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ST. IVES

Patron Saint of the Legal Profession. Born, 1253. Died,

11503, Treguier, Brittany.
As a just judge he became so famous that on popular

petition, including king and nobles, he was canonized

in 1347.
This statue, in his old parish church near Treguier, shows

him standing between a rich man and a poor man,

dispensing justice.

By

FREDERIC B. CROSSLEY

(OF THE CHICAGO BAR)

Secretary Northwestern University Law School; Librarian Elbert H. Gary
Library of Law; Managing Director Journal of the American Insti-
tute of Criminal Law and Criminology; Associate Editor
Illinois Law Review; Member Illinois Bar Association
Committee on Legal History and Biography

Advisory Committee

NATHAN WILLIAM MAcCHESNEY,

Formerly President Illinois State Bar Association

MITCHELL D. FOLLANSBEE,

Formerly President Chicago Bar Association

JOHN F. VOIGT,

Secretary Illinois State Bar Association

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME II

1916

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
CHICAGO

Courts and Lawyers
of Illinois

NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY. * A year or two ago in idly
turning the pages of that useful compilation, "Who's Who in
America," I chanced to find a statement of the activities and
achievements of the subject of this sketch. I read it, and was left

JNoTE. — Following are some of the important data of the career of Mr.
MacChesney necessary for the completion and an understanding of this
sketch. He was born at Chicago, June 2, 1878, a son of Lieutenant-Colonel
Alfred Brnnson and Henrietta (Milson) MacChesney, and a grandson of
Nathan MacChesney of Virginia. His father, a physician, was a surgeon in
the United States Army, and his mother (who was a native of London, Eng-
land) was also a physician and held the degree M. D. Mr. MacChesney was
graduated A. B. at the University of the Pacific in 1898, was a student in
Stanford University and in the University of Arizona (1898-1899), was a stu-
dent at Northwestern University Law School in 1899-1900, graduated LL. B.
in 1902 at the University of Michigan, and in 1902-03 took post-graduate
courses in Northwestern University Law School. Mr. MacChesney married
at Riverside, Illinois, December i, 1904, Lena Frost, daughter of W. E. Frost.
The firm of MacChesney & Becker has handled litigation involving
many important interests of individuals, corporations and the public. Only
a few of these can be cited as suggestive of the whole. They have repre-
sented numerous interests in the litigations involving the special assess-
ment and revenue laws of Illinois, and during the last eight or ten years
have been retained as attorney or special counsel in perhaps a majority of
such cases affecting the general real estate interests of Chicago. They were
of counsel before the Supreme Court in the Gage Park & Western Avenue
sewer case for Hetty Green ; as special counsel secured new trial and
favorable verdicts in cases testing the liability of landlord or railroad com-
pany for death from disease caused by insufficient heat; secured modifica-
tion of application of statute prohibiting refusal to rent to families with
children, thus protecting building owners ; represented owners in sub-side-
walk litigation in Chicago and in cases concerning the safety deposit law of
the state; represent majority of landowners whose property is to be taken
in largest condemnation and special assessment proceeding ever tried in
Illinois — the North Michigan Avenue improvement, a feature of the Chicago
plan for City Beautiful; in -behalf of Chicago Real Estate Board and other
interests defended the tax limitation ("Juul law").

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interested and puzzled. It was the most remarkable miscellany of
memberships in boards of directors, boards of trustees, bar associa-
tions, executive committees, leagues, lodges, clubs, commissions, fra-
ternities, learned societies, and other organizations ranging through
the entire alphabet, which I had ever seen. I shall not conceal the
impression which I got from this reading : here, I thought, is a very
ambitious man, a climber, a kind of Csesar transplanted into a com-
plicated industrial age from an earlier century. At the moment a
very surprising fact in connection with the unusual range of activi-
ties chronicled escaped my attention — that Mr. MacChesney was
born in the year 1878. Whatever aspirations or motives we may be
impelled to attribute to a man who has been active far beyond the
average capacity or inclination for attachment to associational inter-
ests, it cannot be doubted, — when we find that a given individual
still under the age of forty is, or has been, already, president of the
American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, a director of
the United Charities of Chicago, trustee of Northwestern Univer-
sity, and president of the Illinois State Bar Association, — we have
discovered, if, perhaps, an ambitious character, a man whose aspira-
tions are founded on unquestionable ability.

Mr. MacChesney has represented also, as general or special counsel,
such organizations and individuals as National Association of Real Estate
Exchanges ; Illinois State Bankers Association ; California Fruit Growers
Association in interstate matters ; shippers of Nevada & Arizona in connec-
tion with "long and short haul" rates and other matters before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, besides a number of other organizations in
various states ; many of the wholesale, banking, manufacturing firms and
individual estates of Chicago and elsewhere.

As chairman of its committee on amendment of the law for four years
Mr. MacChesney drafted numerous statutes for the Chicago Bar Associa-
tion and represented the association in five sessions of the Legislature as
chairman of committee to promote law reform ; was member of committee
and one of the draftsmen of the Federal and the Uniform Child Labor Law
and had charge of the constitutional features of the same, making argument
upon them in Washington in 1916; was' one of the draftsmen of the Bills of
Lading Act and represented the Illinois State Bankers Association in secur-
ing the passage of the same through the Legislature ; was a member of the
committee who had charge of the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act in
this state and helped to secure the passage of the same; was on the com-
mission for the consideration of the Workman's Compensation Act and have
met with various legislative committees regarding same; was instrumental
in framing the Uniform Sales Act which is a law in fourteen states, includ-
ing Illinois ; the Uniform Stock Transfer Act, the Uniform Warehouse Re-
ceipts Act, Uniform Marriage Evasion Act, Uniform Partnership Act and
Uniform Vital Statistics Bill, as well as other legislation of like character.

Mr. MacChesney was lecturer on American Constitutional History at
Chautauquas in Arizona, California, and Minnesota in 1899, was press cor-
respondent in California, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1897-99, ar>d associated
with his father in business from 1899 to 1903. In 1902 he became a member
of the Illinois bar. He has lectured in the College of Law of the University
of Illinois since 1910, and at other universities. He is a member of the Com-
parative Law Bureau ; the Section of Legal Education in the American
Bar Association ; of the American Political Science Association ; the Ameri-
can Society of International Law; member and president in 1910-11 of the

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It is a tradition which militates considerably against freedom of
discussion, that, except with a few qualifications grudgingly recog-
nized by convention, nothing evil is to be said of the dead, and, con-
versely, nothing good of the living. I am compelled to say that I do
not accept the latter proposition in its absolute form, as founded in
good sense; and, moreover, I have no inclination in attempting a
personal sketch to limit my remarks to a wearisome card-index
enumeration of facts or things after the fashion of the catalogue of
ships in Homer. This much of digression is necessary in homage to
the tradition.

For the purposes of this sketch, I have read again the extraor-
dinary list of interests with which Colonel MacChesney has seen fit,
in a brief period of less than fifteen years, to ally himself, and I must
again acknowledge my amazement at the range of these affiliations
and exertions extending through such diverse catagories as lecturing
on legal ethics in law schools, directing the affairs of a bank or a
social mission, taking part in the management of a large university,
improving penal conditions, helping in the editorial direction of law
journals, investigating a high-pressure fire-system and municipal
art, striving for uniformity in legislation and for labor and indus-

American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology; member of the
American Prison Association ; of the American Society of Military Law,
which he served as president in 1913; of the Illinois State Bar Association,
serving as president in 1915-; of the Illinois State Society of Criminal Law
and Criminology, with service on its executive committee in 1911-15; Chicago
Bar Association, in which he was chairman of the committee on Amendment
of the Law in 1908-10, and chairman on committee of Legal Education,
1912-13.

Mr. MacChesney is president and treasurer of Northwestern University
Press; director in United Charities of Chicago; trustee Northwestern Univer-
sity ; director American Judicature Society ; member Internationale Verein-
igung fur Rechts-und Wirtschaftsphilosophie (Berlin) ; of Illinois Commis-
sion on Uniform State Laws, of which he has been president since 1912; was
delegate to Mississippi Valley Legislative Conference on Uniform Legislation
Concerning Women and Children ; a state delegate to National Civic Federa-
tion Conference on Uniform Legislation at Washington in 1910; Illinois state
delegate to the International Prison Congress of Washington in 1910; Na-
tional Commission on Prison Labor, with membership on the executive com-
mittee in 1913-14; member and vice president 1915-16 of National Conference
on Uniform State Laws; of National Council of National Civic Federation;
secretary of the National Conference on Criminal Law and Criminology at
Chicago in 1909; and is a member, director, and officer of numerous other
benevolent, law, historical, military, fraternal, social, scientific, business,
civic, and quasi publi'c organizations.

Mr. MacChesney was lieutenant-colonel and judge advocate of Illinois
National Guard 1905-12, was aide-de-camp on Governor Deneen's staff in
1908-12, and is now colonel of Illinois National Guard and judge advocate
general of Illinois.

He is author and editor of "Abraham Lincoln — The Tribute of a Century"
(McClurg 1910) ; The Lincoln Centenary, 1809-1909 (43 vols.) ; "The Sig-
nificance of the War of 1812," "Race Development by Legislation," "Uniform
Laws," and numerous other articles on labor, property, corporation, social, and
legal matters ; is managing editor of the Illinois Law Review, and associate
editor of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

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trial laws, taking an active part in military affairs, writing law
articles, and laboring in one way and another in a considerable
variety of other organized undertakings; to say nothing except by
way of suggestion of what is required of the time and energies of a
lawyer actively and successfully practicing his profession, and par-
ticipating in a normal way in the affairs of family, church, and social
life. What an indictment of sloth ! What an arraignment of the
normal man who exerts himself with his mind or his hands to ac-
cumulate the value-representative upon which he may count in the
inevitable day of diminishing returns, and who, if he has reared and
provided for a family, and has never been charged as a malefactor,
is rated as a valuable element in the commonwealth !

It has been my good fortune to observe at close range, in one or
two instances, the phenomenon of abnormal capacity for mental
interests and activities, through which nature releases as through a
safety-value its surplus energy. From this observation, I have come
to believe that it may be laid down as a law governing such cases,
and perhaps extending over the greater range of the mental field,
that, ordinarily and within limits, the greater one's interests and
activities, the better those interests individually are supported, and
the more fruitful will be the activities which follow. This may be
otherwise illustrated by the erosive action of the swift current as
against the sluggish stream. The illustration, so far as the premise
is correctly stated, would seem to be explanatory of the subject of
this sketch ; and yet there is still something more to be said by way
of explanation. Colonel MacChesney does not yield to the seduc-
tions of the motor, he is not a yachtsman, or any other variety of
sportsman, nor does he strut about in the Faubourg St. Germain.
His surplus energies do not devise for him ways of convenience,
ease, and luxury, but lead him away to the hard cell of social service.
What for most men are hours of relaxation, are for him vigils of
labor.

Until I had come into contact with Colonel MacChesney in his
activities outside his professional practice, I was prepared to think
of his multiplied connections as decorations accumulated with the
same care, and for something like the same general object, as men
collect first editions, Holbeins, pipes, or postage-stamps ; but I dis-
covered when the opportunity for first-hand observation came, so
far, at least, as my own means of knowledge went, that as a presi-
dent he presided, that as a director he directed, and that as a trustee
he executed his trust. That his alliance with undertakings outside
the orbit of professional money-making is not a mere garland to
vanity may be seen very readily by a casual inspection of the
Reports of the American Bar Association where Colonel MacChes-
ney has proved himself a working factor with a vision and a will
for constructive effort.

Of the dry-as-dust details of the unfolding life of Colonel Mac-
Chesney something: may be read at the beginning of this sketch, and
more may, no doubt, be found elsewhere where such facts are usu-

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ally collected. I call attention to these data again because they are
in and of themselves highly misleading in any effort to penetrate the
mask of personality of this dynamic individual. They would tell
nothing of "the incessant care and labor of his mind," his scrupulous
fidelity to obligation, his real human sympathies, his oratorical gifts,
his judgment ripe far beyond his years, the southern flavor of his
personal bearing, his insight into and patience with the shifts and
turns of human nature, or of other qualities of mind and manner
which have contributed to provide him with distinctions, position,
and not without labors. We will concede that he is an ambitious
man, but his ambitions are legitimate; and we believe that to the
extent that such a man realizes his ambitions the moral world will
gain.

Mr. MacChesney, himself has said, and we think aptly, that no
man knows what he is. He might have continued that no one else
knows either. But there is a natural curiosity on the point when
individuals are concerned who stand out in relief from the common
background of inertia and negativity. Modern psychology has done
much to explain away individuality; since it would seem that any
given person is a great complex of heredity, environment, and will.
Individuals, therefore, cannot be fully understood or explained,
because we cannot explain all of heredity, or of environment, or of
autonomous will. But adopting such standards of value and com-
parison as have the surest non-technical meaning, we may be satis-
fied that we have before us one biologically favored with the vital
spark and endurance for labor and leadership, and that the objective
evidences disclose a man with a fundamentally upright and generous
mind — an individual who is able to fight the battle of existence with
the sword or the plowshare, but who exerts himself in accordance
with his nature as becomes a tribal member in the interests of the
tribe. To deny favorable recognition to that attribute of the mind
which seeks leadership with service would be to depress humanity
again to the level of the bludgeon, raw flesh, and a sunless cave.

Of Colonel MacChesney's intellectual creation, I' am unfortu-
nately least qualified to speak. He has not, I believe, written prolific-
ally, nor, so far as I am aware, opened any new highways with his
pen; and it would be difficult to appraise what he has done or
attempted in view of the fact that most of his efforts have been
de-personalized in the work of commissions, and other similar
groups, where the work of the individual is merged in the joint pro-
duction. I had already discovered that he is not likely to be a
dormant partner in what attracted his intellect, or his sympathies ;
and I have taken the precaution of looking further on my own
account (since one who is to be inspected in this somewhat objective
way cannot be consulted conveniently) and I have found, as for
example in his bar association activities, evidence of thought and
labor not easily reducible to quantitative measurement, but of im-
portance for the just solution of some of the most urgent problems

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of the day. The best indirect evidence of his capacity and willing-
ness to do the unselfish work which is to stand for the benefit of
others, is that he has been selected by those competent to measure
means and ends, to lift the burden of social ministration, as already
indicated, in a variety of fields of effort.

The span of life accomplished by Colonel MacChesney has been
interesting as we have attempted briefly to point out, in its range of
interest, its activity, and dynamic force, all of which are conspicuous
in that the years of physical and mental maturity, and likewise the
years of substantial achievement may properly be expected, as yet
to come. We would be arrogating something beyond the power of
the human mind to lay any but the most limited claims on the
future; but with such means of projection as are allowable, we
would expect in the subject of our sketch, a narrowing and deepen-
ing of interests still greater human usefulness and influence, and, as
not beyond the range of rightful speculation, high public and social
distinctions coupled with comparable public and social service.

ALBERT KOCOUREK.

STEPHEN STRONG GREGORY, for forty years a member of the
Chicago bar, was born at Unadilla, Otsego County, New York,
November 16, 1849. His father, J. C. Gregory, in 1858 took the
family to Madison, Wisconsin, where the son attended the common
schools and in 1866 entered the University of Wisconsin. He was
graduated A. B. in 1870, took his law degree in the same institution
in 1871, and in 1873 received the Master of Arts degree.

After his admission to the bar in 1871 Mr. Gregory practiced at
Madison until the summer of 1874, and then removed to Chicago.
For five years he was associated in partnership with Judge A. H.
Chetlain, the latter as senior partner, and both members then joined
the firm of Tenney & Flower. Later the firm became Flower,
Remy & Gregory. From 1888 to 1893 Mr. Gregory practiced as
head of the firm of Gregory, Booth & Harlan. After that he was
alone for a number of years. He then organized the firm of
Gregory, Poppenhusen & McNab. A new firm known as Gregory
& McNab has been formed from this and of this he is the senior
partner. The offices of this firm are at 69 West Washington Street,
Chicago.

Among the cases of some possible general interest with which
he has been connected are the Lake Front case, in which he appeared
as special counsel for the City of Chicago before the Supreme Court
of the United States ; the case as to the constitutionality of the law
creating the sanitary district of Chicago ; the defense of Prender-
gast, the assassin of Mayor Harrison of Chicago ; the defense of
Eugene V. Debs in the famous conspiracy case against that labor
leader; and the case in the Supreme Court of the United States
involving the validity of the will of Jennie McGraw Fisk, by which
a large amount of property was left to Cornell University. The only

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political office Mr. Gregory ever held was that of election commis-
sioner in Chicago for two years.

In professional circles he has been frequently honored. He was
elected president of the Chicago Bar Association in 1900, president
of the Illinois State Bar Association in 1904, and in 1911 president
of the American Bar Association. Mr. Gregory is a former presi-
dent of the Law Club, and a number of years ago was president of
the Iroquois Club. He is a democrat in politics and an Episco-
palian in religious faith. Among his clubs are the Chicago, the
Church, the Skokie Country, and the Lawyers Club of New York.
November 25, 1880, he married at Madison, Wisconsin, Janet M.
Tappan. Their three children are : Charlotte Camp, Arthur Tap-
pan and Stephen Strong, Jr.

JOHN McAuLEY PALMER. As a lawyer, military leader and
statesman, the position of General Palmer must be among those
eminent and distinguished Illinois men who during the middle
period of the last century indelibly impressed their influence not
only on the life of the state but on that of the nation. In his long
life, which came to a close September 25, 1900, General Palmer
had associated on terms of intimacy and professional and political
relationship with all the notable characters of Illinois history from
Lincoln and Douglas down.

Of Kentucky birth and family, John McAuley Palmer was born
in Scott County, September 13, 1817. His father, Louis D. Palmer,
was born in Virginia, June 3, 1781, a son of Isaac and Ann (Mc-
Auley) Palmer, who were born in the same county and both in
the year 1747. General Palmer's mother was Ann Hansford Tutt,
who was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, a daughter of Louis
and Isabella (Yancey) Tutt. General Palmer's grandfather served
as a minuteman in the Revolutionary war. In Christian County,
Kentucky, where the Palmer family lived from 1818 to 1-831, John
M. Palmer received his first instruction from the schools of that
time. One of his teachers was named Boone, a relative of the
famous Daniel Boone. In his reminiscences of this time General
Palmer said : "I received my fair share of instruction and punish-
ment and do not distinctly recollect when I could not read." As a
boy in Kentucky he became familiar with the local politics of the
time and with some of the great names in Kentucky history, par-
ticularly that of Henry Clay.

In 1831 his father moved to Illinois, settling about ten miles from
Alton and an equal distance from Edwardsville. Here General
Palmer came to know by personal experience the rugged toil and
hardships of pioneering. He helped to clear the forests, also drove
a prairie team of four yoke of oxen and in other ways made him-
self generally useful about the old home.

Of his independent start in the world which began in 1834
when he was seventeen years of age, General Palmer has this to

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say in his reminiscences : "One evening, while my father, myself
and younger brother were discussing the subject of education and
matters of that kind, my father said to me, in reply to some expres-
sion of a wish to obtain a good education : 'Very well, you owe
me four years of service yet ; I will give you that ; go and get an
education.' I looked at him with an expression of surprise, no
doubt, and asked in an excited, trembling voice, 'When may I go
sir?' He seemed amused and said, 'Tomorrow morning, if you
like.' I remember that I left the room to conceal my feelings.
After recovering my composure I returned to the room where my
father was seated, and sat for some time in silence, when he said,
with signs of emotion, 'I have no money to expend on your educa-
tion, but a healthy boy as you are needs no help; you may go
to-morrow morning. 1 give you your time. Do not disgrace me.
May God bless you.' '''

On the following morning young Palmer started for the old
college at Upper Alton, arid during the next year combined hard
physical labor with the prosecution of his studies. In the spring
of 1835 he planned to go South and join the Revolutionists in
Texas, but was prevented by being served with a summons for a
debt which he owed and which he had arranged with his cousin
to pay, but the arrest caused his detention so that he was unable
to embark upon the steamboat and thus he remained in Illinois
instead of becoming a soldier of fortune in the far Southwest.
In September, 1836, he again entered school at Upper Alton, and
paid his board by employment in a private family of the town.
In December, 1838, he began a term of school teaching in Fulton
County, and while in that school began the reading of Blackstone's
Commentaries and McNally on Evidence. The following spring
he entered the office of John S. Greathouse as a student. Mr.
Greathouse was one of the leading lawyers of Carlinville, and his
office contained a considerable law library for the time, containing
such treatises as Coke on Littleton, and the Reports of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, which at that time embraced only one volume.

Of his methods of law study General Palmer wrote: "It may
be useful to students to state for their benefit my methods of study.
I read carefully, with a glossary of law terms, and made full
notes ; I did not, in my notes, as a rule, merely quote the language
of the author, but my effort was to grasp the subject and state it
in my own language. My conceptions of the meaning of what I
read were often inaccurate, but I think, on the whole, the method
was preferable to any other. It promoted brevity and terseness
and aided in systematizing the knowledge acquired, and I think
my experience justifies me in saying that knowledge of the law,
acquired by the method I refer to, is much longer retained and
more easily and intelligently applied to practical use than it can
be when the student merely masters the words of his author or
instructor. * * * I was aided in my studies by that great

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promoter of diligence, poverty ; I was compelled to earn something,
and as there was some sales of land, and the volumes of the
record were few, I examined titles and prepared deeds, and soon
found some employment before justices of the peace. It was not
long before I found myself able to meet my expenses, which, with
board at one dollar or one dollar and a quarter per week, did not
exceed one hundred dollars a year. The only interruption of my
studies was that my friends insisted that I should become candidate
for county clerk, and I now know that the leaders of my party
(democratic) when they insisted upon my candidacy, had no ex-
pectation that I would succeed. After the election I pursued my
studies with great industry and made great progress in the acquisi-
tion of the mysteries of the law, so that in December, 1839, I bor-
rowed five dollars from a friend to pay my expenses," and went to
Springfield to obtain admission to the bar. He found a friend in
need at Springfield in the person of Stephen A. Douglas, who with
J. Young Scammon obtained appointment from the court as exam-
iners for the young applicant, and he was soon afterwards enrolled
among the lawyers of the state. General Palmer first met Mr.
Douglas in 1838 while traveling in Hancock County. At an inn
at Carthage he was aroused from his sleep by the landlord, who
compelled him to share his room with a fellow traveler, and on
the following morning found that his bedfellow was "the little
giant of the West." The acquaintance and friendship between
these two men continued uninterrupted until Senator Douglas cham-
pioned the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854, refusing to support Gen-
eral Shields for the United States senate, General Palmer, who
was then a member of the Illinois Legislature, came into open
rupture with Douglas, and their friendship was not renewed until
1861.

Following his admission to the bar General Palmer was soon
busied with a comfortable practice and his successful handling of
cases soon gave him a distinction in the circuit where most of his
work as a lawyer was performed. On December 20, 1842, he
married Miss Malinda Ann Neeley. Though he was already a suc-
cessful lawyer according to the standards of the time, he and his
young wife began housekeeping with what seems now the utmost
simplicity, and it is said that the entire cost of furniture and every-
thing necessary for the household was less than fifty dollars.

In 1888, (after the death of his first wife in 1885), he married
Mrs. Hannah Lamb Kimball, who survives him.

In August, 1843, General: Palmer was elected to the office of
probate justice of the peace, with jurisdiction in probate cases as
well as the work of the ordinary justice of the peace. He was
defeated for this office in 1847, but was again elected in the spring
of 1848, and the following November resigned to take the office
of county judge of Macoupin County. In 1852 he was elected to
fill a vacancy in the state senate, and was re-elected in 1854 as an

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anti-Nebraska democrat. Up to that time General Palmer had
been a firm adherent of the democratic party, but was a strong
anti-slavery man, and in the realignment of political parties during
the middle '505 found himself naturally working with the republican
party after its organization in 1856. In that year he resigned his
seat in the state senate, and was president of the first republican
convention which assembled in Illinois. In 1859 he was an unsuc-
cessful candidate for Congress, and in 1860 was one of the electors
at large pledged to vote for Mr. Lincoln.

Early in the year 1861 he was a member of the peace confer-
ence which assembled at Washington, but about three months later
he raised the Fourteenth Regiment of Illinois Infantry at Jack-
sonville, and by unanimous vote of the men was elected its colonel.
He went into the services of the United States for three years,
and remained with the armies of the Union until he resigned as
major-general of volunteers September i, 1866. His gallant con-
duct as a soldier and his efficiency as a leader brought him one
promotion after the other, and for a time he commanded an army
. corps, and in February, 1865, President Lincoln assigned him to
the command of the department of Kentucky. He afterwards
declined an appointment as brigadier-general in the regular army,
and on resigning his commission as major-general soon afterwards
returned to Illinois to take up the practice of law. In 1867 Gen-
eral Palmer removed his family to Springfield, and that city was
his home thereafter until his death.

In the political annals of the state he is best remembered for
his term as governor, to which office he was elected in November,
1868, and he served four years with marked ability. He was a
strong and independent executive, and his administration is per-
haps most notable for the many vetoes which he placed upon bills
that he regarded as unjust or in violation of the constitution.

The present constitution of the State of Illinois was adopted
during General Palmer's term of office. As governor, while the
constitutional convention was in session, he took the greatest inter-
est in its work, scrutinized every provision and was in constant
consultation with the framers of the organic law.

After the war General Palmer had returned to the ranks of the
democratic party, and in 1888 was again its candidate for governor.
In 1890 his name was prominently suggested as a candidate for
United States senator, and the election involved one of the memor-
able contests in the Illinois Legislature. He was finally elected on
the 1 54th ballot in 1891. During his six years in the service he
was one of the most distinguished members of that body. Over
the nation at large General Palmer's name is probably most famil-
iarly associated with the "Palmer and Buckner Sound Money
Ticket" during the memorable campaign of 1896, when the con-
servative element in the democratic party chose General Palmer as
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of democrats devoted to the principles of sound finance. In the
intervals of these political activities General Palmer was for a
great many years devoted to his practice as a lawyer at Springfield
and for some time before his death was senior member of the firm
of Palmer, Shutt, and Graham.

His widow and three daughters survive him. The daughters
are Mrs. Elizabeth A. Matthews, Carlinville, Illinois ;r Mrs. Harriet
Palmer Crabbe, Corpus Christi, Texas; and Mrs. Jessie Palmer
Weber, Springfield, Illinois, secretary of the Illinois State Histor-
ical Society.

JOHN MAYO PALMER. The oldest son of Gen. John M. Palmer
and Malinda A. (Neely) Palmer, the late John Mayo Palmer like-
wise realized some of the highest possibilities in the legal profession.
He was active in the law and in public affairs for nearly thirty
years.

Born at Carlinville, Illinois, March 10, 1848, he died in the
sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan, July 10, 1903. On the break-
ing of the Civil war, though a lad of but thirteen years, he made
several visits to his father at the front, and although of course not
an enlisted soldier what he saw of army life gave him an appreciation
of the courage and self-sacrifice of the soldiers. His enthusiasm
and interest in military affairs were almost a matter of heritage, as
were also his brilliant talents in the law. He was a great-grand-
son of Isaac Palmer, who served with distinction with the Virginia
troops in the American Revolution and was at the siege of York-
town. He was also a grandson of Louis D. Palmer, who served in
the War of 1812, as a member of the Kentucky Volunteers, and was
at the battle of River Raisin. His father, as is well known, was
distinguished as a soldier during the Civil war, having raised the
Fourteenth Regiment of Illinois Infantry in 1861, was promoted
from colonel to brigadier general, to major general, and during
1865-66 was commander of the Fourteenth Army Corps, Department
of Kentucky.

John Mayo Palmer was educated at Blackburn University in
Carlinville, at Shurtleff College at Alton, and in 1868 graduated
from the law school of Harvard University with the degree LL. B.
He was a natural lawyer, his excellent education and training re-
enforcing his native talent, so that he was recognized as one of the
best equipped lawyers in the West, and was so considered by his
colleagues at the Springfield bar, where he practiced for more than
twenty years as the partner of his father. Admitted to the bar in
1868 at the age of twenty, he practiced at Carlinville until 1873,
and in 1870 was elected city attorney. In 1873 he formed the law
partnership with his father, Governor Palmer, upon the latter's
retirement from the executive office. The firm was first John M.
and John Mayo Palmer, and later became Palmers, Robinson &
Shutt, when Hon. James C. Robinson and Hon. William E. Shutt

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became members of the firm. John Mayo Palmer practiced in
that partnership until 1889, when for the benefit of his health he
went to the State of Washington, spending two years on the
Pacific Coast. At Tacoma, Washington, he was associated in prac-
tice with James Wickersnam, who is now delegate in Congress
from Alaska Territory. His health being practically restored Mr.
Palmer returned to Illinois and resumed practice at Chicago, as
a member of the law firm of Doolittle, Palmer & Tollman. In
1893 Carter Harrison the elder appointed him assistant corpor-
ation counsel of the City of Chicago, and a year later Mayor John
P. Hopkins appointed him corporation counsel. His record of
public service in Illinois was as city attorney of Carlinville from
1870 to 1872; member of the general assembly of Illinois from
1875 t° J^77 "> alderman of Springfield and corporation counsel of
Chicago from 1893 to 1895. As a lawyer he was engaged in many
famous cases, among which may be mentioned the Macoupin County
bond cases, the so-called Pekin Whiskey Ring case, and the Snycarte
Levee cases.

Like his father, he was a sturdy democrat, and belonged to the
Methodist Church. At Carlinville, Illinois, July 7, 1869, John
Mayo Palmer married Ellen Clark Robertson, daughter of Dr. Wil-
liam R. and Nancy (Holliday) Robertson. Of this union there were
three children. The oldest Major John Me Auley Palmer of the
United States Army, who was married in 1893 to Maude Laning,
daughter of C. B. Laning of Petersburg, Illinois, and they have
a child named Mary Laning Palmer. Robertson Palmer, the sec-
ond son, is an attorney at law at Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and
married Nettie Colby of Chicago. The third son is Dr. George
Thomas Palmer of Springfield, who married in 1898 Maude Gregg
of Alton, Illinois.

Louis JAMES PALMER. One of the younger children of Gen.
eral John M. and Malinda A. (Neely) Palmer, the late Louis
James Palmer, who died at Springfield December 28, 1901, was
identified with the Illinois bar as a practicing lawyer for a number
of years, though most of his professional career was spent in the
West.

Born at Carlinville, Illinois, June 25, 1865, he possessed many
of the talents and capabilities which have made his ancestry famous.
He was educated in the Springfield grammar and high schools,
under private tutors, and at Blackburn University at Carlinville.
Before old enough to be admitted to the bar, he passed brilliant
examination in the law and at the age of twenty-one went West to
Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was youngest member of the constitu-
tional convention which drafted the constitution for the new State
of Wyoming. From 1887 to 1893 he practiced law at Rock Springs,
Wyoming, and then returned to Springfield and was engaged in
active practice there until his death in 1901.

He served as a member of the Fifth Regiment, Illinois National

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Guard, and later was a member of the Engineer Corps until his
death. In politics he was always a democrat and a Baptist in
church affiliations. At Springfield on January 19, 1901, he married
Josephine La Bonte.

ALONZO K. VICKERS. During his service on the Supreme Bench
of Illinois from 1906 until his death on January 21, 1915, the pro-
found learning and broad experience of Judge Vickers were read
into a majority of the decisions of the Supreme Court. Judge
Vickers was identified with the Illinois bar and bench for more than
thirty years, came up to professional prominence from a boyhood
spent on a farm and with many struggles to secure an education. He
possessed the experienced judgment of one who knew all sorts of
men, was discriminating observer of character and motives, and had
that qualification so essential to the good judge — the judicial tem-
perament. His death was a distinct loss to the profession and the
state which he had served so loyally and with such integrity for
many years.

It was on a farm in Massac County, Illinois, that Alonzo Knox
Vickers was born September 25, 1853, a son of James I. and Celia
(Smith) Vickers, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of
Alabama. His father came to Illinois in 1840, settled on Govern-
ment land in Massac County, and that land continued in the owner-
ship of the Vickers family until recent years. The father died in
1 86 1 at the age of forty-five and the mother in 1874 at the age of
seventy- four.

The second of four children, Judge Vickers as a boy attended the
country schools of Massac County, and led by a vision of better
things later secured some training in the city high school and in the
summer normal, and after being qualified taught school for several
terms. His studies in law were pursued during his work as a
teacher, and gave him admittance to the bar in 1882. Judge Vickers
throughout his active practice as a lawyer was located at Vienna in
Johnson County.

His first public service was as a member of the Illinois House
of Representatives, to which he was elected in 1886. In 1891 he was
elected circuit judge of the first judicial circuit, re-elected in 1897
and again in 1903, and finally resigned after fifteen years of work
on the circuit bench. During that time he also served on the appellate
bench at Ottawa. In 1906 Judge Vickers was elected judge of the
Supreme Court from the first district, and thereafter kept his resi-
dence in East St. Louis. Judge Vickers was a republican, a member
of the East St. Louis, Illinois State and American Bar associations,
was affiliated with the Masonic Order up to and including the Knight
Templar degrees, with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Knights of Pythias and t,he Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
and was a member of the Missouri Athletic Club of St. Louis and
the Country Club of East St. Louis. He was a trustee of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Judge Vickers was married at Metropolis, Illinois, November 18,
1880, to Miss Leora E. Armstrong, daughter of William and Anna
Armstrong, now deceased. There are three children : Jay F. Vickers,
born in 1885, and now a rising yoimg attorney at East St. Louis ;
Hazel, who lives at Carbondale, Illinois ; and Louise Vickers, born
in 1893, and living with her mother at East St. Louis.

EDWARD O. BROWN. First elected a judge of the Circuit Court
of Cook County in 1903, Judge Brown has served by appointment
as justice of the Appellate Court of the First Illinois District since
1904. Judge Brown has been an active member of the Illinois bar
more than fo.rty years, and an extensive experience as a prominent
lawyer and the qualities of a splendid mind have enabled him to
adorn and dignify the high judicial office he has held for over ten
years.

Edward Osgood Brown was born in the historic city of Salem,
Massachusetts, August 5, 1847. His family is of English origin,
was settled in Massachusetts about the middle of the seventeenth
century, and several of its members, including his grandfather and
his father, contributed to the fame of Salem as one of the most
important centers of the early American merchant marine. Judge
Brown is a son of Edward and Eliza Osgood (Dalton) Brown. He
attended the Salem public schools, and graduated A. B. from Brown
University in 1867. The following year was spent as a teacher in
Southboro, Massachusetts, and he began his law studies with a firm
at Salem, and in 1869 was graduated from the law department of
Harvard University, winning first prize for an essay on Punitive
Damages. He was admitted to the bar in 1870, and during 1870-71
was assistant clerk to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and was
in practice at Providence until April, 1872.

Judge Brown came to Chicago with a college classmate, Orville
Peckham, and the associations of these two prominent Chicago law-
yers were maintained until the elevation of Judge Brown to the
bench. The partners began their practice in Chicago the year fol-
lowing the great Chicago fire, and their exceptional ability soon
gave their services a wide demand. Much of their practice was in
the field of corporation and commercial law, and for a number of
years they were attorneys for the First National Bank of Chicago.
Some of the cases in which Mr. Brown won his reputation as a
lawyer may be briefly mentioned: He was an attorney in People
vs. Knickerbocker, called the Probate-Court Case, involving the
constitutionality of that court; in the Sanitary District cases, in-
volving the constitutionality of the Sanitary District laws; in Zirn-
gibl vs. Calumet Company, involving a large amount of real estate
on the Calumet River; and from 1894 to 1897 was counsel of the
Xincoln Park commissioners, and among other matters represented
the commissioners in the McKee scrip matter, where claimants
under congressional scrip undertook to locate their warrant on mil-

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lions of dollars' worth of property along the lake shore on the north
side of Chicago.

Judge Brown in 1893 was candidate for judge of the Superior
Court. In 1903 he was elected a judge of the Cook County Circuit
Court, his first term covering the years from 1903 to 1909, and was
reelected in 1910. In 1904 he was appointed a justice of the Appel-
late Court in the First District, and was reappointed in 1910, the
office which he now holds. Judge Brown has long been active in
the democratic party, and is well known both at home and in the
nation for his prominence in the single tax movement, and was a
personal friend of the late Henry George. Judge Brown possesses
a distinctive literary style, and it has been impressed not only in his
decisions found in the reports of the Appellate Court, but in numer-
ous articles on the single tax and other political and economic
themes, and is also found in articles on medico-legal subjects, and
in several monographs on the early history of Michigan and Illinois.
Judge Brown is a member of the University, the City, the Chicago
Literary, the Mid-Day, the Press and Iroquois clubs. He is also
held in high esteem in the Chicago Bar Association, and the Chicago
Law Club. On June 25, 1884, Judge Brown married Helen Ger-
trude Eagle, of an old Detroit family. To their marriage were born
five children : Edward Eagle, Helen Dalton, Walter Elliott, Robert
Osgood, and Mary Wilmarth. Judge Brown became a convert to
the Catholic faith in his early% youth. In 1893 ne served as presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Society in Chicago.

CHARLES ADLAI EWING. Distinguished for his intellectual
attainments, for his profound knowledge of the law, for his business
acumen and social gifts, the late Charles Adlai Ewing was no less
noted for his solidity of character that made his public services,
at different times, of inestimable value to his fellow citizens. In his
death, while yet in the prime of life, the Decatur bar lost one of its
distinguished members and Macon County a man hard to replace.
He was one of a family of four children born to Fielding N. and
Sarah Ann (Powers) Ewing, and was ever a dutiful son.

Charles Adlai Ewing became a resident of Decatur in 1864 and
this city remained his home throughout life. He was a student in
the old Chicago University and later entered Princeton University,
from which he carried off the honors of his class in 1867, subse-
quently attending the Albany Law School, where he was graduated
in the class of 1870. He entered into practice at Decatur and it was
in the courts of Macon County that he pleaded and won his first
case. As an exponent of the law he stood very high, natural ability
combined with thorough preparation bringing professional success
early in his career, and his first legal victories but presaged the later
triumphs which brought about his recognition as a great lawyer. He
continued in active practice until his death, which occurred Novem-
ber 6, 1896. As a thoughtful and conscientious citizen he became
interested in politics but never as an office seeker nor for financial

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gain. The basic principles of the democratic party appealed to his
reason and he was willing to make personal sacrifices when he saw
indications of his party turning aside from these principles. In
1894 he became identified with that branch of the party known as
sound money democrats and took an active part in a conference held
at Chicago in August, 1895, the object of which was to establish a
literary bureau for the education of the voters. He was subse-
quently made chairman of the Democratic State Committee, in
which position he toiled night and day, and when the campaign was
at its height volunteered his services and took the stump and through
his splendid oratory and convincing arguments rendered invaluable
service. His many talents and his sterling character served to
bring him before the public in several important and responsible
capacities. During the last administration of Governor Oglesby he
was honored by appointment as a member of a commission to revise
the revenue laws of the State of Illinois, his associates on this board
being some of the oldest and ablest public men of the state.

On June 15, 1871, Mr. Ewing was united in marriage with Miss
Mary Giselle Palmer, a member of an exceedingly prominent family
of New York. Mrs. Ewing is a daughter of Ambrose Wells and
Mary (Bradley) Palmer, and a niece of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley,
who was a United States Supreme Court judge from New Jersey.
The father of Mrs. Ewing was born in New York, October 2, 1814,
for many years was a prosperous merchant in Albany, and died
August 15, 1889. The mother of Mrs. Ewing survived until April
17, 1909. Mrs. Ewing was their only child. Seven children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Ewing, five of whom survive, one son, who
worthily bears his father's honored name, being a member of the
prominent law firm of Outten, Ewing, McCullough & Wierman,
with offices over the National Bank Building at Decatur. The late
Charles A. Ewing was a valued member of both County and State
Bar associations, and was the first president of the Decatur Club.
He possessed a winning personality, was very companionable and
thus was welcome in social circles and additionally was known to
those who were nearest to him as considerate, tender, strong and
courageous.

Charles Adlai Ewing, son of the late Charles A. Ewing, was
born at Decatur, Illinois, April 18, 1878. His primary education
was secured in the public schools and after attending both the High
School and a collegiate preparatory school, he entered his father's
alma mater, Princeton University, and the University of Illinois,
and was graduated in June, 1903. He was at Princeton while Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson was at the head of the institution. Mr.
Ewing was admitted to the bar in May, 1903, and as an attorney
has rtiade rapid progress and more than justified his choice of career.
On April 14, 1904, Mr. Ewing was married to Miss Idelle Kerrick,
who is a daughter of L. H. Kerrick, of Bloomington, Illinois, and
they have two daughters, Sarah E. and Mary I. The family belongs
to the Presbyterian Church. Like his father, Mr. Ewing finds con-

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genial his membership in the Country Club. The family resides at
No. 509 Ewing Avenue, Decatur.

JUDGE CHARLES J. SCOFIELD has practiced law or has been on
the bench in Hancock County for forty years. For twelve years
he was one of the judges of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and for four
years of that time was a member of the Appellate Court. By his
work as a lawyer and judge, by his abilities as a public speaker, his
service to church and in the public interests, Judge Scofield is one
of the most prominent lawyers of Illinois. Possessed of scrupulous
honesty and a fine sense of justice, his associates unite in declaring
him to have been one of the most competent men who ever sat on
the Circuit Court bench in that district.

Charles J. Scofield was born at Carthage, Illinois, December 25,
1853. His parents were Charles R. and Elizabeth (Crawford) Sco-
field. The Scofield ancestors came from England and settled about
Stamford, Connecticut, during the seventeenth century, while on the
maternal side the Crawfords came from Scotland and were early
settlers in Kentucky. Charles R. Scofield, who was born in Dewitt-
ville, New York, in 1821, was a former lawyer in Hancock County,
having come to that county in 1851, and joining his brother, Bryant
T. Scofield, who was one of the most prominent and early attorneys
of Carthage. He read law under his brother, and subsequently
became his partner in practice. Later Charles R. Scofield entered
partnership with David Mack under the firm name of Mack & Sco-
field, and that firm was without doubt during its existence the strong-
est legal combination in Hancock County. This relation was dis-
solved by the death of Mr. Scofield in January, 1857.

Charles J. Scofield acquired his early education in the public
schools of Carthage, and in 1868 entered the Christian University at
Canton, Missouri, where he was graduated with the degree Bachelor
of Arts in the class of 1871. The following three years were spent
as a teacher in the Carthage high schools, and during his spare
time he read law with his uncle, Bryant T. Scofield, and also with
William C. Hooker and George Edmunds, who occupied the same
office. Admitted to the bar in June, 1875, Judge Scofield in the
following October was appointed master in chancery for the Circuit
Court of Hancock County, and held that office until his elevation
to the bench. In February, 1879, he formed a partnership with
Henry W. Draper, under the firm name of Draper & Scofield, and
that partnership was dissolved by the death of Mr. Draper July 8,
1 88 1. His next associate was Timothy J. Scofield, a brother now
practicing law at Chicago, who had been recently admitted to the
bar, and the firm of Scofield & Scofield was for several years well
and favorably known to the Hancock County bar. In the fall of
1884 A. W. O'Harra was admitted to the firm, which became Sco-
field, O'Harra & Scofield. In June, 1885, Charles J. Scofield was
elected one of the three judges of what was then the Sixth Judicial
Circuit of Illinois, comprising the seven counties of Hancock, Adams,

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Pike, McDonough, Fulton, Schuyler and Brown. Thus began Judge
Scofield's long career on the bench. At the expiration of the first
term of six years, he was re-elected, and thus gave twelve years of
able and impartial service to the courts of justice of the state. In
1897 Judge Scofield was urged to accept another term, but declined
in order to devote his time to private practice. In 1893 he was
appointed by the Supreme Court of the state as one of the judges
of the Appellate Court for the Fourth District, and sat upon that
bench for four years, until the close of his second term as circuit
judge. Since retiring from the bench Judge Scofield has been
engaged in practice with offices in Carthage, though his practice is
one of unusual importance and takes him all over the state and to
other states.

Judge Scofield, had he not devoted himself to the law, would
undoubtedly have made a name in church affairs, and as it is has
filled many pulpits as assistant minister, and holds the degree of
LL. D. from Eureka College and from Christian University at Can-
ton, Missouri. He has long been a student of theology and practical
religion, and among other distinctions is the author of two works,
both on religious themes, one dealing with the temperance question,
under the title "A Subtle Adversary," and the other a discussion of
various problems of Christian faith, under the name of "Altar
Stairs." Both volumes have had large sales. Judge Scofield's ability
as an orator has brought his services into demand for public ad-
dresses before many conventions and meetings in Boston, Denver,
Chicago, and elsewhere. Judge Scofield in April, 1909, formed a
partnership for the general practice of law with J. Paul Califf. Their
law library is conceded to be one of the finest private libraries out-
side the city of Chicago. Judge Scofield is a democrat in politics,
and was one of the electors of the State of Illinois who cast the
electoral vote of the state for Wilson and Marshall for president
and vice president. Judge Scofield has been a man of large affairs
and interests, and though much of his time has been given to relig-
ious work, he has never accepted any remuneration for his services
in the pulpit of the Christian Church.

Judge Scofield was married September 12, 1876, to Miss Rose
Spitler, daughter of Dr. Adam Spitler, of Carthage. Mrs. Scofield
was graduated from Carthage College with the degree A. B., in
1876, and both she and her husband were awarded the degree Master
of Arts. She is an active member of the Woman's Club, and is
prominent in both church and charitable affairs. Their home is at
744 East Main Street, Carthage. Judge Scofield is affiliated with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.

JUDGE RICHARD S. TUTHILL. By his continued service on the
circuit bench of Cook County since 1887 and by the fine care, un-
derstanding and patience with which he administered the Juvenile
Court of Chicago from its inception until it had become an institu-

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tion of recognized value throughout America, Judge Richard S.
Tuthill has undoubted rank among the foremost of Illinois jurists.

Richard S. Tuthill was born November 10, 1841, at Tuthill's
Prairie, Jackson County, Illinois, a son of Daniel Braley and Sally
(Strong) Tuthill. His Puritan ancestors emigrated to New England
prior to 1640. His father in 1829 moved from Vermont to Southern
Illinois, and was a prominent educator. Judge Tuthill's maternal
great-uncle, Maj.-Gen. Samuel Strong, commanded the Vermont
Volunteers in the Battle of Plattsburg during the War of 1812.

Judge Tuthill was liberally educated, being graduated A. B. from
Middlebury College in Vermont in 1863. He received his A. M.
from the same institution in 1868, and several colleges, including
his alma mater, have since bestowed upon him the honorary title
of LL. D. Immediately after his graduation in 1863 Judge Tuthill
went to Vicksburg, where his father's friend, Gen. John A. Logan,
was commanding a division, and he had his first service under that
leader as a volunteer citizen scout. General Logan afterward se-
cured for him a commission in Company H of the first Michigan
Light Artillery, one of the most efficient batteries in the western
army. He served as second and first lieutenant in this company,
which was attached to the Seventeenth Army Corps in the Army
of Tennessee, and served until he resigned, May 29, 1865, at the
close of the war. Judge Tuthill had begun the study of law before
he entered the army, was admitted to the bar in i860, and from
that year until 1873 was in practice at Nashville and served as
attorney-general of the Nashville Circuit during 1867-71.

Judge Tuthill has been a member of the Chicago bar since 1873,
and from 1875 to 1879 was city attorney of Chicago. Under ap-
pointment from President Arthur he served as United States- dis-
trict attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1884 *°
1886. In 1887 he was elevated to the bench as judge of the Cir-
cuit Court of Cook County, and has been regularly re-elected to
that office, his last endorsement by the people being in June, 1915.
Of his career as a jurist it will be appropriate to quote an estimate
written by one who has long been familiar with his services on the
bench : "The judicial office is ordinarily not fruitful of events long
remembered or upon which historians are likely to dwell. Indeed,
it may be said that, as a rule, the less conspicuous the work of the
judge is and the more transient the comment which his judicial acts
produce, the better it is for the land in which he serves. Judges are
not ordained to make, but to administer the law. Nevertheless it is
the case that in the discharge of judicial duties imposed by law upon
him. Judge Tuthill has become known and honored not only through-
out the United States but in the greater part of Europe. In 1899
what is now known as the Juvenile Court of Illinois was created by
act of the legislature and by the unanimous vote of his associates
upon the bench, Judge Tuthill was selected to preside over that
court. As afterwards proved, a better choice could not have been
made. Patient, considerate, ready to listen to all that the humblest

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had to say, broad minded and sympathetic, he took up the work as
a labor of love. The report of inspectors and policemen, the plaint
of fathers and mothers, the appeal of the poor and the outcast, the
little child and the hardened hoodlum were heard by him with that
tender consideration and intelligent regard to the welfare of the
community, parent, friend and child, which only a man of his great
learning, wide experience and profound knowledge of human nature
could give. The Juvenile Court was, from the outset, under his
administration a triumphant success, vindicating the faith of its pro-
jectors and realizing the hopes of the humane men and women who
had called it into being. An incident worthy to be remembered in
this connection was the raising of one hundred thousand dollars
with which a spacious farm of nearly a thousand acres was bought
and presented to the State as a site for the St. Charles School for
Boys. This much needed and admirable institution will serve to
perpetuate the memory of the work done by Richard S. Tuthill for
the youth of our country. Judge Tuthill became in universal de-
mand as a writer, speaker and counselor for those who wished to
establish a tribunal wherein could be judicially determined what
had best be done for neglected, dependent and delinquent children ;
and to his efforts, his zeal and experience more than to any other
person is due the painstaking, intelligent, humane and tender care
which juvenile courts now exercise ' concerning the multitude of
juvenile waifs living, growing and dying about us. Of him most
truly is it said 'justum virum fortiter in re.' 5:

Judge Tuthill was a member of the board of trustees of the
St. Charles School for Boys until a change in the law gave the ad-
ministration into other hands. He has served as president of the
Chicago Law School, and is a member of the various legal associa-
tions. He is a member of the Illinois, the Hamilton, University
and Evanston Golf clubs, is active in the Grand Army of the Re-
public and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, having served
as commander of the latter in 1893, and is a member of the Grand
Army Hall and Memorial Association. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason, and a member of the Episcopal Church. Judge Tuthill was
a delegate in 1880 to the Republican National Convention, and was
one of the 306 delegates who voted to the last for the nomination
of General Grant.

On August 24, 1868, Judge Tuthill married Jane Frances Smith
of Vergennes, Vermont. She died at Nashville, Tennessee, Decem-
ber 22, 1872, leaving a daughter, Eliza S., who married Frank D.
Ketcham. On January 2, 1877, Judge Tuthill married Harriet Mc-
Key, daughter of Edward McKey, a merchant of Janesville, Wiscon-
sin, who died April 29, 1909. In September, 1911, Judge Tuthill
married Susan Payne Trimble. By his second wife Judge TuthilPs
children were : Zoe Gertrude, wife of J. M. Fiske, Jr. ; Mary Eliz-
abeth, wife of Alfred Borden ; Lilian McKey, wife of Thomas Hill
Sidley; Genevieve Harmon, wife of James A. Linn, Jr.; Richard

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S., Jr., and Harriet McKey Tuthill. He has thirteen grandchildren.
His residence is in Evanston, Illinois.

RICHARD S. TUTHILL, JR. The only son of Judge Tuthill is
now an active member of the Chicago bar and on his individual
ability has proved himself a worthy member of the profession which
his father has so distinctly honored.

Richard S. Tuthill, Jr., was born in Chicago November 19, 1885,
was educated in the public schools, in the Lewis Institute of Chi-
cago and in Whipple Academy at Jacksonville, Illinois, graduating
in 1903. He gained his higher education at Williams College, Wil-
liamstown, Massachusetts, graduating A. B. in 1907, and on return-
ing to Chicago entered the law department of Northwestern
University, and finished the course and received the degree LL. B.
in June, 1910. While at law school he entered the office of Walter
W. Ross, and remained as his associate for 2^/2 years after being
admitted to the bar. For the past three years he has been associated
with Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, with offices in the First
National Bank Building. Mr. Tuthill is a member of the Chicago
Bar Association, the University Club, the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, the Evanston Country Club, and the Phi Delta Phi
Law Fraternity.

Mr. Tuthill was married in May, 1915, to Caroline Elizabeth
Garrett of St. Louis. He lives in Evanston.

WILLIAM EMIL TRAUTMANN has been a prominent lawyer in
Southern Illinois many years, and gained special prominence over
the state in the office of United States attorney for the Eastern Dis-
trict of Illinois. President Roosevelt appointed him to that posi-
tion May 27, 1905, and on February 22, 1910, he was reappointed
by President Taft. ,

He was born at Caseyville, Illinois, August 15, 1872, a son of
Frederick and Dorothea (Deck) Trautmann. Mr. Trautmann
received his higher education in McKendree College at Lebanon,
Illinois, where he graduated LL. B. from the law department in
1893, and subsequently continued his studies in the literary depart-
ment, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1895 and Master of
Science in 1898. In the meantime he had been admitted to the bar,
and has been in active practice at East St. Louis since 1897. For
four terms Mr. Trautmann was a member of the Illinois House of
Representatives, from 1898 to 1906, and he took a prominent part
in the deliberations of the legislative body and was one of the
republican leaders in the House. He is a member of the Illinois
State Bar Association and other professional organizations, is a
Methodist, a Mason, and belongs to the East St. Louis Commer-
cial and St. Clair Country clubs. On November 25, 1910, he mar-
ried Evelyn L. Kinne of Bloomington, Illinois.

JUDGE ARTHUR H. FROST. Few members of the Illinois bar are
more secure in the honors of the profession and the esteem of their

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associates than Judge Frost, who for more than twenty years has
been identified with public office at Rockford, and is now serving in
the office of circuit judge, a position through which he is known all
over Northern Illinois.

Arthur Henry Frost was born at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, May
12, 1855, was brought to Rockford in 1861, and finished his educa-
tion in the public schools of Illinois. His law studies were pursued
in the office of Norman C. Warner, and he was admitted to the bar
in 1878. Thus his connections with the Illinois bar make him one
of the older rrien in active practice in Northern Illinois.

Judge Frost was in active practice until 1892, and was then
elected state's attorney and served for ten years. He resigned dur-
ing his third term in 1902 to become candidate for the office of cir-
cuit judge, was elected and by re-election remains on the bench,
one of the most popular circuit judges in north Central Illinois.

Judge Frost is a director of the Forest City National Bank, is a
member of the Winnebago County Bar Association and the State
Bar Association, and belongs to the Hamilton Club of Chicago, the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Masonic order and
the Knights of Pythias and the Rockford Country Club.

JOHN F. VOIGT is secretary and treasurer of the Illinois State
Bar Association, and is engaged in the general practice of the law
at Chicago as a member of the firm of Richards, Voigt & Darby,
with offices at 72 West Adams Street.

Mr. Voigt came into prominence in the Illinois bar by a suc-
cessful career as a lawyer in Coles County, and by four years of
service as assistant United States attorney at Chicago, from 1909 to
1913. In 1912 Mr. Voigt was assigned to the handling of the
anti-trust cases. He is professor of equity in the Hamilton Col-
lege of Law at Chicago.

John F. Voigt was born September 7, 1869, at Mattoon, Illi-
nois, a son of John F. and Anna C. (Hess) Voigt. In 1888 he
graduated from the Mattoon High School, was a student in the
Illinois College at Jacksonville during 1890-91, and in 1896 took
his degree Ph. B. from the University of Chicago and also his de-
gree in law from the Chicago College of Law. After his admis-
sion to the bar Mr. Voigt returned to his home city of Mattoon,
where he served as city attorney and was also state's attorney of
Coles County until accepting the appointment as assistant United
States attorney.

For a number of years he has been active in republican party
affairs. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, as past grand, with the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, and with the various Masonic bodies including the Oriental
Consistory and the Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr.
Voigt is a member of the Hamilton Club, the Illinois Athletic
Club and the Chicago Literary Club, and his church is the Pres-
byterian.

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December 7, 1912, at Mattoon, he married Florence Edna Bell,
daughter of Dr. F. E. Bell, mayor of Mattoon. They have one
daughter, Marian Edna Voigt.

EDWARD J. BRUNDAGE. Senior member of the firm of Brundage,
Landon & Holt, with offices in the Westminster building, Edward
J. Brundage has been a member of the Chicago bar since 1892, and
outside of the courts and the bar his name is widely familiar
through his service as president of the Board of County Com-
missioners of Cook County, and as former corporation counsel of
Chicago. In many cases of general public interest in the past fif-
teen years the name of Mr. Brundage has appeared as one of the
chief Counsel. His high standing as a lawyer and citizen is -thor-
oughly appreciated, and his services and influence have helped to
mold the Chicago of this century.

Edward Jackson Brundage was born at Campbell, New York,
May 13, 1869, a son of Victor and Maria L. (Armstrong) Brundage.
In 1880 his parents removed to Detroit, Michigan, and his educa-
tion, previously acquired through attendance at the public schools
of Campbell, was continued in Detroit until 1883. At the age of
fourteen he became self supporting and is an example of a success-
ful lawyer who created his own early opportunities. He began
working in a railroad office in Detroit at the age of fourteen and
when the general office was removed to Chicago two years later he
followed it, and by 1888 had risen to the position of chief clerk.
He studied law in the intervals of other duties, and by 1892 was
qualified and admitted to the Illinois bar. Mr. Brundage was
graduated from the Chicago College of Law, LL. B. in 1893.

Mr. Brundage was elected a member of the Illinois House of
Representatives from the Sixth District in the Forty-first and Forty-
third General Assemblies, and in November, 1904, was elected
president of the Board of County Commissioners of Cook County
and reelected in November, 1906. With the possible exception of
the office of mayor of Chicago, no other position in Cook County
carries with it graver responsibilities than that of president of the
County Board. That office involves heavier duties than the posi-
tion of governor in many states. The charity service alone involves
the administration of several great institutions and the expenditure
of millions of dollars of public money. Mr. Brundage came into
the office with a reputation as a hard worker and a public adminis-
trator with certain definite ideals as to efficiency and honesty in the
handling of public office as a public trust. The introduction of
business-like, competent and honest methods into the administra-
tion of the county commissioner's office is in an important degree
credited to the work of Mr. Brundage. When at the beginning of
his term he stated that "politics has no business in a charitable in-
stitution where the poor, the sick and the insane are being cared
for," he set up a standard which was typical of all his subsequent
work and acts as president of the County Board. He introduced

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a modified form of civil service in the appointment of members
to the county hospital staff and throughout his administration
was an earnest worker in behalf of an institutional service that
should not be hampered by political expedients.

Besides the administration of the various county institutions
the term of Mr. Brundage was made noteworthy as a constructive
enterprise in the erection of the splendid new county building. The
efficiency, economy and thoroughness with which this task was
carried out under his and subsequent administrations have fre-
quently been commended with due reflection of credit upon Mr.
Brundage. When he came into office the old courthouse was little
more than a disreputable ruin. A proposal to remodel the old
building at a cost of half a million dollars had been vetoed in a
previous election, but President Brundage determined the county
should have an entirely new building to cost five million dollars.
He appointed a committee of leading Chicago business men who
examined the old building, reported that it was not worth repairing,
and recommended the proposed bond issue for a new structure.
The bond issue was approved at the following city election, and
five months later the work had begun in demolishing the old ruin
and the plans for the new building were already perfected.
Throughout the course of planning and construction of the new
courthouse, Mr. Brundage was the man whose hard common sense
and insistence upon efficiency and economy finally gave Chicago
what has been pronounced as the finest county building in America,
which was completed without a hint of extravagance and with such
rapidity that the building was ready for occupancy soon after Mr.
Brundage retired from the presidency of the board. The Cook
County Courthouse is a beautiful architectural monument, yet dig-
nity and classical outline have not been secured at the expense
of such perfect adaptation to use and convenience as are found 'in
modern business office buildings. Another feature of his adminis-
tration as president of the County Board was the carrying out of
his plan to provide a permanent individual home for the Juvenile
Court.

Mr. Brundage resigned his office as president of the Board of
County Commissioners April 16, 1907, to accept the office of cor-
poration counsel of the City of Chicago, and continued his duties
in that capacity until a change of administration from a republican
to- a democratic mayor in 1911. Again in that office his counsel
was invaluable in solving the legal problems connected with a
progressive and constructive period of the city's affairs. Since
leaving the office of corporation counsel Mr. Brundage has been
devoted to the general practice of law. It is characteristic of the
habits and nature of the man that while in public office he made
his office distinctive on account of the capable performance of its
functions, and now that he is once more a private citizen, and
while handling with rare judgment and ability his work as a law-
yer, seldom allows his name to come into public print and desires

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only the recognition and rewards of the plain and unassuming in-
dividual man of affairs.

He was vice president for Illinois of the Pan American Exposi-
tion at Buffalo, and in many ways has made himself a useful factor
in the progressive citizenship of Chicago. Mr. Brundage is a
Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, the
Royal League, and the Columbian Knights, and belongs to the
Chicago Athletic, the University, and the Industrial clubs. He
was married December 17, 1913, to Germaine Vernier.

BURNETT M. CHIPPERFIELD. While Mr. Chipperfield has for
many years been actively identified with the Illinois Bar, and is now
senior member of the law firm of Chipperfield & Chipperfield at
Canton, his name and services are at once recognized all over the
state because of his important work as a legislator. In the field
of social and industrial welfare legislation, it is doubtful if any
name is associated with more valuable bills and amendments now
in operation in the body of Illinois statutes, than that of Mr. Chip-
perfield. Mr. Chipperfield's partner in the practice of law at Canton
is his brother, Judge C. E. Chipperfield.

Burnett M. Chipperfield is a native of the old town of Dover
in Bureau County, Illinois, and was born there June 17, 1870. His
father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and as
the rules of the church at that time permitted a pastor to remain
in one location not more than three years, the son spent his child-
hood and youth in many different localities and was educated in the
public schools of Sandwich, Sterling, Marseilles, Seneca, Rock
Falls, Kankakee, Chillicothe and Chicago, and also in Hamlin Uni^
versity, a Methodist institution at St. Paul, Minnesota. For a time
he was associated with the Commercial National Bank of Chicago,
now consolidated under the name of the Continental and Com-
mercial Bank, the largest bank west of New York. Later he made
a surveying trip to the northwest, and for a time taught in the
Green Prairie schools in Minnesota, and for a year was assistant
principal of the school at Cuba, Illinois.

Mr. Chipperfield was admitted to the Illinois Bar. In 1894
he was elected city attorney of Canton, and that was his first im-
portant office. His one term proved a revelation of his progressive
attitude in all matters, subsequently best illustrated in his legislative
career. One of the results of his administration while in the office
of city attorney was a complete revision of the city ordinances and
a thorough systematization of the city legal department. It is due
to him that the system originated of suspending fines for misbe-
havior and suspending sentences with the understanding that the
favored individuals seek in other fields an opportunity to begin life
anew. In disposing of five hundred criminal cases the city won all
but two or three, and Mr. Chipperfield was attorney for the muni-
cipality in litigation involving more than a total of $150,000.

At the expiration of his term as city attorney Mr. Chipperfield

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was elected states attorney of Fulton County, and was the first
republican elected to that office. His service in the General Assem-
bly was during the Forty-third Legislature, representing both Knox
and Fulton counties. Of primary importance in mentioning his
legislative record was the bill reforming the convict system of the
state. Mr. Chipperfield introduced the bill, and it passed the house
by unanimous vote, and proved so far reaching and valuable in its
operation that it proved a model for similar legislation undertaken
in many other states. He made a close study of safety regulations
in various industries, and was author of the bill regulating the firing
of shot in coal mines, a measure which did much to minimize the
danger from explosions. He also introduced a bill increasing the
death limit from five thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars, and
various other amendments to the mining laws. Another beneficial
bill which he steered through both the house and senate prevented
employers from compelling men to remain in their employ by with-
holding a portion of their wages. He was also an advocate of and
consistently supported all measures prescribing more sanitary shops
and better inspection under the child labor law, and also supported a
free employment bureau. He worked for the abolition of the intol-
erable conditions of the sweat shops maintained by clothing manu-
facturers, and voted against the increase of salaries of members of
the Legislature and other state officers. During his presence in
the Legislature Mr. Chipperfield was chairman of the committee on
penal and reformatory institutions, a member of the committee on
corporations, on fish and game, on judiciary and judicial apportion-
ments, military affairs, mines and mining, railroads, rules, and also
a member of the republican steering committee.

Partly through his legislative record, his recognized knowledge
of social and industrial and general political conditions, and his
forceful ability as a speaker Mr. Chipperfield has been much in
demand as an orator, and there is not a county in Illinois nor a
state in the Middle West in which he has not been urged to speak.
For years Mr. Chipperfield has been a member of the board of
trustees of the Western Illinois State Normal School at Macomb.

Mr. Chipperfield was married in 1895 to Miss Clara L. Ross of
Canton. They have a son and daughter. Mr. Chipperfield is
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights
of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Fraternal Order
of Eagles, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in
politics is a republican.

RUDOLPH MATZ. Born in Chicago, December n, 1860, the son
of the prominent- architect, Otto H. Matz, Rudolph Matz has
been an active member of the Chicago bar since 1887, and for
many years has divided his time among important legal and busi-
ness interests and various benevolent and civic agencies.

As a boy Rudolph Matz was a student in the Sheldon, the
Ogden and the Haven public schools and the Central High School

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of Chicago, and in 1882 graduated A. B. from Williams College.
For two years following his collegiate course he was an instructor
in the Higher School for Boys, later the University School of
Chicago, and in 1886 graduated with valedictorian honors from
the Northwestern University Law School. During 1885-86 he was
also a student in the office of Dexter, Herrick & Allen, was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1886, and the following year was spent in
travel abroad, during which he went around the world. He then
became an assistant in the firm of Barnum, Rubens & Ames, and
in 1888 became associated in practice with Walter L. Fisher, under
the firm name of Matz & Fisher. In 1897 William C. Boyden was
admitted to the partnership, which continued as Matz, Fisher &
Boyden, and within the last few years there has been added to the
firm William Warren Case and Laird Bell. Though Mr. Fisher
withdrew from active practice in Chicago in March, 1911, to ac-
cept appointment from President Taft as Secretary of the Inte-
rior, the firm style remained unchanged and he has since resumed
an active partnership. Illinois lawyers generally recognize this
as one of the strongest legal combinations in the state. For more
than a quarter of a century its professional relations have been of
a varied and important nature, too extensive for any brief outline.
It may be mentioned that Matz & Fisher were attorneys for the
Ways and Means Committee of the World's Columbian Exposition

Mr. Matz is a director and president of the Legal Aid Society
of Chicago, and has membership in the Chicago, the Illinois State
and the American Bar associations, and is a trustee of the Civic
Federation of Chicago. As executor of the estate of the late Charles
M. Henderson, he served as vice president and director of that
wholesale boot and shoe company from 1896 until 1902, and is
now a director in the United Shoe Machinery Company, and a di-
rector of the Chicago Savings Bank and Trust Company, and a
director in the Chicago Auditorium Association. He has also
served as a member of the executive committee of the Western
Society for the Suppression of Vice. In politics he is a republican.
While a resident of Chicago, Mr. Matz was a trustee of the Second
Presbyterian Church from 1902 to 1904, and is now a trustee of
the Winnetka Congregational Church, his home being in Hubbard
Woods. Mr. Matz is a member of the University, the Indian Hill
Country, the Chicago Literary, the Chicago Law and the City
clubs, and the Alpha Delta Phi and Williams clubs of New York
City. He belongs to the Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa
college fraternities.

His father, Otto H. Matz, has been an architect in Chicago since
1854, and one of the oldest and most prominent members of his
profession. Otto H. Matz was born in Berlin, Germany, March
8, 1830. During the '505 he was architect for the Illinois Central
and the Chicago & Alton railways, and built the Illinois Central
depot at Chicago that was destroyed in the fire of 1871. During
the war he was a civil engineer, with the rank of major, serving

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on the staff of Generals Fremont, Halleck and Grant. He worked
with General Wilson in the preparation of the plans for the cap-
ture of Vicksburg, and rode into that city with General Grant.
From 1869 to 1871 he was school architect of Chicago, and in
1892, while county architect, erected the present Criminal Court
Building. After the Chicago fire he was awarded first prize in
competition with other architects for plans for the City Hall and
County Building. Otto H. Matz was married October 26, 1857,
to Mary Elizabeth Lewis, who was born in Pulaski, Oswego County,
N. Y., December 13, 1837, and came to Chicago in 1852. Her
brother, Hiram LaMotte Lewis, was for many years a prominent
Chicago lawyer, a partner of the late Thomas Hoyne. Mrs. Matz,
who died November 13, 1911, was a leader in charitable and edu-
cational work, was for many years president of the Mary Thomp-
son Hospital for women and children, one of the founders of the
Fortnightly Club, and at one time president of the Chicago Wo-
man's Club.

Rudolph Matz married November 19, 1890, Miss Florence
Humphrey Henderson, daughter of Charles M. and Emily (Hol-
lingsworth) Henderson. Mrs. Matz is interested in charitable
work and a director of the Illinois Training School for Nurses,
and of the Legal Aid Society of Chicago. Her father, Charles
Mather Henderson, who was born in Connecticut in 1834, a direct
descendant of Cotton Mather, was a prominent business man of
Chicago from 1853 until his death in 1896. He was president of
the C. M. Henderson £ Company, one of the largest boot and shoe
houses in the West, and was also active in banking and civic affairs.
After the fire of 1871 he assisted in the reorganization of the Chi-
cago Fire Department, was at one time president of the Young
Men's Christian Association, for many years superintendent of the
Railroad Chapel Sunday School, was one of the founders of the
Citizens Association and of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society,
and a trustee of the Home for Incurables and of the Children's Aid
Society. Mr. and Mrs. Matz have three children: Ruth Hen-
derson, Charles Henderson and Emily Florence.

HON. WALTER REEVES. While the late Walter Reeves was for
more than thirty years identified with the Illinois bar, and gained
many of the best distinctions and rewards of the successful and
high-minded lawyer, his name is probably most familiar over the
state at large through his eight years of service in Congress. In his
home city of Streator and in La Salle County he had few peers as
a lawyer, public leader and public-spirited citizen.

Walter Reeves was born near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Sep-
tember 25, 1848, and died April 9, 1909. He was a son of Harrison
and Maria (Leonard) Reeves. His father was of Scotch-English
descent, a Pennsylvania farmer before coming to Illinois, and the
mother gave to the late congressman a strain of German and Welsh
blood. The family located on a farm in La Salle County, Illinois,

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in 1856. Walter Reeves grew to manhood in the country district
of La Salle County, gained his education by attending the public
schools and through private study, and like many other successful
lawyers, had an experience as a teacher. He studied law as oppor-
tunity offered, and was admitted to the bar at the June term of the
Supreme Court in 1875. Throughout his professional career his
home was at Streator, where he showed remarkable talent either as
counselor or as a jury advocate, and for a number of years had the
choice of the most important and profitable litigation in the local
courts. He was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme
Court in 1884.

Walter Reeves was a splendid type of the political leader when
the republican party was supreme in Illinois. In 1894 he was
nominated to succeed the late Gen. Thomas J. Henderson as
candidate for Congress for the Eleventh Illinois District, and in
the election received a plurality of nearly 5,000 votes, and a major-
ity over his three opponents. His majorities were increased in
the three succeeding elections. Of his work in Congress the fol-
lowing has been said : "Regarding himself as a public servant whose
duty it was to advance the best interests of those he represented, he
began devoting his energies to the work of internal improvement
in the country and was appointed a member of the committee on
rivers and harbors. In the river and harbor bill passed by the
fifty-fourth congress he obtained from the general government for
improvements in the State of Illinois between eight and nine million
dollars. His position was that 'in the midst of exceedingly hard
times the laboring people should be assisted through providing work
in these internal improvements and that the farmers and business
men would also be benefited by the internal development of our
country. Thus he accomplished more for the internal improvements
of the state by general government than had been accomplished for
a score of years. He also prepared and introduced a bill in congress
to control the patent system of the United States, and while it was
under consideration the leading labor paper of New York said that
if it passed it would accomplish more for the laboring people of the
United States than any other bill ever introduced in congress. He
stood for progress, disapproving of useless expenditure. He did
not believe in the practice of economy to the extent of hindering the
onward march of progress. Realizing that a nation like an indi-
vidual, must advance or retrogression follows."

In 1876 Mr. Reeves married Miss Metta M. Cogswell, of Wash-
ington, Connecticut, a daughter of Lucius T. Cogswell and a mem-
ber of a very old and prominent New England family. Mrs. Reeves
was graduated from Mount Holyoke Seminary of Massachusetts.
In personality the late Mr. Reeves was described as a man of modest
demeanor and entire absence of all parade and ostentation, together
with a simple dignity born of innate virtue and self-respect. His
own experience and natural kindness gave him a practical sympathy

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with all young men who were struggling for an education and a
higher life.

WILLIAM H. BOYS. For many years one of the acknowledged
leaders of La Salle County bar, William H. Boys, was admitted to
the Illinois bar before the Supreme Court at Mount Vernon in 1886,
and since 1887 has been in almost continuous practice at Streator.
In 1891 he became associated with the late Hon. Walter Reeves,
and until their association was dissolved by the death of Mr. Reeves
in 1909, their firm controlled the largest corporation and general
practice in La Salle County. Mr. Boys has been unusually honored
both in his profession and as a citizen of Streator and of the state.

William H. Boys was born in Marshall County, Illinois, Decem-
ber 1 8, 1862, a son of John and Catherine (Long) Boys. Both his
parents were natives of Marshall County, and his father, who was
a farmer, died in 1865 at the age of thirty-two. The mother subse-
quently married John S. Smith, who died in 1875, and she passed
away at the age of seventy-four. The two children were William
H. Boys and Lillian, now the wife of Fred Towner.

William H. Boys lived on the home farm in Marshall County
until 1871, when he went with his mother to Streator, attended the
public schools of that city, and finished his literary education in
Hedding College at Abingdon, Illinois. He studied law in the office
of Judge Thomas Shaw and Robert Edwards at Lacon, Illinois, was
admitted to practice in the Illinois .courts in 1886, and in 1906 was
admitted to practice in the United States District and Supreme
Courts. His first work as a lawyer was done in Norton in Western
Kansas, but in the fall of 1887 he returned to Streator, and in April,
1889, was elected city attorney for a term of two years. In 1891
he was elected mayor of Streator, and held that office two years.
From 1894 to 1903 Mr. Boys attended to all the legal business of
the firm of Reeves & Boys, while Mr. Reeves was in Congress and
during that time the firm were local attorneys for the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railway, the Chicago & Alton Railroad, the
Santa Fe and the Wabash railroads as well as the New York Cen-
tral lines. Since the death of the senior partner, Mr. Boys has
continued to act as counsel to these different' railways, and for
twenty years their interests have formed a large share of his legal
practice. He has also been attorney and still represents the more
prominent corporations doing business in Streator. After the death
of Mr. Reeves Mr. Boys took into partnership Russell C. Osborn
and Edward M. Griggs, and he is now senior member of the firm
of Boys, Osborn & Griggs.

In January, 1905, Mr. Boys was appointed first assistant attor-
ney-general under Atty.-Gen. W. H. Stead, and held that
office eight months. From 1906 to January i, 1909, he was chair-
man of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission, and dur-
ing that time maintained his residence in Springfield. He has always
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of his home city, and for six years was president of the high school
board.

Mr. Boys is a member of the La Salle County Bar Association,
the Illinois State Bar Association and the American Bar Associa-
tion. Fraternally he is affiliated with Streator Lodge, No. 607, A.
F. & A. M.; Streator Chapter, No. 168, R. A. M.; Streator Com-
mandery, No. 70, K. T. ; Streator Lodge, No. 591, B. P. O. E., and
with Findley Lodge, No. 82, of the Knights of Pythias. He is also
a member of Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Chicago, and is
a charter member of the Streator Club. Politically his activities have
identified him with the republican party.

October 15, 1885, Mr. Boys married Miss Althea Stire, who was
born in Marshall County April i, 1865, daughter of Francis H. and
Lydia (Dey) Stire, her father a native of Pennsylvania and her
mother of New York. Her father came to Illinois in the early '503,
was a farmer, and during the war was for three years a soldier.
After the war he was engaged in the grain business at Lacon, later
a clothing merchant there, and finally removed to Indianapolis. Mr.
and Mrs. Boys have one son, Thomas L., who was born in 1887, was
educated in Lake Forest University, and is now assistant superin-
tendent of the Barr Clay Company at Streator.

JESSE HOLDOM. Since 1898 Judge Holdom has employed his
judicial office in Cook County as a means of broad and able service
to the community and during that time has sat on the bench of the
Superior, Appellate and Circuit Courts of Cook County. It is
through his position and service as a judge that his name is most
familiar to Chicago people, though he has been a member of the
Chicago bar more than forty years, served one term as president
of the Illinois State Bar Association, both in his profession and in
his civic interests has found many opportunities for useful work.

Born in London, England, August 23, 1851, Jesse Holdom is a
son of William and Eliza Holdom. His European ancestors were
refugees from the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and in 1572 set-
tled at Spitalfield in London, and for 300 years the Holdoms were
all born in the same parish. Judge Holdom was educated at the
Homerton College, London, and at the age of seventeen came to the
United States, and has had his home in Chicago since July of that
year. He studied law, part of the time with Joshua C. Knicker-
bocker, and was admitted to the bar September 13, 1873. He con-
tinued with Judge Knickerbocker until 1876, then became chief
clerk with Tenneys, Flower & Abercrombie, and in 1878 became
associated with the brother of Judge Knickerbocker under the firm
name of Knickerbocker & Holdom, a law firm of substantial repu-
tation and with influential connections during its existence of ten
years. Judge Holdom after that practiced alone until his election
to the bench as a judge of the Superior Court of Cook County in
1898. In June, 1906, he became a justice of the Appellate Court in
the First Illinois District. In the recent judicial elections of June,

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1915, the vote given to Judge Holclom as a candidate for the Cir-
cuit Court placed him high in the list of the sitting judges who were
continued in office. As a lawyer perhaps his best reputation rests on
his work in chancery and probate cases and in litigations involving
wills and titles to real estate.

Judge Holdom is a republican, and during 1897-98 was presi-
dent of the Hamilton Club, and in 1909 was president of the Union
League Club, and for several years was a member of its committee
on political action. He was president of the Illinois State Bar Asso-
ciation in 1901-02. He is also a member of the Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation, the Chicago Law Club and the Chicago Law Institute. He
has also been identified with the Chicago Art Institute and his other
interests outside of his profession are indicated by his membership
in such organizations as the Bibliophile Society of Boston and the
Caxton Club of Chicago. Judge Holdom is a book lover and has a
large general library and also a. collection of rare and old books. He
is a member of the National Geographic Society and the American
Forestry Association. He is warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

HON JAMES M. GRAY. Among the distinguished men whose
achievements in different directions brought honor to themselves and
reflected credit upon the State of Illinois, no one is more easily
recalled or is more sincerely mourned than the late James M. Gray,
of Decatur. He had the sound learning and all the versatile abilities
of the true lawyer, and supplementing these were the wisdom and
efficiency of disinterested statesmanship. Largely to this combina-
tion is due the fact that many admirable laws have been placed on
the statute books of the State of Illinois within the last decade.

From the beginning of his practice until his death Mr. Gray's
home was in Decatur. There he won eminent success as a lawyer,
for a number of years being regarded as one of the most brilliant
criminal attorneys in the judicial district. Whether regarded in the
light of a lawyer, legislator and public leader, or as an accomplished
gentleman, the late James M. Gray well deserves the memory and
gratitude of his native state. He was born in Ramsey, in Fayette
County, Illinois, June i, 1862, one of the five children of Richard
H. and Emily (Hall) Gray. His father moved from Fayette into
Coles County, Illinois, and there became a prosperous farmer.

The wholesome environment of the country and the rugged dis-
cipline of the home farm were factors of importance during the
formative period of James M. Gray's life. He attended the high
schools of Ramsey and Vandalia, Illinois, and later the university at
Valparaiso, Indiana. Following this came three years of school
teaching, by which means he secured capital with which to continue
his studies through the scientific course at Valparaiso, until graduat-
ing with an A. B. degree in the class of 1886. Those were years of
hard work when his earnestness of purpose was well tested in over-
coming numerous obstacles in the path of his ambition for the law.
Meanwhile he had begun the study of law in the office of Henry &

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Foulke, of Vandalia, Illinois, but later returned to the university to
complete his course. He graduated from the law department in the
class of 1890, with the well-deserved degree LL. B. His intellectual
powers came to be thoroughly appreciated even during his college
course, and while there he led his class and during his senior year
at university was class president. He came to Decatur in June, 1890,
and in the following fall was admitted to the bar. He was not long
in winning recognition and a profitable clientage. For one year he
practiced in partnership with James M. Lee, and after this associa-
tion was discontinued he was in practice alone for fourteen years.
His skill in the handling of criminal cases was demonstrated early
in his career, and he soon found this class of practice absorbing his
time and energies. Through his keen perception, knowledge of law,
and brilliant oratory, he acquired a reputation as the leading criminal
lawyer in his part of the state. He possessed wonderful powers as
a speaker, and at all times and under all circumstances was an honest
and fearless advocate of the right. In 1904 Mr. Gray formed a
second law partnership, associating himself with I. A. Buckingham,
a well-known attorney of Decatur. This professional connection
was still existing at the time of Mr. Gray's death, which occurred
at his home in Decatur June 6, 1912. He was then fifty years of age,
in the prime of his powers, and his solid achievements entitle him
to lasting recognition among the eminent lawyers of Central Illinois,
and his death could only be regarded as premature because of the
brilliant work which continued life would have enabled him to per-
form. In spite of his many public activities and his personal affairs,
Mr. Gray was never too busy or occupied to decline to give advice
and legal opinion to younger members of the bar, and this helpful-
ness is gratefully recalled by many lawyers now in practice in the
City of Decatur.

In early manhood Mr. Gray became interested in politics, and he
grew into great influence in this field. His efforts for the demo-
cratic party first came into notice in 1884, while in 1888 he was
chosen as a leading campaign speaker. In 1890 he served as chair-
man of the democratic city organization, and in 1891 of the county
committee, in the meanwhile being elected a delegate to the state
convention. He was elected a delegate to each succeeding state con-
vention as long as he lived. In 1898 Mr. Gray was first elected to the
State Legislature, and subsequently re-elected in 1900, 1902 and 1904.
During his third term he was chairman of the democratic caucus and
also chairman of the democratic steering committee. Although his
representative district has long been dominated by a large republican
majority, Mr. Gray gained the unique distinction of being the only
man, republican or democrat, who was ever elected by the district
for four terms in the Legislature. In his public work as in his prac-
tice as a lawyer, he was a fearless champion of every cause he
believed to be right, and his name appears conspicuously with the
passing of admirable laws in the interests of the people. His loyal
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of his popularity. He continued in public life as long as he lived,
and was an influential factor always in democratic ranks, where he
was universally recognized as a leader. For many years he was
chairman of Macon County's Democratic Executive Committee, and
in 1908 was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in
Denver. In 1912 he was elected a member of the State Central
Committee. While his interests and activities thus covered a wide
outside field, he never neglected those pertaining to Decatur or
Macon County, being ever ready to lend his influence and the pres-
tige of his name to forward laudable movements for the general
welfare. He was a prime factor in locating the James Millikin
University at Decatur, securing the passage of the bill through the
Legislature providing for its location. He was a highly respected
member of the State Bar Association as well as of the Macon
County bar, and was always proud of his position as a director in
the latter.

Mr. Gray was united in marriage June 14, 1894, to Miss Lillie M.
Belt, a daughter of the late James M. Belt, formerly a prominent
banker of Bunker Hill, Illinois, where he died February 4, 1906.
Mr. and Mrs. Gray became the parents of two children, James M.
and Lucile B. The former is now attending the University of Illi-
nois at Champaign. The family belongs to the First Presbyterian
Church at Decatur, of which congregation Mr. Gray was a liberal
supporter for its many avenues of usefulness. He was a thirty-
second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He was
also identified with the Elks. The Decatur Chamber of Commerce
found in him an active worker, while his social qualities made him
a welcome member of the Decatur and the Country Clubs. Perhaps,
after all, it is in the home circle that his most admirable traits were
shown, for surely no greater praise can be accorded anyone than to
say that he was a devoted and tender husband, a careful and
judicious father, a dependable friend, and a loyal citizen. All these
relations and obligations of private life the late James M. Gray
effectively performed. He was a man whose character as well as
attainments may well be held up to the world as a stimulating
example.

SIGMUND ZEISLER has been one of the distinguished members of
the Chicago bar for thirty years, and besides his prominence in the
profession has exerted his influence as a vigorous thinker and a
courageous public leader in behalf of many reform movements in
political and social life.

Sigmund Zeisler was born at Bielitz, Silesia, Austria, April n,
1860, a son of Isaac L. and Anna (Kanner) Zeisler. He is a grad-
uate of the Imperial College (Gymnasium) at Bielitz, and received
the degree of Dr. Juris (Doctor of Jurisprudence) in 1883 from the
University of Vienna. He soon afterwards came to America, and
in 1844 graduated from the Northwestern Law School of Chicago

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with the degree LL. B., being admitted to the Illinois bar the same
year.

Mr. Zeisler was associate counsel for the defense in the anarchist
cases in 1886-87. ^e was chief assistant corporation counsel of
Chicago in 1893-94, but with that exception has been chiefly engaged
in private practice, and is now senior member of the law firm of
Zeisler, Friedman & Zeisler with offices in the Straus Building. Since
1904 he has served as Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court.

Mr. Zeisler was prominent as a sound money democrat in the
-campaign of 1896. He was one of the speakers at the first anti-
imperialist meeting held west of the Alleghanies, in Central Music
Hall at Chicago, April 30, 1899. He became a member of the
executive committee of the American Anti-Imperialists League in
October, 1899, and was acting chairman during the entire business
session of the National Liberty Congress of the anti-imperialists at
Indianapolis on August 16, 1900. In the campaign of 1900 he went
all over the country as a speaker under the auspices of the National
Democratic Campaign Committee, favoring the election of Mr.
Bryan on the anti-imperialist issue. In 1904 he was president of the
German-American Parker League. Since 1904 he has been vice
president of the American Free Trade League and is one of the
strong advocates of the more important economic issues embodied
in the platforms of the democratic party.

From 1899 to 1905 Mr. Zeisler was a member of the executive
committee, and since 1905 has been on the advisory committee of
the Municipal Voters League of Chicago. He is first vice president
of the Civil Service Reform Association of Chicago ; a member of
the executive committee of the Illinois Constitutional Convention
League 1914-15 ; member of the executive committee of the, Chicago
Society of Advocates ; member of the American Bar Association,
Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, and .the
Chicago Law Institute.

Mr. Zeisler is a member of the following clubs : Law, Chicago
Literary, Quadrangle, Iroquois, City, South Shore Country, Cliff
Dwellers, The Little Room, Book and Play (president since 1907).
He has been occasional contributor to reviews and law journals.
His residence is at 5749 Woodlawn Avenue. Mr. Zeisler was mar-
ried in Chicago October 18, 1885, to Fannie Bloomfield, recognized
as one of the greatest living pianists. Their children are : Leonard,
Paul and Ernst.

DAVID B. LYMAN. At the time of his death, April 8, 1914, David
B. Lyman was one of the oldest members of the Chicago bar. He
had located in Chicago soon after the close of the Civil war, and
together with a large practice as a lawyer combined extensive busi-
ness interests, and from 1895 to 1902 was president of the Chicago
Title & Trust Company. For many years he was one of the out-
standing figures in Chicago commercial and professional life.

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found than one which appeared in Palmer's "Bench and Bar of
Illinois," about fifteen years ago : "From the beginning Mr. Lyman's
career at the bar has been one of marked success. He is an untir-
ing worker, preparing his cases with the utmost precision, exhaustive
in research, clear and concise in thought and logical in argument, —
and such qualities predestined him for a foremost place in his pro-
fession. The history of the cases with which he has been connected
would comprise a record of much of the important civil litigation
that has been heard in the courts of Cook county for almost thirty
years, and yet his legal business is somewhat peculiar in that much
of it seldom finds its way into the courts. Mr. Lyman may be said
to be more of a counselor than advocate, and it has become known
to the business community that he will not advise the bringing of
a suit except in strong cases, and this only when there is no remedy
save in litigation. While real estate and corporation law has claimed
much of his attention, he is equally proficient in other branches of
practice and is always ready for attack or defense. A firm believer
in the maxim that there is no excellence without labor, he is noted
for his untiring industry and his painstaking preparation and man-
agement of his cases, no less than for his ability and learning in
the law. The one class of cases which he refuses altogether is that
which comes under the general designation of criminal practice.
Though he has probably a higher reputation as an able and learned
counselor than as an advocate, his arguments carry more weight
from the very honesty of his character than those of some more
eloquent but less trusted lawyers."

Varied experience in interesting environment filled the early
years of the late David B. Lyman, and his mature life was one of
exceptional achievement. He was born at Hilo, Hawaii, March 27,
1840, and spent the first twenty years of his life in the picturesque
surroundings of those Pacific islands. . His parents were of old New
England and Pilgrim stock. His father, Rev. D. B. Lyman, was in
early life a resident of New Hartford, Connecticut, and was a
graduate from Williams College and the Andover Theological Semi-
nary. In 1831 he married Miss Sarah Joiner of Royalton, Vermont,
and soon afterward as missionaries for the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions they sailed for the 'Sandwich
Islands, where they labored in the cause of Christianity more than
fifty years.

In Hawaii David Brainerd Lyman had the advantage of instruc-
tion from his parents, and also acquired business training through
service in several governmental posts, a training that was not only
a part of his practical education but also gave him the means for
a higher education in the United States. In 1859 Mr. Lyman
embarked on a vessel at Honolulu, sailed around Cape Horn and
arrived in Massachusetts in May, 1860. In September of the
same year he was enrolled as a student in Yale College and was
graduated A. B. in 1864. Then followed a course in the Harvard
Law School, where he was graduated in 1866, and won one of the

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two prizes for the best legal essays. During 1864-65 he was con-
nected with the Sanitary Commission as hospital visitor, and had
charge of the Fifth Corps Hospital of the Army of the Potomac,
and also of the hospital at the Point of Rocks, Virginia. Later he
had supervision of the Sanitary Commission station for the forces
concentrated about Washington. Mr. Lvman was admitted to the
Massachusetts bar in 18,66. In 1874 he received the degree Master
of Arts from Yale University.

A few months after his admission to the bar Mr. Lyman came
to Chicago, spent two years as clerk in the office of Waite & Clark,
and on July I, 1869, became associated with Col. Huntington W.
Jackson in the firm of Lyman & Jackson. When this firm -was
dissolved in 1895 it was said to be the oldest law firm in the city in
point of continuous existence under one organization. For several
years before his death Mr. Lyman was senior member of the firm
of Lyman, Lyman & O'Connor. One evidence of his high stand-
ing in the profession was his service by election in 1893 as president
of the Chicago Bar Association.

The late Mr. Lyman was a republican, but was never in politics,
and his chief official service was as member for nearly twenty-five
years of the LaGrange School Board, and he was one of the effective
leaders in the campaign which brought about the establishment of
the Lyons Township High School at LaGrange, in which city he
had his home for many years. Mr. Lyman was at one time presi-
dent of the Church Club, and also belonged to the Chicago, the
Union League and the University clubs. He was a member of the
Episcopal church. October 5, 1870, Mr. Lyman married Miss Mary
E. Cossitt, daughter of F. D. Cossitt of LaGrange. Their children
were David B., Jr., an active member of the Chicago bar, and Mary
C., now Mrs. Murray M. Baker, of Peoria, Illinois. Outside of his
professional and business interests the late Mr. Lyman was devoted
to his home and church. At LaGrange he indulged his taste in
horticulture and other outdoor recreation. He served as senior
warden of the LaGrange Episcopal Church from its organization in
1873, and held several important lay positions in the church affairs
of his diocese and in the general convention.

DAVID B. LYMAN, JR. A son of the prominent Chicago lawyer
and business man whose career has been sketched in preceding
paragraphs, David B. Lyman, Jr., has been a member of the Chi-
cago bar since 1897, and is now senior member of the firm of Lyman,
Adams & Bishop, with offices in the Chicago Title & Trust Building.

David Brainerd Lyman, Jr., was born in Chicago July n, 1871.
He attended the university which was his father's alma mater,
Yale, and graduated A. B. in 1895. He took his law course in the
Northwestern University College of Law, and was admitted to the
bar in August, 1897. He practiced as a member of the firm of
Jackson, Busby & Lyman during 1899-1901, of Lyman, Busby &

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Lyman from 1901 to 1907, and as a junior member of Lyman,
Lyman & O'Connor from December, 1907, until the retirement of
his father and the formation of the present professional partner-
ship.

Mr. Lyman is a trustee of the Grant Land Association, and is
a director in Charles H. Beasly & Company and in the Duntley
Pneumatic Sweeper Company. He inherited some of the philan-
thropic and civic interests of his father, and on his own account
has taken much interest in various benevolent organizations. He
has served as treasurer of the Chicago Home for Boys since its
incorporation, and is a director of Lawrence Hall, a home for
boys. He is also a trustee of Waterman Hall, an Episcopal school
for girls, and is active in the work of the Episcopal church. In
politics he is a republican. Mr. Lyman served three successive
terms as secretary of the Union League Club of Chicago, was for
three years secretary of the Yale Club and also a director two years
and vice president one year of that organization, and is now one
of the five trustees of the Yale Scholarship Trust of Chicago and
a member of the Yale Club of New York City. Other social rela-
tions are with the Suburban and LaGrange Country Clubs at La-
Grange. Mr. Lyman was married in New York City May 10,
1894, to Miss Edith Oliver Rowe. They have one son, David
Brainerd IV.

MITCHELL DAVIS FOLLANSBEE. The name of Follansbee has
been known at the Chicago bar for almost fifty years. George
Alanson Follansbee was born in Cook County on February 26, 1843,
a son of Horatio N. and Emeline (Sherman) Follansbee. He was
graduated from Lawrence University at Appleton, Wisconsin, and
later in law at Harvard, being admitted to the bar on March 17,
1867, since which time he has practiced law on LaSalle Street. He
served as president of the Chicago Bar Association in 1898, president
of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Hyde Park before it
became a part of Chicago, as trustee of the State University at
Urbana, and is now associated as counsel with the law firm of
Adams, Follansbee, Hawley & Shorey. During his career at the
bar he has been identified with a number of notable causes and has
been known as a hard and consistent worker, enjoying in an unusual
degree the confidence of his clients and the esteem of the members
of the bar. He is a Unitarian, a republican, and lives at Winnetka.

His son, Mitchell Davis Follansbee, was born in Chicago, on
January 23, 1870. He was educated in the Chicago public schools,
Harvard University, and the Northwestern University Law School,
being admitted to the bar June I, 1894, and is now a member of
the law firm of Adams, Follansbee, Hawley & Shorey.

He is general counsel and chairman of the executive committee
of the Bucyrus Company, a director of the Erie Railroad and
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and other corporate enter-

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prises, and has lately been honored by the degree of LL. D. from
the Northwestern University in recognition of his long devotion to
the Law School, in which he taught for many years. He was
president of the Chicago Bar Association for the year 1914-1915,
and belongs to professional and social organizations in Chicago and
New York.

He was married on April 14, 1903, to Miss Julia Rogers Mc-
Connell, daughter of Hon. Samuel P. and Sarah R. McConnell.
Her father was a former judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County,
Illinois, and one of her grandfathers, Judge John M. Rogers, was a
judge on the same bench, and a great-grandfather was Chief Justice
Crenshaw of Kentucky.

HON. HORACE S. CLARK. To achieve marked success in one line
of human endeavor is a consummation that all men, from their best
efforts, do not realize, but to achieve along every line of exertion
gives indication of superior mentality and unusual personality.
Among the men so distinguished in Coles County was the .late
Horace S. Clark, lawyer, judge, soldier and statesman, a great part
of whose particularly useful life was spent in the State of Illinois.

Horace S. Clark was born at Huntsburg, Ohio, August 12, 1840,
and was a son of Joseph M. P. and Charlotte Clark, the father a
native of Vermont and the mother of Ohio. He attended the public
schools in Geauga county and entered the high school at Huntsburg,
but when sixteen years of age, with youthful love of adventure and
a man's dependence on himself, he started out to seek his fortune,
as it were, in other fields. He is next found working on a farm in
Kane County, Illinois, but he was formed for other than agricul-
tural pursuits and shortly afterward he made his way to Iowa City,
Iowa. In the meanwhile, realizing that his ambitious hopes for a
future professional life could not be brought to fruition without
further educational preparation, he devoted all his spare time to
study and afterwards, in Missouri, engaged in teaching school for a
time and then returned to Ohio and became a student of law in the
office of Smith & Page, at that time a prominent law firm at Circle-
ville. His law studies were interrupted, however, by the outbreak
of the Civil war, and in 1861 he tendered his services as a soldier,
enlisting in Company E, Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
He \vas rapidly promoted, serving first as orderly sergeant, then as
second and later as first lieutenant, participating in many of the most
serious battles of the great struggle, including Bull Run and Gettys-
burg, remaining in active service until disabled and was honorably
discharged on October i, 1863. All through his subsequent life he
was interested in military affairs and later became identified with
the Illinois National Guard and by Governor Tanner was appointed
commander, with rank of general, of the Second Brigade, in which
position he continued until his resignation, on account of other
pressing duties, in 1903. He was deeply interested also in the affairs

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and welfare of the Grand Army of the Republic and during 1891-2
served as department commander of the Illinois Grand Army of the
Republic. In this as in other prominent positions, he became widely
known and thoroughly esteemed.

General Clark, after completing his law course, came to Illinois
and on February 25, 1865, was admitted to the bar and for many
years afterward made his home at Mattoon, where he built up a
large and substantial practice and became one of the stable citizens.
In 1870 he was elected to the bench as judge of the Common Pleas
Court, and through the entire period of judicial life sustained the
reputation his earlier course had established. Nature and harsh
experience had qualified him well to read human faces and determine
hidden motives, while equally well was he equipped with that sense
of justice which made him firm but impartial, conscientious but in-
flexible. Politics inevitably claimed the attention and interest of
such a man as General Clark and throughout life his affiliation was
with the republican party. In 1880 he was elected a member of the
Illinois State Senate, and during his term of service once more
proved his high abilities and his usefulness as a public man, so much
so that subsequently he was selected as his party's candidate for
the office of governor. Numerous prominent positions were tendered
him and in 1888 he served as a delegate at large to the National
Republican Convention, and in 1896 was chosen an elector at large.

General Clark was married on May 3, 1864, to Miss Lizzie Betts,
of Pickaway County, Ohio. Four children were born to them, three
of whom survive: Russel S:, who is a prominent attorney at
Chicago; Horace W., who is one of the leading business men of
Mattoon ; and Czarina, who is the widow of Dr. Charles H. Tillison.
Dr. Tillison, who was one of the best known dental practitioners at
Mattoon, died in this city April 9, 1914. One son of General and
Mrs. Clark, George B., died at the age of seventeen years. Mrs.
Clark and her daughter, Mrs. Tillison, are well known in the pleasant
social life of Mattoon. Here are preserved many of the personal
possessions of General Clark on which he set high value during life,
but there is one that no price could take from them, this being a bit
of deadly shell that struck him on the battle field, his life being pre-
served by its glancing off and falling harmlessly in his shoe.

General Clark was prominent in Masonic circles and belonged
also to the Elks. For many years he was one of the most promi-
nent public men in the Fifth Judicial District, but it is probable that
his greatest value to his community was in his character. His deeds
and words, whether in public, in the practice of his profession or in
private life were the simple, direct, true expressions of his intellec-
tual and moral integrity. Loyal to his country, just in the adminis-
tration of office, considerate in friendship and tender in family life,
such is the record of one who will long be remembered in Coles
County and in Illinois.

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GEORGE W. MANIERRE. Admitted to the Illinois bar fifteen
years ago, George W. Manierre has since been in active practice
at Chicago, and is now senior member of the firm of Manierre
& Pratt, with offices in the Harris Trust Building. Mr. Manierre
represents a name which has been prominent in Chicago since pio-
neer times. He was born in Chicago, a son of Edward and Ella
(Willard) Manierre. His father was one of Chicago's early set-
tlers, having come to the city in 1835, and was one of the foremost
citizens of Chicago from that time until his death in 1890.

Mr. Manierre was educated in the public schools, graduating
from the Hyde Park High School, and took his law studies in the
Northwestern University Law School, graduating LL. B. in 1899.
After his admission to the bar he practiced alone until 1902, and
was then associated with William T. Underwood until the latter's
death on December 8, 1910. Mr. Manierre was then in partnership
with Thornton M. Pratt until February, 1912, when the firm of
Holdom, Manierre & Pratt was organized. This firm was dissolved
December i, 1914, when the new firm of Manierre & Pratt was
formed. Mr. Manierre's practice is of a general nature.

He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois
State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. His
clubs are the Union League, the South Shore Country, and the
Hamilton. He is affiliated with Covenant Lodge No. 526, A. F.
& A. M., and with Chicago Chapter No. 127, R. A. M. ; and is a
past grand regent of the Royal Arcanum of Illinois. Mr. Manierre
married in 1900 Miss Irene Beardsley of Chicago. They have one
daughter, Harriet. The family reside at 5760 Harper Avenue.

JUDGE HARRY OLSON. In all the critical comment from the
profession and the general public, both favorable and otherwise,
directed upon the personnel of the Municipal Court judiciary of
Chicago, there has been a remarkable concordance in the apprecia-
tion and estimate of the splendid services of Harry Olson, the chief
justice, who has been formal head of the institution since it was
organized in the fall of 1906.

It is difficult to conceive how any man could have better realized
the hopes entertained of this new office. A great opportunity for
public service was presented, and Harry Olson was the man with
the character, training and ability to assume and discharge the
responsibilities and make the Municipal Court a model institution of
its kind in America. As chief justice he is both a judicial and admin-
istrative officer — a sort of general manager of the entire system with
its thirty associate justices. Though he hears and decides cases, his
most important work is executive. He has been called the dominant
figure in the court since its organization. Besides the systematizing
of its records, under his direction its procedure has been simplified,
and its handling of cases has been rapid and less hampered by legal
technicalities than other courts. In order the better to perfect and

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expedite the workings of the "people's court," Judge Olson has intro-
duced a classification of cases, each class assigned to the jurisdiction
of a special branch court. Those that have become most familiar are
the court of domestic relations, the speeders' court, the morals court,
the boys court and the night court. Perhaps a more important inno-
vation, for which he is responsible, was the establishment of a
psychopathic laboratory, under the direction of an expert psycholo-
gist, for the examination of prisoners who manifest a defective
mentality rather than criminal nature.

Though Harry Olson is a native of Chicago and has been a mem-
ber of its bar near a quarter of a century, most of his childhood and
youth were spent in Kansas, and he is to a large degree a representa-
tive of that sturdy class known as "country bred." His parents,
Olof and Clara C. (Oberg) Olsen, were immigrants from Sweden,
his father a stonemason and bricklayer by trade, who while in Chi-
cago was employed in the construction of the old water tower on
Chicago Avenue, long a landmark. The Olson home was on the
north side on old Market Street, and there Harry Olson was born
August 4, 1867.

When he was three years old his father moved out to Kansas,
still a new and undeveloped state, and became a pioneer farmer, and
with his family faced the hard conditions that prevailed to such an
extent as to justify the belief of many that there was "something
the matter with Kansas," and continued to fight an uphill struggle
until he died ten years later. The mother then called her son and
told him impressively that he was the head of the family. Thus at
the age of thirteen he assumed a responsibility which was probably
one of the chief factors in the development of his positive and
aggressive character. He has never prayed for an easy life, but for
greater strength to bear increasing labors and responsibilties, and
there has been a logical progress in the development of his power
and ability, fitting him for the performance of each duty as it came,
and finally for the competent direction of an office that measured
in terms of real service is higher than a seat on the supreme bench.

Needless to say, he was not sent to college as the son of a
prosperous father. Between thirteen and twenty-four he managed
to acquire the equivalent of a fairly liberal education, but he worked
for it, economized, and paid his way at every step. While attending
the high school at Pecatonica, Illinois, he learned the trade of car-
riage painter and worked at it during vacations. Soon after getting
his high school diploma in 1885, at the age of nineteen he was ap-
pointed principal of schools at St. Marys, Kansas, near his father's
old home, and was the youngest school principal in the state at the
time. During the years 1887-88 he was a student at Washburn
College in Topeka. While there he heard a speech by the late
Senator Ingalls which influenced him to give up his college career
and come to Chicago to study law. \Vhile in the old Union College
of Law, then a department of Northwestern University, he paid
his way by teaching in the night public schools.

477

Graduating in 1891 and admitted to the Illinois bar the same
year, a few years sufficed to give him practice and standing among
Chicago attorneys. Then another speech, this time by the late Carl
Schurz, helped him to decide to give up a promising and profitable
private practice and take a position as assistant to the prosecuting
attorney of Cook County. Former Governor Deneen was then state's
attorney, and the two men had become acquainted while teaching in
the night schools and studying law. For eight years he served as
assistant state's attorney under Charles S. Deneen and for two years
under John J. Healy. During most of the time he was the chief
trial lawyer, having developed remarkable powers in cross-examina-
tion. He had charge of many of the most important criminal cases
in the Cook County courts, and was occasionally detailed for service
as special prosecutor in outlying courts.

After the adoption of the Municipal Court Act, he was elected
chief justice in 1906 and helped establish and organize the new
system. In 1912 he was re-elected chief justice. His work in the
Municipal Court has given Judge Olson a national reputation, at
least among lawyers and people specially interested in court reform.
His experience as judge and lawyer confers weight and value on his
opinions off the bench, and he has taken an active part in various
sociological organizations and has been a popular speaker and lec-
turer both at home and in other states. Judge Olson is a member of
the International Prison Congress, the National Congress of Char-
ities and Corrections, the Chicago Vice Commission, the American
Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, and has served as vice
president of the Society of Mental Hygiene of Illinois. He is a
member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Chicago Law Club, and
the Illinois State Bar Association. In politics he has been identified
with the republican organization, though his service and ideals are
above partisanship, and he was recently accepted by both the pro-
gressive republicans and the progressives as fusion choice for the
nomination as mayor of Chicago.

He has served as trustee of the Northwestern University, and is
a member of the Lutheran Church. He is a Knight Templar Mason,
a member of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Royal Arcanum, and
belongs to the Press and University clubs. He has a hobby for
farming, and has a place in the country where he indulges it and
spends his holidays. Judge Olson was married June i, 1902, to
Bernice Miller, of Pecatonica, Illinois. They have three children :
Harry Jr., Sanford and Jane.

COLONEL CHARLES L. WALKER. Senior member of the law firm
of Walker, Ingram & Sweeney of Rock Island, Colonel Walker has
made his professional career of nearly forty years notable for his
many successes as general attorney and counsel and has also ren-
dered a great amount of disinterested and capable public service to
his home city and state.

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A native of Illinois, born in McHenry County, December 27,
1851, he is a son of Rev. Leander S. and Miriam L. (Palmer)
Walker, natives of New Hampshire and Ohio, respectively. His
father was a Methodist clergyman and for forty years a member
of the Rock River Conference.

Colonel Walker entered the law only after a varied experience
in other lines and gained most of his education through his own
efforts. He attended the public schools of Mount Morris and in
other towns where his father resided, and in 1870 finished the classi-
cal course of the Mount Morns Seminary. He paid his expenses
while there by teaching school and by working as a laborer on rail-
road construction. He also learned telegraphy, was made agent
for the Burlington Road at Hinsdale, Illinois, also at several other
points, and became familiar with all branches and classes of railroad
operating service. In 1873, having concluded to give up railroad
business and become a lawyer, he removed to Rock Island and began
study under Sweeney & Jackson, and continued to apply himself
diligently until his admission to the bar by the Illinois Supreme
Court at Springfield in January, 1878. He was then accepted as a
partner by the firm of Sweeney & Jackson, whose new title became
Sweeney, Jackson & Walker. After many years of practice Mr.
Jackson retired from the firm owing to poor health and Sweeney &
Walker then continued until the death of Mr. Sweeney. Mr. Walker
then reorganized the partnership by taking in John J. Ingram, and
Mr. Sweeney's son, William J., thus evolving the present firm name
of Walker, Ingram & Sweeney. This firm acts as general attorneys
for the Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern Railroad Com-
pany, as division attorneys for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
as local attorneys for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and other
railroads and corporations.

On April 13, 1881, Colonel Walker married Miss Anna G. Stod-
dard of Rock Island. Their daughter, Miriam A. Walker, born Feb-
ruary 21, 1897, has completed the course of the public schools and
is now a student in Vassar College. Colonel Walker is affiliated
with Trio Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; with Barret Chapter, R. A. M.,
and Rock Island Commandery, K. T.

From 1893 to I9°7 Colonel Walker was president of the Rock
Island Public Library Board, and his administration was made not-
able among other things by the construction of the present library
building, costing over $100,000. On January 28, 1901, Governor
Yates appointed him aide de camp on his general staff with rank of
colonel in the Illinois National Guard. In April, 1901, the governor
selected him as attorney for the Illinois & Michigan canal, and he
was retained in the same position by Governor Deneen as long as
he was content to serve. He resigned in 1911, after rounding out a
full ten years of service.

JOHN SANBORN STEVENS. One of the oldest and most prominent
members of the Illinois Bar was the late John Sanborn Stevens,

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who died at Peoria March 4, 1912. At the time of his death he
was senior member of the firm of Stevens, Miller & Elliott. He
had been admitted to the bar in 1865 and for forty-seven years con-
tinued an active representative of the legal profession, his ability and
his industry maintaining him in a foremost position among the law-
yers of the state. The high regard he enjoyed among his profes-
sional associates is illustrated by the fact that in 1902 he was elected
president of the Illinois State Bar Association.

John Sanborn Stevens was born in Bath, New Hampshire, Sep-
tember 16, 1838, a son of Joshua and Abigail (Walker) Stevens,
natives of the same state. His father was of English lineage and
his mother of Scotch stock, and they were -married at Bath, New
Hampshire, lived there until 1849, and then removed to Vermont.
John S. Stevens prepared for college as a student in Caledonia Aca-
demy in Vermont. He provided for his own support by working on
a farm and teaching during vacations in the district schools. In 1858
he enrolled as a student in Dartmouth College, was graduated A. B.
with honors in the class of 1862, and later received the degree
Master of Arts from the same school.

It was as a young college graduate that he came to Peoria, where
he spent two years as a teacher, one year in the grammar schools
and one year in the high school. At the same time he carried on his
studies of law, having long cherished a design to take up that pro-
fession. He began reading under Alexander McCoy, a prominent
Peoria attorney, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1865. He
was associated in practice with Mr. McCoy until 1870, and then
became a partner of Judge David McCulloch. He continued thus
until 1876, when without solicitation on his part he was appointed
postmaster by President Grant, and during the following four years
gave most of his attention to the duties of that office. In 1877
Senator John S. Lee had become associated with Mr. Stevens, and
other subsequent associates were P. W. Gallagher and Walter S.
Horton. For several years the firm was Stevens, Lee & Horton, and
later Wrilliam T. Abbott became a partner. Several years before
the death of Mr. Stevens the firm of Stevens, Miller & Elliott came
into existence.

Mr. Stevens in June, 1868, married Miss Sarah M. Bartlett, who
was born in Peoria, daughter of Amos P. Bartlett, a pioneer mer-
chant. The two children of their marriage died in infancy. Mr.
Stevens was a member of Christ's Church, Reform Episcopal, and
was always a moral force in his community. Politically he was iden-
tified with the republican party since its organization, and was fre-
quently offered nominations to the State Legislature, but declined.
He was interested in the success of the party, and was delegate to
various conventions and a member of the state committee of 1900.
In Peoria he served on the board of school inspectors. His labor at
all times constituted an element in promoting progress and improve-
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at the same time his devotion to his profession brought him to a
position of distinction as a member of the Illinois Bar. He was a
man entirely free from ostentation or display. He lived his life
quietly, yet he held to profound convictions of right and wrong and
strove to reach the high ideals of manhood and citizenship which he
set up. The nobility of his character was found in this very simplic-
ity, the strength of his position as a leading member of the bar had
its root in the fact that he was always direct in his work and never
sought to lead the court astray in the matter of fact or law. His
entire life record was as an open book which all might read and on
its pages there was found no stain nor dishonor. While he himself
held to high ideals he was slow in condemnation of others and his
hand at all times reached out in ready sympathy to assist those who
were attempting to climb upward.

Some extracts from the resolutions passed by the Peoria County
Bar Association will serve to supplement the general facts of his
career already given : "The character of the good citizen, as meas-
ured after his decease, is always determined by his life's history; by
his faithfulness, integrity and uprightness in his dealings ; by the
confidence and esteem in which he was ever held by his associates
and the general public, and their estimate of him as a man and citi-
zen. Additional elements enter into the requisites of a true lawyer.
We measure him not only by his ability and his knowledge of the
law and of the fundamental principles of jurisprudence, but further
by his individual uprightness and by his conscientious elevation of
right, and truth and justice; by his condemnation of wrong; by
his honest and faithful discharge of duty to his clientage ; by his
fearless advocacy of his honest convictions and by his constant
remembrance that he is part and parcel of the machinery under
our system of government charged with the administration of justice.

"Mr. Stevens was a typical lawyer and had an unusually exalted
idea of the requirements of his profession, and never faltered in
the expression of his opinions regarding legal ethics, and particularly
with reference to those high principles of justice and equities re-
quired in the administration of the law. It has been given to com-
paratively few lawyers to possess in so large a degree so many of the
high qualities required in a perfect lawyer as were found concen-
trated in Mr. Stevens; and after a service of continuous practice
of over forty-five years, with a large clientage during the entire
period, the fact that such clientage at all times had in him the high-
est degree of confidence and esteem and continued faithful to him
until the end is a sufficient testimonial of his legal ability, faithful-
ness and integrity.

"With his associates in the practice and particularly with the
younger members of the bar he at all times exhibited the same genial
and kindly spirit. He was ever ready to give to others the benefit
of his own long experience and his counsel. He- was never ruffled

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save when confronted with a case of wrong, oppression or injustice ;
and for such cases he never failed to forcibly express his convictions
of disapproval and hatred.

"Apart from his profession of law, Mr. Stevens had great ad-
ministrative ability and excelled in good common sense and sound
judgment, and had a broad comprehensive knowledge of business
affairs. It was his well-earned reputation for honesty, integrity and
good business ability that rendered him a favorite instrument for
the conduct of large and important trusts, and it can be truly said
that the beneficiaries of said trusts never failed to find in him a
faithful, able and conscientious servant and trustee.

"In every department of life Mr. Stevens at all times stood, and
was recognized throughout the entire state as a lawyer, citizen and
man of distinguished character ; and by his decease not only the bar
of Peoria, but our city and state, have lost a capable, honest and
conscientious lawyer and a distinguished and highly esteemed
citizen."

FRANK T. MILLER. Few Illinois lawyers have a record of life
experience more -fruitful in inspiration than that of Frank T. Miller,
one of the recognized leaders of the Peoria Bar. He has been in
practice at Peoria over fifteen years, and was one of the associates
of the late John S. Stevens, a distinguished pioneer lawyer of Illi-
nois, until the latter's death.

Frank T. Miller was born at Muehlheim, near Cologne, Ger-
many, January i, 1873, a son of Theodore D. and Clara A. Miller,
natives of the same province. In July, 1882, the family came to
America, and the household of six children that accompanied their
parents was later increased by the birth of five others in America.
The father was a carpenter, and when working steadily at his trade
earned only about fifty dollars a month. In Germany he had been
compelled to render military service in the German army, and was
on duty during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. As a family
when they arrived in America they possessed absolutely nothing in
material goods, and yet brought to the New World industrious habits
and character which are the finest qualities of citizenship. It is one
of the tributes to American opportunities that in spite of poverty
and inability to speak or read a word of English language the family
secured a foothold, and one at least has come to a considerable
degree of fame and fortune. Frank Miller was about ten years
old at the time, and as a poor German boy was often subjected to
ill treatment by his American companions. He had secured three
years of education in the German schools, and for three years was a
pupil in the grade schools in Champaign and Bloomington, Illinois.
At the age of twelve he began the battle for his own support.
What he has since accomplished is an illustration of the fact that
it is only under the pressure of adversity and the stimulus of neces-
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developed. His first regular work was in a drug store, washing
windows, bottles, floors and other menial work, twelve hours a day,
at wages of a dollar and a quarter a week, all of which went to
the family. At the age of fourteen he was earning two dollars a
week in a dry-goods store. He had an ambition for better things
and realized that an education was the first pre-requisite. Like
many German lads he had musical talent, and had been encouraged
and had had some opportunity in playing the violin. He began sell-
ing Sunday papers on an agreement with his father that the money
thus earned should go to violin instruction. In addition to other
duties he kept up a constant practice and bought the services of a
capable instructor on the violin, and thus at the age of sixteen was
given an opportunity to play in a theater for experience. At the
age of eighteen he was in demand as a musician, and at twenty
had become a recognized factor in musical circles in his home city.
In the meantime he had continued to work in stores, but in time the
earnings from his violin were greater than the regular wages of the
other employments. His aims and ambitions for the future now
became concentrated upon the profession of law. He left his work
as a clerk in a store, entered a law school, and with his night work
on the violin made his way. He had, however, been out of school
more than eight years, and in consequence did not know how to
study. His early examinations proved his incapacity in that direc-
tion, but at the end of two years he stood second in the class in
examinations covering the entire course and drew a cash prize. The
income from his music had steadily increased, and thus enabled
him to pursue a two years' special literary course, followed by one
year in a law office. He secured his education in the Illinois Wes-
leyan University at Bloomington, graduating LL. B. in 1896 and
finishing his literary work in the same institution in 1898.

In May, 1899, Frank T. Miller opened a law office at Peoria with
Judson Starr. At the outset of his legal career he resolved to give
up music except for the pleasure of it, and to concentrate his efforts
upon the law with no side issues, and placed particular emphasis
upon his determination not to enter politics. He made slow progress
during the first year as a lawyer, was obliged to live most economic-
ally, but the tide of success turned in his favor, and for the past
fifteen years his practice and influence have been steadily growing,
and he is one of the undoubted leaders of the Peoria Bar. In
March, 1900, he entered a partnership with Daniel R. Sheen, under
the name Sheen & Miller. On July I, 1909, he retired from this
association and become a member of the firm of Stevens, Miller &
Elliott, his associates being John S. Stevens and J. M. Elliott. He
took the place in this firm vacated by W. S. Horton. Although Mr.
Stevens, senior member of the firm, passed away in 1912, the firm
name remains the same, and is rated as one of the strongest firms
of the Peoria Bar. The firm represents most of the railroads in

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Peoria County; also several banks and many of the large corpora-
tions.

Mr. Miller has always taken a leading interest in the Peoria Bar
Association affairs, and is now the president of that association.
He has also interested himself in the business and civic interests of
Peoria. He is a director and a member of the board of the Mer-
chants and Illinois National Bank of Peoria; of the Home Savings &
State Bank of Peoria ; of the Peoria Association of Commerce and
of the Peoria Y. M. C. A.

To some extent he relaxed his strict adherence to the rule not
to enter politics. He has been staunch and stalwart as a republican,
did active campaign work in 1900 and 1904, and is always ready
to work for the betterment of his home community. In 1901 .he was
appointed public administrator of Peoria County by Governor Yates
and was reappointed by Governor Deneen in 1905 and again in
1909. ,

Mr. Miller was married at Peoria September 16, 1903, to Miss
Lillian Bruce Morgan, daughter of H. B. Morgan. Their ties of
marriage have been strengthened by a kindred interest in the sphere
of music. Mrs. Miller is an accomplished musician and studied
piano four years in Chicago and Berlin, under such instructors as
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Leopold Godowski and Xavier Schar-
wenka. They are the parents of two daughters : Jeannette M.,
born in 1906; and Lillian Bruce, born September 8, 1911. Mr. and
Mrs. Miller have been prominent in Peoria musical circles. Frater-
nally Mr. Miller is active in the Knights of Pythias, and since 1904
has taken much part in the dramatic branch of that order, the
Knights of Khorassan. He is affiliated with Schiller Lodge A. F.
& A. M., and is a member of the Creve Coeur Club, Peoria Country
Club and Kickapoo Golf Club.

WILLIAM WIRT GURLEY. Probably no other Chicago lawyer has
been more closely identified with the city's traction interests than
W. W. Gurley, who has served as general counsel to the leading
traction companies of Chicago, and is without doubt one of the
ablest of the corporation lawyers of Illinois.

William Wirt Gurley was born at Mount Gilead, Ohio, January
27, 1851, and is a son of a lawyer. His parents were John J. and
Anseville C. (Armentrout) Gurley. Mr. Gurley was graduated
A. B. from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1870, was superin-
tendent of the public schools at Seville, Ohio, in 1871-72, and read
law in his father's office, being admitted to the bar in June, 1873.
Mr. Gurley has been in active practice at Chicago since September,
1874, a period of more than forty years. His practice early brought
him into connection with corporations, and that for many years has
been his almost exclusive business.

