Cook County, Illinois - The whole text, 1884 (part 31 of 61)

ing space ftS^ftimBtt^^TE Up0" which >°" have '° sit is no1 a "T'Ul wells connected. tunneled and the a car whereon are put the materials used for the con- The building wherein the m u- struction of the tunnel. It is wheeled along the rails boilers, etc., are located is the lZi m2tchlnet^ on to an elevator in the mouth of a bricked well- This of Og.esby Avenue and to^td whlTa" ^L' ^ baS a" imcri°r °' frontage on the avenue of about t wo h .n.lV.H 1 1 e'ght feet and ,,s wails arc imposed of three and four ninety-five feet, and with a deoth of nl T a a nnKS of sol,d bri«*-work, laid up in hydraulic cement and thirtv-two feet. The Sbm ST fo t m°rtar' made of one Part each o{ «mem and 5and thus described in thc report of G How-ird Ftt*" Thc dMCent uPon ,he ^ranc elevator occupies but a consulting and superintending encincer " H w/' f f ffw, seconds and <l,e voyageurs are on the base of the d.rcct acting, compound '., "oruonta'' shaft, some sixty feet below its mouth, which base conengines, so constructed I and S Sd nl V ^ 5''S,S °f a Solid bcd of concrele two feet thick' and ,his plates and frames as to be capable of work" , ' I ,n turn. rests upon the bed rock, excavated and prepared in pairs, with thc duplex principle of '°gelhcr for «he purpose. From this shaft there is a western or, by disconnecting the dun « 'n?ovemcn*' tu""el leading to beneath the waterworks and fifty engine can be operated separated nrTc ^T' feet in leng,h- and the day when the reader is supposed cnt pumping-machine by itself. The four 1 ,ndepend- to >>ave made the descent - November 3. 1&83 - thc cylinders have diameters of foriv iZLl. , 'ow_Pres,sure eastern tunnel was driven one thousand eight hundred the four high-pressure cvlinden a- s,milar,y a"d eighty-three feet under the lake; the whole length twenty inches, and hence the relative ZLJilT"**? i°f °f the tUnnel beinB re<ll,ired t0 be five ,hoUSand 5* respective areas or the steam nis?nn? T r °f thc The horizontal tunnels are six feet and three inches one-both the latter and the purnp SL^Lm '° Perpendicularly and six feet laterally and are lined stroke in common of thirty six » r V'"S *. with brick masonrv, four, three and two rings thick, terms it may be said that the t ,r, * floorinK » ^ in the bottom of the tunnel and on the makers being the C0Z & .th'S rai,s are sl)iked- and this ,ramway '5 the """j facturmg Company," of Hamilton o^ i ,nR Iink the miners at one end of the tunnel supplied by four cylindrical boiler 1 nf " .t. " and the elevator at the other; and over it are conveyed tubular pattern, each boiler havino dUmrti/ ^ thc clay lemov^ » the process of excavating, and the

The excavation is done by four miners and their attendants; the first gang of whom go in to work at 1 1 P. M. and drill three auger holes in which arc placed dynamite cartridges, and the clay is then blasted; then the picks are used and a rough similitude of a tunnel made ; then follow a gang at 5 a. m., who shape the tunnel and make it ready for live brick layers, who follow at 3 P. M. and brick-up the tunnel made in the clay by the two gangs who preceded them. This work proceeds at the rate, on an average, of twenty feet per diem and the tunnel is expected to be finished by about July 1, 1884, and to cost about a quarter of a million dollars. The tunneling is performed in a stratum of compact, tenacious, blue clay, and the intention is to have about twenty-five feet of this clay between the exterior of the brick tunnel and the bottom of the lake. During the work b it little trouble has been experienced from springs of water in the clay, or sand-pockets ; the largest of the latter being struck while working in the upper formation of clay, about August 9, 1883. and was one hundred and twenty-five feet long. When a cavity such as this is encountered it is filled up with brick and cement, so that there is no intervening space between the exterior of the tunnel and the surrounding clay; not for the purpose of keeping the clay from falling upon the tunnel, but to prevent the force of the water breaking the tunnel, because of there being no superincumbent mass of clay to re-enforce the resistance of the tunnel to pressure from the inside. Those who remember the hydrostatic paradox of our schooldays will easily conceive that there is considerable pressure exerted by a column of water some sixty-five feet in height and with a diameter of eight feet. But all this time the reader has been jaculated through the brick tunnel, like a monster human pea in a Brobdignasrian pea-shooter, by the propelling power of the inspector behind; and the traveler upon the car is constrained to "hunch" himself together to avoid being scalped by the long tube that extends along the roof of the tunnel, but which is plainly perccivcable by means of the electric lights which illuminate the tunnel. The lights are of the Western Edison species, and miners wonder how it was possible to do without the incandescent light. This threatening tube, whose close proximity to the explorer suggested premature baldness, is the lungs oi the tunnel; by its means the miners breathe, and because of its operation the air nearly two thousand feet under the lake is as pure and as fresh as needs be. This tube is connected with a strong exhaust fan in the upper world, and this fan sucks up the air out of the tunnel and fresh air moves down the shaft to replace it. " Nature abhors a vacuum,'" and the fan creates one; here is the present terminus of the tramway where the gnomes are working, put your hand before the tube of which mention has been made - quite a powerful suction ! Prior to the introduction of the electric light into the tunnel oil lam js were used and the interior of this exhaust tube was found to be coated with oily soot, similar to the incrustation upon the interior of a stove pipe through which the smoke of soft coal fires has exuded, This lact not alone demonstrates the effectiveness of the means of ventilation ; so thorough, that it collects the little particles of plumbago floating in the atmosphere; but likewise testifies to the evil effects of using oil-lamps in mines, for the lungs of the workmen must have just the same deposit as that upon the interior of the ventilating pipe. These workmen who are making mud-pies from the ceiling, walls and floor are the miners, and they are trimming down the clay tunnel to the dimensions to be occupied by the exterior of the brick-work. The clay is placed upon a car, with side-boards and ends, and nin through the tunnel onto the elevator and there is astounded by seeing the light from which it has been excluded for hundreds of years. The work proceeds rapidly and well ; the officials representing the village speak highly of the thorough manner in which Messrs. Robinson and Minor perform their work, and the cheerful alacrity with which they respond to any unusual calls upon their workmen and material ; the officials take pride in watching the work, the contractors take pride in having it supervised; consequently the tunnel is very apt to be an excellent one. The following are the officials at the water works : John A. Cole, consulting and superintending engineer ; John Br.iydon Toohy, general inspector of work of tunnel ; Louis I.. Edwards, inspector of materials for tunnel. Mr. Toohy is on duty all the lime watching the construction, and the materials used all pass under the inspection of Mr. Edwards. James Wallace, water inspector and tapper; George F. Morgan, water pipe inspector; Robert Hawkins, engineer in charge of the pumping station, and Joseph Pullman and A. O. Parker, assistant engineers. To distribute the water throughout the village there were, on May 1, 1883, the following lengths and sizes of pipe:

Making 263.542 linear feet then composing the general water-service system of the village of Hyde Park, with provisional outlets at the sarr.e date of sixty-eight single, and two hundred and eighteen double, nozzle hydrants. The scryice is daily rendered more complete and effective, and new lines of piping arc constantly being laid to meet the demands of the inhabitants.

Health. - The salubrity of the village of Hyde Park can best be exhibited by the following extract from the report of Dr. M. B. Arnold, health officer: Annual death-rate for 1,000 inhabitants - 1882-73, 14; 1881-82, 16.64; r88o-8i. 18.4S; 1870-80,8.4.

Town anp Village Annals. - The first road viewed by the Commissioners, on April 9. 1861, and surveyed by Alex. Wolcott, was Sixty-seventh Street (Ogden Avenue) from the center of Section 22 cast to the lake. The first claims against the town audited and allowed aggregated $102.07; among them were accounts of C. Stickncy and Paul Cornell, auditors, $3 each ; and Strong Wadsworth, fifteen days as assessor at $1.50 per diem; listing, ninety-six days at ten cents; listing one hundred and six men under military law, *t.o6. November 5. 1861. at the second town meeting, held at the railroad depot, $50 was decreed to be spent upon "the road leading from the house where George W. Waitc now lives to the house owned by Judge Barron, near Dutch Settlement," and that $50 be spent upon the road known as the Vincennes Road. The earliest sidewalk improvements receive mention in the proceedings of September 7, i86», when Jacob Bockee. C. B. Waitc and Charles H. Atkins were elected commissioners to make assessments on property by such improvements. Such improvements were: a four-foot wide sidewalk on the south end of

Block 21 across Jefferson (Avenue) and Adams (Washington Avenue) streets; the excavation of a ditch along Madison Street (Avenue), on Uoth sides from Elm (Fifty-fifth) Street to Chestnut Street; thence northeast through the low land in Block 29 to the culvert corner of Oak (Fifty-third) and Adams (Washington Avenue) streets; the enlargement and deepening of ditches from said culvert to Jefferson (Avenue) Street and on the east side of Block tl and enlarging and clearing out ditches on Washington Street (Hyde Hark Avenue), on both sides of the railroad trark.fjom Oak (Fiftv-thild) Street to F.lm (Fifty-fifth) Street; also clearing out Cornell Street, from Oak to Elm. by grubl.ing out the brush and stumps and plowing furiows on each side of the street ; also the ercrtion of a small pier, or breakwater, on the lake shore, about half-way between " the present piers," to protect the park from" washing away, which was not accomplished.

wi?" Nove'1,'icr 4. 186*, John McGlashen, E. S. Williams and P. Law were appointed a committee to purchase half an acre of ground for clay-bcd, and the board of auditors were authorized to pledge the faith and credit of the town to the amount of $100

The first tax.lcvy was also for $.00, as follows: Ordered therefore, that there be assessed on the real v T .1 Property of the town of Hyde Park, the sum of one hundred dollars

ZT\t ET (Fi,''>"fifth> Van Bnren YVc^ M Avenue) streets, on November 3. ,86% Jn March ,865, the meetings of the Trustees were held at the house of John A. Jameson, but he havin, caused township line between Townships 37 and 38 nnril, Ranges 14 and 15. and by west line of town No bounded by south line of Township 3K north. Ranm 14 and .5; east by Lake Michigan and State line ri Indiana ; south by south line of Hyde Park - wesi |,v line commencing at intersection of south line of town With L*l«mtt Kiver.lhence along center of river to out ei p Caiumtt Lake, thence along thc center of said outlet to Calumet Lake, thence northed* alow the shore of said lake to thc section line between Seetions ,11 and 12, Township 37 north, Range i4- thence north between said sections to the northwest comer of Section 1, Township 37 north, Range 14. No 3 comprised all of Hyde Park not included above and the voting places were: No. 1, station house in Hyde Park, intersection of Oak Street with Illinois Central Railroad ; No. 2, school-house at Ainswotth station ; No. 3. school-house in Section 15, Township 37 north, Range 14 cast.

