education  Association.  He  was  very  active  in 
the  work  of  the  American  Institute  of  Sacred 
Literature ;  a  liberal  contributor  to  the  Journal 
of  Semitic  Languages  and  Literatures,  the 
Biblical  World,  and  the  American  Journal  of 
Theology.     The  Christian  Union  of  the  Univer- 


sity had  Doctor  Harper's  hearty  endorsement. 
He  was  the  author  of  "Commentary  on  the 
Minor  Prophets,"  "The  Trend  in  Higher  Educa- 
tion and  Religion,"  and  "The  Higher  Life."  He 
also  projected  a  series  of  text  books  and  pre- 
pared two  volumes,  "Constructive  Studies  in  the 
Priestly  Element  in  the  Old  Testament,"  and 
"Constructive  Studies  in  the  Prophetic  Element 
in  the  Old  Testament"  For  nine  years  he  was 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school  of  the 
Hyde  Park  Baptist  Church. 

When  only  nineteen  years  of  age  Doctor 
Harper  was  married  to  Miss  Ella  Paul,  a 
daughter  of  Rev.  David  Paul,  president  of  Mus- 
kingum College,  and  his  first  teacher  in  He- 
brew. Mrs.  Harper  survived  her  husband.  The 
death  of  Doctor  Harper  after  a  long  and  ex- 
hausting illness  from  chronic  disease,  brought 
forth  many  testimonials  of  appreciation  from 
some  of  the  leading  men  of  the  age. 


WALTER  LULL. 


Walter  Lull,  who  was  one  of  the  very  early 
residents  of  Chicago  and  a  pioneer  in  the  great 
lumber  industry  here,  was  born  in  New  York 
State  on  July  5,  1817.  His  boyhood  was  spent 
in  New  York  State;  and  in  his  young  manhood 
he  came  West. 

On  September  15,  1848,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Sarah  Jane  Eastman,  at  Eastmanville,  Michigan, 
which  town  was  named,  we  understand,  for  her 
father. 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  1848  and  established  his 
home.  He  then  engaged  in  the  lumber  business 
here  and  was  successful  among  the  early  pio- 
neer lumber  dealers  of  this  city,  until  his  lumber 
yard  was  completely  destroyed  by  fire.  Through 
mistake  the  insurance  which  he  carried  on  his 
large  buildings  had  lapsed  just  before  the  fire 
occurred.  As  a  consequence  his  loss  was  a  very 
serious  one  to  him. 

He  then  left  Chicago  and  went  out  to  Colorado 


where  he  became  interested  in  mining  projects, 
in  association  with  Mr.  Bates  who  later  became 
Mayor  of  Denver.  His  work  in  Colorado  proved 
to  be  abundantly  successful  and  he  was  thus  able 
to  re-establish  his  financial  strength. 

Returning  to  Chicago  he  again  entered  the  lum- 
ber business  here  and  he  continued  to  be  thus 
engaged,  with  substantial  success,  until  his  re- 
tirement. 

His  wife  died  in  1901  in  her  seventieth  year. 
His  own  death  occurred,  in  his  eighty-seventh 
year,  in  1903. 

Walter  Lull  is  to  be  remembered  among  those 
strong,  clear-sighted  men  who  laid  the  founda- 
tions of  the  vast  lumber  business  that  Chicago 
enjoys  today. 

It  should  also  be  recorded  that  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lull  were  active  in  the  founding  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  of  Chicago,  in  1851.  more 
than  three-quarters  of  a  century  ago. 


HELGE  ALEXANDER  HAUGAN. 


Among  the  prominent  men  of  Chicago  who 
have  left  the  impress  of  their  individuality 
upon  the  business  and  financial  interests  of  the 
country,  none  is  more  worthy  of  mention  in 
the  history  of  Illinois  than  the  late  Helge 
Alexander  Haugan,  for  many  years  an  honored 
resident  of  this  city.  His  labors  not  only  consti- 
tuted a  potent  factor  in  the  monetary  affairs  of 


Chicago,  but  his  progressive  spirit  was  evident 
in  many  ways,  and  though  he  has  long  passed 
from  the  scene  of  earthly  activities,  he  is  re- 
membered as  one  of  the  sterling  pioneer  busi- 
ness men  of  the  city.  In  his  home,  in  social 
and  in  business  life  he  was  kind  and  courte- 
ous, and  no  citizen  of  Chicago  was  more  re- 
spected,  or  more  fully   enjoyed   the   confidence 


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of  the  people  and  more  richly  deserved  the  re- 
gard  in   which  he   was  held. 

Mr.  Haugan  was  born  in  Christiania,  Norway, 
October  26,  1848,  a  son  of  Helge  A.  and  Anna 
B.  (Hovland)  Haugan,  and  he  fully  exemplified 
the  rightful  and  enterprising  character  for 
which  the  people  of  that  country  have  always 
been  noted.  He  immigrated  to  Montreal, 
Canada,  with  his  parents  when  eleven  years  of 
age,  and  there  learned  the  steam-fitting  and 
brass-finishing  trade.  In  1862,  when  fourteen 
years  of  age,  he  came  to  Chicago,  and  thence- 
forward his  life  and  activities  were  blended 
with  this  city,  and  he  never  lost  an  opportunity 
to  do  what  he  could  for  the  advancement  of  the 
best  interests  of  the  great  metropolis  which 
figured  as  the  stage  of  his  splendid  achieve- 
ments, and  in  which  his  activities  were  cen- 
tered for  nearly  half  a  century. 

After  coming  to  Chicago  Mr.  Haugan  worked 
at  his  trade  for  others  for  a  time,  but  later 
established  a  business  of  his  own,  in  which  he 
prospered  and  in  which  he  continued  until 
1879,  when,  with  John  R.  Lindgren,  he  estab- 
lished a  banking  house  under  the  name  of  Hau- 
gan '&  Lindgren.  In  1891  the  bank  was  reor- 
ganized and  became  the  State  Bank  of  Chicago, 
of  which  Mr.  Haugan  was  elected  president,  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  the  time  of  his 
death.  Besides  his  connection  with  this  enter- 
prise, he  was  a  director  in  the  Chicago  Title 
&  Trust  Company,  and  also  had  other  capi- 
talistic interests  in  Chicago  and  elsewhere. 

During  the  ensuing  years  from  the  time 
of  its  inception,  the  State  Bank  of  Chicago 
has  kept  pace  in  its  development  and  advance- 
ment with  the  marvelous  progress  of  the 
city,  and  its  status  has  long  been  one  of  promi- 
nence in  connection  with  the  representative 
banking  institutions  of  the  country.  It  stands 
today  as  a  monument  to  the  memory  of  its 
founder  and  his  successful  career.  At  all 
times  Mr.  Haugan  proved  himself  a  man  of 
ability  and  sagacity,  and  his  counsel  was  fre- 
quently sought  in  matters  of  business  where 
sound  judgment  was  required.  He  was  ever 
loyal,  energetic  and  circumspect,  and  not  only 
was  he  recognized  as  a  safe  and  reliable  finan- 
cier,   but    he    was    also    public-spirited    in    his 


civic  attitude,  and  gave  generously  of  his 
time  and  means  to  charitable  movements  and 
all  measures  tending  to  the  public  good.  He 
was  also  prominent  in  social  circles,  and  was  a 
valued  member  of  the  Union  League  Club  and 
other  social  and  benevolent  organizations.  In 
business  life  he  was  alert,  conservative  and 
reliable ;  as  a  citizen  he  was  honorable,  prompt 
and  true  to  every  engagement,  and  his  death, 
which  occurred  May  17,  1909,  removed  from 
Chicago  one  of  its  most  valued  citizens. 

Mr.  Haugan  was  married  in  1869,  to  Miss 
Laura  A.  Wardrum,  of  Chicago,  and  they  be- 
came the  parents  of  six  children :  Laura  T.,  who 
is  deceased,  Oscar  H.,  Julia  M.,  Henry  A., 
Charles  M.  and  J.  Richard. 

Henry  A.  Haugan,  who  is  now  president  of 
the  State  Bank  of  Chicago,  was  born  in  this 
city  August  14,  1878.  His  early  education  was 
obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  Chicago,  and 
later  entering  Dartmouth  College,  Dartmouth, 
New  Hampshire,  he  received  his  degree  of  Bach- 
elor of  Science  from  that  institution  in  1903. 
After  leaving  college  in  1903,  he  began  his  active 
business  career  as  messenger  in  the  State  Bank 
of  Chicago,  and  has  since  been  one  of  the  active 
factors  in  the  conduct  of  its  affairs.  His  abil- 
ity soon  became  recognized,  and  his  proficiency 
was  acknowledged,  from  time  to  time  by  promo- 
tions, and  he  rose  with  this  great  financial  in- 
stitution from  messenger  to  a  place  of  command- 
ing influence  as  the  chief  executive  officer  of  the 
bank.  His  promotions  were  successively  to  that 
of  clerk,  teller,  assistant  cashier,  vice  president 
and  president,  having  been  elected  to  the  latter 
position  in  1919. 

Besides  his  connection  with  the  State  Bank 
of  Chicago,  Mr.  Haugan  is  also  a  director  in  the 
Fidelity  &  Deposit  Company  of  Maryland,  a 
Baltimore  corporation,  and  from  1909  to  1912, 
he  served  as  treasurer  of  the  University  of 
Illinois.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Asso- 
ciation of  Commerce,  and  of  the  Chicago,  Bank- 
ers, University,  Mid  Day,  City,  Chicago  Athletic, 
Glen  View  Golf,  Norwegian  and  Swedish  Clubs, 
and  is  prominent  in  both  business  and  social 
circles.  Mr.  Haugan  was  married  June  8, 
1908,  to  Miss  Blanche  Ernst,  of  Chicago,  and 
they  have  one  son :  Henry  A.  Haugan,  Jr. 


FRANKLIN  RUDOLPH. 


Franklin  Rudolph  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, on  August  8,  1858,  a  son  of  Joseph  Rudolph. 


The  father  was  an  Austrian  revolutionist  who 
fled  to  the  United  States  in  1848,  settled  in  Chi- 


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cago  in  1857  and  became  a  most  patriotic  and 
devoted  American  citizen. 

Franklin,  the  youngest  of  three  sons,  went  to 
the  public  school  in  Chicago.  When  the  family 
fortune  was  wiped  out  by  the  Great  Fire  of 
1871  he  could  not  be  dissuaded  from  becoming 
a  helper  and  so  while  a  boy  of  only  thirteen 
he  began  work  which  led  him,  after  learning 
the  japanners'  trade,  into  the  firm  of  Adams  & 
Westlake,  then  considerable  factors  in  the 
manufacture  of  tinware.  When  this  firm  dis- 
continued a  large  part  of  that  work  a  few 
years  later,  Mr.  Rudolph,  with  very  small  cap- 
ital but  with  unlimited  energy  and  a  reputation 
for  integrity  that  was  his  most  valuable  asset, 
started  in  business  for  himself  as  a  manufac- 
turer of  ornamental  sheet  metaL 

During  the  years  that  he  carried  on  his  own 
business  he  not  only  made  it  a  financial  success 
but  found  he  had  talents  that  led  him  to  invent 
machinery  that  has  been  in  continuous  use  ever 
since. 

In  1901  when  the  American  Can  Company  was 
formed  and  took  over  Mr.  Rudolph's  business  he 
became  a  director  of  the  company,  and  soon 
after  was  made  Vice  President,  with  offices  in 
Chicago  as  head  of  the  Central  District.  He 
remained  in  this  position  until  his  death  on  De- 
cember 27,  1922. 

To  no  man  more  than  to  Mr.  Rudolph,  is  due 
the  development  of  automatic  machinery  for 
the  making  of  cans  for  use  as  food  containers. 
The  production,  now  amounting  to  hundreds  of 
millions  of  cans  per  year,   enables   food   prod- 


ucts to  be  sent  to  the  most  remote  corners  of 
the  earth  and  to  be  sold  at  a  price  within  the 
reach  of  everyone. 

Soon  after  becoming  a  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican Can  Company,  Mr.  Rudolph  was  married 
to  Miss  Pauline  A.  Dohn,  one  of  Chicago's  art- 
ists, a  daughter  of  Mr.  A.  W.  Dohn,  who  was 
closely  identified  with  the  growth  of  music  in 
this  city  in  the  earlier  days.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Rudolph  soon  moved  their  home  to  Winnetka, 
Illinois.  Their  children  are :  Franklin  D. 
Rudolph,  Charles  D.  Rudolph  and  Pauline 
Rudolph. 

With  all  the  activities  of  his  busy  life,  and 
they  were  typical  of  the  successful  Chicagoan 
of  his  day,  Mr.  Rudolph  found  time  to  cultivate 
an  inherited  love  for  the  higher  things  of  life 
and  he  was  a  generous  supporter  of  music  and 
the  arts.  He  was  a  great  lover  of  nature.  His 
vacations  were  always  spent  in  the  great  woods, 
camping  and  trout  fishing,  and  he  brought  back 
with  him  to  his  busy  life  the  joy  of  days  and 
nights  spent  under  the  sky.  It  kept  him  simple 
and  natural  in  his  relations  to  people  and  things. 
He  was  always  cheerful,  kindly,  and  never  too 
busy  to  listen  to  anyone  who  sought  his  help,  as 
many  who  came  to  him  for  aid  can  testify  from 
experience.  One  of  his  outstanding  traits  of 
character  was  his  fair-mindedness,  regardless 
of  personal  interests,  and  it  has  fallen  to  the 
lot  of  but  few,  to  hold  the  high  esteem  of  their 
fellow  men  as  did  Mr.  Rudolph  throughout  his 
active  and  useful  ilfe. 


WILBUR  F.  HEATH. 


Judge  Wilbur  F.  Heath  was  born  at  Corinth, 
Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  June  11,  1843,  a  son  of 
Cyrus  and  Mary  (Hutchinson)  Heath,  who  came 
to  Libertyville,  111.,  when  he  was  twelve  years 
old.  With  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  Wil- 
bur F.  Heath  espoused  the  cause  of  the  North, 
and  enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty- 
sixth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  he  be- 
came leader  of  the  regimental  band.  During 
his  army  service  he  composed  much  of  the  music 
played  by  the  band,  and  was  chosen  to  lead  the 
funeral  procession  of  President  Lincoln  at 
Springfield.  The  dirge  used  on  that  occa- 
sion was  composed  by  him,  the  original 
manuscript  of  it  being  still  in  the  fam- 
ily. At  the  close  of  the  war  he  be- 
came  a  locomotive  engineer,   but  he  continued 


to  study  music  and  took  a  full  course  in  vocal 
culture  at  the  New  England  Conservatory  of 
Music,  and  was  chosen  as  one  of  the  members 
of  the  Peace  Jubilee  Chorus.  For  a  number  of 
years  he  taught  music  at  Marengo,  Iowa,  and 
Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  and  he  prepared  a  set  of 
common  school  music  readers  and  a  set  of  vocal 
exercise  charts,  the  latter  being  his  own  inven- 
tion. He  also  wrote  and  published  a  number 
of  songs,  and  contributed  to  periodicals.  For 
three  consecutive  terms  he  served  the  Indiana 
branch  of  the  Music  Teachers  Association  as 
president,  and  was  also  on  the  board  of  exam- 
iners of  the  American  College  of  Musicians  for 
a  number  of  years.  A  mechanical  as  well  as 
musical  genius,  he  invented,  and  patented  a 
number   of   mechanical   devices,    and    was    con- 


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nected  with  the  Pixley  Company  of  Utica,  N.  Y., 
having  charge  of  its  branches  at  Oshkosh,  Wis., 
and  Danville,  111.,  successively,  coming  to  the 
latter  city  in  1895,  from  which  time  until  his 
death,  on  August  3,  1914,  he  made  it  his  home. 
Soon  after  the  Soldiers  Home  was  ready  for 
occupancy,  Judge  Heath  was  asked  to  organize 
a  band  by  the  government,  and  he  remained  its 
leader  for  eleven  years.  In  1912  he  was  elected 
municipal  judge  on  the  Republican  ticket  by  a 
large  majority.  A  Mason  of  high  rank,  he  was 
the  father  of  the  Scottish  Rite  at  Danville,  as 
he  had  been  at  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  and  the  Thir- 
ty-Third Degree  was  conferred  upon  him  at  Bos- 
ton, Mass.,  September  18,  1896.  He  lived  accord- 
ing to  the  creed  of  the  Methodist  Church,   of 


which  he  was  a  member.  Judge  Heath  was  an 
enthusiastic  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic. 

Judge  Heath  was  married  at  Berlin,  Wis.,  to 
Emma  C.  Parmalee,  and  they  had  two  sons, 
namely:  Herbert  Wilbur  and  Rodney  Leon. 
Mrs.  Heath  died  in  1886.  In  1889  Judge  Heath 
was  married  (second)  to  Katherine  Aull  Heath, 
who  survives  him  and  is  very  active  in  the 
Eastern  Star,  of  which  she  is  past  grand  matron 
of  the  local  chapter.  There  were  no  children 
by  the  second  marriage  of  Judge  Heath.  His 
younger  son  died  in  1900,  but  the  elder  one  sur- 
vived him  and  is  active  in  the  agricultural 
interests  of  the  county. 


WEBSTER  HENRY  RAPP. 


Webster  Henry  Rapp  was  born  at  Dayton, 
Ohio.  August  19,  1865,  a  son  of  Jacob  and 
Adelaide   (Blume)   Rapp. 

In  1S98  Mr.  Rapp  came  to  Chicago  with  the 
purpose  of  establishing  his  home  here.  His 
first  business  connection  was  with  Mr.  C.  H. 
Thompson  with  whom  he  handled  considerable 
real  estate.  In  this  connection  Mr.  Rapp  estab- 
lished a  reputation  for  integrity  and  ability  and 
also  gained  experience  that  was  later  of  much 
value  to  him. 

He  founded  his  own  real-estate  business  in 
1904  and  from  that  year  on  until  his  death  he 
continued  at  the  head  of  the  successful  concern. 

Mr.  Rapp  was  married,  September  8,  1890,  at 
Decatur,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  M.  Sutton, 
a  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Margaret  B.  Sut- 
ton. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rapp  have  one  daughter, 
Corinne     Chapman     Rapp      (Mrs.     Harold     A. 


Brown).  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Corinne  Burscough  Brown.  The  family  are 
members  of  the  Baptist  church.  Mr.  Rapp  was 
a  Mason.  He  was  past  exalted  ruler  of  Chicago 
Lodge  No.  4,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  and  past  president  of 
the  Elks'  State  Association. 

Webster  H.  Rapp  died  February  8,  1925.  For 
the  past  twenty  years  he  has  borne  an  impor- 
tant part  in  the  remarkable  real-estate  develop- 
ments that  have  so  beautified  and  enhanced  Chi- 
cago's North  Shore.  He  was  distinctly  a  builder 
of  homes  and  in  his  capacity  he  gave  a  service 
of  lasting  value.  The  homes  "built  by  Rapp" 
on  the  North  Shore  are  a  very  wonderful  con- 
tribution to  the  physical  upbuilding  of  that  part 
of  Chicago,  and  have  been  of  a  character  to 
attract  and  hold  a  very  desirable  class  of 
residents. 


CHARLES  RICHMOND  HENDERSON. 


No  written  words  can  do  full  justice  to  the 
life  and  work  of  the  late  Dr.  Charles  Richmond 
Henderson,  because  he  was  a  man  beyond  any 
ordinary  meed  of  praise.  In  every  avenue  of 
honorable  endeavor  that  he  entered,  he  so  far 
exceeded  his  associates  in  earnestness,  effective- 
ness and  Christian  humanitarianism  that  com- 
parisons are  impossible.  As  a  clergyman  of  the 
Baptist  denomination,  he  was  loyal  to  his  creed, 
but  he  was  much  more  than  a  minister  of  the 
gospel  in  the  usual  conception  of  the  term.  He 
was  an  educator,  a  philanthropist,  a  civic  work- 
er, and  a  man  who  at  all  times  labored,  usually 


beyond  his  strength  to  bring  about  better  con- 
ditions and  to  merge  into  a  useful  working 
whole  the  various  elements  in  his  community. 
Some  idea  of  what  he  accomplished  in  the  latter 
endeavor  may  be  gathered  from  the  fact  that  at 
the  Community  Memorial  Meeting  in  his  honor 
held  after  his  demise  at  the  Auditorium  The- 
atre on  Sunday,  April  11,  1915,  the  following 
participating  groups  were  represented  in  the 
Citizens'  Committee  on  Arrangements,  of  which 
Nathan  William  MacChesney  was  chairman, 
and  Eugene  T.  Lies,  secretary :  Department  of 
Justice   of   the   United    States,    State   Govern- 


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ment,  County  Government,  City  Government, 
University  of  Chicago,  United  Charities  of  Chi- 
cago, Chicago  Federation  of  Churches,  Amer- 
ican Journal  of  Criminology  and  Criminal  Law, 
American  Journal  of  Sociology,  American  Jour- 
nal of  Theology,  City  Club,  Woman's  City  Club, 
Social  Settlement,  Chicago  Civic  Federation, 
Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy, 
Infant  Welfare  Society,  Chicago  Federation  of 
Labor,  Illinois  Association  for  Labor  Associa- 
tion, National  Conference  of  Charities  and  Cor- 
rection, Social  Service  Club,  Loyola  School  of 
Sociology,  Jewish  Churches  of  Chicago,  Cath- 
olic Churches  of  Chicago,  Chicago  Bureau  of 
Public  Welfare,  County  Bureau  of  Public  Wel- 
fare, American  Prison  Association,  Central 
Howard  Association,  and  National  Children's 
Home  Society.  The  speakers  on  this  occasion 
were  as  follows :  Nathan  MacChesney,  Hon. 
Edward  F.  Dunne,  Reverend  Father  O'Cal- 
laghan,  Dr.  George  E.  Vincent,  Dean  Mathews, 
Jane  Addams,  Professor  Taylor,  Rabbi  Hirsch, 
with  closing  remarks  by  the  chairman  and  Gov- 
ernor Dunne.  The  following  resolution  was 
unanimously    carried : 

"Whereas,  By  the  death  of  Charles  Rich- 
mond Henderson,  a  Head  Professor  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago,  President  of  the  United 
Charities  of  Chicago,  United  States  Commis- 
sioner on  Prison  Reform,  President  of  Interna- 
tional Prison  Congress,  Chairman  of  the 
Mayor's  Commission  on  Unemployment,  Presi- 
dent Chicago  Society  for  Social  Hygiene  and 
member  of  man3r  other  groups  seeking  human 
betterment,  the  City  of  Chicago  has  lost  a 
leader  from  the  field  of  philanthropy  and  re- 
form ;  and 

"Whereas,  His  death  was  largely  due  to  his 
sacrificial  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  those  in 
need  of  help  and  friendship  throughout  the 
world ; 

"Resolved,  That  we,  the  citizens  of  Illinois 
assembled  at  Chicago,  Sunday,  April  11,  1915, 
in  honor  of  his  memory,  desire  to  place  on  rec- 
ord the  sense  of  the  irreparable  loss  which  our 
community  has  suffered  in  his  death  and  to  ex- 
press our  sincere  sympathy  for  his  family  and 
those  institutions  and  activities  which  owed 
so  much  to  his  unselfish  service ;  and 

"Be  it  Further  Resolved,  That  as  a  worthy 
memorial  of  his  public  service  and  in  view  of 
that  special  interest  to  which  he  gave  his  last 
full  measure  of  devotion,  we  do  recommend  to 
the  Legislature  of  Illinois  to  pass  appropriate 


legislation  dealing  effectively  and  wisely  with 
the  problem  of  unemployment  and  its  preven- 
tion in  this  state ;  and 

"Be  it  Further  Resolved,  That  a  copy  of 
these  resolutions  be  sent  to  Mrs.  Henderson, 
to  the  newspapers  of  Chicago,  to  the  Governor, 
and  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Illinois." 

Charles  Richmond  Henderson  was  born  at 
Covington,  Ind.,  December  17,  1848,  and  died 
at  Charleston,  S.  C,  March  29,  1915.  He  was 
a  son  of  Albert  and  Lorana  (Richmond)  Hen- 
derson. After  securing  his  degree  of  A.  B.  from 
the  old  University  of  Chicago  in  1870,  Mr.  Hen- 
derson further  pursued  his  studies  in  that  in- 
stitution, and  in  1873  secured  his  degree  of  A. 
M.  He  then  took  a  course  in  the  Baptist  Theo- 
logical Seminary  from  which  he  received  the 
degree  of  D.  D.  in  1885.  In  1901  the  University 
of  Leipzig,  Germany,  conferred  on  him  the  de- 
gree of  Ph.  D. 

In  1873  Doctor  Henderson  entered  upon  his 
ministerial  career,  having  been  ordained  as  a 
clergyman  of  the  Baptist  faith,  as  pastor  of  the 
church  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1882.  and  was  then  transferred  to 
Detroit,  Mich.,  remaining  in  that  city  until  1892, 
in  which  year  the  University  of  Chicago  se- 
cured Doctor  Henderson's  services,  he  being  its 
chaplain  from  then  until  his  demise;  assistant 
professor  of  sociology  and  University  recorder 
from  1892  to  1894 ;  associate  professor  from 
1894  to  1897;  professor  of  Sociology  from  1897 
to  1915 ;  head  of  the  Department  of  Practical 
Sociology,  University  of  Chicago ;  associate  edi- 
tor American  Journal  of  Theology,  American 
Journal  of  Sociology  from  1895  to  1915 ;  Jour- 
nal of  American  Institute  of  Criminal  Law  and 
Criminology,  1911  to  1915 ;  president  of  the 
Twenty-sixth  National  Conference  of  Charities, 
1898-9 ;  Barrows  lecturer  in  India,  China  and 
Japan,  1912-13 ;  secretary  of  the  Commission  of 
Unemployment,  Chicago,  1914;  chairman  of  the 
Chicago  Industrial  Commission,  1915 ;  trustee 
of  the  Chicago  Home  for  Girls,  1900-1915 ;  presi- 
dent of  the  United  Charities  of  Chicago,  1913- 
15;  United  States  Commissioner  of  Internation- 
al Prison  Congress,  1910 ;  secretary  of  the  Illi- 
nois Commission  on  Occupational  Diseases, 
1907 ;  member  de  la  Societe  Generale  des  Pris- 
ons ;  also  of  the  National  Prison  Association 
which  he  served  as  president  in  1902 ;  also  of 
the  American  Economic  Association ;  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago  Society  of  Social  Hygiene. 


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Doctor  Henderson  was  a  voluminous  contrib- 
utor to  the  literature  of  his  day,  his  books  in- 
cluding an  introduction  to  the  Study  of  De- 
pendent, Defective  and  Delinquent  Classes,  Cat- 
echism for  Social  Observances,  the  Social  Spirit 
in  America,  Social  Elements,  Social  Settlements, 
the  Christian  and  Civic  Economy  of  Large 
Towns  by  Thomas  Chalmers,  abridged  and  with 
introduction  by  Doctor  Henderson;  Modern 
Prison  Systems,  Modern  Methods  of  Charity, 
Social  Duties  from  the  Christian  Point  of  View, 
Industrial  Insurance  in  the  United  States,  Cor- 
rection and  Prevention  in  four  volumes,  Social 
Programs  in  the  West,  Crime,  Its  Cause  and 
Cure,  Citizens  in  Industry  and  several  works  in 
foreign  languages.  His  articles,  pamphlets  and 
addresses  were  still  more  numerous,  including 
the  following:  Popular  Incentives  to  Higher 
Culture,  Co-operation  of  the  Churches,  Christi- 
anity and  the  Criminal,  Pauperism,  Arguments 
Against  Public  Outdoor  Relief,  Individual  Ef- 
forts at  Reform  Not  Sufficient,  Early  Poor  Laws 
in  the  West,  Practical  Issue  of  the  Study  of 
the  Criminal,  Public  Relief  and  Private  Char- 
ity, the  Place  and  Functions  of  Voluntary  Asso- 
ciations, the  German  Inner  Mission,  Rise  of  the 
German  Inner  Mission,  Business  Men  and  So- 
cial Theorists,  Poor  Laws  of  the  United  States, 
the  Merit  System  in  Public  Institutions  of  Char- 
ity and  Correction,  National  Conference  of 
Charities  and  Corrections,  the  Scope  and  In- 
fluence of  a  Charity  Organization  Society,  Pre- 
ventive Measures,  Social,  Educational,  How  to 
Promote  the  Religious  Spirit  Among  College 
Students,  Ethics  of  School  Management,  Gen- 
eral Sociology  and  Criminal  Sociology,  How  to 
Help  the  Poor  Without  Creating  Pauperism,  the 
Development  Doctrine  in  the  Epistles,  Christi- 
anity and  Children,  the  Principles  of  Charity 
Organization  in  Towns  and  Villages,  Voluntary 
Movements  in  Social  Organizations,  New  Phases 
of  Charity  Organization,  Politics  in  Public  In- 
stitutions of  Charity  and  Correction,  The  Influ- 
ence of  Jesus  on  Social  Institutions,  Economy 
of  Trained  Service,  Relation  of  Philanthropy 
to  Social  Order  and  Progress,  Science  in  Phil- 
anthropy, Prison  Laboratories,  Social  Ethics  for 
Church  Leaders,  the  Church  and  the  Criminal, 
the  Manual  Training  School  as  a  Factor  in  So- 
cial Progress,  A  Half  a  Century  After  Thomas 
Chalmers,  the  Scope  of  Social  Technology,  Neg- 
lected Children  in  Neglected  Communities,  the 
Suppression  of  Vice  and  Crime  in  Chicago,  the 
Place   of   the    Church   in    Modern    Civilization, 


Plans  and  Budget  for  a  Small  College,  Digest 
of  Documents  on  Prison  Discipline,  Social  Posi- 
tion of  the  Prison  Warden,  Practical  Sociology 
in  the  Service  of  Social  Ethics,  the  School  of 
Character  in  Prison,  World  Currents  in  Charity, 
Theory  and  Practice,  Regulated  Activity  as   a 
Preventive    of    Crime,    Definition    of    a    Social 
Policy  Relating  to  the  Dependent  Group,  Theory 
and    Practice    of    Juvenile    Courts,    Preventive 
and    Reformatory    Work,    Social    Solidarity    in 
France,  Abbe  Felix  Klein,  Juvenile  Courts,  the 
Home  in   Religious   Education,   Working  Men's 
Insurance,  International  Congress  of  Public  and 
Private  Relief,  the  Child  and  the  Offender,  In- 
dustrial Insurance,  Working  Men's  Accident  In- 
surance,   Summary   of   European    Laws  on   In- 
dustrial Insurance,  Physical  Study  of  Children, 
Report  on  Jails,  Outdoor  Convict  Labor,  Social 
Duties,   German   Social   Policy,    Social   Cost   of 
Accident,  Ignorance  and  Exhaustion,  Caring  for 
the  Unemployed,  European  Criticism  of  the  In- 
determinate Sentence  and  of  our  Reformatory 
Methods  in  General,  Are  Modern  Industry  and 
City   Life   Unfavorable  to   the   Family?     Duty 
of  a   Rich   Nation  to  Take  Care  of  Her  Chil- 
dren, Federal  Children's  Bureau,  Logic  of  Social 
Insurance,  Race  Prospects  in  Western  Canada, 
Social  Insurance,  Education  With  Reference  to 
Sex,  A  Reasonable  Social  Policy  for  Christian 
People,  Ethical  Problems  of  Prison  Science,  Im- 
provements    in     Industrial     Insurance,     Wood- 
workers  and  their   Dangers,    Scientific   Philan- 
thropy,  Infant  Welfare,  To  Help  the  Helpless 
Child :  What  the  Nations  of  Europe  are  Doing, 
Give  the  Criminal  a  Chance,  'Applied  Sociology, 
Infant  Welfare  in  Germany  and   Belgium,  In- 
fant  Welfare :      Methods   of   Organization    and 
Administration,   Rural   Police,   Social   Week    at 
Zurich,    Social    Significance   of   Christianity    in 
Modern    Asia,    the    Spirit    of   the   Anti-Alcohol 
Movement  in  the  United  States,  Social  Legisla- 
tion in  China,  Control  of  Crime  in  India,  Social 
Assimilation,  America  and  China,  Sidney  Webb's 
Extension    Ladder,   Joint  Conference   of   Char- 
"  ities  and   Sociological  Forces   in   Colorado,   the 
Right    of    the    Worker    to    Social    Protection, 
Crowding    in    Relation    to    the    Health    of   the 
Working    People,    numerous    translations,    and 
Health  in  Relation  to  Prisons  and  How  Chicago 
Met   the   Unemployment  Problem   of   1915,   the 
last   two    being  published   after    the   death    of 
Doctor  Henderson. 

Doctor  Henderson  was  married  on  March  14. 
187G,  at  Lafayette,  Ind.,  to  Elinor  L.  Levering. 


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of  Lafayette,  a  daughter  of  William  H.  and 
Irene  (Smith)  Levering,  both  natives  of  Phil- 
adelphia, Penn.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Henderson 
had  one  son,  Albert  Levering  Henderson,  who  is 
now  deceased.  Mrs.  Henderson  died  January 
18,  1920. 

Charles  R.  Henderson  was  possessed  of  two 
ruling  passions,  the  passion  for  men  and  the 
passion  for  knowledge  on  all  subjects.  His  re- 
searches in  the  arts  and  sciences  was  most 
phenomenal.  Among  other  things,  he  was  a 
deep  student  of  questions  pertaining  to  infant 
mortality.  When  the  statue  of  his  grandfather 
was  unveiled  in  Indiana,  Doctor  Henderson 
made  the  address,  and  his  talk  on  infant  mor- 
tality before  a  large  congress  of  physicians  and 
surgeons,  was  a  fitting  contribution  to  the 
tribute  paid  to  this  distinguished  grandfather 
by  a  still  more  distinguished  grandson. 

Quoting  in  part  from  the  addresses  at  the 
memorial  meeting  held  in  his  honor  referred  to 
above,  the  following  is  gleaned : 

"The  life  of  Doctor  Henderson  was  not 
given  in  his  charitable  efforts  or  in  his  outlook 
to  the  stilling  of  the  clamor  and  the  quieting 
of  the  unrest  of  the  submerged  poor,  but  rather 
to  the  quickening  of  discouraged  and  downcast 
lives,  and  to  the  inspiration  to  them  which 
comes  from  the  feeling  that  they  have  a  sym- 


pathetic ear  and  loving  heart  to  share  their  bur- 
dens. Doctor  Henderson  was  not  only  a  schol- 
ar, he  was  a  teacher.  The  religious  motive  in 
Doctor  Henderson's  life  was  essentially  one  of 
optimism.  You  could  never  touch  Doctor  Hen- 
derson without  feeling  that  God  was  the 
supreme  point  of  reliauce  in  his  life.  Out  of 
the  depths  of  Doctor  Henderson's  religious 
motive  there  came  oue  quality  which  was  recog- 
nized as  more  than  anything  else  supreme  in 
his  character,  the  sacrificial  quality  of  his  life. 
His  reserved  power  aud  reserve  of  judgment 
were  expressed  in  the  deliberation  of  that  with 
which  he  identified  himself  with  a  more  com- 
plicated civic  movement  in  the  greater  city  of 
Chicago.  Many  persons  engaged  ia  social  serv- 
ice have  felt  it  unsafe  to  carry  over  into  their 
social  activities  any  profession  of  faith  in  God 
or  in  the  great  realities  which  human  experience 
has  discovered  in  the  field  of  religion.  Such 
persons  seemed  to  Doctor  Henderson  to  be 
those,  who  having  at  their  disposition  spirit- 
ual force,  have  abandoned  it  in  the  interest  of 
mistaken  loyalty  to  humanity.  There  was  al- 
ways God  in  his  heart  and  in  the  sense  that  he 
was  working  with  Him,  the  ultimate  reason  that 
would  give  to  his  efforts  a  unity,  to  his  life  a 
unity,  which  otherwise  never  would  have  been 
possible." 


JOHN  FERDINAND  LAUBENDER. 


John  F.  Laubender  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Massillon,  Ohio,  on  October  5,  1844,  a  son  of 
Michael  and  Mary  ( Weingartner )  Laubender, 
both  of  whom  came  originally  from  Bavaria. 
His  boyhood  was  lived  in  Carroll  County,  Ohio, 
principally  at  Malvern,  and  there  he  attended 
public  school. 

He  was  but  seventeen  years  old  at  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  War,  but  he  enlisted  at  the 
first  opportunity,  in  1861,  as  a  private  in  Com- 
pany D,  Nineteenth  Ohio  Infantry.  He  served 
with  bravery  through  to  the  close  of  the  war, 
a  period  covering  four  years  and  two  months. 
This  included  two  enlistments. 

Following  the  war  he  located  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  dry  goods 
business  for  several  years.  In  1869  he  moved 
to  Union  City,  Pennsylvania.  There  he  was  ac- 
tive in  general  merchandising  until  1889. 

In  1889  he  returned  to  Ohio  and  began  busi- 
ness as  a  manufacturer  of  hardwoods  at  North 
Bloomfield.    He  was  an  official  and  one  of  the 


principal  owners  of  the  Union  Lumber  Com- 
pany there. 

In  1894  he  retired  from  the  lumber  industry 
and  came  to  Chicago.  He  became  a  partner  in 
the  firm  of  W.  A.  Alexander  &  Company,  Insur- 
ance, at  Chicago,  General  Agents  for  the  Fi- 
delity &  Casualty  Company  of  New  York.  This 
firm  has  become  one  of  the  largest  and  best- 
known  insurance  agencies  in  the  United  States 
and  transacts  a  very  large  volume  of  business 
annually.  Mr.  Laubender  was  a  partner  in  the 
company  from  1894  until  his  retirement  from 
active  business  in  1914. 

On  September  6,  1871,  Mr.  Laubender  was 
married,  at  Union  City,  Pennsylvania,  to  Miss 
Ella  M.  Woods,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Electa  (Johnson)  Woods.  The  family  home  has 
been  at  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  for  the  past  quarter 
of  a  century. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Laubender  long  attended  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Oak  Park.    Mr. 


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Laubender  also  belonged  to  the  Union  League 
Club,  the  Oak  Park  Club  and  the  Oak  Park 
Country  Club. 

The  death  of  John  F.  Laubender  occurred  on 
March  10,  1924.  Rev.  William  E.  Barton  has 
characterized  him  as  follows : 

"He  was  a  man  of  dignity  and  quiet  forceful- 
ness ;  a  lover  of  good  music  and  a  friend  of  good 


things  in  the  community.  There  was  in  him  an 
innate  courtesy  which  characterized  his  attitude 
toward  all  he  knew.  Although  not  a  member  of 
the  Church  he  was  a  Christian  man,  exhibiting 
a  quiet  faith  and  deep  religious  fortitude." 

Mr.  Laubender  held  a  place  of  first  importance 
in  the  vast  insurance  business  at  Chicago  for  a 
period  of  twenty  years. 


WILLIAM  GOLD  HIBBARD. 


William  Gold  Hibbard  was  born  at  Dryden, 
Tompkins  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1825,  a  son  of  Joel 
B.  and  Eliza  (Gold)  Hibbard.  He  came  of  a 
prominent  old  eastern  family  which  dated  back 
to  the  colonial  epoch  in  American  history,  one  of 
his  ancesters,  Major  Nathan  Gold,  being  one  of 
the  nineteen  petitioners  to  Charles  II  of  Eng- 
land, for  the  first  charter  of  Connecticut,  the 
famous  charter  which  was  afterward  "hidden 
in  an  oak."  His  education  was  obtained  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  an 
academy  at  Cortland,  N.  Y.  The  fame  of  the 
future  metropolis  of  the  West  drew  many  am- 
bitious young  men  like  himself  to  Chicago,  and 
it  was  the  enterprise  of  such  men  that  gave  de- 
cided impetus  to  the  city's  progress.  It  was 
in  1849  that  Mr.  Hibbard  came  to  Chicago  by 
steamer  from  Detroit,  Mich.,  as  there  was  no 
railroad,  and  became  a  clerk  in  the  hardware 
firm  of  Stimson,  Blair  &  Co.  In  six  years  he 
was  able  to  establish  an  independent  firm,  as- 
sociating with  himself  Nelson  and  Frederick 
Tuttle  and  George  M.  Grey  under  the  firm  name 
of  Tuttle,  Hibbard  &  Company,  at  69  East  South 
Water  Street.  Two  years  later  their  building 
was  destroyed  by  fire,  but  immediately  the 
business  was  re-established  at  what  was  then 
No.  32  Lake  Street,  in  more  commodious  and 
larger  quarters.  In  1865  Messrs.  Tuttle  and 
Grey  retired,  and  their  interests  were  purchased 
by  Mr.  Hibbard  and  F.  F.  Spencer.  Later  A.  C. 
Bartlett,  who  had  been  with  the  house  since 
1864,  was  admitted  to  partnership,  and  then  the 
name  became  Hibbard,  Spencer  '&  Company. 
Continued  expansion  of  business  necessitated 
a  move,  in  1867,  to  Nos.  92-94  Michigan  Avenue, 
and  there,  in  the  midst  of  their  prosperity,  they 
were  found  by  the  great  conflagration  in  1871. 
On  the  morning  of  October  10,  however,  less 
than  twenty-four  hours  after  their  store  was 
swept  away,  they  resumed  business  with  the 
remnants  of  their  stock  at  Mr.  Hibbard's  resi- 
dence, 1701  Prairie  Avenue.     This  was  said  to 


be  the  quickest  resumption  of  business  in  the 
history  of  the  fire.  Later,  for  several  months, 
the  firm  occupied  a  one-story  shed  on  the  Lake 
Front,  between  Washington  and  Randolph 
streets,  and  by  the  middle  of  June  moved  into 
their  rebuilt  store,  at  the  old  number  on  Lake 
Street.  In  1904  the  firm  built  and  occupied  a 
massive  ten-story  structure  which  covered  the 
block  between  State,  South  Water,  Wabash  and 
the  river.  This  had  to  be  demolished  in  1925, 
when  Wacker  Drive  was  put  through,  and  the 
firm  erected  a  fourteen-story  building  on  the 
north  side  of  the  river  and  two  blocks  east. 
In  1882,  under  the  advice  of  Mr.  Hibbard,  the 
business  was  turned  over  to  a  stock  company 
known  as  Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  and  Com- 
pany, of  which  Mr.  Hibbard  remained  president 
until  his  demise.  This  great  concern,  which 
is  one  of  the  most  extensive  of  its  kind  in  the 
country,  is  well  known  in  commercial  circles. 
No  house  in  Chicago  has  a  better  reputation  for 
straightforward  and  honorable  dealing,  and  a 
just  portion  of  its  present  prosperity  and  popu- 
larity is  due  to  Mr.  Hibbard's  business  acumen, 
quiet  faithfulness  and  untiring  efforts.  Those  in 
his  employ,  who  proved  by  their  faithfulness 
that  they  merited  his  confidence  were  advanced 
according  to  their  ability,  and  were  rewarded 
with  shares  in  the  business.  By  so  doing  he 
established  a  precedent  both  generous  and  wise, 
and  one  which  was  in  line  with  the  advanced 
thought  of  the  day.  Mr.  Hibbard  was  always 
deeply  interested  in  Chicago's  welfare,  and  at  all 
times  his  sympathy  and  support  was  with  the 
measures  that  in  any  way  benefited  the  city. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the 
Commercial  Club  of  Chicago,  being  the  repre- 
sentative of  the  entire  hardware  trade  for  many 
years,  and  contributed  liberally  to  the  civic  and 
national  institutions  founded  by  the  club,  par- 
ticularly Fort  Sheridan,  the  Chicago  Manual 
Training  School,  etc.  Mr.  Hibbard  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Continental  Bank  and  was 


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a  director  in  that  and  the  Illinois  Trust  and 
Savings  Bank  for  many  years. 

Contributing  often  to  the  Chicago  Historical 
Society  and  the  Art  Institute  in  their  constant 
and  ever  varying  development  and  growth,  Mr. 
Hibbard  was  deeply  interested  in  them,  and 
after  a  visit  to  Egypt,  presented  a  case  of 
antique  bronze  utensils  from  the  land  of  the 
Nile  to  the  Field  Museum.  He  traveled  exten- 
sively, and  in  his  home  had  a  small  but  fine 
collection  of  paintings,  including  examples  of 
Rosa  Bonheur,  Vibert,  Troyon,  Bidgeway 
Knight,  Gloss,  and  others  of  note.  He  also  took 
a  most  generous  interest  in  the  works  of  prac- 
tical charity,  and  among  many  of  the  public 
institutions  of  this  character,  in  which  he  was 
especially  interested,  was  the  Foundlings  Home 
of  Chicago,  of  which  he  was  president  for  many 
years ;  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  and  Grace  Episcopal 
Church,  of  which  he  was  a  warden  for  fourteen 
years. 

In  1855  Mr.  Hibbard  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Lydia  Beekman  Van  Schaack,  of 
Manlius.  N.  Y.,  a  woman  of  engaging  person- 
ality and  many  admirable  traits  of  character. 
Her  father,  H.  C.  Van  Schaack,  was  a  promi- 
nent lawyer  of  that  city  and  was  descended  from 
eminent  pioneer  Dutch  families  in  that  state. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hibbard  were  born  eight  chil- 
dren, namely:  two  sons,  who  died  in  infancy; 
Addie  Vanderpoel,  who  is  Mrs.  Robert  B.  Greg- 
ory ;  Nellie  Brewer,  who  is  Mrs.  John  Buck- 
ingham ;  Alice  Ives,  now  deceased,  who  was 
Mrs.  W.  R.   Stirling ;  Lillian  Gold,  who  is  Mrs. 


W.  E.  Casselberry ;  William  Gold,  Jr.,  who  died 
in  February,  1920;  and  Frank.  William  Gold, 
Jr.,  and  Frank  Hibbard  are  both  associated  with 
the  house  of  Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  and 
Company. 

Mr.  Hibbard  had  many  devoted  friends.  He 
was  always  recognized  as  a  man  of  earnest  pur- 
pose and  progressive  principles.  His  death, 
which  occurred  October  11,  1903,  removed  from 
Chicago  one  of  its  most  valued  citizens.  An 
evidence  of  this  was  the  attendance  on  his 
funeral  in  Grace  Church  of  more  than  1,000 
people  from  every  walk  of  life  from  Hon. 
Andrew  D.  White,  his  boyhood  companion  and 
lifelong  friend,  to  the  apple  woman  on  the  cor- 
ner. An  indulgent  father  and  a  loving  husband, 
he  enjoyed  the  pleasures  of  home  life,  and  his 
happiest  moments  were  always  spent  at  his  own 
fireside.  A  man  of  great  mental  capacity  and 
force  of  character,  Mr.  Hibbard  used  his  abili- 
ties in  the  fulfillment  of  his  duty  as  a  man  in 
his  relation  to  his  fellow  man,  and  as  a  citizen 
in  his  relation  to  his  country,  and  so  it  was  as 
a  tribute  to  these  pioneer  virtues  that  a  public 
school  in  Chicago  has  been  given  his  honored 
name. 

The  collection  of  Dutch  antiquities,  gathered 
by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hibbard  in  1899,  were  given, 
following  Mrs.  Hibbard's  death,  to  the  Art 
Institute  of  Chicago.  It  is  now  installed  in  a 
room  in  the  Hutchinson  Wing,  to  be  a  lasting 
memorial  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hibbard's  interest 
in  art  and  to  their  love  for  this  city  they 
helped   to  build. 


GEORGE  HERBERT  McALLISTER. 


The  late  George  H.  McAllister,  Battalion 
Marshal  of  Chicago's  Fire  Department,  was 
born  at  Champaign.  Illinois,  April  27,  185G.  He 
was  a  son  of  Sydney  and  Josephine  (Herbert) 
McAllister,  and  of  Revolutionary  descent.  His 
boyhood  was  largely  spent  in  Champaign,  and 
there  he  attended  public  school.  Later  he  came 
to  Chicago,  and  February  23,  1888,  entered  the 
Fire  Department.  From  that  time  on,  with  the 
exception  of  a  few  years  that  he  spent  on  a 
farm  in  Minnesota,  he  was  a  member  of  Chi- 
cago's famous  fire-fighting  organization.  He  was 
a  close  friend  of  the  late  Chief  Edward  J.  Buck- 
ley. 

His  marriage  to  Miss  Augusta  Von  Horn  was 
solomnized  at  Chicago,  May  1.  1870.  His  wife 
was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Mary   (Schneider) 


Von  Horn.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McAllister  became  the 
parents  of  three  children,  Sydney  George  Mc- 
Allister of  Brussels,  Belgium,  Mary  Louise  Mc- 
Allister (Mrs.  George  Tebbetts)  of  Hollywood, 
California,  and  Cora  Minnette  McAllister  (Mrs. 
Clinton  L.  Knapp)  of  Chicago. 

Mrs.  McAllister  died  May  11,  1922.  The  death 
of  her  husband  occurred  December  4.  1925. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  DeKalb  Street 
Methodist  Church.  He  was  a  charter  member 
of  the  Columbia  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  was 
also  much  interested  in  the  Firemen's  Associa- 
tion, and  the  Lions  Club. 

His  career  in  the  Fire  Department  covers  a 
period  of  many  years.  His  devotion  to  the 
service  throughout  all  of  his  mature  life  was  a 


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notable  characteristic  of  him.  He  rose  from 
the  ranks  to  become  Battalion  Marshal  and  his 
career  is  one  of  the  most  distinguished  records 
of  strength,  courage  and  achievement  that  the 


Department's  history  holds.  There  have  been 
but  few  lives  that  represent  such  fine  and  un- 
selfish service  to  the  people  of  Chicago  as  that 
of  Battalion  Marshal  George  H.  McAllister. 


EDWARD  D.  MOENG. 


The  late  Edward  D.  Moeng  of  Chicago,  Chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Franklin 
Company,  was  born  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  on 
November  5,  1856,  a  son  of  Diedrich  and  Dora 
(Degenner)  Moeng.  His  parents  came  originally 
from  Germany. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Chi- 
cago. He  began  his  business  career,  in  1871, 
with  the  firm  of  Zeese  &  Rand,  electrotypers ; 
and  he  was  later  identified  with  their  successors, 
A.  Zeese  &  Co.  From  1883  until  1889  he  was 
with  Blomgren  Brothers,  electrotypers.  Then, 
for  ten  years,  he  was  Superintendent  of  A.  Zeese 
&  Co. 

During  this  time  the  Franklin  Engraving  and 
Electrotyping  Company  was  organized.  Mr. 
Moeng  was  Manager  of  this  Company  for  two 
years.  He  was  made  President  of  the  Company 
in  1901.  In  1905  the  name  of  the  business  was 
changed  to  The  Franklin  Company. 

Mr.  Moeng  was  President  and  Manager  of  this 
large  business  until  1915.  Then  for  five  years  he 
continued  as  President ;  but  turned  the  office  of 
Manager  over  to  some  one  else.     Since  1920  he 


was  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  this 
Company. 

On  December  9,  1886,  Mr.  Moeng  was  mar- 
ried, at  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Helen  Jahn, 
a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Alvina  (Luening) 
Jahn.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moeng  have  no  children. 
The  family  home  has  been  maintained  on  the 
North  Shore,  in  Chicago,  for  many  years. 

Mr.  Moeng  was  a  life  member  of  the  Art  In- 
stitute of  Chicago ;  and  an  associate  member  of 
the  Field  Museum.  He  was  a  Mason  and  also 
belonged  to  the  Chicago  Athletic  Association, 
and  the  Chicago  Historical  Society.  He  had  be- 
longed to  the  Chicago  Athletic  Association  and 
the  Art  Institute  for  many  years. 

Mr.  Moeng  was  deeply  interested  in  boys'  wel- 
fare. His  will  makes  bequests  to  numerous  in- 
stitutions, among  them  being  many  orphanages, 
as  well  as  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago — the 
Chicago  Historical  Society  and  the  Field  Mu- 
seum. 

June  29,  1928  records  the  death  of  Mr.  Moeng. 
His  life  was  controlled  by  very  high  ideals ; 
and  he  accomplished  much  good. 


ARTHUR  S.  HUEY. 


Public  utility  in  the  development  and  applica- 
tion of  the  electrical  business  proved  the  suc- 
cessful life-work  of  Arthur  S.  Huey,  a  moving 
force  and  power  in  himself  in  all  undertakings 
with  such  an  end  in  view.  For  forty  years  of 
his  life  he  gave  full  attention  and  energetic 
action  to  that  one  line  of  effort ;  he  learned  and 
made  his  own  every  branch  of  related  elec- 
trical knowledge;  he  exhibited  a  tremendous 
capacity  for  engineering  large  electrical  con- 
tracts ;  and  in  the  thorough  accomplishment  of 
these  highly  present-day  matters,  he  found  a 
place  such  as  might  only  be  filled  by  so  superb 
a  mental  agency  as  his.  That  by  his  talents, 
his  innate  gifts,  he  won  and  maintained  his  ac- 
tive position  and  commanding  influence  among 
all  electrical  companies  of  highest  standing, 
is  proven  by  an  impressive  record  to  be  found 
in  his  presidency  and  counsellorship  with  a 
score  of  institutions  whose  officiary  deemed  his 


association  and  guidance  an  indispensable  ele- 
ment in  their  success.  It  is  conceded  that  his 
abilities  were  dynamic  and  comprehensive  in 
scope ;  but  it  is  also  well  known  that  his  value 
to  the  electrical  world  and  his  splendid  utiliza- 
tion of  these  gifts  of  his  was  brought  to  pass 
Jargely  by  means  of  tireless  study  and  hard 
work  on  his  own  part  all  through  his  earlier 
years,  and  through  reverses  as  well  as  successes. 
He  took  large  views  of  his  plans  and  his  work 
and  he  worked  as  hard  for  the  fulfilment  of 
his  ultimate  plans  as  for  those  in  which  he 
made  his  apprenticeship  in  his  vocation.  He 
was  a  big  man,  physically,  and  his  qualities 
of  mind  and  heart  were  as  generous  and  gra- 
cious ;  a  great-hearted  man ;  a  man  of  large 
business  thought  and  action,  yet  one  who  held 
in  great  appreciation  the  advice  and  suggestions 
of  his  colleagues. 

He  was  the  son  of  George  E.  and  Caroline 


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(Taylor)  Huey  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  early 
pioneers  in  that  state ;  in  fact  Arthur  S.  Huey 
was  born  in  the  first  house  in  Minneapolis  to 
have  plastered  rooms.  His  father  built  the  first 
flour-mill  and  the  first  lumber  mill  in  Minne- 
apolis. He  was  also  one  of  the  group  who 
planned  and  built  the  first  water  power  develop- 
ment of  St.  Anthony  Falls  at  Minneapolis.  It 
is  interesting  to  note  in  this  connection  that  this 
first  water-power  plant,  built  by  George  E. 
Huey.  was  bought  back  from  subsequent  owners, 
in  1923,  by  the  Byllesby  Company,  of  which 
Arthur  S.  Huey  was  one  of  the  heads. 

Arthur  S.  Huey  was  born  August  17,  1862,  in 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  where  he  attended  the 
public  schools.  He  went  out  early  into  the 
business  world,  and  with  him  from  the  first 
that  world  had  to  do  entirely  with  electrical 
matters.  He  accepted  a  position  as  representa- 
tive of  the  Edison  Company  at  Minneapolis,  in 
1885 ;  and  in  1891,  after  the  consolidation  of 
the  United  Edison  Company  and  the  Thompson- 
Houston  Company,  he  associated  himself  with 
the  Northwestern  General  Electric  Company  of 
St.  Paul,  Minnesota ;  becoming  Manager  of  the 
St.  Paul  Office.  Through  his  energy  and  enter- 
prise was  distributed  the  greater  part  of  the 
electrical  generating  machinery  installed  in 
Minnesota,  Wisconsin  and  the  Dakotas.  It  was 
at  this  time  that  he  formed  the  acquaintance  of 
the  late  Colonel  H.  M.  Byllesby  and  in  1902 
they  founded  the  firm  of  H.  M.  Byllesby  &  Com- 
pany, Mr.  Huey  becoming  Vice  President  in 
charge  of  Management  of  the  II.  M.  Byllesby 
Company,  a  corporation  for  the  establishment 
and  management  of  public  utilities  in  many 
sections  of  the  country ;  such  as  electric  plants 
In  different  cities,  for  furnishing  light,  motive 
and  operating  power.  Mr.  Huey  held  this  posi- 
tion until  May.  1924.  when  he  became  chairman 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  H.  M.  Byllesby 
Company. 

H.  M.  Byllesby  &  Company  controls  one  of 
the  most  powerful  public  utility  groups  in  the 
country.  The  system  comprises  twelve  groups 
of  operating  public  utility  companies  and  their 
subsidiaries,  operating  in  912  cities  and  towns 
in  seventeen  states  in  the  Middle  West,  in  the 
South  and  on  the  Pacific  slope.  Total  annual 
earnings  of  this  system  is  placed  at  $53,000,000. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  Mr.  Huey  was 
Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  H.  M. 
Byllesby  &  Company,  Standard  Gas  '&  Electric 
Company.  Byllesby  Engineering  &  Management 


Corporation,  Louisville  Gas  &  Electric  Com- 
pany, Northern  States  Power  Company ;  Presi- 
dent and  Director  of  Oklahoma  Gas  &  Electric 
Company ;  Vice-President  and  Director  of  Mon- 
tana States  Power  Company,  Western  States 
Gas  '&  Electric  Company,  Shaffer  Oil  &  Refin- 
ing Company,  Mobile  Electric  Company ;  Presi- 
dent and  Director,  of  Muskogee  Gas  &  Electric 
Company,  Consumers  Power  Company  of  Min- 
nesota, El  Reno  Gas  &  Electric  Company,  Ft. 
Smith  Light  &  Traction  Company,  International 
Light  &  Power  Company,  Northwestern  Corpora- 
tion of  Oregon,  and  Ottumwa  Railway  Water 
&  Light  Company  of  Ottumwa  ;  Vice-President 
and  Director  of  Northern  Idaho  '&  Montana 
Power  Company ;  Member  Board  of  Trustees  of 
North  Western  Corporation  &  North  Electric 
Railroad ;  Director  of  Sierra  &  San  Francisco 
Power  Company. 

Mr.  Huey  died  suddenly  on  September  16, 
1924,  of  bronchial  pneumonia.  For  nearly  forty 
years  he  had  been  identified  with  the  major 
steps  of  electrical  developments.  During  the 
latter  part  of  this  period  he  has  probably  done 
as  much  as  any  man  in  America  in  the  building 
and  operation  and  management  of  public  utility 
properties.  He  gave  his  whole  faith  and 
strength  to  the  electrical  industry  knowing  that 
it  would  justify  itself  in  service  to  mankind. 
His  work  is  evidenced  in  all  parts  of  the  coun- 
try. Particularly  in  Oklahoma  Mr.  Huey  had 
much  to  do  with  electrical  developments.  Mr. 
Huey  delivered  many  addresses  before  public 
utility  organizations  which  were  considered  so 
prophetic  and  forceful  that  they  were  published 
and  distributed  throughout  the  United  States. 
On  one  occasion  he  declared : 

"I  am  sure  today  that  the  future  uses  of 
electricity  are  not  even  dreamed  of  by  the 
average  person.  There  is  no  doubt  that  even- 
tually transmission  lines  will  extend  continuous- 
ly from  coast  to  coast  Electricity  will  be  the 
universal  power  and  lighting  agency  for  prac- 
tically all  purposes  in  all  well  settled  sections 
of  the  country.  As  it  becomes  more  plentiful 
it  will  grow  cheaper.  It  is  destined  to  be  our 
greatest  conservator  of  natural  resources,  the 
greatest  saver  of  human  drudgery  and  toil,  and 
the  key  to  vast  areas  now  unpeopled  and  un- 
productive." 

Arthur  S.  Huey  was  married  in  1886  to  Hattie 
King,  daughter  of  George  S.  and  Harriet  (Reid) 
King,   and   they  were  the  parents  of  Howard, 


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born  in  18S7,  Richard  King,  born  in  1893 ;  Ruth 
(Mrs.  Willard  John  Mason)  born  in  1S97.  Mr. 
Huey  passed  away  at  The  South  Shore  Country 
Club,  where  he  had  made  his  home  for  many 
years. 

During  his  residence  of  twenty-two  years  in 
Chicago,  he  had  been  a  popular  and  valued 
member  of  a  number  of  its  leading  clubs  and 
social  organizations,  including  the  Union  League 
Club,  Chicago  Press  Club,  The  Mid-Day  Club, 
South  Shore  Country  Club,  Midlothian  Club, 
Minneapolis  Club,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  Pen- 
dennis  Club  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  Kansas 
City  Club  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  Edison 
Pioneers  Club,  Missouri  Athletic  Club,  Old  Col- 
ony Club  of  America,  Chicago  Historical  Society, 
and   he  was  a   member   of  the  Lawyers  Club, 


Bankers  Club  of  America,  and  the  Railway 
Clubs  of  New  York  City. 

His  knowledge  of  men  was  deep,  and  his  in- 
stinctive sympathy  and  understanding  found 
an  instant  pathway  to  their  hearts.  He  was 
square  and  just,  a  dependable  man  under  all 
circumstances. 

Throughout  the  Public  Utility  World  he  was 
known  as  a  man  of  broad  vision  and  high  ca- 
pacity for  achievement,  strict  integrity  in  his 
dealings  with  men  individually — or  collectively. 
A  man  of  intense  loyalty  in  friendships,  he  was 
universally  beloved  for  his  kindness  and  help- 
fulness. Distinguished  for  his  courageous  op- 
timism— generosity  in  thought  and  deed — his 
absolute  devotion  to  his  family,  Arthur  S.  Huey 
was  a  great  man. 


AUGUSTUS  FREDERICK  NIGHTINGALE. 


There  was,  probably,  no  better  known  figure 
in  the  Illinois  field  of  education  than  the  late 
Dr.  Augustus  Frederick  Nightingale,  for  nearly 
half  a  century  an  honored  resident  of  Chicago. 
He  constantly  filled  high  positions  of  trust  and 
responsibility,  and  impressed  himself  upon  the 
life  and  institutions  of  the  community  in  a 
manner  alike  creditable  to  himself  and  produc- 
tive of  lasting  benefit  to  the  city.  He  was  born 
November  11.  1843.  at  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  a 
son  of  Thomas  J.  and  Alice  (Brackett)  Night- 
ingale, and  came  of  old  established  New  Eng- 
land families  who  were  prominent  during  the 
colonial  epoch  of  this  country.  He  attended 
successively  the  public  schools  of  Quincy,  the 
Newbury  Academy  of  Vermont  and  the  Wes- 
leyan  University  of  Connecticut,  being  grad- 
uated from  the  latter  institution  with  valedic- 
torian honors  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1866 
and  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society. 
His  ripe  scholarship  of  later  years  received 
recognition  in  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts,  in  1869.  Doctor  of  Philosophy,  in  1891.  and 
Doctor  of  Laws  in  1901. 

Following  the  completion  of  his  college  course. 
Dr.  Nightingale  accepted  the  Professorship  of 
Latin  and  Greek  in  the  Upper  Iowa  University, 
with  which  he  was  connected  for  two  years.  In 
1868  he  was  called  to  the  Presidency  of  the 
Northwestern  Female  College,  at  Evanston,  Illi- 
nois, where  he  continued  until  1871,  and  during 
the  following  year  he  acted  in  the  capacity  of 
professor  of  Latin  and  Greek  in  Simpson  Col- 
lege,  at   Indianola.   Iowa.     From   1S72   to   1S74, 


he  was  Superintendent  of  the  public  schools  of 
Omaha,  Nebraska,  whence  he  came  to  Chicago, 
and  for  sixteen  years  remained  as  Principal  of 
the  Lake  View  high  school.  He  was  then 
elected  Assistant  Superintendent  of  the  Chicago 
public  schools,  in  1890,  and  for  two  years  super- 
vised the  grammar  and  primary  schools  of  the 
North  Side,  following  which,  from  1892  until 
1901.  he  was  Superintendent  of  all  of  the  Chi- 
cago high  schools.  In  1902  he  was  elected  Su- 
perintendent of  the  Cook  County  schools,  and 
was  re-elected  in  1906.  serving  in  this  capacity 
until  December  5,  1910.  He  was  a  Trustee  of 
the  University  of  Illinois  since  189S,  and  was 
President  of  the  board  in  1902-3.  He  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Nebraska  State  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion in  1873,  and  of  the  Illinois  State  Teachers' 
Association  in  1887,  while  in  18S8  he  served  as 
President  of  the  secondary  department  of  the 
National  Educational  Association.  He  ranked 
with  the  conspicuous  educators  of  the  country  by 
reason  of  achievements  in  systematizing  and  co- 
ordinating the  work  of  the  secondary  schools. 
From  1895  until  1899  Dr.  Nightingale  was 
Chairman  of  the  committee  of  the  National  Edu- 
cational Association  on  college  entrance  re- 
quirements, and  in  1898  was  President  of  the 
North  Central  Association  of  colleges  and  sec- 
ondary schools.  He  was  the  author  of  "Re- 
quirements for  Admission  to  American  Col- 
leges," and  was  even  more  widely  known  be- 
cause of  his  work  as  an  editor  of  one  hundred 
volumes  published  under  the  title  of  "Twentieth 
Century   Test    Books."     He   was  appointed   by 


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Governor  Deneen  as  a  member  of  the  Educa- 
tional Commission  to  revise  and  perfect  the 
school  laws  of  Illinois,  and  rendered  efficient 
service  in  this  connection.  The  honors  which 
were  conferred  upon  him  in  connection  with  the 
system  of  public  education  were  well-merited 
and  modestly  born.  A  man  of  broad  learning, 
his  activities  were  so  directed  as  to  best  serve 
his  city  and  his  State,  and  few  men  succeeded 
in  so  great  a  degree  in  gaining  and  maintain- 
ing the  confidence  and  regard  of  their  fellow 
citizens.  He  did  not  neglect  those  things  which 
represent  the  higher  ideals  of  human  existence. 
In  his  death,  which  occurred  December  4,  1925, 
Illinois  lost  one  of  its  most  valued  citizens  and 
the  public  lost  a  true  and  loyal  friend. 

On  August  24,  1866,  Doctor  Nightingale  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Fanny  Orena 
Chase,  of  Deering,  New  Hampshire,  and  for 
fifty-nine  years  this  worthy  couple  traveled 
life's  journey  happily  together  and  were  not 
long  separated  by  death,  Mrs.  Nightingale  pass- 
ing away  the  year  following  her  husband's 
demise,  her  death  occurring  November  20,  1926. 
She  was  born  at  Deering,  New  Hampshire, 
October  1,  1843,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Charles 
Henry  and  Anna  (Wellman)  Chase,  and  was  a 
woman  of  exceptional  intellectual  activity  and 
much  beauty  of  character.  She  was  greatly  ad- 
mired for  her  sterling  qualities  and  social  and 
philanthropic  activities,  and  her  death  was 
mourned  by  all  who  knew  her.  She  was  edu- 
cated at  Tilton  Seminary  and  studied  music  in 
Washington,  D.  O,  and  was  ever  active  iu  edu- 
cational and  musical  work.  She  taught  elocu- 
tion in  the  Central  Music  Hall  at  Chicago  and 
vocal  music  in  the  Lake  View  High  School  for 


more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  and  was  one 
of  the  potent  factors  in  this  work  in  these  in- 
stitutions. She  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Lake  View  Portia  Literary  Club. 

Doctor  and  Mrs.  Nightingale  became  the  par- 
ents of  six  children,  namely :  Florence,  born 
May  22,  1868,  who  became  the  wife  of  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Ruffln  Abbott,  and  died  October  24,  1912, 
leaving  one  son,  Augustus  Frederick  Nightin- 
gale Abbott,  born  June  25,  1906;  Carl  Fred, 
born  September  26,  1869,  who  died  September 
27,  1870;  Harry  Thomas,  born  October  11,  1871, 
who  was  an  instructor  in  the  preparatory  school 
of  the  Northwestern  University,  at  Evanston, 
Illinois,  and  later  a  professor  in  Oberlin  College, 
at  Oberlin,  Ohio,  and  died  in  January,  1920; 
Jessie  Irma,  born  February  27,  1873,  became 
the  wife  of  the  late  Harrison  M.  Angle,  of 
Evanston,  Illinois,  who  died  April  25,  1918. 
They  had  one  son,  John  Harrison  Angle,  born 
January  30,  1900,  who  died  in  November,  1906; 
Winifred,  born  October  20,  1874,  who  is  the 
wife  of  Vaughn  Lee  Alward,  of  Evanston,  Illi- 
nois, and  has  three  children,  AVinifred  Lee  Al- 
ward, born  March  4,  1906,  Vincent  Alward,  born 
June  3,  1908,  and  Betsy  Jane  Alward,  born 
June  16,  1914;  and  Pearl  Roineyn,  born  Decem- 
ber 12,  1875,  who  is  the  wife  of  Winter  D.  Hess, 
of  Evanston,  Illinois,  and  is  the  mother  of  four 
children,  Chase  Nightingale  Hess,  born  October 
27,  1900,  Richard  Davis  Hess,  born  June  2, 
1902,  Frederick  Winter  Hess,  born  November 
11,  1910,  and  Fanny  Romeyn,  born  May  16, 
1916.  The  Nightingale  family  home  for  many 
years  has  been  at  Evanston,  Illinois,  while  a 
summer  residence  is  also  maintained  at  Lake 
Geneva,  Wisconsin. 


BRET  LINDUMIL  VILNA. 


Dr.  Bret  L.  Vilna  was  born  in  Chicago  May 
7,  1886,  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Josephine  (Kinstet- 
ter)  Vilna,  both  natives  of  Czecho-Slovakia.  As 
a  boy  he  attended  the  public  schools  in  Chicago. 

Following  his  graduation  from  High  school 
he  enrolled  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  Chicago ;  and,  after  completing  the 
full  course,  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine,  in  1911.  The  following 
two  years  he  devoted  to  further  preparation  and 
study,  as  an  interne  at  Cook  County  Hospital. 

Doctor  Vilna  then  entered  into  private  prac- 
tice locating  his  offices  at  No.  5539  West  Twenty- 


second  street,  Cicero ;  and  he  retained  these 
offices  throughout  the  balance  of  his  professional 
career.  As  years  passed  he  came  to  fill  a  very 
large  part  of  the  life  of  this  community.  He 
also  rendered  valuable  service,  for  years,  as 
clinical  assistant  and  surgeon  at  the  North- 
western University  Medical  School. 

During  the  World  War,  Doctor  Vilna  prof- 
fered his  services  to  the  government  and  was 
commissioned  and  served  as  first  lieutenant  in 
the  Medical  Corps  of  the  United  States  Army. 

On  June  1,  1918,  he  was  asked  to  take  office 
as  health  commissioner  of  the  town  of  Cicero. 


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He  cheerfully  undertook  this  public  work,  and 
gave  to  it  the  full  measure  of  his  attention  and 
skill. 

On  July  15,  1920,  Doctor  Vilna  was  married, 
at  Chicago,  to  Miss  Beatrice  Shults,  a  daughter 
of  Frank  and  Catherine  Shults,  pioneer  resi- 
dents of  Chicago.  Mr.  Shults  enlisted  for  serv- 
ice in  the  Civil  War  when  he  was  but  fifteen 
years  old  and  served  valiantly  for  four  and  one- 
half  years  until  the  close  of  the  war.  In  1898 
Mr.  Shults  was  commissioned  Captain  in  the 
provisional  regiment  known  as  Knights  of 
Pythias  Regiment,  by  Governor  Tanner,  for 
tendering  his  services  to  the  State  of  Illinois  for 
enrollment  in  the  Volunteer  Army  of  the  United 
States  in  the  War  with   Spain.     He  was  also 


one  of  the  organizers  of  the  movement  to  finance 
and  erect  the  Soldiers'  Civil  War  Monument  at 
the  Bohemian   National   Cemetery   in    Chicago. 

Doctor  Vilna  was  a  member  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,  the  Illinois  State  Medical 
Society,  the  Chicago  Medical  Society  and  of  the 
Bohemian  Medical  Association,  of  which  organ- 
ization he  was  president,  also  Cicero  Medical 
Society.  He  was  an  organizer  and  a  member 
of  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  Cicero  General 
Hospital.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Masons  and 
to  the  American  Legion. 

The  death  of  Dr.  Bret  L.  Vilna  occurred, 
November  2,  1924.  He  was  one  of  the  most  able 
and  well-beloved  physicians  that  Cicero  has 
known. 


HARVEY  B.  HURD. 


Harvey  B.  Hurd  was  born  at  Huntington, 
Fairfield  County,  Conn.,  February  14,  1848,  and 
died  at  his  home  at  Evanston,  111.,  January  20, 
190G.  When  he  was  fifteen  years  old  he  left 
home  and  went  to  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  to  become 
an  apprentice  printer  on  the  Bridgeport  Stand- 
ard. Two  years  later  he  came  west  to  Illinois, 
and  for  a  year  attended  the  Jubilee  College  in 
Peoria  County,  and  then,  failing  to  find  employ- 
ment as  a  printer  at  Peoria,  he  came  to  Chicago, 
and  worked  on  the  Chicago  Journal.  Later  he 
was  a  printer  in  the  employ  of  the  Prairie 
Farmer.  In  1847  he  began  studying  law  under 
Calvin  De  Wolf,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  the 
following  year,  and  formed  a  partnership  with 
Carlos  Haven,  and  a  little  later  with  Henry 
Snapp.  From  1850  to  1854  he  was  in  partner- 
ship with  Andrew  J.  Brown  for  the  purpose  of 
platting  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the  West  Side 
of  Evanston,  now  one  of  the  most  attractive 
parts  of  the  city,  there  building  his  own  home 
during  the  summer  of  1854.  He  subsequently 
became  president  of  the  Evanston  village  board, 
and  never  lost  his  interest  in  the  progress  of  the 
place. 

Always  active  in  public  matters,  Mr.  Hurd 
was  a  member  of  the  anti-slavery  convention 
which  met  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  formed  a  na- 
tional committee  to  aid  the  northern  settlers 
in  Kansas.  Mr.  Hurd  was  made  secretary  of 
the  executive  committee  of  this  committee  with 
headquarters  at  Chicago.  So  entirely  in  sympa- 
thy was  Mr.  Hurd  with  the  anti-slavery  move- 
ment of  his  times  that  when  John  Brown  left 
Kansas  with  a  price  on  his   head,   and  found 


refuge  in  the  house  of  John  Jones  of  Chicago, 
his  clothing  was  in  tatters  and  as  it  was  unsafe 
for  him  to  venture  forth  to  be  measured  for  a 
suit  of  clothing,  Mr.  Hurd  acted  as  his  proxy, 
and  was  measured  for  the  suit  which  reached 
John  Brown,  and  in  which  he  was  later  hung. 

In  1862  Mr.  Hurd  formed  a  partnership  with 
Henry  Booth,  and  became  a  lecturer  in  the 
law  school  of  the  old  University  of  Chicago. 
The  firm  continued  until  18G8  when  Mr.  Hurd 
retired  from  practice,  and  the  subsequent  year 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Palmer  a  member  of 
the  board  of  commissioners  to  revise  and  re- 
write the  General  Statutes  of  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois, and  as  his  colleagues  soon  thereafter  with- 
drew, he  completed  the  task  alone,  presenting  it 
to  the  Twenty-eighth  General  Assembly  before 
its  adjournment  in  April,  1874,  and  was  by  it  ap- 
pointed to  edit,  and  supervise  the  publication 
of  a  volume  of  revised  statutes  made  necessary 
by  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution  of  1870. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Hurd  remained  with 
the  Union  College  of  Law,  only  resigning  when 
he  felt  the  tax  upon  his  strength  to  be  too 
great.  To  him  is  given  the  honor  of  creating 
the  plan  for  the  Chicago  Sanitary  District,  and 
he  was  the  author  of  the  first  bill  on  this 
subject  introduced  in  the  General  Assembly  in 
1886,  and  the  one  finally  passed  was  fashioned 
after  the  Hurd  bill.  He  was  head  of  the  com- 
mittee on  law  reform  of  the  Illinois  State  Bar 
Association;  was  chairman  of  the  commission 
which  secured  the  adoption  of  the  Australian  or 
Torrens  system   of  registration  of  land  titles ; 


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was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Children's  Aid 
Society,  was  the  sponsor  of  the  Juvenile  Court 
Bill,  and  others  of  great  value  to  the  state  and 


community.  Mr.  Hurd  was  thrice  married,  and 
had  two  daughters,  Mrs.  George  S.  Lord  of 
Evanston :  and  Mrs.  John  A.  Comstoek. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  BOWMAN. 


William  Henry  Bowman,  of  Chicago  and 
Hinsdale,  Illinois,  was  born  at  Zanesville,  Ohio, 
on  June  9,  1841,  a  son  of  John  G.  and  Johanna 
(Border)  Bowman.  The  father  came  from 
New  York  to  Ohio,  and  settled  at  Zanesville  in 
the  thirties. 

William  H.  Bowman  attended  school  near  his 
home  and  then  went  to  work  for  his  father, 
who  was  one  of  the  early  pork  packers  in  Ohio. 
Here  he  was  until  the  time  of  the  Civil  War. 
He  enlisted  for  service ;  and,  being  an  expert 
rifleman,  he  was  made  a  member  of  that  com- 
pany of  sharpshooters  known  as  the  "Squirrel 
Hunters." 

Following  the  war  he  decided  to  try  his 
fortune  in  the  West.  Accordingly  he  journeyed 
out  to  the  town  of  Fountain,  Colorado.  He  be- 
gan ranching  near  there  and  acquired  a  large 
number  of  acres  of  land  in  that  vicinity.  He 
remained  in   Colorado  for  nine  years. 

It  was  during  his  residence  in  Colorado  that 
he  married  Miss  Anna  Moore,  whose  home  was 
in  Ohio.  As  she  preferred  to  live  in  Chicago 
rather  than  in  Colorado,  Mr.  Bowman  gave  up 
ranching  and  moved  to  Illinois.  He  soon  be- 
came connected  with  the  Chicago  Packing  & 
Provision  Company  where  his  earlier  experience 
in  the  packing  business  was  of  value  to  him ; 
and  he  represented  the  firm  in  the  East  for 
some  five  years. 

His  wife,  Mrs.  Anna   (Moore)   Bowman,  died 


in  1905.  Not  long  after  he  had  established  his 
home  at  Chicago,  Mr.  Bowman  became  deeply 
interested  in  the  great  developments  in  Chi- 
cago real  estate  that  were  at  that  time  in 
progress.  Accordingly  he  resigned  from  the 
Chicago  Packing  '&  Provision  Company  and  en- 
tered the  real-estate  business  with  Charles 
Counselman  and  S.  E.  Gross.  This  connection 
was  later  dissolved  and  Mr.  Bowman  estab- 
lished a  business  of  his  own.  He  bought  a 
large  amount  of  land  in  the  Brighton  Park  dis- 
trict which  he  developed,  divided  and  sold  from 
time  to  time.  He  built  approximately  600  homes 
in   this   district. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Bowman  to  Mrs.  Louise 
Ohl  Warder  took  place  in  Pomeroy,  Ohio,  on 
October  30,  1907,  and  one  daughter,  Dorothy 
Bowman,  was  born  to  them.  In  1912  the  family 
moved  to  Hinsdale,  Illinois,  where  they  estab- 
lished their  very  pleasant  home. 

Mr.  Bowman  was  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Hins- 
dale Club,  the  South  Shore  Country  Club,  and 
to  George  H.  Thomas  Post,   G.  A.  R. 

August  2,  1925,  records  the  death  of  Mr.  Wil- 
liam H.  Bowman  in  his  eighty-fourth  year.  That 
section  of  the  city  of  Chicago  which  he  first 
visioned  and  planned  and  then  very  largely 
builded,  is  a  fine  and  enduring  commentary  on 
the  exceptional  character  of  man  he  was. 


DAVID  T.  ADAMS. 


The  late  David  T.  Adams,  who  was  one  of 
the  most  able  mining  experts  in  America,  was 
born  at  Rockford,  111.,  on  Sept.  6,  1859,  a  son  of 
Moses  T.  and  Jane  Adams. 

His  early  years  were  spent  in  the  school  of 
hard  experience.  When  he  was  but  a  small  boy 
his  father  died.  The  mother  was  unable  to  sup- 
port her  seven  fatherless  children  and  they  were 
compelled  to  separate  and  find  homes  in  strange 
households. 

David  T.  Adams  was  but  eight  years  old  when 
he  was  thus  cast  upon  his  own  resources.  The 
life    of    accomplishment    that   he    subsequently 


built,  by  himself,  is  a  powerful  comment  on  the- 
strength  and  worth  of  his  character. 

In  his  early  young  manhood  he  went  into  the 
mining  regions  of  the  upper  peninsula  of  Michi- 
gan and  engaged  in  exploring  for  iron  ore  in  the 
vicinity  of  Crystal  Falls  and  Iron  River.  Here 
he  gained  valuable  experience. 

In  1882  he  went  to  northwestern  Minnesota 
to  carry  on  the  same  work.  He  was  a  pioneer 
among  the  explorers  of  the  Minnesota  iron  range. 
He  met  with  little  success  at  first.  He  was  not 
discouraged,  however,  and  kept  steadily  at  work. 
As  a  result  of  his  investigations  he  conceived 
the  idea  of  the  existence  of  a  vast  iron  range 


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on  the  south  slope  of  the  height  of  land  south 
of  and  parallel  to  the  Vermillion  Range  and  he 
proceeded  to  explore  what  is  now  known  to  the 
world"  as  the  great  Mesaha  range.  He  is  credited 
with  the  discovery  of  this  great  iron  range. 
About  1892  he  compiled  and  published  the  first 
map  of  this  region ;  which  proved  to  be  a  very 
remarkable  piece  of  work. 

Mr.  Adams  was  the  first  to  hold  the  theory 
that  the  Mesaba  Range  was  once  the  shore  line 
of  a  Sea  now  extinct.  His  theory  is  confirmed 
by  certain  geological  facts. 

In  the  subsequent  development  of  the  iron 
mines  of  Minnesota,  he  was  long  a  figure  of 
greatest  consequence.  He  located  and  in  part 
developed  many  of  the  larger  mines,  including 
the  Adams,  the  Fayal  and  the  Virginia  groups. 
He  was  a  town  builder,  too.  The  sites  of  the 
towns  of  Virginia  and  Eveleth,  Minn,  were  laid 
out  and  plotted  by  him. 


As  an  authority  on  mining  in  Minnesota  he 
was  recognized  as  without  a  superior. 

On  Nov.  23,  1908,  Mr.  Adams  was  married,  at 
Mount  Clemens,  Michigan,  to  Miss  Helen  L. 
Wishart,  a  daughter  of  Frank  K.  and  Jean 
Wishart.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adams  have  an  adopted 
daughter  Lu cilia,  who  is  also  a  niece  of  Mr. 
Adams.  Of  recent  years  Mr.  Adams  and  his 
family  have  made  their  home  in  Chicago. 

There  is  a  remarkable  two-fold  value  in  the 
life  of  David  T.  Adams.  In  the  first  place  he 
probably  accomplished  more  than  any  other  one 
man  to  further  the  production  of  merchantable 
iron  ore  in  the  central  section  of  the  United 
States.  Then,  too,  the  record  of  his  life  is  an 
inspiration,  for  his  boyhood  was  filled  with  diffi- 
culties and  privations,  and  from  that  beginning 
he  rose  by  his  own  efforts  to  become  one  of  the 
most  consequential  men  in  the  mining  industry 
in  America. 

David  T.  Adams  died  on  July  22,  1928. 


HENRY  WILLIAM  JOHNSON. 


The  late  Judge  Henry  W.  Johnson,  of  Ottawa 
and  Chicago,  Illinois,  was  born  on  his  father's 
farm  in  La  Salle  County,  Illinois,  December  10, 
1867,  a  son  of  Andrew  and  Sarah  (Baker) 
Johnson.  His  boyhood  was  spent  on  the  farm 
and  he  attended  the  public  schools  near  his 
home.  Later  he  studied  at  Jennings  Seminary, 
after  which  he  entered  the  Law  School  of  North- 
western University.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Illinois  bar  in  1889. 

The  previous  year.  1888,  he  was  chosen  as 
circuit  clerk  of  La  Salle  County.  He  was  elected 
County  Judge  of  La  Salle  County  in  1894  and 
was  re-elected  to  the  office  in  1898.  He  became 
State  Senator  in  1920. 

For  years  Judge  Johnson  was  a  member  of 
the  law  firm  of  Johnson  &  Hinebaugh  of  Ottawa. 

He  was  probably  the  most  important  figure 
in  the  financial  history  of  La  Salle  County  up 
to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  President  of 
the  Ottawa  Bank  &  Trust  Company,  and  of 
the  Lee  State  Bank  of  Lee,  Illinois. 

In  1907  Judge  Johnson  organized  the  Central 
Life  Insurance  Company  of  Illinois,  of  which 
he  became  President.     The  company's  business 


subsequently  expanded  to  very  large  proportions, 
mainly  because  of  Judge  Johnson's  very  able 
administration  of  its  affairs.  Recently  the 
company  established  the  Home  Office  in  its  own 
building  at  No.  720  North  Michigan  Boulevard, 
Chicago.  Judge  Johnson  moved  his  residence 
to  Chicago  in  January,  1924. 

Judge  Johnson  was  married  in  1885,  in  La 
Salle  County,  to  Miss  Carrie  Nelson.  Their 
children  were :  Freeda,  who  died  in  infancy ; 
Herby  (Mrs.  A.  D.  Bruce),  and  Miss  Nina 
Johnson. 

Judge  Johnson  was  formerly  President  of 
the  Board  of  Education  of  Ottawa.  He  belonged 
to  the  Ottawa  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Hamilton  Club,  The 
Elks  and  was  a   Knight  Templar  Mason. 

The  death  of  Judge  Henry  W.  Johnson  oc- 
curred April  3,  1925.  The  history  of  his  life, 
beginning  with  his  early  days  on  his  father's 
farm  and  covering  his  later  years  of  public 
service  and  of  very  distinguished  business  suc- 
cess, is  one  of  the  most  remarkable  personal 
records  that  the  state  of  Illinois  possesses. 


GEORGE  CHRISTIAN  AMERSON. 


Dr.  George  C.  Amerson  was  born  in  Chicago, 
Illinois,  November  8,  1877,  a  son  of  William  and 
Matilda  Schaubel  Amerson. 


Doctor  Amerson  secured  his  early  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Austin,  and  later  en- 
tered Hahnemann  Medical  College,  from  which 


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he  was  graduated  in  1902  with  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine.  The  following  two  years 
he  devoted  to  post-graduate  studies  in  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Chicago.  Then, 
for  eighteen  months  thereafter,  he  served  as 
interne  at  Cook  County  Hospital.  He  then  en- 
tered  private  practice. 

Still  later  he  was  made  attending  surgeon  at 
the  Cook  County  and  Frances  Willard  hospitals ; 
and  maintained  these  connections  until  1913. 
He  was  attending  surgeon  at  the  Garfield  Park 
Hospital  from  1902,  and  at  the  West  Side  Hos- 
pital from  1913.  He  was  professor  of  surgery 
at  the  Illinois  Post  Graduate  Medical  School 
and  at  the  Chicago  College  of  Medicine  and 
Surgery ;  consulting  surgeon  to  the  Municipal 
Tuberculosis  Hospital,  and  to  the  Illinois  Ma- 
sonic Hospital.  He  was  also  chief  of  the  medi- 
cal staff  of  Medinah  Temple,  Chicago.  Doctor 
Amerson  was  president  of  the  Garfield  Park 
Hospital.  He  was  also  a  Fellow  of  the  Ameri- 
can College  of  Surgeons,  and  received  his  de- 
gree of  Master  of  Arts  from  Valparaiso  Uni- 
versity. 

His  military  record  is  one  of  much  interest. 
He  was  appointed  a  lieutenant  in  the  medical 
corps  in   the  old   First  Regiment,    Illinois   Na- 


tional Guard,  in  October,  1909 ;  made  a  captain, 
M.  C,  November,  1910 ;  major,  M.  C,  June,  1916. 
He  saw  service  on  the  Mexican  Border  from 
June  to  October,  1916.  In  March,  1917,  he  en- 
tered the  World  war.  He  went  overseas  in  May, 
1918.  He  was  commissioned  lieutenant  colonel, 
M.  C,  in  April,  1919,  and  placed  in  command 
of  the  One  Hundred  and  Eighth  Sanitary  Train. 
Doctor  Amerson  and  the  great  medical  unit 
under  his  command  bore  a  part,  of  indispensable 
value,  in  much  of  the  most  desperate  fighting 
of  the  war.  He  returned  to  his  home  in  Chi- 
cago, after  the  close  of  the  war,  in  May,  1919. 

In  May,  1922,  Doctor  Amerson  was  commis- 
sioned as  colonel,  M.  C,  U.  S.  A.,  and  was  ap- 
pointed surgeon  general  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
May  26,  1922. 

He  was  also  a  Director  of  the  Illinois  Athletic 
Club. 

The  marriage  of  Doctor  Amerson  to  Miss 
Isabel  L.  Coyle,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary 
Coyle,  took  place  in  Chicago,  October  3,  1906, 
and  one  son,  William  P.  Amerson,  was  born 
to  them. 

On  August  7,  1925,  occurred  the  death  of 
Doctor  Amerson.  His  going  ends  a  life  that 
was  of  a  usefulness  and  value  rarely  attained. 


EDWARD  JOSEPH  BUCKLEY. 


The  late  Chief  Edward  J.  Buckley,  Fire 
Marshal  of  the  City  of  Chicago,  was  born  in 
this  city  on  December  2,  1867,  a  son  of  Daniel 
and  Mary  (Wren)  Buckley.  As  a  boy  he  at- 
tended the  Pearson  School,  the  Franklin  School 
and  then  graduated  from  the  Ogden  School.  He 
began  work  at  the  age  of  twelve  and  one-half 
years,  because  he  wanted  to  help  in  the  support 
of  his   widowed   mother. 

He  joined  the  Chicago  Fire  Department  on 
May  22,  18S8.  A  little  over  three  years  later 
he  was  commissioned  a  Lieutenant,  on  November 
30,  1891.  His  services  have  always  been  of  the 
finest  type  and  of  great  value  to  the  people  of 
Chicago.  He  was  promoted  to  become  a  Cap- 
tain on  July  2,  1896.  On  March  18,  1904,  he 
was  made  Battalion  Chief.  He  was  elected 
Assistant  Fire  Marshal  on  December  28,  1916. 
Then,  on  July  2,  1923,  he  was  placed  in  office  as 
Fire  Marshal  of  Chicago,  one  of  the  most  re- 
sponsible positions  in  the  great  metropolis. 

The  marriage  of  Edward  J.  Buckley  occurred 
on  September  30,  1894.    His  wife  was  Miss  Julia 


M.  Baynes,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  B.  and  Mar- 
garet (O'Donnell)  Baynes.  Mrs.  Buckley  was 
born  in  Chicago  and  has  lived  here  all  of  her 
life.  Chief  Buckley  and  his  wife  were  the 
parents  of  three  sons :  Daniel ;  Edward,  who 
died  on  July  4,  1911 ;  and  Thomas  E.  Buckley. 
The  family  are  devout  members  of  the  con- 
gregation of  the  Cathedral  of  the  Holy  Name. 

Fire  Chief  Edward  J.  Buckley  died  January 
27,  1925.  His  going  was  a  distinct  loss  and 
sorrow  to  the  people  of  Chicago.  We  quote 
one  comment,  written  soon  after  his  death, 
which  indicates  the  exceptional  regard  in  which 
he  was  held : 

"In  the  Chicago  Board  of  Underwriters  his 
name  will  long  be  remembered,  for  he  was 
possessed  of  those  virtues  which  are  most  ad- 
mired by  everyone.  In  him  were  blended  the 
beautiful  qualities  of  heart  and  mind  that 
found  expression  in  devotion  to  duty,  service 
to  the  public,  and  appreciation  of  the  rights  of 
others.     He  was  loved  by  everyone  under  him 


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for  his  personal  ability  and  bravery,  and  for 
his  appreciation  of  ability  and  bravery  in  others. 
He  was  completely  faithful.     He  was  a  man  of 


finest  strength  of  character ;  and  he  always 
gave  the  best  that  was  in  him.  All  honor  to 
his  memory." 


THOMAS  AND  JOSIAH  CRATTY. 


"Fighting  Stock"  is  a  phrase  which  sketches, 
at  a  single  stroke,  the  dominant  trait  of  the  line 
of  forbears  behind  Josiah  Cratty.  Both  his 
grandfather  and  his  greatgrandfather  were  in 
George  Washington's  worn  and  tattered  army 
fighting  for  American  independence.  Love  of 
freedom  and  hatred  of  oppression  were  not 
merely  well-cherished  sentiments  in  the  hearts 
of  these  sturdy  Cratty  men — they  were  flaming 
passions  which  were  fed  by  unsparing  sacrifices. 

William  Cratty,  father  of  Josiah  and  son  of 
the  young  Revolutionary  soldier,  was  too  old  to 
be  accepted  for  service  in  the  Civil  War — but  he 
did  his  bit  for  human  liberty  by  helping  three 
thousand  slaves  to  escape  from  their  pursuers 
to  the  sanctuary  of  Canadian  soil — risking  his 
life  and  all  his  possessions  again  and  again  to 
do  so.  The  history  of  Negro  emancipation  in 
the  United  States  could  no  more  be  written 
without  the  story  of  William  Cratty's  heroic 
services  for  fugitive  blacks  than  without  men- 
tion of  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe.  That  he  was  a 
worthy  scion  of  the  two  Crattys  who  fought 
for  freedom  from  British  oppression  is  attested 
by  his  public  declaration  of  independence  when 
the  "Fugitive  Slave  Act"  became  a  law.  He 
was  then  living  in  Delaware  County,  Ohio, 
which  was  a  hotbed  of  "Copperhead"  sentiment. 
When  the  news  reached  Delaware  town  that 
Congress  had  passed  a  law  which  made  any 
person  aiding  a  fugitive  slave  liable  to  the 
owner  for  the  full  market  value  of  that  human 
chattel,  William  Cratty  made  this  bold  an- 
nouncement : 

"The  Congress  of  the  United  States  cannot 
pass  any  law  which  will  put  fetters  on  my  con- 
science. I  will  continue  to  run  fugitive  slaves 
in  the  future  as  I  have  in  the  past.  All  the 
men  in  Congress  and  out  of  it  are  welcome  to 
know  my  intentions  in  this  matter  and  to  act 
accordingly." 

That  a  certain  part  of  the  public  took  heed 
of  this  declaration  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that 
the  slave  hunters  offered  a  bounty  of  $3,000 — 
which  then  represented  an  independent  fortune 
— for  the  delivery  to  them,  dead  or  alive,  of  the 
person  of  William  Cratty.  He  had,  for  many 
years,  definite  knowledge  of  the  fact  that  the 


slave  hunters  who  followed  the  crowded  line  of 
the  "underground  railroad"  through  his  section 
of  Ohio  had  sworn  to  kill  him.  Knocks  at  his 
door  in  the  dead  of  night  were  the  rule  rather 
than  the  exception  in  the  years  from  1835  to 
Lincoln's  Declaration  of  Emancipation,  and  he 
never  failed  to  unbar  and  open  the  door  despite 
the  fact  that  the  visitor  was  likely  to  be  a 
murderous  slave-catcher  instead  of  a  hunted 
fugitive. 

A  friend  to  whom  he  was  relating  his  ex- 
periences in  slave  running  referred  to  him  as 
a  "conductor"  on  the  Underground  Railroad. 

"Call  it  that,  if  you  like,"  interrupted  William 
Cratty,  who  was  then  more  than  ninety-one 
years  of  age,  "but  the  fact  is  that  there  was  not 
a  rod  of  railroad  in  the  world — either  over- 
ground or  underground,  when  I  married  Candice 
Bennett  and  we  set  up  our  home  near  the  Scioto 
River  in  southern  Ohio.  About  ten  years  later 
we  began  to  run  fugitive  slaves  up  to  Canada. 
The  only  vacation  I  had  from  what  you  call  my 
work  as  a  'conductor'  on  the  'Underground' 
was  when  I  joined  the  Forty  Niners  and  spent 
two  years  hunting  for  gold  in  California." 

With  such  forbears  is  it  any  wonder  that 
Josiah  Cratty  was  early  at  the  enlistment  stand 
at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War?  His  first  at- 
tempt to  "get  in"  was  made  when  he  was  six- 
teen— but  he  was  compelled  to  wait  two  years. 
Then  he  was  accepted  as  a  trooper  in  the  Fifth 
New  York  Cavalry.  His  choice  of  the  mounted 
arm  of  the  military  service  was  tempera- 
mentally inevitable.  His  unbounded  energy,  his 
love  of  swift  action  and  his  almost  reckless 
courage  conspired  to  make  him  a  natural  cav- 
alryman. His  only  regret,  when  he  was  mus- 
tered in  was  that  he  had  "lost  two  years  of 
fighting." 

But  he  was  in  time  to  take  part  in  the  dash- 
ing cavalry  charges  at  the  battles  of  Winchester, 
Cedar  Creek  and  Mount  Jackson.  In  each  of 
these  engagements  he  had  a  horse  shot  from 
under  him. 

It  fell  to  the  lot  of  this  boyish  young  trooper 
to  serve  in  the  body-guard  of  two  famous  gen- 
erals— first  Custer  and  then  "Phil"  Sheridan. 
To  the  writer  Josiah  Cratty  once  described  the 


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scene  of  the  famous  Cedar  Creek  engagement 
in  these  words : 

'•I  was  not  fifty  feet  from  him,"  said  Mr. 
Cratty,  "when  'Little  Phil'  reached  the  scene  of 
the  battle.  We  had  sustained  a  losing  fight  all 
the  morning  and  it  was  then  10  o'clock.  He 
paused  by  the  battery  and  swept  the  field  with 
his  glass — unmovable  as  a  statue — and  dis- 
patched his  aids  in  every  direction.  When  the 
ranks  learned  that  Sheridan  had  come  the  firing 
almost  ceased  for  a  moment — then  a  yell  rolled 
along  the  lines  like  a  tidal  wave.  It  was  the 
supreme  moment  of  the  whole  campaign. 
Neither  poem  nor  story  has  ever  done  justice 
to  that  scene." 

When  Josiah  Cratty  enlisted  he  was  living 
with  his  parents  at  Elmwood,  in  Peoria  County, 
Illinois.  In  1853,  his  father  and  mother  had 
decided  that  the  family  fortunes  could  be  im- 
proved by  moving  to  the  rich  prairie  lands  of 
Illinois.  One  covered  wagon  was  not  enough  to 
transport  the  Cratty  family — which  numbered 
an  even  dozen  children,  five  boys  and  seven  girls. 
In  fact  the  Cratty  outfit  made  quite  a  wagon 
train,  for  all  their  furniture  and  belongings,  the 
accumulation  of  years,  was  brought  with  them 
to  their  new  home.  William  Cratty,  the  Aboli- 
tionist "slave  runner,"  the  Forty  Niner  and  Illi- 
nois pioneer  lived  to  the  age  of  ninety-two  years 
and  was  vigorous  in  mind  and  body  until  within 
a  few  months  of  his  death. 

After  being  mustered  out  of  the  Union  army 
young  Josiah  returned  home  and  for  a  time 
took  his  place  in  the  farm  home.  But  the  life 
of  a  cavalryman  and  a  body  guard  of  dashing 
Phil  Sheridan  was  a  poor  preparation  for  the 
life  of  a  plodding  farmer.  Again,  the  young 
trooper  had  two  other  possessions  which  the  con- 
tacts of  this  army  life,  in  his  most  impression- 
able years,  had  aroused  and  stimulated ;  a  keen 
and  alert  mind  and  a  temperament  which 
craved  action  and  conflict.  His  mental  energy 
demanded  constant  outlet  and  he  felt  that  this 
would  be  found  to  a  satisfying  extent  in  the 
law. 

Probably  his  choice  of  a  career  was  greatly 
influenced  by  the  fact  that  his  brother  Thomas, 
about  twelve  years  his  senior,  was  already  prac- 
ticing in  a  law  office  in  Peoria.  The  attach- 
ment between  these  two  brothers  was  peculiar 
and  the  younger  of  them  was  inclined  to  follow 
the  lead  of  the  elder  with  devoted  loyalty.  Un- 
deniably, also,  the  thought  of  personal  associa- 
tion and  comradeship  had  a  strong  influence  in 


drawing  Josiah  to  Peoria  where  he  could  "be 
with  Tom."  He  followed  Thomas  to  the  lively 
and  growing  city  on  the  Illinois  river  in  1869 
and  read  law  under  the  guidance  of  Thomas 
Cratty  and  the  friends  which  Thomas  had  al- 
ready made  among  the  members  of  that  bar — 
then  recognized  as  one  of  the  strongest  in  the 
state.  Three  years  later,  in  1872,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice.  This  was  accomplished  by 
appearing  before  the  Circuit  Court  and  filing  a 
declaration  of  desire  and  intent  to  practice. 
Personal  character  and  natural  mental  ability, 
rather  than  academic  education  and  an  ability 
to  answer  "test"  questions  in  the  theory  of 
law,  were  then  the  cardinal  considerations  in 
admitting  a  young  man  into  the  legal  profes- 
sion. And  these  considerations  were  passed 
upon  by  the  local  court  where  the  candidate 
was  personally  known  and  observed.  Consider- 
ing the  average  of  ability  and  character  of  the 
men  admitted  to  practice  under  that  system, 
there  is  no  escape  from  the  conclusion  that  it 
was  quite  as  good  as  the  more  elaborate  one  in 
use  today.  Certainly  it  brought  to  the  bar  a 
notable  number  of  men  of  great  mental  vigor 
and  high  character  whose  pleas  and  decisions 
laid  the  foundations  of  law  and  its  practice  for 
the  courts  of  the  present  time.  Both  Thomas 
and  Josiah  Cratty  were  destined  to  attain  a 
conspicuous  place  in  the  distinguished  group  of 
lawyers  who  participated  in  this  sound  and 
constructive  legal  work. 

That  they  were  both  possessed  of  keen  vision 
as  to  the  trend  of  legal  practice  is  indicated  by 
the  fact  that,  from  the  start  of  their  legal 
careers,  they  began  to  specialize  in  corporation 
and  commercial  law.  This  at  a  time  when  to 
become  a  "great  criminal  lawyer"  was  the  am- 
bition of  a  majority  of  the  youths  admitted 
to  the  bar.  To  escape  this  lure  and  see  that 
the  development  of  commerce  and  of  the  cor- 
poration would  call  for  the  highest  talents 
which  the  legal  profession  could  develop  was 
to  see  beyond  the  vision  of  most  members  of 
the  bar  at  that  time. 

This  vision  was  perhaps  peculiar  to  Josiah 
Cratty,  who  followed  commercial  and  corpora- 
tion practice  almost  exclusively.  The  criminal 
cases  in  which  he  appeared  in  court  may  almost 
be  counted  on  one's  fingers.  He  held  strongly 
to  the  belief  that  the  lawyer  who  keeps  busi- 
ness men  and  corporations  out  of  court,  by 
sound  and  constructive  council,  renders  the 
highest  type  of  legal  service.     An  able  speaker 


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and  a  good  "court  lawyer,"  he  was  better 
pleased  to  give  his  clients  the  advice  which 
would  steer  them  clear  of  litigation  than  to 
make  a  brilliant  presentation  of  their  cases 
after  they  had  become  entangled  in  litigation. 
In  the  main  these  observations  apply  also  to 
the  course  of  practice  followed  by  Thomas 
Cratty— although  for  three  years  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  W.  W.  O'Brien,  who,  in  the  sixties, 
was  one  of  the  outstanding  criminal  lawyers  in 
Illinois.  That  association,  together  with  his  na- 
tive ability,  did  much  to  establish  Thomas 
Cratty,  then  at  the  beginning  of  his  career,  in  a 
profitable  practice.  But  when  the  brilliant 
Irish  criminal  lawyer  left  Peoria  for  Chicago, 
Thomas  Cratty  remained,  entered  into  partner- 
ship with  Josiah  and  thenceforth  followed, 
almost  exclusively,  the  practice  of  commercial 
and   corporation  law. 

When  Josiah  Cratty  began  practice  at  the 
Peoria  bar  he  found  himself  pitted  against 
foemen  of  the  highest  ability.  Robert  G.  Inger- 
soll,  E.  C.  Ingersoll,  his  brother,  Nicholas  E. 
Worthington,  George  Puterbaugh,  Henry  Grove 
and  S.  D.  Puterbaugh  were  then  leaders  of  that 
bar. 

But  Josiah  Cratty  had  one  resource  in  his 
early  practice  which  stood  him  in  good  stead; 
the  law  library  of  Cratty  Brothers  was  consid- 
ered the  largest  in  Central  Illinois.  Large  pub- 
lic law  libraries  were  then  almost  unknown  and 
most  private  ones,  particularly  those  of  lawyers 
not  having  an  extensive  practice  were  rather 
meager.  This  library  containing  the  "reports" 
of  about  twenty-two  states,  did  two  things  for 
the  young  firm.  It  added  much  to  their  reputa- 
tion for  enterprise  and  thoroughness  and  at- 
tracted no  small  amount  of  business  from 
outside  their  immediate  locality.  Also  it  made 
their  office  decidedly  popular  with  local  law- 
yers who  wished  to  consult  it— a  privilege 
which  was  freely  granted. 

When,  in  1884,  the  reputation  and  business 
of  Cratty  Brothers  had  grown  to  the  point  that 
removal  to  the  larger  field  of  Chicago  seemed 
advisable,  the  members  of  the  Peoria  bar  looked 
with  a  feeling  little  short  of  consternation  upon 
the  probability  that  this  library  would  be  lost 
them  by  its  removal.  There  was  general  delight 
when  the  owners  of  this  storehouse  of  legal 
information  proposed  leaving  it  behind.  The 
Peoria  Law  Library  Association  was  formed  and 
the  Cratty  collection  of  law  books  became  its 


foundation.     Its  new  home  was  in  the  County 
Courthouse. 

