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 THE CHICAGO BAR; 
 
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 LAWYERS AND JUDGES 
 
 OF THE CITY AND SUBURBAN TOWNS, 
 
 BT F B. WILKIE, (FOLIC/ TO.) 
 
 CHICAGO: 
 Published by Henry A. Sumner, iio Dearborn Street. 
 
 1871. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 The subject-matter herewith given, was written 
 for, and published in, The Sunday Times of this 
 city. The sketches- are no v?{ -presented in book form, 
 after having received important "revision, alteration, 
 and addition. 
 
 The arrangement of the articles in Part I is with 
 reference to seniority; in Parts II, III, IV, and V, the 
 order of succession is mainly one of convenience. 
 
I. 
 
 william k. McAllister. 
 
 Although Judge McAllister has been recently promoted to the 
 bench of the Supreme Court of Illinois, at the present time of writing 
 it is deemed best to notice him as a lawyer. Up to a very recent 
 date, he has been identified with the legal fraternity; and his charac- 
 ter as a lawyer is yet too fresh in the minds of all to permit his being 
 passed over as not belonging to this branch of the legal profession. 
 
 Judge McAllister is now about fifty-two years of age, and he was 
 born on a farm, in Salem, Washington county, New York. He 
 remained on the farm until he was about eighteen years of age, when 
 he entered college, and was obliged to leave without graduating, 
 owing to ill health. He then devoted some time to hunting and fish- 
 ing, and a general out-door life, in order to recuperate. At the age of 
 twenty-one he began the study of law in Wayne county, under a 
 lawyer named Henry, finished his studies in Yates county, and then 
 removed to Albion, where he resided some ten years. 
 
 While in Albion he steadily followed his profession, and was 
 brought into contact with some of the best legal minds of the State, 
 and thereby secured an experience and a discipline which, to a young 
 lawyer, were invaluable. In 1854 he came to Chicago, and since 
 that period until his promotion to the Supreme bench, he followed 
 his chosen profession. His official life is easily summed up. He ran 
 against Jameson as a candidate for Judge of the Superior Court in 
 1866, but was unsuccessful. In 1868 he ran for Judge of the Recor- 
 der's Court, and was overwhelmingly elected. In 1870 he was 
 elected a Judge of the Supreme Court, which position he now 
 occupies. 
 
 In personal appearance Judge McAllister is attractive. He is of 
 medium height, has a well-rounded figure, and a massive forehead, 
 whose character is not detracted from by the intense humaneness of 
 the face and womanly eyes below. His mouth is small and sensitive, 
 his eyes large', lustrous and blue, and his cheeks clean shaven. There 
 
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 is nothing effeminate in the face, yet it is so fine and kindly that it 
 becomes benignant in some of its expressions. This fineness, this 
 sensitiveness, this warm humanity, are major qualities in his make-up, 
 and are potent in their consequences with reference to every act of 
 his private and his professional life. 
 
 As may be inferred, these generous elements in his character very 
 largely influence him in the practice of his profession. He is too 
 kindly to be unjust, too humane to be ever found save on the side 
 which he conscientiously believes to be right. A result of this is that 
 he has always gone before a court or a jury with such a profound 
 conviction of the justice of his cause that this fact alone has carried 
 great weight, and has been a prime element in the success which has 
 attended him. 
 
 As a lawyer, he possesses great industry, a very comprehensive 
 knowledge of the law, and a logical ability, the general result of which 
 is that he rarely if ever makes any blunders. His decisions, while on the 
 Recorder's bench, when taken to the Supreme Court, with a single 
 exception, came back sustained. He combines in himself the better 
 qualities of an attorney and an advocate. He can prepare his own 
 brief with a perfection that permits of no flaw, and then try it in so 
 masterly a manner that the success of his client has nearly always 
 been assured when he agrees to accept a retainer. Before a jury, he 
 always was effective from the sincerity before spoken of, and which, 
 with his entire truthfulness, his complete avoidance of anything like 
 trickery or buncombe, his clear knowledge of the case, has given him 
 an eloquence whose power was infinitely in excess of that of any pro- 
 fessed and pretentious elocutionist. 
 
 No lawyer in Chicago stands higher than Judge McAllister. His 
 integrity, humanity and sincerity have become proverbial; and so 
 high is his personal character, that he has escaped even the attacks of 
 political partisanship. In his private life he is no less elevated than 
 in his professional career. He is fond of the society of personal 
 friends; and when he unbends himself from the official strain he has 
 all the elasticity and freshness of boyhood. He rarely goes into general 
 society, but has intense domesticity, and finds no place so attractive 
 as home, with its luxuries, its music, its affections and its beauties. 
 In fine, whether regarded as an official or a private citizen, Judge 
 McAllister is a gentleman whose intellect is superior, and whose 
 life and motives are absolutely above all reproach. 
 
JOSEPH KNOX. 
 
 JOSEPH KNOX. 
 
 This gentleman belongs to the former generation, but he also 
 belongs to the profession both of Chicago and the West, and therein 
 is entitled to a place in the present group of celebrities. He was born 
 in Blanford, Massachusetts, in 1805. He studied law with his 
 brother, General Alanson Knox, in his native town, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1828. He then removed to Worcester county, in the 
 same State, and commenced the practice of his profession, and while 
 there was thrown into competition with such men as Hon. John 
 Davis, Rejoice Newton, Charles Allen, Ira Barton, Pliny Merrick 
 and Emory Washburne, all of whom are now dead save the last 
 named. 
 
 In 1837 he removed West with his family to Stephenson, now 
 Rock Island county, Illinois, where he continued in the practice of 
 law for twenty-three years. During the most of that period he was 
 associated with Hon. John W. Drury, under the name of Knox & 
 Drury, a firm whose name has been heard and made familiar through- 
 out the entire West. During most of the time, the Rock Island cir- 
 cuit embraced some ten adjacent counties, in addition to practicing in 
 all of which, Mr. Knox's professional labors carried him into Peoria 
 and Knox counties, in which he met such men as Judges Purple and 
 Peters, L. B. Knowlton and Julius Manning, who were his associates 
 or competitors in all these districts, and among whom there sprang 
 into existence a deep personal attachment and intimacy, as was also 
 , the case at Rock Island with Judge I. O. Wilkinson, now of Chicago, 
 and his partner, Judge Pleasants. 
 
 Mr. Knox removed to Chicago in i860, and soon after was made 
 State's Attorney, a position which he held for four years, until it 
 passed by election to his then partner, the present incumbent, Charles 
 H. Reed. Since that period, Mr. Knox has been in general practice, 
 and now, although sixty-six years of age, he walks daily a distance of 
 four miles to and from his office, and has not seen a day's illness in 
 thirty years. Mr. Knox is a trifle below medium height, is slender, 
 with gray hair and beard, and blue eyes. His head is large, and filled 
 with a brain of enormous power. His great success in his profession 
 
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 is so well known that more than mere allusion to it here would be 
 superfluous. He is an advocate, and it was said of him by Judge 
 McLean : " He is the most powerful jury advocate I ever had before 
 me." 
 
 Among the many highly important cases in which he has been 
 engaged, and the trial of which has made his name prominent on the 
 list of leading lawyers in the West, may be mentioned the trial of the 
 murderers of Colonel Davenport, at Rock Island, in 1846; the suc- 
 cessful defense, at Iowa City, in 1857, of the nine men charged with the 
 murder of Boyd Wilkinson, and which trial lasted an entire month ; 
 the successful defense, in the United States Court held in Chicago by 
 Justice McLean, some twelve years ago, in the case of the owners of 
 the steamer Effie Afton against the Rock Island Bridge Company; 
 the Frink and Walker case; the Hopps murder trial; the case against 
 Judge Scates ; and many others of like importance. 
 
THOMAS HOYNE. 
 
 THOMAS HOYNE. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne is scarcely now in the active practice of the profession of 
 law. He has had a long and active as well as brilliant career in Chicago 
 and the West as a lawyer, a politician, and an official. Just now he is 
 rather reclining upon his honors, and is bringing to the front members 
 of his own family, whom, in the liberal professions, he proposes to make 
 as prominent as he has been, oris himself. Although somewhat with- 
 drawn from the practice of his chosen profession, he has been so long 
 identified with the bar of Chicago, and the political interests of the 
 West, that an omission of his name in an article of the present char- 
 acter would leave it noticeably incomplete. His life is of value as 
 teaching what may be accomplished by industry and a determination 
 to permit no obstacle to interfere with a rapid progress. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne was born in New York city in 1817, and he there 
 attended school until 1830. He was then apprenticed to a manufac- 
 turer of fancy goods, and remained at the business until 1835. 
 Having, during his apprenticeship, found time to cultivate his intellect, 
 and the acquaintance of some eminent men, he determined to study 
 law. He worked in a wholesale grocery in the day time and studied 
 at night, during a year. He then entered the law office of Hon. John 
 Brinkenhoff, and remained another year, and then, in 1837, he 
 followed an old friend to Chicago. He obtained employment in the 
 Circuit Clerk's office, studied hard all the while, taught for a time in 
 one of the public schools, took up Latin and French in addition to 
 law, and in 1839 completed his legal studies in the office of Hon. J. 
 Y. Scammon, and was very soon afterward admitted to the bar. 
 
 From that period down to the present time, Mr. Hoyne has been 
 prominently before the people of Chicago. He was City Clerk in 
 1840, and in 1841, he drew up a memorial to Congress praying for 
 the completion of the harbor of this city — an exhaustive and able 
 document. He is the author of the first thanksgiving proclamation 
 ever issued in Illinois. He removed to Galena for two years, and then 
 returned to Ch icago, and was elected Probate Judge in 1847 ; and after 
 the election of Pierce he was made United States District Attorney for 
 the District of Illinois. In 1859 he was made United States Marshal 
 for the Northern District of this State. 
 
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 In other respects Mr. Hoyne has been very prominent and active. 
 He has given his personal influence in every national canvass which 
 has occurred since his residence in Chicago. He has been a speaker 
 and writer of incessant activity on every public question of importance 
 that has come before the public. During the war he was, with 
 Judges Drummond, John M. Wilson, Arrington and others, a member 
 of the Union Defense Committee ; and it was he who wrote the cele- 
 brated address that was issued by that committee over the signature 
 of John M. Wilson as chairman. He has been president of the 
 Young Men's Association, and in the work of building up the 
 Chicago University he has been an untiring laborer and a munificent 
 patron. In fine, in all the monuments of law, literature, and politics, 
 erected in Chicago, there appear material elements which are the 
 handiwork of the subject of this notice. As a lawyer, he has occupied 
 a position second to but few, which fact, in connection with his vast 
 labors in other directions, proves his great industry and his high ability. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Hoyne is a very marked man. His 
 eyes are black and piercing, his countenance swarthy, his features 
 regular, and his hair jet black and curly. He is erect, rather haughty 
 in his carriage, and resembles more than anything else, an intellectual 
 and aristocratic outgrowth of southern Europe. His appearance is 
 changing, sometimes being sunny and genial, and at other times 
 haughty and distrait, with a hint of savagery, as if he were about 
 going on the war-path. He is a man of an irascible disposition, but 
 who while quick to resent is equally ready to pardon, or to confess 
 an error when one has been committed. He is eminently chivalrous 
 in all his feelings, and is one of the most thorough and finished gen- 
 tlemen at the Chicago bar. He is impulsive to a very high degree, 
 and while acting from these motives is always prepared to review his 
 course in his cooler moments, and to pronounce as dispassionately 
 with reference to himself as to another. He is thoroughly respected, 
 not only as a lawyer, but as a citizen. His quick, impetuous nature 
 inclines him to warm attachments; and he is one whose positive views 
 of everybody inclines him either to like or dislike everything with 
 which he comes in contact. He is indifferent in his regard to but 
 few people whom he knows, and for this reason he includes every- 
 body among his friends or enemies. That the latter are the few, and 
 the former the many, is proof positive of his geniality and his just 
 discrimination of character. In his life he has furnished a model 
 which every young man of Chicago can study and imitate with profit. 
 
WILLIAM C. GOUDY. II 
 
 WILLIAM C. GOUDY. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Indiana in 1824, and eight years 
 afterward removed to Illinois, and has resided here ever since. He 
 graduated at the Illinois College in 1845, and read law at Springfield 
 under Judge T. Logan. He began his professional career in 1848 in 
 Fulton county, and remained there until 1S60. During this period he 
 practiced in several adjacent counties of the Military Tract, in the 
 Supreme Court, and the United States courts of Springfield. He 
 was a partner of Judge Wead, now of Peoria, until that gentleman 
 was elected Judge in 1853. When he commenced practice he encoun- 
 tered Archibald Williams, O. H. Browning, Julius Manning, Judge 
 Purple, Chief Justice Lawrence, Cyrus Walker, Thomas J. Harris, 
 the late President Lincoln, and other distinguished lawyersof central 
 Illinois, and in that school was compelled to triumph or fail. His 
 progress was rapid, so that he was the acknowledged leader of that 
 portion of the bar when he made this city his home. In 1S56 he was 
 sent to the State Senate from the counties of Fulton and McDonough, 
 and he served the State in this legislative capacity for four years. 
 From 1 85 2 to 1855 he was State's Attorney of the Tenth Judicial 
 District, but resigned his office to give his attention more largely to 
 civil practice. 
 
 The positions of Senator and State's Attorney are the only official 
 ones Mr. Goudy has ever held, although he has been presented for 
 other offices. He was a candidate for United States Senator in 1863, 
 and the year before was also a candidate for the Constitutional Con- 
 vention, but was unsuccessful in both cases. At the close of 1859 he 
 removed to Chicago, since which he has resided here, and has prac- 
 ticed his profession in the Federal and State Courts, and also in the 
 Supreme Court at Washington. The reports of the Supreme Court 
 of Illinois show Mr. Goudy to have been an extensive practitioner 
 from 1853 to the present time, and his cases may be found in every 
 volume of the forty volumes since he argued his first case before that 
 tribunal. There is no practitioner in the State who has had a greater 
 number of cases before the Supreme Court than Mr. Goudy, and of 
 these many are of the greatest importance. In closing this outline of 
 nis public life, it may be added that Mr. Goudy once took an active 
 
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 personal interest in politics; and while doing so achieved a reputation 
 second to no amateur politician in Illinois. Latterly he has totally 
 abandoned politics, and he now devotes himself exclusively to his 
 profession. 
 
 Mr. Goudy is of medium height and build. He has blue or gray 
 eyes and regular features, whose expression when in repose, or in the 
 presence of strangers, would seem to rather repel intimacy. Still, 
 sometimes in conversation, or during the delivery of a speech, the 
 face lights up and glows, and then becomes genial, expressive and 
 inviting. 
 
 As a general practitioner and real estate lawyer, Mr. Goudy takes 
 no second position at the Chicago bar. He wastes no words in pre- 
 senting a case, but goes directly to the point, and holds himself to it 
 until the subject is completely exhausted. Thoroughly posted on 
 authorities, he presents them clearly and in logical order; and thus, 
 while scarcely ever rhetorically brilliant, he is thoroughly effective. 
 His opinions on real estate matters are the result of an extended 
 knowledge of authorities, an intimate acquaintance with the routine 
 and practice involved in such business, and an observation sharpened 
 by long experience. He unravels without seeming difficulty the most 
 intricate questions, and patiently but surely reaches conclusions that 
 are rarely other than sound and complete. 
 
 One of his marked qualities is an intense secretiveness. He is 
 reticent, and is always a sort of locomotive enigma. In the prepara- 
 tion of a charter or legislative act, he evinces vast foresight, and in 
 any litigation which may grow from any such charters or acts, he is 
 able, with almost entire certainty, to anticipate the decision of the 
 higher courts. As a counsellor he is a very prudent man, and he will 
 never give a client an opinion that will be likely to involve him in a 
 losing litigation. He prepares a case with the utmost care, tries it 
 closely, discusses legal questions arising with great clearness, is per- 
 fectly unmoved during its progress, and accepts defeat or victory with 
 a passionless face and an imperturbability that are adamantine in 
 their character. 
 
 In his private life Mr. Goudy is characterized by a large develop- 
 ment of domestic qualities of a high order. He has acquired a fortune 
 from the practice of his profession, and possesses a home to whose 
 adornment he gives all the time which can be spared from his office 
 life. He is a competent lawyer, a respected citizen, and a gentleman 
 who fully appreciates and enjoys the comforts of a luxurious home. 
 
CORYDON BECKWITH. 13 
 
 CORYDON BECKWITH. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Vermont in 1823. He was educated 
 in Providence, Rhode Island, and in Brentham, Massachusetts. He 
 studied law in St. Albans, Vermont, and was admitted to the bar of 
 that place in 1S44; and two years later he was admitted to the bar of 
 Maryland. He commenced the practice of law in St. Albans in 
 1S47, and remained there until 1853, when he removed to Chicago. 
 Since residing here he served a limited term on the Supreme 
 bench, having been appointed to that position by Governor Yates. 
 
 In personal appearance, Judge Beckwith is not what would be 
 considered an Adonis, although his looks indicate intellect and energy. 
 He is of veiy substantial build, with a large, well-balanced head, 
 prominent and large black eyes, a swarthy complexion, black hair, 
 and a clean-shaved face. His whole appearance suggests strength, 
 resolution and secresy. His face is strong rather than refined ; and 
 his mental characteristics seem the reflection of his massive, strong- 
 built physical organization. He is more of the weaver's beam, the 
 pile-driving class of mechanism than that of a music-box. 
 
 In his mental development, Judge Beckwith is a remarkable man. 
 He is universally conceded to be, in many essential particulars, the 
 very strongest lawyer at this bar. As a lawyer, he has very profound 
 learning. He is one who is governed by principles, and not cases. 
 He is a man who always presents what he has to offer to a court and 
 jury in a novel and forcible manner. He is, perhaps, less a mere 
 advocate than some others in the profession ; but his chief ability lies 
 in a different and a higher direction. It is entirely safe to say of him 
 that, as an opponent, he is the most dangerous lawyer in the West. 
 
 Perhaps there is no member of the legal profession in this city 
 whom it is not more easy to accurately describe than Judge Beckwith. 
 He is, above all things, reticent and secretive, and is none the less so 
 that at times, when necessity demands, he seems boyishly frank, and 
 ingenuously communicative. He has the frankness of a Talleyrand, 
 who communicates to one just what he desires to say, and no more. 
 It is for this reason that a faithful description of him is a matter of 
 
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 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 supreme difficulty. One does not always know him, who apparently 
 is in a position to know him best. These peculiarities are not asserted 
 to be a defect in his composition; they may be, and undoubtedly are, 
 a necessary development of his character as a great manager. 
 
 It is as a manager, a director of operations, that he assumes a grand 
 position. He is a man who can originate a line of offense or defense 
 better, possibly, than any lawyer in Chicago. He has also the ability 
 to execute; but perhaps this quality in his character does not 
 receive the recognition it deserves, for various reasons. Principally is 
 this the case from the fact that he is oftener called upon to plan than 
 to carry out what he has designed. He is somewhat in the position 
 of a leader of a great army whose corps d'armee are operating over 
 an extended country. In such a case, the leader is not called on to 
 execute. He directs movements, and leaves their execution to subor- 
 dinates. Constantly consulted" in cases of all kinds, by all classes, 
 and more especially by lawyers, Judge Beckwith devises operations 
 for them, lays out the plan of carrying them through, and then leaves 
 the minutia? to their action. From this fact has grown the impression 
 that he can not execute, whereas the truth is that he has demonstrated 
 the exact contrary in many cases, while it is further true that he has 
 not the time to, nor is there a necessity for, his devoting himself to 
 details. It may also be added that he is often the hidden inspiration 
 in many a case in which others appear as the prominent figures, while 
 they are in reality but instruments, moved by wires whose termina- 
 tion and moving power are not seen or suspected by the public. 
 
 The inference is unavoidable from this statement, that he acts 
 frequently by indirection. This is true. He seems to often prefer 
 this method of attack and defense. It leaves the real origin of the 
 forces in operation a mystery, and therein baffles those against whom 
 they are directed. From this fact may have grown the impression 
 that he is a lobbyist in politics; but in this respect it is entirely safe 
 to say that he is not a success, whatever may be his aspirations in that 
 direction. He may occasionally be seen about the outer circle of the 
 halls of legislation, but, whatever he may desire there, or whatever 
 may be his success, it is certain that he belongs to judicial rather than 
 legislative departments, and that his true role is that of the legal man- 
 ager. In this line of effort he has few rivals and no superior. He 
 is not only a very profound lawyer, but he is a diplomatic lawyer in 
 addition. He adds to his exhaustive knowledge of law, a thorough 
 knowledge of all its mechanism, of human nature — such as may be 
 
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 required to be operated upon in a legal direction — and of all the 
 appliances which must be employed to achieve success. 
 
