NOTABLE MEN OF ILLINOIS & THEIR STATE r^o% c THE CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL PUBLISHER 1912 \ o V/ riJGp^VINGS BY JAHN & OLLIEli ENGRAVING COMPANY BARNES-CROSBY COMPANY AND HENRY TAYLOR. JR.. CHICAGO COMPOSITION, PRESSVVORK AND BINDING BY R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO I'HOTOGKAPMS BY MOFFETT, WALINGER, MATZENE AND OTHER STUDIOS INTRODUCTION OTABLE Men of Illinois and Their State," like "Notable Men of Chicago and Their City," is intended to be a book of ready utility for the newspaper editor and artist. It is issued as a practical publication to meet the newspaper demand for illustration. "Notable Men of Chicago and Their City" was received with so much enthusiasm and thankfulness by the newspapers and magazines of the United States that encouragement was given the publisher to undertake the compilation of this volume. Biographically, the work contains salient facts furnished by the subjects themselves. The chief aim, however, is to put into the refer- ence libraries of American publishers reproductions in half-tone of recent photographs of men prominent in the commercial, professional, official, political and social activity of the state of Illinois. RiTMM inHNT W of Snrinafleld was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, June 21, 1831. Mr. Bunn Seen a"mosrexc°usSloncerned with the wholesale grocery business throughout his career He^is a meniber , ,ir„ fili;^V T^iVr. w R^^^^^ f'n wholesale crocers but in addition is vice-president of feelz, Schwab & Co., sL'e"S-s?'chfcago,- Sld"?ht p°csideni of fh'l™ pringfleld Marine Bank. His business address is Springfield. MILLER, DARIUS, pres. C. B. & Q. R. R. Co., Chicago: b. Princeton, 111., Apr. 3, 1859; s. J. S. and Elizabeth H. Miller; ed. Princeton, 111.; stenographer in gen. freight office, M. C. R. R., 1877-80; clerk gen. freight office St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Ry., 1880-1; chief clerk to gen. mgr.. 1881-3. gen. freight and ticket agt. 1883-7, Memphts & Little Rock R. R.; gen. freight ami pas.s. ast. 1SS7-"); traffic mgr. 1889-90, St. Louis, Ark. & Texas Rv.; traffic mgr., "Queen & Crescent" route. lS!i(l-:i; traffic mgr., 1893-6; vice-pres. Nov., 1896, to Oct., 1898, M., K. & T. Ry.; 2nd vice-pres. G. N. Ry. Oct., 1S98, to .Jan. 1, 1902; 1st vice-pres. 1902-10; pres. since Feb. 1, 1910, C, B. & Q. R. R. Co.; also pres. C. & S. Ry. Co. since Feb. 1, 1910; dir Con- tinental and Commercial Nat. Bank, Union Trust Co.; clubs, Chicago, Lnion League, C. A. A., Saddle and Cycle, South Shore (Chicago), St. Louis (St. Louis), Minnesota (St. Paul); office, 226 W. Adams St. "^ DUNNE, EDWARD FITZSIMMONS, lawyer, Chicago; b. Waterville, Conn., Oct. 12, 1S.53: s. P. W. and Delia M. (Lawler) Dunne: graci. Peoria liigh schl., 1870; took 3 yr. course Trinity Coll., Dublin Univ.. leaving before completion of course because of father's failure in business; LL. B., Union Coll. of Law, 1877; (LL. D., St. Igna- tius Coll.); adm. to bar 1S77; dem.; judge circuit court of Cook eo., 1892-1905; resigned; mayor of Chi. 190.5-7; in law practice since 1907; presdl. elector, 1900; del. at large Dem. Nat. Conv., 1908; candidate for dem. nomination for mavor, primary election, 1911; nominated for governor, primaries, April, 1912: twice pres. Monticello and Iroquois clubs; vice-pres. Nat. Civic P'ederation; pres. I.eagueof Am. Municipalities, 1906- 7- clubs, Iroquois, Jefferson. I. A. C, Ravenswood, Westward-Ho.; office. City Hall square Bldg. OIIX J. MITCHELL, president of the Illinois Trnst and Sav- ings Bank of Chicago, was born at Alton, 111., on Nov. 3, 1853, the son of William H. and Mary A. Mitchell. He attended the public schools. Union Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, Me., and the Waterville Classical Institute. He came to Chicago in 1873 and entered the employ of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank as a messenger. Seven years later he was made president of the bank, which he and his associates have built into one of the largest and strongest banks in the United States. Mr. Mitchell is vice-president, chairman of the western board of control and member of the advisory committee of the Audit Company of New York. He is a trustee and member of the advisory committee of the American Surety Company of New York, and a director of the following: First National Bank of New York, Manhattan Trust Company, New York Trust Company, Illinois Trust and Safe Deposit Company, Kansas City Southern Railway Company, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway (\)mpany, Chicago & Alton Railroad, P., Ft. Wayne & C. Ry. Company, I'ullman Company, Western Union Telegraph Company, American Tele- phone & Telegraph Company, etc. Away from his La Salle street bank, Mr. Mitchell is a farmer. He owns a stock farm of ^210 acres, at Lake Geneva, Wis., where he spends nearly all his leisure hours. Jersey cows. Southdown sheep and chickens are his hobbies. The Mitchell farm house is the famous Ceylon building of the World's Columbian Exposition. Mr. Mitchell belongs to the following clubs: Chicago, Union League, Chicago Automobile, LTniversity, Mid-Day, Lake Geneva Country and Lake Shore Country. Office, Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, La Salle St. and Jackson Blvd. Mr. Mitchell married Mary Louise Jewett of Bristol, R. I., Feb. 11, 1890. There are five children in the Mitchell household, Gwendolyn, William H., John J., Jr., Clarence B. and Louise. 10 JOHN J. MITCHELL 11 -\ DUNCAN, NICHOLAS W., banker, of LaSalle, was born in that city, Dec. 11, 1856, the son of Nicholas and Isabella (McBoylc) Duncan. He is a graduate of Niagara University of the class of 1S7S. and sub.sequently read law for a year until the death (jf his father. He then took charge of the T'nicjii coal mines and coiidiicled them for tin ceil years. In IS'.M he (.rt;ani7ed the LaSalle State Hank and iilllc'iated as its lasliirr until I !»>.'>. He is now president of that l)ank as well as president of the Itica i;\i-haiigi' Hank and of I lie ^hLn|Uelle < 'einenl Maini- facturing Company. Mr. Duncan has been treasurer of the township schools of his comniunity since 1S',I4, and is a trustee of the H. P. O. E.; club. Union League of Chicago; office, LaSalle. 12 OLSON, ANDREW, lawyer, Moline, was born in In?elstorp. Sweden. Apr. 27, 187.5. He is the son of Xels and Kama (Mortinson) Ol.son. The famil.v came to Moline when he was four years old. His education was received in the Moline public schools and high school, and the Universit.v of Michigan. He was police mas,'istrate in Moline from 1902 to 1905, was elected mayor of the city in 1905 and retained the office until 1911. Mr. Olson is a member of the Elks, Red Men. Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows. Eagles, Loyal Order of Moose, North Star, and Svlthiods; clubs, Moline, Rock Island; o.llcp, old Post Oiflce Bldg., Moline. 13 office, 18 S. Michigan Ave. 14 MURPHY, JOHN BENJAMIN, surgeon, Chicaso; b. Appleton, Wis., Dec. 21, 1857; ed. Rush Med. Coll., hospitals of Vienna, Munich, Berlin. Heidelberg and London; A. M.. M. D., LL. D.. D. Sc; interne Oook Co. hosp 1.S79-80; given chair of surgery, Rush Med. Coll., head of department of surgery, Northwestern Med. schl.- prof, of surgery Chicago Clinical schl. and Postgraduate Medical .schl. and hospital of Chicago; 18 years attending surgeon Cook Co. hosp.; chief surgeon Mercy hosp., etc.; mem. International Cong. Rome and Mos- cow, Surgical Soe. of Paris; Deutsche Gesselschaft fur Chirugie, Berlin; pres. Am. Surgical Assn., Am. Med. Assn., etc.; 1902, received Laetare medal from Univ. Notre Dame for eminence in professional scholarship and in the practice of surgery: hon. degree Dr. of Science, ShefHeld, Eng.; mem. C. A. A. and South Shore and Uni- versity clubs; office, 104 S. Michigan Blvd. 15 DWARD MORRIS, head of the worhl-known paeking-hoiise of Morris & Company, is one of a generation of Chicago business men who are called upon to retain for the great central market the supremacy by enlarging huge pioneer enterprises and keeping them apace with the amazing ex- tension of Chicago's commercial domain. Mr. Morris is the son of Nelson and Sarah (Vogel) Morris. He was born on Oct. 1, 1866, in Chicago, where his father w^as one of the founders of the city's packing industry. He attended the public schools until he was fourteen years old, when his father started him at the bottom rung of the ladder in the Morris packing-house. Edward proved an apt beginner and his responsibilities were increased as his father's own age and health made it difficult for him to give to the Morris enterprise the time and attention that had developed it from a small beginning to vast proportions. Upon the death of his father, in 1907, Edward Morris became the head of the enterprise and at once inaugurated the policy of continuing along the conservative lines that had given it prestige in the business and financial worlds. He is now president and treasurer of Morris & Company, and is identi- fied with numerous other large corporations as officer or director. He is a director of the First National Bank of Chicago, and holds a similar position with the National Live Stock Bank. He is also a director of Rothschild & Company, the big State Street department store. Mr. Morris is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and his clubs are the Mid-Day, the South Shore Country and the Standard. His residence is at 4455 Grand Boulevard and his office is at the Union Stock Yards. 16 (^iA>U—y^-X^ t GATES, PHILETUS WARREN, mfr., Chicago: b. Chicago, June 23, 1S57: s. Philetus W. and Abigail (Scoville) Gates; entered hotel business 1S75 as mgr. of Gault house; later proprietor until 1887; supt. Gates Iron works, 1887-1894; vice-pres. until 1901, when business was purchased by Allis-Chalmers Co.; mgr. of Gates plant of latter Co., 3rd vice-pres. and gen. supt. of Allis-Chalmers enterprise until 1904; 1908 became pres. Hanna Engring. Wks.; dir. Prairie State Bank, and Real Estate Title & Trust Co.; vice- pres. Nat. Bus. League; mem. Am. Soc. Mechanical Engrs., vice-pres. 1906-08: clubs, Union League. Evanston, Evanston Golf; residence, Evanston; office, 2059 Elston Ave. PORTIS, M. MILTON, physician, Chicago: b. Riceville, Can., Mar. 25, 1877: s. Jacob C. and Jennie B. (Vineberg) Portis; B. S. Univ. of Chicago, 1898: Rush Med. Coll. 1901; interne Cook Co. Hosp. 1901-2; fellow in pathology, Univ. nf Chicago, 1903; prof, of medicine, Post-Grad. Med. Schl.. siiiic 1'.MI4: assf. prof, of medi- cine. Rush Med. Coll., since 1908: aitcniiint,' i)hysician to Cook Co. and Washington Park hosps., coii.sulting physician to Mary Thompson Hosp: mem. American Med. Assn., Chicago Med., Chi- cago Pathological and Chicago Neurological societies: mem. Ma- sonic order and Chicago Press Club; office, 122 South Michigan Ave FULLER, MAJ. L. M., secty . and gen. mgr. Velle Motor Vehicle Co., Moline; grad. from West Point Mil. Acad. June 12, 1891; assigned to 9th cav. and stationed at Fort Robinson until Oct., 1894, dur- ing which time participated in the Powder river campaign; assigned to ordnance dept. Oct., 1894, after a competitive examination: first assignment at Frankfort arsenal in Philadelphia; in 1898 assigned to station in Sandy Hook proving ground; 1898 insp. ordnance in Baltimore; June, 1899 to Philippine Islands; Sept., 1899, to Rock Island Arsenal. Office, Moline. TOBIAS, ARTHUR WILSON, real estate, Chicago; b. Adrian, Mich., June 14, 1860: s. Charles Manning and Angeline (McLouet) Tobias: ed. Ad'-ian high schl.: traveling salesman for Rand Avery Co. and Lawson Mfg. Co. of Boston until 1890: then engaged in real estate business in Chi.; mem. firm McKey & Poague: dlr. Wood- lawn Trust & Savings bank: secty. Woodlawn Safe Deposit Co.; mem. Assn. of Commerce, Mich. Soc. of Chi.; clubs, I. A. C, Ridge Country: office, 132 W. Washington St. 17 REICHMANN, ALEXANDER FREDERICK, lawyer, Chicago; b. DubUQue, la., July 23, 1S68; s. Alexander and Theresa Heich- mann; ed. public and high .schls. of la., Sacred Heart foil. (Jesuit schl. at Prairie, Wis.); grad. Uniy. of Mich.; in office ot Hynes & Dunne one year; mem. of firm of Argo, McDuffe & Reich- mann, Lemars. la., five years; general trial atty. for Armour and Co.. 1897; 1900 became mem. of firm of Judah, Willard, Wolfe & Reichmann; mem. Chi. Bar Assn.; clubs, University, Iroquois (pres. 1912), Skokle, Country, Kenilworth; Mason; ofHce, 134 S. LaSalle St. KRAMER, ADOLPH F., of firm of Draper & Kramer, real estate and mortgage loans, Chicago; b. Chi. Oct. 11, 1870; s. Ferdinand and Bertha (Stein) Kramer; ed. Douglas schl., Chi. Manual Training .schl.; with Schlesinger & Mayer, 18S7-92; organized firm Draper & Kramer 1892; repub.; mem. Sinai congregation; pres. Chi. Realization Co.; dir. Chi. Real Estate Bd.; Mason: mem. Y. M. C. A., Bull Dog Breeders Assn. of Am.; club. Stan- dard; office, 25 N. Dearborn. DEVINE, MILES J., lawyer; b. Chicago. Nov. 11, 1866; s. Patrick and Elizabeth Devine; ed. St. Francis Sem., Bay View, Wis., Sem. of Our Lady of Angels, Niagara, N. Y., Lake Forest (111.) Univ.; LL. B., Chicago Coll. of Law, 1890; adm. bar 1890; city prose- cuting atty. under Mayors Harrison (senior). Hopkins and Swift; resigned; nominated by populists of 15th sen. dist. for state senate, 1893, but declined; nominated for cong., 4th dist., Aug. 1896, declined; city atty. Chicago 1897-99; mem. Chicago Bar Assn., 111. State Bar Assn.. Citizens' Assn., Chicago Assn. of Com- merce, I. A. C; pres. Cook County Democracy, pres. Garfield Park Driving Assn.; offlce. Reaper Blk. HEAD, FRANKLIN H.. banker and mfr. of iron and steel, Chi- cago; b. Paris, N. Y.,.I:iii. 24. 1.S32; s. Harvey and Calista (Sim- mons) Head; grad. Hamilton (nil., 1856; practiced law Kenosha, Wis., 1858-68; 1868 to present time iron and steel mfr. and bank- er; located in Chicago 1872; pres. Bush Temple Conservatory since 1890; vice-pres. S. S. Hadley Co. Bank, Cedar Rapids, la.; dir. Toledo, Peoria and Western R. R., Street's Stable Car Line; dir. Chicago Expn., 1893; mem. Jury Awards, Paris Expn., 1900; Chevalier Legion of Honor, France, 1901; trustee, Newberry Li- brary; pres. Chicago Historical Soc; clubs. Union League (twice pres.), Chicago, Commercial, Quadrangle, Twentieth Century (pres.): author: Shakespeare's Insomnia, and Causes Thereof 1896; A Notable Lawsuit, 1899; offlce. 105 W. Monroe St. 18 ELDREDGE, EDGAR, judge of circuit court of 13th judicial cir- cuit, Ottawa; b. Peru. 111., June 3, 1867: ed. Ottawa high schl.. Brown Univ., Harvard law schl.: adm. to bar 1890: appt. asst. atty.- gen. 111. 190.3-7; elected judge circuit court 1907 to fill vacancy; re-elected 1909; repub.; Ma.son; mem. B. P. O. E.; clubs, Hamilton (Chicago), Ottawa Boat; address, Ottawa. WINSTON, B. M., real estate, Chicago; b. Chicago. Apr. 9, 1S6S; s. Frederick Hampden and Eliza Gerrard (Dudiev) Winston: ed. Chi. schls.; organized the firm of Winston & Co. 1890; pres. Clark Sand Co.; clubs, Saddle and Cycle (pres.), Mid-Dav (dir.). South Shore (Treas.), Union; office, 1st Nat. Bank Bldg. RUSH, CHARLES GOETHE, elec. engr. and contractor, Chicago: b. Milwaukee, Wis., June 5, 1869; s. George Frederick Shuster and Theres-a (Rost) Rush; ed. pub. .schls. of Chi.; with Chi. Telephone Co., 1887-92, elec. contractor 1892-1903; supt. Baltimore Co.Water & Electric Co., 1903-5, asst. elec. engr. Sanitary dist. of Chi. 1906- /; mem. firm of C. G. Rush & Co., elec. contracting engrs. since 1908; private Co. E, 2d regt. U. S. Vol. Engrs. Spanish-Am. War; Asso. Inst. Elec. Engrs.; repub.; Mason; clubs, Hamilton, Electric: office, 136 W. Lake St. MERGENTHEIM, MORTON ADOLPH, lawyer, Chicago: b. Ft. W ayne, Ind.. July 1, 1877; s. Alexander and Josephine (Hirsch) .Mergentheim; grad. Harvard schl.. Chicago. 189.5: A. B., Univ. of Chi., 1899: A. M. (ibid), 1900: LL. B., X. W. Univ. 1903: adm. to 111. bar, 1903; prof, of private international law. John Marshall Law Schl.. .since 1906; democratic candidate for alderman 3rd ward 1909: appt. chief a,s.st. city atty. by Mayor Harrison, Apr., 1911; mem. Chi. Bar Assn., 111. State Bar Assn., Young Men's Associ- ated Jewish Charities, Ind. Soc. of Chi., Xat. Geographic Soc; club, Iroquois; offices. First National Bank Bldg., and 602 City Hall. 19 HOY, LUMAN T., U. S. marshal, Chicago; b. Alden, 111., Oct. 28, 1850; s. M. D. and C. M. Hoy; ed. Woodstock, 111., highschl.; be- gan drug business as clerk in Woodstock store, 1869; now owns the business; city troas. and alderman of Woodstock; has been secty. 111. state bd. of pharmacy, f. S. appraiser of customs at Chicago and II. S. marshal for northern dist. of 111.: for is years chairman of McHenry county repub. cent, cimi.; residence. Woodstock, 111.; office. PostofUce Bldg.. Chicago. ROBERTS. JESSE ELMER, lawyer, Chicago; b. Rensselaer, Ind.. Nov. .3, ISO.'S; s. Preston Floyd and Louisa (Keithley) Roberts; ed. Rensselaer high schl., Bryant & Stratton Business Coll.. Indian- apolis; LL. B., Univ. of Mich.. 1S!I2; adm. to III. bar 1892, and since practiced in Chicago; atty. for I.atirangc 111., 9 consecu- tive years; Summit, 4 years: Stickney. s years: independent dem.; mem. Chicago Bar Assn.. 111. State Bar .\ssn.. Mason, I. O. O. F.; office, Title & Trust Bldg. \esk:s&ij FAIRCHILD, MERKDITH H, nifr. of scjaps. Chicago: 1). l-'lushing, L. I., N. Y., Nov. 27. Is72: s. K. S. and I,, i:. (l.cavilt) l-'airchjhl : ed. pub. schls. of Flushing, L. I., and in Flushing Insl. to l.S'.Ml: came to Chicago Isiio, and established in business as mfr. of laun- dry soaps and special cleansing preparations; In 1898 was joined by his brother E. L., forming the present firm of M. H. Fairchild & Bro.; office, 20 W. Michigan St. ICKES, H.\ROLD L., lawyer. Chicago; b. Altoona, Pa., Mar. 1.5, lS7-t: s, .lesse B. W. and Marllia (Mi-Cune) Ickes; A. B., J. D., Vniv. of (liicago: resided in Chicago since 1890; formerly reporter on Chicago Record and Chicago Tribune; mem. Phi Delta Theta and Phi Delta Phi fraternities; clubs. University and City; mem. Chicago and 111. Bar assns.; residence, Evanston; office, Harris Trust Bldg. 20 RANDALL, IRVING, banking and mtg., Chicago; b. St. Johnsbury, Vt., June 29, 1883; s. Tabor Pickins and Delia (Childs) Randall; ed. Chicago Latin Schl. and Yale Univ.; 1905, with Chicago Label & Box Co.; elected secty. of the corpn. 1900 and in 1908, pres. and trea.s. to fill offices made vacant li\ dcalli of father; also a part- ner in banking and brokerage firm of I'dw in 1.. Ldlxlell & Co., since 1908; repub.; club.?, Union League, Kxmiior, Country; office, The Rookery. ZELLER,' GEORGE ANTHONY, physician. Peoria; b. 1858; s. John George and Friedericka (Nicolas) Zeller; ed. pub. schls., Univ. of 111., St. Louis Medical Coll.; practicing physician since 1879; supt. Peoria State hosp. since 1898; capt. and asst. surgeon U. S. Vol. Philippine service, 1899-1902; repub.; was chm. Peoria CO. and city central corns, tor several yrs.; mem. Am. Assn. Mili- tary Surgeon's, Am. Medical Assn., Assn. for the Study and Pre- vention of Pellagra; author of numerous publications descriptive of the disease; clubs, Peoria Country, Creve Coeur; office, Peoria. THEARLE. H.\RRY BISHOP, pres. Pain IMrcwdrks 1 )i.spho Co., ChicaHo; s. Krrdcrlck (;c(iri,'r and .\rmclic:i (<;i-:in Tticarlc; ed. Englewodd hiu'li sihl. and .ilil Chi. riii\. ; iKii.kkci'iicr and rashier for Am. Baptist .'^nc, Clii., 1S7!I-S5; issi; went with Pain Fireworks Co., Chi., as agent; later western manager; 1904, became vice pres. and gen. manager in New York; 191 1 he and associates pur- chased company and organized the present one. of which he is pres. and treas.; mem. A. F. & A. M.. Columbian Commandery, Mecca Temple of the Shrine. Consistory of N. Y., R. A. M.; clubs: (in N. Y.), Green Room, Friars, Pleaides; (in Chi.), C. A. A., I. A. C, So. Shore; o.tlce, i;i20 Wabash Ave. DOWNEY, JOSEPH, contractor and builder, Chicago; b. King.s Co., Ireland. April 2:3, 1849; located in Chicago, 1S,5G; employed bv James McCraw, builder and contractor, and later became his partner: afterward with many large building contractors; now devotes time to own property; mem., Chicago Assn. of Commerce, bd. of education, of which is chairman bldg. and grounds com.; commr. of bldgs. and commr. public works during Mayor Swift's administration; clubs. Union League and Builders; office, 30 N. LaSalle St. 21 HEDENBKKC;. .lAMKS WKSI.K'i'. ri'al I'statc. ChifaRo; b. Kirk- wood. Mo,, Sept. IS. 1\.-).-,; s. John \\Cslc,\- and Isabella (Challa- comlioi Hedcnl)eri;: I'd. Chi. pnl). schl.s.. ^rad, CocjIv ro. Xornial schl., IS75: i:lk. and travtdini; salesman up lu l.s,S4; repiib.; mem. Chi. pub. library bd. (appt. by Mayor Swift), and chm. bldg. and grounds com. during erection of present bldg.; mem. and for- mer secty. Chi. real estate bd.. pres. Cook co. real estate bd.; A. F. & A. M.. club, Hamilton; ofBce, 40 N. Dearborn St. ALLEN, JOHN W.. bakers' and (■onfeeti(jiiers' supidies. Chicago; b. Ann Arbor, Mich.. Sei)l. 4. 1S4.X; s. Almond .\. and Lucy (Powell) Allen; ed. Olivet (Mich.i CdlL; engat-'ed a.s lliinr miller in Mich, until 1872, when came to Chi., ISSI established lirm of .1. \V. Allen, bakers' and confectioners' supplies; admitted his son as partner in 1905; firm becoming J. 'W. Allen & Co., Inc. 1906; since been pres.; has farming interests; repub.; Mason; mem. Chi. Assn. of Commerce, III. Mfrs. Assn.; ofBce, 110-118 N. Peoria St. COOLEY, HARLAN WARD, lawyer, Chicago; b. Washington, D C, Jan. 29, 1866; s. D. N. and Clara (Aldrich) Cooley; grad. Phillips Acad., Andover, Mass., 1SS4; A. B. Yale T'niv., 1888; studied in Yale Law Schl. and Chicago Coll. of Law; in general practice of law in Chicago since 18911; resident viee-pres. and gen. counsel Am. Fidelity Co.; pres. Dell Hapids (S. D.j elevator Co.; mem. Phillips Andover Alumni Assn., Sons of American Revo- lution; clubs. Law. Yale of Chicago, Hamilton, Twentieth Cen- tury, t'niversity, Quadrangle; offlce, Insurance Exchange Bldg. CHAMBERLAIN, OSCAR PEARL, chief engr. Chicago & 111. Western R. R.. Chicago; b. Pittstown, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1870; s. A.lonzo Hradner and Laura .\reeville iMunson) Chamberlain; ed. pull srhls. Auburn. New ^'ork. anil Philadelphia: B. S.. 1SS9, Seientilie Schl.. Peuna. rniv.; nidnian, transilinan. and asst. engr. Pcnnsvlvania R. R. 18.s'.t 19U2; 1902-4 div. engr. C. ti. W. R. R.; asst. engr. Northern Pacific R. R. 1902; cliief engr. Chicago & 111. Western R. R. since 1904; also chief engr. Dolese & bhepard; since June, 1907, gen. mgr. Union Paving Co.; 1911 pres. \\ estern Soc. of Engrs; mem. American Ry. Engring. Assn., 111. fc'oc. of Engrs. and Chicago Engrs. Club; residence, LaGrange; offlce, 108 So. LaSalle St. 22 SCHNEPP, JOHN S.. inavdr, Springrteld; b. near Springfield, Aug. ^ 26. 1866; s. Dieboid and Mar.v A. Schnepp; ed. di.st. schls., Con- cordia Coll., Central Normal Coll., Danville, Ind. (grad. 1887): LL.B.. 1890, Wesleyan Univ., adni. 111. bar 1890; practiced in Springfield since then; democrat; elected mayor 1909; re-elected under commission form of government 1911; author of Municipal History of Springfield; office, Springfield. LINCOLN, WALTER K., lawyer, Chicago; b. Ottawa, 111., 1876; s. Ex-Judge Benjamin F. Lincoln; a.sso. with Atty.-Gen. W. H. Stead in law practice, Ottawa; came to Chi. 1900, and in gen. law prac- tice to date; acted as special asst. atty. gen. in inheritance tax cases: appt. inheritance tax atty. 1909; drafted 111. inheritance tax law in effect 1909; mem. 111. State and Chi. Bar assns., office, 38 S. Dearborn. GLENN Y, ERNEST C. lawyer and banker, Chicago; b. New Or- leans, La., April 16, 1876; s., William West and Katherine (Scobee) Glenny; ed. Univ. of Ark., Nat. Normal Univ., Lebanon, O.; LL. B., law dept. Lake Forest Univ.. 1904; LL. M., Chicago-Kent Coll. of Law, 1908; adm. bar, 1904. and since in practice in Chicago; chief deputy clerk and alternate asst. to judge of pro- bate court, 1906-10; appt. secretary and iru.st officer. Ft. Dearborn Trust and Savings Bank, 1912; mcni. (■lu<"ig(i Bar Assn., Phi Delta Phi, Mason, K. P.; clubs, Hamilton. \\ aupanseh; formerly editor "The Hamilton," official organ of Hamilton Club; office, 76 W. Monroe St. FORREST. ALFRED E., vice. pres. and gen. nigr. North .\m. Acci- dent Ins. Co., Chicago; b. Northumberland Co., Ont.. Can., Apr. 22, 186:5; s. Dr. William and Anabella (White) Forrest; ed. pub. and high schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits, coming to Chi- cagoMn 1883, and embarking in the insurance business; 1890 form- ed the North .\m. Accident Assn. as a level premium mutual Co., there being then no law in 111. under which a stock accident ins. co. could l)c nruanized; drafted and had passed in 1899 the present casualt\- ins law of the state, and two months after the law went into elfeci reorganized co. as the North Am. .\ccident Ins. Co., a ,stock corporation; repub.; pres. 1911 International -Assn. of .Occi- dent Underwriters; clubs, C. A. A., Chicago Yacht, South Shore, Kenwood, Midlothian; office. The Rookery. 23 BURGER, ALBERT A., pluirmacist, Chicago; b. Laupheim, Ger- many, Jan. 1, 1S77; s. Mathias and Anna (Denzel) Burger; ed. St. Joseph's Coll., Teutopolis, 1890-2; Oshkosh Business Coll. 1892-3; grad. N. W. Univ. 1899; has been pharmacist since 1893, and in drug business in Chi. since 1901 ; appt. insp. to House of Correction 1911; business address, 5100 S. Ashland Ave. PIOTROWSKI, NICHOLAS L., lawyer and city atty., Chicago; b. Bnin, German Poland, 1863; ed. Germany, St. Mary's Coll., Ky., Univ. Xotre Dame, Univ. of Valparaiso, Ind.; adm. to bar Ind. ISSS; began practice in Michigan City and was appt. deputy prose- cuting atty.; later was professor of physics and chemistry at St. Thomas Coll., St. Paul, Minn.; came to Chi. 1892 and has practiced here since; democrat; nominee for state treas. 1906; appt. to present position 1911; professor of law at Loyola Univ.; pres. Chi. Polish Publishing Co.; mem. Chi. and 111. State bar assns., Chi. Law Inst., Lawyers' As.sn., K. C C. O. F.; club: Iroquois; office. City Hall. BUSCH, FRANCIS X., lawyer, Chicago; b. Detroit. Mich.. May 9, 1876; s. Francis X. and Carrie (Van Busklrk) Busch; common and high schl. education; grad. 111. Coll. of Law 1901 and adm. to bar same year; asst. corporation counsel and atty. of Chicago Civil service comm. 1904-1906; lecturer in 111. Coll. of Law; mem. of Chi. and 111. state bar assns.; vice-pres. Lawyers' Assn.; mem. of City Club, various civic assns. and fraternal socs.; office, Otis Bldg. ZENDER. HENRY AD.\M, president board of examining engrs., Chicago; b. Chicago, Dec. 11, 1874; s. Lawrence and Mary (Rein- bergj Zender; ed. pub. and high .schls., Chi.; plumber for 12 yrs. with Kdward Baggot and Robert H. Thurrogood; chief engr. Columbus Brewing Co., 1900; appt. to present position 1911; mem. K. C, C. O. O. F., R. A.. Internat. Assn. Stationary Engrs., Nat. Assn. Stationary Engrs.; office, City Hall. 24 DOBYNS, FLETCHER, lawyer, Chicago: b. Hilliards, O., May 24, 1.S72; s.Rev. William Alexander and Ann Maria (Kidwell) Dobyns; A. B., Harvard Univ., 1898; law schl., LL. B., N. W. Univ.; adm. bar 1901; asst. state's atty. Cook Co., three years; asst. U. S. district atty. two years; pres. First Voters' Repub. League, 1900; now chairman Cook Co. Progressive Republican League; has spoken for repub. nat. committee in twenty states; as special asst. U. S. atty.. conducted prosecution of John R. Walsh; stroke oar on Harvard crew; won Wendell Phillips oratory scholarship at. Harvard; clubs. Univ.. City; office. The Rookery Bldg. LANDEE, FRANK A., merchant. Molmc; b. Kalnn-r. .Sweden, Aug. 11. 1852; s. John M. and Anna L. Landee; ed. pub. schls.. Knox CO., 111., and business coll.. Galesburg. 111.; employed by Western Union Tel. Co., 1869 to 1881; supt. of construction. 1881-83; from 1883 to 1903 was in general charge of the telegraph and electric dept. of the Rock Island system; after 1903 on account c,f health located in business in Moline; elected repub. state .senator, l!iut>; re-elected, 1910; pres. Swedish Rep. State League, l.S'J'J-l'JOO; dir. Augustana Coll. since 1899; vice-pres. Moline Furniture Co.. vice-pres. and treas. Moline Stone Co.; dir. Peoples Trust and Sav- ings Bk., and State Savings Bk. and Trust Co.; office, Moline. FLETCHER, ROBERT V., gen. atty., I. C. R. R.. Chicago; b. Grant Co.. Kv.. Sept. 27, 1869; s. John M. and Mary (Luman) Fletcher; ed. Spencer Inst. (A. M.); post grad., Univ. of Miss.; adm. bar, Pontiac, Miss., May, 1899; removed to Jackson, Miss., and was successively asst. atty. gen., Jan., 1906, to Apr.. 1907; atty. gen. Apr., 1907, to Nov., 1908; judge supreme court of Miss., Nov., 1908, to May, 1909; entered employ of I. C. R. R. in 1909 and has held office of attorney gen. since that date; Mason; mem. Odd Fellows. K. P.; office, Illinois Central Bldg. DAVIS, ABEL, Cook county recorder. Chicago; b. Chicago, Dec. 26, 1874; s. Peter and Keile (Hochsberger) Davis; ed. Chicago pub. schls.; LL. B., N. W. Univ. law schl., 1901; adm. to 111. bar, 1901; mem. Gardner, Stern. Anderson & Davis until 1904; .Stern, Anderson & Davis, since 1910; mem. lower house, 43d 111. gen. assembly. 23d district. 1902-4; elected Cook Co. recorder 1904; re-elected. 1908; mem. Chicago Plan Comm.; maj. 1st regt. inf.. I. N. G.; Soc. of Army of Santiago. Chicago Real Estate Board. 111. State Bar Assn., Chicago Bar Assn.; Mason, clubs: Hamil- ton, Ravisloe, Country; office. County Bldg. 25 Sfc "3 ^ SS 26 27 >c - ^ 2; ^ M ; S o t Mr, 2^ J2 O s^° S 5 ■- 1; '^ — u. £ 3 ^ 5 c K* w - i: a t^ aj- .X s .t: — << -o r— S-C •- "* *- i = =i - ^ -, :-i^iil 5 S ^ .ti'o: oV O 5i c o 00 em'*' 28 i S 2 « a « 5 g fe 03 = O M ■„- 2 Soo: * be r- en a t- ^1 c 3 *- o o . 5 =* ..rO^ ■ o -^ b ^ ;f= -g > ^ o . - U « „- - C3 g sa-Sog . .