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CELEBRATION   OF  THE  FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY 

OF  ITS   INCORPORATION 

FEBRUARY  7,    1907 


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EZRA    B.  McCAGG 

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CHICAGO 

PUBLISHED    BY    THE    SOCIETY 

1907 


CHICAGO  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 

SEMI-CENTENNIAL  ANNIVERSARY 
February  7,  1907 


THE  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  the  Chicago 
Historical  Society  was  marked  by  a  special  meeting  of  the 
Society  and  a  reception  in  its  Building,  on  the  evening  of 
Thursday,  February  7,   1907.     Some   two  thousand   invitations 
had  been  sent  to  its  members,  friends,  and  correspondents  and 
more  than  four  hundred  persons  were  present  at  the  exercises. 

President  Head  had  invited  the  following  ladies  to  represent 
the  Society  as  hostesses,  and  assist  him  in  receiving  the  guests : 

Mesdames  Cyrus  Bentley,  Anita  McC.  Blaine,  T.  B.  Blackstone, 
William  Blair,  Eliphalet  W.  Blatchford,  Joseph  T.  Bowen,  W.  J. 
Calhoun,  Kate  S.  Caruthers,  Charles  H.  Conover,  Frederick  A. 
Delano,  Thomas  Dent,  Jacob  M.  Dickinson,  Marshall  Field, 
Frederick  M.  Gilpin,  John  J.  Glessner,  Charles  F.  Gunther,  Car- 
ter H.  Harrison,  Annie  M.  Hitchcock,  Gurdon  S.  Hubbard, 
Charles  L.  Hutchinson,  George  S.  Isham,  Harry  Pratt  Judson, 
Chauncey  Keep,  Samuel  H.  Kerfoot,  Bryan  Lathrop,  John 
Mason  Loomis,  Frank  O.  Lowden,  Franklin  MacVeagh,  Ezra  B. 
McCagg,  Nettie  F.  McCormick,  Cyrus  H.  McCormick,  Edward 
G.  Mason,  George  Merryweather,  La  Verne  W.  Noyes,  Honor^ 
Palmer,  Ferdinand  W.  Peck,  Eugene  S.  Pike,  George  M.  Pull- 
man, John  S.  Runnells,  Martin  A.  Ryerson,  Otto  L.  Schmidt, 
Orson  Smith,  James  M.  Walker,  Norman  Williams,  Mary  J.  Wil- 
marth,  John  P.  Wilson;  and  Misses  Katharine  Arnold,  Elizabeth 
Head,  Mary  L.  Newberry,  Elizabeth  Skinner,  Frederika  Skinner, 
and  Helen  E.  Snow. 

The  President  and  those  of  the  above  named  ladies  who  were 
in  attendance  stood  in  the  entrance  from  the  Main  Hall  to  the 
Gilpin  Library  and  received  the  guests  who  were  formally  pre- 
sented by  members  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

181 


1 82  CHICAGO    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

When  the  hour  arrived  for  the  exercises  of  the  occasion,  the 
audience  assembled  in  the  Lecture  Hall  in  such  numbers  as  to 
exhaust  its  seating  capacity  and  many  gentlemen  stood  through 
the  entire  programme. 

On  the  stage  beside  the  President  were  Messrs.  Ezra  B. 
McCagg,  Elijah  Kent  Hubbard,  and  Edwin  Doak  Mead.  Presi- 
dent Head  stated  to  the  audience  that  Mr.  McCagg  was  the  sole 
surviving  Charter  Member  and  Incorporator  of  the  Chicago  His- 
torical Society;  that  Mr.  Edwin  D.  Mead  of  Boston  was  the  Vice- 
President  and  a  working  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society;  that  Mr.  Hubbard  was  one  of  the  first  white  children 
born  in  Chicago.  He  also  announced  that  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee had  some  weeks  since  invited  Governor  Deneen  to  be 
present  and  deliver  an  address,  appropriate  to  the  occasion,  and 
read  a  letter  from  the  Governor  expressing  his  regret  that  impera- 
tive official  duties  had  at  the  last  moment  obliged  him  to  remain 
in  Springfield,  and  extending  to  the  Society  his  congratulations  on 
its  semi-centennial  anniversary  and  wishing  it  prosperity  for  the 
future.  Mr.  Head  also  read  a  congratulatory  letter  from  Daniel 
C.  Roberts,  president  of  the  New  Hampshire  Historical  Society. 

The  formal  exercises  were  then  opened  by  President  Head 
who  spoke  as  follows : 

Fifty  years  ago,  a  body  of  the  early  citizens  of  Chicago  inter- 
ested in  collecting  and  preserving  the  records  of  the  early 
exploration  and  settlement  of  the  State,  having  procured  from  the 
authorities  a  proper  charter  for  the  Chicago  Historical  Society, 
met  and  perfected  the  organization  of  the  Corporation.  The 
fifty  years  which  have  passed  since  February  7,  1857,  have  been 
for  the  Society,  periods  of  modest  prosperity  as  well  as  of 
discouraging  storm  and  stress.  Twice  have  its  buildings  and 
collections  been  destroyed  by  fire,  and  many  books  and 
manuscripts  of  great  value,  irretrievably  lost;  yet  to-day,  at  the 
beginning  of  its  second  half-century,  the  Society  is  in  this  beau, 
tiful  fire-proof  building,  with  more  than  one  hundred  thousand 
volumes,  manuscripts,  and  memorials  of  the  early  days,  and 
is  entirely  free  from  debt. 

Of  the  early  citizens  who  were  the  founders  and  incorporators 


SEMI-CENTENIAL   CELEBRATION.  183 

of  the  Society,  but  one  survives,  Mr.  Ezra  B.  McCagg,  a  man  who 
for  more  than  fifty  years  has  been  held  in  high  esteem  and  honor 
by  the  people  of  Chicago.  He  has  consented  to  read  to  us,  this 
evening,  a  paper  containing  various  incidents  connected  with  the 
early  life  of  the  Society,  and  prior  to  the  great  fire  of  187 1.  No 
introduction  to  a  Chicago  audience  is  needed  for  Mr.  McCagg. 

Mr.  McCagg's  address  was  as  follows: 

In  the  gospel  according  to  Saint  Luke,  it  is  recorded  that  our 
Saviour  said  to  his  disciples  in  one  of  his  parables:  "I  say  unto 
you,  though  he  will  not  rise  and  give  because  he  is  his  friend,  yet 
because  of  his  importunity  he  will  rise  and  give  him  as  many  as 
he  needeth."  It  was  forcibly  brought  to  my  mind  when  your 
President  did  not  permit  me  to  say  *'No"  after  an  expressed 
unwillingness  to  occupy  some  of  your  time  this  evening,  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  foundation  of  this  Society,  with  some 
account  of  its  early  history.  If  the  repetition  of  a  twice-told  tale 
wearies  you  till  the  chairs  seem  hard,  let  his  be  the  blame. 
I  would  have  avoided  it,  for  it  is  not  altogether  a  pleasure.  The 
result  of  what  was  so  many  years  ago  begun  is  before  you;  this 
fine  building,  its  books  and  manuscripts,  its  portraits,  these  last 
perpetuate  as.  far  as  may  be  done  on  canvas,  the  actors,  their 
faces  recall  their  respective  doings,  and  the  promise  of  what  may 
yet  be,  yet  these  portraits  are  prints  of  foot-falls  in  the  march  of 
time;  one  actor  the  less,  one  more  break  in  the  ranks,  till  the 
place  has  some  pain  to  the  survivor  who  will  not  down. 

The  beginning,  the  very  beginning,  and  it  is  to  this  I  am  to 
confine  myself,  was  small.  A  few  gentlemen,  Mr.  Mason  writes, 
twelve  in  number,  by  whom  requested,  I  do  not  recollect,  prob- 
ably by  the  Rev.  William  Barry,  met  at  the  office  of  Messrs. 
Scammon  and  McCagg  in  the  building,  then  standing  on  the 
northeast  corner  of  Lake  and  LaSalle  streets,  April  3,  1856,  to 
consider  the  idea  of  forming  a  Historical  Society  in  this  city  for 
the  collection  and  preservation  of  historical  material  relating 
more  particularly  to  Chicago,  but  also  to  the  State,  which  was 
every  day  being  made  and  lost,  there  not  being  anybody  caring 
for  its  preservation.  They  were  busy  men,  every  one  of  them, 
as  indeed  was  everybody  in  Chicago  at  that  time.     The  burden 


184  CHICAGO    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

of  material  life  was  heavy,  a  city  was  building,  sewage  and  water 
systems  must  be  had,  not  here  and  there  one,  but  many,  streets 
were  to  be  laid  out,  roadways  and  sidewalks  made,  school-houses 
and  churches,  warehouses  and  dwellings  were  to  be  built,  more 
bridges  were  needed;  the  city  itself  was  being  raised  from  the 
mud;  there  was  a  whole  system  of  municipal  government  to  be 
substantially  reorganized  to  keep  pace  with  so  rapid  a  growth  all 
at  once;  and  it  must  all  the  time  be  looked  to  that  neither 
Milwaukee,  nor  St.  Louis,  nor  Cincinnati,  nor  any  other  place, 
far  or  near,  took  away  any  one  of  the  advantages  which  our  loca- 
tion offered  us.  They  were  not  men  of  wealth,  as  wealth  was 
measured  fifty  years  ago;  there  were  few  wealthy  men  here  then, 
though  some  of  them  afterward  became  so;  nor  did  they  depend 
upon  their  daily  work  to  live;  but  it  was  the  day  of  small  things, 
comparatively,  and  a  return  was  acceptable.  I  do  not  recollect, 
certainly,  who  they  were,  but  one  can  guess  with  almost  absolute 
sureness  as  to  many  of  them,  as  one  name  after  another  appears 
later  in  this  account. 

This  meeting  of  April,  before  mentioned,  was  followed  by 
another  later  in  the  same  month,  the  24th,  and  an  organization 
was  had,  William  H.  Brown  being  the  first  president,  and 
William  Barry  recording  secretary  and  librarian.  Mr.  Brown 
was  an  old  resident  of  the  State.  He  came  to  Illinois  in 
December,  18 18,  the  population  of  the  State  at  that  time  was  not 
over  40,000,  settled  in  Kaskaskia,  then  the  seat  of  government, 
choosing  Illinois  because  it  had  that  summer  adopted  a  free 
government,  and  purchased  a  one-half  interest  in  the  "Illinois 
Intelligencer,"  which  paper  dated  back  to  181 5,  and  was  the  first 
newspaper  published  in  the  Territory.  In  1823,  he  was  at  that 
time  living  in  Vandalia,  he  did  valiant  work  with  pen  and  voice 
on  the  side  of  the  Free -State  party  when  an  effort  was  made 
looking  toward  and  intending  the  adoption  of  a  new  constitution 
permitting  slavery.  His  activity  in  this  direction  did  not  increase 
his  popularity  in  that  region  and  an  incipient  effort  was  made  to 
mob  his  paper.  In  1835,  ^^  removed  to  Chicago.  These  facts 
are  not,  perhaps,  quite  germane  here,  yet  they  give  some  descrip- 
tion of  the  man.     The  contest  he  had  made  was  as  close  and 


SEMI-CENTENIAL   CELEBRATION.  185 

impassioned  as  it  was  momentous.  Suppose  that  at  the  com- 
mencement of  the  civil  war,  Illinois  had  been  a  slave-state, 
supporting  the  secession  column,  the  whole  machinery  of  the 
state  government  in  the  hands  of  the  South!  Knowing  him  well, 
I  linger  about  his  name,  because  of  the  early  stand  he  took 
which  but  foreshadowed  in  its  regard  for  the  right  every  action  of 
his  life. 

These  April  meetings  were  the  beginning.  On  February  7, 
1857,  a  charter  was  had  and  the  embryo  attained  legal  existence. 
Listen  to  the  somewhat  grandiloquent  terms  of  its  Preamble : 

"Whereas,  it  is  conducive  to  the  public  good  of  a  State  to 
encourage  such  institutions  as  have  for  their  object  to  collect  and 
preserve  the  memorials  of  its  founders  and  benefactors,  as  well  as 
the  historical  evidences  of  its  progress  in  settlement  and  popula- 
tion, and  in  the  arts,  improvements  and  institutions  which  distin- 
guish a  civilized  community,  and  to  transmit  the  same  for  the 
instruction  and  benefit  of  future  generations; 

Be  it  enacted,"  etc. 

I  will  name  the  incorporators  in  the  order  named  in  the  act: 
William  H.  Brown,  William  B.  Ogden,  Mahlon  D.  Ogden, 
J.  Young  Scammon,  Mason  Brayman,  Mark  Skinner,  George 
Manierre,  John  H.  Kinzie,  James  V.Z.  Blaney,  Isaac  N.  Arnold, 
Edward  I.  Tinkham,  J.  D.  Webster,  W.  A.  Smallwood,  VanH. 
Higgins,  N.  S.  Davis,  C.  H.  Ray,  S.  D.  Ward,  Franklin 
Scammon,  William  Barry,  and  Ezra  B.  McCagg. 

