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1906

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MARSHALL FIELD

AS the •wealthiest dry goods merchant in the
world and a financial factor in many of the
leading corporate organizations of the country Mr.
Field in his personality was simplicity itself. He
was unostentatious, public-spirited with modesty,
retiring. Forty -nine years a resident of Chicago
he had been essentially a merchant, devoting his
strength and brain to the systematic and scientific
building up of great establishments of trade. In
so doing he had at the same time given of his
fortune to the ethical advancement of Chicago
notably his gift of a million dollars to the Field
Columbian Museum and of nearly half a million in
land and money to the University of Chicago. If
Mr. Field had expressed himself on the secret of
his success he probably would have said, "system
in all things."

MARVIN HUGHITT

MR. HUGHITT bears the honorary title of
"dean" of the railway presidents of the
West. From the day he mastered telegraphy by
ear in New York state, fifty years ago, to the
present time he has been an active railway official
occupying all the offices of trainmaster, assistant
general superintendent, general superintendent,
general manager, vice-president and finally presi-
dent of the Chicago £$, Northwestern system and
representative of the extensive Vanderbilt interests
connected therewith. Practical and profitable
railroading always has been Mr. Hughitt's forte
even in the days of the civil war when he success-
fully demonstrated as a train dispatcher his ability
safely and expeditiously to care for Federal troops.
He has been eighteen years the head of the
system he now represents, and one of the most
honored of Chicago's citizens.

JOHN J. MITCHELL

FROM messenger boy to president of the bank
in which he once served as an employe is
the career of Mr. Mitchell. His financial interests
now extend not only to all parts of this country
but to the centers of money in Europe and the
Orient. At 19 he was a minor employe of the
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and at 26 presi-
dent of the bank. His varied interests now extend
to insurance, an advisory capacity with the Audit
company of New York; trustee of the American
Surety company, director in half a dozen railway
companies and in several electric light and power
companies, and a power in half a score of other
important corporations. Born in Illinois, Mr.
Mitchell has made his reputation as a conservative
financier in Chicago and won the additional repu-
tation of being an accessible and fair-spoken man
of business.

CHARLES H. ALDRICH

INDIANA hails Mr. Aldrich as a native son, but
his Alma Mater of Michigan claims grateful
recognition of him as well. He was an early
student at Ann Arbor and a graduate in 1875,
receiving later (1893) the degree of A. M. His
practice of the law began in Fort Wayne and was
extended to the general government when he
became solicitor-general in 1892. He is fond of
golf at Glen View, but more interested in intricate
governmental and corporation questions involving
vested rights. In this solving of complex prob-
lems he has won an enviable reputation through
the judicial character of his mind and his extensive
knowledge of the law.

FRANK O. LOWDEN

MR. LOWDEN has taken step by step his
successes in life through his own energy.
The law is his hobby. He was valedictorian of
the Iowa State University when he was graduated
in 1885 and valedictorian on his graduation from
the Union College of Law in 1887. In 1898 he
was president of the Law Club of Chicago, and a
year later professor of the Northwestern Univer-
sity Law School. He is a member of the
American, Illinois State and Chicago Bar associa-
tions and a trustee of Knox college. In the legal
world he is ranked one of the first corporation
lawyers of the West, having the advantage of long
practical experience and broad and persistent
study. In the campaign of 1904 he was a member
of the Republican national committee from Illinois.

JAMES GAMBLE ROGERS

A GRADUATE from the West Division High
school in 1885 and from Yale University in
1889, Mr. Rogers began the study of architecture
the latter year and practiced on his own account in
1892. He was a student in the Ecole des Beaux
Arts, of Paris, tor six years, becoming architecte
diplome pare goverment Francais. Since his
return from Paris he has been engaged in general
architectural practice in Chicago and has designed
structures of many varied types. He is a mem-
ber of the Society of Beaux Arts, New York, and
the Societe des Architectes Diplome, of France.
Originality always has characterized his designs
with a happy blending of the practical and artistic.

JAMES H. ECKELS

FINANCE is the bone and sinew of life to Mr.
Eckels. He has given at least twenty-five
years of his busy days to the study of national
finances and the highest arts of modern banking
as exemplified in American financial institutions.
The confidence reposed in Mr. Eckels when
President Cleveland appointed him comptroller of
the currency in 1893— an office he held four years
has been reflected by his rapid advance in the
banking world to the presidency of the Commercial
National bank of Chicago. Mr. Eckels is fond of
music, books, the charms of country life, and the
pleasures of the family circle. He is one of the
most modest of Chicago's influential men.

JOHN C. FETZER

FROM the days when the site of the old
Tremont House sold for a pair of boots to
the million dollar valuations of the present the
importance of the sound judge of realty values has
steadily increased. Mr. Fetzer has won his high
reputation in Chicago financial circles through
unerring judgment as to not only the present but
the prospective future worth of centrally located
property. Born in Pennsylvania in 1865, in 1896
he took charge of the properties of the McCormick
estate of Chicago, and has won a phenomenal
success with them. He has the most exclusive
real estate clientele in the city.

ARTHUR MEEKER

MR. MEEKER is the general manager of
Armour's Stock Yards plant and president
of the Omaha Packing company. He also is vice-
president of the Hammond Packing company,
and the Hutchinson Packing company, and a
director of Armour C& Co., and of the National
Packing company. Mr. Meeker has made the
industrial and commercial side of the Armour
business a life-long study, identifying himself
with every step forward of the firm. When free
from business cares he has the Chicago, Mer-
chants, Washington Park, Caxton, Saddle and
Cycle, Onwentsia and Chicago Golf for entertain-
ment or his delightful summer home which he
opens each summer at Beverly Farms, Massa-
chusetts.

N. W. HARRIS

LIFE insurance first inspired Mr. Harris to an
active financial career. At eighteen he was
a solicitor for the Equitable Life Assurance Society
of New York and a general agent for the same
company when he was twenty. As early as 1867
he organized and became the secretary and general
manager of the Union Central Life Insurance com-
pany of Cincinnati. In 1883, after an extensive
journey abroad, he organized the banking house of
N. W. Harris CSt, Co., one of the largest in the
country in its specialty of dealing in state, county
and city bonds. Mr. Harris has given much of his
life as a layman to promoting the welfare of the
Methodist church, with which he is conspicuously
connected. As a trustee of Northwestern Uni-
versity his name always will be indelibly inscribed
on the tablets bearing the names of the men who
have given it fame.

EDWIN L. LOBDELL

LOBDELL was born in Illinois and his
financial fame has been won within its
confines. Coming to Chicago in 1873 after his
education was completed he became a teller in the
First National Bank for seven years and then
passed to the Board of Trade as a partner in the
firm of Nash, Wright C& Co. Later he started a
banking and brokerage business of his own. From
this grew through the years the present well known
firm of Edwin L. Lobdell CS> Co. Aside from his
many business responsibilities Mr. Lobdell is
conspicuous in club life and its social features. He
is a member of the Union League, Athletic,
Bankers, Exmoor, Midlothian and Twentieth
Century. Fond of athletics, he maintains a
delightful summer home at Highland Park.

FRANK B. TOBEY

FAR down on Cape Cod, at Dennis, Mr. Tobey
was born, worked on a farm, clerked in a
country store and postoffice, became identified
with the anti-slavery movement and wrote the call
and was secretary of the first Republican conven-
tion held in his native town. By 1857 he was
convinced that he was destined to be a furniture
manufacturer and a year later inaugurated the
business in Chicago with which his name is now
inseparably connected. He now is president of
the Tobey Furniture company, president of the
Bureau of Justice, director and treasurer of the
Children's Home and Aid Society, president of the
Society of Ethical Culture and president of the
board of Trustees of Rush Medical college.

ALFRED L. BAKER

BANKING propositions and stocks and bonds
won Mr. Baker from a long practice of the-
law. Born in Massachusetts, he studied law in
Boston and was admitted to the bar in 1881 and
practiced at Lynn until 1886. The same year he
removed to Chicago and became the senior mem-
ber of Baker C8k Greeley until he retired to engage
in the banking and brokerage business and became
a member of the Chicago Stock Exchange, the
Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Stock
Exchange. He displayed such ability in the finan-
cial world that he became president of the Chicago
Stock Exchange in 1898 and later president of the
Merchants' club, with which he has been promi-
nently identified ever since. In movements to
improve Chicago he has been a conspicuous factor
during the last seven years.

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EDWARD B. BUTLER

HAVING occupation always at hand has been
the life-spirit of Mr. Butler. Since his
earliest days his life always has been busy. As
early as 1870 he was engaged with a wholesale
dry goods house in Boston, a training which led
to his eventually founding with his brother,
George H., the house of Butler Brothers at
Boston. Similar houses are now to be found in
Chicago, St. Louis and New York. They repre-
sent the industry of a merchant — a title Mr. Butler
is proud of. During the World's Fair he was
chairman of the ways and means committee and
chairman of the department of admissions and
collections. The Illinois Manual Training School
Farm at Glenwood, Hull House, the Chicago
Orphan Asylum, Krring Woman's Refuge, First
State Fawners' Society, Rockford college and
Bureau of Associated Charities can all bear
splendid testimony to the time and means he has
given to their advancement. He is a member of
six clubs and fond of outdoor life.