Tracing  the  legal  partnerships  of  Thomas  and 
Josiah  Cratty  is  not  an  easy  matter,  save  for 
the  fact  that  they  were  generally  together  in 
practice.  Two  of  their  early  partners  in  Peoria 
were  Nicholas  Ulrich  and  Mr.  Boal.  Early  in 
their  Chicago  experience  the  Cratty  Brothers 
were  associated  with  Thomas  Dent  and  William 
P.  Black,  their  office  then  being  in  the  Old  Com- 
mercial National  Bank  Building,  at  175  Dear- 
born street  Later,  with  offices  in  the  Security 
Building,  corner  of  Madison  and  Wells  streets, 
the  firm  was  known  as  Cratty  Brothers,  Jarvis 
&  Cleveland.  Still  later,  at  139  North  Clark 
street  the  style  of  the  firm  was  Cratty  Broth- 
ers and  Flatau.  At  one  time  J.  M.  Flower  was 
a  member  of  the  Cratty  firm. 

The   constructive    bent    of    Josiah     Cratty's 
mind  frequently  led  him  into  the  field  of  busi- 
ness organization  in  which  he  made  an  enviable 
reputation.     His  election  to  the  presidency  of 
the  United  Commercial  Lawyers'  Association  of 
the  United  States  was  one  of  the  many  recogni- 
tions of  his  outstanding  abilities  in  this  line  of 
practice.     In  fact,  his  success  in  this  field  fre- 
quently  led   him   into   the  active  business   ad- 
ministration of  various   enterprises.     He  was, 
for  example,  president  of  the  M.  E.  Page  Con- 
fectionery Company  and  a  director  of  the  North 
Western  Building  and  Loan  Association.     That 
he  discharged  these  active  business  responsibili- 
ties successsfully  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that 
he   was   elected   president  of   the  national   or- 
ganization known  as  the  Manufacturing   Con- 
fectioners Association.    He  was  also  a  respected 
and  influential   member  of  the  American   Bar 
Association,    the    Commercial    Law    League    of 
America,  the  Illinois  Bar  Association,  the  Chi- 
cago Bar  Association,  the  Chicago  Press  Club, 
The  Chicago  City  Club  and  the  Hamilton  Club 
of   Chicago. 

Inevitably,  he  was  a  leading  spirit  in  the 
Phil  Sheridan  Post  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic.  Josiah  Cratty  was  never  happier 
than  when  among  the  men  who  had  been  in 
the  cavalry  arm  of  the  service.  Undoubtedly 
one  of  the  pleasantest  days  of  his  life  was 
when  the  annual  reunion  of  the  Eighth  Illinois 
Veteran  Cavalry  Association  was  held  at  Forest 
Glen,  where  he  had  his  summer  home.  This 
was  in  1910  and  on  this  occasion  he  gave  an 
address  of  welcome  on  behalf  of  the  citizens 
and  of  the  American  Boy  Scouts.     His  interest 


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in  the  Boy  Scouts  was  constant  and  intimate 
and  their  appreciation  of  his  friendship  was 
daily  attested  by  respectful  salutes  whenever 
he  met  them  upon  the  streets  of  the  town. 
Josiah  Cratty  was  the  leading  spirit  of  two 
other  organizations  to  which  he  gave  himself 
with  unstinted  and  characteristic  energy  and 
enthusiasm.  As  president  of  the  Esther  Falk- 
enstein  Settlement  he  labored  untiringly  and 
found  a  satisfying  field  for  the  expression  of 
his  warm  human  sympathies  and  his  desire  to 
give   service   to   his  fellow    beings. 

The  civic  enterprise  to  which  he  gave  much 
time  and  energy  was  the  creation  of  the  North 
Western  Sanitary  District.  It  is  not  too  much 
to  say  that  he  was  the  father  of  this  project 
for  the  common  good  of  an  important  section 
of  Chicago.  He  fought  untiringly  for  the  suc- 
cess of  this  public  benefit  enterprise  and  be- 
came one  of  its  directors. 

Perhaps  Mr.  Cratty's  greatest  contribution 
to  the  community  and  the  city  in  which  he 
lived  was  his  vision  of  the  forest  preserve  proj- 
ect which  is  today  an  actuality  enjoyed  by 
thousands.  If  he  was  not  the  father  of  that 
great  enterprise  for  the  public  good,  he  was 
certainly  one  of  its  leading  pioneers  and  fought 
for  its  establishment  with  unstinted  courage 
and  devotion.  The  idea  of  providing  a  vernal 
retreat  for  the  children  and  the  men  and  women 
of  the  crowded  city  streets  appealed  powerfully 
to  the  countrybred  man  who  believed  that  no 
boy  or  girl,  no  man  or  woman  debarred  from 
frequent  contact  with  the  woods  and  fields  and 
streams  had  a  fair  chance  to  make  the  most 
of  themselves. 

As  a  neighbor,  a  member  of  a  small  suburban 
community,  the  attitude  of  Josiah  Cratty  is 
aptly  illustrated  by  the  founding  of  the  library 
at  Forest  Glen,  his  summer  home.  Early  in  the 
autumn  of  1909  the  teachers  of  the  Forest  Glen 
school  received  from  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cratty  an 
offer  of  200  volumes  as  a  start  of  a  library. 
The  letter  suggested  that,  as  the  main  purpose 
of  the  library  was  to  stimulate  and  broaden  the 
intellectual  life  of  the  children  of  the  com- 
munity, as  well  as  to  afford  them  wholesome 
entertainment,  the  offer  was  made  on  the  con- 
dition that  each  pupil  attending  school  in 
Forest  Glen  should  contribute  one  book  or  its 
equivalent  in  money.  This  immediately  secured 
the  active  interest  of  the  school  children  and 
in  October,  1909,  the  library  was  opened  with 
277  books.     The  community  gathering  celebrat- 


ing this  occasion  was  a  very  happy  one.  The 
library  was  dedicated  to  the  memory  of  little 
"Joe"  Cratty  who  died  when  a  small  child. 

In  June,  1910,  the  library  committee  asked 
the  people  of  Forest  Glen  to  gather  in  Captain 
Hazleton's  Woods  to  express  their  appreciation 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cratty  for  the  good  which  the 
library  had  accomplished.  However,  this  com- 
munity meeting  resolved  itself  into  a  testimonial 
to  the  high  qualities  of  Josiah  Cratty  as  a 
neighbor  and  a  fellow-townsman.  He  never 
sought  public  office  save  as  a  means  of  service 
to  his  community.  His  membership  in  the 
Board  of  Sanitary  District  Trustees  is  a  case 
in  point ;  it  involves  a  large  burden  of  re- 
sponsibility and  work,  its  compensations  were 
solely  in  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  the 
interests  of  his  community  for  many  years  to 
come  demanded  that  the  task  be  done  in  a 
thorough  and  whole  hearted  way.  Public  office 
as  an  opportunity  for  personal  prominence  or 
financial  gain  had  no  attractions  for  Josiah 
Cratty.  The  same  statement  may  be  applied 
with  equal  accuracy  to  his  brother,  Thomas. 

Some  years  after  he  began  the  practice  of 
law,  Josiah  married  Elizabeth  M.  Earing.  They 
had  two  children,  Paul  J.  and  Theo  C,  now 
Mrs.  A.  W.  Aya  of  Medford.  Oregon.  The  wife 
of  Mr.  Cratty's  youth  died  in  the  eleventh  year 
of  their  married  life  and  six  years  later  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Kate  E.  Jabine  who  now  makes  her 
home  with  Paul  J.  Cratty  in  Chicago. 

Following  several  months  of  ill  health,  in  the 
summer  of  1915,  Mr.  Cratty  decided  to  visit 
his  daughter  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  was  not 
able  to  endure  the  high  altitude  of  the  moun- 
tains and  suffered  a  complete  collapse.  He 
was  at  once  brought  back  to  Chicago  where  he 
died  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital  August  11,  1915. 
His  home  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  at  River- 
side and  here  the  principal  funeral  services 
were  held.  The  burial,  however,  took  place  at 
Elinwood,  Illinois,  in  Knox  County,  where  his 
boyhood  had  been  spent.  He  was  sixty-eight 
years  old  and  at  the  moment  when  his  remains 
were  being  laid  to  rest  in  the  old  family  burial 
, ground  at  Elmwood,  a  boy  scout  at  Forest  Glen, 
where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cratty  were  accustomed  to 
spend  their  summers,  swung  the  bell  of  the  vil- 
lage church,  one  stroke  for  each  year  of  the 
life  of  the  devoted   friend  of  the  Boy   Scouts. 

Thomas  Cratty,  through  his  early  association 
with  W.  W.  O'Brien,  one  of  the  most  brilliant 
criminal    lawyers   of   his   day   in    Illinois,   was 


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placed  under  strong  temptation  to  follow  crimi- 
nal law.  He  had  the  wit,  the  eloquence  and  the 
"human  appeal"  to  have  achieved  a  brilliant 
success  in  that  field.  But  he  also  had  the  vision 
and  the  poise  to  choose  a  more  constructive,  if 
less  conspicuous,  line  of  action.  Therefore  he 
applied  his  talents  to  the  practice  of  corpora- 
tion law,  where  his  keen  business  sense  and 
vision  brought  him  marked   success. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  law  college  of 
Northwestern  University  and  practiced  in  Elm- 
wood  and  Peoria  before  coming  to  Chicago  in 
the  early  eighties. 

One  of  his  first  clients  in  Chicago  was  Patrick 
J.  Healy  of  the  great  music  house  of  Lyon  & 
Healy.  This  association  drew  him  ultimately 
into  an  administrative  connection.  In  the  clos- 
ing years  of  his  life  he  was  treasurer  of  that 
corporation  and  a  member  of  the  board  of 
directors. 

He  was  one  of  the  earliest  members  of  the 
Union  League  Club  and  one  of  their  conspicuous 
figures.  Up  to  the  time  of  his  death  he  retained 
his  deep  interest  in  public  affairs.  He  also  was 
a   great  admirer  of  music  and  the  drama  and 


in  his  younger  days  was  a  frequent  attendant 
at  the  opera  and  notable  dramatic  events.  He 
took  a  keen  interest  in  athletics  and  sports 
and  was  one  of  the  first  stockholders  in  the  old 
Washington  Park  Club. 

As  a  young  man  "Tom"  Cratty  was  known 
far  beyond  the  borders  of  Illinois  as  an  orator 
and  a  public  speaker.  His  clear  thinking, 
pungent  wit  and  lucid  English  made  him  a 
welcome  speaker  at  public  gatherings  and 
private  banquets.  It  is  told  of  him  that  at  a 
meeting  held  at  Peoria  at  which  "Bob"  Inger- 
sol  was  speaker,  there  were  many  hundreds  of 
people  who  could  not  crowd  into  the  Audi- 
torium. Mr.  Cratty  was  called  upon  to  address 
the  overflow  meeting.  As  he  proceeded  to  get 
"warmed  up,"  people  inside  the  doors  began  to 
drift  outside  to  see  what  was  going  on  and 
were  told,  "Come  on  out,  Tom  Cratty  is  making 
one  of  his  speeches." 

Thomas  Cratty  was  unmarried  and  this  fact 
made  him  virtually  a  member  of  his  brother 
Josiah's  family  and  household.  Born  in  1833 
in  Delaware  County,  Ohio,  he  died  just  short 
of  eighty-one  years  of  age. 

By  Forrest  Crissey 


EUGENE  UNDERWOOD  KIMBARK. 


Eugene  Underwood  Kimbark  was  born  in 
Chicago,  Illinois,  on  March  13,  1867.  He  was  a 
son  of  Daniel  Avery  and  Eliza  (Underwood) 
Kimbark.  The  family  have  been  identified  with 
Chicago's  growth  for  many  years,  and  Kimbark 
Avenue  is  named  for  them. 

As  a  boy,  Eugene  Kimbark  went  to  the  Brown 
School,  where  he  received  the  Foster  medal. 
He  went  through  high  school  in  Chicago,  and 
was  planning  his  collegiate  career  when  his 
father  died.  After  his  father's  death,  Eugene 
decided  to  give  up  his  plans  for  college  and 
enter  business.  He  soon  went  to  work  for  the 
J.  W.  Butler  Paper  Company.  From  this  be- 
ginning in  the  paper  industry,  he  grew,  with 
the  years,  until  he  achieved  a  position  of  emi- 
nence and  recognized  worth. 

After  being  with  the  Butler  Paper  Company 
for  twelve  years,  Mr.  Kimbark  left  this  or- 
ganization and  founded  The  Paper  Mills'  Com- 
pany. With  him  were  associated  Mr.  P.  R. 
Shumway,  who  became  president  of  the  com- 
pany, and  Mr.  Forest  Hopkins,  who  had  been 
associated  with  Mr.  Kimbark  at  the  Butler 
Paper    Company.      These    three    men    laid    the 


foundation  on  which  the  splendid  success  of 
The  Paper  Mills'   Company  has  been  built 

Mr.  Kimbark  put  the  whole  wealth  of  his 
personality  into  this  business,  for  he  had  a 
keen  interest  in  his  work.  From  the  begin- 
ning, he  took  a  stand  that  made  the  welfare 
of  the  industry  more  important  than  purely 
personal  considerations.  A  number  of  times 
he  sacrificed  some  immediate  profit,  on  the 
ground  that  a  principle  affecting  the  whole 
trade  was  at  stake.  He  was  made  a  member 
of  the  first  executive  board  of  the  National 
Paper  Trade  Association,  and  was  elected 
president  of  the  association  at  the  fourth  an- 
nual election  of  officers.  He  served  two  terms. 
He  was  also  president  of  the  Western  Paper 
Trade  Association. 

Not  only  did  Mr.  Kimbark  find  time  to  give 
a  surprising  amount  of  thought  and  energy  to 
the  development  of  the  paper  trade,  but  he 
took  an  equally  active  and  greatly  appreciated 
part  in  furthering  the  welfare  of  Chicago. 
He  was  born  here  and  lived  here  all  his  life, 
and  always  felt  a  deep  interest  in  the  upbuild- 
ing  and   advancement   of   the  city.     He   early 


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aligned  himself  with  the  Chicago  Association 
of  Commerce,,  was  active  in  its  councils  from 
its  organization,  and  became  president  of  the 
Association  in  1910.  His  influence,  power  of 
initiative  and  sound  judgment  are  shown  in  his 
work  for  the  establishment  of  the  Daylight 
Savings  Plan,  which  he.  believed  would  be  a 
great  blessing  to  everyone  who  works.  He  was 
the  first  to  suggest  daylight  saving  in  the 
Chicago  district ;  and  made  several  trips  to 
Washington  during  the  days  when  many  conser- 
vatives, looking  on  daylight  saving  as  a  fad 
and  useless  innovation,  made  a  bitter  fight 
against  it.  The  result  of  Mr.  Kimbark's  work 
and  the  value  of  his  original  judgment  is  evi- 
denced by  the  fact  that  the  greater  cities  of  the 
United  States  now  utilize  the  plan  throughout 
the  summer  months.  It  should  also  be  recorded 
here  that  Mr.  Kimbark  was  one  of  the  early 
and  active  advocates  of  the  Sane  Fourth.  He 
was  also  much  interested  and  was  one  of  the 
first  to  urge  the  building  of  the  Stadium  on 
the  Lake  Front.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chi- 
cago Crime  Commission,  and  also  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Fifteen  which  has  worked  efficiently 
to  suppress  vice  in  the  city.    During  the  period 


of  the  war  he  was  chairman  of  the  paper 
trade  in  all  of  the  Liberty  Loan  drives.  He 
also  served  on  the  Recreation  Board  which  did 
much  to  make  life  pleasanter  for  the  soldiers, 
sailors  and  marines  in  Chicago. 

On  the  2nd  of  January,  1890,  Eugene  Under- 
wood Kimbark  was  married  to  Miss  Louise 
Rice,  of  Chicago,  a  daughter  of  William  H. 
and  Mary  (Morse)  Rice.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kim- 
bark's children  are:  Harry  R.,  Donald  R., 
Louise  (Mrs.  James  R.  MacCall,  Jr.),  John  R. 
and   Mary  Kimbark. 

Mr.  Kimbark  was  a  delightful  companion 
and  most  loyal  friend.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Union  League  Club,  Chicago  Athletic  As- 
sociation, Evanston  Club,  of  which  for  several 
terms  he  was  president,  Glen  View  Club, 
Country  Club  of  Evanston,  and  was  a  charter 
member  of  the  Skokie  Country  Club.  He  was 
also  a  director  of  the  Chicago  Trust  Com- 
pany. 

It  is  with  real  regret  that  we  record  the 
death  of  Mr.  Kimbark  on  February  25,  1923. 
He  was  a  remarkably  fine  type  of  business 
man  with  high  ideals,  and  everyone,  who  knew 
him  well,  prized  his  friendship. 


ROBERT  DOUGAL  MacARTHUR. 


A  most  estimable  gentleman,  a  remarkably 
learned  practitioner,  broadly  cultured  and  pub- 
lic spirited,  has  left  us  through  the  recent 
death  of  Dr.  Robert  D.  MacArthur.  He  was  a 
foremost  citizen  of  Chicago  for  the  past  fifty 
years. 

Robert  D.  MacArthur  was  born  at  Martin- 
town,  Ontario,  Canada,  on  August  1,  1843.  His 
parents  were  John  and  Margaret  (MacMartin). 
The  father  was  a  farmer  and  lumber  merchant. 

As  a  boy,  Robert  MacArthur  went  to  the 
Williamstown  public  schools ;  and,  later,  was 
graduated  from  McGill  University  at  Montreal, 
with  his  degree  as  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1867. 
He  practiced  in  Perth,  Canada  and  at  Milwau- 
kee, Wisconsin,  before  coming  to  Chicago.  He 
arrived  here  the  Sunday  immediately  preceding 
the  Great  Fire  in  1871.  He  was  continuously 
identified  with  the  practice  of  medicine  here 
since  that  time,  and  for  years  he  was  accorded 
recognition  for  distinguished  ability.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chicago  Polyclinic 
and  Henrotin  Hospitals,  being  on  the  staff  of 
both  institutions.     He  was  also  attending  physi- 


cian in  dermatology  at  the  Presbyterian  and  St. 
Joseph  Hospitals.  He  was  an  honored  member 
of  the  American  Medical  Association  and  the 
Chicago  Medical  Society. 

On  September  27,  1871,  Doctor  MacArthur 
was  married  at  Montreal,  to  Miss  Jemima  Beat- 
tie,  a  daughter  of  David  and  Isabella  (France') 
Beattie.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  MacArthur  had  three 
children :  Robert  Cameron  MacArthur,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  twelve;  Mae  MacArthur,  who  died 
in  infancy ;  and  Ida  Bell  MacArthur  who  mar- 
ried Ralph  Rankin  Campbell  of  Johnstown,  Pa., 
the  son  of  General  J.  M.  Campbell.  Robert  Mac- 
Arthur  Campbell  and  Katharine  Rankin  Camp- 
bell, Doctor  MacArthur's  grandchildren  are 
the  only  members  of  the  family  who  survive 
him. 

Doctor  MacArthur  was  for  nearly  thirty- 
seven  years  a  member  of  the  Fourth  Presby- 
terian church,  of  which  he  was  an  elder.  He 
belonged  to  the  Midday  and  Union  Clubs.  His 
heart  was  given  in  deepest  interest  to  the  work 
of  the  Scottish  Old  People's  Home  at  Riverside, 


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Illinois,  and  to  the  St.  Andrew's  Society  of 
Chicago.  He  was  acting  physician  for  both  or- 
ganizations and  was  a  member  of  longest  stand- 
in;.'  in  the  St.  Andrew's  Society. 

In  1888  he  built  the  residence  at  1164  North 
Dearborn    Street   which  he   occupied   until   his 


death,   and   which   has  become  rather   a   land- 
mark through  being  the  Doctor's  home. 

Doctor  Robert  MacArthur  died  on  October  24, 
1922.  He  will  be  remembered  not  only  with 
respect  but  with  warm  affection  and  real  grati- 
tude. 


THOMAS  HENRY  CALLAHAN. 


The  late  Thomas  H.  Callahan  of  Chicago,  for- 
merly sales  manager  of  the  Piqua  Handle  Com- 
pany of  Piqua,  Ohio,  and  more  recently  the  rep- 
resentative of  that  company  at  Chicago,  should 
receive  permanent  recognition. 

He  was  born  in  Beloit,  Ohio,  on  December  9, 
1887,  a  son  of  Daniel  J.  and  Anna  (Ritter)  Cal- 
lahan. 

He  attended  public  school  at  Salem,  Ohio,  and 
after  that  was  engaged  in  work  for  one  of  the 
railroads  for  a  time.  Following  this  he  was  con- 
nected with  several  business  concerns :  and  dur- 
ing this  time  he  gained  a  "thoroughly  sound  and 
practical  insight  into  the  methods  of  manufac- 
turing and  selling.  He  possessed  unusually  good 
personal  qualifications  and  he  used  his  opportu- 
nities wisely  to  increase  his  strength  and  knowl- 
edge. 

He  was  then  chosen  to  fill  the  important  office 
of  Sales  Manager  of  the  Piqua  Handle  Company 


at  Piqua,  Ohio.  This  company  are  manufac- 
turers of  all  kinds  of  wooden  handles  for  tools, 
implements,  etc. 

It  was  in  1922  that  Mr.  Callahan  came  to  Chi- 
cago to  represent  his  company  in  this  great  field. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Callahan  to  Miss  Alma 
Becker  took  place  at  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  on  No- 
vember 2nd,  1909.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Callahan  have 
three  children :  Eleanor  E.,  Thomas  H.  and 
Margaret  A.  Callahan.  The  family  home  has 
been  maintained  in  Chicago  since  1922. 

It  should  also  be  stated  of  Mr.  Callahan  that 
for  some  time  he  was  fiscal  agent  of  the  Mid- 
land Club  and  was  of  much  influence  in  its  up- 
building. 

Thomas  H.  Callahan  died  on  October  13,  1927. 
For  some  years  past  he  was  one  of  the  leading 
figures  among  manufacturers  and  distributors  of 
wood  products  in  this  part  of  the  country. 


WILLIAM  MILLER  CARY. 


The  late  Captain  William  Miller  Cary,  was 
born  at  Utica,  New  York,  on  October  8,  1818,  a 
son  of  James  and  Mercy  (Weaver)  Cary.  The 
family  is  of  Revolutionary  stock. 

His  boyhood  was  lived  mostly  in  Clayton, 
Ogdensburg  and  Natural  Bridge,  New  York. 

Later  he  came  West  and  became  a  very  promi- 
nent figure  of  his  day  in  the  early  shipping  in- 
dustry on  the  Great  Lakes.  For  a  long  time  he 
sailed  as  Captain  for  the  firm  of  Merrick,  Fow- 
ler and  Esselstyn,  in  the  Chicago  timber  trade. 
We  understand  that  it  was  he  who  brought  the 
first  load  of  material  to  Detroit  that  was  used 
when  the  building  of  the  Michigan  Central  Rail- 
road was  commenced. 

Captain  Cary's  ship,  the  bark  Republic,  was 
built  especially  for  him.  He  and  his  ship  were 
known  and  highly  regarded  throughout  the  en- 
tire Great  Lakes  region.  Men  were  proud  to 
say  that  they  had  sailed  with  Captain  Cary  for 
"they  knew  something  when  they  got  back." 

In  the  late  sixties,  Captain  Cary  sold  out  his 


interests  and,  with  Mr.  Z.  M.  Hall,  engaged  in 
the  ship  chandlery  business  at  Chicago.  Later, 
he  retired  to  his  fruit  farm  in  Michigan. 

Captain  Cary  also  served  as  Harbor  Master 
at  Chicago. 

On  December  14,  1843,  he  was  married,  at 
Bainbridge,  Michigan,  to  Miss  Caroline  George, 
a  daughter  of  Woodbridge  C.  and  Sally  Ann 
(Farrar)  George.  Hers  was  a  fine  old  family 
of  English  descent. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  Cary  had  nine  children. 
Woodbridge  G.  Cary ;  Sarah  Cary,  deceased ; 
Leonora  Cary,  deceased;  Genevieve  Cary  (Mrs. 
George  R.  Wright)  ;  Arthur  Cary,  deceased  ;  Clar- 
ence E.  Cary;  Wilhelmina  Cary  (Mrs.  Henry  L. 
Pitcher)  ;  Nellie  Cary,  deceased;  and  Ellen  Cary 
(Mrs.  Frank  A.  Burr),  deceased. 

Captain  Cary  was  a  cousin  of  Alice  and  Phoebe 
Cary. 

The  death  of  Captain  Cary  occurred  on  June 
1,  1897.  He  was  a  fine,  patriotic  American  and 
one  of  the  best  of  the  old  Lake  Captains. 


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ORRINGTON  LUNT. 


As  a  pioneer  of  Chicago  and  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  Evanston,  Orrington  Lunt  will  always 
be  held  in  high  esteem  by  the  people  of  Illinois. 
He  was  born  Bowdoinhain,  Maine,  December 
4,  1815,  a  son  of  William  and  Anne  Matilda 
(Sumner)  Lunt.  When  a  boy  of  fourteen, 
Orrington  Lunt  left  school  and  entered  his 
father's  store  at  Bowdoinham,  and  later  he  was 
made  clerk  and  treasurer  of  the  town,  and 
subsequently  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the 
peace.  On  January  16,  1842  he  was  married 
to  Cornelia  A.  Gray,  and  they  came  to  Chicago 
in  the  fall  of  that  year,  at  a  time  when  there 
were  only  5,000  inhabitants  in  the  little  city, 
but  returned  to  Maine  the  following  spring.  Once 
more,  they  tried  to  locate  at  Chicago,  and  were 
successful  and  by  1844,  Mr.  Lunt  had  established 
himself  here  as  a  grain  merchant,  and  in  time 
helped  to  organize  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade, 
and  succeeded  in  securing  improvements  on  the 
Chicago  Harbor.  He  was  also  connected  as  a 
director  of  the  Chicago  Foremen's  and  Chicago 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  companies,  and  the  Ga- 
lena &  Chicago  Union  Railroad,  remaining  with 
it  as  a  director  and  auditor  after  its  consolida- 
tion to  form  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  system. 


Mr.  Lunt  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association;  was 
president  of  the  Chicago  Bible  Society;  one  of 
the  life  members  of  the  Chicago  Orphan  asy- 
lum ;  a  trustee  of  the  Dearborn  Seminary ;  one 
of  the  original  trustees  of  Clark  Seminary  of 
Aurora;  one  of  the  members  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  first  Homeopathic  hospitals, 
established  in  1854,  and  a  trustee  of  Hahnemann 
College;  a  benefactor  of  Quinn  Chapel  for 
colored  people ;  a  trustee  of  the  First  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  and  secretary  of  its  board ; 
member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  and  Finance 
during  the  Civil  War ;  president  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Care  Fund  for  the  lot  owners  of 
Rose  Hill  Cemetery  and  treasurer  until  a  short 
time  prior  to  his  death ;  member  of  the  board 
of  trustees,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  North- 
western University  and  the  Garrett  Biblical 
Institute.  He  helped  to  secure  the  charters  of 
the  university  and  institute,  and  in  1874  moved 
to  Evanston,  where  he  continued  to  live  until 
his  death.  Mr.  Lunt  was  spared  to  see  the 
Orrington  Lunt  Library  completed,  dying  April 
5,  1897. 


HENRY  LANGDON  PITCHER. 


In  order  to  meet  successfully  the  demands  of 
a  general  mercantile  trade,  characteristics  of  a 
high  order  are  required.  Not  only  does  a  retail 
merchant  have  to  know  how  to  buy  and  when  to 
lay  in  his  stocks,  but  he  must  understand  best 
methods  to  selling.  Simply  to  dispose  of  his 
goods  is  not  sufficient.  Anyone  can  take  money 
for  articles,  but  it  requires  knowledge  of  human 
nature,  of  the  laws  of  demand  and  supply  and 
a  thorough  comprehension  of  the  importance  of 
the  merchandising  for  a  man  to  build  up  a 
steady  and  reliable  trade  and  not  only  satisfy 
his  customers  but  do  it  in  such  a  manner  that 
they  will  not  be  suited  with  the  service  of  any 
other  competing  house.  The  late  Henry  Lang- 
don  Pitcher,  for  many  years  associated  with 
the  dry-goods  and  clothing  trade  of  Kansas  City 
and  Chicago,  was  a  born  merchant,  and  his 
success  in  life  came  from  the  fact  that  he  knew 
how  to  make  practical  application  of  his  abil- 
ity along  this  line  and  that  he  had  also  in- 
grained within  him  unswerving  honesty. 

Henry   Langdon   Pitcher   was   born   at   Bain- 


bridge,  Michigan.  June  18.  1847,  a  son  of  Andrew 
and  Harriet  (Cook)  Pitcher.  After  attending 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  place,  Mr. 
Pitcher  learned  the  essential  fundamentals  of 
store-keeping  as  a  clerk  at  St  Joseph,  Michigan, 
and  worked  here  between  1863  and  1869.  He 
then  became  purser  and  clerk,  sailing  on  the 
Great  Lakes.  He  was  on  the  steamer  "Barber" 
which  burned  in  mid-lake  in  July,  1871,  and, 
although  he  escaped,  he  was  compelled  to  jump 
overboard  to  save  himself  and  was  in  the  water 
for  eight  hours  before  he  was  rescued  from  the 
cabin  door  to  which  he  was  clinging. 

This  unfortunate  experience  led  him  to  leave 
the  lakes  and  he  went  into  the  dry-goods  busi- 
ness on  his  own  account  at  Benton  Harbor, 
Michigan,  in  1872,  where  he  remained  until 
1884,  when  he  opened  a  clothing  business  at 
Janesville,  Wisconsin,  and  conducted  it  until 
1886,  at  which  time  he  was  made  manager  of 
the  house  of  Browning,  King  &  Co.  at  Kansas 
City.  Missouri,  where  he  remained  until  1892, 
in  that  year  being  transferred  to  Chicago.     He 


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held  the  position  of  manager  of  the  Chicago 
branch  until  1898.  In  1895  he  became  inter- 
ested in  Rosehill  Cemetery  and  was  so  active 
in  its  development  that  he  was  made  president 
of  the  Rosehill  Cemetery  Company  and  served 
in  that  capacity  until  1909.  From  1899  until 
1907  he  also  acted  as  president  of  the  Henry  L. 
Pitcher  Clothing  Company  of  Kansas  City. 

In  1871  Mr.  Pitcher  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Sarah  Elizabeth  Cary,  who  died  on  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1905.  In  August.  1906,  Mr.  Pitcher 
was  married  (second)  to  Wilhelmina  Cary, 
a  sister  of  his  first  wife.  Their  father  was 
one  of  the  most  widely  known  and  highly  re- 
spected Great  Lakes  captains  in  the  sen-ice 
during  the  earlier  days.  He  was  frequently  in 
Chicago   during   the   time   that  Fort  Dearborn 


was  still  standing,  and  he  owned  an  interest  in 
some  of  the  pioneer  business  houses  here.  Dur- 
ing the  Civil  War  he  was  very  active  in  further- 
ing the  operation  of  the  "Underground  Rail- 
road." 

Mr.  Pitcher  belonged  to  the  Marquette  and 
Union  League  clubs.  He  was  a  Thirty-Second 
Degree  A.  A.  S.  R.  Mason.  When  he  died  on 
June  21,  1910,  Chicago  lost  one  of  its  worth- 
while men,  and  progressive  citizens.  He  was 
a  man  of  very  orderly  and  systematic  habits 
and  was  thus  enabled  to  handle  in  a  capable 
manner  the  problems,  with  all  their  intricate 
details,  of  the  several  business  concerns  with 
which  he  was  associated.  His  work  in  connec- 
tion with  Rosehill  Cemetery  has  left  an  indelible 
mark  on  the  record  of  Chicago's  growth. 


MAURICE  WOOLMAN. 


The  late  Major  Maurice  Woolmau  of  Chicago, 
Illinois,  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
on  April  15,  1862,  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Henrietta 
(Bloom)  Woolman.  He  came  to  Chicago  when 
he  was  seven  years  old. 

During  the  period  of  his  boyhood  he  attended 
public  school  in  Chicago.  When  these  days  were 
past  he  entered  business,  soon  becoming  a  paint- 
ing contractor. 

Subsequently  he  became  connected  with  the 
insurance  business  here,  as  Insurance  Adjuster 
and  as  a  fire  repair  contractor.  This  business 
grew  and  Major  Woolman  filled  a  place  of  much 
importance  in  the  field  of  insurance  here.  Since 
his  death,  his  business  is  to  be  continued  by  his 
son,  Chester  Woolman. 

When  but  fifteen  years  old  Major  Woolman 
first  became  identified  with  military  affairs,  be- 
coming a  member  of  an  independent  battery 
commanded  by  Capt.  Edgar  B.  Tobey.  This  bat- 
tery was  later  re-organized  as  the  Lake  View 
Battery  for  service  in  the  Spanish-American 
War.  In  more  recent  years  it  became  a  part  of 
the  First  Illinois  Field  Artillery,  which  during 
the  World  War  became  the  One  Hundred  and 
Forty-ninth  Field  Artillery  of  the  Rainbow 
Division. 

We  print  here  a  review  of  his  military  history  : 
Enlisted  as  Private,   Independent  Battery  in 
1877  during  railroad  riots.    Served  two  years. 
Appointed  Caisson  Corporal  and  Gunner. 
Mustered  in  State  Service  April.  1879,  as  Gun- 
ner.    Served  five  years. 

Promoted  to  Duty  Sergeant  and  Quarter  Mas- 


ter   Sergeant    and    Drill    Master    of    the    Com- 
mander.   Drill  Master  for  seven  years. 

First  appointed  Sergeant  of  the  Gattling  Gun. 
Re-enlisted  1884  for  three  years. 
Discharged  in  1887  as  Sergeant. 

Entered  again  during  Stock  Yards  Riots  in 
1889.  Served  short  time.  Re-entered  during 
railroad  riots  in  1894.     Served  in  Riots. 

Re-entered  Provisional  Battery  for  the  Span- 
ish American  War.  Remained  with  Battery  as 
First  Lieutenant  until  close  of  war. 

Re-entered  the  State  Service  as  First  Lieuten- 
ant Battery  D.,  I.  N.  G.  until  disbandment  of 
Battery  1900.  Commanded  Independent  Battery 
1900  to  1901. 

Re-entered  State  Service  1901  as  captain  com- 
manding Battery  "D."  Served  two  years  and 
eight  months. 

Mustered  out  December  28th,  1903.  Remained 
in  Independent  Battery  since  last  date  as  its 
Commanding  Officer. 

Mustered  in  Battery  "B"  as  Captain.  Retired 
June  5th,  1908. 

Elected  1st  Lieutenant  Commanding  October 
23rd,  1908. 

Elected  Captain  Commanding  February  10th, 

1911. 

Continuously  identified  with  the  Artillery 
service  from  July,  1877,  to  January  20th,  1913, 
with  the  National  Guard  and  Independent 
Service. 

SPECIAL  ORDERS  NO.  10,  ADJUTANT  GEN- 
ERAL'S  OFFICE.   SPRINGFIELD.   ILL. 

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AS  MAJOR,  DATING  FROM  JANUARY  20th, 
1913. 

1914  ORGANIZED  SCHOOL  OF  ARTIL- 
LERY. 

1915  ORGANIZED  UNIVERSITIES  BAT- 
TERIES  D  &  E,  I.  N.   G. 

This  last  organization  became  part  of  the  149th 
F.  A.,  Rainbow  Div.   (42nd  Div.) 

On  March  2,  1887,  Maurice  Woolman  was  mar- 
ried, at  Chicago,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Clara  Heller,  a 


daughter  of  Emanuel  and  Babetta  (Hirsch) 
Heller.  Major  and  Mrs.  Woolman  have  three 
children  Emanuel,  Jeannette  and  Chester  Wool- 
man. 

Major  Woolman  was  a  member  of  Emanuel 
Temple.  He  was  also  a  Mason,  Odd  Fellow,  and 
belonged  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

Major  Woolman  died  on  June  13,  1928.  He 
was  a  distinguished  figure  in  insurance  and  mil- 
itary circles  at  Chicago. 


JAMES  PEABODY  MAESH. 


The  late  James  P.  Marsh,  of  Chicago,  was  a 
distinguished  representative  of  a  family  which, 
coming  to  this  country  from  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land, in  1633,  originally  settled  in  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Mr.  Marsh  was  a  son  of  Caleb  and  Mary 
(Latten)  Marsh  and  was  born  at  Lockport, 
New  York,  on  May  29th,  1841.  During  his 
earliest  years  the  family  moved  from  Lockport 
to  reside  at  the  old  Marsh  homestead  some 
miles  outside  the  city,  and  here  their  youngest 
son  James  spent  his  boyhood,  going  to  the  coun- 
try school,  learning  to  farm  and  incidentally 
becoming  known,  with  his  brothers,  as  the 
crack-shots  and  sportsmen  of  the  country-side. 

An  older  brother,  Professor  O.  C.  Marsh,  the 
palaentologist,  had  already  begun  to  bring  dis- 
tinction to  the  family  name  in  becoming  known 
to  two  hemispheres  through  his  discovery  and 
accumulation  of  the  most  extensive  collection 
of  vertebrate  fossils  in  the  world — now  in  the 
possession  of  Yale  University. 

Fired  by  this  brother's  illustrious  example, 
James,  at  twenty  years  of  age,  ambitious  to 
succeed  and  filled  with  courage  and  confidence 
in  his  own  powers  to  make  his  way,  resolutely 
broke  the  ties  of  his  old  home  and  against  his 
father's  will  "started  West  to  seek  his  fortune" ; 
started  as  many  another  young  man  of  that 
era  was  then  doing,  who,  with  their  varied  and 
splendid  gifts  were  destined  to  rank  among  the 
makers  and  builders  of  the  great  city  of  Chi- 
cago. How  he  arrived  with  only  seven  dollars 
in  his  pocket,  representing  aU  his  worldly 
wealth,  and  of  the  struggles  and  shifts  to  which 
his  poverty  forced  him,  was  a  story  he  delighted 
in  the  late  years  of  his  life  to  tell  his  grand- 
child. 
Almost  immediately  his  natural  genius  as  an 


inventor  asserted  itself  and  although  totally 
without  any  previous  technical  education,  he  be- 
gan work  on  the  first  of  the  inventions  that 
have  since  proved  to  be  indispensable  in  design- 
ing and  installing  steam-heating  apparatus 
throughout  the  world.  As  the  inventor  of  the 
Automatic  Air-Valve,  now  universally  in  use 
on  steam  radiators,  and  of  the  illuminated  dial 
steam-gauge,  indispensable  in  dark  engine 
rooms  on  land  and  on  ships  at  sea,  James  P. 
Marsh  is  perhaps  the  best  known. 

In  1865  he  founded  the  firm  of  Jas.  P.  Marsh 
&  Co.,  to  manufacture  and  market  his  inven- 
tions, and  under  his  direction  and  supervision, 
from  its  organization  until  his  retirement  fifty- 
four  years  later,  he  was  the  instigator  of  an 
unsurpassed  contribution  to  the  essential  devel- 
opment of  steam-heating  in  this  country.  The 
Jas.  P.  Marsh  Company  continues  to  be  one  of 
the  foremost  manufacturers  of  steam  specialties 
in  the  United  States. 

During  Mr.  Marsh's  long  business  career  in 
Chicago,  perhaps  the  most  predominant  traits 
of  his  character  were  an  almost  tireless  energy, 
a  curiously  psychic  gift  enabling  him  to  rapidly 
analyze  any  new  situation  which  presented  it- 
self and  as  quickly  accommodate  himself  to  it, 
and  the  unflagging  determination  that  any 
article  to  which  he  put  his  name  should  be  the 
best  that  his  brain  could  design  or  his  ability 
produce. 

In  1863  Mr.  Marsh  married  Miss  Frances 
Caroline  Davis,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Caro- 
line (Wells)  Davis  of  Eaton,  New  York.  Two 
daughters  survive  them.  They  are  Frances 
(Mrs.  Edward  A.  Washburn)  of  Batavia,  New 
York,  and  Rowena  (Mrs.  John  Jay  Abbott)  of 
Chicago. 


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CHARLES  CRICHTON  CLARK. 


The  late  Mr.  Charles  C.  Clark  of  Chicago  was 
born  at  Loveland,  Ohio.  April  1.  1872,  a  son  of 
Daniel  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Paxton)  Clark. 
His  boyhood  was  spent  in  Ohio  and  he  attended 
school  at  Dayton. 

Mr.  Clark  became  connected  with  the  railroad 
business  September  1,  1889.  when  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Queen  &  Crescent  road  at  Cincin- 
nati. His  first  important  promotion  came  a  few 
years  later  when,  in  1895,  he  was  chosen  to  be- 
come Special  Passenger  Agent  for  the  Big  Four 
road,  continuing  to  be  located  at  Cincinnati.  In 
1897  he  was  made  Assistant  City  Ticket  Agent 
there.  Two  years  after  this  he  was  appointed 
to  become  Traveling  Passenger  Agent  for  the 
Big  Four,  with  headquarters  at  Chattanooga, 
Tennessee.  He  returned  to  Cincinnati  in  1902 
to  assume  the  duties  of  the  Big  Four's  General 
Passenger  Agent  there. 

It  was  in  1905  that  Mr.  Clark  was  transferred 
to  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  made  General  Agent 
of  the  Passenger  Department.  A  little  later  in 
that  year  he  went  to  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  to 
fill  that  same  office.  Four  years  later,  in  1909, 
he  became  General  Agent  of  the  Passenger  De- 
partment at  Cincinnati. 

Mr.  Clark  began  to  take  an  active  part  in 
railroad  work  in  Illinois  back  in  1912  in  which 
year  he  moved  to  Chicago.     For  the  succeeding 


five  years  he  accomplished  remarkably  fine  re- 
sults as  General  Agent  for  both  the  Big  Four 
and  Michigan  Central  roads  here. 

In  1917  he  was  chosen  as  Assistant  General 
Passenger  Agent  of  the  Michigan  Central  Lines 
at  Chicago.  At  the  beginning  of  the  World 
War,  Mr.  Clark  was  chosen  to  assume  charge 
of  the  Consolidated  Ticket  Offices  of  the  United 
States  Railroad  Administration  at  Chicago,  for 
all  eastern  and  southern  roads.  On  February 
28,  1920,  he  was  placed  in  office  as  General  Pas- 
senger Agent.  This  office  he  filled  with  a  marked 
degree  of  success  for  the  ensuing  decade,  right 
up  to  the  close  of  his  career. 

Mr.  Clark  was  married  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  to 
Miss  Jeannette  Lucile  Ivie,  a  daughter  of  Theo 
H.  and  Julia  Alicia  (Small)  Ivie,  of  Atlanta, 
Georgia. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clark  have  made  their  home  in 
Chicago  for  many  years.  They  are  members  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church.  Mr.  Clark  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Traffic  Club  and  of  the  Ohio 
Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 

Charles  Crichton  Clark  died  October  19,  1925. 
His  work  entitles  him  to  be  considered  one  of 
the  very  fine  and  able  men  who  have  developed 
the  splendid  railroad  facilities  in  our  Central 
States. 


LEVY  MAYER. 


Levy  Mayer  was  born  in  Richmond,  Va., 
October  23,  1858,  the  son  of  Henry  D.  and 
Clara  Mayer. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  Chicago 
public  schools,  and  entered  the  Yale  Law  School 
in  1874,  taking  honors  in  both  Junior  and  Senior 
years,  being  awarded  the  Betts  prize  in  his 
Junior  year. 

Upon  his  graduation  in  1876  he  became  as- 
sistant librarian  of  the  Chicago  Law  Institute, 
which  position  he  held  until  1881.  While  so 
engaged,  he  prepared  the  first  catalogue  of  the 
Law  Institute  and  also  edited  and  revised  the 
manuscript  of  Judge  David  Rorer's  works  on 
Interstate  and  Private  International  Law,  and 
on  Judicial  and  Execution  Sales,  and  also  made 
numerous  contributions  to  legal  magazines. 

In  1881  he  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  bar, 
and  entered  upon  the  active  practice  of  the 
law,  associating  himself  with  Mr.  Adolf  Kraus 


and  William  S.  Brackett.  Mr.  Brackett  soon 
afterwards  retired,  and  the  firm  became  Kraus 
&  Mayer,  then  Kraus.  Mayer  &  Stein,  and  in 
1893  Moran,  Kraus,  Mayer  &  Stein.  Upon  Mr. 
Stein's  election  to  the  bench,  and  Mr.  Kraus' 
retirement,  the  name  of  the  firm  became  Moran, 
Mayer  '&  Meyer,  and  after  the  death  of  Judge 
Moran  and  the  subsequent  admission  to  the 
firm,  of  Henry  Russell  Piatt,  the  style  there- 
of became  Mayer,  Meyer,  Austrian  &  Piatt,  of 
which  firm  Mr.  Mayer  remained  the  senior  mem- 
ber until  his  death,  August  14th,  1922. 

Among  some  of  the  large  corporations  formed 
by  Mr.  Mayer  are  Sears,  Roebuck  '&  Company, 
Hart  Schaffner  &  Marx,  the  Pan  American  Com- 
mission Corporation,  the  Great  Lakes  Transit 
Corporation,  the  Chicago  Packing  &  Provision 
Company,  Ltd.,  and  The  Chicago  &  Northwest 
Granaries  Co.,  Ltd.  He  was  instrumental  in 
forming  the  merger  of  the  glucose  interests,  the 


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distilling  interests  and  the  chicle  interests.  He 
consolidated  the  various  banking  interests  which 
ultimately  were  merged  into  the  Continental 
and  Commercial  Banks  of  Chicago,  of  which  he 
remained  general  counsel  until  his  death.  He 
attended  to  all  of  the  legal  matters  connected 
with  the  absorption  of  the  Fort  Dearborn  Banks 
by  the  Continental  and  Commercial  Banks, 
thereby  averting  a  crisis  in  the  financial  in- 
terests of  Chicago.  At  the  time  when  an  effort 
was  made  to  convict  the  large  packers  in  the 
famous  Packers'  Trial  of  1912,  he  successfully 
defended  them.  He  likewise  represented  the 
theatrical  interests  of  the  country,  and  success- 
fully defended  the  owners  of  the  Iroquois 
Theatre  in  the  litigation  which  grew  out  of 
the  disastrous  Iroquois  fire.  There  are  few 
large  industries  in  the  country  which,  at  some 
time    or    other,    had    not    called    on    him    for 


advice.  He  led  the  fight  against  the  Eighteenth 
Amendment,  which  he  always  sincerely  felt,  was 
a  grave  mistake  and  a  real  trespass  on  the  per- 
sonal liberty  of  the  American  people. 

During  the  war,  Mr.  Mayer  was  appointed 
by  Governor  Lowden  as  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
State  Council  of  Defense,  and  was  made  the 
Chairman  of  its  Committee  on  Law  and  Legis- 
lation. He  was  also  a  member  of  the  War  Com- 
mittee of  the  Chicago  Bar  Association. 

He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  organized  in  1919  to  frame  a 
new  constitution  for  the  State  of  Illinois,  and 
served  on  that  body  until  his  death. 

He  was  married  December  30,  1884,  in  Chicago, 
to  Rachel  Meyer,  and  two  daughters,  Hortense 
Mayer  Hirsch  and  Madeleine  Mayer  Low,  were 
born  of  said  marriage. 

Mr.  Mayer  died  August  14,  1922. 


JAMES  EDWARD  DOWNS. 


The  late  James  Edward  Downs  of  Chicago, 
was  born  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  on  January  4, 
1848,  a  son  of  Myron  Day  and  Lydia  Elizabeth 
(Allen)  Downs.  The  family's  residence  in  Chi- 
cago dates  back  to  the  year  1842. 

James  E.  Downs  was  educated  in  the  city's 
public  schools ;  then,  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years, 
he  went  to  work,  entering  the  employ  of  a  firm 
that  soon  became  a  part  of  the  business  of  John 
V.  Farwell  &  Company.  He  continued  his  con- 
nection with  John  V.  Farwell  &  Company 
throughout  all  the  rest  of  his  long  and  success- 
ful business  career.  Solely  through  his  own  ef- 
forts and  worth  he  rose  to  a  place  on  the  Direc- 
torate of  this  great  business  house.  He  became 
one  of  the  foremost  authorities  on  linens  in  the 
country-  His  active  participation  in  the  busi- 
ness of  John  V.  Farwell  &  Company  covered  a 
period  of  forty-three  consecutive  years.  He  was 
a  Director  of  this  company  up  to  the  time  of  his 
retirement  from  business,  about  1907. 

The  marriage  of  James  E.  Downs  to  Miss 
Mary  Cowles  of  Chicago  was  solemnized  on  No- 


vember 3,  1870,  in  Chicago.  His  wife  is  a  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Elisha  Allen  Cowles.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Downs  became  the  parents  of  two  children, 
Lulu  Snow  Downs,  who  died  in  infancy,  and 
Hubert  Cowles  Downs,  who  died  April  24,  1916. 
The  family  home  was  established  on  Ashland 
Boulevard,  Chicago,  in  January,  1888,  and  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Downs  lived  in  the  same  house  for 
more  than  forty  years.  The  period  of  their  mar- 
ried life  covers  nearly  six  decades. 

Mr.  Downs  belonged  to  the  Third  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Chicago  and  served  as  Elder  for  forty 
years.  He  was  profoundly  interested  in  the  Sun- 
day School.  He  was  a  Veteran  member  of  the 
Union  League  Club  of  Chicago,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chicago  Athletic  Association  since 
1885.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Society  of  May- 
flower Descendants,  being  a  direct  descendant 
from  Governor  Bradford. 

The  life  of  James  E.  Downs  came  to  its  close 
here  in  his  eighty-first  year.  He  filled  a  distin- 
guished place  in  Chicago  for  a  great  many  years. 
His  death  occurred  on  March  29,  1928. 


EDWARD  BEACH  ELLICOTT. 


Edward  Beach  Ellicott  was  born  at  Lockport, 
New  York,  March  28,  I860,  a  son  of  George  M. 
and  Maria  (Sears)  Ellicott.  His  is  an  old 
Colonial  family  and  he  was  a  great-grandson  of 
Andrew  Ellicott  who  was  the  first  Surveyor- 
General  of  the  United  States. 


He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Batavia,  New  York.  After  that  he  became  a 
printer's  apprentice,  working  as  such  until  he 
was  nineteen  years  of  age,  when  he  engaged 
in  the  electrical  business.  Subsequently  he  was 
made  electrician  for  the  Salina    (Kansas)    Gas 


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and  Electric  Company.  After  this  he  became 
superintendent  for  the  Concordia  (Kansas) 
Electric  Light  Company.  Leaving  that  office  he 
came  to  Chicago  and  for  nine  years  was  on  the 
staff  of  the  Western  Electric  Company.  At  the 
close  of  this  period  he  was  appointed  by  Mayor 
Carter  H.  Harrison  II,  of  Chicago,  as  super- 
intendent of  the  City  Telegraph,  and  later  as 
City  Electrician,  serving  until  1905.  In  that 
year  he  was  chosen  as  Electrical  Engineer  in 
charge  of  the  water  power  department  for  the 
Sanitary  District  of  the  City  of  Chicago. 

A  short  time  prior  to  the  beginning  of  the 
World  War  he  retired  from  business  that  he 
might  take  a  well-deserved  rest.  However,  he 
volunteered  for  service  when  the  country  called 
for  men  and  was  commissioned  Major,  January 
3,  1918,  and  was  assigned  for  duty  with  the  con- 
struction division  of  the  Army.  Not  long  after- 
wards he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  erection 
of  General  Hospital  No.  3  at  Colonia,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  next  was  placed  in  charge  as  construc- 
tion officer,  of  building  the  great  Edgewood 
Arsenal  at  Edgewood,  Maryland.  Here  he  did 
a  work  monumental  in  its  excellence,  not  only 
completing  the  full  construction  of  this  huge 
plant  with  remarkable  efficiency  and  speed,  but 
also  handling  for  the  government  its  disburse- 
ments on  this  building  program  totaling  ap- 
proximately $27,000,000. 

He  was  subsequently  commissioned  Colonel 
and  assigned  to  the  Chemical  Warfare  section 
of  the  Army  and  rendered  further  distinguished 
service  in  this  capacity  until  the  close  of  the 
war  at  which  time  he  resigned  his  commission 
and  retired  to  private  life.     His  services  in  the 


Army  were  a  great  benefit  to  the  government 
and  a  great  credit  to  him.  He  was  honored  by 
his  former  associates  in  the  Army  by  being 
elected,  in  1926,  as  President  of  the  Construc- 
tion Division  Association. 

Colonel  Ellicott  was  appointed  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Education  of  the  City  of  Chicago, 
May  27,  1925.  By  unanimous  vote  of  this  body 
he  was  elected  its  President.  May  26,  1926,  he 
was  again  made  president  by  unanimous  vote 
and  he  filled  this  office  with  distinction  to  his 
death.  Among  the  many  notable  accomplish- 
ments of  his  administration  was  the  erection  of 
sixty-eight  school  buildings  and  additions,  either 
completed  or  in  process  of  completion  at  the 
time  of  his  death ;  adding  88,000  seats  to  the 
capacity  of  Chicago  schools  and  involving  the 
expenditure  of  more  than  $45,000,000.  All  of 
the  many  departments  of  the  Chicago  Public 
School  System  received  permanent  benefit  from 
his  wise  counsel  and  guidance. 

Edward  Beach  Ellicott  was  married  April 
26,  1898,  at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  to  Miss 
Minerva  M.  Ellsworth,  a  daughter  of  Lemuel 
and  Nellie  (Jones)  Ellsworth,  of  Milwaukee. 
He  and  Mrs.  Ellicott  have  two  sons,  Chester 
C.  and  Ernest  E.  Ellicott.  Colonel  Ellicott  and 
his  family  are  members  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 
He  also  belonged  to  the  Campfire  Club,  and  to 
the  Chicago  Athletic  Association. 

The  death  of  Colonel  Ellicott  occurred  Octo- 
ber 26.  1926.  His  unsurpassed  professional  and 
executive  ability,  his  strict  honor  and  his  very 
fine  ideals  combined  to  produce  works  of  such 
value  that  they  will  stand  as  enduring  monu- 
ments to  his  name. 


FRANK  IRTON  PACKARD. 


Although  his  earthly  career  is  closed,  the  in- 
fluence of  the  upright  and  honorable  life  of 
Frank  Irton  Packard  remains,  and  exerts  a 
beneficent  influence  upon  those  with  whom  he 
was  associated.  A  practitioner  of  the  Golden 
Rule  in  all  of  his  operations  and  connections ; 
a  lover  of  home  and  friends;  faithful  and  de- 
pendable ;  a  highly  moral  man,  and  one  whose 
generosity  and  gentleness  were  proverbial,  Mr. 
Packard  is  genuinely  mourned  and  tenderly 
remembered  by  a  large  number  of  people. 
While  he  was  deeply  religious,  he  had  a  sense 
of  humor  which  enabled  him  to  look  on  the 
brighter  side  of  life,  and  to  infuse  into  every- 
day transactions  a  flavor  of  geniality. 


Frank  Irton  Packard  was  born  in  Lynn, 
Massachusetts,  January  21,  1851,  a  son  of  John 
and  Eliza  Greenleaf  (Black)  Packard.  His 
father  was  a  shoe  merchant.  The  Packard  and 
Black  families  were  represented  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary and  Civil  wars.  Both  the  Packard  and 
Black  families,  as  well  as  those  with  which  the 
members  of  these  two  intermarried,  were  among 
the  most  prominent  in  the  early  history  of 
Massachusetts,  dating  back  into  its  Colonial 
Epoch,  and  furnished  men  of  distinction  in  the 
clergy  and  the  profession  of  medicine,  and  poets 
and  philosophers,  among  whom  were  Ralph 
Waldo  Emerson,  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  and 
John  G.  Whittier. 


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After  attending  the  public  schools  of  Lynn, 
Massachusetts,  in  1867  Frank  Irton  Packard 
entered  the  employ  of  D.  Lathrop  &  Company, 
in  Boston,  and  two  years  later,  in  1869,  came 
to  Chicago  to  fill  a  position  in  the  Chicago 
branch  of  the  American  Tract  Company  of  New 
York  City.  In  April,  1890,  Mr.  Packard  entered 
the  employ  of  the  State  Bank  of  Chicago.  In 
1894  he  was  appointed  to  an  official  position 
with  this  bank,  and  continued  to  fill  it  until  he 
passed  away,  June  9,  1924.  His  remains  are 
interred  in  Mount  Hope  Cemetery,  Chicago. 

Many  activities  of  a  social  and  fraternal  na- 
ture occupied  Mr.  Packard.  He  belonged  to 
the  Union  League  Club  of  Chicago,  the  Bank- 
ers' Club  of  Chicago,  the  Chicago  Academy  of 
Science,  the  State  Microscopical  Society  of  Illi- 
nois, Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  Art 
Institute  of  Chicago,  Kenwood  Lodge  No.  800, 


A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Fairview  Chapter  No.  161,  R.  A. 
M.,  Woodland  Commandery  No.  76,  K.  T.,  Me- 
dinah  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  the  Congre- 
gational Club  and  the  Congregational  Church. 
The  microscope  was  his  hobby,  and  he  was 
also  very  fond  of  traveling.  He  appreciated 
good  music  and  was  a  great  lover  of  nature. 
In  1876  Mr.  Packard  was  married  (first)  to 
Jane  Eleanor  Gale,  in  Chelsea,  Massachusetts, 
and  to  them  one  son,  Frank  Gale  Packard,  was 
born,  March  10,  1878.  Mrs.  Packard  died  Oc- 
tober 14,  1916.  On  March  16,  1918,  Mr.  Pack- 
ard was  married  (second)  to  La  one  Strahorn, 
in  Chicago.  She  is  the  daughter  of  Jesse  Van 
Meter  and  Susannah  (Worley)  Strahorn  of 
Virginia,  and  was  born  in  Chicago  September 
25,  1875.  Mrs.  Packard  survives  her  husband 
and  maintains  her  residence  at  No.  4414  Oak- 
enwald  avenue,  Chicago. 


LUCIUS  BOLLES  OTIS. 


Lucius  Bolles  Otis  was  born  at  Montville, 
Conn.,  March  12,  1820,  a  son  of  Joseph  and 
Nancy  (Billings)  Otis,  natives  of  Montville, 
Conn.,  where  both  were  born  during  the  year 
1792.  The  paternal  grandfather,  suffering  a  loss 
in  the  burning  of  New  London,  Conn.,  during 
the  Revolutionary  War,  was  given  land  in  the 
Western  Reserve  of  Ohio,  to  the  extent  of  2,000 
acres.  Subsequently  his  descendants  came  to 
this  property  which  became  a  part  of  Berlin, 
Erie  County,  Ohio.  The  father  was  a  farmer 
in  his  calling,  and  died  in  April,  1844,  while 
the  mother  lived  until  January,  1850. 

After  attending  the  Huron  school  at  Milan, 
Ohio,  Lucius  B.  Otis  entered  the  Norwalk  Semi- 
nary, and  still  later,  Granville  College  at  Cin- 
cinnati, where  he  studied  law  during  the  winter 
of  1840  and  1841.  Returning  to  Lower  San- 
dusky, Ohio,  now  Fremont,  he  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law,  having  been  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1841.  He  immediately  made  his  influence  felt 
in  local  politics,  and  in  1842  was  elected  prose- 
cuting attorney,  and  was  reelected  to  this  office, 
until  he  served  in  all  eight  years.  Further  pro- 
motion awaited  him,  for  in  1851  he  was  elected 
judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  for  the  coun- 
ties of  Huron,  Erie,  Sandusky,  Ottawa  and 
Lucas,  serving  from  1851  to  1856.  Among  the 
members  of  the  bar  who  practiced  at  that  time 
in  his  court  were :  Ebenezer  Lane,  formerly 
Chief  Justice  of  Ohio ;  Rutherford  B.  Hayes, 
afterwards  President  of  the  United  States,  and 


Morrison  R.  Waite,  afterwards  Chief  Justice  of 
the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  In  the  mean- 
while, in  1850,  Mr.  Otis  and  Mr.  Sardis  Bir- 
chard,  founded  the  first  bank  at  Fremont,  now 
the  First  National  Bank  of  that  place.  Mr.  Bir- 
chard  was  an  uncle  of  Rutherford  B.  Hayes. 

Mr.  Otis  came  to  Chicago  in  1853  for  the  pur- 
pose of  visiting  the  little  city  of  50,000 ;  and 
with  the  keen  vision  and  broad  outlook  of  a 
man  of  affairs,  he  saw  here  great  possibilities. 
So  great  was  the  impression  made  upon  him  of. 
Chicago's  future  growth,  that  although  many 
further  honors  undoubtedly  might  have  been 
his  in  his  old  home,  he  left  it  in  December, 
1856,  and  located  at  Chicago.  Although  a  learned 
lawyer  and  experienced  jurist,  he  never  followed 
his  profession  at  Chicago,  preferring  to  devote 
himself  to  business  affairs,  in  association  with 
his  brother,  James  Otis.  These  brothers  had 
offices  opposite  the  Sherman  House,  and  dealt  in 
real  estate,  loans,  mortgages,  etc ;  and  not  only 
owned  large  realty  holdings  at  Chicago,  them- 
selves, but  represented  other  heavy  landowners. 
They  built  and  owned  the  old  Otis  Building,  and 
when  it  was  destroyed  during  the  great  fire  of 
1871,  they  rebuilt  it.  The  present  Otis  Building, 
at  the  southwest  corner  of  La  Salle  and  Madison 
Streets,  was  erected  in  1910.  Perhaps  no  man 
was  a  better  judge  of  real  estate  values  during 
his  active  life  than  Mr.  Otis  and  his  advice  was 
constantly  sought  and  acted  upon,  for  he  was 


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admittedly  a  man  of  the  highest  probity  and 
ability.  At  the  time  of  the  failure  of  the  State 
Savings  Institution  at  Chicago,  which  disaster 
threatened  to  deprive  great  numbers  of  the 
poorer  class  of  their  entire  savings,  Mr.  Otis 
was  made  receiver  of  the  corporation,  and 
through  his  energy  and  good  judgment  in  dis- 
posing of  the  realty  holdings  of  the  concern  and 
other  assets,  the  depositors  were  paid  fully 
double  what  it  was  thought  they  would  get  when 
the  failure  was  announced.  Mr.  Otis  accom- 
plished great  things  in  his  former  Ohio  home, 
but  he  advanced  much  further  in  Chicago,  and 
the  city  benefited  through  him.     Not  only  was 


he  recognized  as  a  competent  and  able  business 
man  but  was  accorded  a  very  sincere  respect 
personally. 

On  January  4,  1844,  Mr.  Otis  was  married  in 
Fremont,  Ohio,  to  Lydia  Ann  Arnold,  of  East 
Greenwich,  R.  I.,  a  daughter  of  Nathan  and 
Phoebe  (Waterman)  Arnold.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Otis 
became  the  parents  of  the  following  children : 
George  Livingston,  Xavier  Le  Grand,  Carrie 
Annabelle,  Jennie  Elizabeth,  Lydia  Ann,  Mary 
Birchard,  Nancy  Amelia  and  Lucius  Bolles  Otis, 
Jr.  Mr.  Otis  died  as  he  had  lived,  a  sincere 
member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  January  11, 
1903. 


CHARLES  COUNSELMAN. 


Charles  Counselman  was  born  at  Baltimore. 
Maryland.  December  25,  1848,  a  son  of  Jacob 
and  Mary  (Wigart)  Counselman.  He  belonged 
to  one  of  the  old  families  of  Maryland,  dating 
back  for  four  generations  in  that  state.  During 
the  War  of  1812  both  of  the  grandfathers  of 
Charles  Counselman  served  as  soldiers.  Mr. 
Counselman  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  city.  After  completing  his  studies  along 
general  lines,  he  entered  the  office  of  Judge  Ed- 
ward Hammond  at  Elliott  City,  Maryland,  and 
began  the  study  of  law,  but  owing  to  the  failure 
of  his  health  after  three  years  of  hard  study, 
he  decided  to  abandon  the  law,  and  secured  a 
position  with  George  R.  Blanchard,  general 
freight  agent  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad, 
and  held  it  for  about  a  year. 

In  18G9  Mi*.  Counselman  came  to  Chicago, 
and  entered  the  house  of  Eli  Johnson  &  Com- 
pany. At  that  time  his  only  capital  was  his 
energy.  From  the  beginning  he  did  faithfully 
and  ably  whatever  was  asked  of  him,  and  never 
ceased  learning  something  more,  relative  to  the 
business.  He  was  too  big  a  personality  to  re- 
main hidden,  and  it  was  not  long  before  he 
became  an  oil  salesman  for  Chase.  Hanford  & 
Company.  By  1871  Mr.  Counselman  went  into 
business  for  himself,  and  founded  his  own  com- 
mission house,  and  about  that  same  time  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade, 
and  from  then  on  during  the  remainder  of  his 
useful  career,  be  continued  a  brilliant  factor 
in  its  great  operations.  He  was  a  dealer  in 
stocks  and  grain,  and  maintained  a  branch  office 
at  New  York  City.  His  offices  were  connected 
by  private  telegraph  wires,  and  he  was  also 
connected  by  these  with  Cleveland,  Boston, 
Rochester,  Buffalo,  Providence  and  other  large 


eastern  cities,  as  well  as  with  Baltimore,  Wash- 
ington. Richmond  and  Norfolk.  Branching  out, 
in  1879  he  erected  a  large  warehouse  at  the 
Union  Stock  Yards.  Chicago,  and  in  addition  to 
other  interests,  carried  on  the  business  of  ware- 
housing provisions  upon  an  extensive  scale.  For 
many  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  di- 
rectors of  the  Board  of  Trade,  and  of  its  board 
of  managers  of  real  estate,  and  was  one  of  the 
moving  factors  in  securing  the  erection  of  the 
old  Board  of  Trade  Building  at  Chicago.  Al- 
ways possessing  a  faith  in  the  continued  growth 
of  Chicago,  he  gave  practical  proof  of  this  by 
heavy  investments  in  its  real  estate.  In  1883 
the  Counselman  Building  was  commenced,  and 
was  completed  in  May,  1884,  and  he  was  its  sole 
owner.  Another  interest  of  Mr.  Counselman, 
and  probably  the  most  important,  was  the  Rock 
Island  Elevators  which  had  a  capacity  of  2,000,- 
000  bushels.  During  his  career  as  a  grain  buyer 
he  maintained  about  150  stations  throughout 
Iowa,  Kansas  and  Nebraska. 

Mr.  Counselman  was  a  member  of  the  Union 
League,  Chicago  and  Washington  Park  clubs  of 
Chicago,  and  the  New  York  Club  of  New  York 
City. 

On  October  7,  1875.  Mr.  Counselman  was  mar- 
ried to  Jennie  Elizabeth  Otis,  a  daughter  of 
Judge  Lucius  B.  Otis  of  Chicago,  and  they  be- 
came the  parents  of  the  following  children : 
Edith  Counselman  Dudley,  who  died  in  1920 ; 
and  Charles  Counselman,  Jr.  Mr.  Counselman 
built  and  donated  Edith  Counselman  Cottage 
to  the  Chicago  Orphan  Asylum,  and  this  is  but 
one  of  his  countless  benefactions. 

Mr.  Counselman  died  March  20,  1904,  and  in 
his  passing  Chicago  lost  one  of  its  most  brilliant 
business  men,  and  dependable  citizens. 


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CHARLES  COUNSELMAN,  JR. 


Charles  Counselman,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Chicago, 
111.,  on  Jan.  6,  1885.  He  attended  private  school 
in  Kenwood  and  prepared  for  college  by  further 
study  at  Hills  School  at  Pottstown,  Pa.  How- 
ever, he  decided  to  enter  business,  without  going 
to  college ;  and  he  went  to  work  in  his  father's 
office. 

Later  he  organized  his  own  firm,  Charles 
Counselman  '&  Co.  and  sold  investment  securities. 

Some  years  ago  he  moved  to  New  York  State 


and  bought  a  farm  just  outside  of  Port  Chester. 
He  built  a  fine  apartment  building  in  Port 
Chester  and  attended  to  its  management  He 
also  dealt  extensively  in  real  estate. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Club,  Saddle 
and  Cycle  Club,  Chicago  Athletic  Association  and 
the  Round  Hill  Golf  Club  of  Greenwich,  Conn. 

He  died  on  Nov.  14,  1927.  He  has  one  daugh- 
ter, Dorothy  Elizabeth  Counselman. 


EDWARD  PAYSON  RIPLEY. 


The  following  article  is  reprinted  from  the 
Santa  Fe  Magazine  of  March,  1920. 

On  February  4.  1920,  our  hearts  were  sad- 
dened by  the  message  that  E.  P.  Ripley,  our 
former  president  and  at  that  time  chairman 
of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Santa  Fe,  had 
passed  away  at  his  winter  home  in  Santa  Bar- 
bara, California.  To  those  of  us  who  are  fa- 
miliar with  Santa  Fe  traditions  the  death  of 
our  former  president  leaves  a  void  that  time 
cannot  fill,  but  which  will  remain  with  us  as 
long  as  the  name  Santa  Fe  is  used  to  designate 
that  vast  and  intricate  transportation  system 
with  which  we  are  identified. 

Mr.  Ripley"s  last  illness  dated  from  the  sum- 
mer of  1919.  After  returning  on  July  26  from 
a  strenuous  trip  to  New  York  he  became  ill. 
On  consulting  a  specialist  it  was  decided  that 
an  operation  was  necessary.  Mr.  Ripley  then 
spent  eight  weeks  in  a  hospital  in  Chicago,  be- 
ing released  the  day  before  Thanksgiving.  He 
departed  immediately  for  his  winter  home  in 
Santa  Barbara. 

Subsequently  he  spent  his  time  in  trying  to 
recover  his  strength.  He  often  said  that  the 
spring  would  find  him  fully  recovered  and  en- 
joying his  former  good  health  and  able  to  in- 
dulge in  a  game  of  golf,  of  which  he  was  so 
fond.  The  indications  were  that  he  still  had 
many  years  of  usefulness  to  his  family  and 
to  the  great  property  over  which  he  had  so 
long  presided  with  more  than  parental  solici- 
tude and  pride. 

But  fate  decreed  otherwise.  Two  weeks  be- 
fore his  death,  complications  arose  which  soon 
were  recognized  as  indicating  the  nearing  of  the 
fulfillment  of  his  life's  journey. 

After  partaking  of  a  light  lunch  with  Santa 
Barbara  friends  on  the  afternoon  of  February 


4,  he  announced  shortly  before  four  o'clock 
that  he  intended  taking  a  short  siesta.  He 
then  retired  to  his  chamber.  A  few  minutes 
later  the  nurse  entered  the  room  and  discov- 
ered that  he  was  dead.  Heart  failure  super- 
induced by  weakness  resulting  from  the  opera- 
tion was  given  as  the  probable  cause. 

Thus  he  died,  as  he  had  wished  to  die,  in 
peace.  It  was  so  in  keeping  with  the  calm 
and  contemplative  statement  he  made  on  the 
occasion  of  his  seventieth  anniversary  in  re- 
plying to  the  tributes  paid  him  by  his  asso- 
ciates. In  closing  his  acknowledgment  he 
said : 

"This  is  the  sunset  glow.  The  shadows  will 
soon  begin  to  lengthen  and  the  road  grow  more 
dim ;  but,  if  I  have  lived  to  win  the  approbation 
of  my  contemporaries  and  to  be  of  benefit  to 
those  with  whom  I  have  been  associated,  I 
can  look  with  complacency  on  the  signs  of  the 
closing  day  and  go  to  my  rest  content." 

The  funeral  services  were  in  charge  of  Rev. 
Dr.  Clarence  Spaulding  of  the  Presbyterian 
church.     In  the  course  of  his  remarks  he  said : 

"If  we  could  choose  the  place,  the  time,  the 
way  of  one's  passing,  it  would  be  in  the  fash- 
ion of  him  in  whose  honor  we  are  gathered. 
Here  in  sunny  California,  the  land  of  per- 
petual spring  and  never  fading  flowers,  at  the 
approach  of  Easter,  symbolic  of  Everlasting 
Life,  wrapping  the  drapery  of  his  couch  about 
him  and  lying  down  to  pleasant  dreams,  he 
died." 

Immediately  after  the  services  the  funeral 
cortege  started  for  Los  Angeles,  where  Mr. 
Ripley's  remains  were  cremated. 

The  honorary  pall-bearers  included  William 
Sproule,  president  of  the  Southern  Pacific ; 
Carl  Gray,  president  of  the  Union  Pacific ;  W. 


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E.  Hodges,  vice-president  of  the  Santa  Fe ; 
I.  L.  Hibbard,  general  manager,  and  Godfrey 
Holterhoff,  treasurer ;  C.  N.  Nelson  of  New 
York ;  A.  C.  Magnus,  Alfred  Baker  and  David 
B.  Jones  of  Chicago ;  Col.  Charles  H.  Graves, 
former  United  States  minister  to  Sweden ; 
Thomas  Chester,  John  S.  Driver,  Joel  Reming- 
ton Fithian,  Harry  K.  Elston  and  George  S. 
Edwards  of  Santa  Barbara. 

Telegrams  of  condolence  came  from  every 
section  of  the  United  States  and  from  people 
in  all  walks  of  life.  Mr.  Ripley  was  a  friend, 
or  at  least  an  acquaintance,  of  practically  every 
man  of  prominence  in  the  country,  and  hun- 
dreds paid  their  last  respects  by  a  suitable 
tribute  to  his  life  and  work.  Every  railroad 
president  and  general  manager  in  the  United 
States  and  Canada  wired  a  message  of  sym- 
pathy to  Mrs.  Ripley  and  hundreds  of  similar 
messages  were  received  from  people  who,  in 
many  instances,  were  total  strangers  to  Mr. 
Ripley,  but  who  took  this  means  to  show  their 
sorrow  at  his  death. 

All  trains  on  the  Santa  Fe  System  and  all 
activities  in  shops  and  offices  stopped  for  five 
minutes  at  noon  on  February  seventh  in  his 
honor. 

During  the  twenty-four  years  Mr.  Ripley 
served  as  president  of  the  Santa  Fe  he  worked 
to  preserve  the  old  missions  and  atmosphere  of 
early  Spanish  and  pioneer  days.  In  apprecia- 
tion of  his  work  the  bells  of  the  old  mission 
of  Santa  Barbara  tolled,  as  did  also  the  bells 
of  the  old  mission  of  Ventura  as  the  funeral 
cortege  passed  through  that  city  on  its  way 
to  Los  Angeles.  At  Santa  Barbara  all  flags 
were  at  half  mast. 

Surviving  Mr.  Ripley  are  his  widow,  Mrs. 
Frances  E.  Ripley,  two  sons,  Fred  C.  Ripley, 
manager  of  the  Santa  Fe  oil  properties  in 
California,  with  headquarters  in  Los  Angeles, 
and  Robert  Ripley  of  Winnetka,  111.,  two  daugh- 
ters, Mrs.  Schuyler  Coe  and  Mrs.  Nelson  Wil- 
lard  of  Riverside,  111. 

It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  in  his  devotion 
to  the  interests  of  his  employers — and  Mr. 
Ripley  was  as  truly  an  employe  of  the  Santa 
Fe  as  any  of  us — he  gave  but  little  attention 
to  his  personal  finances.  What  wealth  he  pos- 
sessed was  composed  of  the  savings  from  his 
salary  and  from  the  income  on  such  invest- 
ments as  these  savings  enabled  him  to  make. 
He  was  no  financial  wizard  and  never  went 
in   for   stock   juggling   operations. 


He  did  not  lack  opportunities  to  make  money 
and  no  doubt  could  have  become  a  millionaire 
many  times  over,  if  he  had  worked  to  that 
end,  but,  his  personal  financial  interests  were 
set  aside  and  he  strove  only  to  execute  the 
trust  and  do  the  work  for  which  he  was  paid. 
Mr.  Ripley  always  maintained  that  he  was 
not  his  own  boss  ;  and  in  one  of  the  last  speeches 
he  ever  made,  that  before  the  City  Club  of 
Chicago  on  June  12  of  1919,  he  protested  earn- 
estly against  the  apparently  growing  reluc- 
tance of  many  to  acknowledge  any  person  or 
body  other  than  themselves  as  their  master. 
He  said : 

"I  think  the  work  done  under  a  master  is 
always  the  best  work.  It  is  not  derogatory 
to  anybody  to  have  a  master.  Everyone  of 
us  interested  in  the  accomplishments  of  some 
concern,  whatever  may  be  the  business  of  such 
concern,  is  responsible  to  some  one  as  master. 
Everybody  must  account  to  someone  for  his 
actions.  Today  we  seem  to  have  gotten  away 
from  that  fact  to  such  an  extent  that  every 
one  is  a  law  unto  himself." 

For  his  services  the  Santa  Fe  rewarded  him 
well,  but  not  in  proportion  to  the  wealth  cre- 
ated, either  for  the  company  or  for  the  South- 
west. An  officer  of  a  company  for  which  Mr. 
Ripley  once  worked  remarked  not  long  ago  that 
it  would  have  been  worth  one  hundred  million 
dollars  to  that  company  if  he  had  continued 
in  its  employ. 

His  death  marked  the  passing  of  one  of  the 
last  of  a  great  school  of  railroad  presidents 
and  builders.  The  work  of  each  of  these  men 
differed,  both  as  to  methods  and  results.  Mr. 
Ripley's  is  represented  by  the  intensive  devel- 
opment of  one  of  the  greatest  railroad  systems 
in  the  world  and  the  broadminded  principles 
upon  which  his  duty  to  the  stockholders,  the 
public  and  the  employes  were  coordinated. 

The  names  Ripley  and  Santa  Fe  are  synony- 
mous. If  ever  a  man  left  a  living,  breathing, 
dynamic  monument  to  perpetuate  his  memory, 
that  man  was  E.  P.  Ripley,  and  the  monument 
is  the  railroad  system  of  his  own  development, 
and  of  which  he  was  president  for  twenty-four 
years. 

Mr.  Ripley's  career  is  a  concrete  illustration 
of  the  award  that  accrues  as  the  result  of 
study  and  hard  work.  He  was  born  in  Dor- 
chester, Mass.,  on  October  30,  1845,  a  descend- 
ant of  an  old  New  England  family.  His  father, 
Charles  T.   Ripley,   was   a   native  of  Vermont, 


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moving  to  Massachusetts  during  his  early  man- 
hood and  entering  the  grocery  business.  Mr. 
Ripley  received  his  early  education  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Dorchester,  then  a  suburb  of 
Boston,  and  was  graduated  from  the  Dorchester 
High  School  in  1860. 

One  morning  shortly  after  his  graduation 
he,  accompanied  by  H.  D.  Mack,  who  later 
became  general  agent  for  the  Santa  Fe  at 
Rock  Island,  111.,  started  afoot  for  Boston  to 
begin  their  business  life.  Mr.  Ripley  secured 
a  job  with  Frost  &  Company,  wholesale  mil- 
liners, at  the  munificent  salary  of  $75.00  a 
year,  with  the  promise  that  if  he  did  his  work 
well  he  could  expect  a  New  Year's  present  of 
possibly  $20  more.  Shortly  afterward,  discov- 
ering that  his  friend  Mack  had  secured  a  bet- 
ter job  paying  $3  a  week,  he  was  encouraged 
to  try  for  a  more  lucrative  position,  which  he 
soon  found  with  J.  C.  Conovers  &  Company, 
wholesale  dealers  in  woolens.  This  also  paid 
him  $3  a  week. 

Mr.  Mack  and  Mr.  Ripley  continued  as  close 
friends  and  one  day  the  former  had  a  chat 
with  an  official  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad, 
who  asked  him  if  he  knew  of  a  boy  who  would 
like  to  work  for  the  railroad  company,  deliv- 
ering bills  of  lading,  etc.  Mack  immediately 
got  into  communication  with  his  chum.  Mr. 
Ripley  then  accepted  the  job  which  marked 
the  beginning  of  his  railroad  career.  This  was 
in  1868.  He  often  stated  that  previous  to 
this  time  he  had  never  premeditated  railroad 
work ;  he  just  happened  onto  it.  But  once 
started,  he  made  his  employer's  interest  his  own 
and  worked  hard.  From  these  two  principles 
he  never  departed  and  in  later  years  as  his 
duties  broadened  he  saw  clearly  the  relative 
interest  of  the  public  in  transportation  matters 
and  also  recognized  the  rights  of  the  employes 
and  the  stockholders.  In  coordinating  for  the 
good  of  the  whole,  in  these  three  divergent  in- 
terests was  his  success  most  marked. 

On  October  4,  1871,  Mr.  Ripley  married  Miss 
Frances  E.  Harding  of  Dorchester.  This  date, 
he  has  often  remarked,  was  the  corner-stone 
of  his  career.  For  nearly  half  a  century,  he 
and  his  wife  were  inseparable  companions — 
lovers  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  Those  who 
attended  his  seventieth  birthday  anniversary 
dinner  at  the  Hotel  Blackstone  in  Chicago  will 
never  forget  the  tribute  he  paid  to  Mrs.  Ripley 
on  that  occasion.  Raising  his  glass  to  "That 
gray-haired   lady  in   the   balcony,"   whose  eyes 


were  glowing  with  the  numerous  recitals  of 
her  husband's  achievements,  he  said : 

"Before  proceeding  I  desire  here  to  pay  trib- 
ute of  praise  to  her  who  forty-four  years  ago 
joined  her  fortunes  to  mine  and  who  ever  since 
has  provided  the  comforts  and  rest  of  a  quiet 
home ;  who  twice  has  accompanied  me  through 
the  valley  of  the  shadow  of  death ;  who  has 
watched  over  me  mentally,  morally  and  phys- 
ically, and  who  is  mainly  responsible  for  such 
success  as  I  have  had  in  conserving  mind  and 
body.  I  ask  you,  friends,  to  join  in  drinking 
to  the  health  of  my  wife." 

In  1872  he  became  an  eastern  agent  for  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  and  Quincy  Railroad,  and 
in  1875  was  appointed  general  eastern  agent 
for  the  same  company.  Eight  years  later  he 
became  traffic  manager  and  in  1888  he  was  ap- 
pointed general  manager  of  the  Burlington  Sys- 
tem. In  1890  he  was  elected  third  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and  St.  Paul 
Railroad.  He  was  holding  the  position  when 
he  was  notified  of  his  selection  as  president  of 
the  Santa  Fe,  which  office  he  entered  upon  Jan- 
uary 1,  1896. 

When  he  assumed  control  of  the  Santa  Fe 
the  company  was  just  emerging  from  bank- 
ruptcy, and  he  found  it  with  practically  no 
credit,  its  lines  lightly  constructed  and  its 
equipment  so  inadequate  and  of  so  ancient  a 
pattern  that  economical  operation  was  impos- 
sible. His  first  task  was  to  rehabilitate  the 
road.  This  task  of  reconstruction  was  seriously 
handicapped  because  of  the  difficulty  in  ob- 
taining credit.  However,  once  this  obstacle 
was  overcome  and  credit  firmly  established, 
the  work  of  rebuilding  went  steadily  on,  so 
that  at  the  time  the  road  was  turned  over  to 
the  government,  on  January  1,  1918,  the  Santa 
Fe  was  universally  recognized  as  one  of  the 
best  constructed,  most  modernly  equipped,  and 
financially  soundest  of  the  railroads  in  the 
United  States. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  Mr.  Ripley  was  the 
leading  railroadman  of  the  United  States.  His 
prestige  is  based  principally  upon  his  achieve- 
ment in  developing  the  Santa  Fe.  Emerson 
has  said  that  "every  great  institution  is  the 
lengthening  shadow  of  a  single  man"  and  a 
proof  of  this  statement  cannot  be  better  illus- 
trated than  in  the  relation  of  E.  P.  Ripley  to 
the  Santa  Fe. 

He  was  a  man  of  wide  vision.  He  saw  the 
future  as  few  others  could  see  it.     And  when 


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he  became  president  of  the  Santa  Fe  he  worked 
out  and  put  into  effect  principles  that  would 
fit  with  the  advancement  of  the  times.  He 
timed  his  own  progress,  and  never  could  be 
called  a  fanciful  dreamer.  To  begin  with,  the 
Santa  Fe  was  the  conception  of  a  dreamer, 
Cyrus  K.  Holliday,  and  it  had  appeared  as 
though  he  had  dreamed  a  half  century  ahead 
of  his  time.  The  panic  of  1893,  seemingly,  had 
ended  a  hopeless  struggle  to  make  anything  out 
of  the  road.  Receivers  were  appointed  for  a 
property  that  was  derided  as  a  streak  of  rust, 
)>eginning  at  Chicago  and  disappearing  in  the 
sands  of  the  deserts,  and  it  seemed  to  many 
as  if  the  hopes  that  the  Santa  Fe  would  become 
a  transcontinental  carrier  were  in  vain.  But 
Mr.  Ripley's  vision  was  big  enough  to  see  a 
future  for  this  road,  and  he  set  about  to  make  it. 

What  the  Santa  Fe  stands  for,  and  has 
grown  to,  is  due  to  Mr.  Ripley.  No  other  road 
that  owns  a  Chicago  terminal  can  boast  a 
straightaway  line  to  San  Francisco  bay.  Not 
only  was  the  competition  widely  distributed,  but 
of  a  character  the  most  intense  and  incalculable. 
It  was  practically  the  Santa  Fe  against  the 
field.  But  this  fact  never  daunted  the  man 
who  made  the  road  what  it  is  today.  Before 
the  railroad  had  extended  its  right  of  way  to 
the  Pacific,  it  was  impossible  for  the  Santa  Fe 
to  land  its  freight  in  San  Francisco,  save  over 
a  competitive  connection.  Then  Mr.  Ripley  ac- 
quired for  his  road  its  own  rails  into  northern 
California.  With  his  terminals  thus  fixed  at 
Chicago  and  San  Francisco,  he  rested  content 
in  his  own  territory. 

Beyond  the  fight  he  made  for  proper  condi- 
tions and  due  recognition,  it  is  universally  con- 


ceded by  other  railroad  leaders  that  Mr.  Ripley 
indulged  in  no  offensive  measures.  His  energies 
have  been  turned  at  all  times  in  the  direction 
of  developing  local  territory.  The  strong  hand 
of  Mr.  Ripley  has  made  the  Santa  Fe  pay,  and 
today  the  great  empire  of  the  Southwest  owes 
its  being  in  great  part  to  the  "Grand  Old  Man 
of  Railroading." 

During  the  summer  of  1918,  Mr.  Ripley  re- 
signed on  his  own  initiative  as  the  active  op- 
erating head  of  the  Santa  Fe,  and  W.  B.  Storey 
was  appointed  federal  manager.  He  remained, 
however,  president  of  the  Santa  Fe  Corpora- 
tion in  charge  of  the  interests  of  the  stockhold- 
ers. On  January  1,  1920,  he  was  appointed 
chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  with  ad- 
visory duties. 

In  resigning  from  active  participation  in  the 
affairs  of  the  Santa  Fe,  he  felt  that  he  had 
fulfilled  his  task  and  was  willing  for  a  younger 
man  to  assume  the  burden.  In  a  letter  to  a 
friend  written  a  short  time  before  his  death, 
he  expressed  his  reluctance  at  giving  up  the 
presidency  but  considered  it  for  the  best.  He 
said : 

"I  have  laid  down  the  load  I  have  carried 
for  twenty-four  years  and  shall  sit  on  the 
fence  and  see  the  trains  go  by.  The  board  in- 
sisted on  making  me  its  chairman  but  it  was 
the  understanding  that  while  I  would  be  ready 
to  advise  I  would  not  work.  I  hated  to  give 
up  the  presidency,  but  it  would  not  have  been 
fair  to  keep  the  procession  from  moving  up 
and  giving  the  younger  men  a  chance." 

But  his  earthly  rest  was  short.  The  end 
came  soon  and  he  died  as  he  had  wished,  with 
his  task  completed  and  his  affairs  in  order. 


WILLIAM  ELLSWORTH  CHAMBERS. 


The  late  William  E.  Chambers,  of  Chicago 
and  Evanston,  has  been  active  in  the  banking 
business  of  Illinois  for  more  than  thirty  unin- 
terrupted years. 

He  was  born  at  Mount  Pleasant.  Ohio,  on 
March  1,  1861.  a  son  of  John  and  Catherine 
(Geller)  Chambers.  He  lived  at  Mount  Pleas- 
ant and  attended  the  public  schools  there  until 
he  was  nineteen  years  old ;  then  he  wyent  to 
Kansas  and  taught  school  for  a  time.  His  first 
business  connection  was  with  the  Greene  County 
National  Bank  at  Springfield,  Missouri. 

In  1891  William  E.  Chambers  came  to  Chi- 
cago,  and   entered    the   employ   of  the   Illinois 


Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  which  is  now  a  part 
of  the  Illinois  Merchants'  Trust  Company.  He 
was  first  a  clerk,  then  he  was  made  general 
bookkeeper.  Later  he  worked  both  as  paying 
teller  and  as  receiving  teller.  For  many  years 
it  was  Mr.  Chambers  who  received  for  the  bank 
all  deposits  from  the  Chicago  and  Alton  Rail- 
road. 

The  marriage  of  William  E.  Chambers  and 
Miss  Minnie  McGill  took  place  at  Carrollton, 
Illinois,  on  October  8,  1890.  Mrs.  Chambers  is 
a  daughter  of  Richard  and  Judith  McGill.  The 
families  of  both  her  father  and  mother  are  old 
ones  in  Illinois,  having  located  here  and  taken 


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up  government  land,  about  1835.  This  land 
still  remains  in  the  possession  of  their  descend- 
ants. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chambers  have  three  chil- 
dren, Mrs.  Lucy  C.  Brooks,  Dr.  William  H. 
Chambers  and  Robert  Nelson  Chambers. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chambers  moved  to  Evanston, 
Illinois,  in  1891  and  they  have  lived  there,  in 
the  same  home,  since  that  time.  They  belong 
to  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  in  which 
Mr.  Chambers  has  been  an  elder  for  a  long  time. 


He  was  the  first  president  of  the  Washington 
Neighborhood  Club  of  Evanston.  He  was  a 
member  of  Covenant  Council  No.  558  of  the 
Royal  Arcanum  and  was  Regent  for  some  years. 
William  E.  Chambers  died  on  September  4, 
1922.  His  life  was  a  worthy  one.  He  was  a 
kindly  and  cultivated  gentleman  and  a  thorough 
Christian ;  and  he  has  been  a  stalwart  and 
trusted  figure  in  banking  circles  here  for  the 
three  decades  just  passed. 


STEPHEN  WILLIAMS  COX. 


Dr.  Stephen  W.  Cox  of  Chicago  was  born  at 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  on  January  11,  1859,  a 
son  of  John  and  Mary  (Eldridge)  Cox.  When 
he  was  six  years  old,  the  family  moved  to  Illi- 
nois, and  located  at  Irish  Grove,  a  village  near 
Springfield.  The  son  attended  the  local  schools. 
Then  he  entered  Wabash  College  at  Crawfords- 
ville,  Indiana,  later  attending  Valparaiso  (Indi- 
ana) Normal  school.  For  a  time  thereafter  he 
taught  school  and  was  also  an  instructor  in 
music. 

In  1885  he  came  to  Chicago  and  entered 
Rush  Medical  College,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1889  with  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Medicine.  He  continued  his  professional 
study  at  the  Illinois  College  of  Electro-Thera- 
peutics, at  the  Chicago  Polyclinic  and  Hospital 
and  at  the  Illinois  Post  Graduate  Medical 
School.  For  two  years,  1886-7,  he  had  been  a 
trained  nurse  at  Cook  County  Hospital ;  and, 
in  1900,  after  his  studies  mentioned  above,  he 
was  made  a  member  of  the  Cook  County  Hos- 
pital medical  staff. 

Doctor  Cox  was  attending  surgeon  at  Kedzie 
Hospital ;  was  physician  and  examiner  for 
Montgomery   Ward   &   Company ;   was   superin- 


tendent of  the  Kirkland  Free  Dispensary;  and 
was  medical  examiner  and  a  member  of  the 
Grand  Medical  Board  of  the  Sons  and  Daugh- 
ters of  St.  George.  He  was  surgeon-in-chief  at 
St.  Stephen's  Sanitarium.  He  was  surgeon  at 
the  West  Side  Hospital.  He  was  examining 
physician  of  the  First  Pension  Board,  Chicago. 
He  was  a  founder  of  the  West  Side  Free  Clinic. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  the  Illinois  Medical  Society  and  the 
Chicago  Medical  Society. 

In  1890,  Doctor  Cox  built  his  home,  at  No. 
2914  West  Jackson  Boulevard,  Chicago.  From 
that  time  on,  for  more  than  three  decades,  he 
has  brought  health,  comfort,  cheer  and  help  into 
his  community. 

On  December  24,  1890,  Doctor  Cox  was  mar- 
ried, at  Chicago,  to  Miss  Nellie  J.  Sullivan. 
They  have  one  son,  Donald  S.  L.  Cox.  The 
family  belong  to  the  Christian  Church.  Doctor 
Cox  was  a  Thirty-second  degree  Mason. 

The  death  of  Doctor  Cox  occurred  on  Decem- 
ber 24,  1922.  His  life  has  been  one  of  great 
usefulness,  and  rare  kindheartedness  and  cheer- 
fulness were  always  characteristic  of  him. 


WILLIAM  WIRT  GURLEY. 


A  resident  of  Chicago  for  nearly  fifty  years 
and  prominently  identified  with  legal  and  busi- 
ness interests  here  for  an  equal  period,  the  late 
William  W.  Gurley,  stands  as  one  of  the  build- 
ers of  Chicago's  prosperity  and  a  man  whose 
ripened  judgment  and  unquestioned  integrity 
benefited  every  enterprise  with  which  he  was 
connected. 

William  W.  Gurley  was  born  on  January  27, 
1851,  in  Mt.  Gilead,  Ohio,  a  son  of  John  J.  and 
Anseville  C.  (Armentrout)  Gurley.  His  early 
training  was  gained  in  the  public  schools  and 


in  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1870,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts. 

His  father  was  a  lawyer  and  W.  W.  Gurley 
began  the  reading  of  law  in  his  father's  office. 
In  1871  he  was  made  superintendent  of  the 
Public  Schools  of  Seville,  Ohio,  and  served 
for  two  years.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Ohio  in  June,  1873. 

It  was  in  September  of  the  following  year 
that  Mr.  Gurley  came  to  Chicago  to  engage 
in   the  practice   of  law.     From   his   beginning 


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here,  as  a  young  man,  he  advanced  in  the 
ensuing  years  to  a  recognized  place  among  the 
really  great  lawyers  of  the  state.  His  work 
was  largely  done  for  corporations.  Mr.  Gurley 
was  general  counsel  for  the  Chicago  Railways 
Company  for  the  Chicago  Consolidated  Trac- 
tion Co.,  Chicago  Surface  Lines  and  other  cor- 
porations. He  was  a  director  of  Wakem  & 
McLaughlin,  Inc.,  of  the  J.  S.  Stearns  Lumber 
Company,  the  Lyon  Cypress  Lumber  Com- 
pany, and  the  Baker  Lumber  Company,  and 
also  a  director  of  Lyon,  Gary  '&  Company,  and 
vice  president  of  Baker  Fentress  &  Company. 

William  W.  Gurley  was  married,  on  October 
30,  1878,  to  Miss  Mary  Eva  Turney,  a  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Hon.  Joseph  Turney  of  Cleve- 


land, Ohio.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gurley  have  one 
daughter,  Miss  Helen  Kathryn  Gurley.  The 
family  attend  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church, 
Chicago.  Mr.  Gurley  was  a  member  of  the 
American,  Illinois  State  and  Chicago  Bar  As- 
sociations. For  some  years  he  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chicago  Club,  Union  League  Club, 
Exmoor,  Edgewater  Golf,  Chicago  Golf  and  the 
Transportation  Club  of  New  York  City,  the 
University  Club  of  Chicago,  and  a  member  of 
Masonic  order. 

Mr.  Gurley's  life  among  us  was  notably  fine 
and  strong.  His  death  on  March  11,  1923,  was 
a  distinct  loss  to  the  enterprises  under  his 
direction  and  a  real  sorrow  to  the  many  people 
who  knew  him. 


CORNELIUS  DU  BOIS  HOWELL. 


As  a  center  of  great  commercial  and  indus- 
trial interest,  Chicago  offers  unlimited  oppor- 
tunities, a  fact  which  has  long  been  recognized 
by  men  of  exceptional  worth  the  country  over, 
and  one  which  has  attracted  many  of  them  to 
this  city.  One  of  these  who,  coming  here  in 
young  manhood,  lived  to  become  a  forceful  fac- 
tor in  this  city,  was  the  late  Cornelius  Du  Bois 
Howell,  president  of  the  Illinois  Brick  Com- 
pany, owner  of  a  large  interest  in  the  Puring- 
ton  Paving  Brick  Company,  and  president  of 
John  A.  Colby  &  Sons,  furniture  dealers. 

Cornelius  Du  Bois  Howell  was  born  in 
Duchess  County,  New  York,  August  7,  1858,  a 
son  of  Charles  J.  and  Mary  H.  (Du  Bois) 
Howell,  and  grandson,  on  the  maternal  side, 
of  Cornelius  Du  Bois,  a  founder  of  Vassar  Col- 
lege at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  Mr.  Howell 
attended  Riverview  Academy  and  other  east- 
ern schools;  and  deciding  upon  a  business 
career,  began  work  at  Poughkeepsie  and  later 
at  New  York  City.  In  1889  he  came  to  Chi- 
cago, and  for  a  time  was  active  in  the  old  firm 
of  Hayt  &  Alsip,  brick  manufacturers.  Subse- 
quently upon  the  formation  of  the  Illinois  Brick 
Company,  Mr.  Howell  was  made  chief  executive. 
As  the  years  passed  he  secured  a  large  inter- 


est in  the  Purington  Paving  Brick  Company; 
and  during  his  later  years,  served  as  president 
of  the  large  furniture  house  of  John  A.  Colby 
&  Sons.  In  all  of  his  business  relations  he  dis- 
played unusual  executive  ability  and  strict  in- 
tegrity which,  from  the  beginning,  marked  his 
work. 

Mr.  Howell  was  united  in  marriage,  January 
8.  1889,  with  Margaret  Hayt,  daughter  of 
Henry  C.  Hayt.  They  have  one  son,  David 
Harris  Howell.  Mr.  Howell  was  connected  with 
the  University  Club,  of  Evanston,  the  Evanston 
Club,  the  Union  League  Club  and  the  West- 
moreland Golf  Club.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  completing  his  twenty-fifth  year  as  a 
member  of  the  Union  League  Club.  For  some 
years  he  was  a  deacon  in  the  Third  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Chicago ;  and  when  he  estab- 
lished his  home  at  Evanston  he  transferred  his 
membership  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Evanston,  of  which  he  was  an  elder  for  many 
years.  Closely  identified  with  mission  work  in 
Chicago,  the  Howell  Neighborhood  House  bears 
his  name  as  a  testimonial  to  his  activity.  Mr. 
Howell  died  February  21,  1916.  and  in  his  pass- 
ing Chicago  and  Evanston  lost  a  constructive 
and  most  capable  citizen. 


CHARLES  SEABURY. 


The  late  Charles  Seabury  of  Oak  Park,  Illi- 
nois, was  born  in  the  town  of  Tremont,  Illinois, 
December  21,  1839,  a  son  of  Richard  F.  and 
Catherine  Seabury.  His  parents,  who  were 
originally    from    Connecticut    and    New    York 


state,  respectively,  were  very  early  settlers  in 
Illinois. 

Charles  Seabury  was  next  to  the  oldest  of 
eight  children  in  this  family.  He  received  most 
of  his  schooling  in  Jubilee  College  which  was 


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near  the  town  of  Kickapoo,  Illinois,  where  the 
family  later  established  their  home. 

In  1860  he  went  to  Peoria.  Not  long  there- 
after he  went  into  business  for  himself  found- 
ing the  wholesale  mercantile  business  then 
known  as  Charles  Seabury  &  Company.  The 
firm  later  was  changed  to  Woodward  '&  Sea- 
bury. 

Mr.  Seabury  was  married,  in  1870,  to  Miss 
Clara  C.  Ward,  a  daughter  of  George  H.  and 
Roxanna  Ward  of  Galesburg,  Illinois.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Seabury  have  three  children :  Charles 
Ward,  Roxanna  (Mrs.  P.  D.  Wright),  and 
Clara  Hazel  (Mrs.  Albert  Cotsworth,  Junior). 

It  was  in  1879  that  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Seabury 
moved  to  Chicago.  The  following  year  they 
established  their  residence  at  Oak  Park,  and 
since  that  time  they  have  been  one  of  the  most 
prominent  and  substantial  families  of  that 
place.  Throughout  the  thirty  years  since  he 
came  to  Chicago  Mr.  Seabury  was  associated 
with  the  firm  of  Carson,  Pirie,  Scott  &  Company. 

During  the  period  of  his  residence  in  Oak 
Park  Mr.  Seabury  was  very  helpful  through  his 
devoted  interest  in  church  work.  It  should  be 
recorded  here  that  his  great-grandfather,  Sam- 
uel Seabury,  was  the  first  Bishop  of  the  Episco- 
pal Church  in  America.  Grace  Episcopal 
Church  of  Oak  Park  began  its  history,  as  a 
small  mission,  the  year  before  Mr.  Seabury 
moved  to  Oak  Park.    In  the  ensuing  years  Grace 


Church  had  no  more  loyal  supporter,  no  more 
earnest  worker  in  every  field  of  its  activity,  no 
more  valued  member  than  Charles  Seabury.  He 
was  Vestryman  from  1883-95 ;  Clerk  of  the 
Vestry  from  1885-88  and  Junior  Warden  from 
1895-1906.  He  was  a  member  of  the  choir  from 
its  formation  in  1890.  Grace  Church  said  of 
him: 

"To  recount  the  services  of  Mr.  Seabury  would 
require  of  us  little  less  than  a  rehearsal  of  the 
entire  history  of  the  Parish  during  a  period 
of  thirty  years."  He  helped  to  build  the  first 
church  in  the  parish.  While  on  the  vestry  he 
served  almost  continuously  on  important  com- 
mittees. Repeatedly  he  was  chosen  as  Delegate 
to  the  Diocesan  Conventions.  In  short,  to  the 
day  of  his  death  he  continued  to  contribute  of 
his  time,  his  labor  and  his  substance  to  the 
work  of  the  church  and  to  its  material  and  spir- 
itual growth. 

Mr.  Charles  Seabury  died  January  23,  1910. 
In  1922  the  Charles  Seabury  Memorial  Chimes 
were  presented  to  Grace  Church  by  his  son  and 
daughter,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Ward  Seabury. 
He  was  beloved  and  honored  by  a  host  of 
friends. 

"Charles  Seabury's  life  was  not  only  useful, 
but  in  the  highest  sense  successful,  not  measured 
by  material  possessions  but  by  the  riches  which 
are  eternal — morality,  kindness,  honesty,  integ- 
rity— all  things  which  abide  forever." 


ARTHUR  BLANEY  JONES. 


The  late  Arthur  B.  Jones,  of  Chicago  and 
Evanston,  Illinois,  was  born  in  a  small  village 
near  Aberystwith,  Wales,  October  21,  1851,  a 
son  of  Arthur  B.  and  Ann  Jones.  He  began  his 
schooling  in  his  native  town ;  but  in  1868  he 
came  to  the  United  States  and  located  at  Chi- 
cago. Here  his  training  was  further  advanced 
both  through  his  associations  in  the  office  at 
which  he  worked,  and  through  his  night  attend- 
ance at  business  college.  During  his  earlier 
years  in  Chicago  he  worked  for  two  men,  one  a 
prominent  lawyer,  and  the  other  an  equally 
prominent  real-estate  man ;  both  of  whom  took 
marked  personal  interest  in  him.  From  them 
he  gained  much  of  his  invaluable  early  expe- 
rience. 

It  was  in  the  early  seventies  that  he  entered 
the  employ  of  the  present  great  firm  of  Marshall 
Field  &  Company.  Before  long  he  earned  the 
personal  attention  of  Mr.  Field;  and  the  result 


was  that  he  became,  after  a  time.  Mr.  Field's 
private  secretary.  As  the  years  passed  this 
association  brought  about  a  warm  mutual 
friendship  and  regard  between  the  two  which 
continued  without  interruption  until  Mr.  Field's 
death  in  1906.  Throughout  the  latter  part  of 
this  period  Mr.  Field  came  to  place  great  re- 
liance in  Mr.  Jones'  very  exceptional  financial 
judgment  as  well  as  in  his  splendid  integrity 
and  character. 

Upon  Mr.  Field's  death,  Mr.  Jones  was  made 
one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Field  Estate  under 
the  terms  of  Mr.  Field's  will.  For  over  twenty 
years,  up  to  the  time  of  his  own  passing,  Mr. 
Jones  filled  this  office.  He  was  also,  for  more 
than  two  decades,  a  Director  of  Marshall  Field 
&  Company.  He  was  trustee  of  several  other 
important  estates,  among  them  that  of  Joseph 
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Mr.  Jones  had  long  rendered  the  people  of 
Chicago  great  service  through  the  thought  and 
work  and  devotion  he  always  exercised  as 
Trustee  of  the  Field  Museum  of  Natural  His- 
tory and  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation of  Chicago. 

On  October  5,  1S80,  Mr.  Jones  was  married 
at  Racine,  Wisconsin,  to  Miss  Eliza  Thomas,  a 
daughter  of  John  and  Ann  (James)  Thomas. 
Their  children  are :  Howard  B.  Jones,  Mabel 
(Mrs.  Milton  Wilker),  Ida  (Mrs.  Ralph  Hay- 
den),  Margaret  (Mrs.  Rudolph  Clemen),  and 
Florence  (Mrs.  Draper  Allen).  The  family 
residence  has  been  at  Evanston  for  over  forty 


years.  Mr.  Jones  was  infinitely  devoted  to  his 
family  and  his  home. 