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William W. Gurley is general counsel for the Chicago Surface
Lines, comprising all of the street railroads within the city limits,
and various other corporations. He is a director in Lyon Gary &
Co. ; Wakem & McLaughlin, Incorporated ; Stearns & Culver Lum-
ber Company; Lyon Cypress Lumber Company; Baker Lumber
Company.

Mr. Gurley is a member of the Chicago, the Exmoor, and the
Chicago Golf clubs of Chicago, and of the Transportation Club, the
New York Club, and the Ohio Society of New York in New York
City. On October 30, 1878, he married Mary Eva Turney, daugh-
ter of the late Hon. Joseph Turney, of Cleveland. They have one
daughter, Helen Kathryn. Mr. Gurley 's law offices are in the
Marquette Building. His residence is at 1416 North State Street.

WILL HALSTEAD CLARK. A leading corporation lawyer of Chi-
cago, Will H. Clark became a student in the fall of 1882 in the law
firm of which one of the members was W. W. Gurley, and has
had active associations with that lawyer ever since with the excep-
tion of two years.

Will Halstead Clark was born at Homer, Cortland County, New
York, October 24, 1863, a son of Chester M. and Rachel Katherine
(Haynes) Clark. His parents removed to Chicago and in that city
he attended private schools in 1870-71, the Mosley public school in
1872-76, and was a student in the Homer Academy of New York
from 1876 to 1878. During 1878-79 he was in Professor Taylor's
private school at Syracuse, and in the fall of 1879 became a law
student in the office of Hiscock, Gifford & Doheny at Syracuse.
He returned to Chicago in the fall of 1882 to enter the office of
Cooper, Packard & Gurley, and in 1885 was graduated LL. B. from
the Union College of Law of Chicago.

Mr. Clark has served as a director on the board of the Metropoli-
tan Elevated Railway Company, of the Rockford, Beloit & Janes-
ville Railway Company, and a number of other corporations. He
is now a director of the Chicago Railways Company. Politically he
is a republican, but the heavy demands of practice have allowed him
little time for participation in politics. For a number of years he
was active in the Illinois National Guard, serving in the cadet corps
of the First Infantry, as color sergeant in the First Cavalry, and as
lieutenant and judge advocate of the Chicago Hussars during the
World's Fair. Mr. Clark is a thirty-second degree Mason, being
affiliated with Chevalier Bayard Commandery No. 52, K. T., Orien-
tal Consistory, Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He served
as secretary in 1898 of the Union League Club and is also a mem-
ber of the Forty and the South Shore Country clubs. His office is
in the Marquette Building. At Cleveland, Ohio, June 19, 1889, Mr.
Clark married Cora Belle Turney. Their children are Margaret
Alpha and Louise Asenath. His residence is at The Plaza.

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JOHN S. MILLER. Illinois lawyers know John S. Miller as
among the foremost of the profession in the state, while by his
services in some of the most conspicuous cases tried in the state
and federal courts during the past two decades he also stands in the
front rank of American attorneys. For a number of years Mr.
Miller has been associated in practice with two other recognized
leaders of the Illinois bar — George R. Peck, now retired, and
Merritt Starr.

John Stocker Miller was born at Louisville, St. Lawrence
County, New York, May 24, 1847, a son °f John and Jane (McLeod)
Miller. He attended public schools, and was graduated A. B. from
St. Lawrence University at Canton, New York, in 1869, and studied
law in the same school during 1869-70. After his admission to
the New York bar at Ogdensburg in 1870, Mr. Miller was in school
work for several years, being professor of mathematics in 1871-72
and of Latin and Greek in 1872-74 at St. Lawrence University.

Since 1874 Mr. Miller has been identified with the Chicago bar.
In 1876 the firm of Herbert, Quick & Miller was established, his
associates being George Herbert and John H. S. Quick. With the
death of Mr. Herbert in 1882 the firm became Quick & Miller, and
in 1886 Mr. Miller became associated with Senator Henry W. Le-
man. With the admission of Merritt Starr in 1890, and with George
R. Peck as successor of Mr. Leman, the firm of Peck, Miller &
Starr was for many years probably without a peer among the legal
firms of Chicago. George R. Peck retired a year or so ago from
active practice, and since then the firm has taken its present form,
Miller, Starr, Peckard & Peckham, with offices in the First Na-
tional Bank Building.

For a number of years Mr. Miller's practice has been in chan-
cery courts and as counsel for large corporations. The early cases
of his career which brought him into prominence were those known
as the Flagler litigation, the Riverside, the Phillips and South Park
suits. In 1891 Mayor Washburne appointed him corporation coun-
sel, an office he held until 1893. FJuring his term he argued in behalf
of the city the celebrated Lake Front case against the Illinois Cen-
tral Railroad Company, and procured a .decision establishing the
principle that the bed of navigable waters is the property of the
people and is held in trust by the state for their benefit. In later
years few attorneys have been so active as Mr. Miller in establish-
ing, defining and modifying state and national jurisprudence relat-
ing to the conduct of great business and industrial corporations.
He was the leading counsel for the defense in the noted Packing
House, Standard Oil and John R. Walsh cases before the Federal
Court.

Mr. Miller was married in Chicago December 12, 1887, to Miss
Ann Gross. In politics he is a republican, is a member of the
St. James Episcopal Church, and of the Union League, the Chi-

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cago, the University, Wayfarers; Hamilton, Onwentsia and Exmoor
clubs.

GEN. ELISHA B. HAMILTON. One of the most distinguished
citizens and lawyers of Illinois during the last half of the nineteenth
century was Gen. Elisha B. Hamilton, whose long and active
career in the bar was largely spent at Quincy. As a lawyer, soldier
and private citizen his career was one distinctly deserving of a
permanent memorial in a history of the Illinois courts and lawyers.

Gen. Elisha B. Hamilton was born at Carthage, Illinois, Octo-
ber 5, 1838. At his father's home in that city, as a boy, he met
Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln and other noted lawyers on
the circuit. He attended Illinois College at Jacksonville, graduating
in the class of 1860, and shortly after the outbreak of the Rebellion
enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry. He
was mustered in as quartermaster's sergeant, and in 1863 was pro-
moted to first lieutenant. His regiment was assigned to the Army
of the Tennessee and participated in Sherman's first attack on Vicks-
burg, and was next with General McClernand in the campaign
against Arkansas Post, participating in the two days' fight there. In
the siege of Vicksburg he participated in the battles of Port Gibson,
Champion Hills and the Black River Bridge, where an entire regi-
ment of Confederate troops was captured. General Hamilton re-
mained with his regiment at Black River Bridge until the surrender
of Vicksburg, holding the rear against General Johnston's forces,
with which there was almost constant skirmishing. The regiment
joined General Sherman's command in the siege and capture of
Jackson, Mississippi, while later it was transferred to the Depart-
ment of the Gulf and was in numerous engagements in Louisiana,
where it was on duty until the close of the war. In the Vicksburg
campaign he was on the field staff of General Fonda.

Following the war General Hamilton went to Quincy in 1866,
read law and became a member^of the firm of Warren, Wheat &
Hamilton, which was succeeded by Wheat, Ewing & Hamilton. For
a number of years prior to his death General Hamilton was a mem-
ber of the firm of Hamilton & Woods. Most of his professional
life was spent at Quincy, where he attained great success in his pro-
fession. He was noted for his wit and eloquence as an advocate,
and his integrity and uprightness as an antagonist were recognized
among all his professional associates.

His services as a citizen were second only to those performed as
a lawyer. To him the city of Quincy is largely indebted for its
splendid public library, an institution in which he was deeply inter-
ested and for which he worked and planned until it was a reality.
He was always a loyal friend of the Quincy public schools, and
throughout his career one of the best supporters of Illinois College,
his alma mater. General Hamilton served on the staff of Governors
Cullom, Oglesby and Fifer, was a brigadier-general in the Illinois

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National Guard and commanded troops at the great railroad strike
in East St. Louis in 1877. As an orator and after-dinner speaker
he had few peers in the Middle West. General Hamilton was a
republican in politics, but always declined political preferment,
though it was often tendered him, and he continued to devote him-
self to his profession and those civic duties which he could perform
best as a private citizen. General Hamilton was a member of many
patriotic organizations, including the military order of the Loyal
Legion and the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. He was a
Knight Templar Mason, was an active member of the State His-
torical Society, and one of the founders and for many years vice
president of the Quincy Historical Society. General Hamilton re-
mained in the active practice of law and died suddenly March 20,
1902, while engaged in the trial of a case at Quincy.

E. BENTLEY HAMILTON. The late Gen. E. B. Hamilton, of
Quincy, had by his marriage to Mary Fisk, only two children, the
daughter being Lucy, and the son, E. Bentley Hamilton. The latter
has gained success in the profession which his father distinguished,
and the first part of his professional career was in the city of
Chicago, but he is now located in Peoria.

E. Bentley Hamilton was born in Quincy August 23, 1879. His
education came from the common and high schools of Quincy, and
in 1902 he graduated with the degree of B. A. from Illinois College,
at Jacksonville, which was the alma mater of his father. Mr. Hamil-
ton finished the law course in the Northwestern University with the
class of 1905, and from that year until 1913 was associated with the
prominent. Chicago firm of Shope, Mathis, Zane & Weber, and in
the latter year opened an office in Peoria with George W. Burton,
under the firm name of Burton & Hamilton, where they are engaged
in general practice. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the Hamilton
Club of Chicago, of the military order of the Loyal Legion, and
the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, the Illinois State. Bar Association
and various other social clubs. In politics he is a republican. Mr.
Hamilton married Ethel Burton and they have a son, George B.

JOHN P. WILSON. While a continuous connection with the Chi-
cago bar since 1867 makes Mr. Wilson one of the veteran lawyers
of that city, his professional distinctions rest upon broader founda-
tions than seniority. For many years Mr. Wilson has been regarded
as the peer of any Chicago lawyer in the field of corporation and
real estate law. Lawyers and business men have long had a high
regard for his ability and services, but he has never taken any
important part in politics, though on several important occasions he
has exercised his professional ability in behalf of the public welfare
of his home city. Mr. Wilson is senior member of the firm of
Wilson, Moore & Mcllvaine, with offices in the Marquette Building.

John P. Wilson was born on a farm in Whiteside County, Illi-
nois, July 3, 1844, a son of Thomas and Margaret (Laughlin) Wil-

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son, who were of Scotch descent. His boyhood was spent in the
environment of an Illinois rural district, he attended the public
schools near the home farm, and in 1865 was graduated from Knox
College at Galesburg. He studied law under private instruction,
and at the same time taught school for two years, and since 1867
has lived in Chicago. He was admitted to the bar in that year,
opened an office and for a time was associated with the firm of
Borden, Spafford & McDaid. After the dissolution of this part-
nership he continued as an associate of John Borden. Mr. Wilson
has known personally and has frequently been associated with
some of the distinguished members of the older Chicago bar. In
1870 he became the third member of the firm of Spafford, McDaid
& Wilson, and in the past forty-five years has had a number of
other associates in practice.

Outside of a large private practice which has connected him
with some extensive commercial organizations and in the handling
and adjustment of many important matters in real estate, Mr. Wilson
deserves to be remembered for having drafted the law which led
to the establishment of the Chicago Sanitary District. The law
creating the Sanitary District was approved by vote of the people
in November, 1889, and Mr. Wilson was retained by the first board
m order to test the legality of the special law under which it was
constituted. He appeared as the chief attorney in the successive
steps by which the constitutionality of the law was sustained first
in the Circuit Court and afterwards affirmed by the Supreme Court
Both in the framing of the law and in its support before the state
courts Mr. Wilson won a deserved triumph for his ability, skill
and foresight. Shortly afterwards, in 1890, his services were
employed as general counsel by the commission having in charge the
World's Columbian Exposition. He personally supervised the
drafting of the constitutional amendment and the legislation passed
by the special assembly session of that year, and thus laid the neces-
sary legal foundation on which that great enterprise was prosecuted
to success. As a citizen of Chicago Mr. WilSon has frequently
used his profession for unselfish and disinterested service. Both
in the bar and as a private citizen he is distinguished for his scholarly
taste and has divided his time between his profession and his home
to the exclusion of activities and affairs which attract many promi-
nent Chicago professional men.

On April 25, 1871, Mr. Wilson married Miss Margaret C. Mcll-
vaine, daughter of J. D. Mcllvaine. Their children are Martha,
John P. and Anna M. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Chicago,
the Union League and the University clubs.

ROBERT F. PETTIBONE. Thirty years of activity in Chicago as
a member of the legal profession have brought to Robert F. Petti-
bone a standing of worthy order and he is today reckoned among
the representative lawyers of this city.

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Mr. Pettibone is of New England birth and ancestry. He was
born at Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, on May 21, 1857,
and is a son of Col. Ira W. and Emily (Miner) Pettibone. Colonel
Pettibone is a man of wide intellectual attainments and was for
many years engaged in the teaching profession. He was for ten
years a member of the faculty at Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin,
and later was an instructor in the North Division High School of
Chicago, but is now retired from active work. He was a gallant
soldier and a distinguished officer of the Union in the Civil war,
serving as a colonel of the Tenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
and passing through the entire war period. Colonel Pettibone is
now living in Chicago at the venerable age of eight-one years ( 1914).

Robert F. Pettibone was undeniably favored in being reared in
a home of distinctive culture and refinement, and much of his
earlier education was received under the careful direction of his
father. A private school at Winchester, Connecticut, afforded him
valuable advantages in his boyhood, and after the removal of the
family to Wisconsin he continued his studies in Beloit College, from
which institution he was graduated with the class of 1877. He
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at graduation and his alma
mater later conferred upon him his Master's degree. Soon after
his graduation Mr. Pettibone went to Indianapolis, Indiana, where
he began the study of law in the offices of McDonald and Butler
at a time when the senior member of the firm was representing
Indiana in the United States Senate. For three years Mr. Pettibone
continued his studies there and on September 16, 1879, he was
admitted to the bar of the State of Indiana. In the following year he
engaged in independent practice at Burlington, Racine County,
Wisconsin, and in the brief time he continued there he gained no
little prominence in his profession. He served one term as justice
of the peace and in 1882 withdrew from the community and came
to Chicago where he became associated in practice with the firm
of H. S. & F. S. Osborne. He continued with that firm until
1896 and was then engaged in newspaper work until 1890, in which
year he returned to the firm of H. S. & F. S. Osborne, with whom
he remained until 1911, when he withdrew from the law firm. Since
that time he has been engaged in independent general practice.

Mr. Pettibone has long been known for a loyal and public-
spirited citizen and he has served as a member of the board of
aldermen from the Second Ward of his home city, Evanston, one
of the finest of Chicago's many fine suburbs. He has been identi-
fied with a considerable amount of important litigation in the courts
of Chicago, and it is especially worthy of mention that he repre-
sented the complainant in the celebrated Rosehill Cemetery litiga-
tion which continued from 1882 to 1911 and which was finally
decided in favor of his client. He was counsel for the defense in
the well-remembered Air Line condemnation suit, in the Fulton &
Paul elevator suits, in the Chicago Railway terminal elevator liti-

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gation, and has been concerned in many other important cases in
which big interests were involved. In virtually all of them, it may
safely be said, victory has crowned his efforts. His standing as a
trial lawyer is based on actual results achieved, and in his charac-
ter and service he has honored the bar of the state.

Mr. Pettibone is a member of the Chicago and the Illinois State
Bar Associations. In politics he is a republican. He is a mem-
ber of the Union League Club of Chicago, is president of the
Evanston Club at this writing (1914) and is a member of the Glen
View Club. With his wife, he has membership in the Congre-
gational church of Evanston. He is a member of the Beta Theta
Pi, his college fraternity, and a golf player of some enthusiasm.

HORATIO LOOMIS WAIT. One of the veteran members of the
Chicago bar, Horatio L. Wait has been known to an entire genera-
tion of lawyers as one of the masters in chancery of the Cook
County Circuit Court. To that office he has brought an experience
and wisdom \vhich have given to his findings and decisions a char-
acter for impartiality and accuracy which for many years have
passed current among judges and litigants. He has had a varied
and interesting career, and for a number of years before locating
in Chicago was in the United States navy.

Horatio Loomis Wait was born in New York City August 8,
1836, a son of Joseph and Harriet Heileman (Whitney) Wait.
He was educated in the Trinity School at New York and the Colum-
bia College Grammar School, but instead of entering college came
to Chicago in 1856 and was employed in the office of a well known
lawyer, J. Young Scammon. In 1861, at the outbreak of the war,
Mr. Wait enlisted in Company D of the Sixtieth Illinois Infantry.
Soon afterwards he was made paymaster with rank of master in
the United States Navy. He was under Admirals Dupont and
Farragut in blockading Savannah, Pensacola and Mobile, and sub-
sequently was on Admiral Dahlgren's flagship during the bombard-
ment of Fort Sumter, and the siege of Charleston. He continued
in the naval service after the close of the war, and was on the
United States ship Ino in the European squadron. In 1865 he
was promoted to paymaster with the rank of lieutenant commander.
He continued in the naval service on various duties until 1870,
when he resigned.

Returning to Chicago and resuming his legal studies in the office
of Barker & Tuley, he was admitted to the Illinois bar August 22,
1870. His first practice was in association with Joseph N. Barker
under the name of Barker & Wait, which firm subsequently became
Barker, Buell & Wait. In June, 1876, Mr. Wait was appointed
one of the masters in chancery of the Circuit Court of Cook
County, and that has been his chief office and relationship with
Chicago courts and lawyers for nearly forty years.

Mr. Wait is a companion of the military order of the Loyal

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Legion and actively aided in organizing the Illinois Naval Reserve.
He was one of the founders of the Charity Organization Society,
which later merged into the Relief and Aid Society. He is a
director of the Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association, and has
been a member of the Chicago Library Board. He belongs to the
Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.
Active in church affairs, he is a vestryman in St. Paul's Episcopal
Church in Hyde Park, was for a number of years superintendent
of the Tyng Mission Sunday School, and has also been identified
with the Sunday school work of his home church.

On May 7, 1860, Mr. Wait married Chara Conant Long. There
are two sons, James Joseph and Henry Heileman. James Joseph
has for many years been prominent in transportation and general
commercial affairs in Chicago, being president of the Chicago Light-
erage Company, in charge of the freight department of several large
corporations, and is also an authority and writer on transportation
subjects. The son, Henry H. Wait, is prominent as an electrical and
mechanical engineer.

CHARLES HENRY ALDRICH is well known to the bar, not only of
the West, but throughout the United States, as a careful, painstak-
ing, profound and conscientious lawyer. Retained at one time and
another as general or special counsel for some of the great corpora-
tions of the country, his practice is now confined practically to
the federal courts, and from the time of his incumbency of the
office of solicitor general he has been a more or less familiar figure
in the highest federal tribunal — the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Aldrich was born on a farm in Lagrange County, Indiana,
August 26, 1850, and is a son of Hamilton M. and Harriet (Sher-
wood) Aldrich. His early youth was passed much in the same
manner as that of other farmers' sons of his day and community,
attending the district schools during the winter months and pass-
ing the summer seasons in the work of the homestead place. When
he was sixteen years old, his parents removed to Orland, Steuben
County, Indiana, in order that their children might secure better
educational advantages, and Charles H. so eagerly and assiduously
availed himself of these advanced opportunities that his health
became impaired and his father refused to allow him the means
wherewith to pursue a college course. In no way discouraged, the
ambitious youth left the parental roof, secured employment whereat
he worked for his board, and thus prepared for college, having
partially completed his course at the University of Michigan when
a friend advanced the funds to complete his training, and in 1875
he was graduated in the classical course, his alma mater subse-
quently, in 1893, conferring upon him the degree of Master of
Arts. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar, after taking a course of
lectures and studying in the office of Coombs, Morris & Bell, of
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standing among such able and distinguished members of the Indiana
bar as Thomas A. Hendricks, Col. Abram Hendricks, Benjamin
Harrison, W. H. H. Miller, Joseph E. McDonald, Tohn M. Butler,
Oscar B. Hord, Noble E. Butler, W. P. Fishback, R. S. Taylor and
Allen Zollars. In 1884 Mr. Aldrich was solicited to make the race
for attorney general of Indiana, but made no canvass in his own
behalf and was defeated for the nomination by a few votes. Mr.
Aldrich came to Chicago in 1886 and became a member of the firm
of Cratty Brothers & Aldrich, later practiced alone for a time, then
was connected with Aldrich, Payne & Defrees, subsequently with
Aldrich, Reed, Foster & Allen, and now doing business alone, with
offices in the Home Life Insurance Building, where he has been
for twenty-six years. In 1890 Mr. Aldrich was appointed special
counsel for the United States in its litigation with the Pacific Rail-
roads, which came as a result of the so-called Anderson Act. Suc-
cessful in both cases, which he argued in the circuit courts of
Nebraska and California, where he was opposed by some of the
leading counsel of the country, Mr. Aldrich was appointed by
President Harrison to the office of solicitor general of the United
States to succeed ex-President William H. Taft. Of his incumbency
of that office, a writer says: "In the position named Mr. Aldrich's
name is especially associated with the famous Chinese, Cherokee
and Hat-trimming cases, in two of which he won decided victories
in the face of masterly opposition, and in the other his argument
was said by a member of the Supreme Court to have been one of
the most noteworthy ever addressed to that tribunal. The opinion
prepared by Mr. Aldrich upon the power of the national govern-
ment in matters of public health and quarantine regulations, and
also that on the scope and effect of the election law, showed a broad
grasp of facts and principles and met the cordial approval of those
most competent to judge, while his opinion that the administration
might issue bonds to maintain resumption and keep the money of
the United States at par, .was practically adopted and acted upon
during President Cleveland's second administration." On several
occasions since retiring from the office of solicitor general to devote
himself to private practice, Mr. Aldrich has been retained by the
United States in important legal cases, and participated in the dis-
cussion of the constitutional questions growing out of our war
with Spain, also winning notable victories in the Insular and Kep-
ner cases. He is identified with the American Bar Association, the
Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and
the Law Club. Civic, social and municipal problems of the city
have always received his close and earnest attention, he has been
an active member of the Civic Federation and at all times has been
a hearty supporter of those movements which have made for the
welfare of the community. Mr. Aldrich belongs to the Union
League Club, of which he has served as vice president ; his political
adherence is given to the republican party.

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Mr. Aldrich was married October 13, 1875, to Miss Helen
Roberts, of Steuben County, Indiana, and three children have been
born to them : Charles Roberts, Marian Louise and Helen Burseley.
The family home is at No. 700 Irving Park Boulevard.

JAMES J. BARBOUR. The active career of James J. Barbour as
a Chicago lawyer began in 1891. For several years he was con-
nected with the office of prosecuting attorney in Cook County, and
both there and in his private practice has shown peculiar ability as
a trial lawyer and has an unusual record of participation in some
of the most notable cases that have been before the Chicago courts
and the public within recent years.

James Joseph Barbour was born at Hartford, Connecticut,
December 28, 1869, and comes of an old New England family and
one that has furnished many members to the various professions.
His first American ancestor, Thomas Barbour, settled at Windsor,
Connecticut, in 1635. His grandfather, Heman H. Barbour, was
a well known jurist in Connecticut, and an uncle, Joseph L. Barbour,
of Hartford, was one of the leading lawyers of New England. His
parents were Rev. H. H. and Frances E. (Luther) Barbour. His
duties as a minister caused his father to remove to Newark, New
Jersey, and the son. James J., had his education in the public schools
of that city. In 1887 he worked as a reporter on a newspaper at
Camden, New Jersey, and in 1888 came to Chicago and began the
study of law with Judge Frederick A. Smith. In 1889 he became
assistant to Henry F. Eames, president of the Commercial National
Bank, and at the same time was a student in the Chicago College of
Law from 1889 to 1892.

Mr. Barbour was admitted to the bar in 1891, and represented
the Commercial National Bank as attorney until the death of Mr.
Eames in 1897. He was appointed assistant state's attorney in
January, 1894, by Charles S. Deneen, and was reappointed by John
J. Healy in December, 1904, and was first assistant in the state's
attorney's office during 1907-08. Mr. Barbour resigned his public
office December i, 1908, and was in practice with Clarence A.
Knight and William G. Adams, in the firm of Knight, Barbour &
Adams, until the death of his partners in June, 1911. Since then
Mr. Barbour has practiced alone, and now has offices in the Otis
Building. In 1913 Mr. Barbour organized and is now president
of the Rogers Park National Bank of Chicago.

This sketch would not be complete without a brief outline o£
his activity while an assistant in the state's attorney's office. He
successfully prosecuted Inga Hanson for perjury committed by her
in her suit against the Chicago City Railway for alleged personal
injuries. He had charge of the proceedings against George S.
McReynolds for fraudulent removal of grain covered by warehouse
receipts, upon which McReynolds had borrowed over half a million
dollars from Chicago banks. He had charge of the suit against

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William Eugene Brown, the Chicago lawyer, who was convicted of
subornation of perjury and disbarred from practice for fraudulently
obtaining three thousand dollars from the American Trust & Savings
Bank. Among about fifty murder cases prosecuted by Mr. Barbour,
one of particular note was that of Lucy Hagenow, who was
sentenced to twenty years for murder resulting from an illegal oper-
ation. In the trial of this case the proof of at least seven deaths
resulting from criminal operations at her hands was held by the
Supreme Court to have been proper as bearing on the question of
intent. Mr. Barbour assisted in the prosecution of Paul O. Stens-
land and other officials of the Milwaukee State Bank; conducted
the trial of William J. Davis for manslaughter, in connection with
the Iroquois Theater fire, at Chicago, Illinois ; and was also in
charge of the first "Sunday closing" case. He removed the Ralph
Lipsey habeas corpus case from the Superior Court to the Supreme
Court by certiorari, and was there'successful in obtaining a decision
denying right of habeas corpus writ to a defendant whose convic-
tion had been affirmed by the Supreme Court. In the case of Her-
man Billik, convicted of murder by poisoning, he obtained an initial
decision in the United States Supreme Court that that court lacked
jurisdiction to consider appeals from orders denying habeas corpus
writs except upon certificate of nisi prius judge that appeal is meri-
torious. On November 16, 1908, in one afternoon, the entire pro-
ceedings occupying only three hours, Mr. Barbour caused the arrest,
indictment, trial in court and sentence to the penitentiary for forgery
of Peter Van Vlissingen, real estate dealer, who admitted forgeries
of mortgage notes exceeding a million dollars. One of his last
acts while connected with the state's attorney's office was in August,
1908, when he obtained evidence of huge primary election frauds
in the nominations for state's attorney. In 1909, after leaving the
prosecutor's office, Mr. Barbour was active in conducting litigation
in New York and Chicago in behalf of Mrs. Mary A. Yerkes, involv-
ing her interests in the estate of her late husband, Charles T. Yerkes.
Mr. Barbour was married September i, 1891, to Miss Lillian
Clayton. Their children are Justin F., Heman H. and Elizabeth.
Mr. Barbour is a member of the Masonic order, of the Birchwood
Country and Evanston Golf clubs, and has his home at 7622 Sheri-
dan Road, Birchwood.

EDWIN W. SIMS. While Edwin W. Sims became well known
not only in Illinois but over the nation through his effective work
in the office of United States district attorney from 1906 to 1911,
he has for twenty years been a successful Chicago lawyer, and has
gained distinction both at the bar and in public affairs.

Edwin W. Sims was born June 4, 1870, at Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada, a son of Walter and Elizabeth (Knowles) Sims. His
academic education was acquired at Bay City, Michigan, and he
graduated LL. B. from the University of Michigan in 1894. Prior

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to 1892 Mr. Sims worked as reporter, editor and special corre-
spondent with Bay City and Detroit newspapers. Admitted to the
bar in 1894, he began practice at Chicago, and the first four or
five years were spent in the quiet routine of professional work, in
the course of which time he had made a reputation for exceptional
skill in the handling of a varied range of litigation.

Mr. Sims served as county attorney of Cook County from 1900
to 1903. In the latter year he was appointed special attorney to the
Bureau of Corporations at Washington, and in 1905 was promoted
by President Roosevelt to the position of solicitor in the Department
of Commerce and Labor. Mr. Sims in 1906 was sent by the Gov-
ernment to investigate the Alaskan fur seal fisheries on the Pribilof
Islands in the Behring Sea. While United States attorney for the
Northern District of Illinois, with headquarters at Chicago, from
1906 to 1911, Mr. Sims had charge of a large number of govern-
ment suits for violations of the Interstate Commerce and Anti-
Trust laws, notable among them being the famous case against the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, which resulted in conviction
and the imposition of a fine of $29,240,000 by Judge Landis. Other
cases were that against the Church and School Furniture Trust ;
the conviction of John R. Walsh for violation of the National
banking laws, and a large number of cases under the so-called White
Slave Traffic laws, resulting in various convictions.

Mr. Sims in 1909 was a member of the advisory board to the
Fur Seal Service, and has been prominent in a number of reform
movements in the City of Chicago. He is secretary to the Chicago
Vice Commission, is secretary of the Committee of Fifteen, and one
of the thoroughly progressive and public spirited men in Chicago.
Mr. Sims has served as president of the Michigan Society of Chi-
cago, was secretary of the National Ro'osevelt Committee in 1912,
belongs to the Chicago, the Illinois and American Bar associations,
and in politics is a republican. His clubs are the- Union League,
the Hamilton, the Law, the South Shore Country, the Forty and
the Kenwood. Mr. Sims is now engaged in private practice as
senior member of the firm of Sims, Welch & Godman, with offices
in the Marquette Building at Chicago. His home is at 4800 Ken-
wood Avenue.

FRANK AMBROSE HELMER. Beginning his practice as a lawyer
at Chicago more than thirty years ago, Frank Ambrose Helmer has
since enjoyed a prosperous season of activity, and his professional
attainments and high character are recognized among all members
of the Chicago bar.

Mr. Helmer was born on a farm near Cuba, New York, April
8, 1854. His parents were Herman Knox and Elizabeth M.
(Keller) Helmer. His father was a teacher in his younger career,
was engaged in farming in DeKalb County, Illinois, subsequently
moved to the Town of DeKalb and finally to Wheaton, Illinois,

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where he now lives at the age of ninety-two, while his wife is
eighty-one.

Frank A. Helmer gained his early training in the public schools
of DeKalb and is a graduate of the old University of Chicago, grad-
uating with the class of 1878 A. B. and M. A. His law studies were
pursued in the old Union College of Chicago, beginning with 1879
and graduating LL. B. in the class of 1881. Mr. Helmer was
admitted to the Illinois bar on diploma the same year, and in
December, 1881, became a law clerk for Frank J. Smith. In the
second year he was admitted to partnership, the firm being known
as Frank J. Smith & Helmer until 1889. Then after a year alone
Mr. Helmer on May i, 1890, became the second member of the firm
of Smith, Helmer & Moulton. The senior member was Hon. Fred-
erick A. Smith, who is now serving with distinction on the appellate
bench of Illinois, while the junior member was Frank I. Moulton.
When Judge Smith was elected a judge of the Circuit Court, the firm
remained as Helmer & Moulton for a year, and the title now found
on the offices in the Westminster Building is Helmer, Moulton, Whit-
man & Whitman. Mr. Helmer for a number of years has practiced
chiefly in corporation, commercial and real estate law.

Mr. Helmer is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar
associations and the Chicago Law Institute and belongs to the Uni-
versity, the Law, the Hamilton, the Reynolds, the Midlothian Coun-
try, the Indian Hill clubs and the Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Phi Delta
Phi and the Phi Beta Kappa college fraternities.

Mr. Helmer was married December 23, 1885, to Bessie Bradwell,
daughter of Hon. James B. Bradwell, known everywhere in Illinois
for his distinguished services as a lawyer and legal author. Mr.
Helmer has one child, Myra, who for a number of years has been
one of the most skillful women golf players in America. She won
the Western championship in 1913 and still holds the championship
among Chicago women players. Mr. Helmer and family reside at
the Virginia Hotel during the winter, while their summer home is
the Midlothian Country Club. Mr. Helmer finds his chief recrea-
tions in golf and horseback riding. Politically he is a republican.

WALTER CLYDE JONES. Every Illinois lawyer of standing knows
Walter Clyde Jones as one of the authors and editors of Jones and
Addington's Annotated Statutes of Illinois and of the Cyclopedia of
Illinois Law and the Appellate Court Reports of Illinois. Since
1906 he has been a member of the Illinois Senate from the Fifth
District, and besides his leadership in the senate is also author of
several important laws for political and economic reforms. Mr.
Jones has been a successful member of the Chicago bar for twenty
years. .

Walter Clyde Jones was born at Pilot Grove, Iowa, December
22, 1870, a son of Jonathan and Sarah (Buffington) Jones. Both
the Jones and Buffington families came to America during the latter

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part of the seventeenth century. Jonathan Jones was born in Harri-
son County, Ohio, went out to lo'wa with his brothers in 1833 and
preempted land in that territory, and subsequently laid out the town
of Pilot Grove. He was of Quaker stock, of Welsh origin, while
his wife was a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and of
English lineage. Senator Jones' father died in Iowa in 1883 at the
age of sixty-eight.

Walter Clyde Jones acquired his early education in the grammar
and high schools of Keokuk, Iowa, and in 1891 was graduated with
the degree of mechanical engineer from the Iowa State College. In
his career as a lawyer he has taken much interest in the mechanical
side of law, especially as a patent lawyer, and is treasurer and
director of the Benjamin Electrical Manufacturing Company. Mr.
Jones attended the Chicago College of Law, the law school of the
Lake Forest University, and graduated LL. B. in 1895, and was
admitted to the bar the same year. From 1897 to 1899 he was a
member of the firm of Addington and Jones, and since then has
practiced with Mr. Addington, the firm now being Jones, Addington,
Ames and Seibold. Offices are maintained both in Chicago and in
New York. It was in association with Mr. K. H. Addington that
he became the author and editor of Jones and Addington's Annotated
Statutes of Illinois and of the Cyclopedia of Illinois Law and the
Appellate Court Reports of Illinois.

Mr. Jones has been active in civic affairs, and was a member of
the Chicago charter convention which drafted the proposed charter
in 1906-07. He was on^ of the organizers of the Legislative Voters'
League, and was actively identified with the organization until his
election to the senate in 1906. As a senator Mr. Jones was floor
leader of the senate during 1909-1 1, was author of the direct primary
law, leading the fight for its enactment, and also author of the law
limiting the labor of women to ten hours per day. His work in
behalf of progressive legislation, including movement for civil service
reform, and the enactment of rules for reformed legislative pro-
cedure, has been highly commended by the great independent papers
of the state, and he is one of the leaders in Illinois politics today.
He was formerly identified with the republican party, but is now a
member of the progressive party.

Senator Jones is a member of the Franklin Institute of Philadel-
phia, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is an
ex-president of the Chicago Electric Association. In Chicago he is
a member of the University, the Union League, the Hamilton, the
Quadrangle, the Homewood, the City and the Press clubs, and is also
a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington and the Lawyers
Club of New York. He has traveled extensively, and finds his
recreations in horseback riding and golf. In legal circles he is
almost as well known in New York City as in Chicago. Senator
Jones was married June 3, 1896, at Paulina, Iowa, to Miss Emma
Boyd daughter of William O. Boyd. Their children are Walter

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Clyde, Clarence Boyd and Helen Gwendolyn. The family reside at
5541 Woodlawn Avenue.

JOHN WILSON HILL. One of the distinguished members of Chi-
cago's legal fraternity, John Wilson Hill, has had a most interesting
career. Commencing his active life in a lumber camp, he learned
the business from felling the tree to placing the finished product
upon the market, and, being placed in a position in which he was
compelled by circumstances to learn something of the law, became
so interested in the study that he determined to make it his life work.
He is not alone known as one of the leading specialists in the field
of patents, trade marks and unfair competition, but as a legislator
of distinction, a Mason of high degree and a citizen who has taken
a stirring part in those activities which have contributed to his
adopted city's civic advancement.

John Wilson Hill was born at Ottawa, Illinois, May 9, 1857,
and is a son of Isaac and Sarah (Wilson) Hill. His father. was
one of Ottawa's prominent men, being a teacher in what is now the
high school at South Ottawa, subsequently a successful contractor
and later an alderman of the city. Mr. Hill attended the primary
schools of Illinois and Michigan and spent one year at the Michigan
State Normal school at Ypsilanti, following which he taught school
for several years during the winter months. Turning his attention
to the lumber business, he entered that industry in a humble capacity,
and worked his way up to the position of chief clerk and accountant
of a large lumber concern, which, because of fire losses, became
involved in financial difficulties. Mr. Hill was appointed trustee
for the creditors, who quarreled among themselves and thus pro-
longed the case for about three years, during which time Mr. Hill
studied law in the office of Elbert A. Whitney, of Frankfort, Mich-
igan. He was admitted to the bar in 1890, in Benzie County,
Michigan, in open court, the judges and lawyers present conducting,
the examination, which consumed an entire day, before a large
audience. Mr. Hill is probably the only man who has had the
distinction of being examined before an open court.

After his admission to the bar, Mr. Hill came to Chicago and
was associated with his brother, Lysander Hill, under the firm style
"of Hill and Hill, this partnership continuing until January, 1898,
when it was dissolved. Mr. Hill then practiced alone until joined
by his son, Roy Wilson Hill, a graduate of Northwestern University
law school, who before becoming a lawyer was an electrical engineer,
having graduated from Rose Polytechnic Electrical College. The
firm of Hill and Hill has offices in the Monadnock Block and spe-
cializes in patents, trade marks and unfair competition, its practice
covering the United States and being chiefly confined to the Federal
courts. A stanch supporter of republicanism, Mr. Hill was elected
a member of the Illinois State Legislature in 1905, and during the
two terms he was connected with that distinguished body held various

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important positions. He was chairman of the committee chosen to
investigate the state institutions, and was the author of the bill gov-
erning the same, which was passed in the session of 1909. Mr. Hill
is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Asso-
ciation, the American Bar Association and the Patent Law Associa-
tion of Chicago. He is well known in club life, belonging to the
Chicago Athletic Club, the Exmoor Country Club and others. With
his family, he attends the Episcopal church. Mr. Hill has long been
prominent in Masonry. Passing through the blue lodge and
chapter, he was one of the organizers of what are known as the day
light bodies, St. Cecelia Lodge No. 865, A. F. & A. M., St. Cecelia
Chapter No. 220, R. & S. M., and St. Cecelia Commandery No. 83, K.
T., of which he is eminent commander for the years 1914 and 1915.
He belongs to Oriental Consistory and Medinah Temple, A. A. O.
N. M. S., and has the distinction of having had the thirty-third
degree conferred upon him, this at Boston, Massachusetts, October
i, 1912, in company with such distinguished personages as Hon.
Chauncey Depew, Governor Osborn of Michigan, Senator Johnson
of Maine, Admiral Forsyth, U. S. N., retired, Bishop Talbot of
Pennsylvania and Senator Sherman.

Mr. Hill was married September 28, 1878, to Miss Ida E. Watson
of Frankfort, Michigan, and they have one son: Roy Wilson, who
has also taken all the degrees of Masonry with the exception of the
thirty-third. The pleasant family residence is situated at No. 1121
Columbia Avenue, Rogers Park.

AREA N. WATERMAN. One of the oldest members of the Chicago
bar is Judge Arba N. Waterman, who began practice in this city
after the war, in which he had served as a lieutenant-colonel, and
served for sixteen years as a judge of the Cook County Circuit
Court.

Arba N. Waterman was born at Greensboro, Vermont, February
'5, 1836, a son of Lowring F. and Mary (Stevens) Waterman. He
was educated in the schools of his native state, graduated A. B. from
Norwich University in 1856, and during 1860-61 was a student of
law in the Albany Law School, which at that time occupied a pre-
eminent position among the law schools of America. During the
Civil War he served as lieutenant-colonel in the Hundredth Illinois
Volunteers, and at the battle of Chickamauga had a horse shot from
under him, and he himself was afterwards wounded. Judge Water-
man began active practice in Chicago in 1866. At that time the local
bar was distinguished for the versatile ability and brilliant character
of its members. Judge Manierre, Corydon Beckwith, Samuel
Fuller, Alfred W. Arrington, Joseph E. Gary, John M. Wilson,
Francis H. Kales, Erastus S. Williams, Thomas Hoyne, B. T. Ayer
and many others long since gone were then leaders in affairs as well
as in the courts and bar.

In 1887 Mr. Waterman began his service as a judge of the Cir-

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cuit Court of Cook County, and was later assigned a judge of the
Appellate Court of the First District. After sixteen years on the
bench Judge Waterman resumed private practice in 1903, and for
several years was senior partner of the firm of Waterman, Thurman
and Ross. His opinions as a judge are reported in the Thirty-third
to One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Appeals. Judge Waterman
has been dean of the John Marshall Law School since 1902. He is
active in Grand Army affairs, a member of Grant Post No. 28,
G. A. R., of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and was presi-
dent of the Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association during
1901-02. For several years he was a member of the board of
trustees of the Chicago Public Library. He is a member of the
Hamilton, the Chicago Literary and Irving clubs, and finds his
recreation in literary and philosophical pursuits. Judge Waterman
is author of "A Century of Caste," 1901, and "A Consideration of
the Influences That Have Made Chicago and the Promise as to its
Future," 1908. Judge Waterman was married at Chicago December
16, 1862, to Eloise Hall.

Louis JOSEPH BEHAN was born in the City of New Orleans,
Louisiana, March 10, 1876, and is a son of Frank A. and Catherine
C. (Coffin) Behan. His father was long prominently known as one
of the city's foremost business men, and at the time of his retire-
ment in 1897 was president of the Crescent City Railway Company.
Since that time he has been a resident of Chicago. Louis Joseph
Behan received his preparatory education in the Jesuit College
and High School of New Orleans, graduating from the former in
1891 and the latter in 1893, in which year he came to Chicago.
In 1895 ne entered Lake Forest University, graduating from the
law department of that institution in 1898 with the degree Bachelor
of Laws, and in the same year was admitted to the bar. Follow-
ing this Mr. Behan accepted a position as private secretary to
Perry A. Hull, but in 1902 entered upon the practice of his profes-
sion and continued in practice until 1907. In that year Mr. Behan
successfully passed the civil service examination for the position
of assistant county attorney of Cook County, to which he was sub-
sequently appointed, and he served therein until 1910 when he
resigned and was admitted to practice before the United States
Supreme Court. It was in that year the firm of Duncombe &
Behan came into existence, and the association continued until
April i, 1914, when Mr. Behan resumed practice alone, retaining
offices in the Otis Building, and conducts a general practice, in addi-
tion to serving as master in chancery of the Circuit Court, to
which he was appointed December i, 1914.

Mr. Behan has membership in the Chicago, Illinois State and
American Bar associations, as well as the Commercial Law League
of America. His social connections are with the City Club, the
South Shore Country Club and the Automobile Club. He is a

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member of the Western Economic Society and is on the advisory
board of the National Economic Society, and is fraternally asso-
ciated with the Elks and the Knights of Columbus, being president
of the Chicago chapter of that order. During the Spanish-Amer-
ican war Mr. Behan was an active participant, serving as corporal
of Troop H, First Illinois Volunteer Cavalry.

Mr. Behan was married March 12, 1901, to Miss May Louise
Hull of Chicago. Two children were born to them, — Louis J.,
Jr., born July 4, 1909, and Dorothy, who is deceased. Mr. Behan
is a member of St. Ann's parish, Roman Catholic Church. The
home is at No. 5443 Prairie Avenue.

FREDERIC BURN HAM. In his native city, where for more than
a quarter of a century his father has been a successful merchant,
Frederic Burnham has won for himself a place among the able
and successful younger members of the Chicago bar. He proved
his ability while serving as assistant state's attorney for Cook
County, and since then has been engaged in independent practice of
his profession, with offices at 1625 Harris Trust Building.

Mr. Burnham was born in Chicago on the 7th of March, 1881,
and he is a son of Edward and Mary (McGee) Burnham. The father
is still in active business on State Street. The public schools of Chi-
cago contributed to the early education of Frederic Burnham and he
prepared for college at the Harvard Preparatory School. In 1898
he entered Yale University and in 1902 was graduated with the
Bachelor of Arts degree. His law studies were pursued in North-
western University and in 1905 he gained his degree of Bachelor of
Laws and was admitted to the bar of his native state. Mr. Burn-
ham initiated his professional career with a term of service in the
offices of general counsel of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Company, and the four years he was thus occupied were rich in
experience. His appointment in March, 1909, to the post of assist-
ant state's attorney for Cook County prompted his resignation from
that position. Mr. Burnham made an admirable record in his office
of assistant to State's Attorney John E. W. Wayman, and his ability
as a trial lawyer was much enhanced as o result of his activities.
He retired from the office in August, 1912, and since that time has
conducted a private law practice which is steadily growing in
volume. Several representative corporations retain him as counsel,
and, all considered, his less than ten years of practice have won for
him a position and standing in legal circles of the city seldom real-
ized in the profession in that length of time.

In the Chicago Bar Association Mr. Burnham has served on the
committee on defense of poor persons charged with crime and has
acted as chairman of the committee on persons assuming to prac-
tice law without a license. He is a member of the Illinois State
and American Bar associations ; of the City Club, wherein he is a
member of the committee on the administration of criminal jus-

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tice. He is at present (1915) a director of the Hamilton Club and
a member of its political action committee and has served on other
important committees of the club. Other social affiliations are with
the Illinois Athletic Club, the Phi Delta Phi and the Phi Beta Kappa
college fraternities, and the Knights of Columbus.

In the fall of 1914 he was a candidate for judge of the Municipal
Court of Chicago on the republican ticket and received the indorse-
ment of practically the entire press of the city, the Chicago Bar
Association and other endorsing bodies.

Mr. Burnham was married on January 4, 1911, to Miss Adda
Marguerite Ghost of Denver, Colorado, and they live at 1426 Hyde
Park Boulevard.

HON. NATHANIEL C. SEARS. A former justice of the Illinois
Appellate Court, Nathaniel C. Sears has been a distinguished mem-
ber of the Chicago bar since 1878. Few men, while carrying the
heavy burdens of a large and successful law practice, have exer-
cised more influence on the city's affairs than Judge Sears.

Nathaniel C. Sears was born in Southern Ohio at the old French
town of Gallipolis August 23, 1854. His parents were Amos Gould
and Susan (Davis) Sears. The family early came to Illinois and
Judge Sears acquired his preparatory education in the Elgin Acad-
emy. He was graduated in 1875 with the degree A. B. from Am-
herst College, and the same institution gave him the Master of
Arts degree in 1878. During 1875-76 Judge Sears was a law student
in the University of Berlin, and later studied law in private offices
in this country. Northwestern University in recognition of his
achievements in the profession in 1898 conferred upon him the title
LL. D.

Judge Sears was admitted to the Illinois bar January i, 1878,
and remained in successful private practice until his election in 1893
as judge of the Superior Court of Cook County. In 1897 he was
appointed associate justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, was
reappointed in 1900 and in 1902 made chief justice. Judge Sears
resigned after nearly ten years of service on the bench on April i,
1892, and has since practiced law as senior member of the firm of
Sears, Meagher & Whitney.

Judge Sears was republican candidate for mayor of Chicago in
1897. He is a trustee of Beloit College, a member of the Chicago,
Illinois and American Bar associations, and belongs to the Union
League and the Press clubs of Chicago. His favorite recreations
are fishing and hunting. He has a beautiful country place at Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin, his summer home, and a winter home at Daytona
Beach, Florida. His offices are in the First National Bank Building.
Judge Sears was married at Elgin, Illinois, May 26, 1887, to Laura
Raymond Davidson. When in Chicago the Judge and Mrs. Sears
make their home at the Blackstone Hotel.

NATHANIEL C. SEARS

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CHARLES J. O'CONNOR. In the City of Chicago, where he has
offices in the Tribune Building, Charles J. O'Connor has been en-
gaged in independent practice of his profession since he was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1898. His professional standing today is com-
mendable, and is the result of professional ability combined with
close application to his work.

Mr. O'Connor was born at Greenville, Drake County, Ohio, on
the I2th day of January, 1876, and is a son of John and Delilah
(Marker) O'Connor. The father was long a successful manufac-
turer of wagons in Greenville. Charles J. O'Connor had his early
training in the schools of his home community, following which
he entered the law department of the University of Michigan. He
was graduated from that institution in 1898 with the LL. B. degree,
and soon thereafter came to Chicago, opened an office for the prac-
tice of law, and within the year that marked his advent into the
profession had gained admission to practice in all the courts. At
no time since he began his work has he had an assistant or partner,
so that full credit for his present position may properly be assigned
to himself. His practice is of a general order, and he is equally
well known as a successful trial lawyer and as a good counsellor.
He has acted as attorney in some of the most important litigation in
the United States in which insurance companies were involved and.
interested.

Mr. O'Connor has served on numerous committees of the Amer-
ican Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the
Chicago Bar Association. He served for some years as a member
of the board of directors of the Chicago Law Institute. He is a
republican in politics and actively interested in the Hamilton Club
of Chicago. He is a Mason, having his affiliations with Garden City
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Oriental Consistory Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite Masons and Medinah Temple of the Ancient Arabic
Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

On February 5, 1912, Mr. O'Connor was married to Miss Anna
Bradley of Milwaukee, and they have their home at 526 Roscoe
Street, Chicago.

ALBERT J. W. APPELL. While the office of prosecuting attorney
is everywhere regarded as one of the best sources of training for
the rising lawyer, in a metropolitan district like Cook County, the
office is one of peculiar responsibility and importance, and some of
the keenest lawyers of Chicago are found attached to the general
staff that handle the large and complicated business of the office.
The chief assistant prosecutor at the present time is Albert J. W.
Appell, who has been in practice in the City of Chicago for the past
fifteen years and has been identified with the prosecutor's office
for nearly four years.

Albert J. W. Appell was born in Chicago December 20, 1874, a
son of Lewis and Sophia (Dal) Appell. His father was a merchant.

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The public schools of Chicago and also the schools at Covington,
Kentucky, gave him his early training, and in 1899 Mr. Appell was
graduated from the law department of Lake Forest University, now
the Chicago Kent College of Law. Admitted to the bar the same
year, his first year of practice was individual, after which for sev-
eral years he was associated with W. S. Johnson. He again engaged
in independent practice, and continued with growing success until
his appointment in April, 1911, as one of the assistant prosecutors
in the law department of the City of Chicago. On January i, 1913,
Mr. Appell was made chief assistant prosecutor, and has since had
charge of the more important business handled by the office. On
December 9, 1914, he was appointed prosecuting attorney by Mayor
Harrison.

Mr. Appell is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
Illinois State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and
the Lawyers Association of Illinois. He also belongs to the Iroquois
Club, the Chicago Automobile Club, the Chicago Motor Club, the
German Club of Chicago, is affiliated with the Loyal Order of Moose
and belongs to the County Democracy. Mr. Appell was married
February 15, 1912, to Miss Anna Jann, of Chicago. Mr. Appell's
residence is at 2617 Leland Avenue. For a number of years he has
been quite actively identified with Chicago politics, and as a lawyer
has ample qualifications for his present work and a still larger
career ahead of him.

MILES J. DEVINE. During nearly a quarter of a century in
which Miles Joseph Devine has been a member of the Chicago legal
fraternity, his life has been passed upon the highest plane of a law-
yer's work. Early taking rank as a successful attorney, he soon
attracted to himself a highly profitable clientage, and the volume of
his business has been bounded only by the limits of his own inclina-
tion. He has also found time for helpful public service, for coopera-
tion with other public-spirited citizens in movements for the city's
welfare and for activities in political life that have made him a
recognized leader in the ranks of the democrats.

Mr. Devine is a native son of Chicago, born November i, 1866,
and his parents were Patrick and Elizabeth (Conway) Devine, both
of whom came to Chicago from Ireland as young people. Patrick
Devine was sixteen years of age when he arrived in this city, and
here he married the sister of Very Rev. Fr. P. J. Conway, vicar
general of the Chicago diocese and pastor of Holy Name Cathedral.
She was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1846. Three sons and four
daughters were born to Patrick and Elizabeth Devine. It was their
wish that Miles J. should enter the priesthood of the Roman Catholic
Church, and his studies up to 1885 were directed with that end in
view. He commenced his education in the public schools, in 18/6
entered St. Patrick's Brothers' School, of which parish his uncle,
Father Conway, was then in charge, later spent two years in St.

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Francis Seminary, Bay View, Wisconsin, and for four years was
a student in the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, at Niagara Falls,
New York. It was in that latter year that Mr. Devine came to the
conclusion he would change his vocation, and accordingly turned his
attention to the law, a vocation that held for him peculiar attrac-
tions, and offered a better field for the employment of such gifts as
he had been endowed with. Accordingly he entered Lake Forest
University and in 1887 became a student in the Chicago College of
Law, now known as the Chicago Kent College of Law, and there
was graduated in June, 1890, with the Bachelor of Laws degree.
On his admission to the bar Mr. Devine formed a partnership with
J. B. O'Connell, under the firm style of Devine & O'Connell, with
offices in the United States Express Building. In 1893 Mr. Devine
was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney, Mayor Carter H.
Harrison, father of the present mayor of Chicago, making the ap-
pointment, and he continued in the office under Mayors Hopkins and
Swift, until 1896, when he resigned in order that he might devote
more time to the increasing interests of his firm. During the years
of his service in that office he ably handled a number of important
and complicated cases, among them the "lumpy jaw" cattle cases in
1894, the Craig burglary affair and the prosecution of cases in the
violation of the registration laws. Mr. Devine's private practice
has been largely of a criminal character, and in this branch of the
law he is said to have few superiors at the Illinois bar.

Mr. Devine is one of the most forceful figures in the democratic
party in the state, but though an earnest worker for the advancement
of the party, he has never allowed partisanship to interfere with his
efforts in behalf of what he considered best for the city. In other
words, he is a citizen first. Mr. Devine was but sixteen years old
when he entered actively into politics, and at that time he stumped
Lake, McHenry and Boone counties for E. M. Haines, who became
speaker of the House of Representatives, and by his youthful elo-
quence and the force and power of his argument won many votes
for his candidate and earned for himself the sobriquet, "The Boy
Orator." In 1894 he was nominated on the populist ticket for sen-
ator of the Fifteenth Senatorial District, but declined, as he did
also the nomination for Congress in 1896 from the Fourth Congres-
sional District. But in 1897 wnen nominated for the office of city
attorney he accepted the honor and was elected by the largest ma-
jority ever given a candidate for that office, 38,000 votes, although
his opponent, Roy O. West, was the most popular candidate on the
republican ticket. Mr. Devine was the only city attorney who ever
tried his own cases, and his record in office placed him high in the
esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. He became a candidate
for nomination for the office of state's attorney in 1912, but met
defeat, and when offered the nomination for Congress in the same
year he declined, as he did also the nomination for chief justice of
the Municipal Court which was tendered him. During the past three

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years Mr. Devine has been president of the Cook County Democracy,
one of the best organized and strongest political organizations in the
state.

Mr. Devine is a member of the Chicago, Illinois State and Ameri-
can Bar associations. He is also a member of the Chicago Association
of Commerce, and his social connections are mainly represented by
his membership in the Illinois Athletic Club and the Chicago Press
Club. He has a number of fraternal affiliations, among them being
the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Catholic Order of Foresters,
the Knights of Columbus and the Hibernians. As a member of the
Citizens Association of Chicago he has done good work.

Mr. Devine was married February 15, 1894, to Miss Emma
Gamash, daughter of Semuel and Ophelia Gamash of Waukegan,
Lake County, Illinois. Six children have been born to them, — Miles
J. Jr., Paul B., Leo Jerome, Mabel Ruth, Raymond V. and Mildred
G. The home of the family is at 1262 McAllister Place.

HENRY M. HAGAN. In the Chicago bar, Henry M. Hagan has
become best known in the field of commercial and corporation law.
During the nineteen years he has practiced in the Illinois courts he
has successfully represented some of the leading corporations of the
state, and his connection with important cases has brought him a
high reputation.

Mr. Hagan was born at Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois,
December 28, 1870, and is a son of John H. and Mary Catherine
(Wallace) Hagan. His father, for many years an educator, held
a professorship in the University of Virginia and was widely and
favorably known for his scholarship.

The public schools of Shelbyville furnished Mr. Hagan with his
early training, which was followed by attendance at Eureka College,
Eureka, Illinois, and after graduation he began the study of law in
the office of ex-Attorney-General Howland J. Hamlin, of Shelby-
ville. Under this preceptor he made rapid progress and on March
6, 1896, was admitted to the Illinois bar. During that year Mr.
Hagan came to Chicago and began practice with the firm of Parker
& Pain, in the Marquette Building, where his offices have ever since
been located. With the resignation of Mr. Pain two years after Mr.
Hagan's advent into the office, Mr. Parker took Mr. Hagan into
partnership with him, and for sixteen years the firm of Parker &
Hagan was known for one of the strong legal combinations in the
city.

The partnership was mutually dissolved in 1911, and since that
time Mr. Hagan has practiced alone, with offices at 1201 Marquette
Building. Mr. Hagan has membership in the Chicago, Illinois State
and American Bar associations, and he is well known in club circles
of the city as a member of the Iroquois Club, the Chicago Auto-
mobile Club, the Southern Club and the Riverside Golf Club. He is
also a member of the Masonic fraternity. Politically he is a
democrat.

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Mr. Hagan was married to Miss Nannie Waggoner, of Sullivan,
Illinois, and they have had two children, of whom one son, John, is
living. Mr. and Mrs. Hagan are members of the Presbyterian
Church at Riverside, in which community they make their home.

JOHN S. GOODWIN. Forty years of practice in courts of law,
with twenty-three of them before the Illinois bar, is the record
of Judge John Samuel Goodwin, of Chicago. Judge Goodwin has
long been prominent as a lawyer, particularly in the corporation
field, but is perhaps equally well known over the state and the Union
as a stock breeder.

John Samuel Goodwin was born at Edinburg, Johnson County,
Indiana, March 16, 1858, a son of Rev. William Rees Goodwin,
D. D., and Susan A. (Keely) Goodwin. His father was a promi-
nent clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Goodwin
family was founded in America in Colonial times and the record of
five generations has been found, beginning with a branch of the
family which was located about the time of the Revolution at Old
Redstone Fort in Southwestern Pennsylvania, at the place now
known as Brownsville. From that Pensylvania stock Judge Good-
win is descended.

Mr. Goodwin had favorable educational advantages, and after
finishing local schools entered Indiana Asbury University, now
DePauw University, at Greencastle, and was graduated with the
first honors of his class in 1877 and the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
In 1880 he received from the same institution the Master's degree.
He studied law in Indiana under careful tutelage, was admitted to
the bar in 1878, and soon afterward moved to Beloit, county seat of
Mitchell County, Kansas, and while practicing there served on the
bench of the Municipal Court and in 1879 was assistant county
attorney.

From Kansas Judge Goodwin came to Chicago on January I,
1891, and soon afterward formed a partnership with Gen. John
C. Black, one of the most honored members of the Chicago bar and
a conspicuous military figure in Illinois. Since 1894 Judge Good-
win's practice has been largely in connection with important busi-
ness interests. He has been attorney for a number of Chicago banks,
and among other interests that have made his record of business
as a Chicago attorney he was in 1899 instrumental in effecting the
consolidation of the street railway systems at Sioux City, Iowa, and
served as director and general counsel of the Sioux City Traction
Company from 1899 to 1902. In his home town of Naperville in
DuPage County, Judge Goodwin served as city attorney from 1907
to 1913. He is a director of Riverside Park at Sioux City, Iowa,
served as a trustee of Kansas Wesleyan University in 1886, and
since 1910 has been a member of the board of trustees of DePauw
University.

For more than thirty years Judge Goodwin has devoted time and

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capital to the business of stock breeding. At Naperville he is the
owner of a splendid ranch of 500 acres, known as Heatherton, one
of the finest country estates in Illinois, where wealthy farmers are
the rule and not the exception. That farm is the home of a noted
herd of Aberdeen-Angus cattle, known as the Heatherton herd,
which is conceded to be one of the finest of its kind in the United
States, and the nucleus of which was established by Judge Goodwin
about 1883. As a breeder of this strain of cattle Judge Goodwin is
known in live stock circles all over America, and the business is not
only a profitable one but furnishes him recreation from professional
cares and the strain of city life. For six years he served as a di-
rector of the National Aberdeen-Angus Association, and was its
president in 1905-06.

Judge Goodwin has his law offices in the Temple Building at 108
South LaSalle Street, but lives the year round at Heatherton House
in Naperville, and from that suburban town makes daily trips to
his Chicago office. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association,
is a republican and a member of the Methodist Church. Judge
Goodwin is prominent in Masonic circles, has taken the thirty-second
degree of Scottish Rite, is president of the Jubilee Consistory Class,
and is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. His college fra-
ternities are the Beta Theta Pi and the Phi Beta Kappa, and he
belongs to the Union League Club and the Saddle and Sirloin Club
of Chicago.

October 7, 1880, Judge Goodwin married Miss Mary Elizabeth
Forbes of Danville, Illinois. They have one daughter, Suzanne,
wife of William Robert Johnson of Chicago.

ROY D. KEEHN. Engaged in the work of his profession in Chi-
cago since 1905, Roy D Keehn is admitted to practice in all of the
state and federal courts of Illinois, as well as the Supreme Court of
the United States and is in the general practice of law with offices
at 1151 Otis Building. As a part of a substantial law business, he is
general counsel and attorney for all of the interests of Hon.
William Randolph Hearst in Chicago, including the Chicago Ameri-
can and the Chicago Examiner, and during the administration of
Mayor Edward F. Dunne was assistant corporation counsel of
Chicago.

Mr. Keehn is of German- American parentage and was born in
Noble County, Indiana, November 7, 1875, and is a son of Jonathan
N. and Harriet (Shobe) Keehn, the former of whom died March 10,
1912, and the latter of whom now resides at Ligonier, Indiana. Mr.
Jonathan Keehn was a substantial Indiana farmer. With the train-
ing of the public schools of his native county, Roy D. Keehn took a
collegiate preparatory course at DePauw University, Greencastle,
Indiana. He then entered the University of Indiana at Blooming-
ton, in which he continued his studies until his senior year. He
withdrew to engage in teaching, and taught at Ligonier, Kendall-

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ville and Goshen, being instructor in science and mathematics in
Goshen and Kendallville high schools. Coming to Chicago he be-
came a teacher of mathematics in the University of Chicago High
School. By special appointment of President Harper he later was
made instructor of mathematics in the University of Chicago. In
the meantime he followed a regular course of study in the university
and graduated in 1902, Bachelor of Philosophy. Mr. Keehn was a
member and president of the first class which did full work at the
University of Chicago Law School and graduated from the Uni-
versity of Chicago Law School in 1904 with the degree of Doctor
of Laws. In 1905 he was admitted to the Illinois bar. Since then he
has been actively engaged in the general practice of his profession
in Chicago. He was prominent in university activities, being a
member of the Indiana University varsity football team, editor of
the college paper at the University of Indiana and first editor of the
University of Chicago literary magazine, the Monthly Maroon.

Mr. Keehn is a member of the Chicago Bar Association. He is
on its entertainment committee and is also identified with the Illinois
State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is a
member of the University Club, the Chicago Automobile Club, the
Chicago Press Club and the Iroquois Club. He is affiliated with
various bodies of the Masonic fraternity, including Woodlawn
Commandery of Knights Templar and Medinah Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. He is connected with the Phi Kappa Psi college
fraternity and the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity. His residence is at
5703 Blackstone Avenue.

On the 23d of June, 1899, Mr. Keehn was married to Miss Jane
Menaugh, of Columbia City, Indiana, and they have one son, Roy
D. Jr., who was born in 1908.

SIDNEY SMITH GORHAM was born in Rutland County, Vermont,
November 6, 1874, and is a son of Frank E. and Mary J. (Smith)
Gorham, the father, a merchant, coming to Chicago in middle life
and dying at the age of about forty-five years, while the mother still
survives and makes her home at Hamilton, Montana. The country
schools of Rutland County and the graded schools of Rutland fur-
nished Mr. Gorham with his preliminary educational training, and
in 1890 he removed to Chicago, in July of which year he secured the
position of office boy in the offices of Mills & Ingham, then one of
the leading law firms of the city. Mr. Gorham attended night classes
at the Chicago College of Law (now the Chicago Kent College of
Law), and was graduated therefrom in 1894 with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws, being admitted to the bar in 1895, just after he
had attained his majority. After the death of Mr. Ingham Mr.
Gorham remained with Luther Laflin Mills, and in 1904 entered into
a partnership agreement with Mr. Mills and his son, Matthew, un-
der the firm style of Mills, Gorham & Mills, an association which
continued until July i, 1905. He then continued in practice alone

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until May, 1906, when he associated himself with Henry W. Wales,
under the style of Gorham & Wales. In 1912 Amos C. Miller was
admitted to the firm, which adopted the name of Miller, Gorham &
Wales, and has offices in the New York Life Building, the firm en-
gaging in a general civil practice.

Mr. Gorham is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
Illinois State Bar Asociation and the Law Club, and holds member-
ship in the Chicago Athletic Association and the Lagrange Country,
Illini Country and Chicago Automobile clubs and the New England
Society. He is one of the most enthusiastic devotees of automobiling
in the West, is a member of the state and national organizations de-
voted to the sport, has served as secretary of the Chicago Automobile
Club for several terms, president of the Illinois State Automobile
Association for two terms, and secretary of the American Automo-
bile Association for one term, has contributed to the development
and progress of the sport, particularly in the line of uniform state
laws, in this connection attending the legislative session of 1905 as
the representative of the Illinois motorists and securing the passage
of a bill similar to the present motor vehicle law, although it was
subsequently vetoed by Governor Deneen. At the session of the
Forty-fifth General Assembly, in 1907, Mr. Gorham was again ap-
pointed to look after the interests of the motoring fraternity of the
state, and drafted the statute "defining motor vehicles and providing
for the registration of the same, and uniform rules regulating the
use and speed thereof." This passed the Legislature and became
the law without the governor's signature, and the secretary of state
assigned to Mr. Gorham's car license No. i. Mr. Gorham has re-
sided in Lagrange since 1895.

Mr. Gorham was married July 15, 1896, to Miss Myrtle Gene-
vieve Willett, daughter of Consider H. and Lois A. Willett, of Chi-
cago, and they have two children, — Sidney S., Jr., and Willett N.

DAVID L. WRIGHT. Twenty years of active practice have given
David L. Wright a position as a leader in the Effingham County bar,
and besides the general practice which he has successfully conducted
in the local courts Mr. Wright has several times been called to
responsible office. He has served as county judge of Effingham
County and is now giving the greater part of his time and attention
to the office of postmaster of Effingham, to which he was appointed
by President Wilson in November, 1913. Mr. Wright has that sub-
stantial reputation which is the ambition of the best lawyer, in that
his clients feel that their interests are safely intrusted when under his
direction. In all his relations he is a man of thorough trustworthi-
ness, and has a high place among Southern Illinois attorneys. For
many years until his appointment as postmaster Mr. Wright was
associated in practice with his brother, B. W. Wright, and together
they controlled probably the best practice in Effingham County. Mr.
Wright still looks after the. interests of his older clients, though his

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duties as postmaster have interfered to a large extent with his
legal work.

David L. Wright was born in Effingham, Illinois, May 9, 1865,
one of the nine children born to William and Jemima (Rinehart)
Wright. His father was a native of New Jersey, came early in life
to Illinois, settled in Effingham County, and subsequently was a suc-
cessful real estate man. His death occurred at Effingham in Decem-,
ber, 1890, at the age of sixty-three. His wife, who was born in
Illinois, spent practically all her days in Effingham, where she died
at the age of seventy-three.

David L. Wright acquired his early education in the public
schools of Effingham, and subsequently entered the Northern In-
diana Normal College at Valparaiso, remained there until finishing
the teacher's course, and for several years supported himself by
teaching and by work in other lines. Entering the Wesleyan Uni-
versity Law School at Bloomington, he was graduated LL. B. in
1893, and admitted to practice in the same year. Mr. Wright became
associated with his brother, B. W. Wright, and they continued their
partnership with mutual profit and success until Mr. Wright's ap-
pointment as postmaster. During his active practice of twenty years
Mr. Wright was twice elected county judge of Effingham County,
and the citizens of the county have good reason to remember grate-
fully his capable administration of county affairs.

Mr. Wright is an active democrat and has long been one of the
popular citizens of Effingham County. Fraternally he is affiiliated
with the Masonic order. In September, 1899, Mr. Wright married
Miss Laura Wilson of Greenville, Indiana, a daughter of Judge
Francis Wilson, who was prominent as a judge and citizen in
Greenville. Both Mrs. Wright's parents are now deceased.

WALTER WILLARD Ross. For years Walter W. Ross gave his
time and attention to the duties of general counsel for leading cor-
porations of Chicago, and gained an enviable reputation through his
associations as such. He is now engaged in general practice, with
office in the Borland Building on South LaSalle Street, and takes a
prominent place among members of the Chicago bar.

Of New England ancestry, Mr. Ross was born in Pulaski, this
state, on March 29, 1866. He is a son of Edward T. and Ellen M.
(Wall) Ross. Following his public school days he entered W'hipple
Academy and Illinois College at Jacksonville, Illinois, after which
he became a student at Princeton University. He was graduated
from that institution in 1888 with the B. A. degree, which was sup-
plemented three years later with the Master's degree, conferred
upon him by his alma mater. His specific training for the law he
had at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, and at
Harvard Law School in 1889-90. In the latter year he was admitted
to practice in Illinois, and concerning the early period of his legal
career it has been said : "His thorough preliminary training and

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natural inclination toward the law were valuable assets in his early
years, and, in fact, have been the greatest contributing factors to
his success as a practitioner. It was not long after his first shingle
attracted attention to the young Chicago barrister that he began to
achieve some recognition and to enjoy the confidence of a growing
clientele. Political preferment was the next honor conferred upon
him. In 1894 he became assistant corporation counsel of Chicago
and he participated in all of the essentially important litigation of
that department. This experience further rounded out his training
and added weight to his equipment for the law. Thus, a year later,
in 1895, he was offered and accepted the position of attorney for the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company, with which he
was connected in this capacity for four years. He then formed a
partnership with his maternal uncle, Hon. George W. Wall, under
the title of Wall & Ross. His uncle was a distinguished lawyer and
jurist who served for a score of years on the bench of the Illinois
Appellate Court. The combination of youth and ripe experience
proved a very effective one, and the firm figured prominently in the
legal circles of Chicago during these years in which the alliance
continued."

In 1901 Mr. Ross was tendered the position of general counsel
for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company,
which he accepted, and during his incumbency of this office he had
his residence and official headquarters in New York City. There
he made many firm friends and came not infrequently before the
public eye. He felt himself drawn to the private practice of his
profession, however, and in 1905 he resigned from his position and
returned to Chicago, where he has since been active in general
practice since 1905. He has a large and important clientage, and
he has won many legal victories that have given him added place
and prestige in his profession.

Many pleasing traits have gone to make up the sum of his suc-
cess and popularity, and in this connection we quote again from the
article previously mentioned: "Mr. Ross is a man of fine physique
and of patrician countenance. He is genial and considerate and his
personality enables him to win and retain staunch friends. As a
pleader before court or jury he is admitted to possess eloquence
of no ordinary character, and his wide activitie's in the practice of his
profession, coupled with early training, have given him a broad
knowledge of jurisprudence, as shown in his preparation and pres-
entation of his various cases. Possessed of that requisite of the
really great lawyer, a legal mind, he stands well forward in the
group of Chicago's more important attorneys. Coupled with fine
intellectual attainments are sturdy character and unwavering honesty
of purpose and action. Mr. Ross is of the type hard to convince,
and careful to decide, but with conviction assured and decision made,
he is a stalwart defender of his position."

Mr. Ross is a member of the Chicago, Illinois State and Ameri-

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can Bar associations, the University Club and the Evanston Golf
Club. He is a republican in his political convictions.

On May 14, 1891, Mr. Ross was married to Miss Jane Ames and
they have their home in Evanston, where they take their place in
the social activities of the community. They have three children, —
Ames Walcott, W. Willard and Robert.

FRANK L. WEAN. Holding the important position of referee in
bankruptcy for the Northern District of Illinois continuously since
his first appointment in 1898, and having been engaged for more
than ten years prior thereto in a successful practice in the Illinois
courts, Frank Lincoln Wean is accounted one of the forceful mem-
bers of Chicago's legal fraternity. Since 1890 he has been con-
nected with cases which have gone to the highest state and federal
tribunals and the high ability which he has displayed in each of
his several capacities has won him a well-established and lasting
reputation.

Frank Lincoln Wean was born in Williamsfield, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, August 6, 1860, and is a son of Ira E. and Malvina
(Belknap) Wean. He was five years of age when he removed with
his parents to a farm in Tuscola County, Michigan, where as a boy
he attended the district school, and later, the high schools of Caro
and Corunna, from each of which he was graduated, completing
his preparation for the University of Michigan in 1880. In the
meantime, he "taught school" during the winter months, being thus
engaged from 1877 to 1879, and from 1881 until 1885 was principal
of the high school at Alpena, Michigan. During the latter part of
this period he began the study of law in the office of R. J. Kelley,
afterwards Judge Kelley of the Circuit Court. In 1885 and 1886
he attended the law school of Michigan University, at Ann Arbor,
and in the latter year was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Cuort
of Michigan. In July, 1886, Mr. Wean came to Chicago and en-
tered the law office of Swett, Grosscup & Swett, as a clerk, and was
admitted to the bar of Illinois March 16, 1887, receiving the degree
of Bachelor of Laws from Union College of Law, Chicago, in June
of the same year. Mr. Wean became a member of the firm of
Swett & Grosscup, in September, 1887, the firm name being changed
to Swett, Grosscup & Wean in 1888. After the death of Leonard
Swett, in 1889, the surviving members organized the firm of Gross-
cup & Wean, which existed until December, 1892, when Mr.
Grosscup was appointed district judge for the Northern District of
Illinois, to succeed Judge Blodgett. From 1892 to 1898, Mr. Wean
practiced law alone and for fifteen years occupied the same suite of
offices in the Montauk Block, then located on Monroe Street on a
part of the site of the present First National Bank Building. He
was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in
1895, and has been counsel in several important cases before that
tribunal. He acted as special master in chancery in the case of

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Atlantic Trust Company of New York v. The Peoria Water Com-
pany, and as such made the sale of the waterworks property to the
bondholders' committee in January, 1898, and was also special master
in chancery, appointed to take testimony and report conclusions of
fact in the case of the West Chicago Park Commissioners v. The
Receiver of the National Bank of Illinois, in which case the plain-
tiff sought to establish its claim of $316,000 against the insolvent
bank. In 1898 Mr. Wean was appointed referee in bankruptcy for
the Northern District of Illinois, and since that time, so ably have
his duties been discharged, he has been reappointed every two years,
without solicitation or application on his part. During this time,
Referee Wean has tried more than ten thousand cases.

Personally a man of fine appearance, with pleasing and courte-
ous manners, Referee Wean has won the respect and friendship of
all with whom he has come in contact, officially, professionally and
socially. His executive abilities and judicial mind fit him admirably
for the high office which he holds, and his decisions have seldom
been reversed by the reviewing courts. He is a valued member of
the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association,
and is popular with his fellow-members in the Chicago, Law and
Exmoor Country clubs. While never very active politically, he
has always been identified with the republican party.

In December, 1887, Mr. Wean was married in Chicago to Miss
Bertha M. Coombs, and to this union there has been born one
daughter, Evangeline, who was married June 8, 1912, to O. Dick-
inson Street, of New York City, where they now reside. They
have one child, O. Dickinson Street, Jr., born May 8, 1913. Mr.
and Mrs. Wean maintain their home at Highland Park, Illinois.

HON. WILLIAM McKiNLEY. Probably no citizen of Illinois at
the beginning of his legislative experience ever came so quickly
into commanding position and prominence as Hon. William Mc-
Kinley of Chicago, who in 1912 was elected as democratic member
of the Forty-eighth General Assembly from the Thirty-first Sena-
torial District. On the organization of the House he was elected
speaker, on. the seventy-sixth ballot, after a deadlock lasting for
three weeks, regarded as the longest delay in the annals of the Illi-
nois House over the question of organization and election of a
speaker. The interesting fact of this deadlock and the unusual
honor bestowed upon Mr. McKinley is that he paid his first visit
to the state capital of Illinois following his election, and had never
before seen a legislative body in session. The Forty-eighth General
Assembly was one notable for its work, and Mr. McKinley won high
praise from all quarters on his skill as a parliamentarian and his
influential leadership in carrying out the legislative program. As
speaker Mr. McKinley was member of all the committees of the
House, was chairman of the committee on rules, a voting member
in all the standing committees, and was ex-officio chairman of the

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democratic steering committee. His individual, influence was of
particular value in promoting legislation affecting good roads and
in bringing about the present state public utility law. He was vice
chairman of the efficiency and economy committee authorized by
the Forty-eighth Assembly to investigate and report on all branches
of the state government of Illinois for the purpose of obtaining
greater efficiency by consolidating and rearranging the various
correlated departments and bureaus of the state administration.
Governor Dunne appointed Mr. McKinley a deputy commissioner
from Illinois to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco
in 1915.

Born on a farm in Clayton County, Iowa, June i, 1879, a son
of John and Ellen (McNamara) McKinley, substantial farming
people of Iowa, William McKinley grew up in the country, attended
country schools, the high school at Postville, Iowa, the Iowa State
Normal University at Cedar Falls, and then for three years was a
sucessful and popular teacher in his native state, during which time
he was principal of schools at Castalia and Ashton.

Mr. McKinley came to Chicago at the age of twenty-five, en-
tered the Chicago Kent College of Law, graduating LL. B. in 1907
and admitted to the Chicago bar in October of the same year. He
has practiced alone since his admission to the bar, and enjoyed as
much success in general practice as in his political activities. Mr.
McKinley is lecturer on torts and constitutional law in the faculty
of the Webster College of Law in Chicago. He is a member of the
Chicago and Illinois State Bar associations, the Chicago Automo-
bile Club, the Columbia Yacht Club and of the Irish Fellowship
Club. His office is at 29 South LaSalle Street and his home at 909
Airdrie Place, Chicago. Mr. McKinley was married November 26,
1913, to Miss Katharine Riley of Chicago.

RICHARD SWEET FOLSOM. In the long line of men who make
up the legal profession in the State of Illinois it is especially pleasing
to make mention of those native sons who have gained prominence
and popularity in the pursuit of their calling. Richard Sweet Folsom
is undeniably one of that group, and he is recognized today as one
of the successful members of the Chicago bar. He is serving as
general counsel to the Board of Education, is master in chancery
of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and is secretary of the Chicago
Bar Association.

Born in the City of Chicago on the 5th day of August, 1872,
Richard Sweet Folsom is the son of Charles A. and Sarah T.
(Sweet) Folsom. The father was an attorney of standing for many
years in Chicago, and he died here in 1905. Richard Folsom had his
early schooling in the public schools of his native city, and at Wil-
liams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, he had his higher
training, and was graduated from that institution in 1894 with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. Returning to Chicago he promptly

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applied himself to the study of law and in 1896 he successfully
passed his bar examinations and was admitted to practice. This
city has since continued to be the center of his professional activities,
and he is now a member of the firm of Folsom, Jennings & Fifer,
with offices at 72 West Adams Street.

Mr. Folsom's progress has been pleasing to contemplate. In
February, 1911, he was appointed master in chancery to the Circuit
Court of Cook County, and since July i, 1912, he has been general
counsel to the Board of Education of Chicago. His election to the
office of secretary of the Chicago Bar Association is sufficient com-
mentary on his standing among his brother attorneys.

A democrat, Mr. Folsom has staunchly supported the principles
of his party at all times. He is a member of the University Club,
the Illinois Athletic Club, the Chicago Yacht Club, the Chicago Law
Club, and retains membership in his college fraternities, the Delta
Upsilon and Phi Delta Phi. He is a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, as is also his wife. Mrs. Folsom was Miss Dorothy
Moulton, the daughter of Gen. George M. Moulton of Chicago, and
her marriage to Mr. Folsom was celebrated on May 30. 1905. The
family home is maintained at 2218 Prairie Avenue.

R. ALLAN STEPHENS. An active member of the Danville bar
since 1902, R. Allan Stephens is particularly well known among
Illinois lawyers over the state as publisher of the Quarterly Bulletin,
the official publication of the State Bar Association. In the State Bar
Association he has served as chairman of the committee on new
members two years and is now chairman of the committee on or-
ganization. Mr. Stephens is also a member of the American Bar
Association and the Commercial Law League of America.

Robert Allan Stephens was born at Potomac, Illinois, June 9,
1878, and comes of English ancestry on both sides, his father's fam-
ily having been Cornishmen, while his 'mother's family was from
Oxford. His parents are Robert and Mary E. Stephens, his father
a prominent Methodist minister of the Illinois Conference. For
sixteen years he served as a district superintendent, and was a
member of the general conferences at Cincinnati, Baltimore, Los
Angeles and Minneapolis. At present he is a member of the general
board of the M. E. Church and secretary of the Preachers Aid
Society of the Illinois Annual Conference.

R. Allan Stephens graduated in 1896 from the Mattoon High
School, attended Northwestern University during 1896-98, and
prepared for his profession in the Columbian University at Wash-
ington, D. C, taking the degree LL. B. in 1901 and LL. M. in 1902.
From 1898 to 1902 he was a clerk in the office of the auditor for the
war department at Washington, and since that time has been in
practice at Danville. He formed a connection with the firm of
Swallow, Stephens & Swallow in 1901, then practiced two years

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from 1902 as Stephens & Barnhart, and since that time has been in
individual practice, with a large general clientage.

Mr. Stephens is a republican, and was candidate for the party
nomination for county judge in 1909, being defeated by a very close
margin. While in college he was a member of the Kappa Sigma
fraternity and at present is worthy grand master of ceremonies
in that fraternity. He is chairman of the judiciary committee of the
Grand Lodge of Illinois in the Knights of Pythias, and is also affili-
ated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Im-
proved Order of Red Men and the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. His church is the Methodist.

On September i, 1903, Mr. Stephens married Helen Prentiss
Bennett, a daughter of the late Judge Charles Bennett of Mattoon,
Illinois. Mrs. Stephens has membership in the Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
They are the parents of a fine family of four young Americans
named Robert Allan, aged ten; Mary Ellen, aged eight; Charles
Bennett, aged five, and William Cleaves, one year old.

HARRY W. SISSON. The long and uniformly successful career
of Harry W. Sisson has been characterized by activities in several
fields of endeavor, in each of which his talents have brought credit-
able accomplishment. Stock raising, real estate, merchandising
and the law have at different times been the object of his endeavors,
and he is also the inventor of several appliances, the usefulness of
which is indicated by their extensive sale all over the country. Mr.
Sisson is at present engaged in legal practice, in connection with
extensive interests in realty operations. He is particularly well
known on the South Side of Chicago, where he has been influential
in promoting movements that have done much to build up and
develop sections formerly of little value to the city.

Mr. Sisson was born January 27, 1858, in Mercer County, Illi-
nois, and is a son of Capt. Benjamin T. and Zilpah A. (Waugh)
Sisson. His father was a sea captain, in the whaling business for
eighteen years, sailing from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the chief
whaling seaport of that time, and rounding Cape Horn no less
than ten times in his whaling vessel. Making a success of his
operations, he came to Chicago in 1856 with $25,000 in gold, but
later went to Mercer County, Illinois. There, in 1858, he became
involved in a law suit, Ellis vs. Sisson et al., which was tried in
many counties by some of the best lawyers in the state, and finally
settled in 1890. Captain Sisson died in Chicago in 1898. Mrs.
Sisson's brothers were Henry W. Waugh, a well known landscape
artist, DeWitt C. Waugh, leading scenic artist of the Cincinnati
musical festivals, and Fred Waugh, a cousin, the noted marine
artist.

The early education of Harry W. Sisson was secured in the
public schools of Mercer County and Davenport, Towa. As a young

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man he devoted his attention to breeding Shorthorn cattle, Poland-
• China hogs and trotting horses, and had a half-mile track on his
farm, which was located in the vicinity of Monmouth. While en-
gaged in this business he became the inventor of two appliances,
Sisson's anti-kicking strap and Sisson's adjustable safety halter,
both of which were sold by the thousands all over the world.

Mr. Sisson first became interested in the study of law in 1882,
although it was not until many years later that he took up the pro-
fession as an active practitioner. At that time he purchased his own
law books and studied during his leisure hours. In 1884 he went to
Nebraska, where he remained for five years, and then returned to
Monmouth, and remained there until coming to Chicago, in 1898.
Here he engaged in the real estate busines, and is one of the lead-
ing salesmen in that line. In preparation for the profession of law
Mr. Sisson entered Chicago Kent College of Law, from which he was
graduated in 1908, with the degree Bachelor of Laws, being ad-
mitted to the Illinois bar the same year.

Mr. Sisson's practice has had largely to do with realty cases. He
was attorney for several of the defendants for a part of the lake
front, from Fifty-third street south, and, although freely assured
by some of his fellow-practitioners that he would be unable to clear
the titles within ten years, his vigorous handling had matters satis-
factorily settled within that many months. In connection with
this he assisted in the widening of Everett avenue, and dedication
of Fifty-fifth street east of that avenue, and arranged for a street
on the lake front, which is now being constructed from Fifty-third
street to Jackson Park, one of the most exclusive residential districts
of the city.

Mr. Sisson is a member of the Association of Commerce. Fra-
ternally his relations are with Lodge No. 240, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and Cook County Encampment, No. 215, of the same
order. He is independent in politics. In June, 1892, Mr. Sisson
married Miss Eva Gumming, daughter of Dr. J. S. Gumming, who
was the oldest Methodist minister in Illinois, and former president of
Hedding College. Three sons have been born to this union, — Baird
W., Duane M. and Niel K. The family resides at 4332 Greenwood
Avenue.

CHARLES LERov BROWN. During his active practice in the
Chicago bar since 1897, Charles LeRoy Brown was for several years
connected with the legal departments of street railway companies
and has since developed a large general practice. He has had
for many years an extensive practice in the courts of appeal, both
state and federal, having appeared in several hundred appellate
cases. At the present time he is one of the special counsel for the
State of Illinois in the charter tax litigation with the Illinois Central
Railroad Company.

Charles LeRoy Brown was born at Meyersdale, Pennsylvania,

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December 14, 1874, a son of Dr. George W. Ira and Magdalene
(Miller) Brown. In 1878 his parents moved to Dixon, Illinois,
where the son received his early education, and in 1892 graduated
A. B. from Dixon College. During 1893-95 he was a student in the
University of Michigan. He took his degree in law from the North-
ern Illinois College of Law in 1897. Admitted to the bar the same
year, Mr. Brown spent several months in practice at Dixon with
William Barge. He moved to Chicago in the fall of 1897, and was
in the law department of the North Chicago Street Railway Com-
pany during 1898-99, and with the Chicago Union Traction Com-
pany from 1899 to 1901. Mr. Brown was in general practice with
James W. Duncan as a partner from 1901 to 1905, and was a mem-
ber of the firm of Morrison, Brown & Gould from 1906 to 1910.

In politics he is a republican, and is a member of the various
bar associations and of the Chicago, the Mid-day, the Law, and
the South Shore Country clubs. His offices are in the Otis Build-
ing, and his residence at 1130 Hyde Park Boulevard. Mr. Brown
was married June 28, 1911, to Miss Alice McHugh of Chicago.

ADOLPH J. BORGMEIER. While Mr. Borgmeier has had a secure
position in the Chicago bar for the past fourteen years, and controls
a large general practice, his name is also familiar for its associa-
tions with the Illinois military service, and he was one of the men
who served in the trenches at Santiago. Captain Borgmeier's family
has been identified with Chicago for more than half a century, and
his grandfather, William Borgmeier, saw service with the United
States troops in the capacity of quartermaster sergeant during the
Mexican war in 1845-46.

Adolph J. Borgmeier was born in Chicago January 18, 1869, son
of Anton B. and Catherine (Fox) Borgmeier. His mother was a
native of Ireland. His father, born in Germany, was brought to
America when a boy, grew up in Chicago, and for many years was
engaged in merchandising and manufacturing. Adolph J. Borg-
meier was educated in the parochial schools, graduated in 1886 from
the St. Patrick's Commercial Academy, and then for some time was
employed in mercantile business. Before taking up the study of
law he served as chief clerk in the general baggage department of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway at Chicago.

Mr. Borgmeier was a law student in the Northwestern Uni-
versity, from which he graduated LL. B. in the class of 1900. His
student career has been interrupted by his service with the United
States forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. He had
been a member of the Illinois National Guard, and at the beginning
of the war enlisted in the First Illinois infantry of the United States
volunteers. The regiment saw some arduous service and hard
fighting before Santiago during the month of July, 1898, and Mr.
Borgmeier was one of the men in the trenches around that city
from July nth to July I7th. While at Santiago he received a

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corporal's warrant on July 5th. His discharge was dated November
17, 1898. For the past twelve years Captain Borgmeier has been
a commissioned officer in the Illinois National Guard, and at the
present time is captain of Company A in the First Illinois Infantry
Regiment. A few years ago he saw active service with his company
during the negro riots at Springfield.

Since beginning the practice of law Mr. Borgmeier has acquired
a large clientele, handling general practice, and has conducted
some important litigation in the state and federal courts. He is a
member of the Chicago Bar Association, and also of the Santiago
Society, of Columbia Camp of the United Spanish-American War
Veterans, and the Knights of Columbus.

Captain Borgmeier married October 4, 1906, Miss Wilhelmina
K. Loth, of Ishpeming, Michigan. Their two children are Adolph
C. and Eleanor R. The family reside at 1516 No.rth Oakley Boule-
vard, and his law offices are in the Portland Block.

EDWARD F. DUNNE, JR. A son of the present governor of Illi-
nois, Edward F. Dunne, Jr., is known as one of the industrious and
ambitious young attorneys of his native city, where, since 1909, he
has been building up a substantial and representative general
practice.

Mr. Dunne was born in Chicago on the 26th day of November,
1887, and is a son of Hon. Edward F. and Elizabeth Jane (Kelly)
Dunne. After making good use of the advantages afforded in the
public schools of Chicago, Mr. Dunne began to prepare for his
profession, entering the law department of the University of Michi-
gan. He was graduated with the class of 1909, with the degree
Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar through the medium
of the Supreme Court of Illinois, and is now eligible to practice
in the various Federal courts of the state. In December, 1912, Mr.
Dunne was appointed master in chancery by the Superior Court of
Cook County. He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State
Bar associations, and his social memberships are with the Iroquois
Club, the South Shore Country Club, the University of Michigan
Alumni Association of Chicago, of which he is a director, and the
Phi Kappa Phi Association of Chicago, of which he was president in
1914. He is a member of Marquette Council, Knights of Columbus,
and he and his wife are members of St. Thomas Catholic Church.
Politically he follows in the footsteps of his father.

Mr. Dunne was married on April 17, 1912, to Miss Rosina M.
Powers, daughter of Harry J. Powers. They have one son, — Ed-
ward F. III., born October 15, 1913.

JOHN MAXCY ZANE. As a trial lawyer John Maxcy Zane is
regarded as one of the most skillful and successful at the Chicago
bar, of which he has been a member for fifteen years. He is a son
of Judge Charles S. Zane, at one time associated with Abraham

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Lincoln and otherwise distinguished in the Illinois bar and for
many years chief justice of Utah.

John Maxcy Zane was born at Springfield, Illinois, March 26,
1863, a son of Charles S. and Margaret D. (Maxcy) Zane. Charles
S. Zane was born in Gloucester County, New Jersey, in 1832, and
came west and located in Sangamon County, Illinois, at the age of
eighteen years. In 1852 he entered McKendree College, and by
teaching, attending college and studying law gained admission to the
bar five years later. In 1860, he became a member of the firm of
Lincoln & Herndon, at Springfield, which was dissolved on ac-
count of Mr. Lincoln's election as president of the United States,
and in January, 1861, the firm of Herndon & Zane was formed.
Mr. Zane later became a member of the firm of Cullom, Zane &
Marcy, the senior member of which was the late United States
senator, Shelby M. Cullom. Mr. Zane continued in regular practice
until 1872, and from that year until 1884 was circuit judge of the
Sangamon District. In 1884, by appointment from President Arthur,
he became chief justice of the Territory of Utah, and save for brief
intervals held that office until 1896, when he became chief justice
under the state government after the admission of Utah to the
Union, and so continued until 1900. He was regarded as one of
the leading members of the Illinois bar, and as a judge his career
left a permanent impress on the judicial history of the West. Since
his retirement, he has been residing at Salt Lake City. Judge
Zane married Miss Margaret D. Maxcy, daughter of John Cook
Maxcy and a member of a family which has been well known at
Springfield since 1819, when this branch moved to Illinois from
Kentucky.

After attending the graded and high schools of Springfield,
John M. Zane entered the University of Michigan, where he was
graduated in 1884, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At that time
he went to Salt Lake City and joined his father, taking up the
study of law under his preceptorship and also serving as clerk of
the Third Judicial Court of Utah until 1887. He was admitted to
the bar in 1888, at Salt Lake City, and in March of the following
year entered practice, continuing there until 1899, when he came
to Chicago. He had been assistant United States attorney of Utah
from 1889 to 1893 and reporter of the Supreme Court from 1889
to 1894. Since 1899 he has been engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession at Chicago. For seven years after his arrival in the city
he was a member of the law firm of Shope, Mathis, Zane & Weber,
which subsequently became Shope, Zane, Busby & Weber, and later
Zane, Busby & Weber, and at this time he is senior partner of
the firm of Zane, Morse & McKinney. Mr. Zane is a member of the
Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the
American Bar Association. His club connections include member-
ship in the Union League, University and Quadrangle clubs, and
he is also identified with the Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the

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Coif. He is not alone widely known as a lawyer, but as the author
of "Zane on Banks and Banking" published in 1900, and as a
lecturer in the law departments of the University of Chicago and
Northwestern University. Politically he is a republican. His offices
are in the Harris Trust Building.

Mr. Zane was married April 25, 1894, to Miss Sara Rich Zane,
of Philadelphia.

GEORGE I. HAIGHT. A Chicago lawyer with large practice and
influential connections, George I. Haight is a graduate of the North-
western University Law School with the class of 1902, and has
since that date been in active practice. He is a member of the firm
of Haight, Brown & Haight, with offices in the Rookery Building.

George I. Haight, who was born at Rockdale, Dane County,
Wisconsin, March 26, 1878, represents one of the pioneer families
of Wisconsin. His grandfather, Jonathan T. Haight, came from
Vermont to Wisconsin Territory in 1836, locating in Milwaukee
County. He was a grandson of Stephen Haight, at one time one
of the ablest and best known judges in Vermont. Jonathan Haight
was a civil engineer by profession, surveyed the noted highway
from Milwaukee to the Wisconsin state line known as the Green
Bay Road, was employed as a surveyor in different parts of Wis-
consin and also did special engineering work for the United States
Government in that state and in Tennessee. He associated in a
professional way and was also a friend of such noted New Eng-
landers as Daniel Webster, Caleb Cushing, Silas Wright, and some
of his correspondence with these historic characters is now in the
possession of George I. Haight in Chicago. George I. Haight is
a son of Stephen and Etta (Ives) Haight, both of whom were born
in Wisconsin, his father in 1843 and his mother in 1850. Stephen
Haight is a farmer and during his active career was also a brick
manufacturer.

George I. Haight grew up on his father's farm in Dane County,
attended district schools, was graduated from the Cambridge schools
and the Fort Atkinson High School, and in 1899 was graduated
from the literary department of the University of Wisconsin. For
one year Mr. Haight was a student in the Chicago Law School
and followed that with two years in the Northwestern University
Law School. By his marriage on June 5, 1906, to Miss Edith Adcock,
a native of Chicago, he has one daughter, Valerie Elizabeth. Politi-
cally Mr. Haight is a progressive, and in 1912 his name was on that
party ticket as candidate for state's attorney of Cook County.

ALFRED ROY HULBERT. One of the progressive young members
of the Chicago bar, Alfred Roy Hulbert is well grounded in the
law and for the time of his practice has had a varied experience.
His work is along the lines of general practice, particularly trial
of cases in court.

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Mr. Hulbert was born at Fremont, Nebraska, August 25, 1883,
and is a son of Rev. Palmer S. and Rosa S. (Stacey) Hulbert.
Palmer S. Hulbert, D. D., was a Presbyterian minister and a
graduate of Wabash College and Auburn Theological Seminary, of
Auburn, New York, where he was ordained in the ministry. He
subsequently had pastorates in various parts of the country, including
Nebraska, Massachusetts, New York City and Oak Park, Illinois,
at which last named place he died in 1897.

Alfred Roy Hulbert was educated in the public schools of New
York City and Oak Park, Illinois, and he had his college training
in the University of Michigan, following his graduation from the
Oak Park High School. At Ann Arbor he was awarded the
Bachelor of Laws degree on graduation in 1908. In the same year
he was admitted to practice in Illinois, before the Federal and the
United States Supreme Court. Mr. Hulbert entered upon his pro-
fessional duties as a law clerk for D. S. Wentworth, with whom
he remained one year, then becoming identified with the firm of
Gorham & Wales, with whom he remained a like period. In March,
1910, Mr. Hulbert was appointed assistant United States district
attorney, an office wherein he served with ability for two and a
half years, and since that time has continued in general practice,
with offices in the Harris Trust Building associated with Mr. Fred-
eric Burnham. He is known as a careful, studious and conscien-
tious lawyer. He is a member of the Chicago, Illinois, and Ameri-
can Bar associations, and his social connections are with the Ham-
ilton Club, the Glen Oak Country Club and the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity.

Mr. Hulbert was married October 21, 1913, to Mrs. Cora E.
Smith, of Chicago. They have one son, Bruce Walker Hulbert.
Mr. and Mrs. Hulbert reside at Kenilworth, Illinois.

CHARLES BENJAMIN OBERMEYER. One of Chicago's successful
attorneys, Charles Benjamin Obermeyer has been in practice there
for more than twenty years and has won a reputation for thorough,
painstaking work, and his large general practice and relations with
public office and with representative civic and social organizations
are proof of his high standing. At the beginning of his career
he was a brick layer, later was a telegrapher for a long time and
studied law as opportunity offered and finally won his way to a
place in his present profession. Courage and hard work have been
the secret of his success, and although it has been a struggle he
has rejoiced in it, for he is of fighting stock.

Charles Benjamin Obermeyer was born at Winchester, Scott
County, Illinois, September 23, 1866. His parents were Peter and
Lucinda (Beasley) Obermeyer. His father, was born in the King-
dom of Bavaria, now a part of the German Empire, emigrated to
America and settled in Illinois in 1850, followed contracting and
building during his active life and is now living at Winchester.

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Charles Benjamin Obermeyer had a public school education in
his native town, learned the trade of brick layer, worked at it with
his father, and during the long winter nights practiced and learned
the art of telegraphy. His first position was with the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railway, and in 1885 he came to Chicago and
was employed as operator with the Western Union Telegraph Com-
pany until 1889. In the meantime he had taken up the study of
law as opportunity offered, and in 1887 became a night student in
the Chicago College of Law, then conducted by Judge Joseph
Bailey of the Supreme Court, and Judge Thomas A. Moran of
the Appellate Court. In 1890 Mr. Obermeyer graduated from this
school, was admitted to the Illinois bar the same year, and has
since been in active practice in Chicago. From 1891 to 1893 ^r-
Obermeyer was first assistant attorney to the City of Chicago, and
for a number of years has served as attorney to the North Shore
Park District. He is vice president and director of the Illinois Brick
Company.

Mr. Obermeyer is a member of the Chicago Bar Association,
the Illinois State Bar Association, the Law Institute, has affiliations
with various Masonic bodies, including Lincoln Park Commandery
and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and is also a member
of the Royal Arcanum, the Royal League, the Sons of Veterans
Camp, No. 100, and the Elks. His clubs are the Illinois Athletic,
the Hamilton, the Birchwood Country, the Builders Club, and the
Evanston Golf.

In 1896 Mr. Obermeyer married Miss Hannah M. Cloud of
Chicago. Their three children are: Lucinda E., aged fifteen;
Charles Benjamin, Jr., aged thirteen ; and Peter, aged six. The fam-
ily reside at 6738 Newgard Avenue, and his offices are in the
Woman's Temple.

FRANCIS J. HOULIHAN. His appearance in a number of noted
cases in Chicago has made the name of Francis J. Houlihan well
known to the general public, while he has ever been recognized
as one of the able lawyers of the Chicago bar, where he has prac-
ticed for twenty-two years.

Mr. Houlihan was born at Ogdensburg, New York, July 20,
1865, and is a son of Francis R. and Mary (Gorman) Houlihan, his
father being a successful contractor of New York State for many
years. The public schools of his native state furnished Francis
J. Houlihan with his early education, following which he became a
student in Ogdensburg Academy. He was graduated from that
institution in the class of 1887 with the Bachelor of Arts degree.
He then took up the study of law in the office of a well known
attorney of Ogdensburg, but after one year of study the greater
opportunities of the west brought him to Chicago, where he became a
student in the offices of Ryan, Weinschenck & Hirschl. There he

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had the opportunity of an excellent legal training, and in 1890
he entered the law school of Northwestern University to fin-
ish his studies, being graduated in 1892 with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in June of that
year, and the firm of O'Hara and Houlihan came into existence
soon after, Mr. O'Hara having been a classmate at the law school.
This association continued successfully until 1898, when the part-
nership was mutually dissolved and Mr. Houlihan became identified
with the firm of Rosenthal, Kurz & Hirschl, which later became
Rosenthal & Kurz, the members being James Rosenthal, Adolph
Kurz and Francis J. Houlihan. Engaged in a general practice,
with offices in the Rector Building, Mr. Houlihan has been con-
nected with a number of cases that have attracted widespread at-
tention. He closed successfully the case of the West Pullman Car
Works, when the charge of graft of a million and a quarter dollars
was placed against the officials and employes of that great corpora-
tion. Mr. Houlihan was attorney in the notorious case of William
T. Kirby, the private banker, in which "wire tappers" secured
twenty thousand dollars, and in which John Henry Strosnider,
"King of the Confidence Men," was sent to the .penitentiary. Mr.
Houlihan has figured prominently as counsel in numerous other im-
portant cases, as well. A member of the Chicago and Illinois State
Bar associations, Mr. Houlihan bears a high reputation among his
fellow practitioners. He is a member of the Catholic Church, of
the Knights of Columbus, and is popular as a member of a number
of social organizations of the city.

In 1898 Mr. Houlihan married Miss Mollie Conway of Chicago,
and four children have been born to them : Robert A., Mary,
Eileen and Francis J., Jr. Their home is at 229 North Austin
Avenue, in the suburb of Austin.

JAMES I. ENNIS. For more than half a century, Ennis has
been one of the most familiar names in Chicago legal circles.

James Ignatius Ennis was born in Chicago, October 17, 1861,
and is a son of James and Mary A. (Sexton) Ennis. His father
was engaged in the active practice of law from 1856 until his
death in 1880, and was an honored and influential citizen as well
as a pioneer lawyer of Chicago. His wife was born in Chicago
and was a member of a sterling pioneer family. She was a sister
of the late Col. James A. Sexton, who served as postmaster of
Chicago and as commander in chief of the national organization of
the Grand Army of the Republic, having been a distinguished
officer in the Civil war. Mrs. Ennis was likewise a sister of the
late Austin O. Sexton, and the latter's son, William H., was but
recently corporation counsel of the city.

James I. Ennis acquired his early education in the parochial and
public schools of Chicago and after finishing the course in the old
Central High School, went, in 1878, to Wisconsin and became a
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which were at that time in the center of the pine forests,
with lumbering as their principal industry. He continued to teach
in Wisconsin until November, 1880, and earlier in that year he
had served as United States census enumerator in Portage County.
Called back to Chicago on account of the sudden death of his
father, he assisted his elder brother, Maj. Lawrence M. Ennis,
in caring for and rearing the younger children, their mother hav-
ing died in 1876. The career of Mr. Ennis from this time forward
is sketched in the following quotation : "Within about two weeks
after his father's death, Mr. Ennis entered the employ of the
Merchants Loan & Trust Company, Chicago's oldest banking in-
stitution, and remained with them until January 31, 1896, when he
took up the active practice of law. During the entire period of his
active identification with the banking business, Mr. Ennis never lost
sight of the fact that he wished to become a lawyer. In 1884,
he entered the old Union College of Law, in which he attended
lectures and passed the examinations for the junior year. But at
the end of the year the strain of working all day in the bank
and reading law half the night proved so ' severe a test of his
health and eyesight that he was compelled, upon the advice of his
physician, to forego the further prosecution of his college work
for the time being. He did not give up his reading, however, but
pursued his law studies in the offices of Mason and Ennis and of
Joseph H. Fitch, who later was elevated to the bench of the Superior
Court of Cook County. In 1892, he entered the Kent College of
Law, graduating in 1893. He was elected the first president of
the alumni association of this institution and was reelected at the
close of his first term.

"Upon the death of his brother, the late Maj. Lawrence M.
Ennis, Mr. Ennis took up the practice of law, succeeding to the
law business formerly controlled by his brother. In 1908, he be-
came an office associate of Judge Fitch, the two having been stanch
friends from the time when they were schoolmates in the old Cen-
tral High School, on West Monroe Street.

"Mr. Ennis has been prominent and influential as a member of
the Illinois National Guard. In 1882 he became a member of the
First Regiment of Infantry and he rose from private to the posi-
tion of first sergeant of Company F, an office held until after the
Stock Yards strike of 1896, when he was elected first lieutenant of
the company. In 1890 he mustered Company K into the First
Regiment and served as its captain until his entrance into the law
college, when he felt it best to resign his command. He has never
lost his interest in the National Guard, however, and is a member
of the veteran corps of the First Regiment. He is also an honor-
ary member of Companies F, H and K.

"In the matter of civic improvement Mr. Ennis is an enthusiast.
He is the founder of the Rogers Park Improvement Association,
which has been in existence for twenty years. He believes that the

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shores of Lake Michigan should be accessible to all the people and the
North Shore Park district was organized to prevent the lake shore
from being monopolized by selfish interests. He was a commis-
sioner of the North Shore Park District for six years. He has done
a large work in helping to organize improvement societies in various
parts of Chicago.

"In the American Institute of Banking Mr. Ennis has long been
prominent and influential, not only as an active member, but also as
one of its lecturers and debaters and as a delegate to its conventions.
He is now one of the very few honorary members of the Chicago
chapter of this important organization and is the regular commis-
sioned law lecturer of the same in Chicago, where he has conducted
a series of twenty-five lectures each winter, these having been
eagerly attended by the men actively identified with banking inter-
ests in the city. A successful completion of this course of lectures,
together with a course on finance, entitles the successful student to
a certificate as a fellow of the American Institute of Banking. Mr.
Ennis' opinions on banking and finance are sound. For several
years he wrote for prominent bankers' journals and magazines and
in 1904 was elected an honorary member of the national convention
of State Bank Examiners, in Indianapolis, this being in recognition
of his reading a paper and delivering a speech of great interest and
value at the convention.

"Loving a home life, Mr. Ennis prefers the comfort of his quiet
and attractive home in Rogers Park to the allurements of club life.
Necessarily he belongs to clubs, but they are subordinated to the
home associations. Mr. Ennis has continued a close student and his
reading has covered a wide range of the best in academic and scien-
tific literature. He is a member of the Illinois Society of Micros-
copists, the Fellowship Club of the Merchants Loan & Trust Com-
pany, the Irish Fellowship Club, the Iroquois Club, the Chicago
Bar Association and the Illinois Bar Association."

In addition to being law lecturer for the American Institute of
Banking, Mr. Ennis is retained also as regular lecturer for the
Chicago Business Law School, the Walton School of Accountancy
and the Illinois Bankers' Association. In December, 1911, he was
appointed master in chancery of the Superior Court of Cook County
and it is especially grateful to him that this preferment came through
his lifelong friend, Judge Joseph H. Fitch. He is a staunch demo-
crat in politics.

On the 1 5th of February, 1887, Mr. Ennis married Miss Geor-
gina Wild, only daughter of the late Thomas S. and Georgina
(Major) Wild. Mrs. Ennis is a sister of Harrison M. Wild, the
distinguished musician, organist of Grace Church, Chicago, and
conductor of the Apollo Club; and of the late Capt. Frederick
S. Wild, of the United States Army. Of the four children of Mr.
and Mrs. Ennis, two are living, — Arthur, in his father's office and a
student in the Kent College of Law; and Marjorie, a member of
the class of 1916 in the Senn High School, Chicago.

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ROLLA R. LONGENECKER. Through father and son the name
Longenecker has been prominent in the Chicago bar for more than
a third of a century. The father was the late Hon. Joel M. Longe-
necker, who began his career in the law at Olney, Illinois, and in
1 88 1 located in Chicago, and continued in successful practice there
until his death in September, 1906. Rolla R. Longenecker, the son,
has been favored with the rewards of the successful lawyer, and
at the same time has rendered valuable service such as only a leader
at the bar can perform for his community.

Rolla R. Longenecker was born at Olney, Illinois, April i, 1875,
son of the late Hon. Joel M. Longenecker. The family having
removed to Chicago when he was six years of age, he acquired his
education in the public schools of that city, and spent five years as
a student and clerk in his father's office. He was also a student of
the old Chicago College of Law, subsequently consolidated and now
the Chicago Kent College of Law. Admitted to the bar in 1900,
Mr. Longenecker formed a partnership with his father and they
handled a large and important legal practice until the death of the
senior member in 1906. Since that time Mr. Longenecker has prac-
ticed alone, with offices in the Chicago Stock Exchange Building.
While his practice is of a general nature, he has handled a large
amount of business for corporations. For several years Mr. Longe-
necker has followed the custom of giving one day of his pro-
fessional services each week to charity practice, and in that way
has performed a large amount of good in behalf of those who
need legal services but who are unable to pay for competent advice
and representation. Mr. Longenecker has membership in the Chi-
cago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, is a life
member of the Hamilton Club, and is one of the leading Masons in
Chicago.

His Masonic affiliation is with Candida Lodge No. 927, A. F. &
A. M. ; Chicago Chapter No. 127, R. A. M. ; with Oriental Consistory
of the Scottish Rite; and with Medinah Temple of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Longenecker is a past master of his Blue
Lodge, is librarian for the Oriental Consistory, and has been a very
active worker in all of these Masonic branches. He is a director
of the Gil W. Barnard Hospital and a member of the executive
committee and counsel for the Masonic Hospital Association. Other
affiliations connect him with the Knights of Pythias, and he is a
member of the State Judiciary Committee and a member of the
Grand Lodge. He is imperial nawab of the D. O. K. K. (Knights
of Khorassan). A member and past adjutant and past judge advo-
cate of the Sons of Veterans, Mr. Longenecker in 1898 raised a
regiment among the Sons of Veterans for service in the Spanish-
American war, and was commissioned captain of Company A in
the headquarters at Douglas Hall, but the regiment did not reach
the front nor engage in active service. Mr. Longenecker is also
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. For four-

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teen years he was Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the Chi-
cago College of Osteopathy.

September 20, 1904, occurred his marriage to Miss Grace Louise
Brinkerhoff of Chicago. Their two children are Edwin Donald and
Lula Florence. The family are members of the Methodist Church
and their home is in Oak Park.

HARRY BOYD HURD. Perhaps no more striking example of the
high rewards attainable through a life of industry, energy, perse-
verance and devotion to high ideals may be found than the career
and achievements of Harry Boyd Hurd, a member of the firm of
Pam & Hurd, and known as one of Chicago's leading and most
accomplished lawyers. Beginning his career as a newsboy that he
might earn the means with which to gratify his ambition for a
higher education, working his way laboriously and determinedly
through the initial steps of his legal learning, contentedly taking
his place among the practitioners of his adopted city in a humble
capacity, and finally gaining high reputation and the substantial
emoluments which accompany it, his accomplishments should prove
of a nature decidedly encouraging to the ambitious youth who enters
upon life's struggle handicapped by the lack of superior advantages.

Harry Boyd Hurd was born in Livingston County, Missouri,
January 8, 1875, and is a son of Inscoe E. and Harriet (Andrew)
Hurd, farming people of that community. Reared on the farm,
Mr. Hurd attended the district schools of his native community
until he was thirteen years of age, at which time he went to Mus-
catine, Iowa, where for three years he made his home with his
aunt, and there attended high school. He was possessed of industry
and ambition, and in order to secure money to pay his transporta-
tion to Chicago worked energetically carrying newspapers, and in
1892 arrived in this city with a meagre capital. Here for a short
time he studied stenography and subsequently secured a positon at
$6 a week, and while thus employed began his preparation for the
law. His daylight hours were passed in discharging the duties of
his position, and in the evenings he attended the night classes at
the Chicago College of Law, from which he was graduated in 1895
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His employment was then
changed for a better one, where he could have a chance of further-
ing his legal knowledge, Mr. Hurd becoming stenographer in the
law office of Moses, Pam & Kennedy, where his duties included
stenography, the writing of briefs and occasional ventures into the
field of his vocation. In 1897, when this firm was dissolved, Mr.
Max Pam formed a partnership with Judge Charles H. Donnelly,
and Mr. Hurd went to the new offices, continuing with the firm and
in 1898 when it became Pam, Donnelly & Glennon being taken in
as a partner. He was also a partner of the firm of Pam, Calhoun
& Glennon, which succeeded it, and in 1904 this firm ceased to
exist and the new combination of Pam & Hurd was formed, which

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still exists and maintains offices in the Rookery, Chicago, with a
branch office in the Empire Building, New York City.

During his subsequent practice, Mr. Hurd has been connected
with much important litigation that has come before the Illinois
courts. His record, while still so young a man, is one of which he
has every reason to be proud. Among his professional brethren
his success has aroused no jealousy, for what he has achieved has
been the result of hard work and continued and unwearying appli-
cation, thorough conscientiousness and unquestionable integrity.
Mr. Hurd is a valued member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
American Bar Association and the Law Institute. His social con-
nections include membership in the Chicago Athletic, Mid-Day,
Chicago Automobile and Evanston Golf clubs.

On December 25, 1902, Mr. Hurd was married to Miss Margaret
Frank, of Sterling, Illinois, and they have two children : Harriet
Margaret and Anna Catherine. The pleasant family home is located
at No. 932 Edgemere Place, Evanston, Illinois.

QUIN O'BRIEN. In writing of the life and achievements thus
far of Quin O'Brien, one of the able representatives of the Chicago
bar, another has said that he "is a brilliant as well as a successful
lawyer, a powerful and persuasive advocate. His work has im-
pressed itself upon the profession, overshadowing the many legal
battles of widely varying character, in which he has been a com-
batant. His career at the bar may be epitomized as being a stimulant
to both jurists and lawyers, an embodiment of the best traditions of
the profession."

Quin O'Brien was born in the mining town of Atlantic, in
Houghton County, Michigan, on March 27, 1871. His parents were
Quinlan and Margaret (Greene) O'Brien, both of whom were born
in County Cork, Ireland. In the days before the Civil war they
came to America and established a home in the copper mining dis-
trict of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and there the father
was employed by various mining companies until 1874, when he re-
moved to Iowa. There he purchased farm land and applied him-
self to the business of farming, becoming known as one of the repre-
sentative farmers of Greene County.

Quin O'Brien was a child of three years when the family settled
in Iowa and his boyhood and youth were passed on the home farm.
He attended the district schools of Greene County, later entered the
high school at Panora, Guthrie County, Iowa, and followed his train-
ing there with a college course in Highland Park College in Des
Moines, from which he was graduated in 1894 with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. Later his alma mater conferred upon him the
Master's degree. In 1894 Mr. O'Brien came to Chicago to make
it his permanent home, and to carry out his plan for entering the
legal profession. He secured employment in a law office and de
voted his evenings to work in the evening classes of the Chicago

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College of Law, which awarded him his degree of Bachelor of
Laws in 1896, with admission to the Chicago bar.

In further mention of his career we quote again from the ex-
pressions of the writer mentioned in the opening paragraph, as
follows : "Mr. O'Brien at once commenced the practice of his
profession. His distinctive ability was quickly recognized, as he
was appointed trial attorney for the city of Chicago almost at the
inception of his career. He remained in that office for two years
and made the best record of percentage of cases won by any occu-
pant of that position, before or since. He is at the present time
attorney for the ice companies of Chicago, for the Hibernian Bank-
ing Association, for the Rock Island & Southern Railroad Company
and for numerous other important corporations and business con-
cerns in and about the City of Chicago. Mr. O'Brien has the dis-
tinction of having won some of the largest verdicts in the history
of personal-injury cases tried in the courts of Illinois, and has the
honor of establishing precedents in the following cases : On suit
of heirs, he brought about the annulment of the marriage of an
ancestor, and he. successfully defended a man charged with bur-
glary by showing that the act .was committed when his client was
in a state of somnambulism."

Mr. O'Brien has been an influential figure in the educational
work of his profession and for a number of years he was retained
as lecturer on law in the Chicago Law School. He is a member
of the Chicago Law Institute, the Chicago and the Illinois State-
Bar associations. He is at present a member of the board of di-
rectors of the National Bureau for the Advancement of Patriotism,
and he is a progressive and public-spirited citizen, his membership
in the Chicago Association of Commerce indicating his sentiment
along those lines. He is prominent socially and has membership in
the Press Club, the Iroquois Club, the Michigan Club, the City Club,
the Hawkeye Club, and is fraternally associated with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus. He was
reared in the faith of the Roman Catholic Church and he and his
wife are communicants of Mt. Carmel Church.

Mr. O'Brien is a democrat, and in 1904 he was a candidate for
the office of representative from the Ninth Illinois district in the
United States Congress. He was defeated, and in 1906 the nomi-
nation was again proffered him, but he declined. As an orator Mr.
O'Brien has gained a considerable distinction, and he is much
sought after as a lecturer before college assemblies and chautau-
quas, and as a speaker at patriotic and politicl meetings, banquets
and other public occasions.

Mr. O'Brien was married on November 14, 1901, at Davenport,
Iowa, to Miss Eileen McCortney, daughter of Dr. James Mc-
Cortney, a representative physician of that city, and one of the
five physicians appointed by President Lincoln to investigate the
condition of federal prisons during the Civil war. They have
four children: Kathleen, Brendan, Justin McCortney and Elaine.

532 COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS

FRANK J. LOESCH. In the large group of Chicago attorneys
who are largely engaged in corporation practice, Frank J. Loesch
is one of the most successful. Mr. Loesch has been identified with
the Chicago bar forty years, and since 1886 has represented the
Pennsylvania Railroad lines west of Pittsburgh as counsel at Chi-
cago. He represented the Pennsylvania and allied companies in
their negotiations for terminal ordinances in Chicago, and he is
the general counsel of the Union Station Company, which was in-
corporated by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chicago, Burling-
•ton & Quincy and Pennsylvania companies. He is also senior mem-
ber of the firm of Loesch, Scofield & Loesch, general attorneys',
with offices in the Otis Building. His partners are Timothy J.
Scofield, Charles F. Loesch, James Stillwell and Robert W.
Richards.

Mr. Loesch was born in the City of Buffalo, New York, April
9, 1852, a son of Frank and Mary (Fisher) Loesch. He graduated
from Grammar School No. 16 at Buffalo in 1868, and came to Chi-
cago in June, 1870. In 1874 he was graduated LL. B. from the
Union College of Law after a three years' course-. Admitted to the
Illinois bar September 8, 1874, Mr. Loesch has since been in con-
tinuous practice, specializing in real estate, railway, and in corpora-
tion law. His present firm of Loesch, Scofield & Loesch was
formed in 1905.

As a loyal and progressive citizen, while without political am-
bition, Mr. Loesch has at different times served the public interests
of his community through his profession. He was special state's
attorney for Cook County from September 30, 1908, to June, 1909.
This appointment was accepted by him on the assurance of his being
able to perform some valuable work through the investigation of
the direct primary election frauds at the primary election held
August 8, 1908. He retired from this special office in February,
1909, following a test case in which the Supreme Court declared
the then direct primary law of Illinois as unconstitutional. An-
other occasion on which he was able to be of service to his home
city was the four years spent as a member of the Chicago Board
of Education. Mr. Loesch was appointed to that office July n,
1898, for three years and was reappointed in July, 1901, resigning
November u, 1902, during his second term.

Mr. Loesch was honored by election as president of the Chicago
Bar Association, holding that office during 1906-07, and has been
one of its leading members for many years. He is also a member
of the Illinois Bar Association and the American Bar Association,
is a republican, and a member of the Union League Club, University
Club and the Glen View Golf Club. Mr. Loesch was married
October 2, 1873, to Lydia T. Richards. They have four children:
Angeline, Winifred, Richard Llewellyn, and Joseph Benjamin. The
daughter Angeline is now the wife of Robert Eliot Graves, and
Winifred is the wife of Frederic Z. Marx, both of Chicago.