WILLIAM BEST

MR. BEST was born in the quaint old town of
Canterbury, England and educated there and
in the Chicago public schools. As far back as 1857
he was an office boy for John C. Partridge £$, Co.,
a firm in which, through industry, he was destined
to become a partner in a few years. When
Mr. Partridge died he reorganized the house into
the firm of Best, Russell iS> Co., and now known as
Best £&, Russell, incorporated. His fellow citizens
frequently have honored him with public office -
South Town collector, South Park commissioner,
president and auditor of the South Park board. He
is a high degree Mason, a trustee of the Sixth
Presbyterian church and a member of half a dozen
of the leading clubs.

JACOB R. CUSTER

HISTORIC Valley Forge was the birthplace of
Mr. Custer and his college life began at
Washington Hall, Trappe, Pa., and was extended
to Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, from which
he was graduated as an A. B. In 1869 he was
graduated from the Albany (N. Y.) Law School.
In the legal profession Mr. Custer's career has been
active and conspicuous. He is a master of chance-
ry and for years was a partner with the late William
J. Campbell. For eight years he was counsel to
the sheriff of Cook County and his sound judg-
ment and legal acumen were frequently called
upon to decide many knotty questions. Mr. Custer
is a member of the Union League Club and presi-
dent of the Calumet.

THOMAS E. MITTEN

BORN and educated in England Mr. Mitten
came to the United States in 1880 and began
his railway career as a telegraph operator for the
Chicago C& Eastern Illinois railway. In his service
with that company he was successively agent,
train dispatcher, trainmaster and adjuster of claims,
so that he acquired a practical and invaluable
knowledge of all important transportation ques-
tions. To add to his varied experiences he acted
as general superintendent of a Denver railway,
was general manager of the Milwaukee Street
Railroad company and general superintendent of
the International Railway company of Buffalo,
advancing in 1905 to be first vice-president of the
Chicago City Railway company. He is essentially
a transportation expert.

EDWIN A. POTTER

R. POTTER was born in the historic
town of Bath, Me. Until he was thirty
years old he was connected with his father's lum-
ber and ship-building business at Bath, but in 1872
he established in Chicago a branch of the china and
glassware house of A. French & Co., which later
was incorporated as the French & Potter company,
and discontinued in 1890. In 1889 Mr. Potter
became a member of the piano house of Lyon,
Potter & Co., which later retired from business on
the advancement of Mr. Potter to the presidency
of the American Trust and Savings bank. Mr.
Potter has been president of the Kenwood club
and is a leading financial authority on La Salle
street.

WILLIAM L. BROWN

IN IRON ores and the market for pig iron Mr.
Brown is a leader of the highest recognized
authority. In 1859 he was a clerk for a Board of
Trade commission house and between 1862 and
1865 was fighting the battles of the Union in the
Vicksburg and other campaigns. The iron busi-
ness attracted him when he returned from the
war, and by 1883 he was able to organize the firm
of Pickands, Brown £& Co., one of the largest in
the United States in the iron and iron ore trade.
The Chicago Shipbuilding company is one of his
children and he is president of the American Ship-
building company. Despite his intense business
occupation and the many varied corporations he
represents Mr. Brown has a host of clubs which
cordially welcome him — the Chicago, Commercial,
Caxton, Tolleston, Glen View, Evanston, Evanston
Country, Castalia, Fishing and Mid-Day.

JOHN S. FIELD

ICE and the many uses to which it can be put al-
ways has been the conspicuous part of the in-
dustry of Mr. Field. He is president of the Knicker-
bocker Ice company and of the Consumers company.
His business life began with the old ice firm of
Swett & Crouch, Chicago, as a solicitor. When
the business was purchased by E. A. Shedd C8.
Co., in 1879 he became a member of the firm, ad-
vancing to be vice-president and general manager
when it was incorporated as the Knickerbocker
Ice company. When this company in 1898 absorb-
ed thirty-five of the local ice companies he be-
came president. Mr. Field has been a trustee of
Plymouth church for six years and chairman of the
board three years. He is a director of the Glen-
wood school, the Charity Hospital and of the first
board of the Chicago Commons.

CHARLES F. SPALDING

AFTER leaving school Mr. Spalding joined his
father in the Spalding Lumber company,
and learned the practical and financial side of the
lumber business at Cedar River, Michigan. His
advancement was rapid, due to his thorough
application to the work. He now is vice-president
of the Spalding Lumber company, a director in the
Hibernian bank, resident vice-president of the
American Surety company and a director in the
First National bank of Marinette.Wis., Menominee
River Lumber company, the Commercial National
bank of Chicago and the Commercial bank of Iron
Mountain, Michigan. Born in Chicago Mr.
Spalding acquired his early education through the
Harvard School of Chicago and Exeter Academy.

WALTER S. BOGLE

IN knowledge of the coal business Mr. Bogle is a
leader. As a graduate of the Chicago High school
in 1868 he entered his father's coal business and
was for years manager of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal company. He now is president of
the Crescent Coal C8t> Mining company, of the W. S.
Bogle Coal CS, Mining company and a director
of the Fort Dearborn National Bank. For three
years he was a member of the West Park board,
president of the Iroquois for one year and five
years vice-president. In public affairs he always
has taken a prominent part figuring in many of the
leading municipal enterprises and always giving
his support to whatever would better Chicago.

W. VERNON BOOTH

MR BOOTH, leaving college, entered into a
business his father established half a
century ago and now the largest enterprise of its
kind in the world. His executive ability touches
and controls great fish packing houses at Baltimore,
salmon canneries at Astoria, Oregon, steamship
lines, innumerable can factories, cold storage ware-
houses, fishing fleets, and the like, giving employ-
ment to more than 5,000 men. Aside from the
extensive time which Mr. Booth gives to his busi-
ness he is a hospitable host, one of the active and
brilliant figures of the Onwentsia and Saddle and
Cycle clubs, of the Chicago Yacht club, Athletic and
Chicago Golf. A fine horseman, a lover of fair
sport, he easily holds one of the highest social posi-
tions in the city.

EDWARD P. RUSSELL

NEW ENGLAND gave Mr. Russell to the
West. He was a graduate of the Massa-
chusetts public schools but came West to win his
fortune and fame. The banking and brokerage
business received his favorable attention and his
natural abilities took him into the offices of
Edward L. Brewster £8, Co., in 1885. In the end
he became the senior member of Russell, Brewster
C8> Co. Following the line of his business activi-
ties Mr. Russell extended his influence to
becoming a member and director of the American
and British Securities company of London, and a
member of the Chicago Stock Exchange and the
Chicago Board of Trade. In club life he enjoys
the hospitalities of the Exmoor and Chicago, at
home, and of the Metropolitan, in New York.

JAMES ELLIOTT JENNINGS

BORN in a little log cabin in Arkansas Mr.
Jennings has made his way upward through
the persistency and intelligence of his own efforts
He is an enthusiastic golfer and devotee of outdoor
sports and exercises, owning a 110 acre stock farm
and country home at Delavan, Wisconsin and
belonging to the Evanston Country, Evanston Golf
and Glen View clubs. While attaining success
Mr. Jennings' occupations have been multifarious.
He was manager of the Thayer Transfer company,
of Kansas City, a salesman of Browning, King & Co.,
with Humphrey & Co., of St. Louis and then with
J. Grafton Parker & Co., in the real estate and
renting business. Mr. Jennings in the growth of
his business abilities has given his energies and
thought to the needs of the small investor; how to
make his capital profitable. He now is president
of the Jennings Real Estate Loan company.

HENRY U. MUDGE

MR. MUDGE entered the railway service as a
water boy on track work with the Santa
Fe Railway system, since which time he has been
a telegraph operator, brakeman and baggageman,
conductor on freight, passenger and work trains,
train dispatcher, roadmaster, trainmaster, assist-
ant superintendent, superintendent and general
superintendent, general manager and now a second
vice-president — the last position being held with
the Rock Island system. Having his headquarters
for years at Topeka, Mr. Mudge is known to every
farmer and cattleman, every mine owner and
builder of western towns from the Kaw river to
California. He made himself during his long serv-
ice with the Santa Fe one of the most popular
and practical railway men in the West, holding
through the years the confidence of every man
who knew him.

WILLIAM W. TRACY

PARKS, banking, affairs of national politics and
the charms of a fine horse serve to make up
the daily life of Mr. Tracy, who is one of the
busiest bankers and brokers of Chicago's financial
center. As a graduate from two eminent Massa-
chusetts institutions of learning, in 1882 and 1886,
Mr. Tracy located at Springfield, 111., as a messenger
in the First National Bank, of which he consecu-
tively became corresponding clerk, teller, assistant
cashier and vice-president and of which he now is
a director. His banking business in Chicago began
in 1895. He served five years in the Fifth Regi-
ment, I. N. G., the governor's guard, has been
president of the National Republican League and of
the Republican League of Illinois, president of the
Lincoln Park board, and one of the leading club
members of the city, especially in Onwentsia.