Most  of  them,  doubtless,  were  present  at,  and  all  of  them  in 
sympathy  with  the  object  of  the  two  meetings  in  April.  This  is 
but  a  list  of  names  offering  little  information  to  the  generation  of 
to-day.  It  would  be  a  satisfaction  to  speak  more  in  detail  of  at 
least  such  of  them  as  I  knew  more  intimately.  The  time  is  all 
too  short.  They  were  household  names.  Mr.  Mahlon  D. 
Ogden  was  a  partner  of  Mr.  Arnold  and  at  one  time  Probate 
Judge.  John  H.  Kinzie,  and  here  I  hesitate  for  a  moment,  loth 
to  pass  on  without  some  words.  If  anything  is  said  there  should 
be  much.  James  V.  Z.  Blaney,  able  physician,  ever  in  the  search 
for  some  later  way  of  alleviating  disease  and  suffering.  J.  D. 
Webster,  a  graduate  of  West  Point,  and  afterward  a  gallant  soldier 
who,  at  the  bloody  battle  of  Pittsburg  Landing,  when,  toward  the 


1 86  CHICAGO   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

close  of  the  first  day  the  confederate  troops  had  driven  our  army 
nearly  to  the  river,  by  parking  our  artillery  along  the  bank 
checked  their  advance  till  night  came;  and  the  next  morning, 
Buell  and  victory.  Dear  friend  and  neighbor,  Edward  I. 
Tinkham.  Dr.  N.  S.  Davis  who  afterward,  a  stranger  from  far-away 
Chicago,  when  he  stood  before  an  audience  of  world-assembled 
doctors  in  London  captivated  them.  He  has  just  gone,  at  a  ripe 
old  age,  actively  employed  up  to  the  very  end,  crowning  a  life- 
service  to  his  fellow-men. 

Of  the  twenty  charter  members,  thirteen  were  residents  of  the 
North  Side;  then,  perhaps,  the  most  popular  quarter  of  the  city 
for  the  better  class  of  dwellings.  Mr.  Arnold's  pleasing  house 
was  on  the  spot  where  we  now  are,  and  the  others,  I  think, 
almost  all  of  them,  lived  within  a  stone's  throw. 

Mr.  William  B.  Ogden,  at  the  time  of  its  organization  and 
before  its  charter,  permitted  the  Society  the  temporary  use  of  a 
room  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Clark  and  Lake  streets  till  some 
other  arrangement  should  be  made.  Shortly  after,  Mr.  Julian  S. 
Rumsey  gave  it  more  comfortable  quarters  in  a  building  erected 
by  him  on  the  west  side  of  LaSalle  street  between  Lake  and 
Randolph,  where  it  remained  a  couple  of  years,  and  from  there  it 
came  to  this  side  of  the  river  to  the  northeast  corner  of  North 
Wells  and  Kinzie  streets,  to  rooms  set  apart  for  it  by  Mr.  Walter 
L.  Newberry.  Collections  in  the  beginning  were  slow.  A  few 
pine  shelves  were  all  that  were  needed  for  a  time,  and  every  gain 
was  welcomed.  Lieut. -Gov.  William  Bross,  though  this  was  later, 
gave  it  at  one  time  Lord  Kingsborough's  "Mexico,"  a  colored  copy, 
some  three  or  four  folio  volumes,  a  stately  set  indeed.  They 
were  spread  on  a  table  and  Mr.  Barry's  bright  eye  gleamed  as  he 
displayed  them,  perhaps  as  proud  of  his  new  acquisition  as  either 
James  Lenox  or  John  Carter  Brown  would  have  been  of  a  newly 
acquired  illuminated  missal,  the  probable  work  of  Fra  Angelico, 
or  to  come  nearer  home,  a  then  just-discovered,  hitherto-unknown 
volume  of  "Jesuit  Missions"  which  had  then  lately  passed  into 
the  latter's  possession. 

I  must  look  back  for  a  moment  to  more  thoroughly  emphasize 
some   of  these    men.     The   project    to   build   a    railroad   from 


SEMI-CENTENIAL   CELEBRATION.  1 87 

Chicago  to  Galena  was  not  new  but  it  was  moribund.  It  was 
sought  to  revive  it  with  Mr.  Ogden  as  president,  and  build  the 
road.  This  was  the  commencement  of  an  era  in  the  railroad 
history  of  this  State,  almost  in  the  railroad  history  of  the  United 
States,  for  it  was,  perhaps,  the  first  time  a  railroad  was  built  in 
advance  of  population  instead  of  waiting  till  a  present  population 
needed  it. 

I  remark  in  passing  that  I  have  heard  that  at  the  time  this 
road  was  chartered,  the  Galena  members  of  the  legislature  refused 
to  vote  for  it  unless  the  name  of  Galena  was  given  first  place — 
Galena  and  Chicago  Union,  not  Chicago  and  Galena  Union. 
Galena  was  the  more  important  place.  To  make  a  commence- 
ment, Mr.  Ogden,  with  Mr.  Scammon  and  perhaps  others,  gave 
a  personal  note  for  $20,000.  A  banker  here,  though  one  of  the 
directors,  refused  to  loan  to  the  road  that  or  any  amount.  He 
would  loan  to  them,  individually,  but  not  to  the  corporation. 
The  amount  is  amusing  in  the  light  of  to-day.  It  was  on  a  trip 
to  urge  subscriptions  for  stock  that  Mr.  Scammon  used  the  figure, 
"The  Iron  Horse  will  yet  slake  his  thirst  in  the  Fox  River." 
The  Fox  was  less  than  forty  miles  away,  and  the  western  terminus 
of  the  road  was  on  the  open  prairie,  and  so  might  one  say  was 
the  eastern,  for  the  common  council  had  refused  it  entrance  into 
the  city.  It  seemed  rather  a  vainglorious  boast.  The  Chicago 
and  Northwestern  Railroad  Company,  of  which  the  Galena  was 
the  progenitor  and  is  now  one  of  its  divisions,  operates  to-day 
over  seven  thousand  four  hundred  and  fifty  miles  of  road,  has 
36,699  employes,  and  its  annual  pay-roll  exceeds  twenty-three 
millions  of  dollars. 

The  late  Judge  H.  W.  Blodgett,  and  not  anybody  knew 
Chicago  and  Its  people  better  than  he,  in  a  public  address  styled 
Mr.  Ogden  "The  man  who  made  Chicago."  I  think  this  was 
not  quite  fair.  Mr.  Ogden  was  a  man  of  extraordinary  force, 
character,  ability,  and  push;  he  saw  and  foresaw  with  great 
insight;  he  can  scarcely  be  given  too  much  praise,  but  many  men 
in  those  days  were  helping  to  make  Chicago;  some  of  them  I 
mention  here.  I  recollect  well  Mr.  Scammon  riding,  day  and 
night,  through  rain  and  dust  and  storm  and  heat,  appealing  to, 


1 88  CHICAGO    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

urging  the  farmers  along  the  line  of  the  proposed  road  to 
subscribe  for  stock  and  pay  the  first  instalment,  $2.50  a  share,  as 
did  Mr.  Isaac  N.  Arnold,  and  to  a  lesser  degree  John  B.  Turner 
and  others.  The  road  they  traveled,  figuratively  speaking,  was 
not  a  level  one.  Money  was  scarce,  the  population  sparse,. there 
was  some  indifference,  some  dissent,  one  innkeeper  denouncing 
railroads  as  undemocratic  institutions  that  would  ride  rough  shod 
over  the  people  and  grind  them  to  powder.  All  the  people 
wanted,  said  he,  were  good,  common  roads  upon  which  every- 
body could  travel.  Some  of  the  subscriptions  were  paid  at  the 
end  of  a  law  suit.  Mr.  Brown  was  one  of  the  directors  and  at 
one  time  president. 

Chicago  was  not  much  more  than  a  frontier  town;  there  were 
not  many  houses  north  of  Huron  street  on  the  North  Side  or 
south  of  Harrison  street  on  the  South  Side,  with  a  narrow  line  of 
buildings  along  the  west  bank  of  the  river.  The  prairie  with  its 
carpet  of  flowers  came  almost  to  our  doors. 

All  the  gentlemen  I  have  named  were  at  the  front  and  were 
charter  members  of  the  Society,  as  were  Judges  Skinner  and 
Manierre.  They  were  all  mainsprings  in  our  city,  makers  of 
Chicago,  all  busy  men,  very  busy,  more  to  be  done  an  hundred 
fold,  than  there  were  men  to  do.  I  mention  them  by  name  and 
speak  of  their  surroundings,  as  I  should  be  glad  to  speak  of 
others  whom  I  have  not  named,  incorporators  and  members  of 
the  Society,  did  time  permit,  because,  then  and  for  many  years 
after,  they  gave  to  it,  to  its  beginnings  and  its  support,  not  of 
their  leisure,  but  of  their  already  overburdened  time,  without  any 
idea  of  personal  return ;  they  believed  it  for  the  best  interest  of 
the  community  of  which  they  formed  part;  and  they  should  have 
foremost  place  in  a  meeting  in  this  room  on  an  occasion  like  this. 
Seen  now  in  the  distance,  it  looks  like  a  small  matter.  It  took 
time.  The  same  men  who  helped  to  build  the  railroad  with  their 
energy  and  self-sacrifice  were  behind  the  Historical  Society. 

Chicago  during  these  years  was  in  a  condition  of  ferment.  An 
amusing  anecdote  is  told,  typical  of  affairs  as  they  then  were.  A 
citizen  of  the  land  of  Thoreau,  of  quiet  Pawtucket  or  Nantucket, 
intending  to  move  with  his  family  to  this  city,  called  on  a  builder 


SEMI-CENTENIAL   CELEBRATION.  1 89 

here,  this  was  about  the  middle  of  May,  and  said  that  he  was 
intending  to  remove  to  Chicago,  had  bought  a  lot,  and  wished,  if 
possible,  a  house,  of  which  he  had  the  plans  with  him,  to  be 
ready  on  his  arrival  which  would  be  about  the  middle  of  October 
then  next,  and  that  he  very  much  hoped  that  this  was  feasible. 
The  builder,  hesitating  for  a  few  moments,  with  his  finger  to  his 
forehead,  "The  native  hue  of  resolution  sicklied  o'er  with  the 
pale  cast  of  thought"  as  if  considering  possibilities  said,  "This 
is  Thursday.  I  have  an  elevator  to  put  up  tomorrow,  Friday; 
and  have  promised  a  Presbyterian  church  for  Saturday.  I  will 
build  your  house  on  Monday."  The  travesty  of  facts  to  one  who 
was  then  here  and  has  a  recollection  of  the  times,  makes  this 
broad  farce  amusing.  Absolutely  there  are  some  true  lines  in  the 
caricature. 

And  foremost  among  them  was  Mr.  Barry,  the  Rev.  William 
Barry,  a  Unitarian  clergyman  in  delicate  health  and  because  of 
it  without  a  charge,  an  enthusiast,  the  very  embodiment  of  a 
collector  of  historical  matter.  No  pamphlet  so  small  or  so  appar- 
ently valueless  but  it  was  worth  preserving  if  it  but  contained,  not 
what  was  then,  but  what  would  sometime  be  worth  something, 
historically.  No  elderly  man  who  knew  personally  some  histor- 
ical incident  but  he  would  have  him  commit  it  to  paper  or,  if  he 
would,  to  write  the  history  of  his  times,  and  many  apparently 
ephemeral  publications  proved  sometimes  valuable  almost  imme- 
diately. He  once,  not  many  years  later,  asked  the  Galena  and 
Chicago  Railroad  Company,  or  its  successor,  for  a  bound  set  of 
its  reports.  It  had  already  become  a  leaf  in  the  history  of 
western  progress.  The  answer  came,  that  with  great  regret  the 
road  had  to  admit  that  it  had  not  a  full  set;  two  years  or  more, 
as  I  recollect,  were  lacking.  He  was  able  to  supply  them.  He 
had  cared  for  them,  year  by  year,  as  they  appeared.  He  did 
most  of  the  active  work  for  years,  the  earlier  ones,  gratuitously, 
later,  but  after  some  years,  for  a  small,  very  small  compensation 
till  want  of  strength  required  him  to  stop.  Writing  to  Mr.  Mason, 
president  of  the  Society,  a  few  years  ago  in  response  to  a  request 
from  him  for  some  information  about  Mr.  Barry,  I  replied,  and  I 
can   but  repeat  it  here,  "he    attended   to    the    correspondence. 


190  CHICAGO    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

unpacked  the  boxes,  was  most  earnest  and  untiring  in  soliciting 
exchanges,  made  up  the  packages  to  be  sent  in  return,  kept  the 
records  including  the  minutes  of  meetings,  went  day  by  day  in 
summer  and  in  winter,  in  sunshine  and  in  storm  to  the  post-office 
for  the  mail,  and  carried  in  his  arms,  or  even  if  very  bulky  on  his 
back,  heavy  bundles  of  papers  and  books  to  the  Society  rooms." 

The  removal  to  the  Newberry  Building  had  stimulated  move- 
ment and  the  collection  became  varied  and  though  fragmentary, 
interesting.  At  the  Society's  third  annual  meeting,  its  library 
numbered  over  28,000,  nearly  29,000  books,  pamphlets,  maps, 
and  manuscripts,  and  this  was  despite  of  the  panic  of  1857.  It 
was  attracting  attention  and  was  receiving  many  gifts.  Meetings 
were  held  at  residences  of  members  and  the  Society's  affairs  were 
discussed  over  a  plate  of  ice-cream  and  a  piece  of  sponge-cake 
for  refreshments.  Mr.  Barry  was  indefatigable.  He  traveled 
widely  throughout  the  State,  and  always  with  an  eye  single  to  his 
dominant  purpose,  expressed  in  the  original  constitution,  that  the 
object  of  the  Association  was  to  encourage  historical  inquiry,  and 
spread  historical  information  especially  within  the  Slate  of 
Illinois;  to  collect  a  library  and  manuscripts;  to  solve  historical 
doubts.  The  mound  builders  and  their  work  interested  him  and 
he  had  collected  much  information  relating  to  them,  he  inter- 
viewed the  State's  pioneers  and  gathered  facts  from  their  personal 
history  and  preserved  it,  stimulating  the  writing  of  papers  by  the 
Society's  members.  I  recollect  his  making  an  earnest  effort  to 
have  some  member  write  the  history  of  Mason  and  Dixon's  line. 