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THOMAS J. YOUNG. One of cne most responsible offices con-
nected with the law department of the State of Illinois is filled by
Thomas J. Young, in the capacity of assistant attorney general in
charge of the inheritance tax department of Cook County. Mr.'
Young was appointed to this office by Attorney General P. J. Lucey
in March, 1913. His duties demand a thorough knowledge of the
law, as well as capable administrative work, since it is the province
of his department to look after all the inheritance tax cases of
Cook and Lake counties. Mr. Young has a corps of four assistant
lawyers and twenty-two minor employes under his direction. The
complex responsibilities and large volume of business transacted
through this department are best illustrated by some figures show-
ing the collections for the fiscal year from March i, 1913, to March
i, 1914. During this time a total number of five hundred and fifty-
seven cases were disposed of under the inheritance laws, the aggre-
gate of revenue collected from this source through Mr. Young's
department was- $1,548,891.90.

Thomas J. Young, who has been a practicing member of the
Illinois bar for more than a quarter of a century, was born in
Ottawa, Illinois, December 30, 1866, son of John D. and Margaret
C. ("Riordan) Young. His father, who died in Ottawa, was for
many years a lumber merchant and held the office of mayor of that
city one term. Thomas J. Young received his early education in
the public schools of Ottawa, finished the high school, and then
studied law under Hon. L. W. Brewer, at one time state's attorney
of La Salle County. His admission to the bar came after examina-
tion before the Appellate Court in Ottawa in 1887. His first ten
years as a lawyer were spent in his native city, and since 1896 Mr.
Young has been a member of the Chicago bar, and was success-
fully engaged in private practice until his appointment to his
present duties in March, 1913.

Mr. Young is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Lawyers' Association,
the Knights of Columbus, the Modern Woodmen, the Art Institute
of Chicago and the Jeffersonian Democratic Club, and is secretary
of the La Salle County Association. His offices are in the Otis Build-
ing and his home at 331 N. Parkside Avenue. Mr. Young married
July 7, 1904, Miss Anna C. Petras of Milwaukee.

CHARLES E. VROMAN. A prominent Chicago lawyer since 1900,
Charles E. Vroman is a native of Wisconsin, and practiced law
with success and distinction in his native state from 1869 until his
removal to Chicago.

Charles E. Vroman was born on a farm in Dane County, Wis-
consin, a few miles from Madison, October 5, 1846. His parents
were William and Harriet (Field) Vroman. His father was born
in Madison County, New York, in 1818 and died in Wisconsin in
1886. His mother was born in New York in 1824 and at this writ-

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ing is still living. William Vroman first came out to the territory
of Wisconsin in the early '305, but owing to the disturbed condi-
tions following the Black Hawk war, deemed it unadvisable to
make a permanent location, and consequently returned to his family
in New York and remained there until 1843. In that year he estab-
lished a home near Madison, became one of the early settlers, and
was a man of no little prominence. He was one of the first con-
tractors to engage in building operations at Madison, and in 1850
was elected treasurer of Dane County, and thereafter had his home
in Madison. In the later years of his life he established and built
up a large lumber trade. Charles E. Vroman had as part of his
environment during youth the old homestead farm in Wisconsin,
attended district schools, and was graduated Ph. B. from the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin in 1868. He then went East and became a law
student in the Albany Law College of New York, graduating LL. B.
in 1869. Admitted to the Wisconsin bar the same year, he was for
a time in the office of the late Hon. William F. Vilas, one of Wis-
consin's most distinguished lawyers and public men. He also served
as deputy clerk of the Circuit Court, but in the spring of 1870 began
the active practice of law at Green Bay, under the firm name of
Vroman & Sale. For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Vroman
was one of the leading lawyers of Green Bay. In 1890 he became
second member of the firm of Green, Vroman, Fairchild, North &
Parker, a legal association that probably represented more business
in Green Bay than any other individual or firm of lawyers. Mr.
Vroman was a member of that firm for ten years, and on May i,
1900, withdrew from the partnership and established his home in
Chicago, where his mature experience found a broader field for
work. In Chicago he practiced as a member of the firm of Flower,
Vroman & Musgrave, and on November 15, 1900, became assistant
general solicitor for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
Thereafter he gave most of his time to his work as solicitor until
April i, 1910, at which date he resumed general practice, in partner-
ship with his son, William P., and Fayette S. Munro, under the
name Vroman, Munro & Vroman. Since the death of his son in
191 1 he has been senior member of the firm of Vroman & Munro.

While living in Wisconsin, Mr. Vroman took an active part in
republican politics. For several terms he was city attorney of
Green Bay, and also for several years district attorney of Brown
County. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch
Chapter, is a member of the University Club of Madison, of the
Wisconsin State Historical Society and the American Historical
Association, is one of the active members of the Wisconsin Society
of Chicago, and belongs to the Union League Club, the University
Club and the City Club at Chicago.

Mr. Vroman was married at Sun Prairie, Dane County, Wis-
consin, May n, 1871, to Miss Emma R. Phillips. They became
the parents of three children : The first, a daughter, died in in-

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fancy ; William P., who was graduated LL. B. from the University
of Wisconsin in 1901, had a successful though brief career as a
lawyer, before his death in 1911 at the age of thirty-two; John C,
the only livng child, was graduated from the Technical Schools of
the University of Wisconsin, and is now practicing his profession
as civil and mechanical engineer, with offices in Chicago.

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WILLIAM ROUDEBUSH MEDARIS was an Ohio lawyer until Feb-
ruary, 1909, when he accepted an appointment from United States
Attorney General Bonaparte as a special assistant United States
attorney, and came to Chicago to serve under Edwin W. Sims.
He continued as one of the assistants in the federal attorney's
office at Chicago until the latter part of 1911. He was intrusted
with the management of a number of federal cases and was con-
nected with the early trials of the beef trust. Since resigning
his position as assistant federal attorney, Mr. Medaris has been
in active private practice at Chicago, and has his law offices in the
Harris Trust Building.

William Roudebush Medaris was born at Owensville, Clermont
County, Ohio, August 3, 1875, a son of Dr. Leonidas .H. and Ella
(Roudebush) Medaris. His father was a well-known physican for
many years in Cincinnati, and was distinguished as an author of
medical subjects and a clinical writer.

William R. Medaris received his early education in the public
schools of Cincinnati, and in 1897 graduated LL. B. from the Cin-
cinnati College of Law. Admitted to the Ohio bar, he was in active
practice at Cincinnati until 1905, and then was appointed special
counsel to the Ohio attorney general, Wade H. Ellis. It was his ex-
perience in the office of the state attorney general which brought
him into prominence and led to his appointment to a position in the
federal attorney general's department. Mr. Medaris was the tem-
porary secretary of the Chicago Society of Advocates, and is now
treasurer of that society. He is also dean of the Hamilton College
of Law and professor of corporation law.

Mr. Medaris has taken a very active interest in the progressive
party, and is one of the Illinois leaders. During the progressive
national campaign of 1912 he served as business manager of the
national committee, and was one of the organizers of the Chicago
Progressive Club, its first secretary and later first vice president.
Mr. Medaris married December 12, 1910, Evelyn C. Hayes, of
Cincinnati, Ohio. They reside at 6520 Woodlawn Avenue.

THOMAS DIVEN HUFF, lawyer, Chicago, Illinois, was born at El-
dora, Iowa, January 9, 1872, the son of Henry Lewis, and Eliza-
beth B. (Diven) Huff. He married Ethelyn K. Allen, August 18,
1903, at Helena, Montana. The issue of the marriage are Emorie
Cannon Huff and Lewis Stevenson Huff.

From the years of his earliest youth, Mr. Huff was surrounded

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with influence that pointed his way for his subsequent career as
a member of the legal profession. His father had already achieved
fame as a distinguished and able lawyer, when Mr. Huff began his
preliminary studies, under his guidance.

Mr. Huff spent his childhood days at Eldora, where he attended
the grammar and high schools. He later attended the academy
and college at Grinnell, Iowa. Between school terms he worked
in his father's office, acquiring much knowledge and the high stand-
ard of legal ethics that has always distinguished his practice of the
legal profession. In 1893 he went to Chicago and entered North-
western University Law School, from which he was graduated in
1895, with the degree of LL. B.

His first work in Chicago was with Thomas J. Diven, with whom
he remained associated until 1903 ; and also during such period was
associated with Horace Wright Cook, under the firm name of Huff
and Cook, which co-partnership continued for seventeen years,
until 1911 when it was enlarged, Joseph Slottow becoming a mem-
ber of the firm, under the firm name of Huff, Cook and Slottow.

From the very beginning of active practice, Mr. Huff has spe-
cialized in corporation .law, and is considered one of the leading
authorities on this branch of the law in the United States, and con-
sequently is retained by other lawyers to assist in corporate matters
of every nature. As an individual attorney he has assisted in the
organization of more corporations than any lawyer in Chicago. He
is recognized by the bar as an authority on corporate organization
and management, and frequently retained as associate counsel in that
connection.

Mr. Huff is one of the ablest trial lawyers in Chicago and has
been retained in many notable cases. He had largely to do with the
construction of the present revenue laws of Illinois, and has served
as counsel in many bondholders and re-organization committees
of large public utilities and industrial corporations.

Mr. Huff is Illinois editor of "The Corporation Manual," which
is published in New York City. He is western counsel and a di-
rector of the United States Corporation Company of New York,
which corporation has an office in every state of the United States,
the provinces of Canada, the Latin-American countries and the
principal countries of Europe and is engaged in the business of or-
ganizing and representing corporations in all of the same, and
therefore his business is more or less international. He is also a
director and secretary and treasurer of the George W. Stoneman
Company, besides being a director and stockholder in numerous
other corporations. He is associate counsel to Messrs. Johnson,
Galston & Leavenworth of New York, probably the leading Latin-
American lawyers of the United States. He has also served as
assistant corporation counsel of the City of Evanston, Illinois.

Although a member of the republican party, Mr. Huff's legal
duties have always been so multifarious as to preclude him from

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accepting political office of any kind, although it is frequently offered
him. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois
State Bar Association, Chicago Law Institute and Commercial
Law League of America. He is also a member of the Hamilton
Club of Chicago, and Evanston Club of Evanston; also of many
societies and civic associations. He resides with his family in
Evanston, a suburb of Chicago.

JOHN CHARLES WILLIAMS. One of Chicago's foremost lawyers
and most helpful and stirring citizens, whose high abilities have
been recognized by his appointment to positions of marked respon-
sibility, John Charles Williams, who for several years was attorney
for the Sanitary District of Chicago, occupies an important place in
the city's busy life. He is a product of the farm, born on his
father's homestead in the vicinity of Lime Springs, Howard County,
Iowa, May 8, 1873, and is a son of Owen E. and Ann (Thomas)
Williams.

Mr. Williams' parents were born in Wales, the father in 1835
and the mother in 1837, and came to the United States about the
year 1858, locating in Racine County, Wisconsin, from whence
they removed about 1870 to Howard County, Iowa. There the
father was engaged in large farming operations for many years
and passed away in 1901. The public schools of Iowa and South
Dakota furnished John C. Williams with his early education, he
graduating from the Aberdeen High School, in the latter state, in
1891. While located there he supplemented his resources and
added to his experience by teaching two terms of country school,
the first when he was but sixteen years of age, and also, from
1891 to February, 1892, by working in an Aberdeen bank. In the
latter year he came to Chicago and entered the Chicago College of
Law (the law department of Lake Forest University), being grad-
uated in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in June of the same year. During the following
four years he continued in practice in the offices of Dent & Whitman,
but November i, 1901, began independent practice, and was so en-
gaged until May i, 1904, when he formed a partnership with Emery
S. Walker, the combination of Walker & Williams continuing for
one year. In March, 1906, Mr. Williams received his appointment
as assistant attorney for the Sanitary Board, and in July, 1907, was
elected by the board general attorney, as successor of E. C. Lindley.
In this capacity Mr. Williams had the direction and legal charge
of matters which concern the people of Chicago as closely as those
of any other department of the public service. Since its comple-
tion in 1900, the Drainage Canal has assumed a vastly increased im-
portance directly affecting the welfare of the city's residents, and
as legal advisor for the board, Mr. Williams occupied a place of
great responsibility, since upon his decisions and upholdings of the
privileges of the district rests the value of the canal and its commer-

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cial development as the rightful property of the people who built it.
Mr. Williams continued to discharge his duties in a most satisfac-
tory manner, giving to them the same conscientious attention that
characterized his personal interests and brought him success in the
legal field, until he retired from this position in December, 1912. A
stalwart republican in his political views, he served as representative
from the Sixth Senatorial District in 1905 and 1906, in the Forty-
fourth General Assembly. With his family he attends the Pres-
byterian Church. Mr. Williams is widely known in fraternal circles,
being a member of Evanston Commandery No. 58, K. T., and the
Mystic Shrine, and is also fraternally connected with the Order of
True Ivorites (Welsh) and Ouillmette Council of the Royal Ar-
canum. He is greatly interested in the welfare of his resident com-
munity, Evanston. His social connections include membership in
the Evanston Club of Evanston, and the Hamilton and Union
League clubs of Chicago, as well as the Law Club and Chicago and
Illinois Bar associations.

On June 16, 1896, Mr. Williams was married to Miss Lillian F.
Whipple, of Evanston, and they reside at No. 1307 Chicago Avenue,
in that suburb, with their two children : Gladys Elmeda, born in
1898; and Helen Levina, born in 1900. Mr. Williams maintains
law offices in the Corn Exchange Bank Building.

JAMES ROSENTHAL. Nearly thirty-five years of active practice
have given James Rosenthal a place among the older lawyers of
Chicago, and his rank in ability and success, especially in the field
of corporation and commercial law is one of the highest. James
Rosenthal is a son of the late Julius Rosenthal, for many years
prominent as a Chicago lawyer, and a younger brother is Lessing
Rosenthal, likewise prominent as a lawyer and in civic and philan-
thropic affairs.

James Rosenthal was born in Chicago April 10, 1859, a son of
Julius and Jette (Wolf) Rosenthal. After attending the graded
and high schools of Chicago he entered Yale University, graduat-
ing LL. B. in 1880. With his graduation he was admitted to the
Connecticut bar, and to the Illinois bar in July, 1880. For the fol-
lowing five years he was associated with his father's firm, Rosenthal
& Pence. In 1894 he became senior member of the firm of Rosen-
thai, Kurz & Hirschl, one of the leading firms in corporation and
commercial law. Mr. Rosenthal is now at the head of the firm of
Rosenthal & Kurz, with offices in the Rector Building, and their
large and valuable practice covers corporation, commercial, probate
and real estate law.

Mr. Rosenthal was for three years a member of the Board of
Education of Chicago. He was one of the organizers and was the
first secretary during 1882-83 of the Young Men's Hebrew Charity
Association. Politically he is a republican, is a member of the
Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the

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American Bar Association, the Commercial Law League of
America, the Illinois Law Institute, and belongs to the City Club,
the Hamilton Club and the Ravisloe Country Club. His home is
at 4801 Lake Park Avenue. Mr. Rosenthal married Emma Fried-
man, daughter of Jacob Friedman. Mrs. Rosenthal died December
24, 1910, leaving two children, Ernest and Ralph. In 1914 Mr.
Rosenthal married Miss Cora Lindauer.

LEWIS ABYRAM STEBBINS. While Mr. Stebbins of the Chicago
bar handles a general practice, most of his business is as an ex-
pert and counselor in insurance law and in general corporation
practice. He is attorney for the National Life Insurance Company
of the United States of America and several other insurance and
trust companies, insurance law being his specialty. Mr. Stebbins
is dean of the Webster College of Law, and in that school is a
lecturer on the law of corporations and insurance and constitu-
tional law.

Lewis Abyram Stebbins was born in Bradford County, Penn-
sylvania, June i, 1863, a son of Marcus M. and Elizabeth A.
(Johnson) Stebbins. His father was a farmer, first in Pennsyl-
vania and later in Kansas, where Mr. Stebbins grew up, gaining
an education in the country schools and spending three years in
the collegiate department of the University of Kansas and finishing
his law course in the same institution, where he was graduated
LL. B. in 1889. After his admission to the Kansas bar he prac-
ticed at Topeka until 1904. In February of that year he was ap-
pointed attorney for the National Life Insurance Company of the
United States of America, and in the same year removed to Chicago,
where he has now been in active practice for more than ten years.
He also represents the Illinois Indemnity Exchange, the Commerce
Trust Company, the Empire Security Company, the North Ameri-
can Timber Holding Company a ten million dollar corporation
with vast timber tracts in British Columbia, and several other com-
panies.

Mr. Stebbins is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and
the American Bar Association, of the Union League Club and the
City Club. While a resident of Kansas in 1896 he was a candidate
for the office of judge of District Court, but was defeated. Polit-
ically he is a democrat. September 14, 1885, Mr. Stebbins married
Miss Katie Selden of Kansas. Their five children are : Inca L.,
Selden L., John M., Julia E. and Dorothy. Mr. Stebbins has his
offices at 29 South La Salle Street and his home is at 6044 Harper
Avenue.

FRANCIS X. BUSCH. A young Chicago lawyer of fine profes-
sional attainments and large private practice, Mr. Busch is also
known to the Illinois bar as a legal author.

Mr. Busch was born in Detroit, Michigan, on May 9, 1877. His

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early education was acquired principally in the public schools at
Cold water, Branch County, his native state, where he completed the
curriculum of the high school. In 1901 Mr. Busch graduated from
the Illinois College of Law, at Chicago, this being the law depart-
ment of St. Vincent de Paul University, from which he received
at that time the degree, Bachelor of Laws. His alma mater has
since taken recognition of his professional attainments by con-
ferring upon him the supplemental degrees of Master of Laws, Doc-
tor of Civil Law, and Doctor of Laws. He was admitted to the Illi-
nois bar on the 5th of June, 1901, by the Supreme Court of the
state, and Chicago has since continued to be the stage of his earnest
and successful professional endeavors. Much of his practice con-
sists in the trial of personal injury cases. He served as assistant
corporation counsel of Chicago from 1904 to 1906. He is an active
member of the Chicago Bar Association and is dean of the law
department of De Paul University.

In politics Mr. Busch is a democrat, and is a member of the
City Club and other representative civic organizations. He is mar-
ried and resides at 1700 Kenil worth Avenue. His office is at 29
South La Salle Street, Chicago.

SHELLEY B. NELTNOR, a representative member of the Illinois
bar, commenced his professional career in Chicago fifteen years ago,
and both as a lawyer and a citizen has earned a substantial and hon-
orable reputation. He was born at West Chicago, Illinois, Septem-
ber 18, 1873, and is a son of John C. and Mary Eames (Kinney)
Neltnor, his father having been a police magistrate of West Chicago
for a number of years. On his mother's side he belongs to an old
Colonial family which settled in one of the first Connecticut colonies,
and several members of the family, notably Capt. Eli Butler and
Lieut. John Eames, were officers in the Revolution.

Shelley B. Neltnor was granted excellent educational advan-
tages during his youth, and entered his profession admirably pre-
pared in every way for a successful career. After graduating from
the West Chicago High School, he attended Elgin Academy and
Wheaton College, and then took up the study of his vocation in
Chicago Kent College of Law, where he was graduated with his
bachelor's degree in 1899. Subsequently he received the degree of
LL. M. from the Illinois College of Law, graduated from the law
department of De Pauw University in 1899, and in 1912 received
the degree of LL. D. from Oskaloosa (Iowa) College. Mr. Neltnor
was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1899 and in that same year en-
tered upon his professional career in Chicago, where he has since
continued his labors with much success. For five years he was a
member of the law firm of Tinsman, Rankin & Neltnor, but at this
time is practicing independently, with offices at No. 802 Straus
Building. His practice is general in character, and he has appeared
in many of the most important cases passed upon by the state

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and federal courts of Illinois, always with marked results as to
honorable success. Mr. Neltnor is a member of the Chicago Bar
Association, and has always been a close student of his profession.
He is widely known as an educator in the legal. field, being president
of Hamilton College of Law, and was professor of contracts in the
Illinois College of Law for ten years, from 1899 to 1909.

Mr. Neltnor is a member -of the Chicago Press Club, and an
ex-member of the Germarria Club and the Wheaton Golf Club. He
holds membership also in the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity and
the Modern Woodmen of America. In political matters he is a
democrat, but has not taken a particularly active part in political
affairs, although he has given his aid to movements making for
civic betterment and reform. Mr. Neltnor finds his recreation in
travel, of which he is very fond, and is the possessor of a large
and valuable collection of antiques, gathered in the various coun-
tries which he has visited. He is unmarried.

W. TUDOR APMADOC. Besides his progressive career in the
law at Chicago since 1896, W. Tudor ApMadoc has become known
over the state through his valuable service in the Legislature.
While now in individual practice, he was for several years a mem-
ber of the firm of Peckham, Packard, ApMadoc & Walsh.

William Tudor ApMadoc was born in the City of Utica, New
York, on the 2Oth of September, 1873, and is a son of William and
Elizabeth (Jones) ApMadoc. His parents live in Chicago, where
his father is a teacher of music in the city high schools. In his
native city Mr. ApMadoc was afforded the advantages of the
public schools, and after the family removal to Chicago completed
a special course in Armour Institute. Entering the law department
of the University of Michigan he was graduated, Bachelor of Laws,
in the class of 1896. In the same year the Supreme Court of Illi-
nois admitted him to practice in the state, and he has in the course
of his legal practice brought numerous cases before this tribunal,
as well as before the various federal courts of Illinois. Mr.
ApMadoc is a capable trial lawyer and well fortified counselor,
and has been identified with much important litigation in the vari-
ous courts of Chicago. He is a member of the Chicago, Illinois
State and American Bar associations. His service in the State
Legislature covered a period of six years. In that time he served
on various important house committees, and among the various
measures championed and introduced by him was the bill that re-
sulted in the enactment of the present statute creating a State Com-
mission on Uniform Laws, this bill having been drafted by him.
He redrafted and secured passage of Adult Probation Measure
and the Crimes Against Children Statute. He was also chairman of
the insurance commission of the Legislature, and he was regarded
as one of the ablest members of the Chicago delegation in the Illi-
nois House of Representatives. The welfare of his home city is

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with him always a matter of vital concern. He is a member of
the University Club, the South Shore Country Club and the Ham-
ilton Club, and in the Masonic fraternity he is past master of Land-
mark Lodge. His politics are those of a republican, and with his
family he has membership in the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. ApMadoc was married on September 26, 1909, to Miss Nelle
Gill, of Chicago, and their home is at 5009 Grand Boulevard. His
offices are in the First National Bank Building.

JOHN LONG FOGLE, attorney for the Chicago Bar Association
during the past ten years, both by reason of that position and his
general ability displayed in his practice, is one of the best-known
members of the Chicago bar.

Born at Terra Alta, Preston County, West Virginia, February
22, 1875, he is a son of Robert Bruce and Emeline (Long) Fogle,
both natives of that state. The father in young manhood adopted
the vocation of school teacher, and as such he came to Illinois.
He was engaged in that work in Galena at the outbreak of the
Civil war, when he enlisted in Company C, Forty-fifth Regiment,
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, known as the Washburn Lead Mine
Regiment. The regiment joined General Grant's forces at Cairo
and with that army participated in the battles of Fort Donelson
and Pittsburg Landing. While guarding a railroad bridge in
Tennessee his company was captured but soon released, and Mr.
Fogle shortly thereafter, in 1862, was honorably discharged be-
cause of disability. Returning to his native state he passed the
remainder of his life there, several years of that time as sheriff
of Monongalia County, and afterwards as a druggist at Terra
Alta in Preston County.

The foundation for John Long Fogle's education was laid in
the public schools of West Virginia, and this was followed by
attendance in the University of West Virginia and Georgetown Uni-
versity, where he earned his Bachelors and Masters law degrees
and was graduated in 1896. Following this two years were passed
in the United States Government printing office at Washington,
D. C., and Mr. Fogle then came to Illinois and was admitted to the
bar in 1898. His law experience began in the office of Dent &
Whitman, and Mr. Fogle later formed a partnership with Thomas
J. Holmes, under the firm name of Holmes & Fogle, this associa-
tion continuing until 1904. In that year Mr. Fogle was appointed
attorney for the Chicago Bar Association, in which capacity he
has continued to act to the present time. Mr. Fogle's private prac-
tice has been general and of an important character. His profes-
sional associations are with the Law Club, the Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation, the Illinois State Bar Association, and the American Bar
Association and his social memberships are with the Hamilton,
Colonial and Calumet Country clubs. He is a Mason and is a
member of Kenwood Lodge, A. F. & A. M.

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Mr. Fogle comes of Colonial stock, his great-grandfather, John
Dent, having been captain of a Virginia company, while his great-
grandmother, Margaret Evans Dent, was the only child of John
Evans, colonel of a regiment of Virginia volunteers during the
Revolution.

In June, 1897, Mr. Fogle was married to Miss Nellie Carskadon,
of Keyser, West Virginia, and eight children have been born to
them. They are named Kenneth, Robert Bruce, Helen, John Dent,
Dorothy, Mildred, Marjorie and William H. The family residence
is at No. 4349 Forestville Avenue, and Mr. Fogle has his offices in
the Fort Dearborn Building.

EGBERT ROBERTSON. One of the youngest members of the Chi-
cago bar, Egbert Robertson is a lawyer whose experience and par-
ticular talents have led him into the specialty of trial practice,
where he has had conspicuous success in important cases. In the
field of office work he has become recognized as an expert on issues
of bonds and corporate securities, and in corporation matters
generally.

Mr. Robertson was born at Cairo, Illinois, December 8, 1881,
and is the son of Alexander S. and Lucretia (Walbridge) Robert-
son, who removed to Chicago in 1882. He was educated in the
grammar and high schools of Chicago, was graduated from the
Lewis Institute of that city in 1900, and then entered the Uni-
versity of Chicago, where he received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in 1902. In preparation for his profession Mr. Robertson at-
tended the law school of Lake Forest University, graduating in
1905, with the degree of LL. B. While in law school he was
awarded the Thomas A. Moran prize for scholarship, and was also
given honorable mention for work in the practice court.

In 1905, soon after his graduation from Lake Forest, he was
admitted to the bar, and for a year continued his apprenticeship
in the legal department of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Company. After that he was associated with the law firm of
Pringle, Northup & Terwilliger and remained with them until
1908. In that year he became a trial lawyer with the firm of
Felsenthal, Foreman & Beckwith, and was later admitted to a part-
nership. In 1911 was formed the present firm of Foreman, Levin
& Robertson, consisting of Milton J. Foreman, Jacob Levin, Mr.
Robertson and David Blummrosen.

Mr. Robertson served as secretary of the Civil Service Reform
Association in 1907-08-09. Politically he was a republican until the
formation of the progressive party, which he joined in 1912, and
in 1914 he was one of the progressive candidates for the office of
judge of the Municipal Court. He is a member of the Chicago
Bar Association, the Hamilton Club, the Progressive Club, the
Kenwood Country Club, the Lincoln Park Yacht Club and the
Palette & Chisel Club and of the college fraternity of Phi Gamma

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Delta and the law fraternity of Phi Delta Phi. He has served
four years in the First Cavalry Illinois National Guard.

Mr. Robertson was married October 21, 1912, to Miss Mar-
guerite C. Henneberry of Chicago. They reside at 907 Ainslie
Street.

TAYLOR EVERETT BROWN. In the field of patent law there is
probably no Illinois attorney whose activities have connected him
with a more extensive practice and whose unquestioned ability
gives him higher rank in that specialty than Col. Taylor E. Brown,
who began his professional career at Chicago thirty-five years ago.

Taylor Everett Brown was born in St. Louis, Missouri, Janu-
ary 22, 1860, a son of Capt. Henry Stuart and Emma Jane (Taylor)
Brown. Until seventeen years of age he attended the grammar
and high schools of St. Louis, then learned the trade of pattern
maker at the Vulcan Iron Works in St. Louis. Employment at
his trade until 1880 and work as patent office draftsman and
designer of machinery for several years laid a technical and prac-
tical experience which proved of the greatest value as a foundation
to the professional career upon which he was about to enter.

Colonel Brown attended, for a time, the Union College of Law
at Chicago. In March, 1884, he was admitted to the bar by the
Supreme Court of Illinois. Later he was admitted to practice in
various District and Circuit courts of the United States, and to
the Supreme Court of the United States in 1893. From 1887
until a few years ago he was a member of the firm of Poole &
Brown, patent lawyers and solicitors of United States and for-
eign letters patent, giving almost his entire attention to patent and
trade work litigation in the various Federal courts. His services
have been retained in many important cases. In March, 1912, he
organized the law firm of Brown & Mehlhope, under which style
he is now practicing his specialty of patent and trade work law.

Colonel Brown has a notable military record and has been
prominent in the National Guard of both Missouri and Illinois,
serving in Missouri from 1887 to 1880 and in Illinois from 1881
to 1914. In the Illinois National Guard he rose through all the
grades from private to colonel. On February 24, 1908, he was
appointed inspector general of the Illinois National Guard with
the rank of lieutenant colonel, and in May, 1910, was appointed
chief ordnance officer of the Division. Illinois National Guard. On
December 31, 1913, at his own request, he was placed on the retired
list with the rank of colonel.

During the war with Spain in 1898 he served as a captain in
the First Illinois Volunteer Infantry and in the Provisional Bat-
talion of Engineers, and saw service in Cuba and Porto Rico.
He was the first officer of the United States army to land in
Porto Rico (Guanica, July 26, 1898), and was recommended for

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brevet rank of Major of United States Volunteers "for gallantry
in action" by General Miles.

Colonel Brown is a member of the Military Order of Foreign
Wars of the United States ; has served as commander of the Illinois
Commandery of the Naval and Military Order of Spanish-Amer-
ican war, and also commander-in-chief of the national com-
mandery of that order. He is a past president of the Veteran
Corps, First Infantry, Illinois National Guard.

Mr. Brown is a prominent member in St. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church, a member of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew,
and has been president of the National Conference of Church
Clubs. He is a member of the Chicago Athletic, the Union League,
the South Shore Country and Church clubs of Chicago; of the
Army and Navy clubs in New York and Washington. January 30,
1888, he married Fannie Garrison Dayton, who died December 28,
1901. Their children were: Melville S. ; Taylor G., deceased;
Charles Everett; Jessie Imogen; Dayton Reginald; and Fannie
Susan. On November 3, 1904, Mr. Brown married Jessie May
Catlin of Ripon, Wisconsin. His office is in Chicago.

JOHN ROGERS MORELAND. A prominent firm of lawyers at
Galesburg is that of Moreland & Moreland, brothers, the senior
member being John R. Moreland, whose entire professional career
has been connected with important people and interests in Knox
County. He is of Scotch and Irish ancestry, a sturdy combination,
and his forefathers many years ago settled in Pennsylvania, and
the name is not unknown there at the present day.

Prior to the Revolutionary War, his great-great-grandfather,
Alexander Moreland, emigrated from Adams County and settled in
that part of Westmoreland now Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
locating on a farm of 300 acres, below Broadford on the
Youghiogheny River, about two miles below where Connellsville now
stands, where he built a home and improved the land and resided
until his death in 1793 or 1794.

He was survived by four children, David, William, Isaiah, and
Nancy. Of these William was Mr. Moreland's great-grandfather
who also settled in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1771 on a farm
adjoining his father's. He was a soldier in the Continental 'Line of
Pennsylvania, according to Penn. Archives, Vol. VI,_ page 325, and
was in a campaign against the Indians after the burning of Hannas-
town by the Indians in July, 1782, besides other services. On Jan-
uary 17, 1777, he married Agnes Huston who was a daughter of
Joseph Huston, also a soldier in the Revolutionary War, who served
in Crawford's Sandusky expedition in 1782 and other campaigns.

The children of William and Agnes (Huston) Moreland were
Margera, Jane, Sarah, Agnes, Mary, Alexander, William, Joseph
Huston, Margaret, John and David. He died April 24, 1830, and
his wife died May 9, 1828.

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Of these John was Mr. Moreland's grandfather and he was born
July 4, 1800. On December 8, 1831, he married Priscilla Rogers,
a daughter of William and Nancy Rogers also residents of the same
locality. John Moreland was one of the pioneer coke manufacturers
of that county, being among the first in the Connellsville coke region
to manufacture coke and boat it to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. The
children of John and Priscilla Moreland were William Rogers, Ann
Maria, Mary Agness, Thomas Rogers, Joseph, Daniel Rogers,
Rebecca Stewart, Sarah Halliday, John Huston and Elizabeth
Rogers. He died July 26, 1866, and his wife died in 1875. Of these
William was Mr. Moreland's father.

John Rogers Moreland was born September. 6, 1869, near La-
fayette in Stark County, Illinois, and is a son of William Rogers
and Anna E. (Hill) Moreland, the latter of whom resides at Gales-
burg, Illinois. His mother was a daughter of Col. Alexander M.
Hill of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, who was prominently identi-
fied with the coking industry of that locality and represented his
district in the general assembly of that state for a number of years.
She was educated at Blairsville Seminary at Blairsville, Penn-
sylvania.

Both parents were born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where
they were married September 23, 1867, just before moving to Illinois.
The father, who is now deceased and who was born March n, 1834,
was a scholarly man and adopted teaching as his vocation. He was
educated at Laurel Hill Academy in Pennsylvania and also at Jeffer-
son College at Canonsberg, Pennsylvania, which was later con-
solidated with Washington College. He taught school in different
parts of the country, having charge of the public schools at Lafayette,
Illinois, in 1857 and 1858, and when the Civil War broke out, hap-
pened to be so engaged in a southern state. Complications arose
which prevented his returning to the North and also made necessary
his serving in the Confederate Army, connected with the hospital
corps.

After the war he returned to Illinois and engaged -in farming
in which pursuit he was successful, retiring in 1893 and moving to
Galesburg where he resided until his death on June 4, 1909. Of his
three children, John R. was the second born. The others being Rosa
Bell and Armor. Until he was fifteen years of age, John R. More-
land enjoyed the educational advantages offered by the district
schools, and after that attended the public schools of Galva for four
years. In the fall of 1889 he matriculated in Knox College and was
there graduated in 1894, with his degree of B. S., later receiving his
A. B. degree. While in college he was a member of the Gnothautii
Literary Society and held the office of treasurer in it. He was con-
sidered an authority on parliamentary law by the members of his
society. He was also a member of the college military organization
and attained the rank of ranking first lieutenant and was commis-

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sioned brevet first liteutenant in the Illinois State Militia by the
governor of the state.

In 1894 he began reading law in the office of J. J. Tunnicliff,
who was an admirable instructor and for years one of the leading
attorneys of the county. After two years under his teaching, Mr.
Moreland went to Springfield, passed his examination and in the
fall of 1896 was admitted to the bar, after which he remained in
the office of Mr. Tunnicliff as assistant for one year. In 1897 he
formed a partnership with his brother, Armor Moreland, under the
present style, and this firm collectively and individually, has won
prominent and substantial standing in Knox County, representing
legal ability, fidelity to clients and the upholding of the honorable
ethics of the profession. Such a reputation invites public confidence
and much important business is placed in the hands of this firm.
The members of his profession have shown their confidence in him
by electing him vice-president of the Knox County Bar Association,
of which he is a member and which position he held with credit.
He is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the
Illinois State Historical Society.

Mr. Moreland was united in marriage on November 18, 1912, to
Miss Caroline Henshaw, who was born at Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
and they have two daughters, Dorcas Rosanna, who was born
December 25, 1913, and Caroline Priscilla, who was born January
26, 1916. Mrs. Moreland is a daughter of William and Dorcas
(Hazen) Henshaw of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and graduated
from the high school there and also from the college at California,
Pennsylvania. She comes of Revolutionary stock and belongs to
the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is also a member
of the Tuscarora Club and the Federation of Woman's Clubs.

Mr. Moreland has a wide circle of loyal friends and many well
wishing acquaintances both inside and outside his profession. In
politics he is a republican and has always been interested in good
government and conscientious citizenship, although he has never
sought an office. Mr. and Mrs. Moreland attend the Presbyterian
Church, of which they are both members.

ARMOR MORELAND. The Knox County bar has no abler member
than Armor Moreland, the junior member of the widely known law
firm of Moreland & Moreland, at Galesburg, who, not only is an
attorney of merited distinction, but is also prominent in city, county
and state politics and also finds time to interest himself in civic
progress and social and fraternal activities. He leads a busy life,
one of usefulness and creditable endeavor and has built up a
reputation, professionally and otherwise, that entitles him to be
numbered with the leading men of this section.

Armor Moreland was born near Galva in Henry County, Illinois,
April 24, 1873, and is a son of William R. and Annie E. (Hill)
Moreland, the latter surviving and residing at Galesburg. William

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R. Moreland and wife were both born in Fayette County, Penn-
sylvania. He was an educator and when the Civil War broke out
was engaged in teaching school in a southern state and on account
of this environment, entered the Confederate army and was assigned
to the hospital service with which he was identified until the close
of hostilities. He was born March n, 1834, and his death occurred
at Galesburg, Illinois, June 4, 1909.

Mr. Moreland is of Scotch-Irish descent. His great-great-grand-
father, Alexander Moreland, prior to the Revolutionary War
emigrated from Adams County, Pennsylvania, and settled in Fayette
County, Pennsylvania, and near Broadford on the Youghiogheny
River. Taking up a farm from the Government, he improved it
and lived there until the time of his death in 1793 or 1794. Mr.
Moreland's great-grandfather, William Moreland, also settled in
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1771 on a farm in the vicinity of
his father's farm. It was while he was living in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, that he was a soldier in the "Continental Line of
Pennsylvania" and was in the campaign against the Indians, after
the burning of Hannastown in 1782. His wife was Agnes Huston
who was a daughter of Joseph Huston, a Revolutionary soldier
who served in Crawford's Sandusky expedition in 1782.

Mr. Moreland's grandfather was John Moreland who also
resided in the same vicinity as his father. He was a farmer and
.pioneer coke maker of Western Pennsylvania. He together with
Col. Alexander M. Hill were among the first to make commercial
coke in the now famous Connellsville coke region.

Mr. Moreland's mother was a daughter of Col. Alexander M.
Hill just referred to. He was prominent in manufacturing and
politics in Western Pennsylvania and represented his district in the
General Assembly of that state for a number of years.

In the district schools of Lynn Township, Armor Moreland
received instructions until fourteen years of age, then became a
student at Galva and was graduated in 1891 from the Galva High
School and in the fall of the same year came to Galesburg and
entered Knox College, from which he was graduated in 1895 with
his B. S. degree, and later received the degree of A. B. from the
same institution. While in college he took a prominent part in the
Gnothautii Literary Society and attained marked distinction as a
debater. It was also during his student days that he became a
member of the Knox College Cadet Corps, serving until his gradu-
ation and became ranking captain and subsequently was commis-
sioned brevet captain by the State of Illinois and upon leaving
college he entered the Illinois National Guard, serving four years.
His military record presents him in a very creditable light. At the
outbreak of the Spanish-American war, Mr. Moreland was made
first sergeant of the battery commanded by Captain C. C. Craig
(now Judge Craig). Although the early termination of the war
made active service by this artillery regiment unnecessary, its readi-

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ness and patriotism were typical of the American spirit, loyal to
the core and ever quick to rally to preserve law and order either on
the battlefield or in other struggles where the peace and prosperity
of innocent people are imperiled. During the labor troubles at Pana,
Illinois, and also at Virden, he served as a member of the National
Guard, twenty days at each place, on strike duty.

When Mr. Moreland began his law studies in the office of
Daugherty and Boutelle, his mind had already been well trained,
and after two years of law reading, he was admitted to the bar at
Mount Vernon, Illinois, in 1897, and immediately thereafter he
formed a law partnership with his brother, under the firm style of
Moreland & Moreland, which has continued to the present, the
offices of the firm being located at No. 151 Main Street, Galesburg,
Illinois. As may be inferred from his success as a debater while
at college, Mr. Moreland is a close reasoner, a master of logic, and
is a brilliant speaker. The Knox County Bar Association has
honored him at different times and in 1911, while serving as vice
president of that body, elected him president. He is now a member
of the State Bar Association of Illinois.

He has been very active in the ranks of the republican party ;
has been a delegate to numerous state conventions, and in March,
1901, was elected city attorney of Galesburg, which office he served
two years with the greatest efficiency. At the time of his nomination
to the above office, he was serving as secretary of the republican city
central committee, but the greater part of 'his political activity has
been for others, his friends finding in him at all times a loyal sup-
porter and his party a conscientious and willing worker.

Mr. Moreland was married August 23, 1905, to Miss Josephine
Cooledge, who is a daughter of James H. Cooledge, a prominent
farmer and stock raiser of Galesburg and one of the best known
men in the state. Mr. Cooledge was instrumental in establishing the
agricultural department at the Illinois State University, and helped
to purchase and install the first blooded stock at the agricultural
college.-

Mr. and Mrs. Moreland have two children : Margaret, who was
born June n, 1907 ; and Joanne, who was born May 30, 1911. Mrs.
Moreland has numerous interests as has the modern woman and
these include activities in society and club life. She is a member
of the Home Culture Club, the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, the Federation of Woman's Clubs and the Tourists' Club. Her
children are being reared with intelligent care, surrounded by
influences which cannot fail to normally develop them and prepare
them for the pleasures and duties of life.

Mr. and Mrs. Moreland attend the Presbyterian Church. He is
a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight of Pythias and is an enthusiastic
supporter of the-Galesburg Business Men's Club, and is a member of
the Soangetaha Country Club.

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JESSE ELMER ROBERTS. Many of the most successful members
of the bar have come into this profession through the avenue of
hard work, self-reliance, and before they were privileged to take a
single case had developed qualities which would have gained them
success in other fields. One of the lawyers of high standing and
successful position in Chicago is of this type of self-made men, hav-
ing worked his way through college and earned every dollar that
gave him his higher education and supported him until he became
established in practice. Jesse Elmer Roberts has been a member
of the Chicago bar for more than twenty years and has his offices
at 76 West Monroe Street.

Born in Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, November 3, 1865,
he is a son of Preston Floyd and Louisa R. (Keithley) Roberts.
His father combined school teaching with farming, and was iden-
tified with the work of the schoolroom for a period of forty years.
Jesse E. Roberts while an Indiana farm boy acquired an educa-
tion in the district schools, qualified for teaching, and worked three
years as an educator in Indiana, and then spent a similar period in
California. While in California Mr. Roberts taught in the Magnolia
school in Riverside, in the famous orange belt, and was also in the
Banning school and the old San Bernardino Mission school. In
1889 he was a member of the San Bernardino county board of
education.

Mr. Roberts was twenty-five years of age before he was able
to realize his ambition to study law. In 1890 he entered the law de-
partment of the University of Michigan, and remained until grad-
uating LL. B. in 1892. In university he also earned his own way
and was assistant librarian of the law library. By competitive con-
test he won the honors in oratory in the university in 1892, and was
chosen representative of the university in the Northern Oratorical
League in its contest on May 6, 1892, at Evanston, Illinois. He
graduated as valedictorian of his law class, and during his career
in the university had gained both the respect and esteem of his in-
structors and fellow pupils.

Mr. Roberts was admitted to the Michigan bar in June, 1892,
before the Supreme Court and to the Illinois bar before the Supreme
Court of that state in October of the same year. Since then he has
been in practice in Chicago. During a residence of some years in
LaGrange Mr. Roberts served as village attorney nine consecutive
years, and was village attorney for several other villages around
Chicago. He assisted in the organization of village government in
several places, and for the past eighteen years has had a continuous
experience in municipal law matters, and is one of the best qualified
lawyers in that special field. That work he has carried on in addi-
tion to his growing general practice. Mr. Roberts is a member of
the Chicago and Illinois State Bar associations, the Chicago Law
Institute, the Union League Club, the Automobile Club of Chicago,
the Southern Club, the Iroquois Club and the Westward Ho Golf

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Club. He has also taken thirty-two degrees in Scottish Rite Ma-
sonry, being a member of the Oriental Consistory and of the Me-
clmah Temple of the Mystic Shrine and of Trinity Commandery at
La Grange. On August 3, 1903, Mr. Roberts married Pauline E
Boerlm of Chicago, who died February i, 1915. The home is at 511
Belmont Avenue.

P. C. HALEY. As a lawyer Mr. P. C. Haley is about equally
well known in Joliet and Chicago, and for a number of years has
had offices in both cities. He has long been prominent as a citizen
in Joliet, and for twenty-three years as special counsel to the Sani-
tary District. In Chicago he has his law offices in the Rector
Building.

P. C. Haley was born at Saranac, New York, March 17, 1849, a
son of Thomas and Hannah (Caton) Haley. Mr. Haley was grad-
uated from high school and then entered the law department of the
University of Michigan, graduating LL.B in 1871. Admitted to
the bar of Illinois the same year, he took up active practice in Joliet,
and has been identified with the bar of Will County more than forty
years. In 1874 he was elected city attorney of Joliet and at the
conclusion of his term gave his full attention to a practice which
has since been steadily growing and has required the opening of
offices in Chicago as well as in Joliet.

For twelve years Mr. Haley represented the Fifth Ward in the
Joliet City Council, and in 1891 was elected mayor of Joliet, serving
one term. He was twice a candidate on the democratic ticket for
congressman from his district. Mr. Haley is a member of the
Catholic Church.

He was married at Joliet December i, 1875, to Mary A. D'Arty.
Their children are Margaret, Robert, Columbia, Madeline, Gene-
vieve, Paul and John P. The son Robert is one of Joliet's prominent
attorneys. .

EDMUND DAVID ADCOCK. In December, 1912, the Board of
Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago unanimously elected
Edmund D. Adcock as general attorney for the board. When the
value and significance of the Sanitary District, as a property costing
millions of dollars and instituted and maintained for the safeguard-
ing of the health and general welfare of a city of 2,000,000 people
are considered, the importance of such an office as general attorney
to the district is better understood. Mr. Adcock has a department
with about twenty employes, including assistant attorneys, and the
importance of the interests entrusted to the district's law department
makes it a position of the heaviest responsibilities and in many vital
relations with Chicago's citizenship.

Since becoming general attorney for the Sanitary District Mr.
Adcock has had much important litigation under his supervision.
One trial was the United States vs. the Sanitary District, a suit

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to enjoin the district from withdrawing from Lake Michigan through
the district's main channel and adjuncts water in excess of the
amount authorized by the secretary of war. This case, which is
still undecided, has attracted much attention in Illinois, and if the
decision of the courts is unfavorable, resulting in a curtailment of
the volume of water taken from Lake Michigan, it will entail an
expenditure of more than two hundred million dollars upon the
people of Chicago and adjacent districts in solving the problem of
protecting the water supply from sewage pollution. Ofher litiga-
tion in which the district has been involved during Mr. Adcock's
term concerns the right of land owners in the overflow zone of the
Illinois River to bring suit, against the Sanitary District each year
to recover damages to land. The Supreme Court had formerly
upheld the right of owners to sue for permanent injury within five
years after the Sanitary District was opened. However, the suits
under present consideration are those brought for temporary dam-
ages and recurrent injury, and it is obvious that if the privilege
of instituting such proceedings was upheld, it would constitute a
lasting and serious burden upon the Sanitary District, the amount
involved having been estimated at upwards of seventeen million
dollars. Since Mr. Adcock took office this class of litigation has
been defeated. The question still pending relates to the question of
obligation upon the Sanitary District for the construction and main-
tenance of bridges across its various channels at the crossings of
railway rights-of-way. It has been argued that inasmuch as the
drainage channels are artificial, the expense of such bridges should
be borne by the Sanitary District. However, the district maintains
that the construction of the channels is an exercise of the police
power delegated to it by the General Assembly, and that therefore
on the principal of "uncompensated obedience to the police power"
the railroad companies must build and maintain bridges at their
own expense. These cases are only the, more important which
have come under the supervision of Mr. Adcock, and are mentioned
to indicate the responsibilities of his position.

Edmund D. Adcock was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1902 and
began practice in Chicago the same year. He was associated with
Otis H. Waldo until 1904, then became a member of the law firm
of Wood & Fyffe, later Fyffe & Adcock, and as Fyffe, Adcock &
Ryner until the partnership was dissolved when Mr. Adcock ac-
cepted his present position with the Sanitary District. By his work
as general attorney for the Sanitary District, his experience as an
individual lawyer and his affiliations with the profession, Mr. Ad-
cock is regarded as one of the able and successful members of the
Chicago bar.

Edmund D. Adcock was born near Galesburg, Illinois. April 29,
1877, a son of William and Mary J. (Henderson) Adcock. He was
liberally educated, after the public schools entering Knox College
at Galesburg, from which he graduated A. B. in 1898, and followed

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that with his law studies in the Northwestern University at Chicago
until given the LL. B. degree in 1902. Mr. Adcock is a member
of the Homewood Country Club, the Union League Club, the Chi-
cago Yacht Club, and the City Club, and in politics is a democrat.
His home is at 5219 Greenwood avenue. August 31, 1905, he mar-
ried at Creston, Iowa, Mary Rex. One son, Edmund Rex Adcock,
was born August 28, 1911.

WILL HARTWELL LYFORD. General counsel to the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois Railroad and for many years one of Chicago's
well known lawyers, Will H. Lyford began his career as a prac-
tical railway man, came up from the ranks to larger responsibili-
ties, and in the meantime having fitted himself for the practice of
law, was selected as the man best qualified by practical experience
and by legal ability for the post which he has held now for more
than twenty years.

Will Hartwell Lyford was born at Waterville, Maine, September
15, 1858, a son of Oliver Smith and Lavina A. (Norris) Lyford.
His father's successful career is well known in railway circles.
Beginning as a watchman on the old Boston & Lowell Railroad,
he went up the ladder of promotion through the various grades in
the operating service to some of the higher offices in executive
management. Oliver S. Lyford was born at Mount Vernon, Maine,
June 19, 1823, a son of Dudley and Betsey Lyford. After a high
school education, he began railroading in 1846, was successively
watchman, assistant baggage master, ticket agent, and passenger
conductor on the Boston & Lowell until 1851, was shop clerk and
passenger conductor on the Erie Railroad from 1851 to 1855, was
joint station agent of the Erie and Atlantic & Great Western rail-
ways at Salamanca, New York, during 1860-63, was division and
assistant general superintendent of the Atlantic & Great Western
from 1863 to 1871 and for the following two years was division
superintendent on the Erie. He next became general superintend-
ent of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, serving during 1872-73,
was general superintendent of the Kansas Pacific in 1874-76, and
in 1878 became identified with the Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
being superintendent in 1878-86, general manager, 1886-87, vice
president and general manager from 1887 to 1890, and in the latter
year became vice president and director. He died October 15,
1914, at the age of ninety-one.

With the career of his father before him, Will H. Lyford gravi-
tated naturally into the same service. He finished his education in
Colby College at Waterville, Maine, and during 1879-80 was assist-
ant engineer, then a stenographer to the general superintendent dur-
ing 1881-82, was chief clerk for the general manager in 1882-83,
was claim agent in 1883-84 with the Chicago & Eastern Illinois.
In the meantime he had studied law in the intervals of his regular
duties, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. Mr. Lyford was

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made assistant general solicitor of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
a post he held from 1884 to 1887, and was attorney in charge of
the law department from 1887 to 1889. In the latter year he was
made general solicitor, and since March 15, 1892, has also been gen-
eral counsel. Mr. Lyford is also a member and in practice with the
law firm of Calhoun, Lyford & Sheehan, with offices in the McCor-
mick Building in Chicago.

April 28, 1886, at Nebraska City, Nebraska., he married Mary
L. MacComas. Their children are Gertrude and Calhoun. Mr.
Lyford is a republican, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Delta
Kappa Epsilon, and belongs to the Chicago, the Union League,
the Chicago Athletic, the University, and the South Shore Country
clubs. His home is at 165 Erie Street.

JOHN R. McCABE. While the name of John R. McCabe is fa-
miliar to Chicago people in general because of his former services
as city clerk and active relations with republican politics, local and
national, his position as a lawyer has been of steadily increasing
merit and success since his admission to the bar thirteen years ago.
He now has a large individual practice, with offices in the Chamber
of Commerce Building.

John R. McCabe was born in Chicago January 5, 1879, a son
of Michael S. and Julia (White) McCabe. His father was a vet-
eran of the Chicago police department, and connected therewith
for thirty-eight years. His death occurred in 1908. John R. was
educated in private schools and in the Jesuit College, now Loyola
University, graduating A. B. in 1896. He pursued his law studies
in Kent College of Law, and took the LL. B. degree in 1901. Ad-
mitted to the bar after examination at Springfield in 1901, he was
for a time associated in the office with Hon. Judge Hiram T. Gil-
bert and Timothy J. Fell. In 1906 Mr. McCabe began individual
practice, and in 1907 was elected city clerk of Chicago and served
with an admirable record of efficiency until 1909. In the latter
year Mr. McCabe formed a partnership with William E. Cloyes
and Frederick Kull, and that firm was continued until 1914. Since
then Mr. McCabe has practiced alone. One interesting distinction of
his practice is that he filed the first case in the Municipal Court of
Chicago after its organization, and has the certified copy of the
first writ issued by that court on December 3, 1906.

Mr. McCabe is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the
Lawyers' Association of Illinois and the Illinois State Bar Associa-
tion. Fraternally his relations are with the Knights of the Mac-
cabees, the Foresters and the Knights of Columbus. For several
years he was active in the Illinois National Guard, belongs to the
Seventh Illinois Infantry Veteran Corps, and at one time was
captain and quartermaster in that organization. Mr. McCabe is a
republican, and has been one of the vigorous leaders of his party
in Chicago and also a figure in national politics. Mr. McCabe is
unmarried and resides at 812. South Irving Avenue.

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FRANCIS SERVICE WILSON. A Chicago lawyer whose position
is with the leaders of the profession, Francis Service Wilson has
practiced in that city since 1897, and is the son of a distinguished
Ohio lawyer and jurist. He was born February 7, 1872, at Youngs-
town, Ohio, his parents being David M. and Griselda E. (Camp-
bell) Wilson.

David M. Wilson was a native of Medina County, Ohio, born
there in 1823, and he had his early education in his native com-
munity. He took up the study of law and was admitted to the
bar in 1844. He continued to reside and practice his profession at
Medina until 1862, when he removed to Canfield, the county seat
of Mahoning County, and afterwards to Youngstown, when the
county seat was removed to that point. Establishing himself in
the practice of law he soon gained a place of prominence among
his professional brothers, and among some of the most profound
students and most eloquent exponents of law and jurisprudence
produced in Northeastern Ohio, ably held his own. He was a
brilliant advocate, a profound thinker, and was gifted with a clear,
judicial mind, a penetrating and incisive wit and an intelligent
grasp that has been rarely excelled. He was a forcible, vigorous
and convincing speaker, and whether the subject was a case on
trial or the principles of a political party, his hearers were equally
impressed with his complete knowledge of the subject and his evi-
dent sincerity of expression. He was deeply in earnest in all he
undertook. His manner was winning and cordial and made for him
hosts of friends. A strong democrat, residing in an overwhelm-
ingly republican district, he was nominated by his party for attor-
ney general of the state in 1863 and in 1874 as candidate for repre-
sentative in Congress, and -by his personal popularity effected a
change of more than 3,500 votes. He was one of the most active
and prominent members of the Constitutional Convention of 1873,
where he gave valuable aid to every suggestion that he believed
to be for the best interests of the state. President McKinley at
one time studied law in the office of Mr. Wilson, and the ac-
quaintance thus formed ripened into esteem and friendship that
was only terminated by death. President Garfield was another
intimate friend, and so close were their relations that a law part-
nership was at one time under serious contemplation by them.
Some of the personal letters of Mr. Garfield submitted to the
editor evidence very clearly the confidence and the intimacy ex-
isting between the friends. In one of them, dated January 27, 1874,
the writer, doubtless for the first time, expressed the beautiful sen-
timent given to the public, with a variation of language, six years
later in his speech accepting the high office of United States senator
as the successor of Judge Thurman: "On the vines that grow
over the walls of party politics are found the sweetest flowers that
bloom in the garden of friendship."

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his life having been associated in practice with his nephew, James
P. Wilson. He was married in 1871 to Miss Griselda E. Campbell,
daughter of Thomas Campbell, of Old Town, Trumbull County,
Ohio, and they had one son, Francis Service. Mrs. Wilson was for
some years a resident of Chicago, where she was an earnest mem-
ber of the Presbyterian Church, to which she had always given her
faithful support and adherence.

Francis Service Wilson received his early education in the pub-
lic schools of Youngstown, following which he attended Hudson
.Academy, Hudson, Ohio, and was graduated therefrom in 1890.
He next became a student at the Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, where he spent two years in the classical department and
three years in the law department, receiving his Doctor's degree in
1895 and being admitted to the bar at Cleveland soon after. There
he continued for a short time, when he went to Youngstown and
began practice. His abilities soon won him recognition and in 1896
he was nominated for the office of probate judge of Mahoning
County as a democrat, but met defeat owing to the great republican
majority there. For two years he served as secretary of the demo-
cratic county committee. Mr. Wilson came to Chicago in 1897, and
for two years was engaged in practice alone. He then became asso-
ciated with Altgeld, Darrow and Thompson, the firm later becoming
Darrow, Masters & Wilson. In 1911 he was appointed county attor-
ney, holding the position until 1913, when the state's attorney's
office took over the business of the county attorney's office.

Mr. Wilson is now associated with the firm of Felsenthal, Beck-
with, Wilson and Spengler, the members of the firm being: Eli
B. Felsenthal, John W. Beckwith, Francis S. Wilson, Edward C.
Felsenthal and Walter J. Spengler. The offices of the firm are
located in the -Title and Trust Building. Mr. Wilson has been con-
nected with a number of cases that have attracted much attention,
and tie is now associate special counsel for the State of Illinois in
the Illinois Central Tax cases. He is a member of the democratic
county managing committee and is generally prominent and influen-
tial in public matters. He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois
Bar associations and the Chicago Legal Club, and among his social
connections may be named the Homewood Country Club, the Sons
of the American Revolution, the Northwestern Alumni Association
and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

On November 17, 1904, Mr. Wilson married Miss Caroline Seig-
fried of Youngstown, Ohio, and they have two sons, David M. and
Francis S., Jr. Their home is at No. 6028 Jackson Park Avenue.

FREDERICK SASS is a member in the Chicago law firm of Foster,
Payne, Reynolds & Sass, with offices in the Fort Dearborn Building.
With ten years of active experience behind him, he has a secure
position in the Chicago bar.

Mr. Sass was born in Chicago, May 23, 1877, a son of Louis H.

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and Christine (Breyer) Sass. Both parents were born and reared
in Germany. They came to Chicago and there established a home
in about 1856. Frederick Sass acquired his earlier educational train-
ing in the public schools of his native city and then entered the Uni-
versity of Chicago, graduating in 1901, with the degree Bachelor
of Philosophy. His law studies were pursued in the Chicago Kent
College of Law from which he was graduated in 1904, as Bachelor
of Laws. Admission to the bar followed and he has since been
engaged in the active work of his profession, finding the metropoli-
tan field a fortunate choice for his career. He now practices in all
the State and Federal courts of Illinois and has served since 1909 as
master in chancery of the Cook County Circuit Court, the appoint-
ment having been made by Judge Frederick1 A. Smith.

Mr. Sass is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar
associations, and in a social way is identified with the Hamilton
Club, the Park Ridge Country Club, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
and the Masonic order. He is a republican in the matter of politics.

On December 7, 1907, Mr. Sass was married to Miss Edith
Ransdell Shaffer, of Springfield, Illinois, and they have two chil-
dren, Frederick, Jr., and Louis Carl Henry. Their home is at Park
Ridge, a Chicago suburb.

WILLIAM ELMORE FOSTER has been for more than a quarter of a
century a member of the Chicago bar. He was for a number of
years connected with the legal department of the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railway Company. He has latterly been trial
attorney for the Chicago Elevated Railroads, and he is also a mem-
ber of the faculty of the Chicago Kent College of Law.

William Elmore Foster was born at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin,
May 7, 1861, a son of William Avery and Sarah Ann (Himes)
Foster. His ancestors were long prominent in public and profes-
sional life in Maine, Hon. Paulinus M. Foster being at one time
president of the Maine State Senate, while Benjamin Foster, his
grandfather, was an able lawyer and accomplished student, speaking
eight languages. William Avery Foster, a merchant, came West
from Maine in young manhood, and for many years was engaged in
business at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, but died in Maine while on
a visit to his old home.

In April, 1864, when a child of three years, William Elmore
Foster was brought to Chicago by his mother, and in her arms
viewed the remains of the assassinated President Lincoln as they
lay in state in the Cook County Courthouse. The public graded
schools furnished him with the foundation for his education, and
in 1880 he was graduated from the old Central High School, as a
member of the last class, under Principal George Howland, who
subsequently became superintendent of Chicago schools. Mr.
Foster began his career in the offices of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railway, as private secretary to the local freight agent,

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and while thus engaged devoted his spare time to educating himself.
After five years in the service of the railroad company, Mr. Foster
resigned his position, and on the following morning, in September,
1886, became a student at the old Union College of Law, where he
was graduated in 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. After
his admission to the bar he immediately entered the legal depart-
ment of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company,
as assistant attorney, and continued to be connected with that road
until March, 1898, when he removed to the Fort Dearborn Building,
where his office has continued to the present time. Mr. Foster's
practice in later years might be classed as of general nature, and
among numerous cases of importance may be mentioned that of
Williams vs. Vanderbih, in which he represented the defendant and
secured a favorable decision. In 1909 Mr. Foster became a mem-
ber of the faculty of the Chicago Kent College of Law, and since
that time has had charge of the chairs of trial course and practice
courts.

Mr. Foster is well known in club life, belonging to the Union
League and the South Shore Country clubs. For five years he
served in the Illinois State Militia. Mr. Foster's fraternal affilia-
tion is with Kenwood Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He resides at 4813
Prairie Avenue.

F. WILLIAM KRAFT. In the field of municipal and corporation
bond law few Chicago lawyers have won greater or more deserved
recognition than F. William Kraft. Coming to this country a poor
boy of sixteen years, accepting such employment as presented itself,
starting his legal education in a justice court, and finally rising
to high position in the ranks of his chosen calling, his career is an
exemplification of the theory of the eminent judge who declared,
answering a question in regard to lawyers : "Some succeed by great
talent, some by high connections, some by miracle, but the majority
by beginning without a shilling."

Mr. Kraft was born October 2, 1865, in the City of London,
England, a son of Michael and Sarah F. (Hawkins) Kraft. His
lather, a native of Germany, went to England for his bride as a
young man, but later returned to the Fatherland and in 1882 came
to America, settling in Chicago, where he spent the remainder of
his life and passed away in 1902. F. William Kraft first learned
the German language, being taken to Germany when he was two
years old and residing there until reaching the age of five, but sub-
sequently returned to London, and there attended the public schools.
Laying aside his books when fourteen years old, Mr. Kraft began
to "hustle" for himself, and in 1882 came alone to the United
States and located in Chicago, here securing employment in a
jewelry house. Later Mr. Kraft became employed as a clerk in a
justice's office, and thus began his legal training. In this capacity
he acted seven years, four years of which time were passed with

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Justice Jarvis Blume, and in 1886, he entered the Union College of
Law, taking the two-year course and graduating with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws in June, 1888. Two days after his graduation
Mr. Kraft was admitted to the bar on his diploma, all of the supreme
judges except one now being deceased. Mr. Kraft had become
naturalized on the very day that he had been in the United States
five years. His legal practice was commenced in association with
his cousin, J. Henry Kraft, who is now assistant prosecuting attor-
ney for the City of Chicago, but later became identified with the
firm of Duke M. Farson, municipal bonds, and acted for some time
as its office attorney. Mr. Kraft has been engaged in practice alone
for many years and is known in his particular field all over this
country. He passes upon millions of bonds annually, and his acu-
men, research and vigor of understanding have combined to attract
the business of some of the largest investment concerns of the coun-
try. His offices are at Nos. 517-520 Harris Trust Building.

Mr. Kraft was married October 21, 1891, to Miss Lillie Engle,
of Freeport, Illinois, and six children have been born to them : Flora,
Ruth, Stanley E., Marion, Frederick William, Jr., and Gordon W.
Mr. and Mrs. Kraft are members of the First Methodist Church of
Oak Park, and their pleasant home is situated in that suburb of
Chicago, at No. 723 Linden Avenue. Mr. Kraft has been active in
the promotion and support of movements for the educational, moral
and civic welfare of his home locality, and at this time is a member
of the high school board of education of Oak Park. In the line of
his profession, he belongs to the Chicago and Illinois State Bar
associations; he is also a member of the City Club, and in the
Royal Arcanum has attained to the Supreme Court of Honor. In
his home life and outside of his profession, Mr. Kraft is affectionate,
companionable and unassuming, and both in and outside of his voca-
tion may be designated an excellent product of metropolitan life.

CHARLES O. LOUCKS. Numbered among the strong figures of
the day who are courageously standing for political reform and
civic betterment is Charles O. Loucks. A lawyer by profession, his
acknowledged talents have brought him a large practice, but he
has not been content to confine his energies to his professional
duties, and his labors in the line of municipal betterment have
brought him favorably before the public not alone in his immediate
field of the Twenty-seventh Ward, but throughout the city.

Mr. Loucks was born at Menasha, Wisconsin, June 7, 1877, and
is a son of Charles N. and Mary Ellen (Reece) Lcnicks. His
father, who brought the family to Chicago, was for a period con-
nected in an official capacity with the Continental National Bank,
and is now engaged in large real estate transactions. Charles O.
Loucks was three years of age when brought by his parents to Chi-
cago, and his primary education was here secured in the graded

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and high schools. He subsequently had two years of work in the
literary department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor,
following which he returned to Chicago and studied law with Fred
H. Atwood and Frank B. Pease, and was admitted to the Illinois
bar December 16, 1899, and to the Supreme Court of the United
States December 21, 1906. Mr. Loucks practiced alone during the
year 1900, but in January, 1901, formed a partnership with Messrs.
Atwood and Pease, the firm becoming Atwood, Pease & Loucks,
Vernon R. Loucks, a brother, also being a member of this concern.
The practice of the members is a general one, although they have
specialized to some extent in real estate and corporation law. Mr.
Loucks is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois
State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He has
taken an active part in local politics for several years, and for a
time was chairman of the executive committee of the Republican
League of the Twenty-seventh Ward. He was also for several
years secretary of the Federated Improvement Club of the Twenty-
seventh Ward, was formerly chairman and is now a member of the
advisory council of the Legislative Voters League, and is chairman
of the finance committee and a member of the executive committee
of the Twenty-seventh Ward Non-Partisan Organization, which
elected Oliver L. Watson alderman of that ward in April, 1914. In
1912 Mr. Loucks transferred his support to the progressive party,
in the success of which he has taken a great interest and an active
part.

He is a director in the Irving Park National Bank; member
and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Irving Park;
member of the street and bridges committee of the City Club, and a
member of the National Union. He has taken a most active part in
religious work, and is a member of the Methodist Social Union.
Mr. Loucks is "also ex-president of the Federated Men's Club of
Irving Park and of the Jefferson High School Alumni Association,
now the Carl Schurz Association.

On June 28, 1905, Mr. Loucks was married to Miss Lavina
Williams, of Warsaw, Indiana, and to this union there have come
three children: Mary, born June 14, 1907; Clarkson, born August
3, 1909, and Elizabeth, born May 22, 1914. The Loucks home is
located at the corner of Keeler and Byron streets, in Irving Park,
while Mr. Loucks' office is in the Tacoma Building.

FRANCIS W. WALKER. Since his admission to the Illinois bar
in 1877, it 'is doubtful if any Chicago attorney has handled more
noteworthy trials and cases involving more important rights and
values to property holders, corporations and individuals than Fran-
cis W. Walker. To a younger generation it may be necessary to
recall the fact that he was one of the chief prosecutors for the state
of the Haymarket anarchists thirty years ago, and his work there
probably did more than any other case to establish his reputation as

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a trial lawyer. For many years he was one of the most constant
advocates in connection with the more important litigation appear-
ing in Chicago civil and criminal courts. Seldom accepting public
office, his rare combination of talents, learning, tact, patience and
industry in the handling of his private law business has enabled Mr.
Walker to achieve some of the highest honors of the Illinois bar.

Francis W. Walker is a native of Chicago, born October 12,
1856, a son of Lucas B. and Lucinda (LeSuer) Walker, both na-
tives of New York State. His father, who came from Quaker stock,
was an early settler at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and for a time was
city treasurer of that city. He was a tanner by trade, and in
Chicago for a number of years was connected with the hide, wool
and pelt business. He was forty-four years of age when he mar-
ried, and came to Chicago in 1855, soon after that event, which
was celebrated in Ann Arbor. Lucinda LeSuer was of Huguenot
stock, and her grandfather served with the rank of ensign in the
Revolutionary war.

Francis W. Walker was liberally educated, first in the grammar
and high schools of Chicago, and later in the Union College of Law,
which at that time was the law school for both the old Chicago and
the Northwestern universities. He was graduated LL. B. before
reaching his twenty-first birthday, and was admitted to the Illi-
nois bar in the fall of 1877. Subsequently he was licensed to prac-
tice in all the state and federal courts.

From December, 1884, to 1888 Mr. Walker was first assistant
state's attorney under Julius S. Grinnell. It was during this term
that he tried the anarchists after the Haymarket riot, an event indel-
ibly impressed on the history of Chicago. Seven of these rioters
were sentenced to be hanged, the sentences of two being commuted
to life imprisonment, while one prisoner blew off his head with a
gas pipe bomb. As assistant state's attorney he also prosecuted the
boodle cases involving the county commissioners, several of whom
were sent to the penitentiary. Later from 1890 to 1892 Mr. Walker
served as county attorney for Cook County. Although a democrat,
he was appointed by a joint vote of both democrat and republican
members of the county board, who desired his services in particular
for the defense of the claims growing out of the transactions of the
"Boodle Board" suits at that time being sustained by the board
and which he effectively handled.

For a period of twenty-five years Francis W. Walker averaged
a hundred eighty days each year in the court room. Especially in
his earlier career he defended numerous murder cases and has the
distinction of having obtained the largest libel verdict ever given
in Illinois. Mr. Walker is busy on important cases all the time, and
perhaps has spent more days in the active trial of law suits than any
other lawyer in the state, and perhaps in the country. While he
has been engaged in a general practice his work has largely been

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such as an English barrister would perform. For the past eighteen
years he has been practically alone in practice, while during the first
half of his career he was associated with Edward J. Judd under the
firm name of Walker & Judd.

In 1891 Mr. Walker was employed by the South Side Elevated
Railroad in its condemnation work and also by the Metropolitan
Road while it was being constructed. Since the erection of the vari-
ous elevated railroads in Chicago Mr. Walker has defended every
land damage suit brought against the various rights of way as well
as in the loop district. There has never been one dollar in damages
to pay on abutting property of the elevated roads as a result of any
law suits against the elevated companies. This record is the more
remarkable when it is considered that in New York City the elevated
roads have paid many millions of dollars as a result of similar litiga-
tion. Mr. Walker is now the head of the staff of trial lawyers
employed by the elevated railways of Chicago.

He was generous counsel for the property owners in the con-
demnation proceedings for the acquirement of land for the North-
western Railroad Union Station, a proceeding that required eight
months with a jury in the box. During Mayor Dunne's administra-
tion Mr. Walker was employed by the city to assist the corpora-
tion counsel in the case of Weir & McGegney, the contracting firm
which had brought suit to the amount of $700,000 for extras grow-
ing out of the construction of the Northwestern water tunnel.
McGegney had previously obtained a verdict for $600,000, but on
rehearing it was reversed by the Supreme Court. Mr. Walker had
conducted the second trial, resulting in a verdict favoring the city,
and the verdict was sustained by the higher courts. While recog-
nized primarily for his success in corporation and real estate litiga-
tion, it may be mentioned as showing the versatility of his talents
that Mr. Walker was chief attorney for the defense in the slander
case of Esther Mercy against the University of Chicago. In the
first trial a verdict for $2,500 had been awarded to the plaintiff,
but Mr. Walker on appeal secured a reversal of the verdict.

Mr. Walker is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and
the State Bar Association, and was president in 1913-14 of the Chi-
cago Law Club. He is a member of Covenant Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ;
St. Bernard Comrnandery, K. T. ; Oriental Consistory of the Scot-
tish Rite; and the Royal Arcanum. He belongs to the Chicago
Club, the Union League Club, the Iroquois Club, the Mid Day Club,
and the South Shore Country Club. He is a member and was one
of the founders of Booth Chapter, Phi Delta Phi.

Mr. Walker married Anne M. Benson, daughter of Fred Ben-
son, who for many years was manager of the Western Union
Telegraph Company at Dubuque, Iowa. Their children are : Frank-
lin J., who died November, 1910; Margaret Olive, Edwin R. and
Everett W. Mr. Walker's offices are in the Marquette Building,
and his home at 5222 University Avenue.

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CHARLES S. BURTOISI has been a well known member of the Chi-
cago bar more than thirty years. His special field is patent, copy-
right, trade-mark and corporation law, and in that he has gained well
deserved distinction.

Charles S. Burton was born at Elyria, Ohio, November 9, 1852,
and is a son of Nathan Smith and Sarah John (Fairfield) Burton.
After his preliminary training in the public and preparatory schools
of his native state, he entered the University of Michigan, being
enrolled in the class of 1872, and in 1882 began practice in Chi-
cago, and has since continued to apply himself to the successful prac-
tice of his profession. Mr. Burton has represented Chicago manu-
facturers in patent and copyright litigation in many different cir-
cuits of the United States courts, and as senior member of the firm
of Burton & Burton practices in the United States Patent Office.
His offices are in the Marquette Building.

Mr. Burton has many friends in the profession, and is a mem-
ber of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Asso-
ciation. Among his fellow lawyers he is recognized as one who has
profound respect for the ethics of his calling. He makes his home
at 41 1 North Grove Avenue, Oak Park, and has been a leader in civic
and educational movements in his home locality, having been presi-
dent of the board of education of Oak Park from 1894 to 1897 and
president of the Oak Park and River Forest High School Board of
Education from 1899 to 1909.

Mr. Burton was married May 3, 1887, to Miss Phebe A. Millard,
of Chicago, and they have had four sons : Robert N., Norman
L., Ernest R. and Clifford K.

GEORGE E. CHIPMAN is a Chicago lawyer and has enjoyed a large
general practice in that city for fifteen years, and is particularly
known to the profession through his services as a teacher and author
of law publications.

Mr. Chipman was born at Tupperville, Annapolis County, Nova
Scotia, July 14, 1868, and is a son of David Scott Chipman and
Helen (Brooks) Chipman, both likewise natives of Nova Scotia.
In his native province, Mr. Chipman graduated from Acadia Col-
lege in 1892, Bachelor of Arts. He then came to the United States
and matriculated in Harvard University, taking a post graduate
course and receiving the degree, Master of Arts, in 1895. He entered
the law department of Washington University, graduating in 1898,
Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Missouri bar early in
the following year and in 1900 gained similar recognition in Illi-
nois. He is the senior member of the firm of Chipman and Jack-
son, with offices in the Harris Trust Building.

Mr. Chipman has been a member of the board of managers of
the Chicago Bar Association and is identified also with the Illinois
Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Chipman
is professor of contracts and evidence in the John Marshall Law

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School. He is editor of the publications, "Illinois Cases on Common
Law Pleading," "Illinois Cases on Contracts," and "Illinois Cases on
Evidence," besides which he is author of "Outlines of Modern In-
ternational Law" and of encyclopedic articles on "Law and Evi-
dence" and "Landlord and Tenant," both of which have been pub-
lished in book form as well as in the edition for which they were
originally prepared.

In politics, Mr. Chipman is a republican. He holds membership
in the Hamilton Club, the Harvard Club, the City Club and the
Canadian Club. He is affiliated with Woodlawn Park Lodge, A. F.
& A. M. and the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity. He is a member
of Hyde Park Baptist Church.

GEORGE E. FINK. As house attorney for the State Bank of Chi-
cago Mr. Fink finds that this representative financial institution de-
mands the greater part of his time and attention in a professional
way, and he has proved himself a most circumspect and effective
executive in directing the legal department of the bank's extensive
business.

George Everett Fink was born at Nunda, McHenry County, Illi-
nois, on the 23d of September, 1877, and is a son of Emery D. and
Minnie May (Gilbert) Fink, who have maintained their residence in
Chicago since 1892, the father being identified with manufacturing
enterprises in this city. George E. Fink was about fifteen years
of age at the time of the family removal to Chicago, where he was
afforded the advantages of the public schools and the Chicago Busi-
ness College. He then entered the Illinois College of Law, in which
he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899 and from which
he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He thereafter took a
post-graduate course in the law department of the University of
Michigan, in 1899-1900, and in 1906 he completed a special course
in the Illinois College of Law, which conferred upon him the sup-
plemental degree of Master of Laws. Mr. Fink was admitted to the
Illinois bar in 1900 and from 1901 to 1912 he was associated with
Samuel M. Fegtly in active law work, as house attorneys for the
State Bank of Chicago (Trust Company.) In 1912 the firm of
Fegtly & Fink dissolved partnership Mr. Fegtly retiring on account
of ill health and since that time Mr. Fink has continued to be
retained as house attorney for the State Bank of Chicago, with ex-
ecutive headquarters in the office of the institution. He is a member
of the Chicago Bar Association and the Lawyers' Association of Illi-
nois, and is a member of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, of which
he was formerly supreme treasurer. He is identified also with the
Royal League (Past Archon of Ben Franklin Council No. 85) and
the Royal Arcanum, and is an unwavering supporter of the cause of
the republican party, though not imbued with desire for political
office. Mr. Fink and family reside in their own home at 4506 North
Francisco Avenue.

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 565

Mr. Fink wedded Miss Kathleen E. Fry, of Chicago, and they
have two children, Nena E. and Robert E.

CYRUS J. WOOD. An active member of the Chicago bar is found
in Cyrus J. Wood, senior member of the law firm of Wood & Wood,
with offices in the Ashland Block. Mr. Wood was born in Cayuga
County, New York, December 3, 1857, and is a son of Cyrus A. and
Mary A. (Roe) Wood.

Cyrus J. Wood spent his early years on his father's farm. He
attended the public schools in Cayuga County, and in 1877 was
graduated from the Cortland Normal and Training School. Two
years of school teaching followed, at Moravia, New York, after
which he entered the University of Rochester, where he was grad-
uated in 1883, with the degree of A. B. In the same year he came
to Illinois and at Monmouth, in this state, studied law, in 1885 being
admitted to the Illinois bar. He established himself in practice at
Galesburg, in partnership with James McKenzie, the firm name
being McKenzie & Wood, which association continued until 1890,
when Mr. Wood came to Chicago and here entered into practice
and continued alone for twenty years, when his son William G. was
admitted to the firm, under the firm name of Wood & Wood. The
junior partner is a graduate of the Northwestern University and of
the Kent Law School of Chicago.

After coming to Chicago, Mr. Wood attended the Chicago Col-
lege of Law in order to get the benefit of the late Judge Moran's
lectures. He has engaged in a general* practice in this city since 1890
and has had many cases in both Appellate and the Supreme courts,
some of which were quite noted. Many personal injury cases have
been placed in his hands and a number of stubbornly contested cases
have been brought to a satisfactory conclusion through his efforts.
He is a member of the Chicago Law Institute and of the Chicago and
of the Illinois State Bar associations.

Mr. Wood was married October 30, 1888, to Miss Hattie Galla-
way, of Chicago. The father of Mrs. Wood for a number of years
was vice president of D. B. Fisk & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have
two sons, William G. and Cyrus B. The latter is a graduate of the
Northwestern University and of the medical department of the
same institution, and at present is an interne at the Michael Reese
Hospital, Chicago.

Mr. Wood is on the directing board of the Garden City Equitable
Loan and Building Association. He retains membership with his
Greek letter fraternity of college days, the Alpha Delta Phi, and
belongs also to the Royal Arcanum. The family resides at No. 1475
Gregory Street, Chicago.

ROBERT A. BURTON. A Chicago lawyer of many years experi-
ence, Robert A. Burton is engaged in general practice and is senior
member of the firm of Burton, Kannally & Megan, with offices in

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the Ashland Block. He has been identified with the Chicago bar
more than twenty years, and has high standing as a lawyer and
wide acquaintance among all classes of citizens.

He was born in Huntsville, Missouri, his parents having come
to that state from North Carolina. When he was a boy they re-
moved to Iowa, and in that state he acquired his education, taking
the literary course in the Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount
Pleasant, and from it has the degrees A. B. and A. M. In early
life he taught school, and at the age of nineteen held a high school
principalship. At the same time he carried on his law studies and
later attended the law school of the Columbia (now the George
Washington) University, at Washington, D. C.

Admitted to the bar at Ottumwa, Iowa, immediately afterwards
Mr. Burton moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he did his first
court work as assistant to the solicitor general. He had charge of
state foreclosures, and for a year or more was principally engaged
in the Court of Chancery of Pulaski County, Arkansas. While there
he participated in various contested congressional election cases,
and was one of Brooks' attorneys in his celebrated contest with
Baxter for the governorship. This last engagement took him to
Washington, D. C., where he opened an office and continued in
practice until 1892. In that year he came to Chicago, where he has
since been continuously identified with general practice.

He is a republican and one of the early members of the Ham-
ilton Club. He is a church member, belongs to the Beta Theta Phi,
and the Illinois State Bar Association. He married Frances S. Way,
daughter of Judge Way of Ohio. One of his sons is in the practice
of law at Peoria and another is a student in the University of Illi-
nois, while .of the three daughters the youngest lives at home and
the other two are married. Mr. Burton lives in Hyde Park, Chicago.

GEORGE W. BURTON. A son of Robert A. Burton, the Chicago
attorney above mentioned, George W. Burton is now serving as
general counsel for the Illinois Traction System, with offices in the
Mayer Building in Peoria.

He was born in Washington, D. C., April 15, 1880, attended
school in that city, but at the age of twelve removed with the
family to Chicago, where he was graduated from the Hyde Park
High School in 1897. After that for several years he did news-
paper reporting, was employed in a law office, in street railway work,
and in the census office at Washington, and in the meantime carried
on his studies in the law department of Columbia University (now
George Washington University) and graduated LL. B. in June,
1902. His first two years of experience were in Chicago, and he
was then employed in the office of L. E. Fischer, at that time gen-
eral manager of the Illinois Traction System, with offices at Dan-
ville. Mr. Burton removed to Peoria in December, 1908, and has

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since acted as general counsel to the Illinois Traction System and
also carries on a general practice as a lawyer.

He is a member of the Peoria and the Illinois State Bar Asso-
ciation, is aligned with the republican party in his political actions,
and is a member of the Creve Coeur Club of Peoria.

JOHN DE GRAZIA. Now one of the capable members of the
Chicago bar, with offices in the Ashland Block, with a large private
practice and a prestige in political affairs, John De Grazia is a
man whose progress has encouragement and inspiration for every-
one. At one time he sold papers in the vicinity of the Ashland
Block, where he now has his law offices.

John De Grazia was born in Italy July 17, 1878, a son of Luigi
and Theresa De Grazia of Trivigno, Italy. A year after his birth
his father died, and from 1884 to 1890 he lived in his native coun-
try and attended the common schools. With his step-father he ar-
rived in America in 1890 and has been a resident of Chicago since
September of that year. His education after coming to America
was largely the result of attending night schools. He studied in
the Montefiore School, the Medill High School, and a business col-
lege while following other employments and prepared for the bar in
the Chicago and Kent Law schools, graduating with a well earned
diploma in 1907 and was admitted to the bar in 1908. Mr. De Grazia
began practice as a member of the firm of Quitman & De Grazia,
which was discontinued in 1911, and since that date he has con-
ducted an individual practice of a general nature. He is a member
of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois Bar Association. In
politics he is a republican, is identified with the Seventeenth Ward
Republican Organization, and in 1908 was a candidate before the
primaries for state senator for the Twenty-first District.

The successive steps of the career of Mr. De Grazia are a tribute
not only to the abundance of American opportunity but also to his
own vigorous character and ambition. He was twelve years old
when he landed in New York, and after reaching Chicago earned
his bread by selling newspapers. A little later he was a water-boy
and from 1892 to 1894 had charge of a fruit stand. In 1895 he
worked as a bartender and in the same year had employment for a
few months in making sweepers, such as are used on the street cars.
The same year he found a place in a store as a clothing salesman,
worked at that until 1897, and then entered the employ of the West-
ern Union Telegraph Company, and was a proficient operator of a
telegraph key from 1897 to 1907. It was the earnings from this lat-
ter occupation that largely paid his way through law school.

Mr. De Grazia is a member of the Society of Arts and Profes-
sions, of the Unione Sicilliana, of the Alleanza Italiana, the Imera
Croce Bianca, and is a past grand in the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.

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THOMAS H. MILLER. One of the strong law firms of Mc-
Donough County is that of Miller & Walker, at Macomb, its senior
member, Thomas H. Miller, being favorably known in this section
of Illinois, both professionally and politically. Educated for the
law he has devoted himself entirely to his profession, building up
so honorable and substantial a reputation that he was elected state's
attorney in 1908 and served in that exceedingly important office
until 1912.

Thomas H. Miller was born on his father's farm near Colchester,
McDonough County, Illinois, October 19, 1873, and is a son of
Marvin and Sarah (Shoopman) Miller. The mother of Mr. Miller
was born in McDonough County, Illinois, and is a resident of
Macomb. The father, who was born at Akron, Ohio, in 1834, is
deceased. There were four children in the family, one of whom,
Patience B., is deceased, the others being: Fred, Thomas H. and
Jesse M.

Thomas H. Miller assisted his father on the farm during boy-
hood and attended the district schools, later attending the public
schools of Macomb. In 1899 he entered the law department of the
University of Illinois as a student, and was graduated with honors
in 1902 and in October of the same year was admitted to the bar,
at Springfield. Mr. Miller chose Macomb as the scene of his pro-
fessional endeavor and has never been inclined to leave this city of
old acquaintance and later hearty appreciation. For two years in
early practice he was in partnership with T. B. Switzer, under the
firm name of Switzer & Miller, following which he was alone in
practice for two more years. In July, 1908, he became associated
with Wallace A. Walker, under the firm name of Miller & Walker,
which continues, with offices on the south side of the public square
at Macomb. Many important court cases have been entrusted to
this firm and the careful handling of the same has brought the firm
well merited repute. In politics Mr. Miller has always been a
republican and a conscientious party worker but outside of his
profession, has no ambition for public honors. During his term of
four years as state's attorney, he made a fine record for efficiency
and a clean page in the legal history of the county.

He was a member of the board of education from 1906-1908,
when he was elected state's attorney, and again reappointed to that
office April, 1915.

Mr. Miller was united in marriage on December 8, 1910, to Miss
Bertha Cox, who is a daughter of the late Jacob Cox, formerly of
Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have one
daughter, Maxine, who was born May 18, 1912. Mr. Miller belongs
to the Elks but otherwise his connections are with bodies professional
in character. The family resides at No. 313 South McArthur Street.

WALLACE A. WALKER. The legal profession at Macomb is well
represented and McDonough County has reason to be proud of the

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county seat bar. It is an observable fact that many of the most
able practitioners have been born and educated in this county and
an example may be cited in Wallace A. Walker, who is the junior
member of the widely known firm of Miller & Walker.

Wallace A. Walker was born in McDondugh County, Illinois,
not far distant from Macomb, December 8, 1876, and is a son of
Theophilus G. and Emma C. (Thomson) Walker, both of whom
were likewise born in this county, the families being numbered with
the pioneer settlers. Wallace A. was the eldest born of the family
of three children, the others being: Bertha, who is the wife of
Loring H. Provine, and they have two children ; and Alta,. who
resides with her parents.

Reared on the home farm, Wallace 'A. Walker attended the
district schools through boyhood and later became a student in the
Macomb Normal School. In 1896 he entered Lake Forest
University and was there graduated in 1900, with the degree of A.
B. The law being his choice of profession, Mr. Walker then
entered the Kent Law School, at Chicago, in September, 1901, from
which institution he was graduated in 1904 and in the same year was
admitted to the bar. An exceedingly useful term of experience
followed as he was employed until February, 1907, in the law office
of Healy & Caylor, at Chicago. Mr. Walker then returned to
Macomb and opened a law office here, continuing alone in practice
until January i, 1908, when he formed a law partnership with
Thomas H. Miller, under the style of Miller & Walker, which still
exists and maintains offices on the south side of the square at
Macomb. In all that pertains to legal matters as general prac-
titioners, this firm has a reputation for being able, honorable and
trustworthy and as a natural consequence a large amount of busi-
ness is entrusted to the firm. Always a stanch republican, Mr.
Walker gives his party loyal support. In 1909 he was elected city
attorney of Macomb and served effectively in that office until 1913.
He has never identified himself with secret societies or social clubs
but has a wide circle of personal and professional friends. He is a
member of the Presbyterian Church. His residence is No. 810 East
Calhoun Street, Macomb.

Mr. Walker was married April 24, 1915, to Minnie M. Worrell,
of Macomb. She was reared in Monmouth, California, and is
prominent in women's clubs.

CHRISTIAN MEIER. A representative member of the Illinois bar,
who has won distinction in his profession and has taken a consist-
ently active part in public affairs, Christian Meier is one of those
of foreign birth, but of Chicago training, who have so thoroughly
absorbed the progressive spirit of the city and the times. Born in
Hesse Darmstadt, Southern Germany, January 19, 1852, he is a
son of Christian and Mary (Immelt) Meier, natives of the Father-
land. Mr. Meier's father, who was a wood turner and wood machine

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worker, emigrated to the United States in 1854, the year of the
cholera epidemic, and here found extensive employment at Chicago
in making coffins. Returning to Germany in 1856, in that same year
he brought his family to this country and settled again in Chicago,
where both he and the mother passed away.

Christian Meier is essentially a product of the Chicago schools.
As a lad he studied at the old Franklin School, Sedgwick and Divi-
sion streets, under Professor Lane, and early became identified
with civic affairs, being appointed, in 1884, by the elder Mayor
Harrison as clerk of the Police Court of the North Side, serving
four years under Judge Kersten. It was while acting in this capac-
ity that he decided upon a career in the law, attending Northwestern
University and graduating from the law department of that institu-
tion in 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted
to the bar during the same year, and has continued in active practice
up to the present time. Mr. Meier has a large and remunerative
professional business, but will accept no cases in criminal litigation.
He maintains offices at Room 1002 Ashland Block. He is a member
of the Chicago Bar Association and of the Lawyers Association. In
the fall of 1878 Mr. Meier was elected to the Illinois State Legisla-
ture, in which body he served one term, and from that time has taken
an active and helpful part in promoting the interests of his city and
state in various positions of responsibility. In 1879 he was elected
councilman of the old Sixteenth Ward, on the North Side, and was
re-elected in 1881, his services as a member of the council being
marked by the greatest activity and the securing of much beneficial
legislation for his constituents. He was appointed by Judge Scales
as a member of the election board, in 1895, and also served an un-
expired term on the board of education, being reappointed for a
full term. Subsequently he was appointed a member of the Civil
Service Commission, on which he acted one term. Mr. Meier is a
member of Lessing Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Olympia Lodge, I. O. O.
F., and the Lincoln Turnverein Society.

On September i, 1876, Mr. Meier was married to Miss Elizabeth
Bierdemann, whose parents were early German settlers on the north
side of Chicago. She died in March, 1889, having been the mother
of four children : Paul C, of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, county
attorney of Polk County; Frank E., who is actively engaged in the
practice of law at Chicago; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Julius
Erbeau, of Chicago ; and Bertha, the wife of Frederick Albrecht, of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Meier was married a second time, in
1891, to Sophia Wiesner. The family home is located at No. 4246
North Winchester Avenue.

HON. MICHAEL L. IGOE has done some distinctive work as
a lawyer since his admission to the Illinois bar in the fall of 1908 ;
he is probably best known over the city and in the state as an
influential young member of the Legislature, to which he was elected

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in 1912 from the fifth senatorial district and reelected in November,
1914. When first a candidate Mr. Igoe had the endorsement of the
leading civic and political organizations, and his record during the
forty-eighth assembly was such as to strengthen his qualifications
and he received the largest number of votes given to any of the three
successful candidates from his district. While in the Legislature
in the forty-eighth assembly Mr. Igoe was chairman of the revenue
committee and a member of other important committees. In 1913
he was appointed a special United States district attorney, made a
good record in that office, but resigned January I, 1914.

Michael L. Igoe was born at St. Paul, Minnesota, April 16, 1885,
a son of James F. and Catherine (Sherin) Igoe. His father was for
many years employed by the Associated Press service. Michael L.
Igoe was educated in the parochial schools at Minneapolis and at
Chicago, attended the De LaSalle Institute of Chicago, and took his
law course at the Georgetown University at Washington, D. C.,
graduating LL. B. in 1908, and being admitted to the bar of the Dis-
trict of Columbia in the same year. His home has been in Chicago
since the fall of 1908. Mr. Igoe is a member of the Chicago Bar
Association, of the Iroquois Club, the City Club, the Press Club, the
Sportsmen Club, the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Order of
Foresters and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He is unmarried,
and resides at 5429 Greenwood Avenue.

Ross C. HALL. ,Now one of the successful attorneys of Chicago
and at different times active in democratic politics Ross C. Hall be-
gan his career as a lawyer in Southern Illinois, but has been a mem-
ber of the Chicago bar more than twenty years. At the present
time Mr. Hall is serving as assistant attorney of the sanitary dis-
trict of Chicago.

Born at Rushville, Illinois, October 29, 1866, Ross C. Hall is a
son of Thomas M. and Harriet R. (Ross) Hall. His father was a
merchant at Rushville, and the son grew up in that town, finished
the high school course in Macomb, and took his law course at
Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, where he was
graduated LL. B. in 1888. He was admitted to the bar in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, but returned home in July, 1888, and began prac-
tice in his old home town of Rushville. He served as city attorney
there for one year, and in 1892 moved to Chicago and became a
partner of Hon. William Prentiss under the firm name of Prentiss
& Hall. For twenty years Mr. Hall has been regarded as one of the
lawyers of exceptional ability in the Chicago bar, and for eight years
served as one of the trial attorneys for the Union Traction Company
and the Chicago Railways Company.

Mr. Hall has been prominent in the democratic organization of
Cook County, and in 1896 was elected a member of the State Legis-
lature and served one term. In 1900 he was nominated for the
State Senate, but was defeated with the rest of his ticket. In 1904

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he attended the St. Louis National Convention as a delegate, and
helped to nominate Judge Parker for president. In 1908 he was
unsuccessful candidate on the democratic state ticket for attorney-
general, and in 1911 his party selected him as a candidate for the
office of judge of the Superior Court. In 1912 Mr. Hall was a
delegate to the national convention in Baltimore which nominated
President Wilson. Since February, 1913, he has given much of his
professional time to his duties as first assistant attorney for the
Chicago Sanitary District.

Mr. Hall is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar asso-
ciations and belongs to the Oak Park Club. His home is in Oak
Park. On August 9, 1890, he married Martha Catherine Twyman,
of Macomb, Illinois. Their children are Carlos T., George R. and
Charles M.

JAMES V. O'DONNELL. A master in chancery of the Superior
Court in Cook County, James V. O'Donnell has been engaged in the
active practice of his profession in Chicago for more than a score
of years and through ability and character enjoys a place of excep-
tional confidence and esteem in his profession.

Mr. O'Donnell was born in the City of Portland, Maine, Sep-
tember 14, 1868, and is a son of Patrick and Mary (Gaugherty)
O'Donnell. Patrick O'Donnell, who was a woolen merchant, estab-
lished his home in Chicago about the year 1877 an^ resided there
until his death in 1902. James V. O'Donnell prepared for college
in an excellent seminary at Nicolet, Province of Quebec, Canada,
and then entered the University of Notre Dame at South Bend,
Indiana, in which he completed a classical course. He was also
graduated from the law department in the class of 1889, LL. B.
The following year was spent in post-graduate work in the old
Chicago College of Law, graduating in 1890, and in 1891 he was
admitted to the bar of the state. For the first year he was asso-
ciated with Judge John Gibbons, who is now serving on the bench
of the Circuit Court, and at the end of the year Judge Marcus Kava-
nagh, now on the bench of the Superior Court of the county, be-
came a member of the firm, with the title of Gibbons, Kavanagh &
O'Donnell, this continuing until the elevation of Judge Gibbons to
the bench. Thereafter Kavanagh & O'Donnell continued in control
of the large and representative law business until Judge Kavanagh
was elected to his present judicial office in 1898. Thus deprived of
his able and honored coadjutors, Mr. O'Donnell has since conducted
an individual practice, with offices in the Reaper Block. He was
appointed master in chancery by Judge Kavanagh, his former part-
ner, and has ably filled this office for the past fifteen years. Mr.
O'Donnell is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar asso-
ciations. He has appeared in connection with many important cases
in the various courts of the state and is known as a skillful trial
lawyer, as well as an able counselor. He is a republican in his politi-

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cal faith. His social connections include membership in the Chi-
cago Athletic Club.

Mr.,O'Donnell was married on the 2ist of June, 1899, to Miss
Agnes Lynch, and they have three children — John B., Ruth M. and
Constance M. The family home is at 509 Barry Avenue, Chicago.

JAMES G. CONDON'S work as a lawyer is chiefly in the field of
corporation and insurance law. He has been identified with the
Chicago bar nearly twenty years and is well known in legal circles.
His offices are in the First National Bank Building.

James Gregory Condon was born in the City of Bloomington,
McLean County, Illinois, November 28, 1871, and is a son of Wil-
liam and Maria (McNamara) Condon. Mr. Condon supplemented
his preliminary education by higher academic studies in St. Viateur's
College, at Bourbonnais, Kankakee County. He entered the law de-
partment of Wesleyan University, in his native city, graduating in
1893, Bachelor of Laws. He was at once admitted to the bar and
practiced in Bloomington one year. He removed to Chicago in
1895 and is a member of the firm of Ryan & Condon.

Mr. Condon has taken special interest in the matter of court
rules and those governing legal practice and is zealous in support of
the movement to expedite the business of the courts, the achieve-
ment of which end is necessary in the handling of the great volume
of business in the various courts of Chicago. In the Chicago Bar
Association, he is chairman of the Committee on Expedition of
Court Business. Mr. Condon was retained in service in the munici-
pal law department of Chicago about one year and was for three
years a member of the board of managers of the Chicago Bar As-
sociation, of which he has been second vice-president.

In 1910 he served as president of the Iroquois Club. He is also
a member of the directorate of the Chicago Athletic Association,
besides holding membership in a number of other organizations.
Mr. Condon is a democrat in politics. He is affiliated with the
Knights of Columbus.

In 1907, Mr. Condon married Miss Lucy Dalton, of Bloomington
and they have two children, Marian and Jane. His home is at 1512
Dearborn Parkway.

DWIGHT B. CHEEVER. Like numerous other leading members of
the Chicago legal profession, Dwight B. Cheever is a native of the
State of Michigan, and was reared in that state and there educated,
although his entire professional career has been spent in Chicago.
Since engaging in practice in 1896 his connection with some of the
leading cases tried in the courts in recent years has given him a
reputation as a specialist in trade-mark and copyright law in
Chicago.

Mr. Cheever was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 23,
1868, and is a son of Dr. Henry and Laura E. (Bissell) Cheever.

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The father was a prominent physician and a professor in the medi-
cal department of the University of Michigan. After graduating
from the Ann Arbor High School, Mr. Cheever entered the Univer-
sity of Michigan where he took a course in mechanical engineering
and was graduated in the class of 1891 with the degree Bachelor of
Science. He then followed engineering with various firms until Sep-
tember, 1895, when he entered the Michigan Law School, finishing
in the class of 1896 with the degree Bachelor of Laws. In the same
year he was admitted to the bars of Michigan and Illinois. Mr.
Cheever began the practice of his profession in 1896 in the office of
Robert H. Parkinson, a Chicago patent attorney, and continued there
as chief clerk in the office until May i, 1901, when he opened offices
of his own, continuing in independent practice until November, 1904.
Since that time he has been senior partner in the firm of Cheever &
Cox, and the firm has been engaged in some very important litigation.

A few of the more important cases may be mentioned as follows :
W. F. Burns Company vs. Mills & Cunningham, 143, Federal, 325, a
case reversing the lower court; Thayer & Chandler vs. Wold, 148,
Federal, 227; Ajax Forge Company vs. Morden Frog & Crossing
Company, 164, Federal, 843; James H. Channon vs. Empire Com-
pany, 168, Federal, 705; Sheridan Company vs. Robert Law Com-
pany, 172, Federal, 223; Myers & Company vs. Fairbanks Morse &
Company, 194, Federal, 971. All these cases went to the Court of
Appeals.

Mr. Cheever is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
National Bar Association, the Chicago Patent Bar Association, the
Law Club and the Legal Club. Other club memberships of Mr.
Cheever are with the Union League, Hamilton, Homewood Country
and Kenwood clubs.

On September i, 1904, Mr. Cheever married Miss Arline H.
Valiette, of Pasadena, California, and they have one child, D wight
Martin. The city home of the Cheevers is at 5491 East End Avenue,
and they have an attractive summer place at Flossmoor, Illinois.

RALPH L. PECK. Both through his professional and through his
business and civic relations Mr. Peck has had a successful career
since taking up practice fourteen years ago. Mr. Peck is a Chi-
cago lawyer, with offices in the American Trust Building, but has
his home at Palatine, Illinois.

Ralph L. Peck was born near Springfield, Illinois, May 6, 1873,
son of Sanford and Susan (Stover) Peck. His father is a real
estate man, now residing at Barrington, Illinois. Ralph L. Peck
was educated in the public schools, spent one year as a student in
the Northwestern Academy, and graduated Ph. B. from the Uni-
versity of Chicago with the class of 1898. Mr. Peck took his law
course in the Columbian University Law School, and graduated
LL. B. in 1901.

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identified with an increasing general practice in Chicago. At Pala-
tine, his home town, Mr. Peck has been president of the Board of
Education for the past ten years, president of the Township High
School Board since its organization, village and town attorney for
the last thirteen years, is president of the Township Republican Club,
and secretary of the Fifth District Republican Club. He is vice
president of the Mount Prospect National Bank, is the Cook County
civil service commissioner and is acting as receiver of the Wauke-
gan, Rockford & Elgin Traction Company by appointment of Judge
Baldwin of the Circuit Court and is interested as director and offi-
cial in various other active business organizations.

Mr. Peck is a member of the Chicago, the Illinois State and the
American Bar associations, the Hamilton Club and the City Club.
His college fraternity is the Chi Psi, and he is also identified with
Palatine Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
Palatine Lodge A. F. & A. M., St. Elmo Commandery of the
Knights Templar and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
March 12, 1904, Mr. Peck married Miss Caroline Kerkhoff of Oak
Park, Illinois. Their two children are Ralph LeRoy Jr., and Wil-
liam Sanford. Mr. Peck is a trustee of the Methodist Church at
Palatine.

HON. JAMES A. MCKENZIE. Of those men who adorned and
added prestige to the Illinois bar during the last century one of
the greatest was Hon. James A. McKenzie, of Galesburg. In
his death on December 17, 1901, not only Knox County but the
state lost one of the brightest legal minds. A record of his career
as seen through a lawyer's eyes adds an interesting chapter to
this publication.

James A. McKenzie was born April 27, 1837, at Spring Corners,
Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and death interrupted his life in
his sixty-fifth year. He was a son of Alexander and Deidama
(Hendryx) McKenzie. When he was a child his parents removed
to Knoxville, Illinois, from which place in 1854 the father and son
went across the plains to California, where they met indifferent
success and returned home in the summer of 1855. In 1856 Mr.
McKenzie entered Knox College at Galesburg, and in September,
1858, determined to apply for admission to both the junior and
senior classes. In each class were young men of excellent ability
and intelligence. At the close of the college year in June James
A. McKenzie was graduated with the highest honors, the acknowl-
edged leader of each class. The genius for consecutive, painstak-
ing, thorough labor, manifested in his college career, was the domi-
nant trait in his after life. In the consideration of any undertaking
it is said that he first ascertained the underlying principles, and
these determined he concentrated the remarkable energy of his mind
toward a performance which was never less than creditable. While

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in college he familiarized himself with Blackstone and Kent, devel-
oping special fondness for Kent.

In August, 1 86 1, Mr. McKenzie raised a company of volunteers
and went to the front as captain of Company H, Thirty-third Illi-
nois Infantry. For a time he filled the position of judge advocate
of a military commission, both at Reeves Station and Bentonville,
Arkansas, later was provost marshal of the division commanded by
General Steele at Helena, Arkansas, was subsequently transferred
to the staff of Major General Curtis as provost marshal general
of the Army of the Southwest. Failing health compelled him to
resign his commission, and he returned to Galesburg in 1863 and
entered upon the practice of his profession as senior member of
the law firm of McKenzie & Williams.

In November, 1864, Mr. McKenzie was elected state's attorney.
That fall the first political speech he ever made was delivered in
Dunn's Hall at Galesburg, and those who heard it spoke of it as
a masterpiece. He was reelected in 1868 and filled the office until
1872. The title of the office at that time was district attorney, and
his district comprised Knox, Henderson, Henry and Mercer coun-
ties. As a public prosecutor he proved able and fearless. His in-
dictments were known for their absolute correctness and none of
them were ever quashed for informality. Mr. McKenzie's record
as state's attorney added to his reputation as an attorney of re-
markable analytic power and knowledge of the law. As speaker
before a jury he had few equals. His power of illustration, his
ability to present the case in bold outlines, his quickness in detect-
ing deception and subterfuge, his wit and sarcasm, his skill in
explanation, his great ingenuity made him an opponent to be feared.
Few lawyers were so well known throughout the state or stood
so high with the Supreme Court. It is true of him that during
his entire career as state's attorney he never sought to convict an
innocent man. His contemporaries say of him that he was the
ablest prosecutor in this circuit during the past forty years. His
motto was : "Semper Paratus," always prepared.

He had a part in a large majority of the important cases tried,
and his personal strength and legal equipment gained him note-
worthy prestige. He 'of ten took cases in which successful prosecu-
tion seemed impossible, and yet gained a verdict. While conspicu-
ous in his work in open court, at the same time he compiled his
briefs and arguments with consummate skill and his legal docu-
ments were as clear as they were technically perfect. In the exami-
nation of witnesses his skill was seldom rivaled. He saw the meat
of issue, and could so turn his questions that the heart of matters
was developed to his satisfaction. His powers of discernment
quickly exposed a witness who had something to conceal. As an
orator he was not flowery, but rather convincingly effective, and
frequently swayed a jury to a decision not previously looked for.
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a case, either in his favor or against it, and this very equanimity
frequently disconcerted his opponents.

His contemporaries have said that he was probably the best
common law pleader at the Knox County bar. For years he was
employed in the majority of legal fights held in the county. One
case especially commented upon was one tried at Macomb in 1872
on change of venue from Henderson County. It was the trial of a
charge of murder, the committing of which grew out of a draft
riot. Pitted against Mr. McKenzie as prosecuting attorney was
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, as chief counsel for the defense. The case
was hotly fought. Mr. McKenzie conducted the prosecution with
wonderful tact and force, and many who heard the trial expressed
with admiration the belief that his plea exceeded in strength and
eloquence that of the great orator who was his opponent, notwith-
standing the latter won the case. Another of the early important
cases in which Mr. McKenzie conducted the prosecution was one
taken on a change of venue from Knox County to Lewistown, the
home of Judge Shope. The judge supported the defense, and was
confidently supposed irresistible, but was overshadowed by the abil-
ity of the Knox County attorney who won the case. The trial of
Frank Rand, desperado and murderer, gave another opportunity
for the display of Mr. McKenzie's legal skill and generalship. He
was appointed by the county to assist J. J. Lunnicliff. In a trial
occupying a week, in which especially able lawyers were concerned,
he took a prominent part, and the closing argument, lasting four
hours, and not to be forgotten by any who heard it, has never been
excelled for power and eloquence at the Knox County bar.

But Mr. McKenzie was more than a lawyer. Outside of his
profession he was a very busy man. Idleness was foreign to his
nature. From boyhood he was intensely fond of mechanics. As
early as 1871 he is said to have conceived a plan for an air brake,
and when ten years later he showed his design to . Westinghouse,
the latter said : "You would have been successful with this if you
had pressed it." He was a great reader, and accumulated a fine
library, where all his spare hours were spent. His fondness was
especially for science and abstruse work, which he read with ease.
His knowledge on scientific subjects frequently surprised even his
friends.

All his life Mr. McKenzie was a stanch republican until the
monetary subject came up for decision. He then came out for
free silver and stumped the country for William J. Bryan during
the latter's first campaign. He made the introductory speech on
the occasion of Bryan's appearance at Galesburg. The late Mr.
McKenzie was a member of Post No. -45, G. A. R., of the Masonic
Fraternity, of the Beta Theta Pi Greek letter society and the Guoth-
antii Society of Knox College. He was also president of the Knox
County Bar Association at time of his death.

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came affianced to Miss Harriet Smith, sister of Judge A. A. Smith.
They were united in marriage shortly after his graduation in 1859.
She died December 31, 1863, leaving a daughter Harriet, who died
in August, 1901. In October, 1865, Mr. McKenzie married Miss
Louisa Thomas, a woman of beautiful life and character, who died
in Galesburg, July 26, 1888. Of this union there is a daughter
Kate, now the wife of Andrew Harrington of Galesburg. July 23,
1895, Mr. McKenzie married Miss Sallie G. Sherrill, a lady of
Southern birth and rearing with whom he became acquainted while
she was attending Knox College. Two daughters came to them :
Genevieve, born July 5, 1896; and Gail, born November 12, 1897.
The older daughter is now a student of Knox College, and has
much of her father's ability as a student. The younger is a student
in the Galesburg High School, and is often called "Jim," her
father's nickname, because of her quick wit.

The esteem of his home city for tKe late Mr. McKenzie was well
expressed in an editorial in the Galesburg Evening Mail, with some
extracts from which this article will close : "In the death of Hon.
J. A. McKenzie Galesburg loses one of the ablest men who ever
made this city their home. Of magnificent mental endowment and
tireless energy, Mr. McKenzie mastered his profession as few men
have, and his ability as a lawyer has probably never been surpassed
at the Knox County bar. He completed his four years' college
course in three years with the highest honors, took up the law and
conquered its every detail and went out into the world to achieve
preeminence in his profession. Through a full, busy lifetime he
has lived and worked in this community, and left his stamp upon
it. The brilliant mind, the strong personality of Mr. McKenzie will
long be remembered and recalled here and elsewhere, for his reputa-
tion wag not bounded by the county line.

"His splendid and varied abilities and broad tastes worked along
many lines, and the very brilliancy of his talents seemed to make
it difficult for him to confine and direct them in any one channel.
Yet the law was always his chief diversion, as well as means of live-
lihood, and the position he attained in its practice is only a sample
of what he might have accomplished along any other line had he
so chosen. The swift intuition, the unerring judgment, the marvel-
ous comprehension, the great fund of knowledge, the persuasive
eloquence, the thorough knowledge of human nature, the boundless
energy, the strong will and broad experience of the man gave him
a most remarkable power. His interesting personality and kind-
ness of heart won for him many friends. His was a bold and
striking figure which to see and know was never to forget."

JOHN E. NORTHUP. It has been Mr. Northup's persistent and
skillful handling of many notable cases during his term as assistant
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fraud cases that has made him best known in Chicago, where his
career as a member of the bar began in 1899.

Mr. Northup had an individual practice the first five years, and
in 1904 became associated as a member of the firm of Pringle,
Northup & Terwilliger, a relationship of two years' duration. In
1906 John J. Healy appointed Mr. Northup one of his assistant
state's attorneys, and he continued to serve through the administra-
tion of the late John E. W. Wayman until December, 1912. Out
of the mass of litigation and prosecutions handled by him during
that time, there were a number of cases which attracted unusual
interest. One of these was the case of Doctor Cleminson, who was
convicted of chloroforming his wife ; the case of Jennings, a colored
man, who was convicted of murder, an important element in his con-
viction having been a coincidence of finger prints, the first case of
the kind in the country of any marked importance, and the first of its
kind in Cook County. He also prosecuted several homicide cases,
and tried a number of conspiracy and graft cases. Since leaving
the office of assistant prosecutor, Mr. Northup has been engaged in
private practice and as special state's attorney in investigating the
election frauds perpetrated in Cook County in November, 1912. In
19.14 Mr. Northup was one of the strongest candidates on the repub-
lican ticket, being the candidate of his party for the office of county
judge. He is now practicing as senior member of the firm of
Northup, Arnold & Fairbank, with offices at 139 North Clark Street.

John E. Northup was born on an Iowa farm in Marshall County,
August 28, 1868, a son of James E. and Lettie (Eastman) Northup.
He attended the country schools, and in 1891 he graduated with
the degree of A. B. from Drake University at Des Moines. Mr.
Northup was a school teacher for several years, spent two years
in post-graduate work at the University of Chicago, and during
three years spent as principal of schools at Elmhurst, Illinois, pur-
sued the study of law. He subsequently took a course in the Illi-
nois College of Law, and after passing his examination was admitted
to the Illinois bar in October, 1899. Mr. Northup is a member of
the American Bar Association, the Hamilton Club, the Chicago
Association of Commerce, and in Masonry has affiliations with
Union Park Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Cicero Chapter, R. A. M., Siloam
Commandery, Knights Templar, and Medinah Temple of the Mystic
Shrine, and also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at
Austin, the Royal League, the American Union.

Mr. Northup belongs to the Austin Athletic Association and the
Glen Oak Golf Club and is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Northup resides at No. 161 North Menard Avenue with his wife
and daughter, Miss Dorothy. Mrs. Northup was formerly Miss
Elizabeth Chisholm, of Chisholm, Iowa.

JAMES JAY SHERIDAN was bora in Virginia City, Nevada, when
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place his father had gone from Marshall, Michigan, as a pioneer
gold seeker. He was yet a young child when the family made its
way back to Michigan, and in that state he grew to young manhood.

Mr. Sheridan was born on August 16, 1868, and is a son of
James C. and Bridget (Crawley) Sheridan. He spent his boyhood
days in the town of Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, there
attending school, and in course of time entered the University of
Michigan, concluding his studies there and being graduated from
the law department as a member of the class of 1894, with the
Bachelor of Laws degree. He thereafter did post-graduate work in
the Yale law school and finishing his studies there, in 1895, was
admitted to the bar of Illinois. Since that time Mr. Sheridan has
been commendably engaged in the practice of his profession in
Chicago, and the passing years have been marked by ever increas-
ing advancement in legal circles.

Mr. Sheridan is a republican and has always been active in the
party cause. Even as a university student he showed his political
spirit by encouraging republican clubs among the student body. In
1904 he was a member of a convention that assembled for the pur-
pose of formulating a new city charter and in many ways has
shown his enthusiasm in a civic way, always along progressive
lines.

Mr. Sheridan in 1903 was elected to the presidency of the Ham-
ilton Club, one of the most prominent and influential in Chicago.
During his administration his policies resulted in bringing to the
club a large increase in membership of the most desirable order.
He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the University Club
and the Phi Delta Phi college fraternity.

On March 25, 1911, Mr. Sheridan was married to Miss Ger-
trude Sands.

JOHN M. RANKIN. Since 1904 a member of the Chicago bar,
Mr. Rankin has rapidly gained recognition as an able and thoroughly
equipped lawyer, and was for a number of years a member of the
firm of Davis & Rankin. In November, 1914, he became asso-
ciated with Eugene A. Moran, a son of the late Judge Thomas A.
Moran, in general practice under firm name of Rankin & Moran.

John M. Rankin was born on a farm in Fulton County, Illinois,
June 9, 1873, a son °f Jonn and Anna (Dobson') Rankin. His
father came from Ohio to Illinois in 1846, settled in Fulton County,
and spent his active career in farming.

Educated in the country schools, and living on a farm until the
age of eighteen, John M. Rankin then took a teacher's course at the
Western Normal College, spent three years as teacher in rural
schools, and the first important break in this routine came with the
beginning of the Spanish-American war. He was a member of the
Sixth Illinois Volunteers who were sent to Porto Rico, and he was
absent in the army for about seven months. On his return to Fulton

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County Mr. Rankin in the fall of 1898 was appointed deputy county
clerk, and while looking after the duties of that position studied law
for three years. Mr. Rankin came to Chicago in 1903, and after a
year in the Chicago Kent College of Law was admitted to the Illinois
bar in 1904. His first connection with actual practice was as clerk
in the office of Erode B. Davis, and eventually he was admitted as
a partner under the name of Davis & Rankin. This firm continued
under that title until March, 1913.

Mr. Rankin is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illi-
nois State Bar Association, is affiliated with Covenant Lodge No.
526, A. F. & A. M. In 1908 he married Miss Alice M. Flathers, of
Chicago. They reside at 3964 Ellis Avenue.

PAUL O'DoNNELL has been actively identified with his profes-
sion in Chicago since his admission to the bar in 1909, with offices at
109 North Dearborn Street.

Paul O'Donnell was born at Vincennes, Indiana, acquired his
early education in the parochial and high schools of that city, en-
tered Notre Dame University at South Bend in 1902, and from 1903
to 1909 was in the University of Chicago, where he acquired his
degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Jurisprudence.

Mr. O'Donnell is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, of
Calumet Council of the Knights of Columbus, of the Irish Fellow-
ship Club, and the Delta Sigma Rho. He is a companion in the
Medal of Honor Legion by inheritance from his grandfather,
Menonen O'Donnell. Mr. O'Donnell is an officer in the First Cav-
alry of the Illinois National Guard. He has membership in the
Reynolds Club of the University of Chicago and the Assemblers
Club. His home is at 1368 East Sixty-second Street.

MICHAEL D. DOLAN. While many men achieve a degree of suc-
cess along many lines there can be no doubt but that Nature endows
more generously in one direction than another, and when marked
success follows earnest effort, special qualities have been a heritage
that fortuitous circumstances have made adaptive. When choice
of a career is possible and the law is chosen, a young man enters a
profession that offers him a recompensing field for his efforts, for,
unmistakably it is from the law that emerge the strong, vital men
who influence, guide and regulate in the greater affairs of public life
and leave indelible their impress on their day and generation. Aside
from natural inclination, however, a practitioner of the law who
advances beyond his fellows, must be far more thoroughly educated
than in other callings in life, and must be far more industrious than
his emoluments, at first seem to warrant. Whatever line of practice
he may select a field will be open at long as human nature is as at
present. The American Bar Association, the most representative
body of the profession, has expressed its opinion in regard to mem-
bers of the bar, urging that lawyers remember that their highest

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honor will be deserved reputations for fidelity to private trusts and
to public duty, and it will be found that this is the aim of mem-
bers of the Chicago bar who have reached prominence. In this
connection, fully meeting with the approval of so important a pro-
fessional body as the American Bar Association, of which he is a
member, is Michael D. Dolan, who maintains his law office in the
Unity Building, Chicago.

Michael D. Dolan was born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, Octo-
ber 26, 1882, and is a son of James and Mary (Tonkin) Dolan. The
father is engaged in farming in Wisconsin and the family is well
known near Mineral Point. Wisconsin is a progressive state and
the public schools, in which Michael D. Dolan was an apt pupil,
maintain a high standard. The youth was given further educational
advantages, attending De La Salle Institute, where he was gradu-
ated in 1898, afterward St. Ignatius College, Chicago Kent College
of Law, and was graduated with his degree of LL. B. in 1903. In
the same year he was admitted to the Illinois bar and began an
independent practice in which he has continued, and through
natural ability, close attention and comprehensive knowledge of
the law has earned the reputation he has desired and has thereby
advanced his own interests honorably as well as those of his clients.
His practice is general in character but he pays some attention to
corporation law and represents several large corporations at
present.

Mr. Dolan is a man of pleasing personality and his circle of
friends is wide. He belongs, as above mentioned, to the American
Bar Association, and also to the Chicago Bar Association, the Illi-
nois State Bar Association and the Lawyers' Association of Illinois.
His fraternal connections are with the A. O. H. and the Knights
of Columbus. Mr. Dolan resides at No. 842 East Sixty-fifth Street,
Chicago.

CHARLES REVELL .HOLDEN. For nearly half a century the name
Holden has been identified with the Chicago bar. William H.
Holden began active practice in the city in 1866, and his son Charles
R. Holden has been one of the prominent lawyers of the city for
the past twenty years.

Charles Revell Holden was born in Chicago January 9, 1871,
a son of William Hiram and Sarah J. (Revell) Holden. His father,
William H. Holden, was born in Chicago June 6, 1843, a son of
Charles N. and Frances W. (Woodbury) Holden, was graduated
from the West Division High School in 1861, took his law degree
from the Union College of Law in 1866, and at once began active
practice. For twenty-one years he served as treasurer of the Chi-
cago Law Institute, and was prominent as a lawyer in business
affairs, and as a member of the Baptist Church. At one time he
was trustee of the University of Chicago, was officially identified
with various church institutions, and was a president of the trus-

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 583

tees of the Second Baptist Church, and for thirty years superin-
tendent of its Sunday school. The wife of William H. Holden
was a sister of Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, wife of the famous
Evangelist.