 Present defeat does not baffle, nor does a sudden, unexpected and 
 pressing emergency unnerve or discompose him. He is so fertile in 
 invention, and so experienced in details, that nothing can find him 
 unprepared, or throw him from his balance. He has not only a great 
 legal mind, but he has the mind, the secretiveness, the resolution, the 
 nerve of a diplomatist. He can not only operate all the tremendous 
 machinery of law, but he can bring to its aid, in any desired direction, 
 the powerful mechanism of secret influences, remote personal efforts, 
 and a complication of agencies, that are the more potential in that 
 they are invisible, and almost always unsuspected. Men who have 
 him as an opponent, have not merely to combat the lawyer who is 
 familiar with all principles and precedents, and rules of practice, but 
 also a supreme and sagacious management, whose character and 
 power are never known until the moment of their development. 
 There is no more industrious member of the legal profession than 
 Judge Beckwith, and there rarely occurs a case of more than average 
 importance in which he is not retained. He excels in the preparation 
 of condensed, pertinent briefs, and in the handling of cases in which 
 there are no precedents, and in which he originates or discovers the 
 legal principles necessaiy to their successful disposition. As an orig- 
 inator he is just as remarkable as he is a manager, and in both these 
 respects he probably stands without a rival. 
 
 Socially, Judge Beckwith is very agreeable. His knowledge of 
 men is vast, and in this he possesses a never-ending fund of interest- 
 ing information. He is much liked by those who are intimate with 
 him, and he adds to his personal popularity the renown of being among 
 the very first lawyers, not merely of Chicago, but of the country. He 
 is a man of very generous impulses and actions, is large-hearted and 
 large-souled, and his kindness to young lawyers has not only been 
 frequent, but it has been of material value to them, and forms a sub- 
 ject to very many of them of grateful remembrance. 
 
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 SAMUEL W. FULLER. 
 
 This lawyer is one of those men who are popularly known as 
 self-made. He has risen to his present position, not by the aid of 
 wealth, or of great natural abilities, but by a perseveringly studious life, 
 and entire dependence upon himself for the means to secure his edu- 
 cational advancement. 
 
 He is now about forty-eight years of age, and is a native of Ver- 
 mont, where he was admitted to the bar and married. He came to 
 this State with only his education and his hands, and supported him- 
 self for a while as a school-teacher, until he could secure practice as a 
 lawyer. It was while he was thus combining the pedagogue and the 
 lawyer, that he resided in Tazewell county, in this State. He was 
 there admitted to the bar, and from that place he was sent to the Illi- 
 nois Senate, where his abilities first attracted the notice of J. Y. Scam- 
 mon, with whom Mr. Fuller is now in partnership. In time, he 
 came where a majority of all the great lawyers of the Northwest 
 come, to Chicago. The distance between the Tazewell county school- 
 teacher and the prominent member of the law firm of Scammon, 
 McCagg & Fuller, is broad, and that it has been traversed in compar- 
 atively so short a space of time, is in the highest degree compli- 
 mentary to the endurance and perseverance of the gentleman whose 
 name heads this article. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Fuller is a study. He is tall, slender, 
 with sandy whiskers and moustache, light gray eyes, a very broad 
 and prominent forehead, and abundant hair. His countenance is as 
 fine as a proof, and has the delicacy of a close-worked steel engraving. 
 It is a face whose salient indications are refinement, intelligence, and 
 a sort of timid diffidence that is almost girlish. It is a face which, in 
 addition to these indications, shadows forth a singularly legible expres- 
 sion of honesty and candor. Were one to conclude from the study of 
 the face that its owner were a clergyman, or a literary man, — as he 
 probably would, — he would think that it had no failure; but were he 
 told that its possessor were a lawyer, he might be of the opinion that 
 
SAMUEL W. FULLER. 1 7 
 
 a few coarser lines in it would be of advantage. In brief, it 
 is rather too fine a face for the popular estimate of the character of a 
 lawyer. It would do for some scientist, who requires patient investi- 
 gation, and not imagination, or for any other class of professional 
 men who do not need any inherent driving power, and whose business 
 is of a character that demands no enthusiasm, only a calm and unde- 
 viating appreciation. 
 
 The mental processes of Mr. Fuller are slow, and remarkably cor- 
 rect and sure. He has a very excellent knowledge of law, but not 
 sufficient to make him devoted to its letter in contradistinction to its 
 Spirit. He has a very thorough comprehension of legal principles, 
 and the knowledge of books requisite to give those principles authori- 
 tative force. His role is not that of an advocate to any considerable 
 extent. His presentation of a case is never fervid, or forcible in a 
 rhetorical sense. Nevertheless, his comprehension of principles and 
 authorities, together with a clear habit of thought, enables him to pre- 
 sent a case with great logical force. If he has a failure in his charac- 
 ter as an advocate before a jury, it is found in the fact that he seems 
 to over-estimate their intelligence. He addresses them with the terse- 
 ness that he would employ were he addressing a judge, or men of his 
 own intellectual level. He will present them a point in the fewest 
 possible words, and then leave it. He never insists upon their compre- 
 hending it. He does not amplify it, and present it to them in dif- 
 ferent lights, as should be done in the case of a jury of men of ordi- 
 nary capacity, and of whom no two can, by any possibility, see the 
 same thing from the same point of view. Either Mr. Fuller pays the 
 jury too high a compliment in intentionally confining his statements 
 to mathematical brevity and precision, or else he commits a blunder 
 in not better comprehending the necessities of the situation occupied 
 by a jury lawyer. His addresses have all the nakedness of mathe- 
 matical propositions. They never glow or melt, but they convince, 
 providing they are given to minds that have the capacity to compre- 
 hend his statements, and the honesty to decide according to their con- 
 victions. He presents his propositions calmly and modestly, but 
 rather in the style of a clear-headed collegiate professor, enunciating 
 propositions of a high order to men of his own profession. He knows 
 no such thing as engineering or figuring a case. He regards it from 
 a standpoint which includes the legal principle, the evidence, and the 
 interests of his client. If he wins a case, it is done straight-forwardly, 
 and upon its merits, and if he conducts his case in such a manner that 
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 lie is defeated, he always retires with the honors of war and the entire 
 respect of his opponents. 
 
 Mr. Fuller strengthens himself as a thinker, and adds elements 
 of dignity to his mental character by an indulgence in the better 
 class of literary productions. He is a reader and a thinker outside 
 of his profession. He is not a good manager in the sense of con- 
 ducting the financial affairs connected with his professional services, 
 and herein he is most admirably complemented by one of his 
 partners, E. B. McCagg, who is himself a lawyer of very great 
 ability, and who is a close business man, and who carefully 
 gathers up the raveled financial threads which are upon the fringe 
 of Mr. Fuller's professional actions. These two men are admi- 
 rably adapted to each other. Mr. McCagg has a very thorough 
 knowledge of the world, which Mr. Fuller has not; and in this, 
 as in various other ways, he assists in giving the firm a round- 
 ness and completeness of great perfection. In many respects he con- 
 trasts beneficially with Mr. Fuller. He is, as has been said, practical 
 in directions where the other displays no particular ability; he is a 
 close business man, a good collector, and withal, just enough cynical 
 to relieve the unvarying quietness and unruffled affability of the other. 
 
 Mr. McCagg is also a noted man in other respects. He is possessed 
 of great wealth, and he lives in a style whose luxuriance has few or no 
 equals in Chicago. He has a large amount of public spirit, has a 
 great number of very excellent qualities whose possession secures him 
 a universal and very thorough respect. Mentally he is in no respect 
 the inferior of Mr. Fuller, and were he obliged to resort to the more 
 public practice of his profession he would be a successful advocate as 
 well as what he now is, a sound and careful lawyer. The two, how- 
 ever, pull well together, and while both have an abundance of positive 
 qualities of a high order of excellence, each supplies a certain class of 
 equally desirable qualities which the other lacks; or presents such a 
 combination of characteristics that each modifies, brings out, or other- 
 wise improves those of the other. The Hon. J. Y. Scammon is still 
 the senior member of the firm, and while now giving no attention to 
 the law, he has a high reputation as a lawyer which remains to him as 
 a consequence of a highly successful career. Mr. Scammon's entire 
 time is occupied with the care of private interests which are enormous; 
 but his reputation as a superior lawyer, and his wealth, social conse- 
 quence, and extended commercial relations, are well reflected in the 
 firm of which himself and McCagg and Fuller are members. 
 
ROBERT HERVEY. 1 9 
 
 ROBERT HERVEY. 
 
 Mr. Hervey was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1820, and was 
 educated at the grammar school and university of the same city. He 
 graduated in 1837, and studied law in Toronto with the Hon. Henry 
 Sherwood, former Attorney-General of Canada, and was admitted to 
 the Canadian bar in 1842. He practiced in Ottawa, Canada, for ten 
 years, and in 1852 removed to Chicago, and was the partner of Judge 
 Morris until 1856. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Hervey is rather distingue". His form 
 is medium height, very erect and well proportioned. His complexion 
 is fresh, his whiskers are gray and worn in the English fashion, his 
 hair is silvery, his head well-shaped, his eyes gray and keen, and the 
 tout ensemble that of a very pronounced Scotchman. In his demeanor 
 he is veiy affable and courteous, and before a jury, and in the exami- 
 nation of a witness, as well as in his treatment of opposing counsel, 
 he is always gentlemanly and considerate. He is regarded as well- 
 posted on authorities, and a very competent man, whether in the office 
 or before a jury. He is industrious, careful of the interests of his 
 clients, and conservative in his mental processes. 
 
 In his oratory he is dignified, and after warming up he becomes 
 forcible, but never robustious. He rises to a certain moderate height, 
 both of thought and declamation, but his average level is a trifle lower. 
 When under full pressure as a speaker, he has a certain mannerism, 
 which is probably the result of habit, and is not the outgrowth or the 
 inspiration of his thoughts. He then buttons his coat across his well- 
 shaped chest, closes his eyes as if in a rhapsody, thrusts one hand into 
 his bosom, and gracefully emphasizes with the other. His jury efforts 
 are of a good average quality. They are clear, logical, and always 
 given with effective emftressement. 
 
 Socially, Mr. Hervey is quite popular. He is somewhat Chester- 
 fieldian in his manners; and, on the streets is what, in a younger man, 
 might be termed nobby. He is a standing model of a polite, court- 
 eous gentleman, and as such he is very generally liked by the mem- 
 bers of his profession, by the community at large, and the more 
 especially among his Scotch fellow-citizens, by whom he is regarded 
 as a leading orator and a representative man. 
 
20 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 JAMES M. WALKER. 
 
 In many respects Mr. Walker stands at the very head of the legal 
 profession in the West. This refers more especially to the magnitude 
 of the interests which he has been intrusted with, and which include 
 some of the largest corporations in the country. His reputation may 
 not be a popular one, like that of Charles O'Conor, or James Brady; 
 but among great moneyed corporations, and in directions where 
 acquaintance is fame, and esteem a fortune, Mr. Walker is both known 
 and esteemed. 
 
 He was born in Claremont, N. H., and is now about fifty years of 
 age. He studied law at Ann Arbor, in Michigan, and began the 
 practice of law at that point. He afterward removed to another 
 portion of Washtenaw county, in the same State, where he speedily 
 secured a very large practice, and filled the office of prosecuting attor- 
 ney. He removed to Chicago in 1854, at which time he was the 
 attorney of the Michigan Central railway. He first occupied an 
 office with James M. Joy, and later formed a legal connection with 
 Mr. Sedgwick, and subsequently he entered into partnership with 
 Wirt Dexter; and soon after took the position of attorney for the 
 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railway, which important position 
 he still holds, and it may be added that he is to the Burlington and 
 Quincy railway company, what Joy is to the Michigan Central — 
 a very king. 
 
 In personal appearance he is slender, of medium height, with a 
 small, active brain, gray eyes, and gray hair and goatee. His counte- 
 nance bears the evidence of a laborious life. He evidently has more 
 soul than body, and all his life has overdriven the latter in order to 
 execute the demands of the former. In manner he is rather abstracted 
 and reticent, and goes about wrapped in a species of semi-isolation. 
 This is not so much the result of coldness as of the preoccupation 
 of thought. 
 
 As a lawyer he occupies a very conspicuous position. His forte 
 lies in the mastering of the great problems connected with corpora- 
 
JAMES M. WALKER. 21 
 
 tions; and in this direction he has been eminently successful. Before 
 a jury or a court he does not occupy so elevated a grade, for several 
 reasons, among which is prominent the fact that a man who devotes 
 his entire energies to the mastery of great problems has not the leisure 
 to cultivate the graces and blandishments of oratory. Another reason 
 is possibly found in the additional fact that, as is not uncommon with 
 hard students like himself, he is very pertinacious when he has once 
 formed a conclusion, and is very apt to insist that juries and others 
 shall see the matter at issue in the same light. This trait is conviction 
 and' something more. It is rather a positive belief that admits of no 
 contradiction, and is not disposed to accept a difference of opinion. 
 He devotes so much time and strength to the examination of a question 
 that he believes his conclusions are not simple convictions, but they 
 are absolute axioms which must not and can not be disputed. 
 
 Among other of his traits his industry is not the least remarkable. 
 When he once takes hold of a question of importance, it becomes an 
 absorbing one, and to its solution he gives every energy. Nature, 
 time, labor, pain are nothing. He hesitates at no sacrifice, and pushes 
 his investigations till he either reaches their solution or his health 
 gives way under the exertion. Two or three times in his life has he 
 thus driven himself to the verge of the grave by his persistence in labor 
 long after labor had ceased to be a duty or a virtue. Apart from his 
 professional duties he is gentlemanly and considerate. His reading is 
 extensive. He has a very exquisite taste in fine art; his benevolence 
 is very great; and his general information of an extended character. 
 What he lacks is more regard for himself, and a more leisurely per- 
 formance of the duties of his profession. Were this defect remedied, 
 he would be no less successful than he is and has been, while he 
 would enjoy that physical energy and elasticity without which any 
 existence is incomplete and unsatisfactory. 
 
22 THE CHICAGO BAK. 
 
 LEONARD SWETT. 
 
 Mr. Swett was born in Oxford. Maine, in 1825. He graduated at 
 Waterville, and read law at Portland, after which he entered the army 
 and served as a private during the Mexican war. He removed to 
 Bloomington in this State in 1849, and was admitted to the bar the 
 same year. At one time he was a member of the legislature, and has 
 been prominently before the public in other capacities. He removed 
 to Chicago in 1865, and has since resided in this city. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Swett very much resembles the late 
 Abraham Lincoln. He is tall, angular, dark, with prominent features, 
 and in fact he so generally resembles the late Mr. Lincoln that any 
 detailed description of him would be useless. This coincidence with 
 respect to physical similitude extends in a considerable degree to the 
 mental characteristics of the two men. Mr. Swett is more polished 
 than was his antetype; he is more finished, but this makes the differ- 
 ence between them one of degree rather than of kind. He possesses 
 the same class of humor peculiar to the late President, and often 
 employs the same quaint, epigrammatic method of expression which 
 was peculiar to Mr. Lincoln, and so familiar to the man. Of course, 
 these resemblances are mere happenings. Neither Mr. Lincoln nor 
 Mr. Swett made a study of each other with a view to imitation. Nor 
 is there anything strange in the coincidence. When one considers 
 how many men there are born every year, the wonder is, not that two 
 men arc found who closely resemble each other, but that there are so 
 many varieties in the workmanship. 
 
 As a lawyer Mr. Swett takes a very high rank, both in Chicago 
 and the State. In his professional character he possesses a fair allow- 
 ance of versatility, but his special excellencies lie in the direction of 
 the trial of cases, and, possibly, in the handling of criminal business. 
 He has a very clear, analytical mind, and a very comprehensive view 
 of a subject, and is, therefore, in this respect well fitted for office 
 business. But his tendencies seem to be in the direction of the trial 
 of cases, for the reason, perhaps, that office business brings into activity 
 
LEONARD SWETT. 23 
 
 few or none of the emotional qualities of the soul. Mr. Swett has 
 imagination, humor, pathos, and an abundance of similar qualities 
 whose exercise is as essential to his enjoyment as the use of his muscles 
 is to a strong, vigorous man. It requires a mind from which the 
 warmer qualities have been eliminated, and a mechanism which has 
 been reduced to a mathematical verity of construction, to produce a 
 lawyer who will prefer the investigation of dry authorities to the 
 warmth, the poetry, the excitement, the elasticity, the cunning of a 
 trial. Mr. Swett is an orator; and in this fact is found the explanation 
 of his preference. 
 
 As a speaker he has few or no superiors at the bar. He requires 
 scarcely any preparation to make a speech on any subject. He sees a 
 case clearly, and he has the faculty of presenting it with equal clear- 
 ness. He presents it forcibly because he feels intensely. He has that 
 tendency toward amplification found in all true orators, and by whose 
 aid he presents a single point in so many salient aspects that it becomes 
 as apparent as sunlight to his auditory. This ability to not only clearly 
 present a point, but to restate it and reiterate it under a slightly 
 changed form up to a boundary where it becomes thoroughly under- 
 stood, and yet which is not carried beyond into the region of verbosity 
 and tiresome and useless reiteration — is one of a high order, and it is 
 one which Mr. Swett seems to possess to perfection. Its due and 
 judicious exercise requires an accurate knowledge of the men whom 
 it is employed upon, and the precise ideas and illustrations which are 
 demanded by their comprehension. Mr. Swett has all these qualities, 
 and the additional one of being an excellent logician and an admirable 
 manager, who thus not only knows what should be presented, but the 
 very best form in which the presentation should be made. 
 
 Possibly the not least remarkable feature of his oratorical power is 
 found in his ability to employ pathos. Herein, when the occasion 
 requires, he rises to a most effective level. He is both rhetorical and 
 natural in this direction — the former being, to some extent, a sequence 
 to the latter, in that he feels what he says, and therein, as usually 
 happens, is eloquent. He is exceedingly happy in the use of this 
 powerful element. When in this mood' he smites the rock of men's 
 hidden emotions, and obediently, as in the case of Moses, the waters 
 gush forth in response to the summons. From the possession of this 
 subtle power to touch effectively men's emotional natures, Mr. Swett 
 has what the world would suspect from seeing him, and that is a 
 powerful element of poetry in his character. This is true ; and its 
 
24 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 existence is not only the source of his power to touch the hearts of 
 others, but it refines his nature and gives him a chivalry that exhibits 
 itself in a lofty regard for women, an integrity in business matters that 
 can not be disturbed, and a kindly consideration that leavens all his 
 intercourse with others. In fine, the poetical quality, while it intro- 
 duces no element of effeminacy in his character, while it does not 
 detract from his masculine vigor, or interfere with his comprehensive 
 ability, softens his naturally rugged make-up, and gives him a needed 
 and efficient refinement. In short, Mr. Swett is a gentleman who, as 
 a lawyer, and more especially in the labor of conducting the trial of 
 a case, occupies a very high and a very enviable position. 
 
JOHN VAN ARMAN. 25 
 
 JOHN VAN ARMAN. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Plattsburg, New York, in about 
 18 18. He removed thence to Marshall, Michigan, and there began 
 the practice of law. In 1859 he removed to Chicago. 
 
 He first obtained prominence some years ago in Michigan at the 
 time of the notorious conspiracy against the Michigan Central rail- 
 way. He was employed by the company to work up the case, and 
 to assist in its prosecution. He went to work and got into the confi- 
 dence of the leaders of the movement, joined the organization, shared 
 in their councils and plans, and in this way possessed himself of all 
 the secrets of the conspirators. At the time of trial, he assisted in the 
 prosecution of the case, and alternated his duties in this direction by 
 taking the stand as a witness for the State. 
 
 Since his residence in Chicago, Mr. Van Arman has taken a 
 quite prominent position as a criminal lawyer. He is a man of very 
 marked personal appearance, and of equally marked personal charac- 
 teristics. He is of slender build, slightly round-shouldered, and of 
 medium height. His head is small and narrow, indicating more 
 force than comprehensive breadth. His eyes are small, black, glit- 
 tering, and cunning in expression. His lower jaw is immense in 
 breadth, and heavily armored with a convolute skin. His clean- 
 shaven face is of a swarthy hue, which, with his small eyes, high 
 cheek-bones, and stoical expression, gives him the appearance of an 
 Indian parentage. His mouth is large, with heavy lips, and is occa- 
 sionally parted in a smile which reveals rows of uneven teeth. 
 