The  rate  of  increase  became  more  rapid  each  succeeding  year 
and  the  two  rooms  given  it  by  Mr.  Newberry  soon  became 
crowded;  pamphlets  jolted  newspapers  and  they  alike  crowded 
the  books.  Larger  quarters  were  a  necessity;  the  library  had 
grown  over  two  thousand  numbers  in  a  year;  but,  though  the 
panic  of  1857  had  somewhat  expended  its  force,  it  was  not  a 
very  propitious  time  for  raising  money  for  an  organization  which 
only  indirectly  appealed  to  the  public.  All  the  same,  the  effort 
must  be  made.  A  committee  was  appointed  on  January  9,  1864, 
a  subscription  for  a  lot  and  building  was  started  and  though  it 
dragged   somewhat,  the   committee   in    about   a   year   reported 


SEMI-CENTENIAL   CELEBRATION.  I9I 

$30,000  subscribed  and  the  purchase  of  the  lot  where  this 
building  stands.  A  plan  was  adopted  and  a  supposedly  fire -proof 
building  erected.  Mr.  Mason  reports  that,  hard  pressed  for 
money,  this  committee  set  an  example  to  others  in  similar  posi- 
tions by  advancing  $15,000  from  their  own  pockets.  Shall  I 
name  them?  George  F.  Rumsey,  Edwin  H.  Sheldon,  and  for  the 
third,  well,  as  for  the  third  I  may  recall  the  incident  in  "Ivanhoe" 
where  Brian  de  Bois  Gilbert  is  telling  Cedric  the  Saxon  of  a 
tournament  at  St.  John  de  Acre  where  King 'Richard  with  five  of 
his  knights  held  the  field  for  a  whole  day  against  all  comers, 
unhorsing  even  the  doughty  knight  himself.  Cedric  calls  for 
their  names  and  the  Palmer,  standing  near,  who  was  Ivanhoe 
disguised,  though  his  place  was  below  the  salt,  named  four  and 
when  he  reached  the  fifth,  after  a  pause  in  which  he  seemed 
trying  to  recollect  said,  "the  fifth  was  a  young  knight  of  lesser 
renown  and  lower  rank  summoned  into  that  honorable  company, 
less  to  aid  their  enterprise  than  to  make  up  their  number;  his 
name  dwells  not  in  my  mind." 

The  building  was  a  fine  one,  fully  complete  in  itself,  yet  so 
placed  as,  without  disturbing  it,  to  be  the  wing  of  a  larger  when 
that  should  become  necessary.  It  had  a  frontage  of  forty- two 
feet  on  Ontario  street  by  a  depth  of  eighty  feet.  Being  built  of 
brick  trimmed  with  stone,  and  having  the  floor  tiles  on  iron 
girders,  and  the  roof  of  metal;  it  was  thought  to  be  fire-proof. 
The  offices  and  storerooms  were  on  the  first  floor;  the  whole  of 
the  second  was  given  up  to  books  and  pamphlets  and  incident- 
ally to  a  lecture  and  reading-room.  It  was  formally  dedicated 
November  the  19,  1868;  Mr.  Scamraon  and  Mr.  Arnold 
making  the  addresses.  The  library,  at  this  time,  numbered  over 
15,000  bound  volumes,  72,000  pamphlets,  1700  files  of  news- 
papers, and  4600  manuscripts.  This  was  a  change  indeed  from 
the  pine  shelves  in  Mr.  Rumsey's  room. 

In  his  address  delivered  at  the  inauguration  of  the  new  build- 
ing on  November  19,  1868,  Mr.  Arnold  said  of  the  collection; 

"Our  library  is  believed  to  be  nearly  complete  in  the  docu- 
ments and  publications  of  the  United  States  Government  in 
every  department  from  its  organization  down  to  the  present  time. 


192  CHICAGO    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

This  is  also  true  of  the  territorial  and  state  government  of  Illi- 
nois, including  all  laws,  journals,  and  records  of  every  depart- 
ment. We  have  large  collections  of  the  documents  of  the  North- 
western States  and  Territories,  and  Mr.  Barry  has  made  especial 
efforts  to  collect  the  Session  Laws  and  legislative  records  of  all 
the  colonies  and  of  all  the  states  and  territories  from  their  first 
organization  down.  We  have  those  of  Virginia  for  two  hundred 
years,  those  of  Massachusetts  very  nearly  complete  from  the 
beginning,  those  of  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey  for  one 
hundred  years  and  those  of  the  Western  States  including  Ohio 
nearly  perfect." 

The  lawyer  is  evident  in  this  enumeration.  There  were  many 
manuscripts.     I  mention  a  few  of  them: 

The  original  journal  of  the  expedition  by  Major  Livingstone 
and  the  younger  Baron  Castine  from  Port  Royal  to  Quebec  in 
1 7 10.  It  came  to  the  Society  from  Gurdon  S.  Hubbard  who  had 
it  from  his  relative  Governor  Saltonstall  of  Connecticut.  John 
Kinzie  senior's  manuscript  account  of  the  Indians  residing  in 
Chicago  in  the  early  part  of  the  century;  the  original  memorial  to 
Congress  for  the  separation  of  Illinois  from  the  Indiana  Territory, 
which  alleged  that  "Illinois  has  a  population  of  3000  and  that 
its  connection  with  Indiana  is  an  unnatural  and  destructive 
alliance."  George  Flower's  correspondence  with  Lafayette, 
Jefferson,  Cobbett,  and  other  distinguished  men,  the  original 
Emancipation  Proclamation  of  President  Lincoln.  It  does  not 
seem  worth  while  to  continue  the  enumeration. 

The  history  from  this  time  on  till  to-day,  your  President  will 
tell  you.  The  evening  of  October  8,  1871,  saw  building,  books, 
maps,  and  manuscripts  intact,  the  morning  of  the  9th  a  pile  of 
brick,  mortar,  and  ashes  where  they  had  been. 

At  the  conclusion  of  Mr.  McCagg's  address,  which  was  heard 
with  many  enthusiastic  expressions  of  appreciation,  President 
Head  said: 

As  I  was  walking  along  State  street  this  afternoon,  I  met  an 
old-time  and  much  esteemed  friend,  Mr.  Edwin  D.  Mead.  Mr. 
Mead  is  one  of  the  high  authorities  on  the  early  history  and 
development  of  New  England,  and  especially  the  State  of  Massa- 


SEMI-CENTENIAL   CELEBRATION.  I93 

chusetts.  His  lectures  and  pamphlets  issued  through  the  "Old 
South  Church"  of  Boston,  are  a  mine  of  interesting  and  valuable 
information  regarding  the  intellectual  growth  and  development 
of  New  England.  Mr.  Mead  has  been  for  many  years  one  of  the 
active,  working  managers  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society, 
and  has  kindly  consented  to  say  a  few  words  to  us  this  evening. 

Mr.  Mead  extended  to  the  Chicago  Historical  Society  the 
cordial  congratulations  of  the  Massachusetts  Society  and  gave  a 
most  interesting  summary  of  the  historical  relations  between  New 
England  and  Chicago  in  the  Middle  West,  making  special  men- 
tion of  several  gentlemen  who  had  been  active  in  the  develop- 
ment of  Chicago  and  the  work  of  its  Historical  Society.* 

In  the  absence  of  Governor  Deneen,  the  President  stated  that 
the  Executive  Committee  had  urged  him  to  add  some  remarks 
suggested  by  the  occasion  and  he  spoke  as  follows : 

Our  honored  member,  Mr.  McCagg,  has  given  us  an  admirable 
synopsis  of  incidents  in  the  early  days  of  the  Society,  up  to  the 
time  of  the  great  fire,  which  entirely  destroyed  its  accumula- 
tions. Books  numbering  about  one  hundred  thousand  volumes, 
rare  manuscripts,  and  historical  letters  and  data,  much  of  which 
was  unique  and  can  never  be  replaced,  were  destroyed.  Three 
years  later,  the  accumulations  of  these  three  years  were  wiped 
out  in  the  second  fire.  In  1874,  with  undaunted  courage,  the 
pioneers  began  for  the  third  time  the  work  of  up-building  the 
institution.  For  nearly  twenty  years,  the  meetings  of  the  Society 
were,  in  a  way,  a  movable  feast,  it  having  occupied  several  differ- 
ent quarters;  but  in  1892  the  present  building  was  commenced, 
and  in  1896,  it  was  formally  dedicated  to  the  use  and  work  of 
the  Society. 

I  am  not  an  early  member  of  the  Historical  Society,  having 
joined  in  1890,  and  my  reminiscences  are  mostly  measured  by 
the  terms  in  office  of  Mr.  Edward  G.  Mason  and  Mr.  John  N. 
Jewett.  I  had  occasionly,  at  an  earlier  date,  attended  the  public 
meetings   of  the   Society   during   the   presidency  of  Mr.  E.  B. 

*The  Executive  Committee  regrets,  exceedingly,  that  no  record  was  made 
of  Mr.  Mead's  very  interesting  impromptu  address,  and  that  it  therefore  can 
not  be  printed  here  in  full. 


194  CHICAGO    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

Washburne,  the  predecessor  of  Mr.  Mason.  His  life-work  illus- 
trates anew  the  fact  that  America  is  the  land  of  opportunity. 
Mr.  Washburne,  whose  home,  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  was 
at  Galena,  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  Congress;  later, 
Secretary  of  State  in  the  cabinet  of  President  Grant;  then  Min- 
ister to  France.  Returning  to  America,  and  taking  up  his  abode 
in  Chicago,  he  sprang  almost  at  once  from  the  comparatively 
obscure  position  of  French  Embassador  to  the  presidency  of  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society,  which  position  he  held  until  his 
death.  He  was  a  most  affable  and  dignified  presiding  officer, 
much  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Society,  and  contributed  to  its 
shelves  many  volumes  and  public  documents  of  value.  His  work 
here  was  a  fitting  crown  of  a  laborious  and  honorable  life. 

Mr.  Edward  G.  Mason,  after  serving  for  several  years  as  the 
efficient  Vice-President  of  the  Society,  was  chosen  as  its  Presi- 
dent in  1887,  and  was  annually  re-elected  for  eleven  years  there- 
after. His  special  work  was  the  erection  of  the  building  which 
shelters  us  to-night.  This  building  cost  $190,000.  Nearly  one- 
half  this  cost  was  borne  by  the  donation  of  Henry  D.  Gilpin. 
The  next  largest  item  was  $25,000  from  John  Crerar.  After  this 
were  perhaps  twenty  others,  subscribing  amounts  from  $250  to 
$6000,  such  subscriptions  being  secured  almost  wholly  by  the 
efforts  of  Mr.  Mason.  The  amount  finally  raised  was  said  by 
the  architect,  Henry  Ives  Cobb,  to  be  sufficient  to  complete  the 
building,  but  when  it  was  finished  there  was  a  deficiency  of  about 
$20,000.  This  was  ultimately  paid,  one  half  by  the  gift  of  Mr. 
George  M.  Pullman,  and  the  other  half  by  the  generous  bequest 
of  Mrs.  J.  Y.  Scammon.  The  Society  thus  now  owns  the  building 
and  contents,  free  from  debt.  The  building  is  the  permanent 
monument  to  Mr.  Mason.     He  was  its  inspiring  genius. 

Mr.  Mason  was,  in  many  ways,  an  ideal  citizen  of  Chicago,  the 
city  of  his  pride  and  love.  She  never  had  a  more  loyal  son. 
The  growth  of  the  city  in  material  wealth,  and  especially  in  the 
cultivation  and  development  of  the  arts,  which  are  made  possible 
by  accumulated  capital,  was  to  him,  a  source  of  constant  joy;  and 
to  the  development  of  those  arts,  few  contributed  more  than  he. 

For  the   purpose   of  securing  manuscripts  and  other  material 


SEMI-CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  195 

concerning  the  early  history  of  Illinois,  which  were  in  danger  of 
being  lost,  Mr.  Mason  spent  many  months,  visiting  all  parts  of 
Illinois  and  the  neighboring  states,  and  portions  of  Canada. 
Wherever  he  was,  and  however  engaged,  he  always  had  an  eye 
alert  for  adding  anything  of  value  to  the  splendid  collection 
which  now  enriches  this  building.  This  collection  is  without 
parallel  in  the  Nation,  when  we  consider  the  brief  time  and 
limited  means  available  for  the  work. 

The  studies  of  Mr.  Mason  in  the  period  of  the  French  occu- 
pation of  Illinois,  and  about  the  quaint  old  towns  of  Cahokia 
and  Kaskaskia,  were  most  thorough  and  exhaustive.  The  lives 
and  manners  of  these  frontier  people;  their  fondness  for,  and 
introduction  here  of  the  gaiety  and  lightness  of  French  peasant 
life,  so  utterly  in  contrast  with  the  sombre  gravity  of  the  Puritan 
founders  of  New  England;  the  midnight  dances  in  the  forest, 
"Where  many  a  youth  and  many  a  maid 
Were  dancing  in  the  chequered  shade;" 
the  harvest -time  frolics;  their  devotion  to  their  religious  faith 
and  its  priestly  expositors;  the  quaint  and  frolicsome  love- 
making  of  the  youths  and  maidens;  the  arcadian  and  idyllic 
simplicity  of  their  lives — all  were  pictured  in  our  genial  Presi- 
dent's mind  as  if  he  had  lived  among  them  in  those  earlier  days. 