--d s-fl oS = # ■ '4 ^ >. o 5 =■- o < M^ S ■O ■^ ? t; i U o 29 30 ■-•— • 2 £ 15 if II zt-;dO«- = ::; '^ ■* £ '-"= ^- « § - ; o ri c3 ^/:=ib=; a i ,- - ^■o ^'d :^ tad ~ 3 Og 31 OHN STOCKER MILLER, one of the leading lawyers of the Chicago and American bar, is the son of John and Jane (McLeod) Miller. He was born at Louisville, St. Lawrence county, New York, May 24, 1847, and received the degree of A. B. from St. Lawrence University at Canton, N. Y., in 1869. He studied in the law department of the same institution from 18()8 to 1870 and was admitted to the New York bar at Ogdensburg, in the latter year. Mr. Miller was professor of mathematics at his alma mater during 1871 and 1872 and during the two years following, taught Greek and Latin. He moved to Chicago in 1874 and began the practice of law with George Herbert and John H. S. Quick, the firm, in 1876, becoming Herbert, Quick & Miller. The firm became Quick & Miller after the death of Mr. Herbert. This connection lasted until 1886, when Mr. Miller formed a partnership with Henry W. Leman. Merritt Starr was admitted in 1890 and later George R. Peck succeeded Mr. Leman, the firm then being styled Peck, Miller & Starr. The firm is now Miller, Starr, Packard & Peckham. Mr. Miller was corporation counsel of the city of Chicago from 1891 to 1893 and argued in behalf of the city the celebrated lake front case against the Illinois Central Railroad company. He was of counsel for the beef packers in the celebrated case which ended in their acquittal in the United States court in Chicago, 1912. In politics, Mr. Miller is a republican. He is a member of the following clubs: Union League, Chicago, University, Wayfarers, Hamilton, On- wentsia and Exmoor. His office is in the First National Bank Bldg. 32 BROOKS, JAMES G. CARTER, lumber merchant, Chicago, was born in Salem, Mass., Aug. 25, 1836, the son of William Hawthorne and .Sarah (Carter) Brooks. He was educated in Boston and at the age of eighteen came to Chicago, where he entered the office of his uncle, Artemas Carter. He was later employed with Means, Bates & Co., of Oconto, and The Bay de Noquit Co., and remained there as president until he retired a few years ago on account of ill health. He is descended from one of the early settlers of Salem, his first ancestor there having assisted in the trying of witchcraft cases. His father was at one time a professor in Harvard. Mr. Brooks was instrumental in having the statue of I>incoln placed at the entrance of Lincoln Park, and was one of the commissioners for that purpose. He was married to Rose Hambleton, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Samuel L. Hambleton of Maryland and has two daughters. Mrs. George J. Farnsworth of Chicago and Mrs, H. Blaksley Collins of St. Louis. Mo. Clubs, Union, Onwentsia, C. A. A.; office. Railway Exchange Bldg. 33 CATLIN. THOMAS DEAN, banker and capitalist, Ottawa, was l«.ni iii ( lint,,ii. N. ^ .. Maid 1- lvis._the hon of Marctis and Philena (Hunt) Dean. He was educated at Hamiltim ( nlici;,. < lint.m, '-''■"''''■; V^.''',;'',;.Y,-|'},°?v,f now a trustee of that institution. He came as a poor boy to Ottawa nj l;':;'^. "^'^ ''''/,,., ^v ,f hP Tii * freight office of the C. & R. I. R. R., afterwards as station agent, and in ls.b.i was made scuet. r> of "le u . &, Miss. Telegraph Co. These lines were leased to the Western Union Telegraph (-O-'^l^^, but the organiza- tion is still maintained, and Mr. Catlin is now president and treasurer. He was made secreti^ry and put m charge ol the Ottawa Glass Company in 1868. The plant selling out to the ^'''V^i' ,^L'^*'lFw?PpWtPr^ vice' he was made president and direct„r and cntinued as sucli for abo'it nuie years J"l*'£'i^/„H fbp It^lte Rank president of the National City Bank ,,f < .ttawu. and in Is'Mi ,,r,^s, ar Q. .c — — •a T3 n . 7 ^. :: - 1 ^ - Y s X^- ■"- _ U - to Z — ;; - / ^ : — »" - ^ -t Tt ~Z1 . ^ — - =o i .2 i ^ < 49 S " 5 = = ?;.- .5 a a 'w~ -■ ~ - y-'~ •'i — 3 ^X / ^;; = w i-.-^ O '■t|i^r|"-2o SS 3 - i_ t, ; ~ 3 - o M ^ 2 w . o w: d S r ^ ^' :P, ~ ° " 50 51 2 B-S-5 Ccg . .-ajS o II i^ >J S ra^ Id --O m ■- - r: = - ^ = , 7r; rtrZs 52 Kr— ^ Oi O ^' s .- • - -:x -s-': r — ^ o ■^ ;: - : - Z~ = = 3 '-C J c g !". • >;•: = £ 53 3 = 3 g ^4 a- o tc o.S '5- §6 - dTJ- .= .^ o o'-o c S 50 C K S J,' fcl 'O g Mb ~ O a •r .? < - 1 -n S't c £ e c |5 3hSo — . h °^ X C 3 D ^^ i; c = 1. -■ ij a z " ~ . . - O -ic'sb ■■gJ li c ? ^^Zcs-^e---) =5==li55 ^I'NI'I^ .-". rrS.o'^s .■?;'" ?''' S 3 :•-•:; ?iiz! iiS?~Z':r = r=-£^'?- - 5f~ ^-=^^1=1 ~ = "■'■-:: s-^s - i- i - - Z . C --ii-i-'*^ -:r>-'' -a Hmm m=^^^^i idS s t.S=5 . m£ i255^.SzSa ^ 7^' 55 JOHNSON, WILLIAM OSCAR, lawyer and underwriter Chicago; b. p/donla N Y Aug^ 30, ISSfi^/' Of^'^'-g^^^'^ receiver Freepo,-t St. Ry. and other Cos.: appt. receiver Chicago & Milwaukee Electric K. K., I'eo., iju, mem. Chicago Bar Assn.; cluh.s, C. A. A.. University. .South Shore; office. The RooKer.\ . 56 VEEDER, ALBERT H.. lawyer. Chirago: b. Fonda. Montgomer.- Co.. N. \ .. Apr. 1. 1844; s Henry and Rachel (Lansing) Veeder; early edn. in common schools; grad. Union Coll.. Schenectady, N. ^ .. lHh.5; supt. of scnools, Galya, 111., 1866-8. at'the same time studying law; admitted to bar, 1868; practiced at Oaly;i. 111. 1868-74; since then in Chicago; atty. for the Town of Lake. 1874-8.5; now general counsel and dir. bt. Louis Nat. .stock Yards Co., Swift and Company, Libby, McNeill & Libby etc.; Ma.son (32d degree, K. T., Shriner) ; repub.; clubs, Chicago, Mid-Day, University, C. A. A.; office, 76 W. Monroe St. 57 prominent medical college; has contributed extensively to medical journa........ „ ui.iiu.v Piuidrr 'ind inent works; one of which, on the •'Non-Surgical Treatment of Diseases ol the "^ ■;'< • ^v , Vwt is' cd on Nervous Diseases," has passed the fourth edition of more than 20,000 voluini's h,s atc> u..i k , M ^mu( . o the treatment of chronic diseases, by intra-venous transudations, is exciting =i"';"V"'i'Vpnt th , A 7v rmless unprecedented success, as it contains new features, by means of which, potent and eflflcient, though harmless, remedies are introduced directly into the blood: olflce, " " t>t„^,.,„„ at W. Madison St. 58 J URION, ALFRED R., lawyer. Chicauci; Ixirii Salem. X. .J.. Sept. 29. l.sti:<; s. .hjliii anil Mai\ iHaiulolph/ Urion: ed. South .Icrsev irist. and ('cmral liit,'h .school, Philadelphia. Pa.; .snulicd law at St. I'aul. Minn., and in N. D.; admitted to bar on examinaliim in X. 15., 1885: later admitted to Minn bar at St. Ptiiil. tiiiil in 1888 came to Chicago to enter legal service of Armour & Co., for which he is now gen. counsel; mem. Chicat;o hoard of edn. (pres. same, .June, 1909-Jan. 1, 1911); Mason; clubs. Press, Union League, Hamilton; office. Home Insurance Building. 59 60 CRITCHFIELD, HARRY D., lawyer and sales manager of the Automatic Electric Co.. Chicago, was born m Knox Co O in 1863- was educated iu the public schools, admitted to the Ohio bar in 1889, and practiced m Mount Vernon until 1897. In 1896 he was elected secretary of the Ohio Independent Telephone Association In 1897 he was chairman of the constitution committee al tlic time of the oruaiiization of the Independent 1 elephone A.ssociation of the U. S.. and has been a meml)er of either the advisory hoard or executive commitlee of tluit asso- ciation since it was founded. He wasgeneral counsel fcjr tlie asscicuuion for Ine ,\ears. In IMishewent tot leve- land and became general counsel for the Kverett-Moore syndicate in the development of tlieir telephone proper- ties During this time he prepared the contract for interchange of business between independent long distance companies and independent exchange companies, the pioneer contract of its kind, which becatne the standard form of all .such contracts. He came to Chicago in 1901 as the general counsel for the Automatic Telephone com- pany at the time of its organization. He is at present interested in numerous independent operating telephone companies; otBce, 1001 W. Van Buren St. 61 WILSON, FRANCIS S., lawyer, Chicago; attorney for Cook County; b \oungstown. O., Fi'l>. . , I s. - M. and Griselda E. (Campbell) Wil.son; ed. Hudson, O., preparatory sohl., Western Keserve i nn nin Reserve Law Schl.. LL. B.; nominated 1896 on dem. ticket for Judge probate court, MiihumiL . after coming to Chicago associated in practice of law with John P. Altgeld and ^'^rence iJaiiuu . mem. firm Darrow, Masters & Wilson; appt. attorney of Cook county, 1912; clubs Homewood I. A. C. Legal; mem. 111. and Chicago Bar assns.; ofHces, Ashland Blk. and County Bldg. - David I Western imty, O.; formerly Country. 62 TOWER, GEORGE DANIEL, manufacturer of IMendota, 111., was born Oct. 31, 1853, the son of Justus David and Marv (Cairns) Tower. He attended the Mendota high school, was a student at the Universlt.v of Illinois for two years. He engaged in farming and other occupations until 1883. when he commenced tlie manufacture of the Tower surface cultivating instruments. In 1901 he organized the J. D. Tower & Sons Company, of which he is president. He is also director of the Mendota National Bank. Mr. Tower is a member of the A. V. & A. M., the Illinois Manufacturers' .Association, the National Implement and Vehicle As.sociation and the Tnion League Club, of Chicago; address, Mendota, 111. 63 ''^HARLES MORGAN HEWITT, president of the Hewitt Manufacturing Company of Chicago, is one of the natives of the Wolverine state who have put their impress upon the record of the commercial achievements of Chicago. Mr. Hewitt was born in Detroit, Mich., Aug. 7, 1857, the son of Elias and Elizabeth (Wheatly) Hewitt. He attended the public schools of Detroit, where, upon his graduation, he entered the railroad business. Mr. Hewitt began at the bottom of the ladder and rose rapidly. He held several important positions of responsibility and trust with the Pullman Palace Car Company at Pullman, 111., from 1881 to 1886. A man of great personal initiative, Mr. Hewitt saw an opportunity to establish a business of his own. He left the Pullman corporation to engage in a manu- facturing industry. His business enterprises have steadily grown until now he is president of the Hewitt Manufacturing Company brass founders, president of the Featherstone Foundry and Machine Company, president of the Hewitt Sup- ply Company, and president of the National Brake Shoe Company. He also is interested in a financial executive way with other companies engaged along similar lines. While Mr. Hewitt's numerous business activities make him an extreme- ly busy man, he, nevertheless, finds time to indulge a liking for golf. He is a member of the South Shore Country, (ilen View, Exmoor and Chicago Golf clubs of Chicago, the Oakland Golf Club of Bay side. Long Island, and the Golf Links of America, of Southampton, Long Island. Mr. Hewitt is also a member of the Chicago Union League, I^nion, Mid-Day, Hamilton and Chicago Automobile clubs and the Chicago Athletic Association of Chicago, and the New York Athletic, New^ York and Railroad clubs of New York. His residence is at 1455 N. State Street and his office is in the Railway Exchange Building. G4 C/}^ec<^-^r^ CARROLL, WILLIAM, electrician, CliicaKd; \>. Piciua, O.. Mar. 8, 1851; s. Edward and Bridget (OHricn) Carrrjll; ed. public schls. of LeClaire, la.; worked (in farm at 1-4: icnioved to Chicago and was employed in 1878 erecting poles and stringing wires for first alarm branch city fire dept. ; promoted to batteryman, line- man, repairer, fire alarm tel. operator and siipt. of construction, 1905; city electrician, 1905-12; mem. Western Soc. of Engrs., Ancient Order of United Workmen and Firemen's Benevolent Assn. WELSH, .JOHN DOUGLAS, lawyer. Galesburg; b. Knox Co.. III., Sept. 10, ls.-,N; s. Micliacl and Catherine ((iracci Welsli; ed. pub. .scbl.s.. l.,>iiilianl Cull.; III. Wesleyan Law schl. ISSV; began practice Springtield, Mu., I.S89; moved to Galesburg 1890 and continued to date; trustee Lombard Coll.; repub.; county judge 1902. one term; mem. A. F. & A. M., B. P. O. E.; club, Galesburg; ofllce, 1st Nat. Bank BIdg., Galesburg. LARSON. LEWIS E.. secty. board of education. Chicago; b. Le- land, III., Nov. 2, 1874; s, Jacob and Elizabeth (Peterson) Larson; grad., Jennings Sem., Aurora, III., 1891; sectv. to supt. of schools of Chicago during incumbency of Supts. Lane. Andrews and Coolev; asst. supt. in charge of evening schls., 1SS9; Dec, 1900, passed highest in civil service examination and became sectv.; position carries with it since Dec, 1910, the general management of all business matters outside of educational dept.; office, Tribune BIdg. TRAEGER, JOHN E., city comptroller and banker, Chicago; b, Chi., Nov, 13, 1857; s. John and Mary (Diercks) Traeger; ed. pub. schls.; early life on farm; engaged in the grocery business in the city and later in meat business; dem.; elected collector Town of Lake, 1897; re-elected 189S-9; coroner of Cook Co., 1900-4; city collector 1905-7; city treas., 1907-9; vice pres. Stockmen's Trust & Savings Bank since Dec, 1904; Apr., 1911, appt. comptrol- ler of city of Chi., which position he now holds; offices. City Hall and 5425 S. Halsted St. 65 McGRATH. SHELTON FRANCIS, lawyer, Peoria; mem. firm of Quinn, Quinn & McGrath; b. Mt. Pulaski, 111., Feb. 25, 1881: s. Patrick L. and Harriet (Snvder) McGrath; ed. pub. schls. Logan Co.; grad. Lincoln high schl. 1900; LL. B. Wcslcyaii Tniv. 1906; adm. to bar 1906; engaged in practic-c of hnv. Hlii(iiii[Mt;i(>n. 111., with Kerrick & Bracken, fall of l!l(ir. nicvcd tc, I'ccria, 111., Nov., 1907; became member of firm of (Juinn, Quinn & McCJrath, Jan., 1909; past exalted ruler, Peoria Lodge No. 20, B. P. O. E.; D. D. G. E. R., B. P. O. E., West Dist. of 111.; K. P.; member of 111. Valley Yacht Club, Peoria Co. and State Bar assns.; office, 912- 14 Jefferson Bldg., Peoria, 111. SWEITZER, ROBERT MAGNER, Cook County clerk, Chicago; b. Chicago, May 10, 1868; s. Martin John and Sarah (Lamping) Sweitzer; ed. pub. .schls.; grad. St. Patrick's Commercial Acad., 1884: ((innectt'd with James H. Walker Co. seven years until their failure in IS'.l.l; with John H. I'arwell Co., Nov. 15. 1893, to Dec. 1, litld; cleiied cci. clerk on deni. ticket. Nov., 1910; dir. 111. Com- mercial Mens Assn. and 111. Traveling Men's Health Assn.; chair- man executive com. Alumni Assn. of St. Patrick's Commercial Acad.; mem. I. A. C, Iroquois Club, K. C, Roval League, B. P. O. E.; office. County Bldg. WINSTON, CHARLES A., lawyer.Chicago; b. Dec. 6, 1865. Bullitts- burg, Ky.; s. Albert G. and Georgetta (Matson) Winston; grad. Woodward Coll., Cincinnati, 1886; LL. B. 1891, Cincinnati Law Schl.; LL. B. Harvard Law Schl. 1893; post-grad. Harvard, 1897- prof, real property law dept. Minn. Univ. 1898; served for two years under Johu S. Miller; tor 6 years senior, mem. firm of Win- ston, Lowy .V McCiiiii: un-m. Birchwood Country Club, C. A. A., Art Institute, Cliicanci Bar Assn.; Southern Cliib, Phi Delta Phi law fraternity; office. Stock Exchange Bldg. DINGMAN, CHARLES WILLIAM, grain merchant, Chicago; b. Stokes, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1854: s . William Henry and Jeannette E. (Stedman) Dingman: ed. Stokes t^raiiimar schl., high schl., Lee Center, N. Y., and bu.siness coll., Itua. N. Y.; began business career as bookkeeper and cashier for Williams & Edwards, Rome, N. Y., 1873-1875; with Roberts, Hoag & Tefft, Utica, N. Y., in similar position, 1875-1877; studied law under Arthur B. John- son, Utica, 1877 to 1880; with Armour & Co., 1880 to date; served with the Bacon Cadets, Utica; office, 137 S. La Salle St. 66 BALL, CHARLES BACKUS, sanitary engr., chief sanitary insp. dept. of health, Chicago; b. New Haven, Conn.. Aug. 31, 1854; s. Charles and Sarah Lathrop (Backus) Ball: ed. high schl. Warren, O., Ph. B., Yale, 1880; civil engr. 1880-94, asst. engr. sewer dept., Washington, D. C, 1887-94, insp. plumbing. D. C, 1894-1902; chief insp. tenement house dept.. New York, 1902-4; chief sanitary insp., Chi., 1904; ousted; reinstated 1907; in service to present time; mem. Am. Soc. Civil Engrs., Am. Soc. Insp. Plumbing and Sanitary Engrs., dir. Nat. Housing Assn.; office. City Hall. DOGGETT, HERBERT E. LEE, realestate, Chicago; b. Fredericks- burg, Va., Dec. 2, 1862; s. LeRoy Benjamin and Lucy Frances (Jerrell) Doggett; ed. pub. schools and mil. schis., Fredericksburg: engaged in general brokerage business, 1886-1890. mem. firm of W. L. Doggett & Bros., since 1890: dem.; former mem. 3d regt. Va. N. G., hon. mem. Co. G, 1st regt. I. N. G.; mem. reception com. World's Columbian Expn., 1892-3; Mason (32d, K. T., Shriner) ; club. South Shore; office. Rector Bldg. DeWOODY, CHARLES F., division supt. bureau of investigation, U. S. dept. of justice, Chicago; b. Akron, O., Oct. 31, 1877; s. David G. and Alice B. (Crubach) DeWoody; ed. pub. schls. Akron, Buchtel Coll., and Columbia Univ.: practiced law in Akron 1899- 1901; entered atty. gen. office 1902; served in various capacities, including investigation in "beef trust" case; now asst. U. S. atty. for northern dist. of 111. and eastern dist. of Mich.; office, Federal Bldg. HAYDEN. DANIEL B., physician, Chic;tg(i: b. S\ incrioii. 111.. Dec. 12, 1879; s. John and Bridget (Bergan) Havden; ed. St. Viateur's Coll., A. B., A. M., 1894-1900: Georgetown, M. D. 1900-4; Univ. of Vienna, 1907-8; began practice at 63rd and Halsted sts., later at 32 N. State; instructor in otology and laryngology at Rush Med. Coll.; club. City; office, 122 S. Michigan Ave. 67 OUINLAN, WILLIAM WHEELOCK, physician, Chicago; b. Lake Forest. III.. Aug. 10, 1S67: s. Charles Hur\c.v and Ruth (Efner) Quinlaii; cd. Evanston High schl.: grad. IS'.il M. l)., Coll. Phy- .siciaiis and Surgeons. N. Y. city; prof, diseases (jf children. Chicago polyclinic husp., since 1904; med. referee Mutual Life Insurance Co. of X. Y. since 1906; luem. C. A. A.; office, 29 E. Madison St. STUCKART, HENRY, city treas.. Chicago: b. New York City. Nov. 6, 1853; s. Conrad and Mari;reth Stuckart: lirousht to Chi- cago in infancy; ed. pul>. schls., cnL;aL;('d in house furnishing lnisl- ness since 187.5; aid. from cild i;ili ward, islii' (i. and frcnn iircscnt 4th ward, 1903-5; South Ti.wn assessor. IMls IdOL'; candidate for mem. bd. of review, 1908; elected city trea.s., 1911; office, City Hall. TENNEY, HOR.\CE KENT, lawyer. Chicago; b. Portage, Wis., Sept. 11, 1859; s. Henry W. and Hannah (Cadlc) Tenney; ed. Univ. of Vt.; LL. B., Univ. of Wis. 1881; in practice at Chicago since 1881; mem. law firm of Tenney, Coffeen, Harding & Sher- man; lecturer on practice, John Marshall Law schl.; prof, law Univ. of Chicago 1903-09; mem. Chicago, 111. State (pres. 1911) and Am. Bar assns.; repub.; clubs, L'nion League, Univ. Law; res., Winnetka; office, Home Insurance Bldg. FETZER, WILLIAM R., lawyer, Chicago; b. on farm in Vermillion township, LaSalle Co., Feb. 12, 1873; s. John W. and Clara (Wood- ward) Fetzer; ed. pub. schls.; grad. Ottawa high schl.; two years in Univ. of III.: grad. 1899 N. W. Univ. law dept. and adm. to bar same year; after six months in law office began practice for him- self; appointed asst. stale's atty.. Cook Co., 1909; mem. Chicago Bar Assn., Mason, Wdodlawn Lodge, No. 841 ; Jackson Park Lodge, No. 222, Woodlawn Conimandery, No. 76, Knights Templar, and Shriner; clubs, \\ oodlawn Park and Univ. of III.; office, Criminal Court Bldg. 68 STEWART, HARRY J., physician, Kewanoe; b. Warren Co , Mar. 21, 1868; s. David B. and Sarali E. (Pillilngton) Stewart; grad. N. W. Univ. in medicine: practiced in Mercer Co.; moved to Ke- wanee 1900 and became specialist in eye, ear, nose, and throat; chm. staff St. Francis Hospital; chair of eye. ear, nose and throat, also nursing and ethics Nurses' Training schl.; chm. village bd. of Viola, 111., 1894-1900; township trustee of schls. Mercer Co., 1897-1900; chm. bd. of edn. Kewanee. 1906-7; Mason; clubs, Kewanee (pres. 1909-10), Midland. Country. Commercial (pres.); office. Kewanee, III. ADAMICK, GUSTAVE HATTENHAUER, druggist and chemist, Chicago; b. Bloomington, 111., Sept. 22, 1863; s.Adolph and Augusta (Hattenhauer) Adamick; ed. pub. schls., Peru, 111.; Ph. G., Schl. of Pharmacy. N. W. Univ., 1887; after course in pharmacy in N. W. Univ. in business for self at La Salle. 111., for 6 yrs.; later traveling salesman for .John Wyeth & Bro.. Phila.; 1900 pres. of A. Arend Drug Co.; repub.; Mason. K. T.; mem. .-im. Pharmaceu- tical Assn.; club, Hamilton; office, 192 W. Madison St. CROWLEY, FRED J., lawyer, Chicago; b. New York Cit\, Dec. 19, 1871; s. James and Elizabeth (McGowan) Crowley, in Chicago since 1873; ed. parochial and pub. schls.- grad. law dept. I-ake Forest Univ. 1897; adm. bar same yr.; with Morris & Co , Union Stock Yards. 18S7-1S97, atty. in credit dept. Morris & Co., 1897- 1900; since 1901 in lecal di'pt. II. (). Stone & Co.; dem.; nominated for Congress 3d dist. III. I'Htx; also 1910, which election is now be- ing contested in house; iiiemt)er R. A., K. C.. C. O. F., N. A. U., A. O. H., M. W. A.; office, .American Trust Bldg. 0'SHAUGHNE.SSY, THOMAS. Sr.. U. S. appraiser, Chicago; b. London, Mar. 24, 1842; s. John and Mary O. (Hanlon) O'Shaughnessy ; ed. pub. schls.. Boston and New York; 12 yrs. with Bliss, Whiting, Pierce. & McKenny. Boston. 33 yrs., with Clem- ent, Bane & Co., Chi.; commr. 111. State Penitentiary 4 yrs.; U. S. appraiser for .5 ' 2 yrs.; republican; camlidaie for city clerk and city treas.; enlisted in 44lh Mass. \ul. in Civil War and served full term; member G. A. R.; office. 1939 \\'. Monroe St. 69 JONES. CHARLES SWEENEY, wholesale grocery l)ri)ker, Peoria; b. Havana, 111., Aug. 14, 1866; s. John William and Elizabeth F. (Sweeney) Jones; ed. pub. sehl.; entered r. r. service with C, B. & Q. at Peoria 1884; with C. & N. W. at Huron, So. Dak., 1886 to 1890; with C. & E. I., at Chi. 1890 to 1895: returned to Peoria 189.5, entering as partner firm of Jones Bros., wholesale grocery brokers; pres. Nat. Canned Goods & Dried Fruit Brokers Assn. 1910 and 1911, secty. III. Wholesale Grocers Assn. 1899 to date; aide de camp with rank of colonel S. D. N. G., staff Gov. A. C. Mellette, 1888; clubs. Automobile. Chi.. Creve Coeur and Country, Peoria; address, 324 S. Washington St., Peoria, III. DART, CARLTON ROLLIN, civil engr., Chicago; b. Lansing. Mich., Feb. 1, 1862; s. Rollin Charles and Sarah Elizabeth (Darling) Dart; ed. Lansing pub. schls. to 1878; B. S., Mich. Agricultural Coll., 1881; partial post-grad, course in engineering at Univ. of Mich., 1882-3; asst. to city engr. Lansing, Mich., 1881-2; drafts- man, Marquette & Western R. R.. Marquette, Mich.. 1883-84, G. R. & I. Ry., Grand Rapids. Mich., 1885-6; asst. engr. U. P. R. R. on construction of terminals, 1886-91; general engineering work in Chicago, 1891-1901; since 1901 bridge engr. for Sanitary Dist. of Chicago; mem. .\m. Soc. of Civil Engrs., We.stern Soc. of Engrs., Chicago Engrs. Club; oflBce, 76 W. Monroe St. FLEMING, HERBERT E., civic worker, expert investigator, news- paper writer, Chicago; b. Nora Springs, la., Feb. 21, 1878; s. Thomas Easton and Florence (Dorn) Fleming; Ph. B. 1902, Univ. of Chi.; Ph. D. 1905, sociology and political economy, Univ. of Chi.; author: A History of the Literary Periodicals and Literary Interests of Chicago, 1906: newspaper man Cedar Rapids. la., and Chi. 1896-l!»(l!l: editorial writer. Clilcauo Dulh News 1907-9; in- vestigator, Meriaiii <'omni. c-it.\- cxpfiiilil uri-s. ( 'liicano, 1909-10; secy. gen. mgr. 111. and Chi. Civil Service Heform A.ssns. since June, 1910; mem. Chi. Psi fraternity: clubs, City, Chicago News- paper, Midway Tennis: offlce, Marquette BIdg". ZILLMAN, CHRISTIAN CHARLES HERMAN, lawyer, Chicago; b. Will Co., III., Dec. 26, 1870: s. William and Dorothea (Maas) Zillman; ed. Mo. State Univ., B. S. 1893: Coliini!)i:i Univ., N. Y., M. A. 1897; cadet at U. S. Naval Acad., Annapolis. Mil., 1888-92; adm. III. bar 1897: practiced at Chi. since with Rubens, Dupuy & Fischer, later with David, Smulski & McGaffey, Arm now David .Vo ^ "J > ?-l~ -; 0< lll« 2 7. 72 73 aJooS o"". ^"i^Sd r ^':^'d|< _^- ■fl<0- . - W^- "- ;- rW ^' ■y" ■5 1: r "^ 5 — r iTi :>, «J ■^ ^-"'^l? . - - 'zS-cS"* - — - x 3— 2 - r-.::: i 'i-a »•- --=.- c Jpsi'^K 7. :i_tC - i?^isl r = - ^ cc • - ^. ^. — u c " s - = rt --a; _; i^-l^'lfc Z ^-■|2i§. u: CQ £SW;rz X 74 ■fl '^'SS'S ^ •22^ '- — —I ■ — = .= f5 -M - :: o SO'O r |§|o^ r 2 1 ieltf - -*.=«§ ' ' -iS r6 • > r n<; .. - ■=i^-<;l ■- = ^-=8^ ~ m^i - §-5f<:o •^ -- ;; c c c X. ^-i£<: - > — •= J= 5 5= JO u *~ T *^ - -i"~S = i-a§^ - ~ - .j= ^ H=5gO C j'w-g a." X u ■ — ■— "* •* — - .V. c 7 = 5>.SiE X :./!"5 r X ■^19 si f. -I Sl2 =< S? E.".2" XZ.'.-^-'"". JC 3 en ^ ►," 05 75 76 CO c . ri a -H — — T3C-) *o • a T T ~-° 2 • ^ S hS . 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He began his railway career as a section laborer for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road in 1881, and later was station laborer and clerk for the same road at Deming, N. M. He began his climb of the steps to a railroad presidency when he was promoted to station agent at Lordsburg, N. M., and the years up to 1897 were spent as station agent at that place, at Benson, Ariz., and at Reno, Nev. From 1897 to 1901 he was agent and district freight and passenger agent at Fresno, Cal., and general freight and passenger agent of the Oregon lines at Portland, Ore. He became assistant freight traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company at San Francisco, Sept. 1, 1901, and served in that capacity until Dec. '28 of the same year. He was vice-president of the Houston & Texas Central Rail- road from 1901 to 1904 and vice-president and general manager from April 1 to Nov. 1, 1904, of the Southern Pacific Company. From 1904 to 1909 he was general manager of the Guffey Petroleum Company of Beaumont, Tex., and from 1909 to Jan. 11, 1911, was president of the Gulf Refining Company and Gulf Pipe Line Company of Pittsburg, Pa. He has been president of the Illinois Central Railroad since Jan. Vl, 1911. He also has been president of the Ocean Steamship Company and the Central of Georgia Railway since Feb. 8, 1911. He belongs to the Union League Club. His office is at the Lake Front and Twelfth St., Chicago. 80 Ci'^f^'H<..A^^ i- HOPKINS, ALBERT J., lawyer, Chicat'o iiul \uioi.i b De Kalb Co., 111., Aug. 15, 1846: A. B. Hillsdale (Mich.) Coll., IsTd. adin. Ui bar and practiced ii \nu<77; liai-'s-'a^'r depl. C, H. & (^ H. H. anil I'cnn < (j lines ls7s-'l freight dept. <■-, li. & (^ U. li., IST'.i Ml, Lien, liautfane ak'eni ('., B. it CJ. K. 1{. and iither lines issd "> mam and merchandise, Iowa, ls,stj-,S; clerk superintendent's ottlce, ClncaKo Citv I{\ . Co.. l,s,s,s 91 l.iu dept same lS'11-4, asst. gen. counsel same, 1.S94-8; acting gen. counsel same. l,s!i,s -liio:.i; gen. solicitor same, 1110 5-4. gen mgr same, 1904- (i: July, 1904, mem. board of dir. C. C. Rv. Co.; I'eb. I'.idii. \ ioe-pres. C. C. R\ Co , pres Northwestern Elevated R. R. Co., 1907-11; pres. Chi. & Oak Park Elevated R. K. Co., 1911: elected pres llmted Railwav Investment Co., 1912; now dir. Chi. & Oak Park Elevated R. R., X. \V. Elevated R. R , Inter Ocean Steel Co , Gulf Coast Irrigation Co., Allerton, Green & King; clubs. Industrial, Chicago South Shore, Lake Geneva Country; mem. Sons of Am. Rev.; mem. bd. of councilors Henrotin Mem. Hosp. 84 STURTZ. CHARLES ELMER, lawyer, (pf Kcwanoe, was Imtii in Snrii,rsi.t Ci)., Pa., on Xov. 9 IStifl In- i-, the son (]f Cliarles arifl Katherine iKeniielli ,-^liirtz. 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So OS »i I r_: >S -.-x: 107 '5;. £3 108 ''a., •a aj M C3 oj ^ >>iK ° to a =3 XTS _ - o - o £ =3 =? o £ «i asaaS 5=0 5 o . 4ja — o >,= C O^ o O c; OJ 1 2 t. 0) o ^ ao ; rr ■• r 1 r-T 109 110 """Oh ?^ =3 ^~ -.I*— 0) S S > r" S'3i'2 § .-•3 111 EN. SMITH D. ATKINS, postmaster of the city of Freeport, 111., for more than forty years, and editor of the Freeport Journal for many years, was born near Ehnira, N. Y., June 9, 188(5. He was a lad of ten years when he came to Illinois with his father's family, their home being established on a farm, where he continued until 1850. He then determined to learn the printer's trade, and to this end entered the office of the Prairie Democrat, the first newspaper of Freeport. Realizing the value of and ambitious to secure an education, he pursued a course of study in the Rock River Sem- inary at Mt. Morris, 111., working in the printing office and studying during his leisure hours. In 1852, while yet a student, he was appointed foreman of the Mt. Morris Gazette, and in June, 1853, in connection with C. C. Allen, he purchased the paper and also established the Register at Savannah, Carroll county. In the fall of the same year he became a law student under the direction of Hiram Bright, of Freeport, and was admitted to the bar June 27, 1855. Following his admission General Atkins continued to read law for some time in the office of Goodrich & Scoville, of Chicago, and then entered upon active practice in Freeport Sept. 1, 1856. Interested in the important questions which were arousing the atten- tion of the nation, in 1860 he made a spirited canvass in support of Abraham Lincoln and the address which he made during the campaign and which was a careful and thorough review of the Dred Scott decision was published and went through several editions. In that year he was elected as state's attorney for the fourteenth judicial circuit. He was in the midst of a trial of a criminal case in the Stephenson circuit court when a telegram was received that President Lincoln had issued his first call for troops. Gen- eral Atkins had watched with interest the progress of events in the South and his soul was stirred to its depths by the rebellious attitude of the Confederacy, Before leaving the court room he drafted an enlistment roll which he headed with his own name, thus being the first man to enlist as a private soldier in Stephenson county. His war record was brilliant He was brevetted brigadier-general for gallantry and was assigned to duty imder commission as brevet brigadier general by special order of President Lincoln. He commanded a brigade of cavalry during Sherman's campaign in the Carolinas and at the close of the war, when he was mustered out, he was brevetted major-general. 112 KEEP, CHAUNCEY, mfr. :uk1 capitiilWt, ChicaKd: b. Whitewater. Wis.. Ana. 20. l! 1^71 Hi» 1^ tlie son of Thomas and Ellen KELLY, JAMES J., lawyer,^ Chicago, ^as b°r, i C hicaa ^ M. 1-1, is^ ^^^^ ,^^^ ^ ^^ organizations: club, I. A. r.; offlce, 69 W. Washington St. 114 SCOTT, FRANK HAMLINE, lawyer, Chicago; b. Tipton, la., .ian. 1, 1S57; s. Washington and Amelia (Kline) Scott: ed. pub. schools of 111., Northwestern Univ., A. M., 1876: Union Coll. of Law, Chicago. LL. B., 18T8; engaged in general practice of law in Chicago since, 1878: now senior mem. of law firm of f^cott, Bancroft & Stephens: specializes largely in eorpn. law: mem. Am., III. and Chicago Bar assns., Chicago Hist. Soc; clubs, Chicago, Union League, Chicago Literary, University. Onwentsia, City, Law, Cliff Dwellers': office. Corn Kxchange Bank Blda. 115 )f the I-iiilf(l ; icKjls and Naip; at Cliii-iKi SMALL, 1,F,N, assistant tri-asnr( He altciKlcd Kankakee imlilic ,■ schijcil for Ixvd years. He li;is lieen a farmer all his life ;i At the age uf 21 In- was elected seerelarj- of IlliiHiis Hcjrtieidtural state board ot agriculture. He has been secretary of the Kaidiak His first public service was as clerlf of the circuit court of Kankake born in Kankakee, Ilk. ,)inie 1(1, lS(i2. hiKil. \alparalsn, Ind.. after wnieli ho taushl resides on his farm ad|(],nlnK Kankakee city. So(iet\ . seTved two ti'rms as :\ member of the Dislrlet Fair Assiiciatioii for twenty years, iinty. He was appoinled by Cov. ,Jolin U. Tanner t'rustee of the Illinois'Ea,stern Hospital for the Insane, and ser\cd as pri>sint of that inslitiitioii fc)r eight years. He was elected on the republican ticket to the Illinois senate m is9(i. At tlu' expiration oi his term he was elected state treasurer. He was appointed a.ssistaiil treasurer of the I nited States at t hicago by President Taft in ,)ulv, lltlO. He is pri'sideiit of the First Xationai Hank of Kankakee Mr. .small ha* served the republican part\'as a memt)er of the county, state and district committees, and was a presidential elector from his district in i'.tO.S, He was a candidate for the republican nomination for governor in 11)12. Residence, Kankakee: offlces. Kankakee and Federal Bldg.. Chicago. 