 Mentally, he is sui generis. He is, perhaps, not an originator, 
 but he seizes with instantaneous appreciation anything which may be 
 found by others; and when he once closes upon anything, his bull- 
 dog nature never lets it go. To speak in the style of the aborigines 
 whom he so closely resembles, he can not often find a trail himself, 
 but let it once be pointed out to him, and he will never lose it, or 
 cease to follow it till the prey is overtaken. 
 
 It is doubtful that his veins run with warm blood. He is cold 
 and passionless. His mental qualities may glisten, but it is not from 
 
36 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 the sheen of a flame, but from the reflection of icy surfaces. His 
 intellect is clear, finely finished, but frosty. His voice is dry and 
 metallic, and his utterances before a jury are often venomous, always 
 pointed and strong, but never warm or genial. Thawing the sympa- 
 thies of a jury is something that he never attempted, nor would he 
 know how to do it if he wished. 
 
 This glacial mechanism of his soul is never out of repair or work 
 ing order. It has all the lubricity of ice, and moves powerfully, and 
 without noise or friction. To these qualities he adds an industry in fol- 
 lowing up a case that never tires, that goes over a subject, no matter 
 how vast, and omits no details, however numerous they may be or 
 how microscopic. The law, the facts, the circumstances of a case, 
 are each, in turn, made the subject of an examination that leaves 
 nothing untouched, and hesitates at no labor or time which may be 
 necessary to secure the investigation. He is a man that rarely laughs, 
 and whose smile is not a smile, but a drawing back of the lips to 
 show his teeth. He is a giant in industry, a Colossus in his patience, 
 has indefatigable energy, is unrelenting in his stealthy and untiring 
 pursuit of an enemy. Give him an end, and if patience, perseverance 
 and industry can attain it, he will reach it; but it is a question as to 
 his ability to provide a new plan in case his designed one be 
 ruined. It is said by Judge Wilson that no man in Chicago is quicker 
 than he to adapt himself to a sudden and unexpected change of cir- 
 cumstances. In any. case, he is a very marked man — one whose 
 great ability, coldness of nature, and success in his efforts, leave him 
 with scarcely a rival. 
 
 With more warmth, more kindliness, he would take a high 
 position in the world of legal and moral efforts. 
 
JOHN N. JEWETT. 2^ 
 
 JOHN N. JEWETT. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Maine. While very young, he 
 removed to Wisconsin, but returned East, and graduated at Bowdoin 
 College. He afterward came West again, and read law at Galena. 
 In 1857 he removed to Chicago, and formed a partnership with 
 Scates & McAllister. 
 
 Mr. Jewett is a gentleman of about forty-two years of age, 
 although he looks five years younger. His hair is brown, and 
 his beard the same. He is of medium height, slim, active, and 
 well put together. He has keen, blue, very handsome eyes, and 
 which are indicative, in many respects, of his character. His features 
 are small, regular and attractive. His head is also small, but is filled 
 with a brain of great activity. Intellectually, he is keen, sharp, quick. 
 
 As a lawyer, he is a general practitioner — is at home almost 
 everywhere. He has himself always well in hand, and like a bat- 
 tery of light artillery, is always ready for attack or defense, or a 
 change of position. His resources are always within reach. His 
 mind is clear and incisive. While mild in conversation and oral 
 argument, in writing he is pungent, severe and sarcastic, so much so 
 that he has often reached the verge of toleration in his arguments 
 before the Supreme Court. He is logical and strong, and his ana- 
 lytical powers are very great. His integrity is undoubted, and he is 
 rigidly honest, not only with reference to himself, but his client and 
 the opposing counsel. He is not rough or uncouth in bis contact 
 with others, with the exceptions above noted, but he has a manner 
 which, while not being in the least effeminate, is almost womanly in 
 its gentleness. His speeches are in keeping with his appearance — - 
 easy, fluent, graceful, deliberate and intellectual. He is ornate with- 
 out being either florid or commonplace. What he has to say he says 
 tersely, and in an attractive, forcible manner. As said, he is rather 
 better in the office than before a jury, for the reason that he is pains- 
 taking, industrious and conscientious. Possibly there are few lawyers 
 of his age who stand as well as he, or whose prospects are more 
 promising. At present, he is attorney for the Illinois Central rail- 
 way. He is also a member of the State Senate, the only public 
 office he has ever filled. 
 
28 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 H. G. MILLER. 
 
 Mr. Miller is about fifty-five years of age, and in personal 
 appearance he is quite marked, and rather distingue., both in his 
 appearance and demeanor. He is tall, well-proportioned, and very 
 erect, with a somewhat stately bearing. His features are regular; his 
 eyes blue, full and expressive; his forehead high and pyramidal; his 
 hair gray, abundant, and thrown directly back. His mouth is small, 
 and indicates a character of a good deal of resolution. The whole 
 expression of his face is rather kindly, and withal dignified. 
 
 As a lawyer, he is very much respected by the profession. He is 
 a man who, without being a profound legal scholar — albeit, a very 
 excellent one — attains ends by his patient industry which men with a 
 greater knowledge might fail to reach. His industry is one of the 
 most important elements in his character, for the reason that by its 
 aid he does many things which men more gifted by nature than him- 
 self do not often accomplish. He never reaches anything by flying 
 to it, or by miraculous leaps. Whatever he attains he does by slow, 
 patient plodding, persistent effort. In some respects, he is an intellec- 
 tual tortoise, who, like the one in the fable, not unfrequently reaches 
 the goal far in advance of swifter- footed competitors. He is a man 
 whose preparation of a case may be relied on as complete, thorough, 
 exhaustive, providing it can be done by unremitting and pains-taking 
 effort. 
 
 As a speaker, he makes no pretentions to a high order of elocu- 
 tion. He speaks more effectively to a judge than a jury. He has not 
 a particle of imagination ; and what is singular in this connection, is 
 that in his speeches he sometimes essays the humorous. His grave 
 mien, judicial deportment, slow-and-sure order of mental processes, 
 form a combination from which one would suppose all ideas of the 
 mirthful would be necessarily excluded. There is another incon- 
 sistency in his character, which this fact suggests. It is that, although 
 patterned after the heavy artillery style, he is able to shift his posi- 
 tion with considerable ease and speed, to meet an attack from an 
 unexpected quarter. In meteorological parlance, he is weather-wise. 
 
H. G. MILLER. 29 
 
 He reads the skies which surround a case with great precision. He 
 knows what a small cloud, or a change in the wind portends, and he 
 is prompt in knowing what should be done to meet the forthcoming 
 change. Heavy, and somewhat cumbersome in his mental opera- 
 tions, he yet possesses a surprising agility, when there occurs a sud- 
 den and pressing demand, for a shifting of position. 
 
 A faithful analysis of Mr. Miller's character necessitates the state- 
 ment that he does well whatever he undertakes, but that he would 
 have done just as well in any other department of effort. Nature 
 does not seem to have especially intended him for a lawyer. Had he 
 been a wood-sawyer, he would have been just as patient, industrious, 
 indefatigable, and gentlemanly in his manners as he now is. There 
 are lawyers whom one could not imagine filling any other position, 
 without their being out of place. In the case of Mr. Miller, it does 
 not seem possible to imagine him in any position that he would not 
 fill just as well as the one he now occupies. He would have made a 
 stately and efficient President of a bank, or Superintendent of a rail- 
 way, or diplomatist at some foreign court, or judge upon the bench, 
 and in each instance he would have been just as stately and efficient 
 as he is now in his position as a lawyer, and as a very respected and 
 very estimable member of the bar of the Garden City. 
 
3<3 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 VAN H. HIGGINS. 
 
 This gentleman, one of the oldest and best known of the Chicago 
 bar, is now about fifty years of age. He was born in Genesee county, 
 New York. He came to Chicago in 1839, and was admitted to the 
 bar in Iroquois county. He went to Galena in 1845, and practiced 
 therewith Judge Scott until 1853, when he removed to Chicago, and 
 has always since been a resident. In the fall of 1S58 he was sent to 
 the legislature, and the following spring he was elected Judge of the 
 Superior Court. He served until the year 1863, when he resigned, 
 and commenced the practice of law with Leonard Swett, his present 
 partner. 
 
 In personal appearance, Mr. Higgins has a fine natural judicial 
 presence. He is tall, well-formed, and of rather a commanding figure. 
 His eyes are light-blue and deep-set, his complexion clear, and his 
 forehead a regular three-story structure. His hair is tinged with gray, 
 and his mouth is compressed and secretive. His entire face is sensi- 
 tive, and yet it shadows forth indications of a character that may be 
 iron-willed in case of necessity, and that may be or is, dogmatic and 
 resolute under the majority of circumstances. I« fine, this gentleman 
 is one whom a stranger would regard as a man of fine appearance 
 and great intelligence, while a muscular opponent would do no more 
 than right if he hesitated somewhat before grappling with his erect, 
 well-knit and stalwart frame. 
 
 The ability of Mr. Higgins as a lawyer, is not susceptible of a 
 difference of opinion. Before he was Judge of the Superior Court his 
 practice was one of the largest and most lucrative in the city. Since 
 that time he has attended more or less to legal matters, but is not as 
 active in his profession as he was before he went upon the bench, for 
 the reason that he has very extended private interests of his own 
 to attend to. 
 
 His head, which is that of a man of intellect, is additionally, in 
 this direction, indicative of mechanical and mathematical tendencies. 
 He is an inventor of no mean rank, and has several patents on orig- 
 
VAN H. HIGG1NS. 3 1 
 
 inal inventions or improvements. He is a fine theoretical as well as 
 practical mechanician, and his judgment upon the merits of any new 
 mechanical discovery is equal to that of the best practical mechanic 
 in the West. Whether he is now the more lawyer or inventor is a 
 nice question. It is certain, however, that his love for mechanical 
 pursuits has grown almost into a mania; and that it absorbs a large 
 share of his time, so that a biographical sketch of him would quite 
 as properly belong to The Mechanics as The Lawyers of Chicago. 
 
 His style in the workshop is not pertinent to this article, although 
 it would doubtless be of great interest. In his other capacity he is 
 dignified, copious, and ponderous and incessant in his citations. 
 When he appears in court he carries always both arms full of law 
 Dooks, and has a porter who is heavily laden with the same material. 
 His objections are frequent, and when arguing them he rises, and with 
 his eyes fixed dreamily above the judge's head, he proceeds in a calm, 
 self-possessed, unimpassioned manner to state his objections, and to 
 present his authorities. He is an epitome of all the decisions that 
 have ever been written, and what few he does not remember, he refers 
 to readily, and reads in extenso. His quotations of authorities bearing 
 on any point are only limited by one thing — the limits of the author- 
 ities themselves. 
 
 Judge Van Higgins is very generally respected, and is a man of 
 fine intellect, great cultivation, and the possessor of many substantial 
 qualities, both of heart and soul. The only doubt with the present 
 writer is as to whether or not he should be classed as an inventor who 
 is spoiling a good lawyer, or as a lawyer who is interfering with the 
 progress of a superior inventor. 
 
THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 CHARLES CARROLL BONNEY. 
 
 This gentleman is a native of Hamilton, New York, one of the most 
 beautiful places in the Chenango Valley, and widely known as the 
 seat of Madison University. He spent his childhood on his father's 
 farm on Bonney Hill, where his habits of thought were formed, and 
 his ambition stimulated by meeting, among other visitors at his father's 
 house, students from the University; and the prominent politicians, 
 lawyers and divines of the locality. He is of a literary family, having 
 a brother and a sister who have published poems, and uncles who 
 have attracted favorable attention by contributions to medical and 
 legal magazines. 
 
 When about seventeen years of age he commenced teaching, and 
 began the study of the law. He continued to teach district and 
 academic schools, and to pursue the study of his chosen profession 
 until nearly ready for admission to the bar. 
 
 He removed to Illinois in 1850; located at Peoria; established an 
 academic school called the Peoria Institute; was admitted to the bar 
 at the age of twenty-one, and commenced practice in the office of 
 Judge Onslow Peters. He soon after formed a law partnership with 
 Hon. Henry S. Austin; and after a couple of years became the suc- 
 cessor of the firm, and continued a successful general practice till i860, 
 when he removed to Chicago. 
 
 During his residence in Peoria the bar of Central Illinois, led by 
 Purple and Manning, was one of the ablest in the West; and the 
 practice thorough and exacting. 
 
 Since being a resident of Illinois, Mr. Bonney, until quite lately, 
 has been very prominently before the State in some public capacity. 
 In connection with Gov. French, Prof. Turner, Judge Skinner, and 
 some other noted gentlemen, he was active and prominent in estab- 
 lishing the present educational system of Illinois. Since 1S54 he has 
 advocated a convention to secure uniformity of the statutes of the 
 several States in relation to negotiable paper, conveyances, etc. He 
 was one of the first to advocate in speeches and letters the constitu- 
 
CHARLES CARROLL BONNEY. 33 
 
 tional prohibition of special legislation; and before the war, procured 
 the passage of resolutions in popular conventions in favor of a national 
 currency, under a national law, in place of a wildcat system of 
 State banks. 
 
 In 1S57 he took a leading part in defeating the project of giving to 
 a private corporation the control of the Illinois river; and he was 
 engaged in some of the earlier cases on municipal subscriptions to 
 railroads, taking the ground that they were unconstitutional. Since 
 1S61 he has repeatedly advocated commissioners to represent the 
 people, as to railroad and other private corporations, with summary 
 judicial determination of questions. It was he who first raised and 
 argued the constitutionality of the excise tax on judicial process, and 
 other State proceedings. He was also the first who stated the powers 
 of die courts under the suspension of the habeas corpus, and which 
 was reproduced two years later by Binney, of Philadelphia. 
 
 In his politics Mr. Bonney is a democrat, and he was very active 
 in this direction, both as a speaker and a writer, until he left Peoria 
 and removed to Chicago, since which he has given up all active par- 
 ticipation in political matters. 
 
 As a lawyer Mr. Bonney has a wide reputation. He is a general 
 practitioner, with a fondness for the specialties involved in inter state 
 law, and the legal relations connected with real estate, commerce, and 
 private corporations. 
 
 His preference seems to be for probate and equity business, rather 
 than that of common law, but it may be added, that though skilled in 
 arts of pleading and practice, he is a lawyer whose tendency is 
 toward settlement rather than litigation. He is an author of some note, 
 having written and published a treatise on the Law of Railway Car- 
 riers; another on the Law of Marine, Fire and Life Insurance; and 
 announced a forthcoming volume of condensed reports. He also 
 edited, in a very finished and scholarly manner, the poetical works of 
 the late Judge Arrington. His published addresses embrace orations . 
 on free-masonry, and a variety of educational, political and legal 
 subjects; and he is a frequent contributor to the public press of articles 
 of a legal, financial, and literary nature. 
 
 Mr. Bonney's versatility is thus shown to be very great. A lover 
 of his profession, he has acquired a competence by its practice, and 
 has for it a devotion that finds its equal in the case of but few of the 
 legal fraternity in the West. He is industrious in the extreme, and 
 although laboring hard as a lawyer, he yet finds time to cultivate liter- 
 7, 
 
34 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 ature,. and to inform himself thoroughly concerning all the current 
 questions of the day. In age he is about forty years, and in personal 
 appearance he bears the marks of hard study, although he finds leisure 
 to be courteous in his demeanor and affable in his conversation. 
 His present associates are J. Edwards Fay, and Charles W. Griggs, 
 who occupy a leading position among the younger members of the 
 Chicago bar. 
 
 In style Mr. Bonney is precise, incisive and clear, and withal a 
 ready if not a redundant speaker, writer and conversationalist. His 
 political speeches demonstrated the possession of an impassioned 
 oratory, based upon a clear and comprehensive knowledge of the 
 issues involved, and their germane facts. In the character of a poli- 
 tician, no speaker with whom he came in contact was more popular 
 or more influential ; and had he devoted himself to this department 
 of effort, he might have attained almost anything within the gift of 
 the people. 
 
 Mr. Bonney is a Swedenborgian in religion, is prominently con- 
 nected with the St. John's Episcopal church, is very active in his 
 connection with Sabbath-schools, and has published a small pamphlet 
 on the interpretation of the Bible. He is a Free-Mason of the rank 
 of a Knight Templar; and some years ago he received from the 
 Masonic University of Kentucky the degree of Doctor of Laws. 
 
 He is domestic in his habits, and likes to gather about his fireside 
 a congenial company for the elaboration of literary ideas, and the more 
 graceful of the social qualities. A widely known and respected 
 literary club is identified with his name; and his recent presidency of 
 the Chicago Library Association seems to have led to measures that 
 promise to secure its permanent prosperity. 
 
 Although yet comparatively a young man he has already attained 
 an enviable position as a lawyer, and author, and litterateur, and he 
 has before him a future which promises still more flattering and 
 enviable results, his character as an advocate, and his legal writings, 
 having frequently been the subject of favorable comment, in the 
 public press of this, and of other States. 
 
CHARLES HITCHCOCK. 35 
 
 CHARLES HITCHCOCK. 
 
 Mr. Hitchcock was born in Plymouth county, Massachusetts, 
 in 1827, and is consequently now about forty-four years of age. He 
 was educated in Hanover, New Hampshire, and graduated at that 
 that place in 185 1. He took the law course at the Cambridge Uni- 
 versity, graduated in 1854, and came West, and has resided here, and 
 devoted himself to the practice of his chosen profession, ever since. 
 Within the time of his residence here, he has advanced himself to the 
 front rank of the legal fraternity. 
 
 A stranger would scarcely take him to be a professional man. He 
 is rather one who would be regarded as a moderate bon vivant, who 
 has but little in life to trouble him, and who is in the enjoyment of 
 an ample fortune. He is tall, has a large, portly figure, and is what 
 would be termed an imposing, fine-looking gentleman. His face is 
 not particularly indicative of intellect. His eyes are gray, and rather 
 sleepy in expression, and his countenance promises latent rather than 
 an active, belligerent energy. His hair and whiskers are gray, and 
 his forehead receives additional height and expression from a slight 
 premature baldness. Take him as he sits, and he seems a large kind 
 of a locomotive, with powerful stroke and high driving-wheels, but 
 with the steam low and the fire smoldering. One would conclude 
 that all he needs to achieve great speed and vast power is firing up. 
 There are men whose nervous temperament keeps them in perpetual 
 motion, whether there is any demand for it or not. He, however, 
 seems to be a sort of animal that has his seasons of hibernation, when 
 he is torpid, and when he seems to be undergoing no other process 
 than that of digesting his over-accumulated adipose matter. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Hitchcock is among the best known and 
 esteemed in the Northwest. His ability in this direction is not 
 marked in any one direction at the expense of any other. He is not 
 one of those men in whom some particular quality enlarges by feed- 
 ing upon others. Thus it happens that, in mental character, social 
 abilities and morals, he has undergone a remarkably even develop- 
 
36 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 merit. The same evenness is exhibited in his professional character. 
 He has, apparently, no specialty. He is equally good, and equally 
 to be trusted, whether he be employed in chancery or admiralty, or 
 as an advocate or a counsellor. He has, therefore, a very marked 
 and unusual versatility, which seems to extend to every legitimate 
 department of effort in his • profession, and to a very thorough and 
 even knowledge of men and things outside of it. 
 
 This universal evenness is disarranged somewhat in the surface of 
 his professional character. While a very excellent advocate, he is not 
 as good in this respect as he is as an attorney. His opinion in his 
 office on the legal and other merits of a case is worth a certain num- 
 ber of dollars more than an address on the same matter before a jury. 
 This is not because he is not a logical and thoroughly intelligent 
 speaker, but it is because he is more of a logician than an orator. He 
 argues well ; but his argument lacks that divine fire which fuses the 
 facts of a discourse irrevocably into the mind of a listener. He is not 
 an unpleasant speaker. On the contrary, he is what is popularly 
 known as a fine speaker. He has a clear voice, an imposing presence, 
 and a graceful style. He, however, lacks imagination. He has no 
 emotional development. He addresses the reason and never the feel- 
 ings of a jury. He is cold and phlegmatic, and his speeches to a jury 
 are like himself in this respect. He seems incapable of experiencing 
 any of the more powerful emotions, and equally incapable of influ- 
 encing in others these important elements in the human soul. 
 