ALONZO C. MATHER

TNVENTOR and manufacturer are the titles
JL bestowed upon Mr. Mather. After leaving school
he was first employed at Utica, N. Y., then at
Quincy, 111., and in 1873 chose Chicago as his home.
He is the patentee of many inventions, including
a glove fastener, of which large quantities have been
sold. His leading inventions are the Mather
automatic car coupler, and a car for cattle trans-
portation, which greatly adds to the comfort and
condition of the cattle transported. For this he
received a gold medal from the American Humane
association. He is now president of the Mather
Humane Stock Transportation company and of the
Mather Stock Car company. In his early life he
was one of the first members of the First Regi-
ment, I. N. G.

JOHN M. WHITMAN

MR. WHITMAN is of Scotch descent. He
has been since 1899 the 4th vice-president
of the Chicago & Northwestern railway. His first
work in the railway business was as a rodman in
the engineering department of the Illinois Central
road. Between 1858 and 1860 he was engaged as
a leveler in the work of enlarging the Erie canal,
going from that to the construction of railways in
Georgia. When the Union Stock Yards of Chicago
were designed in 1867 he was in charge of the con-
struction work and also in control of work at the
same period for the deepening of the Illinois and
Michigan canal. As early as 1883 he was superin-
tendent of the Iowa division of the Northwestern
and subsequently connected with the Chicago, St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha system as general
superintendent. There hardly is a phase of prac-
tical railway life that Mr. Whitman has not ex-
perienced.

SIDNEY C. LOVE

BISHOP WHIPPLE, one of the pioneer
prelates of Minnesota, and the head of the
Shattuck school, was the educator of Mr. Love,
who first entered into business in a bank of Keokuk,
Iowa, and left that to join the South Side Elevated
Railroad Company of Chicago. The banking and
brokerage firm of John C. King C& Company was
organized by him in 1897, but from which he
retired in 1900 to form the present firm of Sidney
C. Love CS, Co., with offices in this city, New York
and St. Louis. 'While Mr. Love gives close
attention to business he is fond of the outdoor life
and the pleasures of golf and the handling of spirit-
ed horses. He is known as one of the first drivers
and equestrians of the North Shore.

THOMAS CRATTY

AS A member of the law firm of Cratty
Brothers, Jarvis C8!, Latimer, Mr. Cratty
has given long attention to technical law. He
was a member of the legal profession at Peoria as
early as 1869 and continued practice there with his
brother, Josiah, until 1884, when they removed to
Chicago and established themselves as authorities
on corporation law. In this particular branch he
has distinguished himself as an authority on the
particular questions of the organization of cor-
porations, the laws of the various states regarding
this, the rights of corporations and individuals,
and the relations between corporations and the
public on a legal basis. In this class of study and
practice he has won a high reputation.

SILAS H. STRAWN

MR. STRAWN graduated from the Ottawa
High school in 1885, but before beginning
the active practice of law in which he has won his
success, taught school for two years. After read-
ing law in the office of Bull £& Strawn at Ottawa
he came to Chicago in 1891 and attended the
University Extension lectures of the University of
Chicago for two years. Admitted to the bar in
1889 he first practiced at Ottawa and then con-
nected himself with Weigley, Bulkley £& Gray, of
Chicago, and Iat2r with 'Winston C& Meagher, in
the latter firm eventually becoming a partner. He
is now of Winston, Payne C®> Strawn, a director
in the Chicago Terminal railway company and
counsel of the East Chicago company. He is one
of the directors of the Midlothian Golf club.

AMBROSE L. THOMAS

TN the world of making a thing known through
-L a telling advertisement Mr. Thomas has made
a reputation second to none. He is president and
director of the Lord C$t> Thomas company, also of
the Sterling Remedy company, vice-president and
director of the Orangeine Chemical company, and
director of the Metropolitan Trust & Savings Bank
and the Indiana Mineral Springs company. Mr.
Thomas believes in publicity for every meritor-
ious public ware. The science of advertising and
the business mechanism of a successful advertis-
ing house have been his favorite studies for years.
Through them he has risen to the top-notch of
success. Mr. Thomas has shunned public life
although he made an efficient and conscientious
south town collector at a time when a high sense
of honor counted for much in that office.

WILLIAM H. LAKE

MR. LAKE was sixteen years old when he
entered the grain business in Chicago with
the old firm of Dwight CS!, Gillett. For eight years
he was with Bartlett, Frazier £8, Co., and later
organized the firm of Lake CS, Leask. He is now
the senior member of the firm of W. H. Lake £&>
Co., and a member of the Chicago Board of Trade,
Chicago Stock Exchange, Milwaukee Chamber of
Commerce and New York Produce Exchange. In
club life he connects with the Washington Park,
the Chicago Athletic, the Chicago Yacht and the
Glen View, being an enthusiastic golfer. On the
board he is known as one of the modern, pro-
gressive dealers and traders of high principles.

JOHN S. MILLER

FEW who know him today would suspect that
Mr. Miller once was an able teacher of
mathematics and Latin and Greek in the old and
famous St. Lawrence University. Even after he
was admitted to the bar at Ogdensburg, New
York, in 1870, his educational work continued. He
did not relinquish it until 1874, when he removed
to Chicago and began the legal career which has
placed him in the foremost rank of the corporation
lawyers of the country. While corporation coun-
sel of Chicago (1891-93) Mr. Miller argued the case
of the city against the Illinois Central railway in
the Lake Front Park litigation and won. As a
member of the board of education he was con-
spicuous for his advocacy of methods of sim-
plicity. He has been president of the Union
League club and is one of the leaders in all civic
improvement work.

ALBERT J. EARLING

IN 1906, Mr. Earling will have been forty years
in continuous service with the Chicago, Mil-
waukee CSt, St. Paul railway, a most remarkable
record. Born in Wisconsin and receiving a com-
mon school education, he entered the employ of the
road in 1866 and has been successively five years a
telegraph operator, five years a train dispatcher,
four years assistant superintendent, two years div-
ision superintendent, four years assistant general
manager, two years general superintendent, six
years general manager, three years second vice-
president and general manager, and six years presi-
dent. His name is synonymous with the growth
and development of the Milwaukee system of
which he has become an almost inseparable part.

E. J. BRUNDAGE

WHILE employed in railway offices in Detroit
and Chicago during his youth Mr. Brundage
studied law in leisure moments, being admitted to
the Illinois bar in 1892 and graduating from the
Chicago College of Law with an LL. B. Born in
New York Mr. Brundage chose Chicago for his
home, became twice a member of the state legis-
lature and in 1904 was elected president of the
county board. He has been one of the inspiring
factors of the new county building, which he prom-
ises shall be not only a work of art but one of the
most practical public buildings ever erected in the
West. As a public official he is known as an
untiring worker a man of broad ideas and extreme
energy.

JOHN A. DRAKE

LOVE of finely bred horses, fondness for out-
door sports and great capacity for taking on
important business enterprises have marked the
interesting life of Mr. Drake. While the greater
portion of his time is now given to his business
enterprises in New York, his name long has been
intimately associated with the life of Washington
Park club, Chicago, and the promotion of legiti-
mate and healthful gentleman's sport. Mr. Drake
takes to golf with great zest and is an extensive
traveler. Retiring from business some years ago
he took to racing through sheer admiration for a
spirited horse. As he has put it himself: "I never
had any idea of making any money out of it, and
no man who goes into racing for the sport of it
can make any money out of it."

JOSEPH H. DEFREES

IN the development and application of corporation
law Mr. Defrees has given the best of three
decades or ever since he left Northwestern Uni-
versity. He was born at Goshen, Indiana, and
practiced at the Indiana bar until 1888 when he
came to Chicago and began legal life here in the
firm of Shuman £&, Defrees; later of Aldrich, Payne
£& Defrees and now Defrees, Brace & Ritter. Mr.
Defrees is a director of Kelly, Maus C& Co., the A.
H. Pierce Manufacturing company, the Chicago
Car Seal company ; president of the Windermere
company, and vice-president of the Western Con-
solidated Granite company. He is a member of
the Chicago Bar Association and of the Chicago
Law club and an active Republican.

ERNEST W. HEATH

MONROE Heath, one of the early Mayors of
Chicago, was the father of Mr. Heath. The
former in 1851 had organized the Heath ca, Mil-
ligan company, paints and oils, and to this the son
went in 1874 becoming secretary and treasurer of
the Heath and Milligan Manufacturing company
when it was incorporated in 1881 and president
and manager of the company in 1894. Mr. Heath's
business and social career always has been identi-
fied with the growth of Chicago. He was born
and educated here, his ambitions have been grati-
fied here, and he has risen to the eminence of
being recognized as one of the leading conservative
figures in the city's commercial world.

JOSEPH HARRIS

IN THE future of the automatic telephone Mr.
Harris has persistently pinned his faith.
When it was introduced into the departments of
the government during the Spanish-American war
of 1898 he said it had come to stay— the telephone
that does away with the "hello girl." When the
imperial government of Germany adopted it for
use in Berlin and gave its orders to Chicago man-
ufacturers for the automatic switchboards, Mr.
Harris repeated his assertion. 'When he saw
10,000 of these automatic telephones in practical
use in Chicago, he declared that all his faith and
prophecies of the past had come true. Mr. Harris
was born and educated in Chicago and for years
was a salesman for a clothing house. When he
became interested in the automatic telephone,
Fortune smiled upon him.