Charles R. Holden was liberally educated, graduated A. B.
from Yale University in 1892, entered the Northwestern University
Law School and continued his studies with the firm of Moran,
Kraus & Mayer until admitted to the bar in 1893. He was clerk
with that firm until 1899, then became junior partner, and in 1900
joined Adolf Kraus of the firm making the new partnership of
Kraus & Holden. In 1901 Samuel Alschuler was admitted as a
partner, and for the past thirteen years Kraus, Alschuler & Holden
have been one of the prominent firms of Chicago, representing a
large general clientage, but chiefly identified with corporation prac-
tice. The offices of the firm are in the Tribune Building. On
October i, 1914, he became vice president and counsel of the Union
Trust Company, of Chicago, and at the same time William H. Hol-
den became affiliated with the firm of Kraus, Alschuler and
Holden.

Mr. Holden is a member of the Baptist Church, a republican
in politics, belongs to the Chicago Bar Association and Law In-
stitute, and is a member of the University, the City, the Kenwood,
Hamilton and Midlothian Country clubs. For a number of years
he has been actively interested in religious movements, is a trus-
tee of the Baptist Theological Union, the Divinity School of the
University of Chicago, a member of the Board of Trustees of the
University of Chicago, on the board of the Cook County Sunday
School Association and of the Federated Church Council. Mr.
Holden is also a member of the board of managers of the Chicago
Y. M. C. A. and on the Committee of Management of the West
Side Y. M. C. A. His present residence is. the Kenwood Hotel at
4700 Kenwood Avenue. His first wife, whom he married in De-
cember, 1893, was Mertie Towne. On August 12, 1901, Mr. Holden
married Cora Eaton. He has one son, William H. T.

WILLIAM R. Moss. When William R. Moss finished his studies
in the Michigan State Normal School at Ypsilanti in 1891 he iden-
tified himself with that line of effort for which his training had
best fitted him, that of teaching. For five years he continued
therein, four years in an executive position as head of the Wausau
(Wisconsin) public schools, and his record in that time was indeed
praiseworthy. But the legal profession held out to him attractions
that were irresistible, and the year 1896 found him a student in
the law school of Michigan University. In 1899 ne was graduated
with the Bachelor of Laws degree, and since October of that year
he has been identified with the Chicago bar as an active member
of the profession in this city. This is the brief record of his active
career since the close of his student days down to date.

584

Mr. Moss is a native of Michigan and his parents are pioneer
settlers of the state. Myron S. and Mary (Price) Moss were born
in the states of New York and New Hampshire, respectively, and
both were children when their families left the settled regions of
those eastern states and pioneered into the unfamiliar wilds of
Michigan. They grew to mature years in Clinton County, and
Myron S. Moss was long numbered among the representative farm-
ers of his county. He was a citizen of commendable influence and
standing, and on his homestead farm at Maple Rapids, Clinton
County, William R. Moss was born on November 3, 1867.

Such schools as Clinton County provided in his boyhood Wil-
liam Moss was privileged to attend, and when he had finished his
high school course he applied himself to the business of teaching
in local schools. He continued for three years, and in 1887 entered
the Michigan State Normal School at Ypsilanti, as has been men-
tioned in a previous paragraph. His subsequent activities in the
field of education have also been touched upon so that further
mention of that phase of his life need not be set forth here.

When in 1899 Mr. Moss finished his law course, he was admitted
to the bar in the same month of his graduation. Very soon there-
after he left his native state and came to Chicago and in October,
1899, was admitted to practice before the Illinois bar. Mr. Moss
is today eligible to practice in all courts except the United States
Supreme Court. His law business is of a general order. In 1906
he was retained as trial lawyer by the Chicago Elevated Railroad
Companies, and he is still engaged in that capacity. Other promi-
nent corporations have retained him in a similar capacity. He was
village attorney for Oak Park from September, 1911, to December
31, 1913, when he resigned. For some years he was attorney for
the Oak Park Business Men's Association, of which he is a mem-
ber, and he is a director of and attorney for the Oak Park State
Bank. He has membership in the Chicago, Illinois State and Ameri-
can Bar associations and for two years was a member of the griev-
ance committee of the first named association. His membership in
the Union League, the University Club, the City Club, the Chicago
Executives Club, the Oak Park Club and the Westward Ho! Golf
Club, of which last he was for three years secretary, have united to
give him a wide acquaintance in social circles in the city, and his
circle of friends is one that is ever widening. He is also identified
with the time honored Masonic fraternity, and he is a member of
the Chicago Association of Commerce. Politically he has staunchly
supported the republican party, and for two years he was president
of the Oak Park Republican Club, following a service of two years
as vice president of the club.

On December 27, 1892, Mr. Moss was married to Miss Carrie
Gauss, and their home is at 238 North Kenilworth Avenue, in Oak
Park. He and his wife are members of the First Congregational
Church of that place.

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 585

CHARLES ALBERT KOEPKE. One of Chicago's native sons who
is winning distinction and success in the field of law is Charles
Albert Koepke, junior member of the firm of Tatge & Koepke. Mr.
Koepke's practice, in connection with the firm mentioned, is gen-
eral in character, and has won him a substantial reputation because
of the splendid nature of his abilities. Mr. Koepke was born De-
cember 1 8, 1876, in Chicago, and is a son of Frank and Augusta
(Kliehn) Koepke, natives of Germany, who left the Fatherland for
the United States in 1872 and settled in Chicago, where the father
has since been successfully engaged in business as a carpenter and
contractor.

After attending the public schools and graduating from the high
school, Charles A. Koepke began a course in a business college, but
left before its completion to become a student in the law school
of Northwestern University, Evanston. He was graduated in 1899,
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, but a few days prior to this
had been admitted to the bar upon examination. His professional
career was commenced as office clerk with the law firm of Pinck-
ney & Tatge, in 1895, and when the senior member of the firm,
Merritt W. Pinckney, was elevated to the bench of the Juvenile
Court, he became Mr. Tatge's partner, the firm taking the style of
Tatge & Koepke, which has continued to the present time, having
offices at 903 Schiller Building. Mr. Koepke's law practice has
not been confined to any special or narrow field, but has been of a
broad and general character, and his advice is sought by a number
of the leading business interests of Chicago. He is a member of
the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and
the American Bar Association. Mr. Koepke belongs to the Royal
Arcanum, and is prominently known in Masonic circles, being a
member of Golden Rule Lodge No. 726, A. F. & A. M., Wiley M.
Egan Chapter, R. A. M. ; Chicago Commandery, K. T. ; Oriental
Consistory, S. R. M., and Medinah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.

On October 7, 1903, Mr. Koepke was united in marriage with
Miss Caroline G. Schmidt, of Chicago, and three children have
been born to them : Louise, Charles and Marie. The family home
is at No. 2219 West Walton Street.

H. ERSKINE CAMPBELL. Admitted to practice in 1902, H. Er-
skine Campbell is the second member of the firm of Pain, Camp-
bell & Kasper of Chicago. He is the son of a prominent lawyer of
the state, Washington Hilary Campbell, who practiced at Havana
for twelve years, served as mayor of that city and was a promi-
nent democrat. It was while campaigning as a speaker in behalf
of Grover Cleveland after his first nomination that Mr. Campbell
contracted a cold that resulted eventually in his death, November
21, 1884. Mr. Campbell's mother bore the maiden name of Eliza-
beth Conwell.

H. Erskine Campbell was born at Havana, the county seat

586 COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS

of Mason County, Illinois, October -3, 1876, and there for two
years attended the public schools. In January, 1888, he went to
Racine, Wisconsin, and entered the grammar school there, attend-
ing until June, 1889, when he entered the University School at
Kenosha, Wisconsin, there preparing for college until June, 1895.
In October of the same year Mr. Campbell entered the University
of Chicago, spending two and a half years in active study, and
after an interval of one and one-half years went to Leland Stanford
Junior University, at Palo Alto, California, and remained about one
year. In 1900 Mr. Campbell returned to his native state and be-
came a student in the law school of Northwestern University, and
was admitted to the bar in September of 1902. A short period
of practice alone followed and he then became associated with
Charles E. Pain, at that time with the firm of Parker & Pain. Sev-
eral changes in the firm's name have occurred, and the association
is now known as Pain, Campbell and Kasper and is accounted one
of the strong legal combinations in general practice in the city.
The offices of the firm are maintained in the First National Bank
Building.

Mr. Campbell is a member of the Chicago and the Illinois State
Bar associations and is well known in club and social circles. .Among
his club memberships may be mentioned the Chicago Athletic Club,
the Edgewater Country Club, of which he is ex-president, the Edge-
water Golf Club, in which he is a member of the directing board,
and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Association, of which fraternity he
was president for two years. In Masonry Mr. Campbell has at-
tained high rank, being a member of Edgewater Lodge, A. F. & A.
M., Corinthian Chapter, Chicago Council, Apollo Commandery,
Oriental Consistory and Medinah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.

Mr. Campbell was married June 25, 1901, to Miss Lorraine
Decker, of Chicago, and they live at No. 1066 Berwyn Avenue.
They are members of the Episcopal Church.

F. MACDONALD LOWE. A member of the Chicago bar since
October, 1903, F. MacDonald Lowe was for several years closely
associated with Col. Richard S. Thompson, one of the old and promi-
nent-lawyers of Chicago, and has his offices in the Chamber of Com-
merce Building.

F. MacDonald Lowe was born at Richview, Washington County,
Illinois, August 22, 1879, son of Dr. Adolphus G. and Hattie C.
(Cameron) Lowe. He was graduated from the Hyde Park High
School in 1899, subsequently attending the University of Michigan
in the literary and law departments. He took his degree of LL. B.
in 1903 from the Chicago Kent College of Law. In October, 1903,
he was admitted to the bar and for the following three years held
a clerical position in the office of Judge Jesse A. Baldwin. Since
1907 he has practiced alone.

Mr. Lowe is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illi-

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tendered his services to Governor Yates and was commissioned
regimental surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois
Infantry, serving as such until 1864. He became interested in the
development of agriculture and in the breeding of blooded stock
and subsequently, for ten consecutive years, was either president
or vice president of the Agricultural Board of Illinois ; also was
purchaser and supervisor of the purchasing board of stock imported
from Europe by the Illinois Breeders' Association, and additionally
served as president of the State Agricultural Society. In consider-
ing his talents and activities it is not difficult to see the same ener-
getic qualities that were his son's heritage. After settling in Piatt
County, Dr. Johns served as a member of the Illinois Legislature
with credit.

On October 29, 1845, Dr. Johns was united in marriage with
Jane Martin, a daughter of William Martin, and ten children were
born to them, five of whom grew to maturity : William C. ; Sheri-
dan W., who is a resident of Decatur; Fannie W., now deceased,
who was the wife of Robert Sedgwick; Laura, now deceased, who
was the wife of George Danforth; and Nellie, who is the wife of
Charles B. Moore, an admiral in the United States Navy and now
stationed at Honolulu.

William Corwin Johns attended the Decatur grade schools and
the Normal School, then entered the University of Michigan and
was graduated with the class of 1869, in 1870 graduating from the
Albany, New York, School of Law. In the same year he was ad-
mitted to the New York and also the Illinois bar, and at once
entered upon practice at Decatur. Prior to this, however, he had
had military experience, in 1863 enlisting in Company E, One Hun-
dred and Forty-fifth Illinois Infantry, a loo-day regiment, and
patriotically did his part in helping out the older soldiers, guarding
bridges and outposts, this helpfulness enabling the seasoned sol-
diers to go nearer the seat of war. It was sufficiently dangerous,
however, to try the courage of the youths and the record shows
that many did not survive the experience. In 1880 he was elected
state's attorney and in that office, as later on the bench, proved
absolutely honest and fearless. In 1903 he was first elected, as
successor of Hon. E. P. Vail, as judge of the Circuit Court in the
Sixth Judicial District, which is composed of Macon, Moultrie,
DeWitt, Piatt, Douglas and Champaign Counties. In 1909 he was
re-elected with a much larger majority and continued to serve until
his death, a period covered by eleven years and nine days. He thus
became widely known and many of his verdicts have gone down in
history and are now accepted as models for pending decisions. Per-
haps the most famous of these and one that attracted wide atten-
tion, was that given when the Cumberland Presbyterian church was
merged with the regular Presbyterian church. After much litiga-
tion Judge Johns made his decision and it was subsequently upheld
by the State Supreme Court. It later was taken as a model in the

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 589

case brought before the Tennessee Supreme Court. Another deci-
sion which found its way into the Supreme Court and finally became
a model was the case of Green vs. Weigle, in which the ownership
of land was contested. Judge Johns' decision was affirmed by the
higher court. At one time during his days of private practice, he
was retained in the great legal battle of the State of Missouri against
the State of Illinois for damages on the ground that the Chicago
drainage district was endangering the lives of the Missouri people
through contamination of the Mississippi river.

In his judicial capacity Judge Johns was sometimes accused of
being unnecessarily austere, although this attitude was largely the
result of his earnestness and determination to be impartial, but in
the domestic circle, in social life and in daily commingling with
congenial friends, an entirely different view was gained of him.
Scholarly and traveled, every subject was familiar to him and he
had the tact that enabled him to bring familiar themes into the con-
versation when any particular group surrounded him, either in his
little office in the courthouse, in the lounging room of the Decatur
Club, on the golf links, among politicians or in circles entirely to
his personal taste, and in these hours of relaxation the real man was
seen and the qualities came out that made him admired and loved.

Although the law claimed almost his entire attention, Judge
Johns was a member of the State Senate from 1887 to 1891. At"
one time, before the malady which terminated his life had drained
his energy, he was in much demand as a public speaker but occa-
sionally on very special occasions in late years he consented to once
more make addresses, although at the risk of exhaustion. One of
these will never be forgotten by anyone who was so fortunate as to
be within the sound of his voice. Reference is made to the com-
memorative oration upon his friend, the late James Millikin, at the
Founders' Day exercises at Millikin University in 1910.

In 1882 Judge Johns married Miss Nellie Harper, whose father
was a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia. Mrs. Johns only sur-
vived her marriage a few years. Judge Johns erected a handsome
residence near the old Grace Methodist Church, on East Eldorado
Street. He was an almost constant attendant at the services of the
First Presbyterian Church, and his pastor, Rev. W. H. Penhallegon,
valued an unbroken friendship of twenty-five years. Although his
state of health, in his later years, prevented regular attendance, he
prized his membership in the University Club and was an interested
participant in the discussions and his opinion was eagerly sought on
any question of a legal nature. It was in one of the'se meetings that
he strongly opposed the view that a new constitutional convention
was needed for Illinois. In younger years athletic sports attracted
him and sometimes he mentioned the fact that once he had belonged
to a Decatur baseball team. He was fond of golf and found recrea-
tion at times in fishing trips, but in his closing years his absences
from duty were mainly on account of necessary change of scene and

590 COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS

climate, and it was while on his way to visit his sister, Mrs. Moore,
in Honolulu, that he broke down completely and was hastened to a
hospital in San Francisco, where the end came. He was ever a
tender and devoted son, and however the loss might be felt in the
many circles in which his talents and activities had made him useful
and conspicuous for so many years, the blow fell heaviest on the
one to whom, in spite of his years and public honors, he was always
a boy needing and responding to her loving solicitude.

WALTER H. ECKERT, although one of the younger members
of the Chicago bar, has attained a secure position and has won the
respect and esteem of profession and public.

Like a good many other successful Chicago attorneys, Walter
H. Eckert had his start on the farm. He was born at Woodstock,
Illinois, March 10, 1880, and is a son of George W. and Bertha
(Sigwalt) Eckert, farming people who still live in that vicinity.
He passed his youth on the homestead place, his early education
being secured in the country schools and the graded schools of
Woodstock. The farm continued to be the scene of Mr. Eckert's
activities until he reached the age of eighteen years, when he came
to Chicago, and in December, 1901, entered the Kent College of
Law. He spent two years in study there and then became a student
'in Northwestern University, his graduation from the law school
coming in June, 1904, when the Bachelor's degree was awarded
him. Previous to that time, however, he had been admitted to the
bar, that event taking place in September, 1903. Following his
graduation Mr. Eckert became associated with the firm of Ela,
Grover & Graves, becoming a member of the firm in 1906, and in
1908 the firm style was changed to Ela, Grover, March and Eckert,
continuing as such until May I, 1914, when Mr. Eckert withdrew
from the partnership and established an office in the Otis Building,
where he has since been engaged in practice alone. His business is
mainly in the field of corporation and real estate law, and his suc-
cess, gained without the aid of influential friends or other assist-
ance, may be accounted for by his hard and industrious work. In
addition to his private practice, which is large, Mr. Eckert repre-
sents four banking institutions and an insurance company.

On September 3, 1907, Mr. Eckert was married to Miss Geor-
gia J. Cooper, of Chicago, and they have one daughter, Jane. The
family home is at Hinsdale.

Mr. Eckert is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
Hamilton Club,* the Hinsdale Club and the Hinsdale Golf Club.
He is a republican in his politics.

THEODORE IRVING CHRISTOPHER. Among the able and reliable
practitioners of law in the City of Chicago, Theodore Irving Chris-
topher, who is associated with the prominent firm of Winston,
Payne, Strawn & Shaw, is accorded a foremost place by those

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 591

clients who seek honorable and thoroughly educated attorneys to
look after their interests. For eighteen years Mr. Christopher
has been a member of the Illinois bar, and in continuous practice
with the exception of four years of his life, following his service
in the Spanish-American war, which were devoted to the United
States Naval service, during which he traveled around the world.

Theodore Irving Christopher was born at Vincennes, Indiana,
October 16, 1876, and is a son of Theodore D. and Sarah E. (Duffy)
Christopher. From the public schools of St. Louis, Missouri, he
entered the academic department of Washington University, later
attended a business college in Chicago, and subsequently became a
student in the law department of Lake Forest University, where
he was graduated in 1897. In the same year he was admitted to
practice in Illinois and was so engaged when the Spanish-Ameri-
can war broke out in 1898. At that time he enlisted with the Illi-
nois Naval Reserves, under a special war enlistment of four months,
and served on the United States steamer Montgomery, mainly
along the Cuban coast and at Porto Rico, until the war closed. He
then returned to Chicago and resumed his law practice. There
must have been in his family some maritime ancestor whose love
of the water he inherits and after a year of practice, during which
the call of the sea became more insistent than the settlement of dis-
putes between litigants, no matter how important or profitable, and
the day came when he closed his office and enlisted in the United
States Navy for a cruise of four years. He was assigned to the
United States steamer Chicago, which was Admiral Schley's flag-
ship when he took charge of the South Atlantic squadron. Mr.
Christopher's position at first was yeoman of the third class but
before he was finally and honorably discharged, he had been pro-
moted to be chief yeoman. He served nine months on the Wil-
mington in South America, being transferred to that vessel imme-
diately after reaching Buenos Aires. From that city the vessel
went to Montevideo and from there, by way of the Mediterranean
Sea and the Suez Canal to Manila, stopping at all the principal ports
on the route. Two and one-half years were spent by Mr. Chris-
topher in the Philippine Islands and along the China coast. One in-
teresting experience while in the Orient was a trip of 900 miles up
the great yellow Yang-tse-Kiang River. In November, 1902, he
was transferred to the United States steamer Yorktown on which
vessel he returned to the United States by way of the Hawaiian
Islands, to the port of San Francisco. There were more places,
however, that Mr. Christopher desired to visit, so he took passage
on the United States steamer Wyoming for Mexico and the Panama
Canal, crossing the isthmus and then being transferred to the
United States steamer Mayflower, on which he reached Norfolk,
Virginia, where he was honorably discharged after an absence of
four years, in February, 1904. Entirely apart from the advantages

592 COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS

that would accrue to a professional man through the broadened
outlook such a period of travel would give, the personal enjoyment
and the preservation in memory of the wonderful sights and un-
usual experiences of such a journey, would have made it well
worth while.

Mr. Christopher once more returned to Chicago and again
resumed the practice of law, at first with the firm of Rosenthal,
Kurz & Hirschl, but since 1910 has been associated with the firm
of Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw. He is a member of the Chi-
cago Bar Association. His business office is in the First Na-
tional Bank Building, Chicago.

On January i, 1906, Mr. Christopher was married to Miss
Daisy Racine, a resident of LaGrange, Illinois, and they have four
children : Mary, Daisy, Dorothy and Edward. The family resi-
dence is at LaGrange. Mr. Christopher's fraternal relationships
are representative. He is past master of LaGrange Lodge No.
770 A. F. & A. M. ; past grand of Suburban Lodge No. no Odd
Fellows; and past consul of LaGrange Camp Modern Woodmen
of America.

EDGAR BRONSON TOLMAN was born at Nowgong, British India,
September 5, 1859, being the son of Rev. Cyrus F. and Mary (Bron-
son) Tolman, who in 1864 returned to the United States after the
father's mission in India. Major Tolman is a graduate of the old
University of Chicago, having taken his A. B. degree in 1880 and
his A. M. in 1883. In 1882 he graduated from the Union College
of Law, receiving the Horton prize. Admitted to the bar in 1882,
Mr. Tolman in 1889 became a member of the law firm of Doolittle,
McKey & Tolman, which later became Doolittle, Palmer & Tolman.
Since 1905 he has been senior member of the firm of Tolman, Red-
field & Sexton, with offices in the Stock Exchange Building.

Major Tolman was attorney for the board of local improvements
of Chicago during 1901-03, and served as corporation counsel for
the city from June 13, 1903, to August i, 1905. During the Spanish-
American war he was major of the First Illinois Volunteer Infan-
try and participated in the Santiago campaign. He is an active
member of the Chicago Bar Association, served as president of
that organization, and is chairman of its Committee on Rules of
Court. He is also an ex-president of the Law Club, and a member
of the Illinois State Bar Association, and the American Bar Asso-
ciation. Politically he is a democrat, and has membership in the
following patriotic and social orders: Sons of the American Rev-
olution, Society of Foreign Wars of the United States, Society of
the Army of Santiago de Cuba, Naval and Military Order of Span-
ish-American war and United Spanish War Veterans ; the Chicago
Athletic, Iroquois, Quadrangle, City, South Shore Country, and
Flossmoor Country clubs.

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 593

RICHARD S. THOMPSON who passed away in June, 1914, was for
more than forty years identified with the Chicago bar, and gained
many of the distinctions and honors in law and public affairs.
He saw two years of active service as an officer in the Civil war,
until finally obliged to retire on account of wounds.

Richard Swain Thompson was born at Cape May Court House,
Cape May County, New Jersey, December 27, 1837, a son of Rich-
ard and Elizabeth (Holmes) Thompson. For three years he was
a student in the Norristown Seminary in Pennsylvania, and for
three years studied under Rev. Alden Scovel, whose daughter he
afterwards married. Colonel Thompson took his degree LL. B.
from the Harvard Law School in 1861 and was admitted to the
bar at Philadelphia March 8, 1862. In August, 1862, he raised a
company of which' he became captain, and which was Company
K of the Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers. It was mustered into
service September 4, 1862, and he served as district provost marshal
at Ellicott's Mills in Maryland for two months, and on December
19, 1862, the regiment joined the Army of the Potomac. He was
commissioned major February 25, 1864, and lieutenant colonel July
14, 1864, of the Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers. He was severely
wounded at the battle of Reams Station in Virginia August 25,
1864, and on account of his wounds was mustered out of service
February 17, 1865.

In choosing a field for his profession Colonel Thompson located
in Chicago in October, 1865, and soon acquired a good general prac-
tice and became active in public affairs. From February i, 1867,
to August, 1885, ne was a partner of Jeremiah Learning. He
served as a member of the Illinois Senate from the Second Sena-
torial District from 1872 to 1876, and was attorney of the Village
of Hyde Park from 1869 to 1875, and from 1875 to i&7& was attor-
ney for the South Park commissioners. He subsequently was di-
rector of the Chamber of Commerce Safety Vaults Company. As
a lawyer Colonel Thompson became an authority upon the law of
eminent domain and was resorted to as a specialist upon that sub-
ject. He was a good trial lawyer, very effective before a jury and
a deadly cross-examiner. How unusually successful his practice
was from a financial standpoint is evidenced by the comfortable
size of his estate.

Colonel Thompson was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church
in Kenwood, a member of the Illinois Commandery of the Loyal
Legion and of the Western Society of Army of the Potomac. He
was a member of the Union League Club, was president during
1891-1892 of the Kenwood Club, and his home was at 5406 East
End Avenue.

Colonel Thompson was married at Bloomington, Illinois, June
27, 1865, to Catherine Scovel, daughter of Rev. Alden Scovel.
There are two daughters : Louise, wife of Samuel A. Whitney,
and Mary, Mrs. George Kenneth Sage.

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ARTHUR C. HOFFMANN. A member of the Chicago bar for more
than twenty years, and always practicing individually, Arthur C.
Hoffmann is a lawyer whose standing and ability are well indi-
cated by the clientele which he has represented in the courts for
many years, and which has included several of the large corpora-
tions and all of his practice has been of the better class of corpora-
tion and civil business.

Born in Chicago February 15, 1867, Arthur C. Hoffmann was a
son of Hugo and Emma (Koblitz) Hoffmann, who came to Chi-
cago from Germany about 1861. Reared and educated in Chicago,
Mr. Hoffmann spent one year in the University of Michigan and
one year at the Chicago College of Law, and was graduated from
the Kent College of Law in 1893, LL. B. Admitted to the bar
in the same year, he has since practiced, and at no time in partner-
ship. In a few years he had build up a clientele, largely in" cor-
poration and civil practice. He has served as counsel in several
very important cases, both in the state and federal courts, and
is the regular legal representative of several corporations. Mr.
Hoffmann has also been at different times concerned with con-
structive legislation, and larger movements. A few years ago he
drew up the bill known as the "Net Weight and Measure Law,"
and, largely through the direct influence of Mr. Hoffmann and sev-
eral associates, the provisions of the bill were subsequently incor-
porated in a federal law.

Mr. Hoffmann in 1912 was president of the Kent College of
Law Alumni, has membership in the Chicago Bar Association, and
belongs to the Hamilton Club, the Ouilmette Country Club, the
Men's Country Club, the Knights of Pythias, the North American
Union and the Royal League. He was married April 14, 1903, to
Miss Katharine Frances McGovern of Chicago. His residence is
in Wilmette and his office in the Stock Exchange Building.

HON. CHARLES M. THOMSON. As a lawyer Charles M. Thom-
son has had some influential and prominent connections since be-
ginning practice in Chicago in 1902. He is a former associate of
Edwin W. Sims and is now of the firm of Gardner, Carton & Thom-
son, attorneys and counsellors, with offices at 76 West Monroe
Street. Mr. Thomson is probably best known to the people of
Illinois and of Chicago as one of the active leaders in the progress-
ive party, and in 1912 was one of the successful progressive can-
didates elected from Illinois to Congress. He represented the tenth
district in the Sixty-third Congress, and friends of good govern-
ment had much to regret when Mr. Thomson was defeated for re-
election on the progressive ticket in November, 1914.

Charles Marsh Thomson was born in Chicago February 13,
1877, a son of James and Julia (Marsh) Thomson, his father
having for a number of years been a member of the firm of Thom-
son & Taylor Spice Company. Mr. Thomson was educated in the

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Chicago public schools and the Chicago Manual Training School,
graduating in 1895, took his college work in Washington and Jef-
ferson College from which he graduated A. B. in 1899 and received
the degree Master of Arts in 1902, coincident with his graduation
LL. B. from the Northwestern University Law School. Mr. Thom-
son was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1902 and until 1905 was
associated in practice with Edwin W. Sims, first in the firm of
Malley & Sims and later with Sims, Munro & Thomson. When
Mr. Sims in 1905 became solicitor for the bureau of corporations
in Washington, the firm of Sims & Thomson was dissolved, and
thereafter Mr. Thomson was engaged in individual practice until
May, 1911. At that time he became associated with Henry A.
Gardner and Alfred T. Carton under the present firm name of
Gardner, Carton & Thomson.

Mr. Thomson has always been a progressive factor in politics
and allied with the forces of clean and honest administration. In
April, 1908, he was elected as an independent from the Twenty-fifth
Ward to the Chicago City Council, and was reelected in April, 1910,
and in April, 1912. In the summer of 1912 he accepted a place on
the progressive ticket as candidate for Congress from the Tenth
District, and was elected in November of that year. During his
term in Congress Mr. Thomson served on the Committee on Pub-
lic Lands, the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department
and Committee on Enrolled Bills.

He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois state bar associa-
tions, of the City Club, the Delta Tau Delta and the Phi Delta Phi
Legal Fraternity. October 24, 1905, Mr. Thomson married Miss
Besse Holbrook of Chicago. Their two children are Dorothy and
John. Mr. Thomson resides at 847 Montrose Avenue.

JOSEPH A. O'DONNELL. Engaged in the practice of law in
Chicago for more than a quarter of a century, Mr. O'Donnell has
marked the years with worthy achievement in his profession, with
loyal and public spirited citizenship, with able service in the state
Legislature, and was twice nominated for judicial office, but both
times deprived of the honors of the bench because of the uncon-
stitutionality of the law providing for the offices for which he was
candidate. Mr. O'Donnell is a man of broad and exact knowledge
of the law, has won many notable victories in the important cases
presented by him in the various courts, and is a citizen of sterling
character and high ideals. Few Chicago lawyers who had in early
life to win their own way against heavy odds have gone further
in professional standing and success than Mr. O'Donnell.

He was born in the Town of Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland,
where his family is an old and influential one. His parents, Pat-
rick and Catherine (Nellis) O'Donnell, came to the United States
when Joseph A. was six years of age. They established their home
in Chicago, and in that city he had the advantages of St. Patrick's

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Academy and the public schools. His education was interrupted
by the demands placed upon him in aiding in the support of the
family, the record of which may be said to have been not greatly
different from that expressed by Abraham Lincoln relative to his
own family history, "the short and simple of the annals of the
poor." His first employment was as an office boy, and he later
began an apprenticeship at the trade of mechanical engineer. His
energy and industry brought rapid advancement, and at the age
of twenty-two he was appointed foreman in the establishment. His
ambition and good judgment were shown at this period of his
career, since after the heavy work of the day he attended night
school and applied himself assiduously to the study of mechanical
drawing, engineering and kindred subjects. This stress upon his
time and energies impaired his health, resulting in a change of
plans which caused him to prepare for the profession in which he
has won such success and prestige. Previously he had taken up the
study of Blackstone's and Kent's Commentaries, had studied Latin
in his leisure hours, and thus had a sound foundation for the syste-
matic study of law. He finally entered the law school of the North-
western University in Chicago, and was graduated a member of
the class of 1887, winning a senior diploma and the degree Bachelor
of Laws.

Mr. O'Donnell was admitted to the bar in 1887, and from that
time to the present has continued in the active general practice of
law in Chicago. He has enjoyed a large and representative clien-
tage, has appeared in many important litigations, with practice
both in state and federal courts and in a number of causes he has
appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States. In his
profession he now has a valuable assistant in his only son, Joseph
D., comprising the firm of O'Donnell & O'Donnell with offices in
the Metropolitan Building.

Mr. O'Donnell has been a prominent and influential figure in
the councils of the democratic party in Illinois, and began advocat-
ing its principles and policies as soon as he reached his legal major-
ity. In 1889 he was elected representative of the ninth district in
the lower House, and served three consecutive terms. He was a
member of the special legislative session called to consider the
World's Columbian Exposition Bill, and during the last two gen-
eral sessions of the Legislature of which he was a member was
on the steering committee of the House, and did a valuable service
in concentrating the efforts of his party organization and securing
cohesion on important measures. He introduced and ably cham-
pioned a number of important measures that reached enactment.
One of special note was the Australian ballot law, which was placed
on the statutes of Illinois largely through his individual efforts. He
was also one of the historic "one hundred and one" who effected
the election of Gen. John M. Palmer to the United States Senate.
A brief statement as to his legislative record was the following:

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"He was well known as one of the leading orators of the assembly,
and while he did not resort to flowery phrases to any appreciable
extent, his cogent logic and evident sincerity in all that he advocated
never failed to make definite appeal to his auditors."

In 1902 Mr. O'Donnell was nominated for judge of the Superior
Court of Cook County, under the law of 1901 creating six addi-
tional judges for that court. His name, however, did not appear
on the ballot as the Supreme Court declared the law unconstitu-
tional. The following year he was the democratic candidate for
judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and in the election
received a large majority, but neither he nor his colleagues assumed
the honors of office since the Supreme Court again decided the law
under which they were elected was unconstitutional. Among other
public services which are associated with his name was several
years of membership on the Board of West Chicago Park Com-
missioners.

Mr. O'Donnell is a member of the American Bar Association,
the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association,
and the Chicago Law Institute. When a young man he served five
years in the Second Regiment, Illinois National Guard, and was
a first lieutenant at the time of his retirement. Mr. O'Donnell is
a member of the Iroquois Club and the Illinois Athletic Club, and
has fraternal relations with the Royal League, the National Union,
the Knights of the Maccabees, the Knights of Columbus and the
Ancient Order of Hiberians. He and his wife and son are com-
municants of the Catholic Church.

In 1886 Mr. O'Donnell married Miss Rose E. Dugan, who was
born and reared in Chicago. Her father, Thomas Dugan, was a
pioneer settler, having established his home in the village of Chi-
cago in 1836. Mr. and Mrs. O'DonnelPs one son Joseph D. is now
one of the promising younger members of the Chicago bar.

LAURENCE BLACK JACOBS. One of Chicago's attorneys of the
younger generation whose versatile talents have led him into diver-
sified activities both in and outside of his profession, is Laurence
Black Jacobs, engaged in practice in this city since 1907. His career
has been a somewhat varied one, and in one and another capacity
he has been almost constantly before the public, whose favor he
has gained no less by his pleasing personality than by his absolute
sincerity and energetic endeavor to give the best of himself to each
enterprise that he enters.

Laurence B. Jacobs was born at Rock Island, Illinois, Novem-
ber 2, 1879, and is a son of Webster W. and Sarah A. (Black)
Jacobs. His early education was secured in the common schools
of Springer, New Mexico, where his parents resided im-
mediately after his birth and in the high school at Oakland, Illinois,
and Wabash College, Crawfor.dsville, Indiana, and in 1902 he first
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metal and roofing company, with which he was connected during
that and the following year. He then secured a position on the
reporter ial staff of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, and was later, during
1904, connected in a like capacity with the Chicago Tribune. From
1904 until 1908 he served in various official positions in the offices
of the county treasurer, the Circuit and Superior Court clerks, the
corporation counsel and the city prosecutor, and in the meantime
had assiduously applied himself to the study of law and graduated
from Chicago Kent College of Law in 1897, with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws.

In 1908 Mr. Jacobs was appointed assistant United States dis-
trict attorney, a position in which he remained for five years, dur-
ing which time he had for two years charge of the grand jury,
and conducted one of the greatest raids in the Chinatown district
of old Clark Street, breaking into numerous places of bad repute
and seizing hundreds of dollars worth of opium. During this time
he tried practically every manner of case which lies within the
jurisdiction of the Federal courts. When he resigned from his
office, the Chicago Record-Herald, issue of November 16, 1913,
said: "Laurence B. Jacobs, for five years an assistant in the
United States district attorney's office in Chicago, has tendered
his resignation to take up private practice. Mr. Jacobs, during his
service with the government, assisted in directing grand jury work
and had much to do with prosecutions under the interstate com-
merce laws. He also was connected with various trust prosecutions.
It is understood that he intends to make a specialty of cases involv-
ing federal prosecutions. He is a protege of Martin B. Madden,
representative in Congress, and one of the latter's lieutenants on
the south side." After his retirement from the Government service
Mr. Jacobs was associated in the practice of law with Clarence
S. Darrow, at No. 1202 Ashland Block. He has been connected
with a number of cases which have attracted country-wide atten-
tion, having represented Laura Leon, the Mexican girl, the question
of whose deportation was made very prominent all over the country,
and also represented W. L. Moyer, the New York, Chicago and
Kansas City banker, who was accused of using the United States
mails for fraudulent purposes in the promotion of banking enter-
prises, and many other cases attracting public attention. He has
been appointed special assistant corporation counsel.

A stalwart republican in politics, Mr. Jacobs has upon many
occasions done work which has proved of very great assistance and
has gone far towards advancing the principles of his party. He
has served as precinct committeeman of the twenty-seventh pre-
cinct, of the Third Ward for many years, and as secretary of the
Third Ward Republican Club, and during the Taft-Wilson cam-
paign of 1912 was connected in an important capacity with the re-
publican national committee. He is a member of the Chicago Bar
Association and the Illinois State Bar Association, and holds mem-

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bership in the Kappa Sigma and Phi Alpha Delta fraternities, and
the Illinois Athletic Club. An enthusiast upon the subject of avia-
tion, during the meet of the airmen at Chicago in August, 1911,
he served as mechanician for Capt. Paul Beck, U. S. A. Mr. Jacobs
is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

JAMES CLARKE JEFFERY. A grandson of a former president
of the Illinois Central Railway, and son of a prominent railway
man, James C. Jeffery during his ten years of active practice as a
lawyer has confined his attention largely to railway and inter-
state commerce law. Mr. Jeffery is senior member of the firm of
Jeffery & Campbell, who are attorneys for several railroads, and
.their offices are in the First National Bank Building, Chicago.

James Clarke Jeffery was born in Chicago January i, 1879, a
son of Edward T. and Virginia O. (Clarke) Jeffery. His grand-
father, James C. Clarke, was president of the Illinois Central Rail-
way for a number of years, and that was at a time when this sys-
tem was being extended, and he constructed several new branches
of the road. Edward T. Jeffery for many years was prominent
in Chicago affairs. He was one of the leaders in securing the Co-
lumbian Exposition for Chicago, and was sent on a special com-
mission by the city to the Paris Exposition of 1889 for the purpose
of studying the methods employed in conducting a world's fair, and
made a valuable report which served as a guide during the Chicago
exposition. During that time he was chairman of the grounds and
building committee. In later years his home has been in New York
City, where he is a director in all the Gould system of railways,
and is chairman of the board of directors of the Denver & Rio
Grande, and the Western Pacific Railway Company.

James Clarke Jeffery received his higher education in Yale
University, graduating Ph. B. in 1899, and graduating LL. B. from
the Harvard Law School in 1903. In the latter year he was ad-
mitted to the bar before the United States Supreme Court, the
United States Commerce and Circuit and District courts, and also
to the Illinois bar. For six years Mr. Jeffery practiced as inter-
state commerce attorney for the Missouri Pacific Railway System.
The firm now has the legal affairs of several railways centering in
Chicago.

Mr. Jeffery is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, being
a member of the Committee on Legal Education ; of the Legal Club ;
the University Club, the Chicago Club, the University Club of
Washington, the Calumet Country Club of Chicago, the Exmoor
Country Club and Chicago Literary Club, and the Yale Club of
New York. • He is vice president of the First Realty Company.
Mr. Jeffery was married April 21, 1896, to Miss Clara L. Whedon,
of Chicago. His home is at 101 Bellevue Place.

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ALBERT F. FAWLEY. As state's attorney of Henderson County,
Illinois, Albert F. Fawley has a statewide acquaintance and a local
reputation as an able member of the Oquakwa bar that has been
won through his own perseverance and individual effort. The magic
chambers of opportunity were not freely opened to him in youth
and the advantages he insisted. on enjoying were those his own work
provided. Under such circumstances success means something
more than passing reputation or financial independence.

Albert F. Fawley was born at Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio,
September 28, 1869, and is a son of James Madison and Rachel
(Rohler) Fawley. Both families originated in England and after
emigrating settled in Virginia, later generations locating in Ohio.
Both the father and mother were born near Hillsboro, in Highland
County, Ohio. They had seven children born to them, Albert F.
being the eldest. His early education was secured in the district
schools as he grew up on his father's farm and assisted until he
was seventeen years of age. Through his own efforts he then
secured two years of high school training at Nevin, Ohio, after
which he taught school at Nevin for two years and then left his
native state and came to Illinois. In educational work he found a
congenial calling and he continued to teach school for eleven years,
in both Warren and Henderson counties, but during all this time
cherished an ambition for the law and, as opportunity offered, read
law books by himself and had made solid progress in the funda-
mentals when he became a student in the law office of Hanley &
Cox, at Monmouth, Illinois. In June, 1898, having provided for a
collegiate course by teaching and tutoring, he entered the law
department of the Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, Illinois,
and was admitted to the bar at Springfield, in October, 1903. He
entered into practice at Oquakwa and this pleasant city has been his
chosen home ever since. He has been an ambitious and useful citi-
zen, taking part in all public movements for the general welfare
and accepting the responsibilities of public office when his fellow
citizens have called him, his faithful and able performance of duty
resulting in continued advancement. He has served in the office of
town clerk, also has been a justice of the peace and has been a
member of the board of education, and on November 5, 1912, was
elected state's attorney of Henderson County, for a term of four
years. His administration of the office has justified every claim
made by his friends and supporters as to his qualifications and his
record has been one of the best ever credited to any incumbent of
the responsible office of state's attorney of Henderson County. He
is a member of the State and County Bar associations.

On June 4, 1912, Mr. Fawley was united in marriage with Miss
Adelaide M. Wilson, of Oquakwa. Mrs. Fawley is prominent in
the pleasant social life of the city and is a member of the Elite Club.
For a number of years Mr. Fawley has been identified with such
fraternal organizations as the Masons and Odd Fellows. In politics

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he has always been active in the republican ranks. Mrs. Fawley is
a member of the Episcopal Church, while Mr. Fawley belongs to the
Reformed Church.

FREDERIC E. VON AMMON was admitted to the Illinois bar in
1895, shortly after graduating LL. B. from the Northwestern Law
School. He began his practice with the firm of Lackner & Butz,
and has been constantly associated with those principals for twenty
years. The firm is now Lackner, Butz, von Ammon & Johnston,
with a large general practice in all the courts.

Frederic E. von Ammon was born in Chicago September 25,
1873, a son of Ernst and Emilie (Rutishauser) von Ammon. His
father was born in Cologne, Germany, a son of a judge in the
courts of Cologne. The mother was born in Switzerland in the
Canton of St. Gall. They both came to Chicago when young,
were married in that city, where Ernst von Ammon was engaged
in commercial lines.

Frederic E. von Ammon was educated in the public schools,
graduating from the high school in 1891, took two years in the
University of Michigan, following which he was a student in North-
western University until graduating in the law course. Mr. von
Ammon is a .director of the Edgewater Country Club, a member
of the City Club, the Art Institute and the Chicago Law Institute,
also of the Chicago Bar Association and the Chicago Society of
Advocates. Mr. von Ammon resides at 629 Fullerton Parkway and
his office is in the Title & Trust Building.

IRA W. FOLTZ. The foundation on which rest a people's personal
rights and liberties is that law should be supreme, giving to every
individual perfect justice and protection from unjust oppression.
Thus declared our American forefathers and it is in the making
and upholding of such a document that America has become typical
of human freedom. Because of the humanity and noble dignity of
this, the common law, men of intellect an,d a high sense of justice
and responsibility have been attracted to its representative profes-
sion, which, today, in its membership includes the highest intellects
possessing those necessary attributes that insure the continuance of
what is called civilization. The great City of Chicago offers a wide
field for the exercise of legal talent and among those who have,
through persevering effort reached an enviable position on her bar,
is Ira W. Foltz, whose influence as an able lawyer and honorable citi-
zen has been an active force here for more than a quarter of a
century.

Ira W. Foltz was born in Clark County, Ohio, not far from the
county seat of Springfield, November 7, 1860, and is a son of
Andrew and Mary Ann (Nauman) Foltz. He passed his boyhood
on his father's farm and attended the public schools but beyond
this received little assistance in the way of education. In the coun-

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try schools he taught, very often having pupils, at first, older than
himself, and in this way provided for a course in the Northern
Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, and still later, through simi-
lar effort, making possible a collegiate course at McKendree Col-
lege, at Lebanon, Illinois, from which institution he was graduated
with his degree of LL. B., in 1887. He was admitted to the Illi-
nois bar in March, 1888, and began practice in Chicago, where he
has ever since continued. He received his initial encouragement
by being accepted as a clerk in the private office of the late William
C. Goudy, and was in the office of Goudy, Green & Goudy, one of
the leading law firms of Chicago for many years, from 1888 until
1890, a most valuable period of training and experience. Since
then Mr. Foltz has conducted an individual practice and has been
connected with a number of notable cases. One of these was as
attorney defendant in the case of Richard Ives, who was accused
and executed for the murder of Mrs. Hollister, in 1905, a case
which attracted nation wide attention on account of peculiar
features.

While Mr. Foltz has built up a large practice and is known
as able in every branch of the law, he yet has found time to devote
many hours of close study and deep investigation to the considera-
tion and elucidation of certain points of law that he placed in lit-
erary form and these have appeared in the columns of so conserva-
tive a journal as the Chicago Legal News. An article under the
caption of "The Reform of the Procedure of Courts of Justice,"
appearing on April 13, 1912, presents facts and conclusions stated
in so clear a way that it is as interesting and instructive to the
laity as to the lawyer. With equal clearness of diction and with
convincing logic, Mr. Foltz presented a remarkable article, appear-
ing in the News in October, 1908, entitled "The Prescriptive Con-
stitution," which excited much favorable comment. In this much
discussed article, he pleads for a wiser interpretation and a more
just application of the law, reminding his fellow citizens that there
is a loud call in our country for a more vigorous and uniform en-
forcement. His justifiable position may be understood by quoting
a few lines. "That call must be heard and answered in the affirma-
tive or dire results may soon come upon us. Certainty and still
more certainty is that which is desired in the administration of the
law — a demand for the reign of law rather than the sway of public
officials — a most reasonable and just demand. If the same degree
of certainty were used in the statement of a cause of action that is
used in the statement of a mathematical proposition; and if like
certainty prevailed in the production of the evidence on the trial
of the case; and if less prominence were given to judicial prece-
dents as a natural source or enunciation of the law, and more
regard were had for the guiding principles of the law and their
application to the point in question, then would our jurisprudence

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rise to the class of the exact sciences and would excel all other
sciences in its influence for order, peace and happiness, jus est ars
boni ct aequi." This admirable article will be found indexed in the
public libraries. In his literary work Mr. Foltz has not confined
himself to the law, of which he is so wise an exponent, and his con-
tributions appear in many newspapers and magazines of the higher
literary type.

Mr. Foltz was married July 12, 1905, to Miss Charlotte M. Rey-
nolds, who was born at Porsgrun, Norway, and they have one son,
Andrew James. A hospitable atmosphere always prevails in the
family home which is located at No. 1436 Olive Avenue. Mr. Foltz
is a public spirited, interested and benevolent citizen but all his
activities are more or less subordinated to the demands of the pro-
fession to which he has devoted his life. He is a member of the
American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and
the Chicago Bar Association. He occupies offices on the fifth
floor of the Unity Building, No. 127 North Dearborn Street,
Chicago.

NORMAN K. ANDERSON. A Chicagoan by birth and training,
a graduate of the University of Chicago and of the University of
Michigan Law Department, Norman K. Anderson has been iden-
tified with the Chicago bar since 1901. In the course of his prac-
tice Mr. Anderson has been associated with several of the well
known Chicago lawyers, but for several years has been alone in gen-
eral practice, with offices in the First National Bank Building. In
1914 Mr. Anderson was selected as progressive candidate for asso-
ciate judge of the Municipal Court, and though defeated with the
balance of the ticket received about four thousand more votes than
the average of his fellow candidates.

Norman K. Anderson was born in Chicago December 24, 1876,
a son of Galusha and Mary E. (Roberts) Anderson. His father
is a distinguished clergyman of the Baptist Church and educator,
was president of the old University of Chicago, and after the estab-
lishment of the new university was head of the department of
homiletics until his retirement in 1904. Doctor Anderson is still
living at the age of eighty-two.

Norman K. Anderson was educated in public schools in differ-
ent parts of the country, and was graduated A. B. from the Uni-
versity of Chicago in 1898. He took his law studies in the Uni-
versity of Michigan, where he was graduated LL. B. in 1901, was
admitted to the bars of Michigan and Illinios in December of the
same year. For one year he was a clerk in the office of Oliver
& Mecartney, then for one year with Dent & Whitman, and for
two years with the firm of Knight & Brown. He then began prac-
tice for himself, and for some time was associated as a partner
with the firm of Tinsman, Rankin & Neltnor, and for about five

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years was senior member of the firm of Anderson & Eaton. Since
then he has been in practice alone.

Mr. Anderson is a member of the Illinois Athletic Club, the
Alpha Delta Phi and the Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity. On Sep-
tember 3, 1902, he married Miss Louise Holden of Detroit, Mich-
igan. Their three sons are Holden G., Elbridge G. and Owen G.
Mr. Anderson and family reside at 5440 Ridgewood Court.

HON. FREEMAN K. BLAKE. A member of the Chicago bar since
1893, Hon. Freeman K. Blake was one of the first to be honored
by election to the municipal bench, on which he served six years,
until defeated by the Wilson landslide of 1912. As a judge he helped
to realize the ideals of judicial service anticipated of the new
municipal courts. A resident of the Twenty-sixth Ward he has
participated in numerous movements that have made for civic bet-
terment and progress, especially while representing his home
locality in the city council.

Judge Blake is a native of the Hoosier State, born in DeKalb
County, March 25, 1858, his parents being James O. and Martha
(Kelley) Blake. His father came to Indiana from the East at an
early date, took up land and improved it and became one of the
early justices of the peace in DeKalb County. Subsequently he
prepared for the law, but his ambitions in that direction were not
gratified, as at the early age of thirty-three years he was stricken
with typhoid fever, which caused his death.

The public schools of DeKalb County, Indiana, furnished the
foundation for Freeman K. Blake's education, and after some
further preparation he entered Valparaiso University at Valparaiso,
Indiana, where he was graduated with the Master of Arts degree in
1881. He then studied law in the offices of Coombs, Bell & Mor-
ris, attorneys of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was admitted to the
bar in 1883, being examined by a commission appointed by the
late Judge Gresham, of Indiana. For the following five years he
practiced at Auburn, Indiana, and then went to Wichita, Kansas,
where he remained for a like period, and in the fall of 1893 came
to Chicago, which city has since been the field of his labors and the
scene of his successes. For a time he was identified with the firm
of Allen, Payne & Blake, and later was a member of the firm of
Blake & Feeley, the latter of whom served as congressman from
1901 until 1903, and after Mr. Feeley's death Mr. Blake practiced
alone until 1906.

In 1899 Judge Blake was elected a member of the city council
from the Twenty-sixth Ward, and was twice re-elected, serving in
all a period of six years. Office 311 Unity Building.

Judge Blake is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
Illinois State and the American Bar associations. He has mem-
bership in a number of representative social organizations, among
them being the Hamilton Club.

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In 1884 Judge Blake was married to Miss Iva A. Munich, who
died in 1907 leaving one son, Guy M., who has adopted his father's
profession and is a rising young member of the Chicago legal
fraternity. In August, 1908, Judge Blake married Miss Florence
B. Marble. They reside at 4125 Greenview Avenue.

GUY M. BLAKE. A son of Judge Freeman K. Blake and one
of the younger members of the Chicago bar, Guy M. Blake was born
at Auburn, Indiana, March 29, 1886, and was two years of age
when he was taken by his parents to Wichita, Kansas. When he
was seven the family home was removed to Chicago, and he had
his preparatory training in the public schools of this city. In 1903
he entered the College of Liberal Arts, at Northwestern University,
where he won his bachelor's degree in 1908, and in the following
year he was graduated from the University Law School with the
Bachelor of Laws degree. In October of that year Mr. Blake was
admitted to the bar and in the following November was made chief
attorney of the Chicago Legal Aid Society, a capacity in which he
acted until January i, 1912. He then became associated with
Henry S. Lighthall under the firm name of Lighthall & Blake, a
firm that enjoys a large general practice, with offices at 118 LaSalle
Street. Mr. Blake is a member of the Chicago Bar Association,
and stands high in the esteem of his fellow practitioners.

Mr. Blake is single and lives at 4620 Magnolia Avenue. He
is a member of the Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. For
several years he has been a member of Troop F, First Cavalry,
Illinois National Guards.

ROBERT E. PENDARVIS. A native of Illinois and the representa-
tive of a family whose name has been identified with the state for
more than a half century, Robert Ellsworth Peridarvis has been
engaged in the practice of law in Chicago since 1887, the year that
marked his admission to the bar of Illinois. Careful application
to his work combined with real ability have brought him a pleasing
measure of success and professional standing. He has also gained
some political prominence and during three successive terms he
represented his district in the State Legislature.

Robert Ellsworth Pendarvis was born in Henderson County,
Illinois, on October 30, 1861, and he is a son of James P. and
Louvisa (Sands) Pendarvis. His common school training was
followed by his entrance at Hedding College, in Abingdon, Illinois,
and he was graduated from that institution with the class of 1884,
receiving then his Bachelor of Arts degree. He then gave some time
to newspaper work as the editor of the Abingdon Enterprise, and
in 1885 came to Chicago, where, for a short time, he identified him-
self with the teaching profession. Soon thereafter he entered the
Union College of Law and in 1887 received his law degree, his

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admission to the bar following shortly. Since that time Mr. Pen-
darvis has been identified with the Chicago bar in general practice.

A republican, Mr. Pendarvis has always been active in the party
and in 1900 he was elected representative from the then Eleventh
Senatorial District in the lower House of the State Legislature.
His service was pleasing and effective and there having been a
senatorial reapportionment during his first term, he was returned to
the Legislature in 1902 and again in 1904 from the new Twenty-
fifth Senatorial District. During those years he took an active
part in the deliberations of the House, and secured the enactment
of much important legislation. In the session of 1905 he was elected
temporary speaker of the House; and was also chairman of the
Committee on Chicago Charter Legislation. He was a member
of the Chicago charter convention that assembled in 1904 to make
provision for a new city charter for Chicago. All through his
service his unfailing loyalty to his home city was manifested, as it
has been in his capacity as a private citizen. He has worked ear-
nestly for the betterment of municipal government in Chicago, and
as a member of the Chicago Plan Commission his service has been
praiseworthy.

Mr. Pendarvis is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar
associations and of the American Bar Association. He is also
affiliated with the National Union, a leading fraternal beneficial
society. He has his offices at 54 West Randolph Street.

On June .29, 1893, Mr. Pendarvis was married to Miss Lelia
V. Rouse, of Chicago, and they have one son, Harry Reed, now a
student in the State University at Urbana. The family have their
residence at 2602 Neva Avenue, in the suburb of Mont Clare, and
they are members of the Congregational Church of that place, of
which Mr. Pendarvis is a trustee.

FRANCIS ALEXANDER HARPER. A graduate from the law de-
partment of the University of Michigan in 1896 with the degree
LL. B., Mr. Harper was admitted to the bars of Michigan and
Illinois in the same year, and has since been in active practice in
Chicago. Throughout his career of nearly twenty years he has
practiced as an individual, and his name has appeared in connection
with much important litigation in Cook County courts.

Mr. Harper resides at Tinley Park, where he is president of the
village, is vice president of the Bremen State Bank of that place
and one of the recognized leaders in local affairs. His Chicago
offices are at 29 South LaSalle Street. For seven years Mr. Harper
was a member of the faculty of the Chicago Law School, holding
the chair of Evidence and Torts. He is a member of the Chicago
and Illinois Bar associations, is affiliated with the Knights of Co-
lumbus, belongs to the Hamilton Club, Woodlawn Park Club, the
Irish Fellowship Club and the Michigan Society.

Francis Alexander Harper was born at Ora, Province of On-

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tario, Canada, March 28, 1874, a son of Marmaduke and Margaret
(Thompson) Harper. His father was a farmer. The son received
his education in district schools and prior to entering the Univer-
sity of Michigan graduated from high school at Champion, Mich-
igan. Mr. Harper was married October 12, 1898, to Miss Mary
Angela Kennedy, of Ishpeming, Michigan. Their children are:
Francis A. Jr., Ellen and Mary Angela.

ALVIN H. CULVER, of the law firm of Culver, Andrews, King &
Cook, with offices in the New York Life Building, is a native Chi-
cagoan and has spent his entire professional career as a factor in
the busy life of the city. He was admitted to the bar in 1895.

Mr. Culver was born March 9, 1873, and is a son of Morton and
Eugenia M. (Taylor) Culver. Pis father, who served in the
Civil war as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-
fourth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was a lawyer by
vocation, practiced at the Chicago bar for a period of thirty years,
and died in this city in 1900.

The public schools of Glencoe, to which suburb the family
moved when Alvin Culver was a small child, furnished him with
his early education, and after his attendance at the Evanston Pre-
paratory School, he became a student in Northwestern University,
graduating from the literary department in the class of 1893 with
the Bachelor of Arts degree. Following this he entered the law
school of the same institution and was graduated in 1895, with
the Bachelor of Laws degree. While at college Mr. Culver be-
came well known as an athlete, being on the Northwestern 'Varsity
football track team.

Mr. Culver commenced his practice in 1895 in the offices of
Paden & Gridley, the latter of whom is now a judge of the Appel-
late Court. In 1900, when Mr. Paden withdrew, the firm became
Gridley, Culver & King, and this style continued until Mr. Gridley's
election to the bench in 1910, when the firm name was changed
to Culver, Andrews & King. On May i, 1914, the name was again
changed, taking the form of Culver, Andrews, King & Cook, and
so it remains at this time. The offices of the firm are at 916 New
York Life Building.

Mr. Culver is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar
associations and among his social affiliations are the Hamilton
Club, Skokie Country Club and the University Club. Politically
he is a republican.

On August 15, 1897, Mr. Culver married Miss Jean Gehan, of
Chicago. They have three children, Alvin S., born June u, 1908;
Jean, born August u, 1911; and Eleanor, born August 24, 1914.
The Culver home is in Wilmette.

EDWARD CHARLES KRAMER. In many respects the most distinc-
tive professional honor that can be accorded by members of the

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Illinois bar to one of their number has been paid to Edward Charles
Kramer of East St. Louis in his election to the office of president of
the Illinois Bar Association, by which dignity he is known to all the
lawyers of the state.

Edward Charles Kramer is a lawyer with more than thirty years
of active practice in the state and is also a native Illinoisan. He was
born in Wabash County February i, 1857, a son of Henry and
Martha Kramer. His father was born at Saarbrucken, Germany,
and is now eighty-five years of age, and the mother was born in Bev-
erly, England, and is eighty-three years of age, their home being
near Fairfield in Wayne County, Illinois.

Mr. E. C. Kramer grew up on a farm, and received his educa-
tion in the public schools and in the Central Normal College of In-
diana. For three years he was employed as a teacher, and in 1882
was admitted to the Illinois bar and practiced at Fairfield from that
date until 1888. He has since practiced with offices in East St.
Louis, St. Clair County. Judge Kramer since admission to the bar
has been actively engaged in the practice of law, and has confined
his efforts to his professional duties, though a number of times he
has been honored and had had imposed upon him the responsibilities
of public affairs. He was elected county judge of Wayne County,
Illinois, in 1886, serving four years, and in 1893 was appointed com-
missioner for the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, to which office he
also gave four years. He was one of the leading spirits in the or-
ganization of the park district of East St. Louis, and his name and
influence have been associated with other movements calculated to
promote the general welfare. .

Judge Kramer is a democrat, a member of the American Bar
Association, and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In
Masonry he belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Knights Tem-
plar Commandery and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks. He took an active part in the organiza-
tion of the St. Clair Country Club, and served as president of that
organization from the beginning until 1914, and is still a member.

At Grayville, Illinois, September 15, 1880, Judge Kramer mar-
ried Laura J. Ellis, daughter of John and Mary Ellis. Mrs. Kramer
takes an active interest in woman's club affairs, believes in wo-
man suffrage, and since the extension of the voting privilege to
women in Illinois has expressed her sentiments concerning public
policy uncontrolled by her husband or anyone else. Mr. and Mrs.
Kramer have two children: Kenneth Edward Kramer, aged twen-
ty-two; and Pauline Ida Kramer, aged twenty.

THOMAS J. GRAYDON has practiced law in Chicago continuously
for seventeen years and his position in the bar is one of unques-
tioned ability and he enjoys a high class practice. He has been
content to rest his reputation as a hard-working lawyer and was
never a candidate for any public office until he allowed his name to

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be placed before the people as a candidate for Judge of the Circuit
Court of Cook County in 1915. In the election he lacked about
3,000 votes of the number necessary for a choice.

Born in Norfolk County, Ontario, forty-seven years ago, of
Scotch and English ancestry, Thomas J. Graydon was educated in
the public schools and in a collegiate institute in Canada, and for
three years was a teacher at Sand Beach, Michigan. For a year
and a half he worked on the Evening Press of Grand Rapids, and
later while employed in the law offices of Taggart, Wolcott & Gan-
son of Grand Rapids studied law. Coming to Chicago, he entered
the Kent College of Law with the class of 1898, was graduated and
admitted to the bar on November 21, 1898, after taking an examina-
tion before the State Board of Bar Examiners, then recently
created.

During his practice in Chicago Mr. Graydon has been attorney
in many important cases which have reached the highest courts of
the states and of the United States. He is and for many years has
been an active member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois
State Bar Association and the Chicago Law Institute. He is a
member of the Hamilton Club, the City Club of Chicago and the
Edgewater Golf Club. He is also an Odd Fellow, a member of
Covenant Masonic Lodge, Oriental Consistory and Medinah Temple.

ROBERT J. FRANK. A member of the Chicago bar for the past
eighteen years, Mr. Frank is best known as a specialist in the field
of business organization and corporate management. He is author
of the work "Science of Organization and Business Development,"
which was first published in 1907, and has gone through four edi-
tions and six reprints, and is probably the most popular and the
pioneer work of reference covering this important, field. The sale
of many thousand copies since the work was first published is per-
haps the best comment on its popularity and usefulness. The book
has elicited many favorable comments from different reviewers,
among them the Green Bag, a legal publication, which said :
"This work, which has reached a third edition as an indication
of its usefulness, deals chiefly with the organization and financing
of business corporations, and is addressed chiefly to business men,
to whom it gives many excellent suggestions regarding those mat-
ters of which the officer of a corporation should have at least a
general knowledge, and in which he is likely to require the assist-
ance of an attorney. The book is also useful to lawyers interested
in corporation practice, because of the light which it throws on
many details of business organization and management."

Mr. Frank was born at Ravenna, Ohio, September u, 1865, a
son of George W. and Anna (Cope) Frank. His father was a
farmer and is still living at Ravenna. Mr. Frank was educated
in the Ohio public schools, attended a private preparatory school
in his native county, and spent several years thereafter as a travel-

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ing salesman. Coming to Chicago in 1891, in 1894 he entered the
Kent College of Law, and graduated therefrom with the degree of
LL. B. Admitted to the bar the same year, he began practice
alone, but subsequently became a member of the firm of Young,
Makeel, Bradley & Frank until the dissolution of the partnership
at the time of the death of Mr. Young. Since then Mr. Frank
has practiced alone and has given nearly all his time to his specialty
work, and he is now one of the very few lawyers in the West who
confine their attention to the branch of legal practice indicated in
the title of his book.

Mr. Frank is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illi-
nois State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
He has no affiliations with clubs or fraternities, devoting all his
time to his profession. His home is in the Windermere Hotel, and
his office is in the First National Bank Building.

CHARLES P. MOLTHROP, born Knoxville, Illinois, September n,
1873, son °f David O. and Esther L. (Britain) Molthrop. At-
tended Woodhull (Illinois) High School. Graduated from Chi-
cago Law School, 1902, and was admitted to Illinois bar same year.
Immediately upon his admission he opened a law office in Chicago
where he has practiced his profession continuously since that time.

In 1905, he became associated with George E. Q. Johnson under
the firm name of Johnson & Molthrop. In 1912 the firm arrange-
ments were changed and enlarged to Smietanka, Johnson, Mol-
throp & Polkey. Mr. Polkey has since retired from the firm.

Mr. Molthrop is a past master of Columbian Lodge A. F. &
A. M., a member of Oriental Consistory, Medinah Temple and
Prairie Council Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Chicago
Bar Association and Chicago Law Institute.

He was married in 1899 to Myrtle Goodman and resides at
2317 Millard Avenue. He has two daughters, Charlotte P. and
Jean Ellen Molthrop. ,

JULIUS F. SMIETANKA has been a member of the Chicago bar
twenty years. He has been active in his profession, in public
affairs, and was a member of the Chicago Board of Education until
he resigned to accept the office of collector of internal revenue in
the First Illinois District. Mr. Smietanka is senior member of
the law firm of Smietanka, Johnson & Molthrop.

Born in Chicago, May 31, 1872, he -is a son of Frank and Jo-
hanna Smietanka, and represents one of the oldest families of
Polish settlers in Chicago. In his work as a lawyer Mr. Smiet-
anka has served as legal adviser to the Polish National Alliance.
He attended the public schools in Chicago, and received his de-
gree LL. B. from the Kent College of Law in 1894. In the same
year he was admitted to the bar and has since been in practice.
He has been attorney to several large industrial enterprises, and

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is one of the directors and vice presidents of the Northwestern Trust
& Savings Bank.

Mr. Smietanka- in 1905 was democratic nominee for judge of
the Superior Court, but was defeated with the other names on that
ticket. In July, 1909, Mayor Busse appointed him a member of
the Board of Education, and he was reappointed by Mayor Harri-
son in 1912, and served until his present honors were accorded him
by President Wilson on May 27, 1914.

Mr. Smietanka is a member of the Chicago Bar Association
and the Illinois State Bar Association, and of the City, Iroquois and
several other clubs and fraternities. He was married February
18, 1901, to Mary Barzynski, of Chicago.

OLAF A. OLSON. Among men of professional ability, who has
won a place for himself and aims still higher, is Olaf A. Olson, who
maintains his office at 1114, No. 69 West Washington Street.

Olaf A. Olson was born in the City of Chicago, November i,
1884, and is a son of Michael and Enokine (Hanson) Olson. They
were born in Norway and from there came to Chicago in 1879.
The father is a contractor and builder and is well known in the
section of the city in which he located 'and where he has carried
on his industries for a quarter of a century.

In the excellent public schools of his native city, Olaf A. Olson
secured his preliminary educational training and from the high
school entered the Association College, which is the educational
department of the Young Men's Christian Association, following
which he entered Northwestern University and in 1908 was grad-
uated from its law department. In the same year he was admitted
to the Illinois bar. Prior to entering the law school, for about ten
years he was associated with the firm of Mason Brothers, one of
the oldest law firms in Chicago, thereby having an excellent train-
ing in the law before entering the university. Mr. Olson practices
alone and makes a specialty of real estate and corporation law.
He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and is past chan-
cellor of the Delta Theta Phi, now consolidated, formerly the Alpha
Kappa Phi, a college law fraternity. He belongs also to the Illi-
nois Athletic Club and the Park Ridge Country Club, his recreations
bringing him into association with a pleasant and congenial circle.
Unmarried, Mr. Olson resides at No. 4125 North Harding Avenue,
Chicago.

E. C. WESTWOOD. When the door of opportunity not only
stands wide open but when money and influence make easy the
path of education, even the reluctant and slothful have some in-
ducement to become studious, and there are many, doubtless, who,
without great personal effort acquire the knowledge that enables
them to pursue successfully the various callings to which their
inclinations lead them. All over the country, however, in towns,

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villages, hamlets and in remote sections, on quiet farms, in moun-
tain fastnesses and in mining regions, there are hundreds of youths
who have, practically, no advantages and few opportunities for the
pursuit of special study, their environment or occupation completely
shutting the path of progress no matter what may be their ambi-
tion or readiness for self denial. They see their youth passing and
with it passes youth's enthusiasm and as hope goes they adopt
modes of life entirely uncongenial and the outside world seems
to move selfishly and remorselessly on. It is for the relief of this
surprisingly numerous class that, in recent years, the method of
teaching by means of correspondence has been adopted and schools
have been founded which provide instruction in almost every line
of study. One of the best known institutions of this kind is the
Chicago Correspondence School of Law, which was founded in
1892, of which E. C. Westwood, an experienced and well known
attorney at law in this city, is president.

E. C. Westwood was born at Rock Island, Illinois, March 12,
1866, and is a son of Joseph and Phoebe (Meese) Westwood. The
mother survives but the father died at Streator, Illinois. In boyhood
E. C. Westwood attended the country schools, later the city night
schools and afterward was' a student for one year in the Wesleyan
University, following which he turned his attention to the law and
in 1901 was graduated with his degree of LL. B. from the Union
College of Law, Chicago. In the same year he was admitted to the
Illinois bar and entered into practice, continuing alone f?r some
time and then becoming a member of the law firm of Westwood,
Barrickman & Whitaker, which shortly afterward became West-
wood & Whitaker and continued two years, since which time Mr.
Westwood has engaged in individual practice, mainly in civil law.
For some years Mr. Westwood realized, before entering into his
present educational enterprise, the useful medium that such a
school would be and by 1892 had so perfected his plans that he
was able to establish the Chicago Correspondence School of Law,
associating with him Col. James H. Davidson as vice president and
Charles F. Westwood, as secretary. The perfected methods through
which this school is carried on have appealed to those interested
and a very hearty response has been given, the school roster show-
ing that there are interested students all over the country. Its pros-
pects for the future are bright.

Mr. Westwood was married November 24, 1907, to Miss Mil-
dred E. Robb, of Chicago, and they have one daughter, Mary E.
The family resides at Oak Park, of which village Mr. Westwood
was a trustee for four years, and he maintains his office in the
Reaper Block, Chicago. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation, and is a Knight Templar Mason, belonging to Siloam Com-
mandery at Oak Park.

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ALFRED A. NORTON. Successfully engaged in the practice of
law at Chicago since 1902, Alfred A, Norton is a graduate in law
from the University of Minnesota, and has the distinction of being
the only alumnus of that institution actively identified with the
Chicago bar. Mr. Norton is well known in local republican politics,
being secretary of the Swedish-American Republican League of
Illinois and president of the Cook County Club. He is a member
of the Chicago Bar Association, the Hamilton Club, and is a mem-
ber and past master of King Oscar Lodge, No. 855, A. F. & A. M.,
as well as of Oriental Consistory of the Scottish Rite and of Me-
dinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is unmarried, resides at
1653 East 55th Street, and has his offices in the Title & Trust
Building.

ARTHUR L. BALLAS. Among the promising younger genera-
tion of Chicago lawyers, one who is acquiring reputation and the
emoluments that go with high position in the profession is Arthur
L. Ballas, a general practitioner with offices in the Hartford Build-
ing. Although engaged in practice only since 1908, and at the head
of a business of his own for but a little more than three years, he
has gained a place in his profession that entitles him to the esteem
and regard of his fellow-practitioners and the public at large.

Mr. Ballas is a product of the farm, having been born on his
father's homestead in the vicinity of Bloomfield, Wisconsin, June
15, 1882, a son of Peter A. and Ida (Hoffman) Ballas. Arthur L.
Ballas received his early education in the public schools of his na-
tive locality and grew up on the homestead farm. He was not
content, however, to remain a tiller of the soil, and after some prep-
aration entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where
for one year he pursued a collegiate course, then spending one year
in the law department of the same institution. Coming to Chicago,
Mr. Ballas completed his education in the John Marshall College
of Law, from which he was graduated in June, 1908, and in Novem-
ber of the same year was admitted to the bar. Succeeding this Mr.
Ballas was associated with the firm of Horton & Miller for one
year and with Horton, Wichert, Miller & Meier for a like period,
and in January, 1911, opened an office at No. 1218 Hartford Build-
ing, and since that time has practiced alone. Mr. Ballas' practice
is general in character. He represents, in a legal way, many
prominent business firms and corporations, and in addition has a
large and rapidly increasing general practice. He is of an intensely
studious nature, and passes much of his time in his law library, also
keeping abreast of the various advancements being constantly made
in his calling by retaining membership in the Chicago Bar Associa-
tion. Mr. Ballas is well known in fraternal life, being a valued
and popular member of the North American Union and the Order
of the Moose, in both of which he has numerous friends. A stanch
republican, his party has always received his ardent support, but

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the pressing duties of his practice have precluded the idea of his
being more than an outside influence in politics.

Mr. Ballas was married, August 15, 1913, to Miss May Erie,
a resident of Chicago.

HON. JOHN STELK. In twenty years devoted to active law prac-
tice in Chicago John Stelk became so well established among the
members of his profession and in so definite and substantial a man-
ner that on the 3d of November, 1914, he was elected associate
judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, receiving practically the
united support of the bar. At present he is presiding over that
branch which deals exclusively with all attachments, garnishment
and replevin suits brought into the Municipal Court of Chicago, a
highly technical branch of the law. He had a representative prac-
tice in the city, and close attention to his work, combined with a
goodly measure of professional ability had prior to his election,
brought him undeniable material rewards.

John Stelk was born in Chicago, September 10, 1875, a son of
William and Mary (Kraase) Stelk, both natives of Germany. They
made their home in their native land up to the time of marriage,
when they immigrated to America, arriving in 1871, the year of the
great Chicago conflagration. Their son received his early education
in a German parochial school in the city, and later he attended
evening sessions of the public schools and a business college. He
was ambitious from boyhood and planned his studies with a view
to the future which led to his entrance in the law department of
Lake Forest University, known as the Chicago Law School. In
June, 1896, he was graduated with the B. L. degree, and his admis-
sion to the bar of the state followed immediately. From that year
until November, 1914, he was engaged in the active practice of law
in Chicago.

The first association of the young lawyer was with the late John
C. King, and from 1889 to 1899 he was with the law firm of King
& Gross, composed of John C. King and Alfred H. Gross. From
1899 he conducted an independent law business, and his advance-
ment in his profession has been sure and certain.

From December, 1910, to December, 1914, Mr. Stelk was the
attorney for the sheriff of Cook County, and from December, 1912,
to December, 1914, was the attorney for the bailiff of the Municipal
Court. He is a member of the Chicago, Illinois and American Bar
associations and of the Chicago Law Institute. His social member-
ships are with the Chesterfield Country Club and the German Club
of Chicago. Mr. Stelk is a democrat of definite and well balanced
convictions, and he has taken an active part in the party ranks in
Chicago and Cook County. As a campaign speaker he has done
excellent work, and served as president of the Twelfth Ward Demo-
cratic Organization for five years prior to his election to the bench.

On April 29, 1899, Mr. Stelk was married to Miss Emma Rent-

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ner, of Chicago, and they live at 2711 West Twenty-third Street.
They have six children. George, the eldest, was born February
22, 1900, and was named in honor of George Washington. Viola
was the second born. Lincoln was born on the birthday anniversary
of Abraham Lincoln, and was named accordingly. Mildred and
Milton are twins, and Winston was born on June I4th, a day that
has in recent years been celebrated as Flag Day.

DELBERT A. CLITHERO' s relations to the Chicago bar have been
maintained with growing professional success and reputation for
twenty years. Like many successful lawyers, he spent his youth in
the country and comes of solid American stock.

Mr. Clithero was born on a farm in Grundy County, Illinois, on
November n, 1870, a son of Edward S. and Eliza N. (Scott)
Clithero, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Illinois.
The Clithero family was founded in America in the colonial epoch
of our national history, the original representatives of the name
coming from Lancastershire, England, and establishing a residence
in Virginia, whence members in a later generation followed the
tide of emigration to the West and became pioneers of Ohio. In
the Civil war, representatives of this family were found as soldiers
in both the Union and Confederate armies. Edward S. Clithero was
reared and educated in Ohio and was one of its volunteers in the
Civil war. He was a member of the One Hundred and Sixteenth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry and during the campaign in the Shenan-
doah Valley of Virginia was wounded, in an engagement at Snick-
er's Gap. While engaged in transporting supplies from Winchester
to Fredericksburg he was captured by the enemy, but he soon con-
trived to make his escape. He was married while in the army,
his wife having crossed over the Ohio River to join him and be-
come his bride. She then served as a nurse in the army. After
the war, Mr. Clithero, Sr., became a substantial farmer of Grundy
County, Illinois, but in 1886 the family removed to Chicago and have
since resided there.

Delbert A. Clithero was reared on the old homestead farm, the
place of his birth, and was identified with its work and management
until he reached the age of eighteen years, in the meanwhile having
attended the public schools. He left the farm to take up the study
of law. After reading for some time under private preceptor-
ship he entered the Kent College of Law, in Chicago, graduating in
1895, with the degree, Bachelor of Laws. He has been admitted
to practice in all of the States and Federal courts of Illinois and
the Supreme Court of the United States. In the year of his gradua-
tion, Mr. Clithero engaged in practice in Chicago, where he was as-
sociated with Mr. George W. Warvelle for thirteen years, under
the firm name of Warvelle & Clithero. Since that time he has con-
ducted an individual general practice. His offices are at 1018 Hart-
ford Building.

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He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, in which he
was chairman of the Grievance Committee and is now chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, and is identified also with the Illinois Bar
Association and the American Bar Association. Like his former
partner, Mr. Warvelle, he is prominently identified with the Ma-
sonic fraternity. He organized and is affiliated with Metropolitan
Lodge, A. F. & A. M. of which he is past master and holds mem-
bership in Washington Chapter, R. A. M. of which he is past high
priest; Chicago Commandery, Knights Templar; Oriental Consis-
tory, Scottish Rite ; and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His
name is found enrolled on the list of members of the Chicago Ath-
letic Club.

On June 29, 1899, Mr. Clithero married Miss Harriet A. John-
son, of Chicago, and they have one child, Helen Elizabeth. They
live in Oak Park.

NICHOLAS J. PRITZKER. Among the members of the Chicago
bar who have overcome innumerable obstacles in their rise from
obscurity and poverty to positions of prominence and financial
independence, Nicholas J. Pritzker is worthy of more than passing
mention. Brought to this country as a lad, ignorant of the customs
and language of America, with the sturdy industry and progressive-
ness of his countrymen when given the opportunity he worked his
way to a professional education, established a paying business, and
finally turned his attention to the law, in which he has won deserved
success.

Mr. Pritzker is a native of Kiev, Russia, and was born July 19,
1871, a son of Jacob Nicholas and Sophia (Schwartzman) Pritzker,
natives also of that country. The father, who was engaged in com-
mercial pursuits, came to the United States in 1881 to prepare a
home for his family, who followed him here in 1882, settling in Chi-
cago. Nicholas J. Pritzker had received his early training in pri-
vate Hebrew schools in his native land, which he had attended
from his fourth to his eleventh year, and when he came to this coun-
try enrolled as a student at the Jones School, on Harrison Street.
He was ambitious and persevering, applying himself diligently to
his studies and attending high school at nights, so that, about 1888
by special examination under George A. Howland, superintendent
of schools, he was graduated. He next went to the Chicago College
of Pharmacy and later to the department of pharmacy at North-
western University, and was graduated in the class of 1892 and
became a registered pharmacist. Securing employment in that line,
he was identified with the drug business for seven years, and showed
himself a thorough master of his calling and an excellent business
man. However, Mr. Pritzker had always cherished a desire for a
career in the law, and after some preparation entered the Illinois
College of Law, in 1899, and was graduated with his bachelor's
degree with the class of 1902. He was admitted to the Illinois bar

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June 6th of that year, and from that time to the present has con-
tinued in the practice of his calling, carrying on his activities inde-
pendently. Mr. Pritzker has offices in the First National Bank
Building, and while his practice is of a general nature, he has been
engaged for the most part in cases dealing with real estate, corpora-
tion and bankruptcy law. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation and the Law Institute, and stands high in the regard and
confidence of his fellow-practitioners, who have found him a val-
uable associate, a worthy opponent, and at all times an adherent of
the highest ethics of the calling. Mr. Pritzker is a member of the
B'nai B'rith, and is director and counsel of Mark Nathan Jewish
Asylum of Chicago, in the work of which he has taken a very active
and helpful part. He is also interested in Masonry, and holds mem-
bership in Oriental Lodge No. 33, F. & A. M., and Cicero Chapter
No. 180, R. A. M. His residence is located at No. 2437 North
Kedzie Boulevard.

On June 8, 1891, Mr. Pritzker was married to Miss Anna Cohn,
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and to this union there have been born
three children, namely : Harry N., a senior in the literary department
and a freshman in law at Northwestern University, who enjoys col-
lege reputation as a swimmer and all-round athlete; Abraham N.,
who is a sophomore at the University of Chicago; and Jacob N.,
who is attending the graded schools.

CHARLES L. OGDEN. To be recognized as a leading member of
the Knox County bar is no slight distinction, for the profession here
is made up of men of notable ability, and for almost a decade
Charles L. Ogden has occupied a foremost place, his home city
being Galesburg. He was born at Cameron, Warren County, Illi-
nois, February 21, 1876, a son of Franklin Delos and Harriet Ann
(Lewis) Ogden. The paternal ancestors came from England and
settled in New York, and at Rome in that state the father of Charles
L. Ogden was born, removing later in life to Warren County, Illi-
nois. During the Civil war Franklin D. Ogden was in the govern-
ment service as an enrolling officer. He was a man of sterling
character and very highly esteemed, and on numerous occasions
was elected to local offices. His death occurred February 13, 1912.
He married Harriet Ann Lewis, who survives, and they had seven
children, Charles L. being the sixth in order of birth. The ances-
tors of Mrs. Ogden came to America from Scotland and Wales and
settled in New Jersey, from which state her parents came to Illinois,
and she was born in Berwick, Warren County.

Charles L. Ogden was reared on his father's farm and attended
the district schools. As farmers' sons usually do, he assisted his
father during the summers and devoted himself to study during the
winters until about eighteen years of age, after which for three
more years he continued on the farm and then attended Knox
Academy at Galesburg for one year. By this time his mind was

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fully made up as to his choice of career, and in 1900, as a special
student, he entered the law department of the University of Illinois.
Determined application enabled him to do two years' work in the
preparatory department in addition to the regular law course, and he
was graduated in 1903. In October of that year he was admitted
to the bar at Springfield. Mr. Ogden gave himself no period of rest
after his strenuous months of study, but, on the other hand, imme-
diately opened law offices at two points, Augusta and Plymouth,
Illinois, with William B. Hiller, but after a year and a half of prac-
tice decided to come to Galesburg, where a wider field of endeavor
was open. For a short time after locating here, in November, 1905,
he was associated with George Shumway, but since that connection
was severed has been alone in practice and has built up a very satis-
factory business in a monetary way and through legal ability has
secured wide recognition. Mr. Ogden is possessed of the clear,
incisive mind that a successful lawyer must always have, and he is
able to express his thoughts in cogent and convincing language.
Furthermore, he is an indefatigable worker. He has been identified
with much important litigation, and is held in high regard by his
clients for his faithful attention to their interests.

Mr. Ogden was married June 25, 1908, to Miss Stella M. Jack-
son, a daughter of Owen P. Jackson, a well known retired farmer
of Macomb, Illinois. The family residence is at No. 116 Cedar
Avenue, Galesburg, and Mr. Ogden maintains his office at No. 19
East Main Street. Thoroughly identified with the republican party,
Mr. Ogden has served as a delegate to several county, senatorial
and congressional conventions. In January, 1915, he was appointed
city attorney for the City of Galesburg to fill out the unexpired
term of James E. Davis, who had been elected to the Legislature.
At the expiration of his term of office as city attorney, Mr. Ogden
was not a candidate to succeed himself, but was retained by the
City of Galesburg as special counsel in the matter of readjusting
the rates of gas and standard of service with the local gas company.
He is also the legal adviser for several corporations, is interested in
civic improvement and expansion, and is a member of the Gales-
burg Business Men's Club and of the State and County Bar asso-
ciations. He has served as secretary and treasurer of the County
Bar Association. Mrs. Ogden takes a prominent part in social and
civic activities, and is an influential member of the Tuscarora Club
and the Galesburg Women's Club. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden are mem-
bers of the Baptist Church.

JACOB NEWMAN. One of the well known members of the Chi-
cago bar who has been the architect of his' own fortunes is Jacob
Newman ; for over thirty years he has been engaged in the practice
of law in the City of Chicago. Mr. Newman was born November
12, 1853, a son °f Salmon and Pauline (Lewis) Newman. The
family settled on a farm near Jacksonburg, Butler County, Ohio,

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and tilled the soil until the death of the father in 1860, when the
mother with her children moved to Liberty, Indiana, where they
lived many years. The subject of this sketch however, went in
1860 to live with his married sister at Noblesville, Indiana, where he
remained until he moved to Chicago in the summer of 1867. He
came here in the hope of finding greater educational advantages.
On his arrival he worked in several mercantile establishments and
finally after having accumulated enough to pay his way for the first
year, he entered the old Chicago University and worked his way
though that institution by securing odd jobs of all sorts and kinds.
He graduated with the class of 1873 and finished his law course
in 1875.

While attending the Union College of Law (now Northwestern
University of Law) he worked and studied in the law office of the
Hon. James R. Doolittle, who for many years was a United States
senator from the State of Wisconsin.

In 1875 Mr. Newman was admitted to the bar of Illinois and
soon thereafter became associated in the practice of his profession
with the late Judge Graham. This association continued until 1877
when Judge Graham removed to the West. Mr. Newman continued
in practice until 1882 when he formed a partnership with Mr.
Adolph Moses, which continued until the summer of 1890. The
firm of Moses & Newman conducted a substantial law business and
became well known at the Chicago bar. This firm was dissolved
in the spring of 1890, and from that time on Mr. Newman con-
tinued the practice of the law with George W. Northrup and others
until he organized the present firm of Newman, Poppenhusen &
Stern.

During all these years, Mr. Newman has been very active at
the bar and participated in many celebrated cases.

He has all his life belonged to the republican party and is a mem-
ber of the Union League Club, the Standard Club, the Ravisloe
Country Club, the Hamilton Club and others.

Mr. Newman married on May 30, 1888, Miss Minnie Goodman,
daughter of Hugo Goodman, an old resident of Chicago ; three chil-
dren, John Hugo, Elizabeth and George Ingham were born. The
home of the family has been for many years at 4738 Woodlawn
Avenue.

HAYNIE ROBERT PEARSON. In a quarter of a century devoted
to the active practice of his profession in Chicago Haynie R. Pear-
son has had a wide experience, and service to city and state in the
department of law has marked his career. He resigned from his
last office in 1900 since which time he has devoted himself to inde-
pendent practice.

Haynie Robert Pearson was born at Springfield, Illinois, on the
22d of June, 1866, and is a son of Gen. Robert N. and Mary E. (Tut-
hill) Pearson, his father having been a gallant soldier in the Army

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of the Tennessee in the Civil war, during which he arose to the rank
of brigadier-general. While Mr. Pearson was yet a child the family
moved to Chicago from Springfield, and in this city he had his early
education. He later attended Middlebury College, at Middlebury,
Vermont, and then entered the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor where he received his training for his legal career. His
graduation came in 1899 and his admission to the bar followed
immediately. He at once engaged in practice in Chicago as a mem-
ber of the firm of Page & Pearson, and continued thus for two
years. In 1893 he served as attorney for the Sanitary District of
Chicago, and in that year he was appointed to the office of assistant
state's attorney for Cook County by Jacob Kern. It was then he
laid the basis for his present splendid reputation as a criminal
lawyer, and in 1896 he was reappointed to the office by Hon. Charles
S. Deneen, then governor of the state. During his service in that
office Mr. Pearson prosecuted a greater number of men on the
charge of murder than had any previous incumbent of the position
of assistant state's attorney in Cook County and he secured convic-
tion and death sentences for twenty-one . murderers, a number in
excess of convictions secured by any other prosecutor in the United
States within an equal period of time. His reputation in the de-
partment of criminal law places him among the foremost of trial
lawyers in the country, his standing having long since exceeded local
limitations.

Mr. Pearson is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and
he is a member of the University of Michigan Alumni Association,
as well as of his college fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon. In the
Masonic order he has taken the thirty-second degree in the Scot-
tish Rite. By virtue of his father's service during the Civil war
he holds membership in the Society of the Tennessee and the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He and his wife are members
of St. Martin's Protestant Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Pearson
is the organizer of a men's club that is now the largest of its
kind in America, and of which he served as first president.

On September 14, 1892, Mr. Pearson married Miss Blanche B.
Arnold, daughter of James M. Arnold, and they have five children,
— Beatrice, Robert Swift, Caroline, Arnold and James M. A.

MAX J. FARBER. Thorough and accurate knowledge of law
and practice, native ability and unswerving integrity have made
Max J. Barber one of the leaders of the younger generation prac-
ticing at the Chicago bar; high personal character and a strong
sense of duty have made him a desirable and stirring citizen. He
is a self-made man, in that he has had to make his own way largely
since his boyhood, while his education has been gained through
tireless and persistent effort and his large and representative prac-
tice has come as a reward of his own unaided effort. Mr. Farber
was born in Austria, December 7, 1877, and is a son of Joseph and

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Rose (Grossman) Farber. His father, who was for some years
engaged in business in Austria, died in that country, and in 1887
the mother and three sons emigrated to the United States, settling
at Cleveland, Ohio.

Max J. Farber received his elementary education in the public
schools of Cleveland, and after graduating from the high school
there, enrolled as a student in the Western Reserve University.
There he applied himself so assiduously to his studies that he
made rapid advancement, and in 1900 was graduated with high
honors. During all this time Mr. Farber had been employed during
his vacation periods and leisure hours, in this way making it pos-
sible for him to continue his cherished studies. In 1900 he entered
Harvard University Law School, and in 1903 was graduated with
the degree of( Bachelor of Laws, and in the same year was admitted
to the Ohio bar. During the next four years he was engaged in
practice at Cleveland, but, believing that Chicago offered better
opportunities for his talents, he came to this city in January, 1908,
was admitted to the bar of Illinois, and has continued in practice
here to the present time. For a few years he was associated with
the firm of Hiner, Bunch & Latimer, but is now engaged in an
independent practice, with offices at 1133 First National Bank
Building, and specializing in commercial and corporation law.

Mr. Farber is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the
Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, and maintains a high reputation among
his fellow-practitioners.

SAMUEL E. THOMASON. The personnel of the Chicago bar in-
cludes among its younger members Samuel Emory Thomason, a
member of the law firm of Shepard, McCormick, Thomason, Kirk-
land & Patterson. This firm, with offices in the Tribune Building,
is engaged in general practice, and has a commendable record be-
hind it, though a brief one.

Mr. Thomason was born in Chicago on January 24, 1883, and is
a son of Frank D. and Diana (Bean) Thomason. The father
is also a lawyer, and is successfully engaged in practice in the city
today. Mr. Thomason had his higher education in the University
of Michigan and he was graduated from that institution with the
class of 1904, when he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
He prepared for his profession in the Northwestern University Law
School in Chicago, finishing his studies in the class of 1906, receiv-
ing his law degree and admission to the Illinois bar simultaneously.
He began his career in the law office of Stuart G. Shepard, and in
1909 Mr. Shepard, together with Mr. Robert R. McCormick, and
Mr. Thomason entered into a partnership under the firm name of
Shepard, McCormick & Thomason.

Mr. Thomason has appeared in connection with a number of
more than ordinarily important cases in the various courts of Chi-
cago, and he has won prestige as a trial lawyer of tact and resource-

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fulness. He successfully represented the plaintiff in the Corkery
will case involving half a million dollars, and since 1911 has been
retained by the Tribune Company as one of its attorneys, in whose
interests he has appeared in a number of important cases.

Mr. Thomason is a member of the Chicago, Illinois State and
American Bar associations, and his further professional affiliations
are with the Chicago Law Institute and the Legal Club. He has
membership in the University Club and the Ridge Country Club,
as well as his college fraternities, the Theta Delta Chi of his Uni-
versity of Michigan days and the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity.

Mr. Thomason is a republican. In 1912 he was a candidate on
its ticket for a place on the board of Cook County commissioners,
but was defeated with his ticket. He is chairman of the board of
directors of the West Town State Bank, and is a director in a num-
ber of other corporations.

On September 10, 1907, Mr. Thomason was married to Miss
Alexina E. Young, of Chicago, and they have one child, Elizabeth.
Their home is at 10451 South Seeley Avenue.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER JENNINGS. The twenty years since his
admission to the bar, William A. Jennings has devoted to a gen-
eral practice, with an increasing reputation for professional ability
and personal character.

William Alexander Jennings was. born at Prairie Grove, Arkan-
sas, January 24, 1872, and is a son of Fountain and Mary S. (Ellis)
Jennings. His father was born in Tennessee, where he enlisted for
service in the Confederate Cavalry, under the noted General For-
rest, with whom he served during all the campaigns of that intrepid
soldier, and he passed through the entire period of the war receiv-
ing but one wound, — a shot through the hand. On his return to
private life at the close of the war he resumed farming, but later
moved into Arkansas, and there he spent the remaining years of
his life as an agriculturist and as a minister of the Methodist
Church.

The public schools of Arkansas furnished William A. Jennings
with his early training, and when he had decided upon a profes-
sional career, he entered the Chicago College of Law in 1892. He
was admitted to the bar of the state in 1894, but was not graduated
nor did he receive his law degree until the next year. Upon his
admission to practice, Mr. Jennings began his work in Chicago, and
in the twenty years that have elapsed since then he has built up a
large and representative practice in and about the city. Early in
his career he was able to demonstrate successfully his ability through
his handling of a number of cases of litigation, and from that time
he has enjoyed a liberal clientage.

Mr. Jennings is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and
of the Southern and Germania clubs. During the Spanish-Ameri-
can war he enlisted for service in the army, his active duties carry-

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ing him through the various engagements in which our soldiers
participated in Cuba.

Mr. Jennings was married in 1897 to Miss Olive Louise Nord-
strom, of Madison, Wisconsin. They have their home at 929 Ainslee
Street.

HARRY L. SHAVER was admitted to the Illinois bar in October,
1907, and has since been very active in practice at Chicago. He
served as the first business manager of the Illinois Law Review
during the first two years of its existence. Besides a practice that
takes him into all the courts, Mr. Shaver has represented the Thirty-
first Senatorial District in the Illinois House of Representatives
during the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth General Assemblies,
where he made an excellent record, having been prominently iden-
tified with some of the most important legislation enacted.

Harry L. Shaver is a native of Iowa, born at Marshalltown
September 30, 1884. His parents were Fred D. and Annie E.
(Kempter) Shaver, who moved to Chicago in 1889. Mr. Shaver
was educated in the grammar schools of Chicago, in the Lake View
High School, and in 1907 graduated in the law course from the
Northwestern University. He is a member of the Chicago Bar
Association and the Illinois State Bar Association, and in politics
is a republican. Mr. Shaver is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi
College Fraternity.

FRANK J. C. KRAHN. A Rockford lawyer since 1909, Mr.
Krahn was for a number of years in practice in Elgin, and is
regarded as one of the strongest members of the Rockford bar,
especially on the commercial side of the profession.

Frank J. C. Krahn was born in Dundee Township of Kane
County, Illinois, May 21, 1872, and grew up on a farm, was educated
in country schools and a high school, took the course of the Dixon
Business College and the Northern Illinois Normal College, and
finished his law studies in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Mr. Krahn graduated in 1895 and was admitted to the bar of
Michigan and Illinois in the same year. He began practice at Elgin,
and for nearly twenty years has been identified with a growing
general practice. During his residence at Elgin he served one term
as city attorney, and in 1909 moved to Rockford, and besides his
regular practice now handles commercial law and collections through
the American Creditors Association. Mr. Krahn is a member of
the Winnebago County Bar Association. Fraternally he is affiliated
with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and the Mystic Workers of the World.

BRUCE H. GARRETT. One of the members of the Rockford bar
is Bruce H. Garrett, who has been in active practice for more than
fifteen years, and controls a large clientage in general practice, but
particularly in corporation law.

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Bruce Hayes Garrett was born in Winnebago County, Illinois,
November i, 1865, and was educated in the public schools, and
through private schools and private tutors. He studied law with
A. D. Early and was admitted to the bar in 1887. In the year 1900
Mr. Garrett began a general practice at Rockford, and during much
of the subsequent time has paid special attention to corporation,
probate and chancery affairs. Mr. Garrett is a member of the
Illinois State Bar Association and the Winnebago County Bar Asso-
ciation, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and has taken thirty-
two degrees in the Scottish Rite and belongs to the Mystic Shrine,
and is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks and the Hamilton Club of Chicago.

EDWIN M. ASHCRAFT. For more than forty years the name
Ashcraft has been identified with the Illinois bar, and Edwin M.
Ashcraft has practiced at Chicago since 1887. About fifteen years
ago his mature experience was combined with the energy and youth
of his son, and the firm of Ashcraft & Ashcraft is one of recognized
prominence and success at the Chicago bar.

Edwin M. Ashcraft, the senior member of this firm, and for
twenty-seven years a member of the Chicago bar, was born on a
farm near Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia (then
Virginia) August 27, 1848. The family homestead was in the
vicinity of some of the early campaigns during the Civil war, in
which struggle several of the family took part. His parents were
James M. and Clarissa (Swiger) Ashcraft, and he was the oldest
of their two sons and two daughters. After attending the public
schools of his native locality and Wheeling University, he studied
at the State University at Normal, Illinois, and while teaching school
during 1867, 1868 and 1869, devoted his leisure time to the study of
law, having early decided upon a professional career. Mr. Ashcraft
successfully passed his examination before the Supreme Court of
Illinois, sitting at Springfield, and, admitted to the bar, engaged at
once in practice at Vandalia, Fayette County. His ability attracted
such favorable notice that before the end of the year he was elected
prosecuting attorney of the county, and continued to serve three
years. In 1876 Mr. Ashcraft was made the candidate of the repub-
lican party for Congress from the sixteenth district, and although
defeated at the polls reduced the normal democratic majority from
5,000 to 1,400, his opponent being W. A. J. Sparks, who served as
land commissioner under President Cleveland.

Removing to Chicago in April, 1887, Mr. Ashcraft associated
himself with Thomas and Josiah Cratty, under the firm name of
Cratty Brothers & Ashcraft, an association which continued until
June i, 1891, when Mr. Ashcraft withdrew to become a member of
the firm of Ashcraft & Gordon. In 1900, with his sons, Raymond
M. and Edwin M. Jr., he formed the strong combination of Ash-
craft & Ashcraft, which has continued in existence to the present

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time and has a large general practice. It is generally accepted that
as a trial lawyer Mr. Ashcraft has few superiors in the state, and
during the long period of his practice in Chicago he has been
identified in one or another capacity \vith some of the most notable
me Illinois courts. For year:-, he has been a member of
the IlliiK i'.ar Association, and the regard in which he is held

by his fellov. - was shown by his election as president of the

Chicago ition. Mr. Ashcraft married, March 16, 1875,

Miss Florence R. Moore, daughter of Risden Moore, of Belleville,
Illinois. Their children are: Raymond M., Edwin M. Jr., Florence
V. and Alan E. Mr. Ashcraft is not a confessed member of any
religious body, but has been generous in his support of religious and
charitable projects. II is social connections are with the Union
League, Hamilton and Calumet Country Clubs.

RAYMOND MOORE ASHCKAFT was born
County, Illinois, January 9, 1876, commenced hi>
primary schools in 1884, and after coming to <
attended the city public .-cliuuls until f89_). Follow
was a student in the Chicago Manual Training School, from which
he graduated in 1894. and in the latter year entered Northwestern
University, where 1- graduated in 1897 w^n tne Degree

Bachelor of Laws. In the following year he took a post -grad-
uate course at Lake Forest University, and from that institution
received a like d< From 1894 until 1900, Mr. Ashcraft was

employed by the \shcraft & Gordon, and in the meantime, in

1897, was admitted to the bar, becoming associated with his father
in the firm of Ashcraft & Ashcraft in 1900. Their offices are located
in The Temple. Mr. Ashcraft has steadily advanced in the ranks
of his profession, and is now recognized as a lawryer of thorough
learning and talent. Like his father, he is a stanch republican, and
holds membership in the Chicago, Illinois State, and American Bar
Associations, being also connected with the Delta Chi college
fraternity, the Chikaming Country Club and the Lakeside ( iolf Club.
His residence is at 6127 Kimbark Avenue.

Mr. Ashcraft was married August 3. i<;< Charleta

Peck, daughter of Charles Feck, one of the Ion;:

of Design and a well-known artist of early Chicago Two children
have been born, to this union: Charleta Jane, boni
1906: and Florence Elizabeth, born March (., i<)i ' ml Mrs.

Ashcraft are members of the Presbyterian Chtr

CHARLES WESLKY FLACK. A foremost n;< Macomb

bar and equally prominent in other lines of Charles

Wesley Flack, the senior member of the la\\ k & Lawyer,

at Macomb, and president of the First Trust and Hank of

this city, is one of the best known men of mty.

While the law claims most of his a: -sial and

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pleted the full course at the Western Illinois State Normal School
and Northwestern University and is now an instructor in a high
school, teaching German and Latin. The son, Charles E. Flack, was
born March 29, 1892, and after completing the academic department
of the Western Illinois State Normal School entered the North-
western University in the fall of 1910, and the Northwestern Uni-
versity Law School in 1913, where he is now continuing his studies.
The family belongs to the Christian Church. They reside at No. 512
South Randolph Street, Macomb.

Mr. Flack is very prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to
Mohammed Shrine, Peoria Temple and the Consistory at Ouincy,
having reached the thirty-second degree. Locally he is affiliated
with Macomb Lodge, No. 17, A. F. & A. M. ; Morse Chapter, No.
19; and Macomb Commandery, No. 61, and during 1901 and 1902
was worshipful master of Macomb Lodge No. 17. He is a member
of the State and County Bar associations. His law office is main-
tained on the West Side Square, Macomb, and he has one of the
largest and best law libraries in this part of the state.

DONALD L. MORRILL. For more than a quarter of a century
Donald L. Morrill has been successfully engaged in the practice of
law in the City of Chicago. He has gained a prominent position in
the ranks of his profession as a result of his diligent attention to its
demands during that period.

The greater part of Mr. Merrill's life and all his professional
career thus far has been spent in Chicago. He comes of an old and
honored colonial family of the State of Maine, and was born at
Auburn, in that state, in the early years of the Civil war. His
parents, Nahum and Anna I. (Littlefield) Morrill, were both of
English ancestry, and their respective families were established in
the Pine Tree State in the early colonial period. His father, Judge
Morrill of Auburn, Maine, is still living at the age of ninety-four
years and is the Nestor of the Maine bar. During his active pro-
fessional career of over fifty years, his prominence and influence
at the bar and in public affairs has been widely recognized through-
out the entire state. The mother of Mr. Morrill died in 1896. His
elder and only brother is one of the leaders of the Maine bar.

Donald Littlefield Morrill attended the schools of his native
community, and when barely sixteen years of age entered Brown
University from which institution he has received both the Bachelor's
and Master's degrees. Soon after his graduation Mr. Morrill came
to Illinois and devoted several years to effective work as principal
of the high school at Moline, Illinois, and later as principal of one of
the grammar schools of Chicago. He commenced the practice of
law in Chicago in 1887, where he has been engaged ever since in the
active, continuous practice of that profession. He has enjoyed a
substantial and representative clientage and gives especial attention
to corporation law and chancery practice. His offices are in the

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Chicago Title and Trust Building and his residence is at 421 Barry
Avenue.

A man of high civic ideals, Mr. Morrill has always done his
part in furthering the interests of the community. He served with
efficiency and distinction as a member of the board of education and
later he was attorney for that body for eight consecutive years. In
1909 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of judge of
the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Mr. Morrill is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
Illinois State Bar Association and the American Bar Association,
also of the board of managers of the Chicago Law Institute. He is
president of the Associated Alumni of Brown University and a
member of the University Club, the Law Club, the Edgewater Golf
Club, and the Sons of the Revolution.

He is the author of the following published works, "Federal
and State Government," being an elementary text book in civics ; "A
Students Manual of the Constitution of Illinois"; "Illinois School
Law Annotated"; a treatise on "The Law of Persons, including
Domestic Relations" and sundry pamphlets on historical, legal and
political subjects.

On October 17, 1892, Mr. Morrill was married to Miss Edith N.
Storey, of Detroit, Michigan. They have one son, Nahum, who
was graduated with high honors from Brown University with the
class of 1914, receiving both the Bachelor's and the Master's degrees
upon his graduation, and who is now a student at the Harvard Law
School.

JUDGE JOHN D. BRECKENRIDGE. Many successful lawyers have
entered the profession comparatively late in life, after varied
experience in other affairs, and it is a well recognized fact that those
who take up legal studies with matured character and experience
often attain front positions in the profession. An illustration of
this fact is the career of Judge John D. Breckenridge of Fulton
County, who in his early life was a farmer, a carpenter, a merchant,
and only during his service as circuit clerk of Fulton County began
the study of law.

John D. Breckenridge was born in a log cabin on a farm in
Waterford Township in Fulton County, Illinois, April 12, 1859, a
son of John W. and Adaline (Preyir) Breckenridge, Jr. The
Breckenridge ancestors were from Scotland, and the family .is said
to have been founded by five brothers who emigrated to this country,
some of them settling in Canada. John W. Breckenridge, Sr., the
grandfather, was a cousin of the noted John C. Breckenridge of
Kentucky, who in 1860 was a candidate of one branch of the
democratic party for the office of president. John W. Breckenridge,
Jr., came to Illinois in 1837, settled in Will County, and moved to
Fulton County in 1845. During the Civil war he served as a member
of Company B in the Eighty-fifth Illinois Infantry.

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Judge Breckenridge acquired his preliminary education in the
district schools near the home farm, and all his early life was spent
in the wholesome environment of a farm and hard work. He
divided his time for several years between farming and the carpen-
ter's trade, and on reaching his majority turned his attention to mer-
cantile lines. In 1 880-81 he conducted a store at Sepo in Fulton
County, and from 1882 to 1884 was a merchant at Bybee. He also
served as postmaster at both places. Mr. Breckenridge in 1884
became clerk in a retail store at Lewistown, and four years later
went on the road selling goods for a wholesale grocery house of
Peoria. His experience as a traveling salesman continued until
1892. In that year, having maintained his citizenship in Fulton
County, where he had a large acquaintance and enjoyed the thor-
ough confidence of the people, he was elected to the office of circuit
clerk. The duties of the office necessarily brought him in close con-
tact with the legal profession, and he took up the study of law at
home and pursued it with such energy and persistence that at the
end of three years he was admitted to the bar on June 14, 1895,
and was admitted to practice in the federal courts at Peoria in April,
1897. While gaining a legal education he had no assistance from
anyone, and the fact that he qualified himself for the bar, while ably
discharging the duties of a public office, is an incentive and inspira-
tion for young men who comparatively late in life determine the true
direction of their careers. On retiring from the office of circuit
clerk on December i, 1896, Mr. Breckenridge took up the active
practice of the law, and soon had a profitable business at Lewistown.
In November, 1906, he was elected to the office of county judge, and
entered upon his duties on December ist. He has also served as
police magistrate at Lewistown, having been elected May i, 1897.
Judge Breckenridge's record in his present judicial office has been
one of unquestioned ability, fairness, and thorough competence,
and he is regarded as the most popular official of the county.

Judge Breckenridge is a democrat, is affiliated with Lewistown
Lodge No. 104, A. F. & A. M. ; Havana Chapter, R. A. M. ; Damas-
cus Commandery No. 42, K. T., with the Mystic Shrine at Peoria,
and with the Knights of Pythias at Lewistown. He has long been
a church worker in the Christian Church, and has served as elder and
superintendent of the Sunday School. Mr. Breckenridge was mar-
ried March 20, 1879, to Miss Ella A. Bradley of Lewistown. They
are the parents of ten children: John L. ; Robert R. ; Mary, wife
of Charles Bosworth ; George W. ; Frances, wife of William Brad-
ley; Grace, wife of Ralph Hall of Joliet; Elizabeth, wife of Allen
Daily of Joliet ; Paul, Mildred and Jessie, at home.

D. J. NORMOYLE. The continuous progress of D. J. Normoyle
to a substantial standing at the Chicago bar has been the pure result
of personal exertions and worth, as he has never been able to apply
the influences of family influence or inherited wealth to his in-

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dividual affairs. It has been his fortune, however, to have prose-
cuted his activities in a city where he has had many brothers in the
unaided fight for recognition, and where those who have battled
their own way to substantial positions have not been slow to appre-
ciate manliness and merit.

Mr. Normoyle is a native son of Chicago, born September 6,
1876, a son of Denny R. and Mary (Gaffney) Normoyle, natives of
Ireland. His father, a machinist by vocation, came to the United
States about the time of the outbreak of- the Civil war, settling in
New York, and subsequently enlisting in the Union army from the
City of Troy. During his service he was stationed at the arsenal at
that place, and also at Fort Hamilton, and although his term was of
extended character and his services of a faithful nature, he would
never apply for a pension, believing that as his service had been a
voluntary one he was not entitled to further remuneration than that
given him during the period of the war. In his later years Mr.
Normoyle came to Chicago, and here passed the remainder of his
life working at his trade.

D. J. Normoyle was given only ordinary educational advan-
tages in his youth, attending the graded and high schools of Chi-
cago, and when he entered upon his career chose the trade of ma-
chinist, at which he was engaged for nine years. It was not his
intention, however, to make this his life work, taking it up merely
as a means toward an end, and while working thus continued as a
student at the night schools of the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation Central Department. Later he went to the Chicago Athe-
naeum, and when he had completed the classes there entered the
Chicago College of Law, now known as the Chicago Kent College
of Law, from which institution he was graduated in June, 1901,
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, although he had been admitted
to the Illinois bar by examination during the previous month. Dur-
ing the first ten years of his practice Mr. Normoyle was associated
with Pliny B. Smith, former counsel for the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railroad and president of the Chicago Law Institute, but
at the present time is in independent practice, giving his attention to
general professional business. His offices are maintained in the
Unity Building. Although the scope of his professional work has
always been broad, Mr. Normoyle has given close consideration to
the civic, social and municipal problems of his native city. He was
assistant city corporation counsel in 1911 and 1912, president of
the State Board of Arbitration in 1913, and was Chicago counsel
for the States Utilities Commission for some time. He has never
omitted an opportunity to do what he could toward the improve-
ment of the municipality. His reputation has extended far beyond
the limits of his native city, and his high abilities are freely acknowl-
edged by his fellow-members in the professional organizations with
which he is identified, such as the American Bar Association, the
Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the

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Chicago Law Institute. He holds membership in the Illinois State
Historical Society, takes a keen and active interest in the affairs
of the Knights of Columbus, and is also popular with his fellow-
members in the Order of the Alhambra and the Loyal Order of
Moose.

In 1902 Mr. Normoyle was married to Miss Mary F. Brennan,
of New Jersey, a member of an old and distinguished family of that
state, and they have one daughter : Dorothy.

GUY VAN SCHAICK. Few young lawyers enter their profession
with a more liberal training and broader experience than Guy Van
Schaick possessed when he was admitted to the Illlinois bar in
August, 1909.

He was born at Gilroy, California, December 6, 1876, a son of
Holmes David and Mary A. (Wright) Van Schaick. His father
was a California business man. His early education came from
attendance at private schools and the high schools at Gilroy and
San Francisco. He then entered the University of California,
where he was graduated B. L. in 1898, following which he was a
high school instructor two years in California, and then went out to
the Philippines in the educational service of the Federal Govern-
ment. For one year he was one of the staff of regular teachers
and for four years was division superintendent of schools.

Returning to the United States, he came on to Chicago and
entered the law department of the University of Chicago, where
he was awarded the degree J. D. in 1909. In the meantime he had
also taken several courses in the Northwestern University Law
School.

Mr. Van Schaick began his professional career in the law office
of Stewart G. Shepard and Robert R. McCormick. Later he was
with the firm of Judah, Willard, Wolf & Reichmann and for a
short time in the office of the Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw.
Mr. Van Schaick is now associated in practice with Frank C. Rathje
and Adolph H. Wesemann, with offices in the National Life Build-
ing. This firm has a large general practice, and Mr. Van Schaick
has already made no little reputation both as a counselor and advo-
cate.

He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar associa-
tions, the Chicago Law Institute, the Chicago Association of Com-
merce, the City Club, and the California Society of Illinois. Fra-
ternally he is affiliated with the Garden City Lodge, A. F. & A. M.
On September 15, 1905, he married Esther Knapp of Jamestown,
New York. They have one child, Harold G. Their home is at
581 1 Maryland Avenue.

FRANK C. RATHJE. Senior member of the firm of Rathje &
Wesemann, with offices in the National Life Building at 29 South
LaSalle Street, Frank C. Rathje is a lawyer of solid and even bril-

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liant attainments both in his profession and in business affairs. By
hard work and study night and day he has found a successful posi-
tion in the Chicago bar at a time when most young lawyers are only
laying the foundation for a career.

Frank C. Rathje belongs to a well known family of DuPage
County, and was born at Bloomingdale, Illinois, August 20, 1883,
a son of William and Louise (Ehlers) Rathje. His father is one
of the substantial farmers of DuPage County. Mr. Frank Rathje
was educated in country schools, and lived on a farm west of Chi-
cago until nineteen years of age. He then entered St. John's Mili-
tary Academy at Delafield, Wisconsin, subsequently was in the
Armour Institute of Technology, and in 1907 graduated LL. B. from
the Northwestern University Law School. He was admitted to the
Illinois bar in June, 1907, and in November of the same year began
practice alone, and so continued for two years. Then the present
firm of Rathje & Wesemann was organized, the junior member being
Adolph H. Wesemann, and they now have two junior associates.
The firm looks after a large general practice.

Mr. Rathje's special forte in law and business has been real
estate and finance. He now represents several banks of Chicago
and vicinity and several other corporations. For some time he was
connected with the Chicago Title & Trust Company, and has given
much of his professional attention to real estate law. During the
first four years of his practice he organized four different banks in
Chicago and vicinity, and all of them are in a prosperous condition.

Mr. Rathje is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
Hamilton Club, the Chicago Automobile Club, and in Masonry is
a member of Englewood Lodge No. 690, A. F. & A. M., Englewood
Chapter No. 176, R. A. M., and Siloam Commandery of the Knights
Templar at Oak Park. He resides in Englewood.

JUDGE CONRAD G. GUMBART has practiced law at Macomb
for nearly twenty years. For a time he was associated with the
present United States senator, Lawrence Sherman, and for a
number of years has stood in the front rank of McDonough County
attorneys, and for the past four years he has filled the office of
judge of the County Court.

Conrad G. Gumbart was born in Macomb, Illinois, November 5,
1872, the same day on which U. S. Grant was elected for his second
term as President, and this fact suggests the reason for the second
initial in Judge Gumbart's name. His parents were George C. and
Esther F. (Feilbaugh) Gumbart. His father, who was born in
the country along the River Rhine in Germany, came to the United
States in 1855, settled at St. Louis, and in 1864 came to Macomb,
where he was active in business affairs until his death. His widow,
who is still living in Macomb, was also of German ancestry, but
long resident in America. Some of her ancestors came from Mo-
ravia, and her great-great-grandfather, Rev. Johannes Herr, was

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one of the first ministers to preach in Pennsylvania. Judge Gum-
bart was the youngest of six children, only three of whom are now
living.

His early education was acquired in the Macomb public schools,
graduating from the high school in 1891, after which he spent two
years reading law with the firm of Sherman & Tunnicliff. In the
fall of 1893 Judge Gumbart entered the law department of the
Northwestern University of Chicago, and was graduated LL. B. in
June, 1895, and admitted to the bar at Chicago in the same month.
Returning to Macomb he conducted an individual practice and made
a reputation as a rising attorney for four years, and then joined the
law partnership of Sherman & Tunnicliff, with whom he had first
read law. After Senator Sherman retired from the firm owing to
the responsibilities of his political career, the firm became Tunnicliff
& Gumbart, and continued until December, 1910. At that time
Judge Gumbart was elected and began his duties as judge of the
County Court. From 1900 to 1904 he also served as city attorney of
Macomb. In December, 1914, Judge Gumbart retired from the
bench and again became associated with Mr. Tunnicliff, the firm
name being Tunnicliff, Gumbart & Grigsby. In politics Judge
Gumbart is a republican.

October 12, 1905, occurred his marriage to Nellie E. Willis,
daughter of James and Emma Willis. Her father was an active
business man of Macomb, but died when Mrs. Gumbart was a child,
while his widow is still living in Macomb. Judge Gumbart and wife
have one son : James C., born September 28, 1908.

JOHN C. LAWYER. Among the younger generation of profes-
sional men at Macomb, who, through ability and enterprise have
advanced to the front rank, may be mentioned John C. Lawyer,
who has won public recognition as an attorney and is the junior
member of the law firm of Flack & Lawyer, with offices on the
west side of the Public Square, at Macomb. Mr. Lawyer was born
at Tennessee, in McDonough County, Illinois, June 28, 1884, and
is a son of Amos M. and Carrie (Farrenkopf) Lawyer, the former
of whom was born also in the Village of Tennessee, and the latter
at Colchester, McDonough County. There were five children in
the family, John C. being the eldest born. Four survive and a sec-
ond son, Joseph D., is following his older brother's example by pre-
paring for the bar. Amos M. Lawyer, the father, is a prominent
factor in democratic politics in his section of the county and has
served as supervisor, assessor and highway commissioner. The
Lawyer family originated in Holland and probably settled first after
emigrating, in Virginia, and then spread to other states. On the
maternal side the family may be traced to Germany and its early
American settlers to Illinois. Mr. Lawyer's ancestors were quiet,
peaceful people, mainly agriculturists, hence he claims no glorious
war record for them, and is well satisfied for, in America, in these

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modern days, the fruits of peace are more dearly prized than the
greatest triumphs of war.

John C. Lawyer attended the district schools near his home
through boyhood days, afterward entering the Tennessee High
School from which he was graduated in 1903. For about a year
afterward he assisted his father on the home farm and also taught
school, making up his mind during this time as to his future career,
his decision resulting in his entering the law department of the Uni-
versity of Illinois, in September, 1904, and his more than creditable
graduation in 1907, for he was the valedictorian of his class. In
October of the same year, at Chicago, he was admitted to the bar
and then came to Macomb. Here, for sixteen months he worked in
the law office of Charles W. Flack, and in January, 1909, became
Mr. Flack's partner, the firm style of Flack & Lawyer having pre-
vailed ever since. It is a well balanced firm and successfully handles
a large amount of law business. Reared to believe in and revere
the principles of democracy, Mr. Lawyer has given hearty support
to the democratic party, by which, at times, he has been tendered
political preferment. In 1908 he received the democratic nomina-
tion for state's attorney of McDonough County and at the election
made a fine showing, but in that year the entire democratic ticket
was defeated. This caused no loss of interest in good citizenship,
however, for he has always been very willing to lend his influence
to promote public movements in both city and county of which his
judgment approves, and, like other members of his profession, re-
sponds freely to the call of charity. In Junl, 1915, he was the choice
of his party, and as the nominee for circuit judge of the Ninth Ju-
dicial Circuit, but again the entire democratic ticket was defeated,
although Mr. Lawyer ran far ahead in his county. He is a member
of the State Bar Association.

Mr. Lawyer was married June 14, 1911, to Miss Bess Dague,
who is a daughter of Nathaniel H. Dague, who is secretary of the
Danville Ice Company, of Danville, Illinois. They have one child,
Ruth, who was born July 14, 1913. Mrs. Lawyer is a lady of
superior educational attainments, a graduate of the Danville High
School and a student formerly of the University of Illinois and the
Macomb Normal School. The handsome family residence is at
No. 624 South Randolph Street, Macomb. Mr. Lawyer is a mem-
ber of the Lincoln Centennial Association but belongs to no clubs
nor secret societies, being satisfied with the interest created by the
problems his profession brings to him and by the comfort and com-
panionship he finds at his own fireside.

ANDREW LESLIE HAINLINE. Perhaps no law firm in Mc-
Donough County does more business or handles more important
interests than that of Elting & Hainline, of Macomb, and as the
junior member of this firm, Andrew Leslie Hainline justifies his
connection although one of the younger members of the Macomb

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bar. He bears a family name that has been conspicuous in McDon-
ough County for many years, its activities identifying it with com-
mercial development and with public affairs.

Andrew Leslie Hainline was born at Macomb, December 28,
1887, and is a son of William H. and Catherine L. (Voorhees)
Hainline. Of their four children, two survive : Mrs. E. T. Walker,
the wife of a banker at Macomb, and Andrew Leslie. William H.
Hainline is one of McDonough County's foremost citizens. For the
past sixteen years he has been postmaster at Macomb and formerly
was county treasurer. For many years very active in the repub-
lican party, served as a member of the Republican State Central
Committee from 1896 to 1898 and was a member of the committee
concerned in the erection of the soldiers' monument at Anderson-
ville, Georgia. This was a fitting appointment as during the Civil
war, Mr. Hainline, as a soldier, had been incarcerated at Anderson-
ville prison for two months. He served through the war as a mem-
ber of the Sixteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with the rank of
corporal, and marched with General Sherman's forces to the sea,
and subsequently attended the grand review of the victorious troops
at Washington, D. C.