He  had  arranged  with  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Company,  PJoston, 
to  write  for  their  series  of  American  Commonwealths  the  History 
of  Illinois,  and  his  passing  away  before  the  completion  of  this 
work  was  almost  a  national  calamity.  The  work  would  have 
been  especially  full  as  to  the  hundred  years  of  the  French  occu- 
pation. But  on  the  shelves  and  in  the  archives  of  this  Historical 
Society  can  still  be  found  the  greater  part  of  the  material  he  had 
proposed  to  use  in  the  work,  and  some  future  student  and  writer 
will  still  find  here  the  foundation  for  a  picture  of  the  French 
occupation  of  Illinois  for  a  History  of  Illinois  rivaling  the  fasci- 
nations of  romance. 

While  Mr.  Mason  was  not  one  of  the  heroic  workers  who 
organized  this  Society  and  carried  it  through  its  early  struggles, 
yet  his  work  was  so  great  and  valuable  that  he  may  properly  be 
characterized  as  among  its  founders.  2 


196  CHICAGO   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 

Hon.  John  N.  Jewett  was  chosen  President  of  the  Society  in 
1 899,  a  year  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Mason,  and  filled  the  posi- 
tion until  his  death  in  1904.  Mr.  Jewett  had  been  for  many 
years  one  of  the  leading  members  of  the  Chicago  bar,  and  a  dili- 
gent student  of  American  history,  especially  the  history  of  the 
region  now  known  as  the  Middle  West.  He  was  thus  fitted  for 
the  work  to  which  he  was  called,  and  performed  the  duties  of  the 
position  with  conscientious  fidelity.  He  almost  never  missed  a 
meeting  of  the  Society  or  its  officers,  and  his  sound  judgment 
was  of  constant  value  in  the  management  of  its  affairs. 

After  his  death,  a  Memorial  Meeting  was  held  in  this  hall, 
when  the  Chicago  Bar  Association,  of  which  Mr.  Jewett  had 
been  president,  and  the  John  Marshall  Law  School,  of  which  he 
was  dean,  joined  this  Society  in  delivering  addresses  of  eulogy. 
On  the  following  day,  the  Executive  Committee,  at  a  special 
meeting,  adopted  and  caused  to  be  spread  upon  the  Society's 
records,  a  Memorial,  an  engrossed  and  bound  copy  of  which  was 
sent  to  Mrs.  ]  ewett,  and  from  which  I  quote : 

"The  memory  of  John  Nelson  Jewett  has  been  publicly  and 
formally  honored  by  oration  and  eulogy.  The  community  in 
which  for  half  a  century  he  had  been  an  eminent  and  an 
honorable  citizen,  has  attested  the  height  of  esteem  in  which  it 
held  him.     *     *     * 

"It  is  now  our  privilege,  as  those  who  were  perhaps  closest  to 
him  in  this  work  of  his  latest  years,  to  pay  the  last  and  most 
intimate  tribute  of  affection,  and  to  spread  upon  our  records  the 
last  expression  of  honor,  until  the  pen  of  some  gifted  writer  shall 
adequately  chronicle  the  life  and  character  of  him  who  has  passed 
from  our  daily  sight. 

"It  is  hard  to  speak  of  Mr.  Jewett  in  the  past  tense.  So 
impressive  was  his  personality,  and  so  vivid  is  his  picture  in  our 
minds,  that  with  difficulty  we  realize  his  absence  is  to  be 
longer  than  for  the  day,  and  that  the  rich  tones  of  his  majestic 
voice  must  henceforth  but  echo  through  the  infinite  silence. 

"When,  after  much  urging,  he  with  diffidence  accepted  the 
Society's  presidency,  his  heart  warmed  to  the  work,  and  none  of 
his  predecessors  was  ever  more   devoted   to  its  welfare,  none 


SEMI-CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  1 97 

labored  more  zealously,  in  season  and  out  of  season,  in  its 
behalf.  From  his  vast  treasury  of  intellectual  strength,  of  legal 
acumen,  of  profound  learning,  of  sound  judgment,  of  sterling 
integrity,  he  gave  lavishly  to  the  care  and  guidance  of  the 
Society's  affairs.  In  the  four  years  of  his  presidency,  he  called 
this  Committee  together  for  the  Society's  work  sixty -four  times. 
It  had  not  been  so  often  assembled  in  the  preceding  twenty-five 
years.  What  more  eloquent  testimony  could  there  be  to  his 
unselfish  devotion,  his  untiring  energy,  his  grasp  of  detail,  and 
his  aggressive  leadership  in  shaping,  performing,  and  directing 
the  duties  devolved  upon  him  and  upon  this  Committee ! 

"He  found  the  Society  dormant,  its  finances  disturbed,  and  its 
records  in  chaos;  he  left  its  work  systematized  and  in  active 
progress,  its  trust  funds  intact  and  productive.  The  disaster 
that  threatened  at  the  beginning  of  his  presidency  has  yielded  to 
his  mastery,  and  solvency  and  prosperity  have  been  established 
in  its  stead.  While  he  was  justly  proud  of  these  results,  he 
disclaimed  the  credit  for  their  accomplishment.  The  reward  of 
his  labors  was  the  success  he  achieved.     *     * 

"The  glove  of  velvet  adorned,  but  did  not  mask,  his  hand  of 
iron.  Stately  in  bearing,  courtly  in  manner,  masterful  in  affairs, 
gracious  in  his  simplicity,  he  won  the  respect,  the  admiration, 
and  the  affection  of  those  who  were  priviliged  to  know  the  Man. 

"His  presidency  brought  honor  to  our  name  among  the 
historical  societies  of  the  world. 

"Those  who  knew  John  N.  Jewett  best  loved  him  most  and 
have  the  chief  right  to  mourn;  and  we  who  sat  at  his  feet  and 
held  up  his  hands  in  this  work  *  *  claim  it  our  due  to 
spread  upon  our  records  this  too  meager  tribute  to  his  memory." 

The  records  of  the  Society  make  mention  of  many  interesting 
incidents  during  the  past  fifty  years.  In  1880,  the  Society  was 
troubled  by  the  existence  of  a  mortgage  of  $12,000  upon  its  then 
new  building,  the  holders  of  which  were  pressing  for  payment. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee,  where  this  matter  had 
been  discussed,  Mr.  L.  Z.  Leiter  asked  that  he  might  be  allowed 
to  attend  to  that.  A  little  memorandum  book  is  now  in  the 
possession   of  the  Society,  showing  the  results  of  Mr.  Leiter's 


198  CHICAGO    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 

activity  as  a  canvasser.  It  shows  that  Judge  Mark  Skinner, 
Edwin  H.  Sheldon,  Henry  J.  Willing,  and  Mr.  Inciter  himself, 
each  contributed  $2500,  and  Dr.  D.  K.  Pearsons  and  Albert  A. 
Munger  each  $1000,  whereby  the  mortgage  was  cancelled.  Mr. 
Leiter  was  for  many  years  a  liberal  giver  for  the  work  of  the 
Society.  He  paid  the  expenses  of  publishing  the  first  and 
second  volumes  of  its  collections. 

The  unique  and  valuable  papers  of  President  James  Madison> 
filling  eight  large  folio  volumes,  which  contain  some  fourteen 
hundred  letters  written  by  Mr.  Madison,  with  some  few  received 
by  him,  during  his  public  life,  were  purchased  by  Mr.  Marshall 
Field,  and  presented  by  him  to  the  Society.  He  also  paid  the 
cost  of  publishing  the  third  volume  of  its  collections,  being  the 
official  letters  and  documents  of  Ninian  Edwards,  territorial 
governor  of  Illinois. 

We  are  often  told  from  the  pulpit  that  he  who  giveth  is  not 
thereby  impoverished,  and  the  truth  of  this  maxim  is  seen  in  the 
fact  that  after  the  liberality  of  the  two  gentlemen,  last  named, 
Messrs.  Leiter  and  Field,  they  have  still  left  their  famiHes  amply 
provided  for. 

The  list  of  men  and  women  who  have  been  officers  and 
members  of  the  Historical  Society  is  a  notable  one,  and  embraces 
a  goodly  proportion  of  the  men  who  are  credited  with  being  the 
makers  of  Chicago.     Among  them  we  find  the  names  of  William 

B.  Ogden,  Isaac  N.  Arnold,  Henry  D."  Gilpin,  J.  Y.  Scammon, 
Walter  L.  Newberry,  Edwin  H.  Sheldon,  Cyrus  H.  McCormick, 
Henry  J.  Willing,  T.  B.  Blackstone,  N.  K.  Fairbank,  George 
M.  Pullman,  Levi  Z.  Leiter,  Mark  Skinner,  Marshall  Field,  William 
Blair,  Charles  B.  Farwell,  S.  H.  Kerfoot,  Dr.  R.  N.  Isham,  Edwin 

C.  Earned,  Henry  W.  King,  Edwin  S.  Isham,  Wm.  G.  Hibbard, 
C.  W.  Fullerton,  John  H.  Dunham,  George  Sturges,  Chalkley 
J.  Hambleton,  Julian  S.  Rumsey,  John  B.  Turner,  Jonathan 
Burr,  Dr.  John  H.  Foster,  William  Bross,  A.  H.  Burley,  Hugh 
T.  Dickey,  H.  G.  Loomis,  J.  H.  McVicker,  F.  H.  Winston,  John 
Wentworth,  J.  T.  Ryerson,  Thomas  Hoyne,  Ezra  B.  McCagg, 
Lambert  Tree,  D.  K.  Pearsons,  Henry  H.  Porter,  A.  C.  Bartlett, 
E.  W.  Blatchford,  Byron  L.  Smith,  Edward  E.  Ayer,  Samuel  I^I 


SEMI-CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION.  1 99 

Nickerson,  Richard  T.  Crane,  D.  G.  Hamilton,  Charles  L. 
Hutchinson,  Martin  A.  Ryerson,  John  J.  Glessner,  Ezra  J. 
Warner,  and  many  more  of  the  builders  of  our  city.  We  feel 
therefore,  when  we  invite  the  men  and  women  of  the  present 
and  the  coming  generation  to  join  this  notable  band  of  honor- 
able men  and  women,  that  we  are  asking  them  to  marry  into  a 
good  and  worthy  family. 

The  meeting  of  this  evening  is  designed  to  be  largely  social, 
where  the  old  and  the  newer  members  of  the  Society  may  meet 
and  become  acquainted.  Nothing  in  the  way  of  passing  the 
plate  is  contemplated.  But  it  may  not  be  amiss  to  briefly  advert 
to  the  financial  side  of  the  work  of  the  Society.  I  have  already 
stated  that  the  institution  owns  its  building  and  collections,  and 
is  free  from  debt.  Its  income  is  derived  from  the  annual  dues  of 
the  members,  and  the  interest  upon  its  permanent  endowment. 
This  endowment  is  regretfully  small.  It  is  carefully  invested,  but 
the  income  is  greatly  inadequate  to  the  work  before  its  managers. 
Rare  and  valuable  material  connected  with  the  early  history  of 
our  city  and  State,  that  will  be  of  priceless  value  to  the  future 
historian  and  which  may  at  any  time,  be  lost  or  destroyed;  is 
often  available,  but  we  have  not  the  money  to  buy  when  it  is 
purchasable. 

Within  the  last  few  years,  several  sums  of  $5000  and  some  of 
lesser  amounts,  have  been  bequeathed  for  the  endowment  fund, 
by  Mrs.  Edward  Swan  Stickney,  Mrs.  J.  Y.  Scammon,  Mrs.  Mah- 
lon  D.  Ogden,  Mrs.  Lucian  Tilton,  Huntington  W.  Jackson, 
Henry  J.  Willing,  E.  T.  Watkins,  and  T.  Mauro  Garrett. 

I  trust  that  these  items  indicate  a  growing  habit  among  the 
members  of  the  Society  to  remember  it  in  their  wills,  and  few 
methods  can  be  named  where  the  memory  of  the  donors,  attached 
to  a  special  fund,  will  be  more  sure  of  permanent  honor,  or  where 
the  donations  will  be  used  more  for  the  benefit  of  Chicago  and 
its  people,  and  its  men  and  women  of  letters. 

At  the  present  time,  when  the  current  thought  and  conversa- 
tion is  so  largely  relative  to  contagion,  I  venture  to  hope  that  the 
making  of  bequests  to  this  institution  may  become  contagious, 
and  remain  so  long  after  the  present  scarlet-fever  excitement  has 
passed  away. 


200  CHICAGO    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

These  bequests  are  sacredly  guarded,  the  income  alone  is 
expended,  and  the  names  of  the  donors,  attached  to  the  special 
funds,  will  be  passed  to  a  grateful  posterity,  who  will  bless  their 
generosity  and  be  benefited  thereby,  long  after  Macauley's  his- 
toric New  Zealander  shall,  "in  the  midst  of  a  vast  solitude  where 
London  was,  take  his  stand  on  a  broken  arch  of  London  Bridge, 
to  sketch  the  ruins  of  St.  Pauls." 

Even  these  prospective  bequests,  while  pleasing,  have  their  sad 
and  mournful  side,  since  in  each  case  we  must  mourn  the  loss  of 
a  loved  and  honored  member.  Should  anyone  wish  to  guard 
against  this  sadness,  and  make  the  endowment  a  donation  rather 
than  a  bequest,  such  person,  by  communicating  with  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  or  the  Treasurer,  can  doubtless  make  an  arrange- 
ment for  a  suitable  commercial  discount  for  cash. 