JOHN M. EWEN

COOK county's new, practical and artistic
public offices will be constructed under the
supervision of Mr. Ewen who is an engineer and
builder of national note. Receiving his education
at Russell's Military Academy, New Haven, and
Stevens Institute of Technology, he was with the
J. B. and J. M. Cornell Iron Works for three years,
•with W. L. B. Jenney for one year; four years
engineer and general manager with Burnham C&
Root and ten years (four in London) with the
George A. Fuller company on building construc-
tion as vice-president, general manager and
western contracting agent. Since 1902 he has been
the vice-president and western representative
of the Thorn pson-Starrett company, of New
York, building contractors. He has been actively
identified with the erection of many of the high
office buildings of the United States.

CHARLES W. GILLETT

SEEING business life first as a clerk and
traveling salesman Mr. Gillett became an
advertising manager and two years later formed
the Champion Iron and Steel Company, of
Muskegon, Michigan, which was subsequently sold
to the United States Steel corporation. Since that
time Mr. Gillett has given his virile energies to the
stock market and the promotion of the extensive
interests of the E. W. Gillett Company, manu-
facturers of baking powders and extracts. 'While
rising into prominence in the business world he
was an active member of the First Regiment,
Illinois National Guard, doing much to give that
regiment the enviable reputation it now bears. He
is prominently connected with the Union League
and Washington Park clubs and has his residence
in the beautiful Lake Forest region.

CHARLES W. GILLETT

SEEING business life first as a clerk and
traveling salesman Mr. Gillett became an
advertising manager and two years later formed
the Champion Iron and Steel Company, of
Muskegon, Michigan, which •was subsequently sold
to the United States Steel corporation. Since that
time Mr. Gillett has given his virile energies to the
stock market and the promotion of the extensive
interests of the E. W. Gillett Company, manu-
facturers of baking powders and extracts. While
rising into prominence in the business world he
was an active member of the First Regiment,
Illinois National Guard, doing much to give that
regiment the enviable reputation it now bears. He
is prominently connected with the Union League
and Washington Park clubs and has his residence
in the beautiful Lake Forest region.

ALBERT B. DICK

AFTER a long experience with manufacturing
enterprises and the lumber trade, Mr. Dick,
as president of the company which he represents,
has given his entire attention to the manufacture
of the Edison mimeograph and Edison supplies.
Receiving his education in the Galesburg public
school he plunged actively into business with the
Brown agricultural implement manufacturers for a
number of years and then with the Deere £&
Mansur company and the Moline Lumber company.
As far back as 1883 he organized and incorporated
the A. B. Dick company, dealers in lumber, and
manufacturers, and became a prominent figure
in the commercial life of Chicago. Mr. Dick makes
his home at Lake Forest and is a member of
several leading clubs.

G. WATSON FRENCH

IT was in 1877 that Mr. French engaged as a
moulder with the Eagle Manufacturing com-
pany, of Davenport, Iowa, and so satisfactorily dis-
charged his duties that he eventually became presi-
dent of the company. He also is president of the
Bettendorf Metal Wheel company, a director of
the Republic Iron and Steel company and
chairman of its executive committee. He is vice-
president of the Annie Laurie Mining company.
He was born in Iowa and educated at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass. In club life, of which
he is fond, he is a member of the Midlothian, the
Chicago, the Calumet and Mid-Day. In the steel
industry he has won an enviable success.

ALFRED STROMBERGU

IN electrical work, and a knowledge of the
science of electricity, Mr. Stromberg is a past
master. His education in this work began in
Sweden, extended to Norway and Denmark and
was completed in the United States. The intrica-
cies of the telephone he learned through L. M.
Ericsson, a noted European electrician, and this
lead him into an intimate connection with the Bell
Telephone company, of this country, and to
eventually making himsslf through the present
Stromberg-Carlson Telephone company, of Chicago,
a manufacturer of telephones. In this enterprise
he has acquired a national reputation, being rated
as one of the first telephone construction experts of
the country. In preparing technical papers on the
details of telephone designing he has won the front
rank.

HENRY G. FOREMAN^

MR. FOREMAN'S everlasting fame will rest
upon his determined efforts to give Chicago
an outer belt of parks and a complete outdoor
recreation system. While he has won fame for
himself as a real estate operator and public official,
president of the country board and a member of
the South Park board, his real fame will hinge
upon his battle for the Chicago beautiful. Mr.
Foreman was born in Chicago and received his
education here. He was one of the organizers of
the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Chicago Title &
Trust company and the Chicago Real Estate board.
A man of wealth and superior intelligence with his
multifarious private affairs he always has sought
to give much of himself to the betterment of his
native city.

JOHN R. MORRON

MR. MORRON believes in Chicago, and before
the Merchants' club he has been a strong
advocate of the commercial possibilities of the
city. He is vice-president of the Diamond Glue
company and the Diamond Casein company; a
director of the National Bank of the Republic, of
the Schwarzschild C& Sulzberger Glue company
and the Audebert Wall Paper company. Despite
his many business activities, Mr. Morron finds
time to give himself to the duties and the social
life of the Chicago, Athletic, Mid-Day, Forty and
Midlothian clubs, and to take a conspicuous part
in the active municipal improvement work of the
Merchants' club. He is one of the stanch sup-
porters of the shibboleth: "Chicago the Central
Market."

LAWRENCE A. YOUNG ^

MR. YOUNG hails from the state where a fine
horse not only grows but is loved. He is a
Kentuckian by birth and when he removed to Chi-
cago in 1896 he brought with him the natural blue
grass affection for a thoroughbred. He is a graduate
of Princeton University and of the Louisville Law
School and a lawyer by profession. During Mayor
Carter Harrison II's first term he was assistant cor-
poration counsel and is now one of the directors of
the Chicago City railway company. As president
of the Washington Park club and the inspiring
genius of a number of successful American Derbies
he always has held a prominent position in the life
of the city. He also is president of the Western
Jockey club.

JOHN T. CONNERY ^

MR. CONNERY is one of the many examples
of successful Chicago business men who
began their careers at the bottom round of the
ladder of work. Although born in Rhode Island
he received his education in the Chicago public
schools and the Chicago Athenaeum and then
became a yard clerk with a coal firm. Three years
later he was cashier and book-keeper for the Silver
Creek Coal company and afterward its secretary.
In 1904 he was chosen president of the Miami
Coal company, an office he still retains. As a
society and club member he is connected with the
Royal Arcanum, the Knights of Columbus, the
Catholic Order of Foresters and the Chicago
Athletic club.

SAMUEL Me ROBERTS '

IN THE long and steady growth of the Armour
interests, the extension of the affairs of the
Armour house into a score or more of world -wide
industries, Mr. McRoberts has acted as the treas-
urer of the corporation, keeping a watchful eye
upon its finances and resources. A position of
this character in a house employing at times as
many as 30,000 men, having relations with every
important foreign government for food supplies, is
one of the utmost responsibility. Mr. McRoberts
in his discharge of the duties entailed upon him
for years has won the highest praise not only from
his superiors but all having business dealings with
the Armour house. He has grown into Armour's.

JOHN W. EMBREE

ONE of Chicago's greatest industries, a com-
mercial development, which wrested laurels
from other cities, has been her lumber business.
She is now the center of the largest mixed lumber
trade in the world and one of the important char-
acters in bringing this about has been Mr.
Embree, who is secretary of the Rittenhouse CS,
Embree Lumber company. He has given wide
study to the lumber trade conditions of Chicago
and especially to her future sources of supply.
The gradually disappearing near-by markets of
production are disappearing while the demand on
Chicago for lumber, local and foreign, is steadily
increasing. This situation presents a difficult
problem to the lumber merchant, but one which
Mr. Embree appears to have solved in a remark-
able manner.

WILLIAM A BIRK

/CHICAGO born, Mr. Birk has given his entire
^X business career to Chicago enterprises and
the exploitation of the merits of the city itself. For
a number of years he was engaged in the grain
commission business on the Board of Trade and
after that was a member of the brewing firm of
Wacker C& Birk. In 1891 he organized the brew-
ing firm of Birk Brothers, of which he now is the
president. He is a member of Lincoln Park lodge
of Masons, a director of the Germania Mannerchor
and an active member of the Chicago Athletic and
Iroquois clubs. He has given his name and its
influence to many public enterprises and always
has been identified with progressive commercial
and municipal movements.

WILLIAM WALLER

IN THE real estate and coal business Mr. Waller
has won a high reputation in Chicago's busi-
ness circles. He was born in Kentucky and
became a resident of Chicago when he was three
years old. On graduating from Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1879 he
became a member of the firm of Waller & Co.,
real estate dealers. He also is president of the
Waller Coal company, a director of the Oliver
Typewriter company and of the Orangeine
Chemical company. In business life he always
has kept himself closely in touch with affairs of
the day and the matters which pertained to build-
ing Chicago for future greatness. He is a member
of the University, Athletic, Washington Park,
Saddle and Cycle, Onwentsia, Exmoor, Glen View
and Chicago Golf clubs.