He  was  an  active  and  devout  member  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Evanston.  He 
was  proud  of  his  native  country,  Wales,  and  did 
much  for  various  Welsh  organizations  in  Chi- 
cago. He  was  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
Club,  the  Midday  Club,  the  Westmoreland 
Country  Club,  the  University  Club  of  Evanston, 
and  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society.  He  was 
a  life  member  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago. 

Mr.  Jones  passed  away  from  among  us  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1927.  A  life  such  as  his  is  a  true 
blessing  to  the  world,  in  its  spirit  and  strength 
and  usefulness. 


MARK  SKINNER. 


The  late  Judge  Mark  Skinner  was  very  learned 
in  the  business  of  his  profession ;  had  an  in- 
tellect of  great  exactness  and  clearness,  a  sound 
and  instructed  judgment,  and  wonderful  tenac- 
ity of  purpose,  excelling  both  in  the  prepara- 
tion of  a  case  and  its  conduct,  convincing  court 
and  jury  not  so  much  by  eloquence  as  by  per- 
spicuity of  statement  and  entire  candor  of 
manner.  Thoroughly  learned  in  the  law,  he 
was  untiring  in  his  work.  Gifted  with  an 
extraordinary  retentive  memory,  and  an  equally 
surprising  quickness  of  perception,  he  made 
the  most  of  his  facts  and  authorities ;  and  could 
improvise  his  points  as  trial  progressed.  As 
a  lawyer,  in  the  stricter  sense  of  the  word, 
he  was  one  of  the  best  of  the  Chicago  bar, 
while  as  a  judge  his  decisions  were  unbiased 
and  sound. 

Judge  Skinner  was  born  at  Manchester,  Ver- 
mont, September  13,  1813,  a  son  of  Richard  and 
Frances  (Pierpont)  Skinner,  both  of  whom  were 
representatives  of  early  colonial  families  of 
New  England.  The  mother  traced  her  ancestry 
to  John  Pierpont,  a  descendant  of  Sir  Hugh  de 
Pierrepont  of  Picardy,  France.  He  sailed  for 
the  new  world  in  1640,  settling  near  Boston. 
The  name  of  Skinner  figures  prominently  in 
connection  with  the  history  of  the  Green  Moun- 
tain state. 

The  father  of  Judge  Skinner  was  a  distin- 
guished lawyer  who  was  born  at  Litchfield, 
Connecticut,  in  1778,  and  in  1802  removed  to 
Manchester,  Vermont.  His  ability  soon  won 
him  public  recognition  in  election  to  office  and 
from  1813  to  1815  he  was  a  representative  of 


his  district  in  Congress.  He  was  elected  Chief 
Justice  in  1817,  but  declined  the  honor,  and 
was  again  elected  in  1823,  and  served  until 
1829.  In  1820  he  became  governor  of  Vermont 
and  served  a  four-year  term.  His  death  oc- 
curred May  23,  1833.  He  and  his  wife  were 
fine,  Christian  people. 

In  early  youth  Mark  Skinner  was  a  pupil 
in  the  schools  of  Bennington,  Vermont,  and 
later  continued  his  education  at  Troy,  New 
York.  His  preparatory  training  was  received 
in  the  Pittsfield  Academy  of  Massachusetts, 
and  subsequently  he  entered  Middlebury  Col- 
lege, Vermont,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1833,  On  the  completion  of  his  college 
course  he  entered  upon  the  study  of  law  with 
Judge  Ezek  Cowen  of  Saratoga  Springs,  New 
York,  and  two  years  later  entered  the  law  office 
of  Nicholas  Hill  of  Albany,  New  York,  who 
directed  his  studies  until  he  became  a  student 
in  the  New  Haven  law  school.  A  year  there 
passed  and  then  he  received  an  offer  of  part- 
nership from  Mr.  Hill,  but  he  had  decided  to 
make  Chicago  his  future  home,  and  he  came 
to  this  city  in  1836.  It  was  not  incorporated 
until  the  following  year,  and  contained  but  a 
few  hundred  residents  so  that  Judge  Skinner 
was  closely  and  intimately  connected  with  its 
growth  and  development  from  the  first. 

He  entered  at  once  upon  the  practice  of  law, 
and  in  a  few  years  formed  a  partnership  with 
George  Anson  Oliver  Baumont,  which  resulted 
in  a  large  and  growing  practice.  His  associates 
recognized  in  Mr.  Skinner  a  man  of  scholarly 
attainments  and  wide  understanding  of  the  law, 


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and  his  practice  grew  until  he  was  a  recog- 
nized leader  of  the  Chicago  bar.  His  fellow 
townsmen,  appreciative  of  his  worth,  elected 
him  to  the  office  of  city  attorney  in  1839,  and 
he  held  that  office  for  two  years,  and  for  a 
number  of  years  was  a  master-in-chancery  of 
Cook  County.  President  Tyler  appointed  him 
United  States  district  attorney,  when  the  dis- 
trict embraced  the  entire  state,  but  when  James 
K.  Polk  was  elected  president,  Mr.  Skinner's 
re-appointment  was  opposed  by  Isaac  N.  Arnold 
who  was  a  candidate  for  the  office.  The  con- 
test resulted  in  the  appointment  of  a  third 
party,  ana  Mr.  Skinner  became  so  impressed 
with  the  unworthiness  of  methods  that  must 
be  employed  to  obtain  federal  patronage,  that 
he  resolved  to  entirely  eschew  such  appoint- 
ments. He  was,  however,  elected  to  the  Illi- 
nois Legislature  in  184G  and  throughout  his 
course  as  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly 
stood  as  a  man  among  men,  holding  loyally 
to  a  course  which  he  believed  to  be  of  the 
greatest  benefit  to  the  commonwealth.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Finance,  at  that 
time  the  most  important  committee  in  the  House. 
During  the  period  of  wild-cat  banking  he  saved 
the  credit  of  Illinois.  He  drew  up  and  secured 
the  passage  through  the  House  of  the  bill  re- 
funding the  state  debt ;  a  bill  which  was  far- 
reaching  in  its  influence  on  the  financial  policy 
of  the  state.  It  reduced  all  the  multiplied  forms 
of  state  credit — there  being  various  styles  of 
state  bonds — to  the  present  convenient  and 
manageable  form.  In  fact  the  bill  brought 
method  and  system  out  of  chaos,  brought  the 
state  debt  into  intelligible  condition,  and,  so 
placed  Illinois'  credit  on  a  healthy  basis. 

In  1851  by  popular  suffrage,  Mr.  Skinner  was 
called  to  the  bench  of  Cook  County  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  now  the  Superior  Court.  As 
an  immense  amount  of  business  was  transacted 
in  the  court,  and  the  strenuous  labor  required 
told  upon  Judge  Skinner's  health,  at  the  close 
of  the  term  he  was  forced  to  decline  a  re- 
election, and  for  the  same  reason  discontinued 
his  active  practice.  However,  he  did  not  cease 
to  be  an  active  factor  in  the  business  life  of 
the  city,  but  became  financial  agent  of  certain 
eastern  capitalists  in  investments  in  Chicago 
real  estate.  His  knowledge  of  law  as  applied 
to  realty  and  his  accurate  business  habits  par- 
ticularly qualified  him  for  the  successful  con- 
duct of  this  character,  and  no  one  in  Chicago- 


perhaps  so  largely  represented  non-resident 
capitalists  or  handled  larger  amounts  of  bor- 
rowed money  so  extensively  used  in  the  build- 
ing up  of  the  city.  He  was  for  many  years  a 
prominent  representative  of  the  Connecticut 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  and  in  a  memo- 
rial presented  to  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
company  on  the  occasion  of  Judge  Skinner's 
death,  the  president,  Col.  Jacob  L.  Green,  took 
occasion  to  pay  the  following  kindly  tribute 
to  the  memory  of  his  warm,  personal  friend 
as  well  as  business  associate. 

"The  directors  of  the  company,  having  learned 
of  the  death  of  Hon.  Mark  Skinner,  who  was 
for  more  than  thirty  years  its  financial  cor- 
respondent and  their  own  confidential  advisor 
at  Chicago,  entered  upon  their  minute  this 
record  desiring  thereby  to  recall  and  mark 
their  sense  of  the  peculiar  importance  and 
value  of  his  services  to  it  in  that  relation, 
involving  the  investment  of  over  twenty-seven 
million  dollars;  the  acquisition  by  unavoidable 
foreclosure  and  the  subsequent  sale  of  large 
amounts  of  real  estate ;  and  the  personal  fore- 
sight and  handling  of  those  great  interests 
during  all  the  dangers  and  trying  vicissitudes 
which  fell  upon  the  country  at  large  and  upon 
his  own  city  in  particular  during  that  most 
eventful  period ;  the  singular  intelligence,  fore- 
sight, sound  judgment,  delicacy,  courage,  fidel- 
ity, and  single-heartedness  with  which  he 
treated  every  question,  faced  every  emergency 
and  discharged  every  duty ;  his  untiring  watch- 
fulness of  every  interest  involved ;  his  equally 
wise  and  kindly  zeal  for  the  welfare  of  the 
company's  debtors  in  time  of  financial  distress; 
that  unfailing  courtesy  which  made  long  as- 
sociation with  him  a  pleasure  as  well  as  a 
high  privilege ;  and  their  deep  sense  of  loss 
and  their  sympathy  with  his  bereaved  family." 
Aside  from  professional  and  business  inter- 
ests alluded  to,  Judge  Skinner  did  much  im- 
portant service  for  the  city  in  the  building  and 
extension  of  its  railway  connections.  He  was 
closely  associated  with  the  old  Galena  and 
with  the  Chicago,  Burlington  and  Quincy  rail- 
roads, serving  as  a  director  of  both  companies. 
He  was  also  a  director  of  the  Chicago  Marine 
&  Fire  Insurance  Company,  and  the  State  In- 
surance Company,  and  the  Chicago  Gas  Light 
and  Coke  Company. 

Judge   Skinner's  home  life   was   particularly 
attractive.     He  was  married  May  21,  1841,  to 


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Elizabeth  Magill  Williams,  and  they  had  six 
children :  Richard,  Elizabeth,  Evelyn  Pierre- 
pont,  Frances,  Frederika  and  Susan  Pierrepont. 
Of  these  Frances  became  the  wife  of  Henry 
J.  Willing,  and  had  two  children,  Evelyn  Pierre- 
pont and  Mark  Skinner  Willing.  The  young- 
est daughter,  Susan  Pierrepont,  married  Am- 
brose Cramer  and  had  two  children,  Elizabeth 
Skinner  Cramer  and  Ambrose  Coghill  Cramer. 
The  Skinner  home  was  one  of  the  notable  North- 
Side  homes  of  hospitality  which  was  long  a 
social  center.  Judge  Skinner  was  devoted  to 
promoting  the  welfare  of  his  city,  and  delighted 
in  surrounding  his  family  with  comforts  and 
luxuries.  One  of  his  deepest  sorrows  came 
to  him  in  the  death  of  his  only  remaining 
son,  who,  responding  to  his  country's  call  at 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  died  in  the 
trenches  before  Petersburg,  June  22,  1864. 

The  name  of  Judge  Skinner  is  inseparably 
interwoven  with  the  history  of  the  United 
States  Sanitary  Commission,  organized  soon 
after  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War.  He  was 
active  in  its  affairs,  and  gave  of  his  time, 
energy  and  money  without  reserve  to  further 
its  interests,  and  was  made  president  of  the 
Northwestern  Branch,  directing  its  work  until 
a  severe  illness  compelled  him  to  resign  in 
18G4.  The  cause  of  education  found  in  him 
a  stalwart  champion,  and  his  effective  labors 
in  behalf  of  the  public  schools  were  recognized 
when  a  new  public  school  erected  at  the  corner 
of  Aberdeen  street  and  Jackson  boulevard,  was 
called  the  Skinner  school  in  his  honor.  He 
was  instrumental  in  organizing  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  the  successor  of  the 
Chicago  Library  Association,  the  nucleus  of 
whose  library  was  furnished  by  Walter  L.  New- 
berry, April  24,  1841.  Judge  Skinner  was  one 
of  the  charter  members  of  the  Cook  County 
Hospital,  and  one  of  the  early  presidents  of 
the  Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless,  and  also 
became  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Chi- 
cago Relief  and  Aid  Society,  and  was  himself 
indefatigable  in  his  labor  in  connection  with 
that  society.  Following  the  great  fire,  although 
his  own  home  was  destroyed,  he  labored  to 
assist  those  who  were  destitute.  As  the  hour 
brought  its  needs  in  the  public  life  of  his  com- 
munity, he  sought  to  meet  them.  Judge  Skin- 
ner was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chicago 
Reform  School,  became  the  president  of  its 
first   board  of  directors,   and   for   many   years 


continued  in  that  position.  He  was  a  trustee 
of  the  Illinois  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  In- 
firmary, and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Chicago*  Historical  Society.  His  charitable  and 
benevolent  work  had  its  root  in  his  Christian 
faith,  for  throughout  the  greater  part  of  his 
life  he  was  identified  with  the  Presbyterian 
denominations,  and  for  many  years  served  as 
an  elder  in  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  later  in  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Chicago. 

Judge  Skinner's  interests  were  not  confined 
to  Chicago,  for  in  1854  he  became  allied  with 
the  anti-Nebraska  movement  which  opposed 
Stephen  A.  Douglas  in  the  course  which  he 
took  on  that  question.  This  led  to  the  fusion 
of  sentiment  which  revolutionized  the  policies 
of  this  entire  part  of  the  state.  The  new  party 
was  composed  of  anti-slavery  people,  both  Dem- 
ocratic and  Whig  in  faith,  and  in  four  years 
it  absorbed  the  Whig  and  Free-soil  parties  and 
finally  weakened  the  Democratic  party.  His 
anti-slavery  position  led  Judge  Skinner  to 
espouse  the  cause  of  the  new  Republican  party 
and  he  remained  a  supporter  of  it  until  his 
death. 

To  honor  him  in  recognition  of  his  work  in 
connection  with  the  United  States  Sanitary 
Commission,  he  was  made  the  recipient  of  the 
button  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  Throughout  his 
life  Judge  Skinner  maintained  a  deep  attach- 
ment for  the  place  of  his  nativity,  and  each 
year  returned  to  Manchester,  Vermont,  for 
recreation  and  rest.  He  became  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  New  England  Society  of  Chi- 
cago, in  memory  of  his  old  home.  He  passed 
away  at  Manchester,  and  was  buried  from  his 
old  home  there,  September  16,  1887,  by  the 
side  of  his  parents.  The  Mark  Skinner  Library 
at  Manchester  is  a  monument  to  his  memory 
erected  by  his  daughter,  Frances.  However, 
his  memory  is  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  all 
who  knew  him.  A  man  who  concealed  as  far 
aa  possible  his  charities,  he  gave  liberally. 
Looking  habitually  on  the  bright  side  of  life, 
he  infected  others  with  his  good  spirits,  and 
made  life  happier  for  all  who  knew  him.  No 
man  was  truer  or  deeper  in  his  attachments, 
and  he  may  be  truly  said  to  have  been  a  Chris- 
tian gentleman  of  the  old  school  of  courtesy 
and  kindness  whose  peer  is  hard  to  find,  and 
whose  place  will  ever  remain  empty. 


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ERNEST  WARREN  HEATH. 


Ernest  W.  Heath  was  born  in  Jefferson,  Illi- 
nois, January  21,  1858,  the  eldest  son  of 
Monroe  and  Julia  (Dickerman)  Heath,  extended 
mention  of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
history.  Monroe  Heath  was  founder  of  the 
present  firm,  the  Heath  &  Milligan  Manufactur- 
ing Company,  and  was  also  twice  mayor  of  the 
city  of  Chicago. 

The  family  home  has  been  in  Chicago  ever 
since  1850.  Ernest  W.  Heath  attended  the  old 
Brown  school  here,  on  the  West  Side,  as  a  boy. 

It  was  in  1877  that  Ernest  W.  Heath  entered 
the  business  which  his  father  founded  and  which 
has  long  been  one  of  the  best-known  concerns 
making  and  selling  paint,  in  the  world. 

For  over  forty  consecutive  years,  from  1877  to 
1920,  he  was  intimately  identified  with  the 
growth  and  success  of  this  remarkable  business. 
For  many  years  prior  to  his  retirement  from 
the  firm  he  was  its  general  manager.  In  1920 
he    became    director    of    distribution    for    the 


Sherwin-Williams  Company,  a  work  he  contin- 
ued until  the  time  of  his  death. 

During  the  World  War  Mr.  Heath  served  as 
a  member  of  the  Paint  Conservation  War  Service 
Committee. 

He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Chicago 
Athletic  Association,  by  election,  June  9,  1890. 
He  also  belonged  to  the  Industrial  Club,  the 
Olympia  Fields  Country  Club,  and  the  South 
Shore  Country  Club. 

On  November  15,  1881,  Ernest  W.  Heath  was 
married  to  Miss  Florence  Hamilton,  of  Louis- 
ville, Kentucky,  a  daughter  of  William  B.  Ham- 
ilton, a  banker  of  Louisville.  Mrs.  Heath  died 
January  28,  1918. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Heath  occurred  January 
9,  1927,  at  the  home  of  his  daughter,  Hazel 
Heath  Horton,  at  4940  Woodlawn  avenue, 
Chicago. 

For  nearly  half  a  century  Mr.  Heath  was 
one  of  the  most  substantial  and  able  men  in 
the  paint  industry  of  America. 


SAMUEL  KOOGLER. 


It  is  oftentimes  easier  for  a  man  to  achieve 
renown  and  a  place  in  the  esteem  of  his  asso- 
ciates through  some  brave  or  daring  deed,  that, 
while  productive  of  great  results  is  not  the  out- 
come of  any  special  planning,  than  for  another 
to  so  direct  his  actions  during  a  life  that 
stretches  way  beyond  the  usual  allotment,  as  to 
accomplish  the  same  end.  While  there  is  more 
time  for  planning  in  a  long  life,  than  in  one  of 
shorter  duration,  more  opportunities  for  achieve- 
ment, there  are  also  more  obstacles  to  meet  and 
temptations  to  be  overcome.  There  are  but  few 
men  who  can  successfully  pursue  their  callings 
and  also  serve  acceptably  as  public  officials, 
often,  in  this  relation,  being  called  on  to  sac- 
rifice private  interests  for  civic  betterment,  for 
the  public  spirited  man  is  of  necessity  one  who 
thinks  of  his  community  before  himself.  He 
must  plan  upon  a  large  scale  and  carry  out 
undertakings  for  the  public  weal,  even  if  in  so 
doing  he  retard  his  personal  progress.  This 
term,  public  spirited,  is  oftentimes  given  to  men 
who  have  no  real  right  to  it,  but  one  who  de- 
served it  in  the  highest  conception  of  the  word 
was  the  late  Samuel  Koogler,  of  Champaign. 
He  was  born  February  14,  1825,  and  passed 
away  August  23,  1914,  so  that  he  was  eighty- 


nine  years,  six  months  and  nine  days  old  at  the 
time  of  his  demise.  Greene  County,  Ohio,  was 
the  place  of  Mr.  Koogler's  birth,  and  he  was  a 
son  of  Jacob  and  Catherine  (Bates)  Koogler, 
natives  of  Ohio  and  Pennsylvania,  respectively. 
Jacob  Koogler  was  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  was 
captured,  but  made  his  escape  at  the  time  of 
Hall's  surrender,  and  found  his  way  back  to 
Ohio.  He  and  his  wife  died  when  Samuel  Koog- 
ler, their  youngest  child,  was  six  years  old,  and 
the  latter  lived  with  a  sister  until  he  began 
to  be  self-supporting.  The  other  children  were : 
Jacob  Funk,  Adam,  Conrad,  Sallie  Patten  and 
two  daughters  who  died  in  infancy. 

Samuel  Koogler  attended  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  county.  At  the  age  of  nineteen 
years,  he  moved  to  Greenville,  Ohio,  and  while 
there,  together  with  Henry  Garst  of  that  place, 
entered  into  a  contracting  business  and  built 
some  of  the  old  time  plank  roads,  and  was  also 
in  a  drug  and  grocery  business,  but  later  sold 
his  interests  and  moved  to  Marion,  Ind.,  where 
he  conducted  a  general  store.  Selling  it  in  1852, 
he  started  then  for  Illinois.  The  trip  was  made 
in  a  covered  wagon  as  far  as  Le  Roy,  McLean 
County,  his  sole  possessions  at  that  time  being 
his  wagon  and  team  and  $100  in  money.     For 


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one  year  he  did  teaming  from  Blooniington  to 
Le  Roy  and  back,  and  then  rented  land  of  Ike 
Williams,  in  Scott  Township,  Champaign 
County,  paying  during  the  four  years  he  occu- 
pied it,  an  annual  rental  of  $600,  which  was  a 
hitherto  unheard  of  rental.  Having  previously 
traveled  through  this  region,  and  as  far  west  as 
Davenport,  Iowa,  he  appreciated  the  future  pos- 
sibilities of  land  in  this  county,  and  from  1856  to 
1861,  devoted  himself  to  acquiring  it,  securing 
900  acres  of  railroad  land  in  Scott  Township,  and 
broke  the  sod  with  teams.  He  was  a  man  open 
to  new  ideas  and  it  is  believed  he  bought  the  first 
mowing  machine  in  this  section  of  Illinois.  Hav- 
ing heard  of  this  invention,  he  drove  fifty  miles 
to  Blooniington,  where  the  implement  was  on  ex- 
hibition, but  could  not  secure  one,  but  learned  of 
one  for  sale  at  Clinton,  so  he  drove  thirty  miles 
further  and  was  able  to  buy  it.  As  there  were  no 
railroads  through  this  section  at  that  time,  his 
traveling  was  done  with  a  wagon  and  a  team  of 
horses.  He  succeeded  in  his  agricultural  work, 
and,  as  able,  purchased  good  stock,  and  devel- 
oped into  a  heavy  raiser  and  feeder  of  stock, 
shipping  first  to  New  York,  but  later  to  the 
Chicago  markets.  For  some  ten  years  he  was 
in  partnership  at  Seymour,  111.,  with  Captain 
B.  F.  Cresap,  under  the  caption  of  Koogler  & 
Cresap,  for  the  purpose  of  buying  grain,  feeding 
cattle  and  hogs  and  conducting  a  general  mer- 
chandise business.  At  the  expiration  of  the  ten 
years,  the  partners  sold  to  Robert  Johnston  and 
James  Karr,  and  this  business  is  still  conducted 
by  a  Mr.  Karr.  When  he  retired  in  1893  and 
located  at  Champaign,  he  was  recognized  as  one 
of  the  leaders  in  the  cattle  and  grain  business. 
His  operations  as  a  shipper  of  grain  were  car- 
ried on  upon  an  extensive  scale,  and  he  was  a 
charter  member  of  the  Indianapolis  Board  of 
Trade. 

Mr.  Koogler  married  (first)  at  Greenville, 
Ohio,  Lucy  Vantilburg,  a  native  of  that  state, 
who  died  in  1865.  They  had  four  children : 
Helen  B.,  who  married  Edgar  Plummer,  resides 
at  Champaign ;  Lizzie,  who  married  Frank 
Jones,    resides    at    London,    Ohio ;    Oella,    who 


married  Edgar  Conklin,  is  now  deceased ;  and 
William,  who  died  in  infancy.  In  1866  Mr. 
Koogler  was  married  (second)  to  Miss  Sallie 
Adams,  born  in  Ohio  in  1834,  and  died  in  1867. 
One  child  was  born  of  this  marriage,  Lucy,  who 
died  when  four  years  old.  Mr.  Koogler  was 
married  (third)  in  McLean  County,  to  Miss 
Jennie  Plummer,  Normal,  111.,  and  they  had  one 
child,  Frank  S.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Daniel 
and  Eliza  (Hunt)  Plummer,  the  former  of  whom 
was  captain  of  Company  H,  Seventy-sixth  Illi- 
nois Volunteer  Infantry,  during  the  Civil  war. 
He  lost  his  life  through  exposure  at  the  siege 
of  Vicksburg.  Three  of  his  sons  were  in  the 
service,  and  they  all  returned  home  safely.  Mr. 
Koogler  became  the  grandfather  of  the  following 
children :  Nina  Jones,  Lucy  Plummer,  Helen 
(Conkling)  Condit,  Frank  Conkling,  Dorothy 
Koogler  and  Jane  Koogler.  The  great-grand- 
children in  the  family  are  as  follows :  Helen 
McComb,  daughter  of  Lucy ;  Lucy  and  Oella, 
daughters  of  Helen ;  and  Oella  Conkling,  daugh- 
ter of  Frank  Koogler  Conkling. 

While  he  was  a  man  who  devoted  himself  to 
his  business  to  a  considerable  extent,  for  many 
years,  Mr.  Koogler  found  time  for  other  things, 
and  a  history  of  his  connection  with  the  Uni- 
versity at  Champaign  illustrates  his  public 
spirit.  He  was  a  Mason  and  always  interested 
in  the  fraternity.  While  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  church,  he  was  very  liberal  in  his  own 
religious  belief.  For  many  years  the  public 
affairs  of  Scott  Township  were  in  his  capable 
hands  as  he  represented  it  on  the  county  board 
of  supervisors.  He  also  served  as  road  com- 
missioner. While  the  news  of  his  death  was  not 
unexpected,  as  he  had  been  in  poor  health  owing 
to  his  advanced  age,  those  who  knew  him,  old 
and  young  alike,  felt  that  in  his  demise  they 
had  lost  a  faithful  friend.  The  whole  com- 
munity appreciated  the  fact  that  Champaign 
would  never  have  a  better  citizen  than  the  one 
who  left  behind  him  a  stainless  record  and  a 
name  kept  unblemished  from  any  suggestion  of 
dishonor. 


HENRY  SARGENT  TOWLE. 


Henry  Sargent  Towle  was  born  in  Mishawaka, 
Indiana,  October  11,  1842.  The  Towle  family 
had  settled  in  Massachusetts  about  1660  and 
later  removed  to  New  Hampshire. 

Mr.  Towle's  father,  Gilman  Towle,  was  one  of 


a  small  party  of  young  men  who  came  west 
together  from  New  York  State,  expecting  to 
settle  in  Chicago.  Silas  Cobb  and  several  others 
remained  and  became  prominent  in  city  affairs. 
Gilman  Towle,  however,  turned  back  as  far  as 


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the  St.  Joseph  River  Valley,  Indiana,  and  there 
purchased  land  near  Mishawaka,  where  he  be- 
came an  honored  citizen.  Gilman  Towle's  wife 
was  Magdalene  Beekman,  elder  sister  of  Mar- 
garet Beekman  Meeker,  whose  family  also  left 
New  York  State  and  settled  in  Chicago  at  a 
later  date. 

Mr.  Henry  S.  Towle  attended  the  Mishawaka 
public  school  and  Valparaiso  College,  Indiana, 
and  graduated  in  law  at  Ann  Arbor. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War  he  offered 
his  services  as  a  volunteer,  but  was  rejected 
because  of  ill  health.  He  finally  secured  a  place 
with  the  Sanitary  Expedition,  organized  by 
Governor  Morton  of  Indiana,  for  the  relief  of 
soldiers  from  that  State.  In  this  capacity  he 
was  on  several  of  the  most  important  battle- 
fields and  followed  the  army  into  the  far  South. 
Later  he  was  employed  in  taking  the  wounded 
home  to  Indiana  by  river  steamer.  He  con- 
tracted camp  fever  and  was  invalided  home, 
but  soon  was  able  to  go  to  Washington  where 
he  again  engaged  in  relief  work  in  the  vicinity 
of  Georgetown. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  Mr.  Towle  remained 
in  Washington  where,  as  secretary  to  Schuyler 
Colfax,  he  was  privileged  to  see  and  hear  many 
of  the  greatest  men  of  that  day,  including 
President  Lincoln. 

Leaving  Washington,  Mr.  Towle  went  to  the 
University  of  Michigan.  Immediately  after 
graduating  in  law,  in  1867,  he  came  to  Chicago 
and  entered  the  office  of  Arrington  '&  Dent. 
Later  he  was   with   the  firm  of  Goodwin  and 


Larned,  which  afterward  became  the  firm  of 
Offield  and  Towle.  Specializing  in  patent  law, 
he  and  Charles  K.  Offield  were  together  forty- 
five  years.  During  that  time  several  younger 
men  were  associated  with  them,  among  whom 
were  the  late  Charles  C.  Linthicum  and  Albert 
H.  Graves.  In  1921  Mr.  Towle  retired  from  the 
firm  of  Fisher,  Towle,  Clapp  and  Soans. 

From  the  time  he  was  a  young  man  Mr.  Towle 
was  actively  interested  in  the  work  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  old  Wabash  Avenue  Church.  He  served 
on  the  boards  of  several  Methodist  organiza- 
tions, including  the  Chicago  Home  Missionary 
and  Church  Extension  Society.  He  was  a  Trus- 
tee of  Northwestern  University  for  half  a 
century,  and  was  especially  active  in  furthering 
the  interests  of  the  law  school. 

Mr.  Towle  was  married  in  November,  1869, 
at  Albany,  New  York,  to  Miss  Helen  E.  Hough- 
ton. They  had  one  daughter,  Miss  Helen  M. 
Towle.  Mrs.  Towle  died  in  1881.  Later  Mr. 
Towle  married  Miss  Sarah  Meacham.  Mr. 
Towle  and  his  family  have  been  valued  resi- 
dents of  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  for  some  forty  years. 

Mr.  Towle  died  on  March  19,  1924,  in  his 
eighty-second  year,  honored  and  respected.  His 
unfailing  dignity,  tempered  by  courtesy  and 
kindliness,  his  loyalty  to  the  highest  standards 
of  his  profession  and  his  willingness  to  help 
others  at  all  times,  endeared  him  to  a  large 
circle  of  friends  throughout  the  country. 


HENRY  DOUGLAS  HATCH. 


Professor  Henry  Douglas  Hatch  was  born  at 
Joliet,  Illinois,  March  10,  1858.  His  mother 
died  when  he  was  a  child,  and  his  boyhood  was 
spent  mostly  with  his  grandfather,  Alanson 
Ives  Hatch,  at  Plainfield,  Illinois. 

He  attended  public  school  at  Plainfield,  and 
later  studied  for  two  years  at  the  University 
of  Illinois.  He  left  the  university  before  com- 
pleting his  course  as  it  became  necessary  for 
him  to  get  to  work  and  earn  his  living.  He 
taught  school  at  Oswego  and  at  Yorkville,  Illi- 
nois, for  a  time.  Later  he  was  made  Principal 
of  the  school  at  Trempealeau,  Wisconsin.  Re- 
turning to  Illinois  he  became  Principal  of  one 
of  the  elementary  schools  at  Moline. 

About  this  time  he  became  much  interested 
in  the  work  of  teachers'  institutes ;  and  he  con- 


ducted institutes  for  teachers  at  Rock  Island, 
Moline,  and  Davenport,  for  several  years.  From 
that  time  on  he  became  recognized  as  a  thor- 
oughly progressive  educator. 

He  furthered  his  own  studies  by  advanced 
work  at  the  University  of  Michigan,  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  at  Columbia  University,  and  at 
Kent  College  of  Law,  Chicago,  from  which  in- 
stitution he  graduated  in  the  first  class. 

From  the  Moline  schools  Professor  Hatch 
came  to  Chicago,  and  was  made  Principal  of  the 
Wicker  Park  school.  This  began  a  term  of 
service  in  the  public  schools  of  our  city  that  was 
to  continue  for  many  years,  and  was  to  be  of 
much  value  to  Chicago  and  its  people. 

During  the  period  when  the  late  Ella  Flagg 
Young  was  Superintendent,  Professor  Hatch  be- 


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came  very  much  impressed  by  the  great  pos- 
sibilities of  vocational  training.  He  came  to  be 
an  outstanding  figure  in  this  connection ;  and  he 
was  sent  to  Europe  by  the  Chicago  Board  of 
Education  to  make  a  comprehensive  study  of 
vocational  schooling  abroad.  Many  of  his  sub- 
sequent recommendations  are  effective  in  our 
schools  here  today. 

On  leaving  the  Wicker  Park  school,  Profes- 
sor Hatch  became  Principal  of  the  Brainard 
School,  then,  in  succession,  of  the  Gladstone 
school,  the  Chicago  Lawn  school,  the  Thomas 
school,  and  lastly  of  the  J.  N.  Thorpe  school, 
of  which  he  continued  the  head  until  the  close 
of  his  life.  He  accomplished  a  great  deal  of 
good  for  that  school  and  the  people  of  that 
community.  When  he  first  took  charge  of  the 
Thorpe  school  the  school  building  was  old  and 
Incommodious.  Largely  through  his  efforts,  cov- 
ering a  period  of  seventeen  years,  the  present 
building  and  equipment,  which  are  thoroughly 
complete,  have  replaced  the  old.  As  an  educator 
he  gave  to  that  community  the  full  measure  of 
his  devotion  and  fine  scholarship  and  executive 
ability. 

Another  noteworthy  thing  that  Professor 
Hatch  did  was  to  originate  and  establish  the 
"Penny  lunch."  He  found  out  that  many  of 
the  children  under  his  care  were  backward  in 
their  studies  because  they  were  undernourished. 
He  met   this   situation  successfully   by   arrang- 


ing to  have  noon  meals  served  at  his  school  at 
the  lowest  possible  cost,  without  any  profit,  and 
made  to  include  the  foods  essential  to  good 
health.  Many  items  on  the  menu  sold  for  a 
penny.  This  plan  which  he  started  has  since 
been  developed  into  a  fine  and  practical  serv- 
ice to  the  children  in  many  schools  here  and 
elsewhere. 

Professor  Hatch  appeared  a  number  of  times 
before  the  Illinois  State  Legislature  in  behalf 
of  vocational  training  and  for  the  granting  of 
increase  in  teachers'  salaries. 

He  was  also  vitally  interested  in  the  problems 
of  unemployment  and  did  much  for  the  better- 
ment of  sociological  conditions  in  Chicago. 

Professor  Hatch  was  a  member  of  the  George 
Howland  Club,  Chicago  Whist  Club,  the  Na- 
tional Educational  Association,  the  Illinois 
State  Teachers'  Association,  and  the  Chicago 
Principals'  Club.  He  was  a  Mason,  and  a  mem- 
ber and  ex-Commodore  of  the  Jackson  Park 
Yacht  Club.  He  belonged  also  to  the  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution. 

Professor  Hatch  was  notably  progressive,  al- 
ways looking  forward.  He  devoted  his  life  to 
the  working  out  of  educational  problems,  one 
after  another.  For  more  than  forty  consecu- 
tive years  he  served  as  Principal  of  the  schools 
of  Chicago,  and  this  service  was  only  terminated 
by  his  death,  on  the  fourteenth  of  March,  1927. 


PAUL  JOSEPH  HEALY. 


Paul  Joseph  Healy,  merchant-manufacturer, 
was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  July  29,  1874,  son 
of  Patrick  Joseph  Healy  and  Mary  Anne  (Grif- 
fith) Healy. 

His  father  came  to  America  in  1850,  at  the  age 
of  four  years.  He  lived  for  a  time  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  coming  to  Chicago,  Illinois,  in 
1864.  In  association  with  George  W.  Lyon,  he 
founded  the  general  music  house  of  Lyon  & 
Healy,  manufacturers  and  distributors  of  musi- 
cal instruments  and  other  musical  equipment. 
This  is  today  probably  the  largest  business  of 
its  kind  in  the  world. 

Paul  Healy  attended  the  public  schools  in  Chi- 
cago and  during  1891-2  was  a  student  at  Ford- 
ham  University,  New  York  City. 

He  began  his  business  career  in  1892  as  a 
salesman   for   Lyon   &   Healy,    starting   at  the 


bottom,  and  through  ability  and  hard  work 
earned  each  one  of  his  promotions  in  the 
firm.  He  was  made  a  director  in  1905,  Vice- 
President  in  1907  and  President  in  1910,  which 
finally  placed  him  in  charge  of  the  entire  busi- 
ness. During  his  administration  Lyon  &  Healy 
enjoyed  great  prosperity. 

The  idea  of  manufacturing  a  high-grade  Lyon 
&  Healy  piano  was  his,  and  he  carried  it  through 
successfully. 

He  must  be  given  credit  for  being  construc- 
tive in  many  ways.  The  large,  well-equipped 
factory  on  Fullerton  avenue,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
which  was  built  in  1914,  and  the  very  fine  retail 
building  of  Lyon  &  Healy's  at  Jackson  &  Wa- 
bash, erected  in  1915,  were  achievements  during 
his  administration. 

He  had  a  remarkable  personality,  charming 


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manner,  was  highly  sensitive,  possessed  excep- 
tional qualities  of  heart  and  mind  and  was  a 
man  of  highest  integrity. 

On  January  5,  1907,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Marie  Alexander,  daughter  of  John  T.  Alex- 
ander and  Annie  (Reese  Ayers)  Alexander. 
Both  the  Alexander  and  Ayers  families  are  very 
old  ones  in  the  southern  part  of  Illinois.  David 
B.  Ayers,  the  grandfather,  will  be  remembered 
as  one  of  the  most  successful  and  prominent 
men  in  the  early  history  of  Jacksonville,  Illi- 
nois. His  gifts  to  philanthropy  and  education 
are  important  ones. 


Paul  J.  Healy  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Athletic  Association,  and  the  Midwick  Country 
Club  of  Pasadena,  California. 

In  recent  years  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Healy  lived 
abroad  a  large  portion  of  their  time.  Mr.  Healy 
died  at  the  Hotel  Crillon,  Paris,  France,  on  De- 
cember 9,  1924,  and  was  buried  at  Calvary  Ceme- 
tery in  Chicago,  Illinois,  December  27,  1924. 

Although  Mr.  Healy  had  retired  from  active 
business  some  years  before  his  death,  his  long 
connection  with  the  firm  of  Lyon  &  Healy  en- 
titled him  to  recognition  as  a  principal  figure 
in  the  growth  of  this  great  business. 


ALBERT  ARNOLD  SPRAGUE. 


Among  the  prominent  men  of  Chicago  who 
have  left  the  impress  of  their  individuality 
upon  the  commercial  interests  of  the  country, 
none  is  more  worthy  of  mention  in  the  history 
of  Illinois  than  the  late  Albert  Arnold  Sprague, 
pioneer  merchant  and  for  many  years  an  hon- 
ored resident  of  this  city.  His  labors  not  only 
constituted  a  potent  factor  in  the  commercial 
affairs  of  Chicago,  but  his  progressive  spirit 
was  evident  in  many  ways,  and  his  career  in- 
dicated a  man  ready  to  meet  any  obligation 
of  life  with  the  confidence  and  courage  that 
come  of  conscious  personal  ability,  right  con- 
ception of  things  and  an  habitual  regard  for 
what  is  best  in  the  exercise  of  human  activi- 
ties. In  his  home,  in  social  and  in  public  life 
he  was  kind  and  courteous,  and  no  citizen  of 
Chicago  was  more  respected  or  enjoyed  the 
confidence  of  the  people  or  more  richly  de- 
served the  regard  in  which  he  was  held.  An 
earnest  friend  of  education  and  the  supporter 
of  all  worthy  movements  which  have  their  root 
in  unselfish  devotion  to  the  best  interests  of 
the  country,  Albert  Arnold  Sprague  still  lives 
in  the  memory  of  his  friends  as  the  highest 
type  of  a  loyal  citizen  and  a  progressive,  enter- 
prising business  man,  though  many  years  have 
passed  since  he  was  called  from  the  scene  of 
earthly  activities.  His  life  was  actuated  by 
high  ideals  and  spent  in  close  conformity  there- 
with ;  his  teachings  and  his  example  were  ever 
an  inspiring  force  for  good  in  the  world,  and 
his  humane  sympathy  and  charities  brought 
men  to  him  in  the  ties  of  strong  friendship. 

Mr.  Sprague  was  born  near  Randolph,  Ver- 
mont, May  19,  1835,  a  son  of  Ziba  and  Caroline 
M.  (Arnold)  Sprague,  and  came  of  prominent 
old    established    New    England    families    which 


date  back  to  the  Colonial  epoch  in  American 
history.  After  a  boyhood  spent  upon  the  family 
homestead,  during  which  he  attended  the 
schools  of  his  district,  Mr.  Sprague  matric- 
ulated at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  was 
graduated  from  that  institution  in  1854.  The 
following  year  he  entered  Yale  University,  and, 
taking  a  classical  course,  received  his  degree 
from  that  institution  in  1859.  It  had  been  his 
intention  to  study  law,  but  as  his  health  failed, 
he  was  obliged  to  relinquish  his  hopes  and  for 
the  next  three  years  spent  as  much  time  as 
possible  outdoors  upon  his  father's  farm.  Like 
many  young  men  of  ambitious  temperaments, 
he  was  not  satisfied  with  the  environments  of 
country  life,  and  resolved  to  seek  employment 
in  a  city  where  greater  advantages  were 
afforded. 

The  fame  of  the  future  Metropolis  of  the 
West,  which  seems,  not  unnaturally,  to  have 
extended  to  the  Eastern  States,  drew  many 
alert  young  men  like  himself  to  Chicago,  and 
In  18G2  he  decided  to  cast  his  lot  with  this 
city.  Coming  here  and  entering  business  life 
when  a  young  man  of  twenty-seven,  Mr.  Sprague 
virtually  grew  up  with  this  city  during  the 
period  of  its  most  marvelous  development,  and 
through  pluck,  perseverance  and  honorable 
dealing,  he  became  one  of  its  substantial  and 
most  valued  citizens.  He  soon  saw  the  desir- 
ability of  the  city  as  a  center  for  commercial 
trade  and,  having  determined  upon  the  whole- 
sale grocery  business,  he  organized  the  firm  of 
Sprague  &  Stetson,  and  with  a  limited  capital 
at  his  command,  laid  in  a  stock  of  goods.  From 
the  start  Mr.  Sprague  demonstrated  his  peculiar 
fitness  for  this  branch  of  activity,  and  it  is 
largely    through   his   efforts   that   we   may   at- 


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tribute  the  success  attained  by  the  great  firm 
of  Sprague,  Warner  '&  Company.  In  the  spring 
of  1863,  Mr.  Stetson  sold  his  interest  to  Ezra 
J.  Warner,  and  the  firm  of  Sprague  &  Warner 
was  formed.  In  1864,  a  younger  brother,  Otho 
S.  A.  Sprague,  returned  from  the  war,  and  was 
admitted  to  partnership  in  the  firm,  and  the 
title  became  Sprague,  Warner  &  Company. 

During  the  intervening  years  this  great  con- 
cern has  continued  to  stand  at  the  head  of 
institutions  of  its  kind,  and  to  control  the  very 
best  class  of  trade.  Many  innovations  have 
been  made  to  meet  existing  conditions,  but  it 
has  ever  been  the  policy  of  the  firm  to  never 
allow  expediency  to  overrule  established  cus- 
toms to  the  detriment  of  quality  or  the  lower- 
ing of  standards.  In  addition  to  his  connec- 
tion with  this  concern,  Mr.  Sprague  was  also 
identified  with  various  other  enterprises  of  the 
city,  among  which  were  the  Chicago  Telephone 
Company,  of  which  he  was  a  director,  the  Com- 
monwealth-Edison Company,  and  the  Northern 
Trust  Company,  being  one  of  the  organizers  and 
a  director  of  the  latter.  He  was  a  man  of 
marked  initiative  ability  and  resourcefulness 
and  impregnated  with  the  vital  elements  of 
worthy  success  every  enterprise  with  which  he 
was  identified  and  his  activities  meant  much 
to  Chicago  in  both  civic  and  material  progress, 
for  his  loyalty  and  public  spirit  were  ever  of 
the  most  insistent  and  appreciative  order,  and 
during  the  many  years  of  his  residence  here 
he  wielded  definite  and  benignant  influence  both 
as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man  of  splendid  business 
ability. 

Thoroughly  appreciative  of  the  city  of  his 
adoption.  Mr.  Sprague  was  loyal  and  public- 
spirited  in  his  civic  attitude,  and  gave  gener- 
ously of  his  time  and  means  to  the  furtherance 
of  charitable  movements  and  all  matters  tend- 
ing to  the  public  good.  His  efforts  were  not 
confined  to  lines  resulting  in  individual  bene- 
fit, but  were  evident  in  those  fields  where  gen- 
eral interests  and  public  welfare  are  involved, 
and  to  many  an  unfortunate  he  extended  a 
helping  hand.  In  commercial  affairs  he  main- 
tained the  highest  standards  of  business  ethics, 
and  bis  honesty  was  of  the  type  that  would 
rather  err  to  his  own  cost  than  do  an  injustice. 
His  loyalty  and  high-miuded  conception  of  a 
man's  duty  to  his  fellow  man,  and  his  quiet 
and  unswerving  allegiance  to  the  principles  of 
good   citizenship   were   traits   which   especially 


distinguished  him.  He  was  helpful  and  com- 
passionate to  the  weak  and  unfortunate,  and 
was  a  good  man  if  ever  a  good  man  lived.  It 
is  to  the  activity  and  public  spirit  of  such  men 
that  Chicago  owes  its  moral  education  and 
commercial  growth,  and  their  loss  is  not  easily 
forgotten.  In  business  life  he  was  alert,  saga- 
cious and  reliable ;  as  a  citizen  he  was  honor- 
able, prompt  and  true  to  every  engagement, 
and  his  death,  which  occurred  January  10, 
1915,  removed  from  Chicago  one  of  its  most 
valued  citizens. 

Mr.  Sprague  was  always  deeply  interested  in 
Chicago's  welfare  and  at  all  times  his  sympathy 
and  support  were  with  the  measures  that  in 
any  way  benefited  the  city.  Although  he  was 
keenly  interested  in  public  questions,  and  al- 
ways took  an  active  part  in  them  when  it  was 
to  the  interest  of  the  city,  he  did  not  care 
for  the  distinction  which  comes  from  public 
office.  He  manifested  his  political  allegiance 
to  the  Republican  party,  but  took  no  active 
part  in  politics  aside  from  casting  the  weight 
of  his  influence  in  support  of  men  and  measures 
working  for  the  public  good.  He  was  a  member 
of  several  of  the  most  prominent  social  organ- 
izations of  the  city,  including  the  Chicago,  Uni- 
versity, Onwentsia  and  Eleanor  Clubs.  He  was 
likewise  identified  with  the  Chicago  Literary 
Society  and  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  of  which  he  served  as  President 
in  1882.  He  was  also  a  director  of  the  Art 
Institute  of  Chicago  and  a  trustee  of  the  Sym- 
phony (formerly  Thomas)  Orchestra,  and  a 
trustee  of  the  Chicago  Orphan  Asylum,  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital  and  Rush  Medical 
College. 

From  1873  until  the  time  of  his  death  Mr. 
Sprague  was  a  director  of  the  Relief  and  Aid 
Society,  of  which  he  was  president  from  1887 
to  1890,  and  was  one  of  the  most  active  factors 
of  this  institution.  He  recognized  the  respon- 
sibilities his  wealth  brought  him,  and  he  en- 
deavored, with  a  broad-minded  philanthropy,  to 
discharge  them  ably  and  generously.  He  con- 
tributed freely  to  many  of  the  most  beneficent 
charities  of  the  city,  but  in  his  dislike  of  pag- 
eantry or  display,  they  were  seldom  made 
known  to  the  public.  In  every  relation  of  life 
was  shown  the  light  that  comes  from  justness, 
generosity,  truth,  high  sense  of  honor,  proper 
respect  for  self  and  a  sensitive  thoughtfulness 
for  others.      What   a   magnificent   legacy   such 


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a  nian  leaves  to  the  generations  who  shall  come 
after  him ! 

Mr.  Sprague  was  married  September  29,  1862, 
to  Miss  Nancy  A.  Atwood,  of  Royalton,  Ver- 
mont, a  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Atwood,  who  was 
one  of  the  eminent  men  of  the  East  in  his  day, 
and  to  this  union  three  daughters  were  born : 
Elizabeth  S.,  who  became  the  wife  of  the  late 
Dr.  Frederick  S.  Coolidge,  and  resides  at  Pitts- 
field,  Massachusetts.  She  has  one  son,  Albert 
Sprague  Coolidge.  The  two  younger  sisters, 
Susie  and  Carrie,  both  died  in  infancy.  Mrs. 
Sprague  is  also  deceased,  her  death  having 
occurred  March  28,  1916.  She  was  a  woman  of 
exceptional  mental  capacity  and  much  beauty 
of  character,  and  was  greatly  admired  for  her 
sterling  qualities  and  social  and  philanthropic 
activities.  Her  kind  heart  and  sympathetic 
nature  was  evident  in  all  matters  tending  to 
the  public  good,   and  she  was  interested  with 


her  husband  in  many  charitable  movements.  In 
her  broad  sympathy  which  was  the  guiding 
principle  of  her  life,  she  gave  fifty  thousand 
dollars  to  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  to  de- 
fray the  purchase  price  of  the  Assumption  of 
the  Virgin,  by  El  Greco,  to  make  it  a  permanent 
memorial  to  her  husband,  who  had  been  a 
trustee  of  the  institute.  She  also  presented  the 
institute  with  The  Virgin,  The  Infant  Christ, 
and  St.  Catherine  by  Van  Dyke,  valued  at  about 
$40,000.  The  Assumption  of  the  Virgin  is  a 
great  altarpiece  on  canvas,  thirteen  feet  two 
inches  high  and  seven  feet  six  inches  wide.  It 
was  painted  for  the  chapel  altar  of  the  convent 
of  Santo  Domingo  el  Viego,  Toledo,  Spain,  in 
1577.  The  artist,  Domenico  Theotocopoli  (El 
Greco),  was  born  about  1547.  He  belonged  to 
the  Spanish  School  and  was  inspired  by  the 
Venetians,  especially  Titian. 


GEORGE  HUBBARD  HOLT. 


The  late  George  Hubbard  Holt  of  Chicago  and 
Lake  Forest,  Illinois,  was  born  in  Chicago,  July 
28,  1852,  a  son  of  De  Villo  R.  and  Ellen  Maria 
(Hubbard)   Holt. 

The  father  came  to  Chicago  about  1847  and 
soon  engaged  in  the  lumber  business.  He  be- 
came one  of  the  most  substantial  men  of  his  day 
in  Chicago.  He  was  a  founder  of  the  lumber 
firm  of  Holt  &  Balcom,  which  later  became  the 
Holt  Lumber  Company.  He  was  also  a  founder 
of  Lake  Forest  University.  He  established  his 
residence  at  Lake  Forest  in  1860. 

The  Hubbard  family  has  also  been  a  very 
important  one  in  the  history  of  Chicago,  since 
the  year  1834. 

George  Hubbard  Holt  attended  Lake  Forest 
Academy.  Then  he  and  his  brother  made  a  trip 
around  the  world  which  occupied  the  years 
1874-6.  Subsequent  to  his  return  to  the  United 
States,  he  went  out  to  Colorado  where  he  was 
active  for  a  time  in  mining,  in  the  employ  of 
the  late  Mr.  John  V.  Farwell. 

In  1888  George  H.  Holt  was  made  Vice  Pres- 
ident of  the  Holt  Lumber  Company  at  Chicago, 
following  some  years  of  association  with  his 
father  in  this  business.  In  1899  he  was  made 
President  of  the  Holt  Lumber  Company  and  he 
continued  to  fill  that  office  until  his  death.     He 


was  also  President  of  the  American  Lumber 
Company  of  Wisconsin,  of  the  Holt  Timber  Com- 
pany and  of  George  H.  Holt  '&  Company.  He 
was  owner  of  the  Manhattan  Building  at  Chi- 
cago. He  was  President  of  the  Policy  Holders 
Union  and  Vice  President  of  the  Columbian 
National  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  National  Wholesale 
Lumber  Dealers  Association,  the  National  Lum- 
ber Manufacturers  Association,  the  Chicago 
Association  of  Commerce,  and  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  U.  S.  A. 

Mr.  Holt  belonged  to  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Chicago.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Club,  the  Chicago  Athletic  Club, 
Onwentsia,  the  South  Shore  Country  Club,  and 
the  Chicago  Literary  Club. 

For  more  than  thirty  consecutive  years  Mr. 
Holt  took  a  very  active  part  in  the  great  lumber 
industry  as  it  has  been  developed  throughout 
the  central  area  of  the  United  States.  He  be- 
came one  of  the  most  notable  figures  in  the  entire 
industry  in  this  section  of  the  country.  In  ad- 
dition to  his  business  connections  he  was  very 
deeply  interested  in  music  and  art. 

The  death  of  George  H.  Holt  occurred  on  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1924. 


BARBOUR   LATHROP 


HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


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BARBOUR  LATHROP. 


The  late  Mr.  Barbour  Lathrop  was  born  in 
Alexandria,  Virginia,  about  eighty  years  ago. 
Much  of  his  early  education  was  obtained  abroad. 
He  studied  at  the  University  of  Bonn  and  also  in 
France  and  Italy.  Returning  to  the  United 
States  he  took  further  studies  at  Harvard  Law 
School. 

Subsequent  to  this  he  practiced  law,  at  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  for  a  time  and  was  also  identified 
with  railroad  work. 

He  had  a  deep  interest  in  travel.  Throughout 
the  course  of  his  life  he  visited  practically  every 
spot  of  consequence  in  the  entire  world,  making 
several  trips  around  the  globe.  He  knew  the 
world  as  few  men  have  known  it. 

He  was  also  an  able  writer. 


Mr.  Lathrop  was  instrumental  in  sending  Mr. 
David  Fairchild  to  conduct  his  researches  in 
Egypt,  Persia,  India,  Japan  and  many  other 
countries  in  the  Far  East.  He  and  Mr.  Fair- 
child,  with  the  United  States  Department  of 
Agriculture,  brought  many  grains,  and  other 
products  of  the  soil,  to  the  United  States  which 
have  since  been  grown  successfully  in  this  coun- 
try and  many  of  which  have  been  of  great  value. 

He  was  a  most  admirable  man,  simple  in  his 
tastes,  exceedingly  generous,  and  much  enjoyed 
as  a  friend ;  a  man  of  vivid  and  original  per- 
sonality, a  delightful  and  dramatic  raconteur. 
Once  met  he  was  never  forgotten.  He  died 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  on  May  1,  1927, 
at  the  age  of  eighty  years. 


BRYAN  LATHROP. 


Dealing  with  the  careers  of  men  whose  names 
stand  out  prominently  in  the  record  of  the 
development  of  the  real  estate  interests  in  Chi- 
cago, that  of  the  late  Bryan  Lathrop  is  found 
to  be  one  that  compels  more  than  passing  atten- 
tion. He  was  identified  with  the  business  and 
financial  interests  of  the  city  for  more  than  half 
a  century ;  and  few  men  have  made  as  lasting 
an  impression,  both  for  business  ability  and  for 
individuality  of  a  personal  character.  Also  his 
connection  with  the  artistic  and  musical  devel- 
opment of  the  city  has  attained  notable  dis- 
tinction. 

Mr.  Lathrop  was  born  in  Alexandria,  Va.,  on 
August  6,  1844,  a  son  of  Jedediah  Hyde  and 
Mariana  (Bryan)  Lathrop,  and  he  fully  exem- 
plified the  accomplished  and  scholarly  character 
for  which  the  people  of  that  state  have  always 
been  noted.  He  came  of  a  long  line  of  old 
American  families  which  date  back  to  the  Co- 
lonial and  pre-Colonial  epochs  in  the  country's 
history.  General  Lafayette  was  a  guest  in  the 
home  of  the  family  while  he  was  in  America. 
A  grand-uncle,  of  the  surname  of  Barbour,  was 
one  of  our  earliest  ministers  to  England.  An- 
other grand-uncle,  of  the  name  of  Barbour,  was 
one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
U.  S.  Bryan  Lathrop's  father  was  a  native  of 
New  Hampshire,  but  spent  his  early  days  in 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  his  later  years  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  His  mother  was  a  Virginian  and 
was  a  woman  of  unusual  cultivation  and  of 
a  very  real  personal  distinction. 


After  his  early  school  training,  Bryan  Lath- 
rop entered  Dunwiddie's  Preparatory  School,  for 
the  University  of  Virginia,  and  was  a  student 
in  that  institution  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War.  His  subsequent  education  for  several 
years  was  under  private  tutors  in  Germany  and 
France.  He  spoke  perfect  German,  excellent 
French  and  some  Italian. 

He  became  a  resident  of  Chicago  in  June, 
1865  and  was  for  several  years  associated  with 
his  uncle,  the  late  Thomas  B.  Bryan,  in  the  real 
estate  business  founded  by  Mr.  Bryan  in  1852. 
For  many  years  his  attention  was  given  mainly 
to  the  management  of  estates,  as  executor  or 
trustee,  and  to  public  interests.  Since  the 
organization  of  the  Graceland  Cemetery  Com- 
pany he  was  the  president.  He  was  also  presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago  Orchestral  Association.  He 
filled  the  position  of  trustee  of  the  Art  Institute 
of  Chicago  and  of  the  Newberry  Library,  and 
he  was,  for  two  years,  president  of  the  Chicago 
Relief  and  Aid  Society.  In  his  political  affilia- 
tions, Mr.  Lathrop  belonged  to  the  Republican 
party.  His  only  office,  of  a  political  character, 
was  that  of  commissioner  of  Lincoln  Park. 

On  April  21,  1875,  Mr.  Lathrop  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Helen  Lynde  Aldis,  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Judge 
Asa  Owen  Aldis  of  that  city.  Although  some- 
what reserved,  Mr.  Lathrop  had  many  warm 
friends,  and  those  who  knew  him  best  recog- 
nized in  him  a  man  of  earnest  purpose  and 
progressive  principles.     He  invariably  stood  for 


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the  advancement  of  Chicago,  and  was  inter- 
ested in  everything  that  pertained  to  progress 
and  improvement  along  material,  intellectual, 
artistic  and  moral  lines.  Although  the  scope  of 
his  work  in  various  business  interests  was  al- 
ways broad,  Mr.  Lathrop  was  much  enjoyed  in 
social  circles  and  he  was  identified  with  many 
of  the  most  notable  clubs  and  societies  in  Chi- 
cago and  elsewhere.  He  served  as  president  of 
the  University  Club,  of  which  he  was  a  charter 
member,  and  of  the  Saddle  and  Cycle  Club.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Chicago,  Chicago  Golf,  On- 
wentsia,  Cliff  Dwellers,  the  South  Shore  Coun- 
try and  the  Literary  Clubs.  He  belonged  to  the 
Century  Club  of  New  York  and  the  Metropoli- 
tan Club  of  Washington. 

The  family  home  at  120  Bellevue  Place,  Chi- 


cago, is  one  of  the  most  delightful  in  the  city. 
It  contains  Mr.  Lathrop's  collection  of  Whist- 
ler's etchings,  which  is  one  of  the  most  remark- 
able in  the  world.  Mr.  Lathrop  left  provision 
in  his  will  that,  after  his  wife's  life  interest 
in  his  estate  terminates,  the  estate,  with  the 
reservation  of  bequests  to  the  United  Charities, 
the  Children's  Memorial  Hospital  and  to  a  few 
relatives,  be  used  to  found  a  conservatory  of 
music  in  connection  with  the  Chicago  Sym- 
phony Orchestra.  Mr.  Lathrop  has  left  his 
collection  of  etchings  to  the  Chicago  Art  In- 
stitute. Mr.  Lathrop  passed  from  this  life 
May  13,  1916,  and  it  is  but  fitting  that  the 
history  of  Illinois  shall  perpetuate  the  record 
of  his  many  useful  years  spent  in  Chicago. 


EDWARD  TILDEN. 


In  every  community  and  in  each  branch  of 
industrial  activity  there  are  certain  men  who 
stand  out  from  their  associates  because  of  their 
purposeful  personality  and  determined  methods 
of  action.  Such  men  are  bound  to  dominate  any 
situation  and  control  whatever  opportunities  lie 
in  their  onward  progress.  Through  them  and 
their  efforts  spring  the  vast  enterprises  that 
have  so  direct  an  influence  upon  the  prosperity 
of  the  country.  Because  of  the  establishment 
and  maintenance  of  these  mighty  institutions, 
producers  are  enabled  to  obtain  a  fair  price  for 
their  products  and  consumers  are  given  the  ad- 
vantages accruing  from  concerted  action  and 
efficient  management.  These  conditions  would 
never  have  become  possible  had  it  not  been  for 
the  workings  of  masterful  minds  and  the  appli- 
cation of  modern  business  methods.  To  old 
ideas,  also,  are  added  the  results  of  years  of 
careful  study  and  experiments  of  scientists, 
practical  business  men  and  efficiency  experts,  so 
that  each  day  sees  an  advance  made  in  manage- 
ment with  a  consequent  betterment  for  all  par- 
ties. One  of  the  men  whose  lifework  was  di- 
rected along  the  lines  indicated  above  was  the 
late   Edward   Tilden.   formerly   of   Chicago. 

Edward  Tilden  was  horn  .Tune  17,  1855.  at 
Utica,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  a  son  of  Ithlel  D. 
and  Margaret  (Averill)  Tilden,  both  natives  of 
New  York  state,  the  father  having  been  born  in 
Oneida  County  and  the  mother  at  New  York 
City.  The  former  was  a  cabinet-maker  by  trade, 
working  first  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  but  later  moving 
to  Delavan,  Wis.,  at  a  time  when  his  son  Edward 


was  one  year  old.  There  he  busied  himself  in 
making  hand-carved  furniture,  and  was  so  en- 
gaged until  his  retirement  later  on  in  life.  His 
death  occurred  in  1S89,  and  the  mother  died  in 
1903. 

Edward  Tilden  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Delavan,  and  clerked  in  a  general  store  of  that 
place  until  he  was  sixteen  years  old,  and  during 
the  summer  months  worked  on  a  farm.  At  the 
age  of  sixteen  years  he  went  to  Hamilton,  Onta- 
rio, Canada,  to  enter  the  employ  of  the  Gurney 
Foundry  Company,  and  although  very  young, 
was  made  one  of  this  company's  salesmen  and 
sent  to  the  salesrooms  at  Toronto,  Canada. 
Mr.  Gurney  was  an  uncle  of  Mr.  Tilden  and  he 
had  perfect  confidence  in  the  young  man,  who 
established  a  branch  for  the  company  at  To- 
ronto. Remaining  at  Toronto  until  1879,  in 
that  year  ne  came  to  Chicago  and  became 
bookkeeper  for  Brintnall-Lamb  &  Company, 
hard  ware  dealers,  remaining  with  this  concern 
until  January  1,  1883,  when  the  firm  sold  its 
hardware  interests  and  established  the  Drovers 
National  Bank  at  the  Stock  Yards.  Mr.  Tilden 
was  in  the  employ  of  this  bank  as  a  book- 
keeper until  18S3,  when  he  was  made  assistant 
cashier,  and  while  he  retained  an  interest  in 
the  bank,  left  it  in  1897  to  become  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  Libby,  McNeil  &  Libhy,  of 
which  concern  he  was  made  president  and 
treasurer  in  1002,  and  so  continued  until  his 
death.  Upon  the  organization  of  the  National 
Tacking  Company,  with  which  departure  Mr. 
Tilden    was   actively    identified,    he   was   made 


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HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


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vice-president,  and  later  was  made  president, 
and  held  that  position  until  the  company  dis- 
solved. On  January  11,  1911,  he  was  made 
president  of  the  Drovers  National  Bank,  which 
he  virtually  owned,  and  was  the  organizer 
and  first  secretary  of  the  Illinois  Bankers  Asso- 
ciation. He  was  treasurer  and  a  director  of  the 
Sioux  City  Stock  Yards,  was  a  director  of  the 
St.  Louis  Stock  Yards,  was  a  director  of  the 
Drovers  Trust  &  Savings  Bank;  from  1910,  to 
the  time  of  his  death,  was  a  member  of  the 
South  Park  Board  of  Commissioners ;  was  ap- 
pointed a  commissioner  to  the  Panama-Pacific 
International  Exposition ;  was  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee,  building  committee,  and 
chairman  of  finance  committee ;  was  appointed, 
by  Governor  Dunne,  one  of  the  commissioners 
for  the  erection  of  the  Illinois  building  at  the 
San  Francisco  Exposition ;  was  a  trustee  for  the 
State  Industrial  Home  for  the  Blind  during 
Governor  Altgeld's  administration ;  was  a  di- 
rector of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad ;  was 
proprietor  of  the  Tilden  Farms  at  Delavan, 
Wis. ;  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  education 
for  six  years,  and  a  portion  of  the  time  was  its 
president ;  was  school  treasurer  for  the  towns 
of  Lake  and  Hyde  Park,  and  was  associated  in 
numerous  undertakings,  all  of  which  suffered 
from  his  death. 

On  February  22,  1883,  Mr.  Tilden  was  married 
to  Miss  Annie  Evenhuis  of  Chicago,  a  daughter 
of  John  R.  and  Bena  (Abbenga)  Evenhuis  of 
Holland.  Mr.  Evenhuis  made  men's  boots  for 
custom  trade.  He  died  August  9,  1886,  and  his 
wife  died  August  15,  1889.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tilden 
became  the  parents  of  the  following  children : 
Frances  B.,  who  was  Mrs.  Lawrence  S.  Critchell 
of  Chicago ;  Averill,  who  married  Helen  Bay- 
lies, has  two  daughters,  Harriet  Frances  and 
Ruth,  and  is  owner  of  Merrill  Cox  &  Co.  of 
Chicago ;  and  Louis  Edward,  who  is  at  home. 
In  religious  faith  Mr.  Tilden  was  a  Methodist. 
A  Mason,  he  had  reached  the  Thirty-second  de- 


gree, and  was  also  a  Knight  Templar.  His 
social  connections  were  with  the  Union  League, 
South  Shore  Country,  Kenwood,  Iroquois  and 
Bankers  club.  In  politics  he  was  a  consistent 
Democrat.  His  death  occurred  February  5, 
1915.  With  his  death  came  the  passing  of  one 
of  the  representative  men  of  Chicago.  The  re- 
view of  his  life  demonstrates  what  a  man  can 
accomplish  provided  he  has  the  natural  ability 
and  willingness  to  develop  his  talents  along  the 
lines  for  which  he  has  aptitude.  Without  doubt 
his  association  with  the  various  institutions 
with  which  he  was  connected  proved  a  power- 
ful factor  in  their  growth  and  advancement, 
and  his  influence  remains,  and  his  principles 
will  be  carried  out  by  those  who  succeed  to 
his  responsibilities. 

The  following  extract  epitomizes  his  life: 
"A  great  man  has  lived  among  us,  a  great  soul 
has  been  associated  with  us  through  these  years, 
and  some  of  us  did  not  know  it.  Some  did. 
Some  have  had  the  eye  to  see  beneath  the  sur- 
face and  discover  the  richer  values  of  this 
man's  life.  He  was  born  to  rule  and  lead. 
From  his  childhood  he  possessed  that  rare  com- 
mon sense,  which  ought  to  be  called  'uncommon 
sense' ;  that  rare  judgment  that  is  a  gift,  that 
cannot  be  acquired,  which  if  we  do  not  possess 
at  the  beginning  we  will  never  gain.  Edward 
Tilden  was  a  man  of  rare  common  sense,  and 
added  to  that  he  had  a  peculiarly  brilliant  busi- 
ness-sense that  enabled  him  to  see  where  other 
men  are  blind ;  that  gave  him  courage  when 
other  men  halted  and  hesitated ;  that  enabled 
him  to  take  his  place  and  dare  to  stand  there, 
because  he  could  trust  his  own  better  judgment. 
Men  learned  to  trust  him.  Strong  men  learned 
to  lean  upon  his  wise  business  judgment.  Hun- 
dreds and  thousands  in  this  community,  and  in 
the  great  city,  learned  to  trust  him.  because 
they  could  believe  in  his  common  sense  and  his 
good  business  judgment." 


DORA  WELLS. 


Among  the  women  identified  with  educational 
work  in  Chicago,  none  is  more  worthy  of  mention 
than  Miss  Dora  Wells,  Principal  of  the  Lucy  L. 
Flower  Technical  High  School.  She  stands  as  a 
worthy  example  of  that  element  of  aggressive 
and  public  spirited  women  who  have  contributed 
to  the  social  and  educational  advancement  of  the 
city  during  the  past  quarter  of  a  century,  and 


the  history  of  Illinois  would  be  incomplete  with- 
out a  review  of  her  work.  She  was  born  at 
Montpelier,  Vermont,  October  4,  1862,  a  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Mary  P.  (Leslie)  Wells,  and  her 
early  education  was  obtained  in  the  elementary 
and  high  schools  of  her  native  city.  She  later 
entered  Wellesley  College,  and  was  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  1884  with  the  degree  of 


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Bachelor  of  Arts.  In  1896-97  she  took  post- 
graduate studies  in  the  University  of  Chicago, 
and  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from 
that  institution  in  1898.  She  also  observed  teach- 
ing methods  in  Great  Britain,  in  1908,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  National  Civic  Association. 

Soon  after  completing  her  course  at  Wellesley 
College  Miss  Wells  became  a  teacher  in  the  high 
school  at  Montpelier,  Vermont,  and  served  in 
that  capacity  in  1884-85.  In  the  latter  year  she 
accepted  the  principalship  of  the  high  school 
at  St.  Peter,  Minnesota,  and  continued  as  the  ex- 
ecutive head  of  that  school  for  three  years.  In 
1889-90  she  was  principal  of  the  high  school  at 
Curry,  Pennsylvania,  and  from  the  latter  date 
until  1896  she  was  in  charge  of  the  high  school 
at  St.  Cloud,  Minnesota.  From  1897  until  190S 
she  was  a  teacher  in  the  Medill  High  School  at 
Chicago,  and  from  1909  until  1911,  she  was  an 
instructor  in  Industrial  History  at  the  Chicago 
Teachers'  College.  In  May,  1911,  she  became 
principal  of  the  Lucy  L.  Flower  Technical  High 
School,  and  still  retains  this  position. 

Miss  Wells  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Educational  Association,  the  National,  Illinois 
State  and  Chicago  High  School  Principals' 
Association,  National  and  Chicago  Councils  of 
Administrative  Women  in  Education,  Ameri- 
can and  Chicago  Associations  of  University 
Women  Deans  of  High  Schools,  Chicago  Prin- 
cipals1 Club,  Ella  Flagg  Young  Club,  Association 
of  Business  and  Professional  Women,  Chicago 
Woman's  City  Club,  Chicago  Woman's  Club,  Chi- 
cago Wellesley  College  Club  and  The  Cordon. 

In  connection  with  the  foregoing  review  of 
Miss  Wells,  it  is  but  consonant  that  there  be 
given  a  brief  outline  of  the  institution  of  which 
she  is  Principal.  The  Lucy  L.  Flower  Technical 
High  School,  which  is  a  free  public  school,  is 
maintained  by  the  Board  of  Education  of  Chi- 
cago to  meet  the  needs  of  girls  who  desire  more 
extended  training  in  the  practical  aspects  of 
Science,  Art  and  Home  Economics  than  that  of- 
fered in  the  academic  high  schools.  It  is  the 
first  public  school  in  Chicago  aiming  definitely 
at  technical  training  for  girls,  and  it  endeavors 
to  teach  the  principles  that  underlie  the  usual 
occupations  of  women,  and  give  adequate  train- 
ing in  the  technique  of  performance  and  opera- 
tion. The  school  is  on  the  accredited  list  of  high 
schools  and  universities  of  the  North  Central 
States  so  that  its  graduates  are  accepted  by  the 
colleges  of  the  Middle  West.  It  also  sends  stu- 
dents to  the  Chicago  Normal  College,  to  Nurses' 


Training  Courses,  to  the  Art  Institute  and  other 
schools  of  Art. 

In  the  four  year  technical  course  the  usual 
required  studies,  such  as  English,  Mathematics, 
Science,  Art,  History,  Music  and  Physical  Edu- 
cation, and  Foreign  Languages,  are  given,  thus 
meeting  University  requirements.  To  these  are 
added  courses  in  Household  Hygiene,  Personal 
Hygiene,  Home  nursing,  Cooking,  Lunchroom 
Management,  Infant  Feeding  and  Child  Care, 
Dietetics,  Sewing,  Care  of  Textile  Fabrics,  Ad- 
vanced Garment  Construction,  Drafting,  Needle 
Arts,  Millinery  and  Composition  and  Design. 

The  two  year  Vocational  course  is  like  the  four 
year  course  in  the  first  year,  but  in  the  second 
year  it  gives  opportunity  for  immediate  voca- 
tional preparation.  Shop  methods  are  taught 
and  graduates  from  this  course  are  in  constant 
demand  in  millinery  and  dressmaking  establish- 
ments. 

This  school  invites  attention  to  the  distinctly 
practical  nature  of  its  work.  Groups  of  students 
manage  the  school  lunchroom  where  they  gain 
first  hand  knowledge  of  marketing,  cooking  in 
large  quantities,  using  a  cash  register,  inventory- 
ing stock,  verifying  bills,  writing  checks  and 
balancing  accounts.  Pupils  learn  by  experiment 
how  to  remove  stains ;  how  to  select  bluing, 
starches  and  soaps ;  how  to  wash  and  repair 
lace,  embroidery,  linens  and  woolens ;  and  how 
to  use  various  kinds  of  labor  saving  machines. 
In  the  sewing  classes  pupils  learn  all  common 
types  of  stitchery,  how  to  use  machines  and  ma- 
chine attachments,  the  structure  and  values  of 
textile  fabrics  and  gain  intelligent  understand- 
ing of  alteration  of  commercial  patterns,  of  mod- 
eling and  draping  on  the  figure,  and  of  the  vari- 
ous processes  in  the  construction  of  garments 
for  women  and  children.  In  millinery,  moulding 
draping  and  renovating  are  taught.  Combina 
tion  of  fur  with  lace  and  other  fabrics  is  taugh: 
together  with  umbrella  covering  and  lampshade 
and  novelty  making. 

The  activities  of  the  Art  Department  are  vi- 
tally related  to  the  household  studies  and  needle 
arts.  Students  in  required  art  courses  draw 
house  plans  and  study  problems  of  lighting  and 
furnishing.  They  design  hats,  costumes  and 
trimmings  and  carry  out  their  designs  in  the 
sewing  and  millinery  rooms.  After  the  funda- 
mentals of  plant  growth  are  mastered,  the  stu- 
dents in  Botany  are  instructed  in  the  sources 
and  uses  of  drugs,  dyes,  textiles,  woods,  foods, 
and    condiments.     In    Chemistry    emphasis    is 


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placed  upon  experiments  that  relate  to  fuels, 
cooking,  ventilation  and  plumbing.  Milk,  butter, 
canned  goods,  tea,  coffee  and  other  foods  are 
tested  for  adulterants.  Headache  powders  are 
tested  for  harmful  drugs ;  and  candies,  jams  and 
jellies,  for  artificial  coloring  matter.  The  mech- 
anism of  household  utilities  like  sewing  ma- 
chines, gas  ranges,  electric  bells,  lights  and  heat- 
ers, musical  instruments  and  washing  and  iron- 
ing machines  is  studied. 

From  the  foregoing  paragraphs  it  is  evident 
that  the  Flower  Technical  High  School  stands 
for  the  idea  that  an  adequate  scheme  of  techni- 
cal education  for  girls  must  include  training  in 
the  arts  of  homemaking,  and  a  liberal  measure  of 


the  so-called  cultural  studies.  They  are  the  door 
through  which  the  girl  passes  out  from  her  little 
personal  round  of  relationships  and  enters  into 
the  citizenship  of  the  world.  They  are  in  truth, 
"the  humanities,"  the  studies  which  make  men 
truly  human.  For  the  arts  of  homemaking  as  an 
essential  part  of  every  girl's  education,  whether 
she  remains  in  her  father's  house  until  she  goes 
out  to  help  found  a  new  home,  or  whether  she 
fares  forth  at  once  as  a  breadwinner,  the  argu- 
ment is  overpoweringly  convincing.  Much  more 
could  be  said  of  this  notable  institution  and  its 
methods  of  education,  but  space  in  this  publica- 
tion does  not  permit  us  the  pleasure  of  giving 
further  details. 


ABNER  MORTON  LEWIS. 


Abner  M.  Lewis  was  born  on  a  farm  near  the 
village  of  Madison,  N.  Y.,  February  28,  1828. 
He  died  in  Chicago,  June  4,  1901.  His  parents, 
Charles  and  Sarah  (Morton)  Lewis,  were  de- 
scendants of  hardy  pioneers  who  came  from 
England  and  Wales  in  the  seventeenth  century. 
One  of  nine  children,  as  a  boy  he  attended  the 
district  school  and  worked  on  the  farm  until 
nineteen  years  of  age.  At  that  time  he  bor- 
rowed $100  from  his  father,  which  he  soon  re- 
paid, and  for  three  years  travelled  through  the 
neighboring  country  taking  daguerreotypes. 
Following  this  venture,  for  six  years  Mr.  Lewis 
clerked  and  served  as  postmaster  in  a  country 
store.  Here  gathered  the  local  philosophers 
and  advocates  of  one  cause  or  another,  and  held 
heated  discussions  of  the  religious,  ethical  and 
political  questions  of  the  time,  which  frequently 
lasted  far  into  the  night,  the  young  man  taking 
aa  active  part.  The  interest  then  aroused  con- 
tinued throughout  his  life.  He  worked  untir- 
ingly in  the  service  of  the  liberal  church  of 
his  community,  first  the  Universalist,  later  the 
Unitarian,  and  became  an  earnest  supporter  of 
the  anti-slavery,  temperance  and  woman-suffrage 
movements,  all  burning  issues  of  the  day.  A 
certain  idealism  united  with  a  high  degree  of 
practical  wisdom  and  efficiency  marked  his 
whole  life. 

In  1857  Mr.  Lewis  came  to  Chicago,  engag- 
ing first  in  the  lumber  trade,  but  shortly  went 
into  the  wool  business  with  his  cousin,  the  late 
Mr.  Henry  B.  Lewis.  The  firm  they  founded, 
while  it  passed  through  several  changes  in  name 
and  personnel,  was  one  of  the  principal  concerns 
dealing  in  wool  in  this  section  of  the  country. 


For  many  years  and  to  the  close  of  his  life  Mr. 
Lewis  was  head  of  the  firm,  which  had  become 
A.  M.  Lewis  &  Company,  and  when  he  died  was 
president  of  the  Wool  Merchants  Association. 
That  body  testified  to  "his  sterling  honesty,  his 
skill  as  a  business  man,  and  more  still,  his  un- 
ostentatious charity." 

In  1863  Mr.  Lewis  built  the  home  on  Ashland 
Boulevard,  then  Reuben  Street,  to  which  he 
brought  his  wife  in  September,  1865.  She  was 
Harriet  F.  Tolles  of  Boston,  daughter  of  Elisha 
and  Harriet  Frisbie  Tolles,  who  also  were  of 
English  and  Welsh  extraction.  Mrs.  Lewis  was 
born  June  19,  1833,  in  Farmington,  Conn.,  and 
died  September  25,  1924,  at  the  home  to  which 
she  had  come  as  a  bride  fifty-nine  years  before. 
She  left  two  daughters,  Marian  Morton  Lewis 
(Mrs.  William  H.  Hall)  and  Bertha  Tolles 
Lewis.  Throughout  her  long  life  Mrs.  Lewis 
was  deeply  interested  in  the  things  of  the  spirit 
and  in  her  young  womanhood  entered  whole- 
heartedly into  the  Unitarian  fellowship.  She 
had  a  rooted  belief  in  the  essential  justice  of 
the  universe,  an  abiding  faith  in  the  Eternal 
Goodness,  in,  as  she  herself  expressed  it,  "the 
wise  and  loving  hand  which  has  led  the  way." 
Her  continuing  interest  in  life,  her  rapture  In 
the  presence  of  the  wonders  and  glories  of 
nature,  her  eager  desire  to  know  of  them,  "to 
think  the  thoughts  of  God  after  him,"  marked 
a  mind  cultivated  by  much  reading  and  reflec- 
tion. 

From  the  earliest  beginnings  of  Mr.  Lewis' 
success  in  business  and  to  the  end  of  his  life 
he  shared  generously  with  the  less  fortunate, 
those   whom  he  knew  personally  or   the  bene- 


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ficiaries  of  philanthropic  agencies  of  his  time. 
Mrs.  Lewis  was  in  warmest  sympathy  with  this 
interest  in  the  poor  and  disinherited,  the  op- 
pressed anywhere,  continuing  her  husband's 
benefactions  as  she  could  through  her  long 
years  of  widowhood.  She  gave  during  many 
years  active  and  enthusiastic  service  in  the 
United  Charities,  the  Protective  Agency  for 
Women  and  Children,  the  Legal  Aid  Society  and 


welfare  work  in  her  church.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lewis  had  also  in  common  a  delightful  sense 
of  humor  and  an  innate  love  of  beauty,  both 
natural  and  artistic,  relieving  and  supporting 
that  serious  earnestness  of  outlook  on  life  which 
was,  in  part,  a  gift  of  Puritan  ancestry,  in  part 
due  to  nurture  in  the  atmosphere  of  those  big 
moral  questions  holding  public  attention  in  the 
middle  of  the  nineteenth  century. 


ARTHUR  WARING  UNDERWOOD. 


Arthur  Waring  Underwood  was  born  at  Ft 
Edward,  New  York,  on  June  6,  1863,  a  son  of 
Jarvis  A.  and  Eunice  (Shapleigh)  Underwood. 
He  attended  the  Glens  Falls  Academy,  graduat- 
ing therefrom  in  1880,  and  later  entered  Wil- 
liams College  where  he  received  his  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  was  also  elected  to  the 
college  fraternity  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Following 
his  decision  to  study  law,  he  took  the  full 
course  in  the  law  school  of  the  University  of 
Wisconsin,  which  he  finished  in  1888.  He  then 
entered  the  Union  College  of  Law,  Chicago,  for 
one  year,  to  complete  his  preparations.  From 
1889  he  remained  in  active  practice  in  Chicago. 
His  first  connection  was  in  the  office  of  Tenney, 
Bashford  &  Tenney.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Illinois  Bar  in  1890,  and  subsequently  practiced, 
successively,  in  the  firms  of  Conover,  Shedd  & 
Underwood  ;  Smith,  Shedd  &  Underwood ;  Smith, 
Shedd,  Underwood  &  Hall,  and  Underwood  '& 
Smyser.  Mr.  Underwood  possessed  a  mind  of 
unusual  quality,  and  his  training  and  experi- 
ence,   joined    with    his    character    as    a    man, 


brought  to  him  the  best  measure  of  service 
and    success. 

On  October  17,  1893,  Mr.  Underwood  was 
married  in  Chicago,  to  Miss  Lucy  C.  Cronkhite, 
a  daughter  of  Eli  Pierson  and  Clarissa 
(Stowell)  Cronkhite.  The  children  are:  Pier- 
son  Underwood,  Eunice  Shapleigh  Underwood, 
and  Josephine  Cronkhite  Underwood.  The 
family  have  made  their  home  in  Evanston,  for 
some  years.  Mr.  Underwood  belonged  to  the 
Illinois  State  Bar  Association,  the  Chicago  Bar 
Association,  the  Chicago  Bar  Institute,  the  Law 
Club,  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  the  Union  League  Club, 
the  University  Club  of  Evanston,  the  MoncTay 
Club,  and  the  Skokie  and  Glen  View  Country 
Clubs. 

Arthur  Waring  Underwood  died  on  January 
24.  1919.  This  record  of  his  active  years  is  one 
of  devotion  to  the  best  and  strongest  work  of 
his  profession,  of  prominence  and  success.  His 
life  contained  the  true  elements  of  satisfaction 
and  happiness. 


WILLIAM  HERBERT  HALL. 


William  Herbert  Hall  of  Glen  Ellyn,  111.,  was 
born  in  Grayville,  111.,  November  16,  1853.  He 
died  December  27,  1928,  in  Florida.  Among  the 
antecedents  of  his  father,  Samuel  Renshaw  Hall, 
were  explorers  of  the  unknown  west  with  Daniel 
Boone  and  descendants  of  the  Cavaliers  in  Mary- 
land. His  maternal  grandparents  came  from 
England  in  1821.  His  mother  Martha  (Hall) 
Hall  was  the.  youngest  of  nine  children.  The 
family  were  members  of  a  notable  group  of 
pioneers  in  Edwards  County,  111.,  who  sought 
freedom  and  opportunity  in  the  new  world  and 
founded  one  of  the  idealistic  communities  of 
that  period. 

As  a  boy  William  H.  Hall  attended  public 
school  at  Albion,  111.,  and  later  Blackburn  Uni- 


versity and  the  Southern  Illinois  Normal  Uni- 
versity. His  father,  a  plasterer  by  trade  and 
a  farmer  but  always  an  interested  student  of 
history  and  law,  became  County  Judge  of  Ed- 
wards County  and  later  was  sent  to  the  Legis- 
lature. The  son  read  law  as  he  found  time  and 
then  continued  these  studies  in  Chicago  in  the 
office  of  Judge  C.  C.  Kohlsaat  and  at  North- 
western University  Law  School.  Admitted  to 
the  Illinois  Bar  he  soon  found  the  practice  of 
law  uncongenial.  Interested  more  in  the  essen- 
tial justice  and  less  in  the  technicalities  of  the 
law,  he  was  inclined  to  settle  cases  out  of  court 
if  possible. 

Mr.  Hall  was  married  in  1880  to  Miss  Luella 
Sheppard  of  Carbondale.     Four   children   were 


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born  to  them,  Eugene  C,  Edith,  Mildred  and 
Herbert,  the  last  named  dying  in  infancy. 

For  several  years  Mr.  Hall  taught  in  the 
public  school  in  winter  and  worked  his  farm 
in  summer,  later  teaching  in  Normal  University 
at  Carbondale.  Coming  to  Chicago  in  1894  he 
accepted  temporarily  a  clerkship  in  the  business 
office  of  the  then  new  project,  the  building  and 
establishing  of  the  Lewis  Institute.  Soon  there- 
after he  became  Business  Manager,  a  position  he 
held  for  nearly  thirty  years.  The  steady  growth 
and  service  which  characterized  the  Lewis  In- 
stitute may  be  attributed  in  a  considerable  degree 
to  the  untiring  labor  and  business  acumen  of 
Mr.   Hall. 

In  1905  Mr.  Hall,  with  his  family,  moved  to 
Glen  Ellyn,  where  he  had  bought  a  home  sur- 
rounded by  several  acres  of  natural  wooded  land. 
This  home  became  a  delightful  center  of  interest 
and  hospitality.  Mrs.  Hall  died  in  1924.  In  1926 
Mr.  Hall  married  Miss  Marian  M.  Lewis,  a 
daughter  of  Abner  M.  and  Harriet  T.  Lewis. 


One  of  the  founders  of  the  Du  Page  County 
State  Bank,  now  the  Du  Page  Trust  Company, 
Mr.  Hall  was  its  President  from  its  start  in 
1912  until  his  retirement  from  active  business 
in  1922.  He  was  also  for  many  years  extensively 
interested  in  orchard  development  in  Yakima 
Valley,  Wash. 

An  active,  earnest  and  independent  mind,  rare 
poise,  a  confident  and  cheerful  outlook  on  life, 
modesty  of  spirit,  impatience  of  sham,  these  were 
the  salient  characteristics  of  Mr.  Hall.  His 
powers  and  experience  were  at  the  service  of 
those  whom  he  could  help ;  and  many  there  are 
who  hold  him  in  grateful  memory.  His  was 
an  example  of  dignified,  sane,  happy  and  use- 
ful living.  Worthy  of  emulation,  his  life  was 
typical  in  many  ways  of  the  opportunities  and 
achievements  of  his  time  and  country,  but  with 
a  quality,  and  individuality  of  his  own,  finely 
and   strongly   marked. 


JOHN  B.  McGINTY. 


Prof.  John  B.  McGinty  of  Chicago,  late  prin- 
cipal of  the  Parkman  School,  was  born  at 
Albany,  New  York,  on  July  14,  1848.  His 
parents  were  Patrick  and  Hannah  (Meighan) 
McGinty,  both  natives  of  Ireland.  They  came 
to  the  United  States  in  1834. 

The  family  came  to  Illinois  to  make  their 
home,  in  1852.  They  bought  and  settled  on  a 
farm  at  Palos,  a  few  miles  outside  of  Chicago. 
Here  the  son  remained  until  he  was  twenty- 
one  years  old. 

He  had  attended  the  country  school  near 
his  home.  Later  he  entered  the  Cook  County 
Normal  School ;  and  was  graduated  therefrom 
in  1871. 

He  taught  school  in  Chicago  for  a  short  time, 
after  which  he  taught  for  a  year  in  South 
Chicago.  Subsequently  he  was  made  principal 
of  the  school  at  Brighton  Park,  and  was  head 
of  this  school,  and  a  teacher  there  for  some 
years. 

In  1884  he  returned  to  Chicago  as  principal 
of  the  Springer  school.  Six  months  later  he 
accepted  the  office  as  principal  of  the  Parkman 
School ;  and  he  served  in  this  capacity,  with 
note-worthy  success,  for  nearly  forty  years.  His 
record  is  remarkable. 

On  April  5,  1877,  he  was  married,  at  Lemont, 


Illinois,  to  Miss  Julia  Finnegan.  Their  chil- 
dren were :  Mrs.  James  V.  Murray  of  Cali- 
fornia, James  Edgar  McGinty  of  Champaign, 
Illinois,  and  Miss  Alice  L.  McGinty  of  Chicago. 
Mrs.  John  B.  McGinty  died  on  January  19,  1902. 

Professor  McGinty  and  his  family  established 
their  home  in  Englewood,  on  Normal  Boulevard, 
in  the  fall  of  1886.  In  1912  he  erected  the 
present  apartment  building  on  these  premises. 
He  was  one  of  the  earlier  residents  of  Engle- 
wood ;  and  he  lived  there,  on  the  self-same  loca- 
tion, for  thirty-seven  consecutive  years.  He 
was  ex-president  of  the  association  of  Engle- 
wood's  old  settlers.  He  belonged  to  the  Chi- 
cago Principals'  Club,  and  was  also  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 

Professor  John  B.  McGinty  was  claimed  by 
death,  in  his  seventy-sixth  year,  on  January 
11,  1924.  His  was  a  life  of  long  continued 
activity  and  of  truly-great  usefulness.  He  had 
been  a  Chicagoan  for  seventy  years.  Through- 
out all  the  long  period  of  his  work  as  an  edu- 
cator here,  he  gave  the  full  strength  of  his  fine 
mind,  well-rounded  character  and  deep  devo- 
tion, to  his  calling.  His  counsel  and  influence 
form  a  present  part  of  the  success  and  use- 
fulness enjoyed  now  by  many  of  the  people  who 
had  their  early  training  under  his  guidance. 


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MOSES  JONES  WENTWORTH. 


Moses  Jones  Wentworth  was  born  at  Sand- 
wich, New  Hampshire,  May  9,  1848,  a  son  of 
Joseph  and  Sarah  P.  (Jones)  Wentworth.  After 
attending  Phillips  Academy  at  Andover,  Massa- 
chusetts, he  entered  Harvard  University,  grad- 
uating in  1868  with  the  degrees  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts  and  Master  of  Arts.  Soon  thereafter  he 
came  to  Chicago,  and  took  his  degree  of  Bach- 
elor of  Laws,  in  1871,  from  the  Union  College  of 
Law.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  that  same 
year,  but  he  never  engaged  in  active  practice. 
Instead,  he  went  into  the  office  of  his  uncle,  the 
late  Hon.  John  Wentworth,  and  devoted  himself 
to  the  management  of  various  properties  which 
he  handled  with  judicious  conservatism.  For  a 
number  of  years  Moses  J.  Wentworth  served  as 
a  director  of  the  Merchants  Loan  and  Trust 
Company,  and  of  the  State  Bank  of  Chicago,  his 
connections  with  these  institutions  giving  them 
added  solidity. 

On  December  7,  1891,  Mr.  Wentworth  was 
married,  at  Chicago,  to  Miss  Lizzie  Shaw  Hunt. 
Their  two  sons  are  John  and  Hunt  Wentworth. 

In  politics  Mr.  Wentworth  was  a  Democrat. 
He  represented  his  district  in  the  Twenty-ninth, 


Thirtieth  and  Thirty-first  Assemblies  of  the 
State.  At  subsequent  times  positions  of  much 
larger  political  consequence  were  offered  to  him, 
but  he  always  refused  acceptance. 

Among  other  connections,  Mr.  Wentworth  was 
three  times  president  of  the  Harvard  Club ;  was 
governor  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars ; 
was  a  trustee  of  the  Newberry  Library  and  was 
a  life  member  of  the  New  England  Historic 
Genealogical  Society  of  Boston.  The  Fourth 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago  held  his  mem- 
bership. He  belonged  to  the  University,  Har- 
vard-Colonial Wars  and  the  Saddle  and  Cycle 
clubs  of  this  city. 

Although  he  had  been  very  substantially  iden- 
tified with  commercial  enterprises  for  over  half 
a  century,  Mr.  Wentworth  was  equally  well 
known  and  was  greatly  appreciated  in  private 
life.  His  judgment,  ability  and  personal  char- 
acter made  his  career  one  of  distinguished  use- 
fulness ;  the  courtesy,  kindness  and  warmth  of 
his  nature  brought  to  him  a  degree  of  respect 
and  affection  which  is  unusual.  Moses  Jones 
Wentworth  died  on  March  12,  1922. 


JAMES  O.  MASON. 


The  record  of  the  accomplishments  of  some 
men  in  the  brief  span  of  their  life's  period, 
reads  like  a  romance.  Without  knowledge  of 
all  the  conditions,  it  seems  almost  impossible 
that  one  man  could  climb  so  high,  or  find  the 
time  to  superintend  the  details  of  as  many  con- 
cerns, and  yet  there  are  a  large  number  of 
energetic  business  men  who  are  of  inestimable 
value  to  their  communities  because  of  the  in- 
terest they  excite  in  financial  and  industrial 
circles,  which  is  a  healthy  stimulus  to  trade. 
One  of  the  men  who  was  connected  with  many 
of  the  leading  financial  and  business  enterprises 
of  Aurora,  and  who  became  one  of  its  most 
influential  citizens,  was  the  late  James  O. 
Mason.  Mr.  Mason  was  born  in  Fort  Ann, 
Washington  County,  N.  Y..  February  6.  1846, 
a  son  of  Orvin  T.  and  Sarah  A.  (Otis)  Mason. 
The  former  was  born  at  the  same  place  as  his 
son  and  there  learned  wagonmaking.  He  came 
of  an  old  and  honored  English  family,  founded 
here  in  the  seventeenth  century,  at  Swansea, 
Mass.  The  mother  was  also  a  native  of  Fort 
Ann.     Her   death  occurred   December  31,   1900. 


when  she  was  eighty-nine  years  old,  as  she 
survived  her  husband  seven  years,  he  passing 
away  in  1893,  aged  eighty-five  years.  Both 
were  consistent  members  of  the  Baptist 
church.  They  had  five  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters :  the  Rev.  Warren,  deceased :  Julius,  de- 
ceased :  Ellen,  widow  of  R.  D.  Baker  of  Aurora, 
Illinois,  deceased ;  Frances,  widow  of  Warner 
E.  Wright  of  Aurora :  James  O.,  deceased ; 
Sarah  A.,  deceased  wife  of  L.  F.  Liscom  of 
Hinsdale,  N.  H. ;  Orvin  T.  and  John  T,  deceased. 
After  a  youth  spent  at  Fort  Ann,  where  he 
attended  the  common  schools  of  his  locality. 
James  O.  Mason  began  earning  his  own  living. 
At  first  he  secured  employment  at  farm  work, 
and  assisted  his  father  in  his  wagon  shop,  but 
he  was  not  satisfied  with  conditions,  seeking 
wider  fields,  and  so  in  1868  he  came  to  Aurora, 
and  thereafter  was  devoted  to  his  adopted  city. 
His  first  employment  after  coming  to  Aurora 
was  as  a  clerk  in  the  grocery  of  Robert  Pier- 
pont.  but  his  ability  and  ambition  were  too 
great  to  permit  his  being  tied  down  to  any 
such  work,  and  within  three  years  he  was  on 


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the  road  as  a  traveling  salesman  for  Fogg  and 
Son.  Chicago  seed  dealers.  During  the  three 
years  he  spent  in  this  line  of  endeavor  he 
gained  a  valuable  knowledge  of  men  and  condi- 
tions, and  used  it  to  advantage  during  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life. 

Leaving  the  road,  Mr.  Mason  established  him- 
self in  the  bakery  business,  selling  at  wholesale 
and  retail  for  twenty-seven  years,  or  until  this 
concern  was  absorbed  by  the  National  Biscuit 
Company,  following  which,  Mr.  Mason  con- 
tinued in  charge  for  four  years  more.  In  1895, 
the  Aurora  Corset  Company  was  organized  by 
Mr.  Mason  and  some  associates  and  he  became 
its  treasurer,  and  carried  its  affairs  on  success- 
fully, until  it  is  now  one  of  the  leading  indus- 
tries of  Aurora.  He  was  largely  interested  in 
what  was  at  first  the  Aurora  Watch  Company, 
but  is  now  the  Hamilton  Watch  Company,  of 
Lancaster,  Pa.  Ever  since  its  organization, 
Mr.  Mason  was  a  director  of  the  Western 
United  Gas  and  Electric  Company.  For  years 
he  was  vice-president  of  the  German-American 
National  Bank  of  Aurora.  For  a  period  he  was 
treasurer  for  the  State  Home  for  Girls  at 
Geneva,  111.  He  was  a  director  and  interested 
supporter  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation. 

On  September  30th,  1875,  Mr.  Mason  was 
married  to  Miss  Roma  L.  Adams,  daughter  of 
Charles  H.  and  Harriet  (Coleman)  Adams  of 
Fort  Ann,  N.  Y.  One  son.  Marquis  Edgar  Mason, 
was  born  of  this  marriage.  This  son  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Aurora,  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin,  and  the  Massachusetts  In- 
stitute of  Technology,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1904.  He  married  Laura  A.  Rice,  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  M.  S.  Rice  of  Aurora. 
Mrs.  Mason,  with  her  son  and  his  wife,  survive 
Mr.  Mason.  Throughout  his  life,  Mr.  Mason 
was  identified  with  the  Baptist  denomination, 
and  not  only  gave  liberally  toward  its  support 
in  money,  but  lent  his  influence  and  contributed 


his  time  to  advance  its  interests.  His  fraternal 
connections  were  with  the  Waubonsie  Lodge, 
I.  O.  O.  F.  Politically,  he  was  a  strong  Repub- 
lican, although  he  never  would  accept  public 
office,  aside  from  that  of  city  treasurer  of  Au- 
rora, in  which  capacity  he  rendered  services 
so  valuable  that  the  city  benefited  very  materi- 
ally from  his  administration.  He  always  took 
a  warm  interest  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  it  was 
largely  due  to  his  efforts  and  influence  that  the 
present  beautiful  Association  building  in  Aurora 
was  erected.  Successful  himself,  Mr.  Mason 
was  always  willing  to  lend  a  hand  to  help  any 
young  man  whom  he  deemed  worthy  of  assis- 
tance, and  there  are  many  successful  business 
men  today,  who  owe  their  prosperity  to  Mr. 
Mason  and  his  sage  advice. 

Mr.  Mason's  death,  which  occurred  June  24. 
1912,  did  not  come  as  a  surprise  to  his  friends 
and  business  associates,  as  he  had  not  been 
in  good  health  for  some  time.  The  funeral  was 
neld  at  his  late  residence,  on  June  27,  1912, 
the  Rev.  Dr.  John  L.  Jackson  of  Bloomington, 
111.,  a  former  pastor,  was  in  charge  of  the  cere- 
monies, and  spoke  touchingly  with  reference  to 
Mr.  Mason  and  his  life  work.  The  remains 
were  laid  at  rest  in  Spring  Lake  Cemetery. 
In  the  death  of  Mr.  Mason,  Aurora  suffered 
a  very  distinct  loss,  not  only  in  matters  of 
social,  commercial  and  industrial  interest,  but 
in  everything  that  relates  to  the  well-being  of 
the  city  at  large.  He  was  domestic  in  his 
habits  and  a  lover  of  his  home  and  family.  As 
a  business  man  he  was  very  thorough  in  his  un- 
dertakings, was  frank  and  open,  and  kind  to  his 
employees.  A  man  of  strict  integrity,  he  was 
broad-minded  and  liberal  in  his  views,  and  yet 
when  convinced  of  the  right  of  a  question,  stead- 
fast in  holding  his  opinion.  It  will  be  a  long 
while  before  his  place  is  filled  in  business  circles, 
and  it  can  never  be  taken  in  his  family,  where 
he  was  a  striking  personality,  one  to  be  honored 
as  well  as  loved. 


ALBERT  WISNER. 


A  contemporary  journalist  said  of  Albert 
Wisner  following  his  death :    • 

"He  early  developed  a  cool  head,  was  a  good 
listener,  learned  much,  was  well  balanced  and 
endowed  with  good  judgment  and  unlimited 
courage.  Thus  he  was  enabled  to  make  steady 
progress,  and  it  was  not  long  before  the  founda- 


tions of  great  wealth  were  at  his  hand.  As  a 
leader  in  the  development  and  ownership  of 
real  estate  he  continued  to  his  death.  He  was 
a  lineal  descendant  of  the  Swiss  notable,  Jo- 
hannes Wisner  and  of  Henry  Wisner  of  Rev- 
olutionary fame,  both  of  whom  have  so  many 
descendants  in   this  part  of   the  country,  and 


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he  has  shown  the  same  sterling  qualities  and 
independence  of  character  shown  by  so  many  of 
them." 

Albert  Wisner  was  born  on  the  home  farm 
near  Wisner,  N.  Y.,  November  26,  1835,  a  son 
of  William  Roe  and  Eliza  (Miller)  Wisner. 
In  1854  Mr.  Wisner  went  as  far  west  as  Cham- 
paign, 111.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  business 
with  his  brother  Henry,  and  he  remained  there 
for  about  twelve  years  and  then  went  to  Ft. 
Dodge,  Iowa.  Still  later,  he  came  to  Chicago, 
and  soon  became  associated  with  the  develop- 
ment of  subdivisions  and  the  erection  of  homes 
for  the  people  in  the  rapidly  growing  suburbs 
of  this  metropolis  of  the  West. 

On  January  20,  1876,  Mr.  Wisner  was  married 
to  Miss  Annie  E.  Furniss  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
This  was  forty-two  years  ago,  and  during  that 
period  they  were  never  separated  from  each 
other  for  twenty-four  hours.  This  ideal  married 
life  was  interrupted  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Wisner, 
March  28,  1918.  He  and  Mrs.  Wisner  had  no 
children  of  their  own,  but  took  into  their  lives 
a  niece,  Miss  Annie  Wisner,  a  daughter  of  Mr. 
Wisner's  nephew,  William  W.  Buckbee.  The 
beautiful  residence  of  the  Wisnere,  on  Drexel 
Boulevard,  is  one  of  the  most  charming  homes 
in  Chicago.  It  is  furnished  with  countless  art 
treasures  gathered  by  them  while  on  their 
travels.  Mr.  Wisner  was  a  valued  member  of 
the  South  Shore  Country,  Kenwood  and  Hawk- 
eye  clubs.  He  also  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Chicago  Stock  Exchange.  Very  successful  in 
the  broadest  sense  of  the  term,  he  was  prouder 


of  the  fact  that  in  attaining  this  prosperity  no 
man  had  ever  been  wronged,  and  that  his  name 
was  everywhere  recognized  as  being  synony- 
mous with  strict  integrity  and  uprightness.  It 
is  truthfully  said  that  when  he  died  he  did 
not  owe  anyone  a  single  dollar. 

Many  of  the  beautiful  suburbs  now  housing 
thousands  of  happy  and  contented  people,  first 
were  conceived  in  the  broad  vision  of  Albert 
Wisner,  who,  looking  ahead,  was  able  to  predict 
the  probable  expansion  of  districts,  and  the 
extension  to  them  of  the  necessary  transporta- 
tion facilities.  Having  once  grasped  the  idea, 
he  lost  no  time  in  promoting  the  project;  and, 
owing  to  his  reputation  for  good  judgment  and 
fairness  of  dealing,  he  never  had  any  difficulty 
in  securing  associates  in  his  work.  Thus,  one 
after  another,  he  brought  these  additions  to 
the  city's  area  into  being,  and  by  building  for 
people  in  ordinary  circumstances,  comfortable 
houses,  at  reasonable  prices  and  terms,  he  pro- 
vided for  these  suburbs,  homemakers,  who  once 
settling,  did  not  care  to  move,  but  remained, 
and  in  their  turn,  did  their  part  in  establish- 
ing a  stable  government  and  developed  true 
civic  pride.  While  Mr.  Wisner  would,  perhaps, 
been  the  last  to  think  of  such  a  title  himself, 
he  can  be  justly  called  the  founder  of  real 
homes,  and  the  promoter  of  actual  happiness. 
In  his  death  Chicago  most  certainly  lost  a 
citizen  it  could  not  afford  to  see  pass,  and  hif 
associates  a  friend  who  always  put  their  ii 
terests   before   his   own. 


FRANK  HUGH  MONTGOMERY. 


Chicago  has  always  been  distinguished  for 
high  rank  in  her  medical  profession,  which  has 
numbered  among  its  members  men  whose  work 
has  gained  for  them  more  than  national  prom- 
inence. Of  this  body  Dr.  Montgomery  was  a 
worthy  member  and  was  looked  upon  as  an  able 
physician  and  dermatologist,  both  in  America 
and  abroad. 

