Wheeling Township (part 2 of 5)

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

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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.

' HENRY JEFFERSON GOODRICH was born January 23. 1S40. in Worcester County, Mass., of Phineas ami Nancy (Piercel Goodrich. The father was a railroad contractor and builder, a descendant of Philip Goodrich, the original immigrant to New England. who settled in Connecticut. Receiv ing an academic education at Fairfax. Vt., from 1S57 to 1859, young I iondrich If died law for .1 short time under Judge While, of St. Albans, but resumed more gencT.i studies .iu I'.i Rev, N & Ulcicioxon, al roxhoro, Mass., tStjo-bl. Meanwhile he had taught school and studied law, and in 1S61 was admitted to the Itar. In 1864 he spent one year at Indianapolis, then settling in Chicago in iSrie. he became a partner of J. Esaias Warren. Tin* lirm of Warren ,\: Goodrich was dissolved in 1870, and Mr. Goodrich has In-cn for Ihe must part alone since Ihen until 1S8}, when the lirm of Goodrich, Tultle ,V Co. was formed. His specialty has been the investigation uf lilies to real estate, valuation thereof fur insurance companies and other lenders, for purposes ol railroad condemnation, anil the like. lie went to reside in Hyde Park in 1877. and in 18S2 was elected its president. Though a Ik-mocrat, and a member of the Central Committee of that party, he received Ihe support ol the less partisan Republicans anil discharges! his official duties in the interest of all classes, lluring his year of office several public improvements of great value to the municipality were inaugurated ur completed. The water, sewerage and slue! departments received a fresh impetus. New engines were placet! in the w.iier works and a tunnel projected to mn about a mile and a half into l-akc Michigan. The movement (or adjustment with the general government of the lines of the Calumet River with a uniform widlh of iwo hundred feel was inaugurated. By that means was secured the needed encouragement for the establishment of large manufacturing industries in that section. Altogether it was B year of arduous labors, occupying his undivided time and eliciting the appreciation of his icllow-ci'tucns, irrespective of party, Mr tioodrich is a member of Blanev lodge. A. F. & A. M..'Past High Priest of F airview Chapter, and a member of Apollo Commandcry. With his father-in-law. Robert Morris. LL. D.. he was one of the original founders, in 1S68, of the Holy- Land Exploration Society, now numbering perhaps fifty thousand memliers all over the world. He was married in 1806. In Miss Charlolte F'.. a daughter of Dr. Morris, of 1-aGrange. Ky., by whom he has one child. C. Maude, born in 1S71,

CALEB GOODWIN was born in 1822 in Hartford, Conn., being lh( fourth child of Caleb, Sr., and Harriet (Williams) Goodwin. The parents were both of early New England stock, the mother being a lineal descendant of William Williams, one of the signers uf the IVclaration of Independence, representing Connecticut. Having received a grammar -school education, young Goodwin. at ihe age ol fifteen, became a clerk in a book-publishing house in Hartford, where he remained until 1*144. He then came West and settled in Galena, in ihe general trade, with an older brother, under the style of W, \ C. Goodwin. In 1849, having sold out his interest to his brother. ( "alch I ioodw in came to Chicago. After some years in Ihe employ of others, he began a commission business on his own account alxmt 1858, which continued perhaps rive years. Since 1 863 he has been continuously in Ihe employ of two or three Chicago publishers, being at present with John Morris, successor to Culver, Page. Hoyne ,\ Co. In September, i?47. Mr. Goodwill married Elizabeth, a daughter of Samuel Brookes, an earlv settler and the first florist of Chicago. They arc the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters, and have five living grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin ate members nf ihe South Congregational Church, and have resided in Oakland since

W ILLIAM HUNDLEY GORE was born in 1851, near Zanesville, Ohio, of Tun) list nf! and Ann Amanda (I loge) Gore. The father was a member of the Legislature from 1860I0 1864, and removed to Illinois in 1S65, settling near Morris. Grundy County. In 1878 , .1 ng . in iei il in Kansas, where, in 18711. hi n EM IU business "of sheep-raising, about thirty-live mih-s from Wallace, in which he still retains an interest, the lirm being known as Gore Brothers, In the summer of 1882 he became a member of the lirm nf Hubbard & Gore, druggists, at the corner of Thirty- ninth Street and Collage Grove Avenue. Mr, Gore wax married February 2. 1S82. to Mary Bulkley, of Morris. 111., by whom he lias bad one

OEORtlE CHARLES HICK m bora in 183$, in Yorkshire. England, son cm Charles and Marv I Wilcnrk) Mick. He derives his descent from Samue: Hick. the- ullage blacksmith and Ouakcr disciple of John Wesley. Mr. (1. C Hick CM to the United States in IWJi, and settled in Chicago, where he went into the business lie still follows He imports urease and oil used by tan- I the slutting and finishing of leather, being the only mcr- 1 the West engaged in that special line. In iSvS Mr. Hick Elizabeth Martha Townsrnd, of Yorkshire. England, tin the mother's side, she is descended from the Kipleys. also noted disciples of Mr. Wesley. They are the parents of four children - William Arthur, bom in 1S50 : Herbert Kiplev. born in l8te ! Aimic. born in 1871 ; and Lottie, Imrn in 1878. Mr Hick lias resided in Hvde I'ark since 1876.

HENRY Hi;<;|| tlLHHAKI>. druggist, was June -i 1S4S. in Whitley. Canada, of Eli Plater and Marv (ScoltJ Hub! tart. Ihe parents were natives of New England', and came to the Lniled Stales in IS61. settling in Springheld. 111. In 1864 roung Hubbard was apprenticed to a druggist in loliel. with w hom he remained until 1870. In 1872 Mr. ||u|,lK1nl tame to Hvde lark, becoming a clerk with G. n. Dow, bv whom hew;,, admitted into partnership in the two more northern stores in 1870; and to whom he sold Ins interest in the same June M. 1**2. Since then Be luu lieen of tlK hrm of Huhbard \ (.ore. druggets Mr Hubbard was married Eebruarv SS. i8s2. to Mjss Anna Woods of

WILLIAM CRANE KINNEY was born Eebruarv 3, .8,3. in the own of Cambridge. 1 euawee Co.. Midi. Remotely he ii of English, Irish and Scotch descent, but of American man for JTS, "i-t-'renis were Sylvanus and Hannah (Cranel Kinney He resided on the farm where he was born and reared Mtk educational advantages as are afforded bv the common school until Klern years nf age, when he entered ,l,e high school at Adrian, Mieh.. where be continued, except at Intervil" while le-aching. until the spring of when he romlTeT * study of law ,n ihe olliee of lteecher \ I lowell. at A<lrian I n the fall o that year he entered the law school of the Cn?vcr,uVo. Michigan, spending one term there, ami then came to ( hie ... nnVl ^k'anmng the 03d Illinois Yoluninfantrv. rtld, he became the Second Lieutenant in Comtwo yiars. At the dOM of the uar he settled in Nashville Tana

A&EmL ; ,lc»1'-, a member of the Hoard of Aldermen and its president the second vear. Removing to Kan City, he there went into the real estate business, and e. ntinwd RR. ?T '"V"" his a',Urn '"Chicago in ,872. In " Ml, he ormed a partnership with losiah E. K iniball ihe' style of Kinney .v Kimball, which still evists. aSi Mr Kin