 As the attorney needs no imagination, as its presence would be 
 rather a hindrance and a nuisance than otherwise, the lack of it by 
 Mr. Hitchcock makes him of more value when in the office than 
 when before a jury. In his office, he is a very superior lawyer. His 
 mind is very clear, active and accurate, and very pertinacious when 
 he has once made up his conclusions. He is very methodical in his 
 habits, and is remarkable for terse and clean-cut expressions — his 
 papers always being in the fewest words, and always conveying the 
 exact idea. Perhaps it may be said that his opinions on commercial 
 law have no superior anywhere. He has a high notion of honor, and 
 it is not probable that he would engage in an unjust cause, unless 
 deceived by his client with reference to the facts. His opinion is of 
 value, because it is based upon a very thorough knowledge of the law, 
 and is reached by a singularly clear series of mental operations. He 
 never becomes involved in obscurities. He is able to take a dozen 
 apparently antagonistic authorities and reach the just conclusion with- 
 
CHARLEi HITCHCOCK. 37 
 
 out embarrassment or labor. He is not easily confused. He can 
 reconcile conflicting situations and reach the desired end without 
 difficulty. It is possible that, in taking a view of the bearings and 
 merits of any case, he will primarily ascertain what is its technical 
 character. After he has made up his mind as to what the authori- 
 ties have to do with it, it may occur to him to examine its moral 
 qualities. These, however, he would, as just said, subordinate to the 
 legal value of any case. Not that he would lend himself to assist in 
 the perpetration of any palpable wrong; but he is so much the more 
 a law3'er than a moralist, that the first will naturally assert its pre- 
 cedence over the other. 
 
 It is thus seen that despite the assertion that he is very evenly bal- 
 anced, he has some qualities that are subordinate to others. He is 
 more of a lawyer than a moralist — in the sense above referred to ; 
 and a better attorney than an advocate, although he is both a high 
 moralist and a fine advocate. Perfect balance in any character is 
 fatal. Its result is to place the human mechanism in the condition of 
 the wheel whose crank is " on a centre," and whose opposing forces 
 are so alike that there can be no motion whatever. All great charac- 
 ters are a trifle off" " the centre " ; and hence, while Mr. Hitchcock is 
 a superior conversationalist, advocate, attorney, chancery, real estate, 
 and criminal lawyer, and a business man — although he is excellent 
 in every one of these characters, he is, in some of them, better than in 
 others ; and thereby receives that mechanical preponderance in one 
 direction or another which is essenKal to continuous motion. 
 
 Outside of his profession as well as in it, Mr. Hitchcock is greatly 
 respected. He has fine social qualities, has an available fund of val- 
 uable general information, apart from his legal knowledge; and is 
 believed to be the possessor of qualifications that would not be mis- 
 placed on the judicial bench. He was President of the late Constitu- 
 tional Convention ; and as such, his versatility came to his aid, and 
 made him a dignified, able, and impartial officer. 
 
 Charles A. Dupee, a partner of Mr. Hitchcock, is a grave, quiet 
 young man, of fine abilities, and fills a very important place in the 
 firm of which he is a member. 
 
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 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 SIDNEY SMITH. 
 
 This lawyer is one of the notabilities of the Chicago bar. He is 
 noted as possessing very excellent ability, and also many personal 
 peculiarities which render him what a scientific man would call, not 
 the member of any species, but a " variety." He was born in New 
 York, in 1829. He studied law in western New York with Church 
 & Davis, and was admitted to the bar in Albion, N. Y. He came to 
 this city about fifteen years ago. 
 
 In personal appearance he is very marked. He is well and heavily 
 built, and has in reality the physique of a prize-fighter. His face is 
 regular and very swarthy. He has heavy, black hair, a thick, black 
 moustache and piercing black eyes, whose upper lids, cut squarely 
 across, add additional effect to their piercing character. His lower 
 jaw is very heavy, and gives him a belligerent expression that is 
 well supported by his pronounced chest, savage eyes, and shaggy hair. 
 His voice is of the same noticeable character as the rest of him. As a 
 lawyer he has some peculiarities, but he stands well. He has a high 
 order of conscience, and does not regard one side of a suit just as good 
 as the other. He is not apt to give his services in any case in which 
 he thinks he will have to work against the interests of justice. He is 
 very truthful and very bold, and one always knows just what he 
 means simply by knowing what he says. He prepares a case with 
 great care, and is very successful in cases whose decision turns on 
 logic, evidence, preparation, management. Where there is anything 
 emotional in a case he can not use it. In fine, in the preparation of a 
 case he brings to bear upon it indefatigable industry, a comprehensive 
 knowledge of the principles of law and of the authorities, and a logical 
 appreciation of what is needed. 
 
 He tries a case a good deal with his external arrangements— his 
 heavy jaw, his piercing eyes, and the elephantine roar of his voice. 
 When he commences a suit he constitutes himself an Ishmaelite who 
 looks upon all human kind as his enemy. This mannerism is the 
 more singular and inexplicable in that Mr. Smith is at heart a very 
 genial, kind-hearted gentleman, who has a thousand admirable qual- 
 
Sidney smith. 39 
 
 ities. But before a jury he is all muscle. Take him out of the court- 
 room, and he enjoys a good story in the hearing or telling as well as 
 any man. Before a jury, the thing is too serious for anything like 
 humor. He will laugh and be jolly when off a case, but once on it, 
 he is on the war-path, and he brandishes his tomahawk and goes 
 for scalps. 
 
 His speeches are logical, but sometimes so enveloped in thunder, and 
 so barred with a network of ferocious gesticulations, that one is apt to 
 lose sight of their real purpose in the stunned dismay with which he 
 views their surroundings. Outside of the performance of his profes- 
 sional duties he is very popular among those who know him; but 
 once in his war-paint, he is prepared and anxious to lift the hair of 
 his best friend. 
 
 The legal profession has no more devoted lover of law than Mr. 
 Smith. He is a man who hates shams, and who has no toleration for 
 cant or humbug of any kind. He is as sincere in all his ways and beliefs 
 as he is rugged, boisterous, and muscular in his developments before a 
 jury. He is not a malicious man, for he has a trick of laughing with 
 his eyes that is never seen save in one who is thoroughly good-natured 
 and kindly at bottom. He has brains in abundance, and the judg- 
 ment to use them effectively. What he needs more than anything 
 else is toning down. He is keyed too high by several octaves. 
 However, the abrading effects of time will wear off his rough edges. 
 He is a diamond in the rough, and requires cutting and polishing. 
 Time will doubtless accomplish these results, and then, in Mr. Smith, 
 the bar of Chicago will have a finished diamond of the first water, for, 
 despite all his personal peculiarities, he is universally recognized as 
 one of the ablest and most successful lawyers in the profession in the 
 Northwest. 
 
4<3 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 WILLIAM H. KING. 
 
 Mr. King was born in Saratoga county, New York, about fifty 
 years ago. He entered Union College, and graduated in 1846. He 
 studied law under Hon. John K. Porter of Waterford, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1S47. He practiced law in Waterford till 
 1853, when he removed to Chicago, and has been a resident here 
 since that time. He is now President of the Board of Education, and 
 a member of the Illinois legislature. 
 
 Mr. King is a trifle below medium size, with keen black eyes, a 
 good forehead, a pleasant, intellectual face, and a quick, energetic, 
 nervous manner. His general appearance is suggestive of kindliness, 
 and of an active, restless character. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. King occupies a very excellent position. His 
 practice is general, and his development very uniform. He is a good 
 lawyer, whether in preparing a case, in trying it, or in presenting it 
 either -to a court or jury. He is a lawyer whose integrity is above all 
 suspicion. He will only engage in just litigation, and once engaged 
 he is one who gives the case a most thorough and conscientious treat- 
 ment. He stands among the very first of those of his profession who 
 may be relied on for indefatigable industry, pains-taking preparation 
 and conduct of a case, unvarying courtesy towards everybody with 
 whom they come in contact, and thorough and conscientious discharge 
 of their duty to their client. These qualities have given him an excel- 
 lent standing, and a lucrative and successful practice. 
 
 Apart from his profession, Mr. King is an affable, courteous gen- 
 tleman. He has secured a competence from the practice of law, and 
 he is sufficiently cultivated to permit him to enjoy life very thoroughly 
 in his character as a private citizen. 
 
 Mr. George Payson, one of his partners, is a gentleman of about 
 forty-five years of age, and is a son of the well-known Rev. Edward 
 Payson. He is a very reliable lawyer in every department of legal 
 practice, whether his duties be connected with the office or with the 
 trial of a case in the courts. 
 
 The remaining partner, Ira Scott, is about forty-five years of age, 
 is a student also of Hon. John K. Porter, is a very superior office 
 lawyer, and a master in chancery. 
 
M. F. TULEY. ij.1 
 
 M. F. TULEY. 
 
 This gentleman, now corporation counsel, is forty-four years of 
 age, and was born in Louisville. He removed to Chicago in 1S43, 
 and studied law here, and attended the law school in Louisville in 
 1846. He was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1847. During the 
 Mexican war, he served three years in the volunteer service as First 
 Lieutenant of Company F. of the Fifth Illinois infantry. At the close 
 of the war he went into New Mexico, and remained till 1854. 
 During his residence there he filled the position of attorney general, 
 and served two terms in the legislature. Since 1S54 he has been 
 practicing his profession in Chicago. He was elected to his present 
 office in 1869. 
 
 Mr. Tuley is of medium size, with grey hair, blue eyes, and an 
 older appearance than would be supposed from his age. He has seen 
 very much of the world, and is a gentleman of considerable cultivation 
 outside of his profession. He is very 'highly regarded, both as a gen- 
 tleman and a lawyer. In his latter character, he is better in an office 
 or in the conduct of a case than before a jury. He is not a fluent 
 speaker, but he makes a very excellent argument before a judge, and 
 in any instance in which the bare, logical presentation of facts are all 
 that is demanded. In the preparation of a case he is very careful and 
 pains-taking, and never presents anything until it has become all that 
 laborious preparation can make it. As a manager he is very shrewd 
 and cunning, much more so than would be supposed from his quiet 
 face and demeanor, and more so even than is generally suspected by 
 Jiose who have long possessed his acquaintance. 
 
/\3 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 WIRT DEXTER. 
 
 Mr. Dexter comes of a legal stock. His grandfather, his uncle, 
 and his father were all distinguished members of the legal profession. 
 In his celebrated speech against Hayne, Webster spoke of Samuel 
 Dexter as " that great man of whom the gentleman has made honor- 
 able mention. He was a lawyer and he was also a statesman. A 
 question of constitutional law was of all. subjects that one which was 
 best suited to his talents and learning. Aloof from technicality, and 
 unfettered by artificial rule, snch a question gave opportunity for that 
 deep and clear analysis, that mighty grasp of principle, which so much 
 distinguish his higher efforts. His very statement was argument; his 
 inference seemed demonstration. The earnestness of his own convic- 
 tion wrought conviction in others. One was convinced, and believed, 
 and assented because it was gratifying, delightful, to think, and feel, 
 aud believe in unison with an intellect of such evident superiority." 
 This gentleman was a member of John Adams' Cabinet, and was 
 the grandfather of Mr. Dexter. His father Samuel, and his uncle 
 Franklin Dexter, were lawyers of great prominence, so that Mr. Dexter 
 is royally descended with respect to the legal standing of his ancestors. 
 Mr. Dexter's father was a territorial Judge in Michigan, after which 
 he resumed the practice of law in the town of Dexter, which he 
 founded. Wirt Dexter was born in that place, and always resided 
 there until his removal to Chicago. 
 
 He is now about thirty-eight years of age, and hence his birth must 
 have occurred about the year 1S33. He went more or less to adjacent 
 schools, and spent some little time at Ann Arbor, but left before 
 obtaining his degree and entered an Eastern college. The other por- 
 tions of his life before he came to Chicago were spent, in part, in the 
 lumber regions, where he was engaged in reducing pine to the neces- 
 sities of civilization, and in addressing his fellow citizens from the 
 stump upon the political issues of the day. He is said to have been a 
 young man whose maiden efforts at oratory were lofty and emphatic 
 — -a cross between the fervid pulpit efforts of a sincere Methodist 
 preacher, and the gorgeous overflow of a young bird of freedom whose 
 home is near the setting sun. 
 
WIRT DEXTER. 43 
 
 Mr. Dexter came to Chicago from Michigan about thirteen years 
 ago, where, for awhile, he was engaged in the lumber business. He 
 then commenced the study of law in the office of Sedgwick & Walker. 
 In due time he was admitted to the bar, and within this period he has 
 progressed from a raw youth from the lumber regions into one of the 
 leading lawyers of the Northwest, and from — intellectually — nobody 
 in particular, into one of the most influential and respected citizens of 
 Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Dexter is tall, with a massive chest, and an athletic form 
 which nothing less than the gymnastics of log-rolling could have 
 developed. He has an open face, large, blue, expressive and kindly 
 eyes, a high broad forehead, and a full dark-brown beard. His 
 expression is one of refinement and intelligence, combined with a 
 genial and dignified frankness. Taken in all respects, he is what 
 most men would term a handsome man. With his grand torso, and 
 long arms, he would have made a cavalry officer of most magnificent 
 presence. But what the cavalry service has lost the legal profession 
 has gained, for he stands in the very front rank of the latter. 
 
 As a lawyer he is both a superior advocate and a very excellent 
 counsellor. In his latter character he is a student; and yet the student 
 rather of general principles than of authorities. He has a very pow- 
 erful intuitive ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and if 
 he applies himself to the books it is for the purpose, not of ascertain- 
 ing their conclusions, but of finding in them evidence to sustain the 
 conclusions which his intuitions have already constructed. He seems 
 to regard the law book as a means rather than an end ; a something 
 to be used as a witness to establish a certain case, and not as a judge 
 whose decision is final. 
 
 This intuitive appreciation of what should be, without a slavish 
 dependence upon authorities, is a fine and very excellent mental pecu- 
 liarity. It is akin to an intelligent conscience ; and a man who is 
 guided by it will rarely — never knowingly — -become involved in a 
 wrong. This is the case with Mr. Dexter. It does not seem possible 
 that he would take any case which he does not believe to be right. 
 From the inspiration of these intuitions he has grown to abhor wrong, 
 trickery, and even litigation itself, whose existence he believes unne 
 cessary save as a very last resort. 
 
 As an advocate he stands well. His speeches always mean some- 
 thing, for they are always underlaid by the conviction that he is 
 right. He always speaks with an earnestness which convinces a 
 
44 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 listener that he believes what he is saying. The tone of his speech is 
 elevated, clear, and comprehensive. He occasionally introduces a 
 humorous illustration, but never descends to buffoonery. Always it 
 is evident that it is a gentleman who speaks. He talks with entire 
 readiness, and is fond of interspersing his sentences with epigram- 
 matic utterances from noted authors. His better efforts are classical 
 in their purity, their clearness, and their sharp-cut outlines. 
 
 In his legal character, Mr. Dexter is influential for the reason that 
 his firm is one of brains and cultivation, and because his personal 
 influence in a case is of great weight. Men have confidence in him 
 because they know he will not advise them to commence a suit unless 
 their cause is right, and that there is no remedy' for them save litiga- 
 tion. It is a very strong indorsement that a man's case is perfectly 
 just, and a substantial earnest that he will win it, when it is known 
 that it is being carried by Mr. Dexter. 
 
 This gentleman has very fine social qualities. He is not of one 
 idea, but converses easily and eloqflently upon all ordinary topics. In 
 his private life he is genial and affable, occupies a high social position, 
 is luxurious in his habits, and artistic in his tastes and his surroundings. 
 He is liberal to the last degree, and his personal co-operation and that 
 of his' check-book may always be relied on in any case of public or 
 private suffering. His generosity, intelligence, and geniality make 
 him as much respected in private life, as he is in his professional 
 character for his probity, dignity, eloquence and ability. 
 
E. G. ASAY. 45 
 
 E. G. ASAY. 
 
 Mr. Asay was born in Philadelphia, and must be now some- 
 where in the vicinity of forty-five years of age. He enjoyed very 
 good educational advantages in his youth, the which, with an enthu- 
 siastic disposition and a fine ability, he resolved to devote to the 
 sacred calling of the ministry of the pulpit. He connected himself 
 with the Methodist denomination, mainly, one who knows him would 
 fancy, because it furnishes an outlet for a mercurial disposition and a 
 springy, impetuous nature, such as is found in no other denomination. 
 
 He occupied himself for a time in the work of saving wandering 
 sheep that were outside the fold, and in other pastoral duties, and was 
 then taken from the pulpit and placed in the desk of a professor, at 
 the head of an institution of learning connected with the Methodist 
 church. How long he remained in this position, or why he con- 
 cluded to change his profession, is not known to the writer; but it is 
 known that, after a time, he transferred himself to the bar. From 
 the pulpit to the bar is no great distance. The pastor who saves sin- 
 ners from the damnation of sin, and the lawyer who saves criminals 
 from the damnation of their offenses, are not greatly removed from 
 each other. These changes from the pulpit to the bar, and vice versa, 
 are not uncommon. In fact, pulpit and bar are, in many respects, 
 interchangeable terms; and he who practices in the Supreme Court 
 established some eighteen hundred years ago, is not undergoing an 
 ill-judged course of preparation for the mundane courts of chancery or 
 of criminality. 
 
 Mr. Asay studied law in New York, and came to Chicago in 
 1S56, since which time he has been actively engaged as a general prac- 
 titioner, with a very decided tendency toward, and attachment for, 
 criminal law and its practice. In respect to the latter branch of his 
 profession, he has attained a first-class position. He has been promi- 
 nent in many noted causes cdlebres that have occurred in the West, 
 among which the defense of Mollie Trussell, for the killing of the 
 gambler Trussell, and the defense of the alleged conspirator, Charles 
 Walsh, at Cincinnati, are best known to the public. His success in 
 
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 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 the practice of criminal law is proven by the fact that in Chicago he 
 has had the charge of the defense of some forty capital cases, and in 
 no instance have any of his clients ever suffered a capital conviction. 
 
 In personal appearance, Mr. Asay is prepossessing, with the air 
 of a cosmopolite. He is a little above medium height, with a mas- 
 sive, well-developed form. His head is broad, denoting a fine intel- 
 lectual development; his eyes are a kindly blue, his lips full, and his 
 countenance one expressive of great intelligence, geniality, and 
 energy. 
 
 This quality of energy seems to pervade him most thoroughly. 
 He is always wide-awake, and apparently driven by a high-pressure, 
 manifold horse-power mechanism. In conversation and in speech he 
 dashes ahead with the elan of a French zouave in a pas de charge. 
 He never appears to go over a subject — he goes through it, and 
 sends obstructions flying in every direction, like a locomotive going at 
 sixty miles an hour through a snow-drift. 
 
 He is an undoubted logician, but he forces convictions by his 
 impetuosity. He does not so much reason things from his path, but 
 he dashes them aside. Quick as a flash to catch a point, to detect a 
 flaw, or avail himself of any sudden exigency, he is invaluable in the 
 conduct of a case in which vigor, determination, and instantaneous 
 comprehension of the character of a juror or witness are requisite 
 qualities. 
 
 He is as genial in manner and conversation as can be desired. 
 He is at home on all subjects; has an opinion on anything, or will 
 have one, in a fraction of a second, on every topic that is presented; 
 he reads and analyzes character with a surprising readiness and accu- 
 racy; he has a large fund of fine humor, and is full of illustrations 
 and reminiscences; he possesses an under-current of poetical ideas, 
 that are always rising to and sparkling at the surface of his conver- 
 sation; and he is a very general favorite with the bar and the public. 
 In his private life he is noted for being fond of a luxurious domes- 
 ticity, and as being a devoted bibliophilist, whose bibliolatry has 
 brought together the finest and rarest private library in the West, if 
 not on the continent. 
 
THOMAS DENT. 47 
 
 THOMAS DENT. 
 
 Mr. Dent was born in 1831, in Putnam county, Illinois. He 
 entered a law office as clerk at twelve years of age, and divided his 
 time between school and the office until 1854, when he was admitted 
 to the bar. In 1856 he came to Chicago, the next year he went to 
 Peoria, and a year later he returned to Chicago, and entered into 
 partnership with the late Judge Arrington. At present he is a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Dent & Black. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Dent is delicate and feminine. His 
 face is small and pale, with lines furrowing it in every direction, indi- 
 cating severe study. His countenance is one that shows a very high 
 order of intelligence. In his physical character there seems little of 
 him. He is so slender that one almost feels a pity that one with so 
 refined a face should be obliged to encounter the dangers of the streets 
 without a guide and a protector in the person of a stalwart companion. 
 
 Physically, nature has done nothing for Mr. Dent. In an intel- 
 lectual sense, what he is he has made himself. He is a student in 
 the most comprehensive sense of the word. He looks as though he 
 had neglected and exhausted his physical frame in building up his 
 intellect. As a lawyer possessing a great knowledge of law, he 
 stands very high. In his plodding, studious career, he has become 
 thoroughly familiar with one-half the contents of the law books, 
 while he has committed to memory the other half. He makes some 
 pretensions as an orator, but not with any striking success. He pre- 
 sents a case always clearly and pointedly, and comprehensively, and 
 when he has finished he has made every point that the case contains. 
 