Andrew Leslie Hainline attended the public schools at Macomb
and was graduated from the high school in 1904. At that time
his father was publishing the Macomb Daily Journal, and for two
years Andrew L. was a reporter on the same, in this capacity dis-
playing talent indicative of journalistic ability had he turned his
serious attention in that direction. His choice, however, was fortu-
nately, the law, and in 1906 he entered the law department of the
University of Michigan and was graduated in 1909 and was ad-
mitted to the Illinois bar in June of that year. He immediately
entered into partnership at Macomb, with Philip E. Elting, under
the firm name of Elting & Hainline, and this combination is very
generally conceded to be one of the strongest law firms in the
county. It has been entrusted with many important cases, one of
recent date in which it was called by the state was that of the prose-
cution of Ray Panschmidt, on a murder charge, sent on a change of
venue from Adams to McDonough County. This law firm is not
only distinguished for its legal ability but also for its honorable,
faithful and courteous conduct of its cases. It maintains fine offices
in the Stocker Building, Macomb.

Mr. Hainline has always been identified with the republican
party, and is a member of the State Bar Association. He is a young
man of pleasing personality and is social by nature and is a valued
member of the Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He is unmar-
ried.

GEORGE A. FALDER. A practicing member of the Illinois bar
since 1893, George A. Falder was elected state's attorney of Mc-
Donough County in 1912, and that is only one of a number of sue-

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cesses that have attended his professional career during the past
twenty years. Previous to his removal to Macomb to assume the
duties of his present office, Mr. Falder had his home and offices at
Colchester.

George A. Falder was born at Macomb, Illinois, May 2, 1872,
the youngest of six children of Cornelius and Catherine (Cuba)
Falder. Both his parents were natives of Germany. Mr. Falder
spent the first fourteen years of his life near Tennessee, Illinois, was
educated in the district schools, continued his training in the public
schools at Macomb until eighteen, and in 1890 graduated from
the Macomb Normal School. At the outset of his career he was a
school teacher two years, and toolf up the study of law in the office
of Prentiss, Bailey & Holly, at Colchester, beginning his readings
in 1890. The members of that firm have subsequently become prom-
inent in practice in Chicago. Mr. Falder was admitted to the bar
at Mount Vernon, Illinois, in 1893, and at once located at Colchester
and became associated in practice with Bailey & Holly, under the
firm name of Bailey, Holly & Falder. This relationship was con-
tinued about six years until the other members of the firm moved to
Chicago. Since then Mr. Falder has conducted an independent
practice, and has been frequently employed in litigation of more
than ordinary importance and significance. For fourteen years con-
tinuously he served as city attorney of Colchester, and in the fall
of 1912 was elected state's attorney of McDonough County, for the
regular term of four years, at once removing to Macomb.

Mr. Falder is a democrat in politics, and fraternally is affiliated
with the Masonic order, having taken thirty-two degrees of the
Scottish rite, also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, the Improved
Order of Red Men, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. He is also a member of the State and County Bar Asso-
ciation. His home is at 528 South Randolph Street, in Macomb.
Mr. Falder was married May i, 1894, to Lenna J. Heppenstall, of
Colchester. Mrs. Falder died June 4, 1899, leaving a son, Gerald
H., who was born July 17, 1895, is a graduate of the Colchester
High School, spent one year in Macomb Normal School, and is
now a student in the University of Illinois. On July 17, 1900, Mr.
Falder married for his second wife Albertha Canote, of Colchester.
They have a son, Thurlo J., born June 19, 1903, and now in the
Macomb public schools.

OSCAR E. CARLSTROM. The junior member of the law firm of
Graham, Carlstrom & Graham, at Aledo, Oscar E. Carlstrom is
a man of recognized ability and has shown unusual energy in making
himself a useful member of his profession. He had to earn his
education, and studied law under the preceptorship of the vener-
able Isaac N. Bassett, the oldest practicing lawyer in the State of

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Illinois at the present time. Mr. Carlstrom is also a veteran of the
Philippine war.

Oscar E. Carlstrom was born at New Boston, Mercer County,
Illinois, July 16, 1878, a son of Charles A. and Clara (Spang)
Carlstrom. Both parents were natives of Sweden, his father born
February 18, 1845, and still living at New Boston. His mother died
in 1881. Oscar Carlstrom was the third among eight children. His
half brother Fred is now studying medicine.

Oscar E. Carlstrom acquired his early education in the district
schools near the home farms, attended such a school until thirteen
years old, and after that was dependent upon his own efforts largely
to gain an education. He worked on the streets and at any employ-
ment he could find in order to earn the money to get books and
attend school. He was graduated from the high school at New Bos-
ton at the age of eighteen, and for five months was a student of
Dixon College. He studied at night during the time he was em-
ployed in his self support, and proved himself diligent in those days
and thus laid the foundation for his successful career as a lawyer.

In April, 1899, Mr. Carlstrom began reading law in the office of
Isaac N. Bassett of Aledo. This study was interrupted by his enlist-
ment on August 26, 1899, in the Thirty-ninth United States Infan-
try. This regiment was sent to the Philippines, saw active service
during the Aguinaldo rebellion, and Philippine war, and Mr. Carl-
strom participated in four battles. He received an honorable dis-
charge on May 6, 1901, at the Presidio in San Francisco, after hav-
ing been in service upwards of two years. On returning to Aledo
he continued his law studies, and on February 24, 1903, was
admitted to the bar at Ottawa, Illinois. On the i6th day of the
following March Mr. Carlstrom began his active practice, as junior
partner of Isaac N. Bassett. This partnership lasted one year, and
Mr. Carlstrom was alone in practice until December, 1913, when he
became associated with William J. Graham under the name of
Graham & Carlstrom. Paul J. Graham has recently been admitted
to the firm, and the name is now Graham, Carlstrom & Graham.
This is one of the strong firms of Mercer County and has its offices
in the Carlson Building.

In 1909 Mr. Carlstrom was elected city attorney of Aledo, and
was re-elected in 1911 and 1913 and is now in his third term. He
is a republican in politics, a member of the Aledo Business Men's
Club, is a Chapter Mason and member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and his church is the Presbyterian.

On December 30, 1903, Mr. Carlstrom married Miss Alma C.
Nissen, a daughter of Henry C. and Betsey Nissen of Grand Mea-
dow, Minnesota. Mrs. Carlstrom was educated in' the public schools
.of Grand Meadow and in the Conservatory of Music at Dixon,
Illinois, where she met Mr. Carlstrom. They have one son, Charles
H., who was born August 28, 1905. Mr. Carlstrom's father came
to the United States in the fall of 1869, settled at Aledo, and later

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removed to New Boston. He is one of the older citizens of Mercer
County, has given service on the school board and is well known
locally.

GEORGE D. TUNNICLIFF. The City of Macomb, Illinois, is the
home of a number of the prominent men of the state who not only
find here a satisfactory field for their activities and a home with de-
sirable surroundings, but are bound by other ties, it being their
birthplace. A well known example is found in George D. Tunni-
cliff, one of the ablest members of the Macomb bar and formerly
state's attorney.

George D. Tunnicliff was born at Macomb, Illinois, December
14, 1861, and is a son of Judge Damon G. and Mary E. (Bailey)
Tunnicliff, the third born in their family of seven children. On
the paternal side the ancestors were from England and probably
also on the maternal side as well. The Tunnicliff family settled in
New York, and the Bailey family in Virginia, and it is probably a
fact that members of both participated in the Revolutionary war or
the War of 1812, but authentic records are not at hand. The mother
of George D. Tunnicliff died in his boyhood. The father survived
until December 20, 1901. For many years he was a leader of the bar
of McDonough County, and in 1885 was appointed by Governor
Oglesby an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Pinckney H. \Valker.

A studious youth during his public school course, George D. Tun-
nicliff satisfied his father's hopes as to his future career, and in 1879
entered the Northwestern University at Evanston, where he re-
mained into his sophomore year and then became a student in the
law department of the University of Michigan, from which he was
graduated in June, 1885, and at once entered into active practice
with his eminent father and J. H. Bacon. In a short time Judge
Bacon withdrew and the father and son continued together until
1890, when Judge Tunnicliff retired from active practice and Law-
rence'Y. Sherman, the present United States senator from Illinois,
became a partner, the firm name becoming Sherman & Tunnicliff.
In 1901 C. G. Gumbart, now Judge Gumbart, became a member of
the firm, the name then becoming Sherman, Tunnicliff & Gumbart,
which style continued for seven years, when Mr. Sherman, after an
association of eighteen years with Mr. Tunnicliff, retired, and the
retirement of Judge Gumbart followed in 1910, when he was elected
county judge. Mr. Tunnicliff was then in practice alone until
December I4th, when Judge Gumbart was again taken into the firm,
the name becoming Tunnicliff, Gumbart & Grigsby. He engages in
general practice, confining himself to no special branch and is re-
tained as the attorney for numerous corporations, including the Chi-,
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad for over twenty-nine years,
the Toledo, Peoria, Pacific and Western Railway for over twenty-
five years, the Union National Bank, the Sewer Pipe factories and

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other important bodies. A stanch republican he has been loyal at all
times to its principles and candidates but very seldom has he ac-
cepted political preferment for himself although frequently urged
by his friends to be a candidate. In the spring of 1887 he was
elected city attorney of Macomb, and in the fall of 1888 was elected
state's attorney of McDonough County. His administration of
that office for four years distinguished him as a man of far more
than ordinary ability and he retired from the office with a clear
record. Since then his friends have never been able to tempt him
back into the political arena.

Mr. Tunnicliff was united in marriage on October 5, 1886, with
Miss Isabella Baker, a daughter of Hon. Jonathan H. Baker, who,
for several terms was judge of the County Court. Mr. and Mrs.
Tunnicliff have three children : Helen D., who was born July 4,
1887, is the wife of M. D. Mclntire, wholesale merchant, of Chi-
cago ; Mary Louise, who was born September 10, 1889, is well known
in the pleasant social life of Macomb, assisting her mother very
frequently in dispensing hospitality in the family home, situated at
No. 201 Carroll Street ; and Morris D., who was born Septem-
ber 13, 1895, and was a member of the graduating class of June,
1914, from the Western Military Academy. Mrs. Tunnicliff is a
daughter of the American Revolution, through patriot forefathers
who took part in that struggle. The family attends the Universalist
Church. Mr. Tunnicliff is one of the busy men of his profession
who, perhaps, is more thoughtful for others in the matter of recrea-
tion and relaxation than for himself, but he enjoys his associa-
tion and membership with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks.

CLARENCE S. TOWNLEY. The professional career of Mr. Town-
ley has been spent almost entirely within the limits of McDonough
County. He was admitted to the bar in 1899, and soon afterwards
located at Blandinsville in that county and was soon recognized as
a lawyer of promise and in the enjoyment of a good business. In
November, 1904, Mr. Townley was elected state's attorney of Mc-
Donough County by the largest majority ever given to a candidate
for that office in the county. In order to perform the duties of the
office he removed to Macomb, and has since lived in that city and
now looks after a large and profitable private practice.

At Louisville, Kentucky, Clarence S. Townley was born Novem-
ber 13, 1866, came to Illinois when a boy, acquired his early educa-
tion in the district schools, and was also a student in the Carthage
College and Eureka College, taking the regular classical course. He
also pursued the study of law while in college and supported him-
self meanwhile by teaching school in Hancock County. An impor-
tant influence in his early career was Hon. William H. Warder, a
former member of the Illinois Legislature and one of the ablest
lawyers in Southern Illinois, who directed the studies of Mr. Town-
ley until he was qualified for practice.

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June 27, 1892, at Rockford, Illinois, Mr. Townley married Miss
Emma Cunningham. Mrs. Townley served several terms as presi-
dent of the District Christian Endeavor Union and of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. There are two children : Fairfax,
born April n, 1893 ; and Wayne, born August 26, 1894. Mr. Town-
ley takes much interest in the Masonic order, is affiliated with Blan-
dinsville lodge and chapter and with Macomb Commandery No. 61
of the Knights Templar. He belongs to Bushnell Lodge No. 101,
of the Knights of Pythias, to New Hope Lodge, No. 263, I. O. O. F.,
and to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is also special
attorney of the Modern Woodmen of America. His politics are
republican. He maintains office in the Ballis Building, 405 North
Randolph Street.

DANIEL VALENTINE HARKIN. A member of the Chicago bar
since 1895, Mr. Harkin was in active practice until 1912, when
appointed state bank examiner, and has since given all his time to
the responsibilities of that office.

Daniel Valentine Harkin, born in Chicago, a son of John and
Mary (Hennessy) Harkin, graduated from the West Division High
School, and then entered the law department of Northwestern Uni-
versity, and took his degree LL. B. Admitted to the Illinois bar,
he was soon favored with a profitable practice in the general field
of law in Chicago, and with the exception of incidental political
service confined himself strictly to his profession. State Auditor
James J. Brady, on his election in 1912, appointed Mr. Harkin chief
bank examiner for Cook County, and the value of his services in
this office has been much appreciated.

Mr. Harkin is an active democrat, served in the Forty-first Gen-
eral Assembly of Illinois, and also served two terms as alderman
of the City of Chicago from the Fourteenth Ward, being elected in
1903 and 1905 ; is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the
Illinois State Bar Association, and the Knights of Columbus, also
a member of the Chicago Athletic Club. Mr. Harkin finds his rec-
reation in walking and reading. His office is in the Otis Building.

GEORGE C. HILLYER. As junior member of the firm of Lybarger
& Hillyer, leading attorneys of Bushnell, George C. Hillyer has the
same prestige as a lawyer in McDonough County which he formerly
enjoyed in Warren County, where he served as state's attorney.

George C. Hillyer was born at Brooklyn, Illinois, July 14, 1880,
son of George and Catherine (Dunlavy) Hillyer. The father, a
native of Ohio, and now residing at Rushville, Illinois, was a soldier
during the Civil war, serving in Company A of the Seventy-eighth
Illinois Infantry. He spent nearly four years in active service, and
at one time was captured by the Confederates and spent a period of
imprisonment at the notorious Libby prison. The Hillyer family
came from England and settled in Ohio, while the Dunlavys were

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from Ireland, and were early settlers in Kentucky. Mr. Hillyer's
mother was born near Louisville, Kentucky, and died in 1906.
There were three children: Thomas A., lives at Mayville, North
Dakota ; Luella, wife of C. A. Lantz of Rushville, Illinois ; and
George C.

Mr. Hillyer was educated in the district schools near his home,
attended public school regularly until eighteen, then taught for two
years, and in 1902 entered the University of Illinois in the academic
department, and in 1903 became a student in the law department.
Graduating in 1906 LL. B. he was admitted to the bar in October
of that year at Springfield, and began practice at Monmouth in
December. Six months were spent in the office of J. W. Clenden-
ing, and he then formed a partnership with Charles A. McLaughlin.
and that relationship continued until December, 1908. Mr. Hillyer
then entered upon his duties as state's attorney of Warren County,
and during the following four years made a record for efficiency
and honest administration of the law. On the expiration of his term
of office Mr. Hillyer joined the firm of Hanley & Cox, and prac-
ticed as Hanley, Cox & Hillyer until April, 1913. The following
year Mr. Hillyer spent on a vacation, visiting in the South and South-
west, and on May 6, 1914, came to Bushnell and entered partner-
ship with R. E. Lybarger under the firm name of Lybarger &
Hillyer. This firm enjoys a large law business, and among other
interests represents the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway.
Mr. Hillyer is a republican, a member of the Methodist Church,
and is affiliated with the Masonic order and the State Bar Associa-
tien.

JOHN H. LEWIS, JR. One of the leading attorneys of Galesburg
and Knoxville is John H. Lewis, Jr., whose practice as a lawyer
extends over a period of fifteen years. Mr. Lewis has his home in
Knoxville, and at the present time is serving as master in chancery,
with offices in the courthouse at Galesburg.

John H. Lewis, Jr. was born at Knoxville August 30, 1874, a
son of John Henry and Elizabeth S. (Russell) Lewis. His father
is one of the distinguished men of Central Illinois, now living retired
at Knoxville at the age of eighty-four. He served as circuit clerk of
Knox County during the Civil war, was also a member of the Illi-
nois Legislature, and represented his district in the National Con-
gress during the forty-seventh session.

John H. Lewis, Jr., received an exceptional training in prepara-
tion for his career. From the public schools of Knoxville he entered
St. Alban's Military Academy in 1890, graduating in 1894, was a
student during 1894-95 of Parsons College at Fairfield, Iowa, was
in the Armour Institute at Chicago in 1895-96, and in the fall of
the latter year entered-the law department of the University of Mich-
igan, and graduated LL. B. in 1899. Mr. Lewis was admitted to
the bar in March, 1899, ar"d began active practice at Galesburg and

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Knoxville. Some of his earlier studies for the bar had been pur-
sued in the office of the late Hon. James A. McKenzie and he con-
tinued as an assistant in the latter's office until his death in 1901.
Mr. Lewis practiced alone until 1905, for one year was in partner-
ship with Roy Marsh under the name Lewis & Marsh, and after Mr.
Marsh went into. the life insurance business his partner was R. B.
Robinson one year, and since then he has been alone.

Mr. Lewis served two terms as city attorney of Knoxville, and
since 1908 has been master in chancery, this being his third term.
He was for six years secretary and treasurer of the Knoxville Bar
Association. Mr. Lewis is a republican, and a member of the
Galesburg Business Men's Club, and the State Bar Association.

September 21, 1899, he married Miss Isabel, daughter of the late
William H. and Larissa Caldwell, of Galesburg. Her father was a
farmer, and her mother is still living in Galesburg. To their mar-
riage have been born two children : Marjorie, born January 13, 1903 ;
and John H. Ill, born June 10, 1904.

RUFUS E. LYBARGER. As senior member of the law firm of
Lybarger & Hillyer at Bushnell, Mr. Lybarger is at the head of
one of the firms now prominently participating in the legal busi-
ness of McDonough County and has a record of six years successful
individual practice behind him.

Rufus E. Lybarger was born at Adair, Illinois, July 9, 1876,
the third in a family of eight children, only three of whom sur-
vive, born to Milton C. and Sarah E. Lybarger. His father was
born in 1842 near Mount Vernon, Illinois, and the mother in 1854
at Adair. Milton C. Lybarger is a successful farmer and he and
his wife now live at Prairie City, Illinois.

Rufus E. Lybarger received his education in the district schools,
attended both country and village schools until the age of twenty-
one, was a student for a time in the Western Normal College at
Bushnell, and subsequently in high school. Mr. Lybarger, like many
men who have gained success in the professions of law and medicine,
was a teacher in the public schools for three years. He began read-
ing law with Cyrus A. Lamb in 1901, in 1905 entered the law depart-
ment of the University of Illinois, where he was a member of the
Honorary Fraternity, and was president of his class in his senior
year. He was graduated LL. B. in 1908. The same year came his
admission to the bar in Chicago, and he at once returned to Bush-
nell and opened an office. A little later Thomas B. Camp became
his partner under the firm name of Camp & Lybarger, but after a
year Mr. Lybarger practiced alone until the spring of 1914, when
George C. Hillyer became associated with him, making the firm
Lybarger & Hillyer. The senior member was elected city attorney
of Bushnell in 1910 and was re-elected in 1912 and again in 1915.

Mr. Lybarger was married in 1908 to Rilia M. Foster of Musk-
ingum County, Ohio. Their three children are : Elma F., five years

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of age, Milton F., three years old, and James E., aged one year.
Mr. Lybarger's ancestors came from Germany, first settling in New
York, and later moving to Illinois, after a brief residence in New
Jersey and Pennsylvania. His maternal ancestors came from Eng-
land, settled in Canada, and then came to Illinois. Mr. Lybarger
resides at 632 Dean Street in Bushnell. He is a Republican in
politics, affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
is a member of the County Bar Association.

RANSOM C. HUNT stands next to Mr. Williams as the oldest
attorney in active practice in Knox County. He was admitted to
the bar more than forty-eight years ago, and has practiced with
rising reputation and a steady success at Galesburg since that time.
Mr. Hunt, while his practice has been general, has been most suc-
cessful in the criminal branch of law, and is regarded as one of the
ablest criminal lawyers in Central Illinois.

Ranson C. Hunt was born on a farm near Burlington, lov/a, Jan-
uary 24, 1844, and is the only surviving member of a family of three-
children. His sisters were: Clara, wife of W. T. Jeliff, and Lois
V., wife of Jesse Pickerell. The parents were John B. and Mary
(Love) Hunt, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of Vir-
ginia. John B. Hunt, who died November 14, 1904, at the age of
eighty-four years and six months, was an Iowa farmer for many
years, but subsequently moved to Illinois, and spent his last years
in Galesburg. The mother died in 1887 at the age of sixty-five.

Ransom C. Hunt was reared on the farm in Iowa, attended dis-
trict school, the city schools of Burlington, and was also a student
in a noted acadamy at one time conducted at Denmark, Iowa. He
was also in- the schools at Bushnell, Illinois, and during 1859-61, was
a student of Lombard College at Galesburg. When his father
removed to Macomb, Illinois, he took up the study of law in the
office of Hon. J. C. Thompson. The family in the fall of 1863
moved to Galesburg, but Ransom C. and his father remained in
Macomb until 1865. At Galesburg he read law in the office of Hon.
A. C. Mason, who directed his studies until his admission to the bar
in June. 1866. Ransom C. Hunt formed a partnership in 1869 with
Mr. Mason, but for the past twenty years has practiced alone.

On May i, 1879, Mr. Hunt married Miss Irene Johnson, a native
of St. Paul, Minnesota. They have two sons and two daughters:
Beulah M., wife of Harold M. Holland, of Galesburg; Albert V.,
who was educated in Lombard College and now resides in Chicago ;
Harry C., who is in business at San Diego, California, both sons
being married; and Florence I., now attending Lombard College.

Mr. Hunt has for many years been a democrat, but aside from
a term as police magistrate from 1889 until 1896 has had little to
do with public office, and has never aspired to the official preferments
in the course of his long career. He has been devoted to his pro-
fession, has concentrated all his time and energy on his legal work.

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and his reputation as a lawyer has been well earned. Mr. Hunt
has served as a delegate to democratic state conventions, and for
a number of years has attended the national conventions of his party.
He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, belongs to the Knox
County and State Bar associations, and he and his family are mem-
bers of the Central Congregational Church. His home is at 848
North Broad Street, and his office at 45 S. Cherry Street.

HARVEY H. ATHERTON. Few of the younger members of the
Illinois bar who have confined themselves strictly to the work of
their profession have enjoyed more substantial success and stand
higher on the merits of their attainments than Harvey H. Ather-
ton, who was admitted to practice less than ten years ago and is
easily one of the most successful lawyers of Lewistown and of Ful-
ton County.

Harvey H. Atherton was born in Vermont Township of Fulton
County September i, 1881. He was the second in a family of five
children born to Kester W. and Amelia (Wise) Atherton. The
Atherton ancestors came from England, while the Wises were from
Germany. The records show that the Atherton family through its
various generations has been distinguished for the quiet industry
of farmers, merchants and professional men, and as lovers of peace
rather than of war. David and Ross Atherton were pioneer set-
tlers in Illinois and Ross Atherton located in Fulton County about
1844. Both Kester W. and Amelia (Wise) Atherton were natives
of Fulton County.

Until sixteen years of age Harvey H. Atherton lived in the
country and attended the district schools, and then took a course in
the high school at Ipava, graduating in 1901. At that time his mind
was definitely made up to study law, and for two years, while teach-
ing country school, he read law in the office of Lucien Gray. His
studies were continued in the law department of the University of
Michigan, from which he graduated LL. B. in 1905, was admitted
to the Illinois bar at Chicago in July of the same year, and then
returned to Lewistown and was employed in the office of Lucien
Gray, one of the leading lawyers and prominent as a jurist. At the
end of one year Mr. Atherton bought the law business of Mr. Gray,
and since that time has practiced as an individual. He has never
permitted himself to become a politician nor to accept any political
preferment. His large law business demands all his time and atten-
tion though he manifests a disinterested willingness to serve his com-
munity and for several years has been a member of the board of
education. His law library contains about 1,000 volumes.

Mr. Atherton was married September 20, 1905, to Edna V.
Lingenfelter, of Canton. They have two children: Lucien, born
January 6, 1907, and Keith, born April 19, 1912. Mr. Atherton
has his law offices in the Lewistown National Bank Building. He is
affiliated with the Masonic order, having attained the consistory

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degrees of Scottish Rite, belongs to the Mystic Shrine, and also the
Knights of Pythias, in politics is progressive and a member of the
Methodist Church. He is also a member of the State and County
Bar associations.

EUGENE WILLIAM WELCH. For thirty-six busy years Eugene
William Welch has been a member of the Galesburg bar and in his
private practice as well as in public office he is well known over
Knox County. A man of unswerving honesty, upright in thought
and deed, his legal learning was built on a sound foundation and
his professional success has been won along lines which have been
personally creditable and have dignified his calling. Urged by early
environment to become self reliant, he has been, in large measure,
the architect of his own fortunes, possessing but not needing the
prestige of honorable ancestry to open the doors of opportunity for
him when he reached the threshold of manhood.

Eugene William Welch was born at LaSalle, Illinois, October
28, 1852, and is a son of Dr. William Wallace and Jane (Chad wick)
Welch, the fourth born in the family of nine children. The mother
was of New England birth and ancestry, born in July, 1827, at Wind-
sor, Kennebec County, Maine. The father was born at Albany,
New York, in September, 1821. He became a student of medicine
and was graduated in Rush Medical College at Chicago in 1846.
During the Civil war he served three years as a member of the Fifty-
third Illinois Volunteer Infantry and after the close of his term
of enlistment, re-entered the service and served as acting staff sur-
geon with headquarters at Vicksburg, until the close of that war.
For a number of years the family resided at LaSalle but in 1868
came to Knox County and settled at Wataga. At that time Eugene
W. Welch was sixteen years of age and had been attending St. Pat-
rick's Academy, and after coming to Knox County spent a short
period in the public schools and later on attended the Galesburg
High School for two years, and Knox College. He taught school
for eight consecutive winters in district schools of Knox County.
The home farm, however, claimed a large amount of his time and
energy and he became very familiar with all the wearying tasks that
make up the laborious life of a farmer, without finding enjoyment
in them because of his inclinations in an entirely different direction.
He began to read law in June, 1875, his law books being his recrea-
tion after his daily duties as a schoolmaster were over. He con-
tinued his reading under the direction first of the law firm of Lan-
phere and Brown and later with the firm of Douglas and Harvey,
and was admitted to the bar in June, 1877, by the Supreme Court
then sitting at Mount Vernon, Illinois. Through the winter fol-
lowing he taught school but on March 26, 1878, opened a law office
at Galesburg and here has continued in the practice of his profes-
sion, always as an individual, and thus unhampered has been able
to decide for himself the class of law business with which to iden-

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tify his name. He early took a foremost place at the local bar, his
capacity for close, logical reasoning making him a peculiarly force-
ful and effective advocate and qualifying him for professional posi-
tions of responsibility. In the spring of 1889 Mr. Welch was elected
city attorney of Galesburg and was re-elected in 1891 and held the
office until 1893. In the meanwhile, in the fall of 1892 he was
elected state's attorney of Knox County and assumed the duties of
that office in December of that year, his efficiency and fearlessness
during his first term securing re-election and he served eight years.
During this period he prosecuted and sent to prison more breakers
of the law than were sent from any other county with the exception
of Cook, and out of 700 cases that came under his jurisdiction in
6l/2 years, but one indictment was quashed. In the cause of
the people he was relentless as his office demanded and during
his entire eight years of service not once was he accused of acting
otherwise than according to the soundest of legal and equitable
principles. At the termination of his second term as state's attor-
ney, Mr. Welch resumed private practice and in much of the im-
portant litigation in the courts of the county he still appears on one
side or the other. He has several times served as a delegate to state
conventions. He maintains his office at No. 50 South Cherry Street,
Galesburg, his residence being at No. 363 West Tompkins Street.
Mr. Welch was married June 24, 1879, to Miss Ida I. Spooner,
who was born November 2, 1858, and died March 17, 1908. She
was a daughter of Alfred A. Spooner, a prominent farmer of Knox
County. To Mr. and Mrs. Welch four children were born: Nellie,
who is the wife of J. N. Canfield, of Los Angeles, California, and
they have one daughter, Helen ; Frank A., who is now reading law
in his father's office, is a graduate of the Galesburg High School
and of Brown's Business College; Bessie, who is the wife of Roy
E. Bignall, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Sidney Post, who
was born February 22, 1895, and was accidentally killed by the street
cars in Galesburg, July 8, 1906, a domestic tragedy from which his
mother never recovered. Mrs. Welch aside from her admirable
qualities as wife and mother, was possessed of characteristics and
talents that widened her circle of usefulness and made her an influ-
ence for the betterment of society in many directions. As a writer
she had rare descriptive powers and was well known in literary pub-
lications. She was deeply interested in many charities and belonged
to such organizations as the Woman's Relief Corps, the Ladies of
Maccabees, the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Young Men's Christian
Association, and the Mothers' Club. Mr. Welch has long been a
valued member of the State Bar Association, is also identified with
the Masons and the Elks, and with true public spirit promotes the
laudable efforts of the Galesburg Business Men's Club.

JUDGE FREDERICK A. SMITH. As judge of one of the branches
of the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, at Chicago, Judge

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Frederick A. Smith fills a place of distinction and important public
service. He is one of the oldest members of the Chicago bar in
active standing, began the practice of law soon after the close of
the war, in which he was a soldier, and has sat on the circuit and
appellate bench since 1903. His record of service classifies him
as a fine type of modern judge. Judge Smith has the experienced
judgment of one who has known all sorts of men, is a discriminat-
ing observer of character and motives, and the humanitarian spirit
has always characterized his work.

Frederick Augustus Smith was born at Norwood Park, in Cook
County, Illinois, February n, 1844. His parents, Israel G. and
Susan (Pennoyer) Smith, were both born in 1816, the former in
New York and the latter in Connecticut. While Chicago was still a
village on the lake shore, in 1835, Israel G. Smith moved to Cook
County and selected a tract of prairie land in what is now the
northwestern section of the city, and paid for it the usual govern-
ment price. That is one of the oldest homesteads about Chicago.

Judge Smith grew up on a farm, at that time situated a con-
siderable distance out of the city, but has been familiar with the
growth and development of Chicago for sixty years or more. From
the public schools he entered the preparatory department of the old
Chicago University in 1860. In 1862 he became a student in the
collegiate department, and in 1863 left school to become a private in
Company G of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Illinois Infan-
try. He saw active service in campaigns in Missouri and Ken-
tucky, and was mustered out in 1864. On his return to Chicago he
resumed his studies in the University, and was graduated Master
of Arts in 1866. He had already chosen the law for his life work,
and in 1867 received the degree LL. B. from the old Union College
of Law. Thus his membership in the Illinois bar dates from 1867,
a period of more than forty-five years. Early in his practice he was
associated with C. C. Kohlsaat under the firm name of Smith &
Kohlsaat until 1872. He then conducted an individual general
practice, and in 1890 became senior partner of the firm of Smith,
Helmer, Moulton & Price, and was with that firm until his elevation
to the bench.

In 1898 Judge Smith was republican candidate for judge of the
Superior Court, but was defeated. In June, 1903, he was elected
a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, for the term ending
in June, 1909. He was re-elected in the latter year for another term
of six years, and in June, 1915, was re-elected for a third term.
Since December, 1904, Judge Smith has been assigned to the Appel-
late Court, and was one of the presiding judges of one of the Appel-
late Courts sitting in Chicago. As a judge he possesses the dignity,
impartiality, broad knowledge and unbending integrity which have
always made his decisions respected and have kept his record unsul-
lied. As candidate for re-election to the circuit bench in June, 1915,
Judge Smith received such endorsement as his previous record had

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earned, and his re-election for the term of six years following June,
1915, assures Cook County of the services of one of its most cap-
able jurists.

Judge Smith has sustained many active relations with his home
city and is also well known to the Illinois bar. He was elected
president of the Chicago Law Club in 1887, and in 1890 was presi-
dent of the Chicago Bar Association. He is a former president of
the Hamilton Club, and a member of the Union League and the
Chicago Literary Club. Since the beginning of the present Uni-
versity of Chicago he has been a factor in its growth and advance-
ment, and is a trustee of both the University of Chicago and Rush
Medical College. Judge Smith was married July 25, 1871, to Miss
Frances B. Morey, daughter of Rev. Reuben and Abby (Clemons)
Morey, of Merton, Wisconsin. Mrs. Smith died December 26, 1910.

FRANK M. Cox. In the past ten years it is probable that no
Chicago lawyer has handled a greater volume of trial cases than
Frank M. Cox, whose business has been more and more developed
as a corporation and insurance attorney. This enviable position as
a member of the Chicago bar shows the efficient industry and solid
ability of a man whose career began in comparative obscurity as a
blacksmith's apprentice.

'A son of Ulysses S. and Lydia A. (Myers) Cox, the former a
blacksmith, Frank M. Cox was born at New Vienna, Clinton County,
Ohio, October i, 1856. The public schools of his native county
provided his early and only education, and his first means of self-
support was farm work and assisting his father in the blacksmith
trade. He also worked as a brick maker for a year, and then was a
farm hand until past his majority.

In 1878 he took up the study of law at Vandalia, Illinois, with
E. M. Ashcraft, who later became one of the prominent members of
the Illinois and Chicago bar. He was admitted to the Illinois bar
on examination in 1882, and was in practice at Vandalia until 1893.
The only office he ever held was as city attorney of Vandalia for
one term, at a salary of $75. After the removal of Mr. Ashcraft
from Vandalia to Chicago about 1888, Air. Cox succeeded him as
local attorney for the Vandalia Railroad, a part of the Pennsylvania
system. He represented that company until 1892, and in 1893 moved
to Chicago and entered the office of Judge Elbridge Hanecy. Sub-
sequently Judge Hanecy secured for him a better connection in the
offices of Paden & Gridley. About 1894 Mr. Cox became a member
of the firm of Ashcraft, Gordon & Cox, and several years later
became senior member of Cox, Heldman & Shortall, and subse-
quently Cox, Heldman & Lipson. Mr. Shortall retired a few years
later and Mr. Cox's name next appeared as an associate in Cox,
Winslaw & Ward. For about fifteen years Mr. Cox has been
engaged in an individual practice, and his present offices are in the
Insurance Exchange Building.

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In 1898 he became attorney for the Standard Life & Accident
Insurance Company of Detroit, representing that corporation in
Illinois. This was the important relation which has since caused
him to specialize as a corporation and insurance lawyer. He also
became trial attorney for the Maryland Casualty Company of Bal-
timore, and one of the trial attorneys for the London Guaranty
& Accident Company, and in some important cases was retained to
represent other insurance companies. In 1906 Mr. Cox began try-
ing cases for the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Con-
necticut, and in February, 1907, this company retained him per-
manently as its counsel and trial attorney for Illinois. Since then
the responsibilities of this position have increased so rapidly that he
has given up his business with other companies, and now gives his
entire time as attorney to the Travelers Insurance Company of
Hartford.

Mr. Cox is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, is affil-
iated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his
wife attend the Christian Science Church. On May 4, 1884, he mar-
ried Miss Martha N. Arnold, of Vandalia, Illinois, daughter of
former county treasurer Joshua Arnold, of Fayette County. Mr.
Cox's home is at 4548 North Ashland Avenue. He is one of the
comparatively few successful members of the bar who have not
engaged in outside business, being primarily and exclusively a
lawyer.

ALBERT G. WELCH. Among Chicago firms that give especial
attention to practice in the Federal courts, that of Sims, Welch
and Godman is one of the best known, on account of the individ-
ual prominence of its members and their broad experience as
counsel for the Government and in association with cases con-
tested before the Federal courts.

Mr. Welch, who has been a Chicago lawyer since 1894, has
in recent years paid special attention to the handling of cases
arising under the Sherman anti-trust act. Mr. Welch has served
as special assistant United States attorney, for the Northern Dis-
trict of Illinois to which position he was appointed under the
regime of Edwin W. Sims and reappointed under James H. Wilk-
erson. He is a member of the board of managers of the Chi-
cago Bar Association.

Albert Gaylord Welch was born in Chicago, June 3, 1873, and
is a son of Leon C. and Laura (King) Welch. He was educated
in the public schools of Chicago and in Lake Forest Academy. He
was admitted to the bar in November, 1894, so that his active work-
as a lawyer has covered a period of twenty years. In addition to
his active association with the Chicago Bar Association, Mr. Welch
is identified with the Chicago Law Club, the Illinois Bar Associa-
tion, and is a charter member of the Chicago Society of Advocates,

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besides which he has membership in the Union League Club of
Chicago. His political allegiance is with the republican party.

On January 10, 1906, Mr. Welch married Miss Katharine
Strong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David O. Strong, of Chicago.

WILLIAM PRENTISS. With an active membership in the Illinois
bar covering more than thirty-five years, William Prentiss has
been a Chicago lawyer since 1891, and besides his successful prac-
tice in his profession has become well known through his civic
and political activities.

William Prentiss was born at Davenport, Iowa, September 19,
1848, a son of Dr. William and Elizabeth (Gapen) Prentiss.
Soon after his birth his parents moved to Schuyler County, Illi-
nois, and later to Fulton County, where his father died in 1854.
In 1860 his mother married James Manley, a farmer of McDon-
ough County, where William Prentiss lived during his early youth.
After the public schools he entered Knox College at Galesburg, but
ill health prevented his graduation. For several years he lived in
Minnesota, and farmed and taught school in that state, for three
years being county superintendent of Cottonwood County. Re-
turning to Illinois he was admitted to the bar in June, 1878, and
in the same year was elected state's attorney of McDonough
County to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected in 1880 for the four
year term. Since his removal to Chicago in 1891 Mr. Prentiss
has been identified with large and important practice.

He has been much in public life throughout his career as a
lawyer. Besides filling the office of state's attorney in McDonough
County, he was elected mayor of Macomb on the democratic ticket
in 1 88 1. In 1888 he was nominee for Congress in the old Eleventh
District, and made a strong campaign. In Chicago the democrats
put him on the ticket for the office of circuit judge of Cook County
in 1893, in 1898 and 1903. He was a delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1896, and in 1898 was chairman of the
state convention. As a political orator he has taken a prominent
part in campaigns for a number of years, and worked in behalf
of the democratic interests in the national campaigns of 1896 and
1900. In 1904 he withdrew his name as a candidate for the
democratic nomination for governor. In 1905 he was one of the
leading democrats of Chicago who sought the nomination for the
office of mayor, his individual platform being one providing for
municipal ownership. When the present .Governor Dunne was nomi-
nated on a platform embracing those principles he withdrew and
supported Mr. Dunne, who was elected. During 1905-07 Mr. Pren-
tiss was a civil service commissioner and was president of the board
during the second year. Not long afterwards he became dissatisfied
with the actual leadership in the democratic party, especially in Illi-
nois, and accordingly declined to support Mr. Bryan in 1908, and
gave his influence in behalf of the Roosevelt policies and the can-

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didacy of Judge Taft. After that for several years he acted inde-
pendently in politics, taking as his motto Lincoln's words of 1854:
"Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he
is right and part with him when he goes wrong." In 1912 Mr.
Prentiss found the newly organized progressive party acceptable
to his ideals of political action and was presidential elector at large
on that ticket and in 1914 was one of the unsuccessful candidates
on the progressive ticket for judge of the Cook County court.

Mr. Prentiss has his offices in the Ashland Block, and his city
home in Rogers Park. He finds recreation in farming, and has
an attractive country place, known as "Willhelen" in Allegan
County, Michigan. Mr. Prentiss was married in 1872 to Elizabeth
Helen McCau'ghey, of Marietta, Fulton County, Illinois. Their
children are: James Manley, deceased; Jackson McCaughey and
William, Jr.

JOSEPH K. McMAHON. A Chicago lawyer whose professional
activities have brought the substantial results of secure position
and influence, Joseph K. McMahon came to Chicago from the
farm, and graduated from the Lake Forest University Law School.
He has been connected with court and office practice in that city
for seventeen years.

Born at Amboy, Lee County, Illinois, November 9, 1868, he is
a son of Patrick and Ann (Clancy) McMahon, his father a native
of County Limerick and his mother of King's County, Ireland. The
father came to the United States when about eighteen years of age,
was married in Rochester, New York, and for a number of years
was a merchant in LaSalle and later in Amboy, Illinois, and still
later followed farming.

Joseph K. McMahon waft reared on a farm and educated in dis-
trict schools, and on coming to Chicago took up the study of law
in the office of Hon. John Mayo Palmer. He continued his work
in the law department of Lake Forest University, graduated LL. B.
in 1897, was admitted to the Illinois bar the same year, and took
active practice. Mr. McMahon was associated in the law office of
F. H. Trude, one of the foremost of Chicago's lawyers, from 1898
until Mr. Trude's death in November, 1913. Since that time Mr.
McMahon has managed an individual practice.

He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, is grand regent
of the Royal Arcanum of Illinois and is a member of the state
council of the Knights of Columbus. Mr. McMahon married No-
vember 25, 1911, Miss Elizabeth Waugh, of Chicago. Their two
children are Joseph K., Jr., and Brandon Waugh. Mr. McMahon
has his offices in the Ashland Block and his residence at 637 North
Lotus Avenue.

SIMEON STRAUS. In the forty years of his active practice as
a Chicago lawyer special pre-eminence has come to Simeon Straus

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through the ability and success with which he has handled chancery
cases and real estate matters. In this department of the law he
undoubtedly stands in the very front rank, with very few peers.

Simeon Straus is a native of Milwaukee, but has spent nearly
all his life in Chicago. He was born November 21, 1855, his
parents being Samuel and Rosine Straus. Samuel Straus, his
father, came to Chicago in 1852 and after living there until 1855
moved to Milwaukee and returned to Chicago in 1856. Samuel
Straus was a lawyer, well known in real estate work, and died in
1878. Mr. Straus received his early education in a public school
that has been famous for producing some of the leaders in the city's
life, the Old Jones School, from which he graduated in 1869. He
finished the course of the Chicago High School in 1872, and then
entered the cla.ss of 1876 at Yale University. He abandoned his
collegiate course to enter the Yale Law School, and was graduated
LL. B. in 1874. Admitted to the Connecticut bar in June, 1874,
the same year Mr. Straus established his practice in Chicago.

From May, 1875, to December, 1877, he acted as attorney for
the German National Bank, the German Savings Bank, and for
Henry Greenebaum & Company, bankers. With that preliminary
experience he engaged in private practice, and has since confined his
work to chancery and probate cases and real estate law. For
several years he has had his son Ira E. associated with him. Mr.
Straus has had the settlement of some of the largest estates in Chi-
cago, and the handling of some of the largest real estate cases in
business. He has always been a republican in politics, is a member
of the Hamilton Club and of the American, Illinois and Chicago
Bar associations.

FREDERICK JOHN NEWEY. For fifteen years, the entire period
of his professional activities, Mr. Newey has practiced with one firm
in Chicago, having begun as a junior and for the past twelve years
has been partner with Wheelock, Shattuck & Newey, now Wheelock,
Newey & Mackenzie, with offices in the Marquette Building. In
this time Mr. Newey has had professional relations with a large
clientage in Chicago and is a lawyer of successful attainments.

Born in Wolverhampton, England, September 4, 1872, Frederick
John Newey is a son of William Newey, a minister of the Methodist
Church, who came to the United JStates about 1880 and for more
than thirty years was identified with the work of his profession in
the State of Michigan, where he had several charges. Frederick
J. Newey had the beginnings of his education in the schools of his
native town, and after coming to America attended public schools at
Detroit, Hadley and Williamston in Michigan, graduating from the
Hadley High School. For three years he was a student at the Athe-
naeum in Chicago, and took the regular law course of the Lake
Forest University, graduating LL. B. in 1899. Admitted to the Illi-
nois bar the same year, he began practice with Wrheelock & Shat-

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tuck, was admitted to partnership in 1902, and has since been one of
the active members of this firm engaged in general practice.

Mr. Newey is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
Illinois State Bar Association, the Law Club, the Hamilton Club,
the Congregational Club, and his college fraternity is the Delta Chi.
On June 27, 1901, he married Miss Gertrude E. Newton, of Chicago.
Three of their four children are living: Harriet A., Kathryn and
Helen. Mr. Newey and family reside in Wilmette.

FRANK FREMONT REED. A member of the Chicago bar since
1882, Frank Fremont Reed has brought to the practice of his chosen
profession the natural aptitude which is inherent in a mind of great
logical and analytical power, as well as the culture which is the
product of a thorough education, aided by intelligent and persistent
study. To untiring industry he has joined a thorough knowledge
of the law and a close familiarity with authorities, and his citations
are made with unerring judgment. Aside from the duties of his
large and constantly-growing practice, he has found the time to labor
in educational circles, and since 1903 has held a professorship in the
University of Michigan.

Mr. Reed was born at Monmouth, Illinois, August 18, 1857, and
is a son of Philo E. and Minerva D. Reed. When he was still a lad
he was taken by his parents to Warren, Ohio, where he attended the
public schools from 1868 to 1875, in the latter year commencing the
study of the profession upon which he had determined as his life
work. After some preparation, Mr. Reed entered the University
of Michigan, where he pursued a literary course, and in 1880 was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, immediately there-
after beginning his practical experience in a Cleveland law office.
Later he returned to Warren, where he continued to work in an
attorney's office until 1882, and in that year was admitted to the
bar and came to Chicago. Mr. Reed's practice has been somewhat
general in its character, but he gives special attention to trademarks,
unfair trade, copyright and anti-trust litigation, fixed prices and
price maintained. Since 1903 he has been a lecturer on law of copy-
rights and trade mark law in the University of Michigan, and since
1908 on the same subjects in the University of Chicago. It has been
his fortune to acquire a large and representative professional busi-
ness, and to attain a substantial reputation among the members of
the fraternity, the latter gained through strict adherence to the
unwritten ethics of the calling. Mr. Reed is a member of the Chi-
cago Bar Association and the American Bar Association. While
he is a deep thinker and a profound student, he is fond of social
pleasures and holds membership in such well-known organizations
as the Chicago Athletic Association, the Riverside Golf Club and
the University Club, all of Chicago, and the Baltusral Club, of Short
Hills, New Jersey.

Mr. Reed was married at Riverside, Illinois, August 2, 1888, to

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Miss Hattie C. Allen, and they reside in that beautiful Chicago
suburb. Mr. Reed maintains well-appointed offices in the Peoples
Gas Building.

ANTON ZEMAN. A rising young lawyer of foreign birth, but of
Chicago training, Anton Zeman absorbed the best spirit of the city
and the times and since his admission to the bar in 1908 has pur-
sued his well-chosen career to such good purpose that he enjoys
a large practice and a special reputation for successfully handling
cases in the criminal courts.

Mr. Zeman was born in Bohemia, January i, 1881, and is a
son of Anton and Frances (Kubik) Zeman. When the family
came to America his father was naturally attracted to Chicago,
which contains the largest Bohemian element in the United States,
and here the elder man was engaged in business for many years,
although he is now living retired. That he was determined his son
should familiarize himself with the customs and language of the
adopted country is evident from the fact that Anton, then a lad of
but six years, was sent to the public school the first day of the fam-
ily's arrival in Chicago. In later years he took a private course
of study at the Young Men's Christian Association, and following
some little further preparation he began the study of his chosen
profession at John Marshall Law School, where he was graduated
in 1908 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. At the time of his
graduation, it should be said, he had the highest average in his class
in all the different branches. In the same year Mr. Zeman was
admitted to the bar and he at once engaged in practice. He has
since continued as he began, in independent practice, and has his
offices in the City Hall Square Building.

Of late Mr. Zeman has given his attention to criminal law. In
the recent notorious murder trial, the Spencer-Rexroat case, Mr.
Zeman represented the defendant, taking the case to the Supreme
Court and repeatedly saving his client from the gallows, although
the decision was finally given against him. This case, which was
tried at Wheaton, attracted the attention of the country, and was
financed throughout by Mr. Zeman, who made a brilliant fight for
the life of his client. He is particularly well known among Chi-
cago Bohemians and handles the major part of the criminal cases
among his countrymen.

Mr. Zeman is a member of the Lawyers' Association and his
fraternal connections include membership in the Independent Order
of Foresters and a number of Bohemian societies. He is a repub-
lican, but has not found time from his large and growing practice
to devote to politics. However, he takes a keen interest in move-
ments making for progress and he has done much to advance the
welfare of the community in which he resides.

Mr. Zeman is unmarried and lives at 3909 West T\venty:sixth
Street.

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HENRY F. DICKINSON. When Mr. Dickinson began practicing
in Chicago in 1898, he had not only the training but the energy and
ambition for a successful career and his professional attainments
now give him a high rank among the city's lawyers.

Henry F. Dickinson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, March 23,
1874, and is a son of Henry B. and Elizabeth (Martin) Dickinson,
who now reside at Rockford, Illinois. His father is now retired
after many years of business activity. Henry B. Dickinson was born
in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and was educated at Amherst
College, that state. He became one of the pioneer representatives
of the sewing-machine business, in which he was long associated
with the old-time Grover & Baker firm of manufacturers. Prior to
the Civil war he came to Chicago, whence he later removed to
St. Louis and finally established his residence at Rockford, Illinois.

Henry F. Dickinson, after leaving Rockford High School,- was
given the special privilege of attending the excellent Latin School
in Neufchatel, Switzerland, where he remained two years. He then
attended Lake Forest Academy, Lake Forest, Illinois, and afterward
entered the law department of the University of Wisconsin, at
Madison, graduating in 1896, Bachelor of Laws. Following a post-
graduate course in the Law School of Harvard University, he was
admitted to the Illinois bar in 1898. He served his professional
novitiate in Chicago, where for four years he was associated with
George Steere, and since that time has conducted an individual
practice. Mr. Dickinson is an active member of the Chicago Bar
Association and the Illinois Bar Association. He is also a member
of the University Club of Chicago, and in his home city of Evanston
is affiliated with the University Club and the Evanston Country
Club, and holds membership in the Phi Delta Theta college fra-
ternity. While a student in the University of Wi'sconsin, Mr. Dick-
inson was prominent in its athletic affairs, especially as a member
of the university football team, on which he played end. Later he
was a member of the Harvard law team. His present interest in
sports is chiefly in hunting and fishing.

On June 27, 1902, Mr. Dickinson married Miss Edith Baxter
Colebrooke, daughter of the late William Colebrooke, who was a
prominent Chicago lawyer and author of a valuable law publication
entitled "Collateral Securities." Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson have four
children — Elizabeth, Henry, Edith and William Colebrooke.

ROBERT W. FISK. As an active and successful attorney Robert
W. Fisk has occupied a prominent place in his profession in Vermil-
ion County for the past twenty-five years, and has had a varied and
broad experience as a lawyer in all departments of practice. His
home is at Ridgefarm in Vermilion County.

Robert W. Fisk was born in Clark County, Illinois, November 7,
1858, one of a family of four children born to James W. and Sarah
A. (Dodd) Fisk. His father, who was born in Putnam County,

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Indiana, was one of the substantial farmers of Clark County. On
the old homestead and in the wholesome environment of the country,
Robert W. Fisk grew to manhood, read law when a young man
under Golden & Wilkins, and completed his studies in the Michigan
University law department. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1888,
Robert W. Fisk has since been identified with much of the work in
the courts and in office practice in Vermilion County. He is a
member of the Vermilion County, the Illinois State and the Amer-
ican Bar associations, served as supervisor for ten years of Elwood
Township, and in 1910 was a candidate before the republican
primaries for the Legislature.

Mr. Fisk is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Knights of
Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Royal Neighbors,
belongs to the Methodist Church, while his wife is a Presbyterian.
Mr. Fisk married Miss Belle Brown, daughter of Isaac and Virginia
A. (Hutchison) Brown. They are the parents of one daughter,
Una Fisk, now the wife of Wilbur H. Tribble, a progressive farmer
at Ridgefarm, Illinois.

GEORGE HAVEN MILLER. A lawyer who had reached a high
position in his profession before his early death, George Haven
Miller was a splendid representative of the scholarly and able law-
yer, a high-minded public servant, and a courtly and popular gen-
tleman. He spent nearly all his life in Evanst'on, where for a
number of years he was connected with the Evanston Civil Service
Commission in addition to his work as a lawyer. Following his
death, which occurred February 6, 1915, his colleagues on the Civil
Service Commission expressed their appreciation of his working fel-
lowship and counsel in the following words: "Both by blood and
training George Haven Miller belonged with those who devote
time, effort and a high degree of skill to the wellbeing of the com-
munity, with never a thought of reward. His keen sense of justice,
his knowledge of the civil service law he was charged with admin-
istering, and his manly and forceful presence cannot be replaced."

George Haven Miller was born at Pittsfield, in Illinois, Novem-
ber 3, 1876, and when six months of age was brought to Evanston
by his parents, Henry H. C. and Harriet Scott (Lewis) Miller.
His father was for many years an able member of the Illinois bar.
Mr. Miller was educated in the public schools, graduating from
grammar school and high school, finished his college course in the
Northwestern University in 1898, and in 1901 was awarded the
degree LL. B. from the Northwestern Law School. In university
he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi, and was a leader in athletic
affairs, particularly baseball. He played on the high-school team
four years, and four years on the university team, being captain
in his senior year. After his admission to the bar Mr. Miller
became associated with his father in practice and together they
enjoyed an extensive clientage. The elder Miller was peculiarly

identified with civil service in Evanston, having served as president
of the commission from its inception until his death in 1910. George
H. Miller was appointed as his successor on the board, and his work
in that connection well deserved the tribute above quoted from the
resolution passed by his fellow associates. While this service was
given without compensation, he made its duties paramount to all
his other engagements. Many have recalled his impartiality as a
judge when city employes were before him for trial.

Mr. Miller was a director of the Country Club, a member of
the Chicago Union League Club and the Chicago Law Club, and a
short time before his death had resigned from the Evanston Golf
Club and the Evanston Club. He is survived by his mother, his
sister, Miss Alta, and a brother, Donald C.

While his attainments as a lawyer were such as to justify his
mention in a work on the Illinois Courts and Lawyers, he was also
distinguished for his personality and companionable qualities. With
reference to this, phase of his character the editor of the Evanston
News-Index said : "He had a rare charm of manner that made
his society eagerly sought by both men and women. Athletic, of
fine figure and handsome face, he excelled in sports and was equally
at home in the woods with a party of men as in the clubs of the
city. Successful as a lawyer, with a well balanced mind and attain-
ments much above the ordinary, he was especially remarkable for
his high ideals and chivalrous bearing. He never forgot that he
had a mother and sister. He was wholesome, upright and high
minded, and had the respect of all classes and their cordial liking
to a very remarkable degree."

HARRY PUTNAM PEARSONS is one of the younger members of
the Chicago bar and one who has made admirable progress in the
years of his activity thus far. He was elected mayor of Evanston,
Illinois, April 6, 1915, on the independent republican ticket, having
won the election in a field of four candidates and with a plurality of
1,492 votes from the largest vote ever polled in Evanston.

Mr. Pearsons is a son of Henry A. and Catherine J. (West)
Pearsons. Henry A. Pearsons was the founder of the firm of
Pearsons & Taft, now the Pearsons-Taft Land Credit Company,
the oldest farm mortgage house in the United States. He was a
soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and rose to the rank of first
lieutenant in his regiment, the Eighth Illinois Cavalry. His service
was with the Army of the Potomac, and he was an active partici-
pant in ninety engagements, including many of the important bat-
tles that marked the four years' struggle between the North and
South. He was one of the soldiers assigned as special escort to
the remains of President Lincoln from Washington to Chicago,
where the body lay in state at the courthouse of Cook County before
being taken to its final resting place at Springfield. Three times
was Lieutenant Pearsons wounded in battle, but at no time was

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he long incapacitated for active service. When the war ended he
returned to his Illinois home, and here he has since been active in
business life.

In Evanston Harry P. Pearsons had his early schooling, and
finishing his attendance at an academy there, he entered Northwest-
ern University, in the Liberal Arts department. His studies there
at an end, he entered the Law School of Columbia University, in
New York City, where he was a student during 1895-6. He com-
pleted his law course in Northwestern University, and was gradu-
ated with the class of 1898, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
In 1901 he was admitted to the bar of Illinois, and from then until
1905 was attorney and secretary of the Pearsons-Taft Land Credit
Company. He then engaged in general law practice in association
with George P. Merrick and later with Hon. Leroy D. Thoman,
formerly a member of the United States Civil Service Commission.
Judge Thoman died in April, 1909, but his name is still retained
in the firm of Thoman, Harnwell & Pearsons, Mr. Pearsons' associ-
ate being Frederick W. Harnwell.

Mr. Pearsons is a member of the Chicago, Illinois and American
Bar associations, also of the Chicago Law Institute and Law Club.
He has served in Evanston as alderman from the Seventh Ward.
His social ties are with the University Club, the Evanston Country
Club and the Evanston Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. He also retains membership in his college fra-
ternities, the Beta Theta Pi and the Delta Chi. By virtue of his
father's war record he is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States. He is a companion of the
second class in the order, and his father is a companion of the first
class in Illinois Commandery.

Mr. Pearsons was married February 8, 1900, to Miss Frances
Keyes, of Kenilworth, Illinois, and they have one daughter, Frances.
Mr. Pearsons has membership in the First Methodist Episcopal
Church of Evanston, where he has his home and where both he
and his wife take their part in the social activities of the community.

ANGUS ROY SHANNON. Admitted to the bar in 1896, the cred-
itable work and attainments of Mr. Shannon have since given him
a high rank in the profession. He is the attorney for the Chicago
Board of Education.

Born in Rochester, New York, March 27, 1873, he is a son of
Michael and Margaret (McKenzie) Shannon. His father was a
merchant, and during the Civil war was captain of the i4Oth New
York Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac. The family came
to Chicago in the years immediately following the war and in that
city Angus R. Shannon acquired his education in the public schools,
at Armour Institute, and in 1896 was graduated LL. B. from the
University of Michigan. In the same year he was admitted to
the bars of Michigan and Illinois and began the practice of his

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profession in Chicago alone. He has built up a large clientele as
a general practitioner, has made a specialty of real estate law, but
much of his time and service has been given to the Board of Edu-
cation. At first he served as an assistant attorney to the board, but
for many years has been its attorney, and in all has been connected
with the legal department of the Chicago public school system for
sixteen years. Mr. Shannon is a member of the Chicago Bar
Association, the Illinois Bar Association and the American Bar Asso-
ciation ; also of the Law Club, the Chicago Society of Advocates, the
University Club, the Chicago Athletic Club and the City Club. He is
a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and the Masonic order, and
in politics is a democrat. His home is at 5758 South Park Avenue,
and his office at 35 North Dearborn Street. November 5, 1909, he
married Turbie D. Taft, of Chicago. His two sons are McKenzie
and Angus.

CORYDON DELOS HENDRYX. Not only one of the leading but
one of the oldest practicing attorneys of Knox County is Corydon
Delos Hendryx, now devoting himself to a general law practice
at Galesburg, but for many years one of the leading criminal law-
yers of this section of Illinois. For thirty-one years he has been
an honored resident of this city and a member of her bar, and in
professional as well as private life has won public regard and
personal esteem.

Corydon D. Hendryx was born in Fulton County, Illinois, Feb-
ruary 2, 1841, and is a son of William and Lucinda (Day) Hendryx.
The father was born at Pen Yan, New York, and the mother in
Vermont. William Hendryx and wife settled on the old tarm
in Fulton County, Illinois, in 1837, and there reared their family
of eleven children, Corydon D. being the eighth in order of birth.
The ancestry on the paternal side is traced to Holland, from which
country came colonists who settled and helped to name and found
New Amsterdam, New York. Grandfather Benjamin Hendryx
served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. On the maternal
side the ancestors came to America from Wales and settled in
Vermont before the War of the Revolution, Ephraim Day being
the grandfather of Mr. Hendryx. All were people of sturdy stock
and moral worth and after the early wars probably followed the
peaceful pursuits of agriculture. When William Hendryx located
in Fulton County he had to contend with pioneer conditions and
trie management and cultivation of his land entailed hard work.
Therefore, when his son, Corydon Delos, under other conditions
and in a better settled section of the country, would probably have
been sent regularly to school, here had to assume a man's tasks on
the farm when only sixteen years of age, having had, in the mean-
while, but meager opportunities, during three months of the year
attending the Virgil District School, in the neighborhood of his
home. For four years he gave his father help on the farm, but

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when the Civil war was precipitated, began to make arrangements
to enter the army should hostilities continue. On September 2,
1862, he enlisted as a private in Company D, One Hundred and
Second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and remained in the service
until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged, with
the rank of first lieutenant, and was mustered out at Chicago, July
13, 1865. He had seen hard service, and although he was ever at
the post of duty and participated in the battles of Chattanooga,
Missionary Ridge, Nashville and others in which General Sherman
was the commander, he was never sick, wounded nor taken pris-
oner. Although no iron cross nor other decorative medal was pre-
sented by his commander, he needed no such incentive in times of
danger, but found his courage equal to every demand when he
saw his duty before him — but, he, with the other eight surviving
members of his old company, perhaps have a still more fervent
love for the old flag than has the younger generation, for he knows
how it, as an emblem, has been preserved. Mr. Hendryx is the
sole survivor of the number recruited for Company D at Galesburg.

After the war was over, Mr. Hendryx returned to his father's
farm in Fulton County, but shortly afterward began the study of
law under Attorney Enos N. Boynton, of Prairie City, Illinois, and
remained in the latter's office for two years as a student, and then
was admitted to the bar at Springfield. For the two following years
he practiced law at Prairie City and then came to Galesburg, where
he entered into partnership with James A. McKenzie, remaining
in that connection for two years, and then was a partner of C. C.
Craig until the latter was elected to the bench. Mr. Hendryx
then admitted James E. Davis to a partnership and they engage
in a general law practice. For many years his legal responsibilities
as a successful criminal lawyer were heavy and the court record
proves how continuously he was concerned on one side or the other
of notable cases, but for some years he has confined himself largely
to office practice, finding his usefulness in no way diminished, for
his reputation rests on a very firm foundation. He is a member of
the state and county bar associations.

Mr. Hendryx was married July 4, 1858, when but seventeen
years of age, to Miss Sarah J. Hulick, who was born in Fulton
County and still survives. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Hendryx : Lucinda, who is the widow of David Copela'nd, of
Avon, Illinois, has five children; William R., who has wife and
four children, is connected with the C., B. & Q. Railroad at Gales-
burg; Ruth A., who married Jasper Rand, of Galesburg, and they
have five sons ; Martha J., who is the wife of Arthur Harrison, of
Galesburg, and they have three children; Mark A., who is in busi-
ness at Beardstown, Illinois ; Clyde S., who is a resident of Gales-
burg; Corydon D., Jr., who is a resident of Galesburg, has wife
and two children ; and Bertha, who is the wife of Lee Adams, a con-
ductor on the C., B. & Q. Railroad, residing at Galesburg.

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 661

In his political views Mr. Hendryx is a republican. So admir-
ably qualified is he for the administration of public office that repeat-
edly he has been urged to accept the same, but has always declined,
having no ambition in that direction. He is, however, one of the
city's most alert and interested citizens and lends his influence to
every movement toward stable government and substantial progress.
He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, but this is the only
organization in which he takes an interest, and neither does
Mrs. Hendryx care to identify herself with the clubs and societies
which occupy the time and attention of many of the women of
today. Old-time hospitality prevails, however, in the comfortable
home of Mr. and Mrs. Hendryx, their residence standing at No. 619
Harvey Street, and once within its cheery portals, outside attractions
may easily be forgotten.

OSCAR W. BRECHER. The senior member of the well-known
law firm of Brecher & Chindblom, Oscar W. Brecher has been
actively connected with the Chicago bar for twenty-two years,
during which time he has gained a substantial reputation among
the general practitioners of the city as a capable lawyer and a
reliable and public-spirited citzen. From the time of his admission
to the Illinois bar, just after having attained his majority, he has
advanced steadily in his profession, and his name has become well
and favorably known.

Mr. Brecher is an Illinoisan by birth and training. He was born
in the village of Sandwich, DeKalb County, December 5, 1871, and
is a son of Gustave and Barbara (Woelfel) Brecher, natives of
Germany, who came to the United States in the '405 and settled
in DeKalb County, the father being for many years a well-known
and prominent citizen of Sandwich. Oscar W. Brecher received his
early education in the graded schools of Chicago, and following his
graduation from Lake View High School entered the Chicago Kent
College of Law. In December, 1892, he was admitted to the Illinois
bar, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession, being
associated with several firms at various times until 1910, when
occurred the formation of the present firm of Brecher & Chindblom,
with offices at Nos. 167-169 West Washington Street. This associa-
tion has proven an eminently satisfactory and successful one, and
the firm is justly accounted one of the strong combinations in gen-
eral practice. Mr. Brecher has allied himself with the various
organizations of the law, including the Chicago Bar Association, the
Illinois State Bar Association and the Law Institute. He is also
interested in civic work and is a member of the City Club. In
politics a republican, he has taken an active interest in political
campaigns and is known as one of his party's earnest supporters.

On October 21, 1896, Mr. Brecher was united in marriage with
Miss Dora Brauckmann, of Chicago, and of this union there have
been born two children : Helen Georgine, who is seventeen years

662 COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS

of age; and Paul Welford, aged eleven years. The family resi-
dence is at No. 516 Briar Place. Mr. and Mrs. Brecher are mem-
bers of the Wellington Avenue Congregational Church, of which
Mr. Brecher is now a member of the board of trustees.

MICHAEL E. MAHER. The life of a successful man is always
interesting, because it shows strength and purpose, and particu-
larly so when its achievements have been secured in the face of such
great competition as prevails in every profession and industry in so
crowded a city as Chicago. He has other claims to prominence,
having been active in politics and a member of the State Senate for
four years, representing the Third Senatorial District.

Michael E. Maher was born in the City of Chicago, October
31, 1871, and is a son of Patrick and Mary (Corcoran) Maher.
They were of Irish parentage, but were born in the United States.
The public schools of his native city provided young Maher with
his youthful educational advantages and as he was ambitious he
took advantage of the opportunities afforded by the night schools
conducted by the Young Men's Christian Association. Subsequently
he entered as a student the Chicago Kent College of Law, from
which he was graduated with his degree of LL. B in 1895, and in
the same year was admitted to the Illinois bar. Mr. Maher has
chosen independence in practice and thus alone has built up his
clientele and through his individual ability has won his successes.
It is almost inevitable in these days when public questions command
so large a part of public attention that men of education should
give serious thought to the best methods of solving great and per-
plexing questions and such men are the best qualified to assume
official responsibilities and have the authority given them to bring
about changes and reforms. Practically all his life a resident of
the Fourth Ward, Chicago, Mr. Maher early became interested per-
sonally in its welfare and at present is serving as chairman of the
ward organization in the interest of the democratic party. In him
his party found one who could unite many differing elements, and
in 1902 he was elected to the State Senate from the Third Senatorial
District. During his four years at Springfield he served usefully
as a member of some important committees, being a member of
the committee which furthered the passage of the charter bill, and
was a hard worker on the practice commission bills which were
framed by the Illinois commission. Upon his return to private
life he resumed general practice in the civil courts, and in 1911
was honored by Judge McKinley by appointment as master in
chancery in the Superior Court and has served ever since in this
capacity. Mr. Maher is a member of the Chicago Bar Association,
the Illinois State Bar Association and the Illinois Lawyers' Asso-
ciation. He' maintains his office in Suite 1420, Unity Building,
Chicago, and his residence at No. 3257 Emerald Avenue. Mr. Maher
is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

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AMOS C. MILLER. In twenty-three years of active law practice
in Chicago Amos C. Miller has made a name for himself in pro-
fessional circles, while he has built up a substantial practice as
a result of his labors. Not alone as a practitioner has he won place,
but in the educational field of his profession has he gained prom-
inence. He is at the head of the well-known firm of Miller, Gorham
& Wales, with offices in the New York Life Building.

Amos C. Miller was born at Marshalltown, Iowa, on December
16, 1866, and is a son of Wells W. and Mary (Caswell) Miller.
When he was yet a child the family took up its residence in San-
dusky, Ohio, and there he had his early schooling. His high-school
work was followed by entrance at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio,
and he was graduated with the class of 1889 with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. In order to fit himself for the law in the fur-
therance of his plans he came to Chicago and entered Chicago Kent
College of Law in the same year of his graduation from Oberlin
and in 1891 he was graduated with the B. L. degree. Admission to
the Illinois bar followed immediately and he began his career in the
position of assistant attorney for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Railroad Company, in whose service he continued until 1893. In
that year he engaged in private practice of his profession in Chicago.
Two years later he became associated with the law firm of Lackner,
Butz & Miller, which partnership continued for seventeen years.
In 1912 he became senior member of the firm of Miller, Gorham &
Wales. Mr. Miller is giving valuable service in connection with
his work as instructor at the Northwestern University Law School,
and his lectures on legal tactics are much esteemed. He is a mem-
ber of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar associations, and other
professional connections are with the Chicago Law Institute, the Law
Club and the Legal Club. He is also a member of the Union
League, the University Club, the City Club and the Riverside Golf
Club, and he is a member of Riverside Lodge, Ancient, Free and
Accepted Masons. He is vice president and a director of the
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and president of the United
States Motor Truck Company. He is also a trustee of Oberlin
College, his alma mater.

Mr. Miller was married on December i, 1891, to Miss Jeanne
Gilbert, of Cleveland, Ohio, and they have three children — Gilbert
A., Wells W. and Norman.

WILLIAM COWPER BOYDEN. Among the general practitioners
of the Chicago legal fraternity, few are held in higher esteem and
regard than William Cowper Boyden, of the firm of Matz, Fisher
& Boyden, who for a quarter of a century has maintained his posi-
tion as one of the city's progressive and successful lawyers.

Mr. Boyden is a native of the Prairie State, having been born at
Sheffield, April 6, 1864, and is a son of Albert W. and Ellen (Webb)
Boyden. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1886

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and from the Harvard Law School in 1889. In the same year
Mr. Boyden was admitted to the bar of Illinois. After eighteen
months of clerkship in the office of Charles H. Aldrich. in 1891 he
formed a partnership with Frank Hamlin and John F. Holland,
under the firm style of Holland, Hamlin & Boyden. This con-
tinued until October i, 1897, when Mr. Boyden joined the firm of
Matz & Fisher, which became Matz, Fisher & Boyden. The firm
has offices in the Corn Exchange National Bank Building. Mr. Boy-
den's practice is broad and general in its lines, not being confined to
any one specialty. Mr. Boyden maintains membership in the vari-
ous organizations of his profession, including the Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation, of which he was formerly vice president ; the Law Club,
of which he was president in 1902 and 1903 ; and the Illinois State
Bar Association. He is a member of the University Club, of which
he was president from 1905 until 1908, is ex-president of the Har-
vard Club, and holds membership in the Chicago and City clubs.
At the present time Mr. Boyden is an overseer of Harvard Univer-
sity, a position to which he was elected in 1911. He is a director
in the Central Trust Company of Illinois, and has a number of
other business interests. As a citizen, Mr. Boyden has been active
in many movements for civic and municipal improvement, and has
given freely of his time, abilities and means in assisting beneficial
enterprises.

On April 13, 1893, Mr. Boyden was united in marriage with
Miss Mabel G. Burlingham, of Chicago. Their residence is at
Winnetka, in the environs of Chicago.

HUGH O'NEILL. A scholarly Chicago lawyer, whose attain-
ments are recognized both in the law and as a writer and lecturer,
Hugh O'Neill has been a member of the Illinois bar more than
twenty years, and since 1894 has been associated with Mr. L.
Bastrup, under the firm name of Bastrup & O'Neill, with offices in
the Reaper Block.

Hugh O'Neill is a native of Ireland, born in County Derry,
October 5, 1867, a son of Hugh and Ann (Smyth) O'Neill. His
early education came from the schools and colleges of Ireland, and
after coming to this country he was both a student and a professor
in the University of Notre Dame at South Bend, an institution from
which he received the degrees A. B., B. L., LL. B. and LL. M.
For one year he was an instructor in the university. Mr. O'Neill
was admitted to the bar in 1892.

Besides attending to a large general practice as a lawyer,
Mr. O'Neill has paid much attention to study and research along
the lines of his profession and on historical and national subjects.
He is author of lectures read at the celebrated University of Lou-
vain, Belgium, and of articles on America, Irish problems and other
subjects. Mr. O'Neill is a republican, a member of the Catholic
Church, belongs to the Chicago Bar Association, the American Bar

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cago Art Institute. Politically, he is a republican. Mr. Craig
resides at 2125 Warren Avenue. He has one living sister, Alice D.,
also a resident of Chicago.

ALBERT R. GATES. Eighteen years of active practice at the
Chicago bar have given Mr. Gates a rising prominence in the field
of corporation law. He has been entrusted with and has handled
successfully many important and intricate interests, has official con-
nections with financial and business affairs in the city, and has been
an active factor in the Chicago Bar Association.

Albert R. Gates was born at Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois,
November 29, 1868, the son of a farmer. His parents, Francis E.
and Polly M. (Robinson) Gates, were prosperous farming people
of that rich and highly developed agricultural community. Mr.
Gates was educated in the country schools, in the high school at
Earlville, Illinois, and graduated from the Lake Forest University
Law School in 1896. He had been admitted to the bar in January,
1895, having read law in the office of Stephen S. Gregory and James
S. Harlan, both eminent Chicago lawyers. October 14, 1898, was
the date of his admission to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Gates spent two years with Mr. Gregory and was associated
with John V. Farwell under the firm name of Gates & Farwell
for six years, 1897-1903. For the past ten years he has practiced
alone. Mr. Gates is secretary and treasurer of the Gates-Pratt Land
Company.

He is on the Membership Committee of the Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation, and. a member of the Illinois State Bar Association; member
of the Hamilton Club, of which he was at one time a director and
second vice president. Mr. Gates is an active follower of the sport
of golf, and for a number of years has been prominent in the
Western Golf Association, of which he was president in 1907-08.
He was president in 1905-06 of the Calumet Country Club, and is
a member of the South Shore Country Club. His recreations are
golf, hunting and fishing. Mr. Gates has always been a republican,
and while unconcerned with individual aspirations for office, has
had an influential part in politics and public matters of importance,
and was formerly chairman of the Political Action Committee of the
Hamilton Club. On June 10, 1911, he married Miss Elizabeth H.
Young, of Chicago. They have one child, William A. Gates. His
home is at 4740 Dorchester Avenue, and his office in the Title &
Trust Building.

CHARLES BYRD ELDER is known to the legal profession in Chicago
as a successful corporation and trial lawyer, and also as an instructor
and writer on legal subjects.

He is a native son of Chicago, born January 14, 1878, his parents
being Robert S. and Hattie N. (Dewey) Elder. His father was
for many years engaged in business in Chicago, being well known

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in realty circles. Mr. Elder finished his studies in the public schools
as a boy and after some preparatory work entered Northwestern
University, from which he was graduated in 1899 with the Bachelor
of Laws degree. In October of the same year he was admitted to
practice. Two years later he was admitted to practice in the Federal
courts.

His connection with certain important cases brought him into
favorable prominence, and among those familiar with his work he
has established a reputation as a safe counselor and a careful and
resourceful litigant. In 1901 he was appointed an instructor in the
Northwestern University School of Law, and is now professor
of the law of judgments and extraordinary legal remedies in the
same institution. Mr. Elder is associate editor of the Illinois Law
Review and among his contributions to this periodical is an analytical
study of conditions in the courts of Cook County relating to the
writ of habeas corpus, published in May, 1912, under the title,
"What Shall Be Done with the Writ of Habeas Corpus?" His
practice has grown steadily, and he is in the enjoyment of a good
high-class professional business. His offices are located in the
Conway Building.

Mr. Elder is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the
American Bar Association, the Academy of Political Science in the
City of New York, the Order of the Coif, Delta Upsilon fraternity,
the City Club, Hamilton Club, and Park Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
and Loyal Chapter, R. A. M. He is a republican in his political
views, and though not active in the field of politics is steadfastly
interested in all public movements of merit. He has his home at
1320 Farwell Avenue.

HERBERT WOLCOTT HOLCOMB. During his career of twenty-one
years as a member of the Chicago bar, Herbert Wolcott Holcomb,
whose death occurred January 3, 1915, apportioned his services
among an important clientage and his varied business affairs, and
devoted most of his attention to a group of corporations with which
he was officially as well as professionally connected.

Herbert Wolcott Holcomb was born October 4, 1869, in Ford
County, Illinois, and is a son of William Horace and Elizabeth
(Munson) Holcomb. His family and social environment was such
as to afford early advantages, and after completing a course in Lake
Forest Academy in 1885, he entered the Hopkins Grammar School,
New Haven, where he was graduated in 1887. His entrance to Yale
followed and he was there graduated in 1891, with the Bachelor of
Arts degree. His law studies were carried on in the Northwestern
University Law Department in 1893, and in that year he received
his LL. B. degree and his admission to the bar of the state. From
that time he was in active practice in Chicago. In 1895 Mr. Holcomb
became house attorney for the firm of Naugle, Holcomb & Com-
pany, railroad contractors, and he continued in that relation until

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igoi, when he became confidential clerk to one of Chicago's veteran
attorneys, Azel F. Hatch. From 1906 to 1909 he was senior member
of the firm of Holcomb & McBean, but since January i, 1909, he
had been alone in practice, with offices in the Title & Trust Building.
Mr. Holcomb was attorney for the Hinsdale State Bank, and had
additional business interests and responsibilities, among which may
be mentioned the Economic Rubber Company, of which he was
secretary and treasurer.

In politics Mr. Holcomb was a progressive and took an active
interest in local affairs since taking up his residence in Hinsdale,
recognizing the fact that the leading men of a community must
assume the larger responsibilities to insure the best civic conditions.
He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Village of
Hinsdale from 1906 to 1910, a period of two terms, and was presi-
dent of the board of education for six terms. Mr. Holcomb had
numerous professional connections, being a member of the DuPage
County, Chicago and Illinois State Bar associations, and at the
time of his death was vice president of the first named. His college
fraternity was the Phi Delta Phi. Relaxation may be said to have
filled a comparatively small space in Mr. Holcomb's life, although
he enjoyed membership in the Yale Club and the Hinsdale Men's
Club, and was once a devotee of football, in 1890 having served
as a substitute on the Yale team.

On June 13, 1899, Mr. Holcomb was married at Hinsdale, to
Miss Amy Jarrett, and their one son is Jarrett Holcomb.

LOWELL B. SMITH. That in connection with the professional
career of this representative attorney of the younger generation in
DeKalb County there can be no application of the statement that
"a prophet is not without honor save in his own country" needs
no further voucher than the fact that though he has been engaged
in the practice of law only six years, he has thus early in his career
at the bar been chosen state's attorney of his native county and is
numbered among the popular officials and progressive citizens of
his native city, Sycamore, the county seat, where he was born on
the 4th of July, 1883, his civic loyalty being in harmony with the
patriotic date of his nativity.

Mr. Smith is a son of Olin H. and Lillian (Babcock) Smith, both
of whom still reside in Sycamore and both of whom were born and
reared in DeKalb County, with whose development and progress
the respective family names have been worthily identified since the
pioneer days. He whose name initiates this article is the younger
of the two children, and his sister, Rose, is now the wife of Waldo
Mussell, of Bayfield, Wisconsin. Lowell B. Smith continued to
attend the public schools of Sycamore until his graduation in the
high school, in 1903, and in pursuance of his higher academic educa-
tion he then entered the University of Illinois, in which he was
graduated in 1908, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in

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the law department, of which he was graduated likewise as a mem-
ber of the class of the same year, his reception of the degree of
Bachelor of Laws being virtually coincident with his admission to
the bar of his native state. His professional novitiate was served
in the office of the firm of Faissler & Fulton, of Sycamore, and he
soon proved his ambition as well as its excellent fortification for
the work of his chosen calling. After having been concerned with
various litigated cases in which he won decisive victories there came
definite recognition of his eligibility for the office of state's attorney,
to which he was elected on the 7th of November, 1912, and the
duties of which he assumed early in the following month. As public
prosecutor for his native county he has fully justified the result of
the popular vote which brought him the preferment, as candidate
on the republican ticket. In his county he ran far ahead of his
party ticket, receiving 1,500 more votes than were given in the
county for the presidential candidate of the party, Hon. William
H. Taft. Mr. Smith is an appreciative member of the Illinois State
Bar Association and the DeKalb County Bar Association, and is at
the present time vice president of the Illinois State's Attorneys'
Association, besides which he is affiliated with two college frater-
nities.

April 25, 1908, recorded the marriage of Mr. Smith to Miss
Lenore McElroy, who was born in the City of Louisville, Kentucky,
and they have one son, James Lowell.

CORBUS P. GARDNER. As a vigorous and ambitious lawyer, one
possessed of a large amount of ability, so that he never has to
resort to pretense and display in order to hold his own in any
issue in which he may be joined, Corbus P. Gardner has for nearly
a quarter of a century practiced with growing success and influence
in Mendota, and as a citizen of large public spirit and thorough
devotion to the general welfare, has been honored with three terms
in the State Senate and is one of the best-known men in northern
Central Illinois.

Corbus P. Gardner was born in Mendota, Illinois, September 2,
1868, was educated in public schools, and in the class of 1890 gradu-
ated from the Law Department of the University of Michigan. He
was admitted to the bar of Illinois and Michigan in 1890 and at once
began a general practice with office in Mendota. Among other
associations Mr. Gardner has been local attorney for the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad since' 1897 and also local attorney
for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul since 1904. He is one of
the leading lawyers, so recognized by his associates, in La Salle,
Bureau and Lee counties. From 1907 to 1913 Mr. Gardner had
offices and spent most of his time in Chicago, where he had a large
legal practice and business to attend to. During that time he was
associated with John W. Dubbs under the firm name of Gardner &
Dubbs, and Mr. Dubbs looked after most of the local business of

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the firm at Mendota. Mr. Gardner is reputed to have one of the
most complete private law libraries in the State of Illinois.

He has been active in republican politics for a number of years,
in 1898 was elected a member of the State Senate and re-elected in
1902 and 1906. For six years he was chairman of the appropriation
committee, and the records of the sessions show that Senator
Gardner was an influential member in the shaping of much impor-
tant legislation and a progressive and valuable worker throughout
his three terms. Mr. Gardner in 1908 was admitted to practice in
the United States District Court in Chicago, and on December 16,
1909, was admitted to the United States Supreme Court. His prac-
tice for several years has covered litigation in all courts, both
Federal and State. He is a member of the La Salle County Bar
Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the American Bar
Association. Fraternally, Mr. Gardner affiliates with Bethany Com-
mandery No. 28, Knights Templar, and with Medinah Temple of
the Mystic Shrine in Chicago.

On December n, 1901, Mr. Gardner married Georgia Smith,
who was 'born in Mendota. Their two children are Margaret W.
and Robert Bruce. Mr. Gardner is a son of George W. and Mar-
garet Gardner. His father was born in Lawrence County, Penn-
sylvania, February 13, 1824, and died in December, 1902, while
the mother was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, May 4,
1825, and died in November, 1900. Of their union there were ten
children, nine sons and one daughter, and Senator Gardner was the
youngest. His father came to Illinois in 1862, locating in La Salle
County, and for many years was one of the farmers of enterprise
and respected ability and character iri that locality. For fully thirty
years he served as an elder of the Presbyterian Church and was
also identified with the republican party.

COL. ASA CARRINGTON MATTHEWS. On June 14, 1908, death
removed' one of the foremost citizens of Illinois and long one of
the strongest lawyers of the Pike County bar. Colonel Matthews
was then seventy-five years of age, and for fully half a century
had been closely identified with the local history and affairs of Pike
County. As a lawyer he was regarded an authority on drainage
law, and helped to frame the first legislation ever placed on the
Illinois statutes. His knowledge of the law as a general practitioner
was profound, and his clients found in him a loyal advocate in the
lower courts as in the highest tribunals. Outside of the law his
career was notable for his achievements as a soldier during the
great Civil war, and he was also a factor in politics, and was
speaker of the House in the Thirty-sixth Assembly. He served as
president of the Illinois Vicksburg Military Park Commission, and
it was largely due to him that the name of every soldier and sailor
from Illinois who participated in the Vicksburg campaign was in-
scribed on bronze tablets. In May, 1907, about a year before his

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death, he was elected commander of the Department of Illinois of
the Grand Army of the Republic, and also served as a trustee of
the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home at Quincy.

Asa Carrington Matthews was born in 1833 and was reared on
his father's farm in Perry Township of Pike County. His parents
were Capt. B. L. and Minerva (Carrington) Matthews, his father
a native of North Carolina and his mother of Kentucky. Colonel
Matthews was a product of the local public schools, was a student
in McKendree College at Lebanon, Illinois, and in 1855 entered
the Illinois College at Jacksonville, and soon took up the study of
law and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He soon became known
as one of the rising young members of the local bar, but his profes-
sion was interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil war. Enlisting
in the Ninety-ninth Illinois Infantry, he was unanimously elected
captain of his company, and served with it in all its campaigns and
engagements until the close of the Vicksburg campaign, having wit-
nessed the surrender of that stronghold on July 4, 1863. Later in
the war he was at the siege and capture of Mobile, and finally
accompanied his regiment into Louisiana. In the last months of the
Rebellion he took a prominent part in the negotiations with the tribes
in Indian Territory which had been allies of the Confederate army.
At the end of these services he was mustered out and became a
private citizen on August 17, 1865. He had risen from the ranks
through the grades of captain, major and lieutenant-colonel to the
commission of colonel, but never had active service under the last
title.

On returning to his old home at Pittsfield, Colonel Matthews
devoted his time to the law, and while his work in that profession
brought him many rewards and distinctions, he was also called upon
to fill various places of honor and trust. He served as collector of
internal revenue for the states of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan
from 1875 until the office was abolished. He was three times elected
to the Illinois -Legislature, and, as already mentioned, was chosen
speaker of the House. In 1885 Governor Hamilton appointed him
circuit judge to fill an unexpired term. A prominent Illinois repub-
lican, he was a delegate to the national convention in 1884, and in
May, 1889, President Harrison appointed him first comptroller of
the United States Treasury. In 1904 Colonel Matthews was a
presidential elector on the Roosevelt ticket and chairman of the
state college. Other public services by which his name became well
known throughout Illinois have already been mentioned. Some esti-
mate of his work and career may be gathered from the following
quotation : "He has given careful consideration to his work and
to each question which has come up for settlement in connection
with the various offices which he has filled and has been guided by
an honorable purpose and loyalty of patriotism such as distinguished
his services as a soldier upon southern battlefields. He was author
of the first amendment to the Constitution of 1870 known as the

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drainage amendment, and upon this has been erected a code of laws
whereby hundreds of thousands of acres of Illinois land has been
reclaimed for cultivation. Colonel Matthews has always taken an
active interest in everything tending to promote the agricultural and
stock-raising interests of this county and has given tangible support
to many local measures which have proven of benefit to Pittsfield
and this part of the state. As a distinguished member of the bar, as
a statesman of prominence, as a public officer of reliability, Mr.. Mat-
thews was well known. His career conferred honor and dignity
upon the profession, and the political and civic organization with
which he was associated, and there was in him a weight of character,
a keen sagacity, a far-seeing judgment and a fidelity of purpose
that demanded the respect of all."

Colonel Matthews was married October 5, 1855, to Miss Anna
E. Ross, daughter of Col. William Ross, a Pike County pioneer.
Their three children were: Mrs. Frank M. Lewis, Ross Matthews
and Mrs. John L. Hull.

The bar of Pike County is still represented by the Matthews
family. A grandson of the late Col. A. C. Matthews is Ben H.
Matthews, one of the younger members of the Pittsfield bar and
associated with Mr. R. N. Anderson.

Ben H. Matthews was born at Pittsfield November 27, 1885,
a son of Ross Matthews, who is president of the Farmers State
Bank. His early school days were spent in Pittsfield, and in 1907
he graduated from the Law Department of the Illinois State Uni-
versity, and at once took up practice in Pittsfield. Mr. Matthews is
a member of the County and State Bar associations, is a republican,
a Chapter and Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and belongs to
the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity. On October 23, 1909,
Mr. Matthews married Miss Gertrude Thackwray of Griggsville,
Illinois, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Thackwray, of that town.
They have one child, Gertrude Thackwray Matthews, born at Pitts-
field, January 19, 1914.

RAY N. ANDERSON. For fifteen years a member of the Pike
County bar, Ray N. Anderson has from the beginning of his prac-
tice had some prominent associations, and is now a partner of Ben-
jamin Matthews in practice at Pittsfield.

Mr. Anderson is a native of Pike County, born at Summer Hill,
August 6, 1874, a son of H. L. and Eliza (Stebbins) Anderson.
His father, who was a native of East Hartford, Connecticut, came
to Illinois when about seventeen years of age, for some .years a
merchant and also a farmer in Pike County, and latterly engaged in
the grain business, which is his present vocation. During the Civil
war he enlisted in the Ninety-ninth Regiment of Illinois Infantry,
and saw much active service. H. L. Anderson is now seventy-three
years of age, and his wife, who was sixty-four at the time of her

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death, March 28, 1915, was born in Pike County. They became
the parents of six children, of whom Ray was the second in order
of birth.

Ray N. Anderson grew up in Pike County, attended public
schools, and after graduating from high school entered the Univer-
sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and completed his course in law
at that institution in 1899. Returning to his native locality, he took
up active practice, and for a time was associated with the late
Colonel Matthews, the grandfather of his present law partner.

The firm of Anderson & Matthews are local attorneys for the
Wabash and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads.

Mr. Anderson is a republican, is a Knight Templar Mason, and
well known socially as well as a lawyer. He is a member of the
State and American Bar associations. On October 18, 1906, at
Pittsfield, he married Miss Helen Bush, daughter of W. C. Bush
and wife. Their two children are: Nora Virginia Anderson, born
at Pittsfield in 1909; and Winthrop Bush Anderson, born at Pitts-
field in 1912.

Louis A. MILLS. For almost a quarter of a century Louis A.
Mills has been engaged in the practice of law at Decatur and has
built up a substantial practice founded on honorable methods and is
acknowledged a representative member of the Macon County bar.
He was born on his father's farm in Putnam County, Illinois, the
Mills family being numerous in that section and very generally
noted for thrift and good citizenship.

• During boyhood and youth Louis A. Mills assisted his father
along agricultural lines, learning the business of farming in the
most practical way, in the meanwhile attending the country schools.
Later he was a student in the Decatur High School and still later
in Lincoln University. His preparation for the law was made in
the office of Mills Brothers, one of the leading law firms of Decatur,
and after his admission to the bar, in 1890, he was given an interest
in the firm. On May i, 1896, Mr. Mills entered into a law partner-
ship with J. R. Fitzgerald, this association continuing until 1905,
since which time Mr. Mills has practiced alone. He is deemed one
of the most careful of lawyers and engages in a general practice.
Mr. Mills is interested in all matters, including legislation, that
affect his profession and favors progressiveness when the funda-
mentals are undisturbed, ever being careful that his public declara-
tions shall be in accord with what his judgment convinces him is
right. A number of public measures have greatly interested him,
one being the matter of drainage of the low lands, this matter being
particularly brought to his attention on account of having the super-
vision of several farm estates and also because of his ownership
of land in Macon County.

In 1889 Mr. Mills was united in marriage with Miss Anna Hill,
who was reared by her grandfather, H. W. Hill. Mr. and Mrs.

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Mills have three children : Margaret, Walker H. and Anna Louise.
Mr. Mills has been identified with the Masonic fraternity since
1896, in which year he became a Master Mason in Macon Lodge,
No. 8, A. F. & A. M. Believing in the underlying principles of the
order, his interest has been continued and strengthened. He now
belongs to Stephen Decatur Lodge, No. 979, A. F. & A. M ; Macon
Chapter, No. 21, R. A. M.; Beaumanoir Commandery, No. 9, K. T.,
and Springfield Consistory A. A. Scottish Rite. He is deputy grand
commander of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Illinois,
and in the regular order of succession in that body, it is probable
that Mr. Mills will be made grand commander of this state at the
annual conclave in 1915. If this comes to pass the honor will be
well merited and the dignity of the office will be in most worthy
hands.

WILLIAM H. CHEW. He whose name introduces this review
is of the third generation of the Chew family to stand as a repre-
sentative of the legal profession in Shelby County, where his pater-
nal grandfather was a pioneer member of the bar, though the major
portion of his time and attention were given in the early days to
farming and to teaching in the pioneer schools. The records of
Shelby County give place to the name of Morris R. Chew as one of
the early members of the Shelby County bar, and he came to Illinois
from Ohio. He became a prosperous farmer and influential citizen
of Shelby County and here both he and his wife passed the remain-
der of their lives. Their son William, father of the subject of this
review, was born in Ohio and was a child at the time of the family
removal to Shelby County, Illinois, where he was reared to manhood,
became a well fortified attorney and counselor at law and gained
distinct precedence both in his profession and as a progressive and
public-spirited citizen. He was one of the leading attorneys at
Shelbyville for a long term of years, and there his death occurred on
the i8th of August, 1896, at the age of sixty-five years.

Hon. William Chew was a leader in public sentiment and action
and was one of the most influential Shelby County representatives
of the republican party, as a member of which he served in the
State Legislature in 1875-6-7. In Hon. John M. Palmer's History
of the Bench and Bar of Illinois appear the following statements
concerning William Chew : "He studied law with Moulton and
Chafee, in 1867-8, and was engaged in practice in Shelby County
until his death. William Chew was a minority member of the Legis-
lature of 1876 and was one of the leaders of that General 'Assembly
in which 'Long' Jones and Hon. J. A. Connolly first distinguished
themselves. William Chew was an honest man, a stalwart repub-
lican, and on occasion could make a fine speech. His education
was gained in the common schools and, as he often remarked, in
driving oxen to break the virgin sod of the great prairies. He
owned several hundred acres of land at his death."

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Hon. William Chew wedded Miss Anna Headen, who was born
and reared in Illinois and who still resides at Shelbyville, at the age
of nearly seventy years. Of the four children all are deceased
except William H., who was the first born.

William H. Chew acquired his early education in the public
schools of Shelbyville and thereafter he read law under the effec-
tive preceptorship of his father until the latter's death. He was
admitted to the bar in May, 1897, and as a lawyer and citizen he
has well upheld the high prestige of the name which he bears. In
the year that marked his admission to the bar Mr. Chew formed a
partnership with George D. Chafee, with whom he has since
been continuously associated in practice, Mr. Chafee having been
engaged in the work of his profession in Shelby County for more
than half a century. Mr. Chew is a stanch advocate of the cause
of the republican party but has had no desire for the honors or
emoluments of public office. He is affiliated with the local organiza-
tions of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Improved Order of Red
Men, in each of which he has held official positions. Mr. Chew's
interposition has been enlisted in connection with the trial of a large
number of important causes in the courts o>f this district, and he is
a careful and able advocate and well informed counselor of much
circumspection and judgment.

On the I4th of September, 1914, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Chew to Miss Bessie Klauser, of Memphis, Tennessee, her
parents, Rudolph and Elizabeth Klauser, being well known residents
of Shelbyville, Illinois.

JAMES S. BALDWIN. The world in modern days asks much of
its professional men, and the qualifications demanded in a practi-
tioner of law, practically cover a liberal education along almost
every line. Life grows more complex every day and the profession
that bases its reason for existing on the establishing of right, pro-
tection of the weak and securing of justice for those wrongfully
accused, must, indeed, be an invincible body. The bar of Macon
County has many well equipped members and prominent among
them is James S. Baldwin, senior member of the well known law
firm of Baldwin & Carey.

James S. Baldwin was born at New Albany, Indiana, September
14, 1874, and is one of a family of six children born to his parents,
Edward and Susan E. (Spitler) Baldwin. The mother of Mr.
Baldwin was born in Indiana, while the father was a member of an
old Kentucky family and was born at Louisville, in 1835. For sev-
eral generations the Baldwins were river men, Edward Baldwin,
like his father, Robert Baldwin, being well known pilots, and during
the War of the Rebellion, Edward Baldwin was engaged as a river
pilot by the government.

After completing his high school course at New Albany, James

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S. Baldwin, following his graduation in 1893, entered the law depart-
ment of the Michigan State University, at Ann Arbor, where he
was graduated in the class of 1896, and in June of the same year
was admitted to the bar and entered into practice at New Albany,
and in March, 1897, was admitted to practice in the courts of Illi-
nois, subsequently locating at Decatur. Here he has built up a very
large practice along honorable lines, securing recognition thereby
from bench and bar and public confidence not only in Macon but
throughout other counties. For a number of years he has served
as secretary and treasurer of the Macon County Bar Association.
His name carries weight as the senior member of the law firm of
Baldwin & Carey, while his individual connections are numerous and
important. He was appointed corporation counsel for the City of
Decatur and served in that capacity until his resignation in May
of 1915.

Mr. Baldwin has a happy home and small domestic circle. He
married Miss Mary V. Dishman, who is a daughter of Frank E.
Dishman, a prominent resident of New Albany, Indiana, and they
have one daughter, Virginia.

In political affiliation, Mr. Baldwin has always been a republican,
and has served as president of the Young Men's Republican Club,
of New Albany, Indiana, and also as chairman and secretary of the
Republican Central Committee of Macon County, with which organ-
ization he became identified in 1902. His professional connections
include membership in both county and state bar associations, while
fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason and also belongs to the
Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Maccabees, among other like
organizations. He has decided literary tastes and greatly assisted,
in 1903, in the organization of the Decatur Chautauqua circuit, serv-
ing as its first treasurer. He is a man of broad outlook and inca-
pable of ignoble action, firmly believing that it becomes a responsible
individual to put into life what is best in him, thereby calling forth
from others what is best in them. It is not only his professional
ability and intellectual superiority that have advanced him, but
wholesome qualities have attracted others to him in confidence and
friendship, and it is said of him that where best known he is most
highly esteemed and respected. Mr. Baldwin maintains his home
at No. 333 West North Street, and his offices in the Millikin Build-
ing, Decatur.

CLARK A. M'MILLEN. The Macon Country bar as a whole is a
representative body of men, in that its members possess, education,
marked ability and honorable standards and to occupy a foremost
place in such an organization is a prize worth the struggle, although
not every contestant may win. One of these prominent members is
found in Clark A. McMillen, of the firm of McMillen & McMillen,
of Decatur.

Clark A. McMillen was born October i, 1883. His parents were

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David A. and Mollie (Patterson) McMillen, the former of whom
died in 1889. During life he was interested in the lumber industry.
There were two children in his family.

Clark A. McMillen had public school advantages, and after com-
pleting the high school course he entered Cornell College, from
which institution he was graduated in 1903, after which he entered
the law department of the University of Michigan, graduating in
1906. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, entered into
active practice and in 1906 became a member of his present firm. He
is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the Macon
County Bar Association. He is identified with the Masonic frater-
nity and is a Knight Templar and Shriner. His firm is established
in the Millikin Building.

LEE BOLAND. A member of the Decatur bar who has made rapid
strides forward in the practice of his profession, is Lee Boland,
whose success as a lawyer has been marked. With legal acumen
creditable to a much older man, Mr. Boland has handled some very
important litigation, and in numerous cases has shown a rare dis-
crimination and knowledge of law that has won favorable verdicts
for his clients.

Lee Boland was born at Paxton, Ford County, Illinois, July 24.
1882, and is a son of John and Anna (Conover) Boland. There
were four children in the family, three of whom survive. John
Boland is one of Decatur's prominent business men, a large manu-
facturer, and is secretary and treasurer of the Decatur Light & Fuel
Company.

The public schools provided Mr. Boland with his early educa-
tional opportunities and after completing the high school course he
entered Lake Forest University, Chicago, subsequently preparing
for the law and being admitted to the bar in 1907. Decatur has
been the field of his endeavors ever since, and here he has not only
secured the confidence of the people as a well-qualified attorney,
but has won friendship and esteem through his personal charac-
teristics.

Mr. Boland married Miss Edna McClelland, who is a daughter
of George W. McClelland. Mr. Boland and wife are members of
the Presbyterian Church. They have a wide social circle, and Mr.
Boland is identified with the fraternal order of Knights of Pythias.
In politics, as in law, he believes in advancing, and looks with favor
on the new progressive organization.

HON. JOHN H. McCov. For many years one of the leading
members of the Macon County bar, widely known for his thorough
knowledge of the law and his power of applying it, and also enjoying
an equally enviable reputation for the integrity the profession
honors, John H. McCoy, who was elected county judge of Macon

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County in November, 1914, is numbered with the prominent men
of Central Illinois.

Judge McCoy was born in Macon County, Illinois, December 17,
1859, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Minerva D. (Helm) McCoy.
Of their family of seven children six survive and two of these have
become eminent in the law, John H. and James H., the latter being
a judge of the supreme court of South Dakota.

The boyhood of Judge McCoy was passed on his father's farm.
After completing the public school course he spent three years as a
student in the Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Illinois, and
afterward read law under the supervision of Hon. Hugh Crea and
Charles A. Ewing, the firm of Crea & Ewing being a leading one at
Decatur. In 1888 Mr. McCoy was admitted to the bar and imme-
diately entered into practice at Decatur, and in 1901 was elected a
justice of the peace, which office he continued to fill until he was
called to the bench. During the entire course of his public life Judge
McCoy has commanded the respect and confidence of all who have
known him, and the responsibilities resting on him in the high office
to which he has been elevated, will in no way change his character.
As ever before, he will stand by his convictions of right with inflex-
ible determination and will give Macon County an administration
that will be a model of impartial justice. He has always been iden-
tified with the republican party and on this ticket was elected judge
by a very flattering majority.

Judge McCoy was united in marriage with Miss Ida Nickey,
who is a daughter of William Nickey, and they have one son,
William F. Judge McCoy and family are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He belongs to the County Bar Association and
also to the Masonic fraternity. Personally Judge McCoy is a man
of genial presence whose kind and ready sympathy is apparent.

STAGER & STAGER. Members of three successive generations of
the Stager family have practiced law in Whiteside County, and
there has been one or more of that name identified with the law
there since 1868. The Stager family is of German origin, was settled
in Pennsylvania in the early days, and has lived in Whiteside County,
Illinois, since 1855.

Walter Stager, senior member of the firm of Stager & Stager,
at Sterling, was born at New Holland, Pennsylvania, was brought to
Sterling in 1855, and acquired his early education in the local public
schools. In 1868 he was graduated from the law department of the
University of Michigan, and on April 14, 1868, was admitted to the
bar at Ottawa, Illinois. His father, John S. Stager, was also a law-
yer, having studied law and was admitted to practice February 24,
1870, two years after his son. Walter Stager has enjoyed an increas-
ing reputation and practice as a lawyer for more than forty-five
years. He served as city attorney of Sterling, and for twenty-four
years held the office of state's attorney of Whiteside County. Dur-

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ing that time the court records show a long list of convictions ; one
sentence to death; forty-nine sent to the reformatory; four fined
and sent to the reformatory; jail sentences for seventy-three; jail
and fine for 179; fines against 288, and penitentiary sentences for
greater or less periods to 300.

Walter Stager is a republican in politics, and affiliates with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was married to Elizabeth
Mickle, of Sterling, and three of their five children are living.

John M. Stager, junior member of the law firm of Stager &
Stager, is well known as a lawyer and also in republican politics in
Illinois. He was born at Sterling August 26, 1881, a son of Walter
and Elizabeth (Mickle) Stager, attended the public schools of Ster-
ling, graduating from the high school in 1900, and had previously
spent two summers, in 1898-99, in the summer school of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin. In 1900 he entered the literary department
of the University of Michigan, spent one year there and three years
in the law department, and was graduated LL. B. in 1904. Mr.
Stager was admitted to the bar October 5, 1904, and has since been
in active practice at Sterling. His partnership with his father was
formed April i, 1905, and that is now regarded as one of the
strongest law firms in Whiteside County. John M. Stager is now
serving as city attorney of Sterling, and for four years was master
in chancery of the city courts. He is a member of the Commercial
Law League of America and the State Bar Association.

May 15, 1907, he married Miss Eudora Downing, of Dixon.
Their two daughters are Clara, born April 8, 1908, and Mary
Elizabeth, born February 12, 1910. Mr. Stager is a Knight Templar,
a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the
Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity. He has a fine law library of
about 3,000 volumes. The office of the firm of Stager & Stager is
at ii East Third Street, in Sterling.

SAMUEL McKEAN MCCALMONT. The Whiteside County bar has
had one of its ablest members in Samuel M. McCalmont for the
past twenty years. He is now senior member of the firm of McCal-
mont & Ramsay, attorneys, with a large general practice and repre-
sentatives of several corporations, with offices at Morrison.

Samuel McKean McCalmont was born in Ustick township,
Whiteside County, Illinois, December 30, 1867, being the only son
and child of John J. and Sarah E. (McKean) McCalmont. His
early education was acquired in the district school near his home,
and later in the schools of Morrison and Fulton, being graduated
from the Fulton High School in 1888. One year was spent as a
student in the Northern Illinois College at Fulton, and in the fall
of 1889 he entered the University of Michigan, where he was grad-
uated LL. B. in 1892. In June of the same year came his admis-
sion to the bar at Springfield, and for several years he practiced at
Fulton. In March, 1895, Mr. McCalmont removed to Morrison,

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the county seat, and there began a partnership with Judge Frank D.
Ramsay, under the firm name of Ramsay & McCalmont. The firm
was dissolved when Mr. Ramsay was elected to the bench of the
Circuit Court in 1897, and the junior member then practiced alone
until November I, 1899. At that date Luther R. Ramsay, a son of
Judge Ramsay, joined him in practice, making the firm as at present,
McCalmont & Ramsay, which is now one of the oldest legal partner-
ships in point of continuous existence in Whiteside County, having
existed fifteen years.

Mr. McCalmont served as city attorney of Morrison in 1897-98,
and was mayor of the city in 1903-05. For two terms he was
chairman of the Republican County Central Committee of Whiteside
County, the last time in 1912-14. He has served as delegate to
numerous state conventions, having sat in the last convention held
in .the state. The firm of McCalmont & Ramsay act as attorneys
for the Illinois Refrigerator Company and several banking houses
at Morrison, Albany and Erie.

Mr. McCalmont is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, is a republican, and a member of the Presbyterian
Church. November 16, 1898, he married Miss Mary Alice Taylor,
daughter of Dr. Samuel Taylor, of Morrison. Mrs. McCalmont
was educated in the Morrison schools, and is a member of the
Woman's League and other social organizations. Mr. McCalmont
has a library of about 3,000 volumes. His offices are at 127 East
Main Street, and his home at 509 North Genesee Street.

LUTHER R. RAMSAY. Junior member in the law firm of Mc-
Calmont & Ramsay, at Morrison, Luther R. Ramsay is a son of
Judge Frank D. Ramsay, one of the best known circuit judges and
one of the ablest lawyers in Whiteside County.

Luther R. Ramsay was born at Morrison, Illinois, May 18, 1876,
the first of two sons born to Frank D. and Louisa (McKenzie)
Ramsay. Both his parents were natives of Illinois. Mr. Ramsay
acquired his early education in the public schools of Morrison, grad-
uating from the high school in 1894, and then after two years spent
in Oberlin College in Ohio returned to Morrison and entered the
offices of Ramsay & McCalmont, and after the election of his father
to the circuit bench, continued his studies of law under Samuel M.
McCalmont, but with the direction of his father. After three years
he was admitted to the bar at Springfield in October, 1899, and at
that date formed the present partnership with Mr. McCalmont,
under the name of McCalmont & Ramsay, which has now been in
existence for fifteen years. This firm are local attorneys for the
Leander Smith & Son, Bankers ; the First Trust & Savings Bank, of
Albany, and several other banks and corporations. Mr. Ramsav
has applied himself to the law, and has never entered any political
campaigns for the sake of honors for himself. He has a law library
of about 3,000 volumes.

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July 9, 1902, he married Miss Ivy L. Seger, daughter of Dr. C.
V. Seger, of Morrison. Mrs. Ramsay was educated in the public
schools at Morrison and finished in a seminary in Ohio. She is
prominent in club and social circles at Morrison. Mr. Ramsay
is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the Morrison Club and the
Commercial Club. He has recently purchased the old home place
in Morrison, and has remodeled it as a modern and attractive resi-
dence. Mr. Ramsay is a republican in politics. His offices, which
are the finest in Morrison, are at 127 East Main Street, and his
residence at 511 Lincoln Way East. He is a member of the Com-
mercial Law League.

JUDGE CHARLES J. SEARLE is easily one of the lawyers of dis-
tinction in Western Illinois. He is now practicing as senior member
of the firm of Searle & Marshall, at Rock Island. The twenty-five
years since his admission to the bar have been filled with many of
the successes and dignities that go with high professional conduct
and exceptional legal attainments.

Born at Fort Smith, Arkansas, May 16, 1865, he is a son of the
late Colonel E. J. and Cassie R. (Pierce) Searle. Colonel Searle
was one of the pioneers of Rock Island County, served with honor
in the Civil War, and died at his home in Rock Island August 18,
1906, followed by his wife on September 12, 1908.

During his youth Judge Searle resided in various localities and
acquired his education in the public schools of Arkadelphia and
Little Rock, Arkansas, at Chicago and Pana, Illinois. He is a grad-
uate of the Pana High School. At the age of twenty he went out to
Marshall County, Kansas, and did farm work and taught school in
order to gain the funds sufficient to continue his education. While
in Campbell University at Holton, Kansas, he paid part of his ex-
penses by work as a janitor. He finally entered the law department
of the Iowa State University, and was graduated LL. B. with the
highest honors of his class.

Admitted to the bar in 1889, Judge Searle began active practice
at Rock Island. In 1892 he was elected state's attorney for Rock
Island County and re-elected in 1906. In 1899 Governor Tanner
gave him the unsolicited appointment as trustee of the Western
Illinois State Normal School at Macomb. The Legislature had just
given the appropriation for the establishment of this institution.
Judge Searle was elected president of the Board of Trustees, and by
far the greater share of the details and responsibilities connected
with the establishment and the erection of the first buildings for one
of the state's finest educational institutions devolved upon his shoul-
ders. Again without solicitation in 1904 he was appointed by Gov-
ernor Yates one of the judges of the Illinois State Court of Claims
with- the rank and title of judge. This court has jurisdiction in all
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this position he resigned in 1909. Judge Searle has been presented
three times by Rock Island County as candidate for congress, and in
1912 was nominated at the republican primaries and his nomination
was endorsed by the progressive party, but he failed at election by a
small margin. He has served as a delegate to state conventions, is
attorney for the Tri-City Light Company and other corporations
and banks, and is a member of the state and county bar associa-
tions. In 1898 Judge Searle formed a partnership with Charles B.
Marshall under the firm name of Searle & Marshall, and that is
one of the ablest law firms now in practice at Rock Island.

On April 7, 1898, he married Miss Mary Pryce, the daughter of
John J. and Margaret Pryce, of Coal Valley, Illinois. They have
three children : Franklin, Charles and Margaret.

JOHN A. RIORDON. Now serving his fourth term as city attorney
of Morrison, John A. Riordon has been in active practice of the law
in that city for the past fifteen years. He grew up on a farm in
Whiteside County, and it was while a boy on the farm that he
made the resolution which determined upon the law as his pro-
fession, and the years of his practice have demonstrated the wis-
dom of that choice.

John A. Riordon was born in Newton Township, Whiteside
County, Illinois, August 24, 1876, the fifth in a family of nine chil-
dren born to Bartholomew M. and Ellen B. (Kane) Riordon. His
father was a native of Vermont and his mother of New Jersey, and
the former grew up on a farm and made farming his lifelong work.
He came to Illinois in 1852, after having lived a short time in Wis-
consin.

John A. Riordon acquired his early education in the district
schools in Newton township, at the age of nineteen determined to
prepare for the law, and thereafter directed all his studies and pur-
suits in such a way as to enter the profession well qualified and in
the soonest possible time. In 1897 he entered the Northern Illinois
College at Fulton, having previously taken a business course at
Clinton, Iowa. He was graduated from the Northern Illinois Col-
lege in June, 1900, and in the meantime had carried on the study
of law in the office of Charles C. McMahon, of Fulton. In the
spring of 1900 Mr. Riordon was admitted to the bar at Chicago,
and in January of the following year began his active practice at
Morrison, forming a partnership with William A. Blodgett, under
the firm name of Blodgett & Riordon. On December i, 1910, Mr.
Blodgett began his duties as county judge of Whiteside County and
since that time Mr. Riordon has had an individual practice. He was
elected city attorney of Morrison in 1909, and is now serving his
fourth consecutive term. He is also attorney for the Morrison
State Bank and attorney and legal adviser for other banks and
corporations. He has been a delegate to several state conventions.

Mr. Riordon was married February 20, 1908, to Miss Daisy M.

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Boyd, daughter of Peter R. and Elizabeth A. (Fraser) Boyd of
Morrison. Mrs. Riordon was educated in the schools at Morrison,
finishing at Dixon, Illinois, and is an active member of the literary
and other women's clubs. Mr. Riordon is a democrat in politics,
and has affiliations with the Masonic order, including the thirty-
second degree of Scottish Rite, and with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks. He has a fine law library of about 700
volumes. His office is at 100 South Cherry Street, and his home
at 530 East Main Street.

HON. SUMNEU S. ANDERSON was born in Coles County, Illinois,
and is a son of James M. and Dorothy A. (Leitch) Anderson.
James M. Anderson was a native of Virginia but spent the greater
part of his life as a farmer in Illinois. He married Dorothy A.
Leitch, who was born in Coles County. They were people of ex-
cellent standing and ample resources and were well known in this
section of the state. Robert Leitch, a native of old Virginia, the
maternal grandfather of Judge Anderson, was a pioneer of the finest
type, of superior ability and was one of the first county judges
of Coles County. Sumner S. Anderson received an academic educa-
tion, taught school, read law in the office of his uncle, the late Samuel
M. Leitch, attended special courses of instruction at the University
of Michigan and later — 1888 — graduated from the law department
of that university.

One who was closely associated with him at this time afterward
spoke admiringly of his earnestness and perseverance as a student,
of his mental capacity and of his moral courage, qualities notably
present in his subsequent career. He established himself in prac-
tice at Charleston, where he was elected city attorney early in prac-
tice and served also as a member of the county board of super-
visors. In 1894 he was elected county judge of Coles County by
1,000 majority. He was but a young- man then, the youngest county
judge in the state, but his knowledge of law was sound and his
decisions correct, for out of twenty cases appealed from his deci-
sions to the Supreme Court, all but two were affirmed. Judge
Anderson served out his full term but declined re-election, prefer-
ring to devote himself entirely to his private practice, which has
grown to include much of the most important litigation and legal
business within his region. He is a dependable man along every
line, public spirited and exerts an influence in many circles that is
highly beneficial because of its practicality. He is a valued member
of the Coles County Bar Association and of the State Bar Asso-
ciation of Illinois. To sortie degree political affairs in the state
have claimed his attention and from 1900 to 1902 he was chairman
of the Republican Congressional Committee of the old Nineteenth
District. He has honorably filled civic positions at different times
and for a number of years has been president of the Charleston

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public library board. He has long been an active member of the
Presbyterian Church and has been elected and served as delegate
to the General Assembly — The Supreme Court — of that church.

Judge Anderson was married in 1895 to Miss Mary Piper, a
daughter of the late Rev. James A. Piper, who was pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church at Charleston for a quarter of a century.
They reside at No. 1060 South Seventh Street, Charleston.

JUDGE JOHN BUEL CRABTREE. Now serving as county judge of
Lee County, Judge Crabtree is a son of the late Judge John Dawson
Crabtree, who for a number of years was a distinguished lawyer of
Northern Illinois, and held the office of judge of the Circuit Court
in the Thirteenth Judicial District. The name has been identified
with the legal profession in that section of Illinois for nearly half a
century.

The late John Dawson Crabtree was born at Nottingham, Eng-
land, November 19, 1837, came to America in 1848, and located
at Dixon, Illinois, in 1853. He finished his education in the public
schools at Dixon, and in 1861 went from that town as a Union
soldier, enlisting in Company A of the Thirteenth Regiment of
Illinois Infantry. Though entering as a private he was soon
advanced to the rank of lieutenant, later to captain, and at the date
of his discharge on August 16, 1864, was brevetted with the rank
of major. On his return to Dixon he took up the study of law, was
admitted to the bar in 1866, and in the same year was elected state
senator on the republican. ticket. He continued in active practice
and was rated as one of the foremost members of the Lee County
bar. In 1888 he was elected judge of the Circuit Court, was re-
elected in 1891 without opposition, and in 1897 was returned to the
office, which his services had dignified and distinguished for nearly
ten years, but his death occurred May 22, 1902, one year before
the expiration of his term.

John Buel Crabtree was born at Dixon, Illinois, July 12, 1876,
acquired his early education in the public schools, graduating from
high school in June, 1894, and after some miscellaneous occupation
entered the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1898, and was
graduated A. B. in 1901. He had in the meantime studied law, and
in 1901 was admitted to the Illinois bar at Springfield, and began
practice soon after returning home from Madison in 1902. Mr.
Crabtree served as a justice of the peace in 1908-09, and on Novem-
ber 3, 1914, was elected county judge of Lee County for the regular
term of four years. He has been active both in the law and in busi-
ness affairs, and was the first secretary, and is now president and
treasurer of the Dixon Water Company, having succeeded his father
in the latter office. He is also secretary of the Lee County Bar
Association.

John B. Crabtree was married May 27, 1914, to Miss Edna
Dobbie, daughter of Alexander Dobbie, of Salida, Colorado. Mrs.

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Crabtree received her education in the Salida public schools. Judge
Crabtree is affiliated with the Masonic order, in which his father was
also a well-known member, has been junior warden, and is a past
exalted ruler in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He
is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politic-
ally he is republican and is a member of the Baptist Church. His
office is in the Loftus Building, in Dixon, and his home at 412 East
Third Street.

HIRAM A. BROOKS. Senior member of the firm of Brooks &
Brooks, at Dixon, Hiram A. Brooks has been in active practice more
than twenty years, is regarded as one of the ablest members of the
Lee County bar, and represents a family that has been identified
with this section of Illinois since 1837. The Brooks estate in Lee
County has been in the family name more than three-quarters of a
century. The original ancestors came from England and Scotland,
and settled at Hartford, Connecticut.

Hiram A. Brooks was born in Marion township of Lee County,
September 19, 1868, a son of Benjamin F. and Susan O. (Morris)
Brooks. His early education came from the district and village
schools of Lee County, with later attendance at Dixon College, and
in 1890 he graduated from the Northern Illinois Normal School, at
Dixon. In May, 1891, Mr. Brooks began the study of law in the
office and under the direction of William Barge, of Dixon, and was
admitted to the bar at Ottawa in May, 1893. Since the following
year he has been in active general practice at Dixon. He has never
mingled in politics, served two years as city attorney, and at a recent
election for mayor was defeated by the narrow margin of sixty-
three votes. During the campaign he never left his office in the
interest of his candidacy nor made a single speech. His present
political affiliation is with the socialist party.

Mr. Brooks was married in 1893 to Miss Mary S. Fisher, of
Dixon. She died April i, 1900, leaving a son, Byron A. Brooks,
who was born February I, 1897. On June 20, 1903, Mr. Brooks
married Mrs. Lottie Baldwin, widow of Major Baldwin of the
Spanish-American War. Mr. Brooks has his office on Galena Av-
enue and his residence at the corner of Cranford and Seventh
Streets.

CLARENCE C. BROOKS. Junior member of the firm of Brooks &
Brooks, at Dixon, Clarence C. Brooks was born in Marion town-
ship, Lee County, April 12, 1879, being one of the younger children
of Benjamin F. and Susan (Morris) Brooks. He grew up in the
country, acquired an education in the public schools, and in 1903
graduated from Dixon College. His law studies were carried on in
the office and under the direction of his brother, Hiram A., and
since his admission to the bar at Mount Vernon, in 1906, he has been

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in active partnership with his older brother, and the firm enjoy a
large business in all the courts of Lee County.

JUDGE GEORGE A. COOKE. Since 1909 the broad experience of
Judge Cooke as a lawyer has been read into the decisions of the Illi-
nois Supreme Court, where he is recognized as one of its ablest mem-
bers. Judge Cooke is a resident of Aledo, began practice there
twenty years ago, and was elected a judge of the Supreme Court in
September, 1909, as a successor of his former law partner, the late
Judge Guy C. Scott. Judge Cooke, in 1912, was re-elected for the
full term of nine years.