116 OTIS. JOSEPH EDWARD. l)anker, Chicago; b. Chicago, Mar. 5, 1867: s. Joseph Edward and Maria (Taylor) Otis; e. July 4, lsri2; ,s. f'.tistaye Ferdinand and Agnes Voigt- niann; ed. iiranunar sclils. SI. I.oui.s and Chicago; mem. III. Mfrs. .A.ssn., Cnicau'o Hldr.s. and Traders .\ssn.. < 'liicaso A.ssociation of Commerce and Hamilton Club; office, 44.')-4.')9 \V. Kriost. SANBORN, LAKE W.. Cialesburg; b. near Hrimfteld. Peoria C'o., 111.. Jan. 10, 1845; removed with his parents, David and Sophia A. Sanborn, in 18.51 to Galesburg, where he has since resided; ed. pub. sohls. and Lombard Coll. Galesburg; served ap- prentice to machinist trade; enlisted in Company n, 13!tth 111, In- fantry Volunteers, in Civil War; entered gen. insurance business in 1869. organized the Mechanics' Homestead A: Loan ..\ssn,; pro- motor of tirst street railway of the city and promotor and Hrst pres. of People's Traction Co.. running from Galesburg to Abing- don; pres. of the V. S. League of Local Building & Loan Assns., 1897-8: mayor of Galesburg UtD.^i-fi: Ma.son; mem. I. O. O. K., Elks and G. A. R.; ofTlce, Galesburg. CONKLING. CLINTON LEVERING, lawyer, Springfield; b. Spring- field. 111., I >ct.lli.l,S4:5; s. James Cook and Mercie .A. ( Le\ering) Conk- ling; A. B. \nU' Coll.. ISH4; lirsl sect.N . of National Lincoln Monu- ment .Xssn.; mem. Xal. Lincoln (Juard of Honor; adni. III. bar LStiti; subseciuently to L. S. district, circuit and supreme cts.; of firm of J. C. & C. L. Conkling, attys., till IS74; of tirm of Conkling & Grout, attys., for 15 yrs. to 1902; then of Conkling & Irwin (Ed- ward F.) till present time; candidate for circuit judge 1897; repub.; supervisor 9 vears. ISSOto I8S3, 1894-.S. 1902; corporation coun- sel of citv 1S9S 1904; mem. I. O. O. F., Masons. K. T.. K. P.; chilis, (iolf and Illini Country: mem. III. Historical Soc. local and state bar assns.; dir. Ridgely Nat. Bank. Sangamon Loan and Trust Co., Workingmen's Savings and Homestead Assn.: vice-pres. and dir. Lincoln Library: office, Springfield. 124 SABATH, A. J., lawyer, congressman, Chieaso: h. Zabori, Bohemia. Apr. 4, 1866; s. Joachim and Barbara (I'.isenschimel) Sabaih; ed. schls. of native town; removed to Chicago l.xsi; ^rad. Bryant & Stratton Bus. Coll., 188,5; LL. B. Lalic lorcsr, I'niv., 1891; justice of peace, Chicago, 189.5-7: police magi.si rate, 1S97-1907; mem. 60th, 61st and 62nd congresses (1907-1.3), .5th II!. dist.; mem. Cook Co. dem. central and e.\ec. com.; del. dem. nat. conv., 1904.; mem. Masonic order and Royal League; clubs. Iroquois, Chi- cago Press; office, 29 S. LaSalle St. CERMAK, ANTON J., aldsrman, Chicago; b. Bohemia, Mav 9, isr:5; s. .Anton and Catherine (Frank) Cermak; came to Am. with |)ari'nl,-; IS74; ihI pub. schls., Braidwood, III.; entered coal and wood business ISiiO; .secty. of the United Societies and Liberty League of III. since 190S; president Lawndale Building & Loan Assn. since 1907; dem.; mem. of the 4.3rd, 44th, 4,5th, 4fith general assemblies of III.; mem. of the city council since Apr., 1909; mem. of the democratic central com.; financial secty. and member of bd. of dir. of Sokol Chi. (Bohemian Gymnastic Societv.): dem. nomine:' baliff mu:iiclpal court, 1912; office, 112 N. La Salle St. TALBOT, JOEL FRANCIS, pres. Dolese & Rhepa-d Co . Chi- cago; b. Norwood, Mass., Oct. 19, 1850; s. Ilenrv .Alviii and Susan Ann (Wikli Talbcjl ; ed. grammar sclil. Xorwocid, uiiiil 1.5 vears old; empliocd in furniture factor\' until ISdC: wilti Dennison * Co. Boston, factory ,S(.|)t.. lsc,7-,lan.. l.stiii. and in store of hrm until Sept. 14. \siv.i- in Chicago store sain ■ tlnii Sept., 1869- Jan.. l.Sit.. when he went to tirni 's St. Louis st(ire, remaining until ,laii., I.s.stl. business being incorporated as neniii.soii Mfg. Co.; came In^S:.'^'^"*'' •''"'■• ^'^^*^'' 'lir- Apr.. I.s.sii, vice-pres., 1893, and pres. 1906 (resigned 1909); in June. 1910, became pres. and treas. Dolese & Shepard Co.; mem. Mayflower Soc, Soc. of Colonial Wars, bons of Revolution; Mason, clubs. Union Leagii.', C. A. A., South Shore, Cilen View, Builders'; ottlce, lOS S. La Salle St. FINLEY, WILLIAM HENRY, civil engr.. Chicago; b. Delaware City, Del., Jan. 22, 1862; s. William F. and Mary (McDonough) Finley; ed. pub. schls. Wilmington, Del.; in office Delaware Gazette, 1878-82; service of Edge Moor Iron Co., 1882-7; engring. C. M. & St. P. Ry. 1887-92; C. & X. W. Ry. Co., Mav 1892-190,5; engr. of bridges, 1892-1900; principal asst. engr. of bridges. 1900- 0,5, C. & N. W. Ry.; vice pres. and mgr. Widell-Finlev Co., engrs. and contractors, 1905-6; asst. chief engr. C. & N. W. Ry. since 1906; was mem. engring. corps I. N. G.. mem. Am. Soc. C. E. past pres. Western Soc. of Engrs.. Nat. Geog. Soc; club. Engineers; office. 226 W. Jackson Blvd. 125 POTTER, FRED W.. state insurance supt., Springfield; b. near Norwich. F.uti . <>i-t. 17. ISfiJ; s. .loliii Henry and .^nn (Raxtcr) Potter; calMC t(j IlliiHiis. f. S.. l.S.Sd; tauKlit in pub. scbN. ; scr\cd as CO. supt . .-iclil- i:(l\vards ( '(J., bstio n.S; in life insurance tiusincss 1898-1907; apixiinled state insurance supt. .Jan. 1. 1<»II7. reappoint- ed June, 1910; elected pres. Nat. Assn. of Insurance Commrs., Aug., 1910; mem. Masonic Order, Knights Templar; repub.; offlce, Capitol Bldg., Springfield, 111. BUCKLEY. MICHAEL C. traction expert, Chicago; b. Ireland, 1862; driver on old horse-car route on Indiana Ave.; when electri- city superseded the horse he became motorman; organized street ear men into a unicjii in 1S99; elected pres.; re-elected same offlce until duties of present position compelled him to resign as union leader, although he still maintains interest in its affairs; offlce City Hall. HEALY, WILLIAM J., real estate. Chicago; b. Chicago. .\Ia\ : 1871; s. William and Margaret (Trann Healy: ed. pub. scti and business coll., Kent Coll. of Law; engaged in real estate scj after entering business; elected aid., l.sth ward, 1910, on repul can ticket; mem. Elks, Nat. Union, Eagles, 111. Club; offlce, 7 W. Madison St. ARENDT. FRANK, iinpirlii 1 hIk - tailor and furrier. Chicago; b. (Jcrniaiu. Feb. Is. 1 s( s ~ \ii \ irid r and .\nna (Sianck) .Arendt; ed. pull, si-hls. CeriniiiN li iri](cl i nloring in iuiti\-c land; came to Chicago 1.S72 as cutlci md hitij Parisian Fashion Co.: with Alaska Fur and Tailoring ( o 1 S9J w hen he started in business for himself; Mason, Shrmer Knight lemplar; mem. Assn. of Com- merce; offlce, 402 He\v\orth HIdg 12(i ARNOLD, WILLIAM G.. mfr. and banker, (.■liicaKo; b. West Columbia, W. Va., May 23, 1856; s. George Wil' and ."^arah (Zink) Arnold: ed. Monongalia Academy. Univ. West \a. at Morgan- town, W. Va., Knox Coll. (Galesburg, 111.); benan career in real e.state and Insurance 1876; located in Chicago 1886 with A. B. Dick Co., of which now dir., secty. and mgr. ; assisted organization 1909 Sneridan Trust & Savings Bank, of which he is vice-pres. and dir.; sect v.. treas. and dir. Carmangav Farm Co.; 32 degree Mason; clubs, C. A. A., Midlothian, South Shore; office, 730-738 W. Jackson Blvd. OUINN, FRANK J., lawyer, Peoria: b. Chicago, Jan. 2:i, 1866; s. Michael C. and Mary (Hurley) Quinn; ed. German and pub. schls., Peoria, and St. Viateur's Coll.; adm. to bar 1892; now in firm of Quinn, Quinn & McGrath; mem. Peoria schl. bd. several terms; trustee pub. library; as.st. state's atty. Peoria co., 1892-6; mem. democratic state central com. 1892-1908; office, Jefferson Bldg., Peoria. KOLACEK, WILLIAM, nicrrliant Chicago; pres. West Chicago Park bd; b. Boheiriia. Icli, 2n. 1867; s. Vaclav and Marie Kola- cek; came to Chicagd with parents when 18 months old; ed. pub. schls.; at age 12 started to earn living as cash boy; 1889 opened store at 18th. St. and Blue Island Ave., which he developed; since 1906 also mem. of firm of Kolacek & Melichar, in Lincoln Ave.; Mason; mem. I. O. O. F.. Royal League, Illinois Club, Chicago Assn. of Commerce and Bohemian Soc; special park comm.; office, 2030 Milwaukee Ave. BLIS.S, ELIAKIM RAYMOND. law\-er, Chicaiio; li, .Xcw Bruns- wick. X, .1 . Sept. 3. 1846; s. Rev. (icorm- Hiplf.\ and Mary A. (Ru\Tii(.n(li Bliss; ed. old Univ. of Clii., Cnix . of l.cwisburg. Pa., M. A.: Columbian Univ., LL. B.; lived in Chicago since 1S63; adm. bar 1873; county atty. Cook Co. 1882-4, 1886-9; gen. counsel and dir. Chicago City Ry. Co.; Mason; one of 3 Masons to carry out plan of erecting Masonic Temple in Chicago; judge advocate gen. I. N. G. 1897; retired 1911 with rank of brig, gen.; mem. Chicago Bar Assn.; Western Economical Soc; clubs. Union League, South Shore; office, 1st Nat. Bank Bldg. 127 OBERT WOOLSTON HUNT, one of Chicago's leading engineers, was born at Fallsington, Bucks County, Pa., Dec. 9, 1838, the son of Dr. Robert A. and Martha L. (Wool- ston) Hunt. He received his early education in the public schools of Covington, Ky., and later worked in a rolling mill at Pottsville, Pa., where he learned in a practical way puddling, heating, rolling, etc. He studied analytical chemistry in Philadelphia and during the years 1850-60 was chemist of the Cambria Iron Company. In 1860 he enlisted as a private in the Pennsjdvania vohmteers and was promoted to sergeant in 1861. From 1861 to 1865 he was captain in command of Camp Curtin at Harrisburg, Pa. He was superintendent of a steel works at Wyandotte, Mich., during 1865 and 1866, representing the Cambria Iron Company. He was con- nected with the Cambria Iron company from 1866 to 1873, and from 1873 to 1875 with John A. Griswold & Company of Troy, N. Y. The years from 1875 to 1888 were spent with the Troy Steel & Iron Company. Since 1888 Mr. Hunt has been the senior member of the firm of Robert W. Hunt & Company, consulting, inspecting engineers, etc., with principal offices in Chicago and branches in New York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto, Mexico City, Mex., and London, England. He is distinguished especially as a metallurgical engineer and has written for scientific societies many papers on the metal- lurgy and manufacture of steel. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, of which he was president in 1883-4 and 1905-6, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, of which he was president in 1891, the Western Society of Engineers, of which he was president in 1893, the British Iron & Steel Company, the Society of Mechanical Engineers of England, the Institute of Civil Engineers and the Canadian Society of Engineers. He was awarded the John Faitz medal in 191''2 for services in connection with the development of the Bessemer process for making steel. He is a member of the following clubs: Chicago. Mid-Day, I. A. C, Chicago Engineers', South Shore, Saddle and Cycle, Chicago Golf, Glen View (pres.) of Chicago, Engineers' of New York and Duquesne of Pittsburg. His office is in The Rookerv. 128 r^/V _ _3 jj r3 ^ M ?t r: >- >i OJ « is -1-' T *i :-'^ — s ^ - .-. irj'^-^ >'-■=- 5 3 £ =3 Z o >~;: i. 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He began the study of law at Dover, N. H., and in 1867 removed to Iowa. He was private Secretary to Governor Merrill of that state in 1868 and 1869. In the latter year he was appointed consul at Tunstall, England, by President Grant, remaining there until 1871, when he returned to Iowa, was ad- mitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Des Moines. In 1875 he was elected reporter of the supreme court of Iowa, and edited eighteen volumes of the court's decisions, while also attending to his regular practice. His standing as a practitioner was recognized by his appointment by President Arthur in 1881 as United States District Attorney for Iowa, his service in that capacity continuing for four years. He was a prominent figure in republican politics in Iowa, being chairman of the state central committee from 1879 to 1880; delegate to the republican national conven- tion in 1880, and member of the republican national committee, 1880 to 1884. In 1887, he removed to Chicago, and in 1888 became general counsel of the Pullman Company. In May, 1905, he was elected vice-president of that company, filling that office imtil May, 1911, when he was elected president, which position he now holds. Mr. Runnells has long been well known as an after-dinner speaker, and as an orator upon political occasions, but he has withdrawn entirely from public speaking. He is the senior member of the law firm of Runnells, Bm-ry & Johnstone, Chicago, although not in active practice. Mr. Runnells was married March 31, 1869, to Helen R. Baker. They have four children — Mabel (Mrs. Robert I. Jenks), Lucy (Mrs. A. A. Jackson), Clive, and Alice Rutherford. Mr, Runnells has been president of the Chicago Club continuously since 1907. He is also president of the Saddle and Cycle Club, and is a member of the Chicago Literary, Union, University and Onwentsia clubs of Chicago, and of the LTniversity Club of New York City. 144 V tJ^ BUTLER, GEORGE FRANK, Cook county physician, aullior. C'liica«o; li. Moravia. X. V., Mar. 15. 1S5( : s. Isaac and A.senath (C'liase) Fiutler; grad. Baldwin Acad., Clroton, X. V., 1.S74: pharmacist, Pittsfleld, Mass., 1874 -9; in sheep and drug business southwestern Kan., 187S-.Sr.; M. 1). Kusli Med. Coll.. Chicago, 1889; (hon. A.M. Valparaiso Univ., Ind., 1908) ;, lecturer med. pharmacy and materia luedica. Rush Med. Coll., 1889-92; prof, materia medica. therapeutics and clin. medicine. Northwestern Univ. Women's Med. Schl., 1890-6: Coll. Phys. and Surg., Chicago, 1892-1906; prof, medicine. Dearborn Med. Coll., 1905-6; prof, internal medicine, Chicago Post-Grad. Med Schl.. 1905-7; med. supt. Alma Springs Sanitarium, Alma, Mich., 1900-5; prof, and head of the dept. therapeutics and prof, of preventive medicine, Chicago Coll. of Medicine and Surgery (Valparaiso Univ.), 1906-11; pres. faculu and prof. disea.ses of the kidneys and of the disgestive system; Practitioners Coll., Chicago, since 1911; was coiisultiTiu- phvs. Frances Willard Hosp; mem. A. M. A., Am. Acad. Medicine, Am. Therapeutic Soc, Miss. Valley Med. Assn., 111. State Med. Soc, Mich. State Med. Soc, Chicago Pathol. Soc, Physicians and Therapeutic clubs, fellow Chicago Acad. Medicine; clubs. Press. Wilmette Country, Cliff Dwellers, city. Business Men's Prosperity, Empire State Society; author. Text-book of Materia Medica; Therapeutics and Pharmacology, 1896: Love and Its Affinities, 1890; Materia Medica and Therapeutics: (Practical Medicine series of Year-Book), 1892; The Isle of Content, 1902; The Exploits of a Physician Detective, 1907; Sonnets of the Heart, 1909; Treasures of Trust, 1909; Songs of the Heart, 1910; Echoes of Petrarch; residence, Wilmette, 111. 145 STELK, JOHN, lawyer, Chicago; b. Chicago, Sept. 10, 1875: s. William and Mary (Kraase) Stelk; ed. parochial schls., bus. coll. and evening schls. until 1893; read law in offlce.s of King & Gross; LL. B. Chicago Coll. of Law, 1896; adm. to 111. bar, 1896; since practiced in Chicago; specializes in real estate, chancery and probate law; since Dec. 1910, atty. for sheriff of Cook Co.; dem.; candidate for judge municipal court of Chicago, 1908; mem. Chicago Bar Assn., Lawyers' Assn. of Chicago, Chicago Law Inst., 111. Bar Assn.. Concordia League; office, Reap- er Blk. 146 '^^^el'?S^!fi£'htoK''fJl-^^^^^^ Chicago, Nov. 1. 1871: has been employed in advance from a minor position "o chief cferf of the bolrdre^^^^^^^ °i° ''"^"■^ '« '899; made stead? member board of assessors; offlce, County Bldg °'^^'^'^- republican; nommated at primaries Apr. 9, 1912, for 147 STEPHENS. MALBERN MONROE, "al estate and investMs of Eas\St^Louis was borf,*;5,^bingdon C^^^^ and the City National Bank. He is also ' "T' 'L , ,V, t-nC 'i A: Mnii ik Co.. and president of the Mi o ReaiU & Cairo R. R.. director andvice-president " ' "'.^ '' 'Vs m 7 was e .'Ued ald^^^ in 1878 and 18S4 elected & Investment Co., St. Louis He was P;{?^.'"astei >" 1^-*^ ' '^'^^'^ serving in all fourteen years He is a mem- mayor in 1887 and re-elected 1889 1891, 1893. 189'. 1899 anlji-'"^^^''ing Merchants Assn.; clubs. Commercial. E?faLfr-C^outt^y"offlc^.-3^lA'lL^ur?Afe..^E.'st^Louis.- ' 148 Mason, afterwards entering the firm of John Mnhr * q^n nf whT„i? W ^h commenced business with Carlisle manager of their south worls'. Mr°^I°oVris a membet o^he WinS pTk L^le^T F^lf ff'^sTnaT cfaofe?' 149 STEAD, WILLIAM HENRY, Mttnriio -Kciii'ial of Illinois, was born in La Salle Co., 111., June 12, IS.-^S. He is the son ol ll('iir\ :iii(l .-^aiali l.liZMlictli (Hiail) Sicad. He received his early education in the ccn mon schools, later atii-Tiilini,' < luariia >( iiiiiiar,\ , and ^iill later taking a course at Asbury (now EePauw) Vniver.sity. He was admitted to the bar in issa and for ten j cars jjiacticed in Ottawa. There was an interim in 1S94 and 1895 in which he was the assistant general attorney of the Reck Island Railway at Chicago, but in 1895 he returned to Ottawa and practiced until 1905. Mr Stead is a republican. He was at one lime city attorney of Ottawa, later between the years 1896 and 1900, becoming states attorney of LaSalle county. He was elected attorney- general of Illinois in 1904 and re-elected in 1908. He is a member of A. F. * A. M.. I. O. O. F., B. P. O. E.: club. Union League of Chicago; office, Springfield. 150 RIDGWAY, A. C, railway official, of Chicago, was born at Water Gap, Pa., April 16, 1S60, and after attending school at Lawrence, Kans., for twelve years, entered the employ of the Union Pacific Railway, filling various positions For two years he was with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas in the drafting department, after which he went with the Denver & Rio Grande, where he served from 1881 until 1896 as clerk, trainmaster and assistant supenntendent. In 1890 Mr. Ridgway became general superintendent of the Florence & Cripple Creek, and in 1899 was made general manager of the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway. The latter po.sitlon he resigned to become vice-president and general manager of the Denver, Xorthwestern & Pacific, which position he held until 1902, when he returned to the Denver & Rio Grande as general manager. In January, 1910, Mr. Ridgway became assistant second vice-president of the Chicago. Rock Lsland & Pacific, which ofHce he held till the death of F. O. Melcher, when he was chosen as second vice-president with offices at Chicago. 151 '^DAVARD TILDEN, packer and banker, of Chicago, was horn at Utica, N. Y., June 17, 1855, the son of Ithiel D. and Margaret (Averill) Tihlen. His education was received in the pubHc schools of Delavan, Wis. As a youth, he entered a general store in Delavan and after gaining rudimentary business experience he moved to Chicago, where he became a bookkeeper in the wholesale hardware store of Brint- nall. Lamb & Company. He entered the service of the Drovers' National Bank, at the Union Stock Yards, in 1883, and was assistant cashier in 1897. He was treasurer of Libby, McNeill & Libby, packers, from 1897 to 190'-2, and has been president, treasurer and director of the same company since 1902. He also is president of the Drovers' Deposit National Bank, the Na- tional Packing Company and the Anglo-American Provision Company. He is treasurer and director of the Sioux City, la., stock yards, and director of the St. Louis Stock Yards, the Drovers Trust and Savings Bank and many other corporations. Mr. Tilden is an active farmer, and is proprietor of the Tilden Farms, at Delavan, Wis. He is a democrat, and at one time was active in local politics. He was school treasurer of the towns of Hyde Park and Lake for several years previous to their annexation to Chicago. He was a member and president of the Chicago board of education during 1900-6, and has been a member of the South Park commissioners since 1910. He belongs to the Union League, South Shore, Bankers' and Kenwood clubs. His offices are at the I^nion Stock Yards and "209 So. La Salle St. 152 w EDWARD TILDEN SHEDD, W. J., first vice-pres. and gen. mgr. Knickerbocker Ice Co.. Chicago; b. Deep River, Ind., Dec. 1/, 1^.dJ. s. William Henrv and Josephine (Blachley) Shedd: acad. edn. Oberlin (O.) C^oll.; entered employ of Knicker- bocker Ice Co. in 1877, with which has since been identified, becoming a member of the firni 1885; asst. to gen. mgr 1885-98; gen. supt. 1898-1905; 1st vice-pres., dir. and gen. mgr. since 190o; organized Matagalpa Cottee Co 1892, of which has since been pres.; also vice-pres. and dir. the Consumers Co.; sec.-treas.,dir. Kendall Ice Cream Co.; pres. Chicago Coal Washing Co.; dir. Ottumwa Pure Ice Co.; repub.; Mason (32d, Shriner); office, 39 S. La Salle St. 153 KRUTTSCHNITT, JULIUS. i:iil«:i\ nili.ial, ('lii<'at:fi: Ik .\( « < >i I ii^ Iul\ 10 lS-)4 s Jcihii iiid Penima (Ben- jamin) Kruttschnitt; C. E. \V;isl]ii]t;tMii iiiul Lee Univ., 1873 a'^-i ii < nl w ilium Ml in pi in M ipDonoughschl., nr. Baltimore. 1S73-8; residenl cm;!-.. In charge of constrn. ISTs sii undin islir u tst( rn (li\ IssO l.abbt chief engr. and gen. roadmaster, lSSl-3; chief engr. and supt., 1883 issj M(ii.,iii^Li A. U\ K H a^st gen mgr., S. P.'s Atlantic system (lines east of El Paso, Tex.), 1885-9, gen. mgr. .>,ame, 1889-95, gen. mgr. of all lines of S. P. Co., with headquarters at San Francisco, 1895-1904: 4th vice-pres. same since Apr. 7, 1898: asst. to pres. same, 1901-4; dir. of maintenance and operation U, P. R. R., Ore. Short Line R. R.. also Oregon Ry. & Xav. Co. and Southern Pacific Co. since April 1, 1904; also pres. V. P. Coal Co.; mem. Internat. Ry. Congress, Am. Ry. Engring and Maintenance of Way Assn.; clubs, Burlingame (Cal.) Country, Pacific Union (San Francisco), Boston (New Orleans), Chicago, Union League, Glen View Country, University, Mid-Day (Chicago); oflflce, 112 W. Adams St. 154 HURST, ELMORE VV., lawyer. Rock Island, has lived in that eity all his life, having been l)orn there, Dec. 6, 1851. He is the son of William and Anna (Hurloek) Hurst, and received his education in the pubUc schools of his native city. He was admitted to the bar in 1S8.S. Since that time he has been lawyer, banker, owner and developer of exten.slve acreages of improved farm lands in Nebraska and South Dakota. Mr. Hurst is a dem- ocrat and he was elected a member of the 26th and 41st general assemblies of Illinois. He was temporary and permanent chairman of the state democratic convention which was held in Springfield in 1900: clubs, Iroquois and Press (Chicago), Rock Island, Rock Island Arsenal Golf, Davenport Commercial; office, Robinson Bldg., Rock Island. 155 CREIGH, THOMAS, lawyer, t'hica«o, was born on Aumist 8, 1S7:5. He is a graduate of Princeton University, having received the degree of A. B. at that institution in 1894. Following his college course he studied law at the Univers ty of Nebrasl; asso. professor economics Vanderbilt I'niv., l.SS8~92. and I'niv. of Chi.. 1.S92 .'>: supt. Cleveland water dept.. 1901-9; has been emplo>cd as pub. utility expert in inan.\- cities; mem. Am. Economic .\ssn.. .\m. Statistical .Assn., Ohio Soc. Civil and Mech. Engrs.; clubs. City (N. Y.) Reform (\. Y.): office. City Hall. 16(i WOLF, ADAM. mem. board of assessors. Chicago; b. Stadecken. Germany. Jan. 5. 1857; s. Nicholas and Marianna (Zimmerman) Wolf; came with parents to U. S. In 1864, settling in Chicago; ed. pub. sehls. Chi.: repub.; elected west town collector 1893, elected city treas. for term 189.5-7; elected 1898, 1902 and 1908 (for 6-year term mem. of bd of assessors Cook co.; long active in repub. politics as mem. of co. and state corns.; ofHce, County Bldg. KUNZE, L. G., of Chicago, has been in retail fruit business for more than 30 years. For 20 \cars he was located at 60 state St. He is a member of the Am. ( icographical Soc. and several fralcrnal or- ganizations. He is a life member of the Chicago .\rt Institute and has been identified with the Chicago Civic Federation and the Chi- cago Association of Commerce. He is interested in the Chicago Horticultural Society. His present business address is 18 E. Randolph St. SITTS, LEWIS D., commission merchant. ('hieat;(i; 1). C'auKbdunay, X. Y.. July. 1861: s. Geo. H. and Eliza (Walls) Sitts; ed. pub. schls. Chi.; with firm of H. P. Stanley Co.. comm. luerchLinis, 1878- 93: since then in business for sell under name of Howlaud & Sitts; repub.; elected alderman of 17th ward 1903 and served continu- ously since: mem. R. L., A. F. & A. M.: office, address, 19 E. S. Water St. J> REDMOND. .\NDREW J., lawyer, Chicago: b. Philadelphia, Pa., 1S64; came lu 111 1S71; ed. pub. schl. De Kalb, No. 111. Normal schl. and Xcirtlnvestern Univ. law schl.; taught schl. in Ogle Co.: adm. 111. bar isiil: atty. for Barrington 7 yrs.. Forest Park 3 yrs., " Wauconda 3 yrs.. River Grove 2 yrs.. 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I; - = -^ s ■* o< t ' -?o . 1 174 -: = - ~--< &sl.i5l§6 i . 3 v: IJ >t» .- 1^1 1 Jii J X [Av - ;^: -- 5 z ,:-■ ;: -s „-°-^ •- = -1-3 . 05..N-X -=.J- o 175 y'M Ik/ Wi m> ^ ILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, one of the leaders of Chicago political, business and social life, was born in Boston, Mass., May 14, 1869, the son of William Hale and Medora (Gale) Thompson. He was brought by his parents to Chicago in his infancy and was educated in the public schools, the Fes- senden preparatory school and the Metropolitan Bvisiness College. He spent several years on cattle ranches in Wyoming and Montana, and when his father's death recalled him to Chicago during his twenty- first year, he was the owner of a ranch in western Nebraska stocked with 6,000 head of cattle. He has been in active charge of the Thompson Estate for twenty-two years, and is one of the best-informed men in the city on Chicago real estate. Mr. Thompson is a republican and served in the council as alderman from the second ward during 1900 and 1901. He was instrumental in the passage of the city ordinance for the establishment for the first Chicago children's free playground, at Wabash Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street. He was elected county commissioner in 1902 and served two years. Mr. Thompson has been active in the world of sports. For two seasons, 1895 and 1896, he was captain of the Chicago Athletic /Association football team, which, in the latter year, carried off the championship honors of the United States among athletic clubs. He is noted as a yachtsman and owns and sails the "Valmore, " which has won the 331-mile race from Chicago to Mackinac Island three times during the past four years. He was, for many years, a member of the Chicago Athletic Association water polo team. In 1904, with four associates, Mr. Thompson organized the Illinois Athletic Club. He negotiated a ninety-nine j^ear lease on the site which the club's building occupies in Michigan Avenue and financed the building of the million-dollar club house. He was the first president of the club, and served in that capacity for four years. His office is at 38 South Dear- born Street. 176 PAYNE, JOHN BARTON, lawyer. Chicago, was born at Pruntytown. Va.. Jan. 26, 1855: the son of Dr. Amos and Elizabeth B. (Smith) Payne. He was eduoated at private schools, 1860-70, and admitted to the bar in 1876. Mr. Payne began his law practice at Kingwood, Preston Co., W. Va., in 1877, and continued in the profession there until 1882. He was chairman of the democratic committee of Preston Co.. 1877-82: special judge circuit court, Tucker Co., W. Va., 1880: and mayor of Kingwood, 1882. Judge Payne removed to Chicago in 1883 and was engaged here in practice of law until 1893, when he was elected on democratic ticliet judge of superior court for Cool5 county, his term expiring in 1898. He has been senior member of the firm of Winston, Payne. Strawn & Shaw since 1903 and was elected pres. Bd. of South Park Commrs., March Ifi. 1911. He was president of the Chicago Law Institute in 1889. Judge Payne h.as been one of the leading figures In public life of Chicago for many years and prominently identified with civic and reform movements: clubs. Union League, Chicago, LTnion, Law, Chicago Golf, Caxton, P'orty, Mid-Day and Wayfarers: office. First Nat. Bank Bldg. 177 ENJAMIN LA FON WINCHELL, president of Frisco Rail- way Lines, Chicago; b. Palmyra, Mo., July 8, 1858; s. Joseph C. Rice and Kate Anna (LaFon) Winchell; ed. ward and high school, Hannibal, Mo. Mr. Winchell entered the railway ser- vice in July, 1873, and since that time has been in the operat- ing, auditing, mechanical, traffic, and executive departments of most of the leading lines of the West, as follows: July, 1873, to 1875, clerk in office super- intendent machinery, and, 1875 to 1877, clerk in auditor's office Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad; Nov. '27, 1877, to Dec. 31, 1878, chief clerk in general freight and ticket office, and, Jan. 1, 1879, to March '21, 1880, assistant general passenger agent Atchison & Nebraska Railroad; April 1 to June 1, 1880, chief clerk general passenger department Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Gulf and Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Kansas railroads; July 1, 1880, to June 1, 188*2, assistant general passenger and ticket agent same roads; June 1, 188*2, to May 1, 1895, assistant general passenger and ticket agent Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Memphis and Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham railroads; May 1, 1895, to May 1, 1898, general passenger and ticket agent Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf and Denver, Leadville & Gunnison railways ; May 1 to Dec. 1, 1898, general passenger agent St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad; Dec. 1, 1898, to Oct. 15, 1900, vice-president and traffic manager Colorado & Southern Railway; Oct. 15, 1900, to Aug. 15, 1902, president and general manager Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Memphis System; Aug. 15, 1902, to Oct. 15, 1903, vice-president and general manager St. Louis & San Francisco System; Oct. 15, 1903, to April 5, 1904, first vice-president St. Louis & San Francisco System, third vice-president Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, and vice-president Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, and Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad; April 6, 1904, to Dec. 3, 1909, president Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Dec. 3, 1909, to date, president Frisco Lines; clubs, St. Louis, St. Louis Country, St. Louis Racquet, Denver (Denver), Kansas City Country, Pickwick (New Orleans), Railroad, Automobile of America (New York), Union League, C. A. A., Midlothian, Onwentsia, Exmoor, South Shore, Automobile, Saddle and Cycle, Glen View, Chicago Golf; office, La Salle Station. 