J AMES KIRON MURPHV was born in Ireland in Lit his father in 1830. When in his tenth year he was to.m.b :o America by his maternal grandpnrents, Mr, and Mrs. larae, Icr,. ncrtv who, after a short slay in New York, came West 'and settled in I hicago in 183s. Here one of their sons, John, opened a ecn. era! store, and in it young Murphv began to serve as a clerk at c.irly age. In 1843 he became a member of the volunteer nrecninpany. No. 4. and has never entirely lost his connection or intrreo in that department, being now a member of the Fireman's lien-v. olent Association. About 1846 he formed a partnership «ith another uncle, being the junior member of the lirm of I'. A. Kennertv A: Co , auctioneers. About this lime- lie was rejoined br lis mother ami her other children. I'pon the completion of thr'lllinois.S. Michigan Canal, in 1*47, lie became captain of the pas-senger boat "Mairppa." About 1*5, ha was in partnership with 1 brother. It. A., in a general store at St. ( harles. with brancliesil Aurora and Rnckfoid, umler the st>le of Murphy Kros. Selling his interest in all three to the brother in |S$J, he opened a sinilir st.wc in Itelvi.U-re. which he disposed of in i.sjc. lie the to I'eoria anil engaged in journalism, becoming the chief oirnei ef Ihe I'eoria Transcript. Alxmt 1855 he sold out to his partners, ami afterward Ithry being unable to meet their engagement*!. 10 other patties Since 185S Mr. Murphy has been corctinuocely ia the insurance business, returning to Chicago in lH*> a* manager of the I'eoria hire Insurance Companv, which be had charge of Until 1868. In l96cj hc urganiied the Chirago Eire Inscraaee Company, which went up in the great tire of 1871. Since then hc has been agent for New Veirk lire companies, representing in 1884 the American Exchange and t.uardian, of 10.11 city, and the Lafayette, of Brooklyn. !n 1S51 Mr. Murpki married Miss Eelicia E., a daughter of William Kounseville, educe and literateur. then residing at St Charles; she died in 1S64. In 1S60, he married Miss Jane I'eytcwi, of Chicago. Abocl l6fj hc joined the Masonic Order and has taken all the degrees attainable, being a member of Corinthian Chapter, Chevalier Huyard Coramnndcry anil Oriental Consistory, In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Universalis!.

CHARLES IRVING PARKER »a< barn March 10. iSjS, in Manchester, N. II.. son of John and Elba (fiolle) Parker. The father was a law yer and farmer. The son is on both siik* of early New England ancestry, the maternal line tracing decent from the historic regicide. William C.offe, more than one member of which was distinguished in the military annals of New England. Theodore, a son of "Major" t'.offc.'aiid three prerious ancestors, are buried in the old graveyard at Bedford N. II. Voung larker entered Dartmouth in 1S50, and was afterward voted the honor* of the clas% of 18(13 by that institution, receiving the degrees of A l! and A. though he did not complete the regular course, foe. in l86a, a* one of the Dartmouth Cnvalrv company, he entered the volunteer service, and on im ing the army in 1863, settled at \ den. III., where he was engaged in mereantile pin>nits four year*, and in 1867 taught school. In 1668 he was super inlendcr.l ot schools in Carlinvillc : in Joliet from 1869 to 1874. and in Daniilk until 1876. Frnm 1876 to 1S81 he Mas principal of the (Xiklarw high school, of Hvde Park, and superintendent from 1881 loth' present lime. He Cams to reside in Hvde I'ark in "«T*7i 1802. Mr. Parker was married to Miss Eranres E. Avery. «f Cirrollton, III., by whom iie has had three children - Adete E.. barn Eebruarv 2d, 1864. now a teacher in the Springer school. Hvde Park ; John E.. born April 1,, 1805, and Mabel. July 10.

PHILANDER PICK EKIN't i was born in iff" in Henry Co., Iowa, being the younger of two sons ami Ihe inird ot six children of Aquilla H. and Ruth (Horlandi PkkerirH;. father, now a retired merchant, has been a resident of Chicago J01 twenty ycrs. Erom 1S64 to 1SS2. under the stele of I'""'' ing & Co.. he was engaged in the commission, grain and |«'1 |j ion business, being among the earliest members of the I'""1 " 1 rade. 1 le is of New England birth and ancestry, and n r.epti" of Colonel Timothy Pickering, of Revolutionary Ijinc. 1 lit mother, a native o( New Vork. of U ancestry originally firll - but settled on Long Island (or snme generations, died in 1378. In 1870 Philander Pickering was admitted int.. partnership by hi* father, and succeeded to tire business January 1, !ls82. Since January I, 1&83, his brother, A. !>., has been associated with him. In 187(1 Mr. Pickering married Miss Ida. a daughter of C. R. Overman, a nurseryman, of Itlonmington. Ill . where he died in 1865. Like his forefather*, he is a IJuaker in religion, anil, like all the Kriends. a Republican in politics, lie look up his residence in Oakland in 1876.

FREDERICK T. PITNEY was horn in August. 1844, in New Vork City, the oldest child of f ranklin V. and Lucinda R. (Ogdcnl I'itney, The family came to Chicago in October, 184b, and the lather went into Ine stun- business, in which he remained until burned out in ll.e great lire. From 1873 until his death, in May, I S71J. he was occupied chietlv with the care of his properly. The mother still survives. In Ihbo young Pilncv entered the office of G. I'. Randall, architect, to learn the business. In I8b2 lie enlisted in the I'nited States Navy, being wct.itled as captain', clerk on the monitor "Catskill." of the South Atlantic 'jlockadlng squadron, and served over two years. Returning to Chicago, he resumed the study of his profession of architect, and was in the employ of W. \V. Boyington for about seven years. After working at his profession in connection with different' firms until 1882, he formed with f R. Wolhngcr the present lirm of K. R. Wollingrr \ Co., nunufacturcrs of superior furniture and interior fittings, from original designs furnished by themselves or others. In t8bb Mr. I'itney married Carrie A. Kent, of Niles, Mich., anil they are the parents of one child, William T.. born in 1867. Mr. I'itney is a Republican in politics, and has been .1 resident of < 'akland since 1874.

GrX>RGE HENRY RANDELL, physician, was born in 1852 in Jersey Island, F.ngland, whence his widowed mother immigrated to the United States in 1*54. settling for a time in Chicago. At an early age he completed a high-school course, when a period was put to his school days by his family moving on a farm. Ilcrc he remained occupied with the usual duties of a (arm hoy until his eighteenth year, when he left home and engaged in mercantile business. I Hiring all this time lie was eager (or knowledge, and by applying his leisure hours to study, with the help o( such private instructors as he could command, he added very materially to his school acquirements. The study of anatomy and physiology turned his mind in the direction o( the medical profession. Accordingly, he placed himself in a physician's office as a student, and when properly prepared entered the department of medicine and surgery of the University of Michigan, whence he graduated in 187*. Having become asssistant to the professor of surgery, he remained at the university several months, and then settled in the practice of his profession in Leavenworth t ounty. Kan., remaining three years, anil being while there an active member of the Kansas State Medical Society. In I rt rs 1 Dr. Randell removed to Chicago, where he soon became well known among the profession, who accorded him a prominent place in their ranks. In |S\S he was sent to Cleveland as a delegate from the Chicago Medical Society to the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, lie is physician to Cook County Hospital, department of obstetrics and diseases of women, ami lias laid the foundation of an extensive private practice. In I Mo Dr. Randell was married to Kmma, daughter of the late hlias Jones, M. P., ol Indiana, by whom he has had two children - Kmrna Maud, in 188I. and George Cecil, in 18S3. Dr. and Mrs. Randell arc members of the Methodist Kpiscopal Church.

HENRY CLAY SMITH was born in 1S4S in Hagerstown, Md.. of George Washington and Mary iNorrisI Smith. The father was a lawver and a member of the Legislature of Maryland, and the mother was a native of Alexandria, Va. In t8tt> young Smith enlisted in the regular army in the 2d Cavalry, and served three years " on the plains." In 1867, with his company, detailed as an escort, he visited Sal! l-nke City. In i860 he went to clerk for his brother, in book and stationery, wholesale and retail, at St. Joseph, Mo. In 1S74 he came to Chicago, and was employed for five years in the boot and shoe trade, in 1S70. going into business on his own account in Hyde I'ark, where he still remains. He wis married in 1813 to Miss Maen. a daughter of Rev. Mr. (.'nit, a Presbyterian clergvman of Collinsville, III. Mr. anil Mrs. Smith are members of" the Presbvterian Church.