Frank  Hugh  Montgomery  was  born  near  St. 
Cloud,  Minn.,  January  6,  1862.  and  was  a  son 
of  Albertus  and  Mary  Louise  (Mason-Lillie) 
Montgomery.  After  completing  a  course  in  the 
St.  Cloud  High  School  he  attended  the  Univer- 
sity of  Minnesota  and  then  entered  Rush  Med- 
ical College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1888.  Subsequently  he  took  post 
graduate  work  in  the  Johns  Hopkins  University 


of  Baltimore,  with  further  study  and  clinical 
research  in  the  hospitals  of  London,  Paris  and 
Vienna.  From  the  outset  of  his  professional 
career  he  made  continuous  advancement,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  was  associate  professor 
of  dermatology  in  Rush  Medical  College,  and 
dermatologist  to  the  Presbyterian,  the  St.  Eliz- 
abeth, the  St.  Anthony  de  Padua  and  the  Oak 
Park  hospitals.  He  was  also  an  active  member 
of  the  local,  state  and  national  medical  so- 
cieties, and  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most 
prominent  representatives  of  the  country  in  the 
department  of  medicine  in  which  he  specialized. 
The  American  Dermatological  Association,  of 
which  he  was  three  times  elected  secretary  and 
vice-president,  claimed  him  as  a  prominent  mem- 
ber.    He  was  honored  with   the  presidency  of 


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the  Chicago  Derinatological  Society  and  took  a 
helpful  interest  in  all  its  meetings  from  the  date 
of  its  organization.  Aside  from  treatises  on 
diseases  of  the  skin  which  bear  his  name,  he 
was  known  to  the  profession  by  his  numerous 
scientific  articles,  each  of  which  is  of  scholarly 
thoroughness.  He  had  a  wide  knowledge  of  the 
literature  of  dermatology  gleaned  from  all  lan- 
guages.    He  died  July  14,  1908. 

On  January  11,  1897,  Dr.  Montgomery  was 
married  to  Miss  Caroline  L.  Williamson,  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  Irenus  Kittredge  Hamilton,  by  a 
former  marriage.  Three  children  were  born  to 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Montgomery :  Hamilton,  born  May 
21,  1898 ;  Charlotte,  born  January  24,  1901 ;  and 
Mary  Louise,  September  2,  1903. 

Dr.  Montgomery's  contributions  to  literature 
were :  In  1898,  in  association  with  Dr.  Hyde,  A 
Contribution  to  the  so-called  Premycosis  stage  of 
Mycosis  Fungoides ;  in  1900,  in  association  with 
Dr.  Ricketts,  Blastomycetic  Infection  of  the 
Skin ;  In  1901,  A  Brief  Report  of  Two  Hitherto 
Unrecorded  Cases  of  Cutaneous  Blastomycosis ; 
and,  in  association  with  Dr.  Walker,  A  Further 
Report  on  a  Previously  Recorded  Case  of  Blasto- 
mycosis of  the  Skin ;  Systematic  Infection  with 
Blastomycestes ;  Death  Autopsy ;  in  1902,  A  Case 
of  Cutaneous  Blastomycosis  followed  by  Laryn- 
geal and  Systematic  Tuberculosis ;  in  1903,  The 
Present  State  of  Phototherapy;  in  1905,  asso- 
ciated with  Dr.  Bassoe,  A  Case  of  Pityriasis 
Rubra  of  Hebra's  Type;  in  1906,  White  Spot 
Disease  (Morphcea  Guttata)  and  Lichen  Planus 
Schlerosus  et  Atrophicus.  A  Clinical  and  Histo- 
rical Study  of  Three  Cases,  with  a  Review  of 


the  Literature,  by  Drs.  Montgomery  and  Orms- 
by ;  Systematic  Blastomycosis,  its  Etiological, 
Pathological  and  Clinical  Features,  as  estab- 
lished by  a  careful  Survey  and  Summary  of 
Twenty-two  Cases;  the  Relation  of  Blastomy- 
cosis and  Coccidioloid  Granuloma,  Drs.  Mont- 
gomery and  Ormsby.  Transactions  of  the  6th 
International  Dermatological  Congress,  1907. 
Report  of  a  case  of  Systematic  Blastomycosis, 
including  Autopsy  and  Successful  Animal  In- 
oculations, Dr.  Montgomery.  Reprinted  from 
the  Journal  of  Cutaneous  Diseases,  September, 
1907.  Systematic  Blastomycosis,  its  Etiologic, 
Pathologic  and  Clinical  Features  as  established 
by  a  Critical  Survey  and  Summary  of  Twenty- 
two  Cases,  Seven  previously  unpublished ;  the 
Relation  of  Blastomycosis  to  Coccidioidal  Gran- 
uloma, Drs.  Montgomery  and  Ormsby ;  Re- 
printed from  the  Archives  of  Internal  Medicine, 
August,  1908.  Some  Common  Errors  in  the 
Treatment  of  Infantile  Eczema,  Dr.  Montgom- 
ery, reprint  from  the  Chicago  Clinic,  October, 
1898.  A  Contribution  to  the  Subject  of  Radio- 
therapy and  Phototherapy  in  Carcinoma,  Tu- 
berculosis, and  Other  Diseases  of  the  Skin,  Drs. 
Hyde,  Montgomery  and  Ormsby.  Read  at  the 
fifty-third  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Med- 
ical Association.  Cutaneous  Blastomycosis,  a 
Summary  of  the  Observations  of  James  Nevins 
Hyde,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  and  Frank  Hugh  Montgom- 
ery, M.  D.,  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago.  Dr. 
Montgomery  was  also  joint  author  with  Dr. 
Hyde  of  the  following  books :  Treatise  on  Dis- 
eases of  the  Skin,  and  Treatise  on  Syphilis  and 
the  Venereal  Diseases. 


AARON  NELSON  YOUNG. 


In  the  death  of  Aaron  Nelson  Young,  Evans- 
ton  lost  one  of  its  most  highly  respected  and 
most  beloved  citizens.  Mr.  Young  had  long 
been  a  resident  of  Evanston  and  had  long  been 
connected  with  Chicago's  grain  trade.  As  a 
member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade,  he  at- 
tained gratifying  personal  success,  and  he  also 
exerted  a  marked  influence  on  the  sound  growth 
and  substantial  development  of  the  grain  mar- 
kets of  the  middle  west.  He  was  by  no  means 
limited  to  his  business  connections,  in  the  ex- 
pression of  his  deep  interest  in  public  matters. 
He  rendered  signal  service  as  president  of  the 
Evanston  Board  of  Education.  His  philan- 
thropy,    embracing     his     magnificent    gift    to 


Northwestern  University,  was  an  index  to  the 
love  of  mankind  which  filled  his  heart. 

Aaron  Nelson  Young  was  born  on  a  farm  near 
Morrison,  Illinois,  April  3,  1838.  He  was  a  son 
of  Daniel  Beers  and  Betsy  (Jackson)  Young, 
who  are  numbered  among  the  early  pioneer 
settlers  of  Whiteside  County,  Illinois,  where 
they  established  their  home  in  1837.  They 
came  to  Illinois,  overland,  traveling  by  wagon. 
Aaron  N.  Young,  as  he  grew  up,  worked  at  home 
helping  his  parents  on  the  farm  and  attending 
the  district  schools  during  the  winter  terms 
until  he  was  twenty-one.  Although  his  educa- 
tional chances  were  limited  to  the  extreme,  he 
did  acquire  a   sound   training,   for  he  devoted 


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himself  assiduously  to  study  during  the  long 
evenings. 

When  he  left  the  home  farm  he  entered  the 
grain  and  lumber  business  in  the  employ  of 
S.  H.  McCrea  and  Company  at  Morrison,  Illi- 
nois. He  was  soon  made  a  partner,  and,  later, 
took  charge  of  the  firm's  business  in  Sterling, 
Illinois.  Immediately  following  the  Chicago 
Fire,  Mr.  Young  sold  the  grain  business  and 
lumber  yard  in  Sterling,  and  came  to  Chi- 
cago to  help  in  handling  the  firm's  growing 
business  here.  Much  of  his  success  attained 
by  this  concern  came  as  a  result  of  Mrs.  Young's 
intimate  touch  with  its  affairs.  In  the  year 
1883  Mr.  Young  took  George  R.  Nichols  into 
partnership  with  him  and  founded  the  com- 
mission firm  of  Young  &  Nichols.  He  was 
actively  interested  in  this  connection  until  1903 
when  he  retired  from  business.  He  had  been 
a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade  since 
1871.  He  retained  the  combined  friendship  and 
sincere  respect  of  all  who  have  been  associated 
with  him. 

Mr.  Young  was  always  deeply  interested  in 
the  welfare  of  the  Evanston  public  schools ; 
and  he  served  in  the  capacity  of  president  of 
the  board  of  education  for  many  years,  covering 
a  period  when  the  school  system  required  very 
able  and  careful  financial  management.  Mr. 
Young  had,  in  a  marked  degree,  the  rare  facul- 
ty of  upbuilding,  directing  and  putting  public 
enterprises  in  the  way  of  assured  success.  He 
was  also  for  a  short  time  a  trustee  of  North- 
western University. 

Aaron  Nelson  Young  was  married  March  26, 
1867,    at    Sterling,    Illinois,    to    Miss   Anna    M. 


Corell.  Their  association  together,  throughout 
the  years  of  their  married  life,  was  unusually 
beautiful  in  mutual  help  and  understanding. 
Their  children  are  as  follows :  Albert  Joseph, 
Ruth  (Mrs.  John  A.  Orb  of  Chicago),  William 
Sanborn,  Paul  Corell,  Helen  (Mrs.  Edward  K. 
Hardy),  Ralph  Blaisdell  Young. 

Mr.  Young  passed  from  this  life  on  January  6, 
1918.  In  his  will  he  left  a  bequest  to  North- 
western University  of  $200,000,  to  establish 
"The  Bert  and  Paul  Young  School  Fund."  This 
is  in  memory  of  his  two  sons,  one  of  whom  died 
while  a  student  at  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity, the  other  while  a  student  at  Yale  Uni- 
versity. This  is  evidence  of  Mr.  Young's  pro- 
found interest  in  education  and  of  his  deep  and 
abiding  love  of  humanity.  The  income  from 
this  endowment  is  to  be  used  as  a  loan  fund 
for  the  benefit  of  students  of  the  Northwestern 
University  who  need  financial  assistance.  It 
will  be  of  rich  practical  service  throughout  the 
ensuing  years. 

The  foregoing  gives  but  a  terse  review  of  the 
long  and  useful  life  of  Aaron  N.  Young.  Those 
who  knew  him  best  loved  him  most.  Mr. 
Young  was  very  much  enjoyed  in  the  Evans- 
ton  Club,  of  which  he  and  Mrs.  Young  were 
among  the  early  members.  The  Evanston  Club 
presented  a  beautiful  memorial  following  Mr. 
Young's  death. 

"It  is  to  such  lives  as  that  of  Aaron  Nelson 
Young  that  we,  who  follow,  owe  a  sincere  debt 
of  gratitude.  It  has  been  through  Mr.  Young 
and  through  men  like  him  that  the  character- 
building  forces  of  the  past  generations  are  per- 
petuated for  us." 


OLIVER  ROCKNEY  NELSON. 


For  nearly  seventy  years,  the  late  Oliver  R. 
Nelson,  has  been  a  resident  of  Illinois.  He  was 
born  at  Voss,  Norway,  on  January  15,  1849, 
a  son  of  Nels  Olson  Rockney  and  Anna  Sonve, 
both  natives  of  Norway.  The  family  came  to 
America  to  establish  a  new  home,  when  the  son 
was  three  years  old,  and  located  in  Chicago. 
Here  the  father  died  the  following  year.  The 
family  then  moved  to  Queen  Anne  Prairie,  near 
Woodstock,  Illinois  traveling  by  ox-team ;  and 
the  mother  married  again. 

Oliver  R.  Nelson  went  to  school  near  this 
home  until  his  mother  died  when  he  was 
twelve  years  old.  He  was  living  on  his  step- 
father's farm  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War. 


Although  he  was  only  sixteen  years  old  at 
this  time  he  and  a  friend  of  his  walked  into 
the  nearest  recruiting  station  and  enlisted  for 
service.  When  his  step-father  heard  this  news 
he  was  highly  displeased,  because  of  young  Nel- 
son's extreme  youth ;  so  he  took  the  necessary 
measures  to  cancel  his  enlistment.  The  step- 
father then  allowed  him  to  attend  school  for 
two  winters.  In  his  seventeenth  year  he  ran 
away,  his  whole  capital  at  the  time  being  sixty- 
five  cents.  He  worked  on  a  farm  at  McHenry 
and  went  to  school  as  opportunity  offered.  Later 
he  came  to  Chicago  where  he  worked  at  various 
jobs  until  he  went  to  Southern  Mississippi. 
After  working  on  the  levees  there  for  a  while, 


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he  journeyed  up  to  the  great  pine  forests  in  the 
north,  where  he  spent  two  winters  working  in 
logging  camps. 

He  returned  to  Chicago  just  before  the  Great 
Fire  in  1871.  and  went  to  work  for  Wright  & 
Lawther.  linseed  oil  manufacturers.  This  firm 
became  the  Wright  &  Hills  Linseed  Oil  Com- 
pany of  which  concern  Mr.  Nelson  was  made 
superintendent.  After  a  short  time  he  was 
elected  vice  president  and  so  continued.  A 
large  share  of  the  gratifying  success  attained 
by  this  business  came  through  Mr.  Nelson's 
hard  work,  judgment  and  experience.  In  1900 
the  business  was  sold  to  the  American  Lin- 
seed Oil  Company.  Mr.  Nelson  remained  with 
this  concern  as  an  executive,  for  a  few  months. 
Then  he  retired  from  active  commercial  life. 


On  May  6.  1880,  Oliver  R.  Nelson  was  mar- 
ried, at  Woodstock.  Illinois,  to  Miss  Julia  Marie 
Solveson.  Their  married  life  together  was  long 
and  most  happy.  After  Mr.  Nelson's  retirement 
from  business  in  1901,  he  and  Mrs.  Nelson  trav- 
elled extensively  throughout  Europe  and  Amer- 
ica. Their  residence  was  maintained  in  Chicago 
after  their  marriage;  and  they  also  greatly  en- 
joyed their  summer  home  at  Squirrel  Lake,  Wis- 
consin. 

Oliver  R.  Nelson  was  called  from  this  life 
on  September  14,  1922.  He  began  life  as  a  poor 
boy  with  comparatively  very  meagre  opportuni- 
ties, to  reach  success.  His  career,  just  closed, 
is  a  fine  inspiration  and  example  and  his 
memory  is  entitled  to  sincere  respect 


WILLIAM  MANSON. 


William  Manson  was  born  in  Thurso,  Scotland, 
on  June  27,  1846,  a  son  of  George  and  Christina 
(Stevens)  Manson,  both  of  whom  were  natives 
of  Scotland.  His  boyhood  was  spent  largely  on 
his  father's  farm  and,  later,  in  England. 

In  1871,  when  he  was  twenty-five  years  old, 
he  came  to  the  United  States.  He  soon  located 
in  Chicago  and  there  he  became  engaged  in  the 
great  building  industry  that  developed  in  that 
city  following  the  Chicago  Fire  of  1871.  As 
time  passed  he  became  one  of  the  foremost 
building  stone  contractors  in  this  country. 

To  give  a  definite  understanding  of  the  effect 
of  his  influence  on  the  growth  and  beautification 
of  Chicago,  in  the  generation  just  passed,  we 
mention  here  some  of  the  buildings  for  which 
he  did  the  exterior  stone  work :  the  Art  Insti- 
tute of  Chicago,  the  Chicago  Public  Library, 
the  La  Salle  Street  Station,  the  Chicago  Board 
of  Trade,  the  Monument  to  General  Grant,  the 
Monument  to  General  Logan,  and  many  of  the 
earlier  palatial  residences  in  the  city.  Also 
should  be  mentioned  the  Post  Office  Building  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  the  Indiana  State  Capi- 
tol Building  at  Indianapolis. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Manson  to  Miss  Eleanor 
Raffen  took  place  at  Highland  Park,  Illinois,  on 
September  23,  1886.    Mrs.  Manson  is  a  daughter 


of  John  T.  and  Elizabeth  (McDonald)  Raffen. 
John  T.  Raffen  was  a  pioneer  in  the  manufacture 
of  iron  at  Chicago  in  the  firm  of  Clark  '&  Raffen, 
the  Aetna  Iron  Works.  This  firm  made  the  struc- 
tural iron  that  went  into  many  of  the  largest 
Chicago  buildings  of  their  time. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Manson  have  two  children.  Wil- 
liam R.  Manson  married  Miss  Virginia  Noel. 
They  have  one  son,  William  Noel  Manson.  Elea- 
nor R.  Manson  married  Norman  B.  Nestlerode. 
They  have  two  sons,  Norman  B.  and  William  A. 
Nestlerode. 

William  Manson  was  a  member  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago.  He  was  also  a 
prominent  Mason,  belonging  to  Garfield  Lodge 
No.  686,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. ;  York  Chapter  No.  148, 
R.  A.  M. ;  Chevalier  Bayard  Commandery  No.  52, 
K.  T. ;  Oriental  Consistory  and  Medinah  Temple 
Shrine.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
Saint  Andrews  Society,  the  British  Empire  As- 
sociation, the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  of  which 
he  was  a  life  member,  the  Field  Museum  and 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society. 

Mr.  Manson's  death  occurred,  on  October  29, 
1927,  in  his  eighty-first  year.  He  was  a  Chica- 
goan  for  nearly  sixty  years  and  his  work  here 
is  a  lasting  tribute  to  him. 


CHARLES  MOORE  PORTER. 


The  late  Charles  M.  Porter  was,  for  many 
years,  one  of  the  most  representative  men  of 
River  Forest,  Illinois.    He  was  born  on  a  farm 


near  Proviso,  on  August  11,  1864,  a  son  of  Irv- 
ing A.  and  Sarah  H.  (Steele)  Porter.  The 
father  was  a  New  Yorker  by  birth.    The  mother 


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was  a  Chicagoan.  The  Steele  family's  resi- 
dence in  Chicago  dates  back  before  the  time 
of  the  Massacre.  They  were  among  the  first 
families  to  make  their  home  at  River  Forest. 
Charles  M.  Porter  went  to  school  at  Proviso 
and  then  attended  a  business  college.  For  a 
while  he  helped  his  father  on  the  home  farm, 
leaving  it  to  go  to  work  for  a  contractor  in 
River  Forest.  After  a  few  years  he  established 
his  own  contracting  business,  which  he  con- 
tinued with  well-deserved  success  until  the  time 
of  his  death.  This  company,  bearing  his  name, 
has  put  in  a  large  share  of  the  street  paving 
and  other  public  improvements  in  many  of  Chi- 
cago's suburbs.     Mr.  Porter's  knowledge  of  his 


work,  coupled  with  his  honesty  and  fair  deal- 
ing, have  placed  him  high  among  the  men  en- 
gaged in  his  line  of  work  in  the  state. 

Mr.  Porter  was  married  on  March  25,  1886,  to 
Miss  Harriett  E.  Foster,  of  Maywood,  Illinois, 
a  daughter  of  Nehemiah  D.  and  Elizabeth 
(Kidd)  Foster.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Porter's  children 
are :  Irving,  who  has  succeeded  to  his  father's 
business ;  Sarah  H.,  Ella  M.,  Chas.  A.,  Mable  C, 
Dorothy  E.  and  Ruth  A.  Porter. 

Mr.  Porter  was  a  Knight- Templar  and 
Shriuer  Mason. 

Charles  M.  Porter  died  on  the  10th  of  No- 
vember, 1917.  He  was  a  man  of  fine  qualities 
and  he  left  behind  him  a  most  creditable  record. 


JOHN  JOSEPH  O 'HERON. 


John  Joseph  O'Heron,  born  March  1,  1859,  at 
602  Jefferson  street,  Chicago,  Illinois,  lived  in 
this  city  all  his  life.  He  was  the  son  of  James 
and  Elinore  O'Heron,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  Wexford  County,  Ireland,  in  the  year  1849. 
Mr.  O'Heron  attended  Jesuit  Brothers  School, 
on  Morgan  street,  but  at  the  tender  age  of 
twelve,  circumstances  in  those  pioneer  days 
selected  him  for  a  father's  aid.  A  horse  and 
a  single  wagon  were  his  tools.  In  the  year 
1880,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  he  embarked  in 
the  drayage  business  for  himself,  possessing  still 
one  horse  and  a  wagon.  From  this  humble  be- 
ginning Mr.  O'Heron's  genius  and  constructive 
ability  developed  a  cartage  business  that  was 
the  largest  owned  and  directed  by  a  single  in- 
dividual, in  Chicago,  if  not  in  the  world.  This 
fact  is  evidenced  by  the  following  extract  from 
the  Cartage  Bulletin  of  July,  1921 : 

"*  *  *  On  property  belonging  to  Mr. 
O'Heron  on  Polk  and  Jefferson  streets,  he 
erected  what  was,  and  still  is,  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  modern  stables  in  Chicago  for  ex- 
clusive use  in  housing  his  horses.  It  was  a 
strictly  fireproof  structure,  108  x  138  feet 
in  dimensions  and  four  stories  high.  This  build- 
ing was  so  designed  that  if  it  was  ever  desired 
to  do  so,  it  could  be  used  as  a  modern  storage 
warehouse." 

In  1919,  Mr.  O'Heron  retired  from  the  cartage 
business  and  his  vast  equipment  was,  in  its 
entirety,  taken  oyer  by  the  American  Railway 
Express  Company. 

In  addition  to  the  cartage  business,  Mr. 
O'Heron  was  numbered  among  the  large  con- 
structors and  contractors  in  the  United  States. 


In  1903,  the  firm  of  John  J.  O'Heron  was  formed 
and  consisted  of:  John  J.  O'Heron,  Frederick 
Mclsaac  and  T.  Frank  Quilty. 

The  business  consisted  of  engineer  construc- 
tion and  design,  the  earlier  work  beginning  in 
the  field  of  public  construction,  but  during  the 
later  years  the  firm  confined  itself  to  heavy 
railroad  construction.  A  partial  list  of  the 
principal  works  constructed  by  the  John  J. 
O'Heron  Company  follows: 

The  Lake  View  in-take  crib,  foot  of  Mon- 
trose Boulevard  and  Lake  Michigan.  This  was 
a  multi-sided  structure  with  walls  sixty  feet 
thick  in  forty  feet  of  water,  including  in-take 
well,  lighthouse  and  living  quarters. 

Louisville  Approach,  New  Albany  and  Jeffer- 
sonville  Railway,  also  passenger  station.  This 
was  a  steel  elevated  structure,  approximately 
one  mile  in  length,  including  what  was  up  to 
that  date  the  heaviest  girder  manufactured  and 
erected  in  this  country ; 

Louisville  and  Nashville  Railway  Company's 
office  building  at  Louisville,  Kentucky ; 

Two  rock  tunnels  for  the  City  of  Chicago, 
totaling  3,000  feet,  also  two  clay  tunnels  under 
the  Chicago  river ; 

Chicago  &  North  Western  Railroad  track 
elevation,  along  Austin  avenue  between  Halsted 
and  Ashland  avenue,  Chicago ; 

Kansas  City  Terminal :  All  work  outside  of 
station  proper,  including  sixteen  viaducts; 

Track  elevation,  Illinois  Central  Railway 
Company,  Seventy-ninth  to  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-third  streets,  through  Pullman  and  Ken- 
sington, Chicago,  Illinois; 

Okaw  Viaduct :     Four  track  railway  bridge, 


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with  100  foot  arches  and  long  approaches,  total- 
ing over  2,100  feet.  This  bridge  was  the  largest 
structure  of  its  kind  erected  in  the  entire  world 
during  the  year  1917 ; 

Track  elevation,  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Com- 
pany, Panhandle  branch,  Chicago,  Illinois; 

Burton's  Bridge :  Near  Crystal  Lake,  Illinois, 
five  spans  through  arch  structure,  eighty-foot 
arches ;  , 

Various  sewers  and  purification  systems, 
notably  those  for  the  Government  at  Fort  Benja- 
min Harrison  and  Fort  Sheridan,  Illinois ; 

Franklin  Street  Bridge,  Michigan  City,  In- 
diana, 100  foot  span,  longest  single-leaf  bascule 
bridge  built  up  to  this  date ; 

Oklahoma  Subways,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin ; 

Seawall  and  Yacht  Harbor,  at  Green  Lake, 
Wisconsin  ; 

Track  elevation,  Chicago  &  Western  Indiana 
Railway  Company,  Chicago,  Illinois ; 

Railway  Bridge  in  Black  Hills,  near  Lead- 
ville,  South  Dakota ; 


Morgan  Street  Bridge,  Rockford,  Illinois,  1,000 
feet  long. 

In  addition  to  the  above,  the  firm  constructed 
sewerage  systems  and  over  300  railway  and 
highway  bridges  less  notable  than  those  men- 
tioned above. 

In  1898,  Mr.  O'Heron  married  Miss  Mary 
Frances  White  and  to  them  were  born  two 
children :  John  and  Miriam,  Miriam  still  sur- 
viving. He  was  left  a  widower  about  four  years 
later. 

In  1905  Mr.  O'Heron  married  Miss  Mae 
Cavanagh,  of  Chicago,  and  to  them  were  bom 
four  children :  Elinore,  Ruth,  Dorothea  and 
John. 

In  1919  Mr.  O'Heron  retired  from  his  vast 
business  enterprises,  and  up  to  his  death  on 
April  1,  1921,  his  time  and  attention  were  de- 
voted to  his  family  and  his  large  Chicago  real 
estate  holdings. 


FRANK  FREDERICK. 


Frank  Frederick  was  born  at  Heppenheim, 
Frankfort-on-the-Main,  Germany,  January  14. 
1840,  a  son  of  Jacob  and  Phillipa  (Hamm) 
Frederick.  His  early  boybood  was  lived  in 
Germany,  and  he  was  sixteen  years  old  when 
he  came  to  the  United  States.  He  landed  here 
with  practically  no  resources,  and  he  faced 
struggles  and  handicaps  that  would  usually 
meet  a  boy  of  his  age  who  had  come  to  a 
totally  strange  country.  The  success  he  made 
of  his  life  in  the  latter  years  is  a  distinct  credit 
to  him. 

For  a  short  time  after  coming  to  America  he 
stayed  in  New  York  City.  From  there  he 
came  to  Chicago.  Entered  C.  B.  &  Q.  employ 
June  1,  1868.  He  eventually  became  identified 
with  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Rail- 
road in  their  colonization  department.  It  was 
his  work  to  take  foreigners  out  to  the  land 
that  the  Chicago,  Burlington  '&  Quincy  Railroad 
opened  up  and  get  them  satisfactorily  settled 
and  established  there. 

Oct.  18, 1883  Mr.  Frederick  moved  to  Riverside, 
Illinois,  and  made  his  home.  In  1890  he  retired 
from  his  railroad  connections.  Since  that  time 
he  has  borne  an  increasingly  important  part  in 
the  life  of  the  community  in  which  he  lived.  He 
served  as  Commissioner  of  Public  Works  for 
twenty-three  years.     He  was  chosen  Supervisor 


of  his  township,  and  re-elected  to  that  office 
time  after  time  for  a  period  covering  nearly 
four  decades.  He  was  scrupulously  faithful, 
devoted  and  conservative  in  all  of  his  public 
work.  Throughout  his  mature  life  he  was  a 
staunch  Republican  and  he  was  District  Com- 
mitteeman for  a  number  of  terms. 

He  also  served  as  a  Trustee  of  the  Village 
of  Riverside  for  ten  years. 

In  1903  the  Riverside  State  Bank  was  organ- 
ized. At  that  time  Mr.  Frederick  was  made  a 
Director  and  its  Vice  President.  He  retired 
from  the  Vice  Presidency  in  1924.  and  he  was  a 
Director  of  the  organization  right  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death.  His  strength  and  his  guid- 
ance did  much  to  bring  about  the  soundness  and 
success  that  this  bank  has  enjoyed. 

On  September  19,  1868,  Mr.  Frederick  was 
married  at  Chicago  to  Miss  Mathilda  Nitz,  a 
daughter  of  Frederick  and  Charlotte  Nitz.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Frederick  became  the  parents  of  five 
children :  Charles,  Edward,  Mathilda  C,  Frank 
E.  and  C.  Lydia  Frederick.  The  three  sons  have 
since  died.  Mrs.  Frederick  died  December  10, 
1892. 

Frank  Frederick  was  made  a  Mason  in  1876 
and  was  active  in  that  organization  until  the 
time  of  his  death,   being  a  charter  member  of 


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Riverside  Lodge  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  and  one  of  its 
organizers. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Frederick  occurred  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1926,  in  his  eighty-seventh  year.  His 
was  a  long  and  useful  life.  Throughout  the 
many   years   of  his   residence   at   Riverside   he 


gave  to  his  community  a  very  fine  devotion,  serv- 
ing its  welfare  with  deepest  interest  and  most 
particular  care.  He  was  also  highly  regarded 
as  a  suburban  banker.  His  passing  has  taken 
from  Riverside  one  of  the  strongest  and  truest 
characters  that  it  has  known. 


WILLIAM  PATCH. 


William  Patch  was  born  at  London,  Ontario, 
Canada,  September  23,  1857.  He  was  a  son  of 
John  and  Charlotte  (Sanders)  Patch,  both  of 
whom  were  natives  of  Devonshire,  England. 
His  boyhood  was  largely  lived  at  Exeter, 
Ontario,  and  he  attended  both  public  and  pri- 
vate schools. 

He  left  his  home  when  he  was  still  a  boy 
and  went  to  work  as  an  apprentice  to  learn  the 
trade  of  furniture  maker.  He  mastered  the  pro- 
fession well,  and  worked  at  this  trade  for  some 
years,  first  in  Canada  and  later  in  the  United 
States  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  at  Chicago. 

He  was  an  expert  craftsman  and  he  began  to 
feel  that  he  was  justified  by  his  training  and 
experience  in  going  into  business  for  himself. 
He  began  the  manufacture  of  furniture  at  Chi- 
cago, in  June,  1882,  as  the  Patch  &  Balkwill 
Furniture  Company,  of  which  he  became  Presi- 
dent. The  business  began  in  a  small  way  and 
grew  under  wise  guidance,  and  by  close  ad- 
herence  to   the   fine  ideals  with   which  it  was 


founded,  into  one  of  the  most  important  con- 
cerns of  its  kind  in  Chicago. 

The  marriage  of  William  Patch  to  Miss 
Frances  L.  Clement  was  solemnized  August  17, 
1896.  Mrs.  Patch  is  a  daughter  of  William  and 
Mary  (Fletcher)  Clement  of  Paris,  Ontario,  Can- 
ada. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Patch  have  one  son,  Preston 
Clement  Patch. 

Mr.  Patch  was  a  valued  member  of  the  Illi- 
nois Furniture  Manufacturers  Association,  of 
the  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce,  and  was 
President  of  the  Chicago  Furniture  Manufac- 
turers Association.  He  also  belonged  to  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  to  the  Chicago  Athletic 
Association. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Patch  occurred  November 
23,  1926.  He  was  a  prominent  and  able  figure 
among  manufacturers  at  Chicago,  for  a  long 
time.  It  was  characteristic  of  him  to  have  a 
deep  enthusiasm  for  his  work  and  devotion  to 
it,  and  he  thoroughly  deserved  the  substantial 
success  that  he  attained. 


ISAAC  NEWTON  ALBRIGHT. 


The  late  Dr.  Isaac  Newton  Albright  of  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  was  born  in  the  town  of  New 
Salem,  Albany  County,  New  York,  on  December 
28,  1854.  His  parents  were  Jacob  and  Elizabeth 
(Reid)  Albright,  both  natives  of  New  York 
state. 

After  graduating  from  the  public  schools  near 
his  home,  he  determined  to  take  up  the  study  of 
medicine.  Accordingly  he  entered  Albany  Medi- 
cal College  at  Albany.  He  took  the  full  course 
of  study  there,  and  graduated  March  25,  1885. 
Soon  after  receiving  his  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine,  he  came  west  to  Chicago.  He  then 
underwent  further  training  as  a  post-graduate 
student  at  the  Illinois  Post  Graduate  Medical 
School  of  Chicago,  graduating  June  15,  1909. 

Being  thus  equipped  for  his  life  work,  he  en- 
tered upon  the  private  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion  at   Chicago,   opening   offices   on    the  West 


Side  of  the  city.  He  continued  in  practice  for 
over  thirty-three  consecutive  years,  right  up  to 
the  time  of  his  death.  Few  men  of  any  profes- 
sion have  given  so  great  a  measure  of  skill  and 
service  and  devotion  as  Doctor  Albright  gave  to 
the  community  in  which  he  lived  and  labored  so 
long. 

Doctor  Albright  died  on  March  22,  1925.  He 
is  survived  by  his  wife,  Eleanore  Baynes  Al- 
bright. Both  Doctor  Albright  and  his  wife  at- 
tended Grace  Reformed  Church.  The  expres- 
sions of  sorrow  following  Doctor  Albright's 
death  were  heartfelt  and  many.  He  brought 
great  good  into  the  lives  of  the  large  number 
of  families  he  attended.  He  was  much  loved 
because  of  his  own  fine  character,  and  because 
of  the  help  he  was  constantly  bestowing  in  time 
of  trouble,  over  a  period  comprising  nearly  three 
and  a  half  decades. 


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WILLIAM  COLIN  ROBINSON. 


William  Colin  Robinson,  of  Chicago,  has  re- 
cently been  called  by  death.  He  has  justly 
earned  the  respect  and  personal  regard  of  the 
people  who  knew  him  and  who  were  familiar 
with  his  life  work.  We  take  this  occasion  for 
comment  in  a  brief  biography  of  Mr.  Robin- 
son. 

William  Colin  Robinson  was  born  in  Bloom- 
ington,  Illinois,  on  April  27,  1868,  a  son  of 
Colin  and  Ann  (Eggleston)  Robinson,  who  were 
natives  of  Scotland  and  of  New  York  State 
respectively.  He  first  went  to  school  in  Bloom- 
ington  and  then  went  through  the  Chicago 
Manual  Training  School,  after  which  he  en- 
tered Cornell  University  but,  after  two  years 
there,  he  was  offered  the  position  to  which  he 
had  been  looking  forward  in  the  Chicago  Under- 
writers' Association.  Soon  thereafter  came  his 
association  with  Mr.  William  H.  Merrill  in  the 
conception  and  founding  of  the  Underwriters' 
Laboratories,  Inc.  The  Underwriters'  Labora- 
tories. Inc.,  a  corporation  chartered  November, 
1901,  by  the  state  of  Illinois,  is  authorized  to 
establish  and  maintain  laboratories  for  the  ex- 
amination and  testing  of  appliances  and  de- 
vices, and  to  enter  into  contracts  with  the  owners 
and  manufacturers  of  such  appliances  and  de- 
vices, respecting  the  recommendation  thereof  to 
insurance  organizations.  The  Underwriters' 
Laboratories,  Inc.,  was  established  and  is  main- 
tained by  the  National  Board  of  Fire  Under- 
writers, for  service,  not  profit.  The  object  of 
the  Underwriters'  Laboratories,  Inc.,  is  to  bring 
to  the  user  the  best  obtainable  opinion  on  the 
merits  of  appliances,  devices,  machines  and 
materials  in  respect  to  life,  fire  and  collision 
hazards,  and  theft  and  accident  prevention. 
The  work   is  undertaken  as  one  means  of  re- 


ducing the  enormous  and  disproportionate  loss 
of  life  and  porperty  by  fire  and  accident.  Its 
comprehensive  testing  equipment  and  corps  of 
experienced  engineers  afford  unequalled  facili- 
ties for  work  of  this  character.  The  long  ex- 
perience of  the  Laboratories  in  this  work,  and 
the  methods  employed  for  keeping  in  close  touch 
with  manufacturers,  users,  inspection  bureaus 
and  all  other  sources  of  practical  information 
have  resulted  in  the  general  recognition  of  its 
standards  and  recommendations.  Underwriters' 
Laboratories  of  Canada  was  formed  by  Under- 
writers' Lal>oratories,  In<-.,  of  Illinois,  U.  S.  A., 
for  the  purpose  of  carrying  forward  the  work 
in  Canada,  the  charter  being  granted  by  the 
Dominion  Government. 

During  the  period  of  nearly  twenty  years 
which  Mr.  Robinson  gave  to  this  work  as  vice 
president  and  as  chief  engineer  of  the  Under- 
writers' Laboratories,  Inc.,  his  influence  was 
very  marked  in  the  developments  through  which 
his  organization  has  passed.  His  whole  ability 
was  devoted,  with  absolute  earnestness,  to  this 
work ;  and  the  product  of  his  active  years  is 
indicated  in  the  tremendous  reduction  of  fire 
and  other  hazards  which  has  been  and  will  yet 
be,  brought  through  the  work  of  the  Under- 
writers' Laboratories,  Inc.  Mr.  Robinson  also 
served  as  vice  president  of  the  National  Fire 
Prevention  Association. 

Mr.  Robinson  was  married,  October  25,  1894, 
to  Maude  Heron,  the  daughter  of  Hugh  and 
Laura  (Gile)  Heron.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robinson 
have  two  sons,  Hugh  and  Paul  Robinson.  There 
were  three  daughters  who  are  deceased. 

William  Colin  Robinson  died  on  July  31,  1921. 
His  life  was  productive  of  a  very  sound  benefit 
to  a  great  number  of  people. 


JOHN  J.  SLOAN. 


John  J.  Sloan,  late  president  of  the  Board  of 
Local  Improvements  of  Chicago,  was  born  in 
that  city,  in  the  old  Holy  Family  parish,  Sep- 
tember 28,  1868.  His  parents  were  Frank  and 
Bridget  (Grogan)  Sloan.  As  a  boy  he  attended 
parochial  school  and  then  entered  St.  Patrick's 
School  at  Desplaines  and  Adams  streets.  Soon 
thereafter  he  chose  to  begin  to  work  for  his 
living;  and  for  the  ensuing  few  years  he  also 
attended  night  school  at  Armour's  Institute  of 
Technology. 


In  the  early  nineties  he  decided  to  go  west 
and  he  spent  about  two  years  mining  and  pros- 
pecting there,  after  which  period  he  returned  to 
Chicago. 

It  was  about  this  time  that  he  first  entered 
politics,  becoming  a  clerk  in  the  city's  Water 
and  Street  departments.  From  then  on,  until 
his  death,  he  took  an  active  and  beneficial  part 
in  political  affairs.  He  has  always  lived  on  the 
West  Side,  and  there  his  advice  soon  came  to 
be  sought  in  the  councils  of  the  party. 


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In  1899  he  was  appointed,  by  the  late  Mayor 
Carter  H.  Harrison,  as  Superintendent  of  the 
Bridewell  House  of  Correction.  Mr.  Sloan  re- 
mained at  the  head  of  this  large  Chicago  institu- 
tion for  about  seven  years.  Here  he  accom- 
plished a  great  deal  of  good  in  the  sound,  ef- 
fective and  economical  manner  of  his  direction 
of  the  organization  under  him,  and  in  the  per- 
sonal effect  that  his  own  work  had  in  rebuild- 
ing and  redirecting  the  lives  of  the  youths  of 
Chicago  who  came  under  his  influence  and  con- 
trol. Mr.  Sloan  resigned  from  the  superintend- 
ency  of  the  Bridewell  in  1905. 

Subsequently,  he  became  General  Manager  of 
the  Wisconsin  Granite  Company,  and  was  later 
elected  President,  filling  this  office  with  grati- 
fying success,  until  the  end  of  his  life. 

In  1923  Mayor  William  E.  Dever  selected  Mr. 
Sloan  for  the  very  important  post  of  President 
of  the  Board  of  Local  Improvements  for  the  City 
of  Chicago.  He  accepted  the  office  to  which 
lie  brought  a  full  sense  of  its  responsibilities 
coupled  with  a  wealth  of  experience.  He  was 
an  acknowledged  authority  on  road  building  and 


kindred  subjects.  The  physical  improvements 
of  our  great  city  which  have  been  completed 
under  his  direction  in  the  past  few  years  are 
monumental.  Of  these  improvements,  one  very 
valuable  achievement  was  the  completion  of 
Wacker  Drive. 

John  J.  Sloan  was  married  May  25,  1893,  to 
Miss  Margaret  Frederick  of  Chicago,  a  daughter 
of  Henry  F.  and  Margaret  (McLaughlin)  Fred- 
erick. They  had  two  children :  Lillian,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  ten ;  and  Loretta,  who  is  Mrs. 
William  A.  Armstrong. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Sloan  occurred  January  5, 
1927.  As  Superintendent  of  the  Bridewell  for 
nearly  a  decade,  he  came  to  be  known  through- 
out the  world  wherever  such  institutions  as 
our  great  school  of  correction  are  in  operation. 
As  President  of  the  Board  of  Local  Improve- 
ments, in  more  recent  years,  his  work  and  its 
results  are  unsurpassed.  The  expressions  of 
sympathy  and  regret  which  poured  in  following 
his  death  were  very  impressive.  He  rendered 
a  remarkable  service  to  the  City  of  Chicago. 


HARRY  BAIRD. 


The  late  Harry  Baird  of  Chicago  and  Oak 
Park,  Illinois,  was  born  July  13,  18G9,  in  Car- 
roll County,  Kentucky,  a  son  of  Joseph  and 
Louise  (Lawrence)  Baird,  both  natives  of  Vir- 
ginia. When  the  son  was  a  small  boy,  the 
family  moved  to  the  town  of  Bristol,  which  lies 
partly  in  Virginia  and  partly  in  Tennessee. 
Here  it  was  that  Harry  Baird's  boyhood  was 
spent  and  here  he  had  his  early  training,  in 
the  public  schools. 

As  he  grew  older  he  began  work  in  a  printing 
office  in  Bristol.  It  was  when  he  was  about 
twenty-one  that  he  came  to  Chicago.  At  that 
time  his  main  capital  consisted  of  his  experience 
at  the  printer's  trade.  He  worked  here  for  a 
time  as  a  compositor,  and  was  then  made  fore- 
man of  Lord  &  Thomas'  Chicago  printing  plant. 
Subsequently  he  became  foreman  of  the  printing 
establishment  operated  by  Mahin  Advertising 
Company. 

Mr.  Baird  remained  connected  with  Mahin 
Advertising  Company  until  1910.  On  May  1, 
of  that  year  he  founded  his  own  printing  busi- 
ness under  the  name  of  the  Baird  Printing  Com- 
pany. 

During  the  next  fifteen  years  Mr.  Baird  be- 


came a  prominent  figure  in  the  printing  business 
at  Chicago.  The  name  of  his  firm  was  later 
changed  to  the  Baird  Company ;  and  he  was 
President  of  this  concern  until  his  death. 

The  marriage  of  Harry  Baird  to  Miss  Grace 
Fickes  took  place  in  Chicago  on  July  17,  1900. 
He  and  his  wife  had  four  children  born  to 
them :  Grace  Virginia,  Mrytle  Winifred,  Laura 
May  and  Richard  Harry  Baird. 

In  1907  Mr.  Baird  and  his  family  established 
their  home  at  Oak  Park,  Illinois. 

Mr.  Baird  was  a  member  of  the  Pilgrim  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Oak  Park.  He  belonged 
to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  He 
was  also  a  prominent  Mason,  being  a  member  of 
Edward  Cook  Lodge  No.  1973,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. ; 
Siloam  Commandery,  K.  T. ;  Circle  Chapter,  R. 
A.  M.,  and  Medinah  Temple;  Victory  Chapter 
No.  810,  O.  E.  S. 

The  death  of  Harry  Baird  occurred  on  Novem- 
ber 25,  1924.  It  is  profitable  for  anyone  to  re- 
view the  record  of  such  a  life  as  Mr.  Baird's. 
He  came  to  Chicago  as  a  young  man  with  very 
few  advantages.  Through  hard,  capable  work, 
serious  thought  and  careful  saving  he  was  able, 
after  twenty  years,  to  found  the  business  which 
has  since  borne  his  name.     His  business  career 


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was  a  highly  successful  one,  and  well  earned. 
There    are    comparatively    few    men    connected 


with  Chicago's  great  printing  industry  to  whom 
such  a  large  measure  of  credit  is  due. 


FRANK  HOUGH  ARMSTRONG. 


Of  the  men  prominently  identified  with  the 
mercantile  interests  of  Chicago,  few  have  gained 
so  high  a  reputation  for  ability  and  fidelity 
as  has  Frank  H.  Armstrong,  the  late  presi- 
dent of  the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  Reid, 
Murdoch  &  Company.  He  was  active  in 
commercial  and  public  life  of  this  city  for 
forty-three  years,  and  his  career  was  an  ex- 
emplary one.  Although  he  never  aspired  to 
figure  before  the  public  in  other  than  a  business 
capacity,  he  possessed  comprehensive  knowledge 
along  many  lines,  and  his  services  were  fre- 
quently sought  in  matters  of  deep  importance. 
He  had  lived  in  Chicago  since  he  was  twenty 
years  of  age,  and  his  entire  business  career 
was  spent  in  the  wholesale  grocery  trade,  and 
few  men  of  the  country  have  had  such  a  thor- 
ough schooling  in  this  field  of  activity. 

Mr.  Armstrong  was  born  in  Wayne  County, 
Ohio,  July  27,  1853,  a  son  of  William  Black- 
burn and  Phebe  Ann  (Hough)  Armstrong.  He 
comes  of  a  long  line  of  early  American  ancestry 
of  Scotch-Irish  lineage,  which  dates  back  to 
the  colonial  period  in  the  country's  history,  and 
many  of  the  names  were  prominent  in  the  mili- 
tary and  municipal  affairs  of  the  country.  His 
father  was  a  descendant  of  the  Armstrong  fam- 
ily so  conspicuous  in  Revolutionary  times.  His 
earliest  American  ancestor  was  Samson  Arm- 
strong, who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  the 
north  of  Ireland,  settling  in  Allegheny  County, 
Pennsylvania.  Samson  Armstrong  was  the 
father  of  two  daughters  and  nineteen  sons.  The 
line  of  descent  is  then  traced  through  John  and 
Elizabeth  (McElroy)  Armstrong,  Andrew  and 
Rachel  (King)  Armstrong,  and  William  Black- 
burn and  Phebe  Ann  (Hough)  Armstrong  who 
were  the  parents  of  Frank  H.  Armstrong.  An- 
other of  his  ancestors,  Capt.  Daniel  Armstrong, 
fought  with  distinction  in  the  Revolutionary 
War. 

Descended  from  such  ancestors,  trained  by 
such  parents,  Frank  H.  Armstrong  displayed  in 
early  life  the  strong  impulses  and  acquired  the 
complete  self-control  which  have  so  distin- 
guished his  manhood.  The  family  removed  to 
Mount  Vernon,  Iowa,  when  he  was  a  child, 
and  his  education  was  obtained  in  the  schools 
of  that  place.     After  completing  his  course  in 


the  public  schools,  he  became  a  student  at  Cor- 
nell College,  which  institution  later  conferred 
on  him  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 
In  December,  1873,  he  came  to  Chicago  and  en- 
tered the  employe  of  the  retail  department,  Car- 
son, Pirie,  Scott  and  Company,  but  remained 
with  that  house  only  a  few  months. 

In  August,  1874,  Mr.  Armstrong  accepted  a 
position  in  the  sales  department  with  the  firm 
of  Reid,  Murdoch  and  Fischer,  and  in  1881  he 
was  given  a  profit  interest  in  the  firm.  In  1891 
when  its  successor,  Reid,  Murdoch  &  Company 
wholesale  grocers,  was  incorporated,  he  became 
secretary.  In  1909,  upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Mur- 
doch, Mr.  J.  J.  Dau,  the  senior  partner,  was 
made  president.  Mr.  Armstrong  was  made  vice- 
president,  and  filled  that  position  until  Janu- 
ary, 1914,  when  he  was  elected  president,  upon 
the  resignation  of  Mr.  Dau.  He  filled  this  po- 
sition with  the  same  spirit  of  thoroughness 
which  characterized  all  his  enterprises.  Be- 
sides his  connection  with  the  firm  of  Reid,  Mur- 
doch &  Company,  he  was  also  identified  with 
other  enterprises,  and  his  progressive  spirit  is 
evident  in  many  ways.  He  was  a  director  of 
the  Merchants  Loan  and  Trust  Company  of  Chi- 
cago, the  City  National  Bank  of  Evanston,  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital  of  Chicago,  and  also  an 
executive  committeeman  of  the  Evanston  Hos- 
pital Association,  trustee  of  Cornell  College, 
Mount  Vernon,  Iowa,  governing  member  of  the 
Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  and  a  member  of  the 
senior  council  of  the  Chicago  Association  of 
Commerce. 

The  great  wholesale  grocery  house  of  Reid, 
Murdoch  and  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Armstrong 
was  the  executive  head,  is  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  reliable  concerns  of  its  kind  in  the 
country,  and  a  just  portion  of  its  present  pros- 
perity and  popularity  is  due  to  his  faithfulness 
and  untiring  efforts. 

By  his  marriage  with  Miss  Blanche  Swingley 
of  Chicago,  Mr.  Armstrong  became  the  father 
of  one  son,  John.  He  also  had  a  son,  Horace 
White  Armstrong  by  a  former  wife,  who  suc- 
ceeds his  father  as  president  of  the  corporation. 
The  family  home  is  at  Evanston.  Mr.  Arm- 
strong had  many  warm  friends.  In  his  religious 
faith  he  was  a   Presbyterian  and  very  active. 


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He  was  identified  with  the  Commercial  Club, 
Chicago  Club,  City  Club,  Glen  View  Club  and 
the  Evanston  Country  Club.  He  was  one  of 
the  organizers  and  also  vice  president  of  the 
Sunday  Evening  Club,  and  a  member  of  the 
Committee  of  One  Hundred  on  the  Future  Plans 
of  Chicago. 

In  the  light  of  later  years  the  record  of  Mr. 
Armstrong's  early  ability  is  most  interesting 
and  significant,  for  never  was  a  man's  success 
due  more  to  his  own  native  ability  and  less  to 


outward  circumstances.  He  reaped  only  where 
he  sowed,  and  the  harvest  with  its  valued  after- 
math came  to  him  alone  through  energy,  indus- 
try and  perseverance.  He  reached  his  high 
standing  through  no  favors  of  influential  friends, 
but  worked  his  way  up  from  the  bottom  rung 
of  the  business  ladder,  by  marked  ability.  His 
achievements  are  the  merited  reward  of  earnest, 
honest  efforts.  Mr.  Armstrong  died,  February 
27,  1920. 


LEONARD  CLIFFORD  BORLAND. 


Dr.  Leonard  C.  Borland  was  born  in  Cook 
County,  Illinois,  on  May  25,  1862,  a  son  of  Dr. 
Matthew  W.  and  Emily  Ladd  (Robinson)  Bor- 
land. He  began  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Chicago,  and  he  later  graduated  from 
*iush  Medical  College.  He  then  took  two  years 
of  post  graduate  work  at  the  University  of 
Heidelberg  and  one  year  at  the  University  of 
Berlin,  Germany,  returning  to  America  in  1890. 

He  entered  that  same  year  into  general  prac- 
tice of  medicine  and  surgery  at  Chicago.  He 
continued  to  practice  here  throughout  all  the 
rest  of  his  life.  For  forty  consecutive  years  he 
■erved  the  people  who  needed  him,  as  friend, 
counsellor  and  doctor.  His  life  was  closely 
woven  into  the  hearts  of  a  large  circle  to  whom 
his  help  was  well-nigh  indispensable  for  two 
generations. 

He  was  Professor  of  Physiology,  Professor 
of  Nervous  Diseases  and  Professor  of  Nervous 
Anatomy  at  the  Chicago  College  of  Medicine 
and  Surgery.  He  was  Professor  and  was  Head 
of  the  Department  of  Anatomy  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Illinois  Medical  School  and  Dental 
School.     At  the  Chicago  College  of  Dental  Sur- 


gery he  was  Professor  of  Practical  Anatomy, 
Professor  of  Physiology  and  Professor  of  Phys- 
ical Diagnosis.  He  was  Professor  of  the  Prac- 
tice of  Medicine  at  Jenner  Medical  College.  He 
was  Associate  Professor  in  Gynecology  at  Chi- 
cago College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery.  He  was 
Medical  Director  of  the  School  and  Dispensary 
of  Physical  Therapy. 

In  1897  Doctor  Borland  was  married  at  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  to  Miss  Louisa  Marie  Ulscht. 
There  is  one  daughter  from  this  marriage,  Viola 
Louise.  Doctor  Borland  was  later  married  to 
Mrs.  Petrine  Wold,  on  September  21,  1906,  and 
they  have  one  son,  Leonard  C.  Borland,  Junior. 

Doctor  Borland's  work  as  a  physician,  surgeon 
and  educator  covers  the  years  from  1890  to 
1927.  His  life  was  characterized  by  its  kind- 
ness, its  understanding  and  charity.  He  was 
devoted  to  his  patients  and  beloved  by  his  pupils. 

The  death  of  Doctor  Borland  occurred  on 
March  27,  1928.  He  will  be  greatly  missed  for 
he  was  much  beloved  for  the  wealth  of  service 
that  filled  his  days  and  that  blessed  the  peo- 
ple to  whom  he  ministered  for  forty  years. 


ADDISON  BALLARD. 


Addison  Ballard  was  born  in  Salem  Township, 
Warren  County,  Ohio,  in  November,  1822.  His 
early  life  was  one  of  privation,  and  his  boy- 
hood was  passed  in  hard  labor  upon  the  farms 
along  the  Little  Miami  Valley.  For  sixteen 
hours  of  toilsome  drudgery  he  received  from 
$4  to  $10  per  month,  as  wages,  and  was  glad 
to  get  employment  on  those  terms.  His  parents 
were  Quakers,  and  with  his  inheritance  of  a 
strong  physical  constitution,  he  imbibed  from 
example  and  precept  the  religious  faith  and 
moral    uprightness    characteristic    of    the    sect. 


His  scholastic  education  was  confined  to  a  term 
of  sixty  days  in  a  log  schoolhouse,  for  which 
opportunity  of  eight  hours  per  day  in  school, 
he  worked  eight  hours  per  day  from  long  be- 
fore light  in  the  morning  until  late  in  the 
night,  and  the  whole  of  Saturdays,  for  his 
board.  This  school  attendance,  brief  as  it  was, 
was  of  great  advantage,  for  it  taught  him 
reading,  writing,  a  little  geography,  and  some 
knowledge  of  figures,  which  the  requirements 
of  business  in  later  years  perfected  into  educa- 
tion. 


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In  August,  1841,  when  he  was  nineteen  years 
old,  the  young  man  had  an  opportunity  to  go 
West,   to   Laporte,    Indiana,   where   he  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade.     He  hired  himself  to  a 
carpenter  at  $6  a  month  and  board,  and  spent 
a  little  more  than  a  year  in  work  at  the  bench. 
Late  the  next  fall  he  had  saved  enough  to  take 
him  back  to  his  home,  for  which  he  yearned, 
through  the  isolation  of  his  life,  and  a  feeling  of 
homesickness  not  uncommon  to  those  who  are 
separated  for  the  first  time  from  friends.     It 
was  needful,  however,  to  practice  the  strictest 
economy,   and   the  journey  was  made  on  foot. 
Arriving  there  he  attended  a  short  session  at 
the  log   schoolhouse,   and    then    went   to    work 
on  a   farm   until  he   had   saved   $10.     Joining 
then,    a   schoolmate   who   had   about   the   same 
amount    of    capital,    and    whose    father    had 
migrated  to  the  West  and  settled  on  the  Des- 
plaines  River,  some  sixteen  miles  northwest  of 
Chicago,   the  young  men  set  out  from   Cincin- 
nati,   paying   $5   for   fare    on    a    steamboat    to 
St.  Louis  and  $4  more  to  get  to  Peru,  Illinois. 
There  their  money  was  so  far  spent  that  they 
were  obliged  to  travel  on  foot  to  the  Desplaines 
River.    The  preceding  winter  had  been  a  stormy 
one,  with  deep  snows,  which,  under  the  warm 
April  sun,  melted  and  covered  the  prairie  with 
an  almost  continuous  sheet  of  water.    The  boys 
were  four  days  on  the  road,  wading  most  of 
the  way  through  water  and  slush.    There  were 
very  few  settlements;  at  long  distances  some 
farm  buildings  appeared  on  the  higher  ridges, 
surrounded  by  a  sea  of  water.     The  father  of 
young    Ballard's    companion    proposed    to    take 
the   travelers   to  Chicago   in   his   farm   wagon. 
At    Whisky    Point    the   horses   plunged    into    a 
slough,  and  wagon,  driver  and  passengers  were 
thrown  into  the  water.     Arriving  in   Chicago, 
they    found    the    streets    impassable.      Wagons 
were    stalled    on    Lake    street   and    abandoned. 
Sidewalks,    where    there   were    any,    were   like 
pontoons  spanning  the   sea   of  mud.     Chicago, 
as  seen  on  that  April  day  in  1S43,  had  no  at- 
tractions for  the  young  man  who  remembered 
the  dry  sand  hills  about  the  south  shore  of  the 
lake.     So,  bidding  good  bye  to  his  companion, 
and  swinging  his  worldly  goods,  done  up  in  a 
bandana    handkerchief,    over    his    shoulder,    he 
struck  out  on  foot  for  Michigan   City.     From 
Myrick's   tavern,   which   stood   about   Thirtieth 
street,  to  his  destination,  no  house  was  in  sight, 
except    at    the    mouth    of   the    Calumet    River. 
The  next  day  he  reached  Michigan   City,  and 


finding  some  farmers  who  had  brought  in  grain 
from  their  farms,  he  secured  permission  to 
ride  the  rest  of  the  way  to  Laporte,  Indiana, 
which  he  had  left  the  preceding  year.  There 
he  was  content  to  settle  down  and  work  at  his 
trade.  Gradually  he  worked  into  tne  business 
of  contractor  and  builder,  and  in  1847  and  1848 
built  a  courthouse  at  Laporte.  During  the 
seven  years  that  he  carried  on  contracting  at 
Laporte  he  often  visited  Chicago  to  buy  lum- 
ber and  hardware  and,  at  each  visit,  found  the 
city  more  attractive  than  it  had  been  before. 
He  applied  himself  to  his  business  with  untiring 
industry,  enjoyed  good  health,  and  with  self- 
sacrificing  economy  managed  to  lay  by  about 
$600. 

When  the  discovery  of  gold  in  California 
had  set  the  adventurous  young  men  of  the  East 
wild  to  dig  treasures  out  of  the  sands,  the  fever 
seized  Mr.  Ballard,  and  as  soon  as  he  could 
free  himself  from  his  contracts,  in  November, 
1849,  he  set  out  for  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  took 
his  carpenter's  tools  with  him,  and  worked  at 
his  trade,  at  first  at  Hangtown,  now  Placer- 
ville,  and  afterwards  at  Sacramento  and  in  its 
vicinity.  Sometimes  his  wages  were  an  ounce 
of  gold  a  day,  at  other  times  $10.  Finally  he 
took  contracts  and  put  up  a  number  of  build- 
ings. Mr.  Ballard  returned  from  California  to 
Laporte  in  1851  and  resumed  his  contracting 
business.  He  put  up  the  Garden  House  and 
several  brick  blocks. 

In  the  spring  of  1853  he  gave  up  his  busi- 
ness at  Laporte,  and  coming  to  Chicago  en- 
tered the  employment  of  Messrs.  Wilcox,  Lyon 
&  Co.,  who  had  a  lumber  yard  just  south  of 
the  Van  Buren  street  bridge.  In  1856,  he  bought 
an  interest  in  a  sash,  door  and  blind  factory 
and  planing  mill  on  Market  and  Taylor  streets, 
and  in  connection  with  it  took  building  con- 
tracts. In  1861,  he  went  into  the  lumber  busi- 
ness on  his  own  account,  having  a  yard  on  the 
corner  of  Market  and  Monroe  streets. 

On  March  7,  1861,  Mr.  Ballard  married  Miss 
Catherine  Miller.  There  were  two  daughters, 
Bertha,  who  married  Carl  D.  Bradley  Octo- 
ber 27,  1886,  and  who  died  October  6,  1887, 
and  Mary,  who  married  William  M.  Derby,  Jr., 
March  7,  1892. 

Mr.  Ballard  had  become  greatly  interested  in 
the  lumber  business,  and  accumulated  consid- 
erable property,  when  the  Great  Fire  of  1871 
arrested  his  operations,  and  consumed  in  one 
night  the  structures  that  he  had  erected,  and 


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the  stock  that  he  had  gatnered  by  years  of 
industry.  Not  only  so,  but  the  insurance  com- 
panies that  he  was  insured  in  went  up  with 
the  smoke  of  the  conflagration.  After  the 
smoke  had  lifted  and  the  ground  been  cleared 
off,  the  sufferers  began  to  look  around  them  and 
take  an  inventory  of  the  situation.  The 
calamity  was  on  so  stupendous  a  scale  that 
few  seemed  to  realize  its  magnitude.  With 
courage  inspired  by  their  experience  in  the 
past,  while  building  up  the  city,  the  sufferers, 
with  a  simultaneous  resolution  undertook  to 
put  Chicago  back  again.  They  were  proceeding 
with  the  work  with  unexpected  success,  when, 
before  enterprises  undertaken  with  courage 
were  completed,  and  while  structures  erected 
were  unoccupied,  the  panic  of  1873  overwhelmed 
them  in  a  new  and  to  many  a  worse  disaster. 
Mr.  Ballard  considered  this  a  worse  calamity 
than  the  fire,  for  its  ravages  were  long  in  work- 
ing out  their  results.  Many  under  the  burdeD 
of  debts  and  mortgages  were  unable  to  carry 
out  their  enterprises  and  were  compelled  to 
surrender  to  others  the  fruit  of  their  long  years 
of  sacrifice  and  labor.  The  inexorable  de- 
mands of  usurers  devoured  the  substance  of 
many. 

After  recovering  somewhat  from  the  losses 
of  the  fire  and  the  panic,  Mr.  Ballard  re-en- 
gaged in  the  lumber   business,    having   a   yard 


on  Fifth  Avenue  between  Polk  and  Harrison 
Streets.  For  more  than  a  generation  he  lived 
on  Michigan  Avenue  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Harrison  Street,  and  it  was  as  an  alderman 
from  the  old  Second  Ward  that  he  was  elected 
to  the  Reform  Council  of  1876.  At  that  time 
the  City  was  on  the  verge  of  bankruptcy. 
Mr.  Ballard,  D.  K.  Pearsons,  Gen.  J.  L. 
Thompson,  A.  S.  Throop  and  James  H.  Gilbert 
led  the  reform  movement  which  rescued  the 
municipality  from  its  financial  distress.  He 
continued  his  business  until  1887,  when  hav- 
ing retrieved  his  losses,  he  closed  out  his  stock 
and  retired  from  the  trade.  In  1894  he  moved 
to  Hyde  Park  and  served  a  term  in  the  council 
from  1894  to  1896,  and  later  served  two  terms 
as   County    Commissioner. 

He  retained  his  birthright  in  the  Quaker 
Church  but  united  with  the  First  Presbyte- 
rian Church  and  served  as  deacon  and  elder 
for   many   years. 

He  was  a  Trustee  of  Berea  College,  Berea, 
Kentucky,  and  President  of  the  California 
Pioneers'    Association    of    Chicago. 

He  died  June  28,  1905.  His  wife  survived 
him,  also  his  daughter,  Mrs.  William  M.  Derby, 
Jr.,  and  three  grandchildren,  Dorothy  Derby, 
William  Ballard  Derby  and  Addison  Ballard 
Bradley. 


HUGH  ANDERSON. 


Hugh  Anderson  was  born  in  New  York  City 
on  February  4,  1839,  a  son  of  William  and 
Sarah  (MacNeil)  Anderson,  natives  of  Aber- 
deen, Fifeshire,  Scotland,  and  of  Belfast,  Ire- 
land, respectively. 

The  parents  came  to  America  soon  after  their 
marriage,  and  located  in  New  York  City.  Soon 
thereafter  they  removed  to  East  Albany,  New 
York,  which  place  was  then  known  as  Green- 
bush. 

Here  the  first  sixteen  years  of  Hugh  Ander- 
son's life  were  passed.  He  attended  Albany 
High  school,  then  his  parents  wished  him  to  en- 
ter college ;  but  he  was  anxious  to  get  into 
business.  Accordingly  he  went  to  work  in  the 
general  store  owned  by  Mr.  William  H.  Her- 
rick  in  Greenbush.  There  he  was  clerk  for  a 
time.  In  a  few  years  Mr.  Herrick  moved  to 
Oswego,  New  York,  where  he  owned  a  grain 
elevator.  Hugh  Anderson  went  with  him  as 
his  private,   confidential   secretary ;    and   made 


his  home  there  with  the  Herrick  family  until 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War. 

On  August  12,  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private 
in  Company  B  of  "The  Oswego  Boys,"  New  York 
Volunteer  Infantry.  He  soon  earned  a  commis- 
sion as  Second  Lieutenant  and  was  made  First 
Lieutenant  on  November  15,  1861.  On  July  27, 
1862,  he  was  promoted  to  become  Captain  of 
Company  G ;  and  he  served,  with  notable 
bravery  and  distinction,  in  this  organization 
until  the  close  of  the  war. 

At  the  time  he  was  mustered  out  of  service, 
in  April,  1865,  only  forty-four  of  the  original 
members  of  his  regiment  answered  to  the  call 
of  their  names.  The  regiment  had  suffered 
great  casualties;  as  an  example,  twenty-four 
officers  and  275  men  went  down  under  the  rain 
of  the  enemies'  bullets  at  the  battle  of  Cold 
Harbor. 

Captain  Anderson  received  serious  wounds  in 
several  battles.     In  the  Battle  of  Cold  Harbor 


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he  was  first  wounded  in  the  neck,  then  in  the 
ankle,  and  then  was  shot  through  his  thigh  and 
disabled.  He  managed  to  crawl  to  the  partial 
shelter  of  a  nearby  bush  where  he  lay,  right  in 
the  midst  of  the  enemy  fire,  until  he  was 
rescued.  He  was  brevetted  Major,  in  June, 
1864,  by  Governor  Fenton  of  New  York,  for 
his  gallant  service  at  Cold  Harbor.  Major  An- 
derson's war  service  embraces  the  period  be- 
tween August  12,  1861,  and  December  22,  1864. 
He  and  his  command  fought  through  many  of 
the  most  terrific  battles  of  the  war.  He  took 
part  in  the  following  most  important  engage- 
ments ;  the  Peninsular  Campaign,  Siege  of  York- 
town,  battles  of  Williamsburg,  Bottom's  Bridge, 
Savage  Station,  Fair  Oaks,  Seven  Pines,  Fort 
Harrison,  Drury  Bluffs  and  Cold  Harbor  and 
in  the  attacks  upon  Charleston,  Petersburg  and 
Richmond.    His  record  is  a  most  honorable  one. 

After  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  his 
home  in  New  York  State.  He  was  married  on 
January  18,  1865,  at  Jordon,  Onondaga  County, 
New  York,  to  his  fiancee,  Miss  Hannah  Louisa 
Peirce,  only  daughter  of  Lieut.  Col.  Oliver  Beale 
Peirce. 

It  was  Colonel  Peirce  who  raised  the  troops 
in  Oneida  County,  New  York,  at  the  beginning 
of  the  War,  who  formed  the  seven  companies 
that  formed  "The  Mohawk  Boys."  These  troops 
were  consolidated  with  the  nine  companies  of 
"The  Oswego  Boys"  to  form  the  famous  "Mo- 
hawk Rangers,"  the  Eighty-first  New  York  Vol- 
unteer Infantry  Regiment.  Captain  Hugh  An- 
derson commanded  Company  G  of  this  regiment 
all  through  the  great  struggle.  It  should  be  re- 
corded here  that  Captain  Anderson  and  his  com- 
pany were  the  first  to  place  the  Union  flag  on 
Fort  Harrison,  in  the  important  engagement 
there.  The  flag  was  soon  torn  to  shreds  by  bul- 
lets.   In  memory  of  this  company's  heroic  action 


the  United  States  government  later  had  a  new 
flag  made  at  Tiffany's,  on  which  was  embossed 
in  gold  letters  the  names  of  all  the  battles  in 
which  Company  G  took  part.  After  the  War 
Mr.  Anderson  had  this  flag  in  his  possession 
until  the  government  collected  all  flags  that 
had  been  in  the  War  and  enshrined  them  in 
the  capitol  at  Washington,  D.  C.  A  large  pic- 
ture of  this  famous  flag,  with  Captain  Hugh 
Anderson  standing  beside  it,  is  placed  in  the 
Entrance  Hall  of  the  Capitol  Building  at  Al- 
bany, New  York. 

Mr.  Anderson  and  his  wife  lived  at  Oswego, 
New  York,  for  some  time  after  their  marriage. 
Here  their  two  children,  Mary  Louise  and  Peirce 
Anderson  were  born.  In  1871  he  and  his  family 
moved  to  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  There  he 
opened  the  first  insurance  office  in  that  section. 
For  thirty-seven  years  he  represented  practi- 
cally all  of  the  large  insurance  companies  of 
the  United  States. 

In  1908  Mr.  Anderson  retired  from  business 
and  he  and  his  wife  and  daughter  came  to 
Chicago  to  be  with  his  only  son,  Peirce  Ander- 
son, the  noted  architect. 

Mr.  Anderson  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Mt.  Moriah  Masonic  Lodge  and  of  the  Alta  Club, 
both  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  also  belonged  to 
the  Loyal  Legion ;  to  the  California  Com- 
mandery  and  to  George  H.  Thomas  Post  No.  5 
(Chicago),  Department  of  Illinois,  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Hugh  Anderson  occurred 
on  December  31,  1911,  in  his  seventy-third  year. 
His  long  and  successful  business  career,  his  de- 
voted service  to  his  country  and  his  fine  and  un- 
blemished character  unite  to  make  the  history 
of  his  life  a  very  distinguished  record.  In  an 
eulogy  it  was  said  "Here  lies  a  man  and  a  sol- 
dier, who  always  did  his  duty." 


PEIECE  ANDERSON. 


The  late  Peirce  Anderson,  of  Chicago,  was  one 
of  the  truly  great  architects  of  his  generation. 

He  was  born  in  Oswego,  New  York,  on  Febru- 
ary 20,  1870,  a  son  of  Hugh  and  Hannah  Louisa 
(Peirce)  Anderson.  He  received  his  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts  from  Harvard  University  in 
1892.  Then  he  entered  Johns  Hopkins  Univer- 
sity, and  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of 
Electrical  Engineer  in  1894.  He  went  abroad 
for  his  post-graduate  work  and  studied  at  the 
Ecole  des  Beaux-Arts,  in  Paris.     Here  he  re- 


ceived the  first  government  medal,  of  the  First 
Class  (architecte  diplome  par  legouvernement), 
ever  to  be  conferred  upon  an  American  student 
in  architecture.     This  was  in  1900. 

In  1901  Mr.  Anderson  came  to  Chicago  and 
joined  D.  H.  Burnham  &  Company,  Architects. 
He  remained  with  this  firm,  and  its  successors, 
until  his  death.  From  1917  to  his  death  he 
was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Graham,  Ander- 
son, Probst  &  White. 

A  review  of  Mr.  Anderson's  very  remarkable 


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work  in  his  profession,  includes  the  fact  that  he 
designed  or  supervised  the  design  of  the 
Field  Museum,  Marshall  Field  Annex,  the 
Continental  and  Commercial  Bank  Building, 
the  Peoples  Gas  Building,  the  Kimball  Build- 
in,  the  Wrigley  Building,  the  Illinois  Mer- 
chants Bank  Building,  the  Straus  Building, 
the  new  Union  Station,  and  others,  all  in 
Chicago.  The  list  also  includes,  among 
others,  the  Federal  Reserve  Banks  at  Chi- 
cago, Kansas  City,  Missouri,  and  Dallas, 
Texas,  and  a  branch  of  the  Federal  Reserve 
Bank  of  Kansas  City  at  Oklahoma  City,  Okla- 
homa, the  United  States  Post  Office  at  Washing- 
ton, District  of  Columbia,  the  Union  Station  at 
Washington  and  the  Columbus  Memorial  foun- 
tain which  stands  in  front  of  it,  the  Union  Trust 
Building  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  the  First  National 
Bank  at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  David  Whitney 
Building  and  Ford  Building  at  Detroit,  Michi- 
gan, the  Continental  Trust  Building  in  Balti- 
more, Maryland,  the  Frick  Building  and  Annex 
in  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  Wm.  Filene's 
Sons  Co.  store  in  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  Anderson  stands  as  one  of  the  most  noted 
designers  that  the  profession  of  architecture  in 
America  has  produced.  Recognitions,  in  many 
forms,  came  to  him.  The  one  which  perhaps 
he    cherished    most    was    his    appointment    by 


President  Taft  as  a  member  of  the  Fine  Arts 
Commission,  succeeding  Mr.  Daniel  Hudson 
Burnham  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1912. 

Mr.  Anderson  loved  Chicago  and  he  always 
visioned  it  as  it  will  be  years  hence,  one  of  the 
greatest  and  most  beautiful  cities  of  the  world. 
Many  of  the  hopes  he  wished  to  see  realized 
that  this  end  might  be  reached,  he,  with  his  own 
hands,  brought  into  actual  being. 

Mr.  Anderson  was  a  member  of  the  Archi- 
tectural League,  the  National  Sculptors  Society, 
the  American  Painters;  and  he  also  belonged 
to  the  Chicago  Club,  the  Casino  Club,  the  Chi- 
cago Commonwealth  Club,  Cliff  Dwellers,  the 
Engineers'  Club,  Glen  View  Golf  Club,  the  Har- 
vard Club  and  the  University  Club  of  Chicago. 

Mr.  Anderson  died  on  February  10,  1924. 
His  going  has  taken  from  Illinois  one  of  her 
most  able  men.  He  was  as  thoroughly  enjoyed 
as  a  friend  as  he  was  respected  for  his  dis- 
tinguished ability.  His  high  ideals  will  have 
an  enduring  effect  on  the  life  of  his  associates, 
and  his  kindly  and  winning  spirit  will  ever 
continue  to  animate  his  friends. 

His  home  has  been  in  Chicago  for  more  than 
twenty  years.  He  never  married.  He  left  sur- 
viving him,  his  mother  and  his  sister,  Miss  Mary 
Louise  Anderson. 


GEORGE  EVERETT  ADAMS. 


The  late  George  Everett  Adams  was  a  man 
to  whom  his  fellow  citizens  always  pointed 
with  pride  as  one  of  the  most  representative 
men  of  Chicago  and  his  times.  He  never  failed 
to  live  up  to  the  highest  expectations  of  his  as- 
sociates, and  when  he  died,  his  community  and 
state  lost  one  of  the  wisest  and  most  genuinely 
patriotic  of  men. 

Mr.  Adams  was  born  in  Keene,  Cheshire 
County,  N.  H.,  June  IS,  1S40,  a  son  of  Benjamin 
F.  and  Louise  R.  (Redington)  Adams,  and  he 
fully  exemplified  the  loyal  enterprising  char- 
acter for  which  the  people  of  the  Granite  State 
have  always  been  noted.  He  came  of  good 
old  New  England  families  which  date  back 
to  the  Colonial  epoch  in  American  history.  The 
Adams  family  is  distinctively  American  in  both 
lineal  and  collateral  lines,  and  many  of  the  name 
have  been  prominent  in  military,  municipal  and 
educational  affairs  of  the  Nation.  In  direct  line 
Mr.  Adams  was  descended  from  William  Adams, 
who  settled  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1628,  and 


removed  to  Ipswich,  in  the  same  state,  in  1642. 
His  father,  Benjamin  F.  Adams,  had  visited 
Chicago  as  early  as  the  year  1835.  He  pur- 
chased land  In  and  near  the  site  of  the  now 
great  metropolis,  and  in  1853,  removed  with 
his  family  to  this  city.  George  Everett  Adams 
was  favored  by  all  the  advantages  of  a  liberal 
education,  and  proved  himself  a  thorough  stu- 
dent. After  attending  school  in  Keene,  his 
native  town,  he  passed  on  to  Phillips  Academy, 
at  Exeter,  then,  as  now,  recognized  as  one  of 
the  best  preparatory  schools  in  the  country. 
Here  he  prepared  for  college,  and  then  entered 
Harvard  University,  from  which  institution  he 
was  graduated  in  1860,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B. 
He  entered  the  military  service  of  his  coun- 
try in  the  Ciwi1  War.  He  became  a  member  of 
Battery  A,  Illinois  Artillery,  and  for  a  time 
served  as  a  brave  and  fearless  soldier  in  defense 
of  the  Union.  Having  determined  upon  the 
practice  of  law  as  a  life  work,  he  later  matric- 
ulated at  the  famous  Dane  Law  School    (Har 


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vard  University),  and  received  his  LL.  B.  de- 
gree from  that  institution  in  I860.  Soon  after 
his  admission  to  the  bar  he  established  himself 
in  the  practice  of  law  at  Chicago  and  continued 
in  active  practice  until  elected  to  the  State 
Senate  in  1SS1.  He  was  a  member  of  the  upper 
house,  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Illinois  in  the 
session  of  1881-82.  but  resigned  on  his  nomina- 
tion for  Congress  in  the  latter  year.  He  was 
triumphantly  elected  to  that  office,  and  took  his 
seat  in  March,  1883.  He  represented  his  con- 
gressional district  for  four  consecutive  terms, 
retiring  in  1S91,  holding  places  on  such  im- 
portant committees  as  those  on  banking,  cur- 
rency and  judiciary.  He  gained  a  wide  repu- 
tation as  an  authority  on  questions  of  finance, 
and  in  every  way  proved  himself  a  man  of  po- 
litical wisdom,  who  stood  the  acid  test  for  ef- 
ficiency and  loyalty. 

Few  men  have  served  in  the  Illinois  legisla- 
ture who  so  quickly  established  a  reputation 
so  broad  and  striking,  and  as  the  supporter  of 
all  movements  having  their  root  in  unselfish 
devotion  to  the  best  interests  of  the  country 
and  people,  the  late  Hon.  George  Everett  Adams 
has  left  an  indelible  impression  upon  the  his- 
tory of  his  state.  He  was  a  man  of  great 
mental  capacity  and  much  force  of  character, 
and  belonged  to  that  class  who  wield  a  power 
both  at  home  and  abroad.  Of  strong  convic- 
tions regarding  right  and  wrong,  he  was  un- 
faltering in  his  opposition  to  a  course  which  he 
deemed  inimical  to  the  best  interests  of  the 
country,  and  was  entirely  fearless  of  criticism 
and  public  opinion  when  he  believed  he  was 
right.  A  man  of  unusual  public  spirit,  inter- 
ested in  local  affairs  and  proud  of  the  city  in 
which  much  of  his  activities  and  mature  man- 
hood were  passed,  he  was  a  strong  factor  in 
the  furtherance  of  any  measure  which  had  for 
its  aim  the  advancement  of  the  people  or  the 
betterment  of  existing  conditions.  In  both  po- 
litical and  philanthropic  activities,  his  efforts 
contributed  materially  to  the  betterment  of 
the  country,  and  in  the  promotion  of  charitable 
movements,  and  all  matters  tending  to  the 
public  good,  he  was  an  active  and  unostenta- 
tious worker. 

During  his  long  service  in  Congress  Mr. 
Adams  was  ever  recognized  as  a  man  of  high 
ideals,  and  his  opinions  had  great  weight  with 
his  fellow  legislators.  He  made  many  speeches 
against  free  silver  in  the  great  debates  of  1896, 
and  gained  wide  notoriety  for  the  decided  stand 


he  took  on  that  issue.  He  also  took  an  active 
interest  in  the  navy ;  in  the  Nicaragua  Canal 
project,  and  in  rivers  and  harbors,  especially  in 
matters  pertaining  to  the  harbors  of  the  Great 
Lakes.  Always  a  stalwart  Republican,  he  was 
one  of  the  first  to  enter  actively  into  William 
McKinley's  presidential  campaign.  He  was  one 
of  the  speakers  at  the  first  big  McKinley  meet- 
ings in  Illinois  and  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  McKinley  Club.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  overseers  of  Harvard  University  from 
1892  to  1904,  for  many  years  was  a  trustee  of 
the  Newberry  Library,  and  also  of  the  Field  Co- 
lumbian Museum.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  board  of  education  and  for  sev- 
eral years  was  president  of  the  Chicago  Or- 
chestral Association.  Ha  was  a  director 
in  several  commercial  enterprises,  and  his  pro- 
gressive spirit  was  evident  in  many  ways. 
There  was  perhaps  no  movement  of  vital  im- 
portance to  the  city  with  which  he  was  not 
concerned  as  an  active  factor  in  his  support 
of  or  opposition  to,  as  the  case  might  be,  for 
he  was  as  strong  in  his  denouncement  of  a 
measure  which  he  believed  inimical  to  the  best 
interests  of  the  city  as  he  was  firm  in  his 
allegiance  when  he  believed  that  the  interests 
of  the  city  would  be  promoted  thereby.  It  is 
to  the  activity  and  public  spirit  of  such  men 
that  Chicago  owes  its  moral  education  and 
commercial  growth,  and  their  loss  is  not  easily 
forgotten. 

Coming  here  when  a  boy  of  thirteen,  he 
grew  up  with  the  city  during  the  period  of  its 
most  marvelous  development,  and  became  one  of 
the  city's  substantial  and  most  valued  citizens. 
Although  quiet  and  unassuming  in  manner,  he 
had  hosts  of  warm  friends,  and  his  home  was 
always  a  hospitable  one  where  good  cheer 
abounded.  His  freedom  from  ostentation  or 
display  was  the  very  essence  of  simplicity,  but 
the  honor  and  prominence  which  he  did  not 
demand  for  himself  came  to  him  as  the  free 
will  offering  of  those  among  whom  he  labored. 
He  was  quick  to  note  the  needs  of  his  fellow- 
men  and,  while  he  did  not  believe  in  an  in- 
discriminate giving  which  promotes  vagrancy 
and  idleness,  there  are  few  men  who  realized 
more  fully  or  met  with  greater  readiness  the 
responsibilities  of  wealth.  On  November  30, 
1871,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Adele  Foster,  of  Chicago,  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  four  children :  Franklin  E.,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  fourteen ;   Isabel  F.,  who  is  the 


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widow  of  the  late  Mason  Bross,  of  Chicago ; 
Marion,  who  died  in  infancy :  and  Margaret, 
who  is  the  wife  of  George  E.  Clement,  of 
Peterboro,  N.  H.  For  more  than  forty-five 
years  this  worthy  couple  traveled  life's  journey 
happily  together  and  were  not  long  separated 
by  death,  Mrs.  Adams  having  passed  to  the 
great  unknown  only  five  months  before  her 
husband.  She  was  a  woman  of  much  beauty 
of  character,  and  was  greatly  admired  for  her 
sterling  qualities  and  social  and  philanthropic 
activities.  Her  life  was  actuated  by  high  ideals 
and  spent  in  close  conformity  therewith ;  her 
teachings  and  her  example  were  ever  an  in- 
spiring force  in  the  world,  and  her  kind  heart 
and  sympathetic  nature  brought  people  to  her 
in  the  ties  of  strong  friendship.  She  always 
enjoyed  the  fullest  measure  of  her  husband's 
confidence  and  wTas  closely  associated  with  him 
in  their  labors  for  furthering  useful,  helpful 
and  elevating  institutions.  Mr.  Adams  was  a 
member  of  many  of  the  most  notable  clubs  and 
societies  of  the  city,  among  which  were  the 
Chicago,  Union  League,  University,  Onwentsia 
and    Harvard    Clubs.      Although    prominent    in 


social  circles,  he  was  devoted  to  the  pleasures 
of  home  life,  and  his  happiest  moments  were 
always  spent  at  his  own  fireside.  He  found 
pleasure  in  promoting  the  welfare  of  his  fam- 
ily, and  was  a  kind  and  indulgent  husband  and 
father.  In  professional  and  political  life  he 
was  alert,  sagacious  and  reliable ;  as  a  citizen 
he  was  honorable,  prompt  and  true  to  every 
engagement,  and  his  death,  which  occurred  Oc- 
tober 5,  1917,  removed  from  Chicago,  one  of  its 
most  worthy  citizens. 

In  his  life  were  the  elements  of  greatness 
because  of  the  use  he  made  of  his  talents  and 
opportunities,  and  because  his  thoughts  were 
not  self-centered  but  were  given  to  the  mastery 
of  life's  problems  and  the  fulfillment  of  his  duty 
as  a  man  in  his  relations  to  his  fellowmen,  and 
as  a  citizen  in  his  relation  to  his  country.  The 
originality  and  profound  grasp  of  his  intellect 
command  respect,  and  yet  these  were  not  all 
of  the  man.  In  every  relation  of  life  was 
shown  the  light  that  comes  from  justness,  gen- 
erosity, truth,  high  sense  of  honor,  proper  re- 
spect for  self  and  a  sensitive  thoughtfulness 
for  others. 


WILLIAM  C.  COMSTOCK 


William  C.  Comstock  was  born  at  Oswego, 
New  York,  October  22,  1847,  a  son  of  Charles 
and  Julia  Sprague  Comstock. 

His  father  was  for  more  than  thirty  years  a 
distinguished  resident  of  Evanston,  Illinois.  He 
was  born  at  Camden,  New  York,  in  1814.  He 
came  to  Chicago  in  1861,  as  western  agent  for 
the  Onandaga  Salt  Company,  of  Syracuse,  New 
York,  in  which  company  he  was  a  stockholder. 
He  was  one  of  the  early  members  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Trade.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  Saint  Mark's  Episcopal  Church,  Evanston,  in 
1864,  and  was  Senior  Warden  there  for  thirty- 
one  years.  He  was  President,  also,  of  the  Trad- 
ers' Insurance  Company ;  and  was  a  Director 
in  several  Chicago  Banks.  He  was  a  brother  of 
the  late  Judge  George  F.  Comstock  of  the  New 
York  Court  of  Appeals.  In  every  way  Mr. 
Charles  Comstock  was  a  fine  type  of  Christian 
gentleman.  He  established  his  home  at  Evan- 
ston, 111.,  in  1861 ;  and  died  there  in  1895. 

William  C.  Comstock,  after  completing  his 
studies  in  a  preparatory  school,  entered  North- 
western University.  He  graduated,  in  1867, 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  Three 
years  later  he  received  his  Master's  degree. 


He  then  joined  his  father  in  business,  and, 
after  some  years  of  this  association  he  founded 
his  own  business.  He  was  prominent  in  Board 
of  Trade  operations  from  1868. 

For  forty  years,  Mr.  Comstock  spent  much  of 
his  time  in  Florida.  He  was  deeply  interested 
in  the  development  of  that  state;  and  he  did 
much  to  further  its  advancement.  He  main- 
tained his  home  at  Winter  Park.  He  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  Rollins  College  there  and 
was  a  great  benefactor  to  this  institution.  He 
was  one  of  the  principal  organizers  of  the  Win- 
ter Park  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

In  September,  of  1868,  Mr.  Comstock  was 
married,  at  Evanston,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Eleanora 
K.  Douglas.    Mrs.  Comstock  died  in  June,  1902. 

For  years  he  was  a  member  of  Saint  Mark's 
Episcopal  Church,  Evanston,  being  most  active 
and  helpful  and  singing  in  the  choir.  In 
Florida,  he  was  deeply  interested  in  All  Saints' 
Parish,  Winter  Park. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Club,  and 
the  Chicago  and  Edgewater  Golf  clubs,  and  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of  the  Art 
Institute  of  Chicago. 

William  C.  Comstock  died  on  September  29, 


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CHARLES  COMSTOCK 


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HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


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1924.  in  his  seventy-seventh  year.     He  was  be-       character 
loved   as  a   friend  and    was  respected   for   his       known. 


and    his    works    wherever    he    was 


GEORGE  W.  WHITEFIELD. 


George  W.  Whitefield  was  horn  at  Northamp- 
ton, Massachusetts,  September  30,  1855,  son  of 
John  and  Martha  (Kemp)  Whitefield.  He  is  a 
descendant  of  the  Rev.  George  Whitefield,  the 
noted  English  Methodist  evangelist.  The  White- 
field  family  have  lived  in  County  Dorset,  Eng- 
land, since  the  sixteenth  century. 

George  W.  Whitefield  came  with  his  family  to 
Aurora.  Illinois,  in  his  boyhood,  and  there  re- 
ceived his  grammar  and  high  school  training. 
He  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Dental  Sur- 
gery from  the  Chicago  Dental  College  in  1885, 
and  that  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  from  Rush  Med- 
ical College  in  1886. 

Dr.  Whitefield  devoted  most  of  the  years  of  his 
long  life  to  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
Evanston,  111. 

He  held  the  chair  of  dental  pathology  in  the 
American  Dental  College,  that  of  electrical  thera- 
peutics in  the  dental  department  of  Northwestern 
University,  and  for  some  time  was  aural  sur- 
geon at  the  Protestant  Orphan  Asylum.  He  was 
assistant  surgeon  under  the  celebrated  late  Dr. 
Gunn. 

Dr.  Whitefield  invented  a  number  of  important 
instruments  now  in  general  use  in  electrotherapy. 
He  was  a  delegate  to  the  ninth  International 
Medical  Congress.  His  more  important  pub- 
lished articles  were:  A  paper  known  as  "Sen- 
sation," read  some  thirty-five  years  ago  before 
the  Washington  Dental  Congress  and  one  on 
''Soft  Teeth  and  Galvanic  Action  Between  Gold 
and  Baser  Metals"  and  "Conservative  Methods 
of  treatment  of  Fractures  of  the  Anterior  Teeth," 
which  was  read  before  the  World's  Columbian 
Dental  Congress  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  August  17- 
18.  1893.  Dr.  Whitefield  was  a  member  of  the 
North  Shore  Dental  Society  and  the  Chicago 
Dental  Society. 


Dr.  Whitefield  lived  for  some  years  in  the 
South.  He  was  vice-president  of  the  American 
Fruit  and  Transportation  Company,  and  a  di- 
rector of  the  Rio  Bonito  Company.  One  of  his 
interesting  and  successful  experiments  came  as 
a  result  of  his  residence  in  Daytona.  Florida,  in 
1907,  where  he  became  interested  in  the  growing 
of  thin-shelled  pecans.  Because  he  liked  them 
so  well  he  believed  there  would  be  a  large  mar- 
ket for  them.  He  determined  to  try  out  a  plan 
of  growing  an  orchard  on  a  Southern  plantation 
and  selected  forty  acres  in  Yazoo  County, 
twenty  miles  from  Yazoo  City,  Mississippi.  Be- 
cause hickory  nuts  grew  well  there,  he  assumed 
pecans  would  also  thrive.  He  then  entered  the 
employ  of  a  nursery  man  in  south  Mississippi 
and  learned  in  detail  the  care  of  trees,  working 
right  along  with  the  Swedish  day  laborers.  He 
then  purchased  fifty  additional  acres  and  started 
his  orchard.  The  results  that  he  eventually  at- 
tained were  very  gratifying.  Dr.  Whitefield,  in 
this  way,  not  only  gave  himself  profit  and  great 
pleasure,  for  he  much  enjoyed  working  out-of- 
doors  ;  but  he  suggested  to  a  whole  region  a 
profitable  industry.  He  also  invented  a  very 
serviceable  nut  grader. 

He  was  formerly  a  member  of  Company  D, 
3d  Illinois  National  Guard ;  of  the  University 
Club  of  Evanston ;  and  a  charter  member  of 
the  Evanston  Boat  Club.  He  belonged  to  St. 
Mark's  Episcopal  Church  in  Evanston. 

George  W.  Whitefield  was  married  on  January 
31,  1895,  at  Evanston,  to  Miss  Fannie  Comstock, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Julia  (Sprague)  Com- 
stock, mention  of  whom  is  made  elsewhere  in 
this  history.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Whitefield  have  one 
daughter,  Julia  Sprague  Whitefield. 

The  death  of  Dr.  George  W.  Whitefield  oc- 
curred on  October  15,  1925. 


COLONEL  JOHN  THOMAS  FYNN. 


There  is  a  story  in  the  Bible  of  a  Lad  who 
came  to  Jerusalem  with  His  parents  one  day 
and  became  lost.  After  much  searching  they 
found  Him  in  the  temple  talking  with  learned 
men  and  astounding  them  with  His  argument. 
The  Book  says  that  when  the  parents  sought 
to   chide,   the  Lad   answered   them   thus,    "Did 


you  not  know  that  I  must  be  about  my  Father's 
business  ?" 

In  a  large  measure  that  answer  was  the  key- 
stone in  the  life  arch  of  the  late  Colonel  John  T. 
Fynn,  recently  Promoted  to  Glory  from  the 
position  of  Field  Secretary  for  the  Salvation 
Army    in    the    Central   Territory.      Viewing   his 


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career  from  beginning  to  end  the  observer  is 
forced  to  a  conclusion  that  in  all  matters  what- 
soever John  T.  Fynn  had  always  put  his  Mas- 
ter's business  first. 

It  was  first  away  back  yonder  in  the  English 
county  of  Southampton  when  the  local  authori- 
ties attempted  to  prevent  him  from  telling  out 
the  old,  old  story  of  Salvation  beneath  God's 
open-air  cathedral  dome  and  because  His 
Father's  business  demanded  it  the  man  went 
to  jail  rather  than  abandon  his  great  call. 

His  Father's  business  was  first  when,  with 
his  little  family  and  good  wife,  John  Fynn  left 
the  home  shores  of  his  native  land  and  steered 
a  westward  course  across  the  vast  Atlantic  to 
bring  the  message  of  Salvation  to  a  newer  coun- 
try and  another  people. 

It  was  first  when  he  traversed  desert  waste 
emblazoning  Bible  truths  on  rock  and  cliff  and 
tree  that  the  weary  wayfarer  seeing  might 
ponder  the  result  of  neglecting  so  great  a  Sal- 
vation. 

It  was  first  through  the  entire  forty-two  years 
of  his  Christian  life;  first  in  day  and  night  and 
first  when  he  fell  in  sight  of  the  Army  flag  and 
surrounded  by  his  bandsmen,  the  men  of  the 
Territorial   Staff   Band. 

In  all  things  great  or  small  the  business  of 
Almighty  God  had  come  first  ever  since  this 
splendid  warrior  knelt  to  cry  for  pardon  in  a 
Salvation  Army  hall  at  Hanley,  England,  in 
1882. 

It  is  hard  to  choose  a  point  of  beginning  for 
the  story  of  Colonel  Fynn.  In  looking  over  the 
picture  of  his  life  for  high  ideals  and  noble 
action,  one  finds  the  background  so  full  of  them 
that  it  is  as  "though  the  hills  do  run  so  close 
together  that  their  tops  do  make  a  plain." 

Perhaps  for  that  reason  it  will  be  best 
to  use  the  old  formula,  to  begin  at  the  begin- 
ning. 

John  T.  Fynn  was  born  at  Dresden,  Longton, 
Stoke  on  Trent.  Staffordshire,  England,  Novem- 
ber 21,  1865,  and  inherited  as  a  birthright  the 
stalwart,  sturdy  qualities  of  his  ancestors,  plain, 
hard-working,  honest  and  honorable  folk,  the 
sort  that  can  make  an  empire  or  plowshare  and 
make  little  fuss  about  either.  The  dominant 
and  purposeful  vigor  that  characterized  his 
actions  in  life  was  the  gift  of  that  long  ancestral 
line.  God  builded  well  in  preparing  a  frame 
to  house  the  soul  of  this  forceful  Salvation 
Army  pioneer. 

As  this  is  written  there  is  small  access  to  the 


child  life  and  'teen  age  of  the  promoted  com- 
rade. Perhaps  those  days  were  also  like  His 
Master's  in  that  he  abode  with  his  parents  and 
"was  obedient  unto  them." 

We  know  that  he  became  a  blacksmith,  a  vil- 
lage welder  of  metals,  the  Tubal  Cain  of  his 
community,  and  those  who  knew  him  well  can 
easily  envision  John  Fynn  in  the  smithy,  singing 
his  songs  to  the  accompaniment  of  flying  sparks 
and  an  anvil  chorus. 

One  good  day,  it  was  the  first  of  the  year 
1882,  he  attended  a  Salvation  Army  meeting 
conducted  at  Hanley  by  the  then  Captain  Gypsy 
Smith.  Evidently  the  preparation  had  gone  on 
long  enough  for  the  Hand  of  God  reached  into 
his  heart  and  in  a  miraculous  manner  regener- 
ated it.  A  new  John  Fynn  walked  out  of  that 
little  Salvation  Army  hall  and  left  the  old  John 
Fynn  and  the  old  sins  behind  forever. 

Followed  six  years  of  soldiering  in  the  Hanley 
Corps.  It  was  characteristic  of  the  man  that 
he  showed  no  undue  haste  in  shaping  a  life 
course.  If  thoughts  concerning  officership  were 
entertained  during  the  period,  he  weighed  them 
carefully  and  gave  ample  time  for  reconsidera- 
tion. He  has  always  done  that.  Perhaps  it 
is  one  reason  why  there  have  been  so  few  mis- 
takes in  his  career. 

It  is  said  that  as  a  soldier  he  was  a  fire- 
brand. Musically  inclined  and  the  master  of 
three  instruments  at  the  time  of  his  conversion 
he  gave  splendid  and  continuous  aid  to  the  corps 
at  Hanley.  His  was  not  an  intermittent  service. 
To  go  awhile  and  stay  away  awhile,  did  not 
fit  in  with  the  man's  character.  It  is  probable 
that  the  "Gypsy"  got  a  considerable  lift  in  his 
work  when  John  Fynn  became  his  soldier  at 
Hanley. 

Romance  entered  his  life  and  culminated  in 
marriage  October  22,  1887,  when  he  was  united 
for  continual  service  and  perpetual  comradeship 
with  Mary  E.  Hughes,  also  a  convert  of  Captain 
Smith  and  a  Hanley  soldier. 

The  following  year  the  soldier  entered  the 
Training  College  and  in  due  time  came  out  a 
full-fledged  captain,  his  business  to  meet  and 
wrestle  with  problems  having  to  do  with  the 
salvation  of  the  souls  of  men — His  Master's 
business. 

He  was  still  a  captain  when  the  first  great 
problem  of  his  career  came,  the  problem  that 
resulted  in  imprisonment  for  the  cause  of  Jesus 
Christ. 

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morrow.  Chief."  were  the  seven  words  that 
gave  warning  of  trouble  to  the  young  couple. 

"Why,  that  is  the  place  where  the  trouble 
is  about  open-air  meetings,"  exclaimed  Mrs. 
Fynn. 

"Yes,"  he  answered.  "It  means  imprison- 
ment." 

"Well,  praise  God,  it  is  all  right.  Let  us 
pray  about  it.     God  will  take  care  of  us." 

That  dialogue  in  differing  form  has  been  a 
continual  affair  ever  since,  for  that  first  great 
problem  was  followed  by  others  and  in  every 
crisis  the  good  wife  he  had  chosen  was  as  eager 
as  her  husband  to  attend  to  the  Master's  busi- 
ness. 

So  they  went  to  Whitchurch  and  in  due  time 
he  was  arrested,  tried  and  imprisoned  for  "wil- 
fully and  unlawfully  obstructing  the  passage 
of  a  certain  highway,  to  wit,  'The  Square.' " 
Of  ninety-four  men  and  women  convicted  of 
blocking  traffic  on  the  square  he  was  one  of 
fifty  to  suffer  imprisonment  and  the  battle 
waged  until  it  came  before  the  supreme  court 
of  the  land,  when  the  right  to  peaceful  assem- 
blage forever  abolished  this  form  of  persecu- 
tion in  the  town  of  Whitchurch. 

There  were  five  strenuous  years  of  fighting  in 
the  old  land  for  the  pair  and  the  end  of  the 
five  found  them  as  strongly  fortified  in  the  Lord 
as  they  had  been  at  the  start.  Then  came  the 
desire  for  new  fields  and  a  larger  service.  They 
were  appointed  to  America. 

The  first  appointment  in  the  United  States 
was  Youngstown,  Ohio,  where  Captain  Fynn 
established  an  enviable  record  for  himself. 
Then  in  quick  succession  followed  Cleveland, 
Duluth,  Minneapolis,  Ansonia,  Paterson,  Long 
Branch  and  Philadelphia.  It  was  while  in  the 
last  appointment  that  his  leaders,  looking  over 
the  field  for  musical  material,  discovered  the 
young  officer  and  made  him  Divisional  Band- 
master for  the  Atlantic  Coast  Province,  just 
about  the  same  time  that  he  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Ensign. 

His  ability  as  an  administrator  soon  became 
evident  and  in  March,  1897,  he  was  given  the 
position  of  Divisional  Social  Secretary  for  the 
Province.  Two  years  of  sectional  officership  fol- 
lowed during  which  time  he  successfully  man- 
aged Army  affairs  at  Pittsburgh,  Salt  Lake  City, 
Oakland,  San  Jose,  Phoenix  and  Globe,  at  the 
same  time  rising  to  the  rank  of  Staff-Captain. 

In  1901  he  went  to  Los  Angeles  as  A.  D.  C. 
for   the   Southern   California    Division    then   to 


Sacramento  and  in  1902  became  Institutional 
Manager  and  Social  Superintendent  for  the 
Pacific  Coast.  His  majority  came  in  1903  and 
two  years  later  he  was  given  the  important 
position  of  divisional  officer  for  the  Oregon 
Division. 

Colonel  Fynn  came  to  Chicago  in  August,  1905, 
and  was  installed  at  Territorial  Headquarters 
as  the  Young  People's  Secretary.  This  was  in  a 
day  when  the  territory  began  at  Chicago  and 
continued  to  the  Islands,  but  notwithstanding 
his  large  field  and  many  duties,  there  was  an 
addition  to  his  responsibility  the  next  year 
when  the  Field  Department  came  to  him.  For 
two  years  he  labored  hard  and  faithfully,  then 
was  officially  given  recognition  as  Secretary  for 
Field  Affairs,  but  still  holding  on  to  the  work 
of  the  young  people.  His  promotion  to  the  rank 
of  Lieut.-Colonel  came  in  1914  and  four  years 
later  both  he  and  Mrs.  Fynn  were  admitted  to 
the  Long  Service  Order.  When  the  country 
was  divided  in  1920,  he  became  Field  Secretary 
for  the  Central  Territory  and  reached  his 
colonelcy  in  1921. 

This  in  brief  is  the  chronological  history  of 
the  late  Field  Secretary,  and  it  might  be  sup- 
posed to  give  the  important  dates  of  his  career. 
But  there  is  no  history,  chronological  or  other, 
that  can  tell  the  story  of  those  years  in  which 
John  Fynn  was  climbing  and  bringing  the  Army 
along  with  him. 

It  cannot  tell,  for  instance,  of  a  time  in  1906 
when  the  need  for  an  efficient  Salvation  Army 
musical  organization  at  the  territorial  center 
became  acute  and  he  undertook  the  job  of  form- 
ing one.  Out  of  that  endeavor  grew  the  Terri- 
torial Staff  Band,  composed  of  the  officers  sta- 
tioned at  headquarters  and  some  of  their  sons. 
That  band  has  been  in  continuous  operation  for 
eighteen  years,  has  produced  and  developed 
some  of  the  best  Army  musical  talent  in  the 
country,  has  sent  scores  of  players  through  the 
Training  College  and  into  the  Field  as  officers, 
has  heralded  the  musical  message  of  Salva- 
tion to  millions  of  men  and  women,  and  has 
given  a  boost  to  Army  prestige  that  is  unmeas- 
urable. 

Chicago  radio  stations  welcomed  it  as  the  pre- 
mier amateur  musical  organization  in  the  city 
and  through  this  means  alone  millions  upon  mil- 
lions of  people  have  been  reached  with  the 
Army  music  and  its  precious  message. 

And  John  T.  Fynn  has  been  at  every  band 
engagement,  every  practice,  every  congress,  al- 


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most  every  meeting  of  that  band  during  its  18 
years  of  life.  Three,  four,  sometimes  five  nights 
each  week  has  found  him  with  the  hoys,  their 
Bandmaster,  but  most  of  the  time  with  his  lips 
glued  to  a  mouthpiece. 

His  songs,  "The  City  Foursquare,"  "Sweetest 
Story  Ever  Told,"  scores  of  others,  have  been 
sung  at  village  cross  road  and  in  packed  theater, 
in  rural  church  and  grand  cathedral,  in  Army 
halls  and  through  the  microphone  "on  the  air." 

He  sang  the  "City  Foursquare"  last  and 
before  a  crowd  which  filled  the  Jefferson  Park 
Temple  just  two  days  before  his  death.  There 
was  a  new  song,  "When  They  Ring  the  Golden 
Bells,"  in  course  of  preparation,  in  fact  it  had 
been  completed  and  was  being  rehearsed  for 
early  presentation.  He  won't  sing  it,  but  the 
bandsmen  know  that  he  is  listening  to  the  ring- 
ing of  those  bells. 

Folk  so  inclined  might  say  that  there  was  a 
weird  coincidence  about  his  closing  days.  Many 
thing's  worked  together  that  might  be  cited  to 
prove  the  end  was  near. 

There  was  an  incident  at  the  cemetery  on  the 
morning  of  his  death,  Decoration  Day,  1924,  sev- 
eral of  them  in  fact.  With  the  Commissioner 
and  a  large  number  of  Salvationists  Colonel 
Fynn  had  gone  to  decorate  the  graves  of  de- 
parted comrades.  The  Colonel  was  asked  to 
read  a  Bible  portion  and  he  chose  the  Ninetieth 
Psalm,  that  prayer  of  Moses  where  is  found  the 
passage,  "So  teach  us  to  number  our  days  that 
we  may  apply  our  hearts  unto  wisdom."  How 
clearly  in  the  morning  air  came  that  other  pas- 
sage as  they  listened,  standing  beside  the  grave 
of  the  late  Colonel  Gauntlett. 