178 HOTO COPYRIGHTED BY OANA HUl L, CHICAGO H. L. WINCHELL 179 LFRED STROMBERG, of Chicago, manufacturer of tele- phone apparatus, was horn near Stockhohii, Sweden, fifty 3^ears ago. His father was a pioneer Swedish manufacturer of threshing machines and other farming implements, and x\lfred, early in life, showed an aptitude for mechanical contrivances. He began work in electrical plants of his native country and in Denmark and became grounded in the fundamentals of electricity and especially of telephone building. He assisted in the test of the first Bell telephone instruments sent to Stockholm and from 1870 to 1880 did considerable work on the installation of telephone exchanges there. Later he had charge of the installation of exchanges throughout the northern peninsular and Denmark. He came to the Ignited States in 1883 and began as a workman for the Bell company. For five years he was employed in the instrument depart- ment of the Bell company in Chicago, and during that time he perfected a number of inventions. He later worked for the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, installing lighting systems in Chicago, this employment being followed by his appointment as superintendent of the Chicago Protective Company's burglar alarm system. On the date of the expiration of the fundamental patents on the tele- phone receiver, Mr. Stromberg started the development of independent telephone apparatus. He was the controlling spirit in the organization of the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company. It was said to be due to the evolution by this firm of the central energy system to com- pete with the common battery system that made the independent telephone business profitable and opened the door for the establishment of the 25,000 separate locally owned companies operating more than 5,000,000 telephones in the United States. Mr. Stromberg has large interests in Cul)an plan- tations and in various other enterprises. He is at the head of the Strom- berg Electric Company and is also interested in the Simplex Manufacturing Company. He has a beautiful home at 544*2 Sheridan Road, Chicago. 180 ALFRED STROMBERG 181 ALTER CLYDE JONES, lawyer and state senator of Chicago, was born at Pilot Grove, Li., Dec. 27, 1870, the son of Jonathan and Sarah (BiifRngton) Jones. He received his early educa- tion in the grammar and high schools at Keokuk, la.; next he attended the Iowa State College at Amies, la., where he graduated with the degree of B. M. E., later receiving the honorary degree of M. E. He took a course at the Chicago College of Law% graduating in 1894, and in 1895 he graduated from Lake Forest LTniversity, with the degree of LL. B. In 1896 he began practicing law in Chicago. In 1897 he formed a partnership, under the style of Ludington & Jones; this firm continued until 1899, when the firm of Jones & Addington was formed; later Mr. Ames l)ecame a member, and thereafter Mr. Seibold was admitted, the title becoming Jones, Addington, Ames & Seibold, having offices both in Chicago and New York City. The Chicago office is situated at No. 105 West Monroe Street, and the New York office at "2 Rector Street. Mr. Jones was elected state senator from the Hytle Park district on the republican ticket in 1906, and was re-elected in 1910. From 1907 to 1909 he was a member of the Chicago charter convention. In the special session of 1908 he introduced and led the fight for the enactment of the first direct primary law in Illinois, and when this law was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court he rewrote the law to meet the objections of the supreme court and led the fight in the legislature which resulted in the re-enactment of the law. Mr. Jones was made chairman of the republican steering committee and floor leader of the senate during the session of 1909 and the special session of 1910. In the session of 1911 he was chairman of the senate executive committee and republican floor leader. He is the author (conjointly with K. H. Addington) of "Jones & Addington's Annotated Statutes of Illinois," also of the "Encyclopedia of Illinois Laws." He is the editor (conjointly with K. H. Addington) of the "Appellate Court Reports of Illinois." Mr. Jones is treasurer and a director of the Benjamin Electric Mfg. Co. and vice-president and a director of the Stromberg Electric Company. He is a member of the following clubs: I^nion League, University, Hamil- ton, City, Press, Quadrangle, Kenwood and Homewood, all of Chicago, and of the Cosmos of Washington, D. C, of the Lawyers' of New York City, the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, the American Society of Me- chanical Engineers of New A'ork, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chi- cago Bar Association, and was lately president of the Chicago Electrical Association. 182 WALTER CLYDE JOXES 183 I^REAT projects of river and lake improvement have marked the development of Chicago and other cities on Lake Michi- gan and the other great lakes, and as a consequence large companies, capable of handling immense contracts, have grown up. Among these is the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, of which William Anthony Lydon is the president. Mr. Lydon was born in Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 9, 1863. He was the son of Michael B. and Anna (Hopkins) Lydon. He went through the courses of the grammar and high schools and received the degree of B. M. at Lehigh L^niversity, at South Bethlehem, Pa., in 1886 and the degree of E. M., in 1887. After his graduation, Mr. Lydon came to Chicago and entered the service of the city as a civil engineer. He was employed on several big improvement projects from 1887 to 1890 and in 1891 was one of the organizers of the Lydon & Drews Companj^ general river and harbor contrac- tors. He was a member of that company from 1891 until 1904, when it was merged with other large firms in a similar line of endeavor into the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, of which he has been president since its formation. Mr. Lydon is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Western Society of Engineers and Delta Upsilon fraternity. His clul)s include the South Shore, the L'oquois, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Chicago Engineers', the Chicago Yacht and the Columbia Yacht. In ])olitics he is a democrat. His office is in the Monroe Bldg., Chicago. The plant owned and operated by the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company includes 35 dredges, 36 tugs and steamboats, 180 deck and dump scows, 6 large drill })oats for drilling and blasting submarine rock, 40 shore and floating pile drivers, 50 shore and floating derricks. If the equip- ment of the company were collected and placed end to end, it would extend in a line more than four miles. iVmong the works completed or now under way by the (iReat Lakes Drp:dge & Dock Company in Chicago are the dredging of the outer harbor basin, the construction of the Chicago outer lighthouse and the construction of the concrete superstructure on the north pier. This company has constructed almost every bridge spanning the Chicago river. 184 W. A. LYDON 185 ILLIAM KISSACK, civil engineer and contractor of Chicago, was born in Liverpool, England, May 15, 1859, the son of Thomas Kissack, a well-known English architect. Mr. Kissack's early education was received at the Hollybank school, Birkdale, Lancashire, from which he went to the engineering school of Liverpool University College. After getting his college degree, Mr. Kissack practiced his profession for seven years in England, paying particular attention to sewerage. He was also engaged on coast defense work and in different branches of the government ordnance survey under the officers of the cor])s of royal en- gineers. Chicago attracted Mr. Kissack, and he moved to the metropolis of the West in 1883. He was associated with John A. Cole as assistant engineer on municipal work in the suburbs around Chicago and in the construction of the long tunnel under the bed of Lake Michigan for the Hyde Park waterworks. He joined the engineering department of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, in 1884, and in that capacity served two years. During 1886-7 he was employed with the Chicago West Division Railway and during 1887-8-9 was engaged in the construction of the line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad from Kansas City to Chicago. Mr, Kissack was town engineer of Cicero in 1889 and 1890 antl in the latter year became a member of the firm of Kissack & j\Iuir, contractors. This connection lasted until 1895, when he entered the contracting business for himself. He became paving superintendent for the Dolese & Shepard Company and organized and managed the Union Paving Company for that company until 1902. From 1902 to 1910 Mr. Kissack was president and general manager of the American Crushed Stone Company, and for the last two years he has been in the paving and general contracting business for himself. He is a Mason and an Elk and a life member of the Chicago Press Club. He was married in Chicago on Jan. 11, 1886, to Julia Cecilia Buechner of Pfungstadt, Germany. Office, Cluiml)er of Commerce Bldg. 18(3 WILLIAM KISSACK 187 RODE BEDFORD DAVIS, of the Chicago bar, was born at Lewis, la., on Jan. 15, 18(58, tlie son of Mahlon J. and Pris- cilla K (Shnman) Davis. He graduated from the University of Iowa and graduated with the degree of LL. B. from the University of Michigan, in 1890. ]Mr. Davis was admitted to the bar in Illinois and Michigan in 1890, and from 189*2 to 1900 was a member of the Chicago law firm of Walker & Davis. Later he was an office associate of Frank O. Lowden, and Frederick R. Babcock and associated with John M. Rankin. Mr. Davis has been prominent in some of the most important litigation before the courts in Chicago in recent years, notably the celebrated packers' "immunity bath" case. He also has been before the supreme court of the United States in several railroad cases of great importance. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and of the following clubs; LTnion League, L^niversity, Calumet, Mid-Day. Illinois Athletic, Hamilton, City, Chicago Law and the Chicago Athletic Association. Mr. Davis was connected with the aldermanic graft investigation in Chicago as special counsel of the investigating committee. He has not achieved prominence in the practice of law alone, but has made a success of several business undertakings. He is a director of the Mahin Advertising Agency, of Chicago, and also is president of the Battle Creek Breakfast Food Company, Limited. Mr. Davis has taken leading part in republican politics in Chicago. His office is at 108 S. La Salle St. 188 HENRY A. BLAIR 191 LBERT J. EARLING, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, has worked his way to the top from a beginning made as agent at a small Wisconsin station of the road of which he is now the head. Mr. Earling was born at Richfield, Wis., Jan. 19, 1849. At the age of seventeen he had had a common school education and had taken up the study of telegraphy. He began his service with the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul company as telegraph operator in 1866 at the station at Watertown, Wis. He served as telegrapher and train dispatcher nine years, assistant superintendent four years, division superintendent two years, from 188'2 to 1884, and was assistant general superintendent from 1884 to 1888. Promotion to general superintendent followed and Mr. Earling served in that capacity until 1890. He was general manager from 1890 to 1899 and second vice-president from 1895 to 1899. He has occupied the position of president since September, 1899. Under Mr. Earling's direction, the Pacific coast extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway was projected and built, giving the road access direct to western tidewater. His office is in the Railway Exchange Building. Mr. Earling's success as a railroad man is attributed by his friends and colleagues to his untiring devotion to duty, no problem being too involved to be solved and no barrier too high to be surmounted. An unusual power of mental concentration and a splendid physique, making him capable of withstanding long periods of physical labor without fatigue, have con- tributed to his rise. These qualities were thoroughly tested when the Pacific coast extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road was carried to completion. Mr. Earling followed the work step by step, from the earliest beginning, and no feature of it, from the smallest detail to the most gigantic of the engineering feats, escaped hs personal attention and direction. 192 '5 • 3 cite o -o-*;'^ ^ ace i' . --<^-s'. -• i ; r^ . o" S a .= = -"g^J ■ «>§■- Q, t j^'.<^-35 ci:=_;^ = ]£ 5-5=5 'Cc-.S'oSZtK'r xxo3— ■S c = ''-;= ^ a - ~ ? ~ / 3 =3 - ~ — :i = a oaf >--3'^r= = o - 193 .S: .- _ :j £ - 2 > o . ■-S— .«« ;- ^^ < o Cm 0) X 09 194 fa •■ -C? ■ '._'•= r £ '^ • " "C -- o o :f-A-^ ':z r.Z'-'- •; ■^'^ ^^^tz^.^^ -"—"" = ij 3 ■ z'^e "H . - — 2 ° ■ ■^ .'.'/ oi ws; ■^ — ^ ' o"2 195 1 1^ 2.S5 ".-It. 196 ^fi o"o ,— - -_ c ! 7^ - - o ■ ~/ - ^ a. ^ ~i^ 7 5 St- ^ - = = ^oi;o ^ -^ ^ = uw a> '■^ ^ O cjO c> 2 s Is S t: '*— X 197 ■ = ■- § ^ ■ - 5S"^ - .-' -^^ - ^ "a _ 2 J c c- "-=^iiiji| ■7 ~f — " .:: rt S .0! 198 .•,- - 3-. a J- ■ -— OJ • ■::- = c - '''- 2 = c iii^ ■^ '"'5 3 '5 >.kx ,"9 .- d „ wZr5 .is- 2-= -1 3 O O 2 = ? o J c3 r > 199 COPLEY, IRA CLIFTON, representative in congress, of Aurora, was born in Knox county, Oct. 25, 1864. His family moved to Aurora in 1867 and he attended the public schools of that city, graduating from the West Aurora high school in 1881. He prepared for college at Jennings Seminary. Aurora, and graduated from Yale College in 1887, with the degree of B. A. He graduated from the Union College of Law. Chicago, in 1889 and has been connected with the gas and electric light business of Aurora and the Fox river valley. He is the owner of the Aurora Daily Beacon and the Elgin Daily Courier. He was elected to congress on the republican ticlcet in 1910 and renominated at the primaries, April 9, 1912. Address, Aurora, 111. 200 MULLIKEN, ALFRED HENRY, pres. Pettibone, Mulliken & Co., Chicago; b. Augusta Me.. Dec. 11, 1853; son Charles H. and Sarah (Hallest) Mulliken; ed. pub. schools of Me.; in employ of Crerar, Adams & Co., ry sup- plies, 1868-80; in business for self, 1880-5; sold out to Crerar, Adams & Co., 1885, and organized Pettibone, Mul- liken* Co. (Inc.). of which was secty. and treas., 1885-99; since then pres.; largely engaged in the mfr. oJ frogs, crossings and switch material; dir. Continental and Commercial Nat. Bank, vice-pres. Ry. Business Assn.: mem. Chicago Assn. of Commerce, 111. Mfrs. Assn., Chicago Hist. Soc; Art Inst, of Chicago. Am. Museum of Natural Hist. (New York), Am. Acad, of Political and Social Science (Phila).; clubs, Chicago, Chicago Golf, Glen View. Mid-Day, also Railroad, Metropolitan, Mid-Day (New York); omce, Marquette Bldg. 201 WOOLLEY, CLARENCE MOTT, pres. American Radiator Company; b. Detroit, Mich.. Sept. 15, 1863; s. vSmith Rensselaer and Marie Ricliardson (Smith) Woolley; with Fisls & Co., Detroit, in minor position, to 1887; began to niaiiiifarnirc radiators 1887; one ol organizers of Michigan Radiator & Iron Co., 1887, and was dir. and secty. until Is'.iL'; assisted in organizing 1892 and pres. and dir. since 1902, the American Radiator Company (if CliicuKcj; ilul).s. Saddle and Cycle, Chicago, Chicago Golf. (Chicago) and Union and Metropolitan N. Y. City; (ifhce, .S2() S Michigan Ave. 202 O'CONNELL, WILLIAM L., treasurer of Cook eoiinty, was born in Chicago in ISTI, educated in tlie puljlic schools and at St. John's Academy. He later took a three-year law course at Northwestern University. He was appointed commissioner of public works under Mayor Dunne and for four years was chairman of the democratic county central committee. Mr. O'Connell wa.s elected treasurer of Cook county Nov. S. 1910. 203 STANTON, WALTER THOMAS, lawyer of Chicago, was born in Chicago, April 5, 1877, the son of Thomas and Mary (Burke) .Stanton. He attended the public grammar and high schools and received the degree of LL. B. from Lake Forest Tniversity in 1S1I7. .\dmitted to tlic Illiiiois liar in ISOS, lie was apixiinted town attorney for the town nf Lake in I'.lllll, was :issislaiil pruscculiriL; :ilt(prtic\ for llie ril\- of ( ■liicak'o in I'.td.'! aiLil assislunl'cor- poralioM counsel in H)(l."i. He is :i (ienioi-ral and was ncmiinatcd for stale senator in tlie I 1 1 ti senatorial district in r.KIt;. He was nominated at tlie primaries for jud^e of tlie superior court in MM I. He is a mendier of the Knights of Columbus, A. O. H.. North American L'nion, C. O. J"., United Irish Societies, and the Chicago Bar Association; offlce, Reaper Blk. 204 MOODY, WALTER DWIGHT. managing director of the Chicago Plan Commission, was born in Detroit, Jan. 16, 1874. He is the son of Rev. Edward Bursell and Anna Maria (Guilloz) Moody; his father is a native of London, England, and a clergyman of the Baptist Church; his mother is a native of France, both coming to America with parents about 1855 and settling in Detroit. He had a public school education. Began active career at 14 in dry goods trade; became connected as traveling salesman with the wholesale millinery Arm of Macauley & Co., Detroit, 1891, continuing until 1898; organized, 1898, wholesale millinery house of Mitchell-Moody-Garton Co.. of which was vice-pres. and European buyer until fall of 1004; .sales manager nf whiilesale millinery house of Gage Bros. & Co., Chicago, 1904-7; became deeph intcri'stcil in tlir Chic-at;!) ( (.iiinicrcial .Vssuciation (now The Chicago Association of Commerce) and liclil several iinpnrtant (•(iiniuittcc cluiiriiiaasliips in llie organization previous to being elected business manager of the as.sociation in December. 1907. 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His father was the first president of the Illinois State Medical Society. Mr. Herrick prepared himself for his college course at Lewiston Falls, Maine. He attended Bowdoin College and graduated with the highest honors, the valedictorian of his class. For two years he taught school in Hyde Park and attended law school, at the same time working in the law office of Higgins, Swett & Quigg. He graduated from law school in 1868 and was admitted to the Illinois bar the same year. He remained with the firm of Higgins, Swett & Quigg, until 1871, wdien he entered prac- tice on his own account. In 1878, with Wirt Dexter, he established the Chicago law firm of Dexter, Herrick & Allen. In the years that he has practiced at the Chicago bar Mr. Herrick has won an enviable rejjutation as a successful counselor and trial lawyer. He has participated in some of the most important cases before the courts. He is now a member of the firm of Herrick, Allen & Martin. He has membership in the Chicago Bar Association, the Chicago Law Institute, and the Citizens' Association of Chicago, He belongs to the University, Saddle and Cycle, Chicago, Chicago Literary and Onwentsia clubs. His office is at I'i W. Adams St. Mr. Herrick married Julie T. Duon in New York City, June 28, 1883. They have three children, Clara M., Julie T. and Margaret J. Herrick. The Herrick residence is at 45 E. Schiller St. 224 MORAN, FRANK T., postmaster. Belvidere; b. Shirland. III., May 12, 1872; educated iiul)lic scIkkiIs and Ruckfdrd Academy; founded Belvidere Dally Ri'inililii-m. isiij, ami imblisher of same since; appointed postmasicr Hcl\ idcrc li\ President Roosevelt, Feb. .5, 1902; reappointed 19UG and by President Taft, 1910; oflBee, Bel- videre. CHONES, WILLIAM, lawyer, Chicago; b. Chicago, 1871; studied law In ofRees of Justices Severson and LaBuy, grad. 1893 Chicago Coll. of Law; LL. B., Lake Forest Univ.; asst. atty. for balliCf of the municipal court; mem. Chicago Bar Assn. and several frater- nal assns.; ofHce, Chamber of Commerce Bldg. LAVIN, PATRICK J., captain of police, Chicago; b. Ireland, Jan. 7, 1856; joined police dept. In 1882 as patrolman; promoted to sergt. Aug. 30, 1889; lleut. July 12, 1893; capt. Feb. 16, 1898; was placed In charge of the traffic squad 1908; mem. R. A.; club. I. A. C. ALCOCK, JOHN HENRY, captain of police, Chicago; was born In Chicago. August 2, 1S71. He Is the .son of Henry and Marie (Weaver) Alcock. His education was received in the public and high schools. Address, 6344 Jefferson Ave. 225 FITCH, SAMUEL MELVIN, Tnited States collector of internal revenue at Chicago; b. Batavia, la., Aug. 19. 1S70; s. Henry and Eliza Jane (Brown) Fitch; with A., T. & S. F. Ry., 1888-91; con- ductor on .suburban .service, I. C. R. R., 1891-1910; appointed to present poistion by Pres. Taft, Aug. 1, 1910; repub.; mem. Order of Ry. Conductors (chief conductor 1901-3; legislative represent- ative, since 1903); Mason; office, Federal Bldg. NEUMANN, LEOPOLD, organizer United Societies, Chicago; b. Vienna, Austria, Feb. IS, 1863; s. Abraham and Anna (Kubin) Neumann; grad. Imperial Lyceum of Vienna; and visited for 5 years the Univ. of Vienna, studying medicine and philosophy; came to Chi., July 4, 1895; served as reporter, mgr. and ed. on different German newspapers in Clii. for 14 jear.s; fur (i \cars l.st (ilflccr of the turner .soc. of Chi. ami since ."i \ears the urL-anizi-r of the I'nited Societies; mem. of bd. of dir. CiTnuin Press Club; ex-pres. Aurora Turnverein; office, 112 X. La Salle St. BARBOUR. JAMES J., lawyer, Chicago; b. Hartford, Conn.; s. Rev. Heman H. and Frances E. (Luther) Barbour; attd. high school, Newark, N. J.; came to Chicago 1888; adm. to III. bar, 1891 and became attorney for Commercial National Bank; assistant state's atty. under Charles S. Deneen and John J. Healy, 1904-1908; member of the firm of Knight, Barbour & Adams, Dec, 1908, until death of both his partners in June, 1911; now practicing alone; since 1908 identified with important elevated railroad and traction litigation; office, Otis Bldg. RICHOLSON, B. P., lawyer, Chicago; b. LaSalle Co., 111., Jan. 30, 1854; s. Lewis and Helen (Johnson) Richolson; ed. common school and Jennings Sem.. Aurora, 111.; studied law at Ottawa, III., with tiroih<'r and Judge T. Lyle Dickey (afterward chief justice of 111. I; :it cliicf elk. in co. clk.'s office, 1911 ; mem. A. O. H. and Charles Kickhani Club; office, County Bldg. PISHA, JOSEPH C, lawyer, Chicago; b. Chicago, Aug. 4, 1874; ed. pub. and high schls. and special course in N. W. Univ. LawSchl.; adm. to bar 1S95; was partner of J. Z. Uhlir until the latter's elec- tion to municipal ct.; now asst. state's atty.; office, 1204 Rector Bldg. CARLSON, GUSTAF H., surveyor, Chicago, deceased, 1912; 1-. Sweden, Apr. 16, 1848; s. Carl Axel Carlson; ed. in pub. schls. Malmci. Sweden, and Christianfield, Germany, where studied classics and enuiiicering; grad. 1867; returned to Sweden and employed until 1S7I), when came to United States; stock raiser in Kansas; moved to Chicago 1872; entered employ of S. S. Greeley; 1874 asst. engr. of Hyde Park; returned to Mr. Greeley. 1877, became his partner, 1882: engaged in business alone, 1898; succeeded in busi- ness by his son, Gustaf H. Carlson, Jr. 228 BALDWIN, LAURIS BLAKE, physician, Chicago: b. Orange, N. J.. June 1, 1870; s. Abraliam and Annie S. (W'interbotham) Baldwin: M. D. Chicago Medical C; treasurer (lii. Assn. of Commerce and chairman of finance comm.; clubs. Pres?, C. A. A., South Shore; oflBce, 1152 Milwaukee Av. 238 THORNTON, CHARLES S., lawyer, Chicago, was born in Boston in 18.51, educated in the public schools of that city, graduated from Harvard College, and admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1873. He has been engaged for more than thirty-eight years in active practice in Chicago, principally In the line of real estate litigation and the law of private and municipal corporations, in which he is acknowledged as an authority. He became corporation counsel of the town of Lake in 1889. and corporation counsel of the city of Chicago in 1897. was president of his local board of education in 18SS. and later served as a member of the several boards of education of Illinois. Cook county, and Chicago. He was the author of the first Illinois teachers' pension bill, and actively influenced Its passage. Mr. Thornton is a democrat, and a member of the Odd Fellows, Masons, and Knights of Pythias; residence. Auburn Park; office, 79 E. Adams St. 239 SYMPATHETIC interest in all mankind, and especially the unfortunate, the weak, the poor and the oppressed, has been responsible for the fame as an expert in reform and correctional methods which has come to John Lorin Whitman, superintendent of the House of Correction of Chicago. Mr. "Whitman was born July 23, 1862, at Sterling, Whiteside county, 111., the son of Piatt L. and Helen M. (Quick) Whitman. His early edu- cation was received in the public schools of Sterling and at Edwards Academy, also of his native place. When he was eleven years old he worked in a Sterling stationery store and in 1879 began work which lasted two years in a wagon shop, doing painting, etc. He commenced ))usiness for himself in 1881 as a house painter and paper hanger. In 1884 he was engaged in the manufacture of farming implements. Mr. Whitman moved to Chicago in 1890 and took the first position which offered itself. It happened to be that of street-car conductor, and he kept it for eight months. His life's work dawned upon him when he entered upon the duties of guard in the Cook county jail. He acted as guard for two years and showed such interest in his employment that he was advanced to clerk of the jail at the end of two years. He was ap- pointed jailer on May 1, 1895, and during twelve years of work in that capacity the methods which he followed in dealing with the thousands of prisoners under his care attracted to him a national recognition. On June 1, 1907, he was appointed superintendent of the house of cor- rection, an institution that averages nearly 2,000 inmates daily. Mr. Whitman's knowledge of crime and its causes made him a particularly valuable member of the Chicago vice commission which was appointed by Mayor Busse in 1910. Mr. Whitman is the author of several works on the discipline of mankind, principal among them being "Tamer of Men," "Perfecting the Work of Correction," and "Correctional Discipline." He is a member of the Illinois, City and Hamilton clubs, the Chicago Association of Commerce, the National Union, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Central Howard Association, the Chicago Men's Alliance and the Knights of Pythias. His address is House of Correction, Chicago. 240 KNIGHT, CLARENCE A., lawyer, Chicago; deceased June 21, 1911; b. McHenry Co., 111., Oct. L'S, 1S5:J: ed. pub. schools near birthplace and in Cook Co. Normal schl.; taught school; law student: adm. to bar 1874; asst. city atty. under Julius Grinnell, 1879-84, city atty. 1884-8; asst. corporation counsel under Mayor Roche, 1888-9; prepared the act under which Hyde Park, Lake View, Jefferson and a portion of Cicero were added to the city; general practice with Paul Brown, 1883-1903. in firm of Knight & Brown; then was joined by James B. Barbour and William G. Adams, forming firm of Knight, Barbour & Adams; general counsel 1883, Lake Street Elevated Railroad Co.; of Union Elevated Railroad Co., 1898; and Northwestern Elevated R. R. Co.; Mason (K. T.); mem. Royal League, Independent Order of Foresters; clubs, Iroquois, ITnion League, South Shore. 241 HALL, JAMES, certified public accountant and cliartered accountant, Ciiinago, was born in Glasgow. Scotland, Nov. 11, 1877, the son of George and Mary J. (Bertram) Hall. He was educated at Harris Academ.v, Dundee, Scotland. Mr. Hall qualilicd as chartered accounlant in Decemlu-r. lOnO. after .serving the necessary apprentice- ship of five years and attendiiiL; law classes at tlie InivcrsilN of clasgdw. In 1901 lie was admitted as; a mem- ber of the Institute of Accoiiiitaiits and Actuaries in tJlasgciw. He is a certilicd |)ul)lic accnuiitant in the states of Ohio, Minnesota, and Mi.ssuuri, and a Fellow of the American .\ssociatioii of Piihhc Accountaiit.s He is a member of the firm of Marwick, Mitchell, Peat & Co., Chartered Accountants, Chicago. New \orl^, London, etc.: clubs, Mid-Day. Chicago, Exmoor Country; office, 115 S. La Salle St. 242 HUFF, THOMAS D., lawyer, Chicago; b. Eldora, Hardin Co., la., Jan. 9, 1S72; s. Henry Lewi.s and Elizabeth B. (Dlven) Huff; ed. pub. grammar and high schls. Eldora; Grinnell (la.) Acad, and Grinnell Coll.; LL. B. North- western Univ., 1S95; practiced in Chicago since June 12, 1895; makes specialty of corporation law; mem. firm of Huff, Cook & Slottow, formerly asst. corpn. counsel of Evanston; mem. Chicago Bar Assn., 111. Bar Assn., Chicago Law Inst., Cook County R. E. B., Chicago Assn. of Com.; repub.; clubs, Friday Night, Evanston, University, Hamilton; offlce. Stock F:xchange BIdg. 243 GODMAN, ELWOOD GARNER, lawyer, Chicago, was born in Philadelptiia. Oct. 29, 1881, the son of Cornelius and Anna (McNeil) Godman. He was educated in the John Marshall Law School of Chicago, receiving the therefrcjin, the dourcc (jf I>L. 15. in 1903. Hv was appointed n.ssistant i:nited States attorney for the northern dis- trict (jf niiTiciiis in I'.iDii. :iih1 cinjaiifd in pri\atr iirailirc a.s a iiu-iiibcr of the firms of Morrison & Brown and KiiiKht, Held A ( ludinaii fnirii .Ian. 1. l'.H(7. In February. I'.ill). he was appointed special assistant Uui ed States attorney for the nurtliern district of Illinois; ufflcc, Federal Uldg. 244 I hicago, was bom in Rousville, Pa., Feb. 16, 1S71. Dr. Black- town Collegiate Inst., Jamestown, N. V. He later attended AUe- KO in 1892. Here he received the bachelor of science degree in Later he received his degree of doctor of medicine and BLACKMARR, FRANK H.'vMI.IN. i)li\si( iai marr received his carh i-diicatioii at th('- Jaiiic gheny Coll., and eiitcrcil the run crsitx- c.f CI 1.S94. He occupied an as.sistuiit.ship iu chemistry there. „„ ^ .^.^,,.„ ,.„, urf,,cc u. uui-.ui ui meuiciiie ai surgery at HahnemannJ.ledicaiCollege.with honorable mention. He lectuted iii thr mhnemann Medfcal C^^^^^^ ^°rLi^L^''^l°'^«°'5'""^^ Kf^":^ in physiology department and also in the department of electro- herapemics He nrnrinnpH th» fi.., ..„„„H. ,„ x-ray methods in 1901. Since the discoverV of radium he has been instrumental ta' ^'?'"'y^?" '^i?l°°R?..t° '^ number of organizations, among them the A t:> r .«.--, . . . ^._ _,_. . ^ggppp Medinah Tem- _, , - . .^ — Jlub and Am. Assn. of Bldg produced the first record; „ in developing a new field of therapniti Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Lakeside Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Oriental Consistory .32d c ?