GICORGK ALEXANDER S I ANN ARH was born in 1836 in WcstlK-ook, Conn., of Reuben and Nancy < Stokes! Slannard. The lather was a farmer and a leader in the management of township affairs. The Stannards and SlokcscS arc both of early New England stock. The early education of young Stannard was supplemented bv an academic course, and at the age of seventeen he became assistant bosk-kMMT in the orlicc of the Huston & Albany Railroad. In |Ss5 he received the appointment of cashier in the New York State treasury, which position he held seven years. In

1 862 he entered the service of Franklin. Edson & Co.. a large grain commission house in Albany, N. \\, with whom he remained until 1867. In 1868 he came to Chicago and became a member of the Hoard of Trade. In 1S60 he took the position of book-keeper in the Ransom stove house, where he remained six years. Since 1876 he has been in the employ of the Fairbanks Scale Companv in Chicago. In 1856 Mr. Stannard married Anna Elizabeth Chirrilree, of Albany, N. \. They ate the parents of live: children, three of whom are now lining, namely, George Perry, born in 18(12: James Mason, born in 1S64. and Klla Amelia, born in 1872. Mr. stannard first went to reside in Hyde Park in 1873. and with the exception of two vears. has permjnentiv resided there since.

ROBERT GARDINER STEVENS aras bora in 1S39 in Fayette, Kennebec Co.. Me., the second son of John and IViscilla (Lane) Stevens. The Lane and Stevens families are both of early- New England origin, the latter being of the New Hampshire branch. The father, one of ten children of whom eight lived to be over eighty vears of age, was a farmer, anil a soldier in the Madawaska war. or conflict alsmt the Umndary line between New Hrunswick and Maine. He filled the offices of Selectman. Collector and Treasurer of his town, and. having come West permanently in 1876, he died at the house of his son, K. G., in 1881, aged eightythree. The mother had dies! eighteen years before, at their home in Maine, R. G. Stevens came West in 1*53, and settled in Chicago. Iiecoming early identified with its grain Irade, and has lie en a member of its Hoard of Trade for the last twenty years. In iSbi he formed a partnership with J. S. Barker, under the style of Stevens ,v Barker, which lasted over twenty years. In 1868 Stevens \ Itarkcr built the elevator and feed-mill which he siill owns and runs, besides his transactions in grain, as buyer and -eller. In April. 1882, he bought his partner's interest and has since carried on the business alone. In 1856 he married I alharine M., a (laughter ol William True, of Wayne, Me. They arc The parents of four children, burn as follows : Klla L., in 1859 ; Kale M., in 1862 ; Arthur John and Anna Priscilla. twins, born December 14, 1S65. They have resided in llvdc I'ark since 1870.

GEORGE OLIVER TAYLOR, physician, was born in 1S4S in Adair County, Ky., of Dr. James G. and Sally (Elliott) Taylor. In 1863 voting Tavlor, inheriting strong Union sent'ments, enlisted in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, in which he served two years and two months In 1S65, he began to study for his profession, attending lectures In Louisville, Ky.. and afterward in Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he graduated in the class of 186S. Since 1873 he has been at his present location on the confines of the great city ami the big village. 1330 Oakland Boulevard. Besides his large general practice, Dr. Taylor is medical director of the Northwestern Masonic Aid Association. He has been a member of the Masonic Order some fifteen years, and as a mcmlicr of the Apollo Commandery made the memorable tour of Lurope with many of his associates in 1883. He was married in IS71 to Augusta llarpole. of Sangamon County, III. Mrs. Taylor is a member of ihc Presbvterian Church.

WOODBURY MANNING TAYLOR was born January 1. 1831, in Weallierslield, Vt, of Rev. Philcndcr and 'Thankful (Woodbury Manning! Taylor. In 1S33 the family removed to Tioga Coiintv. N. Y.. and in 1844 came to Chicago, afterward settling in Warrrnville. Dupage Comity. The lather, a Baptist minister for about fifty years, died at Ottawa, III., in iSSt. aged eighty. In 1852 the son left home at Itobcnck Grove and entered upon the battle of life, successively trying Chicago, Milwaukee and K.lgin, where lie located as a painter, becoming associated in business wilh M. Morrison. In 1853 he commenced the study of law 111 the office of Paul R. Wright, and in 1855 removed lo Ambov. Lee Co.. III. (having been married a year before to Miss Sarah E Harvey, of Elgin), where he entered the law office of William E. Ivis. Soon thereafter he entered into the real estate business, but the panic of 1856-57 induced a return to law, and the law hrm of Kinyon & Taylor resulted. In 1850, he removed to Geneva, Kane County, taking the position of Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court under his first law instructor, Mr. Wright. "In 1861 he enlisted in the 8lh Illinois Cavalry and was elected by his company Second Lieutenant. He remained with the regiment till August. 1862. when he was detached upon the staff of lieneral Pleasanton. nilh whom he remained till mustered out of the service at Milwaukee in 1S66. A few months biter found him in Chicago as a menilwr of the law and real estate firm of Jones. Bund) ,* Taylor. Early in 1867 he without his solicitation, commissioned as Captain of the 10th Cavalry I Regular Army I, which position he resigned upon being nominated for Clerk of the Supreme Cuurt of Illinois, to which position he was elected the fob lowing lune. Resigning this position also a few months before his term expired, in 1873. he returned to Chicago, where he bought an interest in the Chicago Evening Mail, which paper was afterward consolidated with the Post, becoming lb* Post and Mail. He was its editor and manager, until its demise. During this period he was appninted as Commissioner of the Illinois State Penitentiary, and was elected president of the hoard bv his OfaipM IU >* now a resident o( the village of Hyde IWi and is engaged in the law anil real estate busing in Chicago.

FRANK It. U l.l.KKY «H N>rn in Miami County , Ohm. in 1S43: son of Henry G. and Fli/alieth I'llery. His grandfather. Jacob Cilery, immigrated from Pennsylvania in ihe early part of this century, and was one of the pioneer, of Miami County, settling near the present site of Cnvinglon. of which he was one uf the fi Hinders. In l$bo. young I'llery. hitherto hroiight up on a farm, began the studv ot medicine ; but tile war breaking out, he enli»:e I at the first call, and served through Ac war. In is<>5 he resumed his studies, but turned his attention to the specially of dcnlistry. iinishing in iSfi?. He bugM practice in * Ihio, but a few months later he removes! |o Illinois, locating in Kankakee, where he practiced his profession until April. I*J>, when he removed to Momencr. east part of same conniy, where he continued practice until itjt, when he came to Chicago. locating at 31)116 Cottage t irove Avenue, where he is still to he found in practice.