"The  days  of  our  years  are  three  score 
years  and  ten,  and  if  by  reason  of  strength 
they  be  four  score  years,  yet  is  there  strength, 
labor  and  sorrow,  for  it  is  soon  cut  off  and  we 
fly   away." 

Just  as  they  were  about  to  put  bouquets  on 
the  graves,  Colonel  Chandler  asked  him,  "Shall 
the  Cadets  play  'Abide  With  Me'?" 

"No,"  the  answer  came.  "Have  them  play 
'Shall  We  Gather  at  the  River'." 

The  last  two  band  pieces  that  he  heard  were 
"Courage"  and  "The  Spirit  of  Freedom."  A  few 
minutes  before  the  end  some  one  remarked  that 
the  parade  would  not  pass  quickly. 

"We  won't  be  here  long,"  he  answered. 

Colonel  Fynn  was  a  builder  and  he  builded 
well.     The  strength  of  character  that  came  to 


him  as  a  priceless  heritage  he  left  to  those  who 
remain  behind.  He  left  it  not  only  to  his  im- 
mediate family,  but  to  those  with  whom  he  was 
in  close  contact.  It  was  impossible  to  be  near 
the  man  without  getting  some  of  his  grand 
hallelujah   spirit. 

It  was  the  spirit  that  carried  his  boys,  J.  Ar- 
thur and  Alfred,  past  their  mother  and  sisters, 
Lillian,  Evangeline  and  Florence,  playing  with 
the  band  while  the  mental  picture  of  their  dy- 
ing father  almost  blotted  out  the  notes  of  the 
music  score  before  them.  Folk  who  watched 
that  band  parade  never  knew  by  any  sign  from 
the  players  that  their  bandmaster  had  fallen  in 
the  ranks  not  ten  minutes  before. 

It  is  not  easy  to  bring  a  hand  to  a  knowledge 
of  music  and  harmony.  It  is  inconceivably 
harder  to  establish  a  morale  that  will  carry 
on  in  any  circumstance  and  under  any  difficulty. 
Colonel  Fynn  did   both. 

The  story  of  his  death  will  bear  repetition. 

Decoration  Day  in  Chicago  has  always  been  a 
big  event.  Millions  of  people  participate  in  the 
parade  and  along  its  line  of  march.  Always  the 
Salvation  Army  has  a  part  in  this  token  of 
esteem  for  the  nation's  warrior  dead. 

This  year  the  Staff  Band  was  given  a  post  of 
especial  honor  when  it  was  chosen  from  among 
some  twenty  other  bands  to  lead  the  War  Divi- 
sion of  the  parade.  There  was  also  an  army 
field  kitchen  and  in  the  preparation  for  the 
parade,  and  other  affairs  Colonel  Fynn  worked 
like  a  trojan. 

Came  the  hour  of  the  parade.  Standing  in 
line  with  the  Commissioner  and  his  brother 
officers,  the  Field  Secretary  posed  for  a  picture 
just  about  the  time  that  the  first  ranks  of  the 
parade  were  passing  the  spot.  Immediately  the 
picture  had  been  taken  he  called  to  his  chief, 
saying,  "Come  on,  Commissioner.  There's  a 
good  place  up  here  where  we  can  see  them  go 
by  until  it  comes  our  time  to  fall  in." 

He  pushed  the  territorial  leader  ahead  that 
he  might  the  better  see.  He  also  made  room 
up  front  for  Colonel  Chandler.  Then  those  who 
watched  thought  that  he  had  discovered  some- 
thing on  the  street  for  he  was  seen  to  look 
groundward  slowly.  He  stooped,  extended  one 
arm  in  front  of  him  and  toward  fhe  earth. 
Then,  with  a  groan,  he  fell,  and  it  was  not  until 
they  heard  the  cry  of  anguish  that  his  loved 
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Even  at  the  last  minute  there  was  proof  of 
his  wisdom  in  looking  heavenward  instead  of  to 
earth. 

Medical  help  there  was  in  abundance  and  of 
a  high  grade.  Dozens  of  military  physicians 
were  lined  up  around  him  ready  for  the  parade 
and  they  all  rushed  to  his  side.  An  ambulance 
came  quickly  and  all  that  skill  and  science 
could  do,  was  done. 

But  when  it  was  all  done  the  soul  of  a  Central 


Warrior  was  beyond  the  reach  of  human  help, 
just  as  in  life  it  had  always  been  beyond  the 
reach  of  human  hurt.  It  had  gone  to  meet 
its  Savior.  Colonel  John  T.  Fynn  to  the  Salva- 
tion Army,  "Pa"  to  his  children  and  "Johnny" 
to  his  wife,  was  listening  to  His  Master  say 
"Well  Done." 

Note — We  have  thought  best  to  reprint  this 
memorial  review  of  Col.  Fynn's  life,  verbatim, 
from  the  June  21,  '24  issue  of  "The  War  Cry." 


GEORGE  P.  A.  HEALY. 


The  late  George  P.  A.  Healy,  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  portrait  painters  of  America,  be- 
longed to  the  world-at-large,  but  spent  the  last 
two  years  of  his  life  in  Chicago.  While  his 
best  portraits  are  admirable  for  intensity  of 
life,  for  fresh  and  natural  coloring,  and  for 
strong  drawing,  his  genius  was  not  confined  to 
them,  for  among  others  of  his  noted  paintings 
are  the  large  historical  picture  of  Webster  re- 
plying to  Hayne,  in  Faneuil  Hall ;  the  group 
of  Armenian  bishops,  which  he  gave  to  the  Chi- 
cago Art  Institute,  and  an  adorable  series  of 
children's  heads,  which,  alone,  would  be  enough 
to  consecrate  him  as  a  great  artist. 

George  P.  A.  Healy  was  born  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  July  15,  1813,  of  Irish  descent 
on  the  paternal  side,  and  of  American  stock  on 
the  maternal.  His  father  was  a  captain  in  the 
merchant  service.  The  vessel  he  commanded 
was  in  Moroccan  waters  in  1812,  and  capture 
seemed  imminent.  He  caused  his  sailors  to  dis- 
embark, blew  up  his  ship  and  barely  escaped 
with  his  life.  Young  George's  early  training 
was  secured  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
city,  and  he  gratified  his  longing  to  express  him- 
self with  his  pencil  and  brush  by  perpetual 
practice.  His  mother  was  in  very  moderate 
circumstances  and  he  was  forced  to  work  at 
whatever  came  to  hand  in  order  to  assist  her, 
so  there  was  no  money  for  an  artistic  training, 
even  had  there  been  in  those  days  the  art 
schools  now  so  common.  Fortunately  for  the 
ambitious  lad  he  received  encouragement  from 
the  daughter  of  the  famous  painter,  Stuart,  and 
it  was  a  copy  made  of  a  print  lent  him  by 
Miss  Stuart,  of  Guido  Reni's  Eccc  Homo,  which 
brought  him  his  first  pecuniary  reward.  A 
Catholic  priest  seeing  the  copy  where  it  was 
displayed  in  a  bookseller's  window,  asked  if 
it  was  for  sale,  and  finding  that  it  was,  offered 


and  paid  ten  dollars  for  it,  a  price  that  seemed 
a  fortune  to   the  young  artist. 

The  friendly  Miss  Stuart  recommended  the 
lad  to  the  great  Sully,  who,  upon  examining 
the  sketches  taken  to  him,  advised  the  timid 
youth  to  make  painting  his  profession.  En- 
couraged by  this,  Mr.  Healy  took  a  studio,  hung 
out  a  sign,  as  was  then  the  custom,  and  waited 
for  patrons,  but  in  vain.  In  order  to  pay  his 
rent,  the  future  great  artist  made  portraits  of 
his  landlord,  and  his  landlord's  son-in-law.  It 
was  his  ambition  to  paint  a  beautiful  woman, 
and  through  the  introduction  of  a  friend,  he 
was  enabled  to  realize  this  in  the  portrait  he 
made  of  a  queen  of  society,  Mrs.  Harrison  Gray 
Otis.  Through  all  of  his  early  struggles  Mr. 
Healy  never  lost  sight  of  his  determination  to 
go  to  Paris  to  study,  and  in  1834,  before  he 
was  twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  was  able  to 
take  passage  on  a  sailing  vessel  for  Havre. 

In  spite  of  the  fact  that  he  had  very  little 
money,  and  practically  no  knowledge  of  French, 
he  not  only  was  able  to  make  his  way,  but 
secured  admittance  into  the  studio  of  Baron 
Gros.  It  was  in  Gros'  atelier  that  he  made  the 
acquaintance  of  Thomas  Couture,  who  became 
the  great  artist  of  his  day,  and  who  continued 
to  the  end  of  his  life  Healy's  great  friend. 
Another  friendship  formed  during  his  earlier 
years  was  that  with  Sir  Arthur  and  Lady 
Faulkner,  whom  he  met  at  the  inn  of  the  Mount- 
Cenis  Pass,  while  on  a  trip  to  Italy.  In  1836 
these  kind  English  friends  summoned  him  to 
London,  and  through  their  patronage  and  that 
of  Joseph  Hume,  the  radical  member  of  Par- 
liament, whose  portrait  he  painted,  he  was 
fairly  launched  in  London  society,  sittings  be- 
ing obtained  for  him  by  Sir  Arthur  from  the 
Duke  of  Sussex,  uncle  of  Queen  Victoria.  Lady 
Agnes  Buller,  sister  of  the  Duke  of  Northum- 


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berland,  Lord  and  Lady  Waldegrave  and  the 
Master  of  Grant  were  among  Mr.  Healy's  early 
sitters. 

In  1839  Mr.  Healy  returned  to  France,  and 
through  General  Cass,  the  American  minister, 
obtained  sittings  from  Louis  Philippe.  The 
French  king  commissioned  him  to  copy  several 
of  the  masterpieces  that  hang  in  Windsor  cas- 
tle, obtaining  from  Queen  Victoria  permission 
for  the  young  artist  to  do  so.  Among  these 
was  Van  Dyck's  group  of  the  children  of  Charles 
I,  now  the  property  of  a  daughter  of  the  artist, 
Mrs.  Hill.  The  Queen  and  Prince  Albert  were 
absent  from  Windsor  Castle  at  the  time  Mr. 
Healy  did  this  work,  and  the  young  artist  and 
his  bride  had  the  run  of  the  castle  for  three 
months.  Never  was  honeymoon  so  delightful. 
When  the  royal  couple  returned,  the  Queen 
stopped  before  the  copy  and  said  to  her  husband  : 
"Please  tell  Mr.  Healy  that  this  is  the  best  copy 
of  Van  Dyck  I  ever  saw."  The  Prince  turned  to 
the  artist  and  repeated  the  Queen's  words.  In 
the  spring  of  1845  Louis  Philippe  requested  Mr. 
Healy  to  paint  the  portrait  of  General  Jackson 
for  the  King's  new  gallery  of  political  celebrities, 
in  the  Palace  of  Versailles.  Among  these  he 
wished  to  include  the  most  famous  of  the  Ameri- 
can statesmen.  Thus  it  happened  that  Mr.  Healy 
was  at  "The  Hermitage"  when  Andrew  Jackson 
died.  He  also  painted  Henry  Clay,  John  Quincy 
Adams  and  other  celebrities.  In  1S84  when  he 
went  to  paint  President  Arthur  he  was  given  the 
same  painting  room  he  had  forty-two  years  ear- 
lier in  order  to  paint  the  portrait  of  President 
Tyler,  and  in  it  he  found  portraits  painted  by 
him  of  John  Quincy  Adams  and  Martin  Van 
Buren.  He  painted  Daniel  Webster  several 
times.  The  lady  who  became  Mrs.  Henry  W. 
Longfellow,  Miss  Appleton,  sat  to  him  for  a 
charming  portrait,  and  he  also  painted  Mr. 
Longfellow  several  times.  It  was  during  this 
period  of  hard  and  successful  work  that  he  lost 
his  royal  patron  in  the  fall  of  Louis  Philippe, 
but  he  returned  to  Paris,  and  in  1855  completed 
a  historical  painting  :  Franklin  before  Louis  XVI, 
which  obtained  for  him,  at  the  Universal  Exhibi- 
tion of  that  year,  a  gold  medal,  the  highest  honor 
which  has  been  awarded  an  American  artist, 
and  which  gave  him  the  right  to  send  pictures 
to  the  salon  without  the  sanction  of  the  jury. 

In  1857  William  B.  Ogden  induced  Mr.  Healy 
to  return  to  the  United  States  and  pay  Chicago 
a  visit.  He  painted  Mr.  Ogden,  his  brother-in- 
law,  Mr.  Edwin  Sheldon,  and  his  two  children, 


also  Miss  Nellie  Kinzie,  one  of  the  first  white 
children  born  within  the  shadow  of  Fort  Dear- 
born. During  the  Civil  War,  Mr.  Healy  painted 
a  number  of  the  famous  generals :  Grant,  Sher- 
man, McClellan,  Sheridan  and  Admiral  Porter 
being  among  the  best-known,  and  his  admirable 
portrait  of  Lincoln,  now  one  of  the  treasures  of 
the  Newberry  Library  of  Chicago. 

In  1867  Mr.  Healy  went  back  to  Paris,  and 
thence  to  Rome,  and  while  there  he  painted 
a  portrait  of  Liszt,  of  the  young  princess  of 
Roumania,  later  Carmen  Sylva,  Pope  Pius  IX, 
and  others  of  note.  In  1873  Mr.  Healy  once 
more  returned  to  Paris,  and  was  engaged  in 
painting  a  number  of  portraits,  among  them 
being  those  of  Thiers,  Gambetta  and  Jules 
Simon.  He  later  went  to  Germany  and  painted 
Bismarck.  It  was  about  1878  that  Mr.  Healy 
painted  a  spirited  portrait  of  Stanley,  then  in 
the  zenith  of  his  fame.  Some  idea  of  his  mar- 
velous capacity  for  work  may  be  gained  from  an 
entry  in  his  diary  which  says  that  from  No- 
vember. 1880,  to  May,  1881,  he  produced  forty- 
six  portraits.  While  he  had  paid  several  visits 
to  his  native  land,  it  was  not  until  in  Febru- 
ary, 1892,  that  he  located  permanently  at  Chi- 
cago, and  there  he  died,  June  24,  1894. 

In  1839  Mr.  Healy  was  married  to  Miss 
Louisa  Phipps,  and  their  second  daughter,  Mary, 
now  Madame  Charles  Bigot,  has  written  a 
very  interesting  life  of  her  distinguished  father, 
following  it  with  a  collection  of  his  letters. 
He  was  a  most  devoted  and  loving  husband, 
and  after  his  death,  his  wife,  who  survived 
him  ten  years,  wandered  about  like  a  lost  soul, 
longing  for  the  end.  Born  of  a  Catholic  father 
and  Protestant  mother,  Mr.  Healy  was  reared 
in  no  particular  religious  faith,  but,  through 
the  influence  of  Bishop  Fitzpatrick,  of  Boston, 
he  became  an  ardent  Catholic.  With  all  his 
religious  fervor,  however,  he  was  the  most 
tolerant  of  men.  As  to  his  personal  charm,  all 
those  who  approached  G.  P.  A.  Healy,  either 
as  sitter  or  friend,  are  unanimous  in  speaking 
of  his  courtesy,  his  old-time  politeness,  his 
absolute  kindness. 

In  1913  a  Centenary  Exposition  of  the  works 
of  G.  P.  A.  Healy  was  held  at  the  Art  Institute 
of  Chicago. 

Bibliography :  Reminiscences  of  a  Portrait 
Painter  by  G.  P.  A.  Healy.  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co., 
Chicago.  1894  (out  of  print).  Life  of  George 
P.    A.    Healy    by    His    Daughter    Mary    (Mme. 


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Charles  Bigot)  followed  by  a  selection  of  his 
letters.  Private  edition,  1913.  Fine  Arts  Jour- 
nal, Chicago,  March  1913.    Tuckerman — Contem- 


porary American  painters.  Healy,  George  Peter 
Alexander ;  His  Work,  His  Time  by  Marie  de 
Mare  (in  preparation). 


CHARLES  STEPHEN  BARTHOLF. 


The  late  Charles  S.  Bartholf  of  Glencoe 
and  Chicago,  was  born  at  Plainfield,  Illinois, 
on  September  25,  1857,  a  son  of  Gilliam  and 
Mary  Jane  (McCreery)  Bartholf,  natives  of 
Rochester,  New  York,  and  Canada,  respectively. 
The  father  was  a  farmer.  The  son  was  raised 
on  the  farm  and  went  to  the  neighboring  school. 
A  large  part  of  his  early  training  came  from 
his  mother  who  was  a  woman  of  culture  and 
character.  He  later  had  two  years  of  school 
at  Naperville  and  then  entered  Valparaiso  Col- 
lege. From  there  he  went  to  the  University 
of  Michigan. 

Between  his  own  course  of  study,  Mr. 
Bartholf  taught  school.  He  followed  this  pro- 
fession with  a  marked  degree  of  usefulness 
and  success  for  the  greater  part  of  the  balance 
of  his  life.  He  taught  in  schools  in  the  central 
part  of  the  state,  and  was  then  made  principal 
of  the  high  school  at  Springfield,  Illinois.  It 
was  in  1880,  that  he  came  to  Chicago,  and  his 
work  here  as  principal  of  the  Burr  School 
and  of  the  Goethe  School  has  been  of  great 
value. 

On  January  1,  1921,  Professor  Bartholf  re- 
signed his  school  office,  in  order  that  he  might 
give  full  attention  to  his  responsibilities  as 
executor  of  his  cousin's  wilL  This  cousin, 
John  H.  McCreery,  was  owner  of  a  large  amount 
of  property,  including  the  St.  Nicholas  Hotel 
of   Springfield,   Illinois. 

Mr.    Bartholf  also   was   manager   and   secre- 


tary of  the  Bullock  Manufacturing  Company, 
which  concern  was  founded  and  developed  by 
Mr.  M.  C.  Bullock,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Bartholf. 
Following  the  death  of  Mr.  Bullock,  Mr. 
Bartholf  was  made  executor  of  his  estate  and 
was  also  elected  to  follow  as  president  of  the 
Bullock  Manufacturing  Company.  Subsequently, 
this  business  was  sold ;  and,  since  1905,  Mr. 
Bartholf  has  been  president  of  the  Standard 
Diamond  Drill  Company,  which  he  founded.  In 
1923,  Mr.  Bartholf  bought  the  St.  Nicholas 
Hotel  from  the  McCreery  heirs. 

On  June  27,  1893,  Mr.  Bartholf  was  married 
in  Chicago,  to  Miss  Grace  Corinne  Bullock, 
daughter  of  Milan  C.  and  Mary  Ann  (Batche- 
lor)  Bullock.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bartholf  had  six 
children,  Dorothy  (Mrs.  R.  D.  Cushman), 
Herbert  B.,  Winifred,  Marjorie,  Katherine 
(Mrs.  Elbert  K.  Jones)  and  Beatrice.  The  fam- 
ily have  lived  in  Glencoe  for  over  twenty 
years.  Here  Mrs.  Bartholf  died  on  October 
16,  1921. 

Mr.  Bartholf  died  on  October  29,  1923.  For 
many  years,  he  held  a  place  of  great  respon- 
sibility and  of  high  regard  among  educators 
of  the  state ;  and  the  results  of  his  business 
efforts,  also,  mark  his  life  an  unusual  success 
in  that  direction.  He  belonged  to  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution,  the  Union  League 
Club,  and  the  Skokie  Country  Club,  and  he 
was  a  Shriner-Mason. 


LYSANDER  HILL. 


Among  the  distinguished  characters  who  have 
left  the  impress  of  their  individuality  upon 
the  legal  history  of  Illinois,  few  attained  so 
high  a  reputation  for  ability  and  faithfulness 
as  did  the  late  Judge  Lysander  Hill  of  Chicago. 
Although  some  years  have  passed  since  he  was 
called  to  his  final  rest,  he  lives  in  the  memory 
of  his  friends  as  the  highest  type  of  a  loyal 
citiaen  and  an  honorable,  conscientious  man. 
His  life  was  actuated  by  high  ideals,  and  spent 
in  close  conformity  therewith ;  his  teachings 
and  example  were  an  inspiring  force  in  the 
world,  and  his  love  of  principle  and  strength 


of  character  gained  for  him  the  respect  of  all 
with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  In  his  home, 
in  social  and  professional  circles,  he  was  ever 
kind  and  courteous,  and  no  citizen  of  the  com- 
munity was  more  respected  or  enjoyed  the  con- 
fidence of  the  people  or  more  richly  deserved 
the  regard  in  which  he  was  held. 

Judge  Hill  was  born  in  Union,  Lincoln  Coun- 
ty, Maine,  July  4,  1834,  a  son  of  Isaac  and 
Elizabeth  M.  (Hall)  Hill.  He  came  of  a  promi- 
nent old  eastern  family,  of  Puritan  ancestry, 
of  whom  more  extended  mention  is  made  in  the 
biography   of  John   W.   Hill   of  Chicago.     His 


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parents  were  anxious  and  able  to  give  him  a 
good  education,  and  he  made  the  best  of  the 
opportunities  presented  to  him.  After  passing 
through  the  common  schools  he  entered  the 
academy  at  Warren,  and  there  prepared  himself 
for  matriculation  in  Bowden  College,  entering 
himself  as  an  undergraduate  in  1854.  Four 
years  later  he  took  his  degree  with  honors.  In 
1860  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Maine, 
after  a  long  and  thorough  course  of  study  and 
rudimentary  practice  in  the  office  of  the  late 
A.  P.  Gould  of  Thomaston,  Maine.  Immediately 
upon  receiving  his  license  to  practice  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  J.  P.  Cilley.  The  young 
firm  of  Cilley  &  Hill  gained  and  held  a  fair 
share  of  practice,  but  in  1862  he  entered  the 
military  service  of  his  country  as  captain  of 
the  Twentieth  Maine  Infantry,  which  he  or- 
ganized. A  year  later  he  unwillingly  accepted 
a  discharge  on  account  of  typhoid  fever  con- 
tracted after  the  battle  of  Antietam,  and  set- 
tled as  a  practitioner  of  law  at  Alexandria, 
Virginia,  his  business  necessitated  the  opening 
of  an  office  at  Washington,  and  Mr.  Hill'  be- 
came the  mouthpiece  at  the  capital  of  the  law 
firm  of  Hill  &  Tucker.  Mr.  Tucker  attended 
to  most  of  the  routine  business  at  Alexandria. 
In  1867  Mr.  Hill  was  appointed  registrar  in 
bankruptcy  for  the  Eighth  Judicial  District  of 
Virginia.  He  resigned  this  function  upon  his 
appointment  in  1869,  at  the  early  age  of  thirty- 
five,  to  the  bench  of  the  same  district. 

In  1874  he  withdrew  from  all  connection  with 
practice  at  Alexandria,  and,  as  the  head  of  the 
firm  of  Hill  &  Ellsworth,  devoted  himself  en- 
tirely to  practice  in  the  courts  at  Washington. 
By  this  time  the  remarkable  bent  of  Mr.  Hill's 
mind  in  the  direction  of  patent  law  had  become 
apparent,  and  it  was  but  a  short  time  until 
the  firm  of  Hill  &  Ellsworth  had  gained  much 
more  than  a  local  reputation  for  clear  under- 
standing of  patent  law  and  for  ability  in  the 
conduct  of  cases.  But  Washington  soon  proved 
to  be   too  narrow  a  field  for   the  exercise  of 


Mr.  Hill's  legal  skill.  Inventions  are  more 
numerous  in  commercial  than  in  political  cen- 
ters, and,  therefore,  with  a  clear  discernment 
of  its  nascent  greatness,  Mr.  Hill  selected  Chi- 
cago as  his  final  base  of  operation.  He  came 
to  the  city  in  1881  and  founded  the  patent  law 
firm  of  Hill  &  Dixon,  which  endured  for  nine 
years.  He  then  practiced  alone  for  a  time,  and 
later  was  joined  by  his  brother,  John  W.  Hill, 
remaining  in  this  connection  until  August,  1904. 
Judge  Hill  stood  in  the  first  rank  of  patent 
lawyers,  and  his  retainers  came  from  all  parts 
of  the  country.  He  was  a  man  of  great  mental 
capacity  and  much  force  of  character,  and  in 
him  were  united  mental  and  moral  sagacity, 
joined  to  integrity  and  honor.  He  was  a  stal- 
wart Republican,  and  in  his  younger  days  was 
very  active  in  politics.  For  two  years  he  served 
as  chairman  of  the  Republican  State  Committee 
of  Virginia,  and  in  1868  was  delegate  to  the  con- 
vention that  nominated  General  Grant.  In  this 
distinguished  body  he  was  honored  by  election 
as  a  member  of  the  committee  on  resolutions, 
and  the  resolutions  embodied  in  that  convention 
may  justly  be  considered  as  epoch-making. 

Judge  Hill  was  twice  married,  the  first  union 
being  solemnized  February  2,  1864,  with  Miss 
Adelaide  R.  Cole  of  Roxbury,  Mass.,  who  died 
February  3,  1897.  On  November  26,  1904,  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Edith  Healy,  a  daughter 
of  George  P.  A.  Healy,  of  Chicago. 

Judge  Hill  was  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
and  Exmoor  clubs.  He  was  a  writer  of  con- 
siderable note ;  and  besides  his  contributions 
to  various  papers  and  journals,  he  was  the 
author  of  "The  Existence  of  God  and  the  Im- 
mortality of  the  Soul,"  known  as  "Hill's  Cosmic 
Law."  It  is  not  in  any  sense  a  theological 
treatise,  but  is  rather  a  lawyer's  brief. 
Lysander  Hill  died  October  30,  1914.  Peace- 
fully, honorably,  he  met  and  discharged  all  of 
life's  duties ;  honored  and  beloved,  he  passed 
away  sincerely  mourned  by  all  who  knew  him. 


WILLIAM  BEST. 


The  record  of  no  Chicago  business  man  shows 
more  clearly  what  can  be  accomplished  when 
energy,  determination  and  ambition  lead  the 
way  than  that  of  the  late  William  Best  of  the 
Best  and  Russell  Company.  Entirely  unosten- 
tatious and  free  from  pretense,  he  devoted  his 


life  to  his  business,  to  his  home  and  to  his 
church,  pursuing  at  all  times  the  even  tenor 
of  his  way.  His  easy  dignity,  his  frankness 
and  cordiality  of  address  indicated  a  man 
ready  to  meet  any  obligation  of  life  with  the 
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personal  ability,  right  conception  of  things  and 
a  habitual  regard  for  what  is  best  in  the  exer- 
cise of  human  activities. 

William  Best  was  born  in  Canterbury,  Eng- 
land. August  29,  1S41,  a  son  of  William  and 
Mary  Ann  (Whitehead)  Best,  natives  of  Eng- 
land. The  family  came  to  the  United  States 
in  1S50.  and  the  son's  education,  commenced  in 
Canterbury,  was  continued  in  the  public  schools 
of  Chicago,  111.,  where  the  family  located  in 
1S52.  After  his  schooldays  were  over,  William 
Best's  first  venture  in  the  business  world  was 
as  office  boy  in  the  wholesale  tobacco  house  of 
John  C.  Partridge  and  Company.  Before  many 
years  passed  he  became  a  partner  in  this  con- 
cern ;  and,  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Partridge  in 
1S7G,  he  became  head  of  the  house.  He  then 
organized  the  firm  of  Best,  Russell  and  Com- 
pany, wholesale  tobacconists  and  cigar  manu- 
facturers. In  1891  this  business  was  incor- 
porated as  Best  and  Russell  Company,  and  Mr. 
Best  continued  as  the  head  of  this  widely 
known  sales  corporation  until  the  company  was 
eventually  merged  with  the  General  Cigar  Com- 
pany of  New  York,  of  which  Mr.  Best's  son, 
William  Best,  Jr.,  is  now  acting  vice  president 
and  general  manager. 

Although  the  scope  of  his  work  in  his  busi- 
ness was  always  broad  Mr.  Best  devoted  much 
time  and  energy  to  public  service.  In  18S3  he 
was  collector  of  South  Town,  and  was  one  of 
the  South  Park  commissioners  of  Chicago,  from 
1885  until  1911,  thus  making  an  uninterrupted 


service  of  twenty-five  years.  This  is  the  long- 
est continuous  term  of  office  as  commissioner 
in  the  city  of  Chicago.  He  was  president  of 
the  board  from  1887  to  1891  and  auditor  from 
1905  to  1911.  This  phase  of  Mr.  Best's  life 
record  is  very  typical  of  his  real  feeling  toward 
Chicago.  He  had  been  a  Chicagoan  for  sixty- 
six  years ;  and,  certain  it  is  that  the  city  bene- 
fited by  virtue  of  his  effective  interest  in  the 
establishment  of  public  playgrounds  and  parks. 
William  Best  was  married  August  1,  1865,  to 
Louise  C.  Sterling,  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Ster- 
ling of  Chicago.  There  are  two  children, 
namely :  William  Best,  Jr.,  who  is  of  New 
York  City,  N.  Y. ;  and  Florence  G.,  who  is  Mrs. 
Walter  G.  Warren  of  Chicago.  A  second  daugh- 
ter, Grace  L.,  died  some  years  ago.  Mr.  Best 
was  called  from  this  life  April  20,  1919,  fol- 
lowing the  death  of  Mrs.  Best,  which  occurred 
September  13,  1918.  He  was  a  Knight  Templar 
and  Thirty-second  Degree  Mason.  He  was  a 
trustee  of  the  Sixth  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Chicago.  His  clubs  were  the  Mid-Day,  South 
Shore  Country,  Iroquois  and  Illinois  Athletic. 
In  his  business  he  was  rewarded  with  a  grati- 
fying success;  as  a  citizen  he  was  honorable, 
prompt  and  true  to  every  engagement.  In 
every  relation  of  life  was  shown  the  light  that 
comes  from  justness,  generosity,  truth,  high 
sense  of  honor,  proper  respect  for  self  and  sen- 
sitive thoughtfulness  of  others.  What  a  wealth 
of  remembrance  such  a  man  leaves  to  the  gen- 
erations that  shall  come  after  him. 


CHARLES  HOWARD  BESLY. 


The  late  Charles  H.  Besly  of  Chicago,  Illinois, 
who  was  for  years  a  most  substantial  figure  in 
the  hardware  industry  of  this  state,  was  born 
at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  on  July  15,  1854.  His 
parents  were  Oliver  and  Isabella  (St.  John) 
Besly. 

He  began  his  school  training  in  Milwaukee 
and  continued  it  in  Chicago.  Some  time  later 
he  went  abroad  and  studied  in  London.  He 
received  degrees  as  an  engineer  and  as  a 
metallurgist. 

His  first  business  experience  was  had  in  the 
wholesale  department  of  Marshall  Field  &  Com- 
pany. Then  he  decided  to  go  into  business  for 
himself.  At  this  time  he  had  saved  a  thou- 
sand dollars  from  his  earnings.  As  this  amount 
was  insufficient  for  his  needs  he  borrowed  the 


sum  of  two  thousand  dollars  from  the  late  Mr. 
Leiter.  He  then  bought  the  stock  he  required 
and  opened  a  small  hardware  store  in  Chicago, 
on  Lake  street.  Within  a  year  he  had  paid  back 
the  full  amount  of  the  loan  he  had  received  from 
Mr.  Leiter. 

Year  after  year  his  business  was  made  to 
grow.  He  later  founded  and  developed  the 
firm  of  Charles  H.  Besly  &  Company  which  is 
today  known  all  over  the  country  as  one  of  the 
principal  manufacturers  and  distributors  of 
brass  goods  and  Besly  grinders. 

Mr.  Besly  was  married  in  1884  to  Miss  Mary 
Welles  of  Fort  Dodge,  Iowa,  one  daughter, 
Violet  (Mrs.  Leonard  G.  Phillips)  of  New  York, 
was  born  to  them.     The  mother  died  in  1891. 


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On  February  8,  1895,  Mr.  Besly  was  married, 
at  Chicago,  to  Miss  Kathleen  M.  Healy,  a 
daughter  of  the  late  George  P.  A.  Healy,  the 
world-famous  portrait  painter.  Extended  men- 
tion of  Mr.  Healy  is  found  elsewhere  in  this 
history.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Besly  had  three  daugh- 
ters: Louisa  (Mrs.  Joseph  Charles  Stewart) 
of  California,  and  Edith  (Mrs.  Lawrence  Capes) 
and  Miss  Helen  Besly    (Mrs.  Frank  B.  Tours). 


Lieutenant  Tours  belongs  to  the  British  Royal 
Navy. 

Mr.  Besly  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Athletic  Association,  the  Chicago  Association 
of  Commerce  and  of  the  Engineers  Club  of  New 
York. 

Charles  H.  Besly  died  on  December  31,  1908. 
His  life  records  one  of  the  notable  successes  in 
Chicago's  business  history. 


MOSES  FRANKLIN  RITTENHOUSE. 


Success  is  not  measured  entirely  by  the 
heights  to  which  one  attains,  but  by  the  dis- 
tance between  the  altitude  which  he  has  x-eached 
and  the  starting  point  of  his  career.  The  name 
of  Moses  F.  Rittenhouse  is  prominent  in  connec- 
tion with  the  development  of  the  lumber  indus- 
try in  Chicago  and  in  the  various  sections  of 
the  country.  His  operations  have  extended 
widely  over  the  Mississippi  valley  and  he  is 
foremost  among  those  who  have  been  most  ac- 
tive in  expanding  the  lumber  trade  of  his  city. 
Thorough  training  and  practical  experience  in 
connection  with  the  diffierent  phases  of  the  busi- 
ness in  his  earlier  manhood  have  given  Mr.  Rit- 
tenhouse a  knowledge  and  a  capability  that  have 
enabled  him  to  control  interests  that  are  now  of 
far-reaching  extent  and  importance. 

The  Rittenhouse  family  originated  in  Ger- 
many, but  members  of  it  fled  to  Holland  about 
three  centuries  ago  because  of  religious  per- 
secution, and  about  1682  Nicholas  Rittenhouse 
came  to  America  at  the  solicitation  of  William 
Penn.  About  the  year  1690  Nicholas  Ritten- 
house built  a  paper  mill  at  Philadelphia  in 
which  was  manufactured  the  first  paper  ever 
made  in  this  country.  David  Rittenhouse,  of 
this  family,  was  prominent  in  Pennsylvania  dur- 
ing the  Revolutionary  war,  and  a  public  park, 
a  public  school  and  other  memorials  in  Phila- 
delphia, perpetuate  his  name.  John  Ritten- 
house, the  father  of  Moses  F.  Rittenhouse,  was 
born  in  that  city  in  1800,  and  in  his  infancy  was 
taken  by  his  parents  to  Upper  Canada.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Funk,  who  belonged  to  a 
family  that  had  settled  in  Pennsylvania  two 
centuries  ago. 

Moses  F.  Rittenhouse  is  a  Canadian  by  birth, 
having  been  born  near  St.  Catharines,  Lincoln 
County,  Ontario,  August  12,  1846.  While  at- 
tending the  public  schools,  he  assisted  his  father 
in  work  upon  the  home  farm,  and  when  not  yet 
eighteen  years  of  age  migrated  to  the  United 


States  and  located  in  Chicago,  in  April,  1864. 
For  one  month  he  was  employed  as  printer's 
devil  in  the  office  of  the  Chicago  Morning  Post, 
and   then  entered   the  employ  of  the  Peshtigo 
Company,   a   large   lumber  manufacturing  con- 
cern of  Wisconsin  which  had  distributing  yards 
in   Chicago.     He   soon  realized   the  need   of  a 
broader  education  and,  returning  to  his  native 
country,  spent  the  ensuing  winter  in  school.    In 
May,  1865,  he  again  came  to  Chicago,  here  en- 
tering the  employ  of  McMullen,  Funk  &  Com- 
pany, retail  lumber  merchants,  and  when  a  year 
later  the   firm   name   changed    to   McMullen  & 
Officer,   Mr.   Rittenhouse   was  promoted  to   the 
management  of  the  branch  yard  at  Lake  and 
Jefferson    streets.      In   December,    1866,    he   re- 
signed his  position,  and  for  three  months  was 
engaged  in  taking  a  business  course  at  a  com- 
mercial   college,    and    in    March,    1867,    became 
bookkeeper  for  the  wholesale  firm  of  B.  L.  An- 
derson &  Company.     From  April  1,  1868,  until 
April  30,  1883,  he  was  associated  with  the  firm 
of  J.  Beidler  &  Brother  and  its  successor,  the 
J.  Beidler  &  Brother  Lumber  Company.     From 
salesman,  he  advanced  to  the  position  of  general 
manager,   and   in  1871,   upon  the  incorporation 
of  the  company,   was  made  its  treasurer.     In 
1883,  he  embarked  upon  a  career  of  his  own  as 
senior   member   of   the   firm   of  Rittenhouse   & 
Embree,   his  associate  being  Jesse  R.  Embree, 
who     is    now     deceased.       The    business     was 
subsequently    incorporated    under    the    style   of 
Rittenhouse  &  Embree  Company,  and  this  con- 
cern  has   advanced    so   rapidly   that    the   sales 
through  its  Chicago  yard  have  for  a  number  of 
years   averaged   70,000,000   feet   of  lumber   an- 
nually,  while  various  branch  yards  have  been 
established,  including  that  operated  under  the 
name  of  the  South  Side  Lumber  Company.     In 
1895,  however,  Mr.  Rittenhouse  disposed  of  his 
interest  in  this  latter  concern  to  Mr.  Embree, 


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from  whom  he  purchased  the  latter's  holdings  in 
the  Rittenhouse  &  Embree  Company. 

John  W.  Embree  entered  the  employ  of  Mr. 
Rittenhouse  in  1884.  and  in  April.  1892.  became 
secretary  of  the  newly  incorporated  firai.  Mr. 
Rittenhouse  being  president.  The  corporation 
was  capitalized  at  $100,000.  The  company  pur- 
chased 100.000.000  feet  of  standing  timber  in 
Bayfield  County.  Wis.,  in  1898,  manufacturing 
lumber  at  Washburn  during  the  five  succeeding 
years.  In  1888  a  planing  mill  had  been  erected 
at  the  Chicago  plant,  and  a  few  years  later  the 
company  began  the  manufacture  of  maple  and 
oak  flooring,  now  an  important  branch  in  the 
business.  Other  important  connections  with 
which  Mr.  Rittenhouse  has  been  identified  in- 
clude the  retail  lumber  yard  of  H.  Juneau  & 
Company.  Pueblo,  Colo..  1880-1884.  and  the 
Omaha  Lumber  Company.  Omaha.  Neb.,  1S84- 
1890.  He  hecame  active  in  the  manufacture  of 
yellow  pine  as  president  of  the  Arkansas  Lum- 
ber Company  of  Warren,  Bradley  County,  Ark. 
The  corporation,  which  was  organized  in  Febru- 
ary, 1901.  now  owns  70.000  acres  of  standing 
timber  in  Bradley  County.  Ark.,  and  operates  a 
saw-mill  with  a  capacity  of  165.000  feet  of  lum- 
ber per  day  of  ten  hours.  Mr.  Rittenhouse  was 
vice-president  of  the  Chandler  Lumber  Company 
and  of  the  Sixty-third  Street  Lumber  Company, 
both  of  Chicago,  which  were  afterward  ah- 
sorbed  by  the  Rittenhouse  &  Embree  Company. 
He  is  president  and  stockholder  in  the  whole- 
sale hardware  house  of  George  P.  Derrickson 
Company  of  Minneapolis.  Minn. :  vice-president 
of  the  Arkansas  Trading  Company,  of  Warren, 
Ark.,  a  stockholder  and  director  in  the  Rich- 
ton  Lumber  Company  of  Richton,  Miss. ;  also  a 
stockholder  and  director  in  the  Edisto  River 
Lumber  Company  of  Branchville,  S.  C.  For 
some  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  Drovers 
Deposit  National  Bank  of  Chicago,  hut  resigned 
in  1911  because  of  other  pressing  business  inter- 
ests which  occupy  all  of  his  time  and  attention. 
From  1901  to  1904  he  was  treasurer  of  the  Wis- 
consin Oak  Lumber  Company  of  Chicago  and 
Frederic.  Wis.  In  1903  he  was  honored  by  elec- 
tion to  the  presidency  of  the  Lumberman's  As- 
sociation of  Chicago,  and  of  the  Maple  Flooring 
Manufacturers"  Association  of  the  United  States, 
of  which  he  had  previously  served  several  years 
as  treasurer. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Rittenhouse  occurred  in 
December.  1871,  when  he  was  united  with  Miss 
Emma    Stover,    whose    family    resided    in    the 


vicinity  of  Philadelphia.  Of  their  three  sons, 
Edward  owns  and  operates  a  farm  of  280  acres 
at  Griswold.  Livingston  County,  I1L  Charles 
J.  is  associated  with  the  Rittenhouse  &  Embree 
Company  having  charge  of  their  branch  yard 
at  Sixty-third  and  LaSalle  streets;  and  Walter 
is  a  successful  physician  of  Chicago.  The  latter, 
following  his  graduation  from  the  Northwestern 
University  Medical  College  in  May,  1904,  en- 
gaged in  hospital  practice  at  Detroit,  Mich., 
spent  two  years  in  medical  missionary  work  in 
Burmah.  India,  where  he  had  charge  of  a  hos- 
pital of  the  American  Baptist  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions,  and,  returning  to  this  country,  prac- 
ticed for  three  years  at  Lake  Geneva,  Wis.  He 
then  spent  one  year  at  Vienna,  Austria,  taking 
a  post-graduate  course,  and  is  now  engaged  in 
successful  practice  in  Chicago. 

In  religion  Mr.  Rittenhouse  is  a  Presbyterian, 
although  not  a  rigid  sectarian.  He  is  a  regular 
contributor  to  a  number  of  churches  of  different 
denominations.  In  former  years  when  his  busi- 
ness required  less  of  his  time  and  thoughts 
than  now,  he  devoted  much  attention  to  church 
and  Sunday  school  work.  In  March,  1876,  when 
not  yet  thirty  years  of  age,  he  was  elected  by 
the  Chicago  Presbytery  a  commissioner  to  the 
general  assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  church 
which  met  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y„  in  May  of  that 
year.  While  Mr.  Rittenhouse  is  most  loyal  in 
his  attachment  to  Chicago  and  its  institutions, 
and  to  the  United  States,  he  has  always  sus- 
tained a  love  for  the  land  of  his  birth.  Although 
located  in  the  hotbed  of  industrial  activity  in 
Chicago  for  nearly  fifty  years,  he  has  not  be- 
come so  absorbed  in  business  as  to  forget  the 
associations  of  his  youth.  In  the  community  in 
which  he  was  reared,  Lincoln  County,  Ontario, 
he  has  been  a  liberal  patron  of  schools,  churches, 
libraries,  road  improvements  and  advancements 
in  agricultural  industry.  He  is  a  thorough  be- 
liever in  the  good  roads  movement,  better  coun- 
try schools  and  school  surroundings,  and  their 
effect  upon  the  progress  of  the  community, 
holding  that  example  is  the  best  way  of  edu- 
cating the  people.  He  built  and  equipped  a 
model  country  school  house,  at  Vineland,  Lin- 
coln County,  Out.,  and  furnished  it  with  a  fine 
library  and  equipment.  This  building  is  sur- 
rounded by  four  acres  of  ground  which  has  been 
improved  and  beautified  in  the  highest  art  of 
the  landscape  gardener.  There  is  also  a  natural 
history  museum,  a  manual  training  department 
and  a  school  garden,  in  addition  to  the  library. 


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He  built  a  beautiful  music  hall,  which  be  named 
"Victoria  Hall,"  where  musical  and  literary  en- 
tertainments are  given  during  the  winter  sea- 
son. The  hall  is  located  in  a  beautiful  park 
comprising  five  acres  of  ground,  where  a  brass 
band  from  an  adjacent  town  entertains  tbe  peo- 
ple on  summer  evenings  with  open-air  concerts. 
Mr.  Rittenhouse  gave  to  the  Ontario  government 
a  model  farm  of  ninety  acres,  which  is  being 
operated  by  the  department  of  agriculture  as 
an  experimental  fruit  farm  for  the  benefit  of 
the  fruit  growers  of  Ontario.  He  built  in  Lin- 
coln County,  Ontario,  three  miles  of  a  model 
country  road,  or  boulevard,  to  encourage  bet- 
ter road-making  in  the  country.  For  these  and 
other  public  improvements  the  community  in 
which  Mr.  Rittenhouse  resided  when  he  was  a 
boy,  feel  grateful  and  delight  to  honor  him.  Nor 
have  his  benefactions  been  entirely  extended  in 
a  public  way.  Numerous  friends  and  associates 
of  his  early  life,  both  in  the  country  of  his 
birth  and  that  of  bis  adoption,  have  shared 
in  the  benefits  of  his  prosperity  which  he  loves 
to  bestow  in  a  quiet  and  unobstrusive  manner. 
He  has  been  recently  engaged  in  building  a  piece 
of  model  country  road  in  Bucks  County,  Pa„  to 
encourage  the  good  roads  movement  in  that  com- 
munity. He  has  also  recently  assisted  in  build- 
ing a  better  school  house  at  Griswold,  111.,  and 
furnished  it  with  a  fine  library  and  equipment. 
Mr.  Rittenhouse  has  long  been  prominent  in 
the  club  circles  of  Chicago,  where  he  holds  mem- 
bership in  the  Union  League  Club,  the  Hamilton 
Club,  the  South  Shore  Country  Club,  the  Chi- 
cago Yacht  Club,  and  the  Chicago  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation. Travel  constitutes  one  of  his  chief 
sources  of  pleasure,  and  he  has  visited  Egypt, 
Palestine  and  many  points  of  modern  and  his- 
toric interest  in  Europe,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Illinois  Manufacturers'  Association  party 
that  made  an  inspection  of  the  Panama  canal  in 
January,  1012.  He  stands  prominent  among 
those  whose  interests  are  varied  and  whose  ac- 
tivities have  always  been  of  a  nature  that  has 
fostered  progress,  improvement  and  civic  pride. 
A  contemporary  biographer  has  written  that  "an 
estimate  of  Mr.  Rittenhouse's  life  and  accom- 
plishments and  of  his  character  may  be  summed 


up  in  a  few  words.  He  is  possessed  of  an 
analytical  and  studious  mind  and  is  conservative 
in  his  attitude  toward  anything  tending  to  a 
deviation  from  accepted  customs,  though  pro- 
gressive, and  almost  an  enthusiast  when  he  has 
arrived  at  a  decision  after  a  thorough  investiga- 
tion of  the  subject  in  hand,  such  as  he  invari- 
ably makes.  If  apparently  retired  and  reserved 
in  his  manner,  it  is  because  of  a  commendable 
modesty  which  restrains  him  from  making  him- 
self conspicuous.  He  is  most  considerate  of  the 
welfare  and  comfort  of  those  who  are  about 
him  ;  is  courteous  and  generous  in  his  treament 
of  his  employes  in  all  his  enterprises ;  and  en- 
joys their  esteem  to  an  unusual  degree.  His 
habits  are  simple  almost  to  austerity,  though 
not  because  of  any  overweening  desire  to  save 
in  expense  but  rather  from  a  disposition  to 
conserve  his  health.  His  charitable  instincts 
are  largely  developed  and  every  act  of  his  life, 
whether  in  a  business  or  social  relation,  is 
prompted  and  controlled  by  the  principle  laid 
down  in  the  Golden  Rule." 

Public-spirited  and  charitable,  Mr.  Ritten- 
house always  finds  time  for  studying  and  fos- 
tering movements  which  aim  to  improve  the 
public  weal.  He  studies  deeply  the  great  pub- 
lic questions  of  the  day  and  finds  entertainment 
in  books,  music  and  travel,  and  also  in  congenial 
companionship.  Unassuming  in  his  manner, 
sincere  in  his  friendships,  steadfast  and  un- 
swerving in  his  loyalty  to  the  right,  it  is  but 
just  to  say  of  him  that  he  is  worthy  of  all 
praise.  Mr.  Rittenhouse's  career  has  been  one 
of  unusual  activity.  When  a  boy  working  in 
the  country,  he  aspired  to  excell,  and  going  to 
Chicago,  he  found  a  field  for  his  ability  and 
activity.  Careful,  conservative  and  possessed  of 
good  judgment,  he  rose  from  the  ranks  and  won 
enviable  distinction  among  the  progressive  men 
of  his  time.  Quite  and  unostentatious  in  his 
manner,  he  has  a  legion  of  friends.  A  philan- 
thropist, always  ready  to  help  the  worthy  who 
make  an  honest  effort,  kind  and  generous  to  his 
employes,  honorable  and  upright  in  his  business 
dealings,  he  has  lived  the  right  life  and  is  a 
worthy  example  of  those  whose  admirable  ef- 
forts build  up  the  business  of  the  nation. 


WILLIAM  ROY  BETHAM. 


William  R.  Rethain  was  born  at  Fort  Madi- 
son, Iowa,  on  August  21,  1860,  a  son  of  Fred- 
erick   Betham.      His   early    training    was    in    a 


Lutheran  school  at  Fort  Madison.  When  he 
was  about  fourteen  years  old  he  left  home  and 
came  to  Chicago.    He  became  self-supporting  at 


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that  time;  and  the  career  he  subsequently  built, 
solely  through  his  own  efforts,  is  one  that 
stands  decidedly  to  his  credit. 

He  has  been  a  Chicagoan  continuously  since 
about  1878.  His  first  work  here  was  with  the 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad.  After  a  few 
years  he  was  made  chief  clerk  of  the  freight 
department  of  his  road.  He  was  ambitious, 
earnest  and  equipped  with  an  able  mind.  It 
was  his  hope  to  became  a  lawyer,  and  he  studied 
law  in  the  evenings  and  during  spare  hours.  At 
the  end  of  these  preparatory  studies  he  took 
the  Illinois  State  Bar  Examination,  passed  it, 
and  was  admitted  to  practice  about  1893. 

For  a  period  slightly  less  than  a  decade  he 
was  solely  engaged  in  the  practice  of  the  law 
at  Chicago.  About  1898  the  opportunity  came 
to  him  to  take  over  the  business  of  the  Bene- 
detto Allegretti  Company,  candy  manufacturers. 
This  he  did  and  he  was  President  of  this  con- 
cern to  the  time  of  his  death.     After  assuming 


the  management  of  this  business,  he  limited 
his  law  practice  to  the  work  his  old  friends  and 
clients  brought  to  him. 

On  June  27,  1904,  Mr.  Betham  was  married 
to  Miss  Edna  M.  Harris,  a  daughter  of  George 
P.  and  Abigail  (Dillon)  Harris.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Betham  maintained  their  home  on  the  South 
Side  in  Chicago.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
South  Shore  Country  Club,  and  of  the  Chicago 
Association  of  Commerce. 

Mr.  Betham  died  on  October  20,  1924,  in  his 
sixty-fifth  year.  His  life  and  work  have  been 
of  real  consequence  throughout  the  forty-five 
years  of  his  residence  here.  His  personality  was 
strong  and  most  pleasant.  He  was  a  student 
and  a  thinker.  He  took  active  interest  in  civic 
matters  and  was  the  writer  of  a  number  of 
articles.  And  he  was  among  the  principal  fig- 
ures in  creating  the  development  that  recent 
years  have  brought  in  the  great  candy  indus- 
try that  centers  in  Chicago. 


DR.  HENRY  TUBBS. 


Dr.  Henry  Tubbs,  of  Kirkwood,  Illinois,  was 
for  many  years  closely  allied  with  the  financial, 
political  and  educational  interests  of  Warren 
County. 

He  was  of  slender  build  and  below  the  aver- 
age in  physical  strength,  but  he  possessed  a 
strong  and  rugged  mentality  and  a  dominating 
will.  In  manner  he  was  quiet  and  self-pos- 
sessed, but  vigorous  and  forceful.  The  spectac- 
ular or  artificial  was  absolutely  unknown  in 
him.  He  was  widely-read,  a  close  observer,  a 
deep  thinker,  and  a  man  of  rare  and  far-seeing 
judgment.  He  was  a  thorough  "gentleman  of 
the  old  school,"  and  throughout  a  long  and  use- 
ful life  maintained  the  highest  personal  char- 
acter. 

Henry  Tubbs  was  born  at  Watervleit,  Albany 
County,  New  York,  December  12,  1822,  the 
eighth  child  in  a  family  of  fourteen.  His  father, 
Lemuel  Tubbs,  a  son  of  Israel  and  Elizabeth 
(Lewis)  Tubbs,  was  born  at  Schodack  Landing. 
Rensellaer  County,  New  York,  in  1786.  He 
traced  his  ancestry  back  to  1635  when  William 
Tubbs  came  to  the  colony  at  Plymouth,  where  he 
later  became  a  member  of  Miles  Standish's 
valiant  little  army.  His  mother,  Lydia  Tubbs, 
born  at  Schodack,  New  York,  in  1790,  was  the 
daughter  of  George  and  Gertrude  Millious,  the 
former  of  English,  and  the  latter  of  Dutch 
descent. 


He  was  a  frail  child,  high  strung  and  sensi- 
tive. During  his  early  boyhood  he  worked 
on  his  father's  farm  and  attended  the  district 
school  whenever  possible.  At  the  age  of  seven- 
teen, through  the  illness  of  his  father,  the 
management  of  the  farm  devolved  entirely  upon 
him  and  a  younger  brother,  George.  School 
work  was  interrupted,  but  his  evenings  were 
spent  in  reading  and  study  at  home.  He  spent 
one  year  in  the  Ames  (New  York)  Academy 
working  for  board  and  tuition.  At  nineteen  he 
secured  a  school  of  sixty  pupils,  "boarded 
around"  and  received  a  salary  of  $12.00  per 
month.  These  meager  earnings  enabled  him 
to  spend  the  following  year  at  Fairfield  Academy 
in  Herkimer  County,  New  York.  Then  feeling 
the  need  of  out-of-door  life  he  began  book  can- 
vassing in  Troy  and  New  York  City,  and  later, 
in  order  that  he  might  find  time  for  study  in 
the  alternating  shifts,  he  drove  the  horses  for 
the  Erie  Canal  boats. 

Soon,  however,  he  returned  to  the  schoolroom. 
For  some  time  the  study  of  medicine  had  ap- 
pealed strongly  to  him.  Being  financially  un- 
able at  that  time  to  enter  a  medical  college,  he 
began  after  school  hours  to  read  medicine  with 
a  local  physician.  This,  after  a  long  day  of 
teaching,  with  an  average  of  sixty  pupils,  proved 
too  much  for  his  health,  and  twice  during  the 
year   he   was   obliged   to   close  the   school.     In 


892 


HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


June,  1847,  school  teaching  was  permanently 
abandoned  and  he  turned  his  attention  wholly 
to  the  study  of  medicine.  The  coveted  medical 
course  being  impossible,  he  entered  the  office 
of  a  physician,  who  showed  him  the  greatest 
kindness  and  consideration  in  directing  his 
studies,  in  demonstrating  cases  and  offering  op- 
portunities for  advancement.  In  this  humble 
way  he  applied  himself,  as  nearly  as  possible, 
to  the  studies  being  given  in  the  medical  col- 
leges of  that  period.  Those  stern,  early  years 
had  developed  a  capacity  for  hard  work,  for 
responsibility  and  independent  thinking,  and  his 
progress  was  rapid.  The  doctor  turned  an  in- 
creasingly large  amount  of  work  over  to  him. 
At  this  time  large  doses  of  calomel,  bleeding 
and  other  heroic  measures  were  much  in  vogue. 
He  believed  this  to  be  a  fallacy.  He  was  con- 
vinced of  the  wisdom  of  more  conservative 
measures.  He  had  the  courage  of  his  convic- 
tion, and  facing  no  small  amount  of  criticism 
and  ill-will,  he  departed  from  the  popular  teach- 
ings of  the  day  and  advocated  milder  medicine 
and  upbuilding,  rather  than  depletive  agencies. 
Along  these  lines  he  later  began  practicing  with 
an  office  at  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  fre- 
quently lectured  in  New  England  towns  and 
villages  against  the  extreme  and  severe  meth- 
ods of  treating  illness. 

When  he  had  saved  funds  sufficient  to  war- 
rant such  procedure,  he  entered  a  small  medical 
college  at  Macon,  Georgia,  from  which  he  later 
received  his  medical  degree.  This  college  was 
chosen  both  because  its  teachings  were  opposed 
to  the  extreme  methods  mentioned  above,  and 
because  while  carrying  on  his  work,  he  might 
see  and  learn  something  of  the  South.  The  lat- 
ter reason  was  most  characteristic.  Throughout 
his  life  he  was  exceedingly  fond  of  travel,  and 
it  was  always  one  of  his  principal  forms  of 
recreation. 

He  finally  located  in  Cleveland.  Ohio.  Later 
in  life  he  often  referred  to  these  first  gloomy 
and  discouraging  weeks  when,  from  his  office 
window  he  watched  the  passersby  and  hoped  one 
of  the  many  might  call  as  a  patient ;  weeks 
when  expenses  went  steadily  on  and  income 
remained  as  steadily  absent.  Once  established. 
his  practice  grew  rapidly.  His  conservatism, 
his  painstaking  study  of  the  individual  case,  and 
his  sympathy  and  understanding,  born  of  his 
own  personal  struggle  for  health,  won  for  him 
the  confidence  and  deep  friendship  of  his  pa- 
tients.    He  worked  incessantly,  taking  compara- 


tively few  vacations,  and  most  conscientiously 
carried  the  burden  of  a  large  practice,  until  his 
health  again  failed,  and  with  deep  regret  he 
closed  his  career  as  a  practicing  physician.  His 
interest  in  medicine,  however,  was  maintained 
as  long  as  he  lived.  In  the  midst  of  an  absorb- 
ing and  exacting  business  life,  he  found  time 
for  medical  reading,  and  eagerly  followed  the 
later  discoveries  and  developments.  He  was  a 
frequent  visitor  in  the  sickroom,  where,  in  a 
way  peculiar  to  himself,  he  brought  cheer  and 
encouragement. 

His  family  had  moved  to  a  farm  near  Kirk- 
wood,  Illinois.  After  leaving  Cleveland  in  1859, 
he  spent  some  time  working  on  this  farm,  and 
regained  his  lost  strength.  At  the  outbreak  of 
the  Civil  War,  being  physically  unable  to  enter 
active  service,  he  assumed  the  responsibility  of 
the  family  and  the  farm,  thus  relieving  a 
younger  member  of  the  family  and  enabling  him 
to  enter  the  service.  At  the  same  time,  while 
unable  to  be  at  the  front  his  patriotic  spirit  ex- 
pressed itself  at  home  in  many  ways  helpful  to 
his  country. 

From  early  boyhood  Henry  Tubbs  had  shown 
a  marked  tendency  for  business  methods.  The 
simplest  accounts  were  accurately  kept,  the 
strictest  economy  practiced,  and  his  earnings 
were  carefully  and  profitably  invested.  In  1863 
he  began  his  business  career.  At  this  time 
Kirkwood  was  a  thriving  little  village  in  the 
midst  of  an  extensive  agricultural  district,  and 
there  was  large  demand  for  farm  implements 
and  general  hardware.  Recognizing  this  need, 
he  established  and  became  a  member  of  the 
Tubbs  and  Sofield  hardware  firm,  which  for 
eleven  years  did  a  very  active  business.  In 
1874  he  dissolved  this  partnership  and  opened 
a  private  bank.  In  the  following  years  this  was 
superseded  by  the  First  National  Bank  of  Kirk- 
wood, Illinois,  of  which  he  was  elected  presi- 
dent. In  1884  he  was  elected  president  of  the 
Monmouth  National  Bank,  at  Monmouth,  Illi- 
nois, and  in  1894  he  organized  and  was  made 
president  of  the  First  National  Bank  at  Alexis, 
Illinois.  All  three  of  these  positions  he  held 
until  his  death.  He  also  helped  organize  the 
State  Bank  of  Stronghurst.  From  1884  until 
his  death  at  the  age  of  seventy-five,  he  devoted 
practically  all  of  his  time  to  the  National  Bank 
of  Monmouth  and  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Kirkwood.  The  Warren  County  Democrat 
(Monmouth)  of  June  9,  1892,  says: 


HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


893 


"The  'Financier'  recently  published  an  honor 
roll  of  banks  whose  business  entitled  them  to 
special  credit.  Out  of  about  4,000  national 
banks  in  operation  in  the  United  States  from 
government  reports,  269,  only,  are  entitled  by 
their  strength  to  this  roll  of  honor.  Of  the 
269  mentioned,  20  belong  in  this  state  (including 
the  banks  of  Chicago),  and  three  out  of  the 
twenty  belong  to  Warren  County :  the  National 
Bank  of  Monmouth,  the  Second  National  Bank 
of  this  city,  and  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Kirkwood.  A  very  fine  showing,  indeed,  and 
it  is  especially  creditable  to  Dr.  Henry  Tubbs, 
who  is  president  of  the  first  and  last  named  of 
the  three.  It  is  not  only  a  credit  to  his  skill  as 
a  financier  but  it  is  an  honor  to  the  city  and 
county  to  be  thus  represented." 

His  conservatism,  his  cautious  foresight  and 
wisdom  in  investments  brought  to  him  many 
who  sought  personal  business  advice.  A  not  in- 
frequent tribute  paid  him  by  men  of  his  com- 
munity today  is  that  they  owe  him  a  large  debt 
of  gratitude  for  the  principles  and  assistance 
which  enabled  them  to  make  their  financial  start 
in  the  world. 

Throughout  his  business  career  he  took  a 
keen  interest  in  agricultural  conditions,  and  was 
a  constant  advocate  of  investment  in  Illinois 
farm  land. 

In  politics  Dr.  Tubbs  was  a  Republican.  Po- 
litical positions  were  unsought  by  him,  but  he 
had  a  wide  acquaintance,  he  took  a  deep  in- 
terest in  the  political  movements  of  the  day,  and 
he  gradually  came  to  assume  some  political  re- 
sponsibility in  the  State.  In  1864,  and  for  some 
years  thereafter,  he  served  as  a  member  and 
Chairman  of  the  Warren  County  Board  of  Su- 
pervisors. In  1869-1870  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Illinois  Constitutional  Convention.  He  was  a 
delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Convention 
held  in  Philadelphia  in  1872,  at  which  General 
Grant  was  nominated  for  the  presidency,  and 
was  also  a  delegate  to  the  National  Republican 
Convention  in  Chicago  which  nominated  James 
A.  Garfield  for  the  presidency  in  1880.  From 
1882  to  1886  he  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
Senate.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Banks  and  Banking,  of  the  joint  committee  su- 
pervising the  educational  institutions  of  the 
State  and  of  the  Appropriation  Committee.  He 
was  always  deeply  interested  in  anything  per- 


taining to  child  welfare,  and  he  introduced  a 
bill  providing  for  the  study  in  the  public  schools 
of  elementary  physiology  and  the  study  of  the 
known  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants 
and  narcotics  on  the  human  system. 

Henry  Tubbs  never  became  a  member  of  a  re- 
ligious organization,  but  was  in  close  sympathy 
with  religious  movements  and  particularly  with 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Kirkwood, 
of  which  he  was  a  trustee  from  the  time  of  its 
organization  in  1865  until  his  death. 

He  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the 
Warren  County  Library  and  was  a  trustee  from 
its  organization  until  his  death.  For  many 
years  he  supervised  the  finances  of  this  associa- 
tion and  did  all  in  his  power  to  stimulate  and 
encourage  reading  on  the  part  of  the  public. 

On  December  1,  1868,  Henry  Tubbs  married 
Miss  Emily  Underbill,  who  was  born  near 
Rome,  Oneida  County,  New  York,  on  June  29, 
1834.  She  was  one  of  six  children  born  to 
Samuel  and  Jemimah  (Pease)  Underhill,  and 
was  a  granddaughter  of  James  and  Deborah 
(Sutherland)  Underhill.  Her  immediate  an- 
cestors were  natives  of  New  York,  but  they  were 
all  of  direct  Scotch  and  English  descent.  Miss 
Underhill  had  been  engaged  in  teaching  school 
in  Remsen,  Buffalo  and  other  New  York  towns, 
and  following  her  family  to  Illinois  in  1863,  was 
teaching  in  the  public  schools  of  Kirkwood  when 
Doctor  Tubbs  became  acquainted  with  her.  Mrs. 
Tubbs,  a  devoted  wife,  mother  and  friend,  died 
at  her  home  in  Kirkwood,  November  20,  1923. 
To  this  union,  which  was  a  most  happy  one, 
three  children  were  born.  Henry  Rolla,  who  died 
on  July  4,  1890,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  Myra  Emily, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Dr.  Howard  Ricketts, 
and  George  Shirley,  who  died  in  Bombay,  India, 
on  January  23,  1907. 

During  the  closing  years  of  Doctor  Tubbs' 
life,  until  within  a  short  time  of  his  death,  he 
retained  his  capacity  for  hard  work  and  a  full 
enjoyment  of  life.  There  was  no  waning  of  in- 
terest in  business  and  current  events,  and  there 
was  no  lack  of  interest  in,  and  solicitude  for, 
those  about  him.  His  love  of  nature,  his  pleasure 
in  books,  travel  and  home,  remained,  appar- 
ently, untouched.  After  a  brief  illness,  he  died 
at  his  home  in  Kirkwood,  on  July  17,  1899,  and 
a  life  of  integrity,  of  honor  and  of  usefulness, 
came  to  a  close. 


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HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS. 


HOWARD  T.  RICKETTS. 


Howard  T.  Rieketts  was  born  near  Findley, 
Ohio,  February  9,  1871.  He  possessed  a  per- 
sonality of  singular  charm  and  his  attitude  to- 
wards all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact  was 
marked  by  an  unusual  consideration,  generosity 
and  sincerity.  "He  had  besides  remarkable 
qualities  of  intellect,  a  peculiarly  winning  sim- 
plicity of  manner  that  formed  a  striking  con- 
trast to  the  alert  determination  and  high 
ability  that  led  to  his  achievements."  "All 
loved  the  man  as  enthusiastically  as  they  ad- 
mired the  physician." 

His  father,  Andrew  Duncan  Rieketts,  born  at 
Arlington,  Ohio,  was  of  Scotch  and  English 
descent.  He  was  a  farmer  and  grain  dealer. 
He  served  in  the  Civil  War  in  the  Hundred  Day 
Service  of  1861  and  again  in  18G4  as  one  of  the 
Ohio  Volunteers.  His  mother,  Nancy  Jane 
(Haverfleld)  Rieketts,  born  at  Cadiz,  Ohio,  was 
of  Scotch  descent  and  received  her  education  in 
the  schools  of  Findley  and  at  Oberlin  College. 

In  1874  the  family  moved  to  Fisher.  Illinois. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  this  village, 
and  later  the  Preparatory  School  of  Northwest- 
ern University  at  Evanston,  Illinois.  He  spent 
two  years  in  the  University,  then  went  with  his 
family  to  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  where  he  grad- 
uated in  1894  from  the  State  University.  In 
1897  he  obtained  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine from  the  Northwestern  Medical  School  in 
Chicago.  After  serving  as  interne  in  the  Cook 
County  Hospital  he  was  appointed  Fellow  of 
Cutaneous  Pathology  in  Rush  Medical  College, 
and  it  was  under  this  Fellowship  that  he  did 
his  first  important  piece  of  research  on  Blasto- 
mycosis, then  a  new  and  somewhat  obscure  dis- 
ease of  the  skin. 

The  year  1901-1902  was  spent  in  the  laborato- 
ries and  hospitals  of  Berlin  and  Vienna,  and  in 
the  Pasteur  Institute  at  Paris.  In  the  fall  of 
1902  he  became  an  Associate  in  the  Department 
of  Pathology  and  Bacteriology  at  the  University 
of  Chicago,  advancing  later  to  the  grade  of  As- 
sistant Professor,  which  position  he  held  until 
March,  1910,  when  he  accepted  the  chair  of 
Pathology  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

In  1906  he  began  the  study  of  Rocky  Moun- 
tain Spotted  Fever  in  the  Bitter  Root  Valley 
in  Montana,  and  after  a  long  series  of  experi- 
ments, covering  a  period  of  three  years  and  con- 
ducted in  Montana  and  in  Chicago,  where  he 
had  succeeded  in  bringing  the  disease  in  guinea 


pigs,  he  discovered  in  the  blood  of  the  patient 
and  in  ticks  and  their  eggs,  the  microbe  which 
caused  this  frequently  fatal  disease.  Of  this 
work  Dr.  Ludvig  Hektoen,  to  whose  guidance 
and  assistance  he  owed  much  of  his  success, 
says,  "His  earlier  researches  are  all  marked  by 
rare  insight,  directness  and  accuracy,  by  clear 
and  forceful  reasoning;  it  is  in  his  brilliant 
work  on  Rocky  Mountain  Spotted  Fever,  how- 
ever, that  Doctor  Rieketts  reveals  himself  as  an 
investigator  of  the  first  rank." 

"Rocky  Mountain  Spotted  Fever  in  many 
ways  resembles  Typhus  Fever.  Having  deter- 
mined its  mode  of  transmission,  its  cause  and  a 
rational  method  for  its  prevention,  Doctor 
Rieketts  became  more  and  more  strongly  pos- 
sessed with  the  thought  that  the  special  knowl- 
edge and  training  thus  acquired,  would  prove 
of  great  value  in  the  study  of  Typhus  Fever." 
It  was  for  this  reason,  and  because  of  his  hope 
to  contribute  something  of  permanent  value  to 
humanity  in  its  struggle  against  disease,  that, 
aided  by  the  University  of  Chicago  and  The 
John  McCormick  Institute  for  Infectious  Dis- 
eases, he  left  on  December  5th,  1909,  for  the 
City  of  Mexico.  His  task  here  was  a  difficult 
one.  Conditions  were  discouraging  and  dis- 
heartening. It  was  necessary  in  a  very  short 
time  to  acquire  a  speaking  knowledge  of  the 
language  and  much  formality  was  required  be- 
fore adequate  working  facilities  could  be  ob- 
tained. His  supply  of  animals  for  experimental 
purposes  was  much  too  small,  and  the  imme- 
diate amount  of  work  to  be  done  was  greater 
by  far  than  could  be  handled  by  one  alone 
Finally,  however,  convenient  working  quarters 
were  placed  at  his  disposal  and  Russell  Wilder 
of  Chicago,  a  volunter  assistant,  arrived  with 
the  much  needed  supply  of  animals.  He  and 
his  assistant  then  spent  long  days  in  the  labo- 
ratory and  at  the  bedsides  of  typhus  patients, 
working  often  to  the  point  of  exhaustion,  but 
before  many  weeks  had  passed,  results  of  great 
importance  were  secured.  "It  was  found  that 
Typhus  was  different  from  Rocky  Mountain 
Spotted  Fever,  though  they  had  many  points  in 
common ;  that  Typhus  Fever  is  communicable  to 
the  monkey  and  that  it  may  be  transmitted  by 
an  insect."  Some  of  these  results  simply  con- 
firmed the  findings  of  others,  but  early  in  April, 
Doctor  Rieketts  discovered  a  micro-organism 
which  he  believed  to  be  the  true  cause  of  Typhus 


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Fever — a  belief  which  subsequent  investigations 
seem  to  have  corroborated.  The  microbes  found 
by  him  in  his  last  work  on  Rocky  Mountain 
Spotted  Fever  and  Typhus  Fever  have  recently 
been  placed  in  a  group  by  themselves  under  the 
name  of  "Rickettsia,"  thus  perpetuating  his 
name  in  the  records  of  science. 

As  he  was  completing  his  work  in  Mexico, 
on  the  eve  of  his  departure  for  home,  he  was 
stricken  with  the  disease  he  had  been  studying. 
Fully  realizing  the  seriousness  of  his  illness  and 
the  uncertainty  of  the  outcome,  he  at  once 
wrote  out  detailed  instructions  for  the  carry- 
ing on  of  the  work  by  his  assistant  who  was 
to  have  remained  several  weeks  longer  in 
the  country,  then,  with  an  unfailing  interest, 
followed  his  symptoms  until  his  mind  became 
clouded  by  the  delirium  which  usually  accom- 
panies this  disease.  After  an  illness  of  two 
weeks,  he  died  in  the  American  Hospital  on 
May  3rd,  1910. 

By  the  order  of  President  Diaz  a  memorial 
volume    was   published    by    the   government   of 


Mexico  and  placed  in  the  leading  libraries  "of 
all  countries  friendly  to  Mexico,"  and  the  labo- 
ratory in  which  Doctor  Ricketts  had  carried  on 
his  investigations  at  the  Institute  Bacteriolog- 
ical National,  was  dedicated  and  named  in  his 
honor. 

Among  the  honors  shown  to  his  memory  by 
the  University  of  Chicago  was  the  naming  of 
the  new  building  occupied  by  the  Departments 
of  Pathology  and  Bacteriology,  "The  Howard 
Taylor  Ricketts  Laboratory"  and  a  beautiful 
and  fitting  tribute  was  paid  him  by  his  profes- 
sional friends  and  colleagues  in  the  publication 
by  the  Chicago  Pathological  Society  of  a  volume 
containing  his  most  important  published  works, 
entitled,   "Contributions   to   Medical  Science." 

Doctor  Ricketts  was  married  April  18,  1900, 
to  Miss  Myra  Tubbs  of  Kirkwood,  Illinois.  To 
them  two  children  were  born :  Henry,  now  a 
student  at  Harvard  Medical  School,  Boston, 
and  Elisabeth,  wife  of  Dr.  Walter  L.  Palmer  of 
Chicago. 


GEORGE  BIRKHOFF.  Jr. 


George  Birkhoff,  Jr.,  was  born  in  the  Nether- 
lands, May  15,  1852,  son  of  George  and  Agatha 
(Van  Putten)  Birkhoff,  both  natives  of  Hol- 
land. The  father  was  a  building  contractor 
who  came  to  the  United  States  in  1869,  set- 
tling at  Chicago.  It  is  noteworthy  that  it 
was  he  who  built  the  first  structure  reared 
after  the  great  fire  of  1871.  In  1894  he  re- 
tired, and  until  his  death  occupied  himself 
with  his  philanthropic  work.  A  man  of  fine 
education,  he  believed  in  the  value  of  training 
for  men  and  started  many  on  an  upward  road 
by  placing  within  their  reach  the  means  for 
securing  an  education.  His  death  occurred  in 
December,  1911. 

Until  he  was  seventeen  years  old  George 
Birkhoff,  Jr.,  attended  the  Rotterdam  Acad- 
emy, when  at  that  early  age,  he  began  teach- 
ing at  Rotterdam.  After  his  location  at  Chi- 
cago, Mr.  Birkhoff  entered  the  real-estate  office 
of  William  D.  Kerfoot,  and  so  demonstrated 
his  ability  that  he  later  became  a  member 
of  the  firm  and  this  association  continued  until 
his  death. 

Mr.  Birkhoff  was  appointed  in  1886  consul  to 
the  Netherlands,  and  in  1908  was  made  consul 
general,  in  which  office  he  remained.  He  was 
also    made    in    1893,    commissioner    general    to 


represent  the  Netherlands  at  the  World's  Fair. 
Mr.  Birkhoff  was  further  honored,  in  1894,  by 
the  Netherlands  government,  by  being  appointed 
an  officer  of  the  Order  of  Orange  Nassau,  and 
in  1895,  he  was  decorated  by  the  Duke  of 
Luxemburg,  a  chevalier  of  the  Eiken  Kron. 
The  first-named  honor  is  the  highest  that  can 
be  granted  any  man  by  the  Netherlands.  He 
also  took  a  deep  interest  in  Chicago  affairs. 
Mr.  Birkhoff  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Chicago  Real  Estate  Board,  and  held  every 
office  including  that  of  president  connected 
with  it. 

On  June  22,  1875,  Mr.  Birkhoff  was  married 
to  Elizabeth  Van  Winden  of  Rotterdam,  Hol- 
land, a  daughter  of  William  and  Margaretta 
(Bijl)  Van  Winden,  both  natives  of  Holland. 
The  children  born  of  this  marriage  were  as 
follows :  George,  who  is  deceased  ;  Genevieve 
Margaret;  William,  who  is  deceased;  Agatha 
Louise  and  George  III.  In  politics,  Mr.  Birk- 
hoff was  a  Republican,  but  held  no  offices.  For 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  old  Third 
Presbyterian  Church,  but  later  connected 
himself  with  the  Kenwood  Evangelical 
Church,  of  which  he  became  an  elder.  Mr. 
Birkhoff  was  consistently  useful  throughout  his 
life  in  the  development  of  the  great  real-estate 


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interests  of  the  city.  More  than  that,  as  con 
sul  for  the  Netherlands  he  attracted  to  Ameri- 
can enterprise  the  cautious  and  wholesome  sup- 
port of  the  Dutch  investor.  He  was  chiefly 
instrumental  in  the  organization  of  the  Hol- 
land Building  and  Loan  Association  of  Chicago 
in  1881.  He  was  its  first  secretary,  filling  this 
important  position  until  January,  1887,  when 
he  was  unanimously  elected  president  and  so 
remained  until  his  death.     The  growth  of  the 


assets  of  the  association  from  a  few  hundred 
dollars  to  $250,000  resulted  under  his  adminis- 
tration, and  substantial  benefits  resulted  to  its 
many  shareholders  and  patrons,  who  were 
largely  of  Holland  birth,  the  net  profits  arising 
from  the  loans  being  divided  among  the  share- 
holders. 

George  Birkhoff,  Jr.,  died  on  June  26,  1914. 
His  life  was  one  of  fine  usefulness  both  to  his 
adopted  city  and  to  the  land  of  his  birth. 


CHARLES  FRANKLIN  WIXON. 


Charles  F.  Wixon  was  born  at  Danbury,  Con- 
necticut, on  December  31,  1860,  a  son  of  Ferdi- 
nand and  Caroline  (Ingersoll)  Wixon,  of  Dan- 
bury,  Connecticut.  When  he  was  about  three 
years  old  the  family  moved  their  home  to  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  and  here  his  boyhood  and  the 
balance  of  his  later  life  were  spent.  He  was 
educated  in  Chicago  Public  Schools. 

When  he  began  work,  as  a  young  man,  he 
became  connected  with  the  spice  business.  He 
was  first  a  city  salesman  for  a  spice  concern 
and  later  traveled  extensively,  in  the  same 
business,  for  several  different  large  firms. 

In  1902  he  went  into  business  for  himself  and 
founded  the  firm  of  Wixon  &  Company.  This 
business  was  incorporated  as  the  Wixon  Spice 
Company  in  1915,  with  Mr.  Wixon  as  President. 
The  company's  factory  is  in  Chicago  at  Dearborn 
and  Austin  Streets. 

During  the  period  of  approximately  a  quarter 
of  a  century  in  which  Mr.  Wixon  was  at  the 
head  of  his  own  concern,  he  developed  the  busi- 
ness to  large  proportions.  He  bought  and  im- 
ported great  quantities  of  spices  from  all  over 
the  world,  bringing  them  to  Chicago  where  they 
were  manufactured  and  packed  by  his  organ- 
ization. These  finished  products  he  sold 
throughout  the  world  to  the  large  jobbers  and 


wholesalers.  The  firm  of  Wixon  &  Company 
and  its  successor,  the  Wixon  Spice  Company, 
have  enjoyed  a  very  substantial  reputation  in 
business  circles. 

A  short  time  prior  to  Mr.  Wixon's  death,  he 
turned  his  entire  business  and  good  will  over 
to  several  men  in  his  employ  who  had  stood  by 
him,  with  faithful  service  and  friendship, 
through  many  past  years.  This  act  of  Mr. 
Wixon's  was  very  typical  of  him,  for  he  was 
notably  considerate,  just,  kind  and  appreciative. 

Mr.  Wixon  was  a  Thirty-second-degree  Mason, 
a  Knight  Templar  and  Shriner.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Illinois  Athletic  Club. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Wixon  occurred  March  10, 
1925.  For  over  sixty  years  he  lived  in  Chicago 
and  he  accomplished  a  great  deal  of  good  in 
the  city.  As  has  been  outlined  above  he  founded 
and  developed  the  business  house  bearing  his 
name  which  is  one  of  the  most  important  firms 
of  its  kind.  He  was  also  a  founder  of  the  Home 
for  Men  in  Chicago  which  has  done  very  much 
in  the  care  and  rehabilitation  of  needy  and 
discouraged  individuals.  Beside  this,  his  philan- 
thropy has  been  of  true  service  to  people  here 
in  many  quiet  ways.  His  death  removed  a 
good  and  able  man  from  our  midst. 


ROBERT  LAW. 


Robert  Law  was  born  in  Gisborne,  Yorkshire, 
England,  on  February  15,  1822,  fourth  child  and 
third  son  of  Robert  and  Jennie  (Henshaw) 
Law,  both  natives  of  England.  When  he  was 
seventeen  years  old  his  father  died,  and  when  he 
was  twenty-one  he  left  his  home  in  England  and 
sailed  for  America,  landing  at  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, after  an  uncomfortable  voyage  of  three 
months'    duration. 

He  bought  a  farm  on  the  banks  of  the  Chesa- 


peake Bay  and  was  engaged  there  for  a  number 
of  years  in  growing  peaches.  In  1854,  not  long 
after  his  mother  came  from  England  to  join 
him,  he  sold  his  property  in  Maryland  and 
moved,  with  his  mother,  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 
After  this  a  sister  and  brother  came  from  Eng- 
land and  located  on  a  farm  in  Southern  Illinois, 
not   far   from    St.    Louis. 

Mr.  Law  purchased  a  steamboat  and  for  the 
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between  St.  Louis  and  New  Orleans.  He  also 
did  some  contract  work  for  the  government  on 
the  Mississippi  levees. 

He  subsequently  removed  to  Galena,  Illinois, 
where,  as  a  railroad  contractor,  he  built  a  road 
between  Galena  and  Rockford,  Illinois.  He  also 
built  a  part  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  be- 
tween Dubuque  and  La  Salle,  and  between  Free- 
port  and  Galena. 

He  later  became  interested  in  a  coal  mine  at 
LaSalle,  Illinois ;  and  soon  thereafter  took  up 
his  residence  in  Chicago  and  founded  the  firm 
of  Robert  Law  &  Company,  to  distribute  the 
coal  from  this  mine.  He  embarked  in  the  coal 
business  on  a  very  small  scale.  As  the  years 
passed,  the  business  of  the  firm  increased  to 
very  large  proportions.  Mr.  Law  was  also  agent 
for  many  of  the  important  eastern  coal  com- 
panies. His  first  office  was  at  the  junction  of 
Madison  street  and  the  river.  Later  he  moved 
to  the  Tribune  Building,  then  to  the  Honore 
Building  and  finally  to  the  Temple  Court  Build- 
ing. His  company  owned  three  coal  yards,  the 
principal  one  being  near  the  Madison  Street 
Bridge.  He  was  also  a  large  stockholder  in  the 
Lackawanna  Coal  Company.  Aside  from  his 
coal  interests  he  was  extensively  interested  in 
the  development  of  timber  lands  in  Michigan. 

His  son,  Robert  H.  Law,  was  associated  with 
him  in  business  and  was  made  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Robert  Law  &  Company.  Robert  H. 
Law  died  on  May  13,  1913. 


Mr.  Law  was  married  on  March  5,  1852,  at 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  to  Miss  Sarah  C.  Young. 
Their  children  are:  Elizabeth  (Mrs.  Lyman 
Ware)  of  Chicago,  Emma,  who  died  unmarried, 
and  the  late  Robert  H.  Law.  The  mother  died 
on   May  25,   1874. 

Mr.  Law  was  a  consistent  Christian  all  of 
his  life.  He  attended  Doctor  Swing's  Church, 
and,  later,  when  J.  Monroe  Gibson  was  pastor 
of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago, 
he  attended  there.  He  made  practical  applica- 
tion of  his  Christian  principles ;  and  his  success 
in  business  life  came  largely  from  his  conscien- 
tious  following  of  the    Golden   Rule. 

On  January  5,  1861,  at  the  outbreak  of  the 
Civil  War,  Mr.  Law  issued  the  call  for  the 
meeting  that  was  held  in  Bryan  Hall,  Chicago, 
for  the  purpose  of  declaring  loyalty  to  the  Union 
cause.  Later  he  aided  very  materially  in  rais- 
ing funds,  equipping  troops  and  caring  for  the 
families  of  volunteers. 

At  the  time  of  the  World's  Fair  in  Chicago, 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Exposition  Board  of 
Directors. 

Mr.  Law  died,  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  on  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1898,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  and 
was  buried  in  Graceland  Cemetery.  The  firm 
of  Robert  Law  '&  Company,  of  which  he  was  the 
founder  and  head,  was  discontinued  following 
the  death  of  this  distinguished  pioneer  citizen 
of  Chicago. 


LYMAN  WARE. 


Chicago  is  justly  notable  for  the  skill,  learn- 
ing and  high  character  of  the  men  and  women 
who  are  its  medical  practitioners  for  the  pro- 
fession here  numbers  among  its  members  those 
whose  scientific  attainments  are  far  beyond 
the  ordinary.  Among  those  well  known  here 
for  the  past  half  century  is  Dr.  Lyman  Ware, 
whose  career  was  typical  of  modern  advance- 
ment, his  having  been  a  broad  field  of  medical 
service. 

Lyman  Ware  was  born  at  Granville,  Putman 
County,  111.,  November  11,  1841.  His  parents 
were  Ralph  and  Lucinda  A.  (Clarke)  Ware,  who 
were  among  the  pioneers  of  Illinois,  having  set- 
tled in  this  state  in  the  early  '30s.  In  his 
native  place  he  had  academic  advantages  and 
later  he  attended  the  University  of  Michigan. 
During  1863-64  he  served  in  the  Civil  war, 
in  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-second  Illinois 


Volunteer  Infantry,  as  hospital  steward.  The 
experiences  of  the  battle-ground  and  the  field 
hospital,  terrible  as  they  were  at  that  time, 
did  not  turn  the  young  man  from  his  deter- 
mination to  perfect  his  knowledge  of  medicine 
and  to  enter  practice ;  on  the  other  hand,  it 
probably  strengthened  his  resolve.  Accordingly 
he  matriculated  at  the  Northwestern  University 
and  was  graduated  from  that  institution  in 
1866  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  Later  he  entered 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  in  1868  received  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  from  that  institution. 

At  the  time  Dr.  Ware  was  a  medical  student, 
it  was  not  lawful  for  medical  colleges  in  gen- 
eral to  study  anatomy  by  the  dissecting  of  the 
human  body ;  and  yet,  not  to  be  well  acquainted 
with  the  intricacies  of  the  human  organization 
was  also  a  professional  crime.    After  Dr.  Ware 


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had  entered  into  active  practice,  he,  in  asso- 
ciation with  the  late  Dr.  John  Woodward  (then 
of  the  marine  service,  U.  S.  A.)  and  the  late 
Dr.  Henry  P.  Merriman,  were  largely  instru- 
mental in  securing  the  passage  of  a  law  giving 
medical  colleges  facilities  and  privileges  in  this 
connection  not  before  accorded  them,  which 
resulted  in  a  highly  advanced  knowledge  and 
efficiency  in  surgical  practice. 

In  April,  1868,  Dr.  Ware  established  himself 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Chicago,  and 
continued  as  a  general  practitioner,  confining 
himself  to  internal  medicine  until  1874,  when  he 
went  abroad,  where  he  remained  for  about  two 
years  in  special  preparation  for  the  treatment 
of  diseases  of  the  eye,  to  which  special  line  of 
practice  he  confined  his  work.  He  displayed 
exceptional  capability  along  educational  lines 
and  in  the  practice  of  medicine  and  ocular 
surgery  evidenced  his  thorough  familiarity  not 
only  with  old  methods  but  with  new  that  are 
constantly  being  discovered  and  tested.  His 
professional  service  was  ever  discharged  with  a 
conscientious  sense  of  professional  obligation, 
always  remembering  that  he  belongs  to  a  body 
set  apart,  one  that  more  than  any  other  is 
helpful  to  humanity. 


In  June,  1877,  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  Dr. 
Ware  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  A.  Law, 
and  they  had  three  children :  Hildegarde,  Mrs. 
William  S.  Warfield,  III ;  Edith ;  and  Elizabeth, 
Mrs.  Samuel  J.  Walker,  Jr.  The  family  home 
was  at  No.  4424  Drexel  Boulevard  until  Dr. 
Ware's  death. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Warfield's  children  are  William 
Warfield  III,  Lyman  Ware  Warfield.  James 
Douglas  Warfield,  Richard  Warfield  and  Hilde- 
gard  Warfield.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walker's  children 
are  Malcolm  Walker  and  Samuel  .7.  Walker. 

As  a  man  of  enlightened  understanding  and 
civic  pride,  Dr.  Ware  took  an  interest  in  all 
worthy  public  movements.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the 
Illinois  State  Medical  Society  and  the  Chicago 
Ophthalmological  and  Otological  Society.  He 
has  translated,  by  permission,  Dr.  Fred  von 
Arlts  "Clinical  Disease  of  the  Eye,"  which  has 
proved  most  valuable  in  the  study  and  treat- 
ment of  diseases  of  that  organ.  The  death  of 
Doctor  Ware  June  1,  1916  brought  to  an  end 
years  of  widely  effectual  efforts.  Through  it  all, 
the  largeness  of  his  work  and  the  largeness  of 
bis  heart  were  commensurate. 


B.  FRANK  BROWN. 


The  late  Professor  B.  Frank  Brown  of  Chi- 
cago, Principal  of  Lake  View  High  School,  was 
born  at  West  Jefferson,  Ohio,  February  4,  1866, 
a  son  of  William  H.  and  Nancy  (Frank)  Brown. 
He  was  the  tenth  child  and  seventh  son  in  this 
family.  The  father  was  a  farmer  and  after 
the  war  kept  a  store  at  West  Jefferson. 

B.  Frank  Brown  attended  the  village  schools, 
graduating  from  high  school  in  1884.  He  then 
taught  district  school  for  three  years.  Follow- 
ing that  period  he  made  up  his  mind  to  go  to 
college  to  carry  his  education  further ;  and  the 
next  fall  he  entered  Dennison  University  at 
Granville,  Ohio.  Here  he  was  for  the  ensuing 
two  years,  earning  his  own  way  entirely.  While 
attending  Dennison  he  became  a  member  of 
Beta  Theta  Pi  Fraternity.  After  leaving  Denni- 
son he  entered  Macalester  College,  St.  Paul, 
Minnesota,  where  he  taught  in  the  academy  and 
at  the  same  time  continued  his  own  studies.  He 
received  his  degree  there  in  1891.  It  should  be 
recorded  that  he  received  his  Master's  degree 
from  the  Ohio  State  University  in  1899.     Later 


he  attended  the  University  of  Chicago,  for  three 
winters  preparing   for  his  Doctor's   degree. 

In  1892  he  was  chosen  to  become  head  of  the 
department  of  mathematics  in  Central  High 
School,  Columbus,  Ohio.  It  was  in  September, 
1899,  that  he  began  teaching  at  Lake  View 
High  School,  Chicago.  After  some  years  he  was 
made  Assistant  Principal  of  this  institution. 
For  the  last  twelve  years  he  was  Principal. 
Mr.  Brown  was  one  of  the  founders  and  the 
first  president  of  the  National  Association  of 
Secondary   School  Principals. 

Mr.  Brown  was  married  in  London,  Ohio,  on 
August  15,  1893,  to  Miss  Anna  S.  Lotspiech. 
They  have  one  son,  Bruce  Keith  Brown.  The 
son  married  Miss  Antoinette  Turner ;  and  they 
have  one  daughter,  Janet  Frances  Brown.  The 
family  home  was  in  Wilmette  for  many  years. 
Professor  Brown  was  a  member  of  the  Christian 
Science  Church.  He  had  been  a  Mason  since 
1892.    He  also  belonged  to  the  University  Club. 

Professor  Brown  died  on  August  24,  1924. 
The  quality  of  his  work  has  earned  him  a  place 


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among  the  most  able  and  devoted  men  that  the 
field  of  education  in  Illinois  has  produced.  For 
many    years   he    was   the    head,    and    in    large 


measure  the  heart,  of  Lake  View  High  School, 
an  institution  of  tremendous  importance  in  its 
relation  to  boys  and  girls  of  Chicago. 


JOHN  E.  BURNS. 


John  E.  Burns  was  born  at  Natick,  Massa- 
chusetts, March  20,  1867,  a  son  of  Lawrence 
and  Ellen  (Dalton)  Burns.  His  boyhood  was 
spent  in  the  town  of  his  birth,  and  he  received 
his  public-school  education  there. 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  1884,  and  here  worked, 
as  a  boy,  for  several  firms.  In  1893  he  started 
a  lumber  business  of  his  own,  at  Lowell,  In- 
diana. Four  years  later  he  sold  his  property 
and  business  there  to  the  Wilbur  Lumber  Com- 
pany. 

Following  that  transaction,  he  moved  to  Chi- 
cago, and  that  same  year,  1898.  founded  the 
John  E.  Burns  Lumber  Company.  Mr.  Burns 
continued  as  president  of  this  successful  con- 
cern until  his  retirement  from  active  business 
in  1917,  a  period  embracing  nearly  twenty  years. 
The  firm  he  founded  still  continues  in  business 
under  the  name  of  The  Burns  Lumber  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Burns  was  also  president  of  the 
North    Side    Lumber   and    Timber    Company    of 


Chicago;  was  a  valued  member  of  the  Chicago 
Association  of  Commerce,  and  of  the  Illinois 
Manufacturers  Association. 

On  January  23,  1894,  Mr.  Burns  was  married, 
at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  to  Miss  Agnes  Hines, 
a  daughter  of  Peter  and  Rose  Hines.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Burns  had  four  children  born  to  them : 
Dalton  F..  Dorothy  L.,  Ruth  E.  and  John  E. 
Burns,  Junior.  The  family  home  was  for  years 
maintained  on  Kenmore  Avenue,  Chicago. 

Mr.  Burns  was  a  member  of  the  Catholic 
Church,  and  he  also  belonged  to  the  Knights 
of  Columbus  and  the  Chicago  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation. 

On  July  29.  1924,  occurred  the  death  of  John 
E.  Burns.  He  was  active  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness in  this  section  of  the  United  States  for 
nearly  three  decades.  His  life,  in  business  and 
out,  was  a  thoroughly  successful  one,  and  he 
deserves  to  be  remembered  as  a  most  able  and 
honest  man. 


HUGH  ADDISON  COLE. 


Hugh  Addison  Cole  was  born  at  Mt.  Pleasant, 
Iowa,  on  October  6,  1862,  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Wil- 
liam R.  and  Cordelia  (Throop)  Cole,  natives  of 
Maryland  and  New  York  state  respectively.  The 
father  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  Divinity 
School.  He  and  his  wife  were  early  settlers 
in  Indiana,  and  later  moved  to  Iowa,  where  all 
their  children  were  born. 

Hugh  A.  Cole  attended  public  school  in  Mt. 
Pleasant,  and  then  entered  Iowa  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity. After  his  graduation  he  took  up  the 
study  of  law  at  Iowa  State  University,  receiving 
his  degree  in  1884.  That  same  year  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Iowa  Bar. 

Soon  after  finishing  his  schooling  he  went  into 
the  hardware  business,  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa, 
in  partnership  with  his  brothers,  Arthur  T.  and 
Ernest  C.  Cole,  under  the  firm  name  of  Cole  & 
Cole. 

While  he  was  living  there  Mr.  Cole  helped 
organize  the  Iowa  Retail  Hardware  Dealers  As- 
sociation, and  was  its  first  President.  Later  he 
became  a  founder  and  President  of  the  National 
Hardware  Dealers  Association. 


The  firm  of  Cole  &  Cole  remained  in  business 
at  Council  Bluffs  for  fifteen  years.  Here  it 
was  they  developed  a  hot-blast  stove,  of  their 
own  manufacture,  which  has  since  been  in  quite 
general  use  throughout  the  land.  Demand  for 
the  Cole's  Hot-Blast  Stove  grew  to  such  an  ex- 
tent that  larger  facilities  for  its  manufacture 
were  required ;  and,  about  1900,  the  business 
was  moved  to  Chicago  and  land  was  purchased 
where  the  factory  now  stands,  at  3250  South 
Western  Avenue.  The  Cole  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany also  makes  ranges  and  furnaces  and  have 
at  their  factory  a  very  complete  manufacturing 
equipment  including  nickel-plating  and  enamel- 
ing plants. 

In  1916  Mr.  H.  A.  Cole  bought  from  his  broth- 
ers their  interests  in  this  business. 

Mr.  Cole  was  married  at  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa, 
on  October  6,  1887,  to  Miss  Catherine  Penn,  a 
daughter  of  Edward  L.  and  Amelia  (Weaver) 
Penn.  Her  father  was  President  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Mt.  Pleasant,  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Iowa  Wesleyan 
University.     Mr.  and  Mrs.   Cole  had   five  chil- 


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dren  born  to  them :  Edward  Penn  Cole,  Hugh 
Livingston  Cole,  Ralph  Goldsmith  Cole,  who 
died  in  infancy,  Amelia  T.  Cole  (Mrs.  Arthur 
F.  Wedderspoon ) ,  and  Clarence  Oliver  Cole. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cole  and  their  family  have  long 
been  members  of  St.  James  M.  E.  Church,  Chi- 
cago. Mr.  Cole  served  this  body  as  trustee  and 
in  various  capacities  on  committees.  He  was 
on  the  reception  committee  for  some  twenty 
years. 

Throughout  the  long  period  of  his  residence 
in  Chicago  Mr.  Cole  was  very  actively  inter- 
ested in  charitable  and  philanthropic  work.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Hyde  Park  Protective  As- 
sociation. He  was  deeply  devoted  to  the  work 
of  the  Chicago  Junior  School  for  Poor  Boys,  and 
was  Chairman  of  their  Board  of  Trustees.  He 
was  a  Director  of  the  Hyde  Park  Branch  of 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.    He  was 


a  member  of  the  City's  Committee  of  Fifteen  for 
the  Suppression  of  Vice. 

Mr.  Cole  owned  four  large  farms  at  Sas- 
katchewan, Canada.  These  he  fully  equipped 
and  developed,  and  from  them  he  had  a  great 
deal  of  pleasure  and   satisfaction. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club 
of  Chicago,  and  of  the  Beverly  Country  Club. 

A  chapel  in  St.  James  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  at  Chicago  has  been  built  in  memory  of 
Mr.  Cole.  It  is  a  very  beautiful  chapel.  It  is 
open  every  day  of  the  year  to  everyone,  regard- 
less of  church  affiliations,  who  wishes  to  use  it 

The  death  of  Hugh  A.  Cole  occurred  on  De- 
cember 19,  1924.  He  had  lived  a  full  life, 
notably  active  and  successful,  and  devoted  in  a 
remarkable  degree  to  the  finest  type  of  service 
to  other  people. 


JAMES  LYMAN  CONGDON. 


For  fifty  years  the  late  Dr.  James  Lyman 
Congdon,  of  Riverside,  was  one  of  the  most 
representative  men  of  the  medical  profession 
in  northern  Illinois. 

He  was  born  at  Bristol,  Indiana,  April  6, 
1841,  a  son  of  James  L.  and  Clarissa  (Mather) 
Congdon,  natives  of  Vermont  Early  deciding 
upon  a  professional  career,  he  began  prepara- 
tion at  the  University  of  Michigan.  Then  he 
entered  Rush  Medical  College  at  Chicago. 

In  February,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Company 
C.  Ninth  Indiana  Infantry,  for  service  in  the 
Civil  War.  He  fought  in  the  battles  at  Shiloh, 
Iuka  and  at  Corinth.  Having  studied  medi- 
cine, he  was  detailed  to  assist  in  the  medical 
department  of  his  brigade.  He  was  with  the 
army  of  General  Buell  on  its  retreat  to  Louis- 
ville. Kentucky.  He  was  honorably  discharged 
because  of  impaired  health,  in  February,  1863. 

He  later  resumed  his  studies  at  Rush  Medical 
College   and   was   graduated,   with   the   degree 


of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  in  1865.  Following  that, 
he  began  practice  at  Bristol,  Indiana.  Later 
he  practiced  at  Chesterton,  that  state. 

It  was  over  half  a  century  ago  that  he  moved 
his  home  to  Riverside,  Illinois.  He  was  active 
in  practice  there,  continuously,  until  his  death 
on  March  3,  1922.  Doctor  Congdon  came  to 
be  greatly  beloved  for  his  tenderness  and  ever- 
ready  sympathy  and  exceptional  ability. 

On  September  23,  1889,  Doctor  Congdon  was 
married  to  Miss  Mary  Meyers,  a  daughter  of 
John  N.  and  Ann  (Bowman)  Meyers.  Both 
he  and  his  wife  have  long  been  members  of 
the  Episcopal  Church  of  Riverside.  Doctor 
Congdon  belonged  to  Riverside  Lodge,  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.,  which  he  served  as  chaplain,  from 
the  time  of  its  orgnization  until  his  death ; 
and  to  Riverside  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.  Since  his 
death  the  Boy-Builder  Chapter  has  been  named 
in  his  honor.  In  his  passing,  Riverside  lost 
one  of  its  finest  men. 


EDWARD  BURNHAM. 


The  late  Edward  Burnham  of  Chicago  was 
the  founder  of  E.  Burnham,  Inc.,  a  large  and 
unique  organization  of  international  reputation 
which  is  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  toilet 
preparations  and  human  hair  goods,  in  the 
jobbing  of  these  products  as  well  as  all  sup- 
plies and  equipment  for  Beauty  shops,  in  the 
operation    of    the   world's    largest    Beauty    Es- 


tablishment,   and    in    the    operation    of   the   E. 
Burnham  Schools  of  Beauty  Culture. 

From  the  date  of  its  founding  in  1871,  until 
the  date  of  incorporation  in  1921,  Mr.  Burnham 
was  the  sole  proprietor,  and  thereafter  until 
his  death  he  was  the  president  of  the  corpora- 
tion. Under  his  continuous  guidance  the  busi- 
ness  grew    from    a    modest    start   until    at    the 


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time  of  Mr.  Burnhani's  death,  its  reputation  had 
become  world  famous. 

To  have  attained  success  and  leadership  in 
such  a  diversified  business,  involving  manufac- 
turing, wholesale  merchandising,  retail  mer- 
chandising, and  the  organization  and  manage- 
ment of  a  personal  service  business  and  schools, 
was  a  remarkable  achievement  and  a  lasting 
testimony  of  Mr.  Burnham's  business  acumen 
and  generalship. 

Such  an  accomplishment  probably  never 
would  have  been  possible  had  it  not  been  for 
the  equally  remarkable  ability  of  Mr.  Burnham's 
wife  and  business  partner.  Airs.  Burnham  (nee 
Mary  McGee),  from  the  time  of  her  marriage 
in  1879,  actively  supervised  and  managed  the 
retail  and  service  and  school  departments  of 
the  business,  and  assumed  the  presidency  of 
the  corporation  upon  Mr.  Burnham's  death. 

Not  only  did  these  partners  create  a  monu- 
mental business  estate,  the  name  of  which  will 
long  outlive  them,  but  they  reared  a  family 
of  nine  sons  and  two  daughters  to  take  their 
useful  places  in  the  world  and  to  carry  on  the 
proud  traditions  of  the  family  name. 

Edward  Burnham  was  of  English  extrac- 
tion, a  descendant  of  one  of  the  Colonial  New 
England  families.  He  was  born  at  Hookset, 
New  Hampshire,  on  November  11,  1848,  seventh 
of  the  nine  children  of  James  and  Lucy  Ann 
(Taylor)  Burnham.  When  he  was  quite  young 
his  parents  removed  to  Windham,  New  Hamp- 
shire, where  he  lived  until  coming  to  Chicago, 
Illinois,  in  January,  1867,  at  the  age  of  eighteen 
years.  His  early  education  was  acquired  in  the 
district  schools  of  Windham,  following  which 
he  entered  and  was  graduated  from  the  Bryant 
&  Stratton  Commercial  College  of  Manchester, 
New  Hampshire.  In  1867  he  came  to  Chicago 
and  for  four  years  was  identified  with  the 
jewelry  trade.  In  November,  1871,  just  after 
the  Chicago  Fire,   he  started  in  a  small   way 


in  the  hair  goods  business  at  No.  134  West 
Madison  street.  Eight  years  later,  in  1879, 
the  retail  establishment  was  moved  to  the 
Central  Music  Hall  Building  on  State  Street, 
and  in  1901  to  its  present  location  at  138-140 
North  State  Street.  Mr.  Burnham  was  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  growth  of  State  Street 
retail  business  as  the  Burnham  establishment  is 
one  of  its  oldest  and  most  widely-known  insti- 
tutions. 

He  was  prominent  and  active  in  the  life  of 
Chicago  in  many  ways.  Politically,  he  was  a 
staunch  Republican,  and  he  held  membership  in 
the  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce,  the  Chi- 
cago Historical  Society,  and  the  Chicago 
Athletic  Club. 

Edward  Burnham  was  married  in  Chicago, 
Illinois,  on  January  23,  1879,  to  Miss  Mary 
McGee,  a  daughter  of  Peter  McGee  and  Alice 
(Murphy)  McGee.  To  them  were  born  the 
following  children :  (1)  Edward,  Jr.;  (2)  Fred- 
eric; (3)  Raymond;  (4)  Mary  Genevieve;  (5) 
Clarence;  (6)  Norbert;  (7)  Gerald;  (8)  Har- 
old;  (9)  Isabel;   (10)  Julian;    (11)  Donald. 

Edward  Burnham  died  at  his  home,  No.  932 
East  Fiftieth  Street,  Chicago,  Illinois,  on  Thurs- 
day, November  13,  1924,  having  been  stricken  on 
Tuesday,  the  eleventh,  his  seventy-sixth  birth- 
day. Funeral  services  were  held  on  Saturday, 
November  fifteenth,  interment  taking  place  in 
Oakwoods  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Burnham  has  left  a  fitting  monument  to 
his  life  and  labors  in  the  extensive  business 
organization  which  he  built  up  through  his 
energy,  ability  and  probity,  and  in  the  family 
of  eleven  children  who  remain  to  carry  on  the 
enterprise  established  by  their  father  and  to 
continue  the  ancient  Anglo-Saxon  name  of  Burn- 
ham which  has  stood  for  nobility  of  thought 
and  deed  and  integrity  of  purpose  for  more  than 
800  years. 