The Town of Hvdk Park at this lime was bounded on the north by Chicago; on the east hv Lake Miclii. grin and State of Indiana; on the south by the town of Thornton, and on the west by the towns of Cilumrt and Lake. In 1870, some lots were sold at public vendue, that were bought by thc town for clay-bcd in 1866. The price paid was $3,075, the price realized *3'.376-5<>. onc-thiid cash, and the balance in one and two years. A teal estate investment realizing one thousand and twenty per cent inside of five years. In this year also, the Hyde Pai k Gas S: Coke Company petitioned for permission to lay mains, etc. Such per. mission was given the Hyde Park Gas Company in June 17, 1871. Subsequent to this date the annals of Hyde Park became localized; the advantages accruing to special portions of thc gigantic village will be found annotated in their individual history, and thc ramifications of the legislation centered in the town and village hall can only l>c accurately dissected by the anatomical historiographer as individual nerves in their local centers, not as ganglia centered in a corporate history.

Financial. - The first exhibit on file is one shoeing the general town tax for Hyde Park, for the year 1S63, by J, Rerun, County Treasurer, as follows: Total valuation. .$103,914 Tolnl amount ta*...$ij6S 5» Valuation railroad 20.795 Railroad lax 14J oS

Prior to 1878, however, the accounts Meie kept in a diluted condition, seem never to have bttn tettltd, consequently determinate figuies aie haid lotshibit.

The annual appropriation! have liccn as follows ! "873. $78.°°°; 18741 S95.-o° ! ''s75- §113.600; 1876, 152,162.50; 1.H77, §: 24,4.59; l*7*i S'45.57" 3^ '*79i 129,700; 1880, $136,200; 1881, 140.300; 1882, 150,687.64; these appropriations b:ing made in the years specified, and extended to the end of the fiscal year that terminates in the year succeeding that given. As an intelligible resume! of this inadequate financial statement, it may be stated, that the bonds of Hyde Park are held at a high premium, and those consider themselves unfortunate-, when by lot it is decided that their bonds shall be redeemed; and the rate of taxation in Hyde Park docs not exceed one per cent on actual value for State, county and village taxes.

Hyde Park Village

As a summary of the locus in situ it may be stated that Hyde Park isamunicip.il corporation, commencing at the Chicago city limits, and extending southward nearly thirteen miles, and having a varying width of from one and a half miles to five miles, with an area of some forty-eight square miles. It contains about twenty-three distinct settlements, or hamlets, with their o.vn business centers, churches, public and private schools and social organizations. It contains a population of some thirty-five thousand people, nine post-offices, some twelve lines of railroads, eight million dollars worth of parks, boulevards and walks, a harbor and navigable river, and possibilities that are only bounded by its territorial extent. Constant incursions of vast manufacturing interests and industries, only act as additional evidences of the capabilities of Hyde Park.

Charles Cleaver, the eponym of Cleavervillc, or Oakland, built a house, in 1853, on the property laying between Oakwood Avenue, Brook Street (so called by Mr. Cleaver because of a brook that ran there). Cedar and Elm streets; the house has since been enlarged and divided, but its integral part remains at the residence, 3938 Ellis Avenue. This house was built subsequent to his removal from the house he occupied where Standard Hall is now situated, - corner of Thirteenth Street and Michigan Avenue - and was built there because of its contiguity to the soap and rendering works, which Mr. Cleaver erected in 1S51, near the foot of Thirty-eighth Street. This house was the nucleus around which clustered the settlement of

Cleavervillc, and the embryonic germ out of which sprang the favorite suburban residence region of Chicago. At this period, March, 1S51, Mr. Cleaver states there were only a few fishermen and wood choppers, and there were but four or five houses south of Twelfth Street. Mr. (Heaver bought twenty-two and a half acres from Samuel F.llis - who at that time lived at the southwest corner of Lake Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street, and kept tavern near the site of the Douglas monument - and then bought 7 1 fA acres of Henry and Loring Graves; this property forming Cleavervillc. Here Mr. Cleaver erected numerous houses for his workmen, spending sixty thousand dollars in one year for building purposes, and in 1S54 found it necessary to build a meeting-house, that was used as a school on week-days and a church on Sunday. This building was the first church in Hyde Park and the first church built south of Van Buren Street, and between that street and the Indiana State line. On July 1,1851, a sort of immature jubilee was held on the Illinois Central, by Mr. Hammond, the superintendent, who look an engine and car and about seventy-five people and went to Mr. Cleaver's place and picnicked. To the Illinois Central Railioad Company Mr. Cleaver paid $3,800 per annum to get them to run trains to Cleavervillc ; along that same line now, fiftyeight suburban trains arc ran daily. In 1857 the property mentioned was platted and laid out as Cleavervillc, the plat being recorded as document Number 7.44S. in Book 143 of Maps, page 99, on October 4, 1S5S. The map was entitled "Cleaverville. being the north part of fractional Section 2, Township 38 norih. Range 14 cast, and the south part of south fractional Section 35, Township 39 north. Range 14 east, of 3d P. M." Charles Cleaver was born at Kensington Common, London, England, on July 21, 1814, during the visit of the three emperors in that city, after Napoleon's abdication at Kontaineblcau ; and attended the semi-military academy of H. (). Stone at Bexley for seven years. Mr. Cleaver left London on January 18, 1833. and arrived in New York March 13, 1S33; and had to wail in that city until April 22, for the canal to open. He left Buffalo August 26, arrived in Chicago October 23, and became immediately identified with the commercial interests of the town and city, and subsequently the founder of Cleavervillc In 1 S54 Mr. ('leaver built a church for the benefit of his workmen wherein was preaching on Sunday and school on week-days.* In 1S57 Mr. Cleaver discontinued his rendering works and soap factory and engaged in the real estate business, with which he has been identified since. In 1866 or 1S67 ("leaver Hall was built, Mr. Cleaver anticipating that it would be useful for a sort of town hall for public meetings and entertainments ; it was so used for a short time, then a terpsichorean club held sessions therein, and it was also used as a place of worship by some Methodists. It was likewise the first building used for a district school-house. It now stands near Fortieth Street and Grand Boulevard and is occupied as a dwelling-house.

Mr. Cleaver named his residence Oakwood Hall, and thence was derived the name for the boulevard ; the streets Oak, Elm, Laurel, etc., etc., he named because he planted rows of those species of trees along their roadways. To say that Mr^Clcavcr did a great * deal for Cleaverville is to merely state the exact truth ; he worked hard and earnestly for its welfare and expended thousands of dollars in its improvement. Mr. Cleaver married, on Much 6, 183S, Miss Mary Brookes, daughter of Samuel Brookes* one of the first Justices of the Peace of the town of Hyde Park. Mr. Brookes was one of the original members of the Horticultural Society and of the Zoological Gardens of London, was an accomplished botanist, horticulturist, florist and carpologist, and is noted as having first introduced the azalea into Europe from cuttings taken in China. Mr and Mrs. Cleaver have six living children, Charles Samuel, rredcrick Walter, Louisa - now Mrs Tohn Harwick - Myra. Kmily and Fanny.

The Fikst Stork that was established anywhere in the v icinity of Cleaverville was built by Mr Cleaver at the corner of Pier (now Thirty-eighth) Street and fiSi? A^nue- 11 a grocery, and was kept by Wilham Cleaver for Charles; the former subsequently purchased it from the latter. Mrs. Cleaver states that tins More was not troubled by any commercial rivalry for fully ten years. Exactly at what period the Cleaverville property commenced to be eyed wistfully by speculators and prospective residents, it is difficult 0 determine; the growth of Chicago does not appear to have influenced its first extensive settlement but rather the natural affection for a rustic retreat from the City cares that made villas in the vicinage of Rome S?j lblC< ^ ar,cl developed Cleaverville and made Oakland. I he material history of Oakland is difficult to write because of the extraordinary p^ l it has made A work published in ,874T \ GJ ,1 e prominent residents at Oakland : Ex-Sena.or Trumb 1 George I rumbull, G. G. Pope, F. P. Van Wick IP Bonfield, L Huntington, 'charles Huntingtiin' S

Brookes and W. B. Horned The IrtidSSUS them were adopted and signed by the following S. " Sunnel Brookes, Mary Brookes, Henry Brooke ijE Brookes, Sarah Brookes, Margaret 1W? , V Goodwin, Elisabeth Brooke! VcSSSAtS^H Martha Govier, W. B. Horner, W. A. Nichok Mr house C7d' J"St the rearofa bl<*k of brick louses now standing near the locality designated The building remained there until the erection^ the £ and Church ; when it was sold to Joseph Fahr.drick, who moved it up to the town of Hyde Park, in i8j, and used it as a flour and feed store. It is now usd as a dwelling house and b^ot and shoe shop and stands upon the west s.de of Hyde Park Avenue, south of filty-fifth Street.