JACOB W. VIII. IK, secretary and curator of the Chicago Academy of Science, was born in' 1S21) in Montgomery I onnty, New York; son of l'hiltp 1. and Itctscy (Wilbur] Velie. Crandfather Velie wa» born in Holland, and, after his arrival in the United States, married Catharine lloyd, a native of the state of New Vork, and of Cache ancestry. I he \\ ill.urs are of New Kngland descent, the lalcr ancestors, of Mr. Velie, on the maternal sule. being natives of Vermont. The early education of Dr. Velie was received almost exclusively at the local Select schools of the various places where his youth was pa->ed_ At the age of twenlyone he liegan the study of medicine under l>r. C. S. Vounglove, ol HamniondspMrl. N. V., with whom he remained three anil a half years, attending meanwhile a course of lectures at the l.cncva Medical College, and participating in [he practice of his preceptor. I>r. Velie early manifested unusual aptitude for mc-dtcat science and practice, and on the removal of Dr. Vounglove 1o Illinois, he took his practice at I Linimoiiilspurl, at the earliest s,,lieilalinlt of I >r. Vounglove's palicnls. In lsj'i he came West and swilled at Rock Island, where lie studied for. ami became, a dentist. The manual dexterity that made him prulicicnt in this science, has been greatly utilised in his position at the Academy of Sciences, not in odontology, however. I luring the year iSfij he spent five months in the Rocky Mountains, and at the time assisted in taking the height of several peaks, one of which, 13,173 feet in height, he named Mount Auiliihon, in honor of John James Amhihon, the naturalist. He Itad ihe honor of having a peak, 13.457 ieel in height, given his name - Velie's Peak. In I S07 he relumed Kasl. and went into business at Itath, Steuben Co., N. V., as a druggist ; lie having married Adelia. a daughter of Lay Noble, of thai town, in ists. This lady died, leaving no children, December 14, 1883, at lheir temporary residence at Hyde I'ark. In 1S71 he removed 10 Chi. eagn and became the assistant of Dr. William Slimpson, secretary of the Academy ol Srienres, After the destruction of that society's cullectiuu by the lire of ttjl, which included the results of thirteen years of his labur in collecting anil his scii-ntitic library, he aceompanied Dr. Slimpson on a xaeollric expedition to Florida. Cuba, and Yucatan, bringing back what fi-rmcd the nucleus of a new collection for the Academy. Dr. Stini|isoii died on his return trip, tit Illchestcr. Mil., May 17, 1S77, and Dr. Vetie. on his arrival with the collection, was placed in charge thereof and the new- Academy building. In July. 1*77. for faithful services rendered, he was presented by Ihe trustees with a paid-up life membership. He has, since lS;s, made hve cxpi-dilions 10 Florida in the scientific interests uf the Academy, lie is an ornithologist of wide reputation, and of late year* has given special attention to cone hoiogy and archxology . lie is a careful student, of comprehensive research, anil no branch of practical science is foreign to his understanding. He is a corresponding member of the Davenport I Iowa) Academy of Sciences, of the lliological Soeicty of Washington, I'. C, of ihe National t trnithologtcal Congress: contributor to the Smithsonian Institute, anil president of the Kidgcway Ornithological Club of Chicago.

OEOROE WASHINGTON WAITS was Ix.rn lulv ». 1S10, in Wokuti. Wayne Co., N. Y.. s«.n of Dt. Daniel D, and l.ucy ICIapp) Waite. At the age of nineteen Mr. Waite came West, and taught school, with little intermission, for seven vears. first in Marengo, Mich., then in Norwood, in., where be wan joined by Ins father an<! the rr-«: of the family in t<v>: u,\i in <| t l,i whither they moved in 1*42. lad last ot .,; Warrciivillc, III . where he was principal of Ihe high school lor one ye:ir. He was appointed Surveyor uf Dul'age County by I be I .i-gNlahiro about 1*47. vice Kimball, deceased, and 1 iep.it v Surveyor of Kane Count v. In 1 S4S he WM employed as assistant engineer ori the < ialena \ Chica go Kailroad, the lust railroad out of Chicago, and helped t<> lay Ihe htsl lie on that rood, as wrdl .1- CODve* Ihe hrsl locomotive, the " Pioneer." exhibited in Chicago in rssi, from a vessel to the head c.| t o r..j.: .11 Kiixie and llalsted stnrets, In 1 s = : hr '-:(:: ro.ol to hiiinic chief engineer nf the Chicago & Aumra KaHftail, now 1 .. I',. -V o. K. R., which he surveyed, located, got thr right . I u ,v t r. and built. Since then he has tilled a similar pwtim 1.1 -l.-r .-tliei nls S;. Charle-v Air Line, Iowa Central, ini tcnasjv, Mexican Central, and is now locating oipneer of the New York Texas It Mexican, of which ninny. two miles, from Rosenberg Junction to Victoria, in Texas, are already built. In iBfij he removed to Hyde Park, where he has filled even v3- lage ollice - Town Clerk one. Assessor six. Trustee nine, anil sopcrvisor two years ; he was Chief Kngineer of South I'ark h* the lirst four vears after its establishment, and wax ahooneul thrtt commissioners appointed by the Circuit Court, in |5U). lr> levy ihe park assessment of S3. 320,000. lie was (or nine years I'teadrnt of the Boaid of School Trustees of Township 3*. Range 14 : jnd was President of Conk Couniv Board nf Supervisors in ittt. He was married Mav t. 1S43. to Mary S. Sargent, of Warrenvillr, III.; and they are Ihe "parents of live hoys and two girls, (if whom jrt living «.:harlc-s S.. « icorge H.. William W. and Mabel. Mr. Witt is a member of the Old Settlers' Club of Chicago. He came u> Chicago. Novemlier 15. 1S39

LI. IAS UK HARD WILLIAMS was horn in 1640 in final Itritain. whence his parents, with six sons and one daughter, munigrated to Ihe I'nited States in itjl. being preceded in OaM anirther son. Thev settleil on a farm in Kamlotph. Columbia Co. Wis. In iss;, Lli.is went to Fox Lake 10 learn the busuitsv of watch-maker' and jeweler. In 1S59 he worked at his irjJc m Portage Citv, Wis.; and in iMw he liegan business on hn o»ri aceouni in Markcs.in. Wis. In 1S63. coming to Chicago, hcwwknl a few ve.irs for leading houses in his line, but was in bounesa to himself fr.*i i«is until burnt out bv the great fire, by which lie hM heavily, lie resumed in l»?2. and three years later remoieJ to H«dC Park where he has since remained, and has succeeded in building up a remunerative local trade. In l$73 Mr. "** married to Ida. daughter of Clurles Chamlierlain, a Lhicigo merchant residing in F.riglcwnod, He has been an Odd rWaWW some years ; is a member ol the First l-resbyterian Church, ana a Republican In tiolilics,. , .- v v son of t iisjrge Woodland. Sr.. and Hannah IStevens WoodUna. In I.S(,2 voung Woodtaod entered the onice oi W«od « W" Slram Kngine Company, of Utfc* N. Y., as clerk, afterward becoming general olTice manager, and renuineil in their KtaMCTin vears. In 1^,7 he went into the «a. ings bank business rn.yricuse ; selling out his interest in 1S71 . he came to t hicapi and 1«* the |K^ition of receiving teller in the Prairie State Lean ^ Trust Cownanr, becoming assistant cashier in i5-.|. and mm* an increasing amount of slock from the dale of hw M«atN with the institution to the present lime. Novemlier ». IB7J, - Woodland was married to Miss Oplielia C a daughter of I honus ltuchanan, a hanki-r of Ctica, nTy.. by whom aT-hyM-W children -Fred. II.. August 31. 1S72. and Margie. *> I»79. Tbty have resided in Hyde Park since Nuvemuer. 10,-