JOHN M. ROACH

FROM the position of street car conductor
to president and manager of the Chicago Con-
solidated Traction company has been the busi-
ness rise of Mr. Roach. He entered the employ
of the North Chicago Street railway company in
1872 and became assistant superintendent in 1887,
superintendent three years later and 2nd vice-
president and general manager in 1893. Since
1897 he has been vice-president and general man-
ager of the West Chicago Street railway company
and president of the Cicero C8> Proviso and Subur-
ban street railway companies during the same
time. There is no part of a street railway system
from its practical operation to its financiering to
which Mr. Roach has not given long and intelligent
study.

ANDREW J. GRAHAM

IF Mr. Graham no longer lived on the 'West Side
or continued his banking business there that
section of the city would hardly seem the same.
He is a marked entity of that part of Chicago. He
was born in this city and at fourteen began his
business career as a boy in the furniture store of
John M. Smyth. After some years in this employ-
ment he established with his father the present
banking house of Graham £8, Sons. Gov. Altgeld
honored him in 1893 when he was appointed a
member of the West Park board. To him as much
as to any one else has been due the rapid develop-
ment of the beauties of the West Park system
during the last twelve years.

ROBERT W. HUNT

CAPT. HUNT is the leading metallurgical
engineer of the West. His life's work began
in a rolling mill at Potts ville, Pa., in a practical
way, learning puddling, heating, rolling and the
other technical portions of the molder's business.
Analytical chemistry received his attention for a
number of years and in fact until he entered the
army in defense of the Union. He served from
1861 to 1865 and then represented the Cambria
Iron Works in Michigan. Since 1888 he has been
the senior member of the firm of Robert W. Hunt
& Co., consulting engineers, iron inspectors, etc.,
with offices in Chicago, New York and London.
Capt. Hunt has written many papers on the
metallurgy and manufacture of steel and is a
member of a number of prominent scientific
societies.

LOUIS MOHR

67l/fR MOHR, like his brother, who is asso-
Q^X r JL ciated with him in business, has made
a life study of the mechanical science of construct-
ing boilers and those mechanisms which go with
the development and control of steam in industrial
work. The Mohr name now is known throughout
the nation as a synonym for sterling productions,
this being largely due to the patience and skill the
father and the sons succeeding him have put to
the work before them. The Mohrs have created
a typical Chicago institution, not to be separated
under any circumstances from any graphic history
of the foundations on which the business fame of
the city has risen.

JOSEPH MOHR

TV/TANUFACTURING enterprises have marked
A.YA the successful business career of Mr. Mohr.
He was born in Chicago in 1855 and educated in
the public schools, from which so many notable
men have come. His apprenticeship in work
began with the Excelsior Iron Works in 1870 as a
boilermaker and he was foreman of his own
department by 1877. Resigning in 1882 he joined
with his father in forming the boiler manufacturing
business of John Mohr and Son which was
incorporated in 1892 as John Mohr and Sons. Mr.
Mohr held the position of general manager and
treasurer until 1903 when, upon the death of his
father, he became president and treasurer. He is
a prominent member of the Chicago Athletic club
and of the Chicago Engineers.

W. J. CALHOUN

FROM labor on a farm to arbiter of the fate of
nations this is the epitome of the career
of Mr. Calhoun, who was chosen by President
Roosevelt to make an examination of the condition
of affairs in Venezuela. For President McKinley he
performed a similar service in Cuba, before the out-
break of the Spanish-American War. At the same
time he established the record that he was not an
office-seeker. 'When he became an Interstate
Commerce commissioner in 1898 it was on the
direct solicitation of the president himself that he
accepted. His life work began upon an Ohio farm,
but he began the study of law at the same time
the then Major McKinley did. Later, he served in
the Union forces in the civil war and ten years after
the war ended was admitted to the bar of Illinois
at Danville. From that time on his advance was
rapid. After two years' service on the Interstate
Commerce commission he resumed the practice of
law in Chicago with Pam, Calhoun C& Glennon.

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HIRAM R. McCuLLOUGH

AS third vice-president of the Chicago CS, North-
western railway and with a wide railway
experience Mr. McCullough is one of the best
known traffic managers of the country. His early
experiences began in the general freight offices of
the Illinois Central company, he leaving that road
to connect himself with the the Northwestern in
1882 and rising rapidly on the official staff of that
corporation year by year. The practical side of
traffic management always has appealed to Mr.
McCullough and he has made it a life-long study
to the enhancement of his own fame and the
reputation of the system he serves. His home in
Lake Forest is one of the leading social circles of
the beautiful North Shore.

ISRAEL P. RUMSEY

WHEN President Lincoln called for troops
in 1861 Mr. Rumsey, then only twenty-
five years old was one of the first Chicagoans to
respond. He assisted in organizing Taylor's
Chicago Battery, and became junior second lieu-
tenant of Company B., of the 1st Illinois Light
Artillery. Before the war ended he was a captain.
Since 1864, with the exception of two years, he has
been in the grain commission line, representing one
of the largest receiving houses on the board. In
reform politics he always has been active, espec-
ially in the work for high license and the
suppression of the sale of liquor to minors and
drunkards. He is a trustee of the Presbyterian
League and was chairman of the finance committee
that raised the funds for building the Grace and
Sixth Presbyterian churches. Socially and finan-
cially he holds a pre-eminent position in Chicago.

DARIUS MILLER

three years in the start of his railway
career Mr. Miller was a stenographer in the
general freight offices of the Michigan Central
railway. Then he started on the gamut of rail-
way work that leads into the financing and
operating of great transportation properties. He
served so well in subordinate positions through
the West and South that by 1890 he was traffic
manager of the Queen and Crescent route and in
1896 vice-president of the Missouri, Kansas C&,
Texas railway. He was elected to the first vice-
presidency of the Chicago, Burlington CS, Quincy
system and accepted the office January 1, 1903.
Mr. Miller is one of the most popular and public-
spirited railway officials of the Northwest, a strong
executive and close in touch with public needs.

FRANKLIN H. HEAD

FAMOUS Dr. North, of Hamilton college, had
much to do with the early education of Mr.
Head. The latter was a graduate from Hamilton
in 1846 and left college to enter on a manufactur-
ing and banking business. While he practiced law
in Kenosha as early as 1858 and was in business
on the cattle ranches of Utah for more than four
years, his natural inclinations to greater financial
enterprises brought him to Chicago where he has
been intimately connected with the Continental
Casualty company, the Fay-Sholes company,
Street's Western Stable Car line and other enter-
prises. He is honored as well as a literateur
through his works on "Shakespeare's Insomnia and
the Causes Thereof, " "A Notable Lawsuit," etc.
In 1901 he received the decoration of a Chevalier
of the Legion of Honor of France.

FREDERIC W. UPHAM

THE genial president of Cook county's Board
of Review has led an active business life.
Leaving college in 1880 he connected himself with
the Upham Manufacturing company, of which his
uncle, 'William H. Upham, afterward governor of
Wisconsin, was president. Removing to Chicago
in 1894 he organized the Fred W. Upham Lumber
company, of which he is still the president. He is
president of the Busse-Reynolds Coal company
and the Wisconsin Oak Lumber company; vice-
president of the Peabody Coal company and Paw-
nee railway company and director in a number of
other corporations. In politics he is one of the
leading Republicans of the city, sitting in the
national Republican convention of 1892, alderman
from the twenty-second ward in 1898 and now
president of the Board of Review since 1899.

WALTER H. WILSON

MR. WILSON is an authority on Chicago real
estate and has been for the last seventeen
years. He •was born in Massachusetts and fitted
himself for Harvard College at a preparatory public
school but gave up his studies for business in 1873.
He entered the wholesale crockery and glassware
house of Abram French C&, Co., Boston, advancing
from a minor to a responsible position and in 1879,
when the firm established a branch house in
Chicago, he was made a partner. His interest was
disposed of in 1888 when he engaged in the real
estate business and later in banking. He is a
governing member of the Art Institute, vice-pres-
ident of the Western Trust CS, Savings Bank and
of the Chicago Union Traction company. He has
taken a conspicuous part in the developement of
the purposes of the Chicago Commercial
Association.

HENRY C. LYTTON

/^O-OPERATION has been the spirit of the
^^ business career of Mr. Lytton. He mastered
the understanding of it through his own long
experience in reaching a culmination in " The Hub."
At fourteen he graduated from the public schools
of New York into the College of New York and
then entered business life as an entry clerk in a
wholesale business house. Between eighteen and
twenty-one he was bookkeeper for a retail store.
For fifteen years afterward he was a merchant in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, leaving that field to
establish the corporation of which he is now the
president. Sympathetic questions of the relations
of employer to employe and of a business man to
the community in which he lives have always
entered into Mr. Lytton's life. Part of his annual
profits as a merchant he divides with his clerks.
Part of his daily life is given to the interests of the
Chicago Historical Society and the Art Institute.

NOBLE B. JUDAH

OLD VINCENNES with its memories of
"Sweet Alice" and the many important
events of the past that occurred there was the
birthplace of Mr. Judah and he left it to complete
his education at the Indiana State University and
Brown University, being graduated from the latter
in 1872. His law studies were prosecuted in
Chicago and in the law department of the University
of Michigan, and on their completion he entered
on the active practice of the law in Chicago. In
the city council he served the city with great
intelligence for a number of years and in legal
circles he long since won permanent recognition of
his abilities as a master of jurisprudence.