The ministers who have occupied the pulpit at various times, as far as can be learned, were Kev. Washington A. Nichols, Stephen Sanford Smith, *ho commenced in the fall of 1862, and stayed about three years, Chaplain Eddy, Benjamin E. Stiles Ely, lames >> hue, D. Craycroft and Z. S. Holbrook. The ear i days of this Church were full of trouble; opposition 10 the administration arose and some of the opponent withdrew and formed the Ninth Presbvterian Quich, which, after consolidation with Grace Church, became an integer of the Sixth Presbyterian Church. The contests were distinguished by acerbity, but that time has softened and cxtitpaled. During one cf these dissensions, the Church divided arid the cotigrepiikn remained in the old church until the Memorial Church was formed, and was supplied by James T. Hyde of the Ideological Seminary for about two year?. This branch was, however, not rcccgnizcd l y the Council «o long as there appeared any possibility of success for the other portion of the Church. A( length the Memorial Church was recognized as the legal and actual succ essor of the Salem Church. In 1871, this Church relinquished its organization and name and some of its members connected themselves with the Forty-scver.thtrcet Church, which the growing n eeds of that flourishing suburb had called into existence. Other changes however were in store for the Forty-seventhstreet Church, as in February, 1879, the building wherein its congregation had worshipped was moved from its location on Forty-seventh Street, near Drexel Boulevard, to the corner of that boulevard and Fortieth Street ; the sphere of beneficent influence being deemed more extensive at its present, than at its former location. After its removal the present name was adopted of South Congregational Church, and at this time it had some thirty-five or forty members, and an attendance upon the Sunday-school of about fifty children. The early progress of the Church was impeded by the general prostration of business interests, but upon the restoration of easy times, the Church entered upon a career of prosperity that has been unchecked. It now numbers about one hundred and eighty members and has an average attendance at the Sunday-school of one hundred and forty scholars. There are very few meni- bers of this Church who have been members of former congregations in this vicinage; the vast influx of residents has brought new people who have affiliated with, or joined this Church, and it now is a unit in social cordiality and in Christian work ; these characteristics have distinguished this Church since its foundation. The first trustees were Oswcll A. Bogue, William E. Hale, Lucius G. Fisher, J. B. T. Marsh and Henry Brookes; the present trustees are William E. Hale, Oswell A. Bogue, George C. Hick and George A. Stannard. The present frame church building is very inadequate to the needs of the congregation and steps are now (January, 1X84) being taken to erect a substantial edifice of brick, or stone, capable of seating eight hundred people; after which the present building will be utilized as a Sunday-school room. Under the management of the members of the Church are several social, literary and benevolent societies; the donations made by this Church are very large proportionately with the membership of the Church. One of the enterprises that has succeeded under its fostering care is the Forrestville Sunday-school that now, with a little assistance from its parent, takes care ol itself and furnishes religious tuition to a large number of scholars. The pastor is a close and earnest student and a thoughtful, deliberate theologian; the growth and prosperity of the Church speaks for his capability in the position he occupies more forcibly than any panegyric could do

Edward Franklin Williams, the present pastor, who assumed charge of the Forty-seventh-street Church on the third Sunday in October, 1873, was born at Uxbridge, Mass., on July 23, 183a, of George and Delilah Williams, upon the old homestead farm. He received his education at the common school, and at the academy of Uxbridge, at the Worcester Academy - under the principalship of Charles Burnet, at the University Grammar School at Providence - under Professors Frieze and Lyon, and at Yale College, from whence he graduated in 1856. He then taught school for three years, and graduated at the Princeton Theological Seminary, in 1861. In 1861 and 1862, he took a supplemental theological course at Yale Seminary, preaching for a portion of this time at Rochdale, Mass., and then went into the army with the Christian Commission, remaining therein until the close of the war, then supplying various pulpits in Massachusetts, and receiving several calls to permanently occupy such pulpits, none of which he accepted. At the close of 1865, Mr. Williams went to Lookout Mountain, and opened the Lookout Mountain educational institution. In 1867, he opened the Normal Department of the Howard University at Washington, with the understanding that he was to remain there but one term; at the close of which he came to Chicago, studied for a while in Chicago Theological Seminary, preached for a few months at St. Charles. Kane County, became settled pastor of the Tabernacle Church, February I, 1869, where he remained until he took charge of the South Congregational Church. Mr. Williams married. October 24, 1866, Miss Jane C. Pitkin, at Hartford, Conn. In addition to the degree of B. A. received on graduation, Mr Williams has had conferred upon him the degree of M. A., in 1859, and of D. D.. in 1883.

Memorial Baptist Church - The history of this Church is a narration of persistent struggle, undaunted perseverance and indomitable faith - based upon earnest works ; the most justifiable of all faith. *As stated in the manual of the Church, that history is as follows : " That part of the present city of Chicago lying south of Twenty-second Street, prior to 1859 was mostly an uninhabited prairie. Excepting two small settlements, one about the corner of Twenty-sixth Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, drawn together by the car shops of the Illinois Central Railroad, and another, then known as Cleaverville, on the lake shore, at the foot of Oakwood Avenue, where there was a small manufacturing interest, but very few families, and those separated by wide intervals, had made their homes on this wide extending territory. At each of these centers small Congregational churches had been formed, that on Twenty-sixth Stieet being now merged in the Plymouth Congregational Church, that on Oakwood Avenue being extinct. Otherwise it is believed that no Christian Church existed south of Twelfth Street, and no Baptist Church south of Harrison Street, at the corner of which and Edina Place, now Third Avenue, the Edina place Baptist Church, now merged in the lmmamiel Baptist Chinch, had been located in 1856. On the opening of the University of Chicago, in May, 1859, a few Baptist families were added to the number previously living in the neighborhood."* These disciples held a weekly meeting at the house of Deacon C. T. Boggs, over which Dr. J. A. Smith presided, shortly after which a service was had on Sunday afternoons in the chapel of the University, when Dr. J. C. Burroughs preached, occasionally assisted by others. It was hoped that from this organization a Church would proceed, but the First Baptist Church organized a mission church at the corner of Indiana Avenue and Thirtieth Street; and at its opening in 1863, the University congregation and a Sunday-school of more than one hundred scholars were transferred to the Indianaavenue Baptist Church. But the members of the old congregation considered the field, whose theological tillage was feasible with the University for a center, requisite to be attended to, and in Januaiy, 18C7, liny re-organized the Sund.i) -schcol in the chapel of ihe University. On September 22, 1868, the Cottage Grove Baptist Society was organized, with Dr. J. A. Smith as pastor, to meet in the University chapel ; and on December 6, 1868, the University-place Baptist Church was organized, with ninety-four members. Dr. J. A. Smith, pastor, and A. H. Hovey, Jesse Clement and H. B. Brayton, deacons. In June, 1871, a chapel was completed on Thirty-fifth Street and Rhodes Avenue, at a cost of $25,000. In 1874, the First Baptist Church removed to its present location, and this necessitated cither the demise or removal of the University-place Church ; accordingly, after weary and ineffectual struggles, on May 25, 1881, a committee was appointed to negotiate for the purchase of the Memorial church on Oakwood Boulevard, that belonged to a former Congregational Church. On October 19, 1881, the committee announced that the old church property had been sold, and the new church purchased and placed in repair, and it was then voted to change the name to " Memorial Baptist Church ; " to " thus record God's signal favor in the past," and to " set up as a memorial, from which to enter on a new stage of its history - 'Thus far the Lord hath hcljvcd us.'"- The cost of the property was about $29,000. $".50° of which was realized from the sale of the old property, and the balance was given by the Church and its friends, so that at its dedication, on February 19, 1882, it was announced that " the Memorial Baptist Church us absolutely free from debt." The pastors of the Church have been as follows Dr. J. A. Smith, December. 1S68 - April, 1869; Dr. J. It Jackson (acting) thence until October, tgfo; Dr. William Hague, October, i860 - November, 1870; Drs. Northrup, Arnold, Mitchell, Stalth, Jackson and others, November, |S;0 - February, i»7J : Rev. A. J. Frost, Februarv. t8;? - October, 1875 ; Dr. Northrup and others, October, 1875 - May

August ,. ,849, at Itallymole. Coumy Slip, lX ' and pursued his studies for three years at St. Joha7, College in Coun.y Mayo, leaving Ireland and \Ut{ n ( Amenca m ,866. Mr. Tighe then coming g studies in the University of Notre Dam,. hdiirgraduating ,n the class of ,869.70. and pursuC, theological course subsequent to his praduaiicr Hi

7,?|Sv.°.rsiTd ^ "i$h°P F?le) - »< "'<-- Jesuit Colkyn jui> is, iS74,and was assigned to St. James's Parish 1% assistant to the late Bishop Reirdon. Then the dcrr<e of Magister Arlem was conferred bv his AlmnNau, On .November r, ,877, Mr. Tighe was assigned to the parish of Hyde Park and South Chicago, which thru comprised the district from Thirty-ninth Street to Um Indiana State line, and during this pastorate he purchased the land and built the church of St. Patrick it South Chicago, and also bought the land nn which the paroch ial residence of St. Thomas now stands. In lUz Mr. I igl,c was assigned to the parish of the Holy Angels, where he now is ; and the success that has attendee Ins ministrations is shown in the Church and its attendance, and the reverence and love that his parishioner feel tor Denis Aloysius Tighe. Mr. Tighe is a youaj man, a careful and close student, retiring in his demeanor, ipiict and thoughtful in his speech and an earnest advocate of a vital Christianity rather than defunct dogmas; believing that works exhibit faith, he has achieved what he has in the short time of his ministration, and the results stand - his monument and his advocate.

The FoKTv-riK sr- street Presbyterian Cmraca - I his Church exemplifies the result that may accrue from small beginnings. In i860, a Sunday-school was organized by a Christian lady at her home, which she for some time conducted and maintained by her individual effort. The attention of the Presbyterian League of Chicago was adverted thereto, and they cons tiered that where the Sunday-school successfully existed a congregation could bccollected; and accordingly, as a site for a future church they bought the two lots^ in the vicinity of the Sunday-school, on the cornet of Forty-first Street and Prairie Avenue, having a fror.lage on the former street of one hundred and eighty feet, and a depth of tne hundred feet. Upon these lots a building was erected, costing $9,500, with the property; anil in the spring of 1S70, the Sunday-school was moved to this building, and Sunday services uere held there. In the spring of 187 1, the Young People's Mission Association, connected with the First Presbyterian Church, took charge of the school and the building anil lots were transferred to the trustees of the First Church in trust for the Y. P. M. A., who assumed the indebtedness on the realty, to the amount of about $7 .000. The success attendant upon the efforts of the congregation was not great, as the fire of 1871 impeded the settlement of the vicinity and in many cases seriously crippled the finances of the members, but the Sunday-school was maintained and Sunday services were held with passable regularity, whereat Rev. F.. R Davis, Dr. Van Dorcn, A. McCalla, Captain Mack «M others officiated. In 1S74, a new building, costn'g $1,850. was erected, and the same year Rev. Edward V. Wells, occupied the pulpit. On February 1;, rUjJ^J meeting was held to organize as a Presbvtcrian Own I - Rev. E. R. Davis presiding, and Revs. E. P. *"< Arthur Mitchell and Jot ham Swale were |"t-rl The Forty-lirst-street Presbyterian Church WMOrjan* ized with nineteen members and G. F. Bissell, W P Black, E. S. Wells, H. D. Penfield and S. I). Foss, elders, and George A. Springer, Frederick W. Springer, Sylvester D. Foss, Irus Coy and William L. Moss, * secretary - trustees. Edward P. Wells was installed pastor of (he Church on May 23, 1875, and resigned therefrom March 21, 1878. In 1876, an addition was built to the church. Since July, 1878, Rev. Arthur Swazey, of Chicago, supplied the pulpit from year to year until July, 18S3 ; from that date until November, 18S3, there was no particular supply, but during November, Rev. R. B. Clark became the officiating minister, and now occupies the pulpit. The present elders are George A. Springer and William L. Moss, the elders elect, at date of compilation, have not qualified; the present trustees are. George A. Springer, George H. McKay, Edward Springer, Osborn J. Shannon and Irus Coy. The congregation numbers about three hundred and filly, the Sunday-school about two hundred and twenty- five, and the present valuation of the church property is §15,000.