Following  the  applause  with  which  President  Head's  address 
was  received,  the  audience  left  the  Lecture  Hall  and  found  enter- 
tainment in  the  various  departments  of  the  Building.  The  Gilpin 
Library,  the  Stickney  Library,  the  Manuscript  Room,  and  the 
Museum,  all  were  open  and  each  attracted  its  quota  of  the  guests. 
Refreshments  were  served  on  the  large  bronze  tables  in  the 
Reading  Room,  where  the  decorations  were  American  Beauty 
roses,  and  a  special  exhibit  of  photographs,  manuscripts,  and 
other  monuments  of  the  first  days  of  the  Society,  arranged  by  the 
House  Committee  and  the  Librarian,  bore  eloquent  testimony  to 
the  foresight  of  the  founders. 

A  large  number  of  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  present  had  been 
residents  of  Chicago  for  the  whole  fifty  years  of  the  Society's  life, 
and  this  gathering  gave  to  these  people  such  an  opportunity  as 
had  rarely  been  offered  of  meeting  a  goodly  number  of  their 
friends  and  acquaintances  of  early  days. 

Upon  no  other  occasion,  except  the  dedication  of  the  Building 
in  1896  and  the  reception  in  1903,  commemorative  of  the  Cen- 
tennial of  the  erection  of  Fort  Dearborn,  had  so  many  persons 
attended  a  meeting  as  the  guests  of  the  Society,  and  the  occasion 
was  one  of  the  most  interesting  in  its  history. 


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ROLL    OF    OFFICERS 
AND    MEMBERS 


1856  — 1907 


CHICAGO   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY  20 1 


INCORPORATORS 

William  Barry,  Founder 
James  VanZandt  Blaney 
Mason  Brayman 
WiLMAM  Hubbard  Brown 
Nathan  Smith  Davis 
VanHollis  Higgins 
John  Harris  Kinzik 
George  Manierre 
Ezra  Butler  McCagg 
Mahlon  Dickhrson  Ogden 
William  Butler  Ogden 
Charles  Henry  Ray 
Franklin  Scammon 
Jonathan  Young  Scammon 
Mark  Skinner 
William  A.  Smallwood 
Edward  Islay  Tinkham 
Samuel  Dexter  Ward 
Joseph  Dana  Webster 


CHICAGO    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY  203 

CHICAGO    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Organized,  April  24,  1856. 

Incorporated,  February  7,  1857. 

Building  Dedicated,  November  19,  1868. 

Building  and  Collections  Destroyed  by  The  Chicago  Fire, 
October  8-9,  1871. 

Collections  Destroyed  by  Second  Fire,  July  14,  1874. 

Temporary  Building  Occupied,  October  i6,  1877. 

Collections  Stored,  and  Building  Removed,  1892. 

Corner-Stone  of  new  Building  Laid,  November  12,  1892. 

Present  Fire- proof  Building,  Erected  by  Private 

Subscription  at  a  Cost  of  $190,000;  Dedicated 
December  15,  1896. 

LOCATIONS 


1856,  Marine  Bank  Building,  Northeast  corner 

Lake  and  La  Salle  Streets. 

1856- 1857.    Exchange  Brnk  Building,  Southwest  corner 
Clark  and  Lake  Streets. 

1857-1858.    Rumsey  Building,  44  and  46  La  Salle  Street. 


1858- 1868.    Newberry  Building,  Northeast  corner 
Wells  and  Kinzie  Streets. 

1868- 1871.     Society's  Building,  Northwest  corner 

Dearborn  Avenue  and  Ontario  Street. 

1872-1874.     ScAMMON  Building,  209  Michigan  Avenue. 
1877-1892.    Temporary  Building,  142  Dearborn  Avenue. 


1896 —  Society's  Permanent  Building,  Northwest  Corner 

Dearborn  Avenue  and  Ontario  Street. 


CHICAGO   HISTORICAL  SOCIETY  20$ 


Benefactors . 

JONATHAN   BURR 
PHILO  CARPENTER 

JOHN    CRERAR 

T.  MAURO  GARRETT 

HENRY  DiLWORTH   GILPIN 

HUNTINGTON  WOLCOTT  JACKSON 

FRANCES  ELIZABETH   OGDEN 

LUCRETIA  POND 

GEORGE  MORTIMER  PULLMAN 

MARIA  SHELDON  SCAMMON 

ELIZABETH   HAMMOND  STICKNEY 

LUCRETIA  JANE  TILTON 

ELIAS  TAYLOR  WATKINS 

HENRY  JENKENS  WILLING 

Persons  who  bequeath  money  or  property  to  the  Society  are  enrolled  as  Benefactors. 


206  CHICAGO   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 


/iDembersbip 

Membership  in  the  Society  may  be  had  only  upon  recom- 
mendation of  the  Executive  Committee.  There  is  no  entrance 
fee.  Life  Membership,  free  from  all  dues,  is  five  hmidred 
dollars;  Annual  Membership,  twenty -five  dollars.  These 
payments  carry  zvith  them  the  right  to  hold  office,  to  vote, 
ajtd  take  part  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Society,  to  the  use  of 
the  Library  and  Reading-room,  to  admisison  to  all  Lectures 
and  Enter tain7nents,  and  to  a  copy  of  the  Society's  ciLrrent 
Publications. 


jform  ot  JBequest 

/  Give  a7id  Bequeath  to  the  Chicago  Historical  Society, 
Incorporated  by  Special  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  Approved  February  y,  i8^y,  the  sum  of 
__ Dollars. 


CHICAGO   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 


207 


OFFICERS 


(officers   for    1907-8,  PAGE   224) 


PRESIDENTS 


William  Hubbard  Brown      - 
Walter  Loomis  Newberry 
Jonathan  Young  Scammon 
Edwin  Holmes  Sheldon 
Isaac  Newton  Arnold 
Elihu  Benjamin  Washburne 
Edward  Gay  Mason 
John  Nelson  Jewett 
Franklin  Harvey  Head 


1856—1860 
i860— 1868 
1868-1870 
1870— 1876 
X876— 1884 
1884—1887 
1887—1898 
1899—1904 
1904— 


VICE-PRESIDENTS 


William  Butler  Ogdbn 

Jonathan  Young  Scammon 

Walter  Loomis  Newberry 

George  Manierre 

Edwin  Holmes  Sheldon 

Thomas  Hoyne 

Ezra  Butler  McGagg 

George  Frederick  Rumsey 

Robert  Todd  Lincoln 

William  Hickling 

E^ihu  Benjamin  Washburne 

John  Wentworth 

Alexander  Caldwell  McClurg 

George  Washington  Smith 

Edward  Gay  Mason 

Franklin  Harvey  Head 

Thomas  Dent 

Lambert  Tree         .  -  - 


1856— 1868 
1856—1857 
1863— 1868 
1858— 1860 

1861—1863 

1869—1870 
1869—1875 
1877— 1882 
1870— 1875 

1876— 1877 
1876—1877 
1878—1880 
1881— 1884 
1883—1884 

1884—1899 
1884—1885 
1887— 1898 
1885— 1887 

1899—1904 

1899- 

1904— 


208 


CHICAGO   HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


TREASURERS 

Samuel  Dexter  Ward  .... 

Edward  Islay  Tinkham  .... 

William  Blair  -  .  .  .  . 

Franklin  Scammon  ..... 

George  Frederick  Rumsey 

Belden  Farrand  Culver  .... 

Thomas  H.  Armstrong  -  - 

Robert  Reid  ...... 

Solomon  Albert  Smith  -  - 

Byron  Laflin  Smith         ..... 

Augustus  Harris  Burley      .... 

Henry  H.  Nash      ...... 

Gilbert  B.  Shaw  ..... 

Edward  Gay  Mason  (Acting)      .... 

"Orson  Smith      ...... 


1.856— 1858 
1859—1860 

1870-1873 

1861 

1862 

1863- 

-1864 

1865- 

-1866 

1867- 

-186& 

1869 

1874- 

-187& 

1879 

1880 

i88i- 

-1888 

1889- 

-1892 

1893- 

■1898 

1899- 

CORRESPONDING   SECRETARIES 


Charles  Henry  Ray 
Ezra  Butler  McCagg 


1856—1857 
J  1858—1863 
1 1869— 1870 


SECRETARIES   AND    LIBRARIANS 

William  Barry  -  -  -  .  .  .  .  .  1856-1866 

Thomas  H.  Armstrong      .......  i866 — 1868 

Lemuel  G.  Olmstead  .......  1868—1869 

William  Corkran  -  -  -  -  .  .  1869—1870 

J  W.  HovT 1870—1871 

Belden  Farrand  Culver  ......  1874—1877 

Albert  David  Hager  .......  1877—1887 

John  Moses  ........  1887—1893 

Edward  Gay  Mason  (Acting)  ......  1893—1896 

Charles  Evans        ........  1896 — 1901 

James  W.  Fertig,  Secretary  ......  1901— 1907 

Caroline  M.  McIlvaine,  Librarian        .....  1901— 


ASSISTANTS 


Samuel  Stone 
William  Corkran 


1857—1862 
1865— 1866 
1870 — 1871 


CHICAGO   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 


209 


EXECUTIVE   COMMITTEE 


William  K.  Ackerman 
Isaac  Newton  Arnold     - 
Edward  Everett  Ayer 
Eliphalet  Wickes  Blatchford 
Joseph  Tilton  Bowen 
Belden  Farrand  Culver 
William  Alden  Fuller 
John  DeKoven 
John  High  Dunham     - 
George  Lincoln  Dunlap 
Lyman   Judson  Gage 
T.  Mauro  Garrett 
Daniel  Goodwin 
Charles  Frederick  Gunther 
Chalklev  Jay  Hambleton 
William  Hickling 
Samuel  Humes  Kerfoot 
Samuel  Humes  Kerfoot,  Jr 
Levi  Ziegler  Leiter 
Ezra  Butler  McCagg 
Edward  Gay  Mason 
George  Merryweathkr    - 
Walter  Cass  Newberry 
Daniel  Kimball  Pearsons 
Julius  Rosenthal 
George  Frederick  Rumsey 
Julian  Sidney  Rumsey 
Jonathan  Young  Scammon 
Otto  Leopold  Schmidt 
Edwin  Holmes  Sheldon 
Mark  Skinner 
George  Washington  Smith 
LuciAN  Tilton 
John  Bice  Turner 
Elias  Taylor  Watkins 
John  Wentworth 
Henry  Jenkens  Willing 
John  P.  Wilson 

3 


1880— 18S8 
1871— 1876 
1887— 1906 
1874—1875 
1901 — 
1877— 1880 
1903— 
1876— 1877 

1871-1873 
1876— 1895 
1891— 189S 
1859— 1903 
1895 — 1899 
1899- 
1899—1900 
1877—1881 
1887—1896 
1897— 
1871 — 1904 
1868—1870 
1883— 1885 
19C0 — 
1904— 
1881— 19C0 
1374-1877 
1871—1878 

1880— 1 88  X 
1871— 1875 
1899— 
1876— 1S88 
1870—1887 
1887—1898 
1871—1875 
1871—1871 
1874-1879 
1882- 1S86 
1836—1198 
1506 — 


210  CHICAGO   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 


TRUSTEES   OF  THE  GILPIN   FUND 


Augustus  Harris  Burley      ----...  1879— 1903 

Clarence  Augustus  Burley       ----..  .„». 

1904 — 

Eugene  Heald  Fishburn       ----...  1891— 

Walter  Lowrie  Fisher  --.-..  ,„„. 

1904 — 

William  Butler  Ogden         -  -  -  ...  .  .  1860—1877 

Erskine  M.  Phelps  -  -  -  -  .  .  .  ,^. 

1904 — 

George  Frederick  Rumsey  -  -  -  .  .  .  1879—1881 

Edwin  Holmes  Sheldon  -  -  -  .  .  .  1879— 1890 

Henry  Jenkens  Willing 1888— 1503 

Peter  Lynch  Yoe 1838-1898 

The  President,  and  First  Vice-President,  ex-officis. 


CHICAGO   HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 


211 


MEMBERS 

4«  Deceased 

o    Membership  ceased. 


HONORARY   LIFE   MEMBERS 


Aver,  Edward  Everett 
*{*6arry,  William 

Bartlett,  Adolphus  Clay 
►pBt'RR,  Jonathan 

Crank,  Richard  Teller 

Hcbbard,  Mary  Ann 

Hutchinson,  Charles  Lawrence 
4<Leiter,  Levi  Ziegler 

McCagg.  Ezra  Butler 
»J<McClintock,  Sarah  A. 

McCoRMiCK,  Cyrus  Hall,  Jr. 