-liUt„,i,^-^¥-^^- Il'inois^Athletic Club, Beverly Country Club, Wind.sor Golf Cli Clinical Research; office, Marshall Field Bldg 245 COBURN, JOHN .)., luwvcr, Cliicatjo; b. on farm site (if \ lUaKe (jf ( ImIc ( onk Co . Ill , Mar. 14, 18G1; s. Henry and Elizabeth (Cbitticki C'dburn; grad. Englewood high schl., 1N77. laugbt -chl . lS7'.»-s:j, student Union Coll. of Law, 1SS3-.5; adni. bar. iss.",, and since engaged in gen. prartire. partner of the late Lawrence M. Ennis, in hrm of Ennis & C ^f z ^ r5 « 248 . — a lUM i^oOOJ _ ?3 p ■ t^-H C3^ g 30C.S "•« M 5-g-ffl2 . 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He remained with that firm until 1893, wdien he organized the firm of Oliver & Scott, which succeeded to the business of Snow & Dickinson. In the year 1904, E. Norman Scott with- drew and the firm became Oliver & Co., consisting of Walter D. and Fred- erick S. Oliver. The firm of Oliver & Co. has been one of the most active in the Chicago market, paying particular attention to large details in downtown property and developing the new business section south of the loop district, along State street and ^Yabash, Michigan and Indiana avenues. Mr. Oliver's firm has handled negotiations involving large properties for Marshall Field, James A. Patton, Otto Young, Siegel, Cooper & Co., and other large investors. Mr. Oliver negotiated the sale of the Stratford Hotel to Levy Mayer for $1,500,000. His firm is agent for many non- residents, as well as for various individuals, corporations and estates. Mr. Oliver is vice-president and director of the vScott Oil Company and director of the Forest Oil company. Mr. Oliver has been one of the most active members of the Chicago Real Estate Board and was elected its president for the year 1912. He is a member of the Chicago Association of Commerce, the Kappa Alpha fraternity, the South Shore Country Club and the Chicago Athletic Asso- ciation. He has extensive real extate investments in Chicago. His office is at 40 N. 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Life Bldg.; repub.; Mason; club, Mid-Day; office, National Life Bldg ANDERSEN, CHARLES C, wrecking, excavating and teaming contractor, Chicago; b. Denmark, Feb. 5, 1873; s. Nels A. and Ber- tha Andersen; ed. Chicago public schools; resided in Chicago and present 18th ward since 1875; in contracting business since 1894; pres. Mid-City Club: mem. Medinah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.- office, 74 W. Washington St. "^T*?, •x?^^^'^^^^ •''•• lawyer, Chicago: b. Crete, 111.; ed. Joliet; LL.B., Lnion Coll. of Law: adm. to bar 1887 and has practiced in Chi. since: 1891-1905 mem. firm of Pinckney & Tatge, now senior mem. ?o?)> latge & Koepge; appt. forest preserve comm. of Cook Co. 1910; appt. county atty. of Cook Co. 1911; resigned same year: PH^appt. civil service commr. of Cook Co.; office, 64 W. "Ran- dolph St. 265 BIDWILL, JOSEPH E., Jr., clerk of the circuit court of Cook County, Chicago; b. Chicago, July 1. 1883; s. of Joseph E. and Mary (SuUlvan) Bidwill; ed. grammar and English high schools, Lewis Inst, and St. Ignatius Coll.; employed in Chicago National Bank four years, and subsequentl.v holding important position with Banking House of N. W. Harris & Co. (now Harris Trust and Sav- ings Bank) ; repub. 1900, elected clerk of the circuit court to fill unexpired term of two years; 1908, re-elected to a full term of four years; renominated, 1912: mem. of Hamilton club, C. O. F., K. C, etc.; office. County Bldg. MULLEN. TIMOTHY FRANCIS, lawyer, Chicago; b. Aurora, 111., Apr. 8, 1868; s. Thomas and Sarah (Newell) Mullen; ed. Knox Coll.; St. Francis Solanus Coll. (Qulncy), A. M., 1889, Lake Forest Univ. LL.B., 1892; adm. to 111. bar, 1891, and since that time in active practice of law; mem. Chicago and 111. Bar assns.. National Geographic Soc, Irish Choral Soc, Art Inst., of Chicago, and K. C; dem.; candidate for nomination municipal court judge, 1912; office. The Rookery. KUFLEWSKI, STANLEY J., druggist, Chicago; b. Poland, Dec. 5, 1871; ed. pub. schls., Chi. Coll. of Pharmacy; moved to Chi. as a boy of 14 and has lived there for 26 years; democrat; elected Cook County commissioner, 1910; re-nominated, 1912; address, 2759 W. 22d St. ROMANO, SALVATORE, private banker and real estate broker, Chicago; b. Chicago, Sept. 21. 1SS4; s. Frank and Carolina (Sacco- nan) Romano; grad. high .sihl . Chicago; candidate for legislature, 1910; candidate for ccjunty commissioner, 1912; mem. Modern Woodmen, Chicago Federation of Musicians, Elks and several Italian societies; office, 818 W. Ohio St. 266 CAPITAIN, HENRY D., mfr., alderman, Chicago; b. in England. 1862; ed. in Germany; came to Chicago 1879; pres. Western Leather & Mfg. Co.; elected alderman of the 25th ward, Apr. 4, 1911; repub.; was instrumental in organizing the old village of West Ridge, and the Ridge Av. Park District, and served as clerk, trustee and treas. at various times; was school trustee in old village of Rogers Park: was pres. Rogers Park Improvement Assn. several terms; now vice-pres. ways and means com. of North Shore Improvement Assn.; office, 17.5 N. Wabash Av. RITCHIE, WILLIAM, lawyer, Chicago; b. Frederic Town, Md., Aug. 26, 1854; ed. Frederic Coll., and St. John's Coll., Md.; came to Chi. 1881; adm. bar 1886; was established at once in firm of Judd, Ritchie & Esher; has been in gen. practice and concerned with many important cases; former dir. Chi. Law Inst., mem. Chi. and 111. State Bar assns.. Lawyers' Assn. of Chi., Chi. Assn. of Commerce, R. A.; club. Southern; office. Reaper Blk. BREIT, FRED D., merchant, Chicago; b. Chicago, June 28, 1879; s. Frank and Mary Anna (Schnitzious) Brelt; grad. Chi. pub. schls., 1893, St. Joseph's Coll., Ind., 1894-5, Chi. Business Coll., 1896; has been engaged in the wholesale and retail coal business for 11 yrs. ; pres. Fred D. Breit Coal Co.; mem. K. C, R. L., C. O. F.; dem.; nominated for trustee sanitary board, 1912; office, 4134 W. North Ave. RABER, EDWIN J., lawyer, Chicago; b. Apr. 15, 1S75; ed. pub. schls. Ind.; A. B., State Univ. of Ind.; LL. B., 111. Coll. of Law; adm. bar 1902; gen. practice; chief asst. city prosecuting atty; mem. A. F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., R. L.. Chi. Law Inst.; club, Iroquois; office, Ashland Blk. 267 MURPHY, EVERETT JEROME, warden of III. state penitentiary, Joliet; b. Nashville, 111., July 24, IS.'i-'; s. \Villi;un P. and Mary J. (Frush) Murphy: was sheriff of Randolph Co . 1 SS2 (>; repub.: mem. 54th congress from 21st III. disl.; nirni. 111. U'i;isUiture 35th gen. assembly; appt. warden, Joliet, IsO'.t; Inisiness address, 1900 Collins St., Joliet. CHURCH, CHESTER W., lawyer, Chicago; b. Gibson, 111., 1872; graduated from Morgan Park .\eademy and the Chicago College of Law; admitted to the bar in IsO'.t, and has since been engaged in acli\c pra<-lice; Mason; meml)cr of the Illinois general assembly since I'.HJl; repub.; office, 157 W. Adams St. CIGRAND, BERNARD JOHN, dentist, Chicago; b. Fredonia, Wis., Oct. 1, 1866; s. Nicholas and Susan Cigrand; B. S., Northern In- diana Normal schl., Valparaiso, 1886; M. S., 1898; D. D. S. Lake Forest Univ., 1888; grad. Chi. Schl. of Sciences, 1891; Haskell Schl. of Prosthetics, 1892; non-resident course industrial, educational and political economy, Univ. of Chi., 1892-3; engaged in practice of denti.stry in Chicago since 1888; has taught in various dental schools; helped organize American Flag-Day Assn., 1890; author many works on dentistry; dir. Chicago Public library; candidate for democratic nomination for congress, 1912; office, 3117 Logan Blvd. GASH, ABRAM DALE, lawyer, Chicago; b. Elmer, Mo., Feb. 11, 1861; s. William Thomas and Maria (Dale) Gash; ed. common schls.; in drus? business at La Plata, Mo. and Provo, Utah; adm. bar i:tah. 1S91; removed to Chi., 1S9S: democrat; prosecuting attv. I'tah Co., U., lSi)L'-6; now pres. and dir. Schcidel-Western X-i-av Coil Co.; secty. and dir. Germ.-.-^m. Conservatory of Music; secly. and dir. Bells Bros., pianos, Muncie, Ind.; judge advocate gen. with rank of col. in Utah N. G., 1893-6; office, 118 N. La Salle St. 268 HANFORD, IRA LINUS, doctor of naprapathy, Chicago; b. La Fayette Co., Wis.: ed. dist. and high schl. and Belolt coll.; came to Chicago and became interested in naprapathy, which he studied at Oakley Smith Coll. of Xaprapathy; is now professor of the subject and of physiology at Oukley .'^inith Coll.; also In private practice; pres. Am. Xaprap.ithic Assu.; res., Elgin; offlce, Stewart Bldg. STONE, CLYDE ERNEST, county judge, Peoria; b. Mason Co., 111., Mar. 23, 1876; s. Claudius L. and Mollie (Marot) Stone; ed. Mason City high schl.; LL.B. Univ. of 111. Coll. of Law; taught schl. l.s;»4-U)(l(l; Itegan law practice, 1903; 1st asst. state's atty., 1906-9; elected judge Peoria Co., 1910; mera. K. T., I. O. O. F., K. P.; club, Creve Coeur; offlce, Court House, Peoria. GOODKIND, MAURICE L., physician, Chicago: b. Chicago, Nov. 14, 1S66; s. Louis Goodkind; ed. St. Paul high schl. and Williams Coll., literary courses, 1878-86; Columbia Med. Coll.. issc, 9, grailnating, M, D., 1889 and Vienna hosps., 1889-93: physician of Chicagcj Board of Health, 1893-4; civil service examining physician. 1894 ."), attend- ing physician Cook Co. and Michael Reese hosps.; prof, clinical medicine. Coll. of Physicians and Surgeons: mem. Chi. Med. Soc, A. M. A., Chicago Clinical Soc, Physicians' Club, Chicago Neuro- logical Soc: rcpub.; club. Quadrangle: offlce, 31 N. State .St. TINSM.\N, HOMER ELLSWORTH, lawver, Chicago. 1) Romeo, Mich., Oct. 21, 1860: s. William H. and Marv J ill(psiier) Tinsman; grad. Romeo high schl. 1878; A. B., Univ. of Mi( h l>^s3, adm. to 111. bar, 188.5: began practice Burke & Hollett, Dec , isMl mem. firm of Burke. Hollett & Tinsman, 1SS7; 1893 linn t)ecamc Hollett & Tinsman. and later, Hollett, Tinsman & Sautcr, dis.solved, 1905, and present firm of Tinsman, Rankin & Neltnor formed, asst. co. atty., INMI 1890: aid. 32d ward, 1908-09; resigned. Mar, 1909. to become candidate for judge of circuit court; mem. Chicago Bar Assn.. III.: state Bar .\ssn., Chicago Law Inst.; Mason. I. O. O. F. (past grandi. lioyal League. Woodmen of World; interest- ed in I'nited Charities of Chicago, Englewood free reading room for boys; club, Hamilton; offlce, 118 N. La Salle St. 269 PLUMMER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, lawyer, Ciiicago: b. Tyrone, Pa., Dec. 23. 1844; s. William R. and Catharine (Trai.ster) Plummer; A. B. Allegheny Coll., Meadville, Pa., 1869: studied law with Judge Deriokson, at Meadville, and S. S. Blair, or Hol- lidaysburg. Pa.: adm. to Pa. bar., 1870: removed to Chicago, 1871: adm. to III. bar and has .since engaged in practice; repub.; Mason; residence. Oak Park: offlce. Tribune Bldg. McCASKRIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON. lawyer, Rock Island; b. Rantoul, 111., Dec. 17, 1874; s. James E. and Margaret (Cloye) McCaskrin: ed. pub. schls. Rantoul and State Univ.: received degree of I>L. D.; practiced law Rock Island since 1896: independent in iKililics; elected ulilernian 4fh ward, 1902; nominated for mayor, 10(12, (Icfcati'd; Mduiiiuitcil for legislature, 1904, defeated: elected m:i\..r, l!i(i;",-7; difcatecl at end: elected 1909 and again 1911; nominated f(ir udveriior cjf III., 1909, defeated; organized Mayors Assn. of III., 1907; is mem. bd. of dirs. of same; vice-pres.. Am. League of Maine: mem. A. F. & A. M., Eagles, Moose; .address. Rock Island. O'DONNELL, P.\UI M., lawyer, Caici'io: b. Vinconnes, Ind., June 8, 1884; s. Charles B. and Theresa (Garritson) O'Donneil; ed. schools of Vincennes. Ind., and University of Notre Dame and University of Chicago, where received degrees of A. B. and J. D.: st.arted practice of law in Chicago, Aug. 1909: clubs, Citv, Reynolds; office. New York Life Bldg. RICHOLSON, HAROLD, .asst. states atty 270 BRACKETT, WILEY LOWRY, organizer and promoter of build- ing enterprises. Ciiicago: b. Riceville, Tenn., Sept. 10, 1S76; s. William Albert and Anna Jane (Lowry) Braekett: engaged in insurance business 1895-1900: since then has organized and pro- moted many theaters, hotels, office bldgs., etc.; secty. Perfect Wall Bed Co., Hotel Wilson Apartments Co., dir. of several bldg. Cos.; clubs, Creve Coeur, Peoria, Southern (Chi.); office, 430 S. Wabash Ave. LABUY, JOSEPH S., lawyer, Chicago; b. Fox Lake, Wis., Oct. 21, 187S; s. Jacob LaBuy; ed. pub. schls. Beaver Dam, Wis..; grad. Spencerian Business Coll., Milwaukee, Chi.-Kent Coll. of Law, and 111. Coll. of Law; nominee for municipal ct. judge 1912; secty. of Lawyers Assn. of 111. since 1910; office, 167 N. Clark St. HEALY, STEPHEN K.. capt. of police. Chicago. JOVCIE. JOHN F.. traveling salesman. Chicago; I). July IS, 1S70; s. John Francis and Catherine Joyce; ed. Grand Haven. Mich.; traveling for Wadsworth, Howland & Co., mfrs. paints and colors; has been mem. of democratic county central com. for 12 yrs.; mem. K. C. N. A. U., Catholic Order of Foresters, III. Commercial Men's Assn.; address. Carpenter and Fulton Sts. 271 HOMAS TAYLOR, Jr., lawyer, of Chicago, was born at Sniethwick, England, Nov. 18, 1859, the son of Thomas and Jane (Holloway) Taylor. Mr. Taylor moved to the United States when he still was a young boy. His boyhood days were spent in Canton, Fulton County, 111. He equipped himself for college and entered Knox College at Galesburg, 111., from which he graduated with the degree of B. S. in 1881. From Knox College he entered Harvard Law School and graduated with honor in 1885, taking the degree of LL. B. Mr. Taylor spent the year 1886 in Europe, attending lectures at Berlin and Vienna L^niversities and on his return to the LTnited States he was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county, Massachusetts. He practiced for a short time in the office of Burdette & Gooch, a well-known Boston law firm. Mr. Taylor moved to Chicago in 1887 and has practiced in that city ever since. He has won substantial recognition at the bar. He was appointed master in chancery of the circuit court of Cook county in 1893 and still holds that position. He has tried and reported on more than •^2,000 important cases. In politics, Mr. Taylor is a republican. He is a member of the Chicago, Illinois and American Bar associations, and was treasurer of the Chicago Bar Association from 1894 to 1897. Mr Taylor is a leader of the Harvard alumni of the West and is president of the Harvard Club of Chicago. He is a director of the Illinois Humane Society and has been vice-president of the Onwentsia Club. He is a member of the Chicago Historical Society, and of the University, Chicago Literary and Chicago clubs. Mr. Taylor resides at Hubbard Woods. His office is in the First National Bank Bide. 272 ■^ ^^r) (i^ C3^^^^ .^>-eiv^v^ DICKSON, FRANK S., adjutant-general of Illinois National Gnard: official address, Springfield: residence. Ramsey; was born Oct. (i, ISTfi. in Hillsboro, 111. In l.'^OO ho graduated from the Decatur high school and at an early age graduated in and began the practice nf law. In I.sil.s he served as priv: war in the volunteer servii-e of ( 'uba. He later became a caiitaiii atid adjutatit in the was elected to the Fifty-ninth congress from the 2:{rd district of Illinois fur the 6, 1907, he was appointed assistant adjutant-general and on Jan. 1, 1910. he was : I. N. G., which position he now occupies. in the Siianish-.Amcrican iMiurtli Regiment, I. X. C;.: erin of 190.-) 1)7. On May ppointed adjvitant-generai. 273 RANK O. LOWDEN, lawyer and farmer, of Chicago and Oregon, UL, was born at Sunrise City, Minn., Jan. ^26, 1861, the son of Lorenzo and Nancy Elizabeth (Breg) Lowden. He attended the common schools at Point Pleasant, la., during the winter months and worked on a farm during the summer. He attended the Iowa State University and graduated the valedictorian of his class, in 1885. He came to Chicago and attended the Union College of Law, from which he graduated in 1887, being the vale- dictorian of his class and also receiving first prizes for scholarship and oratory. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1887 and practiced his profession in Chicago until 190''2, since which time he has been farmer and stock breeder. Mr. Lowden was president of the Law Club of Chicago in 1898. He was lieutenant-colonel of the First Infantry, Illinois National Guard, in 1898, and in 1899 was a professor in the Northwestern University Law School. He was tendered the office of first assistant postmaster-general of the United States by President William McKinley in 1900, and was a delegate to the republican national conventions of 1900 and 1904. He was the Illinois member of the republican national committee and a member of the executive committee of the same from 1904 to 191'2. He was elected to the national house of representatives from the thir- teenth Illinois district in 1906, to fill out the unexpired term of Robert R. Hitt, and at the same time was elected to the sixtieth congress. He was re-elected to the sixty-first congress in 1908 and declined to stand for renomination in 1910 because of his health. Mr. Lowden is a trustee of Knox College of Galesburg, 111., and also is a trustee of the University of Chicago. He is trustee and president of the Pullman Free School of Manual Training, endowed by the late George M. Pullman. He is ex-president of the Chicago-Iowa Association and of the Northwestern University Law School Alumni Association. He belongs to numerous clubs, etc., and to the American, Illinois and Chicago Bar associations. Mr. Lowden was married in Chicago on April 29, 1896, to Florence Pullman, daughter of George M. Pullman. 274 FRANK O. LOWDEN 275 f^ANTERBURY, England, was the birthplace of William Best, Sr., manufacturer, importer, and dealer in cigars and ciga- rettes, of Chicago. He was born Aug. ^29, 1841, the son of ^' William and Mary Ann (Whitehead) Best. He came to the United States when eleven years of age, and finished in the public schools the education which he had started in the schools of his native city. At the age of sixteen, he became an office boy in the wholesale tobacco house of John C. Partridge & Company. A few years later he was a partner in the business, and in 1876, following the death of the senior member, he became the head of the company. He organized the firm of Best, Russell & Company, which became the Best & Russell Comj^any when it was incorporated in 1891. He was elected president of the com- pany and has held the position since. Mr. Best has taken an active interest in politics. He is a democrat and was elected south town collector, in 1883, and appointed a member of the South Park commissioners in 1885, serving until 1911, his term being the longest ever served by a commissioner in the city of Chicago. He was president of the board from 1887 to 1891, auditor from 1905 ro 1911. He also has served as a member of the special park commission. He is a mem- ber of the Chicago Association of Commerce, a thirty-second degree Mason, and belongs to the Mid-Day, South Shore, Iroquois, and Illinois Athletic clubs. His office is at 583 S. Wabash Ave. 276 WILLIAM BEST. SR. 277 [flOBLE GRAND ALL, banker and broker, of Chicago, was born at Moncton, N. B., on the twenty-eighth day of March, 1880. He is the son of Noble and Laura (Rand) Crandall. He was educated in the pubhc schools of Windsor, N. S., and moved from Nova Scotia to Boston, Mass., in 1900. He was engaged with the Paine Furniture Company of Boston until 1901, and then was employed in the Boston office of Steere & Burr, bankers and brokers. When that firm opened a Chicago branch on Feb. 1, 1903, Mr. Crandall was transferred to Chicago as assistant manager. He was appointed manager of the Chicago branch on March 1, 1904. In 1905 the firm was changed to George H. Burr & Company and he became its resident partner. George H. Burr & Co. maintain offices in New York, Boston, Phila- delphia, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, and cover the whole country through their representatives. Their organization is one of the most effi- cient in the country. Doing a general banking business, they are in touch with conditions throughout the country, and in oflfering commercial paper and stock issues for investment, their facilities are of the best. They do not handle" stocks on the market, but confine themselves in a general way to investment and commercial paper. Mr. Crandall is a member of the Union League, the Mid-Day, Chicago Yacht, South Shore Country and Homewood clubs. He was married on June 22, 1904, at Somerville, Mass., to Miss C. C. Eldridge, and has three children, Benjamin Noble, Charles Eldridge and George Burr. His home is at 5320 Cornell Avenue and his office is in The Rookerv. 278 NOBLE CRANDALL 279 ALTER A. ROSENFIELD, prominent manufacturer, banker and public-s])irited citizen of Rock Island, was born at Rock Island, June 13, 1877, the son of Morris and Julia (Ottenlieimer) Rosenfield. He attended the public schools at Rockford, 111., and graduated from St. John's Military School at Manlius, N. Y. His father was the founder of the Moline Wagon Company of Moline, and the subject of this sketch entered his parents' business after finishing his education. On the retirement of his father he was made president of the company, a position which he held until Jan. 1, 1911, when the company was consolidated with Deere & Company. Mr. Rosenfield is vice-president of the Rock Island National Bank of Rock Island and a director of the Peoples Saving Bank and Trust Com- pany of Moline. He has taken a prominent part in politics and has been a member of the republican state central committee from the fourteenth congressional district for a number of years. He also has been president of the Illinois & Michigan Canal Commission. Mr. Rosenfield has taken a very active interest in the Illinois national guard and is a captain in the First cavalry. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. Adress, Rock Island, 111. 280 ?n£'ii^ « • secretary of state, bpringfteld. is a lawyer by profession, but has held his present position since 1896. He wa^ born at Birdsville, Ky., Oct. 13, 1S50, the son of John D. and Sarah (Sutherland) Rose and Mnrmn? uf ^aHy education in the common schools of Pope county, 111., with a short term at the Normal schoSi hir /? 187^ T "^ic^fl" teaching school at the age of 17. reading law at the same time, and wa.'i admitt.d t., the oar in 1875. In 1873 he was elected county superintendent of schools of Pope county, and served fur iwcj terms and later statue s attorney of the .same county for two terms. He has served as trustee of the state in.siitution at Pontiac and for three and one-halt years was commissioner of the Illiiidis peiiitentiarv at Chester He was fi^'',* w** ^w!;^"*''->' °' ?*^"^ °" •*'«' republican ticket in isiti; and was n-ele.led in H.dll, 111(14 aiul lilos andrenoin- inated at the primaries April 0, 1912. He is a Knight T.iiii.lar Mason. ( >,|,l l-vilcw ,,h1 Knii:! t ,t Pvthias and rpVlSrflerd;''oUe°'§?a^e''lfo"uVe:1pSeld" '''"'^ "' ^■''""'"' """ "" "="'^='""^ ''"^ "»""'^ ^■''""'^^- ^'"^« <" 281 ALTER E. SC^HMIDT, contractor, of Chicago, was born at Winona, Minn., May 18, 1868, the son of Henry G. C. and Bertha (Knust) Schmidt. He was edncated at the ])iibHc grammar and high schools and attended Minnesota state normal school and the Lambert business college at Winona, Wis. Mr. Schmidt is secretary of the Illinois Imj)rovement and Ballast Com- pany and secretary of the Calumet Publishing Company. For several years Mr. Schmidt has been a leader in the republican politics of Cook county. He was appointed deputy collector of the port of South Chicago in 1897 and served in that capacity until 190'2, when he was appointed assistant county treasurer, a position which he held until 1906. Mr. Schmidt was elected a member of the Cook county board of assessors and began service in the duties of that office for a term of six years on January 1, 1897. Renominated at the April primaries, 19L2. During his incumbency many innovations for the convenience of the public have been instituted in the office of the board of assessors and systems have been inaugurated tending toward the equalization of taxes in the county. Mr. Schmidt is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Royal League and the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Hamilton and Illinois Athletic clubs. His office is in the Commercial National Bank Bldg. 282 ANDREW J. GRAHAM 285 lljDWARD DICKINSON, banker and broker of Chicago, is the son of Charles and EHza E. (Burnham) Dickinson and was born in Chicago, Nov. 2, 1863. "With his parents he moved to Milwankee, Wis., in 1865, but returned to the city of his birth eight years later and finished his education in the public schools. His first position after leaving school was as a messenger in a bank, in 1878. He was paying teller of the Metropolitan National Bank during the years 1884 to 189'2, second assistant cashier from 189*2 to 1894, and was assistant cashier at the time of the consolidation of the bank with the First National Bank, of which he also became assistant cashier. In 1904 he resigned his position and organized the firm of Edward Dickinson & Company, dealers in commercial paper. He was president of the La Grange State Bank from 1899 to 1906 and was one of the organ- izers and is now one of the directors of the National Produce Bank. He is a director of the State Bank of Geneva, 111. In 1901 he was treasurer of the Lincoln Park commissioners. He is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Stock Exchange, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a Mason, Covenant Lodge, Corinthian Chapter; St. Bernard Commandery, Knights Templar. His clubs are the Bankers', Union League, Mid-Day, Evanston Golf, Chicago Automobile, and Chicago Gun. His offices are at 25 Broadway, N. Y. City, and 120 West Monroe St., Chicago. Although he is one of the busiest of Chicago business men, Mr. Dickin- son has found time to develop a love for books. His library contains many valuable treasures which he has collected in all parts of the world. His recreations are golfing and hunting. 286 EDWARD DICKINSON 287 EORGE TRACY BITCKIXGHAM, lawyer, of Chicago, was born at Delphi, Ind., April '^l, 1864, the son of Tracy Wilson and Helen (Clark) Buckingham. He attended the common schools and the normal school at Ladoga, Ind., and read law in the office of W. J. Calhoun at Danville, 111., being admitted to the Illinois bar in 1893. At Danville he was a member successively of the law firms of Wilson & Buckingham, Bucking- ham & Dysert, Buckingham, Dysert & Troup and Buckingham & Troup, from 1893 to 1908. He moved to Chicago on May 1, 1908, and entered the firm of Defrees, Buckingham, Ritter & Campbell, which now continues as Defrees, Buckingham, Ritter, Campbell & Eaton, Mr. Buckingham is the president and ])rincipal owner of the Danville Belt Coal Compam\ While located at Danville he organized and had a financial interest in the Ike Stern Company, mercantile corporation, Dan- ville Department Store, Kelly Coal Company, Consumers' Coal Company, Vermillion County Coal Company, Traer Coal Company and also in trac- tion lines ailed with the Illinois Traction Company. He was district attorney of the Wabash Railway Company and was then and is now general counsel for the Illinois Coal Operators' Association. He was assistant state's attorney of Vermillion county from 1894 to 1898, and in 1907 was a candidate for justice of the supreme court of Illinois to succeed Justice Wilkin. He lacked only five votes and the convention balloted 155 times. He was a member of the Illinois national guard from 1886 to 1904, and held the rank of colonel when he resigned. He was a trustee of the state hospital for the insane at Kankakee, 111., from 1897 to 1901 and was presi- dent of the Joliet prison board from 1901 to 1905. Mr. Buckingham is a republican, a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the Elks, Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of Pythias. He is a mem- ber of the Vermillion county, Chicago, and Illinois State Bar associations. He belongs to the Union League and Hamilton c'.ubs. His office is at 2^26 S. La Salle St. 288 f v^ y iyC^JLA^^ nrx CUiny^x^ 289 . Tssco.. n..3 5ij- -« -^ .-J ^ c- • ---^ =3 2S5 =1 2 3'-°== ' .e^f.-s^ , a x-^ i-iag ^^'-' - o==*^ !W r- S ? ^ m O r-3 *< .- . 4= ro ■ - * n. o c o ■" a =i M S £ S "=-=> s ^■/i a 2^-oi; ^ E "" a o x :^ M ■- c ** **"" a 3l^"S'S==? C3 b, o =3 S = 2 - "^i a ° g S ■ •a ■a IrtJ K t ha S* cs ?• 3 :— a a i-^ 290 = "3 *^ C c^ — ' X *- . .^ — '— Z !^ 2; ^5«'S .- ■° 2 -"S ■" ~^= £b£c3 -siS ..[2 « 5:5 §"^^ to ? s .-- a - Q 291 292 293 -■a • 33 ■ j; _- 0^ > 3^. rt ~n .- u — o ■£ J i-. "^ .- i ■= S '= 5 ■= - = X -^ - _ »- J r ^- - - - c X ■^ ^ C X =3 c ti s 1 £ 5 •Z 5 § 1 rt £ tj 1 C 5 c3 r - ~ Zl ~ 7 r^ ^ .-!S .E t- y r 5 - ~ L °z r<3^ r — ~ ^ o f- tx •f = ■; S o tss •- " i - i; C3 — S -/•" 5^" ^^'Vt.~ .-' O Mg d3aJo2|iioj£C a; •3 mo: «w oO'-' 3 <^2 S-- = '*^W— ooQ 295 JOHNSON, BYRON BANCROFT, president American Baseball League, Cliicago: b. Ohio; att. Oberlin and Marietta Colls, and Cincinnati Law School; engaged in athletics and newspaper work; 7 years pres. Western Base- ball League; pres. American Baseball League since 1900; office, 343 S. Dearborn St. 296 9^ ;,-^-'^*^'->.^,; '""■■^f''- Clii'-iKo; b. ChifiiKO, Oct. 12. 1S72: s. Thomas M. and Jennie T. (Macav) Huvne- A B., \\ illiamsC ,,11., Ma.ss., Ls!!;,: LL. B. Northwestern I'niv. I.awSehool, 1897: admitted to 111. bar."l.S97 "and to the hrni of Iloym-. ( ) (nun,,!- A- Hoyne; asst. corpn. counsel of Chicago, July. 1903. to Jan., 1907: nominee of aem part.x lor c,,\iiii.\ ju(ls;c. liKK,: .special counsel for com. of city council on gas. oil and electric light 1907-8- drafted for cilj ( hicui-'o lelcphoMc ordinance of Nov. 7, 1907, under which company now operates- co'uiisel foi^ city mail teleplionc litisation in lower and upper houses between 1903 and liMl.S: appoiiiied asst ccrpn ciun.sel of Chicago, 1911: nominated on dem. ticket for state's attorney of Cool^ c,,uiil\- at primaries \pr 'i PilJ l'i)07- h\^^,^.