PAUL BROWN

T TlSTORIC McHenry county was the birth-
JL JL place of Mr. Brown, a son of Dr. Henry T.
Brown, a noted physician of the early Illinois
days. Mr. Brown was educated in the common
and high schools of McHenry county and began
his effective study of the law in Chicago in the
office of Hoyne, Horton £& Hoyne. He was
admitted to the bar in 1885 and a few months
later was appointed master in chancery of the
Circuit court of Cook county, an office which he
held until 1893. In 1889 he joined Clarence A.
Knight in the firm of Knight £& Brown and since
1903 has been one of the firm of Horton C&> Brown.
He is a member of the Union League and
Hamilton clubs and has his residence at Glencoe.

ORRIN W. POTTER

MR. POTTER taught himself in higher math-
ematics and civil engineering in his boyhood
life in New York State. He was born in 1836 and
removed to Wyandotte, Michigan, in 1856, where
he clerked in a rolling mill. One year afterward
he was connected with Ward's rolling mill in
Chicago and when it was incorporated in 1865 as
the Chicago Rolling Mill company he became its
secretary and general superintendent. In 1871 the
corporation was changed to the North Chicago
Rolling Mill company, of which Mr. Potter was
the president for over twenty -five years. When
it was consolidated with the Illinois Steel
company he retired. In the iron and steel indust-
rial development of Chicago Mr. Potter was one of
the leaders.

MASON B. STARRING

HEREDITY has its influence in determining
the careers of the sons of men. Mr. Starring
is the son of a prominent railway man of the early
days who devised the American system of checking
baggage. The former after the death of his father
perfected the system and then turned to the law
as his chosen profession. Of Illinois birth and after
being admitted to the bar he became assistant
general counsel under Julius S. Grinnell, then of the
Chicago City Railway Company. Upon the death
of Mr. Grinnell he became general solicitor of the
company and in 1 904 was made general manager
of the corporation which controls the surface
transportation of the South Side of Chicago. From
the law Mr. Starring has by force of environment
passed into the active field of surface transpor-
tation electrical and cable — until he has made
himself a recognized authority on the subject
throughout the nation.

ALBERT E. ZIEHME

ENGAGING in the mercantile business when
22 years old, at Kensett, Iowa, Mr. Ziehme in
1891, became a traveling salesman for a wholesale
jewelry house and, coming to Chicago in 1895,
organized the jewelry firm of A. E. Ziehme £S> Co.
In the growth of his affairs and his intimate con-
nection with the financial circles of Chicago Mr.
Ziehme has become president and director of the
Ravenswood Exchange bank, a director of the
Western Trust <3& Savings Bank, president and
director of the Western Telephone Manufacturing
company, and trustee of the Ravenswood Metho-
dist Episcopal church as well as a life member
of the Hamilton club.

HENRY A. BLAIR

THE father of Mr. Blair founded the Merchants
National Bank, of Chicago, and it was there in
1871 that the son began his business career. He
was vice-president until 1902 when the bank
consolidated with the Corn Exchange National
bank. He is a receiver and director of the North
Chicago Street Railway Company and of the West
Chicago Street Railway Company; and a director
of the Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock
Company, of the Elgin National Watch Company,
the West Division Railway Company and the
Chicago Edison Company. Mr. Blair has given
much of his life to the upbuilding of Chicago and
the furtherance of civic movements that would
advance the government of the municipality.

JOHN F. STEVENS

THE Panama canal probably will be the
monument which perpetually will stand to
the honor of Mr. Stevens. He now is the chief
engineer of that stupendous work and was selected
by President Roosevelt on the merit of his past
achievements. Of Maine origin his entire life has
been given to railway construction work — the
details and methods of building for endurance. In
his progress he has been assistant city engineer of
Minneapolis, chief engineer of the Sabine Pass C&
Northwestern railway work, an engineer with the
Denver £&> Rio Grande and the Milwaukee system
and served with the Canadian Pacific, the Great
Northern and the Rock Island systems until he
became second vice -president of the latter road. In
practical building work he ranks with the first
engineers of the country and his prompt accept-
ance of the Panama canal work marks his ability
to complete it.

JOHN A. ROSE

AS A lawyer and street railway official Mr.
Rose has won a wide and enviable reputa-
tion in Chicago. He was born in 'Will county and
was graduated from Northwestern University in
in 1882 with the degree of LL. B. Admitted to
the Illinois bar in 1882, he began his practice in
Chicago the same year. In 1895 he became gen-
eral attorney for the North Chicago Street railway
company and the West Chicago company. In
four years more he was president and director of
the Chicago West Division railway company, the
Chicago Passenger Railway company, the West
Chicago Railway Tunnel company, the North
Chicago City Railway company, and director of
the Chicago Consolidated Traction company. He
is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of
Apollo Commandery, Knights Templar. He also
is a prominent Mystic Shriner and a member of
the Union League club.

RUDOLPH ORTMANN

MANUFACTURING has been the ambition
of Mr. Ortmann and he successfully has
prosecuted work along that line for twenty years.
He was born in Vienna but educated in the public
schools of Saginaw and Detroit, completing a
thorough course in the Polytechnikum, of Vienna.
He afterward entered the employ of the Market
bank of Detroit as a messenger and in 1884 went
to Duluth to represent large timber interests. In
1887 he connected himself with the Ajax Forge
company of Chicago and is now vice-president of
the concern. He also is first vice-president of the
Griffin 'Wheel company, a director of the American
Trading and Storage company and of the Sellers
Manufacturing company. He is prominent in the
life of the clubs of Chicago, Kansas City, St. Paul
and Detroit.

FRED A BUSSE

FORMER Treasurer of Illinois, Mr. Busse, as a
Chicago product, has steadily risen in life.
Engaged in the hardware business with his father
for years he finally opened a coal establishment
being secretary and treasurer of the Northwestern
Coal company and later president of the Busse-
Reynolds Coal company which was succeeded by
the Busse Coal company, of which he is the head.
Mr. Busse always has been a Republican and active
in politics. He has been town clerk of North
Chicago one term; four years in the sheriff's office
and after that chief clerk in the North Town collect-
or's office. He was elected to the House of Rep-
resentatives in the thirty-ninth and fortieth
General Assemblies and in 1898 was chosen for
the state Senate. He was elected state treasurer
in 1902. He is a member of the state Republican
committee.

CHARLES H. THORNE

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WILL," has been the motto of Mr. Thome in
i career. He is the treasurer and director
of Montgomery Ward CS, Co., and one of the great
factors in the direction of the business of a world-
famous mail order house. Aside from his deter-
mination in undertaking any project Mr. Thorne is
noted for his advocacy of and adherency to a
system. This may explain why his firm, through
thoroughness and attention to the most minute
details, has acquired a reputation that extends
through China and Japan, into every agricultural
section of the United States and Canada, south to
the Argentine and Chile, east into all divisions of
Europe. Mr. Thorne has a winter residence at
Thomasville, Georgia.

HOMER H. PETERS

GRAIN and all that may be produced from it
has been the active work of Mr. Peters. His
business career was begun in the grain office of
Alexander Lewis £& Co., of Detroit. Later he was
employed by Gilet £& Hall of the same city; and in
1889 was invited by Bartlett, Frazier <$, Co., who
were just opening their Chicago offices, to join with
them, which he did, continuing in business with
that firm until his voluntary retirement, January
1st, 1903. He is vice-president of the First
National Bank of San Diego, California, president
of the Buffalo, Dunkirk £&, Western railway, presi-
dent of the Crescent Oil, Asphalt fSt, Gas company
and a director of the San Diego-Eastern railway and
of the Pacific Steel company. In recreation he is
extremely fond of yachting and a conspicuous
member of the Chicago Yacht and the San Diego
Yacht and Corinthian Yacht clubs of the Pacific
coast.

JACOB NEWMAN

ALTHOUGH Germany was his birthplace
Mr. Newman came to the United States
with his parents when he was four years old and
began life on an Ohio farm. From there he
removed to Noblesville, Indiana, having in mind
that he would some day be a lawyer of repute.
After working at various callings there he came to
Chicago in 1867, saving his money, attending the
University of Chicago, and working out of school
hours. Leaving college he became associated
with Judge Graham in the firm of Graham CS,
Newman, a partnership which continued until
Judge Graham removed to the West. He after-
ward was for eight years with Adolph Moses
and now is the senior of Newman, Northup,
Levinson £& Becker. He is an active member of
both the Union League and the Standard clubs.

HERMAN PAEPCKE

T TERMAN PAEPCKE is a lumberman. As
A. A. a member of the Paepcke-Licht Lumber
company he has brought to market the wood of
which scores of mid-western towns are built,
His saw mills are at work in half a dozen southern
states and the employes of his firm are numbered
by the hundred. For his recreation Mr. Paepcke
draws heavily upon the golf links and old Colonel
Bogie never fails to meet the drafts. The colonel
thinks that lumbermen are pretty good people
anyhow, because they clear so much ground for
future putting greens. At his Glencoe residence
Mr. Paepcke spends the summer, and in winter he
is a familiar figure at the Chicago Athletic Asso-
ciation, the Mid-day and the Germania clubs. He
lives at Pearson Street and the Lake Shore Drive.