McCoRMicK,  Nettie  Fowler 

•J«M0SELEY,    FlAVEL 

»J«Munger,  Albert  Allison 
Imickerson,  Samuel  Mavo 


Pearsons,  Daniel  Kimball 

Porter,  Henry  Hedge 
4*RoBBiNS,  Allen 

Ryerson,  Martin  Antoine 

Schmidt,  Otto  Leopold 
»J"Shbldon,  Edwin  Holmes 

Skinner,  Elizabeth 

Skinner,  Frederika 
44SKINNBR,  Mark 

Smith,  Byron  Laflin 
4<Stone,  Samuel 

Tree,  Lambert 
4«Van  Schaack,  Henry  Crugbr 
•{•Willing,  Henry  Jenkens 


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CHICAGO   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 


LIFE   MEMBERS 


»|«Adams,  John  McGregor 
4*Arnol0,  Isaac  Newton 
»J<Blackstone,  Timothy  Beach 

Blatchford,  Eliphalet  Wickes 
►|«BocuE,  George  Marquis 

Bond,  Benjamin  Nicodemus 
HhBooMER,  Lucius  B. 
^BowEN,  Chauncey  Thomas 
4«BowEN,  James  Harvey 
»f«BRoss,  William 
4<Brown,  William  Hubbard 
tfiBuRLEV,  Arthur  Oilman 

Cobb,  Henry  Ives 
»i<CooLBAUGH,  William  Findlay 
»J«CuLVER,  Belden  Farrand 
»{«Dbrby,  William  M. 
►J<Dickey,  Hugh  Thompson 
»J«DuNLAP,  George  Lincoln 
^Ellis,  J.  Alder 
»f<ELY,  David  J. 

►J«Fairbank,  Nathaniel  Kellogg 
4«Farnam,  Henry 

Farnam,  William  Whitman 
•J«Farwell,  Charles  Benjamin 

Farwell,  John  Villars 
>J*Farwell,  Marcus  Augustus 
»J<Ferry,  William  Henry 
^Field,  Marshall 
4«Forsythe,  John 
»J«Fuller,  Samuel  Worcester 
»j«fullerton,  alexander  nathaniel 

Greenebaum,  Henry 
tfiGuRNEE,  Walter  Smith 

HiLLEBRAND,    GeRHARD   H. 

HoNORE,  Henry  H. 
HhHoYNK,  Thomas 
»i<jANSEN,  Egbert  Lefevre 

Jewett,  Ellen  Rountree 
^Johnston,  Samuel 
4«JoNES,  Kiler  Kent 
»i«KERFooT,  Samuel  Humes 

Kerfoot,  Samuf.l  Humes,  Jr. 
•{•Kidder,  Nathan  B. 
•JtKiNZiE,  John  Harris 


Leiter,  Joseph 
»J«Llovd,  Jessie  Bross 
»J«Loomis,  Horatio  Gates 

Lowden,  Frank  Orrbn 

Lytton,  Henry  Charles 
4«McVicker,  James  Hubert 
i^Meeker,  Arthur  Burr 
Hr«MooRE,  Robert 
»J«Moss,  Robert  Edward 
»J«Newberry,  Walter  Loomis 
4«0gden,  Mahlon  Dickerson 
»i«0GDEN,  William  Butler 

Ogden,  William  Butler 

Page,  Benjamin  Vaughan 

Palmer,  Honore 
►pQuAN,  William  Joseph 
»J<Raymond,  Benjamin  Wright 
►J«Reed,  Joseph  Sampson 
►{•Reid,  Robert 

Roberts,  James  Henry 
•i^RuMSEY,  George  Frederick 
»i<RYERSoN,  Joseph  Turner 
»J«Sapieha,  Louis 
4<ScAMMON,  Charles  Trufant 
»J*ScAMMON,  Franklin 
4«ScAMMON,  Jonathan  Young 
>J<ScAMMON,  Maria  Sheldon 

Seipp,  Catharina  Orb 
4*Small,  Alvin  Edmond 
»J«Smith,  George 
»f*SMiTH,  Perry  Hiram 
►{•Spalding,  Jesse 
»J<Thompson,  Daniel 
•{•Thompson,  Harvey  M. 
•{•Turner,  John  Bice 
•{•Tyrrell,  John 
•{•Walker,  George  Clarke 

Warner,  Ezra  Joseph 
•{•Watkins,  Elias  Taylor 
►{•Wentworth,  John 
•{•Wheeler,  Calvin  Thatcher 
•{•Winston,  Frederick  Hampden 
•{•YoE,  Peter  Lynch 


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ANNUAL    MEMBERS 


•pAcKERMAN,  William  K. 

Adams,  George  Everett 

Adsit,  Charles  Chapin 
•{•Adsit,  James  M. 
o  Aldis,  Owen  Franklin 
o  Allerton,  Samuel  Waters 
o  Antisdel,  Albert 
»J«Armour,  George 

Armour,  George  Allison 
•(•Armour,  Philip  Danforth 
o  Austin,  Frederick  C. 
»J»Averv,  Thomas  Morris 
•i«AYER,  Benjamin  Franklin 
o  Badger,  Alpheus  C. 
o  Bailey,  Edward  Payson 

Baker,  Alfred  Landon 
^•Bakbr,  William  Taylor 
4«Ballard,  Addison 

Bannard,  Henry  Clat 

Barnard,  Frederick 

Barnes,  Charles  Joseph 
o  Barrett,  Samuel  E. 

Bartholomay,  Henry,  Jr. 

Barton,  Enos  Melancthon 
►{•Bass,  Perkins 
•{•Bates,  Eli 
•{•Baxter,  Daniel  Frank 

Beach,  Myron  Hawley 

Beale,  William  Gerrish 
4«Beckwith,  Charles  H, 
►{•Beebe,  Thomas  H. 
•{•Beecher,  Jerome 
♦{•Bentley,  Cyrus 
o  Billings,  Cornelius  K.  Garrison 
o  Billings,  Frank 
o  Bishop,  Henry  W. 
o  Black,  John   C. 
»i«blackwell,  robert  s. 

Blaine,  Anita  McCormick 
o  Blair,  Chauncby  J. 

Blair,  Edward  Tyler 
o  Blair,  Francis  Morrison 
•{•Blair,  Lyman 

Blair,  Sarah  Seymour 
•{•Blair,  William 
o  Blanchard,  Rollin  p. 
•{•Blaney,  James  Van  Zandt 


Blount,  Fred  Meacham 
o  BoDMAN,  Luther  W. 
•{•Boutell,  Louis  Henry 
•{•BowEN,  Ira  Pardee 

Bowen,  Joseph  Tilton 
•{•Boyd,  James 
•{•Bradley,  David  Emery 

Bradley,  J.  Harley 
•{•Bradley,  William  Henry 
•{•Braun,  George  Philip 
o  Brooks,  James  Carter 
o  Brooks,  Jonathan  W.,  Jr. 

Brown,  Edward  Osgood 

Brown,  Samuel  Lockwood 

Bryan,  Alfred  C. 

Bryan,  Frederick  William 

Bryan,  John  Charles 
•{•Bryan,  Thomas  Barbour 

Bryson,  William  J. 

Buckingham,  Ebenezer 

BuNN,  John  Whitfield 
•{•BuRCH,  Isaac  Howe 
•{•Hurley,  Augustus  Harris 

BuRLEY,  Clarence  Augustus 
•{•Burling,  Edward 

Burton,  LeGrand  Sterling 
o  Bush,  Willia.m  H. 
•{•Butler,  Hermon  Beardsley 

BuTz,  Otto  Charles 
•{•Calhoun,  John   B. 

Calhoun,  William  James 
•{K^AMPBELL,  William  J. 

Cannon,  Thomas  H. 

Carpenter,  Augustus  Alvord 

Carpenter,  George  Benjamin 
o  Carson,  John  B. 
•{•Carter,  James 

Caruthers,  Kate  S. 
•{•Carver,  Benjamin  F. 

Chalmers,  William  James 
o  Chandlbh,  Frank  R. 
•{•Chandler.  William  W. 
o  Charnlby,  James 
•{•Chase,  Samuel  Blanchard 

Chatfi eld-Taylor,  Hobart  Chatfield 

Cheney,  Charles  Edward 
•{•Chbsbrough,  Ellis  Sylvester 


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Annual  Members — Continued 


o  Clark,  John  Marshall 
4*Clarke,  George  C. 
o  Clarke,  George  Washington 
4"Clarkb,  John  Vaughan 
►iiCLARKSON,  J.  Thorn 
»i«CLARKS0N,  Robert  Harper 
4«CoBB,  Silas  Bowman 
CoBURN,  Lewis  Larnbd 

COFFEEN,    MiLO   LeSTBR 

o  Colahan,  Charles 
o  Collier,  John 
o  CoLLYER,  Robert 
o  CoMAN,  Seymour 

CoNovER,  Charles  Hopkins 
»i«CooK,  Burton  C. 
^"Cooper,  John  Snider 
Q  CoRBiN,  Caroline  Fairfield 
tJ^ORSE,  John  Murray 
4«CoRwiTH,  Henry 
»J«Corwith,  Nathan 
»J«Counselman,  Charles 
»i«CowLEs,  Alfred 
o  Cramer,  Ambrose 

Crane,  Charles  Richard 
»}»Crerar,  John 

CuRTiss,  Charles  Chauncey 
o  Cushing,  Edward  T. 
»I«Davis,  Nathan  Smith 

Davis,  Nathan  Smith,  Jr. 
»J«Dearborn,  Luther  M. 

Deering,  Charles 

Deering,  William 

DeKoven,  Annie  Larrabee 
4«DeKovbn,  John 

Delano,  Frederic  Adrian 

Dent,  Louis  Lee 

Dent,  Thomas 
o  DeWolf,  Oscar  C. 
•{•Dexter,  Wirt 

Dick,  Albert  Blake 

Dickinson,  Albert 

Dickinson,  Jacob  Macgavic 

Dixon,  Arthur 
4<Dodge,  George  E.  P. 
»I<Doggett,  William  Elkanah 
•{•Dole,  James  H. 
•{•Dow,  J.  Hall 
•{•Dow,  William  Cary 
•{•DuGGAN,  James 

Dummer,  William  Francis  . 


»{«Dunham,  James  Sbars 
•{•Dunham,  John  High 

DuRAND,  Elliott 

Eastman,  Sidney  Corning 
o  Eaton,  Sherburne  B. 

Eberhardt,  Max 

Eddy,  Augustus  Newland 
o  Ellis,  Thomas  H. 
o  Evans,  Charlbcs 
•{•Evans,  John 

Ewen,  John  Mbiggs 
o  Fargo,  James  C. 

Farwell,  Granger 

Farwell,  John  Villars,  Jr. 
o  Fay,  Charles  Norman 

Fergus,  George  Harris 

Ferry,  Charles  Herbert 
•{•Field,  Henry 

Fishburn,  Eugene  Heald 

Fisher,  Lucius  George 

Fisher,  Walter  Lowrie 
o  Flint,  Thompson  J.  S. 
o  Flower,  James  Monroe 
•{•Forsythe,  George  A. 
•{•Foster,  John  Herbert 
•{•Foster,  John  Wells 

Frankel,  Julius 

Freer,  Archibald  E. 
^•Freer,  Lemuel  Covell  Paine 
^•Freer,  Nathan  Marble 
•{•Fuller,  Allen  Curtis 

Fuller,  Oliver  Franklyn 

Fuller,  William  Alden 
4"Fullerton,  Charles  William 
•{•Gage,  David  A. 
o  Gage,  Lyman  Judson 
o  Gardiner,  Edwin  J. 
•{•Garrett,  T.  Mauro 
•{•Gerard,  John  B. 
o  Giles,  William 

Glessner,  John  Jacob 
•{•Glover,  Joseph  Otis 
^•Goodwin,  Daniel,  Jr. 
•{•Goodrich,  Grant 

Goodrich,  Horace  Atwater. 
•{•Grant,  William  Cutting 

Greenlee,  Ralph  Stbbbins 

Gresham,  Otto 
•{•Griggs,  Samuel  Chapman 
•{•Grinnbll,  Julius  Spragub 


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215 


Annual  Members — Continued 


»{^ROVER,  ZuiNGLIUS 

GuNTHBR,  Charles  Frederick 

GuRLEY,  William  W. 
»i«HADDUcK,  Edward  Hiram 
>{*Hager,  Albert  David 
4«Haines,  John  Charles 
o  Halsey,  J.  J. 
4<Hamblbton,  Chalkley  Jay 
o  Hamill,  Charles  .Davisson 
o  Hamill,  Ernest  Alfred 

Hamilton,  David  Gilbert 

Hamilton,  Henry  Edward 
o  Hamlin,  John  Austin 
»{*Hammond,  Charles  Goodrich 
•{•Hannah,  John  S. 
o  Harding,  Amos  J. 
o  Harding,  George  F. 
•{•Harmon,  Charles  Loomis 

Harris,  George  Bacon 

Harris,  Joseph 

Harris,  Norman  Waite 
o  Harris,  Robert 

Harrison,  Carter  Henry 

Harrison,  William  Preston 

Harvey,  Frank  William 
o  Harvey,  Turlington  Walker 

Haskell,  Frederick  Tudor 
»{<Havbn,  Luther 

Head,  Franklin  Harvey 
o  Healy,  Edith 
o  Heath,  Ernest  W. 
o  Heckman,  Wallace 
>{*Hendb){son,  Charles  Mather 
•{•Hibbard,  John  Randolph 
•{•Hibbard,  William  Gold 
•{•Hickling,  William 
»{«HiGGiNS,  Charles 
•{•Higgins,  Van  Hollis 

High,  George  Henry 
•{•High,  George  Meeker 
•{•High,  John,  Jr. 

HiGINBOTHAM,    HaRLOW    NiLES 

Hitchcock,  Annib  McClurb 
•{•Hitchcock,  Charles 

•{•HjORTSBERG,    MaX 

o  HoLDSwonTH,  Jambs  J. 
o  Holmes,  Charles  B. 
•{•Holmes,  Ira 
o  Hooper,  Hbnry 
Hopkins,  John  Patrick 


•{•HoTZ,  Christoph 
•{•Houghteling,  William  DeZeng 
•{•Howe,  Samuel 

HuLBURD,  Charles  Henry 

Hunt,  Robert  Woolstom 
^Hurlbut,  Horace  A. 