-''"m ■'^'i'-I" u ""vne: mem. Chi. liar Assn., Chi. Law Inst.: clubs. Law. Legal. rniversiVv, Wauiiegan 297 PAM, HUGO, judge of the superior court of Cook county, is one of the leading members of the Chicago bar. He was born in Chicago Jan. 20, 1870. the son of Alexander and Cecilie (Oesterrelcher) Pam. He was educated in the Chicago public schools and graduated from the west division high school In 1S89. He entered the Univer- sity of Michigan, wa.s the orator of his class the first year, editor of the class publication in his senior year, and gracluateil witli the degree, of Ph. B. In 1892. He was adiiutleil to llu" Illinois bur in I s;)3 and has practiced In Chicago since that tiini-. He was one of the founders of the Maxwi'll Street SeltU'inent and of the Young Men's A.ssuciated Jewish Charities, is secretar.v of the Jewish Agicultural Aid Society of America and president of the Players' Club of the Chicago Hebrew Institute. He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois Bar asso- ciations, and of the Standard, Illinois Athletic and Ravlsloe Country clubs. He was elected judge of the superior cota-t of Cook county in November, 1911; office. County Bldg. 298 JOHNSON, HENRY WILLIAM, lawyer, Ottawa; b. La Salle Co.. 111.; s. Andrew H. and Sarah (Baker) Johnson; was brought up on a farm; educated in the public schools, Jennings .Seminary, and Northwestern University; admitted to the bar ol Illinois, 18S9; elected clerk of circuit court. La Salle Co., 188S by one plurality on the republican ticket; elected county judge of same county, 1894; re-elected in 1898, leading his ticket, and elected to the senate in the 39th senatorial district 1910; is president of the Ottawa Banking and Trust Co., Ottawa, of the Lee State Bank, Lee, and of the Central Life Insurance Co. of Illinois; member of the law Arm of Johnson & Hinebaugh; has been president of the Ottawa board of education; is an Elk, Knight of Pythais, a Knight Templar, and is affiliated with various other fraternities, and is also a member of the Ottawa Boat Club and the Hamilton Club; office, Ottawa. 299 ROGERS, BUELL SUMNER, phvsii-i;in ;inil surmMin, Chicago, was born in Ripon. Wis., June 9, 1S(>3. He is the son or Charles Franl ]'M)'.>. i-'cn. supt. l . M. & St. P. to 1912; at present as.st. gen. manager C.M.&St. P. Ry.; clubs, Milwaukee (Milwaukee), Minn(>apolis (Minneapolis), Silver Bow (Butte); office, Railway Exchange Bldg. 313 COWEN, WINFIELD SCOTT, chief grain insp. for 111.; b. on farm Altoona, Pa., Dee. 13, 1848; s. George and Mary (Barnhart) Cowen; ed. public schl.; came west with parents to Carroll Co., 111., 18.56; in grain and live stocli buying, 1876-88; dealer In hard- ware and farm machinery at Shannon, 111., 1887-92; postmaster of Shannon, 1889-9.3; apptd. chief grain inspector bv Gov. Yates, June 10, 1904; reapptd. by Gov. Deneen, July 1, 1907; mem. Nat, Chief Grain Insps. Assn. and 111. Grain Dealers' Assn.; trustee, Elgin Insane Asylum, 1897-1901; trustee Shannon, 111., several terms and pres. of l)()ard two terms; del. to repub. nat. convention 1S92; was one of 14 who voted for J. G. Blaine for presidential nominee; Mas(]n (:i2d degree, K. T. and Shriner) ; residence. Shan- non, 111.; also. 640 \vvk PI., Chicago; office. Insurance E.xehange Bldg HOLLY, WILLIAM H., lawyer. Chicago; b. Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 19, 1869; s. Timothy Rhude and Margaret (McDonough) Holly; adm. bar 1891; mem. firm of Prentiss. Baily & Holly. Macomb. 111.; moved to Chi. 1902; became mem. firm of Hail&Holiv; mem. Council of the N. W. Univ. Settlement, A. F. & A. M. and K. T.; clubs. City, Irish Fellowship; office, Ashland B\k. HUTTMANN, HENRY W., lawyer, Chicago; b. Milwaukee. Wis.. May 23, 1872; s. William E. and Corelia (Erpelding) Huttmann; ed. Fairmount Coll., Wichita. Central Normal Coll., Chi. Univ.; was newspaper reporter; adm. bar of Kan. 1897, of 111. 1902; in gen. practice; was in U. S. revenue service, Kan., 1893-6; acting co. atty., Sedgwick Co., Kan. 1896-8; mem. Chi. bd. of edn.. dir. in a number of charitable insts. and business corporations; mem. Chi. Bar Assn.; A. F. & A. M., clubs, Germania. German Press. Deut- sche Gesellschaft, German Sing Verein. and many others; office Harris Trust Bldg. COHEN, EDWARD, clothing niercliunt and city collector, Chicago; b. Buffalo, N. Y., June 13, 1S64; s. Charles and Clementine (Llch- tenstein) Cohen; clothing business, Ashland, Wis., 1883-1891; traveled for Kohn Bros., wholesale clothiers, 1891-1894; opened clothing business on his own account in Chicago, 1894; aid., Ash- land. W i.s.. 1SS7; appointed city collector by Mavor Harrison, May 1. 191 1; Mason, K P., Royal Arcanum; office, 9206-08 Com- mercial Ave. 314 UTPATEL, HENRY, lawyer. Chicago; b. Chicago, Apr. 22, 1870; s. William and Mary (Schroedor) Utpatel; ed. German Lutheran parochial schl.. Athenaeum and Chicago-Kent Coll. of Law: office boy in Are insurance office: chief booklieeper, Germania Fire Insurance Co. several years: studied law at night; repub.; elected alderman of the 15th ward, 1909 and 1911; mem. Hamilton Club. Teutonia Miennerchor, Wicker Park Misnnerchor, Chicago Quar- tette Club and Central Turn Verein; office, 408 Chamber of Com- merce Bldg. HAIGHT, GEORGE I., lawyer, Chicago: b. on Koshkonong Prairie, Wis., Mar. 26, 1878; s. Stephen and Ettie (Ives) Haight; ed. Univ. of Wis., B. L. 1899; I year Chi. Law schl., LL. B., N. W. LTnlv., 1902; professor of damages in Chi. Law Schl.; club, 20th Century; office. The Rookery. FYFFE, COLIN CAMPBELL, lawyer, Chicago; b. Ireland, June 10, 1860; s. John and Mary L. (Heslop) Fyfte: grad. Racine Coll. 1882; L. L. B. Harvard law schl., 1887; 1887 became law clerk; 1888 adm. to bar: began practice as a partner with P. S. Fuller, continuini; until isdii: then praotiii-d ahmc and was asst. corpn. counsel cif Clii. IS'i'.i IDdH; as.sociatcd with Henry Chancellor Wood in law firm of Wood . and Anna (Donnelly) Donovan; ed. Woodstock high schl.; Notre Dame Univ. LL. B., 1908: enter- ed law office of Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, Chicago: mem. Chicago Auto. Club and Elks; office, 38 S. Dearborn St. SWANSON, CHARLES E., manufacturer of wagons and automo- biles, was born and educated in Sweden. He Is the president of the Swanson Motor Car Co., whose address is 5711-19 Wentworth Ave., Chicago. 318 GLACKIN, EDWARD J . supt. of special ussessinent and secly. bd. of local improvements, Ctiicago; b. Montreal, Can., May 9, 1866; s. James J. and Mary (Deegan) Glackin; ed. St. Patrick's Acad.; elected state representative 17th dist., 1904 term, and state senat6r 1906 and 1910; mem. R. L.. K. C, fraternal Order of Eagles; offlce, Citv Hall. RYAN, FRANK S., deputy county comptroller, Chicago; b. Chi., Dec. 26, 1874; s. William and Ellen (Farrell) Ryan; ed. pub. schls., Bryant & Stratton Business Coll.; democrat; mem. co. central com. for past 15 yrs.; city paymaster for treas. of Chi. 12 yrs.; nominated for congress 1909 to fill unexpired term; mem K C. R. A., M. W. A., C. O. F.; office. County Bldg. BOYLAN. PETER RICHARD, lawyer, Chicago; b. near Portage, Wis., 1865; s. Peter and Katherine (McCarthy) Boylan; ed. pub. schLs. and Oshkosh, Wis., Normal Schl.; taught schl. meanwhile and grad. Normal 1894; principal Montello, Wis., high schl. 2 yrs.; studied law Princeton, Wis., law offlce; LL. B. Chicago Law Schl.; adm. bar 1897; member Chi. branch Oshkosh Normal Schl. Alumni and Wisconsin Soc. of Chi.; offlce. Tribune Bldg. HEALEY, CHARLES C, captain of police, Chicago; o. New York City, May 14, 1855; s. John J. and Bridget (Sullivan) Healey; ed. Chi. pub. schl.; entered the police service in the old Town of Lake, 1887, and has served continuously since that date; in charge of mounted police; ofHee, 1121 S. State St. 319 OHX S., FIP:LD, president of the Knic-kerbocker Ice Com- pany and The Consumers Company, of Chicago, is a native of Beloit, Wis., where he was born Aug. 14, 1847, the son of Spafford C. and Martha Ann (Durgin) Field. He was educated in the Beloit high school and after his graduation came to Chicago, where he obtained employment with Swett & Crouch, ice dealers, in 1867. The business was purchased in 1879 by E. A. Shedd & Company, of which Mr. Field was a member. The firm was incorporated in 1885 and Mr. Field was vice-president and general manager. He was elected presi- dent of the company in 1898, after it had been reorganized into the Knicker- bocker Ice Company and had absorbed thirty-five other ice companies of the city. In addition to being at the head of the Knickerbocker and Consumers companies, Mr. Field is president of the Eastern Indiana Company and director of many western subsidiaries of the New York Central lines. He also is a director of the Chicago, Terre Haute & Southern Railway Company. The career of Mr. F"ield is an illustration of the immense possibilities which the intricate business life of Chicago offers to the youth from the country and the small city who comes to the metropolis with a willingness to work and an eye for the recognition of opportunity. Ability for organi- zation, concentration of endeavors until success is won, and readiness to concede to others the full measure of their worth are qualities which have been the basis for the building of his high business status. Politically, Mr. Field is a republican. He is a member of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and of the following cIuIjs: Union League, I. A. C, C. A. A., Calumet, Mid-Day, South Shore and Press of Chicago, and of the Lawvers in New York. His office is at 39 South La Salle St. 320 WICKETT, FREDERICK H., lawyer. Chicago; b. Olsworthy, Devonshire. Eng., June 2.3, 1S6S; s. Richard and Jane (Hooper) Wickett: taken to Canada by parents in 1871: ed. Ontario Can.; read law in office of Colin Mac- Dougall, Q. C, St. Thomas. Ont.; came to Chicago in 1890. as atty. for X. P R. R. Co., with which remained until 1893; since then engaged in corporation practice; now counsel for various corporations and banks; mem. law firm Horton. Wickett. Miller & Meier; dir. Dre.xel State Bank, Chas. Herendeen Milling Co., Chicago Reduction Co.; chmn. of bd. South Side Brewery Co.; independent in politics; mem. Chicago and 111. Bar assns.; clubs. Union League, Mid-Dav, Midlothian Country, Chicago Golf, Kenwood, South Shore Country; office, 134 S. La Salle St. 321 1 :it Kvw.awv. VA. Nov. lb. lire lli-li .scllnol ill 1886, he i]i,Mi;r(l ill law practice. He _ _.. ___, . iiiudc licaii iif special assess- menriaw"dei«'rtniiMii''iii I'simT'elM^ legislature in iS96-lS!)8. and 1900 on the democratic ticket, and to the judmsliip in 1911. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association. Chicago Law Institute, Chicago Association of Cciinmerce, Knights of Columbus; club, I. A. C , office, County BIdg. SULLIV,\N, DENIS E., juiK'c cf sup'Tior (■..iirl .;[ ( -odlwounl > ( liu i^n wash. IStiT. llic s.iii of MorliniiT ami i:ilcii (llur!c\i SulUxan. .A ^'r.icluili of llii' Kc moved to Cliii-at-'c. Ill IsdJ. uradiiatcd from tlic ( ■|iirai;c Collcijc of I i« ii' ls'i.-,,aiii was appoinledassisiaii! corporation counsel of Cliicai;u by Mayor lianison in isil 322 MAYER. WILLIAM PITT, \ Rc-president. in charge of tlic Cfiural states (IcpariiiieMl. of the International Te\<- book Compiinv. best know n as proprietor of the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton. I'a.. Chicago. The Text-book Co.. capital .SIO.OOO.OOO, is the largest publisher of technical books in the world with a daily output of more than 1000 completed volumes. The International Educational Publishing Compan.v, au.\iliary concern, has a capital of 820.000,000. The International Correspondence Schools have enrolled upwards of 1,500,000 students. Mr. Maver is a lawyer by profession and for five years has been a resident of Chicago; office, 1006 S. Michigan Ave.' 323 WILKERSON, JAMES HERBERT, United States attorney. C'hicaKd; b. Savannah, Mo., De''. 11, 1S69; son John \V. and I>.v(lia (Austini Wilkerson: A. B., DcPaviw T'niv.. Crcencastlc, Ind.. 1SS9: .successfully repre- sented Iiid. in llic intcrsiatc oratorical contest of is^fi; priic-ipa! of liii;!! school. Ilasnni,'s. Xcli.. I.SIIO-I; in- structor in DcPauw Iniv., Ix'.H :i; ;i(lmitted to bar in ( 'liicaiio. is'.cl. and livKan praclici- with M.\!-on H. Beach: became connected, 189!, with law lirm of Tenney, Mcfonnell A t'offcen, and a partner in that hrm in 1900; firm later changed to Tenney, Coffeen, HardiiiL' & Wilkerson; now mem. firm of Brundage, Willcerson & Cassells; repub.; mem. 111. legislature, 1902, from Kiili disi . . conducted the fight for a state civil service law and intro- duced and secured the passage of the constitutional jiiiicndment for a new charter for Chicago: appointed atty. for Cook Co., 1903, and conducted impo-taiit litigation involving questions of ta.vation .particularly the taxa- tion of the capital stock of corpus.: appointed special atty. for the r. S.. 190(i, in cases involving violations of Interstate commerce acts, particularly pro-^ccu lions against the Standard ( )il ( 'o.; appointed special asst. to atty.- gen. of U. S. 1910, in prosecutions against Swift '. Plilla.; Marshall yrs.; asst. chief factory insp. (jf III. llilil 2; fr of dept.: pres. Internal. .\ssn. of Factor^ 330 OWENS, FRANCIS J., commr. of track elevation, Chicago; b. Chicago Jan. 29, 1S77; s. Patricia H. and Mary (Clark) Owens; ed. St. Patrick's Commercial Acad.; with C, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. 1894-1911, when appt. to present position: at end of service with railway company was chief elk. in comptroller's office, and auditor of Continental Telegraph and Continental Express Cos., subsid- iary companies; office. City Hall. BEEBE, WILLIAM, lawyer, Chicago; b. Chicago. Aug. 29, 187-'. grad. pub. sehls. and Chicago Manual Training schl., LL. B., N. W Univ. 1S94; adm. to bar 1894 and entered office of Johnson & Morrill; has been one of attorneys for the Sanitary dist. of Chi- cago for more than ten years; mem. Chicago Bar Assn. and Univer- sity Club; nominated tor judge of municipal court on repub. ticket, 1912; office, 76 W. Monroe St. DEMME, EMIL, hotel manager, Chicago; b. Berlin, Ger., Sept. 24, 18.57; s. Edward and Ernestina (Bibbe) Demme; ed. schools in Germany; came to Chicago, 188.5; engaged in express business in Berlin, in employ of the Berliner Spcditeur-Verein before com- ing to America; since then continuously identified with restaurants and hotels; mgr. Bismarck Hotel and restaurant since opening, Apr., 1894; dir. and mgr. of Bismarck Garden, and pres. of Inter- national Hotel Co.. Thirty-second degree Mason, Shrlner; mem. Orpheus Maennerchor, Chicago Sharpshooters' A.ssn.; clubs, Germania, I. A. C; office 175 \V. Randolph St. COFFEY, MICHAEL J., impiirl iiig lailiir of ( ■liicago; b. Dublin, Irelaiul. .\ug. 7. isiis. the sim uf .lnhn and M:iry (Turner) Coffey. He gradualiMi from ihc Marlhornugli high school, and learned the tailoring bu.sincss ( 1887-90) withTlionias Drury & Co., Dublin. He came to the United ."States and conducted stores for William Jerrems' Sons in St. Paul and Minneapolis 1892-95; later opened third store for same company at Omaha and made big success of all three during 1898-1901; he conducted La Salle street store, Chicago, for William Jerrems' Sons, and started in business lor himself In 1901; office, 19 S, I,a Salle St. 331 HAFT, CHARLES M.. luwver. Chicago; b. Highland, Kas., Oct. 24, 1871; s. James ami Addie (Close) Haft; ed. pub. schls. Hia- watha, Kas., and Rapid City, S. D., high schl.; LL. B. Univ. of Mich, 1892; adni. lo bar, 1S92; mem. Masterson & Haft, 1893- 1905: firm of Hebel tli ward repub. cluh.s; nicni. A. F. A A. M.. R. A.. Phi .\Ii)1ki Delia law fraternity, Chi Har Assn.: clul). Hamilton: office, Countv Hldg. REYNOLDS. RICHARD JAMES, City business agent, Chicago; b. Chicago, Jan. 13, 186,5; s. Peter F. and Margaret Reynold.s; ed. pub. sehls.; messenger boy Chicago Bd. of Trade for seyenteen years; was connected with Arm of Logan & Bryan; appt. city pur- chasing agt. April 17, 1911; K. C, C. B. L.; office, City Hall. MAGILL, L.VWRENCE M., state's attv., Rock Island: b. Moline, Sept. 1,3, 1874; grad. 111. Wesleyan Univ.; adm. bar 1897; repub.; served in III. legislature 1903-5 and special session 1906: elected state's at).\-, 19(is: prcs. III. State's Attornevs Assn. 1911: nieni. Red Men, I':iks, i;:iglcs, Moose, K. P., I. O. O. F. and III. liar Assn.; clubs, Hamilton, Moline, Rock Island; office. Rock Island. O'BRIEN, WILLIAM JOHN, detective agency. Chicago; b. Mil- waukee, Wis.. May 29, 1874; s. Timothy and Maiy A. (Donohue) O'Brien; ed. pub. schls. and Marquette I'niv., Milwaukee; was postal elk. Milwaukee; later brakenian. secret service operative and special agt. until I9(IS, wIumi started in business for self: has worked on numerous important cases; had charge for police dept. of "bomb brigade" under chief Steward, 1910; mem. R. L.; office. 17 N. La Salle St. 334 CASE, CHARLES CENTER, Jr., lawyer, Chicago: b. Boone Co.. 111.. Dee. 14, 1S7S; ed. country schls. Boone Co.; Rockford high schl., N. \V. Univ. 1897; Harvard Univ. 1S99-1900; LL. B., N. W. Univ. law schl. 1903; adm. to bar 1903; employed by various law firms; since 1910 practicing alone; dem.; mem. Phi Delta Theta Phi Delta Phi, Chi. and 111. State Bar assns., and several fraternal bodies; clubs, Rcclsford of Chi., Harvard, Iroquois; res., Evanston; office, 106 N. La Salle St. CURTIS, VERNON S., pret^. iiirii,- Hn.k i o . Park, 111., Oct. 6. l.S78;s. Alonzo and Klizabclh grad. l"ni\ . sclil.. Cleveland, O., 1899; elected .s Brick C(i. 111(11. and pres. 1903; dir. West HMMHiioMd Savings Bank. Grant Park Trust & Savings Bank; repub office. Chamber of Commerce Bldg. plK-11- Mcjuz^ Cirant Curtis; 1 Curtis ;tate & Mason; SULLIVAN. MICHAEL F., lawyer, Chicago; b. Logansport, Ind., Feb. 27, 1869; ed. Chi. Coll. of Law; ha.s been a resident of Chi. for 21 years and has practiced law 15 years.; was asst. corporation counsel under Mayors Harrison and Dunne; appt. fire atty. 1911; dem.; mem. R. L., K. C; office. Title & Trust Bldg. HITTELL, JOHN B., civi engineer, Chicago; b. Louisa Co., la., Jan. (i, ISfili; s. Thomas and Lydia Stettler Hittell; C. E., Lehigh Univ., S. Bethlehem. Pa.; over 24 years' continuotis service with the city of Chicago as engineer in charge of street construction; chief engineer 1900-12; club. Illinois Athletic; mem. Am. Soc. of Civil Engrs., .\m. Soc. of Municipal Improvements, pres. of III. Soc. of Engrs. and Surveyors: secty-treas., .\ssn. for Standardiz- ing Paving Specincationi; office, City Hall. 335 ILLIAM A. GARDNER, president of the Chicago & North- western Railway, was born at Gardner, 111., in March, 1859. After attending the common schools, he learned telegraphy and began his railroad career as a telegraph operator on the Chicago & Alton railroad at Lemont, 111., in 1872. He entered the service of the Chicago & Northwestern road in 1878, and has been connected with it in one capacity or another ever since. He was assistant superintendent of the Wisconsin division from 1885 to 1890, superintendent of the same division from 1890 to 1896; assistant general superintendent of the road from 189G to 1899: general manager from 1899 to 1906, and vice-president from 1906 to 1910. He was elected president of the road in 1910. Mr. Gardner also is president of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway; vice-president of the Macoupin County Railroad; vice-president of the Superior Coal Company and president of the Con- solidated Coal Company. Mr. Gardner succeeded Marvin Hughitt, who was elected to the chair- manship of the board of the Northwestern road. At the same time he was elected a director, succeeding Hamilton McK. Twombly. "I have always tried to be a first-class subordinate," said Mr. Gardner once, in explanation of his work as a railroad man. "We can't all be general managers, but we can all try," he said on another occasion, when an old associate congratulated him on his appointment as general manager. These two expressions sum up the secret of his success. There is, perhaps, no better illustration in railroad circles of the adage that perseverance brings success than the rise of President Gardner. It was with deliberation that he joined the Northwestern forces in 1872. At that time he is said to have determined to stick to the road until he reached the top. It is related of him that he refused at least two railroad presi- dencies during the period that he was vice-president of the Northwestern, giving as his reason that he preferred to remain with that road because he knew every foot of it and every man on it. In politics Mr. Gardner is a republican. His clubs include the Union League, Mid-Day, Industrial, Country of Evanston, Evanston, Glen View and Hamilton. His residence is in Evanston and his office, at 226 W. Jack- son Blvd., Chicago. .336 Xy^rzC^Oin^ BERRY, ORVILLE F.. lawyer, Carthage: b. Table Grove, McDonough Co., 111., Feb. 16, 1852; s. Charles Lee and Martha (McConnell) Berry: removed to Hancock Co., worked on farm until of age: moved to Carthage 111., 1876: read law and admitted to the bar, Jan. 1879: engaged in law practice with Thos. C. Sharp under the firm of Sharp & Berry: a few years later, his brother. M. P. Berry, entered the law Arm under the name of Sharp & Berry Brothers: continued practice of Law ever since: firm established loaning practice; gen. atty for insurance dept. of 111. under Gov. Tanner's administration: elected to the state senate, 1889, and served for twenty years: chm. of com. appointed under Gov. Tanner's administration to investigate Chicago police- chm of com. to investigate the defalcation of treas. of state univ. under the administration of Gov. Altgeld: presided over repub. state conventions, 1896 and 1908: was appointed receiver by comptroller of currency for the Peoria Xat. Bank; was first mayor of city of Carthage, serving six years consecutively and four years later, making a ten-year period as mayor: served as trustee of Carthage Coll. for fourteen years: mem. Masonic order. Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of United Workmen and Modern Woodmen; mem. Hamilton Club of Chicago- pres of Dime Savings Bank, Carthage; pres. and mgr. Mississippi Valley Telephone Co.. vice-pres. and dir Jeffer- son Printing Co., Springfleld, 111.; chm. of railroad and warehouse commission of III.; repub.; office, Carthage 337 WILSON, C. E., originator and distributor of Wilson pound calte, Chicago; b. England, March 17, 1867: s. John and Annie (Turner) Wilson; came to U. S. when 19 years old and located in Boston, Mass.; was in dry goods business until seven years ago; started in business in Chicago, August, 1909, with one wagon; ikiw furnislies pound cake to customers with twenty-three wagons in Chicago, seven in St. Louis, four in Pittsburg;, anil fnur in Cleveland, delivering more than ten tons of pound cake daily; has branches in St. Louis, Pittsburg and Cleveland; office, 16.3.3-.35 W. Twelfth St. 338 ROSENTHAL, JAMES, lawyer, Chicago; b. Chicago. Apr. 10, 18,59: s. Juliu.s and Jctrc Rosenthal; ed. graded and high schls., Chicago; LL. B. Yale Univ., 18S0; adm. to Conn, bar on graduation, 1.SS0, and to III. bar July, 1880, associated with his father's firm, Rosenthal & Pence, 1880-5; since 1894 senior mem. of Rosenthal, Kurz & Hirschl, succeeded after the death of Mr. Hirschl in Feb.. 1908, by present firm of Rosenthal & Kurz; was for 3 years mem. of the board of edn. of Chicago; one of organizers and l.st secty. (1SS2-.3) Young Men's Hebrew Charity Assn.; repub.; clubs. City, Hamilton, Ravisloe; mem. Chicago Bar .\ssn.. III. State Bar A.ssn., Chicago Law Inst.; office. Rector BIdg. 339 EBERSON, JOHN, engineer and constructor, Chicago, was born in Austria, Jan. 2, 1875. He is the son of Sigfried and Lora (Schmidt) Eberson. His education %vas received at the high scliool of Dresden, Saxony, and the University of Vienna, from which graduated. He practiced electrical engineering in St. Louis, Mo., between the years 1899 and 1901. From that time and up to 1909 he followed construction work throughout the United States. Since then he practiced architectural engineering and has specialized on theater construction. He is now engaged In a study of wastes and soil fertility. He Is a member of the Chicago Association of Commerce; clubs, Hamilton {Hamilton, O.), South Shore; office, .'^9th and Iron sts. 340 MITCHELL, EDWARD EVERETT, banker, of Carbondale, and state treasurer of Illinois, was born in Wil- liamson Co., 111., Nov. 11, 1858. the son of William Nazareh and Rachel (Roberts) Mitchell. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Williamson county. He is cashier of the First National Bank at Carbondale; vice-president of the Carbondale Trust and Savings Bank and treasurer of the Carbondale Mill and Elevator Co. His political career includes activity in the republican state central committee for several vears. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1SS8 and was elected state treasurer in 1910. He was an active member of the Illinois national guard for seven years. He is a member of the Chicago Automobile, Sangamo and Illinois Country clubs; is a Mason, Odd Fellow and Elk; address. Carbondale, 111. 341 DONNELLEY, THOMAS ELLIOT, printer, Chicago, was born in Chicago, Aug. IS, 1867. He is the son of Richard Robert and Naomi Anna (Shenstone) Donnelley. He attended Yale University and graduated from that institution with the degree of B. A. in 1889. Immediately he entered the printing business which had been e.stiil)li.shi'd by his father in 1861. He served as a workman in all dcparinients of the business and upon the di-aili of Ills father, in 1S99. was equipped to assume charge. Since IS'.t'.i he has been president and treasurer of R. R. Diiiiiicllcy A S(jns Company. He also is president and treastircr (jf the Lakeside Press Building Company and a director of the Chicago Directory Company. He belongs to the Commercial, Chicago, Union League, University, Quadrangle, Caxton, Onwentsia and Chit Dwellers clubs. Residence, Lake Forest; office, 731 Ply- mouth Ct. 342 CUDAHY, EDWARD ALOYSIUS, packer, Chicago; b. Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 1, 1860: s. of Patrick and Elizabeth (Shaw) Cudahy; grad. Milwaukee grammar schls. 1873; moved to Chicago, 1876; engaged with Armour & Co. in the beef and pork packing business; moved to Omaha, Neb., 1887, to serve as vice-president and general man- ager of the Armour-Cudahy Packing Co.; 1891 to 1911, served as vice-president and general manager and president and treasurer of the Cudahy Packing Company; moved to Chicago, 1911. where he resides; he is at present serving the Cudahy Packing Company as president and treasurer; clubs. Union League, Glen View; office. 111 W. Monroe St. 343 TAYLOR, EDMUND H. JR., son of John Eastin and Rebecca (Edrington) Taylor and grandson of Richard, Jr., and Mary Taylor, was born at Columbus, Ky., in 1832. Before the civil war he engaged in baulking. In 1868, with little more than his business qualifications to bank on, he began the manufacture of whisltey, at Frankfort, Ky., and in this struck the floodtide of his career. His ready intuition soon mastered all details of the science of distilling and its products, and placed him in advance of the day in perfecting his novel and improved methods which have acquired fame for superior purity and excellence wherever fine Bourbon whiskies have become famed over the world. Since 1868, barring some incidents of reverses and financial troubles, this enterprise has steadily grown in prestige and prosperity. From 1871 to 1891 he was ri|H;il((lI\ clccicd mayor of the city of Frankfort, serving in all sixteen years, and until his removal to his new and licaulifiil r-. He Is president of the Woolner Distillery company, of Peoria. Mr. Woolner is vice-president of the .Vatinual Wholesale Liquor Dealers' association. He has taken an active part In politics and has been chalnnan of the Peoria county democratic central committee and a delegate to the democratic national convention. He Is a member of Creve Cour and Country clubs of Peoria and of the Illinois Athletic club of Chicago. Address, Woolner Distillery Co., Peoria, III. 362 HARRIS, JOSEPH, pres. Automatic Electric Co., Chicago; b. Chicago, June 19. 1S54; s. Soloman and Hannah (Summerfield) Harris; ed. Dearborn and Jones grammar schls. and West Division high school, Chicago; one of pioneers in developing the independent telephone service and was the first to promote the automatic tele- phone as a commercial utility; was Instrumental in organizing the Automatic Electric Co., In 1901, of which has since been consecutively vice-pres. and pres.: has changed the telephone system of Cuba from the manual to the automatic system; also that of Honolulu, H. T., and many centers In the U. S.; now engaged in installing the automatic telephone system in Chicago; mem. Chicago Hist. Soc. and Art Inst, of Chicago; clubs, Mid-Day, Chicago Automobile, I. A. C, South Shore, also Republican and New York Athletic clubs of New York; olHce, 1001 W. Van Buren St. 363 USTIN B. CARPENTER, president of the Booth Fisheries Company of Chicago and the North AYestern Fisheries Company of Seattle, Wash., was born at Windsor, Ohio, Nov. 8, I860, the son of Orwell S. and Mary (Bvyington) Carpenter. He attended school in Ashtabula county, Ohio, prin- cipally Grand River college. Mr. Carpenter began his business career in the general freight office of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railway, at Cleveland, and later was employed with the Geneva (O.) Machine company. He moved to Chicago and entered the service of Armour & Co., starting in the auditing department and continuing for twenty-one years up to June 1, 1911, when he was in the executive department of the company. He has been president of the Booth Fisheries Company and the North Western Fisheries Company since June 1, 1911. Mr. Carpenter is a member of the following clubs: Chicago Golf, Glenview Country, Calumet Country, Kenwood, Mid-Day and C. A. .A His office is at 22 W. Monroe St. The Booth Fisheries Company maintains fleets of fishing vessels in all the principal waters in and adjacent to the United States and Canada. In season it ships millions of oysters daily to inland points. The Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, and other fishing waters, are plied by the vessels of the Company. Special refrigerator cars bring the fish of the Florida Keys to the table of the Chicago diner within forty-eight hours from the catch. On the Pacific coast, from the Columbia to the Yukon rivers, the organization maintains canneries where more than twenty million cans of salmon are packed each year. 364 A. B. CARPENTER 365 LEWINSOHN, SOLOMON A., insurance, Chicago, was born in Detroit, Mich., Sept. 17, 1865, the son of Lewis and Anna (Epstean) Lewinsohn. He is now the vice-president of the Empire State Surety Company. In 1893 he was assistant prosecuting attorney of Chicago. He is a democrat, a member of the Cook County Democracy, Knights of Pythias, and National Union. His office address is .54 W. Randolph St. 366 RYDZEVVSKI, FRANK X., member board of local improvements, Chicago; b. Russian Poland. Feb. 19, 1867: emigrated to U. S. while still a boy; employed in various capacities at 111. Steel Co., So. Chi., then opened liquor store and restaurant; democrat; appt. to bd. of local improvements 1911; mem. numerous fraternal socs.; address, 8300 Superior Ave. O'DONNELL. PATRICK SHAUGHNESSY. phj sician and sur- geon, Chicago; b. Carrickfergus. Ireland, Sept. 12, 18S0; s. Peter Shaughnessy and Mary O'Donnell; ed. Trinity Coll.. Dublin: Christ Church hospital, London, A.B.; is a specialist in radiology; licentiate of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ireland; late radiologist Michael Reese hospital, Chicago; mem. British Medical assn.: office, Heyworth Bldg. LUCHOW. HANS ADOLF EMIL. niaiuif-'iT western branch August Luchovv's Imported Beers, t'hiciimi: h. HaiKjvcr. Ccrinany. .July 24. l.SSl; s. Adolf and Sophie Ddrclhca (Kuetemeieri Luchow; ed. bus. coll.. Toronto, Can.: connected with otllces of .August Luchow, wholesale dept., in New York, until 1908: since then western representative of same firm; office. Stock Exchange Bldg. DANNER, M.