 Of Mr. Dent's private life, or social qualities, the writer knows 
 nothing. He has no enemies at the bar. They all admire his indus- 
 try and respect his knowledge. Were he possessed of more physical 
 energy, could his mental efforts be re-inforced by a strong, vigorous 
 frame, were he a trifle less a man of talent, and more a man of 
 genius, he would take a very high rank. As it is, he stands well, and 
 if patient, persevering industry can carry him to the front, he will 
 surely, in time, attain that position. 
 
48 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 MELVILLE W. FULLER. 
 
 Mr. Fuller is a lawyer by descent as well as education. He is 
 the son of a lawyer, and the grandson, on one side, of a lawyer, and 
 on the other of Nathan Weston, at one time Chief Justice of the 
 Supreme Court. He was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1833, and 
 graduated, where all Maine men now graduate, at Bowdoin, in 1853. 
 He commenced the study of law in Augusta, and finished in the Har- 
 vard law school. He was president of the common council of 
 Augusta in 1S56; and the same year left there and came to Chicago, 
 where he has since resided. Since here he has taken quite a promi- 
 nent position as a public man. He was a member of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention in 1862, a democratic member of the Legislature in 
 1863, and a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1864. 
 Although very devoted to his chosen profession, Mr. Fuller has always 
 found time to be a democrat, and to do his share of the labors of the 
 organization. 
 
 In person, he is a trifle less than medium height, with broad shoul- 
 ders and a well-knit frame. He has a large, intellectual head, with 
 intelligent gray eyes, a strong mouth, a luxurious moustache, and 
 abundant hair slightly sprinkled with gray, and is a very good-looking 
 gentleman, with a pleasant, intellectual face. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Fuller has achieved a very high reputation from 
 his legal services in general, and from the prominence with which he 
 has brought before the public by his connection with the Whitehouse- 
 Cheney case — an ecclesiastical proceeding whose details have become 
 world-wide. In his profession he is a man of many resources, and is 
 usually esteemed a manager whom it is no small labor to handle. He 
 is very vigilant and active. He is a ready speaker, and has great 
 fluency and speaks well. He is perhaps a better advocate than an 
 attorney, for the reason that, in addition to his oratorical ability, there 
 is more opportunity for adroit management in trying a case than in 
 preparing it; nevertheless, he is industrious to the extreme, and he 
 spares no pains, time or labor in bringing his cases to the very highest 
 
MELVILLE W. FULLER. 49 
 
 state of preparation. He is able to bring a very large amount of 
 general learning into his speeches, and his use of the classics is at 
 once extended and elegant. He is a bull-dog in pertinacity, never 
 surrenders, and always pushes his cases to the last extremity. He 
 gained notoriety as a lawyer in many important cases, and which 
 involved great constitutional and political questions. Of late he has 
 attracted attention in the Cheney case, and his oral argument before 
 the Supreme Court in that case is regarded as of the very highest 
 order. 
 
 His ambition, which is great politically as well as in his profession, 
 spurs him into making the most of law and his ability. He is very 
 cool in trying a case, and keeps his temper well, and therein has a 
 great advantage over a more impetuous opponent. His tactics in such 
 cases are good, for the reason that, whenever practicable, he never 
 awaits to receive an attack, but always anticipates, by charging him- 
 self and putting the other party on the defensive. He is nervous 
 without being timorous ; and is very apt to indulge in flank or other 
 movements in directions that are not watched by the opposing counsel. 
 Perhaps the best evidence that he is devoted to the law is found in the 
 fact that he continues its practice although sufficiently wealthy to live 
 comfortably without it. 
 
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50 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 B. F. AYER. 
 
 This lawyer, the middle member of Beckwith, Ayer & Kales, was 
 born in Rockingham county, New Hampshire, in 1825. He fitted 
 himself for college at Albany, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1S46. 
 He studied law two years at Manchester, one year at Harvard, and was 
 admitted to the bar in New Hampshire, in 1S49. He practiced there 
 until 1857, and was, during that time, 'Prosecuting Attorney for three 
 years. He came to Chicago in 1857, and has' since practiced law in 
 this city. He was Corporation Counsel from 1S61 to 1865, and filled 
 the position most acceptably. At the present time, in addition to his 
 other duties, he is the attorney for the South Park Commissioners. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Ayer occupies a prominent position. He is 
 better adapted for office business than for the trial of cases. He pos- 
 sesses very clear perceptions and great industry, so that he is not only 
 entirely competent to go carefully through a case, but to reach with 
 almost entire certainty, exact and correct conclusions. His integrity 
 is as undoubted as his judgment is beyond dispute. He is 1 regarded 
 as very close, or, in other words, very exact and mathematical, in his 
 mental processes. He has a very fine analytical mind, and has his 
 ability in this direction so nicely adjusted that he can split a hair, with 
 entire accuracy every time " twixt south and southwest side." He is 
 modest, reticent, undemonstrative, and unostentatious. As a speaker, 
 he is easy, polished, fluent, forcible, but not imaginative. 
 
 Mr. Ayer looks much younger than his real age. He is of 
 medium height, has a fine, intellectual head, blue eyes, regular fea- 
 tures, abundant light hair, and a clean-shaved face. His looks indi- 
 cate intelligence and refinement. He is a gentleman of cultivation 
 outside of his profession, and is very much respected, both by his 
 Drother members of the bar and by the general public. 
 
EMORY A. STORRS. 
 
 EMORY A. STORRS. 
 
 This well-known advocate was born in Cattaraugus county, New 
 York, in 1834. He read law with his father and Marshall R. Cham- 
 plain, now Attorney General of the State of New York. He was 
 admitted to the bar in Buffalo, in 1S55 ; and practiced law in New 
 York city until 1859, when he came to Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Storrs is in many respects one of the most noted men at the 
 Chicago bar. In thus having attained prominence, his shining qual- 
 ities are not of an unmixed character. There is in him much to 
 admire, and elements which would improve his character were they 
 omitted. He has better qualities in abundance, and an ability which, 
 if evenly developed, would place him at the very head of the legal 
 profession in the West. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Storrs has, as has been said, some qualities 
 which have few equals and no superiors in the legal profession, either 
 in Chicago or the country. As a jurv lawyer, there is a domain in 
 which he Has no rival. His command of language is something mar- 
 velous; and his powers of ridicule and sarcasm, and his development 
 of the humorous phases of any case, are unapproachable. He is, in 
 these respects, brilliant and successful to an extreme. His compre- 
 hension and appreciation of the ludicrous are vast, and his ability to 
 employ them is equally extensive. His efforts are always sparkling, 
 intensely brilliant, and sometimes evanescent. What is strange in his 
 oratorical character, is the fact that he is rarely pathetic. The man 
 who has a keen appreciation of the humorous, rarely is unaccompanied 
 by a corresponding susceptibility to its opposite. He who will laugh 
 heartily will generally cry when due cause for tears is presented. If 
 a jury whom Mr. Storrs addresses ever find themselves with their 
 eyes filled with tears, it is from the fact of laughing over his funny 
 presentation of some point, or his scoriation of some opposing lawyer 
 or some unfortunate witness. 
 
 But these defects are the exception, possibly, rather than the rule 
 in Mr. Storrs' forensic efforts. Many of his good things are born of 
 
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 the occasion, and this occasional spontaneity is a redeeming clause in 
 Mr. Storrs' efforts as an advocate; and its results are often of a fine- 
 ness, a pertinency, a superiority that indicate that their originator has 
 in him many of the better qualities of the artist. In addition to these 
 occasional risings above his commonplace and average efforts, Mr. 
 Storrs possesses other excellent qualities. He is a hard student when 
 necessity demands application, and he has not only the industry to 
 to work up a case, but the ability to comprehend it. He is willing to 
 work, zealous in the cause of his client, and able to accomplish a 
 good deal. 
 
 As a political speaker, Mr. Storrs has gained considerable position, 
 and he, in this role, carries some weight. In this domain of effort, 
 motives are not so much considered, and sincerity is not of so essential 
 consequence. 
 
 In personal appearance, Mr. Storrs is below the medium height, 
 is slender, with light hair and complexion, and blue eyes. He is 
 quick in movement, and has a nervous style, that indicates an active 
 organization. He has, in fine, many of the elements of a great man, 
 and is a lawyer who is very successful, and who has more admirers 
 and more haters than any other member of the profession in Chicago. 
 
STEPHEN A. GOODWIN. 53 
 
 STEPHEN A. GOODWIN. 
 
 This well-known member of the Chicago bar was born in. 1807, in 
 Geneva, New York. He passed his extreme youth in Geneva, and 
 in time removed with his father to Detroit. He entered Hamilton 
 College in 1S26, and passed from there to Union College in 1828, and 
 graduated the following year. It may be mentioned in this connec- 
 tion that one of his classmates at Union College was Robert Toombs, 
 between whom and young Goodwin there was no end of word}' war, 
 Toombs being then an ardent champion of States' rights, and all the rest 
 of the budget of extreme Southern views. He studied law with Hon. 
 Geo. B., and E. T. Throop — afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of New 
 York — and was admitted to the bar at Auburn in 1831. Some time 
 after this, he combined politics with law, taking an active interest in 
 current political events. During the campaign accompanying Jackson's 
 second nomination, he conducted a journal in the interest of Old Hick- 
 ory, in which department of effort he succeeded not merely in distin- 
 guishing himself, but in doing excellent service for the party. For 
 fifteen years prior to the abolition of Chancery practice in New York 
 he was Clerk of the Seventh Circuit of the Chancery Court under 
 the late Chancellor Walworth, and with which distinguished man he 
 sustained extremely friendly and intimate relations. 
 
 During his practice of law in New York, the men with whom he 
 was almost daily brought into professional contact with, were Hon. 
 Wm. H. Seward, Hon. Jno. C. Spencer, Hon. B. Davis Noxon, 
 Hon. F. G. Jcwett, Ex-Gov. Selden ; and from which contact he was 
 necessarily obliged to develop his legal faculties with more than 
 average rapidity and excellence. 
 
 In 1855 he removed to Detroit, and began the practice of his pro- 
 fession in that place, in company with his brother who is now Judge 
 of the Mackinaw Circuit. He remained there four years, and then 
 removed to Chicago, in order to better accommodate the business 
 which had grown up for him in this locality. 
 
 Mr. Goodwin is of marked personal appearance. He is quite tall, 
 slender, erect, with dark complexion, high forehead, hair black, 
 
54 THE CHICAGO BAR, 
 
 and slightly tinged with gray, regular features, and a countenance, 
 which is fine in detail, but ploughed with lines indicative of severe 
 labor, and possibly somewhat careworn and anxious in its expression. 
 
 There is perhaps no lawyer at the bar of the Northwest who has so 
 varied an experience, and so extended a practice in every department 
 of law as Mr. Goodwin. In criminal, chancery, common law, and 
 ecclesiastical matters he has had a business which has extended over 
 nearly half a century. At the present time he devotes himself mainly 
 to patent law practice, and in this department he has achieved a very 
 large success and constructed a business of great dimensions. 
 
 He is very evenly developed as a lawyer. Perhaps he is now more 
 of a counsellor than an attorney, for the reason that his labors now 
 mainly confine him to judicial, rather than jury arguments. Formerly, 
 when his duties called him to lay a case before a jury, he was very 
 highly successful, and had few superiors in this line of effort. He 
 is a man of the greatest possible industry ; and when once he 
 has made the case of a client his own, he spares no effort to achieve 
 success. His learning as a lawyer is profound and exhaustive ; and in 
 the matter of integrity one more "unimpeachable no where exists. His 
 experience of men is varied almost beyond comprehension. He has 
 studied them under every possible circumstance, having, while at 
 Auburn, had a practice which extended not only over the entire State, 
 but also over a great part of New England. Since leaving the East 
 his territorial efforts have been quite as extended, and embrace opera- 
 tions in every State in the Northwest. In fine, it may be said that he 
 is a gentleman who, professionally and socially, is thoroughly estima- 
 ble, and this fact is recognized universally by those with whom he is 
 thrown into contact. 
 
GEORGE C. BATES. 55 
 
 GEORGE C. BATES. 
 
 This Nestor of the Western bar is a native of Canandaigua, New 
 York, and was born in 1814. He studied law in the office of Hon. 
 John C. Spencer, reading with him three years. In 1834 he went to 
 Detroit, and was there admitted to the bar. He soon obtained a 
 large collecting practice, which extended to Indiana and Northern 
 Illinois. In 1841, he was appointed United States District Attorney 
 by General Harrison, but resigned at Harrison's death. He was 
 re-appointed to the same position by Taylor; and he held the office 
 until 1852, when he resigned and went to California, and there filled 
 the position of assistant counsel in government cases. Five years 
 later, he returned to Detroit, having accumulated a large fortune 
 during his California career. In 1861 he came to Chicago, and since 
 that time he has been in general practice. He was admitted to the 
 bar cotemporaneously with Hon. Thomas Hoyne and the late Judge 
 George' Manierre, of this city, and is, therefore, one of the oldest mem- 
 bers of the bar in the West. While his line of practice is general, he 
 has had a good deal to do with revenue and admiralty matters, for 
 which he is eminently fitted from his long connection with official 
 positions. 
 
 Mr. Bates is of medium size, with gray hair and moustache, keen, 
 handsome dark eyes, and a pleasing, intelligent face. He has been 
 very prominently identified with political matters, and as a speaker 
 has been in very constant demand. He is an advocate rather than an 
 office lawyer, and as such he has achieved a very marked success. 
 He is a gentleman of the old school, very affable and courteous, is the 
 possessor of a very large amount of genuine esprit de corps, and, it 
 may be added, is very generally respected by those who know him. 
 
56 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 ISRAEL N. STILES. 
 
 General Stiles was born in 1833, in Suffield, Connecticut, on 
 a farm, where he remained till sixteen years of age, working in 
 summer and attending the district school in winter. At the age of 
 nineteen he removed to Lafayette, Indiana, and commenced reading 
 in a law-office, having read law the year before coming West. Soon 
 after he took a school a few miles out of town. At night he taught 
 singing school, and the while carried on his law studies. The next 
 year he opened a private school, and continued reading law until 
 1855, when he was admitted to the bar. About this time, Lawrence, 
 in Kansas was burned, and at a public meeting, young Stiles devel- 
 oped an oratorical ability that astonished every one. Thereafter he 
 rose rapidly into prominence. During the Fremont-Buchanan cam- 
 paign he made sixty-six regular speeches through the country, one of 
 which was given in Music Hall, Boston, and another in Augusta, in 
 Maine. He was prosecuting attorney for two years, and subsequently 
 was elected to the State Legislature. 
 
 He was beginning to get ahead in law practice when the war 
 broke out. He raised a company, although married the same month. 
 Somebody else received the captaincy of his company, and then he 
 enlisted as a private, but was made Adjutant to the 20th Indiana. He 
 was captured at Malvern Hill, and was in Libby six weeks, and was 
 then exchanged. He was made Major of the 63d Indiana, then Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel, then Colonel of the same regiment, and finally Briga- 
 dier General, his commission dating from the battle of Franklin, Ten- 
 nessee. After the war he came to Chicago, and practiced law alone 
 until he entered into partnership with Judge McAllister, in 1867. 
 Two years later he was elected City Attorney, which position he 
 now holds. 
 
 This sketch of the life of General Stiles has been made thus 
 extended because its incidents prove better than any mere assertion, 
 his extraordinary versatility, and the energy of a character by whose 
 aid he has raised himself from obscurity to his present position. 
 
 As a lawyer he is rather more of an advocate than an attorney, 
 
ISRAEL N. STILES. 57 
 
 and it may safely be added that, in the trial of cases he has few supe- 
 riors at the bar of Chicago. He is very adroit in the management of 
 a case, and has a power and a quickness of repartee, and an ability to 
 avail himself of emergencies that are singularly effective in his clients' 
 interests, and uncomfortable for the plans of opposing counsel. 
 Whenever he presents a case to the court, he is always prepared with 
 the authorities which support the legal propositions involved, and in 
 this particular he is usually clear and complete in his preparation. As 
 an advocate he has much ability. He always seems sincere, and 
 wields a most effective, pathetic power; and as a public speaker, one 
 who is ready, fluent and logical, and who can tell an apt story with 
 incomparable mimetic power, he has few or no equals of his age in the 
 Northwest. As he is yet a. comparatively young man, he has before 
 him a future of great promise. 
 
 In appearance he is slender, of medium height, rather swarthy in 
 complexion, with keen, full, dark eyes, and dark beard worn full. 
 Socially he is much liked. He converses well on all general subjects, 
 and has just a flavor of satire in his conversation sufficient to render it 
 palatable. He is profuse in his illustrations, possesses a fine fund of 
 anecdote and humor, which renders intercourse with him a matter of 
 great social and intellectual enjoyment; and as a post-prandial orator 
 he is happy, humorous, and effective far beyond the average in this 
 class of efforts. With reference to his course as City Attorney, his 
 success may be best comprehended from the character of a remark 
 made, a few days since in court, by an eminent lawyer who was 
 opposing him in a city case, and who warned the jury that his appa- 
 rent fairness in arguing a case, and which was calculated to mislead 
 them, had saved the city, since he had become City Attorney, thou- 
 sands of dollars. 
 
$8 THE CHICAGO BAK. 
 
 CHARLES H. REED. 
 
 Mr. Reed was born in Strykersville, Wyoming county, New 
 York, in 1834. He. attended school and worked on a farm during 
 his younger days; and later, taught school, and attended an academy 
 until he entered Yale College. He studied law, and was admitted to 
 the bar in 1858, in Henry county, in Illinois. He removed from that 
 place to Rock Island, and, in i860, in company with Hon. Joseph 
 Knox, he removed to Chicago. He practiced law till 1864, when he 
 was elected District Attorney, an office which he still holds. 
 
 Mr. Reed is tall, broad-shouldered, well-formed, with light hair, 
 moustache and imperial, regular and intelligent features, and blue 
 eyes. In his movements he is quick, nervous, and therein indicates 
 his character. He is a well-read lawyer, has a great deal of positive 
 character, and is a very shrewd manager. He possesses as much 
 influence as any man in Chicago ; employs a vast amount of energy ; 
 and pushes everything forward with resistless force. In his character 
 as a public prosecutor, he has shown himself the possessor of great 
 industry, and the ability to dispose of a vast quantity of work within 
 a very short time. In this direction, he is indefatigable and indus- 
 trious; and the result is that he is universally acknowledged to be a 
 thorough, efficient and economical official. Socially he is very genial, 
 and is very much liked by all who know him ; and he is at once a 
 capable, intelligent and industrious public officer, and a popular, 
 much-esteemed gentleman. 
 
LAMBERT TREE. 59 
 
 LAMBERT TREE. 
 
 Mr. Tree is a graduate of Columbia College, in Washington. 
 He studied law with James Carlyle, who is now a leading practitioner 
 before the Supreme Court at the national capital. He read law two 
 years, and then graduated at the University of Virginia, in the law 
 department. He came to Chicago in 1855, and in time became a 
 member of the firm of Tree & Clarkson. 
 
 Mr. Tree is a very affable and scholarly member of the legal pro- 
 fession. He has fine abilities, and, prior to his late visits to Europe, 
 he was a close student and a ready practitioner. He is in the posses- 
 sion of a very ample fortune, and his time is much occupied by the 
 management of his private interests, but nevertheless he gives his 
 attention to office business, and in this direction is very constantly 
 engaged. He goes into court but little, and has a large business in 
 the line of real estate practice, and the management of the legal affairs 
 of several heavy corporations. He is an easy, fluent conversationalist, 
 a gentleman of fine general cultivation, and a very respected citizen. 
 Were he thrown on his own resources, and obliged to make his way 
 in life by his own abilities, he would achieve a decided success in the 
 legal or any other department of effort. 
 
6o THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 DANIEL D. DRISCOLL. 
 
 This gentleman is the youngest son of Rev. Luther Driscoll, a 
 Baptist clergyman, and who removed with his family to Illinois in 
 1837. Mr. Driscoll worked on a farm and attended the district school 
 until sixteen years of age, when he commenced teaching. He also 
 attended school during this period, and commenced the study of law 
 with Hon. Julius Manning, who was then located in Knoxville in this 
 State. Mr. Driscoll came to Chicago in 1854, but being in ill-health, 
 and without means, he travelled for a time as collector for a city firm. 
 Recovering his health, he opened a law office in 1857. During the 
 succeeding ten years he formed partnerships with various gentlemen, 
 and at the end of that period he was elected City Attorney, which office 
 he filled for two years. He then formed a partnership with Mr. Jos. 
 Pfirshing— a fine French and German scholar — with whom he still is. 
 