Hyde,  James  Nevins 

Hynbs,  William  J. 

Insull,  Samuel 
•{•IsHAM,  Edward  Swift 

Isham,  George  Snow 
•{•IsHAM,  Henry  Pierrepont 
•{•IsHAM,  Ralph  Nelson 
•{•Jackson,  Huntington  Wolcott 
•{•Jackson,  Obadiah 
•{•Jacobson,  Augustus 
•{•Janes,  John  James 
o  Jerrems,  William  G.,  Jr. 
•{•Jewett,  John  Nelson 
o  Jewett,  Samuel  Rountreb 
•{•Johnson,  Ends 
o  Johnson,  Herrick 
•{•Johnson,  Hosmer  Allbn 
•{•Johnson,  William  Sage 
•{•Jones,  Daniel  Amasa 

Jones,  David  Bennett 
o  Jones,  Eliphaz  Warner 

Jones,  Joseph  Russell 
•{•Jones,  Mahlon  Ogden 

Jones,  Thomas  Davies 
o  JuDSON,  Harry  Pratt 
•{•Kales,  Francis  H. 
•{•Keep,  Albert 

Keep,  Chauncey 
•{•Keith,  Edson 

Kelley,  William  Edward 
•{•Kellogg,  Charles  P. 

Kerfoot,  Annie  Warfield  Lawrence 

Kerfoot,  William  Dale 
•{•Kimball,  Charles  P. 

Kimball,  Eugene  S. 
•{•Kimball,  William  Wallace 
•{•King,  Aurelia  R.  Case 

King,  Francis 
•{•King,  Henry  William 
•{•Kirk,  James  Alexander 
•{•Kirk,  John  Balderstonb 
•{•Kirkland,  Joseph 
•{•Laflin,  George  Hinman 
•{•Larned,  Edwin  Channing 


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o  Larned,  Walter  Cranston 
»}«Larrabee,  Charles  Rollin 

Lathrop,  Bryan 

Lathrop,  Helen  L.  Aldis 
»J«La\vrence,  Charles  Burrall 

Lawrence,  Dvvight 
•^Lawrence,  Edward  Franklin 

Lawson,  Victor  Fremont 

Lay,  Albert  Tracy 
»JtLEE,  David  Stewart 
o  Leeds,  William  Bateman 

Lefens,  Thies  Jacob 

Leicht,  Edward  Albert 
o  LeMovne,  John  V, 
4»Lester,  John  Threadgold 
►J«LiLL,  Willliam 

Lincoln,  Robert  Todd 
o  Loesch,  Francis  J, 
»I"Lombard,  Josiah  Lewis 
»i«LoNG,  John  Conant 
»J«LooMis,  John  Mason 

LooMis,  Mary  Hunt 

Lord,  John  Brockett 
»i<LoRiNG,  Sanford  E. 
o  McAuley,  John  T. 
►J<McClurg,  Alexander  Caldwell 

McConnell,  Charles  Henry 
o  McCormick,  Alexander  Agnew 
4*McCoRMicK,  Cyrus  Hall 

McCormick,  Harold  Fowler 
>I«McCoRMicK,  Leander  James 
o  McCormick,  Robert  Hall 
o  McCormick,  Robert  Sanderson 

McCormick,  Stanley 
»i«McCoRMicK,  William  Sanderson 
»i«McCREA,  Samuel  Harkness 
o  McEwEN,  John 
»J«McKennan,  H. 
McKinlock,  George  Alexander 
MacMillan,  Thomas  Cuming 
MacVeagh,  Franklin 
o  McWiLLiAMS,  Lafayette 
»}<Magee,  Haines  H. 
Mair,  Charles  A. 
►{"Manierre,  George 
o  Manierre,  George,  Jr. 
o  Manierre,  William  Reid 
*I«Mason,  Edward  Gay 
o  Mason,  Henry  Burall 
o  Mason,  Julia  Starkweather 


►J<Mason,  Roswell  B, 

Mayer,  Levy 
4<Mears,  Charles 
►J<Mears,  Nathan 
>I<Medill,  Joseph 

Merryweather,  George 
»J<MiLLER,  Henry  Giles 

Mills,  Luther  Laflin 
»i<MoHR,  John 

Moore,  James  Hobart 
►fiMooRE,  Silas  Milton 

Morgan,  Fred  William 

Morris,  Edward 

Morris,  Frank  M. 

Morris,  Henry  Crittenden 

Morris,  Ira  N. 
o  Morse,  Jay  Collins 

Morton,  Joy 
>J*Moses,  Adolph 
►}<MosEs,  John 

Mulliken,  Alfred  Henry 

MuLLiKEN,  Charles  Henry 
o  Munger,  Wesley 
o  MuNN,  Ira  Y, 
►{•Nash,  Henry  H. 
o  Nelson,  Murry 

Newberry,  Walter  Cass 
►{(Newell,  John 

Newman,  Jacob 
o  Nixon,  William  R. 

Noyes,  LaVerne  W. 
o  O'Connor,  Jeremiah  D. 
o  Odell,  John  J.  P. 
►{^Officer,  Alexander 
»{<Ogden,  Frances  Elizabeth 
o  Orb,  John  A. 
o  OsBORN,  Charles  M. 
o  OsBORN,  William  Henry 
o  Otis,  William  A. 
»{<Palmer,  Potter 
»{«Pardee,  Theron 
o  Patterson,  Robert  Wilson,  Jr. 

Peck,  Ferdinand  Wythe 
►{•Pence,  Abram  Morris 
o  Perce,  Le  Grand  Winfield 
o  Perley,  Edward  E. 
o  Pettibone,  Asa  G. 

Phelps,  Erskine  M. 
o  Phillips,  Thomas  S. 

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Annual  Members — Continued 


o  Pitkin,  Charlotte  Whitehead 
o  f>iTKiN.  Harvey  Ellicott 
»f«PoTTER,  Orrin  Woodward 
•{•Prentice,  Sartell 
o  Price,  Vincent  Clarence 
•{•Pullman,  George  Mortimer 

QuAN,  Henry  W. 
o  QuiNCY,  Charles  F. 
•{•Rawson,  Stephen  W. 
•{•Ray,  Charles  Henry 
o  Raymond,  Henry  J. 

Ream,  Norman  Bruce 

Rehm,  William  Henry 
o  Reid,  Daniel  Gray 

Rend,  William  Patrick 

Revell,  Alexander  Hamilton 

Ripley,  Edward  Payson 
o  Rockwell,  Charles  H. 
o  Rockwell,  John 
•{•Rogers,  Edward  Kendall 

RoLOSON,  Robert  W. 

Rood,  James,  Jr. 
•{•Rosenberg,  Jacob 

Rosenfeld,  Maurice 
•{•Rozet,  George  H. 

Rubens,  Harry 
•{•Rumsey,  Julian  Sidney 

Runnells,  John  Sumner 
o  Rust,  Horatio  N. 
•{•Rutter,  David 
o  Ryerson,  Arthur 

Ryerson,  Edward  Larned 
•{•Sargent,  Homer  Ea'rle 
^•Sawyer,  Sidney 
o  Sayler,  Harry  Lincoln 

Schmidt,  Fred  Michael 

Schmidt,  Richard  Ernest 
o  ScHMiTT,  Frank  P. 
o  ScoTT,  Caroline  R.  Greene 

Scott,  Frank  Hamline 
•{•ScRiPPs,  John  Locke 
o  ScuDDER,  John  Arnold 
•{•Sears,  John,  Jr. 

Seipp,  William  Conrad 
o  Shaw,  Gilbert  B. 
•{•Sheahan,  James  Washington 
•{•Sherwood,  Henry  Martyn 
•{•Shipman,  Stephen  V. 
o  Shortall,  John  George 

Shortall,  John  Louis 


•{•Small,  Edward  A. 
•{•Smallwood,  William  A. 
•{•Smith,  Charles  Oilman 
o  Smith,  Charles  Mather 

Smith,  Delavan 

Smith,  Frederick  Augustus 

Smith,  Frederick  Belcher 
►{•Smith,  George  Washington 

Smith,  Orson 
•{•Smith,  Solomon  Albert 
o  Smith,  T.  H. 
•{•Smith,  William  Henry 

Snow,  Helen  E. 
o  SopER,  Alexander  C. 
o  Southwell,  Henry  E. 
o  Spaulding,  Henry  Abiram 
•{•Spencer,  Franklin  Fayette 

Spoor,  John  Alden 

Sprague,  Albert  Arnold 
o  Sprague,  Otho  Sylvester  Arnold 
•{•Stafford,  John  Francis 
•{•Stanton,  George  E. 
•{•Stark,  James  Landon 
o  Starkweather,  Frank  H. 
o  Starkweather,  Ralph  Edward 
•{•Stein,  Charles 
•{•Stickney,  Edward  Swan 
•{•Stickney,  Elizabeth  Hammond 
•{•Stockton,  Joseph 
o  Stone,  Elizabeth  A.  Yager 
o  Stone,  Melville  Elijah 
•{•Strong.  William  Emerson 
o  Stryker,  Melancthon  Woolsey 
o  Sturges,  Frank 
^Sturges,  George 
•{•Sturges,  Mary  Delafield 
o  Sturges,  Shelton 
•{•Swing,  David 
o  Talbott,  Elisha  H. 
•{•Talcott,  Edward  Benton 
o  Taylor,  Thomas,  Jr. 
o  Thatcher,  John  M. 
•{•Thompson,  John  Leverett 
•{•Tilton,  Lucian 
•{•Tilton,  Lucretia  Jane 
•{•Tinkham,  Edward  Islay 
Ton,  Cornelius  J. 
TuRCK,  Fenton  B. 
•{•Turner,  Voluntine  C. 
Tuttle,  Frederick  Bulkley 


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4«TvRRELL,  John  A. 
4"Underwood,  John  Milton 
»J«VanNortwick,  William  M. 
►pVocKE,  William 

Wacker,  Charles  Henry 
»J«Wadsworth,  Francis  L. 
o  Wait,  Horatio  Loomis 
o  Walker,  Charles  Cobb 

Walker,  Elia  Marsh 

Walker,  Henry  H, 
»f«WALKER,  James  Monroe 

Walker,  William  Bentley 

Walsh,  James 
o  Walsh,  John  Richard 
►{•Warren,  John  Esaias 
»J«Washburne,  Elihu  Benjamin 
o  Washburne,  Hempstead 

Watkins,  Elias  Marvin 
o  Watkins,  Vine  A. 
o  Watson,  George 

Weber,  Herman 
►{•Webster,  George 
►{•Webster,  Joseph  Dana 


Wegg,  David  Spencer 
o  Welch,  Fletcher  G. 
►{•Welling,  John  Calvin 

Wells,  Frederick  Latimer 
►{•Wheeler,  George  Henry 
►{•Wheeler,  Hiram 
o  White,  Horace 
o  Williams,  Charles  E. 
o  Williams,  Francis  B. 
o  Williams,  John  Marshall 
►{•Williams,  Norman 
o  Williams,  Sidney 
►{•Williams,  Simeon  B. 
►{•Willing,  Frances  Skinner 

WiLMARTH,  Mary  Jane  Hawes 
o  Wilson,  Benjamin  M. 

Wilson,  John  P. 
o  Wilson,  William  J. 

Winston,  Frederick  Seymour 

Wrenn,  John  Henry 
o  Young,  George  W. 
o  Young,  James  R. 
o  Young,  Kimball 


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219 


HONORARY    MEMBERS 


Adams,  Charles  Francis 
4«Arnold,  Samuel  Greene 
»i«BANCROFT,  George 
+B1SSELL,  William  H. 
+BLODGETT,  Henry  Williams 
4*Brayman,  Mason 
+BREESE,  Sidney 
►{•Bright,  John 
»{^ASS,  Lewis 
+C0BDEN,  Richard 
►i^CoLEs,  Edward 
»J«Craig,  Isaac 

CuLLOM,  Shelby  Moore 
+D0UGLAS,  Stephen  Arnold 

Draper,  Andrew  Sloan 
»I«r>RUMMOND,  Thomas 
»i«EvERETT,  Edward 
+FAILLON,  Michel  Etienne 
4«Faribault,  George  Bartholomew 
+F0LEY,  Thomas 
»i<FRANKLiN,  Jane  Griffin,  Lady 
+GAKNEAU,  Francois  Xavier 
+GARY,  Joseph  Easton 

GiROUARD,  Desire 

Guthrie,  .Ossian 
►{(Harris,  Samuel  Smith 
•{•HoLLS,  George  Frederick  William 

+HUBBARD,   GURDON   SaLTONSTALL 

James,  Edmund  Janes 

Jameson,  John  Franklin 

Jones,  Fernando 
►{•King,  David 
4<Kinzie,  Juliette  A.  Magill 


►{"Kohl,  Johann  Georg 
►{•Lincoln,  Abraham 
►{•McLaren,  William  Edward 
►{•McMullen,  John 
►{•Margry,  Pierre 
►{•Maury,  Matthew  Fontaine 
►{•MosHER,  Charles  Delavan 
►{•Motley,  John  Lothrop 

►{•Newcastle,  Henry  Pelham  Clinton, 

Duke  of 
►{•NoLTE,  Frederick 
►{•Oglesby,  Richard  James 
►{•Parker,  Peter 
►{•Poole,  William  Frederick 
►{•Powers,  Horatio  Nelson 
►{•Prescott,  William  Hickling 
►{•Reynolds,  John 
►{•Rogers,  Charles 
►{•Savage,  James 
►{•Shaw,  Henry 