JOHN FINDLEY WALLACE

MR. WALLACE is one of the foremost civil
engineers of the world. Connected with the
Civil Engineers organization of Great Britain he
is also past president of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, of the American Railway
Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association
and of the Western Society of Civil Engineers.
His practical engineering work began as a rodman
on the line of the Carthage & Quincy railway.
His advancement during thirty years of active
work was rapid. From 1901 to 1904 he was
general manager of the Illinois Central railway
and in 1904 was appointed chief engineer of the
Panama Canal, a position which he resigned in
1905 to return to active work in this country. In
private life Mr. Wallace is fond of golf and the
recreations of outdoors.

W. A. LYDON

AS A contractor and a master of dredges Mr.
Lydon has won his fame. He understands
all the difficulties and dangers in scooping out the
bed of a river, widening a stream, creating a
harbor, overcoming a sand bank or blowing up a
reef. Of the Chicago river and the harbors of
Lake Michigan he is the expert master in keeping
them to navigable depths, safe for all kinds of
shipping. His firm is known over the entire Great
Lakes district as that of Lydon £&, Drews. His
monster dredging apparatuses are visible where -
ever a channel is to be created. All of the
important work required by the United States
government to bring the Chicago river to its legal
navigable depth has been performed under the
direction of Mr. Lydon.

A. B. SCULLY

THE Scully family has been of noted reputation
in Chicago for two or more decades as
workers in steel and iron — the product of the
Scully Steel and Iron company, of which Mr.
Scully is the chief. The mysteries of metallurgy
always have attracted Mr. Scully, and as he has
solved them he has given the benefit of his dis-
coveries to the world. He always has shown a
scientific interest in the relative values of tensile
strengths and the application of these to mechan-
ical forms to be used in commercial and manufac-
turing plants. His occupation, to Mr. Scully, is
not only a profit-making work but one in which
the ancient methods of Tubal Cain still may be
profitably followed the knowing the wherefore
and whyfore of the molding and shaping of iron
and steel.

FRANCIS J. DEWES

THE father of Mr. Dewes was a member of
the first German Parliament held at Frank-
fort in 1848. He himself graduated from Real-
schule, Cologne, in 1861. In 1868 he came direct
from Germany to Chicago and was immediately
employed by the Rehm & Bartholomae company
as a bookkeeper. He was so capable in the dis-
charge of his duties that he became a stockholder
within two years and nine years later was able to
establish the F. J. Dewes Brewery company, now
the Standard Brewery company, of which he is
president. His interest in the developement of
Chicago's artistic attractions was manifested
through his gift of the statue of Alexander Von
Humboldt to Humboldt Park. In the affairs of the
German-American citizens of Chicago and the
•welfare of newcomers from the Fatherland he has
always been conspicuous.

MARSHALL E. SAMPSELL

MR. SAMPSELL was appointed clerk of the
Circuit Court of the United States for the
Northern District of Illinois in 1902 and still holds
that important office. He also is one of the re-
ceivers of the Chicago Union Traction company
and of the North and West Chicago Street railway
companies. He was born in Texas in 1874 and
educated in the University of Chicago and the
Chicago College of Law, graduating from the latter
with the degree of LL., B. Traction questions have
interested him for a number of years past and he
has given their solution long and valuable study.
In politics he is a Republican and a member of the
Union League, Hamilton, Washington Park and
Exmoor clubs, having his residence in Highland
Park.

ALBERT G. WHEELER

THE produce transportation business in New
York City gave Mr. Wheeler his first inspira-
tion on the proper disposal of surface freight in the
great cities. Leaving this work he became
interested in the construction of new telegraph
lines, building railways and development of new
enterprises including the underground electric trac-
tion systems of Washington and New York, the
introduction of automatic switchboards for tele-
phone service and the building of the tunnels under
the streets of Chicago to be used as a transfer system
for freight and as a terminal for steam railroads.
He is president and director of the Illinois Tunnel
company, the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph
company, the Illinois Telephone Construction com-
pany, and a director of the Automatic Electric
company, and interested in many other corpora-
tions.

WILLIAM GRACE

MR. GRACE has scattered monuments to his
reputation all over Chicago. Huge piles
like the Lake Shore station and other structures
rise on every hand to bear testimony to his ability
as a builder. Since early life Mr. Grace has been
engaged in contracting construction work on the
motto "That a thing to be done at all must be
well done." Thoroughness has marked all the
great enterprises he has undertaken. Foundation
•work, one of the most difficult problems a Chicago
builder confronts, is sanely understood by him,
and once he has laid his base, the superstructure
follows harmonious with the whole. He is
acknowledged throughout the West to be one
of the ablest and most modern contractors in
the field.

GEORGE W. JACKSON

BORING tunnels, conquering the interior of the
earth and making it useful to man, has been
the life work of Mr. Jackson. He is ranked to-day
as one of the first subway engineers in the United
States. Educated in Chicago and Oxford, England,
his engineering and contracting work began in
1882. He bored the Strickler Tunnel through
Pike's Peak; gave Reading, Pa., its subway; built
the pneumatic tube system for the Associated
Press in Chicago; established the Wentworth
avenue drainage system and built about 90 per
cent of the underground system in this city of the
Chicago Telephone company, Postal Telegraph
company and Western Union company. He has
been the engineer and contractor for the entire
subway system of the Illinois Telephone company
and consulting engineer for Chicago's local trans-
portation committee in its study of the traction
problem and high pressure system.

FRANK J. LOESCH

RAILWAY, telegraph and corporation law have
been made special studies in the legal life of
Mr. Loesch. He is now counsel at Chicago for the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg; general coun-
sel for the Western Division of the same system;
and counsel for the Postal Telegraph-Cable comp-
any. Mr. Loesch was born in New York and
graduated in law from Union College of Law with
the degree of LL., B. He was admitted to the
Illinois bar in 1874. He is the senior member of
the law firm of Loesch Bros. 35, Howell. In 1898
he was appointed a member of the city's board of
education and re-appointed for a second term after
having given splendid service in support of the
public school system. He is a member of the
Illinois and the Chicago bar associations.

GEORGE R. PECK

MAKING his own life busy and radiating the
sunshine of good humor has been the career
of Mr. Peck. His middle name is " Record " and he
has been making it good since his birth in New
York in 1843. He is twice an LL.D., once an A.M.
and a past master of wit and natural oratory. In
the civil war he began as a private and rose to a
captaincy. He practiced law in Wisconsin and
became United States attorney general for the dis-
trict of Kansas. He was general solicitor for the
Santa Fe system, refused to become a United States
senator for Kansas to fill an unexpired term, came
to Chicago in 1893 and for ten years has been the
general counsel of the Chicago, Milwaukee £&, St.
Paul Railway. As a raconteur and after-dinner
speaker he has few equals in the country. As a
friend he is unrivaled.

JAMES FRANCIS MEAGHER

WHEN George C. Campbell was general
solicitor for the Chicago, Rock Island C&,
Pacific railway Mr. Meagher entered his service
as an office boy and advanced from that position to
be stenographer for the law firm of Lawrence,
Winston, Campbell C& Lawrence. Through his
early years and while engaged in the most laborious
work he gave his spare hours to study of the law
and was admitted to the bar in 1881. Five years
later with Frederick S. Winston he organized the
firm of Winston £&, Meagher, which later became
Sears, Meagher £&, Whitney. Mr. Meagher was
born in Brooklyn but received his education in
Chicago. He is conspicuous in the circles of
eminent corporation lawyers.

JAMES B. MCMAHON

AS VICE-PRESIDENT of the N. K. Fairbank
company and director of the American
Cotton Oil company, Mr. McMahon has won
enviable success in the business world. Retiring
in disposition but genial in nature, he has given the
best of his life to the building up and extension in
influence of the vast businesss interests intrusted
to his care. He is a member of the Chicago, the
Calumet, the Washington Park and Chicago
Athletic clubs, but devotes the greater part of his
time to the financial affairs in his controL During
his life in Chicago Mr. McMahon has done much
toward furthering the commercial development of
its manufacturing interests.

JULIUS W. BUTLER

T\ /TR. BUTLER'S career as a paper merchant
•LV.L has been one of the most interesting of any
of Chicago's leading men. When he was 13 years
old and living in Vermont he was apprenticed to a
harness and trunk maker at Hinesburg, to remain
until his majority, at a remuneration of $30 a year
and three months' schooling each year. At 18 he
had become expert at his trade and made a set of
carriage harness and trunk, both of which took first
prize at the state fair. At 20 in consideration of
exceptional services he was given a year of his
time and came to Illinois, entering the employ of his
brother who had a paper mill at St. Charles. He
established a paper warehouse in Chicago about
1855 and incorporated the J. W. Butler Paper
company in 1872. He is president of this company
and also president of the Standard Paper company,
of Milwaukee. Mr. Butler was born in 1828.

WILLIAM B. BIDDLE

FROM the position of brakeman to the impor-
tant duties of third vice-president of a great
railway corporation has been the life advance of
Mr. Biddle. He is one of the sons of the Middle
West who has made good wherever he was put.
Born in Wisconsin he began work in the least
important position a train operator can hold,
advancing to a station master's title and then to
the office of assistant freight agent with the
Santa Fe system. In the end he became freight
traffic manager to be promoted eventually to the
Rock Island system, •where he still is prominently
identified. He is ranked as one of the most
practical traffic managers in the West and an
authority on all freight movements.