The First Hotel was the Oakland House, at the corner of Oak wood Boulevard and Cottage Grove Avenue; then it wis a perfect rural tavern with accommodation for man and beast, and was a favorite stopping place for riding or driving parties. It is now elevated above stores and metamorphosed into a private boarding house.

Oakland Hose Company No. i was organized June 18, 1S75, with the following officers and members : Truman S Gillett, captain ; Thomas Davies, foreman; B. W. Shibley, J. Henry Oliver, Thomas S. Brady, first, second and third assistants, respectively; Simon Lauderbach, pipeman ; C. S. Ford. Charles Nichols, John McFarland, James L. Crapo, first, second, third and fourth assistant pipemcn ; I.eandcr D. Condee. secretary; James [.Shibley, treasurer; Walter W. Ford, George H. Van Pelt. Consider H. Willett, William Dell, P. J. Neagel, J. F. Fleming, Charles H. Jackson, Benjamin B. Robinson, Benjamin liranch and Richard Pratley, privates. The present officers and members arc: Charles H. Jackson, .captain ; Edward B. Adams, lieutenant; Fletcher Hope, Matthew H. Smith, Lawrence Fbersol, Adam Miller, Charles A. Pendleton, Harry Courser and William H. Lawrance, privates. The present hose-house, costing $780, was completed December 21, 1875, when a ball was given commemorative of the occasion. The equipment consists of one double-horse hook and ladder truck with hose reel attached, and seven hundred feet of linen and two hundred feet of cotton hose. It is situated at the corner of Drexel Boulevard and Cottage Grove Avenue.

The First School at Oakland was at Cleaver Hall, and the first teacher Miss Josie M. Mulligan, assisted by Miss Keeler. Cleaver Hall was then situated at the southeast corner of Fortieth Street and Drexel Boulevard. The residents of Oakland, however, wished to have a school district of their own, and petitioned that School District No. 3 - bounded on . the north by the city of Chicago, on the east by Lake Michigan, on the south by the center line of Sections two and three (Forty-third Street) and on the west by Indiana Avenue - might be created. It was so set apart October 4, 1869. At an election held December 6. 1869, at said fchool-housc, A. R. Miller, G. H. Miller, W. H. Rand, Francis Munson, F. P. Van Wyck, James M. Hill, Thomas Swan, O. A. Smith, Charles Cleaver,

Henry Brookes and A. C. Leich, legal voters of said district, met and elected William H. Rand, James M. Hill and George Trumbull directors of said district. Mr. Rand was elected president, and Mr. Hill secretary of said board. The following table shows the number of votes cast, at certain school elections, in the years designated : October 11, 1.S70, 13; 1871,8; 1872, 9; 1873, 19; 1874, 10; 1875; 24; 1876, no; -879, 231. At the first meeting of the board of directors, December 6, 1S69, it was decided to continue the services of Miss Mulligan at $1 2.50 per week, and those of Miss Keeler at $10 per week; also to continue to rent the school-house of Charles Cleaver at the rate of $400 per annum. 1111870 J. Herrick was* appointed principal at $1,000 salary per annum, and Miss Mulligan was placed in charge of the primary department at §60 per month; the liberality that has always been a characteristic of this disirict early exhibited itself. October 13, 1870, the present site of the school-house. Lots t and 2, Block 15, of the re-subdivision of Blocks 15 and 16. Clcaverville, were bought for $16,000; and a school-house built thereon, costing about §7.000 that was occupied about November, 1871. In 1872, Miss Ella G. Ives was prinpipal, which position she retained for over three years. April 14. 1875, the school-house was burned, and the school reverted to Cleaver Hall again ; $5,300 was received on the insurance of the building. In 1874. the present Oakland public school was erected, the contract price for which was $15,756, and was furnished and occupied in the winter of the same year. On July 24. 1876, Charles I. Parker, the resent principal, was appointed to that position. In eptember, 1S72, the number of persons under twenty- One years of age in the district was four hundred arid twenty-six, one of whom was colored ; in August, 1873, there were five hundred and thirty-two persons under twenty-one in the district. In 1SS3, there were three thousand and twelve persons in the district, five hundred and sixty-seven males and six hundred and thirtyone females under twenty-one, and seven hundred and seventy-four males and one thousand and ihirty-eight females over twenty-one. In 18S1, the district having over two thousand inhabitants, an election was held April 16, to select a Board of Education in lieu of a board of directors. The board so chosen were. Charles M. Hardy, president ; * Woodbury M. Taylor, secretary, William H. Rand. Henry J. Goodrich, John R. Hodson and William Turkington. The present Board of Education arc: C. M. Hardy, president; Woodbury M. Taylor, secretary; William Turkington, John R. Hodson, C. W. Needham and John Roper. The school district is now bounded by Thirty-ninth and Fortythird streets, Grand Boulevard and Lake Michigan ; at what date the western boundary was changed from Indiana Avenue to Grand Boulevard is uncertain, but presumptively about 1875. A new school is now in course of erection, at the corner of Forty-second Street and St. Lawrence Avenue, to cost $35,000; and the total estimated value of school property is $125,000. The tax levy for 1882 was $14,950. The average attendance during the year was six hundred and twenty-five. 'The teachers are: Charles I. Parker, A, B., A. M., principal ; Frances L. Potter, Florence M. Holbrook, A. B., R. Louise Ray, Sarah B. Colvin, Elvira Bannister, Mary L. Bass, Laura J. Potter, lola M. Jones, Belle Wylie, Martha A Fleming. Kate E. Lyon, Isabel E. Richmond, Clara M. Ncwbecker, Emma C Barrett, Carrie C. Lewis and Mary H. How-

Itston, and the lowest salary is §750 per year. The results of (he facts ami figures exhibited are that the Oakland school is one of the best scholastic and academic institutions in the State. The cause is not hard to find; liberality in remuneration, after careful and exhaustive examination demonstrate the efficiency of the teacher. As one of the board remarked: " It is not intended that the school-teachers, of the Oakland district shall be those who teach to pass an interregnum of graduation and matrimony; but those who arc accomphshed teachers by profession." Of the three thousand and twelve persons who were in the school district in 18S3, there were only six who could not read and wntct and they were foreigners and could both read and write in their own language. It seems like painting the lily to add further evidences of the cxcelence of the school and its management ; but the analytic mind always requires statistics or tangible evidence. In the school is a library of four hundred and Ifty volume ; in the primary department this year some four hundred and fifty books, additional to those used in the curriculum, were purchased; these beinc entertaining as well as instructive, to make the U dypursued thorough ye. involuntary. The prima y depaftment u the one where the most exhaustive, pains-taking care and assiduous watchfulness is manifested - hence the work m the high school department has a solid sub stratum underlying the studies there perfected it State has testified the excellence o, t'he work 'of t chool by several subordinate premiums and by Z TZ J7Tm °/ sttecI'st^s fof high school WO k a heSuteha,rof,.S82; also the following diplomas at the same Pair ; for graded school, third year work

Street, Cottage Grove Avenue, Forty-serenth Street and Ind.ana Avenue; is known as District No. 7 the directors are: George W. Silsby, president- 1 S Barker and E P. Hotchkiss, clerk. TheZct w.j taken from District No. 2, in May, ,873, and a scbnol 01 thnty seven pupils was organised May iq 1871 in a private house on Forty-fifth Street, win, Miss Alice J. Quiner as teacher. In September, 1873, MisS Alice Uraper became principal, and Miss Quiner remained as assistant. In 1874 the school was moved toCo<- tage (.rove Avenue, between Forty-fourth and Foriv. filth streets ; the number of pupils, sixty, rendered' a change of quarters imperative. In 187? the school was removed to the present school building, corner of Forty-fifth Street and St. Lawrence Avenue

Der Kindergarten. - An innovation on the customary method of imparting instruction was made in this school in December, 1878, by the establishment of a Kindergarten by Mrs. M. K. Mann. In that month forty-three children attended. January, 1879, Miss Al he Hayward came as assistant and pupil, and in the fall of the same year Miss E. J. Hayward came in the same capacity. In December, 1880, Miss E. J Hayward took charge of the Kindergarten department, and has conducted it since that time with various assistants until December, 1882, when Miss F. Hay-ward, the present and only paid assistant, was engaged. Of this scholastic adjunct, a friend of Frcebel, and a connoisseur in kindergarten instruction, said that it ranked second among those he had seen in America.

The instructors in the other departments of the school are : George W. Davis, principal; Misses Lydia S. Davis, E. J. Spencer, Carrie Smith, assistants; and Miss J. Wheeler, instructress in drawing. There are at present one hundred and thirty pupils in the school, which, with the library, apparatus, furniture, lots, etc., is valued at §18,800. The tax-levy for was $7,000, and the population of the school district is as follows : Under twenty-one, two hundred and eightysix; between six and twenty-one, two hundred and three; over twenty-one, three hundred and forty-seven; total population, six hundred and thirty-three.

Forrkstville Host Companv No. 6 - November 7, 1S78, this company was organized, and the hand hose cart that had been used by Company No 1 was turned over to them. In addition thereto they now have eight hundred feet of linen hose. The hose house situated at the corner of Forty-sixth Street and Evani Avenue, cost six hundred dollars, and the present members of the company are : Frank Elliott, captain; W. R. Ellwell, J. W. Munson, P. Cummings.J. W. Simpson, J. \V. Elliott, James S. Elliott, L. R. Vesey. Hugh Williams and C. P. Shcville, privates.

The residence mansion of Wilbur F. Storey is situated on the corner of Forty-third Street and Vinccnnes Avenue, within the boundaries of thi« Forrestvillc

School District ; hence the presumtion is not unreasonable that the district will not be deficient in fashionable, aristocratic and costly residences.

Springer and Farren Schools are situated in District No. 2, Township 38 north, Range U The former school is situated also in District No. 9, whose boundaries are: Commencing at Thirty-ninth Street and Grand Boulevard, thence south to Fortythird Street on said boulevard, thence west to Indiana Avenue, thence south to Forty-seventh, thence west to State Street, thence north to Thirty-ninth Street, and thence cast to place of beginning. No powers, however, are exercised by any trustees having jurisdiction under District No 9 ; because of the issuance of an injunction, pending the decision of the litigation to determine whether District No. 9 is District No. 9 or only a fragment of District No. 2. The difficulty seems to have arisen when the separation between the towns of Lake and Hyde Park occurred ; at that time the school district remained undivided, and District No. 2 now embraces pirl of the town of Lake and part of the town of Hyde Park, and its affairs are administered by the following Hoard of Education: William Fallon, president; A. H. Champlin. William H.Christian, secretary ; John W. Clark, John Farren, James Lawless, Michael Mc- Inerney, Michael J. McCarthy and Charles Olschncr.