\X L.. captain of police; b. St. Louis. Mo.. May d. IsCiT; s. I.ilicit and i;iizalicth Daiiner: joined police (Icparlnient Cliicai-'o. IS'.IO; 1 in 111 luted !■> II11--I of patrol ser^-faiu. ISIIS; iironiotcd to lieutenant, I'.illl; made captain, I'.IOS; handled many notable cases, among them Evelyn .Arthur See case; mem. Royal Arcanum; office. Sheffield Ave. Station. 3G7 ILBUR GLENN VOLIVA, general overseer of the Christian Cathohc Apostohc Church in Zion, and John Alexander Dowie's successor as head of the Church, was born in 1S70, near Newtown, Indiana. His father, a lawyer by profession, occupied a farm near his ])lace of practice, and (ieneral Overseer Voliva lived on this farm until the com- mencement of his college career. After a five years' course he was graduated from Union Christian College, at Meron, Sullivan county, Ind. At the age of nineteen he was ordained to the ministry in the Christian (sometimes called the New Light) Church. He served three years as pastor of the Christian Church at Linden, Ind., and one year as pa tor of the same denomination's Church at L^rbana, 111. Upon leaving Urbana he pursued theological studies for a year in the seminary at Stanfordville, N. Y., during part of which time he supplied the jjulpit of the Chestnut Street Christian Church in Albany, N. Y. His next pastorate was at York Harbor — on the Maine coast — where he remained several months. Soon after leaving York Har})or he became a member of the Disciple Church, and, in the fall of 1895, he entered Hiram College, at Hiram, O., where he won the degree of B. A. At the same time I^nion Christian College conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. After his graduation he was pastor for eighteen months of the Christian Church at Washington Court House, O. He took his stand with John Alexander Dowie, Feb. 'i'i, 1899. In April, 1899, he was ordained to elder- ship in the Christian Catholic Church in Zion and for fourteen months was elder-in-charge of the north side Zion Tabernacle, Chicago. He was assigned to Cincinnati, O., and in 1901 was called back to headquarters by Dr. Dowie. In August, 1901, he was ordained overseer and assigned to duty in Australasia. A biographer says: "His ministry is Australia proved a phenomenal success. He took a keen interest in the upbuilding of Zion City, in the LTnited States, and during his ministry over 500 Australians crossed the ocean in order to have the privileges of a home in Zion City. "In January, 1906, upon the failing of the health of Dr. Dowie, he sent for Overseer Voliva to return to Zion City and become the deputy general overseer of all Zion's work. The latter arrived in Zion City Feb. 14, 1906, and immediately assumed the onerous duties. Dr. Dowie was at the time in Jamaica, where he had been taken to avoid the severe northern winter, in a state of precarious health and unable to help himself; and, by reason of the severe mental strain of years and fatigue, he was, much of the time, irrational, and labored under harrowing hallucinations, and from far Jamaica was issuing orders and attempting policies impossible for Zion and Zion City. The unfortunate condition of affairs naturally made Deputy General Overseer Voliva's task no light one, but he soon succeeded in partially re-establishing the confidence of the people of Zion City and that of the business world. "He was not permitted to complete that confidence. For some time lax business practices had obtained in the affairs of Zion and Zion City, caused no doubt by Dr. Dowie's oversanguine temperament and by mis- information given him by officers not fully in harmony with Zion's ideals. Finally, the deputy general overseer felt compelled, at the instance of a 368 wailing people, to protect the innocent from certain financial wreck, and if possible, save the sitnation. "On the advice of counsel, the people were fully advised of the situation, and April 1, 1906, with practically one voice. Deputy General Overseer Voliva was asked to lead them and Zion's affairs, and at the same time it was demanded that Dr. Dowie, by reason of his mental and physical condition, should be retired. Acting upon the suggestion of a few of his attendants. Dr. Dowie attempted to prevent this action, and all Zion was soon in the midst of a war of supremacy. Dr. Dowie appealed to the courts. The ADMINISTRATION BUILDING contentions of those who sought the retirement of Dr. Dowie and the sub- stitution of Deputy General Overseer Voliva were sustained. A receiver, however, was appointed at the instance of non-Zion creditors, and every- thing belonging to Zion was turned over to the receiver in Ju-y, 1906. "Even when the receiver was in charge. General Overseer Voliva's work was not confined to the ecclesiastical field. He realized that as leader of a people who regard all of life's activities sacred it devolved upon him to accomplish the dissolution of the receivership. Zion had to be reconstruct- ed. It was an imperative necessity. From his viewpoint the age, and Christianity itself, demanded it. The receiver has been discharged. Gen- eral Overseer Voliva is in charge of both branches of his church, temporal and spiritual. Practically bankrupt when the })roperty was turned over to him, the holdings of the church to-day in Zion Gity approximate in value one million five hundred thousand dollars, the realty holdings alone being three thousand acres of farming land, including eight hundred of desirable lake front, and two thousand liuilding lots." 369 -X >r?- r. 5&< _:l> -o -■a g"? J-3td = '-::s- 5 = - 5 %l -^r- — > /r r^ > s - ■r - = - SZo> £ _ '- sS ~ ■r. > ; >^ '' — V V. = i 5 l^ii "- - ; 3 §°£ ^ r w : iiS c tr — _ :»: :z ■-^ 1 i ^ if t-t- X ■y- " S^S — Tlfeti y ^ ^ -^ i - % ^fil a -f- a c< ^^a a 370 TSAAC ARTHUR ABT, physician, Chicago; b. Wihnington, 111., Dec. 18, ■*■ 1868; s. Levi and Henrietta (Hart) Abt; ed. Chi. pub. schls. and prepared for coll. at Univ. of Chicago; entered Johns Hopkins Univ., and completed preliminary medical course in 1889, grad. from Chicago Med. Coll. 1891; interne Michael Reese Hosp., 1891-3; post-grad, work in Vienna and Berlin, 1893-4; specialist in diseases of children; was prof, of diseases of children at Northwestern Univ. Woman's ^led. School until it went out of existence; formerly asso. prof, diseases of children, Rush j\Ied. Coll.; prof, diseases of children Northwestern Univ. Med. Schl. since 1909; attending physician diseases of children, Michael Reese and Cook Co. hosps.; consulting physician to Provident Hosp. for Crippled Children, Jackson Park Sanitarium, Chicago Orphan Asylum, Mary Thompson Hosp. and Evanston Hosp.; mem. Am. Pediatric Soc, Am. Med. Ass., Chicago Pediatric Soc, etc.; has written many monographs on subjects relating to diseases of children; office, 3^ No. State St. TOSEPH DE SILVA, physician and surgeon, Rock Island; b. Jacksonville, ^ 111.; s. Joseph and Threasa (Geovia) De Silva; ed. pub. schl. Jacksonville; grad. Whipple Acad., 111. Coll.; N. W. Univ.; was interne at Mercy Hosp., Chi.; pres. bd. of trustees 111. Institution of Feeble Minded asylum; secty. bd. of commrs. 111. state penitentiary; ex-mem. bd. of Rock Island pub. library; conir. of health, city physician, dim. Rock Island county central com., pres. Rock Island Co. Humane Soc, trustee municipal tuberculosis hosp., secty. Nat. Assn. of Penal and Reform Institutions, mem. 111. State Medical Soc, Am. Medical Assn., Am. Acad, of Medicine, Nat. Assn. of Railway Surgeons, Rock Island Co. Medical Soc; club. Rock Island; office. Safety Bldg., Rock Island. JOSEPH P. PERCIVAL, physician and expert on insanity cases, is a native of Chicago. He was appointed superintendent of the Norfolk State Hospital for the Insane at Norfolk, Neb., in 1908, by Governor Ashton C. Shallenberger. In February, 1911, Dr. Percival was appointed superintendent of the Cook County institution at Dunning. He resigned the position in August of the same year. He has been a practicing physician in Chicago, Omaha and other cities for twenty years and has specialized on nervous and mental diseases. Address 1801 So. Center Ave. FRED M. WING, lawyer, Chicago: b. Kendall Co., 111., Apr. 13, 1877; s Russell Merritt and Amelia S. (De Land) Wing; ed. pub. schls. Evanston, N. W. Acad., N. W. Univ.; studied law with father; adm. bar 1901; con- continued in father's office and later became partner, firm name Wing & Wing, subsequently Wing, Wing & Stansbury; in gen. practice; democrat; mem. Sigma Chi; clubs, Calumet, Kenilworth; office. New York Life Bldg. 371 ■^ S £ » ;, S5it - ; Q O £ C T'O'O^ 1~''- Id 'i a s ," •- ^—i',;::: 372 EDWARD THOMAS GLENXON, lawyer, Chicago; b. Woodstock, 111., Aug. "21, 1856; s. Thomas Glennon; ed. public schools of McHenry Co., 111., and then was for 11 years engaged in journalism, being at one time proprietor of the Woodstock Sentinel; left journalism to take up the study of law in 1881; grad. Union College of Law, Chicago, 1884; admitted to the bar, June, 1884, and at once engaged in practice of law in Chicago; asst. special assessment atty. under Oliver H. Horton, corpn. counsel, Apr., 1887-Dec., 1888; then asst. state's atty. under Joel M. Longenecker until May 1, 1891; appointed police magistrate by Mayor Hempstead Washburne, 1891, and resigned in Nov., 1896; mem. of law firm of McFaden & Glennon, rep. L. S. & M. S. Ry. Co., 1896-7; mem. of firm of Pam, Donnelly & Glennon and its successor, Pam, Calhoun & Glennon, Feb., 1898,- Feb., 1904; then of Glennon, Cary & Walker, and now Glennon, Cary, Walker & Howe; appointed master in chancery circuit court of Cook Co., 1897; is dir. Am. Automatic Switch & Signal Co.; republican; clubs, C. A. A., Hamilton; office. La Salle St. Station. WILLIAM G. BEALE, lawyer, Chicago, was born at Winthrop, Me., Sept. 10, 1854, the son of William and Lucinda (Bacon) Beale. He received the degree of A. B. from Bowdoin College in 1877, and read law in the office of Williams & Thompson, at Chicago. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1881 and has practiced in Chicago ever since. He is the senior member of the firm of Isham, Lincoln & Beale. He was president of the Chicago board of education during 1891 and 1892 and corporation counsel of the city of Chicago from 1895 to 1897. He is one of the three trustees holding majority of stock of the Chicago Tribune under the will of the late Joseph Medill. Mr. Beale is a republican and is a member of the Chicago University and Union clubs of Chicago and of the Union and University clubs of New York. His office is at 72 West Adams St. WEIL, JOSEPH A., lawyer Peoria; b. Peoria, May 30, 1S70 ;s. Isaac A. aiKl Babetta (Herold) Weil; ed. Peoria high schl.; adm. bar, 1891 ; partner of Isaac C. Edwards until latter's death. IsStfi; practiced alone until Jan., 1912, then partner of Joseph F. Bartlcy; mem. democratic state central com. from 16th. congressional dist.: mem. A. F. & A. M., K. P., M. W. A., B. P. O. E.; club, Creve Coeur; offlce, Jefferson BIdg,. Peoria. MAHONEY, JOSEPH T., Chicago; active in labor union organiz.a- tion; assisted In organization of south side street car men. 1902; 1909. elected financial secretary and business agent of South Side Street Car Men's Union, known as Division 260 of the A. A. of S. & E. of A., comprising 3,400 men; re-elected 1910; also elected member of the Chicago city council, 1910. 373 THE CHK A(,() 130AHD OF TRADE T was but the fulfillment of destiny that Chicago should become the leading grain market of this continent, if not of the world. Its geographical location on the Great Lakes, in the early days the only practical means of transporting bulky freight to the east, combined with the wonderful expansion of farm cultivation and production to the west of it, established the grain business as the leading industry in the then frontier settlement, and this proud position it has never relinquished. The history of the Board of Trade of Chicago is but the history of this city as a grain market. Its beginnings naturally were small. As early, however, as 1845 the grain CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE business had assumed such proportions that the establishment of a grain exchange similar to those in the older cities of the East was agitated in a local newspaper called the "Merchant." Nothing came of this suggestion until the year 1848. On the thirteenth of March of that year a call was issued for a meeting of the business men of the city to organize such an Exchange. The movement was started by Messrs. T. Richmond and W. L. Whiting. At the first meeting a consti- 374 tution was adopted and a committee appointed to draft by-laws. At the second meeting, on the first Monday of April following, the Association was fully organized, with Mr. Thomas Dyer as the first president, and a general invitation was extended to all merchants to meet daily at the first home of the Exchange, over George J. Harris' flour store on South Water Street, rented for $110 per annum. Space forbids any description of the early trials and vicissitudes through which the institution struggled to its present position of pre-eminence. Nothing but the splendid enthusiasm and far-sighted optimism of its founders kept it alive. Every expedient was resorted to in order to main- tain the interest in the organization. In these early days, however, were established those high-minded principles of commercial rectitude and integrity between members which are everywhere associated with this Exchange and which even its enemies are forced to concede. In 1851 the membership of the board had grown to about 400, half of whom were active. This forced the removal to larger quarters at the corner of South Water and Clark streets, which were leased at an annual rental of $250. The activity of the new institution grew apace with the expand- ing grain business. The years 1858 and 1859, following the panic of 1857, were the most prosperous years of the Exchange since its organization. A need was felt for its legal incorporation under the laws of the state, and this was accomplished in the latter year. It still exists under this charter. The splendid record for patriotism which the board maintained in the critical period of the Civil War must be passed over for lack of space. Upon the cessation of the war, a renewed impetus was given to the grain trade at Chicago, and likewise renewed activity took. place upon the Board of Trade. On August 15, 1865, the board moved into its handsome new quarters in the Merchants Exchange Building at La Salle and Washington streets, for which it obligated itself to pay an annual rental of $20,000. Thus, in seventeen years, its growth was so phenomenal that its rent for business purposes grew from $110 to $20,000 a year. This building was destroyed in the fire of 1871, but was rebuilt and re-occupied by the board on the first anniversary of the fire, October 9, 1872, where it remained until the completion, May 1, 1885, of the building upon its present site at Jackson Boulevard and La Salle Street. About this time memberships, which were practically gratuitous in the early days of the organization, reached the highest value in the entire existence of the board, several having been sold at $5,000. Likewise the initiation fee had been raised from $5 to $5,000. This account indicates in decidedly superficial way the growth of the Board of Trade in connection with the grain trade of Chicago. It was established to meet a pressing demand for a place where the buyers and sellers of grain might meet and transact business at the least expense of time and convenience. It has become, by the evolution of time, the market place of the world for these commodities. No one can doubt that the growth and prosperity of Chicago in the grain industry have been largely due to the enterprise and business foresight of the Chicago Board of Trade and its members. 375 THE LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK, located within the boundaries of the Union Stock Yards at Chicago, is transacting business under its third national bank charter. It represents by its directory, com- posed of the leading financiers in the packing industry, its progressive, alert and able officers and ample capital, forty-four years of the phenomenal growth of the Chicago live stock market from small beginnings to its present gigantic proportions. Here it is that the enormous daily receipts of live stock are converted into cash and the clearances made through this natural channel. This bank has always kept well abreast of the times and wisely adapted itself to constantly changing conditions, pursuing a broad-gauge policy toward its cus- tomers in directly ]jromoting the best interests of the live stock business at Chicago. Country bankers whose customers are the live stock producers have been con- stantly attracted to the special advantages offered by this bank through its ability to handle proceeds of live stock sales with promptness and satisfaction and without loss of time, both in interest and notice of credit. Its present large line of country deposits is rapidly increasing, for these and other excellent reasons. Its helping hand reaches far, and not only strongly grasps the legitimate lines of business which the name indicates, but also is in close touch with and well able to take care of any and all business which a Chicago bank is called upon to handle. The unfailing courtesy of its officers gets business and keeps it, and all within the limits of sound banking. SELLA WOOD DEAN, society woman and authoress of Chicago, was born • at Corona, Ohio. She was brought to Chicago by her parents when she was a year old and lived until a few months ago at the family residence at 392-1 ^Michigan Avenue. Recently Mrs. Dean moved to 5000 Drexel Boulevard. Mrs. Dean is a cultured singer and a noted horsewoman. She has traveled extensively and speaks French, German. Italian and other foreign languages fluently. Her first novel was entitled "Shibboleth." Her latest work, called "Love's Purple," has elicited comment because of its bold treatment of social conventions. Mrs. Dean is an ardent believer in women's rights and has taken an active part in the fight for the ballot for women in Illinois. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Art In- stitute, the Amateur Minstrel Club, the Chicago Woman's Club, the Colonial Dames and other clubs and societies. Mrs. Dean is the daughter of the late Dr. Samuel E. Wood, a pioneer Chicago physician, who died in 1908. She is the widow of the late John E. Dean, de- ceased 1908. 376 RODGERS, CALBRAITH P.. aviator: b. ISSO, Pittsburg. Pa.; s. Capt. Calbraith Perry Kodgcis, V. S. A.; deceased, Long Beach, Cal., Apr. 3, 1912; educated at the University of Columbia and the University of Penn- sylvania; began aviation career June 6, 1911; won endurance prize and record, Chicago meet, July, 1911; first aviator to cross the American continent in an air craft; left N. Y. City, Sept. 17, 1911, and arrived at Long Beach, Cal., Dec. 10, 1911; distance covered 3,634 miles; actual flying time, 103 hours; at various times resided in Chicago. New York and Havre de fJrace, Md. 377 •— :i r. 5 =, ca- ps a; 2^ 378 THE AMERICAN STEEL FOUNDRIES was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, June "^C, 18J)'-2, and acquired the following prop- erties: The Sargent Compan}' of Chicago; Reliance Steel Castings Company of Pittsburg: Franklin Steel Casting Company of Franklin, Pa.; Leighton & Howard Steel Company of East St. Louis, 111.; American Steel Foundry Company of Granite City, 111., and the American Steel Castings Company of Alliance, O., Chester, Pa., Sharon, Pa., and Norristown, Pa. Since then the company has acquired the Simplex Railway Appliance Com- pany of Chicago and control of the American Steel Bolster Company. It has an authorized and issued capitalization of $17,184,000. Much of the company's tonnage is derived either directly or indirectly from railroads, particularly for cars and locomotives. It manufactures cast-steel bolsters, wheels, couplers, brake-beams, Andrews side frames, and all kinds of steel castings. The company has foundries at South Chicago and Indiana Harbor. Its offices are at 72 West Adams Street. Officers: President, R. P. La- mont; first vice-president, George E. Scott; second vice-president, R. H. Ripley; third vice-president, W. J. Lynch; secretary and treasurer, F. E. Patterson; comptroller, Thomas Drever. Directors: William V. Kelley (chairman), E. H. Gary, John M. Harrison, W. W. Butler, Morris Bachman, E. F. Goltra, W. D. Sargent, Arthur J. Eddy, George B. Leighton, Max Pam, Charles Miller and Edward Shearson. HOOD McKAY, president of the O. S. Richardson Coal Company, of Chi- cago, was born in New York City, Feb. 29, 1868. He was an anthracite operator in Pennsylvania, for many years, and later a mining engineer. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. At the two storage, preparation and reshipping docks of the O. S. Richardson Coal Company, located on the north and south branch of the Chicago river, are stored more than 100,000 tons of Susquehanna anthracite, in addition to the soft coal and coke, and the tonnage in the team hoppers and storage bins of the rail yards. The natural breakage incident to handling in and out of the great coal barges requires — in order that the coal may yield a maximum of efficiency to the consumer — a complete and thorough retreatment and preparation. When the coal goes through the Richardson preparation plant sit is sorted, uniformly sized and the dirt is eliminated. Address 203 So. Dearborn St. WILLLA.M H. ROSECRANS, consulting engineer and president of the W. H. Rosecrans Engineering Co., of Chicago, was born in Kankakee, 111., April 20, 1870. He is the son of Edwin and Louisa Rosecrans. He attended the University of Michigan and was graduated in 1894 with the degree of B. S., later C. E., and subsequently to this received an honorary degree in civil engineering. He has been chief engineer of the Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa R. R., and the Elkhart and Western R.R., superintendent of construction with the firm of J. G. White & Co., and chief civil and hydraulic engineer of the Arnold Co. He was also consulting engineer in U. S. irrigation and pumping water power. The company of which he is now president maintains offices in Chicago and New York. Mr. Rosecrans is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Office, 30 N. La Salle St. 379 C-.5 5'i(5f~is2 B^-H Sfvj ^O ..^ .-^ r £ J_ ■- ^ J5 '-' , -•3i:5i; .at:> ^ ct- = ■■— =^ g o. 7 . :; K 2 ■'^ bJ o r - - ^ - oj c3" 3 : ~ o ij « ^■— — 6- C O r 5 5.- it: ^-3- 7 i ^£ i.-|"Wco s - - : - ■ ej c .. ^7 - i: S J= == 2 '- -'-7 -OhJ^H ~ ^^ 5— a civ; a: i- 380 ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD HERE were 111 miles of railroad in operation in the state of Illinois in February, 1851, when Gov. French approved the legislative act incorporating the Illinois Central Railroad and signed the charter of that road, which has since played a most noteworthy part in the development of Chicago and the state. There were but 800,000 persons in the state at that time and the population of Chicago was only 28,000. The state treasury was all but bankrupt and the great prairies that now yield the richest crops in the Union were, for stretches of hundreds of miles, unfilled and unj)ro- ductive. To-day the Illinois Central has more than 4,500 miles of track and its growth has been commensurate with the development of the state of Lincoln, Douglas, Grant and Logan. The original plans of the road called for the building of but 706 miles of track under the state charter. The Illinois Central is the outgrowth of an act of congress passed Sept. 20, 1850, granting certain government lands in Illinois, Mississippi and Alabama for the construction of a "national highway" from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico. The first surveying party was put in the field May 21, 1851, and rails, weighing 65 pounds to the yard, were shipped from England. Population quickly followed the construction of the road and farms were settled, crops grown, cattle, hogs and horses raised and heavy shipments of farm produce were ready for the road as soon as it was extended to new districts. Into the charter of the road was written the provision that in lieu of taxes seven per cent of the gross receipts were to be paid to the state, and in the sixty years of its existence the Illinois Central has con- tributed to the state treasury assessments wdiich have kept the tax rate down and contributed to the wiping out of the state debt. The Illinois Central was the first American road to furnish sleeping cars for its passengers, twenty years before the advent of the Pullman sleepers. Its suburban service out of Chicago was established in 1856, when George B. McClellan, then vice-president of the road, gave orders for the running of local trains to Hyde Park, then eight and one-half miles from the city. To-day the suburban service of the road is the largest in the world. MilHons of suburban passengers ride on the Illinois Central suburban trains annually. Electrification is a problem which has engaged the attention of tlic management of the road. This question has been referred to a committee named by the Chicago Association of Commerce, which is preparing a comprehensive report on the subject. 381 CHARLES P. SKINNER, paint ml'r., Moline; b. Rock Island, 111., Jnne 13, 1870; s. Charles W. and Julia (Mirfield) Skinner; ed. pub. schls. Rock Island, Geneseo Acad.; was bookkeeper Moline Nat. Bank 5 yrs.; with Davis Co., contractors, 5 yrs.; repub.; alderman 2 yrs.; mayor 2 yrs.; mem. 111. naval militia; ranking officer lieut. 3rd brigade, I.N.G.; mem A. F. & A. M., I.O.O.F., B.P.O.E., Red Men, K. P., Eagles; clubs; IVIoline, Rock Island, Rock Island Arsenal Golf; office, 101-105, 16th St. MATHIAS WENGLER, cigar manufacturer, Chicago, was born in Luxem- burg, Germany. He was educated in St. Michael's school, Chicago, and as a member of the firm of Wengler & Mandell started making cigars in 1879, building the business up from small beginnings to one of large proportions. He is a member of A. F. & A. M. Address, 1932 W. Madison St. LA SALLE STREET NATIONAL BANK, CHICAGO The La Salle Street National Bank opened for business May 9, 1910. In spite of the fact that this institution is one of the newcomers in the field, it has quickly won its standing among the leading banks of Chicago. Occupying spacious and completely modern quarters in The Rookery, at La Salle and Adams streets, it is most conveniently located to the commercial district. The administration of the La Salle Bank has been particularly eflBcient and capable and its policies have been con- servative from the beginning. Following is a list of the officers and board of directors: William Lorimer, president John M. Roach William Lorimer Elbridge Hanecy C. B. Munday, vice-president B. G. Brennan Joseph Hock William Lorimer, Jr. Wm. Lorimer, Jr., vice-president George O. Gunderson Paul F. Deich Charles G. Fox Charles G. Fox, cashier James E. BeNxNett W. A. Gardner Leonard J. Lorimer, secretary T. J. Magner William J. Moxley C. B. Monday p. M. Hanney Leonard J. Lorimer H. W. HUTTIG J. P. Gallagher 382 CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RY. ^^NE of the most remarkable railroad building operations in the history of the world was the laying of the extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway to the Pacific coast, making it one of the five trans-continental railway systems of the United States. The extension is called the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway. It was built under the direction of President A. J. Earling at an approximate cost of $100,000,000. Feats of engineering skill and daring that were little dreamed of fifty years ago, when the first transcontinental line was projected to the coast, marked the progress of its construction. The extension is approximately 1,400 miles in length. It connects with the older portion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at Mobridge, S. D., and runs through South and North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington to the cities of Seattle and Tacoma. Building of the exten- sion was begun on April 2, 1906, and the last rail was laid on March 29, 1909, the scene of the ending of the great undertaking being at Missoula, Mont. Statistics compiled by officials of the road give some idea of the amazing project which was completed in the record time of three years. More than 60,000,000 cubic yards of material were excavated, 360,000 cubic yards of tunnel were driven, more than 200,000 tons of steel rails were laid and twenty miles of bridges were erected. One steel bridge, crossing the Missouri river at Mobridge, consists of three spans, each 425 feet long, with one trestle approach. It cost $2,000,000. Another great bridge across the Columbia river cost $.1,000,000. On the western slope of the Cascade Mountains, Topographer's Gulch, as deep as a tall skyscraper, required 630,000 cubic yards of filling, which necessitated the setting up of a $60,000 sluicing apparatus before a single cubic foot of earth was moved. The builders of the extension found the lowest grades, took the shortest cuts and connected the cities of Seattle and Tacoma with Chicago with a steel band over which travel fast, luxuri- ously appointed, newly built trains. ELMER ADAMS LAUGHLIN, vice-pres. Joliet Railway Supply Co., Chicago; b. St. Louis, Mar. 11, 1879; s. Henry D. and Ella (Haynes) Laughlin; att. St. Louis pub. schls.; grad. Rush Med. Coll., 1896; with Am. Brake Beam Co. as asst. mgr. 1896; 1897 assisted in organization \Yest Coast Co.. mfrs. of roofing materials, and standard Ry. specialties; was gen. mgr. and dir. until 1904; became identified with Perry, Sideberry & Co., mfrs. of Ry. sui)plies, which merged with Joliet Ry. Supply Co.; 1909, of which became vice-pres.; dir. Nat. Hollow Brake Beam Co., Northern Hotel Co.; clubs: C. A. A., Chicago Yacht, Kenilwortli, North Shore Golf; residences, Oregon, 111., and Kenilworth, 111.; office, Fisher Bldg. 383 384 HE KEWANEE BOILER COMPANY was organized in 189^2 to take over the business of the Haxtun Steam Heater Company, which, during the preceding twenty-three years, had steadily grown to meet the increasing demand for steel boilers for heating purposes. The recognized permanent success of its product very clearly demon- strated the truth of the prophesy made in the early sixties for a first class steel boiler. Soon after the organization of the Kewanee Boiler company, it became necessary to increase materially its manufacturing facilities to meet the demand for its products, the most important of which was the Kewanee fire-box heating boiler. Among the original officers who are with the company to-day are: E. E. Baker, president; B. F. Baker, treasurer and J. P. Dugger, secretary. These men have continually directed the affairs of the organization and have adhered to their original determination to produce nothing else than the highest grade of goods possible. This policy has made necessary the splen- didly equipped plant of the company at Kewanee, 111., and the sales offices and stores in Chicago, New York City, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Minne- apolis, and Los i\.ngeles. The factory and general ofllces at Kewanee are shown on the opposite page. Here the company has the most complete, the most modern and the largest boiler factory of its kind in the world. The various buildings for the manufacture of boilers and radiation cover more than twenty-one acres. Several of the buildings are more than 600 feet long, and vary from 100 to 250 feet in width. Their construction is substantial and designed to pro- vide light and sanitary conditions for the emploj'es. The electric, hydraulic, pneumatic and steam driven machinery is of the most modern kind obtainable. The product is sold principally in the United States and Canada for the better class of public and semi-public buildings and is marketed through co-operation with the best heating engineers, architects and heating con- tractors. The result of the organization's policy is seen in the fact that for several years they have produced on an average one boiler every twenty minutes. 