Egandale was a pleasant garden laid Mlttytk celclrated Dr. William Bradshaw Egan, of ChKaga and was comprised within the following boundamSConimencing at the corner of Fony-se venlh Mriet and Cottage Grove Avenue; thence south 10 ^J* J'"? " Street; thence east on Fifty-fifth Street to Madison Avenue; thence north on said avenue 10 V11^ Street; thence west on Fifty-first Street 10 Avcnite-formcrly Van Buren Street-thence nmt on Woodlawn Avenue to Forty-seventh Street , trie west on said street to the place of beginning- rr this point, where a porter's lodge was situ ded. a con linuous winding drive meandered OllOOgh WW urc-garden. When its construction was hrst ui w taken, the site was nothing but prairie U»d »»0 Kuan hauled car oads of evergreens and . dttw 1 trees to the place, and there had them l"/"^ * d°civ ing to the most approved method of landscap £ ing. Near the corner of Fifty-nfth Street wjCgg drove Avenue was a race-track. whereon the "kbratt^ between Woodlawn and Madison avenues was another mound, whereon was an observatory, or look-out ; from whence a munificent view of the whole surrounding country was obtainable. The grounds were planned, laid out and cultivated with excellent taste and judgment, and were not only designed as a pleasurega,den for the public, but ultimately to he transformed into grounds surrounding a manorial residence to be erected by Dr. Egan. The prominent plan of Egandale, was that of the domiciliary estates of large landed proprietors of Great Britain. At the suuthern end were nurseries, and small plantations yet remain that were planted under Dr. Esan's auspices. After the Hyde Park House was built, the portion of Kgandale lying between Madison and Woodlawn avenues was laid out for residence property. The garden was opened to the public about 186.3, and the frustration of Dr. Egan's financial plans and real estate speculations prevented the consummation of the E4at1d.de ground as he had contemplated and intended. Mrs Jameson thinks that the first school teacher in the public schools of Hyde Park, was Mrs. Ellen Noble, a sister of Mrs. Homer N. Hibbard. Of her recollections of those whom

Mrs. Jameson recalls one whose patronymic was the regal one of McCarty. An old, old house that was occupied by James Purcell, who for a long time was a factotum of Hyde Park, and subsequently moved to Kansas City with his family - was afterward occupied by one Hogan, and McCarty. Hogan left and Mc- Carty died ; in consideration of his services to the Illinois Central Riilroad, his widow the Mrs. McCarty, for a long time was allowed to occupy the cabin rentfree. But the railroad had to be extended and the cabin, which stood in the way, had to be torn down, and Mrs. McCarty was as much aggrieved as though she were evicted from her own property, and loudly declaimed against the soullessness of corporations. But she passed on before the railroad as her congeners, the primitive squatters of Hyde Park, did.

Having alluded to Egandalc, another portion of Hyde Park may be alluded to, a district that used to pride itself upon being the most aristocratic of Chicago's suburbs. This crhnt de la crhne of hamlets was called

Kenwoop. - The first settler was Dr. John A. Kcnnicott, who built a small frame house there in the spring of 1856, and settled with his family; there were then no houses near him. The place was named by him after the home of his ancestors near Edinburgh. Scotland ; and, in 1859. when the station was established by General George B. McClcllan - then vice-president of the Illinois Central Railroad Company - it was called Kenwood Station; and thence the custom arose of calling the region adjacent to Dr. Kennicott's residence, Kenwood, without any definite limits being given to the place. Kenwood Station, at the foot of Forty-seventh Street, is exactly one mile south of the city limits. The ear.icst settlers after Dr. Kennicott were William Waters and John Remmer, who were employes of the Illinois Central Railroad about i860; and P. L. Sherman. This gentleman still reside., in Kenwood and each successive vear of his residence but the more endears him to the denizens of that suburb. Near this station, on January 8. 1862, a frightful accident occurred, the Cincinnati express train telescoping the rear of the

Hyde Park train, * Judge William T. Barron was instantly killed, and the following were more or less severely injured : Hassan A. Hopkins, James P. Root, Charles Hitchcock of Gallup & Hitchcock. Malcom Packard, John Remmer, James Brown, engineer of the Cincinnati train, and S. C. P. Bogue - who died shortly afterward. Resolutions of respect were passed to the memory of Judge Barron by the Chicago Bar, and the pall-bearers at his funeral were E. C. Lamed, H. P. Smith. G. W. Joy, John Woodbridge. Paul Cornell, and G. W. Thompson. The estimation in which Kenwood was held by its residents has by no means lapsed with the progress of years; the aristocratic denizen of that aristocratic suburb, esteems it as the Faubourg Saint Germain was considered by the old regime of the Parisian aristocracy. It certainly is an undeniable proposition that in the region bounded by Thirty-ninth and Fifty-seventh streets, Grand Boulevard and I«ikc Michigan, can be found as exclusive, talented coteries of society as those existing in the old Quaker circles of Philadelphia, in the Knickerbockers of New York and Brooklyn, or the refrigeiative haul foil of Beacon Street. With this distinction ; that in Oakland, Forrcstville, Kenwood, South Park or Hyde Park, there is not one social clique, admission to which may be attained with wealth as the sole "open sesame," and there are very few where talent would be denied the eiitr/r, because of impeenniosity. It is only in circles where the status of those professing aristocratic culture, is imperfectly and uncertainly defined, that shoddy receives its perfect worship. In the district mentioned, the inhabitants are too thoroughly gentlemen and ladies to be very amenable to the dogmas of snobbery.

Hvdf. Park Lodge, No. 422. - In the history of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, mention is made of this lodge, and the rock of offense that the corner-stone laid by them became to an ecclesiastical dignitary. This lodge was granted a dispensation in 1S63, and the first officers were Nicholas Francis Cooke, W. M.; Homer Na-h Hibbard, S. IV.; William K Arkerman, J. W.; Edwin Oscar Newberry. T.; John Trimble, Jr., S.; W. C. Lewis, S. D.; George Washington Waite, J. D ; and Fergus M. Blair, tylcr. From the blue book of the lodge, Jonathan Asa Kennicott appears to have been ihe first person raised, on August 31. 1863. The lodge was chartered October 5, 1864, with the following charter members: Homer Nash Hibbard. James Wadsworth, Daniel Tyler Waite, Samuel Hopkins Downs, Edwin Oscar Newberry, John Middlcton, George Washington Waite, Carlton Drake, Charles Suntcr, Jonathan Asa Kennicott and Thomas Leeds Morgan. The officers subsequent to the investiture of the lodge with the charter, and the number 422. were H. N. Hibbard, W. M.; G. W. Waite, S. W ; J. Middlcton, J. W.; E. O. Newberry, T.; J. A. Kennicott, S-; W. K. Ackerman, S D.; C Drake, J. D., and S. H. Downs, tyler. The worshipful masters subsequently were H.N. Hibbard. 1S65 ; G W. Waite, 1866; J. Middleton, 1S67 68; Pcnnoyer Levi Sherman, 1869. and Horace Acmon Harvey, 1870. On July 19, 1870, the lodge removed from Hyde Park to Chicago, and on October 4, 1 87 r, the name was changed to Landmark Lodge, No. 422, which name it still retains.

But a short time after the migration of Hyde Park Lodge the Masons felt the want of a lodge in their midst and applied to the Grand Lodge, and received a dispensation in 1871. On October 3, 1871, the lodge was chartered as

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South Park Lodge, No G62 ; with the following charter members: John Middlcton, Asa I), Waldron, Charles S. Waite, Homer Nash Hibbard, George Washington Waite, James S. Smalc, James R. Stanley, Robert H. Middlcton, William Lewis, Pennoyer Levi -Sherman, John W. Evans, James II. Ely, James R. Flood, KUm Gilbert Clark, William P. Orav, Ebenezcr I . Root, Sidney L. Underwood, Gcoigc Leach, Willlam 8. Johnson. Charles Creighton, |ohn Barvick, Thomas R.Coleman, Henry II. Ad una, George W Hale, Joseph B. Lewis. Van H. Higgins and Neil Mr Lcan. I'he first officers were John Middlcton, W U - Asa D. Waldron, S. W.; Charles S Watte, J W and in 1S71 the Worshipful Master was Joseph I!. Lewis and the secretary William P.Gray; the ensuing year John MiddWon was Master and W. P. Gray secretary. The officers ,n 1875 were C. S. Waite, W. M ; W. P. Gray, classes under the auspices of the resident secretary, Sv« '<£ ? r E,ucrumments are also occasional given for the frequenters of thc rooms. This branch doing an excellent work, and one much neS fa the district immediately around the ro'ns ""^ Another edifice in the immediate vicinity of thP in the building now known as the Kenwood H eh School This was the first Catholic service held i he , village of Hyde Park, outside of South Chi 1 and was the embryo of the present St Thomas1

, , "e'- ln AMlu?f- i869- a «niall church on the present location was dedicated that has since been en iargea. 1 he pastors who have had charge of the church and parish were: Father Levden, from October, ,S60, lo ,870: Kennedy and Campbell, ,870 to ,873; Flanigan, .s73 to t877 ; D. a. Tighe, 1877 to i8b2; August, igga, William Aloysius Hour, was appointed parish prie->t. The original St. Thomas' Parish embraced about thirty square miles of territory and included the three parishes of South Chicago, the n fi 1 j °f (-irand Cros5inK. Pullman, Englewood and Oakland. Thc present boundaries of the parish arc Forty-seventh. Street, Lake Michigan, Grand Boulevard and Sixty-third Street, and within its limits are eighty, six families and two hundred single persons who aie members of the congregation. The average daily attendance at the church on Sunday is four hundred at each serv ice, making a total of eight hundred persons ministered unto each Sunday.