HENRY  AUGUSTUS  FOSS. 


Henry  Augustus  Foss  was  born  near  Comp- 
ton  Village,  New  Hampshire,  on  March  17, 
1859,  a  son  of  Martin  H.  and  Elizabeth  Elliott 
Foss.  In  1863,  the  family  moved  to  Chicago 
and  the  father  became  one  of  the  earliest  mem- 
bers of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade,  and  he 
organized  what  became  for  a  time  the  largest 
commission  house  on  the  board.  The  father 
was  identified   with  a   great  many  movements 


for  the  growth  and  betterment  of  the  city, 
having  among  .his  warm  friends  Dwight  L. 
Moody  and  Major  Whittle,  men  who  set  the 
ideals  for  a  whole  generation  of  Chicago  men. 
He  was  a  founder  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church. 

H.  A.  Foss  went  to  public  school  here,  at- 
tended Lake  Forest  College  and  later  entered 
Hillsdale    College  in   Michigan.     On   returning 


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to  Chicago  he  began  work  in  his  father's  office. 
The  father  died  in  1881.  Two  years  previously, 
H.  A.  Foss  had  been  made  grain  receivers' 
agent  for  the  IULnois  Central  Railroad,  a 
position  he  occupied  until  1898.  Since  July, 
1898,  he  was  chief  weigh-master  and  custodian 
for  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade.  We  believe 
that  Mr.  Foss  did  as  much  as  any  other  man 
in  the  country  to  maintain  honor  in  the  life 
and  practice  of  the  selling  and  buying  grain 
world.  "He  despised  nothing  more  earnestly 
than  the  schemes  to  deceive  on  the  part  of 
those  who  buy  or  sell.  He  wrote  letters,  made 
personal  appeals,  organized  groups  and  com- 
mittees, invoked  courts  and  denounced  in  wrath 
everybody  and  everything  that  sought,  to  pre- 
vent the  just  reading  of  his  scales." 

He  strenuously  opposed  bucket  shops.  The 
effects  of  his  influence  are  wide  spread  and 
lasting. 

On  July  1,  1883,  Mr.  Foss  was  married  to 
Miss  Miriam   Rumbaugh,  of  Cortland,  Ohio,  a 


daughter  of  Noah  and  Esther  (Neff)  Rum- 
baugh. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Foss  had  seven  children : 
Vera  A.,  Marion  Henry,  Elizabeth  (Mrs.  H.  Clif- 
ford Brown),  Charlotte  (Mrs.  Aldrich  S.  Harri- 
son), Samuel  B.,  Frank  K.  and  Margaret  Foss. 
The  family  have  made  their  home  in  Chicago, 
on  the  South  Side,  for  many  years. 

Henry  Augustus  Foss  died  on  December  20, 
1922.  The  Rev.  William  Chalmers  Covert  has 
written  of  him :  "He  was  always  doing  things 
for  no  reason  on  earth  except  the  unselfish, 
neighborly  love  in  his  heart.  He  was  always 
anticipating  the  wishes  of  his  friends.  Do  you 
men  of  business  know  anything  you  need  more 
acutely  than  the  two  outstanding  features  of 
H.  A.  Foss'  character :  honor  and  the  spirit 
of  brotherhood.  To  have  lifted  up,  and  made 
conspicuous  in  the  busiest  and  most  preoccupied 
center  of  the  world's  work,  these  two  qualities, 
through  long  years  of  service,  is  to  have  lived 
a  great  life." 


JOSEPH  R.  HAWLEY,  M.  D. 


The  late  Joseph  R.  Hawley,  of  Chicago,  was 
born  at  Park  Ridge.  Illinois,  September  9,  1871, 
a  son  of  Charles  A.  and  Electa  Edwards 
(Weaver)  Hawley.  His  mother  was  a  direct 
descendant  of  Jonathan  Edwards. 

His  preliminary  schooling  was  had  at  Orchard 
Lake  Military  Academy,  at  Orchard  Lake, 
Michigan,  and  at  the  High  school  at  Muskegon, 
Michigan.  He  then  began  his  studies  for  his 
profession  in  the  Medical  College  of  Northwest- 
ern University.  He  graduated  with  his  degree 
in  1893. 

While  in  general  practice  Doctor  Hawley  was 
Professor  of  Practice  of  Medicine  in  the  Chicago 
Clinical  School  (a  post  graduate  school).  He 
was  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, of  the  Illinois  State  Medical  Society, 
and  of  the  Chicago  Medical  Society. 

In  1898  he  perfected  researches  in  organo- 
therapy which  resulted  in  the  organization  of 
the  Animal  Therapy  Company  of  which  he  was 
Secretary  and  Medical  Director.  This  Company 
continues  to  enjoy  success  and  to  render  a  val- 
ued service  to  medical  science. 

Doctor  Hawley  rendered  further  distin- 
guished service  as  the  founder  and  chief  medi- 


cal examiner  of  Chicago's  first  Civil  Service 
Commission.  He  had  studied  the  needs  of  the 
situation  under  the  personal  direction  of  Theo- 
dore Roosevelt,  at  the  time  Mr.  Roosevelt  was 
Police  Commissioner  of  New  York  City.  Doctor 
Hawley  was  appointed  to  this  place  by  the 
elder  Carter  Harrison,  and  he  laid  the  founda- 
tion of  the  present  civil  service  medical  ex- 
aminations. 

On  February  11,  1904,  he  was  married  to 
Daisy  Miller,  at  Muskegon,  Michigan.  They 
have  one  son,  John  Miller  Hawley.  The  family 
home  has  been  at  4422  Oakenwald  avenue,  Chi- 
cago, for  many  years. 

Doctor  Hawley  was  a  member  of  Doctor  Gun- 
saulus  Church,  of  Ashlar  Lodge  Number  308, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  St.  Ber- 
nard Commandery,  and  belonged  to  the  Ancient 
Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and 
to  the  Hinsdale  Golf  Club. 

Joseph  R.  Hawley  died  July  20,  1922.  He  left 
behind  a  fine  record  of  usefulness,  both  to  the 
community,  where  he  ministered  as  a  physician, 
and  to  the  health  of  mankind  through  that 
branch  of  therapeutics  to  which  he  gave  years 
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EDWARD  FIELDING. 


No  person  of  even  ordinary  intelligence  and 
information  needs  to  be  told  of  the  wonderful 
work  accomplished  by  the  Volunteers  of  Amer- 
ica, the  outgrowth  of  the  Salvation  Army.  But 
it  is  interesting  and  highly  proper,  to  give 
some  space  to  detailing  the  personal  history 
of  persons  responsible  for  the  present  remark- 
able service  rendered  by  this  organization. 
One  of  the  men  whose  name  will  always  awaken 
a  feeling  of  gratitude  in  the  hearts  of  those 
benefited  in  connection  with  the  great  work  of 
the  Volunteers  of  America,  is  the  late  Edward 
Fielding,  vice  president  of  the  organization, 
and  for  years  major  general  in  charge  of  the 
Chicago  division  and  the  Northwest  territory. 

General  Fielding  was  born  June  28,  1861,  in 
Westchester  County,  New  York,  a  son  of  Rob- 
ert and  Marie  (Jones)  Fielding.  After  he  had 
completed  his  courses  in  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  county,  Edward  Fielding  felt  a 
strong  urge  toward  the  ministry,  and  studied 
at  Nelson,  which  is  near  Manchester,  England, 
in  a  Methodist  seminary.  Being  enthusiastic, 
however,  he  felt  that  the  regular  ministry  did 
not  afford  the  broadest  field  for  his  Master's 
work,  and,  becoming  interested  in  the  Salvation 
Army,  he  joined  its  forces.  This  was  in  1881 
while  he  was  still  in  England.  He  later  returned 
to  the  United  States  in  the  Salvation  Army 
service.  For  thirteen  years  he  was  connected 
with  some  of  the  pioneer  movements  of  the 
Army  in  America,  and  at  the  time  of  his  resigna- 
tion held  the  rank  of  brigadier,  having  charge 
of  the  Northwestern  division,  with  headquar- 
ters at  Chicago.  Being  an  American,  he  affili- 
ated with  the  Volunteers  of  America  when  that 


organization  was  founded,  1896,  by  Commander 
and  Mrs.  Ballington  Booth,  and  was  placed  in 
charge  of  the  work  in  Chicago  and  the  north- 
western territory,  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  In 
1903  he  was  elected  vice  president  of  the  Volun- 
teers of  America,  with  the  rank  of  major  gen- 
eral, and  continued  actively  engaged  in  the 
work  until  his  death  June  30,  1921. 

In  August,  1881,  General  Fielding  was  mar- 
ried, at  Manchester,  England,  to  Eliza  Hoyle, 
known  as  "Gospel  Hoyle"  of  the  Salvation  Army. 
They  had  four  children,  namely :  May  Fielding 
Harrington,  Eva,  Myrtle  C,  and  Edward  B.,  of 
whom  Myrtle  C.  is  deceased.  General  Fielding 
was  a  brother  of  Robert  Fielding  of  New  York. 
He  belonged  to  Waubansia  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A. 
M. ;  Lafayette  Chapter,  R.  A.  M. ;  Apollo  Com- 
mandery,  K.  T.  and  Oriental  Consistory.  A 
man  of  commanding  personality,  he  was  also 
one  of  the  most  sympathetic  characters,  and 
no  one  ever  appealed  to  him  without  receiving 
strength  and  help. 

Having  been  brought  into  close  contact  with 
many  phases  of  life,  his  knowledge  of  human 
nature  was  profound,  and  he  understood  his 
fellowmen  and  their  motives  as  few  do.  His 
religion  was  not  something  apart,  but  the  very 
essence  of  his  nature,  and  he  practiced  constant- 
ly the  faith  he  professed.  General  Fielding  has 
passed  to  his  last  reward,  but  the  influence  of 
his  earnest,  high-minded,  Christian  life  remains, 
and  will  continue  active  as  long  as  the  or- 
ganization he  assisted  in  establishing,  continues, 
and  as  long  as  its  converts  hold  their  place 
among  the  reclaimed  of  earth. 


FERDINAND  BUNTE. 


While  many  changes  have  taken  place  in  the 
commercial  life  of  Chicago  during  the  past  half 
century,  some  of  the  old  reliable  firms  still  have 
the  advantage  of  being  governed  by  members  of 
the  same  family  who  were  the  original  found- 
ers. The  advantages  of  such  conditions  are  easy 
to  determine,  and  are  generally  recognized,  for 
interest  is  always  sustained  and  old  standards 
maintained  when  no  radical  changes  have  been 
effected  in  the  management.  In  the  manu- 
facture and  conduct  of  the  confectionery  busi- 
ness of  Chicago,  the  firm  of  Bunte  Brothers 
takes  precedence  over  all  other  concerns  of  its 


kind  in  the  city,  both  in  prolonged  period  of 
operation  and  in  the  scope  and  importance  of 
business  controlled. 

This  notable  enterprise  had  its  inception  in 
Chicago  nearly  a  half  century  ago  when,  in 
1876,  Ferdinand  Bunte,  with  his  brother,  Gustav 
A.  Bunte  and  C.  A.  Spoehr,  founded  the  busi- 
ness under  the  name  of  Bunte  Brothers  & 
Spoehr,  manufacturers  of  candy,  at  416  North 
State  street.  In  March,  1903,  the  business  was 
incorporated  as  Bunte,  Spoehr  and  Co.,  and  in 
April,  1906,  the  name  was  changed  to  Bunte 
Brothers    of    which    Ferdinand    Bunte    became 


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president,  and  served  in  this  capacity  until 
1917,  when  he  retired  from  active  business,  his 
son,  Theodore  W.  Bunte,  succeeding  him  as  chief 
executive.  From  the  time  of  its  inception,  this 
great  concern  has  kept  pace  in  its  advancement 
with  the  marvelous  development  of  Chicago, 
and  its  present  modern  plant  at  3301  Franklin 
boulevard,  which  is  one  of  the  largest  and 
most  complete  enterprises  of  its  kind  in  the 
United  States,  stands  today  as  a  monument  to 
its  honored  founders. 

Although  many  years  have  passed  since  Fer- 
dinand Bunte  was  called  to  his  final  reward, 
he  is  remembered  as  a  man  of  high  ideals, 
and  his  character  and  achievements  remain  as 
a  force  for  good  in  the  community.  He  was 
born  in  Lemgo,  Lippe  Detmold,  Germany, 
July  16,  1846,  a  son  of  Charles  and  Florence 
(Schamhard)  Bunte.  His  education  was  ob- 
tained in  private  schools  of  his  native  country, 
and  when  a  young  man,  before  attaining  his 
majority,  he  immigrated  to  the  United  States 
and  settled  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  He 
soon  became  imbued  with  patriotism  for  his 
adopted  country  and  enlisted  in  the  United 
States  Marine  Corps,  and  served  wtih  loyalty 
and  efficiency  for  two  years.  He  was  one  of 
fourteen  volunteer  guards  stationed  on  the  old 
Frigate  Constellation,  whose  crew  had  been  at- 
tacked by  black  fever  and  was  one  of  its  few 
survivors,  most  of  the  crew  and  nine  of  the 
guards  having  died  of  the  disease.  During 
President  Andrew  Johnson's  incumbency,  Mr. 
Bunte  did  duty  as  a  sentinel  at  the  door  of 
the  White  House,  and  in  many  ways  showed 
his  loyalty  and  patriotism  to  his  adopted 
country. 

In  1867  Mr.  Bunte  embarked  in  the  confec- 
tionery business  at  Philadelphia,  and  was  thus 
engaged  until  his  removal  to  Chicago  in  1876. 
During  the  many  years  of  his  residence  here 
he  wielded  definite  and  benignant  influence, 
both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  man  of  splendid 
business  ability  and  through  his  well  directed 
endeavors  he  did  not  a  little  to  further  the  in- 
dustrial and  commercial  prestige  of  the  city. 
Besides  his  connection  with  the  confectionery 
business,  he  was  also  active  in  civic,  educational 
and  social  affairs,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of 
Rogers  Park,  prior  to  its  annexation  to  the 
City  of  Chicago.  He  was  a  Mason  in  good 
standing,  holding  membership  in  Park  Lodge, 
No.  843,  and  was  also  affiliated  with  numerous 


other  social  and  benevolent  organizations.  In 
his  death,  which  occurred  July  21,  1920,  Chicago 
lost  a  loyal  and  enterprising  citizen  and  the 
public  lost  a  true  and  faithful  friend. 

Mr.  Bunte  was  married  in  Philadelphia, 
Penn.,  August  16,  1868,  to  Miss  Maria  Fauss, 
and  they  became  the  parents  of  thirteen  chil- 
dren, five  of  whom  are  living:  Theodore  W., 
Charles  F.,  Martha,  Laura  and  Florence.  Mrs. 
Bunte,  whose  death  occurred  November  18, 
1908,  was  born  in  Geislingen,  Wurtemburg,  Ger- 
many, in  1848,  but  came  to  the  United  States 
in  young  womanhood.  She  was  a  woman  of 
exceptional  mental  ability  and  beauty  of  char- 
acter, and  was  a  true  and  faithful  helpmate 
to  her  husband  in  his  early  endeavors.  Her 
kind  heart  and  sympathetic  nature  was  evident 
in  many  ways,  and  she  was  beloved  by  all  who 
knew  her. 

The  two  sons  are  now  conducting  the  enter- 
prise established  by  their  father.  They  are  both 
practical  business  men,  and  are  well  upholding 
the  honors  of  the  family  name.  Theodore  W. 
Bunte,  who  is  now  president  of  the  firm  of 
Bunte  Brothers,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, January  16,  1870.  He  came  to  Chi- 
cago with  his  parents  when  six  years  of  age, 
and  has  been  actively  associated  with  this  great 
enterprise  since  the  beginning  of  his  business 
career  at  the  age  of  fourteen.  He  became  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  business  in  1908 ;  vice  presi- 
dent in  1913,  and  in  1917  he  was  elected  presi- 
dent, a  position  he  still  retains.  He  is  a  Mason 
in  good  standing  and  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Illinois  Athletic  Club  and  the  Butterfield  and 
Medina  Country  Clubs,  and  the  firm  of  Bunte 
Brothers  hold  membership  in  the  National  Con- 
fectioners' Association,  the  Illinois  Manu- 
facturers'  Association  and  the  Chicago  Associa- 
tion of  Commerce.  Mr.  Bunte  was  married 
June  10,  1891,  to  Miss  Anna  C.  Torkilson,  of 
Rogers  Park,  and  they  have  two  children :  Fer- 
dinand A.,  and  Harriet  M. 

Charles  F.  Bunte,  who  is  vice  president  of 
the  firm  of  Bunte  Brothers,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  February  6,  1872,  and 
came  to  Chicago  with  his  parents  when  four 
years  of  age.  He  became  associated  with  his 
father  in  business  in  1896,  and  has  since  been 
actively  identified  with  this  great  enterprise. 
For  some  years  he  traveled  in  the  interest  of 
the  house,  later  becoming  sales  manager,  then 
sales    director    and    filled    the    latter    position 


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until  elected  to  the  office  of  vice  president  in 
1917.  He  was  married  April  20,  1899,  to  Miss 
Celia  O.  Phillip,  of  Rogers  Park,  and  they  have 
one  daughter,  Catherine  M.  Besides  his  busi- 
ness  connections,   Mr.   Bunte  is  also  prominent 


in  social  circles  and  is  affiliated  with  numer- 
ous clubs  and  societies,  among  which  are  the 
North  Shore  Golf  Club,  the  Lake  Shore  Ath- 
letic Club,  Edgewater  Athletic  Club  and  the 
Four  Seasons  Club. 


J.  JOSEPH  CHARLES. 


The  career  of  the  late  J.  Joseph  Charles, 
executive  head  of  the  great  corporation  of  Hib- 
bard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  &  Company,  is  typically 
American  and  is  most  interesting  and  signifi- 
cant. 

Mr.  Charles  was  born  at  Williamsport,  Mary- 
land, February  5,  1856,  the  son  of  John  Joseph 
Charles  and  Martha  (Cowton)  Charles.  His 
educational  advantages  were  those  afforded  by 
the  grade  schools  and  Racine  College,  Racine, 
Wisconsin.  He  maintained  his  home  in  Illi- 
nois since  early  boyhood. 

Developing  an  aptitude  for  business,  Mr. 
Charles  early  secured  employment  in  the  retail 
store  of  J.  V.  Farwell  and  later,  was  employed 
for  a  time  with  the  Pullman  Palace  Car  Com- 
pany. In  1873,  when  seventeen  years  of  age, 
he  entered  the  employ  of  Hibbard  and  Spencer, 
and  had  since  been  associated  with  this  house 
and  its  successor,  now  the  great  corporation  of 
Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  &  Company.  He 
subsequently  became  buyer  and  salesman  for 
the  latter  corporation,  and  later  a  director,  and 


in  January,  1911,  was  elected  second  vice  presi- 
dent. In  November,  1915,  he  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  corporation.  For  more  than  half  a 
century  Mr.  Charles  devoted  his  time  and  energy 
to""the  building  up  of  this  great  enterprise,  and 
its  success  and  popularity  may  be  attributed  in 
no  small  degree  to  his  quiet  faithfulness  and 
untiring  efforts.  He  showed  great  capacity  for 
the  management  of  business  affairs  of  broad 
scope  and  importance ;  ordered  his  course  ac- 
cording to  the  highest  principles  of  integrity  and 
honor  and  achieved  success  worthy  of  the  name. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Evanston  Club, 
Evanston  and  Glenview  Golf  Clubs  and  the  Chi- 
cago Athletic  Association.  He  was  married, 
April  8,  1885,  to  Miss  Ida  E.  Sherman,  of  Evan- 
ston, Illinois,  whose  grandfather,  Francis  C. 
Sherman  was  Mayor  of  Chicago  in  1841.  They 
became  the  parents  of  four  children :  Sherman 
A.,  Martha,  Frances  and  John  Joseph  Charles, 
Jr.    The  family  home  is  at  Evanston. 

Mr.  J.  Joseph  Charles  died  April  6,  1926. 


JOHN  CORNELIUS  CANNON. 


John  C.  Cannon  was  born  in  Chicago  on  Sep- 
tember 11,  1863,  a  son  of  Cornelius  and  Ellen 
(Dooner)  Cannon,  both  natives  of  Ireland.  As 
a  boy  he  went  to  the  Franklin  and  Jones 
schools  of  this  city.  He  left  school  in  1877 
to  begin  work  with  the  Western  Electric  Com- 
pany. It  is  interesting  to  note  here  that  Mr. 
Cannon  continued  with  this  great  concern  for 
twenty-six  consecutive  years.  He  left  the  com- 
pany May  18,  1903,  to  become  manager  of  the 
Consolidated  Fire  Alarm  Company,  and  he  con- 
tinued in  this  capacity  for  three  years.  In 
1906  he  became  general  manager  of  the  Cregier 
Signal  Co. 

Mr.  Cannon  gave  to  Chicago  a  very  fine  serv- 
ice in  public  office  for  nearly  fifteen  years. 
He  was  elected  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Elec- 
tion Commissioners  July  9,  1906-May  1,  1909. 
He  was  chief  clerk  of  the  Board  from  May  1, 
1909  to  Dec.  6,  1910.     He  was  superintendent 


of  Employment  for  the  Commissioners  of  Lin- 
coln Park  from  1911  to  1917.  He  was  secre- 
tary of  this  organization,  from  1917  to  1921. 
In  May,  1921,  he  was  appointed  collector  of 
Internal  Revenue  for  First  District  of  the 
State  of  Illinois  and  was  serving  in  that  capac- 
ity at  the  time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Cannon  also 
had  represented  the  Twenty-sixth  Ward  in  the 
Chicago  City  Council  from  April,  1897  to  April, 
1899,  and  was  candidate  for  nomination  for 
county  recorder  in  1911.  Throughout  all  his 
very  active  years,  in  business  and  Republican 
politics,  Mr.  Cannon  deserved  and  received  the 
trust  and  regard  of  everybody  who  knew  him. 

John  C.  Cannon  was  married  on  November 
19,  1890,  in  Chicago,  to  Miss  Anna  Redell,  a 
daughter  of  John  Redell,  who  was  chief  of 
the  First  Battalion,  under  Fire  Chief  Sweeney. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cannon  had  two  daughters  born 
to  them:    Irene  Cannon,  and  Clara   (Mrs.  John 


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V.  Walsh),  who  is  the  mother  of  Clara  Ann  and 
John  Cannon  Walsh. 

Mr.    Cannon    and    his   family    belong    to    the 


Roman  Catholic  Church.  The  death  of  John 
C.  Cannon,  which  occasioned  much  real  sor- 
row, occurred  on  March  28,  1923. 


HAYDEN  SUFFIELD  BARNARD. 


The  late  Dr.  Hayden  S.  Barnard  of  Chicago 
was  born  in  Monroe,  Michigan,  August  19,  1866, 
a  son  of  Richard  and  Mary  Anna  (Barnettj 
Barnard.  The  parents  became  early  residents 
of  Chicago,  and  Richard  Barnard  will  be  re- 
membered as  one  of  the  most  prominent  pioneer 
dry-goods  merchants  of  this  city.  He  and  his 
wife  moved  away  from  Chicago  shortly  before 
Hayden  S.  Barnard  was  born ;  but  they  again 
took  up  residence  here  when  their  son  was  about 
one  year  old. 

Hayden  S.  Barnard  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Chicago,  and  later  the  old  Chicago 
University.  Having  decided  to  become  a  physi- 
cian, he  entered  Rush  Medical  College,  and  re- 
ceived his  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1889. 
For  some  time  thereafter  he  was  an  interne  at 
Michael  Reese  Hospital.  Following  that,  he 
went  abroad  and  devoted  two  years  to  post- 
graduate study  in  Vienna,  Munich.  Heidelberg 
and  Zurich,  specializing  in  gynecology. 

Upon  his  return  to  Chicago,  Doctor  Barnard 
entered  upon  a  private  practice.  For  many 
years  he  maintained  offices  at  the  corner  of 
Twenty-sixth  and  Wallace  streets,  but  later  his 
offices  were  at  Forty-third  Street  and  Grand 
Boulevard,  and  recently  he  moved  to  the  Med- 
ical Arts  Building  on    Sixty-third   Street.     His 


work  was  of  incalculable  value  to  the  many 
people  it  was  his  pleasure  to  serve  in  the  three 
decades  just  past. 

Doctor  Barnard  was  Lecturer  on  gynecology 
at  the  Post  Graduate  Hospital,  Chicago,  and  his 
counsel  and  help  were  of  great  benefit.  He  was 
an  esteemed  member  ol  the  American  Medical 
Association,  the  Illinois  State  Medical  Society, 
the  Chicago  Medical  Society,  and  of  the  German 
Medical  Society  of  Chicago,  of  which  latter  or- 
ganization he  was  vice  president. 

The  marriage  of  Doctor  Barnard  to  the 
Baroness  Von  Georgii-Georgenau  took  place  in 
Stuttgart,  Germany,  May  2,  1894.  That  same 
year  they  established  their  home  at  Chicago, 
and  continued  to  reside  in  this  city,  making  fre- 
quent visits  abroad.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Barnard 
became  the  parents  of  five  children:  Rosalie, 
Dr.  Hayden  E.,  Dr.  Richard  E.,  Sophie  E.  and 
Harold  S.  Barnard. 

Dr.  Hayden  S.  Barnard  died  August  2,  1925. 
There  are  many  admirable  things  to  recall  of 
his  long  intensely  useful  life  in  Chicago.  His 
character  was  of  the  highest,  his  kindness  and 
his  large  charities  brought  happiness  into  nu- 
merous homes,  and  his  work  in  his  profession 
established  him  as  one  of  the  most  able  gyne- 
cologists of  bis  times. 


CHARLES  L.  CHENOWETH. 


The  late  Charles  L.  Chenoweth,  of  Chicago 
and  Oak  Park.  Illinois,  was  born  at  Chicago, 
on  May  21,  1860,  a  son  of  William  H.  and 
Sophie  (Kettler)  Chenoweth.  His  boyhood  was 
lived  in  Chicago  and  here  it  was  that  he  re- 
ceived  his   school   training. 

He  entered  the  employ  of  the  Crane  Com- 
pany as  a  clerk,  in  April,  1887.  He  continued 
to  be  identified  with  this  concern  throughout 
the  balance  of  his  life.  In  1890  he  was  chosen 
to  become  Business  Manager  of  the  Company's 
brass  manufacturing  department.  For  thirty- 
two  consecutive  years  he  directed  the  affairs 
of  this  very  important  branch  of  the  Crane 
Company's  immense  business.  The  excellence 
of  his  ability,  experience  and  judgment  has 
been,  in  the  past  three  decades,  a  great  force 


contributing  to  the  expansion  and  world-wide 
success  of  the  Crane  Company.  On  May  15, 
1922,  he  was  appointed  Works  Business  Man- 
ager of  the  Company,  a  position  he  held  until 
his  death. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Chenoweth  to  Miss 
Addie  S.  Barred  occurred  at  Chicago  on  April 
25,  1888.  They  have  one  son,  Mr.  Laurence 
Haskell  Chenoweth  of  Akron,  Ohio.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Chenoweth  have  made  their  home  at  Oak 
Park,  Illinois,  ever  since  1893.  They  have  been 
devoted  and  prominent  members  of  Grace  Epis- 
copal  Church   since  that  time. 

In  earlier  years  Mr.  Chenoweth  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  first  vested  choir  organized  in  Cal- 
vary Episcopal  Church,  Chicago.  Soon  there- 
after  he   joined    the    Grace  Church    choir   and 


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he  was  active  in  this  organization  until  the 
Sunday  before  he  died.  In  Calvary  Church  he 
served  as  a  Vestryman  and  as  Superintendent 
of  the  Sunday  School.  He  served  as  Vestry- 
man of  Grace  Church  for  thirty  years.  He 
was  Secretary  of  the  Vestry  for  a  long  period, 
was  Treasurer  of  the  choir ;  of  the  Choir  Fund ; 
and  was  also  Treasurer  of  Grace  Church  School 
and  Superintendent  of  that  body,  at  one  period, 
for  several  years.  He  was  Secretary-Treasurer 
of  the  Confraternity  of  the  Blessed  Sacrament. 
Twice  he  was  chosen  as  Lay  Delegate  to  the 
General  Convention  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
and  was,  a  number  of  times,  Delegate  to  the 
Diocesan  Convention. 

"He  will  be  honored  and  remembered  for  his 
continued  devotion  to  his  Lord  and  Savior  in 
the  Holy  Eucharist  and  for  his  scrupulous  ob- 
servance of  his  other  religious  duties ;  for  his 


generosity,  loyalty  and  goodfellowsnip  and  for 
his  steadfastness  in  the  Faith  of  Christ  Cruci- 
fied." 

Mr.  Chenoweth  was  a  Mason.  He  was  also 
much  interested  in  the  Lowell  Club,  a  small 
and  select  group  of  Oak  Park  people  who  or- 
ganized into  this  body  some  thirty  years  ago 
for  the  purpose  of  study.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  club,  was  its  first  President 
and  was  again  chosen  President  at  a  later  date. 

Mr.  Chenoweth  died  on  December  17,  1924. 
Throughout  the  latter  part  of  his  thirty-seven 
years  of  continuous  connection  with  the  Crane 
Company,  he  was  recognized  as  a  principal 
figure  in  manufacturing  circles  in  Chicago. 
And,  be  it  recorded  of  him,  that  as  a  Christian 
man  his  life  has  been  of  priceless  benefit  and 
influence. 


ALBERT  HENRY  STANDISH. 


The  late  Albert  Henry  Standish  was  one  of 
the  reliable,  upright  and  honorable  men  of  Chi- 
cago and  Oak  Park,  who  for  many  years  took 
a  dominating  part  along  varied  lines,  both 
professional  and  commercial,  for  he  was  an  at- 
torney of  marked  ability,  as  well  as  an  ex- 
perienced man  of  affairs,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  giving  much  attention  to  philan- 
thropic measures.  He  was  born  at  Middleville, 
Michigan.  August  24.  1849.  a  son  of  John  Henry 
and  Hester  (Courter)  Standish,  natives  of  Ben- 
son. Vermont  and  Illinois,  respectively. 

Albert  Henry  Standish  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Michigan,  and  then  studied  law  with 
his  father,  who  was  a  distinguished  United 
States  district  attorney  for  the  Western  Dis- 
tirct  of  Michigan.  Mr.  Standish  was  admitted 
to  practice  at  the  Michigan  Bar,  and  became 
a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Standish.  Fuller  & 
Standish  of  Grand  Rapids,  maintaining  these 
connections  until  1885,  when  he  came  to  Chi- 
cago and  established  his  home  at  Oak  Park. 
Mr.  Standish  was  attorney  and  collector  for 
Charles  P.  Kellogg  Company,  and  after  the  dis- 
solution of  that  firm  he  went  with  the  Chicago 
Laboratory  Supply  and  Scale  Company.  Sub- 
sequently he  became  connected  with  his  cousin 
in  the  Kenfield-Leach-Publishing  Company,  and 
three  years  later  left  that  concern  to  become 
treasurer  of  the  Central  Scientific  Company, 
which  position  he  held  until  his  retirement  in 
1914.      From    then    on    until   his    death    he   was 


chiefly  occupied  with  his  work  in  behalf  of  the 
Chicago  City  Missionary  Society,  of  which  he 
was  treasurer,  the  Ministerial  Relief  Associa- 
tion of  Illinois,  of  which  he  was  also  treasurer, 
and  the  Congregational  Training  School  for 
Women.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Congregation 
Missionary  and  Extension  Society  and  of  the 
Congregational  Conference  of  Illinois,  and  a 
member  of  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  Chicago 
Association  of  Congregational  Churches.  He 
was  also  auditor  of  the  Illinois  Woman's  Home 
Missionary  Union,  a  trustee  of  the  Northland 
College  at  Ashland,  Wisconsin,  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  Benevolence  Committee  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  of  Oak  Park.  During 
the  World  War  Mr.  Standish  was  very  active 
in  the  campaigns  for  Liberty  Bonds  in  Oak 
Park,  and  he  served  as  auditor  in  all  but  one 
of  the  drives. 

Mr.  Standish  was  first  married  May  20,  1873, 
to  Carrie  E.  Hubbard,  a  daughter  of  Justus 
and  Cornelia  (Furnian)  Hubbard,  and  they  had 
the  following  children  :  John  Hubbard,  who  is 
deceased :  Cornelia,  who  is  deceased ;  Robert 
Miles,  Philip  Furman.  Miles,  Barbara  and  Alice. 
Mrs.  Standish  died  March  11,  1894.  Mr.  Stan- 
dish was  married,  second,  to  Miss  Mary  Stuart, 
March  27.  1895.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Hale  and  Sarah  A.  (Mallery)  Stuart.  The 
following  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Standish :  Stuart  and  Lora.  Mr.  Standish  be- 
longed  to  both   the  First  and  Third   Congrega- 


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tional  Churches  of  Oak  Park,  at  different  times, 
and  was  very  active  in  all  of  the  good  work  of 
both  congregations.  The  death  of  this  good 
citizen  and  excellent  man  occurred  November  9, 
1921,  and  in  his  passing  his  community  lost  one 


of  its  best  representatives,  and  his  family  a 
devoted  husband  and  father.  Mr.  Standish  be- 
longed to  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution, 
and  the  Chicago  City  Club. 


HENRY  H.  SESSIONS. 


One  of  the  largest  corporations  operating  in 
Illinois  is  the  Pullman  Car  Works,  and  the  man 
to  whose  exceptional  ability  and  character  is 
due  much  of  the  present  remarkable  prosperous 
condition  was  the  late  Henry  H.  Sessions,  for 
years  manager  of  this  concern. 

Henry  H.  Sessions  was  born  at  Madrid,  N.  Y., 
June  21,  1847,  a  son  of  Milton  and  Rosanna 
(Beals)  Sessions,  both  natives  of  Randolph,  Vt. 
Milton  Sessions  moved  to  Pullman,  111.,  after  his 
son  Henry  H.  became  associated  with  the  Pull- 
man works,  and  died  there  at  the  home  of  his 
son,  on  the  present  site  of  the  Pullman  Club. 

The  business  career  of  Henry  H.  Sessions  com- 
menced with  his  employment  by  the  Rome, 
Watertown  &  Ogdensburgh  Railroad,  now  a  pan 
of  the  New  York  Central  system,  and  he  consid- 
erably developed  his  mechanical  genius  in  de- 
vising methods  for  keeping  the  tracks  clear  from 
snow.  Becoming  a  master  mechanic,  he  divided 
his  time  between  Watertown  and  Rome,  both 
in  New  York.  Subsequently  he  was  with  the 
International  &  Great  Northern  Railroad  and 
the  Texas  '&  Pacific  Railroad,  and  for  a  time 
lived  at  Palestine,  Tex.  In  December,  1885,  he 
connected  himself  with  the  Pullman  Company 
as  superintendent  of  its  shops.  He  designed  and 
invented  many  improvements  in  connection  with 
the  Pullman  cars,  and  freight  cars  as  well,  in- 
cluding the  vestibule  and  an  anti-telescoping  de- 
vice in  general  for  railroads  and  street  cars. 
For  some  of  these  he  received  patents.  He  was 
vice  president  of  the  Standard  Coupler  Com- 
pany of  New  York  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
This  company  controls  his  draft  gear  and 
coupler  patents.     In  1892,  Mr.  Sessions  retired 


from  his  position  of  manager  of  the  Pullman 
Car  Works  which  he  had  so  materially  assisted 
in  developing,  having  been  placed  in  that  re- 
sponsible position  in  1885.  Widely  known  in 
railroad  circles,  he  enjoyed  the  confidence  of 
capitalists  and  employes  alike.  After  his  retire- 
ment, Mr.  Sessions  spent  the  greater  part  of 
his  time  in  the  management  of  his  personal 
affairs,  with  the  exception  of  the  time  he  de- 
voted to  the  Standard  Coupler  Company,  and 
found  much  enjoyment  in  the  cultivation  of  his 
natural  taste  for  music  and  good  literature.  A 
profound  reader,  he  delighted  in  poetry,  and 
wrote  many  verses  himself  which  displayed  a 
talent  that  was  astonishing  to  those  who  had 
known  him  only  as  the  practical  business  man 
and  inventor  of  mechanical  devices.  During 
his  later  years  Mr.  Sessions  developed  a  beau- 
tiful country  home  at  Lakeside,  Mich.,  and 
also  maintained  his  residence  in  Hyde  Park, 
Chicago.  He  derived  much  enjoyment  from 
his  garden  at  his  summer  home,  and  his  flow- 
ers and  vegetables  were  famous  in  that  lo- 
cality. On  March  14,  1915,  finis  was  written 
on  the  page  of  Mr.  Sessions'  life,  and  it  is  more 
than  probable  that  no  other  man  of  such  wide 
interests  had  as  little  to  regret  as  he  when  the 
summons  came,  for  he  was  singularly  free  from 
the  foibles  of  his  age.  Simple  in  his  habits, 
kindly  in  his  disposition,  he  sought  the  good  of 
others  and  brought  happiness  into  many  a  life 
that  would  otherwise  have  been  overshadowed. 
In  1872,  Mr.  Sessions  was  married  at  Rome, 
N.  Y.,  to  Miss  Nellie  Maxham,  a  daughter  of 
Hiram  and  Lucinda  (Cooper)  Maxham,  natives 
of  Thetford  and  Worcester,  Vt.,  respectively. 


CLARENCE  ELBERT  DEPUY. 


The  late  Prof.'  C.  E.  DePuy,  long  connected 
with  the  growth  of  Lewis  Institute,  Chicago, 
was  born  on  a  farm,  near  Jackson,  Michigan, 
on  March  11,  1863.  His  parents  were  James 
and  Helen  (Reynolds)  DePuy.  The  father 
was  a  native  of  New  York  state;  but  was  one 
of  the  early  settlers  in  Jackson  county,  Michi- 


gan, where  he  moved  in  1832.  He  became  a 
leader  in  his  section  of  the  state  in  civic  and 
agricultural  progress,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  State  Legislature  in  1855.  The  mother's 
family  in  America  are  descended  from  Robert 
Reynolds,  a  prominent  Puritan  immigrant  who 
crossed    the   Atlantic    and    located    in    Boston, 


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Massachusetts,  in  1632.  A  number  of  families 
of  consequence  in  the  East  trace  lineage  back 
to   him. 

C.  E.  DePuy  went  to  public  school  in  Jack- 
son ;  then  after  one  year  at  Cornell  University, 
he  entered  the  University  of  Michigan  from 
which  he  graduated  with  his  Bachelor  of 
Science  degree,  in  1891.  That  year  he  came 
to  Chicago  to  teach  in  the  Chicago  Manual 
Training  School.  Here  he  was  from  1891  to 
1896.  Then  he  went  to  Lewis  Institute,  Chi- 
cago, as  head  of  all  mechanical  instruction 
there.  The  value  of  his  work  there  has  come 
to  be  widely  recognized  and  has  been  a  prin- 
cipal factor  in  advancing  the  Institute's  un- 
questioned position  in  the  field  of  practical 
education. 

On  September  2,  1896,  Professor  DePuy  was 
married  to  Miss  Marion  Drummond  of  Janes- 


ville,  Wisconsin,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  H.  and 
Margaret  (Grey)  Drummond,  natives  of  Glen- 
gary  County,  Ontario,  Canada,  and  of  New 
York  City,  respectively.  Professor  and  Mrs. 
DePuy  have  two  sons,  Clarence  D.  and  James 
R.  DePuy.  The  family  home  is  in  Oak  Park. 
Professor  DePuy  belonged  to  the  Pilgrim  Con- 
gregational Church,  to  the  Theta  Delta  Chi 
fraternity,  American  Society  of  Steel  Treaters, 
the  Society  of  Automotive  Engineers,  the  Ameri- 
can Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers,  and  to 
the  Chicago  Congregational  Club. 

The  death  of  Professor  DePuy  occurred  at 
Ephraim,  Wisconsin,  on  August  28,  1923.  His 
life  has  been  one  of  true  achievement ;  and 
his  thoughtful,  able  and  unselfish  work  will 
continue  to  bear  fruit  in  the  lives  of  many 
younger  men  who  have  drawn  a  portion  of 
their    strength    from    him. 


OREN  B.  TAFT. 


Oren  B.  Taft  was  born  at  Medina,  New  York, 
June  19,  1846,  a  son  of  Joel  P.  and  Jane  E. 
(Britt)  Taft,  the  former  of  whom  died  in  1855. 
The  following  year,  Mrs.  Taft  with  her  son  and 
daughter  moved  to  Ford  County,  Illinois,  to 
join  a  brother  who  lived  on  what  has  since 
become  the  present  site  of  Paxton.  Here  Oren 
B.  Taft  grew  to  manhood  and  passed  through 
the  hardships  and  experiences  incident  to  pio- 
neer life.  Owing  to  lack  of  facilities  incident  to 
every  pioneer  country,  he  had  but  few  oppor- 
tunities for  acquiring  an  early  education.  When 
possible  he  attended  the  district  schools  of  his 
neighborhood  and  later  two  years  at  the  old 
Chicago  University.  He  continued  a  student 
throughout  his  life,  developed  his  intellectual 
faculties  to  a  remarkable  degree  and  devoted 
much  of  his  leisure  time  to  the  study  and  in- 
vestigation of  fundamental  problems  and  writing 
on  philosophical  subjects. 

His  attention  was  early  turned  toward  a 
business  career  and  even  at  seventeen  he  won 
local  recognition  and  was  appointed  deputy  to 
take  charge  of  the  office  of  circuit  clerk  of  Ford 
County.  He  filled  that  position  for  five  years, 
during  which  period  he  was  brought  into  contact 
with  the  leading  men  of  his  section  of  the  state. 
The  money  he  could  save  during  this  formative 
period  of  his  neighborhood,  he  invested  success- 
fully in  real  estate ;  but  being  dissatisfied  with 
the  limitations  of  a  country  town,  came  to 
Chicago  in  1869.     Here  he   associated   himself 


with  D.  K.  Pearsons  and  in  1876  was  made  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  D.  K.  Pearsons  and  Com- 
pany, Mr.  Pearsons  retiring  in  1880.  The  con- 
cern has  since  been  conducted  by  Oren  B.  Taft 
and  his  sons,  Oren  E.  and  Harry  L.  Taft,  who 
entered  the  business  later  and  who  purchased 
the  interests  of  H.  A.  Pearsons  on  his  retirement. 
The  business  originally  established  in  1865,  had 
Illinois  for  its  field  of  operation ;  but  later  ex- 
tended to  include  the  better  portions  of  eighteen 
of  the  best  agricultural  states.  The  position 
which  this  firm  occupies  in  relation  to  the  im- 
provement and  development  of  lands  in  the  mid- 
dle west  is  well  known  and  it  is  generally  con- 
ceded that  this  company  is  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant factors  in  America  in  supplying  funds 
for  that  purpose. 

From  its  inception  it  was  recognized  that  the 
business  occupied  a  peculiar  position.  It  could 
be  treated  solely  as  an  opportunity  to  acquire 
a  fortune,  or  those  interested  in  it  could,  in  a 
broader  sense,  and  at  some  sacrifice,  become  a 
helpful  factor  in  the  development  of  a  new 
country.  In  1865,  and  for  some  years  following, 
this  northern  Mississippi  Valley  was  almost  a 
virgin  prairie.  It  was  being  settled  by  many 
who  had  served  in  the  Civil  War  as  well  as 
by  European  emigrants,  all  poor  in  purse  but 
rich  and  strong  in  health  and  purpose.  These 
settlers  could  begin  the  process  of  agricultural 
development,  but  to  withstand  the  vicissitudes  of 
pioneer  life,  they  would,  in  the  aggregate,  need 


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financial  support  running  into  the  millions. 
Such  financing  of  Farm  Loans  had  never  been 
entered  into  upon  so  large  a  scale.  Mr.  Taft 
realized  the  need  of  such  financing  and  under- 
took to  secure  the  capital  necessary  for  the 
development  of  this  promising  region  upon  the 
liberal  and  long  term  conditions  necessary  to  a 
successful  completion  of  the  enterprise.  To  have 
exploited  the  opening  of  the  Northwest  for  self- 
ish interests  would  have  retarded  its  develop- 
ment a  decade  or  more.  Mr.  Taft  foresaw  all 
this  and  that  his  concern  gave  the  needed  aid 
in  meeting  these  conditions  is  a  matter  of  his- 
tory. 

He  enjoyed  wide  respect  for  the  active  and 
unselfish  interest  he  took  in  connection  with 
this  development,  and  other  movements  tending 
to  the  betterment  of  the  territory.  His  efforts 
not  only  contributed  materially  to  the  growth  of 
the  country,  but  helped  many  thousands  of 
people  to  secure  and  pay  for  homes.  In  this 
he  was  a  thorough  and  conscientious  worker, 
and  his  career  was  one  that  redounds  to  his 
credit  and  places  his  name  high  in  the  estima- 
tion of  his  fellows. 

His  business  was  organized  under  the  Illinois 
laws  as  a  State  Bank  and  was  operated  under 
the  name  of  the  Pearsons-Taft  Land  Credit 
Company.  It  was  the  first  and  only  bank  in  the 
United  States  lending  its  funds  exclusively  on 
real  estate.     As  a   result  of  repeated   trips  to 


Europe  for  the  purpose  of  investigating  the 
Continental  Method  of  mortgage  banking,  Mr. 
Taft  adapted  these  methods  to  the  uses  of  his 
own  company,  being  convinced  that  they  cor- 
rected certain  weaknesses  in  the  American  prac- 
tice. Thus  for  twenty  years,  the  Pearsons-Taft 
Land  Credit  Company  was  the  only  institution 
in  the  United  States  applying  the  so-called 
"Amortizement  System"  to  the  farm  mortgage 
business  and  Mr.  Taft  was  the  pioneer  in  his 
own  country  of  that  practice  adopted  twenty 
years  later  by  the  United  States  Government  in 
the  establishment  of  its  Federal  Farm  Loan 
Bank. 

Oren  B.  Taft  was  married  at  Paxton,  Illinois, 
June  20,  1867,  to  Miss  Frances  E.  Sehlosser. 
Three  children  were  born  to  them,  namely : 
Oren  E.,  Ina  M.,  and  Harry  L.  The  family 
reside  at  Chicago  during  the  winter,  while  for 
twenty  years  their  summer  home  was  at  Mid- 
lothian, Illinois.  Mr.  Taft  was  prominent  in 
both  business  and  social  circles,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Municipal  Voters'  League,  the 
Legislative  Voters'  League,  and  was  also  identi- 
fied with  the  Chicago,  Union  League,  Bankers 
and  Midlothian  clubs.  In  every  way  he  meas- 
ured up  to  the  highest  standards  of  citizenship, 
was  thoroughly  representative  of  his  country 
and  times,  and  was  regarded  as  one  of  Chicago's 
finest  men.  He  died  suddenly,  October  23,  1924, 
at  the  Union  League  Club,  Chicago. 


CHAUNCEY  BUCKLEY  BLAIR. 


The  late  Chauncey  Buckley  Blair,  for  nearly 
thirty  years  the  president  of  the  Merchants' 
National  Bank  of  Chicago,  was  for  several 
decades  one  of  the  financial  powers  of  this  city 
and  the  West.  He  is  accorded  unanimous 
credit  of  having  twice  in  his  remarkable  career 
saved  the  financial  situation  in  Chicago,  re- 
stored public  confidence  and  averted  a  general 
disaster  to  its  banks  and  a  far-spreading  and 
incalculable  financial  calamity.  Conservative 
while  treading  the  safe  paths  of  prosperity,  he 
always  met  the  threats  of  commercial  and  finan- 
cial disaster  with  confident  and  brave  bear- 
ing, and  was  most  bold  when  he  seemed  to  be 
leading  a  forlorn  hope.  Moreover,  in  his  atti- 
tude as  friend,  father  and  husband  he  was 
helpful,  tender  and  thoughtful,  combining  in 
his  character  the  strength  and  gentleness  which 
spell  the  true  man  and  gentleman.  Mr.  Blair 
was  a  native  of  Blandford,  Mass.,  and  a  mem- 


ber of  one  of  the  oldest  families  of  that  place, 
his  great-grandfather  having  settled  there  in 
1753.  The  Blair  family  are  of  Celtic  origin 
and  are  traced  in  Scotland  as  far  back  as  the 
twelfth  century.  Early  in  the  fifteenth  century 
they  migrated  from  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  to  the 
north  of  Ireland,  settling  at  Aghadowey,  County 
Antrim,  in  the  province  of  Ulster,  from  whence 
they  came  to  America  about  1718.  The  line  of 
descent  is  designated  by  Roman  numerals  in 
the  following:  (I)  Robert  Blair,  son  of  James 
and  Rachel  (Boyd)  Blair,  of  Aghadowey, 
County  Antrim,  Ireland,  was  the  eldest  of  two 
brothers  who  came  to  America  and  settled  at 
Rutland,  Worcester  County,  Mass.,  before  1720. 
He  married  Isabella,  daughter  of  David  Ran- 
kin, who  came  to  Aghadowey  from  Scotland  ir 
1685.  They  had  eleven  children.  (II)  Rober 
Blair,  junior,  eighth  child  of  Robert  and  1st 
bella    (Rankin)   Blair,  born  in  Rutland,  Mas? 


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married  Hannah  Thompson,  a  native  of  Ire- 
land, and  settled  in  Blandford,  Mass.,  in  1753. 
They  had  seven  children.  (Ill)  Rufus  Blair, 
sixth  child  of  Robert,  junior,  and  Hannah 
(Thompson)  Blair,  was  born  in  western  Mas- 
sachusetts ;  spent  his  life  in  Blandford,  where 
he  married  Dolly,  daughter  of  Samuel  Boise, 
and  had  seven  children.  (IV)  Samuel  Blair, 
eldest  child  of  Rufus  and  Dolly  (Boise)  Blair, 
was  born  in  Blandford,  where  he  married  Han- 
nah, youngest  daughter  of  Jonathan  Frary. 
He  removed  to  New  York  State  in  1811,  and 
died  at  Cortland.  Their  children  were :  Caro- 
line, Justus  P.,  Chauncey  B.,  Lyman,  William 
and  Anna  E.,  three  of  whom,  Chauncey  B., 
Lyman  and  William,  are  prominently  identified 
with  the  early  history  of  Chicago. 

(V)  Chauncey  B.  Blair,  the  third  child  of 
Samuel  and  Hannah  (Frary)  Blair,  was  born 
at  Blandford,  June  18,  1810.  In  the  year  1814 
the  family  moved  to  Cortland  County,  N.  Y., 
where  Chauncey  remained  until  he  was  eleven 
years  old.  He  then  returned  to  his  native  town 
to  live  with  an  uncle,  a  farmer,  and  there  he 
remained  employed  on  the  farm  until  he  had 
attained  his  majority,  when  he  went  back  to 
Cortland  County,  where  his  family  still  re- 
side. He  remained  there  until  1835,  when  he 
determined  to  try  his  fortunes  in  the  West.  In 
the  spring  of  that  year,  without  business  ex- 
perience, but  with  a  strong  body  and  char- 
acter, the  young  man  came  west  and  com- 
menced to  locate  and  sell  lands  in  Wisconsin, 
Indiana  and  Illinois.  Guided  only  by  the  im- 
perfect maps  then  furnished  by  the  public  land 
offices,  he  rode  over  this  vast  territory  on  horse- 
back, and  thus  gaining  intimate  knowledge  of 
the  property  which  he  offered  for  sale  was 
enabled  to  do  a  "land  office  business"  until 
1837  when,  by  the  withdrawal  of  such  lands 
by  presidential  proclamation,  he  was  obliged  to 
abandon  this  profitable  field.  In  the  fall  of 
that  year  he  associated  himself  with  his 
brother,  Lyman,  in  the  grain  business  in  Michi- 
gan City,  Ind.,  and  the  operations  of  the  firm 
covered  a  large  territory,  as  Michigan  City  was 
then  the  only  shipping  point  to  eastern  mar- 
kets. The  firm  name  was  C.  B.  &  L.  Blair, 
and  at  one  time  they  owned  the  largest  ware- 
house in  Indiana.  They  also  built  the  first 
bridge  pier  on  the  east  side  of  Lake  Michigan, 
and  were  among  the  pioneer  shippers  of  grain 
to  the  East.  Chauncey  B.  Blair  secured  a 
charter   and    built   a   plank   road    thirty   miles 


long  for  the  purpose  of  making  transportation 
inland  from  the  lake  easier.  Notes  were  issued 
on  the  stock  of  the  plank  road  corporation 
and  a  banking  business  was  started.  He  was 
made  president  of  this  banking  company  and 
so  first  entered  upon  the  business  to  which 
he  practically  devoted  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  The  notes  issued  by  this  company,  known 
as  the  Union  Plank  Road  Company,  were  ac- 
cepted by  all  the  state  banks  in  the  Northwest 
and  were  all  finally  redeemed  in  gold.  Some 
of  them  were  held  in  the  South  at  the  time 
of  the  commencement  of  the  War  of  the  Re- 
bellion, but  were  promptly  honored  when  pre- 
sented at  the  close  of  the  war. 

During  this  period,  he  went  a  little  into  rail- 
road building,  being  one  of  the  incorporators 
of  the  Northern  Indiana  Railroad  Company, 
which  was  the  first  road  to  impair  the  useful- 
ness of  his  plank  road.  The  Northern  Indiana 
was  afterward  consolidated  with  the  Michigan 
Southern.  He  next  became  interested  in  the 
State  Bank  of  Indiana,  and  when  it  was  re- 
chartered,  under  the  name  of  the  Bank  of  the 
State  of  Indiana,  he  secured  a  controlling  in- 
terest in  its  La  Porte  branch,  later  becoming 
its  president.  In  1S59  he  came  to  Chicago  and 
established  a  private  bank,  the  Merchants  Bank, 
which  he  conducted  until  1865.  He  then  organ- 
ized the  Merchants  National  Bank  of  Chicago, 
which  began  to  do  business  at  No.  36  South 
Clark  street  with  a  paid-up  capital  of  $450,000. 
The  officers  were :  president,  Chauncey  B.  Blair, 
and  cashier,  John  DeKoven.  At  its  last  state- 
ment prior  to  the  fire,  its  capital  was  $650,000, 
surplus  $300,000,  deposits,  $1,149,756.  Mr.  Blair 
had  been  president  of  it  continuously  during 
that  time  and  had  made  an  enviable  record  as  a 
financier,  sometimes  pursuing  a  policy  against 
the  judgment  of  all  his  friends.  At  the  time 
of  the  great  fire  of  1871  he  insisted  upon 
an  immediate  and  full  payment  to  all  the 
depositors  of  this  bank,  although  nearly  every 
other  financier  in  Chicago  advised  against  such 
a  course.  His  decision  was  greeted  with  admira- 
tion in  all  parts  of  the  country,  and  his  action 
resulted  in  establishing  on  a  firm  basis  the 
credit  of  Chicago,  at  that  time  greatly  impaired. 

When,  by  reason  of  the  inability  of  the  city 
to  collect  the  taxes  of  1871,  1872,  1873  and  1874, 
and  on  account  of  the  fire  losses  and  subse- 
quent stagnation  of  business  and  other  compli- 
cations the  credit  of  Chicago  became  materially 
impaired,  Mr.  Blair  was  one  of  the  few  to  come 


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to  the  rescue  of  the  city  and  by  his  faith  in  the 
city  and  his  advances  may  be  said  to  have 
saved  Chicago's  credit  a  second  time.  During 
the  panic  of  1873,  when  the  banks  of  Boston, 
New  York  and  other  large  cities  had  suspended 
payments  and  most  of  the  Chicago  banks 
favored  the  same  course,  proposing  to  issue 
clearing-house  certificates,  he  made  a  firm 
stand  at  the  clearing-house  meeting  and  an- 
nounced that  he  proposed  to  pay  all  demands. 
His  arguments  convinced  the  other  bankers 
that  it  was  the  proper  course  to  pursue,  and, 
as  a  result,  they  passed  through  the  panic  with- 
out serious  harm  and  Chicago's  credit  was 
placed  on  a  firmer  basis  than  ever.  Mr.  Blair 
continued  in  the  presidency  of  the  Merchants 
National  Bank  until  his  death  in  1891,  and  was 
succeeded  by  his  son,  Chauncey  J.  Blair.  In 
1902  that  institution  was  consolidated  with  an- 
other, becoming  the  Corn  Exchange  National 
Bank,  one  of  the  foremost  of  the  city  today. 
The  principle  on  which  Mr.  Blair  managed  his 
bank,  as  shown  by  the  reports  to  the  comp- 
troller of  the  currency,  was  remarked  upon  by 
many  of  the  best  hankers  of  the  country.  The 
cash  reserves  held  by  the  bank  were  probably 
larger  than  those  of  any  other  bank  in  the 
country  in  proportion  to  its  liabilities,  with 
possibly  one  exception,  the  Chemical  National 
Bank  of  New  York. 

Upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Blair,  January  30. 
1S91,  the  local  press,  from  which  we  make  the 
following  extracts,  was  replete  with  tribute  to 
his  successful  career  and  noble  character : 
"Mr.  Blair  was  a  man  of  the  old  style.  Wholly 
unassuming,  positive  in  his  convictions,  ready 
to  give  his  last  dollar  to  meet  a  bit  of  paper 
or  an  obligation  in  which  his  honor  was  in- 
volved in  the  faintest  degree;  his  whole  busi- 
ness career  was  one  of  protest  against  the 
rapid  methods  adopted  by  men  of  fewer  years 
and  less  honor.  The  writer  recalls  a  remark 
made  to  him  by  the  deceased  in  1877 :  'Don't 
try  to  argue  with  me  about  silver.  It  will 
never  do  for  a  medium  of  exchange  beyond  the 
fractional  part  of  a  dollar.' " — The  Chicago 
Post,  January  30,  1891.  Under  the  heading  of 
"One  Model  Citizen,"  the  Chicago  Times  of 
January  31,  1891,  reports  "The  Eventful  Career 
of  a  Man  Who  Had  the  Welfare  of  Chicago 
at  Heart."  "Passing  away  at  the  ripe  age  of 
eighty-one  years,  the  career  of  Chauncey  B. 
Blair,  so  long  identified  with  the  largest  finan- 
cial  interest  of   the  city,    becomes  in    its   per- 


sonal phase  one  of  greatest  interest  to  the  citi- 
zens of  Chicago.  Always  a  busy  man,  and 
altogether  a  business  man,  Mr.  Blair  had  in 
his  long  life  neither  the  time  nor  the  inclina- 
tion for  else  than  the  advancement  of  con- 
stantly increasing  commercial  interests.  He 
threw  his  whole  energies  into  his  work.  He 
cared  neither  for  amusements,  which  generally 
seemed  to  him  frivolous,  nor  for  vacations, 
which  were  esteemed  a  waste  of  time.  In  his 
banking  life  he  was  daily,  throughout  the  year, 
at  his  desk  early  in  the  morning  and  the  last 
to  leave  at  night.  He  was  eminently  conserva- 
tive in  all  his  ideas  and  most  closely  allied  with 
the  customs  of  the  more  rigid  past.  He  often 
referred  to  the  time  when  he  had  to  work  six- 
teen hours  out  of  the  twenty-four  and  depre- 
cated many  of  the  innovations  of  later  days, 
which  seemed  to  him  a  relaxing  of  those  stern 
convictions  of  old.  Unostentatious  generosity 
to  the  deserving  was  a  characteristic  of  Mr. 
Blair.  It  had  always  been  his  custom  to  care 
for  the  sick  among  the  employes  of  his  large 
bank,  aiding  the  families  in  their  illness  and 
helping  to  bury  their  dead.  At  Christmas  they 
were  all  remembered  with  gifts  of  money, 
which  were  distributed  according  to  the  needs, 
rather  than  with  regard  to  position  or  the  sal- 
ary earned.  In  personal  habits  and  demeanor 
Mr.  Blair  was  plain  and  old-fashioned.  He 
generally  voted  the  Republican  ticket,  but  did 
not  mingle  in  politics.  He  was  not  a  church 
member,  while  a  regular  attendant  at  Trinity 
Episcopal  Church.  He  died  in  the  peace  and 
quiet  of  his  home,  as  he  had  lived.  In  more 
than  a  half  century  of  unremitting  energy,  with 
the  record  of  never  having  had  a  mortgage  re- 
corded against  him  nor  a  piece  of  paper  pro- 
tested, he  had  left  a  reputation  for  shrewdness 
and  absolute  diligence  and  integrity  in  a  rigid 
business.  The  residence  of  the  late  Chauncey 
B.  Blair,  No.  1611  Michigan  Avenue,  was 
crowded  with  those  who  had  come  to  attend 
the  funeral  yesterday.  So  many  of  the  friends 
of  the  deceased  banker  were  there  that  the 
upper  part  of  the  house  was  opened  to  the 
throng,  while  a  line  of  men  reaching  from  the 
curb  to  the  door  stood  with  uncovered  heads, 
listening  to  the  opening  chant,  'Rest  Ye  Weary 
Ones,'  given  by  the  choir  of  Trinity  Chapel. 
In  the  parlor  where  the  coffin  lay  were  seated 
men  whose  clothing  showed  they  were  ordinary 
workmen.  They  had  evidently  been  among  the 
many  to  whom  Mr.  Blair  had  shown  kindness 


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in  life.  Their  sorrow  was  touching.  No  dem- 
onstration was  made  beyond  the  fact  that  they 
wept,  an  evidence  of  feeling  men  rarely  show." 
—Chicago  Tribune,  February  2,  1891. 

Chauncey  Buckley  Blair  married  in  Michi- 
gan City,  Ind.,  June  11,  1844,  Caroline  Oliva 
De  Groff,  daughter  of  Amos  and  Harriet 
(Sleight)  De  Groff,  who  was  born  in  Pough- 
keepsie,  N.  Y.,  August  7,  1822,  and  died  in 
Chicago,   December  5,   1867.     A   family   of  six 


children  was  born  to  them  five  sons  and  one 
daughter.  Two  of  the  former  George  G.  and 
William  S.,  are  deceased,  while  Chauncey  J., 
Henry  A.  and  Watson  F.  have  become  promi- 
nent Chicago  financiers  and  are  all  identified 
with  the  Corn  Exchange  Bank,  which  is  the 
successor  of  the  Merchants'  National,  founded 
by  their  father.  The  daughter,  Harriet,  is  the 
widow  of  the  late  John  Jay  Borland,  of  this  city. 


JOHN  JAY  BORLAND. 


One  of  the  men  whose  position  among  the 
leading  lumber  operators  of  this  part  of  the 
country  was  unquestioned,  was  the  late  John 
Jay  Borland,  who,  for  years,  was  associated 
with  the  lumber  business  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Bor- 
land was  born  in  North  Evans,  Erie  County, 
N.  Y.,  October  31,  1837,  coming  of  good  New 
England  stock.  His  father,  John  Borland,  was 
born  at  Manchester,  Vt,  and  his  mother,  who 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Tappan,  was  a  native 
of  Dorset,  that  same  state. 

John  Jay  Borland  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Evans,  later  going  to  the  Springfield  High 
School,  and  completed  his  training  with  a  com- 
mercial course  at  Bryant  and  Stratton's  Busi- 
ness College,  Chicago.  Although  his  father  de- 
sired him  to  still  further  punsue  collegiate 
study,  Mr.  Borland  refused  to  take  advantage 
of  the  offer,  for  he  realized  that  his  father's 
capital  was  otherwise  needed,  as  there  was  a 
large  family  to  be  provided  for.  When  he  was 
sixteen  years  old,  the  family  moved  to  Iowa, 
and  two  years  afterward  to  Carlton,  Kewanee 
County,  Wis.,  and  there  Mr.  Borland  began  put- 
ting into  practical  use  the  commercial  train- 
ing he  had  received,  acting  as  a  clerk  for  the 
firm  of  Borland  &  Dean,  of  which  his  father 
was  the  senior  member,  and  E.  C.  Dean  the 
junior.  This  firm  was  engaged  in  erecting  a 
sawmill  and  dock  at  Carlton.  This  was  the 
beginning  of  Mr.  Borland's  association  with  the 
lumber  interests.  He  finally  purchased  his 
father's  share  in  the  business  without  change 
of  style,  and  in  1858,  owing  to  its  increase  in 
volume  the  partners  decided  to  remove  head- 
quarters to  Chicago.  Mr.  Borland  took  charge 
of  the  Chicago  end  of  the  business,  and  so  wid- 
ened the  fields  of  operation  that  within  twelve 
months  new  capital  was  required  for  further 
expansion  and   another  partner  was  admitted, 


William  Blanchard,  who  brought  with  him  ex- 
tensive lumbering  connections. 

Having  satisfactorily  consummated  this  deal, 
Mr.  Borland  took  the  opportunity  to  pay  a 
visit  to  his  old  home.  It  was  while  there  that 
the  Civil  War  broke  out,  and  he  enlisted  in  the 
Fourteenth  Wisconsin  Volunteer  Infantry.  His 
regiment  was  hurried  to  the  front,  and  while 
Mr.  Borland  was  serving  under  Gen.  Frederick 
Steele,  he  was  promoted  for  conspicuous  brav- 
ery under  fire,  and  received  a  captain's  com- 
mission. During  the  latter  part  of  1863,  at 
the  battle  of  Helena,  Ark.,  Mr.  Borland  was 
seriously  wounded,  and  but  for  his  excellent 
constitution,  would  have  died  from  the  injury, 
but  subsequently  recovered,  although  not  in 
time  to  rejoin  his  regiment. 

At  the  close  of  his  period  of  military  serv- 
ice, Mr.  Borland  returned  to  his  business  in- 
terests at  Chicago  and  resumed  the  cares  rela- 
tive thereto,  although  he  found  that  they  had 
been  carefully  conserved  by  his  able  partners. 
Finally  disposing  of  his  Carlton  interests,  he 
concentrated  upon  his  Chicago  business,  and 
the  firm  became  Blanchard  &  Borland.  When 
the  Ford  River  Lumber  Company  was  organ- 
ized in  1869,  with  a  sawmill  at  Ford  River, 
Mich.,  Mr.  Borland  was  interested,  and  upon 
its  incorporation  he  was  made  its  treasurer 
and  was  still  holding  that  office  at  tihe  time 
of  his  death.  Through  his  knowledge  of  con- 
ditions and  his  energetic  managemenit,  the  busi- 
ness was  developed  in  a  remarkable  degree, 
and  gradually  the  original  equipment  was  re 
placed  with  modern  machinery.  Mr.  Borland 
was  associated  for  a  number  of  years  with  the 
Lumberman's  Exchange,  first  as  a  member,  and 
later  as  vice  president  and  treasurer. 

On  February  22,  1865,  Mr.  Borland  was  mar- 
ried  to   Sophia   L.    Ingersoll,  of  North    Evans, 


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N.  Y.,  who  died  in  1876,  leaving  one  son,  John 
Ingersoll  Borland.  On  August  29,  1877,  Mr. 
Borland  was  married  (second)  to  Harriet 
Blair,  a  daughter  of  Chauncey  Buckley  Blair, 
and  two  sons  were  born  of  this  union ;  Chaun- 
cey Biair  and  Bruce. 

The  death  of  this  representative  citizen, 
which  occurred  October  11,  1881,  removed  from 
Chicago  a  man  of  sterling  character  and  sturdy 
personality.  Through  life  Mr.  Borland  had 
displayed  noble  characteristics  and  personal 
courage.  Not  only  was  he  a  brave  soldier  in 
time  of  war,  but  while  still  a  lad  he  saved 
from  death  by  drowning,  several  of  his  com- 
panions, risking  his  own  life  to  accomplish  this. 
Strictly  honorable,  he  ever  refused  to  take 
under  contemplation  any  business  operations 
of  which  he  could  not  approve.  He  was  a  man 
of  fair  dealing  and  not  only  carried  out  his 
contracts  with  promptness  and  integrity,  but 
gave  his  employes  all  honorable  consideration. 
His  keen  business  sense  was  recognized  by  his 
associates  who  many  times  placed  him  in  posi- 
tions of  responsibility,  realizing  that  he  would 
guard  their  interests  better  than  they  could 
themselves.  His  executive  ability  was  marked. 
His  death  closed  a  successful  career  and  de- 
prived his  family  and  associates  of  a  wise, 
kindly  and  elevating  influence. 

At  a  called  meeting  of  the  Lumberman's  Ex- 
change of  Chicago,  October  13,  1881,  the  fol- 
lowing preamble  and  resolutions  were  unani- 
mously adopted : 

Whereas,  Our  late  associate  John  Jay  Bor- 
land, having  died  at  his  residence  at  Chicago, 
on  the  evening  of  the  11th  inst,  that  the  mem- 
ory of  his  life  may  be  a  record  with  this  Ex- 
change. 


Resolved,  That,  identified  as  was  Mr.  Bor- 
land for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  with 
the  lumber  trade  of  Chicago  and  the  North 
West,  his  life  was  a  bright  example  of  busi- 
ness integrity  and  uprightness,  which  could  not 
fail  to  impress  itself  and  exert  an  influence 
for  good  upon  all  his  business  associates,  ele- 
vating the  standard  of  morality  governing  com- 
mercial transactions,  leading  all  who  were 
brought  in  contact  with  him  to  form  a  higher 
estimate  of  the  obligations  resting  upon  busi- 
ness men  in  their  intercourse  with  each  other, 
and  no  less  in  their  social  relations. 

We  point  with  pride  and  satisfaction  to  the 
life  of  our  late  associate  as  an  example  of 
patriotism,  in  his  devotion  to  his  country 
through  a  term  of  service  spent  in  her  defense, 
and  of  uprightness  in  his  dealings  with  his 
fellowmen,  worthy  of  the  deepest  study  and 
emulation  of  all  men,  especially  of  those, 
younger  in  conunei^eial  life,  who  could  adopt 
no  more  worthy  standard  as  the  aim  of  their 
business  career  than  is  afforded  by  the  life  and 
example  of  John  Jay  Borland,  as  an  honest, 
courageous,  self-reliant  and  judicious  man. 

As  his  business  associates,  many  of  us  for 
long  terms  of  years  of  intimacy,  we  tender 
to  the  afflicted  wife  and  family  of  our  deceased 
brother,  our  warmest  sympathy  in  their  be- 
reavement, expressing  the  hope  that  his  wife 
and  family  may  derive  comfort  in  this  hour 
of  grief,  in  the  thought  that  he  left  behind 
him  so  true  and  pure  a  name,  and  that  his 
sons  may  grow  up  inheriting  the  same  virtues 
that  we  meet  to  testify  to,  to-day. 

Be  it  ordered,  That  this  testimonial  be  en- 
tered upon  our  records,  and  a  copy  thereof  be 
sent  to  the  family  of  our  late  associate. 


WILLIAM  CALDWELL  NIBLACK. 


William  Caldwell  Niblack  was  born  at  Dover 
Hill,  Martin  County,  Indiana,  on  September  5, 
1854,  a  son  of  William  Ellis  and  Eliza  Ann 
(Sherman)  Niblack,  both  natives  of  New  York 
State.  The  father  was  a  member  of  the  Con- 
gress of  the  United  States  for  twenty-four 
years,  and  an  Indiana  Judge  for  years. 

After  completing  courses  at  the  local  schools 
William  C.  Niblack  entered  Georgetown  College, 
Washington,  D.  O,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1874.  Then  he  joined  Wheeler's  Ex- 
ploring expedition,  as  meteorologist,  and   trav- 


eled extensively  throughout  the  West.  Return- 
ing to  Indiana,  he  attended  lectures  at  the  Cin- 
cinnati Law  School  during  1876-7  and.  later, 
read  law  in  the  office  of  George  Riley  at  Vin- 
cennes,  Indiana.  He  was  admitted  to  the  In- 
diana bar  in  1877  and  practiced  at  Vincennes 
for  five  years. 

Then  he  came  to  Chicago  and  opened  offices. 
From  that  time  on  he  exerted  a  fine,  strong 
influence  in  business  here  as  it  relates  to  both 
real  estate  and  banking.  He  gave  a  great 
share  of  his  thought  and  strength  to  the  up- 


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building  of  the  Chicago  Title  and  Trust  Com- 
pany. He  was  made  vice  president  and  trust 
officer  in  1896.  The  development  of  this  institu- 
tion since  that  time  has  been  quite  largely 
wrought  through  the  vision,  force,  judgment 
and  clear  sense  of  public  responsibility  which 
were  notably  present  in  all  of  Mr.  Niblack's 
work. 

He  was  also  receiver  for  the  Chemical  & 
Columbia  National  Banks  and  of  the  La  Salle 
Street  Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  Chicago,  and 
other  financial  institutions. 

Mr.  Niblack  wrote  several  volumes  which  tend 
to  substantiate  one's  belief  that,  in  his  special 
work,  he  was  a  very  high  authority.  They  are 
entitled  "The  Torrens  System,  Its  Cost  and 
Complexity,"  "Abstractors  and  Title  Insurance," 
"Mutual  Benefit  Societies  and  Accident  Insur- 
ance," and  "Analysis  of  the  Torrens  System." 


Mr.  Niblack  served  for  three  years  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  executive  committee  of  the  American 
Bar  Association.  He  also  belonged  to  the 
Chicago   Bar   Association. 

On  February  10,  1880,  William  C.  Niblack 
was  married  in  Georgetown,  D.  C.  to  Miss  Fan- 
nie Herr,  a  daughter  of  A.  H.  Herr  who  was, 
at  that  time,  one  of  the  largest  flour  manu- 
facturers in  the  East.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Niblack's 
children  are:  Narcissa  (Mrs.  Jas.  W.  Thorne), 
Austin  H.  Niblack  and  Lydia  (Mrs.  Alden  B. 
Swift).  The  family  home  has  been  in  Lake 
Forest  for  some  years. 

Mr.  Niblack  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Club,  as  well  as  the  Union  League  Club  and 
The  Wayfarers. 

William  C.  Niblack  died  on  the  6th  of  May, 
1920.  He  was  one  of  the  finest  men  Chicago 
has  had. 


JOHN  Z.  MURPHY. 


John  Z.  Murphy  was  born  in  a  log  cabin  in 
the  village  of  Palos,  Cook  County,  Illinois,  on 
May  28,  1857,  a  son  of  William  and  Ann  (Mc- 
Carthy) Murphy.  He  attended  the  local  grade 
school  until  he  was  thirteen  years  old.  At  that 
time  his  father  died.  It  then  became  necessary 
for  the  son  to  begin  earning  money  to  support 
himself  and  his  mother,  and  four  brothers  and 
two  sisters.  His  first  work  was  driving  a  horse, 
towing  freight  along  the  old  Illinois  and  Michi- 
gan Canal,  at  the  wage  of  a  dollar  a  day.  Later 
he  worked  as  a  laborer  for  the  Chicago  &  Alton 
railroad.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  came  to 
Chicago  and  engaged  as  watchman  and  as  fire- 
man on  a  steam  derrick.  Four  years  later  he 
became  an  oiler  on  a  steamboat ;  and,  after  a 
year  of  this  experience  coupled  with  study,  he 
passed  the  required  examination  and  secured 
his  license  as  a  steam  engineer. 

Returning  to  railroad  work,  he  first  ran  a 
steam  shovel  on  a  construction  job  for  the  Chi- 
cago &  Northwestern  Railroad ;  and  was  later 
promoted  to  take  charge  of  the  building  of  the 
Galena  Division  of  this  road.  It  was  Mr. 
Murphy  who  finally  succeeded  in  bridging  the 
Platte  River. 

After  this  he  again  took  up  steamboating  and 
was  engineer  on  several  different  boats  plying 
the  Great  Lakes. 

In   his   thirty-second   year   Mr.   Murphy   was 


chosen  by  the  Pennsylvania  Iron  Works  to  in- 
stall the  boilers  and  cable  machinery  in  their 
Rockwell  street  power  house  at  Chicago.  After 
this  work  was  completed  he  operated  this  plant 
for  them,  until  the  power  house  was  taken  over 
by  the  West  Chicago  Street  Railway  Company. 

In  1892  he  was  made  operating  engineer  of 
the  West  Chicago  Street  Railway  Company. 
When  this  city's  North  and  West  side  street 
railways  were  consolidated  as  the  Chicago 
Union  Traction  Company,  Mr.  Murphy  was 
elected  chief  engineer  of  the  combined  prop- 
erties. In  1914,  when  all  the  traction  systems 
were  merged  into  the  Chicago  Surface  Lines,  he 
was  then  made  electrical  engineer ;  and  he  re- 
mained in  this  office  until  his  death.  He  had 
also  represented  the  Chicago  Surface  Lines  on 
the  Board  of  Supervising  Engineers  since  1908. 

Mr.  Murphy  was  married  on  May  25,  1884,  to 
Miss  Mary  A.  Spellman,  a  daughter  of  Michael 
and  Rose  Spellman. 

John  Z.  Murphy  died  on  January  16,  1925. 
His  death  and  the  death  of  William  W.  Gurley 
and  John  M.  Roach,  all  within  a  period  of  two 
years,  mark  the  passing  of  three  of  the  men  who 
were  the  builders  of  one  of  the  greatest  public 
utilities  in  this  country,  the  Chicago  Surface 
Lines.  Mr.  Murphy  was  a  great  engineer  and  a 
man  to  whom  friends,  coworkers  and  subordi- 
nates were  deeply  attached. 


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S.  WARREN  LAMSON. 


The  record  of  the  life  of  S.  Warren  Lamson  of 
Chicago  is  revealed  in  the  lines  composed  by  his 
bereaved  sister.  They  give,  as  nothing  else,  an 
intimate  insight  of  his  nature. 

"His  greatest  joy  in  life  was  doing  good, 
But  not  with  ostentation  nor  with  loud  acclaim ; 
Kind  acts  known  only  to  the  grateful  helped, 
The  Helper  and  to  God. 

And  we,  alas, 
Shall  know  no  more  the  quiet,  genial  smile, 
The  keen  discerning  eye,  the  helpful  hand. 
The  comprehending  mind,  and  more  than  all, 
The  sympathizing  heart  that  made 
Humanity  his  brother.    But  in  our  hearts 
He  still  will  live  just  as  of  old, 
Serene  and  gracious,  helping  us  to  do 
The  thoughtful  deeds  that  made  his  life  so  loved, 
His  memory  so  dear." 

S.  Warren  Lamson  was  born  at  Nyack,  New 
York,  on  August  31,  1838,  and  he  died  at  Pasa- 
dena, California,  on  February  25,  1920.  When 
he  was  only  a  few  months  old  his  parents  came 
to  DeKalb  County,  Illinois,  locating  there  on  a 
farm.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  that  region,  and, 
until  1868,  worked  as  a  farmer. 

In  1868  Mr.  Lamson  went  into  the  nursery 
business  with  his  brother,  Lorenzo  J.  Lamson, 
and  the  two  specialized  in  supplying  osage 
orange  hedges  to  the  farmers  in  Illinois.  By 
1875,  he  felt  encouraged  to  come  to  Chicago, 
and  here  he  and  his  brother  organized  a  broker- 
age business  dealing  in  grain  and  provisions 
under  the  name  of  Lamson  Bros.  &  Company. 


This  firm  has  since  developed  into  one  of  the 
largest,  best-known  and  thoroughly  reliable  firms 
on  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade.  Mr.  Lamson 
was  otherwise  interested,  being  president  of 
the  Harry  H.  Lobdell  Company,  a  director  of 
the  Mercantile  Credit  Company,  and  the  Illinois 
Brick  Company,  and  vice  president  of  Mount 
Hope  Cemetery  Company. 

However,  it  is  not  so  much  as  a  business  man, 
great  as  was  his  success  in  this  field,  that  Mr. 
Lamson  will  be  remembered,  but  as  one  of  the 
organizers  of  All  Souls'  Church,  Abraham  Lin- 
coln Center,  and  "Unity."  For  thirty-five  years 
he  was  a  member  of  All  Souls',  was  one  of  its 
trustees  for  many  years,  and  until  his  health 
failed  him,  he  was  one  of  its  most  enthusiastic 
workers.  He  served  as  treasurer  of  Abraham 
Lincoln  Center  from  the  dedication  of  the  build- 
ing until  within  a  few  months  of  his  death.  For 
some  years  he  served  on  the  Oakland  School 
Board,  and  for  a  portion  of  that  time  was  presi- 
dent. He  belonged  to  the  Chicago  Athletic  Club 
and  the  South  Shore  Country  Club,  and  was  one 
of  the  best  known  members  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Trade. 

On  December  17,  1861,  S.  Warren  Lamson  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Martha  Houston,  at 
Sandwich,  Illinois,  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Hous- 
ton. They  became  the  parents  of  three  children, 
namely :  Nell,  who  is  Mrs.  Harry  H.  Lobdell  of 
Chicago ;  Myrna,  who  was  Mrs.  Pierre  Tyng,  and 
Ruth,  who  is  Countess  Cardelli  of  Paris,  France. 

Mr.  Lamson  possessed  great  personal  charm, 
culture  and  wide  intellectual  interests.  His  life 
was  an  inspiration. 


ALBERT  GRANNIS  LANE. 


The  life  span  of  Albert  Grannis  Lane  extended 
from  the  year  1841  to  the  year  1906,  the  entire 
period  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  having 
been  spent  in  and  near  Chicago.  His  father, 
Elisha  B.  Lane,  was  a  native  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  his  mother,  Amanda  Grannis,  of  New  York, 
both  of  whom  were  descendants  from  ancestors 
who  had  lived  in  these  states  far  back  in  colo- 
nial times.  Both  his  parents  came  west  in  1836. 
They  were  married  in  1840  and  settled  on 
the  "Gale  farm"  near  the  present  village  of 
Oak  Park,  where  the  elder  Lane  carried  on 
farming  for  a  time  after  his  arrival.  Albert 
G.  Lane,  the  eldest  of  a  family  of  eight  chil- 


dren, was  born  in  Galewood,  March  15,  1841. 
In  a  few  years,  however,  the  family  removed  to 
Chicago,  then  a  flourishing  market  town  of 
about  5,000  inhabitants.  The  house  in  which 
the  Lanes  took  up  their  residence  was  situated 
at  the  northeast  corner  of  State  and  Van  Buren 
streets,  the  site  of  which  is  now  occupied  by 
the  department  store  of  Davis  and  Com- 
pany. In  these  early  days  the  neighborhood  of 
the  Lane  residence  was  well  out  in  the  open 
country,  the  busiest  part  of  the  city  being  still 
confined  to  the  streets  nearer  the  river.  The 
elder  Lane  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  after 
taking  up  his  residence  in  Chicago,  supported 


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himself  and  his  family  by  his  trade.  The  old- 
time  directories  of  the  period  of  his  residence  in 
Chicago  contain  frequent  mention  of  his  name 
and  the  location  of  his  house. 

Albert  Lane's  parents  believed  in  education 
and  the  home  atmosphere  was  therefore  favor- 
able to  his  intellectual  development.  The  school 
system  of  the  city  was  extended  continuously 
during  his  boyhood,  and  he  was  enabled  to  com- 
plete a  good  grammar-school  course.  When  the 
first  high  school  was  opened  in  1856,  Albert  be- 
came a  pupil,  though  he  was  unable  to  finish 
the  course.  "He  entered  the  high  school  on  the 
first  day  of  the  first  term  and  remained  there 
two  years,"  writes  Mr.  John  W.  Cook,  president 
of  the  Northern  Illinois  State  Normal  School,  in 
a  biographical  sketch  for  the  National  Educa- 
tional Association.  "He  fell  a  little  short  of  at- 
tending until  graduation,  although  a  few  weeks 
more  would  have  accomplished  it;  but  he  was 
after  the  substance  rather  than  the  external 
show,  and  he  accepted  the  situation  without 
complaint.  It  had  been  a  great  discipline  for 
him,  and  it  gave  color  to  all  of  his  subsequent 
life.  He  could  sympathize  with  poverty,  for  he 
had  experienced  it.  He  could  appreciate  the  in- 
estimable worth  of  an  education,  for  he  had 
bought  it  with  energy  and  privation  and  self- 
denial.  He  could  meet  the  humblest  laborer 
upon  his  own  plane,  for  he  too  had  been  a  toiler 
where  the  wage  was  very  small.  It  was  worth 
all  that  it  had  cost." 

After  leaving  the  high  school  young  Lane 
was  elected  as  principal  of  the  old  Franklin 
School  situated  at  the  corner  of  Division  and 
Sedgwick  streets.  He  was  the  youngest  man 
who  ever  held  such  a  position  in  the  history  of 
our  schools,  as  he  was  barely  seventeen  years  of 
age  at  the  time.  He  retained  this  position  for 
eleven  years,  when,  in  1869,  he  was  elected  su- 
perintendent of  schools  of  Cook  County.  In  this 
larger  field  he  displayed  unusual  tact  and  abil- 
ity. "He  was  especially  impressed,"  says  Presi- 
dent Cook,  "with  the  superiority  of  the  town 
schools  over  the  country  schools.  It  was  easy 
to  see  that  the  difference  was  mainly  due  to  the 
better  organization  of  the  former,  and,  scarcely 
less,  to  their  relation  to  the  secondary  schools. 
He  accordingly  introduced  into  the  country 
schools  of  Cook  County  a  uniform  course  of 
study." 

In  1873,  Mr.  Lane  met  with  a  financial  loss 
through   the  failure   of   the  Franklin  Bank  in 


Chicago,  which  loaded  him  with  a  grievous  bur- 
den of  debt  and  which  required  many  years  for 
him  to  liquidate.  He  had  in  his  possession  a 
fund  of  $33,000  of  school  money  which  with  the 
approval  of  the  county  commissioners  he  had 
placed  on  deposit  in  the  bank  before  its  failure. 
Nothing  was  saved  from  the  wreck  and  the  de- 
posit was  almost  a  total  loss.  "It  is  probable," 
said  President  Cook,  "that  the  action  of  the  com- 
missioners relieved  Mr.  Lane  from  all  respon- 
sibility under  the  law."  But  when  he  declared 
to  his  friends  that  he  would  assume  the  entire 
loss,  they  endeavored  to  persuade  him  to  seek 
relief  under  such  a  plea.  He  steadfastly  re- 
fused to  do  so,  however,  and  undertook  the  task 
of  making  good  the  whole  amount  of  the  loss. 
To  make  the  situation  still  more  discouraging 
Mr.  Lane  was  not  re-elected  in  the  following 
November.  He  hesitated  not  for  that  reason, 
however,  but  called  his  bondsmen  together  and 
told  them  they  would  have  to  pay  the  loss 
until  he  could  pay  them  in  the  future.  The 
county  did  not  lose  a  cent  of  the  fund.  Nine- 
teen years  later  he  paid  the  last  dollar  of  his 
"national  debt"  as  he  humorously  called  it. 
However,  he  was  restored  to  his  former  position 
by  the  free  choice  of  the  people,  and  there  re- 
mained until  his  resignation  fifteen  years  later, 
when  he  was  called  to  a  position  of  greater 
honor  and  responsibility.  Mr.  Lane  was  selected 
by  the  board  of  education  in  1891  to  be  superin- 
tendent of  Chicago  schools,  which  position  he 
held  until  1898,  when  he  failed  of  re-election, 
being  succeeded  by  Dr.  E.  Benjamin  Andrews. 
He  accepted  the  position  of  assistant  superin- 
tendent, under  Doctor  Andrews,  though  urged 
by  friends  to  withdraw  from  the  schools  and 
devote  himself  to  business  pursuits.  But  his 
answer  to  all  was :  "Why  should  I  abandon  the 
profession  of  my  choice  and  my  love  simply 
because  I  cannot  have  the  highest  place?" 
Doctor  Andrews  in  later  years  paid  a  high  trib- 
ute to  him  in  these  sentences :  "No  report  could 
be  too  glowing  to  set  forth  the  excellence  of  his 
character  or  the  value  of  his  services.  He  was 
among  the  very  ablest  and  most  extraordinary 
school  men  whom  I  have  known.  His  genius 
for  detail  approached  the  marvelous.  . 
Though  progressive,  and  never  scorning  a  peda- 
gogical innovation  because  it  was  an  innova- 
tion, he  had  a  fine  contempt  for  pedagogical 
claptrap  and  for  novelties  that  were  retrogres- 
sion in  disguise."     His  work  was  constructive 


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as  well  as  progressive,  and  much  advancement 
in  educational  matters  were  made  under  his 
administration. 

He  became  a  member  of  the  National  Edu- 
cational Association  in  July,  1884,  and  was 
elected  president  of  the  association  for  a  period 
of  two  years  during  the  sessions  of  the  mem- 
orable Congresses  of  Education  held  in  con- 
nection with  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion. Mr.  Lane  served  as  ex-officio  member 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  during  the  two  years 
of  his  administration.  Afterwards  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  board  and  was  con- 
tinued in  that  position  until  his  death,  having 
served  as  Chairman  of  the  board  since  July, 
1896. 

The  Albert  G.  Lane  Technical  High   School, 


completed  in  1908  and  situated  at  the  corner  of 
Division  and  Sedgwick  streets,  on  the  site  of 
the  old  Franklin  School,  was  so  named  in  honor 
of  Albert  G.  Lane. 

Mr.  Lane  was  an  active  worker  in  church, 
Sunday  school,  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, and  other  religious  organizations.  In  all 
social  civic  affairs,  and  organizations  for  the 
advance  and  improvement  of  society  in  general, 
and  his  beloved  city  in  particular,  he  was  always 
a  leader  and  an  enthusiast.  He  stood  for  purity 
in  politics  and  for  a  broad  and  intelligent  ad- 
vance along  all  lines  of  life  and  work. 

Mr.  Lane  was  married  on  July  18,  1878,  to 
Frances  A.  Smallwood,  and  their  family  con- 
sisted of  two  daughters,  Clara  Lane  Noble  and 
Harriet  Lane  McPherrin. 


ABRAHAM  MITCHELL. 


Without  force  of  character  no  man  can 
achieve  to  any  eminence  no  matter  what  path 
he  chooses  in  life.  His  aims  may  be  high,  his 
principles  excellent  and  his  ideas  brilliant,  but 
unless  he  possesses  vim,  energy  and  strength 
to  make  practical  his  plans,  his  efforts  will  be 
all  in  vain.  Chicago  has  given  to  the  world 
some  of  its  most  forceful  and  practical  men, 
and  numerous  branches  of  industrial  activity 
have  been  developed  to  astounding  proportions. 
The  wholesale  coal  trade  of  Chicago  is  one  that 
attracts  attention  from  all  parts  of  the  coun- 
try, for  through  its  market  pass  mighty  inter- 
ests that  bear  their  part  in  establishing  and 
maintenance  of  the  city's  prestige.  A  man 
who  easily  stood  in  the  foremost  ranks  of  the 
coal  men  of  the  middle  west  was  the  late  Abra- 
ham Mitchell,  president  of  Mitchell  &  Dillon 
Coal  Company  of  Chicago.  On  August  19,  1849, 
in  the  town  of  Nashua,  New  Hampshire, 
Abraham  Mitchell  was  born  to  Abraham  and 
Catharine  (Adams)  Mitchell,  natives  respec- 
tively of  Bradford  and  Bellingham,  Massachu- 
setts. His  first  American  ancestor  on  his 
father's  side  was  Capt.  John  Mitchell,  a  native 
of  Scotland  and  an  officer  in  the  army  of  the 
Duke  of  Marlborough,  who  emigrated  in  the 
seventeenth  century  and  settled  near  Haverhill, 
Massachusetts.  He  had  a  grant  of  land  from 
Queen  Anne,  a  mile  square,  on  which  he  built  a 
blockhouse,  mounting  it  with  a  swivel  cannon 
as  a  defense  against  the  Indians.  He  was  one 
of  the  commissioners  appointed  by  Massachu- 
setts Legislature  to  establish  the  boundary  line 


between  Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire. 
The  line  of  descent  is  traced  through  his  son 
John,  to  Nathaniel  and  his  wife  Abigail  Day, 
to  their  son  Day,  and  his  wife  Abigail  Parker. 
Their  son,  Abraham,  and  his  wife,  Catharine 
Adams,  were  the  parents  of  Abraham  Mitchell, 
of  whom  this  sketch  is  written.  Day  Mitchell, 
of  Bradford,  Massachusetts,  the  grandfather, 
was  a  soldier  in  the  wars  of  the  Revolution 
and  1812.  The  earliest  American  ancestor  on 
his  mother's  side  was  Henry  Adams  of  Brain- 
tree,  formerly  from  Wales,  who  came  from 
Devonshire,  England,  with  eight  sons  and  a 
daughter.  A  monument  erected  in  his  memory 
at  Quincy  by  his  great-great  grandson,  Presi- 
dent John  Adams,  commemorates  "the  piety, 
humility,  simplicity,  prudence,  patience,  temper- 
ance, frugality,  industry  and  perseverance"  of 
the  Adams  ancestors.  It  is  assumed  that  Henry 
Adams  was  of  Welsh  origin,  and  was  the  six- 
teenth generation  from  Ap  Adams,  the  father 
of  John  or  Lord  Ap  Adam  who  was  called  to 
Parliament  by  Edward  I  as  "Baron  of  the 
Realm"  from  1296  to  1307. 

Being  graduated  from  the  Nashua  High 
School  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  Mr. 
Mitchell  entered  a  wholesale  woolen  house  at 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  Eager  Barlett  and  Com- 
pany, there  continuing  until  1870,  when  he 
joined  the  engineering  party  that  was  survey- 
ing in  Nebraska  the  Burlington  and  Missouri 
River  Road,  now  a  part  of  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  Railroad.  Finding  employ- 
ment in  the  land  office  at  Burlington,  Iowa,  he 


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became  an  employe  of  the  road,  and  was  soon 
made  a  cashier.  From  1872  to  1874  he  was 
agent  at  Burlington  for  the  Empire  Fast  Freight 
line.  An  ambitious  man,  and  capable  of  grasp- 
ing opportunities,  he  entered  the  coal  trade  at 
Burlington  in  1874,  both  as  a  wholesaler  and 
retailer,  thus  continuing  until  1882,  when  he 
decided  to  broaden  his  field  by  locating  at  Chi- 
cago, and  from  then  on  until  his  death,  he 
continued  a  factor  in  the  coal  trade  of  this 
city.  For  many  years  he  confined  himself  to 
anthracite  coal,  and  had  a  coal  dock  at  Chicago 
on  Archer  avenue  until  he  had  no  further  need 
for  it.  His  firm,  the  Mitchell  &  Dillon  Coal 
Company,  represented  at  Chicago  the  interests 
of  J.  Langdon,  then  distributor  of  anthracite 
coal  for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  interests. 
His  knowledge  of  the  business  was  intimate 
and  thorough,  and  from  the  beginning  he  made 
it  a  rule  to  do  business  upon  strictly  honorable 
principles.  He  never  violated  his  word  or  for- 
got a  promise.  A  man  of  unusual  force  of 
character,  he  enjoyed  a  high  standing  among 
his  business  associates  and  competitors  and  was 
often  selected  as  an  arbitrator,  in  which  ca- 
pacity his  quiet  unswerving  strength  would 
bring  peace  to  disturbed  commercial  conditions. 
Many  interesting  stories  are  told  of  his  quaint 
humor  and  keen  foresight ;  he  loved  children ; 
he  loved  the  true,  the  beautiful,  and  the  good. 


On  October  12,  1882,  Mr.  Mitchell  married 
Miss  Lucy  V.  Ray,  a  daughter  of  Harvey  and 
Sarah  (Kelsall)  Ray  of  Burlington,  Iowa, 
where  Mr.  Ray  was  variously  and  prominently 
identified  with  mining,  manufacturing  and  agri- 
cultural interests,  being  recognized  as  one  of  the 
leading  men  of  his  locality.  Mr.  Ray's  death 
occurred  December  27,  1905,  his  widow  sur- 
viving him  until  August  6,  1907.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Mitchell  had  three  children,  namely :  Ray, 
who  died  in  infancy ;  and  Catharine  Adams  and 
Abraham,  who  with  their  mother,  survive  Mr. 
Mitchell,  whose  death  occurred  at  his  River- 
side residence,  October  13,  1913.  The  son, 
Abraham  Mitchell,  an  Amherst  graduate,  is  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  of  the  Mitchell  and  Dillon 
Coal  Company.  Mr.  Mitchell  was  a  Democrat 
in  politics.  At  one  time  he  belonged  to  the 
North  Shore  club,  the  Chicago  Athletic  Associa- 
tion and  to  other  clubs.  He  reached  the  Thirty- 
second  degree  of  the  Masonic  order,  and  was  a 
member  of  Malta  Lodge  No.  318,  A.  F.  and  A. 
M. ;  Burlington  Chapter  No.  1,  R.  A.  M.,  and  was 
knighted  in  St.  Omar  Commandery  No.  15,  all 
at  Burlington,  Iowa ;  he  was  elected  to  member- 
ship in  Trinity  Commandery  No.  80,  K.  T.,  sta- 
tioned at  La  Grange,  HUnois,  August  1,  1913. 
Mr.  Mitchell  was  a  self-made  man  of  the  Amer- 
ican type  which  uses  brains,  determination  and 
vigor  in  attaining  distinction. 


WILLIAM  M.  HOYT. 


William  M.  Hoyt  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Addison  County,  Vermont,  on  July  26,  1837,  a 
son  of  Carlos  E.  and  Lydia  Ann  (Buttolph) 
Hoyt.  He  is  of  the  tenth  generation  of  the 
American  branch  of  the  family,  and  a  direct 
descendant  of  John  Hoyt,  who  was  one  of  the 
original  settlers  of  Salisbury,  Connecticut.  Seth 
Hoyt,  the  grandfather,  was  a  soldier  of  the 
American  Revolution,  a  justice  of  the  peace  in 
New  Haven,  Vermont,  and  one  of  the  censors 
whose  duty  it  was  to  pass  upon  the  legislative 
acts  and  laws  of  the  commonwealth. 

The  early  life  of  W.  M.  Hoyt  was  spent  upon 
the  home  farm  and  in  obtaining  an  education 
in  the  public  schools  and  the  Ten  Broeck 
Academy  at  Panton,  Vermont.  In  1855,  at  the 
age  of  eighteen,  he  located  in  Chicago,  securing 
employment  in  a  grocery  store  conducted  by  a 
Mr.  Bevans.  Eighteen  months  in  this  work  was 
followed  by  a  course  of  study  in  Bell's  Com- 
mercial College,  from  which  he  graduated.  After 


a  service  of  another  year  on  a  salary,  in  the 
employment  of  a  fruit  dealer,  he  started  busi- 
ness for  himself  with  a  capital  of  $89.  occupying 
a  room  for  which  the  rental  was  $1,100  per 
annum.  This  was  the  real  beginning  of  his 
notable  business  career.  Opening  as  a  small 
dealer  in  fruits,  he  later  developed  into  a  whole- 
sale grocer,  whose  trade  reached  many  sections 
of  the  United  States. 

In  1865  Mr.  Hoyt  bought  the  business  of  James 
A.  Whitaker,  at  No.  101  South  Water  Street. 
The  great  fire  in  1871  not  only  swept  away  his 
store  at  the  foot  of  Wabash  avenue,  but  two 
stores  which  he  then  owned  on  Dearborn  ave- 
nue. 

In  1872  Mr.  Hoyt  purchased  the  site  of  old 
Fort  Dearborn  at  Michigan  avenue  and  River 
street,  opposite  Rush  street  bridge,  which  he 
sold  in  1910.  Here  he  erected  large  salesrooms 
and  warehouses.  In  addition  the  company 
owned   the   building  opposite,   on   River   street, 


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which  contained  its  coffee  and  spice  mills.  Be- 
cause of  its  historic  site  of  its  main  building, 
Mr.  Hoyt  built  into  one  of  its  walls  fronting 
the  river  a  memorial  tablet  on  which  was  en- 
graved a  sketch  of  the  forts  (built  1803-4  and 
1816)  which  once  occupied  this  ground. 

The  William  M.  Hoyt  Company  was  incorpo- 
rated under  the  state  laws  in  1882,  with  the 
members  of  the  old  firm  as  stockholders,  and  its 
present  officers  were  as  follows :  William  M. 
Hoyt,  president;  R.  J.  Bennett,  vice  president; 
A.  G.  Bennett,  secretary  and  treasurer ;  Albert  C. 
Buttolph,  Otto  C.  Mattern,  A.  G.  Bennett,  Mar- 
tin Edinger,  Victor  Stein  and  Mrs.  Helen  Stew- 
art Doane,  directors. 

In  1910  this  company  erected  at  Twenty-sec- 
ond street  and  the  river,  one  of  the  largest  and 
best-arranged  buildings  devoted  to  wholesale 
grocery  trade  in  the  country.  It  has  ideal  ship- 
ping facilities  by  rail  or  water  and  affords  ac- 
commodations for  the  various  branches  of  the 
business.  Outside  of  his  great  house,  Mr.  Hoyt 
is  best  known  as  the  founder,  in  1872,  of  "The 
Grocer's  Criterion,"  which  has  developed  into 
a  leading  trade  journal  of  its  class  in  the 
United  States.  Mr.  Hoyt  is  an  extensive  owner 
of  Chicago  real  estate,  particularly  in  the 
downtown  districts. 


On  April  9,  1860,  Mr.  Hoyt  married  Miss 
Emilie  J.  Landon,  daughter  of  Nelson  Landon, 
of  Benton,  Lake  County,  Illinois,  and  they  had 
four  children,  as  follows :  William  Landon,  who 
died  when  five  years  of  age ;  Emilie  Lydia,  who 
died  in  1903 ;  Nelson  Landon ;  and  Phelps  But- 
tolph Hoyt. 

Phelps  Buttolph  Hoyt  was  born  in  Chicago 
on  September  25,  1872.  He  attended  Harvard 
School  and  the  University  School  for  Boys  in 
Chicago  and  eraduated  from  Tale  in  1893.  He 
then  entered  his  father's  business  and  became 
secretary  and  treasurer,  positions  he  filled  until 
his  death  on  December  12,  1908. 

Phelps  B.  Hoyt  was  married  on  January  23, 
1895,  in  Chicago,  to  Bessie  Wade  Allen.  There 
are  two  daughters,  Mae  Elizabeth  Hoyt  (Mrs. 
T.  Phillip  Swift)  and  Emilie  Lydia  Hoyt.  The 
Hoyts  belong  to  the  Episcopal  Church.  Mr. 
Hoyt  had  membership  in  the  Chicago  Club,  Sad- 
dle and  Cycle  Club,  Onwentsia,  Glenview  Golf 
Club,  of  which  he  was  president,  and  the  San- 
gamon Shooting  Club.  He  was  very  deeply 
interested  in  Chicago's  development.  He  always 
did  everything  along  this  line  he  consistently 
could,  and  the  results  of  his  work  were  evident 
in  many  directions.  Phelps  B.  Hoyt  left  behind 
him  a  host  of  friends. 


CHALKLEY  J.  HAMBLETON. 


Chalkley  J.  Hambleton  was  a  man  of  much 
consequence  in  Chicago  a  generation  ago.  He 
was  born  at  Upper  Oxford,  Chester  County, 
Pennsylvania.  April  1,  1829,  a  son  of  James  and 
Esther  (Moore)  Hambleton  of  Bucks  County, 
earliest  settlers  of  Pennsylvania. 

When  he  was  a  child  his  father  died  and  he 
went  to  live  with  his  uncle  Eli  Hambleton. 
Here  he  worked  on  the  farm  and  attended  dis- 
trict school  when  the  opportunity  could  be 
found.  In  the  fall  of  1847  he  went  to  New  York 
City  to  begin  work  there.  Having  previously 
studied  shorthand  writing,  being  one  of  the  first 
persons  in  America  to  learn  that  art,  he  en- 
gaged in  reporting  and  he  continued  to  live  in 
the  East,  at  New  York  and  Boston,  until  1855. 
Much  of  this  time  he  was  engaged  in  the  book 
business.  In  January  of  that  year  he  moved  to 
Chicago.  He  soon  became  interested  in  real  es- 
tate. During  his  earlier  years  here  he  also  took 
up  the  study  of  law.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Illinois  bar  in  1858.  He  practiced  law  and 
dealt   in   real   estate   from   that   year  until  his 


death.  He  became  one  of  the  foremost  experts 
on  real  estate  in  Chicago.  He  owned  and  de- 
veloped a  number  of  very  important  properties. 

He  attended  Robert  Collier's  Unity  Church 
and  David  Swing's  Church. 

Chalkley  J.  Hambleton  was  married  October 
8,  1868,  to  Miss  Emma  Lander  of  Fox  Lake, 
Wisconsin,  a  daughter  of  William  and  Harriet 
(Spaulding)  Lander.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hamble- 
ton had  three  children :  Earl  Lander,  Maud 
Gladys  and  Chalkley  J.  Hambleton.  Mr. 
Hambleton  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation in  Chicago  from  1869  to  1875,  and  was 
active  for  four  years  on  the  committee  that  ex- 
amined all  teachers  applying  for  positions. 
Further  than  this  he  took  a  leading  part  in  the 
building  up  of  the  school  system  following  the 
great  Chicago  Fire.  Both  his  home  and  his 
business  were  destroyed  in  that  great  conflagra- 
tion and  were  promptly  re-established.  He 
was  the  compiler  of  the  genealogical  record 
known  as  "The  Hambleton  Family,"  which  he 
published  in  1887.    He  died  November  10,  1900. 


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CHARLES  PRATT  HULBERT. 


The  late  Charles  Pratt  Hulbert,  of  Chicago, 
was  born  at  Great  Barrington,  Massachusetts, 
on  Sept.  16,  1856,  a  son  of  Edward  and  Jane 
(Pratt)  Hulbert.  The  family  was  one  of  wealth 
and  position  in  the  East. 