George Anderson Cooke was born July 3, 1869, at New Athens,
Ohio, the second of three children born to Dr. Thomas and Vanceline
(Downing) Cooke. His father was born at New Athens in 1843,
and died in May, 1872, and the mother was also a native of the same
place and died in June, 1880. The Cooke ancestors were Scotch-
Irish, and settled in Pennsylvania. Judge Cooke was the first of the
family to come to Illinois, and has been a resident of Mercer
County since 1880. He had attended the district schools of Ohio,
and continued his education after coming to Mercer County for six
years in the public schools. In 1886 he entered the Aledo High
School, graduating in 1888, and in the same year matriculated in
Knox College at Galesburg, where he was graduated A. B. in 1892.
At the age of seventeen Judge Cooke had definitely determined upon
the law as his profession, but while securing a thorough foundation
of learning in high school and college was unable to take up his
studies until 1892, when he became a student in the office of Pepper
& Scott at Aledo. He was admitted to the bar at Mount Vernon in
1895, practiced for eight months in Galesburg, and in 1896 formed
a partnership with Judge Guy C. Scott at Aledo under the name
Scott & Cooke, which was in active practice from 1896 to 1899.
Judge Cook.e then formed a partnership with John F. Main, who is
now one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Wash-
ington, but after one year Mr. Main went out to Seattle. His part-
ner for the following five years was Alexander McArthur, and then
John M. Wilson became associated with him in practice and con-
tinued until elected state's attorney of Mercer County in 1908. Mr.
Wilson is the present state's attorney of Mercer County. Judge
Cooke then continued practice alone until his election September
25, 1909, as judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois from the Fourth
district to fill the unexpired term of Judge Guy C. Scott, who had
died a short time before. In June, 1912, Judge Cooke was elected
for the regular term.

Judge Cooke was a member of the Illinois Legislature from
1902 to 1906, representing the Thirty-third district. In politics he
is a democrat, and both in the law and public affairs made a reputa-
tion for thorough learning and general ability. He has a law library
of about 2,500 volumes. Judge Cooke is a thirty.-second degree

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Mason, a Knight Templar and Mystic Shriner, and has affiliations
with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. He is a member of the University Club of Chicago, of the
Iroquois Club of Chicago, the Rock Island Club of Rock Island
and the Aledo Club of Aledo. His college fraternity is the Beta
Theta Pi, and he is a member of both the State and County Bar
Associations. His church is the Presbyterian.

Judge Cooke was married October 20, 1896, to Miss Sarah S.
Blee, a daughter of Robert and Martha J. Blee of Aledo. Mrs.
Cooke is prominent in women's club and social work, and is a grad-
uate of the Aledo High School and of Knox College. Their chil-
dren are : Marjorie, born July 29, 1898, and attending Drury
Academy of Aledo; Martha, born April 17, 1900, also a student in
Drury; George Blee, born October 22, 1904, and in the public
schools at Aledo; and Thomas Blee, born September I, 1908.

ISAAC NEWTON BASSETT. At the time of this writing Isaac N.
Bassett of Aledo is the oldest attorney in active practice in the
State of Illinois. He is senior member of the prominent firm of
Bassett, Morgan & Hebel. When Mr. Bassett was admitted to the
Illinois bar in the fall of 1854, Abraham Lincoln was at the zenith
of his career as a lawyer, and was still riding circuit out of Spring-
field. Many other eminent men in Illinois law and politics were
then in the prime of their powers, and Mr. Bassett has a range of
personal association and recollection such as probably no other
lawyer in the state at this time possesses.

Isaac Newton Bassett was born September 8, 1825, nearly ninety
years ago, in Lewis County, Kentucky, near Portsmouth, Ohio. His
parents were Isaac and Frances A. (Hall) Bassett. His father was
born August 4, 1791, in New Jersey and died in 1863. The mother
was born in Ohio May 27, 1797. There were fourtteen children in
the family, the Aledo lawyer being fifth in order of. birth. His
brother John R. also became a prominent lawyer, and for years they
were associated in practice.

Isaac N. Bassett spent his boyhood at a time when schools were
of the most primitive character throughout the middle \vestern coun-
try, and all his education, so far as schools were concerned, came
from a log schoolhouse, which had the slab seats, the rough desks
and all the equipment made so familiar to readers of pioneer chron-
icles. He attended such a school during winter season and worked
on a farm during the summer. At the age of fourteen his school
days were over, and after that he attended neither public school nor
college. The rest of his boyhood was spent on a farm and when
about twenty-one he and his brother, Luke Allan, engaged in the
merchandise business, spending about three years in that field. In
1850 Mr. Bassett began reading law, and his brother John also took
up the same study, and they spent their spare time for the next
four years in acquiring the fundamentals of jurisprudence.

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Mr. Bassett came to Illinois in 1852, locating at New Boston.
He was admitted to the Illinois bar before the Supreme Court in
October, 1854, and in the following spring began active practice and
settled at Keithsburg. He has had many partners in the course
of his long career and a number of men now prominent in the pro-
fession look back with gratefulness to instruction and help they
have received from this venerable attorney. In 1858 his firm in
one term of court appeared in 341 cases. Mr. Bassett practiced
with Elias Willits under the firm name of Willits & Bassett for one
year, after which he was alone a year, and then formed a partner-
ship with his brother John R., Mr. Willits having also returned from
Chicago, making the triple alliance of Bassett, Willits & Bassett.
This partnership continued until February, 1860. At that time Mr.
Bassett moved out to Denver, Colorado, on account of the poor
health of his wife, who died at Denver. Mr. Bassett was a resident
of that western city about one year, and while there was associated
in practice with Daniel C. Collier under the name Bassett & Collier.
In 1860 he was elected city attorney of Denver, being one of the
first to hold that office. After the death of Mrs. Bassett he returned
to Aledo and resumed practice with his brother John under the name
of J. R. & I. N. Bassett. In 1869 J. H. Connell was taken in as
partner, and after 1874 Mr. Bassett was alone in practice for one
year. His next partner was John C. Wharton, and the firm of Bas-
sett & Wharton was prominent in the Mercer County bar until 1888,
at which time Mr. Wharton moved out to Omaha. Mr. Bassett then
took into partnership his son Thomas W., who practiced with him
until 1903, when the son moved out to Seattle. Oscar E. Carlstrom
was then his associate for one year, and in 1906 George B. Morgan
formed a partnership with Mr. Bassett, and in 1907 David A. Hebel
was added to the firm. This made the name Bassett, Morgan &
Hebel, which still continues. About two years ago Mr. Morgan
removed to California, but at his own request the firm name has not
been changed.

Mr. Bassett first married March 4, 1847, Scienda Isle Moore of
Scioto County, Ohio. Mrs. Bassett died January 24, 1861. Her
children were : Fletcher S., deceased, who was a lieutenant in the
United States navy ; Clayton W., who died at the age of ten years ;
Flora A., widow of William N. Graham; Laura M., who lives with
her father ; Thomas W., an attorney at Kent, Washington ; Luella,
wife of James S. Adams of Galesburg. On February 26, 1862, Mr.
Bassett married Mrs. Caroline Yerty of Aledo. She was a widow
and had a daughter, Clara Yerty, who married O. J. Ingmire of
Aledo and now of Galesburg. She died in 1908 without children.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Bassett are: Ray H., who died at
the age of thirteen ; Bertram, who died when three years old ; Victor
Hugo, who is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and now a
resident of Savannah, Georgia; and Bessie, who lives at home.
Mrs. Bassett died January 29, 1910.

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Mr. Bassett has had many interesting experiences both as a
lawyer and man of affairs. He assisted in 1854 in the organization
of the republican party in Mercer County, and in the same year was
elected a member of the first board of -supervisors for the new
county, and in the same year also assisted in forming the first agri-
cultural society of Mercer County. In the fall of 1855 he was
elected county treasurer, and by re-election in 1857 held the office
four years. He served as master in chancery during 1857-58, and
was a director of the public schools for about four years. He was
one of the organizers and a charter member of the Illinois State Bar
Association, and for the past twenty years has been president of the
Mercer County Bar Association. As a lawyer his large practice
has extended not only over Mercer County, but across the river in
Louisa County, Iowa, and he has been leading counsel in many
cases tried at Burlington and other courts in Iowa, including the
Supreme Court. Mr. Bassett was editor of a history of Mercer
County, which was recently published. Politically he is now a
progressive republican. He has fraternal affiliations with the
Masonic order, and for ten years served as superintendent of the
Methodist Sunday School and for twenty years of the Sunday
School of the Congregational Church. He still maintains his offices
in the Farmers National Bank Building at Aledo, and looks after
affairs and gives the benefit of his experience in legal matters,
having handled a large volume of law business during the years
1914 and 1915.

ROBERT L. WATSON. Admitted to the bar in 1894, Robert
L. Watson has been continuously engaged in the successful prac-
tice of law at Aledo for twenty years, and is now master in chan-
cery for the Mercer County Circuit Court.

Robert L. Watson was born August I, 1870, in Mercer«County, <
Illinois, a son of William W. and Elizabeth (Erwin) Watson. His
father was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, in 1832, fol-
lowed a career as teacher for most of his life, and died in 1904.
The mother was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, in 1834
and died in 1902. Of the two children, Nannie married Marion J.
Merriman.

The early education of Robert L. Watson was acquired in the
common schools of New Windsor in Mercer County, spending ten
years there, and then one year in Wheaton College at Wheaton,
Illinois. Mr. Watson was a teacher for five years, and in 1892
began the study of law in the office of Wilson & Church at Aledo.
At Mount Vernon before the Supreme Court in its November ses-
sion in 1894 he was admitted to the bar, and returning to Aledo
began practice with W. T. Church as a partner under the firm
name of Church & Watson. This firm continued until the election
of Mr. Church as county judge and since that time Mr. Watson
has practiced alone, enjoying extensive relations with the legal

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business of Mercer County. In 1913 he was appointed master in
chancery of the Circuit Court.

March 6, 1901, Mr. Watson married Besse L. Wolff, daughter
of Edward L. and Frances A. Wolff of Aledo. Their three children
are: Frances Elizabeth, born September 20, 1904; Edward W.,
born November 8, 1906; and Jean, born September 25, 1911. Mrs.
Watson is a graduate of Knox College in the class of 1896, is a
member of the P. E. O. Sisterhood and of other woman's clubs.
Mr. Watson is a Scottish Rite, York Rite and Shriner Mason, and
is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the
Modern W7oodmen of America. Active in the Presbyterian Church
and an elder, he is also treasurer of the endowment fund for the
Presbyterian College. He is a republican and is a member of the
State and County Bar associations.

JOHN M. WILSON. Since 1908 Mr. Wilson has been state's
attorney of Mercer County. His record as a vigorous prosecutor is
well known to both the bar and the general public in that county,
and he is regarded as one of the ablest young lawyers in the Mercer
County bar.

John M. Wilson was born April 8, 1883, in Henderson County,
Illinois. His father, Oscar A. Wilson, was a native of Mercer
County, is now deceased, and belonged to an old family in Western
Illinois. The mother, whose maiden name was Frances McPhee,
was born in New York State and is still living. There were eight
children, fifth among whom was Jonn M.

His early education was acquired while living on a farm in the
district schools, and at the age of nine he entered the Keithsburg
public schools, graduating from the high school in 1898. Then
after a course in a business college in 1900 he took up the study of
law with the late Judge Guy C. Scott, subsequently a justice of the
Illinois Supreme Court. He continued with Judge Scott two years,
then was in the office of Judge W. T. Church one year, and in July,
1904, was admitted to the bar at Chicago. Mr. Wilson began prac-
tice at Aledo with Mr. F. L. Church under the name Church & Wil-
son. A year and a half later he became a partner of Judge Cooke,
now a member of the Illinois Supreme Court, and the firm of Cooke
& Wilson existed three years. In 1908 Mr. Wilson was elected
state's attorney of Mercer County, and was re-elected in 1912. On
December 12, 1912, he formed a partnership for the practice of law
with James A. Allen, and their relationship still continues.

Mr. Wilson was married August 7, 1906, to Miss Edith M.
Black, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Black of Aledo. They
are the parents of three children, as follows: Elizabeth M., born
January 6, 1909; John C., born October 21, 1910; and Frances
Louise, born November 22, 1912. Mrs. Wilson is a member of the
P. E. O. society. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic
order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the

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World, and he is a member of the Aledo Club. For several years
past he has served as president of the Aledo Board of Education.
Mr. Wilson is a sterling republican and a member of the Presby-
terian Church.

JAMES W. WATTS. A distinguished member of the Dixon bar
and an acknowledged authority in the domain of law, is Hon. James
W. Watts, formerly president of the James W. Watts College of
Law, at Dixon, and at present, by appointment of the Supreme
Court, a member of the Board of Law Examiners of the State of
Illinois. For many years taking part in almost all of the prominent
or important trials in this section, his course was so fair and honor-
able and his knowledge of every branch of law so profound, that a
natural result was his invitation to assume the head of the law
department of Dixon College and his subsequent career through
many useful years, as a teacher of law and jurisprudence. The
influence of his teaching is reflected in the personnel of the Lee
County and other county bars noted for their high professional
ethics as well as sound knowledge. Under his instruction the
younger students became enthusiastic and learned not only every
law of procedure and practice but also learned that trickery, dis-
honesty and sharp practice have no place in the qualifications of a
lawyer who hopes for eminence.

James W. Watts was born near Terre Haute, Indiana, November
1 8, 1849, and in 1853 accompanied his parents to Ogle County,
Illinois. He attended the public schools and when twenty years of
age began to teach school and continued to be a country school
teacher in Lee County for the next three years. In 1872 he went
to Ashton and applied himself to the preliminary study of law until
the fall of 1874, when he entered the law department of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, where he was graduated March 30, 1876. He
was admitted to the bar of Illinois at Ottawa, Illinois, January 15,
1878, and began practice at Ashton. For nine years Mr. Watts
continued professional work at that place, removing from there
in the fall of 1886 and located permanently at Dixon. On June 10,
1889, he entered upon the duties of dean of the law department of
Dixon College, and ever since has continued an instructor in the
law in that institution.

In May, 1913, the students of the law department of the North-
ern Illinois College of Law organized the James W. Watts College
of Law, of which Mr. Watts served as president as long as he found
time to give to the enterprise, the college being discontinued on his
retirement, in June, 1914. His recent appointment by the Supreme
Court as a member of the Illinois Board of Law Examiners has met
with the approval of both bench and bar.

At Ashton, Illinois, May 25, 1875, Mr. Watts was married to
Miss Mary Alice Williams, and they have one daughter, Mrs. Clea
Bunnell, who is the widow of Edwin M. Bunnell, who died Novem-

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ber 22, 1899. Two sons survive him and they, with their mother,
reside with Mr. and Mrs. Watts. The family belongs to the
Methodist Church.

In politics a strong republican, Mr. Watts has honorably
worked for his party's success. At times he has accepted public
responsibilities, although never an office seeker, serving for five
years as town assessor while living at Ashton, and in 1881 as super-
visor. In 1889 he was elected a justice of the peace at Dixon and
served until May i, 1898, and for fifteen consecutive years served
as president of the North Dixon Board of Education. Possessed
of a genial personality and inviting presence, Mr. Watts has been
an ideal educator and his admirers and grateful students may be
found in many sections of the country. He has long been identified
fraternally with the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Elks and the
Modern Woodmen. The family resides in a desirable residential
section of this exceedingly beautiful little city, on North Ottawa
Avenue, Mr. Watts maintaining his private office at No. 122 South
Galena Avenue.

HARRY EDWARDS. The people of Lee County have found many
reasons to congratulate themselves upon the efficiency of their
state's attorney, and as a result of the popular judgment Mr.
Edwards has been identified with this office for thirteen years, six
years as assistant and since 1908 as the chief prosecutor. His
excellent service in that capacity practically tells the story of his
professional career up to the present time.

The Edwards family were among the pioneers of Lee County,
where they settled about 1849. Mr. Edwards' ancestors came from
Hampshire County, England, lived in New York f.or a time, and his
grandfather soon afterward proved his loyalty to his adopted coun-
try by serving as a soldier in the Mexican war under General Scott,
and not long after the close of that contest he moved to Illinois.
Harry Edwards was born at Friend, Nebraska, June 27, 1880, his
parents, William H. and Eva A. (LaPorte) Edwards, having gone
from Illinois to Nebraska. Mr. Edwards has a brother Frank who
is a merchant.

His early education was received while his parents lived at Paw
Paw in Lee County, but at the age of twelve the family moved to
Dixon, and they lived in that city ever since. He graduated from
the Dixon High School in 1898, subsequently was a student at
Dixon College, and in the fall of 1899 entered the University of
Wisconsin, where he remained two years. Immediately after his
admission to the bar at Springfield in October 17, 1902, he took up
practice at Dixon, and in the same year was appointed assistant
state's attorney. This was a valuable experience, and the vigor with
which he performed his duties led to his election as state's attorney
in 1908, and in 1912 there came a re-election for another four-year
term. Mr. Edwards is not married and lives with his parents at

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516 Hennepin Avenue in Dixon. Mr. Edwards has a fine law
library and has his office on Galena Avenue. He is affiliated with
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and in politics is a
republican.

HON. SOLON PHILBRICK. Distinguished in the law before he
had reached middle life and elevated to the bench a few years later
because of his eminent judicial character and professional attain-
ments, the late Hon. Solon Philbrick was one of the distinguished
men of his day in Illinois. He was a great lawyer, an able and
fearless judge, a man of impressive personality, and a citizen who
cherished as his life the honor of family, profession and country.

As long as he lived, Judge Philbrick was proud that he was a
native of Illinois, born at Adeline, in Ogle County, June 20, 1860.
He was one of a family of five children born to Mayo H. and
Mary (McFarland) Philbrick. His father, born in 1828, was a
merchant during his entire active life.

From the public schools, in which he was an unusually apt stu-
dent, the youth entered the University of Illinois, where he was
graduated in 1884, immediately afterward applying himself to the
study of law and securing admission to the bar in 1887. Mr. Phil-
brick then entered into a law partnership with George W. Gere, of
Champaign, and very soon this firm became widely known for its
professional ability, Mr. Philbrick's eloquence combined with his
profound knowledge of every point of law, rapidly bringing him
into the public limelight. It was no surprise to his brethren of the
bar when he was appointed to the circuit bench, in the Sixth Judi-
cial District, to succeed Judge Francis M. Wright, who had resigned
to accept another position. In 1903 Judge Philbrick was elected
circuit judge for the full term and in 1909 was re-elected, and
shortly after was appointed by the Supreme Court of Illinois one
of the judges of the Third District Appellate Court of the state, and
served in both capacities up to the time of his sudden death, on
April 13, 1914. His passing was typical of his life, in that, when
called, it was when at the post of duty, being fatally stricken while
sitting at a session of the Appellate Court.

In his knowledge of law, Judge Philbrick probably had few
equals and he was looked on as an authority and his opinion when
in practice at the bar was usually held as final on any subject. As
a judge he showed the great exactness and clearness of his intellect
and in his judicial decisions never made a mistake. He entertained
high ideals of his profession and as an official knew no right nor
left, every case commanding his fair and impartial attention. His
heart was big but his mind was trained, and to him a judicial deci-
sion was a thing entirely apart from either his or a litigant's person-
ality. Thus Judge Philbrick dignified the bench and elevated it to
its proper position. It would be impossible to think of him as ever
being swayed officially by politics or by prejudice. The loss of such
an upright man, aside from official position, is a deep loss to any

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community. In a signed memorial prepared by the DeWitt County
bar, the following words occur: "His private life was above
reproach. He was of kindly spirit and clean thought, a man who
always paid to true merit its just tribute. He always placed moral
wrorth and good deeds prominently above mere wealth or public
station. He was of courageous thought and had the bravery of his
convictions. He was outspoken in his condemnation of evil and
always stood for the betterment of mankind. He was a kind and
loving father and husband, and a true citizen." Other resolutions,
from various bodies, were equally appreciative of him as a man
and universally called attention to his life of useful achievement in
professional and public life.

Judge Philbrick was married on May 28, 1891, to Miss Caroline
J. Thomas, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mrs. Philbrick is a daughter
of Daniel M. and Louise L. (Fletcher) Thomas. Her father was
born at Columbus, Ohio, in 1810, followed farming through his
active life, retiring in 1872, and died in October, 1880. He married
Louise L. Fletcher, who was born at Troy, New York, in 1822, and
died in Champaign County in 1899. They had five children. Two
daughters were born to Judge and Mrs. Philbrick, Lois and Gladys,
who reside with their mother in the beautiful family home at
Champaign.

Judge Philbrick with his family attended the Presbyterian
Church. He was a man who evinced a desire to conceal the extent
of his charities, although known to be a man of the most benevolent
impulses. He was true and deep in his attachments to family and
friends. As a citizen he ever lived up to the full demands of his
privileges and was identified with the republican party. His interest
in the County and State Bar associations was well known and his
membership in these bodies was very highly valued by his associates.
His responsible duties for many years left him with only a small
measure of time for recreation or social life, but he treasured his
long time connection with such representative fraternal organiza-
tions as the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks.

JUDGE WILLIAM T. CHURCH. As a result of the recent judicial
election in Illinois there are two brothers at Aledo, in Mercer
County, formerly associated as partners in private practice, who
are now filling judicial positions, one of them on the county bench
and the other as one of the judges of the Fourteenth Judicial Cir-
cuit of Illinois. So far as known this is the only case on record in
Illinois where two brothers in the same county have almost coinci-
dently been honored with judicial responsibility. Mr. Friend L.
Church was elected county judge of Mercer County in November,
1914, while William T. Church was elevated to the bench of the
Fourteenth Judicial Circuit on June 7, 1915.

These brothers are the only two children of Thomas and Jennie

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(Childs) Church, who were long substantial farmers and highly
respected people of New Boston Township in Mercer County.
William T. Church was born on their farm March 10, 1871, and has
now been an active member of the Mercer County bar more than
twenty- two years. He has enjoyed a large private practice, and
his two terms as county judge made him well known not only in his
home county but in several adjoining counties in the northwestern
corner of the state.

Up to the age of eleven William T. Church attended country
school in New Boston Township, spent three years in the Joy public
schools and then three years in the New Boston High School. At
the age of eighteen he determined upon the law as his profession,
and began working and saving in order to secure money sufficient
to defray his expenses while studying and getting established in
practice. In March, 1889, he finished the course of the Iowa Com-
mercial College at Davenport, and in June of the same year began
reading law with James M. Brock, at that time state's attorney of
Mercer County. After one year with Mr. Brock he entered the law
department of the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington,
and was graduated LL. B. in June, 1891. In May of that year he
passed the bar examinations at Springfield, and after spending some
time looking around for a suitable location came to Aledo, where in
July, 1892, he formed a partnership with Judge J. M. Wilson. They
were together in practice three years, and he then became associated
with Robert L. Watson under the firm name of Church & Watson.
Their relations continued until about the time Mr. Church was
elected in November, 1898, as judge of Mercer County. He was
re-elected in 1902, thus giving two full terms to the office. On
retiring from the county bench he formed a partnership with his
brother, Friend L. Church, and the firm of Church & Church
enjoyed a large and substantial practice in all the courts of Mercer
County until by reason of the successive elections above noted they
dissolved partnership.

Judge Church while county judge of Mercer County was called
to hold court in the counties of Rock Island, Henderson, Warren
and Knox, and at one time was acting county judge of Henderson
County six months. During his term as county judge in 1903 he
was defeated by just one vote for the nomination for the office of
circuit judge, so that the honors of that position were delayed until
his recent election, twelve years later. His public record also
includes several terms as mayor of Aledo, and it was during his
administration that the sewer system was inaugurated. In addition
to his legal practice Judge Church has always been strongly identi-
fied with business affairs and has been especially earnest and urgent
for every business and civic improvement for Aledo and vicinity.

Judge Church is a lodge and chapter Mason, a member of the
Knights of Pythias and several other fraternal societies, and belongs
to the Rock Island Club and the Aledo Club. Politically he is a

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republican, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. His law
offices are in the Mercer Building. November 7, 1894, Judge
Church married Bertha Boyd, daughter of Martin and Lyclia Boyd
of Aledo.

FRIEND L. CHURCH. Junior member of the law firm of Church
& Church at Aledo, Friend L. Church has spent all his life in Mercer
County, and has practiced law since 1902. While a republican he
has never mingled in politics for the sake of himself until 1914,
when he was nominated by his party for the office of county judge,
and at the November election of 1914 was elected.

Friend L. Church was born in New Boston Township, Mercer
County, September 18, 1877. He and his brother, William T.
Church, are the only children of Thomas and Jennie (Childs)
Church. His life was spent on a farm until the age of seventeen,
during which time he attended country schools, and in 1898 grad-
uated from the Geneseo Collegiate Institute, studied law with his
brother one year while the latter was county judge, and then
entered the law department of the Illinois Wesleyan University at
Bloomington, and in 1901 and 1902 attended the law department of
Northwestern University in Chicago. Mr. Church was admitted to
the bar at Ottawa April 3, 1902, and after a brief practice alone
formed a partnership in 1903 with John M. Wilson, present state's
attorney of Mercer County, and that relationship continued about
two years. December i, 1906, about the time his brother retired
from the office of county judge, a partnership was formed under
the name Church & Church, which existed until Friend L. Church
was elected county judge. During his practice Mr. Church has han-
dled a number of estates in the County Court of Mercer County,
and has enjoyed a large general clientele as a lawyer. He is known
among his associates as a hard worker, and always faithful to the
interests entrusted to his management. Judge Church married No-
vember i, 1905, Rose W. McManus, daughter of William and Mary
McManus of Aledo. Judge Church is a republican and a member
of the Presbyterian Church.

W. S. FORREST has been an active member of the Chicago bar
for more than thirty-five years. In that time he has become chiefly
distinguished for his successful work in the criminal law. He has
conducted the defense in numerous celebrated cases, and partici-
pated in the prosecution of criminal cases which attracted wide
attention. Since 1880 he has been identified with the defense in
upwards of 300 trials. Some of the cases, wherein the defense was
conducted by Mr. Forrest, which ended in verdicts of not guilty,
are the following:

Lamb (second trial), O'Malley, Baginski, Kief el, Von Bieden-
field, Slattery, Cassiday, and Maney, each of whom was charged
with murder; Dalton (second trial), Becker, Monroe, Kahn, Cun-

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ningham, and McLain, each of whom was charged with using the
mails in and for executing a scheme to defraud ; Bridgef ord,
Spaulding, and Chandler, each of whom was charged with embezzle-
ment ; all the leading milk-dealers in Chicago, who were charged in
1908 with a conspiracy to raise and fix the price of milk to the
public ; Perry, who was charged with arson ; Loerrler, Wheeler and
others (the tunnel case), who were charged with conspiracy to
forge the records of the City Council of Chicago ; Carney, who was
charged with mayhem ; Annenberg, who was charged with assault
with intent to kill and murder; Abrams, who was charged with
falsification of record of votes cast at public election ; Peasley and
Johnson, who were charged with manslaughter by criminal negli-
gence in the erection of 16 steel arches in the Coliseum in Chicago;
Lenehan, who was charged with forging a juror's time card; Cor-
coran and McAbee, who were charged with conspiracy to procure
persons to vote in the names of other persons ; Hanley, who was
charged with willful departure from the schedule rates in interstate
commerce ; the directors of the Stensland Bank in Chicago, for
receiving deposits knowing the bank to be insolvent.

Mr. Forrest also participated in the prosecution of the following
criminal cases : Mannow and Windrath, at Chicago, Illinois, mur-
der, penalty, death ; Lake and Griswold, at Waukegan, Illinois,
murder, penalty, life imprisonment; Chapman and others, at Chi-
cago Illinois, conspiracy to deprive qualified voters of the right to
vote by the abuse of the right of challenge, penalty, eighteen
months in the penitentiary ; Alexander Jester, at New London, Mis-
souri, murder, acquitted.

Mr. Forrest secured the reversal of the judgments in the follow-
ing criminal cases either in the Supreme Court of Illinois, or the
Illinois Appellate Court of the First District, or in the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: Lamb (first
trial), charge, murder; Cohen, charge, receiving stolen goods; Gra-
ham, charge, attempt to obtain money by means of the confidence
game ; \Varfield, charge, conspiracy to obtain money by means of
the confidence game; McDonald, charge, conspiracy to defraud
Cook County; Brennan and McCarle, charge, conspiracy to procure
persons to vote in the names of other persons ; Tilden and Graham^
charge, forging fictitious promissory notes ; Miller, charge, using
the mails in and for executing a scheme to defraud; Dalton (first
and third cases), charge, using the mails in and for executing a
scheme to defraud.

Mr. Forrest has also participated in the trial of numerous civil
cases.

Born at Baltimore, Maryland, July 9, 1856, William S. Forrest
was graduated A. B. from Dartmouth College in 1875, and for three
years was sub-master of the High School at Somerville, Massachu-
setts. He took up the study of law while teaching and during vaca-
tion periods, and in 1878 moved to Chicago and was admitted to

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the Illinois bar in January, 1879. Mr. Forrest has always practiced
his profession alone. He is a member of the Chicago and Illinois
State Bar associations, and is a prominent Mason, having member-
ship in all the branches and bodies of that order.

His home is at- Highland Park. On April 17, 1879, he married
Elizabeth Whitney, who died March 6, 1896. His children by her
are Elizabeth, Marshall and Jean. By his present wife, who was
Elizabeth Conti Kimball, he has three children, Maulsby, William
S., Jr., and Nelson.

GEORGE CRAWFORD MASTIN. Probably no law firm in Chicago
handles a larger amount of practice originating with the many coal
corporations and firms that have business headquarters in the city
than Mastin & Sherlock, whose offices are in the Fisher Building.
Mr. Mastin is a lawyer of long standing in Chicago and for a num-
ber of years his practice has been confined almost exclusively to
representing the interests of coal companies. He has figured in
some very important litigation and is one of the highly successful
corporation lawyers of the state.

He was bom at Roscoe, Ohio, April 19, 1853, a son of Jethro
and Catherine .(Dougherty) Mastin. His father was a physician.
The son was educated in the public schools and attended the old
Chicago University, where he partly completed a course with the
class of 1877. His law studies were pursued in the office of C. B.
Smith at Mount Carroll, Illinois, and he was admitted to the Illinois
bar in 1884, more than thirty years ago. During the two years of
his practice at Mount Carroll following his admission he also served
in the office of county superintendent of schools, having held that
office for a period of five years. Then for four years he was a
member of the bar of Wichita, Kansas. In 1890 Mr. Mastin
removed to Washington, D. C., engaged in private practice there
two years, and in 1892 settled permanently in Chicago. For a
number of years he was senior member of the firm of Mastin, Moss
& Sherlock, but since 1905 the firm has been Mastin & Sherlock.
His partner is John J. Sherlock.

Mr. Mastin is a member of the Chicago and State Bar associa-
tions,'the City Club, the Westward' Ho Golf Club, the Oak Park
Country Club, and in Masonry is affiliated with Oak Park Lodge
A. F. & A. M. and Lanark Chapter, R. A. M. He belongs to the
Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity and the Patriotic League, of
Oak Park, an auxiliary of the G. A. R.

Mr. Mastin resides in the suburb of Oak Park. He was married
in 1877 to Miss Fannie Shelly of Shannon, Illinois, who died at
Savanna, Illinois, in 1880. The one daughter of this marriage,
Catherine, is now the wife of Frank L. Miller of London Mills,
Illinois. In 1884 Mr. Mastin married Miss Ada A. Crummer of
Mount. Carroll, Illinois.

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GEORGE A. BARR. Of the native sons of Will County who have
here gained definite success and prestige as able and honored repre-
sentatives of the Joliet bar is the progressive and popular citizen
whose name initiates this review and whose offices are in the Wood-
ruff Building. He is known alike for his excellent professional
attainments and for his civic loyalty and public spirit, and in the
practice of his profession he is a member of the representative law
firm of Barr, McNaughton & Barr.

Mr. Barr was born on the homestead farm of his father, in Man-
hattan Township, Will County, Illinois, on the 25th of May, 1873,
and is a son of George and Jane (McGrath) Barr, both of whom
were born near Londonderry, Ireland, and the marriage of whom
was solemnized at Joliet, Illinois, the respective families represent-
ing the most sterling Scotch-Irish stock. He whose name intro-
duces this article was the seventh in order of birth in a family of
ten children, of whom six are now living. The father was reared
and educated in his native land and as a young man came to the
United States, where he established his home on a farm in Manhat-
tan Township, Will County, and became one of the successful agri-
culturists of this section of Illinois. He remained on the homestead
farm until his death, in 1876, and his wife, now venerable in years,
maintains her home in Joliet.

George A. Barr was about three years old at the time of his
father's death, and his early educational discipline was acquired in
the public schools of his native county. After availing himself of
the advantages of the Joliet High School he entered the University
of Illinois, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of
1897 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
At the university he simultaneously devoted two years to study and
cadet service in the military department, in which he gained excellent
tactical knowledge and discipline. After his graduation he was a
student in the law department of the university for one year, and
technical reading was continued in the office and under the precep-
torship of his elder brother, Hon. Richard J. Barr, who was at that
time one of the representative members of the Joliet bar, and who
served with distinction as a member of the State Legislature. Mr.
Barr was admitted to practice in the courts of his native state in
December, 1899, and he forthwith formed a professional alliance
with his brothers, Hon. Richard J. and Joseph, under the firm name
of Barr, Barr & Barr, this fraternal and effective professional asso-
ciation continuing until the death of Joseph Barr, in 1900. The
two surviving brothers have since continued their partnership rela-
tions and in 1910 Mr. McNaughton was admitted to the firm, the
title of which has since been Barr, McNaughton & Barr. This
firm controls a large and important general law business, exempli-
fies at all times the best ethics of the profession and its members
have been concerned with much noteworthy litigations in the courts
of Will County, as well as in the tribunals of higher jurisdiction.

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The reputation of George A. Barr as a strong and versatile trial
lawyer was definitely advanced by his effective service as state's
attorney of Will County, an office of which he was the incumbent
from 1908 to 1912, when he retired, after having refused to become
a candidate for re-election. Since that time he has given close atten-
tion to private practice, in which his success has been of unequivocal
order. He holds membership in the Illinois State Bar Association,
has completed the circle of York Rite Masonry, in which his maxi-
mum affiliation is with Joliet Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar,
besides which he is identified with Medinah Temple of the Ancient
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in the City of
Chicago, and holds membership in various other civic organizations
in his home city. His political allegiance has been given to the
republican party, and has shown no vacillation.

On the i6th of October, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Barr to Miss Mary W. Speer, who was born and reared in
Joliet and who is a daughter of James B. Speer, long an honored
citizen of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Barr have two children, James
Worrell and Joseph Milton.

HON. VESPASIAN WARNER. Among the distinguished citizens
of DeWitt County no one is held in higher esteem than Vespasian
Warner, whose public career has been one of honorable achieve-
ment, and whose public-spirited activities as a private citizen of
Clinton have brought him deserved prominence. Proving the sin-
cerity of his patriotism, in early manhood he became a soldier in
the ranks, in the spring of 1861, and served throughout the entire
period of Civil war, later winning success in the law and still later
honorably filling eminent positions in public life. The career of so
conspicuous and widely influential a man as Mr. Warner cannot fail
to be of deep interest, showing, as it does, through long years of
effort, that sturdy adherence to principle which arouses admiration
and emulation in every true American.

Vespasian Warner was born April 23, 1842, in DeWitt County,
Illinois, at a village then called Mount Pleasant, which later became
Santa Anna and at the present day bears the name of Farmer City.
He passed his earlier years at Clinton, attending the public schools,
and later entered Lombard University, at Galesburg, Illinois. Hav-
ing decided upon the law as his choice of profession, early in 1861
he began study under Hon. Lawrence Weldon, but had made little
advance when the Civil war was precipitated, and in May of that
year he put aside his books and visions of early professional success
in order to take upon himself the responsibilities of a soldier, enlist-
ing as a private in the first company recruited in DeWitt County,
in answer to President Lincoln's first call for troops. This became
Company E, Twentieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. His service
was hard and long, terminated on July 13, 1866, at which time he

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was brevetted major, his promotions in rank having been made
because of military valor.

When his military life was over, Mr. Warner resumed his study
of law, immediately entering the law department of Harvard Uni-
versity, from which great institution he was graduated in 1868.
Coming back to Clinton he was admitted to the Illinois bar and
entered upon the practice of his profession in this city, entering
into partnership with Clifton H. Moore, under the firm name of
Moore & Warner, which continued until the death of Mr. Moore,
in 1901. For many years this was one of the leading law firms of
the county.

It was the strong personality of Mr. Warner that first brought
him into public life and in him the republican party has always had
a strong advocate and many times has his party signally honored
him. In 1894 he was elected to represent the Thirteenth District
in Congress, in which body he served continuously for ten years,
taking part in much important legislation and on every occasion
acquitting himself with honor. In February, 1905, he was appointed
by President Theodore Roosevelt Commissioner of Pensions of the
United States, in which office he served with entire efficiency until
November, 1909, when he resigned in order to be able to devote
more time to his many business enterprises at Clinton and in DeWitt
County, one important connection being with the John Warner Bank
of Clinton, one of the solid institutions of the county.

Mr. Warner has been twice married, first to Miss Winifred
Moore, who died in 1894. She was a daughter of Clifton H. and
Elizabeth (Richmond) Moore. Of their family of six children five
reached mature years: John, Clifton M., Vesper M., Winifred and
Mary Frances. The second marriage of Mr. Warner was to Miss
Minnie M. Bishop, who is a daughter of William and Kate M.
(Lewis) Bishop.

For many years Mr. Warner has been prominent in Masonic
circles and is a valued member of Frank Lowry Post No. 157,
Grand Army of the Republic, of which organization he has ever
been mindful and helpful, both individually and as a public official.
Clinton has many reasons to regard Mr. Warner with admiration
and gratitude, and owes to him its magnificent library building, a
free gift representing more than $25,000. In everyday life Mr.
Warner is very democratic and his fellow citizens know him as
genial, kind, charitable and dependable.

ISAAC R. MILLS. For more than thirty-five years the name of
Mills has been honorably identified with the profession of law in
Macon County, one generation succeeding the other, perpetuating,
with the name, the same standards of professional conduct that orig-
inally made it trustworthy. For many years Decatur was the home
and scene of legal effort of Isaac R. Mills, who distinguished him-
self and brought credit to his community and state through efficient

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official services extending over a long period. He was a man whose
range of knowledge was wide, whose conception and understanding
of the law was complete, and whose personal poise and moral cour-
age served him well in the many difficulties he encountered during
twelve years of continuous service as state's attorney during times
when Macon County harbored a more or less turbulent element.

Isaac R. Mills was born September 5, 1853, on his father's farm
in Putnam County, Illinois. His parents were Eli and Elizabeth
Mills, most worthy people and members of the Society of Friends.
There were eight children in the family. In Putnam County Isaac
R. attended school while he assisted his father on the farm, and after
a course in the High School entered Lincoln University at Lincoln,
Logan County, Illinois, from which institution he was graduated in
the class of 1875. Having decided upon the law as a career and
having shown unmistakable talent in that direction, he went to
Chicago and there became a student of law in the office of the well-
known firm of Dent & Black, where he remained until the fall of
1879. He then located at Decatur, forming a law partnership under
the style of Mills & Clokey, a combination of talent that proved
very effective, and the partnership continued until 1881. When that
firm was dissolved it was succeeded by the firm of Mills Bros., the
partners being Isaac R. and Andrew H. Mills. The present firm
style is Mills Brothers, the partners being Andrew H. and Walter H.
Mills, the latter succeeding to his father's interest in 1904.

As an attorney of great ability, many political offices were, at
different times, tendered Mr. Mills, and as early in his career as
1882 he was elected city attorney of Decatur, public approbation
being shown by his re-election again and again, and he continued
until 1887. In the following year he was appointed state's attorney
of Macon County, in the fall of the same year being elected to this
office by a large majority. He served in this capacity with signal
honor to himself and to the satisfaction of the public for twelve
continuous years. A man who does his duty in this office is often
spoken of as relentless, but justice demands resolution in such an
official and never could Mr. Mills be accused of showing any preju-
dice or pa'rtiality. After retiring from the office of state's attorney
he resumed private practice and continued connected with his firm,
although in 1901 he was appointed to the collectorship ef internal
revenue for the Eighth District of Illinois. He survived but a few
years longer, his death occurring July 3, 1904. His burial was in
Greenwood Cemetery at Decatur.

In September, 1878, Mr. Mills was married to Miss Mattie A.
Mahannah, who was a daughter of Stephen Mahannah, a -former
very prominent man of Macon County. Mrs. Mills died in 1889,
the mother of four children. In March, 1891, Mr. Mills was united
in marriage with Miss Mary Hachenberg, a daughter of Joseph
Hachenberg, this being an old and prominent family of Christian
County, Illinois. Two children were born to this marriage.

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In all the private relations of life Mr. Mills sustained a high
character. With his family he belonged to the Presbyterian Church
and was liberal in support of its benevolent movements. He was
proud of his membership in the County and State Bar associations
and was faithful to his vows as a Knight Templar Mason.

Walter H. Mills, the present junior member of the firm of Mills
Brothers, with offices in the Millikin Bank Building, Decatur, is
recognized as an 'able attorney and a safe counselor. He was born
at Chicago, June 5, 1879, was educated in Decatur, and after com-
pleting the High School course, was prepared for the bar under his
father's direction and was admitted to practice in 1904. He married
Miss Martha S. Nicoll, who is a daughter of James Nicoll, and they
have two children. Mr. Mills and family reside at No. 1040 East
Lincoln Avenue. Like his late father, he is affiliated with the
republican party.

WILLIAM G. McCuLLOUGH. Theoretically every branch of the
law is of equal importance and every qualified practitioner is sup-
posed to be thoroughly conversant with all accepted rules of juris-
prudence. However, experience counts for much and natural bent
for more, and sometimes brilliant oratory is a possession of the
greatest value, while, again a faculty for detail work is a strong
point with other lawyers, so that many large firms, that have
acquired clients with widely diversified claims, give recognition to
these various talents and increase their firm memberships and divide
their responsibilities. In the hands of so representative a law firm
as that of Outten, Ewing, McCullough & Wierman, of Decatur,
rest the interests of individuals, estates and corporations, and so
completely are all cared for that the reputation of this aggregation
of legal talent extends far beyond the bounds of city and county.
An active and able member of this firm is found in William G.
McCullough, who has been identified with it since 1907.

William G. McCullough was born in DeWitt County, Illinois,
one of a family of seven children born to Samuel O. and Maria
(Michaels) McCullough. During his entire active life the father
has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, a man of sterling character
and respected and esteemed in his neighborhood. His children were
reared carefully and given educational advantages. After complet-
ing the public school course, William G. McCullough became a
student in the University of Illinois and was graduated in 1901,
applying himself afterward to the study of law and securing admis-
sion to the bar in 1903, four years later becoming a member of his
present firm. Mr. McCullough keeps thoroughly informed on pro-
fessional matters through his active membership in the Illinois State
Bar Association and the Macon County Bar Association. He is not
interested in either fraternal or social organizations, probably
because he finds his time sufficiently taken up with professional
duties and the civic tasks which are imposed on all good citizens.

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He is ever ready to listen to the call of charity and ready to put his
shoulder to the wheel in the cause of public improvement. In his
political affiliation he is a democrat.

Mr. McCullough has a happy home circle, having married Miss
Madaline Funk, who was born at Bloomington, Illinois, where her
father, George Funk, was a prominent business man. The family
residence is No. 1398 W. Macon Street, Decatur. Mr. and Mrs.
McCullough are members of the First Methodist Church.

ANDREW H. MILLS. Among the prominent members of the legal
profession at Decatur, Andrew H. Mills occupies a recognized
place. He was born on his father's farm in Putnam County, Illi-
nois, October 6, .1851, and is a son of Eli B. and Elizabeth (Kimber)
Mills, who were natives of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Andrew H. Mills passed his boyhood on the home farm and
attended the district schools until 1870, when he entered Lincoln
University, at Lincoln, Illinois, where he completed the classical
course in June, 1875. For two years he was employed as a tutor
at the university, during which time he took advantage of his oppor-
tunities and completed a post-graduate course. The succeeding
three years were spent largely in educational work as teacher of the
graded schools at Waverly, Illinois, and during this time he did
considerable preliminary reading in the line of the law and when,
in July, 1880, he came to Decatur and entered the law office of
Clokey & Mills, he was well prepared for the hard study that awaited
him. In June, 1881, he formed a law partnership with his brother,
the late Isaac R. Mills, under the style of Mills Brothers. The firm
prospered and built up a large law business, no change being made in
its composition for twenty-three years. On July 3, 1904, occurred
the wreck on the Wabash Railroad, in which Isaac R. Mills lost his
life. He was succeeded in the firm, without change of firm style,
by his son, Walter H. Mills, the present junior partner. This firm
continues to- maintain its original high standing and numbers among
its satisfied clients many substantial firms and corporations, as well
as litigants in every walk of life who need their rights defended.

On January 2, 1877, Mr. Mills was united in marriage with Miss
Elizabeth E. Bell. She was reared at Lincoln, Illinois, and is a
daughter of Rev. William C. and Sarah A. (Doss) Bell. Her father
was born in Illinois and her mother in Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs.
Mills met as students at Lincoln University, developed the same
tastes and talents and together pursued the same studies, and later
both taught school at Waverly. Five children have been born to
Mr. and Mrs. Mills : Ralph G., who is a medical missionary in the
Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea; Judith B., who is the wife of
Keach Bone, of Petersburg, Illinois ; Helen E. and Harold E., twins,
and Andrew Hubert, all three residing with their parents. Mr.
Mills and family are members of the First Presbyterian Church.
From early manhood he has been helpfully interested in Sunday

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school work, and for eighteen years was superintendent of the
Sunday School in the above church and at present is teacher of the
Sisterhood Bible class, numbering 185 members. For the past
twelve years he has been chairman of the executive committee of the
Illinois Sunday School Association, for a similar period has acted
as the Illinois member of the International Sunday School Associa-
tion, and is now filling his second term as president of the Illinois
State Sunday School Association. These positions of importance
and responsibility have broadened his influence and have made his
name widely known in other than professional lines. Mr. Mills
is not a man to shirk responsibilitity and has been active as a citizen
in public matters, giving his personal support to republican candi-
dates but not being blindly led by party feeling. He has frequently
appeared on the rostrum during campaigns as he is a ready and
convincing speaker. He is much interested in progressive legisla-
tion, rejoicing that Illinois has passed so many admirable laws, but
recognizes, as a lawyer, that the commonwealth needs to change
some now existing in order to make them properly effective, and to
pass others that changing times and opinions seem to demand.

HON. WILLIAM G. COCHRAN. Among the prominent men of
Moultrie County, no one deserves more appreciative mention than
Hon. William G. Cochran, whose long and honorable connection
with public affairs in the State of Illinois, and his continued service
on the bench for eighteen years, have brought him before his fellow
citizens as a man of great and worthy achievement. Judge Cochran
was born in Ross County, Ohio, November 13, 1844, and is the
adopted son of Andrew and Jane (Foster) Cochran, his father and
mother having died when he was an infant, and a grandson of
Andrew Cochran. The grandfather was of Scotch ancestry.

In 1849, when William G. Cochran was five years old, his par-
ents moved to Moultrie County, Illinois, where the father engaged
in farming. He died at the age of eighty-two years, his memory
being preserved by his son because of his long life of honorable
effort. The mother of Judge Cochran, a warm-hearted, capable
woman, lived to the age of seventy-six years.

When the Cochrans came to Moultrie County almost primitive
conditions prevailed, and especially were educational opportunities
in great degree lacking, although William G. learned the rudiments
in an old log schoolhouse in the neighborhood of his father's farm,
which farm W. G. Cochran now owns. His father was made a
justice of the peace and the lad was often present during the hearing
of cases and this possibly made the impression on his understanding
that could not be effaced, that he was destined for the law. Surely,
at that time, there was little indication that such an ambition could
be ever realized. He continued to assist his father on the farm and
took advantage of every chance to educate himself through reading
and observation, a naturally quick intellect materially assisting.

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When he was seventeen years old the country became involved in
civil war and on July 31, 1862, he enlisted for service as a soldier,
entering Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Illinois Vol-
unteer Infantry, in which he served bravely and faithfully for three
years and was mustered out and honorably discharged August i,
1865.

Mr. Cochran returned then to Moultrie County and engaged in
agricultural pursuits until January I, 1873, when he left the farm
and removed to the Village of Lovington, where he embarked in a
mercantile business and carried it on until February 23, 1876, after
which he devoted himself as opportunity was afforded, to the study
of law and gained admittance to the bar on May 23rd, 1879, thus
satisfying his early cherished ambition, and time has proven that his
greatest talents lay in this direction. While he has advanced to the
highest elective position in the law-making body of the common-
wealth and has had numerous other positions of honor conferred
on him, he owes all to himself, to his force of character, his perse-
verance and self denial and to his unflinching honor in all the affairs
of life.

While Mr. Cochran rapidly advanced in his profession and
became one of the foremost members of the bar, politics and public
affairs also interested him and he became one of the leading factors
in the republican party in this section of the state, and on November
6, 1888, was first elected to the Illinois Legislature, and through
re-election continued a member of that legislative body for six years.
On July 27, 1890, he was elected speaker of the House, and a second
time was accorded this distinction, on June 27, 1895, and while pre-
siding won the respect and confidence of all parties because of his
thorough knowledge of parliamentary law and his fairness and
impartiality. On June 7th, 1897, he was elected circuit judge of
the Sixth Judicial District, an honor well deserved, and was
re-elected in June, 1903, and in 1909. Judge Cochran was married
September 13, 1866, to Miss Charlotte A. Keyes, of Moultrie
County, and they have had five children : Oscar Fletcher, Grace
May, Archie Elaine, Arthur G. and Laura O. The last named, who
was the wife of F. T. Thompson, died August 2, 1912. Mrs. Coch-
ran was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, to which state her parents
had moved from near Phillipi, West Virginia.

Judge Cochran was chosen department commander of the Illinois
Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, in May, 1896, and
he greatly values the confidence and esteem of his old comrades in
arms. He has been identified with the Masonic fraternity since
1868 and is a Knight Templar Mason and belongs also to the Odd
Fellows. In 1866 he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Judge Cochran is an able man in many directions and his efforts
have always been untiring in devotion to what, in his judgment,
have been promotive of the best interests for whatever he has repre-
sented.

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HON. JOHN A. BROWN. Of Revolutionary stock and distin-
guished New England ancestry, the late Judge John A. Brown, for
many years prominently identified with the bench and bar of Macon
County, achieved notable success in his chosen career and illustrated
in both private and professional life the sturdy virtues and steady
elemental qualities bequeathed him as a heritage. Intellectually
gifted, knowledge came to him easily, and fortunately so for his life
activities were largely concerned with those things which demand
learning along many and varied lines. In early manhood an edu-
cator, later a journalist and afterward claimed by the law, his influ-
ence was continuous for almost his entire life in some way beneficial
to his fellow men.

John A. Brown was born July 23, 1843, at Abington, Plymouth
County, Massachusetts, a son of Lysander and Polly (Cushing)
Brown, who had two children. The ancestors settled at Abington as
early as 1732 and both grandfathers were soldiers in the war of the
Revolution.

The public schools at Abington gave John A. Brown his early
educational training, and after completing the high school course
he turned his attention to teaching school and taught several terms
in Morgan County, after coming to Illinois, and also taught for a
short time after locating at Decatur. In 1873 he became interested
in the newspaper business and was identified with the leading repub-
lican organ at Decatur, in the same year taking instruction in law
from Hon. A. B. Bunn, of this city, and made such rapid progress
that he was admitted to the bar in 1875 and entered into partnership
with F. B. Tait, the style being Brown & Tait. This partnership
existed for two years, dissolving in 1878, after which Mr. Brown
continued alone in practice, without assistance building up an
immense law business and gaining an honorable reputation that
extended all over Macon County. From 1872 until 1892 he served
as master in chancery for Macon County. While his practice cov-
ered every branch of the law, he paid special attention to corporation
and real estate law, being for many years the legal representative
of large corporations and an expert adviser on all matters pertain-
ing to real estate. In politics he was a zealous republican and was
so influential a factor that it was largely through his efforts that
lower freight and passenger rates were brought about on different
lines in Illinois, he, with others, taking such an aggressive stand on
the matter that legislation was resorted to. He was no seeker
for political honors but never shirked responsibility and at times
accepted office as a public duty and thus served for thirteen years
as treasurer of Decatur Township.

Judge Brown married Miss Annie L. Fowler, who is a daughter
of James Fowler, a former prominent citizen of Decatur, and they
became the parents of two daughters, Alma May and Jessie C.
The elder daughter is the wife of Frank L. Elliott, of Decatur. The
second daughter, Jessie C., is the wife of Elmer O. Brintlinger, a

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member of the firm of D. Brintlinger & Sons, undertakers, located
at No. 543 North Main Street, Decatur. Elmer O. Brintlinger is
now serving as coroner of Macon County.

Judge Brown was a Methodist in religious faith and reared his
children in the church. He was a careful father and gave his
daughters every possible advantage educationally and socially, and
was a man who enjoyed the refining influences of his home. He
took sincere interest in the great economic questions of the day and,
being possessed of a high moral character along with considerable
proved business ability, was chosen by those in authority to serve
as president of the State Board of Charities. He held other posi-
tions of responsibility and for years was a member of the board of
trustees of the Asylum for the Blind.

The family residence is at No. 433 West Eldorado Street, Deca-
tur, Illinois, and here Judge Brown died on November 21, 1904.
His death left a vacancy in many circles but his memory survives
and his name is recalled with those whose lives were ever actuated
by the highest motives.

HON. RICHARD A. LEMON. A great historian is credited with
the declaration that every person has two educations, one which he
receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to
himself. The life and career of the late Richard A. Lemon, a
patriotic citizen and an eminent lawyer, widely known over Illinois
and particularly esteemed in DeWitt County, is illustrative.

Richard A. Lemon was born in Sangamon County, Illinois,
October 16, 1848, and in 1854 accompanied his parents in the family
removal to Piatt County, where the father, assisted by his older sons,
followed farming until the call for volunteers, in -1861, to suppress
rebellion, deprived him of three of his sturdy sons. They gave up
their lives on the battlefields of the South and while two more sons
were left, one died during the progress of the war, and Richard,
although but sixteen years old in 1864, enlisted as a soldier in the
Thirty-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and he alone lived to
return. With age coming on and deprived of the expected help of
his sons, the father sold his farm in 1866 and the little family
removed to El Paso, in Woodford County.

More ambitious than many youths, Richard A. Lemon deter-
mined to prepare himself for a career in law and applied himself to
its study through one year, during which time he came to a realiza-
tion that his general education had not been ample enough to enable
him to make headway as he hoped along his professional study.
With a feeling of discouragement he put aside his law books and
went to the other extreme, securing hard, manual labor in the
freight house of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad at El Paso.
In the meanwhile he studied hard as opportunity presented and also
made friends and by 1868 he had gained enough poise and self-
confidence to once more take up the study of the law, at this time

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entering the law office of R. G. Ingersoll, who, at that time, was a
young lawyer himself and not only gave instruction but the encour-
agement that often marks a turning point in a young man's life.
Mr. Lemon was so enthusiastic that he was able to pass his exam-
inations by the time he was twenty-two years of age and on August
13, 1870, was admitted to the bar.

For forty-two years Mr. Lemon continued in practice and his
industry, force of character, ability and determination caused him to
advance in his profession as few other young lawyers in DeWitt
County, and for many years there were few exceedingly important
cases before the courts in which he was not an attorney. Giving
every client his best efforts, for he was no time nor wealth server,
his reputation as an honorable man as well as able lawyer extended
far and wide and people had confidence in him and he enjoyed the
esteem of both bench and bar. All his life he was a student, finding
of most value the education he gave himself, recognizing that expe-
rience had been his most valuable teacher. In 1890 he was asso-
ciated with William Monson in law practice, and later, when Colonel
Warner was elected to Congress, he became a member of the firm
of Moore, Warner & Lemon. Later he associated his son, Frank
K. Lemon, with him under the style of Lemon & Lemon, which
continued until the close of his life.

Mr. Lemon was married January 31, 1874, to Miss Opha A.
Kyle, who died February 18, 1912 ; this domestic affliction undoubt-
edly lessened the number of his own. years. Three sons survive:
Frank K. and L. W., both residents of Clinton, Illinois; and Carl
W., a resident of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Politically Richard A. Lemon was a loyal and hearty worker
for the success of the republican party. At one time he was nomi-
nated by his party for state's attorney and in 1909 he sought the
nomination for circuit judge, being defeated by existing local condi-
tions for which he was not responsible. During the administration
of Gov. John R. Tanner he served under the Governor's appoint-
ment as a member of the first Board of Pardons, of which he was
president four years. He served two terms as city clerk and three
terms as city attorney of Clinton and every official act was founded
on the law and his duty performed with scrupulous integrity. He
was twice chairman of the Republican County Central Committee,
and in 1908 was an elector. He was particularly interested in public
education and accepted a position on the Clinton Board of Educa-
tion and was made president of the same.

For many years Mr. Lemon was noted for his physical vigor as
well as his mental alertness and it was said of him that he was
always in condition to make a strong contest and took pleasure in
struggles with antagonists worthy of his efforts. For several years,
however, symptoms of failing physical health alarmed his family
and close friends, and while, at times, he was prevailed upon to seek
change for a short season, a malady developed that required hospital

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care. In this weakened condition he was little able to survive the
loss of his beloved wife, and grief and illness gained the victory,
his death occurring December 27, 1912. So passed one who will
long be remembered in DeWitt County. Through his splendid
qualities of mind and heart he had won a place in the hearts of
others, and through his legal attainments and his honorable use of
them had written his name indelibly on the records of his county's
bar.

FRANK K. LEMON. One of the members of the Clinton bar at
the present time is Frank K. Lemon. He was born at Farmer City,
Illinois, March 6, 1875, and is a son of Richard A. and Opha A.
(Kyle) Lemon.

For many years Richard A. Lemon was a prominent attorney
in DeWitt County and a foremost citizen of Clinton. He was born
in Sangamon County, Illinois, October 16, 1848, and died at Clinton,
December 27, 1912. When but sixteen years of age he enlisted for
service in the Civil war, as had his three brothers, and was the only
one of the four to live to return. He prepared for the bar at El
Paso, Illinois, and was admitted to practice on August 13, 1870,
immediately afterward opening an office at Farmer City, where he
remained until August 13, 1877, when he moved to Clinton, which
city continued to be the scene of his honorable career at the bar
until the close of his life. He was prominent in republican political
circles and was appointed by Governor Tanner a member of the
first Board of Pardons. On January 31, 1874, he was united in
marriage with Miss Opha A. Kyle, who died February 18, 1912.
Mr. and Mrs. Lemon are survived by three sons : Frank K., L. W.
and Carl W.

Frank K. Lemon attended the public schools and. after completing
his course at the Clinton High School entered the Wesleyan Uni-
versity Law School, at Bloomington, Illinois, where he was grad-
uated in 1896 and in the same year was admitted to the bar. He
entered into partnership with his father, under the firm style of
Lemon & Lemon, and this association continued until the father's
death, since which time Mr. Lemon has continued alone. He is a
member of the DeWitt County Bar Association.

Mr. Lemon married Miss Ruth L. Keys, who is a daughter of
Charles A. Keys. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.

GEORGE B. MARVEL. As president of the State Bank of Clinton,
Illinois, and postmaster of the county seat of DeWitt County, George
B. Marvel stands forth as a representative citizen of this section of
the state, but in professional circles his standing is still higher for
he has long been recognized as one of the ablest lawyers of the
DeWitt County bar.

George B. Marvel was born on his father's farm in DeWitt

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County, Illinois, February 5, 1871, one of a family of nine children
born to Wiley and Elizabeth M. (Williams) Marvel. They were
well known and highly respected people who reared their children
to be honest and industrious.

In the country schools near his father's farm, George B. Marvel
received early instruction and when he reached manhood became a
student in the Illinois Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, and
was graduated from that institution in 1896, following which he
entered upon the study of law in the Bloomington Law School,
where he completed his course and was graduated in 1898, in the
same year being admitted to the bar. Mr. Marvel located at Fair-
bury, Illinois, and there built up a fine practice, but, believing a
wider field would be still more satisfactory, in 1902 he came to
Clinton and this move has proved beneficial both to himself and to
the people of this city. Mr. Marvel has continued in the practice of
his profession but his public spirit and realization of business oppor-
tunity has led to his investment of capital here and his forwarding
of enterprises of merit that add to the general prosperity and the
fair reputation of the city. One of these is the State Bank of
Clinton, of which he was elected president in 1913. It is a solid
institution, well financed, and its patrons are the most substantial
men of the county, many of whom have known Mr. Marvel from
childhood and have watched his upward career with interest. Mr.
Marvel is a large stockholder in the above bank and he also owns
valuable farm land in Waynesville Township.

For many years Mr. Marvel has been somewhat active in poli-
tics, a stanch democrat in his affiliation, but always declined public
office for himself until 1914, when he was appointed postmaster of
Clinton, an honorable office he felt free to accept, and has given
close attention to the duties pertaining to the same. In law, finance
and social relations he has ever proved trustworthy and his fellow
citizens find him equally worthy of confidence in public office. He
is a member of the County Bar Association and belongs to the
fraternal orders of Elks and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Marvel mar-
ried Phoebe H. Gramesly on June 9, 1915. She was born in Charles-
ton, Coles County, Illinois, reared and educated there in the High
School. She also attended the Northwestern University at Evan-
ston, Illinois.

HON. EDWARD B. MITCHELL. One of the prominent members
of the legal profession at Clinton, DeWitt County, has made an
honorable name for himself on both bench and bar, for twenty-two
years being engaged in the practice of law at the bar with the excep-
tion of the period during which he served as county judge. He was
born at Springfield, Ohio, September 10, 1867, one of a family of
five children born to John F. and Carrie (Myers) Mitchell, natives
of Ohio.

In his infancy, Edward B. Mitchell became a member of the

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household of Eli and Catherine Brown, where he was reared as a
son and reciprocated with a son's dutiful respect and affection.
He assisted Mr. Brown on the home farm in DeWitt County, in the
meanwhile attending the public schools, and made such good use of
his educational opportunities that at the age of seventeen years he
secured a certificate entitling him to teach school and afterward
he became a student in the Clinton High School, from which he
was graduated in 1887. During the next five years he taught school
and also attended the Bloomington Law School, from which institu-
tion he was graduated in 1892. In the same year he was admitted
to practice and established himself at Clinton, which place has been
his home ever since. As a sound, safe lawyer Mr. Mitchell is
widely known, and as clients he numbers many people of promi-
nence as well as those less fortunately situated. It is said of him
that he has never refused advice and counsel because of lack of fee
and that he is honorable in all his arrangements with those who seek
his professional aid and just and equable in his demands, although
never posing as a philanthropist. In 1896 he was elected city clerk
of Clinton and served in that office until 1901, when he resigned in
order to accept the position of county judge, for which his abilities
well qualified him. He has always been deeply interested in the
aims of the Clinton and DeWitt County Bar Association, of which
he is the present vice president.

Mr. Mitchell was united in marriage with Miss Eva M. Gilliland,
who is a daughter of Rev. E. A. and Isadora (Holmes) Gilliland,
and they have two children, Murial and Donald. Mr. Mitchell and
wife take an active interest in the Christian Church, in which he is
an elder, and they contribute to the success of many of its benevo-
lent movements.

For many years Judge Mitchell has been prominent as a citizen,
taking a great deal of interest in educational matters and in the
city's progress generally. In 1904 he was elected president of the
Clinton Board of Education and largely through his influence and
public-spirited efforts a new ward schoolhouse and a new high
school building were satisfactorily completed. He is secretary of
the Central Illinois Building, Loan and Homestead Association, a
successful business organization with a large membership of sub-
stantial citizens.

Fraternal affiliations have interested Judge Mitchell and he is
widely known in several of the leading organizations. He belongs
to DeWitt Lodge No. 84, Free and Accepted Masons; Goodbrake
Chapter, No. 59, R. A. M. ; Clinton Commandery, No. 66, K. T.,
and to the Mystic Shrine. For four years he served as master of his
lodge, for two years was high priest of the chapter and for one
year was eminent commander of Clinton Commandery. He belongs
also to the Odd Fellows and to the Knights of Pythias, and in the
last named organization has served as chancellor commander and as
grand representative for two years.

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GROVER C. HOFF. Notwithstanding its numbers, age and
prominence, there is probably no more successful, careful and
dependable firm practicing at the bar of DeWitt County than is the
comparatively young one of Hoff & Hoff, of Clinton, its members
being Grover C. and Mattie M. Hoff, the latter enjoying the distinc-
tion of being the only woman practitioner of the DeWitt County
bar.

Grover C. Hoff, senior member of the above firm, was born on
his father's farm in DeWitt County, Illinois, July n, 1885, and is a
son of Cornelius and Margaret (Howard) Hoff, one of their family
of thirteen children. For many years Cornelius Hoff followed an
agricultural life in this county, rearing his large family comfortably
and giving them many advantages. In boyhood Grover C. attended
the country schools and in 1903 graduated from the Maroa High
School in Macon County, and in 1904, from the Clinton High
School, after which he entered the employ of the Illinois Central
Railroad Company and worked in the freight department until the
fall of 1906. Later he entered the Wesleyan University at Bloom-
ington, Illinois, and was graduated from the law department in 1909,
and in the fall of the same year was admitted to practice and located
at Clinton.

Mr. Hoff was united in marriage, in 1907, with Miss Mattie M.
Macy, who is a daughter of Oliver W. and Lillian (Wengate) Macy.
Mrs. Hoff is a lady of exceptional talent. After graduating from
the Normal High School, and attending Normal University and
teaching in the public schools of McLean and DeWitt counties until
her marriage, she was not satisfied, neither social life nor the ordi-
nary occupations of her sex contenting her. Recognizing the pos-
session of talents that indicated success in a profession, she chose
the law- and under the direction and supervision of Mr. Hoff so
applied herself that she secured admission to the bar in 1912, imme-
diately afterward forming a law partnership with her husband, and
since that time the firm of Hoff & Hoff has made an excellent record
in the courts. Both partners are well trained intellectually, both are
diligent, patient, careful and painstaking in the interest of their
clients and individually and as a firm, they are held in honorable
regard. They are members of the County Bar Association.

Mr. and Mrs. Hoff have one son, Paul M. Hoff. Mrs. Hoff is a
member of the Royal Neighbors, the Eastern Star and the Rebekahs
and is popular in all these organizations, for she is endowed together
with her legal talents with a charming personality. Mr. Hoff is
identified fraternally with the Masons, the Odd Fellows, and the
Modern Woodmen of America. In his political views he is a demo-
crat. The Presbyterian Church holds their membership.

HON. GEORGE K. INCH AM. In recalling the prominent men of
DeWitt County, those who brought distinction through their achieve-
ments during life and whose memory is honored by those who sur-

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vive, no name comes more quickly to mind than that of George K.
Ingham, lawyer, judge, statesman and dependable private citizen.
For many years he was a resident of Clinton and through his efforts
various interests of this city were materially advanced.

George K. Ingham was born July 19, 1852, and was one of a
family of four children born to his parents, Samuel and Nancy
(King) Ingram, who were natives of Ohio. He attended the district
schools and afterward was a student in the Wesleyan University at
Bloomington, Illinois, and subsequently in the University of Michi-
gan, and in 1875 was graduated from the law department of the
university, at Ann Arbor. In the fall of the same year he entered
into practice at Kenney, Illinois, following his admission to the bar,
and continued there until he came to Clinton. As a law practitioner
he won confidence and respect, being well acquainted with every
fundamental and being careful, patient and sure in his study of cases
and faithful and sincere in dealing with every client. During these
early years of practice he gave attention also to politics to a greater
degree than later in life, when professional duties absorbed the
most of his time, and thus came about his election to the State Legis-
lature, on the republican ticket, and he served in 1879 with the
greatest efficiency, during this entire period, with vote and influence
championing measures of public usefulness.

Still higher honors awaited him. In 1881 he was appointed
county judge of DeWitt County, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Judge John J. McGraw, and in this capacity served
two years. In 1886 Judge Ingham was elected to the office of
county judge, in which he had shown such wise discrimination and
judicial ability, and was re-elected in 1890, 1894 and 1898, serving
with equal honor for a period of seventeen years. On January I,
1902, he declined further renomination and resumed private prac-
tice and continued one of DeWitt County's ablest lawyers until his
death in 1914. Aside from his profession he had business interests
of importance and was one of the directors of the DeWitt County
National Bank.

On March 7, 1878, Judge Ingham was united in marriage with
Miss Alice A. Tenney, who was born at Waynesville but later
resided in DeWitt County. Her parents were Boynton and Eliza
(Dragstrem) Tenney. Four children were born to Judge and Mrs.
Ingham and three survive: Leonard W., who is a graduate of the
University of Illinois and of the Harvard Law School, class of
1905, was associated with his father in the practice of law; Rolla
T., who is a bookkeeper for the First National Bank of Clinton;
and Helen, who resides with her mother in the attractive family
home situated at No. 613 North Monroe Street, Clinton.

Judge Ingham so long filled so large a place in the business,
social, philanthropic and religious life of Clinton, in fact, was such
a vital personality, that his loss was one deeply felt. While the real
business of his life was the profession of law, he was so broad-

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minded and so widely interested that his influence extended into
many channels and will long be felt beneficially. He is survived by
many friends who knew him well in the fraternal bonds of the
Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges, and in other organizations,
open to the public view, where his advice was sought and freely
given, and his benevolence was a matter of common comment. In
all the relations of life he was true, honest and upright. With his
family he belonged to the Presbyterian Church and its claims on
his bounty were never stinted nor forgotten.

HON. IRA J. O'HARRA, of the City of Macomb, McDonough
County, for the past seventeen years has been a creditable member
of the Macomb bar, and at the same time has proved his dependable
citizenship and his genuine interest in all that concerns the progress
of this section.

Ira J. O'Harra was born at Bentley, Hancock County, Illinois,
May 17, 1872, and is a son of Jefferson W. and Pauline (Robert-
son) O'Harra. The paternal ancestors came from Ireland to Amer-
ica and the branch from which Ira J. O'Harra descended located
first in Ohio and from there came to Illinois, in 1837, settling first
in Adams and later removing to Hancock County. Of the nine
children born to the late Jefferson W. O'Harra, Ira J. is the young-
est, all five sons adopting a professional career, two being attor-
neys, one a minister of the Gospel and one a physician, one presi-
dent of the State School of Mines of South Dakota and one sister,
who for many years resided upon a farm, but who now with her
husband and daughter have retired to private life in the City of
Carthage, Illinois.

After attending the district schools through boyhood, Ira J.
O'Harra became a student in Carthage College and followed his
collegiate days with three years of school teaching and then began
the serious study of the law, reading for one year in the office
of O'Harra, Scofield & Hartzell, at Carthage, Illinois, and in the
fall of 1896 he entered the Kent Law School at Chicago, and was
graduated from that well known institution in 1897, in June of
the same year being admitted to the bar, at Springfield, Illinois.
Mr. O'Harra came to Macomb on November i, 1897, opening a
law office immediately thereafter and engaging in practice by him-
self for one year. In 1898 he became associated with Philip E.
Elting, under the firm name of Elting & O'Harra, which partner-
ship continued for seven years, since which time he has been alone.
Few men stand higher at Macomb than Ira J. O'Harra and his
enviable reputation has been justly earned, and he is a valued
member of both county and state bar associations. A democrat
by inheritance and conviction, Mr. O'Harra has been particularly
active in politics for the past eight years and within this period
has served as a delegate to numerous county and state conventions.
On April i, 1913, he was elected mayor of Macomb for two years,

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 717

being the third democratic mayor ever elected in said city, and his
administration has been admirable in every way, his every action
showing a broadmindedness that has been beneficial to the funda-
mental and far-reaching interests of this growing city.

Mayor O'Harra was united in marriage on June 26, 1901, at
Macomb, to Miss Anna D. Gloyd, who is a daughter of the late
Stephen V. R. Gloyd and Mary E. Gloyd, and they have three
children: Miriam Esther, who was born August 18, 1903;. Law-
rence G., who was born June 27, 1905, and Reuel E., who was born
July 26, 1908. The family attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mayor O'Harra has long been identified with the Odd Fellows and
the Knights of Pythias, his busy life not affording him many hours
to devote to pure recreation but he possesses the qualities which
make him a welcome visitor in every social gathering. He main-
tains his office in the Union Block and his residence is No. 538
North Randolph Street, Macomb.

DAVID SHEEAN. One of the oldest and ablest members of
the Galena bar is David Sheean, who, for fifty-seven years has been
in continuous practice here and during this long period has been
connected many times with epoch-marking litigation. He has also
been a citizen of worth and prominence, serving capably and honor-
ably in public office and still continues an important factor in the
city's life.

David Sheean was born^at Boston, Massachusetts, July 3, 1833,
and is a son of James and Mary (Lorden) Sheean. They were
born in County Cork, Ireland. When David was three years old
his parents left Boston and made their way to Galena, Illinois,
founding here a family that has been worthily representative ever
since. At that time Galena had excellent public schools, also pri-
vate schools and an academy, all of which David Sheean attended
and remained in Jo Daviess County until 1851, when he went to
California. There he engaged in mining and remained four and
one-half years. After he came back to Galena he applied himself
to the study of law and about 1858 was admitted to the bar, imme-
diately entering into practice here. His first partnership was with
John A. Rawlins, the firm name being Rawlins & Sheean, which
continued until 1862, when Mr. Rawlins became chief of staff for
General Grant serving through the Civil war, and subsequently
was made secretary of war in President Grant's cabinet.

From 1862 until 1867 he practiced alone but later formed a law
partnership with his brother, Thomas J. Sheean, and in 1893 his
nephew, J. M. Sheean, was admitted to the firm. In 1859 Mr.
Sheean was elected city attorney of Galena, and in 1864 he became
mayor and his administration was one that was exceedingly credit-
able to himself and beneficial to the city. He has always been in-
terested in movements and measures which have given promise of
practical benefit to the community and has frequently been called

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upon to act in civil offices where judgment has been especially
essential. He has been president and director of the Galena Public
Library and also of Greenwood Cemetery.

Mr. Sheean was married September 21, 1876, to Miss Cora L.
Spare, who died April 5, 1895, leaving no children. Mr. Sheean
is a member of the Illinois State and the American Bar Associa-
tions.

THOMAS J. SHEEAN. Perhaps no name in the legal profession
in Central Illinois' is better known than that of Sheean, a name that
has been honorably connected with the courts at Galena for over a
half century. It has many times been remarked that special talents
continue to appear in a family, sometimes through generation after
generation, and the learned men who announce a disbelief in hered-
ity have trouble in satisfactorily explaining such an evident fact.

The Sheean family was established at Galena in 1837 by James
and Mary (Lorden) Sheean, the parents of Thomas J. Sheean,
who was born in Guilford Township, Jo Daviess' County, Illinois,
two years later, on December 15, 1838. He attended the common
schools near his father's home until old enough for better educa-
tional advantages, when he was sent to Sinsinawa College, in Wis-
consin, and also attended Rock River Seminary at Mount Morris,
Illinois. In the meanwhile, as opportunity offered, he read law
and in 1868 was admitted to the bar and entered into practice in
June, 1869, being associated with his older brother, David Sheean.
For forty-five years Mr. Sheean has been in active practice and
is well known all over this section of the state. He is a member
of both county and state as well as the American Bar Association.
He has a law library containing about. 2,500 volumes.

Mr. Sheean was married December 25, 1865, to Miss Frances
Delahunt, who was born in Ireland. They have the following
children: James M., who is an attorney in practice at Chicago;
Mary S., who is the wife of James W. Ryan, a resident of Chi-
cago; Clara K., who lives at home; Henry D., who is an attorney
in Chicago ; and Frank T., who is state's attorney for Jo Daviess
County, and a very prominent man in law, business and politics.

FRANK T. SHEEAN. It is a matter of considerable pride to
the loyal resident of the great State of Illinois that she has so
many excellent laws on her statute book, and, in many cases her
officials are able and willing to carry them out. In the county
organization there is no more important official than the state's
attorney, whether as adviser to other officials, or as prosecutor in
both civil and criminal actions. On account of the great responsi-
bility attaching to this office, the selection of men to capably fill
it is a matter of great concern, and election and subsequent re-elec-
tion, gives conclusive proof of legal ability of a high order. A case
in point is that of the widely known state's attorney of Jo Daviess

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 719

County, Frank T. Sheean, who is serving in his second term in
this office, preserving a reputation already made, for sterling in-
tegrity combined with thorough efficiency.

Frank T. Sheean was born at Galena, Illinois, April 22, 1878,
and is the youngest of a family of five children born to his parents,
Thomas J. and Frances (Delahunt) Sheean. He attended the
public schools of Galena and after three years of study in the
high school, in September, 1895, entered the University of Illinois,
where he was graduated in 1899, with the degree of A. B. He
then read law under the direction and supervision of his father,
uncle and older brother, this being a family of lawyers, at Galena
for about three years, he was admitted to the bar of Illinois, at
Chicago, June 5, 1902. He chose his birthplace as his field of
professional work and became a member of the law firm of Sheean
& Sheean, the personnel of the firm being David, Thomas J., Henry
D. and Frank T. Henry D. Sheean is a leading attorney at Chi-
cago. Mr. Sheean continued in a general practice until 1908, when
he was elected state's attorney and after four years of efficiency
in this difficult and trying position, was re-elected in 1912. His
administration of the office has distinguished him as a man of far
more than ordinary legal ability. Although fearless in prosecution
he has ever been credited with being entirely just, his official duties
being performed according to the letter of the law and without fear
or favor.

Mr. Sheean has a delightful home circle, wife and children, the
family residence being at No. 901 Third Street, Galena, Illinois.
On June 26, 1906, he was united in marriage with Miss Effie
Hodson, who is a daughter of Judge Hodson, of Galena, and they
have two children : Jane H., who was born October 29, 1908, and
Mary F., who was born February 19, 1912. Mr. Sheean was
educated in the Galena schools and at Waterman Hall, at Sycamore,
Illinois. She takes part in the pleasant social activities of the city
and is interested in many movements for the spread of benevo-
lence.

For a number of years Mr. Sheean has been an active factor in
county politics, a stanch supporter of the democratic party and
many times has been chosen as a delegate to important conventions,
state, congressional and senatorial. In 1908 and again in 1912 he
was a delegate to the democratic state conventions assembled at
Springfield, where important party policies were determined.

The law firm of Sheean & Sheean is retained by a number of
large corporations, and are attorneys for the Chicago Great West-
ern Railroad, and also for the First State and Savings Bank, at
Galena, Frank T. Sheean being one of the bank directors. His life
has been such a busy one that he has not found leisure for much
travel, but his library is comprehensive and his association with men
is constant and in the great cosmopolitan citizenship that yearly
comes to his direct attention, he finds types of every land he may

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ever visit. He keeps in touch with his old college comrades by
continuing his membership with the Greek letter fraternities of stu-
dent days and belongs also to the Elks and the Modern Woodmen.
He is also a member of the American and State Bar associations.

FRANK LINDLEY. The senior member of the firm of Lindley,
Penwell & Lindley, attorneys and counselors at Danville, has had a
professional career, extending over thirty years, of more than ordi-
nary successes and distinctions. Frank Lindley has the reputation of
having won a greater percentage of cases than any other member of
the Danville bar, and he has tried in the course of his long practice
every kind of suit from those heard in the justice courts to those
which come under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

Frank Lindley was born at Dublin in Wayne County, Indiana,
March 10, 1858. He comes of the substantial Quaker stock which
furnished the distinctive element in the early population of Wayne
County, and his parents, Osmond and Achsah W. (Wilson) Lindley,
were both devout adherents of that simple religion. The father was
a graduate of the Friends Boarding School, now Earlham College, at
Richmond, was a teacher in his early days, and later a pork packer
and farmer. His wife graduated from the same school.

Frank Lindley grew up in a little Quaker community, distin-
guished by the quiet habits and simple tastes of that sect, and he was
well towards manhood before he heard an oath or saw a playing
card. The discipline of an Indiana farm was one factor in his edu-
cation, and his schooling was acquired partly in Henry County, and
also in an academy conducted by the Quaker Church at Hopewell,
Indiana. Mr. Lindley finished his course there in 1873, and in
1874, at the age of sixteen, began teaching. He took up the study
of law in the office of Thornton & Hamlin of Shelbyville, Illinois,
and gained admission to the bar when twenty-one years of age.

The first two years he practiced at Shelbyville, and became a
member of the Danville bar on May i, 1881. At Danville Mr. Lind-
ley formed a partnership with Frank W. Penwell, and that asso-
ciation continued with mutual pleasure and profit until 1907. When
his partner retired from practice the present firm of Lindley, Pen-
well & Lindley was formed, the new members being Fred B. Pen-
well, a son of Frank W. Penwell, and Walter C. Lindley, a nephew,
and the partnership is probably one of the oldest in Eastern Illinois.
As a lawyer Mr. Lindley has been known as a most indefatigable
worker, prepares his cases with the greatest precision and care,
and his investigations have never been confined to the obvious issue,
but have always probed to the depths of the case and have safe-
guarded every possible contingency. His arguments are forceful,
and the effectiveness with which he has handled hundreds of cases
at Danville is a fact familiar to every member of the bar. His
devotion to his clients' interests has become almost proverbial in
local legal circles, and this absorption in the strict work of his pro-

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in touch with his old college comrades by
•' mhership with the Greek letter fraternities of stu-
t longs also to the Elks and the Modern Woodmen,
liber of the American and State Bar associations.

The senior member of the firm of Lindley,

attorneys and counselors at Danville, has had a

extending over thirty years, of more than ordi-

-'inctions. Frank Lindley has the reputation of

.ventage of cases than any other member of

in the course of his long practice

<•{ suit from those heard in the justice courts to those
which come under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

Frank Lindley was born at Dublin in Wayne County, Indiana,
March 10, 1858. He comes of the substantial Quaker stock which
furnished the distinctive element in the early population of Wayne
County. :\-<M] his parents, Osmond and Achsah W. (Wilson) Lindley,
wer-,- ixith 'I'jvout adherents of that simple religion. The father was
xluate of the Friends Boarding School, now Earlham College, at
Richmond, was a teacher in his early days, and later a pork packer
and farmer. His wife graduated from the same school.

Frank Lindley grew up in a little Quaker community, distin-
iied by the quiet habits and simple tastes of that sect, and he was
wvl! ..nhood before he heard an oath or saw a playing

car;' i-line of an Indiana farm was one factor in his edu-

• < Ung was acquired partly in Henry County, and
ny conducted Quaker Church at Hopewell,

[r. Lindley finished hi- course there in 1873, and in
of sixteen, bt vhing. He took up the study

<n the office of Thori;. amlin of Shelbyville, Illinois,

icd admission to the b ity-one years of age.

first two years be pr:ici- ibyville, and became a

member of the Dam ill At Danville Mr. Lind-

ley formed "-hij> vitb Frank \Y. Penwell, and that asso-

ciation '. \ profit until 1907. When

his partner r 'om practice the present firm of Lindley, Pen-

• & Lind*. members being Fred B. Pen-

well, a son of Frank W. Penwell, and Walter C. Lindley, a nephew,
and tlie partnership is probably one of the oldest in Eastern Illinois.
As a lawyer Mr. Lindley has been known as a most indefatigable
worker, prepares his cases with the greatest precision and care,
and bis investigations have never been confined to the obvious issue,
but have always probed to the depths of the case and have safe-
guarded every possible contingency. His arguments are forceful,
and the effectiveness with which he has handled hundreds of cases
at Danville is a fact familiar to every member of the bar. His
tion to his clients' interests has become almost proverbial in
i legal circles, and this absorption in the strict work of his pro-

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ter of the Hon. Johnson Lawrence of Polo. They have a daughter,
Louise, born March 6, 1912. Mrs. Bracken was educated in the
public schools of Polo and at Oberlin College of Ohio, and is prom-
inent in club and social circles. Mr. Bracken is a Catholic, is af-
filiated with the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks and the Notre Dame Club of Chicago.

JUDGE JOHN DOUGLAS WELSH. In the twenty-five years that
Judge Welsh has spent as an active member of the Galesburg bar
it is doubtful if any other lawyer has been so successful in winning
cases, or has been more distinguished for influence and for all-
around disinterested service in behalf of his community. Judge
Welsh is undoubtedly one of the leaders in the Illinois bar, and his
career has been an interesting progress from modest beginnings to
ever increasing responsibilities and success.

John Douglas Welsh was born in a log cabin, a distinction not
enjoyed by many of his active associates in the Illinois bar at the
present time. This log cabin was located in Truro Township, Knox
County, and his birthday was September 10, 1858. His parents
were Michael and Catherine (Grace) Welsh, both of them natives
of County Kilkenny, Ireland. Michael Welsh was born September
8, 1830, was married October 14, 1850, at the age of twenty, and
with his bride set out for America, arriving at New Orleans January
i, 1851, after a voyage of eight weeks across the ocean in a sailing
vessel. From New Orleans they came up the Mississippi River
to St. Louis, up the Illinois River to Peoria, and crossed the country
by wagon to Maquoin in Knox County, where Michael Welsh spent
three years in farming. In 1853 he moved to Truro Township in
the same county, bought improved land, but for some years had a
log cabin home, which was the type, of many residences in the county
at that time. That farm remained his home for more than half a
century, and in that time he won a creditable position as an indus-
trious agriculturist, a citizen of thorough integrity and usefulness,
and it was with an appreciation of his worth and ability that his
fellow townsmen elected him to a number of local offices. For
twenty years he served as justice of the peace, and though not legally
trained made the notable record of never having an appeal taken
from his decision. Every litigant who appeared before Justice
W7elsh was convinced of his utmost fairness and impartiality. For a
number of years he also served as collector and assessor, and as
school trustee. Michael Welsh died at his home in Knox County
July 28, 1907, when seventy-seven years of age, and his passing be-
reaved the county of one of its most estimable pioneers. His wife
died six months before him. Both were active members of the
Catholic Church. There were seven children: William M., of Wil-
liamsfield, Illinois; Alice, wife of David Cloonin of Zearing, Iowa;
Benoni F., a resident of Williamsfield, Illinois ; J. D. ; Jay, of Wil-

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liamsfield ; M. M., a physician and surgeon at Odell, Illinois; and
Mary, wife of Ricard Judge of Pontiac, Illinois.

Judge Welsh grew up on the old homestead with which so
many of his early associations are identified, had the training of the
average farmer boy in Central Illinois during the sixties and seven-
ties, and from the district schools entered Lombard College at Gales-
burg, graduating with the class of 1885. Judge Welsh studied law
at the Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, was admitted to
the bar in June, 1887, and spent his first two years in practice at
Springfield, Missouri. Returning to Galesburg, he soon found him-
self in the enjoyment of a living practice, and since then his reputa-
tion has steadily grown, and for a number of years he has had his
choice of business in that field. The only important interruption
to his career as a lawyer came during his service as county judge of
Knox County, an office he filled from December, 1902, until Decem-
ber, 1906. From 1890 until 1895 Judge Welsh was associated with
George W. Prince, and in August, 1895, a partnership was formed
with E. P. Williams and George A. Lawrence. The firm in 1912
admitted Mr. Green, and at present its title is Williams, Lawrence,
Welsh & Green, without doubt the leading law firm of Galesburg.

During the twenty-five years of his practice Judge Welsh has
conducted important litigations in both the federal and state courts.
Though possessed of great natural ability he has always been known
as a hard student, is a versatile and ready debater, and has never
contented himself until becoming master of every detail of a case.
There are few lawyers who win a larger percentage of their cases
before either judge or jury than Mr. Welsh. In addition to his law
practice he is a director in the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of
Galesburg.

Judge Welsh was married June 27, 1888, to Miss Ella C.
McCullough, daughter of Samuel K. and Emily Rosina (Reed)
McCullough of Galesburg. Mrs. Welsh, who died May 2, 1913,
was prominent socially at Galesburg, an active worker in the Ladies'
Aid and the Free Kindergarten, and although not a member active
in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Welsh was a
member of the Universalist Church and Judge Welsh is active in
church affairs and a trustee of Lombard College, his alma mater, an
institution conducted under the auspices of the Universalist denom-
ination. Fraternally he is affiliated with Alpha Lodge No. 155 A. F.
& A. M., and Galesburg Chapter, R. A. M. Politically he is a
republican. His law firm represents the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and a number
of local banks.

Judge Welsh's son, Vernon M., born August 15, 1891, graduated
at Knox College in 1913, and is now a student in Harvard Law
School. His record while in college gives promise of a brilliant
career. He won several oratorical prizes in college, and in 1913 was
awarded the prize offered by the Prohibition Society, and also that

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offered by the Peace Society, winning the first honors both in the
local and state meetings, and also the first prize at St. Louis, and
was sent as representative to the Peace Conference at Lake Mohonk,
New York.

SOLON W. CROWELL. More than half of the time since his
admission to the Illinois bar S. W. Crowell spent in the office of
state's attorney of Ogle County. His experience, his thorough train-
ing, and certain personal qualifications have brought him a rank as
one of the ablest and most successful attorneys of Oregon, where he
has been more or less actively identified with public affairs for the
last quarter of a century.

Solon W. Crowell was born on a farm in Marion Township,
Ogle County, February 22, 1869, and he still retains this old farm of
450 acres. He was the eleventh in a family of twelve children born
to the late Solon S. and Sarah (Kern) Crowell. His father was
born at Concord, New Hampshire, and his mother in Madison
County, New York.

Solon W. Crowell attended district schools near the old home
farm on which he was reared until about sixteen years of age, and
then continued in the public and high schools at Oregon, graduating
from high school in 1888. In the fall of the same year he entered
the University of Illinois, and spent three years in the literary and
scientific departments. Following that came three years as deputy
circuit clerk of Ogle County, and it was while in that office that his
ambition was permanently directed toward the law and he took
advantage of opportunities to acquaint himself with court pro-
cedure and also to study law in the office of and under the direction
of H. A. Smith for one year. In the fall of 1894 Mr. Crowell
entered the Northwestern University Law School at Chicago and
was graduated from that institution LL. B. in the spring of 1896.
His admission to the bar, however, was given at Chicago in the fall
of 1895. On returning to Ogle County he took up active practice,
and in the fall of 1896 was elected state's attorney, and held that
office continuously for a period of twelve years. He has taken con-
siderable part in republican party affairs, and was a delegate to
the state convention at Springfield, Illinois, in 1912. He was named
as a presidential elector-at-large on the republican ticket in the 1912
campaign. He is vice president and one of the directors of the
Oregon State Savings Bank of Oregon, Illinois.

January 28, 1903, Mr. Crowell married Miss Edith B. McCrea,
daughter of Alfred B. McCrea, of Creston, Illinois. Mrs. Crowell
was educated in the public schools at Creston and in the normal
college, at Normal, Illinois, and is well known in club and social
circles at Oregon. Mr. Crowell is a member of the State Bar
Association and is a popular member of such fraternities as the
Masonic order, in which he is both a consistory and a Knight
Templar Mason and also a member of the Mystic Shrine, and the

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Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen
of America. His church is the Presbyterian. Mr. Crowell has
offices in the Jacobs Block and his home is at 700 North Fourth
Street, Oregon, on the banks of Rock River.

BERT S. DUZAN. For a man still in his early thirties Bert S.
Duzan has made a splendid record as a lawyer, and easily stands
among the leaders of the Ogle County bar. He has the best law
offices in Oregon, and a valuable law library comprising about a
thousand volumes.

Bert S. Duzan was born at Stittman Valley, Illinois, June 30,
1882, and from an early age has depended largely on his own efforts
to advance him in life. He attended the Oregon public schools,
graduating from high school in 1901, and for three years was a
student of law in the office and under the direction of J. C. Seyster
at Oregon. Mr. Duzan was admitted to the bar at Chicago in Octo-
ber, 1907, and soon afterwards formed a partnership with Orville
Ely, the firm of Ely & Duzan continuing until January, 1910. Since
that date Mr. Duzan has practiced as an individual, and besides a
general practice is local attorney and legal adviser to several private
corporations. In January, 1908, he became city "attorney of Oregon,
and has succeeded himself in that office ever since.

Mr. Duzan was married December 19, 1907, to Miss Carolyn
Taylor, of Clinton, Illinois. She was educated in the schools of
DeWitt and Leroy, Illinois. They have twin children, Donald T.
and Duane S., born December 2, 1913.

Mr. Duzan is a thirty-second degree Mason, has membership in
the Mystic Shrine temple at Rockford, and is also affiliated with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the
State Bar Association, and has taken much interest in republican
party affairs, having been a delegate to the state convention in 1912.
He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.

WILBUR B. McHENRY. Since his admission to the bar at Ottawa
November 4, 1897, Wilbur B. McHenry has been steadily increasing
his prestige and success as one of the able members of the Rochelle
bar. A few days after his admission to the bar he formed a partner-
ship with George D. O'Brien, under the firm name of O'Brien &
McHenry, and for a dozen years this existed as one of the most rep-
resentative firms of the Ogle County bar. The partnership was dis-
solved in April, 1909, after which Mr. McHenry looked after his
large business as an individual practitioner, and he is now the senior
member of the law firm of McHenry & Duster. For four years
he served as city clerk of Rochelle, and his record of service as
mayor covers twelve years, and he is at present executive head of
this flourishing Northern Illinois city. He was elected and served
one term as representative of Ogle County in the Forty- Fourth Gen-
eral Assembly, during which term he served on the judiciary, the

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railroad and warehouse, the corporations and public grounds and
buildings committees.

Wilbur B. McHenry was born at Rochelle March 20, 1874, the
younger of two children of James S. and Lovina (Sitterly) Mc-
Henry. Both his parents were natives of New York State. His
early education came from the public schools of Rochelle, and after
graduating from the high school in 1894 he attended business col-
lege at Rock ford, and then spent two years as a student in the
law office of George D. O'Brien, with whom he became associated
in practice as soon as admitted to the bar. He is attorney for the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company.

Mr. McHenry was married November 30, 1898, to Miss Daisy
Poole of Rochelle. Their one daughter, Lola, died when two years
of age. Mrs. McHenry has taken a prominent part in club and
social life at Rochelle, and is active in the women's club of that city.
Mr. McHenry has taken thirty-two degrees in Scottish Rite
Masonry, is a Knight Templar and a Shriner of that order, and
is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the
Business Men's Club. Politically he is a republican, and his church
is the Presbyterian. His office at Rochelle is in the People's Bank
Building and his home at 521 Fifth Avenue.

FLOYD J. TILTON. Besides his successful practice as a lawyer
for the past fifteen years, at first in Kewanee and later at Rochelle,
Floyd J. Tilton had some active service as a soldier during the
Spanish-American war and is one of the best known citizens of Ogle
County. Since taking up active practice he has been devoted to the
interests of his profession, has never been led away from the law
into politics, although as a loyal democrat he has attended several
state conventions as a delegate. His practice has always been suffi-
ciently attractive and remunerative so that he has had no inclinations
to hold office, and is first and last a lawyer.

Floyd J. Tilton was born at Chana in Ogle County, Illinois, May
24, 1875. There were three children, among whom he was the first,
born to William W. and Alice (Canavan) Tilton, his father a native
of Knox County, Ohio, and his mother of County Monaghan, Ire-
land.

Floyd J. Tilton acquired his early education in the Rochelle
public schools, finishing the high school course in 1895, and after
two years as a teacher began the study of law in the office of F. E.
Dresser at Rochelle. One year later he entered the Northwestern
University Law School, in the fall of 1897, and his career there was
interrupted by his enlistment early in 1898 for service in the Span-
ish-American war. He was one of the few volunteers who actually
got to the front, and saw some active campaigning in Porto Rico.
After nine months' service Mr. Tilton returned home, and in the fall
of 1899 re-entered Northwestern University and was a student there

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 727

until his admission to the bar at Chicago on June 7, 1900. Mr.
Tilton began practice at Kewanee, where in January, 1902, he
became associated with John T. Cummings under the firm name of
Cummings & Tilton, and remained there in practice with Mr. Cum-
mings until October, 1907. At that date he returned to Ogle County
and located at Rochelle, and has since managed an individual prac-
tice. In 1912 he was his party's nominee for state senator from
the Tenth District, and for representative in the General Assembly
in 1914.

Mr. Tilton was married June u, 1908, to Mertha C. Bailey of
Kewanee. Their three children are: Mary N., born July 14, 1910;
John W., born November 24, 1911 ; and Norval B., born July 24,
1914. Mrs. Tilton was educated in the public schools of Kewanee
and in college at Dubuque, Iowa, and is an active member in social
circles and of the Woman's Club. Mr. Tilton has fraternal rela-
tions with the Masons, the Elks and other secret societies. His
church home is the Presbyterian. His law office is at the corner
of Main Street and Fourth Avenue and his home at 408 Third
Avenue.

HON. JOHN P. DEVINE. For ten years a member of the Lee
County bar, Mr. Devine outside of the law is best known through his
services as an Illinois legislator, being a member of the present
House of Representatives.

John P. Devine was born January 22, 1878, a son of James and
Mary A. (Gugerty) Devine. His father was a native of Ireland
and his mother of Lee County, Illinois. His early education came
from the schools of Dixon, and he is a graduate of both the literary
and law departments of the Northern Illinois College at Dixon. He
finished his law course with the class of 1903, and was admitted
to the bar at Chicago October 4, 1905. Mr. Devine at once began
active practice at Dixon and has enjoyed substantial success. His
office is at 123 Galena Avenue.

Mr. Devine was elected to the Forty-eighth General Assembly in
1912, and in 1914 was re-elected. During the first session he was
chairman of the committee on canal, river improvement and com-
merce, and a member of the committees on congressional apportion-
ment, education, judiciary, municipal courts of Chicago, public utili-
ties, state and municipal civil service reform, state institutions. He
introduced the bill into the lower house providing for the employ-
ment of state convicts on the public highways, and was author of
several measures which became enacted as laws. He also introduced
and secured the passage of the bill permitting proof of handwriting
by comparison.

Mr. Devine is an active democrat, has taken an interest in politics
since reaching his majority, and has served as delegate to several
conventions, including the last one held in the state. He is affiliated

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with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and with the
Knights of Columbus, and is a member of the Catholic Church.

ORVILLE JAMES TAYLOR, JR., was born at Sioux City, Iowa, Sep-
tember 8, 1885. A son of Orville J. and Eleanor S. (Harris)
Taylor. His father is a lawyer and since the early '705 has been
prominent in his profession at Sioux City.

The son received his education in the public schools at Sioux
City, and after graduation from high school entered the University
of Chicago, thereafter matriculating in the law school of North-
western University, from which institution he received a degree of
LL. B. in 1908, and in the same year was admitted to the Illinois
Bar. During his attendance in law school Mr. Taylor occupied the
position of assistant agent of the Estate of Henry W. King.

His first year of practice was spent with the firm of Judah,
Willard, Wolf & Reichman. Later he became associated with Roger
L. Foote, attorney for the Corn Exchange National Bank, and in
1912 entered the offices of Gardner, Foote & Burns. In 1913 he
was made a member of that firm, and in that capacity is now engaged
in general practice. His offices are in the Corn Exchange Bank
Building.

Mr. Taylor is a member of the American Bar Association, the
Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, in which
organization he is acting as a member of the legal education com-
mittee, the University Club, the City Club, the Legal Club of Chi-
cago, and Wheaton Golf Club. He belongs to the college fraternity
of Beta Theta Pi and to the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi. He
is a director in Chicago of the Alumni Association of the former.
For the past five years he has occupied a position on the faculty of
the Chicago Law School as professor of law of private corporations.

Aside from his profession, he devotes much time to social wel-
fare work, and is a director in and attorney for the Emerson House
Association, a prominent settlement situated in the slum district
of the west side.

On June 30, 1915, Mr. Taylor was married to Saide Prescott
Pettit of Chicago. His residence is at 2632 Lake View Avenue.

APOLLOS W. O'HARRA. The bar of Hancock County has one of
its ablest members in Apollos W. O'Harra, who began practice in
1880, and has made many high connections in his professional activi-
ties. He is now senior member in the firm of O'Harra, O'Harra,
Wood & Walker, one of the strongest firms in Hancock County.

Apollos W. O'Harra was born on a farm near Camp Point, in
Adams County, Illinois, February 22, 1857, a son of Jefferson W.
and Paulina (Robertson) O'Harra. His father, who was born in
Indiana June 4, 1833, was for a number of years 'a farmer in Adams
and Hancock counties, but in 1866 moved to Bentley, in Hancock
County, and was for thirty-two years proprietor of a general store.

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In 1899 he came to Carthage, with the intention of retiring from
business, but being unable to content himself with a life of idleness
was from 1900 to 1908 active manager of the mortgage depart-
ment in the office of his son. Mrs. Jefferson O'Harra was born
in Adams County, Illinois, May 9, 1838. They became the parents
of nine children, six of whom are now living : Apollos W. ; Dr.
William G., a practicing physician in Chicago; Mary E., wife of
George E. Burner, a retired farmer now living in Carthage; Dr.
C. C, who is president of the State School of Mines in South
Dakota ; Rev. M. L., now pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church
at Carthage ; and Ira J., an attorney of Macomb, Illinois.

Apollos W. O'Harra acquired his early education in the public
schools, was a student in Carthage College, and for four years was
one of the teachers in the schools at Bentley. His study of law
was begun under the direction of Charles J. Scofield, and he later
read in the office of Draper & Scofield, in Cartage, and was admitted
to the bar January 5, 1880. Mr. O'Harra began practice alone, but
at the end of two years admitted Frank H. Graves, who is now a
leading attorney in Spokane, Washington. Two years later Mr.
Graves removed from the city, and Mr. O'Harra then became asso-
ciated with Charles J. and T. J. Scofield, both of wrhom were then
leading members of. the Hancock County bar and have since reached
increased distinctions and successes in the bar of Illinois. With
the addition of Mr. O'Harra the firm became Scofield, O'Harra &
Scofield, which continued until the ejection of Charles J. Scofield to
the circuit bench. Mr. O'Harra and T. J. Scofield continued in prac-
tice together for seventeen years. In 1891 they admitted William
H. Hartzell to partnership, and he was with them in practice until
1896. In 1890 O'Harra & Scofield opened an office at Ouincy, Mr.
Scofield taking charge in that city, while Mr. O'Harra remained at
Carthage. A .year later Col. W. W. Berry became associated
with them and practiced with them until his death. On January
i, 1897, Mr. Hartzell retired from the firm, and during the fall of
the same year Judge Charles J. Scofield, having retired from twelve
years of consecutive service on the circuit and appellate bench, again
entered private practice and became a partner in the old firm under
the style of Scofield, O'Harra & Scofield. This relationship was dis-
solved by mutual consent on March I, 1899. Judge Scofield is still
in practice, while T. J. Scofield is one of the leading attorneys in
Chicago. Mr. O'Harra is now in practice with his son and two other
younger members of the bar. He has a practice that extends over
several states, and his firm are acting attorneys for the Mississippi
River Power Company, and have a number of other important busi-
ness relations.

On October 14, 1880, Mr. O'Harra married Miss Eliza J. Burner,
daughter of Isaac S. and Jane A. (Lionberger) Burner. Both her
parents were natives of Virginia. Mr. O'Harra and wife have the
following children: Clifton J., born May 23, 1884; Edith May, born

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May 22, 1886; Gladys, born June 8, 1890, and unmarried; Roswell
B., born March 30, 1892, a graduate of the law department
of the University of Michigan, and who became a member of the law
firm of O'Harra, O'Harra, Wood & Walker in 1915. The daughter
Edith May is the wife of Henry S. Walker, and they have two sons.
Clifton J. O'Harra is a graduate of the Carthage High School with
the class of 1902, completed the course in Carthage College in 1906,
and in June, 1908, graduated from the Yale Law School and was
admitted to the bar in the following July. He became a partner of
his father under the name O'Harra & O'Harra, and subsequently his
classmate in Carthage College and at Yale, Earl W. Wood, was
admitted to the firm in 1909. Then a year later Henry S. Walker, a
graduate of Carthage and from the law department of the University
of Michigan, became a partner, thus making the firm of O'Harra,
O'Harra, Wood & Walker. Clifton J. O'Harra was married Octo-
ber 21, 1911, to Erma Rand of Carthage. He is affiliated with the
Masonic Order and the Knights of Pythias.

Apollos W. O'Harra has membership in the County and State and
American Bar associations, is affiliated with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and is a democrat who has served as delegate to
various state conventions.

LINUS CRUISE has been successfully identified with the bar at
Carthage since 1897. His work in the profession has followed the
lines of general practice, and during the past fifteen years his name
has been connected with a number of important cases tried in
Hancock County.

Linus Cruise was born at Connersville, Indiana, April 5, 1859.
His parents were John and Margaret (Moore) Cruise, the former
born in Pennsylvania in 1826 and the latter in Morgan County,
Ohio, in 1825. John Cruise early in life located in Ohio, subse-
quently moved to Connersville, Indiana, and was a merchant there
until the outbreak of the Civil war. He was one of the first to enlist
in the Union army, going out in 1861, and was engaged in the cam-
paigns through Kentucky, Tennessee and other sections of the Mid-
dle West, until losing his life on the battlefield at Chickamauga.
His body was buried at Chickamauga, and he now rests with his
comrades in the Chickamauga battlefield cemetery. His widow
survived him many years, and died February 13, 1899. In 1865 she
brought her seven children to Adams County, Illinois, locating on a
farm, and kept her family about her until they reached adult age.
Later she moved to Hancock County, living near Burnside.

Linus Cruise, though reared in a home of good influences and
never lacking the necessities of life, had to depend upon himself
for advancement after leaving the district schools of Adams County.
He continued his education in the Camp Point High School and
in the State Normal School at Normal, Illinois. He was engaged
in educational work and in other lines of employment, and finally

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in 1895 entered the law department of Drake University at Des
Moines, Iowa, and was graduated LL. B. in 1897. He was admitted
to the bar of Springfield, and in the fall of the same year opened
his law office at Carthage. Mrs. Cruise, his wife, had loyally
co-operated with him in his efforts to prepare for the law, and
while he was a student in college she read law at home, and has
since been an able assistant to him in his profession.

Mr. Cruise was married March 6, 1890, to Miss Anna H. Gen-
try, who was born in Bloomington, Indiana. They had one son,
Orville Gentry Cruise, born December 17, 1890, and died January
17, 1891. Mr. Cruise has been active in local affairs only, has served
on the school board for several years, but has declined any part in
politics, since all his time is taken up with his profession. He is a
democrat and has been a delegate to county conventions. His church
home is the Christian, and he is identified with the Masonic Order,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and
other fraternal organizations.

SAMUEL XAYLOR. With ten years of successful experience
behind him, Samuel Naylor is now regarded as one of the ablest
attorneys of the Hancock County bar, and has been in practice at
Carthage since 1903.

Samuel Xaylor was born at Liberty, Illinois, June 8, 1879, son
of Samuel and Barbara (Nations) Naylor. Samuel Naylor, who
was born at Quincy, Illinois, Septernber 14, 1836, followed a career
as a merchant, and died August n, 1910. During the Civil war
he enlisted in Company E of the Seventy-eighth Illinois Infantry,
and for three years was away at the front fighting for the cause of
the Union. His widow, a native of Liberty, died at the home of her
son Samuel in Carthage on October 8, 1914.

Mr. Naylor acquired his early education in the public schools,
and was graduated in 1900 with the A. B. degree from Carthage
College. His law studies were pursued under Judge D. E. Mack
at Carthage, and three years later, in October, 1903, he was admitted
to the bar. His practice began at once at Carthage, and although he
now occupies offices with Senator O. F. Berry, he has never had a
partner. Mr. Naylor was elected and served one term as city attor-
ney of Carthage, and for six years was a member of the school
board. Aside from his large general practice, he is now attorney
for the Dime Savings Bank at Carthage, and also for the large
loan company of Sharp & Berry Bros.

Mr. Naylor was married August n, 1909, to Miss Forest M.
Jones, daughter of Elijah and Emeline Jones of Springfield. They
have two children : Barbara Eleanor Naylor, born October 20,
1910, and Samuel J., born October 20, 1912. Mr. Naylor is a repub-
lican in politics, is affiliated with the Masonic Order and Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, is a member of the Illinois State Bar Asso-
ciation and president of the Hancock County Bar Association, and

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his church is the Lutheran. His office is in the Dime Savings Bank
Building, and his home at 712 Wabash Avenue.

ROLLAND M. WAGNER. A young lawyer who has done much to
prove his ability and open a way for a large and successful career,
Rolland M. Wagner, of the firm of Wolf & Wagner, is assistant
state's attorney of Adams County, and has practiced at Quincy since
his admission to the bar.

Rolland M. Wagner was born at Liberty, Illinois, July 27, 1886,
a son of Charles A. and Clara (Collins) Wagner. The grandfather
was a native of Pennsylvania, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where
Charles A. Wagner was born, and the latter subsequently moved to
Ohio and for a number of years has been senior member of the
mercantile firm of Wagner & Collins at Liberty, Illinois. He is now
sixty-two years of age, and his wife, a native of Illinois, is fifty.
They had three sons and three daughters, and the Quincy lawyer
was the third.

His early education was acquired in the public schools of Lib-
erty, finishing with a high school course, taught for two years at
Columbus, Illinois, graduated B. A. at the University of Michigan,
and entering the law school of the Northwestern University of Chi-
cago was graduated LL. B. in 1909. Since then he has practiced
at Quincy and has established an excellent reputation for skillful
handling of cases. As assistant state's attorney he was one of the
prosecutors of the famous Pfanschmidt murder case, which resulted
in a sentence of death for the defendant, and the case is now before
the Supreme Court. Mr. Wagner has been connected with a num-
ber of other important cases. He is attorney for the Adams County
Humane Society, attorney for the Ellington Electric Company of
Quincy, and other corporations, is a member of the Adams County
Bar Association and the State Bar Association, is lecturing knight
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Fraternal Order of Eagles,
the Quincy Turnverein, the Quincy Country Club, and takes keen
delight in all outdoor sports.

Louis F. MEEK. Thirty years a member of the Illinois bar,
Louis F. Meek has practiced in Peoria since 1888, and his success
and attainments as a lawyer have been in proportion to the years
of his activity. He has kept himself closely within the limits of
professional work, his life has been characterized by a devotion to
duty and the service of a capable lawyer such as to constitute true
and substantial success.

Louis F. Meek, who was born in Eureka, Woodford County,
Illinois, in June, 1863, is in the same profession which was honored
by his father, the late Bazel D. Meek, who died after a long and
eventful career at Eureka, April 30, 1909. Colonel Meek was one
of the early members of the Woodford County bar, and early in

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the Civil war was associated with Col. Robert G. Ingersoll in rais-
ing the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry. He became lieutenant colonel
in that organization, and after two years in the field resigned his
commission and returned home to his practice. He was regarded
as one of the distinguished and able members of the bar in his
county, figured in public life, and held such offices as county judge,
county treasurer and county superintendent of schools.

Louis F. Meek grew up in Eureka, attended the public schools
and Eureka College, and prepared for his profession in the North-
western Law School in Chicago. After graduating with the class
of 1884 and being admitted to the bar, he was associated with his
father until 1888. Seeking the opportunities of a larger city he then
opened his office in Peoria, and for two years was in practice with
R. J. Cooney, now of Chicago, who afterwards served as state's
attorney of Peoria County. One step in his professional experience
was two years of service as assistant state's attorney under John
Niehaus. He was also public administrator of Peoria County four
years. For a number of years he was associated with Mr. Ellwood,
in the" firm of Ellwood & Meek. On August 2, 1913, was appointed
postmaster of Peoria by President Wilson and the firm of Ellwood
& Meek was dissolved, but Mr. Meek still maintains the office in
Central National Bank Building, where he attends to such legal
matters as his time will permit from his duties as postmaster.
Politically he is a democrat and has always taken an active interest
in politics. He was a delegate to the national convention in 1890
and always stumps his congressional district and Central Illinois
when campaigns are on. In 1906, during an absence from the state
on business, the democratic convention nominated him for Con-
gress. He accepted the honor reluctantly, and after a vigorous
campaign succeeded in reducing the normal republican majority of
6,000 to less than 3,000.

Mr. Meek is married and there are three children in the family :
Elizabeth, Perry and Louis. Mr. Meek is affiliated with a number
of secret orders and business organizations and belongs to the Sons
of the American Revolution. He is one of the leading Peorians
both as a lawyer and citizen.

EDWARD P. ALLEN. Engaged in practice at Quincy since 1907,
Mr. Allen, who is now serving as city attorney, has gained a secure
position in his profession as a result of hard work in overcoming
the handicaps of meager advantages and by close diligence and
application to his work as a lawyer.

Born in Quincy January 15, 1884, Edward P. Allen was the
youngest of four children born to John A. and Anna (Lane) Allen,
the former a native of New York State and the latter of Ohio.
Grandfather John Allen was a native of Fall River, Massachusetts.
John A. Allen in early life studied for a lawyer, but at the beginning
of the Civil war enlisted at Providence, Rhode Island, and went out

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as major of the Fourth Rhode Island Volunteers. It was one of
the first regiments to reach Washington, D. C. His service was for
three years, and included participation in the battles of first and
second Bull Run, and though two horses were shot from under him
he was never wounded. At one time he was military governor of
both North and South Carolina, and subsequently was on General
Burnside's staff as major. He came out of the army as lieutenant
colonel, having resigned on account of ill health. In 1868 he came
to Illinois, promoted and carried out several large land deals at
Quincy and vicinity, and subsequently was in the tailoring business,
employing at one time nineteen tailors. After retiring from that
business, he held the office of justice of the peace for thirty years.
His death occurred in November, 1908, at the age of eighty-two. He
was married in Dallas City, Illinois, to Anna Lane, who died at
Quincy February 13, 1908, at the age of sixty-nine.

Edward P. Allen had to work and farm to get an education.
His attendance in the public schools was interrupted, and he subse-
quently was a student in the Union City Business College, and com-
pleted the equivalent of a high school course by night study for two
years. His law reading was pursued in the office of W. A. Vande-
venter, and later with Homer Swope. He was also a student of
law in the Gem City Business College, and was admitted to the bar
at Quincy in 1907. Mr. Allen was elected city attorney in 1909 and
held the office three terms. He refused to accept another term,
preferring to give his entire time to his private and growing law
business. He was nominated for Congress on the democratic ticket
and defeated by a small vote in a large republican district, and is
one of the leading democrats in Adams County. He has been a dele-
gate to all the state conventions for the past fifteen years and was
assistant sergeant at arms of the national convention at Denver
in 1908. He was secretary of the Democratic County Committee,
and is a member of the County and State Bar Association. His
fraternities are the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the
Masonic lodge, and has taken thirty-two degrees of the Scottish
Rite.

On September 8, 1909, Mr. Allen married Miss Maude Homan,
daughter of William A. and Emily (Rouer) Homan, both natives of
Quincy, where they still reside. One child was born to their mar-
riage, Anna Lane Allen, on December 14, 1910.

HON. HARRY HIGBEE. Judge of the Circuit Court of Pike
County, Judge Higbee is one of the best known lawyers and jurists
of Illinois, is the son of a judge and lawyer who gained distinction
in earlier Illinois courts, and in his own career has had fortunate
associations, a liberal education, has for many years been prominent
in professional and civic affairs, and all his acts as a judge or lawyer
have contributed to the dignity of his profession.

Harry Higbee was born at Pittsfield, county seat of Pike

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County, December 13, 1854. His father was the late Hon. Chaun-
cey L. Higbee and his mother Julia M. (White) Higbee. Chauncey
L. Higbee, a native of Ohio, moved to Illinois early in life, entered
the law and for a number of years was a very widely known and
learned attorney in Pike County. He was elected judge of the Cir-
cuit Court at Pittsfield and honored that office by his services from
1861 until his death in 1884. He was also a member of the Appellate
Court of the state from 1877 to 1884.

Judge Harry Higbee had not only the natural capacity but the
fortunate environment which prepares men for the most efficient
service. He entered Yale University, was graduated in 1875, subse-
quently studied law at Columbia College, New York, for a year,
and later, in 1878, graduated from the Union College of Law at
Chicago, and then spent a year in European travel and study. Re-
turning from abroad he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1879.
One of his partners was Mr. Wike, a prominent lawyer and at one
time assistant secretary of the treasury of the United States. He
was also associated in practice with the late Col. Asa C. Mathews.

In 1888 he was elected a member of the State Senate, was
re-elected in 1892, and in 1897 was elected judge of the Circuit
Court, an office in which his thorough legal training and ability, his
broad experience and unquestioned integrity have enabled him to
render the finest quality of judicial service.

Judge Higbee has been president of the First National Bank of
Pittsfield since its organization. He is a member of the American
Bar Association, the Illinois and Pik'e County Bar associations, and
was honored with the office of president of the State Bar Associa-
tion in 1912-13. In politics he is a democrat, is a member of the
University Club and. the Iroquois Club of Chicago, and is a Royal
Arch Mason. Judge Higbee was married December 18, 1879, at
Pittsfield, to Miss Emma Hicks. Her father, Col. D. D. Hicks,
who died in 1881, was for many years one of Pittsfield's prominent
citizens. Judge Higbee's only child died in infancy.

HON. EDWARD DOOCY. The professional record of Mr. Doocy
includes forty years as a member of the Pike County bar, with
twelve years of service as county judge and for the past nine years
master in chancery. Among Illinois lawyers his name is representa-
tive of the solid industry and ability which is at the basis of any
long and successful career in the law.

Edward Doocy was born at Griggsville, Pike County, Illinois,
October 19, 1851. His parents were James and Sarah (Tracy)
Doocy, both natives of County Tipperary, Ireland, who in 1847
emigrated to America, and from New Orleans came to St. Louis,
where they lived four years, and in the early part of 1851 located at
Griggsville. The father followed various occupations while living
in St. Louis, and in Pike County became a substantial farmer and

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was such up to his death in 1874 at the, age of forty-nine. The
mother died at Springfield, Illinois, at the age of seventy-seven.

The oldest of their seven children, Judge Doocy, had his primary
education in the public schools of Pike County, subsequently was a
student in the academic and law department of the Illinois College
at Jacksonville, graduating in 1871, and thereafter read law with
Judge James Ward; a retired lawyer. His admission to practice
came in January, 1874, and then for eight years he practiced with
increasing reputation in his native town. In 1882 Pike County
elected him its county judge, and this caused his removal to the
county seat at Pittsfield, where he was twice re-elected and adminis-
tered the duties of county judge for three terms, or twelve years.
Since leaving the bench Judge Doocy has given his attention to a
large and important practice and for the past ten years has been
master in chancery. He was a delegate to the democratic conven-
tion at Baltimore in 1912. He is a member of both the State and
American Bar associations, is a democrat in politics, and is a
Knight Templar Mason, with lodge affiliations in Ascalon Lodge,
No. 49, A. F. & A. M.

Judge Doocy has a fine family. On December 28, 1886, at
Griggsville he married Clara L. Butler, daughter of E. W. Butler,
now deceased. To their marriage have been born five children :
Clara Louise, born at Griggsville in 1889, is a graduate of the Illinois
College with the degree of B. A., and is principal of the High
School of Mount Sterling, Illinois; Edward Butler, born in July,
1892, at Pittsfield, finished the electrical engineering course in the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi, and is now
superintendent of a public service corporation ; Elmer Tiffany, born
in November, 1894, at Pittsfield, is a graduate of the law depart-
ment of Wesleyan University; Helen L., born January 25, 1896, at
Pittsfield, has finished the Pittsfield High School course, and is now
a teacher; Clarence Wellington, born in 1904, is attending school.

NELSON F. ANDERSON. A lawyer with an unusually broad
range of experience both in private and official practice, Nelson F.
Anderson is the present state's attorney of Henry County and has
been identified with the bar of that county a quarter of a century.

Nelson F. Anderson was born in Sweden February n, 1860, a
son of Nels and Maria (Kolakowski) Nelson. He was the oldest
of their eight children, and. in the family are . two dentists, one
physician, two lawyers and one in the grocery business, which is a
fine showing of professional talent for one set of children.

Nelson F. Anderson received his early education in the Latin
School at Ystad, Sweden, but when twelve years of age the family
emigrated to the United States, first locating at Greene in Butler
County, Iowa. In that county he attended country schools for three
years, and then went to Keokuk and learned the printer's trade.
Mr. Anderson is a practical printer, and worked at his trade in

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Keokuk, Galesburg and Chicago, spending about four years alto-
gether. His literary education was acquired in Knox College at
Galesburg, where he graduated with the degree Bachelor of Arts,
and his wife has the same degree from the same institution. At the
age of twenty-one Mr. Anderson determined to study law, but was
confronted with the problem of providing his living expenses while
pursuing his studies. While working at his trade in Chicago he
began the reading of law in the office of Thomas E. Milchrist, whose
record as United States District Attorney is well remembered. Mr.
Anderson was with Mr. Milchrist two years, and in the fall of 1882
entered the Union College of Law at Chicago, and was admitted to
the bar December 6, 1886, before the Supreme Court.