The First Baptist Church located on Madison Avenue, near the corner of Fifty-fourth Street, was established in 1874. The building is a neat frame building, the main edifice twenty by forty-four feet, with a lecture-room in thc rear twenty-si'x by fifteen feet It cost §2,300, and the lot upon which it stands is worth $*-*5°i upon which there is an encumbrance of $500. It was dedicated in October, 1874, and the pastors were the Reverends E. E. Bayliss, James Goodman and J. B. Jackson, who resigned September 1, 18S3, on account of ill health, sir.ee which time Dr. Anderson, of Chicago University, held one service each Sunday until January, 1884, when Rev. W. C. Carr, of Danielsonville, Conn., became the pastor. The congregation numbers about fifty members, and the Sunday-school has ninety attendant?. Its present trustees are N. B Dodson, J. G. Pratt, and R- Becman

Scandinavian Congregation. - The Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal Church of Hyde Park wns organized in October, 1880, as a body subordinate to the First Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal Church of Chicago, but holding separate meetings at a locality somewhat near to their residence. They have their ministerial supply sent them by the Mother Church, and for three years met in a hall over Dodson & Peirces store, on the northeast corner of Fifty-third Street and Hyde Park Avenue, and then in the First Presbyterian church. The congregation has about fifteen members, and has a service every Sunday alternoon and a prayer meeting on Friday evening.

American Legion of Honor - Home Council. No. 1,046. American Legion of Honor, was instituted November 16, r882, with a charter list of twenty-three members, as follows : Mrs. Melvina F. Boyd, WW* S. Gee, William Everett, Oiis S. Favor, George H Leonard, Robert Boyd, Charles H. Arms, tieorge

Willard. George H. Waite, Wilhelm Bodemann, Klisha C. Ware, Edward a. Hunt, James Stephen, Mrs. Mary F. Donahue. Juhn A. Pcttigr< w, Andrew McAdams, John L, Bennett, Charles I.. Norton, Leslie Lewis, Charles A. Dewey, Lucius VV. Parsons, Charles L. Boyd, George H. Ch .pman and James Boyd. The ceremony of instituiion *aa performed by Deputy Grand Commander Charles L. Bind. The officers for 1883 arc: William S Gee, commander; Otis S. Favor, vice commander ; Charles L. Boyd, past commander; George Willard, orator; Lucius W. Parsons/secretary ; Charles L. Noi ton. collector ; John L. Bennett, trcaslirer; IVilliun Rvcrctt, chaplain; James Boyd, guide; James Ste]>hen, warden; George H. W.iite, sentry.

Royal Arcanum. - Hyde Park Council. No. 582, Royal Arcanum, was instituted April si, 1881, with twenty charter members. The officers were Otis S. Favor, R.; Dr. W. H. D. Lewis, P. R-; C. L. Boyd, V. R.; George H. Leonard, orator; Waller D. Crosman, secretary; Charles L. Norton, collector; G. E. Harris, treasurer; J. Kearney Rogeis, guide; Abncr T. Hinckley, ch lplain. The first year it increased one hundred and twenty per cent, the second year had sixty-two members, and now numbers seventy members. It has two representatives in th : Grand Council, and the Grand Orator of the State from among its membership. Its pre-ent officers arc: Henry V. Freeman, regent; Edward S. Hunt, vice regent; f. Giles Lewis, orator; Leslie Lewis, past regent; Samuel West, chaplain ; William H. Leckie, secretary; Charles Leverett Norton, collector; John L. Bennett, treasurer ; George H. Waite, guide; Ficderick Kanst, warden; E. C. Ware, sentry ; Joseph J. Siddall, William G. Lewis, Addison G. Procter, trustees.

One other society remains to be noticed - one thit has been eminently successful in the achievement of the objects to attain which it was organized, and whose success has made it a veritable institution of Hyde Park. The Mendelssohn Club of Hyde Park was organized in October, 1866, with Joseph N. Buker, president; Henry V. Freeman and F. W Norwood, vice presidents; E. Ryan Woodle, secretary, and Goodrich Q. Dow, treasurer; and under the musical tutelage of Prof. C. J. Smith. At this time the club averaged about thirty-five members, and was a social org miz ilion. The ensuing year the club was re-organized and an imprtt$ario, Frederic W. Root, employed. The officers were: H. N. Hibbard, president: Joseph N. Barker, and F. W, Norwood, vice-presidents; Charles Leverelt Norton, secretary, and G. Q, l>ow, treasurer. This tenure of office continued with the change of J. N. Barker to the presidency in 1878, until 1 88 1, when W. J. Fairman became president and so remained until 1882. The present officers are: Joseph N. Barker, president; Homer N. Hibbard. vice-president; Charles L. Boyd, secretary ; Goodrich Q. Dow, treasurer; M. L. Bartlett, musical director; Mrs. M. L. Bartlett, accompanist; and the object of the club is musical proficiency and vocal culture The club gives five concerts during the winter, and any profits arising therefrom are devoted to the payment ol the musical professors employed. The Steinway piano owned by the club was purchased in 1877-78 by a loan of $500 from some citizens, and this amount wis repaid from this source within two years. On May 10, 1SS2. the club was incorporated so that it could possess property as a corporation. It now averages three hundred memhers. Another benevolent society, whose object and work is an honor to Hyde Park, is the Union

Charii vbi.k Society, a ron-sectarian confiatcmiiy, whose aim is to confer "the greatest good upon the greatest number " of deserving poor, lis officers are : Mrs. P. L. Sherman, president; Mrs. H. A. Hopkins, Mrs. M. E. W. Cole, vice presidents; Mrs. H. N. Hibbard, recording secretary; Mrs. J. H. Long, corresponding secretary ; Mrs. William H. Potter, treasurer. Advisory Committee - Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Ray, Rev. and Mrs. C. II. Bixby. Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Jackson. Rev. and Mrs. L. P. Mercer, Father W. A. Horan, H. L. Wait, H. S. Osborn, A. T. Hinckley, Leslie Lewis, R. R. Donnelley, N. S. Bouton, H. T. Chace, E, T. Brookfield, D. A. Peirce, H. D. Sheldon, George liarrv. H. N. Hibb..rd, W. S. Johnson, M I)., W. H. D. Lewi's, M. I)., William S. Gee, M\ D. Executive Committee- Mrs. J. N. Barker, Mrs N. P. Jacobs, Mrs. Colin Robinson, Mrs. H. L. Wa t. Mis. F.W.Norwood. Mrs. D. A. Peirce, Mrs. W. C Stevens, Mrs. E. Towner Root, Mrs. B. P. Hinman, Mrs. J. A. Atkinson, Mrs. J. P. Root. Mrs. R R. Donnelley. Miss Mary Noble.