Springer School is situated on the corner of Wabash Avenue and Forty-first Street, and was built in August, -"73. The number of pupils at its opening were seventy-five ; at the end of the year 1882 there were one thousand and eighty enrolled. James H. Brayton has been principal, and Misi Tammic Curtis assistant, since its establishment. The value of the school and property is about $36,000; the average number of pupils eight hundred, and the teachers are : James Henry Brayton, principal : Katherine S. Kellogg, Tammic Curtis, Harriet S. Kellogg, Sarah Muletts, F.va Spencer, Isabel Smith, Mrs. Nellie Jo nson, Julia Dundon, Mary Springer, Mrs. Mary Hoar, Ada Lewis, Alice Drake, Belle Dodd and Ada Parker, assistants.

Farren School is located at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Fifty-first Street, and was built in 1882, at a cost for building and property, of about 837,000. The average number of pupils is five hundred, and the teachers are: Homer Hcvans, principal; Mrs. Mary E. Thresher, Florence S. Meek, Nettie H. Ingersoll, Annie Rickard, Emily A. Broadbent, Mary B. Whiting, Mary Moran, Tcna C. Farren, Nellie K. Dempsey and Mary T. Bowes, assistants. The computed population of the portion of District No. 2 embraced by the village of Hyde Park is as follows: four hundred and sixteen males and four hundred and twenty-three females between six and twenty-one years of age; one huadred and eighty males and one hundred and eightyfour females under six years of age ; total population, twelve hundred and sixty-four males and eleven hundred and ninety-two females, aggregating twenty-four hundred and fifty-six persons. The proportion of taxlevy is about $16,000

Oak RtnoK SCHOOL. - School District No. 5 embraces the territory bounded by Forty-seventh Street, Cottage Grove Avenue, Sixty-third Street, and Indiana Avenue. The old school district extended from Thirty-ninth to Sixty-third streets, with the same eastern and western boundaries as at present ; the district was successively diminished by the setting off territory to the Oakland and the Forrestvillc school districts, and the appropriation of territory for the park. James H. Ely, who kindly furnished the particulars herein presented, states that, in 1856, when he settled at the present corner of Fifty-second Street and South Park Avenue, there were living in the vicinity H. O. Stone, John McGlashen, S. A. Downer, Elisha Bailey, William Klinger and George Parker, and that there were not to exceed six buildings between Twentysecond and Sixty-ninth streets, along the present South Park Avenue. The old school was first held about 1851, in a building near South Park Avenue, just south of " The Retreat ; a Miss Lowe was one of the first teachers, and the number of scholars was from eight to ten. About 1865 the school district was set off in order to furnish specific territory from whence the scholars should attend this school, and also to retain the Oak Ridge school - which then received its name - in that vicinage. On the assumption of the powers conferred by the charter by the South Park Commissioners, they did not at first decide upon selecting the school site for condemnation, and, Mr. Ely states, agreed to let the school remain. But, in 1879, the commissioners asked what the directors would take for the school lands and school-house; they stated $100 per foot for the land, and §3,000 for the building, making about $2 1,600. The commissioners then had the property condemned; the directors brought suit and got damages, §28,500. The commissioners asked for a new trial on the ground of excessive damages, which was granted, verdict again for directors in the sum of $29,410. The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court and the judgment reversed upon legal technicalities. Meanwhile in order that there might be a school in the district, and in order to procure land before it augmented in price, the directors bought a new site on Prairie Avenue, between Fifty-second and Fifty-third streets, two hundred feet by two hundred feet, for $7,700 and in 1881 erected a school, one of the finest in the county. They anticipated receiving the damages awarded, and were continually solicited to build, not alone a school sufficient for the present wants of the neighborhood, but adequate to the growth of the district for a decade of years. They did so, and the non-receipt of the damages necessitated their making a special tax-levy, and borrowing money to complete the edifice. It cost about $43,000, or about $50,000 with the land. The school directors are S. A. Downer, president, and James H. Ely, clerk; John Leahy, the remaining director, has moved out of the district. The population as per last school census is about three hundred; under twenty-one, one hundred and ninety-three. The tax-levy for last year was $rS,ooo for special and school purposes. The school is taught by Miss Elizabeth Close, principal, and Miss Margaret Byrne, assistant, and the pupils average seventy. The instruction imparted is thorough and careful, and prospective residents need not fear lack of scholastic resources for some years to come. But it is hardly practicable to build a school-house too large in the village of Hyde Park or one that will not be filled by the scholars a few years after its erection.

The name of Hyde Park was given this locality to commemorate the village of the same name on the Hudson River, near New York City. One of the first, if not the first, white man who lived there was Nathan Watson - his widow subsequently married Garnsey - and he had a log shanty about where the northwest corner of Park Avenue and Fifty-third Street now is. Thomas Leeds Morgan staid at his house over night, in 1836, while en route to Michigan City, on horseback He asked Watson what he contemplated doing there; he answered, "raise fruit." Mr. Morgan gazed steadily at him and asked him " if he had any friends down East ? " He answered, " Yes. Then," said Mr. Morgan, " have them send for you and put you in an insane asylum, for you must be crazy to anticipate raising fruit on these sand-piles." Yet Mr. Morgan subsequently lived close to where the old log cabin stood, and the mortal remains of old Mr. Watson are now interred in the garden of the Morgan residence. Thomas Leeds Morgan died on October 29, 1883, at his residence, corner of Park Avenue and Fifty-third

Street, of heart disease. He was born in Genoa, Cayuga. Co., N. Y., in 1802, and came West and took up his residence at Elgin, 111., in 1830, during which time he pursued the vocation of farmer. In 1842, he came to Chicago and thence, in 1863, removed to Hyde Park. At his funeral the pall-bearers were all old residents: Hassan A. Hopkins. W. L. Robinson. James Morgan, E, T. Root. Joseph H. Gray and C. B. King. The remains were taken to Klgin for interment. The first settler, however, who exercised any influence upon the place, the man who, in fact, made Hyde Park, was

Pakl Cornell, who was born at White Creek. Washington Co., N. Y.. August 5, xSn, of Hiraiii K. and F.liza Hopkins Cornell. In iS.ti, his mother and stepfather, Dr. Barry, removed with the family to Ohio, and five years later to Adams County, III., dining which period young Cornell obtained his education HI a common school; that is, he studied during the win. ter aiid did farm work during the summer. From the position of scholar he grew to that of teacher, then to that of law student, entering a law office in |olict in 1845. June 7, 18 J7, he was admitted to the Mar, and

be of value for suburban residences; and had it topographically surveyed bv one John Boyd, whose survey corroborated Mr. Cornells idea. He then bought three hundrcd acres ol land upon the lake shore, and conveyed sixty of them lo the Illinois Central Railroad, a pan of

Iht consideration consisting in an agreement bv the company to run trains to the inchoate town of Hyde ark. 1 hey did so, starting the Hyde Park train on he 1st day of June, 1856. The conductor was H I. konnson. At that time, however, but three trains' a day ran in each direction, but only to and from r.ftv-sixth Street. After building the Hyde Pa k I ouse. for some time Mr. Cornell paid «ji Zr Ccn, of the gross earnings of said train. About Mr l abor, Ha«k & Co.. who 0])encd it Jn, ' gP>He«CT wen also proprietors of the Richmond House, Chicago, at this time. This building «as of frame and an elegant, commodious structure oca.ed on the lake front, immediately south of Fifty-' north or that sireet was a park. laid out by Mr. Cornell, m ,856. upon the beautifying of which he spent In,865- M^srs. Joining Pearce and -Vhuyler S. Benjamin-now of the Sherman and Brcyoort respectively-purchased the hotel and metamorphosed it into a brick building bells and the bell of the Presbyterian Church wMt rung Hose Company No. t appeared upon th,- scent but tl.ey could get no water; an engine subsequently took water from the lake but the fire had gained too much headway, and before noon the building was destroyed. No lives were, however, lost; the build- Higs, furniture, etc., were insured for $50,000; loss above insurance, §260,000. The ruins remain njiors the lake front, a monument to the misfortune of Messrs. Pearce and Benjamin, and a reminder to the hungry wayfarer that there once existed an hotel in Hyde Park, where a tabic J 'hi'le was spread - there are none now, and the sojourner is fain to solace his hunger with the ' lowly cheese and humble cracker.

In 1856, Mr. Cornell subdivided and platted two hnndred and forty-five acres, and sold an undivided one hundred and thirty-two acres, lying between Fiftyfirst and Fifty-fifth streets, to David S. Ogden. as trustee and agent for Paul Cornell. Hopkins's ind Kimbark's additions (each containing eighty acres), were subsequently purchased by Mr. Cornell and subdivided under those names; the name given to any real estate speculation in Hyde Park mattered but little, Paul Cornell was generally found the prime mover in the enterprise.

In July, 1856, Mr. Cornell was married 10 Miss Helen M. Gray, of Bowdoinham, Me, and in "*57- they went to live at Hyde Park. They have had fire children : George, John, Paul, Helen and Elizabeth G. Cornell, who enjoys the honor of being the first white child born in Hyde Park. She was born October 10, 1858.

In 1858, Mr. Cornell erected a place of worship that was used by believers of all denominations. He paid the lion's share of the cost of the erection, about Si, 000, receiving an additional $100 from various subscribers; and at the laying of the foundation Governor William Dross made a speech. The church stood where Dodson and Peirce's block now stands, at the comer of Hyde Park Avenue and Fifty-third Street, and after the organization of the First Presbyterian Church, on April 29, 1860, Mr. Cornell deeded II" church to them, with three lots of ground, one hundred and twenty. five feet by one hundred and sixty fee- These lots are at the comer of Hyde Park Avenue ana Fifty-third Street, with a frontage upon the former avenue. It was the design of the donor in this Denefaction to create a sort of church extension, fund J means of these lots; that upon them, centrally located as they were, a block somewhat similar to the Methodist Church block of Chicago might be erected and funds derived therefrom to become an endowment, or church-extension, fund, for the town of Hyde Park. But the building was first leased by the village, after the erection of the stone church, and then purchased by them, with the northernmost lot, and half the next one, deeded by Mr. Cornell, for$io.ooo. Ablock, that had been built by Mr. Cornell on the old site of the church at a cost of some §7,000 or $8,000, with this church extension in view, was rented and the iroceeds applied toward the payment of the interest o( the debt on the new church, but the block was afterward sold, and the remaining moiety, south of the alley, of the three lots primarily deeded. The three lots brought about $24,000, and Mr. Cornell gave in cash to the Church and in the improvement of the church lots about $13,000, making his benefactions to the Church in cash and cash realized from lands, not counting rentals, over $30 000. This was all realized within a few years and applied toward the payment for the newchurch and its debts, the cost of the church being some $48,000. 1 he extension fund was effectually swamped, but the Presbyteri.ins have one of the finest churches in the suburbs of Chicago; built in 1S70.