For about a year Mr. Anderson was employed by the law firm
of Cook & Lawrence in Chicago, then for two years practiced at
Salina, Kansas, with W. F. Musser as a partner under the firm
name of Anderson & Musser. Returning to Illinois Mr. Anderson
established an office at Galva, and for fourteen years served as vil-
lage attorney. For six years he was assistant to Judge Bigelow,
justice of the Appellate Court in the Sixth District. Mr. Anderson
has been a resident of Kewanee for the past ten years, and in 1912
was elected for the regular four-year term as state's attorney of
Henry County. He has an office in the courthouse at Cambridge
and his home law office is in the Fisher Building at Kewanee.

Mr. Anderson was married December 25, 1888, to Mary W.
Williams, daughter of W. P. Williams of Henry, Illinois. Their
four sons are: Leland H., who was born in 1891 and is a graduate
of the Kewanee High School and of the University of Chicago;
Sumner B., born in 1895, now a student in the University of Chi-
cago; Richard S., born in 1897; Nelson P., born in 1899. Mr.
Anderson was for nine years a member of the Galva Board of
Education, and has always interested himself in local affairs in what-
ever community has been his home. Politically he is a democrat, is
a member of the Congregational Church, of the Henry County Bar
Association, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. His home is at 527 Elliott Street, Kewanee.

JOHN B. HARRIS. Madison County claims Mr. Harris as one of
its native sons and as one of .the representative younger members
of its bar. He is engaged in the successful practice of his pro-
fession at Granite City, and he has been in a significant sense the
architect of his own fortunes, as he depended on his own resources
in making advancement to eligibility for the exacting profession in
which he is an earnest and effective worker and which he is honor-
ing alike by his character and services.

Mr. Harris was born on a farm in Moro Township, Madison
County, Illinois, on the 22d of November, 1880, and is a son of
John S. and Catherine (Keefe) Harris, the former of whom was
born in St. Charles- County, Missouri, and the latter in the City of

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St. Louis, that state, both having been children at the time of the
removal of the respective families to Alton, Madison County, Illi-
nois, where both were reared and educated and where their mar-
riage was solemnized. As a young man John S. Harris was a
successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Madison
County, and he finally turned his attention to agricultural pursuits,
in connection with which he became one of the substantial farmers
of Madison County, where he continued to reside until his death,
on the 27th of March, 1894, at the age of forty-eight years. His
widow, who was born in December, 1851, now resides at East St.
Louis, St. Clair County. Of the nine children seven are living, and
of the number John B. was the third in order of birth.

Mr. Harris passed his childhood days on the old homestead farm
and acquired his early education in the public schools of his native
township. He was about thirteen years old at the time of his
father's death and his widowed mother soon afterward removed
with her children to the Village of Bunker Hill, Macoupin County.
In the village high school Mr. Harris was graduated in 1898, and
he thereafter provided for his own support by various occupations,
the while he gave close attention to the study of law at home and
under effective private preceptorship. Knowledge thus gained indi-
cates how effective must have been the spur of ambition, and in
1907 Mr. Harris proved himself eligible for and was admitted to
the bar of his native state, at Alton, the metropolis of Madison
County. On the ist of March of the following year he engaged in
the practice of his profession at Granite City, and his record has
been one of consecutive advancement and pronounced professional
success. He has appeared in connection with a number of specially
important cases and up to the time of this writing has never yet
lost a case that was carried to the appellate court. He is an appre-
ciative and popular member of the Madison County Bar Associa-
tion, is a director of the Granite City Commercial Club, and in
politics is an uncompromising advocate of the cause of the demo-
cratic party, being a member of the Young Men's Democratic Club
of Granite City. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the
Royal Arcanum and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and both he
and his wife are communicants of the Catholic church.

On the 29th of June, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Harris to Miss Grace G. Grote, daughter of Nelson and Mar-
garet (Fitzgerald) Grote, the latter of whom still resides at East
St. Louis, Mr. Grote having died in November, 1914. Mr. and
Mrs. Harris have three children, whose names and respective dates
of birth are here noted: John B., Jr., April 19, 1911; Genevieve,
September 2, 1912; and Mary Frances, June 17, 1914.

JOHN ROOT. One of the old and prominent lawyers of Henry
County is John Root, now senior member of the firm of Root &
Root at Galva.

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 739

John Root was born October 25, 1849, at Bishop Hill, Illinois,
the only child of John and Charlotte Louise (Johnson) Root. Both
his parents were natives of Sweden, and his father after coming
to the United States fought as a volunteer in the American army
during the war with Mexico, and soon after the close of that strug-
gle located in Henry County, Illinois.

John Root received his early education in the common schools
at Bishop Hill. Subsequently attended Bryant & Stratton's Business
College of Chicago, and Knox College at Galesburg. In 1876 he
took up the study of law in the office of Judge Bigelow, and in
order to defray his expenses while preparing for his profession
taught school during the winter and worked on a farm in the sum-
mer. He was admitted to the Illinois bar at Chicago in March,
1880, and nine years later, in 1889, completed the course and was
graduated from the old Union College of Law at Chicago. Mr. Root
began his active practice at Galva and for twenty-five years con-
ducted a large and individual practice, having a clientele both in
Henry and adjoining counties. Though not partners, he and Judge
Bigelow had offices together for some time. Mr. Root served as
master in chancery of the Circuit Court from 1899 to iQii-

He has fraternal affiliations with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America; in politics is a
progressive and is a member of the. County Bar Association. On
June 22, 1874, he married Betsy Ogren of Bishop Hill. Their five
children are: Vincent J. ; Clarence, deceased; Amy L., wife of M.
Peterson of Galva ; Ralph W., an attorney of Galva ; and Earl

VINCENT J. ROOT. Junior member of the firm of Root & Root
at Galva, Vincent J. Root has been an active member of the Illinois
bar for the past ten years and has had a wide experience both as a
lawyer and court reporter.

Vincent J. Root was born on a farm near Bishop Hill, Illinois,
June 27, 1875. His father, who is senior member of the above firm,
has a brief sketch in preceding paragraphs. Vincent Root acquired
his early education in country schools near Bishop Hill, in the public
schools of that town and the high school at Galva, Illinois, and
attended the Bryant & Stratton, and the Metropolitan Business
colleges of Chicago, and for one year was an instructor in the
latter school. For one year he was a student in the Illinois College
of Law and completed his law course in the Northwestern Uni-
versity, graduating LL. B. in the class of 1904. Mr. Root was
admitted to the bar at Chicago in October, 1905, and before return-
ing' to Galva spent about a year in the office of A. M. Cox, a Chicago
lawyer. Since his return to Galva Mr. Root has practiced in part-
nership with his father. They have the finest offices and law library
in Henry County, and have an extensive practice in all the courts
and in a large 'and varied litigation. For about five years Mr. Root
was court reporter in Henry, Mercer, Rock Island and Whiteside

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counties. He is now serving his fourth year as city attorney of
Galva, and in the 1914 primaries was defeated by only thirty votes
for the nomination of county judge.

October 5, 1905, Mr. Root married Miss Christine Wing of
Galva. Mrs. Root is a member of the Eastern Star and the Daugh-
ters of Rebekah, and Mr. Root belongs to the same auxiliary body
and has taken thirty-two degrees in Scottish Rite Masonry, is a
member of the Peoria Consistory, Kewanee Commandery and
Mohammed Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has filled the various
chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is also a
member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of
America. Politically his affiliation is with the republican party. He
is a member of the County Bar Association.

CLARK BENJAMIN ABY. With eighteen years of professional
experience and success behind him, Clark B. Aby is now recognized
as one of the leaders of the bar at Galva. He has confined his
attention almost strictly to his profession and has engaged in poli-
tics and other affairs only to the extent of meeting the responsibili-
ties and obligations of a public-spirited citizen.

Clark Benjamin Aby was born on a farm near Galva, Illinois,
April 15, 1872, the youngest of eight children born to Alexander
and Melvina (Barnes) Aby. Both parents are now deceased.
Clark B. Aby grew up in the country, attended country schools
near the old home until about twelve, and then entered the Galva
public schools and remained until graduating from high school in
1890. Not long afterward he definitely determined upon the law
as a vocation and when about twenty-two spent a year in study in
the office of Judge Bigelow. After traveling over the West as far
as the Pacific coast, he returned home and in 1894 entered the
Northwestern University law department, and gave close attention
to his studies there until graduating LL. B. in 1896. Mr. Aby was
admitted to the bar at Chicago in June of the same year, and soon
afterward opened an office in Galva and has since been in active
practice. He is reputed to have one of the best law libraries in the
city.

His public service has been chiefly along the line of his profes-
sion. He served Galva as city attorney, also on the city council,
has held several minor offices and is now a member of the local
school board and also city attorney.

On July 23, 1896, Mr. Aby married Miss Lillie A. Nordstrum,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Nordstrum of Galva. Mrs. Aby
was educated in the Galva public schools. They are the parents of
two children: Roland C. was born September 27, 1898, and is now
a student in the high school; and Genevieve E. was born June 17,
1908. Fraternally Mr. Aby is affiliated with the Masonic order, in
which he is a past master, and also with the Knights of Pythias.

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He is a member of the County Bar Association, is a republican, and
a member of the Methodist Church.

WILLIAM C. EWAN. Junior member of the firm of Sturtz &
Ewan of Kewanee, William C. Ewan has been in active practice a
little more than seven years, and possesses superior qualifications
both as a lawyer and business man, and has also made himself active
in citizenship.

William C. Ewan was born March 12, 1881, near Lewistown, in
Fulton County, Illinois, a son of William I. and Rena C. (Murchin-
son) Ewan. His father was born March 12, 1849, at Port Republic,
Virginia, and his mother April i, 1847, at Greenville, South Caro-
lina. Both are now living at Cuba, Illinois, his father a retired
farmer. There were seven children, one of whom died in infancy,
and another of the sons is Dr. R. T. Ewan of Cuba. The Ewan
ancestry settled in America from Wales, while the Murchinson fam-
ily was of Scotch and English stock. Robert T. Ewan, who
founded the family on this side of the Atlantic, came over in colonial
times and saw active service during the Revolutionary war under
Washington. He settled in Virginia, and it was in 1857 that the
Ewan family came out to Illinois.

William C. Ewan, the fourth of the seven children of his parents,
attended country schools in Cass Township of Fulton County until
fourteen years of age, after which he was educated in the public
schools at Cuba, graduating from high school in 1900. Much of the
strength and vigor which he has brqught into his professional work
were acquired while a boy on the farm, and after leaving high
school he spent three years assisting his father. In September,
1903, he entered the University of Illinois, spent one year in the
literary department, and then continued a student in the law depart-
ment until graduating in June, 1907, LL. B. Mr. Ewan was admitted
to the bar by the Supreme Court at Chicago June 25, 1907. A fact
which shows his independence and industry is that he paid prac-
tically all his expenses while in college. After his admission to the
bar Mr. Ewan came to Kewanee, and was employed as assistant to
Charles E. Sturtz for about fourteen months, and they then formed
the partnership of Sturtz & Ewan in January, 1909, which has had
five years of successful practice and is regarded as one of the strong-
est law firms at Kewanee. Mr. Ewan served as assistant state's
attorney for five years, from 1907 to 1912. Sturtz & Ewan are
general attorneys for the Mystic Workers of the World, a fraternal
insurance company, and their jurisdiction covers nine states in the
Middle West, extending from Texas to Michigan. They are also
local attorneys for the Galesburg & Kewanee Electric Railway
Company, for the Consolidated Light & Power Company, the Local
Street Railway Company and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company. The firm are said to have the largest law
library in Kewanee and one of the largest in the county.

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Mr. Ewan is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, the Kewanee Club and the Midland Country Club, and is
a member of the American Bar Association and the County Bar
Association. He is a democrat in politics and a member of the
Congregational Church. He is unmarried and lives at 200 S. Tre-
mont Street in Kewanee, with office at the corner of Tremont and
Third streets.

HENRY B. SAFFORD. Among the law firms at Monmouth that
have special distinction on account of the individual abilities of their
members and the extent of their practice, one of the most important
is Safford & Graham, a relationship which has existed between these
two well-known attorneys for twelve years. Mr. Safford is a lawyer
of more than twenty years' experience in Illinois, and in addition
to sound ability entered the profession with a thorough training
and with a high standard of ideals that his mature career has done
much to realize.

Born at Hamilton, Illinois, October 19, 1868, a son of George
B. and Penelope (Gray) Safford, he lived in his native village and
attended the public schools until the age of sixteen. Following that
came two years in the high school at Keokuk, Iowa, and two years
in the* college at Carthage, Illinois. When he was about twenty
years of age Mr. Safford definitely determined upon the law as a
profession. While at Carthage he had the advantages of instruction
from such well read lawyers as Judge Charles J. and Timothy Scho-
field and A. W. O'Harra. He continued his reading for three years,
and in May, 1894, was admitted to the bar at Springfield. His first
six months after admission was spent at Carthage with the firm of
Berry Brothers, and from 1895 to 1903 he enjoyed a considerable
practice in Henderson County. Mr. Safford came to Monmouth on
December i, 1903, and entered into a partnership with I. M. Kirk-
patrick and W. F. Graham. A little later Mr. Kirkpatrick died, and
since then the firm title has been Safford & Graham. While as
attorneys they have been chiefly concerned with a general practice,
they also represent the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and
the Rock Island Railroad and a number of banks.

Mr. Safford was married November 16, 1898, to Anna Watson
of Henderson County. She was educated in the public schools of
Henderson County and finished at Valparaiso University, Indiana.
She is a member of the Fortnightly Club of Monmouth. Their one
child, Mary K., is now sixteen years of age.

In a political way Mr. Safford has never shown any inclinations
for office holding. He served as a member of the village board at
one time, has been a delegate to state and county conventions of
the republican party, but his best service to the public has been ren-
dered within the limits of his profession. He is a member of the
County and State Bar associations, and belongs to the Hamilton
Club of Chicago and to the Benevolent and Protective Order of

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 743

Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Wood-
men of America. His office is in the Library Building and his home
at 809 East First Avenue, Monmouth.

WILLIS F. GRAHAM. Junior member of the firm of Safford
& Graham, with offices in the Library Building at Monmouth, Mr.
Graham was first admitted to the bar in the State of Nebraska, but
for the past twenty years has practiced in Illinois, and is associated
with one of the strongest law firms of Warren County. This firm
has a large and extended general practice, and also represents sev-
eral banks and the Santa Fe and the Rock Island and Southern
Railroads.

Mr. Graham was born April 16, 1870, at Ellison, Illinois, the only
child of Charles W. and Mary (Coleman) Graham. Up to the age
of sixteen he attended the public schools at Point Pleasant, Illinois,
and in 1887 entered the Northern Indiana Normal School at Val-
paraiso, Indiana, from which institution, now Valparaiso University,
he was graduated A. B. in 1891. On the foundation of such an
education he soon afterwards took up the study of law. These
studies were carried on in the offices of Godfred & Godfrey at
Minden, Nebraska, for three years. In 1894 he was admitted to the
Nebraska bar, and for the following year practiced as junior mem-
ber of the firm of Godfrey, Godfrey & Graham. In 1895 Mr. Gra-
ham located at Oquawka, Illinois, was admitted to the Illinois bar
at Springfield in the same year, and in the fall of 1899 moved to
Monmouth. For a year and a hali he was associated with the late
J. M. Kirkpatrick in practice, but for more than twelve years his
senior associate has been Henry B. Safford.

Mr. Graham was married January 7, 1894, to Mary Garner of
Colfax, Illinois. Their two children are Charles C., born April 5,
1898, and Robert G., born March 13, 1901, both now attending high
school. Mr. Graham is a member of the County and State Bar
associations, and in politics is a republican. He lives at 120 North
C Street in Monmouth. His church is the Methodist.

JOHN H. HANLEY. With a standing as a lawyer acquired by
many years of successful experience, John H. Hanley is senior
member of the firm Hanley & Cox, with offices in the Claycomb
Building at Monmouth. While his ability as an attorney is now
pretty well diffused all over North Central Illinois, a more personal
interest attaches to the career of Mr. Hanley for the strenuous and
self-sacrificing efforts which he put forth when a young man to gain
an education and equip himself for the responsibilities of a learned
profession.

Though nearly all his active career has been spent -in Illinois,
John H. Hanley was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania,
September 8, 1860, a son of Michael and Marie (Fitzpatrick) Han-
ley. As a boy up to the age of fifteen he attended district schools,

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spent one year in the Hookstown Academy and four years in the
Woodlawn Academy. In the meantime he had been thrown upon
his self-supporting endeavors, and like many another successful
man was at various times a school teacher, a rail splitter, and there
was hardly any work too hard which he considered beneath his
dignity as a means to carry him through school. In the course of
his education he spent one term in Geneva College, and one year
at the Industry Academy. Mr. Hanley has been identified with
Monmouth as a place of residence since about 1883, in which year
he entered Monmouth College and remained until graduating A. B.
in 1885, and three years later received the degree of A. M. •

It was during his work as a teacher that Mr. Hanley decided to
become an attorney, and as early as 1877, though he could hardly
spare the money, he bought a two volume set of Blackstone's Com-
mentaries. At the present time Mr. Hanley has one of the largest
law libraries in the state, but out of it all he cherishes especially
that original nucleus which he bought at such sacrifice as has been
given for the sake of no other books that have entered his collec-
tion. For several years he devoted all his spare time to the reading
and mastery of these commentaries, and in June, 1885, began regular
study at Monmouth with the firm of Grier and Steward. He was
admitted to the bar at Springfield in November, 1887, and on March
4, 1888, began his active practice at Monmouth. For about ten
years he was alone, and subsequently formed a partnership with
George E. Cox, making the firm Hanley & Cox, as it remains to the
present time. His attention has been given to handling a general
practice, and he also represents several banks and railroad com-
panies. In all his active career of more than thirty years Mr. Han-
ley has never taken a vacation, and judging by the able and ener-
getic manner in which he still handles his business he has apparently
never needed one, his enthusiasm having sustained him through all
the years of professional service.

On September 5, 1889, Mr. Hanley married Sarah H. Bond of
Monmouth. Mrs. Hanley has an interesting ancestry, and is promi-
nent in Illinois in the Illinois organization of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, being state secretary. They have a daughter,
Helen Bond Hanley, who was educated at Monmouth and finished at
the Southern Seminary at Buena Vista, Virginia. Mr. Hanley is
a member of the County and State Bar associations, and at one
time served as city attorney and also had a place on the democratic
electoral ticket in Illinois. His home is at 724 West Broadway,
Monmouth.

GEORGE E. Cox. Junior member of the law firm of Hanley
& Cox at Monmouth, George E. Cox began his practice in that city
about eighteen years ago, and his career has been a most successful
one.

He represents an old family at Canton, Illinois, where he was

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born April 18, 1871, a son of William and Mary E. (Batty) Cox.
His father was born in England and the family settled at Canton,
Illinois, during the early days. His mother was a native of Shel-
bina, Missouri. George E. Cox depended for his early education
upon the public schools of Canton, attending through high school
and subsequently was in the Ottawa Business College. While work-
ing as a molder at Canton he read law in the evenings in the office
of Grant & Chipperneld for one year, and then came to Monmouth
to pursue his trade and at the same time made effective advancement
in the law under the direction of his present partner, J. H. Hanley.
His admission to the bar occurred at Springfield November 4, 1897,
and in the spring of 1898 he was elected police magistrate. A little
later he resigned the office to enlist in Company H of the Sixth
Regiment, Illinois National Guard, for service in the Spanish-
American war, and was in- the Porto Rico campaign with the rank
of corporal. For a number of years Mr. Cox has been associated
with Mr. Hanley in practice, and also conducts a loan and real
estate business. They are attorneys for the Rock Island Southern
Railroad and the Rock Island Southern Railway Companies, the
Second National Bank and the Monmouth Trust & Savings Bank.

On December 5, 1900, he married at Monmouth Miss Jessie
Baldwin, daughter of George and Clarissa Baldwin, who were early
settlers at Monmouth. To this union was born two children,
George B., born January i, 1902; and Glenn W., born May 5,
1903. Mrs. Cox died May 8, 1904. On June 9, 1914, he married
Martha Chapman, who is a member of the Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution. Mr. Cox is affiliated with the Masonic order,
being a member of the Mystic Shrine, and also with the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Benev-
olent and Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a republican,
and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. They
reside at 313 East Broadway.

MELVILLE GLENN SOULE. One of the prominent law firms of
Warren County that is held in esteem and confidence by a wide
clientele and enjoys the patronage of many corporations, is that of
Brown & Soule, of Monmouth, of which the junior member is Mel-
ville Glenn Soule, who has been engaged in the practice of law here
since 1902. Qualified through natural legal ability and thorough
educational training, Mr. Soule has progressed rapidly in his chosen
profession, and now occupies an enviable position at the bar.

Melville Glenn Soule was born at Monmouth, Warren County,
Illinois, July 6, 1874, and is a son of Rev. Melville C. and Ina Belle
(Smith) Soule, both of remote English ancestry, the family records
proving settlement in Connecticut as early as 1640. Melville C.
Soule and wife had a family of eight children, Melville Glenn being
the third in order of birth. Prior to 1872, Melville C. Soule was
active as a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church but failing

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health compelled him to retire from the ministry, and in that year
he went into the lumber business with W. F. Smith, under the firm
name of W. F. Smith & Soule, the name afterward becoming Soule
& Graham, which operated two large lumber yards until 1877, when
Mr. Soule sold his interest. Afterward, for several years he was in
the real estate business and also the boot and shoe business. For
a long period he was a member of the board of trustees of the
Wesleyan University at Bloomington and was also a member of
the board of trustees of Redding College, at Abingdon, Illinois,
for several years being president of the board. In the excellent
public schools of Monmouth, Melville G. Soule continued a student
until his graduation from the high school in 1893. In the fall of
that year he entered De Pauw University at Greencastle, Indiana,
where he remained one and a half years, in 1894 entering Monmouth
College and graduating there in 1897, with his degree of A. B. Dur-
ing the summer of this year he read law in the office of his present
partner, John Burrows Brown, in the fall entering the law depart-
ment of Harvard College, from which he was graduated in June,
1900, with his coveted degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1900 he
was admitted to the bar in Michigan and for one year was in prac-
tice at Detroit, with the law firm of Walker & Spalding, following
which he made a business trip to the Puget Sound country, which
consumed six months. Upon his return to Illinois he located in his
native place and was admitted to the Illinois bar at Springfield,
October 23, 1902, and then entered into partnership with J. B.
Brown, under the present firm name of Brown & Soule, with offices
in the Patton Block.

Mr. Soule was married April 16, 1903, to Miss Etha William-
son, who was born at Keokuk, Iowa, and was educated there and
at Monmouth College, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Soule have one son,
William F., who was born March 23, 1904. They attend the Presby-
terian Church. Their residence is No. 1133 East Broadway, Mon-
mouth. In political affiliation Mr. Soule is a republican, is a member
of the Hamilton Club of Chicago and fraternally is a Mason. He
belongs also to Delta Kappa Epsilon, a pleasant reminder of old
college days.

IRVINE R. WASSON. In Peoria, where his family has long been
prominent, Irvine R. Wasson has successfully practiced law since
1908 and his experience in active competition with other members of
the bar has already won him a creditable position.

Irvine R. Wasson was born in Peoria December 9, 1878. His
parents are James T. and Jennie E. (Erskine) Wasson. His mother
was born in Clermont County, Ohio, and is now deceased. James T.
Wasson, who was born in Schenectady, New York, came to Illinois
and located on a farm in Peoria County in 1852. Few men had
longer and more varied experience as a soldier in the war than this
honored Peoria citizen. He enlisted at the first call for troops at

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the beginning of the war, and was in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Oglesby. At the end of the three-month period of enlist-
ment, he re-enlisted in the Eleventh Cavalry, commanded by the
noted Colonel Robert Ingersoll. This was a three-year regiment,
and as the war had not yet been concluded he volunteered at the
end of that time as a veteran, and was with the Eleventh Cavalry
in all its campaigns and engagements until the close of the war.
He was mustered out as sergeant of Company E. Since that time
he has been frequently honored with public responsibilities, has
served as deputy sheriff of Peoria County, as superintendent of the
county poor farm and as county supervisor. He has long been an
active republican. James T. Wasson and wife were the parents of
eleven children, five of whom are living.

Irvine R. Wasson, the fifth of the children, was educated in the
public schools of Peoria and studied law with Joseph A. Weil and
Frank J. Ouinn. He was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Mis-
sissippi, in 1905, and practiced law in that city until 1907. Since
that time he has been identified with the Peoria bar and conducts a
general practice. He is a member of the Peoria Bar Association,
of Thrush Camp of the Sons of Veterans, and Peoria Lodge No. 20,
B. P. O. E. Politically he is a republican.

JOHN BURROWS BROWN. In calling attention to the foremost
members of so able a body of lawyers as the Warren county bar,
no favoritism is shown in mentioning John Burrows Brown, senior
member of the well-known law firm of Brown & Soule, at Mon-
mouth, because he is a man of assured reputation, of dominating
legal ability and of thorough scholarship. For almost a quarter of
a century he has been a law practitioner at Monmouth and his legal
connections and accepted clients, past and present, attest his per-
sonal as well as professional high standing.

John Burrows Brown was born at North Stonington, Connecti-
cut, October 25, 1864, the old family home section, where both par-
ents, William B. and Phoebe Elizabeth (Collins) Brown, were also
born and reared. Later removal was made to Illinois and William
B. Brown became a man of political prominence in his locality,
serving in numerous local offices, in that of assessor for thirty years.
At one time, during early work on the Hennepin Canal, he served
as a star witness for the Government. Both he and wife are now
deceased. Of their family of six children, John B. was the fourth
in order of birth.

After completing the public school course at Rock Falls, Illinois,
including graduation from the high school in 1880, John B. Brown
spent two years at Knox Academy, at Galesburg, and four years at
Knox College, where he was graduated in 1886, with his degree of
A. B. Two years later he received his degree of A. M. During
the two following years, while engaged in teaching school, he
devoted all his spare time to the reading of law and thus prepared

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himself for the Columbia Law School, which he entered in 1888,
and was there graduated in 1889 and in the same year was admitted
to the bar, at Ottawa, Illinois.

Mr. Brown lost no time in making a selection of a field for prac-
tice, in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, entering into a law
partnership with Thomas Gold Frost, a relationship which continued
for two years, under the style of Frost & Brown. In 1891 Mr.
Brown came to Monmouth and opened an office and practiced alone
until 1896, when he was appointed master in chancery. At the close
of his term of office, in 1902, he formed a law partnership with
Melville Glenn Soule, under the name of Brown & Soule, which
connection yet prevails. This able firm has been retained by some
of the leading banks of Monmouth and Roseville. They are local
attorneys for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and dis-
trict attorneys for the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad. Although
a decided republican in his political classification, Mr. Brown does
not claim to be a politician and has no ambitions in the direction of
political office. He has served, however, on several occasions, as a
trusted delegate to the republican state conventions held at Spring-
field. In local movements, both at Monmouth and Roseville, he has
shown interest and public spirit and has received much deserved
praise and no little credit for his earnest and persistent efforts
which resulted in the erection of the high school building at Rose-
ville, which was a greatly needed institution.

Mr. Brown was married June 5, 1890, to Miss Edna Bell Smith,
who is a daughter of Edwin Smith, a prominent resident of Mon-
mouth. Mrs. Brown is a graduate of Knox College, a member of
the class of 1887. They attend the Congregational Church. Mr.
Brown belongs to the Elks and retains his membership in the Phi
Delta Theta, his college fraternity. He is a member of the State Bar
Association and of the Hamilton Club, Chicago. There are many
things in which he may take a justifiable pride, and one 'is his ances-
tral line, which, on the paternal side, he can trace to 1632, when
English colonists of the name left the shores of Britain and landed
in Massachusetts, where they assisted in the founding of Lynn. His
maternal great-great-grandfather was Asa Spaulding, who served
in the war of the Revolution in 1775, and was the progenitor of a
long line of sturdy descendants.

HON. JAMES W. GORDON. Among the legal practitioners of
Henderson County who have dignified both bench and bar, a promi-
nent example is found in James W. Gordon, one of the leading
attorneys of the county at the present time and a prominent citizen
of Oquawka. Judge Gordon's legal experience has been gained in
rich fields. While doubtless the fundamentals of the law are the
same in all courts, the problems brought to be solved present phases
that more or less partake of the atmosphere of the section in which
they arise, and the broadening of view and widening of horizon

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necessitated by their solution must enrich and make priceless a
faithful attorney's legal fund of knowledge. As probate judge,
county attorney, state's attorney and private practitioner, Judge
Gordon has been in the law continuously for twenty-two years. He
was born at Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois, February 5, 1867,
and is a son of Rev. John A. and Jemima (Walker) Gordon. The
mother of Judge Gordon died in his infancy. His father, Rev. John
A. Gordon, D. D., for a number of years was professor of English
literature in Monmouth College, and is now a resident of Los
Angeles, California. During the Civil war he served as a member
of Company B, Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, later was captain of
the Sixteenth United States Infantry and was promoted to the rank
of major. The Gordons came originally from Scotland and set-
tled in Georgia. The Walkers came to the United States from the
northern part of Ireland, Ulster perhaps, locating first in Ohio and
coming to Warren County, Illinois, before the Civil war.

James W. Gordon attended the public schools at Monmouth,
Illinois, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and for one year was a stu-
dent at the Pittsburgh High School, when he returned to Illinois,
and, after working on a farm for two years, returned to Monmouth
and passed two years at Monmouth College, following which he
taught school for one year in Henderson County. Leaving Illinois
in 1886, he went to Anthony, Harper County, Kansas, where he
worked in abstract offices and taught school for a year and then
removed to Grant County, Kansas, where he went into the abstract
business. In 1889 he took up the study of law with Hon. William
Easton Hutchinson, a prominent lawyer of Grant County, Kansas,
and afterward judge of the Thirty-second Judicial District of Kan-
sas, his law studies covering the period from 1889 until he was
admitted to the bar in 1892, at Richfield, Kansas. He opened an
office for the practice of law at Ulysses, the county seat of Grant
County, and remained in practice there until July, 1894, when he
removed to Stronghurst, Henderson County, Illinois. In January,
1892, he was appointed Probate Judge of Grant County, Kansas, by
Gov. Lyman U. Humphrey, to fill a vacancy, and in November of
that year he was elected county attorney of Grant County, which
office he held until July, 1894, when he resigned, preparatory to his
removal to Illinois. In November, 1896, Judge Gordon was elected
state's attorney, on the republican ticket, and the efficiency which
marked his administration of this office so cemented public confi-
dence that he was continuously re-elected and served for sixteen
consecutive years. When first elected he came to Oquawka, and this
place has continued his home to the present. Not alone in the law
has Judge Gordon been a foremost citizen. He has taken an active
and useful interest in domestic politics and has served this city
faithfully in offices of responsibility, during one term being mayor,
one term a member of the board of trustees, and for four years
president of the board of education, and is now again serving as

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mayor. He has frequently attended the state conventions of the
republican party and has personal acquaintance with a majority of
party leaders.

Judge Gordon has been twice married. On April 30, 1890, he
was united to Miss Mary A. Hickok, of Ulysses, Kansas, who died
April 29, 1910, the mother of five children: Alexander, who died
in infancy; Elizabeth O., who is the wife of J. W. Auld, a druggist
at Cedar Falls, Iowa; Kenneth H., who is attending college; Paul
W., who is a student at Drury Academy; and Mary Virginia, who
is a student in the Oquawka High School. On December 25, 1913,
Judge Gordon was married to Mrs. Adaline Wiseman, a resident of
Oquawka. Mrs. Wiseman had one daughter, Isobel, now twelve
years old and attending the public schools, whom Judge Gordon at
the time of his marriage adopted. Judge Gordon and family attend
the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar
Association and is the local attorney for the Chicago, Burlington &
Oumcy Railroad. His membership is of many years' duration in
the leading fraternities, the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the
Knights of Pythias, and he belongs also to the Hamilton Club,
Chicago.

SAMUEL S. HALLAM. A law firm that has in every way justified
its high reputation over the central part of the state is that of Hal-
lam & Hallam at Monmouth. Both the brothers comprising this
partnership are attorneys of thorough education and high legal
attainments, and it has been noted that for a number of years they
have appeared in many of the most important trials in their section
of the state.

The senior member of the firm is Samuel S. Hallam, who was
born in Warren County, Illinois, November 21, 1863, a son of
David M. and Mary C. (Murphy) Hallam. His earty life was
spent in the country, and the district school near his home supplied
his education up to his seventeenth year. In 1881 he entered Abing-
don College at Abingdon, from which he was graduated A. B. in
1884. In the meantime his mind had been made up to become a
lawyer, and after one year of reading in the office of Col. J. W.
Davidson he continued his studies under the eminent attorney, Frank
Quinby, until admitted to the bar at Springfield, November 20,
1889. He was fortunate not only in his associations with such a
preceptor as Mr. Quinby, but also began his practice as junior
member of the firm of Quinby & Hallam. In 1891 Mr. Quinby
removed to Washington, and then for three years the firm of Hallam
& Lee existed, and in 1897 Mr. Hallam became associated with his
brother, Frank M., and these two constitute the present partnership.
Their sister, Minnie Hallam, who was graduated from the Wes-
leyan Law School, was for eight years engaged in practice with
her brothers, withdrawing from the firm and abandoning law prac-
tice at the time she married.

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Samuel S. Hallam was married November 14, 1897, to Ella
Dredge of Monmouth, who was educated in the public schools of
that city and at Monmouth College. She is a member of the Order
of the Eastern Star. Mr. Samuel Hallam has for a number of years
been more or less of an active figure as a democrat. He is a mem-
ber of the Iroquois Club of Chicago, served as city attorney one
term, has been a delegate to numerous state conventions, and was a
member of the convention at Baltimore which nominated Woodrow
Wilson for president. Mr. Hallam is a member of the County and
State Bar associations, is attorney for the Illinois Life Association,
a director in the Monmouth Savings Bank, and was one of the
promoters and is still a stockholder in the Rock Island-Southern
Interurban Railroad.

Frank M. Hallam, the junior member of the firm, was graduated
from the law department of Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloom-
ington and admitted to the bar in 1896, and has been associated
with his brother in practice since 1897. Frank Hallam married
Carrie F. Freeman of Monmouth, who was also educated in the
Monmouth schools. Frank Hallam leaves politics to his brother
and has allowed no outside interests to interfere with his profession.
The firm had their offices in the Woods & Hallam Building, and
there is probably no law office in that section of Illinois better
equipped and arranged. 'Their law library comprises about 1,500
volumes. In religious matters Samuel Hallam is a member of the
United Presbyterian Church and his brother is simply a Presbyterian.

FRED G. WOLF. Now serving in his first term as state's attorney
of Adams County, and in practice with Mr. R. M. Wagner, at the
Quincy bar, Fred G. Wolf during the five years since his admission
to the bar has made an exceedingly creditable record and has been
especially skillful and successful in handling a number of important
cases, as prosecuting attorney.

Fred G. Wolf was born at Liberty, in Adams County, Illinois,
December 21, 1876, the third of four children in the family of
Jacob B. and Emily (Grubb) Wolf. His father, also a native of
Adams County, was a farmer and later a merchant at Coatsburg,
and for several years was superintendent of the county farm and
also served as state supervisor. The mother was born in Illinois
and died in 1880 at the age of twenty-five.

Fred G. Wolf acquired his early education in the schools of
Adams County, and is one of the law graduates of the University
of Michigan, having finished his law studies with the class of 1909.
Since then his home and professional interests have centered at
Quincy. In November, 1912, Mr. Wolf was chosen to the office
of state's attorney on the democratic ticket. He is a member of the
County and State Bar associations, has filled all the chairs in the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is also a Mason. On June

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18, 1913, he married Miss Neta Williams, daughter of Dr. W. W.
Williams, a prominent Quincy physician.

LYMAN McCARL. A member of the Adams County bar twenty-
five years, now serving as county judge, officially identified with a
number of business and public organizations, Lyman McCarl began
his career as a hard-working student, went to college on means
earned by himself, and his education, like everything else he
attained, was the result of his determined purpose and industrial
labor.

Lyman McCarl was born in Adams County May 3, 1859, a son
of Alexander W. and Minerva (Likes) McCarl. His father, born
in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1825, was brought to Ohio at the
age of eight years and thence to Illinois at the age of eighteen, and
in 1859 settled on a farm in Adams County, where he spent the rest
of his life and died February 22, 1911. His wife was a native of
Indiana, came as a child to Illinois, and died March 23, 1893, at the
age of sixty-eight. Six of their eight sons are still living.

Lyman McCarl grew up in Adams County, and after finishing
the course of the common schools and the High School at Camp
Point, spent two years as a teacher in Adams and Pike Counties.
Judge McCarl is a graduate of Lombard College at Galesburg with
the class of 1885, and after his college career taught two years more
at Liberty and during vacation time and at night read law under the
direction of Capt. U. H. Keath. His admission to the bar came
on June 16, 1888. The following two years were spent as deputy
circuit clerk of Adams County and in 1890 began active practice at
Quincy. In June, 1891, he was appointed master in chancery, serv-
ing six years, and after that was engaged in private practice until
December i, 1910, when he entered upon his duties as county judge.

Judge McCarl is a member of the County Bar Association and
the State Bar Association, is affiliated with the Masons, the Knights
of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. For
seventeen years he has been a director of the Quincy Humane
Society, was its president four years, its secretary eleven years, and
its attorney fifteen years. His business interests are extensive.
He is a director in the Illinois State Bank, the Gem City Building
& Loan Association, is president of the Adams County Mutual Life
Association, and assistant director of the Iroquois Life Company of
Louisville, Kentucky.

Judge McCarl was married April 25, 1893, to Miss Hannah M.
Berrian, daughter of Benjamin F. Berrian, who for seventeen years
was county judge of Adams County. Their children are: Margaret,
born in 1894 at Quincy; Richard B., born in 1896 and now a stu-
dent in his father's old college, Lombard, at Galesburg; Donald E.,
born in 1900 and a high school student; and Charlotte, born in 1902
and in the grade schools.

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 753

JUDGE CARL EPLER. For at least half a century the name Epler
has been prominently associated with the Illinois bar. The late
Judge Cyrus Epler was one of the distinguished jurists of Jackson-
ville, and for nearly a quarter of a century was on the circuit bench.
Judge Carl Epler has been a Quincy lawyer nearly thirty-five years,
and has been repeatedly honored with public responsibilities, and
now enjoys a large private practice in Adams County.

Carl Epler was born at Jacksonville, Illinois, November 20, 1857,
the third of seven children born to Cyrus and Cornelia M. (Nettle-
ton) Epler. His father, a native of Indiana, came at an early age
to Illinois, having been born November 12, 1823, in Clark County,
Indiana. He studied law, was admitted to the Illinois bar, served in
the State Legislature, and from 1872 to 1897, a period of twenty-
four years, sat on the circuit bench at Jacksonville. His death
occurred in that city July 9, 1909, when eighty-seven years of age.
He had practiced until about one year before his death. His wife,
a native of Ohio, was a daughter of Dr. Clark Nettleton, and she
married Judge Epler in August, 1852. She was born in 1834 and
is now living at the age of eighty at Jacksonville.

Carl Epler grew up in Jacksonville, finished a course in the local
schools in 1876, took his master's degree at Yale University in 1877,
and finished the law course in the Yale Law School in 1879. Judge
Epler began practice in 1880, in the following year was elected
city attorney and held that office three years, from 1886 to 1889 was
a partner of Col. William W. Berry and later in practice alone.
From 1890 he served as state's attorney, being elected to fill an
unexpired term, and in 1894 was elected county judge, and served
by re-election in 1898 until 1902. Since then he has confined his
attention to his large and profitable private practice at Quincy.

Judge Epler took the lead in organizing the Adams County Bar
Association, and is also a member of the State Bar Association. He
has accomplished a great deal of public service through his profes-
sion, and one item that should be mentioned was the reducing of
the time for the filing of claims against estates and for contesting
wills, to one year, by bills urged by the county and probate judges
association. Judge Epler affiliates with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, and the Improved Order of Red Men. He is a Demo-
crat and a member of the Episcopal Church. His recreations are
in outdoor sports, and he enjoys automobiling, boating and other
forms of outdoor diversion.

CHARLES E. STURTZ has for more than twenty years been one
of the active and successful attorneys of Kewanee, and has taken
much interest in republican politics and has been considered one of
the strongest men in the party in Henry County, with a large local
following.

Charles E. Sturtz spent the first eighteen years of his life on a
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farm with his parents southeast of Rock Falls, in Whiteside County,
Illinois. At the age of sixteen he began the study of law in the
firm of Manahan ;& Ward at Sterling, and subsequently qualified
for teaching and was engaged in that vocation four years in White-
side County, in the meantime continuing his law studies. During
vacation intervals he was a student at Dixon College. Throughout
his early career he was a hard fighter for those advantages which
he considered essential to success, and the same qualities have pre-
vailed in his law practice. Largely from his own earnings he spent
four years in acquiring a general education in Knox College, grad-
uating in 1891 Bachelor of Science, and in 1892 was graduated
LL. B. from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Sturtz began the practice of law at Kewanee in the fall of
1893, and has since become recognized as one of the leading trial
lawyers in his part of the state, and his services have been employed
in a number of leading criminal and civil cases in Henry, Rock
Island and Bureau and other counties. His first important office
was city attorney of Kewanee, to which he was elected in 1894 and
which he held for five years. In 1903 Mr. Sturtz was elected state's
attorney of Henry County, and in that office, from which he volun-
tarily retired December i, 1912, he made a record as an aggressive
and impartial public prosecutor that has since followed him in his
private practice and is one of the chief foundation stones of his
reputation. His success as state's attorney in his home county led
to his selection as special prosecutor in adjoining counties in several
important criminal cases.

In June, 1912, Mr. Sturtz was elected general attorney of the
Mystic Workers of the World, and the firm of Sturtz & Ewan are
still actively employed as trial lawyers in all cases affecting the inter-
ests of this society in nine states. They are also attorneys for the
Chicago, Burlington & Ouincy Railroad. Mr. Sturtz is a public-
spirited citizen of Kewanee, for a number of years served on the
board of education, and in 1914 was candidate for the nomination
by the republican party to Congress. Fraternally he is affiliated
with the Masonic order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Mystic Workers of the World.
He is a member of the Kewanee Club and the Midland Club and of
the City and County Bar associations. In 1892 Mr. Sturtz married
Alice C. Price of Bureau County. Their two daughters are Zola
and Katherine.

J. PAUL CALIFF. Junior member of the firm of Scofield & CalifF
at Carthage, J. Paul CalifF has been fortunate in the possession of
unusual talents and qualifications for his chosen profession and also
in his affiliations since becoming a member of the bar. He is one of
the rising young attorneys of Hancock County.

J. Paul Califf was born in Hancock County, Illinois, April 27,
1885, being the fourth among nine children born to John A. and

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Martha (Archer) Califf. Both his parents were natives of Han-
cock County, his father born in 1852 and his mother born at War-
saw in 1859. They now reside at Carthage. John A. Califf is well
known to the citizens of Hancock County through his service of
twelve years as county superintendent of schools, as a member of
the Forty-fifth General Assembly, and as one of the present Man-
aging Board of the State Reformatory at Pontiac.

J. Paul Califf acquired his early education in the public schools
of Carthage, graduating from high school in 1904, and after one
year in the Carthage College he took up work as a teacher. He
began his studies for the law with Judge Chas. J. Scofield, and after
three years under that able attorney's direction was admitted to the
bar in April, 1909, at Springfield. Returning to Carthage Mr. Califf
was admitted to membership in the offices of Judge Scofield, and
the firm of Scofield & Califf now combine the long experience and
profound knowledge of one of the older lawyers and judges of
Central Illinois with the youth, thorough training and enthusiasm
of Mr. Califf. Mr. Califf was elected city attorney of Carthage in
1913. In politics he is a democrat, is affiliated with the Masonic
order and the Knights of Pythias, and his church is the Christian.

Mr. Califf was married June 30, 1909, to Miss Edith A. Egbers,
daughter of William D. and Helen Egbers, her father a well-known
merchant of Carthage. To their marriage was born a son, Junius
P. Mrs. Califf was educated in the Carthage schools and Carthage
College. Their home is on Wabash Avenue, and Mr. Califf's office
is in the Spitler Building.

WILLIAM H. HARTZELL. In 1890 William H. Hartzell was
admitted to the Illinois bar at Carthage, being then twenty-one years
of age. His youth had been spent on a farm in Hancock County,
and the resources of self-reliance and industry which propelled him
from the commonplace existence of the farm into the difficult pro-
fession of law have since been exemplified in a successful career as
one of the able lawyers of Central Illinois.

William H. Hartzell was born in Durham Township, Hancock
County, November 8, 1869, a son of Noah and Rebecca (Weather-
ington) Hartzell. His father was born in Pennsylvania in 1829
and died in 1870. The mother was a native of Ohio and now lives
at La Harpe. William H. Hartzell acquired his early education in
the district schools near his home, subsequently in the high school
at La Harpe, and after graduating there became a student in Git-
tings Seminary. In 1886, at the age of seventeen, Mr. Hartzell took
up the study of law under the direction of the firm of O'Harra &
Scofield at Carthage, and four years later was admitted to the bar.
He at once began practice of law in partnership with his former
preceptors, the firm becoming O'Harra, Scofield & Hartzell. In
1896, after the dissolution of the firm Mr. Hartzell joined Truman
Plantz, Mr. Plantz maintaining an office at Warsaw, while Mr. Hart-

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zell looked after the business of the firm in Carthage. Less than a
year later, William C. Hooker became associated with the two
partners, and that relationship was maintained for three years.
Since 1901 Mr. Hartzell has practiced in Carthage, at first alone,
and now as senior member of the firm of Hartzell, Cavanaugh &
Babcock. He has a large law library containing over 1,000 volumes.

From 1892 until 1896 he served as state's attorney of Hancock
County. Mr. Hartzell is a democrat and has been a delegate to
state conventions. Fraternally his affiliations are with the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows.

On June 13, 1891, Mr. Hartzell married Miss Inez E. Charter, of
La Harpe, Illinois. Her parents were Samuel and Salina (Lovett)
Charter, both natives of Muskingum County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs.
Hartzell have six children: Ruth R., born March 27, 1892, grad-
uated from the Carthage High School and State Normal School, and
for two years was a student in the University of Illinois ; Franklin
M., born in 1895; Philip W., born in 1898; Eloise, born in 1900;
Grace, born in 1905 ; and Lucile L., born in 1910. Mrs. Hartzell is
a member of the P. E. O. Sisterhood.

JOHN FAISSLER. Of the representative Illinois lawyers who can
claim Germany not only as their place of nativity but also as that
in which they gained their academic or literary education, a status
of special prominence must be accorded to Mr. Faissler, who has
been engaged in the practice of law in this state since 1896 and who
is now one of the prominent and honored members of the bar of
Sycamore, judicial center of De Kalb County, where he is senior
member of the representative law firm of Faissler, Fulton & Roberts.
He has subordinated all extraneous interests to the demands of his
exacting profession and his success has been on a parity with his
recognized ability and unswerving fealty.

Mr. Faissler was born in the fine old City of Stuttgart, the capi-
tal of the Kingdom of Wiirtemberg, Germany, on the 4th of October,
1865, and to the admirable schools of his Fatherland he is indebted
for his early educational discipline, which included higher aca-
demic lines. In 1888, when about twenty-three years of age, Mr.
Faissler came to the United States, and he has been a resident of
Illinois during virtually the entire period of his experience since
that time, At Sycamore, De Kalb County, he studied law under the
effective preceptorship of Judge David J. Carnes and George W.
Dunton, and in 1896 he was admitted to the Illinois Bar. With a
specially broad and exact knowledge of the science of jurisprudence
and with an ambition of most insistent order, professional success
came to him at an early period of his active practice, to which he
has continued to devote himself assiduously and effectively, with
no predilection for the honors or emoluments of public office. Since
1909 he has been associated in practice, at Sycamore, with William J.
Fulton, under the title of Faissler, Fulton & Roberts, and the firm

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have a substantial and important law business, in connection with
which they are local attorneys for t1 Chicago & Great Western
Railroad Company, the Chicago, Mih\ .ee & St. Paul Railroad
Company and other large corporations. Mr. Faissler personally
is retained as attorney for the Aurora-De Kalb Traction Company,
the De Kalb & Sycamore Traction Company, and the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad Company.

Though never an aspirant for public office Mr. Faissler accords
staunch allegiance to the republican party, and in a professional
way he is identified with the American Bar Association, the Illinois
State Bar Association and the De Kalb County Bar Association.

On the i8th of December, 1900, Mr. Faissler wedded Miss Jane
A. Byers, and they have four children, — Marguerite, Jane F., John
J., and William B.

CHARLES A. JAMES. A former county judge of Hancock County,
Judge James is now practicing at Carthage, has been a member of
the Illinois bar for twenty years, and has had a varied and successful
experience in several different locations.

Charles A. James was born near Mindon, in Adams County,
Illinois, January 12, 1870, a son of John H. and Martha V. (Taylor)
James. His father was born at Boonville, Missouri, and his mother
in Adams County; Illinois. The James ancestors came from Wales,
settling first in Virginia, and coming out to Illinois in 1845, while
on the Taylor side the family came -from Belfast, Ireland, and settled
in Pennsylvania about 1800, thence moving out to Illinois about 1825.
John H. James was a farmer, but for many years has been engaged
in the grain business at Ursa, Illinois. His wife died in 1908. There
were six children, Judge James being the youngest. He has a
brother, Walter S., who is a banker at Archie, Missouri.

Judge James acquired his early education in a district school
while still living on the farm, and at the age of fifteen discontinued
his schooling in the country, spent two years in the Quincy High
School, and then began assisting his father in the grain business at
Ursa, Illinois. After about five years of commercial effort, Mr.
James began preparing for the law, and in October, 1892, entered
the law department of the University of Michigan and was graduated
in 1894. In June of the same year, admitted to the bar at Springfield,
he opened an office at Quincy, and was in practice there as one of
the rising young attorneys nine years. The last four years of that
time were spent in partnership with Walter H. Bennett, under the
firm name of Bennett & James. In 1903 Judge James moved to
Augusta, Illinois, practiced alone there, and in 1906 was elected
county judge of Hancock County. The duties of that office caused
him to remove to the county seat of Carthage, and at the conclusion
of four years of capable service to the county as judge, he opened
an office and has since been in private practice at Carthage.

Judge James is an active democrat, is a member of the Carthage

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Business Men's Club, belongs to the Christian Church, and is active
in the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Judge James is a Knight Templar Mason, and was the first eminent
commander of his commandery, and attended the conclave in 1910.
On June 7, 1899, Judge James married Miss Faye Sammis, daughter
of E. P. Sammis. They are the parents of a daughter, Dorothy,
born December 10, 1905, and now attending the public schools of
Carthage. Mrs. James was educated in the public schools of Louis-
iana, Missouri.

HON. ORVILLE F. BERRY. While Orville F. Berry has been a
prominent member of the bar at Carthage for more than thirty-five
years, his name is best known over the state at large for his dis-
tinguished services in the state senate, as a special attorney and inves-
tigator for the state in a number of noted cases, as the last chairman
of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, and for other features
of his long and useful service to the state.

Orville F. Berry was born at Table Grove, in McDonough
County, Illinois, February 16, 1852. His father, Lee Berry, a native
of Virginia, came to Illinois early in life, settled on a farm in Mc-
Donough County, and lived there until his death in 1858. By his
first wife he has two children : Charles L. Berry, the older, was a
member of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Mounted
Infantry until the close of the war, and is now a contractor at
Wichita, Kansas ; while John Berry, the younger, was killed while
serving in the United States navy during the war. Mr. Berry mar-
ried for his second wife Martha McConnell, a native of Pennsyl-
vania, and she was the mother of Orville F. Berry. Another brother,
M. P. Berry, is equally well known in Carthage and that section of
the state as a lawyer. The mother of these two sons died in 1860,
and both parents now rest at Table Grove.

Orville F. Berry acquired his early education in the common
schools at Fountain Green Township, in Hancock County, and until
the age of twenty-one was employed at monthly wages on a farm.
In 1875, at Carthage, he took up the study of law in the office of
Mack & Baird, and was admitted to the bar in 1877 at Springfield.
Mr. Berry at once formed a partnership with Judge Thomas C.
Sharp, now deceased, and subsequently his brother, M. P. Berry,
entered the firm, which was known as Sharp & Berry Bros. Since
his brother retired, Mr. O. F. Berry has practiced alone.

From the beginning of his professional career, Mr. Berry showed
a strong interest in politics and public affairs. He was honored by
election as the first mayor of Carthage, after its incorporation as a
city, and served three terms, from 1888 until 1894, and in 1902 was
honored by another election to the office. In 1888 Mr. Berry was
elected to the state senate, and served continuously in that office until
1900, and after an interval of two years was elected to fill a vacancy
and re-elected in 1904. He was one of the senatorial leaders, and any

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one familiar with the Illinois legislative record for the past twenty
years recognizes his name as one of the most outstanding among all
the leaders in the Illinois Legislature during that time. Mr. Berry
served as president pro tern, of the senate, and was acting governor
of the state from August 2/th to September 4, 1906. Under appoint-
ment from Governor Deneen he served as chairman of the Railroad
and Warehouse Commission of Illinois from 1909 until that body
ceased to exist in 1913, and was replaced by the Public Utilities
Commission. In January, 1914, Mr. Berry was appointed by the
Interstate Commerce Commission as special examining attorney.
During the administration of Governor Tanner he served as general
attorney for the insurance department of the state, and under Attor-
ney-General Hamlin was special attorney in the lake front litigation
at Chicago. He was chairman of the special committee of the senate
in 1897 to investigate the Chicago police management and justice
courts, and one of the results of that investigation eventually led to
the establishment of the system of municipal courts. He was also
chairman of the senate committee which investigated the Globe
Savings Bank at its failure. In 1907-08 he acted as receiver for the
Peoria National Bank. Mr. Berry is also prominent as a banker,
and is president of the Dime Savings Bank of Carthage, of which
his brother is the cashier. He is one of the most influnetial repub-
licans and public leaders in the State of Illinois today.

On March 5, 1873, Mr. Berry married Miss Anna R. Barr, of
Fountain, Green, Hancock County. Her parents were David and
Jane (Barr) Barr. To their marriage were born five children, three
of whom died in infancy, while two sons, Clarence and Frank, lived
to be fourteen years of age. All are now at rest in the Moss Ridge
Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Berry have an adopted daughter, Leonore,
who is a graduate of the Carthage High School and of Ferry Hall
at Lake Forest. Mrs. Berry is an active member of the Woman's
Club, and belongs to the Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. Mr. Berry is a Knight Templar, and also is affiliated
with the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, and was
grand master of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. For thirty
years he has been superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday-school
at Carthage, and is now a teacher in the Men's Brotherhood Bible
Class. The Berry home is at 739 Walnut Street, in Carthage.

WILLIAM C. HOOKER. A representative of that group of early
Illinois attorneys, who were at the beginning of their careers when
Lincoln, Douglas and other brilliant men were at the height of their
activities in the law and in politics, the late William C. Hooker,
at the time of his death was the oldest living practicing attorney in
Hancock County, and one of the very oldest in the State of Illinois.
His recollections of men and events, both in and out of his profes-
sion, covered a period of fully fifty years. During this long time he
held a high position as a lawyer, was frequently honored with those

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public offices which requires great self-sacrifice on the part of every
incumbent, and was always honored as a public-spirited citizen.

William C. Hooker was born at Auburn, New York, September
13, 1828, and was in his eighty-seventh year at the time of his
death. His parents were Harley and Mary (Beardsley) Hooker,
both natives of Connecticut. One of the prominent ancestors of
the family was the Rev. Thomas Hooker, who, in 1634, led from
Massachusetts the colony which settled Newport, now Hartford,
Connecticut. Dr. Harley Hooker, father of William C. Hooker, was
a successful physician, and in 1839 came out to Illinois and located
in Winnebago County, at first in Pecatonica and later at Rockton.

Judge Hooker acquired his early education in the district schools,
attending them during the winter season, and working on his father's
farm in the open months of the year. For one year he had the
privilege of attending the Onondaga Academy in New York, and in
1847 entered Beloit College of Beloit, Wisconsin, and was graduated
with the class of 1851, being a member of the first class to complete
the regular course in that well-known Middle West college. In
the meantime he had already become self-supporting, and among his
early experiences was that of teamster in hauling goods to and from
Chicago and other lake ports. He was also a school teacher, and for
several years all his leisure time was devoted to the reading of law.
Mr. Hooker completed his preliminary reading at Quincy in the fall
of 1853, and in the spring of 1854 was admitted to the bar. His first
location was at Nauvoo, where he became a law partner of Milton
M. Morrill. In March, 1858, Judge Hooker removed to Carthage,
and was identified with the bar of Hancock County for more than
fifty-five years. For four years he was in practice with Hiram G.
Ferris and George Edmunds, under the name of Ferris, Hooker &
Edmunds. They were during that time one of the leading law firms
in this section of the state. During all the intervening years Mr.
Hooker continued in practice at Quincy, and looked after a large
business as a general lawyer. He had a fine office and library,
and though he reached that time of life when supposedly his best
product was counsel, not action, he not infrequently appeared in
behalf of litigants in the local courts.

William C. Hooker was married in 1856 to Miss Anna M. Hume,
of Clark County, Kentucky. She died one year later, in 1857. In
December, 1862, Mr. Hooker married Mary Catherine McQuary,
of Carthage. They became the parents of two daughters and two
sons. Mary, who died in 1896, was the wife of Charles J. Daoust,
of Defiance, Ohio. Frances, who died in 1898, was the wife of
Michael C. Flynn. The son, Harley J., is now engaged in the real
estate business at St. Louis. Chellis E., the other son, at the time
of his death in July, 1901, had already reached a place of prominence
in his profession and in public affairs. In 1898 he had been elected
to the office of county judge of Hancock County, and was still in
that office at the time of his death. An unusual tribute was paid to

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his father in his election without opposition to fill the unexpired
term. Chellis E. Hooker studied law under his father's direction,
was graduated from the Northwestern Law School at Chicago in
1893, in 1897 was elected city attorney of Carthage, and was only
twenty-eight years of age when honored with election to the office of
county judge. Prior to his election he was a partner with his father
under the firm name of William C. Hooker & Son.

William C. Hooker was a lifelong democrat, and cast his first
vote in 1854. He served as delegate to the local, congressional and
state conventions, but never looked to politics for office, and accepted
only those offices which were in line with his profession or which
were opportunities for service to the community. He was master
in chancery for twelve years, served several times as mayor of Carth-
age, and for many years was a member of the school board. He
was an independent democrat. Mr. Hooker, in 1852, was raised in
the Masonic lodge in Alabama, and affiliated with Hancock Lodge,
No. 20, A. F. & A. M. During his residence at Nauvoo he served
as worshipful master of Reclamation Lodge, No. 54. He was also
affiliated and for several terms was high priest of Carthage Chapter,
No. 33, R. A. M., was formerly a member of the council, and was
a member of the Carthage Commandery, No. 75, of the Knights
Templar. Mrs. Hooker died February 5, 1900, and in 1915, on the
7th of March, William C. Hooker also passed away.

HENRY E. JACOBS. A recognized leader in the Marshall County
bar is Henry E. Jacobs, now serving his third term as state's attor-
ney, with residence at Henry. Mr. Jacobs has shown a splendid
ability as a prosecutor, and his administration has gained him the
complete confidence of his fellow citizens.

Henry E. Jacobs was born in Marshall County, Illinois, on his
father's farm, March 23, 1876, a son of Peter and Cecilia (Wer-
scheid) Jacobs, both natives of Germany, but married in Illinois.
There were nine children, seven of whom are living, and Henry E.
was the sixth child. The father is now a retired farmer living
in Henry.

Henry E. Jacobs had the usual advantages of an Illinois farmer
boy, and such as were not granted to him and which he considered
necessary he obtained through his own efforts. After attending the
public schools of Marshall County, and then teaching a couple of
years, he entered the Wresleyan University at Bloomington and was
graduated with the class in law of 1901. Mr. Jacobs first located
in Lacon, the county seat of Marshall County, and practiced one
year with Judge Elijah D. Richmond. In 1902 he established his
home in Henry, where he has since, in addition to his office of state's
attorney, built up a very large and lucrative civil and probate prac-
tice, which extends throughout the several counties surrounding
Marshall, in the loth and I3th judicial circuits.

In 1904 Mr. Jacobs was elected to the office of state's attorney,

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and was returned to that office by increased majorities in 1908 and
1912. Few men have held this responsible position in Marshall
County for a longer time and none have displayed a greater fidelity
and efficiency in the discharge of his duty.

Mr. Jacobs is a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias. He was married October 6, 1907, to Alberta
Kerry, of Henry. They have one son, Henry Albert.

JOHN W. FLING, JR. The present state's attorney of Stark
County, with law offices in Wyoming, John W. Fling, Jr., began
practice in 1903 after a hard apprenticeship of teaching, night and
vacation study and much practical training gained from association
with an older lawyer at Wyoming.

John W. Fling, Jr., was born at Cumberland, Indiana, January
22, 1878, a son of John W. and Rebecca (Bolander) Fling. Both
parents were natives of Indiana, and their children were four in
number, three sons and one daughter, namely : John W., Jr., Leroy,
Naomi and Frank M.

The state's attorney was educated in the Wyoming High School,
finishing on June 3, 1898, and during the following three years he
was engaged in teaching school in Stark County, studying law at
night and during vacation seasons with Frank A. Kerns at Wyoming.
In 1901 Mr. Fling concentrated all his work on preparation for the
law and continued in Mr. Kerns' office until admitted to the bar
May 12, 1903. On July i of the same year he became associated
with Mr. Kerns in the firm of Kerns & Fling. This association
continued with mutual satisfaction and profit until May I, 1912,
when Mr. Fling took over the business for himself. In June, 1907,
he was appointed corporation counsel to Wyoming City, and held
that office until May, 1912. On November 7, 1912, he was elected
state's attorney of Stark County, and has shown all those qualities
which make a successful administration in that office.

Mr. Fling is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, of
Wyoming Lodge, No. 479. A. F. & A. M., Wyoming Lodge, No. 244,
I. O. O. F., and in politics is a republican. November 22, 1904, he
married Mamie McClyment. Their one son is Richard A.

MARION L. HAY. Since beginning practice as a lawyer in Stark
County, Marion L. Hay has been rapidly accumulating the wisdom
of experience and a successful business, and is now serving as master
in chancery, with offices in Toulon, the county seat of Stark County.

Representing one of the older families of Central Illinois, Marion
L. Hay was born on his father's farm in Bureau County, near the
town of Bradford, in Stark County, June 28, 1884. His great-grand-
father, Thomas Hay, came, to the United States in 1804 from Scot-
land. The grandfather was Robert Hay, a native of Indiana, who
moved to Illinois and located in Milo Township, of Bureau County,
one of the pioneers, and the family has been well known and a sub-

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stantial factor in that part of the state ever since. The Toulon
lawyer is a son of Leroy S. and Catherine (Shriver) Hay. Leroy
S. Hay was born on the farm that his son has as a birthplace, in
1862, and is now living in Princeton, Illinois, engaged in the real
estate business. In politics he is a democrat. The mother was born
in Pennsylvania. They had three children, and the two now living
are Marion L. and G. Dean.

Marion L. Hay acquired an education by attending the public
schools of Bureau County, also attended the Bradford schools, in
Stark County, the Eureka College at Eureka, Illinois, and graduated
with the class of 1910 from the Illinois College of Law in Chicago.
Having finished his education Mr. Hay returned to Bradford, took
up general practice, and remained there until appointed master in
chancery in October, 1912, which caused him to move to the county
seat of Toulon.

Mr. Hay is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, of
Bradford Lodge, No. 514, A. F. & A. M., and of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. Politically he has been associated with the
republican party since reaching majority. Mr. Hay was married
June 28, 1908, to Catherine E. Giles. Three children were born to
them, and the two living are Leroy Giles and Wilton Shriver.

EDWARD D. McCABE. One of the members of the Peoria bar
who has been in active practice for a quarter of a century is
Edward D. McCabe, a lawyer of sound learning, of notable industry,
and fidelity and care in the handling of the interests of his clients
and a secure position in his profession and civic circles at Peoria.

Edward D. McCabe was born in Peoria County in 1859, a son
of Patrick and Catherine McCabe, both of whom were natives of
Ireland, and spent many years on a farm in Peoria County. Mr.
McCabe attended the district schools near his. father's farm, later
the Brimfield High School, and had a college course in St. Viateur's
College, at Kankakee. At the close of his college career he followed
farming until 1887, when appointed to a position as United States
store keeper at Peoria, a service which kept him busy two years.
He resigned his office in 1889 to enter the law department of the
University of Michigan, where he was graduated LL. B. in the class
of 1891. Admitted to the bar the same year, Mr. McCabe has since
been in the active practice of his profession at Peoria, and for a
number of years has had his offices at 127 North Jefferson Street.
Outside of his profession his chief business interests have been as
an officer in the Lake View State Bank of Chicago, of which his
brother, George W. McCabe, is president, and he is also at present
serving as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of
Illinois.

Mr. McCabe is a member of the Peoria and the state bar asso-
ciations. Politically he is a democrat, and was Democratic Central
Committeeman of Peoria County from 1908 to 1910. He has since

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held the office of public guardian for Peoria County. Mr. McCabe
is a member of several fraternal and social associations and clubs.

JUDGE JAMES M. RAHN. In 1910 the citizens of Tazewell
County chose for the office of county judge one of the rising younger
lawyers of Pekin, and a man who in every relation of life, from
farm boy, teacher to judge, has shown splendid ability in rising above
the circumstances of life to the higher responsibilities and usefulness
of real service. Judge Rahn is a man who has worked for every
advancement he has won.

Born on his father's farm in Cass County, Illinois, March 20,
1868, James M. Rahn, after his education in the district schools, left
home at the age of seventeen, and has since been dependent on his
own efforts and has educated himself. At the age of twenty-one
he engaged in teaching, and for nine years taught and earned the
money to pay his way through college. Judge Rahn attended higher
schools at the Western Normal in Bushnell, and finally graduated in
law in the class of 1897. On being admitted to the bar he located
at Pekin, and soon had acquired a successful general practice. Judge
Rahn was elected to his present office as county judge in 1910, re-
elected to that office in 1914, and in 1913 served as president of
the Tazewell County Bar Association. He is also a member of the
Illinois State Bar Association, a member of the Presbyterian Church,
and a member of Pekin Lodge, No. 1271, of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and of Empire Lodge, No. 126, A. F. &
A. M. In politics he is a democrat. Judge Rahn was married Octo-
ber 6, 1909, to Mary Kirby, of Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois.
Their three children are : James M., Jr., Robert K. and Mary Louise.

HON. JOHN DAILEY. With a record of twenty-five years in
active practice as a lawyer, John Dailey is one of the leaders of the
Peoria bar, and his record as a member of the State Senate since
1909 has made him familiar to the people of Illinois at large, and
his qualifications as a public leader have as yet gained him only a
small measure of the honors which his friends confidently predict
for him.

John Dailey was born in the City of Peoria April 17, 1867, and
was admitted to the bar and began practice in 1890, at the age of
twenty-three. He is a' son of John and Hannah H. (Murphy)
Dailey. His father was a veteran of both the Mexican and Civil
wars. Not long after the close of the Mexican war he came out
from New York State to Peoria in 1849, but after a few years
returned east and at the beginning of the Civil war was enlisted in
a Massachusetts regiment. His active services -as a soldier were
terminated in the battle of Antietam, where he was wounded and in
consequence given an honorable discharge. After the war he again
settled in Peoria, and followed his trade as shoemaker, passing away
in December, 1908, survived by his widow.

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John Dailey was reared and educated in Peoria, was graduated
from the high school with the class of 1885, and then entered the
University of Michigan, where he pursued both the literary and
law courses, graduating LL. B. in 1890. With the culture and dis-
cipline of a liberal education, Mr. Dailey returned to Peoria, and in
a few years had the standing and the business of a capable and
rising attorney. He has been unusually successful as a jury lawyer,
and it was his forte in this field that no doubt contributed to his
success in politics.

Mr. Dailey served as assistant city attorney of Peoria from 1894
to 1896, and in the latter year was elected state's attorney of Peoria
County. Since 1904 he has been senior member of the law firm of
Dailey & Miller, his junior associate being Harry S. Miller. .This
is one of the strongest law firms of the Peoria bar. As to his public
record a quotation from a Peoria paper presents only a just estimate
of his services at the time: "In 1895 he was appointed city attorney,
and in that capacity demonstrated his capabilities to such effect that
in the following year he was nominated for the office as state's attor-
ney on the republican ticket and elected by a large majority. Here
his talent was given full play, and during the four years that he
held the office his profound knowledge of the law and his forensic
ability brought him conspicuously to the front. In 1904 he was
elected one of the representatives from the Peoria district to the
Forty-fourth General Assembly, and in 1908 was elected a member
of the State Senate. As a state senator his course has been marked
with an honesty of purpose, an aggressiveness and a natural gift of
oratory that have made him the leader on the floor and placed him
in the front rank as one of the political leaders of the state in the
interests of the republican party and of the people at large. John
Dailey, in the exercise of natural qualities, rises far above the ordi-
nary politician. Skilled in the rules of debate, gifted with a splendid
oratorical presence and power, equal to any emergency and actuated
by an inborn sense of right and justice, he exhibits all the qualities
of the statesman." Mr. Dailey was re-elected to the Senate in 1912.
His, name has been identified with much important legislation in Illi-
nois. He served as chairman of the Legislative Public Utilities
Committee, did much to perfect the present utilities commission law,
was author of a corrupt practice bill which passed the Senate in his
first term, but was defeated in the House, and was chairman of the
Committee on Primary Election which passed one of the primaries
laws of the state.

In 1895 Mr. Dailey married Clara F. Johnston, of Peoria, daugh-
ter of Robert F. Johnston, who was a farmer, and died in 1910.
Mrs. Dailey was born and reared in Peoria County. They have
one daughter, Lucile. Mr. Dailey is a member of the Masonic .
order, has taken thirty-two degrees in the Scottish Rite, is a mem-
ber of Mohammed Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and also has
affiliations with the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Khorassan,

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the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Wood-
men of America. He belongs to the Creve Coeur Club of Peoria,
and has many stanch friends in his profession, in all political parties,
and among all classes of citizenship.

HENRY T. SCHUMACHER. Among the representative members
of the Champaign Bar is Henry T. Schumacher, who entered into
practice here in December, 1904, and within a decade has built up
a large and lucrative business entirely through the honorable meth-
ods which prevail among lawyers of recognized standing. He has
been active in politics to some extent but never to the detriment of
his professional activities.

Henry T. Schumacher was born in Marshall County, Illinois,
July 'i i, 1879, and is a son of Adolph and Hannah (Steinke) Schu-
macher. They were born in Germany but passed the larger part of
their lives in the United States. The father followed farming up
to the time of his death, which occurred January 30, 1908. The
mother still survives. They were the parents of four children.

Reared on the home farm and during boyhood and youth giving
his father assistance, Henry T. Schumacher was afforded oppor-
tunity to attend the common school. In 1895 he attended Brown's
Business College at Galesburg and then worked as stenographer in
Prince, Post & Hardy's office until February, 1899, and afterward
became a student in the Illinois State University, entering the insti-
tution in 1899 and graduating in 1904, after completing a course in
law. In October of that year he was admitted to the bar and
immediately entered into practice, afterward forming a law partner-
ship with Louis A. Busch, which continued until Mr. Busch's elec-
tion to the office of state's attorney. Mr. Schumacher is known as
a careful and able attorney and his legal knowledge may be depended
upon, whether presenting a case before a jury, or giving counsel in
the privacy of his office. He has successfully handled a number of
important cases of litigation and on every occasion has acquitted
himself more than creditably. He keeps fully abreast of profes-
sional progress and is not afraid to express his sentiments concern-
ing new law legislation as a member of the county and also of
the State Bar Association.

Mr. Schumacher was united in marriage with Miss Minnie
Nuckolls, who is a daughter of William C. Nuckolls, and they have
four children. Mr. Schumacher and family belong to the Presby-
terian Church. He has always been a strong supporter of the
principles of the republican party but has not been a seeker for
office. During Hon. Charles Adkins' term as speaker of the Illi-
nois House of Representatives, Mr. Schumacher served as his legal
secretary, and in 1915 is serving as legal secretary for Speaker
David E. Shanahan. He is identified with all the leading fraternal
bodies, including the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of
Pythias and the Elks, and in all these organizations his personal
qualities have won him warm and appreciative friends.

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS

•-•nt and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woo(
•erict. Lie b to the Creve Coeur Club of Peori

i has many .stanch friends in his profession, in all political partie
'tig all classes of citizenship.

<RY T. SCJJUMACFIER. Among the representative membei

'•- "hampaign Bar is Henry T. Schumacher, who entered inl

here in December, 1904, and within a decade has built u

and lucrative business entirely through the honorable metl

ich prevail among lawyers of recognized standing. He hj

in politics to some extent but never to the detriment c

his | -iul activities.

Henry T. Schumacher was born in Marshall County. Illinoi:

July II, 18/9. and is a son of Adolph and Hannah (Steinke) Schi

macher. They were born in Germany but passed the larger part c

in I he United States. The father followed farming u

!\e time of hi.s death, which occurred January 30, 1908. Th

mother still survives. They were the parents of four children.

Reared on the home farm and during boyhood and youth givin
his father assistance, Henry T. Schumacher was afforded oppoi
tunity to attend the common school. In 1895 he attended Brown'
Business College at Galesburg and then worked as stenographer i
Prince, Post & Hardy's office until February, 1899, and afterwar
• ulent in the Illinois State University, entering the insti
tin; '-'<•) and graduating in 1904, after completing a course i

or of that year he was admitted to the bar an<
immediately entered into practice, afterward forming a law partner
ship with Louis A. Busch, which continued until Mr. Busch's elec-
tion to the office of state'* attorney. Mr. Schumacher is known a
ireful and able attorney and his legal knowledge may be dependei
upon, whether presenting a < . j"1")'' or giymg counsel ii

the privacy of 1' fully handled a number o

important cases of litigation and on every occasion has acquitte<
himself more than creditably. He keeps fully abreast of profes
sional progress and is not afraid to express his sentiments concern
ing new law legislation as a member of the county and also o
the State Bar Association.

Mr. Schumacher was united in marriage with Miss Minnii
Xuckolls, who is a daughter of William C. Nuckolls, and they havi
four children. Mr. Schumacher and family belong to the Presby
terian Church. He has always been a strong supporter of th<
principles of the republican party but has not been a seeker fo:
office. During Hon. Charles Adkins' term as speaker of the Illi
nois House of Representatives, Mr. Schumacher served as his lega
secretary, and in 1915 is serving as legal secretary for Speake;
David E. Shanahan. He is identified with all the leading fraterna
bodies, including the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights 01
hias and the Elks, and in all these organizations his persona
qualities have won him warm and appreciative friends.

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 769

party, and in 1860 was a member of the Baltimore convention that
nominated Stephen A. Douglas for president. In the early days as
a practicing lawyer he came into close touch with such distinguished
figures as Abraham Lincoln, Robert Ingersoll and other well-known
attorneys of the time. Judge Richmond died while holding court in
Champaign, Illinois. He was at that time in his forty-ninth year.
There were six children, four of whom are still living, and Elijah
Dewey was the youngest.

Elijah Dewey Richmond was fourteen years of age when his
father died, and the family was left in somewhat straitened circum-
stances. The widowed mother established a home on a farm, and
there the son spent most of his years until- reaching manhood. He
was educated partly in the public schools of Lacon, in a business
college at Peoria, and also attended district school. The work of
the farm was not altogether to his taste, but its accompaniments of
outdoor exercise undoubtedly did much to preserve his physical vigor
for the exacting routine of a busy lawyer. Unable to pursue a
collegiate education, he began the study of law with Shaw & Edward,
in Lacon, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1883. The same
year Mr. Richmond was elected city attorney, serving one term, and
in 1884 was elected state's attorney of Marshall County and re-
elected in 1888. He resigned his office in 1890 to become a candi-
date for county judge, and was elected in November of that year
and re-elected in 1894, serving two full terms. Since leaving the
office of county judge Mr. Richmond has enjoyed a large general
practice as a lawyer in Lacon, and at different times has identified
himself actively with public affairs. He has served as a member of
the board of education and early in his career was active in the
Illinois National Guard, joining Company G of the Sixth Regiment
in 1884, and being commissioned first lieutenant in 1886. He saw
some active service during the East St. Louis strike in 1886. Mr.
Richmond is a democrat, and a member of the Illinois State Bar
Association. He is affiliated with Lacojn Lodge, No. 61, A. F: &
A. M., with Lacon Chapter, No. 123, R. A. M., and has held offices
in both branches. He and his family are members of the Congrega-
tional Church.

On July 28, 1892, at Lacon, Mr. Richmond married Jennie M.
Hoyt. She was born in Marshall County, a daughter of James Hoyt,
who settled in Marshall County in 1838, and in 1853 married Eliza
J. Mathis. Mrs. Richmond is a graduate of both the Lacon High
School and the Boston Conservatory of Music, and until her mar-
riage taught music in Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa. Mr.
and Mrs. Richmond are the parents of four children : Geraldine, a
student at Knox College in Galesburg ; Lyle Lee, a student in Beloit
College at Beloit, Wisconsin ; Paul J. and Donald Dewey.

WALTER A. PANNECK. The relations of Walter A. Panneck
with his home city of La Salle cover a successful record as a lawyer,

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important service in municipal office, including three terms as mayor
and the activities of a self-made man of affairs, who can be dependec
upon by clients and the public in general for the exertion of solic
ability and public spirit whenever those qualities are needed.

Walter A. Panneck was born in Posen, Germany, August i, 1866
and in 1874 accompanied his parents, Joseph and Antonia Panneck
to America. Practically all his education was acquired in the publi<
schools of La Salle, where he 'studied law with Thomas N. Haskins
and was admitted to the bar in 1893. For about two years Mr
Panneck was employed as law clerk by Mr. Haskins, and in 189;
became junior member of the firm of Duncan, Haskins & Pan
neck. Three or four years later a change was made to Haskins $
Panneck, and this firm continued until 1900. At that time Mr. Pan
neck withdrew and has since confined his attention to individua
practice. In 1898 he was elected city attorney of La Salle, and b^
re-election in 1900 served two full terms. In 1903 he was electee
mayor of the City of La Salle, and served three terms, being re
elected in 1905 and in 1907. On August i, 1913, Governor Dunn<
appointed Mr. Panneck attorney for the Illinois and Michigai
Canal Commission, an office he still holds in connection with hi:
large private practice as a lawyer.

Mr. Panneck is a member of the La Salle County Bar Associa
tion, and affiliates with La Salle Lodge, No. 584, of the Benevolen
and Protective Order of Elks, with the Knights of Columbus, ii
Calvert Council, and also with the Modern Woodmen of America
Politically he is a democrat. Mr. Panneck married December 10
1804. Carrie L. Seepe.

ROBERT E. LARKIN. A well-known StreatOr attorney, in prac
tice there since 1906, Mr. Larkin was associated with Patrick J
Lucey until the latter's election to the office of attorney-general o
Illinois, and has since given his time to a large and increasing genera
practice in both the Federal and State courts in Illinois.

Robert E. Larkin was born in Eagle Township, of La Sall<
County, on his father's farm, a son of Thomas and Delia (Conness
Larkin. Both parents were natives of Ireland and were married ii
La Salle County, Illinois. Five of their ten children are living, am
Robert E. was the eighth in order of birth. The father came t(
America when seventeen years of age, lived for a time in Nev
York City, later went to Wheeling, West Virginia', and in 1851
became a pioneer in the farming district of Minnesota Territory, anc
lived there until 1860. He then returned to Illinois, and locatec
in Eagle Township, of La Salle County. Farming and stock-raisins
were his chief occupations until he retired from active affairs ir
1900, and in 1910 his death occurred at the age of eighty-four. Hi;
widow is still living. The mother came to La Salle County wher
she was four years old. She was a niece of the late John Conness

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 771

United States Senator from California. Senator Conness was a pall-
bearer for Abraham Lincoln. The father was in politics a democrat.
Robert E. Larkin acquired his education by attending the district
schools of La Salle County, was also a student in the Streator High
School and graduated from St. Bede's College in that county with
the class of 1902. Mr. Larkin studied law in the office of Lloyd
Painter at Streator, Illinois, and was admitted to the bar in 1906.
Beginning practice at Streator he was alone until 1907, and then
formed a partnership with Patrick J. Lucey, which continued with
mutual profit and esteem under the name of Lucey & Larkin until
January i, 1913, when Mr. Lucey withdrew in order to take up his
active duties as attorney-general of Illinois. Since that time Mr.
Larkin has continued in general practice under his own name, and
now prosecutes a large amount of business, both in the local and
general State courts and in the District and Circuit courts of the
United States. Mr. Larkin is a member of the La Salle County Bar
Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the American
Bar Association; affiliates with Streator Lodge No. 591, of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with Streator Council of
the Knights of Columbus, and with the Streator Club and the
Streator Commercial Association. Politically he is a democrat.

RECTOR C. HITT. An old and prominent lawyer in La Salle
County, Rector C. Hitt has been a member of the bar at Ottawa
for over thirty years, and has long had a reputation as one of the
shrewdest and most skillful trial lawyers in this section of the
state.

Rector C. Hitt was born in Ottawa, Illinois, August 14, 1856,
was educated in the public schools there, and studied law in the
office of that veteran lawyer, Hiram T. Gilbert, and was admitted to
the bar in 1881. For five years he practiced law as a member of the
firm of Cullen & Hitt, the senior member of which was C. S. Cullen.
Since that time Mr. Hitt has practiced as an individual and has
found full scope for his independent ideals and a vigorous and pleas-
ant career.

Mr. Hitt is a member of the La Salle County Bar Association
and the Illinois State Bar Association, also the American Bar Asso-
ciation and the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminol-
ogy. Fraternally his relations are with Occidental Lodge No. 37, A.
F. & A. M. ; Shabbona Chapter No. 37, R. A. M. ; Ottawa 'Com-
mandery No. 10, Knights Templar. In politics he is a republican.
On June 18, 1899, Mr. Hitt married Mabel Cushman, daughter of
Col. William H. W. Cushman.

Mr. Hitt is a son of Daniel Fletcher and Phoebe (Smith) Hitt.
His father was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1810 and died
in 1899, while his mother was bom in Pennsylvania in 1827 and died
in 1903. Of their six children three are still living, with Rector C.
as the youngest. The father was a civil engineer by profession,

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and in 1830 came out to Vermillion River, near Deer Park, in La
Salle County, and was a pioneer in that section. He did surveying
for the United States Government and was associated in that work
with Colonel Stephenson, after whom Stephenson County was named
in this state. He was one of the surveyors who marked out the
course of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and for many years was
associated with T. B. Blackstone in laying out the Illinois Central
Railroad. He was county surveyor of La Salle County many years.
In politics he followed the fortunes of the democratic party until the
Civil war, and then became a republican. He was also a member of
the Masonic fraternity.

CLARENCE B. CHAPMAN. One of the most prominent lawyers
in Central Illinois is Clarence B. Chapman, of the firm of McDougall
& Chapman, at Ottawa. Ottawa has for many years been dis-
tinguished as the home of a group of lawyers second to none in the
state, and a few years after beginning practice in 1880 Mr. Chapman
had demonstrated his right to be classed among the leaders of the
Ottawa bar.

Clarence B. Chapman was born in Princeton, Bureau County,
Illinois, January i, 1857. His parents were O. E. and Sarah L.
(Beeman) Chapman, both natives of Ohio. His father was born
in 1832, and is still living, while the mother died at the age of sixty-
nine years. They were married in Ohio, and in 1854 came out to
Bureau County, Illinois, locating at Princeton, and afterwards moved
to Walnut, where O. E. Chapman was engaged in farming and
stock-raising up to 1894. In that year he retired from active work.
He continued to live in Walnut until 1902, and since then has been
at Ottawa, Illinois. He has held township offices and has always
been a loyal republican. There were five children in the family,
four of whom are living, and the Ottawa lawyer is the second
child.

His education was acquired in the public schools of Bureau
County, and he finished in the old Princeton Township High School.
Mr. Chapman entered the law department of the Northwestern
University of Chicago, was graduated with the class of 1880 and ad-
mitted to the bar in that year. At the beginning of his practice he
located in Ottawa, and soon had a profitable general practice in
all the courts. While his work has been that of a general practi-
tioner, Mr. Chapman has also represented many corporations, and
the firm of McDougall & Chapman has long enjoyed some of the
best distinctions of legal partnership and success in the Illinois bar.
This firm was formed April i, 1887, and has been in existence for
more than a quarter of a century. Mr. Chapman has served as
county attorney of La Salle County two terms, and in 1914 was
elected president of the La Salle County Bar Association.

He is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association ; of
Humboldt Lodge No. 555, A. F. & A. M. ; Shabbona Chapter, R. A.

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 773

M. ; Ottawa Commandery No. 10, Knights Templars ; and Mohamed
Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Peoria. He and his family worship
in the Congregational Church, and in politics he is a republican.
On October 12, 1886, Mr. Chapman married Katie H. Ebersol. She
was born in Burlington, Iowa.

GEORGE S. WILEY. For a young man of thirty-five years George
S. Wiley has performed a great deal of important public service and
gained many successes in his chosen profession of the law. Mr.
Wiley is at the present time serving as state's attorney of La Salle
County with offices in Ottawa.

Born at Earlville in La Salle County, Illinois, March 15, 1879,
George S. Wiley acquired his education in the common schools and
finished the law course at the University of Michigan with the class
of 1900. He was then twenty-one years of age, was admitted to the
bar in Michigan and in Illinois in the same year, and took up general
practice at Earlville. In 1901 Mr. Wiley was elected city attorney
of Earlville and was re-elected to that office in 1903, 1905. 1907,
1909 and 1911, serving five consecutive terms with credit to himself
and to the benefit of that community. In 1912 Mr. Wiley was
elected state's attorney, and from June, 1911, to June, 1912, served
as chairman of the board of supervisors of La Salle County. His
general popularity in his home county, his recognized qualifications
as a lawyer and powers of public leadership were well exemplified in
the November election of 1912, when he was the only democrat
elected on the county ticket in La Salle County. La Salle has for
years been one of the strongholds of the republican party in Illinois,
and it is only in rare and exceptional cases that an individual is
able to break the rule of normality of republican majority.

Mr. Wiley is a member of Earlville Lodge No. 183, A. F. & A.
M. ; Mendota Chapter No. 79, R. A. M. ; Bethany Commandery No.
28, K. T. ; Mohamed Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Peoria;
and Ottawa lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Wiley has served three terms as master of his Masonic lodge.
He is also a member of the La Salle County and the Illinois State
Bar associations. Mr. Wiley was married February 14, 1901, to
Ella Gettemy, of Chicago. Their two children are George H. and
Donald F.

WILLIAM J. FULTON. In the legal profession success stands as
the criterion of character and ability, and by this mark Mr. Fulton
may well be satisfied to be judged, for he has gained secure place
as one of the representative members of the bar of De Kalb County,
where he is a member of the well-known law firm of Faissler & Ful-
ton, of Sycamore, the county seat. His professional coadjutor is
John Faissler, of whom specific mention is made on other pages of
this publication. The firm controls an excellent practice of general
order and is local legal representative of a number of important

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corporations, including the Chicago Great Western Railroad
Company ; the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company ; the Chi-
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company; the De Kalb & Syca-
more Traction Company ; and the Aurora & De Kalb Traction Com-
pany.

Mr. Fulton was born in the village of Lynedoch, Norfolk County,
Province of Ontario, Canada, on the I4th of January, 1875, and is
a son of James and Jane (Gray) Fulton, the former of whom was
born in Canada, and the latter in the State of New York, their home
being now at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where the father is living re-
tired. Of the six sons and three daughters, all of whom are living,
William J., of this review, was the second in order of birth. James
Fulton continued to be engaged in mercantile pursuits in Ontario,
Canada, until 1881, when he came with his family to Illinois and en-
gaged in the general merchandise business at Sandwich, De Kalb
County. He later removed to Waterman, this county, where he
continued as a successful and representative merchant until 1893.
Since 1908 he has lived retired from active business.

William J. Fulton was a lad of five years at the time of the
family removal to De Kalb County, where he was afforded the
advantages of the public schools. He finally entered the academic
department of the University of Illinois, in which he was graduated
as a member of the class of 1898, with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts. In the law department of the same institution he was grad-
uated in 1900, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws and with con-
comitant admission to the bar of the state. During the initial period
of his active professional work Mr. Fulton was associated with the
firm of Carnes & Dunton, and since 1909 he has been a member of
the law firm of Faissler, Fulton & Roberts, the alliance of which
has proved fruitful in the building up of an excellent practice of
general order. In politics Mr. Fulton is a stanch supporter of the
principles and policies that have made the republican party a safe
conservator of the nation's prosperity, and he is actively identified
with the Illinois State Bar Association and the De Kalb County Bar
Association.

November 26, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Fulton to
Miss Laura Busey, of Hebron, McHenry County, and they have
three children : William J., Jr., Robert Busey, and Sarah Jane.

HARVEY A. JONES. Most consonant writh the assigned functions
of this publication and most gratifying in every sense is the privi-
lege of according definite recognition to such an able representative
of the Illinois bar as was the sterling citizen whose name introduces
this paragraph, who began the practice of his profession in this state
nearly half a century ago and who until his recent death, on Decem-
ber 12, 1914, devoted attention to active law business. He was one
of the honored and influential citizens of Sycamore and the high
regard in which he was held by his professional confreres is indi-

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 775

cated by the fact that for several years and until his death he held
the office of president of the DeKalb County Bar Association.

Harvey Alston Jones was born on the old homestead farm of
his parents, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, on the I7th of October,
1837, a date that indicates that his father was numbered among the
pioneers of the Hoosier commonwealth. He was a son of David and
Mary (Owens) Jones, the former of whom was born near the City
of Richmond, Virginia, on the i8th of February, 1798, and the lat-
ter of whom was born in the vicinity of Savannah, Georgia, on the
1 9th of July, 1802, their marriage having been solemnized in Dayton,
Clark County, Ohio. Of the family of eight sons and two daugh-
ters Harvey A., of this review, was the seventh in order of birth
and he is the only one now living. The father was identified with
agricultural pursuits in Ohio until he numbered himself among the
sturdy pioneers of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, where he reclaimed
a farm from the wilderness and where both he and his wife passed
the residue of their lives, he having been summoned to eternal rest
on the nth of November, 1848, and his widow having survived
him by nearly twenty years, her death having occurred in 1865.
The lineage of the Jones family is traced back to sterling Welsh
and English origin and representatives of the same settled in Vir-
ginia in the colonial era of our national history, Dr. James Jones,
great-grandfather of the subject of this review, having served as
a surgeon with the Continental troops in the war of the Revolution.

The pioneer schools of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, afforded to
Harvey A. Jones his early educational facilities, and it is needless
to say that he was not denied a full quota of youthful experinece
in connection with the arduous work of the home farm, in the devel-
opment of which he gave sturdy co-operation. In his native county
he attended the Pleasant Grove school, and he was fortunate in the
realization of his ambition for higher education, in defraying the
expenses of which he depended largely upon his own resources.
He attended Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Indiana, and Lom-
bard University, at Galesburg, Illinois, after which he availed him-
self of the best possible advantages for rounding out a symmetrical
professional education. He entered the law department of the great
University of Michigan, in which he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1865, his admission to the Michigan bar being granted
at the same time, in the City of Detroit. Within the same year he
gained admission to the Illinois bar and engaged in the active prac-
tice of his profession at Sycamore, where he continued to reside
during the long intervening years and where he has left a strong
and worthy impress upon the history of jurisprudence in this part
of the state. He served as city attorney and as special master in
chancery, but had no desire for public office not thus directly con-
cerned with the profession which was dignified and honored by his
character and services. Mr. Jones at the time of his death was one
of the most venerable of the active members of the Illinois State

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Bar Association and, as previously stated, was for several years
retained in office as president of the DeKalb County Bar Association.

In 1861 Mr. Jones received the degree of Master Mason in
Geneva Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Geneva,
Kane County, this state, and from the same he was finally admitted
to Sycamore Lodge, with which he remained in active affiliation,
as he did also with the Sycamore Chapter of Royal Arch Masons,
and the Sycamore Commandery of Knights Templar. He was also
an Odd Fellow for forty-five years. Amidst the changes and
chances of modern professional politics Mr. Jones did not falter
in his allegiance to the republican party, and as a citizen he ever
maintained high ideals and standards, with ready co-operation in the
furtherance of measures and policies that tended to advance the
social and material welfare of the community.

On the 22d of February, 1861, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Jones to Miss Sarah Dudley Perkins, who was born at St.
Charles, Illinois, a representative of a well-known pioneer family of
Kane County. Mrs. Jones attended Lombard College when a young
woman and virtually completed the prescribed curriculum in this
Illinois institution. She did not, however, receive her diploma, and
within the year 1914 there came to her a tardy but greatly appre-
ciated recognition, in that the authorities of the college informed
her that if she would prepare a thesis of some length and present
the same her diploma would be sent to her. Though nearing at this
time the age of three score years and ten, she completed the thesis
and in due time received her diploma. Mr. and Mrs. Jones became
the parents of seven children, of whom only two are living — Mary
F., who remains at the parental home; and Anna, who is the wife
of Prof. George M. Clayberg, of the McKinley High School in the
City of Chicago. They reside in Oak Park, Illinois.

AMBERT D. MORGAN. The leading representative of his pro-
fession at Herrin, Williamson County, Ambert D. Morgan was a
graduate in 1909 from the Illinois College of Law at Chicago, was
admitted to the Bar of Illinois in 1909 and has since been actively
identified with practice at Herrin. He stands high in the William-
son County Bar, and has an excellent business.

Ambert D. Morgan was born at Hampshire, Illinois, October 29,
1885, a son of L. D. and Elizabeth (Helmer) Morgan, both of
whom are still living, his father at the age of seventy and his mother
sixty-one. The great-grandfather Morgan was a prominent citizen
of Syracuse, New York, while grandfather Morgan came from that
state to Illinois and was one of the early settlers in McHenry
County, following a career as a farmer. L. D. Morgan, a Civil war
veteran, was born near Marengo in McHenry County. He and his
wife were the parents of six children, of whom the Herrin lawyer
is the fifth.

Mr. Morgan received his early education in the public schools of

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Kane County, attended the Elgin, Illinois, High School, for two
years was a student in the University of Illinois in the science
department, and spent three years at the Illinois College of Law,
Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Morgan is a member of the County Bar
Association, is on the township high school board, and has fra-
ternal affiliations with the Mississippi Valley Consistory, the Scottish
Rite Temple, East St. Louis, Illinois; the Royal Arch Chapter of
Masonry, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern
Woodmen of America. On December 25, 1910, he married Miss
Alberta Eubank of Centralia, Illinois, daughter of James S. and
Olive Eubank, of Centralia. To their marriage was born two chil-
dren, Lillian Eugenia Morgan in 1912 and Harriet Elizabeth in 1914.

WILLIAM C. JONES. A broad and thorough experience as a
lawyer has brought William C. Jones of Streator some of the best
rewards of the profession. Mr. Jones has been in practice at
Streator, which is his native town, for seven or eight years, and
prior to that had an extensive experience in offices in Chicago.

William C. Jones was born in Streator March 18, 1881, a son of
James H. and Mary M. McAllister Jones. His father was born in
West Virginia in 1859, came to La Salle County with his father,
James Jones, at a very early age, and the latter was one of the
pioneer coal operators in La Salle County. James H. Jones after
his education engaged in coal mining for a number of years, and
operated a number of coal mines with James Price as partner. In
1912 he moved to Texas, where he is now living. For one term or
more he served as alderman from his ward in Streator, and was
active in republican affairs. His wife was born in England of
Scotch parents, and they had seven children, four of whom are
living.

William C. Jones, the oldest of these children, was educated in
the Streator public schools, finishing with the high school course,
and conducted his law studies in the office of Reeves & Boys at
Streator and was admitted to the bar in 1902.- The first six months
as a lawyer were spent in Chicago at the office of the clerk of the
Court of Appeals, and then he became engaged with the Grand
Trunk- Western Railway in the claim agent's department as assist-
ant to Hon. Kenesaw M. Landis, now United States District Judge.
After about three years in that work Mr. Jones engaged in practice
for himself at Chicago, but in December, 1907, returned to his
native city and has since been making rapid progress as a member
of the Streator bar. He formed a partnership with Paul R. Chub-
buck under the firm name of Chubbuck & Jones, and this relationship
was continued until June, 1910, when Mr. Jones took over the
business of the firm and has since been in general practice for him-
self. His offices are at 207 Main Street in Streator.

Mr. Jones is a member of the La Salle County Bar Association
and the Illinois State Bar Association. He is past master of Strea-

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tor Lodge No. 607, A. F. & A. M., and also affiliates with Streator
Chapter No. 168, R. A. M., with Streator Council, No. 73 R. & S.
M., and with Streator Commandery. Politically Mr. Jones is a
republican. He was married to Gussie M. Hoobler, who was born
in La Salle County. They have three children : William D., Virginia
and Bruce.

WILLIAM M. SCANLAN. One of the brainiest and keenest law-
yers and a public leader of unquestioned ability in La Salle County
is William M. Scanlan, whose early youth was spent on a farm in
Dimmick Township of that county and whose professional career
covers a dozen years, filled with success in the law and with the
duties of a rising scale of public offices.

William M. Scanlan was born in Dimmick Township of La Salle
County November 15, 1874, was educated in the district schools of
the county, attended the Northern Illinois Normal School at Dixon,
and in 1901 graduated from the law department of the University
of Michigan. In 1902 he began practice at Peru, and in 1903 took
in John J. Massieon as partner under the firm name of Scanlan &
Massieon, which still continues, and looks after a large general
practice in the local courts. In 1903 Mr. Scanlan was elected city
attorney of Peru and re-elected in 1905 and 1907, serving three full
terms. In 1908 he was elected a member of the general assembly of
Illinois and re-elected in 1910, 1912 and 1914. During his legisla-
tive service he was chairman of the corporation committee during
the Forty-seventh Assembly and was a member of the committee
on public utilities which reported the law under which the present
public utilities commission is operating. During the Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth assemblies he was chairman of the committee on
insurance. Mr. Scanlan is a republican, is affiliated with La Salle
Lodge No. 584 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the
Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of Columbus.

JOHN J. MASSIEON. Junior member of the firm of Scanlan &
Massieon at Peru, John J. Massieon has spent most of his life in
his home city and has been in active practice as a lawyer for the
past twelve years. He is a prominent and useful worker in municipal
affairs, and is now holding the office of mayor of Peru.

John J. Massieon was born in Peru, Illinois, April 12, 1878, a
son of John and Mary (Schaulin) Massieon. His father was born
in Germany March 4, 1853, and is still living, and his mother was
born in Sheffield, Illinois, in September, 1853. They were the par-
ents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, and the Peru
lawyer was the second child. His education came from the public
schools of Peru, with additional attendance at the Northern Illinois
Normal in Dixon, where he graduated in law, LL. B., with the class
of 1901. Thereafter one year was spent in the law office of E. E.
Wingert at Dixon, and he was admitted to the bar in 1902 and

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practiced for a time in Spring Valley, but in 1903 became a partner
of William M. Scanlan at Peru. When Mr. Scanlan left the office
of city attorney to enter the State Legislature, Mr. Massieon suc-
ceeded him as city attorney of Peru in 1909 and was re-elected in
1911, serving two full terms. In May, 1913, the people of Peru
elected him mayor and in 1915 he was re-elected to that office. Mr.
Massieon is a republican, is affiliated with St. John's Lodge, No. 13,
A. F. & A. M., with Peru Chapter, No. 60, R. A. M. ; with Peru
Council, R. & S. M. ; and also with Dixon Lodge No. 779, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Massieon married Myra B.
(Lawrence) Hake.

BERNARD HALL TAYLOR. As a member of the Fulton County
bar for upwards of twenty years, Bernard H. Taylor has enjoyed
a large general practice, has filled several offices with distinction, and
has brought to his profession a thorough knowledge of the law and
a broad experience with men and affairs. Mr. Taylor is especially
well known for his military service, was trained when a boy in a
military school, commanded a company of Illinois soldiers during
the Spanish-American war, and for a number of years was promi-
nent in the Illinois National Guard.

Bernard Hall Taylor was born at Farmington, Illinois, Feb-
ruary 17, 1871, a son of William Lathrop and Florence (Montgom-
ery) Taylor. His father was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and
his mother in Farmington, Illinois. His primary education was
acquired in the public schools at Canton, and at the age of sixteen
he entered the Riverview Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, New
York, graduating in 1890 and for one year thereafter being employed
as a drill master. He then entered the law department of the Colum-
bian LTniversity at Washington, D. C., graduated LL. B. in 1893,
and in the following year received the degree LL. M. from the
same institution. Mr. Naylor was admitted to practice in the State
of Illinois at Ottawa in 1896, and has since been identified with the
bar at Canton.

Promptly after the declaration of war against Spain in April,
1898, Mr. Taylor enlisted and was mustered in as captain of Com-
pany M, Fifth Regiment United States Volunteers, at Springfield,
on May 7, 1898. The regiment was commanded by Col. J. S. Culver.
A week later the troops proceeded to Camp Thomas, Chickamauga
Park, Georgia, and remained there nearly three months awaiting
orders for advance to the front. On August 3rd the regiment left
Chickamauga for Newport News, Virginia, expecting to embark
without delay for Cuba. They were sent on board the transport
Obdam, but after remaining on board thirty-six hours the order
•was rescinded, they disembarked and returned to camp. That was
the second time a similar order was countermanded during the war.
A few days after this event Spain accepted the terms of peace, and
the regiment was ordered to Lexington, Kentucky, remained in

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camp there thirty days, then was sent to Springfield, given a fur-
lough of thirty days, and mustered out October i6th. The regi-
ment consisted of 1,213 men anc^ 47 officers. Captain Taylor was
then appointed judge advocate of the Second Brigade, Illinois
National Guard, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and finally
resigned in order to devote all his time to the practice of his pro-
fession. The order granting his discharge contained the following
commendations from his commanding officer, Col. J. S. Culver:
"As company commander, he was one of the best in the regiment
and the peer of any in the service; faithful, loyal, honest and will-
ing, he made the welfare of his men his care, and as a result he
possesses their confidence and esteem as well as that of the com-
manding officer of the regiment. He has all the qualifications and
ability to command a battalion, regiment or brigade." On his return
from his war service and just before the disbanding of the company
Captain Taylor was presented by its members with a handsome
sword as a token of their esteem as a fellow soldier and their appre-
ciation of him as an officer.

Since the war Colonel Taylor has enjoyed a large practice and
is recognized as one of the leading members of the Fulton County
bar. He was elected and served as state's attorney of Fulton
County from 1900 to 1904. As a republican he has been a delegate
to state conventions since 1896, and takes an interested part in
local affairs, being now president of the board of education at Can-
ton. On November 19, 1902, Mr. Taylor married Miss Alida Ten
Eyck, daughter of James and Rachel (Ledeboer) Ten Eyck. They
have two children: James Alexander, born October n, 1903, and
Francis Montgomery, born April 6, 1905, and both in public schools.
Colonel Taylor is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Knights of
Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and
his wife are both members of the Canton Country Club. Mrs.
Taylor was educated in the Fairview public schools and the
Woman's College at Jacksonville, and is an active member of the
Woman's Club. Their home is at 240 West Chestnut Street,
Canton.

JOHN THOMAS KENWORTHY. One of the oldest lawyers at
Rock Island is John Thomas Kenworthy, who has been continuously
a member of the bar of that city more than forty years and at an
earlier date had been admitted to the bar and had taken up practice
in his native village of Andalusia in Rock Island County.

Born in that locality October 24, 1846, John Thomas Kenworthy
is a son of Samuel and Sarah Maria (Eby) Kenworthy. He
attended the local public schools until 1858 and then went to Chi-
cago, where he was a student of the old Douglas University. Dur-
ing 1 860-6 1 he was in a commercial college in Chicago, but in the
latter year returned to Andalusia and helped his father until 1864.
In that year he responded to the call for more troops and enlisted

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in Company D of the One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Infantry,
and was clerk in the quartermaster's department in the states of
Tennessee and Mississippi. He was mustered out at Camp Frey in
Chicago in October, 1864.

After his return home Mr. Kenworthy attended the Bryant &
Stratton Business College at Davenport and soon afterward took up
the study of law in the office of Hon. George W. Pleasants at Rock
Island. He remained in that office until Mr. Pleasants was elected
circuit judge. After being admitted to the Illinois bar Mr. Ken-
worthy began practice at Andalusia and in the fall of 1872 opened
his office in Rock Island. For a number of years his son Samuel
has been associated in practice with him under the firm name of
J. T. & S. R. Kenworthy. For twenty years Mr. Kenworthy served
as secretary of the Rock Island County Old Settlers Association.

On May 19, 1870, he married Miss Clara E. Wells, a daughter
of Rinnah and Hannah (Buffum) Wells. Four children were born
to them. The daughter, Charlotte F., is a graduate of Welles Col-
lege of New York. The son, Samuel R., born October, 1873, was
graduated from the literary department of the University of Michi-
gan and received his law degree from the same institution, and has
since been in practice with his father. Mrs. Kenworthy died in
May, 1910.

HENRY DELANY LEWIS. While Henry Delany Lewis has been a
member of the Illinois bar only since 1909, he comes of a family
which in the various generations from colonial times has given many
members to the legal profession, while a number of them have been
more than ordinarily distinguished.

Horace D. Lewis was born in Schuyler County, Illinois, April 6,
1884, and at the age of thirty has securely established- himself in his
profession and is one of the busy young lawyers of Rushville. His
parents were Thomas D. and Maria H. (Taylor) Lewis, both of
whom were also natives of Schuyler County. The first of the Lewis
family to come to America was Ralph Lewis, who came from Wales
in 1674 and settled in Philadelphia. One of his descendants was
William Lewis, who was a distinguished member of the Philadelphia
bar, served as counselor to Benjamin Franklin, and was district
attorney under President George Washington and one of the first
three lawyers to receive licenses to practice in Philadelphia under
the Constitution of the United States. In this family is a lock of
George Washington's hair, clipped by Mr. Lewis' great-grand-
mother, Margaret Delany. Another ancestor was Josiah Lewis,
also a prominent Philadelphian, who owned a magnificent estate in
Pennsylvania, including lands now in the midst of the anthracite
coal fields, but he disposed of his possessions there before the coal
was developed, giving much of it to worthy but poor people. The
grandfather of the Rushville lawyer was William Lewis, also a
lawyer of Philadelphia, who is 1832, on account of failing health,

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moved to Illinois, and was very prominent in developing the west-
ern part of Schuyler County. His death occurred in Schuyler
County at the age of eighty-nine, after having amassed for his day
a considerable fortune. On the maternal side also there have been
members of the bar, and Grandfather Henry Taylor was a promi-
nent lawyer in the Western Reserve of Ohio in Trumbull County
who came out to Illinois in 1849. Here he outfitted and went over-
land to California in search of gold, but after a year or so returned
and acquired large landed possessions in this state. He will always
be remembered for his great generosity to the poor and needy and
for his contributions to the church. The Taylor family was of
Scotch-Irish ancestry and had settled in Philadelphia during colonial
days. Thomas D. and Maria H. (Taylor) Lewis are still living,
are substantial farming people in Schuyler County, and the father
is now' sixty-four and the mother sixty years of age. Of their three
children, one in William T. Lewis, a farmer of Schuyler County,
and the daughter is Miss Mabel R. Lewis, who lives with her
parents.

Henry Delany Lewis, the youngest of the three children, was
educated partly in the public schools of Brooklyn, Illinois, also under
private instruction, took a course in the State Normal at Macomb,
and was graduated from the law department of Northwestern Uni-
versity at Chicago in 1909. After some experience in practice in
Fulton County he returned to Schuyler County in the fall of 1911
and located in Rushville, where he has built up a good business as
a lawyer. In 1913 he was elected city attorney of Rushville. He is
secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and is secretary of the Farm
and Town Loan Association at Rushville. His fraternities are the
Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the
Alpha Kappa Phi college fraternity. He is also a member of the
State Bar Association and the Commercial Law League of Amer-
ica, and is state director of the Illinois Commercial Club. In poli-
tics he is a republican, and he is a member of the Methodist Church.
Mr. Lewis has acquired a large acquaintance and friendship in
Schuyler County, is an able attorney, owns a good home, and out-
side of his practice finds his recreation in outdoor life. He was
married October i, 1913, at Rushville, to Miss Lucile A. Rottger, a
daughter of John and Anna Rottger, of Jacksonville. Her father,
now deceased, was for a number of years a past master of Jack-
sonville Lodge of Masons. Mrs. Lewis attended the public schools
and completed her education at the Woman's College of Jackson-
ville. She is prominent in club and social life. Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis have one son, Henry Delany Lewis, Jr., born December 4,
1914. Mr. Lewis has offices in the Rushville State Bank Building,
Rushville.

LEWIS A. JARMAN. A prominent citizen as well as able attorney
of Schuyler County, the acknowledged leader of the bar at Rush-

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ville, was born at Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, Septem-
ber 28, 1868, and is a son of Thomas and Frances (Lewis) Jarman.
On the paternal side the ancestry is traced to England, from which
country many families of quality came in the wake of Lord Balti-
more to Maryland in colonial days, and there the Jarman family has
old established associations. Thomas Jarman was born in Mary-
land, where he still resides, a retired merchant of Greensboro, being
now aged seventy-nine years. He married Frances Lewis, who was
born in Delaware, possibly of Welsh ancestry, who died in Greens-
boro, in 1913, at the age of seventy-three years. Of their family of
four children, Lewis A. was the eldest born.

After the public schools at Greensboro, Lewis A. Jarman had
additional educational advantages, becoming first a student in the
Western Maryland College, at Westminster, Maryland, from which,
in 1880, he was graduated with the degree of A. B. and later receiv-
ing the degree of A. M. After deciding upon the law as a career,
he entered the law department of the University of Maryland, at
Baltimore, where he was graduated in 1882, being admitted to prac-
tice in Maryland. In the fall of that year, however, he came to
Rushville, Illinois, and here has continued in practice ever since.
He has won wide reputation in the law in Schuyler County and com-
mands the largest practice at the county seat and occupies the finest
offices. Mr. Jarman has devoted his energies almost entirely to the
law, caring little for political life, although he consented to serve
as mayor of Rushville when elected to office in 1905 and continued
through 1906, giving the city a clean and admirable administration.
Many times he has declined positions in public life that would more
or less interfere with his professional duties, his theory being that
all the time and attention of an advocate is none too much to give
to such important clients as he usually is invited to represent. He
is one of the board of directors of the Illinois State Bar Association.

Mr. Jarman was married June 26, 1889, to Miss Lizzie B. Ray,
who is a daughter of William and H. Ray, formerly of Rushville.
Mr. and Mrs. Jarman have no surviving children. They attend
the Methodist Episcopal Church and give attention to its many
benevolent activities.

WALTER C. FRANK. Prominent in the political field in Illinois
and one of the foremost attorneys of Knox County, Walter C.
Frank occupies a position of influence at Galesburg, where he has
been one of the most dependable of citizens for the past thirteen
years. Of sturdy stock — German, Scotch and Irish, Mr. Frank, like
so many other successful professional men, was held down through
youth by a period of useful discipline on a farm, a training often
distasteful to one with high ambitions, but, in the main, one bene-
ficial in the end and seldom in after years regretted. His ancestors
were mainly agricultural people, coming to Pennsylvania from Ger-

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many on the paternal side and from Ireland and Scotland to Ohio
on the maternal side.

Walter C. Frank was born August 24, 1869, in Henry County,
Iowa, but was taken to Montgomery County when only a few
months old, and is a son of John E. and Harriet E. (Price) Frank,
the latter born at Columbus, Ohio, and now a resident of Red Oak,
Iowa. The father was born at Marysville, Ohio, and died in 1907,
in Iowa, where he was a prominent farmer. During the Civil war
he served with credit as a member of Company E, First Iowa Cav-
alry. Of his five children Walter C. was the third born.

Until he was twenty-one years old Walter C. Frank remained at
home, dutifully assisting his father on the home farm in Montgom-
ery County, Iowa, during the summer seasons and attending the
district schools during the winters. Afterward he attended the
Normal School at Des Moines as a preparation for teaching school,
and he occupied himself in that vocation more or less continuously
through 1893, 1894 and 1895. In 1896 he entered the University of
Iowa and devoted two years to history and political science, decid-
ing then to adopt the law as a profession. Gathering together all his
energies and resources he then entered the law department of the
University and completed the course in 1901, in June of that year
being admitted to the Iowa bar and in October following to the bar
of Illinois. Immediately after this he came to Galesburg and entered
into active practice, associating himself with the late Wesley Holt,
the partnership continuing until Mr. Holt's death in July, 1904. At
that time Mr. Holt \vas city attorney of Galesburg, and Mr. Frank
completed his term of office, serving about eight months as city
attorney. After the death of Mr. Holt he entered into new business
relations, becoming a member of the law firm of Carney, Frank &
Carney, which partnership continued until 1909, since which time
Mr. Frank has been alone in practice. His office at No. 109 South
Cherry Street is one of the best equipped and most attractive in the
city, and he has a law library of 1,000 volumes and a literary library
of about 1,500 volumes. He has built up a very substantial practice
and is retained as attorney by a number of important corporate
bodies, one being the Fidelity Loan & Savings Bank. For a number
of years he has been a prominent factor in republican politics, and
at present is serving as one of the board of election commissioners.
He was alternate delegate to the republican convention that nomi-
nated former Governor Charles S. Deneen, and for the last four
years has been a member of the State Senatorial Committee.

Mr. Frank married, April 30, 1911, Miss Irene Olson, a daugh-
ter of S. H. Olson, a leading merchant of Galesburg. Mrs. Frank
was educated in the Galesburg High School and Knox College, and
is prominent in club and social work. She is a member of the
Delta Tau Delta, a Greek letter college fraternity. Mr. and Mrs.
Frank have two sons, Walter C., Jr., who was born February 12,
1912, and John Marshall, born April 19, 1915. The family reside

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 785

at No. 523 North Chambers Street. Both Mr. and Mrs. Frank are
active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Frank
having served on its official board for the last ten years. His services
were exceedingly valuable as a member of the building committee
in reference to the recently completed new church edifice, and he
continues a member of the executive committee of the church and
belongs to the committee that has charge of providing suitable and
acceptable ministers to fill the local pulpit. He is perhaps one of
Galesburg's busiest citizens. He has never made recreation a neces-
sary part of his life scheme, but belongs to and is valued in the
Masonic and Woodmen fraternities, in his old college society, the
Phi Delta Phi, in the Galesburg Business Men's Club and the Coun-
try Club and in the State and County Bar associations, being now
vice president of the local bar association.

EDWARD C. KOHLSAAT. In his native city of Chicago Edward
C. Kohlsaat is a member of a family that has been singularly promi-
nent in the records of its bench and bar, and his father, Judge Chris-
tian C. Kohlsaat, was long a representative lawyer of the city and
was for years judge of the United States Court of Appeals. The
son ably upheld the professional prestige of the name in his native
city until recently, when he moved to Kansas City, Missouri.

Edward C. Kohlsaat was born in Chicago December 26, 1878,
the son of Christian C. and Frances S. (Smith) Kohlsaat. He was
reared to maturity in this city, and had his training in the public
schools and in Lewis Institute. He was graduated from the latter
in 1898, following which he entered the University of Chicago and
finished his studies there as a member of the graduating class of
1901, receiving his B. A. degree at that time. With this prepara-
tion for his technical or professional studies he entered the North-
western University School of Law, and in 1904 was graduated,
receiving his law degree and admission to the bar of the state at
the same time.

Very soon after his graduation Mr. Kohlsaat was admitted to a
partnership with the law firm of Calhoun, Lyford & Sheean, recog-
nized as among the foremost law firms at the Chicago bar, and with
this firm Mr. Kohlsaat continued to be identified until recently. In
May, 1915, he was elected president of the Kansas City Title &
Trust Company, and he now makes his home in that city.

He is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Company, and
has membership in the Chicago Bar Association, the Chicago Law
Club, the University Club, the Chicago Golf Club, the Winnetka
Country Club, the Oak Park Country Club, the Bankers Club, the
various class societies of graduates of the University of Chicago,
and the Phi Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternities.
Mr. Kohlsaat has been concerned with the effecting of consolidations
of some of the large banks of Chicago in late years, as well as in

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the reorganization of the Chicago street car lines and other public
utilities.

On November 16, 1904, he was married to Miss Mabel Hewes
Gathes, of Chicago. They have three children, Suzanne, Cynthia
and Edward C., Jr.

JOHN WICKLIFF KITCHELL. It is doubtful if any Illinois family,
except that of Kitchell, had been so long continuously identified
with the bar of the state from the admission of Illinois to the
Union, now almost a century. The record of the name in its asso-
ciations with the bar came to a close with the death of the distin-
guished Pana citizen and philanthropist, John Wickliff, on December
26, 1914. He had been admitted to the bar prior to the Civil war,
while two of his older brothers were distinguished as judges, law-
yers, soldiers and men of affairs. His father was Wickliff Kitchell,
at one time attorney-general of Illinois. While the late Captain
Kitchell gained high rank as a lawyer and stood close to the public
life and men of the state, he will probably be longest remembered
for his liberal benefactions bestowed in his home city of Pana.
There the name Kitchell will always be retained in local history and
future generations will associate it with some of the most familiar
public institutions.

The pioneer Illinois lawyer of this name was Wickliff Kitchell,
who was born in New Jersey May 21, 1789, and on the 29th of
February, 1812, was married at Newark in that state to Miss Eliza-
beth Ross. In the same year he started west, passing down the
Ohio on a flat-boat from Pittsburg, and located near Cincinnati.
In 1814 he became a resident of Southern Indiana, where he was
elected sheriff and studied law and did his first work as a practi-
tioner. In 1817 he removed to the then Territory of Illinois, locat-
ing at Palestine in Crawford County. In 1820 he was elected
representative in the second general assembly. His brother Joseph
had represented Crawford County as member of the first Illinois
Constitutional Convention, held in Kaskaskia in August, 1818. This
convention formulated the organic law under which Illinois became
a state. For many years the only extant printed copy of the jour-
nal of this convention was in the possession of the Kitchell family.
In 1905 the late Captain Kitchell presented this valuable historical
document to the state archives. In the October number of the
Illinois State Historical Society Journal of that year will be found
the facts concerning the presentation and also a reprint of the
journal. Resuming the record of the public career of Wickliff
Kitchell, he served as a member of the state senate from 1828 to
1832. In 1838 he removed to Hillsboro in Montgomery County,
and in the following year was appointed attorney-general of the
state, an office he held until the close of 1840, when he resigned
to take his seat in the Twelfth General Assembly. His home was
at Hillsboro with the exception of the years from 1846 to 1854,

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n so long continuously ideni1
rom the admission of Illinois to the
;iury. The record of the name in its asso-

' iose with the death of the di.
.•uthropist, John Wickliff, on December
.•dmitted to the bar prior to the Civil war,

while tvv T brothers were distinguished as judges, law-

yers, sol men of affairs. His father was Wickliff Kitchell,

at one time attorney-general of Illinois. While the late Ca;
Kitchell gained high rank as a lawyer and stood close to the public
life and men of the state, he will probably be longest remembered
for his liberal benefactions bestowed in his home city of Pana.
There the name Kitchell will always be retained in local history and
future generations will associate it with some of the most familiar
public institutions.

The pioneer Illinois lawyer of this name was Wickliff Kitchell,
•'trsey May 21, 1789, and on the 29th of
i at Newark in that state to Miss Eli/a -
..r he started west, passing dowr
and located nearv Cincir
: ihern Indiana, where he was-
is first work as a practi-
! :>ry of Illinois, locat-
' .

bly. His brother Ji
•• of the first II1

. tional Convv; .id in Ka- in August, it-'

convention formulated the organi-- law uiader which Illinois lu
a state. For many years the only extant printed copy of the jour-
nal of this convention was in the possession of the Kitchell fa-
in 1905 the late Captain Kitchell presented this valuable historical
document to the state archives. In the October number of the
Illinois State Historical Society Journal of that year will be found
the facts concerning the presentation and also a reprint of
journal. Resuming the record of the public career of W;
Kitchell, he served as a member of the state senate fron,
:. Tn 1838 he removed to Hillsboro in Montgomery Co

following year \. ted attorn

•. office he held until the close of 1840, whei
to take his seat in the Twelfth Gene
at Hillsboro with the exception of the years from i.- .

,

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said that several families lived for years in his houses at Pana with-
out paying rent.