The  Hulberts  came  to  Chicago,  in  1869.  Here 
the  son  attended  the  old  Mosely  School  and 
Bryant  and  Stratton's  Business  College.  His 
first  employment  was  as  an  errand  boy  for  Car- 
son, Pirie  Scott  and  Company.  This  work  did 
not  suit  him,  for  he  preferred  to  learn  a  trade. 
After  some  time  spent  as  a  plumbers'  apprentice 
he  opened  a  small  shop  of  his  own.  Later  he 
became  superintendent  for  the  firm  of  E.  Bag- 
gott  and  Company. 

It  was  back  in  1898  that  Mr.  Hulbert  founded 
the  business  of  Hulbert  and  Dorsey,  plumbing 
contractors.  This  firm  continues  to  the  present 
and  has  been  developed  into  one  of  the  most 
important  concerns  in  this  branch  of  business. 
They  installed  the  plumbing  equipment  in  the 
LaSalle  Street  Station,  the  Northwestern  Sta- 
tion, the  Harris  Trust  Building,  the  Corn  Ex- 
change Bank  Building  and  in  the  Wrigley  Tower 
Building.      This    list    represents    some    of    the 


larger  contracts  the  firm  has  handled  in  Chi- 
cago. They  also  did  much  of  the  work  at  the 
Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  the  University  of 
Chicago,  and  they  have  helped  to  build  a  number 
of  the  finer  residences  in  this  city  and  its 
suburbs. 

On  June  19,  1895,  Mr.  Hulbert  was  married,  at 
Great  Barrington,  Massachusetts,  to  Miss  Angie 
A.  Rice,  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Hatch  Rice  and 
Jennie  L.  (Millard)  Rice  of  Great  Barrington. 
The  two  families,  the  Rices  and  the  Hulberts, 
had  been  friends  back  through  several  genera- 
tions. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hulbert  continued  to  live 
in  Chicago  after  their  marriage.  He  was  a 
member  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  to  which 
his  widow  also  belongs.  Mr.  Hulbert  belonged 
to  the  South  Shore  Country  Club.  He  was  a 
Thirty-second  degree  Mason.  He  was  a  life 
member  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago. 

Charles  Pratt  Hulbert  died  on  February  21, 
1924.  He  was  a  thoroughly  admirable  man ; 
and  his  residence  of  over  fifty  years  in  Chicago 
brought  him  well-earned  business  success  and 
also  the  trust  and  sincere  appreciation  of  the 
people  who  were  close  enough  to  him  to  know 
him  well. 


CALVIN  FENTRESS. 


Calvin  Fentress,  treasurer  of  the  firm  of 
Baker,  Fentress  &  Company,  bankers,  and  for 
many  years  a  leading  factor  in  the  lumber  in- 
terest of  Chicago,  is  one  of  the  successful  and 
public-spirited  men  of  this  city  who  has  made 
his  way  to  prominence  and  honorable  prestige 
through  his  own  well  directed  energy  and  efforts, 
and  his  character  and  achievements  have  hon- 
ored himself  and  the  city  in  which  his  progres- 
sive activities  have  been  centered  for  nearly  a 
quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  born  in  Bolivar, 
Tennessee,  May  22,  1879,  a  son  of  James  and 
Mary  Tate  (Perkins)  Fentress,  and  he  fully 
exemplifies  the  courteous  and  genial  character 
for  which  the  people  of  Tennessee  are  noted. 
Aside  from  his  personal  worth  and  accomplish- 
ments, there  is  much  of  interest  attached  to  his 
genealogy  which  betokens  lines  of  sterling  worth 
and  prominent  identification  with  American 
history  for  many  generations,  being  a  direct 
descendant  of  James  Fentress,  who  came  from 
England  to  Norfolk,  Virginia,  about  the  year 
1740,  and  who  was  one  of  the  active  and  aggres- 


sive men  in  the  affairs  of  that  country  during 
its  colonial  epoch.  He  was  one  of  the  moving 
spirits  in  the  American  Revolution,  and  many 
of  his  descendants  have  since  become  prominent 
factors  in  the  industrial,  professional,  educa- 
tional, military  and  civic  life  of  our  nation. 

Calvin  Fentress  obtained  his  early  education 
in  the  grammar  schools  of  his  native  state,  and 
his  preparatory  education  was  acquired  in  the 
University  School  of  Chicago,  Lawrenceville 
(New  Jersey)  Academy  and  Princeton  (New 
Jersey)  Preparatory  School.  He  later  entered 
Princeton  University,  and  was  graduated  from 
that  institution  in  1901  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts.  After  leaving  college  he  came 
to  Chicago,  where  he  soon  became  active  in 
business  affairs,  and  has  since  been  prominently 
identified  with  the  lumber  and  banking  in- 
terests of  this  city.  In  1902  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  Lyon,  Gary  &  Company,  bankers  and 
dealers  in  lumber,  and  has  since  been  identified 
with  this  concern  and  its  successor,  Baker,  Fent- 


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ress  &  Company,  under  which  title  the  business 
has  been  conducted  since  July  1,  1920. 

The  firm  of  Baker,  Fentress  '&  Company  and 
its  predecessor,  had  its  inception  in  Chicago 
more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  and  its 
status  has  long  been  one  of  prominence  in  con- 
nection with  the  representative  financial  and 
industrial  institutions  of  this  city.  The  firm 
is  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Association  of  Com- 
merce, Lumbermen's  Association  of  Chicago 
and  the  United  States  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Besides  his  connection  with  this  concern,  Mr. 
Fentress  is  also  president  and  a  director  of  the 
Great  Northern  Lumber  Company,  treasurer  and 
a  director  of  the  Bagdad  Investment  Company, 
Chicago  Tubing  &  Braiding  Company,  Saginaw 
and  Manistee  Lumber  Company,  Continental 
Timberland  Company,  Saluda  Land  &  Lumber 
Company,  Chehalem  Lumber  Company,  Naval 
Stores  Investment  Company,  Baker-Fentress  In- 
vestment Company,  and  a  director  of  the  Florida 
Industrial  Company,  Consolidated  Naval  Stores 
Company,  Consolidated  Land  Company,  Lake 
Wales  Naval  Stores  Company,  Savannah  River 
Lumber  Company,  Lyon  Lumber  Company, 
Princeton  Inn   Company,   Chicago   Morris    Plan 


Bank,  Chicago  Crime  Commission,  Berkshire 
School,  North  Shore  Country  Day  School,  Mun- 
son  Investment  Company,  Glencoe  Investment 
Company,  Naval  Stores  Company  of  Florida,  and 
a  trustee  of  a  number  of  estates. 

Although  his  business  responsibilities  are 
onerous  and  exacting,  Mr.  Fentress  also  finds 
time  and  opportunity  to  give  effective  co-opera- 
tion in  movements  for  the  social  and  material 
betterment  of  the  country,  and  has  ever  stood 
exponent  of  the  best  type  of  civic  loyalty  and 
progressiveness.  He  also  finds  some  time  to 
play,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago,  Univer- 
sity, Industrial,  Attic,  Saddle  &  Cycle,  Winnetka 
Tennis,  Indian  Hill  and  Harvard  Yale  Princeton 
Clubs  of  Chicago,  also  the  Princeton  Club  of 
New  York  and  the  Nassau  and  other  clubs  of 
Princeton.  Mr.  Fentress  was  married  January 
14.  1903,  to  Miss  Paulina  S.  Lyon,  of  Chicago, 
and  they  became  the  parents  of  seven  children : 
Thomas  L.,  Mary,  Calvin,  Jr.,  Emily,  Paul  L., 
Harriet  and  James.  The  family  home  is  at 
939  Green  Bay  Road,  Hubbard  Woods,  and  is  a 
hospitable  one,  where  their  friends  are  always 
welcome. 


JAMES  PATTERSON  GARDNER. 


The  late  James  Patterson  Gardner,  of  Chi- 
cago,  was  born  at  Dwight,  Illinois,  August  28, 
1858,  a  son  of  Henry  Alansin  and  Sarah  Price 
(Morgan)  Gardner,  both  of  whom  originally  came 
from  Massachusetts.  The  family  on  both  sides 
is  a  distinguished  one,  and  Mr.  Gardner's  grand- 
father, Richard  Price  Morgan,  was  one  of  the 
engineers  who  built  the  Hudson  River  Rail- 
road. 

Mr.  Gardner's  father  received  a  fine,  practi- 
cal engineering  training  under  Mr.  Morgan. 
Later,  he  and  his  uncle,  Richard  P.  Morgan.  Jr., 
came  West  to  Illinois.  It  was  they  who  had 
charge  of  the  engineering  work  on  the  build- 
ing of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  and  were 
identified  with  the  great  Illinois  &  Michigan 
Canal.  Henry  A.  Gardner  was  chief  engineer 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death. 

James  P.  Gardner  received  his  Bachelor  of 
Arts  degree  from  the  old  Chicago  University 
in  1881 ;  he  was  a  member  of  the  Psi  Upsilon 
Greek-Letter  fraternity,  and  he  also  pitched  on 
the  baseball  team  at  the  university.  He  was 
graduated  from  Union  College  of  Law  with  his 


Bachelor's  degree  in  1888.  Following  this  he 
went  to  work  for  the  American  Bridge  Com- 
pany. He  helped  to  build  the  old  Rookery 
Building  in  Chicago,  which  was  one  of  the  first 
of  its  kind  to  use  steel  beams.  He  was  man- 
ager of  the  Gardner  Sash  Balance  Company, 
Chicago,  from  1890  to  1892.  In  1892  he  or- 
ganized the  Morgan-Gardner  Electric  Company, 
manufacturers  of  coal-mining  machinery.  He 
was  the  inventor  and  patentee  of  the  Gardner 
Reducing  Machine,  and  he  was  also  a  director 
of  the  Goodman  Manufacturing  Company. 

On  October  22,  1884,  Mr.  Gardner  was  mar- 
ried, in  Chicago,  to  Miss  Ruth  May  Edgerton, 
a  daughter  of  Oliver  Newberry  and  Lovisa 
(Goodsell)  Edgerton.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gardner 
had  two  sons  born  to  them :  Paul  Edgerton 
Gardner,  and  Ralph  Newberry  Gardner.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Gardner  have  long  been  members  of 
All  Souls  Church,  and  were  friends  of  the  late 
Jenkins  Lloyd  Jones.  They  were  the  first 
couple  married  in  the  parish. 

Mr.  Gardner  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
University  Club,  of  Midlothian  Country  Club, 
South    Shore    Country    Club,    and    of    Olympia 


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Fields.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Flossinoor  and 
Beverly  Country  Clubs  and  to  tbe  Cliff  Dwell- 
ers. He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  gov- 
ernors of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago. 

James  P.  Gardner  died,  October  27,  1924. 
He  is  one  of  the  few  men  who  will  be  remem- 
bered  beyond   his  own   day.     His   business   in- 


terests brought  him  honorable  success  in  a 
marked  degree,  his  enjoyment  of  sports  and  his 
participation  in  them  gave  him  good  health  and 
much  pleasure  in  many  warm  friendships ;  and 
his  love  of  music,  of  beauty,  of  books,  or  all 
of  the  worth-while  things  of  life,  rounded  out 
in  him  a  rare  development  and  character. 


BURTON  HANSON. 


Burton  Hanson,  general  counsel  and  a  direc- 
tor of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Rail- 
road, died  on  August  5,  1922.  So  important  has 
been  Mr.  Hanson's  identification  with  railroad 
development,  and  so  fine  and  strong  and  worthy 
of  regard  was  his  personal  character,  that  we 
take  this  occasion  to  print  his  biography  for 
permanent  record.  We  quote  an  appreciation 
of  Mr.  Hanson  written  by  Mr.  H.  H.  Field,  who 
succeeds  him  as  general  counsel,  and  who  was, 
for  thirty -five  years,  closely  associated  with  Mr. 
Hanson. 

"Burton  Hanson  was  born  on  a  farm  in  the 
Town  of  Rushford,  Winnebago  County,  Wis- 
consin, August  27,  1851.  He  attended  the  town 
school,  the  high  school  in  Berlin,  and  the  White- 
water Normal  School.  After  graduation,  he 
taught  for  several  years  and  then  went  to  Mil- 
waukee and  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Cottrill 
and  Cary,  then  a  leading  firm  in  that  city  en- 
gaged in  general  practice,  and  as  attorneys  for 
the  Milwaukee,  Lake  Shore  &  Western  Railway. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  October  17,  1876, 
and  afterwards  entered  the  firm.  He  came  to 
the  St.  Paul  Company  in  September,  1883,  as 
assistant  general  solicitor.  For  several  years 
he  was  chiefly  engaged  in  the  trial  of  cases  in 
Wisconsin,  Iowa  and  other  states,  in  which  he 
was  quite  successful  and  earned  a  fine  reputa- 
tion at  the  bar.  In  1895  he  became  general 
solicitor  and  on  January  1,  1911,  he  was  chosen 
general  counsel,  which  position  he  held  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  elected  a  director 
January  27,  1921. 

"As  a  lawyer,  he  was  a  close  student,  with 
a  clear,  comprehensive  mind,  and  his  arguments 
were  forceful  and  convincing  before  courts  and 
juries.  He  had  the  faculty  of  going  right  to 
the  merits  of  a  case  and  his  fair,  straightfor- 
ward conduct  of  trials  won  the  confidence  of 
the  courts.  Among  the  many  important  cases 
In  which  he  was  engaged  for  the  Railway  Com- 
pany, may  be  mentioned  the  litigation  involv- 
ing the  purchase  of  the   capital   stock   of  the 


Milwaukee  &  Northern  Railroad  (1894)  in 
which  he  recovered  about  $125,000  for  the  St. 
Paul  Company ;  the  cases  growing  out  of  the 
East  St.  Louis  fire  (1899),  in  which  he  suc- 
ceeded, before  the  United  States  Supreme  Court, 
in  establishing  an  important  principle  in  the 
law  of  connecting  carriers;  the  suit  growing 
out  of  the  construction  of  the  Kansas  City  Di- 
vision (1900)  in  which  he  defeated  a  claim  of 
the  contractor  for  extra  work,  etc.,  of  over 
$80,000;  the  attempt  (1896  to  1903)  to  fore- 
close that  portion  of  the  Northern  Division 
between  Milwaukee  and  Portage  under  an  old 
mortgage  made  by  the  Milwaukee  &  Minnesota 
Railroad  Company  in  1864,  which  he  defeated 
after  several  years  of  litigation  involving  over 
$2.000,000 ;  and  the  Wisconsin  tax  cases  in 
1906.  His  last  appearance  in  court  was  in  the 
Des  Moines  Union  Terminal  case,  which  he 
argued  in  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  in 
March,  1920.  The  decision  in  that  case  ad- 
judged the  ownership  of  the  terminal  property, 
worth  many  millions  of  dollars,  equally  in  the 
St.  Paul  and  Wabash  Companies.  It  was  said 
of  his  argument  in  the  scarce  half  hour  allotted 
to  him,  that  it  was  a  clear  and  concise  state- 
ment of  a  complicated  case  with  a  record  of 
over  2,000  printed  pages.  The  decision  followed 
closely  the  line  of  his  reasoning.  In  addition 
to  this  and  other  litigation,  he  had  charge, 
after  1895,  of  numerous  matters  pertaining  to 
issues  of  capital  stock  mortgages  and  bonds, 
the  Puget  Sound  Lines,  amendments  of  the 
Articles  of  Incorporation,  etc.,  frequently  call- 
ing for  new  legislation  and  corporate  action. 

"His  accomplishment  in  the  settlement  of  the 
claims  of  the  Railway  Company  against  the 
United  States  for  the  Federal  Control  and  Guar- 
anty Periods,  one  of  the  earliest  made,  was 
most  gratifying  to  the  directors  and  executive 
officers.  His  later  services  in  connection  with 
important  financing,  practically  completed  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  were  most  valuable. 
When  it  is  remembered  that  much  of  this  stren- 


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uous  work,  in  later  years,  was  done  under  the 
stress  of  impaired  health  and  the  apprehension 
of  a  physical  break-down,  his  courage  and  per- 
sistence merit  the  highest  commendation. 

"On  June  3,  1896,  Mr.  Hanson  married  Mrs. 
Caro  Lina  Martin  McClure,  a  daughter  of  Cor- 
nelius K.  Martin,  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Mil- 
waukee, Wisconsin.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hanson  have 
two  children :  Alexander  Hanson  and  Madeline 
(Mrs.  Chester  D.  Tripp). 

"He  was  a  man  of  fine  ideals  and  good  citi- 
zenship. Just  in  all  his  relations  in  life,  he 
hated  injustice  in  every  form,  whether  of  in- 
dividuals, organizations  or  government.  He 
was  outspoken  n  denunciation  of  sham,  pre- 
tense and  insincerity.  He  had  no  patience  with 
waste  of  effort  or  resource,  or  extravagance  in 
word  or  action,  and  was  a  notable  example  of 
the  sane  and  simple  life.  He  was  kind  and 
considerate,  generous  and  helpful  to  the  un- 
fortunate, and  although  his  liberality  was  often 
imposed  upon,  he  always  retained  faith  in  his 
fellow  men  and  there  were  many  whom  he 
assisted,  in  a  quiet,  unostentatious  way,  to 
obtain  education  or  positions,  and  who  owe  their 
success  in  life  to  his  advice  and  encourage- 
ment. To  sum  up,  his  life  was  one  of  conspicu- 
ous achievement,  actuated  by  right  principles 
and  the  highest  ideals  of  service,  and  he  was 
rewarded  by  the  respect  and  admiration  of  a 
large  circle  of  friends,  the  honors  of  his  pro- 
fession, and  the  appreciation  by  the  corporation 
of  his  indefatigable  services. 


"He  read  much  and  was  a  student  of  eco- 
nomics and  of  government.  He  was  fond  of  his- 
tory and  of  biography.  He  had  a  finished  style 
of  writing  and  his  occasional  addresses  were 
models  of  thought  and  expression.  His  essays 
on  'Judah  P.  Benjamin,  the  Confederate  States- 
man and  Lawyer'  and  on  'Benjamin  Franklin,' 
which  he  read  before  bar  associations  and  social 
gatherings,  attracted  wide  attention.  Veterans 
will  recall  his  thoughtful  and  inspiring  mes- 
sage, pervaded  with  deep  religious  feeling,  de- 
livered at  their  Milwaukee  Reunion  in  1920. 

"He  had,  in  Macbeth's  words :  'All  that  which 
should  accompany  age,  as  honor,  love,  obedi- 
ence, troops  of  friends,'  and  as  the  end  of  a 
useful  and  successful  career  approached,  he 
could  have  said  in  the  words  of  the  Great 
Apostle :  'I  have  fought  a  good  fight,  I 
have  finished  my  course,  I  have  kept  the 
Faith.' 

"And  so  it  was  fitting  that  all  that  was  mor- 
tal of  our  friend  and  associate  should  be  borne 
to  rest  in  his  native  town,  in  the  state  he  loved 
so  well,  and  to  which  he  brought  so  much 
honor ;  from  whence  a  half  century  before  he 
had  gone  forth  to  do  his  part  in  the  world 
with  a  banner  upon  which  were  inscribed  the 
high  ideals  of  his  young  manhood,  at  last  re- 
turning home  with  that  banner  untarnished, 
and  with  an  honorable  record  of  a  well-spent 
life." 


JAMES  GORDON  CARTER  BROOKS. 


Mr.  Brooks  was  born  at  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  August  25,  1837,  a  son  of  William 
Hawthorne  Brooks,  a  noted  educator,  and 
Sarah  (Carter)  Brooks.  The  Brooks  family 
was  founded  in  this  country  in  1639  when 
Henry  Brooks  established  a  home  at  Woburn, 
Massachusetts.  This  first  Mr.  Brooks  married 
Susanna  Richardson.  He  was  later  one  of  the 
judges  in  some  of  the  famous  witchcraft  trials 
of  his  day. 

James  Gordon  Carter  Brooks  was  trained  in 
the  Cambridge  and  Boston  public  schools. 
When  he  was  eighteen  years  old  he  came  to 
Chicago  and  entered  the  employ  of  his  uncle, 
Artemus  Carter,  a  pioneer  lumber  merchant  of 
this  city.  Two  years  later  Mr.  Brooks  became 
connected  with  the  lumber  firm  of  Mears, 
Bates  &   Company.     In   1879,    Mears,   Bates   & 


Company  united  with  the  George  Farnswortb 
Lumber  Company  in  forming  the  present 
Oconto  Lumber  Company.  Mr.  Farnsworth 
was  made  president  of  this  concern,  and  Mr. 
Brooks  was  made  its  vice  president.  In  1880, 
Mr.  Brooks  was  elected  president  of  the  com- 
pany ;  and  he  continued  in  this  office,  with 
noted  success,  until  a  few  years  before  his 
death. 

Another  important  avenue  of  Mr.  Brooks' 
work  was  in  regard  to  the  placing  of  the  Saint 
Gaudens'  Statue  of  Lincoln,  which  is  at  the 
entrance  of  Lincoln  Park.  This  noted  monu- 
ment is  a  gift  to  Chicago  from  Mr.  Brooks' 
partner,  the  late  Eli  Bates,  and  to  Mr.  Brooks 
was  entrusted  all  details  of  its  planning  and 
erection.     He  devoted  the  greater  part  of  three 


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years  to  the  work.     The  result  has  occasioned 
wide  appreciation. 

On  January  10,  1867,  Mr.  Brooks  was  mar- 
ried to  Rose  Ridgeway,  a  daughter  of  Samuel 
Thomas  Hambleton  and  Ann  (Behymer)  Ridge- 
way, the  former  a  lumber  merchant  and  steam 
boat  builder  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Brooks  became  the  parents  of  four  children, 
namely :  Alice  Hawthorne,  who  married 
George  J.  Farnsworth  of  Chicago ;  Edith 
Gordon,  who  married  Henry  Blaksly  Collins  of 


St.  Louis ;  Charles  Richardson ;  and  James 
Hambleton  Brooks.  The  two  last  named  never 
married,  and  are  both  deceased.  Mr.  Brooks 
died  at  Chicago,  April  15,  1914.  James  Gordon 
Carter,  for  whom  he  was  named,  was,  with 
Horace  Mann,  the  originator  and  founder  of 
the  normal  school  of  Boston.  Mr.  Brooks  was 
a  man  of  most  genial  personality,  and  beloved 
by  all  who  knew  him.  His  friends,  old  and 
young,  who  were  associated  with  him  in  club 
life  affectionately  called  him  "Uncle  Jim." 


ELI  BATES. 


Eli  Bates  had  much  to  do  with  the  early 
growth  of  the  lumber  business  in  Chicago  and 
the  surrounding  territory.  He  was  born  in  Mas- 
sachusetts, educated  there,  and  also  for  a  time 
taught  school  there.  Then  he  came  West, 
locating  in  lower  Michigan  on  the  shore  of  the 
lake,  and  worked  as  lighthouse  keeper.  After 
a  while  he  decided  to  come  to  Chicago.  Here, 
after  some  months  teaching  school,  he  became 
clerk  in  the  lumber  business  of  Mr.  C.  H. 
Mears. 

Leaving  this  connection,  he  and  Mr.  Nathan 
Mears  went  into  the  lumber  business  for  them- 
selves, forming  Mears,  Bates  &  Company. 
Their  office  was  on  South  Water  street  and 
their  yard  was  where  the  present  Northwestern 
Railway  freight  yard  now  is,  at  the  junction 
of  the  Chicago  River  and  the  North  Branch. 

In  1867  Mears,  Bates  &  Company  joined  with 
Mr.  George  Farnsworth  in  forming  the  Oconto 
Lumber  Company,  which  is  today  one  of  the 
best-known  lumber  concerns  in  America. 

Mr.  Bates  was  married,  at  Chicago,  to  Mrs. 
Smith,  his  partner's  widowed  sister.  She  was 
a  woman  of  true  culture  and  was  a  prominent 
figure    in    the    earlier    social    life    of    Chicago. 


Through  her,  Mr.  Bates  became  a  patron  of 
the  arts,  the  opera  and  other  similar  interests. 

The  family  were  living  on  Ontario  street  at 
the  time  of  the  Chicago  Fire.  This  home  was 
destroyed ;  and,  right  after  the  fire,  Mr.  Bates 
began  the  erection  of  a  new  home  on  the  north- 
west corner  of  Dearborn  and  Goethe  streets. 
It  was  really  a  mansion.  His  wife  died  before 
it  was  completed. 

Eli  Bates  died  in  1880.  The  people  who 
remember  him  will  recall  him  as  very  much  of 
a  "figure"  of  the  earlier  days.  He  was  very 
loyal  to  his  friends ;  he  was  a  warm  friend  of 
Robert  Collier's  and  was  a  regular  attendant 
at  Unity  Church  to  which  he  left  a  substantial 
fund  to  found  an  Institutional  School  for 
Girls ;  as  noted  above,  his  support  was  behind 
many  interests  of  cultural  value  to  Chicago; 
and  he  was  a  devoted  admirer  of  Abraham 
Lincoln. 

It  was  Mr.  Bates  who  gave  to  the  city  the 
Saint  Gaudens'  Statue  of  Lincoln,  at  the  en- 
trance of  Lincoln  Park,  which  has  stood,  and 
will  stand  through  the  years,  as  one  of  the 
nation's  most  noted  monuments  to  Mr.  Lincoln. 


LEMUEL  HINTON  FREER. 


For  many  years  Lemuel  Hinton  Freer  was 
connected  with  the  business  life  of  Chicago,  but 
he  is  better  remembered,  notwithstanding  his 
signal  successes,  as  a  horticulturist  as  his  love 
of  flowers  and  growing  things  led  him  to  ex- 
periment along  many  lines  in  that  science.  He 
was  a  native  son  of  Chicago,  born  in  this  city 
August  19,  1848,  and  belonged  on  both  sides  of 
his  family  to  old  and  honorable  stock.  His 
parents    were    L.    C.    Paine    Freer    and    Esther 


(Marble)  Freer,  extended  mention  of  whom  will 
be  found  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

A  product  of  the  Chicago  public  schools, 
Lemuel  Hinton  Freer  was  forced,  on  account  of 
failing  health,  to  terminate  his  schooldays  at 
the  age  of  seventeen  years,  and,  going  west  to 
Colorado,  found  there  the  climatic  conditions  he 
needed,  and  for  nearly  thirty  years  was  en- 
gaged in  ranching,  developing  his  splendid 
ranch  until   it   was   recognized    as   one   of   the 


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finest  in  the  country.  It.  was  he  who  so  ex- 
tensively experimented  with  alfalfa  as  to  se- 
cure its  introduction  into  Colorado,  where  it 
now  forms  a  staple  crop.  Always  fond  of  an 
out-of-door  life,  he  became  deeply  interested  in 
nature  in  its  various  forms,  and  carried  on  his 
work  with  the  enthusiasm  that  was  charac- 
teristic of  him. 

Following  the  death  of  his  father,  April  14, 
1892,  Mr.  Freer  returned  to  Chicago,  and  here 
established  his  residence.  For  the  subsequent 
twenty  years  he  was  active  in  the  management 
of  his  father's  estate.  About  1910,  however, 
failing  eyesight  necessitated  his  retirement 
from  business. 

In  1870  Mr.  Freer  was  married  to  Miss  Clara 
Raymond  Fowler,  and  they  became  the  parents 
of  the  following  children:  Lemuel  It. ;  Elsie, 
who  is  Mrs.  Charles  It.  Howe;  Mabel,  who  is 
Mrs.  Frederick  G.  Dyas,  and  Margaret,  who  is 
Mrs.  Clifford  G.  Grulee.  Mrs.  Freer  died  in 
1889.  On  June  1,  1890,  Mr.  Freer  was  married 
(second)  to  Miss  Mary  Anna  Bradford,  and 
they  had  two  sons  horn  to  them:  Norman  Brad- 
ford and  William   Bradford    Freer. 

In  1893  Mr.  Freer  established  his  home  in 
La  Grange,  Illinois,  and  there  he  continued  to 
reside  until  1901',  when  removal  was  made  to 
Hinsdale  where  he  erected  a  handsome  home 
and  this  was  occupied  until  1915.  In  the  latter 
year    Mr.    Freer   built    the   present    residence,    a 


most  beautiful  home,  in  which  he  spent  the  bal- 
ance   of   his    life.      Here    he   found    delight    in 
beautifying  his   grounds    and   indulging  to   the 
utmost  his  love  for,  and  skill  in   horticulture. 
In  spite  of  the  fact  that  everything   that  was 
beautiful  appealed  to  him.  Mr.  Freer  was  a  keen 
judge  of  human  nature,  and   had  but  little  use 
for  shams   of  any   kind.     To   those   who   were 
worthy  he  was  always  glad  to  extend  a  helping 
hand,    and   he   was   interested    in    many   philan- 
thropies and   reforms.     A  real   American,  loyal 
and  devoted  to  his  country,  he  gladly  sent  his 
sons  and  sons-in-law  into  the  service,  and   re- 
gretted  that,  he,   himself,   was   beyond   the   mil- 
itary age.     All  of  his  connections  served  in  the 
United  States  army  until  the  close  of  hostilities. 
He  was  always  interested   in   the  development 
and  advancement  of  Hinsdale  from  the  day  he 
first  located  in  its  midst  until  his  death,  and  in 
his  passing  the  village  lost  one  of  its  best  citi- 
zens.    Devoted  to  his  family,  Mr.  Freer  gave  a 
wealth  of  love  in  all  of  the  relationships  of  his 
home.     He  was  a  man  who  greatly  enjoyed  the 
friendship  of  his   associates,  and  was  by  them 
deeply  appreciated. 

Mr.  Freer  died  March  11,  1925,  in  his  seventy- 
eighth  year.  His  death  closes  another  worthy 
chapter  in  the  history  of  a  distinguished  Chi- 
cago  family. 


JAMES  MITCHELL  NEFF. 


The  late  Dr.  James  Mitchell  Neff,  of  Chicago, 
was  born  at.  Freeport,  Illinois,  February  22, 
1875,  a  son  of  John  W.  and  Mary  (Mitchell) 
Neff,  natives  of  Pennsylvania  and  Illinois,  re- 
spectively. The  Mitchells  were  a  prominent  pio- 
neer family  of  Illinois. 

lie  began  his  schooling  in  Freeport  and  later 
studied  in  the  schools  of  Denver  and  Salt  Lake 
City,  after  which  he  came  to  Chicago  and  en- 
tered Armour  Institute  of  Technology.  Not  long 
thereafter  he  determined  to  take  up  the  study 
of  medicine  and  surgery  as  his  life  work.  Ac- 
cordingly he  enrolled  in  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  at  Chicago.  He  was  gradu- 
ated with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in 
1898.  The  following  two  years  he  devoted  to 
further  preparation  as  an  interne  in  Cook 
County  Hospital  where  he  established  a  fine 
record. 

He  began   the   practice   of  his   profession,   in 


Chicago,  in  1900.  He  early  gave  evidence  of  su- 
perior ability  and  he  was  asked  to  join  the 
small  group  of  men  who  worked  under  the  per- 
sonal guidance  of  the  late  Dr.  John  B.  Murphy. 
For  the  first  ten  years  of  his  active  professional 
life  Doctor  Neff  had  the  great  privilege  of  being 
very  closely  associated  with  Doctor  Murphy  and 
he,  himself,  earned  a  place  of  notable  im- 
portance in  the  field  of  surgery. 

Doctor  Neff  practiced  later,  for  a  short  period, 
in  Spokane,  Washington ;  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  again  take  up  his  important  work  in 
Chicago. 

In  1915  he  was  chosen  to  take  charge  of 
Doctor  Murphy's  medical  unit  in  Europe  during 
the  World  War.  For  a  year  he  remained 
abroad,  where  his  experience  and  rare  ability 
were  of  inestimable  value.  After  1916  Doctor 
Neff  was  in  Chicago.    He  moved  his  office  to  the 


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new    Strauss  Building  a   short  time  before  his 
death. 

Doctor  Neff  died  March  9,  1925.    He  was  ouly 
fifty  years  old  when  his  great  work  among  us 


was  closed.  There  are  few  men  of  his  profes- 
sion in  America  whose  knowledge  and  skill  and 
service  have  paralleled  that  of  the  late  Dr. 
James  M.  Neff. 


CHARLES  WELLINGTON  PARDRIDGE. 


The  dry  goods  interests  of  Chicago  are  mighty 
and  far  reaching,  and  have  been  developed  out 
of  small  beginnings  when  the  city  was  but  the 
parent  to  the  metropolis  of  today.  The  late 
Charles  Wellington  Pardridge,  founder  of  the 
great  dry  goods  house  of  Hillman's  was  one  of 
the  men  who  aided  in  bringing  about  the  present 
day  supremacy  of  the  city  as  a  dry  goods  center, 
and  his  name  will  ever  be  associated  with  this 
branch    of  Chicago's   business   life. 

Mr.  Pardridge  was  born  in  Oneida,  N.  Y.,  June 
15,  1841,  a  son  of  Anson  and  Amanda  (Fields) 
Pardridge.  His  education  was  obtained  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  state,  and  early 
developing  an  aptitude  for  business,  he  began 
his  commercial  career  when  a  small  boy  as 
clerk  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  C.  Rive  and  Com- 
pany, of  Lyons,  N.  Y.  He  later  became  identi- 
fied with  the  mercantile  trade  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
and  from  1861  to  1870  conducted  an  extensive 
dry  goods  business  in  that  city  with  his  brother, 
E.  Pardridge,  under  the  firm  name  of  C.  W. 
and  E.  Pardridge. 

The  fame  of  the  future  metropolis  of  the 
west,  which  seems,  not  unnaturally,  to  have  ex- 
tended to  the  eastern  states,  drew  many  ambi- 
tious young  men  like  himself  to  Chicago,  and 
he  decided  to  cast  his  lot  with  this  city.  It 
was  in  1870,  the  year  prior  to  the  great  Chi- 
cago fire  that  he  started  to  carve  out  a  career 
here  for  himself,  and  thenceforward  his  life 
and  enterprises  were  blended  with  the  growth 
of  this  city.  He  soon  became  identified  with  its 
commercial  interests,  and  with  his  brother 
founded  C.  W.  &  E.  Pardridge's  main  store  and 
later  founded  the  Boston  Store,  which  they  con- 
ducted for  many  years.  Later  he  established 
the  dry  "goods  house  of  Hillman's  of  which  he 
wras  president,  treasurer  and  a  director,  and 
was  actively  identified  with  the  business  until 
the  time  of  his  demise.  Besides  this  connection, 
he  was  also  interested  in  numerous  other  enter- 
prises, and  his  progressive  spirit  was  evident  in 
many  ways.  He  accumulated  large  real  estate 
holdings,  and  for  a  number  of  years  devoted 
much  time  and  labor  to  the  development  and 
improvement  of  his  property. 


Coming  to  Chicago  and  entering  business  life 
when  a  young  man  of  twenty-six,  Mr.  Pardridge 
grew  up  with  the  city  during  the  period  of  its 
most  marvelous  development,  and  through  pluck, 
perseverance  and  honorable  dealing  he  became 
one  of  its  substantial  and  most  valued  citizens. 
His  sympathy  and  support  were  always  with 
the  measures  that  in  any  way  contributed  to  its 
welfare,  and  his  career  stands  without  a 
blemish.  He  always  stood  for  the  things  that 
were  right,  and  for  the  advancement  of  citi- 
zenship, and  was  interested  in  all  that  pertained 
to  modern  improvements  along  material,  intel- 
lectual and  moral  lines. 

Mr.  Pardridge  was  twice  married,  first  to 
Theresa  Marsland,  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  and  after 
her  death,  to  Helen  M.  Bowen,  of  St.  Augustine, 
Fla.,  w7ho  is  also  deceased.  By  his  first  mar- 
riage there  were  three  sons  and  two  daughters, 
namely :  Charles  A.,  Edward  W.,  Eva,  Albert  J. 
and  May.  Unpretentious  in  manner,  Mr.  Pard- 
lidge  had  many  wrarm  friends  and  was  recog- 
nized as  a  man  of  earnest  purpose  and  ad- 
vanced principles.  His  labors  were  not  only 
an  element  in  promoting  his  own  success,  but 
also  constituted  a  potent  factor  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  city,  and  his  influence  was  all  the 
more  efficacious  from  the  fact  that  it  was  moral 
rather  than  political,  and  was  exercised  for  the 
public  good  as  well  as  for  personal  ends.  Con- 
siderate of  others,  he  did  many  acts  of  kind- 
ness, both  to  individuals  and  institutions,  but 
in  his  dislike  of  all  show,  they  were  not  made 
public  for  self-aggrandizement.  He  was  a  Re- 
publican in  his  political  affiliations,  and  socially, 
was  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic  and  the 
South  Shore  Country  clubs. 

Alert  and  sagacious,  Mr.  Pardridge  was  of 
the  type  of  men  who  always  succeed,  and  it  is 
to  the  activity  and  public  spirit  of  such  men 
that  Chicago  owes  its  moral  education  and  com- 
mercial growth.  For  years  he  managed  and 
conducted  various  large  business  interests  which 
required  the  attention  of  a  man  of  ability,  and 
in  every  way  proved  his  superior  executive 
judgment.  A  man  of  unusual  public  spirit, 
interested    in    local    affairs    and    proud    of    the 


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city  in  which  much  of  his  activities  and  mature 
manhood  were  passed,  he  was  a  strong  factor 
in  the  furtherance  of  any  measure  which  has 
for  its  aim  the  advancement  of  the  people  or  the 
betterment  of  existing  conditions. 

To  sketch  in  detail  Mr.  Pardridge's  active 
career  would  be  a  task  of  no  small  moment, 
however  agreeable  and  interesting.  It  must 
suffice  to  say  in  conclusion  that  his  labors  were 
of  the  most  earnest  character,  that  they  were 
exceedingly  comprehensive,  and  that  they  con- 
tributed in  a  most  important  degree  to  the  de- 


velopment of  the  industrial  and  commercial 
prosperity  and  wealth  of  the  section  in  which 
they  were  performed.  Although  making  no 
claim  to  greater  credit  than  that  which  belongs 
to  one  who,  by  wise  and  persistent  effort,  ad- 
vanced his  own  fortune  and  at  the  same  time 
that  of  many  others,  who  shared  in  one  way  or 
another  in  his  enterprises,  a  discriminating  pub- 
lic sentiment  will  not  fail  to  accord  him  a  front 
rank  among  the  commercial  benefactors  of  the 
country. 


WILLIAM  DEMING  NELSON. 


The  Barrett  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Chicago,  has  a  remarkable  record  of  growth 
and  broad  usefulness  equalled  by  only  a  few 
concerns  in  the  country ;  and  a  good  share  of 
the  thought  and  skill  that  has  brought  these 
results  have  come  from  the  late  William  D. 
Nelson.  He  was  an  indispensable  part  of  the 
Barrett  firm  since  the  year  preceding  the  Chi- 
cago  Fire  until  his  death. 

William  Deming  Nelson  was  born  in  Bath, 
Grafton  County,  New  Hampshire,  on  Septem- 
ber 24,  1846,  a  son  of  Oswald  A.  and  Emily 
(Deming)  Nelson,  natives  of  Boltonville,  Ver- 
mont and  Bath,  New  Hampshire,  respectively. 
The  father  was  a  farmer;  later  he  moved  to 
Muskegon,  Michigan,  and  was  there  a  pioneer 
in  the  lumber  business. 

The  son's  boyhood  was  spent  in  Bath,  where 
he  attended  the  local  schools.  Then  he  clerked 
in  a  small  store  owned  by  a  cousin  in  West 
Charleston,  Vermont.  It  was  in  18G5  that  he 
came  to  Chicago.  This  city  was  continuously 
his  home  since  that  year.  His  first  work  here 
was  in  the  commission  business  of  Samuel  Mc- 
Dowall  on  South  Water  Street. 

In  1870,  Mr.  Nelson  entered  the  business  of 
Barrett  &  Arnold,  manufacturers  of  roofing  ma- 


terial. This  company  started  business  in  1857. 
In  1889  the  name  of  the  business  was  changed 
to  the  S.  E.  Barrett  Manufacturing  Company, 
and  this  was  succeeded  by  the  Barrett  Manu- 
facturing Company  in  1896.  It  now  is  known 
as  the  Barrett  Company  of  the  Allied  Chemical 
&  Dye  Corporation.  It  is  probably  the  largest 
plant  of  its  kind  in  the  world.  William  D.  Nel- 
son served  as  manager  of  this  business  through 
all  the  stages  of  its  expansion  for  forty-two 
consecutive  years.  His  retirement  was  in  1912. 
He  earned  a  place  as  one  of  the  finest,  strongest 
and  best-loved  men  in  the  business  life  of 
Chicago. 

William  D.  Nelson  was  married  on  July  16, 
1869,  in  Chicago,  to  Miss  Mary  McDowall,  a 
sister  of  Samuel  McDowall,  and  a  native  of 
Aubvirn,  New  York.  Of  late  years  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Nelson  have  lived  at  No.  850  Chalmers  Place. 
Mr.  Nelson  belonged  to  the  Illinois  Athletic 
Club  and  the  Edgewater  Golf  Club. 

The  long,  happy,  serviceable  life  of  William 
D.  Nelson  closed  September  23,  1923.  His 
career  combined  rare  capability  with  absolute 
faithfulness,  and  the  devotion  he  always  held 
for  his  family  and  his  friends  was  returned 
in  overflowing  measure. 


LEMUEL  COVELL  PAINE  FREER. 


L.  C.  P.  Freer  was  born  September  18,  1813, 
at  North  East,  Dutchess  County,  New  York. 
His  father  was  a  tanner,  and  young  Freer 
worked  at  the  business  in  his  earlier  days.  He 
had  the  usual  advantages  of  the  common 
schools,  which  he  improved  and  added  to  by 
a  careful,  persistent  course  of  reading.  He  also 
taught  school,  with  the  usual  experiences  of 
country   school   teachers,   and   for   a   time   was 


clerk  in  a  small  country  store.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-two  he  married  Esther  Wickes  Marble, 
who  died  after  more  than  forty  years  of  wedded 
life.  In  1836  he  came  West  and  settled  in  Chi- 
cago. After  a  short  experience  in  trading,  fol- 
lowed by  a  failure,  he  moved  out  upon  a  farm 
near  Bourbonnais  Grove,  where  he  built  a  house 
with  his  own  hands.  He  underwent  the  cus- 
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after  a  time  returned  to  Chicago  and  took  up 
the  study  of  the  law  in  the  office  of  Henry 
Brown.  Almost  at  the  outset  of  his  professional 
career  he  began  practice,  taking  justice  cases, 
collections,  etc.,  until  he  soon  had  all  the  busi- 
ness to  which  he  could  attend.  He  formed  a 
partnership  with  Calvin  De  Wolf,  afterward 
with  the  Honorable  John  M.  Wilson,  and  later 
with  George  A.  Ingalls. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Chicago,  July 
9,  1840,  and  soon  after  was  appointed  master 
in  chancery  by  Judge  George  Manierre,  of  the 
circuit  court,  which  office  he  held  for  a  number 
of  years.  In  the  latter  position  it  is  said  he 
often  performed  the  work  of  two  men,  fre- 
quently working  late  in  the  night  to  keep  up 
with  the  press  of  business.  In  those  days 
stenographers  were  not  known,  and  all  testi- 
mony taken  before  the  master  had  to  be  re- 
corded and  his  reports  written  out  in  longhand, 
but  his  work  was  always  satisfactory  to  courts 
and  lawyers ;  and  the  great  length  of  time  he 
retained  the  position,  and  the  universal  satis- 
faction given  by  him  in  the  discharge  of  his 
duties,  indicate  how  ably  he  performed  the  re- 
quirements of  the  office. 

Mr.  Freer  had  for  many  years,  aside  from 
his  duties  as  master,  a  large  practice,  mainly 
in  real-estate  law  and  questions  of  land  titles. 
On  account  of  his  extensive  knowledge  of  early 
transactions  in  real  estate  and  his  wide  ex- 
perience, his  opinion  was  generally  regarded  as 
conclusive  without  further  question. 

Aside  from  his  law  practice,  Mr.  Freer,  after 
a  few  years,  was  very  fortunate  in  business ; 
his  high  character,  his  personal  honesty  and 
excellent  judgment,  won  for  him  prominent 
recognition  as  a  leading  business  man  of  the 
city.  He  was  among  the  first  to  foresee  the 
development  that  was  to  take  place  in  Chicago. 


He  invested  heavily  in  land  which  now  com- 
prises a  part  of  the  "Loop."  These  holdings 
created  the  Freer  estate,  and  were  held  intact 
until  1912,  when  the  property  was  divided 
among  the  various  branches  of  the  family. 

All  through  the  anti-slavery  agitation,  Mr. 
Freer  was  foremost  in  the  counsels  of  the 
champions  of  human  rights.  He  was  well  ac- 
quainted with  Wendell  Phillips,  William  Lloyd 
Garrison,  Gerrit  Smith,  Parker  Pillsbury,  Sal- 
mon P.  Chase,  Frederick  Douglas,  Henry  Bibb 
and  many  other  eminent  abolitionists,  and  his 
activity  iu  the  cause  at  one  time  led  to  a  price 
being  placed  on  his  head  by  one  of  the  southern 
states.  It  is  said  that  he  was  instrumental  in 
securing  the  escape  of  many  slaves,  and  on  one 
occasion  chased  a  slave-catcher  nearly  across 
the  state. 

His  name  is  found  as  a  signer  to  the  call  for 
a  public  meeting  to  consider  the  war  situation, 
which  was  held  January  5,  1861,  one  of  the 
largest  public  meetings  ever  held  in  Chicago, 
and  he  was  among  the  first  to  add  his  name 
to  the  muster  roll  of  the  famous  regiment  of 
Chicago  Home  Guards. 

On  the  11th  of  March,  1878,  Mr.  Freer  mar- 
ried Miss  Antoinette  Whitlock. 

In  business  life  he  was  generous  and  helpful 
to  those  who  were  struggling  for  a  start,  and 
frequently  made  sacrifices  in  enabling  men  to 
retain  their  property,  when  an  opposite  course 
would  have  been  more  to  his  personal  advan- 
tage. In  private  life  he  was  kind,  genial  and 
companionable,  given  much  to  books,  and  always 
an  entertaining  conversationalist.  For  many 
years  he  was  president  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  Rush  Medical  College,  the  annual  meet- 
ings of  which  body  were  held  at  his  office. 

Mr.  Freer  died  at  his  home  on  Michigan  ave- 
nue   April   14,    1892. 


SAMUEL  COZZENS. 


The  late  Samuel  Cozzens,  who  was  a  Chi- 
cagoan  for  nearly  sixty  years,  was  born  at 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  on  May  8,  1848.  He 
attended  school  at  Providence  only  until  he 
was  fifteen  years  old.  At  that  time  he  entered 
the  Civil  War,  and  he  remained  in  the  army 
until  illness  necessitated  his  honorable  dis- 
charge. 

After  a  few  months  spent  at  home  in  regain- 
ing  his   health,    he   left   Providence  and   came 


west  to  Chicago,  and  this  city  continued  his 
home  until  his  death. 

He  took  the  first  position  that  was  available, 
and  began  work  on  South  Water  street.  After 
a  few  months,  however,  he  secured  employment, 
which  was  much  more  to  his  liking,  at  the 
Chicago  Stock  Yards.  He  was  a  lover  of  horses 
and  his  experience  and  ability  in  handling  them 
were  of  much  value  to  him. 

This  was  Mr.  Cozzen's  beginning  in  the  great 


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livestock  business  that  centers  in  this  city.  As 
the  years  went  by  he  became,  more  and  more, 
a  figure  of  distinct  importance,  for  he  was  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  the  most  extensive  dealers 
in  horses  in  Illinois. 

In  addition  to  his  other  interests,  Mr.  Coz- 
zens  was  a  Director  of  the  Globe  Rendering 
Company,  of  the  Livestock  Exchange  National 
Bank,  and  of  the  Stock  Yards  Savings  Bank. 

On  April  4,  1878,  Mr.  Cozzens  was  married, 
at  Belvidere,  Illinois,  to  Miss  Carrie  A.  Gray, 
a  daughter  of  Hartwell  and  Adeline  Gray. 
There  is  one  son,  Harry  Gray  Cozzens.  The 
family  home  has  long  been  at  No.  4545  Green- 


wood avenue,  Chicago,  Illinois.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cozzens  attended  the  Kenwood  Evangelical 
Church.  He  was  a  member  of  the  South  Shore 
Country  Club,  and  the  Saddle  and  Sirloin  Club, 
and  he  was  also  a  Mason.  Mr.  Cozzens  was 
deeply  devoted  to  his  home. 

Samuel  Cozzens  died,  in  his  seventy-seventh 
year,  on  August  12,  1924.  He  was  possessed  of 
a  high  type  of  ability,  and  was,  for  years,  a 
prominent  and  successful  figure  in  the  live- 
stock industry  here.  More  than  that,  the  ex- 
ample of  his  daily  life  and  his  ever-willing 
spirit  of  helpfulness  accomplished  much  in  the 
many  years  of  his  residence  in  Chicago. 


PAUL  BRAUER. 


The  late  Paul  Brauer,  of  Chicago,  was  born 
at  Carden,  Germany,  on  July  20,  1867,  a  son 
of  Casper  and  Gertrude  (Blaser)  Brauer,  both 
natives  of  Germany.  The  father  was  in  the 
hotel  business. 

Paul  Brauer  went  to  school  at  Montabaur, 
Germany,  until  he  was  fifteen  years  old.  It  was 
then  that  the  family  came  to  America  and  set- 
tled in  Chicago.  Paul  Brauer's  home  has  been 
here  ever  since  that  time. 

As  the  years  passed  he  became  one  of  the 
most  successful  restaurant  men  in  this  part  of 
the  country.  Many  Chicagoans  and  visitors  of 
former  years,  remember  Cafe  Brauer,  which 
was  located  at  the  northeast  corner  of  State 
street  and  Jackson  boulevard.  This  restaurant, 
owned  and  conducted  by  Paul  Brauer,  came  to 
be  considered  almost  as  a  landmark.  It  went 
out  of  existence  when  the  present  Lytton  Build- 
ing was  erected  on  the  corner  the  restaurant 
had  formerly  occupied. 

About  twenty  years  ago  Mr.  Brauer  took  the 
concession  for  all  refreshments  served   in  Lin- 


coln Park.  He  had  these  concessions  ever  since 
that  time.  Through  this  connection  he  became 
known  to  a  great  many  people;  and  his  fairness 
and  thoughtfulness  on  their  behalf,  earned  him 
a  large  measure  of  the  public's  appreciation. 

On  April  28,  1908,  Mr.  Brauer  was  married  to 
Miss  Mary  B.  Saurborn,  of  Chicago,  a  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Frederika  (Funk)  Saurborn. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brauer  had  two  children  born  to 
them  :  Casper  P.  Brauer,  who  died  in  infancy ; 
and  Miss  Geraldine  Brauer. 

Mr.  Brauer's  home  had  been  at  552  Barry 
avenue.  Chicago,  for  over  twenty  years.  He 
belonged  to  the  Illinois  Athletic  Club,  South 
Shore  Country  Club,  Chicago  Yacht  Club,  Ger- 
mania  Club,  and  the  Mendelssohn  Club.  He  was 
a  life  member  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago, 
and  was  also  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason. 

January  15,  1924,  records  Paul  Brauer's  death. 
Through  his  business,  through  his  interest  in 
art  and  music,  and  through  his  spirit  of  help- 
ful kindness,  his  contribution  to  the  life  of  Chi- 
cago has  been  of  much  value. 


JAMES  (JARR  PEASLEY. 


Closely  associated  with  the  development  of 
the  great  railroad  system  known  as  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  is  the 
record  of  the  life  work  of  James  Carr  Peasley, 
one  of  the  best-known  railroad  men  in  the 
country,  and  therefore  it  is  but  right  and  proper 
to  include  his  name  among  the  worth-while 
men  of  Illinois  in  compiling  a  memorial  of  this 
character.  Mr.  Peasley  was  born  in  Henderson 
County,  Illinois,  August  30,  1840,  a  son  of 
Francis  J.  C.  and  Mary  E.    (Grannis)   Peasley. 


Francis  J.  C.  Peasley  was  one  of  the  men  who 
ventured  overland  to  California  in  1849  in 
search  of  gold,  and  the  family  have  a  very  in- 
teresting diary  written  by  him  during  his  trav- 
els. Later  the  family  moved  from  Henderson 
County,  Illinois,  just  across  the  Mississippi 
River,  to  Burlington,  Iowa,  and  there  James 
Carr  Peasley  attended  the  public  schools. 
After  locating  at  Burlington,  the  elder  Mr. 
Peasley  went  into  the  banking  business  under 
the  name  of  Brooks,  Coolbaugh  &  Peasley. 


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James  Carr  Peasley  went  to  Jacksonville 
College,  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  and  then,  for  a 
short  time,  was  station  agent  for  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  at  Ottumwa, 
Iowa.  Later  on  he  was  made  cashier  in  the 
bank  of  Brooks  &  Coolbaugh,  his  father  in  the 
meanwhile  having  died,  and  when  Mr.  Brooks 
died,  Mr.  Peasley  was  made  president  of  the 
newly  reorganized  bank,  which  became  at  that 
time  the  National  State  Bank  of  Iowa.  In  1881 
Mr.  Peasley  was  made  vice  president  and 
cashier  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad,  and  continued  this  connection  until 
1902  when  failing  eyesight  necessitated  his  re- 
tirement from  active  work.  His  years  with 
the  road  were  very  productive.  His  intimate 
knowledge  of  the  problems  relating  to  financ- 
ing, extension  and  maintenance  of  railroads, 
was  of  incalculable  value  to  the  system.  There 
is  no  need  to  dwell  upon  his  work  in  detail  on 
the  board  of  directors,  for  it  is  too  well  known 
to  require  repetition. 


On  October  10,  18G6,  Mr.  Peasley  was  mar- 
ried at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  to  Louise  Green, 
of  Trenton,  a  daughter  of  Charles  E.  and  Sarah 
A.  (Maxwell)  Green,  and  they  became  the  par- 
ents of  two  children,  namely :  Mrs.  Frederick 
A.  Delano,  and  Mrs.  E.  B.  Burling.  Mr.  Peasley 
belonged  to  the  Chicago  and  Saddle  &  Cycle 
clubs,  and  to  the  Chicago  Historical  Society, 
and  took  special  interest  in  the  latter.  A  man 
of  cultivated  tastes  he  is  said  to  have  possessed 
one  of  the  finest  libraries  in  the  city.  Mrs. 
Peasley  is  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Dames. 
Mr.  Peasley  was  spared  to  his  family  until  he 
had  passed  the  milestone  of  four-score  years, 
and  then  died,  July  13,  1920.  Although 
afflicted  for  some  eighteen  years  on  account  of 
his  eyesight,  he  never  lost  his  interest  in  his 
city  or  current  events,  and  kept  himself  re- 
markably well  informed  of  all  that  was  taking 
place. 


ARTHUR  FARRAR. 


In  studying  the  lives  and  character  of  promi- 
nent men,  we  are  naturally  led  to  inquire  into 
the  secret  of  their  success  and  the  motive  that 
prompted  their  action.  Success  is  said  by  many 
to  be  a  question  of  genius,  but  is  it  not  rather 
a  matter  of  experience  and  sound  judgment,  for 
when  we  trace  the  careers  of  those  who  stand 
highest  in  public  esteem  we  find  in  nearly 
every  case  that  those  who  have  succeeded  rose 
gradually,  fighting  their  way  in  the  face  of  all 
opposition.  Self-reliance,  conscientiousness,  en- 
ergy and  honesty,  these  are  the  traits  of  char- 
acter that  insure  the  highest  emoluments  and 
greatest  success.  To  these  may  be  attributed 
the  success  of  Arthur  Farrar,  who  was  an  ear- 
nest friend  of  education,  and  religion,  and  the 
supporter  of  all  worthy  movements  which  had 
their  root  in  unselfish  devotion  to  the  best  inter- 
ests of  his  country. 

Arthur  Farrar  was  born  at  Worcester,  Mass., 
December  3,  1837,  a  son  of  Aebel  F.  and  Erne- 
line  (Rice)  Farrar.  He  descended  from  the 
New  England  Puritans  who  laid  tbe  foundations 
of  this  country,  and  even  further  back,  for  his- 
tory declares  that  William  the  Conqueror,  in  the 
fourteenth  year  of  his  reign,  cbose  a  Farrar  to 
be  a  commissioner  to  attend  to  the  resurvey  of 
England,  and  one  of  the  name  was  a  martyr 
to  the  misdirected  religious  enthusiasm  of  the 


queen  known  in  bistory  as  "Bloody  Mary."  A 
branch  of  the  family  is  found  in  Virginia,  where 
representatives  of  the  name  were  prominent  in 
shaping  the  formative  policy  of  that  state.  An- 
other branch  of  the  family  was  established  in 
Massachusetts,  and  a  third  in  New  Hampshire, 
and  with  the  history  of  Hingham,  Ipswich, 
Lynn,  Concord  and  Temple,  the  name  is  closely 
and  honorably  interwoven.  From  such  an  an- 
cestry Arthur  Farrar  descended  and  wisely  and 
well  did  he  use  the  talents  which  such  a  lineage 
bequeathed  to  him.  Fortunate  is  the  man  who 
has  back  of  him  an  ancestry  honorable  and  dis- 
tinguished, and  happy  is  he  if  his  lines  of  life 
have  been  cast  in  harmony  therewith. 

Arthur  Farrar  was  but  two  years  old  when 
his  parents  moved  with  their  family  from 
Worcester  to  Boston,  and  it  was  in  the  latter 
city  that  he  received  his  education  in  the  Bos- 
ton Latin  School,  and  obtained  his  early  busi- 
ness experience.  Subsequently  the  family  home 
was  established  at  Rindge,  N.  H.,  where  the 
parents  spent  their  remaining  days.  Not  sat- 
isfied with  conditions,  however,  when  he  was 
twenty  years  old,  Mr.  Farrar  went  to  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  where  he  obtained  employment  with  a  Mr. 
Clagston,  agent  for  a  Boston  rubber  company, 
but  later  went  to  Cincinnati,  O.,  where  he  was 
with  Grover  and  Baker,  dealers  in  sewing  ma- 


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chines.  In  time  Mr.  Farrar  rose  with  this  firm 
to  be  their  representative  at  St.  Louis,  and  while 
in  that  city  was  associated  with  the  leading 
men  of  the  state.  When  he  left  St.  Louis  he  re- 
turned to  Cincinnati  for  a  brief  period  of  serv- 
ice with  the  Grover  and  Baker  firm.  During 
this  period  the  Wheeler  and  Wilson  Company 
offered  him  the  agency  of  their  company  for  the 
North  Western  Territory  with  headquarters  at 
Chicago.  This  higher  position  brought  in- 
creased responsibilities,  but  was  a  large  and 
remunerative  business  venture  to  one  who  could 
make  a  success  of  it,  and  Mr.  Farrar  was  will- 
ing to  try,  knowing  that  with  hard  work  and 
perseverance  he  was  likely  to  succeed.  He 
therefore  went  to  Chicago  and  became  general 
agent  and  manager  for  the  Wheeler  and  Wilson 
Sewing  Machine  Company,  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant positions  in  this  field  in  the  country. 

For  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Farrar  continued 
in  this  line  winning  therein  a  substantial  meas- 
ure of  success.  In  1808  President  Wheeler  sug- 
gested to  his  son,  Mr.  S.  H.  Wheeler,  that  he 
go  to  Chicago  to  be  Mr.  Farrar's  partner.  Mr. 
Wheeler  was  young,  having  just  graduated  from 
Yale  College,  but  he  entered  into  the  business 
with  enthusiasm  and  determination,  and  the 
two  men  had  a  most  delightful  and  successful 
business  relationship  lasting  over  thirty  years. 
Mr.  Farrar  subsequently  retired,  and  for  some 
years  prior  to  his  death  devoted  his  attention 
to  real  estate,  in  which  he  was  quite  extensively 
interested  in  Chicago,  also  prospering  in  this. 

Mr.  Farrar  was  married  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
to  Fannie  E.  Cook,  born  at  West  Townshend, 
Vt.,  August  2,  1841,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Eliza  (Phelps)  Cook.  The  latter's  sister,  Fanny 
Phelps,  was  the  first  wife  of  Alphonso  Taft, 
who  was  the  father  of  Hon.  William  Howard 
Taft,  ex-president  of  the  United  States.  Mrs. 
Farrar  was  a  lady  of  culture  and  a  worthy 
scion  of  prominent  and  representative  families 
of  Vermont.  Her  father  was  born  at  Newfane, 
Vt.,  and  her  mother  at  West  Townshend,  Vt. 
They  were  married  at  the  latter  place  and  later 
moved  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  they  lived 
for  some  years,  but  prior  to  their  death,  they 
made  their  home  with  their  daughter,  Mrs. 
Farrar,  at  Chicago.  She  was  their  only  child. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farrar  had  two  daughters :  Fannie 
E.  and  Emeline  Phelps,  the  latter  becoming  the 
wife  of  Rev.  William  S.  Wescott.  On  the  morn- 
ing of  February  8,  1924,  Mrs.  Farrar  passed 
away.     She  was  in  her  eighty-third  year. 


Mr.  Farrar  was  public-spirited  and  charitable 
and  always  found  time  for  studying  and  fos- 
tering movements  which  aimed  to  improve  the 
public  weal.  Sincere  in  his  friendships,  stead- 
fast and  unswerving  in  his  loyalty  to  the  right, 
it  is  but  just  and  merited  praise  to  say  of  him 
as  a  business  man  that  he  held  high  rauk,  while 
as  a  citizen  he  was  honorable,  loyal  and  consci- 
entious. In  his  death,  which  occurred  Novem- 
ber 2,  1893,  Chicago  lost  one  of  its  most  esti- 
mable citizens.  Ten  days  after  Mr.  Farrar's 
death,  at  a  meeting  of  the  trustees  of  the  Union 
Park  Congregational  Society,  a  beautiful  me- 
morial was  unanimously  adopted,  which  set 
forth  the  fact  that  he  had  been  a  trustee  of  the 
church,  and  a  Christian  gentleman,  and  extolled 
his  mauy  virtues  and  referred  to  his  numerous 
charities.  Fitting  tribute  was  paid  to  his  mem- 
ory by  his  pastor,  Dr.  Noble,  at  the  funeral  serv- 
ices. He  spoke  of  Mr.  Farrar's  mental  capa- 
bilities, his  search  for  knowledge,  his  inventive 
genius,  his  love  of  books,  his  moral  excellence, 
his  high  influence  for  good,  his  business  integ- 
rity, his  uprightness  of  purpose,  his  love  of 
home,  his  devotion  to  his  country,  his  innate 
patriotism,  his  sound  judgment,  his  political 
morality,  his  charitable  judgment  of  associates, 
his  fidelity  to  duty,  his  devotion  to  the  Union 
Park  church,  his  delight  in  any  act  or  movement 
which  looked  to  the  broadening  of  the  moral 
power  and  influence  of  this  organization,  and 
his  wise  advice  and  benevolent  actions.  In 
conclusion  Dr.  Noble  said :  "All  this  is  the 
more  remarkable  because  Mr.  Farrar  was  not 
a  member  of  this  church  nor  of  any  other 
church.  He  has  said  to  me  upon  many  occa- 
sions :  'I  do  not  accept  your  tenets.'  But  he 
never  failed  to  add  :  'At  the  same  time  I  know 
of  no  institution  whose  influence  upon  the  com- 
munity is  so  good  as  that  of  the  church.' 

"He  would  frequently  instance  the  police 
value  of  churches  and  insist  that  on  this  ground 
alone  men,  whatever  they  might  believe,  ought 
to  help  sustain  the  churches.  The  peace,  the 
order,  the  prosperity  and  happiness  of  the  com- 
munity he  saw  to  be  greatly  promoted  by  the 
churches.  Down  in  the  depths  of  his  being,  be- 
yond any  question,  he  accepted  the  great  ethical 
laws  and  duties  of  Christianity,  and  to  an  ex- 
tent beyond  his  own  thought  came  under  the 
power  of  Christ.  He  saw  in  Christ  the  ideal  of 
humanity  and  the  supreme  example  which  this 
world  has  to  exhibit  of  manly  character.     He 


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felt  the  force  of  the  precepts  of  Christ  as  laid 
down  for  us  in  the  New  Testament.  The  love  of 
Christ  as  illustrated  in  His  compassion  for  the 
poor  and  needy  and  wretched,  and  in  His  going 
about  and  doing  good,  constrained  him  and  he 
yielded  himself  up  to  the  fine  spirit  of  charity 
which  is  brought  out  in  the  passage  read,  that 
wonderful  thirteenth  chapter  of  the  First 
Epistle  of  Paul  to  the  Corinthians. 

"This  is  largely  the  explanation  of  his   un- 


varying and  considerate  kindness,  for  how  kiud 
he  was !  How  helpful  he  was !  How  compas- 
sionate to  the  weak  and  unfortunate!  How 
many  there  will  be  who  will  rise  up  and  call  him 
blessed  because  of  what  he  has  done  for  them ! 
How  many  there  will  be  who  will  miss  him  be- 
cause they  are  to  have  no  more  share  of  his 
personal  attention  and  practical  sympathy!  He 
was  a  good  man,  if  ever  a  good  man  lived." 


MRS.  FANNIE  E.  FARRAR. 


To  the  great  women  of  the  country  is  due 
a  large  share  of  the  nation's  success.  Un- 
bounded praise  is  due  the  great  mothers  of  the 
land  for  their  splendid  ideals  and  dauntless 
courage.  To  that  company  of  women  whose 
vision  was  keen,  whose  lives  were  purposeful 
and  righteous,  and  rung  true  to  all  that  was 
worthy  and  noble  and  charitable,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  belonged. 

Fannie  Eliza  Cook,  was  born  in  West 
Townshend,  Vermont,  August  2,  1841,  the  only 
child  of  Thomas  and  Eliza  Phelps  Cook.  When 
she  was  five  years  old  she  went  with  her  par- 
ents on  a  visit  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  The  trip 
was  made  by  stage  coach  over  the  mountains 
and  by  boat  across  Lake  Erie.  When  crossing 
the  lake  a  terrific  storm  came  up  and  the  boat 
was  almost  wrecked.  Much  of  the  cargo  was 
thrown  overboard.  The  passengers  were  great- 
ly terrified,  but  finally  the  ship  came  safely  into 
port.  This  early  experience  on  Lake  Erie 
was  never  forgotten,  and  doubtless  was  the 
reason  Mrs.  Farrar  was  always  more  or  less 
timid  about  sailing  on  the  Great  Lakes. 

After  the  death  of  her  Grandfather,  Judge 
Charles  Phelps  of  Vermont,  the  family  moved 
to  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Other  members  of  the 
family  had  moved  there  earlier,  among  these, 
two  sisters  and  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Cook.  One 
of  these  sisters  was  Fannie  Phelps  Taft,  the 
first  wife  of  Alphonso  Taft,  and  it  was  for  her 
that  Mrs.  Farrar  was  named. 

In  her  youth,  Fannie  was  delicate  in  health, 
but  this  was  not  permitted  to  interfere  with 
her  education,  for  her  indomitable  will  and  in- 
tense love  of  books  were  early  manifested  and 
she  made  study  a  pleasure.  She  received  her 
education  in  the  best  private  schools  of  Cin- 
cinnati, finishing  at  Wesleyan  College. 

On  August  12,  1862,  she  was  married  to 
Arthur  Farrar  in  Cincinnati.    This  was  in  war- 


time, and  Mr.  Farrar  was  a  member  of  the 
Ilallet  Guards  of  that  city.  Both  the  Phelps 
and  Farrar  families  were  strong  abolitionists, 
and  did  all  in  their  power  to  help  the  anti- 
slavery  cause.  During  this  war  period  Mrs. 
Farrar  spent  much  of  her  time  in  the  hospitals 
helping  to  bring  cheer  and  comfort  to  the 
wounded  soldiers,  and  taking  them  home- 
cooked  delicacies.  There  were  comparatively 
few  trained  nurses  in  those  days,  and  the 
hospitals  were  crowded  with  sick  and 
wounded,  so  the  good  women  of  the  land  gave 
their  services  to  hospitals  as  nurses  or  to  any 
form  of  ministry  that  was  needed.  Mrs.  Far- 
rar's  tender  heart  was  always  sympathetic  with 
the  sick  and  needy  and  ministry  to  those  in 
affliction  was  a  part  of  her  plan  of  life.  All 
through  the  years  of  her  busy  career,  she 
found  time  to  visit  the  sick  and  minister  to 
the  unfortunate. 

In  18G5  Mr.  Farrar  accepted  the  position  of 
Western  Manager  for  the  Wheeler  &  Wilson 
Sewing  Machine  Company,  with  offices  in  Chi- 
cago, and  with  his  wife  and  baby  daughter 
moved  to  that  city.  Hard  work,  good  manage- 
ment, and  self-denial,  brought  success,  and  in 
a  few  years  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farrar  were  able 
to  realize  the  hope  they  had  long  cherished  of 
owning  their  home.  In  1868  they,  with  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Cook,  purchased  land  and  a  residence 
on  Washington  Street,  near  Ashland  Avenue. 
This  was  in  the  best  residence  section  of  the 
city  and  proved  to  be  a  fortunate  location,  for 
when  the  great  fire  of  1871  swept  the  city  with 
its  awful  destruction,  their  home  was  west  of 
the  path  of  the  flames  and  was  unharmed. 
This  terrible  conflagration  which  made  thou- 
sands homeless  and  destitute,  made  a  great 
opportunity  also  for  the  exercise  of  gifts  of 
benevolence  and  generosity.  Mrs.  Farrar,  alert 
to  the  situation,  was  one  of  the  first  to  open 


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her  bouse  to  the  suffering  and  homeless,  caring 
for  them  until  they  were  able  to  find  an  abid- 
ing place.  For  days  after  the  disaster  she 
packed  clothes  baskets  full  of  food  and  sent 
them  out  on  the  prairie  to  the  west  of  the  city, 
where  the  refugees  were  camped.  "The  great 
fire  of  1871,"  as  it  was  always  called,  left  the 
city  a  hopeless  ruin.  With  the  exception  of 
part  of  the  west  side,  the  city  was  a  smolder- 
ing mass  of  debris  and  ashes.  But  the  people 
of  those  early  days  had  the  "I  Will"  spirit, 
therefore,  disaster  could  not  daunt  them.  The 
days  of  reconstruction  were  upon  them.  They 
worked  untiringly  to  rebuild  the  city,  but  on 
a  larger  and  finer  plan.  Here  the  foundations 
were  laid  for  that  greater  Chicago,  which  in 
1893  gave  to  the  nations  that  rare  achievement 
in  beauty  and  grandeur,  the  World's  Columbian 
Exposition. 

Across  the  street  from  the  Farrar  home  stood 
the  Union  Park  Congregational  Church  of 
which  Mrs.  Farrar  was  an  enthusiastic  and 
devoted  member.  This  church  contained  the 
largest  auditorium  left  in  the  city ;  it  had  also 
a  very  large  and  burdensome  debt  owing  to  the 
fact  that  the  businesses  of  most  of  the  sustain- 
ing members  and  liberal  givers  had  been  swept 
away  by  the  fire.  This  church,  therefore,  was 
rented  by  its  Board  of  Trustees  for  lectures 
and  entertainments,  and  here  Henry  Ward 
Beecher,  Charlotte  Cushman.  and  the  great 
singers  and  musicians  of  that  day  entertained 
the  people  of  the  stricken  city ;  the  rentals 
for  the  church  helping  to  pay  the  ten  per  cent 
interest  on  its  debt.  To  further  augment  the 
treasury,  the  women  conceived  the  plan  of  serv- 
ing luncheons  in  the  business  section  of  the 
city  and  turning  the  proceeds  of  their  venture 
into  the  church  treasury.  This  proved  to  be  a 
lucrative  source  of  revenue,  for  they  were  serv- 
ing home-cooked  luncheons  in  a  district  where 
there  were  few  and  very  poor  restaurants.  This 
group  of  capable  and  enthusiastic  women,  of 
whom  Mrs.  Farrar  was  one,  "carried  on"  this 
enterprise  for  several  weeks.  It  meant  untir- 
ing labor  and  ceaseless  energy,  for  every  night 
the  table  linen  was  washed  and  ironed,  (there 
were  no  paper  napkins  in  that  day)  and  more 
food  prepared  for  the  succeeding  day.  Most 
of  these  women  were  in  the  full  vigor  of  their 
youth  and  hard  tasks  were  only  a  challenge  to 
show  what  their  Puritan  blood  could  accom- 
plish. 

While  Mrs.   Farrar   was   a   woman  of  action, 


she  was  also  a  woman  of  great  faith  and  in- 
domitable courage.  Nothing  daunted  her  if 
she  thought  it  to  be  in  the  line  of  duty.  She 
was  scrupulously  honest  and  absolutely  sincere. 
There  was  nothing  superficial  about  her.  Life 
to  her  meant  a  great  and  compelling  opportu- 
nity for  righteousness  and  good  works,  which 
in  itself  was  a  rich  reward.  Her  keen  sense 
of  humor  and  ready  wit  gave  cheer  and  merri- 
ment to  what  otherwise  might  have  been  con- 
sidered a  rather  serious  and  reserved  nature. 
She  was  exceedingly  gracious  of  manner,  broad 
minded,  and  tolerant  of  others'  opinions  and 
beliefs.  She  possessed  very  keen  perception, 
rare  insight,  and  great  business  ability.  She 
was  a  constant  reader  of  good  books,  and,  being 
the  possessor  of  an  unusually  good  memory, 
she  had  a  well  stored  mind  and  was  an  in- 
teresting conversationalist.  Her  pastor,  Dr. 
Gilbert  Wilson,  said  of  her,  "She  struck  me  as 
a  woman  of  unusual  intellectual  power  and  a 
quite  unusual  grasp  alike  of  the  affairs  of  the 
world,  the  affairs  of  business  and  the  business 
of  religion." 

Books  were  like  friends  to  Mrs.  Farrar.  All 
through  her  life  she  accumulated  them ;  how- 
ever, only  the  best  in  literature  found  a  place 
on  her  library  bookshelves.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Farrar  were  deeply  interested  in  music,  litera- 
ture and  art.  They  were  among  the  first  mem- 
bers of  the  Art  Institute  and  first  subscribers 
to  the  Thomas  Orchestra  Concerts. 

Many  artists  and  musicians  were  numbered 
among  their  friends  and  found  the  Farrar  home 
a  congenial  and  hospitable  place  to  spend  an 
evening.  To  make  possible  the  extension  of 
the  musical  department  of  the  Chicago  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  Mrs.  Farrar  and  her  two 
daughters  gave  to  the  Seminary  a  three  manual 
Hook  &  Hastings  pipe  organ  to  be  installed  in 
the  remodeled  and  enlarged  Carpenter  Chapel 
on  Ashland  Boulevard,  as  a  memorial  to  Mr. 
Farrar. 

Notwithstanding  all  Mrs.  Farrar's  interests 
in  her  church  and  community,  she  was  essen- 
tially a  home-loving,  home-keeping  woman.  Her 
home  was  the  center  from  which  all  other  in- 
terests radiated.  She  was  a  wonderful  mother. 
Dr.  Wilson  said  of  her,  "It  has  been  something 
that  no  one  has  failed  to  note,  that  she  was 
not  only  a  noble  woman,  but  she  was  an  un- 
usual mother.  I  think  all  mothers  are  unusual 
and  nearly  all  mothers  are  good,  but  surely  this 
was  a  mother  of  surpassing  strength,  wisdom, 


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and  sweetness  in  her  nature."  Her  discipline 
was  devotedly  loving,  but  wisely  firm.  She 
was  extremely  patient  and  a  fine  teacher.  The 
care  and  training  of  her  children  was  to  her 
the  primal  duty  and  pleasure.  She  was  lavish- 
ly generous  to  her  children  and  her  friends. 
Her  hospitality  was  as  gracious  and  wide- 
spread as  the  generosity  of  her  great  heart. 
There  are  many  who  rise  up  and  call  her 
blessed,  because  she  opened  the  doors  of  her 
home  to  them  in  the  days  of  their  early 
struggle  to  get  a  start  in  life,  and  gave  to  them 
a  home  and  a  mother's  care ;  thus  opening  for 
them  the  doors  to  success.  Like  Dorcas  of  old, 
she  "was  full  of  good  works  and  almsdeeds 
which  she  did."  Her  hands  were  never  idle 
and  her  brain  was  ever  planning  some  kindness 
for  humanity.  During  the  World  War,  while 
she  was  past  her  three  score  years  and  ten,  she 
was  constantly  knitting  for  the  soldiers,  and 
giving  to  the  Red  Cross. 

Mrs.  Farrar  had  a  genius  for  friendship. 
The  following  tribute  given  at  the  memorial 
service,  by  her  former  Pastor,  Dr.  Frank  N. 
White,   gives  eloquent  testimony  : 

Most  significant  lives  can  be  summed  up  in 
one  gleaming  word,  as,  for  example,  if  you 
speak  of  Mr.  Wilson,  you  think  at  once  of 
idealism ;  if  you  mention  Mr.  Lincoln,  measure- 
less humanity  comes  to  mind ;  while  Living- 
stone, and  a  deep  and  abiding  compassion  are 
for  us  interchangeable  terms.  As  for  Mrs. 
Farrar,  we  do  not  have  to'  seek  for  a  word ; 
the  word  is  spoken  almost  before  we  have  time 
to  think  it, — friendship. 

Friendship, — was  she  not  its  living  embodi- 
ment? What  a  friend  she  was!  What  an  in- 
stinct and  rare  talent  for  friendship  was  hers ! 
How  lavish  in  the  gifts  of  herself  to  her  dear 
ones,  to  her  intimate  circle,  to  her  neighbors, 
to  the  church  of  her  deep  affection,  to  the 
causes  that  meant  the  welfare  and  uplift  of 
our  common  humanity.  Never  fidsome  or  ob- 
trusive, how  varied,  ingenious,  and  unique  were 
the  forms  in  which  her  friendship  expressed 
itself!  How  full  it  was, — that  friendship, — of 
delightful   surprises'! 

In  Mrs.  Farrar  there  was  no  hint  of  the  pre- 
tentious and  portentous  lady  bountiful, — her 
generous  impulses  were  so  naive,  so  natural,  so 
spontaneous,  and  went  so  straight  to  their 
mark.  It  has  often  been  said  that  what  lends 
life  distinction  is  not  the  doing  of  extraordi- 
nary  things,   but  the   doing  of  ordinary   things 


extraordinarily  well.  Are  we  not  all  glad  wit- 
nesses to  the  fact  that  our  friend  lived  *  the 
friendly  life  in  an  extraordinary  way,  that  it 
had  the  superlative  quality, — the  color,  the 
fragrance,  the  music, — that  imparts  the  note  of 
distinction ;  that  our  friend  furnished  for  us  a 
new  definition  of  friendship?  Could  any 
epitaph  more  fitting  be  carved  upon  the  tablet 
that  perhaps  shall  mark  her  resting  place, — 
fitting  because  so  comprehensive,  adequate,  and 
true,  than  the  simple  legend : 

FANNIE  E.   FARRAR 
FRIEND 

Do  not  think  me  guilty,  or  capable,  of  mere 
eulogy.  I  speak  out  of  the  depths  of  a  heart 
that  has  seen  and  felt  and  known. 

I  wonder  now  whether  one  thought  is  not 
coursing  through  all  our  minds  and  struggling 
for  utterance:  How  supremely  worth  tchile  is 
such  a  life!  Is  life  worth  living?  Whatever 
the  answer  to  that  old  question  from  the 
theoretical  point  of  view,  we  are  ready  for  the 
answer, — yes,  life,  that  kind  of  life, — is  not 
only  worth  living,  but  a  thousand  times  worth 
the  living.  That  kind  of  life, — the  friendly 
life, — is  the  effective  challenge  and  the  sufficient 
antidote  to  the  note  of  tragedy  and  the  strain 
of  pessimism  that  wails  through  so  much  of 
modern  literature  and  life.  One  is  tempted  to 
say, — nay,  one  dares  to  say, — that  such  a  life 
is  worth  living  in  and  of  itself,  with  no  thought 
of  an  after  life  and  a  future  reward ;  it  were 
its  own  reward,  even  though  conceivably  the 
veil  over  the  future  were  never  withdrawn. 

We  have  worn  the  word  "great"  threadbare 
by  applying  it  to  all  sorts  of  cheap  and  mere- 
tricious objects,  acts,  and  men.  Why  not  re- 
serve it  for  the  things  genuinely  great,  for 
qualities  of  soul  that  represent  high  achieve- 
ment and  merit  in  the  realm  of  character  and 
the  spirit?  For,  after  all,  the  big  things  of  the 
world  are  not  the  bulky  things,  like  mountains, 
and  cities,  and  volume  of  trade  and  superdread- 
noughts,  and  victories  in  war,  and  enormous 
crops,  and  stupendous  outputs  of  iron  and  coal, 
— but  men  and  women  whose  characters  and 
services  rise  through  endeavor  and  struggle  to 
lustrous  achievement  and  triumph ; — in  a  word, 
the  men  and  women  that  take  the  day's  work. 
— the  ordinary  duties, — and  play  them  one 
octave  higher.  In  that  supreme  sense  I  claim 
the  word  "great"  for  one  whose  one  surprise 
would  be  to  hear  her  life  so  characterized. 


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Again,  bow  worth  while  is  life  so  lived !  The 
world  that  bears  such  fruitage  is  a  good  world, 
— good  to  live  in.  The  universe  whose  life 
rises  to  such  heights  above  the  dead  level  must 
be  a  friendly  universe.  The  God  Who  spells 
Himself  out  in  such  careers  must  be  a  "God  of 
Love." 

Did  I  say  that  such  life  is  worth  the  living, 
irrespective  of  all  thought  of  the  future?  Now 
lift  the  veil  and  gaze  upon  the  splendors  of 
the  evening  sky  with  their  prophecy  of  an  end- 
less tomorrow.  For  such  as  our  dear  friend 
"there  is  no  death.  What  seems  so  is  transi- 
tion. This  life  of  mortal  breath  is  but  the 
suburb  of  the  life  Elysian,  whose  portal  we  call 
death."  This  life  of  faith,  hope,  and  love, — 
generous,  helpful,  gracious,  kind,  sacrificial  to 
the  point  where  sacrifice  ceases  to  be  sacrifice 
and  becomes  glad  service, — in  a  word,  this  life 
of  friendship  lived  in  and  through  Christ,  the 
Friend  of  friends,  does  not  inherit  eternal  life, 
does    not    earn   eternal    life,    does    not    receive 


eternal  life  as  a  reward  in  a  future  state  of 
existence;  it  IS  eternal  life  here  and  now.  It 
carries  its  own  credentials;  it  furnishes  its  own 
affidavit;  it  announces  itself,  and  we  know  it, 
for  an  eternal  thing. 

Death  is  but  promotion  to  higher  and  higher 
grades  in  the  school  of  existence,  to  loftier 
planes  of  progress,  to  more  exalted  spheres  of 
life  where  friendship  may  burgeon  in  beauty, 
to  have  free  course  and  be  glorified. 

Mrs.  Farrar  remained  actively  a  woman  of 
affairs  until  she  was  past  eighty  years.  Her 
last  years  were  spent  quietly  in  the  family 
home  where  she  had  lived  for  fifty-six  years. 
With  her  children  about  her  to  love  and  care 
for  her,  she  passed  the  last  years  of  her  life 
in  contentment  and  happiness. 

On  the  morning  of  February  8th,  1924,  she 
folded  her  hands  and  quietly  fell  asleep  and 
the  life  of  another  of  Chicago's  noble  women 
passed  into   history. 


ADOLPHUS  CLAY  BARTLETT. 


Wherever  Chicago  products  are  marketed, 
and  it  would  be  difficult  to  discover  a  civilized 
community  without  them,  the  name  of  the  great 
house  of  Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  &  Com- 
pany is  known,  and  its  goods  accepted  without 
question  as  supreme  in  excellence,  while  the 
service  is  second  to  none.  This  great  mercan- 
tile concern  has  been  built  up  and  its  reputa- 
tion sustained  by  men  as  remarkable  as  the 
business  they  founded,  and  in  its  solidity  and 
dependability  exemplifies  the  spirit  of  Chicago 
and  its  people. 

One  of  the  original  founders  of  the  house, 
who  was  spared  for  many  years  to  enjoy  the 
respect  of  those  who  knew  him,  was  the  late 
Adolphus  Clay  Bartlett.  His  birth  occurred  at 
Stratford,  New  York,  June  22,  1844.  His  par- 
ents were  Aaron  and  Delia  (Dibell)  Bartlett. 
After  attending  the  village  schools  and  Dan- 
ville, New  York  Academy,  Mr.  Bartlett  com- 
pleted his  studies  at  Clinton  Liberal  Institute. 

At  nineteen  years  Adolphus  Clay  Bartlett 
came  to  Chicago.  He  entered  the  hardware 
house  of  Tuttle,  Hibbard  &  Company,  and 
made  himself  so  useful,  that  three  years  later 
he  was  given  an  interest  in  the  profits  of  the 
business.  After  three  more  years  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  full  partnership.  He  always  took  a 
creative  joy  in  his  work,  and  always  was  an 


inspiration  to  his  associates  for  activities  of  the 
best  sort.  He  and  his  partners  made  such 
advances  in  their  undertaking  that  on  January 
1,  1882,  they  incorporated  as  Hibbard,  Spen- 
cer, Bartlett  &  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Bartlett 
was  secretary,  and  later  vice  president.  Wil- 
liam Gold  Hibbard  died  on  October  10,  1903, 
and  on  the  first  of  the  following  year  Mr. 
Bartlett    became   president   of   the   company. 

Mr.  Bartlett  had  many  other  interests,  among 
them  directorships  in  the  First  National  Bank, 
Northern  Trust  Company,  Elgin  National  Watch 
Company,  Liverpool,  London  &  Globe  Insurance 
Company,  and  the  Calumet  and  Chicago  Canal 
and  Dock  Company. 

With  a  distinct  impulse  toward  the  humani- 
ties, Mr.  Bartlett  always  took  an  effective  and 
dignified  part  in  public  affairs,  and  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Education  for 
a  number  of  years ;  and,  from  1873  until  his 
death,  was  a  director  of  the  Chicago  Relief  and 
Aid  Society.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  was  former  president  of  the 
Home  for  the  Friendless,  vice  president  of  the 
Old  Peoples  Home,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Chicago 
Art  Institute. 

Mr.  Bartlett  maintained  membership  with 
the  Chicago,  Commercial,  Union  League,  City, 
University,      Onwentsia,      Homewood,      Midlo- 


dbUhrnh. 


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thian,  Lake  Geneva,  Quadrangle,  Chicago  Liter- 
ary, Caxton,  and  Twentieth  Century  clubs, 
some  of  which  he  assisted  in  organizing.  In 
all  of  them  he  was  a  forceful  factor,  especially 
during  their  earlier  history. 

Mr.  Bartlett  was  married  (first)  to  Mary 
Pitkin,  at  Delavan,  Wisconsin,  and  they  had 
the  following  children  :  Maie  Pitkin  ;  Frederic 
Clay ;  Frank  Dickinson,  who  died  in  1900 ;  Flor- 
ence Dibell ;  and  Carrie  and  Clay,  both  of  whom 
died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Bartlett  died  in  1890. 
In  June,  1893,  Mr.  Bartlett  was  married  (sec- 
ond) to  Abby  L.  Hitchcock,  and  they  have  one 
living  child,  Eleanor  Collamore  (Mrs.  Win.  W. 
Perdue). 

Mr.   Bartlett  always  gave  bountifully  of  his 


influence  and  efforts  to  civic  movements,  and 
in  everything  he  undertook  achieved  exceptional 
results.  It  was  accorded  him  to  take  an  im- 
portant part  in  the  commercial  history  of  his 
city  and  period,  and  he  responded  to  the  de- 
mands made  upon  him  in  a  worthy  measure, 
all  of  his  movements  being  characterized  by  the 
sincerity  which  brought  men  to  him  in  close 
friendship,  and  widened  the  scope  of  his  in- 
fluence. Naturally  when  such  a  man  is  taken 
from  his  community  by  death,  the  loss  is 
deeply  felt,  and  when  Mr.  Bartlett  died,  May 
30,  1922,  not  only  Chicago  and  Illinois,  but 
many  people  the  country  over,  mourned  his 
passing. 


EDWARD  LAFAYETTE  WICKWIRE. 


There  are  no  more  keen  and  far-seeing  busi- 
ness men  in  the  country  than  those  in  the  great 
clothing  industry.  Competition  is  very  severe. 
It  has  been  the  fortune  of  certain  men  to  have 
so  impressed  their  personalities  and  their 
activities  upon  this  field  of  work  that  their  in- 
dividual success  has  been  assured.  Their  in- 
fluence has,  invariably,  been  on  the  side  of  honest 
manufacturing,  honest  advertising  and  honest 
selling.  Their  work  has  tended  toward  large- 
scale  business  transacted  on  a  small  margin  of 
profit  on  each  article  sold.  From  this  phase  of 
development  in  the  clothing  business  has  come 
benefits  to  practically  every  one  of  us.  The 
public  today  buys  clothes  which  are  distinctly 
superior  to  clothes  that  could  be  obtained,  for 
the  same  expenditure,  even  two  decades  ago. 
Among  the  clothing  men,  whose  influence  has 
been  felt  for  some  years  past  in  Chicago,  is 
Edward  Lafayette  Wickwire  of  the  firm  of 
Hirsch,  Wickwire  and  Company.  The  death  of 
Mr.  Wickwire  occurred  April  21,  1920,  and  we 
include  here  the  following  brief  record  of  his 
life. 

Edward  Lafayette  Wickwire  was  born  in  the 
small  town  of  Winslow,  Illinois,  on  Jan.  10, 
1857.  He  was  a  son  of  Ezra  D.  and  Martha 
(Hicks)  Wickwire.  The  father,  in  earlier 
years  was  a  miller,  but  was  later  connected  with 


the  clothing  business.  When  Edward  L. 
Wickwire  was  but  three  months  old,  his  par- 
ents removed  to  Oshkosh,  Wisconsin,  and  it 
was  there  that  his  boyhood  was  spent.  He  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  that  place.  When 
eighteen  years  old,  Mr.  Wickwire  came  to  Chi- 
cago and  entered  employ  of  the  clothing  firm 
of  Hirsch,  Mayer  &  Company.  This  business  was 
later  changed  to  Hirsch,  Elson  and  Company, 
and  Mr.  Wickwire  continued  under  that  organ- 
ization. In  1905  the  firm  of  Hirsch,  Wickwire  & 
Company  was  started ;  and  their  subsequent 
success  has,  in  large  measure,  been  due  to  the 
thorough,  practical,  conscientious  direction  of 
the  firm's  business  by  Mr.  Wickwire.  He  was 
president  of  the  concern  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
His  business  genius  will  be  missed  from  the 
clothing  trade  in  Chicago. 

Edward  Lafayette  Wickwire  was  married 
on  February  2,  1899,  to  Miss  Jessie  L.  Paine, 
of  Oshkosh,  Wisconsin.  The  Wickwires  have 
one  daughter,  Martha  Coralyn.  Mr.  Wickwire 
was  a  delightful  man  to  know  and  he  had 
many,  many  friends.  He  was  modest  about  his 
charities,  although  wise  help  from  him  had 
been  extended  most  frequently.  He  was  a 
valued  member  of  the  Union  League  Club  and 
of  the  Park  Ridge  and  the  Bob-o-Link  Golf 
clubs  of  Chicago. 


JAMES  HERBERT  STOWELL. 


Among  the  men  prominently  identified  with 
the  medical  profession  in  Illinois,  as  well  as 
with  the  business  and  social  life  of  the  coun- 


try, few  have  gained  a  higher  reputation  for 
ability  and  keenness  of  discernment  than  has 
the  late  Dr.  James  H.  Stowell,  of  Chicago.     Al- 


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though  not  a  native  of  this  city  he  lived  here 
for  thirty-nine  years,  and  he  fully  exemplified 
the  alert,  enterprising  character  for  which 
Chicago's  people  have  always  been  noted.  His 
professional  career  was  characterized  by  the 
highest  ideals  and  devotion  to  duty ;  and,  as 
a  man  of  marked  intellectual  ability,  his  la- 
bors have  given  impetus  to  the  work  of  science 
in  this  city. 

Dr.  Stowell  was  born  at  Delavan,  Walworth 
County,  Wisconsin,  April  29,  1854,  a  son  of 
Elijah  and  Lucinda  (Bristol)  Stowell.  His 
educational  advantages  were  those  afforded  by 
the  grammar  and  the  high  school  of  Delavan, 
the  Beloit  College  Academy  and  Beloit  Col- 
lege. Having  determined  upon  the  practice  of 
medicine  as  a  life  work,  he  later  matriculated 
at  The  Chicago  Medical  College  (Northwestern 
University  Medical  School)  and  was  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  1881  with  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  Soon  after  completing  his  professional 
course,  Dr.  Stowell  established  himself  in  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  Chicago  and  afterward 
became  one  of  the  active  practitioners  of  the 
city.  He  not  only  gained  the  confidence  of  the 
community  in  which  he  lived  but  merited  and 
received  the  respect  of  a  very  widespread  cir- 
cle of  acquaintances.  In  addition  to  his  pri- 
vate practice  he  was  medical  examiner  for 
the  National  Life  Insurance  Company  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  the  Fidelity,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  and  the  United  States  Life  In- 
surance Company  of  New  York.  He  was  medi- 
cal advisor  and  director  of  the  United   States 


On  November  17,  1885,  Judge  Vincent  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mary  Lee  Ridgely,  at 
Springfield,  Illinois.  Mrs.  Vincent  is  a  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  and  Jane  M.  (Barrett)  Ridgely, 
extended  mention  of  whom  appears  elsewhere. 
Judge  and  Mrs.  Vincent  became  the  parents 
of  the  following  children :  Charles  Ridgely 
Vincent,  Catherine  A.  Vincent,  Jane  Vincent, 
and  John  A.  Vincent,  who  is  a  graduate  of 
Annapolis,  and  is  a  lieutenant,  senior  grade, 
in  the  United  States  Navy.  He  served  two 
years,  overseas,  on  the  Destroyer  "Fanning." 
The  family  have  made  their  home  for  years 
at  Lake  Forest,  Illinois.  Judge  Vincent's 
greatest  happiness  was  always  found  in  his 
family  circle.  His  wonderful  library  and  the 
gardens  surrounding  his  home  were  a  great 
source  of  pleasure  to  him,  and  gave  him  rich 
enthusiasm    and    contentment. 

Judge  Vincent  belonged  to  the  Chicago,  Uni- 
versity, Chicago  Golf,  Onwentsia  Country,  Sad- 
dle and  Cycle,  Twentieth  Century  and  Mid- 
Day  clubs.  He  was  first  president  of  the  old 
Waubansia  Club.  An  eloquent  speaker,  Judge 
Vincent  was  often  called  upon  to  deliver  public 
addresses,  one  notable  occasion  being  his  in- 
augural speech  when  Governor  Altgeld  became 
chief  executive  of  Illinois.  The  rich  and  fruit- 
ful life  of  this  good  man  ended  on  March  21, 
1919 ;  and,  in  his  passing,  Chicago  lost  a  citi- 
zen not  readily  spared,  for  he  was  the  wielder 
of  a  strongly  beneficial  influence  and  the  pos- 
sessor of  a  character  that  commanded  sincere 
respect  and  admiration. 


DAVID  SPENCER  WEGG. 


David  Silencer  Wegg  was  a  native  of  the 
Province  of  Ontario,  having  been  born  on  Decem- 
ber 16,  1847,  at  the  village  of  St.  Thomas.  His 
parents,  John  and  Jerusha  (Duncombe)  Wegg, 
were  of  English  lineage.  His  mother's  family, 
the  Duncombes,  traces  its  descent  from  Sir 
Charles  Duncombe  (Lord  Feversham),  who 
came  to  America  in  1730.  They  were  among 
the  early  and  leading  settlers  in  Canada;  pro- 
fessional men,  prominent  both  in  a  scholarly 
and  political  way;  representative  of  the  ad- 
vanced views  of  the  liberal  party;  active  in  the 
establishment  of  the  educational  system,  and 
prominent  in  reforming  banking  and  currency. 
The  ancestors  of  his  father,  who  was  born  in 
Norwich.  England,  were  mainly  engaged  in  me- 
chanical  pursuits,    architects   and   artisans,   but 


among  them  was  an  admiral  in  the  English  navy 
and  a  representative  of  the  Crown  on  the  Island 
of  Trinidad.  They  were  great  sportsmen  in 
gentlemen's  games. 

David  S.  Wegg.  when  he  had  grown  to  suffi- 
cient strength  and  maturity  to  make  his  labor 
serviceable,  worked  in  his  father's  carriage  shop 
and  acquired  proficiency  at  the  trade.  By  dili- 
gent reading  before  and  after  the  hours  of  the 
day  devoted  to  manual  labor,  he  qualified  himself 
for  teaching.  While  fulfilling  his  duties  as 
teacher  in  the  schools  of  St.  Thomas,  he  began 
the  study  of  the  law,  and  devoted  to  it  every 
spare  hour  and  holiday.  Having  thus,  in  the 
intervals  of  labor,  become  familiar  with  the  ele- 
mentary principles  of  the  law,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-five  years  he  came  to  Madison,  Wisconsin, 


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where  his  uncle,  Chief  Justice  Lyon,  resided. 
Availing  himself  of  the  kind  offer  of  this  rela- 
tive to  live  in  his  family,  he  entered  the  law 
department  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  and 
graduated  in  the  summer  of  1S73.  He  was  im- 
mediately employed  by  the  law  firm  of  Fish  & 
Lee.  of  Racine,  and  soon  became  a  partner.  In 
1875,  he  accepted  an  offer  of  partnership  from 
ex-Chief  Justice  Dixon,  of  Milwaukee.  The  firm 
of  Dixon,  Hooker,  Wegg  &  Noyes  will  be  re- 
membered as  one  of  the  most  brilliant  and  emi- 
nent law  firms  of  the  Northwest.  During  the 
time  that  Mr.  Wegg  remained  in  this  connection, 
his  labors  were  most  engrossing,  and  the  experi- 
ence gained  most  valuable.  When  this  partner- 
ship was  dissolved  on  account  of  the  ill  health 
of  Judge  Dixon,  Mr.  Wegg  entered  the  firm  of 
Jenkins,  Elliott  '&  Winkler,  which  was  largely 
employed  in  railroad  interests  and  made  the  law 
of  corporations  a  specialty.  From  this  associa- 
tion Mr.  Wegg  was  called  to  the  position  of 
assistant  general  solicitor  of  the  Chicago,  Mil- 
waukee &  St.  Paul  Railway  Company.  The 
duties  of  this  position  required  his  almost  daily 
attendance  in  the  courts  of  the  various  states 
traversed  by  the  road.  He  tried  cases  almost 
without  number,  prepared  briefs,  argued  appeals 
and  gained  signal  success  and  reputation  as  a 
learned,  sagacious  and  skillful  lawyer.  In  1885, 
Mr.  Wegg  took  charge  of  the  law  department  of 
the  Wisconsin  Central  Railroad  Company  and 
moved  to  Chicago,  where  he  continued  to  reside. 
Here,  without  relinquishing  the  legal  duties 
which  the  department  required,  there  was  added 
a  large  financial  and  managerial  responsibility. 
The  company  undertook  the  task  of  obtaining  an 
entrance  into  Chicago,  where  every  available 
avenue  of  approach  seemed  to  be  occupied  by 
powerful  corporations  that  did  not  look  kindly 
upon  \he  advent  of  a  competitor.  In  the  prose- 
cution of  this  enterprise  it  became  necessary 
to  organize  a  new  corporation — the  Chicago  & 


Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Company.  Mr.  Wegg 
was  made  its  president,  and  upon  him  rested, 
without  the  title  of  manager,  the  vast  responsi- 
bility of  its  financial  and  constructive,  as  well 
as  legal,  management.  He  purchased  the  right 
of  way.  conducted  condemnation  proceedings, 
negotiated  bonds,  built  a  magnificent  depot  and 
attended  to  the  thousand  details  of  the  under- 
taking. More  recently,  when  the  Northern 
Pacific  Railroad  Company  acquired  possession  of 
the  Wisconsin  Central,  Mr.  Wegg  was  elected  a 
director  of  that  corporation. 

He  has  been  trustee  of  large  estates  and  has 
held  many  responsible  positions  of  trust  and  con- 
fidence with  corporations  other  than  those  men- 
tioned. 

Outside  of  professional  studies  he  was  well 
informed,  and  in  some  lines  of  literature  and 
science  an  adept.  He  was  a  free  and  interesting 
conversationalist,  an  agreeable  comrade,  and 
most  fascinating  companion.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Literary  Club,  Twentieth  Century  Club, 
Chicago  Historical  Society,  and  Union  League 
Club  of  this  city:  the  Milwaukee  Club,  of  Mil- 
waukee, and  the  Manhattan  and  Union  League 
Clubs  of  New  York ;  but  the  demands  of  busi- 
ness, that  inexorable  taskmaster  of  gifted  men 
left  little  leisure  for  the  indulgence  of  social  in- 
tercourse. He  loved  better  to  devote  what  time 
could  be  snatched  from  engrossing  duties  to  his 
domestic  circle. 

As  soon  as  Mr.  Wegg  had  assured  his  profes- 
sional success,  some  five  years  after  entering 
upon  practice,  he  married.  His  wife  was  Miss 
Eva  Russell,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  Andrew  Russell, 
of  Oconomowoc,  Wisconsin.  The  marriage  took 
place  in  1878.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wegg  have  two 
sons,  Donald  Russell  Wegg  and  David  Spencer 
Wegg,  Jr. 

Mr.  Wegg  was  called  from  this  life  November 
18,  1919. 


FRANKLIN  FAIRMAN. 


When  a  blameless  life  comes  to  an  end,  it  is 
but  natural  that  those  associated  with  its  ac- 
tion should  feel  sorrow  at  the  termination  of  a 
career  so  useful  and  uplifting.  Yet  sometimes 
the  full  force  of  a  man's  influence  cannot  come 
into  play  until  he  is  removed  from  the  scenes 
of  his  operations.  Until  he  is  dead,  his  virtues 
are  not  appreciated,  or  his  influence  fully  felt. 
The  deeds  he  has  executed  then  appear,  and  the 


stand  he  has  taken  on  moral  questions,  results 
in  benefit  to  others.  Happy  indeed  must  a  fam- 
ily be  to  possess  a  record  of  one  of  their  loved 
ones  like  that  left  by  the  late  Franklin  Fairman 
against  whom  none  can  rightly  breathe  a  word 
of  censure.  For  years  he  was  one  of  the  force- 
ful figures  in  railroad  circles  centering  at  Chi- 
cago, and  a  most  effective  worker  in  the  Na- 
tional Union.     He  was  born  at  Newtown,  Conn., 


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June  22,  1833,  a  son  of  Charles  and  Eliza  J. 
(Morehouse)  Fairman,  natives  of  Newtown, 
Conn.  The  Fairman  family  was  prominent  at 
Newtown,  and  descended  from  pioneers  of  the 
place.  Thomas  Morehouse,  the  maternal  an- 
cestor, located  at  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  as  early 
as  1640.  Later,  he  removed  to  Stamford,  and 
was  one  of  the  original  twenty-nine  settlers  of 
that  town  who  purchased  the  site  from  the 
New  Haven  Colony,  who  had  previously  se- 
cured it  from  the  Indians  for  100  bushels  of 
corn. 

Franklin  Fairman  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Newtown,  and  an  academy  of  the  same  place. 
For  a  short  time  thereafter  he  taught  school, 
but  when  only  sixteen  years  old,  went  into  the 
employ  of  his  uncle,  a  merchant  of  New  Haven, 
Connecticut,  two  years  later  going  to  New  York 
City,  where  he  was  employed  in  the  printing  of- 
fice of  the  Independent,  but  in  1855  sought  larger 
opportunities  at  Chicago.  He  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  as  clerk, 
coming  to  it  two  years  after  its  establishment. 
In  1857  he  was  placed  in  its  general  offices,  and 
after  a  year  of  service,  was  made  assistant 
general  freight  agent,  having  entire  charge  of 
the  accounts.  From  January,  1874,  until  No- 
vember, 1900,  he  was  chief  freight  clerk  and 
auditor  of  the  freight  account  receipts.  From 
the  latter  date  until  June,  1903,  he  was  auditor, 
having  been  continuously  in  charge  of  the 
freight  accounts  from  January,  1858,  until  No- 
vember, 1900.  His  religious  faith  induced 
him,  in  his  youth,  to  connect  himself  with  the 
Congregational  Church,  but  on  coming  to  Chi- 
cago he  became  identified  with  Christ  Reformed 
Episcopal  Church  and  later  with  St.  Paul's  Epis- 
copal Church,  Kenwood.  The  Kenwood  Club 
furnished    him    social    diversion,    and    he    was 


among  its  earliest  members.  He  was  interested 
in  the  Art  Institute  and  very  fond  of  music.  Al- 
though his  success  came  from  his  own  efforts, 
he  assisted  many  young  men  to  gain  a  foothold, 
and  was  interested  in  their  after-career.  In 
politics  he  was  a  staunch  Republican. 

On  November  30,  1871,  Mr.  Fairman  married 
Mary  J.  Sherman  of  Newtown,  Conn.,  daughter 
of  Jotham  and  Mary  Ann  (Bostwick)  Sher- 
man. They  became  the  parents  of  three  chil- 
dren, namely :  Matilda  Louise,  Frank  Sherman 
(died  1899),  and  Marian. 