The First Prkshvtxkian Church of Hyde Park, as stated, was organized on April 20, i860, with the following members : Paul Cornell, Mrs Helen (*.. Cornell. James Wadsworth, Mrs. Emily \V. Wad*worlh, G. W. Bowman, M«, Almira A. Bowman, Mrs. I.. B. Jameson, Henry C. Work, Mrs. Sarah P. Work, Hassan A. Hopkins, Mrs. Sarah M. Hopkins and Hugh K. Hart. At an adjourned meeting held May 6, Elders Hassan A. Hopkins and George W. Bowman were ordained and installed, and Mrs. Adeline K. Danley, Mrs. Sallv N. B>guc, Hamilton B. Iiogue and George M. Bogue, united with the Church, and the first Lord's supper was celebrated. Rev. William H. Spencer appears to have been the first tuinislcr who supplied the pulpit, although Rev. 7.. M. Humphrey preached the first sermon 10 the incipient congregition. Revs. Snencer, J. S. Edwards and Burroughs - of the Chicago University - with various theological students, filled the pulpit until March. 1S62. when Rev. C. F. Beach came as stated supply for one year. In this month a society organization was formed by the election of a board of trustees, who formally took charge of the building and property donated by Mr. Cornell; and March 16, the Sunday-school was organized. In March, 1864, Mr. Reach resigned and the Church was without a settled minister until July 1, 1865, when the first pastor, Rev. Bradford Y. Avcrill was called; he died July 12, 1867, afier ten months effective labor with the Church. October 7, 1867, Rev. David S. Johnson was installed: he remained until 1880. June 1, 1881, the present pastor took charge of the Church.

Edward Chittenden Kay was born October 12, t«4y, at Rochester, N. Y., and was reared under the » beneficient auspices of home until entering college. He united with the Church in 1869, graduated from Hamilton College in 1870; studied at Union Theological Seminary, Rochester Theological Seminary, and graduated from Auburn Theological Seminary in 1S73 ; in which year also the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Hamihon College. October 13, 1S74. he married Martha Washington Prescott, of New York City; their children are Mattic Prescott, Edward Russell, Prccott Hovt and Ruth Ray. In 1874, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Vtica; was pastor of the

Presbyterian Church at Vernon Center, N. Y., 1873-75; Third Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, N'. J., 1876-81. Mr. Ray is a quick speaker, rapid of apprehension, concise and lucid in his statements and incisive and logical in his theology.

The first elders were were Hassan A. Hopkins and George W. Bowman. The present ciders are Hassan A. Hopkins, Joseph N. Barker, Homer N. Hibhard, John C. Welling, Samuel West, George Stewart, W. A. Olmsted and John A. Cole; Samuel West is clerk and treasurer, and the trustees are Paul Cornell, George M. Bogue, Coli Robinson. John Cameron, Christopher C. Bouton, John C Welling, W. C. Ott and Edwin F. Bailey. The present congregation numbers about two hundred and fifty.*

In 1856 the' Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest selected a location for their College on the lake shore, between Fifty-third Street and Walnut Street, or Fifty-fourth Street Place, east of Cornell Avenue; and Paul Cornell conveyed eighteen acres - four blocks - to said Seminary, fenced them in and set out shade trees around the ground. One hundred and seventy acres in this vicinity were also donated, and about sixty thousand dollars subscriptions obtained toward the erection of the Seminary. Plans for the college building were drawn by G. P. Randall, architect, the cost of which building would have been about one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; but Cyrus H. McCormick afterward made a subscription of one hundred thousand dollars in cash, with a proviso that the college should be located north of the Chicago River. The trustees of the Seminary reconveyed the eighteen acres to Mr. Cornell, and located the Seminary on its present site. On one of the blocks embraced in this deed of gift to the Seminary, the Hyde Park House was subsequently built.

Another Church that first worshiped in the old Cornell building was Sr. Paul's Episcopal Church. The organization of this Church is due principally to the efforts of Dr. Jacob Bockee and his wife, Catharine M., who became residents of Hyde Park about 1857. Dr. Bockee was a licensed lay reader, and conducted services according to the usage of the Episcopal Church. His wife organized a Sunday-school, and her daughters, Mamie and Phcchc Bockee, maintained it. On May 15, 1859, an application was made for the organization of a parish, signed by Pennoycr I.. Sherman, Job Tabcr, Augustus Taber, John Blackwcll, his son Henry Blarkwell, Jacob Bockee. his son Abraham Bockee, John Middkton, Janus Giant Wilson, Thomas

May 16, 1859, the consent of the Bishop was received in answer to the application, the parish to be called St. Paul's, Hyde Park. June 26, 1S59, Rev. E. B. Tuttle gave notice that a meeting would be held July 10, to organize the parish. At that meeting were present Rev. E B. Tuttle, afterward Chaplain in the U. S. armv, who occupied the chair; John H Kinzie, John A. K'.-nnicott, John Middlcton. James Grant Wilson, secretary; Jacob Bockee, Abraham Bockee, Chauncey Stickney and Augustus Taber. The organization was effected pro forma and the following officers elected: Jacob Bockee, senior warden; James Grant Wilson, junior watden; P. L. Sherman, Chauncey Stickney, John A. Rennicott, Augustus Tabcr, Henry Blackwcll, and John Middleton, vestrymen ; and Jacob Bockee and J G. Wilson were appointed delegates to the next diocesan convention. The first baptism in the parish occurred January I, i860, John Dickinson Sherman, * Tha« fwnksUn were courteouiijr iWnlihwl by Mr». Homer N, HiWwi son of P. L. and Ixmisa D. Sherman, being baptised by Rev. Clinton Locke. April i, 1861, the second election was held, resulting as follows: Jacob Iiockce, senior warden; W. K. Ackerman, junior warden; Chauncey Stickncy, John Middlcton, John A. Kennicott, Thomas M. Turlay, P. I.. Sherman arid W. II. Waters, vestrymen. Services were held in a small frame building, occupied in common wiih the Presbyterian denomination. November 3. 1861. Kev. Meyer l.ewin baptised Louise, daughter of W. K. and Alida Ackerman, and Henry Chapman, son of \V. H. and Maria Waters. April 81, 186:, a parish meeting was held. Present: John A. Kcnnicott, presiding; P. L. Sherman and W. K. Ackerman. The treasurer reported that 8*5 had been received during the past year, " which had been expended in securing the assistance of various clergymen during the year to hold services." The theological laborer must have been content with a modicum of hire. During that year the Revs. J . \V. Osborn, missionary on the line of the I. C. R. R., Meyer Lcwin.and M. DcWolf officiated. Rev. Thomas Smith, having removed to the parish, was invited to take charge of the pulpit during the ensuing year, which invitation he accepted. At a meeting held in June, 1862, the subject of erecting a permanent church was mooted, and committees were appointed to further the project. The 1. C R. R. offered two lots where the church now stands, for $ 100, and the offer was accepted. March It, 1863, Rev. Thomas Smith resigned, and the pulpit was supplied occasionally i the district school- house was used as a place of worship. June 9, 1863, Rev. \V. H. Cooper agreed to officiate once a week at morning service.

To procure funds for the church building it was decided to bold a festival, on July 4, 1863; the ladies appointed to superintend this innovation were Mesdames Ackerman, Kcnnicott, Sherman, Waters. Rovd, Stickney and Van Allen, and Mesdemoisclles Pcir'ce, Ho* d, Blair, Seward and W'tlson. On September 1. 1X63^ Hyde Park Lodae, No. 422, with the assistance and under the supervision of the Grand Lodge, laid the corner-stone of the church. This however, did not meet with the approval of the Bishop, and John Middleton, P. L. Sherman and W. K. Ackerman. were appointed to wait upon him for the purpose of he a ri n » his objections, which being considered as well founded an order was obtained from the lodge authorizing the removal of the stone ; this was entirely satisfactory to the Bishop, and met the views of most of the congregation who had viewed with distrust the ceremony of laying a cornew/Vw for a wooden structure Mr. Ackerman 1 diplomacy was exercised to allay any sentiment of umbrage that the lodge might feel, after lh«r effort in behalf of the Church. November 2. 1303, Kev. W. H. Cooper resigned his rectorship, and <ie pulpit was occasionally supplied until July, 1868 oy clergymen from the city, the Rev. Clinton Locke occasionally officiating At this time the services were held in the public school that now stands close by the church budding. In the summer of ,868, a Sundayschool was established by Mrs. E. C Long, and that had its meetings at her house. In March, i860, the church budding was completed, and the pew-holders

Downs, J. B. Peck and K B. Woolsey; those who attended services numbered about one hundred. The church to date had cost J10.447.j5. The first wardens and vestrymen of the new church were as follows- W. K. Ackerman, senior warden; E. C. Long, junior warden ; P. L. Sherman, N. C. Perkins, A. D. Walrjion, J. A. Jamesun, J. E. L. Frasher, John Remmer, W. H.' Waters and J. B. Peck, vestrymen. In June, 1S69. Rev. George F. Biigbee was rector, which position he retained until January 31,1871. April 1. 1871, Rev. Thomas K. Coleman became rector, remaining there about a year. In the summer of 1871, the teachers and scholars of the Sunday-school donated a hell to the church, value $250. which was hung in the belfry. Rev. R. McMurdy had charge of the parish from 1873 until January 1, 1876, from which time the pulpit was occasionally supplied until April, 1877, when Rev. Charles S. Lester became rector. In this year also a new organ was purchased, and a memorial communion service was presented to the Church by W. K. Ackerman. On Easter Sunday, 1878, the Church received as gifts, a carved walnut lectern, from Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chace, in remembrance of their son, John Caulfitld Chace ; a prayer lectern from the Sunday-school; a silver-gilt alms basin, from Mrs. Murray, Waters and McPhe rson ; a brass book-rest, from Mrs. C. S. Lester, in memory of her mother, and a silver spoon - ;o complete the communion service - frum W. K. Ackerman. A chancel rail was subsequently donated by James Morgan. Easter, 1S80, the whole of the Church debt was provided for. through the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Lester, and now the Church is entirely free of debt. August 26, 1880, Rev. C. S. l.csler resigned his charge, to accept the rectorship of St. Paul's Church at Milwaukee. Charles Hendrkk Bixhy, the present rector, assumed charge of the Church and parish, February 8, 1881. He was born in Surinam, South America, of American parentage, and graduated from Williams College and the Cambridge Episcopal Seminary. He was rector oi All Saints' Church, Brooklyn, from 1872, until 1876, and of the Church of St. Peter's by the Sea, Narrag.inselt Pier, R. I., from 1876, until his removal to his present pastorate. To this gentleman's pertinacity in refusing to talk about himself, although a fluent and agreeable conversationalist, the meagerness of these details muit be ascribed. The membershipof the Church at present is about three hundred and fifiy, and of the Sunday-school one hundred and forty. The valuation uf the church buildings, furniture and property i> $30,000, and has no incumbrance. The present officers of the Church are Henry T. Chace, senior warden; R *|- Bridge, junior warden; John A.Greer, clerk of the vestry; W. K. Ackerman,' H. L. Wait, H. W. Wotseley, B. F. Ayer, L. P. Morehouse and I. Dunn, vestrymen. These two congregations comprised the earliest theological segregations of Hyde Park

The First School. - In the fall of 1856 Charles B. Waite bought some property in Hyde Park, and in tne spring of 1857 fenced in the block whereon the seminary subsequently stood. " There were then not more than half a dozen houses in Hyde Park," said Mr Waite, narrating the building of the seminary, in 1858 the building was commenced, and it was openeo in the spring of 1859 with Mrs. Charles V. Wane « principal, and her sisters as assistants. .