Few wealthy men have so high a sense of personal responsibility
for the wise use of their resources. His benefactions amounted to
much more than a mere tithe, and while his personal charities went
unrecorded he impressed his character on his larger benefactions and
thereby made them the more useful. In Pana the public library, the
hospital, the Y. M. C. A. and churches, all acknowledged at some
time his liberality.

Captain and Mrs. Kitchell always cooperated in their philan-
thropies. Mrs. Kitchell's father lived at Rosemond near Pana, and
as a memorial to Mr. Little's interest in behalf of the Rosemond
Grove Cemetery Association, Captain and Mrs. Kitchell in 1901
gave to that organization a beautiful gateway for the cemetery
entrance. In 1903 they presented to the cemetery association a
soldiers' monument, consisting of a granite pedestal, surmounted
by a bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln. The statue, sculptured by
Charles J. Mulligan of Chicago, shows Lincoln with right arm
uplifted above his head and representing him in the act of deliver-
ing the last words of the Gettysburg address. Captain Kitchell
suggested this pose of uplifted arm, though Lincoln is known to
have been very sparing in the use of gestures, from his distinct
recollection that Lincoln employed this movement on three occa-
sions when Captain Kitchell heard him speak. In addition to these
gifts that so materially add beauty and interest to the place, Captain
Kitchell and wife deeded about fifty acres of land to the original
ten acres in the cemetery grounds.

Subsequently Captain Kitchell paid $20,000 for the old fair
grounds just south of Pana, and deeded it to the city as a public
park. One of the stipulations is that no entrance fee shall ever
be charged except for the Pana Chautauqua. This park has been
extensively improved and beautified, and the citizens showed their
appreciation of the gift by naming it Kitchell Park in honor of
both Mr. and Mrs. Kitchell, while the avenue leading to the beau-
tiful park gate, which was erected by Captain Kitchell, is known as
Kitchell Avenue. They also bought the land west of the park and
subdivided it into a restricted residence district, where the houses and
improvements must conform to the character of the park sur-
roundings.

Captain and Mrs. Kitchell also donated a tract of thirty acres,
lying just north of the city, to the state as a site for an agricultural
experiment station, partly for the benefit of the numerous Kitchell
tenants but also to serve the needs of the entire farming community
and as an auxiliary to the agricultural courses in the local township
high school.

For years one of the crying needs in Illinois has been good
roads, and there was no more practical friend of this movement than
the late Captain Kitchell. A few years ago he and his wife donated

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the coal rights under 1,600 acres of land, valued at $65,000, to
Pana Township to be used by the trustees in the construction of
hard roads. But this was not all. The last time Captain Kitchell
appeared in public was at the dedication in November, 1914, of the
Robert Little Turnpike, a paved roadway, three and a half miles
long, in Rosemond Township, passing the Rosemond Grove Cem-
etery. This highway, which cost $56,000 to build, is a memorial
to Mrs. KitchelFs father.

Captain Kitchell probably had too many important interests to
allow him to indulge his social nature with membership in clubs
and fraternities. His only fraternal connection was with Pope Post
No. 411, G. A. R., and he was always interested in the old soldiers.
He was a strong republican, was a delegate to the national con-
vention in 1892, and later a McKinley presidential elector. His
residence in a strong democratic district prevented his election to
Congress in 1874. Few Illinois lawyers of the last half century
have played a more effective part in the varied activities of their
profession, business, public affairs, and philanthropy, than the late
Captain John W. Kitchell.

FREDERICK S. POTTER. In the thriving little City of Henry,
Marshall County, on the I2th of January, 1903, occurred the death
of Frederick S. Potter, who for nearly forty years had held prece-
dence as one of the able and representative members of the bar
of this section of the state and who had long controlled a large and
important law business. He had served with distinction in the office
of state's attorney, was one of the leaders of the Marshall County
contingent of the republican party, and was a citizen whose intrinsic
worth of character brought to him the fullest measure of popular
confidence and esteem, the while his ability and achievement made
him one of the influential citizens of the county that long repre-
sented his home and in which he rose through his own efforts to high
standing as a lawyer and as a citizen of utmost loyalty and public
spirit. Virtually his entire life was passed in Illinois, where he was
a scion of a sterling pioneer family.

Frederick Storey Potter was born in New Haven, Connecticut,
on the 3d of November, 1837, the family of which he was a repre-
sentative having been founded in New England in the colonial days
and the lineage being traced back to stanch English origin. He was
a child of three years when his parents immigrated to Illinois and
established their home in Christian County, whence, six years later,
they removed to Beardstown, Cass County, where they passed the
residue of their lives, as honored pioneers of the State of Illinois.
At Beardstown Frederick S. Potter was afforded the advantages of
the village schools, and in 1853, at the age of sixteen years, he left
his home town and established his residence at Henry, Marshall
County, where he continued to niaintain his home during the
remainder of his long and signally useful life. At Henry he assumed

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 791

a position as bookkeeper and clerk in the hardware store of Robert
Dawson, and after having been in the employ of Mr. Dawson three
years he engaged in the general merchandise business on his own
account, his success as a- merchant having been excellent but not hav-
ing satisfied his ambition, which was ever one of definite action. He
determined to prepare himself for the legal profession, and with
this laudable object in view he closed out his stock of merchandise
in 1862 and began reading law in the office and under the preceptor-
ship of the late Peleg S. Perley, a man of remarkably high intel-
lectual and professional attainments, one of the prominent early
members of the Marshall County bar and one with whom Mr. Pot-
ter was destined to be associated in the practice of law for a number
of years, ill health having finally compelled the removal of Mr. Per-
ley to a more genial climate and the closing days of his life having
been passed at Phoenix, Arizona, where he died in his sixty-ninth
year.

Prior to initiating the study of law Mr. Potter had manifested
his intrinsic loyalty and patriotism by zealous efiforts in recruiting a
company for service in the Civil war, but for some reason the serv-
ices of these men, about thirty in number, were not accepted, though
a company was recruited at Lacon, the county seat of Marshall
County, and became a part of the Eleventh Illinois Volunteer
Infantry.

With an alert and receptive mind, Mr. Potter made rapid prog-
ress in the absorption and assimilation of the science of jurisprud-
ence, and within two years he proved himself eligible for and was
admitted to the Illinois bar, in 1865. Soon afterward he formed a
partnership with his honored preceptor, Mr. Perley, and, as a local
paper has stated, "The law firm of Perley & Potter became one of
the institutions of Henry." Concerning. the career of Mr. Potter the
Henry Times gave an appreciative estimate at the time of his death,
and from the article are met, with certain paraphrase, the following
pertinent quotations:

"In 1872 Mr. Potter was elected state's attorney of Marshall
county, and the next summer the firm of Perley & Potter was dis-
solved. Mr. Potter established an office for himself, and this, with
an extensive practice and fine office business, he leaves to his son
Frederick W. Mr. Potter had a very high sense of duty and was
unbending in what he thought was right, his administration of the
office of state's attorney having made his name a terror to evil doers,
as he prosecuted without fear or favor. In the spring of 1897,
when the republican convention of this judicial circuit met to nomi-
nate the three judges, Mr. Potter received the unanimous vote of
the convention, by acclamation, but in the ensuing election was
defeated; the late Judge Thomas M. Shaw having been elected from
Marshall county.

"Mr. Potter was a man of much public spirit and was always
ready to aid with counsel, advice and definite co-operation in the

792 COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS

furtherance of measures projected for the general good of the com-
munity. He gave long and efficient service as a member of the
board of education of Henry, and for years was president of the
board of bridge directors of Marshall county. His talents and
energies were recognized and always placed him in the front rank.
He was a useful citizen, a devoted husband and father, and his
death deprives the bar of Marshall county of its oldest and one of
its most prominent members."

In 1858 Mr. Potter wedded Miss Louisa V. Dawson, whose
death occurred in 1871, the four children of this union having been
Frederick, who died in early childhood ; Ellsworth S., who was a
resident of the City of Peoria at the time of his death ; Louise, who
became the wife of Daniel S. Schneider and is now deceased ; and
Mrs. Ida Lane, who resides in the City of Chicago. In 1874 was
solemnized the marriage of Mr. Potter to Miss Sarah Isabella
House, who survived him. Of the three children of this union the
eldest is Frederick W., of whom individual mention is made in
paragraphs immediately following this article ; Gertrude is the wife
of Carl F. Hallfarth, of Henry ; and Sarah Elsie. Mrs. Potter was
a zealous communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church until her
death, which occurred at Altadena, California, September 30, 1906.

FREDERICK W. POTTER. In a profession that was signally digni-
fied and honored by the character and achievement of his father,
the late Frederick S. Potter, a memoir to whom immediately pre-
cedes this article, the subject of this review is well upholding the
prestige of the name which he bears, and he is one of the repre-
sentative members of the bar of Marshall County, which has been
his home from the time of his nativity. Here he was associated
in active general practice with his honored father until the death of
the latter, in 1903, since which time he has continued in control of
the large and important law business in which they had been coad-
jutors and to the scope of which he had added by his ability and
effective efforts. Mr. Potter is one of the progressive and popular
citizens of the thriving little City of Henry, which has been his
place of abode from the time of his birth, which here occurred on
the 5th of August, 1877. He continued to attend the public schools
of Henry until he had completed the curriculum of the high school
and finally he entered the law department of the great University
of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in which he was graduated as a member
of the class of 1900 and from which he received his degree of
Bachelor of Laws, with virtually coincident admission to the bar of
Illinois, where he appeared before the Supreme Court, at Springfield,
in June of that year, and by that tribunal was thus recognized as
eligible for the practice of his chosen profession. His novitiate in
his profession was served at Chicago, this state, where he remained
until September, 1902, and on the ist of the following month he
entered into professional partnership with his father, an association

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 793

that was soon to be terminated, as his honored sire was summoned
to the life eternal on the I2th of the following January, leaving to
the son the control of the large and substantial law business which
he had controlled for many years. Mr. Potter had proved his
resourcefulness both as a trial lawyer and well fortified counselor,
and in the spring of 1903 he was elected city attorney of Henry, a
position of which, by successive re-elections, he has continued the
valued incumbent to the present time, except for an interim from
1908 to May i, 1910. He was president of the board of education
of Henry in 1912-13 and takes a vital interest in all that touches
the civic and material welfare of his native city and county. His
allegiance is given without reservation to the republican party, and
he is affiliated with Henry Lodge, No. 119, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, as well as with the Delta Chi law fraternity of the
University of Michigan.

The nth of June, 1908, recorded the marriage of Mr. Potter to
Miss Mary Tray Harney, who was born in Henry Township, Mar-
shall County, and they have four children — Frederick W., Jr., Helen
M., Ned, and a baby girl not yet named, born June 4, 1915.

CHARLES TROUP. The part taken by Charles Troup in the
affairs of Danville has been that of an able and conscientious law-
yer, whose affiliations have always been straightforward and honor-
able, and.who during the last ten years has handled many cases with
masterly skill. Mr. Troup is one of the most popular members of
the Danville bar.

Charles Troup was born near Paris, Edgar County, Illinois,
January 6, 1879. His parents were Palestine and Amanda (Neeley)
Troup, the former a native of Lawrence County, Kentucky, and
brought to Illinois in 1856 by his father, Jacob Young Troup. Pales-
tine Troup grew up as a farmer, was a soldier in the Union army
with the Fortieth Indiana Infantry for eighteten months, towards
the close of the war, returned home to civilian life, and has since
followed the vocation of farming.

Charles Troup, like many men who have made a success in the
professions in the cities, spent his boyhood days on the farm, devel-
oped a hard and enduring constitution, at the same time attended the
public schools and the high school at Paris, began the study of law
in that city, and finished his professional education in the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Mr. Troop was admitted to the bar
December 22, 1903, and a few months later, on May i, 1904, began
his practice in Danville. He was alone until 1905, when he became
associated with the firm of Buckingham & Dysert, a relationship
which continued until March, 1906, when the firm of Buckingham
& Troup was formed. In 1908 Mr. Buckingham removed to Chi-
cago, and since that time Mr. Troup has been alone. Mr. Troup is
in love with his work, is a close student, a keen reasoner, and makes
an effective presentment of arguments before a court or jury, and

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outside of his professional work has never found time nor desire
for public office. He is a member of the Vermilion County Bar
Association, and his offices at Danville are in the Adams Building.
Mr. Troup was married December 25, 1906, at Homer, Illinois,
to Miss Mary A. Helm, daughter of George and Alice (Babb) Helm.
Mr. and Mrs. Troup have a hospitable home at 1008 North Walnut
Street in Danville. His fraternal affiliations are with the Knights of
Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in
politics he is a republican.

ARTHUR W. DESELM. In this comprehensive record concerning
the courts and lawyers of his native state, Judge DeSelm is eligible
for representation under each of the two postulates designated in
the title of the publication, for not only has he achieved distinct
prestige as an able attorney and counselor at law but he also served
three consecutive terms on the bench of the County Court of Kan-
kakee County, and he is known and honored as one of the loyal
and public-spirited citizens of the City of Kankakee. At a special
election July 28, 1914, he was elected circuit judge to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge Campbell in the Twelfth Judicial Dis-
trict, and on June 7, 1915, at the regular election together with
Judges Dibbell and Hooper he was re-elected without opposition for
the full term.

Judge Arthur Wilkins DeSelm was born at Wilmington. Will
County, Illinois, on the 6th of October, 1875, and is a son of John B.
and Maria (Wilkins) DeSelm, the latter now deceased. His
father, John B. DeSelm, is a veteran of the Civil war, and his
grandfather, Jacob DeSelm, was a veteran of the Mexican war and
also a drummer boy in the war of 1812. His great-grandfather,
Jesse, was a Quaker. The family is descended from the French
Huguenots and the paternal ancestor came from France and settled
on the east short of Maryland long prior to the American Revolu-
tion.

The public schools of Kankakee afforded to Judge DeSelm the
major part of his preliminary educational discipline, and after com-
pleting the curriculum of the high school he was enabled to follow
the line of his ambition and initiate the preparation for the profes-
sion of his choice, and that under the most favorable of auspices.
He entered the law department of the celebrated University of
Michigan, also doing extra work in the literary department, and in
this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1896,
his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws making him also
eligible for admission to the Michigan bar, a distinction that became
his at the time of graduation. Returning forthwith to Illinois and
gaining admission to the bar, he engaged in the general practice of
law in the City of Kankakee, where he soon built up a substantial
law business. He continued to devote close attention to practice,
with continuous and well ordered study of the involved science of

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 795

jurisprudence, until he was called from his work as a private prac-
titioner to give service on the bench of the County Court, to which
he was elected in November, 1902, and of which office he has con-
tinued the able incumbent until the present time, by re-election in
1906, 1910 and 1914. His rulings on the bench have shown the
excellent judicial timbre of his mind, as well as the breadth and
accuracy of his knowledge of law and precedent. The Judge served
as a member of the Kankakee Board of Education for two terms,
from August, 1907, until August, 1913, during all of which time he
was president thereof, and the exactions of his judicial office caused
him then to refuse to become a candidate for re-election.

Judge DeSelm is one of the appreciative and valued members of
the Kankakee County Bar Association and has the unbounded
esteem of his professional confreres in this section of the state.
He is a republican in politics and is affiliated with the Kankakee
lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

On the ist of September, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of
Judge DeSelm to Miss Lina B. Mead, who was born in Wisconsin,
and they have two children — H. Mead and Charles Bernard. Judge
DeSelm is a member of the official board of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church of Kankakee.

HON. DAVID H. GLASS. Pride in the notable achievements of
ancestry is commendable and often justifiable, but the quiet satis-
faction that comes from the realization of the success won by per-
sonal effort, must be far more compensating than any reflex glory of
kindred long since passed away. To bravely face an indifferent
world with empty pockets, on the threshold of manhood, and to be
obliged to seek every opportunity for financial and educational
advancement, has been the situation confronting many an Amer-
ican youth, who, later in life, has been able to look back along a
path of difficulty from a position of acknowledged eminence that
has been secured by his own perseverance and industry. A self-
made man in every respect is found in Hon. David H. Glass, who,
for many years has been active in the practice of law at Rushville
and for twelve years was state's attorney of Schuyler County, and
at present is serving as mayor at the county seat.

David H. Glass was born in Ripley County, Indiana, April n,
1854, and is a 'son of John and Ann (Major) Glass. Both parents
came to Indiana1 in youth, the father from Pennsylvania and the
mother from Ireland. They married in Ripley County and passed
the rest of their lives there, respected and esteemed by all who
knew them. John Glass was a farmer and continued in this industry
all his active life. He died in Ripley County in 1872, when aged
seventy years, having survived his wife seven years, her death
occurring in 1865, at the age of fifty years. Of their family of five
children, David H. was the first born.

796

Reared on the home farm, David H. Glass attended the district
schools and later had better advantages in the city schools at Craw-
fordsville, Indiana. For some years he was so circumstanced that
he was unable to make much progress along the line of his ambi-
tion, the study of law, but later became a student in the Iowa Uni-
versity, at Iowa City, and was graduated from the law department
in 1878. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in the same year and
immediately established himself in practice at Rushville, and this
city has ever since remained his home. In the practice of his pro-
fession he soon became a recognized factor as to ability and in 1884
he was elected state's attorney of Schuyler County, in which office
he served until 1896, during the entire course of his administration
showing the same indomitable energy and resolution that had trans-
ported him from the farm to the school room and thence into public
affairs and high official position. His attitude in relation to civic
affairs caused his fellow citizens to choose him for the office of
mayor, and they have made no mistake, for, with his progressive
ideas, many measures have been adopted for the betterment of
Rushville along every line.

Mayor Glass was united in marriage in December, 1881, to Miss
Sarah Whitenton, of Rushville, who is a daughter of Dr. R. M.
Whitenton, of this city. They have had two children, Ruth and
Charles. The former survives but the latter died in 1903. Mayor
Glass belongs to the Masonic fraternity. He is a man of sterling
character and in every relation of life commands respect, his faith-
fulness to duty in public life being equally commended with his
loyalty in affairs of private citizenship.

JUDGE FRANK D. RAMSAY. Formerly one of the justices of the
Appellate Court for the Third District, Frank D. Ramsay has had
an active service on the circuit bench since 1897.

Frank D. Ramsay was born at Prophetstown, Illinois, September
27, 1846, the son of Luther B. and Caroline M. (Smith) Ramsay.
His sister is Lucy R., the widow of the late George B. Adams of
Chicago.

Judge Ramsay acquired his early education in the public schools
of Prophetstown and the seminary at Dixon, and at the age of
twenty took up the study of law in the office of Frederick Sackett
of Sterling, being admitted to the bar in 1868. He began active
practice at Morrison, and has been continuously identified with the
Whiteside County bar upwards of fifty years, with the exception of
two years spent in practice at Kansas City. From 1895 to 1897 he
was associated with Samuel K. McCalmont under the firm name of
Ramsay & McCalmont. In 1897 Mr. Ramsay was elected judge of
the Circuit Court, and in 1905 the Supreme Court assigned him to
the Appellate Court for the Third District, where he remained for
about four years, when he resigned to return to the circuit work.

In 1872 he married Miss Louisa McKenzie, daughter of William

COURTS AND LAWYERS OF ILLINOIS 797

R. and Harriet (Martin) McKenzie. There are two sons, Luther
R., an attorney at Morrison, now associated with Mr. McCalmont ;
and Robert M., of Chicago. Judge Ramsay is affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity.

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE WRIGHT, SR. In Central Illinois three
men have borne in succession the above name, and always with an
honorable distinction that comes from success in a calling and wise
and efficient public service. For nearly half a century the name
has been identified with the Stark County bar, and since the death
of the late Judge W. W. Wright his son of the same name has con-
tinued practice at Toulon.

Judge William Wilberforce Wright was born at Canton, Illinois,
September 10, 1842, and died at the age of seventy years on Septem-
ber 30, 1912. He was the second son of Captain William Wilber-
force and Anne Matilda (Creighton) Wright. The Wright family
had settled in New England in 1665, and some of its members par-
ticipated in the struggle for independence. The first of the name
came from England. Captain Wright, who was a native of Han-
over, New Hampshire, moved out to Illinois in the early days,
entered the.Union army during the Civil war, and as captain of the
company that went from London gave his life for the cause of his
country. Captain Wright's wife was of Scotch-Irish family, and a
native of County Cavan, being one of the Creightons of Crum Castle,
an honored and well-known family in that section of Ireland.

The late Judge Wright finished his education in the Galva High
School, remained on his father's farm near Toulon until reaching
his majority. In 1862 he took up the study of law in the office of
Miles A. Fuller at Toulon, but two years later, in 1864, enlisted in
the 1 39th Regiment of Illinois Infantry, a hundred-day regiment.
He was a sergeant, and remained in service nearly six months.
Voluntarily continuing with the troops after the close of his term
of enlistment until the end of the war was assured. Returning home
to Illinois, he finished his law studies, and was admitted to the bar
at a term of the Supreme Court held at Mount Vernon in November,
1866. From that time until his death forty-six years later he was
in practice at Toulon. He was considered one of the most upright
and just attorneys of Stark County, was not only faithful to his
clients but just to his opponents, and it was his custom whenever
possible to effect a settlement of differences outside rather than to
bring his clients into court. For six years Judge Wright was mas-
ter in chancery in Stark County, and for twenty-five years county
judge, at the same time carrying on his practice in the higher courts.
Of his work as a lawyer and judge one of the prominent members
of the Stark County bar, who studied law in Judge Wright's office,
said: "His long career as a judge is a shining path of honor. He
was clear and profound in his knowledge of the law, which he
interpreted wisely by the light of clear reason and the test of the

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golden rule. He always made bias and sudden impulse wait upon
his cooler judgment. The pleasant feature of his official life is
that he was appreciated by those whom he served ; after a long and
honorable career he retired from office against the people's will.
He reasoned and acted just and true in his daily walks with his
fellow men and he could not be other than a just and upright judge
when interpreting the written law."

Judge Wright was a republican, an ardent admirer of Lincoln,
and a contemporary and friend of Robert G. Ingersoll. When the
latter was seeking nomination for governor of the State of Illinois,
one of his friends approached Mr. Wright, asking for the latter's
support. The answer was: "Tell Bob that if he will promise to
stop this profane tirade against the church and the Bible, I will
help him all I can ; if not, I am opposed to his nomination as gover-
nor of this state." Judge Wright was a delegate from the Peoria
district to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1884,
and in 1886 came within one vote of the nomination for representa-
tive to Congress, being defeated largely on account of his well-
known temperance sentiments. Judge Wright was much interested
in the welfare of his home community, and especially in educational
matters. He was a member of the Toulon Debating Society, an
organization which brought many noted men to the town, such as
Wendel Phillips and Theodore Tilden. He served as president of
the high school board of education and as a member of the board
of trustees of Toulon Academy. Religion had a prominent place
in Judge Wright's life, and with him it was not only a matter of
abstract belief, but governed and regulated his daily practice. He
had joined the Toulon Congregational Church November 13. 1853,
while his uncle, Samuel G. Wright, was pastor, and on the fiftieth
anniversary of the church in 1896 Judge Wright delivered the his-
torical address. He was trustee, clerk, treasurer and for nearly
thirty years before his death a deacon in the church, and was also
much interested in the Sabbath school and served as a superinten-
dent.

Judge Wright was married May 19, 1875, to Mary Harrison
Hopkins, daughter of Hon. Joel W. Hopkins, of Granville, Putnam
County. Their children were Eleanor Matilda, William Wilber-
force, Helen Gertrude, and Mary, the last dying in infancy.

From the many tributes of esteem and respect that were ex-
pressed at the time of his death, the following quotation will serve
to give a more complete summary of his life and character: "No
man was more modest in his behavior, unassuming in his aspirations ;
always a thorough gentleman, sincere and courageous, yielding to
no temptation of temporary expediences in defense of his conduct.
He was ever keenly alive to the best and highest interests of his
fellow men. In his church relations he was faithful to the service
of the church and the doctrines of the Bible, and had a religious
experience that shed over^his life a halo of hope whose effulgence

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made light the gloom in the lives of others. He lived a life that may
well become the aim of every man ; it was one of strong and abiding
faith in the eternal verities of religion and he could say with Paul,
the old soldier of the cross, 'I have fought a good fight ; I have fin-
ished my course ; henceforth there is left for me a crown of right-
eousness.'

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE WRIGHT, JR. A son of the late Judge
W. W. Wright, of Toulon, William Wilberforce Wright, Jr., the
third to bear that honored name in succession, was born at Toulon,
Stark County, August 12, 1878, and has been an active member of
the Illinois bar for the past ten years.

Mr. Wright received his education in the schools at Toulon,
attained the Worcester Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts, and
was graduated in June, 1904, from the law department of the Uni-
versity of Illinois. He became associated with his father in the
general practice of law at Toulon, and since his father's death in
1912 has handled a large practice which has accumulated and been
intrusted to 'members of the Wright family for nearly fifty years.
Mr. Wright has been admitted to the United States courts. He is
a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, of the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity, of Toulon Lodge, No. 93, A. F. & A. M. ; Wyo-
ming Chapter, R. A. M., and Kewanee Knights Templar. Politically
he is a republican, and in 1912 was a republican alternate delegate to
the national convention in Chicago. In addition to his law practice
Mr. Wright takes an active interest in agricultural matters, operates
and lives on the Hillcrest Stock Farm at Toulon, Illinois. In October,
1909, he married Phebe L. Robins. Their two sons are: William
Wilberforce IV, and John Robins.

JOHN HAMILTON WILLIAMS. One of the oldest names con-
nected with the Adams County bar is that of Williams, which has
been borne successively by members of three generations.

The late John Hamilton Williams, a former judge of the Circuit
Court, was born at.Quincy April 12, 1833. His father, Judge Archi-
bald Williams, had the distinction of being the first lawyer to prac-
tice in Adams County as a resident lawyer. He was born in Ken-
tucky, came to Illinois in the very early days, and was actively iden-
tified with the bar at Quincy until about the beginning of the Civil
War. President Lincoln at that time appointed him judge of the
Federal Court of Kansas, and he was on the district Federal bench in
that state until his death in 1863. Judge Archibald Williams mar-
ried Nancy Kemp, also of Kentucky. She died at Quincy in 1864.

The late John H. Williams, who was the oldest in a family of
nine children, attended school in Quincy, and also in the University
of Missouri. Admitted to practice, he at once took up the law at
Quincy, and was a prominent lawyer there until elected judge of
the Circuit Court. He held that office and presided with dignity

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over the District Court from 1879 to l&&5- After that he resumed
his private practice, and for several years lived almost retired from
active affairs. Judge Williams died in September, 1914. He had
active affiliations with the County Bar Association and the State Bar
Association, and was well known among all the older attorneys of
Southern Illinois during the last century.

Judge John H. Williams married Rebecca Walton, who died in
August, 1914, at the age of seventy-five. Her parents, Isom and
Ann (Dickerson) Walton, came from Virginia. Of the seven chil-
dren of the late Judge Williams and wife the only son is Archibald
Williams, while the daughters are Miss Sallie R. ; Mrs. Margaret
Kemp; Mrs. Anna Crittenden; Mrs. Caroline Loevy, and Mrs.
Martha Belle Franklin. The youngest child, a boy, John W., died in
1875, aged one year and eleven months.

WILLIAM E. LOWE. The professional ability and resourceful-
ness of Mr. Lowe have been effectively manifested in his service
as state's attorney of Shelby County, to which office he was elected
in the fall of 1912 and in which he is serving his first term with
characteristic zeal and integrity of purpose. He is one of the repre-
sentative lawyers of his native county and has been engaged in the
practice of his profession at Shelbyville, the county seat, since his
admission to the bar, in 1905.

Mr. Lowe was born on the homestead farm of his parents, in
Shelby County, Illinois, on the 6th of February, 1873, and he is a
scion of sterling pioneer families of this state. He is a son of
James and Martha (Blackwell) Lowe, both of whom were likewise
born and reared in Oconee Township, Shelby County, where the
Lowe and Blackwell families were founded in the early pioneer
days, the two having settled on adjoining tracts of land and become
successful exponents of the agricultural industry. John Lowe,
grandfather of the present state's attorney of Shelby County, assisted
in the civic and industrial development of this section of the state
and here continued to reside until his death. James Lowe was
reared and educated in Shelby County and had the distinction of
representing the same as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil
war. He enlisted as private in Company F, One Hundred and
Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was recruited in Shelby
and Macon counties, and with this command he served during virtu-
ally the entire time of the great conflict through which the integrity
of the nation was perpetuated. After the war he continued to be
engaged in agricultural pursuits and stockgrowing during the re-
mainder of his career, and he was a well known and highly esteemed
citizen of this section of Illinois at the time of his death, which
occurred in 1899, on his homestead farm, in Shelby County. His
wife survived him by more than a decade and was summoned to
eternal rest in 1912, at the age of sixty years. Of the two children
William E., of this review, is the elder, and his sister, Mrs. Walter

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Clarke, is a resident of Everett, Washington, where her husband
is engaged in the banking business.

William E. Lowe acquired his early education by attending the
district schools during the winter terms, when his services were not
in requisition in connection with the work of the home farm, and
in addition to attending the public schools he took a course of study
in a commercial college at Quincy, this state. For a time he was
engaged in teaching in the district schools, and incidentally he began
to give close attention to the reading of law, as he had determined
ultimately to fit himself for the vocation in which he has achieved
definite success. Finally he entered the law office of Walter I.
Manny, of Mou-nt Sterling, under whose preceptorship he continued
his technical studies and practical discipline until he was admitted
to the bar in 1905. He forthwith engaged in the general practice
of law at Shelbyville, and the intervening years have recorded to
his credit large and worthy achievement in the work of his profes-
sion. In 1912 Mr. Lowe was elected state's attorney of his native
county and received a majority that bore significant testimony to
his hold upon popular confidence and esteem. In this important
office he has given a most vigorous and satisfactory administration
and made an excellent record as a public prosecutor and zealous
protector of the best interests of the county and its people.

Mr. Lowe accords staunch allegiance to the democratic party,
and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men and various other
civic organizations.

On the 1 2th of September, 1899, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Lowe to Miss Carrie M. Willard, daughter of P. H. Willard,
a well known citizen of Rushville, Schuyler County, this state, and
Mrs. Lowe is a popular factor in the social activities of Shelbyville.

ALVAH S. GREEN. The junior member of the prominent Gales-
burg legal firm of Williams, Lawrence, Welsh & Green, Alvah S.
Green, finished his law studies under the eminent direction of the
senior member of the firm, and has been in active practice at Gales-
burg for fifteen years.

Born at Castile, New York, January 16, 18/2, he is the son of
Allan A. and Oliva F. (Phelps) Green. Up to the age of fourteen
he attended public school, then came to Galesburg and spent two
years in high school, and in 1886 entered Knox College, from which
he was graduated Bachelor of Science in 1890. In 1896 he began
his studies in the office and under the direction of E. P. Williams,
and three years later, on April 6, 1899, was admitted to the bar at
Ottawa. Soon after beginning practice he was admitted to partner-
ship in the firm of Williams, Lawrence & Welsh, and has since
become one of the able members of that legal combination. The
firm represent the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway and the
Santa Fe Railway and many other banks and corporations.

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Mr. Green is a member of the county, state and American bar
associations, and in politics though a republican has cared little for
the rewards of office. He is a member of the University Club in
Chicago, the Galesburg Business Men's Club, the Country Club,
and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
For the past twelve years he has been secretary of Knox College,
and is a member of its board of trustees, and for a similar time has
been a trustee of the Galesburg Hospital.

On August 29, 1903, he married Alice Dean, daughter of Oliver
H. Dean, of Kansas City. Their two sons are named Oliver Dean
and Alvah S., Jr. Mrs. Green was educated in the Kansas City
schools and finished at Ogontz College. She takes a prominent part
in club work. The family reside at 862 North Prairie Street.

HON. GEORGE W. PATTON. A man of intellectual force and great
legal learning, of clarity of mind and of judicial temperament, is
found in Hon. George W. Patton, who, for the fourth time, has been
elected to the bench of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. His long con-
tinuance in office emphasizes his possession of ability and intellectual
vigor, industry, sober judgment, open mindedness, fairness and
efficiency. For thirty-two years Judge Patton has been a resident
of Pontiac. He was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania. His
parents were Samuel R. and Jane Patton, who, in 1851, removed
from Pennsylvania to Wood ford County, Illinois. The father im-
proved a farm through persistent industry and was a man of the
sturdiest kind of honesty, and all his efforts were ably seconded by
his wife, who, as the resourceful and devoted mother of eleven chil-
dren, so impressed them that her memory yet is an influence in the
lives of those who yet survive.

An infant at the time his parents came to Illinois, George W.
Patton, in all essentials, is an Illinoisan, and his name is familiar in
the law over most of the state. In boyhood he gave his father assist-
ance on the home farm, which was interrupted during the winter
time when he attended the country schools. After attending the
State Normal University for eight terms and teaching graded schools
for two years Mr. Patton entered the law office of Hay, Green &
Littler, prominent attorneys of Springfield, as a student, in further-
ance of his long cherished ambition to become a lawyer. Later he
successfully passed an oral examination before the Supreme Court,
and was admitted to the bar. He began the active practice
of law in 1881 at Fairbury, Illinois, from which place in
search of a wider professional field, he came to Pontiac in 1883,
where his good judgment was soon justified, for within ten years he
became one of the leading lawyers in his judicial circuit. As a
lawyer he exemplified the qualities which, for so many years, have
made him admirable as a judge. He has practically no political
ambitions, being devoted to his profession, and in 1897 he was chosen
one of the judges of his circuit of five counties, and his service on

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the circuit bench has been continuous ever since. He was re-elected
in 1903, again in 1909 and once more in 1915. His judicial service
has been in perfect harmony with his record as a man and as a
lawyer, and he has won respect, confidence and admiration by his
fearlessness, his discrimination and his perfect impartiality.

While inevitably, in his position, Judge Patton has been com-
pelled to give close and continuous attention to the law, he has found
time and opportunity to familiarize himself with the best literature
of the day and with the great questions which his own and other
countries are endeavoring to solve in different ways. From minute
observations and logical deduction, as becomes a man of trained
faculties, he has a broad vision and his conception of personal and
public responsibility is patriotic and commendable.

HON. CHARLES J. GEHLBACH. One of the youngest and most
efficient members of the bench in the state, Charles J. Gehlbach,
judge of the County Court of Logan County, has spent his entire
career within, the borders of this county, where he has established
an excellent reputation both as a lawyer and jurist. In the latter
capacity he has evinced a broad knowledge of law and equity, fine
executive ability in the dispatch of business, and a conscientious
regard for the rights of all classes of litigants.

Judge Gehlbach is a native son of Logan County, and was born
February 21, 1880, on his father's farm, his parents being Jacob and
Louise (Eberle) Gehlbach. His father was a well-known and indus-
trious German farmer of Logan County, where he was content to
pass his career in the peaceful pursuits of agriculture, never aspir-
ing to the acquirement of honors other than those which came from
straightforward citizenship and the acquirement of a comfortable
home and property. There were seven children in the family. The
early education of the future county judge of Logan County was
somewhat limited in character, for his father was somewhat old-
fashioned and was possessed of the belief that too great a mental
training would mar the youth's future prospects and would have
the tendency to induce him to take up life in the city and neglect
the homestead. Therefore, after but short attendance, Judge Gehl-
bach left the country school when only eleven years of age and
turned his undivided attention to assisting his father in the cultiva-
tion of the land. He had not, however, given up his ambition for a
career other than that of a farmer, and immediately after the death
of his father, in 1896, and when the youth was sixteen years old,
re-entered the public school at Lincoln, Illinois, from which he was
graduated in 1901. During the year 1906, having decided upon the
law as the field in which to work out his life's success, he became
a student in the office of King & Miller, in addition to which he read
law under the preceptorship of Beach & Trapp, well-known attorneys
of Lincoln. Succeeding this he entered the Bloomington Law School
of the Illinois Wesleyan, at Bloomington, Illinois, from which insti-

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tution he graduated in 1908. Admitted to the bar in November,
1908, Mr. Gehlbach at once entered practice at Lincoln, where he
opened an office and where he has since continued to make his home.
Success came to him almost from the start, and the young lawyer
rapidly rose in public favor and confidence, until November, 1912,
he was elected judge of the County Court of Logan County. His
judicial duties during his first term of office were discharged with
fearlessness and impartiality, and in November, 1914, when he
became the candidate for re-election on the democratic ticket, he de-
feated his opponent, J. D. Hill, by a majority of 387 votes. In
addition to the duties of this office, Judge Gehlbach performs those
of judge of the Probate and Juvenile courts, and more than one-
half of his time is given to care of, and advice to dependent and
neglected children. He is a member of the Logan County Bar Asso-
ciation, and is widely and favorably known among Illinois lawyers.
In fraternal association he is affiliated with the Masonic order, in
which he has numerous friends.

On April 20, 1904, Judge Gehlbach was united in marriage with
Miss Cecelia Grace Primm, a daughter of Dr. Thomas Primm, of
Logan County, and the children born to this union are three in num-
ber: Priscilla P., H. Louise and Grace. He has always been a
democrat in his political belief.

C. EVERETT SMITH. As compared with many of the biographies
in this work of men who have attained eminence and reputation in
the legal profession, C. Everett Smith, state's attorney of Logan
County, is comparatively a beginner in the field. Yet of none of the
younger generation may it more truthfully be said that the founda-
tion for whatever of success the future may hold in store, has been
more substantially laid than in his case. A product of the farm,
he early decided upon a legal career, and with this end in view assid-
uously applied himself to the mastering of the intricacies of the law,
so that when he entered upon his professional duties, he was thor-
oughly prepared to take his place among the men of a locality which
has never lacked for able representatives of law and jurisprudence.

C. Everett Smith was born March 10, 1878, on a farm in DeWitt
County, Illinois, one of the two children of William A. and Ida C.
(Hunter) Smith. His father was a prosperous farmer of DeWitt
County, and there in the public schools the youth secured the rudi-
ments of his education. Later he attended Lake Forest Academy,
and following this read law under the able preceptorship of James
T. Hoblit, of Lincoln, completing his studies in the Chicago Law
School, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1900.
In October of that year he opened an office and began practice at
Lincoln, which city has since continued to be his home. Mr. Smith
soon attracted to himself a very desirable practice and began to
take an active participation in public affairs, and in November, 1908,
was elected on the democratic ticket to the office of state's attorney

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of Logan County. The capable and faithful manner in which he
discharged the duties of that position led to his renomination and
re-election in November, 1912, and he has continued to fully vindi-
cate the faith and confidence placed in his ability and integrity. Mr.
Smith is a member of the Logan County Bar Association and the
Illinois State Bar Assocaition. He has shown himself a master of
the details and fundamental principles of the law, is 'logical and in-
cisive in his arguments and presentation of cases, is straightforward
in his manner and methods and effective in his delivery. Fraternally,
he is affiliated with all the Masonic bodies, and also holds member-
ship in the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. As a politician, he has always supported the candidates and
policies of the democratic party.

Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Miss Jessie M. Anderson,
of Logan County, a daughter of George A. Anderson, and to this
union there have been born two daughters: Mary J. and Virginia
A. Mr. and "Mrs. Smith are consistent members of the Presbyterian
Church. The pleasant family home is situated at No. 143 West
Ninth Street, Lincoln.

HON. EDWIN C. PERKINS. That thorough preparation in the law
and more or less professional experience open the way for a public
career, has been so often proved in Illinois as to be almost proverbial,
and it may be further admitted that the better the lawyer, the more
sagacious and useful the legislator. A case in point may be men-
tioned when reference is made to the Hon. Edwin C. Perkins, of
Lincoln, Illinois, whose achievements as a thrice-elected member of
the Illinois General Assembly have added laurels to a name already
well known to the state bar.

Edwin C. Perkins was born in West Virginia, May i, 1860, one
of the seven children of Enoch and Elizabeth (Salsberry) Perkins.
The father, a West Virginian, came with his family to Illinois in
1860, and for many years was engaged in successful agricultural
operations here, but at this time is retired and living in the state
of California. Edwin C. Perkins was five years of age when he
accompanied his parents to Illinois, and here he was reared on the
farm, securing his early education in the public schools. Subse-
quently he took a thorough scientific course in the Normal School,
at Valparaiso, Indiana, and entered upon his career as a teacher in
the public schools of Logan County, Illinois, a vocation which en-
listed his energies for a period of six years. In the meantime he
assiduously applied himself during his spare time to the study of
law, and after some preparation in the office of Harts & Humphrey
was admitted to the bar November 22, 1889.

Mr. Perkins at once entered upon the practice of his chosen
calling at Lincoln, and this city has since continued as his home
and as the headquarters of his professional labors. He has built up

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an excellent practice of the most representative class, and has been
connected with much important litigation in the state courts, his
success in which entitles him to a place among the leading legists of
his county. During a long period of years Mr. Perkins has been
connected with the public life of the county. As early as 1890
he was elected city attorney of Lincoln, a capacity in which he served
efficiently for two years, and subsequently became master in chan-
cery, serving as such one term. In 1908 he was first elected a mem-
ber of the Illinois Legislature, and his efficient work in that body
caused his re-election in 1910. In the "landslide" of 1912 he met
with defeat at the polls, but that this election did not really show
the real temper of the people was shown in 1914 when he was
again elected a member of the Legislature. He is known as one of
the active, working members of that body, jealously guarding the
interests of his constituents and being the author of some very bene-
ficial legislation. Mr. Perkins is a thirty-second degree Mason, an
Elk, a Pythian and a Woodman of the World, and is professionally
connected with the Logan County Bar Association. He has always
been a stanch adherent of the principles and policies of the republican
party.

Mr. Perkins was married to Miss Josephine Niebuhr, a daughter
of Simon Niebuhr, and to this union there have been born six chil-
dren. Mr. Perkins is a member of the Presbyterian Church, while
Mrs. Perkins belongs to the Methodist Episcopal faith.

HON. JOHN L. BEVAN. In summing up the prominent men of
Logan County, Illinois, it is a subject of remark that in this list
the law is so generally represented, this profession more than any
other contributing to able and effective citizenship. Not only does
the county seat show a balance in this direction, but lesser communi-
ties lead in the same way and a case in point is found in Hon. John
L. Bevan, who, for many years, has been most conspicuous in the
public life of Atlanta, identified honorably with the stable business
interests of the town and again and again having been chosen to
serve in high official capacities.

John L. Bevan, senior member of the law firm of Bevan & Bevan,
father and son, was born in Illinois, December 15, 1845. His parents
were Samuel and Elizabeth (Downey) Bevan, whose family con-
tained seven children. Reared on his father's farm, John L. attended
the public schools nearby and still later became a student in Brown
University (Rhode Island), and completed a course in law at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, graduating from the former institution in 1872
and from the latter in 1874. In the latter year he was admitted to
the bar both in Michigan and Illinois, and then established himself
in Logan County, where he has since remained. For a number of
years Mr. Bevan practiced alone, but in 1909 admitted his son.
Frank S. Bevan, to partnership, since when the firm style has been
Bevan & Bevan, comprising one of the strongest law firms in the

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county, and one that has successfully handled some of the most
important cases of litigation here for years. Not alone have his
professional duties claimed Mr. Bevan for he has other important
accomplishments to his credit, including business enterprise and
political office. He was one of the two organizers of the People's
Bank, of Atlanta, and since its founding has served on its directing
board. In politics his sentiments have identified him always with
the republican party and on numerous occasions he has been called
to public office and has served with honest efficiency as city attorney,
as alderman and also as mayor. During his administration of
municipal affairs, Atlanta enjoyed unexampled prosperity and his
public-spirited efforts are well remembered.

Mr. Bevan was married to Miss Armana S. Thomas, who is a
daughter of Evan J. Thomas, of Welsh extraction. They have
three sons: Lynn J., who is a civil engineer is a resident of the
City of New York ; Carl J., who is cashier of the Exchange Bank,
Genoa, Illinois, and Frank S., who is associated with his father in
the practice o'f law, is a graduate of the Chicago Law University.
Bom members of the firm of Bevan & Bevan are members of the
Logan County Bar Association, and J. L. Bevan belongs to the
fraternal order of Knights of Pythias and Frank S. to the Masons.

HON. T. T. BEACH. Honored as the dean of the Logan County
bar and in many additional connection, Hon. T. T. Beach, senior
member of the prominent law firm of Beach & Trapp, of Lincoln,
Illinois, is numbered with the representative men of this section of
the state. He has seen life in many phases, as a lad on the battle-
field, as a trade worker, as a student and professional man, and in
every situation has won deserved approbation.

T. T. Beach was born in New York, December 18, 1843. His
parents, natives of the State of New Jersey, were Phineas H. and
Martha (Meldrum) Beach, the former of whom was a well-known
contractor for many years. There were eleven children in the
family and all but one survived infancy and developed into1 sub-
stantial people. While attending the public schools it is probable
that Mr. Beach's practical father urged his son to learn a self-sup-
porting trade, for he became, before he enlisted for service in the
Civil war, a competent carpenter. He was only eighteen years old
when he became a member of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regi-
ment of New York Volunteer Infantry and, despite his youth, won
distinction as a soldier and his honorable discharge at the close of
the war, in 1865. Circumstances by that time had somewhat changed
his outlook on life and he determined upon a professional future,
and so devoted his time to the study of the law that he was grad-
uated with his degree in 1870, from Lincoln University. In the
following year he was admitted to the bar, established himself in
practice at Lincoln, Illinois, and this city has continued his chosen
home ever since.

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Mr. Beach was married first to Isabel W. Swing, May 3d, 1870,
who died in October, 1878, leaving two daughters, Bessie, who mar-
ried William D. Walters, of Easton, Illinois, and Flora, who still
resides with her father. His second marriage was to Grace A.
Turnbolt, daughter of Darlington and Susan Turnbolt, on August
22d, 1882. Mrs. Beach is a member of the Christian Science
Church, Miss Flora belongs to the Presbyterian Church, and Mr.
Beach, being liberal in his religious views, contributes generously to
any and all churches situated in Lincoln.

In 1874, Mr. Beach took Joseph Hodnett in partnership with him,
in the practice of law, and the partnership of Beach & Hodnett con-
tinued unchanged from that date until 1901, when Harold F. Trapp
entered the firm as a partner, and the firm of Beach, Hodnett &
Trapp continued as such until 1909, when Mr. Hodnett withdrew
from the firm and the firm has since continued in the name of
Beach & Trapp.

The firm so constituted for many years represented exceedingly
important clients and took part professionally in practically all im-
portant litigation for the last thirty years, in Logan County.

Mr. Beach has also served most acceptably in public office, being
state's attorney from 1872 to 1876, during stirring days in Logan
County, and was Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court of Logan
County from 1873 to 1879.

Always supporting the democratic ticket, Mr. Beach is a valued
factor in political circles, although no seeker for preferment for
himself. Public interests, however, interest him, and as an honest
citizen he endeavors to use his influence in what he deems the right
direction as becomes a lover of his country, having proved his loyalty
many years ago in a very definite way. He assisted very materially
in the founding of the Illinois State Bar Association and his inter-
est in this body has never lessened, and he is also a valued member of
the Logan County Bar Association. For many years he has been
identified with the Masonic fraternity. In him is found a firm
friend of education, and many wise measures were adopted during
his ten years of service as a member of the school board of Lincoln.
His library and his congenial friends afford him many pleasurable
hours, and among the latter are the members of the Logan County
Historical Society, of which organization he was elected president
in 1912.

HAROLD F. TRAPP. Perhaps no profession is more instrumental
in promoting those things which make for good citizenship, for
stable industries and for the permanence and justice that make peo-
ple tolerant of each other under widely differing circumstances, than
is that of the law, hence it is not remarkable that ambitious and
liberally educated young men turn to it for a career in life. It opens
many doors to them and its emoluments often are entirely satisfac-
tory. The Logan County bar has many members whose ability has

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won appreciation at home and approval in other sections, and in this
connection mention may be made of a well-known lawyer of the
county seat, Harold F. Trapp, junior member of the law firm of
Beach & Trapp, and a member of the Logan County Bar Associa-
tion.

Harold F. Trapp was born at Springfield, Illinois, October 17,
1877, and is one of a family of five children born to his parents,
Frederick and Emma (Rubly) Trapp. The family removed to Lin-
coln, Illinois, December 31, 1885. The public schools of his home
afforded excellent educational training and his opportunities were
extended to the University of Illinois, from which institution he was
graduated in 1899. After his graduation from the College of Law,
University of Illinois, Mr. Trapp studied in the office of Messrs.
Beach & Hodnett of Lincoln until his admission to the bar in April,
in 1900. He ^engaged in the practice of his profession in Lincoln
from the time of his admission, being city attorney in 1900 and 1901.
May i, 1901, he became a member of the firm with which he had
been associated, under the firm name of Beach, Hodnett & Trapp,
which association continued until June i, 1909, when Mr. Joseph
Hodnett retired from the practice of law, and the practice was con-
tinued thereafter in the firm name of Beach & Trapp.

Although affiliated with the democratic party and ever loyal to
its interests, he has ' seldom accepted any political recognition.
As a lawyer he is considered able and conscientious, and his firm
represents many important clients.

Mr. Trapp was united in marriage with Miss Lillian Aitchison,
and they have two children, Harold F. and Robert N. The family
belongs to the Presbyterian Church. In addition to his professional
affiliations, Mr. Trapp belongs to the fraternal order of Elks. As
a citizen he is alert and public-spirited and he makes use of his
natural talents and his educational acquirements in a way creditable
to himself and his community. Mr. Trapp and family reside at No.
619 North Union Street, Lincoln, Illinois.

HON. THOMAS M. HARRIS. A leading member of the Illinois
judiciary is found in the person of Hon. Thomas M. Harris, judge
of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial District, who was ap-
pointed in February, 1914, to a position on the appellate bench of .the
Fourth District, to succeed the late Judge O. P. Thompson. A
member of the bench and bar of Illinois for more than twenty-two
years, Judge Harris has advanced steadily in his profession by the
reason of the possession of superior talents and abilities, and both
as legist and jurist his record is an eminently honorable one.

Like many of his fellow-members on the Illinois bench, Judge
Harris is a product of the farm, having been born on his father's
homestead in Macoupin County, Illinois, October 21, 1865, one of
the four children born to his parents, John L. and Susan (Lake)
Harris. His father, also a native of Illinois, spent many years in

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this state in agricultural pursuits, but in his declining- years moved
to Iowa, and there passed away July n, 1891. Thomas M. Harris
was reared on the home farm and secured his rudimentary educa-
tion in the public schools of his native county. This was supple-
mented by attendance at the Valparaiso (Indiana) Normal School,
now known as Valparaiso University, and, having decided upon the
law as his field of effort, next entered the office of Blinn & Hoblit,
under whose preceptorship he read law until his admission to the
bar in March, 1893. Immediately thereafter he entered the office
of E. D. Blinn, as a clerk, and in January, 1895, was admitted to
partnership with Mr. Blinn, with whom he continued to practice
until November, 1904, when Mr. Harris was elevated to the bench
as judge of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial District of
the State of Illinois. He was re-elected to that office in 1909, and in
June, 1915. His assignment to the appellate bench in February,
1914, has been noted.

An unswerving republican in his political views, Judge Harris
has long taken an active participation in the activities of his party.
He has served on several occasions as chairman oi the Logan County
Central Committee of his party and as a member of the Republican
State Central Committee in the year of 1900. Professionally he is
connected with the Logan County Bar Association and the Illinois
State Bar Association, and his fraternal affiliations include member-
ship in the Masonic order, in which he has reached the thirty-second
degree, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks. As a lawyer, Judge Harris was known as
an able practitioner, with a profundity of legal knowledge, whose
success in numerous important cases freely entitled him to consider-
ation among the leading legists of his day and locality ; as a judge
he has distinguished himself by the fairness of his decisions, the
courtesy of his manner, and the improvements in procedure which
have facilitated the work of his court.

Judge Harris was married to Miss Belle Johnston, of Logan
County, a daughter of the late William and Margaret Johnston,
early and prominent settlers of Logan County. Three children have
been born to this union, namely : Homer B., Dean J. and Margaret
E. Mrs. Harris and their children are all members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

Louis O. WILLIAMS. The bar of DeWitt County is composed
largely of young men and is a talented body, in which to secure pre-
eminence indicates the possession of unusual qualifications for the
law. Among the most successful is Louis O. Williams, who is
honorably and efficiently serving as state's attorney. He also enjoys
a large and lucrative private practice.

Louis O. Williams is a native of DeWitt County, Illinois. He
was born February 22, 1874, being the eldest child of James C.
and Catherine (Davenport) Williams. James C. Williams is a

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native of Indiana, and is a descendant of the old Williams family of
Virginia. His direct ancestor of the Virginia Williams family was
George Slaughter Williams who emigrated to Kentucky after the
close of the Revolution. James C. Williams was a son of Simon
Williams and Sally (Spilman) Williams, who were married in
Allen County, Kentucky, September 26, 1836. Catherine Davenport
was a daughter of Levi and Mary (Hutchin) Davenport. Levi
Davenport descended from the old Davenport family of New Eng-
land, and Mary Hutchin was a descendant of Hugh Hutchin, who
settled in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, in
the year 1793.

Louis O. Williams was born and reared on a farm. His early
education was obtained in the country school. Later he attended
high school and was licensed as a teacher. Then for several years
he alternated a^year of teaching with a year in college until the
year 1900, when he was graduated from the law school of the
Valparaiso University. Besides his studies in law, he had taken
general courses in literature and science. Mr. Williams was
admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1905, and established himself in
the practice of his profession at Clinton in 1907 where he has since
resided. In 1912 Mr. Williams was elected state's attorney of
DeWitt County and to the faithful performance of his duties in
that office, he has since largely devoted his time. In his official life,
he has shown himself a man of prudence and courage, and has the
respect of the law abiding people of his county. Mr. Williams has
always been identified with, and is an earnest supporter of the
democratic party. He is devoted to his profession and is a tire-
less worker, and owns a large law library in which he spends the
greater portion of his time.

In March, 1903, Mr. Williams was married to Miss May C.
Mills, who is a daughter of Jedidiah and Minerva (Flack) Mills.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams have had born to them three children : Emer-
son M., Dorothy M., and Grace M. The family has its church
relations with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Williams is a man of literary tastes, and during his leisure
hours is preparing a history of the old families of DeWitt County.
He is a member of the Illinois State Historical Society, and has
fraternal connections with the Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights
of Pythias. Mr. Williams takes an active part in the community
life of his home city, where he teaches a doctrine of work. He has
often been heard to say that the most acceptable prayer that can
be offered to the Deity is honest, earnest and conscientious work.

THOMAS J. WELCH. Now well known as a Kewanee attorney,
with the office of city attorney, was born September nth, 1884,
at Moline, Illinois, the oldest of six children of Thomas and Sarah
(Gibson) Welch.

Mr. Welch is a graduate of Notre Dame University and Yale

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University Law School. He worked his way through college by
accepting any employment which could be had. In college, he
was prominent in athletics, being a member of the varsity baseball
and track teams. While a student at Yale University, he was the
winner of the Munson Cash Debating Prize.

Mr. Welch was admitted to the Illinois bar at Ottawa, in Febru-
ary, 1907, and for eighteen months was in practice at Rock Island
with the law firm of Kenworthy & Kenworthy. He then formed a
partnership at Kewanee with Anderson & Andrews, under the name
Anderson, Andrews & Welch, and practiced in that relationship for
more than two years.

In 1909, he succeeded Judge H. S. Pomeroy as city attorney of
Kewanee, and in 1911 was re-elected by the city council for the
regular four year term, and again in May, 1915, was re-elected for
another four year term. As city attorney of Kewanee, Mr. Welch
has shown himself to be an able prosecutor and a careful and effi-
cient officer in looking after all of the city's legal affairs.

On June 30, 1914, he married Miss Mabel, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Bartlett Bunton, of Kewanee. Mrs. Welch graduated from
the Kewanee High School in 1905 and Brown's Business College,
of Galesburg, in 1906, and for seven years was a valuable member
of the editorial department of the Kewanee Daily Star-Courier. She
is active in social circles, a member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution and the Kewanee Women's Club. Mr. and Mrs. Welch
have a son, Robert Gibson, born July 9, 1915.

Mr. Welch is affiliated with a number of fraternal societies ; is
a member of the Yale Club of Chicago, and Notre Dame Club of
Chicago. In politics he is a republican.

ALMON H. LINN. A member of the Henry County bar since
1900, Mr. Linn is now senior partner of the firm of Linn & Tyler
at Cambridge. He has an extensive practice in both the state and
Federal courts, and is one of the leading republicans of Henry
County. In 1912 he was a republican primary candidate for con-
gressman from the Fifteenth District and put up a strong fight
against his opponent, who had represented the district for eighteen
years.

Almon H. Linn was born near North Henderson, in Mercer
County, Illinois, August 9, 1872, a son of Zachery Taylor and Eliza-
beth (Henderson) Linn. The Linn ancestors were five brothers
who emigrated from the north of Ireland to America prior to the
Revolutionary war, in which all of them fought as soldiers under
Washington, and only one came out of the struggle alive. He set-
tled in Pennsylvania, and later descendants moved out to Henry
County, Illinois. Zachery Taylor Linn was born in Morrow County.
Ohio, and is now a resident of Alpha, Illinois. His wife was born
at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and died when her only child, Almon.
was eight years of age.

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Air. Linn attended country schools until fifteen years of age, was
in the public schools at Alpha until about eighteen, and then began
working in his father's lumber yard and continued that employ-
ment until twenty-two years old. It was while filling bills of lumber
in his father's office that he determined upon the study of law, and
after that directed all his efforts to a professional education. He
spent one year in Brown's Business College at Galesburg, and in
October, 1896, entered the law department of the University of
Michigan, where he was graduated June 22, 1899, LL. B. In Octo-
ber of the same year he was admitted to the bar before the Illinois
Supreme Court at Springfield, and on March 21, 1901, located at
Cambridge. Mr, Linn carried on a successful general practice alone
until February, 1913, when Burton A. Tyler, also a graduate of the
University of Michigan, formed a partnership with him under the
present firm name of Linn & Tyler.

Mr. Linn served as police magistrate at Cambridge for five years.
He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and is affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity. His offices are in the Cambridge State
Bank Building. His chief recreation is travel, and he has seen many
of the most interesting parts of America. On June 25, 1901, he
married Miss Leota Wilson, daughter of George W. Wilson, of
Alpha, Illinois.

CHARLES E. MULLIGAN. What Charles E. Mulligan has won in
the way of professional attainments and reputation at Kewanee,
where he is recognized as one of the ablest young lawyers, has all
been the result of a strenuous career of hard work. At the age of
eighteen he made up his mind to become a lawyer, and worked in-
dustriously and saved his money during the summers in order to
defray expenses through college.

He was born at Biggsville, Illinois, November 22, 1881, and his
father moving to Kewanee subsequently he received an education in
the public schools there until fifteen. After that he spent three years
as a student of the classics and general course in St. Bede's College
near Peru, and for one year was in the law and literary depart-
ment of Notre Dame University. Returning to Kewanee in 1900,
because of bad health, young Mulligan was a telegraph operator two
and a half years at the National Tube Company. The subsequent
two and a half years were spent in the office of Charles E. Sturtz,
then state's attorney, and one of Kewanee's prominent lawyers.
While with Mr. Sturtz he worked as stenographer, and thus paid
his way and also kept up his reading. Mr. Mulligan was admitted
to the bar at Ottawa, Illinois, April 5, 1906, and has since been in
active practice, always as an individual, and he has found the law
both a congenial and profitable field. Mr. Mulligan served as city
clerk of Kewanee during 1905-06.

Charles E. Mulligan was the second of three children born to
Toseph H. and Merilla Catherine (Dixon) Mulligan. In 1852 the

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Mulligan family emigrated from Ireland and settled in Kentucky,
and in 1862 moved to Illinois, locating at Kirkwood. Joseph H.
Mulligan for a number of years has held the position of station
agent at Kewanee for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway.
He is a man of no little prominence in Kewanee, and served for two
terms in the Illinois Legislature, being a member of several importa-
ant committees, including railroads and educational.

Charles E. Mulligan is an honorary life member of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks and is on the law committee of
the Mystic Workers of the World. He is also affiliated with the
Modern Woodmen of America. Politically Mr. Mulligan is a demo-
crat and a member of the Catholic Church. His office is at 224 North
Tremont Street and his home at 114 North Park Street. He is
unmarried.

AMOS MILLER. The high standing of Judge Miller as one of
the leading members of the bar of Montgomery County, finds its
secure basis on ability well proved and on large and worthy achieve-
ment. He has been engaged in the active practice of his profession
at Hillsboro for more than forty years, and the history of juris-
prudence in this section of the state records his interposition in much
important litigation in the various courts within that period, as well
as denoting many noteworthy victories won by him as an advocate
of fine discrimination and marked resourcefulness.

Judge Miller claims the historic old Buckeye state as the place
of his nativity, but has been a resident of Illinois from the age of
seventeen years, as he accompanied his parents on their removal
from Ohio to Montgomery County, Illinois, in 1862. Judge Miller
was born in Carroll County, Ohio, on the 25th of January, 1845, and
is a son of Joseph W. and Isabella (McClintock) Miller, the former
a native of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and the latter a native
of Ohio, in which state their marriage was solemnized. As a young
man Joseph W. Miller removed from his native commonwealth to
Ohio, and there he continued to be concerned with agricultural pur-
suits until he came with his family to Montgomery County, Illinois,
in 1862. He purchased a farm in this county and here continued
to reside on his homestead until his death, in 1873, at the age of
sixty-two years. His widow lived to attain to the extremely vener-
able age of ninety-one years, and was summoned to eternal rest in
1906. Of the seven children four are now living, and of the num-
ber Judge Miller of this review was the fourth in order of birth.

The common schools of Ohio afforded to Amos Miller his early
educational facilities, and after the family removal to Illinois he
attended Hillsboro Academy for a time, as did he also the University
of Illinois. He obtained a clerical position in the office of the county
clerk of Montgomery County without solicitation on his part, and
in this connection he earnestly availed himself of the privileges
afforded him for the reading of law under the able preceptorship of

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Judge Edward Lane, having directed his studies with much circum-
spection and with manifest sympathy and interest. Judge Miller was
admitted to the bar in 1869, but he continued to be associated with
the office of the county clerk until 1873, since which time he has been
numbered among the active and prominent lawyers of Hillsboro,
with a professional reputation that extends beyond the limitations of
Montgomery County, and with inviolable place in popular confidence
and good will. Judge Miller has for years controlled a substantial
and representative practice, the same extending into the various
state and Federal courts of Illinois. He is an appreciative and
honored member of the Illinois State Bar Association, served one
term as city attorney of Hillsboro, two terms as state's attorney and
one term as county judge of Montgomery County. The judge is
an exponent of high civic ideals and loyalty, has taken a lively inter-
.est in that that has tended to advance the social and material welfare
of his home city and county, has been influential in public affairs of
local order, especially those of municipal order, and for twenty years
was a zealous and valued member of the Hillsboro board of educa-
tion, besides being also a member of the board of trustees of the
public library of the city. His political allegiance is given to the
democratic party, and he has become prominently affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity.

In the year 1871 was solemnized the marriage of Judge Miller
to Miss Mary R. Rice, of Hillsboro, her father, the late Judge
Edward Y. Rice, having been one of the most honored and influ-
ential citizens of Montgomery County, where he served for sixteen
years on the bench of the Circuit Court. Judge and Mrs. Miller
have two children, Isa, who is the wife of Henry O. Pinkerton, of
Gillespie ; and Rice, who was graduated in Cornell University, at
Ithaca, New York, and who is general superintendent of the Hills-
boro Coal Company.

WILLIAM S. CONE. Interested in agriculture in Coles County
and in other business enterprises, William S. Cone, a member of
the board of aldermen of Charleston, is also a prominent attorney,
for the past twelve years having been actively engaged in the prac-
tice of law in this city. Mr. Cone was born May 26, 1869, in Ohio,
and is one of a family of three children born to his parents who
were William S. and Margaret (Sefton) Cone. The father, William
S. Cone, was born in Hamilton County and the mother in Harrison,
Ohio, and the latter survived until 1911. The father was a well-
known business man at Cincinnati, a railroad contractor, and died
in that city in 1869, when his son was an infant.

In the public schools of Cincinnati, William S. Cone was an apt
student through boyhood and after completing the high school course
entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, and this was followed by
attendance in the Cincinnati Law School, where he was graduated
in 1896. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and engaged

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in practice in his native state until 1902, when he located at Charles-
ton. Mr. Cone possesses the personality that is so necessary a qual-
ity in the successful practice of law and in his profession, and in
the other activities that engage his attention, he is able to inspire
confidence, make friends and bring business undertakings of all
kinds to the conclusion satisfactory for all concerned. He has
always been a loyal republican, but has not been anxious for political
preferment, consenting, however, to serve in the office of city alder-
man when elected and through true public spirit and exceedingly
practical ideas, has proved a very valuable addition to the municipal
board. He is a member of the Coles County Bar Association and
the Illinois State Bar Association, and maintains his offices in the
Scherer Block.

Mr. Cone was united in marriage with Miss Ozeta Wheatley,
who is a daughter of James Wheatley, who is president of the
Charleston State National Bank, and they have three children : Wil-
liam W., Mary E., and Russell Allen, aged respectively, fifteen, thir-
teen and nine years. Mr. Cone and family are members of the First
Presbyterian Church. He is identified with a number of the leading
fraternal organizations, including the Masons, Elks and Knights of
Pythias. The family resides at No. 901 South Eleventh Street.

HON. WILLIAM H. MCDONALD. As dean of the Cumberland
county bar, William H. McDonald occupies a prominent position in
legal circles and has honorably and efficiently served in offices of
great responsibility in his profession, and has been equally con-
spicuous in political and business life. For thirty-four years he has
maintained his home at Greenup and is numbered with the city's
most substantial and respected residents.

William H. McDonald was born March i, 1841, in Ross County,
Ohio. His ancestors came from the highlands of Scotland about the
time of the Revolutionary war, and they can be traced from their
early settlement in Pennsylvania, to Kentucky and thence to Ohio.
Both grandfather and father of Mr. McDonald bore the name of
John. The grandfather was a civil engineer by profession and
was also an author, as testified by his interesting history of the Scioto
Valley and Indian wars in Ohio. John McDonald, the father, was
born in Ross County and mainly followed agricultural pursuits.
He was a man of considerable importance in public life and served
as sheriff and afterward as state senator from the counties of Ross
and Highland. He reared a family of ten children, William H.
being the sixth in order of birth.

Until he was nineteen years old, William H. McDonald remained
under the home roof, giving his father assistance and attending
school with such regularity that he secured a dependable education,
an excellent foundation upon which to build further, as a student of
law. In 1860 he entered the office of Judge Safford and under his
supervision pursued his law studies and on October 2, 1862, was

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admitted to the bar of Ohio. After two years of practice in his
native state he came to Illinois and looked over the professional
field at Toledo, East St. Louis and other points and then returned
to Ohio and resumed practice. In 1880, however, Mr. McDonald
returned to Cumberland County and located at Greenup and has re-
sided here ever since. He soon became known in his profession and
in a comparatively short time had built up a satisfactory practice, a-
business condition which has existed ever since. Active in the ranks
of the democratic party, Mr. McDonald has been signally honored
by the. same, in 1872 being elected to the State Legislature and to
other official positions, serving as master in chancery and also three
terms as state's attorney, being first elected in 1888, re-elected in
1892 and again in 1900. While in the Legislature Mr. McDonald
took an active part in the work of revising the laws of the state, and
was the introducer of the bill, which subsequently became a law,
non-exempting property from execution where the debt was due to
laborer or servant.

Mr. McDonald was married May 16, 1867, to Miss Sarah Camp-
bell, of Greenup, Illinois, and they have one child, John C. McDon-
ald. During his many years of professional life in Cumberland
County, Mr. McDonald has been connected with many cases of
grave importance and often his legal triumphs have been won over
practitioners "worthy of his steel." While he is one of the city's
ablest lawyers he is also one of the most stable citizens. He owns
considerable city realty together with farm lands, his investments
showing how much faith he places in the present and future im-
portance of Greenup.

WILLIAM C. KELLEY. Actively engaged in the practice of law
in the City of Shelbyville for nearly forty years, Mr. Kelley is con-
gistently to be designated as the dean of the bar of Shelby County.
He has been concerned with much of the important litigation in the
courts of this section of the state, is known as a fine lawyer of
marked versatility and resourcefulness and has been earnest and
indefatigable in the work of his chosen profession, which has been
dignified and honored by his character and achievement. Further
interest attaches to his career by reason of his being a native of
Shelby County and a representative of one of the sterling pioneer
families of the county.

Mr. Kelley was born on the old homestead farm in Rural Town-
ship, this county, on the 3ist of July, 1848, and is a son of Chatten
and Elizabeth (Smith) Kelley, the former of whom was born in
Tennessee and the latter in Kentucky. Chatten Kelley came to
Shelby County in the early pioneer days and here reclaimed a pro-
ductive farm. He became one of the prominent agriculturists and
influential citizens of the county, won success through industry and
careful management, and at all times held the unqualified confidence
and good will of his fellow men. After his retirement from active

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labors he established his residence in the city of Shelbyville, but he
was sojourning at Sweet Springs, Missouri, at the time of his death,
in 1899, at the age of eighty years. Mrs. Elizabeth (Smith) Kelley
was summoned to the life eternal in 1865, at the age of forty years,
and of the seven children the only son is he whose name introduces
this review.

William C. Kelley gained both vigor and inspiration during the
period of his early identification with the work of the pioneer farm-
stead, and after availing himself duly of the advantages of the com-
mon schools of his native county, he was enabled to realize his
ambition for broader educational training. He attended the Shelby-
ville Seminary and then completed a four years' literary course in the
University of Kentucky, at Lexington, in which institution he was
graduated. In consonance with his well formulated plans he soon
afterward began the study of law, in the office of the firm of Thorn-
ton & Windling, of Shelbyville, and was. admitted to the bar in the
Centennial year, 1876. In the following year he engaged in the
practice of his profession at Shelbyville, where for many years he
was senior member of the law firm of Kelley & Ragan, and where
later he was associated in practice with Rowland J. Hamlin, under
the firm name of Hamlin & Kelley. He early became known as a
close student and as an advocate who was keen, alert and resource-
ful, so that his success has been of unequivocal order during the
many years he has been engaged in practice at Shelbyville. Mr.
Kelley is recognized today as one of the best fortified counselors of
the Shelby County bar, and is still active in the general practice of
law, with a large and representative clientage and with inviolable
vantage-place in the esteem of the community which has been his
home during his entire life. He served as state's attorney of Shelby
County for two terms, 1888-96, and at one time he had the strong
endorsement of his own and other counties for the office of supreme
judge. The history of the bench and bar of Illinois that was issued
under the editorial supervision of the late Hon. John M. Palmer,
spoke of Mr. Kelley in the following terms: "He has been state's
attorney of Shelby county, was an efficient, honest officer, and is an
able, careful lawyer. He is a great reader and all-around good
citizen." Mr. Kelley was for two consecutive terms master in chan-
cery. He is a stalwart and effective advocate of the principles and
policies for which the democratic party stands sponsor and is affili-
ated with the Masonic fraternity.

In December, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kelley
to Miss Antha D. Harper, of Tower Hill, this county, her father,
the late A. V. Harper, having been an early settler of Shelby County,
, where he passed the remainder of his life and where his venerable
widow still maintains her home. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley became the
parents of three children: William Lloyd Kelley, who was born in
1887, studied law under the able preceptorship of his father, with
whom he is now associated in practice ; Leo. H. Kelley was born in

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1897, was graduated in the Shelby ville High School and still remains
at the parental home; and Elizabeth died at the age of thirteen
years.

WILLIAM H. WHITAKER. Character, ability and achievement
have given Mr. Whitaker distinct priority as one of the leading mem-
bers of the bar of Central Illinois and, as a member of the law firm
of Whitaker, Ward & Pugh, of Shelbyville, he is associated in the
control of a large and representative practice in Shelby County.

Mr. Whitaker was born in Douglas County, Illinois, on the 23d
of June, 1867, and is a son of John and Hannah (Davis) Whitaker,
both of whom were born and reared in the State of Indiana, whence
they came to Illinois in 1850 and established their home in Douglas
County, where the father became a substantial farmer and did much
to further the social and industrial advancement of the county, and
where he long held precedence as one of the influential citizens of
that section of the state. He celebrated in 1914 his eighty-first birth-
day anniversary and is now living retired in the City of Vincennes,
Indiana. Mrs. Hannah (Davis) Whitaker died in the year 1883, at
the old homestead in Douglas County, and she was forty years of
age at the time of her demise. Of the five children William H. was
the third in order of birth.

Reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm, William H. Whitaker
acquired his early education in the public schools of his native
county, and thereafter he attended Wesley College for a period of
three years. He early 'formulated definite plans for his future career,
and in harmony therewith he finally went to the City of Chicago and
entered the law department of Northwestern University. He was
graduated in 1892, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was
forthwith admitted to the bar of his native state. Mr. Whitaker
initiated the practice of his profession at Sullivan, Moultrie County,
where he remained nine years and where he built up a substantial
law business. For two years thereafter he was engaged in practice
in the City of Chicago, and in 1904 he established his residence at
Shelbyville, the judicial center of Shelby County, where he has
gained distinctive success and prestige in the work of his pro-
fession, and where he has been at the head of the representative law
firm of Whitaker, Ward & Pugh since 1913. Mr. Whitaker has ap-
peared in much important litigation in this section of the state and
has established a high reputation for resourcefulness and strength
as an advocate and also as a well fortified counselor. He is now
serving in the office of master in chancery, is a stalwart democrat
in his political allegiance, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity,
including the Ancient Arabic order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, and is a loyal and public-spirited citizen. In addition to other
interests Mr. Whitaker is identified with the zinc and spar mining
industry, as president of the Hoosier Mining Company, of Indiana.

In the year 1895 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whitaker

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to Miss Dode Monroe, daughter of John S. Monroe, of Stillman,
this state, who is now deceased, but whose widow is still living. Mr.
and Mrs. Whitaker have two children, Horace Baird, born in 1896,
and William H., Jr., born in 1900.

FRANK M. RAMEY. Engaged in successful general practice in
the City of Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Mr. Ramey is one of
the able and popular young lawyers of his native county and his
success and prestige are such as to have justified most fully his choice
of vocation.

Mr. Ramey was born in Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Illinois,
on the 23d of September, 1881, and is a son of James T. and Mary
M. (Ammerman) Ramey, both of whom were natives of this state
and representatives of sterling pioneer families. Both passed the
closing years of their lives in Montgomery County, where Mrs.
Ramey was summoned to eternal rest in the year 1906, at the age
of fifty-two years. Her husband attained to the venerable age of
eighty-two years and his death occurred in 1913. James T. Ramey
was a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, as a member
of Company C, Twenty-fifth Illinois Infantry, and he participated in
many important engagements marking the progress of the great con-
flict, including the memorable siege of Vicksburg and many sangui-
nary battles.

Frank M. Ramey, sixth in order of birth in a family of nine
children, attended the public schools until he had completed the
curriculum of the Hillsboro High School, in which he was graduated
as a member of the class of 1900. At Hillsboro he studied law in the
office of the firm of Lane & Cooper, and in the meanwhile he added
to his financial resources and gained valuable experience through
his connection with the Hillsboro Journal, chiefly in an editorial
capacity. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1906, and early
in the following year he initiated the practice of his profession,
to the work of which he came well fortified by natural predilection
and thorough preparation. Mr. Ramey served as city attorney of
Hillsboro from 1907 to 1911, but his private practice now has
reached such compass as to place exigent demands upon his time and
attention, so that he has not appeared as candidate for any other
official preferment. He is a stalwart in the local camp of the repub-
lican party and is a member of the precinct committee of the same
in the ward in which he lives. Mr. Ramey is affiliated with the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Fraternal
Order of Eagle's, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Improved Order of
Red Men and the Knights and Ladies of Security. He has high
standing in professional circles and is popular also in social affairs
and coteries, as one of the eligible young bachelors of his native
county.

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JOHN FULLER. Few practitioners of law were better known in
Central Illinois, than the late John Fuller, eminent as a criminal
lawyer and a man of great intellectual force. Equipped by Nature
with talents that insured unusual achievement, he won high position
at the bar and in so honorable a way that he preserved respect and
won personal esteem that was almost universal.

John Fuller was born in Rutledge township, DeWitt County,
Illinois, May 9, 1859, and was the fourth born in a family of ten chil-
dren. His parents were William and Rebecca (Parker) Fuller.
William Fuller was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, February
19, 1823, and was a son of Daniel and Nancy (Whitlatch) Fuller.
The Whitlatch family came from England, but the Fullers were of
Ireland, where Daniel Fuller, the great-grandfather of John Fuller,
was born, later emigrating and settling in the United States. The
second Daniel Fuller was born in Pennsylvania and William Fuller
was his oldest child. The latter was a farmer and school teacher
in his earlier years. In Madison County, Ohio, he married Rebecca
Parker, a daughter of Soloman Parker. In 1848 William Fuller
came to DeWitt County, and in 1850 was admitted to the bar and
entered upon the practice of law at Clinton. He was. a prominent
democrat, served at one time in the office of internal revenue col-
lector, and in 1854 was elected sheriff of DeWitt County.

Although his father was a man of means and influence, John
Fuller seems to have been the architect of his own fortunes. He
helped his father on the farm and went to the district schools, in
the course of time succeeding in taking a course at the Wesleyan
University at Bloomington, and after seven years of persistent en-
deavor, earning his own way through manual labor on farms, he
reached his goal and in 1891 was graduated from the law department
of this institution. He immediately opened a law office at Clinton and
public confidence in his ability and integrity was shown unmistakably
by his election, in the fall of 1892 to the office of state's attorney,
in which election Grover Cleveland carried the county by twenty-
eight votes, while Mr. Fuller received 151, and at his second election
he had a majority of 161 votes. As state's attorney he proved a
great controlling force and during his administration of the office
a certain lawless element was exterminated from DeWitt County
and communities were saved expense and neighborhoods made safe.
Like other great men, Mr. Fuller took a warm interest in young
men and only his nearest confidential friends ever were permitted
to read the grateful letters he received from heart broken mothers
when, through his efforts he had saved their sons from prison sen-
tences by the exercise of mercy. It was one of the greatest satis-
factions of his life to watch these reclaimed young men thereafter
lead straightforward, useful lives. Mr. Fuller was concerned in
many exceedingly important cases, his last effort, made when so
weak he had to be assisted into court, was in December, 1913, when
he was called to assist State's Attorney Williams.

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Although Mr. Fuller successfully fought many legal battles and
won wealth and reputation, there was one foe that remained uncon-
quered and that was ill health. During his last years he had not
practiced in the courts to any great extent although it was to him
like parting with life itself to remain quiescent when legal battles
were being fought, every move of the opposing forces being followed
and anticipated by his disciplined intellect. Growing too weak to
take much exercise he made such change in his residence as to give
him a practical out-door life and so recuperated that it was the hope
of his devoted wife that a sojourn in so genial a climate as can be
found in North Carolina, would bring about a cure. After a few
weeks in that state, however, it became evident that the end was not
far off and his death followed a few days after reaching his home.

Mr. Fuller was married January 16, 1893, to Miss Hattie L.
Field. No children were born to them but they took a nephew and
a niece, William and Irene Field, into their hearts and home. Wil-
liam Field died in 1911, at Clinton, but the niece still resides with
Mrs. Fuller in the beautiful family residence at No. 219 West Main
Street, Clinton. Mrs. Fuller is a daughter of Captain James Field.

The democratic party always found in Mr. Fuller a staunch sup-
porter of its principles and he took an active part in public matters
and was of wide influence. On account of a fancied resemblance
in physical build and contour of the face, together with certain re-
membered characteristics, he was sometimes called the "Abe Lincoln
of DeWitt County," his constituents applying the name admiringly.

Mr. Fuller was a man of genial presence, in health, and enjoyed
all social relationships. He was a Mason, belonging to Blue Lodge,
Chapter and Commandery, and was also a member of the Odd Fel-
lows, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America.
In 1898 he was elected president of the DeWitt County Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Society, which was established in 1854, and
took a deep interest in the organization. He is justly recalled as
a great lawyer and his course throughout his entire career, was
marked with fairness and honest methods even when his work
brought dire conviction to the criminal. Trickery and dishonesty
never had a place in his conduct of a trial. His memory was reten-
tive, he was always cautious, he depended on no uncertainties, his
mind was alert and his judgment never failed him. His name will
go down to posterity as one of DeWitt County's most eminent law-
yers. Mr. Fuller died November 6, 1914.

J. EARL MAJOR. A prominent and successful attorney of the
younger generation in his native county, Mr. Major is engaged in
the practice of his profession at Hillsboro, the judicial center and
metropolis of Montgomery County.

Mr. Major was born on a farm in Montgomery County, and the
date of his nativity was January 5, 1887. He is a son of Charles R.
and Emma (Jones) Major, the former of whom was born in Mis-

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souri and the latter in Minnesota, and both having come with their
parents to Montgomery County, Illinois, about the time of the Civil
war. Charles R. Major still resides on the fine homestead farm in
this county and has long been one of the substantial agriculturists
and well-known citizens of Montgomery County. He celebrated his
fifty-fifth birthday anniversary in 1914, and his wife was forty-two
years of age at the time of her death, in 1906. They became the
parents of seven children, all of whom are living, and of the number
J. Earl is the eldest.

Under the invigorating and benignant influences of the home
farm J. Earl Major passed from childhood to youth, and he was not
denied his quota of productive work in connection with the activities
of the farm. He availed himself of the advantages of the public
schools and thereafter attended the Brown Business College for a
period of one year. His preliminary law study was prosecuted under
the preceptorship of Judge Jett, of Hillsboro, and thereafter he at-
tended for one term the night classes in the Chicago College of Law,
in the meanwhile having been employed during the day in the
Chicago offices of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Mr.
Major gave everypossible moment to his legal studies and in Decem-
ber, 1909, he proved himself eligible for and was admitted to the bar
of his native state. In the same year he opened an office at Hills-
boro, and his close application, careful preparation of all causes,
and well-matured technical knowledge have gained to him success
that offers most effective auguries for the future. Mr. Major is now
serving as state's attorney of his native county, to which office he
was elected in November, 1914, and in which he is giving an admin-
istration that is materially adding to his reputation as a resourceful
trial lawyer.

In politics Mr. Major is found arrayed as a loyal supporter of
the cause of the democratic party, and he is affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

August 13, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Major to Miss
Ruth Wafer, daughter of C. L. Wafer, a representative farmer of
Bond County, this state.

JOHN W. PREIHS. A representative younger member of the
bar of Christian County, Mr. Preihs is engaged in the successful
general practice of law in the attractive little City of Pana and being
specially loyal and progressive in his civic attitude.

Mr. Preihs was born at Matinsville, Clark County, Illinois, on
the 1 6th of October, 1884, and is a son of Carl and Eglie (Regula)
Preihs, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Switzer-
land and both children at the time of the immigration to the respec-
tive families to America. Carl Preihs was reared to manhood in the
State of Illinois, and at Salem, Marion County, was solemnized his
marriage. For many years he was engaged in the furniture and

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undertaking business at Sandoval, that county, and he was fifty-
two years of age at the time of his death, in 1909, his widow now
maintaining her home at Pana, Christian County, and having cele-
brated her fiftieth birthday anniversary in 1915. Of the two chil-
dren surviving the honored father John W. of this review is the
, elder, and Carl H. likewise resides at Pana.

In the public schools of the little City of Sandoval John W.
Preihs continued his studies until he had completed the curriculum
of the high school, and in 190001 he took a course in the Brown
Business College, in which he was duly graduated. Depending
upon his own resources in the acquiring of his professional educa-
tion, Mr. Preihs finally entered the law department of the University
of Illinois, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of
1906, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws and with virtually coinci-
dent admission to the bar of his native state. In the furtherance
of his higher academic as well as his technical education Mr. Preihs
had resorted to various occupations to provide himself with requisite
financial reinforcement, and it may be noted in particular that he
did very successful work as a teacher of German, a language which
he learned in his home and in which he has fully fortified himself
in an academic way.

For a short period after his admission to the bar Mr. Preihs did
professional novitiate . tribute, at Salem, judicial center of Marion
County, but in December, 1906, he removed to Pana, where he has
since continued in active practice and where his character, ability
and personal popularity have proved dominating elements in the
upbuilding of a substantial law business of representative character.
Mr. Preihs held the office of city attorney in 1910-12, is at the pres-
ent time serving as corporation counsel of Pana and as master in
chancery, and he is an active and appreciative member of the Illinois
State Bar Association.

Mr. Preihs takes a lively interest in all that concerns the social
and material welfare of his home city and county, and here he has
the stanchest of friends in social, professional and business circles.
He is a member of the Pana Commercial Club, and to the same is
giving effective service in the office of secretary. He has been
exalted ruler of the Pana lodge of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, has passed the official chairs in the lodges of the
Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
and he is affiliated also with the Phi Delta Phi fraternity at the
University of Illinois. Both he and his brother are bachelors and
reside with their widowed mother in a pleasant home in Pana.

CHARLES S. EDWARDS. There are few official positions that
bring closer to an individual the unpleasant and discouraging facts
of life than that of police magistrate, and for the proper adminis-
tration of the duties of this office certain qualifications are essential.
In Charles S. Edwards the City of Sullivan has such an individual

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and as he is serving in his second term it may be inferred that his
work is appreciated. Mr. Edwards is undoubtedly the right man
in the right place.

Charles S. Edwards was born February 6, 1863, and is a son of
John True and Margaret Elizabeth (Reed) Edwards, the former
of whom was born in Coles County, Illinois, and the latter in Shelby
County. They had seven children. The father died in 1895, the
mother surviving. They were able to give their children both social
and educational advantages and after Charles S. completed the high
school course he attended Lee's Academy, and then taught school for
twenty years, later entered the Indiana University at Valparaiso,
and still later the Chicago Law School, from which institution he
was graduated in 1899. In the same year he was admitted to the
bar and opened his law office at Sullivan in October, 1899, which
office he still occupies. Among his associates were the late John R.
Eden, and Hon. Joseph K. Martin, now state's attorney of Moultrie
County. As a general practitioner Judge Edwards secured an
advanced position at the bar, and the qualities which brought him
a large and lucrative practice are manifested in the responsible
position he has been called upon to fill. His patience seems inex-
haustible, as he tempers justice with mercy in his decisions, and his
judgment of men and motives has never been questioned as to integ-
rity or full knowledge.

Judge Edwards was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Edmis-
ton, who is a daughter of Henry C. Edmiston, an old resident of
Moultrie County. Judge Edwards is somewhat active in public
affairs and is identified with the progressive wing of the democratic
party. The only fraternal organization with which he is connected
is the Knights of Pythias, of which he is the grand representative
of his lodge to the grand lodge of the domain of Illinois, 1914 to
1916.

EDWIN J. MILLER. Among the many things in which Moultrie
County may take pride is the personnel of her bar, made up as it is
of men of intellect and learning, men who are the equal of any others
in the profession in any part of the country. Their opportunities
for achievement may not be so numerous as come within the scope
of those whose field of effort may be situated in the congestion of
great cities, but many exceedingly important cases are annually
handled and litigation and adjustment carried on with marked legal
knowledge and ability. A leading practitioner of the law at Sullivan
is found in Edwin J. Miller, who, in his twenty years of continuous
practice, has demonstrated his ability as a lawyer and in addition
has proved his value as a progressive and public-spirited citizen.

Edwin J. Miller was born in Effingham County, Illinois, August
20, 1869, and is a son of John and Nancy (Forrest) Miller. The
father was a farmer in Effingham County, substantial in character

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and with ample means. Of his family of ten children there are
seven survivors.

Reared on the home farm, the country schools provided the
first educational training that Edwin J. Miller received, this being
but preparatory to years of study in a number of well-known insti-
tutions, by which he was graduated after taking a full course. These
include the college at Efrmgham, Illinois; the Central Normal
School at Danville, Indiana; and Kent College of Law. He was
admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1895 and practically his life has
been passed in the practice of his profession at Sullivan ever since.
He is one of the active and useful members of the Moultrie County
Bar Association.

Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Miss Mattie Crocker,
who is a daughter of Philip J. Crocker, and they have four chil-
dren. Mr. Miller and family are members of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church.

In politics Mr. Miller is a zealous republican, ever loyal to its
principles and a willing worker in support of its candidates, and his
personal acquaintance with party leaders is wide. In no way, how-
ever, is he an office seeker, his profession fully occupying his time.
Although he frequently serves the city in unofficial capacities in
times of public stress ; or when a nation-wide call comes for public
benevolence, he lays claim to no special motives of philanthropy,
merely accepting and honestly discharging the responsibilities which
good citizenship includes. He is a member of the fraternal order
of Knights of Pythias.

HARVEY GROSS. A member of the Edgar County bar since 1909,
Harvey Gross is a young lawyer with a rising reputation and with a
record of skillful handling and disposition of a number of difficult
cases since he took his first fee.

Harvey Gross was born in Jasper County, Illinois, October 20,
1879, one of a family of ten children born to Solomon and Anna
(Witwer) Gross. His father, who came to Ohio and thence to
Illinois at the close of the Civil war, was a farmer, and died in 1905.
Harvey Gross spent his youth in Central Illinois, was disciplined in
the work of a farm while attending district schools, and later entered
the Valparaiso University and was graduated Bachelor of Science
in 1903. Mr. Gross also prepared for his profession in the Val-
paraiso University Law School, graduating LL. B. in 1908, and
taking the same degree from the Northwestern University Law
School at Chicago in 1909. Mr. Gross was admitted to the Indiana
bar in 1908 and to the bar of Illinois in 1909. Since locating at Paris
he has become one of the leading attorneys and already has a prac-
tice that compares favorably with that of many of the oldest lawyers
in the county. Mr. Gross is a member of the Edgar County Bar
Association, is a progressive in politics, and affiliates with the Ma-
sonic order. Harvey Gross married Miss Dora A. Gorman, daughter

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of Dr. Charles Gorman of Lake County, Indiana. They are the
parents of two children: Ruth A. and Victor G. Mr. Gross and
family are members of the Methodist Church. His law offices are
on the south side of the square in Paris and his home at 108 East
Monroe Street.

MILES A. MATTOX. To a certain extent the profession of law
is one of the most important of all the learned and dignified profes-
sions which attract intellectual men, and certain it is that this pro-
fession contributes most largely of those who become men of
achievement in every other field of activity, barring, perhaps, the
military. Moultrie County has sufficient reason to take pride in her
bar, for able, educated and honorable men protect and uphold her
courts and laws in every section. A leading representative of the
profession, who has been established in practice at Sullivan for a
number of years, is Miles A. Mattox, attorney and notary public.

Miles A. Mattox was born December i, 1860, and is a son of
John N. and Rebecca Ann (Beck) Mattox, natives of Ohio. The
public schools, including a high school course, provided his general
education, which studious habits and wide reading later supple-
mented. In early manhood he determined on the law as a career
and was a diligent student under the late Hon. John R. Eden. In
1895 he was admitted to the bar and immediately located at Sul-
livan and has continued here ever since. Mr. Mattox enjoys a large
and lucrative practice and has, at various times, been connected with
court cases of great importance. He is known as a safe counselor,
a sensible adviser and an upright lawyer.

Mr. Mattox was united in marriage with Miss Mary Waggoner,
who is a daughter of Ira Waggoner, and they have had four chil-
dren, three of whom survive.

Mr. Mattox has always given his political support to the demo-
cratic party, but has seldom accepted office, at one time, however,
serving as city attorney of Sullivan. He is identified with the
Knights of Pythias at Sullivan, and with his family belongs to the
Christian Church. His law office is conveniently situated on the
ground floor of the First National Bank Building.

WILLIS H. CLINTON. Admitted to the Illinois bar in February,
1889, Willis H. Clinton for twenty-five years has practiced at Paris,
has enjoyed success and prominence as a lawyer, and has wielded
an influence in his community such as only men of unusual strength
of character and power can exercise.

Willis H. Clinton was born August 19, 1859, in Edgar County,
where his father, William S. Clinton, was an early resident and suc-
cessful farmer. William S. Clinton died June 19, 1881, and his wife
was Lydia |. Johnson. They were the parents of four children.

Willis H. Clinton grew up in Edgar County, attended the dis-
trict and high schools, and through the medium of hard work and a

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steadfast ambition finally attained a place of membership in the
bar. He read law while engaged in other work, and most of his
study was carried on under the direction of the prominent Paris
lawyer, Judge Henry Van Sellar. Mr. Clinton was admitted to the
bar in February, 1889, and has since been admitted to practice in
the Federal courts. Outside of his large private practice he served
two terms as city attorney of Paris, having been elected on the
republican ticket. Mr. Clinton affiliates with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and the Tribe of Ben Hur, and has membership in
the County and State and American Bar associations.

Mr. Clinton married Miss Bertha L. Lawton, daughter of Isaac
Lawton. They have a daughter, Helen Clinton. The family reside
at 412 South Main Street.

HON. DAN V. DAYTON. As present county judge of Edgar
County, Judge Dayton has a host of friends and acquaintances
throughout Edgar County, and his competent management of his
official duties and his scrupulous honesty have caused many to
declare him one of the ablest county judges that have ever been
chosen to that office in the county.

Dan V. Dayton was born in Douglas County, Illinois, July 4,
1884, one °f a family of four children whose parents were John
and Laura Dayton. His father lived to the ripe old age of seventy-
six, passing away in 1909, and was a substantial farmer until his
death, and well known in Edgar County.

Judge Dayton grew up on a farm, was educated in the common
schools and the high school, took up the study of law under F. W.
Dundas, an old and prominent attorney of Paris, was graduated
from the law department of the University of Illinois in 1908, and
in the fall of the same year was admitted to the Illinois bar and
also to practice in the Federal courts. Judge Dayton rose rapidly
in the profession, and in the fall of 1910 was elected county judge
on the democratic ticket, his opponent being Fred Rhoads, and was
re-elected in 1914 for another term.

Judge Dayton is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, the Improved Order of Red
Men, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of
Pythias. His home is at 902 Maple Avenue in Paris. Judge Day-
ton has a wife, whose maiden name was Bula Dye, and two chil-
dren, Allen and Dan.

HON. JOHN P. HARRAH. Inseparably interwoven with the his-
tory of the bar and bench of Coles County, is the name of John P.
Harrah, county judge, who for thirty-seven years has been identi-
fied with the Charleston bar. This long association has been hon-
orable, Judge Harrah in early practice laying firm foundations to
sustain high ideals and from these he has never departed. During

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this extended period he has often demonstrated' the safety of his
judgment and the value of his intuitional knowledge.

John P. Harrah was born in Putnam County, Indiana, June 4,
1848, and is one of a family of eleven children born to his parents,
who were Daniel F. and Permelia (Vermilion) Harrah. The father
was born in Kentucky and went to Putnam County, Indiana, and
there grew to manhood. From that state he came to Illinois in 1857,
his subsequent life being devoted to agriculture. He married Per-
melia Vermilion, who was born at Greencastle, Indiana, a member
of one of the pioneer families of that section. John P. Harrah
grew to manhood on the home farm in Jasper County, Illinois,
where he received the advantages of a common school education,
subsequently attending Westfield College, at Westfield, Illinois. He
later went to Newton, Illinois, where he studied law under the pre-
ceptorship of Judge J. H. Hawley and practiced one year, dur-
ing which time he was elected state's attorney for Jasper County,
before he was admitted to the bar in 1873. He remained there five
years and then came to Charleston, Illinois.

Personally acquainted with the wisest and best of the public men
of two states, Judge Harrah was easily led to take a deep interest in
politics and identified himself with the republican party, on which
ticket he was first elected county judge of Coles County in 1898-
1902, after, which he practiced law in Charleston. He was again
elected to office in 1910 and was re-elected in 1914, the admirable
character of his administrations suggesting logically his continuance
in office.

Judge Harrah was married to Miss Emma Gill, who died in 1878,
leaving two daughters. His second marriage was to Mrs. Martha
Bishop, widow of Col. W. W. Bishop and daughter of Isreal J. Mon-
ford. During the Civil war Colonel Bishop served with distinction,
participating in several of the heaviest battles of that struggle. His
death occurred at Memphis, Tennessee. For some time he was
prominent at the bar in Coles County and served in the office of
county judge. Judge Harrah, with his wife, are members of the
Christian Church. The family is one of social prominence. He
has long been connected with the leading fraternal organizations,
including the Masons, Red Men and Knights of Pythias, and, as a
public-spirited citizen, very frequently has served on committees
and on boards for the furthering of benevolent movements.

JUDGE B. W. POPE. A lawyer of high attainments, sound learn-
ing, broad experience, and ample qualifications for every emergency
in the practice of his profession, Judge Pope has been for over thirty-
five years an active member of the bar at DtiQuoin, in Perry County.

Judge Pope, who was born in Franklin County October 20, 1853,
was educated in the public schools of Franklin and Perry counties,
was a student in the State University of Illinois, and took his law
course first in the Washington University of St. Louis and gradu-

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ated from the Union College of Law at Chicago in 1878. He located
for practice at DuQuoin, and along with the quiet duties of his
profession has had a splendid record in official service. Judge Pope
has served as city attorney at DuQuoin, was for eight years mayor
of the city, was judge of the county court for four years, and is now
in his second term as judge of the city court. His record in office
is unimpeachable, and he has long been one of the popular men either
as an attorney or on the bench in Perry County. Judge Pope has
held court in the superior and circuit courts in Chicago in the last
four years. He tried the $35,000 Montgomery Ward & Company
personal injury case, which is in history as being one of the largest
cases of its kind on record.

Judge Pope is a son of the late Dr. B. F. and Emeline Pope, both
of whom were natives of Tennessee and came to Illinois in 1849.
Doctor Pope was for many years a prominent physician in Franklin
County and died af DuQuoin in January 1902 at the age of seventy-
seven years. The mother died March i, 1913, at the age of eighty-
five. There were three children : P. V. Pope, of DuQuoin ; Judge
B. W. Pope; and Mrs. S. E. Ward, wife of G. F. M. \Vard, a
merchant at Mount Vernon.

Judge Pope is a member of the County Bar Association, the
State Bar Association, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias
and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is the owner, of valuable
city and county real estate. Judge Pope is unmarried.

HON. L. O. EAGLETON. Eighteen years of active practice in
the Peoria bar has well established L. O. Eagleton's position as a
capable lawyer. He has been devoted to his profession, and his four
years of service in the office of probate judge can hardly be con-
sidered an interruption to his professional career. His success as a
lawyer reflects the more credit upon his independence and indus-
trious efforts to acquire an education and fit himself for the responsi-
bilities which he now carries.

L. O. Eagleton was born on a farm in Jasper County, Illinois,
February 22, 1868, a son of William and Sarah (Kern) Eagleton.
His father was a farmer and stock buyer, raiser and snipper, and
in that line the largest operator in Jasper County. He died in 1876,
while the mother is still living.

Mr. Eagleton grew up on a farm, had the usual experiences of a
farm boy who divides his time between the acquirements of an edu-
cation in the district schools and the work of a farm household.
For three years he was engaged in teaching school, with a progress
from the management of a country school to a teacher in a village
school, and finally as principal of the school at Enfield in White
County. In the fall of 1891, with four other young men from Jack-
son County, he entered McKendree College at Lebanon. During
their college days these five boys kept bachelor hall and practiced
the strictest economy in order to go through college. The summer

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of 1893 Mr. Eagleton spent in selling school supplies in order to
pay his tuition in the senior year. He was graduated in 1894 Bach-
elor of Science, and having made his own way through college he
had no hesitation in entering the Northwestern Law School at Chi-
cago to continue his program of getting an education with little
visible means. He was graduated LL. B. in the class of 1897, and
then returned to Peoria with Frank Fulton, a classmate at North-
western, and they were in partnership for the first year. For a
number of years past Mr. Eagleton has been senior member of the
firm of Eagleton, Stone & Isley, his associates being Claud U. Stone,
who has gained distinction as a member of Congress from this dis-
trict, and former State Senator Albert E. Isley, who is distinguished
as a jury trial lawyer. The firm is one of the finest rating, and has
a large and successful practice in all the Peoria County courts.

In 1906 Mr. Eagleton was elected to the office of probate judge
on the democratic ticket. One of his opponents at the primaries
was Col. James M. Rice, and both of them occupied the same suite
of rooms as lawyers, and were close professional and personal
friends, though of opposite political faith. Mr. Eagleton was elected
probate judge in a county normally republican by about 2,000 votes.
He continued to preside over the Probate Court four years, until
December, 1910, and that experience was not only valuable to him
as a lawyer but was an administration of faithful performance and
high-minded service in the probate office of the county.

Mr. Eagleton was married in 1894 to Miss Minnie Pierce, a
daughter of Rev. B. R. Pierce, now deceased, who was long promi-
nent as a Methodist minister and for twelve years was a presiding
elder in Southern Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Eagleton are the parents
of four children : Benjamin Pierce, William, Lee and Clifford
Eagleton. Judge Eagleton since coming of age has been a stanch
supporter of the democratic party, and one of the recognized demo-
cratic leaders in Peoria County. The only political office he has
held not in the strict line of his profession was as supervisor of
Richwood Township during 1900-02. He has affiliations with the
Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights
of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Mystic
Workers of the World, having filled all the chairs in the Knights of
Pythias lodge and having represented his home lodge in the state
grand lodge. He and his family are members of the Arcadia Pres-
byterian Church. Mr. Eagleton is a broad and liberal-minded man
of high purposes and principles, has won distinction in the law, and
gained the honor and respect of all classes of people with whom he
has come in contact.

HARRY E. BROWN has been a member of the Illinois bar for
twenty years, and throughout that time has been in practice at Gene-
seo. He is strictly a lawyer, never having allowed politics to inter-

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fere with his practice, and with his experience and success is now
regarded as one of the leaders of the Henry County bar.

The attractive little village of Wyanet, over in Bureau County,
is his birthplace, where he was born April 2.2,, 1872, a son of Con-
stant and Anna M. (Wilcox) Brown, both now residing in Geneseo.
His father was born af Canajoharie, New York, and his mother at
Oswego, New York. The Brown ancestors came originally from
England, and the first of the name is said to have been Peter Brown,
who came over in the Mayflower. Constant Brown came to Illinois
in 1865 and was for many years engaged in the railway service.

The fourth in a family of seven children, Harry E. Brown
acquired his early education in the public schools of Wyanet, and
when he was twelve years of age the family removed to Geneseo,
where he continued in the public schools until graduating from high
school in 1890. Beginning the study of law in the office of Judge E.
C. Graves of Geneseo, he remained with him two years, and then
entered the law department of the University of Michigan in 1894,.
graduating LL. B. in 1895. Admitted to the Illinois bar at Spring-
field June 20, 1895, Mr. Brown then returned to Geneseo and
became associated in practice with his former preceptor, E. C.
Graves, under the name Graves & Brown. That partnership con-
tinued until 1901, since which date Mr. Brown has followed an
individual practice along general lines and with a large and profit-
able clientage. His only official position was as city attorney for one
year, but he has steadily refused any office for political or public
honors and has devoted himself entirely to his practice. He is vice
president and attorney for the Spring Valley Utilities Company, a
million dollar corporation operating in four counties. Mr. Brown
is now the largest resident owner of land in Henry County, and
some estimate of his success as a lawyer can be formed when it is
stated that he has made every dollar of his property since the begin-
ning of his practice twenty years ago. In fact, when he graduated
from the University of Michigan he was in debt for his education.

Mr. Brown is a republican, and was selected as a delegate to the
national convention of that party held in Chicago in 1912. He is a
member of the Methodist Church. On April 28, 1904, he married
Miss Mabel E. Welton of Cambridge, daughter of Frank G. Welton,
who for thirty-two years held the office of county clerk in Henry
County, but is now deceased. Mrs. Brown received her education
in the public schools of Cambridge, attended Northwestern Uni-
versity and finished at Vassar College. At 105 East First Street in
Geneseo, on the second floor of the Central Trust and Savings
Bank Building, Mr. Brown has the finest and most up-to-date law
offices found anywhere in Henry County. His law library itself
represents a large investment, containing over 5,000 volumes. It is
one of the best selected reference law libraries in the central part
of the state. Mr. Brown maintains a very efficient office force to
assist him in his practice. Possessed of a keen analytical mind, he

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has by constant and persistent application and conscientious devo-
tion to the interests of his clients, gained the confidence and respect
of all who have known him. His home is at 135 East North Street.

PAUL KERZ. Able in every branch of the law and particularly
gifted with the power of oratory, Paul Kerz, during his two decades
of practice at the Galena bar, has become well known in his profes-
sion in Jo Daviess County, while he is noted as a brilliant public
speaker all over the state. Mr. Kerz has been honored by appoint-
ment and by election to responsible offices and his efficiency in every-
thing he undertakes is as marked in his public activities as in the
management of his private interests.

Paul Kerz was born at Galena, Illinois, April 27, 1872, and is
the youngest born in a family of four children. His parents were
Capt. Paul and Barbara (Yunker) Kerz, natives of Germany, and
the father was commander of a river vessel. Capt. Paul Kerz and
family came to the United States in 1853 and settled in Jo Daviess
County and became one of the substantial citizens.

In the public schools of Galena, Paul Kerz received his early
educational training and in June, 1891, was creditably graduated
from the Galena High School. In September following he entered
the University of Wisconsin and there was graduated in June, 1894,
with his degree of A. B., and in the same month was admitted to
the bar at Springfield, Illinois. He began active practice at Galena,
July 7, 1894, having entered into partnership with J. J. Jones, under
the firm name of Jones & Kerz, and this relationship continued until
May, 1910, since which time Mr. Kerz has been alone. No mention
of his success at the bar would be complete without reference being
made to Mr. Kerz' unusual powers as a speaker, and .there are few
lawyers in active practice at the Galena bar who have not listened
with admiration to his speeches before a jury. This talent is entirely
inborn and since his school days he has almost unconsciously exer-
cised it and while yet a student in the university was so often invited
to be the orator of the occasion, during a strenuous political cam-
paign, that he became widely known as a speaker and was known
on the hustings as the "boy orator."

In politics Mr. Kerz is a democrat and has taken part in many
political conventions. Widely read and a deep thinker, he has settled
convictions on many subjects. He was a delegate to the sound
money convention held in Chicago, and was secretary of the party
at that time. In 1908 he was elected city attorney of Galena, and
has been twice re-elected, serving at present in his third term, while
for ten years he has been in the employ of the government as a
United States revenue gauger. He is an active member of the Illi-
nois State and the American Bar associations, and for some time
has been local attorney for the Merchants National Bank of Galena,
in which building he maintains his law office.

Mr. Kerz was united in marriage on October 5, 1899, to Miss

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Elenora Traut, who died in January, 1908. She was a daughter of
Paul Traut, who was president of the German Trust & Savings
Bank, of Dubuque, Iowa, and vice president of the Dubuque Malt-
ing & Brewing Company. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Kerz, all of whom survive : Paul A., Mary R., Louise A., Elenora J.
and Arnold P., the eldest son being a student in the Galena High
School and the others attending a parochial school. Mr. Kerz and
family belong to the Roman Catholic Church. The family residence
is at No. 704 Park Avenue, Galena. Personally Mr. Kerz is genial
and companionable and enjoys a wide circle of friends. He is the
Grand Knight in the fraternal order of Knights of Columbus,
Galena Council, No. 696.

GEORGE G. MABIN. In practice at Danville since 1877, George
B. Mabin in point of years of continuous service is now one of the
oldest members of the local bar and has been identified with an
extensive general practice extending over these years. Mr. Mabin
has perhaps been chiefly distinguished for his success in damage
cases, but he is familiar with the law in its various branches, and his
practice has included litigation in both the civil and criminal
branches.

George G. Mabin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, March 30,
1853, a son of Colonel Howard and Mary Lee Mabin. His father
was for many years connected with the boating interests between
Memphis and Vicksburg. George G. Mabin at about the age of
seventeen came to Illinois, attended school for a time, entered the
State University and completed a literary course, and in 1875 took
up the study of law with Capt. Thomas Smith of Champaign, Illi-
nois. The following year he became a student in the law office of
the firm of Lawrence & Townsend of Danville.

Admitted to the bar in 1877, Mr. Mabin at once began practice
in Danville, and has since enjoyed a fair share of the legal business
in Vermilion County. For six years he served as city attorney,
and at one time was given the nomination for state representative
on the republican ticket, but owing to the fact that he made no per-
sonal campaign for the office the election favored his more ener-
getic rival. Besides the many damage cases which he has handled,
Mr. Mabin some years ago won a verdict in the Corbett and Gernaur
breach of promise case, which carried with it an award of $54,000.

Mr. Mabin's interests center in his profession and in his home,
which is presided over by his wife, formerly Miss Margaret Hen-
derson of Danville. By their marriage they have two children,
Gordon and Isabella. Gordon H. Mabin was admitted to the bar
of Illinois in 1910, but is now engaged in farming in Tennessee.

Louis CLEMENTS. A prominent figure in much of the important
litigation which has occupied the courts of Vermilion County for
the past twelve years, Louis Clements is justly numbered with the

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leading lawyers of the Danville bar. He has practically spent his
life in his native state and was born at Carbondale, Jackson County,
Illinois, September 12, 1877. He is a son of Col. Isaac and Josephine
(Nutt) Clements. The maternal grandfather, Cyrus Nutt, D. D.,
LL. D., was of New England ancestry and of Revolutionary stock.
For a number of years Dr. Nutt was a member of the faculty of
Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, subsequently of the University at
Bloomington, Indiana, and was the first president of Asbury Uni-
versity. On the paternal side Mr. Clements is of Scotch and Eng-
lish descent, his ancestors having settled as early colonists in Vir-
ginia and in Maryland being members of Lord Baltimore's party.
They took part in the war of the Revolution and in many ways
were among the stable founders of the nation.

Col. Isaac Clements was a man of distinguished achievement in
many directions. He was born at Brookville, Indiana, March 31,
1837, and was a son of Isaac Clements, a native of Maryland, w'ho
was a pioneer in Indiana, where he lived into advanced age. In
early manhood the son, Isaac Clements, entered Asbury University,
at Greencastle, Indiana, although previously he had been teaching
school, and after his graduation from that institution in 1859
removed to Jackson County, Illinois. There he continued to teach
school while also engaged in the study of law, and in 1861 was
admitted to practice, but before opportunity was afforded to secure
professional standing, civil war fell upon the land and his imme-
diate decision was to enter military service. As second lieutenant
in Company G, Ninth Illinois Infantry, he served until 1863, when
he was promoted provost marshal at Athens, Alabama, in which
capacity he served until the spring of 1864, when he resigned in
order to be with his company that was then in the advance on
Atlanta. He took part in many important battles and was severely
wounded both at Shiloh and Corinth, and his valor was recognized
by his being honorably discharged at the end of the war with the
rank of captain. For forty years thereafter he was a resident of
Carbondale, Illinois, engaged in the practice of law and taking a
very active part in public affairs in that section of the state and
subsequently represented his district in the United States Congress.
From 1877 until 1888 he served continuously in the office of peni-
tentiary commissioner for the southern prison at Chester, and later,
for three years was United States pension agent at Chicago, and for
about a year was superintendent of the Soldiers Orphans Home at
Normal, Illinois. In December, 1898, he was appointed governor
of the Danville branch of the National Soldiers' Home, the first
incumbent, and thoroughly fitted for such a responsible position. He
was an honored member of the Masonic fraternity and was long
connected, officially and otherwise, with the Grand Army of the
Republic. Colonel Clements died May 31, 1909. On November 16,
1864, Colonel Clements was married to Miss Josephine Nutt, and

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four children were born to them, the three survivors being Frank,
Louis and Robert.

Fortunate in youthful environment, Louis Clements grew to
manhood the product of educational and social advantages and in
1887 was graduated from the Illinois State Normal School, subse-
quently becoming a student at the Northwestern University, Evans-
ton, where he was graduated with the degree B. A., with the class of
1902, following which he applied himself to the study of law. For
six years after admission to the bar he was associated in law prac-
tice with H. M. Steely, of Danville, since which time he has been
alone in practice. He has fulfilled every ambition cherished for
him by appreciative friends and commands not only a large and
lucrative practice, but also the respect and confidence of his asso-
ciates and fellow citizens. Public life, in connection with politics,
has never appealed to him, although he numbers among his clients
many men of public importance, but his chief interest is in his pro-
fession. He votes with the republican party and, in local matters,
is ever ready to go out of his way to lend his influence to movements
he deems beneficial. He was reared in the Methodist faith and many
of his contributions to charity are through the benevolent avenues
of that church. For many years he has been identified with the
Masonic fraternity and belongs to a number of other fraternal
organizations, including the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the
Mutual Protective League of Illinois. Social activities, to some
extent, claim a portion of his time, probably not enough, as is the
fault of many serious-minded, intellectual men, and he belongs to
the One Hundred Thousand Club and to the Danville Golf Club.
Mr. Clements resides at No. 1202 North Logan Avenue, Danville,
and maintains his offices at Nos. 4-5 Second National Bank Building.

FRED BOWMAN PENWELL. For many years the name of Penwell
has been prominently and honorably associated with the legal history
of Vermilion County, and its present representative, Fred Bowman
Penwell, a member of the law firm of Lindley, Penwell & Lindley ,
has fully sustained the reputation won by his father during a prac-
tice of nearly forty years as senior member of the old firm of Pen-
well & Lindley. Fred Bowman Penwell was born September 2,
1879, at Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, and is a son of Frank
W. and May (Bowman) Penwell.

Fred Bowman Penwell, after completing the high school course,
turned his attention to what was to be his real business in life. He
decided upon the study of the law and after pursuing a full law
course in the University of Illinois was graduated with the class
of 1905 and in the same year was admitted to the Illinois bar. Im-
mediately afterward he became a law clerk in the office of Penwell
& Lindley, where his training was exceptional on account of the
large amount of business done by that prominent firm. On Jan-
uary i, 1907, when his father retired, he became the second member

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of the firm of Lindley, Penwell & Lindley, which association still
continues. A close and careful student, possessing all the necessary
qualities which the various branches of his profession demand, Mr.
Penwell has been of great value to the firm and has built up a very
substantial individual clientage.

While not very active in politics because of his many profes-
sional demands upon his time, in part, Mr. Penwell takes a deep
interest in all public matters and, believing that prominent men
should assume the responsibility of their convictions, gives support
to the political party of his choice, which is the republican. He is
a thirty-second degree Mason and still retains his membership in
the Sigma Chi, his old college fraternity. In the pleasant social
life of his native city, where he is known by every one, he has always
been popular because of pleasing personality and upright life and
his friends and well wishers are on every hand. Unmarried, he
resides with his parents in the old family home at No. 334 North
Gilbert Street, Danville, maintaining his business office in the Daniel
Building.

HON. ANDREW B. DENNIS. Legal ability and political prefer-
ment are often associated and the reason is not far to seek, for no
man of indifferent talent can become prominent and influential as
a lawyer, and the very qualities which make him notable in his pro-
fession are those which qualify him for public office. Trained facul-
ties and an enlightened understanding must be associated with fidel-
ity to private trust and to public duty, and honesty, courage and
sincerity must be inherent characteristics. Vermilion County is for-
tunate in being able to number in its citizenship men who have dis-
tinguished themselves both professionally and politically and
attention may be called to Andrew B. Dennis, the present assistant
United States district attorney for Eastern Illinois.

Andrew B. Dennis was born in Vermilion County, Illinois, in
1874, and is one of a family of six children born to his parents, who
were William W. and Josephine (Savage) Dennis. He was reared
on his father's farm and attended the public schools in boyhood,
later becoming a student in the Northern Indiana Normal School at
Valparaiso, and still later the Illinois State University at Bloom-
ington, where he was graduated in 1898, and in October of the fol-
lowing year was admitted to the bar and ever since has been engaged
in the practice of law at Danville, with offices in the Temple Build-
ing. He also taught school in Vermilion County for six years.
While his practice was general in character, he displayed unusual
talent along particular lines and thus more than justified his selec-
tion and appointment as assistant United States district attorney
for Eastern Illinois, which honorable preferment came to him in
1914. For many years Mr. Dennis has been an active factor in
democratic politics in Illinois and a dominating figure in Vermilion
County, and in 1910 he was elected a member of the Legislature, in

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which body he served with characteristic efficiency. He is one of the
leading members of the Vermilion County Bar Association.

Mr. Dennis was married to Miss Flora E. Hopper, who is a
daughter of John Hopper, and they reside at No. 501 West Madison
Street, Danville. They are members of the Church of Christ. He
is well known in fraternal circles, being a valued member of the
Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America
and the Court of Honor.

DANIEL HOGAN, JR. Seemingly designed by nature for the law
and in preparation for the same and in early practice enjoying
unusual advantages and opportunities, Daniel Hogan, Jr., one of
the able members of the Danville bar, has, in his professional
capacity here won a solid reputation. He was born in 1879, at
Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois, and is a son of Daniel and
Dora (Wallace) Hogan. He has two sisters, Rose E. Elliott and
Blanche Clements. The late Major Daniel Hogan during his entire
life was a power in Illinois politics and served with distinction in
the State Senate.

Scarcely had Daniel Hogan, Jr., finished his public school course
when he was appointed a page in the senate chamber, and there his
advantages for the study of state problems and remedies were
unusual and his ready intelligence absorbed it all. Gifted with a
pleasing appearance and winning manner, and industrious, obliging
and efficient in the performance of his duties, Mr. Hogan made
friends of the influential men of the Senate, many of whom took a
personal interest in the young man, and their advice and influence
proved very acceptable, and a number of them he still can call his
friends. After completing his studies for the bar, thoroughly mas-
tering every point, he was admitted to the bar in 1901 and imme-
diately entered the office of the late Solomon Bethea, who was then
United States district attorney, and remained in the employ of that
great Chicago lawyer until Judge Bethea was elevated to the Federal
bench. Then an association no less helpful was formed, with Judge
Kenesaw Landis, who, at that time, was general counsel for the
Grand Trunk Railway, and this legal association continued until
Judge Landis became judge of the United States District Court of
the Northern District of Illinois, and a jurist of national reputation.

In 1907 Mr. Hogan came to Danville and has ever since been
identified with the best interests of Vermilion County. He imme-
diately opened a law office in the Second National Bank Building
and engaged in a general practice of the law. An honorable and
upright life and an abiding sense of public responsibility, has always
preserved Mr. Hogan's integrity as a man and as an attorney.
While he is connected with numerous welfare movements, it is the
personal touch that has endeared him to many, for it is well known
that his professional charities are wide. A worthy cause has never
been refused by him because the fee could not be given on account

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of poverty, and wise counsel and sensible, practical and reliable
advice, given freely and unostentatiously, has saved many a heart-
break and shipwreck of life. In or out of public life, Mr. Hogan
is a representative man of Vermilion County.

HOWARD A. SWALLOW. In his native city of Danville Howard
A. Swallow has practiced law since 1902. His father before him
was one of the able lawyers of the Danville bar, and the son has
all the qualifications and liberal training which make for success in
this exacting profession. Mr. Swallow's position in the local bar is
indicated by the fact that he is now serving as president of the Ver-
milion County Bar Association, and in 1914 he was selected corpora-
tion counsel of the City of Danville.

Howard A. Swallow was born at Danville August 18, 1878. His
father, Charles M. Swallow, now deceased, was a native of Penn-
sylvania and came to Danville in 1871. He was graduated in that
year from the law department of the University of Michigan, and
in 1 872. was admitted to the Vermilion County bar and began prac-
tice at Danville and in a few years rose to a position as a leading
lawyer of the city. His wife, whose maiden name was Clara North-
rup, was a native of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, and died
February 7, 1879.

Howard A. Swallow, the only son, attended the public schools of
Danville as a boy, was graduated in 1896 from the Keystone Acad-
emy of Pennsylvania, and continued his literary education through
Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island, where he was grad-
uated a member of the class of 1900. His broad literary training
enabled him to make rapid progress in his preparation for the bar.
Mr. Swallow is a graduate of the Columbian Law School at Wash-
ington, D. C., with the class of 1902. On returning to Danville, Mr.
Swallow joined his father in practice, and has since made a reputa-
tion on his individual attainments. His associates regard him as
possessing an unusually analytical mind, and one capable of mar-
shalling facts and arguments with great effectiveness in the trial of
causes.

In 1905 Mr. Swallow was united in marriage to Miss Grace
Hamilton, who was born at Providence, Rhode Island. They are
the parents of two children: Richard H., eight years of age; and
Barbara Northrup, aged five. They have one of the hospitable
homes of Danville, and are members of the best social circles of the
city. Mr. Swallow is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with the Masonic order,
and is prominent in Scottish Rite Masonry. He is one of the leaders
in the Vermilion County republican party, and at the present time
is treasurer of the County Republican Central Committee. His
aspirations have never extended to any political office except in direct
line with his profession, and his singleness of devotion to his pro-
fession has brought him to a successful position early in life, and he
now enjoys a growing practice in his native city.

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