 Mr. Driscoll is thirty-eight years of age, and a tall, well-built gen- 
 tleman, with light hair and beard, and gray eyes. He is the possessor 
 of a very excellent knowledge of his profession, but he devotes himself 
 more especially to the r-ole of an advocate. He is a very effective jury 
 lawyer, and has made speeches, such as in the Comstock-Grear case, 
 and the Dent divorce suit, which have commanded a wide notice and 
 admiration. He has a good deal of criminal business, in which he 
 has achieved a very pronounced success. 
 
 His partner, Mr. Pfirshing is a very fine scholar, and is a grad- 
 uate of the Paris University, and also that at Heidelburg, Germany. 
 Mr. Volney T. Kenney, the remaining partner, is a brother of Hon. 
 Thos. J. Kenney of Ashland, Ohio, and is a young man of more than 
 ordinary promise in the legal profession. 
 
HAMILTON N. ELDRIDGE. 6 1 
 
 HAMILTON N. ELDRIDGE. 
 
 General Eldridge was born in South Williams, Berkshire 
 county, Massachusetts, and is now thirty-eight years of age. His 
 father was a farmer, and during the Mexican war, held the rank of 
 Colonel. His son, fitted for college at East Hampton, in Massachu- 
 setts, entered Williams in 1853, and graduated four years later. He 
 studied law under Judge Ira Harris, and his brother, Hamilton Harris, 
 in Albany, New York, and graduated at the law school in the same 
 place in 1S57- He came to Chicago the same year, and went into 
 the office of Baker & Hyatt, after which he began practice by himself. 
 In 1858, he formed a partnership with F. W. Tourtellotte, and with 
 whom he has been associated ever since, under the name of Eldridge 
 & Tourtellotte. 
 
 In 1862, he entered the volunteer service as Lieutenant-Colonel of 
 the 127th Illinois infantry; and three weeks later he took command 
 of the regiment, and was promoted to Colonel in the same year. At 
 the battle of Arkansas Post, he and his regiment were first inside the 
 Confederate works; and at the battles before Vicksburg, in May, 
 1863, he took the colors, after all the color-guard had been shot down, 
 for which act of gallantry he was made a Brevet Brigadier-General. 
 Since his retirement from the army, General Eldridge has assiduously 
 devoted himself to the practice of the legal profession. 
 
 He is above medium height, with light hair and eyes, regular 
 features and full beard. In his manners he is very finished, and pos- 
 sesses affability and sociability in a very high degree. 
 
 As a lawyer, he occupies a very conspicuous position. His prac- 
 tice is a general one, although he has devoted himself largely to col- 
 lection business. He has been engaged in a good many very impor- 
 tant cases, among which the most notorious one was the suit of 
 Amanda J. Craig against Elisha C. Sprague, for breach of promise, 
 and in which the firm of which is a member obtained the largest 
 verdict ever known in suits for damages — $100,000. His success 
 in this suit was won by the same indefatigable industry, the same 
 
62 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 care in the preparation of the case, and the same devotion which he 
 shows to the interests of his clients in all his practice. He is not 
 only a successful practitioner, but a thoroughly intelligent lawyer, and 
 a liberal, courteous gentleman. 
 
 Mr. F. W. Tourtellotte, his partner, a tall, handsome gentle- 
 man, with an erect figure, and a very pleasant, intelligent face, is a 
 native of Thompson, Massachusetts, and is about thirty-four years 
 of age. He fitted for Brown University, but in place of entering he 
 went to the Law University at Albany, and graduated with unusu- 
 ally high honors. In 1857 be came to Joliet, and the next year 
 removed to Chicago, and entered into partnership with General 
 Eldridge, as before stated. In 1862 he was elected Major of the 
 127th regiment, but was compelled, on account of the urgent char- 
 acter of his business, to decline the commission. Of him it needs 
 only be said, that in addition to possessing high qualifications as a 
 criminal lawyer, he is an industrious and very competent general 
 practitioner, and that he has proved himself an indispensable aux- 
 iliary in the important and extended interests committed to the 
 firm of which he is a member. 
 
GOODRICH SNOWHOOK. 63 
 
 II. 
 
 GRANT GOODRICH. 
 
 Mr. Goodrich has been here some thirty-five years, and is one of 
 the best known of our lawyers. He is a student, a good advocate, a 
 prudent counsellor, anil being wealthy, devotes himself to office 
 business mainly, and enjoys himself without allowing anything to 
 greatly trouble him. 
 
 WILLIAM B. SNOWHOOK. 
 
 This well-known gentleman was horn in Ireland, in 1817, and 
 came to New York by himself, when but eight years of age. His 
 life from that time has been a very eventful one in many respects. 
 He early commenced reading law, but all the time carried on some 
 other business. He was a contractor while in the East, and later, 
 ■was the same in connection with William B. Ogden and others on 
 the Lake Michigan canal. He has been in the commission business, 
 and various other pursuits, but always kept up his legal studies. He 
 was Collector of Customs under Polk and Pierce, and has also held 
 other public offices of trust and consequence. In 1857 he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar, after which he spent two years in the law depart- 
 ment of the Chicago University, and graduated with honor. 
 
 It is gratifying to be able to state that all this persistence has had 
 its reward. Mr. Snowhook is now not only a very able and respected 
 lawyer, but a very successful one. He has obtained a very good 
 scholastic education, in addition to his legal one; and by his energy 
 has secured a very handsome competence. He is a very hard worker, 
 coming to his office at six in the summer and seven in the winter, 
 and his habit is to devote himself to his business until night without 
 intermission. As an example of what energy, determination and 
 perseverance can accomplish, Mr. Snowhook stands, at the Chicago 
 bar, with scarcely a rival. 
 
6/f. THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 U. F. LINDER. 
 
 This lawyer has now somewhat retired from law practice ; and 
 hence it needs only be said of him that, at one time, he was one of 
 the most eloquent and powerful advocates in Chicago, and possibly 
 in the Northwest. 
 
 HENRY S. MONROE. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Baltimore, and is now about forty 
 years of age. He read law in the office of the well-known Henry R. 
 Mygatt, at Oxford, in Chenango county, New York. He was 
 admitted to the bar at that place in 1S54, and immediately after 
 removed to Chicago, and has, since that time, been a resident of this 
 city, and has devoted himself wholly to the practice of his profession. 
 
 Mr. Monroe is one our best-known and most popular citizens. 
 He is very affable in his manners, is a bibliopholist of some consider- 
 able note, and occupies a very superior position as a lawyer. In this 
 respect he has achieved a very decided success, and has succeeded in 
 acquiring a very handsome fortune by his industry in his profession. 
 He has devoted himself very largely to real estate law; and herein 
 has proved himself not only thoroughly reliable, of excellent judg- 
 ment, but a manager of no second-rate ability. He is very shrewd, 
 far-seeing and calculating ; a man of wondrous industry, knows what 
 legal principles are applicable to the case in hand, prepares all his 
 cases with the utmost care, and knows what external influences are 
 to be met, controlled or conciliated. He has risen to his present 
 position solely by his own energy; and now that he has secured it, 
 he holds it easily, and makes the most of his surroundings. He is as 
 as good a judge of a horse as of a piece of real estate, which is 
 paying his knowledge of the former the highest possible compli- 
 ment. In fine, he is an excellent lawyer, a very popular gentle- 
 man, and a man of fine tastes, and given to the pursuit of rational 
 enjoyments. 
 
 ISAAC N. ARNOLD. 
 
 This gentleman is well known as a former member of Congress, 
 and as the author of the life of Lincoln. He is a very excellent 
 lawyer, very methodical in his habits, dignified before a jury, and 
 
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 forcible and convincing when arguing before a judge. He is very 
 precise in manners, very courteous in his relations to others; and of 
 late mainly confines himself to the business of a counsellor. Before 
 his Congressional term, he occupied one of the most commanding 
 positions at the bar of the Northwest. 
 
 IRA O. WILKINSON. 
 
 Judge Wilkinson is a native of Kentucky, and is about fifty years 
 years of age. He began life as a clerk in a store in Jacksonville. He 
 read law in that place, with Governor Yates, and for a time was in 
 partnership with the latter. In 1S45 he removed to Rock Island, and 
 remained till he came to Chicago, about four years ago. For about 
 twelve years in Rock Island he was Circuit Judge, and as such he 
 obtained an enviable record, and gave very general satisfaction. As 
 a lawyer, he is of undoubted integrity, careful and pains-taking, with 
 slow but very sure mental processes. He is a counsellor rather than 
 an advocate, and as such is a very safe adviser. He is a bachelor, has 
 a fortune, and is disposed to take life as easily as possible. 
 
 E. W. EVANS. 
 
 Mr. Evans is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and is a very 
 decided character, as well as a lawyer of very excellent ability. In 
 manners, dress and appearance he belongs to the old school of gentle- 
 men, so few of whom now remain. He has distinguished himself by 
 his connection with some very important cases, in which he made a 
 good record. At present he pays a good deal of attention to the jaros- 
 ecution of personal injury cases. He is a great reader, and a gentle- 
 man of considerable cultivation outside of his profession. 
 
 D. L. SHOREY. 
 
 This gentleman takes a very excellent rank as a lawyer, and he is 
 a man who is very much respected and trusted by those who know 
 him. He is a native of Maine, and came West in 1855. He studied 
 law at Cambridge, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, in 18^4. 
 He removed to Chicago in 1865. For three years, while in Daven- 
 
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66 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 port, Iowa, he was City Attorney, which is the only office he has 
 ever held, although since being here he has been spoken of in con- 
 nection with a judicial position. He prepares and tries his own cases, 
 is a lawyer of a high order of character, and has established a fine 
 reputation since his short residence in Chicago. He is regarded as 
 a very able man ; is very quiet, and has very high judicial abilities. 
 
 JAMES B. BRADWELL. 
 
 This gentleman was born in England in 1828, and came to this 
 country when but sixteen months old. He removed to Illinois in 
 1834, and has been in the West and South since that time. He 
 began the study of law in Memphis, and was admitted to the bar in 
 Chicago in 1853. He is a tall, fine-looking gentleman, with dark eyes, 
 beard and hair. He is widely known for his progressive views on 
 some of the prominent questions of the day, and is thoroughly liked 
 and respected by those who know him. 
 
 He served as Probate Judge for eight years, and while in this 
 position he collected a library of probate law that is second to but one 
 or two in this country. In his knowledge of probate law especially, 
 he has no superior in this place, or any other, and his moral courage, 
 like his thorough honesty, is of the very highest character. 
 
 JESSE O. NORTON. 
 
 Judge Norton was born in Vermont, about half a century ago. 
 He graduated at Williams' College, studied law in Illinois and 
 Missouri, and was admitted to its practice in Chicago, in 1840. 
 In 1S44 he was Probate Judge in Joliet, was elected to the Legisla- 
 ture in 1850, and to Congress in 1853. He was re-elected to Congress 
 in 1854, was elected Circuit Judge in 1857, and declined a renomina- 
 tion for the same office in 1862. In 1863 he was again sent to Con- 
 gress, and in 1866 he was appointed United States District Attorney 
 for Northern Illinois. He then removed to Chicago, and since his 
 vacation of his Federal position, he has been in the practice of law 
 with Hon. James R. Doolittle, and is now the attorney of the Mich- 
 igan Southern and Lake Shore railroad. 
 
 As a lawyer, Judge Norton is very assiduous, and a successful 
 practitionev. He is a very fine-looking, courteous gentleman, with a 
 
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 pleasant, intellectual face. He is very finished in manners, and has 
 all the suavity and affability of a gentleman of the old school. He 
 possesses excellent integrity, as is shown by the fact that, 
 while District Attorney, and during a period of universal and thorough 
 corruption, he prosecuted to conviction more cases, and collected 
 more fines, than any other District Attorney, with a single exception. 
 
 EVARTS VAN BUREN. 
 
 Judge Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York, in 1803. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1827, when he removed to Penn Yan, 
 where he was thrown among some of the best legal and political men 
 of the day. In 1836 he removed to Buffalo ; in 1840 he went back 
 to Penn Yan; in 1S56 he came to Chicago, and in 1S62 he was elected 
 Judge of the Recorder's Court. After serving one term, he resumed 
 the practice of law, in which he is now engaged. He is one of our 
 oldest and best-known practitioners, and has passed an eventful life, 
 in which he has taken a prominent part in politics, and in some crim- 
 inal suits, which, at the time of their occurrence, attained a world- 
 wide notoriety. In his private life he is a very genial gentleman, 
 and as such he is very much liked by those who have his 
 acquaintance. 
 
 JOSEPH P. CLARKSON. 
 
 This lawyer is a graduate of St. James College, Maryland, and 
 studied law in Hagerstown, in the same State. He came to Chicago 
 in 185 1, and was admitted to the bar, and then entered into partner- 
 ship with Buckner S. Morris. After a while Robert Hervey was 
 added to the firm, and it thus remained until Judge Morris went on 
 the bench. At the present time, Mr. Clarkson is the senior member 
 of the firm of Clarkson & Van Schaack. 
 
 Mr. Clarkson is a gentleman about fifty years of age, with a 
 countenance indicative of great energy and intelligence. He is a 
 very capable and excellent lawyer, who prepares a case with extreme 
 fidelity, regardless of the amount of labor involved or the time to 
 be consumed. He also tries it carefully and thoroughly, and although 
 effective before a jury, his chief excellence lies in the direction of a 
 legal argument before a court. He is the only lawyer in Chicago 
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 copyright cases. He has handled several very important ones that 
 have occurred in Chicago courts, and, it may be added, in each case 
 with entire success. In fine, he is a gentleman who, in his pro- 
 fessional and private life is entitled to, and who receives a very gen- 
 eral and very cordial respect. 
 
 ROBERT JONES 
 
 Is about forty-six years of age, is from Indiana, and was quite promi- 
 nent and successful as a lawyer before removing to Chicago. He 
 sustains the reputation of being a very excellent counsellor, a very 
 prudent adviser, and is a gentleman of a very high order of character. 
 He is very conscientious, somewhat reserved, reticent in miscellaneous 
 company ; and is, in every respect, a very much better man than he 
 would be popularly taken to be. 
 
 ELLIOT ANTHONY. 
 
 This lawyer is an author of some note, and a gentleman of very 
 considerable ability in many respects. He has industry, and will 
 work up every thing there may be in a case. He spares nothing in 
 this direction, and can be relied on for perseverance, and a conscien- 
 tious performance of whatever he may have to do. He leaves nothing 
 unfinished. His preparation of the complicated details growing from 
 a litigation to prevent the consolidation of the Galena and North- 
 western railroads is a marvel in its completeness and elaboration, and 
 as such has received recognition by the bar of the entire country. 
 
 E. F. RUNYAN. 
 
 This gentleman is probably one of the most active citizens of 
 Chicago, and one of the most busy men in the legal profession, in 
 which character he probably tries more cases than any lawyer in 
 Chicago. As a lawyer he has a large amount of shrewdness, and is 
 excellently well posted on rules of practice. He is about forty years, 
 of age, is nervous, angular, and always tremendously occupied. He 
 is a member of the Board of Education, and of several other boards, 
 and of almost everything else of a public character in Chicago ; and 
 he finds time to attend to them all, and to adequately care for the duties 
 of his profession. 
 
KING HERBERT SHERMAN. 69 
 
 JOHN LYLE KING. 
 
 Mr. King was born in Madison, Indiana, in 1825 ; and he resided 
 there until 1856. He was admitted to the bar in 1847 by the Supreme 
 Court of Indiana. He was a member of the " Long Session" of the 
 Indiana Legislature, and voted for all the reforms which were char- 
 acteristic of that session. He was City Attorney in Chicago in i860, 
 under John Wentworth's administration ; and since that time has 
 devoted himself exclusively to his profession. Mr. King is tall, slen- 
 der, with light complexion and blue eyes. He is a man of a 
 good deal of brains, has a very lucrative general practice, ranks 
 high as a jury lawyer, and is very much liked by those who know him. 
 
 GEORGE HERBERT. 
 
 He is a native of Maine, and js about fifty years of age. He comes 
 of a legal family, which reaches back through several generations, 
 while his father was one of the most prominent lawyers of his native 
 State. He graduated at Amherst, and soon after commenced the 
 practice of law, and at once took a leading position in the profession. 
 About twenty years ago he came to Chicago. For a time, he engaged 
 in the lumber business, but of late years has devoted himself exclu- 
 sively to law practice. He is a thoroughly well-read lawyer, and pos- 
 sesses eminently a legal mind, which comprehends legal principles, as 
 it were, by intuition, and is quick to apply them to the case in point. 
 He is very prominent and influential in the Congregational Church, 
 and a gentleman who has superior cultivation and very fine social 
 qualities. 
 
 E. B. SHERMAN. 
 
 Mr. Sherman is a native of Vermont, a graduate of Middlebury 
 College, and of the Chicago Law University. He was in the army 
 during the war, and is now in the general practice of the law. He is 
 a hard worker, a gentleman of a very high order of attainments, 
 a finished scholar. Although a young man, he has already obtained a 
 substantial foothold as a lawyer, and is rising very rapidly in his pro- 
 fession. He is well-known as a public speaker in many parts of the 
 State, has had some experience in journalism, and possesses fine ora- 
 torical and literary abilities. 
 
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 S. M. MOORE. 
 
 Judge Moore was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky. He studied 
 law there and was admitted to the bar in 1S43. He was made Judge of 
 the Circuit Court at Covington, and filled the position from 1856 to 
 1862. He was in the Kentucky Legislature one year, and removed 
 to Chicago in 1865. He is a fine physical specimen of Kentucky 
 growth, and is a very cultivated gentleman, as well as an able, efficient 
 and reliable lawyer, than whom there is none more respected, and 
 justly so, at the Chicago bar. 
 
 A. W. WINDETT. 
 
 . This lawyer is one of the best read, accurate and acute members 
 of the Chicago bar; and in the department of Chancery practice, he 
 has few equals and no superiors. At heart, Mr. Windett is a very 
 thorough gentleman; in the practice of his profession it sometimes 
 happens that his zeal leads him into a mannerism which, to say the 
 least, is almost aggressive. He is very forcible and determined. His 
 practice is a large one, and includes many cases of very high impor- 
 tance. While there may be other lawyers who are more popular in 
 the profession, there are none whose abilities command a wider 
 respect. He is about forty-three years of age, and has been here 
 since 1857. 
 
 EDWIN C. LARNED, 
 
 Of the firm of Goodwin,Larned & Towle, is a well-known lawyer, of 
 great ability. He was United States District Attorney under Mr. Lin- 
 coln. At present he remains much away from Chicago, and gives but 
 little attention to general practice. He is a man of great wealth and 
 cultivation, and once occupied a very distinguished position as a 
 member of the legal profession. 
 
 A. H. LAWRENCE 
 
 Is a partner of E. G. Asay, is a native of Massachusetts, is a tall, 
 good-looking gentleman, twenty-eight years of age, and a young 
 man of very decided promise. He devotes himself closely to his 
 profession, and will, in due season, be heard from as a member of the 
 bar in this city. 
 
BONFIELD SMITH ROBERTS THOMPSON. *J I 
 
 JOSEPH F. BONFIELD, 
 
 Who is indigenous to Chicago, having been born here, and having 
 acquired the profession in this city, is a young man of liberal, 
 general education, an excellent lawyer, apt before a jury, and has a 
 very extended practice, which is largely made up of real estate litiga- 
 tion. With him is associated Warren J. Durham, who was formerly 
 connected with Hon. Henry Fuller of Racine. Mr. Durham is a well- 
 read, accurate lawyer; and is a fine linguist, and a classical scholar of 
 a very superior kind. 
 
 U. P. SMITH. 
 
 This gentleman is about thirty-six years of age. He is tall, slender, 
 with dark eyes, an intelligent, prepossessing face, and a full, dark 
 beard. He is a member of the firm of Walker, Dexter & Smith; and 
 is a lawyer of unquestionable ability, both with reference to his 
 knowledge of law, and as an advocate. He has very remarkable 
 powers as a reader of character, and in the faculty of expressing his 
 conclusions. He already stands high at the bar ; and there is every 
 probability that he will, and soon, place himself in the very front 
 rank of the profession in the West. 
 
 JAMES H. ROBERTS. 
 
 This gentleman has been in practice here some fifteen years. He 
 is a very close student, a well-read lawyer, and a good general prac- 
 titioner. As an office lawyer he is very superior, and is a gentle- 
 man of thorough morality and integrity. 
 