WILLIAM J. BRYSON

CIVIL engineering attracted Mr. Bryson from
his earliest days and until 1900 when he retired
from the service of the Chicago £8> Alton railway as
assistant engineer he gave it the best of himself.
He began the practice of civil engineering in 1865
in the employ of the United States government on
fortification work at Washington, D. C., and in
1867 was engaged on municipal work for the city
of Chicago. When this was completed he was for
seven years again with the government on work in
Chicago, Appleton, Wis., and Oshkosh. He then
was appointed assistant engineer of the Alton
system. He is a director of James B. Clow & Sons
and of the Joliet CBt, Chicago railway company.

JOHN V. CLARKE

LIKE most of the prominent bankers of Chicago,
Mr. Clark started his financial education at
the bottom. Chicago-born and educated at St.
Ignatius college he entered the Hibernian bank in
1880 as a messenger and for fidelity to duty was
promoted step by step until on the death of his
father in 1892 he became president of the insti-
tution. His metal was tried when he successfully
carried the bank through the panic of 1893-95
bringing it to new financial strength and promi-
nence. His father, John V. Clark, was the founder
in 1867 of the Merchants Association which two
years later became the Hibernian Banking Asso-
ciation. In social circles of the North Side, where
he resides, Mr. Clark is one of the leading factors.

FRANK BAACKES

MR. BAACKES is the general sales agent of
the American Steel and Wire company.
He was born in Germany and spent a year in the
works of the wire nail mills at Oberbilk-Dusseldorf
before coming to Cleveland, where he joined his
brother at the H. P. Nail Co.'s works. He was
superintendent of this plant by 1881. His exten-
sive experiments led him to the invention of what
is now known as the Standard Wire nail, which
has grown rapidly in popular favor. After his
organization of the Salem Wire Nail company it
was absorbed by the American Steel and Wire
company and he became the general sales agent,
a director and vice-president of the latter. He
has a delightful summer home at Baackes Lodge,
Lake Content, Eagle river, Wisconsin.

E. H. PETERS

WHEN E. H. Peters, of Peters, Fetzer C&
Co. is not engaged with any of his num-
erous real estate and other business affairs he
never is at loss to find a place to put in a few hours
of rest down town. He is a member of the
Chicago Athletic Association, the new Illinois
Athletic Club, the Chicago Yacht Club and the
Hamilton club. Near his home at Jackson bou-
levard and Central Park avenue there is the
Illinois Club of which he also is a member. In the
rear of Mr. Peters' residence, overlooking Garfield
Park, is an ample stable and there, if he has a
fad, it may be found in his horses. While Mr.
Peters was raised in New York and has spent the
greater part of his life in Chicago he has a breadth
of shoulder and strength of arm that any country-
man might be proud of.

GILBERT B. SHAW

FOR Mr. Shaw the tall pines and the hard
maples have always called. Although much
of his life has been given to financiering his earliest
and best memories are of the days when his •work
lay with the great lumber rafts of the Mississippi.
It was shortly before the Chicago fire that he came
to this city and became a book-keeper and later
engaged in the lumber business in Kankakee. This
developed into a retail lumber business in Kansas
that eventually controlled sixty yards. In 1878
the G. B. Shaw Lumber Company owned seventy-
five retail yards. During his career Mr. Shaw has
been vice-president of the Metropolitan National
Bank and president of the American Trust and
Savings Bank. He is still a director in both
institutions and vice-president of the E. E. Naugle
Tie Company.

ALBERT J. HOPKINS

TX7HERE the Fox river flows by Aurora
V V United States Senator Hopkins has made
his home and his successful legal and political
career for thirty-five years. Although born in
De Kalb county, his public career has been insep-
arable from that of Kane county, where he first
became a state's attorney in 1872. Identifying
himself strongly with the Republican party he
became a presidential elector in 1884 and a mem-
ber of congress from 1885 until his election to the
national senate. In the successful practice of the
law and in national affairs at Washington he
always has been recognized as a conservative.
He was born in 1846, and since the beginning of
his public career has been recognized as one of
the strongest state characters in furthering the
material and governmental development of Illinois.

GEORGE HOOPER TAYLOR

GEORGE HOOPER TAYLOR, who for
twenty years has been associated with the
banking and bond house of E. H. Rollins £8, Sons,
is an enthusiastic automobilist. He is a native ot
Maine, having been born at South Norridgewick.
His early business career was in the direction of
railroad construction. He had charge of the
construction of some of the more important
bridges on the line of the New York Central rail-
road and later was one of the contractors who
built the Colorado Midland road. He is vice-
president of E. H. Rollins &. Sons and general
manager of the Chicago office. It has been his
custom for years to spend his winters in California.

THEODORE OEHNE

MR. OEHNE is vice-president of the Conrad
Seipp Brewing company. In his long
business career in Chicago he has concerned him-
self largely with the welfare and the social and
personal development of the German-American
population of the city. Liberal in views, a per-
sistent student of the financial conditions of the
city, interested in all progressive movements that
might extend the sphere of influence of the munici-
pality, Mr. Oehne has brought to himself the
sincere respect and admiration of all who have
known him. High political honors frequently
have been offered him, but he has preferred the
security and comfort of private and business life.

HENRY M. BYLLESBY

IN the early days of the electric lighting of New
Jersey, Mr. Byllesby was associated with
Thomas A. Edison and has been identified with
many movements and advances in electrical
enterprises. Receiving his early education
at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., he has
given all his after years to the science of electrical
engineering. He now is president of the Mans-
field, Ohio, Light and Power company, the Mans-
field and Shirley railway company and Granite City
Electric company, vice-president of the Zanesville
Railway Light and Power company, Fort Smith,
Arkansas, Traction and Light company, Oklahoma
Gas and Electric company, and president of H. M.
Byllesby £$, Co. He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers and of the American
Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

JESSE A. BALDWIN

THE year he was admitted to the bar (1877),
Mr. Baldwin became assistant United States
attorney and held that office seven years, resigning
to enter private practice. He never has sought po-
litical honors but when the nomination, unasked,
came to him from the Republican party in 1903 for
Circuit Court judge of Cook County he came with-
in 298 votes of election, a total vote of nearly 260,
000 having been cast. He is a foremost citizen of
Oak Park, having been town attorney, president of
the board of education and trustee of the Library
Institute. He also is trustee of the University of
Chicago, Rush Medical College, member of the
American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar
Association and the Chicago Patent Law Associ-
ation. In clubs he associates with the Union
League, Hamilton, City and Chicago.

JOHN F. SMULSKI

MR SMULSKI'S ambitions always have
vibrated between use of the pen as an
editor and study of the statutes as a lawyer. His
final choice has been the law, but he still looks back
with pleasure to the days when editorial rooms held
him. He was born in Poland and educated in the
schools of Germany and the United States. After
his education was completed he engaged
for five years in the newspaper and publishing
business with his father who established in
1869 the first Polish newspaper in the United States.
He has been three times an alderman and twice
city attorney by popular vote. In American as
well as local Polish circles he is extremely popular
and highly respected.

ALVIN C. McCoRD

"PRINCETON University is the Alma Mater of
-t^ Mr. McCord and after he left her famous halls
he took a year's course in law at the University of
Minnesota. When free from study he entered
upon the manufacturing business as vice-president
of the Drexel Supply Company, railway supplies,
and eventually became president and a director of
the company. He also is president and a director
of McCord C8, Co., and president of the Western
Steel Car C& Foundry Company. To his business
activity and ingenuity the railway companies of the
country owe much. Socially his interests lie with
the Chicago, University, Union League and Glen
View Clubs, of Chicago, and the Princeton, of
New York.

WILLIAM H. DAMSELL

IN 1864 Mr. Damsell became a messenger for
the Adams Express company and five years
later was a route agent. Twenty-six years after
that he became a member of the board of managers
of the company and in 1903 vice-president. Before
his entering on express work Mr. Damsell served
in the civil war with the Third Ohio regiment but
aside from this the last forty years of his life have
been given to the practical study of the express
business. He has made himself a master of the
transportation science and is so recognized East
and West. When he forgets business Mr. Damsell
gives his time to his charming home circle on the
Sheridan Road, Evanston.

DANIEL WILLARD

MR. WILLARD has been one of the railway
builders of the nation. Now second vice-
president of the Chicago, Burlington £8. Quincy
company, he entered railway life in 1879 in the
track department of the Central Vermont railway,
and the same year was employed by the Passump-
sic railway as a locomotive fireman. He remained
with that company four years as fireman and
engineer, leaving to become a locomotive engineer
with the Lake Shore system. On the Minneapolis
CS, Sault Ste. Marie system he served fourteen
years as conductor, engineer, trainmaster and
superintendent, leaving that company in 1899 to
become assistant general superintendent of the
Baltimore £&, Ohio company. A year after he was
assistant to the president of the Erie railroad, then
third vice-president, first vice-president and gener-
al manager, positions which he resigned to take his
present high office.