Hyde Park Hose Company, No. 2 - The officers and members of this com »any were: J. II. Madden, captain; M Home, first assistant ;" Robert liarr, second assistant; William Murray, third assistant; John W, Woolhouse, secretary ; Thomas Csrr, treasurer; W. A. Bailey, William T. Home, John Gr-ene. John W. Evans, John Turner, C. I.epper, Michael Hcalcy, Joseph McCurdy. Thomas McGraw, William Smith, M. Morrissey, Tharlcs Gohlke and Thcron h. Wright, members. The hose house of this company is near the corner of Fifty-third Street and Hyde Park Avenue, and cost $300. Their apparatus consists of one double hose, hook and ladder truck, with hose reel attached, and five hundred feet of rubber hose. The last organized company had the following mcmbeis: M. Home, captain; George Christians, first assistant; Jacob Bauer, second assistant; Frank Bauer, third assistant ; C. M. Ar.derson, treasurer j William Bauer, George Kyle, Gus Peterson, Heniy Dudenbostel, Frank Mackast, W. L Robinson and Frederick Simons, members. Protection Hose Company, No. 3, have their quarters in a rented building near the corner of State and Fiftieth streets. Their equipment consists of one double horse hook and ladder truck with hose reel attached and eight hundred and fifty feet of cotton hose. The present members of ' he company are: James Wallace, captain, and D, Miller, Edward Leech, Frank Shcrrard. William Hegadnrn, Thomas Edward Verne, Daniel Graves, William Sanders, Elwood Van Fossen, Charles Peter Van Ho n, David Johnson and Thomas Wilson.

Newspapers. - The contiguity of Hyde Park to Chicago has prevented the establishment of many newspapers in the former place, but there arc three to chronicle a* hav ng lived in Hyde Park. The Hyue Park Herald was established January 14, 1882, by Fred Fuller Bennett and Clarence P. Dresser, editors, publishers and proprietors. The paper ran about six months when each of 1 be editors receiving extremely favorable offers 1o write for (he Chicago Times and Inter Ocean and Philadelphia Press, they discontinued the Herald, giving the subscription list to the South Chicago Tribune. The Herald was a weekly paper, ably conducted, and was a remunerative investment | its discontinuance was a just cause for regret. This fact evidently became impressed upon the minds of its whilom proprietors; for. upon January 5, 1884, the Hyde Park Herald issued its No. 1, Second Series, with John I). Sherman, editor, and Clarence P. Dresser associate editor. The management and proprietorship is vested in three directors. The paper is a twelvepage issue, and is devoted to the local news of Hyde Park, which is ably edited and presented in a piquant manner.

Thk Metropolitan Press Hi'rkau had its office in the publishing office of the Herald.and their subsidence from Hyde Park dated at the discontinuance of that paper-

The South Side News was published by I. L. Vansant & Co.. for circulation in Hyde Park, from 130 La Salle Street, Chicago. Daniel H. Home furnished articles from his trenchant pen for the paper, and had to bring suit to recover the amount due him therefor. Upon judgment obtained, and execution, for $93 35, the South Side News collapsed. It suspended June 1, 1875, and the office from whence it had been published was empty on the third instant.

The Hvdf. Park Weekly Scn was one of the links in the catenary system ol Suns published by H. L. Goodall & Co., of the town of Lake. Its issuance commenced on April 24, 1875. Daniel H. Home was the editor. It was discontinued in about four years.

EDWIN FISHER BAY LEY was born June it. 184;. in Manlius. Onondago Co.. N. Y.. being the second son of 1 alvin Chapin and Ann Sophia I Fisher) lUy'.cv. The father is native <>( Vermont, and of early New England Origin, on the paternal and maternal (Chapinl side, The mo:her is also a Vermontcr. The family eame West in 1S4S, and seltled near W'aupun. W is. The father followed at intervals hi* old profession of teac her in academics and the higher grade* of schools, among other* tilling the position of principal uf Brockway College (AMI Ripun t ullcge) from it«j<» to 1S61. In 1S04 E. F. ltavlcy enlisted in the 41*1 Wisconsin \:o!unlccr Infantry, serving mostly in Tennessee. In the spring of iShs hcenterrtl Kipon ' '-ll«-i;e-. taking (he fit-; t« - >' iM "I tVCntlTM there, ami in Infjin entered the fliftkM class al Attdtcisi 1 o|. lege ami graduate.) liierr in l»'.s Immobile') after gt.idual klg he went !->>!. I . .uis in take tm p.,- l u.'i of InstrttcUM In Washing, ton l'invcrs:lv. inuring at the same lin e the V. 1 "i i* l..oe Sc!i<«d. He was adniilttd K>*UM< liar in mi cx miniat'ou, .oiil

OLUfct.K IIAKUlM |S HLtSS «rm born \I,in 12, isjo. in Worcester, Mass.. of I'errin and IVrsis A 1 Billiard) Uliss. Xtti family cam tu ' Jifcajftiin tss4. haying been preeeded lirihc father in IS52. He engaged in bridge Mil laihoad huildiiig. and died in 1S71). being follir.eed by Mrs. Bliss in issii. In |Sf* young RSiss learned telegraphy; and was emploved by the Illinois St Mississippi Telegraph Company, at Ihson III., in and at Muscatine.

Iowa, in |W«>. lie was stationed at Aurora, III , in 1S01, as opiratnr for the same company and ticket agent for the Chicago, Burlingloti li 1 luuiiy Railroad In lt6j he returned lo Chicago, and served six mouths in I V main ofhec. and some months in llie otter. at the superintendent ol 1 he t Im ago \ North. W sirrn, where he became rhiel operator in IW>J. Shortly afterward he was appointed superintendent ol telegraph fur that comprint ; 111 which rxnilion be continued until the spring of 1*73. Meanwhile, in connm. iron wilh L G. 1 illotson It Co., of New York Citv, he frttthwjhwl in 1*67 the first important manufactory of electrical goods in Chicago, continuing until the tire, after which it was resumed for one year, when Mr. llliss bought out his partners and merged the business in the stock company, George II. llliss & Co., capital $411,1x10. The new enter pi isc reipiiring a.l his lime, he resigned hi* position with the < 'hieago \ North-Weslcrn in 11*73; and in 1S7S his company was embodied in the Western Electric Company, of wh.ch he lir'- amc general agent. In 1S.77 he disposed of his interest therein, and engaged in the sale of some of Edison's earlier inventions. His health becoming impaired, he was largelv occupied hi a successful endeavor to restore the same bv lo and fiom Utah and other sections id the Noithwrxt, in 1*70 and iR(w. In issi he become general western agent for the Edison electric light bdng the hrsl to inlroiluce tluu -.ys|, m in the West. In iMa the

(k-orge Kslis. .0 'in |SSj. Mr. and Mrs. Ill is* arc ntemben of the Plymouth Congregational Lit arch, of which Mr. llliss is 1 dearm. lie has been . M ati 1 (uf ab-mt twenty years, and isa RqmUiaa in politics. IU has been a resident "I I lytic I'ark since September. IB7I,