 JOHN L. THOMPSON. 
 When the war broke out, General Thompson, then a student in 
 the office of McCagg and Fuller, enlisted with the thirty-day vol- 
 unteers, and went to Cairo. At the expiration of his term of service, 
 he went to New Hampshire and enlisted as a private soldier. He 
 soon rose to the rank of Colonel, and to the command of a regiment 
 of cavalry. He served during the war, and received the rank of 
 Brigadier-General. After the war he came to Chicago, and went 
 into the practice of law. As a lawyer, although a young man, he 
 
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 takes a very creditable position. He is well-posted in law, is very 
 industrious and attentive, very cautious ; and, if he has a noticeable 
 fault, it is that he is inclined to give more attention to what may be 
 presented by an opponent than to his own resources for offense or 
 defense. He has a large amount of force and character ; and has a 
 business that includes some of the best men in Chicago. 
 
 JOSEPH A. SLEEPER. 
 
 This gentleman is about forty-five years of age. He is tall, angu- 
 lar, and somewhat* of the Lincoln style of architecture — bony, 
 disjointed and awkward. He bears the appearance of a studious, 
 pains-taking lawyer. He came to Chicago from Wisconsin about 
 eight years ago, and brought with him a very excellent reputation in 
 his profession. He is very thoroughly versed in common law, and 
 has the credit of being a chancery lawyer of a high order. He is 
 rather better as an office lawyer than before a jury, although he is 
 very forcible in the latter character. He is well grounded in lav/, and 
 his opinions are valuable and carefully prepared. He has been 
 employed in many suits of importance, and has met with good 
 success. He stands well, and his prospects are good for further 
 progress. 
 
 BERNARD G. CAULFIELD. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and first came 
 into notice as a -protege of Father Matthews, a well known and wealthy 
 Catholic clergyman of Washington. Mr. Caulfield was educated at 
 the college of Georgetown. After graduating he went to Kentucky 
 and studied law at the Transylvania University. He removed from 
 Kentucky to Chicago in 1854. 
 
 Mr. Caulfield is a lawyer of considerable merit. His most salient 
 trait is his great courtesy. He is a finished gentleman as well as 
 lawyer. In his speeches he is deliberate, careful of the selection of 
 his phrases, and clear and forcible in the presentation of his ideas. 
 He is erect, full-bearded, with dark eyes, and an intelligent head. His 
 personal appearance coincides very exactly with his cultivated 
 manners ;' and he seems equally at home, whether in the role of a 
 lawyer pleading a case before a jury, or as a private citizen inter- 
 changing hospitalities at the social board. He is in great demand 
 
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 among our Irish citizens, and is always put forward by them when 
 there is anything to be done that requires to be done well, elegantly, 
 and intelligently. 
 
 ROBERT T. LINCOLN. 
 
 This young gentleman is a son of the late President Lincoln, and 
 is a very worthy, estimable member of the Chicago bar. He is but 
 a little more than twenty-five years of age, and already has taken a 
 position as being an excellent manager, possessed of good ability, 
 quiet, shrewd, unostentatious, and with a thorough devotion to the 
 profession of law. He is the more entitled to credit from the fact 
 that he steadily resisted all attempts to induce him to accept some 
 official position while his father was President, or to participate in 
 politics since ; and that he has applied himself to his legal studies pre- 
 cisely as if he were the son of the least influential of parents, and has 
 pursued them under many painful and most discouraging circum- 
 stances. He has proved that he has a thousand sterling qualities; and 
 there can be no doubt that with age he will attain a distinguished 
 eminence as a member of the legal profession. 
 
 S. D. PHELPS. 
 
 This is a - young and rising lawyer, who is a graduate from the 
 law office of Goodrich, Farwell & Smith. He was admitted in 1866, 
 and has been in practice since that time, except during the past win- 
 ter, when he was in the Legislature. He has been very largely 
 engaged in revenue cases, but now is in general practice. He is a 
 very fluent, easy and graceful speaker, and promises to take a very 
 excellent position as an advocate. 
 
 JOHN MASON 
 
 Is a lawyer who has attained a good deal of eminence in the depart- 
 ment of criminal practice, in which direction his success has been 
 fully equal to that of many members of the Chicago bar. He is the 
 successor of the noted Pat Ballingall, of a former generation-. He is 
 of Irish birth, is about forty-five years of age, and has a very slender 
 body, compared to the extent and force of his intellect. 
 
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 PHILIP HOYNE. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne was born in New York, in about 1826. He was 
 admitted to the bar in Chicago, in 1855, but only practiced some three 
 years. He was elected Clerk of the Recorder's Court, and since 
 closing his law practice, he has been entirely engaged in his duties as 
 United States Commissioner, a position which he still holds. Mr. 
 Hoyne is a portly, good-looking gentleman, and enjoys a very general 
 popularity. 
 
 ROBERT RAE. 
 Is a slender, handsome gentleman of some forty or forty-five years of 
 age. He is very finished in his dress and personal appearance, and 
 confines himself in law almost or quite wholly to admiralty affairs, in 
 which he confessedly stands at the head of the profession. 
 
 J. A. CRAM 
 
 Is believed by some of his professional brethren to be one of the most 
 able and promising young lawyers at the Chicago bar. He is 
 about thirty-seven years of age, is very modest, quiet and unostenta- 
 tious in his bearing, and at heart a thoroughly honorable and esti- 
 mable gentleman. 
 
 E. J. HILL 
 
 Is quite prominent as a Mason, and is quite conspicuous for his mem- 
 bership of many public bodies of the denominational, lodge and other 
 orders. He is a lawyer of very excellent ability. 
 
 JOHN J. McKINNON. 
 
 This gentleman is a lawyer of very superior abilities, who is well- 
 read in his profession, and who has been entrusted with several very 
 important cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. He is 
 accorded by the profession a very fine legal mind ; and is a gentleman 
 who is very finished in his manners, and who is not only a good 
 judge of law matters, but an equally good judge of horse-flesh, and 
 the possessor of some very superior specimens of the article. 
 
GARDINER CHANDLER — PETERS ELA JACKSON. 75 
 
 GEORGE B. GARDINER. 
 
 This gentleman has many very fine qualifications. He has very 
 excellent judgment, is a faithful and reliable adviser, and an able coun- 
 sellor, and is a gentleman who stands exceedingly well with the pro- 
 fession. 
 
 GEORGE CHANDLER. 
 
 Mr. Chandler is the junior member of the firm of Goudy & Chand- 
 ler, and is a young man of promise. He is a very superior office 
 lawyer, and prepares a case as well as the majority of older men of 
 the profession in Chicago. 
 
 MILTON T. PETERS. 
 
 This lawyer is a very eccentric man, who is very much better 
 than his looks and demeanor would indicate. He began practice in 
 the Military District; and subsequently removed to Chicago, where 
 he has a large real estate practice; and although illiterate outside of 
 his profession, he is a man of decided ability in it, and one who 
 achieves very general success. 
 
 JOHN W. ELA. 
 
 This gentleman is from New Hampshire, and has resided some 
 ten years in Chicago. During the war he was in the army, and 
 served as Provost Judge in the Gulf Department. With him is asso- 
 ciated Thomas Parker, Jr., a promising young lawyer; and together 
 the firm does a general law business, but more especially is employed 
 in mercantile matters and bankrupt suits. These gentlemen have 
 been connected with some very heavy commercial failures, and in 
 compromises with creditors, in which direction, and in the making 
 of collections, they have few or no rivals in the legal profession in 
 the city. 
 
 OBADIAH JACKSON. 
 
 Mr. Jackson is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and came to 
 Chicago in 1841. He studied law with Scates, McAllister & Jewett, 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He then went into partnership 
 
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 with the firm with which he had studied. In time, Mr. Scates went 
 into the army, and Judge McAllister went out, leaving the firm as it 
 at present stands, that of Jewett & Jackson. Mr. Jackson is about 
 thirty-three years of age, and is very popular among his acquaintances 
 and the profession. He confines himself largely to real estate law, 
 and office business. He is a gentleman of brains and cultivation. 
 He is a hard worker, a careful, painstaking lawyer; and the result of 
 his application to business is that he has secured a very handsome 
 competence. 
 
 EDWARD MARTIN. 
 
 Mr. Martin bears the reputation of being a very superior chancery 
 lawyer, and is a most indefatigable worker. He is an Englishman 
 by birth, and is about fifty years of age. He is exceedingly well 
 read ; as a speaker he is quite diffuse, but when he has finished the 
 presentation of a case, but little more, if anything, pertinent to the 
 issue, remains unsaid. 
 
 GEORGE C. CAMPBELL. 
 
 Mr. Campbell is lately from Ottawa, where he was in partnership 
 with Mr. Glover. He is about forty years of age, is the attorney of 
 the Chicago and Rock Island railroad, is a very quiet gentleman, and 
 a man of a very fine capacity. 
 
 KIRK HALL. 
 Mr. Hall is a young man of considerable promise, and who has in 
 him many elements of great value. He is very industrious and ener- 
 getic, has very clear legal perceptions, and is quite promising as a 
 speaker. He is a hard worker, prepares a case very thoroughly and, 
 in time, will make him a lawyer of a good deal more than average 
 prominence. 
 
 W. H. HOLDEN. 
 
 This young lawyer is a student of- Hon. Thos. Hoyne, and does 
 credit to his instructor. He is a young man of decided ability, and 
 promises with age, to take a high rank in the legal profession. 
 
LEDDY COWLES LACKNER BEAN — ROSENTHAL. 
 
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 JAMES LEDDY 
 Is twenty-six years of age. He studied law with Higgins and Swett, 
 and was admitted to the bar five years ago. He is well thought of as 
 a rising lawyer; he has a good deal of criminal business; is very 
 energetic and industrious ; has abundant self-possession, and is a 
 speaker of more than average ability. 
 
 His brother, Thomas Leddy, junior, is thirty years of age. He 
 studied law in Joliet, and was admitted in 1865. He has much 
 promise, confines himself mainly to office business, and will probably 
 make his mark as a counsellor in due season. While in Joliet he was 
 City Attorney for two years. 
 
 JAMES A. COWLES 
 Is a young man, a graduate of Union College, a very thorough and 
 estimable gentleman. He makes a specialty of patent law, in which 
 department of practice he is excellently well informed. He is inde- 
 fatigable in application, and is a practitioner who deserves and meets 
 with very substantial success. 
 
 FRANCIS LACKNER. 
 
 This gentleman is a German, and is a young man both of promi- 
 nence and promise. He is a representative German lawyer, and in 
 addition to his ability, he possesses a high order of character, and a 
 very polished manner. 
 
 EDWIN BEAN 
 
 Is now the junior member of Wilkinson, Sackett & Bean. He is a 
 native of New Hampshire, and a resident of Chicago since 1S53. 
 He was for some years connected with Bradstreet's collection agency; 
 and in the department of collecting, he has no equal in extended 
 experience and success. 
 
 JULIUS ROSENTHAL. 
 
 Mr. Rosenthal is very proficient in probate law, is a very superior 
 classical scholar, understands several modern languages, is Librarian 
 of the Law Institute, a man of- a very extended knowledge of books, 
 and a young lawyer who is generally regarded as one of excellent 
 promise. 
 
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 J. C. KNICKERBOCKER. 
 
 Mr. Knickerbocker is a native of Columbia county, New York, 
 and is now about thirty-five years of age. He studied law in Chicago 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1862. He has been to the Legislature 
 one term, and has held various municipal and county offices. His 
 practice is a general one, with a large amount of probate business; 
 and he is regarded as among the most promising of the younger 
 members of the profession. 
 
 His brother J. J. Knickerbocker, is the junior member of the firm, 
 and is also a young man of decided promise. 
 
 MRS. MYRA BRADWELL. 
 
 This lady is entitled to a place in this collection, in that she has 
 studied law, and is at the head of the only legal journal of any value 
 in the West. She was born in 1831, in Vermont. Early in life she 
 removed to New York, and when thirteen years of age she came 
 West, and has lived most of the time since in Chicago. She began 
 the study of law fourteen years ago, and made application for admis- 
 sion to the bar in 1869. She was refused, and her case is now before 
 the Supreme Court of the United States, having been taken there in 
 regular process from one of the courts of this city. In October, 1S6S, 
 she began the publication of " The Legal News," and through its 
 columns she has shown herself a thinker and a writer of a very high 
 order, and has amply demonstrated that her demand for admission to 
 the bar is based upon a thorough knowledge of the requirements and 
 duties of the legal profession. 
 
 She is of medium height, with fine, regular, sensitive features, an 
 intelligent and womanly face, and black hair, and black, expressive 
 eyes. She is a woman who is excellently-well informed upon the . 
 current events of the day; is a superior conversationalist; and while 
 she takes a fine rank as a legal thinker, she is no less successful in the 
 direction of being an excellent mother, and a thoroughly estimable 
 lady. 
 
 O. H. HORTON. 
 
 Mr. Horton is the managing man of Hoyne & Horton, and is a 
 young man who takes a very high rank in his profession, both for his 
 present attainments and his promise for the future. 
 
AT WOOD GAYTES. 
 
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 JULIUS P. ATWOOD 
 
 Was born in Monkton, Vermont, in 1S25; was educated at the Nor- 
 wich University; read law with Judge Rich, of the Supreme Court 
 of that State, and commenced its practice with Hon. Wm. C. Wilson, 
 afterwards Judge of the same court ; and was for two or three years, 
 and until he removed to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1861, Professor in 
 the Franklin Law School at Bakersfield, Vermont. In 1854 he was 
 appointed Judge of the Dane County Court, and held that position 
 for two and a half years, when ill health compelled him to resign. 
 He was Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, and 
 in iS^9 was named by the Democratic members of the Legislature as 
 candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, but he declined to run ; 
 and in i860 was Democratic candidate for State Attorney ; was 
 Democratic candidate for Mayor at the first municipal election at 
 Madison. He organized the Governor's Guard in 1S57, and soon 
 after went to the Potomac as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth Regi- 
 ment, Infantry, but was early disabled and compelled to leave. For 
 two years he was partially paralyzed, and after his recovery settled 
 in Chicago, and returned to the practice of the law. Judge Atwood 
 is a well educated lawyer, and a gentleman of more than ordinary 
 literary attainments. In argument he is direct, close and severe, but 
 it is the severity of logic. He is eminently courteous at the bar, 
 and incapable of doing any one injury. In popular addresses he is 
 terse and methodical, often impassioned and sometimes eloquent. 
 The lawyers from Wisconsin, resident here, with unanimity requested 
 him to run for Circuit Judge last fall, but he declined the honor. 
 He is of medium height, affable and dignified, and his professional 
 and personal character is one that commands universal respect. 
 
 CAROL GAYTES 
 Is a graduate of Amherst College, and a resident of Chicago since 
 1864. He commenced the practice of law in 1867, and although a 
 young man, he has already achieved considerable prominence 
 from his devotion to his profession, and his social excellencies. He 
 does a very successful business in the line of insurance, banking, bank- 
 ruptcy and commercial law; and by judicious real estate operations, 
 has secured a very handsome competence. His line of effort is more 
 especially that of bankruptcy operations, in which he has a very large 
 
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 and successful practice. He is a man of cultivation outside of his 
 profession, and has a very rare private library, which is especially rich 
 in old, unique, and valuable books. 
 
 D. J. LYON. 
 Mr. Lyon was born in New Orleans, graduated in the Law 
 Department of the Chicago University, and is in the general practice 
 of law. He possesses to some extent the peculiar Southern charac- 
 teristics. He is graceful in manner, and is a fluent and impressive 
 speaker. As a lawyer he is industrious, energetic, reliable, and pos- 
 sesses ability which will, in a few years, secure him a high position at 
 the bar. Mr. Lyon is genial and gentlemanly, and has many friends 
 among the profession and elsewhere. 
 
 DANIEL K. TENNEY. 
 
 This lawyer was born in New York, and educated as a printer. 
 He removed to Madison, Wisconsin, and subsequently to this city, 
 having studied law in Madison, and been admitted to the bar, and 
 having practiced there some fifteen years before coming to Chicago. 
 Since his arrival here, he has devoted himself mainly to the practice 
 of commercial law, in which department of effort he has succeeded in 
 establishing a very enviable reputation for ability and success. He is 
 the junior member of the firm of McClellan & Tenney, and is prob- 
 ably one of the most successful practitioners in his line of operations 
 in the Northwest. 
 
 FREDERICK SACKETT. 
 
 This gentleman is a native of Massachusetts, and a graduate 
 from the law office of Hon. Joseph Knox, of Rock Island. Until 
 quite recently, he has been in practice in Sterling, Illinois, and was 
 regarded as the head of the legal profession in Whiteside county. He 
 is said to be an office lawyer of unusual excellence. He is now in 
 partnership with Hon. Ira O. Wilkinson. 
 
CONDENSED MENTION. 8 1 
 
 III. 
 
 It is impossible that each of the one thousand lawyers of Chicago 
 should receive detailed mention, unless in a work which should extend 
 through several volumes. Hence there are many who must necessa- 
 rily be omitted entirely, while there are others for whom there can be 
 no more done than barely to allude to their names. Among this class 
 there are many excellent lawyers who deserve more space, but which 
 act of justice is forbidden by the limits of this publication. Among 
 those who should receive more than a passing notice are Jasper D. 
 Ward, an ex-Senator of the Illinois Legislature, and a citizen of 
 prominence; George H. Winston, who was formerly a prominent 
 railroad attorney ; John V. Le Moyne, an old and well-known 
 lawyer, and who is well spoken of; H. K. Whiton, who is from 
 Wisconsin, and the partner of Joseph A. Sleeper; George F. Bailey, 
 who was the partner of Judge Gary, and is a young man who bears a 
 good reputation ; H. B. Hurd, formerly of Hurd, Booth & Cramer ; 
 Bexj. D. Magruder, who is Master in Chancery of the Superior 
 Court ; Norman C. Perkins, who is a lawyer and citizen of promi- 
 nence in Hyde Park ; John W. Bennett, who is a very promising 
 young lawyer; John A. Hunter, who is very highly mentioned by 
 the older members of the bar; Telford Burnham, who has fine 
 abilities and a large amount of dash and vigor; David B. Lyman. 
 who is a young gentleman of good abilities ; R. W. Bridge, who is 
 a. protege of Gookins & Roberts, and who possesses very fair ability; 
 L. S. Hodges, a reputable and hard-working lawyer ; David Qjjigg, 
 the junior of Van Higgins, Swett & Qiiigg, a young man of the most 
 decided ability and promise; Andrew Garrison, who is one of 
 the oldest lawyers in Chicago, and a highly respected practitioner; Ira 
 W. Bcell, ex-City Attorney, and a very clever lawyer; R. II. For- 
 rester, a recent arrival, and who is thought to be a well-read and 
 accurate lawyer; F. B. Peabody, who was formerly very prominent 
 as a real estate lawyer; S. K. Dow; George W. Stanford ; Joseph 
 N. Barker, partner of M. F. Tuley; John Borden, a very accurate 
 6 
 
83 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 and acute real estate lawyer, who is very highly respected ; Norman 
 Williams, junior, a young man who promises well for the future; 
 James H. Knowlton; Cyrus Bentley, from Wisconsin, who has 
 established himself as a gentleman of a high order of abilities; L. L. 
 Bond, who was a member of the Legislature, and has an excellent 
 reputation as a patent lawyer ; L. A. Colburn, who is well known as 
 a patent-law practitioner; Horatio G. Spafford; Robert M. 
 Wilson, ex-Recorder, and who is a very effective jury lawyer; W. C. 
 GitANT, formerly a partner of Williams, Woodbridge & Grant, and 
 who stands well and has a fine practice; George W. Thompson ; E. 
 S. Bragg, who is an ex-military officer, a late arrival from Wisconsin, 
 and who carries in his practice all the precision and accuracy of a 
 military drill; John Mattox, who is a gentleman that occupies a 
 quite prominent legal position; Simeon W. King, who is Commis- 
 sioner of all the States and Territories, and who has worked his way 
 into the profession solely by his own energy; J. A. J. Kendig, a gen- 
 tleman of fine social, and some excellent professional attainments; S. 
 B. Perky, an old practitioner and of very fair standing in the profes- 
 sion ; John C. Roberts, a very careful and pains-taking lawyer, and 
 managing member of the firm of Gookins & Roberts; Robert E. 
 Jenkins, a young lawyer who is very highly thought of; H.. N. 
 Hibbard, who is Register in Bankruptcy, who is a very excellent 
 lawyer; James L. High, who is a self-made young man, modest, 
 quiet demeanor, an industrious worker, a good lawyer, and an author 
 and editor of some note; L. H. Boutell, for some years the assistant 
 and moving spirit in the office of the United States District Attorney; 
 S. A. Irwin, who is a shrewd manager, a man of a good deal of 
 influence, a very excellent lawyer, and while City Attorney achieved 
 creditable success; Francis Adams, who is a quiet sort of a 
 gentleman, a lawyer of more than average ability, and was once 
 City Attorney; F. H. Kales, who is a partner of Judge Beckwith, 
 and a very shrewd, adroit, keen and thoroughly well-read member 
 of the legal profession; Isaac G. Wilson, formerly a judge in 
 Kane county who is a very excellent lawyer and citizen, and highly res- 
 pected in both characters; S. B. Gookins, who sustains a very fine 
 reputation in his character as a lawyer and as a private citizen, and 
 occupies a very influential position in every respect in this community ; 
 who is an ex-judge, and senior of the firm of Gookins & Roberts; 
 Edward Roby, a promising young lawyer who has recently 
 attained considerable distinction in tax cases; Col. Thomas Gros- 
 