This was the first school building erected » the district. In 1862 the seminary was rented by PW* Waite, but she resumed charge thereof about 1867,1110 retained its management until 1870, when it was discontinued as a school; it now is a tenement house and a mournful reminder of the verity of the Latin adage: " Temf>or,t mulanlur et nos mutjmitr in ittis." It was a four-story building, before its removal, forty feet by sixty feet in area.

'The First Puhi.ic School was what <s now the high school building, and was erected about 1863, by the earnest efforts of J. A. Jameson, Homer N. I libbard, and Paul Cornell; t he inhabitants of that period protesting against the magnitude of the edifice, and predicting that "there would not be enough children in the district to fill it in forty years." Veibum safientum .' The first teacher is said to have been a Miss Mrookcs, da ightcr of the floriculturist of Cleaverville, and there were but very few scholars. The school district comprises the region bounded as follows: Commencing at the abutment of Forty-third Street on the lake shore, thence west along said street to Cottage Grove Avenue ; thence south to Sixty-third Street; thence west along Sixty-third Street to Giand Boulevard; thence south to Eighty-seventh Street ; thence east to the lake, and thence north with the lake shore to the place of beginning; said di-lrict being District No 1, Hyde Park. The assets of the district are estimated at §163,000; the receipts for the year 1882-85, were §64.253.65 ; the expenditures, $46,198.44 ; the tax levy for 1882 was $40,000, being at the rate of 1.3 per cent on the equalized valuation of properly. The total population for 1882-83 was 7,376 persons: 4,224 being over twenty-one years of age, and 3,152 under twentyone years of age; the number between six and twentyone years was 1,949. The school attendance for the same period was 1,193 - 5si D°.vs 010 girl*. The schools wherein this little army of scholars are instructed are as follows:

Ktnwaoii School. - (In this school the high school is held), Hyde Park A venue and Fiftieth Street . valuation, $24,000; teachers - Hattic A. Burls, Winifred Smalc, aid Clara U. Newkirk. Average attendance, eightyfour.

Greenwood Avenue School. - Greenwood Avenue and Forty-sixth Street; valuation, S32-000; teachers - Helen G. Farwell and Sara J. Fleming. Average attendance, sixty-four.

Fifty-fourth Street School. - Fifty 'fourth Street and Frederick Place; valuation, $35,000; teaihers - Annie E. Butts, Mary H. Garrigan, Louise 1. Starr, Louise L. Danforth, Nellie D. Healcy, Mattie Green and Amelia S. Parsons. Average attendance, two hundred and sixty-seven.

WooMtiwn School. - Lincoln, south of Everett Street ; valuation, §6,000 ; teachers - Fannie B. Rcxford and Hadassah M. Fleming; average attendance, forty-thrce.

Cornell School. - Drexel Avenue, between Seventyfifth and Seventy-sixth streets; valuation, §18.000; teachers - Annie Burke, Haltie L. Kinney, Emma L. Slickncy. Maria McCornack, and Joanna Hogan. Average attendance, one hundred and sixty. one.

if ,i,tison- Avenue S(hi\>t. - Madison Avenue, between Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth streets; valuation, §21,000; teachers - Sirah Milner, Mary M. Hiire, Adeline Johnson, and Annie Symons. Average attendance, one hundred, and twenty-five.

Hyde Park

There are also school lots at Park Side, corner of Seventy-first Street and Eldred Avenue; and at Brookline, corner of Seventy-fourth Street and Langlcy and Evans avenues. The Board of Education consist of Hugo H i 's, Homer N. Hibbard, Henry McKcy, John C. Scovel, Ja lies S. Sniale, president, and (icorgc H. Leonard, secretary; Leslie Lewis, Superintendent of S.hools; Emma II. Springer," clerk of board.

The high school is one wherefrom the graduates can enter the Industrial University without examination as to their proficiency. The school has an Agassiz Association, organized September, 1882, which has performed excellent work in natural history; their collection - all of which was presented by members - comprises: Birds, 17; eggs, 50; reptiles and animals, 10; skulls, bones, etc., 20; woods, 15; minerals, 100; fossils, 55 ; marine specimens, 20 ; miscellaneous, 115. The officers are : Alden L. Bennett, president ; Gouvcrneur Calhoun, vice president; Sidney H, West, secretary ; Antoinette B. Hollister, treasurer, and Harry I,. Fulton, curator. The society was inaugurated at the suggestion of Davis R. Dewey, principal, and it has received his hearty support and assistance. The school last year received second prize in Latin, German and physics from the Illinois State Fair Association. The remainder of the schools in the district furnish ' instruction perhaps commensurate with the intelligence and culture of the majority of the inhabitants of the district ; and no higher eulogium could he uttered.

Thk first post-officr established in the hamlet of Hyde Park was in i860. George \V. U'aiie being commissioned on March 23 of that year. Joseph \V. Merrill succeeded him, with a commission dated May 28, 1863 ; next was Hassan A. Hopkins, commissioned Jane 30, 1S66; then Goodrich Quigg Dow, commissioned December 8, 1873. the salary at that time being $450. In October, 1877. the appointment became presidential and Mr. Dow was re- ppointcd on the thirty-first day of that month and year, and again commissioned December 15. 1SS1. The present assistant of Mr, Dow is John Henry Pittaway. There are five mails received and dispatched daily; those to the East and South are direct mails, the others go via Chicago.

The first stork in Hvde Park was kept by Hassan A. Hopkins, on Hyde Park Avenue, a little south of Fiftv-third Street. It was a Utile grocery store about ten feet square. He came to Hy.le Park in the winter of 1856, in the employ of Paul Cornell as bookkeeper, at which time, he states, there were but two prominent citizens in the place, Michael Purcell and Dan (or John) Hogan, squatters on the land of the Illinois Central.

In an interview with Mrs. Eliza Denison Jameson, that lady stated that she first came to Chicago in the spring of 1856, and visited Hyde Hark in the spring" ensuing, to determine upon its eligibility as a residence site. At that time there was nothing but sand hills, prairie, trees, and wild flowers. Judge Jameson's house was built in 1S57 ; but, being unfortunately erected upon the wrong lot, he sold it, and had the one built wherein he now resides, which is situated exactly twenty feet from the edge of the lot, in compliance with a stipulation imposed by Paul Cornell on all purchasers of lots. In the spring of 1858

Mrs. Jameson arrived in Hyde Park. The train ran down to the locality now the corner of Cornell Avenue and Fifty-sixth Street, and dumped her baggage upon the turf; there was not even an inclosure at th it time. The depot was situated at the corner of Fifty-first Street, and was moved to a pointdiagonally opposite its present location in the summer of 1858 by Mr. Cornell to accommodate the guests of the Hyde Park House. Immediately in the vicinity of the station wild flowers grew in profusion, and the park, that Mr. Cornell had established and cultivated upon the lake front near Fifty-third Street, needed very few flowers that were not indigenous for its embellishment. This park was maintained by Mr. Cornell for the benefit of property owners, actual and prospective, and possibly actuated by a prophetic spirit. It was long since washed away by the erosive waves of the lake, although breakwaters were built to try and protect it It was a little secluded in Hyde Park then; and a little path that led by Judge Jameson's house - corner of Fiftythird Street and Cornell Avenue - to the depot, was so seldom trodden that Mr. Jameson's little daughter, seeing a man pass there one day en route to the depot, called to her mother to sec the rara avis. Upon the veranda of the judge's house one could stand and plainly see the arches of the Illinois Central depot, near the foot of Lake Street; there was nothing to break the sky-line of observation between Chicago and Calumet. Then, also, there were but seven families living at Hyde Park in addition to J. A. Jameson's, those of Warren S. Boguc, Chauncev Stick uey, Paul Cornell, Dr. A. B. Ncwkirk,* Charles Spring, Sr., Charles Spring, Jr., and Dr. J. A. Kennicott, at Kenwood. Mrs. Jameson also remembers the boarding-house of primitive construction, and of as primitive me'nu, kept by Mrs. Garnsey, widow of Nathan Watson. The first death in Hyde Park, within Mrs. Jameson's recollection, was that of Curtis S. P. Boguc, whose death resulted from injuries received in the accident u on the Illinois Central. In the summer of 1858-59 many of the people who had been employed by Mr. Cornell, took lots in part payment for their services, and made a temporary settlement there; but they shortly sold their property and drifted away. The residents of Hyde Park then were exclusive, yet sociable - they still possess the same characteristics - and were sufficiently intellectual to furnish themselves with mental and bodily amusement. The little church provided by Paul Cornell was a representative Utopian church edifice; there union services were occasionally held, and when ministers of specific denominations could be amassed upon one Sunday, the Presbyterians would meet in the morning, and the Episcopalians in the evening, and the utmost harmony prevailed. The Acadian character of such society can be more easily described than imagined; possibly, however, their political and property interests may have been so dominant as to preclude any rampant dogmatism. In the spring of 1859 Leonard Jameson built a house on Fifty-third Street, at the corner of Washington Avenue, and therefrom was constructed a sidewalk, running eastward, upon scaffolding, beneath which sidewalk was quite a depth of water. Near where the First Presbyterian church now stands was a large slough. Mr. and Mrs. Jameson used to be fond of walking to Egandalc, and one day on the way thither they came to this slough. The Judge clambered along the fence, traversing the slough, with the baby and deposited it; Mrs. Jameson, following the Judge, took care of the baby; the Judge returned and took the baby -earn jce to pieces and, carrying it over piece-meal, assembled it on the other side, and the reunited family and babycarriage proceeded rejoicing to Fgandale.