Smith,  Goldwin 
►{•Sparks,  Jared 
Stevenson,  Adlai  Ewing 
Stone,  William  Leete,  Jr. 
►{•Sumner,  Charles 
►{•Trumbull,  Lyman 
►{•Walker,  James  Barr 
►{•Ward,  Samuel  Dexter 

Whitehouse,  Frederic  Cope 
►{•Winthrop,  Robert  Charles 
►{•Yates,  Richard 
►{•Young,  Sir  John,  Baron  Lisgar 


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220 


CHICAGO   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 


ASSOCIATE    MEMBERS 


4<Ambler,  John  C. 
4"Andrews,  Edmund 
o  Baumann,  Frederick 
•^•Beye,  William 
o  Briggs,  Samuel  A. 
o  Brown,  Stephen  F. 
o  Brown,  William  S. 
o  Burroughs,  Charles  J. 
►J<Burton,  Stiles 
♦^Carpenter,  Philo 
»J<Carter,  Artemus 
►J«Carter,  Thomas  Butler 
>J«Chickering,  John  W. 
►{(Church,  Thomas 
»J«Clapp,  James 
o  Clarke,  John  L. 
o  Cooley,  Francis  B. 
o  Cragin,  Edward  F. 
o  Critchell,  Robert  S. 
»J«Cushing,  Nathaniel  Sawyer 
o  Daniels,  Edward 
»i«DAVis,  Hasbrouck 
»J*DoLE,  George  Washington 
4«DoRE,  John  Clark 
»{<Drew,  George  C. 
»J«Farnsworth,  John  Franklin 
o  Fessenden,  Charles  N. 
►{•Forrest,  Thomas  Lawrence 
»{«Hall,  Amos  T. 
►{•Herrick,  Elijah  Ward 
o  Higginson,  Stephen  C. 
»}<Hill,  Horatio 
►i«HoLDEN,  Charles  Newton 
o  Hopewell,  Charles 


►pHuGUNiN,  James  Robert 

►{•Hunt,  Charles  Henry 

►{•James,  Benjamin  Franklin 

►{•James,  Josiah  Levitt 

4«Lake,  David  J. 

o  Leake,  Joseph  B. 

►{•LowTHER,  Thomas  D. 

►{•Lull,  Oliver  R.  W. 

►{•McClellan,  George  Brinton 

o  Mather,  Hiram  F. 

o  Nieuwenkamp,  Lobertus  J.  J. 

►{•O'Donoghue,  Margaret  Maria 

►{•Olmsted,  Lucius  D. 

o  Otis,  Ephraim  A. 

►{•Palmer,  Percy  W. 

o  Poole,  Isaac  A. 

o  Saltonstall,  Francis  G. 

►{•Schneider,  George 

►{•Sexton,  James  A. 

►{•Shuman,  Andrew 

►{•Smith,  Henry 

►{•Sturges,   Solomon 

o  Taft,  Levi  B. 

►{•Tucker,  Henry 

►{•Waller,  James  Breckenridge 

o  Ward,  Ephraim 

►{•Waughop,  John  Wesley 

►{•White,  Julius 

►{•Whitney,  William 

o  WiLKiNS,  John  Edward 

►{•Willard,  Elisha  Wheeler 

o  WiLLETT,  James  R. 

o  WiNDiATE,  Alfred  W. 

o  Wright,  Augustine  Webster 


CHICAGO    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


221 


CORRESPONDING    MEMBERS 


Alvord,  Clarence  Walworth 
Anderson,  Henry  C.  L. 
4«Andreas,  Alfred  T. 

Appleton,  Edward  Dale 
►{(Armstrong,  Perry  Austin 
4»Armstrong,  Thomas  H. 
»i«AsBURY,  Henry 
•J^Atwater,  Elizabeth  Emerson 
4«Atwater,  Samuel  Tyler 
»J«Baird,  Henry  Samuel 
>jf«6AKER,  David  Jewett 
Baker,  George  Hall 
4«Bannister,  Henry 
•)<Barry,  John  Stetson 
»J«Bartlett,  John  Russell 
Barton,  Edmund  Mills 
Baskin,  Oliver  Lawrence 
•{.Beckwith,  Hiram  Williams 
Beer,  William 
Beers,  John  Hobart 
4«Blanchard,  Rufus 
BoNBRiGHT,  Daniel 
Bond,  Charles  Frederick 
Bond,  Edward  Rogers 
Bond,  Mary  Esther 
Bond,  Shadrach  Cuthbert 
Bond,  Thomas  William 
Boss,  Henry  Rush 

Bourland,  Benjamin  Langford  Todd 
^Bowman,  Jonathan 
»J«Bradlee,  Caleb  Davis 
»I«Brink,  Wesley  Raymond 
4«Brooks,  Charles 
4«Brown,  Harriet  C.  Seward 
»J«Browning,  Orville  Hickman 
Bruwaert,  Edmond 
Buckley,  Thomas 
Burke,  John  Crysostom 
Burnham,  John  Howard 
Bushnell,  David  Ives 
4«Calhoun,  Pamela  C.  Hathaway 

Campbell,  Charles  Bishop 
»i«CANTELo,  Francis 
»{*Carr,  Maria  Graham 
4^ATON,  John  Dean 
Chapman,  Charles  C. 
Chapman,  Frank  M. 


Chetlain,  Augustus  Louis 
Chouteau,  Pierre 
4«Churchill,  George 
»f<CLARK,  John  A. 
»J«Clarke,  Samuel  Clarke 
4«Collet,  Oscar  W.  A. 
»J«CoNANT,  Augustus  Hammond 
t}*CoRKRAN,  William 
»J«CoRNELL,  Ezra 
Cox,  Isaac  Joslin 
Crane,  Frank  W. 
4<Dawson,  Henry  Barton 
DePeyster,  John  Watts 
DeWolf,  Edward  P. 
>J<DeWolf,  William  Frederick 

Doughty,  Arthur  G. 
^"Douglas,  Charles  H.  G. 
Douglas,  Walter  Bond 
4«Draper,  Lyman  Copeland 
Drennan,  Daniel  Ogilvie 
4«Drowne,  Henry  T. 
Dunn,  Jacob   Piatt.  Jr. 
Durrett,  Reuben  Thomas 
>J«DuRRiE,  Daniel  Steele 

Eastman,  Francis  Ambrose 
»J«Eastman,  Zebina 
4«Eaton,  Joseph  Horace 
»J«Edwards,  Benjamin  Stevenson 
4«Edwards,  Ninian  Wirt 
»J«Emery,  Samuel  Hopkins 

Felsenthal,  Bernhard 
►J^Felton,  Cornelius  Conway 
»i«FERGUs,  Robert 

Fertig,  James  Walter 
►f"FLOwER,  George 
•{•Force,  Peter 
»J«FouKE,  Jacob 

Franklin,  Marian  Scott 
Gale,  William  Henry 
Gardiner,  Asa  Bird 
•{•Gillespie,  Joseph 
^•Gilpin,  Charles 
•{•Gilpin,  Richard  Arthington 
Goodman.  Edward 
Gordon,  Eleanor  Kinzie 
Gosselin,  a.  E. 
•{•Graham,  Albert  A. 


22  2 


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Corresponding  Members — Continued 


4«Graham,  James  Duncan 
»J«Gray,  James 

Greeley,  Samuel  Sewell 

Green,  Samuel  Abbott 

Greene,  Evarts  Boutell 

Grover,  Frank  Reed 
4<Hager,  Rose  F. 
4.HAINES,  Elijah  Middlebrook 
4»Hall,  James 

Harden,  William 
»J<Harlo\v,  George  Henry 
»J«Harmer,  Robert  J. 

Harpel,  Charles  Spencer 
4«Hatch,  Ozias  Mather 
»i«HAVEN,  Samuel  Foster 

Hayes,  Harriet  Hayden 

Head,  William  Richard 
4«Henry,  Joseph 
»J»Hesler,  Alexander 
»i<HEWES,  George 
►J<HicKcox,  John  Howard 
»J<HiGGiNsoN,  George  M. 
»J«Hildreth,  Richard 
»{»HiLL,  Henry  H. 
♦i-HoYT,  J.  W. 

Hubbard,  Adolphus  Skinner 
4«Hubbard,  Edwin 

Hubbard,  Elijah  Kent 
»I*Hubbard,  Laura  M. 

Hull,  Horace 
»J«Hunter,  Charles  W. 
>J«Hunter,  Joseph 
►J»Hurlbut,  Henry  Higgins 

Isham,  William  Bradley 
»J«James.  Edwin 

James,  James  Alton 

Jones,  Arthur  Edwards 
»i*JoNES,  Gabriel  S. 

Kelton,  Dwight  H. 
»J»Kimball,  William  Hazen 

Kinney,  Henry  Clay 
»{«Knapp,  Arthur  Mason 
»J<Knapp,  George  S. 

Kohlsaat,  Herman  Henry 
4»Lane,  Ebenezer 
•{•Lapham,  Increase  Allen 
»i«LEAviTT,  Joseph  P. 

Leonard,  Edward  Francke 
4«Leverett,  Washington 


Lewis,  Benjamin  F. 
»J<Lippincott,  Charles  E. 
»i«LippiNcoTT,  Thomas 

Long,  John  Turner 
4*LoNG,  Stephen  Harriman 
»i*LooMis,  Henry 
»J«Ludlam,  Anthony  Johnson 

McClurg,  Gilbert 

McClurg,  Virginia  Donaghe 

McCoRD,  David  Ross 
»i<McCuLL0CH,  David 

McGee,  W  J 

McGovERN,  James  J. 
4<McMasters,  Sterling  Young 
»i«MARSH,  George  Perkins 

Martin,  Joseph  Stanley 
►J^Meacham,  Eliza  Hoyt 

Meese,  William  Augustus 

Menard,  Peter  Abijah 
»J«Metzger,  Ferderick 
>i«MiLLER,  Anson  S. 

Mills,  William  C! 

Mitchell,  William  Arthur  Right 
►J*MiXER,  A.  H. 
►J<MooRE,  George  Henry 

»i«0'CALLAGHAN,    EdMUND   BaILEY 

»J«Olmstead,  Lemuel  G. 

Onahan,  William  James 

O'Shaughnessy,  Thomas  A. 

Page,  Walter  Hines 

Parker,  Edward  Jarvis 
»{«Parker,  Nathan  Howe 
»J«Parkman,  Francis 
»J»Patterson.  Robert  Wilson 
»i<PECK,  John  Mason 

Peet,  Stephen  Denison 
»J*Perrin,  William  H. 
•J«Perry,  Amos 

Peterson,  Paul  Christian 

Petitclere,  Emma  L. 

Phillimore,  William  P.  W. 
»f«PiCKERiNG,  William 
►PPrickett,  George  Washington 

Putnam,  Elizabeth  Duncan 
4«PuTNAM,  William  Clement 

Radebaugh,  William 

Redmond,  Lily  Meldrum 

Rose,  James  Alexander 
•{"Rosenthal,  Julius 


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Corresponding  Members — Continued 


•jf«RussELL,  John 
^«Ryder,  William  Henry 
4.SCH00LCRAFT,  Henry  Rowe 
4«ScHWEiNiTZ,  Edmund  Alexander  de 
.J«Shaffer,  John  Wilson 
4«Shannon,  John  R. 
•JiShipman,  George  Elias 

Smith,  John  Corson 

Smith,  Perry  Hiram,  Jr. 
•J«Smith,  Robert 

Smith,  Valentine 

Sparks,  Edwin  Erle 

Steward,  John  Fletcher 
»i«STONE,  Ann  Elizabeth 

Swearingen,  James  Strode 
^SwiFT,  William  Henry 
4«Tenney,  Harriet  A. 

Thacher,  Edward  Strode 

Thwaites,  Reuben  Gold 

TiLLINGHAST,   CaLEB   BeNJAMIN 

»J«Todd,  Alpheus 
^•Unonius,  Gustaf 


Upton,  George  Putnam 

Van  Name,  Addison 

Walker,  Edwin  Sawyer 
4«Wallin,  Thomas  Stronginthearm 
»J«Ward,  Thomas  A.  M. 
4«Ward,  Townsend 
^Warren,  Hooper 
»J«Waterman,  James  Sears 

Watson.  Eliza  Lucretia  Bond 
4*Watson,  Winslow  Cossoul 

Wells,  Albert  Emory 
•J«Wells,  William  Harvey 
4-Whipple,  Henry  Benjamin 

Whistler,  Garland  Nelson 

WiLLARD,  Samuel 
4«WiLLiAMs,  John  Fletcher 
»J"WiLSON,  Charles  Lush 

Wilson,  James  Grant 
4«WiLSON,  John  McNeil 

Wood,  James  Whistler 
•I«Woodruff,  Robert  J. 


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OFFICERS 

OF  THE 

CHICAGO    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY 

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PRESIDENT 

FRANKLIN    H.  HEAD 

VICE-PRESIDENTS 

Thomas  Dent  Lambert  Tree 

TREASURER 

Orson  Smith 

LIBRARIAN 

Caroline   M.  McIlvaine 

executive  committee 
Franklin  H.  Head,  Cha.\Tma.n,  ex  oj^cio 

Term  Ending  Nov.,  1908  Term  Ending  Nov.,  1909 

Samuel  H.  Kerfoot,  jr.  Otto  L.  Schmidt 

Joseph  T.  Bowen  Walter  C.  Newberry 

Term  Ending  Nov.,  19 10  Term  Ending  Nov.,  19 11 

George  Merryweather  .  Charles  F.  Gunther 

William  A.  Fuller  John  P.  Wilson 


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