CONDENSED MENTION. 83 
 
 venor, now attorney of the Police Courts, an intelligent, affable, and 
 popular young man ; Augustus Van Buren, who does a large 
 amount of police business; T. Henry Truman, a young man who 
 has traveled extensively in Europe and elsewhere, and who is pos- 
 sessed of a great amount of energy, nerve, and ability, and is a young 
 lawyer of unusual thoroughness and excellence; H. S. Towle, junior 
 of Goodwin, Larned & Towle, who is regarded as a young man of 
 much promise, who has a fine education and considerable experience ; 
 W. H. Whitehouse, a young gentleman of polished address and 
 great industry ; Wm. P. Black, of Dent & Black, a gentleman who 
 is very highly spoken of; Col. John H. Peck, who has an extensive 
 practice; Charles M. Harris, an ex-member of Congress, a clear 
 thinker, and a very honest, conscientious man; Daniel J. Avery, 
 who is a partner of E. F. Runyan, and is a lawyer of promise, which 
 may also be said of E. F. Comstock, who is also a partner in the 
 same firm, and who is looked upon as a rising young man; J. 
 Edwards Fay, of Bonney, Fay & Griggs, a very good real estate 
 and business lawyer, and has been a resident of Chicago about eleven 
 years; Charles W. Griggs, of the same firm, who is accurate in 
 his reading and practice, and a young lawyer of unusual promise; 
 James L. Stark, who has very much more ability than he is popu- 
 larly credited with, whose practice is a good one, and whose qualities 
 both as a man and a lawyer are of a very high order; Josiah H. 
 Bissell, who has lately been appointed reporter for the Seventh 
 Judicial District, is a young man of promise in his profession, and 
 possesses a clear, acute mind, excellent judgment, and has an 
 extended knowledge of the practical requirements of his profession, 
 which will greatly assist him in his new position ; George F. 
 Harding, who is a fine lawyer, whose specialty is real estate,' and 
 who is withal a capital business manager, and a man who stands well 
 with the community, and the members of his profession; Thomas 
 S. McClelland, who is a native of Pennsylvania, a graduate of 
 Williams College, was in the service during the war, a pupil of Hon. 
 William C. Goudy', and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme 
 Court, in 1866, and who is a very industrious young man, is devoted 
 wholly to his profession, and will make himself heard from in due 
 season ; Wm. H. Richardson, who was formerly a partner of Chas. 
 H. Reed, and a young man who possesses many fine legal qualifica- 
 tions; Carter H. Harrison, J. B. Vaughaj*. and many others. 
 
84 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 IV. 
 
 There are many gentleman of great prominence who do not 
 properly belong to the bar of Chicago, but who are, or who have 
 been, connected with it incidentally, or by indirection. Among these 
 may be mentioned : 
 
 Lyman Trumbull, United States Senator, ex-Judge of the 
 Supreme Court of Illinois, who occupies a very high rank as a law- 
 yer, and who is distinguished for the clearness and force of his judicial 
 opinions. 
 
 James R. Doolittle, who obtained pre-eminence as a Wisconsin 
 lawyer and judge ; was a United States Senator from that State ; and 
 who developed fine ability as a constitutional lawyer in the impeach- 
 ment trial of Andrew Johnson. 
 
 John M. Wilson, who was for a long time the Chancellor and 
 Chief Justice of the Superior Court; is now President of the South 
 Park Commission, and who was justly regarded as one of the most 
 eminent lawyers in the Northwest, and one of the best judges who 
 ever occupied a judicial bench in Chicago. 
 
 George Trumbull, a very quiet, unpretending, well-read and 
 able lawyer, for a time successor of John M. Douglas, as attorney of 
 the Illinois Central railroad. 
 
 John M. Douglas, who is very widely known for many years as 
 the President and chief counsellor of the Illinois Central railroad com- 
 pany. He is a man of commanding judgment and high administra 
 tire abilities. 
 
 John D. Caton, who was widely distinguished as one of the 
 Chief Justices of the Supreme Court in this State. He is a man of 
 great learning, and has taken a very high judicial rank. 
 
 N. B. Judd, who was Member of Congress for several terms, 
 Minister to Berlin, and who, had it not been for his absorption by 
 politics, would have attained distinction as a lawyer. 
 
 Walter B. Scates, who was for a long time one of the Justices, 
 and for a while Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of this State, and 
 
RETIRED LAWYERS, JUDGES, ETC. 85 
 
 who has, since his descent from the bench, been Collector of the Port 
 in this city, and is now on the retired list of Chicago lawyers. 
 
 Mark Skinner, L. C. P. Freer, Bucknkr S. Morris and E. 
 B. Hooper are all men who once were actively engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law, but who, having acquired fortunes in this direction, are 
 now no longer engaged in the active duties of the legal profession. 
 
 ■ The courts have taken away some excellent men from the bar of 
 this city. They are as follows : 
 
 \V. K. McAllister, of the Supreme Court for the Chicago 
 District, a sketch of whom appears in another place. 
 
 E. S. Williams, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court, who has a 
 very wide reputation for his patience, learning, great urbanity, and for 
 his inflexible official rectitude. 
 
 John G. Rogers is Associate Justice of the Circuit Court, one of 
 the lately elected officials, who is a gentleman of very finished man- 
 ners, of impressive presence, who has a superior judicial mind, and 
 who will doubtless distinguish the position which he occupies. 
 
 W. H. Farwell, Associate Justice of the Circuit Court, who 
 occupies the Chancellor's bench of that court with Judge Williams, 
 and who is a quiet, unpretentious gentleman, and has a well-informed, 
 judicial mind. 
 
 Henry Booth, also Associate Justice in the Circuit Court, who 
 has long been distinguished as the head of the law department of 
 Douglas University, and who brings to the bench a very wide range 
 of legal scholarship. 
 
 John A. Jameson, Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Superior 
 Court, who is an exceedingly patient and industrious student, has 
 produced a valuable treatise on constitutional conventions, and is 
 editor of the " Law Register." He is probably more widely known 
 than any other of our State judges. 
 
 Joseph E. Gary, Associate Justice of the same court, who is 
 remarkable for his disposition of business, and who, in the trial of 
 causes, displays an amount of knowledge seldom exhibited in the 
 same position. 
 
 Wm. A. Porter, also Associate Justice in the same court, who is 
 a man of imposing presence, of pleasing manners, and who occupies 
 the law bench of the Superior Court with Judge Gary. 
 
 M. R. M. Wallace, of the Probate Court, who is a very con- 
 scientious, patient and pains-taking official, and whose convictions of 
 right are sincere, and apparent to all who come before him. 
 
S6 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 David Davis, Supreme Judge of the United States Court, and 
 who has the reputation of having more common sense than any man 
 in the United States. He rose from the State court to his present 
 position at one promotion. He is thoroughly grounded in common 
 law, and chancery systems, and enjoys a very wide consideration. 
 
 Thomas Drummond, United States District Judge of the Chicago 
 District, who enjoys a very enviable reputation, has great learning, 
 extended experience, and was made District Judge by a unanimous 
 choice. 
 
 H. W. Blodgett, Circuit Judge of the Chicago Circuit of the 
 United States Court, who, before taking his present position, was 
 long and favorably known as a railroad lawyer and a State Senator. 
 He has been a very hard student, and now gives very general satisfac- 
 tion. 
 
 Ira Scott, Master in Chancery of the Superior Court, who is 
 one of the most experienced Masters in Chancery in the State. Next 
 to him are John Woodbridge, of the Circuit Court, and H. W. 
 Bishop, of the United States Court, and who are all gentleman who 
 adequately fill their positions. 
 
 Chicago has produced a good many men who occupied distin- 
 guished positions at this bar, but who are now dead. Prominent 
 among these were: 
 
 Alfred W. Arrington, a grand intellect and a poet; E. W. 
 Tracy, who was one of the most brilliant and intellectual men ever 
 known to the profession in Chicago; Pat Ballingall, who acted 
 as Prosecuting Attorney for a number of years, and was a very social 
 and noted man ; Dan. McElroy, also a very social and genial gen- 
 tleman ; Lyle Smith, who was an orator, and possessed the highest 
 kind of eloquence, was social, and always ready for a speech on any 
 occasion; Justin Butterfield, who is said to have possessed more 
 brains than any of his compeers, was a friend of Webster, and 
 of a Websterian class of intellect, and 'who held several public offices 
 of importance for many years; James H. Collins, who was a fine 
 lawyer, and who, in connection with Butterfield, had nearly all the 
 practice at this bar ; Giles Spring, who was a judge of the Circuit 
 Court, and a first-class lawyer in every respect, an excellent judge, and 
 a relative of the well-known Dr. Spring, of New York; Richard 
 S. Thomas, who was very prominent as a real estate lawyer; John 
 A. Brown; Richard Hamilton; Theophilus Smith; Jesse B. 
 Thomas; George Manniere; and George Meeker. 
 
SUBURBAN LAWYERS. Sf 
 
 There are legal gentlemen of prominence connected with towns 
 immediately adjoining Chicago, some of whom sometimes appear in 
 the courts of this city. 
 
 Ottawa furnishes such men as T. Lyle Dickey, who served with 
 distinction during the war, and who was once United States Assistant 
 Attorney, and who is a man of very superior legal ability, without 
 very great learning, but who is a natural lawyer ; George W. Bush- 
 nell, ■who is now Attorney-General of the State, and who has clear 
 judgment, and who, without being a great man} is well-developed in 
 all that constitutes a lawyer; Burton C. Cook, who is a man of great 
 shrewdness and versatility, and while not prominent as a speaker, is a 
 good deal of a manager; and other gentlemen whose names must be 
 omitted. 
 
 Elgin contains the widely-known Colonel Edward S. Joslyn, 
 who is forty-five years of age, of a very genial and social disposition, 
 and who is an advocate whose eloquence is almost without a rival in 
 the Northwest; Colonel John S. Wilcox, whose age is about thirty- 
 eight, who is a cultivated gentleman, an evenly and well-developed 
 lawyer, a good manager, and an industrious, pains-taking professional; 
 Major A. H. Barry, who is forty-three years of age, and a fine jury 
 lawyer; and Judge R. N. Botsford, who is thirty-eight years of age, 
 a hard student and a very competent office lawyer. 
 
 Joliet has a large legal force, among whom may be mentioned 
 Hon. Josiah McRoberts and Hon. G. D. A. Parks, who are both men 
 of cultivation and scholarly tastes, with fine legal minds; Hon. S. W. 
 Randall, an old citizen, and formerly of the Circuit Court; Frank 
 Goodspeed, who was a prominent candidate for the Supreme bench ; 
 T. L. Breckinridge, a very ready and eloquent speaker; Benjamin 
 Olin, who, although a young man, has already won a very command- 
 ing position ; Egbert Phelps, a scholarly young gentleman, with very 
 fine poetical and literary tastes, and excellent legal abilities; Charles 
 A. Hill, the District Attorney, who is a young man, and is rapidly 
 
88 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 rising in his profession; and S. W. Munn and E. C. Fellows, both 
 of whom have attained distinction in the department of criminal 
 law practice. 
 
 Aurora furnishes several conspicuous members of the legal pro- 
 fession, among whom the most prominent are Hon. B. F. Parks, R. 
 G. Montony and C. J. Metzner. 
 
 Geneva has a reputable bar, of whom the best known are A. M. 
 Harrington, formerly United States District Attorney for Northern 
 Illinois, Hon. Wm. B. Plato, who is regarded as a counsellor of a 
 very able kind, and Hon. Isaac G. Wilson, who was formerly a resi- 
 dent of this city. 
 
IN D-EX. 
 
 Adams, Francis 82 
 
 Anthony, Elliot 6S 
 
 Arnold, Isaac N 64 
 
 Arrington, Alfred W S6 
 
 As ay. E. G 45 
 
 Atwood. Julius P 79 
 
 Avery. Daniel J S3 
 
 Aver, 15. F 50 
 
 Ballingai.l, Pat 8*> 
 
 Bailey. George F Si 
 
 Barker. Joseph N Si 
 
 Barry, Major A. H. .. . 87 
 
 Bates, George C 55 
 
 Bean. Edwin 77 
 
 Beckwitii. Corydon 13 
 
 Bennett. John W St 
 
 Bentley. Cyrus S2 
 
 Bishop, II. W 86 
 
 BlSSELL. J.:SIA1I H S3 
 
 Black. William P S3 
 
 Blodgett, II. W 86 
 
 Bonfield, Joseph F 71 
 
 Bond. L. L S2 
 
 Bonxey, Charles Carroll 32 
 
 Booth, Henry 85 
 
 Borden, John S2 
 
 Botsford, Judge R. N 87 
 
 Boutell. L II 82 
 
 Bradwell, James B 66 
 
 Bradwell. Mrs. Myra 77 
 
 Bragg, E. S 82 
 
 Breckinridge, T. L S7 
 
 Bridge. R W Si 
 
 Brown, John A S6 
 
 Buell, 1 ra W 81 
 
 Burniiam Telford Si 
 
 Busiinei.l, George W 87 
 
 Butterf.eld, Justin S6 
 
 Campbell. George C 76 
 
 Caton. John D 84 
 
 Caulfhxd, Bernard G 72 
 
 Chandler, George 75 
 
 Clarkson. Joseph P 67 
 
 Colburn. L. A 82 
 
 Collins. James H 86 
 
 Comstock. E. F S3 
 
 Cook. Burton C S7 
 
 Cowi.es, James D 84 
 
 Cram, J A 74 
 
 D wis, David S6 
 
 Dent, Thomas 47 
 
 Dexter, Wirt 42 
 
 Dickey, T. Lyle 87 
 
 Doolittle, James R 84 
 
 Douglas. John M 84 
 
 Dow, S. K Si 
 
 Driscoll. Daniel D 60 
 
 DituMMOND, Thomas 86 
 
 El a, John W 75 
 
 Eldridge, Gen. H. N 61 
 
 Evans, E. W 65 
 
 Farwell, W. H 85 
 
 Fay, J. Edwards S3 
 
 Fellows, E. C SS 
 
 Forrester, R. H Si 
 
 Freer, L. C. P 85 
 
 Fuller, Melville W 4S 
 
 Fuller, Samuel W 16 
 
 Gardiner, George B 75 
 
 Garrison, Andrew i'i 
 
 Gary. Joseph E 85 
 
 Gaytes, Carol 79 
 
 Goodrich, Grant 63 
 
 Goodspeeo. Frank S7 
 
 Goodwin, Stephen A 53 
 
 Gookins, S. B S2 
 
 Goudy, William C 11 
 
 Grant, W. C S2 
 
 Griggs, Charles W 83 
 
 Grosvenok, Col. Thos '. . . 82 
 
 Hall, Kirk 76 
 
 Hamilton, Rich\rd .'. S6 
 
 Harding, George F S3 
 
 Harrington, A. M S8. 
 
 Harris, Charles M S3 
 
 Harrison, Carter H S3 
 
 Herbert, George 69 
 
 Hervey Robert 19 
 
 Hibbard, H. N S2 
 
 Higgins, Van II 30 
 
 High, James L S2 
 
 Hill, Charles A S7 
 
 Hill, E J 74 
 
 Hitchcock, Charles. 35 
 
 Hodges, L S ... Si 
 
 Holden, W. H 76 
 
 Hooper, E. U S5 
 
 Morton, O. H 78 
 
 Hoyne, Philip 74 
 
 IIoyne, Thomas 9 
 
 Hunter, John A Si 
 
 Hurd, H. B 81 
 
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 Irwin, S. A 
 
 Jackson. Obadiaii 
 
 Jameson', John A , 
 
 Jenk/ns. Koeert E 
 
 Jewett, John N 
 
 Jones, Robert 
 
 Joslyn, Col. Edward S. . 
 
 Judd. N. B 
 
 Kales, F. II 
 
 Kendig, J. A. J. . , 
 
 King, John Lyle 
 
 King, Simeon W 
 
 King. William H 
 
 Knickerbocker, J. C . . . 
 
 Knuwlton, James H 
 
 Knox, Joseph 
 
 Lackner, Francis 
 
 Lawrence, A. I-I 
 
 Earned. Edwin C 
 
 Leddy, James 
 
 Le Moyne, John V 
 
 Lincoln, Robert T 
 
 Linder, U F 
 
 Lyman David B 
 
 Lyon, D.J 
 
 Magkuder, Benj. D 
 
 Mannieke, George 
 
 Martin, Edward 
 
 Mason, John . . . , 
 
 Mattox, John 
 
 McAllister, W. K 
 
 McClelland. Thomas S.. 
 
 McElkoy. Dan 
 
 McKinnon, John J 
 
 MjRciserts. Hon. Josiah. 
 
 Meeker, George 
 
 Metzner. C. J 
 
 Miller, II. G 
 
 Monroe, Henry S 
 
 MONTON Y, R. G 
 
 Moore, S. M 
 
 Morris, Buckner S 
 
 Munn, S. W 
 
 Norton, Jesse O 
 
 Parks, Hon. B F... 
 
 Parks, Hon. G. D. A 
 
 Peabody, F. H 
 
 Peck, Col. John H 
 
 Perkins, Norman C 
 
 Perry, S. B 
 
 Peters, Milton T 
 
 'Phelps, Egbert 
 
 Phelps, S. D 
 
 Plato, Hon. William B... 
 
 Porter. William A 
 
 Quigg, David 
 
 ■Rae, Robert... 
 
 Randall, Hon S. W 
 
 Reed, Charles H 
 
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 Richardson, William H S3 
 
 Roberts, James II 71 
 
 Roberts, John C S3 
 
 Roby. Edward. . . 82 
 
 Rogers, John G S^ 
 
 Rosenthal, Julius 77 
 
 Runyan, E. F 68 
 
 Sackett, Frederick £0 
 
 Scates, Walter B 8 ; 
 
 Scott, Ira S'i 
 
 SlIERM AS) E B 69 
 
 Shorey, D. L 65 
 
 Skinner, Mark S; 
 
 Sleeper. Joseph A 72 
 
 Smith, Lyle 86 
 
 Smith, Sidney 3S 
 
 Smith, Theopiiilus 86 
 
 Smith, U P 71 
 
 Sxowhook. William B. . , 63 
 
 Spafford, Horatio G S2 
 
 Spring, Giles . . 86 
 
 Stanford, George W Si 
 
 Stark, James L S3 
 
 Stiles, Israel N 56 
 
 Storrs, Emory A 51 
 
 Swett, Leonard 22 
 
 Tenney, Daniel K So 
 
 Thomas, Jesse B • - 86 
 
 Thomas, Richard S S6 
 
 Thompson, George W ; 82 
 
 Thompson, John L 71 
 
 ToURTELLOTTE, F. W 02 
 
 Towi.e, 1-1. S S3 
 
 Tracy, E W S6 
 
 Tree, Lambert 50 
 
 Truman, T. 1 Ienry S3 
 
 Trumbull, George 84 
 
 Trumbull, Lyman 84 
 
 Tuley, M. F 41 
 
 Van Armax, John 2-, 
 
 Van Buren, Augustus S3 
 
 Van Buren, Evarts 67 
 
 Vaughan, J. 13 S3 
 
 Walker. James M 20 
 
 Wallace, H.RJI.... S5 
 
 Ward, Jasper D '.'... Si 
 
 Wiiitehouse, W. H S3'* 
 
 Wiiiton, H. K ... 81 
 
 Wu.cox, .Col. John S S7 
 
 Wilkinson, Ira O 65 
 
 Williams, E. S ...:.. S5 
 
 Williams, Norman S2 
 
 \\'ilson, Hon. Isaac G SS 
 
 Wilson, Isaac G 82 
 
 Wilson, John M 84 
 
 Wilson, Robert M S2 
 
 Windett, A. W 70 
 
 Winston. George H 81 
 
 WOODBRIDGE, JoHN S6 
 
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