Oakland Biographical Sketches

tnilN Rl/SSEI.I. BENSI.EY was born May I, tljj, in Stimuli I r j- Co.. N. V.. (if Eaton and Sophia (Russell > Btaodt*, win) wire among ihe early settlers of That montr. The hH Servo] in the tt'jt t>( thiz. Having received an araiicwc citecatir-it. ioung Urnslcy, in 1851. became 11 clerk in a grnrnil Hnre ro his n iiiM' \illage. ' In :s=4 he bought out his employers. a:J in |S?7 wild out, anil cam* West, going to 1 hi Pace County, HI., whence hi? came lo Chicago the ensuing year. Here he went into general commission busines*. which has been continued irp tribe present lime, the lirm lieingnnw known as Bcnilcr Urns. In itti lie added tile sale of live stuck lo his grain. iWmr, pruluie an.l provision business, establishing a separate rvrml Header llr.-s. & ( ...> .11 the St..» k Yards for thai purpose, which also cunliaues. In tin Hoard of Trade, ol which he his been an active rucmteT since ims. he was a mrmlier of the committee of arbitration in t&(.\ ol 'llic l-.it.l nl directors in 187s. vice-president in lsjaainl 1871. and president in 1S70. He « J> appointed by the <<ntemi», in 1S7J. .1 member o( the committee ol appeals, on grain inspects*, an.' ii 1-77 was eircted a iticllllx-r r>f the committee ©1 appraisal the Board .4 Trade, serving two years. In I Sao he was one of tbe mi>t act ve promoters ol the enterprise which resulted in th* crccliwi nl Ihe ov .c Board ..I Trade building at the head ol I jSalle Street. M l35i , he was elected a rcabestatc manager by the Board ol Trade, and in that capacity has been prominent in carrying WWtJI work. He wcureJ from the Common Council the vacating ol Ihe necewarv ixirlion of LgSnfli Mrect, and purchased foe 8250,1*10 the whole Uaclt, and deeded to the Board ol Trade tbe real etutc on which the new building is being built. Interested panic* enile.ni.red 10 bled the movement bv an appeal to Ihe conrt, but the Supreme Court of Illinois confirmed the action ol lheConuwm Council. The new building will be I7S»«5. ;'nd tbe orhec port will lie ten stories high. For its erection I1.son.001 were borrowed, and it will lie completed in August. Ill* Mr. was elected prc*adcnl ol the "Call Hoard" in tsSi. »nd re-eleittu in 1SS2 lie is president of the newlv organized Western l«s"rance Company, with a capital stock of $300,000. all owned here Mr. Hen-lev is credited with one of the most remarkable lealtiii commercial' management known to this generation. I |*» failure of Mclicocli. Everingham s* Co.. in June. 1883. he »a« appointed receiver bv the court ; and though the affairs ol K' "rrn seemed involved in inextricable confusion, and about twelve jj» had been Ingun ill live Stales, he completed the almo't HW task of settlement in thirty-two days. He collected $.1.5.10.000 on secured debts, and $750.i«» on the rrmanuR §'.S<«..«o. or fifty per cent, which was highly salisfacu.rv *Mj Ihe creditors, and belter than the unsecured ' memliers of that lirm were enabled lo resume in failure. Mr. Benslcy ren.ov.d la Hyde Park in nAi^ elected one of its trustees in 1875. and again in l8j6 , 1S77. In iS7fjan.l 1S77 »'* chosen president ..f WWK" municipality, covering a greater area than Chicago, ami etuDrac ^ louncen villages, with a total population of P**£J**^. K has been twice married, and lias two surviving children 1 > S,. born |une 21. and John

ROBERT DEMPSEY ^^S^^WOm^ 1847. in Uniomown. Penn., of Joseph and EttW Igjs Doyd. Th* familv moved to La Salle County. III., in l»34- the elder Boyd still reside*, and where Mrs. ffi**^*. Having received an academic education. R. » 1 ' , j-mjgisl. Chicago in 1869. where he commenced HMW«»."!,»| rJL - In 1875 he began to study medicine in Rush where he graduated in the class of M * siore and entered on Ihe aclive practice of * «*JSir»*1 '« nearly four years' residence in Albany. II ., *£- Chicago in ittl, and located in Hyde Park, In and where lie has succeeded in building iin a K"><"' J . . ti;v. l* Boyd was married .0 M^^jj^TgSt .*;5- who died in 1SS0. leaving one child, kalph Bo)U. u. Ur. liovd is a member of the Presbyterian ( hurT"- in health he made the journey to Eureka. Cal., on (nnt in 1S59. 18(11 he returned home and enlisted early in 1B02 and served to the close of tile war For the last nine months of service he was on the Mad o{ ticiicTal George II, Thomas, as topographical engineer, with rank of First lieutenant. In iSf.7 he went to New York t ity and studied a year in the National Academy of IVsign. having early evinced a taste (or printing, and having already done some work in that line, for which, indeed, he inherited an aptitude. He also took lessens from Edwin White, the distinguished historical painter, for a year. In 1870 he came to Chicago, and opened his first studio, and was burnt out in the great hre. He soon re-opened, anil has been here ever since, with the exception of the season ol 1SS1-S2, which he spenl in Paris, as a pupd of t'arolus Ihiraii. -vhcre he exhibited in the Salon his painting, " Lcs Favorites." While home on furlough in 1*64. he was m imed 10 Miss Ellen T. Woodwortb,, of Wayne, Ashtabula Co.. Ohio, by whom he has had four children - Bessie, December 22, |M6; Fannie, November 22. I869; Carrie. January 15. 1871, and Merle Thompson. May 13, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are members of the Congregational Church of Hyde Porfc, where they have resided since 1375-

FREDERICK STEPHEN BURROWS was born February 2t, I844, in Cincinnati, t)hio, being the oldest son of John A. D. and Louisa (Dudley! Burrows. Tlie father, who for many yearn was head of the 'irni of Harrows & Thompson, the largest grocery house in its ilay in Cincinnati, died there of cholera in 1S50. The mother was a daughter of Colonel Ambrose Dudley of Lexington, a soldier of the War of 1812. Educated for two years in Kenyan College, he left it in his junior year. 1862, to enlist in the 961(1 Ohio V olunteer Infantry, serving three years, and being mustered out a Sergeant Major. In 1806. he began business as a jobber ill groceries in Cincinnati, and in 1876 transferred his operations to CWcigo where he has since remained, and where he is now the Western agent for I*. I.oritlard & Co., of Jersey City. N'. I. February 7. 1&74. he married Eva J., a daughter of John j. Wadsworth, of Erie. Venn. They have two children: John born in 1870. and Ethelbcrt Dudley, born in 1880. They have resided in Hyde I'ark since iSSo. Mr. Burrows is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Republican in politics.

ROBERT H, CHERRY, general yard master for the New York. Chicago & St. I.ouis Railroad, took charge of these yards on Stony Island Avenue, two miles south of Grand Crossing. October 33. 1883. He has the superintendence of fifty men. and the capacity of the yard is 550 cars. Mr. Cherry came to Chicago in 1871. and embarked in the jewelry trade five years. He then engaged with the Baltimore »V Ohio Railroad as yard clerk, and continued until 1SS3, when he obtained his present position. Hewas born at Pittsburgh. I'enn . September 30, 1854. and was raised there. In 1877 he married Miss UIBe H. Hanson, of Chicago. Thcv have two children. Flora H. and K.dith May,

LUCIUS BURR CONVERSE was born November 23. 1S35. in l.itchheld, I Ihio. of I >r. William and Eluabelh A. ( Burr} Con verse. In 1845 the family removed to Princeton. III., where the father opened a drug and general store in partnership with a cousin, Henry J. Converse, of Boston, under the style of Converse »V Co. In that store L. B. first learned commercial business. In lSjfi be graduated at Bell's Commercial Cullege. in Chicago, From 1802 In 1805 he was in the employ of 1 lower ,\ lligl.ee. dry goods dealers, of Cleveland. Ohio, as book-keeper; and in ihe latter year opened a wholesale hat and cap business as Innis, Converse & Co., which continued until l8t«j. He next went into banking with a general store, in company with his brother. James W.. in Brooklyn, Iowa, as Convene Brothers. In 1874 «hey «° Chicago, invested their spare funds in real estate, and took positions under their father, Ihe president of the Dime Savings Bank, where I.. B. remained until 1879. Since then he has filled Ihe positiun of bookkeeper for commercial house*, disliking the risks of business on his own account. Mr. Converse was married June 20, 1871. to Mary I ... a 1! i! f liter of K 1 sscl < olc, of 1 ihcrlin, < >hio, from win se 1 ' Ilege she graduated with highest honors ScptcimVr 20. iW-2. Mrs. Converse is an active member of Plymouth Church, and is interested in nearly all the benevolent enterprises of Ihe South Side, and is also president uf the ladies' society known as Friends in Council. Mr. Converse is an attendant with his wife at the services of Plymouth Church, and is a Republican in politics. They reside at No. 4001 Drcxcl Boulevard.

WILLIAM D'AjtCV FRENCH was born in tSs6, near Bryantown. Md. His father was D'Arcy A. French, a native of County Limerick, Ireland, who. half a century ago won some notice' in educational chela in Washington as a teacher of languages. His mother. Christiana J., a member of the well-known Spalding family, of Maryland, was born at Ihe ancestral home at Pleasant Hill. ' Charles Co,. Md. After some eight years' ress. dencc in Washington. Professor and Mrs. French removed In 1841 to Galena, 111. There, about 1844. young French began life on his »n i..-.. :ii with .1 brief experiment in mining, which In sunn exchanged for a clerkship in a mercantile house. In iSs,4 he came to Chicago and served E. Hempstead in the same capacity about hvc years, In 1859. supplied with a large stock of goods by Mr. Hempstead, he went to Hastings. Minn., where he grew into a jobber in groceries, as well as a buyer and shipper of grain, on his own account. Returning to Chicago in 18O5, he went into the general commission business, which he exchanged about 1873 for - brokerage in produce, lie is a member of the Board of Trade and the Call Hoard, and is president of the Open Board. In 1S57 he married Sarah P. llosworth, of Chicago, who died al their home in Hyde Park in November, |SS2. where ihev had resided since 187S.