On  account  of  his  prominent  connection  with 
the  National  Union,  it  might  be  interesting  to 
note  the  following  record  of  his  connection  with 
this  order.  He  was  admitted  February  28,  1884, 
to  Lincoln  Council,  No.  68,  became  its  first  presi- 
dent, and  later  served  as  speaker  for  twenty- 
five  years ;  was  elected  senator  from  Illinois  in 
1887  ;  vice-president,  June  24,  1887  ;  trustee,  June 
21,  1888;  re-elected  trustee,  June  21,  1889,  and 
June  20,  1890;  vice-president,  June  24,  1892; 
Member  of  Committee  on  Appeals  and  Griev- 
ances, July  21,  1898 ;  president  and  trustee,  July 
20,  1894;  president  and  trustee,  July  19,  1895; 
sitting  ex-president,  1896  and  1897 ;  life  mem- 
ber of  the  senate  and  ex-president,  1897 ;  trustee, 
July  23,  1904,  and  re-elected  trustee  at  each  suc- 
ceeding session  of  the  senate  from  1906  until  his 
death,  December  26,  1914. 

In  1888,  under  the  auspices  of  Lincoln  Council, 
he  conceived  the  idea  of  and  inaugurated  the 
public  annual  commemoration  of  Lincoln's  birth- 
day, and,  although  some  difficulties  had  to  be 
overcome  in  the  beginning,  the  movement  de- 
veloped into  a  notable  success,  so  that  now 
the  day  is  quite  generally  observed  throughout 
the  country  and  in  Illinois  has  become  a  legal 
holiday. 


ALBERT  GEORGE  FARR. 


Albert  George  Farr,  formerly  vice  president  of 
the  Harris  Trust  &  Savings  Bank  of  Chicago, 
was  born  at  Brandon,  Vermont,  December  3, 
1851,  and  was  a  son  of  Flavius  Josephus  and 
Chastina  Eliza  Buck  (Parkhurst)  Farr.  His 
parents  were  both  natives  of  Vermont,  and  his 
father,  a  violinist,  engaged  in  farming  in  Rut- 
land County  that  state,  for  some  years,  later 
moving  to  Columbus,  Ohio.  The  family  are 
strictly  of  English  stock,  the  first  representative 
in  America,  came  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Col- 
ony in  1629. 


Albert  G.  Farr  was  a  student  in  the  semi- 
nary at  Brandon  during  1861-67,  and  in  1870 
was  graduated  first  in  his  class,  from  the  Co- 
lumbus (Ohio)  High  School.  He  had  hoped  to 
attend  a  technical  school,  but  owing  to  his 
father's  illness  his  plans  were  necessarily 
changed  and  he  joined  the  teaching  staff  of 
the  Columbus  High  school,  thus  continuing  for 
nine  years  at  which  time  he  became  principal  of 
this  institution,  serving  two  years.  In  1881  Mr. 
Farr  came  to  Chicago  and  became  a  clerk  in  the 
law  firm  of  Willard  '&  Driggs,  the  junior  member 


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being  a  friend  of  the  Farr  family.  At  that 
time  N.  W.  Harris,  who  subsequently  became 
the  head  of  the  Harris  Trust  &  Savings  Bank 
of  Chicago,  had  desk  room  with  the  law  firm, 
and,  having  congenial  tastes,  a  warm  friendship 
grew  between  Mr.  Farr  and  Mr.  Harris.  In 
1882  Mr.  Farr  was  admitted  to  the  bar  as  a 
general  attorney,  and  continued  to  practice 
as  such  for  some  years,  but  gradually  aban- 
doned practice  owing  to  his  increasing  duties 
pertaining  to  the  Harris  interests  with  which 
he  became  identified  in  1891,  when  he  became 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  N.  W.  Harris  &  Co., 
bankers  of  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston. 
On  its  incorporation  in  1907  he  was  made  a 
director  of  the  Harris  Trust  &  Savings  Bank 
of  Chicago,  and  chairman  of  the  board  in 
1910.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  December 
22,  1913,  he  was  vice  president  of  this  in- 
stitution. Additionally  he  was  a  director  and 
a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Michigan  State  Telephone  Company ;  a  director 
of  the  Terre  Haute  (Indiana)  Water  Works 
Co.,  and  a  trustee  of  Ripon  College,  Ripon, 
Wisconsin,  of  which  institution  he  was  also 
treasurer  from  1908-10.  Mr.  Farr  was  an  ardent 
advocate  of  collegiate  training  and  one  of  his 
pet  charities  was  aiding  young  people  to  secure 
the  advantage  of  a  college  education.  The  Alice 
Parkhurst  Farr  Alcove,  in  the  Public  Library  of 
Ripon,   was  given  and  constantly  added  to  by 


Mr.  Farr,  and  he  was  also  much  interested  in 
starting  a  department  for  the  circulation  of 
good  sheet  music.  He  was  a  trustee  and  sup- 
porter of  the  Brandon  Free  Public  Library  as 
well.  Stephen  A.  Douglas  was  also  a  native  of 
Brandon,  and  it  seemed  very  fitting  that  some 
memorial  to  his  memory  should  be  erected  there. 
In  1913  a  marble  monument  with  two  bronze 
tablets  was  given  by  Mr.  Farr  and  set  up  by  the 
town  authorities  in  front  of  the  house  in  which 
Douglas  was  born  a  hundred  years  before. 

Mr.  Farr  married  (first)  Miss  Alice  Park- 
hurst of  Berlin,  Wisconsin,  on  July  23,  1873. 
She  died  in  1888,  leaving  one  daughter,  Shirley 
Farr.  On  April  30,  1890,  Mr.  Farr  was  mar- 
ried (second)  to  Miss  Lottie  Snow  of  Chicago, 
who  died  in  1911.  Mr.  Farr  was  liberal  on 
church  matters.  He  attended  the  services  of 
Christ  Reformed  Episcopal  Church  and  served 
on  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Bishop  Cheney 
Memorial  Fund.  In  politics  he  was  an  Inde- 
pendent Republican.  For  some  years  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Union  League,  the  Quadrangle, 
the  Chicago  Literary  and  the  South  Shore 
Country  clubs,  all  of  Chicago,  and  the  Green 
Mountain  Club  of  his  native  state,  in  which 
last  he  took  particular  interest.  The  summer 
residence  of  the  family  was  at  Brandon,  Ver- 
mont, for  Mr.  Farr  never  lost  his  affection 
for  his  native  town  and  its  people. 


WILLIAM  ALDEN  FULLER. 


The  late  William  A.  Fuller  of  Chicago  was 
born  in  South  Lancaster,  Massachusetts,  August 
31,  1836,  a  son  of  Ephraim  and  Judith  (Goss) 
Fuller.  He  went  to  the  public  school  located 
near  his  home,  and  when  only  sixteen  years  old 
began  business  life  as  station  agent  of  what  is 
now  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad,  at  South 
Lancaster,  Massachusetts.  In  1854,  after  two 
years  of  work  in  the  above-mentioned  connec- 
tion, he  came  to  Chicago  and  secured  a  posi- 
tion as  bookkeeper  with  the  firm  of  Goss  '& 
Phillips,  sash  and  door  manufacturers,  lo- 
cated at  the  corner  of  Clark  and  Twelfth 
streets.  At  the  time  he  began  to  work  in  the 
business  of  manufacturing  lumber,  Chicago  was 
rated  as  the  first  city  in  the  United  States  in 
this  specialty.  At  this  early  period,  also,  the 
term  "bookkeeper"  covered  a  multitude  of  du- 
ties, including  not  only  the  care  of  the  books 
and   accounts,   but   the   general   office  work   as 


well,  even  to  the  sweeping,  and  the  assisting  in 
the  tally  and  handling  of  the  raw  material  and 
the  finished  product.  In  1886,  with  Azariah  R. 
Palmer,  Mr.  Fuller  was  admitted  to  a  partner- 
ship in  the  firm,  which  then  became  Goss, 
Phillips  &  Company.  After  a  little  more  than 
a  year,  Mr.  Goss  and  Mr.  Phillips  sold  their 
shares  of  the  business  to  the  junior  partners, 
and  the  house  of  Palmer,  Fuller  &  Company 
was  established.  Of  this  successful  concern 
Mr.  Fuller  remained  president  until  his  retire- 
ment from  business,  in  1899.  Up  to  that  time 
the  changes  in  the  company  included  the  re- 
ception of  George  B.  Marsh  as  a  new  member 
in  1869 ;  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Palmer,  in  1872 
and  the  withdrawal  of  Mr.  Marsh,  in  1885.  For 
several  years  prior  to  his  own  retirement,  Mr. 
Fuller  had  also  been  treasurer  of  the  Sash, 
Door  and  Blind  Association  of  the  Northwest, 
of  which    he   had   long   been   a    guiding  force. 


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He  had  repeatedly  been  elected  a  director  in 
the  Lumberman's  Exchange,  and  for  more  than 
thirty  years,  he  was  one  of  the  most  influential 
men  in  the  northwestern  field  of  the  lumber 
manufacturing  industry.  Mr.  Fuller  was  a  di- 
rector of  the  Northern  Trust  Company,  and  he 
remained  connected  with  its  management  for 
many  years  after  his  retirement  from  his  own 
company. 

Mr.  Fuller  was  one  of  the  early  members  of 
the  Chicago  Club,  the  Union  League  Club  and 
he  was  charter  member  and  served  as  president 
of  the  Commercial  Club.  He  was  held  in  the 
highest  esteem  by  everyone  who  had  the  pleas- 
ure of  knowing  him  well. 

A  man  of  many  interests,  Mr.  Fuller  found 
time  and  opportunity,  in  the  midst  of  his  vari- 
ous activities,  to  act  as  a  trustee  of  the  North- 
western University.  He  was,  for  a  long  time, 
secretary  of  the  Manual  Training  School  which 
has  subsequently  become  a  part  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  and  gave  its  advancement  a 
great  share  of  his  personal  interest.  Deeply 
attached  to  Chicago,  he  was  proud  of  its  his- 
tory,   and    did    much    to    secure    its    recording 


through  the  medium  of  the  Chicago  Historical 
Society,  which  organization  is  deeply  indebted 
to  him. 

Mr.  Fuller  was  a  thorough,  devout  Christian, 
and  long  attended  services  under  the  ministra- 
tion of  the  late  Bishop  Charles  Edward  Cheney 
of  the  Reformed  Episcopal  Church.  His  chari- 
ties were  large  and  thoughtfully  administered. 
Among  other  things  he  was  a  firm  believer  in 
the  work  of  the  Chicago  Orphan  Asylum,  and 
gave  to  it  one  of  its  cottages.  He  also  extended 
most  substantial  help  to  St.  Luke's  Hospital 
and    the   Wesleyan    Hospital. 

Mr.  Fuller  had  three  children,  a  son,  Wil- 
liam A.,  Jr.,  who  died  in  infancy,  Leroy  W. 
Fuller  and  a  daughter  Ginevra,  who  is  Mrs. 
Charles  Garfield  King,  of  Chicago.  His  wife 
passed  away  many  years  ago. 

The  death  of  William  A.  Fuller  occurred  No- 
vember 16,  1920.  He  earned  and  enjoyed  a 
large  measure  of  respect  and  affection,  for  the 
people  who  knew  him  truly  appreciated  the 
culture,  the  kindness  and  the  finely  modeled 
character  that  made  Mr.  Fuller  a  notable  figure 
among   older   Chicagoans. 


HERBERT  EDWARD  RYCROFT. 


Herbert  Edward  Rycroft,  late  president  of 
Bartlett,  Frazier  Company,  grain  and  commis- 
sion merchants,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  Eng- 
land, on  April  4,  1865.  His  father  was  the 
Reverend  Canon  Dyson  Rycroft  of  Liverpool. 
His  mother  was  Anna  Maria    (Innes)   Rycroft. 

He  received  his  school  training  in  Liverpool 
College,  and,  after  his  graduation,  he  came  to 
the  United  States.  He  represented  Proctor  & 
Company  of  Liverpool,  in  their  New  York  office, 
in  the  grain  business  for  a  time,  and  then  be- 
came associated  with  the  firm  of  Wm.  Dunn  & 
Company,  for  which  concern  he  came  to  Chi- 
cago, in  1891.  After  a  year  he  joined  the 
Bartlett,  Frazier  Company  here.  He  was  soon 
made  a  member  of  the  firm.  On  July  1,  1910, 
Mr.  Rycroft  was  elected  president  of  the  Bart- 
lett, Frazier  Company,  and  continued  in  this 
office  until  his  death.  He  was  one  of  the  best- 
known  and  most  sincerely  respected  grain  men 
Jn  the  country. 

Mr.  Rycroft  was  married,  on  March  17,  1890. 
to    Miss   Theresa    L.    Costello.      Their   children 


are:  Frances  (Mrs.  Broadus  Clarke  of  Chi- 
cago), Ethel  (Mrs.  Harold  Gordon  of  Chicago), 
Ann  (Mrs.  Elliott  Detchon  of  Chicago),  Herbert 
Dyson  Rycroft,  Theresa  (Mrs.  George  Phillips 
Jr.  of  Chicago),  and  Ernest  Costello  Rycroft. 

Mr.  Rycroft  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Club,  Chicago  Athletic  Association,  Colonial 
Club,  South  Shore  Country  Club,  Glen  View 
Country  Club,  and  the  Chicago  Automobile 
Club. 

Herbert  E.  Rycroft,  after  a  life  filled  with 
sound  accomplishment  and  enriched  with  many 
of  the  things  which  contribute  to  a  well- 
rounded  character  and  to  personal  satisfaction, 
died  on  November  21,  1915. 

During  the  period  of  the  World  War,  Mr. 
Rycroft  spent  much  of  his  time  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  in  consultation  relative  to  the  govern- 
ment's problems  in  grain  exportation.  His 
ability  and  the  accuracy  of  his  judgment  stand 
unsurpassed  in  the  annals  of  the  grain  trade 
in  the  Mississippi  Valley. 


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EVERETT  WILSON. 


Everett  Wilson,  son  of  William  Henry  and 
Alary  Catherine  (Newell)  Wilson,  was  born  at 
Vernon,  New  York,  on  August  14,  1854,  and 
was  educated  at  the  Clinton  (New  York)  Lib- 
eral Institute  and  the  Canandaigua  (New  York) 
Academy.  His  first  business  experience  was 
with  his  father  who  owned  the  Oneida  Steam 
Engine  and  Foundry  Company. 

In  1878,  Mr.  Wilson  came  to  Chicago  and  be- 
came associated  with  Armour  and  Company  as 
billing  clerk.  From  the  beginning  he  made  the 
interests  of  Armour  and  Company  his  interests, 
and  his  energy,  ability  and  personality  were 
such  that  he  was  gradually  given  more  and 
more  responsibility. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  the  man  who  conceived  and 
developed  the  present  branch-house  system  for 
national  distribution  of  packing-house  products 
which  enabled  Armour  and  Company  to  ex- 
pand its  operations  and  placed  meat  and  allied 
food  products  within  reach  of  the  consumer 
wherever  located,  thus  benefiting  very  mate- 
rially everyone  in  the  United  States.  Mr.  Wil- 
son was  general  branch  house  superintendent, 
and  a  vice  president  and  director  of  Armour 
and  Company. 

In  1887,  Mr.  Wilson  married  Miss  Martha 
Hyde  Lord  of  Springfield,  Illinois.     Mrs.  Wil- 


son died  in  July,  1887,  and  from  that  time  on 
Mr.  Wilson  and  his  sister,  Miss  Eva  Wilson, 
made  their  home  in  Winnetka,  Illinois.  It  is 
common  knowledge  throughout  the  Armour  or- 
ganization that  Mr.  Wilson  had  but  two  inter- 
ests in  life,  Armour  and  Company  and  his  sis- 
ter, Miss  Eva  Wilson. 

Mr.  Wilson  (who  was  always  a  lover  of  out- 
doors) was  interested  in  reforestation.  He 
and  his  sister  acquired  a  large  tract  of  logged- 
over  land  in  Wisconsin  and  there  planted 
198,000  pine  trees.  These  trees  are  growing 
splendidly.  their  progress  being  eagerly 
watched  by  nature  lovers  and  people  who  have 
made  a  study  of  forest  conservation. 

Mr.  Wilson  died  on  May  30,  1921,  leaving  a 
sense  of  irreparable  loss  to  numerous  friends. 
In  both  business  and  social  life  Mr.  Wilson  met 
many  men  of  national  affairs,  and  the  way  he 
was  universally  regarded  is  best  shown  by  the 
words  of  a  business  associate  of  many  years : 
''Everett  Wilson  was  more  than  a  coworker ;  he 
was  a  friend ;  his  help  and  advice  were  in- 
valuable; he  was  righteous;  he  was  diligent; 
he  was  beloved.  The  nation,  the  packing  in- 
dustry, and  Armour  and  Company  have  lost  a 
great  man." 


THOMAS  RICE  LYON. 


The  marvels  which  were  done  and  the  for- 
tunes that  were  made  in  the  timber  industry  in 
Michigan,  the  conversion  of  that  state  from  a 
corkpine  wilderness  to  the  prolific  production 
of  Fords  and  fruits,  cover  a  comparatively  short 
period  of   time ;   but  they  are   now   traditions. 

Although  but  a  young  man  Thomas  R.  Lyon 
was  one  of  the  most  active  and  successful  of 
those  "old  time"  lumbermen  to  whom  credit 
is  due  for  the  wonderful  development  of  that 
state. 

Mr.  Lyon  was  born  at  Conneaut,  Ohio,  May 
31.  1854,  a  son  of  Robert  and  Clarissa  (Kellogg) 
Lyon.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  Con- 
neaut and  subsequently  studied  at  Ypsilanti, 
Michigan. 

Capt.  Eber  B.  Ward,  who  was  Mr.  Carnegie's 
predecessor  as  the  greatest  ironmaster  of  the 
West,  and  was  also  the  biggest  of  the  lake  ship 
owners,  at  that  time  owned  large  areas  of 
standing    timber,    and    operated    a    saw-mill    at 


Ludington,  Michigan  ;  and  Mr.  Lyon  went  into 
Captain  Ward's  employ  at  this  plant  when  he 
was  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  within  a  year 
or  two  he  was  entrusted  with  the  management 
of  the  entire  operations.  Upon  Captain  Ward's 
death,  in  1875,  the  management  of  all  of  his 
affairs  devolved  upon  Mr.  Lyon  who  was  then 
but  twenty-one  years  old.  Although  the  estate 
of  Captain  Ward  was  greatly  indebted,  the 
large  fortune  which  was  saved  through  Mr. 
Lyon's  management,  is  a  matter  of  common 
knowledge. 

Mr.  Lyon  continued  to  conduct  the  Ludington 
Lumber  operations  until  he  sold  to  Mr.  J.  S. 
Stearns  in  1892. 

In  order  to  make  a  better  market  for  his 
product,  Mr.  Lyon  established  a  large  lumber 
yard  at  Chicago  in  1884.  This  yard  was  man- 
aged by  Mr.  John  W.  Gary  until  1892,  when 
Mr.  Lyon  moved  to  Chicago  and  he  and  Mr. 
Gary  formed  the  partnership  of  Lyon,  Gary  & 


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Company,  private  bankers.  Their  experience 
put  the  partners  more  particularly  in  touch 
with  lumbermen,  and  in  a  few  years  the  dis- 
count and  deposit  branches  of  their  business 
were  abandoned  for  the  wider  field  of  financing 
the  lumber  and  timber  business  generally,  in 
which  specialty  they  were  pioneers,  and  met 
with  the  pioneer's  success. 

This  firm  continued  until  Mr.  Lyon's  death, 
January  28,  1909,  after  which  the  partnership 
was  converted  into  a  corporation  of  the  same 
name  managed  by  a  son  and  two  sons-in-law. 
Mr.  Gary  had  in  the  meantime  married  Miss 
Emily  Lyon,  and  Mr.  Lyon's  son,  John  Kellogg 
Lyon,  and  son-in-law,  Calvin  Fentress,  who  had 
married  Miss  Paulina  Lyon,  having  been  ad- 
mitted to  the  organization.  Both  the  partner- 
ship and  the  corporation  of  Lyon,  Gary  and 
Company  had  much  to  do  with  financing  timber 
properties  and  lumbering  operations,  and  in 
the  acquisition  and  operation  of  such  properties 
in  many  states  and  met  with  much  success. 
Mr.  Lyon  was  also  a  large  and  successful  in- 
vestor in  Chicago  real  estate  and  was  other- 
wise in  many  ways  identified  with  the  city's 
progress.     He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 


Central  Trust  Company,  now  widely  known  as 
"General   Dawes'   Bank." 

Beside  being  in  the  firm  of  Lyon,  Gary  & 
Company,  Mr.  Lyon  took  more  personal  interest 
in  the  Lyon  Cypress  Company  which  he  and 
Mr.  Gary  organized,  of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent until  his  death,  and  in  which  he  had  a 
remarkably  successful  career.  At  his  death  Mr. 
Gary  succeeded  him  in  the  presidency. 

On  October  26,  1875,  Mr.  Lyon  was  married 
to  Miss  Harriet  Rice  of  Ludington,  Michigan, 
a  daughter  of  Cyrus  C.  and  Emily  S.  Rice.  Mrs. 
Lyon  now  resides  at  Chicago.  To  them  were 
born  six  children :  Robert  C.  and  Thomas  R., 
Jr.,  both  of  whom  died  in  infancy ;  Emily,  who 
is  Mrs.  John  W.  Gary ;  John  Kellogg ;  Paulina, 
who  is  Mrs.  Calvin  Fentress ;  and  Harriett,  who 
is  Mrs.  Hamilton  Daugherty.  Seventeen  of  the 
grandchildren  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lyon  are  living. 

Notwithstanding  his  busy  commercial  activi- 
ties Mr.  Lyon  found  time  for  domestic  pleasures 
and  social  duties.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  and  Union  League  clubs,  and  was  one 
of  the  city's  staunchest  supporters  of  musical 
and  dramatic  art. 


JOHN  RICHARD  WILSON. 


The  older  residents  of  Chicago  associate  the 
name  of  John  Richard  Wilson  with  the  early 
journalism  of  the  state  for  he  was,  during  many 
years,  a  dominant  factor  in  this  line  of  endeavor, 
and  his  organ,  the  Chicago  Evening  Journal, 
was  placed  in  the  front  rank  among  newspapers 
by  him.  Although  he  has  been  taken  from  his 
former  sphere  of  usefulness,  his  paper  lives  and 
is  recognized  as  a  leading  organ  in  Illinois. 
Mr.  Wilson  belonged  to  the  old  school  of 
journalism  which  produced  so  many  forceful 
men,  and  his  policies  were  so  sound  and  his 
methods  so  praiseworthy  that  his  successors  are 
still  working  along  the  lines  he  laid  down. 

John  Richard  Wilson  was  born  at  Hornell, 
New  York,  April  28,  1852,  a  son  of  Stephen  L. 
and  Harriet  (Smith)  Wilson,  of  Albany,  New 
York,  and  Hornell,  New  York,  respectively. 
Stephen  L.  Wilson  was  an  elder  brother  of  the 
Wilson  Brothers  who  founded  the  Chicago 
Evening  Journal.  He  came  to  Minnesota  about 
1856  and  founded  the  village  of  Rice  Lake,  that 
state.  This  community  suffered  terribly  in  the 
uprising  of  the  Indians  in  1862-63.  In  order 
to   protect   his   interests   Mr.    Wilson    raised   a 


company,  which,  after  guarding  the  village  and 
outlying  districts  and  putting  down  the  savages, 
was  transferred  to  the  United  States  Army  for 
service  during  the  Civil  War.  It  was  while 
serving  in  the  army  that  Stephen  L.  Wilson 
passed  away. 

John  R.  Wilson  attended  Genesee  College  in 
New  York,  and  after  completing  his  studies 
there  came  to  Chicago  and  joined  his  uncle, 
Charles  L.  Wilson,  on  the  Journal,  and  when 
the  Journal  Publishing  Company  was  organized 
October  10,  1871,  he  became  a  stockholder. 
Later  elected  a  director,  he  held  that  office  until 
the  charter  expired  in  1883.  Upon  the  reorgani- 
zation of  the  company  he  became  the  publisher 
of  the  Journal,  and  when  his  uncle  died,  John 
R.  Wilson  bought  the  interests  of  the  other 
stockholders  and  became  sole  owner,  as  well  as 
publisher.  From  then  on  until  his  death,  April 
7,  1903,  Mr.  Wilson  was  absorbed  in  conduct- 
ing his  paper,  and  brought  it  into  the  command- 
ing position  it  now  occupies. 

On  October  7,  1875,  John  R.  Wilson  was  mar- 
ried to  Flora  L.  Ripley,  at  Chicago.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Willis  and  Delite    (Post)    Ripley. 


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Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilson  became  the  parents  of  the 
following  children :  Gharles  R. ;  Delite,  who  is 
Mrs.  Lucius  Rossiter,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut ; 
and  Ripley  Wilson.  Ripley  Wilson  was  born  at 
Chicago,  December  29,  1887.  He  went  to  the 
University  School  of  Chicago,  and  to  Yale  Uni- 
versity. Later  he  took  the  civil  service  ex- 
amination and  was  appointed  one  of  the  thirteen 
consular  assistants  at  the  consulate  at  London, 
England.  He  was  later  made  Consul  and  sta- 
tioned at  London.  Here  death  claimed  him, 
October  2,  1917. 

Mr.   Wilson  and  his  family  attended  Doctor 


Swing's  Church.  The  family  residence  at  Chi- 
cago and  Lake  Geneva,  Wisconsin,  are  still 
maintained.  Mr.  Wilson  was  a  man  whose  per- 
sonality, general  ability  and  working  knowledge 
of  human  nature  eminently  fitted  him  for  the 
important  work  to  which  he  devoted  his  life. 
Possessed  of  great  mental  resourcefulness  he  re- 
sponded, in  marked  measure,  to  the  openings 
his  paper  afforded  him.  In  all  of  his  operations 
he  was  actuated  by  the  broader  sense  of  civic 
responsibility,  and  he  was  recognized  as  one  of 
the  most  useful  and  competent  citizens  through- 
out his  period  of  Chicago's  growth. 


THOMAS  ELMS  BAINBRIDGE. 


Thomas  E.  Bainbridge  was  born  at  Chicago, 
Illinois,  June  26,  1879,  a  son  of  Robert  and 
Caroline  (Elms)  Bainbridge,  both  natives  of 
England.  The  father  was  one  of  the  early 
commission  merchants  on  South  Water  street, 
Chicago. 

Thomas  E.  Bainbridge  attended  public  school. 
Then,  as  the  family  were  not  in  affluent  cir- 
cumstances, he  was  soon  faced  with  the  propo- 
sition of  providing  his  own  support  He  went 
to  work  most  willingly ;  but  he  was  not  content 
to  lose  his  opportunity  for  further  school 
training.  Accordingly  he  attended  night  school 
at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  later  being  able  to  enroll 
in  the  evening  classes  at  the  Chicago  College 
of  Law.  He  graduated  there  in  1904 ;  having, 
as  might  be  expected,  made  valuable  use  of 
the  time  and  hard  work  his  studies  had  cost 
him. 

For  the  next  few  years  he  was  employed  in 
the  real  estate  department  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Chicago. 

In  1909  Mr.  Bainbridge  became  connected 
with  the  Building  Managers'  Association.  He 
was  secretary  of  this  body  for  the  past  four- 
teen years.  His  work  here  embraced  a  large 
share  of  the  executive  management  of  the 
organization  and  also  included  his  handling  of 


the  legal  matters  in  which  this  association 
became  interested. 

Mr.  Bainbridge  was  married  on  November  6, 
1906,  at  St.  James  Episcopal  Church,  Chicago, 
to  Miss  Helen  Saunders,  a  daughter  of  John 
and  Helen  (Ion)  Saunders,  both  natives  of 
England.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bainbridge  had  one 
son,  Robert  Ion  Bainbridge. 

The  family  belong  to  the  Episcopal  Church. 
Mr.  Bainbridge  was  a  member  of  the  City 
Club,  of  the  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce, 
and  of  the  Chicago  Real  Estate  Board. 

Mr.  Bainbridge  was  known  in  all  of  the 
larger  cities  throughout  America.  He  did 
probably  as  much  as  any  man  in  the  country 
to  unite,  through  bonds  of  kindred  interests, 
the  people  who  own  or  have  the  management  of 
skyscrapers  and  other  similar  building  proper- 
ties in  the  United  States.  He  helped  to  meet, 
successfully,  the  varied  and  important  problems 
that  have  come  to  the  association  and  its  mem- 
bers. His  responsibilities  and  his  opportunities 
for  serviceable  work  were  great ;  and  because 
of  his  absolute  conscientiousness,  and  of  his 
fine  and  thoroughly-trained  mind,  he  met  them 
fully. 

Thomas  E.  Bainbridge  died  November  6, 
1923. 


ALBERT  FRIEDLEY. 


A  man  of  brilliant  mind  in  his  department  of 
industry,  and  one  of  very  practical  and  con- 
structive ideas,  whose  decorative  yet  substan- 
tial work  upon  many  of  the  leading  public 
buildings  throughout  the  United  States  has  re- 
ceived recognition  with  that  of  the  foremost 
sheet    metal    workers.    Albert    Friedley,    vice- 


president  of  the  Friedley-Yoshardt  Company,  of 
Chicago,  Illinois,  attained  distinction,  merited 
by  his  life-long  interest  in  sheet-metal  working 
and  stamping.  The  product  of  the  concern,  of 
which  he  was  an  executive  head,  held  its  dis- 
tinctive place  of  high  standard  for  a  long  suc- 
cession of  years  because  of  his  unerring  good 


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judgment  brought  to  bear  upon  the  solution  of 
problems  that  from  time  to  time  presented 
themselves,  and  a  like  excellence  of  its  product 
will  continue  through  the  years  because  of  his 
resourcefulness  and  his  association  with  its 
enduring  plans.  Mr.  Friedley  stood  at  the  head 
of  his  vocation,  and  there  was  no  stronger  nor 
more  prevailing  influence  in  the  world  of  ac- 
tivity in  which  he  had  been  so  long  a  factor 
of  great  effectiveness  and  force.  He  was  a  son 
of  Andrew  Friedley,  a  native  of  Switzerland, 
and  a  prominent  hardware  merchant  at  Naper- 
ville.  Illinois,  and  of  Wilhelmina  (Metzner) 
Friedley.  who  was  born  in  Saxony,  Germany 
The  former  died  October  23,  1888,  at  Lemont, 
Illinois,  and  the  latter  died  September  27.  1889. 
Albert  Friedley  was  born  May  30,  1853,  at 
Xaperville,  Illinois,  and  he  attended  the  public 
schools  there  and  at  Aurora,  Illinois,  where  he 
was  afterwards  associated  in  the  law  offices  of 
August  Metzner.  He  also  resided  at  Chilli- 
cothe,  Missouri,  and  then  at  Lemont,  Illinois, 
where  his  father  had  conducted  a  hardware 
store.  He  came  to  Chicago  in  1875,  and  at 
first  was  employed  by  Philip  Gormley ;  and 
about  1882  he  went  to  Rochester,  New  York, 
where  he  was  employed  by  Goggin  &  Knowles. 
He  then  returned  to  Chicago,  where  he  en- 
tered the  employ  of  J.  C.  McFarland,  and  he 
had  charge  of  the  sheet  metal  work  on  the 
Texas  State  Capitol  Building,  and  it  was  there 
that  he  met  H.  F.  Voshardt.  In  1888  Mr.  Fried- 
ley and  Mr.  Voshardt  entered  into  partnership 
in  the  sheet  metal  stamping  business  on  Mather 
Street,  Chicago,  and  they  remained  associated 
in  business  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Friedley.  Mr. 
Friedley  had  an  inherent  knowledge  of  his  busi- 
ness and  its  requirements,  and  it  is  related  of 
him  that  in  1879,  when  he  was  twenty-six  years 
of  age,  he  made  a  sheet  metal  cornice  by  hand 
for  his  father's  hardware  store,  at  Lemont,  Illi- 


nois, and  it  is  stated  that  up  to  1924  no  change 
or  repairs  ever  had  to  be  made  on  his  work. 

Besides  his  chief  interests  in  his  own  concern, 
Mr.  Friedley  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  Chicago  Steel  Tank  Company. 
He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  but  had  not 
held  public  office.  He  had  a  hobby  for  hunting 
and  fishing,  and  spent  much  time  in  the  mem- 
bership of  the  Pine  Oaks  Gun  Club,  at  Beards- 
town,  Illinois,  on  the  Illinois  River.  He  was 
liberal  in  his  charities,  especially  so  to  those 
who  were  poor  and  deserving.  He  had  traveled 
throughout  the  United  States,  and  also  made  a 
trip  to  Europe  in  1911,  making  many  friends. 

.Mr.  Friedley  married,  August  23,  1881,  at 
Chicago,  Illinois,  Elizabeth  I  lay  ton,  born  Sep- 
tember 5,  1804,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Ann 
(Ellsworth)  Ilayton.  John  Ilayton,  a  native 
of  Yorkshire,  England,  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Burkhardt,  Ilayton  &  Company,  manu- 
facturers of  machinery,  and  pioneers  in  their 
line  in  Chicago.  He  was  a  communicant  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  He  died  in  1807, 
at  thirty-one  years  of  age,  when  Mrs.  Friedley 
was  but  three  and  one-half  years  old.  Ann 
(Ellsworth)  Ilayton  came  to  America  in  1848. 
from  Yorkshire,  England,  and  the  family  pur- 
chased property  on  Ewing  Street,  Chicago. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  Mrs.  Friedley  is  a  member  of  the 
Tuesday,  Art,  and  Travel  clubs,  the  Maywood 
Golf  Club,  and  the  Mothers'  Relief  Association. 
Since  the  death  of  Mr.  Friedley,  she  has  been 
made  vice-president  of  the  Friedley-Voshardt 
Company. 

Albert  Friedley  died  August  22,  1924,  in  his 
seventy-first  year,  at  Chicago,  Illinois.  With 
his  passing,  the  sheet  metal  and  allied  indus- 
tries suffered  a  distinct  loss,  as  by  his  untiring 
energy  and  his  kind-heartedness  he  had  won 
for  himself  a  place  of  high  esteem  in  the  hearts 
of  his  friends  and  co-workers. 


ARTHUR  WELLSLEY  BINKS. 


Arthur  Wellsley  Binks  was  born  at  Rome, 
New  York,  October  13,  1864,  a  son  of  William 
T.  and  Eliza  (Batchelor)  Binks.  Both  of  the 
parents  were  natives  of  England. 

His  early  boyhood  was  spent  in  his  home 
town  and  he  attended  the  public  schools  there. 
When  the  time  came  for  him  to  start  to  work 
he  located  in  New  York  City  where  he  found 
better  opportunities  to  follow  his  ambition  and 


learn  to  become  a  printer.  While  he  was  thus 
engaged  in  practicing  his  trade,  he  also  studied 
in  night  school. 

From  New  York  City  he  came  to  Chicago. 
This  was  about  1882.  Here  he  first  became 
employed  as  a  printer  on  the  "Drovers'  Jour- 
nal." Then  he  was  with  the  "Chicago  Times" 
and,  later,  the  "Chicago  Chronicle"  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  until  the  Chronicle  was  sold. 


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It  was  nearly  twenty-five  years  ago  that  he 
became  interested  in  the  grain  business  here. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board 
of  Trade  in  1901 ;  and  was  an  active  operator 
on  the  Board  right  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 

Mr.  Binks  was  married  on  April  23,  1899,  to 
Miss  Kathleen  Artman,  a  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  Ann  Artman  of  Somonauk,  Illinois.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Binks  have  maintained  their  home 
at  La  Grange  for  many  years.     Here,   in  the 


midst  of  home  surroundings  Mr.  Binks  always 
found  his  greatest  happiness.  He  and  his  wife 
are  members  of  the  Methodist  church. 

Mr.  Binks  died  on  December  27,  1920.  Many 
people  who  have  been  benefited  by  his  ready 
help,  and  many  others  who  had  opportunity  to 
realize  the  quality  of  his  kindly  nature,  are 
sorry  to  miss  daily  contact  with  him. 

He  is  buried  in  Oak  Mound  Cemetery,  near 
Somonauk. 


GEORGE  CHRISTIAN  PRUSSING. 


George  C.  Prussing  was  born  in  Lubeck,  Ger- 
many, January  9,  1846,  a  son  of  Ernst  Prussing 
and  Maria  (Knoop)  Prussing.  He  came  to  Chi- 
cago with  his  parents  when  he  was  twelve  years 
of  age,  and  thenceforward  his  life  and  enter- 
prises were  blended  with  the  growth  and  de- 
velopment of  the  city.  Coming  here  and  enter- 
ing business  life  when  a  boy,  he  grew  up  with 
Chicago.  His  education  was  acquired  in  the 
public  schools  of  this  city  and  a  business  college, 
in  which  he  made  good  use  of  his  time  and  op- 
portunity. 

On  January  1,  1868,  Mr.  Prussing  entered  the 
building  field  as  a  contractor  and  brick  manu- 
facturer, and  for  nearly  half  a  century  was  one 
of  the  most  prominent  men  in  this  field  of  ac- 
tivity.    He  was  president  of  the  Illinois  Brick 


Company  from  1904  to  1906,  vice-president  and 
a  director  of  the  Purington  Paving  Brick  Com- 
pany, of  Galesburg,  Illinois,  vice-president  of 
the  Takamine  Ferment  Company,  and  a  director 
of  the  LaSalle-Portland  Cement  Works.  Al- 
though he  retired  from  active  business  several 
years  ago,  he  remained  a  director  in  the  various 
companies. 

On  September  16,  1873,  Mr.  Prussing  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Bertha  Miller,  of 
Chicago.  Although  prominent  in  social  circles 
and  a  valued  member  of  the  Chicago  Athletic 
Association  and  the  Builders'  Club,  Mr.  Prus- 
sing's  interests  were  centered  in  his  home.  His 
death,  which  occurred  November  28,  1919,  re- 
moved from  Chicago  one  of  its  most  valued 
citizens. 


DAVID  GORE. 


David  Gore,  the  son  of  Michel  and  Elizabeth 
(Mitchell)  Gore,  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1827, 
but  moved  with  his  parents  to  Madison  County, 
Illinois,  in  1835.  His  grandfather  Gore  was 
from  South  Carolina,  and  fought  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary  War. 

David  Gore  spent  his  boyhood  in  Madison 
County.  His  early  work  had  been  chiefly  con- 
nected with  the  clearing  of  timber  lands  and 
while  still  a  boy  he  drove  ten  head  of  oxen 
to  Alton,  delivering  to  the  penitentiary,  then 
located  there,  material  for  making  barrels. 
When  he  was  less  than  twenty  years  old  Mr. 
Gore  enlisted  for  service  in  the  Mexican  War, 
and  served  until  its  close.  Following  his  dis- 
charge he  returned  to  Illinois,  and  started  farm- 
ing for  himself  near  the  little  settlement  of 
Plainview  in  Macoupin  County.  Soon  after  he 
started  general  farming  in  his  new  home,  he 
became  interested  in  the  study  of  soil  chemistry. 
From    these    early    pursuits    Mr.    Gore    became 


one  of  the  pioneer  advocates  of  scientific  farm- 
ing, and  for  forty  years  his  contributions  to  the 
problems  of  Illinois  husbandmen  were  of  the 
best.  But  first  of  all  he  worked  out  his  ideas  on 
his  own  fine  farm,  a  572-acre  estate  near  Carlin- 
ville  where  he  moved  in  1861.  At  one  time 
David  Gore  operated  over  2,000  acres  of  rich 
Illinois  farm  land. 

David  Gore  was  probably  the  first  persist- 
ent advocate  of  "rotation  of  crops"  in  this 
state.  He  practiced  what  he  preached  and 
explained,  by  conversation  and  rural  journal 
articles,  the  simple,  but  generally  scorned  plan. 
But  his  success  was  so  marked  that  he  soon 
won  a  high  place  in  agricultural  circles,  and 
in  1874  he  was  chosen  on  the  farmers  ticket  as 
the  candidate  for  state  treasurer.  He  defeated 
the  Democratic  entry,  but  the  Republican  ticket 
won  and  from  1880  on  Mr.  Gore  was  a  con- 
sistent Democrat,  holding  many  important  posts 
in  that  party's  conclave. 


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In  1884  David  Gore  was  elected  state  senator 
for  a  four-year  term.  In  1878  he  had  been 
named  a  member  of  the  state  board  of  agricul- 
ture and  served  as  such  for  sixteen  years,  be- 
ing its  president  from  1892  to  1894.  During 
this  period  he  was  busy  at  all  times  in  en- 
lightening the  farmers  of  the  state  and  nation, 
and  was  a  valued  associate  of  the  first  secretary 
of  agriculture,  Norman  J.  Coleman,  and  of  J. 
Sterling  Morton  who  held  that  important  post 
in  President  Cleveland's  second  cabinet.  In 
1893  Mr.  Gore  was  named  by  the  Illinois  State 
Legislature  vice  president  of  the  Illinois  World 
Fair  Commission.  In  1892  he  was  elected 
auditor  of  public  accounts  and  held  that  office 
for  four  years. 

David  Gore  was  the  co-inventor  of  the  sulky 
plow  and  used  a  "reaper"  of  his  own  before 
McCormick  gained  fame  and  fortune  with  his 
great  invention.  He  also  invented  a  simple 
method  for  laying  drainage  tile  so  that  the 
"pitch"  might  be  correct,  and  when  a  mechanical 
method  was  finally  found  to  do  this  work,  his 
plan  was  followed. 

Mr.  Gore  developed  the  well-kept  hedge  fence 
in  Illinois  before  "wire"  days.    During  the  years 


he  contributed  to  many  magazines  on  agricul- 
tural subjects,  and  often  spoke  before  institutes 
on  the  subject  he  knew  so  well,  modern  farming 
and  farm  chemistry.  He  was  indeed  fifty  years 
ahead  of  his  time,  and  the  things  he  advocated 
and  demonstrated  in  1875  are  today  generally 
accepted. 

David  Gore  married  Cinderella  Keller  of  Ken- 
tucky in  1854.  They  became  the  parents  of 
seven  children,  five  of  whom  survive.  They 
are :  Forrest  D.  Gore,  of  Carlinville,  Illinois ; 
Truman  K.  Gore,  of  Pensacola,  Florida ;  Vic- 
tor M.  Gore,  of  Benton  Harbor,  Michigan ; 
Mary  Adella  (Mrs.  C.  W.  Brown),  of  Rapid 
City,  South  Dakota,  and  Edward  E.  Gore,  of 
Chicago. 

Thaddeus  V.  and  Sarah  Cinderella  Gore  were 
the  two  children  of  David  Gore  who  have  passed 
away. 

David  Gore  retired  from  public  life  in  1897 
on  account  of  failing  health,  but  for  the  rest  of 
his  life  he  continued  to  take  an  interest  in  farm- 
ing affairs.  His  wife  passed  away  in  1906,  but 
Mr.  Gore  lived  until  1911,  passing  his  declining 
years  in  Carlinville  among  the  neighbors  he 
loved  so  well. 


W.  SEYMOUR  BUTLER. 


Among  those  of  longer  residence  at  Oak  Park, 
Illinois,  W.  S.  Butler  will  be  very  pleasantly 
remembered.  Mr.  Butler  was  born  at  Green 
Bay,  Wisconsin,  on  August  30,  1844.  His  par- 
ents were  Deacon  Daniel  Butler  and  Julia 
Hinsdale  Butler,  who  were  natives  of  North- 
ampton, Massachusetts,  and  New  York  City, 
respectively. 

Deacon  Daniel  Butler  was  one  of  the  early 
merchants  in  Wisconsin.  His  drygoods  store 
at  Green  Bay  grew  to  be  an  institution  of  much 
importance  to  the  community,  serving  the  peo- 
ple of  the  country  for  many  surrounding  miles. 
Deacon  Butler  also  did  much  to  further  pioneer 
church  work  in  that  section  of  the  State. 

W.  S.  Butler,  after  studying  in  the  local  high 
school,  went  to  work  in  his  father's  store. 
When  the  Civil  War  broke  out,  he  enlisted  in 
a  Wisconsin  regiment  and  served  with  honor- 
able record  until  the  end  of  hostilities.  He 
then  returned  to  the  store  at  Green  Bay  and 
continued  there  until  ill  health  necessitated  his 
retirement  from   business  in   1898. 


At  that  time  Mr.  Butler  had  sufficient  re- 
sources to  make  him  financially  independent 
He  never  again  resumed  active  business,  but 
turned  his  interest  to  the  furthering  of  chari- 
table and  humanitarian  work. 

Mr.  Butler  was  married  on  November  25, 
1809,  in  Milton,  Wisconsin,  to  Miss  Laura  San- 
born, a  daughter  of  Levi  and  Sarah  (Wood) 
Sanborn.  This  began  an  association  which  con- 
tinued, very  happily,  for  over  fifty-two  years. 

The  Butlers  established  their  home  in  Oak 
Park,  Illinois,  in  1899  and  continued  to  live 
there,  also  maintaining  a  winter  home  in  Flor- 
ida. Their  membership  was  with  the  First 
Congregational  Church  of  Oak  Park.  Mr.  But- 
ler  was  a  Knight-Templar  Mason. 

W.  Seymour  Butler  died  on  June  28,  1922. 
He  will  be  truly  missed  for  his  friendships 
were,  many  of  them,  of  years  standing ;  and  the 
influence  of  his  life  was  widely  felt  through  his 
identification  with  charitable  work  and  wel- 
fare activities. 


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ROBERT  LAUGHLIN  REA. 


Among  the  distinguished  men  of  Chicago  who 
have  left  the  impress  of  their  individuality 
upon  the  medical  profession  of  the  country, 
none  is  more  worthy  of  mention  in  the  history 
of  Illinois  than  the  late  Doctor  Robert  L.  Rea, 
for  many  years  an  honored  resident  of  this 
city.  His  labors  not  only  constituted  a  potent 
factor  in  the  medical  profession  of  Chicago,  but 
his  progressive  spirit  was  evident  in  many 
ways,  and  his  career  indicated  a  man  ready  to 
meet  any  obligation  of  life  with  the  confidence 
and  courage  that  come  of  conscious  personal 
ability,  right  conception  of  things  and  an 
habitual  regard  for  what  is  best  in  the  exer- 
cise of  human  activities.  In  his  home,  in  social 
and  in  professional  life  he  was  kind  and  courte- 
ous, and  though  he  has  long  passed  from  the 
scene  of  earthly  activities,  his  work  remains 
as  a  force  for  good  in  the  community. 

Doctor  Rea  was  born  in  Rockbridge  County, 
Virginia,  July  1,  1827,  and  when  seventeen  years 
of  age  he  went  to  live  with  his  first  cousin, 
Mrs.  Mary  (Rea)  Manlove,  and  her  husband, 
Absalom  Manlove,  of  Fayette  County,  Indiana. 
Here  he  received  the  encouragement,  affection 
and  educational  advantages  of  a  son,  and  soon 
acquired  sufficient  knowledge  to  teach  a  country 
school,  in  which  profession  he  engaged  for  five 
years.  He  also  did  his  share  of  all  kinds  of 
farm  work,  making  a  full  hand  in  the  harvest 
field,  feeding  and  caring  for  stock,  breaking 
land  and  felling  trees,  which  proved  valuable 
during  the  formative  period  of  his  life,  thus 
developing  a  magnificent  physique  which  served 
him  so  well  in  later  years.  Having  determined 
upon  the  practice  of  medicine  as  a  life  work,  he 
early  began  the  study  for  this  profession  with 
Dr.  W.  P.  Kitchen,  of  Brownesville,  Indiana, 
and  in  September,  1831,  established  himself  iu 
practice  at  Oxford,  Ohio.  To  further  his  edu- 
cation he  later  matriculated  at  the  Medical 
College  of  Ohio  at  Cincinnati,  and  was  gradu- 
ated from  that  institution  in  1855,  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine. 

Immediately  thereafter,  Doctor  Rea  was 
made  demonstrator  of  anatomy  at  his  alma 
mater  and  about  the  same  time  was  appointed 
resident  physician  at  the  Commercial  Hospital  of 
Cincinnati,  although  young  to  have  been  chosen 
for  these  two  important  positions.  His  con- 
nections with  the  hospital  ceased  at  the  expira- 
tion of  a  year,  but  he  remained  a  member  of 


the  college  faculty  during  three  terms.  Re- 
suming his  practice  at  Oxford,  he  began  deliver- 
ing a  series  of  lectures  on  anatomy  and  physi- 
ology before  the  young  ladies  of  the  Western 
Female  Seminary,  of  which  he  was  a  trustee. 
His  fame  spread  until,  at  the  solicitation  of  the 
late  Dr.  Brainard,  he  consented  to  accept  the 
proffered  chair  of  anatomy  at  Rush  Medical 
College,  Chicago,  which  he  filled  for  sixteen  years 
without  the  loss  of  a  single  lecture  hour.  At 
the  end  of  this  time  he  severed  his  connection 
with  the  Rush  Medical  College,  and  afterwards 
assumed  a  similar  position  with  the  Chicago 
Medical  College.  He  had  decided  to  give  up 
lecturing,  but  was  induced  to  become  professor 
of  surgery  by  the  founders  of  the  latter  insti- 
tution, among  whom  was  Dr.  W.  E.  Quine. 

In  1S82  Doctor  Rea  became  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
and  in  it  held  the  chair  of  surgery.  The  noted 
Dr.  I.  N.  Danforth  estimated  Doctor  Rea  as 
follows :  "Doctor  Rea  was  like  himself  and 
like  no  one  else.  He  was  a  strong  character, 
although  self-dependent;  asking  advice  of  no- 
body, but  pushing  ahead  in  obedience  to  his  own 
iron  will.  As  a  teacher  of  anatomy  he  was 
great,  perhaps  not  excelled  by  any  teacher  in 
America.  It  was  impossible  to  attend  his  lec- 
tures and  not  learn  anatomy.  He  was  admired 
rather  than  loved  by  his  students,  but  in  after 
years,  after  they  had  measured  up  to  his  co- 
lossal proportions,  they  began  to  love  him.  No 
more  powerful  mind  has  adorned  the  medical 
profession  of  Chicago  than  that  of  Professor 
R.  L.  Rea."  To  this  may  be  added  the  testi- 
mony of  the  celebrated  Dr.  N.  S.  Davis :  "He 
was  a  strong,  generous,  open-hearted  man,  one 
of  the  most  thorough  and  successful  teachers 
of  anatomy  that  we  had  in  a  century ;  a  man 
of  good  impulses,  and  more  successful  both  as 
a  physician  and  surgeon  than  the  average.  He 
was  always  popular  with  the  students,  and  had 
the  faculty  of  imparting  his  knowledge  to 
others."  In  the  same  vein  is  the  tribute  to  his 
memory  and  worth  from  Dr.  Archibald  Church 
of  Chicago,  who  was  devotedly  constant  in  his 
attention  to  the  late  physician  during  his  last 
illness :  "Dr.  Rea  was  perhaps  the  most  force- 
ful teacher  of  anatomy  that  ever  addressed  a 
class.  His  magnificent  physique,  the  ardor  of 
his  enthusiasm,  the  very  peculiarity  of  his  man- 


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ner,  enforced  attention  and  fixed  his  instruc- 
tions in  a  remarkable  way." 

For  four  years  Doctor  Rea  filled  the  chair  of 
surgery  in  a  young  college,  when  he  resigned 
his  professorship,  after  forty  years  of  consecu- 
tive experiences  as  a  teacher.  Repeated  illus- 
trations of  the  veneration  and  love  in  which  he 
was  held  by  those  who  had  the  privilege  to 
listen  to  his  instructions  were  afforded  on  a 
trip  made  by  him  and  Mrs.  Rea  to  the  Pacific 
coast  not  many  years  before  his  death.  At 
every  halting  point  the  Doctor  and  his  wife 
were  made  the  recipients  of  distinguished  at- 
tention by  his  former  pupils,  their  families 
and  friends,  and  early  and  late  they  were  be- 
sieged by  visitors.  In  addition  to  his  engage- 
ments at  the  seats  of  learning,  Doctor  Rea 
carried  on  a  large  and  lucrative  private  prac- 
tice, and  was  for  many  years  surgeon-in-chief 
to  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad.  As  a  practi- 
tioner he  was  firm,  yet  gentle,  resolute  though 
sympathetic.  Never  hesitating  to  adopt  heroic 
measures  when  necessary,  he  ever  brought  to 
the  bedside  of  the  sufferer  his  own  gentle 
nature. 

Doctor  Rea  was  at  one  time  a  memlter  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church,  but  later  he  became 
a  Unitarian,  and  afterwards  held  membership 
with  Professor  Swing's  congregation.  He  was 
also  affiliated  in  early  life  with  the  Masonic 
fraternity.  He  was  a  lover  of  music,  the  opera, 
and  all  those  influences  which  are  uplifting. 
His  interest  centered  in  his  home,  where  he 
found  genuine  pleasure  in  the  companionship 
of  family  and  friends,  and  of  his  books.  He 
kept  in  close  touch  with  all  that  research 
brought  to  light  in  the  field  of  scientific  knowl- 
edge, and  as  a  man  of  marked  intellectual  ac- 
tivity, his  labors  gave  impetus  to  the  work  of 
science  throughout  the  entire  country.  He  al- 
ways maintained  the  highest  standards  of  pro- 
fessional ethics,  and  during  the  many  years  of 
his  residence  in  Chicago  he  wielded  definite  and 
benignant  influence  both  as  a  citizen  and  as  a 
man  of  splendid  professional  ability.  His  ef- 
forts were  not  confined  to  lines  resulting  in 
individual  benefit,  but  were  evident  in  those 
fields  where  general  interests  and  public  wel- 
fare are  involved,  and  he  gave  generously  of 
his  time  and  means  to  the  furtherance  of  chari- 
table movements  and  all  matters  tending  to  the 
public  good.  In  professional  life  he  was  alert, 
sagacious   and    reliable ;    as    a    citizen    he    was 


honorable,  prompt  and  true  to  every  engage- 
ment, and  no  citizen  of  Chicago  was  more  re- 
spected or  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  the  people 
or  more  richly  deserved  the  regard  in  which  he 
was  held. 

During  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  Doctor  Rea 
at  considerable  personal  sacrifice  entered  the 
Federal  service  as  an  army  surgeon.  The  cele- 
brated Robert  Collyer  of  New  York  City,  then  a 
chaplain,  served  by  his  side,  and  often  acted  as 
a  hospital  nurse  under  the  surgeon's  direction. 
He  paid  tender  and  glowing  tribute  to  his 
superior,  as  follows :  "When  I  went  to  Fort 
Donelson  to  nurse  wounded,  it  was  my  good  for- 
tune to  be  the  personal  attendant  of  a  gentle- 
man whose  skill  and  ability  as  a  surgeon  was 
only  equaled  by  the  wonderfully  deep,  loving 
tenderness  of  his  heart,  as  it  thrilled  in  every 
tone  of  his  voice,  and  every  touch  of  his  hand, 
and  it  all  comes  to  me  now ;  how  he  would  come 
to  the  men,  fearfully  mangled  as  they  were, 
and  how  the  nerve  would  shrink  and  creep, 
with  a  wise,  hard,  steady  skill  he  would  cut  to 
save  life,  forcing  back  tears  of  pity  that  he 
might  keep  his  eye  clear  for  the  delicate  duty, 
speaking  low  words  of  cheer  in  tones  heavy 
with  tenderness;  then,  when  all  was  over,  and 
the  poor  fellows,  fainting  with  pain,  knew  that 
all  was  done  that  could  be  done,  and  done  only 
with  a  severity  whose  touch  was  love,  how  they 
would  look  after  the  man  as  he  went  away, 
sending  unspoken  benedictions  to  attend  him." 

The  management  of  his  pecuniary  affairs, 
Doctor  Rea  entrusted  largely  to  his  faithful 
wife,  who  was  for  so  long  his  helpmate.  He 
saw  a  competence  consumed  in  the  great  con- 
flagration of  1871,  but  with  such  signal  ability, 
rare  discernment  and  sound  business  genius  did 
his  wife  manage  the  slender  remnants  of  his 
fortune,  and  his  subsequent  accumulations,  that, 
before  his  death,  he  saw  his  wealth  multiplied 
many  times.  In  the  drawing  of  his  last  testa- 
ment he  exhibited  that  broad  sympathy  which 
was  the  guiding  principle  of  his  life,  for,  after 
providing  for  his  widow  and  sixteen  nieces  and 
nephews,  he  made  provisions  for  the  endow- 
ment of  the  Rea  professorship  of  anatomy,  in 
the  medical  department  of  the  Northwestern 
University,  and  bequeathed  $5,000  to  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  the  income  to  be 
devoted  towards  defraying  the  support  of  four 
students  each  year,  and  named  as  residuary 
legatees    the    Illinois    Nurses'    Association,    the 


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Illinois  Training  School  for  Boys,  the  Home 
of  Self-supporting  Women,  and  the  Illinois  Hu- 
mane Society. 

In  1925  Mrs.  Rea  presented  the  new  North- 
western University  with  her  splendid  gift  of 
$100,000  to  endow  the  Robert  Laughliu  Rea 
Chair  of  Anatomy  at  that  great  Institution.  In 
the  Medical  Library  of  Northwestern  University 
will  be  found  a  most  interesting  collection  of 
mementos  of  Dr.  Rea. 

Doctor  Rea  died  July  10,  1899,  and  after  his 
demise  numerous  members  of  his  profession, 
among  whom  were  Doctors  Senn,  Quine,  Bill- 
ings, Fenger  and  Brower,  expressed  the  deepest 
regret  and  outdid  themselves  in  praise  of  him. 
He  was  a  man  of  great  mental  capacity  and 
much  force  of  character,  and  his  loyalty,  his 
high-minded  conception  of  a  man's  duty  to  his 
fellow  man  and  his  quiet  and  unswerving  allegi- 


ance to  the  principles  of  good  citizenship  were 
traits  which  especially  distinguished  him.  The 
originality  and  profound  grasp  of  his  intellect 
command  respect,  and  yet  this  was  not  all  of 
the  man.  In  every  relation  of  life  were  shown 
the  light  that  comes  from  justness,  generosity, 
truth,  high  sense  of  honor,  proper  respect  for 
self  and  a  sensitive  thoughtfulness  for  others. 
What  a  magnificent  legacy  such  a  man  leaves 
to  the  generations  who  shall  come  after  him ! 

Doctor  Rea  was  married,  July  2,  1874,  to  Miss 
Permelia  Mellie  Manlove,  a  daughter  of 
Absalom  Manlove  and  Mary  (Rea)  Manlove,  of 
Fayette  County,  Indiana,  and  a  woman  of  re- 
finement and  much  beauty  of  character.  She 
still  resides  at  the  old  homestead,  17  West 
Huron  street,  and  is  greatly  admired  for  ster- 
ling qualities  and  social  and  philanthropic  ac- 
tivities. 


GILBERT  BEEBE  MANLOVE. 


Biography  finds  its  justification  not  only  in 
the  fact  that  it  is  a  memorial  to  the  lives  of 
exemplary  men,  but  also  in  the  fact  that  it  is 
an  incentive  and  an  inspiration  for  the  young. 
The  record  of  no  Chicago  business  or  profes- 
sional man  perhaps  indicates  more  clearly  what 
can  be  accomplished  when  energy,  determina- 
tion and  ambition  lead  the  way  than  that  of  the 
late  Gilbert  Beebe  Manlove,  lawyer,  scientist 
and  inventor.  Entirely  unostentatious  and  free 
from  pretense,  he  devoted  his  life  to  the  better- 
ment of  the  country,  and  though  he  has  long 
passed  from  the  scene  of  earthly  activities,  he 
lives  in  the  memory  of  his  friends  as  the  high- 
est type  of  a  loyal  citizen  and  a  progressive 
enterprising  man. 

Mr.  Manlove  was  born  in  Fayette  County, 
Indiana,  December  7,  1850,  a  son  of  Absalom 
Manlove  and  Mary  F.  (Rea)  Manlove,  and  came 
of  a  prominent  old  established  Maryland  family 
which  dates  back  to  the  colonial  epoch  in  Amer- 
ican history.  The  progenitor  of  the  family  in 
this  country  was  Mark  Manlove,  a  native  of 
England,  who  immigrated  to  America  in  1665 
with  his  wife  and  twelve  children  and  settled 
in  Maryland.  The  line  of  descent  is  traced 
through  his  son  William ;  his  son  Mark,  who 
married  Margaret  Hart  (or  Hunt)  ;  their  son 
William,  who  married  Elizabeth  Brown ;  their 
son  William,  who  married  Hannah  Robinson ; 
their  son  George,  who  married  Rachel  Dunning ; 
their  son  William,  who  married  Prudence  Cook 


and  who  was  the  grandfather  of  Gilbert  Beebe 
Manlove,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

When  nineteen  years  of  age,  after  acquiring 
a  substantial  country  school  education,  Mr.  Man- 
love matriculated  at  Butler  University,  Indian- 
apolis, Indiana,  where  he  took  a  course  in  law. 
He  then  became  associated  with  his  brother, 
William  R.  Manlove,  in  the  practice  of  law  at 
Indianapolis,  and  continued  in  this  field  of  ac- 
tivity for  three  years.  In  1877  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  James  Buchanan,  a  leader  in 
the  Greenback  party  and  an  inventor  of  the 
pneumatic  stacks  for  threshing  machines.  In 
1883  Mr.  Manlove  retired  from  this  firm  and 
removed  to  Pinal,  Arizona,  but  four  years  later 
settled  in  Chicago,  where  for  eight  years  he  was 
one  of  the  city's  most  expert  abstract  ex- 
aminers. During  1895-99  he  gave  up  active  busi- 
ness and  devoted  himself  to  the  closing  years 
of  his  sister's  husband,  Dr.  Robert  Laughlin 
Rea.  who  died  in  1899. 

Mr.  Manlove  was  of  an  inventive  mind,  and 
being  interested  with  his  brother  in  the  Man- 
love Gate  Company,  he  purchased  his  interest 
and  then  made  later  improvements  and  inven- 
tions in  the  gate,  which  made  it  an  assured  suc- 
cess, and  the  New  Manlove  Automatic  Gate  is 
now  used  throughout  the  civilized  world  and 
takes  precedence  over  all  similar  devices  on  the 
market.  At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Manlove 
had  nearly  completed  an  invention  for  an  auto- 
matic  switch   for   railroads,   which   as  a   labor- 


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saving  device  was  complete  in  detail.  He  was 
given  to  scientific  researches  and  was  considered 
an  authority  on  ornithology,  entomology  and 
natural  science,  and  few  men  gained  a  higher 
reputation  for  ability  and  keenness  of  discern- 
ment. He  possessed  unbounded  loyalty  and  en- 
thusiasm and  as  a  boy  tried  to  enlist  as  a 
drummer-boy  in  the  Civil  War,  although  living 
in  a  district  of  the  strongest  sympathy  for  seces- 
sion. 

Of  a  quiet,  unostentatious  nature,  Mr.  Man- 
love  was  charitably  inclined,  and  never  so  happy 
as  when  promoting  the  welfare  of  deserving 
young  men  or  giving  comfort  to  the  aged  and 


infirm.  His  ability  to  make  friends,  who  were 
legion,  numbered  among  others  the  personal 
friendships  of  James  Whitcoinb  Riley,  Walter 
Q.  Gresham,  Thomas  A.  Hendricks,  Benjamin 
F.  Harrison  and  Prof.  Harvey  Wiley.  Of  wide 
public  interests,  he  was  a  strong  factor  in  the 
furtherance  of  any  measure  which  has  for  its 
aim  the  advancement  of  the  people  or  the  bet- 
terment of  existing  conditions,  and  his  humane 
sympathy  and  charities  brought  men  to  him  in 
the  ties  of  strong  friendship.  He  died  February 
5.  1909,  at  the  home  of  his  sister,  Mrs.  Mellie 
Manlove  Rea,  in  Chicago,  Illinois. 


JAMES  BEATTY  MUIR. 


James  B.  Muir  was  born  in  a  log  cabin  on 
a  small  farm  in  Bedford  Township,  Monroe 
County,  Michigan,  on  December  18,  1849.  His 
parents  were  James  H.  and  Lydia  (Gould) 
Muir,  natives  of  Williamsport,  Maryland,  and 
Woodstock,  Connecticut,  respectively.  The 
father  came  to  Michigan  about  1835,  having 
walked  the  greater  part  of  the  way  there  from 
his  home  in  Maryland,  carrying  with  him  his 
worldly  possessions  in  a  small  tin  trunk. 

James  B.  Muir  was  reared  on  the  farm  and 
attended  district  school.  He  continued  his 
studies  at  the  Ypsilanti  Michigan  State  Normal 
School,  graduating  in  June,  1873.  He  then  en- 
tered the  law  school  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan, at  Ann  Arbor,  completing  his  course  and 
receiving  his  degree  in  1875. 

He  first  began  practice  in  the  town  of  Sidney, 
Iowa,  but,  after  about  a  year  spent  there,  he 
moved  to  Chicago.     He  lived  here  continuously 


from  1877  until  his  death.  Throughout  this 
period  he  was  active  in  the  practice  of  law, 
earning  an  honored  name  and  a  gratifying  suc- 
cess. In  1904  he  was  admitted  to  practice  be- 
fore the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Muir  was  married  on  July  21,  1896,  to 
Miss  Helen  J.  Close,  a  public  school  teacher  of 
Chicago.  There  are  no  children.  Mrs.  Muir 
died  on  February  29,  1920. 

Mr.  Muir  died  on  November  22,  1924,  leaving 
two  brothers  and  one  sister  surviving  him,  Dr. 
William  G.  Muir,  of  Harper,  Kansas ;  Maj.  Gen. 
Charles  H.  Muir,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland ;  and 
Miss  Helen  B.  Muir,  of  Chicago. 

Mr.  Muir  belonged  to  Templar  Lodge  No.  440, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  to  Covenant  Lodge  No.  526, 
A.  F.  &  A.   M. 

He  practiced  law  in  Chicago  and  had  main- 
tained residence  here  for  nearly  fifty  years. 


WILLIAM  REID  MANIEERE. 


William  Reid  Manierre  was  born  at  Chicago, 
Illinois,  April  25,  1847,  a  son  of  the  late  George 
and  Ann  Hamilton  (Reid)  Manierre.  An  ex- 
tended mention  of  his  father  is  given  else- 
where. 

He  was  educated  at  Snow's  School,  Chicago, 
at  Lake  Forest  Academy,  and  at  the  Old  Chi- 
cago University.  In  1878  he  received  the  de- 
gree of  Bachelor  of  Laws  from  the  Union  Col- 
lege of  Law. 

He  enlisted  for  service  in  the  Civil  War,  in 
1864,  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-fourth 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served  until 
the  close  of  the  war.    During  the  war  he  served 


in  the  Marine  Bank,  under  J.  Y.  Scammon ; 
and  later  was  assistant  cashier  of  the  Sub- 
Treasury  at  Chicago. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Manierre 
&  Pendergast.  from  1878  to  1881.  Since  1881 
he  was  proprietor  of  the  Central  Warehouses. 
In  1898  the  Manierre  Yoe  Syrup  Company  was 
organized  and  he  was  its  president.  He  was 
also  proprietor  of  the  Fowler,  Manson,  Sher- 
man Cycle  Manufacturing  Company. 

He  was  alderman  of  the  old  Eighteenth  Ward 
from  1883  to  1889;  was  alderman  of  the 
Twenty-fourth  Ward  from  1895  to  1897;  was 
countv    commissioner    from    1891    to    1893.      All 


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of  his  life  he  was  a  staunch  Republican ;  and 
he  gave  excellent  service  to  the  people  of  Chi- 
cago in  public  office.  Mr.  Manierre  was  one 
of  the  organizers  and  was  presiding  officer  at 
a  number  of  economic  conferences  between  busi- 
ness men  and  working  men.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  World's  Fair  Commission  on  Labor 
in  1893 ;  and  was  the  arbitrator  who  was 
largely  instrumental  in  settling  the  "Deb's 
Strike"  in  1894.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Civic 
Federation  and  of  the  Illinois  Manufacturers 
Association. 

Socially  he  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Onwentsia,  Saddle  and  Cycle  clubs,  and  of  the 
South  Shore  Country  Club,  and  also  belonged 
to  the  Union  League  Club  of  Chicago.  Mr. 
Manierre   was  a   member  of   the   Grand    Army 


of  the  Republic.  It  was  he  who  proposed  legis- 
lation looking  toward  a  memorial  in  the  South 
to  Northern  soldiers.  He  was  also  an  organ- 
izer of  the  Ethical  Society. 

Mr.  Manierre  was  married  in  New  York  City, 
April  25,  1875,  to  Miss  Julia  Orr  Edson.  He 
and  his  wife  had  the  following  children  born 
to  them :  George,  Marguerite,  Julie  Edson,  Wil- 
liam R.,  Jr.,  Wilhelmine,  Edson,  Aline  and 
Harold  Manierre.  The  family  home  for  many 
years  has  been  at  1507  North  Dearborn  Park- 
way,  Chicago. 

William  Reid  Manierre  died  at  his  home  in 
his  seventy-eighth  year,  March  3,  1925.  His 
life  was  a  worthy  chapter  in  the  history  of  a 
distinguished  family.  He  was  one  of  the  prom- 
inent warehouse  men  in  the  United  States. 


ANDREW  JACKSON  REDMOND. 


As  an  attorney  and  as  a  public-spirited  man 
and  good  citizen,  the  late  Andrew  J.  Redmond 
made  a  record  not  frequently  equalled.  This 
resume  of  his  life  and  work  will  serve  not 
only  as  a  just  memorial  to  his  memory,  but  also 
as  true  incentive  to  others.  Andrew  Jackson 
Redmond  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, August  1,  1864.  He  was  a  son  of  Murt 
and  Elizabeth  (Harris)  Redmond.  When  he 
was  still  a  child  he  was  brought  to  Illinois  by 
his  parents  who  settled  in  DeKalb  County, 
and  there  he  was  reared  on  the  farm  his 
father  bought.  After  attending  the  local 
schools  he  became  a  student  in  the  School  for 
Teachers  at  Oregon,  Illinois,  and  later  of  the 
Northern  Illinois  Normal  School  at  Dixon, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  with  honors. 
To  secure  the  money  with  which  to  continue 
his  education,  he  then  taught  school  for  a 
time.  In  1889,  he  came  to  Chicago  and  entered 
the  law  school  of  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity. He  was  graduated  therefrom  in  1891 
with  highest  honors.  After  his  admission  to 
the  Illinois  bar,  he  entered  at  once  upon  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Chicago,  and  con- 
tinued, with  marked  success,  until  his  death. 

In  1898  Mr.  Redmond  was  attorney  for  the 
town  of  Cicero  which  then  comprised  Oak 
Park,  Austin,  Berwyn,  Morton  Park,  Clyde, 
LaVergne,  Hawthorne  and  Grant  Works.  He 
also  rendered  service  of  a  most  valuable  nature 
as  attorney  for  Barrington,  Forest  Park,  Wau- 
conda,  Lake  Zurich  and  River  Grove.  In  1916 
Mr.  Redmond  was  the  candidate  of  his  party 


for  the  office  of  judge  of  the  superior  court,  for 
which  office  he  was  splendidly  qualified.  How- 
ever, Mr.  Redmond's  greatest  achievements 
came  to  him  as  an  attorney  engaged  in  private 
practice.  He  had  an  enormous  capacity  for 
work.  He  was  able  to  discern  and  to  decide. 
He  was  unalterably  a  just  man,  and  his  sound- 
ness and  his  strength  were  widely  recognized. 

On  April  18,  1894,  Mr.  Redmond  married 
Miss  Emma  Robertson,  a  daughter  of  John 
Robertson,  a  banker  at  Barrington,  Illinois ; 
and  they  made  their  home  at  Barrington  until 
1897,  when  they  moved  to  Oak  Park,  Illinois. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Redmond  became  the  parents  of 
the  following  children :  Pearl  W.,  who  was 
born  in  1895,  died  in  1899;  Jasper  R.,  who  was 
born  in  1897,  died  in  1912 ;  and  Donald  H.,  who 
was  born  in  1904,  died  in  1909.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Redmond  attended  the  First  Baptist  Church  of 
Oak  Park. 

Mr.  Redmond  was  frequently  a  speaker  be- 
fore the  young  people's  meetings  and  the  adult 
bible  class.  He  was  known  throughout  the 
state  as  a  lecturer.  There  was  never  a  Fourth 
of  July  or  Memorial  day  exercise,  at  which 
he  was  not  called  upon  by  various  organiza- 
tions, to  deliver  patriotic  addresses.  He  also 
lectured  before  different  women's  clubs,  al- 
ways giving  freely  of  his  time.  His  eloquence 
was  such  that  many  testify  that  he  was  the 
most  impressive  and  moving  speaker  they  had 
ever  heard.  He  was  possessed  of  a  genial  and 
sympathetic  personality.  His  last  address  was 
made   on   July   4,   1918,   in   Oak   Park.     Those 


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who  knew  him  intimately  were  aware  of  his 
charity  and  kindness,  and  many  acts  of  help- 
fulness, which  he  performed,  will  never  he 
known,  hecause  they  were  prompted  from  the 
goodness  of  his  heart  and  he  regarded  them 
as  sacred.  Many  young  men  have  said  they 
owe  their  success  in  business  to  his  encourage- 
ment and  helpfulness.  He  has  lieen  known  to 
spend  his  money  liberally  in  the  defense  of 
some  one  whom  he  believed  to  he  unjustly 
prosecuted. 

Few  men  of  the  state  have  been  as  prominent 
as  he  in  Masonry.  He  belonged  to  Cicero 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  and  received  knighthood  in 
Siloam  Commandery,  No.  54,  Oak  Park,  of 
which  he  became  past  commander  and  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Ancient  and  Accepted 
Scottish  Kite  in  Oriental  Consistory.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1918,  at  Boston,  Massachusetts,  he  re- 
ceived the  thirty-third  degree.  He  was  a 
memher  of  the  Illinois  Masonic  Veterans  Asso- 
ciation, a  fact  which  attests  twenty-one  years 
of  faithful  service  in  the  cause  of  Freemasonry. 
In  1908  he  was  recognized  by  the  Grand  Com- 


mandery of  Illinois,  and  made  grand  warden. 
Each  year  thereafter  he  was  regularly  ad- 
vanced until  he  was  made  grand  commander. 
At  the  close  of  the  Triennial  Conclave,  in  1910, 
he  was  chosen  as  historian  of  that  notable 
event.  After  a  year  of  arduous  labor  he  pro- 
duced a  volume  "The  History  of  Templarism," 
which  includes  a  record  of  the  31st  Triennial 
Conclave.  This  has  been  accepted  everywhere 
as  one  of  the  most  valuable  contributions  to 
Templar  literature  in  recent  years.  In  (he 
preparation  of  this  Mr.  Redmond  showed  him- 
self to  be  possessed  of  unusual  literary  ability. 
Mr.  Redmond  also  belonged  to  the  Chicago 
Bar  Association,  the  Chicago  Athletic  Club,  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Follows,  the  Benev- 
olent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Oak 
Park  Club  and  the  Oak  Park  Country  Club, 
and  in  them,  as  elsewhere,  he  was  held  in  the 
highest  esteem.  Andrew  Jackson  Redmond 
died  November  27,  1918.  Both  in  life  and 
death,  Mr.  Redmond  set  a  strong  and  truly 
beautiful  example  of  upright  earnest  living  and 
highest  integrity. 


BENJAMIN  THOMAS. 


The  remarkable  development  of  the  railroads 
of  the  country  and  their  successful  operation 
have  afforded  ample  opportunities  for  men  of 
unusual  strength,  many  of  whom  have  centered 
their  efforts  at  Chicago,  admittedly  the  rail- 
road center  of  the  United  States.  One  deserv- 
ing of  especial  mention  was  the  late  Benjamin 
Thomas,  president  of  the  Chicago  &  Western 
Indiana  &  Belt  Railroads,  and  a  man  of  uncom- 
mon business  ability. 

Benjamin  Thomas  was  born  at  Towanda. 
Pennsylvania,  October  28,  1839,  a  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Jane  (Savage)  Thomas,  natives  of 
New  York  State.  Mr.  Thomas  attended  school 
at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  later  taught  Latin 
In  the  Lyceum  at  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey.  Edu- 
cational work,  however,  did  not  appeal  to  him, 
and  he  became  a  telegrapher  of  the  Erie  Rail- 
road, thus  entering  on  his  railroad  career.  He 
«howed  such  adaptability  that  his  rise  was  very 
rapid,  and  in  time  he  became  superintendent 
of  the  Delaware  Division  of  the  Erie  Railroad, 
then  general  superintendent,  and  finally  was 
made  general  manager  of  the  road.  In  1887  he 
terminated  his  connection  with  the  Erie  Rail- 
road and  came  to  Chicago  as  general  manager 
of  the  Chicago  &  Atlantic  Railroad.     In  1888 


he  was  appointed)  general  manager  of  the 
Chicago  &  Western  Indiana  &  Belt  Railroad, 
and  still  later  became  president  of  the  sys- 
tem. He  was  chairman  of  the  General  Mana- 
gers Association  for  fifteen  years.  The  con- 
nection of  Mr.  Thomas  with  the  remarkable 
development  of  Chicago's  Railway  facilities 
has  been  of  much  permanent  value. 

In  1861  Mr.  Thomas  was  married  (first) 
to  Eloise  Little  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
and  they  became  the  parents  of  two  children, 
namely :  Mrs.  G.  W.  Bartlett,  of  Racine,  Wis- 
consin ;  and  Holgate  Thomas  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, California.  On  December  18,  1883,  Mr. 
Thomas  was  married  (second)  to  Lillian  Gay- 
lord  of  Port  Jervis,  New  York,  and  they  had 
one  son,  Gaylord  Thomas  of  San  Francisco, 
California.  Mr.  Thomas  for  twenty-three  years 
was  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club.  He  be- 
longed at  the  time  of  his  death  to  the  Chicago 
Club,  the  Chicago  Athletic  Club  and  the  Mid- 
lothian Country  Club.  Mr.  Thomas  will  he 
remembered  by  those  who  knew  him  well  as  a 
constant  student  and  reader.  He  was  a  great 
lover  of  books  and  his  collection  of  them 
was  wonderful.  His  memory  was  most  remark- 
able ;  and  the  outlook  on  life  which  he  had  at- 


BIOGRAPHICAL 


PART  II 


Abt,  Isaac 638 

Ackert,  Charles  H 700 

Adams,  David  T 818 

Adams,  George  E 876 

Adcock,  Edmund 752 

Albright,  Isaac  N 868 

Amerson,  George  C S19 

Amos,  Franklin 754 

Anderson,   Hugh S74 

Anderson,  James  S 77  0 

Anderson,  Peirce S7S 

Andresen,  Marie  0 713 

Appel,  Jacob  M 7  i  2 

Armstrong,  Frank  H 871 

Atkins,  Smith  D 755 

Ayer,  Benjamin  F 756 

Bainbridge,  Thomas  E 045 

Baird,  Harry 870 

Ballard,  Addison 872 

Barker,  David  N" 7  59 

Barnard,  Hayden  S ;< 0 6 

Barnard,  William  W 759 

Barrett,  Channing  W 64  5 

Bartelme,  Mary  M 686 

Bartholf,  Charles  S 885 

Bartlett.  Adolphus  C 936 

Bates.  Eli 925 

Bayley,  Edwin  F 69  6 

Belfield,  Henry  H 760 

Besly.  Charles  H SS7 

Best,  William 8SG 

Betham,  William  R 890 

Billings.  Frank 6  56 

Binks,  Arthur  W 946 

Birkhoff,   Georee.  ,Tr S9  5 

riishop.  Charles  N 723 

Blair,  Chauncey  B 910 

Blatchford.  Eliphalet  W 702 


Blatchford,  Paul 702 

Blish,  David 70S 

Blish,  Frank  D 799 

Block,  Willard  T 763 

Borland,  John  Jay 913 

Borland,  Leonard  C 872 

Botsford,  Henry 765 

Bowman,  William  H 818 

Boynton,  Charles  T 767 

Bradley,  J.  Harley 769 

Bradwell,  James  B 772 

Brauer,  Paul 930 

Brooks,  James  G.  C 924 

Brown,  B.  Frank S98 

Brown,  James  E 644 

Brown,  William  C 643 

Brumiey,  Daniel  J 647 

Brundage,  Edward  J 6  39 

Bryan,  William  S.  P 774 

Bryant.  Henry  W 774 

Buck,  Orlando  J 7  7  <> 

Buckingham,  Clarence 7  21 

Buckingham,  Ebenezer 720 

Buckley,  Edward  J S20 

Buckley,  Homer  J 778 

Buni,  Ira  W 770 

Bunte,  Ferdinand 903 

Burnham.  Edward 900 

Burns,  John  E S99 

Butler,   Nathaniel 773 

Butler,  W.  Seymour 94 S 

Butters,  George 714 

Cable,  Fayette  S 779 

Callahan,  Thomas  H 827 

Cannon,  John  C 905 

Carpenter,  Benjamin 694 

Carpenter.  Myron  J 688 

Cary,  William  M 827 


Cermak,  A.  J 651 

Chambers,  William  E 839 

Channon,  Henry 779 

Charles,  J.  Joseph 905 

Cheever,  Dwight  B 781 

Chenoweth,  Charles  L 906 

Childs,  Albert  H 7S1 

Clark,  Charles  C 831 

Clark,  George  M 717 

Cobb,  Joseph  P 7S2 

Coburn,  Lewis  L 783 

Colleen,  Harry  C 777 

Colbert,  Elias 784 

Colby,  Enoch 7  87 

Cole,  Hugh  A 899 

Comstock,  William  C 878 

Congdon,  James  L 900 

Conover,  Charles  H 716 

Cook,  Carroll  E 649 

Cooke,  Flora  J 7  7  3 

Corydon,  Soren  T 650 

Counselman,  Charles 835 

Counselman,  Charles,  Jr 836 

Cowgill,  Frank  S 789 

Cox,  Rensselaer  W 789 

Cox,  Stephen  W 840 

Cozzens,  Samuel 929 

Crane,  Richard  T 652 

Cratty,  Josiah 8  21 

Cratty,  Thomas 821 

Crerar,  John 67  8 

Cubbins,  William  R 655 

Currey,  J.  Seymour 792 

Davis,   Nathan    S.   Ill 6  59 

Davison,  Charles 661 

Dearborn,  Henry 637 

Del'enbacher,  William  E 663 

De  Puy,  Clarence  E 9  0S 

Dickinson,  Albert 794 

Dickinson,  Jacob  M 6  57 

Dickinson,  Jacob  M.f  Jr 663 

Dietz,  William  H 7 1 S 

^ohnal,  Ignaz 7S2 

Downs,  J.  Edward 832 

Durante,  Oscar 667 

Durland,  Charles  F 062 

Dyer,  Charles  V 7  9  7 

Eastman,  John  R 784 

Eisendrath,  William  N 723 

Ellicott,   Edward  B 83  2 

Estes,  Clarence  E 683 

Fairbank,  Dexter 694 


Fairbank,  Nathaniel  K 692 

Fairman,  Franklin 9  39 

Fallows,  Samuel 642 

Farr,  Albert  G 940 

Farrar,  Arthur 931 

Farrar,  Mrs.  Fannie  E 93  3 

Fentress,  Calvin 921 

Field,  Marshall 6  38 

Fielding,  Edward 9o3 

Forrest,  Joseph  K.  C 7  99 

Forsyth,  Oliver  O soo 

Foss,  Henry  A 901 

Foster,  J.  Frank 736 

Foster,  William  C 7  34 

Fox,  Edward  A 7  35 

Frederick,  Frank 86  7 

Freer,  Lemuel  H 925 

Freer,  Lemuel  C.  P 928 

Friedley,  Albert 9  4  5 

Fuller,  Oliver  F 748 

Fuller,  William  A 941 

Fynn,  John  T 879 

Gardner,  Addison  L 669 

Gardner,  Albert  S 676 

Gardner,  James  P 922 

Gary,  John  W 69 s 

Gillmore,  Robert  A 802 

Good,  Robert  H 67  7 

Gore,  David 94  7 

Gunsaulus,  Frank  W 640 

Guernsey,  Guy 673 

Gurley,  William  W 840 

Hall,  William  H 8  58 

Hallbom,  Gustaf  W 738 

Hambleton,  Clialkley  J 9  20 

Hancock,  John  L 670 

Hancock,  Joseph   L 668 

Hanson,  Burton 923 

Harper,  William  R S03 

Hatch,  Henry  D 84  8 

Haugan,  Helge  A S04 

iwley,  Joseph  R 902 

Healy,  George  P.  A S83 

Healy,  Paul  J 849 

Heath,  Ernest  W 84  6 

Heath,  Wilbur  F S06 

Henderson,  Charles  R 807 

Henneberry,  William  P 73  8 

Heunebohle,  Frank 680 

Hibbard,  William  G 811 

Hill,  Lysander 885 

Hillis,  David  S 679 


Hollister,  William  C 678 

Holmes,  George  B „ 675 

Holt.  George  H 852 

Hook,  Arthur  S 677 

Howard,   B.   Frank 955 

Howell,  Cornelius  Du  Bois S41 

Hoyt,  William  M 019 

Huey,  Arthur  S 813 

Hughes,  William  T 6S2 

Hulbert,  Charles  P 921 

Huibert,  Edmund  D 65S 

Hurd,  Harvey  B 817 

Immel,  John  P G85 

Jeffery,  Edward  T 687 

Johnson,  George  E.  Q 686 

Johnson,   Henry   W 819 

Johnson,  Lorenzo  M 726 

Johnson,  Stewart 728 

Jones,  Arthur  B S42 

Jones,  Walter  C 691 

Kelly,  Dennis  F 695 

Kelly,    Edward  J 689 

Kimbark,   Eugene  U 825 

Kimbell,  Raymond  G 695 

Kleinpell,  Henry  H 693 

Koogler.  Samuel 84  6 

Kuflewski,  Wladyslaw  A 697 

Lambros,  Peter  S 701 

Lamson,  S.  Warren 916 

Lane,  Albert  G 916 

Lathrop,  Barbour 853 

Lathrop.  Bryan 853 

Laubender,  John  F S10 

Law,  Robert 896 

Leath,  Arthur 722 

Leavitt,  Wellington 710 

Lee,  Henry  W 703 

Lewis,  Abner  M S57 

Lindlahr,  Henry 790 

Lloyd,  Frederic  E.  J 69  9 

Loesch,  Frank  J 704 

Logan,  Frank  G 666 

Louderback,  Andrew  V 703 

Lull,   Walter    804 

Lunt,  Orrincton 828 

Lyon,  Thomas  R 943 

MacDowell,  Charles  H 706 

Manierre,  Alfred  E 682 

Manierre,  William  R 9  52 


Manlove,  Gilbert  B 951 

Manson,  William 865 

Marsh,  James  P 830 

Mason,  James  0 860 

Mayer,  Levy 8  31 

McAllister,  George  H 812 

McArthur,  Robert  D 826 

McEwen,  Willard  M 711 

McGinty,  John  B 859 

MeMullen,  Frederic  B 77  5 

Messenger,  Frank  M 795 

Meyne,  Gerhardt  F 705 

Miller,  Albert 735 

Miller,  Darius 660 

Mitchell,  Abraham 918 

Moeng,  Edward  D 813 

Montgomery,  Frank  H 862 

Moorehead,  Frederick  B 733 

Morse,  Andrew  G 7  29 

Muir,  James  B 952 

Murphy,  John  Z 915 

Neff,  James  M 926 

Nelson,  Oliver  R S64 

Nelson,  William  D 928 

Newcomer,   John  R 732 

Niblack,  William  C 914 

Nightingale,  Augustus  F 815 

Noble,  Thomas  A 730 

Nothenberg,  Oscar  J 7  08 

Nuveen,  John,  V 709 

O'Connell,  William  L 734 

Ogren,  John  W 731 

O'Hern,  John  E 801 

O'Heron,  John  J 866 

O'Leary,  John  W 648 

Orr,  Louis  T 710 

Otis,  Lucius  B 834 

Owens,  John  E 676 

Packard,  Frank  1 833 

Palandech,  John  R 745 

Pardridge,  Charles  W 927 

Parkinson,  Robert  H 6S0 

Patch,  William S6S 

Patterson,  Harry  C 770 

Peasley,  James  C 930 

Perryman,  Sydney  E 803 

Pflock,  John  J 742 

Pitcher,  Henry  L 828 

Porter,  Charles  M 865 

Post,  Philip  S 690 

Prussing,  George  C 947 


Puruiort,  Henry  C 796 

Rapp,  Webster  H 807 

Raymer,  Walter  J 741 

Rea,  Robert  L 'J 49 

Redington,  William  H 803 

Redmond,  Andrew  J 953 

Richards,  John  T 739 

Rickards,  William  T 67  4 

Ricketts,  Howard  T S'J4 

Ringling,  Charles  E 684 

Ripley,  Edward  P 8  36 

Riordon,  James  K 728 

Rittenhouse,  Moses  F 888 

Robinson,  William  C 869 

Rogers,  E.  Kendall 740 

Roland,  Anton 743 

Rudolph,   Franklin 805 

Rycroft,  Herbert  E 942 

Schick,  Charles  E 713 

Schoellkopf,  Henry,  II 747 

Schweppe,  Charles  H 672 

Scriven,  William  H 740 

Seabury,  Charles 841 

Sessions,  Henry  H 908  . 

Shedd,  John  G 64  6 

Sheets,  Frederick  H 7  9  9 

Shepherd,  Edward  S 744 

Sherman,  James  M 747 

Sherman,  Roger 746 

Skinner,  Mark 843 

Sloan,  John  J 869 

Spoor,  John  A 70S 

Sprague,  Albert  A 850 

Standish,  Albert  H 907 

Stevens,  Enoch  P 744 

Stevens,  Eugene  M 683 

Stewart,  Hart  L 725 

Stowell,  James  H 937 

Stumer,  Abraham  R 749 

Sturges,   Solomon 719 

Taft,  Oren  B 909 

Talbot,  Eugene  S 757 

Taylor,  Henry  A 764 

Terborgh,  John 760 

Thomas,  Ambrose  L 762 

Thomas,  Benjamin 954 

Thomas,  Frank  H 7  62 


Tilden,  Edward 854 

Towle,   Henry   S 847 

Traylor,  Melvin  A 716 

Trevett,  John  R 704 

Trevett,  Oliver 706 

Tubbs,  Henry 891 

Underwood,  Arthur  W 858 

Vaughan,  Thomas  H 793 

Vllna,  Bret  L 816 

Wakeley,  Arthur  W 665 

Walker,  Henry  H 764 

Walker,  William  Ernest 742 

Ward,  A.  Montgomery 6  50 

Ware,  Lyman 897 

Warren,  William   S 786 

Watson,  William  J 7  66 

Weatherwax,  George  F 766 

Weaver,  Lawrence  G 724 

Wegg,  David  S 938 

Wells,  Dora 855 

Wentworth,  Moses  J 860 

Werelius,  Axel 768 

Wesener,  John  A 7  88 

Westover,  George  F 755 

Whamond,  Alexander  A 719 

Wheeler,  Edwin  S 731 

Whipple,  Charles  B 788 

Whitefield,  George  W 87  9 

Wickwire,  Edward  L 9  37 

Wilder,  Thomas  E 753 

Wilder,  William  H 751 

Wiley,  Willard  R 75  2 

Willard,  Frances  E 64  4 

Williams,   Simeon  B 750 

Wilson,  Everett 943 

Wilson,  John  P 664 

Wilson,  John  R 944 

Wilson,  Warren  B 7  90 

Wilson,  William  L 768 

Winans,  Frank  F 722 

Wisner,  Albert 861 

Wixon,  Charles  F 896 

Wolff,  Herbert  W 737 

Woltersdorf,  Ernest 758 

Woolman,  Maurice 829 

Young,  Aaron  N 863 


PORTRAITS 


PARTS  I-II 


Ackert,  Charles  H 700 

Adams,  David  T 818 

Adams,  George  E 876 

Altgeld.  John  P 270 

Am orson,  George  C 8 1  9 

Anderson,  H.  Louisa  Peirce S74 

Anderson,   Hugh 874 

Anderson,  James  S 770 

Anderson,  Peirce 874 

Anderson  Medals 874 

Anderson  Mural 874 

Andresen,  Marie  O.  . 713 

Appel,  Jacob  M 712 

Armstrong,  Frank   H S71 

Bainbridge,  Thomas  E 945 

Barnard,  Hayden   S 906 

Barnard,   Richard 006 

Barnard.  William  W 750 

Bartelme,  Mary  M 686 

Bartlett,  Adolphus  C 936 

Bateman,  Newton 

Following  Title  Page  Vol.  I 

Bates,  Eli 9  25 

Bayley.  Edwin  F 696 

Besly,  Charles  H 887 

Beverage,  John  L 266 

Billings,  Frank 6  56 

Binks,  Arthur  W 946 

Bishop,  Charles  N 724 

Bissell,  William  H 258 

Black   Hawk    (Chief) 170 

Black  Hawk  (Statue) 614 

Blair,  Chauncey  B 910 

Blatchford,  Eliphalet  W 702 

Blish,  David 70S 

Blish,   Frank   D 700 

Bond,  Shadrach 250 

Borland,  John  Jay 913 


Borland,  Leonard  C 872 

Bowman,  William  H 817 

Brauer,  Paul 930 

Brooks,  James  G.  C 924 

Buckingham,  Clarence 721 

Buckingham,   Ebenezer 720 

Buckingham  Memorial  Fountain.  .  .  .  720 

Buckley,  Edward  J. 820 

Buell,  Ira  W ' 771 

Butler,  Nathaniel 77  2 

Butler,  W.  Seymour 948 

Butters,  George 714 

Callahan,  Thomas  H 827 

Carlin,  Thomas 258 

Carpenter,  Benjamin 694 

Carpenter,  Myron  J 688 

Cary,  William  M 826 

Channon,  Henry 770 

Chambers,  William  E .  8  39 

Charles,  J.  Joseph 005 

Cheever,  Dwight  B 7S1 

Chicagou    (Chief) 246 

Childs,  Albert  H 782 

Clark,  Charles  C 830 

Clark,  George  M 717 

Coffeen,  Harry  C 777 

Cole.  Hugh  A 800 

Coles,  Edward 254 

Comstock,  Charles 878 

Comstock,  Julia 878 

Comstock,  William 878 

Congdon,  James  L 900 

Conover,  Charles  H 716 

Counselman,  Charles 835 

Counselman,  Charles,  Jr 83  6 

Cooke,  Flora  J 773 

Cox.  Stephen  W 840 

Cozzens,  Samuel 929 


Crane,  Richard  T C52 

Cratty,  Josiah 821 

Cratty,  Thomas S22 

Crerar,  John G7S 

Crerar  Adams  Buildings 745 

Cullom,  Shelby  M 2G6 

Dearborn,   Henry 637 

Deneen,  Charles  S 274 

Dietz,  William  H 71 S 

Dohnal,  Ignaz 7S3 

Downs,  J.  Edward 831 

Duncan,  Joseph 254 

Dunne,  Edward  F 274 

Eastman,  John  R 784 

Edwards,  Ninian 250 

Eisendrath,  William  N 72  3 

Ellicott,  Andrew S3 3 

Ellicott,  Edward  B 8  32 

Ewing,  William  L.  D 2  54 

Fairbank,  Nathaniel  K G92 

Fairman,  Franklin 939 

Fallows,  Samuel 642 

Karr,  Albert  G 9  40 

Farrar,  Arthur 931 

Farrar,  Fannie  E 933 

Field,  Marshall 63S 

Fielding,  Edward '.'03 

Fifer,  Joseph  W 270 

Ford,  Thomas 25S 

Foss,  Henry  A 901 

Foster,  Agness  Greene 734 

Foster,  J.  Frank 736 

Foster,  William  C 734 

Fox,  Edward  A 735 

French,  Augustus  C 258 

Fuller,  Oliver  F 74S 

Fuller,  Roswell 74  9 

Fuller,  William  A 941 

Fynn,  John  T 8S0 

Gardner,  James  P 922 

Gary,  John  W 69S 

Gunsa<"us,  Frank  W 640 

Gurley,  William  W S3S 

Hall,  William  H S58 

Hallbom,  Gustaf  W 73S 

Hambleton,  Chalkley  J 9  20 

Hamilton,  John  M 266 

Hancock,  John  L 670 

Hancock,  Joseph  L 66 S 


Hanson,  Burton 9  23 

Hatch,  Henry  D 84S 

Hawley,  Joseph  R 902 

Healy,  George  P.  A s  s  3 

Healy,  Paul  J 849 

Heath,  Ernest 84  6 

Heath,  Monroe 84 G 

Heuneberry,  William  P 739 

Hill,  Lysander 885 

Holt,  De  Villo  R 851 

Holt,  George  H 852 

Howard,  B.  Frank 955 

Howell,  Cornelius  Du  Bois 841 

Hoyt,  Phelps  B 919 

Hulbert,  Charles  P 921 

Hulbert,  Edmund  D 658 

Johnson,  Lorenzo  M 726 

Johnson,  Stewart 7  28 

Jones,  Arthur  B 842 

Koogler,  Samuel S47 

Lamson,  S.  Warren 916 

Lane,  Albert  G 917 

LaSalle,  Rene  Robert 24 G 

Lathrop,  Barbour 853 

Lathrop,  Bryan 854 

Laubender,  John  F s  1 0 

Law,  Robert S96 

Leath.  Arthur 722 

Leavitt,  Wellington 710 

Lennington,  William 704 

Lewis,  Abner  M 857 

Lincoln,  Abraham Frontispiece  Vol.  I 

Lindlahr,  Henry 791 

Logan,  Frank  G 666 

Lowden,  Frank  O 274 

Lull,  Walter 804 

Manierre,  Alfred  E 6S2 

Manlove,  Gilbert  B 951 

Mason,  James  O S60 

Matteson,  John  A 25S 

Messenger,  Frank  M 79  5 

McAllister,  George  H 812 

McEwen,  Willard  M 711 

McGinty,  John  B 859 

McMullen,  Frederic  B 775 

Miller,  Albert 735 

Miller,  Darius 660 

Mitchell,   Abraham 918 

Moeng,  Edward  D S13 

Montgomery,  Frank  H 862 


Moorehead,  Frederick  B 1 733 

Morse,  Andrew  G 729 

Muir,  James  B 9  52 

Murphy,  John  Z 915 

Neff,  James  M 9  26 

Nelson,  Oliver  R 86  4 

Nelson.  William  D 928 

Newcomer,  John  R 73  2 

Niblack,  William  C 914 

Nightingale,  Augustus  F SI 5 

Noble,  Thomas  A 730 

Oglesby,  Richard  J 262 

O'Hern,  John  E 801 

O'Heron,  John  J •. S66 

Owens,  John  E 676 

Palmer,  John  M 266 

Pardridge,  Charles  W 927 

Parkinson,  Robert  H 680 

Parsons,  Lucius  V 787 

Patch,  William 868 

Perryman,  Sydney  E 803 

Pflock,  John  J 742 

Phelps,  Charles 931 

Pitcher.  Henry  L 828 

Porter,  Charles  1ST S65 

Post,  Philip  S 600 

Prussing,  George  C 947 

Purmort,  Henry  C 706 

Purmort,  Mrs.  Henry  C 707 

Rapp,  Webster  H 807 

Rea,  Robert  L 949 

Redington,  William  H S02 

Redmond,  Andrew  J 9  53 

Reynolds,  John 254 

Rickards,  William  T 674 

Ricketts,  Howard  T 894 

Ringling,  Charles  E 684 

Rittenhouse.  Moses  F 888 

Robinson,  William  C 869 

Rogers,  E.  Kendall 74  0 

Rudolph,  Franklin 806 

Rycroft,  Herbert  E 942 

Schweppe,  Charles  H 672 

Scriven,  William  H 741 

Selby,  Paul.  .  .Following  Title  Page  Vol.  I 

Sessions,  Henry  H 908 

Shedd,  John  G 646 

Shedd  Aquarium 648 

Sheets,  Frederick  H '  800 


Shepherd,  Edward  S 745 

Sherman,  James  M 747 

Sherman,  Roger 746 

Shultz,  Frank 817 

Sloan,  John  J 870 

Small,  Lennington 274 

Spoor,  John  A 70S 

Standish,   Albert  H 007 

St.  Clair,  Arthur 250 

Stevens,  Enoch  P 74  4 

Stewart,  Hart  L 725 

Sturges,   Solomon 719 

Taft,  Oren  B 909 

Talbot,  Eugene  S 757 

Tanner,  John  R 270 

Taylor,  Henry  A 764 

Terborgh,  John 760 

Thomas,  Ambrose  L 762 

Thomas,  Benjamin 054 

Thomas.  Frank  H 7  63 

Tonty,  Henry  de 246 

Trevett,  John  R 704 

Trevett,  Oliver 706 

Tubbs,  Henry 891 

Vaughan,  Thomas  H 793 

Vilna,  Bret  L S16 

Walker,  Henry  H 765 

Walker,  William  Ernest 74  3 

War  Eagle  (Chief) 246 

Ward,  A.  Montgomery 650 

Ward,  Mrs.  A.  Montgomery 650 

Ward  Memorial  Building 6  50 

Ware,  Lyman 897 

Warren,  William  S 786 

Watson,  William  J 766 

Weatherwax,  George  F 767 

Wegg,  David  S 938 

Wells,  Dora 855 

Werelius,  Axel 76S 

Wesener,  John  A 788 

Wesener,  Mrs.  John  A 788 

Westover,  George  F 755 

Wheeler,  Edwin  S 731 

Whipple,  Charles  B 780 

Whitefield,  George  W 870 

Wick  wire,  Edward  L 937 

Wilder,  Thomas  E 753 

Wiley,  Willard  R 752 

Willard,  Frances  E 64  4 

Williams,  Simeon  B 750 

Wilson,  Everett 943 


Wilson,  John  P 664  Woltersdorf,  Ernest 75S 

Wilson,  John  R 944  Wood,  John 262 

Wilson,  "Warren  B 790  Woolman,  Maurice S29 

Wilson,  William  L 769 

Wisner,  Albert 861  Yates,  Richard,  Jr 270 

Wixon,  Charles  F 895  Yates,  Richard,  Sr 262 


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tained,  through  his  books  and  through  his  per- 
sonal touch  with  business  affairs  of  large  mo- 


ment,  was    most   broad   and   charitable, 
jamin  Thomas  died  January  6,   1921. 


Ben- 


B.  FRANK  HOWARD. 


There  are  many  high  rewards  in  character 
and  in  influence  that  may  be  gained  through 
a  life  of  earnest  endeavor,  guided  and  regu- 
lated by  a  sense  of  broad  obligation.  Such  a 
life  was  that  of  the  late  B.  Frank  Howard.  Mr. 
Howard  came  to  Chicago  in  1858,  where  he 
gained,  step  by  step,  the  fruits  of  well  directed 
effort,  becoming  internationally  known  as  an 
authority  on  grain  and  provision  statistics. 

We  print  here  a  brief  sketch  of  Mr.  Howard, 
for  his  years  have  been  filled  with  substantial 
results.  He  was  born  near  Phoenixville,  Penn- 
sylvania, January  3,  1839,  the  son  of  Thomas 
Marlow  and  Elizabeth  (Thomas)  Howard,  both 
of  whom  were  natives  of  Pennsylvania.  His 
mother  died  when  he  was  fourteen  years  of 
age,  and  circumstances  made  it  necessary  that 
he  become  self-supporting.  He  went  to  work 
in  a  local  newspaper  office  at  Norristown,  Penn- 
sylvania, learning  the  compositor's  trade.  When 
he  was  nineteen,  he  came  West  with  his  em- 
ployer, Mr.  J.  K.  Moore,  who  intended  estab- 
lishing a  newspaper  in  the  town  of  Clinton, 
Iowa.  Circumstances  did  not  warrant  the  ven- 
ture, so  Mr.  Howard  came  to  Chicago.  This  was 
in  1858.  Since  that  year  until  his  death  he  was 
continuously  active  in  business  here,  a  leading 
statistician  and  publisher  of  grain  and  market 
reports. 

On  December  1,  1862,  Mr.  Howard  became  a 
member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade  and 
was  connected  with  "Wells'  Commercial  Ex- 
press." On  May  1,  1867,  he  began  his  own  pub- 
lication later  known  as  "The  Daily  Trade  Bul- 


letin," devoted  to  the  reporting  and  printing  of 
market  reports.  This  business  proceeded  under 
Mr.  Howard's  guidance  for  a  period  of  fifty- 
four  years.  He  continued  actively  engaged  in 
publishing  "The  Daily  Trade  Bulletin"  up  to 
his  eighty-third  year  and  was  a  much  beloved 
figure  in  Board  of  Trade  circles. 

In  1917,  the  long  established  firm  of  Howard, 
Bartels  &  Co.  was  incorporated  with  Mr.  How- 
ard as  president.  Mr.  Howard  was  secretary  of 
the  National  Pork  Packers'  Association  in  1873- 
5,  and  was  also  a  former  secretary  of  the  Chi- 
cago Packers'  Association.  He  served  many 
years  as  delegate  from  the  Chicago  Board  of 
Trade  to  the  National  Board  of  Trade  at  Wash- 
ington :  he  also  served  on  the  Committee  on  Crop 
Reports,  and  was  a  member  of  the  executive 
council  of  the  National  Board  of  Trade. 

Mr.  Howard  was  married  in  Chicago,  on  De- 
cember 22,  1862.  to  Sarah  Elkins  Whitney,  a 
daughter  of  John  G.  and  Lucinda  (Titus)  Elk- 
tns.  He  is  survived  by  his  widow,  three  daugh- 
ters, Annie  Elizabeth  Howard,  Sarah  (Mrs. 
George  C.  Winslow),  and  Grace  (Mrs.  D.  Amos 
Johnson),  and  one  son,  Frank  Russell  Howard, 
who  succeeds  him  as  publisher  of  "The  Daily 
Trade  Bulletin." 

Mr.  Howard  belonged  to  the  Old-Time  Print- 
ers' Association.  He  was  a  Mason,  belonging  to 
Hesperia  Lodge,  No.  411,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  to 
the  Masonic  Veteran  Association.  Mr.  Howard 
passed  away  at  his  home  in  Chicago,  on  De- 
cember 15,  1921.