385 2c a-H Ef" o" S=3c3.0feO P- a2S ^ c3 d ^ oSgo|'2 O ^ S M.S uc . •£> O b. t: TS =; >. a Z -a j: — i; " Z. -II c r" '^ F ?i ^ 386 2 L'-?Jk 387 388 . S s 5 £ -III lili I Z.2>5 Z 3fi 389 3 () ^"CI o o ~s - « art X ilil z=|i 0- •£: = C5°r< « 2." C r" M " S 391 ILLINOIS ZINC m m NE of the most im])ortant industries in Pern, 111., and one of the largest plants of the kind in the conntry, is the Illinois Zinc Company, which was incorporated Feb. 3, 1870. The original stockholders were Calvin Wells, Aaron French, William Mullins, James D. Layng and Archibald Means — all Pittsburg men except Mr. Means who came from Steubenville, O. The latter was the company's first general manager. After his death in May, 1898, Thomas F. Noon succeeded to the position. The first president was Calvin Wells, who retained the oflSce until his death, Aug. 2, 1909. He was succeeded by Frank S. Layng, of New York, who died Feb. 11, 1911, and was in turn succeeded by Thomas F. Noon, the former general manager. The officers of the Company are: President — Thomas F. Noon, Peru, 111. Vice-President — James D. Layng, Jr., New York. Treasurer — Ben G. Wells, Philadelphia, Pa. Secretary — W. S. Clow, Peru, 111. The principal office of the Company is at Peru. The eastern sales office is located at 81 Fulton St., New York City. Starting from a comparatively modest beginning, the manufacturing facilities of the Illinois Zinc Company have been increased from year to year on account of the rapidly growing demand for the high grade of material produced. 392 OMPANY, PERU, ILL. The works are provided with all the latest machinery and improvements and according to one competent to judge the present eciuipment is not surpassed by any similar establish- ment in the world. The plant covers fifty-two acres of ground, of which twenty-five or more are under cover. The buildings of latest erection are built of steel, brick and con- crete, and are of the most modern mechanical construction. The frontage of the plant is more than one-half mile in length. The original plant in 1870 was for the smelting of spelter only. At the present time the company has seven large gas smelting furnaces and produces nothing but a high grade of spelter made from the best quality of zinc blende ore from Joplin, Mo., and from south- ern Wisconsin. In 1882 a sheet zinc rolling mill was added, which has been enlarged from year to year as business developed. The latest addition is a ribbon or strip mill where zinc can be rolled up to 250 feet in length. In 1895 a sulphuric acid plant was added. This has been enlarged from time to time in keeping with other developments. The company has its own tank cars sufficient for shipment of all the sulphuric acid produced. In 1901 a coal mine was opened at Deer Park, 111., from which the necessary fuel required at the plant is mined. In all departments about 1,000 men are employed by the company. 393 •J 5 °^' £ '° ^' s - ■- 5f r.-T^'&^s ^a*^Q ^ C3-3 j£ ci-^". : = - o oa; ^ 1 1^ -f X c ; J' ^ M° E ^' 2 = a S oi: j^lSoii.S s c; S - S*" - 2 K^ r. . - = r -O c •-;.= . ^> t. c t- o K X 5 S'— 394 395 T^."^-^ LINK-BELT COMPANY, CHICAGO PLANT The Link-Belt Company Is a pioneer and leader In the clrsli;ii. development and manufacture of chains, wheels and other equipment for the continuous handling of raw and manufactured products In elevators and conveyors and for the transmission of power. It manufactures coal crushers, screens, tipple ciiulpment, locomotive cranes, peck carriers, friction clutches gears, sheaves, etc. It dcsiuns and builds i-cial washerlcs and l(ic(jMi(itlve C(ialin« statlcms. The Kwart Manufacturing company, organized In 1S75, with llu' assipciatcd liifiM-csts, thi' Lliik-Hi'lt MaciiiiK-rv ( ■oiiip;iii\'. urgaiilzcd In Issi), tis tlic Link-Hclt i:ngi- neerlng company, ciruaii'zcd In Issii. w.tc im-rgccl a-; the l.iiik-Hclt Conipainln r.»l)i;. The i;wart works at ltuliaiiapy the rural space between Ohio and the Rocky Mountains. In this area is produced the greater part of the beef, pork and mutton which goes to make up the daily bill-of-fare of the meat-eating population of the world. About .$1,000,000 per day in value is the measure of the live stock trade of Chicago. Previous to 180.5 Chicago's live stock trade was handled and controlled by three or four of the principal railroads entering the city. A few small slaughter houses took care of the business chiefly for local consumption. Ten years later the refrigerator car made its appearance and practically from that day the city's supremacy as a Hve stock center began to grow. In 1860 the value of live stock handled in Chicago was $4''2,765,3'-28. In 1875 the amount had increased to $117,533,94^2, in 1885 to $173,598,00^2, in 1895 to $^200,- 58-4,380 and in 1905 to $300,47^2,480. In 1911 the value was $339,484,690 and the volume 16,397,49^2 head. During 1911 271,660 carloads of stock were shipped into the stock yards. By head and value the classifications for that year were: cattle — head, 2,931,831, value, $180,- 200,174; calves — head, 521,512, vahie, $5,788,785; hogs — head, 7,103,360, value, $110,- 037,446; sheep — head, 5,736,244, value, $24,634,185; horses — head, 104,545, value, $18,818,100. Chicago receives and disposes of fully 30 per cent of all the live stock slaughtered in the United States. Even with liberal distributions at other points, Chicago has received 398 RDS, CHICAGO in one day 49,000 cattle, 87,000 hogs, and 71,000 sheep and in one week 95,000 cattle, 300,000 hogs and 227,000 sheep. The month's record stands at 385,000 cattle, 1,111,000 hogs and 895,000 sheep. There are sixty-seven abattoirs in Chicago nnder government supervision. Nearly 700 acres in the southwest section of the city are given over to the packing industry. Pens and buildings for the yarding of stock take up 325 acres and the abattoirs which convert the major part of this stock into food take up more than 300 acres. There are more than thirty miles of streets and more than 300 miles of railroad tracks in Packing- town, as the principal part of the stock yards is called. There are 13,000 pens, 8,500 of which are covered or double decked. The water pumps have a daily capacity of 8,000,000 gallons and the reservoirs have a capacity of 10,000,000 gallons. There are 90 miles of water pipe lines and 50 miles of sewers. Troughs for feeding and watering animals have a total extent of 25 miles. Acres of brick pavements, concrete buildings, area ways and pens and other modern features are being rapidly installed in Packingtown. Chicago's Packingtown is a world in itself and the one great feature of the city which the visitor feels duty bound to see. More especially is this true among visitors from abroad, where the reputation as a great packing center is even more firmly established than at home. Here a great army comes and goes every working day of the year and takes with it a remembrance of modern slaughtering methods on a most stupendous scale. The visitor is impressed with the thoroughness of it all and observes how carefully everything is utilized, even to the smallest hair and the last drop of blood. It is above all a magnificent lesson in system and industrial economy. In addition to the vast amount of meat turned out from this industrial center hundreds of by-products are made out of material which was, only a few years ago, thrown away. It is the utilization of this material and the abilitj' to convert it into useful merchantable things that have done more to build up Chicago's Packingtown than the sale of beef, pork and mutton. 399 400 LAIRD & LEE Chicago's claim to supremacy in the publishing business is based upon actual output. Of all the great houses whose books are read in every corner of the world, none, perhaps, have so large a following as Laird & Lee, whose school dictionaries, standard reference books, scientlflc and educa- tional publications and fiction have a wide circulation. It was in 18S7 that Laird & Lee began busi- ness in a little room at the corner of Lake and South Water streets, three titles being their stock in trade. They were so succes.sful they were obliged to seek larger quarters the next year, and again in 1SS9, when they leased 4.000 square feet on Jack.son boulevard. So large hart their output become and .so constant the (Icinaiid of the public for their publications that in l.s!»o they again were obliged to move, this time to 2ii3 \\ abash Avenue, where 14,000 square feci of well-lighted space gave them room for growth commensurate with their needs. In 1911, however, tliey again found it nece.ssary to enlarge their quarters and in the new electrically equipped tire-proof building on the northwest corner of Eighteenth Street and Michigan Avenue they are installed in adequate quarters. In 1894 William H. Lee purchased the interests of Fred C. Laird. BUSH & GERTS PL\NO FACTORY The factory of Bush & Gerts, piano makers, occupies a block of ground at Dayton and Weed streets, Chicago. The business was founded by the late W. H. Bush, who conducted it for a short time under the name of W. H. Bush & Co. In 1906 the Bush & Gerts company, which had previously been incorporated, was made a million-dollar corporation. The officers of the company are William Lincoln Bush, president; John Gerts, secretary and treasurer: W. S. Miller, vice-president, and C". 11. Stone, Fargo, N. D., se<'oiKl vice-president. The executive offices and warerooms of the company are located in the Bush Tcini)lc Conservatory of Music, at the northwest corner of Clark Street and Chicago Avenue. President Hush is one of the leadiiii; i)iaii(i men of the L"nited, States and has occupied high official positions in the National Piano Manufacturers' .•Association. 401 McCORMICK BUILDING, CHICAGO f '*• 111' Tlllll I S 1 ! « " 5 " "^ " ^ r r ^ 3 5 THE CORN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK, CHICAGO The Corn Exchange National Bank is one of the bis financial institutions that help make the name of La Salle street famous. It is housed in an impressive skyscraper which bears the name of the bank. The Corn Exchange Bank was established in 1871. The officers are: president, Ernest A. Hamill; vice-presidents, Charles L. Hutchinson, Chauncey J. Blair, D. A. Moulton and B. C. Sammons; secretary, John C. Neely; cashier, Frank W. Smith; assistant cashiers, James G. Wakefield and J. Edward Maas. iiOLi,DlRD-A!,T)-RoC: ■ ' T^ ifrmiriiiiiiii itim CITY HALL AND COUNIV BL:ILDING. CHICAGO. rUioU'iiu;,' wurk furuislad b,\ Z;iiidur-Ueum Co., lOJ \V. Monroe St. Chicago. SI'S c3 — 'Ecu ;- O N C3 S =^ HI C K c. 2ia Q o o ■=■0 3 O esc = »: o rt Y! "- — CJ *i o 404 r u i^- r- r i t^' -^ :^ r r ' \^^ 'ip' I ' ■ "• .- r r r r tt ^ i i^'fr ■'^' ;r-. L ^ ^ ^'"^ - r r r I U t«^ - r r r^ ^ '^ i^ ^- ^ ■ I "^ii i[ fl " r r r ? fe KARPEN BUILDING, 910 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago. H. L. Stevens & Company, contractors, have offices Room 1109. 405 PALMER HOUSE \ STATE AND MONROE STREETS, CHICAGO ONE of the most celebrated and substantial buildings in Chicago, situated in the center of the business district, is the Palmer House, which was built in 1872, soon after the great fire. The style of architecture is massive and elegant, and the building faces on three of the principal streets of the city. The Palmer House to-day represents the best in all things. Its cuisine cannot be excelled, and as for comfort, richness and solidity, this hotel, although one of the oldest in the city, ranks as the best. Chicago is still and always will be proud of its celel)rated hotel, as the years seem to only enhance its excellency. William C. Vierbuchen is the manager. 406 OLIVER TYPEWRITER COMPANY'S BUILDING AT 159-167 N. DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO The Oliver Typewriter company was organized in 1896 and occupied one room In the Atwood building, Chicago. It now enjoys its own home in the handsome five-story building erected in 1907 at 159-167 N. Dearborn street and occupies the entire structure for Its general offices. The factory is located at Woodstock, 111., where it was established in 1896. It has grown from a small building to many one story buildings covering more than ten acres of ground, and employs thousands of men in the manu- facture of typewriters only. This is truly an Illinois product and from its phenomenal growth, its popularity and worth are easily estimated. Hundreds of thousands of Oliver typewriters are in daily use throughout the civilized world. The officers are men of prominence, force and ability. Lawrence Williams is president and general manager; Delavan Smith, vice-president; E. H. Smith, second vice-president and treasurer; Ricord Gradwell, second vice-president and assistant general manager; John Whit- worth, second vice-president and superintendent of factory at Woodstock. 407 408 409 C W w Q eft 410 >. 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The builders of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway carried out a heavy trunk line of four tracks from the heart of the city straight west two miles, and then four double-track branches spreading out and covering a territory eleven miles in length and six miles in breadth. All four branches operate over the main line around the Union Loop during the twenty-four hours of the day. The main line parallels Van Buren street from the loop to Marshfield avenue. Garfield Park branch leaves the main line at Marshfield avenue and parallels Van Buren street to Fifty-second avenue, then on the surface to Forest Park (Harlem). Douglas Park branch leaves the main line at Marshfield avenue and parallels Paulina street south to Twenty-first street; thence west ])arallel to Twenty-first street to Forty-third avenue, then on the surface to Fifty- second avenue and Twenty-second street. The Logan Square branch leaves the main line at Marshfield avenue and extends in a northwesterly direction to Robey street and Milwaukee avenue, and then parallel with INlilwaukee avenue to Logan Square boulevard. The Humboldt Park branch extends west from Robey street and Milwaukee avenue, paralleling North avenue to Lawndale avenue. The Metropolitan company pur- chased property between Jackson boulevard and Van Buren street, from the river to Fifth avenue, and built a terminal, costing approximately $1,500,000. A regular service is operated in and out of Fifth avenue terminal morning and evening. The Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad, which taps the Fox River Valley, runs all its trains into Chicago over the Metropolitan to Fifth avenue terminal. The Northwestern Elevated Railroad is the four-track route of the Chicago elevated railroads. Its lines are extensively patronized by peojile living along the lake shore as far north as Wilmette, and in the beautiful residence district of Ravenswood. The main line leaves the Union Loop at Lake street and Fifth avenue and runs in a northerly direction, paralleling the shore of Lake Michigan. Belmont avenue is the junction of the main line and the Ravenswood division. The Chicago and Oak Park Elevated Railroad is the original elevated line of Chicago, and runs west on Lake street through Austin and the suburb of Oak Park. It is a three-track route west from Rockwell street to Fifty-second avenue, a distance of three and one-half miles, which perinits of express service during the rush-hour periods of the morning and evening. The South Side Elevated Railroad is one of the most popular and convenient means of transportation on the South Side. All the main points of interest on the South Side are reached by its various branches. The main line runs south just east of State street to Fortieth street. The line runs east on Fortieth street, crossing Michigan avenue and Indiana avenue, then runs south to Sixty-third street, paralleling Grand boulevard. On Sixtv-third street the line runs east to the terminus at Jackson Park, made famous bv the Columbian World's Fair. The Normal Park branch leaves the Englewood division at Sixty-third street and Stewart avenue, running southerly and westerly. At Fortieth street and Indiana avenue the Kenwood branch extends to the east, with a terminus at Forty-second street, at the edge of the lake. Indiana avenue is also the junction for the Stock Yards branch, extending west. This line crosses Halsted street just north of the Dexter Park Amphitheater, and forms a looj) m the heart of the stock yards. 417 THE COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY OF CHICAGO is one of the world's foremost public service organizations. It supplies Chicago with electricity from its large central stations for lighting, heating, and power purposes, at wholesale and retail. It operates under a broad charter and valuable franchises, and by virtue of the reliability of its supply, appropriate rates for classified service, a progressive policy of rate reductions compatible with the wonderful growth of its l)usiness. it has won an unusually favorable popular regard. .■- ^^-xm^z:^ GENERAL OFFICES, COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY It operates three principal and three subsidiary electric generating stations, of which the Fisk Street power house, with ten steam turbine generating units totaling 120,000 kilowatts capacity or 160,000 horsepower, and the Quarry Street station with six similar units totaling 84,000 kilowatts or ll!2,000 horsepower, are at present the largest. The third, known as Northwest station, is already operating two units of 20,000 kilowatts each, or together .34,000 horsepower and will ultimate- ly be very much larger than either of the others. These stations deliver high-tension electric energy through underground cables to fifty-three sub-stations located in centers of demand. In the downtown portion of the city twenty-two rotary converter sub-stations distribute direct current at 115 to 230 volts, but by far the larger part of the 196 square miles of Chicago receives alternating current service from other sub-stations at the same pressure. Sixteen sub-stations contain very large storage batteries which are capable of supplying the service in adjacent sections for a short period in case of need. 418 Large stores of coal are maintained on the grounds at the generating stations and also at two coal storage yards just outside of the city, assuring an independent coal supply sufficient for a period of two or three months. The coal burned in the company 's powerhouses in one year amounts to approx- imately one million tons, consisting principally of Illinois screenings. The com- pany's individual customers now number more than 140,000. Its wholesale cus- tomers are chiefly the local elevated and surface transportation companies. It sells annually one-third more electricity to one-third more consumers for about one-third less dollars than anv other central station concern in the world. FISK STREET AND QUARRY STREET POWER HOI SES OF THE COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY, LOOKING FROM THE NORTH The increase in connected load in one year is now considerably in excess of one million lamps of 50 watts each. The company maintains a well-eciuijjped new business department, emi)loy- ing a large number of solicitors. Experts are in charge of each branch of this work, and every facility is afforded prospective customers for estimating the comparative advantages of electricity for light, heat, and power from the central station. The Company employs more than $60,000,000 of capital represented by stock and bonds. The annual appraisement of its physical properties and system, made by an independent firm of engineers, shows an actual value in excess of the Com- pany 's book value. The stock of the Company is all in shares of $100 each and pays six per cent. It finds a ready market at $1^20 to $lJiO a share with slight fluctuations. The annual earnings are about $11,000,000. The Company pays taxes, franchise remuneration, etc., totaling approximate- ly $1,000,000 a year.' The number of employes on the regular payrolls is now approximately 3,000, exclusive of day labor. Several important provisions for the general welfare of these emploj'es are maintained. 419 COSMOPOLITAN ELECTRIC COMPANY STATION, CHICAGO The Cosmopolitan Electric Company is a central station electric light and power company supplying consumers in a considerable portion of the city of Chicago where it maintains its distributing lines. The power house of the company, illus- trated herewith, is situated on the south branch of the Chicago river, on Grove street just east of Canal street. This is a modern, complete and efficient power generating station of sufficient capacity to take care of the needs of the company for some years to come. It is equipped with four large steam turbines driving alternating current three-phase generators, the equipment including condensers, circulating water for which is secured from the Chicago river and high vacuum by which the greatest efHciency in the use of the steam in the turbine is secured. The offices of the company are located on the eighth floor of the Peoples Gas Building, Adams street and Michigan avenue. 420 UNITED CEREAL MILLS, LTD. J. E. LINIHAN Vioe-Pres., Treas. and Gen. Mgr. Maniifarturcr.f of WASHINGTON CRISPS L. D. WALLACE, Jr. Sec'y and Gen. Sales Mgr. gill I'' I'.iiiiMH'" CtuincKia. plant United £ereal THUU liW. 421 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SETTLEMENT, at 4030 Gross Avenue. ChicaKo. was established in 1894 bv the piiilanthropic committee of the Christian Union of the University of Chicago. In ISitS the settlement was incorporated. The gymnasium of the present building was erected in 1899, and the residents' house in 1905. Miss Mary E. McDowell began her work in the settlement in 1894 and has gathered other workers about her until the present number of resident workers is eighteen. The settlement is located in the great industrial community of foreign-speaking people who work in the stock yards and packing houses, and is closely identified with the life of the neighborhood. It has for its object the industrial, social, and moral betterment of those living in the community, and it co-operates with all other agencies working towards that end. EDWARD C. WALLER, real estate, Chicago, b. Mason Co., Ky., Nov. 21, I8-I0; s. Henry and Sarah B. (Langhorn) Waller; ed. schls. in Ky., and Chicago; resident of Chicago since 1860, and since 1866 engaged in real estate business; pres. North Am. Accident Ins. Co.; secty. and treas. Central Safety Deposit Co.; mem. Chicago Real Estate Board; clubs, Union League, Chicago Golf, Press, Saddle and Cycle; residence. River Forest; office. The Rookerv. REV. CASIMIR IGNATIUS GRONKOWSKL Roman Catholic priest, Chicago; b. Linne, Poland; s. Felix and Julia (Maciejewska) Gronkowski; ed.'Lipno and Nowemiasto colls., Poland, philosophy; St. Mary's Sem., Baltimore, Md., theology; St. Francis Sem., St. Francis, Wis.; ordained June 20, 1897, asst. pastor at St. Josaphat's Church; appt. pastor of St. Salomea's, Kensington, Apr. 27, 1900; promoted to St. Adalbert's, Chicago, Dec. 1, 1904; address, 1611 S. Paulina St. MENDOTA THE city of Mendota is 82 miles southwest of Chicago at the junction of the Illinois Central and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railways. It is the home and the place of the invention of the famous Tower corn cultivating implements which are widely used throughout the corn belt. The original of these implements are manufactured at Mendota by the J. D. Tower & Sons Company. 422 ABBREVIATIONS A. A. A. S. — American Association for the Advancement of Science. A. B. (also B. A.) — Bachelor of Arts. acad. — academy. adcn. — admitted. A. F. & A. M. — Ancient Order of Free and Accepted Masons. agt. — agent. Ala. — Alabama. Am. (also Amer.) — American. A. M. (also M. A.) — Master of Arts. appt. — appointed. Apr. — April. Ariz. — Arizona. Ark. — Arkansas. Assn. — Association. asso. — associate. asst. — assistant. att. — ^attended. atty. — attorney. A., T. & S. F. R. R.— Atchison. Topeka & .Santa Fe Railroad. Aug. — .4ugust. Av. — Avenue. A. & P. Ry. — Atlanta & Pacific Railway. b. — born. B. .\. (also A. B.) — Bachelor of Arts. B., A. & P. Ry. — Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway. Bapt. — Baptist. bd. — board. BIdg. — Building. bldrs. — builders. Blk.— Block. Blvd. — Boulevard. B. P. O. E. — Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. B. S. faiso S. B.) — Bachelor of Science. B. & M. R. R. R. — Burlington & Missouri River Railroad B. & O. R. R.— Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Calif. — California. Can. — Canada. capt. — captain, cav. — cavalry. C. B. L. — Catholic Benevolent League. C, B. & O. R- R- — Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. C, C, C. & I. Ry. — Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianap- olis Railway. C, C, C. & St. L. Ry. — Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & Sf Louis Railway. C. & E. I. R. R. — Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. C. G. W. R. R. — Chicago Great Western Railroad. C. A. A. — Chicago Athletic Association. C. E. — Civil engineer. Chap. — Chapter. Chi. — Chicago. chm. — chairman. C, H. & D. Ry. — Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway. C, I. & L. Ry. — Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway. C. J. R. R. — Chicago Junction Railroad. elk. — clerk. C, L. S. & E. R. R. — Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad. C, M. & St. P. Ry. — Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. C, O. & G. R. R. — Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad. Co. — Company; county. C. O. F. — Catholic Order of Foresters. col. — colonel. Coll. — college. Colo. — Colorado. com. — committee. comm. — commission. commr. — commissioner. Cong. — Congress; also congregation. Conn. — Connecticut. conv. — convention. C, R. I. & E. P. Ry.— Chicago, Rock Island & El Pa.so Railway. C, R. 1. & P. R. R. — Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. C. S. A. (or C. S. Army) — Confederate States Army. C. St. P., M. & O. Ry. — Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway. C, St. P. & K. C. R. R. — Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railroad ct. — court. C. T. T. R. R. — Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad. C. & A. Ry. — Chicago & Alton Railway. C. & G. E. Ry. — Chicago & Great Eastern Railway. C. & G. T. Ry. — Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway. cty. — county. C. & N. W. Ry. — Chicago & Northwestern Railway. C. & N. P. R. R. — Chicago & Northern Pacific Railroad. C. & O. Ry. — Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. C. &. VV. I. R. R. — Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad. D. C— District of Columbia. D. C. L.— Doctor of Civil Law. D. D — Doctor of Divinity. D. D. S. — Doctor of Dental Surgery. Dec. — December. Del. — Delaware. Dept. — Department. dir. — director. dist. — district. D., L. & W. R. R.— Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. D., G. H. & M. R. R. — Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railroad. D., L. & N. R. R. — Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad. D. Litt. — (also L. H. D.) — Doctor of Literature. D. V. S. — Doctor of Veterinary Surgery E. — East. ed. — educated; al.so editor. edn. — education. edn'l. — educational. E. E. — Electrical Engineer. E., J. & E. R. R. — Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad. Eng. — England. engr. — engineer. engring. — engineering. exec. — executive. Exmoor — Exmoor County Club. Expn . — Exposition. E. & T. H. Ry. — Evansville & Terre Haute Railway. Feb. — February. Fed. — Federation; also Federal. Fla. — Florida. Ft. — Fort. Ga. — Georgia. G. A. R. — Grand Army of the Republic. gen. (also genl.) — general. Ger. — Germany. G. N. Ry. — Great Northern Railway. grad . — graduated. H. I. — Hawaiian Islands. Homeo. — Homeopathic. Hosp. — Hospital. I. A. C— Illinois Athletic Club. I. C. R. R. — Illinois Central Railroad. I. & St. L. R. R. ^Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad. la. — Iowa. Ida. — Idaho. 111.— Illinois. Ind. — Indiana. Ind. Ty.— Indian Territory. infty. — infantry. I. N. G. — Illinois National Guard. insp. — inspector. Inst. — Institute. Intern'l. — International. Jan. — January. Kan. — Kans.as. 423 K. C. Ft. S. & G. R. R.,— Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Kailroad K. C. Ft. S. & M. R. R. — Kansas City, Fort Scott & Momphis Raiiroart. K. C. S. R. R.— Kansas City Soutliern Railroad. K. C. — Knights of Columbus. K. -M. — Knights of Maccabees. K. P. — Knights of Pythias. K. T. — Knights Templar. Ky. — Kentucliy. La. — Louisiana. L. I. — Long Island. LL. B. — Bachelor of Laws. L. S. & M. S. Ry. — Lake Shore & .Michlg.m Southern Railway. lieut. — lieutenant. lieu t. -gov. — lieutenant-governor. Luth. — Lutheran. L. & N. R. R.— Loui.sville & Nashville Railroad. L. & P. R. R. — Lackawanna