HAMILTON ItlSHOP BOGUE was bom September 10, 1834. in lunia. Michigan, being the fourth child of Warren Steubea anil Sallv 1, U tiderwood) lloguc The lather, who was bom la 180a. in tieorgia. \ernvnnl, was dcscendeil from a llugornot famil) of that name, long resident in Scotland, and which ccotrih. uted some eminent personages to the ecclcsiaslical and cducaliana] institutions nf Great Uritain - among others, the Rev. Hps-id ltogue U7ji>-lS25l fuundcr ol the Ia>ivdon Missionary Socitty. Wltcn a young man. W". S. Bogue removed from his home in \«. muui to'St. Lawrence County. S. Y.. and at LourssilW. in thjt iswuty. on Cktober 2t, iSjij. married Snliie Cnderxood. a nalnt of New York, of New England descent. Early 111 1834 ihe family removed to Ionia. Michigan, whence they relumed toM. laxTtniT County, N. Y., in tiy). In January. |S«3. lUmilton came »cs: as far as Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained until March 21. i?5*. when he came to Chicago, arriving the following day, wlieitounne the next succeeding eight vears he was occupied in stcambna and railway freight service, and since May, 1864. has been continwnuly engaged in real estate business. His brother. S. Luftiss I .. |0meJ him e»T} in l3sS. and (fcMfte M. hi the spnng of '^'-""'I followed'bv the father and mother, his sister Harrxl and bexthtr Elias, in i ictober of that year. The two elder brotherx. CHwIl A. and Itr. kn*wcll joined the others the same autumn awl tht ensuing spring, respectively. The family resided m the Ml UivWSl until Mav. UfA* when they, except the two ekler broihrrs, removed to Hvde M Since December of that year the ]urenl family has remained in the home prodded that C »T^'»»* ««- There Harriet was married in iSso: there Cun.ss HIM 13 1S02. of injuries receive.1 in the railroad iccident ol t*t ^fi previous, (while home on sick leave, from the artillery scrvn* in (ieneral Oranfs Division of the Cntnn Army.) at : the age of tswmvfive veais and two days; and there, also, the father died .A** 1 s/,s there, the beloved and honored mother at the age ol k reniytwo :ii go.v.1 Health and cheerfulness, with Ellas, her ywajW" onlv unm irried child, sf.ll controls the home-a glad vi«tt«« to Iki Hie married children, their consorts ond (heir n"ro^" " spring. Inne 2C I*h-. Hamilton was married to Lmiiy u daiighur of W illiam II. and Mary (Hettclcyl «°f - « I'ark. Mr. Hoc: is of the well-known lloyt family nt -V« Ian I and N ew York. M.S. lloyt was a native of Englanu-rxen

To Hamilton and Emily IW,gue have been bom (mir all let living-Hamilton. December 26. 1^ I F.x4b«. M£J. |S7i Arthur Host. November 23. 1874- and Wayne «**»* Man I- 4. ,sT'.. fUcSr home is 4810 greenwood Avenue. «her thee have resided since November. 1S71. Mr. »^.^2f3 nn'memlverx of llie Eirst Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. ltogue was chosen an elder in February. snrcessixe, elections was r.mtintied in that scrv.ee until JanJ-n. ISS2. He is Republican in poiitirx. .

1 . W AI TER BROWN was born in l34l.» of Calvin 11. and Amelia A. ICuller) Brown, both pajrW descendaills r.f early settlers of Hampden I ouotr. J"»j grandfather. Issachir Brown, was a soldier of tlie kc ^ Receiving bis earlier education in Brimheld and ^vtnx " , son. Mr. Ilrr.wn went into business with he* father store for about three years. He came W est in I *0: and was in u.K,len manufacturing business for three years nV «««J^j In iM,b be came to Chicago, and became a member ol int . lllissA Brown, in the hardware, xinve and furnace line. " m. , IS50, after being out ol business about two wars, nr .he Rock River Companv. of which he has since been »*" tarv and Chicago manager. In 1S62 Mr. H^w"** \ ,' .

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to California in iSj<), he remained ten year*, when he came to Chicago, where be has since remained, uninterruptedly engaged in provision brokerage on the Board of Trade. He went to reside in Hyde Park in 187(1. In 1S63 Mr. Brown was married to Miss l.ucy Shorptnlierg, of Boston, Mas*, lie is a Republican in politics ami an advocate of " high license."

WILLIAM HENRY CHAPPELL was born in Baltimore, Md. His father. Dr. I'. S. Chappell. was a manufacturing chemist of Baltimore, and his mother, Mary ( Furlongi Chappel, a native of that city, resides there at the age of eighty. Since 1849, W. II. Chappcil has tx-en the owner of chemical works in St. l.ouis, and first tame to Hyde Park in 1*50. where he purchased twenty acres in Hubbard's subdivision with a view to the establishment of similar works near the growing city of Chicago. Hut the factory which he then built was destroyed by' lire the same year, occasioning the temporary withdrawal of his northern venture. In he resumed in Chicago at his present location, the firm being Mahla tt Chappell. They turn out annually large quantities of staple chemicals, both proprietors having long experience as scientific and practical chemists, Eleven acres of his original Hyde Tark purchase were sold by Mr. Chappell to the (iovernment for a marine hospital in IS£>7, lor §22.000 (the twenty having cost him $10,000 in 1859). and this sale not having been perfected on account of some trifling circumstance, the same were sold in iSSj for $125,000. One of Mr. Chappcll's sons. H. W., has charge of the Chicago works as superintendent; another. W. II.. of the St. I ami* work*, in the same capacity, both educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Itoston. A third son, Howard p.. is a special student of Professor Hoffman, at the University of Berlin, having graduated at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale. A daughter. Mary, was married in 1877 to Kichard C. Perkins, of Bradford, England, while Miss Julia Chapjicll remains at home Mrs. Chappell, before marriage, was Miss Eliza Whitehill, a daughter of Elder John Whitehill. who moved from Alton to St. Low* in 1826. They have resided in Hyde Park since 1S67. and spent the summer there since 1859.

LEANDER DEVINE CUNDEE was born Scplcmber 26, I ?47, in Athens County. Ohio, of Henry M. an.l lane (Rickey) Condcc. The family removed to Coles County. 111., in 1*54. Young Condcc received an academic education at Kankakee, and graduated in the Law Department of the University of Michigan, inthcclassof 1S68. Admitted to the Bur In Michigan and Illinois, he began the practice of his profession 111 Butler. Bate-. Co., . Mo . where he held the office of City Attorney fothrce years. In i37t he came to Chicago, and from 1S74 to 187b was of the firm of Richmond \ Condce. He afterwards practiced alone until 1**1. when he formed a partnership with E. K. Bliss. In 1S74 Mr. Condce went to reside in Hyde I'ark. of which he was chosen Attorney in 1S79, holding the office until his resignation in March, 1883, He is Republican in politics. I le was elected State Senator for the Second Senatorial District, for the term of four years, from January 14, 1381-84. "c was chairman of the Important enmmittee on incorporations. In March. 1S71, he mat tied Miss Margaretta I.. Stobie. who died in March, 1SS1, leaving three children - Henry S.. born in April, 1S72. in Butler. Mo.: Florence Louise. March,'i874. in Chicago: and |essie S.. February. |88|. in Hyde I'ark. August 24. 1*82. Mr. Condcc married Mrs. Martha |. »\ atcrbttry, of Cleveland. Mr. Condcc is a Knight Templar and an Odd Fellow.

X. V-, of Stephen II. and Angelina (Scars) Cowles. His maternal grandfather, Isaac Sears, was a soldier in the War ol 1812. The mother died in 1850 and the father in 1S57. Mr. Cowles received in academii education, and at Ac age o: niMWM HllfartMl III the Tenth New York Yoluntcct Cavalry, at Syracuse, September 10. i36t. He went in a* a private and came out with the rank of captain. He was wounded June 24, 1864. and is in receipt of a pension from a grateful country. He came to Chicago in 18(15. and soon embarked in the business 0! publishing daily market reports, and is now of the firm of Cowles & Dunklcy, in that line. Since :87b he has lieen secretary of the Chicago Produce Exchange. May 20. ts<>*, Mr. Cowles was' married to Miss Florence, a daughter of T. W. Thompson, a merchant of Cortland. N. Y.. by whom he has had two children - Frances II. in 1871. and John T. in 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Cowles are members of the Presbyterian Crimen and have reside,! In Hyde Park since their marriage. He is a Republican in politics